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PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL
The 38th incarnation of the Port Fairy Folk Festival has grown even bigger. The third announcement includes international acts The Greencards, Justin Johnson, Pieta Brown plus national acts The Stray Sisters (of The Waifs), Celia Pavey, Quarry Mountain Dead Rats, Recycled String Band, The Flying Emus and Tequila Mockingbirds, who are all set to join the lineup of over 60 national and international acts. The Port Fairy Folk Festival will take place over the Labour Day long weekend from Friday March 7 - Sunday March 10 next year. Tickets, program details and more are available via portfairyfolkfestival. com
JEFF MARTIN AND SARAH MCLEOD
PETE MURRAY
Jeff Martin and Sarah McLeod will join forces when they embark on their Man the Life Boats tour this summer. After meeting in 2012, the pair performed a one-off acoustic set that led to the duo currently recording together in Martin’s Byron Bay Studio. The tour will feature Martin and McLeod performing separate sets in addition to performing together throughout the show. Jeff Martin and Sarah McLeod will play the Northcote Social Club on Wednesday January 29. Tickets are available via Ticketscout.
After selling out the first Melbourne date on his Feeler 10 Year Anniversary Tour, Pete Murray has unveiled a limited intimate show for Melburnians itching to catch the singer/ songwriter this summer. Murray recently released the 10 year anniversary edition of Feeler, which was re-mastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studios and includes a bonus CD featuring the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra performing the album in full, mixed with original album masters. The tour will see Murray perform Feeler in full with members of his original band The Stonemasons. Pete Murray will play the Trak Live Lounge on Wednesday January 22. Tickets are sure to go fast, so head over to Ticketmaster to secure yours.
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Ten-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Chaka Khan is set to perform in Australia. The legendary music icon, Chaka Khan is coming to Australia to headline the launch of the Sydney Festival on Saturday January 11. Additionally, Chaka Khan will play a one-off show in Melbourne at Plenary on Sunday January 12. From the moment she burst onto the music scene in the 1970s as the 18 year old lead singer of the multiracial band, Rufus, Chaka Khan’s powerful voice and show-stopping stage presence set her apart from any other singer. During her career, which has spanned 40 years, Chaka has developed a vast international fan base and has performed on six continents. Chaka has become an international icon who has influenced generations of artists. An established singer, songwriter, producer, author, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and activist, Chaka also has the rare ability to sing in eight music genres. She has released 22 albums, has ten number one Billboard songs, earned ten Grammy Awards and 22 nominations. Sunday January 12, at The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne. Tickets available through Ticketek Australia.
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SUPER BEST FRIENDS ANNOUNCE JANUARY 2014 TOUR
Indie Punk trio Super Best Friends have just announced a January Australian tour, along with a support slot with British rockers Future Of The Left, as a last chance to catch them live before going on a short hiatus. Playing a selection of tracks from their two EPs along with their viral hit Round & Round which made them a household name after featuring politicians during the election campaign boasted mentions on news outlets internationally, they will kick off 2014 with a bang before taking time out to record their debut album. They play The Old Bar with Sincerely Grizzly, Tape Off and Darts on Friday January 10.
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CHAD MASON
Chad Mason will return to Australia this January to release his debut 7” vinyl and play a string of shows in Melbourne. The Nashville based singer-songwriter will release the two track record - Baby Come Back/Wish You Weren’t Gone - in January. Both tracks are taken from a live session recorded at The Aviary Studio in Melbourne. Before heading back into the studio, Mason will play dates in The Hunter Valley, Sydney and Melbourne through the end of January. Mason is also hosting a pre-release listening party in celebration of the record. Guests will be the first to hear both tracks straight from vinyl, and can expect a special performance at the end of the night. DJ Snakeships will be playing the best soul and blues all night, with a handful of favourites selected by Mason. More information can be found at chadmason.spinshop.com The pre-release party will be at Some Velvet Morning on Friday January 3. Chad Mason will then play The Retreat with Rich Davies on Thursday January 9, Old Bar on Tuesday January 14 and The Spotted Mallard on Saturday January 18.
THE NATIONAL’S MATT BERNINGER
To coincide with the band’s February 2014 tour of Australia and New Zealand, The National front man Matt Berninger will appear at a number of special Q&A screening events for the documentary Mistaken For Strangers. The film is shot by Matt’s brother, Tom Berninger, and documents Tom’s experience touring with the band in 2010. It features footage of the tour following the release of the album High Violet and of the band in the studio recording its follow up, Trouble Will Find Me, all the while documenting the relationship between the two brothers. Screenings will take place in Auckland, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The Melbourne screening will take place at 4pm on Sunday February 9 at Cinema Nova, with the Q&A following. Tickets are available via cinemanova.com.au.
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For the fourth year running, the Australian punk, rock and hardcore communities will unite to present one of the most exciting and positive events on the live music calendar; the annual Australia Day Weekend shows, which raise vital funds for Oxfam and The Refugee Council of Australia. Hosted for the second time at Melbourne’s mighty Reverence Hotel, the 2014 installment boasts the event’s most diverse lineup yet and will completely take over the much-loved Footscray pub for the weekend. Two mega stages will be rammed with the best of Australian live music on Saturday January 25 and Sunday January 26. With every band making the trek on their own time and money, these shows are a concoction of the most seasoned road warriors and promising new talent. From the exuberant, melodic punk of Luca Brasi on Saturday to the intelligent, dynamic songwriting of Lincoln Le Fevre on Sunday, wedge in local garage legends Batpiss, scuzzy punkers Damn Terran, the posi-hardcore tunes of Outright and Anchors, emo-rock from Ceres, alt-country courtesy of Ribbons Patterns, and moving guitar-driven punk rock from prized acts like The Sinking Teeth, Grenadiers, Initials and The Union Pacific. There’ll be Mexican food all night and a raffle of rad prizes donated by kind folks of Poison City Records, Blunt Magazine, Apollo Collective, Deathproof PR, The Reverence Hotel and heaps more. The philosophy for these shows remains simple; to confront and contrast the negative attitudes harboured by many Australians on this national holiday. Previous years’ events have raised over $25,000 for these very important causes, which are now more significant than ever, in light our current government enforcing the cruelest refugee policy in our country’s history. Tickets on sale now. Get your pass, book your flights, pick up a raffle ticket. Come do something good and have a ripper time amongst good humans while you’re doing it.
Perth indie pop duo Sun City have just announced they’re kicking off 2014 with a full national headline tour. The announcement follows the release of the band’s breakthrough EP Set Alight in 2012, which featured the hugely successful single High. The Sun City 2014 Summer Tour will be the first full Australian headline tour since their 2012/2013 Set Alight Tour, and will showcase their new material and brand new live performance. Tickets for their Saturday January 18 Espy show are on sale now via 123agency.oztix.com.au.
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Snakadaktal are set to kick off 2014 in style with the release of a new EP and a Melbourne headline show to back it up. The Sun II EP will be released on Friday January 3, and will feature six previously unreleased tracks, including a radio mix of the current single of the same name, new track East of Here and remixes of album singles from an array of talented producers. Catch â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em when they launch it at Howler on Saturday January 25.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Acid bath space pilot psychedelia. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Miley Cyrus. No explanation needed. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? Woah man. Those guys I just walked pastâ&#x20AC;Śare like totally stuck in the wrong era. That long haired rock shit went out ages ago, and like, who does guitar solos anymore? What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Anything. Everything. But mostly other musicians and bands that have written and performed their music with sincerity and passion regardless of trend and fads and not just for attention and fame. What part of making music excites you the most? The creativity. Working with other creative minds. Seeing the results of that creativity effect people positively. Tell us about the last song you wrote. It was about driving in the rain and thinking this is a really bad idea then blaming my exgirlfriend for doing. Where would you like to be in five years? On the stage at Meredith Music Festival. What makes a good musician? Hardwork and integrity. How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? Very poorly but somehow we manage. HOUSE OF LAURENCE play New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve at The Espy alongside Something For Kate, BodyJar and heaps more.
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FEEDTIME
Australian underground rock legends feedtime are to play their first Melbourne shows in 17 years with the lineup that recorded the revered collection of LPs recently re-issued by Sub Pop. Formed in 1979, the Sydney three piece - Rick (guitar, vocals), Allen (bass, vocals) and Tom (drums) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; earned a reputation as a rough, powerful band that twisted thumping bass and heavy guitar riffs beyond Rose Tattoo and X into their own uniquely brutish sound. Although largely unheralded in their home country at the time, the band released four albums and three singles between 1985 and 1989 that went on to win and influence countless fans in Australia and overseas including a young Kurt Cobain, Sonic Youth and Mudhoney (who subsequently requested feedtime be special guest support on their upcoming Australian tour). Neither a noise band nor a punk band, the sheer physicality of feedtimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bass, distorted slide-guitar and driving, relentless drum beat underlining snarled vocals make a music that is both ominous and intense. This is no nostalgia trip, however; the band will have a new 7â&#x20AC;? out on Sub Pop in 2014, and live, feedtime remain a ferocious and formidable unit. Expect new and old material as well as some feedtime reinterpretations of old favourites. They play The Tote on Saturday February 15 and Sunday February 16.
Psychedelic party ska outfit The Bennies have announced that they will hit the road this summer for their second national tour in six months. The raucous Melbourne band released their second album Rainbows in Space in November, with lead single High Rider thrown into high rotation on triple j. The Bennies will hit the Reverence Hotel on Friday February 7.
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THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS AND JEREMY NEALE
Brisbane boys The  John Steel Singers are set to head out on a string of East Coast tour dates with Jeremy Neale this summer. The John Steele Singers album Everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Thread earned praise for its backyard summer pop melodies, while Jeremy Nealeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s In Stranger Times EP showcased his â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s garage pop sensibility. Get a double dose of The John Steel Singers and Jeremy Neale when they hit the Northcote Social Club on Friday February 28 and Saturday March 1.
London-based, Melbourne-born, multi award-winning vocalist and songwriter, Nina Ferro is thrilled to announce an Australian East Coast tour in support of her new LP Into The Light. In June this year Nina took a trip to Nashville with producer, songwriter and gun guitarist Sam Hawksley (Adam Brand, Keith Urban, Kim Richey) to begin writing what would eventually become Into The Light, Ninaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eighth record. Collaborating with some of Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest songwriters, Nina wrote 16 songs in 16 days and on the seventeenth day commenced recording the 13 tracks that made the final cut. Evoking Ninaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature tone, jazzy, bluesy, funky, soulful, Into The Light eludes studio trickery, relying instead on some of the most sought after songwriters and musicians to create a suite of songs that pull no punches and need no filters. A dynamic and enchanting performer with a rapidly growing international fan base Nina Ferro is sought after across the world, and now presents a rare opportunity to see her live in her own country. Saturday February 1 at The Caravan Club in Melbourne.
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AUSTRALIAN OPEN
The Grand Slam oval’s live stage will play host to a stellar bill of homegrown talent, curated by the iconic Mushroom Group, when the Australian Open takes place next month. With the lineup ranging from household names to emerging artists, tennis fans are in for a treat. In order by date, the lineup consists of Saskwatch, World’s End Press, Snakadaktal, Mahalia Barnes, Stonefield, Pete Tong, Jon Stevens, The Preatures, City Calm Down, Daryl Braithwaite, Owl Eyes and British India. Headliners The Rubens and Clare Bowditch will perform on the night of the men’s and women’s finals respectively. The performances will go down from 6pm each day and will be open to all Australian Open spectators. The Australian Open is set to take place from Monday January 13 to Sunday January 26 at Melbourne Park. Tickets are on sale now from Ticketek.
MAJOR LEAGUES
In celebration of the release of their debut EP Weird Season, Brisbane’s Major Leagues have announced a string of tour dates for this February. The EP’s three singles, Teen Mums, Endless Drain and Silver Tides have all garnered praise for their summery fuzzed out sound. 2013 saw the four-piece in supporting slots for the likes of Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing and Ball Park Music. Catch Major Leagues at The Workers Club on Saturday February 15 with support from The Ocean Party. Tickets are available from theworkersclub.com.au.
COLOURWHEEL
JON CLEARY AND THE ABSOLUTE MONSTER GENTLEMEN
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen will bring a taste of New Orleans funk Down Under when they tour Australia this March. Regarded as one of New Orleans’ “piano professors,” Cleary has enjoyed success performing solo, with his power trio The Philthy Phew and with his celebrated funk band The Absolute Monster Gentlemen. Known for their four-piece gospel harmonies and infectious grooves, the band has developed a cult following over the years. With a new album currently in the works, fans can expect to hear both new material as well as old favourites when Jon Cleary and the Absolute Gentlemen hit the stage. Get a little piece of New Orleans in Melbourne when Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen play the Northcote Social Club on Thursday March 6. Tickets are available from the venue’s website.
Colourwheel have announced their debut headline show at the Workers Club in Melbourne on Sunday January 26, alongside local darlings Texture Like Sun and Lisa Salvo. The Melbourne-based band put a bedroom recording for their song The Dreamer on triple j Unearthed in October, and buzz has been building with triple j giving the track regular spins, and blogs including of NME, Indie Music Filter and The Ripe posting the track Listen to The Dreamer. They will bring their emotive and percussive brand of indie-folk to the Workers Club on Australia Day, fronted by enigmatic singer Brady Daniell-Smith and a rhythm section that includes members of Big Scary & Owl Eyes. Tickets now on sale through the Workers Club website.
WORLD'S END PRESS
2013 has been a big year for World’s End Press. The band released their critically acclaimed and Australian Music Prize long-listed debut LP, which also snagged triple J’s feature album upon release, along with Album of the Week at both FBI and RRR. They remixed tracks by Chvrches and Cloud Control. They toured with Hot Chip and Bloc Party, headed to the US for their own headline shows and dates with Cut Copy, and recently smashed their sold-out album launches in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. To top it all off they tore apart the Supernatural Amphitheatre at the Meredith Music Festival last week. Now, Drag Me Home – a much-loved track from their self-titled album – has just been released as a single accompanied by a wild video directed by Melbourne’s Luci Schroder. To celebrate their great year, the band will be hitting the road early in February 2014 for shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, before supporting Phoenix on their Australian tour in March. In addition, World’s End Press will play a variety of festivals over summer. They play the NGV on Friday February 28, free entry
HAPPY HOLIDAYS We are closed for Christmas, Boxing Day, New Years Eve and New Years Day Friday 27th December
Brooke Russell 6:00pm Free in the Front Bar Saturday 28th December
Kain Borlase Trio 6:00pm Free in the front bar
Wednesday
Sunday 29th December
tin man trio 4:00pm Free in the front bar
Merry Christmas! Closed
Thursday 2nd January
Woodward & Rough
Thursday
6:00pm Free in the front bar
Closed
Friday 3rd January
The Boys 6:00pm
Friday
Friday 3rd January
King Lucho 8pm
Séb Mont & Thee + Osaka 8:00pm Wesley Anne Band Room $10
Saturday
Saturday 4th January
Kain Borlase Trio
DJ Jumbo
6:00pm Free in the front bar
8pm
Saturday 4th January
La Suite Bipolar 8:00pm wesley anne band room
Sunday
Sunday 5th January
DJ Barney
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds
5pm
& special guests 3:00pm Wesley Anne Band Room $donation
The Stopouts 6:00pm Free in the front bar
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TOURING
WHO'S ON TOUR, WHERE AND WHEN
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INTERNATIONAL THE WAR ON DRUGS Northcote Social Club December 28 THE ROOTS Festival Hall December 28 TOM ODELL Corner Hotel December 28 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 - January 1, Marion Bay December 29 - January 1, Byron Bay December 31 - January 3 FUTURE OF THE LEFT Corner Hotel January 2 BEN CAPLAN Northcote Social Club January 3 THE CORRESPONDENTS Prince Bandroom January 3 JOHNNY MARR Corner Hotel January 4 WIZ KHALIFIA, A$AP ROCKY Festival Hall January 4 HANNI EL KHATIB January 5 JOHNNY MARR Northcote Social Club January 5 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Festival Hall January 6 SOLANGE Prince Bandroom January 7 MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO Corner Hotel January 9 CHAD MASON The Retreat January 9, Old Bar January 14, The Spotted Mallard January 18 LONDON GRAMMAR Prince Bandroom January 9, 10 PARAMORE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 12 SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Werribee Park January 12 CHAKA KHAN Plenary 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 JOHN MURRY Meeniyan Town Hall January 18, Northcote Social Club January 21 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 EDDIE VEDDER Palais Theatre February 16, 18, 19 EMINEM, KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE Etihad Stadium February 19 OKKERVIL RIVER Corner Hotel February 22 MANGO GROOVE Forum Theatre February 23 CLUTCH Prince Bandroom February 27 SOUNDWAVE Flemington Racecourse February 28 SIX60 The Hi-Fi March 1 NEKO CASE Corner Hotel March 2 PUBLIC ENEMY Corner Hotel March 4 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre March 5 CHARLES BRADLEY Corner Hotel March 6 JON CLEARY AND THE ABSOLUTE MONSTER GENTLEMEN Northcote Social Club March 6 PHOENIX Festival Hall March 6 MIKHAEL PASKALEV Howler March 7 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 7 – 10 FAT FREDDY’S DROP Melbourne Zoo Twilights March 8 PANAMA FESTIVAL March 8, 9 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 9 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
YO LA TENGO Corner Hotel March 9 POKEY LAFARGE Corner Hotel March 12 NEIL FINN Hamer Hall March 12 BILLY BRAGG Palais Theatre March 13 BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL Various Venues March 13 - 24 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, NINE INCH NAILS Rod Laver Arena March 14, 15 BILL MEDLEY Palais Theatre March 15 LIONEL RICHIE AND JOHN FARNHAM Rod Laver Arena March 16 JURASSIC 5 Palace Theatre March 20 SEBADOH Corner Hotel March 21 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS Hisense Arena March 28 THE ROLLING STONES Rod Laver Arena March 28, Hanging Rock March 30 ALLEN STONE Corner Hotel April 12 ERYKAH BADU Palais April 15 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Palace Theatre April 15 JASON ISBEL Northcote Social Club April 16, 17 BLUESFEST Byron Bay April 17 – 21 JIMMIE VAUGHAN Corner Hotel April 17 DEVENDRA BANHART Prince Bandroom April 17 JAKE BUGG Palace Theatre April 17 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND Palace Theatre April 18 IRON AND WINE Forum Theatre April 22 GREGG ALLMAN, GOV’T MULE Forum Theatre April 23 STEVE EARLE Forum Theatre April 24 SKID ROW, UGLY KID JOE Palace Theatre April 25 ARCTIC MONKEYS Rod Laver Arena May 9 ELLIE GOULDING Festival Hall May 31 JAMES BLUNT The Plenary June 8 BASTILLE Festival Hall June 15
The National
DEC
27
JAN
12
THE SEABELLIES Northcote Social Club
SO FRENCHY SO CHIC. Werribee Park
FEB
09
MAR
06
APR
1
THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl
PHOENIX Festival Hall
JOHN BUTLER TRIO Palais Theatre
APR
16
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Prince Bandroom
JUN
NATIONAL
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SEABELLIES Northcote Social Club December 27 NYE ON THE HILL TBA December 30 - January 1 NEW YEAR'S EVIE Tallarook December 31 – January 2 NYE AT THE ESPY The Espy December 31 NAI PALM Workers Club, January 7, 14, 21, 28 KARNIVOOL Palace Theatre January 8, 9 DAVEY LANE Worker's Club January 10 SUPER BEST FRIENDS The Old Bar January 10 JAGWAR MA The Hi-Fi January 16 LITTLE BASTARDS The Workers Club January 17 SARAH BLASKO St. Michael Uniting Church January 22 SUN CITY The Espy January 18 SARAH BLASKO St. Michael Uniting Church January 22 PETE MURRAY Trak Live Lounge January 22 SNAKADAKTAL Howler January 25 COLORWHEEL Workers Club January 26 JEFF MARTIN AND SARAH MCLEOD Northcote Social Club January 29 LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE Corner Hotel January 31 KIM CHURCHILL Workers Club January 31 NINA FERRO Caravan Club February 1 ST KILDA FESTIVAL St Kilda February 1 – 9 MIAMI HORROR Corner Hotel February 14 RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL Echuca February 14 - 16 JIMMY BARNES Rochford Winery Yarra Valley February 15
BASTILLE Prince Bandroom
RUMOURS TYSON SECRETLY LIKES ANTHONY CALLEA = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
MAJOR LEAGUES The Workers Club February 15 FEEDTIME The Tote February 15, 16 NGAIIRE Northcote Social Club February 27 WORLDS END PRESS NGV February 28 JOSH PYKE Melbourne Zoo February 28 WORLDS END PRESS NGV February 28 DAN SULTAN Corner Hotel March 1 ILLY The Hi-Fi March 7 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL March 7 -10 PANAMA FESTIVAL March 8, 9 PUSH OVER Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 10 NEIL FINN Hamer Hall March 12, 13 PETE MURRAY Forum Theatre March 15 SUNNYBOYS Forum Theatre March 21, 22 JOHN BUTLER TRIO Palais Theatre April 1 HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS Palais Theatre April 11 MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Prince Bandroom April 16 KEITH URBAN Rod Laver Arena June 25
PROUDLY PRESENTS
MAR
06
PHOENIX Festival Hall
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BEAT’S NEW YEARS ROUND UP 2013/2014
By Krissi Weiss
TRAK - PACHA
THE FALLS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
PRINCE BANDROOM MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS
Futuristic psychedelic aural sensation Midnight Juggernauts will headline this year’s NYE shindig at Prince Bandroom. But the big bang doesn’t stop there - the hometown favourites will also be joined by Northeast Party House, Naysayer & Gilsun (DJ set), Roland Tings, Cassius Select, Boogie Set and a few more treasures. This will definitely be a night to remember. Doors: 9PM Tickets: $38.80
One of our many annual music festivals, Falls boasts a hell of a lineup this year. This year’s incarnation includes the wondrous likes of Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, The Roots, London Grammar, MGMT, Violent Soho, Hiatus Kaiyote, Neil Finn, Rufus, Smith Street Band, Pond, The Cat Empire, Owl Eyes, The Murlocs, The Preatures, Big Scary, Chet Faker, Gossling, Emma Louise and many many more. Tickets for Lorne and Byron Bay are unfortunately sold out, but if you’re quick, you may be able to score some for Marion Bay.
This New Year’s Eve, Ding Dong Lounge is hosting the NYE bender to end all NYE benders. Things are gonna get loose at Dingers with seven-headed garage psychedelic collective King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard headlining the show, with support from The Murlocs, Bad//Dreems, and The Love Junkies. Later, the Midnight Run & Tone Deaf DJ Crew will be spinning all your favourite party jams to keep you shakin’ your booty until dawn. Don’t miss this spectacular bender. Doors: 8PM Tickets: $25+bf online or available at the door
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UNION HOTEL - RAISED BY EAGLES
Get yourself and all your frivolous friends down to the Union Hotel this NYE for a night of great music and booze at one of Melbourne’s most iconic venues. Opening the evening will be dexterous kids The Prayerbabies with their entertaining mix of gospel, blues and ‘80s classics. Next up is the lyrical genius of Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos, followed by the alt-country might of Raised By Eagles. Be there or be square. Yeah, that’s right. Doors: 8PM Tickets: Free entry!
CHERRY BAR - KING PARROT
Join the toughest and best band in the land when King Parrot rock Cherry Bar’s NYE thrashfest. Enjoy as these extremists fuck your ears hard along with Kashmere Club, Mason and Sheriff. Let your ears bleed this NYE. Doors: 6PM Tickets: $20
LUCKY COQ AND BIMBO DELUXE - NO FRILLS
TRAK - ROCK CITY NIGHT PARTY (NEW YEAR’S DAY NIGHT)
LOVE at Level 3 Crown is the New Year’s ultimate party destination. Bring 2014 in at a celebration you’ll never forget. With six rooms of music, 40 DJs, live drummers and a host of amazing roving performers, LOVE is the place to be seen. Boasting a night bigger than Vegas, LOVE will feature Kaz James, Kid Massive, Ivan Gough, Ed Colman, Stevie Mink, Lady Lauryn and many many more. Tickets available via ticketek. Doors: 8PM Tickets: $50
Psychedelic rockers Earthless will make their third trip Down Under this summer and will be joined by skater punk labelmates, The Shrine. Earthless are known for their penchant for high energy rock, influenced by the golden age of ‘60s and ‘70s heavy psych and kraut rock. Taking on opening duties will be The Shrine, who will showcase their sepia-toned Southern California punk sound. Earthless and The Shrine hit The Thornbury Theatre for New Year’s Eve festivities on Tuesday December 31, followed by The Hi-Fi on Sunday January 5. Doors: 5PM Tickets: $45+bf
Come on down in your craziest fluoro outfit and take part in the spectacular NYE event at The Penny Black. No Zu will be shining in the band room, supported by two of the best crazy mash up DJs, Post Percy and Tiger Funk. At the back there is the best of the best with the wildest party hiphop DJs in Melbourne. Entry is free and pizzas are a mere $4 until 9PM. Enjoy! Doors: 12PM Tickets: Free entry!
New Years Eve at The Espy has been a long running tradition. A St Kilda sunset, packed stage, beer in hand, looking for that countdown kiss….Celebrate the birth of 2014 with some of Melbourne’s finest and most loved rock legends – Something For Kate, Bodyjar, Dallas Crane, Kingswood, The Basics, The Delta Riggs, Eagle & the Worm and many more! Tickets available via the venue website. Doors: 7PM Tickets: $69.90
LOVE NYE AT CROWN CASINO - LEVEL 3 CROWN
THE THORNBURY THEATRE EARTHLESS AND THE SHRINE
OLD BAR - CLOWNS
The world’s most over rated night of partying, New Years Eve, is fast approaching. Quit thinking you are going to be able to get all your mates in one spot, quit thinking paying $350 to camp in a field with $8 cans of shit warm beer and crappy radio bands will be worth it, quit thinking it HAS to be the best night of your entire life. Just go to the Old Bar with a few mates, drink reasonably priced cold beer, have a dance to some sweet bands and quit over complicating plans to an epic night that most likely will not run to plan anyway. Headlining is Clowns, along with Apart From This and Summer Blood. Doors: 8PM Tickets: $15
THE PENNY BLACK - NO ZU
THE ESPY - SOMETHING FOR KATE
DING DONG - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
Are you ready for a parallel world of wonder and never ending possibility? Pacha will take place within the social oasis that is Trak this New Year’s Eve. Encompassing eight bars over five spectacular levels with varying musical offerings will allow guests to transition between experiences. Be it dancing in the heart of the revellers, private table service in one of the nine VIP booths or an exclusive area to entertain large groups, Pacha Melbourne NYE has something for everyone. This unforgettable Pacha NYE experience will feature a collection of indoor fireworks, professional dancers, aerialists, decor, street performers, psychedelic projections and lighting which will turn every corner of Melbourne’s premier super club Trak into a haze of activity. Excited much? Not many tickets are left, so buy fast! Tickets available via Ticketmaster. Doors: 8PM Tickets: $79 + BF
The past two years, Rogue Entertainment has given Melbourne’s Gay scene the most amazing New Year’s Night parties at Trak. This year they are back, bigger and better with Rock City New Years Day Night, over three levels. Joining this huge DJ lineup is Australia’s new Pop Princess and ARIA winner – Samantha Jade. Tickets have sold out like hot cakes in the past so don’t be lazy, pick one up today through Ticketmaster. Doors: 8PM Tickets: $44.95
THE RETREAT - BITTERSWEET KICKS
With prizes for the 20 best costumes and an early kick off, the Retreat Hotel’s new years glam rock party is gonna be off the hook! Wild Turkey rock the front bar at 7:30pm, followed by gritty garage rockers Bittersweet Kicks kicking up dust on the main stage at 9:30pm. DJ Jeff Leppard until 3am. Doors: 7:30PM Tickets: Free entry!
BAR OPEN - LAMARAMA
The 12-legged Melbourne monster collective Lamarama is a stylistic odyssey. Fusing psychedelic groove rock with quirky storytelling and Floyd-esque build ups, this is certainly a unique breed of music. Don’t miss out when they grace Bar Open for this year’s last hurrah. Joining them will be the David Adams Sextet Trio. It’s free, where else could you possibly be? Doors: 9PM Tickets: Free entry!
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Opening their doors from midday, Lucky Coq will be your destination of choice to avoid any of the nonsense associated with New Year’s Eve. The amateur drunks, the inflated prices, the inevitable anti-climax. Wrapping up at 3am, you’ll have just enough time to get home, get some shut eye and then make your way to the North to do it all over again at Bimbo Deluxe. Opening from midday and going through to the wee hours, it’ll be the same concept and same prices but a different year! With discounted drinks, no-name DJs and a free BBQ, how can you consider going anywhere else? Doors: 12pm-3am, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Tickets: Free entry!
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL BOB LOG III
For a New Year’s Eve party, you couldn’t get much more fun than Bob Log III rockin’ the ‘burbs at The Post Office Hotel in Coburg. Why struggle for space at the bar and never get a taxi in the inner city when you can hang out in the awesome Post Office and watch a bloke who Tom Waits says is “something I aspire to”. There’ll be DJs spinning rockin’ tunes as well to keep you jiving all night. Doors: 6pm Tickets: Free entry!
THE TOTE - DRUNK MUMS
Celebrate in style at The Tote with four bangin rock’n’roll bands. One of the best and most mental bands in Melbourne Drunk Mums will be joined on the night by The Gooch Palms, Skyways are Highways, Contrast and many more. There’s a BBQ from 8PM and an even bigger smorgasbord of tunes to follow. Don’t miss out on seeing some of Australia’s best rock’n’roll outfits. Doors: 8PM Tickets: $10
The Falls MUSIC & ARTS fESTIVAL mAP AND PLAYING TIMES lorne playing times sat 28 dec - tue 31 dec 10:00
11:00
12pm
1:00
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4:00
5:00
6:00
7:00
8:00
9:00
10:00
11:00
12am
1:00
2:00
3:00
4:00
saturday 28 december
grand theatre
LEGS AKIMBO
TOM THUM
LEGS AKIMBO
3.00 - 4.00
4 - 4.30
4.30 - 5.30
CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES
THE LEGS CORRESP- AKIMBO ONDENTS
MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO
HOT DUB TIME MACHINE
5.30 - 6.20 6.20 - 7.00 7.00 - 7.50
8.00 - 9.30
10.00 - 11.00
LATE NITE TUFF GUY 11.10 - 12AM
sunday 29 december
VALLEY STAGE
WELCOME TO COUNTRY
LITTLE BASTARD
THE MURLOCSS
TOM ODELL
OWL EYES
BOMBINO
LONDON GRAMMAR
SOLANGE
FLIGHT FACILITIES
MGMT
THE ROOTS
CYRIL HAHN
11.10 11.40
12PM 12.30
SMITH STREET BAND
12.50 - 1.30
1.50 - 2.30
2.50 - 3.40
4.00 - 4.50
5.10 - 6.00
6.20 - 7.10
7.30 - 8.20
8.40 - 9.30
9.50 - 11.00
11.20 - 12.50AM
1.00 - 2.00
monday 30 december
grand theatre VALLEY STAGE
PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND
COMEDY
GOSSLING
11.20 - 12PM M
12.20 - 1.00
OLIVER TANK
ASTA
11.00 11.30
11.50 12.20
RONNY CHIENG + AMOS GILL + NATH VALVO
THE WAR OONN DRUGS
VIOLENT SOHO
THUNDAMENTALS
VYDAMO
RUFUS
HIATUS KAIYOTE
2.20 - 3.10
3.30 - 4.20
4.40 - 5.30
5.50 - 6.30
6.50 - 7.50
8.10 - 9.00
1.10 - 2.00
HANNI EL KHATIB 12.40 - 1.30
THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS 1.50 - 2.30
WAVE RACER
REMI
9.20 - 10.00 10.10 - 10.50
TOUCH SENSITIV IVVE SENSITIVE
TYLER TOUCHE
M4SONIC
MOTORIK VIBE COUNCIL
11.00 - 11.50
12AM - 1.10
1.10 - 2.10
2.10 - 4.00
EMMA LOUISE
WHITE DENIM
CHET FAKER
POND
GRIZZLY BEAR
NEIL FINN
CRYSTAL FIGHTERS
THE WOMBATS
(CHK CHK CHK)
3.00 - 3.50
4.10 - 5.00
5.20 - 6.10
6.30 - 7.20
7.50 - 8.50
9.10 - 10.10
10.30 - 11.30
11.50 - 12.50AM
1.10 - 2.00
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tuesday 31 december
VALLEY STAGE
YOGA 213: HIP HOP YOGA 10.00 - 11.00
MUSTEREDD M COURAGE
THE DELTA RIGGS
DUSTIN TEBBUTT
11.00 - 11.40
12PM - 12.40
1.00 - 1.40
DAVE CALLAN + DAVID QUIRK + MICHAEL HING
1.50 - 2.40
THE PAPER KITES
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
DAPPLED CITIES
CITIZEN KAY
TWINSY
JACKIE ONASSIS
WILLOW BEATS
HORRORSHOW
ANNA LUNOE
LATE NITE TUFF GUY
GENERIK
3.00 - 3.50
4.10 - 5.00
5.20 - 6.10
6.30 - 7.10
7.30 - 8.20
8.40 - 9.30
10.00 - 10.40
11.10 - 12.20AM
12.30AM - 1.30
1.30 - 3.00
3.00 - 4.00
MEG MAC
THE PPREATURESS
BIG SCARY
WOLF AND CUB
JOHNNY MARR
BONOBO
11.30 12PM
BORN RUFFIANS
THE RUBENS
12.20 - 1.00
1.20 - 2.00
2.20 - 3.00
3.20 - 4.00
4.30 - 5.30
5.50 - 6.50
7.10 - 8.00
FALLS FIESTA 8.00 - 8.20
grand theatre
COMEDY
VIOLENT FEMMES
THE CAT EMPIRE
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
HHERMITUDE ERMITUDE
EGO
8.20 - 9.20
9.40 - 10.40
11.00 - 12.10AM
12.30 - 1.10
1.20 - 2.20
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN It’s inevitable to not have heard about Boxing Day release The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Adapted for the screen by Steve Conrad (The Promotion, The Weather Man, The Pursuit of Happyness) and starring Ben Stiller (Zoolander, Tropic Thunder) as Walter Mitty, the film illustrates the escapism of a day-dreamer and his ambition to become something more. The Secret of Walter Mitty will be released at most cinemas of Thursday December 26.
With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm.
ON STAGE Though most theatres are closing down for the Christmas break, it’s time to hope onto the next anticipation of 2014. This week it’s Theatreworks’ announcement of Pacific Overtures, the 1976 musical by John Weidman (Assassins, Big) and Stephen Sondheim (Assassins, Sweeney Todd). Pacific Overtures tells the story of the Western incursion of Japan during 1853. Directed by Alister Smith (Petite Soirée), it will be a production full of wisdom, humble fisherman and adventure. Pacific Overtures will open at Theatreworks from Wednesday February 19 – Sunday March 9.
ON DISPL AY If you missed it, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art recently opened its highly anticipated exhibition Crescendo this month. A gesamtkunstwerk of work, Crescendo is an exhibition that will celebrate the New Year through the exploration of the human connection and purpose. Artists Markus Kahre, Ana Torfs, famed Irishwoman Dorothy Cross, Julian Rosefeldt, Guido dan ver Werve, Rodney Graham and acclaimed Belgian visual artist Hans Op de Beeck use an array of mediums, from paint to cinematography and sculpture installations, to explore modern mythology and its relationship to classical history, heroism, pageantry and artistic metaphor. It is provocative and cohesive, an exhibition that brings together seven acclaimed artists for one vision. Crescendo is currently on exhibition at ACCA until Sunday March 2. Admission is free.
PICK OF THE WEEK I just walked outside and saw a grown man crash his scooter, CHRISTMAS IS HERE. Be around friends and family, give and receive presents, drink, eat and be merry. Stay safe during the holidays folks.
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THE ILLUSIONISTS By Nick Taras In order to design their illusions, Franz Carl Müller-Lyer and Nobuyuki Kayahara – creators of two well-known optical illusions, The Spinning Dancer and the Müller-Lyer illusion respectively – had to discover how visual perception and cognition in the brain work. While American ‘Anti-Conjuror’ Dan Sperry is an illusionist of a different kind, there is one trait they all share – they know how to hack your brain. So, when I got hold of the shock illusionist soon after he embarked on a six-hour road trip, I had to ask: what do illusionists know about the human mind that the audience don’t? “Oh man, that’s a good question,” Sperry says, which I will leave in to show I ask pretty good questions. “I don’t know if I should answer this because I don’t want to give away too much. Psychologically, just in the sense of how much can go right past an average person and they don’t notice it. And it can be big things too, like when you’re walking down the street, someone might say, ‘Oh my god, did you see that billboard?’ or really just anything – can you tell me the colour of the shirt your boss wore today? “Probably not – these are bad examples – but there’s so much that is hidden in plain sight of people. The more I got into illusion and misdirection and staging things for shows, I would find stuff right in front of people without even really trying.” Sperry’s gothic presentation often leads to comparisons to Marilyn Manson, and many of his most famous tricks, such as removing a Lifesaver inside his mouth via his neck using dental floss, make you gasp and cringe uncomfortably. However, there is this brilliant, subtle humour to Sperry’s illusionism, which is vital to offset his edgy style. “I don’t intentionally emphasise it but I do see it lacking in modern magic, and magic as a performance genre in general,” he says about comedy. “Back in the day, you could say, ‘This box I got in my travels to India contains mysteries of whatever’ wank wank story, but back in the day,
people would probably believe that. Whereas now, with internet – like that’s all bullshit. You can’t say that anymore without looking like an asshole, you look like an idiot. Like what do you take these people for? I’m more interested, not just in performing but in real life, in ‘let’s just be real about it’. “Entertainment and humour, I put into my show in a very dark and twisted way…in my particular style, it would be very off-putting to try be gory and edgy and shocking without being able to balance it and allow the audience to laugh at you and with you about it, to show that it’s not necessarily malicious. Things that make you grossed out or uncomfortable, or ‘look at all these amazing sleight of hand, unexplainable illusions that I’m doing, and now I want you to applaud for me’ – I don’t like that aspect of magic where it’s about me, where I’m on the pedestal. I just think it’s very pompous, and arrogant.” There is a real affection lacing Sperry’s tone when talking about magic as an art form, and the worldwide demand for his talents is reflective of his passion for illusionism. “The Illusionists is a great show. It’s got such a solid track record of ticket sales, and while it’s nothing to sneeze at, I’ve also done a couple of the talent franchises. I just did one in Germany last year where I was in the top three – the only American to ever do that, the only magician to ever do that. I got the most air time out of any personality in the
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history of the network of any show – they weren’t cutting to commercials, they just kept letting me do what I do – I’m very proud of that. And my off-Broadway show that I did for two years in the heart of Times Square. A whole venue and a whole theatre, bar, restaurant – the whole thing was built around my persona and my style.” Sperry will be touring Australia as part of the critically-acclaimed show The Illusionists, starring up to seven brilliant magicians. The Illusionists has toured through Asia, South America, Europe and even Australia a couple of years ago, boasting $3 million worth of ticket sales at the Sydney Opera House in about eight days. “We’ve definitely toured some places with The Illusionists where some cultures and countries were not cool with what I do at all,” laughs Sperry. “They were not feeling it. With the show in Korea, they wanted me on the show really bad and everything got settled. When I got there, the network was into spiritual culture, and the producers were like, ‘You can’t do any of that’ so the stuff I did on the Korean show was modified or I had to try and wing it once I was there. “I was just told one of the routines I do is very illegal in Dubai in every shape and form. Usually when I’m travelling with The Illusionists, I have like a whole dedicated back-up material I can rotate should anything arise regarding things going too far.” And what was this trick that is so illegal in Dubai? “I think I’ll be doing it in Australia,” he says with a cheeky chuckle, “so I’ll let that be a surprise.” The Illusionists runs at the State Theatre from Friday January 3 – Sunday January 12. Tickets from artscentremelbourne.com.au
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS By Dan Watt Juggernaut: 1. Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed. 2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path (dictionary.com). I’m not really sure what putting the word midnight in front of the aforementioned word does to its meaning but I do know that Melbourne dance crossover institution Midnight Juggernauts are throwing a party this New Year’s Eve that will elicit overwhelming devotion from all in attendance. “I mean we’ve done parties before but never anything to this scale – we’re taking over upstairs and the downstairs of Prince of Wales. I guess the one other party we have done of a similar scale was the Siberia Records party we did for Melbourne Music Week in 2012 in a car park at Melbourne University,” explains Midnight Juggernaut founding member Andy Szekeres. The remainder of the Melbourne based three piece, that first started playing shows in Melbourne back in 2004, are Vincent Vendetta and Daniel Stricker. As well as playing in Midnight Juggernauts the three members also run dance/experimental label Siberia Records whose roster also includes Kirin J Callinan, FORCES, Jonti, and Erik Omen.
The large scale party that Andy is referring to is Siberia Records Presents: A New Year’s Eve Party at Prince of Wales that sees the label taking over the entire venue. “We have never done a party of this scale that have also featured Midnight Juggernauts. The reality for us is that we are organising a party as well as playing as well so it’s a double preparation. We talked about whether we had the time and effort to do our own party but as soon as we decided to do it the party came together really easily,” enthuses Szekeres. The lineup is a veritable who’s who of Melbourne party acts with Northeast Party House, Naysayer & Gilsun DJs, Roland Tings, Nile Delta, John Safran is DJ Dollywood, DJ Swim between the Shags, Double Threat and Siberia DJs. “We have lots of our friends playing so part of the reason for doing the party is to get everyone in the same place which is rare when most of your friends are touring DJs and bands.” Anyone out there who has organised their own birthday
party will know it can actually be a major pain in the arse to put on a party and be the star attraction – particularly when you are a high profile act like Midnight Juggernauts that would have guaranteed work at other New Year’s Eve events. Szekeres now grapples with the bird in the hand principle in relation to his band’s situation. “We’ve put on a lot of shows in Melbourne and especially coming off this record we did our last tour of Australia in July and we kind of planned to do our headline show around summer so when this came along we had the confidence that it had been long enough since we’d played and that all our friends in Melbourne really support us.” The album Szekeres is referring to is Uncanny Valley, the band’s third studio album following Dystopia [2008] and Crystal Axis [2010] – and sees the band take on a more gregarious yet internal aesthetic. From the indelible irony of The Ballad Of The War Machine to the earth shattering depth of Memoriam the album represents a band who are completely comfortable with their output and no longer trying to score points on the board with anyone but themselves.
To close out the interview Szekeres explores his relationship with Uncanny Valley six months after its release. “You live it so hard for the period of recording and then the promo around it that you are kind of just happy for it to disappear. With all the music we’ve produced, the writing and recording has been such an intense process that it can really be quite a painful process so you don’t spend too much time reflecting on it.” However, this bizarre post-traumatic amnesia that Szekeres suffers from has not caused him to lose perspective entirely. “It’s one record of all the ones we’ve done where all three of us were really kind of in sync so likewise onstage the songs from the album come together really well.”
them quickly,” states Browne. “It was over two sessions with two different band lineups. Schram (producer Steve Schram; Public Enemy, Cat Empire) got the best out of us by working each song up in rehearsal before laying down any tracks.” The recording sessions for the record proved to be yet another challenge. Ultimately however, it proved a rewarding experience for the group. “I wouldn’t ever call it relaxed when you are making an album. You want for it to be the best amalgamation of your work so a lot goes into that process,” affirms Browne. “We had some rad moments where the live feel was really captured, all of us in the one room with the Rackettes dancing and clapping. A vibe is important. If you have that with a live recording you have a lot of it right there.” The album was cut almost entirely live which allowed the band to be able to capture the vibe they were after. “We cut the record mostly live because it felt the best way to express our sound,” explains Browne. “We are a live band and each
one of us knows how to play the shit out of our instrument. There are happy accidents that give the music a particular charm and the sound is raw.” It seems all the experiences over the past year have served Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes well, allowing their sound to grow and evolve as well as helping push their live show to new heights. “The live show has come a long way, but it tends to do that on the road,” states Browne. “It will be super tight; there will be outfits you have not seen before, new songs you have never heard and possibly some kind of rad eye-feast light projections.”
“Perfect Times is a lot more aggressive, more attacking than previous albums that we’ve done. There’s a lot more, for example, distorted guitars and jazz-jamming elements to it. It’s a lot more loose. I think it’s more of a live-oriented record.” The album is an unrelenting invitation to start moving and Fukuzumi explains that the band aimed to expand their sound on this record. “We did have that intention to make it a powerful statement, not just sound-wise but as the style of the band, [to show] that we can do a wide range of things but you can still recognise it as Mountain Mocha.” Indeed, the record isn’t restricted by genre boundaries, masterfully infusing conventional funk with a heavier rock music edge. Fukuzumi is enthusiastic about how the new songs explode on stage. “I think the newer songs, even compared to the older ones, have a lot more of a high energy, more rocking out. We’ve had people, even the shy people of Japan, mosh to it. It’s going to be a bigger show, louder, in a good way, and we can’t wait to
play a lot of those new songs this time.” Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro come from the relatively unknown Japanese city of Saitama, situated on the outskirts of Tokyo. Their energised funk is an anomaly in Japanese music but Fukuzumi is determined to boost the credentials of funk music countrywide. “The funk scene [is] not necessarily growing that quickly, so our next mission is to try to be a force to let that grow so that we can cross over. A good example is what The Bamboos have done over in Australia, where they came up as a funk band but now they’re recognised as just a great band. We’re aiming to do a similar thing over here, to try to make more people listen to funk music, to make more people recognise funk and soul as a progressive genre.”
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS play Siberia Presents: A New Year’s Eve Party at The Prince on Tuesday December 31 with Northeast Party House, Naysayer & Gilsun DJs, Roland Tings, Nile Delta, John Safran is DJ Dollywood, DJ Swim between the Shags, Double Threat and Siberia DJs.
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& THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES By James Nicoli “My life is one long road it seems,” muses Clairy Browne. When one considers the amount of touring Browne and her fellow musicians who make up The Bangin’ Rackettes have been doing of late, it seems the comment is more than justified. At the time of our interview, Browne and co. had only just touched down in Australia, fresh off a US tour. “We saw the breadth of the country, smashed over 30 shows, with two weeks in Nashville for recording,” says Browne of the tour. “I’m in complete delirium but the USA showed us good hospitality as always. It’s a montage of accents and whiskey and throbbing crowds and dive bars. I miss the free pour and the diners. But it’s good to be on home ground.” However weary Browne and her band mates may be, there is no time for rest, as it’s straight onto a full Australian tour, complete with appearances at Meredith, Falls and Zoo Twilights. Touring for any band can be a tiring and stressful experience, yet trying to arrange travel plans for nine separate individuals sounds like a nightmare. “Yes, that’s why we have a team of amazing people working for us to make sure shit gets done,” assures Browne. “Everything takes a really long time with nine. You have to account for people wondering off, getting lost in record stores, all
that. It’s an epic operation just to get lunch.” Although challenging, touring has actually brought the nine members closer together, similar to a close knit family, if a slightly odd one at that. “We have no choice but to be close, we are like the Addams family in a travelling caravan,” jokes Browne. “You know, like Fleetwood Mac on crack. It definitely affects the shows I think; the closer we are the better we play. I mean, close doesn’t always mean friendly – some tensions that might be unresolved can come out in a beautiful musical exchange onstage or we could have an artistic disagreement in the studio that ultimately serves the music.” The year 2013 has been a big one for Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes with the band also finding the time to release their debut album Baby Caught the Bus earlier this year. “Recording Baby Caught the Bus was a freshman experience for us; we had only those songs and recorded
CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES play Falls Festival, which runs in Lorne from Saturday December 28 – Tuesday January 1. They also play Zoo Twlights at Melbourne Zoo on Friday February 7.
MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO By Augustus Welby Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro will be in Australia for their third time in almost as many years when they return later this week for the Falls Festivals. Australian audiences have taken fondly to the Japanese sextet’s limb flinging party-funk on past tours and the band’s manager/percussionist Shin Fukuzumi is looking forward to coming back. “We’re more than excited. We’re so fortunate that this is our third time touring your awesome country. We’re doing probably our biggest headline shows in each city. We’re very confident that we can bring a bigger show than the last time as well.” The band will also drop by the Corner Hotel in early January and anyone who has witnessed one of Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro’s hair-raising performances will be quick to advocate their ecstatic virtues. Thanks to the lasting impression left by their live show, the band’s audience continues to grow. “We’ve always done festivals first then people will talk about us, whether online or to their friends,” says Fukuzumi. “When they go back to their hometown, we’ll have a date there and they turn up and they bring their friends. So it’s
really a nice organic growth that you see. As a band, things like that really make us feel happy and makes us feel pumped that we’re doing something great for them.” Rather than a reserved display of instrumental ability, Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro’s hard-hitting funk gigs encourage plenty of audience interaction. “As a band we try to create an energy within the room, whether it’s a big festival or a small room, [so] that it’s pumping and it’s hot and steamy in there and sweaty and dirty. Just really an intimate atmosphere that [means] there’s no border between the band and the audience,” Fukuzumi says confidently. The band’s onstage energy is optimally captured on their four full-length albums. The recently released Perfect Times is a particularly animated document. Fukuzumi details the album’s key features.
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NO ZU By Rod Whitfield “No Zu is a kind of weird, funk, experimentation project that I started back in 2007.” So describes Nicolaas Oogjes, of this Melbourne six-piece funk/dance act. “It’s just kind of grown from there,” he continues, “in terms of how many people in the group, and also just expanding that initial idea I had in the first place, and just elaborating on that. The initial idea of a whole group that’s based on rhythm and percussion, that hasn’t changed at all. It’s just finding new ways to express that.” The band have a massive show coming up on Tuesday December 31 at The Penny Black in Brunswick, and Oogjes cannot wait to welcome in the new year in style. He promises that punters who come down to the show will have a memorable time, especially given the time of year. “Yeah, I’m feeling pretty excited about it!” he enthuses. “We’re playing a longer set, about an hour and a half, and doing the countdown and all that kind of stuff. I think it’s going to be really fun because we generally don’t have enough time to get through what we’d like to get through. The songs are pretty groove orientated and jammy in a lot of ways, in rehearsal sometimes a song will go for ten minutes…and I’m guessing people will be pretty down to party, being New Year’s Eve.” When pushed further as to what the band brings with their live show, and why people should choose their show for their New Year’s Eve’s entertainment, Oogjes struggles just a little to find the right words.
“It’s a pretty, umm, what’s a good word for it?” he hesitates. “Hopefully it’s…just trying to think of an appropriate word. ‘Energetic’ doesn’t really kinda say it. We kind of play with audience in mind. It sounds kind of lame, but I mean the audience is important to what we do in terms of performance and dancing and all that kind of stuff. It’s pretty wild, I guess…I’m trying to think of a more interesting word! “But there’s always a lot of energy onstage, and the performance is always different to the recording,” he describes, “and just having so much percussion onstage, and just having such propulsive rhythms throughout the entire set, hopefully it’s a trance-like experience for people.” Summing up, the band’s live show may be described as a cathartic experience, with the crowd and band coming together as one. “You can just tune into your own dancing and what-not, as opposed to watching a band that just plays verse-chorus, verse-chorus kind of
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song. I’m not bagging out any band that does that kind of song. The performance and the audience are pretty much the same thing, if you know what I mean.” The show also serves another purpose for the band, as next year holds some very exciting developments for them. “The other way we’re viewing it is that it’s one of a few warm up shows before we go to the US and to Mexico in March,” he reveals, “so we want to get a lot of shows under our belt before that.” This will be the first time that the band has played outside of Australasia, and presents a very exciting opportunity for them, but also sees them having to deal with a lot of the red tape involved in organising such a trip. “Yeah, it will be,” he confirms. “We’ve played outside
Australia, we’ve just played New Zealand before, but that’s it. Yeah, super excited, but also dealing with visa and grant stuff at the moment, which is kinda fun!” he states sarcastically. “We got invited to do some festivals in Mexico,” he says. “There’s two shows, the first one’s in Mexico City, and the second is in Monterrey, which is up north, closer to the border…and then we thought, since we’re going to go all the way there, we may as well go to the US.”
notepad,” he says. “People ask me what a song’s about, and sometimes I know and sometimes I don’t know. When I don’t know, they say, ‘Was it about this?’ and I think, ‘Well, yeah!’ Actually, well said. It’s funny, a lot of the time I’m figuring out what songs are about at the same time as the audience is,” he laughs. “Sometimes they’re random, but that’s fun because people want to find a pattern. Art’s about thinking, about interpreting what you’re looking at. If you’re looking at a painting and it’s a cow, well then that’s that. But if it’s in space, why is it in space? That’s a very strange thing for me to say. But I think there’s a point there; I think I’ve made a good point,” he chortles. As for agreeing on the band name, if there was any contention around it, it would’ve been put to bed
when The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne told Parry that he thought it was a brilliant title. Coyne’s quote is on all of Lamarama’s promo material, and why wouldn’t you? While the legend was in Melbourne, Parry happened to meet him and did the gentlemanly thing by walking him to Cherry Bar. On the way, Parry mentioned his own group. “That’s a cool band name!” Coyne enthused. “Can I quote you on that?” the guitarist immediately responded. The answer was a jovial affirmative. That’s a pretty special endorsement.
hundred Indonesian punks “going nuts” moshing. “They’re so appreciative of international bands that come over. It’s a bit of a surreal experience going to a completely different place in the world, rocking up having never been there before, and then having a whole bunch of people who know your music already because they’ve researched you on the Internet.” Not one to let a good anecdote go untold, Williams regales me with his favourite experience of the tour. “At one show a kid rocked up and was selling his own bootlegged Clowns shirt that he’d screen-printed and was selling them at our gig cheaper than our t shirts! That was the most flattering thing of all; I
bought one!” Of the New Years Eve gig Williams has nothing but nice things to say about Old Bar (“they’ve been so nice to give us sweet gigs”) and the other bands on the bill, Apart From This and Summer Blood (mates of Clowns and “awesome bands too” he gushes). “It’s going to be all kinds of wild,” he promises.
In the meantime, check out NO ZU at The Penny Black in Brunswick on New Year’s Eve, with support coming from Post Percy.
By Zoë Radas How the hell do seven people manage to agree on a band name, let alone create a coherent song, let alone produce a cache of technically bright and goodtime-guaranteed tracks is beyond me. But Melbourne-based psychedelic folk crew Lamarama have ticked all those boxes, and then popped a flute on top. “The flute, well it’s kind of funny,” says heavily bearded frontman Dave Adams. “We have one guitar [Tim Parry] and he’s the best rhythm guitarist I’ve come across. He’s not lead guitar – the flute kind of acts as the lead guitar, it’s the highest-pitched instrument. And Lauren [Bell, flautist] has a ton of effects, she’s got this pedal she uses. It’s a handy instrument!” Adams explains that Bell and Parry were two of Lamarama’s founding members, but there have been a few lineup changes since the group came together in 2009. “The band’s had more members than Spinal Tap, but we’re really feeling it at the moment, we’ve finally found the perfect combination,” he says. One recent amendment was a straight fare welcome swap – Madi Weybury left bass duties to rejoin the Woohoo Revue, while the Revue’s bassist Kat Ades has crossed the floor to join the Lamas. Adams insists the teamwork is efficient. “Well, I’m using the word ‘efficient’ loosely,” he concedes. “We rehearse once a week. We make a big bowl of pasta,
buy a slab of beer and just chill out. And I think that’s what keeps the band together – that’s more important than the rehearsal. We’ve really created a family vibe in the band. We’ve never had a tense rehearsal at all. When rehearsals are good fun, the music’s good. That’s what I think.” Songwriting begins when Adams or Parry come up with a skeleton structure, “a template, if you will,” and then the rest of the band write their own parts. “It’s just when everyone else adds their flavours it becomes the Lama sound,” he says. “I am not capable of writing horn parts. And that way it’s a creative process for all of us, it’s not like two of us write the songs and people turn up to work and read dots. It’s collective but it’s ordered; we build the song up from the ground.” Adams likes to write lyrics using an improvisational method, keeping lines or turfing them depending on how each rehearsal goes. “I think when you improvise lyrics it comes from a really creative, spontaneous moment, rather than sitting down at a
LAMARAMA play Bar Open in Fitzroy on New Year’s Eve, Tuesday December 31. Entry is free and the best ‘27 Club’ themed costume wins a copy of Lamarama’s latest EP, ETC.
CLOWNS By Garry Westmore
It’s been quite the year for hardcore punk rockers Clowns; they laid down their first long player I’m Not Right, went Australia wide for a frenetic seven week tour straight after, and along the way discovered they have a lot more fans than they did a year ago. They’re going to cap it all off with a New Years Eve gig at Old Bar which lead singer Stevie Williams tells me is going to be “fucking wild.” Having seen Clowns a couple of times I don’t disbelieve him. They seem to have relentless energy, with Williams half the time on the ground or climbing something. I suggest to him that Clowns often play with the same intensity at each gig, no matter what the crowd size. “Sometimes when we’re about to play a show and it’s a little quiet, I think ‘this time I’ll take it easy’,” he tells me, “but usually about halfway, three quarters through the set I find myself rolling on the ground” he laughs. “We’re all about playing fun shows regardless of the environment, or the venue, or the people there, or how much we get paid. It’s all about having fun and playing good shows.” They don’t like to do things half arsed, but at the same time always seem to be gigging or recording at any given time. I’m Not Right came out quite late in the year but still managed to make Triple J’s Short. Fast.Loud readers poll at number five, Williams BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
comparing the recording process to being in a whole new world. “We’d only done a few shitty demos and a couple of 7 inches (before the LP). Once we actually got a full length out, it was pretty weird; a lot more people were responsive to it. We noticed a lot more people listening to the music, coming to the shows, buying t-shirts – a really good step up from what we were doing.” Perhaps he’s being a little modest in selling what they were doing short; Clown’s first two EP’s made a significant splash on the punk/hardcore scene, and they even toured South East Asia in 2012, not somewhere one would expect an up and coming punk band to head first, but as Williams tells me the hardcore punk scene there is “fucking crazy”. “It really is a bit bizarre how good the hardcore punk scene is. We’d never been there before and we didn’t do any promo or any magazines, it was just all word of mouth,” with their biggest gig involving three
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CLOWNS will headline the New Year’s Eve gala at Old Bar next week, along with Apart From This and Summer Blood. I’m Not Right is available now.
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Back in 2006 Chicago’s party-rocking DJs Curt Cameruci (Autobot) and Josh Young (J2K) combined to form the electronic production force Flosstradamus. The pair will be in Australia this January for the Big Day Out and sideshows supporting their associates Major Lazer. For those unfamiliar with the Flosstradamus live experience, Cameruci indicates their party DJ origins shine through. “Josh hypes and MCs during the set, we deconstruct our songs and other people’s songs. We have stems from Major Lazer and we have stems from A-Trak and we’ll layer those on top of other songs that are big,” he says. “We go in between straight-up hard style music and underground hip hop stuff. It’s all over the map, but at the end of the day we’re there to make everyone go crazy and turn the fuck up.” Getting audiences to ‘turn up’ is no great difficulty for the high-octane duo, whose growing reputation in the US has taken them from small clubs into packed dancehalls. Young advises their shows aren’t for the faint hearted. “It’s definitely not something to sit there and analyse and play in a café. It’s deconstructed to a certain extent but we’re really trying to bring the most energy humanly possible.” Keeping up these ambitious energy levels presumably involves a ghastly amount of guarana consumption. However, Cameruci reveals the simple source of their hyper-animation.
“We’re just into the music for real. We’re into real hood trap music and when we play it we fucking turn up. Same with our songs, we’re all about our songs and to see kids go crazy to our songs – we feed off of them and they feed off of us. It’s recursive.” In addition to taking their livewire stage show around the world, the group have released a constant stream of original music over the last couple of years. A few months back they dropped the single Pillz, featuring Yellow Claw and Green Velvet, and this month another single, Mosh Pit, was unveiled. Cameruci reveals these songs will find a home together on a forthcoming EP. “We’re going to do four songs total. We have one with Waka Flaka called TTU – it stands for ‘Too turned up’, and there’s another one with Travis Porter called Drop Top. That’s coming out in the next few months.” Since the group’s 2011 debut Jubilation, a half dozen EPs have followed but there hasn’t been a full length Flosstradamus release yet. Cameruci says they prefer to regularly release singles, rather than get bogged down by album production. “We just put stuff out to give the kids something to listen to, so they’re not waiting for the next little bit. We keep putting them out throughout the months to give them to our fans so they can turn up to them.” As already mentioned, Flosstradamus will appear at the 2014 Big Day Out. The pair aren’t strangers to the
festival environment, having previously performed at the likes of Coachella and Lollapalooza. Young explains the characteristic differences between festivals and club shows. “A lot of times in clubs the fans are right up in your face, they’re really close to you and you get to see people and make eye contact. You drive that energy from specific individuals in the crowd, whereas at a festival the energy is driven from a mass of people. You’re really just looking out over a sea of people. When you tell everybody to put their hands up and you see five thousand hands go up, then you’re doing your job.” Flosstradamus’ upcoming support slots with Major Lazer didn’t come about by accident. Young and Cameruci have a close relationship with Major Lazer mastermind Diplo. The second Flosstradamus EP, 2012’s Total Recall, came out on Diplo’s Mad Decent label and Young says they’ll probably join forces during the tour. “We did the Mad Decent block parties this summer in America and did the same thing where we were supporting them, but a lot of times we found ourselves being pulled out onto stage stage and performing with them as well. So I’m sure you’ll see a little bit of that as well as the night goes on, depending on how much weed goes around.” Electronic music is becoming an increasingly crowded field at present, particularly since claiming mainstream dominance a few years back. Cameruci details how
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Flosstradamus live shows diverge from the norm. “It’s getting pretty diluted with so many people DJing and stuff like that now, so everything that we do we try to tweak it a little. Our live show right now here in the States, there’s no giant LCD screens like a lot of the other people who are touring now have. We have fake weed plants on stage, it looks like a grow room. We’re just trying to do something a little different with everything we do.” Although Flosstradamus take note of the common activities in contemporary electronic music, they’re not distracted by prevalent trends. Rather, their determined intention to get audiences to ‘turn up’ is what propels them forward. “I don’t feel very much competition for us in the EDM world, just because we’ve sort of made our own lane,” says Young. “We’ve carved our own field. Every night Curt and I will talk about our set and we’ll sort of figure out what we want to do better, but we’re really competing with ourselves.”
Flosstradamus hit the 2014 Big Day Out which will take place on Friday January 24 at the Flemington Racecourse. They are also joining forces with Major Lazer and will hit The Palace on Tuesday January 21.
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on tour STANTON WARRIORS [UK], S.P.Y [UK], MC LOWQUI [UK] Friday December 27, Brown Alley ?UESTLOVE [USA] Saturday December 28, Roxanne Parlour BLACK ASTEROID [UK] Saturday December 28, New Guernica DRUMCELL [USA] Tuesday December 31, TBA 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 CAMO & KROOKED [UK] Saturday January 11, Brown Alley CAKES DA KILLA [USA] Sunday January 12, Palace Theatre BEN UFO [UK], PEARSON SOUND [UK] Friday January 17, Brown Alley MARCUS WORGULL [GER] Friday January 17, The Liberty Social DANNY HOWELLS Friday January 17, Victoria Star 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 Alle ANDREW WEATHERALL [UK] Friday January 24, New Guernica 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 DVS1 [USA] Friday February 7, The Liberty Social BEN PEARCE [UK] Friday February 7, New Guernica 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 MARCEL DETTMANN [GER] Friday February 21, Brown Alley 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
soul clap wo rd s / n a o m i faye
Soul Clap, along with their record label-come-artist collective, Wolf + Lamb are touring together and bringing their feel good beats to Melbourne. Soul Clap’s ‘house wears many hats’ mantra is a piece of wisdom they learnt over a decade ago from the owner of Vinyl Connection records, Caril Mitro. The now closed-down record store was once their “vinyl temple” in Boston, and the beginning of their journey through house music. “This was her way of telling us to be diverse in our selection and taste”, says Cnyce aka Chaz Shabaz, one half of the Soul Clap duo. This sentiment encapsulates what Soul Clap is all about; house music shouldn’t be held captive to one particular vibe, it should be inspired by different sounds. Although Mitro’s advice seems simple enough, it has motivated Soul Clap into mastering the many elements of being skilled DJ’s - knowledge, mixing, programming, performance and experience.” This has formed their creative vision, allowing them to DJ at the hottest dance events around the world. Both from Boston, Cynce and Elyte aka E-Heavy The Bamboozla grew as DJs through the notorious parties held by Wolf + Lamb at Brooklyn’s Marcy Hotel. With their hip hop and R&B-infused house, they’re often described as bringing emotion back to the dance floor. “When remixing we look for emotion in elements that you can sink your teeth into… different tempos, feelings, songs with vocals and live instruments, or sometimes just drum machine hypnosis. What we don’t do is play that boring shit!”
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Gunnar Haslam wins 2013. Seeya next year chumps.
The last few years have seen Detroit Swindle blow up in a way they could never have predicted and they’re set to stop off at our doorsteps in February. From making music for the hell of it to making fans all around the globe, Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets have had quite a ride. With almost identical musical upbringings and a shared love for Detroit inspired deep house, their story was bound to finish in success. Make sure to head down to Circus on Friday February 28.
Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? I recently got into my kids bed in a bid to get him to sleep. I crashed out in there with him, was freaked out when I woke and so squashed in that I wasn’t able to move my neck for a week. Not very acid-house, sorry.
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In 2011 Soul Clap teamed up with Wolf + Lamb to release their 27-track mix for DJ-Kicks, securing their penchant for soulful house tunes. In 2012 the duo released their 90’s inspired debut album, EFUNK - a mix filled with R&B classics and disco remixes. This year they dug up the archives of Nice ‘N’ Ripe, developing a nostalgic compilation of the record label’s admired garage house. Through their record label, Soul Clap Records and their artist collective, Crew Love (together with Wolf + Lamb and Double Standard Records) the duo is now spreading their house ethos further, developing an inspired music community. “Soul Clap Records came about after years of touring when we started encountering artists that we loved. We wanted to be the ones that introduced them to the rest of the world.” But don’t be tempted to have any preconceptions about their performance, as they like to keep things completely improvised. Now incorporating post-punk, African and Arab beats into their hip hop repertoire, a crazy performance guaranteed. “WE COMING DOWN UNDAAAAAH! Australia git READY!”
Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? Front lawn. Describe yourself using the title of a song. Truffle Pig What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? Power rangers were real. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Two girls. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? Gangnam Style What’s the most played record in your bag? So Phat! - A Love Bizarre What question would you like to ask an omniscient, all-knowing being before you die? Is Elvis alive? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? Accountant. When and where is your next gig? Love NYE at Crown.
Describe yourself using the title of a song. Too Dehydrated To Cry (Tears Over You) by a country and western artist called Fix Frizzell.
cakes da killa
Grouse Party, John Homosocial & Flawless are coming together to throw one of the parties of the year, and with a late addition, Cakes Da Killa in the wake of Zebra Katz’s cancellation. Cakes Da Killa fuses NYC ballroom culture, hardcore hip hop, and raw vocal talent into party inducing music. The Presets, World’s End Press, Raf Daddy of The 2 Bears, Stereogamous, DJ Sveta, Gavin Campbell, Yo! M.A.F.I.A., DJ Kiti, The Sweats, Fletch and DJ People make up the rest of the amazing line up. It’s all happening at The Palace Theatre on Sunday January 12.
ben pearce
In a scene dominated by deep house clones, Ben Pearce stands out with his renowned remixing ability and his knack for cooking up club anthems. What I Might Do dominated in 2012 which gained Pearce support from heavyweights like Jamie Jones, Heidi and Pete Tong. If that’s not enough to convey the genius that is Ben Pearce then give his production a whirl and his skills behind the decks have not gone unnoticed, as shown by high-profile sets alongside the likes of Seth Troxler, Eats Everything, and Theo Parrish. He plays at New Guernica on Friday February 7.
What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? That in Australia everything was upside-down. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Through a very bizarre turn of events I ended up DJing at Geri Halliwell’s birthday party at a club in Chelsea about ten years ago. Does a whole evening count as an awkward moment?
marcel dettmann
German born, bred and Berghained, Marcel Dettman is heading to Melbourne. Marcel Dettman has been spinning records since 1994, securing a residency continuum at Berlin’s Ostgut/Berghain right from its opening in 1999 and started releasing music in 2006. His own fascination with the club led to his endless captivation with the dark side of techno and this doesn’t need explaining once you hear one of his sets. Don’t make the mistake of missing out on Dettman on Friday February 21 when he plays at Brown Alley.
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What question would you like to ask an omniscient, all-knowing being before you die? We know that music is the answer but what is the question? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? A yoghurt knitter. When and where is your next gig? Confetti Midsumma Party on Sunday January 12at the Palace Theatre. facebook.com/followthebears
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Music has always been his first love. And for a man who started making mixes and pretending he was a DJ since he was a kid, Steve Young is definitely in his element right now. Likewise, given the resurgence in the popularity of UK bass music in recent times, his twist on a breaks inspired sound has seen his popularity surge. “Music was something that came to me when I was about 13,” reflects a pretty chuffed Young. “It was something that I was doing in my spare time really. I actually studied mathematics and physics at university and did a PhD and persisted with the corporate world there for a while.” Indeed, after completing his studies, he obtained a rather well paying job in the Information Technology world but it started grating on him after a short while. “In around 2010 I quit my job after saving up about six-months worth of salary. In the move to music, I really thought about giving it everything I’ve got. I basically set myself up to make sure I wouldn’t fail; I believed in it and while I did a few other bits and bobs, my biggest focus really became Hedflux.” Interestingly, Young wondered whether like him, there were any DJs who were also doctors – “I was in Italy once and
got picked up at the airport by two DJs who just happened to be doctor’s – but they had no jobs!” he digresses. Back on track, he explains how he got into breaks around 2002 and 2003. “I started going to parties put on by Meat Katie and Rennie Pilgrem. That simple break beat groove really became imprinted on my soul.” In time, Young found the scene becoming somewhat stagnant and boring, while beginning to really enjoy techno and trance. Torn, he began considering how to reconcile these noises and fuse them into a single, dance floor type of rhythm. “I wanted to make it an experience – that was my goal. And as I evolved, I felt I created a more defined and mature sound – I was really trying to break out of the mould and push things a bit further. For example, I recently found myself doing some psychedelic, progressive breaks tracks to see how they would turn out.” This in turn inspired him to pursue visions of grandeur in an LP too. “I really wanted to do an album last year actually,” he chimes. “It ended up being a four-track EP though – and I put it out as a ‘pay-what-you-like’ release and managed to build up a bit of a studio with the money. So the next
focus is an album – but it will take some time. I’m not one of these people that can churn out tunes on a weekly basis. I’m just going to take my time and get an album out next year. I want to try to push my own boundaries a bit rather than follow a tried and tested methodology. You’re always learning in music!” True that.
bimbos Hedflux plays at Rubix Funhouse on Tuesday January 31.
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willie burns
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“Not much,” answers Willie Burns, when the questioning opens with a kind of ‘what’s up?’ It’s testament to the unfussy and relaxed nature of the man – head honcho at W.T Records and all ‘round good guy. “I’m just working at whatever job I have during the day and then in the studio at night - unless I have a gig,” says Burns. “I’ve just gotten home from work at the junk store; it’s snowing and I left a little early before the traffic got too crazy!” Indeed, his path to music was unplanned – and certainly not guaranteed, more something that he fell into by accident – but a fascinating whirlwind nevertheless. “I’d always collected music - tapes and CDs and things as a kid,” he chimes. “But then I realized I could get records cheaper and that led to life as a DJ simply because I had so many records. Sometime during high school, I also got a guitar and learnt that. I also had a friend with a Moog, so that was in there somewhere too.” All pretty standard stuff for a child of the 80s he says: ‘radio, MTV, tapes at the mall.’ Fast-forward some years though and he’s an accomplished producer, respected label boss and impeccable DJ – call him a legend. But he is relaxed about it all: “Well, I’m chilling with the label firstly,” he explains. “There seems to be an influx of new labels and for me it’s just overkill - I
don’t want to add to the pile of soon to be overstocked unsellable records that is inevitably coming. I just have the one coming out on W.T in February from a kid in Moscow – but I don’t want to say too much about it now!” It seems he was trying to do what Beyoncé did by staying mum on the release until it was nigh on being released, he admits she beat him to it. “Other than that, I’m just making sure the catalog is in press and still moving forward; maybe I’ll make some more W.T merchandise; otherwise, I’m waiting for music that is really good. I am also kind of bugging the people who have already released on the label for more stuff, to build up the label a little bit.” Musically, Burns claims there is plenty more going on - there is a new Daywalker & CF release coming on Emotional Response – a collaboration between Burns and fellow US producer Jon Beal. There are also a bunch of remixes for Joakim, DFA, Nuearthkitchen and some other stuff. “I’ve made some techno stuff as Phobian,” he says. “I’m also trying to make a U.K garage sounding thing, but it pretty much just sounds like Willie Burns.” Adding there is probably a bunch of stuff he’s likely overlooked as well, he claims he is essentially moving through a productive phase. His sound though, isn’t easy to define – call it something
like techno mixed with deep house and with a twist. And with that, his club output depends on where he is playing. “There are a lot of factors; the club, who else I’m playing with, what time I’m playing, all that stuff. It can be anything but I really don’t hold myself to any rules or a particular format. For me, that is a house approach, it’s all dance music, or at least something that I hope people want to hear!” In all then, Burns is excited about the opportunity to get away from the freezing cold of the big city and head down under for the first time this summer. “I’ve never even thought about going there,” he admits. “It seems so far away, but yeah the stars aligned and a few of my friends will be out there at the same time, so it should be good to escape the cold! I don’t know what I’ll play though – I have to ask who or what I’ll be playing in between, all that sort of stuff. I’ll go through my records a few days before hand and basically see what happens. I’ll do my best.” Like you’d expect anything less from the mastermind.
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Willie Burns plays alongside Big Strick, Tom of England, Cos/Mes and more at the Peoples Market, West Melbourne on Wednesday January 1.
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club guide THURSDAY 26 DEC
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. grad party thursdays feat: dj rowie European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. le disco tech - feat: various djs Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. love story - feat: various djs Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. mood - feat: nubody Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. old school house party - feat: boogs + radiator + spacey space + sunshine + t-rek Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. the ritz thursdays - feat: cauc-asian dj’s + joshua gililand + ken walker + lucille croft + carrick dalton & sam cohen + ed wilks + max kruse + tim light + zack rose Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20. tiger funk live - feat: dj moonshine Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. twisted - feat: dj becsta + dj paul watson Kama Bar, South Yarra. 7:00pm. varsity - feat: various djs Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY 27 DEC
anytime - feat: friday Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm. badaboom fridays - feat: dj rowie European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. bag raiders (dj set) - feat: bag raiders (dj set) + dj jean pierre + mu-gen Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. 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 7:00pm. fusion friday - feat: various djs Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm.
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. 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. tribe - feat: deekline + dom & roland + marten horger + mc lowqui + spy + stanton warriors Brown Alley, Melbourne. 9:00pm. $50. weekender - feat: various djs Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. $10.
SATURDAY 28 DEC
capacity 250 + black asteroid New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. club fiction - feat: kitty rock & the bad ladies Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. 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. midnight run - feat: various djs Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. $7. mixed drinks saturdays feat: various djs Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. osunlade + mike steva My Aeon, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $35. razzmatazz indie discotheque - feat: caity k + nathan jones Exford Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5. 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. star saturdays - feat: various djs Star Bar, South Melbourne. 3:02pm. strut saturdays - feat: collective + andreas + danny merx + henrique +
jason serini + mark pellegrini + mc junior + nick van wilder Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22. sunday nights - feat: dj damion de silva + dj jay j + dj ken walker + dj lighting Co., Southbank. 8:30pm. temperance saturdays feat: dj marcus knight + dj xander james Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. textile - feat: 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. 10:00pm. the late show - feat: mat cant + nick thayer + ransom + booshank + lewis cancut + paz Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. why not? - feat: saturday Pretty Please, St Kilda. 3:21pm.
SUNDAY 29 DEC
danger - feat: george hysteric & rohan bell-towers The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. lunar sundays Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. 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.
MONDAY 30 DEC
CLUB NIGHTS ibimbo - feat: lady noir & kiti Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. stiff drink - feat: dj michael kucyk + dj michael ozone + dj roman wafers Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. twerkers club - feat: dj fletch Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
TUESDAY 31 DEC
CLUB NIGHTS an awful lot of vaudeville - feat: aurora kurth + danny golding + enzo ficco + mc knave knixx + mimi la noire + simon storey + tim rutty Red Bennies, South Yarra.
6:00pm. $49. hedflux + altruism + angus green + kodiak kid + men imitating machines Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 2:00pm. $20. no frills nye - feat: various djs Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. pacha - feat: various djs Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 7:00pm. $79. party at our place - feat: various djs 29th Apartment, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $120. soul-a-go-go nye - feat: richie 1250 + vince peach + andrew young + dj manchild + miss goldie + pierre baroni + zack rampage Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $35. the house de frost nye - feat: andee frost + andras fox + michael ozone + misty nights djs + zanzibar chanel Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.
WEDNESDAY 1 JAN
coq roq - feat: agent 86 + djs lady noir + joybot + kiti + mr thom Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. let them eat cake - feat: a13 + amin payne + andy hart + attackattackattack + bee ampersand + bicep + boot action + brad daniels + client liaison. cyril hahn + digital + digital primate + dj koze + dusky + dylan griffin + edd fisher + eprom + estere + floating points + fugitive + bukem + griff + hans dc + hypnotech + isaac fryar + jacob malmo + james de bono + james holdon + james steeth + jesse young + jps + julio bashmore + kode9 + kodiak kid + ltj + mark pritchard + matt turner + mic newman + mike callander + muska & nixie + myles mac + nam + sean deans + silent jay + soul clap + tokimonsta + torren foot + uone + wolf & lamb Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee. 10:00am. $145. let them eat cake official after party Brown Alley, Melbourne. 9:00pm. $20. no frills nyd - feat: various djs Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. revolver nyd - feat: 2dotzero + baby goggles + damon walsh + flex cop + mark leigh murphy + mike callander + nergal + ok sure + radiator + silversix + tom hornsby + boogs + spacey space + t-rek Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. rock city - feat: the shapeshifters Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 7:30pm. $45.
urban club guide FRIDAY 27 DEC
crew love - feat: dj tony sunshine Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15. de la soul Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $58. faktory - feat: dj damion de silva + dj durmy + dj k dee + dj yaths Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. like fridays - feat: broz + dir-x + djs dinesh + nyd + sef + shaggz + shaun d La Di Da, Melbourne. 7:00pm. sweet nothing fridays - feat: dj marcus knight + dj xander james Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm.
SATURDAY 28 DEC
saturday nights - feat: dj damion de silva + dj jay sin + dj k dee Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
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SUNDAY 29 DEC
open decks Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 6:30pm.
MONDAY 30 DEC
freedom pass - feat: phil ross + b-boogie + chris mac + dozza Co., Southbank. 9:30pm.
shaun d La Di Da, Melbourne. 7:00pm. sweet nothing fridays - feat: dj marcus knight + dj xander james Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm.
SATURDAY 4 JAN
talib kweli Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $43.
saturday nights - feat: dj damion de silva + dj jay sin + dj k dee Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. wiz khalifa & a$ap rocky Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $90.
FRIDAY 3 JAN
SUNDAY 5 JAN
THURSDAY 2 JAN
crew love - feat: dj tony sunshine Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15. dj yoda Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. faktory - feat: dj damion de silva + dj durmy + dj k dee + dj yaths Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. like fridays - feat: broz + dir-x + djs dinesh + nyd + sef + shaggz +
open decks Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 6:30pm.
MONDAY 6 JAN
freedom pass - feat: phil ross + b-boogie + chris mac + dozza Co., Southbank. 9:30pm.
ummet ozcan Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $60.
THURSDAY 2 JAN
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. grad party thursdays feat: dj rowie European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. le disco tech - feat: various djs Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. mood - feat: nubody Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. radionica - feat: various djs Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. the ritz thursdays - feat: cauc-asian dj’s + joshua gililand + ken walker + lucille croft + carrick dalton & sam cohen + ed wilks + max kruse + tim light + zack rose Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20. tiger funk live - feat: dj moonshine Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. tomorrow never comes feat: audiojack Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $20. varsity - feat: various djs Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY 3 JAN
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 7:00pm. fusion friday - feat: various djs Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. 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. revolver fridays - feat: dj lewie day + dj mike callander + dj katie drover Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. shuffle friday nights Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. the correspondents Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $30. the fox fridays - feat: various djs Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. weekender Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. $10. SATURDAY 4 JAN big red bus - feat: binaural + blue md + chris meehan + jayson holden + seribu + tripinstumble + will m d My Aeon, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $10. 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. first floor saturdays - feat: billy hoyle + djs duchesz + mzrizk + wasabi First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. glitch this - feat: saturday Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. hot step - feat: various djs Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. lab 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne
electronic - urban - club life
Cbd. 10:00pm. midnight run Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. $7. mixed drinks saturdays feat: various djs Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. new guernica saturdays - feat: various djs New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. plasma + calyx & teebee + icicle + the upbeats The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 9:00pm. $44. poison apple - feat: various djs Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. 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. star saturdays - feat: various djs Star Bar, South Melbourne. 3:02pm. strut saturdays - feat: collective + andreas + danny merx + henrique + jason serini + mark pellegrini + mc junior + nick van wilder Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22. sunday nights - feat: dj damion de silva + dj jay j + dj ken walker + dj lighting Co., Southbank. 8:30pm. temperance saturdays feat: dj marcus knight + dj xander james Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. textile - feat: 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. why not? - feat: saturday Pretty Please, St Kilda. 3:21pm.
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SUNDAY 5 JAN
danger - feat: george hysteric & rohan bell-towers The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. lunar sundays Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. 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.
MONDAY 6 JAN
ibimbo - feat: lady noir & kiti Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. twerkers club - feat: dj fletch Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
TUESDAY 7 JAN
bonobo + banoffee + oisima Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. cosmic pizza - feat: various djs Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. curious tales - feat: various djs Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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PORTUGAL. THE MAN By Augustus Welby
Alaska doesn’t have a huge rock’n’roll reputation; in fact, the state’s obscure position basically excludes it from the American music narrative altogether. Yet, the core duo behind indie-rock five-piece Portugal. The Man – singer/songwriter John Gourley and bassist Zach Carouthers – are Alaskan natives helping to establish the state’s musical relevance. Despite the band’s expansive psych-pop sound, Carouthers explains there wasn’t a great deal of music available to them when growing up. “We were very, very isolated up there. Before the internet all we had was oldie’s stations and top 40 radio,” he says. “Luckily our parents had amazing record collections but we had no idea about underground music at all. If it was underground, it got up to Alaska about ten years later.” In 2004, Gourley and Carouthers relocated to the bohemian mecca of Portland, Oregon to enhance the opportunities for the freshly conceived Portugal. The Man. Portland is crawling with musical activity and the move South hastened the band’s development. “When we moved down to Portland it was just crazy,” says Carouthers. “I couldn’t believe that I was going and watching these amazing bands I’d definitely heard of that were playing some cool little bar for like three dollars. Seeing all these bands just get in a van and go travel across the country playing shows every night, it really inspired me to go out and do it.” In the last few decades Portland has given rise to many leading indie music figures, such as Elliot Smith, The Shins and Blitzen Trapper. The city maintains a strong underground scene, which Carouthers believes to be a creative impetus.
“A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE IN PORTLAND, THEY DON’T WANT TO GET BIG, THEY WANT TO STAY AS THIS ‘COOL SMALL BAND’. AND I DON’T. I WANT TO PLAY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, I WANT TO TRAVEL AS MUCH AS I CAN. ”
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“You try to surround yourself with people that are very talented and it definitely pushes you. I grew up snowboarding a lot, John and I both did. We would always go with the older guys, the guys that are pretty much professional snowboarders in Alaska. They would always push us more to do everything, so I think that’s a big thing to have people that you look up to that are doing something right.” After putting out five LPs through various indie labels Portugal. The Man signed to major label Atlantic Records for the release of 2011’s In the Mountain in the Cloud. Their relationship with Atlantic continues and the band’s latest record Evil Friends is bolstered by the production smarts of Brian Burton, AKA Danger Mouse. Carouthers reveals their continual rise hasn’t pleased everyone in their adopted hometown. “A lot of those people in Portland, they don’t want to get big, they want to stay as this ‘cool small band’. And I don’t. I want to play for a lot of people, I want to travel as much as I can. You know, I get to go to Australia in January and spend a few weeks there travelling around the country playing shows. That’s fucking awesome.” Carouthers’ intention to broaden Portugal. The Man’s audience is not a wanton quest for stardom. “I would love to be able to turn on any top 40 radio station and have the top 40 songs be awesome,” he enthuses. “There’s always been artists like that, that are good. Like David Bowie – how many hits does that guy have? Nobody ever questions his artistic intent. It’s stuff like that that’s really inspiring. The Beatles – listen to the White Album. That’s one of the most popular records of all time. You can write popular stuff and still have it be fucking amazing.” Pop songs often rely on concision and a certain hypnotic quality to succeed. It’s a delicate balance and artists who miss the mark can be subjected to harsh scrutiny. Carouthers discusses the nuanced craft of successful pop music. “I’ve been in prog-rock bands, I love that kind of stuff, but writing a seven-and-a-half minute epic prog song is a lot easier than writing a three minute pop song. Take something like Ain’t No Sunshine. It’s got pretty much one progression, one hook, one groove, it’s two minutes and 30 seconds long and it takes me so many places in that two minutes 30 seconds. I just think that’s beautiful and that’s hard to do. That’s what we’re striving to do.”
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PORTUGAL. THE MAN play Big Day Out at Flemington Racecourse on Friday January 24 alongside Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire and Snoop Dogg.They also play The Hi-Fi on Tuesday January 21 with Toro Y Moi.
GROUPLOVE By David James Young
It’s impossible to be unhappy whilst listening to GROUPLOVE. The Californian pop-rockers exude a sunny disposition and an endless cheeriness that is matched by bounding energy and the kind of hooks that require roughly ten seconds to learn and the rest of the month to get out of your head. They’ve had a stellar year by any measure; their second album, Spreading Rumours, dropped in September. Its lead single, the rollicking Ways to Go, cracked a top five position in the US alternative chart. The band also played dozens of headlining shows and festivals both in the US and abroad. It was a lot to take in – and the band’s vocalist and keyboardist, Hannah Hooper, has taken none of it for granted. “I think the biggest highlight of the year for me was recording the album,” she says. “We had so much fun making it, and we’re amazingly better friends after touring it. We’re better songwriters, we’re better performers... there’s just something so exciting about being a band that’s developing still. I keep hearing about the ‘sophomore slump’ when it comes to writing your second album, and I’m so lucky that we never had that. We got to avoid that altogether and just enjoy the ride.” Aside from ensuring that everyone at a GROUPLOVE show has the best night of their lives, the band also like to make a point of keeping the crowd involved every step of the way. That, of course, means introducing them to songs they may not know all that well; or, indeed, not at all. Hooper says that the band is adamant to stick out in that regard, where they get just as much of a reaction out of a song from their self-titled EP or a non-single as they would a popular number like the chart-topping Tongue Tied or the infectious Itchin’ on a Photograph. “I won’t name any bands, but we’ve done tours with some bands who only like playing their singles because that’s what people know,” she says. “The great part is getting people on board with the songs that they don’t know from the radio. That’s so much fun to me – to see someone in the audience visibly being like ‘I don’t know this track,’ and then totally getting into it and jumping around by the end of the song. Hopefully, it means they’ll go and get the rest of the album, then.” The Big Day Out marks GROUPLOVE’s third
“I DEFINITELY FEEL THE NEED TO REPRESENT WOMEN AND GIRLS IN A COOL, POSITIVE WAY – WE’RE SMART AND WE’RE BADASS. THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POP GIRLS AND ROCK GIRLS, I FEEL. I’M DEFINITELY A ROCK GIRL. I LIKE TO REPRESENT THAT” time here, following appearances at the 2011 Splendour in the Grass festival and the 2011/2012 Falls Festival. Their 2014 return sees the festival on somewhat shaky ground – not only on account of losing a headliner, but due to criticism that there was a notable lack of women present on the bill. Hooper is one of them, and she’s somewhat reticent in her response to the criticism. “I guess I don’t really look at things that way,” she says after a pause. “I’m kind of used to being the only girl. On the last tour we did, there were like 50 guys backstage... and I didn’t even realise until the end that me and the cook were the only women. It’s crazy. But I don’t feel like there’s a fight for women to be featured and noticed. I definitely feel the need to represent women and girls in a cool, positive way – we’re smart and we’re badass. There’s a difference between pop girls and rock girls, I feel. I’m definitely a rock girl. I like to represent that.” Not only is Hannah in love with Australia, she gushes about getting to tour with acts like Arcade Fire and CSS; the latter of whom will join GROUPLOVE at their headlining shows in Sydney and Melbourne. “I can’t believe it,” she says. “In the middle of January, to be in the most beautiful place in the world, playing with my favourite bands in the world... it’s just going to be a crazy experience. And not to bring a guy into this, but I hear Eddie Vedder is an accomplished painter now – so I’m gonna try to talk to him about painting!” GROUPLOVE play at Big Day Out at Flemington Racecourse on Friday January 24 alongside Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Snoop Dogg, and more. They also play at The Hi-Fi on Thursday January 23. They will also play a sideshow with CSS at The Hi-Fi on Thursday January 23. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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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
MINISTRY OF SOUND AUST. TEAMS WITH DEFECTED Ministry of Sound Australia (MOSA) struck a deal with international house music label Defected to handle its record releases and tours locally. First release is the UK #1 from Storm Queen Look Right Through on MOSA’s sister label etcetc. On the tour front, MOSA is bringing the huge Defected in the House party with Pacha Sydney. The Defected series begins with a Pool Club day party at ivy on Saturday February 15, featuring MK, with Kenny Dope (Masters at Work) heading here for a Defected party in 2014. Tim McGee, MOSA CEO said, “We have always had a great relationship with Defected, and this is the natural culmination of all our work together at a time when house music is very much alive and kicking.” The Defected deal caps off a huge year for MOSA, which expanded in recordings, touring and events, a new management company, Crown Rights, plus the continued growth of Soapbox Artists and Events and 120 Publishing.
MOOBOO RECORDS LAUNCHES MooBoo Records is a not-for-profit collective that wants to make a difference to Melbourne’s music community. It is the brainchild of alt-rock group Big Head Ella, booking agent Paul Richardson and events manager and proprietor of The Brunswick Hive, Sam Scholfield. Max Sabbatini of Big Head Ella points out, “MooBoo is a moniker for a handful of ventures. Predominantly, we’ll be providing musicians with an alternative to the expensive process of recording their music in a commercial studio. MooBoo isn’t about trying to turn a profit for the label, which dramatically reduces expenses. MooBoo also offers booking services and management, which can be invaluable for up and coming bands that need to get a foot in the door with venues and other bands.” The idea is to ensure young bands don’t slip through the cracks through lack of understanding and networking. MooBoo launches with a Mooboo Hullabaloo on Friday January 3 at Ding Dong Lounge with acts who support the concept – Trash Fairys, Farewell Earth, Big Head Ella, Low Fly Incline, Monster Jeans and Police & Thieves. Sabbatini tell us that after the launch, they’ll construct a permanent studio in the Brunswick Hive Warehouse art hub. The Hive’s monthly mailer will include free sampler CDs showcasing new Melbourne talent. Mid-2014 sees the arrival of the MooBoo Bus Collective. “It is a yearly bus tour of the East Coast of Australia, involving four-five bands, some great music, and probably poor hygiene,” he says. “Each year during summer the bus will tour through Sydney up to the Sunshine Coast and back again, bringing Melbourne’s music to a wider audience, and having some good times along the way.”
FESTIVALS #1: LANEWAY SYDNEY SELLS OUT, MELBOURNE SOON Laneway Sydney has sold out, with Melbourne very close to, organisers announced. Their other good news was that Laneway Brisbane will run until midnight which means that 75% of the lineup will play after 5pm.
FESTIVALS #2: BLUES & BBQ ARRIVES Scott Mesiti and Simon Luke, who run Port Macquarie’s Festival of the Sun are launching another event. The Blues and BBQ Festival, a music and lifestyle tribute to the US south, takes place on Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29.
FESTIVALS #3: NOW SFX BUYS INTO ROCK IN RIO New York based SFX Entertainment which has been gobbling up all things EDM, including Australia’s Stereosonic, has now taken 50% of a company which runs Rock In Rio in Brazil and Portugal and, soon, in America.
THINGS WE HEAR • With debate raging as to why females are under-represented in dance (or indeed, the music industry) comes a new initiative that adds nothing to it. Entrepreneur Paul Klerck has made a call-out for topless female DJs to play mining towns between Mt Isa to Moranbah. Apparently his research shows a “huge demand” in these places, and they’re tried and true in Europe. • Police and local Council will ensure there will not be a repetition of last year’s New Years Eve at Edinburgh Gardens in
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North Fitzroy when 15,000 descended on an unauthorised rave and left piles of garbage behind. • In 2014, SLAM (Save Live Music Australia) will abandon its national SLAM Day activities and focus on lobbying the politicians to bring in Agent of Change: that means, if you move into an area where a live music venue exists, then you don’t complain about the noise. • Robin Thicke was named sexist of the year by UK’s End Violence Against Women Coalition, which says the Blurred Lines video (nude dancing models) the song’s insinuation (hey, date rape is acceptable, dude!) and remarks he’s made in interviews about degrading women (“What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I’ve never gotten to do that before”) helped him win by a wide mile. The Coalition, of 60 women’s groups around the UK, is sending Thicke-head a voucher so he can download Aretha Franklin’s hit Respect. • The two remaining jailed members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot look like they're being released under a recently approved amnesty bill • Noel Gallagher turned down $33 million to reunite Oasis for a world tour. • While Vance Joy has been told to go off the road to rest his voice, Glass Towers had to blow out Festival of the Sun when singer Ben came down with acute laryngitis which totally robbed him of his voice. • Someone who should have stayed off the road was Nathan Hudson, formerly of Faker. He’s been driving across America in a BMW on a spiritual adventure (we think) when the icy road in New Mexico went one way and Hudson and the BMW went the other. Nothing was broken. • Two DJs in Dubai set the new Guinness World record for the longest continuous music radio broadcast by a DJ team. Sindhu Biju and Mithun Ramesh of Malayalam music station Hit 96.7 FM lasted 84 hours 15 mins. • 19-year-old Sydney singer, Elen Levon plans to play in Italy next year after her single Wild Child went top 5 in the Dance Charts and #12 on iTunes. • Impatient with Island Records delaying her debut album Dirty Gold until March, rapper Angel Haze got her revenge by releasing it for free online.
E-STREET KISS, NIRVANA, CHIC INDUCTED To be inducted as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2014 on April 10 in New York: Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Nirvana, KISS, Chic, Peter Gabriel, Deep Purple, The Meters, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt, NWA, LL Cool J, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Zombies and The Replacements. Kiss have been whining for ages about not getting in, and their fans lobbied hard and loud. Chic just finished off some of the best shows in 2013 in Australia. Ronstadt has her autobiography out, and Gabriel gets the chance to shine as he didn’t join the rest of Genesis when they were inducted some years back. Beatles manager Brian Epstein and Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham will be presented with Ahmet Ertegun Awards for non-performers.
CMAA DISCUSSES AWARDS WITH COUNCIL It’s been a baptism of fire for new Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) president Dobe Newton. The Melbourne-based Bushhwacker expected his first official duty to receive guests at the Golden Guitars country music awards next month in Tamworth. Instead he’s had to hose down comments made about the Americanisation of the awards by former prez John Williamson. He had to convene a crisis meeting by the CMAA board. Then he had a pow-wow with Tamworth mayor Col Murray and Council events and economic development director John Sommerlad to explain that this “let’s keep it Strine” was a debate that affected every artform in this country, including music awards. Council agreed it was a good time to rebrand Australian country music.
MUSIC WORTH £3.5 BILLION TO UK ECONOMY The UK music industry was worth £3.5b (A$6.3b) to the British economy in 2012 according to new figures by trade body UK Music. Musicians, composers, songwriters and lyricists generated £1.6b ($2.9b) and employ seven out of 10 people in the sector. Live music made £662m ($1.2b). The recorded music sector was worth £634m ($1.1b) while music publishing made £402m ($732.4m). Music representatives
(trade bodies, managers, collecting societies) made £151m ($275m). The recording sector – including music producers, studios and their staff – was responsible for £80m ($145m).
GANG OF YOUTHS SIGN DEALS Gang Of Youths, who are about to move to America, signed various deals. They partnered with Sony Music Entertainment Australia through their own Mosy Recordings. Artist Voice agency will now represent them in Australasia and CAA for US/UK/Europe. They’re in triple j’s Next Crop for 2014 and up for Next Big Thing in Sydney’s SMAC awards.
THE RUBENS GO PLATINUM The Rubens self-titled debut album, which hit the ARIA chart at #3 last September, has been certified platinum. They’re one of the few Aussie acts alongside Flume, Hilltop Hoods and The Temper Trap to gain that status. It’s been a triumph for their label Ivy League who celebrated their 16th year in 2013: Lanie Lane’s debut record To The Horses went gold status in March.
NEW POSITION AT PBS In 2014 PBS will be recruiting for the role of Interviews and Multi-Platform Content Coordinator. The one-year contract position working closely with the Music Department and Programming, will primarily assist with the coordination and administration of interviews across the breadth of PBS programming. The role will be a three day per week position. Applications close Tuesday January 21. See pbsfm.org.au for more info.
RTR 94.9FM SIGNS OFF AFTER 20 YEARS RTR 94.9FM stops broadcasting on Tuesday December 31 after 20 years to the Upper Murray Region. The Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries wanted its Mount Mittamatite site back and will demolish the building in three months. If you have a truck and can help them move their equipment by Monday January 30, you’d be much appreciated. Contact 0260762051 or aoj@corryong.net.
VENUES WOES The Annandale in Sydney is closed at least until autumn for renovations. Its new owners Oscars Hotel Group have not confirmed if bands will return then. Three months ago, when they took over the premises, they announced they would initially trial the continuation of live music until end of December. Meantime, we’re getting mixed messages about indie music mecca Empress of India’s closure because of the ill-health of owner Sandra Eunso. Some staffers say it’s gone for good, others that it might be back after Christmas. Eunso could not be reached. Up in Rockampton, Queensland, nightclub Studio 2 closed after attendance dipped in the entertainment quarter.
DAN AND MAZ MOVE TO DRIVE Dan Debuf and Maz Compton are the new drive team for the Today Network with anchor Michael Christian. The pair hosted evenings. Christian you’ll remember was involved in the royal prank at Hot 30 Countdown.
SURPRISE BEYONCE SELLS 617,000 IN THREE DAYS Beyonce releasing her new album Beyonce without any advance warning is seen as a game-changer. It went to #1 in 104 countries. Within three days, Beyonce sold 617,000 copies in America, becoming the 24th biggest-selling album of 2013 in that country (the top seller, Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience was the only album to sell over 2 million this year (with 2.4 million). Beyonce also broke the U.S. iTunes Store’s record (as well as her own) for the largest sales week for an album. Incidentally, while the No Angel video got publicity for being shot at a decrepit house in Melbourne’s Brunswick, her management reveals five of the tracks were filmed in Sydney and Melbourne by her production crew – Rocket (partial), No Angel (partial), Flawless (partial), Mine (partial) and Ghost (partial).
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LIFELINES Engaged: Kelly Rowland and her manager Tim Witherspoon, with plans for a wedding ceremony so intimate it’ll just be her, him and the priest. Engaged: Stones’ Ron Wood’s son Jesse and radio host Fearne Cotton. Married: Journey guitarist Neal Schon and Real Houseviwes Of D.C.’s Michaele Salahi: the ceremony was available live via pay per view. Injured: Philip Pierre, the elderly caretaker of Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris’ Bahamas home was beaten severely by a gang of thieves who broke in and stole $8,000 worth of goods. In Court: One Direction’s Harry Styles got a court order to have a number of photographers banned from chasing him or hanging outside his pad. Jailed: Ian Watkins of Lostprophets for 35 years for 13 sexual offences including trying to rape a baby. UK cops are liaising with cops in the US and Germany to see if he committed acts there. Two mothers of children he abused, who admitted child abuse charges, were jailed for 14 and 17 years. Died: Paul Baümer, one-half of The Bingo Players (Rattle, Cry Just A Little), from cancer. He was diagnosed in July. He continued to work on his music until the very end, Bingo Players partner Maarten Hoogstrate said. Died: R&B singer The Child Of Lov, 26, after complications from surgery. Born in Belgium as Martijn William Zimri Teerlinck, his debut album from June featured Blur’s Damon Albarn and DOOM. Died: influential US country singer and band leader Ray Price, 87, from cancer of the pancreas, liver, intestines and lungs. Of his 100 country hits and seven pop hits, the best known was For the Good Times in 1970.
refurbishment for the heritage-listed music, cabaret and comedy venue since Dave Marriner bought it in 1996. The development will see features such as the clock tower, entry doors and copper dome done up, and see the former Melbourne Theatre building converted to hotels and offices, the paper said.
SWEAT IT OUT WIN MUSICA COPA Dance label Sweat It Out took Sydney’s inaugural charity five-a-side tournament for the music industry, Musica Copa, with $2,667.97 raised for charity. The game was played at KIKOFF Fraser Park, Marrickville. The star-studded teams also came from Channel V, Elefant Traks, FBi Radio, Future Classic, inthemix, Ministry of Sound, Modular, Motorik!, Mushroom Group, Pulse Radio and Stereosonic. Players including Krewella, Nick Thayer, Van She, Canyons, What So Not and Movement represented on the pitch, with Touch Sensitive, wordlife, Lancelot, Moonbase Commander, Slow Blow, Astral DJs, Frames and LUEN raving it up on the sound system.
GETTING THEIR “FIRST BREAK” Sydney‘s Castlecomer took out First Break, the quest by the commercial radio industry to find new unsigned radiofriendly acts. They get national radio support for two singles over 12 months, and joint financing with the Mushroom Group for videos, social media activation and tour support, and the chance to play the 2014 Australian Commercial Radio Awards before 1200 radio and music industry figures. Due to the high quality of entries, judges introduced the First Break Development Award, given to brother/sister fronted four-piece Nova and The Experience (NATE). They got $500 for equipment and creative services, and guidance from Mushroom over the next year.
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Every year Core is delighted to point you in the direction of quality live music for New Year’s Eve. Almost every one of my New Year’s Eves have been seen in with live music of some description and I couldn’t imagine a more perfect conclusion to 2013. This year you have options coming out the wazoo. Here’s what’s happening: Mid Youth Crisis, Rise Of The Rat, Stoackades, Join The Amish, Tigers at The Reverence Something For Kate, Bodyjar, Dallas Crane, Kingswood, The Basics, The Delta Rigs at The Espy Earthless, The Shrine, King Of The North, Broozer, My Left Boot, Dead China Doll, Hotel City Wrecking Traders at The Thornbury Theatre Clowns, Apart From This, Summer Blood at The Old Bar Also, now seems as good a time as any to boldly announce my musical highlights of 2013 with a solid sense of self-importance. New favourite band of 2013 must surely be Iron Chic who managed to sullenly bully their way into everyone’s most listened lists earlier in the year. Their music requires patience, though. They’re not immediately loveable and in some instances they’re just too dour to handle (though definitely easier to tolerate than Balance and Composure in this regard), but persistence pays off. Drug Church also may have released one of the albums of the year in the form of the eerily titled Paul Walker album. Their track Donny’s Woods would be the best track of the year if it weren’t pipped at the post by Red City Radio’s Two Notes Shy Of An Octave. As far as straight-up punk rock crackers go, that anthem well and truly took the cake. The Tony Sly tribute album was a highlight this year. There were some astonishing (and deeply, deeply depressing) covers there by some of the genre’s finest. Speaking of the finest, mainstays The Flatliners, The Bronx and A Wilhelm Scream all cemented their reputations as unstoppable punk rock juggernauts. My live music highlight of the year had to be witnessing them live at Groezrock Festival in Belgium in May and realising that cold weather and an abundance of red wine makes for unforgettable live music experience. When a moshpit becomes a genuine source of bodywarmth, you’d be surprised how often you’re inclined to get involved. Lucy Wilson released one of the year’s best EPs and this January you’ll have plenty of chances to hear it live when she completes a month long residency at The Old Bar. See her on Saturday January 4 with Wil Wagner (who’s hosting a residency of his own at Footscray’s Reverence), Saturday January 11 features Georgia Maq, Saturday January 18 with Force Fieldz and a final Saturday January 25 performance alongside
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Wrestlerock returns to the Corner Hotel on Saturday February 1 for a night of hard-hitting, bone-crushing, pile-driving live pro wrestling action. All your favourite pro wrestlers from around the country will be set to wage war for ultimate supremacy as Australia’s number one rock’n’wrestling show kicks 2014 off with a bang. And providing the rock’n’roll on the night will be some of Australia’s loudest bands, who are still to be announced. Watch this space, okay?
Sydney’s Endless Heights will launch their new album New Bloom early next year by performing a bunch of headlining dates. See them play at Melbourne’s Sike Your Mind Festival on Saturday January 11 and Sunday January 12. Grab the new album now via Broken Hive records. The Annual Boys Of Summer Tour is quickly approaching. This year, Trainwreck will join headliners Blessthefall, Like Moths To Flames and The Colour Morale at the Corner Hotel on Thursday January 16. Glorified and Storm The Sky have secured supports on the all ages date at Arrow On Swanston on Wednesday January 15. As mentioned above, Wil Wagner will play a solo residency (affectionately referred to as a Revidency) this January over at The Reverence Hotel in Footscray. Guests throughout the month include Ziggy Britten, Guy Treadwell, Lucy Wilson, Tom Lanyon, Jamie Hay, Spencer Scott and Georgia Maq.
The Bennies announced their Knights Forever Tour last week. It’ll be their second national tour in the space of six months. These guys are mental! Melbournites can catch the guys on Push Over and Melbourne Soundwave dates or alternatively head to a headlining show at The Reverence Hotel on Friday February 7. Ballarat crew can go to Karova on Sunday February 2, Warrnambool types can go to The Loft on Saturday February 1 or Coastal sorts can see them at The Barwon Club on Thursday February 6. Good news! The upcoming Thursday January 2 Future Of The Left show at the Corner Hotel has secured two EXCELLENT support bands in the form of Damn Terran and Blacklevel Embassy. FOTL’s new album How To Stop Your Brain In Accident is one of the best albums of 2013, and this show might be the finest way to welcome in the new year. Tickets are still available.
HUGE INTERNATIONAL LINEUP AT THE BENDIGO VOYAGER REACHES KICKSTARTER TARGET Congratulations to Aussie melodic heavyweights Voyager, who have reached the $10,000 Kickstarter campaign goal for their new album. Vocalist/ keyboardist Daniel Estrin says “In only three days, we reached our target of $10,000 and the pledges still keep coming. Fans from as far as Russia, Panama and Finland have shown their support - the power and passion of our fanbase continues to amaze us! Lots of people have asked whether they can still pledge now that we’ve met target. The answer to that is YES, until January 31. You can still get the vinyl, t-shirts, special pledgers’ packs, listening party and quirky rewards and the money means we can do more MORE: more touring, more quality music videos and more of our music to our crazy fans. We are Voyager, but YOU are AMAZING! Thank you!” The Kickstarter campaign will finish on Friday January 31, 2014. You can still secure a limited edition vinyl, t-shirt, listening party tickets and special pledgers packs at http://kck. st/19kSist
THE SOLICITORS START 2014 WITH NEW SINGLE It’s been a big 2013 for The Solicitors with an EP, a single, a video and a nomination in the Cherry Awards. Now they’re kicking off 2014 with a brand new single, Help Me Forget, from their impending debut album. Come see what all the fuss is about with guests Tooth & Tusk at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday January 10. Pre-Sale tickets are available.
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Sunday January 12 will be a huge, huge day for Melbourne metal fans, who are hereby commanded to mass upon the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood for the return of Swedish death metal greats Grave. Also on the bill, Portland’s Wehrmacht, finally reunited and one of the first extremely fast thrash/crossover bands, formed in 1985; and Atlanta’s hardcore punk pirates Primate featuring members of Brutal Truth and Mastodon. Doors open at 3pm with local supports Depression, Join The Amish , Sewercide, Party Vibez, Desecrator and Metal Storm!
KISS SELECTED FOR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME It’s been a long, hard road for KISS fans – and especially Eddie Trunk – in getting the band into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. It looked like it was never going to happen, what with all the unsuccessful fan petitions, snarky comments from Gene Simmons and even snarkier comments from journalist and Hall of Fame selector Dave Marsh who once said “KISS is not a great band, KISS was never a great band, KISS will never be a great band, and I have done my share to keep them off the ballot.” Ouch. But now, miraculously, KISS has made the cut, along with Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt and Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), and it looks like all four original members of the band are going to come together for the induction ceremony in April 2014. Only the original four are being officially inducted, and Ace Frehley says the Hall of Fame wants the band to perform together in makeup. Ace also says he’s happy for all former members to participate (although he doesn’t want current KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer to wear his Ace makeup and costume at the show, understandably). Ace told Eddie Trunk, “If those guys wanna come up and do ‘Rock and Roll All Nite’ with the whole cast of the show, you know, that would be a great thing. They deserve a little!”
The Taste Of Indie Collective will be kickstarting their 2014 gig calendar with a massive indie rock line up at The Tote on Saturday January 11 from 9pm for only $5, featuring The Moops, Sierra Leone, Storyhorse and Dear Stalker.
EARTHLESS By Tom Valcanis Psychedelic rockers Earthless are the envy of their distant friends: they’ll be chiming the New Year in at the Thornbury Theatre. Is it ex-pro skateborder, super-organiser and jetsetting drummer Mario Rubalcaba’s preferred kind of party? “Oh yeah,” says Rubalcaba, enthusing on memories of NYE shows past. “We did a New Year’s bash at the Tote a couple of years ago...that was a really fun night,” he pauses. “I think my wife would prefer that I was home,” he chuckles. “I’ll have a smile on my face and drinking a pint or two, or three or four.” Though on the clock for heavy psychedelic power trio Earthless, he’s taking a break from duties in two other internationally touring bands; hardcore punk supergroup OFF! and the recently resurrected skarockers Rocket from the Crypt. He’s a busy dude. “Oh yeah, it definitely comes in surges,” Rubalcaba says on dividing his time. “I gotta be careful about booking things on the spur of the moment. I’m so thankful to have a phone that has a calendar in it,” he laughs. “I keep myself as organised as possible and I have a super supportive wife because there’s moments when my time is spread super thin. I haven’t had a nine-to-five job in over three years.” That job was at a skateboard distributor, Black Box, seeing Rubalcaba performing various roles from production to logistics. It was a lingering remnant of
his former professional skateboarding life. Drum skills and business acumen don’t quite fold like neatly clasping hands, but getting a handle on the business side proves useful in the long term. “It taught me a lot, dealing with vendors and skateboarding companies and stuff like that,” Rubalcaba recalls. “I just apply all of that stuff into the band. The bands can also be a business at times. If you can use that knowledge to help out with other little things like touring then it’s going to make it a lot easier.” Rubalcaba gives bands caution: don’t neglect the business side of making music. He’s seen what miseries befall them when they do. “There’s been some bands I’ve known throughout time that were really good bands, but if you don’t have someone within that infrastructure that takes on a managing role it’s much harder,” Rubalcaba advises. “You have to have some kind of marketing strategy. You have to make your band appealing to people. Looking at skateboarding, I’ve seen so many people with such amazing raw talent but they never had anything that set them apart from say, a mediocre talent who worked
hard and was driven to succeed.” Jumping out of stable employment and into professional music’s maelstrom, does taking more opportunities lead to more work? “Oh yes, absolutely,” he confidently affirms. “If you go with your heart and your intuition and it’s something that you’re passionate about, there’s going to be a risk involved. I think about 98 per cent of people are afraid to take that initial risk, to jump into the fuckin’ fiery cauldron. Most people think they’re gonna burn. Even if you fail, something’s gotta come out of that. I mean, at my age, I was either going to go for it or do nothing. So now I’m coming over to Australia, twice.” True that; after mellowing the Thornbury into 2014,
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he’ll be back two months later ripping up Soundwave with Rocket from the Crypt. He’s tempted to stay, enjoying an alternately sweltering/shivering Melbourne summer. If he did, he’d be terribly, achingly missed by one particular member of his family. “I have to remember the dog,” Rubalcaba jokes. “But I’d love to stay. It would be a nice little summer vay-cay.”
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THURSDAY DEC 26 THE GREAT IMPOSTOR
Continue your Christmas festivities this Boxing day at The Reverence Hotel with a cabaret rock and gypsy punk extravaganza. Come down, we promise you’ll be entertained by these two high energy and outlandish bands, The Great Impostor (cabaret rock) and Cyclo Timik (French gypsy cabaret punk). Dress cabaret or gypsy and join in the fun! Thursday December 26 with free entry for the best dressed. $7 on the door from 8.30pm.
REV FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION
Need help getting rid of those extra Christmas calories? Well Rev Funk & the Horns of Salvation are here to help. Playing a rock’n’roll set at the infamous Cherry Bar Thursday night Soul in the Basement, to help you sweat and shake away those Christmas pudding calories. They play at 10pm with local legends DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni playing after till late. Tix $10 on the door from 8pm.
NEW DUB CITY
Raspect Records presents the third annual Boxing Day Bash at Bar Open. Fresh off the back of the release of their second album, New Dub City will hit the stage alongside reggae/ dancehall selectas Chant Down Sound and MCs Monk and Precise. Come party up at one of the biggest nights of the year. It all goes down at Bar Open on Boxing Day. Free entry, music 10pm-1am.
FRIDAY DEC 27 LOCAL REVOLUTION
Just before wrapping up 2013, Revolver is set to get some funk to you before the year's out, so please put your hands together for Local Revolution. Created on the streets of Adelaide, and coming to you on the Revolver Bandroom stage these guys are a magical infusion of all things reggae, funk and hip-hop.
Through their live performances the crew from Local Revolution hope to bring peace, harmony, joy and most of all good vibes to the crowds in front of them. On the night the guys will be flanked by some very special guests who will be named in the coming days. Tickets will be $12 at the door, with doors opening at 8.30pm.
MERRY RIFFMAS TWO
It’s their second year and RIFFMAS has grown and moved to a bigger, louder and boozier venue, The Tote. Wash away all your post-Christmas blues with a night of pure stoner rocking riffery provided by four of Melbourne’s finest purveyors of guitar induced fuzz. Same old RIFFMAS party tricks will be there this year with door prizes and a “Riff Kringle” – mix CD swap party. Bring a masterful compilation of your favourite heavy riffs to load into Santa Iommi’s sack for a Riff Kringle Lucky Dip with other punters at the end of the night. Featuring Riff Fist, Seedy Jeezus, Wildeornes & Thermal Mass, it all goes down at The Tote on Friday December 27. $10 entry.
THE MERRI CREEK PICKERS
The Merri Creek Pickers will play one final two-set jammy, country, rocky, trippy marathon show for 2013 at Fitzroy’s Bar Open on Friday December 27. The boys have been working hard this year, clocking up plenty of kilometers across the USA as well as playing plenty of shows closer to home. If you are yet to see the Pickers live they are a seven piece psychedelic outfit replete with loads of vocal harmonies, dancing bass riffs, double drum kits, double lead lines and as many jams and solos as they can get away with.
HUNTING SEASONS
Head to Cherry Bar on Friday December 27 for an end of year banger that you know you deserve, courtesy of Hunting Season. These indie-folk rockers are a cross of the smashing Band of Horses meets Bon Iver. Joining them on the bill is locals Nebraskatak and Duende. Doors at 5pm and tickets are $13 on the door. First set from 8pm. DJ Lucky Arundel plays until 5am. Entry after 11pm is $10.
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MICK PEALING
No Christmas show, no New Year show, but an inbetweener you won’t want to miss – the long awaited return of The Mick Pealing Band at The Flying Saucer Club. The Mick Pealing Band performing the music of Stars and Andy Durant is pretty self-explanatory – every show ending up a sell out. Mick brings to life the music from the Andrew Durant Memorial Concert and the Stars albums Paradise, Land of Fortune and 1157 (currently available at all good stores and online). This is part of Mick’s legacy and he is absolutely thrilled and proud to be performing these songs again. Don’t miss this show! Doors at 6.30pm starting at $30. Tickets via TryBooking. Another show is also on the following night Saturday December 28.
SATURDAY DEC 28 FLESH OF THE EARTH
Melbourne’s mighty Flesh of the Earth will be playing at the Reverence Hotel on Saturday December 28 as part of their Natures Reign mini Melbourne tour happening throughout December. Playing alongside this local behemoth will be some of Melbourne’s best, most awe-inspriting metal acts including Hollow World, IRE, Conscious Control and Beneath The Waters, making this a not to be missed, post-Christmas show. Doors at 8pm for just $10.
BAG RAIDERS
Taking over the decks in the Espy Gershwin Room will be the unmissable Sydney based house duo Bag Raiders performing a DJ Set. Bag Raiders are the combined talents of Jack Glass and Chris Stracey. Together, they produce the sparks of light, aural gems and sonic booms that make up one of the most sought-after up and hottest new club acts on the planet since releasing their self-titled debut album in 2010. After dropping singles on Bang Gang 12”s (Fun Punch, Turbo Love) and remixing the likes of Cut Copy, Midnight Juggernauts and Kid Sister, the two’s reputation internationally grew, and when they released a little ditty titled Shooting Stars they reached every dangerous, dark and smokey corner of the world, making them a household name among in-the-know indie kids, the sweaty dance faithfull and the DJs across the globe. Catch them in an exclusive DJ set at the Espy Gershwin Room on Friday December 27. Oh - did we mention it’s free entry? Get involved.
DE LA SOUL
De La Soul have never slipped from being at the forefront of hip hop as a clever, interesting and entertaining artform. From the moment they changed hip hop with their genre bending positiveness over 20 years ago with their classic 3 Feet High & Rising and follow up De La Soul is Dead to their most recent albums featuring production from some of the best in the game - Dilla, 9th Wonder and Madlib they have not stopped coming with the classics. Along the way they have picked up Grammys for their collab with Gorillaz on the track Feel Good Inc and performed a sellout 20 year anniversary world tour. Now De La Soul are coming back to Melbourne and your Christmas just improved outta sight. Catch De La Soul plus special guests on Friday December 27 at The Espy. Tickets $58 + bf available via OzTix.
CONFUSING ANAL MESS
Fresh from three separate infected bowels comes splattering forth the grinding perversion of Confusing Anal Mess. From the ruins of a post-apocalyptic nightmare come crust/grind bastards Debacle. A violently exploding Terror Strike causes mass death and painful and inflamed Split Teeth needing immediate dentistry. Orgiastic piano interludes by the very talented Dan Tucceri. Drag yourselves down to the Bendigo Hotel, Friday December 27, 8pm to witness the heights of experimental homejob medical science in full effect. Grind for your life or die.
SWAMP MOTH
Don’t let the seasonal dip get you down, get to Yah Yahs for some boogie action with the ever-riproaring Swamp Moth. We got some new delicacies from the golden age of big riff hard rock of the '70s for your expert appreciation. Ably assisted on the night by the blues merchants The New Savage and rootsy groovester Alister Turrill. Shake your boots and get on down, Swamp Moth lives! Doors at 7pm, free entry.
THE FAUVES
Playing all Australian rock classics, The Retreat makes a singular exception to their NO COVER BANDS rule. But come on, who could say no to the boys from The Fauves? It is the silly season! They hit the stage at 11pm. Free entry, support from Shannon Bourne.
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CHRIS WILSON
Chris Wilson has been an essential part of the blues and rock music scene in Australia since taking the stage with the Sole Twisters over twenty years ago. Stints with Harum Scarum and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls followed, and by the end of the ‘80s Chris was renowned as one of our finest vocalists, harmonica players and songwriters, fronting the superb Crown of Thorns. Chris has appeared at every major Australian festival and his performances, filled as they are with his own brand of sensuality and the dynamic power that leaves his audiences so satisfied, are always a highlight. Chris’ stage presence, voice and talent are all as big as the country he lives in. Chris Wilson is a master of his craft. This blues icon plays two sets in the beer garden for three Saturdays over the holiday period. He hits The Retreat beer garden stage at 2.30pm on Saturday December 28.
RARA
RaRaCollective is getting together for one final end of year knees up at Revolver Bandroom for 2013 on Saturday December 28. With a new EP dropping in early 2014, this will be your first opportunity to preview brand new material for RaRa and turn things up loud. Supports on the night include Friendships, Island Universe and DJ A-Boogie. Visual Art on the night is brought to you by Chronic Sans. Doors 9pm, tickets $12 available on the door.
METALKUNST
This month MUSIKUNST presents METALKUNST, a special event incorporating extreme metal with improvised and experimental music. Curated by Daniel Tucceri, this event will feature members of the Melbourne metal and experimental scenes combining their distinct and unique approaches to take themselves and the audience into unfamiliar territory. For anyone even remotely interested in either style, this is not an event to be missed and is a must for those who wander on the sparsely populated periphery where extremes meet. With over 12 collaborators included in the program there will be no shortage of diversity. The Great Britain Hotel, Saturday December 28 at 3pm, $10/$5 concession at the door.
FLESH OF THE EARTH
Melbourne’s mighty Flesh of the Earth will be playing at the Reverence Hotel on Saturday December 28 as part of their Natures Reign mini Melbourne Tour happening throughout December. Playing alongside this local behemoth will be some of Melbourne’s best, most awe-inspriting metal acts including Hollow World, IRE, Conscious Control and Beneath The Waters, making this a not to be missed, post-Christmas show. Doors at 8pm for just $10.
8 BIT LOVE
MMVF presents 8 Bit Love, Ohms and Low Fly Incline performing at The Old Bar, Saturday December 28. You’ll be kicking yourself if you miss this one. Doors at 8.30, $10 to get in.
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TWIN AGES
The Broadcast Syndicate Presents Melbourne Punk Rock Community Shield Footy Match Awards night â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Twin Ages (Swamp Rock), Angry Seas (Melbourne Punk), Jay Stevens (Acoustic) and Kill Taker (Rocking Up and Comers). $10 entry with $2 going to Beyond Blue. Gonna be a fun post Christmas/pre NYE night for all at The Bendigo this Saturday.
CUNTZ
Cuntz launch their limited edition, vinyl LP, gatefold sleeve second album titled Solid Mates at Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Saturday December 28. The album was recorded by Alex Macfarlane (Boomgates, Constant Mongrel, Cuntz), Mastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control), pressed in the Czech Republic and distributed in Australia and Japan by Homeless. Cuntz have produced another thug punk classic in Solid Mates. With Solid Mates tucked securely into their pants, Cuntz embarked on a US tour in September which included an appearance at Gonerfest 10 in Memphis, alongside the Cosmic Psychos, Mudhoney, Wreckless Eric, Quintron and Guitar Wolf. For their launch they will be joined by Pleasure Dome featuring members of Pets With Pets and Shifters (ex Breaker Morant). Doors at 7pm, free entry.
SUNDAY DEC 29 REVOLVER SUNDAYS
Revolverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all day electric disco party is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most unique clubbing experiences - tight like family, welcoming like long lost friends and moved by a ceaselessly throbbing beat provided by five of Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best DJs: Boogs, Spacey Space, T-Rek, Radiator and Silversix plus special guests in the Revolver back bar 7am-5am.
TEX AND CHARLIE
Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re back! Tex Perkins and his dear friend Charlie Owen are returning to the Flying Saucer Club for a Sunday arvo session of legendary music. Tex Perkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; career has been an exploration of sorts, going from groundbreaking experimental punktonica of Thug, to the lilting, dark country of The Dark Horses and the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea. Selling out last time, Tex and Charlie are teaming up again â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not to be missed! Tix start from $33 via Trybooking.com. Head down Sunday December 29. Doors 3pm.
!!! CHK CHK CHK
US dance-punk band !!!, aka Chk Chk Chk, will be dropping an exclusive DJ set at The Liberty Social in Melbourne this December. Their only appearance outside of their Australian Falls Festival slots, this will be a party not to be missed! Expect to hear anything from Four Tet, Kerri Chandler, Masters at Work, Jam Factory and various electronic/disco goodness, and whatever else in between. So expect the unexpected when !!! perform a two-hour DJ set on Sunday December 29 at The Liberty Social along with some of the best local Melbourne DJs and bands. Tix $15+bf or $20 on the door.
CHERRY BLUES
If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for a place to chill Sunday December 29 arvo then head down to Cherry Bar for your dosage of Cherry Blues from 2pm-6.30pm with DJ and host Max Crawdaddy. Entry is only $5 which gets you free chilli and two live sets from 3pm with Catfish Blues. Hang around at the bar afterwards as The Infants play a set from 6.30pm with support by R.Electrique. Cherry DJ plays until 3am.
BEAUTIFUL BEASTS
Beautiful Beasts are a five piece pop/folk/rock band with influences coming from all genres including a bit of groove and soul. The band will have you tapping and grooving with their dynamic songs and energetic live show. Beautiful Beasts are currently playing all types of venues across Melbourne and are certainly worth the effort to go see at the Bendigo this Sunday, along with Hideous Towns and The Escapades.
PETE DAFFY & THE FORECASTERSÂ Â
After more than 20 years as a cornerstone of the Victorian bluegrass and country music scene, Pete Daffy brings a new, rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; band to the fore. Playing the swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, honky tonk sounds of Hank Williams, Johnny Horton, Carl Perkins and many others. Joined by Lachlan Dear on Bass, Ben McAtamney on Drums and Peter Baylor on guitar. Catch all the action from 5pm at The Retreat Hotel.
ENTROPY
Citrus Jam presents his fresh Progressive Roots Metal act Entropy live at Bar Open Sunday December 29. Over six months in the works, Citrus joined by his Sea Monster Orchestra - Stegosaurus Maximus on electric drums, Nik Sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;zek on Bass and Otoctopusaurus Giganteus on Cello - will be unleashing all the chaos for your aural pleasure in the second of only three scheduled shows. Support comes from fellow Melbourne flamenco metalheads Malcura. Doors at 7.30pm.
SUN GOD REPLICA
Head down to The Old Bar on Sunday December 29 for a Mountain Goat Beersoaked Sunday and catch Sun God Replica performing alongside Heads Of Charm, Darts and DJ Kezbot. Doors at 8pm, $8 entry.
TOMMO
Tommo (Luke Thomas) is a good local friend of The Reverence, and like any good friend does, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plotted some solid Sunday arvo parties for December. Tommo usually plays the olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; six string and sings in local emorock sweeties Kissing Booth, but he also plays acoustic tunes with his big, gritty voice thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make your heart swoon. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also kindly roped in a bunch of quality mates to play his inaugural Revidency. This week he teams up with beloved local troubadour Lincoln Le Fevre and foul-mouthed songstress Lucy Wilson. Sundays in the front bar. Zero dollars.
MONDAY DEC 30 DEAR MONDAY
In this great music town, there is an endless flow of new talent arriving on the scene. On Mondays, The Retreat Hotel presents four acts that represent some of the most exciting new and emerging talent weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen. This is no open mic, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a love letter to the heart of musicality that is Melbourne, and this love letter begins with Dear Monday. This week features: Junior Under the Moon, Cookie Baker, James Gowans and Two Doors Down.
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Cherry Bar has you covered this New Years Eve as rockers King Parrot headline a set which will surely fire up your 2014. Alos playing on the night is Kashmere Club, Mason and Sheriff. Tickets are an easy $20 for the best local acts headlined by one of the toughest and best bands in the land. DJ Mermaid plays till 3am.
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BITTERSWEET KICKS
With prizes for the 20 best costumes, and an early kick off, The Retreat Hotel’s New Years glam rock party is gonna be off the hook. Bands start at 7.30pm and finish with local legends Bittersweet Kicks by 10.30pm, making way for DJ Jeff Leppard to spin his heart out til 3am. Will we see bassist Johnny Kicks taking all his gear off before midnight? One could only be so lucky! Head on down to find out. Free entry. Do not miss out on one of the best live rock’n’roll bands in Melbourne. Get ready to get loose.
KING GIZZARD
This New Year’s Eve, Carlton Dry, Tone Deaf and Ding Dong Lounge are hosting the NYE bender to end all NYE benders. Things are gonna get loose with seven-headed garage psychedelic collective King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard headlining the show with support from The Murlocs, Bad//Dreems and The Love Junkies. Later the Midnight Run and Tone Deaf DJ crew will be spinning all your fave party jams to keep you shakin’ your booty until dawn. Doors 8pm. First release tix $25+BF via dingdonglounge.com.au.
What’s that music that future-you is filling your ears with as the clock ticks over into the new year? Auld Lang Syne? Wrong. It’ll be the Chantoozies, one of Australias hottest ‘80s hair-crimped pop bands and Party Girls, a quintet of experienced female musicians whose high end show includes costume changes, big wigs, and cheesy choreography. Yarraville Live and Cherry Rock are proud to present both fine acts this New Years Eve, December 31. General admission $30 + booking fee. Contact functions@yarravilleclub.com for seating enquiries.
SOUL–A–GO–GO
Head down to SOUL-A-GO-GO this New Years Eve at The Workers Club. What better way to farewell 2013 than to get on down to the Workers Club this New Year’s Eve with Melbourne’s biggest and best soul and funk party with floor-thumping and buttshaking shenanigans over multiple rooms? SOULA-GO-GO will go from 8pm ‘til 3am with music by Miss Goldie (Boss Action), Pierre Baroni (Soul Groove '66), DJ Manchild (The Breakdown) plus very special guests Andrew Young and Zack Rampage. Tickets are $35+bf and are available from theworkersclub.com.au.
FLYING SAUCER NYE PARTY
On New Years Eve this year Sheila’s of the '70s (Monique Brumby, Kerri Simpson and Rebecca Barnard) are teaming up with an icon from the '70s, Billy Miller (The Ferrets) and his band The Love Brothers. This promises to be a '70s marriage made in heaven. Superb musicians making the last night of 2013 one to remember! Doors from 6pm and tickets from $30. Head on to TryBooking for tickets and more info.
MID YOUTH CRISIS
The Reverence Hotel is very, very stoked to announce that their second annual New Years Eve fancy dress party will be headlined by the legendary Melbourne melodic punks Mid Youth Crisis! Also playing punk/ rock tunes will be Rise Of The Rat, Tigers, Stockades and Join The Amish. Plus DJs! And Mexican food all night. $20 well spent for a great, big NYE. The bar will be stocked and the bands will be the best. Party.
WEDNESDAY JAN 1 THICK AS THIEVES
Revolver Upstairs has been involved with Thick As Thieves since it’s inception in 2009. With a short but impressive history bringing international acts to Australian shores, the agency is now popping up as a presenter of several notable shows in their own right, not least of all Revolver’s infamous Sunday Summer Series. As we roll into 2014 they join forces with Thick As Thieves once again to present a series of (roughly) monthly Friday night shows featuring only the best underground acts drawn largely from their own increasingly formidable roster. The nights will be curated over two rooms featuring some of Melbourne’s finest local talent from the Thick As Thieves and Revolver Fridays stables. They’ll be launching the project with a special event on New Years Day 2014 with a soon to be announced international guest and local talent including Mike Callander, Radiator, Damon Walsh, Silversix, Tom Hornsby, Baby Goggles, Nergal, 2DotZero, Flex Cop, OK Sure and Mark Leigh Murphy, plus special Revolver Sundays guests Boogs, Spacey Space and T-Rek back to back from 7am. Doors from 9pm, free before 10pm.
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BELLUSIRA
Celebrate the first day of 2014 with a night of rock! Female fronted powerhouse, prog rockers Bellusira take over the front bar w/ dirty rock duo King Of The North, Ten Thousand and Leopard Slugg! Espy front bar. Free Entry.
THURSDAY JAN 2 CARDINAL
Cardinal’s first show of the year is sure to be a clanger. Fresh off the deserved hype of their single, Lucky, the boys are ready to usher the New Year, and maybe help recover from the last one, in style. The Ugly Kings will be penultimate party people, showcasing their fuzzy blues style and energetic lines. Kicking things off is The Rolling Perpetual Groove Show, and some very special guests - nuff said. Catch them at Ding Dong this Thursday, January 2. Tickets $5 on the door. Doors at 8pm.
RAMSHACKLE ARMY
2013 has been a hell of a trip for The Ramshackle Army, and 2014 is shaping up to be even bigger with the release of Letters From The Road Less Travelled. While the band has been relatively quiet on the show front, working tirelessly on what’s happening next, they’ve decided to jump out and work with the good dudes at the Reverence Hotel to put together a summer show. Being Friday January 3, it gives everyone time to recover from the New Years hangover, yet still enough time to get rid of the next day’s before having to return to work. Stick it in your diary and come help us welcome what is sure to be the biggest year for the RSA thus far.
WACO SOCIAL CLUB
Waco Social Club are getting ready to see in 2014 in style, with a large dose of rock and roll medicine at The Reverance Hotel, Footscray on Thursday January 2. Joining them on this venture are friends Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men and The Falling Standards. This year has been great for Waco with a mention in France’s Rock & Folk magazine (comparing them to The Doors) and two new music clips under their belt. Not bad for a local band. So come blast the New Year in style, doors at 8pm. $7 entry.
FRIDAY JAN 3 DJ YODA
After taking over the Espy last year in January, DJ Yoda returns with his tongue-in-cheek mixing style that prompted Q Magazine to declare him “one of the ten DJs to see before you die”, whilst Hip Hop Connection voted him “one of the top three DJs in the world”. From hip-hop beginnings, DJ Yoda has evolved in the past ten years, using his turntable skills and diverse influences, as varied as funk, b-more, kuduro, reggae, drum ‘n’ bass and even big band swing and country & western, to make unashamed party music. He can be found cutting the Indiana Jones theme with woofer-worrying Dubstep or The Muppet Theme with MIA. His shows are peppered with Film, TV and YouTube samples and visuals that lift his sets to new and stratospheric heights. He plays a free show at The Espy Front Bar on Friday January 3 with special guests.
LESTER THE FIERCE
Melbourne abstract pop artist, Lester The Fierce has announced an EP launch gig in her hometown at The Workers Club on Friday January 3, supported by talented locals Eliza Hull and Al Parkinson. Having recently supported Ngaiire on her national Lamentations tour, and currently midway through Stonefield’s extensive regional tour, Lester The Fierce – also known as Anita Lester – is thrilled to be playing her own headline show to launch her new self-titled EP which features the heavily spun community radio single, Howl. Lester The Fierce is a combination of Anita Lester and her alter ego imagined from a children’s book hero. The prolific singer songwriter manages to touch on everything in her songs from love, sex, death and the weather. Check her out at The Workers Club on Friday January 3, 8.30pm. $12+bf presales, or 15 at the door.
HEAVY JUDY
Heavy Judy presents ace rock bands and ace djs playing ace shit every single Friday until 3am. This week you an catch Claws & Paws at 10pm, Spacejunk from 11pm and DJ Traffic Jam til the early hours. 3am to be precise. Get your dose of Heavy Judy at The Retreat Hotel.
GRINDHOUSE
The sexually misguided outlaws of garage punk, Grindhouse, are back and ready to corrupt The Bendigo. They’ve been smashin’ bottles and breakin’ hearts from Freddie’s fowl house to Frankston Mall. Grindhouse are joined by hard blues psych rockers Two Headed Dog, alternative 90s grungers Long Holiday and grunge stoners The Underhanded. 8pm. Friday January 3. The Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. $10.
BAD FAMILY
Brush off your new years eve cobwebs and get down to the Reverence Hotel on Saturday January 4 for some sweet jangly indie pop from Bad Family. Supports come in the form of Loose Tooth and Shit Sex. Should be a great night.
SUNDAY JAN 5 7” & 12” VINYL SALON
Do you love the drop of the needle on a pristine slab of black vinyl? Does the sound of the snap, crackle and pop warm the cockles of your heart? Head down to Amelia Shaw’s, upstairs at the Retreat Hotel, every second Sunday, to join a group of like minded vinyl aficionados sharing their collections and appreciating some damn fine music. This is not a DJ night, if you would like to play Side A of one of your favourite albums then feel free. Bring some of your rare 7”s and give them a spin. Doors at 4pm.
WIL WAGNER FLYYING COLOURS
Splendid shoegaze band Flyying Colours recently released their debut EP which saw them tour the East Coast of Australia. The band were scheduled to play a special New Year’s Eve at Yah Yahs, but liquor licensing refused to extend Yah Yah’s license for the Tuesday night, so we are celebrating 2014 a few days later, on Friday January 3, at Yah Yah’s with a special guitar fuzz line up and then we will all be able to dance the night away through until 5am. Free entry,
After a huge 2013, which saw him release a solo album, an EP with The Smith Street Band and a subsequent tour that saw them play in ten different countries around the world, Wil Wagner is back and doing a residency at the Reverence Hotel in Footscray. He will be playing the first three Sundays in January with a bunch of exciting people. On Sunday January 5 he will be supported by Guy Treadwell and Ziggy Britten. Shows start a 3pm and it’s free.
SATURDAY JAN 4 ALBERT SALT
Here at Roots of Music we thought we would get the year kicked off with a bang and what better way to do so than to have a favourite of ours Albert Salt return to the Revolver Bandroom to release his follow up single to Maybe, I entitled Riddles Come Undone on Saturday January 4. Since his last release, Albert Salt has been nothing but busy gaining airplay on Triple J and lots of love from blogs and press everywhere, not to mention playing some of Victoria’s most boutique festivals. This time he brings along with him good friends, The McQueens who themselves have been packing out rooms all over Melbourne and Sydney off the back of their recent EP release Return to Laughter. Topping off the night we have Bendigo-based one man show, Tali Sing and Melbourne up and comers The Karmens. Doors at 8.30pm. Tickets are just $12 at the door but make sure you're down early as this night is going to explode.
NIRVANNA AND BUDWEEZER
Boozy late night chats are set to become a reality when three out of the four lads from Melbourne slacker outfit Jonesez take to the stage to perform a fully fledged Nirvana Tribute Show. 12 months in the making, nothing has been left to chance. Every minor detail has been covered. The same guitar, the same bass, the same drums, the same clothes even. It’s going to be a hot summer night. Bring your mates, drink some beers, sing your lungs out and let Nirvanna take care of the rest. Songs from every Nirvana album will be covered. Joining them on the night will be Budweezer, a Melbourne based Weezer tribute act consisting of members of indie-pop collective Split Seconds, taking only the choicest cuts from one of the most idiosyncratic back catalogues in popular music. It’s time you got back to the good life with Budweezer. Nirvanna, Budweezer & special guests play Saturday January 4 at The John Curtin Hotel. Tickets $12 from johncurtinhotel.com.
residency at the Retreat Hotel. Lethbridge’s second album Oh Hawke (mixed by O’Mara) drew resounding praise from the Australian music community with Rhythms Magazine editor Martin Jones describing the album as ‘delivering in both style and substance’. Dan and Shane will be playing songs from Oh Hawke as well as a selection of their favourite covers. Front bar at The Retreat from 7.30pm Tuesdays. Free entry.
LOOKING FORWARD JANUARY MATMOS
Performing with joy and humour, Matmos bring their live sonic experimentation to Howler on Sunday January 19 for an evening of boundary-pushing sonic invention on their first ever Australian tour. Avantgarde electronic duo Matmos experiment with noise to push the boundaries of pop music. Mining nonconventional sound sources and exploring bold ideas, Baltimore-based Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt have been producing music together since the mid-90s, delivering nine albums to date. Their latest release The Marriage of True Minds, based on experiments in telepathy, is an art object, a scientific report, a practical joke and a daring pop record. Tickets $38.50+bf available from h-w-t-r.com
PAPA PILKO AND THE BINRATS
Their sound has been described as “wild blues and slick swingin’ country rock n’ roll… with horns” and that’s exactly what this Sydney-based, band-of-seven Papa Pilko and The Binrats deliver on their third EP release, Third Time Lucky. To celebrate, they’ll take their notoriously raucous live show to The Workers Club on Friday January 24 for a stint of launch parties like no other. The opening track and first single Poor Boy conjures up the energy of their stage show, most notably, in the ‘caged-animal’ vocal outro, a result of keeping the band’s frontman, Cyrus Pilko holed up in a windowless studio for three days! Visit their Facebook page for more info. Tickets $10, doors at 8:30pm.
FLAP!
After a long year away from Melbourne, Flap! return to perform a series of free Sunday afternoon shows at The Spotted Mallard. They’ll be debuting new material every week till the end of January. It’s just their way of saying “thanks melbourne, and sorry for being away so long, we really do love you.” Free entry with tunes starting at 4:30pm.
BENDIGO ROCK
Welcome in the new year than with an all out, all day musical extravaganza! Bendigo ROCK. The Bendigo unites 13 of the most exciting up and coming bands from across the two towns of Melbourne and Bendigo, sharing the mighty stage. Bendigo Acts include, Rabid Zulu, Berlin Postmark, Neurotic Trendz, Old World Sparrow, Mez Whittle, Chase The Ace. Melbourne acts are, MY Band, The Caning, Tequila Mockingbyrd, The Divine Fluxus, Sarah Eida, Charm, Reckless June. Gonna be a fun filled busy day and night. Action starts at 1pm, Sunday January 5. Tickets $10 at The Bendigo.
TUESDAY JAN 7 HALF MOON RUN
Canada’s Half Moon Run are returning to Australia, 12 months after appearances at Woodford and Peats Ridge last summer which gained them an instant and solid following. Turning into a successful national tour as news of their stunning show ignited social media, the spreading reputation ultimately led to the play listing of their debut single Full Circle on triple j. Fast forward nine months and they’ve set the globe alight, supporting Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters and Men. They hit the Corner Hotel on Sunday January 19. Tickets on sale now via Corner Box Office.
VICIOUS CIRLCE
Since the 1980s Vicious Circle have been leading the charge of the Melbourne hardcore movement. The band in its original incarnation, with Paul on vocals, Les on guitar, Alby on bass and Russell on drums, formed in Melbourne in 1983 and quickly established themselves within the city’s scene. Joining them on Saturday January 4 will be the new force of Melbourne and Geelong's hardcore, Crowned Kings, Cold Ground, Rust Proof and SouthPaw. It all happens at the Bendigo. Starts at 8pm, $15.
SHANE O’MARA & DAN LETHBRIDGE
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SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE
Melbourne’s newest dream-pop purveyors Sunbeam Sound Machine released their debut double EP One/ Sunbeam Sound Machine worldwide on Friday. After completing a month long residency at The Tote in Melbourne throughout November, the five-piece live outfit has well and truly cut their teeth within the Melbourne live music scene. The crew are excited to announce that they will support Castlemaine folkfusion wiz kid D.D Dumbo at The Workers Club on Saturday January 25. Doors at 8.30pm, $10.
DIE! DIE! DIE!
After spending half of 2013 playing around the world, Die! Die! Die! are returning to Melbourne in the New Year to perform new songs off their forthcoming album at Ding Dong Lounge on January 17th. Reminiscent of the spirit and sounds of Black Flag, Pixies, the Wipers, Wire, and Bailterspace, Die! Die Die!’s unfiltered and powerful stage show has earned them a reputation as one of the most energetic and hardest-working bands around. Cathartic, direct, indispensable. You will know them as Die! Die! Die! Supporting is Melbourne based 3 piece rock band Love of Diagrams. Doors open at 8pm, and tickets are $15+BF online/$18 door.
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CAT POWER
Cat Power has just announced a third show at The Thornbury Theatre. The enigmatic Chan Marshall aka Cat Power returns to Australia this January to perform in solo, intimate and up close. Tickets on sale now!
BUILT ON SECRETS
After five years, hundreds of shows, multiple tours on the back of two successful releases and many adventures along the way, Melbourne’s Built On Secrets are calling it a day. This will be the final performance for the band, highlighting a large back catalog of songs from their humble beginnings to their stunning debut album The Disconnect at the iconic Ding Dong Lounge. Joining them on their final show will be Brisbane favourites Young Lions, Adelaide’s Just Like Clockwork and Melbourne’s best new pop punk outfit Sidelines. Head to the Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday January 18 for one last special show.
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BEACHES BONJAH
After your BBQs and the Triple J Hottest 100 are over, head on down to Ding Dong Lounge to keep your Aussie Day celebrations rolling with Bonjah! Like all good things out of New Zealand, we try to claim them as our own and it seems fitting to have them headline for an Australia Day party. Earlier this year they covered Lordes Royals for Like A Version, broadening their fan base with over 400k YouTube views. Support comes from Tanya Batt and Sweets. Tix are $20+bf via OzTix or $25 at the door. Extra Bonus: all attendees will receive an exclusive free recording of the full show emailed to them after the event – good one Bonjah!
Sprawling psych-rock quintet Beaches will be headlining at Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday January 25, Australia Day Eve, with support from Unity Floors, Terrible Truths and Pearls. The all-girl Melbourne band Beaches formed in 2007, comprising of members from Panel of Judges, Love of Diagrams and Spider Vomit. Beaches have toured extensively around Australia and the US and have played festivals such as All Tomorrows Parties, Big Day Out, Flip Out, Melbourne International Arts Festival, and the Laneway and Meredith music festivals. The band has done support slots for the likes of Mogwai, Deerhunter and The Black Angels, and toured the US twice performing at SXSW and the Austin Psych Fest.
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Sweet Jean will be kicking off an exciting year in 2014 with a hometown show at the Northcote Social Club on Sunday January 19 with special guest Hello Satellites (solo). Sweet Jean will be playing songs from their acclaimed debut album Dear Departure, and previewing music from their forthcoming acoustic EP. Co-produced by John Castle (Washington, The Bamboos), Dear Departure has been included in several end of year ‘best of ’ lists, and continues to receive glowing reviews in Australia and overseas. Their matinee show is from 1.30pm. Tickets $15 via northcotesocialclub.com.
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Feminist punk icon Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrrl ringleader, founder of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and star of recent hit documentary, The Punk Singer, has made a triumphant return to the stage this year with her new band, The Julie Ruin. She’s bringing her hand-picked, dream-come-true band (including former Bikini Kill bandmate Kathi Wilcox and Kenny Mellman of Kiki and Herb fame) to Melbourne for a night of dancepunk fun at The Corner on Tuesday January 15, with special guests New War and Grouse DJs. Tickets on sale now.
Hosted for the second time at Melbourne’s mighty Reverence Hotel, the 2014 instalment boasts the event’s most diverse line up yet and will completely take over the much loved Footscray pub for the weekend. Two mega stages will be rammed with the best of Australian live music on Saturday January 25 and Sunday January 26 with all proceeds donated to Oxfam and The Refugee Council Of Australia. With every band making the trek on their own time and money, these shows are a concoction of the most seasoned road warriors and promising new talent. From the exuberant, melodic punk of Luca Brasi on Saturday to the intelligent, dynamic song writing of Lincoln Le Fevre on Sunday, wedge in local garage legends Batpiss, scuzzy punkers Damn Terran, the posi-hardcore tunes of Outright and Anchors, emorock from Ceres, alt-country courtesy of Ribbons Patterns, and moving guitar-driven punk rock from prized acts like The Sinking Teeth, Grenadiers, Initials and The Union Pacific. There’ll be Mexican food all night and a raffle of rad prizes donated by kind folks of Poison City Records, Blunt Magazine, Apollo Collective, Deathproof PR, The Reverence Hotel and heaps more. Tickets on sale Thursday December 19. Get your pass, book your flight, pick up a raffle ticket. Come do something good and have a ripper time amongst good humans while you’re doing it.
PEACE TRAIN THE CAT STEVENS STORY
Continuing on from his successful tour in 2013, Peace Train – The Cat Stevens Story is back and touring Australia in 2014. Since its debut performance at the Wagga Civic Theatre back in 2009, Darren Coggan’s Peace Train has gone on to inspire many others, playing to standing ovations in the most prestigious venues in Australia including The Sydney Opera House. This tour sees Darren recreating Cat’s timeless, intimate songs as they were originally written: on an acoustic guitar and piano, seeking out the man in the music and telling the story behind the songs. The magic unfolds at Wyndham Cultural Centre Werribee on Friday February 28 2014. Hit up wyncc.com.au for more information.
Oriental metal pioneers are landing at The Espy in March with the All Is One World Tour. Israel’s breakthrough heavy metal band. They have become renowned internationally for fusing elements of traditional Middle Eastern music with the fundamentals of progressive heavy metal. Remarkably, Orphaned Land are quite possibly the most popular Israelis in the Middle East, with their music attracting a huge Arab following. Orphaned Land reaches out to their Muslim fans and uses heavy metal, of all things, as a vehicle to unite enemies. Orphaned Land’s career contains many highlights. These include supporting Metallica, Amoprhis and Dio`. They will be hitting Australia following a mammoth 50-show headlining run through Europe. The tour will be in support of the recently released All Is One, the album that front man Kobi Farhi has deemed as “the greatest album we’ve made to date.” Joining in on this holy temple of metal worship will be special guests Voyager and Orsome Welles. Saturday March 22, at The Espy in the Gershwin Room. Tickets $50+bf, on sale Friday September 27 via theespy.oztix.com.au.
ATTENTION ALL MUSOS AND BUSKERS
The Waratah Hotel in Hobart have put the call out across the almighty Bass Straight to musicians looking to jam in the Apple Isle. All musos and buskers are being encouraged to apply and perform at the venue and the world famous Salamanca Market which attracts 10,000+ visitors every Saturday. The Waratah Hotel is offering accommodation, transfers, marketing, production dinner and breakfast and a small fee. Looking ideally for solo and duo acts the team behind this great venture may also consider larger arrangements should the music fit. The idea is to attract more musos to visit Tasmania and add a new mix to an already thriving and emerging music scene. Email gigs@thewaratahhotel.com.au for more information and to learn how to get involved.
CARAVAN BURLESQUE
Moira Finucane and her wild artistes fly in from Buenos Aires, Paris and London to unleash a seductive spectacle, swinging circus, disco and dirty dancing, as part of The Substation’s Sizzling Summer Program! Globally acclaimed in 12 languages, winner of 8 awards including Scotland on Sunday’s Hottest Temptation of the Festival, this promises to be the wildest night in the West this summer. So get ready for a balloonpopping, show-stopping, jaw dropping, disco fever! For 2 weekends only - 24 & 25 Jan, and 31 Jan & 1 Feb - Finucane & Smith’s legendary, genre-busting, globally-acclaimed seductive and subversive cult-hit Salon storms into Newport, with suitcases bulging with awards and five star reviews, sequined gowns & sparkling hoops, six inch heels and two-foot nails, light sabres (and not much else), milk bottles, cutaway wetsuits, mirror balls and a single trapeze. Drinks at the bar, cabaret tables and catwalk seats (the hottest seats in town), all grand, intriguing and velvet draped at The Substation.
LED ZEPPELIN 1972 KOOYONG CELEBRATION CONCERT
The Corner Hotel is playing host to a unique celebration of Led Zeppelin on Friday January 31 with an exclusive show from an all-star one-off local band re-living the 1972 Kooyong show track-for-track. 20 February 1972 and Led Zeppelin from London, just four years into their fabled existence are the global epicentre of hard rock, fusing metal, blues and folk to Hammer of the Gods. And for the first and only time, they play live in Melbourne at the Kooyong Tennis Centre. Need more convincing? Here’s the set list: Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Black Dog, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Stairway To Heaven, Going to California, That’s The Way, Tangerine, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Dazed and Confused, Rock and Roll, and the finale Whole Lotta Love. You’d be crazy to miss this. Tickets via Corner Box Office from $30.
LAMARAMA
The twelve legged Melbourne monster collective, Lamarama, is a stylistic odyssey fusing psychedelic groove rock with quirky storytelling and Floyd-esque build ups, this is certainly a unique breed of music. Lamarama is fronted by the fearless beardless chief, Dave Adams, whose roaring vocals have audiences shivering in their space boots. The band boasts an unusual horn section of flute and sax, doused in everything from ethereal affected melodies to fierce funk lines. Add to the mix some intoxicating guitar work, some squelchy synth tones and some filthy grooves, and this band will take you places David Attenborough wouldn’t dare. You can always expect an explosive live set, alongside a full blown psychedelic sound, lighting and visual show. “…studies have shown that a daily dose of lama juice has the ability to relieve symptoms such as a heavy heart, restless legs and even gout” - Dr Doug (Psychiatrist)
FEBRUARY ALBARE
ABC Music jazz recording artist, Albare has just announced his first two concerts for 2014, performing for the first time in Hobart at MONA, as part of the Jazz at MONA series of free afternoon concerts ( JAM) on Sunday February 2, and in his home town at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday February 9. Tickets to the Melbourne Recital Centre concert are $55 each, available now through melbournerecital. com.au and Ticketmaster.
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King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard became the kings of the underground rock-pop scene with the 2011 EP Willoughbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beach (with nine songs) and two albums, 12 Bar Bruise (September 2013) and Eyes Like The Sky (February 2013). Float Along â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fill Your Lungs is a dramatic style shift. If you imagine King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire back catalogue as 13th Floor Elevatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Gonna Miss Me then Float Along â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fill Your Lungs is Canned Heatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On The Road Again. Opening song Head On/Pill boldly welcomes the listener into their psychedelic yurt that is filled with the arabesque guitar textures of The Beatlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; With Or Without You. The song doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave you in no-manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land for too long as Stu Mackenzieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wooooâ&#x20AC;? and affected drawl pushes to the front of the mix. Coming in at 15:59 this track is a trip but a trip worth taking. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Not A Man Unless I Have A Woman is actually hilarious as it slacks along upon a bed of fuzzed out phaser with sitar-like fingering over the top. Squalled out over the top are the simple and suggestive lyrics, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pound of gold (yes, I am)â&#x20AC;?. Part comedy, part summer groove this song works despite its lack of form and structure. Vocalist and guitarist Stu Mackenzie is credited with writing all the songs on Float Along â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fill Your Lungs except for the luscious ditty Pop In My Step written by the towering blonde behemoth Craig Cook. Also, the excellent Lend Me The Past is co-written by Ambrose Kenny-Smith and Mackenzie; as the name would suggest this song embraces the psych-folk story telling of the 1960s with
4. Brooce & Stones BOXSET MYLES GALLAGHER 5. Freezinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; My Nuts Off 7â&#x20AC;? DUANE PIPE 6. Train @ 8 CD/LP TONY & THE DYERS 7. I See Red LP DANA & THE CAUGHT-MES 8. Pass Me The Tuner LP SIMON â&#x20AC;&#x153;FINGERSâ&#x20AC;? KAY 9. Fuck This (Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Off To Fiji) CD CHRIS BATMAN elements of doo-wop. This song is an absolute album highlight the way it lets Kenny-Smith (also vocalist for The Murlocs) truly expose his epic blues rock vocals. Why have King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard blasted our ears with over 40 songs over four releases in just over two years? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense and neither does the stylistic shift on this album. Whatever, Float Along â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fill Your Lungs is a great listen and I am sure it will manifest beautifully in a live setting. DAN WATT BEST TRACK: Head On/Pill IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL LIKE THESE: Tee Pee THE MURLOCS, Beard Wives Denim POND, Boggie With CANNED HEAT. IN A WORD: Freshly-Familiar
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SINGLES OF THE YEAR
TV COLOURS
Beverly (Dream Damage) TV Colours are a great live unit, but they never manage to be able to capture the majesty of Beverly on stage. Maybe you simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t beat the perfection of the version presented on Purple Skies, Toxic River. The cracking of the cassette as you hear it loaded in the tape deck at the beginning, the R Stevie Moore via Big Black mechanical drums, the big fuck-off chainsaw riffs. That chorus, man. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bigger than us.
LIL WAYNE FEAT. 2 CHAINZ
Rich As Fuck (Cash Money) Recent years have seen Lil Wayne stuck in the deepest nadir of his career, spitting mediocrity on albums and mixtapes alike. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I Am Not A Human Being II was mostly tedious shit, but the Tity Boi-featuring Rich As Fuck is vintage Tunechi. Each line is a flawless Weezy-ism, take your pick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She blowing kisses at me with her pussy lips / Smoochesâ&#x20AC;?.
ST VINCENT
Birth In Reverse (Loma Vista) I only just reviewed this last week so lemme hit ctrl-c ctrl-v, alright? Here we go: This track is insane. I think Annie Clark might be insane. A genius. The defining rock star of our generation, please. The guitars sound all kinds of fucked up. A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;birth in reverseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is fucked up imagery when you think about it. Maybe donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about it. Just dance like crazy. Fuck like crazy. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take out the garbage, masturbateâ&#x20AC;?. The track is all kinds of great. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop listening.
JIMBLAH
SEEKAE
Another (Future Classic) A mere tease of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to come, Sydney electronica heroes Seekae made a seamless transition into vocal-led material with the haunting Another. Their production yet again sits ahead of the curve, laying the groundwork for a 2014 fulllength. While the track was the only Seekae release of the past few years, vocalist Alex Cameron backed it up with a solid stripped-back LP Jumping The Shark.
2. In Blood Memory JEN CLOHER 4. Float Along Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD
March (Elefant Traks) Even after repeat listens, March still brings the goosebumps with Jimblahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ridiculously good flow and rally-cry observations. A highlight from one of the best hip hop album of 2013, Phoenix. World class.
AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
JANELLE MONAE FEAT. ERYKAH BADU
7. Floating Coffin THEE OH SEES
Q.U.E.E.N. (Bad Boy) In a lot of ways, this is the definitive track of 2013. It captured what was going on, before it was going on. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a State Of The Union from the funkiest reaches of the galaxy. You can listen to it for the hundredth time and still ask yourself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;woah, what just happened?â&#x20AC;? The booty donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lie.
LONTALIUS
5. How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose COURTNEY BARNETT 6. Waking On A Pretty Daze KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS 8. She Beats BEACHES 9. Back To Land WOODEN SHJIPS 10. More Light PRIMAL SCREAM
RECORD COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK
For The Ideas (Independent) When Wellington singer-producer Eddie Johnston (Lontalius/Race Banyon) breaks through in the next year or so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna be like â&#x20AC;&#x153;I TOLD YOU SOâ&#x20AC;? but till then, we have a solid yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of releases, including a perpetual stream of covers, the occasional Race Banyon track here and there, and For The Ideas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a brief Casiotone meditation taken from The World Will Never Know About Us EP.
1. In Utero (2013 MIX) LP NIRVANA
KIRIN J CALLINAN
SEUSS
Landslide (Siberia/Remote Control) For all his transgressions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the stage invading beefcakefor-hire, epilepsy-inducing farce, at-times depraved lyrical themes, walls of guitar abrasion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to forget Kirin J is more than adept at crafting moments of profound beauty. Not that the boundary-pushing isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t great. Landslide is the finest moment from Callinanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cauterising debut Embracism, threading a series of landscape-as-metaphors into a genius whole.
CLIENT LIAISON
Feeling (Independent) Melbourne duo Client Liaison are primed for a breakthrough in 2014 (think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve used Savage Garden as a feasible benchmark in the past), dealing in a damn enticing brand of pristine, dreamy retro-pop. The executivenostalgia imagery of Ansett and Skase is all pretty great, the aesthetic somehow compounded by an exceeding musical talent that belies any semblance of jokiness.
1. Ooga Boogas OOGA BOOGAS 3. Dream River BILL CALLAHAN
By Lachlan Kanoniuk Wow, this year I only gave Single Of The Week to a nonantipodean act 2 3 (St Vincent just snuck in) times! And I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have to make try! Good work, everyone! See you on the other side!
RECORD PARADISE 2013
2.  Smashed On A Knee LP POWDER MONKEYS 3.  King For A Day... LP FAITH NO MORE 4.  The Zingers LP THE ZINGERS 5.  Tres Cabarones CD MELVINS 6.  How The Grinch Stole Christmas LP DR. 7.  Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came CD/LP Jesu 8.  ReďŹ&#x201A;ektor CD/LP Arcade Fire 9.  Temple Of The Dog LP Temple Of The Dog 10.  A Sea Of Split Peas 2*12â&#x20AC;? Courtney Barnett
BEAT'S TOP 10 SONGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS 1. Feliz Navidad SESAME STREET
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
DICK DIVER
Alice (Chapter) The opening few tracks from Dicky Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Calendar Days are a veritable trove of guitar pop gold, the title track and Water Damage could earn a place at the top of the 2013 podium. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go with Alice, its slinky bassline recalling the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feel-great classic Head Back, delivered alongside punchy bursts of sunshine guitar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I live in the city/You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deliberate/You set goals / And you reach goalsâ&#x20AC;?. I think about that line a lot. I probably always will.
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2. Here Comes Santa Claus BOB DYLAN 3. Merry Christmas (I Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Want To Fight Tonight) THE RAMONES 4. Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto JAMES BROWN 5. Home Alone Theme JOHN WILLIAMS 6. Christmas Rappinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; KURTIS BLOW 7. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO 8. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Believe in Christmas THE SONICS 9. Sleigh Ride TLC 10. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus THE RONETTES
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ALBUMS
NEW MUSIC IN REVIEW THIS WEEK
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BRITNEY SPEARS
FUCHSIA
Britney Jean (RCA)
In the age of Beyoncé dropping a game-changing surprise visual album, and even Gaga’s OTT flying dress art-rave attempts to hype up an album release, Britney’s Britney Jean went completely under the radar. And probably for good reason, because it is really terrible. We all want Britney to rise again to the top and have her comeback but this album will even let down her biggest fans. An album mainly comprising of auto-tuned ballads and EDM ‘bangers’, produced by nobody’s favourite will.i.am, they all fall short of being catchy or well produced songs. The Britney glory days ended back at her brilliant sex-pop album Blackout, which although were upstaged by her ‘crazy’ phase behavior, they were her most well crafted songs on par with Justin’s Future Sex / Love Sounds. It’s disappointing and lackluster from opening track Alien, to the weak Perfume which features the lyrics ‘I gotta mark my territory’ which just sounds so wrong. The trademark Britney baby voice ‘singing’ style just doesn’t work at age 31. And don’t even get me started on the cringe-worthy duet with her younger sister Jamie Lynn on Chillin’ With You. Work Bitch is the stand out track, mainly because it received some airplay and we’ve heard it but the fact someone didn’t grammatically title it ‘Work, Bitch’ really bothers me. This album sadly solidifies the end of the Britney era or any BEST TRACK: Work Bitch hope of the come back we wanted from Britney. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Femme Fatale BRITNEY SPEARS IN A WORD: Terrible
MIMI VELEVSKA
I, SAID THE SPARROW
Fuchsia II: From Psychedelia To A Distant Place (Independent) There is something delightfully whimsical about classic English psychedelic folk: sprightly melodies, images of dancing fawns in the moonlight, eccentric philosophical musings, a prevailing sense of happiness. There’s rarely a polemical observation to be found; and within the strangeness of life lies its eternal beauty. Lost for over three decades in Greil Marcus’ dustbin of history, Fuchsia were given a new lease of life in 2005 when the band’s 1970 debut album was deemed a ‘forgotten classic’ in Mojo magazine. Fuchsia II is, oddly enough, the band’s third album since its resuscitation (although only guitarist and vocalist Tony Durant remains from the original lineup). To listen to Fuchsia II is to embark on a journey through time and space: the time is 1970 all over again, with the winds of social and political change in the air; the space is the English countryside, as lush, green and splendid as a trite BBC sitcom. The mood is perfectly whimsical – who else but an English psych-folk band could embrace middle-age music like Melancholy Road, an ideal blend of reflection, tragedy and hope? Or the poly-cultural romanticism of Girl From Kandahar, the funky stringed-symphonic splendour of Lost Generation or even Hawkwind meets Crosby, Stills, and Nash polite folk of Fuchsia Song? And while I’ll Remember Her Face is so soft it almost implodes, Rainbow Song is Neil Young in his English hippie guise, The Waves is mixed geographical metaphor and gypsy wonder writ large and Piper at the Gates channels the lost spirit of Syd Barrett in all his troubled, brilliant glory. By the end, you can almost forget that the promise of 1970 was overtaken by the disappointment and BEST TRACK: Melancholy Road discontent of the succeeding decade. Fuschia II is a trip IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: to another place, and it’s a good place to be. Early Pink Floyd, Hawkwind IN A WORD: Folk PATRICK EMERY
Deathpop (MGM)
Pretty sure this Perth four-piece released an EP a few years back, and pretty sure I heard it (and dug it). I’ve also seen them live at least once. I seem to remember them having a pretty electronic punky/alternative pop sound. Well, on this – their debut album – they have wound back that electronic edge just a touch, brought the guitars forward a little, and Bob’s your uncle, they sound even better than they already did. The electronic element is still there, but instead of being right there in your face, it’s now more about providing colour and dynamics rather than being the real focus. And they’ve lost nothing for it – the energy is still there in droves, as is the subtly swaggering attitude. These guys have come up with a very uptempo, varied and fun collection of tunes here, tunes that won’t fail to get your toes tapping and head bobbing. And the bonus is high quality production and snappy, tight-as-a-fist musicianship. They would no doubt come alive even more in a live setting. To say 2013 has been a great year for Aussie alternative music is the understatement of the millennium so far. And the stunning releases just keep coming, and coming. Here BEST TRACK: Lust, Love and Other Devils we are, almost at Christmas, and yet another world class IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS:MM9, Aussie alternative release bobs up. Mind = blown. MUSE, THE MARS VOLTA IN A WORD: Fun
ROD WHITFIELD
VARIOUS ARTISTS
THE FRATELLIS
We Need Medicine (Cooking Vinyl Australia)
If The Rolling Stones were starting out now, would they look like The Fratellis? It’s a stupid scenario, really – the Stones were only the Stones because of the era in which they were conceived, and The Fratellis wouldn’t exist if not for the blazing trails of the Stones and a host of good, bad and forgotten imitators. Then again, maybe it’s just elegant Englishness of The Fratellis’ new record, We Need Medicine, that brings to mind the Stones’ legacy: the white man blues pop sensibility of Halloween Blues, the good times and hedonistic ‘70s rock’n’roll feel of The Old Ghost Town and the floppy-fringed adolescent sullen pop of She’s Not Gone Yet But She’s Leaving. Or maybe the village green rich kid fun of Seven Nights Seven Days, the Keefish riff-happy Shotgun Shoes and the carnival country rock of Whisky Saga. But where the rest of the record hangs around on the eastern side of the Atlantic, This Is Not the End of the World finds a seat next to Alex Chilton and chews the fat about prototypical Southern power-pop; in contrast, The Boomtown Rats might raise their collective hats to Jeannie Nitro, provided Sir Bob isn’t too pissed off at the time. Maybe the title track is ironic, maybe it’s a subconscious allegorical condemnation, if that makes any grammatical sense. Rock’n’Roll BEST TRACK: Halloween Blues Will Break Your Heart wants to be profound where others have been IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE revelatory, and ends up uttering platitudes; Until She Saves My Soul THIS: ALEX CHILTON, THE hints at a catchy rock sensibility that could speak volumes, if only it BOOMTOWN RATS and the Odd Stones was let loose. The Fratellis have got something, but not everything track just yet. IN A WORD: English
PATRICK EMERY
The RocKwiz Duets: Volume IV (Renegade/SBS) The RocKwiz Duets CDs are consistently jam-packed with well-executed covers of much-loved classics and of gloriously obscure musical gems. The eclectic mix of talented artists and the razor-sharp musicianship of The RocKwiz Orkestra ensure that the quality and interest levels remain high regardless of the genre being explored. It’s always intriguing hearing very different singers weaving magic together. For instance, Gemma Ray and Jon English nail their rendition of the 1966 Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra classic Sand. The light yet melancholic air of Ray’s sunny voice perfectly complements English’s honey ‘n’ gravel vocals. Some of the artists that have popped up on RocKwiz over the years surprise the listener with unexpected vocal performances. Andrew Stockdale, for example, may be remembered by many as the metallic powerhouse that led the thundering Wolfmother yet on Leather and Lace, his duet with Holiday Sidewinder, he displays a phenomenal grasp of melody and restraint that is ideal for the gentle and beautiful Stevie Nicks and Don Henley hit from 1981. One of the great joys of listening to these compilations is encountering performances that are so exciting that the singers end up owning the song that they are covering. Ella Hooper and Dan Sultan do this with aplomb on their version of With A Little Help From My Friends which packs more soul, emotion and firepower into five minutes and 55 seconds than some bands manage to achieve in an entire career. If you love music delivered with passion, playfulness and skill you must own this excellent collection of RocKwiz Duets! BEST TRACK: With A Little Help From My Friends ELLA HOOPER & DAN SULTAN GRAHAM BLACKLEY IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: The RocKwiz Duets (Collectors Editions Vols 1-3) VARIOUS ARTISTS IN A WORD: Entertaining
Drone rock is a difficult beast to enjoy. Once you’re past a-minute-and-a-half you wonder what the difference is between it and any other annoyingly persistent sound. That being said, if you can get into it, there is a lot of great albums to be enjoyed. Wooden Shjips’ new album Back To Land, unfortunately is not one. Labelled as spacey psychedelic rock, the album feels more like the work of a burnt out drone/psych band who have fallen into a near vegetative state thanks to their drug binges that lasted years on end. Album opener Back To Land sets everything off to bad start, with overly insistent reverb and echo and not a whole lot of anything else for underlying substance. In fact, the entire album is like this. Ghouls, Other Stars and Servants try to cover it up by playing even louder, but it doesn’t hide the fact that these guys are nuts for reverb and echo. The only songs that do make you sit up and notice are Ruins, which is “not bad” rather than “enjoyable”, and These Shadows which is actually a really good song, so much so that the album closes with an acoustic version. Unfortunately, two version of one good song isn’t enough to save the album. In a year filled with brilliant and clever drone and psych rock albums, Wooden Ships’ release just seem bored and lazy in comparison. With the insistent reverb and echo laid thick over the album, dull and irritating chords on unremarkable and often annoying songs (save These Shadows), Back To Land is a huge misstep from a great band
DANIEL PRIOR.
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2013 WRITERS' WRAP UP SO, HOW ABOUT THAT 2013, HUH? TOO MUCH TWERKING FOR MY LIKING. HERE’S SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WENT DOWN. 6. Calendar Days DICK DIVER 7. Crimes of Passion CROCODILES 8. Howlin’ JAGWAR MA 9. Hobo Rocket POND 10. Monomania DEERHUNTER Honourable Mentions: Float Along/Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD, Because the Internet CHILDISH GAMBINO, Not Art BIG SCARY
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
Kanye West’s ego finally getting the better of him.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
Kanye’s ego affecting his music.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014: Kanye’s ego finally implodes, opening a wormhole to ‘Bizarro World’. He’ll eventually be killed by an alternate ‘do-gooder’ version of himself.
NAME: Tyson Wray
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
NAME:
NAME: Augustus Welby
Dan Watt
Ambient/Electronic
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
Harley Streten.
College rock.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
1. Wakin On a Pretty Daze KURT VILE 2. Calendar Days DICK DIVER 3. I See Seaweed THE DRONES 4. Modern Vampires Of The City VAMPIRE WEEKEND 5. II UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 6. Not Art BIG SCARY 7. Light Up Gold PARQUET COURTS 8. Once I Was An Eagle LAURA MARLING 9. Push The Sky Away NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS 10. Monomania DEERHUNTER Honourable Mentions: Fade YO LA TENGO, Trouble Will Find Me THE NATIONAL, AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
1. Nocturnes WILLIAM BASINSKI 2. Excavation THE HAXAN CLOAK 3. R Plus Seven ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER 4. 100% Galcher GALCHER LUSTWERK 5. Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself OMAR-S 6. No Answer: Lower Floors WOLF EYES 7. Kairos: Chronos HIGH WOLF 8. Music For Private Ensemble SEAN MCCANN 9. The Redeemer DEAN BLUNT 10. The Body PRINCE OF DENMARK Honourable Mentions: Mimesiak GUNNAR HASLAM, Spaces NILS FRAHM, Pacifica SEGUE, Drone Logic DANIEL AVERY
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
Paddington (two years running).
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
Not being able to unsubscribe from the messages from an over 28’s night in Melton that a ‘friend’ signed me up to.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
A seven-piece guitar-only band called Ellipsis form and it causes me to have mental breakdown.
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
“Ain’t it just the way things arrrrrrrrrrre.”
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
Still no new Avalanches album.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
1. Float Along / Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD AND THE WIZARD LIZARD 2. Government Plates DEATH GRIPS 3. Slow Focus FUCK BUTTONS 4. Lost TRENTEMØLLER 5. Repave VOLCANO CHOIR 6. I’m Not Right CLOWNS 7. Great Shakes THE GRAND RAPIDS 8. Hair Machine EP ATOLLS 9. Holy Fire FOALS 10. Sleeper TY SEGALL Honourable Mentions: She Beats BEACHES
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014: My sitcom, Abbott & Ablett, about Tony Abbott and Gary Ablett Jnr sharing an apartment and arguing about things (“JESAULENKO, YOU BEAUTY!”…”WILL YOU PIPE DOWN IN THERE! I’M TRYING TO RUN A COUNTRY!”) is finally greenlit by Channel Ten. Plot twist: Ablett is actually Julia Gillard post hormone therapy AND SHE’S HELLBENT ON REVENGE!
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. The Catalyst Fire DEAD LETTER CIRCUS 2. Inside/Out SLEEP PARADE 3. Living Mirrors DISPERSE 4. Altered State TESSERACT 5. Infinitas CIRCLES 6. Connection BELLUSIRA 7. In Rico Glaciers SONS OF RICO 8. Back to Where You’ve Never Been HACRIDE 9. In this Life VIRGIL DONATI 10. Scryers of the Ibis OVID’S WITHERING
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013: NAME: Krissi Weiss
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Rock
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Evil Friends PORTUGAL. THE MAN 2. Woman RHYE 3. Trouble Will Find Me THE NATIONAL 4. March Fires BIRDS OF TOKYO 5. Asymmetry KARNIVOOL 6. Atlas RUFUS 7. Bankrupt! PHOENIX 8. Lightning Bolt PEARL JAM 9. Pure Heroine LORDE 10. Random Access Memories DAFT PUNK Honourable Mentions: Bangerz MILEY CYRUS, Mechanical Bull KINGS OF LEON, AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
Another Hawthorn premiership, and an incredible year of music. Especially Australian music.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
No question, the Murdoch/Abbotoir government getting in. It’s a worldwide embarrassment and detrimental to our interests and progress as a nation. Also, ever present threats to live music venues.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014: Hawks back to back!
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
Pearl Jam re-merged and didn’t suck, Miley Cyrus proved that pop can be punk and guitars nudged synths out of the limelight just a little.
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013: alexcamerononline.net.au
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
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We will go one day without Tony Abbott being a massive arsehole. Who am I kidding.
Heavy/progressive/alternative/rock/metal.
Look it was all pretty bad.
Hot rising act Flume is set for big things. You might not know him now, but I got a feeling you will in 2014. Heard it here first, folks!
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Rod Whitfield
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Losing last year’s new packet of highlighters.
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Failing to monetise my Twitter account yet again. Attention all VC motherfuckers: get on board with A$AP Lachy, it’s a lucrative brand conduit for the 18-25 market. Get in touch with my native advertorial team.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
3 Girls 1 Cup.
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
1. Purple Skies, Toxic River TV COLOURS 2. Calendar Days DICK DIVER 3. Yeezus KANYE WEST 4. Embracism KIRIN J CALLINAN 5. Immunity JON HOPKINS 6. The Electric Lady JANELLE MONAE 7. Free Your Mind CUT COPY 8. A History Of Hygiene THE STEVENS 9. P.Y.T. Pretty Young Thug LIL B 10. EP 2 FKA TWIGS Honourable Mentions: No Enter BUSHWALKING, Phoenix JIMBLAH, Jumping The Shark ALEX CAMERON, Nothing Was The Same DRAKE, She Beats BEACHES, Old DANNY BROWN
Adding lavender to the four strip colour process.
The Avalanches will release an album.
1. Iron Man 3 9.25 gigabytes 2. The Sopranos season 6 7.22 gigabytes 3. Carl Sagan’s COSMOS 6.9 gigabytes 4. Antiques Roadshow 5.5 gigabytes 5. Funny Foosball Bloopers 3 gigabytes Honourable Mentions: Watchmen, Planet Earth, Hilarious Choir Fails 3.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
TOP FIVE GIGS OF THE YEAR:
Harley Streten
1. II MODERAT 2. Rival Dealer EP BURIAL 3. The Electric Lady JANELLE MONAE 4. Overgrown JAMES BLAKE 5. Les Revenants OST MOGWAI 6. Obsidian BATHS 7. Shaking the Habitual THE KNIFE 8. Tomorrow’s Harvest BOARDS OF CANADA 9. Lanterns SON LUX 10. If You Wait LONDON GRAMMAR
Being reminded of 2 Girls 1 Cup.
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TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
German death mariachi.
Lachlan Kanoniuk
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Prog smock.
Being reminded of 2 Girls 1 Cup.
Nick ‘Nick Taras’ Taras
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SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Too recent to be old-school and too old to be cool.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. II UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 2. AM ARCTIC MONKEYS 3. Out Of Touch, In The Wild DUTCH UNCLES 4. Anything In Return TORO Y MOI 5. Is This How You Feel? THE PREATURES
One Direction still exists and people also still spent more time talking about the music they hated rather than the music they loved – killjoy, fascist, surrender monkeys.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Harry Styles will overdose on designer drugs and his own sense of satisfaction, Dig music will smash jjj off its perch and for the love of god please no-one start up yet another pop culture website dedicated to think-pieces on thinkpieces.
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NAME: Peter Hodgson
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Metal
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. David Bowie THE NEXT DAY 2. Dream Theater DREAM THEATER 3. Black Sabbath 13 4. Dillinger Escape Plan ONE OF US IS THE KILLER
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2013 WRITERS' WRAP UP SO, HOW ABOUT THAT 2013, HUH? TOO MUCH TWERKING FOR MY LIKING. HERE’S SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WENT DOWN.
Meeting Eddie Van Halen in LA.
5. Floating Coffin THEE OH SEES 6. Dreams in the Rathouse SHANNON AND THE CLAMS 7. Cupid Deluxe BLOOD ORANGE 8. Psycho Tropical Berlin LE FEMME 9. Ooga Boogas OOGA BOOGAS 10. Drifters/Love is the Devil DIRTY BEACHES Honourable Mentions: Float Along- Fill your lungs KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, The Living Eyes THE LIVING EYES, Pagan Kiss THE HUSSY
Being reminded that Lemmy is mortal.
Rainbow Serpent Festival.
Megadeth Rust In Peace-era reunion. C’mon Dave.
Chipping the shit out of my front tooth at Brown Alley.
5. James LaBrie IMPERMANENT RESONANCE 6. Long Holiday GREETINGS FROM 7. Steven Wilson THE RAVEN THAT REFUSED TO SING (AND OTHER STORIES) 8. Queensryche QUEENSRYCHE 9. Black Star Riders ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE 10. Bruce Bouillet THE ORDER OF CONTROL Honourable Mentions: Soulfly SAVAGES, The Devil Wears Prada 8:18, Scar The Martyr SCAR THE MARTYR
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013: LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014: NAME: Rei Barker
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Hip hop
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
7. Bras BAD SPORTS 8. Afraid of Heights WAAVES 9. Bass Drum of Death BASS DRUM OF DEATH 10. The Next Day DAVID BOWIE
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
Not seeing Television play Marquee Moon.
“Do You Understand You’re Moving Next Door To A Live Music Venue?” form given to ALL first-time big city dwellers before they finalise their purchases.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
Hearing the Television weren’t that good anyway
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Faux first-time urbanites realise they’ve moved next door to live music venues, and venues suffer; fuck those jerks (the faux urbanites, not the venues).
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
K- pop will become huge in Melbourne and dominate the music headlines.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
One night I’ll be back-up singing in Total Control and I will slowly turn into a giraffe over the course of the evening, and we will travel the world together.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Unreleased WINTERPLAN 2. Float Along- Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZZARD WIZARD 3. Oil City One Step SKYSCRAPER STAN AND THE COMISSION FLATS 4. Marshall Mathers LP 2 EMINEM 5. Long Live A$ap A$AP ROCKY 6. The Next Day DAVID BOWIE 7. Saaab Stories ACTION BRONSON 8. Seasons of your Day MAZZY STAR 9. DELTRON 3030: Event 2 DELTRON 3030 10. Bangerz MILEY CYRUS
NAME: Dina Amin
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
NAME: Nick Mason
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Crimp
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
Found $50 in a cab
1. Heartthrob TEGAN AND SARA 2. The Speed Of Things DALE EARNHARDT JR JR 3. Body Music ALUNA GEORGE 4. The Shocking Miss Emerald CARO EMERALD 5. Summer Camp SUMMER CAMP 6. Volume Three SHE AND HIM 7. More Than Just A Dream FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS 8. Days Are Gone HAIM 9. Optica SHOUT OUT LOUDS 10. One Breath ANNA CALVI
LOWLIGHT OF 2013: Tony Abbott.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
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Disco.
Kish Lal
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Buzzfeedwave
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Drone Logic DANIEL AVERY 2. Nothing Was The Same DRAKE 3. Random Access Memories DAFT PUNK 4. R Plus Seven ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER 5. Immunity JON HOPKINS 6. Yeezus KANYE WEST 7. Aleph GESAFFELSTEIN 8. Amygdala DJ KOZE 9. Obsidian BATHS 10. Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself OMAR S Honourable Mention: Beautiful Rewind FOUR TET, Cupid’s Head THE FIELD, Joy One Mile STELLAR OM SOURCE
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HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
Emily Kelly
Highlight of 2014: getting a fridge with the Internet. There is no luxury like tweeting from your fridge.
Angry dude jams
Facing adversity as a loud and proud Kim Kardashian fan.
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Dead Language THE FLATLINERS 2.The Things We Think We’re Missing BALANCE AND COMPOSURE 3.The Hurry and The Harm CITY AND COLOUR 4. Yeezus KANYE WEST 5. How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident FUTURE OF THE LEFT 6. Rainbows In Space THE BENNIES 7. The Bronx THE BRONX IV 8. The Constant One IRON CHIC 9. Partycrasher A WILHELM SCREAM 10. Death Beat HIGH TENSION Honourable Mentions: Dillinger Escape Plan ONE OF US IS THE KILLER, Tony Sly Tribute Album VARIOUS ARTISTS, Drug Church PAUL WALKER
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Buzzfeed is the new Facebook. 26 Random Friend Requests That Will Blow Your Mind! Ashton Kutcher stars in the Oscar-winning role of his career depicting Jonah Peretti’s life in Buzz.
Post punk, synth pop, or garage rock/punk rock I guess, all kinds, a rainbow of genres.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. 7”s TOTAL CONTROL 2. Run Fast THE JULIE RUIN 3. Purple Skies, Toxic River TV COLOURS 4. Street Punk HUNX AND HIS PUNX
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SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Garage/punk/lo-fi/post punk.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Ooga Boogas OOGA BOOGAS 2. Tally All The Things That You Broke PARQUET COURTS 3. Honeys PISSED JEANS 4. Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blewey DIRTBOMBS 5. Sleeper TY SEGALL 6. Circumambulation TRUE WIDOW
Taking four weeks off to visit L’America.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013: Leaving L’America.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014: I become a sick hip-hop and neo-soul DJ under the name Mrs. Wallace.
Patrick Emery
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Patrick Emery
TOP 5 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Ooga Boogas OOGA BOOGAS 2. I See Seaweed DRONES 3. The World Is Fucked PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS 4. Float Along/Fill Your Lungs KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 5. Complicating Things SPINNING ROOMS
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
NAME: Mimi Velevska
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Super happy fun times.
Rolling Stones to play at the Old Bar.
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
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TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR: 1. Aleph GESAFFELSTEIN 2. Beyonce BEYONCE 3. Old DANNY BROWN 4. Caress Your Soul STICKY FINGERS 5. Free the Universe MAJOR LAZER 6. Is This How You Feel? THE PREATURES 7. Yeezus KANYE WEST 8. The Electric Lady JANELLE MONAE 9. Settle DISCLOSURE 10. ..Like Clockwork QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
Krystal Maynard
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
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SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
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1. Tawk Tomahawk HIATUS KAIYOTE 2. Black Radio 2 THE ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT 3. If You Wait LONDON GRAMMAR 4. Overgrown JAMES BLAKE 5. Sleep In The Water SNAKADAKTAL 6. Blackbird FAT FREDDY’S DROP 7. No Beginning No End JOSE JAMES 8. Feel Good THE INTERNET 9. Slow Bark OLIVER MANN 10. Beginnings and Endings BRIGHTLY
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Indie electronica
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR:
It was actually old man Withers (and he’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for us meddling kids).
Thomas Bailey.
Election day.
SPECIALISED GENRE OF MUSIC:
Abbott.
Some event in September, the details of which elude me.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
Franny B
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
LOWLIGHT OF 2013:
Too many to comprehend, let alone list.
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Hawthorn winning an 11th premiership.
Getting married.
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
More atrocious decisions from the federal government. We all move to New Zealand.
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
Anything with ‘neo’ in front.
1. Deleted Scenes STANDISH CARLYON 2. Free Your Mind CUT COPY 3. Hesitation Marks NINE INCH NAILS 4. Reflektor ARCADE FIRE 5. World’s End Press WORLD’S END PRESS 6. Uncanny Valley MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS 7. Immunity JON HOPKINS 8. Elements Of Light PANTHA DU PRINCE 9. Weekend UNDERGROUND LOVERS 10. Homosapien PVT Honourable Mentions: Push The Sky Away NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS; Delta Machine DEPECHE MODE; Hypnotiser CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013:
HIGHLIGHT OF 2013: Jennifer Lawrence.
LOWLIGHT OF 2013: Miley Cyrus riding on the ‘twerk’ thing, when she can’t actually twerk.
A WILD PREDICTION FOR 2014:
Brooke Candy enters the mainstream stratosphere, knocking Lady Gaga off the radar. Will also be devastated if Country-meets-EDM becomes a ‘thing’.
There were more killer gigs than one knew what to do with. Oh, had a baby.
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THURSDAY DEC 26 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC HAMMOND SESSIONS - FEAT: KIM KELAART TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. NEW DUB CITY + CHANT DOWN SOUND + MC MONK + MC PRECISE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. REVEREND FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. SYZGY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. TEST MATCH QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS EMPAT LIMA + PINK TILES + THE NIGHT PARTY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. NEXT - FEAT: FOR OUR HERO + I RAN ELEVENTH + SIDELINES Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: KAT ANTOINETTE & THE RENAISSANCE LOVER + NOIR + THE ROADRAGERS + WACO SOCIAL CLUB Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. SMITH STREET BAND + STOCKADES + THE PRETTY LITTLES + UNION PACIFIC Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. STONEFIELD + APES + SUN GOD REPLICA + THE BEAR & I Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE TRIED + ALLISON TUREK + AVENUE’S END + THE MOOPS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CYCLO TIMIK + THE GREAT IMPOSTOR Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $7. GEOFF ACHISON + CHRIS WILSON Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $22.
FRIDAY DEC 27 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC ABE DUNOVITS & THE FUNKALLEROS + JON DELANEY Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. JAKE SAVONA 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. LEWIS MOODY’S CAREER ADVICE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LOCAL REVOLUTION Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $12. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. THE CACTUS CHANNEL + DJ MANCHILD + THE LET YOUR HAIR DOWN GIRLS + THE PUTBACKS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $14.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS CONFUSING ANAL MESS + DEBACLE + SPLIT TEETH + TERROR STRIKE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. HEAVY JUDY - FEAT: EX FAUVES + DJ TRAFFIC JAM + SHANNON BOURNE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. HUNTING SEASON + DJ LUCY ARUNDEL + DUENDE + NEBRASKATAK Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. HYENAS + ASHA DIRGE + CHEAP PRESENT + DJ KITI + DJ VOIN + NARCISSIQUE + PROPERTY + SABINE BRIX + SIMONA KAPITOLINA Boney, Melbourne. 8:00pm. MICK PEALING BAND + MAMA BLUE & SON Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:30pm. $27. RIFFMAS - FEAT: RIFF FIST + SEEDY JEEZUS + THERMAL MASS + WILDEORNES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. ROAR ROCK - FEAT: ANGRY MULES + MASTER BETA + STREET FANGS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. SEABELLIES (ALBUM LAUNCH) + EMILEE SOUTH + LAKYN HEPERI Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: DRIBBLE + GUTTER GODS + VELVET WHIP Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SWAMP MOTH + ALISTER TURRILL + THE NEW SAVAGE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. THE BLACK ALLEYS + GUNSLINGERS + THE UGLY KINGS + VISION ST Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE JAPE SQUAD + THE STERLING Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $8. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 44
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CRIMSON RAWK Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. DARK FAIR + ALI E BAND + SIGOURNEY BEAVER + VALENTIINE Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10. JAMES REYNE + CHANTOOZIES + THE BLACK SORROWS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:30pm. $40. MALLEE SONGS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. MERRI CREEK PICKERS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
Vampire Weekend
SATURDAY DEC 28 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. KAIN BORLASE TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. LOCAL REVOLUTION + QUASHANI BAHD Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. NIC RYAN BOOGALOO BAND + OGRIN GULINA & WHYTE TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. SCATTER SCATTER TROPICAL DISCOTHEQUE FEAT: PUBLIC OPINION SOUND SYSTEM + DJ CHRIS GILL + DJ J LOVE + DJ MANCHILD Boney, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10. THE FURBELOWS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. THE ROOTS + URTHBOY Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7:00pm. $87. WILBUR WILDE QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FALLS FESTIVAL This year’s incarnation of Falls Festival boasts one hell of a line-up. It features the wondrous likes of Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, The Roots, London Grammar, MGMT, Violent Soho, Hiatus Kaiyote, Neil Finn, Rufus, The Smith Street Band, Pond, The Cat Empire, Owl Eyes, The Murlocs, The Preatures, Big Scary, Chet Faker, Gossling, Emma Louise and many, many more! Tickets for both Lorne and Byron Bay are already sold out, but don’t despair, you may just be able to score some for the Tassie installation in Marion Bay!
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 8 BIT LOVE + JANK FAQUES DJS + LOW FLY INCLINE + OHMS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. BANG - FEAT: CLOSURE IN MOSCOW + NEW TRAVELLERS + WHO INVITED THE WOLF Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CHASE THE ACE + COLD RED MUTE + LACE & WHISKEY + REQUIEM Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. CHELSEA DRUGSTORE + DJ ADALITA + SARA RETALLICK Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. CUNTZ (ALBUM LAUNCH) + PLEASURE DOME + SHIFTERS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. FLESH OF THE EARTH + BENEATH THE WATERS + CONSCIOUS CONTROL + HOLLOW WORLD + IRE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. JUKE KARTEL Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $24. LETHAL BINGE + DEADFROG + THE JACKS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10. LOW RENT + THE IMPRINTS + TIMOTHY JOHN Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MATT KELLY + BELOVED ELK + CHINESE HANDCUFFS + OLD WORLD SPARROW + ONDAS ALPHA Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. MELBOURNE PUNK ROCK COMMUNITY SHIELD AWARDS - FEAT: ANGRY SEAS + JAY STEVENS + KILL TAKER + TWIN AGES Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. METALKUNST + STEP ON DJS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 6:00pm. MICK PEALING BAND + MAMA BLUE & SON Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:30pm. $27. NUNCHUKKA SUPERFLY (LP LAUNCH) + BLACKLEVEL + CLOWNS + DEAD RIVER + EMBASSY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. OHMS + SPACE JUNK Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. RARA + DJ A-BOOGIE + FRIENDSHIPS + ISLAND UNIVERSE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. $12. ROLLING STONES’ GOATS HEAD SOUP SHOW - FEAT: DEAR DOCTORS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:30pm. $25. SET SAIL + HUNTING SEASON + I KNOW THE CHIEF Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $25. SHAKERFAKER + LUCY & THE DIAMONDS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8. THE BLUEBOTTLES Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. THE PRETTY LITTLES + ROSS DE CHENE HURRICANES + THE MARY GOLDSMITHS + THEM 9S Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. THE TROTSKIES Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $10. THE WAR ON DRUGS + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + LOST ANIMAL Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. TOM ODELL + HAYDID CALNIN + MELODY POOL Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $44. WENDY RULE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20. WITCHGRINDER + DJ MERMAID + KILL SHOT + THE MERCY KILLS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ALEX BURNS BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. CHRIS WILSON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 1:30pm. KERRI SIMPSON Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MCAPLINES FUSILIERS + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $7. MICK DALEY’S CORPORATE RAIDERS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. WIRED Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm.
SUNDAY DEC 29 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC
ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. FLAP Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. JON DELANEY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: DARTS + DJ KEZBOT + HEADS OF CHARM + SUN GOD REPLICA Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. CITRUS JAM + ENTROPY + MALCURA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. DALE RYDER BAND + DJ NELLY JACKSON + GARY EASTWOOD EXPRESS Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. MARK JOLLEY + JACK HEWITT + JOHNNY 319 + WONDERBOY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. SPENCER P JONES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 1:30pm. TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. TEX PERKINS & CHARLIE OWEN + JAIME ROBBIE REYNE Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $30. THE CHARLIES + PETE DAFFY & THE FORECASTERS + THE SHAMBELLES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. THE INFANTS + R ELECTRIQUE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ANDY BAYLOR & THE BANKSIA BAND + MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. CHERRY BLUES - FEAT: CATFISH BLUES + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5.
JUSTIN BERNASCONI, PETE FIDLER & BEN FRANZ TRIO + JUSTIN BERNASCONI + PETE FIDLER & BEN FRANZ TRIO Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. LINCOLN LE FEVRE + LUCY WILSON + LUKE THOMAS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. MICK DALEY & THE CORPORATE RAIDERS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. SCOTTY CANDLISH + MAXINE FINK + NATHAN VARGA + SHANNEN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. THE NUDGELS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. WILBUR WILDE Bay Hotel, Mornington. 3:00pm.
MONDAY DEC 30 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS BORN RUFFIANS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $39. DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: COOKIE BAKER + JAMES GOWANS + JUNIOR UNDER THE MOON + TWO DOORS DOWN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
TUESDAY DEC 31 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS BOB LOG III Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 10:00pm. CLOWNS + APART FROM THIS + SUMMER BLOOD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $25.
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THE ROOTS The Roots have locked in a Melbourne show to coincide with their appearance at Falls Festival. The upcoming tour sees the group taking a break from their celebrated residency as the house band for US talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Joining The Roots will be Sydney’s very own hip hop wunderkind Urthboy. Catch ‘em at Festival Hall on Saturday December 28. ESPY NYE PARTY - FEAT: BODYJAR + DALLAS CRANE + KINGSWOOD + SOMETHING FOR KATE + THE BASICS + BLACK ACES + CAPTIVES + EAGLE & THE WORM + HOUSE OF LAURENCE + LURCH & CHIEF + MASSIVE + THE BLACK ALLEYS + THE DEEP END + THE DELTA RIGGS + THE HARLOTS + THE UGLY KINGS + VIRTUE + WHITE SUMMER Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $70. GLAM ROCK PARTY - FEAT: BITTERSWEET KICKS + DJ JEFF LEPPARD + WILD TURKEY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. HEATHEN SKULLS + EUREKA REBELLION + METAL OBSESSION Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 5:00pm. $45. HEATHEN SKULLS NYE PARTY FEST - FEAT: CLAGG + EARTHLESS + KING OF THE NORTH + THE SHRINE + BROOZER + DEAD CHINA DOLL + BURIED FEATHER + DON FERNANDO + HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS + MY LEFT BOOT + TTTDC Corner Hotel, Richmond. 5:00pm. $45. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD + BAD// DREEMS + THE LOVE JUNKIES + THE MURLOCS + TONE DEAF DJS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25. KING PARROT + DJ MERMAID + KASHMERE CLUB + MASON + SHERIFF Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. LAMARAMA + DAVID ADAMS SEXTET TRIO Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. LOS BENDIGUEROS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 12:00pm. MID YOUTH CRISIS + JOIN THE AMISH + RISE OF THE RAT + STOCKADES + TIGERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $25. MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS + JOHN SAFRAN + NAYSAYER & GILSUN + NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $39. RATS - FEAT: JAKUBI + BEE AMPERSAND + FUCK THE RADIO UNDER THE STARS + HUSLA + JAMES DE BONO + MADDIE J + RA Brown Alley, Melbourne. 8:00pm. SHEILA’S OF THE 70S + BILLY MILLER & THE LOVE BROTHERS Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:30pm. $30. THANDO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. THE CHANTOOZIES + PARTY GIRLS Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 7:00pm. $30.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $10. JODY GALVIN & THE TENDERHEARTS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. RAISED BY EAGLES + CHARLES JENKINS & THE ZHIVAGOS + THE PRAYERBABIES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE CHRIS WILSON BAND + SARAH CARROLL & HER PSYCHEDELIC WILDMEN Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:40pm. $30.
WEDNESDAY JAN 1 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC BOHJASS 303, Northcote. 6:30pm.
THURSDAY JAN 2 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. HAMMOND SESSIONS - FEAT: FUTURAS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS CHOTTOMATTE + THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS + WE’RE ALL FRANKIES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FUTURE OF THE LEFT + BLACKLEVEL EMBASSY + DAMN TERRAN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $46. NEXT - FEAT: CROWNED KINGS + HIDEAWAY + OEDIPUS REX + OTHERSIDE Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. THE STRANGE + LES MINIJUPES + TOOTH & TUSK Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. WACO SOCIAL CLUB Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CARDINAL + THE ROLLING PERPETUAL GROOVE SHOW + THE UGLY KINGS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5. OPEN MIC Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. SHANNON BOURNE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY JAN 3 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC COMBO PACIFICA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. JULIAN MARLEY & THE UPRISING + CHANT DOWN SOUND + DJ PIT + KOOYEH Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $62. LOCAL REVOLUTION + QUASHANI BAHD + SHANTY TOWN 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PUGSLEY BUZZARD + PAUL CAREY & JULIAN SCHEFFER Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS AGENTS OF ABHORRENCE (ALBUM LAUNCH) + INTERNAL ROT + PREGNANCY + WHITE WALLS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. CUNTZ + MUTTON Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. FLIPPED OUT KICKS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. FLYYING COLOURS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. GRINDHOUSE + LONG HOLIDAY + THE UNDERHANDED + TWO HEADED DOG Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.
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. Let Them Eat Cake’s sophomore incarnation goes down on Wednesday January 1 at Werribee Mansion.
MOOBOO HULLABALOO - FEAT: BIG HEAD ELLA + FAREWELL EARTH + LOW FLY INCLINE + MONSTER JEANS + POLICE & THIEVES + TRASH FAIRYS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $8. POLYGASM + ANGRY MULES + SMOTHERBOX + THUNDABOX Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SEB MONT & THEE + BLACK HARRYS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: GRAND PRISMATIC + PIONEERS OF GOOD SCIENCE + TANGRAMS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. THE BOYS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm. THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY + CATGUT MARY + DIRTY HARRIET & THE HANGMEN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $12. THE RESIGNATORS + ADMIRAL ACKBAR’S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE + LO PAN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. KISSING BOOTH + SPEECH PATTERNS + THE UNION PACIFIC + SUMMERHILL The Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. GRINDHOUSE + TWO HEADED DOG + LONG HOLIDAY + THE UNDERHANDED The Bendigo, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BEN CAPLAN + DD DUMBO + HARRY HEALY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $35. JUMPIN’ JOSH The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE WOOHOO REVUE + GUERILLA ZINGARI Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
SATURDAY JAN 4 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. SOUL SAFARI Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TOM VINCENT TRIO + LUCAS POHLING Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS LUCY WILSON + WIL WAGNER The Old Bar, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. VICIOUS CIRCLE The Bendigo, Collingwood. 8:00pm. PERSEVERANCE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. 180 PROOF + MOTHERSLUG + VON STITCH Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ALONE WITH TIGER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. BANG - FEAT: ARMOURUS + BASTION + CARDINALS + WISH FOR WINGS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BLACKEYED SUSANS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. JOHNNY MARR Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.
KING PARROT Join the toughest band in the land when King Parrot destroy Cherry Bar’s NYE thrashfest. These extremists will fuck your ears hard, with help from Kashmere Club, Mason and Sheriff. Let your ears bleed this NYE!
LA SUITE BIPOLAR Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. MY LASTING REPLY (EP LAUNCH) + IAN BANKS + THE WINTERS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15. NIRVANNA (NIRVANA TRIBUTE) + BUDWEEZER + GIANT LAZER SHOW John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $12. PANDORUM + FOREVER THE OPTIMIST + HIGH SIDE DRIVER + RIOT IN TOYTOWN + SHORTFALL Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15. PERSEVERENCE + AK-11 + HEXREIGN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:00pm. $10. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: ALBERT SALT: SINGLE LAUNCH + TALI SING + THE KARMENS + THE MCQUEENS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $12. SIME NUGENT Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. TEMPLE + I AM MINE + VOODOOCAIN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. THE FINKS (EP LAUNCH) + CIGGIE WITCH + THE ZEBRAS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. THE SEMINAL RATS + FORTRESS OF NARZOD + THREE HEADED DOG Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 12:23am.
THE SMOKES (STROKES TRIBUTE) Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.
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THE HORNETS + DJ D-TRAIN Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. WIL WAGNER + GUY TREADWELL + ZIGGY BRITTEN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ALISON FERRIER BAND Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CHERRY BLUES - FEAT: THREE KINGS + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5. CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KLARA ZUBONJA Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. THE STOPOUTS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm.
MONDAY JAN 6 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS CRYSTAL FIGHTERS + CLUBFEET Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $50. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: ESC + PETS WITH PETS + PREMIUM FANTASY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. VAMPIRE WEEKEND + GANG OF YOUTHS Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7:00pm. $87. BOB HARROW + GUESTS The Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
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SEABELLIES Seabellies will be hitting the road again this November in promotion of their sophomore album Fever Belle. Originating from the bellows of Newcastle, the six-piece monster that is Seabellies have been entertaining thousands with their complex and experimental compositions since 2006. In 2010, the band made their mark on the music industry with their critically acclaimed debut LP By Limbo Lake. Fever Belle will pick up where the band left off — creating a blend of ambitious melody and texture that draws influence from Melbourne, Berlin and Sydney. Seabellies will play at the Northcote Social Club on Friday December 27.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. LA SUITE BIPOLAR Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS SHANE O'MARA + DAN LETHBRIDGE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $46. NAI PALM + SPLEEN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12. SOLANGE + MOVEMENT JUGGERNAUT DJS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK JR REYNE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE BRUNSWICK DISCOVERY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
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ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BEN CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS + JAIME ROBBIE REYNE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:30pm. $30. CHRIS CAVILL Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CHRIS WILSON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:30pm. DAVIDSON BROTHERS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THEE WYLDE OSCARS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.
SUNDAY JAN 5 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. FLAP Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. GUERILLA ZINGARI + ADE ISH Open Studio,
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ACCESS ALL AGES Wednesday December 25, 2013 With Claire Barley
2013 is drawing to a close, and what a year it has been. We’ve seen some amazing all ages gigs on both small and grand scales, with heaps of FReeZA teams all over the state hosting some amazing acts. Kudos to anyone who has attended an all ages event and helped support the underage live music scene! In case you didn’t read in last week’s column, changes are underway to make it much easier for venues to host all ages and underage shows. We should see many more all ages friendly gigs popping up in 2014. What more could you want for Christmas than that? If you’re stuck for ideas of what to do on New Years Eve, don’t despair. Yarra Park will be hosting free entertainment, including live music, games and a fireworks display. Music will be provided by Them Swoops, Sol Nation, Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows and total badasses The Cactus Channel. Only a few years out of high school, these guys are tearing up the local music scene with their super funky vibes. The party starts at 6pm, full details below. If the thought of having to brave the huge city crowds makes you want to punch your own face, fireworks will also be going off at Footscray Park at 9.30. Got your tickets for Pushover yet? The lineup for next year’s instalment of this all ages festival is absolutely massive, including names like All Day, Dream On Dreamer, Chance Waters, Cub Sport, Pez and The Smith Street Band. With more variety than Australia’s Got Talent (and a lot more talent), there’s something here to please everyone. Tickets are only $45 and are available via ticketmaster. Head to The Push’s website for full details. Whilst the Christmas period can sometimes be a barren one for gigs, there are some huge shows coming up in the first week of 2014. Paramore will grace the Sidney Myer Music Bowl with their presence on Wednesday January 1, supported by pals 21 Pilots and You Me At Six. It will be their first visit to Australia since Soundwave at the start of 2013. Since then, they’ve released their fourth studio album and swapped a few people in the band’s lineup. Also playing are indie pop kings Vampire Weekend. These dudes will be hitting up Festival Hall on January 6, having played at Falls Festival over New Years. Here’s to a fabulous Christmas and New Years, and a huge year of great AA gigs in 2014!
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 31 Early Eve w/ Them Swoops, Sol Nation, Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows, The Cactus Channel, fireworks, games and more, Yarra Park, East Melbourne, 6pm, free, thatsmelbourne.com.au, AA.
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INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 7"S & 12"S VINYL SALON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS: FLIPPED OUT KICKS + THE NIGHT PARTY The Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. COOPERS PRESENTS SUNDAY SCHOOL Public Bar, Melbourne. 4:00pm. BENDIGO ROCK THE BENDIGO The Bendigo, Collingwood. 1:00pm. WIL WAGNER Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. BENDIGO ROCK - FEAT: BERLIN POSTMARK + CHASE THE ACE + MEZ WHITTLE + NEUROTIC TRENDZ + OLD WORLD SPARROW + RABID ZULU + CHARM + MY BAND + RECKLESS JUNE + SARAH EIDA + TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD + THE CANING + THE DIVINE FLUXUS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 1:00pm. $10. EARTHLESS & THE SHRINE + BAD VISIONS + ETERNAL ELYSIUM + WHITE WALLS The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $41. HANNI EL KHATIB + WHITE DENIM Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $33. JOHNNY MARR Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $66. THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm.
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SATURDAY DECEMBER 28 The Roots w/ Urthboy, Festival Hall, 300 Dudley St, West Melbourne, 7pm, $87.10, ticketmaster.com.au, AA.
A long running tradition in this fine town of ours is New Years Eve at The Espy. A St Kilda sunset, packed stage, beer in hand, looking for that countdown kiss….come celebrate the birth of 2014 with some of Melbourne’s finest and most loved rock legends – Something For Kate, Bodyjar, Dallas Crane, Kingswood, The Basics, The Delta Riggs, Eagle & the Worm and many more!
THREE QUARTER BEAST + SMOTHERBOX + SPACEJUNK Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. VICIOUS CIRCLE (EP LAUNCH) + COLD GROUND + CROWNED KINGS + RUST PROOF + SOUTHPAW Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.
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2013 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, Friday December 13 – Sunday December 15 A balls-to-the-floor entry by heavy riff stalwarts Warped christened the 23rd annual Meredith Music Festival stage with absolute precision. The perfect mix of screaming guitars, booming rhythms and the hiss of surrounding punters cracking their fifth tinnies of the weekend was the perfect entry point to get the crowd on side nice and early. Melbourne electro-popsters World’s End Press took the honour of playing Meredith’s first after-dark set, and they didn’t disappoint. The stage lightshow shone in all its psychedelic glory as the boys shifted the weekend’s aural direction from rock to bop for the first time. With their now well-oiled live show unashamedly set to party-start, it was a return to the Sup’ both deserved and well received. The Brian Jonestown Massacre provided somewhat of a come down from the discoliscious pump of World’s End Press, but their driving psych was exactly what many an addled mind need to focus and find a groove. Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes, Melbourne’s answer to culture, sex appeal and swing, put on a positively simmering set that set many a tongue wagging. Backed up by the one man-party machine Le1f, the crowd’s thirst for electronic indulgence took over for the rest of the evening. WA export and now Melbourne local Roland Tings provided the closing soundtrack to the opening night. A set comprised of sprawling builds and deep hooks took many an addled mind up then down, up then down, and with his final crescendo Silence Wedge took over, leaving the slurs of the days memories providing the entertainment as the sole survivors of the night trekked back to their campsite. Kicking off the proceedings for day two of the festival was Melbourne’s latest indie darling Courtney Barnett. This girl’s vibe is polarising – it’s one you’ll either love or hate. I’m steadfastly sitting in ‘camp love’ for Courtney. The inspiration to embrace the hair of the dog was Canadian slacker-Sinatra Mac Demarco. He and his bands slayed the audience with highlights that included covers of Robert Palmer and a bizarre interpretation of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff alongside Demarco crowd surfing 150 metres to the mixing desk. You’d be forgiven to overlook Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, otherwise known as Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ as a well seasoned player, the way he hit the stage with his deep vocal splits and retro rhyming style. But sipping and spitting his lyrical twists with such confidence and presence, it’s no wonder Kendrick Lamar is obsessed with this 19-year-old wunderkind. There was no
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glitz or glamour, it was just straight up hood with only a mic and his DJ slamming down some serious beats and backing vocals. With the early evening brought a slight respite from the day’s harsh sun, just in time for Tex and co to hit the Sup’. Whatever incarnation the Beasts of Bourbon take on, it’s always going to be commanding with Tex at the helm. He’s rugged, he’s charismatic, and he’s in his element when he’s onstage. Following the stupendous ridiculousness of Hermitude’s set was going to be a tough ask at that time of day (Get In My Life from their album Hyper Paradise saw an all-inclusive Amphitheatre jump-along of the like I haven’t seen since Pharoahe Monch dropped Simon Says in 2009), but Spiderbait’s stage presence and banter carried itself with enough charm and familiarity to keep the evening swaying energetically along. It’s easy to forget the volume of hits these dudes pumped out in the ‘90s, with songs like Calypso seemingly forever ensconced in Meredith’s collective memory. Their set was somewhat of a crowd pleaser with only a couple of tracks from their new album, although the omission of Buy Me A Pony left many a fan wondering. Returning swiftly following their appearance at the 2012 Golden Plains, Nile Rodgers and Chic provided the centrepiece for the Saturday night. While arguably remaining overly similar (if not exact to the tee) to their Amphitheatre performance 21 months ago, their musicianship and group dynamics were flawless. A wall-to-wall hit fest, Rodgers lead the crowd down the path of his career, laying down Chic’s Everybody Dance, Good Times and Le Freak alongside his self-bolstered productions such as Sister Sledge’s I Want Your Love, Madonna’s Like A Virgin and a blockbuster rendition of David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. Flanked by his two divas and a phenomenal backing band, there was no mistaking that this night truly belonged to Rodgers. Shifting the mood, Detroit techno don Derrick May went on to provide a relentless and pounding two hours of hard-hitting rhythms direct from the 313. While arguably providing a more club-friendly performance than the open-air setting he was given, May ensured he kept the crowd salivating on each and every of his moves. Closing out the Saturday night, Melbourne’s disco don Andee Frost took to the stage at 5.30am. Swilling whiskey and smoking the odd cigarette, Frost rinsed through his signature muddled disco and house much to the crowd’s adoration. Rounding out the psych-heavy weekend were five babes on guitars, with Beaches providing the perfect Sunday afternoon soundtrack for laying about in the shade sipping a couple of tinnies. What I love about these girls is that they don’t take themselves too seriously; watching them onstage feels like sitting in a garage with them while they’re having one long jam session. And with that, the festival had come to a conclusion for yet another year. It’s in that weary and fragile state of mind that one can only truly begin to comprehend the importance of Meredith to our national musical landscape. Hats off to you, Aunty. See you in March for LOVED: Tinnies Golden Plains. HATED: Lack of tinnies left for the trip home BY TYSON WRAY, ALI HAWKEN, KRIS FURST, ALEKSEI PLINTE AND DRANK: Water DAN WATT PHOTOS BY DAN WATT
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fill-in guest spot for a few weeks and it was fun, but nothing eventuated. A year later I got a phone call with an offer to co-host and produce The Edge breakfast show!
What was the most valuable non-academic/life lesson you learnt during your course? That the entertainment industry is full of weirdos and to embrace the crazy!
What skills did you gain through your studies at JMC that are helping you on your current career path? The course I took at JMC isn’t particularly relevant to my career today, but it definitely gave me a good overview of what the entertainment industry was all about - fun, teamwork and creativity!
What would lecturers and other students at JMC Academy remember you most distinctly for? What I’m always remembered for – being the tiny girl with the big voice!
What have been some of the highlights of your career to date: I was nominated for two Australian Commercial Radio Awards with the Best Newcomer On Air in 2009 and Best On-Air Team for the Mike E & Emma Breakfast show in 2012. Any advice you have for anyone wanting to enter a career in the radio industry? Don’t box yourself into one role and say ‘this is what I am, this is what I’m going to be doing for the rest of my life’. Opportunities you never thought existed are out there! Please explain the most valuable academic lesson learnt at JMC Academy that you now apply in your current role? To proactively tackle things head on and with passion. Go hard or go home!
In what ways did you express your creativity as a child and then adolescent? I played dress ups, put on singing and dancing shows, wrote stories and poems.. and then as I got older I competitively danced. Basically anything that warranted attention!
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE The Palace, Friday December 21 You can plot the change in atmosphere over the Christmas period: the relaxed planning of early December, the gradual ramping of intensity in mid-December, the spike in frenzy as Christmas approaches, and days and nights are spent enduring corporate and domestic festive events, and the inevitable psychotic department store episodes as external pressures and suffocating marketing campaigns take their toll on usually ordinary people. Such excitement could be observed in the city as Brian Jonestown Massacre descended on Melbourne for the fourth time – or was it the fifth –in the last ten years. The band’s hand-picked support act, The KVB, was mid-way through its set when we finally navigated The Palace’s confusing logistics. With a blend of shoegaze, garage and multi-sensory psychedelia, The KVB was the perfect start to the evening. This time they appeared in Australia with minimal buildup; next time, you suspect many more people will know who they are, and why they’re worth experiencing. It’s almost unavoidable to experience a Brian Jonestown Massacre outside of the band’s train wreck origins: the volatile intra-band dynamic, apocryphal tales of on-stage violence, emotional abuse, narcotic excess, with each dramatic moment epitomised by the brilliant, talented and troubled Anton Newcombe. Yet these days, Brian Jonestown Massacre is a relatively tame beast. Newcombe is notionally sober and composed – with his black-rimmed glasses, Newcombe could be reading poetry in a Parisian cafe. Matt Hollywood barely glances at his band mates; how much does he enjoy playing with BJM, or is it just a job he doesn’t want to quit again for a while? Joel Gion is the proverbial big kid, and a picture of enigmatic charisma; Gion doesn’t so much hit his tambourine as offer it a glancing blow. Ricky Maymi offers the odd guitarist’s grimace, and moves – albeit in subtle fashion – in simpatico with the music. There are riffs a-plenty – it may be free-forming psychedelia, but at the heart of every Brian Jonestown Massacre song lies a dirty R&B lick, or a pop melody that’d send an entire generation of ‘60s peaceniks into a state of antiestablishment madness. Anemone, Prozac v Heroin, the obligatory Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth: you can stand there and let it all soak in, and you’re in a better place than anywhere else around. But while there’s a facade of peace, love and understanding onstage, you sense that like Japan and Russia’s loose agreement to conclude World War II hostilities, or the sticky tape and string ceasefire that sort-of ended the Korean War, the Brian Jonestown Massacre could explode into public animosity at any moment. Maybe that’s what – even more so than Newcombe’s songs, and the talented musicians who’ve stuck with him over the years – sustains interest in the Brian Jonestown Massacre. But is there a point at which the mythology is exhausted, and Brian Jonestown Massacre becomes just another psychedelic band? It wasn’t tonight – you couldn’t fault anything the band did tonight – but will it be the next visit? Only LOVED: All of it, really time will tell. HATED: The lack of courtesy in sections of
TAYLOR SWIFT Etihad Stadium, Saturday December 14 Taylor Swift concerts should be renamed ‘Life Lessons With Swifty’. Despite her Saturday show being her last 2013 show for her RED world tour, it didn’t stop America’s Sweetheart from offering her profound words of wisdom to her many adoring fans. “I write songs so I can understand what I’m going through and how I can get through it,” Swifty confesses, while strumming her guitar and divulging she was chronically bullied through high school. “It’s not our job to make people like us.” Rather rich coming from the Pennsylvania-born musician and actress who owns seven Grammies, is worth $55 million, has her own perfume brand (which smells terrible), and is performing to over 47,000 people at Etihad Stadium. Fans, mostly tweens with better fashion-sense than me, hold homemade signs wrapped in cerise fairylights that spell ‘RED’ or ‘Happy 24th Birthday Taylor Swift’, commemorating the star’s birthday yesterday, which Swifty celebrated with fellow royal Lorde and local friends. RED opened with ascending number State of Grace. It set the atmosphere for the concert, as Swift charmed the all-screaming crowd with her fierce energy and modest disposition. Lyrics “And I never saw you coming/And I’ll never be the same” seemed twisted; rather than being a dedicated to a windswept romance, they became an allegory to her fans that thanked them for being there. Swifty wouldn’t be where she was without her fans. She quickly moved to fast-paced Holy Ground and sharply-chorused Red, before venturing off-set for a quick costume change. This became the concert trend, but Swifty catered for it with video montages that introduced the next song, performances from her dancers (who were amazing), and instrumental solos from her band. Whoever was in charge of the costuming and set design deserves a fucking medal — sparkly dresses, steam-punk inspired props and costumes, an extravagant winding staircase with three sets of stairs that joined to one platform, two stages (the larger, main stage and the smaller, acoustic ‘B’ stage) that Swift alternated between, and the neutral colour palette that emphasised shades of red Swifty adorned. It really was a princess’ dream. LOVED: Positive atmosphere and Neon It’s really hard to hate Taylor Swift. She’s a righteous performer: natural, Trees supporting ingenious and captivating. Honestly, apart from having to watch people HATED: Why did Guy Sebastian have to dressed as cupcakes dance (yes, that really happened), Swifty is a must see live. be a support too? AVRILLE BYLOK-COLLARD
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HELMET The Hi-Fi, Wednesday December 18 Batpiss took to the stage without a hint of fuss, belting out their post/punk/boozy tunes and warming up the crowd nicely. These dudes are far more suited to playing a dingy dive bar at 1am, but they managed to fill out The Hi-Fi stage and performed amicably. Next up was Warped. It seems Helmet weren’t the only ones who were going to transport us back to the ‘90s. Warped started slowly, but after three or so songs they found their rhythm. By now the crowd had swelled considerably with Warped only getting better with each song. And then came Helmet. Led by founding member Page Hamilton, they grabbed their instruments, plugged in and before we knew it, had belted out five songs without a breath. Opening with Iron Head, like Warped, they took a couple of songs to really find their groove, but once they did they nailed it and once again we were back in the ‘90s. Eventually Hamilton said a quick “Hello” but then it was straight back into it; belting out classics Wilma’s Rainbow and Unsung. As the set went on, they played tighter with the crowd a sea of heads bopping up and down to every groove. Hamilton then entertained us with his banter; hating on the Abbott government, jokingly saying that Sydney and Adelaide were better crowds (as if ) and telling anyone who requested Meantime, to politely fuck off. Just on the hour, they left the stage but within a flash were back. The question on everyone’s lips was would he play it? He said he wouldn’t. But then he mentioned it was the last show of the tour and suddenly I had hope. And then at five to midnight, Hamilton said thanks and goodnight and launched into Meantime. And for that three or so minutes, it was 1995. JAMES NICOLI
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METZ Howler, Thursday December 5 Howler is still very shiny and new. In fact, one long time publican commented that one of his bar tenders astutely observed that the place has yet to achieve the pungent odour that all beer serving venues are destined to acquire. But while the dank and the dirt is not present at the venue (which is quickly establishing itself as the north sides Corner Hotel) the distorted guitars and raw noise produced by the bands on the bill provided all the sonic grit you could ask for. Tonight openers Deep Heat sounded full and brimming on the large stage. These guys benefit from the vocal strengths of three diverse singers and have a knack for nailing propulsive riffs with a noisy indie rock skeleton but defiant punk core. Just as Deep Heat lull you into their driving momentum, they break out with gang vocals that keep their sound dynamic and engaging. Batpiss deftly craft sludgy noise rock with punk ferocity. Their ethos is simple – get up, play hard, play honest. It’s a no bullshit affair that is seeing them make a sizeable impact on the Melbourne scene. Crowd favourites Loose Screwss and Drag Your Bodyy produced p synchronised head movements from the entire room and by the time the boys reached Burn Below, the collective co heart of the room was way up. A perfect set up for the approaching Metz set. You You ou don’t doon’t expect songs with titles like Get Off, Wasted, and Knife In The Water to be delivered lacklustre; you expect d them the h m to to be be rammed rammed home with w caustic precision. Tonight Metz brought the sonic carnage that is so well captured on their de d deb debut. eebut. ut. ut t. The aforementioned aforeme songs opened the set and their dirgey wall of sound attack sounded just as nasty as on the reco record. ccor co od d.. Swe S Sweat at was dripping from guitarist Alex Edkins’ forehead in a continuous steam by the time Metz reached the halfway hal alfwa al fw way p wa point, oint, ttearing through killer album opener Headache followed by the vicious and frantic Rats. As the crowd ex exploded xplo loded in movement for Sad Pricks, irony was afoot as the bouncer pulled an over enthusiastic lo dancer out of the crowd, th hee ccr h cro r wd, tthe latter grinning, the former surly and sullen. The Damneds’ Neat, Neat, Neat was an unexpected surprise, unhinged and aggressive but not completely stripped of its’ pop prowess. The su urp u rp prise, sounding pr sou Toronto trio closed fiercely with Wet Blanket, leaving the crowd with the kind of satisfaction that only close sseed proceedings sed proceed a good rock show provide. w ccan an provi KRYSTAL MAYN MAYNARD AY A AYN YN NARD NA
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