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APOLLO BAY Apollo Bay Music Festival is widely revered for its eclectic mix of artists; and to commemorate its 22nd birthday this year, the festival has moved its dates to late February to help celebrate the end of the summer festival season. The festival will see voal gymnast and Aussie sweetheart Kate Miller-Heidke perform alongside The Davidson Brothers, Dallas Crane, ARIA winner Shane Nicholson, Hollie Smith, The Melbourne Rhythm Project, Yirrmai & the Yolngu Boys, April Maze, Five Mile Town, soul-reggae outfit Kooyeh, Sex on Toast, Nick Barker, country alternatives Raised by Eagles, Lester The Fierce, Tully on Tully, neo-gypsy melody-makers The Imprints, The Harlots, Franky Walnut and Papua New Guinean neo-soul star Ngaiire. Management is currently organising complementary stunts shows and activities for the festival, which will be announced shortly. Apollo Bay Music Festival will run from Friday February 28 – Sunday March 2.

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Soundwave just got even bigger! As if the lineup wasn’t already huge enough, they’ve added Richie Sambora, Filter, I Killed The Prom Queen, The Ghost Inside, Authority Zero, Darkc3II, The Defiled and The Dangerkids to the bill. Soundwave 2014 takes place on Friday February 28 at Flemingon Racecourse.

Eyehategod have cancelled their upcoming Australian tour, which was set to kick off in Perth. A statement from Heathen Skulls, the company behind the tour, reads: “It’s with much regret that Eyehategod’s January Australian tour is to be cancelled. With various complications relating to their flights, and not enough time left at check in to rectify the situation, the band wasn’t able to board their flight to Australia. Every effort was made to book the band new flights and get them out to Australia the following day, but at this late stage, with so little flights available, we have exhausted all possibility of salvaging the tour and getting the band back out to Australia. And we tried everything. Because of this, the band has now scheduled additional US dates to replace the Australian tour. Apologies to the band and all those inconvenienced, most notably their fans, Heathen Skulls would have liked nothing more than to have continued the tour, but unfortunately, at this late stage, this was not to be the case.” All refunds will be available via your point of purchase.

BEACHES

LOS CORONAS Spanish rockers Los Coronas have announced a Golden Plains sideshow. This will be the Hispanic band’s second appearance in Australia since their debut at the 2012 Pyramid Rock. Back home, Los Coronas have forged a name for themselves for their fierce intensity and contagious rhythms imbued with a ‘60s Californian surf sound. Los Coronas will be performing at the Corner Hotel on Friday March 14. Tickets are through the Corner.

The 9th Coopers AMP is proud to announce that Shortlisted band Beaches will perform at this year’s annual free ‘Shortlisted!’ event in Melbourne at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday January 26 from 6-8pm. The event willl be co-hosted by singersongwriter Ella Hooper and Tim Levinson, aka Urthboy. ‘Shortlisted!’ is an open to the public free event where the complete list of nine Shortlisted artists for the 9th Coopers AMP will be announced, and the audience will be treated to two hours of free music headlined by the 8th Coopers AMP winners Hermitude, as well as Beaches, Jen Cloher and Dialectrix! More performing artists will be announced in the lead up to the event. For more info head to thecoopersamp.com.au.

QUANTIC Eclectic master Quantic, will be returning to Melbourne before his WOMADelaide appearance this March. Known for crossing genres and marrying them together into hypnotic tunes saturated with soul, jazz and electronica, Holland has been in the music business for over a decade now, performing under various aliases, including The Limp Twins and The Quantic Soul Orchestra. He is currently working on his fourth album for Quantic (his 15th album since 2000), an album that explores influences from Haitian Compas to Ethiopian Jazz to Salsa Dura from his Colombian homestead, and Detriot techno. Quantic will spin the beat on Friday March 7 at Boney. Tickets are available through Boney.net.au.

BEG, SCREAM & SHOUT Following a smashing success last year, The Shadow Electric will return next month with Beg, Scream & Shout, a collaborative night between Melbourne film makers and artists. This year The Shadow Electric are boasting a night of three experimental project collaborations over two stages. Opening the night will be Ben Montero with his animation-drenched psychedelic sunset show, while a new collaborative effort between TAM Project, Tess Hamilton, The Beg Scream and Shout collective, and local musicians, including avant-garde Glasfrosch and Gerard Well, will continue the night into the wee hours. Brendan Harwood’s Lightmares project will close the night alongside experimental R&B artist Fatti Francis. Beg, Scream & Shout will be held at The Shadow Electric on Thursday February 13. Tickets are available through The Shadow Electric.

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DRIVE LIVE Melbourne community radio station PBS 106.7 FM have announced the first set of acts set to play the 2014 installment of their annual PBS Drive Live. Taking over PBS HQ for this year’s Drive Live event are Grammy nominated Hiatus Kaiyote, powerpop-punks Bad Vision, Geelong rockers The Murlocs, recent Meredith debutant D.D Dumbo, synth outfit Forces, Courtney Barnett and The Stevens. Every night for a full working week three acts will take over three studios during one drivetime show. More acts are set to be announced. PBS Drive Live 2014 kicks off Monday February 3. Information about being a part of the live studio audience is still to come.

SAMPOLOGY

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Sampology kicks off 2014 with an Australia tour, coinciding with a special new track Show Me released January 31. Transforming golden nuggets of hypercolour Bollywood cinematography from the 70s and 80s into a futuristic experience, Beyond Bollywood will delve into a number of twists, turns and audio visual curveballs, to yet again deliver a bold, colourful, hilarious and highly engaging AV party experience. Featuring favourite tracks and visuals juxtaposed as only Sampology does, combined with new and unreleased tracks, Beyond Bollywood also features a bunch of fresh content collected and created on his recent first tour to India. Tix available from moshtix.com.au

Vista Chino have secured a Melbourne Big Day Out sideshow. Led by John Garcia and Brant Bjork, Vista Chino (or Kyuss by any other name) are on their way to unleash their Californian desert fury across the country. Catch ‘em at 170 Russell on Wednesday January 22.

PLACEBO Ahead of their Soundwave appearance this February, Placebo have announced two national sideshows. With a career that spans over 17 years, the London three-piece have a back catalogue that includes seven studio albums — including the debut Placebo, which was voted the 87th of All Time Top 100 Albums by Q Magazine, and 2009 album Battle for the Sun. Placebo will be playing at the Palais Theatre on Thursday February 27, with tickets available through Ticketmaster.

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TO HELL WITH HONOUR Perth five-piece To Hell With Honour will be making their east coast debut this March in honour of their current single Not Now Not Ever. Praised for their ferocious sound, To Hell With Honour are a relatively young band, having formed in late 2012. Their debut EP Conscious, which was recorded by Jay Huxtable and mixed by Matthew Templeman, was released last August to a positive reception at Perth’s Rosemount Hotel. Conscious boasts influences from metal masters Lamb of God, Unearth and Iowa legends Slipknot. To Hell With Honour will perform at The Reverence on Saturday March 22.

THE GROWLERS Californian rockers The Growlers have announced that they'll be heading Down Under for the first time, this March, for a string of east coast headline shows. The travelling psychedelic circus will play shows in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney and Melbourne following on from the release of their Gilded Pleasures EP late last year. The Growlers will be taking over The Tote on Sunday March 8.

Electronica mastermind Elizabeth Rose has announced a new tour in promotion of her new EP, Elizabeth Rose, released today. Heralded as one of Australia’s mostwatched acts, it’s hard not to have heard of producer/ songwriter/singer Elizbeth Rose. The Sydney-born talent is responsible for catchy tunes such as Ready and Again; and her excellent single The Good Life, a fushion of smokey R&B rhythms layered with popping beats and rich pop melodies akin to that of Aaliyah or Brandy. Elizabeth Rose will be performing at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday March 15. Tickets are availble through the Northcote. Elizabeth Rose is on sale now.

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Joining over 100 national and international acts, Port Fairy Folk Music Festival have announced the final 40 acts added to its stellar lineup. Headling the list are Irish acts Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill. On the national front, Aussie artists include Beccy Cole, Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, Normie Rowe & The Playboys, The Damian Howard Band and Ginger & Tonic. They join the likes of The Greencards, Justin Johnson, Pieta Brown, The Stray Sisters, Celia Pavey and Quarry Mountain Dead Rats. The four day festival kicks off on Friday March 7, with the final round of tickets on sale now through the festival’s website.

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SEXY/HEAVY Melbourne hard rock band Sexy/Heavy are launching their album Battlesushi on Friday February 7 at Cherry Bar. To win one of five vinyl LPs, with digital downloads, please tell us who you think the sexiest ‘heavy person’ in the world is?

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Stone Temple Pilots featuring Chester Bennington (from Linkin Park) are back in Australia next month for Soundwave and have just locked in a sideshow. Since their debut release Core in 1992, which earned them a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for their single Plush, the San Deigo band have paved the way for other bands that combined ‘70s hard rock with the alternative form of the ‘80s and ‘90s. They have been cited as influences for many bands over the years, including The Academy Is..., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Evanescence and Chester Bennington, who replaced longtime vocalist Scott Weiland in 2013. Their current EP High Rise received high praise worldwide, and their single Out of Time was named as the official song for Hell in a Cell 2013, WWE’s annual pay-per-view wrestling event that built dramatic storylines between professional anti-heroic and heroic wrestlers. Stone Temple Pilots will be performing at the Palais Theatre on Wednesday February 26. Tickets are through Ticketmaster.

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Need an indie rock fix, stat? Look no further than The Fixators and their latest EP Colourblind, released only a few hours ago. After taking Australian audiences by storm last year and winning the Fitz Band Competition, the band will be once again gracing the east coast with their high-energy stage presence. Catch ‘em at The Penny Black on Friday March 14 or on Saturday March 15 at Playground.

The all ages no-alcohol no-smoking Push Over festival at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Monday March 10 has launched two competitions. The first is a tie-up with triple j Unearthed which allows a young band to play the festival alongside Deez Nuts, Dream On Dreamer, Chance Waters, Remi, Pez, The Smith Street Band In Hearts Wake, Buried in Verona, Bam Bam, Johnny Third, Cub Sport, Luca Brasi, Saviour, Sierra, The Bennies, Lucianblomkamp, Make Them Suffer and Outright. To be in it to win it, get your music up online at triple j Unearthed before Sunday February 18 and find out later in the month if you’ve won. The second competition involves getting two VIP tickets to go backstage and hang out with The Smith Street Band before they go on. The visit will include you smashing the Push Over Llama Pinata with them. The folks at Polaroid Australia have also thrown in a a Z340 Polaroid camera with 30 pack film (value: over $470) so you can take photos of yourself backstage. To enter, go to the Push Over Facebook page and let them know why you should win. Be as creative as possible. Send a video, a song, a drawing. Entries close February 16. Push Over 2014 is presented by non-profit youth organisation The Push, triple j and supported by FReeZA, Victorian Government, Arts Centre Melbourne, Polaroid, Plakkit, and Shout Out Loud.

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HITS & PITS Mini-touring festival Hits & Pits Festival will be returning this May to knock your socks off with punk and ska. The first lineup features Strung Out, Face to Face, The Casualties, Ten Foot Pole, Death By Stereo, Big D & the Kids Table, pop-punk favourites Masked Intruder and Heartsounds. Hits & Pits Festival will be held at The Hi-Fi on Saturday May 17. Tickets are through Oztix or The Hi-Fi. Stay tuned for the second announcement, coming soon.

BLUESFEST Bluesfest have added ten more acts to their already massive 25th anniversary lineup. Leading the announcement is Joss Stone, followed by Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows Chain, Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience, Dyson, Stringer & Cloher, The Beards, Glenn Cardier and the Sideshow, Nahko & Medicine For The People, Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Cambodian Space Project and Matthew Curry. Bluesfest 2014 takes place over the Easter long weekend, Thursday April 17 Monday April 21 at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm. Visit their website for more information.

GLEN HANSARD Oscar-winning Irish singer / songwriter Glen Hansard is returning to Australia to play his first shows since touring with his band the Frames in early 2013. They weren’t so much concerts as events, still talked about with due reverence, with Hansard (and band) leading the audience, Pied Piper-like, out of the Concert Hall and into the streets at the close of a marathon three-hourplus performance. Dont miss out when he stops in at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday March 14 . Tickets available from melbournerecital.c

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February 20, 1972 and Led Zeppelin, just four years into their fabled existence, are the global epicentre of hard rock; fusing metal, blues and folk to create the Hammer of the Gods. And for the first and only time, they played live in Melbourne at the Kooyong Tennis Centre. To celebrate this momentous event, The Corner Hotel will host a unique celebration of Led Zeppelin with an exclusive show from an all-star one-off local band, reliving the 1972 Kooyong show track-fortrack. We are giving away a double pass to the show on Friday January 31.

BONJAH Last Year was a huge year for Bonjah, having one of the top 100 most played songs on triple j with their radio hit Evolution, playing sold out shows nationally and their Like A Version cover of Lorde’s Royals gaining half a million views on YouTube. After a couple of shows back in their native New Zealand, Bonjah head straight back to Ding Dong to celebrate Australia Day this Sunday January 26 and we have a few double passers up for grabs.

TWIN BEASTS Twin Beasts (formerly the Toot Toot Toots) will be hosting Australia Day at one of their favourite venue’s, the John Curtin, with two of their favourite bands; Pony Face and Ohms. TB will play a bunch of tracks off their forthcoming album Badlove which is due out early 2014, and a bunch of older stuff you already know. The night will continue into the wee hours with a Twin Beasts DJ set and we’re giving away a couple of double passes.

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HOPE DRONE American post rockers Caspian are releasing their third full-length Waking Season on Adelaide independent label Hobbledehoy Records both digitally and as a deluxe vinyl 2LP (in stores March 7, 2014). In support, they have announced their first ever Australian tour dates for this March where they’ll play the Evelyn on Friday March 21. Tickets available via Oztix.

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With tickets sold out in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane,The Kite String Tangle is pleased to announce the addition of a new Melbourne date to his February run of shows. He has added a third show at the Northcote Social Club, with the artist having sold out two shows at the venue in 7 days. You can now catch him on Monday February 17 but you’d want to get in quick. Tickets from northcoteosocialclub.com.

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Many doomsayers are writing rock’s obituary. But if you’re under the impression that rock is dead, just check out Palace Of The King’s second EP – Palace Of The King II: Moon & Mountain. We have two double passes to their launch show at Cherry Bar this Australia Day, Sunday January 26 as well as a signed copy of the EP up for grabs.

To celebrate the release of Hope Drone’s debut LP on OSCL, a string of shows along the East Coast of Australia have been organised, taking in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Hope Drone’s sound has been described as a volatile mix of black metal, post-rock and ambient noise, akin to bands such as Wolves In The Throne Room, Liturgy and Deafheaven. See them destroy the Bendigo on Saturday February 8 with supports Whitehorse, Old Love and Gurner.

After releasing their debut album Strange Paradise last November Mezzanine are once again taking their live show on the road in February. The band will be heading around Australis for five dates in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Bunbury and Fremantle. Joining them on different stops of the tour are the likes of Maids, Jonesez and Oslow. As an extra special incentive all shows are free entry. Mezzanine will take over The Retreat on Friday February 14 with support from Jonesez.

HOW YA GARN’ Fuckin’ get some tinnies into ya mate, a new band room festival titled How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad is coming to Melbourne. Revealed today, the lineup features Sheriff, The Peep Tempel, Sun God Replica, Batpiss, Japanese Blues Cowboy - George Kamikawa, Legends Of Motorsport, The Sinking Teeth, Made For Chickens By Robots, I Am Duckeye, Skyscraper Stan, The Little Sisters, Kaleidoscope, Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood, The Strange, Spacejunk, Tom Dockray and Leopard Slugg. How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad takes place at the John Curtin on Saturday February 8. Fuckin’ get around it.

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MARTHA DAVIS AND THE MOTELS

The long wait is finally over so come join Martha Davis and the Motels on the emotional roller-coaster that has brought her back to the country of her greatest success. Catch Martha Davis on Saturday March 15 at the Thornbury Theatre in what will mark the first time she has visited Australia since the Countdown Spectacular Arena Concerts of 2007 and the first time performing a full show since 1988. Tickets available from tombowler.com.au

MAIDS With a massive 2013 under their belts, Maids have announced they will be heading around the country for a national tour. After winning the triple j Unearthed contest last year and playing Fat As Butter Festival as well as support slots for Regurgitator, Redcoats and Stonefield, just to name a few, the Newcastle rockers are kicking off 2014 with a national tour of their own.You can catch them at The Rochester CastleÂ on Saturday March 1.Â

The Brunswick Music Festival is returning in 2014 for its 26th year with a lineup hosting a stellar cast of local talent and international acts.Â Announced this morning, an eclectic mix of artists have joined the 2014 festival, including Blair Dunlop, David Bridie and Frank Yamma, FourPlay String Quartet, Jamie Macdowell and Tom Thum, La Sagra della Musica feat. Kavisha Mazzela,Santa Taranta, La Voce Della Luna, Love Over Gold, Mama Kin, Melbourne Rhythm Project, Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, Mikelangelo and The Big Mouth Choir, Miles and Simone, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Trio, Rory McLeod, Southern Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; feat. Andy Baylor, Coral Lee and the Silver Scream, Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band, Moonee Valley Drifters and The Brunswick Old Time String Orchestra, SumSum, The Royal Jellies and Zulya and the Children of the Underground. The already announced acts are Alaska String Band, Altan, Antonio Serrano, Breabach, Funny Folk featuring Kransky Sisters and Mic Conwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Junk Band, Hanggai, Louis McManus Memorial Concert with The Purple Dentists and Saoirse and The Tiger Lillies.Â It all kicks off with the Sydney Road Street Party on Sunday March 2 and will continue until Sunday March 16. Visit their website for more information.

CHICKS ON SPEED With a career spanning 15 years, Chicks On Speed have successfully blurred the boundaries between music, art, fashion and new media performance, incorporating all of these features into their stunning live shows. Back in 2014 with what can only be described as media-art-pop-music, Utopia is the Chicksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest studio album, scheduled for release in March and featuring collabs with figures as diverse as Yoko Ono and Julian Assange. Founding members Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie, accompanied by electro-drummer Erica Lewis, will unveil new tracks from the album, inviting audience members to participate in the creative process onstage by live-composing and mixing audio-visual scenes via the Chicks on Speed iPad apps. Catch 'em at Howler on Thursday March 20. Big Scarey

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TRIPLE TREAT TOUR Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new year and, you know what that means - tastemakers around the globe suddenly spring into action to uncover the next round of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot in the music world. To save you some time, the first Triple Treat Tour for 2014 is here featuring three of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absolute finest emerging talent: Eves, Jesse Davidson and Jordan LĂŠser, hailing from Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney respectively. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re joining forces for the fourth installment of the TTT, a co-headlining jaunt around the country taking place in February/March. They hit the Workers Club on Saturday February 22 with tickets available form oztix.

MICHAEL PAYNTER Pop-rock singer-songwriter Michael Paynter has been hard at work in the studio, and has come out with new single Weary Stars ahead of an album of the same name, due out Friday January 31. Long-time touring muso and The Voice graduate, Paynter has spent much of his last seven years travelling the country, playing venues big and small and eventually signing on with Sony Music. Â Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now parted ways with the major label, but is gearing up for a national tour to launch Weary Stars. Catch him at The Toff In Town on Thursday February 13.

Tasmaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest music event, Panama Festival 2014 has added seven more bands to its debut bill including Melbourne indie-pop duo Big Scary. The announcement also includes the likes of Twerps, Ainslie Wills, Karl S. Williams and Spender. With a lineup already featuring acts including Charles Bradley, Husky, The Frowning Clouds, Saskwatch and Super Wild Horses, Panama Festival promises big things. The two day music and arts festivalÂ is strictly limited to 1,000 punters promising the small crowd the chance to avoid queues, bogans, brands and crowds instead offering great bands, cabarets, storytelling and candlelit bars. Panama Festival 2014 takes place on Saturday March 8 and Sunday March 9 in Lone Star Valley, North East Tasmania.

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INTERNATIONAL 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 VISTA CHINO 170 Russell Wednesday January 22 GHOST The Hi-Fi January 22 TORO Y MOI, PORTUGAL. THE MAN The Hi-Fi January 23 THE LUMINEERS The Palace Thursday January 23 GROUPLOVE, CSS The Hi-Fi January 23 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 24 GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW, DUDLEY PERKINS Prince Bandroom January 24 MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS Melbourne Zoo January 24 - March 8 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 GUDRUN GUT John Curtin Bandroom February 2 AUTRE NE VEUT Northcote Social Club February 4 DRENGE The Tote February 5 FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Palace February 5 YOUTH LAGOON Ding Dong Lounge February 5 KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS Corner Hotel, February 5, 6 GROUNDATION The Hi-Fi February 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 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Palais Theatre February 26 CLUTCH Prince Bandroom February 27 PLACEBO Palais Theatre February 27 SOUNDWAVE Flemington Racecourse February 28 SIX60 The Hi-Fi March 1 NEKO CASE Corner Hotel March 2 PUBLIC ENEMY Corner Hotel March 3, 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 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Forum Theatre March 7 QUANTIC Boney March 7 MIKHAEL PASKALEV Howler March 7 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 7 – 10 FAT FREDDY’S DROP Melbourne Zoo Twilights March 8 THE GROWLERS The Tote March 8 PANAMA FESTIVAL March 8, 9 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 9 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 LOS CORONAS Corner Hotel March 14 GLEN HANSARD Melbourne Recital Centre March 14 BILL MEDLEY Palais Theatre March 15 MARTHA DAVIS AND THE MOTELS Thornbury Theatre March 15 LIONEL RICHIE AND JOHN FARNHAM Rod Laver

Arena March 16 GANG OF FOUR Corner Hotel March 19 JURASSIC 5 Palace Theatre March 20 SEBADOH Corner Hotel March 21 CHICKS ON SPEED Howler March 21 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS Hisense Arena March 28 THE ROLLING STONES Rod Laver Arena March 28, Hanging Rock March 30 ROYAL HUNT Northcote Social Club April 2 ALLEN STONE Corner Hotel April 12 ERYKAH BADU Palais April 15 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Palace Theatre April 15 BETH HART Corner Hotel 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 INDIA.ARIE & JOSS STONE Palais Theatre April 17 JAKE BUGG Palace Theatre April 17 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND Palace Theatre April 18 SETH LAKEMAN Thornbury Theatre April 19 TRIXIE WHITLEY Northcote Social Club April 20 IRON AND WINE Forum Theatre April 22 THE WAILERS 170 Russell April 23 GREGG ALLMAN, GOV’T MULE Forum Theatre April 23 STEVE EARLE Forum Theatre April 24 SKID ROW, UGLY KID JOE Palace Theatre April 25 OZOMATLI Corner Hotel April 26 ARCTIC MONKEYS Rod Laver Arena May 9 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel May 28 ELLIE GOULDING Festival Hall May 31 JAMES BLUNT The Plenary June 8 BASTILLE Festival Hall June 15 THE CRIMSON PROJEKCT The Hi-Fi June 26

NATIONAL SARAH BLASKO St. Michael Uniting Church January 22 PETE MURRAY Trak Live Lounge January 22 SNAKADAKTAL Howler January 25 COLORWHEEL Workers Club January 26 DALLAS CRANE Corner Hotel January 26 FLYYING COLOURS Evelyn Hotel January 26 BEACHES Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 26 JEFF MARTIN AND SARAH MCLEOD Northcote Social Club January 29 MS MURPHY The Toff January 30 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 THE BENNIES Reverence Hotel February 7 MIAMI HORROR Corner Hotel February 14 RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL Echuca February 14 - 16 JIMMY BARNES Rochford Winery Yarra Valley February 15 MAJOR LEAGUES The Workers Club February 15 THE KITE STRING TANGLE Northcote Social Club February 15, 17 ROCK THE BAY FESTIVAL The Espy February 15 THE DEAD DAISIES Day On The Green February 15, The Espy February 16 FEEDTIME The Tote February 15, 16 NGAIIRE Northcote Social Club February 27 PIGEON Boney February 27 WORLDS END PRESS NGV February 28

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JOSH PYKE Melbourne Zoo February 28 THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS Northcote Social Club February 28, March 1 DAN SULTAN Corner Hotel March 1 SAMPOLOGY Brown Alley March 1 ILLY The Hi-Fi March 7 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL March 7 -10 PANAMA FESTIVAL March 8, 9 ROCK IN THE VINES FESTIVAL Big Hill Vineyard March 9 PUSH OVER Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 10 NEIL FINN Hamer Hall March 12, 13 PETE MURRAY Forum Theatre March 15 ELIZABETH ROSE Northcote Social Club March 15 THE HOLIDAYS Corner Hotel March 20 SUNNYBOYS Forum Theatre March 21, 22 LIOR Corner Hotel March 28 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

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FLUME By Lachlan Kanoniuk

In the course of a few short years, Harley Streten’s solo electronica project Flume went from its unassuming genesis as bedroom production, germinating throughout forums and Soundcloud links across the globe, before exploding into household name status – culminating with a swag of four ARIA Awards in 2013. Momentum has been steadily maintained, even escalated, since the all-conquering release of the self-titled debut, with Harley pulling off a gravitational slingshot between remixes and collaborations as Flume, while gaining a foothold with What So Not – his party-inclined project with Emoh Instead. After resoundingly bringing electronic music to the Australian masses, what comes next? Streten is speaking from the Gold Coast, while being chauffeured from the airport to the site of the first Australian instalment of Big Day Out 2014. He sounds calm and collected, having performed many a crowd magnet slot at festivals across the country since his barnstorming Splendour 2012 appearance. Even when discussing the Faustian implications of his next creative step, Harley regales a sense of control. “Right now, I’ll write something and come to this fork in the road, where I can either take path A – the path I would have taken four years ago when I was just writing in my bedroom – or path B. Path B means a lot more people will hear it, it’s a song that radio, triple j will play, I’ve kind of figured it out. So I have a great idea, then I have to decide whether to take path A where not many people will hear it, or path B where ten times the amount of people will hear it and make Flume that much bigger. The same song can be taken in two different places. It’s a bit dodge, I’ve never had that before where I’ve questioned it when it’s got to that point. But I’m trying to stick with plan A as much as possible.” The mixture of expectation, both perceived and from within the self, along with the freedom of success, provides a curious juncture for Streten. “I wouldn’t call it a burden. It’s more of a pressure to perform, basically. At the same time, it’s cool now, I’ve kind of got that freedom. My whole thing about this was to make enough money to live comfortably. Now I’m at that point where I can just write music. If I’m happy with the second album, then I’m happy with it. If it’s not as commercially viable as the first album then that’s cool, I’m not relying on it for money in the sense I’ve got enough money from the first one that I can just chill and write whatever.” Even with the self-titled debut album standing as a definitive success, its longevity compounded with an extensive reissue replete with a vocal-laden reworked mixtape, Harley feels no need to coast on his laurels. “Essentially it’s good to have a bunch of stuff under the hood that you’re happy with. Right now I don’t have a whole lot because I’ve been touring so much. What I’ll be doing on Wednesday is having some friends around to the studio – some people on the Big Day Out lineup, actually – and what we’re gonna do is this thing called ‘producer games’. It’s a great way of coming up with ideas, we’ll all sit down and say, ‘Right, we’ve got BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18

an hour to write a song’, then we’ll show each other our ideas. It’s a good technique I’ve started to use, to get the brain working.” As well as planning to brainstorm with fellow Big Day Out artists, Harley spent some time in the studio at the beginning of 2014 with dubstep icon Skrillex. “It ended up where I gave him some What So Not stuff, then he gave me stuff he was working on. Then we’d go into our own worlds, then come back with everything flipped and changed. We pretty much just remixed each other’s stuff.”

“RIGHT NOW, I’LL WRITE SOMETHING AND COME TO THIS FORK IN THE ROAD, WHERE I CAN EITHER TAKE PATH A – THE PATH I WOULD HAVE TAKEN FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS JUST WRITING IN MY BEDROOM – OR PATH B. PATH B MEANS A LOT MORE PEOPLE WILL HEAR IT, IT’S A SONG THAT RADIO, TRIPLE J WILL PLAY, I’VE KIND OF FIGURED IT OUT.” The past year has seen that certain focus on the collaboration side of things, most notably with What So Not and the recent three-track Drop The Game EP from Flume and Chet Faker. As Harley states, these are still extracurricular outlets to that of Flume. “They’re definitely on the side. The Chet Faker thing is just a fun thing that happens when it happens, there’s no quota saying we need to put out this much music this year. Then What So Not is close to me, I want to put out a certain amount of music with that. I kind of want this year to be the year of What So Not – I’ll be pushing it pretty hard. We’ll be taking that over to the

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US and seeing if we can expand it.” A collaboration with one of the biggest crossover success stories of recent times, New Zealand pop ruler Lorde, was hinted at over Twitter, teasing the prospect of “bangerzzz” on the horizon. “We’re always chatting on email,” Harley reveals. “If I write something I’ll shoot it over, and vice-versa. We’ve got a few bits and pieces, and there’s totally the possibility of something happening in the future.” As for long-term aspirations, Harley is resolute in his commitment to honing his craft, aiming for behind the scenes handiwork away from the spotlight. “I’d like to do some ghost production. I’m holding off until later down the track when Flume is superestablished, a couple of albums in,” he muses. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but I feel like I have to make most of the opportunities right now. No specific names, but in general I wanna be the guy that someone like Drake will call up and say, ‘I’ve got this beat that’s not quite there’, then I’d spend a day or two on it, send it back, collect royalties. That would be sweet. I would dabble in that now if offered, but I wouldn’t want to go all out until another five years, once the Flume thing is super-established. I guess I’m building a portfolio of work now, so when I do wanna do it, I can smash it.” Anticipation will no doubt be riding high for Flume’s second full-length release, with Harley readying to ease into writing and production, laying out the groundwork in his mind. “I haven’t done much, but what I can tell you is that there’ll be more live instrumentation. Mainly strings, really. I love strings, and now I have the freedom to record orchestras and that kind of thing. There’ll definitely be that in there, but still super electronic. But that’s kind of it thus far. It would be nice to have it by the end of the year, but I don’t think that’s realistic. There are times when creativity is high, there are times when it’s low. I could have two months where I’m super creative and smash out 12 tracks, or maybe I won’t. I’ve left it completely open, rather than have a set time,” he reasons. “I want to do it when it’s right, not rush it.” Flume’s live show has proved to be a resounding success, stepping up mid-2013 with the Infinity Prism lighting fixture in sizable sold-out appearances. Airing a strain of malcontent, Harley feels the need to push things further in the live setting for the next LP. “I’m not happy with the performance side of things. It works, it’s easy for me, but I’d like to take it somewhere else. I’m not quite sure where, exactly. I’d like to have other people onstage with me. I know that’s a logistics nightmare in terms of adding bits and pieces, but I want to write this next album and make the call on what the live side of things would be. But it will be different to what I’m doing today. Something like the ARIAs performance wouldn’t be feasible, I couldn’t bring that around North America. There’s not going to be strings in every track, it’s a bit of a theme I’ve been buzzing on lately. A drummer would be really cool, something like SBTRKT has, his setup is pretty sweet.” FLUME will be heading over our way to play the Big Day Out festival alongside Snoop Dogg, Major Lazer, Flosstradamus and many, many more at Flemington Racecourse this Friday January 24.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN 12 Years A Slave has been taking out critics awards left, right and centre. Therefore, it’s no surprise that following its Golden Globe win last week that this historical drama will be a hot ticket when it’s screened at Moonlight Cinema. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch and Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years A Slave illustrates the tale of Solomon Northup, an African American who is abducted then sold into slavery. Harrowing, majestic and exquisitely performed, one can understand why it has nine Oscar nominations. 12 Years A Slave will be screened at the Moonlight Cinema on Saturday January 25.

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ON STAGE Are you ready for some female sassiness? Opening this week at the Wesley Anne as part of Midsumma Festival, will be the latest production from Black Apple Theatre (Two weeks with the Queen, Songs: A play with music), Look at the Funny Lady, a comedy that is a little more Batman less Robin. Starring an all-female, youngand-emerging cast, Look at the Funny Lady will give ladies the chance to be the jester, combating the comical inequality that pervades modern theatre. Look at the Funny Lady will be performed at Wesley Anne from Thursday January 23 – Saturday January 25 and from Thursday January 30 – Saturday February 1.

ON DISPL AY If you’ve been in the city recently, it would be hard not to notice the rhinoceros gracing the pavement of Federation Square. It’s just one of the most recent works commissioned by Federation Square following the success of public artists Gillie and Marc’s hugely popular exhibition Paparazzi Dogs last year. Entitled Run for your Life, the interactive installation is about helping raise awareness of the endangerment of rhinos all around the world. Last year marked the extinction of the Western Black Rhino with over 600 rhinos murdered. The installation features three bronze rhinos that ‘greet’ bystanders with real rhino noises, and Gillie and Marc’s iconic hybrid dogman and rabbitgirl ride the largest rhino, who measures at one tonne. Run for your Life will be on exhibition at the upper forecourt of Federation Square until Friday March 14.

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The Melbourne Theatre Company will be reimagining one of playwright Sir Noël Coward’s classic plays Private Lives, an effervescent comedy about marriage and infatuation, this month. Directed by MTC Associate Director Sam Strong (The Crucible, Madagascar, Other Desert Cities) and starring award winning Lucy Durack (Legally Blonde, Wicked) as Sibyl, Leon Ford (Constellations) as Elyot, Nadine Garner (City Homicide) as Amanda, and John Leary as Victor, Private Lives illustrates the tale of two newly-married divorcees who honeymoon in the same French hotel. Reunited since their divorce, Amanda and Elyot re-ignite their love and abscond to Paris, leaving their partners behind. Private Lives will run at Southbank Theatre from Saturday January 25 – Saturday March 8.

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RUSSELL HOWARD By Krissi Weiss He was voted Heat Magazine’s “Weird Crush Of The Year 2013”, he’s gone from struggling stand-up to super star comic, his show on Comedy Channel has had global success and he’s an economics graduate. Oh Russell Howard – your nice guy charm has won us over and thank Christ you’re not an economist. With a heady trajectory that seems unstoppable, Howard is doing an extensive tour next year bringing his brand new show, Wonderbox, to Australia via some massive stadium shows in the UK. None of this success, while enjoyable, seems to have gone to his head. He’s at home when we chat having a lazy morning and battling a dog that is dying for a walk and won’t take no for an answer. “This is reality, you know?” Howard begins. “The rest of the stuff is rubbish really since it’s just people expectations. The reality of life is that you spend a lot more time just sitting in your pyjamas staring into the eyes of a very disappointed animal and watching the telly than you do telling people stories. But I love it, I love it.” As the writer and presenter of Russell Howard’s Good News, he has spent a lot of time creating crafted comedy. He’s been away from the stand-up circuit for a while and the spontaneous creation that medium is renowned for. “The thing I love most about stand up is that it’s just an extension of your personality; it’s never really a chore,” he says. “I started doing it when I was 18 and I found this thing that I adored and luckily I just got better at it, it got bigger and now it’s this thing. When you first start out it’s this counter culture. You’re out nights, enjoying your night out but then when you become successful you have to assimilate back into the real world,” he trails off chuckling for a moment. “Like I’ve got a mortgage now. I’m a stand up with a mortgage.” With the Royal Albert Hall among his list of venues for Wonderbox, you’d think there would be a bit of pressure on Howard to create the stand-up show of all time but he acknowledges that pressure just comes in different forms. “It’s just a kind of sliding scale of pressure really,” he says. “I’ll spend the next six months

doing nothing but stand up in small venues, ironing out the creases and just making sure everything’s good. I really like stand-up for the reason that it just happens and then people remember nothing from it. It’s like this magical night where people can’t remember a single joke but they know they had a great time. TV can be rewound and rewatched and analysed but there’s a real intangibility to stand up.” On Comedy Central, Howard’s Good News is usually scheduled just before Tosh.0 and the contrast between the two shows is stark. They both use a clip-based format – Howard focusing on the news and Daniel Tosh focusing on random acquisitions from the internet – but the latter comes off as nasty while the formers remains edgy and yet somehow inoffensive. Howard and his fellow writers know how to push the envelope without dissolving into smut, fart jokes, and sexism. Tosh is the arrogant jock smashing beer bongs at a frat party while Howard comes off as the quick-witted party guest you don’t want to go home. His formula for avoiding base humour is pretty simple. “It’s always hard and this is just my approach but I try to think ‘Can I justify that?’” he says. “Like is it funny or is it just mean. I got in trouble earlier this year from this group – well not really trouble – but it was kind of scary. It was this group called the English Defence League but I could justify that because I thought I

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was on the side of justice.” (The joke in question came about after the EDL – a notoriously nationalistic and racist group – went to protest a peace rally and ended up fighting themselves.) While Good News is written and rewritten, with Howard having seen the show a number of times before it airs, he says he never watches it - except maybe once. “I was at my brother’s flat in London and I was channel hopping and the show came on,” he says. “It was the show I hadn’t seen for a while so I thought ‘OK I’ll watch it for a little while’ and it kinda made me laugh. Then my brother and his girlfriend came in and there isn’t a worse moment then having people walk in on you laughing at yourself. My brother was like ‘You are such a dick’. It wasn’t as though I’d been sitting there watching it the whole time, like I was settled in going ‘Oh god I’m funny, this guy is fun-ny.’” While his TV show is written with others, the standup will be a solo venture and Howard will be relying on his intuition. He explains that it has never been his method to try and run through his jokes in his lounge room or with friends. “It just doesn’t work to show it to people,” he says. “It’s like when you’re in a car and you’ve made a mix tape and the song comes on that you want the person to hear and you’re like ‘You gotta love this song’, and they never, ever do. Comedy is like sex and religion; you just can’t force it on people.” RUSSELL HOWARD will perform Wonderbox at The Athenaeum on Sunday May 18 and Monday May 19 and then at Hamer Hall on Tuesday May 20.

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THE SHADOW ELECTRIC

The Shadow Electric Open-Air Cinema has revealed a host of art-house, music, classic and retrospective films with the release of the second part of the 2014 cinema program. The program features some of the latest general release films, including Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall St, David O. Russell’s American Hustle and The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. It also pays tribute to legendary independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch with a series of rarely screened, classic films: Dead Man, Down by Law and Mystery Train, with many more highlights throughout. With DJs on the weekend, food trucks five nights a week, table tennis and frosty delicious drinks from the bar, The Shadow Electric has something for everyone this summer. Check out shadowelectric.com.au for the entire program. The Shadow Electric will be screening films until Sunday March 16.

ARTS HOUSE

Arts House have (finally!) announced their program for their first season of 2014. Starting the year from a cultural perspective, Arts House’s first event sees the company collaborate with Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival to present Little Black Bastard, a poignant story about hardship and achievement told by Indigenous elder Noel Tovey. Their second event will be another collaboration, this time with the Festival of Live Art. It will see Arts House transformed into hyperactive venues featuring 23 confronting live art performances, talks, suppers, sleepovers and dance-offs over four days, as well as host their largest performance todate: Tristan Meecham’s Game Show, which features a cast of 150 people. April will delve into the unknown with The LepidopstersL A Space Opera, while May will see the venue team up with Next Wave Festival to present Natalie Abbott, I’m Trying To Kiss You and Shian Law. Season one of Arts House will wrap up in July with a commemorative piece called LIVE WITH IT we all have HIV; a production which coincides with the 20th International AIDS Conference. Considered one of Australia’s most innovative developers and presenters of art, Arts House has been presenting multidisciplinary works, including live art, performance and installations since 2005. Season one of Arts House will run from Thursday February 13 – Sunday July 27. A full program can be found online.

CARBON FESTIVAL

Melbourne’s festival of style, culture and creativity is returning in 2014, today revealing the first round of speakers. International cultural icons Patrick Martinez, Stephen Malbon, Mark McNairy, Brent Rollins, Paul Devro and Mike O’Meally have all been revealed, and will take part in the various forums and panel discussions. CARBON will take over the RMIT Storey Hall Auditorium from Saturday March 29 - Sunday March 30.

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LATE CENTURY DREAM, NOEL GARDNER, PAVEL GODFREY, AND BRIAN HOWE $34.95 “Late Century Dream: Movements in the US

Indie Underground” looks in detail at a number of regional music scenes in the US independent music underground through the fertile years of the 1980s and 1990s, encompassing many different genres under the DIY banner.Featuring newly commissioned essays and extended appendices of new interview and oral material, “Late Century Dream” takes a fresh, detailed look at both lesser-reported aspects of familiar movements like grunge, by way of progenitors such as Green River and Mudhoney, and other lesser-known but inﬂuential groups such as TAD and Skinyard.

BEYOND BELIEF , JENNA MISCAVIGE HILL - $22.95

Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org - the church’s highest ministry, speaks of her disconnection from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape. In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider’s proﬁle of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood’s brightest stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

MARIJUANA IS SAFER, STEVE FOX AND PAUL

ARMENTO - $22.95 In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert revisit the “Marijuana Is Safer” message that contributed to the campaign’s success--as the ﬁrst edition of this book predicted it would in 2009. In this updated and expanded edition, the authors include a new chapter on the victory in Colorado and updates on a growing mountain of research that supports their position. Through an objective examination of marijuana and alcohol, and the laws and social practices that steer people toward the latter, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol? For those unfamiliar with marijuana, Marijuana Is Safer provides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths.

TRANSITION FILM FESTIVAL

Transition Film Festival (TFF) returns to Melbourne this year with a stunning program that will highlight the power and commitment of documenters around the world. This year’s festival will begin on Saturday February 15 with free screenings at Federation Square before relocating to Cinema Nova for the week. Highlight films include: Aim High in Creation, a documentary about an AFI award-winning director Anna Broinowski’s attempt to stop fracking (digging shale rock for gas) in North Korea; Revolutionary Optimists details the story of slum children who bring portable water to their village for the first time; Growing Cities, a documentary about US students who try to solve the global food crisis, and Project Wild Thing, a film where a man tries to ‘sell’ nature to children. Transition Film Festival will begin at Federation Square on Saturday February 15, then run from Cinema Nova from Sunday February 16 – Sunday February 23. A full program can be found through transitionfilmfestival.com.

THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET

Ahead of their opening season commencement in February, The Australian Ballet have announced the addition of a new Resident Choreographer. It’s the first time that a new choreographer has been announced in over a decade, and the prestigious honour has been awarded to former Senior Artist of The Australian Ballet, Tim Harbour. The artist is known for his works Halcyon (2010), Sweedeedee (2012) and Best New Work in Dance Australia’s Critic Choice Awards nominee Sunken Waltz (2005). Harbour will be joining existing Resident Choreographers Stanton Welch and Stephen Baynes; he will be focusing on upand-coming 2014 production Bodytorque.DNA, as well as creating a brand-new work for the company’s Melbourne debut later this year.

MELBOURNE INDIGENOUS ARTS FESTIVAL

Since its inception in 2012, the Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival has celebrated and showcased exceptional work from an array of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders; this year MIAF returns for another year of Indigenous celebration. Hosted over 12 days, the festival will open at the Melbourne Recital Centre with MIAF ambassador and talented soprano Deborah Cheetham’s personal story of belonging, followed by a performance of Til the Black Lasy Sings. Opening the weekend will be a bunch of free live music at Federation Square, including performances from Archie Roach, Jessica Mauboy, Yung Warriors, Christina Ward and X-Factor’s Ellie Lovegrove. Indigenous reggae-rock legend Bart Willoughby will present We Still Live On at the Melbourne Town Hall, while Tiriki Onus will première his newest work: William and Mary, a story that illustrates the tale of activist Bill Onus and Marry Kelly through classical folk song, storytelling and theatrical opera. Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival will run from Wednesday February 5 – Sunday February 16 across Melbourne.

THE ASTOR THEATRE

Let’s be honest: if you’re a sucker for movies, the fact that the Astor Theatre just released its new calendar is probably making you scream in excitement internally. The program covers the next four months, February to May, and highlights include: Paul Walker tribute double feature The Fast and the Furious and Fast & Furious, the original sci-fi/action/thriller Total Recall with Schwarzenegger, dirty double feature starring James McAvoy as a junkie cop in Filth and Vanessa Hudgens in barely anything in Spring Breakers; and Baz Luhrman double feature with Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge. The Astor Theatre’s new program runs from Sunday February 2 – Saturday May 17. A full program can be found online.

VA VA BOOMBAH

Va Va Boombah Fat Burlesque presents a night of fun where all shapes, sizes, genders and peccadilloes are welcome this Australia Day. Influenced by New York’s Rebel Cupcake, with your favourite Boombahs DJing everyone’s favourite ‘90s tracks and secret shames. The rad fatties and queers will be upstairs, and downstairs Yah Yah’s are putting on another awesome event celebrating indigenous bands. Head down on Sunday January 26.

This week at Public Bar Comedy it’s another killer show with Josh Earl, the new host of Spicks & Specks, heading up a stellar lineup. Along with Josh you’re in for comedy legend Brad Oakes, the red hot Nick Cody, Tommy Dassalo from the Little Dum Dum Club, the hilarious Daniel Connell and the delightfully funny Hayman Kent all for just $5. Plus you never know who might drop past, last week The Project’s Charlie Pickering made a unannounced appearance. The air conditioning is cranking and the drinks are frosty. Come down and join one of the most appreciative audiences in Australia as Melbourne’s finest comedians let loose in the intimate Public Bar back room.

FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Adam Richard headlines and Luke McGregor hosts Five Boroughs Comedy debut this Thursday. It’s an amazing lineup of talent this week with those two, plus three secret guests. It’s all happening this Thursday, January 23 at 8.30pm, at Five Boroughs Comedy, 68 Hardware Lane (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Spleen are more packed than ever (and that’s pretty damned packed). This Monday the legendary Lawrence Mooney hosts, plus there’s Michael Chamberlin, Steele Saunders, James Dowdeswell, Daniel Connell, Brett Blake and heaps more. It’s on this Monday January 27, 41 Bourke St, CBD, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE This week at Commedia Dell Parte join Tegan Higginbotham as she hosts a lineup of comics featuring Daniel Connell, James McCann, Taco, Gary Sansome, Russell Wigginton and a special guest. The room still runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

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Formed around future husband and wife team of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne in 1993, this powerful seven-piece band seemed to deﬁne onstage dynamism before they even discovered an audience. Once beyond the obligatory lowbudget debut EP, they fused their complex instrumentation - piano, viola, French horn, accordian, harp, hurdy gurdy, etc. - to produce Funeral, one of the greatest debut albums in decades. This 1994 release, bolstered by hearty support from the likes of David Bowie, David Byrne and U2, catapulted Arcade Fire to worldwide success. Triumphant sets at the Coachella, Reading and Latitude festivals only served to continue the momentum.This book looks beyond the triumphs that gather in their story, to discover a band who are determined to retain the pure yet complex personal dynamic that always set them apart.

PEOPLE FIRST ECONOMICS, DAVID RANSOM - $22.95 An anthology of radical writing about the

economic crisis. “People First Economics” sees a historic opportunity to build a new model with humans rather than proﬁt at its heart. It features the work of twenty three leading authors and experts including Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Naomi Klein, and George Monbiot. People First Economics takes a long, hard look at the mess globalized capitalism is in, and shifts the focus back to where it belongs - putting the needs of people and the environment ﬁrst.

BABBLE, CHARLES SAATCHI - $24.95

Charles Saatchi has been one of the moving forces of the modern age. Founder of global advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, and the most important art collector of our time, he’s vigorously shaped the contemporary art scene while remaining a reclusive, even elusive, ﬁgure. Charles Saatchi - famously - refuses to be interviewed, but his 60+ essays in Babble give a revealing insight into his forthright and often controversial views on a wide-ranging number of topics. From ‘The hideousness of the art world’, ‘Being thick is no obstacle to being a successful artist’ and ‘Painting is a blind man’s obsession’; to ‘Socialising for party duds’, ‘Love may be blind, but marriage is an eye-opener’ and ‘If it can’t be explained by science, try a seance’.

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But there are things in our prehistory “about which we do not have the faintest idea,” writes best-selling author Erich von Daniken in his gripping new book, Remnants of the Gods. Stone structures erected by master builders, mysterious underground complexes, geometrically aligned stone circles, the breathtaking pyramids of Egypt--who built them? And, perhaps more importantly, where did these builders obtain such incredible knowledge? Erich von Daniken shows in detail how whole countries were surveyed thousands of years ago. Hundreds of Stone Age holy places are located at equal distances from one another, forming giant squares and triangles. How was all of this possible? Classic archaeology provides no answers to these questions. Worse still, it doesn’t even appear to be interested. ‘I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me’ Hunter S Thompson

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FINCH

By James Nicoli

How quickly things can change over the course of 12 months. If you’d asked guitarist and founding member Randy Strohmeyer a little over a year ago if he thought his band Finch would reform, play a string of sold-out reunion shows across the US and the UK and now be getting ready to jet on over to Australia for Soundwave, it’s quite likely he would have said ‘not a chance’. But that’s exactly what’s happened, with Finch enjoying a whirlwind existence over the past year and in many ways a second life. “The band had been broken up since 2010 when we called it a day and I don’t think any of us thought that we were going to play again,” Strohmeyer says candidly down the phone line from sunny California. But call it fate, luck or something else entirely, the stars did align and saw the original lineup, together with bassist since 2007 Daniel Wonacott, reunite and from there things happened quickly. “Initially our manager Andy called us all individually and was like, ‘Guys what do you think about getting back together and doing some What It Is To Burn shows?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, maybe we should do one (show), and see how it goes. But you have to talk to the other guys’,” recounts Strohmeyer. Released in 2002, the band’s debut album What It Is

To Burn, exploded onto the mainstream on the back of singles Letters to You and What It Is To Burn as well as riding the early 2000s emo explosion. It was a time when punk rock officially crossed over to the mainstream masses and bands such as Finch seemed to be in the right place at the right time. But after their initial success and the subsequent release of their second album Say Hello to Sunshine, Finch endured a tumultuous few years, with a number of lineup changes, record label splits, a hiatus and by 2010, the wheels had officially fallen off with the band calling it quits. But life has a funny way of throwing up the unexpected and in the case of Finch; one reunion show suddenly snowballed into many. “We booked the first show, we put it on sale and it sold out immediately,” remembers

Strohmeyer of the initial show in California. “Then we added another show and it sold out quicker. So we just added more shows at the Glasshouse (the venue in California) and then after that we were like, ‘Let’s go to London. “We booked a show at Brixton which is like the biggest place we had ever played. We put it on sale and went over there and it sold out and it was crazy. So we made a year of shows out of What It Is To Burn which has led us to where we are now. It’s just been amazing and super surprising and we’re so grateful.” Just a month out from returning to Soundwave to treat their Australian fans to the What It Is To Burn reunion show, Stroymeyer insists that he and his

bandmates are going to savour every last moment of their trip down under. “When we broke up before doing these reunion shows, not knowing what was going to happen really, I thought, ‘There’s so much cool shit we could be doing like Soundwave, that would be awesome if we could do it again’. We’re lucky enough that we can have that opportunity so we’re not taking it for granted, we’re just going to enjoy it, we love the people down there and the environment.”

band’s 2013. “The stuff that’s been happening in the last year and a half for us has been pretty much everything we’ve worked to achieve, and now we get to do it, so we’re all pretty stoked on that.” And it won’t end at Soundwave. In fact, the festival is just the beginning, as the rest of 2014 is looking just as busy for the band, with multiple tours soon to be announced. Plus there’s the small matter of their third album to be written. “Straight after Soundwave we’re straight over, back to the States to do the Emmure tour,” he says. “And then we’ve got another couple of tours in the works, that haven’t been announced yet. So just doing our best to keep busy, and slowly start writing for the next release, whenever that pops up. “We’ve got a fair amount of stuff already written,” he reveals, “so it’s just a matter of working until we’ve got enough material, and then putting our heads down and

jumping into the studio.” Any hints on the direction of the next Thy Art is Murder record, and what’s been influencing your writing? “We do try to keep our core elements in there,” he explains. “The main stuff, the fast, thrashy kind of stuff, but a lot of our new stuff has got a lot of ambient stuff behind it. I don’t know, whatever me and the boys decide to come out with! “Everyone’s got a pretty diverse musical spectrum. We listen to everything from Prince and Fleetwood Mac to Behemoth and Cannibal Corpse…we don’t want to have an album of ten of the same songs.”

The very nature of psychedelic rock leaves it open to local, and culturally-specific interpretation. While the members of Bo Ningen have now been in London for ten years – having moved there originally to study – their Japanese background is still relevant to the music they create. “In general, Western psychedelic music and Japanese psychedelic music are quite different,” Tsujii says. “Western psychedelia tends to be rooted in garage music. Because of the time gap between the Western psychedelia, and when Japanese psychedelic bands started, they’re quite different. There are other Japanese psychedelic bands with a folky kind of sound, but with stupid amounts of noise.” Bo Ningen puts itself between those two contrasting aspects of psychedelia. “We’ve been in London for ten years, it’s our base – essentially we’re a British band, but we’re Japanese. So we’re some sort of hybrid, I suppose.” Tsujii says Bo Ningen enjoys the challenge of improvi-

sation in a live environment, though it also relies heavily on the song format for structure. “It’s semi improvised – we now have songs, whereas we didn’t used to have songs,” Tsujii says. “But sometimes we don’t play the songs, if we’re doing some live improvisation for a soundtrack to a film or an art show. But normally the last part of the set is going to be a 15 or 20 minute free-form jam.” As can be seen in the YouTube clip for the concluding track to the St Leonard’s Church set, Bo Ningen revels in the libertarian psychedelic experience. “We want the audience to be free, and we don’t want to limit ourselves either,” Tsujii says.

FINCH play Soundwave Festival at Flemington Racecourse on Friday February 28 alongside Avenged Sevenfold, Mastodon, Placebo and more.

THY ART IS MURDER

By Rod Whitfield

Since it went national in 2007, Soundwave has been a very overseas-centric festival. That seems to be turning around slowly, increasing slightly every year, but in 2014 it’s still a bonus for a handful of Aussie bands to be given a coveted spot on the bill, alongside Green Day, Megadeth, Korn, Tesseract and all the rest. Speaking from Brisbane, skinsman from Sydney-based extreme/deathcore act Thy Art is Murder, Lee Stanton, tells us that it was somewhat of a surprise to get the call up. “We were stoked by it,” he enthuses. “We didn’t know we were put forward for it or anything, we just got the email saying, ‘You’re playing Soundwave’ and obviously a bunch of our friends’ bands are on there, In Hearts Wake, Deez Nuts, Dream on Dreamer, so it’s good to see them starting to get a few more Aussie bands on there as well.” One of the great things about Soundwave is the sheer diversity of the lineup, within rock, metal, punk and alternative music. From Thy Art is Murder to Simple Plan to Pennywise, to just about everything in between, it’s an extremely broad palette of sounds for the openminded punter. Lee agrees, and feels it is the way it should be. “Yeah, it’s good,” he says. “I like the real diverse lineups, you get that opportunity to see bands you probably

wouldn’t have seen normally, so it’s good.” For the uninitiated, Lee believes that the experience that his band provides punters is that of intensity, energy and interactivity between band and audience. “It’s heavy!” he states the obvious, laughing. “Just energy, the boys are moving around constantly up front, we try to put on a good show for everyone. Hopefully they (the crowd) goes off, and we can bounce back off them, and obviously the harder the crowd goes off the harder we go off.” It also means that 2014 is going to start exactly the way the band’s 2013 was, that is, with Thy Art is Murder heavily in demand. Lee tells us that recent times in the band’s eight year history have been insane, and that all their dreams are starting to come true. “Yeah, busy!” he emphasises, when asked to describe the

THY ART IS MURDER play Soundwave Festival alongside Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice In Chains and more, which takes place on Friday February 28 at Flemington Racecourse.

BO NINGEN

By Patrick Emery

In 2012, Japanese psychedelic band Bo Ningen took their acid-psychedelic rock show to St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, England. For a band with an established reputation for intense, kaleidoscopic live performance, playing in a religious establishment such as this took Bo Ningen to a different level, both spiritually and acoustically. “It was such a superb and brilliant experience for us,” recalls guitarist Yuki Tsujii. “As you can imagine a church is already quite holy, and physically because it’s got such high ceilings, it’s got a really nice room sound, with lots of reverb in it. So even if you don’t use any reverbs or effects, the sound is really massive. It was quite special to play there.” And it wasn’t just Bo Ningen that appreciated the uniqueness of the moment. “People just came down and sat watching the show, but by the end of it, without even realising it, the audience was standing up, and going crazy,” Tsujii says. “It was great to have that contrast with a normal gig.” Bo Ningen formed originally in 2007. Bass player Tagen Kawabe and guitarist Kohhei Matsuda met while playing on the same bill in London; Tsujii and drummer Monchan Monna joined later. “They talked about Japanese underground music, and decided to go to the studio and do an experimental, free-form type of record.” Independently, Tsujii was pondering playing and recording a similar style of music; serendipitously, a muBEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22

tual friend introduced him to Kawabe and Matsuda. “Tagen asked me to join the jam, so we had a ten hour jam session in the studio.” The original concept of Bo Ningen built on the band members’ various interests, which ranged from the acid rock of Jimi Hendrix through to the free-form jazz of John Coltrane to Tsujii’s interest in world music. “We all have different music that we’re interested in, but we’re all in the same direction,” Tsujii says. “Personally, I’m into world music, Tagen’s more into club music with heavy bass, Kohhei’s into free jazz and experimental stuff. So we’re all spreading it, but in the same direction.” Bo Ningen’s take on psychedelic music focuses on the simultaneous sonic experiences that can be opened up to the audience. “We used to put on our profile pages on Facebook that to us psychedelia was like standing between the loud and quiet sides,” Tsujii says. “And to watch us was like staring at both sides at the same time – it could be extremely loud, or very quiet. It doesn’t have to be crazy, or it doesn’t have to be properly structured music. It’s something between a border, and seeing it all at the same time. For us, that’s being psychedelic.”

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BO NINGEN play Big Day Out at Flemington Racecourse on Friday January 24 alongside Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Tame Impala and more. Their album Line The Wall is out now via Black Night Crash Records.

CLIENT LIAISON words/ lachlan kanoniuk

It’s the final day of a hellish week in Melbourne, with businesses, air conditioning units, and minds, shutting down during the preceding four 40-plus degrees celcius days. Harvey Miller and Monte Morgan, the two purported executive-level pleasure-seekers that make up primed pop outfit Client Liaison, have spent the majority of the heatwave putting together their third music video. “It’s been pretty intense,” Harvey states, sounding more chipper than you’d think the overbearing heat would allow. He and Monte are speaking from the studio, in between shooting footage for their upcoming single. “It’s called Free Of Fear,” Monte reveals in a drawl that belies his punchy, near-falsetto voice in song. “It’s a bit more dancey, it’s got classic house and dance components, stabbing pianos, a saxophone lead. People usually associate us with the late ‘80s, but you could say this is us maybe poking our head into the early ‘90s here.” The track is set to complete a disparate triptych of singles for the Melbourne duo, beginning with the hilariously sardonic ode to Australiana End Of The Earth, moving on to the genuinely heartfelt Feeling. “The strategy is to cover all bases. We have the classic Client Liaison sound, which is sort of that ‘80s pop with End Of The Earth, at 110BPM. Then we had our pop ballad song with Feeling, now this is the other component of Client Liaison, which is the more clubby sound,” Harvey reasons. “We’re definitely trying to push the genres, widen the goal posts a bit more.” While their rise has been steady since inception, gaining a fervent following through club and festival appearances, Client Liaison look set to break through in 2014 with the release of a full-length album. “The last two years have

been slow going, slower than we liked. But we were learning a lot, and now we have enough where we can release every two months, and then an album,” Harvey says. “We’re aiming for mid-year, hopefully before that.” The imagery of late ‘80s, early ‘90s Australiana excess, invoking the likes of Ansett airlines and Christopher Skase, proves to be a highly amusing garnish to what simply equates to good, catchy pop songs. “Unlike a joke, our humour doesn’t come from a punchline. It comes from absurdity, and satire,” Harvey explains. “It’s much more sophisticated. Luckily, I think people have been able to digest and understand that, and we’ve been humbled by that. No doubt there is a more conceptual side we like to explore. But at the end of the day, that’s all contained within the visual. If the songs didn’t have video clips, then no one would think that at all.” “There’s some in the lyrics,” adds Monte. “But no one really picks up on it till they see the clip. The song and the clip function together, but they also function individually.” “We like that layered reaction,” Monte says. “We don’t want people to say, ‘Oh, nice song’ and move on. Especially in pop where it can be easily dismissed. You want people to think, ‘what is this?’, for them to misunderstand, to reinterpret and eventually get it. It gives us the ability to appeal to a wide audience, especially older people, then young people can go out and dance to it. That staggered reaction. Some fans have turned up in full, ‘80s suits, which has been pretty cool.” The past few months have seen the duo team up with Worlds End Press for an in-studio collaboration, and most recently reworked Sydney outfit Retiree’s Rain. “Retiree

and Worlds End Press are close friends. It’s all about fun, we enjoy collaborating with people,” says Harvey. “We do it with our own tracks, we send it out and someone will put guitar over it. We love doing it, but then we also have to pull ourselves back and remind ourselves we have an album to finish. It can be a bit distracting.” “With Retiree, their sentiment and aesthetic definitely ties in with Client Liaison’s. Sonically, it’s from the same era,” Monte reasons. “Worlds End Press, they’re in a similar dance music vein with their influences. Luckily, there isn’t another Client Liaison in Melbourne, and in that case, we probably wouldn’t want to collaborate with them anyway.” So how would Client Liaison react if what they were purveying aesthetically happened to trigger a movement along the lines of vaporwave? “I’d be happy. Our investigation, theatrically, into Australian identity is quite conceptual and measured,” says Harvey. “It’s not just a fashion statement, there are ideas of identity and nationalism, and patriotism. It isn’t a vain, fashion thing we’re doing. We’ve both studied art, I’ve got a year left of fine arts school. We do try to make the theatre more than Ansett and the ‘80s. “I’d be happy [for it to be a trend], but people have to come up with their own concepts,” Monte states. “I couldn’t imagine someone with the exact same concepts, playing the music and being into the same things. But the idea of people being satirical and performative in their music is great.” Reaching heights with their live performance, most notably at a primetime slot at last year’s Golden Plains. While they’ve honed their show into the entertaining package it is now, Harvey and Monte are beginning to

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expand within their predetermined confines. “We’re unashamedly a karaoke band, but Monte is very theatrical. He’s the ace up our sleeve,” Harvey says. “He moves around onstage, and has that presence which is our saviour. We did have a couple of shows with a band when we first started out, but we ditched it because we just sounded like a high school rock band. “It’s great performing live, because we flesh out our songs. But we are a studio band first and foremost. We would like to extend the live show, but we need to release our studio work first, complete that part of the process before moving on to the next step,” Monte explains. “I think on the horizon we’ll get a sax player, who can maybe come out and play guitar on a song. Recently we’ve got some drum pads that I play onstage. The kinetic energy of playing drums onstage is always very powerful,” Harvey says. “That’s been a nice little addition. But nothing like cueing up a million different buttons in Ableton just so people think we’re live, we’re not into creating problems just to solve them onstage.”

Catch CLIENT LIAISON perform alongside World’s End Press, Asta, Willow Beats, Papa vs. Pretty, Drunk Mums, Bad/Dreamz, and Gold Fields DJs at The Espy’s Hottest 100 party on Sunday January 26. They’ll also play at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival on Saturday February 1 at Footscray Community Arts Centre at the river’s edge.

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on tour SNOOP DOGG [USA], MAC MILLER [USA] Wednesday January 22, The Palace BIG DAY OUT: SNOOP DOGG [USA], MAJOR LAZER [USA] + MORE Friday January 24, Flemington Racecourse RAINBOW SERPENT: DONATO DOZZY [ITA], MICHAEL MAYER [GER] + MORE Friday January 24 - Monday January 27, Lexton HENRIK SCHWARZ [GER], DANNY DAZE [USA] Friday January 24, Brown Alley ANDREW WEATHERALL [UK] Friday January 24, New Guernica AVICII [SWE] Sunday January 26, Melbourne Showgrounds MOUNT KIMBIE [UK] Thursday January 30, Corner Hotel LAIDBACK LUKE [NED] Friday January 31, 170 Russell JACQUES RENAULT [USA] Friday January 31, Mercat Basement ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL: XXYYXX [USA], MOUNT KIMBIE [UK] + MORE Saturday February 1, Footscray Community Arts Centre GUDRUN GUT [GER] Sunday February 2, The John Curtin 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 MARCELL DETTMANN [GER] Friday February 21, Brown Alley REDSHAPE [GER] Friday February 28, RMH The Venue MARIO BASANOV [LIT], CASSY [UK] Sunday February 23, TBA 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 MOVE D [GER] Sunday March 16, Revolver Upstairs BATHS [USA] Saturday March 22, Corner Hotel DETROIT SWINDLE [USA] Friday February 28, Circus A$AP FERG [USA] Wednesday April 2, Corner Hotel DARKSIDE [USA] Friday April 4, The Palace

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One of the biggest sensations in electronic dance music over the last few years, party starting DJ and producer Dillon Francis is headed to our shores this week. In 2011 the LA native came to attention of dance music demi-god Diplo, who released Francis’ breakthrough single Masta Blasta on his Mad Decent label. Francis’ music is feel-good and often humourous and he recognises that his chief duty as a performer is to make people have fun, even if this means compromising his personal tastes. “I’d rather have people dancing. I’ll fucking play a Katy Perry song to get people dancing or I’ll play a Flying Lotus song if that’s what they want to hear,” he says. “I couldn’t give a shit. I like everything, I just want people to be happy.” Francis will bring this attitude to the Melbourne Big Day Out this Friday. The last few years have taken him to some of the world’s biggest festivals, including Coachella and TomorrowWorld. Although it’s a big contrast from the club environments where he built his reputation, Francis is not dismayed by the festival setting whatsoever. “I love doing it, it’s so much fun. I think festivals are the best,” he enthuses. “There’s just so many people there and everyone is so into it and it’s

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to even play some of my songs because I’m into it so much that I don’t even remember to play it!” Francis clearly endeavours to make people have as much fun as possible, sometimes sacrificing his taste or suppressing his technical skill in the process. This doesn’t mean that he isn’t confident in his talents as a DJ. “I know that I’m really good at what I do. I know that I’m really good at DJing and I know that I’m good at making people laugh,” he assures. “The main thing I’m trying to do is make people dance. I want to make sure everyone’s having fun, that’s why I like playing on Serato instead of playing on a pre-recorded set or on Ableton. You’re kind of limited [with] that. If people aren’t having fun with the music that you’re playing then you’re not going to have fun and then everyone’s going to be pissed off.” Catch DILLON FRANCIS at the Big Day Out on Friday January 24 at the Flemington Racecourse. soundcloud.com/dillonfrancis

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always just so much fun. A lot of people will walk over and be like ‘I don’t know who this is but I’ll go check it out,’ and then I gain a new fan, if they liked it. If not, then I don’t,” he laughs. In addition to his consistent single releases- including collaborations with the likes of A-Trak, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Diplo himself - Francis has spent the majority of the past three years touring all over the world. He explains that he doesn’t stick with one static setlist on tour. “I don’t ever play a pre-recorded set, like some people have to because there’s lighting triggers and whatnot. For mine I’m always DJing on [DJ software] Serato and I’m always trying to do new track listings.” This might sound like a lot of effort but there’s a simple reason behind Francis’ preference for changing things up all the time. “The thing is it would just get boring after a while,” he explains. “I actually enjoy DJing because I enjoy when I have mixes that I do on the fly that sound really good. I get really happy and it gets me more into it.” In fact, despite the success of Francis’ songs Bootleg Fireworks, Que Que and the aforementioned Masta Blasta, his live show doesn’t necessarily include any of his original material. “There’s some times where I’ll forget

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elizabeth rose Electronica mastermind Elizabeth Rose has announced a new tour in promotion of her new EP, Elizabeth Rose, released today. Heralded as one of Australia’s most-watched acts, it’s hard not to have heard of producer/songwriter/singer Elizabeth Rose. The Sydney-born talent is responsible for catchy tunes such as Ready and Again; and her excellent single The Good Life, a fusion of smokey R&B rhythms layered with popping beats and rich pop melodies akin to that of Aaliyah or Brandy. Elizabeth Rose will be performing at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday March 15.

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The Trap Lord himself, A$AP Ferg, is coming our way for his debut headline tour. Ferg returns to Australia after his support slots for fellow A$AP mobster Rocky last year. He’ll bring with him his debut studio record, Trap Lord, already hailed as one of the best hip hop debuts of the decade. He’ll hit the Corner Hotel on Wednesday April 2.

Andrew Weatherall’s biography reads like a history of some of the most pivotal sounds to emanate from early UK club culture and dance music in general. A figurehead of the early Balearic and acid house scenes, he first started out as a music journalist, launching the seminal Boys Own fanzine (and subsequent label) in 1986 with a group of friends, one of which being a young Terry Farley. After getting his start as a resident DJ at Islington’s Shoom club night with Danny Rampling (and later becoming a fixture alongside Paul Oakenfold at Future), he brought a strong DJ sensibility with him when he entered the realm of production in the early ‘90s. Catch him at New Guernica on Friday January 24.

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Eclectic master Quantic, will be returning to Melbourne before his WOMADelaide appearance this March. Known for crossing genres and marrying them together into hypnotic tunes saturated with soul, jazz and electronica, Holland has been in the music business for over a decade now, performing under various aliases, including The Limp Twins and The Quantic Soul Orchestra. He is currently working on his fourth album for Quantic (his 15th album since 2000), an album that explores influences from Haitian Compas to Ethiopian jazz to Salsa Dura from his Colombian homestead, and Detriot techno. Quantic will spin the beat on Friday March 7 at Boney.

gudrun gut Legendary Berlin artist Gudrun Gut first came into prominence in the early ‘80s as a member of Mania D (with Bettina Koester and Beate Bartel) and as an early incarnation of Einstürzende Neubauten. Now widely known as a member of influential experimental art-rock band Malaria! – whose infamous track Kaltes Klares Wasser was later made into a hit a second time around by Chicks On Speed – Gut works throughout Europe as a musician, performance artist, record label owner, audio engineer, programmer and record producer. It goes down at the John Curtin on Sunday February 2.

Where’s the strangest place you’ve woken up? My house, last thing I remember I was four hours away in a different city with no ride, wasted. Woke up in my bed and still haven’t quite figured out how I got home. Describe yourself using the title of a song. Highest Man - Kerser What was the weirdest thing you believed as a child? Ninja turtles existed in the sewer. The most awkward moment you’ve had as a DJ? Laptop shutting down in the middle of my set. What would be the worst dance track in the world to be tortured with on repeat? Gangnam Style or The Macarena. What’s the most played record in your bag? Ain’t No Fun – Snoop Dogg What question would you like to ask an omniscient, allknowing being before you die? Ey, you know I’m about to die, how do I stop it from happening? If you hadn’t made it as a DJ, what job would you choose to work in instead? I’ll become a rapper, then turn DJ when I’m famous and shit. When and where is your next gig? Big Day Out on Friday January 24 at the Flemington Racecourse and with Kerser at The Hi-Fi on Saturday February 15. facebook.com/djvictorlopezsydney soundcloud.com/lopezrecords

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When is it? Every Friday. Where is it? Rubix Funhouse, 36 Phoenix St, Brunswick. Who’s playing? Our resident DJs Sk, Titus 12 and Snareophobe along with a different crew takeover every week. Last week was Hopskotch Records, this week’s takeover is Wordsmith’s hip hop showcase and to help promote more local peeps doing awesome things, we’ll be bringing in a different sound system crew once a month to take over the sound. What sort of shit will they be playing? All the good shit. Fat beats, drum and bass, hip hop, glitch, dub, reggae and jungle with live MCs. What’s the crowd going to be like? Fun loving music appreciators, skaters and all round good people. What will we remember in the AM? If it’s your first time to Rubix you’ll feel like you’ve found a whole new world. What’s the wallet damage? Free. Give us one final reason why we should party here. It’s the kind of place that allows you to choose your own adventure, be yourself and feel like your partying in your own lounge room.

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Tassilo Ippenberger (aka Tas Toyo) and Thomas Benedix are partners-in-crime and go by the name, Pan-Pot. On the line from their native Berlin – and recovering from their recent Christmas party at the studio - the lads are fired for their forthcoming trip to Australia and the chance to present their wares. “Since I’ve started building the Riverside Studios with my other business partner Martin Eyerer, the rooms are now ready – enough for us to host some people and have a decent party with friends and partners,” explains Toyo. “All in all, when everything is finished there will be 15 studios with space for producers from different backgrounds and musical genres. Very exciting times!” No doubt. But there is some history too and Thomas chimes in to talk about how the duo met. “It was about ten years ago at the school of audio engineering (SAE) in Berlin; after the first few classes we found out that we both shared the same interest in techno.” Tas jumps in to add that he thinks it was ‘love at first sight’ too. “A journalist once called us the first real German techno reunification because of where we came from! Back then, hip-hop was really big so this was a major influence during my teens, but my first rave party instantly caught me and made me want to listen to more and more techno music. It’s funny that our backgrounds still resulted in a love of similar types of music.” Musically, Berlin is of course an inspiration. “It definitively inspires us,” says Thomas. “Not everything and not all the time,” he adds, “but Berlin is still a very viral place with lots of different music, places and people. There is always something to do and wherever you go you meet new and interesting people and you can hear lots of new sounds. DJs and bands from all over the world play here regularly; it’s a creative melting pot where you can just dig in if you want to.” Tas goes on to explain their production process in a few words too: “in the past, we used to do everything together and at the same time in the studio, which has always worked well. We still do this and even through we have separate studios in which we can start working on

different ideas and bring them together and finish them at a later point, we both work together. I think this is a great approach and works for us in a productive way. In this way too, we are also more flexible and independent and can spend time in the studio when we feel like it. As most producers know, sometimes there is just an output and stream of ideas that make you want to spend days and nights in the studio. On the other side, there can be periods where nothing seems to fit either,” giggles Tas in jest. Musically, the lads claim they’ve been working hard to finish up lots of tracks for EPs to be released throughout the course of 2014. “I guess it’s no secret that we will start our own label next year as well,” admits Tas. “We want to use it as a platform to release some tracks along with tracks from other artists that we consider close friends. There is also a remix for quite a well-known artist that is also finished. We are not supposed to talk about it yet but it will be released early next year!” Thomas also adds that they are warming to the idea of another album, especially if they can turn it into something of a concept – but the focus is on the release of a bunch of these EPs. “We are constantly producing and collecting ideas though so an album is just a question of time,” he says. Finally, the lads are well excited about their first trip to Australia, noting proudly that they never play solo. “We are always together,” Thomas proclaims. “I broke my shoulder recently but it was only a short break from my partner,” he explains. “I am very excited as is Tas to be coming out there for the summer!” Brotherly love, eh?

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Pan-Pot will play at Rainbow Serpent 2014 alongside James Zabiela, Donato Dozzy, The Orb and more which takes place in Lexton from Friday January 24 - Monday January 27. They’ll also play at Brown Alley on Friday January 24

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A softly spoken yet effervescent musical legend, Mayer is understandably somewhat of a celebrity in his native Germany. His seminal Kompakt imprint – a partnership between Wolfgang Voigt, Jürgen Paape as well as Mayer himself – the label is well know for breaking all the rules. Originally established as a record store in Koln Germany, the label which came from it is known for its forward thinking minimal techno and is today home to releases from artists as brilliant as Superpitcher, The Orb and John Tejada. On top of that, Mayer oversees not only the label’s artists but also Kompakt’s distribution wing - home to over 50 record labels. Amazingly enough, he also manages to find time in the studio to produce his own music and remix the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Foals and Rufus Wainwright. Likewise, with Total Confusion, Michael Mayer and partner in crime Tobias Thomas established one of the cities longest running club night. Bringing with it is a unique formula for club culture that remains unrivaled and uncompromised the night in Koln features everything from the warm-up to the ecstatic peak. Total Confusion’s focus is on the dramaturgy and not only includes techno, house and ambient music, but also aspects of pop and even R&B. “2013 was a pretty exhaustive year,” he says. “I’ve been celebrating that; I’ve also done some specifically dedicated releases as well as played some really cool gigs in a lot of great cities. So yes, things have been very busy, but we’ve received very good feedback.” Not so trivially either, that little record store – opening back in 1993 - led to the creation of one of electronic music’s great labels that happens to be celebrating it’s 20th birthday in 2013 as well. “Yes,” as if to suggest he’d forgotten, Mayer takes great pride in the achievement. “It is amazing to think that we’ve been around for so long now,” he says. “Creating a compilation to commemorate that great moment is something I took great pride in,” he adds. Indeed, the label is one for the purists, releasing everything on vinyl or CD. “Nothing has really changed there,” chimes Mayer with pride. “Sure, the pressing numbers have gone down a bit

over the times, but when pressings come, it is a very special moment for me. It gives me a sensation of a new baby being born; if it’s a digital release, I don’t get this sensation,” he admits. “I can’t take it as seriously as a physical release. The label now has almost 500 releases and over that time, we’ve gained a lot of trust from record buyers who want to check out what were doing. As well as this, we are always doing a broad range of music and that has always been a way of defining us.” Musically too, while the label provides artists with suggestions about how to approach music if necessary, Mayer claims they are in the comfortable if not enviable position of not having to define themselves. “It is what it is,” he reflects nonchalantly, as he adds he isn’t a fan of tags or genres. “It’s music and I don’t like being specific about it. Artists like to act freely and take freedoms as much as they can. In my opinion, genres are keeping us from listening to music – at least this is my thinking.” So with the little studio time he does have, Mayer still manages to do a remix or two but admits he can’t really focus on a full suite of releases right now. That said, he hopes that after his Australian tour can take some time off during February and March where he hopes to come up with something. “I’m definitely very keen to do something next year,” he says. Regardless, he admits being a DJ is his first love despite only finding the time to do it on weekends. “I do need to work all week in the office and on the label; it’s like my step child because I can’t find the time to do everything I’d like. I still get a lot of pleasure from being a DJ though. I guess you can’t have it all.” True that.

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Michael Mayer will play at Rainbow Serpent 2014 alongside James Zabiela, Donato Dozzy, The Orb and more which takes place in Lexton from Friday January 24 - Monday January 27. He is also playing at Survivor! at The Bottom End on Saturday January 25. facebook.com/michael.mayer.kompakt

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COQ ROCK WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: BLABERUNNER + JOYBOT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + FLAGRANT + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. MIDNIGHT SOUL ENSEMBLE FEAT: MZRISK Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. THE DINNER SET - FEAT: CHRIS GILL Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

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... - FEAT: PEACEPIPE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: JAKE JUDD + LEWIS CANCUT + TIGERFUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: PRINCIPAL BLACKMAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. LOVE STORY - FEAT: INDIAN SUMMER DJS + MEGAWUOTI + MICKEY P + SLEEVES + SUPREMES + TRANTER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: EDD FISHER + PREQUEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. NOIZY NEIGHBOURS Orange Whip, Ringwood. 9:00pm. PLUSH CLUB - FEAT: FORCES + LUKE NEHER + SIMON KAPITOLINA + VERSACE CONNECTION Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10. RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SPARE GROOVE - FEAT: DANNY HOTEP + LA POCOCK + SALMON BARREL Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE RITZ - FEAT: ANDO + HARRY ROWSTHORN + JOSHUA GILLILAND + KEN WALKER + ALEX YASKI + EDDY D + JACK HOWELL + JAMES ROSS + JARREN RYAN + JESSE PERKINS + LUCILLE CROFT + MATT HANNA + TIM LIGHT + TOM BEDFORD Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. VARSITY - FEAT: DJ FOOFARAW + KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

friday jan 24

#MASHTAG - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ALL GOOD IN THE HOOD Efiftyfive, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ANDY VOTEL PRESENTS - FEAT: KLEKSPLOITATION + ANGEL EYES + THE NIGHT TERRORS Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $25. BIG NIGHT OUT - FEAT: DJ ZANNA & KITI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

CAN’T SAY Vault 8, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DROP FRIDAYS Sorry Grandma, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. FLASH - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 9:00pm. FUSION FRIDAYS Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. $20. GET LIT - FEAT: D’FRO + YO M.A.F.I.A + THADDEUS DOE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. HEADHUNTERZ (HARD WITH STYLE TOUR) + CHRIS DYNASTY + DILLYTEK + DJ EM + HAWMAN + KARPE-DM + KEMIKAL KONJESTION + MC VILLAIN + SYNTHSOLDIER + TONESHIFTERZ + VTHEKID The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $66. LUCK TRUCK FRIDAYS DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LLBC (LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB) Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. MISTY NIGHTS - FEAT: ANDEE FROST + DANNY HOTEP + DJ SALMON BARREL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: MATT RAD + MR.GEORGE + PHATO A MANO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. RUBIX FRIDAYS - FEAT: BASS CARTEL Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. SNOWIE Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE SELECTORS - FEAT: ANDREW WEATHERALL + ANGELO CRUZMAN + OTOLOGIC + PHIL K + TORNADO WALLACE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $30. TUNES BY DAVID GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

saturday jan 25

AN AWFUL LOT OF VAUDEVILLE - FEAT: DJ KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. $10. AUSTRALIA DAY EVE PARTY FEAT: CHUPAROSA + LOTEK The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. BOPEEPS FUN HOUSE - FEAT: MOONSHINE + KITI + OOHEE + PAZ + SMILE ON IMPACT + ZANNA First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. CLOUD NINE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Inflation, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DJ HAPPY JESUS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. DJ OBLIVIUS Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The

Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. GLOWBALL - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Gh Hotel, St Kilda. 9:00pm. GROOVALICIOUS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. KHOKOLAT KOATED - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. LOCALS - FEAT: DAN FILIPOVIC + KLOKE + PAUL COOPER Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. NO PULP Orange Whip, Ringwood. 9:00pm. RAZZMATAZZ INDIE DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: CAITY K + TED C Exford Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $5. ROLAND TINGS + ANDRAS FOX + MYLES MAC + THE TORTOISE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. STRUT STURDAYS - FEAT: ANDREAS + DANNY MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. SUPER GRANDE - FEAT: J LOVE + MOONSHINE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. SURVIVOR Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: BENZ0 + CHIEF + D’FRO + GRAYSKULL + MU-GEN + PAKATAK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE BIMBO HOT STEP - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. THE HOUSE DE FROST - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: DAVID SPACE & FLIP3K + RANSOM + DANIELSAN + LEWIS CANCUT + MAT CANT + MOONSHINE + PAZ + WHO & BOOGS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. THERAPY Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. $20. TRAMP SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ROTATING DJS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. TUNES BY SABO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

sunday jan 26

A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY - FEAT: DJ SASH Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. AUS DAY PARTY - FEAT: AGENT 86 + AYNA + CONDENSED MILK + DJ HIJACK + KUYA + NAM + NO NAME NATH + TOM SHOWTIME Penny Black, Brunswick. 12:00pm. AUSTRALIA DAY LONG WEEKEND @ K BAR - FEAT: DJ J-NICE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. AUSTRALIA DAY WEEKEND WRAP UP PARTY - FEAT: BOOGS +

RADIATOR + SILVERSIX + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. AVICII (TRUE TOUR) Melbourne Showgrounds, Ascot Vale. 5:00pm. $99. BE. - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. BOP ART - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 12:00pm. DJ JUMBO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. EDINBURGH GARDENS AFTER PARTY - FEAT: DEEPEROOT’S DJS First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MAGIC NIGHT Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. $39. ONE PUFF - FEAT: A13 + 2FUDDHA + ALASKA + ARCTIC + CARMEX + GINGUS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00am. $10. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE SUNDAYS - FEAT: D’FRO + EPOCH + KATE DROVER + MATT RADOVICH + MZ.RIZK + PHATO A MANO + SAM MCEWIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. SPITROAST Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. STAR BAR SUNDAYS - FEAT: JONO EARLE + KEN WALKER + MORGAN Star Bar, South Melbourne. 9:00pm. $10. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: MAYFIELD Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm. THE ART OF SUNDAYS - FEAT: MATTY D + MITCH KURZ The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDY BLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

SNOOP DOGG (AKA SNOOP LION) + MAC MILLER Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $72.

thursday jan 23 KURUPT & DAZ Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $51.

friday jan 24 BUMP - FEAT: DJ GEROGE BIG SAAD Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE Khokolat

Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW & DUDLEY PERKINS & DJ ROMES Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. RNB SUPERCLUB Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $30. STICKYBUDS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

saturday jan 25 HIP HOP NIGHT - FEAT: ALLGANIKS Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. POPPIN’ BOTTLES - FEAT: DJ FAUX

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monday jan 27

AUS DAY AFTER - FEAT: TBC Penny Black, Brunswick. 12:00pm. BORED GAMES - FEAT: IBIMBO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. MIXTAPE MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 5:00pm. STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ MICHAEL OZONE + DJ ROMAN WAFERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

tuesday jan 28

COSMIC PIZZA TUESDAYS - FEAT: RANSOM Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TASTEMAKERS - FEAT: BADDUMS + GINGUS + ABLE8 Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

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REAL Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. RHYTHM NATION - FEAT: DJ ANDY PALA + DJ GEORGE BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUE Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. WE’RE NOT FROM PARIS - FEAT: LOUIE GALLINA + MIKE CASERTA + ROMAZ + TONY WARDAN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.

sunday jan 26 BE. SUNDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + JAY J + KEN WALKER Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.

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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

PPCA DISTRIBUTES $33.6M

AUSSIES HIT PLATINUM, GOLD

THINGS WE HEAR

PPCA, which grants licenses for radio, TV, internet, live music venues and public broadcasts on behalf of artists and record labels, handed out a record $33.6 million to them through 2013. This was an increase of almost 16% on the 2012 distribution of $29 million, and set a new record. PPCA CEO Dan Rosen said, “Whilst we are delighted to be able to provide increased distributions to artists and labels, PPCA is conscious that there are still a number of areas where creators, and those who invest in them, are not yet adequately compensated for their creative efforts and investment. PPCA will continue to work hard to achieve fair returns for our stakeholder’s creative content.”

Aussie acts are doing well in sales. In the singles section, certified double platinum were Guy Sebastian’s Like A Drum, Justice Crew’s Everybody, Taylor Henderson’s Borrow My Heart and Nathaniel’s You. Winning their first gold were Flume & Chet Faker’s Drop The Game and The Preatures’ Is This How You Feel? Of albums, going platinum were The Twelfth Man’s Willy Nilly – The Biggest Hits, Taylor Henderson’s self-titled and Tina Arena’s Reset.

• Outkast are doing 40 festivals around the world as part of their reunion: the Australian stop is heavily rumoured to be Splendour In The Grass. • Melbourne dance music station Kiss FM is taking the Australian Radio Network to the Federal Court for using the name Kiis FM for its new Sydney station. See full report in Industrial Strength Online on beat.com.au • Original AC/DC singer Dave Evans is featured in a US B-movie The Haunting Of Booger County, a paranormal flick by newcomer director Eric Williams. • Kanye West’s Yeezus finally went platinum (sales of 1 million) in America seven months after release. It means all his seven albums have been certified, tied with other hip hoppers OutKast, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg and Nas. Jay Z holds the record for most platinum albums for a rapper with an amazing 15. Meantime, Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes is his 11th US #1 album. • Nine of Cat Power’s 11 Aussie shows through Jan and Feb have sold out. • Another festival hit hard times, this time Beerfestabull in Bundaberg, Queensland, which lost a reported $50,000. Creditors include bands, hired help, fireworks suppliers, ad companies and community groups. Michelle Esposito of Brisbane-based entertainment agency The Gig Factory told the Bundaberg NewsMail that one of her bands, Chisel Revived, is owed $3,000. She said that organiser Clint Jensen told her the only way they could get their money back would be to play at a Beerfestabull being planned for Melbourne in August. Esposito nixed that idea. • Another super group (still untitled) is recording music together. This one features Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, former Nine Inch Nails multi-instrumentalist Danny Lohner and rapper Scroobius Pip. • At England’s NME Awards, Arctic Monkeys lead the nominations with eight gongs including Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album, Best Track, Best Music Video, Music Moment Of The Year and Best Fan Community, while frontman Alex Turner is up for Hero of the Year. Haim follow with six (including Best International Band) with Queens Of The Stone Age, Lily Allen and Arcade Fire up for three apiece. • alt-J’s bass player, Gwil Sainsbury, has left the building. • Planning Minister Matthew Guy told Mikey Cahill of the Herald Sun last week that Agent of Change was “six to seven weeks away” from being introduced. • In Riverboats Music Festival’s third year, producer David Frazer posted that ticket sales so far for the Friday February 14 and Saturday February 15 event are 65% up on those this time last year. Deluxe Festival Passes have sold out but threeday and single-day tix are still available on the festival’s website. • Venue changes: Billboard in the city changed its name to 170 Russell, and outsourced its bookings as it diversifies its program. Meantime the Workers Club has new owners, who will identify themselves down the track. See Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au. Also, The Sydney Entertainment Centre is now the Qantas Credit Union Arena.

THE DELTA RIGGS JOIN 123 AGENCY New Melbourne-based 123 Agency has taken over bookings for The Delta Riggs throughout Australia & NZ. The band have a new album Dipz Zebazios out in the first quarter. They are previewing some of the tracks for the first time at the Northcote Social Club on Friday February 21 with Melbourne slacker trio Attols.

COUNTING CROWS SUE UNIVERSAL Counting Crows are the latest to sue their record label (Universal Music) over download royalties. The argument is that their download revenues should be paid on a licensing basis (which would give them a 50% share) rather than a simple sales one (which gives 15%). Others to sue their labels over this were Eminem, Sister Sledge, Kenny Rogers, Chuck D, Peter Frampton and Rob Zombie.

BEATS MUSIC TO LAUNCH IN THE US Dr Dre’s headphones brand Beats launched its Beats Music streaming music service in the US on Tuesday January 21, taking on Spotify, Rhapsody and Google Play Music All Access. Beats Music claims that its strength will be the quality of its music recommendation. It employed Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor as chief creative officer, and has asked people from radio and music journalism (Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, DJ Mag, Country Weekly) to set up playlists.

NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY OPENING IN SYDNEY Film and acting school, The New York Film Academy, is opening up in Sydney – at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Sts – on Thursday January 30. It is already taking enrolments for the government-accredited One-Year Acting and OneYear Filmmaking diploma courses, as well as short and evening courses. The Academy also has campuses in Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi and the Gold Coast. More info, contact Admissions on (07) 5585 9722 or at nyfa.edu.au.

FUNDRAISERS BY RUDELY INTERRUPTED, UNIVERSAL THUMP Rudely Interrupted are raising money through Pozible to master and market their new EP. The funds will go to PR and radio services, video clips, posters, photos, advertising, musician fees, flights and accommodation. Check it out at pozible.com/project/176454. Aussie expats, Brooklyn-based Greta Gertler & The Universal Thump, have until Wednesday January 29 to raise funds for their Walking The Cat EP and tour in February. They’re offering demos, CAT interviews and a disco song by their side project Little Glittery. See kickstarter.com/ projects/GretaGertler/the-universal-thump-walking-thecat-ep-and-tour.

AC/DC AMONG TOP CAR SONGS Given that AC/DC’s Brian Johnson is car-mad and is hosting British TV show Cars That Rock, it’s not surprising that AC/DC scored well in a new poll on car songs conducted by Insurance.com. You Shook Me All Night Long got 22% of the vote, putting it third on the list behind Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ (30%) and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The Baha Men’s Who Let the Dogs Out? topped the worst car song list with 29% followed by Taylor Swift’s We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together (25%) and Cher’s Believe with 22%.

$10,000 GRANT FROM HILLTOPS FOR EMERGING HP HOPPER An emerging Australian hip hop/soul act will win a $10,000 grant from the Hilltop Hoods to help record and promote their debut album. Applications for the 2014 Hilltop Hoods Initiative close on February 28. The winner will be announced on March 27. The prize also includes legal advice courtesy of David Vodicka and Media Arts Lawyers and Zoo York and Shure Microphone packs. Judges are Canberra’s Koolism member Hau who presents triple j’s The Hip Hop Show, Sydney manager and promoter Ran-Dee, Adelaide graff artists and promoter Nish, Melbourne artist Raph and owner of Blank Clothing and Queensland beat boxer and graff artist Tom Thum. See apra-amcos.com.au.

SHARING SPIRITS Two Indigenous-themed events take place in Melbourne over the next few weeks. Songlines Aboriginal Music holds the annual Share The Spirit at Treasury Gardens on Sunday January 26 to mark Survival Day. Broome’s ‘saltwater country’ legend Stephen Pigram is included in a bill with soul singer Crystal Mercy, singer-songwriter Illana Atkinson, rock-soul trio The Deans, guitar balladeer Robert Champion, punkroots Chasing Ghosts, the Koorie Tiddas Choir, the Blak Mistiq dancers; and the first Songlines Hip Hop Cypher where local rappers Meriki Hood, Gekkz, Philly, Jnr Boy and Lil G will compete. Meantime, the Healing Foundation celebrates the anniversary of the apology to Australia’s Stolen Generations with a Sidney Myer Music Bowl event on Thursday February 13 from 6-10pm. Performing are Tim Rogers, Archie Roach, Clare Bowditch, Frank Yamma, Christine Anu, Blue King Brown, Horror Show, Jimblah, Thelma Plum and Kutcha Edwards. See healingfoundation. org.au for more info.

FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR ST. KILDA FESTIVAL The 34th St Kilda Festival launched an inaugural fundraising campaign to encourage festival-lovers to support for the community celebration of music, arts and culture. Titled ‘Show You Give A Buck’, a range of items displaying images of St Kilda are available from $2 including t-shirts, tank tops, drink holders, hats, calico bags, badges, magnets and wristbands. “We encourage the community to get behind the initiative. A small contribution from festival fans will make a big difference to helping us stage this iconic cultural celebration annually,” said Festival Producer Adele Denison. See stkildafestival.com.au.

NEW REGIONAL FESTIVALS NSW punters have three new festivals. Infinity Music is a regional all-ages event which combines electronic music, motocross and pyrotechnics. Full dates and venues are yet to be announced by promoter VA Entertainment, but it kicks off in Dubbo in October and take place in Coffs Harbour, Townsville, Boyne Island and Wagga Wagga. The music, art, culture and environmental Mountain Sounds hits the Central Coast on March 15. It is held in the Mount Penang Parklands, Kariong halfway between Sydney and Newcastle. The eclectic bill is headlined Ball Park Music.

LIFELINES Engaged (?): speculation ran rampant about Jessica Mauboy and Darwin football player boyfriend Themeli Magripilis after she posted a photo on social media of herself wearing a ring on her wedding finger. Injured: Switchfoot had to postpone a nightclub appearance after singer Jon Foreman sustained injuries to his face while surfing. Arrested: Lisa Stockbridge, founder of Sydney entertainment website Urban Society, on charges she supplied cocaine and ecstasy to clients, the Daily Telegraph said. The website has closed, and staff were retrenched owed pay. Died: US ‘60s psychedelic post-rock artist Gary Grimshaw, 67, at his home in Detroit from numerous illnesses. He was closely associated with MC5, having grown up with the band’s Wayne Kramer. Died: British guitarist Ronny Jordan, a leading player in the acid jazz movement of the ‘80s and ‘90s, aged 51. STAR STUDDED BIKE RIDE FOR HEADSPACE Rock N Ride, the star-studded motorcycle ride started by Grinspoon’s Phil Jamieson and Big Day Out CEO Adam Zammit for mental health support group headspace, kicked off its 1500 mile ride. It works around various Big Day Out stops. Original crew Chris Joannou (Silverchair), Kate Peck (MTV), and Jake Stone (Bluejuice) are this time joined by Pat Davern (Grinspoon), Art vs Science, Danny Clayton (Channel V), Reegan McLaughlin (Nova/Music Feeds), Chris Tanti (headspace CEO) and Kingswood. See headspace.org.au.

WOMEN IN COMMUNITY MEDIA Women in Community Media is designed to increase the participation of younger women in the community media industry, especially those from disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds. Participants will have access to mentors, live classrooms and webinars. See cmto.org.au, deadline is Feb 14.

UNDERWOOD TOP EARNING ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ ALUM Carrie Underwood tops this year’s list of one time American Idol contestants. Underwood, who won the 2005 season, made US$31 million between June 2012 and June 2013, according to Forbes magazine. It came from her 1 million selling Blown Away album, relentless touring and endorsement deals with brands like Olay. Interestingly, she made more money than last year’s judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban. Underwood has earned $83 million since winning the show. Kelly Clarkson ranks second with $7 million (mostly from touring) on the Forbes list, followed by 2012 winner Phillip Phillips and 2009 runner-up Adam Lambert, who are tied for third with $5 million each. In the meantime, American Idol is on a slippery slope: ratings have dropped 30% in each of the past two years.

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A I C L E P S Y A D A I L AUSTRA THE PENNY BL ACK

We love ’Straya Day. There’s nothing better than havin’ a barbie with ya mates, crackin’ open a freshie and kickin’ back to the cricket. January 26 is our national day to celebrate everything that makes this country great, whether it be Karl Stefanovic, the Freo Dockers’ theme song or a strong relationship with several nucleararmed nations. We hope you enjoy our guide to what’s on this weekend, and we hope you come up with some bloody rippa calls with ya m8s. Cheers!

With Australia Day falling on a Sunday this year, in true Australian fashion the public won’t stand for getting short-changed one of our most beloved public holidays. The government has heard the cries of the people, and is giving everyone the day off on Monday, which is just as well as the 100% Phat crew is taking over the decks at the Penny Black from 6pm all the way through til 3am! Over two areas including the world renowned Penny Black beer garden, catch a collection of Melbourne’s best DJs playing some of the dopest beats around. Witness the fitness from Agent 86, Tom Showtime, DJ Ayna, Kuya, Condensed Milk, Nam, DJ Hijack and No Name Nath as they throw down only the best in hip hop, dub, future beat, reggae and bass. Bands: Agent 86, Tom Showtime, DJ Ayna + more Doors: 6pm

THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL

This is going to be huge! Twin Beasts (formerly the Toot Toot Toots) host Australia Day at one of their favourite venue’s, The John Curtin Hotel with two of their favourite bands, Pony Face and Ohms. Twin Beasts will play a bunch of tracks off their forthcoming album Badlove, due out early 2014, and a bunch of more familiar stuff. Followed by Twin Beasts DJ set until the wee hours. Bands: Twin Beasts, Pony Face, OHMS + more Doors: 8:30pm Tickets: $15 + bf

WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

The Bits are very excited to be launching their debut album 3057 at Whole Lotta Love this Australia Day eve. After extensive touring of Brunswick they look forward to your company at East Brunswick’s best little bar for a night of rock goodness. Free albums to be given away - don’t miss out! Bands: The Bits, Bounty Hunter Doors: 9pm

DING DONG

After selling out many shows on their current national Summer tour, Bonjah are thrilled to be headlining Ding Dong’s Australia Day festivities this Sunday. After a couple of shows back in their native New Zealand this week, BONJAH head straight to Ding Dong to celebrate Australia Day in style. Melbourne’s favourite son’s are gearing up to release their anticipated third album in April. Support from acclaimed local band Sweets & Tanya Batt. Tickets selling fast from Oztix.com.au - get down! Bands: Bonjah, Sweets, Tanya Batt Doors: 8pm Tickets: $20 + bf / $25 on the door

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Where and when can we see you play on Australia Day? Sunday January 26 at The Espy! What three colours would you use to repaint the Australian Flag? Maroon, cream, gold. What is a song or band that make you think, ’Straya? Does 360 count? Which of your songs would you replace Advance Australia Fair with? That’s a tall order! Something funky, a new track of mine Luna. What Australian animal would you make your mascot and why? A spotted quoll. Marsupials are the best! Skippy or Weetbix? Skippy! Which Australian city do you like performing in the most and why? Melbourne. I love the people there and every gig has been extra special. Why should everyone come and see your band on Australia Day? We are fun, energetic and Australian!

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THE RETREAT

The Retreat Hotel welcomes all on Australia day, especially those arriving by boat, with a day long lineup that starts at 2:30pm and runs all the way through to 3am. Featuring Ben Salter, Abbie Cardwell & Her Leading Men (back from a years long hiatus!) and the Matty Green Band. They’re also providing a good recovery option on Monday.. a handpicked selection of ten of the best new and emerging artists in Melbourne town for the DEAR MONDAY: DELUXE EDITION kicking off at 3pm on Monday 27. Of course, it’s always free entry! Bands: Ben Salter, Abbie Cardwell, Matty Green Band Doors: 2:30pm Tickets: Free entry!

THE TOTE

Captain Cleanoff are playing a one off Melbourne show to kick of the new year at The Tote this Australia Day eve. Support comes in the form of The Day Every Thing Became Nothing, Rort, Black Jesus, Debacle and Split Teeth. Get along for an evening of non-stop grind, death metal, crust and power violence. Bands: Captain Cleanoff, The Day Every Thing Became Nothing + more Doors: 7pm Tickets: Door charge applies

THE EVELYN

Flyying Colours and The Evelyn Hotel are hosting a huge Australia Day party on Sunday January 26 featuring Melbourne’s best and brightest psyche and shoe-gaze bands: Flyying Colours, Atolls and ESC delivering all the fuzz, reverb and good-times that one needs to celebrate this great country of ours. Bands: Flyying Colours, Atolls, ESC Doors: 8pm Tickets: $10

THE EVELYN ROOFTOP

Sex on Toast are back this Australia Day for a scorcher on the Evelyn Hotel rooftop! The dress code is summertime party…think a pool party at Snoop Dogg’s K-Mart Mansion Cameo! Joining the mayhem will be The Do Yo Thangs who’s sunny neo-soul, gorgeous girls and positive message will warm you up to another onslaught of electric funk, new jack swing, speed doo-wop and god knows what else. Bands: Sex On Toast, The Do Yo Thangs Doors: 3pm Tickets: $20 on the door / $15 through Oztix

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Where and when can we see you play on Australia Day? We’re playing at The Reverence on Saturday January 25 – Aus Day eve! We are on at 9.10pm but come early because there’s an arse load of other rad bands playing. What three colours would you use to repaint the Australian Flag? Black, red and yellow. What is a song or band that make you think, ’Straya? Cold Chisel baby! Plllllaaayyy Khe Sannnhhhhh! Which of your songs would you replace Advance Australia Fair with? I would replace Advance Australia Fair with our newest song which is called You Can’t Build A Bike Out Of Muffins. What Australian animal would you make your mascot and why? Bunyip – they live in caves under water and pull swimming children down by their legs and feast on their carcasses. Skippy or Weetbix? Skippy with milky Weetbix in his pouch. A wet roo’s a good roo. Which Australian city do you like performing in the most and why? I love playing in Brisbane! $8 steaks, $4 Vietnamese rolls and a bunch of legends to hang out with. Why should everyone come and see your band on Australia Day? Because rocking the fuck out is a great way to celebrate all the awesome elements of this great southern land.

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CHRIS FRANKLIN: AUSTRALIA DAY BLOKE

By Liza Dezfouli

Want to know how to kick start a brilliant career in comedy? Curious about how it feels to fail at cooking dinner for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II? Ask Chris Franklin. Australia’s Man with the Most Stories, stand-up comedian and ex-navy chef Franklin, aka The Bloke, is returning to Melbourne to share some of his yarns (including the one about learning at the age of 48 that he’s got indigenous ancestry). The man who hit number one on the charts in 2000 with his parody song Bloke (a piss-take of Meredith Brooks's Bitch) is constantly working, makes his living out of comedy yet he's as humble as an Aussie pie. “Please tell people there's a support act and an MC on the night,” he says, “It's not just me for the full two and a half hours!” Franklin's looking forward to performing his latest show Australia Day Bloke, only now he's got mixed feelings about the day itself. “Yes, it's a day for all Australians,” he says. “But there's another side to it... It's not such a celebration for the indigenous people.” A cousin doing some deep research into the family tree discovered Franklin's connection to the High Country's Taungurung tribe, of Victoria's Kulin nation. There is much more to uncover yet, including, inevitably, some tragic history. “It's my job to bring these stories to light,” Franklin says. “It does give me a base for performing … I have to find a way to talk about it; not making light of it, but by being light.” Franklin says certain things fell into place for him when he first heard about his indigenous heritage. “It was quite an amazing feeling,” he says. “I've always felt very Australian but not as Australian as some. Now I feel part of this land, that I really do belong here.” Franklin says his Australia Day show is 'very Aussie themed'. “Things like failed relationships,” he quips.

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Originally from the Mornington Peninsula, Franklin's already done his version of walkabout, driving an old EJ Holden Ute around the entire country for ten years, stopping in various towns to perform comedy in a local pub and play a season of footy. You don't get more blokey than that. And he was in the defence forces for eight years. Franklin's such a bloke that he was even summoned to Hollywood by Corey Feldman to have a film made about him, called, naturally, The Bloke Goes to Hollywood. The film wasn't distributed but who cares, Franklin had the time of his life. Another career highlight, he says, was singing the Bloke song in front of a crowd of 60,000 at the MCG. “I've had a great career,” he says. “I've had a lot of luck.” But it hasn't spoilt him: “A lot of the guys who have made it won't do pubs,” he notes. “I still do pubs; I like it.” Does Franklin ever run dry when it comes to things to joke about? “Sometimes I feel like I've done the same routine for 16 years!” he answers. “But people come back to the shows after one or two years and tell me how much it's changed. I'm always updating things, adding new jokes.“ Tradition holds that comedians are miserable and lovelorn underneath but Franklin certainly isn't, not only does he have an enviable career but he's happily ensconced in Perth with a new love. Franklin says his success partly

comes from not having had a plan; he kept doing standup without any particular ambition because he loved it. Take note. Beat asked him if he jokes about his eight years in the navy. Not as yet but those years were fun, too. “It was the time of my life,” he says. “I really enjoyed it.” If he weren't so nice this man would be annoying. He's still in touch with his mates from those years, they show up at performances from time to time and get together for a formal dinner cooked by someone else. As well, he's entertained the troops in places like the Solomon Islands and Afghanistan. And the royal dinner fail? Franklin reckons he nearly single handedly achieved the aims of republican cause by serving HM the Queen seafood at a state dinner. Eight navy chefs had the honour of cooking a meal for the Queen, one she couldn't eat. It wasn't their fault: the menu had been tried out five times on distinguished guests including the then Governor General before the actual dinner for the Queen. Someone along that chain of command should have known that Elizabeth II is allergic to seafood. “She had a lot of nice salad that night,” Franklin recalls. Catch Chris Franklin at Wonderland Spiegeltent on Saturday January 25.

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Where and when can we see you play on Australia Day? The night before at Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick for our debut album launch. That way you can recover on Australia Day! What three colours would you use to repaint the Australian Flag? Black, yellow and red, also because it’s The Bits’ colours! What is a song or band that make you think, ’Straya? Midnight Oil - Power and The Passion Which of your songs would you replace Advance Australia Fair with? Truck Or Die (We Are The Bits). Buy it off iTunes and you’ll see why. What Australian animal would you make your mascot and why? Ringtail possum – personality and gumption! Skippy or Weetbix? Weetbix! They built a nation. Which Australian city do you like performing in the most and why? The city of Brunswick. Looking to make it a republic but Harry can still visit. Why should everyone come and see your band on Australia Day? Because we, our songs, our album, the bar we’re playing at and everything about us was made in Aus!

BAR OPEN

To mark the 226th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Sydney Cove, Shanty Town and Ska Vendors will join forces to reflect the diverse society and landscape of New Holland. First up, the immensely danceable Ska Vendors who have been peddling their unique brand of grooves around Australia for almost a decade. Their live show is high on energy and will transport you back to the Kingston dance halls of the 1960s. Hot on their heels come Shanty Town, a team of experienced musicians who fuse their melodious passions to produce some quality Ska. The band combine elements of calypso and R&B to deliver jubilant feelings and energetic performances. The dancefloor will be full by the end of this show and El Presidente will be on hand to welcome new immigrants to the community. Bands: Shanty Town, Ska Vendors Doors: 7:30pm Tickets: Free entry

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

Be’Lakor and Claim The Throne will be joining forces for the first time for the Under The Southern Cross 6 festival, in what will undoubtedly be one of the the most impressive and world class Australian made tours this year. Melbourne’s Be’Lakor are fast becoming one of Australia’s most important metal acts and Perth’s Claim The Throne are returning with their third full-length album, Forged In Flame. This Australia day eve at The Bendigo! Bands: Be’Lakor, Claim The Throne + more

YAH YAH’S

HIFI BAR

One of Yah Yah’s favourite party bands returns this Australia Day to their spiritual home to get the dance floor grooving and the crowd going off on a public holiday eve with their feel good melodies and hijinks. Plague Doctor’s bronze nose is filled with medicinal and aromatic herbs that cleanse the air and cover up the stench of death! He uses his smoking wand to keep the beat and direct the burial of the dead! Plague Doctor knows the true meaning of the Blues, he once sent 85 million people dancing to their graves! He’s seen scorpions crawling on broken glass! He’s woken in the gutter with the planets whirling above him! Bands: Plague Doctor + AppleJack DJ Doors: 9pm Tickets: Free entry

Andy Montañez first gained fame as a member of the internationally successful El Gran Combo group, with songs like Hojas blancas (White Leaves), Un verano en N.Y (A Summer at NY) and El barbero loco. Responsible for over 70 Albums, with a career that spans over 50 years and after winning the Latin Grammy Awards, Andy has little left to prove, except that his sounds transcends time and is ready to be released live in Australia for the very first time! Do not miss this chance to see this MAESTRO in action. Bands: Andy Montañez Doors: 8pm Tickets: $79

YAH YAH’S UPSTAIRS

This Australia Day Yah Yah’s Upstairs will be hosting Glitterdome Dance Party: 90s mixtape; a night of fun where all shapes, sizes, genders and peccadilloes are welcome. Influenced by New York’s Rebel Cupcake, with your favourite Boombahs DJing everyone’s favourite 90s tracks and secret shames. Expect some surprises on the night, too...Dress 90s or just cuntyfierce. Drinks specials, and open until 5am! Come play with us! Bands: Boombahs DJ Doors: 9pm Tickets: $20 waged / $15 unwaged.

THE TEMPERANCE HOTEL

It’s going to be a massive Australia Day Long weekend at Temperance Hotel kicking off with one of Melbourne’s Hottest duos, DJ Vamp, rockin’ the house. Saturday will showcase our Resident DJ’s Ben Mac & Xander James who continuously keep the crowd pumped till the early hours. Sunday will the BIG ONE- Australia Day Eve with our Headline Act, Resident DJ Marcus Knight & Guests seeing us right through to Monday morning! Entry is FREE. Get in early to avoid disappointment DJs: Marcus Knight, DJ Vamp, Ben Mac, Xander James Tickets: Free

AUSTRALIA DAY with

KING OF THE NORTH

Where and when can we see you play on Australia Day? Cherry Bar at about 10.30pm. What three colours would you use to repaint the Australian Flag? Green, gold and canary yellow. What is a song or band that make you think, ‘Straya? By an absolute mile, Cold Chisel! Lets face it, Khe Sanh is our national anthem. And we’ve played with them…so there! Which of your songs would you replace Advance Australia Fair with? You can’t relace it, I think Advance Australia Fair is a wonderful melody and it still gives me chills when I hear it. From a songwriting point of view, it’s a very well written song. What Australian animal would you make your mascot and why? Are ferrets Australian? Then we could write a song called Ferret On A Leash. A crocodile would be an apt King Of The North though? It’s a tough one. Skippy or Weetbix? Love roo, but who the fuck eats it for breaky? Maybe we’re not Aussie enough? Which Australian city do you like performing in the most and why? Bowral in the southern Highlands of N.S.W, where Don Bradman was born and Bordertown S.A ‘cause Bob Hawke was born there. Hawkey! Why should everyone come and see your band on Australia Day? Because the most Australian thing you can do on Australia Day (apart from going to the cricket) is have a BBQ, get pissed and go to the pub to see original Aussie rock! That and the fact that last Australia Day we played at Cherry and won us the Cherry award for Best SAT Night In 2013. You do the math.

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STAND UP COMEDY 8.30PM SAT 25 JAN Australia world class comedians in one big show plus Chris Franklin Bloke, Elliot Goblet and more

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HOWLER

This Australia Day take a trip to the tropics with The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra. The 17 piece afrobeat powerhouse takes the stage for the first time in 2014 for a huge summertime jam at Melbourne’s newest venue Howler. The band will be your guide taking you at breakneck speed through the backstreets of West African funk, detouring via the hip-hop and beat driven sounds from the blocks of Brunswick. Instrumental soul behemoth The Cactus Channel will be along for support as well as the sweet neo-soul and lush vocal harmonies of The Do Yo Thangs. The Public Opinion’s own DJ Manchild will also be inviting his favourite funk, afro and tropical DJs to join him in the beer garden all day alongside live percussion and MCs. This will be one serious percussion-driven, dancefloor-burning party you do not want to miss! Bands: Agent 86, Tom Showtime, DJ Ayna + more Doors: 6pm

THE REVERENCE

The annual Australia Day Weekend punk rock refugee fundraiser is happening again at The Reverence Hotel. Over two huge days; Saturday January 25 and Sunday January 26, this years event features the like of Luca Braasi, Damn Terran, Batpiss, Lincoln Le Fevre plus a stack more. All proceeds will be donated to Oxfam and The Refugee Council and given the current government’s refugee policies, there has never been a more important time to get behind the cause. Bands: Luca Brasi, Damn Terran, Batpiss, Lincoln Le Fevre + more Doors: 3:30pm Tickets: $20 one day/$30 weekend pass (limited to 100)

CHERRY BAR

Get along to Cherry Bar this Australia Day to see two piece rock behemoth King of The North headline Straya Day at Cherry Bar. Also along for the ride will be My Left Boot and Dead City Ruins. It’s $13 on the door from 7pm till 11pm then a measly $5 till 3am with DJ Max Crawdaddy closing out the night. Free can of VB/MB on entry too! Bands: King of The North, My Left Boot, Dead City Ruins Doors: 8pm Tickets: $13

THE ESPY

The Triple J Hottest 100 has always been synonymous with Australia Day and the Espy is throwing one hell of a party on Sunday 26 January to celebrate both events! Said to be the biggest annual music poll in the world, the Hottest 100 continues to grow in popularity each year. The Espy will be pumping the countdown through the PA system all afternoon, followed by a killer lineup of live bands across three stages playing late into the night! Led by indie/dance-pop band World’s End Press, Asta, Willow Beats, Papa vs Pretty, Drunk Mums and Bad//Dreems. Capping off the night is Gold Fields DJs taking over the Espy decks spinning the hottest party tunes! Bands: World’s End Press, Asta, Willow Beats + more Tickets: Free entry!

THE GRACE DARLING

This Australia Day Eve, make your way down to the Grace Darling to celebrate in style and sway to the riffage of rock n’ roll royalty Midnight Woolf. It’s sure to be a wild night of dancing, yelping, sweating and raving, playing a set of tight hip-swaying tunes, crazy covers and rumbling originals. Joining them will be beat maestros Brat Farrar, rockabilly weirdos the Yard Apes and garage surfers Rayon Moon. It all goes down Saturday the 25th of January. Doors from 8pm, bands start at 8:30pm and entry is free. Bands: Midnight Woolf, Brat Farrar, Yard Apes, Rayon Moon Doors: 8pm Tickets: Free entry! BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 36

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PERFECT TRIPOD By Nick Mason This Friday, Perfect Tripod play the first show of the new Melbourne Zoo Twilights season, with an amazing array of local and international acts to follow. “We did a little photo shoot (for the Twilight series)... and we got to hang out with some kangaroos and pat them and stuff, which I’ve never done before. It was quite nice,” says Simon Hall, also known as Yon, a third of the rib-tickling music-comedy group Tripod. “You do sense the wildness, as opposed to when you’re patting a dog or a cat. Even though they’re very friendly, they feel more sort of self-possessed.” The kangaroo banter reminds Hall of an old televised incident. “One of my favourite YouTube clips is Marty Monster from The Early Bird Show getting attacked by a kangaroo. Absolute gold,” he declares. “You can hear the guy in the suit screaming as the kangaroo pummels him.” Credit where credit’s due: it’s a hilarious clip. Hall himself knows a thing or two about being funny on TV, having enjoyed an enormously successful career as a member of Tripod, Australia’s foremost award-winning music-comedy group. Lately, Tripod has been teaming with singer-songwriter, pianist and comedian Eddie Perfect, celebrating a rich history of Australian music. Perfect and the members of Tripod first performed together at a Paul Kelly tribute show in 2006, their stunning rendition of Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air immediately met with great acclaim. A follow-up appearance on ABC’s Sideshow reaffirmed that they were onto something special, the Kelly cover again received well. “We just kept popping up, doing that version and it took on a life of its own,” Hall remembers. “We did it on Sideshow and the Logies, then (our manager) suggested, ‘Why don’t you turn it into a show?’” The group – taking on the name Perfect Tripod – then embarked upon a series of critically-acclaimed live shows before releasing an LP, lending their a capella expertise to an assortment of iconic Australian tunes. In approaching the album, Australian Songs, the group trialled countless ideas for cover versions in what became a careful selection process. Featuring “It was long and it was a combination of negotiating and then, after that, it was trying things and seeing if they were any good,” Hall explains. “We had a go at AC/DC a couple of times, because we felt they have a really im(china) portant place, but for what we were doing – our a capella thing – we just couldn’t really make that happen.” Perfect Tripod reinterpret songs by Gotye, Kylie Minogue and John Farnham among other artists. Perfect, a versatile performer, sounds at home alongside the tight-knit comedy trio. “At the heart of it is that we’re all into bringing something new to the songs,” Hall explains, musing upon the group’s chemistry. “It feels like there’s a collective desire to make the arrangements really special. That informs what the show is and its aesthetic.”

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“WE SORT OF PUT ON OUR GOOD BEHAVIOUR FOR THE FIRST FEW WEEKS, THEN THE GUEST STARTS TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH OUR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE POLITICS. THEN THEY TEND TO JUST SORT OF STAY OUT OF IT.” According to Hall, Tripod have a particular approach in bringing outsiders into the fold. “We sort of put on our good behaviour for the first few weeks, then the guest starts to become familiar with our passive-aggressive politics. Then they tend to just sort of stay out of it,” he laughs. Hall has enjoyed a busy schedule of late, pre-occupied with Perfect Tripod, as well as a multitude of other projects alongside his regular comedy cohorts. “This year’s been the most enjoyable year in memory, actually – which is nice to be able to say, given how long we’ve been going,” he muses. “We did a show at the Malthouse (The Dragon) and we’ve been writing some music for this animated thing for the Cartoon Network. It’s just about mixing it up I guess.” In 2012, Hall dared to do something completely different, presenting a one-man show entitled Mandaddy. “It was so good for me. I really enjoyed doing it and it was nice coming back into Tripod having done that. It was interesting from a performance point of view, because I had to adjust what I do onstage. Normally I hang back a bit and I’m very reactive in Tripod,” he explains. “In Mandaddy, I had to be everything. That was a really good thing to be forced to do. Also, in terms of the material, I think it was just a really good venting of all these ideas that maybe weren’t suited to Tripod… I guess the tone is a bit darker than what we normally do in Tripod. It was just nice to get all that out there, so I could clean the decks in my head and come back to Tripod with a positive outlook.” The future’s certainly bright for Tripod, the trio toying with exciting new directions. Hall suspects a musical might be on the cards. “We don’t have an idea yet, but we kind of keep talking about it. We did this thing at the Malthouse, which was sort of a musical – we wrote a few songs for the show – and that kind of seems like the natural place to go next.” For now, though, it’s all about Perfect Tripod and this Friday at the Zoo, Hall drops a few hints as to what audiences can expect. “We mess around… we kind of can’t help it, because it’s where we come from. But we certainly try and make the songs sound beautiful, even the silly ones. Hopefully it’s beauty and stupidity.” PERFECT TRIPOD play Zoo Twilights at the Melbourne Zoo on Friday January 24.

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RED LIGHT RIOT

By Augustus Welby

Melbourne has long been a hub for hard rock and punk bands. The lively community of musicians toiling in these genres ensures the subsistence of this underground institution. Formed in early 2013, Red Light Riot comprises a handful of musicians well experienced playing in the grimy bars of Fitzroy and Collingwood. The band was initiated when guitarist Nina von Johannsohn (formerly of Wolfpack) and vocalist Kristy Kta (from Queensland’s Kill The Apprentice) recognised their similar tastes and ambitions. “A mutual muso friend literally hooked me and Kristy up and we started talking about what type of band we wanted it to be and our influences,” von Johannsohn says. “Early Blag Flag – Keith Morris-era, Fugazi, L7, Hole, even PJ Harvey. Iggy Pop was another one. It was that vintage early hardcore punk rock and that real female energy as well,” she says of their major influences. After some early personnel trial and error, a prosperous relationship developed playing with drummer Ingrid Martini (K Road Queens), bassist Benjamin Hall (Fire Underground) and lead guitarist Ed Jones (Hellbent Revelators). Martini speaks confidently about the group’s chemistry. “We’ve got a really good bond happening between the five of us. We’re just so open with each other and we just have so much fun with each other. We’re the kind of people who can be straight up with each other. There’s no bullshit. If there’s any issues they’re not around for

long because we communicate well and play together well. With that bond our sound is coming along really strongly and quite fast,” she says. Songwriting largely remains a collaboration between von Johannsohn and Kta, however they’re not exactly dictating masters. Rather, democracy is the key. “At the end of the day it’s always a team effort and I want everyone’s influence. We’re definitely not precious over who does what or changes made. We just want the best result,” von Johannsohn explains. As mentioned, von Johannsohn and Kta cited some fairly specific guitar-wielding touchstones at the band’s inception. Martini’s summary of the quintet’s sound suggests these instigating influences have been closely followed. “We’re very much punk rock,” she says. “We’ve got really strong punk influences but we’ve also got a lot of heavy rock influences.” “Our sound definitely can’t be pigeonholed as one genre,” von Johannsohn adds. “It’s definitely got some sub-genres and different influences going on. I think our main thing is high energy.” Even though von Johannsohn suggests that their sound

can’t be succinctly pinned down, she’s very assured about what the band represents. “We know what we’re doing. I don’t think there’s any confusion now in terms of our sound.” The term ‘punk’ immediately implies more than just a sound. In addition to their noisy high energy approach to playing, Red Light Riot assume a fearless punk rock spirit. “There’s definitely that ideology behind stuff as well as the sound. We put our heart and soul into everything we do and all our songs,” says von Johannsohn. The band have just one gig under their belt thus far but 2014 is set to be a big year. “We’re in the process at the moment of recording our EP and that’s at Homesurgery recording studios in Brunswick,” reveals von Johannsohn. Homesurgery (which is also a management company)

is run by Shihad’s Tom Larkin and Martini explains how excited she is to record there. “Because I’m a kiwi, Shihad’s a pretty dear band to the hearts of New Zealanders, so I’m really proud to be dealing with him.” The EP should be available in four months time and the band have a number of gigs locked in for the first part of the year. “The vibe is what it’s about for us, because we just have so much fun with it and everyone seems to really like the tunes. So onwards and upwards really.”

the door whenever we go in for a session.” Speaking of egos, although the band have played only a handful of gigs, they’ve already received plenty of positive affirmation. Local booking agency Gunn Music Productions were so impressed with their Espy Artist Showdown performance that they gave the band a booking contract. Folliot describes the buzz of taking out first place. “Taking out the Espy Artist Showcase was insane; we never thought we’d take it out. That final show was so much fun. The Gershwin Room was just packed and had such a good vibe,” he enthuses. The band will return to the Espy for Rock The Bay festival in February (alongside Dallas Frasca, The Love Junkies and many more) and McDuff reveals they’re also preparing to hit the studio.

“We’ll be launching a single in the first few months and then dropping an EP towards the end of the year. We’re in early pre-production at the moment but there’s so much we want to do.” Rock’n’roll and modesty have never sat well together and fittingly, Folliot states his determined ambition to move Tell Amarosa up the Aussie rock ladder this year. “By the end of the year we just want to look back and laugh at what we were 12 months before. Even in the last few months our songwriting and playing has just been getting better and better so we hope to have made an impact on the scene by the year’s end.”

music is the vocal interplay between Sinclair and lead singer Thando Sikwila, deftly navigating the dynamic between their disparate styles. “Watching those two evolve together onstage over the last couple of years has been awesome. They are always surprising me with new interactions and live antics. I may be a little biased, but I believe they are one of the most original and innovative vocal duos around,” Schiftan smiles. “It very much occurs organically from the constant stream of gigs, you quickly become a team, you know each other’s parts in and out and you bounce off each other,” Sinclair explains. “We just try to up the energy and bring out the best in each other’s style.” While there are no doubt many more onstage memories to come, Echo Drama already have more than a few in the bag. “For me, it’s The Evelyn residencies that

have made for the most fun,” Sinclair states. “Especially getting people on side on a week night where you see the vibe of the room turn from trying to take it easy, to knowing that people will be calling in sick the next day. “Evelyn shows are definitely great memories, that stage is so familiar now we feel right at home and always bring it 110 percent there,” Schiftan agrees. “Also Folk Rhythm and Life festival was heaps of fun. It was a stinking hot day and punters and musos alike were melting but we managed to get the crowd up and dancing regardless.”

RED LIGHT RIOT will hit The Tote with The Ugly Kings, Stone Revival and Sexy/Heavy on Friday January 24.

TELL AMAROSA

By Augustus Welby

Winner of last November’s Espy Artist Showdown, Melbourne alternative-prog outfit Tell Amarosa are a promising addition to the already-prospering Australian heavy rock scene. While the four-piece’s rhythmic guitar-driven sound owes debt to the likes of Incubus and Mutemath, guitarist Tim Folliott says the strength of the local music scene is a big inspiration. “There’s getting to be some real big names in our wide genre, which is opening up for a whole lot of other bands to come through. It helps when you’ve got such amazing bands like Karnivool and Dead Letter Circus to bring attention to it.” Much like the aforementioned bands, it’s evident a lot of labour goes into Tell Amarosa’s songs. Their early recordings clearly exhibit technical proficiency, but guitarist Andey McDuff indicates this isn’t the driving intention. “Any technical-ness that comes into our music is in part from our influences, but also some of it comes after we’ve written a track and we just get bored and want to have more fun with it,” he says. Of course, it’s no good to simply focus on instrumental fiddling if you haven’t got anything to say. Thankfully, Tell Amarosa understand the importance of a memorable melody. “Kiddo [Alistair Kidd, bass/vocals] and Tim will spend hours writing and re-writing melodic lines until they think it’s workable or we have the melody stuck in our

head,” says drummer Nathan Home. “We really think melodic lines need to be strong so we work pretty hard on that,” adds Kidd. A lot of time goes into refining and crafting Tell Amarosa songs, but care must be taken to prevent any pedantic tweaking from crushing a song’s original vitality. “If we take too long or get overly involved in a track it’s easy to lose the perspective,” Folliot says. “It’s like if you say a word over and over again, it starts to sound different and weird, it really loses all context. That’s what it can feel like for us if we work on just one track for too long.” Something that helps prevent the group from over-editing is a democratic ethos. Kidd describes their commitment to mutual consensus. “We’ve had votes on ideas before and we generally won’t go ahead with something unless it’s unanimous,” he says. “We’ve all been good friends for so long, which probably helps. I think we’ve also established Tell Amarosa with the very strong idea that we leave our egos at

TELL AMAROSA play Rock The Bay festival at The Espy on Saturday February 15.

ECHO DRAMA

By Lachlan Kanoniuk

Through residencies, headline shows, festival appearances, and a now solid EP, Melbourne reggae/dub/hip hop mega collective Echo Drama have built a reputation as a formidable musical force since their beginning in 2011. Before they launch Bury The Weapons at their familiar haunt The Evelyn, vocalist Alex ‘Sinks’ Sinclair and drummer Jeremy Schiftan speak about the writing and recording process for their five-track debut EP. The eclectic array of influences within Echo Drama’s music stems from not only the collective consciousness of the band, but the plural of influences from respective members. “It more so comes from the fact that the head composers of our team have a wide pallet for good music, irrespective of genre. It’s all flavoursome stuff and it has attracted likeminded musicians who also share an interest in a wide variety of music,” Sinclair offers. “We all play in other projects outside the group and venture into musical territories far and wide, so I think it’s inevitable that our individual influences and broader experience filter back into Echo Drama’s collective sound,” Schiftan says. The band’s recently released Bury The Weapons EP showcases a consolidated musical acumen. “It was a rigorous process of long days in the studio. It was a very stringent operation, each segment of the band coming in for their allocated days. Recording itself turned out BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38

to be the simplest part of the exercise before turning to post-production,” Sinclair recalls. “Yeah, I second that,” Schiftan adds. “The bulk of tracking was done at Woodstock Studios with Robin Mai who is a phenomenally experienced and talented engineer, so those sessions were pretty smooth and we got a lot done in a pretty short time-frame with minimal headaches. A lot of the hours and serious work really kicked in after with the smaller detail stuff. Being our debut release, this was our first chance to fully exploit the possibilities of our studio sound and delve into more textural and layering elements. There was an epic few months of experimentation in overdubs and arrangement. Naturally not all of these extra ideas made the cut, but the parts that stuck around are amongst my favourite moments on the EP. Finally seeing our little babies pop and come to life in the mix was a very exciting time.” One of the foremost defining aspects of the band’s

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ECHO DRAMA launch their Bury The Weapons EP at The Evelyn on Friday January 31.

YOUTH LAGOON By Chris Girdler

The St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is fast approaching, bringing its eclectic mix of stable favourites, up-and-comers and cult oddities. Trevor Adams makes his return to Australia as part of this entourage, his sad, minimalist sound not the sort of music that you’d usually expect on a sunny, beer-soaked day (which is why, conversely, it can be so effective as a point of difference). I asked Adams whether it felt weird playing such insular music to a festival crowd and, although our Q&A was an email interaction, I can visualise him wincing at my use of the term ‘insular’ to describe his music. “I don’t think the music is insular at all, but on while other things have plenty of room for observational,” he counters. “Being insular comes exploring. When I bring anyone into the studio with from a very ignorant place, not wanting to learn me it’s because I like their perception of music and and glean from other cultures or other people’s want that uniqueness to bleed into the recording.” experiences. That’s not me. Really, with everything I Much of the appeal of The Year Of Hibernation was create, it may stem from my own obsessions, but it’s its ‘bedroom recording’ feel and Wondrous Bughouse always related to concepts had a boost in production and stories about the rest values to create a cleaner, of the world. If I stopped “BEING INSULAR COMES FROM clearer sound. I ask observing, I would stop Adams if there’s a limit A VERY IGNORANT PLACE, creating. So to answer the to how well produced question, I’d say festivals his music should be. NOT WANTING TO LEARN give me a chance to observe “Absolutely not,” he AND GLEAN FROM OTHER more. Mostly drunk idiots.” says. “And The Year of Adams has two albums CULTURES OR OTHER PEOPLE’S Hibernation sounds the under his belt, with 2001’s way it does to express a bare, hypnotic debut The EXPERIENCES. THAT’S NOT ME. very particular aura, not Year Of Hibernation recently because I was limited REALLY, WITH EVERYTHING I followed by the more by recording equipment. CREATE, IT MAY STEM FROM expansive, metaphysical Every element of a piece musings of Wondrous music matters, most MY OWN OBSESSIONS, BUT IT’S of Bughouse. I queried whether of all how you dress an the more psychedelic/ ALWAYS RELATED TO CONCEPTS album. Sometimes a drone feel of Wondrous record needs to be dressed Bughouse was something AND STORIES ABOUT THE REST in tattered rags, other preconceived or if this OF THE WORLD. IF I STOPPED times nude, other times shift away from the debut in a tuxedo. Limiting OBSERVING, I WOULD STOP album’s sound was a more yourself to dressing all organic decision. your records in the same CREATING.” “I do plan a lot in advance,” outfit would be spiritless says Adams. “But there and stale.” are also times I walk around in the dark and trip The lyrics in Youth Lagoon songs are often fantastical over something. And sometimes what caused that and dream-like, sometimes the stuff of nightmares. stumble is intriguing. So I’d say Wondrous Bughouse I wonder what song is the most clearly influenced was a mix of both. Dramatic planning and purposeful from Adam’s own real-life experiences and I ask him stumbling.” to pinpoint his most personal song. “I like opposites. The genesis of a Youth Lagoon album is a solo Where reality meets surrealistic abstractions. I think bedroom venture that then gets expanded in the everything I’ve made begins in a very personal place. studio with a full band who later join Adams on tour. But if I was to pick one, I’d probably say The Bath. The studio phase isn’t so much a collaborative process It’s written about a terrifying place I was in and the as a coordination of musicians to add some meat to decision I made to keep my life.” the original compositions, though allowing some room for exploration is also key to the end result. YOUTH LAGOON is playing as part of the “I do need a lot of space when I’m working on St Jerome’s Laneway Festival at the Footscray anything, but mostly because I have serious ADD. Community Arts Centre on Saturday February 1, I can’t even talk on the phone when anyone is followed by a sideshow at Ding Dong Lounge on around me because I get too distracted. I have a very Wednesday February 5. Wondrous Bughouse is out particular vision, and some things I’m very stubborn now through Shock Records. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV

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ST KILDA FESTIVAL By James Nicoli

Despite the ever increasing number of music festivals popping up all over the country, the financial climate for most continues to get tougher. For punters, more festivals means more choice but for festival organisers it simply means more competition. Competition for big name bands, venues and spaces and, crucially, funding. In response to these and other pressures, organisers of the St Kilda Festival had to get creative and have come up with the ‘Show You Give A Buck’ campaign, aimed at making sure the much loved event won’t succumb to financial pressures. “Basically the campaign is about securing the sustainability of the festival and making sure that it can continue on for the next few years to come,” affirms festival producer Adele Denison. The Show You Give A Buck campaign is a chance for the public to give back to the festival that has become such a treasured event. Merchandise such as t-shirts, drink holders, hats, badges, magnets and more are all up for grabs with all proceeds being poured straight back into the festival. “Festival costs are rising as the costs of all events are rising and I guess we needed to find a new revenue stream,” says Denison. “There are music festivals right across Australia that are in trouble and we’ve seen that probably for the last 12-18 months. Our costs are the same (as other festivals) but we’re not getting the box office revenue that those festivals are. So they’re in trouble even with their box office so we really needed to find a creative way of making up that revenue and keeping the festival’s head above water.” But what the St Kilda Festival may lack in box office sales, it makes up for in attendance with it being

one of the few festivals to feature quality musical acts, while not discriminating against people who may not have much cash in their back pocket. “The more festivals there are the more we’re all competing for artists and so it’s been a bit of a rise in artists fees and not necessarily being able to program the way you want because bands might be holding out for x, y or z festival,” says Denison of just some of the challenges faced in the current climate. “So it has hit us in those sorts of ways but I guess we do count ourselves lucky that we’re not reliant on people buying tickets and that has given us a bit of freedom in how we program the festival.” It seems that the St Kilda Festival has found quite a niche within Melbourne, being the one festival that anyone, whether student, pensioner or child can attend and not have to worry about shelling out $200 a ticket. “We ask people, ‘Have you gone to any other festivals in the past 12 months’ and every year we get at least 50% of people saying no and I think that is because we

are free and not everybody can pay the sorts of ticket prices that we’re seeing those days,” says Denison. “So it’s a unique festival that’s got a pretty important place so we’re doing everything we can to keep it around.” Despite the increasing financial pressures, it seems the St Kilda Festival at least is not receiving any less love from Australian bands. “It is a changing world for them as well and live revenue is really how they’re making their money now, states Denison. “No one wants to play every festival and some festivals won’t take you if you’ve played a month before so it’s a delicate balancing act but we’ve got great support from so

many Australian artists.” So with so much at stake I ask Denison what is the current state of health of the iconic festival? “I think given the strength of the response we’ve had in the past I’m really hopeful this is going to be a successful campaign and ask me again in a month I’ll be able to say ten out of ten for that health rating.” Fingers crossed.

countries have got really strong craft brew festivals.” While Ward says the Great Australian Beer Festival is fundamentally about appreciating beer – “people who don’t drink craft beer to get smashed,” Ward says – the festival’s focus transcends the simple tasting of beer. “We have five seminars, the first of which is how to taste beer – which is a good one to get started with,” Ward says. “And then we have a panel of local brewers, and a home brew seminar as well.” Ward says the homebrew market – once the subject of snide derision, but now a thriving part of the brewing environment – is an important element of the craft brewing market. “We really want to foster the homebrew market,” Ward says. In addition to the homebrew seminars, the festival will reward the winner of the homebrew competition. “We’ve really ramped up the homebrew competition this year,” Ward says. “The winner will be funded to release their brew, which is a

great prize.” Ward is conscious of the logistical and economic problems that have befallen festivals in recent times. While the Great Australian Beer Festival is fundamentally about beer, Ward says to succeed the festival has to operate on multiple levels. “That’s why we’ve also got entertainment, including music and also some quirky cabaret, as well as comedy,” Ward says. The cabaret comprises the aptly titled Beer Cabaret, while the musical acts featured include Owl Eyes, Tiger Town and Kylie Auldist. Ward says the festival reflects a changing of attitudes toward beer. “Someone said recently that beer is a conversation, but wine is a lecture. And I think that’s spot on.”

ST KILDA FESTIVAL runs from Saturday February 1 – Sunday February 9 throughout various venues in the St Kilda precinct.

GREAT AUSTRALIAN BEER FESTIVAL By Patrick Emery Many years ago, the Monty Python troupe derided American beers as like making love in a canoe; having also applied their Cambridge-with-a-sledgehammer humour to Australian wine (‘Chateau Chunder’), Python chose wisely to ignore the temptation to take the piss out of Australian beer. After all, wasn’t Australian beer just the bland liquid that Bazza McKenzie guzzled as fuel for his obnoxious commentary? How times have changed. Walk into any half decent pub these days, and you’ll find at least a few boutique beers in the fridge; even the tap beers will probably feature a boutique-styled beer (Fat Yak, Matilda Bay, Little Creatures) owned by one of the larger brewers. Coupled with Australians’ evolving understanding of culinary matters, the craft beer market has experienced a major resurgence in recent years. “It’s been similar with wine, coffee and food,” says Geelong promoter Michael Ward, co-organiser of the Great Australian Beer Festival in Geelong. “Businesses have gone out onto a limb to introduce something new, and people get educated. And then you start matching beer with food, and people love it.” Like many Australians, Ward’s beer experiences and indulgences were limited originally to mainstream brews: “mainly CUB, Carlton Draught, that sort of stuff,” he says. When his business partner approached Ward to help out with the promotion and

organisation of a Geelong beer festival, Ward had a crash course in craft beer. “Since I’ve been involved with the festival, it’s been an amazing journey,” Ward says. “There’s so many fantastic craft beers out there, and it’s still growing.” Geelong, and the surrounding coastal districts have embraced craft brewing with considerable affection. “There are six other brewers around Geelong,” Ward says. “Southern Bay brews its own beer down here, and it also does beer under contract for other labels – which is a pattern that follows what’s happened in the United States.” It was this local interest in craft brewing that made Ward realise Geelong was a natural location for a craft brew festival. “We had the inaugural event last year, and we got 4000 people coming along, so we got traction straight away,” Ward says. “We’re about five to ten years behind the US market, and a couple of years behind the New Zealand market, and both of those

THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN BEER FESTIVAL is on at Geelong Racecourse on Saturday February 1.

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DEFTONES By Wayne Marshall

Back in November, with only eight weeks until Australia’s premier summer festival Big Day Out was due to kick off, Britpop icons Blur dramatically pulled out of the event, with a single post on their Facebook page. A veritable shitstorm of finger-pointing ensued across social media. Who was to blame? Blur or a certain renegade tour promoter? And more to the point, who was going to be the replacement? “A band called Blur cancelled and someone came calling,” recounts Abe Cunningham, drummer of alternative metal veterans Deftones. Speaking from his home in Sacramento, California, Cunningham is clearly rapt about the eleventh hour deal that saw his band included in a three-for-one replacement for Blur (the other two being Swedish rockers The Hives and the Liam Gallagher fronted Beady Eye). “We were back at home base and supposed to be off,” says Cunningham, having recently wound up a world tour for Deftones’ resurgent seventh album Koi No Yokan, which saw the band hit Australia last May. “It’s pretty wild. Usually there’s a few years between trips and so this is wonderful. (Australia) is one of our favourite places to travel to and we’re more than stoked.” 2013 marked the 25th anniversary of Deftones, whose original and distinctive take on metal, according to Cunningham, “has always been a battle of beauty versus aggression”. As with any band that’s endured that long, you’d expect them to have encountered a few tough times over the journey and Deftones have had more than their fair share in recent years. In 2008, bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a serious car accident that left him in a coma. In April of last year, having recovered enough to leave hospital, Cheng tragically passed away due to sudden heart failure. Throw in inner-band rifts, drug abuse and all the myriad trappings of the rock’n’roll lifestyle, and for a few years it looked inevitable that the quintet would self-implode. But they made it through. When asked if the band’s survival can be attributed to the fact that three of its core members have been friends since they were teenagers (Cunningham, singer Chino Moreno and guitarist Stephen Carpenter grew up together in Sacramento), Cunningham answers, “Yeah definitely. There’s certainly been times when things were not so peachy. But I really do believe we’re based on a friendship. We’ve experienced a lot over the years. We’ve seen the world over and over. And every day is a chance to do something new and exciting. And what better way to do it than with friends.”

“PEOPLE HAVE A SERIOUS INTEREST IN [EROS] FOR A LOT OF REASONS. IT’S A VERY HEAVY RECORD. AND QUITE FRANKLY, THE RECORD’S NOT DONE. PEOPLE THINK THAT WE’RE JUST SITTING ON IT, BUT WE’RE NOT, IT NEEDS TO BE FINISHED. IT’S A HEAVY, HEAVY RECORD FOR THE FACT THAT IT’S THE LAST THING WE DID WITH CHI. WE’LL GIVE IT A LOOK WHEN WE CAN, BUT IT’S NOT THAT EASY, MAN.” Perhaps the longevity of Deftones also has something to do with the freedom they allow each other to pursue other projects. Moreno, in particular, has been prolific of late, with his excellent Palms collaboration with three ex-members of ISIS, as well as his ongoing Crosses project. “Chino is just a busy, busy boy,” laughs Cunningham. “He’s always making music. At first it can be a bit like, ‘what, you’re not getting that from us, so you’re going somewhere else to get it?’ Kind of like cheating. But now I look at it this way: whatever experience any of us have from playing with different people, we bring that back to our mix and I can only think that it strengthens it.” As for what’s next for Deftones, Cunningham is quick to quell rumours that the band is set to release the shelved Eros album of 2008. “It’s definitely been talked a lot about in the press. People have a serious interest in that album for a lot of reasons. It’s a very heavy record. And quite frankly, the record’s not done. People think that we’re just sitting on it, but we’re not, it needs to be finished. It’s a heavy, heavy record for the fact that it’s the last thing we did with Chi. We’ll give it a look when we can, but it’s not that easy, man.” For the moment at least, Cunningham and his bandmates are content to focus on the good fortune that’s enabled them to be jetting off for another Australian summer as part of the travelling circus that is the Big Day Out. DEFTONES play the Melbourne leg of the Big Day Out on Friday January 24 at Flemington Racecourse, alongside Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Snoop, Flume and many many more. Tickets are still available via bigdayout.com Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter will also be holding a Q&A and signing with Thursday at Whole Lotta Love. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV

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NOSTALGHIA By Tom Valcanis

Nostalghia is self-described as “post-apocalyptic gypsy punk.” Singer and instrumentalist Ciscandra Nostalghia, together with drummer and equally talented multi-instrumentalist Roy Gnan will prove an oasis of strange and arty catharsis in a desert of screaming, angry men at the upcoming Soundwave Festival. “Ciscandra can scream with the best of them, don’t make people feel something.” worry about that,” Gnan begins on the toughness of Digging deeper is how Nostalghia operates, asking his musical counterpart. “We don’t have any screamo musical questions and not knowing what the answers songs but there are some points that it goes there. are. Gnan searches for sounds that aren’t part of the We’re hoping that the audience takes it in with a “traditional” musical canon. similar kind of intensity.” “I look for sounds I can manipulate,” Gnan explains. Nostalghia is punk before it was punk: bohemian, “We take things and we Nostalghia-fy them. We DIY and a sponge to the sounds of the world. might take a rough outline of a song and we give it This two-piece are like a the ‘Nostalghia treatment.’ modern musical Shakti We pull it back from the and Shiva – twin primal “THAT’S THE KIND OF ENERGY most obvious option. I feminine and masculine have a very expensive and energies destroying and re- THAT I WANT TO BE INVOLVED original sound library. creating music anew. around with a WITH. IT DOES MAKE PEOPLE Ilittlewalk Digital This ebb and flow is Audio inspired by Ciscandra’s Tape recorder. If I hear UNCOMFORTABLE, AND journey. Iranian by birth, something interesting, I’ll Ciscandra was partially I’VE HEARD THAT BEFORE. I record it. I’ll layer five, raised there before coming six, seven sounds together to California. She grew DON’T THINK SHE DESIGNED and make it one sound. around her multicultural Ninety-five, ninety-nine IT THAT WAY, BUT I THINK family: a Persian mother percent of sounds in and Irish-Russian father SHE’D SMILE IF SHE HEARD there are original sounds fluent in French among I’ve created. We always many others. This rich IT DID. SHE WANTS TO MAKE manipulate it to sound stew of cultures bubble like us. PEOPLE FEEL SOMETHING.” “People can listen to us into Nostalghia’s intense music and performance. and have no idea where She seldom holds anything back. Audiences have those sounds came from,” Gnan continues. “They found Nostalghia’s visceral outpouring of emotion might be using a lot of the same equipment but I’ll compelling, oftentimes off-putting. spend weeks finding the right one.” “For me, it’s never been uncomfortable,” Gnan They complement found sounds with harps, piano, counters. “I feed off of it. I find it attractive. That’s electronic glitches, accordion, strings and a humble the kind of energy that I want to be involved with. guitar. Gnan’s stage setup sees him behind drums and It does make people uncomfortable, and I’ve heard electronics, juggling between the two. that before. I don’t think she designed it that way, but “I’ve been doing it for a while now; my whole rig I think she’d smile if she heard it did. She wants to is connected,” Gnan explains. “I just have to prepare

and keep my head straight. We used to have a much larger band with a string quartet. It was just too big and limiting. So we started downsizing.” With fewer on board, it was incumbent on Gnan to plug up the sonic holes using new techniques. “I come from a schooled jazz background,” Gnan says on his musical upbringing. “I got away from that quite a while ago and started exploring. I found my way into samplers and electronics. I have a bit of an obsessive personality so I started thinking, ‘What is possible with that stuff ?’” The jazz inside him coaxed Gnan to improvise down

to the nuts and bolts. “It’s definitely translated into what we’re doing now,” Gnan says. “There’s a lot of crummily set-up stuff. I mean, you can write some good stuff by using the presets in the units. I just break everything apart. I take elements of it and push the boundaries of what the instruments can do.” NOSTALGHIA play Soundwave Festival alongside Green Day, Alice In Chains, Rob Zombie and more at Flemington Racecourse on Friday February 28.

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YOUR BAND CAN PLAY PUSH OVER! Thanks to triple j Unearthed your band could be playing at Melbourne’s infamous Sidney Myer Music Bowl as part of Push Over on Monday March 10 (Labour Day public holiday) along with the already announced stellar lineup including Deez Nuts, Dream on Dreamer, Chance Waters, Remi, Pez, In Hearts Wake, Buried in Verona, Smith Street Band, Cub Sport and many more! To be in the running get your music up online at triple j Unearthed before Sunday February 16 and you will automatically be in the running to play at this year’s Push Over Festival! The winner will be announced late February. Push Over is also running a huge competition to head along to this year’s festival VIP style with a VIP ticket for you and one mate to head backstage at Push Over and smash the Push Over Llama Pinata with the Smith Street Band. While you’re there you’ll get to feast on sweet confectionary while having a chat with the Smith Street Band before they hit the stage – festivale style! And to sweeten this amazing prize even more, the folks at Polaroid Australia are also going to throw in a Z340 Polaroid Camera with 30 pack film, valued at over $470 so you can take photos of yourself backstage. All you need to do to win is simply head to the Push Over Facebook page at facebook.com/ pushovervic and let them know why you should win. Be as creative as possible. Entries close February 16.

VISTA CHINO MEET & GREET Does Kyuss sound as sweet by any other name? We’re about to find out, with Vista Chino, aka John Garcia, Brant Bjork, Bruno Fevery, and Mike Dean. They have an incredible new album called Peace, and they’ll be doing a meet and greet at the legendary Beyond The Pale Posters, 25 Carlisle St, St Kilda, on Thursday January 23 from 12.30pm onwards (doors open at 11am). Posters, t-shirts etc. will be on sale for the guys to sign. Contact John at Beyond The Pale Posters for further info on (03) 9593 8900.

RIP DOMINIC MITHEN Indie/folk band Nice Boy Tom is probably not the kind of music you regularly see covered in Crunch but I’d just like to take a moment to remember Dominic Mithen, who passed away last week following complications from a heart transplant. Dom and I went to the same high school and I bumped into him years later when I happened across a Nice Boy Tom gig in Fitzroy. He was a sweet guy with a natural talent for music, and he will be greatly missed.

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NEW VOYAGER SINGLE After a roaring start to 2014 with their Kickstarter campaign reaching its 10K target in three days, Voyager have big things planned, including a new album to be released around mid-year. The first single is a true Voyager-style heavy anthem, Breaking Down: a driving, catchy, heavy and melodic track which features some tasty screams by ex-Tesseract/Skyharbor frontman Daniel Tompkins.

AC/DC + RABBITS + ALCOHOL = BIDDY O’LOUGHLIN PLAY Biddy O’Loughlin performs her one-person play Funny Rabbit at The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine on Thursday January 30. Funny Rabbit is the darkly comic tale of an existential AC/DC-loving rabbit who becomes an alcoholic stand-up comedian. Biddy debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011 with The Girl Who Thought She Was Irish, and her new show is a poignant story about loneliness, ambition and the elusive art of stand up comedy. Entry is $10, doors at 8.30pm.

AGHONYMN AT THE BRIDGE Agonhymn are a sludged-out power duo who marry big jazz chords and extreme downtuning to ‘’stretchedtime’’ doom rhythms. Mostly instrumental, but the guys don’t let you get sleepy, and constantly change up tempos, moods and soft/loud dynamics, and incorporate elements of black metal, droner post-rock, stoned fuzz and flat out crushing doom. Heavy. Catch Agonhymn perform at The Bridge Hotel Castlemaine on Friday January 31. Supported by Child. Doors at 8.30pm.

METAL AT THE BENDIGO On Sunday February 26 catch Belakor, Claim The Throne (WA), Orpheus Omega, Okera and Heisenberg at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood.

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Well, Hits & Pits are kind of making all my teenage dreams come true lately. Just weeks after the conclusion of their last festival, they’ve secured more of your (old) favourite bands for another festival to take place this May. Strung Out, Face To Face, The Casualties, Ten Foot Pole, Death By Stereo, Big D and The Kids Table, Masked Intruder, Heartsounds (and more to be announced) will all play at The Hi-Fi (downgrade from the Palace – surely this will sell out in about a week?) on Saturday May 17. Tickets are available now through hitsandpitsfest.bigcartel.com. Can’t help but feel promoter Heathen Skulls must have had a bit of a nightmare week last week. Eyehategod’s tour faced some rather nightmarish hurdles when the band was left stranded at the airport. The band no doubt found some free Wi-Fi and posted “Due to poor planning by the Australian booking agent, Eyehategod are sorry to say our Australian tour is now cancelled. We were left at the airport without our flights booked and then we were expected to pay for them out of pocket an hour before boarding time. We were literally left standing with passports in hand but no way to travel….Please understand this is not our fault. Eyehategod loves Australia and we’re super excited to come back over”. Heathen Skulls responded saying they were “doing everything in our power to resolve the issue”. They later posted full explanation “with various complications relating to their flights, and not enough time left at check in to rectify the situation, the band wasn’t able to board their flight to Australia.” Refunds are available at point of purchase. The Smith Street Band have announced a second show on the Melbourne leg of their Menzingers accompanied Aussie tour. Tickets for their Saturday night gig at the Corner Hotel are almost gone so hurry up and grab one or alternatively get to the Sunday night show. Meanwhile their vocalist Wil Wagner has publicly revealed that in a bit to avoid any semblance of a normal life, he’s going to hit the road in the interim for some acoustic shows with Max Stern (signals midbest) and Pinch Hitter. Catch that goodness at The Reverence Hotel in Footscray on Saturday March 8. Anberlin have announced that they’ll part ways at the end of this year. “You know that the time has come, you’ve gotta go with it”. They’re planning to release one final record and

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chuck one final lap of the globe this year before pulling the plug. Clever way to go out, boys. Well played.

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Define your genre in five words or less: Bittersweet, moody and sometimes uplifting! What can a punter expect from your live show? Lots of ups and downs. We play a few quite stripped back acoustic songs as well as some more upbeat ones. Most of us switch around our instruments a fair bit, which we find fun there’s always guitars, banjos, ukes, saxes and whatever else we find along the way. Everyone likes to sing so we all get a voice in there somewhere, for better of worse! What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? On this occasion we’ll be plugging our new EP I Am Only Snow. We’ve been sitting on it for a while and can’t wait to set it on its way. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Play plenty of shows and then play some more. This is certainly something we’ve been trying to do over the last year, and it seems like it is paying off. It’s quite often a fair bit of work and travelling but we love it, so it’s all good. When are you releasing your EP? We’ll be launching I Am Only Snow at The Grace

Darling in Melbourne on Friday January 31. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Performing music is pretty damn fun. It’s hard to not feel pretty happy when you’re able to cruise around and play shows from city to city. What part of making music excites you the most? Personally, I find the process of tracking songs for the time very exciting – you never quite know when will happen and you’re almost always surprised. That and also when unexpected opportunities fall onto you, that’s great and very satisfying. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording? We once played a full blown show on the roof of a hostel in Toronto at night which was both awesome and terrifying. It was such a cool spot to play because we had the night time city skyline all around us, but it was also blazingly cold. Cold enough to thoroughly warp the neck of my guitar such the strings were flicking out of the nut. Anything else to add? Love to see you at one of the shows, and check out travellerandfortune.com for more info.

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WEDNESDAY JAN 22 VAN WALKER

After a hardcore 2013 touring Australia and Europe while also finding time to release an album with the Livingstone Daisies and write the first draft of a novel, Van Walker returns to the Retreat Hotel for a balmy summer evening residency with new songs, Shane Reiley on lap steel and a bunch of his favorite Melbourne acts, including Duncan Graham & Rex Watts, Small Town Romance, Leena, Jemma Rowlands & Sean McMahon. From 8.30pm this Wednesday January 22.

CHILD

Psychedelic blues rock trio Child continue their Wednesdays in January residency at Cherry Bar and this Wednesday January 22, support comes from Don Fernando and Arctic Dune. Doors at 6pm and music from 9pm. Cherry DJs untill 3am and the best part is that it’s all free entry!

THE IN THE OUT

Melbourne’s psyche/pop quartet The In The Out are embarking on a new direction for 2014 so Wednesday January 22 at Boney will be their last show as you have known/seen/heard them before! Having only recorded a self-titled EP back in 2011 the band are currently working on a full length album to be delivered to the world in mid 2014. Think Sega Megadrive meets Death, and it may give you a clue! So come to Boney and here your fav songs and get your ass whipped with supports by The New Pollution and Tender Bones. $6 entry and doors at 8pm.

ARCHER MOORE

Archer Moore’s music is inspired by the idea of corporations. The songs are mostly about hearts broken by relationships and the idea of the apocalypse at small-town golf clubs. He will be playing songs from an upcoming solo acoustic EP and debuting an accompaniment with a violin player. He’ll be joined by Georgia Spain and Ryan McGill at The Old Bar Wednesday January 22.

JASON LENNINGS

The freshest offering to the Revolver Bandroom and Colonel Tan’s is the new Acoustic Sessions dining experience, where you can pull up a seat at a table in the front room and enjoy some relaxed tunes from an array of Melbourne and Australia’s finest acoustic artist’s week in, week out. All whilst enjoying the large number of choices from the Colonel Tan’s Thai Restaurant menu. Hopping on stage this week all the way from Austin, Texas we have Indie/folk artist Jason Lennings who is looking to share his songs with Australian audiences. He will be joined by up and coming singer/songwriter Josh Henry, who is just at the beginning of what he hopes to be an exciting musical journey. Doors at 6.30pm.

THE LACHLAN BRUCE BAND

The Lachlan Buce Band are a power trio spitting out great blues grooves and a top live show. Returning to Bar Open and supported by the amazing Stevie & The Sleepers and rock giants Fifth Friend, this show is one you don’t want to miss. Between the soulful tones and cracking musicianship this lineup has memorable written all over it. Free entry. Doors at 8:30pm Wednesday January 22.

VOWEL MOVEMENT

Fresh off the release of their debut single Pigeon Feet, Vowel Movement continue their Wednesday residency in Janurary at The Tote, this Wednesday January 22 with Monnone Alone, ScotDrakula and Tulalah. Doors at 8pm.

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Khristian Mizzi & the Sirens have been steadily creating a distinct and relevant voice in Australian contemporary folk music, and are working towards long-awaited releases in 2013. Hailing from the regional town of Moe, in Gippsland Victoria, songwriter Khristian Mizzi has bween mesmerising audiences throughout Victoria and across Melbourne for years. They’re on Wednesday January 22 at The Bendigo along with German troubadours Who Are You Lutra Lutra? and excellent folk artist Douglas First to open.

MATT DWYER’S BOOKER T AND THE MGS TRIBUTE SHOW

Matt Dwyer’s Booker T And The MGs Tribute Show is an all-star cast of seasoned players, coming together to pay homage to the works of one of the greats. With members like Matt Dwyer (ex-Bondi Cigars), Steve Hadley (Paul Kelly, Tex Perkins, Black Sorrows), Dustin Maclean (exBamboos) and the inimitable Steve Morrison, the sheer talent and chops on stage is astounding. They’ll be joined by very special guest Chelsea Wilson. It’s on at Ding Dong Lounge at 8pm Wednesday January 22.

THURSDAY JAN 23 THE WALNUTS

It’s most certainly past the holiday festivity season, but close enough that The Walnut’s can be your excuse to continue to be silly. They’ll be performing with special guest Fat Sparrow, Kyle Taylor, and Dave Simony at The Brunswick Hotel From 8pm on ThursdayJanuary 23. Schooners will be $3 and basic spirits $5. We understand that you don’t want to spend any of your hard earned booze money so this gigs free!

LARISSA TANDY

Here is a unique voice: Her unrestrained performances and muscular songwriting are fast becoming Larissa Tandy’s hallmarks. While her band, Strine Singers goes from strength to strength, she has been quietly toiling away between shows: writing compulsively, studio engineering, and staking a claim on foreign red carpets as a film composer for hire. She emerges as a solo artist for the first time with a five part residency with a stellar lineup of handpicked supports, including Tracy McNeil, Rich Davies, Saint Jude’s Brooke Penrose, Al Parkinson, Amarillo, Brooke Russell, and more. Thursday January 23 at Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. Free entry. 8pm start.

HOLY LOTUS

Holy Lotus headline the Grace Darling Basement on Thursday January 23 with a line up of post-punk, experimental delights. The three piece, synth-post-punkers play one last show before they head to Perth for their single launch tour. The band bring forth minimal drum beats, repetitive layers and experimental tones. Joining them in the basement are Tangrams, Map Ends and O Littleblood. $5 entry, doors at 9pm.

THE STRANGE

Part gypsy caravan and part psychedelic meltdown, The Strange are a collection of garage beat mystics. After supporting The Preatures on the Melbourne dates of their recent Is This How You Feel tour and a successful tour in support of debut single Sugar Boy/Cherry Pop, The Strange have quickly evolved into a hypnotic fixture of the Melbourne scene. The lo-fi scuzz at the core of their sound threads together a patchwork of influences from The Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones to French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud and English occultist Aleister Crowley. Thursdays in January 2014 will see The Strange take centre stage for a residency at legendary Melbourne club Yah Yah’s with a colourful cast of supports including Sooky La La, The Naked Bodies, Going Swimming, Darts and the Hondas. See them this Thursday January 23 and experience their strange and psychedelic world first hand. Debut single Sugar Boy/ Cherry Pop available now on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and Amazon. Doors 7pm, free entry.

GOING SWIMMING

After the ‘annus gargantuous’ that was 2013, a year that saw them release their debut EP to a sold-out Grace Darling, as well as two new singles and three interstate tours, the lairy lads from Going Swimming are set to welcome the new year at the Tote with some new tunes, a bunch of rad bands and too many tinnies.Joined by a bunch of their musical mates, Going Swimming’s Summer Lovin’ mini Slow Club residency will see the boys defile the Tote’s upstairs area for the last three Thursday nights in January, so come along and blast your back-to-work blues away with some short, sharp, surf-punk jams. $5 entry, 8.30pm every Thursday in January.

GORSHA

Gorsha, LOOBS and Lucid Skinny Dream. A solid lineup to sate your dissonant cravings. Gorsha are fresh from NYE festivities at the inaugural Gelliroll festival and also from releasing their self titled album. Swamp rock hasn’t sounded this good in years and these Territory boys are the best thing to come out of Darwin since ... LOOBS are also fresh from Gelliroll and making a racket on their wrangler demos. Welcome them back for their first show of the year before they head up to Bendigo to play in a car park, like they always dreamed they would! Lucid Skinny Dream is the brain child of Joshua Hodson-Smith, presenter of the show Peeking Through The Wool on PBS 106.7. Hear the sounds of a man, a guitar and a fuck load of loops. All three acts are hitting up the Public Bar on Thursday January 23.

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Define your genre in five words or less: Gypsy jazz.

What makes a good musician? I think the most important thing is to listen.

How long have you been gigging and writing? I started writing when I was seven and my first gig was when I was 11.

What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? I think the best thing to do is just concentrate on music, don’t think too much about trying to “make it” or any of that stuff. Just enjoy playing and if something happens then great but if not then you haven’t wasted any time chasing something... you’ve just had fun.

What part of making music excites you the most? My favourite part is recording. I think that’s when you really put the paint brush to the canvas and create a piece of art. I also really like jamming; I suppose it’s more like sketching. I love it when you get in a room with a few musicians and maybe a couple of mates having a beer and you just jam all night. I have hours of recordings of sessions I’ve had with people just improvising on tunes or riffs. It’s great when you set up some kind of dialogue and all of the playing just happens in the moment. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Some of my biggest musical influences would be Led Zeppelin, Wes Montgomery, Bireli Lagrene, Chet Baker, Peter Green, Stan Getz.

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How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? It tends to be more how I balancing everything else around making and playing music. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? I have a new album out called Ninick that is available from my website remiharris.co.uk or from gigs. REMI HARRIS plays at Bennetts Lane on Saturday February 15.

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BANCO DE GAIA

Banco De Gaia will perform only one solo show in Melbourne on Thursday January 23 at the Northcote Social Club, aside from his appearance at the Rainbow Serpent Festival. Support comes from Deep Fried Dub, Sunsaria and DJ Dom Hogan. Playing in support of his new album Apollo, which has received the kind of lavish critical praise fans of his work have come to expect. In a world dominated by generic, and formulaic dance music Banco De Gaia is a breath of fresh air. A genuine icon of electronic music he has been fusing world sounds with electronica for two decades. Tickets on sale via northcotesocialclub.com.

THE CUTTING LIST

The Cutting List, The Broken Needles, and Catgut are at The Old Bar on Thursday January 23 for your listening pleasure. Be there or be square. The Cutting List have got a whole heap of scorching new tunes to let fly on Melbourne and are just shaking to bring your ears to these new places. Their newish EP Chasing Winter is getting great international reviews and has been featured on RRR, PBS, SYN, and ABC radio but they’re way more excited about this new direction. Come get wild.

THE RAY GUNS

The Ray Guns will be headlining a show at the fantastic Bar Open on Thursday January 23. They will be accompanied by the glorious Black Alleys, Tinsmoke and Paper Cult. This is The Ray Gun’s first gig for 2014 and you wouldn’t miss it because it’s going to be bloody good! Make a night of it, bring some friends, get sweaty. You know you want to. It’s Free! What else do you need. Free entry. Doors at 8pm.

One-off opportunity to listen to a guitar great explain his approach to writing some of the best heavy guitar based music of our time. Stephen Carpenter will also be showcasing his range of 7 & 8 string Signature Series ESP Guitars. This is a FREE event and begins at 7pm. Be early as this is limited capacity! Whole Lotta Love on Thursday January 23. Do it.

THE PUTBACKS

Instrumental funk-killer-floor-fillers The PutBacks perform two sets at The Spotted Mallard this Thursday from 8.30pm. The PutBacks have performed as part of PBS 106.7 fm Live Music Week (2008/9), at Melbourne’s premier funk night ‘Soul-A-Go-Go’ and have opened for Australian premier funk outfit The Bamboos, ‘The Menahan Street Band featuring Charles Bradley’ during their Australian tour in 2009, and have just recently opened for Booker T Jones in Sydney and Melbourne.

REVOLVER - PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS

In 2014 we are looking at re-inventing the band room at Revolver with Plugged In Thursdays. The new weekly live music offering from the Revolver Bandroom which will feature three of Melbourne and Australia’s top up and coming and established acts hitting the stage with resident DJ Miss Flip keeping you occupied between sets! Hunting Season lead the line up this time round with catchy indie pop tunes to keep the crowd hooked and moving from the first note that is sung. The guys have been busy doing the rounds in the Melbourne music scene and are looking to leave their mark. In support on the night will be Bastion who had a bumper crowd fill the Revolver Band Room back in November the last time they visited, which is no surprise with their brand of indie rock being extremely infectious. Add to these new boys to the block The Pacifics who are already making big strides and you have another big night this Thursday January 23 at Revolver. Doors 8.30pm. Entry $5 at the door.

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COLIN STETSON

Colin Stetson is on a solo trip to Australia to perform his critically acclaimed and ground breaking show in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Perth including special appearances at internationally acclaimed arts festivals MONA FOMA and SYDNEY FESTIVAL. Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player, working extensively live and in studio with a wide range of acts including Tom Waits, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Bon Iver, David Byrne, The National and Laurie Anderson to name a few. Meanwhile he has developed an utterly unique voice as a soloist, principally on saxophones and clarinets, his intense technical prowess matched by his exhilarating and emotionally gripping skills as a songwriter. He visits Melbounre at The Toff In Town on Thursday January 23 with Sarah Neufeld and the Kelvin Club on Friday January 24.

THE SKA VENDORS AND SHANTY TOWN WITH DJ FABULOUS FEZ After a fine 2013, the highlight being an appearance at Melbourne’s Festival’s Celebration of Melbourne Ska supporting legends The Caribs, The Ska Vendors are ready to launch into 2014 with a gig at The Retreat Hotel on Thursday January 23 with reggae rockers, Shanty Town, for a night of Jamaican ska, R&B, reggae and rock-stead, Melbourne style! Joining the bands on decks, playing the rarest Jamaican gems on vinyl, will be DJ Fabulous Fez.

FRIDAY JAN 24 SPENCER P JONES

If you’re looking to kick-start your weekend, head down to Cherry Bar to catch Spencer P Jones continuing his Friday residency playing two solo sets from 5.30pm til 7.40pm this Friday January 24. It’s all free entry to catch The Keef of Melbourne.

RED LIGHT RIOT

A direct quote from a punter- “I’ve seen a shit loads of bands over the years, this band is a rockin’ kick-ass band, top show!”. RLR have been receiving praise like this in the past weeks following a show at the Bendigo Hotel. RLR are a brand new Melbourne based Punk Rock band that has been getting fantastic responses from audiences who are being left gobsmacked by their powerful catchy riffs and pure unadulterated energy given off at shows. They certainly are making waves and are worth checking out if you are into good Aussie Punk Rock. But even if you aren’t a “punk rock fan”, you will find something special about this band. They are set to play again at The Tote on the Friday the January 24 with The Ugly Kings, Stone Revival, and Sexy/Heavy. You might kick yourself for missing this show. Get down. Seriously!

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Local Alt-Country Raconteurs Ghost Towns of the Midwest, will take the stage at The Cornish Arms in Brunswick every Friday in January, previewing songs from their recently recorded debut E.P. A different special guest opens each week, including Anne of the Wolves, Rob Harrow (Immigrant Union) and Liam Gerner...and best part - it’s free!

CITIZEN KAY

Following performances at Falls Festival and The Plot, Citizen Kay ascends on Ding Dong Lounge on Friday January 24 to raise a glass and kick off the Australia Day Long Weekend. After popping the cork with his climactic arrival in early 2013, smashing the airwaves and musical palates around the country with the sonic and lyrical experience of his debut EP YES!, Citizen Kay has spent the last six months spitting rhymes and dropping beats on stages all across the country in his prodigious live show. Joining him on the night is Dylan Joel, Melbourne’s freshest addition in the ever growing sub-culture of Oz Hip Hop. Doors at 8pm, tickets are $12+bf .

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PAPA PILKO BINRATS

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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.

PEAK TWINS

Peak Twins are Joel Carey (Wolf & Cub) and Liam Kenny (Bitch Prefect, The Friendsters). Their engineer and producer is Jack Farley and their regular backing group is Chad McLachlan, James Mannix and Ben Quici. Their songwriting is informed by the voices of Julee Cruise, Mick Jagger and Roy Orbison. The first Peak Twins LP is made up of nine tracks, all produced with producer Jack Farley throughout 2012 and ‘13. The Peak Twins LP does not have two lead singers – it is fronted by a lone, powerful voice, supported by choir-strength backing, swimming in a sea of angelic guitars and flat-foot drumming. Peak Twins’ self titled LP is available now through Bedroom Suck Records will be launched at The John Curtin Hotel on Friday January 24 with Lakes and School of Radiant Living. Doors 8.30pm, $10.

CARAVAN BURLESQUE

Moira Finucane and her wild artistes fly in from Buenos Aires, Paris and London to unleash seductive spectacle, swinging circus, disco and dirty dancing, as part of The Substation’s Sizzling Summer Program! Globally acclaimed in 12 languages, winner of eight 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 balloon-popping, show-stopping, jaw dropping, disco fever! For two weekends only - Friday January 24 and Saturday January 25, and Friday January 31 and Saturday February 1. Finucane and 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 and 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.

PASSERINE

A little bit dub, a little bit trip hop and a LOT disco. That pretty much sums up this dynamic, seven-piece band fronted by vocalist Phoebe Dubar. Passerine first appeared in July 2013 with the debut single Ready To Begin, an infectious, band-driven disco number that dragged listeners out of the depths of winter and onto the dance floor, and was voted #52 in “It’s My Kind of Scene” top 113 tracks of 2013. Passerine perform two sets at The Spotted Mallard this Friday January 24.

IMMIGRANT UNION

As each January comes Immigrant Union becomes one year older and this particular January marks four years since Brent said to Bob ‘can you sing harmonies?’ and Bob said ‘no’ then Fat Head said ‘well...you should probably learn cause you know, we are starting a band’. On Friday January 24 Immigrant Union will hit the stage at the Evelyn at the exact moment this in depth conversation took place four years ago. Supports from Howard plus Dean Whitby (Drunk Mums). Doors at 9pm.

LA BASTARD

Picture Nancy Sinatra singing out front of the Gun Club with Dick Diver playing lead guitar at the best party of the year. If you can imagine such an exciting and eclectic mix of 50’s rock n roll, 60’s surf tunes and 80’s punk attitude, you’re getting close to the sound of four piece La Bastard. La Bastard’s mix of sultry vocals, searing licks and unwavering energy will get you dancing even if they have to come down there and join you! With a stellar line up of superb musicians Rich Davies and The Devils Union will be joining La Bastard for one hell of a rockin’ night! Rich captivates the crowd with his soulful voice and the entire band delivers an incredible high energy show not to be missed! Be sure to be at the LuWow on Friday January 24.

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THE UGLY KINGS

The Ugly Kings will be working hard over the weekend with a couple of shows over the Australia Day weekend. You can see the rockers at The Tote hotel on Friday January 24 with Stone Revival, Red Light Riot and Sexy/Heavy for $8 at 9pm or alternatively you can find them supporting White Summer on Saturday January 25 with The Dark Hawks and Elephant Ego for $13 at 8pm.

FOXTROT

Get yourself ready for an epic Australia Day by coming down to The Bendigo Hotel on Friday January 24 for a night of awesome punk rock! So pre-celebrate Australia day with Foxtrot, The Shadow League, The Savages, All We Need, Teen Kong.$10 entry, from 7.30pm.

MUTTON

As some would know, Melbourne band Mutton have given birth to a six toothed EP on CD and cassette, until now only available at shows. Failing to ever launch said EP and selling out of the first run it’s time to re-press another fistful and do the fashionable thing and launch this sucker! So that’s what they’re doing at The Old Bar this Friday January 25night Joining the festivities will be a bunch of all round champions: Batpiss, Space Junk and Heads of Charm!

THE WORKINGHORSE IRONS

Not heading to Big Day Out? Then get down to Yah Yah’s for some of Melbourne’s finest pyschobilly featuring The Workinghorse Irons, Road Ratz and Royal Cut Throat Co. The Workinghorse Irons have been carving themselves out quite a niche in the Australian rock scene with their unique brand of psychobilly rock’n’roll. With thumping double bass and catchy hooks these boys drive it home with an energetic live show and leave your ear drums moist from eargasms. On Friday January 24 they hit Yah Yah’s with support from Road Ratz and Royal Cut Throat Co. Bands from 9pm and entry is free.

MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS

The Melbourne Zoo Twilights return in 2014 with a stellar lineup of local and international artists to entertain you, with 14 shows running every Friday and Saturday over six weeks, starting on Friday January 24 with Perfect Tripod featuring comedian Eddie Perfect and legendary comedy band Tripod. Melbourne Zoo Twilights offer a unique experience combining wildlife, stunning musical performances and gourmet delights, all within the spectacular grounds of Melbourne Zoo, under the blanket of balmy summer nights. On Saturday January 25, Abba tributed band BABBA will hit the stage. Check out zoo.org.au/twilights for more info. Define your genre in five words or less: Rock and Roots’ love child. What do you love about making music? The moment when you create something that flows through you from another realm and into a song. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Nickleback, because it’s Nickleback – does it need an explanation? What can a punter expect from your live show? To get picked up by our music and smashed into the wall with it, then nursed back to health by our crooning. When’s the gig and with who? Friday January 31 at the Northcote Social Club

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with Coca Jackson Lane and Al Parkinson. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Tegan and Sara. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? We are releasing our second album Leave My Head, which is a follow up to our first album, This Crooked Track – you can find them on our website at jungalmusic.com or via iTunes. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording? Playing a festival in northern Canada during the Summer solstice, where our 2am show was when the sun was starting to come up.

SATURDAY JAN 25 FRACTURES

In early 2013, multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Mark Zito was involved in a near fatal fall which left him with a fractured (ironically) vertebrae in his neck and confined to a neck-brace bolted to his skull for three months. After a long a challenging road Melbourne’s Fractures finally debuted his much anticipated live show to a completely Sold Out and jammed packed Worker’s Club. After the quick sell out of his first Melbourne show he will return to play at The Toff on Saturday January 25. Support comes from Yeo. Tickets via The Toff ’s website.

CUNTZ

Cuntz tear down the front bar every Saturday arvo in January with a free BBQ out back! Joining them this Saturday January 25, Ausmuteants join the party from 4pm in the front bar at the Tote.

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LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE

BEACHES

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.

Saturday night is party night at Bar Open with Lamine Sonko & The African Intelligence stopping by with the rhythm youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been waiting for. Influenced by the infectious afro-beat music of West Africa, Lamine Sonko & The African Intelligence delivers contemporary African funk to the Australian music scene. African Intelligence is a tenpiece ensemble led by Senegalese singer/dancer Lamine Sonko, sharing with you music with roots in afro-beat, reggae and salsa. From funky baselines and swift guitar riffs to the smooth groove of a message with meaning, here is a band that has it all. This Saturday January 25. Free entry. Doors at 10pm.

REFLEJOS

Fresh from six months touring Europe and South America, local Latin/world fusion act Reflejos will play their first gig since returning home at Open Studio on Saturday January 25. Core members Bonnie Smith, Luis Escudero and Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor will be playing with a seven-piece string and percussion lineup. The show will feature the irresistible Latin rhythms and haunting melodies they have become known for, as well as some new Eastern melodies inspired by their recent travels.

STANDING TALL

StandingÂ Tall is an exciting new band that plays the kind of jazz popular in the '60s and '70s when it was exploring funk, blues and Latin rhythms - think Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris and Joe Zawinul. Led by bassist Stan Van Hooft and propelled by percussionists Simon Atkinson and Dean Constable, it features Yassin Eltahir on guitar, Julian Driscoll on trumpet, Sharmila Periakarpan on flute and Laurie Savage on hot Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B saxophone. Driving jazz and funky grooves are guaranteed. Catch them from 5 PM at The Brunswick Hotel Saturday January 25.Â

THE GRAND RAPIDS

Psyche Ward and Yahs Yahs present a night of fine a$$ed psychedelia and objects that move without explanation. Almost resident house band The Grand Rapids make their first appearance for the year at Yah Yahs from behind a mysterious puff of purple smoke and mirrors. A kaleidoscopic coup de tat of overpriced fuzz pedals and droney D chords galore is what ye shell receive and be all the better for it. Joining them will be retro-futurists The New Pollution who have burst onto the Melbourne scene via Perth with their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s/â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s radiation vibe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just ripe for the picking! Go back for seconds. Yah Yahs on Saturday January 25. Free entry.

THE BITS

The Bits are very excited to invite you to the launch of our debut album 3057. Loads of free albums will be given away and JP Swallowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bounty Hunter will rock the house in support of a massive live set from The Bits. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the first big event of 2014 at Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best bar! Catch The Bits at Whole Lotta Love on Saturday January 25.

REMI HARRIS

UK-based gypsy jazz guitar virtuoso Remi Harris will be in Australia to play a string of shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. This is swing, jazz and improvisation at its finest in the style of the late great Django Reinhardt. At the age of 25 Remi has created his own unique approach to a music that seldom sees innovators and has re-invigorated a music that is 80 years old by bringing a wealth of modern influences to the style of gypsy jazz. The Remi Harris Gypsy Jazz Project will be performing as a full band of three guitars, double bass and clarinet. Experience it at Uptown Jazz CafĂŠ on Saturday January 25, $20, also at Paris Cat Jazz Club on Wednesday February 12, The Czech Club on Friday February 14 and Bennetts Lane Jazz Club on Saturday February 15.

WILLOW NUALA HONAN (UK)

South Australian born Nuala Honan has been living and touring in the UK for nearly 10 years now. Travelling wide across Europe and the UK festival scene, including Glastonbury Festival, her charming stage presence and stunning, dynamic vocals winning audiences all over. Nuala has been featured on various BBC radio shows including a live session for their introducing show recently to promote her debut album, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Tortoiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. She topped off 2013 with a tour of 15 UK cities and a support slow with The Magic Numbers. Honan has the ability to make a three and a half minute song sound like a suite, her soaring vocals inducing even the hardiest audience member with goosebumps. She will be playing at The Retreat Hotel from 5pm on Saturday January 25.

Melbourne soul/pop group Willow have been busy of late writing for their new EP (out late March). They will preview some of these songs and more at a special Australia Day eve show at The Spotted Mallard on Saturday January 25. Come on down to catch their last Melbourne show before they head off again on tour to release their brand new single.

BIG VOLCANO

Big Volcano, The Fibs, Hideous Towns, Seanpeters and The Motherfucking Boogalloo Allstars, Much Much More, Vendors Rich and Kinesthesis. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bloody massive. But wait, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all. If you get in early, three of these bands have singles to release, so bring all your friends down, come and exploit the Bendigoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheap beer prices this Saturday January 25 and come and watch some music.

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Party your way into Orstralia Day with a rock and roll showcase of madness at the Grace Darling Hotel!Â Midnight Woolf are putting on a wild night of dancing, yelping, sweating and raving, playing a set of tight hip-swaying tunes, crazy covers andÂ rumblingÂ originals.Â Joining them will be beat maestros Brat Farrar, rockabilly weirdos the Yard Apes and garage surfers Rayon Moon. It all goes down Saturday January 25. Doors from 8pm, bands start at 8:30pm and entry is free.

SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE

Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest dream-pop purveyors Sunbeam Sound Machine released their debut double EP One/ Sunbeam Sound Machine worldwide digitally 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 folk-fusion wiz kid D.D Dumbo at The Workers Club on Saturday January 25.

SNAKADAKTAL

Snakadaktal are kicking off 2014 in style, with an EP release and headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney. The Sun II EP was released on January 3 and features six 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 and artists including Sydney favourite Hayden James and UK outfit Just Kiddin. Snakadaktal will launch The Sun II EP at Howler on Saturday January 25. Appearing alongside Snakadaktal will be beat maker Kilter and local artists Rat & Co and CHIEFS. S

CAPTAIN CLEANOFF

Captain Cleanoff are playing a one-off Melbourne show to kick of the new year at The Tote Hotel on Australia Day eve. Supporting Cleanoff are The Day Every Thing Became Nothing, Rort, Black Jesus, Debacle and Split Teeth. A night of grind, death metal, crust and power violence. It goes down at The Tote on Saturday January 25 at 7pm.

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PARMA Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;CLOCK

What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Probably things like immigrating to Australia as a child and growing up in a Jewish Catholic Hispanic Italian home in Sydney. These impossible tensions have influenced everything I make. They led me to my obsession with mystical texts and Kabbalah, which are the most inspiring and poetic things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever read. What part of making music excites you the most? Invention is really exciting to me. I also love making video art and see it as part of my music making. Sometimes I see the video before I write the song. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really into hearing a song in a visual format. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can i get them? My brand new album is called Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to pay for it. Vittoria coffee is buying it for anyone who wants it and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re donating the value of the album directly to OzHarvest, the food rescue charity. When you download you automatically feed 10 people in need. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no catch. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a new way of music sharing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as simple as that: appleoniamusic. com/ozharvest. I also have a soundtrack album I wrote for a film called Despite The Gods. You can get this anywhere

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online and at my shows. When are you playing live/releasing your album? Right now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m touring around Australia with Sarah Blasko for her Heavenly Sounds tour of churches. Our next show is in St Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church in Melbourne on Wednesday January 22. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the strangest place youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever played a gig? A few months ago I played a show in the Mojave Desert in California in a building designed by aliens. Literally. Aliens visited this particular man and told him exactly how to make it. It looks like a spaceship and the sound is out of this world.

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SUNDAY JAN 26

INVASION DAY

Anarchy & Good Times and Punkability Touring present Invasion Day, Sunday January 26 at the Brunswick Hotel. The event will be exhibited on two stages featuring 21 bands. This is also a free gig, yes you read right, FREE…This is gonna be a mixed bill spectacular featuring the likes of Rukus, The Fuck Outs, Kmart Warriors, The Morrisons, and Wounded Pig among others so come get ya sausage sanga on the day because the BBQ will be running hot!

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THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA.

This Australia Day take a trip to the tropics with The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra. The 17 piece afro-beat powerhouse takes the stage for the first time in 2014 for a huge summertime jam at Melbourne’s newest venue Howler. The band will be your guide taking you at breakneck speed through the backstreets of West African funk, detouring via the hip-hop and beat driven sounds from the blocks of Brunswick. The Orchestra have just been added to the 2014 Byron Bay Blues and Roots line-up. Seun Kuti was announced last year also, meaning that this year’s 25th anniversary festival is one of the only festivals in Australia to host 2 huge afro-beat ensembles on the same bill! Bringing the heavy funk vibes will be instrumental soul behemoth The Cactus Channel. These guys are firing on all cylinders on the back of causing serious waves with their sophomore release ‘Wooden Boy’ and completing their first solo national tour. With sweet neo-soul and lush vocal harmonies The Do Yo Thangs are a band to keep you eyes on. Featuring members of Saskwatch and Sex On Toast, they will be making a lot of noise in 2014.The Public Opinion’s own DJ Manchild will also be inviting his favourite funk, afro and tropical DJs to join him in the beer garden all day alongside live percussion and MCs. This will be one serious percussion-driven, dancefloor-burning party you do not want to miss! Tickets are $16 + bf via Ticketscout or $20 on the door.

The Retreat Hotel welcomes all on Australia day with a day long lineup that starts at 2.30pm and runs all the way through to 3am, Featuring Ben Salter, Abbie Cardwell & Her Leading Men (back from a year long hiatus!) and Matty Green Band. They’re also providing a good recovery option on Monday. A handpicked selection of ten of the best new and emerging artists in Melbourne town for the DEAR MONDAY: DELUXE EDITION kicking off at 3pm on the Monday January 27. Of course, it’s always free entry!

THE SPOILS

In anticipation of their show with Mick Harvey (ex-Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) at The HiFi Bar, The Spoils play their first Melbourne headline show for 2014 at The Old Bar on Australia Day as part of the finale for Ron Peno & the Superstitions’ curated Sundays in January. 2013 marked a welcome return to the stage for The Spoils with their first shows locally and interstate for some time. In 2014, the band promise to only play a handful of shows at the start of the year before retreating to the studio to begin writing and recording their fourth album.

FLYYING COLOURS

Flyying Colours and The Evelyn Hotel are hosting a huge Australia Day party on Sunday January 26 featuring Melbourne’s best and brightest psyche and shoe-gaze bands. Flyying Colours had a huge 2013, releasing their first single Wavygravy, their first self-titled EP through Universal Music, playing their first east coast tour and recovering from their heavily debauched recording sessions. See Flyying Colours, Atolls and ESC deliver all the fuzz, reverb and good-times that one needs to celebrate this great country of ours. Doors 8pm. Entry $10 with tickets on the door or at Oztix.com.au.

THE AUSTRALIA DAY WEEKEND FUNDRAISER

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 now. 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. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 48

CASTLE

Do you have mad crafty skills and think you can sell your goods? Do you have quality second hand stuff ? Do you have a service you’d like to spruik to a local community? Do you like good beer and sweet sweet Sunday sessions? Then look to The EC Market! Hosted by The Edinburgh Castle Hotel in Brunswick, The EC Market is a cruisy Sunday Session perspective of a community market. Limited stalls available for very reasonable prices. Markets will be held over four Sundays: February 2, and 16, March 2 and 16 between 12-4pm.You can get in touch with us by emailing theecmarket3056@gmail.com

TUESDAY JAN 28 SHANE O’MARA & DAN LETHBRIDGE

Melbourne singer/songwriter Dan Lethbridge teams up with renowned guitarist Shane O’Mara for a duo 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. Catch them for free at the front bar of The Retreat Hotel from 7.30 Tuesday January 28.

JAMIE ROBBIE REYNE

Alt-country rocker “Armed with a mesmerising voice, harmonica & guitar, ( JR Reyne) bares his soul through raw, unadulterated lyrics” Jamie Robbie Reyne continues his free entry residency Tuesday January 28 at Cherry Bar playing two sets from 9pm. Also, on the QT the son of James Reyne.

STRINE SINGERS

FLAP!

After a long year away from Melbourne, Flap! return to perform a series of free Sunday afternoon shows at The Spotted Mallard from 4.30pm. They’ll be debuting new material every week untill 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.” This Sunday January 26. Free entry.

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BONJAH

After selling out many shows on their current national summer tour, BONJAH are thrilled to be headlining Ding Dong’s Australia Day festivities this Sunday. Last year was huge for the band as they were in the top 100 most played songs on Triple J with their radio hit ‘Evolution’, played sold out shows nationally and their cover of Lorde’s ‘Royals’ gained half a million views on Youtube. After a couple of shows back in their native New Zealand this week, BONJAH head straight to Ding Dong to celebrate Australia Day in style. Melbourne’s favourite sons are gearing up to release their anticipated third album in April. Support will be from acclaimed local band Sweets & Tanya Batt. Tickets are selling fast from Oztix.com.au so hurry and get down!

PLAGUE DOCTOR

Megaharmony quartet Strine Singers arrive in a groundswell of brooding guitars, soaring harmonies, and accomplished, widescreen songwriting. They’ve piqued the interest of Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams, simultaneously added their first single to indie radio and country music television, and found themselves at the crossroads of alt-country and pop. They celebrate their ‘crossover’ tag, with a two part residency at the Toff in Town called pop vs country. Part one, pop, features Hailey Cramer and knock out performances with Michael Franti and Blue King Brown. Kicking off the night is indie electronica soloist Hayley Couper. Part two, country, features two of last year’s best country debuts: critically lauded Americana artist Dan Waters, and Melbourne live favourites Brooke Russell & the Mean Reds. It’s on Tuesday January 28 at 7.30pm. $10.

LOOKING FORWARD JANUARY CASS MCCOMBS

Brilliant songsmith Cass McCombs returns to Melbourne for a one-night-only intimate evening of magical songs from his richly rewarding 22-song opus, Big Wheel And Others, on January 30 at Northcote Social Club with full band and special guest, Ross McLennan. Tickets on sale now via Corner Box Office.

TV COLOURS

2013 has been a massive year for TV Colours. The Canberra band released their Purple Skies, Toxic River album, toured Europe and towards the end of the year topped (or came close to topping) many ‘Best of 2013’ lists. They kick off 2014 with two big shows over the Australia Day weekend. First up at the Bridge Hotel in regional Castlemaine with The Stevens who released their own amazing album in 2013 and Castlemaine/Melbourne band Beat Disease. Then Melbourne on Australia Day with Sydney duo Unity Floors (who released another amazing album in 2013) Beat Disease and local poppers Chook Race.

THE NARROW ROAD

Back this summer to bring you their eagerly awaited sophomore EP Released From The Time, The Narrow Road reaches into all the corners of life, with their familiar blend of warm vocals and ultra-catchy, indie-pop hooks. In the end, their EP has the simple aim to make your dancing-legs groove and your soul hum. They play Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday January 30 supported by The Karmens, Vela and My Piranha. Tickets are $5 on the door. Doors 8pm.

LED ZEPPELIN 1972 KOOYONG CELEBRATION CONCERT

The Corner Hotel is playing host to a unique celebration of Led Zeppelin on Friday January 31 celebrating the great Led Zeppelin with an exclusive show from an all-star oneoff local band re-living the 1972 Kooyong show track-fortrack. 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.

60 SECONDS with PAPA PILKO AND THE BINRATS

One of Yah Yah’s favourite party bands returns on Sunday January 26 to their spiritual home to get the dancefloor grooving and the crowd going off on a public holiday eve with their feel good melodies and hijinks. Plague Doctor’s bronze nose is filled with medicinal and aromatic herbs that cleanse the air and cover up the stench of death! He uses his smoking wand to keep the beat and direct the burial of the dead! His magic undergarments are soaked in liquor and wax! Plague Doctor knows the true meaning of the blues, he once sent 85 million people dancing to their graves! Check it all out at Yah Yah’s on ‘Straya Day. Free.

THE TIMBERS

As Adelaide heads into a week long heat wave over 40 degrees, folk/rock four-piece The Timbers are in the middle of a tour promoting their second single Things to Come. Launching the single in Adelaide over the weekend to a crowd of loving home-town fans on the back of a massive 2013 the boys are creating quite a buzz as they take their mumford-esque tunes to the east coast as they prepare to release their debut album in May. You can catch them at The Penny Black on Sunday January 26.

SHORTLISTED!

The 9th Coopers AMP have announced that Shortlisted artists Beaches will feature alongside Ella Hooper and Tim Levinson (Urthboy) at this year’s annual free ‘Shortlisted!’ event in Melbourne at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday January 26 from 6pm-8pm! Shortlisted! is an open to the public free event where the complete list of nine Shortlisted artists for the 9th Coopers AMP will be announced, and the audience will be treated to two hours of free music headlined by the 8th Coopers AMP winners Hermitude, as well as Beaches, Jen Cloher and Dialectrix! Get there.

Define your genre in five words or less: People posing as tactical bachelors.

Other bands both new and old. Especially Australian bands!

What do you love about making music? All the awesome people we get to meet and share the good times with.

What part of making music excites you the most? You get to create something from nothing then travel the country and perform it for amazing people and have the best time ever.

What do you hate about the music industry? Opinions. They’re dangerous things. What can a punter expect from your live show? Wild blues and slick, swingin’ country rock’n’ roll with horns! What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

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Tell us about the last song you wrote. It’s about the wildest, most reckless bar that may or may not exist called The Burning Falcon. When’s the gig and with who? Friday January 24 at The Workers Club with Max Savage & The False Idols and Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE

TOP TENS: HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN

One/Sunbeam Sound Machine (Dot Dash Records)

1. Blues For The Red Sun LP/CD KYUSS

A scene from the ‘80s American sketch-comedy show Not Necessarily the News: a middle-aged father opens the door to his teenage son’s bedroom to discover the son playing air guitar on his tennis racquet. The father, appalled at this frivolous activity, decries the air guitar antics as ridiculous and exhorts the boy to commit to his studies lest he become a laughing stock. The son, suitably chastised, puts down his racquet and opens his school books. The father returns to the lounge room where a group of fellow parents sit, each holding a makeshift jazz instrument; the father grasps the stand-up vacuum cleaner cum double bass and with a cursory ‘now, where were we?’, turns on the stereo to re-initiate the lounge room group’s domestic mime instrumental performance. The subtext and relevance of this comic vignette to the debut long player from Melbourne songwriter Nick Sowersby, aka Sunbeam Sound Machine? That regardless of our pretensions, we’re all dreamers, perennially trying to escape the repetition and dysfunction of our daily lives. One/Sunbeam Sound Machine is actually two EPs. The first, One, was recorded in Sowersby’s parents’ home while the second self-titled EP was recorded in his residences in Fairfield and Collingwood. Stylistically, each EP is different: One has a scrappy tone, the bedroom noodlings of a kid who’s simultaneously endeared and frustrated by the world around him. The Sound of Glass Breaking is delightfully confounding, part protestation, part adolescent confusion, part psychedelic musing; Shake (Sleep Walking) channels the rhythmic attitude of The Feelies and the kaleidoscopic bubblegum pop of Dolly Rocker Movement. Little While is a ‘60s-inspired meander through the contemporary suburban Diaspora; Odd Connection is frantic, a maddening quest for emotional empathy in a world plagued by ephemeral relationships and a disposable aesthetic. The self-titled EP floats into aural view with the ethereal Whistle While You Wait: lie back, close your

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360 FEAT. DANIEL JOHNS

Impossible (EMI/Forthwrite) Mother of god, they’ve done it. Professional memecurator 360 and former Dissociatives vocalist Daniel Johns team up for one of the most remarkable moves ever seen in Australian music history, displaying masterful dexterity and concerted will to pull off the elusive and astounding Tandem Reverse Kanga, straddling the bowl in unison for a comprehensive, 360 (hah!) degree coating. Impossible is perfect in its awfulness, embracing a hot new musical trend the kids are calling “dub steps” while Tree-Sitty professes a brand of social consciousness that makes Lonely Island sound like Immortal Technique. “Alcohol, sex / Caffeine and ciggies too / Shit, what haven’t I been addicted to?” Guessing World Of Warcraft didn’t fit in with the rhyming scheme. Cordon off the bowl with a velvet rope. Keep this shit-smeared porcelain artefact on prominent display so generations to come are aware of what fresh hell we, as humankind, hath wrought.

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD

Vegemite (Flightless/Remote Control) As prolific as they are populace, King Gizzard keep the good times rollin’ with the first salty and malty taste from upcoming fourth LP Oddments. It’s as dumb as 12 Bar Bruise closer Footy Footy, but undeniably sweet with infectious Louie Louie chords and metaphor-free adoration for the titular good stuff.

SAVAGES

Strife (Matador/Remote Control) I still hadn’t really clicked with Savages and their debut LP Silence Yourself. Maybe I was subconsciously holding out for the live setting to contextualise the album. Which I’m guessing would work, but I dunno if I’ll make it to Laneway, and Melbourne got screwed on the sideshow front. Isolated as a single, Strife provides that adept flashpoint of realisation I was seeking, injecting big ol’ Sabbath-sized riffs into their vivid post-punk palette, harnessing a cauterising burn that still sears well after the initial wash of buzz.

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YUMI ZOUMA

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RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN

The Brae (Cascine) A featherweight dreamscape, The Brae sees freshly formed Kiwi group Yumi Zouma deceptively bunker down in understatement while soaring through the sunkissed clouds. The melodies keep busy without being overworked, lyricisms delivered with sage-like calm.

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LIARS

4. A Sea Of Split Peas COURTNEY BARNETT

Mess On A Mission (Mute) US-based trio Liars are accelerating their glacial recording pace, following up 2012’s excellent WIXIW with upcoming full-length MESS, the first taste of which is the sorta title track Mess On A Mission. It’s more in line with Brats from the previous LP, driving beat and Angus Andrew’s snarl. I dig it, but me mind can’t help but wander back to Total Control’s similar and superior Paranoid Video.

THE JEZABELS

Look Of Love (Independent) The Jezabels make big music that is good and listenable. Look Of Love is big, good, and listenable. But as is the problem with most Jezabels tracks, there’s little residual emotion, leaving little to hang on to. It’s built for the festival environment: on the surface it’s all smiling at your mates, raising a can, maybe an arm around the shoulder as you break into a sway, but deep down it’s just not enough to distract from whatever worries that ferment within the mind. It’s an air show – you can look up and marvel, but don’t expect it to dip down and lift you away from this.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK

RETIREE

Rain (Client Liaison Remix) (Plastic World) Ever-suave connoisseurs of the finer things in life, Client Liaison take an inch of Sydney four-piece Retiree’s Rain and run a mile, building upon the base elements to create a potent, explosive mix of goddamn danceable euphoria. There’s impeccable retro pop hooks, house gospel, and of course, rave piano. It’s a solid contender to challenge Dragon for the title of the Greatest Antipodean Rainfall Anthem. Actually scratch that, Dragon are untouchable in that regard. But this remix is still all kinds of great.

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5. Reflektor ARCADE FIRE 6. Bird Nerds BITCH PREFECT 7. Peak Twins PEAK TWINS 8. In Blood Memory JEN CLOHER 9. Amusements AUSMUTEANTS 10. Anywhere And Everything Is Bright RON S PENO AND THE SUPERSTITIONS

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS THAT MAKE US THINK ABOUT ‘STRAYA 1. Beds Are Burning MIDNIGHT IN OIL 2. Down Under MEN AT WORK 3. For A Hard Earned Thirst VB 4. Up There Cazaly MIKE BRADY 5. Neighbours Theme Song TOADIE ‘TOADFISH’ REBECCHI 6. Down River WILCANNIA MOB 7. Crazy Barking Man Remix YOUTUBE 8. We’re Going To Bonnie Doon THE CASTLE 9. Solid Rock GOANNA 10. Freo Dockers Theme Song CLIVE WATERHOUSE

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SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS

Black Panties (RCA/Sony)

Give The People What They Want (Daptone Records/Shock Records)

If you accept from the very beginning that Black Panties as an album under the genre of ‘horny’, then 46-year-old R. Kelly’s 12th solo album is actually pretty damn good. An album which basically revolves almost exclusively around pussy, the only way he is getting away with it is probably due to his absolute commitment of delivering the smoothest of smooth R&B vocals over well produced beats with lines like “Gonna go down on my knees/And ask that pussy to marry me,” on Marry The Pussy and album-standout line “lick the middle like an Oreo.” on Cookie. Although R.Kelly loves using ‘clever’ metaphors, it can also be far too literal especially on Shut Up which addresses his 2011 vocal surgery and all the haterz. There are some honest moments on the LP and by honest, I mean the weird sexual thoughts you’d have about someone but would never actually admit to anyone unless you were drunk or if it was said exclusively to your best mate, but maybe that’s the R.Kelly appeal – he isn’t afraid to say (sing) the filthy things we’re thinking. Whilst it features a bunch of big-name guest vocals from Kelly BEST TRACK: Legs Shakin’ Rowland, 2 Chainz and Ludacris, it’s just far too comical IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Trapped to be considered a serious love-making R&B album. in the Closet saga R. KELLY, Jizz In My Pants THE LONELY PLANET PETE DUNDA IN A WORD: Dirty

There ain’t no keeping a good woman down. Sharon Jones had a showdown with pancreatic cancer last year and on all accounts she seems to have won that fight. Jones is back this year and giving the people exactly what they want. By now y’all should know that all Jones’ fans want is retro-fabulous, sweet soul and funk grooves. This album drops tunes that sound like they are long lost nuggets from the late ‘60s or early ‘70s. It’s a highly accomplished blend of the familiar vintage sounds of Motown and Stax with flourishes that wink in the direction of Philly. The funky strut of Retreat! which serves as a warning to anyone who may come a courting, features shrill triumphant blasts of horns and reedy sax and a joyously stomping beat. It showcases Jones in full effect and proves to be a wildly energetic start to the album. Backing vocalists Saundra Williams and Starr Duncan add a little bit of girl group perspective to cuts like We Get Along and the highly infectious Making Up And Breaking Up. This album consolidates on everything Jones does best. It does not signify any radical change of direction but when the groove BEST TRACK: Retreat! continues to feel so good, why change a thing? IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: MERRY CLAYTON, LYN COLLINS OR MARVA THE SIDEMAN WHITNEY IN A WORD: Soul

CLAMS CASINO

††† (CROSSES)

Instrumentals Vol. 3 (Independent)

††† (CROSSES) (Sumerian Records)

It is hard to find the right approach from which to listen to this latest effort from the hyped hip hop producer Clams Casino. The songs, for the most part, are intricate and skilfully produced, often using granular synthesis and disembodied loops that call to mind Oneohtrix Point Never and Balam Acab. But they are packaged with club-friendly beats and bass that make them more appropriate as backing tracks for artists like A$AP Rocky and Mac Miller. At its best, this combination creates a vehicle for rich pieces of sound art to reach a wider audience. On the other hand, it can feel like the addition of a user-friendly beat could lower the value of a track’s more abstract elements. Lvl, first heard on Rocky’s Long. Live. A$AP, is a great demonstration of Clams’s knack for drawing interesting textures from looped samples, but cuts like Hell just feel half-baked and repetitive without a lead vocal over the top. The main problem with Instrumentals Mixtape 3 is that Clams Casino’s versatility means it is hard to approach the mixtape as a singular, cohesive piece. Each track on its own can be appreciated for the skill and artistry with which it is built, but as a long player the songs just don’t gel enough to reward any type of listening beyond ambient background music, which, given the overall quality of the work, is a pity. However, as this has been announced as his final instrumental mixtape, perhaps we can look forward to a more focused release under the Clams Casino name in the near future. BEST TRACK: Lvl IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Oneohtrix Point Never, A$AP Rocky, Lil B IN A WORD: Disharmonic

PATRICK O’BRIEN

Chino Moreno’s been one hell of a busy guy of late. Not only did the Deftones frontman spend a large chunk of last year on the road touring his primary band’s latest record, but he also found time to release the fantastic Palms collaboration with three former ISIS members. Now, with Deftones about to hit our shores for the second time in eight months, another quality Moreno side-project has slipped quietly into existence. Well, to be fair, ††† (Crosses) – the collaboration between Moreno and Shaun Lopez of post-hardcore band Far – have been pursuing their shadowy brand of ambient electronica for a few years now. 2011 saw the release of their debut † EP, which they followed up in 2012 with the †† EP. Their latest offering combines all ten cuts from the EPs plus five previously unreleased songs. Thus, ††† is more of an archival collection than a stand-alone record. Still, given that all 15 songs were tracked at around the same time, the album doesn’t suffer from a lack of cohesiveness that plagues similar releases. Guided by Moreno’s trademark sensual croon, ††† is a tour through the darkside of goth-tinged electro pop. There’s the groove-heavy (Telepathy, This Is A Trick), the spacey (Nineteen Eighty Seven, Crosses) and the flat-out anthemic (Bitches Brew, Prurient). Sure, the songwriting could do with a little more inventiveness, with the majority of songs conforming to the versechorus formula. And at 56 minutes, the album is at least ten minutes too long. Still, ††† is an otherwise excellent BEST TRACK: Prurient outing from a band that defies its side-project status and IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: DEFTONES, demands a seat at the table with its bigger siblings. DEPECHE MODE, BLAQK AUDIO IN A WORD: Assured WAYNE MARSHALL

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WARPAINT

Warpaint (Rough Trade / Remote Control)

So Long, See You Tomorrow (Island/ Caroline)

I am a little tired of bands titling their second, third or fourth album ‘self-titled’. A selftitled album, in my humble opinion, is strictly for a band’s debut long player. You only get one chance to introduce yourself, from there a band must offer some kind of thematic evolution with each release otherwise it’s a slap in the face to your original fans by saying, “Oh, this is our real sound.” Warpaint’s sophomore album Warpaint is good but if this is what the band feels to truly represent Warpaint, as opposed to 2010’s debut The Fool, then I am disappointed. Admittedly, three-and-a-half years is a long time and the ‘Paint seem to have discovered a new bunch of bells and whistles to accentuate their droll yet completely radcore psych-girl-rock sound, but seriously, if it ain’t broke? The inexorable thick guitar picking of Keep It Healthy is a good start for the album, starting off where their breakthrough single from 2010, Undertow, finished. Emily Kokal’s vocals still sit back in the mix with a slight phase giving her an almost American Indian chat-like etherealness. Love Is To Die breaks into a post-punk canter under-laid by a new romantic rhythm giving the song a well-timed inconsistency that builds then falls into a sombre chorus of “Love is to die / Love is to not die / Love is to dance, love is to dance”. The two aforementioned tracks (two and three) get Warpaint off to a tantalising start but from here it kind of gets lost in overproduction, with Kokal’s voice breaching the realms of BEST TRACK: Keep It Healthy, Love Is To Die toned down musicality and entering a caterwaul. However, IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Veckatimest this is still a good album from an excellent band. GRIZZLY BEAR, Eye Contact GANG GANG

Over three records, London’s Bombay Bicycle Club have jumped from quirky indie to twee folk and over to keyboard-speckled pop-rock, giving us a stack of best-of worthy singles in the process (Always Like This, Ivy & Gold, How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep, to name but a few). The group’s fourth LP is another attempt to update their sonic focus. So Long, See You Tomorrow could be construed as a party drug reference and accordingly the record rather patently strives to deliver a slew of feel good summer winners. It’s breezy on the ears and likely to incite sweaty dance floor scenes, but unfortunately the songs largely sound bloated and flat. There’s plenty of sophisticated groove – for example the punchy bassline leading latest single Luna will get festival crowds dizzy – but not much clever melody. Some things are memorable for the wrong reasons, such as the chorus of the otherwise-standout Carry Me, which meagrely encourages a mass of voices to get involved by incessantly repeating the title phrase. The record’s arena ambitions are verified by the production. Scarce attention is paid to subtle details as washy guitars, skyrocketing vocals and accompanying string parts widen many choruses. The problem is, it sounds far too Temper Trap and not at all U2. Frontman Jack Steadman is a very good singer but when contriving for such lofty melodic heights he winds up well out of his depth. Interestingly, the band also show an experimental inclination. The dirty Foals-like guitar detours in opener BEST TRACK: Luna Overdone, paddy synth backbone of Carry Me and eastern IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Bankrupt! colour parade melodies in Feel are actually the record’s PHOENIX, Tourist History TWO DOOR CINEMA greatest successes. CLUB, Serotonin MYSTERY JETS IN A WORD: Flowery AUGUSTUS WELBY

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WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

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WEDNESDAY JAN 22 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS DARYL BRAITHWAITE Melbourne Park, Melbourne. 6:00pm. ANDY VOTEL + DJ JAMES PIANTA + NEOTANTRIK + NUN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ARCADE FIRE Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. 8:00pm. BOOKER T & THE MGS TRIBUTE SHOW + CHELSEA WILSON Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CHILD + HOTEL CITY WRECKING TRADERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. DARTS + GOING SWIMMING + JUGULAR CUTS + NUN OF THE TONGUE + THE WAMEKI Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:20pm. $8. GHOST The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $67. HYPERDRONES + DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + PLASTIC SPACEMAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. MITCH POWER & THE SOUL ASSASSINS + DRU CHEN + THE TARANTINO EXPERIENCE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm. MUDHONEY + KIM & LEANNE + THE PAUL KIDNEY EXPERIENCE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $50. PETE MURRAY + CLINT BOGE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $55. THE 1975 Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 9:00pm. $39. THE LACHLAN BRUCE BAND + FIFTH FRIEND + STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. VISTA CHINO 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. VOWEL MOVEMENT + MONNONE ALONE + SCOTDRAKULA + TULALAH Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC BOHJASS + ELEPHANT GUMBO + KRIS WANDERS GROUP 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. HAMMOND JAZZ CLUB + MR ANDREW SWANN Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

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LEARN TO SWING DANCE - FEAT: SWING PATROL First Floor, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. SYZYGY Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm. THE JON HUNT QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15. THE SUGARFOOT RAMBLERS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $15. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm.

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ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHARLES JENKINS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. COMFORT CREATURE + GEORGIE DARVIDIS Longplay, Fitzroy North. 8:00pm. KHRISTIAN MIZZI & THE SIRENS + DOUGLAS FIRST + WHO ARE YOU LUTRA LUTRA Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $6. PETE MURRAY Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:30pm. $55. SARAH BLASKO St Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne. 8:00pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 9:00pm. THE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: JASON LENNINGS + JOSH HENRY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. VAN WALKER + LEENA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: RACHEL CLARK + ALI E Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

THURSDAY JAN 23 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC AJAK KWAI Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm. ALWAN Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm. KINGSTON CROWN + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $10. MIETTA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. MOMENTS NOTICE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. NICOLA MILAN Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. THE HOODANGERS Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

BIG DAY OUT

Booyeah, it’s Big Day Out week! As we all know, the 2014 incarnation will be headlined by the almighty Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder and Co. were booked to headline the Big Day Out in 2001, but cancelled from the tragic death of nine fans from a crowd surge that happened during their set at the Roskilde Festival. They were last on our shores in 2009 which saw them play to sold out stadiums with Ben Harper and Liam Finn. Next on the bill is Arcade Fire, who last toured Australia on the 2008 Big Day Out tour with Björk and Rage Against The Machine. Who else is coming along for the ride? Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion will be lighting up the stage while headlining the Boiler Room will be Major Lazer, Steve Angello and Flume. Plus there’s The Hives, Deftones, Beady Eye, The Lumineers, Tame Impala, Dillon Francis, Mac Miller, Ghost, Grouplove, Flosstradamus, Portugal. The Man, Toro Y Moi, Diiv, The Naked And Famous, Big Gigantic, Pez, Mudhoney, Cosmic Psychos, Northlane, The 1975, Loon Lake, Kingswood, Bo Ningen, The Algorithm, DZ Deathrays, Peking Duk, Ben Morris, RÜFÜS and a whole lot more. The 2014 Melbourne Big Day Out will take place on Friday January 24 at the Flemington Racecourse.

THE JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $15. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 7:30pm.

INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS ALICE D + CASSIUS CLAY + RABBLE ROUSER Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. BANCO DE GAIA + DEEP FRIED DUB + DOM HOGAN + SUNSARIA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $17. BLOOD RED BIRD Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. BROKEN NEEDLES + CATGUT + LUCAS PAINE & THE CUTTING LIST Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $8. COLIN STETSON Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25. GORSHA + LOOBS + SKINNY LUCID DREAMS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $5. GROUPLOVE The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $55. HOLY LOTUS + MAP ENDS + O LITTLEBLOOD + TANGRAMS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 10:00pm. NEXT - FEAT: GLORIFIED + EVER REST + GRAVEYARDS + VOID OF VISION Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. OWL EYES Melbourne Park, Melbourne. 6:00pm. PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: HUNTING SEASON + BASTION + THE PACIFICS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. RYAN KEEN + AL PARKINSON + ZACK BUCHANAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $25. SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 9:00pm. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: GOING SWIMMING + THE SHABBAB + THEM NIGHTS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:30pm. THE DREAMBOATS + BATTLE TACO + EMPLOYMENT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9:00pm. $5. THE FAMILIARS & THE VANNS + THE FAMILIARS + THE VANNS + BUSY KINDOM + I KNOW THE CHIEF Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $11. THE LUMINEERS Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $72. THE RAY GUNS + PAPER CULT + THE BLACK ALLEYS + TINSMOKE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE SCOUTS AND JUNK HORSES + JUNK HORSES + THE SCOUTS The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. THE SKA VENDORS + DJ FABULOUS FEZ + SHANTY TOWN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE STRANGE + COYOTE DIVIDE + THE HONDAS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE TROTSKIES + GUNSLINGERS Espy, St Kilda. 9:30pm. THE WALNUTS + DAVY SIMONY + FAT SPARROW + KYLE TAYLOR Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. WENDY RULE 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $20.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK CHAD MASON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. LAKE PALMER + GREAT LOVE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. LARISSA TANDY Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. LEBLANC BROS CAJUN ACES - FEAT: LE BLANC BROS CAJUN ACES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. STEPHEN CARPENTER Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick

East. 7:00pm. SUMMER JAMBOREE - FEAT: DAN PARSONS + ALI E Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 5:30pm. THE PUTBACKS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. WEEKEND (WARMUP) Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY JAN 24 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC BIRCHALL & WOOLHOUSE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15. CYCLO TIMK + LUCAS POHLING Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm. DEANS MARTINI Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. GODDESS GROOVES Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20. MARABOU 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm. PAUL VAN ROSS QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. $20. THE BOYS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. THE CHRIS TANNER QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. YVETTE JOHANSSON & THE JOE RUBERTO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.

INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 8 BIT LOVE + EMPAT LIMA Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. AGENCY DUB COLLECTIVE + CHUPAROSA + LOTEK Bar Open, Fitzroy. 11:00pm. AUTO DA FE + DJ STEVE TOOTS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. BIG DAY OUT - FEAT: ARCADE FIRE + BIG GIGANTIC + BLUR + DIIV + DILLON FRANCIS + FLOSSTRADAMUS + FLUME + GHOST + GROUPLOVE + MAC MILLER + MAJOR LAZER + PEARL JAM + PORTUGAL THE MAN + SNOOP DOGG (AKA SNOOP LION) + STEVE ANGELLO + TAME IMPALA + THE LUMINEERS + THE NAKED & FAMOUS + TORO Y MOI + BEN MORRIS + COSMIC PSYCHOS + DZ DEATHRAYS + KINGSWOOD BO NINGEN + LOON LAKE + MUDHONEY + NORTHLANE + PEKING DUK + PEZ + THE 1975 + THE ALGORITHM Flemington Racecourse, Flemington. 1:00pm. $185. BORN OF OSIRIS + AFTER THE BURIAL Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $45. BOVEDA - FEAT: LUCAS HEENAN + BOOROOF + BREVE + CLAWS & ORGANS Espy, St Kilda. 10:00pm. BRITISH INDIA Melbourne Park, Melbourne. 6:00pm. CITIZEN KAY + DYLAN JOEL + KWASI Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $14. CITRUS JAM + ULTIMATE PIRATE SHRED Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. EINSTEIN TOYBOYS Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm. $10. FALCONIO + AS A RIVAL + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 11:00pm. FOXTROT + ALL WE NEED + TEEN KONG + THE SAVAGES + THE SHADOW LEAGUE Bendigo Hotel,

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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. GUNSLINGERS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $8. IT’S NOT SUMMER + DAMN THE RIVER + REFLEX REX + ZUTROY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. MUTTON + DJ DRAW 4 Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10. PAPA PILKO & THE BINRATS + MAX SAVAGE & THE FALSE IDOLS + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10. PASSERINE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:30pm. PEAK TWINS + LAKES + SCHOOL OF RADIANT LIVING John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm. RONNIE CHARLES & THE RETRO BANDITS Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 9:00pm. $18. RUSSELL MORRIS - FEAT: RUSSEL MORRIS + JAMIE ROBBIE REYNE DUO Corner Hotel, Richmond. 9:30pm. $30. SPECTRAL FIRES + BENEATH THE WATERS + MIDWIFE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9:00pm. $8. SUZANNE KINSELLA + BROOKE RUSSELL Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 10:30pm. TENDER BONES & MILKSHAKE + FIELDS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 10:00pm. $8. THE IMPOSSIBLE NO GOODS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 10:30pm. THE LOVE BOMBS + DJ LUCY ARUNDEL Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $13. THE UGLY KINGS + RED LIGHT RIOT + SEXY/ HEAVY + STONE REVIVAL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 10:00pm. THE WORKING HORSE IRONS + ROAD RATZ + ROYAL CUT THROAT CO Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. VULGARGRAD + DJ FLOYD THURSBY + EMPAT LIMA + TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 9:30pm. $16. WOD Prince Of Wales Public Bar, St Kilda . 9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK MANNY FOX + THE EXIT CROWD Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. CAM EWART & THE GHOST TOWNS OF THE MIDWEST Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 9:00pm. CRAIG & LIAM + JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE TRIO Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 10:30pm. DALTON GANG Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 9:00pm. $8. DOG TRUMPET + BERNIE HAYES Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 9:00pm. $20. GHOST TOWNS OF THE MIDWEST + ROBERT HARROW Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 9:00pm. JACKSON FIREBIRD Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 9:00pm. JAMES HAZELDEN Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:30pm. KING LUCHO + HOWL & CROW Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: PERFECT TRIPOD & DAN KELLY Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. RICH DAVIES & THE DEVILS UNION + GOGO GODDESSES + LA BASTARD The Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5. SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. SUMMER JAMBOREE - FEAT: GERALDINE QUINN + DJ LAZER FERRARI Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 5:00pm. THE WOLFE TONES Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 7:00pm.

8:00pm. $5. BLACKEYED SUSANS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. CAPTAIN CLEANOFF + BLACK JESUS + DEBACLE + RORT + SPLIT TEETH + THE DAY EVERYTHING BECAME NOTHING Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CHIPS RAFFERTY Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:30am. $10. CLARE BOWDITCH Melbourne Park, Melbourne. 6:00pm. CUNTZ + LEATHER TOWEL + POMM FRITZ Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. D.D.DUMBO + SODA EAVES + SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $10. FRIENDSHIPS + ISLAND UNIVERSE + POST PERCY Alia Arthouse, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FUCK THE FITZROY DOOM SCENE + DJ KEZBOT + SIB + THE FEEL GOODS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. JIMI HOCKING & GEOFF ACHISON Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 9:00pm. $18. KATHRYN KELLY Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 11:00pm. LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 11:00pm. LUCA BRASI + ANCHORS + BATPISS + CAVALCADE + CERES + DAMN TERRAN + OLD LOVE + OUTRIGHT + REGRETS + STOCKADES + SUNBATHER + THE SINKING TEETH Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 4:30pm. $20. MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: BABBA Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. NERVOUS TREND + GENTLEMEN + MASSES + SPITE HOUSE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 10:00pm. $8. NGAIIRE + KOOYEH + THANDO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. $20. PUB ROCK Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 10:30pm. SNAKADAKTAL + CHIEFS + KILTER + RAT & CO Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15. THE BITS + JP SWALLOW’S BOUNTY HUNTER Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. THE GRAND RAPIDS + THE NEW POLLUTION + THE ROLLAWAYS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THUNDERSTRUCK Musicland, Fawkner. 9:30pm. $15. TIMOTHY COGHILL + GEORGIA FIELDS Northcote

Social Club, Northcote. 9:30pm. $15. TTTDC + DJ DRAW 4 + RIFF-FIST + SEEDY JEEZUS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10. TV COLOURS + BEAT DISEASE & THE STEVENS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. WE ARE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 9:30pm. $49. WET LIPS + SHIT SEX Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 10:00pm. WHITE SUMMER + DARK HAWKS + ELEPHANT EGO + UGLY KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10. WILLOW Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC CISCO CEASAR Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 3:00pm. ELLY HOYT & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots, St Kilda. 4:30pm. HEATHER STEWART SINGS BILLIE HOLIDAY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. $25. JAMES MULLER TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. JASPORA + GOGO GODDESSES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 11:00pm. $5. KELSEY JAMES & THE FURBELOWS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. MORELAND CITY SOUL REVIEW + DJ SATURDAY KNIGHTZ Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. REMI HARRIS GYPSY JAZZ PROJECT Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. RHYTHM OF AFRICA - FEAT: ONE AFRICA + LAMINE’S JUNGLE PARTY Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK FATS WAH WAH Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 10:30pm. FEASTIVAL OF SAILS - FEAT: STEVE THEW Geelong Waterfront, Geelong. 2:00pm. FRIDA + CHARLIE LANE + KARATE BOOGALOO

SNOOP DOGG

Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion aka Snoop Zilla aka The Artist Formerly Known As Snoopy will play a headline show in Melbourne this week. Snoop will be performing a selection of his greatest hits alongside a mix of his reggae tracks that he recently released after an inspiring trip to Jamaica. He’ll be joined by 21-year-old US hip hop sensation Mac Miller. They’ll hit The Palace on Wednesday January 22.

ARCADE FIRE

Big Day Out headliners Arcade Fire will also play a headline show this week. Having just released their fourth studio album Reflektor, the Montreal collective have spent the better part of this year under a shroud of mystery, performing pop-up shows around the world as The Reflektors. It will be their first visit to Australian shores since they appeared on the 2008 Big Day Out bill. Catch ‘em at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday January 22.

SATURDAY JAN 25 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS AUSTRALIA DAY EVE PARTY - FEAT: MIDNIGHT WOOLF + BRAT FARRAR + RAYON MOON + THE YARD APES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. AUSTRALIA DAY EVE PARTY - FEAT: AGENCY DUB COLLECTIVE + CHUPAROSA + DJ CASSAWARRIOR + DJ LOTEK The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. AUSTRALIAN BON JOVI SHOW + AMERICAN IDIOT + AUSTRALIAN U2 SHOW Espy, St Kilda. 10:00pm. BANG - FEAT: LEFT FOR WOLVES + SHORESIDE + SILENT ROSE + VALLEYS OF VERMONT Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. BATTLE OF THE BANDS! - FEAT: HIGH NIGHTS + HAPPY GOES BLUES + JAMES AVENT + MATTHEW LENEHAN + MIGHTY KINGS + TURQMINUS Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 9:00pm. BEACHES + TERRIBLE TRUTHS + UNITY FLOORS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $17. BELLUSIRA + ANNA SALEN + PHIL PARA + STATIC REVENUE + TRIGGER Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. BIG VOLCANO + HIDEOUS TOWNS + KINESTHESIS + MUCH MUCH MORE + SEAN PETERS & THE MOTHERFUCKIN BOOGALOO ALLSTARS + THE FIBS + VENDORS RICH Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. NAME THAT POINT IN THE NIGHT WHEN DINNER PLANS TURN INTO FOOD VANS. VISIT NAMETHATPOINT.COM TO WIN $5,000

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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au + THE KEYTAR KIDS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. GEORGE KAMIKAWA Union Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. LUCY WILSON + LINCOLN LE FEVRE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. NUALA HONAN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. REFLEJOS Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm. STANDING TALL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. SUMMER JAMBOREE - FEAT: DARLING JAMES + DOMINI FORSTER + NICOLETTE FORTE Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 3:00pm. THE CHAD MASON BAND Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. THE FUJIYAMA MAMAS Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE VANGUARDS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 10:00pm. WILD TURKEY + DJ JEFF LEPPARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. WILLIE WAGTAILS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. WOODLOCK Penny Black, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

SUNDAY JAN 26 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS THE RUBENS Melbourne Park, Melbourne. 6:00pm. 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 9:30pm. AUSTRALIA DAY @ HAWTHORN HOTEL The Hawthorn, Hawthorn. 12:00pm. AUSTRALIA DAY PARTY - FEAT: CITIZEN SEX + THE DARK HAWKS + THE STRANGE + WHITE SUMMER + JIM DANDY + MOHAIR SLIM Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. BELAKOR + CLAIM THE THRONE + HEISENBERG + OKERA + ORPHEUS OMEGA Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15. BONJAH + SWEETS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20. BUCK JR + DEMI LOUISE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. CELEBRATE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. COLOURWHEEL + LISA SALVO + TEXTURE LIKE SUN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $12. FLAP! + DJ CRISPI + THE TWOKS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm. FLYYING COLOURS + ATOLLS + ESC Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10. HELLHOUNDS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. HOTTEST 100 PARTY - FEAT: ASTA + BAD// DREEMS + CLIENT LIAISON GLASS TOWERS + DRUNK MUMS + PAPA VS PRETTY + WILLOW BEATS + WORLD’S END PRESS + FLYYING COL-

OURS + GOLD FIELDSDJ’S + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH + SHIPS PIANO + SIETTA + WARMTH CRASHES IN Espy, St Kilda. 1:00pm. INVASION DAY PARTY! - FEAT: RUKUS + ALL WE NEED + CITYWILD WILD CAT + COUNTERATTACK + KMART WARRIORS + LITTER + ORGAN DONOR + RESIST CONTROL + SPEW N GUTS + STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE + SUBSTANCE ABUSE + THE FUCK OUTS + THE MORRISONS + WOUNDED PIG Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 1:00pm. JMS HARRISONOF CHARM Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. KLINGER + MRS PINK WHISTLE + THEM SWOOPS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 9:30pm. $15. LINCOLN LE FEVRE + DARREN GIBSON + GRENADIERS + HAVE/HOLD + HOODLUM SHOUTS + INITIALS + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + RIBBONS PATTERNS + SUMMERHILL + THE UNION PACIFIC + TIGERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 4:00pm. $20. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: THE SPOILS + BLOOD BURGER + DJ KEZBOT + RON S. PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10. PLAGUE DOCTOR Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. SEX ON TOAST + THE DO YO THANGS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $20. SHANTY TOWN + SKA VENDORS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. STRAYA DAY - FEAT: KING OF THE NORTH + DEAD CITY RUINS + MY LEFT BOOT Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. SUNDAY SCHOOL Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm. $10. TV COLOURS + BEAT DISEASE + CHOOK RACE + UNITY FLOORS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. TWIN BEASTS + OHMS + PONY FACE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC ANDY MONTANEZ The Hi-ﬁ, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $79. ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 2:00pm. JADIDA/JANANA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 9:00pm. SURVIVAL DAY 2014 - FEAT: ARCHIE ROACH + CRAIG PILKINGTON + JOE GEIA Borthwick Park, Belgrave. 12:00pm. THE ISH/ALLEN PROJECT Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. THE JAMES MULLER TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA + CHRIS GILL + DJS MANCHILD + THE CACTUS CHANNEL + THE DO YO THANGS Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $16. TIDAL RHYTHMS @ THE BOWL - FEAT: MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA + GRACE BARBE + MASSIVE FAM Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. 2:30pm.

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ABBIE CARDWELL & HER LEADING MEN + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL + THE MATTY GREEN BAND Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. BEN SALTER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:30pm. CHERRY BLUES - FEAT: GEOFF ACHSION AND THE SOULDIGGERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $5. DALLAS CRANE & CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + DIRT RIVER RADIO Corner Hotel, Richmond. 9:30pm. $20. JOE RANSOM + AMY GANTER + OLD WORLD SPARROW Club Voltaire, North Melbourne. 3:00pm. LATCHIKOS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 6:30pm. MITCHELL P WARD 303, Northcote. 4:30pm. OPA 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $5. PETER BAYLOR & THE ROADHOUSE ROMEOS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. RAISED BY EAGLES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. SPEAK NO EVIL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. SUMMER JAMBOREE (AUSTRALIA DAY BONANZA!) - FEAT: MIKELANGELO AND ST CLARE + THE SUGAR FED LEOPARDS + TYRON & FELIX Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 2:00pm. THE ALAN LADDS + CHARLES JENKINS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 5:00pm. THE BELLWETHER BAND Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. THE BRAD MARTIN PROJECT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots, St Kilda. 4:30pm.

RAINBOW SERPENT

One of Australia’s most loved festivals is back this weekend. The 2014 Rainbow Serpent features Italian techno heavyweight Donato Dozzy, coowner of Kompakt and German stalwart Michael Mayer alongside a wealth of electronic talent including Zion Train, The Funk Hunters, Snareophobe, Shane Gobi, Hux Flux, Rocky, Felguk, King Unique, Nico Stojan, Phaxe, Kularis, Banco De Gaia and a whole lot more. Rainbow Serpent 2014 takes place in Lexton from Friday January 24 - Monday January 27. THE TIMBERS Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE (FOUR) - FEAT: THE:FOUR:SCOOPS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. ZOE K + DJ EBONY & IVORY Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 5:30pm.

MONDAY JAN 27 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS DEAR MONDAY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: MILK TEDDY + MOON DICE + NINA RENEE + THIGH MASTER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:00pm. MONDAYS COVERED - FEAT: TIM MCMILLAN BAND + BRENT + DANA ROSKBIST + SECRET TSUNAMI + TRENT HAMILTON Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE ALLAN BROWNE TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK FEASTIVAL OF SAILS - FEAT: STEVE THEW Geelong Waterfront, Geelong. 12:00pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm. SAINT JUDE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE PIERCE BROTHERS Penny Black, Brunswick. 3:00pm. THE SHOTGUN WEDDING Bar Open, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. UNPAVED SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $5.

TUESDAY JAN 28 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC HI-FI LOUNGE LIZARDS Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm. JAZZ IN THE ATTIC (A NIGHT IN HAVANA) - FEAT: CLAVEMANIA Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. JAZZCATS Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. PETER BAYLOR’S ULTRAFOX Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm. THE JAMES MULLER & STEVE MAGNUSSON PROJECT Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.

INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS BRIGHTSIDE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. BRUNSWICK HOTEL DISCOVERY NIGHT - FEAT: HOLLYWOOD TALL + BILBO SWAGGINS + FILTHY LUI Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15. JAIME ROBBIE REYNE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. KEN STRINGFELLOW + CHRIS STAMEY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $40. KING KRULE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. $47. STRINE SINGERS + BROOKE RUSSELL & THE MEAN REDS + DAN WATERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK BEYOND THE BATHROOM CHOIR Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:30pm. BROOKE RUSSELL & THE MEAN REDS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. CRAFTY ANNE & FRIENDS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Is there ever a better way to wrap up the last week of summer school holidays than by celebrating the heck out of Australia Day? We don’t think so, and this year you even get an *extra* day off to enjoy not being at school or work just yet – hoorah! There are countless ways you could spend the weekend, including pool parties, skate comps, festivals (we’ve listed a few FReeZA-run events below!) or getting hot and dusty at the Big Day Out. The lineup is pretty sweet this year, but if you haven’t got a lazy $185 bucks laying around because your electricity bill just came in and you’ve been cranking the air con over the last few weeks, then you might wanna consider giving your ears the free aural pleasure of listening to the triple j Hottest 100 instead. It’ll be kicking off on your radios at noon this Sunday – dial in for some sweet tunes while you mosey around in this summer heat. At the time of writing this column there were 2744 Australia Day parties registered worldwide and the number was fast rising. You can jump online and check out which public venues in your local area will be playing the countdown, or you can register your own event – don’t worry, they won’t give out your deets but you will go into the running to win a year’s worth of awesome music including every triple j Feature Album and a bunch of other rad releases. For you creative songwriting types out there who would prefer to create your own tunes, check out the ﬁrst round of Push Songs that we’ll be hosting in Brunswick during February/March. You’ll get to take part in three one-on-one songwriting workshops with mentors, including none other than Mark Seymour, Adalita, Liz Stringer and Darren Middleton (ex lead guitar dude for Powderﬁnger). It’s free and open to all ages, all you have to do is apply at thepush.com.au by Thursday January 30.

ALL AGES TIMETABLE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22 Arcade Fire, Arts Centre Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Linlithgow Ave, 6pm, $99, ticketmaster. com.au, AA Heavenly Sounds w/ Sarah Blasko and Appleonia, St Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne, 7pm, $62.50, ticketek.com.au, AA THURSDAY JANUARY 23 Born of Osiris w/ After The Burial, Wrangler Studios, 8C Whitely Parade, West Footscray, 6pm, $51, oztix. com.au, AA FRIDAY JANUARY 24 Big Day Out w/ Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Snoop Dogg , Beady Eye, Deftones, The Hives, Major Lazer, Steve Angello, Flume, The Lumineers, Tame Impala, Mac Miller, Ghost, The Naked and Famous, Pez, Northlane and more, Flemington Racecourse, Flemington, 11am, $185, bigdayout.com, AA SUNDAY JANUARY 26 Dunkeld Pool Party, Dunkeld Pool, 1pm - 5pm, Free, Briana Picken on 5551 8450 or wdhs.net, AA Shove it Skate Scoot BMX Comp, Port Campbell Skate Park, Port Campbell, 11.30am - 2pm, Free, Tammy Young on (03) 5593 7133, AA Australia Day Festival in The Park w/ Reejay, Culture Crew, Replay Kstar, Shany and Binca, Josh, Asanti dance theatre, plus rides, inﬂatables, combat couse, and mini golf, Dandenong Park, Cnr Pultney and Foster Streets, Dandenong, 3pm - 9.30pm, Free, Nick Karlas on 9793 2155 or greaterdandenong.com, AA Avicii, Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne, $99, moshtix.com.au or 1300 438 849, AA TUESDAY JANUARY 28 Pier Underage w/ SCNDL and Jungle Jim, The Pier Geelong, Cunningham Pier, Geelong, 7pm, $20+bf, oztix.com.au, U18 IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. SHANE O’MARA & DAN LETHBRIDGE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. THE IMPRINTS + CELLOJOE + FORMIDABLE VEGETABLE SOUND SYSTEM 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.

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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews MYLO OneSixOne, Sunday January 12

Richard Dodson

Imagine a sweaty Sunday nightclub dance floor, a seemingly interconnected sea of prolonged party people, electronica enthusiasts and the odd curious body. Add an international DJ whose name can be found on the best music compilations of the modern-day house, and it gets even sweatier. That DJ was Scottish-born pressure man himself, Mylo. Though not a man of many hits, his biggest – Drop the Pressure – remains a lasting classic in the dance world and has earned Mylo a reputation that perhaps precedes the man himself. Arriving almost an hour late to the decks, the crowd was more than ready for his beats. Standing back to admire his lathering brow from afar, Mylo had them in the palm of his hand as he swiftly (and a little roughly) sliced from track to track. It wasn’t until the crowd’s interest waned that there was a chance to move in and check out the famous guy in action. And what a disappointment it was. Pre-produced to the tee, his fingers flailed above unmoving levels and his laptop… it wouldn’t surprise me if he was just tapping it out of the screen saver. Now this isn’t to say his music was bad – it was just disappointing that a man of his reputation would have been flown in to play a pre-recorded mix. Daft Punk, sure, but this guy? Maybe it proves that at the end of the day, Mylo’s strengths really lay as a producer rather than a DJ. Maybe he’s not trying to be anything else. If that’s the case, then why bother appearing at a club like this in the first place? Every other DJ in there was mixing live, it seems a shame that the most famous, the most allegedly talented, couldn’t deliver the same. All pre-recorded gripes aside, what he did deliver were some well-thought-out house mixes incorporating acid house in amongst the likes of Talking Heads and Yellow. And of course Drop the Pressure, which although not as excitedly LOVED: Ticking Drop the Pressure live received as one would imagine, was certainly a highlight in the midst off my list of his set. HATED: Realising it wasn’t live after all DRANK: Too much for a Sunday JEN WILSON night

SUN RA ARKESTRA The Forum, Sunday January 19 100 years ago, Sun Ra was born. Throughout his lifetime, he became the manifestation of jazz evolution, touching on swing, hard bop and fusion, all the while perpetuating an avant-garde edge. He was a pioneer of electronic music, space music and free jazz, experimenting with synthesisers and electronic keyboards. 21 years after his death, his faithful Arkestra are still playing his music and sustaining his traditions. A student of cosmology, Sun Ra’s music was devoted to the mysteries of space and the universe. Re-naming himself after the Egyptian God of the Sun (Ra), it came as no surprise when the entire Arkestra arrived on stage dressed as Pharaohs; complete with gold and silver drapes and fancy headdresses. If Ancient Egypt was ever re-discovered as a happening planet and then chosen as a base for reality television, the Arkestra would be the unquestionable house band. Led by the 89-year-old Marshall Allen, the 13-piece Arkestra performed a two-hour catalogue of Sun Ra classics, taking us on a sonic journey through space music and free jazz. The virile Allen, who proved that age and stamina aren’t mutually exclusive, swapped between playing alto sax and a peculiar supersonic instrument called an EVI, creating eerie sonic sound scapes (think of the atmospherics in Dark Side Of The Moon). Many of the other musicians played multiple instruments as well. One guy was on baritone sax and flute and another was on bongos, snare and sax. Even the pianist – who played some great New Orleans boogie woogie stuff – swapped between keys and percussion, often hitting the high hat with his right foot in the middle of a piano solo. The solos were brilliant, showcasing a variety of western and eastern influences, the latter perpetuated through the flute and bongos. The female vocalist – whose tone was not dissimilar from Ella Fitzgerald’s – sang us stories of magic carpets and flying saucers, adding a voice-over to the strange, yet optimistic cosmic jazz. One of the sax players – a man definitely over the age of 60 – attempted to do a sort of Elaine Benes dance thing, following on with some amazing acrobatics. The music was cluttered and all over the place, probably not appropriate for extensive record listening. What made it so good live was the consistent animation and virtuosity of the players. It was colourful, noisy and lush. The routine often got a little disorganised, due to a number of confused faces trying to remember who the next soloist was. But hey, doesn’t an unorthodox performance go hand in hand with the avant-garde? An amazing LOVED: The appropriate Bitches Brew celestial show from a loyal following, let’s hope Sun Ra’s music can meets The Best of Sun Ra DJ picks survive another 100 years. during intermission. HATED: That I didn’t wear some kind of celestial outfit. DINA AMIN DRANK: Space Juice.

PORT ROYAL STREET PARTY Port Melbourne, Saturday January 18 There has never been a festival specifically for local garage punk fans in Melbourne before, so it was great to see the first ever Port Royal Street Party executed so brilliantly. Melbourne has a long-standing history of producing strong garage acts, and while local venues are consistently filled with the familiar shrieks of bands like Drunk Mums and Batpiss, larger scale events have often overlooked them and the genre as a whole. The line up pulled no punches, topped by local legends and stars of their own recent MIFF documentary Cosmic Psychos and Australian punk icons The Meanies. Both acts brought to the stage the sheer grunt you’d expect from 25 years experience playing with the balls-to-the-wall intensity both groups are known for. Bits of Shit were another obvious stand out, illustrating pretty clearly to us why their debut record Cut Sleeves has seen notable success at the iconic Goner Records store in Memphis in this present-day punk renaissance. Port Royal marketed itself as a street party ‘for the people, by the people’. Ordinarily I take these claims with a grain of salt. It seems to be the catch cry of every small-scale festival trying to survive in an insanely competitive market, but at Port Royal the claims were genuine. The organisers made every reasonable attempt to understand and work for their punters and it was refreshing to see. On top of the strong line up, the beers were locally brewed and reasonably priced and the food was great. It appeared as though there was a genuine affection for all the acts amongst the crowd. There’s something that’s particularly engaging and strangely humbling about seeing groups you’d normally see at The Tote play in a bigger setting and receiving the response that they deserve. I suppose in my mind I liken watching local acts to supporting a football team, you don’t just watch them or appreciate them, you support them too. I’m just glad that there’s a festival on the Melbourne calendar now that shares the same fondness LOVED: The Bravado for supporting local talent. Hats off to ya Port Royal! HATED: The Hangover DRANK: Matilda Bay KEATS MULLIGAN

THE MISFITS Corner Hotel, Friday January 17 Friday night. The end of the hottest week to hit Melbourne since penny-farthings were an everyday sighting – even on places that weren’t Smith Street. It was bloody hot. The carpet was sticky, the beer was reasonably bad, and hundreds of punks and hipsters trying to look authentic were crammed into every corner of the Corner in anticipation of the once-great, now-still-kinda-great-but-also-fat-and-old Misfits. Melbourne regulars the Mercy Kills opened proceedings, followed by Graveyard Rockstars, who I hadn’t had the dubious pleasure of seeing before. After about 30 seconds I decided that my eardrums would be better served by playing Words With Friends for 20 minutes on Swan Street. To be fair, the songs weren’t terrible, but the vocals were lackluster while the drumming was average at best. The Misfits started fashionably late – 11.02pm, to be precise – with the sound of thunder. The Corner started reverberating to the drums and bass straight away, as they kicked off with 2011’s The Devil’s Rain. What happened over the next hour and a bit wasn’t tight, wasn’t great, but it was pretty damn fun. The Misfits are no longer a patch on the original outfit, but you could do a hell of a lot worse if you fancy LOVED: Jerry Only’s hair. a good yell with a beer in hand. HATED: The overload of Misfits’ accessories. JOSH FERGEUS DRANK: Cheap tap beer.

CONFETTI The Palace, Sunday January 12 Marking the opening of the Midsumma 2014, Confetti did not fail to deliver a fabulous night of badass beats and disco bliss. Boasting a line up of Australian and International acts including Cakes Da Killa and Raff Daddy, DJs Fletch and Yo Mafia kicked off the night with a flawless mix of hip hop, old school, trap and trill, a fitting soundtrack for the fierceness that was about to be experienced; Cakes Da Killa. Yo Mafia spun tracks for Cakes, opening with Henry Mancini’s Pink Panther theme before breaking into tracks from his latest mixtape The Eulogy. Informing the crowd “Can I get a different lighting, I’m feeling really bloated right rig ght now” before being joined on stage by dancers wearing flower crowns, Cakes Da Killa was simply fierce. At th ve the vvery ery r y moment that I tthought ‘Damn – I wish the Twerkshop crew could get up on stage to dance with Cakes’ the Tw T Twerk Twerkshop weerk errrkkshop crew got up and did what they do best, mid-set with Cakes. kept DJ Sveta ta kkep ta ep pt the party ggoing with her party mix of grimey hip hop and vogue-worthy electronica before Sydneylocals Worl Worlds rllld rld ds End End Press brought the crowd to the dancefloor. A perfect blend of acoustic and electronica, the fourpiece were energetic en nergetic from their very first disco opener. With minimal stage banter between tracks, their ‘DJ-style’ ner their blend with each other was a big win. of making the eeir ei iirr ssongs ongs bl dancefloor, The Presets were welcomed at The Palace with open arms as they delivered their With a packed d oout ut danc catalogue hits. Julian Hamilton’s voice was incredibly distinct as they played through a xylophone-heavy amazing catalo ooggue ue of hits Know remix of If I K now w You, tto the poppier Promises. The crowd sang along to the jungle-anthemic Ghosts and later the favourite Myy Peop People. The Presets are absolute Australian music crowd favour u iit ite tte M LOVED: Everything. Musical variety Confetti was fabulous way to welcome the Midsumma Festival gold. Confet tti ti w as a fabu was spot on. eclectic tting lineup. with aan n ecle cle lleeccti ctttiic and fittin HATED: Nothing. DRANK: Cider. MIMI MIM MI V VELEVSKA ELEV ELE VSSKA VS BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 58

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