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There’s just under a week left to submit your entries into Melbourne Music Bank, the community-driven music initiative offering aspiring artists a chance to break into the music industry. If you’re a local musician or band then get inspired by our kick-arse city of Melbourne and write a song about it. A career-making prize is up for grabs, including two days of recording at Sing Sing Studios, a video clip by filmmaker Wilk, live gigs, album artwork and 500 CDs, PR and marketing advice and the chance to have your song used in a Bank of Melbourne advertisement. The competition is open to all Victorian songwriters and musicians. Beat estimates the total prize value is somewhere around 15,000 to 20,000 bucks. That’s pretty frickin’ sweet. Music artists have until September 7 to submit an original piece of music inspired by Melbourne. What are you waiting for? Visit www.bankofmelbourne.com. au/melbmusicbank to enter.

KYLIE AULDIST AND THE GLENROY ALLSTARS

Ding Dong Lounge’s newly opened Cajun and Creole restaurant Girl with the Gris Gris, is set to welcome Australian soul sensation and leading lady of The Bamboos, Kylie Auldist and her five-piece funk soul orchestra The Glenroy Allstars, for a very special night of music and soul food as part of Mo’ Soul on Wednesday September 24. With comparisons to the likes of Diana Ross and Sharon Jones, the partSamoan songstress Kylie is a born entertainer and arguably the most powerful and sensitive soul voice in Australia. Join Kylie Auldist and The Glenroy Allstars with support from Fulton Street and DJ Vince Peach and get your soul fix, while you kick back to exceptional table service and a three-course dinner, prepared by New Orleans Head Chef Chris Weysham, who will introduce you to his Cajun heritage of home style, Louisiana cooking. On sale now via Ticketmaster.

Hilltop Hoods have announced an extensive national tour for this summer on the back of the release of their massively successful new album Walking Under Stars. The upcoming leg will mark stage four of their 2014 world tour, which has already seen them sell out shows in New Zealand and Europe. Since its release earlier this month, Walking Under Stars has reached Gold status and now holds the #1 spot on the ARIA charts for the second consecutive week. They’ll hit Margaret Court Arena on Friday November 14. The general public sale kicks off at 11am on Monday September 1. Ticket details are available from the Hilltop Hoods’ website.

MESA COSA

Local five-piece Mesa Cosa have announced they will be heading off on an east coast tour this September. The band will be playing shows in Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra and Melbourne. Mesa Cosa will be supported by a new film clip and single as well as an upcoming 7” via Matadero Records. Mesa Cosa will take over The Curtin on Friday September 26.

JAKOB

Cult post-rock outfit Jakob are awakening from a long slumber to break an eight-year silence with a Australian tour this November, bringing their formidably beautiful and long-awaited new record Sines. Having toured Europe, the UK, Australasia and the US on the back of their 2006 record Solace, Jakob were twice personally invited to tour with American prog-rock heroes Tool throughout Australia and New Zealand, and toured along-side Damo Suzuki, frontman for seminal German psychedelic band Can. Injuries that prompted the eight-year hiatus are now a distant memory ± New Zealand’s most formidable post-rock three-piece is back in full swing and ready to bring their unmistakable sonic texturing to the stage with a New Zealand and Australia tour in what will be an explorative aural adventure. Catch them at Ding Dong Thursday November 27. Tickets available through Oztix.

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Brisbane’s The Blurst of Times festival has revealed the lineup that they will be showcasing on their inaugural expansion to Melbourne. The festival will be headlined by DZ Deathrays and will also see performances from Hard-Ons, Jeremy Neale, Harmony, Beaches, Drunk Mums, Blank Realm, The UV Race, TV Colours, Major Leagues, Spod, Donny Benet, Super Best Friends, Scotdrakula, Miss Destiny, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Chores, The Good Sports, Rolls Bayce and Babaganouj. The Blurst of Times will take place in Melbourne on Sunday October 19 at Seaworks.

CALLING ALL CARS

Calling All Cars have been announced as the support act for Biffy Clyro’s upcoming Australian tour. After relocating to the UK earlier this year, the band were hand-picked to join the Glasgow outfit for their run of Australian shows in September. These will be the last shows the trio will play in Australia for 2014, with the band’s latest single Every Day Is The Same set to drop later next month. Biffy Clyro and Calling All Cars will hit Melbourne on Sunday September 7 for a show at the Palais Theatre. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.

2014 TOYOTA AFL GRAND FINAL

This year’s Toyota AFL Grand Final will see two of the world’s biggest recording artists provide pre and postmatch entertainment for football fans of all generations. Earlier this week the AFL confirmed that the 2014 Virgin Australia Pre-Game Show at this year’s Grand Final at the MCG on Saturday, September 27 would be headlined by two global superstars ± chart topper Ed Sheeran and legendary singer Sir Tom Jones. Both artists will perform a number of hits in the lead up to the biggest game of the year. Both artists are coming to Australia specifically to play the special one-off performance at the AFL Grand Final.

AQUA

Aqua, the technicolour ‘90s dance pop group that brought us bubblegum gem Barbie Girl, have announced that they will make their return to Australia this November. In what will mark their first trip down under in two years, the Danish pop stars promise to treat fans to some of their biggest hits like Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones and Lollypop (Candyman). Last time Aqua hit our shores, they sold out eleven shows across the country. They’ll play The Palais Theatre on Monday November 3. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday September 2 at 10am from Ticketmaster.

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Before Yacht Club DJs call it a day, they’ll make the rounds one more time on their Hooroo! tour this summer. Since forming in 2008, the duo have gotten the party started at everywhere from Meredith to Falls to a North American tour with Mumford & Sons. Their final tour will kick off in Hobart before finishing up at the place that started it all, Ballarat. Catch ‘em one last time at The Corner Hotel on Saturday November 22. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday August 29.

THE GRISWOLDS

After a successful U.S. run, The Griswolds are heading home for a huge tour in support of their new album, Be Impressive. Recorded under the guidance of producer Tony Hoffer (The Kooks, Beck, M83, Ladyhawke), the debut LP has received praise for its lyrical depth and party vibe. Their ten-date celebration tour will take the four-piece across six states and territories. The Griswolds will hit The Corner Hotel on Thursday September 25. Tickets are available now. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14

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Hold onto your hats because tickets go on sale today for the great Darebin Music Feast. This year’s exciting celebration of music and community will feature a host of amazing happenings, from curated shows at Northcote Town Hall to excellent free gigs at the Bain Marie hub bar plus more than 150 bands playing at local venues across the City of Darebin. Sink your teeth into the full program in all its glory today at musicfeast.com.au. The 2014 Music Feast will run from Wednesday October 8 to Sunday October 19 and presents shows at venues throughout Westgarth, Northcote, Thornbury, Preston and Reservoir.

JAMES HOLDEN

James Holden has locked in a headline show in Melbourne to accompany his appearance at Meredith. Holden was last on our shores at the beginning of the year for a performance at Let Them Eat Cake, of which our reviewer stated that he “delivered the most entrancing musical journey of the day.” His upcoming visit will allow Australian audiences to experience Holden in a live environment, reinventing tracks from his all-conquering 2013 record The Inheritors alongside his unique back catalogue. He’ll hit The Hi-Fi on Wednesday December 10. Tickets through Novel.

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BLUESFEST

The Bluesfest first round lineup for 2015 has landed ± and boy, is it a cracker. The Black Keys will headline the latest edition of one of Australia’s favourite festivals, which will again cover the Easter long weekend Thursday April 2 ± Monday April 6 at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm outside Byron Bay. Joining them are Zac Brown Band, Alabama Shakes, Michael Franti & Spearhead, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Paul Kelly presenting The Merri Soul Sessions (featuring Dan Sultan, Kira Puru and Vika and Linda Bull), Xavier Rudd and The United Nations and many more. For the full lineup and ticketing info, head to bluesfest.com.au.

THE BEST MUSIC WRITING UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SUN

Apparently, there are people writing about music outside of the hallowed halls here at Beat. Christian Ryan has put together a bunch of these pieces featuring tales of rock’n’roll mischief, mayhem and mystery, all authored by a luminary collection of Australia’s finest music writers. Head to beat.com. au (aka The Best Music Writing Under the Australian Sun, Vol. 2) to claim one of five copies of this must-have slice of Aussie music history.

CANADIAN BL AST

CIMA and Music Export Canada are heading back to Australia this September for their second annual mission to Bigsound in Brisbane, once again presenting Canadian Blast showcases, networking events, b2b opportunities and the HOORAY FOR CANADA! panel. Four incredible Canadian acts Buckman Coe, Jordan Klassen, July Talk & Mise En Scene join the mission to perform Canadian Blast showcases at Alhambra Lounge for Australian and international music industry delegates, buyers and tastemakers in Brisbane for Bigsound. To pave the road to Canadian Blast at Bigsound, and to make the most of the trip Down Under, the Canadian delegation will make a pit stop at the Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne for more showcasing, to meet with local industry and to connect with new fans. Monday September 8 at Ding Dong.

BASENJI

Australian beatsmith Basenji has released a new single and announced a nationwide tour to celebrate. Heirloom marks the first material Basenji’s released since signing to new label Future Classic. There’s been a lot of anticipation surrounding the single ever since fellow producer and high school friend Wave Racer sampled Heirloom in his BBC Radio 1 mix. Catch Basenji on Friday October 17 at The Liberty Social.

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Ron S. Peno, the frontman of iconic Australian altrock outfit Died Pretty, will return for a pair of special shows next month. The shows will see Peno perform the songs of Died Pretty and will come almost three years after the band’s last reunion. Catch Ron S. Peno on Friday September 12 at The Shadow Electric and Saturday September 13 at Flying Saucer Club.

Legendary hip hop group Souls of Mischief will return down under for the first time since 2006. The tour comes following the release of their brand new album There Is Only Now, which was recorded solely on 2" analogue tape using only acoustic live instrumentation. Catch ‘em on Monday November 3 at The Espy.

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Musician, record producer and all-round indie music legend Steve Albini has been announced as the first international keynote speaker for the Face The Music industry conference in November. Albini’s punk rock attitude to recording has seen him engineer 1,500 albums ± including Nirvana, The Pixies, PJ Harvey and The Stooges ± and his current band Shellac releases its sixth album Dude Incredible next month. Also announced to speak at Face The Music were Dave Batty (Custom Made/Artist Voice), Johann Ponniah (I OH YOU), Cara Williams (Beat), Briese Abbott (Spark & Opus), Ben Thompson (Corner Presents), James Young (Cherry Bar, Yah Yah’s), Antonia Sellbach (Love of Diagrams, Beaches), Harley Evans (Moshtix), Millie Millgate & Glenn Dickie (Sounds Australia), Chris Hatzis (3RRR), Chris Johnson (AMRAP/CBAA), Emma Telfer (The Office Of Good Design), Sophia Brous (artist/curator), Caleb Williams (Unified), Kirsty Rivers (APRA AMCOS), Yvette Myhill (AAM) and Patrick Donovan (Music Victoria) with 100 more speakers to be announced. Face The Music is held Friday November 14 and Saturday November 15 at Arts Centre Melbourne, and partners with Melbourne Music Week. In a special session to mark their induction into the Age Music Victoria Hall of Fame, the four original members of one of Daddy Cool, come together at Face The Music to discuss their career and music.

Chopped is back, full throttle, with the hottest three days of the best traditional hot rods, dirt drags, customs, bobbers, vintage speedways and live rock, all in one mammoth festival. Chopped 2014 will feature an onslaught of garage, rock’n’roll and rockabilly through to country, swamp, surf and blues. Headlining the massive lineup of music is none other than the best pub rockers in town, The Cosmic Psychos, alongside Intoxica, King Salami & The Cumberland 3, Mesa Cosa, The Peep Temple, Levitating Churches and mountains more. But that’s not all. Hundreds of cars and bikes will be rattled by the sounds of 25+ bands belting the roots of rock’n’roll music to thousands of rockers, petrol heads, hipsters and greasers. This one of a kind festival is a throwback to a ‘50s/’60s HopUp Carnival, and will feature dirt drags and pre-‘65 style hot rods going head-to-head down two lanes of dirt, with full throttle vintage speedway sliding and colliding. This huge event goes down from Friday October 3 - Sunday October 5 in Newstead, Victoria.

GOSSLING

In celebration of her debut full length album, Harvest of Gold, Gossling has announced a string of national shows this November. To celebrate the tour she will release a special digital only edition of Harvest of Gold featuring a bonus EP of new and previously unreleased music, including covers of Everclear’s Santa Monica and Vance Joy’s Riptide. Supporting Gossling on all dates, except Perth, is Sydney singer/songwriter and 2012 triple j Unearthed High finalist Montaigne. Gossling will play The Corner Hotel on Thursday November 6. Tickets go on sale Friday August 29 through the venue.

ON THE RECORD with THE VINES

Sat 11 Oct

Nina Las Vegas

Sat 18 Oct

The Selecter (2-Tone) Fri 31 Oct

Titty Twister Who are you? Tim John (bass) from The Vines.

Thu 13 Nov

AWME: Ash Grunwald Fri 14 Nov

AWME: Nahko & Medicine For The People Sat 15 Nov

AWME: Hiatus Kaiyote Sun 16 Nov

AWME: Melbourne Ska Orchestra Fri 21 Nov

Prong

Wed 10 Dec

James Holden Thu 11 Dec

The War On Drugs SOLD OUT

Sat 13 Dec

Thy Art Is Murder

Sat 29 Nov

Husky

Thu 04 Dec

Pantha Du Prince

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THE SMITH STREET BAND

The Smith Street Band have announced they’ll hit the road this November to support their upcoming third full length, Throw Me in the River. With songs written in Winnipeg, Salt Lake City, Calgary, London, New York and North Melbourne, The Smith Street Band will take their soon to be released LP to all corners of the world. In preparation for the Australian tour, they will spend October playing shows throughout Europe and the UK with The Menzingers, before jetting to the USA for a short East Coast tour, including a third straight appearance at The Fest in Gainesville, Florida. New Jersey’s indie-folk-punk sweethearts The Front Bottoms and English comrades Apologies, I Have None will join The Smith Street Band on the tour. Catch The Smith Street Band at The Corner Hotel on Friday November 28. Tickets go on sale Friday August 29 through the venue.

1. The First Record I Bought: Queen ± Greatest Hits. I did chores for two weeks to earn enough to buy this album when I was eight or nine years old. Each song is perfect and unique, and taught me a lot about music, but more so how to play some wicked air guitar. I don’t think there will be another voice like Freddie’s. It should be mandatory for each Australian home to own this album. 2. The Last Record I Bought: Andy Bull ± Sea of Approval. When we were mixing Wicked Nature in Sydney, Andy was writing songs for this record in the studio next door. I’d always pop in and hear what he was up to and I was so excited and blown away to hear it finished. Such a great album with soul for years and smooth production. Plus he’s the world’s nicest dude to share a coffee with. 3. The First Thing I Recorded: The first music I ever recorded was when I was 13, on a little four-track tape machine in my garage, probably some song about a girl or something. It sounded like utter crap but got me into recording my own songs. I’d recently learned

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that Dave Grohl had recorded the entire first Foo Fighters album with himself playing every instrument, so I wanted to do that. Shame I was a shitty guitarist at best… 4. The Last Thing I Recorded: The last thing we recorded was disc two of Wicked Nature. We’d finished the first disc with Paul McKercher, and Craig had written ten new songs he was really excited about, so we got together and Lachlan and I learnt them over two rehearsals. We recorded and mixed them in five days with Lachlan Mitchell at Jungle Studios. The songs were recorded live, and you can hear the excitement and urgency. 5. The Record That Changed My Life: Midnight Oil ± Oils on the Water. It’s a live set recorded from ‘85 out on Sydney Harbour and has to be one of the best captured examples of rock’n’roll ever. I must have watched the live video of this countless times and studied every moment of it. Because of Rob Hirst at this performance, I started playing drums. Get wrapped up in THE VINES’ latest album Wicked Nature, out through their own shiny new label, Wicked Nature Music.

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THE SKATALITES

The Skatalites have announced they will be returning to Australia to celebrate their 50th anniversary this December. The group, made up of a collective of some of Jamaica’s finest musicians, defined the sound of ska in the ‘50s and ‘60s. After forming in 1964, the group were only officially together for 14 months, but in that time they changed the shape of Jamaican popular music as chief proponents of the ska form, backing leading artists of the day, including a young Bob Marley, Alton Ellis, and Toots and the Maytals. After a hiatus the group reformed in the mid-’80s, headed off on a world tour as Bunny Wailer’s backing band and later for Prince Buster. The nine-piece are now preparing for their ten-stop tour of Australia and New Zealand, including an appearance at Meredith Music Festival. The Skatalites will celebrate turning 50 with a show at The Corner Hotel on Thursday December 18. Tickets go on sale Thursday September 4 through Oztix.

EVERY TIME I DIE

QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL

DOWN ON THE FARM

Down on the Farm music festival was born out of the passion of a dedicated group of fans that helped fund Matt Westons’ Cosmic Psychos documentary, Blokes You Can Trust, in 2012. Organized by local rock afficionado Peter Smedley, the first DOTF was a paddock gig for 80 punters, rockin’ out under a blue tarp and hay bales to the Cosmic Psychos. This year the DOTF crew headed by local artist and music lover, Samira Heale, has manifested a killer line up that sees the forefathers, Cosmic Psychos, back in town, supported by Bad // Dreems, Drunk Mums, Warped, Sun God Replica, Powerline Sneakers, Child, Miss Destiny, Modesty and the rumour of a secret weapon in the mix. Get on down to the farm Saturday November 22 at Emu Plains Racecourse Reserve.

Queenscliff Music Festival just continues to get bigger and bigger. They have announced the additions of Skunkhour, The Little Stevies, Luluc, Stella Angelico, Skyscraper Stan and The Commission Flats, Davidson Brothers, Archer, Jordan Rakei, Karl S. Williams and Jesse Valach and Blues Mountain to the 2014 festival. They join the already revealed lineup of Nahko and Medicine for the People, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Kristy Lee, Elliott Brood, Hayward Williams, Dan Sultan, Blue Shaddy, Dyson Stringer Cloher, The Delta Riggs, Tijuana Cartel, Tkay Maidza, The Shaolin Afronauts, Steve Smyth, Marlon Williams, The Bombay Royale, The Church, D.D. Dumbo, Hiatus Kaiyote, The Jezabels, Kasey Chambers, Stonefield, The Waifs and Xavier Rudd. Queenscliff Music Festival takes place from Friday November 28 until Sunday November 30. Tickets are on sale now.

Hardcore heroes Every Time I Die will return to Australia in January 2015. Often imitated but never duplicated, Every Time I Die continue to be the boldest, most unique band in the metalcore scene today. Hot on the heels of their crushing album From Parts Unknown, the band couldn’t be more excited to be heading back down under. Every Time I Die brought out the big guns and spent a month recording with legendary producer and Converge co-founder Kurt Ballou at his GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. Cathartic and chaotic but always anchored by guitarfuelled hooks, the new album finds Every Time I Die pushing into brighter emotional territory than they’ve ever explored before. Don’t miss out when they play The Corner Hotel Friday January 16.

C.W. STONEKING

Blues singer/songwriter C.W. Stoneking will hit the road to promote his forthcoming new album, Gon’ Boogaloo. The LP will mark his first since 2008’s critically acclaimed ARIA Blues and Roots Awardwinning album Jungle Blues, which saw him perform sell-out shows across the UK, Europe and Australia. Its follow-up, Gon’ Boogaloo was recorded live in Castlemaine over the course of two days without any overdubs or edits using only two microphones into a two-track tape machine. C.W. Stoneking will hit The Forum Theatre on Saturday November 15. Tickets go on sale Friday August 29 via Ticketek.

KIMBRA

New Zealand’s dazzling pop starlet Kimbra has announced a special Melbourne show in support of her brand new album The Golden Echo this November. The ARIA award-winning performer, whose latest record has seen her collaborate with a mountain of top notch artists, including members of The Mars Volta, Muse, Foster the People and Daniel Johns, will be bringing her staple electrifying and dynamic live show to stages in Auckland and Sydney, before settling into The HiFi Bar in Melbourne on November 22. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Thursday September 4 via www.livenation.com.au. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU

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INTERNATIONAL DIE! DIE! DIE! Ding Dong Lounge September 5 PROTEST THE HERO Hi-Fi September 6 BIFFY CLYRO Palais Theatre September 7 ANBERLIN Forum September 7, 170 Russell September 10 YOU ME AT SIX Hi-Fi September 8 (18+), 9 (AA), 10 (18+) KANYE WEST Rod Laver Arena September 9, 10 CANNIBAL CORPSE 170 Russel September 12 JOE HENRY Melbourne Recital Centre September 12 JULY TALK Gasometer Hotel September 12, Corner Hotel September 13 ANTHONY FANTANO Toff In Town September 14 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Rod Laver Arena September 16 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Etihad Stadium September 18 DAMIEN JURADO Northcote Social Club September 19 JOE BONAMASSA Palais Theatre September 19 SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS The Corner Hotel September 18, Melbourne Town Hall September 19 RISE OF BROTALITY 170 Russell September 19, Phoenix Youth Centre September 20 AMERICAN AUTHORS Prince Bandroom September 20 INGRID MICHAELSON Corner Hotel September 20 VERUCA SALT Corner Hotel September 26, 30, October 1 JUANA MOLINA Thornbury Theatre September 26 SEPULTURA 170 Russell October 1 LISTEN OUT FESTIVAL Royal Botanical Gardens October 4 DOOMSDAY FESTIVAL Yah Yah’s October 4, The Tote October 5 DIRE STRAITS EXPERIENCE Palais Theatre October 5 ALT J The Forum October 6 LEON HENDRIX Corner Hotel October 8 MILEY CYRUS Rod Laver Arena October 10 JEFF MILLS AND THE MSO Hamer Hall October 10 KING SALAMI LuWow October 11

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WHO'S ON TOUR, WHERE AND WHEN

THE TEA PARTY Palais Theatre October 12 REGGIE WATTS The Forum October 13 DWARVES Barwon Club October 16, The Evelyn October 17 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Corner Hotel October 16, Out On the Weekend October 18 SAY ANYTHING Corner Hotel October 17 COMEBACK KID Central Bar October 18, Phoenix Youth Centre (AA) October 19 RYAN BINGHAM Out On the Weekend October 18, Northcote Social Club October 21, TORCHE Corner Hotel October 18 THE SELECTER Hi-FI October 18 A MOVING SOUND Foxtel Festival Hub October 21 NIKKI LANE Out On the Weekend October 18, The Toff In Town October 22, Northcote Social Club October 23 RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre October 25 ELBOW The Forum October 28 DREAM THEATER Palais Theatre October 29 MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN LuWow October 31 WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various Venues October 31 – November 3 AQUA Palais Theatre November 3 SOULS OF MISCHIEF The Espy November 3 ROLLING STONES Rod Laver Arena November 5, Hanging Rock Macedon November 8 JOE SATRIANI Palais Theatre November 8 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Corner Hotel November 13, 14 KATY PERRY Rod Laver Arena November 14, 15 ACCEPT Corner Hotel November 15 TORI AMOS Palais Theatre November 15 JIMMY EAT WORLD The Forum November 17 YES Palais Theatre November 18 PRONG Hi-Fi November 21 KIMBRA Hi-Fi November 22 MAX RICHTER Melbourne Recital Centre November 24 JAKOB Ding Dong Lounge November 27 SLEEP Corner Hotel December 6 JOAN ARMATRADING Melbourne Recital Centre December 8 ICE CUBE The Forum December 9

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THE LEMONHEADS Corner Hotel December 9 JAMES HOLDEN Hi-Fi December 10 UB40 Palais Theatre December 11 FACTORY FLOOR Howler December 11 CLOUD NOTHINGS Corner Hotel December 11 DAMON ALBARN Palais Theatre December 12 PHOSPHORESCENT Corner Hotel December 12 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 12 – 14 THE WAR ON DRUGS Meredith Music Festival December 12 –14 TY SEGALL Corner Hotel December 14 THE SKATALITES Corner Hotel December 18 BEN FOLDS Hamer Hall December 20 FALLS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL Various locations December 28 – January 2 BEYOND THE VALLEY Phillip Island Circuit December 30 – January 1 SUGAR MOUNTAIN January 24 SUZI QUATRO Melbourne Arts Centre February 6 STING AND PAUL SIMON A Day on the Green February 7, Rod Laver Arena February 10 THE 1975 Festival Hall January 15 EVERYTIME I DIE Corner Hotel January 16 CHIODOS Corner Hotel January 31 ROXETTE Rod Laver Arena February 20, Rochford Wines Yarra Valley February 21 SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse February 21, 22 THE EAGLES Rod Laver Arena February 22, Hanging Rock Macedon February 28

NATIONAL RITA SATCH The Toff In Town September 9, 16, 23, 30 KASEY CHAMBERS Northcote Social Club September 3 THE ASTON SHUFFLE Corner Hotel September 5 BOY AND BEAR Palais Theatre September 5 THE STIFFYS Prince of Wales Hotel September 5 ONE DAY 170 Russell September 5 VANCE JOY Athenaeum Theatre September 5 THE KITE STRING TANGLE Corner Hotel September 6 THE TIMBERS Boney September 6 BIGSOUND Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Precinct September 10-11 HOWLING BELLS Howler September 11 360 Festival Hall September 12 NIGHT BEATS The Curtin September 12 THE LOVE JUNKIES Ding Dong Lounge September 12 RON S. PENO The Shadow Electric September 12, Flying Saucer Club September 13 CASTLECOMER Shebeen September 12, 20 TIJUANA CARTEL Howler September 12 THE NINJAS Yah Yah’s September 12, Workers Club September 13 CAPTIVES Old Bar September 13 DAN KELLY Howler September 13 ROCKACABANA FESTIVAL Copacabana September 14 TINA ARENA Palais Theatre September 17 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Various Venues September 17-20. NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE Various venues, September 18-21 AREA 7 Corner Hotel September 19 THE DECLINE Reverence Hotel September 20 MAGIC HANDS Gasometer Hotel September 20 STEP The Toff In Town September 24 KYLIE AULDIST AND THE GLENROY ALLSTARS Ding Dong Lounge September 24 THE BENNIES Barwon Club September 24, Karova Lounge September 25, The Evelyn September 26 SAFIA Northcote Social Club September 25 THE GRISWOLDS Corner Hotel September 25 ANGUS & JULIA STONE Palais Theatre September 25, 26 MESA COSA The Curtain September 26 ANDY BULL Corner Hotel September 27, 28 HORSELL COMMON Bendigo Hotel September 27 THE SWEET APES Wrangler Studios September 27 (AA) COURTNEY BARNETT Corner Hotel October 2,3, 4, 5 BAD//DREEMS Shebeen October 3 TIMBERWOLF Gasometer Hotel October 3 THE PEEP TEMPEL The Tote October 3, Reverence Hotel October 31 THE CAT EMPIRE Festival Hall October 4 BONJAH Hi-Fi October 4 CHOPPED FESTIVAL Newstead Racecourse October 3 – 5 DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues October 8 – 19 CARLTON DRY INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS Meat Market October 8 THIRSTY MERC Melbourne Public October 9 MIA DYSON Howler October 10

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BLUEJUICE Hi-Fi October 10, 11 (AA) MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 10 – 28 SINCE I LEFT YOU - A CELEBRATION OF THE AVALANCHES Foxtel Festival Hub October 10,11 DMA’S Northcote Social Club October 11 ANTISKEPTIC The Evelyn October 11 MIKELANGO Foxtel Festival Hub October 14-16 BASENJI Liberty Social October 17 OUT ON THE WEEKEND Seaworks, Williamstown October 18 THE BLURST OF TIMES FESTIVAL Seaworks, Williamstown October 19 JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre October 18 SCREAMFEEDER The Curtin October 18 THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Spirit Bar October 23, 170 Russell October 24 POP CRIMES Foxtel Festival Hub October 23, 24 JOELISTICS Northcote Social Club October 24 MISSY HIGGINS Regent Theatre October 29 DON WALKER Bella Union October 29 AUGIE MARCH Howler October 29, 30, 31, November 1, 2 THE MARK OF CAIN 170 Russell October 31 AMAYA LAUCIRICA Worker’s Club October 31 RADIO BIRDMAN Corner Hotel November 2, 3 GOSSLING Corner Hotel November 6 ONE ELECTRIC DAY Werribee Park November 9 AWME FESTIVAL Various venues, Melbourne November 13 – 16 HILLTOP HOODS Margaret Court Arena November 14 RIVER ROCKS Barwon Club Hotel November 15 C.W. STONEKING The Forum November 15 JIMMY BARNES A Day on the Green November 15, December 13, 20 YACHT CLUB DJS Corner Hotel November 22 DOWN ON THE FARM Emu Plains Racecourse Reserve November 22 LULUC Northcote Social Club November 28 THE SMITH STREET BAND Corner Hotel November 28 PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL November 28 – 30 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliff November 28 – 30 HUSKY Hi-Fi November 29 NICK CAVE The Plenary December 16, 17,18 SCOTT RUSSO AND PHIL JAMIESON Corner Hotel December 19 GROUNDSWELL MUSIC FESTIVAL Lake Tyers Beach, East Gippsland January 10 BEECHWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL Madman’s Gully Amphitheatre, Beechworth January 24 BALLARAT BEER FESTIVAL City Oval, Ballarat January 24 KYLIE MINOGUE Rod Laver Arena March 18 RUMOURS MYA, THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, DIE ANTWOORD = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS

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ryAN ADAMS

By Augustus Welby

Ryan Adams has been performing and recording under his own name for nearly 15 years. Essentially, he’s a solo artist – at least by the loose definition of the term – though he’s never embarked on a record alone. This week the US alt-country savant releases his 14th album and, interestingly enough, it’s his first self-titled effort. The eponymous designation doesn’t signify that Adams has run out of ideas. Rather, the title relates to the fact that for the first time he had complete control over the record’s construction. “I made it in my own studio, I self-produced it and there’s no doubt that it’s what I wanted,” he says. “There was nobody standing in my way.” Ryan Adams follows up 2011’s Ashes & Fire. That album marked a return to lone billing after a fiveyear, five-record run playing with backing band the Cardinals. Accordingly, the Glyn Johns production was a stripped-back and largely acoustic affair. The self-titled LP is actually Adams’ second attempt at making his 14th album. For the first one, Johns again sat in the producer’s seat. But at the eleventh hour Adams vetoed its release. “The record was finished and it was pretty cool, but there wasn’t enough of an exploratory, celebratory feeling to it,” he says. “Because there was another producer at the helm, it just didn’t feel to me like I had done enough discovery. What eventually happened was I let some more time pass and created a new record at the end of another year after that session. I was finding a different sort of energy that, to me, felt like ‘oh this is something with a lot of energy and power’.” While the rejigged album was recorded in Adams’ own LA-based PAX-AM studios, with the songwriter himself handling production duties, it’s not pared back to the extent of its predecessor. In fact, the record roams through diverse textures, heeding to the wishes of each individual song rather than perpetuating a consistent arrangement aesthetic. For instance, tracks such as Gimme Something Good and Feels Like Fire are hoisted up by the power of a full band, while My Wrecking Ball and Let Go comprise a tender intimacy that recalls such iconic Ryan Adams records as Heartbreaker and Love Is Hell respectively. Ultimately, the autonomous recording scenario permitted Adams the necessary freedom to push into further reaches of his creativity. “I [got to] stay in the studio longer enjoying recording and being a songwriter and someone that records,” he explains. “The studio is where I make art and then sometimes I release it and go out and tour. But the point for me is the work, not what happens with it. “I have that freedom to do that as long as I like until I decide that I want to go out and tour and release a contemporary record. My ego doesn’t necessitate that I need to go and be in front of people every year. I just want to create songs for me. Which is what I do. There’s hundreds of songs a year. I don’t jam, I just write songs. They don’t have to go somewhere, it’s just what I do for fun.” For a headstrong individual – which Adams certainly is – having executive power is undeniably an upshot of operating as a solo artist. However, with no band mates BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20

to bounce off or producer to evaluate the output’s merit, creative uncertainties are liable to start piling up. “In my version of what art is there are no wrong answers, nor is there any room for doubt,” Adams rebuffs. “It is a place free from an idea about commerce, it is a place free from an idea of opinion. What happens to it after is an entirely different thing – it’s an appropriation of a piece of art.” Indeed; the conception of creativity that Adams advocates here might even be a pre-requisite for generating quality artistic statements. However, staying focused on the art in its pure expressive form, while also securing remuneration isn’t a straightforward act. Remarkably, even though Adams has been a professional musician since the late 1990s, he isn’t compelled to write songs simply to satisfy the demanding voice of capitalism.

“IT’S AlWAyS BEEN PArT Of WHO I WAS TO DrAW Or TEll STOrIES, EvEr SINCE I WAS A kID. EvENTUAlly IT BECAME MUSIC AND MUSIC HAS BEEN THIS THrEAD THAT’S AlWAyS BEEN WITH ME All DOWN THE lINE”

“It’s not just what I do for money, it’s what I already did,” he says. “I had a job before, working in house development. I built new plumbing and I also worked on roofing. That was my job but I made music on the side and came to where I couldn’t keep my job and also make music. I had to stop working the job to do music. “I don’t have a quest to keep my job,” he continues. “My job right now is making music only because that’s just what I do all the time, but if it ever changed I would still just make as much music. Some people read all the time, some people play golf or some people like to watch TV. I make music.” While Adams’ self-presentation is refreshingly free from anxiety, it’s doubtful that someone whose work hadn’t received constant approbation and yielded financial reward for almost two decades could make these sorts of statements. Nevertheless, when it comes

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to applying himself to his art, Adams’ Zen perception stays firm. “I don’t change what I do to make money. I just do what I do and if it works I do it more. It’s sort of a circular process. I don’t do stuff that I don’t want to do. “When I used to be on that label Lost Highway, which I really just did not like, I don’t know what they thought they were doing but whatever it was it didn’t work. So that’s done now and I can just do what I always meant to do.” These days Adams is his own label boss. Ryan Adams will be the songwriter’s second album to come out on the PAX-AM label, which has also recorded and released music by Fall Out Boy and Adams’ punk rock side project Pornography. His scorned relationship with the Universal subsidiary Lost Highway Records lasted from 2001’s second album Gold up until the last record to feature the Cardinals, 2008’s Cardinology. Some credit is due to the label for the fact that, even though he’s never delivered a global smash hit, Adams has been a considerably successful artist for a lengthy stretch. However, while there are some misfires in his catalogue, none of his albums bear the imprint of mercenary manipulation. “I play guitar and I make up songs and tell stories and I collaborate and jam with other musicians. It’s just what I do. It’s part of the fabric of my being. It’s always been part of who I was to draw or tell stories, ever since I was a kid. Eventually it became music and music has been this thread that’s always been with me all down the line.” The new record proves Adams isn’t running out of stories to tell. As redundant as this statement may appear, the album definitely has that ‘Ryan Adams sound’. It’s composed of melodic subtlety, which distributes an arresting-yet-gentle caress; hinting without ever making full disclosure. Throughout, Adams traverses the emotional spectrum, from plaintive longing to boyish joy. Even when you’re struck with familiarity – pinched by memories of Ryan Adams classics such as Come Pick Me Up or New York, New York – it doesn’t cease to captivate. The songs engender a place where creativity is king and the artist known as Ryan Adams is its respectful and committed constituent. “I don’t know anyone, at least in my circle of friends, that gets creative and explores their unconscious mind and who they are in the hopes that the actual act of it is going to afford them something. Most of the people I know are compulsively creative because they’re artists and that’s just what they do. So their path in life and their path in their art is about exploring that. It’s an exploration and it’s a continuation of something that they did in their bedrooms as kids. It’s just that they’re compelled to create. “I don’t release records in that contemporary way where each one is a shot at somehow being a hit or making me a star or something,” he adds. “I make the work, it has a point to it, it’s a story on its own and I make it available to whoever wants it.”

RYAN ADAMS’ self-titled album comes a-hollerin’ through PAX-AM/Sony on Friday September 5.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN With the gut-wrenching news that next year The Astor Theatre will be closing their doors, you’ve got no excuse not to visit as much as you can until that very sad day. Need the perfect reason? Tonight, Wednesday September 3 they’ll screen a redux version of Apocalypse Now, on Saturday September 5 they’ll be playing all three instalments from the Back To The Future trilogy and on Sunday September 6 they’ll screen Jack Nicholson’s definitive performance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Get down there and have a choc-top for me.

With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm. Underworld and swimming in the Lethe River (voluntary amnesia anyone?) — she proves herself to be more sagacious than she appears. ‘It can be interesting to see if other people — like dead people who wrote books — agree or disagree with what you think’ is one of Eurydice’s first lines, as she justifies her affinity for reading to her fiancé, claiming that ‘it makes — you a larger part of the human community’. Orpheus, who will be played by resident Red Stitch actor Johnathan Peck (Glory Dazed, This Old Man Comes Rolling Home), appears flippant to her perceptive remarks. “Even though [there’s] this epic tale of a man who can give her anything, the stars, the earth and the oceans; it’s still kind of like someone’s given you a really cool scarf or something,” said Dawn Fair, attempting to illustrate the dynamic of Eurydice’s and Orpheus’ epic love and how it still remains grounded and relatable to audiences. “She says on their wedding day: ‘He’s having a shower’. He’s always having a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn’t have to greet them. It’s like all these little relationship quirks and problems that bubble up; [and] even though he’s this amazing celebrity who has the most beautiful voice in the world, she still has normal problems [like everyone else].”

ON STAGE Following its world premiere in Sydney, Bangarra Dance Theatre have brought Patyegarang to Melbourne for a ten-show season. Patyegarang tells the story of one of the few positive encounters between our Indigenous people and English settlers, during Australia’s first contact. In a dance experience, the show brings to the stage the story of a young Eora woman who befriended one of the first settlers, Lieutenant William Dawes, gifting him her culture and language. Though this cultural exchange took place over 200 years ago, it still remains a timeless story about human curiosity, respect and learning. Patyegarang is currently running at the Arts Centre Melbourne until Saturday August 6.

ON DISPL AY This week Arts Project Australia launched Julian Martin: Transformer, a major retrospective solo exhibition spanning Martin’s 25 years of work. Since being a finalist in 1994’s prestigious Moet & Chandon Travelling Fellowship, Martin has been included in major art events and prizes both in Australia and overseas. His portrait and abstract pieces of artwork in pastel on paper will be available for sale for those looking to make a purchase at the exhibition. Julian Martin: Transformer will run until Saturday October 4 at Arts Project Australia.

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EURYDICE By Avrille Bylok-Collard

Hot off the back of a successful season of The Flick, Red Stitch Actors Theatre will be opening their newest production tonight, Eurydice. Adapted from one of the famed Greek myths of musician, poet and prophet Orpheus, the play centres around the emotional and tumultuous journey of Eurydice, Orpheus’ wife, as she descends Hades (The Underworld) after her too-early death after her wedding. Here, she meets her father — and so the story begins.

Journey To The South Pacific Environmental Film Festival Melbourne will return this week for their 2014 incarnation. Now in its fifth year, the not-for-profit festival continues to challenge the way that audiences think about the natural world. Opening on Thursday September 4 with a screening of Once Upon A Forest, highlights of the festival include a collaboration with IMAX Melbourne to screen Journey To The South Pacific; Planet RE:think, a panel with festival patrons Adam Bandt and Bob Brown; and a host of other discussions, full-length films, shorts and more. The 2014 Environmental Film Festival Melbourne will take place from Thursday September 4 - Friday September 12. Visit effm.org.au for more information.

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“He doesn’t know much about [Orpheus], but that’s not resonance never seen before. Ruhl has received the Susan important,” stressed Ngairre Dawn Fair, who will be Smith Black Prize (2004), MacArthur Fellowship (2006) breathing life into the peculiar character that is Eurydice and the Lilly Award (2010) in the past. opposite Alex Menglet, whom will capture Eurydice’s “It’s not just the fact that [the play] is from Eurydice’s father’s gentle temperament and unconditional love. “What’s point of view,” unlike the original myth, which followed the more important is the history perilous journey of Orpheus “IT’S NOT jUST THE fACT THAT to The Underworld. “It’s that they had together and reminiscing about that, [as the fact that the father, as well as] the beautiful idea [THE PLAY] IS fROM EURYDICE’S a character, is an addition, that [Eurydice is] exploring: which totally changes the POINT Of VIEW. IT’S THE ‘If you died and you could story. We hear so much about meet your loved ones, what Orpheus’ grief [in the myth], fACT THAT THE fATHER, AS A would you want to know? but she’s the one who has the CHARACTER, IS AN ADDITION, more exciting journey. She’s What questions would you have for your grandmother or the one who dies and goes WHICH TOTALLY CHANGES mother or father that’s passed to The Underworld and faces away? What didn’t you say to the Lord of the Underworld THE STORY.” them that you always wanted and has to hang out there to say to them?’” until he [Orpheus] comes It’s important to note that Eurydice was written by Sarah and finds her.” Ruhl (In The Next Room, Or The Vibrator Play, Dead Man’s Not only does Eurydice have a more exciting adventure — Cell Phone) as a medium to explore her grief over her father’s because, let’s be honest, parading through Greece strumming death; and it is this very crux that makes the play so very your lute melancholically and singing songs about your grief different from the original myth, bringing an emotional is so much more boring than meeting the actual God of the

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Keeping the production grounded has been a central aim for Red Stitch, allowing the theatre company to navigate the precarious territory of Eurydice, which shifts between the absolute grief of the death and loss in an Alice In Wonderlandinspired landscape and the comedic arrogance of Olga Makeeva (Playing the Victim, The Scoundrel That You Need) as the Loud Stone. “They’re people who had died and hung around in The Underworld, for who knows how long, and eventually turned to stone and they enforce the rules of The Underworld [onto] Eurydice,” explained Ngairre enthusiastically. “They’re stones, so they can’t really do anything else. They bring comedy.” The Stones aren’t the only ones bringing extra layers to the play, Director and Arts Educator Luke Kerridge (GROUP SHOW, Tell it Like it Isn’t) brings a unique vision to the production, drawing on an array of inspirations from revered modernist writer Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway) to Grammy-winning Canadian singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette and Eurydice playwright herself, Sarah Ruhl. “[Red Stitch] has worked with him before,” admitted the actor, brimming with excitement about Kerridge. She wouldn’t divulge any hints about his contributions though, preferring to remain clandestine for anticipation sake. However, she was full of praise for the director. “He directed a couple of plays for our PLAYlist [earlier this year]. I was also lucky enough to see his production of Orlando at the VCA. He’s very talented. He has a very keen eye for detail. He’s very lovely to work with [and] he has a very gentle touch. He’s definitely the right person for this play.” Eurydice is currently playing at Red Stitch Actors Theatre until Saturday October 4.

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MALTHOUSE THEATRE 2015 PROGRAM

THE TALE OF STUDIO GHIBLI

Later this year Madman will present a national theatrical showcase, celebrating the work of Studio Ghibli filmmakers and co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. The Tale of Studio Ghibli: Celebrating the Genius of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata will screen on select screens in capital cities across the country for a limited two-week season. The showcase will feature four classic films from the two animators – two recent works in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and The Wind Rises, as well as two films made 25 years earlier, My Neighbour Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies. The showcase will also include two feature-length documentaries that offer insight into the making of their latest films, with The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness and Isao Takahata and his Tale of the Princess Kaguya. The Tale of Studio Ghibli will screen at Cinema Nova from Thursday October 9 to Wednesday October 22.

ONCE

Once will make its way to Melbourne later this year. Once is a musical based on the Irish film of the same name by Glen Hansard (of Irish rock group the Frames fame) and Marketa Irglova. The story is a about a down-on-his-luck Irish busker who is about to give up on his music when he meets a beautiful Czech immigrant on the streets of Dublin. Once has won eight Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and even a Grammy. Once will open in Melbourne on Friday September 26 at the Princess Theatre. Start.Options.Exit.

MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival has revealed the program for its 2014 incarnation. Entering its 15th year, MUFF is an independent film festival that supports indie, guerrilla, micro-budget, underground and avant garde cinema. This year’s program will open with Start.Options.Exit and wrap up with Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, with seven other full-lengths and a slew of shorts screening along the way. The Melbourne Underground Film Festival will run from Friday September 12 to Friday September 19 at Backlot Cinemas.

The Malthouse Theatre has revealed a massive program for its 2015 season. The program takes on a new format while continuing the company’s commitment to risk and rigour and to championing the best contemporary theatre-makers, performers and artists. Replacing the linear, spinal chronology of past seasons are three thematic chapters, which encompass all of the year’s primary and satellite events and the building’s various spaces into the program. The result is three acts, involving shows, panel discussions and extra events occurring in all the theatres, as well as the courtyard. Next year will see Malthouse utilise all spaces in its iconic building with performances in the courtyard as well as its three theatres; present a new approach to the season with thematic chapters; premiere new work from Chunky Move, Ash Flanders, Nicola Gunn and David Woods, Declan Greene and Lally Katz; re-imagine Sophocles’ Antigone; celebrate the large dancing body; hold a banquet for 39 people; and introduce audiences to Caryl Churchill’s exhilarating new play Love and Information. Blak Cabaret works as the prologue to the season, and is a bold and irreverent party that includes music, stand up comedy, dance and brings together some of our greatest Indigenous artists. Other highlights include the part meal, part performance work The Last Supper, which will see UK company Reckless Sleepers invite Melburnians to an exclusive banquet, and a festive new work from The Listies, who with their particular brand of unadulterated silliness, will ruin Christmas for everyone. Malthouse Theatres’s 2015 season kicks off on Monday February 10 with Blak Cabaret. For more information visit malthousetheatre.com.au .

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GREAT PERFORMERS

Melbourne Recital Centre has announced the fifth season of its flagship concert series, Great Performers. For the upcoming instalment they will be bringing ten of the world’s greatest classical musicians to Melbourne audiences. Highlights of the program include Cameron Carpenter and the international touring pipe organ built especially for him, Schubert’s three song cycles over three consecutive evenings with bass-baritone Florian Boesch accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, violinist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Angela Cheng for a program of Roman masterpieces, and a solo violin program by German Christian Tetzlaff. Four pianists will round out the year - Canadian Louis Lortie will play Chopin, Fauré and Scriabin, Garrick Ohlsson will perform Beethoven, Granados and Schubert, Finland’s Paavali Jumppanen, will play a solo recital which includes music by his countryman Jean Sibelius and Russian Nikolai Demidenko will perform an all-Chopin program. Season tickets are available now for Great Performers 2015 series through the melbournerecital.com.au.

THE GODFATHER

ACMI has announced that it will screen Francis Ford Coppola’s epic The Godfather trilogy next month. ACMI will screen each title twice from restored 35mm prints direct from the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles. Featuring Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, James Caan and Robert Duvall, The Godfather trilogy is largely hailed as one of the most influential cinematic masterpieces of our time. The Godfather trilogy will be the first in a planned series of restored films to come from the Academy Film Archive. It will screen from Saturday September 20 to Sunday September 28 at ACMI.

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CRAB L AB Every Wednesday night Crab Lab brings you some of the very best stand up from all over the country for a measly fiver. Tonight there’s MICF award winner Greg Larsen (Dirty Laundry Live) plus Geraldine Hickey, Daniel Connell, Michael Williams and a heap more. It starts at 8.30pm at 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.

BENDIGO HOTEL COMEDY Bendigo Hotel Comedy is a new room to hit Collingwood and they are kicking things off with a great lineup. Host Daniel Connell will present some top local talent featuring Jay Morrissey, Nellie White, Jack Druce, Matt Stewart, Xander Allan and Peter Jones. Entry is free and it kicks off at 8.30pm on Tuesday September 9.

DEATH BY ELEGY

Death by Elegy, a new musical play by author Dick Gross will come to St Kilda next month. The play is adapted from Gross’ 2011 book of the same name and will be brought to life by independent cut opera company Emotionworks. It follows a dying man as he desperately tries to engage with his technology obsessed daughter about the death of her mother. By using Thomas Gray’s poem Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard, he hopes to enlighten her views about death and the afterlife. Death By Elegy will run at St Kilda Uniting Church from Friday September 12 to Sunday September 21.

MOTHERFUCKER

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Tonight they welcome back Claire Hooper to the Public Bar Comedy stage. The hilarious Good News Week team captain never fails to delight in the Public Bar back room. This week she’s got an awesome support lineup with Adam Rozenbachs, Jason English, Steele Saunders, Matt Burton and Anthony Jeannot. Plus you just never know who might pop in for a spot, in just the last two weeks they’ve had unadvertised visits from Tom Gleeson, Ronny Chieng and Lawrence Mooney. Grab $5, get down there before 8.30pm and find out why Public Bar Comedy has become a favourite with comics and punters alike.

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La Mama have announced they will present Jane Miller and Beng Oh’s Motherfucker for a run of shows this September. Motherfucker - the latest in a series of collaborations by director Beng Oh and playwright Jane Miller - is 15 minutes from Anywhere’s unique take on the classical myth of Oedipus. Often described simply as the story of a king who “kills his father and marries his mother”, this version, part adaptation, part mash up, focuses on detailing the nature of the relationship between Oedipus and Jocasta and the events leading up to their marriage and rule of Thebes. Using text from a range of sources including Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, Ted Hughes’s seminal Crow poems as well as new text by Jane Miller, Motherfucker includes elements devised through development work undertaken by the cast and creative team over a 12-month period. Motherfucker opens at La Mama on Wednesday September 17.

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FELONY By David O’Connell

The new Australian thriller, Felony, opens in cinemas this week. Beat spoke to director Matthew Saville and star Joel Edgerton about the film’s morally ambiguous world, and what it took to bring it about. As well as playing the central role of Detective Malcolm Toohey, Egerton also wrote the script. Essentially about a celebrated police officer being involved in a serious traffic accident and covering up his culpability, the idea arose when Edgerton became fascinated by a question of moral fibre. “I like to think I am a decent person and have moral integrity,” he says. “But I never have been truly tested. So the question of if I was sitting in the car and the situation happened to me, as it happened to my character – then to involve the audience in that feeling, too. What would you do? Would you handle it with integrity or would you save your own bacon? Mal’s a human being. By that I mean he is trying to be a good person, thinks he is a good person, is trying to do good things and has a major slip up and finds himself in the aftermath. He’s an otherwise good man that finds himself in a moral dilemma. “A lot of this film is about empathy. You can’t judge

a person unless you walk in their shoes. When you’re with Jai (Courtney – playing the newly promoted Detective Jim Melic) you empathise with him, when you are with Mal you empathise with him.” However, there are no pure heroes in Felony and all the characters are portrayed in nuanced shades of grey. “Jai has almost too straight a moral line, but even he has something going on there, this weird attraction to grief. He has a crusading mentality, but even he crosses the line. He starts to enter the grey zone. Malcolm is behaving from a place of fear, of what that act will dismantle in his life. My favourite stories are always the ones where someone is trying to dig their way out of trouble. I feel like that’s the story of my life.” Director Matthew Saville has some previous form with this subject. His debut film, Noise, also was a study of the police force, but looked at it from the perspective of a uniformed officer. “The constabulary and detectives are almost a two tier society. It’s a different

world. Felony is a companion piece, but different in a lot of ways. There’s some thematic similarities, as they are not police procedurals, but rather character studies. Yet the two protagonists couldn’t be more diametrically opposed. I couldn’t see them getting along too well at all. They are both staring at a moral compass and no one has true north.” A lot of the extensive research Saville performed for Noise was able to carry over into this film.

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Augmented by consultations with detectives on set, he was able to create an incredible sense of veracity, down to the tiny details (like the four digit extensions above each desk in the LAC). Felony truly immerses its audience in that world while it plays out its moral dilemma. Felony is in cinemas now.

Honour’s work Re-Creation

By Dan Watt

The human mind is capable of perceiving concepts and visions, for us beyond what the physical world is capable of producing. These otherworldly and magnificent vistas often come to us in dreams and for some this transcendental state can occur on the dance floor where the music and lighting coalesce to raise one’s consciousness to a higher state. The problem is that due to the impermanence and illusiveness of such sensations we can struggle to describe it to others. This is where visionary art comes in. Salvador Dali’s fantastic surrealism was a precursor to visionary art and also the psychedelic culture movement of the ‘60s and the proliferation of alternative culture festivals like Monterey and Woodstock played an integral part in the establishment of the movement. In 2014 in Melbourne dance music promoter Peter Suwara and renowned Australian visionary artist Katia Honour are combining to create the Gallery Of Visions, an area at Suwara’s Fourcolours festival – a celebration of cutting edge dance music, colour and art that is happening this October 11. Beat managed to catch up with Honour – a visionary artist who is apprenticed to Wolfgang Widmoser who was apprenticed to Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dali. “I would say it is art that traverses inner and outer worlds – it travels between worlds and dimensions,” She details when asked to define visionary art. “The inner realms of vision being expressed in the outer realm of art. “Visionary art can be expressed through all mediums

but most galleries choose to express the art through prints on canvas. Whereas at Fourcolours I have been given a space that has no limitations, the works that will be exhibited can use all the senses in communicating their vision – this is some I am really excited about.” Honour now discusses further plans for the Gallery Of Visions at Fourcolours. “I am bringing the most cutting edge visionary art to Fourcolours. I get to see a lot of visionary art from around the world by attending workshops by Wolfgang Widmoser and I am doing a masters of fine art. I am also on the panel of visionary art at Rainbow Serpent most years. So what that has meant for the Gallery Of Visions is I have been able to hand pick the best artists I know of,” reveals Honour. The artists that Honour has chosen for Fourcolours are Bryan Itch (multi-media installation), Paulie Mann (digital art), Anderson Debernardi (ayahuasca visions), Mark Lee - (augmented reality), Roger Essig (virtual reality), Tobius Millar (surrealist painting), Beau Deely (psychedelic digital art), Clint Greeson (digital art) Izzy Ivy (oil paintings) and of course herself (oil

paintings). Honour reveals that the cosmos appeared to be colluding in her favour when it came to assembling this dream team of artists. “I have to tell you that it has been via a divine process that it has all fallen into place. I was in Bali walking down the street and I bumped into Mark Lee who is the only visionary artist in the world who is doing augmented reality in art. So I said to him ‘I am creating an exhibition and it would be so good to have augmented art as part of it as the first augmented art show in Australia?’ to which he responded, ‘yeah sure here’s the file’…it was that easy that I couldn’t help but feel the universe was on our side.” Attendees of Fourcolours must choose one of the four

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colours when buying a ticket. The four colours are azure (blue), citrine (yellow), viridian (green) and crimson (red). The ticket you purchase will be your chosen colour that will mean on arrival you will be given a smart wristband that will be used to interact with the artworks and the music.

Fourcolours is happening at Revolt Artspace on Saturday October 11. The visionary artists are listed above and music on the night will be provided by a range of local and international acts. Head to fourcolours.com.au for more information.

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on tour ROBERT BABICZ [GER], TOMMY FOUR SEVEN [GER] Friday September 5, Brown Alley COM TRUISE [USA] Wednesday September 10, Corner Hotel JOHN ‘00’ FLEMING [UK] Friday September 12, RMH The Venue &ME [GER], ADAM PORT [GER] Sunday September 14, Revolver Upstairs DJ DODGER STADIUM [USA] Thursday September 18, Revolver Upstairs BUTCH [GER] Friday September 19, Prince Bandroom MAK & PASTEMAN [UK] Saturday September 20, Revolver Upstairs NICK CURLY [GER] Saturday September 20, Prince Bandroom TCHAMI [FRA] Saturday September 20, The Bottom End RODRIGUEZ JR [FRA] Saturday September 20, New Guernica DJ MITSU THE BEATS [JPN] Friday September 26, Boney HARDWELL [NED] Friday October 3, Sidney Myer Music Bowl LISTEN OUT: FOUR TET [UK], BONDAX [UK], SCHOOLBOY Q [USA] + MORE Saturday October 4, Royal Botanic Garden’s Observatory Precinct SHLOHMO [USA] Saturday October 4, Howler FUR COAT [VNZ] Sunday October 5, Revolver Upstairs JEFF MILLS [USA] WITH THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday October 10, Hamer Hall FOURCOLOURS: SUDUAYA [FRA], IRINA MIKHAILOVA [UK], BE SVENDSEN [DEN] + MORE Saturday October 11, Revolt Artspace SOULFEST: D’ANGELO, [USA], MAXWELL [USA], MOS DEF [USA] + MORE Sunday October 19, Kings Domain Gardens and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl LIL JON [USA] Friday October 24, Trak SIDNEY CHARLES [GER] Sunday November 2, Revolver Upstairs SOULS OF MISCHIEF [USA] Monday November 3, The Espy JOHN DIGWEED [UK] Friday November 14, Brown Alley LAURA JONES [UK], GAVIN HERLIHY [IRE] Sunday November 16, Revolver Upstairs STRAWBERRY FIELDS: ÂME [GER], TRUS’ME [UK], PACHANGA BOYS [GER] + MORE Friday November 21 - Sunday November 23, TBA EARTHCORE: RAJA RAM [UK], JOHN ‘00’ FLEMING [UK] + MORE Thursday November 27 - Monday December 1, Pyalong, Victoria GIRAFFAGE [USA] Thursday November 27, Howler PANTHA DU PRINCE [GER] Thursday December 4, The Hi-Fi STEREOSONIC: CALVIN HARRIS [UK], TIESTO [NED], DIPLO [USA] + MORE Saturday December 6 - Sunday December 7, TBA ICE CUBE [USA] Tuesday December 9, The Forum JAMES HOLDEN [UK] Wednesday December 10,. The Hi-Fi FALLS FESTIVAL: TODD TERJE [NOR], TENSNAKE [GER], TYCHO [USA] + MORE Monday December 29 - Thursday January 1, Byron Bay BEYOND THE VALLEY: ACTION BRONSON [USA], CLAPTONE [GER], ALUNAGEORGE [UK] + MORE Tuesday December 30 - Thursday January 1, Phillip Island Circuit RAINBOW SERPENT: MARCEL DETTMANN [GER], LEE BURRIDGE [UK], PETAR DUNDOV [CRO] + MORE Friday January 23 - Monday January 26, Lexton FINNEBASSEN [NOR] Sunday February 1, Revolver Upstairs DETROIT SWINDLE [NED] Sunday February 22, Revolver Upstairs

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Often, an insult directed towards an album with no creative spark behind it is that it’s deemed an excuse to tour. It comes as somewhat of a surprise then, that the debut album from Sydney-based hip-hop collective One Day began as just that – with a twist, of course. “Mainline was mainly sparked by the desire for the entire crew to go on tour together,” explains Nick Lupi, a One Day member and normally one half of Spit Syndicate. “We’ve toured with each other in various capacities over the years, and it’s just the best shit out. We just wanted to do that with the entire crew now that everyone has built up their own individual profiles. We decided to sit down and just make some songs, without knowing whether it would end up on an album or a mixtape or whatever else have you. It all just kind of went organically from there.” Lupi – along with his Spit Syndicate partner, Jimmy Nice – are joined in the collective by Horrorshow (Solo and

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Adit), Jackie Onassis (Raph and Kai) and vocalist/DJ/ multi-instrumentalist Joyride. Working as a septet, Lupi is the first to admit that there were plenty of obstacles for the group to overcome in order to avoid the idea of too many cooks spoiling the proverbial broth on the album. “There were certainly challenges, man – there were certainly some spirited discussions,” says Lupi of Mainline’s creative process. “We were able to get there in the end, because we’re all friends. We worked it all out as we went – there was some back and forth over what songs would go in what direction, but that’s just the nature of the beast. It’s especially the case when you’re working with so many strong-minded creative people.” Another creative aspect that came up in the development of the album was the push for all seven members of the collective to bring their A-game on each track, presenting both an open challenge and a level playing field for

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souls of mischief Legendary hip hop group Souls of Mischief will return Down Under for the first time since 2006. The tour comes following the release of their brand new album There Is Only Now, which was recorded solely on 2″ analogue tape using only acoustic live instrumentation. Catch ‘em on Monday November 3 at The Espy.

basenji Australian beatsmith Basenji has released a new single and announced a nationwide tour to celebrate. Heirloom marks the first material Basenji’s released since signing to new label Future Classic. There’s been a lot of anticipation surrounding the single ever since fellow producer and high school friend Wave Racer sampled Heirloom in his BBC Radio 1 mix. Catch Basenji on Friday October 17 at The Liberty Social. Heirloom is available as a free download on Future Classic’s Soundcloud page.

d.n.a thursdays D.N.A Thursdays is collaboration of some of the biggest urban promoters in town, giving Prahran it’s very own genuine R&B and hip hop spot every Thursday. It will host some of biggest and most talented DJs, artists, dancers, producers and fashion designers in the industry, with resident DJs including Peril (1200 Techniques), Lotus, Xavier Millis, Ayna plus weekly special guests. It launches at Boutique on Thursday September 4.

james holden James Holden has locked in a headline show in Melbourne to accompany his appearance at Meredith. Holden was last on our shores at the beginning of the year for a performance at Let Them Eat Cake. His upcoming visit will allow Australian audiences to experience Holden in a live environment, reinventing tracks from his all-conquering 2013 record The Inheritors alongside his unique back catalogue. He’ll hit The Hi-Fi on Wednesday December 10.

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everyone involved in making Mainline. “I wouldn’t say that there was a thematic consensus developed, but something that came up early on was that there was a real vibe of friendly competition to the creative process,” says Lupi. “There was a sense of one-upmanship – not so much in that we wanted the others to suck on the track; but more that everyone knew that they had to bring their best on the album. That went for the rappers in the crew as well as the producers. When you’re making songs with your friends and people you hold in a high regard, you want to be able to stand up next to them. It was a real driving force behind the album, and in my opinion, that’s one of the coolest things about this crew. It pushes everyone to bring their best.” The aforementioned tour for the One Day crew kicks off with a sold-out show in Melbourne on Friday before heading across the east coast, wrapping in Canberra at the end of the month. The shows already look to be some of the biggest any of the One Day collective have ever performed at; and there’s set to be something for fans both old and new. “Everyone has their own set, and then it’s going to be one big combined set at the end,” says Lupi. “It’s predominantly going to be tracks from Mainline, but also there’s also going to be a bunch of tracks that we’ll play that we’ve collaborated on in the past. The album might be the first time we’ve done something all under the one banner, but we’ve been making music together and touring together for as long as we’ve been doing this. We can definitely guarantee some older favourites for those that have been there from the start.”

One Day perform at 170 Russell on Friday September 5. Mainline is out now via Elefant Traks/Sony. facebook.com/onedayers

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CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. MC & PRODUCTION WORKSHOP - FEAT: WYLDCARD Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 6:00pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

THURSDAY 4 SEP

3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + MAFIA + FOR YOUR EARS DJS + FAKE FORWARD + RIFFE + DOM DOLLA VS BOOT ACTION + JACK LOVE + BENSON VS MIKE METRO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. CQ SESSIONS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. D.N.A THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 9:00pm. FLANAGANS THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ONTIME + DJ COLONEL Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. GOOD EVENING Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. LOVE STORY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RAVE OF THRONES - FEAT: KRISTIAN NAIRN Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $51.00. THE ASTON SHUFFLE + JUST A GENT + DOM DOLLA + STRANGEWAYS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20.00. THE RITZ - FEAT: KEN WALKER + ANDO + JOSHUA GILLILAND Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $20.00. VARSITY - FEAT: KITI + FOOFARAW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. XS DISCO - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY 5 SEP

party profile: i love dancehall When is it? Friday September 5. Where is it? Brown Alley. Who’s playing? So Fire, Jesse I, King Ru (RuCL), Killa Cat (BCQ), Zare Demus, Ms Butt and Nightwrk. What sort of shit will they be playing? Bass heavy dancehall from Jamaica. Dancehall from all eras from old school to up to the time riddims. What’s the crowd going to be like? It’s the best crowd ever, friendly and up for a good time. Everyone is welcome, from diehard dancehall fans to people who have never been to a dancehall party but want to check out the vibe. The crowd is always hype. What will we remember in the AM? The music, Killa Cats madd dancehall queen dance routine, style and swagga turned up, dance floor mayhem, King Ru on the mic, being pummelled by the bass, getting low with strangers and having the best night out in forever! What’s the wallet damage? $7 before 11pm, $15 after. Give us one final reason why we should party here: Good vibes are guaranteed. Check ilovedancehall.com.au for photos and videos from past events.

OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. #EATDRINKPLAY - FEAT: ANDY MURPHY + MGMC + DJ JORJ + CAM WOODARD The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. #MASHTAG - FEAT: MALPRACTICE + AGENT 86 + BENZO + ANDRE LE VOGUE + SILVERFOX + AHAB + OLLIE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BLACK NIGHT CRASH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. BREAD & BUTTER FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

FABULOUS FRIDAYS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. FLASH FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 9:00pm. FREQUENCY FRIDAYS Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. $20.00. FRIDAYS @ ONESIXONE FEAT: JEN TUTTY + LUKE MCD + LEWIE DAY + PREQUEL + KATIE DROVER + MITCH KURZ + MIC NEWMAN + TOM EVANS + JOEL ALPHA + LIAM WALLER + AARON TROTTMAN + NICK JONES + JESSE YOUNG + ANDRAS FOX + JAC OSCAR WILKINS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. I <3 DANCE HALL - FEAT: SO FIRE + JESSIE I + KING RU + KILLA CAT + ZARE DEMUS + BUMAYE + MS BUTT + NIGHTWRK Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. KLO - FEAT: URBAN PROBLEMS + SILENT JAY + ELECTRIC SEA SPIDER + RAT & CO DJS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00. LA DANSE MACABRE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LLOYD La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. $45.00. LUCK TRUCK FRIDAYS DOWNSTAIRS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. MUSIC AS LIFE VS EIGHTY NINE - FEAT: MYN + MR PITFUL + FABOO + MAXVEGAS + VICTOR LAMONT New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RDB - FEAT: RHYTHM DHOL BASS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + LEWIE DAY + KATIE DROVER + WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SAM MCEWIN + HIJACK + MZ RIZK Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. STRAWBERRY FIELDS LAUNCH - FEAT: ROBERT BABICZ + TOMMY FOUR SEVEN + CHILD + MUSKA + CHRIS BAHA + JACOB MALMO + AUDIX + ANDY OUCH Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $33.00. THE ASTON SHUFFLE + JUST A GENT + DOM DOLLA + STRANGEWAYS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20.00. THE FRIDAY CLUB - FEAT: DJ OBLIVEUS Big Mouth, St Kilda.

SATURDAY 6 SEP

SUCK MUSIC - FEAT: DOAKES + NICK COLEMAN + SOPHIA SIN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 1:00am. ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS FEAT: DR. ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. BIG MOUTH SATURDAYS FEAT: DJ ROWIE + ANDYCAN + NACKERS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 9:00pm. CLUB MODA MADNESS - FEAT: LLOYD La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. HELMET - FEAT: HELMET RESIDENT DJS Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW + GRAYSKULL + KELTEC + MYLES MAC + PETER BAKER + REV. THORN + SAM MCEWIN + SHANE COPAL + TOM EVANS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. MIDNIGHT RUN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. $7.00. NAM + JAY READING + DJ LOBB Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. PROJECT NJULTRA - FEAT: EDD FISHER + MYLSE MAC + JAKE JUDD + NIKKI SARAFIAN New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RESPECT Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. $20.00. ROOSEVELT - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 9:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. SILHOUETTE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. SUPERCLUB SATURDAYS! - FEAT: DJ ONTIME + DJ COLONEL Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDY FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $35.00.

THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + MAT CANT + PAZ + LEWIS CANCUT + BOOSHANK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. THERAPY SATURDAYS FEAT: BOMBS AWAY + TATE STRAUSS + ED COLMAN + MATTY G Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. $20.00. TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. VAULT SATURDAYS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. WAREHAUS - FEAT: MYLES MAC + SIMON TK + SLEEVES + RENEE DELAY First Floor, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $10.00.

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SUNDAY 7 SEP

BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. EARLY MORNING CREW - FEAT: HOOPS + BRAD SASSMAN + JOSH PAOLA + JESSE YOUNG + OLLIE HOLMES + DEAN SPANOS Onesixone, Prahran. 1:00am. EASY NOW - FEAT: AGENT 86 + TOM SHOWTIME + DJ MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR & DAMON WALSH + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE SUNDAYS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. STRIPPED BACK SUNDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. $15.00. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

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MONDAY 8 SEP

CALL IT IN - FEAT: DJ JAMES TOM + DJ DYLAN MICHEL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.

TUESDAY 9 SEP

CUSHION TUESDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. GIGGLE TUESDAY - FEAT: WHO + JAKE JUDD Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TRAMP TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

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urban club guide WEDNESDAY 3 SEP

MELLOW-DIAS THUMP - FEAT: CAZEAUX O.S.L.O & GEEZY Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. MVP - FEAT: ROB STEEZY + THADDEUS DOE + STEPHELLES + LOW-KEY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY 4 SEP

JELLO DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: SILENTJAY + VERSAJ Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. THE REBIRTH OF COOL - FEAT: DJ MR LOB Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

FRIDAY 5 SEP

BUMP FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ KAHLUA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. CALYPSO OF HOUSE - FEAT: JOHAN ELGSTROM + NICK ROGERS + PAUL JAGER Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. IN (SESSION) - FEAT: LICKWEED + DEEP ELEMENT + RUBIX + COMPLICIT + SERV + HARZEE + DAYELLE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

10:00pm. UNSOUNDBUOY - FEAT: SKAAKI + YAW MULATTO + ZARE DAMUS WITH THE MOVEMENT + DJ JENNY WITH A-MAC DON + DJ AB Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $6.00.

IRON TYS + WEST GATE KEEPERS + JP + MIC ADDICTS + WOULDZ + DIZTURB + PULSE ONE + DJ SAMMY SLAUGHTER + DJ TEDDY STYLUS + DJ CHAPPS + DJ CONJAH Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00. NEXT CROP - FEAT: KN!GHT + MINICOOP + VON VODDY + JUSTIFIED + VERBAL TACTICS + BAYSIDERS + MR RUCKMAN + KILLAHB + THAT RAPPER CHALLENGE + STRATEGY + NEIL BEEMIN + ZEBBER-DEE + JUS JAYCE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15.00. ONE DAY TOUR - FEAT: HORRORSHOW + SPLIT SYNDICATE + JACKIE ONASSIS + JOYRIDE 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $35.00. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JUZZY B + KAYZ Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

SATURDAY 6 SEP

BEST OF THE WEST - FEAT: DJ SIMON SEZ + DJ DEF + DJ KAY-Z Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. BIG DANCING Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

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RE UP - FEAT: TEEZUS + TRANTER + MARQUEE MOON + STEPHELLES + BOOTY QUEST The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUA & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

SUNDAY 7 SEP

BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00. LUKA LESSON (EXIT LAUNCH) + AMAL KASSIR + JAHRA RAGER + EXOFRENIKOS Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $15.00. ONE DAY SUNDAY - FEAT: JOYRIDE + ADIT + RAPH + SIZZLE + DEXTER Howler, Brunswick. 1:00pm.

MONDAY 8 SEP

HABITS + THE PRIMARY + SHIT SEX Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS By Augustus Welby

Initially due out in August last year, the release of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings’ fifth record Give the People What they Want was halted when the group’s forceful front woman got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This news sent waves of panic into the music community, but from the outset Jones spoke confidently about defeating the illness and getting back to business.

Accordingly, after the singer persevered through surgery and six months of preventative chemotherapy, Give the People What they Want was unveiled in January 2014. Rather than slowly easing back in, a massive tour coincided with the album’s release. And it basically hasn’t ceased. “My job is being a singer and an entertainer so I’ve got to get back out and entertain,” Jones says. “I’m able to get out right now and really enjoy it. I don’t really feel anything as far as pain and sickness. I actually feel stronger.” Starting with 2002’s debut LP Dap Dippin’, Jones & The Dap-Kings are basically responsible for bringing the sound of ‘60s/’70s soul and funk music into 21st century relevance. Give the People What they Want is yet another trailblazing triumph, but Jones casually downplays the band’s impeccable track record. “There’s just songs sounding good, coming out, each one,” she says. “I mean, we don’t think. Each time we do an album it’s because people are writing songs and we just play it and make stories. We’re telling our story. We’re not thinking about how we’re going to make [this next album] better. Don’t try thinking about bettering yourself, just do what you do best.” As well as extrapolating the ups and downs of love, lyrically all five records promote positive will and fortitude. Jones’ cancer was detected after the Give the People What they Want recording sessions, so her struggle isn’t specifically addressed on the album. However, it’s still an exposition of determined strength. “When I’m going to put my mind to something I do my best, especially when it comes to singing,” she says. “I’ve always felt that God gives me gifts. My singing is a blessing. Anything I get involved with – with my choir, with the wedding band, with just doing studio work with someone – I’ve always just been like that.

This is what I can do, when I’m doing it I’m going to do it well.” When Jones’ vocal powers combine with The DapKings’ virtuosic instrumentation it exacts an unbeatable synergy. While the group’s peerless strength is a prime instance of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, in the early years bassist and producer Bosco Mann (aka Gabriel Roth) handled all of the songwriting. These days, creative responsibility is shared among the group. “Sometimes we all sit down and write things out together and sometimes you just come in and it’s like ‘this is it’ and they’ll have the lyrics and I’ll hear the music and look at the lyrics and I sing the song. “Sometimes they have an idea, like ‘well I’m feeling this’, and I hear what they’re saying but then I have to put the soul in it. I’ve got to make it mine. Then I come up with a lot of the hooks and put my own stuff in and change it. If they were to bring those songs to someone else singing, it would be a totally different song.” Indeed, even though she rarely instigates the songs, Jones’ artistry is expressed through her inimitable vocal performances. She explains what assists her in giving the songs a unique twist. “Just thinking of music or thinking of an artist or someone that I admire or a song they’ve done, that’s how I put it all in there. Like Now I See, when I first heard the music to it that reminded me a little of Tina Turner. When I hear music it challenges me to think of a song from back in the day or an artist.” On Give the People What they Want, Jones and The Dap-Kings continue to draw prominently from the late-‘60s and early-‘70s funk and soul music heyday. Authentically re-applying this sound is impressive in itself. The fact that the band’s steadfast stylistic allegiance hasn’t grown tired over the course of five

records is an even greater marvel. “This is what we created,” Jones says. “I think that’s why we’re succeeding at what we’re doing. We’re not trying to jump around and do all this other kind of stuff. You just do your thing, be who you are, and I’m a soul singer. I’m not a pop singer. I don’t want to try to get out here and sound like some of these kids out here singing nowadays.” Later this month Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings return to Australia to give the people what they want in a range of dancehall settings. The group was here as recently as January 2013 and the truly revitalised Jones can’t wait to reconnect with Australian audiences.

“When we come there everyone is so appreciative of our music – they enjoy it and they want it. I look forward to coming there every time the opportunity comes up. It’s so good when you’re doing your stuff and you can see how much love and care that the people have for what you’re doing. That’s the high, that’s the energy, that’s what keeps you going. That’s what makes you want to do more.”

Australia than we normally do, and get our music out more.” And speaking of getting their music out more, the band will not be limiting their touring endeavours to our own country – they will be heading overseas to play in 2015. So it’s a ridiculously busy time coming up for Tijuana Cartel. “It looks like we’re going to get back to Europe and America,” he states. “Probably a month in each. We’re starting to go okay over there, so we want to get over

there and keep going back. “We’re starting to get some festivals over there,” he continues, “We’ve got some interest from a management team over there, which we’re chasing. We’ve got enough (support) over there to get over there and make it worthwhile.”

SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS give the people what they want at Melbourne Town Hall on Friday September 19.

TIJUANA CARTEL

By Rod Whitfield

This Gold Coast-based breaks/trip-hop act go to great lengths to find new sounds and recording techniques to bring out the best in their music. Their new album, the enigmatically titled 24 Bit Guitar Orchestra, was partly recorded on a mountaintop in Bali, and band member Paul George, speaking from Brisbane airport on the way to Perth for shows, was happy to describe that experience. “I was living in Bali for a few months,” he recalls. “We heard on the grapevine that there was a guy that had a makeshift studio on a mountain at the back of Bali. So we took all our gear up there and did a lot of recording. He had these traditional Balinese and Polynesian instruments, and we used them throughout. There’s actually quite a lot of them on the album.” Being in such an exotic and unusual locale apparently unleashed a great spark of creativity for the band, and it resulted in an album full of many different colours, flavours and textures. “It was fun, the studio itself was outdoors, and we just did it as we felt like it. It was really good to do that, just feel creative, like we were playing outdoors under the stars.” Since the album was recorded in some different locations and the band had a fairly relaxed approach to writing and recording, 24 Bit Guitar Orchestra ended up taking a while to complete and release. “It’s taken probably two years of work, really,” he reveals. “It’s hard to say, but two years overall of doing it.”

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Subsequent to the album’s release, the band have some very big ambitions for themselves as a band, beyond simply releasing the record and touring. “We’re looking at doing our own outdoor festival,” he says. “One that we really enjoy playing at, with similar kind of acts, with a similar kind of ideas. We’re looking at doing that, at this stage, probably next year. “And then we’ve got a really ambitious idea to do kind of a rock opera; an Alice in Wonderland type of thing. So all that’s going on, maybe we’re biting off more than we can chew, but that’s kinda half the fun, yeah?” Before they start to fulfil those hefty ambitions, the band have a rather extensive Australian tour to get through, including trips to some regional centres across the country. “We’re at the airport right now, about to head to Perth,” George says. “We can’t wait to get into it, we’re excited to play all the new songs, this is our first run at it. Generally we’re in very good spirits. “We’re getting to a few places we’ve never been to before,” he continues. So it’s good to see a bit more of

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TIJUANA CARTEL deal it out at Howler on Friday September 12, and Westernport, San Remo on Saturday September 13.

VERUCA SALT

By Augustus Welby

When Veruca Salt announced they were on indefinite hiatus in 2012, it caused no great stir. See, even though the band never actually broke up, the classic incarnation fell apart many years ago. Formed in Chicago in 1993, Veruca Salt featured two equally indomitable front women in Nina Gordon and Louise Post, who were backed by drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack. After two records of hard-edged melodic rock, three quarters of this original lineup departed. Post was the only founding member to remain and – joined by a fluctuating assortment of band members – she delivered two additional albums. Meanwhile, following her exit in 1998, Gordon went on to release two records under her own name. So, the pair’s creativity never ceased, but their time playing together appeared completely finished. “I think Louise and I both felt that we were done,” Gordon says. “We didn’t speak to each other for years, we didn’t see each other for years. We did not think that we would play music together again.” However, in April last year Veruca Salt’s original four members announced that they were back together. In recent years, there’s been a million and one bands from bygone decades staging supposedly-triumphant reunion tours. In many cases, skepticism is warranted concerning whether the reunion is basically conducted for the sake of financial profit. While Veruca Salt’s return was essentially unforeseen, Gordon assures that it wasn’t instigated by corporate intent. “We were just so happy to be together,” she says. “We clicked back into it so quickly and seamlessly. When [Louise and I] sat down together in my basement and sang together the first time it was just like the heavens parted and angels sang. We were like, ‘Yeah, this is what we were meant to do’.” OK, so this is an exceedingly positive story of reformation. But why has it happened now, after 15 years of separation? At the time of Gordon’s exit, it was made evident that an insurmountable personal conflict had developed within the band. Thus, it was only once these former hostilities had been laid to rest that Veruca Salt’s recommencement became feasible. “We started speaking and emailing and our friendship started picking up again,” Gordon says. “There were certain obstacles that made it impossible for me to even imagine playing music with them, particularly with Louise, again. Those obstacles were slowly removed over time.” While Post and Gordon’s friendship was back on track, it’s not as though as the band then immediately relaunched. Rather, the trigger for that decision came courtesy of the age-old source of motivation: envy. “One day I got this jealous pang when I heard that Mazzy Star were playing at Coachella after 15 years of not playing together,” Gordon recalls. “It was the first time I’d had this feeling, like ‘I want to play with Louise again, and with Jim and Steve. We’ve got to do this’. That chemistry was too precious.”

“I THINK LOUISE AND I BOTH FELT THAT WE WERE DONE, WE DIDN’T SPEAK TO EACH OTHER FOR YEARS.”

“I just thought, ‘Oh shit! I want to do that’. I emailed [Louise] and I said, ‘Mazzy Star are doing it, shouldn’t we?’ and she wrote back, ‘Yeah we should. Let’s go have coffee’. So I called Jim and she called Steve and then we all had dinner and we were like, ‘Let’s play one show. We’ll play American Thighs from beginning to end and then we’ll be able bury the hatchets and lay it all to rest’.” Getting back together to perform classic material is a fantastic opportunity for both the artist and the fans to bathe in nostalgia. But beyond this sentimental excursion, a lot of bands struggle to reconnect on a creative level. Upon reuniting, Veruca Salt didn’t set themselves any distinct targets, but the prospect of making new music quickly beckoned. “Louise played a song for me that I really loved, a new song, and I thought ‘that sounds really good, we should record that’. Then we started recording and we both started writing like crazy again. It all kind of took off and now we have an album’s worth of material. “Part of what makes it possible in our case is we were cut short before our time. The rift was personal – it was not musical. We were in the middle of working on our third album together and, I think, writing some of our best songs. Then all of a sudden all hell broke loose and we parted ways. In a way we’re picking up where we left off.” Yes, on Record Store Day this April Veruca Salt unveiled two new singles, It’s Holy and Museum of Broken Relationships. The sheer fact that this happened was a major surprise. And it was an even greater surprise to discover that the songs are both pop-rock gems, which comfortably slot into the band’s revered repertoire. “All I know is it feels genuine and it feels right and it sounds like us and it’s not like we’re actively trying to re-write Seether or Volcano Girls or something,” Gordon says. “I think in a lot of cases a band that’s been together for years and years, then went on hiatus and then got back together, it’s like they don’t really have anything new to say and it feels like they’re phoning it in. In our case, there’s still that same passion because we weren’t finished with each other, so it has a life of its own.”

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joe henry

By Patrick Emery

Joe Henry, singer, songwriter, producer and modern-day keeper of the American folk music tradition, traces his interest in music back to his childhood in North Carolina in the early 1960s. “I was obsessed with songs at a very young age – likely before it would have ever occurred to me that someone actually wrote them,” Henry says. “They seemed to exists organically, like salt on a table: there at the ready to flavour what ever they touched.” By the time he was a teenager, Henry had moved with his family to the mid-western industrial city of Detroit. While Henry says his southern origins “pierce deep into one’s DNA,” he retains a soft spot for Detroit, especially as the city struggles to escape its troubled recent history. “I have strong ties to Detroit, and to the mid-west as a whole,” Henry says. “My wife is a Michigan native, and I made some of my closest and most enduring friendships there. Detroit is an extremely soulful place, and it is heartbreaking to see it languishing as it has been for so long now. But I believe in its powers of redemption.” But it was the power of song to which Henry gravitated. “I was especially enamored of narrative songs, like the ones Jimmy Webb had written for Glen Campbell, or the ballads Johnny Cash so powerfully delivered in the mid-‘60s,” Henry says. “But it was probably Bob Dylan, in truth, who woke me up to the idea that, when I heard a song or a recording, real decisions were being made by someone with a vision; and that’s when I remember thinking I too wanted to write a song.” A lack of classical musical training didn’t impede Henry’s development as a musician and a songwriter. “My first few songs were very derivative of melancholy folk ballads,” he says. “But once you do anything long enough, you stop sensing direct influence at play, and disappear along your own path.”

Henry sought inspiration from the great musicians and songwriters of his time; Dylan, Ray Charles, The Band’s Levon Helm and the enigmatic jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. While Henry’s reverence for those artists remains to this day, he’s careful to differentiate between an artist’s music, and the often flawed individual who exists behind the lauded musical product. “Of course music has to speak for itself,” Henry says. “We can’t know everything and shouldn’t. I have always felt a personal devotion to the artists who have most inspired me; but the idea is not that they are unflawed humans, but that they offered what of themselves they could, despite the hardship that either life had imposed, or they had imposed upon their own.” Henry’s interest in music was complemented by a wider interest in the arts. In the early 1970s Henry became aware of the African-American comedian Richard Pryor, whose witty and caustic observations exposed the latent racism that existed just behind the facade of self-righteous American cultural hegemony. In 2001 Henry recorded Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation, a track that took as its narrative voice the late American comic. A couple of years ago Henry and his brother co-authored a biography of Pryor, to critical acclaim. Henry concedes writing about Pryor’s life provided him with a different perspective on the racially charged

era of American sociology and politics during which he grew up. “It was just a visceral reminder of how little things have really changed, and about how important it is for all of us to own our fears and make peace with our mortality,” Henry says. But it is within music that Henry continues to find both inspiration and peace. Henry has been quoted as saying his interest in the American songbook is analogous to his parents’ interest in the Bible. While modern American folk artists such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan have used song to critically explore the dominant American culture, as well as celebrating hitherto unheralded (and marginalized) aspects of the surrounding milieu, Henry’s views are more sanguine. “I don’t there is any obligation whatsoever [to be critical],” he says. “But I am interested and awake to the way our culture moves like weather through our lives: both influencing and reflecting it.” Henry’s latest album, Invisible Man, continues the rich narrative tradition of his own songwriting. Henry has previously suggested that the album is about marriage, not as a noun but as a verb. “[The album] is about commitment and devotion, and all of its poetic invention and articulation,” Henry says. “I didn’t mean for that to be read quite so literally; but I do think it’s

all in there nonetheless.” While Henry acknowledges a thematic narrative in his music, he says it’s not a deliberate thing. “I don’t have pre-formed notions that I then try to fit into song form: I write to find out what I am writing about. It is discovery more than self-expression,” Henry says. “I frequently find after the fact that the songs on any given album share concerns and interests. But I recognize it all in hindsight, and I could be wrong in my interpretations. I am not necessarily the best judge of what’s going on.” Musically, Invisible Man offers a contrast to Henry’s previous album, Reverie, with the latter once described by Henry as a “raucous and messy affair”. “With Invisible Hour I wanted no idea standing between the song and the listener,” Henry says. “I wanted all the intensity to come from the writing and the intentions of the performers. I wanted emotional clarity above all else.”

that comes with these stories too.” That her folks grew up under that kind of regime had other repercussions for Bosak. “Secrets, lies and spies,” she laughs. “My parents were really quite paranoid – you know, ‘you’ve got to be careful about this and that’ and they were so bloody good at hiding things. For instance, they used to hide our Easter eggs and my sisters and I would only find some of them, in tears, around Christmas time.” Her folks divulging the family secrets happened to coincide with music taking precedence in Bosak’s life. “I never expected that I would become a musician,” Bosak recalls. “Music was just a normal thing in my family. At every family gathering, there was always singing and live music. I never grew up wanting to be a musician though; I was interested in doing other things, like being an actress. But in my mid twenties I started singing and drumming and it completely took over. It was such a clear point for me. I can remember seeing Greg Sheehan’s drumming group and I ended up in tears. I remember thinking ‘wow, this is what I want to do’. It was such a clear flip.” There’s something a little Pan-like about Bosak and maybe it’s inherited. “There’s a long history of tricks and games in my family – we all have it. I carry that theme into the band. That’s why I like musicians who are playful and a little bit cheeky. For instance, there are

things that my band won’t find out about or see until the night. It’s great because they don’t know what’s going to happen next either. It’s not just the audience who gets a surprise – they might all get a bit of paper that says ‘do this on the count of three’.” Bosak has big plans for The Defection Dance Party. “I’m going to do a hundred before I die,” she chuckles. “This first one is in Melbourne, which is pretty special, and then I’m going to do them all over the world for the next, I don’t know, five, ten or 20 years. In terms of form though, I always want things to deteriorate into dancing. In the future, I’m thinking I want some wild DJs at the end and that the whole thing would unfold over four or five hours. It would start in a concert context, but it would develop into a dance party. That’s my biggest dream.” “When Bregović played at Hamer Hall last year all of the Yugoslavians got up and danced – they didn’t give a shit. I’m a bit over this ‘let’s sit down’ business. People need to loosen up a bit more.”

JOE HENRY serves up a slice of good ol’ American folk pie at The Melbourne Recital Centre – Elisabeth Murdoch Hall on Friday September 12.

tania bosak and the barEfoot orchestra

by Meg Crawford

Tania Bosak, the Barefoot Orchestra’s bandleader, singer, multi-percussionist, composer, comedian, actress and general maker of mischief and merriment, grew up in a wildly interesting household. Bosak’s dad, another muso, defected from the former Yugoslavia to Belgium during the peak of the Cold War in the ’60s and, no shit, her grandpa was a spy. Bosak didn’t know any of this though until she hit her twenties because before that point in time it was all shrouded in secrecy. Thankfully for us, Bosak’s airing the family skeletons in The Defection Dance Party #1 – a Balkan, punk, jazz, art, music extravaganza that’s about to be unleashed on Melbourne for the first time. “The biggest secret was how my Dad came to defect,” Bosak reflects. “He deserted from the ensemble he was playing with. He was a multi-instrumentalist and was quite versatile as a musician. Music was absolutely his passion. In fact, he stills plays everyday and he’s now 80.” “The other big secret was that I didn’t know my real nationality until I was 23 – that’s when I found out that I was Croatian, not Yugoslavian. Dad had hidden that because he wanted to assimilate. There was this perception that if you said you were Croatian that you were a terrorist or stating a particular political preference – my parents just weren’t interested in that at all. Under the communist regime, they just weren’t able to identify [as Croats]. In fact, Dad was interrogated at some point and they kept pressing him – ‘where’s your mother from? Where’s your father from?’ You just couldn’t have that discussion about your nationality.” Bosak’s acutely aware of the fact that the Eastern

European migrant community is slowly fading in Melbourne, and with it, these great stories. However, Bosak firmly believes that they deserve to be told and it’s her Dad’s story in particular which gave her a voice. “I never identified as a composer before,” she muses. “I had written a few songs, but I wasn’t a lyricist. I’m a theatre and filmic person. That’s what I brought to this show, using Dad’s story as the impetus. The music came so easily – it’s so connected to my family history and, finally, I had something to say.” These are themes that have broader relevance too. “Defection, desertion, secrecy – I’m completely obsessed with these ideas and I probably will be for the rest of my career. There’s a deep human element to them – leaving a relationship, leaving a country, being on a boat in the middle of the ocean. While it’s definitely the migrant experience, in some way, these are things that we all face at some point. It’s not bleak though; there’s hope and joy, laughter and finding opportunity

Tania Bosak and the Bare Foot orchestra bring The Defection Dance Party #1 and the launch of their debut album Exit to the Northcote Town Hall on Saturday October 11 as part of the Darebin 2014 Music Feast.

q&a with the timbers Well hello! Who am I speaking with and what do you do in the band? Joe Murphy (banjo, guitar, percussion and vocals). I am one of the three songwriters for the band. Using three words, how would you describe The Timbers’ typical live show? Energetic power folk! Would you rather play any instrument in the

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world naturally but be unable to write creative lyrics, or write the most beautiful lyrics in the world but be unable to play any instrument? I think I’d have to be able to play any instrument in the world. Playing musical instruments has always been my biggest passion. Although I do love to write lyrics, I’m a musician first and always. What can fans expect from your upcoming gigs in Melbourne?

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The Timbers live shows are action-packed affairs with a lot of dancing! Melbourne fans can expect much the same. We will be packing our show with a lot of songs off Lawless with a few newbies thrown in. THE TIMBERS play The Nelson Hotel, Boney and The Newport Bowls Club this weekend in support of debut record Lawless.

INTERPOL

By Augustus Welby

The so-called ‘new rock revolution’ that occurred at the turn of the 21st century has since become the stuff of legend. Essentially, this term was coined to describe an outbreak of bands reviving the sounds of ‘60s garage rock and ‘80s post-punk, which had largely been neglected in the previous decade. At the centre of this movement were three outfits from New York City ± The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol. The debut releases from these bands incited especial critical fervor, to the point of being deemed ‘instant classics’. The triad of New York trendsetters retains festival headliner status today, but the excitement generated by that initial breakthrough hasn’t been repeated. Perhaps our perspectives are skewed by nostalgia, or we’re simply asking for too much. Regardless, when Beat catches up with Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler ahead of the band’s fifth LP El Pintor, he says that meeting outside expectations isn’t a practical concern. “After we put out Turn on the Bright Lights I realised the best thing you can do is write the things that make you feel like this is what you want to say, that this is a step forward. If you’re trying to please other people in general, you’re not really comfortable in your own shoes. If you’re happy with what you create then you just have to have faith that people who like what you’ve done previously will give this a chance and will feel the same way.” Interpol hasn’t struggled to release a stack of quality music in the years since 2002’s iconic debut, Turn on the Bright Lights. Taking cues from post-punk and indie rock greats such as Joy Division and The Smiths, the band’s first three records explored fairly distinct stylistic territory with consistent success. However, on album number four ± a rather lacklustre self-titled LP ± it ap-

peared they’d at last succumbed to creative inertia. In the four years since Interpol was recorded, original bass player Carlos Dengler announced his exit from the band and vocalist Paul Banks and drummer Sam Fogarino both got involved with other musical ventures. Kessler says the prospect of doing another Interpol album wasn’t always certain. “I don’t think I’d take the band for granted enough to say that ‘I have to make another one’. You make a record because you want to make a record and because you feel like you have something better to say. There’s no set knowledge that this is going to happen.” During the down-time Kessler also remained creatively active. At first, he wasn’t writing with Interpol in mind, but inevitably he began framing his new compositions in the context of the band. “I was just trying to play music every day,” he says, “but then songs do come about on their own and I get excited about the prospect of working with my band mates on it. Usually the songs begin with me. If I get really excited about something and really into it, I arrange it in a certain way. If I see the potential for how it could become a piece of Interpol music then I start looking forward to that process where we get to all dip

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our fingers in it and transform it into an Interpol song.” Eventually, Kessler’s enthusiasm encouraged him to reconnect with frontman Paul Banks and start working together on what would become El Pintor. However, the fact that they were down a bass player still hadn’t been addressed. “Paul and I got together for like five days in August 2012 with no agenda,” Kessler recalls. “He brought with him his guitar and bass and he was like, ‘Hey maybe I should start with the bass because I tend to sing to bass lines’. I didn’t know how excellent of a bassist he really is. In the first few days we made pretty great headway with a couple of the songs that are on the record, My Desire and Anywhere. There were enough good things happening in the room that we weren’t sitting thinking about ‘OK, what’s missing?’ Because there was so much energy and so many ideas we never really thought about it that much.” While Banks’ bass playing proved an asset in the songwriting process, a decision about who would perform bass duties on the album wasn’t made until just prior to entering the studio. “We kept everything very open as far as whether Paul

would play bass or whether we’d get someone to help us out,” Kessler says. “Then it was like, ‘We should just let Paul do it. He’s great, he wrote these parts’. “We just crossed each chapter as we came to it,” he adds. “We were in the moment and nothing really required us to be out of that moment whenever we were together.” Indeed, this points back to Interpol’s primary commitment to artistic expansion, unfettered by any extraneous details. El Pintor is out this weekend and Kessler doesn’t hesitate to describe it as a step forward. “I’ve never been someone who cares about chops or how good you can do this. It’s really about what you say when you’re saying it. That’s about it really. “It’s never showing how good you are, just to show how good you are. You see it by virtue of the ability to enhance the piece of music you’re working on. I see the progression there. I see us becoming a better band, truthfully.”

each other for their lives. One day they couldn’t find Gray and they discovered him eating the supplies. Burke was very old-school and beat him and maybe he should’ve gone less hard, but the man had put all of them at risk.” It kinda puts a different complexion on things doesn’t it? So in bringing the story to life, Davies hooked up with Dave Phoenix, the head of the Burke & Wills society. It’s similar to what he did with Ned, whereby he teed up the narrative with Ian Jones, the premier Kelly historian. Historical accuracy is very important to Davies. “Yeah, that’s definitely why I worked with Ian Jones and Dave,” he agrees. “I knew what I was doing musically and I knew that the musicians would interpret where I was coming from, but it was important for me in the telling to go to the foremost historians to make sure that the show has the cred from that aspect as well.” Sure enough, the result of the collaboration is nothing short of glorious and thorough. It’s a two-disc package, the first of which is an atmospheric and epic instrumental take on the tale, neatly evoking each stage of the expedition, while the second CD has Henry Wagons telling the tale in his unmistakable rumble, backed by Davies and a handpicked collection of Australia’s finest musicians. It’s good to look at too ±

it comes with a beautiful hardback book, containing not just the narrative, but archival material from the expedition ± pictures drawn by the scientists and artists who were actually out there. It’s a big undertaking to translate this to the stage and it sounds fascinating. The show involves Davies, a sevenpiece band and recorded narration by Wagons, backed by a projection of the archival material old-time moviestyle. “The audience gets taken on a journey too with the visuals and the music,” Davies explains. It’s easy to get fired up while talking to Davies about the show, because his enthusiasm for the subject is contagious. You also get the impression that he’s a glass half-full kind of guy. In summing the expedition up, Davies puts it this way: “There were some crazy, hard times and may be Burke wasn’t on the ball in some respects, but he got them there and back. Mate, just imagine if they’d made it back that morning ± they would’ve been heroes!”

INTERPOL’s fifth long player El Pintor is out through Matador Records on Tuesday September 9.

By Meg Crawford

You could dismiss Robert O’hara Burke, the leader of the ill-fated first expedition by European settlers across the Aussie interior, as a dick colonialist. Let’s face it, he shot at the local indigenous community, even though they had fed him and his crew, and he dismissed Charles Gray, an expedition assistant, as a malingerer until such time as he died of dysentery. despite this, Ashley davies, lauded and loved Aussie drummer and songwriter, has found a more sympathetic way to understand the dude and his journey. First, next to no one knows that Burke and Wills were actually successful ± they achieved exactly what they set out to do, which was to head from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria and return to base camp at Coopers Creek. It’s what followed that was heartbreaking. The troop returned to Coopers Creek, as per plan, expecting to be met by the remainder of the party. Instead, by the time they dragged their sorry arses back (albeit five weeks later than anticipated) they discovered that they had narrowly missed the others by nine hours. Being critically low on supplies and mostly crook already, the team (with the exception of John King, another of the party’s expedition assistants) died in a matter of weeks. How fucked is that? So close and yet so far ± and the way that history remembers them is as failures. Davies’ show, Burke & Wills: the Expedition, aims to remedy this. This is not Davies first foray into history either ± he gave our favourite bushranger the treatment in 2000 with a CD and show called Ned Kelly. After that, he wasn’t necessarily sold on the idea of tackling another historic tale. However, a guy who’d enjoyed Ned sent him an email wondering whether there was going to be another CD like it and recommended that he read two books, namely Coopers Creek by Alan Moorehead and The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills by Sarah

Murgatroyd. It was after reading those that Davies had a change of heart. “I don’t think I’m necessarily a history buff,” Davies explains. “But I do enjoy it, especially if it’s in the form of a good yarn written well. I’m always up for a good read and Coopers Creek and Sarah Murgatroyd’s book just hooked me in. It was the same as with Ned, there’s so much of the story that’s left out through schooling and education ± there’s a whole lot about Burke and Wills’ story that’s been misinterpreted. Nearly everyone thinks that they were a bunch of no-hopers who wandered aimlessly and died. Sure, what happened when they were trying to get back home is very tragic, but they did accomplish what they set out to do and I had absolutely no idea.” Davies also wants to correct some of the myths around Burke. “For instance, I was having a chat to a guy about him the other day,” Davies reflects. “You know how there’s this whole story about Burke beating up Gray and then he dies? This guy says to me ‘Burke was a prick’. But what happened was that they got to the Gulf of Carpentaria and were running out of food on the way back and not catching much. They did get some indigenous help and really, he should have got more, but that was white fellas for you back then. So, basically, there were four of them and they were depending on

AShLEY dAvIES’ show Burke & Wills: The Expedition runs as part of the darebin Music Feast at the Northcote Town hall - Studio 2 on Thursday 9 and Friday October 10.

RUMBLIN’ with THE INfANTS

Well hello! Who am I speaking with and what do you do in the band? Blaise Adamson. I sing and play some guitar and keyboard.

how would you describe the sound of The Infants to new listeners? Heavy petal doom pop.

how does the sound of your new EP Low Rumble compare to your self-titled album that was released mid-last year? Low Rumble is more of a package deal, not just a collection of songs we liked and recorded. Low Rumble is a story, a vomit and an idea of the processes we all take to deal with the variables of life. I think it’s a bit darker tonally and conceptually. We’ve grown as a band and we’re more in tune with each other and more connected. It’s about being able to rip your face off and grow a new one. You don’t forget your old one, but this one is better.

± I ’m not embarrassed.

What is the most embarrassing song or artist I would find on your iPod? Bomfunk MC’s B-Boys Fly Girls. YouTube that shit

ThE INFANTS rumble into The Gasometer on Saturday September 6 to launch their EP with support from Contrast and Gold Class.

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What can we expect from your upcoming launch of Low Rumble at The Gasometer on September 6? A delightful mix of post-punk flavours from Gold Class and dreamy psychedelia from Contrast and hopefully we’ll melt your face, make you ooze, and get you in the mood to dance and make out with your friends.

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THE BEST MUSIC WRITING UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SUN

By Rhys McRae

There’s an often used quote that has plagued music writers since its occurrence in the warped mind that belonged to one Frank Zappa. In 1993, the genius king of freak outs told Ben Watson from MOJO that ‘“rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.” Zappa’s takedown came at a time pre-blogosphere and now seems truer than ever due to dwindling resources for writers and the pressure to be the first to break a story no matter how badly it’s written. In this climate of throwaway journalism, Christian Ryan’s compilation of essays surrounding music The Best Music Writing Under the Australian Sun is a gift and beacon of what all us hacks should be aiming for.

The sunny and crisp Melbourne morning has failed to get Ryan’s mind pumping and it takes a few chugs of coffee before it starts humming like a single coil pickup. Like most journalists, he’s steadfast with his opinions and not afraid to offend. This becomes most apparent after I pose the question of which local music journalists he enjoys reading, when he responds, “In Australia? No one.” “I think music writing is a very special kind of writing,” Ryan says. “I think it’s understood in America and some of the best writing happening in America is music writing. In Australia it’s just this ghetto and not taken seriously and no one really has much of a crack at it. Clinton Walker in his book Buried Country had a crack at jumping into the unknown.” If you give it a moment’s thought the concept of jumping into the unknown may be the answer to everything thought provoking in life. Delving deep into unknown voids of knowledge should be a journalist’s playground, and for Ryan, it’s what gives a piece real sting. In the book’s introduction, he notes that “none of the writers of the essays in this book knew how their stories would end,” which almost sounds like an allegory for life. It’s an idea he pins as a secret to great writing and something that hasn’t seemed to spread among today’s Australian non-fiction writers. “Good writing is effective when it’s something you don’t know, something you’ve never heard before; a thought you’ve never thought before or it’s an immense feeling you get,” Ryan explains. “They’re pretty unfashionable qualities in Australian non-fiction writing as a whole. Writing non-fiction in Australia is very safe. Writers are scared of jumping into things they don’t know about if they don’t know there definitely is a story and have a rough map of how it’s going to be.” “That’s partly down to the economics where it’s hard to get a well-paid writing gig and uncover stuff no one has ever found out before. It’s expensive, it takes time and usually travel. With this book I don’t think any of the writers knew where their story was going to go. Some of them were deeply investigative and some of them were emotional.” The essays in the book cover a vast array of subjects from Molly Meldrum’s early years to the genius of Bee Gee brother Barry Gibbs. Among the collection, two of the most striking pieces come early in the book and are penned by Maureen O’Shauhnessy and Tony Wilson. O’Shaunessy’s deeply emotional account of travelling to Bluesfest in 2011 with her husband while his brother lay dying interstate instils a feeling of suffocation. A cold fear of the clock rises in your spine as she spins images of escapism and the loneliness of dealing with a loved one’s death. On the other side of the spectrum, Wilson’s account of hunting down the woman Keith Richards played house with during The Rolling Stones’ Melbourne shows in 1973 is a true example of void jumping. Wilson writes of his basically hopeless quest based on a few scraps of information from Richards’ autobiography Life while filling the pages with insider stories about The Stones only those who were there could tell. The mystery surrounding a story and the twists it takes are what makes the damn thing worth reading, with musicians generally reliable in providing a bit of folklore for us mere mortals to ponder. Things have changed since the old days of rock gods and Ryan puts some of that down to artists sharing far too much about themselves through social media. “Music lives in your head,” Ryan poses. “It’s not just music coming out of your stereo or headphones. There’s that but there’s also how it sounds in your head when it’s not playing. Even when a song is playing it has a particular relationship with the cortex of your brain. The more you know, the more it squashes that idea of the magic.” “It’s exactly the opposite of what used to happen in rock where people would be as mysterious as they could be and wouldn’t reveal much. They’d go on shows like Countdown and say let’s cause some trouble. Let’s just muck around and shock people. It was very dangerous. It was a false safe danger but the air of danger and mystery was important. Now musicians are like up-and-coming business people pulling their career together.” CHRISTIAN RYAN’s The Best Music Writing Under the Australian Sun is out now through Hardie Grant. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32

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ANTHONY FANTANO

By Keats Mulligan

The impact of the Internet on the music industry is inescapable. Its influence can be perceived in both a negative or positive light; for some artists, the Internet can help to open doors, while it can have the reverse effect for others. The wonderful world of music blogging was once but a twinkle in the eye of father time and the technological revolution, yet now, the online realm offers information with an immediacy that’s impossible to replicate through any other source, to an audience unparalleled by any other medium. Of course, the Internet isn’t the sole supplier of information, and it, like all other platforms, has its shortcomings. Still, its impact has been vast, and without it, contemporary minds like the world’s busiest music nerd, The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano, wouldn’t have the stage, nor the audience for him to make the mark he has on the music world. Like many who’ve tried their hand at music blogging, Fantano first cut his teeth through more traditional avenues of broadcasting before he eventually became the self-made human vault of musical knowledge that he is today. “It all started in about 2007,” he recalls. “I started doing an independent music radio show at a local radio station. The particular station I was interning at had recently gone from an all classical station to a news and talk station, so they were repeating a lot of content. So I decided to put together a demo or two and I handed it to the general manager of the station, and they liked what I was doing. “We started out doing it as a podcast,” he continues. “It then eventually got on the air. At its highest point it was running on twelve different radio stations. I started a blog within a year’s time where I was doing the music blog and the podcast. But I wasn’t really getting paid to do the radio show, I wasn’t making much money off the blog that I was running, I didn’t have a lot of prowess when it came to web design and I didn’t really have the money to pay someone else to put together a really cool website. So after about a year and a half of doing the podcast, this radio show and running the website, I decided to experiment and try doing music reviews and music recommendations on YouTube, because in that year and a half I was observing the blogosphere and various popular music websites, I really hadn’t seen anybody try to review music on camera, so I figured I’d be setting myself away from the pack in some kind of way.” From that point, Fantano has gone on to become the self described ‘world’s busiest music nerd’, a title that surely enrages some rather busy music nerds around the globe. Although truthfully, it’s hard to take issue with the title. The Needle Drop examines, in detail, an awful lot of music from a vast selection of styles and genres, all while pioneering YouTube music journalism. “I’ll try to make sure I listen through at least one or two new albums each day,” Fantano explains. “I get music from a lot different places. It’s definitely mainly keeping track of the output of a lot of different music labels that I happen to follow religiously. There’s so many labels that do stuff that I look for: Warp Records, Constellation Records, Temporary Residence, Limited, Ghostly Internation, Mellow Music Group, and also keeping track of artists that I know that have a lot of buzz about them that are still putting out notable releases, or that viewers are asking me to take notice of. There’s also music blogs that I follow. There are some metal blogs that I like to follow and some hip hop blogs that I like to follow too. Like I said, I get a lot of it from the Internet, but it also comes at me from all angles.” Though the popularisation of the Internet has afforded Fantano the opportunity to listen to, talk about and recommend music as a career, in his mind it’s not entirely without its negatives. The contemporary music cycle is remarkably different from the way it was, and not necessarily for the better. “In my career it’s had a lot of positive effects,” he says. “I can do this show and can work for myself, but the negatives are balanced by the positives. I was talking to my wife about this the other day, and we’re both old enough to have lived through points of mainstream music distribution, when record labels were in control of what was popular and what wasn’t. There were definitely headaches that came with that. At some point in America, labels tried to give us this idea that swing music was having a revival or some bullshit, and were putting out really awful faux-modern swing bands like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddys and so on and so forth. “There were a lot of forced trends, but at least there was a certain level of talent required. Labels were at least putting time and funding into these artists so that they could mature and progress and make good music. Nowadays, there’s a lot of underground artists who get a ton of buzz really quickly when they don’t really have a lot of knowledge of experience when it comes to performance or songwriting, and not that they couldn’t get that, but the lack of money that they’re making, and the force with which they’re thrown into the limelight prevents them from getting the chance to mature, and by the time their next album cycle comes around a lot of their fans are really not interested in what they’re doing, or I should I say their supposed fans, who aren’t fans anymore and are now fans of whatever hot buzz indie artist is popular next. “There are a lot of people that don’t seem to be ready for the rush of fandom that comes, and don’t really know how to act in the limelight. Without that PR and marketing and without knowing how you’re going to keep people interested into the future, that limelight fades really quickly, and that’s most definitely a negative. A lot of these artists don’t really get a second shot – as soon as people stop paying attention to them, they’re kaput.” ANTHONY FANTANO will be touring Australia talking about all things music. Catch him on Sunday September 14 at The Northcote Town Hall and later that evening at The Toff in Town.

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PRONG

By Augustus Welby

Prong formed in New York City in 1986. Since then, they’ve released nine albums and left an indelible impact on modern metal. For anyone who’s just tuning in, searching for the ‘classic’ or wondering if the edge has dissipated by now, the band’s frontman and lone mainstay Tommy Victor has some tips. “Scorpio Rising I think’s crap and Power of the Damager has some good songs on it but the production wasn’t that great. Prove You Wrong; I was not crazy about the way it sounded. Again, I thought there was some good material.” Of course, who’s to say Victor’s an appropriate point of authority? Sure, he’s been Prong’s major songwriting force all along, but that doesn’t make him an infallible adjudicator. “My general perception of things is usually wrong,” he says. “Going back ten years, I was like ‘I can’t write any more Prong material’. I’m easily discouraged or I get negative real fast. It’s only when I get in there and start realising that it can be done, that’s when I’m like ‘I’m OK – I can do this’.” This realisation explains the band’s recent career resurgence. After a seven-year release drought, Prong re-launched in 2002 with the above-panned Scorpio Rising. Band activity was fairly intermittent for the rest of the decade, but these days Victor is focusing on Prong fulltime. Album number eight, Carved into

Stone came out in 2012 and Ruining Lives followed in April this year. Interestingly, with regards to these two records, Victor’s erstwhile dissatisfaction has flipped completely. “Carved into Stone is excellent and I think Ruining Lives is excellent,” he says. “[Ruining Lives] has got some of the best songs I’ve ever written with Prong. I think it’s a killer record. In my opinion it rates there as one of the best. “There wasn’t that many problems making it and when things are like that, very positive and everything’s moving smoothly, a lot of times you come out with something good.” While Prong is conveniently described as a hard rock act, throughout the last 28-years the band have traipsed widely through the heavy spectrum. The forthright technicality of recent years is a long way from the hardcore thrash sound heard on the band’s early records and the industrial grooves dominant on 1994’s commercial crossover Cleansing. Perhaps this amorphous quality has something to do with the fact

members have come and gone almost as frequently as records have been released. Either way, retreating to self-criticism, Victor doesn’t view the characteristic diversity as a major asset. “I’m not really worried about repeating myself. I almost want that to happen, because that’s something that Prong has been lacking. We haven’t repeated ourselves and people don’t know what to expect. It almost becomes arrogant in a way.” Presumably this is another factor contributing to the front man’s enthusiasm for the two latest offerings. These records play as companion pieces, propelled by a similar energy and compositional boldness. Still, that’s not the result of intra-band stability. “Alexei [Rodriguez] who was the drummer on Carved into Stone and was drumming live for several years, he had to get a regular job. Then I’ve had problems getting a solid bass player. Now Art [Cruz, drums] and Jason

[Christopher, bass] have been around for a couple of years. I’d love to keep them around, but you never know what happens. Prong doesn’t make extraordinary amounts of money and it’s something that I take day by day.” Nevertheless, throughout all of this reshuffling, Victor’s driving presence makes it all cohere under the Prong banner. “As I grow and I get older, I realise ‘this is what I do, I can do it’. My guitar playing is Tommy-Victor-guitarplaying, my vocals are me, so I don’t really worry about comparing to others and competing with other bands anymore. If I’m there, if I’m alive, I can do it, it’s still Prong.”

albums were more about drinking than recording. I guess there’s been a lot of change for us, but I’d say it’s the same for any band or any other group of people – particularly when you’re looking at their lives from ages 19 to 29. I’m definitely not as angry or confused as I used to be – I don’t see that as a bad thing.” The band have also built up a reputation as one of the most enthralling, exciting live bands in contemporary Australasian music. Wilson would often find himself out among the crowd, and the band would often topple over kits and amps at a set’s conclusion. While you shouldn’t head into a D!D!D! show these days with a thirst for blood, you certainly won’t go unrewarded in regards to quality. “I don’t think it’s really toned down much, but it’s certainly more respectful,” says Wilson.

“I guess that we play a lot more concerts than we used to. It’s a matter of maintenance these days, now that I think about it. If we’re playing somewhere like Slovakia and we’ve got to be travelling the next day, we can’t just go ahead and trash our gear. I guess it’s all about maturity, but I don’t feel that the shows are any less intense on account of it. I’d say that we’ve even gotten louder.”

however, in news that is sure to please his longtime hardcore fans in this country, John is apparently not about to completely ignore his illustrious back catalogue on this Aussie jaunt. In fact, he is very likely to pull out some hidden gems from his past. “It’s mainly on the solo stuff, but on the flip side of the coin, I’m proud to say that I’m going to playing past and present,” he reveals. “Some Slo Burn songs, some Kyuss songs that even Kyuss and Vista Chino never played live. I’m really going to concentrate on some of these untouched, untapped pieces that never had the chance to see the light of day, live. And man, I’m looking forward to it. “It’s gonna be a long set, and again, it’s playing past and present, it’s going to be a best-of John Garcia type of set. And I’m proud to say another desert band is coming with me, Waxy. They’re opening the shows, as well as (Melbourne-based stoner rock outfit) Mammoth Mammoth. They’re opening, then Waxy and then my

band, so the California desert is coming to Australia.” For the long term, Garcia will place his side projects on hold while he focuses closely on his solo venture. “Vista Chino’s parked in the garage, Unida’s parked in the garage, all my projects are parked in the garage, I’m solely concentrating on my solo project. And I feel good! “Making this record was a real eye-opener for me, it showed me what I could do outside of the context of my other bands. I’m not sure who’s going to be playing with me on this project moving into the future, it could be a whole bunch of different players. I’m not saying the other bands are all done, like I said they’re parked in the garage at the moment and this solo thing is where my head is right now. “I’m just enjoying it so much, I can’t wait to get to Australia and I can’t wait to do another record.”

Get forked when PRONG take to The Hi-Fi stage on Friday November 21.

DIE! DIE! DIE!

By David James Young

The word ‘swim’ may come across as innocuous when presented on its own, but it’s taken a life of its own in the world of online forums. SWIM can also stand for “someone who isn’t me,” and is often used in regards to telling a story without incriminating oneself (using the acronym in lieu of personal pronoun). When New Zealand post-punks Die! Die! Die! happened upon said acronym as the title of their fifth studio album, it suggested that there would be darker matter working its way onto the LP. The band’s front man and guitarist, Andrew Wilson, is inclined to agree – at least, to a point. “Lyrically, the record is pretty interesting,” he agrees. “I always felt pretty vulnerable when I was showing them to the guys for the first time, but they kind of tend to leave me alone in that regard. I don’t think they could handle it if I had to run everything past them – I’m pretty lucky in that respect. I guess everyone feels a little naked when they’re putting down vocals, don’t they.” Despite this rawer sense of honesty about what Die! Die! Die! are doing on the album, Wilson insists that SWIM comes from a much better headspace than one would expect. “I was actually in quite an optimistic space when we were writing this album,” he says. “A lot of it came out while we were touring and I was drawing from a lot of my own life experiences. I feel it stems from a really positive place. I did feel that I

had turned a page while making this record – I feel that a chapter in my life had closed, and I felt like I was sleeping on the bad things too much. There’s much more of a positive attitude going on here. I feel like I’m finding a better version of me.” Last year, the band celebrated its tenth year together – a remarkable feat for any band, but particularly when it’s in regards to something that began in their teenage years. If ever there was a time when things simply were not built to last, it’s your teens – and yet, here we are. “We know a lot more about what we’re doing at this point,” says Wilson. “We’re not quite as selfconscious, either. There’s a lot of learning that’s gone on within the fold of this band in that time. I was thinking about this the other day – some of our

DIE! DIE! DIE! play at the Ding Dong Lounge on Friday September 5 with Damn Terran and Strangers From Now On. SWIM is out now via Black Night Crash Records.

JOHN GARCIA

ByRod Whitf ield

When you’re the iconic founding member and main man of a legendary, genre-shaping band, as well as the perpetrator of several well-known side projects, at some stage you’re inevitably going to do something under your own name. This is exactly where John Garcia is at. As the driving force behind stoner rock trailblazers Kyuss, and subsequent acts like Vista Chino, Slo Burn and Unida, Garcia has been a singing, songwriting and performing force for a quarter of a century. 2014 sees the release of his first ever, self-titled solo record and, speaking from his home in Palm Springs, California, he couldn’t be happier. “The amount of freedom that I have as a solo artist, since being in bands with other musicians, is truly liberating!” he emphasises. “I’m in a good spot, and I don’t see myself deviating from my current position any time in the near future. I love where I’m at, I love the music that I’m performing live and writing.” The album is a little more of a straight up and down, kick-arse, bluesy rock‘n’roll album, than what many of the man’s fans may have come to expect from him, which is exactly what he set out to do with it. “I wasn’t looking to change the face of rock‘n’roll with this record, at all,” he states. “I wasn’t trying to be a mad scientist, what I wanted was something very simple – I wanted something that was very heavy on the music and melodic on the vocal side. When you have something that’s heavy, and then something that’s melodic goes on top of something that’s heavy and mean, sometimes it BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34

marries well and sometimes it doesn’t. But I specifically set out to do exactly that. “And my producers Harper Hug and Trevor Whatever made it a reality. And so did all the musicians on the record, so I’m very thankful and very appreciative. To have it finally see the light of day, it’s a dream come true and it’s a big relief.” And Australia, always a very good hunting ground for Garcia and his myriad bands, can think itself very lucky, being the first place on the planet to experience the new record in a live sense. His first solo tour on the back of the new album comes to Australia in mid-September. “I’m really excited about getting down there,” he enthuses. “It’s a great time for us, the band’s excited, and although it’s only four pretty exclusive shows, to have the world tour start in Australia was very fitting. I love your country, love the people, love the food, love the seafood, and it’s just a pleasure to be going back down there again. ” The main focus of the tour will be the new solo record,

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JOHN GARCIA brings the Californian desert to The Espy’s Gershwin Room on Friday September 12.

CORE

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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com So Henry Rollins is on everyone’s shitlist at the moment for penning a rather controversial column in the LA Weekly about suicide. I actually didn’t expect an apology, keeping in mind he tends to be one of the most unapologetically opinionated people around. In fact, one of the things I’ve admired most about Rollins all this time is that everything that comes out of his mouth is usually so well considered. He’s always seemed like he’s educated himself on every issue he speaks on, and boasts firm, confident, totally unwavering opinions and that always seems like such an appealing attribute that I’ve aspired to but never really been able to achieve. So it was kind of a big deal to see him apologise publically saying, “it was obvious that I had some work to do in order to educate myself further on this very complex and painful issue. I am quite thick-headed, but not so much that things don’t occasionally permeate... I cannot defend the views I expressed, I think that would be taking an easy out.” He continues, “I promise that I will dig in and educate myself on this and do my best to evolve. Thank you.” If only everyone could bend over and admit fault and defeat in such a humble fashion. Rollins, may you continue to provoke intense, heated, complex discussion on all life’s terrible topics forevermore. Martin Scorsese has been confirmed to direct an upcoming Ramones feature film that looks likely to be a cinematic dramatization of the Ramones story. It also looks like there’s likely to be a musical based on the band in coming years. Ramo-verload? Like bands? Like boats? See some bands on a boat this October. After taking a year off from their backyard music festival, Applecore are putting Screamfeeder, Deep Heat, Freak Wave, White Walls, Lincoln LeFevre and Georgia Maq on a boat on Sunday October 19. Not sure where the boat is, or whether it’s docked or moving, but consider yourself warned. Suicidal Tendencies announced last week that their bass player Tim Williams had passed away. “Tim was a monster on bass… we will always remember him and appreciate all the kind words by those that were touched by his bass playing and him personally.”

CRUNCH

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With Peter Hodgson: crunchcolumn@gmail.com Records, Throw Me in the River is the culmination of a heavy touring schedule and the trials and tribulations that come with it. Often dark, but always honest, the album is full of their trademark earnest storytelling and serves as a snapshot of the last few years of their hectic lives. They’ll be at The Corner Hotel in Richmond on Friday November 28. Tickets are on sale now.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3: Smoke Stack Rhino, Jesse Valach and Blues Mountain, Dirt River Radio at Cherry Bar The Dandy Warhols at Corner Hotel THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4: Jack The Stripper, Your World In Ruins, Drive Time Commute at Next FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5: Have/Hold, Sleep Decade, Kissing Booth, Employment at The Old Bar Wil Wagner, Georgia Maw, Morning After Morning at The Bridge Hotel The Tearaways, The Workinghorse Irons, Dirty Harriet and the Hangmen, The Koffin Rockers at The Bendigo SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6: Neck Deep, State Champs, Sidelines, Harbours at Evelyn Hotel Protest The Hero, Empire, Sentinel at The Hi-Fi Bar Wil Wagner, Georgia Maw, Jim Lawrie, Jerome Knappett at Northcote Social Club The Murder Rats, The Sleepless at The Bendigo Dead Letter Circus at The Toff In Town Braves, Satellites, Shallow Grave at Bang SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7: Biffy Clyro at The Palais Theatre Devildriver, Whitechapel at 170 Russell Pop Will Eat Itself at The Hi-Fi Wil Wagner, Georgia Maw, Iona Cairns, Widget at Karova Lounge Neck Deep, State Champs, Trophy Eyes, Anchors, Outlines, Sidelines, Thesis, Braves at OLP Ringwood Fear Like Us, Josh & Tyler, Maricopa Wells at The Reverence

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DEVIN TOWNSEND AUSTRALIAN GUITAR MASTERCLASS TOUR

Thump Music has presented a bunch of great guitar masterclasses over the past few years: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, Guthrie Govan… now they’re bringing the one and only Devin Townsend to Australia to share his musical wisdom ahead of the release of his next album, Z2, which will be released worldwide on October 27. The clinics will offer guitar enthusiasts the opportunity to learn the techniques and styles Devin has developed throughout his varied career. There will be plenty of opportunity for fans to ask any questions they have, as each clinic will end with a Q&A session, and you’ll also be able to buy Devy merch and music on the day (cash sales only). The Melbourne clinic will be at St Kilda Town Hall kicking off at 7:30pm on October 22. G et your tickets from thumpmusic.com.au

THE SMITH STREET BAND HITS THE ROAD

Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band will hit the road this November to support their upcoming third full length album, Throw Me in the River. No strangers to hosting international guests, this time they’ll bring along New Jersey’s indie-folk-punk sweethearts The Front Bottoms and English comrades Apologies, I Have None to round out a triple threat tour de force. Released on October 31 through Poison City

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Huge night of technically mind-exploding metal power at The Gershwin Room at The Espy in St Kilda this Friday September 5: catch Alarum, Vanishing Point (last show before their Japanese tour), Aeon of Horus (last Melbourne show before their European tour) and Orchestrating The Damned. Doors open at 8pm, tickets are $15.

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN BOX SET

If you’ve never delved into the world of blues-rock great Stevie Ray Vaughan before, or if you’ve only heard a few tracks here and there and you figure that the best way to rectify that is to go totally overboard, or if you’re just a completist, dagnabbit, Sony/Legacy will release a comprehensive box set bringing together all of SRV’s recordings for Epic Records in October. All of the studio albums are represented (not counting stuff like the posthumous The Sky Is Crying or Family Style by The Vaughan Brothers, with Stevie Ray’s brother Jimmie) and there’s plenty of live material too, including the first-ever commercial release of 1983′s A Legend In The Making – Live at the El Mocambo Toronto Concert. It will be released on Tuesday, October 28.

SMOKE STACK RHINO CHERRY BAR RESIDENCY

Smoke Stack Rhino is kicking off the release of their new single this week at the first night of their monthlong Wednesday night residency at Cherry Bar in September. Catch these blues-rockers with Jesse Valach & Blues Mountain, and Dirt River Radio from 8pm this Wednesday September 3, $5 at the door.

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MIDNIGHT SHIFTER

WEDNESDAY 3

Midnight Shifter will be hitting the stage tomorrow night at The Bendigo Hotel with special guests Dojo Collectors, Offspring of Convicts and Click. Catch four awesome bands for only $5 this Thursday September 4.

THE BASICS

Melbourne cult heroes The Basics announce their return to the stage for a special stand-alone show at The Gasometer Hotel this Wednesday September 3. The Basics’ career has spanned well over a decade, outlasting most of their contemporaries and giving us four studio albums. The Basics is a ten-year story of mateship and adventures, but first and foremost, it’s a vehicle for a legacy of amazing songs. With the three Basics off doing separate things all over the world, this is a rare chance to catch them playing their catalogue of good-time, genre-bending classics. It’s time to get excited, with The Basics and special guests Sugar Fed Leopards.

SERVO

This week will see Servo hit up the stage in The Tote Bandroom with support from Simon J. Karis. Free entry from 8pm. Upstairs will be Sunxiety, Medicine Money and Egypt Lies from 8.30pm. It all goes down this Thursday, September 4 at The Tote.

STRINGS FOR BELTS

SMOKE STACK RHINO

SOLID GOLD BINGO W/ NAYLS & PINKO

Each Wednesday in September, Nayls and Pinko present Solid Gold Bingo at The Yarra Hotel Abbotsford. It’s a musical bingo set and it’s all in the numbers. As Ash Naylor and Steve Pinkerton play the hits, the associated numbers will be read out –the number of weeks the song spent at #1, the number of people in the band, the number of verses, the number of countries in which it was a hit. This is a hell of a lot more interesting than hearing someone rolling a barrel. So while there’ll be no “legs eleven” or “two fat ladies” there will be some cracking renditions of FM radio gems and the odd dinner for two to be won. Admission is free, “eyes down, quiet please” begins at 8.30pm sharp.

THE TASTE OF INDIE COLLECTIVE

The Taste of Indie Collective will be serving up the acoustic tunes at Wesley Anne –Simply Acoustic Night on Wednesday September 3. Featuring the dynamic singer/songwriter JMS Harrison, Kill TV’s lead guitarist and singer Kat Orgovany doing a rare solo gig of awesome Australian folk pop rock. Music from 8pm and entry is free.

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ALI E

Ali E’s musical career spans many years. While being involved in bands such as Little Athletics, Heavy Beach and Damn Terran, her desire to cultivate her solo project has grown into her debut album Landless. As one reviewer describes, “Landless feels as if you’re sitting on the window ledge at your parents house watching that unbelievably cool girl next door lay down some raw tracks in her garage”. She will grace the stage at The Drunken Poet this Wednesday, September 3.

REYHARP

Tonight Ruby’s Music Room will be hosted by Reyharp, a diatonic harmonica prodigy and Hohner endorsee from Indonesia, and Ade Ishs on the marvellous Steinway D. At only 16 years of age Reyharp is one of the young shooting stars emerging on the contemporary harmonica scene. He placed fourth in the Solo Diatonic Jazz Category in the World Harmonica Festival 2013. Along with Ade Ishs on the Steinway this promises to be a fantastic connection between Indonesian musicians on the grand stage at Ruby’s. Doors open 6pm, tickets $15.

Hot on the heels of a whirlwind first year, bluesrockers Smoke Stack Rhino are poised to drop a brand new single this September at Cherry Bar. The single, entitled Taste, is a catchy, blues-inspired beat that meanders dynamically through subtle and imposing southern rock. To celebrate the release of Taste, the band has been booked for a weekly residency at the legendary Cherry Bar starting this Wednesday with Jesse Valach & Blues Mountain and Dirt River Radio.

THURSDAY 4

CLIVE J MANN

This Thursday September 4, Clive J Mann plays the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford with Emma Russack. After four years spent living and travelling in Holland, Spain and Mexico, Melbourne’s Clive J Mann returns to the city’s music fold with new songs and a new band. A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Clive’s songs are influenced as much through his travels as they are by storytellers like Will Oldham and Lou Reed, to contemporary artists such as Foxygen and Kurt Vile. Emma Russack will take to the stage at 8.30pm, kitchen is open until 9.30pm and admission is free.

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String for Belts are an alternative soft rock band coming out of the western suburbs, supporting them are close friends Blood Orange who bring a very up beat and exciting style to their music. Tex Natives are here for their come back gig with their surf rock influences and new kids on the block Cosmos are here with their hard hitting rock riffs. Definitely one not to miss. Thursday September 4 at The Brunswick Hotel.

SHANNON BOURNE

Whole Lotta Blues this week has a double treat. Shannon Bourne can captivate a massive crowd, but you will have the chance to see him up close and personal with support from Brendan Forward. Shannon Bourne has played with all the greats in the Australian blues scene, in every festival, in every sticky carpeted whiskey and rock’n’roll joint. Now he does his debut performance at Whole Lotta Blues, Thursday September 4 at Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick.

THE SWEETHEARTS

Soul in the basement! The Sweethearts are a 25-piece all-girl soul act from Motor City Geetroit and will grace the Cherry Bar stage from 10pm this Thursday September 4. DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni will be spinnin’ tracks until late. $10 from 8pm till 5am.

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WATT’S ON PRESENTS: THE STIFFYS

MAGIC BONES

Melbourne based guitar band Magic Bones release their first single for 2014. Round The Block is an ode to Aussie punk rock and good summer lovin’. Flashback to another decade and give in to the insistent sound of scuzzy garage punk. They’re taking it to clubs and pubs around Australia. Catch them this Friday Septmber 5 at The Retreat Hotel. Doors open at 9.30pm.

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VOWEL MOVEMENT

Fresh off their most recent tour and release, Vowel Movement return to Melbourne to play The Retreat Hotel on Thursday September 4. Joining them for onstage mayhem will be D.I.C.K (Dream in Colour Kidz) – a bunch of garage punk dudes from the colourful side of the moon, who will be making their debut. Opening the night is Peter Bibby. Doors open at 8.30pm.

Nice Inna West are bringing vibes of positivity to you with a night of reggae/dancehall, hip hop and afro beat goodness. Give your weekend a nice start with selectors Zare Damus ( Jamaica) DJ Ab (Ethiopia) DJ Unsoundbuoy and DJ Jenny spinning feel good tunes along with talented Melbourne artists like Yaw Mulatto, A-Mac Don, The Movement and SKAAKI. Tickets are $6 before 10pm and $10 after. Friday September 5 at The Reverance Hotel.

RUBY’S CLASSIC BLUES NOTE SERIES

Ruby’s Blue Note Series immerses the audience in soulful and refined jazz. The undeniable quality on stage will help ease the audience into the weekend. Focusing on the intimate relationship between the artist and their music allowing for an organic and relaxed atmosphere that is unique to Ruby’s. This week will be hosted by Sam Appapoulay. Doors open at 8.30pm, $20 entry.

SUBMARINES

Kick off your first Friday in spring at Tago Mago. Hitting up the stage will be Submarines, The Braves and The Night Party. Friday September 5 at Tago Mago from 8pm.

CLAP CLAP RIOT

Did you know Dan Watt featured on the very first Stiffys’ song? Since then The Stiffys have made some far more cooler and more influential songs that have helped get The Stiffys party rock out to wider audiences to make them one of Australia’s most popular touring bands. This Friday The Stiffys are doing a very special free show at Prince Public Bar. Joining them are Japanese babes Darts and opening the night is Anna Cordell. Friday September 5 at Prince of Wales. Free entry.

HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS

Hotel Wrecking City Traders (HWCT) have just released their brand new digital only EP Ode to Chunn through Bro Fidelity Records. To celebrate, they are playing The Lord Newry Hotel in Fitzroy this Friday September 5. River of Snakes who recently released their own debut album Black Noise and The Underhanded who just dropped a new single Black Acid, flesh out this three way fuzz fest as part of a brand new Friday night series of events at The Lord Newry Hotel. $5 entry. Doors at 8pm.

SATURDAY 6

DOUBLE BLACK

It’s been a while since Double Black did their own show in Melbourne, and they have a new self-titled album. Support from special guests The Murder Rats, and The Sleepless (Renamed Royal Cutthroat Co). Tickets $15 at the door. This Saturday, September 6 at The Bendigo Hotel.

TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD

Tequila Mockingbyrd have announced the release of their highly anticipated EP T-Byrds Are GO!, produced by Shane Rae of Lighthill Sound Recording. These tracks are the driving force behind their national tour scheduled for October and November this year, and are set to launch them onto radio airwaves and festival bills across the country. They will be hitting the stage at Yah Yah’s on Saturday September 6 supported by The Ugly Kings, The Mighty Kings and Club Crain.

THE INFANTS

The Infants were formed out of the need for a selfeffacing creative platform for the expressions of Blaise Adamson, Jack Normoyle, Anthony and Christopher Morse. Adamson’s erotic, swaggering persona is no doubt enthralling and has garnered a strong reputation. Posing out front of a band cranking out visceral and bloodthirsty DIY punk, The Infants’ live show is immersive – part theatre, part rock. Catch them at The Gasometer on September 6 with support from Contrast and Gold Class.

SOUL-A-GO-GO

Soul-A-Go-Go is back this September in the heart of the city at Shebeen, on Manchester Lane. Catch PBS’ Manchild (The Breakdown), Miss Goldie (Boss Action), Vince Peach (Soul Time), Richie 1250 (Stone Love), Chelsea Wilson ( Jazz Got Soul), Matt McFetridge ( Jungle Fever) and Alessia Pegoli (Prosecco Hour) play Saturday, September 8. The last one was full to the brim so make sure you get there early to avoid queuing up. As always, it’s $10 entry for PBS members and $15 for non-members. All the action kicks off at 9pm, and the party keeps rockin’ right through to 3am.

THE MERCY KILLS

The Mercy Kills are launching their new EP titled Paradise Motel at Cherry Bar in AC/DC Lane on Saturday September 6. Still buzzed and bruised from the Courtney Love tour, TMK can’t wait to tear through their set on the Cherry Bar stage. The Love Bombs light fuse out around 9pm, followed by power rock five-piece Palace Of The King. DJ Paul Miles is back and will be rocking the Cherry decks all night bustin’ out the vinyl. Tickets $13 at the door.

BROCKWAY LIGHTS

This Saturday local five-piece Brockway Lights will be taking to the stage at Tago Mago in Thornbury. Warming up the night will be Paperclip Frenzy and Logic Defies Logic. Saturday September 6 at Tago Mago. Doors from 8pm.

After debuting at #1 on the Official NZ Album Chart and winning multiple accolades since their debut EP release in 2009, New Zealand rock‘n’roll four-piece Clap Clap Riot are finally destined for Australian shores this September, while unleashing their new video All About The Weather. They will take the stage at the Shebeen Bandroom this Thursday, September 4.

FRIDAY 5 AGENT 37

This Friday September 5 Agent 37 (The Savages) will be hitting up The Brunswick Hotel for a belated album launch show. Joining them will be close mates Hopes Abandoned, Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays and All We Need. It’s all happening this Friday night at The Brunswick Hotel. Free entry, bands from around 9pm.

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KLO

Melbourne based electronic duo Klo are excited to share their brand new video for current single False Call. The duo, made up of cousins Simon Lam and Chloe Kaul, are also excited to reveal details of their very first ever live performance. Having formed in the closing months of 2013, Klo have used the past six months to perfect their art and are now ready to take their music to the stage. They will play their hometown of Melbourne on Friday September 5 at Boney.

SOUL SACRIFICE

After a full house and packed dance-floor earlier this year, Melbourne’s one and only Santana Tribute band will return to The Flying Saucer Club to perform a special encore show this September. Soul Sacrifice pay genuine tribute to the great music of Santana, focusing on the classic period of the ‘60s and ‘70s with a splash of later stuff. Covering Latin rock, Latin soul, jazz and rock genres, there will be plenty of dancing when you hear the infectious grooves and rhythms of classics such as Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, Oye Como Va and Smooth to name a few. Get in quick. Friday September 5 at The Flying Saucer Club.

WILDING

Wilding is the project of songwriter Justin Wilding Stokes whose music is a melodic blast of whimsical beat-pop ‘n’ bedroom-psych. The missing evolutionary link between Merseybeat and Madchester, he’ll be celebrating the release of new single Missing Her by playing with a full live band. Doors open at 9pm at The Victoria Hotel, this Friday September 5.

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COLD HEART

Cold Heart are based on the idea of an old school stripped back country rockabilly outfit. Three members only, one on vocals and acoustic guitar, one on the electric Gretsch guitar and another on double bass – that’s it. There are no drums, but the rhythmic click and slapping of the double bass will make you feel the beat regardless. If you are thinking vintage Johnny Cash, Wayne Hancock, Faron Young, Johnny Horton and Hank Williams, you’ll be right at home. With Cold Heart you’ll get a dose of rockabilly, country and original songs. All the members of Cold Heart are stalwarts of the inner city country and Melbourne roots music scene and play regular gigs around town when not on the job with Cold Heart. You can catch them from 5pm this Saturday, September 6 at The Retreat Hotel.

HARLEQUIN

Brisbane-based ambient/experimental rock quintet Harlequin will release their debut EP Univers Parallèle in September. Harlequin create epic textures and soundscapes, pairing them with lush and soaring melodies to create a truly transcendent live show. They will be performing in Melbourne at The Reverence on September 6 joining neo-rockers The Princetons, eclectic progressive dynamos Cat Or Pillar and organic, psychedelic funkers Slowjaxx & The Kozmik Love Orkestra. Tickets $10.

MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS

The Drifters play roots music, blending western swing, hardcore country, Cajun blues, and rockabilly, all played in their trademark ‘authentic’ crucial country style. Catch them this Saturday September 6 at The Victoria Hotel. Doors open at 9pm.

SUNDAY 7 LUKA LESSON ‘EXIT’ ALBUM LAUNCH

Australian Poetry Slam Champion and rap artist Luka Lesson brings his band along with him in his latest tour More Poets Than Politicians – a combination of

his award winning poetics and the official launch of his epic new album, EXIT. Featuring three young international guests Amal Kassir (USA), Jahra Rager (NZ) and Exofrenikos (Greece) and hosted by none other than L-FRESH the Lion, this night of poetry and hip hop will be one of the most enlightening shows the genre has seen in Melbourne. With a truly international feel, More Poets will raise funds for Welcome to Australia, an organisation for which Luka is an ambassador. All profits go to assisting and highlighting issues that concern refugees in Australia today. Sunday September 7 at Howler from 7pm.

HARTLEY FT. TRENT K

EEO

Singer/songwriter EEO has announced a string of tour dates to celebrate the release of his latest single Dead Love. The 21 year-old Melburnian has been producing his unique blend of indie folk since early 2010. His newest single peaked at #1 on the triple j Unearthed Indie Chart and #6 on the Overall Chart. EEO will hit Northcote Social Club on Sunday September 7 with support from special guests The Winter Suns. Doors open at 2pm and tickets are $12. Whitt

Get your fix of live, local music this Sunday at The Brunswick Hotel. Taking to the stage will be Hartley ft. Trent K. In support will be Bad Uncle, Zutroy and The Scott Candlish Band. It all goes down this Sunday September 7 at The Brunswick Hotel. Free entry from 8pm.

LACHLAN BRYAN & KRIS SCHROEDER

Every Monday night, two established artists are randomly thrown together to play a set of duets, preceded by a solo set from each. This free entry show is a chance to see the cream of the Melbourne scene in one-off, one-of-a-kind performances, in the clubhouse environment of The Retreat Hotel front bar. This Monday, September 8, sees Lachlan Bryan and Kris Schroeder take the stage. Doors open at 7.30pm.

TUESDAY 9

DEXTER’S ASIAN CONNECTION

Hosted by Dexter’s Asian Connection this show will incorporate jazz, soul, and modern music with a South East Asian theme. Dexter Pradi, a Victorian College of the Arts graduate, leads this all Indonesian band. With one of his original songs being bought by Sony Music, Dexter is an experienced and accomplished performer with a wide musical style including jazz, Latin, pop and RnB influences. Doors open 6pm, entry is $15.

FEAR LIKE US

Coming up to ten years as a band, Fear Like Us will be re-visiting their acoustic roots to play their punk anthems at The Reverence every Sunday in September. Joined this week by Josh & Tyler from local legends Foxtrot & Maricopa Wells, there will be plenty of beer, food, hugs, good vibes and fists in the air! Free entry from 3pm, this Sunday, September 7 at The Rev.

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KONRAD DORECHKI

For Dorechki music has been his passion from his youngest years. He began learning the piano at the age of six. At age ten, he gained a music scholarship at Mentone Grammar School. From this young age Dorechki has been interested in composition. He has a unique talent for piano improvisation combined with a virtuosic pianistic technique.Dorechki performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2010, where two CDs of his improvised music were recorded. In 2012 Dorechki recorded a CD for prestigious German piano makers Schimmel rendering him a Schimmel Artist. Dorechki’s exclusive performance will be on this Sunday at Ruby’s. Doors open at 2pm, $20 entry.

MONDAY 8

LOS TRIOS DERROS

WHITT

Guitarist Whitt has only experienced colossal highs in his musical career spanning over 25 years with one of the most prolific bands in Australian history – Spiderbait. While recording the band’s current album in Los Angeles (produced by Gotye’s producer Frank Tetaz), Whitt found himself working in his downtime polishing his singing and songwriting. The album is a piece of a very personal journey that was influenced by Australian post-punk tycoons The Birthday Party and Rowland S. Howard as well as folk influences such as Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zandt. He will be playing every Sunday this September alongside Spencer P Jones at Tago Mago.

LITTLE MURDERS

Power pop legends Little Murders return south side to play a Sunday arvo gig at the small but very cool Lyrebird Lounge. It’s the afternoon and it’s Father’s Day so we’re encouraging peoples to bring along their kids. It’s free entry and goes down from 5pm to 7pm with the Murders playing tracks from their much praised new album Go as well as classic songs from their long history. Come on down and get yourself some action pop. Sunday September 7 at Lyrebird Lounge from 5pm.

DOGSDAY

Spring finally here so spring on down to Whole Lotta Love on Sunday September 7 to catch Dogsday and The Surf Thang rock the top off the top end of Lygon Street. This is the second of Dogsday’s ‘first Sunday of the month’ residency spots at Whole Lotta Love and promises to be a hootin-tootin good time for all. The Surf Thang kick off the afternoon at 2.30pm, followed by Dogsday playing two sets between 4pm and 6pm.

Legendary frontman Steve Lucas of X, Bigger Than Jesus and Groody Frenzy has a new musical project, Los Trios Derros. The Derros do it all, from country type ballads, garage rock, tough psych & full throttle rock. So, Lucas the veteran, ever seeking new blood & new talent to keep his music alive and kicking, has enlisted the aid of a couple of young rising stars (his own words) Ryan McKay (bass) and Levi Franco (drums) to form the essential vehicle for this venture (both recommended to him by Peter Koppes of The Church fame). Los Trios Derros have announced a headline show in one of Lucas’ hold haunts, Prince Of Wales Public Bar on Friday September 26. If it couldn’t get any better, the show is free.

DOJO COLLECTORS

The Taste of Indie Collective will be rocking into Mr. Boogie Man Bar in Abbotsford on Friday September 12 with a serving of original made in Melbourne music from 7pm til late. The night will feature the very cool Australian indie folk of Waterline as well as Ashbury Medicine Show and indie grunge trio Dojo Collectors. Presented by the Taste of Indie Collective – bringing you the best of Melbourne’s original indie music – live and made in Melbourne.

MELALUKA

Sunday September 20 sees three up and coming Melbourne bands take to the stage at The Spotted Mallard. Melaluka are a Melbourne based band lead by the soulful vocals of Alyson Murray. Their music is an amalgamation of Soul and RnB. Inspired by the likes of Erykah Badu and D’Angelo. Melaluka will bring you hard grooving back beats, funky bass lines and some tasty vocal harmonies. Joining them will be Cheeky Goose and art pop band Odie Ida. Sunday September 20 at The Spotted Mallard. Free entry.

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KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO

Kit Convict & Thee Terrible Two bring their bag of garage punk psych spells to The Bendigo Hotel this Sunday September 7. Led by Kit Convict (The Kits/ The Spasms) expect The Gories, The Cramps and Thee Headcoats inspired madness. Support comes from Secret Crackpipe Handshake and Cosmic Kahuna. Doors from 6pm. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38

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John Garcia is instantly recognisable as the voice of a genre. Single handedly bringing the California Desert Rock sound to the world via his works with Kyuss, Slo Burn, Unida, Hermano and Vista Chino. His deep baritone and soulful delivery take you on a hypnotic journey that coupled with huge riffs and driving bass is hard to escape. John will be bringing his solo material to Australian fans this September as part of a Desert Rock Showcase that see’s Palm Springs USA natives Waxy and Melbourne’s ‘good time murder fuzz‘ exponents Mammoth Mammoth rounding things out. They take to the stage at The Espy Gershwin Room Friday September 12. Tickets are $50+BF available through Oztix.

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PETE REID

WOODLOCK

Singer/writer and actor/creator Pete Reid brings his latest collection of songs and stories, all penned as a tribute to those who dwell on the edges of life, to a remote shed in Brunswick as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Ranging in styles from alternate folk, smokin’ blues, and dark cabaret, and featuring stories and songs about English high rollers in Las Vegas, self-conflagrating mad men and wayward Polar Bears. Pete will be performing the latest batch of material from the shed on the edge of the world September 24–27. For more info visit melbournefringe.com.au.

SPRING FLING STREET FESTIVAL

The Spring Fling Street Festival is a free public event celebrating the communities of North and West Melbourne. It will take place Sunday October 19. The team at Spring Fling are holding a fundraiser gig in the lead up to the festival featuring the psychedelic garage grooves of The Dead Heir, also joined by From Oslo and Old Violet. Check it out, Thursday 18 September at The Public Bar. Doors 8.30pm. $7 entry.

SEX ON TOAST

Sex on Toast hit Melbourne’s infamous Cherry Soul Night to bring their signature brand of synth-blast ‘80s funk/soul to AC/DC lane. With their self-titled debut album, sell-out launches and subsequent tours under their belt, they have steadily perfected a live show consisting of white hot charisma, slammin’ grooves and delicate sensuality. Come see them Thursday September 11 at Cherry Bar.

Following their sold-out national tour in June, Melbourne’s favourite boys from Woodlock are packing up and hitting the road again this September and October. The indie-rock threesome will be playing 17 shows, over six states and three regional festivals. The five week tour celebrates the release of their new single The Garden, which represents a shift in sound for the band. The Garden is the second single from their recently released EP Labour of Love, which debuted in the overall ARIA charts top 100 and also in the ARIA top 50 digital downloads chart. Woodlock will be supported by Brisbane’s six-piece alternate pop collective Fieu. Catch them at Northcote Social Club in Melbourne Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September.

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CELIA PAVEY

Celestial Australian folk artist Celia Pavey debuts her pure and otherworldly vocal ability on the longawaited EP Bodies. Heading out on an east coast tour in support of the EP, out August 29, audiences can expect an intimate performance reflecting Celia’s earliest experiences singing in the church hall of her small hometown, Forbes NSW. This studio introduction to Celia’s honest and adventurous folk songwriting sweeps through that flat, ghostly landscape and into sonically lush territory. See Celia launch her Bodies EP on Thursday September 11 at The Toff in Town. Tickets available through the venue.

OCTOBER

Hello! Who am I talking to and what do you do in the band? Estelle Artois. I play the guitar and sing. What kind of sound can we expect from your upcoming EP T-Byrds Are GO!? Hard rock tunes with pumping drum fills, sleazy bass runs and squealing guitar solos. We’ve put four of our favourite tracks on this EP so we hope there’s a little something for everyone on there. If your music was going to be used as a soundtrack to a film, who would direct the film? Quentin Tarantino! Jess our bassist sent me a sound clip of some chords that later became the opening track of Money Tree and at the time I had just finished watching Django Unchained. So some of the lyrics would be quite fitting in a Tarantino film. Plus he’s such a legend all around. I’m a big fan of his films. How do you prepare for a show? Any weird routines?

We’ve actually just acquired a new one. We’ve invented the perfect pre-gig drink: we call it the Mocking Bomb. It’s like a normal Jager Bomb but with raspberry lemonade instead of red bull. A perfect blend of an intense and concentrated sugar high with the bittersweet tang of Jager that loosens you up nicely without making it totally impossible to play your instrument! Patent pending. What can we expect from your EP launch at Yah Yah’s on Saturday 6? It’s going to be amazing. There’ll be Jager Bombs, Mocking Bombs, shot glasses, tattoos, high voltage amps, double basses and cake. The night kicks off at 8pm. We’ll be hitting the stage at around 9.30pm. We can’t tell you how excited we are; it’s going to be a rip-roaring rock’n’roll party! TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD bomb Yah Yah’s on Saturday September 6 with special guests Club Crain, The Ugly Kings and Rosie & The Mighty Kings, $13 from 8pm.

MEG MAC

Melbourne based chanteuse Meg Mac has been penetrating airwaves around the country with her signature style of dark, stomping soul-pop in singles Every Lie, and her current belter Roll Up Your Sleeves. The singer’s prolific song-writing abilities will be on display once more with the release of her first body of work, MEGMAC, the debut EP being released on September 12 through littleBIGMANrecords. To coincide, Meg Mac will be performing five intimate shows across the country to prove that, despite the enormous radio love, the stage is where this voice is truly at home. With the Sydney and Melbourne shows having sold out within a week of tickets going on sale, another Melbourne show has been announced for Friday October 24 at Howler. Tickets are available through moshtix.com.au.

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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au compadre to Tim Rogers on the TnT project and more recently fronting the rock band The Ape, Tex is now back once again to the mysterious moody groove of The Dark Horses, returning this October/November with a select run of tour dates in support. Catch him at The Thornbury Theatre on Cup Eve, Monday November 3. Tickets are available through the venue webpage.

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ANDY KENTLER

Former Glide guitarist Andy Kentler will be releasing his highly anticipated new album No Love Lost at Yah Yah’s on Saturday October 11. Andy Kentler and band will be joined by the enigmatic Brian Henry Hooper (Beasts of Bourbon, Surrealists) and the moody and emotive Rachel Shaw Band. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets available through the venue.

NOVEMBER

THE POTBELLEEZ

TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES

Tex Perkins has shown us many faces over the journey. Front man for the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea and the hard edged pub rock of The Beasts of Bourbon, collaborator on the Tex, Don and Charlie outings,

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The Potbelleez, one of Australia’s top electro-dance acts, will perform at the GH Hotel this November. Hailing from Sydney, the boys bring their A-game to the stage of the GH for a special two-hour performance. Head down to see one of Australia’s premier dance acts play a one off show in the heart of St Kilda. Saturday November 1. Tickets on sale now through the venue.

Name/Band: Agent 37 Define your genre in five words or less: Ramones-core punk rock. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? We sound like The Ramones. Describe the best gig you have ever played. Our Ballarat album launch show earlier this month. We packed our hometown venue with 150 people and it was an incredible show. Tell us about the last song you wrote. It’s called Insomnia and it’s about not being able to sleep. We make mention of having no sheep to count – it’s fun. Where would you like to be in five years? Hopefully still a band! And playing shows with other bands, preferably awesome ones, in awesome places around the country. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? It’s usually driving to venues and stressing out

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about being late because someone always gets us lost. Either that or everyone using Dave’s amp to tune their guitars. Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. The question would be: If you could be half-man, half-sausage, which half would you be which, and why? And the answer would be, top-half man, bottom-half sausage. We could still play shows and best of all we could all sit down, not just the drummer. If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? We’d be a Cadbury Snack block, because we have a lot of different flavours in our music, but they’re all good. Even that orange one. AGENT 37 launch their 21-track album Reporting for Duty at The Brunny on Friday September 5.

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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Rod Laver Arena, Friday August 29 Photo by Charles Newbury

At what point should a band call it a day? When they run out of new ideas? When they’re down to one or two original members? When they can’t stand to be around each other? Queen has never been a band for such concerns. Since the death of Freddie Mercury (and the departure of bass player John Deacon) they’ve continued on in various forms with various vocalists, sometimes as a one-off and sometimes as something more substantial; George Michael’s rendition of Somebody To Love from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was a bona fide hit, while they collaborated with Free’s Paul Rodgers from 2004 to 2009, releasing the album The Cosmos Rocks. But something was missing with Rodgers. His earthier vocal texture and middle-aged rock moves didn’t quite capture the aura of Queen. Enter Mr. Adam Lambert. How does he stack up to Freddie Mercury? Well here’s the thing: it’s tempting to make comparisons between Lambert and Mercury. Two dudes with huge vocal ranges, both with a flair for the flamboyant. Lambert succeeds where Rodgers couldn’t. His vocal style is far more supple and elastic than Rodgers’ forced but classic texture, and his sense of showmanship and movement is far more arena-sized. And most crucially, he remains faithful to Queen’s songs ± the vocal melodies, the attitudes, the intentions, the fun. Lambert isn’t trying to be Freddie, but nor is he trying to mess with the vocal melodies. He utterly sells it, and has an obvious understanding of, and connection to, the material. Ever see a singer performing someone else’s material and you just know that they have no idea what the song is actually about? That never seemed like a concern with Lambert. Okay, so enough about The New Guy: how was the show? Epic! If you only know Queen from the radio, you’d love this set because almost all the big hits were there: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, I Want To Break Free, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, hell, they even did Bohemian Rhapsody, with Freddie Mercury appearing on screen (one of two such instances during the show) to trade lines with Lambert. But die-hards would also have enjoyed some of the band’s heavier tracks, such as Stone Cold Crazy, Dragon Attack and the big arena rock of their 1989 hit I Want It All. Sure, there were some indulgent moments ± a bass solo, a drum solo that turned into a father-son drum duel between Roger Taylor and his son Rufus, Brian May pausing to shoot a little video of the crowd with his selfie-stick ± but they’ve earned these little liberties. May’s guitar work remains as spectacular as ever, Taylor had a few chances to show off his considerable vocal skills, and Lambert, well, he ain’t trying to be anyone but Adam Lambert, he makes no apologies for it, and he did such a great job in showing why he deserved to be there that the general chatter among fans afterwards was that not only would LOVED: Brian May’s guitar work, they go see Queen + Adam Lambert again, they’d like to hear a whole Adam Lambert’s ‘nuts’ joke. album of new material. HATED: The mid-show solo-driven energy lull. PETER HODGSON DRANK: Nothing. Wasn’t thirsty.

CLIENT LIAISON 170 Russell, Friday August 29 Photo by Ian Laidlaw

The main support for this night of pleasure-seeking was Andras Fox ± essentially a boy DJing. Fox fulfilled his duty with consummate precision, offering a tasty mixture of good-vibes house and new age pop, which let punters acclimatise to the sort of taste twisting stipulated by the night’s headliners. Melbourne’s darlings of champagne-pop Client Liaison make an easy target for criticism. You could dismiss them as siphons of nostalgia, merchants in unoriginality, a kitschy novelty or simply pose the pejorative question: ‘Is this a joke?’ But asserting any of these critiques suggests you’re approaching Client Liaison from a mistaken perspective. First of all, to address the claim against the band’s originality: much like a good DJ, Client Liaison tells its story by invoking the sounds and aesthetic of pre-existing music. The major difference is that they combine it with a daring attention to production detail and an unrivalled embrace of performance values. The latter became apparent as soon as front man Monte Morgan and keys/beats man Harvey Miller walked out clothed in bespoke office attire, which was beautifully complemented by the glass swan, potted aspidistras and symmetrically placed water coolers that decorated the stage. Morgan’s trench coat was swiftly removed to reveal a tan suit, and it was down to business. Of course, as the twosome worked through the night’s agenda, a series of costume changes were necessary. This eventuated in the unveiling of Morgan’s bare chest beneath a sequined midriff jacket. Now, to assert that Client Liaison are embedded in the realm of kitsch would imply there’s a more authentic way to reapply this fluffy dance-pop ± the sort that’s been cherished by cocktail-swigging yacht owners since the late 1970s. But surely their deadpan usurping of these sounds, delivered with requisite decorum and creepy sensuality, gets as close to the original essence-of-excess as possible. Either way, as soon as Morgan and Miller kicked into Free of Fear, large portions of the crowd were desperately singing along along to every damn word and nary a body in the room was left motionless. Basically, all of the above criticisms could’ve been (and probably were) applied to the White Stripes when they first appeared. But as proven by that duo, it’s not about claiming inherent ownership over what one distributes. The art is in the ability to take from the past with such persuasiveness that it causes skepticism to dwindle, as nostalgia is eclipsed by genuine excitement. Interestingly, Client Liaison has wielded its spell over many traditional rockists (i.e. haughty rock fans). Something rockists tend to struggle with is accepting humour in music. Sure, tonight’s event was as much theatre as it was the performance of a band, but the audience’s rapture wasn’t simply the result of this being a bit of a lark. Client Liaison dished out tangible glamour, which let everyone shed their fears and get acquainted with sheer pleasure. LOVED: Observing some particularly munted punters. HATED: Some particularly munted AUGUSTUS WELBY punters. DRANK: Spumante, per me.

NOBUNNY The Tote, Saturday 30 August With five minutes to go in Richmond’s final round match against the Sydney Swans, Dustin Martin broke free from his opponent to put the Tigers eight points in front; minutes later, and Richmond had somehow secured a spot in this year’s final series, with Martin’s mercurial skills critical to the team’s unexpected success. The aesthetic of Dustin Martin provided an interesting context for tonight’s garage rock extravaganza at The Tote. Martin is the antithesis of the AFL hierarchy: Gillon McLachlan is the son of a scion of the squattocratic establishment; Martin had a tattoo on his neck before he finished his teenage years. Melbourne’s cultural elite indulges the symphonic complexity of classical music; in the defiant and rebellious margins, garage rock exists on a foundation of three chords and a linear 4/4 rhythm. And so it was that ± with the sound of the Richmond theme song still ringing in the distance ± we arrived at the Tote in time to see Chinese Burns celebrate their return to Melbourne with a typically frenetic garage rock assault. Not surprisingly, there’s a dearth of ballads, prog rock and other gratuitous artistic statements ± but we never wanted any of that crap, only the raw rock’n’roll sincerity that Chinese Burns do so well. Guitarist Bobby Hussy and drummer Heather Hussy are The Hussy, a psychedelic-garage two-piece combination from Madison, Wisconsin. With his glasses hidden behind shoulder-length fair hair, Bobby is a garage rock version of Dana Carvey’s Garth from Wayne’s World;; on drums, Heather’s troglodyte dexterity warrants comparison with James Baker in more ways than one. The set is a blunt tool of resistance to the dominant cultural institutions, and the pair ooze the diffident attitude present in the dirtiest of rock’n’roll practitioners. The songs don’t so much finish as stop haltingly. Mid-way through the first song, Bobby discards his guitar and drops into push-up mode; later on, his high kicking guitar dance moves are a high school version of The Dirtbombs’ Mick Collins, but you get the distinct impression Bobby doesn’t give a flying fuck. Justin Champlin is the iconoclast behind Nobunny. Champlin’s stage attire is an unholy marriage of Brer Rabbit, Dr FrankNfurter and The Ramones: rabbit mask, black leather jacket and ladies’ underwear. The room is immediately bathed in the simplistic beauty of garage rock: it’s slightly insane, and strangely reassuring because of it. Bobby and Heather are two-thirds of Champlin’s band, with Bobby shirtless early into the gig (but, sadly, no more push-ups). The music channels The Sonics, The Stooges, Jay Retard, The Ramones, The Cramps, and anyone who’s ever empathised with that primitive strand of rock’n’roll. It’s scrappy, juvenile and fan-fuckin-tastic. In the crowd, arms flail, hips shake and fists wave; on stage, it’s LOVED: The scrappiness of The demented and deranged. Eventually the spectacle concludes and the Hussy. evening’s entertainment is over. This is what rock’n’roll is about ± just HATED: Hmm, nothing of conselike Dustin Martin is what football should always be about. quence. DRANK: Fat Yak and IGP. PATRICK EMERY WRITE A SONG ABOUT MELBOURNE & YOU COULD WIN YOUR BIG BREAK IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY - BANKOFMELBOURNE.COM.AU/MUSICBANK

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK VANCE JOY

Dream Your Life Away (Liberation) Finding a place in the crossover between commercial radio and quality folk is a difficult endeavour. Filled to the brim with easy listening folk songs, Vance Joy’s debut album Dream Your Life Away successfully accomplishes this tricky feat. Following the hugely successful Riptide, Dream Your Life Away is one of the most anticipated albums of the year. Thankfully, it lives up to expectations with a generous 13 track album of songs that are mostly satisfying, charming and accessible to all. Dream Your Life Away works as an album due to its simplicity: each track is reduced to its core components of melody, vocals and lyrics. Any addition to this, like the brass in Everybody Dies Trying To Get It Right, is a carefully considered supplement to this balance. This makes for a comfortable listen. Essentially, this is the album everyone in the family will agree to listen to on a long car drive. Although a consistently strong album, Dream Your Life Away is not without flaws. First Time is upbeat and catchy, but is far below the standard of the rest of the album. The lyrics of the repetitive chorus are far too similar to Cat Stevens’ classic The First Cut Is The Deepest: “You’ll find out that the deepest cut is the first time/First time’s always cut is the deepest.” This is like a twelve year old with a disregard for grammar changing the order of the words in their homework so they don’t get caught plagiarising from Wikipedia. Thankfully though, album highlights Red Eye, Georgia and single Mess Is Mine get the album back well and truly on track. These songs, and the reappearance of Riptide and From Afar from his EP, make a strong impression on the listener. Closing track My Kind Of Man is splendid, especially compared to the opener Winds Of

SINGLES

BABAGANOUJ

Bluff (Independent) Everything on Bluff is out there in the open, deft in its pacing, building to a moment, a very good one at that, feeling more about the destination than the journey. That’s ok, I suppose. Reminiscent of Australia’s finer alt-guitar-pop moments of yore, doing just enough to elevate above the current crop of local, likeminded outfits.

EASTLINK

Gina (In The Red) Taken from the shit-hot Mullum Mullum LP, Gina showcases Eastlink’s ability to conjure oppression through repetition, hammering downstrokes on monstrous, simplified riffs. Gnarly. You can feel it in your gums.

GOSSLING

Riptide (Dew Process) I was going to do a ‘funny’ takedown review of this but there is nothing funny about this, only despair. Despair and nothingness.

SLIPKNOT

The Devil In I (Roadrunner) The melodic bits sound weak, the Raining Blood-y bits sound Raining Blood-y, the double kick is a bit wet – The Devil In I is not terrible but not terribly interesting either. Who am I kidding. You either give a shit about Slipknot or ya don’t. I don’t. Lol.

THE SMITH STREET BAND

Surrender (Poison City) I dunno, there’s something a little too Powderfinger-y about the first taste of Smith Street Band’s third LP, settling for MOR instrumentation and an impotent platitude of a chorus. It feels done before the twominute mark, kicking into a corny wash of soaring stadium guitars and meandering tempo for the remainder, BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42

CARLTON DRY INDEPENDENT MUSIC CHARTS 1. Freaks TIMMY TRUMPET 2. Geronimo SHEPPARD 3. Chandelier SIA 4. Tightrope ILLY 5. Mess Is Mine VANCE JOY 6. Won’t Let You Down HILLTOP HOODS 7. High PEKING DUK 8. Riptide VANCE JOY 9. Worlds Apart GO COMET! 10. One for the City ILLY FEAT. THOMAS

Change. This heart-warmer is a fitting end to the album and is one of his best tunes to date, possibly heralding a newfound maturity. There’s a lot to like about Vance Joy’s debut album Dream Your Life Away. The consistency of the writing and its broad appeal will make it a favourite among many. JOSH THORBURN

JULES

SYN SWEET TEN 1. Banoffee BANOFFEE 2. Annabel Dream Reader THE WYTCHES 3. Wasted Pilots AIRLING 4. Orion 2:54 5. Ice Cream Dreams BORED NOTHING

BEST TRACK: My Kind of Man IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE THESE: CAT STEVENS, MUMFORD AND SONS, SLEEP DECADE, THE MIDDLE EAST. IN A WORD: Pleasant.

6. Cosplay CAPTAIN MURPHY 7. St Vincents DEAF WISH 8. Let Loose the Dogs COLD SPECKS 9. Night Time FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN 10. No Shows GERARD WAY

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PBS TOP TEN 1. Greetings from Goodbye SWEET JEAN 2. Animalia MAMMAL HANDS 3. The Worry SEEKAE

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4. Pyramid Strut TUBA SKINNY resembling Japandroids at their most contrived, or a Titus Andronicus cautiously checking the clock.

KIMBRA

90s Music (Client Liaison Re-Work) (Warner) Most remixes entail a cursory play around with the stems, a tonal signature or two. Client Liaison don’t play that way. As they did with Retiree’s Rain, they completely redefine Kimbra’s 90s Music into something barely resembling the original and something very much their own. A dreamy, down-tempo groove, aural touchstones planted in the early epoch of the titular timeframe, with an era-appropriate checklist of Hollywood heroes characterising the final verse.

THE HARPOONS

Can We Work This Out (Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control) A frustrating mire of clichéd break-up lyricism sullies an otherwise tasty cut from The Harpoons, with hearty synth percussion otherwise delivering satisfying punch. Lines like “I don’t even know if you are coming home / I don’t even know if I will reach you on your cell phone,” are almost terminally uninspired. Plus the vocal duet is weighted a bit too heavily towards the detached Martin King instead of the invariably captivating Bec Rigby.

FISHING

Nineteen/Boy Wonder (Create/Control) Sydney duo Fishing play to their strengths on the joyous Nineteen/Boy Wonder, channelling turn of the decade indie-electro without feeling adherent to expired trend. A feelgood jam that dares you to feel nostalgic for three years ago, and rewards even if you don’t.

5. Closing Forever Sky FIREKITES 6. What You Want/Keep on Coming back for More PAUL KELLY FEAT. CLAIRY BROWNE & VIKA BULL 7. Time Keeping 1979-1985 METRONOMES 8. Exits STEVE SMYTH 9. Single Mothers JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE 10. Bittersweet KASEY CHAMBERS

HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Amphetamine LP AMAZING SNAKEHEADS 2. I Never Learn LP LYKKE LI 3. Psychic LP DARKSIDE 4. Slave Ambient LP WAR ON DRUGS 5. Self Titled LP GRINDERMAN 6. Grime & The Glow LP CHELSEA WOLFE 7. Another Self Portrait LP BOX BOB DYLAN 8. Hex 2LP EARTH 9. Honor Found In Decay 2LP NEUROSIS 10. Immmunity LP JON HOPKINS

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS FEATURING ADAMS 1. Adam’s Ribs YOU AM I 2. Addams Family Theme ANDREW LIPPA

SINGLE OF THE WEEK THE INFANTS

Ape (Indpendent) Slinky and enticing, The Infants’ Ape is a heady dreamscape, veering into nightmare and back on a whim with lullaby xylophone and discordant background guitars looming, threatening, in the shadows. A unique concoction, snaking in unpredictable, but assured, ways.

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3. Adam and Eve KASEY CHAMBERS 4. Beat My Guest ADAM ANT 5. Grizzly Adams Theme THOM PACE 6. Adam’s Song BLINK 182 7. Adam and Steve MEGAPUSS 8. I Get a Sensation ADAM WEST 9. California Uber Adam DEAD KENNEDYS 10. Summer of ’69 BRYAN ADAMS

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RISE AGAINST

The Black Market (DGC/Interscope)

Their seventh studio album, The Black Market has seen guitarist Zach Blair win a medal for becoming the first guitarist to feature on three Rise Against albums. It has also seen the band chalk up some of their greatest chart success to date in countries including Canada, the US, the UK and right here in Australia. It’s classic Rise Against stuff – a rip-roaring single, I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore, complemented by what is at its core a strong, mature punk-rock album. The themes of the album focus more on the internal than the external. For example, I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore captures those moments when you look around you and realise that life isn’t quite what you’d like it to be, and while The Eco-Terrorist In Me looks at the familiar theme of dastardly deeds by corporate thugs, it explores it through the lens of someone examining their involvement in activism. Fans looking for a balls-out-oh-my-lord-this-is-really-loud record may not have all their hopes and dreams fulfilled by The Black Market. That said, it shows a side of Rise Against we haven’t seen much of before, and the result BEST TRACK: I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE: AGAINST ME!, is an enjoyable record. BILLY TALENT IN A WORD: Raw

JOSH FERGEUS

COLDRAIN

The Revelation (Sony)

This Japanese band had the prestige of being the very first band officially announced for next year’s Soundwave festival. Does their music justify this type of hype? For starters, you have to be good at what you do to play Soundwave. And, whether you like this style of music or not, these guys are very good at what they do. The melodic metalcore sound is arguably the biggest thing in heavy music right now, it’s what the kids are digging on right now, and these guys have the formula down pat. It’s heavy where it needs to be, and virtually all of the choruses soar to the very heavens in true melodic style. If you didn’t know these guys were Japanese, you would think they were American – the sound, the production polish, the singer even sings in American accent. It’s all geared up to appeal to American metalcore audiences. Yes, it’s production-line stuff, but it’s good production line stuff. If you’re into this style of music, this is serious value for money, 16 tracks and an hour’s worth of music, with very few weak links to be heard. The ‘true’ metal heads will bitch and moan about them of course, but these guys will no doubt come BEST TRACK: The War Is On to play Soundwave, play a bunch of kick arse sets for the IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: CROSSAussie punters, and head home with a heap of new fans FAITH, THE AMITY AFFLICTION, MOTIONunder their belt. And that’s all that really matters. LESS IN WHITE IN A WORD: Clever ROD WHITFIELD

ROYAL BLOOD

ANBERLIN

Royal Blood (Warner)

Royal Blood are a couple of boys from southern England, burly in both physique and on-record presence. Diverting from the regular rock two-piece setup – six strings and a drum kit – axeman Mike Kerr thrashes a bass guitar. He sends the bass through multiple amplifiers and distortion peddles, creating an alarming aural melee. Consequently, Royal Blood’s non-stop big riffs are forcefully stuffed in your face. Royal Blood attach themselves to the sultry riff-rock tradition that spans from Black Sabbath to Queens of the Stone Age, with the odd sleepover in Pantera’s basement and Jack White’s loft. The sexual masculinity genetically bound to this league of intelligent ‘RAWK!’ is quite essential to its sustaining appeal. Royal Blood are convincing in the chops department – their bold riffery shows no signs of vulnerability and Kerr possesses a sometimes dazzling high register – but they haven’t nailed the art of primal seduction. Nevertheless, Ben Thatcher’s bullishly fierce drumming commands plenty of movement. The riffs frequently suggest that a stranger’s head is an appropriate target for your own. If that’s not your style, the solid grooves impel mass shimmying onto the dancefloor. BEST TRACK: Figure It Out Royal Blood is a hell of a lot of fun, there’s no doubt IF YOU LIKE THESE YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Superunabout that. However, while it proves Royal Blood are known SOUNDGARDEN, Queens of the Stone Age dexterous re-appliers, they aren’t compelling storytellers QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Horehound THE in their own right. DEAD WEATHER IN A WORD: Brisket

AUGUSTUS WELBY

Lowborn (Tooth & Nail)

After twelve years and seven albums the Anberlin wall is finally crumbling; they are bidding farewell to that distinctive sound of theirs, cocking elusive smiles and leaving us with a parting ten-track gift named Lowborn. From Never Take Friendship Personal to The Resistance, it’s an Anberlin tradition to begin every album at its energetic, distortion-laden peak. This instalment’s opener is We Are Destroyer, a title that tells you immediately that they weren’t planning on changing their strategy so late in the game. The rock is rampant throughout but it’s not all guns and poses. Within there are smatterings of the airiness so characteristic of modern indie and there is ample mellowness artfully constructed to offset the aggression. Stranger Ways, with its typically arthouse film clip, is sombre and dramatic although lacking a discernible melody. Atonement has more of the electronic tinge the band have been slowly leaning towards over the last few albums. Harbinger may not be the nine minute dance-pop epic expected as an Anberlin album final track but it represents the moody build-to-nothing song format that the band familiarised themselves well with over their career. If you don’t know Anberlin, listen to any one of their songs and you will quickly see if they’re for you. They have their sound, and haven’t really departed from it on their final outing. Despite their occasional association with bands like 30 BEST TRACK: We Are Destroyer Seconds to Mars and Taking Back Sunday, there is an elIF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: RELIENT egance about their music, but there is also a predictability. K, EMERY, SWITCHFOOT IN A WORD: Expected

BRIGGS

ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Sheplife (Golden Era Records)

Briggs is a unique figure in the Australian rap scene; he comes correct, has talent, has vision and is an extremely affable artist. The man mountain is back to salute his cultural heritage, praise family and bear witness to all things Shep’. A reflective account of where he’s been, where he’s at and what he stands for; this follow up to 2010’s magnificent debut, The Blacklist, is Adam Briggs all grown up. At its heart, Sheplife is thoughtful and contemplative, yet pulling no punches is the big beat defiance of opener Let It Be Known. “Fuck ‘em all if they thought they could tame me,” roars Briggs with urgency, aggression and pride. Get Up (with Hau) bounces playfully with a tight bass line and leads into a classically old school joint, Rather Be Dead. Hips will shake here as Briggs flows effortlessly to reference Kobe, Koni and pay homage to Biggie Smalls’ Hypnotize. It’s sample heavy, rich with guitar licks and exudes a floor-filling, infectious chorus. Title-track, Sheplife, is unlikely to be adopted by local council, Briggs’ telling it how it is in his hometown (more drivethru than drive-by). As an album, Sheplife represents identity. Purgatory (Let It Go), Let You Down, My People and The Hunt see Briggs find strength in his indigenous heritage; the latter enabling a meaningful collaboration with renowned artist Gurrumul. Each track is saturated with delicate keys and cinematic strings. In his own words, Briggs has put his “tribe on his arms and Shep’ on the map.” He’s representing the most sigBEST TRACK: Rather Be Dead nificant turning points and people in his life, and he’s IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LOVE THIS: GOLDEN ERA RECORDS, KRS-ONE, KOOL KEITH, done it with style. Always was. Always will be. Briggs. KEV CARMODY JOHN DONALDSON IN A WORD: Powerful

MATHEW DROGEMULLER

The Man Upstairs (Yep Roc)

Now up to his umpteenth recording, Hitchcock remains the type of musician fans scurry to obtain the latest recording of. Hitchcock remains prolific in adversity and continues his quest for cosmic thrills in the way you would expect a left of centre folkie troubadour to do. The Man Upstairs sees Hitchcock mutter and croon his peculiar way through some originals and cover versions of the likes of Roxy Music, The Doors and The Psychedelic Furs. Producer Joe Boyd, of Fairport Convention and Nick Drake fame, ensures that the recording is a meeting of peculiar minds on the same plane. On a pure sales scale, the Hitchcock career has been quite catastrophic. But he remains resolutely obstinate to sales figures and occupies his own comfortable space on the musical landscape. The Ghost in You is unlike the original post-punk carnival and San Francisco Patrol is a head held low lament of an introvert awaiting the sunset. It is the type of song that sits well within the cover painted by Gillian Welch of a skeleton in a blue room staring at the ceiling. The drawl of Trouble in Your Blood and Somebody to Break your Heart sees our hero laying like a knight on his bed, hands folded across his chest. He fought the good fight and gave it his best shot. The cover versions are stubbornly iconoclastic and eccentric. And, unlike his recent tour, this recording is augmented by cello and piano. A winsome combination. A well developed tunesmith, Hitchcock is prolific in his cottage industry methods and has evolved over the decades. The Man Upstairs is exquisite in many ways and topical in others leading to the assumption that Hitchcock BEST TRACK: Trouble in Your Blood should be regarded not so much as an influence but an IF YOU LIKE THESE YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BOB DYLAN, STEPHEN CUMMINGS, NICK DRAKE, inspiration. ROKY ERICKSON IN A WORD: Industrious

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

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WEDNESDAY SEP 3 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC

THE JC LITTLE BIG BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00. B FOR CHICKEN 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FROSTFALL Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00. MO’ SOUL - FEAT: FULTON STREET Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. PETER HEARNE & CELESTE COULSON WITH DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00. RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: REYHARP Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

ALEX PERTOUT & NILUSHA DASSENAIKE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00. BOY & BEAR + HOLY HOLY Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $50.62. COQ ROQ WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: JOYBOT + AGENT 86 Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. DANDY WARHOLS + THE UPSIDEDOWN + THE NEW POLLUTION Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $69.00. KASEY CHAMBERS (ALBUM LAUNCH) + EMMA SWIFT Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $40.00. LO-KI - FEAT: BEAR SIGN + GILLIGAN SMILES Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00. OPEN DECKS VINYL PARTY Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. POISON FISH + MASTER BETA + PLASTIC SPACEMAN Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.00. REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MILLER’S SINGALONG + REBECCA BARNARD + BILLY MILLER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $15.00. SHADY LANE + SLEEPY DREAMERS + SEVEN YEAR ITCH + YOUNG VINCENT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00. SMOKE STACK RHINO + JESSE VALACH & BLUES MOUNTAIN + DIRT RIVER RADIO + DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $5.00. SPIRAL ARM + SORDID ODEAL + DEAR PLASTIC Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00. THE BASICS + SUGAR FED LEOPARDS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $20.00. THE HUSSY + ROSS DE CHENE HURRICANES + SCHOOL DAMAGE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. THE STEENZ GIG - FEAT: THE GOOSES + SUNNYSIDE + THE DULL JOYS + THE MAY RIVERS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

ABC EXHUMED SHOWCASE Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 7:00pm. ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: NUSSY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. ADRIAN STOYLES Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. BRAD MARTIN PROJECT Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. CAITLIN HARNETT + BEN WHITING Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. DRIVING SOUTH - FEAT: ZEVON & THE WEREWOLVES Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. JEFF TYNAN + GALLIE + KATE BART Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm. MELBOURNE FOLK CLUB - FEAT: ABBY DOBSON + BRENDAN WELCH + THE FURBELOWS Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $25.00. OPEN MIC Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC - FEAT: JMS HARRISON + KAT ORGOVANY + BAD HOBBITS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL’S OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE HAMMOND ORGAN NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: ALI E + LADIE DEE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY SEP 4 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC

A SOMEWHAT FRENCH FANTASY - FEAT: TRIO ANIMA MUNDI Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00. AMBER ISLES + SCOTTY CANDLISH + MONIQUE SHELFORD Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: JAKE JUDD + TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. ISM TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00. JACK PANTAZIS GROUP Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00. JAZZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: SARAH MACLAINE & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. $20.00. MOODY & SONS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. RIOT SQUAD Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00. RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: THE THURSDAY TRIO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

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THE BOYS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE BUDDY LOVE JAZZ TRYST Wine Larder, Brighton. 6:00pm. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - FEAT: ENSEMBLE LIAISON Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $50.00. THE LUKE HOWARD TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00. THE MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ VINCE PEACH + PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

BURN ANTARES + THE STRANGE + THE ROLLOWAYS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00. CLAP CLAP RIOT + FIVE MILE TOWN Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00. DEAD CITY RUINS + ELECTRIK DYNAMITE + PEELING SUN Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DEPARTMENT + MOTEL LOVE + LOOBS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $8.00. LITTLE DESERT + STELLA ANGELICO Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $6.00. MADUP CHOL & THE PUTBACKS + KARATE BOOGALOO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00. MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW + THE UNDERTOW Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $33.00. MIDNIGHT SHIFTER + DOJO COLLECTORS + OFFSPRING OF CONVICTS + CLICK Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $4.00. NEXT - FEAT: JACK THE STRIPPER + YOUR WORLD IN RUINS + DRIVE TIME COMMUTE Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ONCE WERE WILD - FEAT: BALTER VADA + JESTER + GOSSAMER PRIDE + BALTER VADA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: SUNBORNE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $5.00. RIGHT! Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. SEAN MCMAHON & THE MOONMEN + ALEX & THE LASHLIES The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. SERVO Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. STEELBIRDS + THE BLACK HARRYS + MARK WITH THE SEA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 11:30pm. STRINGS FOR BELTS + TEX NATIVES + BLOOD ORANGE + COSMOS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. SUNXIETY + MEDICINE MONEY + EGYPT LIES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE BURNING ROACHES + CLAWS & ORGANS + KILL DIRTY YOUTH + A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $6.00. THE WONDER YEARS The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $44.50. TIGERS + LAURA PALMER + DAYBREAK + PITT THE ELDER Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $8.00. WHOLE LOTTA BLUES - FEAT: SHANNON BOURNE + BRENDAN FORWARD Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

ACOUSTIC NIGHT Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. ALEX ELBERY & THE STRANGERS + FAWN Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:30pm. $10.00. CLIVE J MANN + EMMA RUSSACK Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. COOL SOUNDS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. DAMON SMITH Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. DAMON SMITH Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. LOT 56 Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. MORNING MELODIES (ROCKING RICK CHARLES) - FEAT: RICK CHARLES Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 12:00pm. $6.00. OPEN MIC Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. PRINCE THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. SHANE BAUER + CHLOE MORGAN + SOPHIE OFFICER Highlander, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE ASTROS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.00. VOWEL MOMENT + PETER BIBBY + DREAM IN COLOUR KIDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

FRIDAY SEP 5 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

4TRESS Mount Dandenong Hotel, Olinda. 8:30pm. AGENT 37 + ALL WE NEED + JOE GUITON & THE SUICIDE TUESDAYS + HOPE’S ABANDONED Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. AINSLIE WILLS + PRIVATE LIFE + HUMAN FACE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00. ALARUM + VANISHING POINT + AEON OF HORUS + ORCHESTRATING THE DAMNED + DJ ANDREW HAUG Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. AUSMUTEANTS + EXHAUSTION + YOUNG LIBERALS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00. BEAR THE MAMMOTH + MAGENTA VOYEUR + KETTLESPIDER Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $10.00. BEWARE! BLACK HOLES + THE REPROBETTES + DJ MAN TROUT Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BOY & BEAR + HOLY HOLY Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $50.62. BROOKLYN’S FINEST + FEATHERSTONE Penny Black,

GIG OF THE WEEK!

BIFFY CLYRO

I always love going to the dentist. I especially love it when my mum comes with me and makes very unsubtle attempts to set me up with the dentist while I have a mouth wide open, full of tools. One of her favourite selling points is that he speaks seven languages. Like legit seven, not two sentences he picked up from seven years of Japanese in high school. The only language I ever really learnt was Scottish. It’s basically English but you get filthy drunk and put ‘bastard’ at the end of every sentence. A major Scottish claim is Biffy Clyro. Throw on your best kilt and head down to catch them at The Palais Theatre Sunday September 7.

Brunswick. 9:30pm. BURN IN HELL + PENNY IKINGER + DOGGEREL + VINCENT J KRAMER + JACK DAVIES DJ + THE BLACK ALLEYS Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 9:00pm. $15.00. CAM AVERY + SHINY JOE RYAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CAT CANTERI Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. CHEAP SOBER + ALEX JONES + GUTZ + DJ NATH + AEROWS The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.50. CHERRY BOMB European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. CHRIS WILSON Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm. COACH BOMBAY + THE TWOKS + HALYCON DRIVE Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00. DIE! DIE! DIE! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00. DRIVEN - FEAT: STATIC REVENUE + AUDIO REIGN + BLIND THRILLS + GREY THE SKY + TURTLE MEAT FOR SMILES Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. EINSTEIN TOYBOYS + ALL ABOUT STEVE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00. ELECTRIC MARY + PALACE OF THE KING + PRETTY VILLAIN + DIVA DEMOLITION Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. FREEDOM + BUDDHA IN A CHOCOLATE BOX + FLOUR Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00. FUNK BUDDIES + THE FABRIC Bar Open, Fitzroy. 11:30pm. HAVE/HOLD + SLEEP DECADE + KISSING BOOTH + EMPLOYMENT + DJ SEPPO Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. KEGGIN + BRODOWN + STONE REVIVAL Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm. KING EVIL + MR JOHN MCKENZIE + GANG DARTS + BLACKWOOD JACK + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. KING’S CUP + BREAK THE WALL + A COMMONER’S REVOLT + PARMA SUTRA + BYRDCLIFFE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00. MADRE MONTE + OZ LOCOS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00. MAN CITY SIRENS + ASHBURY MEDICINE SHOW + ACOUSTIC FOXX Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00. MOUSTACHE ANT + MEDUSA + NUREMBERG CODE + A DAY OF STORMS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. MOVEMENT + GL + BREAKING & ENTERING DJ’S Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00. OLD SKOOL SATURDAYS - FEAT: RUSTBUCKET Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. SAMUEL KERRIDGE + MOOPIE The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. SUBMARINES + THE BRAVES + THE NIGHT PARTY Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. TERROR AT THE BENDIGO - FEAT: THE TEARAWAYS + THE WORKINGHORSE IRONS + DIRTY HARRIET AND THE HANGMEN & THE KOFFIN ROCKERS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00. THE GROOVETONES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE MAGIC BONES + LITTLEFOOT + DJ KEZBOT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. THE PINK TILES + SUGAR FED LEOPARDS + PLAGUE DOCTOR + THE SMB Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE SKAMPZ Commercial Hotel, Morang South. 9:00pm. THE SUGARCANES Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9:00pm. VANCE JOY Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WATT’S ON - FEAT: THE STIFFYS + DARTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm. WILDING (SINGLE LAUNGH) + SEE + DJ WILFRED DANGLER Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. WILL WAGNER + GEORGIA MAQ + MORNING AFTER MORNING Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.00.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC

ADAM SIMMONS & ALESSANDRA GAROSI Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $30.00. ELLY HOYT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00. GRAND WAZOO SOUL DANCE Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $22.00. NOCE LATINA - FEAT: DANY MAIA ROSA BELA BAND

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+ DJ DAVID BRAZUKA The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. PANORAMA DO BRASIL + DIANA CLARK + DOUG DE VRIES Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.00. PETER MILLIE & THE CAIRO CLUB ORCHESTRA Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $25.00. RUBY’S CLASSIC BLUE NOTE SERIES - FEAT: SAM APPAPOULAY Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00. RUBY’S SEARCH FOR JAZZ CATS 3 Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00. SIB The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. SOUL SACRIFICE (THE MUSIC OF SANTANNA) Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00. STEPHEN CUMMINGS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25.00. THE REBECCA MENDOZA QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00. THE SAM KEEVERS QUINTET (THE MUSIC OF BERNIE MCGANN) Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TIL My Handlebar, Brunswick. 8:00pm. WITHOUT A FIGHT (DAMIEN LIETH) - FEAT: DAMIEN LIETH Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

BLUES PARTY - FEAT: AL JAMES + BLUES ASSEMBLY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. BRONI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. CISCO CEASAE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. DUKE BATAVIA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. DUKE BATAVIA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel (nth Fitzroy), Fitzroy North. 9:30pm. HOTEL WRECKING CITY TRADERS + RIVER OF SNAKES + THE UNDERHANDED Lord Newry Hotel, Fitzroy North. 8:00pm. $5.00. JIMMY THE SAINTS & THE SINNERS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00. JULIAN BYRNE & GREG DODD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. PAULIE BIGNELL & THE THORNBURY TWO Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. SNAKE EYED ROLLERS Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm. SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND - FEAT: LISA CRAWLEY + LUKE WATT + TRACEY HOGUE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8.00. SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. SUMMON THE BIRDS + THE CHOPS + DJ CONVIC Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

SATURDAY SEP 6 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

4TRESS + SARAH EIDA Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. BAND NIGHT - FEAT: HAARK + NEW ESTATE + BEARDED IRIS + LITTLE DESERT Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 7:00pm. $5.00. BANG - FEAT: BRAVES + SATELLITES + SHALLOW GRAVE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BASS STRAITS (AUSTRALIAN DIRE STRAITS SHOW) - FEAT: MATTHEW FAGAN Upwey Belgrave Rsl, Upwey. 8:00pm. $20.00. BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS + THE TIMBERS + JEHAN Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $8.00. BREVE + MAGENTA VOYEUR + THE BACKS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. BROCKWAY LIGHTS + PAPERCLIP FRENZY + LOGIC DEFIES LOGIC Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. BURN ANTARES + PRETTY CITY + ROLLOWAYS Alia Arthouse, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DANNY WALSH BANNED Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $35.00. DICK DIVER + MOON RITUALS + GUY & MARCUS BLACKMAN EXPERIMENTATION PROJECT Tote Hotel,

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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au Collingwood. 8:00pm. DOUBLEBLACK (CD LAUNCH) + THE MURDER RATS + THE SLEEPLESS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00. EL COLOSSO + STONE DESERT + FRIED GOODS Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm. FRASER A GORMAN + RICHIE1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00. HARLEQUIN + THE PRINCETONS + CAT OR PILLAR + SLOWJAXX + THE KOZMIK LOVE ORKESTRA Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $10.00. HELL ON THE BAY II (JUDGEMENT BAY) - FEAT: LORD + RUINS + HYBRID NIGHTMARES + DEMOLITION + BANE OF WINTERSTORM Victoria Star, Docklands. 7:00pm. $55.00. HOY + THE DAMES + EMILY JARRATT Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. KAYLENS RAIN + VICTORIA AVENUE + TASHA AMOROSO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $15.00. LADY OSCAR + KARATE BOOGALOO + ARLO SIKORA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MAHEEDA Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $45.00. MORTIFICATION + KILAMAINE + LITTLE HOUSE GODZ Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.00. NECK DEEP & STATE CHAMPS + NECK DEEP + STATE CHAMPS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $31.00. OSCAR BUBLE & THE BUTTER BOYS + SHEEK STAIN & THE CREEP + THE BURNING ROACHES Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. PAUL WOOKEY & ZIMMERMAN (CLASSIC AMERICAN ‘60S FOLK ROCK) - FEAT: PAUL WOOKEY & THE ZIMMERMAN Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $20.00. POUNCE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. PROTEST THE HERO The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $51.00. ROCK IN FUSION Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $20.00. SOUL MATE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SOUNDS LIKE SUNSET + THE ELECTRIC GUITARS; TENDER BONES; LEO MULLINS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. SPOONFUL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD + THE UGLY KINGS + THE MIGHTY KINGS + CLUB CRAIN Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00. THE DARLING DOWNS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15.00.

THE INFANTS + CONTRAST + GOLD CLASS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00. THE INFERNOS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE KITE STRING TANGLE + FLAMINGO + LUCIANBLOMKAMP Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $21.50. THE MERCY KILLS (EP LAUNCH) + PALACE OF THE KING + THE LOVE BOMBS + DJ PAUL MILES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $13.00. THE SLAUGHTERMEN Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20.00. THE UNKIND + HOPES ABANDONED + ZAKYTUSS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. VICIOUS CYCLE + SOUTHPAW + AGGRESSOR + OVERPOWER + LION FIGHT + CROOKED PATH 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. VOLCANIKS Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm. WAKEFIELD FEST - FEAT: JOURNEY MAN + ANDY RONQUILLO + ROAD TRAIN + 2 BIRDS + THE TRAITORS + SHADOWQUEEN + SHEWOLF + BLOOMFIELD + CULLIVER + TALETALL Espy, St Kilda. 4:00pm. WIL WAGNER + GEORGIA MAQ + JIM LAWRIE + JEROME KNAPPETT Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. WORKSHOP + FATTI FRANCES + SUPERSTAR + COLD LIFE + COMPLIMENTARY DEATH GLARE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC

ALINT & THE JAZZ EMPERORS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00. CONNIE LANSBERG QUARTET Regent Club Spa, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $20.00. FANDO SENSATION - FEAT: CAROLINA Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. FUNK DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: DJ MANCHILD Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00. PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP WITH STEVE SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $15.00. RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. RUBY’S SEARCH FOR JAZZ CATS 3 Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00. SONGS OF LOVE & WAR - FEAT: THE CONSORT OF MELBOURNE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

BOY AND BEAR

Did anyone ever watch Lost? It was totally an awesome show for the first few seasons then everything just went bear shaped. Seriously, out of nowhere there was suddenly a polar bear in the middle of the jungle. I never understood that. After that episode, watching it became almost unbearable. Kind of like these puns. Clearly I lack the right Koalifications to be a comedian. Luckily Boy and Bear are fully qualified to play amazing live shows. Catch them when they take to the stage at The Palais Theatre September 3 and 5. 7:00pm. $38.00. SOUL A-GO-GO - FEAT: DJ MANCHILD + MISS GOLDIE + VINCE PEACH + RICHIE 1250 + CHELSEA WILSON + MATT MCFETRIDGE + ALESSIA PEGOLI Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. TÁNGALO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00. THE ANDREA KELLER QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE JOHN HOFFMAN BAND + ELLY HOYT & TONY GOULD Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00. THE LIGHT TRIO - FEAT: DAVID JONES Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $45.00. WITHOUT A FIGHT (DAMIEN LEITH) - FEAT: DAMIEN LEITH Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.

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ACTION SAM European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. AFTERNOON DELIGHTS - FEAT: SEAN KIRKWOOD + ZOE FOX Old Bar, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. CLUB TWOK - FEAT: THE TWOKS + MANNY FOX Bella

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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au Union Bar, Carlton. 9:00pm. $10.00. COLD HEART Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. DIRT RIVER RADIO Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. DR DUPREE Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. GREEN’S DAIRY ANGEL ENSEMBLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. KINDRED STUDIOS OPEN DAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 10:00am. MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. RATTLIN BONES BLACKWOOD + DJ JEFF LEPPARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. RORY ELLIS & DEVILS RIGHT HAND BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. SLIM DIME & THE PRAIRIE KINGS + PAULIE BIGNALL & THE THORNBURY TWO + DJ TILLY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. TEX PERKINS + BILLY MILLER + STELLAFAUNA + DAN HALL + CHRIS HAWKER St Kilda Bowling Club, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $29.00. THE ACE OF CLUBS - FEAT: THE BREADMAKERS + DJ BARBARA BLAZE + JUMPIN’ JOSH The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. THE HORNETS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. THE PUBLICAN BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. THE SOUTHERN GUMBO MASH - FEAT: THE PHEASANT PLUCKERS + JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE TIGER & ME Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. $10.00. VIC OLD TIME JAM SESSION - FEAT: CRAIG WOODWARD + WARREN ROUGH Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. YARRA BANKS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

SUNDAY SEP 7 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

DOGSDAY + SURF THANG Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 2:00pm. SPENCER P JONES + WHITT Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. ALI E Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. BACKWOOD CREATURES Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. BAND WARS - FEAT: WHAT’S LEFT IS YOURS + ONE KINGDOM + ONE DAY MAYBE + LEARN 2 FLY + LAMB BOULEVARD Musicland, Fawkner. 1:00pm. $10.00. BEN SALTER Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. BIFFY CLYRO Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $67.20. BLIND THRILLS + ROAD TRAIN + BARELY SUPERVISED Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. BLOODY SUNDAY - FEAT: CELINE YAP Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm. DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $35.00. DEVILDRIVER + WHITECHAPEL 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $61.60. EEO + THE WINTER SUNS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $12.00.

ENVIKTAS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. FEAR LIKE US + JOSH & TYLER + MARICOPA WELLS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. HARTLEY - FEAT: TRENT K + BAD UNCLE + ZUTROY + THE SCOTT CANDLISH BAND Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. JUNGLE BIRD MUSIC + DEAR ALE + FLEUR WILBER + GHOST SONGS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.20. KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO + SECRET CRACKPIPE HANDSHAKE + COSMIC KAHUNA Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. LIVE & LOCAL - FEAT: KATE LEWIS + ROCHELLE + NATHAN FERNANDEZ Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 3:00pm. $10.00. MALES John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. MILES & SIMONE + THE GRAND MAGOOZI + JOHN SINGER Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. MINIMUM WAGE - FEAT: UNITY FLOORS + YOUNG LIBERALS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $8.00. POP WILL EAT ITSELF The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $65.00. ROCKOUT FOR NAF - FEAT: THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY + THE TEARAWAYS + BOMBS ARE FALLING + CABIN FEVER + KING’S CUP + COFFIN WOLF + CITYWIDE WILDCAT + THE FCKUPS + SOMEONE ELSE’S WEDDING BAND + CRACKWORE! + TEAM REASONABLE + MAMMOTH GRAVEYARD + GUERRETTES Dropout, Yarraville. 2:00pm. RUST IN PISS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00am. SMOKESTACK + THE FAQS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. SUNDAY SCHOOL - FEAT: RARA + THE SHIFTERS + MCBAIN + WORKSHOP Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $8.00. SWEET JEAN + TOBIAS HENGEVELD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 4:30pm. $12.00. THE KITE STRING TANGLE + FLAMINGO + LUCIANBLOMKAMP Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $21.50. TRACY MCNEIL & THE GOOD LIFE + LISA CRAWLEY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. VINTAGE SUNDAYS - FEAT: YOUNG VINCENT + THE ALFIES + INDIA + MATTHEW LENEHAN Espy, St Kilda. 2:00pm. $10.00.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC

BRAZILIAN JAZZ - FEAT: TAMIL ROGEON + DOUG DE VRIES + AL KERR The Everleigh, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. ELEGIES & DANCES - FEAT: MELBOURNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:30pm. $59.00. GEORGE PREISS & THE BIRTHDAY DREAMERS Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. LET’S DANCE BIG BAND Mentone RSL, Mentone. 1:00pm. $15.00. MOONTRANE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00. MUSIC IN THE ROUND Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford. 11:00am. $80.00. RENÉE GEYER - FEAT: RENEE GEYER Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $40.00. RUBY’S PASSIONATE PIANISTS - FEAT: KONRAD DORECHKI Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $20.00. SONIDO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. SUN-DAZED - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

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MUSICIANS WANTED BANDS/ACTS OF ALL STYLES WANTED for Espy shows. Shoot an email through to mark@ gunnmusic.com.au for more details. BASS PLAYER &/OR GUITARIST WANTED. Must be able to harmonise & sing backing vocals like Dave Davies/Lennon and McCartney. Don’t hesitate to apply if you’re over 40 (I’m 43). Must have pro gear. Phn: 0434 300 959 MALE LEAD VOCALIST WITH SONG WRITING ABILITY WANTED for original rock/soul band in the St Kilda area. Must be available to gig/tour. Please no time wasters. Call on 0437 113 868 PSYCHEDELIC ROCK BAND seeking creative male singer. Influences: Black Angels, White Denim, Tame Impala. Contact Paul 0400 194 782 SERVICES SOUNDPARK REHEARSALS NORTHCOTE. From $50. Great rooms/p.a’s. Parking/Storage/Hire. Phone Andrew 0425 706 382. Soundparkstudios. com.au TUITION STAR DRUM TEACHING SCHOOL PTY LTD. Drum students who wish to learn telephone Paul Hender: 03 8786 3421. MISCELLANEOUS TO THE SPUNK in aisle 6 of Coles at Sparkly Bear in Brunswick. I noticed your bananas in the baby seat of your shopping trolley. Yes, I am down to fruit.

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ALEX BURNS + SHERRY RICH DUO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. BANJO-B-QUE - FEAT: CRAIG WOODWARD The Mercat, Melbourne. 1:00pm. CAM & THE AMBROSE Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:30pm. CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. DUKES OF DESPAIR Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. HOGBELLY MORTON’S COUNTRY REVUE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm. HUGH MCGINLAY & THE RECESSIVE GENES Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm. JP SHILO & ROSIE WESTBROOK (FATHERS DAY) Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. KATE ANASTASIOU 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. KEN MAHER & AL WRIGHT & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. LEIGH SLOGGETT Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm. NATIVE PLANTS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. OPEN MIC Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm. O’SHEA & DENAHY & HOWARD Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. PREGDALIA + THE HOT 3 + MARCOS VILLALTA + LEO KAVANAGH 303, Northcote. 3:30pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm. SUZANNAH ESPIE & THE LAST WORD Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE CRAZY MAMAS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. THE TIGER & ME + BUDDHA IN A CHOCOLATE BOX Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

MONDAY SEP 8 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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So this happened last week: first speaker announcement for the Face the Music conference hitting the Arts Centre in Melbourne on November 14 and 15. If you’ve never heard of this event and have an interest all things music industry related, you must have been living under a rock for the last seven years.

KANYE WEST

Kanye West has definitely had an interesting career. Slut dropping to Gold Digger seems like nothing more than a fond memory after 2013 saw the release of Yeesus. I’m still not positive that I’ve figured out what a Yeesus actually is, but based on what I’ve got so far, he is meant to be someone along the lines of Jesus. Based on the Rolling Stone cover story ‘The Passion of Kanye West’, all I can say is – “You crazy Yeesus, crazay!” Get down gurl to Kanye West when he crucifies the stage at Rod Laver Arena Tuesday September 9 and Wednesday September 10. I DO LIKE MONDAYS - FEAT: THE DEAD HEIR + MANTA 5 + CHORES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: GENTLEMEN + DRUG SWEAT + CHUGGA & THE FUCKHEADS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE MUTUAL APPRECIATION SOCIETY - FEAT: LACHLAN BRYAN & KRIS SCHROEDER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE TINY GIANTS + DAYZED + THE DALAI SAMAS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. YOU ME AT SIX & TONIGHT ALIVE + YOU ME AT SIX + TONIGHT ALIVE The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $62.00.

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GEOFFREY SABA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00. RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: PIANO TÉ Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00. THE KELLER MURPHY BROWNE TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

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PUSHSONGS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

TUESDAY SEP 9 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS

ANBERLIN Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $61.95. CHEAP KRAKEN RUM NIGHT - FEAT: MINIATURES + LEISURE SUITE + CREPES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00. DEAR THIEVES + MY WAY KILLINGS + ALICE IVY Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. GREENTHIEF Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. KANYE WEST Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $149.00. MALLEE SONGS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL DISCOVERY NIGHT - FEAT: THE GOOSES + SUNNY SIDE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. WIL WAGNER + GEORGIA MAQ + ALI Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. YOU ME AT SIX & TONIGHT ALIVE + YOU ME AT SIX + TONIGHT ALIVE The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. $62.00.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC

DEAD MAN’S HAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. GENEVIEVE LACEY & JAMES CRABB Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 11:00am. $47.00. MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (EARS WIDE OPEN) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $35.00. RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: DEXTER’S ASIAN CONNECTION Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00. SONJA HORBELT & THE RUYTON GIRLS SCHOOL Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm. $14.00. TELEMANN IN THE LIMELIGHT - FEAT: LATITUDE 37 Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00. THE DINNER CLUB - FEAT: THE LAGERPHONES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE VCA SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $8.00. TIM STEVENS TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

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BENNY WALKER + BEN WHITING Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. IRISH SESSIONS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. KATHLEEN MARY LEE + ANNA SMYRK + ANNAN

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This year’s first international keynote speaker is none other than independent and uncompromising music legend Steve Albini, a renowned artist, music journalist, industry commentator, recording engineer, and champion of independent business models for releasing music outside of the corporate music industry structure. He’s regularly quoted by music media for his views on topics ranging from piracy to crowd funding to royalties and recording. Joining him at the two day conference in this first speaker announcement will be Dave Batty (Custom Made / Artist Voice), Johann Ponniah (I OH YOU), Harley Evans (Moshtix), Briese Abbott (Spark & Opus), Ben Thompson (Corner Presents), James Young (Cherry Bar, Yah Yahs), Antonia Sellbach (Love of Diagrams, Beaches), Millie Millgate and Glenn Dickie (Sounds Australia), Chris Hatzis (3RRR), Cara Williams (Beat), Chris Johnson (AMRAP), Emma Telfer (The Office Of Good Design), Sophia Brous (Artist / Curator), Caleb Williams (Unified), Kirsty Rivers (APRA AMCOS), Yvette Myhill (AAM), Patrick Donovan (Music Victoria), Leigh Treweek (themusic.com.au) and Music Victoria Hall of Fame inductees Daddy Cool and music journalist Ed Nimmervoll. There will be many, many more speakers to be announced in the coming couple of months. With tickets now on sale (one day and two day passes are available), you can rub shoulders with the industry and join hundreds of people from Australia’s contemporary music community to exchange ideas, make new connections and support each other’s creative and professional development. For all the details and to get tickets, go to www.facethemusic. com.au Here’s one for the muso’s among us – St Kilda Festival are on the lookout for local musicians to feature on the New Music and Live’ N Local stages in February 2015. If you live, work or study in the City of Port Phillip you have the added chance of having your entry fee paid by The Vineyard. To grab an application form and guidelines, head over to www. stkildafestival.com.au by September 29. Another great opportunity that’s recently come up is volunteering at Inca Roads Music Festival, kicking off in Ballarat on November 29 – December 1. It’s one stage and three days of camping and loads of great music. They’re looking for music and festival lovers who would like to help out with jobs like ticketing, production and technical support, assisting front of house, customer service and directing punters. It’s the fourth year for this rather exclusive festival, which has been listed first on the Top 25 Boutique Music Festivals in Australia by Tone Deaf magazine. If you’d like to get involved, send an email to bridgette@ incaroads.com.au before applications close on October 31. You can find all of these opportunities and plenty more on our website at www.thepush.com.au or subscribe to our monthly newsletter to have the best ones delivered straight to your inbox!

ALL AGES TIMETABLE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5 Reel Action Youth Film Festival, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, 470 Station Street Box Hill, 6pm, Gold coin donation, www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/YoungPeople, AA FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands - Mildura Heat, Mildura Function Centre, 6pm-11pm, www. mildura.vic.gov.au/youth, AA SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 Skate Park Competition, Wangaratta Skate Park, HP Barr Reserve, Wangaratta, 10am-4pm, Free, facebook.com/#!/creativeyouth.wangaratta, AA

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Location: 47 Easey Street, Collingwood 3066 Hours of operation: On air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Office hours: 10am – 6pm Monday to Friday. Tell us about the history of the station. Since 1979, community broadcaster PBS 106.7FM has been an integral player in Melbourne’s diverse music community – with more than 80 specialist music programs ranging from soul to garage to country to jazz – PBS is dedicated to nurturing, inspiring and championing Melbourne’s diverse music community. You can also find us on digital radio, webstreaming, PBS-on-demand and at events around town like Soul A-Go-Go, Rock-A-Bye-Baby music sessions and many others. PBS matters because we support musicians and artists from the ground up. We are passionately committed to seeking out, discovering and presenting diverse and independent music. Our announcers are music-loving folk who volunteer their energy, music knowledge and vast record collections to prepare in-depth, specialist, music-centric programs. Every announcer has complete autonomy over what they play. Their programs are a reflection of their ever-evolving musical tastes, enthusiasms and discoveries – a musical journey which is shared intimately with the audience. The station is run by more than 400 dedicated volunteers and a small team of professional staff. With 250,000 weekly listeners across Melbourne, PBS depends on its loyal community to support the station’s activities through financial memberships and donations as well as sponsorship. This allows us to pursue our shared vision with integrity and independence. How many studios do you have and what are their uses Three studios – two used primarily for on-air radio programs, and a full live band studio and associated control room for live-to-air performances as part of our ‘Studio 5 Live’ sessions. How many shows do you have on air and how many presenters? PBS has 80 regular programs that go to air as well as a range of other broadcasters who program and present one-off ‘New Noise’ shows and fills. Each program is programmed and presented by a broadcaster who is passionate about their particular genre or niche area of music, and those broadcasters have full autonomy over the content of their shows. PBS believes firmly that the best radio is truly independent radio.

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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

‘FACE THE MUSIC’ GETS GOVT. FUNDING

The Victorian state government has funded the Face the Music industry conference to the tune of $29,000 as part of its annual $2.4 million investment in the FReeZA youth program. Minister for Youth Affairs Ryan Smith said the money would support up to 30 places at the conference, one-on-one personal consultations for 50 attendees with music industry execs, and a music industry career planning workshop. The funding was announced at the latest Live Music Roundtable. The two-day Face the Music conference is run by The Push.

SHIT WEEK FOR AUSSIE MUSIC STREAMING

Last week, the Songl service, run by Southern Cross Austereo, Universal Music and Sony Music, announced it was ceasing operations in mid-September. A few days later, Guvera announced that due to a global restructure, it had to axe Scott Hamilton’s position of Australian GM.

NEW SIGNINGS #1: NATIVE TONGUE GET KINGSWOOD

As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, publishers Native Tongue added Melbourne’s Kingswood to its roster. The band just released its debut album Microscopic Wars, recorded in Nashville with US producer Richard Dodd.

NEW SIGNINGS #2: OVERSEAS AGENTS FOR HOLY HOLY

Triple j faves Holy Holy signed with agents Rob Zifarelli for North America and Oliver Ward and Ed Stringfellow for the UK and Europe, both at The Agency Group (Death Cab For Cutie, Cold War Kids, City & Colour, First Aid Kit, Bloc Party).

NEW SIGNINGS #3: TIMBERWOLF JOINS 123

Melbourne’s 123 Agency signed on Timberwolf – the nui-folk and blues project of 22-year old Adelaide singer songwriter Chris Panousakis. He has a string of shows in the lead-up to his sophomore EP Flux (produced by Mark Myers of The Middle East), due for release in late 2014.

NEW SIGNINGS #4: YUNG WARRIORS GET OBESE

The Yung Warriors signed a long-term distribution deal with Obese Distribution. A new single MoneyIf I Had It All is just out, while the band’s guitarist Tjimba Possum Burns and drummer Danny DBoy Ramzan work through September on finishing their third album.

NEW SIGNINGS #5: ETCETC GETS LUKE MILLIONS

After releasing stuff through Future Classic, Kitsuné and New York house label Nervous, Adelaide’s Luke Millions joins etcetc for new EP Light & Sound. Millions gained clubland status with Arnold getting 1.3 million spins.

THINGS WE HEAR

• Which venue landlord is threatening to throw the club operators out after he heard they allowed a porn film to be made there? • Which band is calling its current national tour “the bankrupter?” • Was rap mogul Suge Knight shot over his memoirs which he’s about to publish? • Which two bands got into a punch up in the car park after their show after one accused the other of sounding “too American”? • The past caught up with 5 Seconds of Summer’s Calum Hood. He sent a Snapchat video of his dick to a fan… who yelped “CALUMS DICK I’M SCREAMING” and leaked it online. The mainstream media got hold of it, and Hood admitted, “I’m still just a teenage kid learning from mistakes :)” • Frontier Touring picked The Preatures and British India to open for The Rolling Stones. • With the club lockouts in Kings Cross causing what business in the area claims is the worst downturn in 50 years, Renew Australia and the Potts Point Partnership are forking out $14,000 to offer temporary free rent to five start-up businesses in empty premises, the Daily Telegraph said. • The Video Music Awards had a drop in ratings in America, 8.3 million viewers compared to last year’s 10.1 million – and 13 million tweets. The Emmys the next night drew 15.6 million viewers but only 1.1 million tweets. • Swedish entrepreneur Mårten Andersson is BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 50

launching a new club night in Stockholm called SOBER at Kägelbanan club. No alcohol is sold, you are breathalysed when you arrive and kicked out if you sneak booze in. • In the same week that Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love was voted the greatest guitar riff of all time by listeners of BBC Radio 2, Robert Plant told an interview that he might retire from music after the release of upcoming solo album, Lullaby… And the Ceaseless Roar. • Vance Joy is among 30 eligible finalists for the Cleo Bachelor of the Year. • Tumbleweed posted a thank you to all who sent them love and support after the death of bassist Jay Curley. “Jay would be truly humbled by your kindness, it has been profoundly moving reading through everyone’s memories of Jay. You are beautiful people.”

DAVID THOR AT HOPESTREET

Darvid Thor, of Melbourne band The Cactus Channel, joined their record label HopeStreet Recordings as Marketing & Administrative Assistant.

GOOD WORKS #1: BLUES TRAIN GIVES TO COMMUNITY

Blues Train revealed that in the past eight months, it donated over $19,000 worth of tickets and merchandise to community groups, church groups, schools and kindergartens to help with their fundraising efforts. “We are proud to help others who are doing their bit, more often than not, on a volunteer-basis to help those in our communities who need it most,” Blues Train said.

GOOD WORKS #2: “RED HOT PEACE”

Australians for Peace (A4P) hold the Red Hot Peace show at The Toff in Town on Sept 21, International Day of Peace. It starts at 3 pm with The Kin, Joe Creighton, Kutcha Edwards, Lindsay Field, Nat Bartsch & Trio, Ross Hannaford, Geoff Bridgford, Kim O’Leary and Tracy Harvey as MC. Other activities for Peace Day include a free lunchtime concert at Fed Square on Sept 19 and Peace Trees Project on Sept 21 in the City Square.

GOOD WORKS #3: CAMPAIGN FOR ‘METAL MISSIONARY’

Freelance writer and video blogger Vic Campbell has written a 65,000 word book on the life of Melbourne metal band Mortification vocalist/bass player Steve Rowe, due early 2015. It includes his battle against cancer and a bone marrow transplant. Campbell, Rowe and his New Jersey-based promoter launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $25,000 to get it published. See https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/862631/ emal/2075874.

GOOD WORKS #4: UNDERNEATH THE SEA BALL

The inaugural Under the Sea Ball, on September 20 at the Melbourne Pavilion, is a fancy dress event in aid of Sea Shepherd Australia. It includes DJs and performers from the worlds of burlesque, pole artists and circus. Check out www.undertheseaball.com.

VENUES #1: FORESTER’S BEER AND MUSIC HALL TRANSFORMS

Forester’s Beer and Music Hall (64 Smith Street, Collingwood; previously A Bar Called Barry, Last Laugh) has re-opened – with the official reopening on September 11 with The Rechords. Full story at beat. com.au.

VENUES #2: NEW SPOT FOR BALLARAT

Ballarat has a new late night spot Faux Social Club. It was set up by Teddty Powlett and Zac Hill, who worked at various clubs including The Bridge Hotel.

FALCONA ACQUIRES ARTIST CARTEL

Sydney management, booking, touring and events company Falcona acquired Ben Robinson’s management firm Artist Cartel. Its roster includes Sun City and Crooked Colours (Perth), Deja (Melbourne), Conics (Sydney) and Gold Coast producer Paces. Falcona’s management roster has Alison Wonderland, Hayden James, DMA’s, Pluto Jonze, Brave and Mickey Kojak. Falcona now manages eleven acts and books ten.

HOORAY FOR CANADA!

CIMA and Music Export Canada are heading back to Australia this September for their second annual

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LIFELINES Dating: are British singer FKA Twigs and actor Robert Pattinson an item? Dating: Ariana Grande and Big Sean officially came out on their dalliance backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards but are still not confirming it. Expecting: Aussie country music singer Sara Storer confirmed she’s delivering her fourth child in March and hoping this time it’s a girl. Injured: due to “surfing injury-related complications” Mammals had to cancel his EP launch on the weekend at the Goodgood Small Club. Ill: in an ironic twist, Donna Greene who fronts a Perth Divinyls tribute band Sirens, has been diagnosed with MS which afflicted Chrissy Amphlett. Divorcing: Neil and Pegi Young after 36 years of marriage. In Court: the man who threw a glass at Redfoo at the Golden Sheaf Hotel in Double Bay causing a cut to his head, faces court on September 24. Arrested: Young Jeezy is on $1 million bail accused of possessing an AK-47 assault rifle backstage at a California gig. He got charged after cops arrived as part of an investigation over the fatal shooting backstage of a promoter a few days before at a show he headlined with Wiz Khalifa. Died: Tamworth based Paul Rowe of Tamworth FM and who headed up the Tamworth country music festival’s on-site Festival FM, of a heart condition. Died: Tony Cahill, drummer with ‘60s Aussie bands The Purple Hearts and The Easybeats, 72, from a brain tumor. After the Easybeats quit, the Melbourne-born Cahill switched to bass and played with John Mayall, then moved to Los Angeles where he lived on a boat for 40 years and ran a reggae label. He returned to Sydney last year to end his years. Died: Suicidal Tendencies bassist Tim ‘Rawbiz’ Williams, cause unknown. Died: Peret, singer guitarist and coinventor of Barcelona’s Catalan rumba, at 79. Catalan was a fusion of gypsy music, Afro-Cuban rhythms and ‘50s rock. Died: original Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick (1967 to 1970), 67, of congestive heart failure at his home in Hilo, Hawaii.

mission to Brisbane’s BIGSOUND. Four incredible Canadian acts (Buckman Coe, Jordan Klassen, July Talk & Mise En Scene) will make a pit stop at the Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne on September 8 for more showcasing, to meet with local industry and to connect with new fans. Joining CIMA on the mission is longtime Canadian Blast partner, Canadian Music Week, whose 2015 festival edition features Australia as the spotlight country.

MEANWHILE OVER AT THE ART MUSIC AWARDS

Among the jazz and experimental winners at the 2014 Art Music Awards were Paul Grabowsky’s Tall Tales (Work of the Year: Jazz category), The Australian Art Orchestra (Excellence by an Organisation for its Diverse programs), Cat Hope for Drawn from Sound exhibition (Excellence in Experimental Music) and Jason Sweeney for Stereopublic: Crowdsourcing the Quiet for Excellence In Experimental Music in South Australia.

WARNER SELLS CATALOGUE TO WIZARD

Warner Music has given Sydney-based Wizard Records the world rights of hits by ‘60s Aussie pop singer Rob E.G. His #1 hits included 55 Days at Peking, Jezebel and Si Senor. Rob E. G. reverted to his real name Robie Porter, who set up Wizard Records and went on to sell 55 million records worldwide after signing acts as Rick Springfield, Air Supply, Daddy Cool, Marcia Hines and Hush, and notched up 29 #1 hits in Australia.