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The sweetest music and arts extravaganza of the year, Sugar Mountain, is returning to Melbourne on Saturday January 24 and the massive list of performing artists has been unveiled. American rap king Nas will be performing his seminal album Illmatic in full, while Body/Head, the combined genius of Sonic Youth cofounder Kim Gordon and Massachusetts’ Bill Nace, the electronic wonder of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight’s ODESZA, and Los Angeles native Ariel Pink have all been locked in too. Soul Clap, Horse Meat Disco, The 2 Bears, Anthony Naples, SWANS, Dan Deacon, Terrible Love feat. Kirin J Callinan, How To Dress Well, Midnight Juggernauts, Bo Ningen, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Twerps, Dexter, NO ZU + Sal P (Liquid Liquid), Chela, Banoffee, Oscar Key Sung x Cassius Select, Rat & Co, Slum Sociable, Wax’o Paradiso, LA Pocock and Noise In My Head round out the rest of the bill. Tickets are on sale 9am Monday October 20. Visit www.sugarmountainfestival.com for more details.
GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC
The legendary George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic will throw a party to remember when they play a Bluesfest sideshow next April. As one of the most important innovators of funk music around, Clinton and his crew have produced some of the most sampled tunes on the planet, including Atomic Dog, One Nation Under Groove and We Want the Funk. Get on down at 170 Russell on Friday April 3. Tickets on sale through Bluesfesttouring.com.au.
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DALL AS FRASCA
Three-piece riff rockers Dallas Frasca have announced their brand new single and accompanying video You Are Beautiful from their forthcoming album release Love Army, they will be touring nationally to celebrate. The new single is an empowering, body-positive song that rallies against social expectations and definitions of what constitutes an acceptable shape or body size. They’ll be at The Brunswick Hotel on Sunday, November 30.
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After selling out concerts across Europe, conductor Michael Wood is set to return to the Melbourne Recital Centre with the Melbourne Ballet Orchestra to perform arguably the greatest work for large orchestra in the symphony cross-over repertoire, Jaz Coleman’s Symphonic Pink Floyd. Originally commissioned and released by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1995, Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd is an orchestral feast for the senses, loved by classic rockers and classical music aficionados alike. Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd was arranged by Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman, who believed that symphonic versions of songs from Pink Floyd’s classic albums Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall could be seen as classics across any genre. Join Michael Wood and the players of Melbourne Ballet Orchestra for Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd on Wednesday October 22 and Saturday November 1 at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
SPANDAU BALLET
Spandau Ballet, one of the defining bands of the ‘80s, are heading to Australia in November to attend special event screenings of their new film Soul Boys of the Western World in Melbourne and Sydney. The event at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, co-presented by smoothfm, will take place on Wednesday November 5 and will include a Q&A as well as a special 20 minute live performance from the band. The bands visit to Sydney and Melbourne will coincide with the release of their brand new best-of album The Story – The Very Best of Spandau Ballet. The album will release in stores on October 24 via Warner Music Australia. Tickets to special event screenings of Soul Boys of the Western World go on sale Thursday October 16.
DALL AS CRANE
After packing out Sydney’s Newtown Social and The Corner Hotel in Melbourne earlier this year, Dallas Crane are back for a Melbourne Cup Eve bonanza with the awesome King of the North and special guests to be announced in the coming days. See them on Monday, November 3 at The Espy Front Bar. Entry is free.
LEAH FLANAGAN brings her breezy, evocative set to The Lounge with Santa Taranta (ITA), Yoyo Tuki (Easter Island), Bongeziwe Mabandla (Sth Africa), Oh Pep! and Glenn Skuthorpe on the afternoon of Sunday November 16 as part of AWME. She’ll also grace the Melbourne Folk Club stage on Wednesday November 12 with Fanny Lumsden, Sam Brookes (UK) and One Up, Two Down.
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A collective ‘holy fuck’ circulated around the office when the news hit that Lamb will return to Australia early next year. The duo, comprised of Lou Rhodes and Andy Barlow, just delivered their sixth studio record Backspace Unwind, including the lead single We Fall In Love. Lamb were last on on our shores to headline Playground Weekender in 2011. They’ll hit The Forum on Saturday February 14. Tickets through Live Nation.
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The Big Sky Blues & Roots Festival is an awardwinning festival now in its third year. The two day Big Sky Blues & Roots Festival is unique for southern NSW and gives music fans in the Southern States access to a world class music event just three hours from Melbourne. In its first two years, the event has played host to iconic musicians from the US, UK and Australia including Santana, John Mayer, Elvis Costello, Status Quo, The Doobie Brothers, Jason Mraz, Chris Isaak, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, Russell Morris and many, many more. The first round of artists includes Zac Brown Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Mavis Staples, Benny Walker, Dallas Frasca, Dale Winters and Harry Hookey. The festival will take place in Deniliquin, NSW Saturday April 4 - Sunday April 5, 2015. Early Bird tickets on sale now.
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Eyehategod have announced they will be returning to Australia for a run of shows this January. It has been a long 26 years for the New Orleans five-piece. After going on hiatus in the late ‘90s as the band’s members focussed on other projects and getting back together to release Confederacy of Ruined Lives in 2000, Hurricane Katrina wrecked much of their hometown in 2005, and in the aftermath Eyehategod fought through addiction, incarceration, probation and the death of founding drummer Joey LaCaze. Last May Eyehategod released their selftitled album, their first record in 14 years, and now they are preparing to head to Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Eyehategod will be taking over The Hi-Fi on Friday January 30. Tickets are available through Oztix.
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This year, the fine folk at Melbourne Festival will once again be offering $25 tickets to some of the most illustrious shows in the 2014 program. Each day at 10am Melbourne Festival will be releasing a small allocation of tickets for shows that are taking place that evening. For many of the shows that are already sold out, this is the only chance you’ll have to secure tickets. Stay tuned to Beat’s Facebook to get all the ticketing updates as they come through.
SUMMER OF SOUL
The Cat Empire and Paul Kelly will come together to headline Mossvale Park’s Summer of Soul this January. Presented by the Lyrebird Arts Council, the mini day festival brings together some of Australia’s most sought after talent for a day of live music in an idyllic park just two hours from Melbourne. The Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Mojo Juju and Perch Creek will join The Cat Empire and Kelly at next year’s event. Summer of Soul goes down on Saturday January 10 at Mossvale Park.
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Wu Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah has announced a Melbourne headline show on the back of his appearance at Meredith. One of the most iconic hip hop artists of all time, Ghostface Killah debuted his solo career with Ironman in 1996 and has released a stream of critically acclaimed albums since. Known for his fast-paced flow and emotional stream-ofconsciousness narratives, the New York rapper is largely considered one of the greatest MCs in the game. Ghostface Killah will hit The Espy on Friday December 19. Tickets on sale now via Oztix.
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Following her highly lauded 2014 Australian tour, powerhouse vocalist Beth Hart will make the return to our shores for a Bluesfest sideshow next April. Hart was nominated for a Grammy with Joe Bonamassa in 2014 for their album Seesaw, which hit number one on the Billboard Blues Album Chart, as did their most recent release Live In Amsterdam. She’s currently working on a solo album which is due for release in early 2015, so fans can expect to hear new material at her upcoming shows. Beth Hart will play Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday April 2. Tickets on sale via Melbournerecital.com.au.
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SNEAKERS WOULD GIG SERIES
The Vines and Bloods kick off Converse Australia’s Sneakers Would, a multi-city series of opportunities across Australia and New Zealand, encouraging would-be participants to choose an exciting, spur of the moment path. The series will launch in Melbourne this October, showing up unpredictably in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington throughout October and November. Sneakers Would will be brought to life through a series of gigs, where tickets can be found on a variety of mediums offering impulsive opportunities in their cities. Fans will find ticket offers in unexpected places and recieve spur of the moment invitations to drop whatever they are doing to attend. Catch The Vines and Bloods on Wednesday October 22.
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PEPA KNIGHT
After launching his solo career with two undeniable singles earlier in 2014, Jinja Safari co-frontman Pepa Knight has announced the launch of Hypnotized Vol. 1 on Thursday November 13 at Shebeen. Eager to shine a spotlight on the first half of the album as a standalone release, Pepa Knight has announced tour dates throughout November to celebrate the launch of the collection. Tickets from Shebeen website.
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G. Love and the Special Sauce are bringing the funk to Melbourne for a Bluesfest sideshow next year. 20 years after the release of their self-titled debut album and eight years since their last live performance together, the original lineup is getting back together for a run of shows on the back of their 2014 album Sugar. They’ll hit Thornbury Theatre on Saturday April 4. Tickets on sale Wednesday October 15 through Bluesfesttouring.com.au. Beaches
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BEECHWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL
After a massively successful launch this year, Beechworth Music Festival returns to Madman’s Gully Amphitheatre on the farmlands of the former Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum on Saturday January 24 2015 for a killer Australia Day long weekend of live music and good times. Gracing the Beechworth stage will be Beaches, Jen Cloher and Band, The Bennies, The Sugarcanes, Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions, My Left Boot, LuLuc, The Hounds Homebound, Rubber Band, Pearls, Benny Williams, Liv Cartledge, DJ Mermaid, Wangaratta Ukulele Band, Geoff Jackson and MC Cat McGauran 3PBS FM as they take the stage in what promises to be one of the best music festivals of the New Year. Tickets are on sale via the Beechworth Music Festival website on Sunday 29 November. Visit www.beechworthmusicfestival.com for more info.
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We’ll get a taste of N’awlins when Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue make the journey from the Big Easy to Melbourne for a Bluesfest sideshow next April. Melding together funk, hip hop beats, rock dynamics and improvisations, the band has gained a reputation for putting on some of the most genuinely entertaining performances around. Since kicking off his career as a band-leader at the age of six, Shorty and his crew have racked up a Grammy nomination, a chart topping album in 2011’s For True and gigs the world over. You’ll get a chance to catch ‘em when they play The Corner on Monday April 6. Tickets on sale now through Bluesfesttouring.com.au.
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JAMGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL
Hello! Who are we speaking with and what do you do in the band? The Black Harrys. Connor. I play with my hair and a guitar. Using three words, describe what festival-goers can expect from your performance at Darebin Music Feast. Smooth. Boppin. Vibes. Who or what do you think the highlight of the Darebin Music Feast will be this year? Biddlewood. Because they are young and foolish. Why is the Darebin Music Feast an important community celebration? It’s a good means for a creative community to express its local talent. It’s also a good
battleground for the unspoken battle of Northcote beards. If you had to give us one reason to catch your set at the festival, what would that be? We’re collaborating with our label sisters Biddlewood. We hear it’s going to go all night long. THE BLACK HARRYS play the Decibels Records Showcase and Release Launch with Biddlewood at the Northcote Town Hall, Studio One, on Saturday October 18 as part of the Darebin Music Feast. All ages. Twelve bucks. Good times.
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TEETH & TONGUE
Solo project-slash-five-piece-band Teeth & Tongue have announced their final headline show of the year on November 15 at the Shadow Electric Bandroom in Melbourne. Having already made a handful of ‘Best Album’ lists for latest release Grids, finished three national tours and set to play Meredith Music Festival in December, the band is wrapping up a big year with a special spring show at the beautiful Abbotsford Convent. Featuring Jess Cornelius with long-term collaborators Marc RegueiroMcKelvie, Damian Sullivan, James Harvey and vocalist Jade McInally, the band will perform a handful of new songs plus tracks from Teeth & Tongue’s last two albums. Special guests on the night include Kangaroo Skull (My Disco’s Rohan Rebeiro), The Ancients, Time For Dreams (Tom Carlyon and Amanda Roff ) and projection artist Keith Deverell. Tickets via www. shadowelectric.com.au.
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JamGrass Music Festival are again preparing to bring together some of the best Australian and international bluesgrass artists for their 2014 festival this October and November. This year’s lineup features more than 20 acts from around Australia and the USA, Canada and New Zealand. Heading the lineup are Melbourne based quartet of three Aussies and a Texas expat, Mustered Courage in their only Melbourne show for 2014. They will be joined by the likes of New Zealand’s Marlon Williams in a full band show, five-piece Perch Creek, NSW string band The Morrisons, New Zealand born duo Tattletale Saints, Tracy McNeil and her band The GoodLife and One Up, Two Down made up on three musicians from Australia, New Zealand and the US. JamGrass Music Festival will take over The Ballroom in The Thornbury Theatre from Friday October 31 until Sunday November 2.
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THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD
Former Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson will bring his Brotherhood to Melbourne for a Bluesfest sideshow next April. The show will mark the first time the five-piece and their brand of rock’n’roll and psychedelic grooves hit our shores. They’ll be touring on the back 2014’s Phosphorescent Harvest, which has received praise for its innovative set of sounds. The Chris Robinson Brotherhood will hit The Corner Hotel on Saturday April 4. Tickets on sale now through Bluesfesttouring.com.au.
SPOON
Spoon will return to Australian shores for the first time since 2010 early next year. Last here for an appearance at Groovin’ The Moo, the 2015 tour follows the release of their latest studio record They Want My Soul, which features singles Do You and Inside Out. Catch them at The Forum on February January 11. Tickets from Ticketmaster.
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
New Jersey punk rockers The Gaslight Anthem will return to Australia early next year for a whirlwind run of dates. The tour will feature tracks from the band’s fifth album Get Hurt, released in August this year, as well as a whole range of favourites from their first four albums. Catch The Gaslight Anthem at the Forum Theatre on Tuesday February 3. Tickets go on sale Friday October 17 through Ticketmaster.
WOMADEL AIDE
WOMADelaide has revealed a mammoth first lineup of 25 international artists for its 2015 incarnation. WOMAD is the World of Music, Arts & Dance, which was founded by musician Peter Gabriel in 1982, while WOMADelaide, the Australian WOMAD festival, kicked off in 1992. Senegalese singer, percussionist and social revolutionist Youssou N’Dour leads the charge this year, while The Gloaming, Abdullah Ibrahim Quartet, Balkan Beat Box, Bombino, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Charlie Musselwhite, Che Sudaka, Criolo, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Flavia Coelho, Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys, Jambinai, Jupter & Okwess International, Lake Street Dive, Live Live Cinema, Luzmila Carpio, Marrugeku Theatre Company, Malawi Mouse Boys, Meeta Pandit, Neneh Cherry with RocketNumberNine+, Public Service Broadcasting Ramzi Aburedwan and Ensemble Dal’ Ouna, Rufus Wainwright and Soil and ‘Pimp’ Sessions are all set to perform. The next instalment of WOMADelaide artists will be announced on Tuesday October 28. WOMADelaide will be held from Friday March 6 to Monday March 9 in Adelaide’s Botanic Park.
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DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST
The Darebin Music Feast Songwriters’ Award Grand Final is on this weekend, showcasing the great songwriting talent that has made Darebin the heart of Melbourne’s music scene. Ten finalists will perform for an esteemed judging panel at Northcote Town Hall on Sunday October 19, from 3-9pm. Past winners of the Award include Jordie Lane, Sal Kimber & Ben Mason. The event will be hosted by writer, musician and man about town Ben Birchall and feature special guest performances from 2013 winner Dan Flynn and 2006 and 2009 youth winner Rosie Hilder. Tickets available at www.musicfeast.com.au Ayisha Jaffer
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FACE THE MUSIC
Face The Music has just announced five new international guests to join the already immense 2014 program. Ayisha Jaffer of Saiko, Marshall Betts of Windish Agency and Adam Lewis of Planetary Group will all be speaking at the two-day music industry event. In collaboration with Melbourne Music Week, Face The Music also brings you two very special ‘In Conversation’ sessions with legendary Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance and front man of Tangerine Dream, German electronic pioneer Edgar Froese. A whole bunch of Australian speakers have been added to the program as well, head to facethemusic.com.au for a full list of names and to purchase tickets. Face The Music will take place at the Arts Centre Melbourne on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 November.
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TOURING
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INTERNATIONAL 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 LINDI ORTEGA Out On the Weekend October 18, The Toff in Town 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 NIKKI LANE Out On the Weekend October 18, The Toff In Town October 22, Northcote Social Club October 23 A MOVING SOUND Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub October 21 RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre October 25 ELBOW The Forum October 28 DREAM THEATER Palais Theatre October 29 MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN LuWow October 31 JAMGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL Thornbury Theatre October 31 – November 2 WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various Venues October 31 – November 3 TIME FOR THREE Hamer Hall Novemeber 1, 2 AQUA Palais Theatre November 3 SOULS OF MISCHIEF The Espy November 3 SPANDAU BALLET Hamer Hall November 5 BEN OTTEWELL Northcote Social Club November 5 ROLLING STONES Rod Laver Arena November 5, Hanging Rock Macedon November 8 MARIAH CAREY Rod Laver Arena December 7, A Day On The Green November 8 JOE SATRIANI Palais Theatre November 8 KATCHAFIRE The Hi-Fi November 8 ED KOWALCZYK The Hi-Fi November 10 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Corner Hotel November 13, 14 SEAN PAUL Festival Hall November 14 KATY PERRY Rod Laver Arena November 14, 15 ACCEPT Corner Hotel November 15 TORI AMOS Palais Theatre November 15 A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN Melbourne Recital Centre November 15 JIMMY EAT WORLD The Forum November 17 YES Palais Theatre November 18 PRONG Hi-Fi November 21 KIMBRA Hi-Fi November 22
TRIVIUM & IN FLAMES 170 Russell November 23, 24 MAX RICHTER Melbourne Recital Centre November 24 BROODS The Forum November 25 KONGOS Ding Dong Lounge November 25 THE PHARCYDE The Espy November 27 JAKOB Ding Dong Lounge November 27 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Northcote Social Club November 27 THE BLACK SEEDS Prince Bandroom November 27 PORTUGAL. THE MAN The Deck November 30 THE DATSUNS Ding Dong Lounge December 5 SLEEP Corner Hotel December 6, 7 JOAN ARMATRADING Melbourne Recital Centre December 8 ICE CUBE The Forum December 9 THE LEMONHEADS Corner Hotel December 9 JAMES HOLDEN The Hi-Fi December 10 HARRY MANX Bella Union September 10, Sooki Lounge September 11, The Spotted Mallard September 12 UB40 Palais Theatre December 11 FACTORY FLOOR Howler December 11 CLOUD NOTHINGS Corner Hotel December 11 CYPRESS HILL The Forum December 11 DAMON ALBARN Palais Theatre December 12 PHOSPHORESCENT Corner Hotel December 12 DE LA SOUL 170 Russell December 12 BLACKSTREET Trak 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 JOAN ARMATRADING Comedy Theatre December 15 THE SKATALITES Corner Hotel December 18 GHOSTFACE KILLAH The Espy December 19 SCOTT RUSSO AND PHIL JAMIESON Corner Hotel December 19 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS The Evelyn December 19, Arrow on Swanston December 20 (AA) BEN FOLDS Hamer Hall December 20 SALT N PEPA The Forum December 27 FALLS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL Various locations December 28 – January 2 BIG FREEDIA Howler December 30 BEYOND THE VALLEY Phillip Island Circuit December 30 – January 1 VIOLENT FEMMES MONA January 1 COLD WAR KIDS The Hi-Fi January 5 THE TEMPER TRAP 170 Russell January 5 THE BLACK LIPS The Hi-Fi January 6
MILKY CHANCE 170 Russell January 6 SBTRKT The Forum January 7 GEORGE EZRA Corner Hotel January 7 ASGEIR The Forum January 9 GLASS ANIMALS The Hi-Fi January 10 SPOON The Forum January 11 MARDUK AND INQUISITION Northcote Social Club January 14, The Hi-Fi January 16 2CELLOS Palais Theatre January 15 THE 1975 Festival Hall January 15 EVERYTIME I DIE Corner Hotel January 16 JAMIE T The Forum January 24 SUGAR MOUNTAIN January 24 THE KOOKS Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 24 EYEHATEGOD The Hi-Fi January 30 JOHHNY MARR The Forum January 31 CHIODOS Corner Hotel January 31 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The Forum February 3 SUZI QUATRO Melbourne Arts Centre February 6 LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 7 STING AND PAUL SIMON A Day on the Green February 7, Rod Laver Arena February 10 SARAH MCLAUGHLAN Melbourne Recital Centre February 9 LAMB The Forum February 14 DANIEL ROSSEN Northcote Social Club February 15 PERFUME GENIUS Corner Hotel February 15 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 REAL ESTATE Corner Hotel February 25 MAITREYA FESTIVAL Sea Lake, Victoria March 6 – 9 WOMADELAIDE Botanic Park, Adelaide March 6 – 9 BETH HART Melbourne Recital Centre April 2 GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC 170 Russell April 3 G. LOVE AND THE SPECIAL SAUCE Thornbury Theatre April 4 THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Corner Hotel April 4 BIG SKY BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL Deniliquin, NSW April 4 – 5 TROMBONE SHORTY AND ORLEANS AVENUE Corner Hotel April 6 SAM SMITH Margaret Court Arena April 30 PALOMA FAITH Palais Theatre May 5 YELLOWCARD Margaret Court Arena July 11
NATIONAL DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues October 15 – 19 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 15 – 28 MIKELANGO Foxtel Festival Hub October 15 – 16 SEX ON TOAST Hugs & Kisses October 16 BASENJI Liberty Social October 17 AVEIRA SKIES Wrangler Studios October 17 OPEN SWIMMER Northcote Social Club October 17 THE HARPOONS Howler October 18 OUT ON THE WEEKEND Seaworks, Williamstown October 18 JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre October 18 SCREAMFEEDER The Curtin October 18 THE BLURST OF TIMES FESTIVAL Seaworks, Williamstown October 19 SPRING FLING STREET FESTIVAL Victoria and Errol Street, North Melbourne October 19 DROPBEARS Wrangler Studios October 21 (AA), Bendigo Hotel October 23 SYMPHONIC PINK FLOYD Melbourne Recital Centre October 22, November 1 THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Spirit Bar October 23, 170 Russell October 24 POP CRIMES Foxtel Festival Hub October 23, 24 LANKS Shebeen October 24 CROOKED SAINT Northcote Social Club October 24 JOELISTICS Northcote Social Club October 24 THE MEANIES Hi-Fi October 24 KALACOMA The Evelyn October 25 CAPTIVES Creepshow Festival October 25 CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS Howler October 25, Sooki Lounge November 1, Flying Saucer Club November 7 URTHBOY Foxtel Festival Hub October 26 LANIE LANE Corner Hotel October 29 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 DAVEY LANE Northcote Social Club October 31 TULLY ON TULLY Shebeen October 31 NIGHT TERRORS Melbourne Town Hall October 31 GRAVEYARD TRAIN The Forum October 31 DAVEY LANE Northcote Social Club October 31 AMAYA LAUCIRICA Workers Club October 31 DALLAS CRANE The Espy November 3 BRIGGS The Espy November 1, Workers Club November 3 RADIO BIRDMAN Corner Hotel November 2, 3 KING PARROT Plastic November 3 KID RADIO The Toff in Town November 3, Workers Club November 22 GOSSLING Corner Hotel November 6 BENDIGO BLUES AND ROOTS FESTIVAL Various Venues, Bendigo November 6 – 9 DRUNK MUMS Howler November 7 LOWTIDE Gasometer Hotel November 7 TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES Yarraville Club November 8 THELMA PLUM Corner Hotel November 8 YEO Shebeen November 8 THE STIFFYS Workers Club November 8 JASIA Grace Darling November 8
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PIERCE BROTHERS Corner Hotel November 7, 9 ONE ELECTRIC DAY Werribee Park November 9 NEW NAVY Northcote Social Club November 13 PEPA KNIGHT Shebeen November 13 HAND OF MERCY The Evelyn November 13, Phoenix Youth Centre November 14 TUMBLEWEED Gasometer Hotel November 13, 14 AWME FESTIVAL Various venues, Melbourne November 13 – 16 MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK Various venues, Melbourne November 14 November 23 HILLTOP HOODS Margaret Court Arena November 14 DANIEL LEE KENDALL Shebeen, November 14 EZEKIEL OX Grace Darling November 14 TEETH & TONGUE Shadow Electric November 15 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 LITTLE MAY Northcote Social Club November 21 YACHT CLUB DJS Corner Hotel November 22 DREAM ON DREAMER Gasometer Hotel November 22 THE PREATURES The Forum November 22 DOWN ON THE FARM Emu Plains Racecourse Reserve November 22 HAT FITZ AND CARA ROBINSON Thornbury Theatre, November 23 LULUC Northcote Social Club November 28 THE SMITH STREET BAND Corner Hotel November 28 VIOLENT SOHO 170 Russell November 28 PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL November 28 – 30 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliff November 28 – 30 HUSKY Hi-Fi November 29 THE WAIFS Queenscliff Music Festival November 29, Corner Hotel December 1 SHAUN KIRK Northcote Social Club November 30 DALLAS FRASCA Brunswick Hotel November 30 EMMA DONOVAN Northcote Social Club December 4 ECCA VANDAL John Curtin Hotel December 5 THE BLACKEYED SUSANS The Spotted Mallard December 5, Caravan Club December 6 SEMPLESIZE BLOCK PARTY - Banoffee, Milwaukee Banks and more, Howler December 7 GYROSCOPE Corner Hotel December 13 NICK CAVE The Plenary December 16, 17,18 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS The Hi-Fi Bar December 20 KNIFE PARTY Shed 14 December 20 GROUNDSWELL MUSIC FESTIVAL Lake Tyers Beach, East Gippsland January 10 SUMMER OF SOUL Mossvale Park January 10 UNIFY FESTIVAL South Gippsland January 10 – 11 BEECHWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL Madman’s Gully Amphitheatre, Beechworth January 24 BALLARAT BEER FESTIVAL City Oval, Ballarat January 24 RIVERBOATS MUSIC FESTIVAL, Echuca-Moama February 13 – 15 CHEAP TRICK AND THE ANGELS The Forum Theatre February 13 MEGAN WASHINGTON 170 Russell February 13 KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL Kyneton Mechanics Institute February 20 – 21 BETWEEN THE BAYS FESTIVAL Penbank School, Moorooduc February 28 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy, Victoria March 6–9 VANCE JOY Palais Theatre March 13 KYLIE MINOGUE Rod Laver Arena March 18 ROLLING GREEN FESTIVAL Rochford Wines Yarra Valley April 5 THE BLACK KEYS Rolling Green April 5, Margaret Court Arena April 7
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M ANcHESTER ORcHESTRA SIMPLE HOPES By Augustus Welby
We tend to conceive our lives under a narrative framework. We picture ourselves as the leading character in a story, on a purposeful journey and with a reasonable amount of control over our actions. By analysing past events we can discern habitual behaviours and directly link these to who we are at present. Memories, however, are fallible things and reflections on the past are likely to be skewed by present concerns.
Manchester Orchestra singer/songwriter Andy Hull has been leading the band since he was 18 years old. Now 28, Hull’s known for writing big rock songs with a patent emotional core. As a result, Hull’s job involves being confronted by variations of his past self on a regular basis. And he’s often surprised by what it has it to say. “Every time I’ve ever made a record or written about something,” he says, “it’s like a year later I’ll think of the lyric or the song and realise there was something else going ± something bigger being written that I didn’t really know about as I was writing it.” In January this year, Manchester Orchestra returned with their fourth LP, Cope. Prior to making the record, Hull and his four band mates built themselves a studio in their hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. This allowed the five-piece ± which also includes lead guitarist Robert McDowell, keyboard player Chris Freeman, drummer Tim Very and newest recruit, bassist Andy Prince ± to piece the album together in one room, without any disruptions. Yet even though Cope is the product of group interaction, Hull retained creative authority. “It was certainly still my songs,” he says. “I just have this band that’s so good that I was able to sort of write in real time. So I would come up with a riff and we would write this riff together and then I would be like ‘all right, hold up, let me write the lyrics here for the next thirty minutes’, and they’d go take a break.” It should be noted that, while Hull’s songs contain introspective tenderness, Manchester Orchestra specialise in a powerful brand of alt-rock. To gather such force, the input of all five digits is invaluable. “I do have the final say,” Hull explains, “but there is a lot of democracy that happens in coming up with that final say. I’m certainly not one to take any offence ± none of us are ± to [being told] ‘That’s not really working, we need to find something better than that’. We all made the decision three or four years ago, right after [2011’s] Simple Math, that our goal is what’s best for the song and what’s best for the band. Our goal isn’t what’s best for our egos and for looking cool or feeling cool.” So… Cope was made in the band’s own studio, under their own supervision and they’ve distanced themselves from notions of cool. This all sounds rather mature, doesn’t it? ‘Growing up’ is often synonymous with becoming somewhat conservative and losing potency. Converse to this, Cope is far and away Manchester Orchestra’s loudest and most direct release so far. “We felt before we started this record, ‘What do we want to add to the next thing that we’ve done?’” says Hull. “The thing that made the most sense to us was to make it as fast and as catchy and as rocking of a record as we can. We wanted to take all of the bullshit out and focus on the songs and the immediacy of it. We wanted to make BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
an immediate record.” It’s actually the first time a Manchester Orchestra record has been written and recorded in the same room. This meant that the entire construction procedure was free from much in the way of dilly-dallying, which injected further edge into the already pithy compositions. “I was able to write it without having to first go through the demo process, which was great,” Hull says. “I’m not sure if it’ll be that way again, but it was really, really eye-opening to see what magic was happening. Most of these songs had never been written and by the end of the day we had a recorded demo and we were able to see what we were working with.”
“OUR GOAL IS wHAT’S BEST FOR THE SONG AND wHAT’S BEST FOR THE BAND. OUR GOAL ISN’T wHAT’S BEST FOR OUR EGOS AND FOR LOOkING cOOL OR FEELING cOOL.”
Track ten, See It Again, is actually the only track on Cope to break the four-minute barrier. This level of restraint is certainly novel for Manchester Orchestra, who’ve been known to stretch songs out to upwards of seven minutes. The record’s relatively refined character could suggest that, ten years into his recording career, Hull’s become more decisive with his creative vision. However, Cope shouldn’t be viewed as the realisation of an ideal. “Our band has always been a slow burn of sorts,” Hull says. “We just continue to take a couple of steps each album cycle. Since the beginning of our band we’ve always wanted to be a career band that has a catalogue that’s pretty diverse. I’d love to have ten different sounding albums by the time we’re done. At least ten.” This brings us back to the notion of narrative selfunderstanding. It’s essentially our awareness that we’re unique individuals with ongoing projects to perpetuate and relationships to preserve that gets us out of bed every day. Through reflection ± be it dialogic or private ± we learn about ourselves and devise effective ways to advance our story. Songwriting is, of course, an act of reflection, which involves dipping into one’s finer feelings and extracting something of honest and constructive import. So, for a writer like Hull, who doesn’t shy away from emotional content, songwriting has played a huge part in the development of his identity. “I started this band and then left on tour when people
would be going to college after high school,” he says. “It’s just been what I’ve known. I’ve always written honestly and [written] open-up-the-chest-and-look-inside lyrics. It’s been cool to watch the growth through it and it’s really exciting to think about where it’s going to go.” The thing is, given that Manchester Orchestra are a much loved rock’n’roll band, Hull’s intimate ruminations are subsequently broadcast to thousands of listeners across the world. Thus, important moments in his selfgrowth come to possess an instructive quality. “That’s sort of a really creepy part of it,” he says. “You write this stuff that’s super personal and then people have their own meaning behind it. It’s super moving, really. I’m kind of blown away by it, that something so small can become something bigger.” In addition to effecting personal growth through songwriting, the fact that Hull’s been touring since his late teens has also influenced his perspective on the world. Late adolescence is generally a fairly erratic period in anyone’s life. Working a job that takes you from one party environment to the next, night after night, would no doubt lead to some especially wayward behaviour. While Hull clarifies that Manchester Orchestra “were never wild… just more energetic,” these days the band have a better understanding of their primary duty. “At a certain point, when you do it for so long, you really start to take it seriously and realise that you want to be great at what you do. You just realise that there are limits to how far you can push yourself and how much fun you can have in certain areas.” Whatever these perceived limits might be, they haven’t reduced the fivesome’s gig schedule. Manchester Orchestra head back down to Australia next month. Having previously visited in 2009 and again in 2012, the band’s left a big impression on Australian audiences. And it’s certainly not a one-way exchange. “There’s something to be said about the atmosphere and vibe of your country,” Hull says. “It’s pretty unbelievable. Everyone’s been so kind to us from Australia, since we were babies. “The thing that we’re consistently blown away by with the fans: people aren’t just fans of ours for what we’re doing at the present time necessarily. They’re in it for the long run, which is really cool. That’s what brings us up to make records like Cope, because we know we can do something like that and it’s not going to freak everybody out.” MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA play The Corner on Thursday November 13 and Friday November 14 with Kevin Devine. Cope is out now through Loma Vista. An acoustic companion piece to Cope, titled Hope, is also out now.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN
Madman are currently presenting a national theatrical showcase, celebrating the work of Studio Ghibli filmmakers and co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. The showcase features 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 also includes 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 is currently screening at Cinema Nova until Wednesday October 22.
ON STAGE A place of absurd and cruel dilemmas, The Mesh is unusual and familiar all at once. Wolf and Clara, Max and Lottie: these guys know how to throw a costume party. Refugees with no homeland to return to, they ‘party’ in an effort to band together, maintain hope, and save their faltering sanity. Caught in a cruel limbo between past and present and striving to find their place in a new land, they fall under the increasingly sinister surveillance of The Suits as they attempt to gain safety and security. It opens at Red Stitch on Friday October 17.
ON DISPL AY Artist Carsten Höller works to turn reality on its head, creating situations through which we can reimagine how we move through the world and reconsider our place in it. Underscoring the 2014 Melbourne Festival microtheme of circus, the spectacular life-size Golden Mirror Carousel offers visitors to Federation Court a powerfully different physical and mental encounter than its traditional fairground counterpart. With each slow turn, participants are carried further into a gleaming, gilded looking-glass reflection, a step and a world away. It’s currently on display at the National Gallery of Victoria.
PICK OF THE WEEK Team Of Life
Melbourne Festival is in full swing and this week is jam-packed with program highlights. Some of these include Finding Vivian Maier, a documentary which explores the enigmatic Chicago nanny who produced more than 100,000 photographic images over her lifetime (all of which remained undiscovered until two years before her death in 2007); Opus, which sees world-renowned circus innovators, Circa, form a rare collaboration with one of France’s esteemed string groups the Debussy Quartet; and Team of Life, which sees sport, theatre, dance and music meet head-on in an uplifting new work from critically acclaimed Melbourne dance theatre company KAGE. Head to melbournefestival. com.au for more details and tickets.
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SINCE I SUPPOSE By Meg Crawford
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”. Bloody hell, that’s some heady stuff. It’s just one of the concepts at the heart of Shakespeare’s city play Measure for Measure and One Step At A Time Like This’ production of Since I Suppose. This is no ordinary Shakespeare though.
One Step At A Time Like This is a four-piece, Melbourne-based theatre company, which specialises in mobile theatre. It’s a bit like a pop-up book made live: you actually become part of what’s going on (more mature folk have described it as akin to immersive cinema). Before anyone freaks out about audience participation though, this actually sounds pleasurable. It’s more about being taken on a journey, literally in fact. “I do think the word interactive can scare certain audience members away, but the way we’re participatory is quite inward,” assures Suzanne Kersten, part of the One Step At A Time Like This quartet. “The main problem around those types of words [participatory and interactive] is that some audience members think that they are going to have to perform. In our work though, they will hopefully engage, but not perform, or experience rather than be put on the spot. We like to
FREE $HIT Arts Centre Melbourne have announced they will present Spirit Of Akasha for a one-off screening and music event this November. Spirit of Akasha is a new film created by renowned surf filmmaker Andrew Kidman. Premiering at the Sydney Festival this year in a sold-out performance, the film pays homage to cult ‘70s surfing film Morning of the Earth while exploring surf culture through the lens of the 21st century. It features stars of contemporary surfing including ASP World Champions Stephanie Gilmore and Mick Fanning. Cinematography by
invite people gradually to sink into the journey. It’s not about them performing in front of others.” You start standing outside Melbourne’s Hyatt Hotel where you’ll get a call. In the next 90 minutes, you’ll wend your way through town via city institutions ± the houses of religion, law and sex. It’s all of the shit polite parents tell their kids to avoid at dinner parties. This is not Measure for Measure blow by blow (despite the fact that the work was commissioned by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Rather, you get some scenes on a hand held device filmed in the location to which you’ve made your way, site specific happenings, one-on-one encounters and snippets of audio as you meander through town. It’s an intriguing juxtaposition of virtual and real/audience and participant. It’s a work that’s been a long time in the making ± its roots date back to 2000. One Step At A Time Like This
some of the world’s best surf photographers will come to life with live performances by some of the musicians who contributed to its original soundtrack. Performers include the film’s director Andrew Kidman and his band The Windy Hills, and some of Melbourne’s best indie musicians including Mick Turner (The Dirty Three), Oliver Mann, Jack River, Machine Translations and The Sandpebbles. Spirit Of Akasha will be screened at Hamer Hall on Friday November 7 and we have a double pass to give away. HEAD TO BEAT.COM.AU/FREESHIT TO WIN.
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are dedicated to the idea of long-term collaboration though - they want to give things half a chance to mature. Kersten used to work in straight-down-the-line theatre and found being stuck in one spot stifling. Around the same time she made an ideological commitment to get closer to the audience. “We didn’t like missing out on what they thought,” she laughs. “After normal theatre shows, when the audience left, we had this sense of having missed out on something. So, while we were working with shows that had one audience at a time, we started to meet and talk with them afterwards if they were willing. If we don’t know what the audience thinks, we don’t get the most valuable feedback. It’s also an investigation in how much the audience completes the work of art. They always do it whether they’re sitting still or not, but this is shining the spotlight on their activity of engagement. One of the other curious aspects about the show is that the audience is comprised of a crowd of two and you’re asked to respect your fellow traveller’s privacy. Another part of the show’s buzz is that you don’t know what you’re in for. “If you remove the immediate future from people, then things become readily exciting because people don’t know what’s coming next,” Kersten admits. “In a way, our lives are full of that anyway, we just think we know the outcome, but if you’re on a journey that you haven’t planned, that someone else has planned for you, it enhances the drama by not knowing where you’re going next. For this show, the drama takes place within the audience more than in front of them. It’s almost like the stage is inside them and we’re prompting that to activate, rather than putting performers in front of them. There are some live elements in Since I Suppose, but it’s not like seeing Shakespeare scenes in the city here and there. It’s not like a promenade experience. It’s a series of experiences that the audience goes through.”
“I DO THINK THE WORD INTERACTIVE CAN SCARE CERTAIN AUDIENCE MEMBERS AWAY, BUT THE WAY WE’RE PARTICIPATORY IS QUITE INWARD.” One Step At A Time Like This don’t just subvert the idea of what it means to be an audience: in a time when technology can be isolating Since I Suppose turns the idea on its head. “The film is a different way of engaging with the real world around you. Because the scenes are shot in the same location in which audience is in, it’s like viewing the real world side-by-side with the virtual world, albeit one which was shot in the recent past. It’s maintaining a relationship between the virtual and the real. You flit from one to the other.” Another beauty of this work is that it opens up time, which is a goddamn luxury these days. “We’re presenting opportunities to reflect or giving people time to focus on things. Just giving people some time is a significant thing to do. With Since I Suppose you’ve got the time to reflect on whatever the narrative prompts ± capital punishment, corrupt politics, relationship to the afterlife (if in fact you have one) - all of these things are in the Measure For Measure narrative. Because people are moving through real life locations, it prompts their own inner narrative around these issues.” As part of Melbourne Festival, Since I Suppose is on from Wednesday October 15 - Sunday October 26. Head to melbournefestival.com.au for more details.
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THE COMIC STRIP CRAB L AB Cal Wilson headlines a huge Crab Lab lineup tonight. Cal’s been all over TV and radio for well over a decade now and regularly sells out her MICF shows. A rare chance to see her at an intimate venue. Also there’s Harley Breen, Geraldine Hickey, Joe Schaffer, Dilruk Jayasinha, Oliver Clark and Laura Davis all for just $5. It’s at 16 Corrs Ln, CBD at 8.30pm.
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ANDY WARHOL’S JEWISH GENIUSES
Andy Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses will set foot in Australia for the very first time this summer. The famous portrait series of ten iconic 20th century Jewish figures will exhibit in all their screen printed brilliance in the Loti Smorgon Gallery at the Jewish Museum of Australia. Including the likes of Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and the Marx Brothers, the exhibition explores Warhol’s creation of the ‘celebrity image’ and his selection process behind his Jewish geniuses. Accompanying Jewish Geniuses will be the Warhol Now exhibition, featuring a dynamic range of artists’ responses to Warhol’s aesthetic and ideology. The exhibitions will be open from Thursday November 20 to Sunday May 24, 2015 at the Jewish Museum of Australia.
Naked Girls Reading have announced a special Halloween event, Naked Ghouls Reading, taking place this month. Since starting up in Chicago in March 2009 Naked Girls Reading has grown to have chapters in 14 US cities, Canada, the UK and Australia. This month Naked Ghouls Reading will feature everything from slasher film scripts to hammer horror classics, campfire thrillers to true crime biographies, as the Naked Girls Reading naked ghouls delve into the dark and twisted world of devils, demons and depravation. Naked Ghouls Reading is taking over The Noble Experiment, Collingwood on Wednesday October 29.
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JOHN SAFRAN: MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI
John Safran will take audiences on a journey through his award-winning book, Murder in Mississippi, when he hits The Yarraville Club next month. After a white supremacist in his 2010 series John Safran’s Race Relations was murdered, Safran flew to Mississippi to cover the trial and ended up with a memoir following his experiences. His upcoming show will detail the trip and also give fans a chance to pick his brain, with a Q&A session following the performance. Catch him at The Yarraville Club on Saturday November 15.
THE ILLUSIONISTS 2.0
No doves. No rabbits. No hats. This is what you can expect when the biggest magic show on the planet returns to Melbourne with a jaw-dropping, all new show this January. Featuring seven new masters of magic and optical illusion, The Illusionists 2.0 will use cutting edge visual effects and giant 3D projections to create a world of daring, high-risk stunts and mindblowing acts that take crowd participation to a whole new level. The Illusionists 2.0 will run at Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre from Friday January 16 to Sunday January 25.
ABSINTHE
Spiegelworld have announced they will be bringing their smash-hit Las Vegas show Absinthe to Australia in 2015. The Las Vegas residency of Absinthe commenced in 2011 on the forecourt of Caesars Palace, following several summer seasons in Spiegelworld’s spiegeltent in New York. In 2009 an earlier version of Absinthe created a grand-slam of its own when it was presented at the 2009 Australian Open. Inspired by the absinthe-drenched cabarets of late 19th century Europe, Absinthe is an adult-themed cocktail of circus, burlesque and vaudeville for a 21st century audience, hosted by the outrageous Gazillionaire and his side-kick Penny. The Australian tour opens in Newcastle in February 2015 before moving on to Melbourne. Following Melbourne, Absinthe will travel to Brisbane, Perth and Sydney with other dates to be announced. The tour will features several of the acts currently features in the Las Vegas production with some additional new surprises. Absinthe will open in Melbourne under the spiegeltent on the Rooftop at Crown on Saturday March 21 and run until Sunday April 5.
CALPURNIA DESCENDING
Calpurnia Descending, the latest work from queer DIY theatre duo Sisters Grimm, will come to the Malthouse next month. Starring Paul Capsis and Ash Flanders, the play follows the reclusive, drunken, Depressionera Broadway washout Beverly Dumont as she limps towards her final shot at glory. Along the way, the two women are drawn into a world of paranoia, sleaze and bloody, unrelenting ambition, making for a performance rich in wit and cultural critique. Calpurnia Descending will run at Merlyn Theatre from Wednesday November 12 to Sunday November 30.
Sustainable arts festival Going Nowhere has announced the details of its 2014 incarnation. Set over three days, the festival occurs on two sides of the globe simultaneously - Melbourne and Cambridge, United Kingdom. Exploring how artists, communities and audience can sustainably generate international creative experiences without getting on a plane, Going Nowhere 2014 will feature an interactive public forum hosted by TippingPoint Australia, a PechaKucha, a new external light projection work, an eco-sound installation and an Australian inspired barn dance and costume making workshop. Going Nowhere will take place from Friday November 21 to Sunday November 23 at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall.
Public Bar Comedy has been red hot for the past few weeks, comics killing to packed out audiences. Tonight will be no different with Adam Richard hitting the sticky Public Bar stage. Along with Adam is a top to bottom A1 lineup; Jason English, Ben Lomas, Kate McLennan, Dan Connell and Ryan Walker. This will be a good one. Come down tonight and join one of the most appreciative audiences in Australia as Melbourne’s finest comedians let loose in the intimate Public Bar back room for a mere $5.
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PENNY ARCADE EXPO
The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is returning to Australia this October, and have now revealed the full schedule of panels, tournaments and guests, set to take place across three days. This year’s PAX Aus will feature more than 100 panels across six theatres, featuring everything from Q&As, game demonstrations, quiz shows, cultural discussions, how-to lessons, concerts and more. Some of the event highlights include Storytime with Pete Hines, the Vice President of PR & Marketing at Bethesda Softworks, will be talking about his 15 years working on franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Wolfenstein; A Chat with Chris Roberts: The Original Wing Commander, a round table chat with Chris about everything from the early Mark Hamill days all the way through to the most successful crowd funded game of all time; Media Molecule - Ask Us (Almost) Anything, Media Molecule are responsible for creating Little Big Planet and Tearaway, studio director Siobhan Reddy and her team, along with ABC TV’s Good Game host Gus “Goose” Ronald will explore Mm’s rationale to game design and building communities of like-minded gamers and Political Proactivism for Geeks which will bring together key members of Australia’s political parties to weigh in on recent cuts and changes to Australia’s funding of games development and discuss where the Australian games development industry is headed. The Penny Arcade Expo will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Friday October 31 to Sunday November 2.
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Hannah Gadsby headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday night. She sells out shows all over the country and you’ve seen her on Adam Hills Tonight, Spicks and Specks and more. Plus Lindsay Webb, Luke McGregor, Karl Woodberry, James Masters and more. Five Boroughs has been so packed for months, you’d better get down early. It’s all happening this Thursday October 16 at 8.30pm at Five Boroughs Comedy, 68 Hardware Lane, CBD, all for only $12.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Another big lineup at Comedy At Spleen this Monday. It’s always completely packed and you can see why with another awesome bunch of comics this week. This week the host is Lindsay Webb plus Nick Capper, David Tulk, Liam Ryan, Kevin Lim and more. It’s on this Monday October 20 at 41 Bourke Street, CBD, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
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INK DOTS BLACK SPOTS By Meg Crawford
Tattooist Simon Moody, aka Simplesime, needs to push back the interview for a good reason – he’s in the middle of a tattoo. Fair call dude – that’s totally the occasion to be doing one thing at a time. Moody’s been tattooing since the late ’90s and considers himself pretty lucky to have cracked the industry back when not everyman and his dog had a full sleeve. Moody studied graphic arts and scored the gig by befriending one of the dudes who’d tattooed him. He didn’t always want to be a tattooist though – when he was a kid the grand plan was to be a vet, photographer or truck driver. It entertains Moody to think about it now. “I think the vet one was pretty short lived once I was told that I had to do science and biology,” he chuckles. “Those subjects did not appeal to me at all. The photography thing I back-handedly ended up doing anyway. I now know as many photographers as I do tattooists and I work pretty closely with some of them, so I get to fulfill that component. “The third thing – being a truck driver, you know what, I still might end up doing that. Not in the big 18 wheeler trucks I dreamt of as a kid, but I had a job for one summer where I was driving a two tonne truck around and delivering Christmas hams to Coles and Safeways – so I’ve checked that box as well.” That may be the case, but even as a kid Moody’s mates got him to draw tats for them and he knew preferred to work with a design brief. “I know when I’m given an open brief from any client, it’s not enjoyable for me,” he admits. “I prefer to be given at least a few snippets to help me. When I was a kid my friends would say, ‘Draw me a tattoo’ and I’d say, ‘What d’ya want?’ and they’d say, “I dunno, just draw me something cool,’ and I’d go, ‘Well, I feel like drawing a train or a truck’ and they’d go, ‘Oh don’t draw that’ and I’d go ‘Well what
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d’ya want then’.” It’s less frustrating these days: folks go specifically to Moody for his grey-wash and black and white work and he works out of his own private tattoo parlour (partly to weed out the tyre-kickers). “A lot of people say, ‘I just don’t know what I’ll get – I couldn’t make a decision’ or ‘I don’t know where I’d put it’,” he reflects. “My first thought is, ‘You can decide to get a mortgage for $400,000 or have sex without a condom, but you can’t make a decision about getting a butterfly on your bum?’ It’s not that hard.” Not content resting on his laurels, Moody and his cohorts Chris and Megan from Dangerfork Print Co. and Ben Blanche from LAWWD, have run Ink Dots Black Spots for the last three years, which is an annual fundraiser for a different worthy cause (Cancer Council in the first year, RSPCA last year and Skateistan this time around). Skateistan’s an awesome not-for-profit that uses skateboarding as a tool for empowerment – for instance, in Afghanistan, where Skateistan’s set up skate schools and skate parks, girls can’t ride bikes but they’re allowed to skateboard. The premise for IDBS is that, by invitation, a celebrated
list of local and international tattooists each produce an nurtured you and brought you up. In turn, with mother A3 sized work, set to a theme and they’re all sold for earth and mother nature, it’s the same thing – we need $30. The rationale for setting the parameters so tightly to respect it. It’s interesting though, everyone’s who’s is that it evens the playing field. gone with mother styled subject matter – well, put it The philanthropic bent’s important for Moody. “It’s a this way, it’s not a picture of a woman. They’ve not sideperfect opportunity for everyone collectively to give stepped the brief, but they’ve come at it from a very something back. We’re all very blessed – we use our lateral perspective.” hands, get to be creative and get paid quite well. AFGHAN It’s ThSKATE is year, SCHOOL even though he’s well chuffed with past not like we need to be taxed and hand that money success, Moody says that this Ink Dots Black Spots is back out, but it’s a good turn to give a bit of what we “bigger, better and shinier”. The lineup of tattooists is create and move it on to a charity. We’ve all been given spectacular for a start, including legend Mark Giant opportunities – given a chance in tattooing and if we from San Fran and Emily Soichet from France. There’s can give something back to a charity and it creates an also a silent auction of six Levi denim jackets that have opportunity for another person, that’s great. Money’s been suitably adorned by various tattooists. “You might made round for going around, not flat for stacking.” get one for $50 or pay twice as much as it’s actually Too right mate. worth,” Moody chortles. Last year everyone had to pick an animal whose name In the meantime, he’s flat out getting his ducks in a coincided with their initials, but this year’s design row and having something akin to his own Bridezilla brief is guided by “Mother, Mother Nature, Mother moment. “By the time the show comes around, I’m Earth”. In what’s still a male dominated industry, so busy running around making sure that everyone’s that’s an interesting pick. “I wanted to get a lot more having a good time. I haven’t been married, but I female artists to submit,” Moody explains. “There imagine it’s like being at your own wedding.” are a lot more female artists out there and that’s changing tattooing landscape and levels of community Ink Dots Black Spots is on at 1000 £ Bend on Friday acceptance, but basically, everyone appreciates their October 17. mum. You can’t deny that your mother brought you in,
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THE MESH By Augustus Welby
Having previously collaborated on Dirtyland and The Sea Project, writer Elise Hearst and director Paige Rattray return this week with their new play The Mesh. Hearst’s scripts characteristically address precarious human situations and her latest work is no different. The Mesh focuses on two couples who were forced to flee their homelands and are attempting to establish new lives in a hostile foreign territory. “They met on a boat on the way to the new land and they decided to form their own community,” Rattray explains. “So they’ve become their own family and they feel strong together. We meet them five years into their stay at the new place and they’re up for citizenship. The anxiety and nervousness around that leads them to act in more extreme ways than what they usually would. That’s where we meet them in the play.” While such instances of forced migration are alarmingly prevalent in the contemporary world, they’re certainly not unique to this time in history. “[Hearst’s] grandparents are Austrian Jews who fled Europe during the German occupation,” Rattray says. “Elise is so engaged with her culture and her history and it’s something that she explores quite often in her work. “We’ve worked together to create this piece from the inception,” she adds, “which was from a photograph of her grandparents at a costume party.” By electing to explore politically edged topics, there’s a risk of scaring off certain viewers. Witnessing a barrage of ideological PRESENTED BY assertions is hardly an appealing prospect. Rattray recognises the futility of such a technique. “My worst nightmare going into a theatre is that I’d just get answer, answer, answer along the way. I’d rather questions start snowballing. “It’s actually quite good in this – it shows both sides of the story. The couples aren’t heroes, they’ve got their flaws, they’ve got quite large flaws. They’re human beings, like everyone else.” Much like going to the cinema or seeing live music, theatre is often an opportunity to escape from the humdrum rhythm of everyday activity. The Mesh is evidently a work that encourages thought and discussion, but it’s also designed to transport the viewer beyond their subjective reality. “I really like to create worlds that are new for an audience,” Rattray says. “I love finding atmospheres and tones in these new worlds. But I like the audience to leave asking a lot of questions and having a discussion around it, rather than giving them answers. I think that’s why Elise and I work together so well, because we have a similar view on that. We prefer to provoke a conversation rather than give any answers.” Indeed, for viewers to make a substantial connection with the central themes, it’s necessary for them to become immersed SPONSORED BY SUPPORTING in the narrative first. “Quite often Elise’s work, the main story line is quite a simple one so then she can explore symbolism and metaphor and these other creations within it, which I love. She’s kind of a cross between [Harold] Pinter and Caryl Churchill. That’s how I see her work.” As mentioned, The Mesh was inspired by the real life experiences of Hearst’s family members, but the plot isn’t a biographical recount. In fact, even though it’s a tale of unnerving human struggle, a healthy portion of surrealism tempers the central gravitas. “They are dark themes and ideas, but [Hearst] manages to insert quite a bit of humour,” Rattray says. “I think that’s something that runs in her family – they like a bit of a joke and having a bit of fun and so she inserts that into her texts. “There’s these two great characters in the play called the Suits; Suit one and two. They almost terrorise the couples, but at the same time she manages to make them incredibly funny and entertaining. Working on work that does explore these really dark themes, it’s nice to have a bit of fun with it and find the joy in it.” Having a bit of fun is basically what drives the play’s narrative events. In their attempt to find a sense of identity, the four central characters are engaged in a costume party – Clara is a butterfly, Lotte a witch, Max a king and Wolf… a wolf. Now, what good is a silly costume party without an equally fantastic soundtrack? “We have a ‘60s piano organ that the cast are playing and singing with and it’s wild,” Rattray reveals. “I love it. Our composer is just going nuts on it. It’s amazing, everyone’s getting a bit pumped about the piano organ.” Rattray won’t go so far as to describe The Mesh as a piece of musical theatre, but songs feature prominently throughout the play. “I think that secretly Elise has been trying to do this for a long time because she’s a big fan of musicals, but I’ve never really risen to the challenge. She just happened to get it in here somehow. But it does make sense with the costume parties. They want to create their own little world within this new world and it’s their form of escapism.” Despite this one slight taste discrepancy, Hearst and Rattray’s longstanding association means they’ve developed a fruitful collaborative chemistry. Their intimate familiarity with each other’s manner of working emboldens their creative decisions. “I find Elise really inspiring and her writing is so magical that I always have loved working with her,” Rattray says. “So any chance that I get, I will.”
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US AND THEM: SYMPHONIC PINK FLOYD By Meg Crawford
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In July 1990 Roger Waters played a concert in the dead space between the Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall’s former “no-mans land”, to celebrate the Wall’s demise. The Wall – Live in Berlin wasn’t a Pink Floyd concert though – the band hated each other’s guts even back then. Waters had to call upon a range of other celebs Band-Aid style to get the event off the ground and took a massive financial hit for the affair, despite the fact it was sold out: the consequence of a little bit of disunity amid reunification. Berliners couldn’t have given a flying proverbial though: 350,000 people bought tickets and at the last minute the gates were opened up so that another 100,000 people could watch. Even though it wasn’t even close to the band playing, Pink Floyd took on epic proportions in Berlin’s collective conscience. Fast forward and Aussie conductor Michael Woods is in Berlin conducting Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd for his first time and the response is feverish – his concert’s coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the epic ’89 gig. “I didn’t really understand the significance of it when I was first engaged to do it,” Woods laughs. “I did Symphonic Pink Floyd for the first time with the local State Orchestra in the Berlin Concert House – I was immediately aware of it being a different time. All of their bookshops were full of both English and German language Pink Floyd things and Pink Floyd was really an iconic band of the time for them, so something like Symphonic Pink Floyd was immediately attractive.” Indeed - sell out shows followed. Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd was the brainchild of Jaz Coleman, from English post-punk outfit Killing Joke. Coleman had some interesting views about how music evolves and becomes accepted in the mainstream. “A couple of the members were drinking in a pub on a Sunday afternoon in Hampstead and arguing about what makes a classic,” explains Woods. “The conclusion was that even if you took something which was progressive at the time, it could up becoming a classic and that something that was a classic, or very popular in one genre, may well become a classic and accepted in another. Coleman was challenged to see if he could start orchestrating some of this Pink Floyd stuff and he started with Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. The aim was to making something that could not only be accepted and covered by a big symphony orchestra, but would be regarded as a classic piece.” The London Philharmonic caught wind of and commissioned the project and Us and Them was the result. The score combines songs from Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, which as any dedicated Floydian will know, are symphonic sprees in the first place. The London Philharmonic performed and recorded it subsequently and it went straight to the top of the Billboard crossover charts and became part of the repertoire of many European orchestras, thereby proving Coleman right. Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd is certainly not the first cross-over work, the Stones, Nirvana and Queen have also received the treatment, but it’s probably one of
the best loved and most famous. It’s not just a matter of giving some Pink Floyd songs some orchestral backing or having an orchestra doing a Pink Floyd concert, replacing a tune line with the instrument that can most closely replicate it. “This genre is quite different,” notes Woods. “The thematic and melodic material and the atmosphere and mood of each song has been taken and put in an orchestral setting. So, in this case there are ten movements and some of them are immediately obvious – their rhythm, melody and orchestration – it just couldn’t be any other piece, but there are others where the mood and the themes are brought in a little bit differently. All are recognisable once you get into them as being based upon the material from Pink Floyd, there’s nothing freaky or anything, but it’s more a fantasia [a composition in fanciful or irregular form or style].” Woods was a teenager when Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall came out and although he was aware of the hits, he wasn’t a diehard fan: he was more impressed when he was given Atom Heart Mother. “That was a beautiful album,” he reflects. “I was attracted to its differences. Other albums of the period had really short songs and a lot of Pink Floyd’s stuff is going for 10, 12, 15 minutes and they were using a full range of orchestral sound and percussion.” No wonder it appealed to Woods, given the orchestral career that unfolded. Woods’ orchestral conducting training was with hallowed UK conductor John Hopkins. He also happens to be a classically trained trombone player, so he’s played as well as conducted all over the world. Despite the Mozart and Beethoven background, he’s often played on the other side of the classical fence – the cross-over genre floats his boat. “As a trombone player I was very lucky to be in positions where I played large scale crossovers or pops. I’m drawn to them because it’s really music for everybody. People of all agendas, age groups, backgrounds, education in terms of musical awareness and tastes can be given experiences, and although not everyone can be accommodated each time, we can put on programs which are attractive to a large number of people. It’s a pity that some people stay away because they’ve been led to believe that there’s a wall between the different genres – if you like that you wouldn’t like that – part of our process is breaking that down.”
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ARMAGEDDON
By Avrille Bylok-Collard
As the year draws together its imminent close, Armageddon marks the final major pop culture event in Melbourne for this year. This weekend you’ll be able to swoon over the likes of Superman star (the original movies from 1978 onwards) Margot Kidder, Star Trek movienut Judson Scott and sharp-witted Doctor Who sidekick and Death Comes to Pemberley star Jenna Coleman, just to name a few.
“We’ve been going for eight years now. We were the first event of this size and this type in Melbourne,” explains Armageddon director and general geek-stuff lover, Scott Liston. Since its first expo Armageddon has grown an illustrious reputation as a convention that bears minor resemblances to Supanova and Oz Comic-Con with its heavy sci-fi guest list, but with a twist: it’s more fanorientated. “[When] all the other events started to pop-up, I took a step back, looked at everything and thought: ‘You know what? The shows need to be different. There’s no use in us copying each other and doing the same stuff.’” “So I started looking at what type of show would I would to attend as a fan. What do I want to see? What am I into? And, you know, I’m into everything,” adds Liston jokingly, later explaining how his taste ranges from Star Wars to Marvel comics and to Superman and Doctor Who. “What do I want to hear about? What are the discussions that I want to [listen to]?” With these questions in mind, Liston
realised what he really wanted from Armageddon was a convention that wasn’t wholly guest-centric, a convention that focused on the fans, just like his con-going days. “I used to be an attendee at conventions,” says Liston, detailing his experiences with nostalgic charm. “Events like this [Armageddon, Supanova, etc] have only been around 12 years. In Australia, there wasn’t anything prior to that. It was all one-day conventions dedicated to Star Wars or Doctor Who, etc. [Though] they’re a lot more personal and enjoyable,” if you’re a hardcore fan, Liston noted that they weren’t that inclusive. “Something like Armageddon is about including everybody into it and nurturing the next generation of fans. It isn’t about [just] the celebrity guests. It’s about fans coming together and enjoying themselves, learning something and having fun.” This notion was the principle behind the foundation of the Fan Stage at Armageddon. A literal platform that allows fans and new geeks to discuss and share their ideas and
knowledge about all things con-going. Whether this is through Melbourne Costume Group’s panel Costuming 101: What’s it all about?, where we hope they divulge the secrets behind their sublime costumes, or Doctor Who, Star Trek and Star Wars fans battling it off for the title of mostknowledgeable in The Fan Club Trivia Challenge. “It’s all [informative entertainment] panels, fan club panels, etc,” explains the vehement Star Wars fan. “A lot of exhibitors are giving panels in their areas of expertise. Millennium Collectables are doing one on how to look after your autographs [because] the celebrity guests are there [and] people are buying their autographs – what do they do with them? Do they know how to look after these things that they’ve bought? Do they know to maintain their value? [Because], as you know, autographs are a big business worldwide.” Armageddon will also include an introduction to the comics universe with Fan Panel Comics: Where do I start? Four of Australia’s biggest comic book retailers, All Star Comics, Classic Comics, Gifts for the Geek and Kings Comics, will host it. It will be the second year that the panel will run, considering its appeal to all attendees, regardless of their comic book experience. “They’ll talk about what’s the latest good read,” and explain where to start in the Batman series because “75-yearsworth [of comics] can be a bit daunting.” Not only that, but some of the old back issues can fetch up to $75 or more per issue. That’s $2.50 per page. You don’t even pay that much when photocopying colour A4 at Officeworks; and you can’t expect a beginner comic book reader to pay that much. “People ask: ‘Do I have to start at the start?’,”
continues Liston. “’No you don’t and they will chat about that sort of thing.” Armageddon takes place this Saturday October 18 and Sunday October 19 at the Melbourne Showgrounds from 9am – 6pm each day. More information can be found through armageddonexpo.com.
TREVOR NOAH By Stephanie Yip
When South Africa’s Trevor Noah was younger, the notion that he would one day become a world-renowned comedian was unthinkable. This is not because his Swiss father was bred into a culture whose closest understanding of the profession was a “clown”. Or because it was his friends’ idea, not his, that Noah put his hand up at an open mic night they just “happened to be at” that caused him to fall in love with performing. (Both true stories, by the way.) No, it was because it wasn’t until recently that comedy was permissible in South Africa. “[Comedy] was illegal until 1994,” says Noah. “We couldn’t speak up against the government – you’d get arrested for doing that. Any gathering of people who’d do that was highly likely to get arrested, so that’s why comedy was not a big thing. It was just something that could not happen.” But now? “It’s changed completely,” he says. “That’s the wonderful thing.” Like Noah’s culturally responsive breed of stand-up, which is returning to Australian shores on his Lost In Translation tour in October, South African comedy is a very new, very different, but very exciting scene to belong to. “It’s a totally different world from what most people are used to comedy being,” Noah says. “The rules are very different, which is
nice to see. Each place has its own style, its own dynamic. What’s crazy in Africa is that the comedy scene hasn’t been dictated by Western comedy. So it’s really been its own beautiful machine and it’s taking shape in a different way. It’s really nice to watch it evolve.” The same can be said for Noah’s shows, which began as any young performer’s shows would: with material harbouring a restricted view of the world. “I had no world experience and no life experience, so obviously the material was based around the fundamentals of a 20-year-old life. That was sex, alcohol and parties,” he says. Now, with Noah aged 30, all three have pretty much been stricken from his show, replaced with an acerbic wit and a racially challenging
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script. “Over the years I’ve grown as a comedian in terms of trying to find my voice, speaking more about what I think, and incorporating more about what’s happening around me,” he says. Noah achieves this by spending long days in the cities he’s performing in, interacting with the people as much as possible so that he can communicate with his audience effectively. “I try to remain conscious of the place that I’m in. I read the news, walk around the city and see what’s happening around me.” It’s such a natural, everyday process that by the time he’s onstage it feels more like “hanging out with friends” than performing. “You just relay the story to your friends, who are now your audience,” he says. And hope they see the “funniness” in the tale too. Now, I reckon I can see that funniness in his aptly titled Lost In Translation show already (lip my stockings, anyone?)
– but according to Noah, I’m tragically amiss. “I think the show is going to be more than that,” he says. Because, aside from making people laugh, this comedian has another objective in mind for his shows: “You try and find something progressive to the point where you’re talking to an audience that agrees with you or challenges you enough to find the common ground on topics you’re discussing.” So the show’s not really about language that’s lost in translation. “It’s about everything that’s lost in translation,” Noah says. “Things lost in translation in relationships, between parents and children, between governments and their citizens. It’s a much broader concept than a cultural lost-in-translation.” Trevor Noah will perform at Hamer Hall on Monday October 20 and Tuesday November 21.
By Meg Crawford
Brooke Johnston and Sarah Thornton, the creative hearts and minds behind The Finders Keepers markets, have smashed the shit out of the misconception that handmade equals nana. Since 2008 they’ve carefully curated a market which focuses only on innovative design in quality hand-crafted items. The pair became mates when Johnston started dating Thornton’s cousin and realised that they had a happy meeting of the minds when it came to design. They also agreed that there was bugger all back to help an independent label get off the ground and that the existing markets were frustrating. “When I first finished study [as a jewelry designer] I was doing the odd weekend market and I felt that people weren’t after paying more money for something that was hand-made,” Johnston recalls. “That wasn’t why they were going to the markets, so you got attitude about price-point. There wasn’t a real understanding of handmade back then.” As with some of the best ideas, The Finders Keepers markets were conceived over a bevvie. Back then, their goals were modest. “I was thinking the dream event would be in a little hall with 25-30 stalls, a little guitar player in the corner and a few wines,” Johnston laughs. “At that point of time, we weren’t even after a career in it. We did know that we wanted to attract the right
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people though. We knew that a lot of people in our circle appreciated handmade and we just needed more likeminded people in one space - that’s how the markets and the idea for our community came about.” Compare the idea at its inception to the behemoth undertaking The Finders Keepers markets have become: the next Melbourne market features 220 design and art stalls, DJs, bands and the recent additions of a vintage emporium and a local produce and foodie heaven in the Farmer’s Lane. “It’s become its own beast in a way – I think it was a matter of timing though,” Johnston laughs modestly. “We’ve been absolutely overwhelmed with how it’s grown. Never in our lives did we think it’d be like this. Never.” Johnston’s had a lot of moments where she’s blinked in wonder at how it’s all unfolded. She’s got a favourite “holy shit” moment though. “Yeah, it was our last Melbourne market,” she reflects (of course it was). “It was our biggest yet – we had 275 stalls, we’d
just introduced the Farmer’s Lane to Melbourne and we had record crowds. We were just blown-away by how many people turned up to support it.” They’ve given themselves a big brief too – their mission is to educate the community to invest in local and independent design and to inspire others. The ladies have achieved this goal largely by curating the market and giving preference to designers who’re starting off or who haven’t done the markets before. They’ve got a debut program too - 20 stalls are available to design newbies at a discounted price, making it accessible to designers at whatever point they’re at in their careers. Given the length of time for which The Finders Keepers markets have been a-go, Johnston’s been delighted to see some of those newbies flourish. “A lot of designers we still know,” she explains. “But we’ve seen designers come on as debuts and then go from strength to strength and then have huge booths at trade fairs – they’re now making amazing careers out of it.” It’s the element of curation that really sets The Finders Keepers markets apart: Johnston and Thornton work hard to even out categories and make sure that they’re not saturating the markets with anything. For instance,
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although jewelry is really popular, they bust their chops to make sure that it’s not overcrowded with the same sort of thing and copy-cat items are barred. They’re also after innovation, a cohesive range and items that are well photographed and branded. Then there are trends to contend with and the no small matter of personal preference. “We have to set aside our own tastes” she admits. Does that mean Johnston’s ever let a stall through to the keeper that she’s hated? Her response is diplomatic. “Not hated,” she chortles (which you can probably take as a yes). “There are definitely things in there that I’m more fond of though. There’s 200 stalls, so that’s gotta to happen.” Johnston’s got some advice for budding designers too. “Don’t rush the product,” she says without hesitation. “Make sure you’ve got a really strong brand identity, because that’s quite big now – it’ll catch the customer’s and retailer’s eye - and don’t copy.” The Finders Keepers market hits the Royal Exhibition Building on Friday October 17 and Saturday October 18. Visit thefinderskeepers.com for more details.
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Electronic music certainly isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s becoming an increasingly saturated field of creative exploration. The wide distribution of digital recording tools in recent years has made dabbling with electronic production a more approachable option than ever before. Due to the new technology’s immense usability, technical know-how is no longer imperative. And just like smartphones have basically severed the facility of memory, state-of-the-art home studio software has given rise to stacks of gratuitous electronic music. “I remember when I was a kid coming up,” says one half of The Aston Shuffle, Mikah Freeman. “If I wanted to learn how to get that great compression sound on a snare, or how to comp vocals, I’d literally spend hours and hours of my time working it out. Whereas now you can do a Google search and come up with infinite answers on how to achieve those things you’re after. So the possibilities are endless, but the signal-to-noise ratio is probably out of control.” Freeman and his Aston Shuffle co-pilot Vance Musgrove have just signed on as Budweiser Made For Music mentors. In a nutshell, Made For Music is a brand new website devoted to fostering burgeoning talent in local electronic music. The site will give away prizes to artists of especial note, but more importantly, a group of experts will offer constructive guidance to all registered musicians.
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“It’s always good to have someone there to bounce musical ideas [off] and help you with your learning curves,” Freeman says. “Myself, Uberjak’d and also the Universal Music people will be listening to every sort of clip that gets uploaded. If I was an upand-coming bedroom producer I would certainly put myself out there and get some really good experienced ears listening to my music and hopefully get some advice that would further my music creation.” The Aston Shuffle got their first breakthrough back in 2006 with a string of self-released remixes. They soon turned towards original production and have since become Australian festival favourites, as well as branching out overseas. The Aston Shuffle’s second LP Photographs landed in March this year, containing plenty of the exceedingly listenable yet club-ready house music they’re renowned for. “When Vance and I were writing and learning to produce, it was basically about going, ‘OK, I really like what that person’s doing in that sound, I might try to see if I can replicate it,’ just to know how to do it. When we built up enough skill sets and started writing music together, we were trying to draw from all these influences that really resonate with us, but bring them out in our own way. “A lot of people, when they hear an Aston Shuffle song, they kind
of know it’s us. Whether it’s something downtempo or banging, it’s about really bringing your own unique vibe to your songs.” Developing a sound of their own has allowed The Aston Shuffle’s two constituents to call music their profession for the better part of a decade now. Freeman encourages all young musicians to adopt a similar attitude. “The tricky part is making sure you sound different or you’re adding new ideas to these same values,” he says. “I urge a lot of people when they’re starting out to just learn how to produce songs and sounds that they really love and then move onto other things. By the time you have something to say, you can kind of draw upon all those influences and have all these different skill sets to help you write what you actually want to write.” Of course, placing too much stress on devising an unprecedented combination of sound and thought is likely to preclude some of your most exciting ideas. Retaining a spirit of adventure is also particularly valuable for cultivating a distinct artistic voice. “When you’re young and you’re just starting out, there’s this reckless abandon that you have in all facets [of what you do],” Freeman says. “You’re just vibing on writing music and you don’t really care about what’s going on in the outside world. “It’s about latching onto things that you really like within certain sounds and genres and bringing them out in your own way. Sincerity is key in all things that you do. People aren’t stupid, they can tell if you’re blatantly ripping off the latest hot record in town.” The Aston Shuffle mightn’t have churned out what you’d describe as the ‘hottest record in town’, but in the last handful of years they’ve established a solid fan base while building a repertoire they can truly be proud of. And with creating something unique as their primary goal, there’s plenty more to discover. “It feels like we’re still going after it,” Freeman says. “We’re still hungrier than ever. What we were writing seven or eight years ago was certainly different to now, but there’s still that love and passion in what we do. We’re certainly not going to rest on our laurels. “The music is almost like the base part of having a music career. It’s all about content; constantly being in people’s faces with social media and stuff like that. The game has changed a lot in the last ten years and it’s very much an adapt-or-die type of situation. [But] it beats a real job, that’s for sure.”
Register with Budweiser Made For Music at budweisermadeformusic.com.au by Friday October 31. Photographs is out now through EMI. They’ll also play at Stereosonic which will take place in Melbourne on Saturday December 6 and Sunday December 7.
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ghostface killah Get ready to throw your “W” in the air. Wu Tang Clan’s Ghosface Killah has announced a Melbourne headline show on the back of his appearance at Meredith. One of the most iconic hip hop artists of all time, Ghostface Killah debuted his solo career with Ironman in 1996 and has released a stream of critically acclaimed albums since. Known for his fast-paced flow and emotional stream-of-consciousness narratives, the New York rapper is largely considered one of the greatest MCs in the game. Ghostface Killah will hit The Espy on Friday December 19.
the pharcyde Timeless West Coast rappers The Pharcyde are returning to Melbourne. It’s been well over two decades since the group dropped their seminal debut album Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. Expect a smattering of hits including Oh Shit, Otha Fish, Ya’ Mama and Passing Me By when they return next month. They’ll hit The Espy on Thursday November 27.
blackstreet Blackstreet’s back and there’s no diggity you’re going to want to get in on this one. The Grammy Award winning group behind hits like No Diggity, The City Is Mine and I Get So Lonely will return to our shores for only the second time this December. They’ll hit Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for a run of one-off shows that will showcase the ‘90s R&B group’s classic set list, smooth vocals and dynamic live set up. Blackstreet will hit Trak on Friday December 12.
prosumer Animals Dancing have done it again. They’ll welcome back deep disco-house auteur Prosumer to The Mercat later this month. The trip will mark the former Panorama Bar resident’s third stint in the basement, with his last two appearances reaching capacity. Catch him on Friday October 31 at The Mercat.
maitreya festival home straight celebration Don’t miss a once in a life time opportunity to celebrate the end of the Crown Golden Ale Caulfield Cup Carnival, on the home straight. Caulfield will be opening up the gates onto the racetrack, allowing race goers exclusive access on to the course proper for the Home Straight Celebration. This is a one-time opportunity due to the Caulfield track being redeveloped straight after the Cup. Havana Brown, will be located by the Winning Post as she entertains the crowd after the last race. The platinum selling artist will be returning from LA to her home town of Melbourne for this exclusive performance. Havana Brown has recently finished mentoring on The Voice 2014 alongside Ricky Martin and will be releasing her brand new single Better Not Said in September. It goes down on Saturday October 18.
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Heading into its third year at Sea Lake in Victoria’s Malee Region, Maitreya Festival have announced the first six acts on their international music lineup. The four day camping festival which encourages creativity to turn the camp area into a circus of colour and tarpaulin, positive energy and making friends, have dropped their first international music lineup. Representing the United Kingdom is DJ Tristan, in Australia for the first time since taking over main stage at Rainbow Serpent Festival, and Avalon, the two will also combine to form psytrance duo Killerwatts. In their 11th year, progressive house duo Tube & Berger will be coming from Germany, after performing at the festival in 2008 Sweden’s Atmos will play three hours of his laid back progressive dance music and Serbia’s Sonic Entity round up the announcement. The festival also features a variety of market stalls, featuring local made wares, art, food and drink, as a place to re-energize, connect, explore, and relax. Maitreya Festival takes place at Sea Lake in Victoria’s Malee Region from Friday March 6 until Monday March 9.
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club guide wednesday oct 15
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BOOTY WORK Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
thursday oct 16
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. BRETT LEE + DOLLHOUSE + BOB HUTCHISON Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. CITIPOWER - FEAT: TIM HEANY + SAM HILTON Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. CQ SESSIONS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GOOD EVENING Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. LOVE STORY - FEAT: TRANTER + SLEEVES + MEGAWUOTI + SUPREMES + MICKEY P Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. 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.
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friday oct 17
DJ LOVE HERTZ Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. #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. BASENJI Liberty Social, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. BREAD & BUTTER FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DIGGIN THE SLOWNESS - FEAT: MISS GOLDIE + DANIEL HARVEY + DAVE WICKERSON Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. DJ JUMBO + SEYMOUR POPE Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 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. FLAWLESS QUEER PARTY - FEAT: BABY BONUS + COMEBACK KID DJS + DEEP TROUBLE + BEY DANCE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $12.00. 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. GROOVE CONTROL - FEAT: MAXWELL + CHICO G Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. HARD KANDY 15TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: DJ ISAAC + LUCA ANTOLINI + TONESHIFTERZ + JOSH LANG + STEVE HILL 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $70.00. ILL RESPONSE + B-TWO + NO NAME NATH Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. LA DANSE MACABRE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LUSH FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Hush Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. MI CASA - FEAT: RETZA + SILVERSIX + DAMON WALSH + LUCCA TAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 1:00am. MISTY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ JNETT Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + KATIE DROVER + SAFARI + OLIBUSTA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. STEEPLJACK & THE HUFF’N’PUFF CHIMNEY FEAT: HAROLD + MASON MADDY + DANNY BALEARICA + DJ GRANT CAMOV New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. THE FRIDAY CLUB - FEAT: DJ OBLIVEUS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm. TUNES BY KNAVE KNIXX Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
saturday oct 18
#GOTHPARTY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. AMAROS + LITTLEFOOT + OVERDOZE + ETSY Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. 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. BANQUET - FEAT: INDIAN SUMMER + ACADDAMY + SPACEY SPACE + DOM DOLLA Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. BIG MOUTH SATURDAYS FEAT: DJ ROWIE + ANDYCAN + NACKERS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 9:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. EMRSN + DRU CHEN + M-PHAZE + FLAGRANT Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. GARDEN BEATS - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. GROOVEMENT (NO BOUNDARIES) - FEAT: OLLIE WILKES + MONKEY PAWS + MARCUS HOLDER + VIKTOR + CLARE BLAKE + SHANNON BRIGGS + BIANCA TANZEN Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW + GRAYSKULL + KELTEC + MYLES MAC + PETER BAKER + REV. THORN + SAM MCEWIN + SHANE COPAL + TOM EVANS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. LOOSE JOINTS - FEAT: MIDNIGHT TENDERNESS + GRANT CAMOV + WOZ + TUSCAN PRINCE + RORY MCPIKE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. M-PHAZES + OBLIVEUS + MR LOB Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MIDNIGHT RUN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. $7.00. POWER STATION New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. RESPECT Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. $20.00. SATURDAY MORNING FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. THE HOUSE DEFROST FEAT: ANDY FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $35.00. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + MAT CANT + GET BU$Y + SAMMY THE BULLET. 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. TUNES BY SABO - FEAT: DJ SABO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. TWO OF HEARTS REUNION - FEAT: GREG MOLINARO + CHRISTO + DANIELSAN + MIKE GURRIERI + HUSSEY + MATT PRODAN + CHRIS
BONATO + ROGER DODGE + COTEEN Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. VAULT SATURDAYS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. WE LOVE HOUSE MUSIC Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $15.30. WOBBLE PRESENTS 04 La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
JON (H22 TOUR) + PEEZO + GRIFFIN BRAIN + SFKNG Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $5.00. MELLOW-DIAS THUMP - FEAT: CAZEAUX O.S.L.O + GEEZY + RAAGHE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
thursday oct 16
JELLO DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: SILENTJAY + VERSAJ Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. THE REBIRTH OF COOL - FEAT: DJ MR LOB Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
friday oct 17
BUMP FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ KAHLUA
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Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. FRIDAY NIGHT RHYTHM - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE + SCARLETT MINX The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ROYALTY NOISE Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. UNDERGROUND SPRING MELBOURNE The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.50.
saturday oct 18
KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Mel-
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sunday oct 19
BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. CARIBBEAN COOKOUT #10 - FEAT: MS BUTT + MOONCHILD + BUMAYE + QUASHANI BAHD + ZEE + TY TAI Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00pm. DJ SOCIAL SERVICES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm. DRUM & BASS ARENA FEAT: THE UPBEATS + DC BREAKS + CYANTIFIC + TECHNIMATIC Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.00. 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. POP CULTURE - FEAT: KODIAK KID + THE CHIEF + DICE FX + ANGUS GREEN + RHYTHMIK Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS & FREAKSHOW DISCO PARTY #3 - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SILVERSIX + T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 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 oct 20
STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ ROMAN WAFERS + DJ MICHAEL OZONE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
tuesday oct 21
CUSHION TUESDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. REVOLUTION - FEAT: JIMMY JAMES & J’NETT Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
urban club guide wednesday oct 15
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bourne Cbd. 9:30pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUA & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
sunday oct 19
BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00. VISIBLE MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: BIRDZ + YIRRMAL & THE YOLNGU BOYS + TAQI KHAN The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 3:00pm.
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TANGErINE DrEAM
By Keats Mulligan
Tangerine Dream are a particularly prolific outfit. They’ve released over 100 albums on top of various other compositions and musical efforts. For Edgar Froese, founder and only constant member of Tangerine Dream, his work is his art. His approach to it is anything but formulaic. There’s a strong sense of experimentation nestled beneath often simple progressions and tones. The deliberation that goes into the composition of these works is what distinguishes them from so many others that have tried, often in vain, to mimic the sounds of groups like Tangerine Dream. “Without a compelling and challenging factor for a musician, there wouldn’t be an interesting result for those listening and watching,” Froese says, describing the approach to composing his work. “The more your art is a mirror of your subjective love and hate and your every day fight for a better result, the more people will feel a personal kind of resonance towards your serious ideas.” In a contemporary setting, Tangerine Dream mightn’t seem as experimental and avant-garde as it truly is. In the world of electronic music, early Tangerine Dream releases were about as experimental as they got, manipulating sound in ways that were truly groundbreaking, and pioneering a style of music that would eventually come to be as present in the modern musical lexicon as just about any genre. The musical development of Edgar Froese from heritage instrumentation to electronic equipment is fascinating to observe. “Starting with acoustic instruments in my childhood, moving to electric and analogue equipment in my youth, moving further into the adventure of using
digital components for performing and recording and finally ending up working within the complete unlimited open systems of newer computer hardware and software has been a journey which is incomparable for an artist like myself,” he says. “I was very gifted to have this chance, meeting very interesting people and trying to serve the music the best way possible. Of course every new technology has changed my perception, my perspectives towards new horizons in creating sounds, performing and recording methods as well as learning from others. I was always listening carefully to those who invented new technologies, without some of these great minds like Bob Moog, Tangerine Dream’s music would not have been possible.” Tangerine Dream’s musical efforts haven’t been limited to singles, EPs and albums. Creating music for a number of different platforms is something that has typified Tangerine Dream’s attitude to music throughout their career. The group has worked on a number of film scores, and more recently, they’ve ventured into the world of video game scores, perhaps most notably
including the score for Grand Theft Auto V. “There is a creative meeting and melting point of two art forms which both have to be transformed into one story glued together, supporting but not disturbing each other,” says Froese. “Working within the movie industry for many years, I’m very familiar with all the pros and cons of the genre. The great thing about it is the relationship between two elements which both have a strong physical as well as psychological moving factor: the picture and the sound. Both elements are permanently changing their centre point, becoming counterpoints and even working surprisingly irritatingly on various levels of the viewer’s perception. “I did a big portion of work for Rockstar’s GTA V (Open World Game), which has taken my full creative attention for nearly seven months, creating 62 hours of sounds and multi-track themes,” he says. “The work here is completely different from a linear driven chronology like you’re faced with in a movie for the big screen. The fact that you’re faced with reacting to an interactive platform all the time is a big challenge if you want to do a professional score.” Unsurprisingly it’s Tangerine Dream’s enthusiasm in the progressive and the peculiar that see them coming to Melbourne for a number of unique performances. On top of performing a show of their own music in a more traditional setting, they’ll also be playing their
score of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer live, alongside the visual of the film as a part of Melbourne Music Week. Froese will also be here to discuss his career in music as a keynote speaker at Face the Music. “I can’t and don’t want to read a user manual on how to become a creative developer, performer and sales man of modern music technology,” he notes. “My view to music is very different, maybe too different just for a short panel, but what I would love to explain is the fact that music – being the most abstract art form – can change your perception towards your aims in life, and can even trigger something within you to make yourself think about some of the fundamental questions a human being is faced with. Not giving ultimate answers, but challenging yourself to start asking. Too many people are waiting for answers, but have forgotten to bring up questions.”
life crisis alarm bells set off by Super Pretty Naughty, Neverlove is propelled by an explicitly personal and fiercely independent spirit. But, even though it’s not the cloying campaign for superstardom that some fans might’ve feared, Terfry isn’t completely oblivious to the fact he’s running a commercial enterprise. “I am delivering something that they [Warner music] need to turn around and try to sell,” he says. “That doesn’t mean that I go overboard making all sorts of decisions that really corrupt my own vision and creative process, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about it at all. “The thought occurred to me after I had the record in the can, ‘There might be some people who’ll relate to this because just about everyone has gone through a breakup and maybe a divorce’.” While Terfry acknowledges it’s imperative to produce work with viable marketability, this notion doesn’t interfere with his songwriting ambitions. “When it comes time to offer these things up, you come to those realisations that not only will people hear this material, but I’ll also have to answer to it. I have a hard time understanding why, [but] I don’t really think
about that at the time while I’m writing or while I’m recording. At that time it just feels like it’s something that I have to do.” As a result of this unfettered creative approach, many of Neverlove’s lyric-loaded compositions are a showcase of Terfry’s innermost thoughts and feelings. While there are times when our narrator sounds obstinately crestfallen, Terfry says putting his heart and soul into the album provided redemption for some of the darkest moments of his life. “When I wrote the song Baby Blanket, it was so heavy it felt like I was holding my own head underwater. But I woke up the next day feeling great for the first time in months. I felt like I took all the negative things I was going through and I turned it into currency with which I bought back something good in my life. I was able to step back and say ‘I made something really strong there’. It felt extra good knowing that the price I had to pay to create something like that was an awful one.”
TANGERINE DREAM are in town for the first time since 1975. Be sure to catch them during Melbourne Music Week. They’ll play the 10,000 pipes of the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ on Sunday November 16, will perform the complete score to Sorcerer at ACMI on Thursday November 20, and Edgar Froese will deliver a keynote at Face The Music 2014 on Friday November 14 - Saturday 15. Phew!
BUCK 65 By Augustus Welby Super Pretty Naughty, the lead single from Buck 65’s brand new LP Neverlove, is probably the most vanilla thing the Canadian alt-rapper’s ever released. The music video finds Buck (aka Richard Terfry) feigning cool, wearing shiny bling and obnoxious sunglasses, while hoards of women cavort around him. Meanwhile, the song’s chorus features the refrain “I wanna get messed up and get laid and cake on my birthday,” spoken over a pedestrian pop/EDM arrangement. It’s an oddly embarrassing move from an artist whose reputation rests on abstract lyricism and 20 years of continual musical evolution. But the thing is, the song’s so blatantly garish that Buck 65 fans should know better than to take it at face value. “I guess it’s pretty obvious to anyone that it’s not meant to be taken seriously, which is great,” Terfry says. “It was really just a way to kill an afternoon and get my mind off some heavy things. So it was meant primarily as something to make myself and my producer laugh.” Ever since Terfry’s low-key career beginnings in Canada’s Nova Scotia precinct back in the mid-‘90s, he’s never been inclined towards what’s in fashion. It’s thus interesting to note that Super Pretty Naughty wasn’t simply issued as a joke. Rather, it’s an official single, which sits bang in the centre of Neverlove’s track sequence. “There wasn’t the intent to include it on the album at all when it was first made,” Terfry says. “But then a few people heard it and the reaction to it was quite strong, so it took on a life of its own pretty quickly. “To be honest I was really bracing myself for people to say how much they hate it,” he adds. “I put a post up on Facebook sort of apologising for the song and waiting
for the backlash, but it didn’t really come.” Similar to Super Pretty Naughty, the remainder of the record was conceived as way of fending off encroaching mental demons. However, the single’s 2D hedonism is completely at odds with the thematic concerns that define Neverlove. Released towards the end of last month, the record is an unapologetic requiem for a broken relationship. “It’s a divorce record; it’s pretty gloomy,” Terfry explains. “I was in a really dark, rough spot and I was just trying to get through it the only way I knew how.” Due to its intimate personal nature, Neverlove has more in common with Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks or Josh T. Pearson’s Last of the Country Gentlemen than the Katy Perry teen pop channelled on the lead single. “There was no filter at all,” Terfry says. “The first song that I wrote for the record was Baby Blanket. It’s an unbelievably heavy song that even I have a hard time listening to myself right now. One day I played it to the president of my record label and he said ‘That makes me extremely uncomfortable to listen to, but I think that’s exactly why we should include it on the record’. To be honest, it made me feel quite vulnerable.” By now we’ve established that, despite the mid-
5 THINGS with WISHFUL 1. Growing Up Since the early days of sitting on our bunk beds singing into a tape recorder, and charging our family and friends 50 cents to watch our concerts in the backyard, we have been completely immersed in music. Both our parents are musicians, along with pretty much our whole family; there is never a Kelly gathering without a talent quest or some sort of performance. Everyone encourages and inspires each others’ creativity and passion for music. 2. Inspirations Being sisters, we are very inspired by other sibling musicians – Vika and Linda Bull, First Aid Kit, Angus & Julia Stone. We love the way sibling voices
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sound together. A lot of our songwriting inspiration comes from our surroundings. We travelled a lot as kids, stayed in rural Australian communities, grew up near the ocean and now live in the inner city, all of which form the inspiration for a lot of our song lyrics. 3. Your Band We’re a five-piece band called Wishful, and we are the perfect combination of sassy and cute. We met at Queenscliff Music Festival, and came together over our mutual love of puns and brunch. Like most people, we enjoy playing with other local bands. Our favourites are Animaux. Playwrite, The Darjeelings, Harrison Storm and Five Mile Town.
4. The Music You Make We play eclectic dream-pop music, with elements of indie-pop/rock/folk. We like singing harmonies and swapping instruments. Our debut EP Fifty Days (2012), as well as our upcoming EP S, were both recorded in our backyard goat shed. S was recorded at the start of 2014 and engineered by Sam Lowe. Expect heaps of sass and suave, sangas’n’sauce, sailors and sailboats, socks and sandals at our EP launch. 5. Music, Right Here, Right Now Music is such a fundamental part of Australian culture; Melbourne in particular has an extremely diverse and vibrant music scene that is constantly moving and evolving. As a band we’re really fortunate to be based in a city bursting with creativity and music culture, as it’s given us the opportunity to perform at some great live venues and become part of an incredible music community.
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You can see BUCK 65 bring his unique brand of hip hop to the Foxtel Festival Hub on Wednesday October 22. Tix through melbournefestival.com.au.
WISHFUL launch their second EP, S, this Friday October 17 at The Grace Darling. With supports from the lovely Frida and lively Five Mile Town, you’d have to be a stone-hearted fool to miss it. $10, sandals not included.
AUGIE MARCH
By Augustus Welby
Augie March have just unveiled their fifth record, Havens Dumb. It’s about bloody time, too. Watch Me Disappear, the band’s superb fourth LP, came out precisely six years ago. While this lengthy interval caused fans to fret about the future of the Victorian fivepiece, it seems that no such worries afflicted the band members. “It never really came up,” says guitarist Adam Donovan. “It was more of a question of time, rather than whether we would or wouldn’t. We probably always knew we would.” Despite Donovan’s calm reassurance, six years is a hefty term of absence. Watch Me Disappear and its predecessor Moo, You Bloody Choir were both major commercial successes, which led to the largest scale shows of Augie March’s career. The extended length of the ensuing rest period suggests that being prized proponents of contemporary Australian culture had taken its toll on the band. Yet, Donovan again dismisses any negativity. “[The Watch Me Disappear] tour was a lot of fun and it was really great and everyone had a good time. So when we played the last show, the mood was up and everybody was good. But it was also [good] to get away from it for a while as well.” Watch Me Disappear came after more than a decade of non-stop work, so it’s no surprise the band members welcomed a break. The time away allowed each individual to effectively refresh and ensured they regrouped as a unanimously motivated unit. When this time came ± initially, three years ago ± the band weren’t scratching for a purpose. “Glenn [Richards, vocals/guitar] has always got songs that require and demand your attention,” Donovan says, “so it didn’t feel like we were just getting back together for the sake of it. There was work to be done and music to be made.”
As has been the case with Augie March’s previous four releases, Richards penned all of Havens Dumb’s 14 tracks. Each song deftly balances instrumental elegance, contemplative melodies and intricately wrought lyricism. The rest of the band’s task is to dutifully heed to the nuanced shapes of Richards’ compositions. “The way we operate is just trying to treat each song on its merits,” Donovan explains. “Let the song take you where it wants to go and not try to steer the ship in another direction. Try to basically be a bit of a slave servant and do what you’re required to do.” Putting together 14 songs in this manner is a process that could itself take several years. Astoundingly, the final collection was whittled down from a far greater batch of songs. “There was probably somewhere around 50,” Donovan says. “We worked on the first bunch and then another collection of songs and another one. The songs sort of select themselves ± the ones that are most suited to our outfit to go after and make progress with.” Havens Dumb is the first Augie March record made without the backing of major label, Sony Music (formerly BMG). Instead of chasing down another record deal, the band chose to embrace their newfound independence. “I think not having a deadline is a good thing and we
could go at our own pace,” Donovan says. “Having said that, there is always a deadline and that’s usually your own sanity. There are things there that we could have done differently, but nobody will ever know that.” Approaching the record as a listener, it’s hard to identify much in need of revision. Havens Dumb isn’t a major departure from the classic Augie March sound, but it does step into some novel territory, sonically and thematically. Succinctly articulating exactly what constitutes the ‘Augie March sound’ is nigh on impossible, but Donovan underlines one leading aspect. “I would say it’s definitely Glenn’s voice. Glenn’s voice is pretty distinctive and as soon as you hear it, I think that’s our sound.” Richards doesn’t just possess an unmistakable vocal croon ± he’s also a wonderfully incisive poet. Havens Dumb is full of arresting lyrical content, which is liable to provoke constructive thought among discerning listeners. The chorus of album centerpiece Definitive History, for example, features a rather pointed barb at contemporary Australia: “One for the mother, one for the dad/ One for treasurer, one for the plasma screen/ And don’t forget the developer’s dream/ A tumour for them all in the belly of the sprawl.” “As a songwriter, I think you’re allowed to bring up those
things,” Donovan says. “You have to have a message.” Havens Dumb is brimming with similar moments of constructive import, all of them reminders of Augie March’s unique cultural significance. Listeners’ sincere concern about whether Augie March would make another record draws attention to the proud sense of ownership many feel towards the band. This ties in with the fact that several Augie March compositions have been anointed modern Australian classics. Such a reputation could surely weigh down on a band, but Donovan says it wasn’t a present consideration upon plotting their return. “Mainly the duty is to yourself and to do something that you can be proud of. I think that’s what our fans would expect ± for us to do something that we like ± and it’s up to them to interpret it any way that they want. It’s out of our hands at that point.”
the audience and drawing them into his world. “As an artist it’s up to you to engage the audience,” he says. “People come out wanting to be engaged and to have a great time whether it’s a sad gig or a celebratory gig. People want to be engaged with the music. It’s your job to actually make it worth their while to be in that room. I like to put on a show. I can’t help it. It’s just my natural instinct. The rock’n’roll performers that have inspired me over the years always have that element to them. I remember going to see The Cramps when I was 15 and that concert is indelibly etched on my mind. Lux Interior, Poison Ivy and the whole band were just so completely possessed in that moment that the rest of the world didn’t exist while that concert was happening. This is what I like to create. You walk on stage and you do your thing and nothing can sway you from that.” Considering Mikelangelo’s commitment to adrenalising the audience, his upcoming gigs at the Foxtel Festival Hub promise to be memorable events. “Sonically things keep changing in the world of Mikelangelo,” he laughs. “Musically it’s got an evocative, almost cinematic and
epic sound. We have really given the songs a scope. The idea is that you can feel that you are inside this city as you listen. The city is almost like the film and we are making the soundtrack for it. We are working with a filmmaker who has been filming the city and has made all these projections for the show. It will be a multi-media show. The band will be on stage with special guests from the album. There will be different guests on different nights. I hope the whole show feels like you have been drawn up into a dream. And like a dream, some of it will make sense, some of it will be mysterious, some of it will be beautiful, and some of it will be a bit nightmarish. Hopefully it will be an emotional journey.”
AUGIE MARCH are returning with such force their first three shows, Wednesday October 29, Thursday October 30 and Friday October 31 at Howler have sold out. Tickets are still available (for now) for Saturday November 1 and Sunday November 2. They also play MOFO sideshow on Thursday January 1 at Mona.
MIKELANGELO
By Graham Blackley
He’s renowned for his towering stage presence, prodigious work ethic, rich and resonant vocals, cheerful eclecticism, natty attire and immaculately coiffured quiff, and he’s had a rather busy few years. Nominated for Best Male Artist at the 2013 The Age Music Victoria Awards and in May 2013 he completed his eighth tour of the UK, playing over 50 shows in the Famous Spiegeltent with his group Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen. Clearly not wearied by such industriousness, Mikelangelo is about to launch his twelfth independent album Melbourne – City of Dreams. On this fabulous new album Mikelangelo sings dramatically about landmarks such as Nicholson, Bourke and Swanston Streets, as well as Flinders Street Station. He even manages to slip in a reference to the No.96 tram. Interestingly, this entertaining exploration of the familiar and the local was not the result of some conscious plan. “It happened very intuitively,” he says. “I didn’t set out to try to write the songs. They almost started writing themselves. I would walk around the city as I do my things and I’ve always liked looking at the city. Bit by bit over the last couple of years I amassed all these songs. They were just ideas at first and eventually I went, ‘I think I’ve got an album here’. It’s hard to stop once you get going. Melbourne is like a community. It’s a big city but it sometimes feels like a village. It’s not a good place if you want to be anonymous, but it’s a great place if you want to live in a city where you have all this incredible stuff going on yet you can actually relate to people on a one-to-one personal level. I think it’s an amazing thing you don’t get in many cities.” Mikelangelo has collaborated with a host of fellow artists on Melbourne – City of Dreams such as Miles
Brown, Rob Snarksi, Clare St Clare and The Nymphs. “As I amassed the songs for the album it didn’t seem the right thing to use one of my existing bands,” he explains. “I thought the best way to do it is to work with a whole lot of my favourite Melbourne artists and to use this as an opportunity to engage on a whole lot of different levels. The way the collaborations worked is that every song came up really well. I loved working with each person. There were a few collaborations where those artists, which were in particular Miles Brown and Clare St Clare, got quite involved in the album and we ended up doing some co-writes together in the studio and the album evolved from there. The journey of recording is a creative journey. You can be writing and morphing and changing over that time. The album is the vision I wanted but I hadn’t known how to get there. I could see it glimmering somewhere in my unconscious and the artists I worked with helped me find it, which is the wonderful thing about collaboration.” If you witnessed Mikelangelo performing City of Dreams on RocKwiz, you will know that he is that rarest of artists: a bona fide showman capable of electrifying
MIKELANGELO launches his album Ode To Melbourne at the Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub Wednesday October 15 and Thursday October 16. He’ll be joined by some very special guests including Clare St Clare, Miles Brown and Rob Snarsky.
SONGWRITING SECRETS with STyALZ fUEGO The First Song I Wrote I wrote so many awful songs starting out ± none I would want to remember. But I do have a vague memory of writing a song with my friend Zip in my bedroom in Byron when I was maybe 15. He played guitar over some stock drum loop we found in Acid Pro 1.2 and we both proceeded to write really clichéd rap lyrics. The Last Song I Released I worked with Peking Duk on their new single Take Me Over. I co-wrote it with them and Ben from Safia. Great dudes with forward thinking electronic-pop music. I’m pretty confident this one will do quite well. Songwriting Secrets I’ve never had rituals or a specific process when it comes to writing. I didn’t grow up playing instruments or learning music theory, but I did realise early on that I wanted to know the basics and have a
decent knowledge of how to play piano. I’m so happy I took the time to do that because it helps me work quickly in the studio with session musicians and other songwriters. One thing that I’ve picked up over time is the importance of first instinct and vibe when writing. Getting lost in technical elements of a song is the quickest way to ruin a vibe in the studio in my opinion, like if someone decides to start EQ’ing a kick while I’m writing I’ll switch off. The Song That Makes Me Proud The most successful song I’ve written is Boys Like You for 360, but I think I’m most proud of Child. There’s obviously things I’d change about it now but I love that we wrote a super personal, almost five-minute song that ended up being as successful as it was, and it ticked none of the boxes sonically of what other songs did at the time on commercial radio. I put down the original idea of that song (chords/chorus and rough beat) in 30 minutes or so one morning before 60
arrived at the studio, albeit finishing the song took probably two months! The Song That Changed My Life I don’t really have a particular song but Michael Jackson’s Dangerous is a very important album to me. I know it’s not Thriller or Off the Wall, but to me being seven years old and hearing it while it was current was incredible. From as early as I remember I always had an affinity with R&B music and I think it started with Dangerous. It definitely didn’t come from my parents’ influence. STYALZ FUEGO will appear on the Telstra Road To Discovery Masterclass Songwriting Session on Monday October 20. Stream live from 8pm at www. beinvolved.com.au/telstraroadtodiscovery
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DARCY FOX
By Graham Blackley
The enigmatic and down to earth singer/songwriter Darcy Fox, who skilfully blends country with a distinctly Aussie brand of indie folk-pop, has had an incredibly productive and successful few years. Aside from taking out the winners crown at the 2013/14 FreezA Push Start Battle of the Bands Grand Final in March of this year, Drowning Now, the first single off her debut album Unprotected Grounds, hit the number two spot on Murri FM’S Top 20 Country Songs in March 2013. She’s also played three times at the Tamworth Country Music Festival; she’ll be touring New Zealand later this year; and she’s about to release an EP My Own Happy Ending, which is characterised by tantalising melodies and a plethora of seductive hooks. Despite working with three fellow musicians on the EP, Fox is committed to maintaining an approach that allows her to work effectively as a solo performer in a live setting. “I use a loop pedal for my live performance,” she says. “I tried to keep the same structure as I would do if I did the songs live, but in the studio you can fatten it out a bit. I don’t want to go too far away from what I do live.” Comparing the EP to her debut album Fox says, “I think it’s got more of a solid feel to it. The songs have all the same instruments, while on Unprotected Grounds there were a lot of different sounds going on in different songs. My Own Happy Ending is more sonically together. I’ve grown up a little bit since Unprotected Grounds so I like to think that my writing might have gotten a little bit better.”
Part of Fox’s charm as a performer lies in the honesty of both her writing and delivery. “There’s a really popular saying in country music: ‘all it takes to write a country song is three chords and the truth’. I think it’s the honesty that I really love about country music,” she says. Speaking about the EP, she provides a neat example of this honesty in action. “It sounds very angry,” she says. “It’s a pretty angry EP. It’s about the more upsetting side of relationships. I’m a very personal songwriter. I write about things that happen to me. It just happened that these are the songs that I wrote when I was going through a rough patch in the relationship department.” The natural and unaffected nature of Fox’s approach is perhaps a consequence of her immersion in music from an early age. “I grew up in a very big musical family
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so I was always around it,” she says. “When I was 15 I was really into Taylor Swift. She wrote her own songs. I went to one of her concerts and I [thought] ‘this is what I want to do.’ I enlisted the help of my Mum who grew up as a musician and still works as one. Those two influences really shaped me. Growing up in a musical family really helped me to see it for what it is, [rather than] a big illusion. I got to see the real side of it. My Mum plays Irish music. She has been in Irish pub bands so I grew up listening to a bit of Celtic music as well.” Like many other great roots musicians, Fox loves to grab the opportunity to take her music to the public rather than relying solely on official gigs. “I’m actually going out to busk today,” she says.” I really like that [when you are busking] you get to see the city and a whole bunch of people. You get to meet really cool
people who will come up and talk to you. It’s a really cool and unconventional way to get your music out to people.” If you don’t get a chance to catch Fox busking, it would be a good idea to head along to her EP launch on October 19. “I hope to make it a really fun show,” she says. “It will be a chilled and laid-back Sunday afternoon gig so people can come on down and relax and listen to some music.”
occasion. It breaks the ice a little bit, probably for me and them. Often I wear onesies and stuff. Actually, I once did a whole show in my pyjamas in a bedroom set-up and I’m planning on doing more of those.” Her music’s going way further than her bedroom though – Dalton’s just been signed to No Format, a Parisian boutique record label. If that wasn’t exciting enough, straight after AWME, Dalton’s heading over to Europe to do a small tour to celebrate her signing with a series of showcases, and No Format’s going to re-release her self-titled debut album (Estère, which came out in April). Oddissee’s not the only big name with whom she’s been paired: earlier this year Dalton supported Erykah
Badu, with whom she’s constantly compared and who also happens to be one of her personal faves. Naturally, Dalton was blown away, but, sadly, the circumstances in which she met Badu were less than ideal. “I accidentally bumped into her – as in walked into her,” Dalton smiles. “I introduced myself, but it was more like, ‘Whoops. Sorry for walking into you Erykah Badu – I’m a massive fan’.”
you haven’t been to yet; he is Moodie.’s producer and collaborator, the Jamie XX to Moodie.’s Romy so to speak. “MoMO is very versatile with his production so he plays a big part in terms of the instrumentation. Sometimes the songs start with a beat from Mo and other times I would write a tune on which he would build a beat.” It’s clear her musical brain is constantly ticking, but as much as her evolution sonically has been marked, her lyrical maturation is also a cornerstone of the new EP. “It’s actually really fascinating to me to see how my lyrics are perceived by other people. Everyone has a different experience listening to the same song. Sometimes I think people need to be vulnerable and there are songs where I want to keep a little piece of myself hidden away, but then there are times where I want to shout it from the rooftops.” With the emotion dripping all over songs like Murky Love, she’s quite
aware of the passion inside of her. “Am I ruled by my heart? For sure, that’s just who I am.” But this is not Taylor Swift broken-hearted sobbing. Instead, it’s quite classic in its approach to expressing her emotion, sparking comparisons to the elder stateswomen of soul. Probed about the 21st century dilution of the genre and even the word ‘soul’ in music in 2014, she offers a poignant opinion: “A lot of the soul we hear now has become much more production-based rather than live recordings. Artists like Lauryn Hill will always have an impact on my musical creativity, particularly in the lyrical sense. Her soul is always out there in her writing and I am drawn to that in an artistic sense.”
DARCY FOX will play a free all-ages show to launch her new EP as part of the Darebin Music Feast. Head to The Push Pop-Up Shop, 234 High Street, Northcote on Sunday 19 October at 3pm to catch her sweet, sweet sounds.
By Meg Crawford
New Zealand songstress, producer and beat extraordinaire Estère Dalton’s Facebook page documents her adventures with her friend Lola. It’s only when you scratch the surface that you find out that Lola’s inanimate (she’s Dalton’s MPC 1000 Sampling Station), but it doesn’t make Lola any less real for Dalton. “Lola’s my best friend,” she laughs. “I acquired her about two years ago and started spending all my time with her – we’d stay up late at night having pyjama parties and making a lot of music. I made it a goal to get to know her quickly and well.” Suffice to say, they’ve been inseparable since, which is just as well, because Lola’s integral to Dalton’s unique style of beats. Lacking an appropriate moniker for her style, Dalton coined the phrase ‘electric blue witch hop’. “It’s the genre that I made up for my music, because I was having trouble categorising it into already existing genres and I liked the idea of putting some colour and magic into it,” she explains. “Electric is representative of the electronic side of it. I picked blue because I like quite colourful melodies. Songs and lyrics often conjure up colours for me in my mind and blue is the one that resonated with me most. I threw witch in there to put a little bit of that magical element into it, and it’s hop because it’s quite beaty music.” Under the auspices of the Red Bull Prodigy Project, Estère teamed up with super producer and rapper Oddissee. Apparently, he asked her whether she wanted something up or down tempo and her response was that she wanted it to be “purple and see through.” Oddissee’s
description of the experience and Dalton’s explanation of her musical style give rise to a suspicion that she’s one of the rare few who experiences synesthesia (it makes some peeps see colours in response to sound). Dalton confirms the theory. “That’s exactly what it’s like,” she admits. “I associate lots of music with colours. The colours aren’t always emotive though – say when a sound makes me think of blue, it’s not necessarily related to sadness, I just actually think of the colour blue.” Cool huh? Dalton’s so goddamn likeable, everything about her is endearing. Take for instance the fact that she’s upfront about stage nerves. She’s got a neat way of dealing with them though. “I often say to the audience, ‘Let’s imagine that we’re hanging out in my bedroom together’. I’m often in my bedroom in my pyjamas, so I’m not used to being on a stage – it’s quite a special
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ESTÈRE will perform as part of AWME at The Toff in Town on Thursday November 13 with Ms Murphy, Bongeziwe Mabandla (South Africa) and Louis Baker (NZ).
By Christopher Lewis
Six years of being an independent artist in Australia is no mean feat, but the self-managed Melbourne songwriter Milly Moodie is no ordinary songbird. She released her debut EP, To Whom It May Concern at the bright-eyed age of 19 and then she did what you have to do as a young, unsigned artist: she toured endlessly. Fast-forward to the present and with years of performance experience under her belt, having played alongside some of Australia’s most talented musicians including James Morrison, Moodie.’s sound has undergone a transformation. A discovery of dancehall, reggae and electronic, as well as a friendship with local MC Diafrix, has rounded out her influences, as well as creating an informed and unique sound that sets her apart from the plethora of run of the mill, neo-soul revivalists. With a new self-titled EP that has embraced her now disparate inspirations, Moodie. throws back to the classic sounds of Etta James as much as rival the likes of FKA Twigs and The xx for reinterpretations of modern day soul, R&B and blues. Just don’t try to pigeonhole her. “To be honest I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed, full stop. I like being versatile and keeping people guessing,” Moodie. says. “I grew up heavily influenced by jazz and blues and have been lucky enough to work with some amazing musicians of that genre. But over the years BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 36
my music taste and what I connect with has evolved. I don’t force it to be anything in particular, so when I’m writing these songs all of these influences combine naturally to me.” Having expressed herself musically from such a young age, her influences aren’t the only thing to have developed dramatically, with Moodie. approaching the songwriting of her self-titled EP in more collaborative process. “When I was younger I used to always wonder whether I was writing the ‘right way’ but I soon found out that there wasn’t one,” she reveals with a self– deprecating laugh. “I remember years ago with Black Coffee I had that bass line going around in my head for such a long time and from there came the lyrics and melody. But a song this time around like Unforgiving was completely different altogether. MoMO had this beat that he played me one day and it just clicked with me. I was writing it as I was listening to it for the first time. I love it when that happens. That song basically wrote itself.” And MoMO isn’t the latest avant-garde museum
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MOODIE. launches her self-titled EP at Laundry Bar on Friday October 24. Tickets through Oztix.
A MOVING SOUND
By Garry Westmore
Scott Prairie is jetlagged (when are artists ever not jetlagged for interviews?) after returning to his adopted home of Taiwan from his original one, the US of A. Still, he’s pretty darn chipper as he chats about A Moving Sound and their first musical sojourn Down Under for Melbourne Festival. Prairie will be here with his ensemble, which includes his wife, vocalist Mia Hsieh, and several other musicians who blend traditional Chinese and Taiwanese music with a progressive edge; the tale of how it all came to be as charming a story as you’ll ever hear. As a singer/songwriter in New York City, Prairie first met his wife-to-be Hsieh whilst she was in NYC on a scholarship to study voice. “She’s the main catalyst for taking me into this unique artistic place,” Prairie tells me. “She’s just a very unique artist.” After courting, Hsieh decided living in NYC was not for her, so for the sake of love Prairie followed her home to Taiwan and it’s there he not only rekindled the flame, but also found the path to a new musical journey. “I had no idea or preconception what Taiwan was like when I was living in New York,” he says. He quickly found the country to be ‘super progressive’. “It had been in a vacuum for a long period of time. It had the longest period of martial law, and was heavily shut down and controlled. So when that was lifted it created this vacuum and people were so hungry for new stuff. I experienced the hunger and the modern-ness and thought this place is fertile, and that’s why Mia and I decided to start a group here.”
That group became Sheng Dong, which translates to ‘a moving sound’. Prairie loved the name suggested by Hsieh immediately. “It works on multiple levels,” he exclaims. “There’s movement because there’s dance, and it’s moving because it’s emotional and theatrical.” The group is not just known for their music, but for the theatrical experience of their shows. Dance, instrumentals and dexterous voice work from Hsieh mean some songs “take you to another zone,” according to Prairie. “Sometimes it’s hard to explain to people because it shifts a lot within the set; it’s almost like an exhibition.” It’s interesting talking to Prairie about the spiritualistic side of the group’s music because, though he may seem like a pseudo-hippy spiritualist, he sounds just like an all regular all-American guy, maybe because once upon a time he was one. For a time he was a singer/ songwriter in NYC, but that all changed after meeting Hsieh and being exposed to the music of her homeland.
“It was a monumental shift ± a paradigm shift ± and the music I’m doing with Mia, it’s evolved in an an ironic, joking way, from ego-based music to something that’s more spiritual. It’s not so much about me as a singer/ songwriter.” But making it big enough to tour places like Europe, the States and of course good ol’ Australia doesn’t happen overnight in the world music business. “It’s a slow and steady evolution, and in the world music realm you don’t get some big break, you slowly build your reputation.” After an album release three years ago and a performance at WOMAD, doors began to open somewhat, and now they’re heading to Australia for the first time. However, it’s not Hsieh’s first time. I know this because Prairie puts her on the phone, warning me first that I’d have to speak more slowly and loudly because “it’ll be a little tough for her to get your accent.” So apparently Taiwanese find our dogs breakfast of an accent tough to understand, but that doesn’t stop Hsieh absolutely waxing lyrical about how much she loves Australia. “It’s a different environment and a different inspiration. And I’m very impressed with
the multiculturalism there.” She’s also checked out the Melbourne Festival program and is rapt that there will be music and theatre performances that experiment with voice ± something Hsieh is passionate about. As well as singing in Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien, Hsieh also makes up her own language. “My wife isn’t a normal Taiwanese person!” Prairie reminds me. Hsieh continues: “In our performance I use voice in a theatrical way, and also as an instrument. We want to connect and touch people’s lives and for people to explore the music. I like this feeling of an open, multi-cultural connection through art.” She sounds completely sincere, and not at all like a stoned Fine Arts student. I can see why Prairie followed her all the way to Taiwan. “I feel lucky to have met her and ended up here with this opportunity,” he says. “It’s nothing I could ever have planned.”
and guitar. Babe Come Down is punchy, playful and aggressive, like Stagger Lee by Nick Cave, but then Granted has all the poignancy and tenderness of the aforementioned Welch’s Time the Revelator. The clips for both songs are shot in a black & white film noir style. Cross explains that this cinematic style is something he is fond of. “It’s across the board for everything from our album artwork to our film clip. We really like film noir especially Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch, we just love black and white and feel it suits our music,” he says. Cross describes how special Jep and Dep’s early evening
album launch at The Retreat will be. “It’s just going to be me and Jess with a guitar and it will be super intimate. We’ve played there before and it’s just really cool. It’s even free to get in. Plus we’ll be selling hard copies of the album and we have a special tote-bag as well.”
A MOVING SOUND will weave their magic at the Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub on Tuesday October 21. Tix through melbournefestival.com.au.
JEP AND DEP
By Denver Maxx
Jep and Dep are Jessica Cassar and Darren Cross. The Sydney duo write music for now in a style that is both contemporary and nostalgic. Their debut album Word Got Out drops next week on Thursday October 23, and then two days later Jep and Dep are playing a very low-key launch at Brunswick’s Retreat Hotel. In a similarly low-key fashion, Cross describes how the act was formed. “I met Jess through a mutual friend and her sister, and then we started going out. This was at the same time I was doing all this music at home so we would be hanging out and I would just pick up a guitar and work out how to play a Townes van Zandt song. Jess had never sung before but we decided to write a song about her sister getting married and it was a kind of Kimya Dawson and Adam Green ‘marriage is a waste of time’ anti-folk song. Then I think Jess got a bug for it and we just started writing.” This ‘bug’ resulted in Jep and Dep, and in a relatively short amount of time they were transformed from folk abstraction to recording act. This fast track was a result of Cross having been a recording artist and producer for most of his adult life as one third of electro-crossover act Gerling. Gerling went on indefinite hiatus in 2007, and this is
where Cross picks up the narrative and discusses his journey to the alt-country folk stylings of Jep and Dep. “After Gerling split up I started doing electronic music that was sample-based. [It] was really weird and technology heavy as E.L.F and I were touring around with Muscles and played a few shows with Midnight Juggernauts. I found myself playing dance music to all these young 18 year-old kids on pingers and I thought to myself ‘I am 35, I don’t want to do this anymore, so stuff it, I am just going to learn to play the guitar’.” And learn he did. There is a profound tenderness to the guitar tones and vocals of Jep and Dep that swings the act’s sound in the direction of alt-country artists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. The two songs that have been released from the forthcoming Word Got Out are Babe Come Down, released April 28, and Granted, September 23. They’re stylistically very different, although the main drivers of the songs are simply voice
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Jep and Dep are launching Word Got Out this Saturday October 25 at The Retreat Hotel in Brunswick with support from Gretta Ziller. Head to jepanddep.com. au to pre-order a copy of album.
By Augustus Welby
There comes a time when making music shifts from being a hobby into a maddening obsession. Those overcome by this fixation are no longer capable of having regular life experiences. Instead, every event is analysed to determine its songwriting utility. Thoughtful Australian folk-pop artist Jack Carty knows this songwriting mania all too well. “Every single day, all I ever think about is music,” he says. “My friends, my family and my fiancée all get very sick of this. But I don’t just want to be a good musician in my life. I want to be a good all-round person.” Carty has just released his third LP Esk. The Brisbanebased songwriter’s previous LP, 2012’s Break Your Own Heart, was a breakup record, communicated from a place of intimate self-reflection. While Carty is “very, very proud” of the release, Esk is a far less pensive affair. “That side of my personality, where it’s just really introspective and analytical, I’m trying to get outside of that and see things from a more all-encompassing perspective.” With this goal in mind, Esk was put together with a little help from some of Carty’s distinguished friends. In addition to contributions from his established live band, there’s The Universe, a duet with Katie Noonan, The Joneses, which was written with Josh Pyke, and four tracks produced by Sydney’s Casual Psychotic.
“Part of the [reason for the] collaborative preparation for this album was trying to not just be in my own head all the time,” he says. “I was in bands before I started doing the solo thing, but I always felt like something got lost in the translation. Since then I’ve found musicians that I play with all the time now that are really complementary.” Embracing input from multiple parties gives Esk a more changeable dynamic than Carty’s previous releases. The record moves from the acoustic troubadour touch of Summer in New Zealand, to the electrified kick of The Joneses and the piano-led lament, My Replacement. Though Esk is a texturally diverse outing, Carty’s vocals and diligently constructed lyrics are the major focus. “Good lyrics for me are something that are so important to a song,” he says. “I might really like a song for its melody, but if it doesn’t have something that lyrically grabs me, I probably won’t listen to it more than a couple of times.
“Quite often the things that I like about my songs are totally ignored by everybody,” he adds, “and they like different things about them that I don’t like. I know what makes me proud of my songs… that’s more or less always lyrics and melodies.” Of course, trying to regulate other peoples’ listening experiences is a futile act, as everyone’s viewpoint will differ somewhat. By this stage in his recording career, Carty is at peace with the subjective caprices of his listenership. “You can’t control what people think and how they react,” he says. “That’s part of the weird and awesome thing about putting out bits of yourself into the world. I want to enjoy these processes, but if you’re trying to control every aspect of it, it can suck a lot of the joy out of it. Nowadays I’m just trying to make music that I’m proud of and put it out there.”
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Regardless of the effect it’s had on his everyday behaviour, Carty’s obsessive application to songwriting has led to him to issue two EPs and three records over the space of just five years. The term ‘prolific’ could be raised here, but that doesn’t quite account for the complexities of the creative process. “Half of the time when I’m writing,” Carty explains, “I don’t sit down to write a song, it just kind of hits me. It’s really hard to explain and it sounds really airy fairy, but sometimes I’ll feel for two days that there’s a song coming ± a nd then it just pours out.” JACK CARTY’s will be visiting Ballarat, Castlemaine, Warrnambool and Melbourne as part of the massive tour for his third album, Esk. Melbourne folk can catch him at Howler on Thursday December 4. Check out gig details or listen to his tunes at jackcarty.com. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 37
KALACOMA By Graham Blackley Five-piece experimental outfit Kalacoma’s sound is wonderfully difficult to categorise. The band appear to delight in taking the unsuspecting listener on a sonic journey that encompasses everything from beautiful and fragile melodies to explosive surges of sound and tripped-out excursions into otherworldly vibes and textures. After forming in 2012, Kalacoma spawned their debut EP Spiral Eyes, produced a couple of stunning video clips and are now about to unleash the sophomore EP Lost for Words. “We started this band with an intent behind the sonic output,” says vocalist, guitarist and producer Nick Herrera. “We had a vision for what we wanted to try and make and we built a band around making that a reality. [The vision is] tonal mastery: bands like Portishead and Radiohead; bands that use tone with precision; that use vintage tone that never gets old; bands that use that timeless sound and turn it on its head and do something that you have never heard done before. It’s using agreeable and accessible tones that can draw the listener in and create a sense of nostalgia while hearing something completely fresh at the same time.” Kalacoma’s commitment to realising this artistic vision has driven them to engineer and mix all their own recordings. “When my first band at high school got a record done it was recorded at some shitty studio, it was embarrassingly bad and I was sure we were not that shit, so I started recording my band back in high school and got alright at it,” Herrera explains. “I started
getting work, so for the last eight years or so I’ve been doing recordings for lots of bands. I started recording and producing bands, and by doing other bands it got me really good at doing my own band.” One of the most impressive aspects of Kalacoma’s sound are Herrera’s haunting vocals, which he is capable of nailing in a live setting. “I’ve been singing for quite some time,” Herrera says. “I practice a lot and we rehearse a lot so we make sure we can get our style and our technicality down. I use live effects, so I have a whole pedal board on my voice. Instead of relying on the sound guy to put a bit of reverb here or a bit of delay there, I do it myself and I use those delays and reverbs as part of the music, as part of my instrument.” Kalacoma’s distinctive sound is matched by the arresting visuals they conjure in their creative and leftfield video clips. The mysterious and deeply evocative clip for Waves is nothing short of mind-bending. It cleverly implies a rich back-story while revealing little.
Discussing the video-making process, Herrera says, “We make them all ourselves - our keyboardist [Alan Erpi] does that. He’s the man with the skills. We come up with a foundation and then just go for it. We try and break some minds. The key vision is basically just to impress people. We are a new band and no one really knows who we are, so our main intent is to grab attention.” For those of you considering checking out the band’s upcoming launch at the Evelyn Hotel, Herrera provides the following appetite-whetting description of what’s in store for the audience. “This time around it’s going to be pretty special,” he explains. “We’re going
to be completely transforming the Evelyn. We’ve got an impressive light show that we’ll be putting on. Our music is going to definitely take you on a journey. It’s going to be the most intense musical experience we can possibly conjure up and I’m certain that I have never seen any local act do something like we are about to do.”
“I wrote around 40 or 50 odd songs before picking these ones and there were a few additional ones I recorded that didn’t make it onto the album. I recorded a lot that were on the relationship theme. It’s especially tricky when the main-ex boyfriend came to the album launch. He’s very supportive though – he even pre-ordered the album from Pozible.” The lyrics aren’t all sad – in particular, the song about Muhammad Ali’s “Thrilla in Manila” bout is suitably punchy (Hit Em Like Ali). While that might look a bit left-field, Wilson can explain its origin. “I feel like a novelty act singing about heart-wrenching stuff and then busting out a song about sporting history,” Wilson laughs. “It’s a bit of family thing though. My dad used to do amateur boxing and he always had boxing gear set up in the garage. I was about nine or ten or so when he tried to teach me how to punch bag. My uncle’s a
boxing trainer – he was Aussie Joe Bugner’s trainer, the former heavy-weight champion. So, I used to watch the fights with Dad. I just love it – I just think it’s one of the best forms of exercise. I was working out boxing one day and thinking about how great it’d be to have a song you could work out to boxing-wise, not just Britney Spears or the usual stuff at the gym, and you can’t work out to jazz, it’s just not the right vibe.”
over the next six months or so. “That’s kind of the big crux of the release,” he says. “But next year we plan to do some touring. We want to go to WA, and hopefully up the east coast as well.” He also plans to take the band back to his formerly adopted home of Scotland, as well as the rest of the UK. “Scotland especially, I’m sure we’d have some good reception in. I’d actually love to take some of the other local bands from here over there and show them what it’s like. “The rest of Open Swimmer are all in other bands,” he reveals. “I feel like their other bands would be brilliant
to take over. Like Chris from Seagull plays drums; I think Seagull would go down a treat over there. And The Harpoons would be very well received over there, and Bec from The Harpoons sings with me in Open Swimmer. There’s an opportunity there to do a bit of a Melbourne showcase, as a tour in the UK and maybe Europe as well.”
You’ll be in for a night of sonic wizardry and visual splendour when KALACOMA launch new EP Lost for Words at The Evelyn on Saturday October 25.
CHELSEA WILSON
By Meg Crawford
Right about the time everybody else was doing grunge, scorching jazz-soul songstress Chelsea wilson was falling in love with the lady jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie holiday, and she can readily recall their impact. “with Ella Fitzgerald it was all about the joy that she conveyed when she was singing – that enthusiasm was electric,” she explains. “with Billie holiday it was the storytelling, the sorrow and the heartbreak – i found it really gut wrenching, and with Sarah Vaughan – what a virtuosic singer. Once i had heard those voices, nothing else could compare. My friends were listening to triple j and Korn and stuff like that and there was just no comparison for me. My parents thought it was very strange, because they don’t listen to jazz, but it was a bit of a light bulb moment.” indeed, from that point, wilson’s career trajectory as a singer was set in stone. Happily, Wilson’s now kicking it with the best of Australia’s own jazz and soul greats. Amongst other things, her debut album I Hope You’ll Be Very Unhappy Without Me has just been nominated for Best Soul, Funk, R&B and Gospel Album at the 2014 The Age Music Victoria Awards, where it’s keeping company with releases from Saskwatch, Kylie Auldist and The Bamboos. That shouldn’t be a surprise though, Wilson’s a goddamn soul/jazz power house – when she’s not singing she presents Jazz Got Soul on PBS and manages their music library, she’s also the brainchild behind the super-successful and much loved Women of Soul nights, she DJs every week and runs her own label, House of Valerie Joan, on which she released her debut album
after two years’ careful and hard work. In the main, the album’s a heartfelt exploration of the impact and demise of unhappy relationships, but the vibe’s triumphant – the ladies featured on the album rise and ride with grace and flair. Wilson’s made no secret of the fact the themes in I Hope You’ll Be Very Unhappy Without Me are personal and she finds singing the title track cathartic. Is it nerve-wracking exposing something that’s otherwise so private? “I just write tunes about what’s going on – maybe I’m just not very imaginative,” she laughs. “It’s all the real stuff that’s going on for me though. It’s quite autobiographical I guess, but it just comes out that way. I don’t think I could write about something else – maybe I should try.
ChELSEA wiLSOn will headline the APRA Outdoor Stage, Arts Centre Melbourne, Curve Bar on Saturday november 15 as part of AwME 2014. if you haven’t heard her new album I Hope You’ll Be Very Unhappy Without Me, then, well, you’ll be very unhappy without it.
OPEN SWIMMER
By Rod Whitfield
Ben TD, main man of Melbourne-based folk/pop act Open Swimmer, has had quite the personal and musical journey that’s led to the imminent release of his band’s debut Canyon. Speaking from his home in northcote, he is happy to discuss the events and experiences that have brought us to the eve of the release of this quirky masterpiece. “I was living in Glasgow when I made the record, even though I made it back in Melbourne,” he recalls, a little cryptically. “When I went back to Glasgow, it took a while for me to get my shit together and put a band around the album over there. The decision to move back to Melbourne made it more…” he hesitates. “It took out the momentum a little bit from under my feet. So I decided to put it all on hold while I did that move, which was quite a big one. “And then, coming back here, it took a while to get a band together,” he continues. “I wanted a lot of the original musicians who played on the record to be a part of it, if possible. So I needed to wait for them. A lot of that has worked out, and it’s turned into a really lovely band, and I love playing with those guys. It’s coming all at the right time – it’s quite serendipitous that I didn’t put it out a few years ago; this seems to be the right time.” The album is a heady and idiosyncratic mix of folk,
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pop and a touch of rock, and TD is proud of the approaching release, as he describes the sound to the uninitiated. “I’d say there are folk elements,” he says, “but not to focus too much on that. It’s pretty poppy, without being too cheesy. And that’s kind of my main focus: I’m aware that I do write pretty pop-based sounds, but I’m very focused on not making it too cheesy and sickly sweet.” His personal journey–which actually began in Fremantle, before moving to Scotland and then back to Melbourne – has fuelled his creative fires and helped him to produce such an eclectic album in Canyon. “I have injected a lot of that experience into the actual songs, as well as just the experience of writing music and hopefully having a bit more taste,” he laughs. Open Swimmer are launching the album at the Northcote Social Club this Friday October 17. This is the only live date that they have officially announced at this point, but there should definitely be more to come
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OPEn SwiMMER launch debut long-player Canyon this Friday October 17 at The northcote Social Club with very special guests Rowena wise and Brendan welch.
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PUNK, SKA, HARDCORE NEWS, REVIEWS & GOSSIP
By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Four brand new episodes of True Trans starring Laura Jane Grace have been made available internationally. The ten episode docu-series will be released in full in later November and the first four are definitely strong enough to warrant return visits. Having watched the first four, I found that the brief episodes did the heavy subject matter some serious injustice, but then again the content was made available for free, so I guess we can’t really complain can we? Poor Eyehategod have had a pretty rough trot when it comes to touring Australia. Last time they attempted to come over they were stranded at the airport after their tour cancelled at the last minute. Life Is Noise are bringing them back in safe hands in January and you can catch them on January 30 at The Hi-Fi. There’ll also be an exclusive after party at The Public Bar. You can gain entry by being one of the first 150 to grab tickets . Available now. GO. If you were planning on seeing Confession this October, you may be disheartened to know that the band have pulled out of their own headlining tour citing family reasons. Prepared Like A Bride and Graves will continue with the tour as usual under a new name ‘The Ocean Tide Tour’. In order to encourage fans to support the two remaining acts, those who buy pre-sale tickets will receive an exclusive hand-printed, numbered tour poster. If you’re not satisfied then you can grab a refund at place of purchase. Remember all promoter profit goes to the Cancer Council. Melbourne dates include October 25 at Central Club with Trainwreck and Griever, and October 26 at Pheonix Youth Center with I Valiance and Alpha Wolf. The Gaslight Anthem have announced a big ol’ Australian tour on the back of excellent new release Get Hurt. Soundwave Touring is bringing ‘em down to Melbourne to headline The Forum on February 3. Perfect venue! Lock it in before your summer dancecard fills up. Every year there’s a hint of controversy as the ARIA heavy nominations are announced and message boards the country over have a small cry about what does and doesn’t qualify as ‘punk’. Ahhh that chestnut will never die. This year The Amity Affliction, Shihad, DZ Deathrays, High Tension and Sleepmakeswaves
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With Peter Hodgson: crunchcolumn@gmail.com WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15: The Dwarves acoustic, Mesa Cosa, 12FU at The Old Bar THURSDAY OCTOBER 16: Aveira Skies at The Bendigo The Dwarves, Batpiss, The Kremlings at Barwon Club Boy Wonder, Scalar Fields at Next FRIDAY OCTOBER 17: Say Anything, Ceres, Have/Hold at Corner Hotel The Dwarves, Blood Duster, Wolfpack, K-Mart Warriors at The Evelyn Outright at The Bendigo Hotel Aveira Skies at Wrangler Studios SATURDAY OCTOBER 18: Deep Red, Initials, Summer Blood, Maricopa Wells at The Public Bar Torche, Child, DEAD at The Corner Hotel The Selecter at The Hi-Fi Orsomme Wells, Lucid Planet, Red Bee, Qlayeface at The Bendigo Masketta Fall, Sidelines, Inventions at Bang Comeback Kid, Rotting Out, Relentless, Warbrain, Earth Caller at Central Club Screamfeeder, Lowtide, Freakwave, Iowa at John Curtin Hotel The Hard Aches, The Furrows, Pitt The Elder, Run Squirrel, Georgia Maq at The Reverence SUNDAY OCTOBER 19: The Selecter at The Caravan Club Comeback Kid, Rotting Out, Relentless, Outright, Iron Mind, Free World, Born Free at Phoenix Youth Center The Wrecks, The Burning Roaches, Robot Mugabe, Drexler, Agent 37 at The Bendigo have all copped a nomination. Which do you think is worthy of the country’s highest musical accolade? Excellent British band Rolo Tomassi up with Melbourne’s Stockades for a Very cool. The split will be released Talk Records shortly. More of these collaborations please.
TROY BRADY QUITS THE AMITY AFFLICTION
Holy crap. Guitarist Troy Brady has parted ways with The Amity Affliction mid-tour. You can read Troy’s statement on the band’s Facebook page but it reads in part: “It’s with deep regret I need to let you all know I will no longer be writing music or performing as part of The Amity Affliction. Myself and Ahren started this band 11 years ago, and spent every second of every day thinking about making the next step. I never dreamed I would see the world through music and make the life long friends that I have made. But it is time for me to step away. Although I’m not ready to go into any of the personal details behind this, I want to thank everyone who has supported me during my time in the band especially my family and girlfriend. This decision has been the hardest thing I have ever done. Through music I have become more enlightened and a better person, I have no regrets with my time in Amity as it made me who I am today.” The band says: “Although Troy was with us since the band began, in no way will his departure slow us down; we are already writing for our next record, and our tour schedule over the next year is looking to be our busiest yet.” Tickets for the band’s January 2015 The Weigh Down Under Australian tour are on sale now.
OUTRIGHT AT THE BENDIGO
Outright’s brilliant new LP Avalanche was released on October 3 and the band is hitting the road to celebrate, including some festivals, all ages shows and benefit gigs. They’ll be at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on Friday October 17 with Free World, Old Love and Vicious Cycle. And the Bendigo is also bringing back the Mix Tape Lucky Dip! Make up your favourite compilations on to CD or cassette and drop them at the table to collect another in return. Help celebrate the community and tunes that keep The Bendigo alive by sharing what you love and finding some new gems for yourself.
FACE THE MUSIC ANNOUNCE NEW INTERNATIONAL GUESTS
With only five weeks out to this year’s event, Face The Music has announced the addition of five new international guests to the already immense program. From Lorde’s management team, Ayisha Jaffer of Saiko Management, along with Marshall Betts of the Windish Agency and Adam Lewis of Planetary Group. In collaboration with Melbourne Music Week, Face The Music also brings you two very special In Conversation sessions with legendary Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance and front man of Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese. More international and Australian speakers added daily at facethemusic.com.au
NEW SMITH STREET BAND ALBUM OUT THIS MONTH
The Smith Street Band has just released Surrender, their first official film clip. Following the success of live clip Young Drunk and tour montage Don’t F**k With Our Dreams, Surrender sees the band’s singer/ songwriter Wil Wagner battling a barrage of flying objects. “Surrender is a song about not wanting to force your vices or negative aspects of your personality onto someone else,” Wagner says. “It’s about finding hope and meaning in little aspects of existence and day-to-day life, instead of just coasting through and being numb.” The song is available as a free download when you digitally pre-order the album from iTunes (to be released on October 31). Physical album preorder and deluxe pre-order packs are available from www.poisoncityestore.com. The deluxe pre-order pack includes a gatefold LP with Fireworks colour vinyl, MP3 album download coupon, Mixed Emotions photo/ tour book by Andy Johnson and Throw Me in the River t-shirt by Callum Preston. Stock is limited so get in quick. Catch them at The Corner Hotel on November 26, 27, 28 and 29.
have teamed new 7” split. via Tangled international
Q&A with SCREAMFEEDER
Who are we speaking with and what do you do in the band? Tim Steward, I play guitar, sing, write songs, book tours, do artwork and boss everyone around. You’ve recently teamed up with Poison City Records to re-issue your entire discography on vinyl. What sparked this project? Andy from poison City came forward back in 2009 with the original idea. I guess it took a while to gestate, but here we are. We’re really grateful that such a hard working team decided we were worth taking on! You’ve currently embarked on the national Early Years tour in celebration of the vinyl reissue campaign, focusing on your first two albums. Any highlights so far? We really only did the one gig so far but it was amazing. Playing Wrote You Off, from Burn Out Your Name which was released 21 years ago, and having pretty much the whole crowd roar out the high harmonies... Wow, that was something else. Screamfeeder have been together for over 22 years now, which is of course huge in band world. What’s been your secret?
Well a lot of it comes down to luck. We’re lucky that as people we get on well, amuse each other, and have that special something when we pick up our instruments in the practice room. Music comes to us easily, and we all enjoy the others’ style, taste and input. Plus we’re pretty driven. Our ethos as a young band was based on the indie punk scene in the ‘80s in America, where bands would record maybe two albums a year and tour the whole time. It seemed do-able, so we aimed for that as best we could. Australia having so much smaller a population kinda limited how fast we could record and how much we could tour. We pushed it as far as it could be pushed, in hindsight. You have a slew of shows coming up this month, with the Early Years tour hitting the John Curtin Hotel on October 18 and then with just Tim & Kellie playing solo/duo on Sunday October 19th at Bar 303. What can fans expect from your upcoming gigs? Well, quite a bit of contrast. The full band gigs will be full-on loud, tons of leaping around and yelling, some sweating, spitting and all that. The duo gigs are a bit more like a laid back comedy show; we play a lot of Screamfeeder tracks and also some of our solo material, and we laugh a lot, get our shit tangled up, give each other funny looks, it’s way less organised. Kinda hard when there’s no drummer holding it all down behind you. SCREAMFEEDER have been giving it for 22 years, and they’re gonna give a little more at The Curtin on Saturday October 18. For a quieter time, catch the Tim & Kellie solo/duo show on Sunday October 19 at Bar 303.
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WED OCTOBER 15 JMC VOCAL WORKSHOP
Celebrity vocal coach, Richard Fink IV, will be visiting from New York to teach his world-renowned vocal development techniques known as Throga (throatyoga). Join Richard and share your one-of-a-kind voice in a safe, supportive, and educational environment. Whether you’re just starting out or a seasoned professional, this workshop is proven to take your voice to the next level with Throga techniques. He will be in Melbourne Wednesday October 15.
THE DWARVES
Punk legends The Dwarves are gracing Old Bar this Wednesday, October 15. Prepare for a wild, gritty, energetic show that you’ll definitely regret missing if you do, so make sure you don’t. Joining them will be Mesa Cosa and 12FU. $15 entry, doors from 8.30pm.
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AVEIRA SKIES
Aveira Skies played packed out shows for the release of their debut album earlier this year and they plan to do it all again with The Rise Of A New Breed Australian Tour. Nine dates, four states and heaps of heavy bands basically means that this tour is about bringing back the energetic live atmosphere that is the melodic hardcore/ metalcore Perth band. They are joined by local mates Hideaway, Attack At Greenwood, Atlantic and Arkive. They’ll be at The Bendigo Hotel on Thursday, October 16. Don’t miss it.
JUKE JOINT
Juke Joint is coming to Howler. On the third Thursday of every month, clandestine collective the Operatives will lead a slew of artists and collectives in creating new visual, aural and experiential landscapes. The fun kicks off this Thursday, October 16. $10 entry before 9pm, or $15 afterwards at the door.
CHARLIE LANE
On Thursday, October 16 something amazing is happening. Charlie Lane and her new band will be playing at her favourite local venue The Reverence Hotel. Get ready to get your dance on, your onesies on and whatever other costumes you have in store on, for a drink and a party. LuLu & The Paige-Turners are coming across from Tassi to support and Mihra will be kicking things off with their chilled out vibes. It all starts at 8pm, only $5 at the door.
WISHFUL
Melbourne locals Wishful have announced the release of their second eclectic-dream-pop EP, S. Engineered by Sam Lowe and recorded in a backyard goat shed, S is sure to delight and excite listeners. The EP launch party will take place at The Grace Darling Hotel in Collingwood on Friday, October 17 at 8pm, with local bands Frida and Five Mile Town supporting.
GREY GHOST
ALEXANDRA PYE
Young and aspiring solo act Alexandra Pye is a musician who brings folk, blues and rock together, to bring you her own original sound. She mostly plays the acoustic and electric guitars and stomps a stomp box, but sometimes the banjo will make a special appearance. Alexandra is known for her mean guitar playing, but also her soulful lyrics. Late last year Alexandra recorded her successful debut EP Come With Me Now. She has been described as “one to watch” by PBS FM’s Homebrew host, Jenny O’Keefe. See her at The Drunken Poet on Wednesday, October 15 from 9pm.
BROOKLYN’S FINEST
ZEVON & THE WEREWOLVES
Melbourne four-piece Zevon & The Werewolves are headlining at one of the city’s sweetest venues, The Gasometer in Collingwood on Thursday, October 16. Support comes from the talented Shannon Bourne and Sammy Owen. Don’t miss it, it’s sure to be a howler. $10 entry, doors from 8pm.
Lead by their abundantly charming lead vocalist Brooklyn and her sister from another mister Emily, Brooklyn’s Finest live in that small space where soul, funk, disco and pop music all collide to form one groovy danceable mess. Supported by the boys, the girls effortlessly guide the band as they lay down groove after groove, each one seamlessly blurring the lines between genres. Setting the perfect platform for the girls to deliver their catchy melodies and soul drenched harmonies. Catch them at the Retreat Hotel from 8.30pm.
Three exciting things are happening on October 17 at Howler. Firstly, Grey Ghost is launching his brand new mixtape. Second, you can get up and rap with hip hop karaoke. Third, Jane Tyrrell of The Herd is rocking her debut solo performance in anticipation of her new album. Grey Ghost has been in the lab recording his debut album and has decided to bring out his sophomore mixtape in the meantime. If all of that isn’t enough to convince you to come down, free physical copies will be given out on the night Tickets are $12+BF, and are available through the venue.
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FRI OCTOBER 17
SOCIETY OF BEGGARS
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Yes the night that goes below the belt line, and with a tongue wedged firmly in the cheek. The LuWow is recreating some of those ‘80s cocktails that ruined many a palate and caused a whole generation of party goers to have a decade long sugar rush. Not only that but it’s going to be two for one before 9pm every Thursday night. Come down after work and enjoy the fun side of the cocktail experience. Tess will be in charge of the jukebox so expect sing-a-long songs from Wham to Miley Cyrus and beyond. Not cool, just a whole heap of fun.
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Society of Beggars kick off their first show of 2014 with what will no doubt be a passionate and raucous live performance at Yah Yah’s on Friday October 17. This year has proven to be a triumphant one for the fourpiece Gonzo rock’n’roll band, recently recording at the legendary Birdland Studios with Rob Long (Violent Soho, Kingswood) and Lindsay Gravina (Stonefield, The Living End). Society Of Beggars are bringing their brand new tracks to the stage at Yah Yah’s with special guests John Citizen and Pansy. Tix $13 at door. Doors open 8pm.
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STU THOMAS
Stu Thomas is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumental kind of whiz-kid, and has played in some of Australia’s finest bands. He has forged a long and interesting musical journey, starting 25 years ago. Performing on four continents in 20 countries (plus a few islands), he’s played 20 years with Kim Salmon, over-lapping ten years with Dave Graney, and done a plethora of gigs, solo and with his own bands, including his current one The Stu Thomas Paradox. Stu has released a few albums of his own, and has appeared on a serious stack of records by other great artists. He recently did some shows across Australia, in tribute to the great Lee Hazlewood, which proved to be massively successful. He is about to drop a new album and will be appearing in rare solo mode at The Drunken Poet on Fri Oct 17 at 8.30pm. This is one not to be missed, if you like a bit of rock-pop-surf-voodoo-trash-spy vibe.
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CHARLES JENKINS & THE AMATEUR HISTORIANS
2014 has been a massive year for Charles Jenkins. Following from the release and launch of his critically acclaimed fifth album Too Much Water in the Boat in February, Charles decided to write and record an inspired album of songs about inner Melbourne, Victoria and its surrounds. Due to overwhelming demand, a return show has being announced as part of Darebin Music Feast. Charles Jenkins and the Amateur Historians have written new songs, will record yet another CD and will perform all they have for The Past Is Never Where You Left It on Friday October 17 in Studio 1 at Northcote Town Hall. Tickets available through the venue.
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THEM BRUINS
2014 heralds the most surprising recasting of one of the country’s most promising rock bands, Them Bruins. Following 2013’s rapid rise to national radio play wonderland on the back of debut singles Black Widow and Outrun The Future, Melbourne’s primo purveyors of all things sharp-and-shouty entered the studio in the Autumn of 2014 to record their debut album with frivolous abandon - only to hit that adolescent wall of creative meltdown. 51 abandoned tunes, three break-ups, four blacks eyes and countless tantrums and towel throwing carried on inside the hallowed walls of Studios In The City. But to everyone’s surprise Them Bruins emerged from that crazed cocoon triumphant, and now, they carry their brand of hulking, sparkling, cyborg rock that spits pith and vinegar on the prepubescent stylings to the stage at The Retreat Hotel on Friday October 17. Don’t miss this one.
Stella Angelico, the adored rock’n’soul heroine of the Melbourne underground recently unleashed her new single, Prey. To celebrate, she will be performing a headline show at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday October 17, as well as joining the lineup for Queenscliff Music Festival. Prey marks Angelico’s return, along with her new bandmates Tim McCormack (bass), Ryan Oliver (keys), Sam Walsh (guitar) and Dave ‘Suit’ Watkins (drums). With plenty of surprises in the works, her October launch is one not to be missed. Tickets for the Ding Dong show are available through Oztix.
LAMINE SONKO AND THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE
Put your dancing shoes on, stretch and get ready to shake your heart out with Lamine Sonko and the African Intelligence at the legendary Brunswick music joint Bar Open. With an energetic and colourful lineup of Australia’s finest world musicians, this band charms and engages its audience from start to finish with their own fusion of contemporary and traditional African rhythms. It’s a percussive blend of afrobeat, funk, salsa and reggae. Doors open at 10pm on Friday, October 17.
60 SECONDS with SEx ON TOAST You’re about to embark on The Ricky Tour, who is Ricky and what can you tell us about him? Angus: Ricky is basically the embodiment of all things clean-cut, windswept and blue-eyed with a dark underbelly of coke-addled, pistol-toting paranoia. Late night dumpling runs to seedy Chinese restaurants; 4:15am grab a table with that hooker and pick up the suitcase; head to the studio to lay down a tenor sax solo; cut the whole record that night & complete the mix by 10am with utterly perfect balance and pristine stereo imaging… How would you describe your band? Nine guys, all with distinct personalities and also distinct felonies. Some might say we’re crude, rude and talentless, but we’re generally well behaved and if you give us a plate of oysters and a nun to shoot up with. We’re well worth our weight in gold. Any weird pre-gig rituals we should know about? Satan pagan swine-murdering rituals involving “sweaty dudes for hire.” Van talk. Sometimes all band members play the game “fuck me” together (first one to fall in love loses). If Sex On Toast was indeed a breakfast spread, what would it taste like? It’s asinine questions like these that make us question our highly googlable yet sophomoric band name.
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You all seem to be pretty snappy dressers. Where do you buy your clothes? Our clothing is actually brought to you by our own fashion label “Tonay.” Designed in-house, we’ve been creating our own suit-wear for all the moods we might be in on the night of the concert (blacks, reds, whites – you name it!) We also released winter’s “Tonay” singlets and tighty whities to the general public and they can be purchased at shows. The suits are not for sale. What’s your go-to dance floor move? The spin. The Luca Luchessi-patented “disco pash.” The thrust. On a scale of one to Kevin Bacon, how good is your show at Hugs&Kisses going to be? We’re going past Kevin Bacon and heading straight for Gary Busey. SEX ON TOAST will tumultuously sex-ify Hugs&Kisses Thursday October 16. $17 presale, $20 on the door if available.
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MICK BLOOD
Mick Blood has had a rough trot lately. The force behind the awesome Lime Spiders, who among other accomplishments had their first video played on Rage with Weirdo Libido, has been flooded out in Queensland and then seriously assaulted in Newcastle, which unfortunately has left him in dire straits financially. So to help Mick out with getting back on his feet, The Tote and a bunch of incredibly generous musicians who toured with Mick, drank with him or just plain loved the Lime Spiders, are getting together for this once in a blue moon event, to raise some funds for an independent Australian musical hero. The fantastic lineup will include Rocket Science, Seminal Rats, Fez Perez and The Bowers. Come on down to The Tote and show your support. Doors open at 8pm on Friday, October 17.
THE EIGHTY 88’S
On every Friday through the whole month of October, The Eighty 88’s will be playing the Front Bar at The Reverence Hotel. Take one part sleazy winks to old school rock’n’roll, three parts dirty soul and four parts big band party rhythms combined with a solid groove and shake mother fucker shake. It’ll get your lips quivering, your heart thumping, your knees knocking and all of your naughty bits rumbling. So come along Friday, October 17 and enjoy The Rev’s amazing Mexican food, cheap drinks and get on the dance floor. Free entry.
LA BASTARD
Outright released their new LP Avalanche earlier this month. To celebrate, they’ll be taking it on tour, playing festivals, all ages shows, benefit gigs and a special occasion. The awesome female fronted five-piece hardcore act play The Bendigo this Friday night with mates, Free World, Old Love and Vicious Cycle. The Bendigo are also bringing back the ‘Mix Tape Lucky Dip’. Make up your favourite compilations on to CD or cassette and drop them at The Bendigo to collect another in return. Help celebrate the community and tunes that keep us alive by sharing what you love and finding some new gems for yourself.
Soul Sacrifice are a seven-piece band that pays genuine tribute to the brilliant material of musical legend Santana. For the band, it’s all about the music and putting on a great show, focusing on classic Santana with a splash of later stuff. Classics such as Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, Oye Como Va & Smooth create the infectious grooves and rhythms of the music. With praises such as ‘as good as, if not better than the real thing!’, Santana fans won’t want to miss this. They’ll be playing at The Gasolina on Saturday, October 18. Get in at 9pm, tickets are on sale through the venue.
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LOUIS BAKER Tell us about your involvement in the 2014 Australasian Worldwide Music Expo. This year will be my first time performing at AWME so it gives me great pleasure to take part in this conference and showcasing event. I am an artist under Aston Rd Management (Directed by Cushla Aston) and share a vision with my colleagues in connecting with the world through music that is made straight from the heart with high integrity. AWME endorses business-related concepts of the music industry such as bookings, marketing, distribution, licensing and networking. How important have these concepts been in the development of your career as a musician? These concepts are all of equal importance to me as I continue to develop my experience in this industry. Fortunately, I have attained a team who can help in these areas so that I can concentrate on the music primarily, and because of the nature of this fast-paced business in constant flux, it is essential that I have an understanding of all aspects.
international artists makes me feel joyous. I hope to develop new relationships, increase my audience reach, further international booking opportunities for festivals & touring, hear other’s views on how the business is working, connect with artists and build new opportunities in new territories.
How do you hope to benefit from the 2014 AWME in regards to your career in the music industry? Having this opportunity to come face to face with experienced international delegates and
LOUIS BAKER plays an AWME showcase with Ms Murphy, Estere (NZ), and Bongeziwe Mabandla (Sth Africa) at The Toff in Town on Thursday November 13. Tix are $18 through thetoffintown.com.
What’s your number one unmissable AWME event this year? Besides my own show, most definitely Hiatus Kaiyote playing their home city on Saturday November 15. Give three reasons as to why you believe the AWME is a vital occasion for the national and international music industry. • Opportunity to get in front of local and international bookers. • Opportunity to meet and network with bookers and other artists. • Opportunity to expand fan base and reach.
KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO
Garage punk-psych makers Kit Convict & Thee Terrible Two launch their new album Watch Your Skull by taking over The Tote Front Bar on Saturdays in October. This Saturday October 18 they’ll be joined by Grindhouse. The album screams the spirit of The Gories, The Cramps and Billy Childish. Led by Kit Convict, this new trio rip garage punk back to its bare bones, with minimal riffs and primitive beats to stab the pulse. It kicks off at 5pm, entry is free.
THE MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS
With five albums under their belts and 29 years in existence, The Moonee Valley Drifters are wellknown around our sunburnt country for their trademark authentic crucial country branded roots music, blending western swing, hardcore country, cajun, blues, and rockabilly. They’re playing at The Victoria Hotel on Saturday, October 18. Doors open at 9pm. Be there.
SUN OCTOBER 19
THE POLLYDEVLINS
JC & THE PO BOYS
Fronted by Joe Creighton, The Po Boys are a ninepiece band that deliver a banquet of New Orleans second line funk, soul and R&B from artists such as The Meters, Dr John, Professor Longhair, Sly and the Family Stone, The Commodores, Mavis Staples, The Temptations, The Staple Singers, Ann Peebles and Etta James. Don’t miss the boys playing Flying Saucer Club, Friday October 17.
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SAT OCTOBER 18
SOUL SACRIFICE
OUTRIGHT
La Bastard return from an 18-date tour of Europe which brought their crazy live show to audiences across Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. They’ve got a new LP out on France’s Beast Records, Ooh La La Bastard, featuring a selection of tracks from their four previous releases. Available on CD and 12” LP, they’ll be launching it on Friday, October 17 at The LuWow. They’ll be supported by the musical talents of The Creeping Bam. Doors open at 8pm, $10 entry.
JD SAMSON
JD Samson is best known as leader of the band MEN and for being one-third of the electronic-feministpunk band and performance project, Le Tigre. For more than a decade, JD’s career as a musician, producer and DJ has landed her at the intersection of the music, art, activism, and fashion. Friday October 17, JD will be performing at The John Curtin Grouse Party, joined by high calibre wave makers in Sydney’s DJ Sveta, and Melbourne’s Air Max ‘97. Tickets available through the venue.
SINKS
Melbourne based MC and Producer, Sinks is celebrating the release of his first self-produced single and video clip Fraudulence with a launch party at Bar Open on Saturday October 18. Joining him will be special guests WZRDKID, Mol One x Oil Baron and Dj’s Biko + Selecta Suz. $10 on the door with a free download card of Fraudulence on entry. Special giveaway also for the first 20 heads through the door who will score a free digital copy of Sinks’ debut LP Backlash.
Energetic, raw and genuine, The Pollydevlins have been ripping up the Melbourne and Adelaide music scenes with their original, hard-driving garage mod sound, fronted by the astonishing vocals of Kaliah Alice. Channelling mid-‘60s British mod bands with lashings of US West Coast psychedelia and a sly nod to the spirit of Janis Joplin, The Pollydevlins have blended these ingredients into a unique recipe for groove. They’re launching their first single (Can’t) Give You Love, available as 7” vinyl single in a fullcolour groovy jacket. The band have just returned from wowing audiences at the 50 Years of MOD festival in Adelaide and are about to launch themselves at ya at The Gasometer, October 19. Doors open 4pm.
DARCY FOX
Delightful country and pop songstress Darcy Fox was the almighty winner of the coveted top prize in the FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands earlier in the year, trumping over 350 other acts. That’s pretty impressive stuff. On the brink of releasing her new EP My Own Happy Ending, Darcy plays a special all ages show at The Push Pop Up Shop on High Street, Northcote as part of Darebin Music Feast on Sunday 19 October at 3pm. Free entry.
THE HARPOONS
Melbourne’s much loved four-piece The Harpoons celebrate the launch of their debut album Falling For You at Howler on Saturday, October 18. The ‘genre-bending melodies’ and ‘old-school soul vocals’ channel the best of R&B, soul and pop music and bring their own unforgettable charm. Adding to the party are local favourites Kirkis, Dorkus Malorkus and DJ LA Pocock. Catch them at Howler. Tickets $12+BF.
NORIA LETTS AND STEVE SEDERGREEN
This week led by the Noria Letts and Steve Sedergreen, Ruby’s Live Jazz and Blues After Dark will offer a smooth blend of refined music to enrich your Saturday nights. Doors open at 9pm, $20 entry.
THE HARD ACHES
The Hard Aches from Adelaide are in town once again, it’s like this band never stops. They have been touring around the country this past month and they are bringing their folk tinged, heartfelt punk rock to The Reverence Hotel on Saturday October 18. They will be joined on the night by locals The Furrows, Pit the Elder, Georgia Maq and Newcastle greats Run Squirrel. Doors at 8pm and it’s $10 on the door.
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JAMBALAYA!
The Retreat Hotel presents JAMBALAYA! A day long festival of fine Americana featuring Australian country and Americana icon Bill Chambers and an epic lineup of award winning artists including Dan Waters, Liam Gerber, Bill Jackson, Chris Pickering, The Weeping Willows, and Gretta Ziller. It kicks of at 4pm on Sunday 19 October. Entry is free.
CHRIS ALTMANN
Multi instrumentalist and country soul songwriter Chris Altmann is returning to Melbourne for a quick run of shows. Altmann has spent the past three and a half years residing in Hamilton, Canada, where he has been focusing on songwriting, after being the first recipient of the Australian Council’s Nashville Songwriting Residency grant in 2013. After his Australian tour wraps up, Altmann will begin writing a new album, a follow up from his 2012 success Nothing But Nice Things. Catch him at The Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford on Sunday, October 19 where he’ll be joined by many of his musical friends. Doors open at 5pm, free entry.
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q&A with STONEFOx Tell us about the bands supporting you at your launch. We’re lucky enough to be joined by super talented folk outfit Tiny Little Houses, beatmaking maestro Sibling – who might just be the next Chet Faker (he even has the beard) – and energetic indie-pop band SANS, who will join us for an acoustic slot.
OSCAR GALT AND THE EVENTUAL SOMETHINGS
Pioneers of sarcastic gutter rock, Oscar Galt and the Eventual Somethings are set to unleash their debut EP, much like a kebab you order drunk at three in the morning; filthy yet undeniably delicious. You’ll find them loitering at Northcote Social Club on Sunday, October 19. Tickets are available through the venue.
RECORD AND CD FAIR
Melbourne’s record collectors and interstate stall holders will present a genuine 70,000 records, 10,000 CD’s and music memorabilia from the past ‘till the present at the Essendon Record and CD fair on Sunday, October 19 at the Ukraine House opposite Essendon train station. There will be ample free parking at the station’s car park, and the fair will run from 9.30am until 5pm. Admission is $4.
KRIS SCHROEDER
Kris Schroeder, founding member of Melbourne champs The Basics, has been hiding behind the marvellous talent of bandmates Wally De Backer (Gotye) and Tim Heath (Blood Red Bird) for far too long. Returning to his hometown of Melbourne after three years in Africa, Kris has recently rediscovered the joy of playing solo. Songbook in head and guitar in hand, Kris is looking forward to belting out a few new originals along with some choice covers that’ll bring a half-smile to your face at The Victoria Hotel on Sunday, October 19 from 5pm.
Hey, there! What’s your name? Where ya’ from? Hey! We’re Stonefox and we come to you from the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. How did Stonefox come to be? Jenna and Tim met for the first time watching a Snakadaktal concert at Federation Square with mutual friends. After bonding over a love of the beach and creating music, we began emailing musical ideas to each other and sharing sounds. Almost exactly one year later, we found ourselves performing those songs in Stonefox, on the very same stage where we had once met in the audience. You just got a new drummer. Tell us about how she came into the picture. All the drummers we knew were already tied up in bands, so we put an ad on Gumtree with a picture of a zebra & made the criteria ‘must like pizza & the beach’. We got a message from Monica the next day.
What significance do 44-gallon drums have to the band? Our new video clip will reveal the answer to this one… lets just say, flaming arrows and kerosene are also of significance. What can people expect from your live show if they haven’t seen you yet? People can expect a mix of of ambient indie-pop tracks filled with synths and reverb-drenched guitars, as well as folk-based sounds as well. If you can picture the love child of Daughter and The XX, you’re half way there. What are you looking forward to most on Wednesday night? We’ve been putting so much time into the new single, the thing we are really looking forward to is being able to launch the new song and have a great time doing so. STONEFOX will steal hearts at the Northcote Social Club Wednesday October 15. Tickets $10 pre sale through the venue and $15 on the door if still available.
THE WRECKS
Who really cares about work on Monday? Get your arse down to The Bendigo Hotel and kick off your week with some punk rock mayhem brought to you by The Broadcast Syndicate. It’ll feature The Wrecks, The Burning Roaches, Robot Mugabe, Drexler, Agent 37 & Late Nights. Doors open at 6pm.
MON OCTOBER 20
GEORGIA FIELDS & MATTY VEHL
Every Monday night, two established artists are randomly thrown together to play a setful 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. See a cooperative set from Georgia Fields and Matty Vehl from 7.30pm this Monday October 20.
PIANO TE
Hosted by Sam Appapoulay, Chuck Probert will feature as a drop in musician. From the tropical islands of Mauritius, Sam is a musical genius who has the ability to re-originate any song he plays. A deep understanding of music and his piano stem from over ten years of professional work and experience playing jazz and all types of commercial music. Doors open at 7pm, $15 entry at Rubys Music Room.
TUES OCTOBER 21
GREENTHIEF
Who says Tuesday nights are boring? Catch Greenthief and Six Shooter and The Royal Artillery from 6pm at Cherry Bar for Cherry’s Tuesdays in October residency. Doors open at 6pm, it’s free entry, and the music kicks off at 9pm. What ya waitin’ for? CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews AIR AwARDS North Melbourne Meat Market, Wednesday October 8 Image by Tony Proudfoot
ALT-J ∆ The Forum, Monday October 6 Image by Anna Kanci
The Carlton Dry sponsored Independent Music Awards night ran as smoothly as it feasibly could. Held in a cleaned up former meat market in North Melbourne, the ceremony was carried out with near-seamless rapidity, thus enabling a celebratory atmosphere to be upheld throughout. Dylan Lewis was on board as the event’s host. With no TV camera or a radio microphone to filter his banter, Lewis went to town with awkward, lewd and often acerbic sarcasm. He’s a freakin’ funny dude, which made you heartily support his mid-show suggestion that there should be a TV show devoted to Australian music (Recovery revival 2015?). Before we got into the awards, Meg Mac took the stage. It ain’t easy to perform for a room full of freshly seated patrons wondering when they can get another beer, but Mac didn’t falter. She used big hooks and an even bigger voice to prove she’s probably about six months away from seriously exploding. Adalita was this year’s keynote speaker and she offered an impassioned account of her 25 years in music (19 of them as an independent artist). Her very sincere speech emphasised that it is possible to make a sustainable living out of this indie music thing. Best acceptance speech of the night goes to Paul Grabowsky, whose Sextet picked up the award for best jazz album. Dressed in a trim suit, Grabowsky joked that he must’ve missed the “plain clothes night” memo, recommended his son to anyone looking for a graphic designer and referred to himself as “grandpa”. Nominees for best electronica single, SAFIA were the next performer. While the Canberra three-piece showed genuine enthusiasm, their extrapolation of James Blake-like plaintive dub step might need some refiguring if they’re going to be on anyone’s radar in twelve months time. Jo Symes, from 2013 nominees Big Scary, stepped up to the podium to hand out an award, which prompted Lewis to ask whether the band had spent their $30k Australian Music Prize winnings on drugs. When she rebutted with “No way, we’re independent.” He hilariously quipped, “Of course, you grow your own.” DMA’s were next to perform, punching out the tune that accelerated them from nobodies to somebodies six months ago, Delete. Whether or not you buy into their Brit pop revival shtick, the chav-channeling collective execute said shtick pretty darn well. Though, their disaffected, stinging-for-a-smoke attitude meant they’d almost walked off stage before the song was done. Oh yeah, Sheppard played at some point and the lead vocalist’s microphone wasn’t on. But it’s uncertain that their fluffy MOR pop would’ve been any more pronounced had the vocals been audible. Violent Soho and Courtney Barnett took out two awards each, perhaps to the surprise of no one, but deserving nonetheless. Then, after picking up the gong for best hip hop album, Remi was announced as the recipient of the very generous Carlton Dry Global Music Grant. Fifty grand sure is a lot of money and it’s fair to predict Remi will have better luck cracking the overseas market than the majority of the local hip hop brigade. Following his win, the rapper closed the ceremony with Tyson, featuring hype-man N’Fa Jones. The exuberant performance was a convincing advertisement to get along early to see Remi supporting Allday later this month. Everyone left with 16 beers in the belly and firm confidence in the LOVED: Free beer strength of Australia’s independent music community. The whole HATED: One-to-seven too many free event felt more like a party than a ‘take yourself seriously, this is a real job’ occasion. And so it bloody should. Musicians are social deviants. beers DRANk: Carlton Dry Thankfully, beer companies want to invest in them.
Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run. Nirvana’s Nevermind. Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Those are all titles of albums largely considered to be “perfect.” Another one of those “perfect” albums lies within Leeds foursome alt-J’s An Awesome Wave. The 2012 release catapulted the folktronica outfit to the top of indie radio and simultaneously created expectations higher than Snoop Doggy Dog. In September, they released their sophomore effort, This Is All Yours, an impressive follow-up that, judging by Monday night’s show, will need a few more listens before its songs settle in live. Nearly two years to the day since their first Australian gig at Ding Dong Lounge, alt-J returned to play The Forum ahead of their appearances on The Falls circuit. After the show was announced in late August, tickets sold out to the 1,500 person capacity venue almost instantly. Gumtree tickets were harder to find than MH370 and even if you were lucky to find a golden ticket, you would have had to be prepared to pay a premium price. So it wasn’t surprising when I rocked up to the venue and spotted one hopeful fan standing outside hoping that maybe his sign and his look of despair would bring him one step closer to seeing the supersonic foursome that is alt-J. After taking the stage to rapturous applause around 9pm, the guys launched right into a growling version of Hungry of the Pine. Unfortunately, Miley didn’t make the trip down under for the occasion and we were instead left with her charcoal voice groveling in between surging instrumentations While it wouldn’t be my first choice for an opener, alt-J made it make sense and at least we could all breathe a sigh of relief that there would be no more Miley on the night. Meandering through tracks from both albums, the foursome appeared stately onstage, dressed in black and positioned four across. Joe Newman’s vocals were stunningly crisp and rarely wavered out of tune. His harmonies with Gus Unger-Hamilton were biting, especially on Dissolve Me, with each of their vocals perfectly falling into one another’s. All night, these were complemented by Thom Green’s percussion. It certainly didn’t hurt that the Forum proved to have acoustics that made each tap and hi-hat tap fly across the room. As to be expected, songs from An Awesome Wave were received with much more enthusiasm than tracks from the new album. I don’t think it was that the songs didn’t translate live, I think it was that no matter what they release, alt-J is always going to struggle with making their new material one-up the old. Songs like Tesselate and Taro cast a fog of enchantment across the crowd, grooving along and capturing the entirety of the room. A cinematic rendition of Bloodflood was followed fittingly by Bloodflood pt. II, but as the old saying goes, sometimes you just can’t beat the original. But just as it seemed like An Awesome Wave would steal the show, they came in with a haunting whistle solo on Warm Foothills. Nara was another selection that proved to elicit a powerful reaction, with its fiery “hallelujahs” sung like a trumpet blasting through the night. Of course, they decided to finish up with Breezeblocks, giving everyone that feel good sing-a-long. When thinking about alt-J’s performance, it’s also important to recognize that bands are constantly moving forward and with that, comes the acceptance that we have to look beyond the perfection that is An Awesome Wave. They will forever be known as one of those bands that laid down a “perfect” album, but it’s time that we recognize that perfection is hard LOVED: the Warm Foothills whistle to emulate and often times it’s the imperfections that tend to grow solo on you. HATED: the steamy temperature DRANk: Water LAUREN GILL
NILS FRAHM Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Saturday October 11 Image by David Harris
AUGUSTUS wELBY Image by Tony Proudfoot
With sweat dripping across his forehead, Nils Frahm takes a conductor’s bow. Despite the heat of the Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub and the cool spring night outside, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one wanting to stand in the dark room and watch him play on repeat. The stage is a clutter of pianos, synthesizers, mysterious looking hardware. There’s enough instruments for an orchestra, but throughout the course of his two-hour show, the Berlin-based Frahm manages to split himself in three, deftly moving between a baby grand piano, an upright piano, and manoeuvring cables. For the sprawling finale he even used toilet brushes to puck the strings at the back of the piano. The centrepiece of the show, like his albums, is the echoing and building sounds of rapturous piano playing that sees Frahm look transported – one soccer trainer fallen off, staring into the spotlight as he uses both pianos with different hands. But to call Frahm just a pianist is too colourless: he’s classically trained, but the performance takes inspiration from jazz improvisation; electronic music’s seamless precision; techno builds and ambient drone. Throughout the two hours there is thunderous applause and collective breath-holding from the audience, entranced with the strange sight on stage – a tall blond man’s back as he switches between instruments without pause, drawing out the epic You, or the impossibly fast-paced Hammers, timing each beat with what seems like both complete exactness and LOVED: Every startling melody joyful spontaneity. After he takes his bow, the crowd leaves in near HATED: Why do tall people always silence, not wanting to disrupt the magical atmosphere he somehow stand at the front? spun. DRANk: Too much expensive white REBEccA FLORENcE BEAT MAGAZINE pAGE 44
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews JEFF MILLS AND THE MSO Hamer Hall, Friday October 10 Image by David Harris
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“Some of you may be curious about the title of the performance. It comes from the thought that perhaps the time and reality we sit in isn’t exactly what it is. Maybe the sounds we’re hearing are something that happened before far beyond our horizon,” explained Jeff Mills at the beginning of his highly anticipated sold out performance at Hamer Hall. Playing with the 60-piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit techno legend put on a show that easily transcended what’s been happening on our musical horizons, proving that electronic and classical music can fuse together as one cohesive entity. One of the most hotly talked about performances of Melbourne Festival, you could feel the excitement and tension growing in the room before Mills walked out in a sharp black suit shortly after 8pm. The crowd erupted into thunderous applause and with the wave of conductor Thomas Roussel’s baton, the orchestra launched into the intro track from Mill’s previous performance with the Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra. Onstage, the Wizard was positioned to the front left of the MSO, working impressively on his signature deck and drum machine combo. While the sound was incredibly lush, it never seemed like one overpowered the other. Mills’ hi-hats and throbbing bass weaved effortlessly in between swirling flutes and rock star-esque drum solos. As the 90-minute performance progressed, so did the energy levels. One second you could be listening to a rich assortment of horns and the next Mills would come in with some urgent pulsing bass. The performance was always going to be unique, but the pair worked together flawlessly to create an entire cohesive experience. From the lights dancing across the stage to Mills’ insights into the outside world, it felt like we were all getting the chance to experience something incredibly special, no matter what the age. Unsurprisingly, the legend brought out both the young and old, scattered throughout the crowd in beanies and suits. As far as the music went, the program featured a flurry of classical jazz-tinged pieces as well as songs from Mills’ impressive back-catalogue. Before firing into Gamma Player, he introduced it as one of his favourite tracks and explained that it references exceeding barriers to try new things. And try new things he certainly did ± with a stunning rendition full of cinematic cymbal crashes and fitting horns. But the real zinger of the night came with the opening chime of the bells that signaled that it was time to chair-rave to The Bells.. One of his most well-known tracks, the MSO couldn’t have complemented the maddening version any better. Mills closed out the night with Ashford & Simpson’s Bourgie Bourgie,, proving that Motown magic is still alive and well. After multiple standing ovations, both Mills and Roussel came back out to deliver an encore version of The Bells that got people out of their seats and moving. Even the French horn section took the opportunity to shake it. Looking around Hamer Hall, it was clear that techno and classical music could collude for something that was truly magical and, as Mills would say, out of this LOVED: What Mills had to say world. HATED: That it’s over LAUREN GILL
SINCE I LEFT YOU, JONTI & THE ASTRAL KIDS Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Sunday October 12
Like a diver is scored with the technical difficulty of their attempt in mind, it would be fair to give Jonti & The Astral Kids’ attempt at performing The Avalanches’ 3,500 sample-filled masterpiece on live instruments the same consideration. Since I Left You, the mash-up to end all mash-ups (alongside As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part II) was probably never intended to be performed live, but adoration will do crazy things to some people. Jonti, the South African-born, Los Angeles-based, Australian artist was joined on stage by 14 other cult-devotees of The Avalanches to deliver a note-perfect, and at times jaw-dropping performance of an album many consider to be a modern Australian classic. Its mythology is aided by the fact that its sequel has never seen the light of day (yet). Released in 2000, the album is cited by nearly every act on Modular Records as a major influence of their career. Cut/Copy and The Presets would perhaps not exist as they do today without this experimental and pioneering sonic odyssey that took everything from disco to prog-rock to hip hop and threw it into their kitchen blender. On stage, it was a magnificent melée, brimming with enthusiasm unseen since the days of The Polyphonic Spree. And it is unquestionable that the project would have been an abject failure had it not been for the powerhouse vocal chords of Sydney-based artist Rainbow Chan. With unwavering dedication to the vocal samples that define songs like Flight Tonight and Etoh, Rainbow Chan’s full range was on display and was worth the ticket price alone. To admit that Frontier Psychiatrist was a highlight of the set seems a tad redundant. Of course it was a highlight, it’s one of the best Australian songs of the 21st century, but it took the song being amplified to such a volume to completely realise its power. With violins, violas, a flute, a saxophone and a double bass creating the orchestral flourishes, the title track, with its flamenco guitar was a moment of beauty before the party really got started. Jonti was regularly pogo-ing on stage throughout the set, screaming vocal samples whilst the two percussionists (often on different time signatures) kept the segues between the songs as perfect as they could be. Any nerves or sloppiness in execution had obviously dissipated by their final performance, because they were faultless and their enthusiasm was infectious as the entire Foxtel Festival Hub bounced and grooved to every track. With Jonti humbly thanking the audience and dishing shout-outs to the music’s creators, Extra Kings closed the night with a distorted, LOVED: Frontier Psychiatrist. Live. orchestral cacophony that Sufjan Stevens would have smiled at. Wow. Much Mind Blown. Whatever the performance lost in unpredictability, it gained in novelty, HATED: See below. because witnessing Since I Left You performed in its entirety might be a DRANK: A $16 Kirin Cider, which once in a lifetime event and it was definitely one worth experiencing. I obviously ordered without knowing the price. CHRISTOPHER LEWIS
DRANK: Beer
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KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND THREE LuWow, Friday October 10
King Salami and The Cumberland Three don’t just tear it up: they set the goddamn thing on fire. In terms of sound, it’s a bit like Link Wray meets Motörhead. The band’s borne of punk origins, but they play a red-hot blend of exotica, ‘60s garage, rockabilly, rock‘n’roll and surf guitar, and everything’s dished up with a side serve of The Cramps. If that floats your boat, it’d be a travesty not to see them live ± they’re effing wild. King Salami channels Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and spends a lot of time on the floor winding up the crowd ± audience participation is mandatory (everyone ends up on their knees at one point during the encore) and there’s a heap of call and response. At one point snake-hipped hep cat Salami directs that we come closer. “Scream with me,” he roars and we do. Later he says to some Betty that he’s “gonna scratch your back and make you growl like a tiger,” and she does too. On the topic of growling, Salami would give Eartha Kitt a run for her money. The Cumberland Three are normally four, but tonight we were missing Pepe Ronnie. They’re all so good to watch. Eric Baconstrip, the drummer, is dressed like a psychedelic lodge master, replete with fez and crazy glasses. Salami tells us that he’s been crook, but you wouldn’t know because Baconstrip drives the shit out of the set. The bassist, Kamikaze UT is a Japanese punk rocker, dressed western swing style ± it’s knackering just watching the dude’s levels of hyperactivity. Johnny Pastrami, on lead guitar, is dressed for the rodeo and plays like Dick Dale. It’s almost impossible to pick crowd faves because every song was met with a frenzy, but the punk, hillbilly, surfin’ number Yosemite Sam and Less Bone More Meat took the cake for ours. LOVED: So many dudes dancing in The audience is a kooky mixed bag ± as you’d expect, there’s a rockabilly earnest. contingent, but there’s also a lot of the nine-to-five crew. They start out looking bewildered but end up having a fat old time. Ultimately, the HATED: Nothin’. Tonight was wallcrowd’s a seething mass and the go-go girls are put through their paces. to-wall smiles. DRANK: diet coke. MEG CRAWFORD CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK AUGIE MARCH
Havens Dumb Following the success of their critically acclaimed album Moo, You Bloody Choir, Augie March released Watch Me Disappear in 2008. The band then decided to go on what was described at the time as an “indefinite hiatus.” During that time, lead singer Glenn Richards released a solo album and moved from Melbourne to Tasmania in search of cheaper rent and the opportunity to set up a home recording studio. Luckily the hiatus didn’t last forever and, enjoying their newfound independence, Augie March reunited to create their fifth studio album, Havens Dumb. Drawing upon themes of “times passing, loss, dislocation, distance, new hope and healthy anger,” this album showcases Augie March’s dreamy melodies, smooth harmonies and thought-provoking lyrics. Richards is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most poetic lyricists, and his songwriting on Havens Dumb further enhances this thought. Despite its length, Havens Dumb is an easy listen, which only adds to its appeal. Opener AWOL sets the tone nicely for the rest of the album. First single After the Crack Up is a calming folk tune, although the introduction is hard to decipher. The pace then shifts slightly with rock tune A Dog Starved. Father Jack and Mr T. is a captivating acoustic gem, which would be worthy of a place on a Best Of album in years to come. One of the best tracks on Havens Dumb is Definitive History, featuring a haunting yet beautiful melody and powerful lyrics. Such is the strength of this album though that many of the tracks could be considered a favourite.
SINGLES DJ QUIK
Pet Sematary (Mad Science) Quik’s rap skills are legendary in their own right. Still, his talent as a producer makes him one of the most underrated figures in hip hop’s past quarter century. The crisp and spacious production hit like a gust of fresh air each listen.
SUN KIL MOON
War On Drugs: Suck My Cock (Independent) Nice meme.
PBS TOP TEN Although Havens Dumb doesn’t break any new musical ground for Augie March, it delivers their smooth indie rock sound which we have come to know so well. A triumphant comeback album which will draw you in from start to finish. ALI BIRNIE
BEST TRACK: Definitive History IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: ART OF FIGHTING, SOMETHING FOR KATE IN A WORD: Smooth
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BOOMGATES
Tight Knit (Bedroom Suck) While it’s unlikely we’ll ever see Boomgates back in action again, we have a fresh cut dug up for Bedroom Suck’s five year retrospective compilation. Even in offhand mode, Boomgates hit the spot with their trademark turn of phrase – “She pulls the wool over the eyes/Of a tight-knit circle”. Lovely.
BEYONCE FEAT. NICKI MINAJ
YUMI ZUOMA
THE OCEAN PARTY
This Side of the Fence (Popfrenzy) A stuttering drum machine snare provides the only percussive element on This Side of the Fence, a dizzyingly erratic burst of guitars and keys, imbued with a reverence to pop fundamentals. The ostensibly limited palette (and runtime) punches well above its weight, providing more melodic bang for your buck.
RICH GANG FEAT. RICH HOMIE QUAN & YOUNG THUG
Let’s Go To The Beach (Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control) One of the more uplifting moments on Banoffee’s selftitled EP, Let’s Go to the Beach jettisons the crutch of pitch-shifted vocals, blowing out into an all-out jam towards the close. A dextrous cut from a debut EP impaired by a semblance of sameness.
Head Down (Spunk) A barrelling wash of refreshing, hypnotic guitar repetition carries Head Down along to its splendid crest of deft sax action. The chorus bleeds a canny blend of meek toughness, resonating in an assured diction just the same.
Tell Em (Lies) (YMCMB) “I’ma pull up/Eat on that pussy and dip.” So opens Young Thug on one of the resounding highlights of one of the year’s best releases – the all killer 20-track Rich Gang – Tha Tour Part 1 mixtape. Music doesn’t get more romantic than this in 2014, seriously, the ATLien’s alien flow marrying a smooth-as-hell fingersnap beat. Young Thug is the future; this is history in the making.
CONTRAST
Drum Machine (Independent) A rich canvas of intertwining guitar, Drum Machine is a potent slice from rising shoegaze proponents Contrast, lifted off the ace EP Less Than Zero. Detached vocals swathe through a chiming storm of guitar noise. Well composed, well produced.
SUI ZHEN
Infinity Street (Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control) Uninhibited instrumentation underpins Sui Zhen’s virtually breathless vocal take, replete with gnarled BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
basslines and blown-out tom rolls. The dynamic is a tad hard to digest, but it’s a rewarding offering nonetheless.
Flawless (Remix) (Columbia/Sony) Queen Bey + Onika + Trophies horns + SpottieOttieDopaliscious horns? *bows down so hard Earth is dislodged from solar orbit*
Alena (Cascine) Mysterious Kiwi outfit Yumi Zuoma carve a huge divide between intimate ballad and house euphoria, effortlessly gliding between the two ends of the spectrum, using rave piano as a bridge to the low-key drop rather than within it. Emotive pop that actively evades any cheap shots.
TOP TENS: NORTHSIDE RECORDS TOP TEN
1. Groove Curse JORDAN RAKEI 2. Follow the Path SHAOLIN AFRONAUTS 3. The Soul of Melbourne VARIOUS 4. Automatic LADI 6 5. Adrian Thaws TRICKY 6. Falling For You THE HARPOONS 7. Operation Doomsday MF DOOM 8. Emma Jean LEE FIELDS 9. Cold World NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS 10. Just as I Am BILL WITHERS
For all the latest singles check out beat.com.au Struggling to come to terms with the cold hard fact that I reached my comedic apex at Big Day Out 2009 by yelling “We love you Stacy!” all throughout Ting Tings’ set.
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DAY RAVIES
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LOWTIDE
Wedding Ring (Lost & Lonesome) Amongst the lush monoliths of guitar noise, a heartfelt pop acumen shines through on Wedding Ring’s triumphant chorus, emanating John Hughes nostalgia not through tone, but sentiment.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
NO ZU
Raw Vis Vision (Cutters) The Cut Copy brains trust has rounded up a tasty selection of “Melbourne’s new dance culture” for a compilation entitled Oceans Apart, a smart move, aiming to encapsulate even just a portion of all the good shit goin’ down in this fair city. The first taste comes from rhythmic collective No Zu, emerging from semi-dormancy with the joyously horn-laden Raw Vis Vision. It’s a jam, irresistible in its build of groove, shades of Parliament’s Chocolate City bubbling underneath the surface.
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1. Cause ‘N Affect RADICAL SON 2. City Of Dreams MIKELANGELO 3. Burnt Offering THE BUDOS BAND 4. Popular Problems LEONARD COHEN 5. At Midnight We Ride WE TWO THIEVES 6. Word Got Out JEP AND DEP 7. Sargent Place SPAIN 8. Weatherhouse PHILIP SELWAY 9. Singer’s GraveA Sea of Tongues BONNIE PRINCE BILLY 10. The Thieves Are Babes DEAR PLASTIC
RECORD PARADISE TOP 10 VINYL
1. Popular Problems LEONARD COHEN 2. Order of Operation AUSMUTEANTS 3. Typical System TOTAL CONTROL 4. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone LUCINDA WILLIAMS 4. The Physical World DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 5. Our Love CARIBOU 6. Enclosure JOHN FRUSCIANTE 7. You’re Dead! FLYING LOTUS 8. Dubnobasswithmyheadman UNDERWORLD 9. Syro APHEX TWIN 10. #7885 Electropunk to Technopop CABARET VOLTAIRE
COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK TOP TEN
1. Typical System LP TOTAL CONTROL 2. Time to Die 2LP/CD ELECTRIC WIZARD 3. Pop Crimes LP/CD ROWLAND S. HOWARD 4. Commune LP/CD GOAT 5. Yummy 2CD HARDONS 6. Dude Incredible LP/CD SHELLAC 7. Disco Volante LP MR BUNGLE 8. Angelic Dread 2LP/2CD NUNSLAUGHTER 9. A Sea of Split Peas Pink Vinyl 2LP COURTNEY BARNETT 10. Nuclear Winter LP BATPISS
SYN SWEET TEN
1. First Light EP THE TWOKS 2. Rip This BASS DRUM OF DEATH 3. Zombie C.W. STONEKING 4. The Few DORIAN CONCEPT 5. We Lied BORED NOTHING 6. When I’m Gone EYEDRESS (FEAT. GEORGIA) 7. India 45 KAKARIKO 8. Kintsukuroi HEY ROSETTA! 9. Hates My Boozin PETER BIBBY 10. Head Down THE OCEAN PARTY
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT MANCHESTER
1. Tears on my Pillow KYLIE MINOGUE 2. Bed Down SPLIT SECONDS 3. Lay Lady Lay BOB DYLAN 4. Beds Are Burning MIDNIGHT OIL 5. Sheets DAMIEN JURADO 6. Pillow Talk DORIS DAY 7. Unmade Bed SONIC YOUTH 8. Material Girl MYDOONA 9. Between the Sheets THE ISLEY BROTHERS 10. Where the Sheets Have No Stains U2
ALBUMS
NEW MUSIC IN REVIEW THIS WEEK
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YES I’M LEAVING
Slow Release (Homeless Records) The name Yes I’m Leaving suggests finality, tempered with a veneer of politeness: the author is walking out the door of a job, a relationship, a community, the tale of the statement signalling forever that what was once the source of enjoyment and satisfaction has gone stale. Or maybe it’s a mixture of resignation and resentment: fuck it, I’ll go now, I know when I’m not wanted. Where does that place Yes I’m Leaving’s new album, Slow Release? Whereas the band’s 2012 album, Mission Bulb (which, like Slow Release, has been given the affectionate Homeless Records vinyl treatment) was confrontational to the point of sonic brutality, there’s something even tougher lurking in Slow Release. You can hear Joy Division fighting it out with feedtime on the opening track, One; on Puncher it’s Hot Tomatoes and Hoot McKloot getting shitfaced on West End Draught on a shitty Adelaide night. Fear is plagued with self-doubt and jarring Germanic melodic violence, Alchemy is X at the beach wreaking havoc on unsuspecting punters and Timer takes you to places where only the most resilient of musical wills can ever survive. Salt sweats on a thudding bass riff and tries to see its way out of desolate suburbia, Care Less is Dinosaur Jr stumbling through the backstreets of Sydney searching for meaning and purpose, and if you’re not belted out of your comfort zone by the collage of white noise that opens Manic, then the dirty riff that succeeds it will slice straight through your puny whitebread existence. Funny is as humourous as The Mark of Cain barking orders, and just as impressive, Secret is the Cosmic Psychos with a gut full of amphetamines and Husk is all sneering attitude, loping bass line and rhetorical assault. Yes BEST TRACK: Alchemy I’m Leaving aren’t going anywhere, and that’s a very IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: TIGER good thing. BY THE TAIL, FEEDTIME IN A WORD: Brutal PATRICK EMERY
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BUSDRIVER
Perfect Hair (Big Dada/Inertia) After fifteen years in the game and counting, Regan Farquhar – aka Busdriver – isn’t really here to make new fans. Nor should he need to – his unique brand of hyper-literate rhymes and askew, observational subject matter have amassed him a respectable following over the years. Perfect Hair marks Farquhar’s tenth LP overall, and it’s one that continues to explore the outer boundaries of hip-hop while still taking note of what’s happening on the inside – catch the satirical budget outline on opener Retirement Ode, which is immediately followed by snarky questions about the state of hip-hop on the bouncy Bliss Point. Like every Busdriver release up until this point, not everything is going to rub people the right way, or work in the way he wants – the slow and cloying Upsweep being a primary example. Still, everything that sticks on Perfect Hair sticks hard. The guest list includes smartly-placed appearances by Open Mike Eagle and Pegasus Warning, but the album’s highlight comes with Ego Death, a six-minute cut featuring Aesop Rock and Danny Brown. They work so well together that one can only pray for a Watch the BEST TRACK: Ego Death Throne/Run the Jewels-type expansion someday soon. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: ATMOSPHERE, SAGE FRANCIS, MURS DAVID JAMES YOUNG IN A WORD: Provocative
THE CHURCH
Further/Deeper (MGM) Steve Kilbey and his Churchmen continue their prolonged cosmic journey with almost evangelical zeal. Further/Deeper provides no surprises, just more of the quintessential Church psychedelic renditions stretching over 12 songs with almost biblical numerology. No longer part of the crew is Marty Wilson-Piper, one of the pillars of the band along with Kilbey, Peter Koppes and Tim Powles. His position has been taken by former Powderfinger man Ian Haug, and it is almost a hand to glove fit. This restructure has seemingly not harmed the band and a favourable group chemistry evolves behind the avatar words of Kilbey. Often, the music contains a rococo flurry of notes which elicit a disengaged cool and bemusement. It is almost like immersing yourself into a sonic bath with the band. Kilbey sounds as sincere as ever and despite the familiarity of the palate, the band are still ferocious when the need arises. Importantly, they do not grate. Lyrically, from Vanishing Man onwards the listener feels like they are being led toward a divine spark that behests the knowing few. Grains of salt are required for the trip. As the melodies intertwine they exemplify the carefully thought-out compositional and thematic coherence. On Delirious they shine, and chord sequences are akin to Acid Test tripster gurus. By Pride before a Fall the band are ready to stretch out and favour more open-ended exploration . The organic nature of Laurel Canyon almost renders the tune a quaint period piece, but ambience and continuing BEST TRACK: Miami stimulation between the band members evidences IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: THE that after all these years and some wrong turns and CURE, DEAD CAN DANCE, 13TH FLOOR stumbles, The Church are still heading somewhere. ELEVATORS, FINK, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE IN A WORD: Expansive
KARL S WILLIAMS
Heartwood (Footstomp Records/Warner Music Australia) A time-travelling bluesman from the dirty ‘30s American south sounds like the premise for a film thrown up during the Hollywood writer’s strike, but a portal nonetheless seems to have been ripped open. Low and behold, artists like CW Stoneking and Archer seem to keep finding themselves in the Australian wilderness with Karl S Williams seemingly falling out of the same wormhole. His debut album Heartwood was originally released independently last year but found its way into the hands of the good people at the Warner Music label imprint, Footstomp Records. They decided a re-release was in order with this 2.0 version containing three additional tracks Time Bomb, Golden Tears and Seeing Stars. Time Bomb opens the album as Williams’ quintessential blues lyrics cut over the top of an electric piano-driven fusion of rock and soul. Sounding like a world declaration of impending doom, Williams’ opening chorus introduces him as ‘A daisy-cutting motherfucking judgement day’. The largeness of the opener quickly dissipates as he makes his incredible vocal range apparent on Is This Love? (not a Marley cover) accompanied by a sparse piano melody. The clock is turned way back past the end of daylight savings on the following tracks White Hotel and Be’elzebub. These are the sort of tunes that would have pricked Alan Lomax’s ears as he passed a rundown shack at the meeting of four desolate dirt roads. I Fell for You and Golden Tears mix in soul elements with equal measures of pop sensibility. Williams is at his best when his straight shooting lyrics and uplifting melancholic melodies are left to float by themselves. Occasionally the songs are a victim of overproduction, like the use of a string section on The Darkest Cloud. His is a voice that doesn’t require the extra textures the string section creates because, like BEST TRACK: White Hotel, I Fell For You the bluesman of old, simply through his vocal and IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: ARCHER, guitar chords he can channel the pain of life and CW STONEKING, PERCY SLEDGE warp it into beauty. IN A WORD: Time shifting
BRONIUS ZUMERIS
LANIE LANE
Night Shade (Ivy League) Perhaps suggesting that Night Shade is a 180 for Lanie Lane is a bit too reactionary. In essence, it’s somewhat closer to a 270 – although it’s closer to where she started, it means that not only has she spent longer on this revolution, she’s found herself within the darker corners of her own musical spectrum. Where once was wonder and whimsy on her still-excellent debut, 2011’s To the Horses, a sepia-toned landscape of cavernous guitar reverberation, sombre jazz brushes and creakedfloor rhythmic repose has emerged. The same voice that lured you into this world in the first place remains as soulful and resonant as ever, but it’s difficult to not acknowledge the pain and world-weariness that has developed in her vocal tone. The record is darker and more ethereal in nature – if To the Horses came from the heart, Night Shade is derived more from the soul; in turn presenting a truer portrayal of the woman behind the music. One of the more welcome comebacks in the canon of Australian music this year, Night Shade is a well-timed return BEST TRACK: No Sound for Lane, serving up songs that are smartly written IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: and impeccably paced. It’s Lanie, Jim, but not as we ALABAMA SHAKES, DAN AUERBACH, NINA know her. SIMONE IN A WORD: Caliginous DAVID JAMES YOUNG
BORED NOTHING
Some Songs (Spunk) If the name Bored Nothing didn’t conjure up enough delusions of ennui, then how about Some Songs as a lazy album title and a portrait doodle for the album cover? And then there’s lead single Ice-Cream Dreams. I’m not sure I’ve had an ice-cream dream, but it sounds like it would be like a less intense cheese dream, with the song’s casual double-tap of a drumstick leading the chorus’ mundane lyric ‘Everything’s exactly how it seems’. So much about Fergus Miller seems off-thecuff, disinterested and alienated. And yet his recordings show an attention to detail and a consistent ear for great melodies, so he must care, even if it’s just a little bit. Some Songs is not a huge leap from Bored Nothing’s excellent debut or last year’s more varied Another EP, but it’s a confident consolidation of Miller’s sound. All of the ’90s influences meld together and are intuitively integrated into an unfussy whole. Opener Not heralds a subdued start to the album that slowly builds to the more uptempo Do What You Want Always, a more positive spin on the previous album’s highlight Build a Bridge (And BEST TRACK: Song for Jedder How about You Get the Fuck over it). The album’s IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: New consistency carries though all the way to the short/ Moon ELLIOT SMITH, Something About Airplanes sweet Artificial Flower and the blissful release of DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Skelliconnection CHAD Ultra-Lites II. Some Songs is clearly another winner. VANGAALEN IN A WORD: Bliss CHRIS GIRDLER
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY OCT 15
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••belove Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••dead albatross + lovely beast + atlas + annabel
+ andy Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
••dwarves + mesa cosa + 12fu Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.
••empra + troy downward trio + rigidy rourke &
Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
••the fifteen disciples + the ben carr trio + edel
plastik 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••the rob burke & tony gould quartet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
••tim stevens trio - feat: the tim stevens trio Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $30.00.
••tom vincent septet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
the love dogs Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••mikelangelo The Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub,
••driving south - feat: zevon & the werewolves
••nussy + big creature + duoux Workers Club, Fitzroy.
••dumb punts + tomb hanx + oscar bublè & the
Southbank. 8:00pm. $35.00.
7:00pm. $14.30.
••stonefox + tiny little houses + sans & sibling
GIG OF THE WEEK!
Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
butterboys Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6.00.
A MOVING SOUND
Thought you knew drum and bass? See it in a new light, fused with traditional Chinese and Taiwanese influences and the transcendent vocals and movement of Mia Hsieh in A Moving Sound. A Moving Sound is at the Melbourne Festival Hub, Alexandra Parklands, October 21.
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••flash company + murdena Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
••charlie lane + lulu & the paige turners + mihra
jake nicholls + sophia brown Revolver Upstairs,
••kelsie rimmer + phoebe & schina & ross evans
••dead city ruins + seedy jesus Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. ••drivetime commute + oedipus rex + break the
••the acoustic sessions - feat: imogen clark + Prahran. 6:30pm.
••the vendettas + cicada stone + gazillion angry
mexicans + dj mermaid Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
••vinyl splinters + bad wall + kung fu in
technicolour Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ••willow darling + amadeus tulip + twisted pistol + the arbiter Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $6.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••dizzy’s big band - feat: peter hearne + celeste
poulson Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00. ••la tin shed orchestra Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5.00.
••lunar + plymouth + soulful + jimmy davis Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
••mo soul feat. the soul of aretha Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $15.30.
7:30pm.
Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
••lipstick & spurs - feat: jenny taylor & the
lipstick spurs + suzannah espie Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.
Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••elephant ego + kashmere club + seven year
••shady lane + dash + tash sultana + gilligan
••justin townes earle + lindi ortega + marlon
union Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
smiles Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00. ••show us your love (open mic) Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
••the brunswick hotel’s open mic Brunswick Hotel,
itch Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.00.
••ellery cohen (ep launch) + beautiful beasts +
young & pretty Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.
williams Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $60.50. ••king puppy & the carnivore + the mary goldsmiths + sienna thornton + georgie spain Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $4.00.
Brunswick. 7:00pm.
••kucka + wooshie + telling Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd.
7:00pm.
••mikelangelo The Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub,
Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
••next - feat: boy wonder + scalar fields Colonial
••the hammond organ nights Musicland, Fawkner. ••wine whiskey women - feat: alexandra pye
THURSDAY OCT 16 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
••ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: the
••aveira skies + hideaway + attack at greenwood
wednesday quartet Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne
wall Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $8.00. ••electrik dynamite + envenomed + mercies end
••open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. ••open mic/jam Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. ••rich davies - feat: rich davies & the devil’s
••oscar france + mick power Bar Nancy, Northcote. 7:00pm.
Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5.00.
+ atlantic + arkive Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
7:30pm. $8.00.
Southbank. 8:00pm. $35.00.
Coburg. 8:00pm.
••jimmy stewart + sings in spring Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
••juke box racket Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. ••kain borlaise trio Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. ••oh pep! + alex lashlie Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. ••open mic Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 8:00pm. ••paul reid + william alexander Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
••prince thursdays - feat: various artists Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
••saray iluminado Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••squawkestra open rehearsal Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 7:00pm.
••stephen blackburn (unbearably hip) Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00.
••studio one showcase (jake savona & friends) -
feat: jake savona 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
••the cotton club - feat: sweet felicia & the
fox + sunborne + saltaire Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
••vardos Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••westerburgh & micaela Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••zevon & the werewolves of melbourne +
••on the rocks - feat: the sand dollars + stone 8:30pm. $10.00.
••plugged in thursdays - feat: dayrigs Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $7.00.
••robert muinos + theme team + gus rigby Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.
••sex on toast Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. ••soul in the basement - feat: fulton street + dj
vince peach & pierre baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne
honeytones Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
shannon bourne band + sammy owen blues band Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
FRIDAY OCT 17
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••wishful + frida + five mile town Grace Darling Hotel,
Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
••4tress - feat: the brain snaps + pinball machine
••spiral arm + reika + stone desert + vulpix Bar ••static revenue + mojo pin + the national +
evening express + skymoth Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
+ never the empress + serenity now Mr Boogie
Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
7:30pm. $8.00.
••airling + jasia + dj slymewave Shebeen, Melbourne
Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
••aveira skies Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 8:00pm. ••bear the mammoth + lake mountain + the
••syre & fresko launch + jackson thomas + fatai ••the bangs + wet lips + girl crazy + casimir Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
••the brain snaps + slvrkn Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
••the dead boomers (ep launch) + complete
+ vacuum + lucid castra Grace Darling Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••the dead love + greenthief + the soulenikoes +
leopard slugg Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••the dwarves + batpiss + the kremlings Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm.
••the juke joint Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••b is for chicken Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
••brooklyn’s finest + that gold street sound +
thando Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
••fitzroy high cabaret Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $25.00.
••matt dwyer & the magnatones Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
••rebecca mendoza & the john montesante
quintet The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. $20.00. ••richmond music academy Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
Cbd. 8:30pm.
sweets + shiver canyon Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••blackout - feat: i confess + amethyst close +
among the abyss + to light atlantis + arkive Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $5.00.
••can’t say Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. ••cat canteri (album launch) + alison ferrier Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••cherry bomb European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. ••chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm. ••cirque de slam - feat: perfect revenge + the
tarantinos + evie red Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
$28.60.
••copia + reclaim the fire + the evening son Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
••doubleshots weekends - feat: buried feather
+ the sunday reeds + jimmy junk heart Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00.
••einstein toyboys + simeon & the solid snakes Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••flanagan’s friday nights Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. $5.00.
••foxtrot + run squirrel + cat on pillar + shut up
jackson 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
trio Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
••greens party benefit Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. ••grey ghost + jane tyrrell + edd fisher + dj
Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••grouse party - feat: jd samson + sveta + air max
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.
••late nights (launch) + cosmic kahuna + all
••ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: the thursday ••the melbourne improvisers collective Uptown ••the new impromptu quartet + eric mcgrath Paris ••up up away + el moth + jungle crooks John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••all improv - all in - feat: oskar & bebra Farouk’s Olive, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $2.00.
••cherrywood + archer The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:30pm.
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••diesel Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $30.00. ••ian collard Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. ••jemma + the clifton hillbillies Post Office Hotel,
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leilion Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12.00.
‘97 John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $15.00.
we need + the furrows Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••mick pealing band (the songs of andy durant &
stars) Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $27.00.
••my favourite mick (a benefit for mick blood) -
feat: fez perez + rocket science + seminal rats
+ DEVILROCK4 + THE BOWERS + BLOOD + SPIDER LOVERS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. • OPEN SWIMMER + ROWENA WISE + BRENDAN WELCH
Justin Townes Earle
DZ Deathrays
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• OUTRIGHT + FREE WORLD + OLD LOVE + VICIOUS
CYCLE + REBIRTH Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• PUT A BIRD ON IT - FEAT: THE GALLANT TREES +
THE MIGRATIONS + RED EAGLE + WIRE BIRD + JUKAI FOREST Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. • RASH FEST PRE-PARTY - FEAT: KAKARIKO + SHIT SEX + BISCOTTI + DREAM DAD Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5.00.
• ROSS DE CHENE HURRICANES Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • SAY ANYTHING + CERES + HAVE/HOLD Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $50.00.
• SOCIETY OF BEGGARS + JOHN CITIZEN + PANSY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
• SON3 The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. • STELLA ANGELICO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.
• STU THOMAS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. • THE DWARVES + BLOODDUSTER + WOLFPACK +
K-MART WARRIORS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $47.50. • THE EIGHTY 88S Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9:00pm. • THE RETURN OF HALLIE’S COMET - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH + TIMMUS + KODIAK KID + CRAIG PRINGLE + MAXI BASSHEAD Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $20.00.
• THE ROTTED CORPSE OF MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE
NIGHT - FEAT: DEBACLE + COUNTER ATTACK + GRUDGE! + TERROR STRIKE + ASBESTOSISIS + SICK MACHINE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. • TRAVIS COLLINS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $20.00. • TTTDC + SPACE JUNK + HARD RUBBISH Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $5.00.
• WHITAKER + TOM WEST + SONS OF RICO Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • GARAGE-A-GOGO FEAUTURING LA BASTARD + GOGO
GODDESSES + DJS SYE SAXON + BARBARA BLAZE The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• CAM GILES-WEBB & THE COLLECTIVE Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• CANNONBALL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
• CLINT MANSELL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $69.00.
• FINE BLUE THREAD CD LAUNCH Northcote Town Hall,
OUT ON THE WEEKEND
I didn’t go out on the weekend, it was unbelievably boring. Here’s some advice – go out on the weekend. Even better, go to Out On The Weekend and celebrate fine food, finer booze and all things Americana with Justin Townes Earle, Lindi Ortega and heaps more. Get to Out On The Weekend, Saturday October 18 at Seaworks, Williamstown.
HILLBILLY FILLY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • THE BLACK SORROWS + JASON SINGH Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm.
• THE WILLY WAGTAILS & THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR + THE
WILLY WAGTAILS + THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR Farouk’s
Olive, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN
BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
• VARDOS Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm. • VELVET ARCHERS Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm.
SATURDAY OCT 18
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • THE RETROBETTES + POWERLINE SNEAKERS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm.
• ANDY PHILLIPS & THE CADILLAC WALK BLUES BAND +
MARK GARDNER Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
• ANTHONY ATKINSON & THE RUNNING MATES
SEDEGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
Fawkner. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• SCREEMFEEDER (THE EARLY YEARS TOUR) - FEAT:
SCREAMFEEDER + LOWTIDE + FREAK WAVE + IOWA John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• SINKS + WZRDKID + MOL ONE X OIL BARON + CUTS BY
BIKO + SELECTA SUZ Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• SOCIALIST PARTY FUNDRAISER - FEAT: THE PRIMARY
+ HIDEOUS TOWNS + NINETYNINE + QUANG DINH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• STOPPING ALL STATIONS PRESENTS - FEAT: THE
NATIONAL EVENING EXPRESS + CICADASTONE + COPIOUS + HAMSTERS OF THE APOCALYPSE + THE BRONSONS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $15.00. • THE HARD ACHES + THE FURROWS + PIT THE ELDER + RUN SQUIRREL + GEORGIA MAQ Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• BANG - FEAT: MASKETTA FALL + SIDELINES +
INVENTIONS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
9:00pm.
• CONTANGENT + THE GROVES + LOW FLY INCLINE +
• RUBY’S SEARCH FOR JAZZ CATS 3 - FEAT: STEVE
• ROC OKTOBER - FEAT: POVRATAK OTPISANIH Musicland,
• TORCHE + CHILD + DEAD Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.
Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
• LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE Bar
AROWE + JANTAR STARR + ALEXIS NICOLE Penny Black,
Brunswick. 8:30pm.
• THE HARPOONS + KIRKIS + DORKUS MALORKUS + DJ
$27.00.
• JC & THE PO’ BOYS Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm.
You’ve all heard the words of 1000 monkeys on 1000 typewriters, but have you ever heard the music of 1000 monkeys on 1000 musical instruments? It’s sure to be the best of times at the Blurst of Times festival with DZ Deathrays, Hard-Ons, Drunk Mums and a whole lot more this Sunday October 19 at Seaworks, Williamstown.
+ MACHINE TRANSLATIONS + DUKE BATAVIA + AMARILLO Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00. • ASHBURY MEDICINE SHOW + WATERLINE + MINUTE TAKERS + ACOUSTIC FOXX + CHINESE HANDCUFFS + KAT ORGOVANY Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. • BAD AT KNITTING + NMA + JASON LIVES Brunswick
• BEN MALLONIE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • BLACK EYED SUSAN TRIO Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • COMEBACK KID + ROTTING OUT + RELENTLESS Central
Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.00.
BLURST OF TIMES
Club Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.
TWO HEADED DOG + DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.
LA POCOCK Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• THE PARTY - FEAT: THE TARANTINOS + MISS LIZZY &
THE NIGHT OWLS + THE PERFECTIONS Spotted Mallard,
Brunswick. 8:00pm. $30.00.
• THE ROLLERCANES + DESTRENDS + REIKA Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. $44.00.
• TORCHE DJS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 1:00am. • TRANSCIENCE + TELL AMAROSA + MERCURY SKY +
CONJURER + COASTLINE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• WISH FOR THE MUSIC - FEAT: HEART TRIBE +
DEEJAYDEEG + LUCINDA FRANCO & NICK TABONE + MARIONETTES + SEAN KIRKWOOD + SPIRAL ARM Espy,
St Kilda. 8:00pm. $25.00.
$10.00.
• DIABLO BROTHERS + DJ JEFF LEPPARD Retreat Hotel,
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
APPAPOULAY Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• DONNY BENET (ALBUM LAUNCH) + THE INFANTS
• ALLIRA WILSON & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET
• DOUBLESHOTS WEEKENDS - FEAT: BURIED FEATHER
• DECIBELS RECORDS SHOWCASE - FEAT: BIDDLEWOOD
• RUBY’S CLASSIC BLUE NOTE SERIES - FEAT: SAM $20.00.
• SAM KEEVERS’ AMÉRICA DO SUL + SAM KEEVERS +
JACQUELINE GAWLER Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
• THE JAC + REUBEN LEWIS ENSEMBLE Cross Street , East Brunswick. 8:30pm.
• THE MELTDOWN Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• THE SAM KEEVERS SEPTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• THE SUGAR FED LEOPARDS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• THE TEACUP TWO Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. • THEM BRUINS + GATHERER + DJ KEZBOT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
• TUBA SKINNY The Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Southbank. 8:00pm. $35.00.
• ZAMPOMISTAS PANPIPES Farouk’s Olive, Thornbury. 5:00pm. $5.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • ATOMIC DEATH SQUAD + MORBID ANAL + DRAIN LIFE
+ INVOLUNTARY CONVULSION + CYNICAL FUKCWIT Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• CHARLES JENKINS & THE AMATEUR HISTORIANS Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN COLLECTIVE + SKYSCRAPER
STAN The Bain Marie, Northcote. 8:30pm. • COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY Post Office Hotel, Coburg.
Brunswick. 8:00pm.
Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.
+ THE NEW POLLUTION + GALAXY FOLK Old Bar, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $12.00.
• DRIVEN - FEAT: JASON LIVES + GREY THE SKY + FALSE
KINGDOM + MEDICINE DOG + ANTI-VIOLET AND BLACK DIAMOND Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $10.00. • DUTTY DANCING - FEAT: SHANTAN + WANTAN ICHIBAN + JESSIE I + MAT CANT + BURN CITY QUEENS + SISTA SERA Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5.00. • FOREIGN/NATIONAL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• HADAL MAW (LP LAUNCH) + DEPARTE + IRE + CRYPTIC
ABYSS + BLUNT SHOVEL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Northcote. 6:00pm.
• KENNY JOE BLAKE The Bain Marie, Northcote. 6:00pm. • MAYFIELD Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. • RIGHT + JUKAI FORREST Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. • SEAN MCMAHON & THE MOONMEN + BIG SMOKE + DJ
Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00.
• GAMELAN DANANDA Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 1:00pm.
• GLORY B Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. • JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• LORENZO & THE SPAGHETTI CONNECTION Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP WITH STEVE
8:00pm. $23.00.
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• LARGE NUMBER 12S Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • LAURA PALMER + INITIALS + SUMMER BLOOD +
MARICOPA WELLS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm.
$10.00.
• MONEY FOR ROPE + ELBRUS + WATCHTOWER + STONE
REVIVAL Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00. • OLD SKOOL SATURDAYS - FEAT: KICK BACK Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm.
• OUT ON THE WEEKEND - FEAT: JUSTIN TOWNES
Fitzroy North. 9:30pm.
+ BOB SEDERGREEN + BRIAN ABRAHAMS + PHIL BYWATER + GILLAN GREGORY + JON CHIDGEY Paris Cat
• KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO + GRINDHOUSE
9:30pm.
• GREEN’S DAIRY ANGEL ENSEMBLE Wesley Anne,
6:00pm. $14.50.
• EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION - FEAT: GEOFFREY ALLAN
• LYRIC OPERA OF MELBOURNE (MASSENET’S
• ORSOME WELLS + LUCID PLANET + RED BEE +
• FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel (nth Fitzroy),
+ THE BLACK HARRYS Northcote Town Hall, Northcote.
• ICAH + I/O The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $90.68. • KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.
9:30pm.
• FLAMING MONGRELS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
QLAYEFACE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
EARLE + HENRY WAGONS + RYAN BINGHAM + LINDA ORTEGA + NIKKI LANE + ROBERT ELLIS + THE DECLINES + CHRIS ALTMANN + RAISED BY EAGLES + THE MORRISONS + EMMA SWIFT Seaworks, Williamstown.
12:00pm.
• RDZJB + AUDEMIA + THE DUKES VEDA + CITRUS JAM Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• RECLAIM THE NIGHT - FEAT: THE ELECTRIQUE BIRDS +
WERTHER) Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 7:30pm. $35.00.
• NORIA LETTS WITH STEVE SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.
SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm.
$15.00.
• SOUL DISCO - FEAT: SNAKE EYED ROLLERS + DISCO
DOLLIES + DJ DONNY DISCO The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
• SOUL SACRIFICE (THE MUSIC OF SANTANA) Gasolina, South Wharf. 9:00pm.
• TAMARA KULDIN’S DIRTY MARTINI RETURNS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
• THANDO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. • THE FADO OF MARIA SEVERA Farouk’s Olive, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• THE IAN CHAPLIN TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • THE SELECTER The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $60.50. • TUBA SKINNY The Foxtel Melbourne Festival Hub, Southbank. 8:00pm. $35.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • A HIGH ST SPRING FEAST - FEAT: QUEEN BEAVER + THE
MONDAY PROJECT + KYLIE BLOODSTAIN 303, Northcote.
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• action sam European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm. • collard greens & gravy Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.
• diesel + madeleine becker Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $37.00.
• flying engine string band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
• goatpiss gasoline Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • greg walsh Umbrella Lounge Bar, 12:00pm. • hunter lee Railway Hotel (nth Fitzroy), Fitzroy North.
• jambalaya - feat: bill chambers + dan waters +
liam gerner + chris pickering + bill jackson + the weeping willows + greta ziller Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
• lazy sunday afternoon - feat: even + chris
wilson + dj max crawdaddy Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $20.00.
• logic defies logic + pines + man from the
meteor Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• mj halloran & the general project +
Northcote. 4:30pm.
suzie stapleton + james mccann & the new vindictives Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $8.00. • oscar galt + alison thom + tali sing Northcote
Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm.
• remnants + the dufranes + store bought cool
9:00pm.
• selki + danika smith + clyyve Brunswick Hotel,
Thornbury. 5:00pm.
• sunday school - feat: karyme Public Bar, North
Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• sunday sessions - feat: michael oliphant Big
8:30pm.
• lot 56 + bad hobbits + hugh mcginlay 303, • louis king & the liars club Forester’s Beer & Music • moonee valley drifters Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. • olive’s folk club - feat: louisa wise Farouk’s Olive, • order of chaos + the wrecks + organ donor • pepperjack Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. • taliska + co-cheol Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. $15.00.
• the brunswick music collection Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• the bushwhazee bush dance The Bain Marie, Northcote. 1:00pm.
• the houndlings The Bain Marie, Northcote. 3:00pm. • the impossible no goods Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
• the t bones Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • the vanguards Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. • the wilson pickers + ruby boots The Bain Marie, Northcote. 9:30pm.
• vic old time jam session - feat: craig
woodward + warren rough Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• vika & linda bull + shaun kirk Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30.00.
SUNDAY OCT 19
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • and he sang + never the empress + tiana v Workers Club, Fitzroy. 4:30pm. $7.00.
• brian nankervis & the rockwiz orkestra Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30.00.
• comeback kid + rotting out + relentless Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. 8:00pm.
• darren gibson + nathan seeckts + cameron
tyeson Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. • espy artist showdown (battle of the bands) - feat: rick grimm’’s illa turba + pride only hurts + enemy throttle + searching in silence + strangers in town + the national evening express + rum runners + katana cartel + the backbeat prophets + sc barendse + grace king Espy, St Kilda. 12:30pm. $15.00.
• gang darts Public Bar, North Melbourne. 1:30am. • itchy scabs Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm.
Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00. Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
Brunswick. 8:00pm.
Melbourne. 4:00pm.
Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• the blurst of times - feat: dz deathrays + hard-
ons + velociraptor + jeremy neale + harmony + beaches + the creases + the uv race + drunk mums + super best friends + i a man + major leagues + palms + die! die! die! + the ocean party + the good sports + scotdrakula + heads of charm + mighty boys Seaworks, Williamstown. 12:00pm. • the boys Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. • the glenn family band + the quickfix + tom tuena + synergy + the supernaturals + pete carr Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • the peter hansford band + anthony young + dear ale + luke shields John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm.
• the pollydevlins + the grand rapids + the sons
of mod + lara travis + mc andrew mcculloch
Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• king wolf + dirty blues Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • kris schroeder Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • leslie avril band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 3:00pm. • lindi ortega + rob snarski + tracey mcneil Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $24.00.
• live pawn acoustic sunday - feat: various
artists Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:00pm.
• moonee valley drifters Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• open mic Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm. • peter baylor & the roadhouse romeos Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• ross mclennan (single launch) Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
• ryan nico + broads Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • spencer p jones Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. • sunday sessions - feat: rosario de marco The Bodega, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• the harmaniax Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
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• cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • i do like mondays - feat: honey badgers + tooth
• the wrecks + the burning roaches + robot
mugabe + drexler + agent 37 + late nights Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
• tim & kellie 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00. • vic meehan & dave moll + josh novak Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
• waco social club + angry mules + dial me for
murder Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • brunswick women’s choir Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm.
• cheap frills Farouk’s Olive, Thornbury. 5:00pm. $10.00. • darryl roberts & hey gringo St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 3:00pm.
& tusk Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.
• monday night mass - feat: tangrams + dark fair
+ gurner Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 303 funk jam 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. • borrowed time trio & silo string quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $30.00.
• lyric opera of melbourne (massenet’s
werther) Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 7:30pm. $35.00.
• preshil & karoline kuti Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: piano té Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• hue orleans hot louisiana kitchen The Bain Marie,
• the allan brown quintet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
• lost & found Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
• the tony barnao quartet + the shady ladies
• melbourne jazz vocal sessions 303, Northcote.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• soulfest - feat: maxwell d’angelo + common
• cajun dance party - feat: the ‘johnny can’t
Northcote. 7:30pm.
8:30pm. $18.00.
Melbourne. 12:00pm.
• standing tall Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. • sun-dazed - feat: various artists Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• the tek tek ensemble Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.
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• glenn musto Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm. • greg walsh Umbrella Lounge Bar, 12:00pm. • haybax Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:30pm. • jam sundays Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm. • james benson Carters Bar, Northcote. 6:00pm. • jules boult & friends Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. • ken maher, al wright & tony hargreaves
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
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dance’ cajun band Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• de may + benjamin bunting + james thomson Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00.
• sleepy dreamers + hunting season + jp
klipspringer Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. • the mutual appreciation society - feat: georgia fields & matty vehl Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
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the capes Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• al james & the blues assembly (album Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• banjo-b-que - feat: craig woodward The Mercat, Melbourne. 1:00pm.
• bell street delays Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. • bloody sundays - feat: clive j mann Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 2:00pm. $10.00.
• chris altmann + michael meeking & the lost
souls Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 5:00pm. • david cosma Bar Nancy, Northcote. 7:00pm. • davidson brothers The Bain Marie, Northcote. 3:00pm. • dr dupree Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. • emilee south The Bain Marie, Northcote. 3:00pm. • folk train Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• chris pickering & the abbotsford 3 + julz &
erin Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• goatpiss gasoline Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • greenthief + six shooter + the royal artillery Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• middlemarch + sunborne + mojo gypsy Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00.
• steve gavan exhibition - feat: jess reibeiro +
luke legs + dan hawkins + guiliano ferla Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $6.00.
• the brunswick hotel discovery night - feat:
atlas + biddlewood + howard howard + charlie lane Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
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Wednesday October 15, 2014 With Alex Black Had a bad week? Darebin Music Feast is still happening and will be the perfect pick me up with the talents of Darcy Fox, who is releasing her EP My Own Happy Ending, on Sunday; full details can be found in the All Ages Timetable below. Have you checked out the speakers for the FaceThe Music industry conference yet? We’ve been steadily adding to the ever-growing list of music industry professionals, including high-profile artists, booking agents, publishers, record label directors, music lawyers, publicists, and artist managers. The annual two-day event is happening on Friday and Saturday November 14 and 15 at Melbourne’s Arts Centre, and now’s the time to get your ticket. For speaker and session information, check out facethemusic.org.au With Melbourne Music Week commencing in less than a month (November 14-23) now is the time to start planning what Tram Jams, Elevator gigs and All Night Safaris you’ll be attending. The musical talents of German dance duo Pachanga Boys from celebrated techno collective Underground Resistance, DJ Spinn, and Remi, among many others will be treating Melbourne to an array of musical delights across the week. For the full timetable of what is on head over to facebook.com/melbmusic How does getting your music featured in a national advertising campaign (and collecting royalties from it) and winning up to $10,000, plus time in a professional recording studio sound? Accelerate is a music competition created by Mitsubishi Motors Australia to discover and promote independent Australian artists, with a bunch of sweet prizes to be won. Upload a track to acceleratemusic.com.au now. Also don’t forget that The PPCA (Phonographic Performance Company of Australia) and the Australia Council of the Arts have still got $15,000 up for grabs as part of their Artist Direct Distribution Scheme. Past recipients of the grants include Courtney Barnett, The Grigoryan Brothers, Lance Ferguson of The Bamboos, Ben Salter and Ainslie Wills, so if you’re looking to pick up some cash to get the ball rolling with your career then head to australiacouncil.gov.au/grants. Entries close November 25
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15 TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 • The Push Pop-Up Shop w/ All Ages panels, presentations, open round table discussions and workshops for musicians, artist managers, event producers and those interested in music business and career development, 234 High Street, Northcote, Free ± some bookings recommended but not essential, www.musicfeast.com.au, AA. THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 • Fortify FReeZA PA Workshops, Echuca College, Butcher Street, Echuca, 12.30pm - 1.30pm /4.30pm - 5 pm, Free, contact Rhonda Marshall on 5482 2517, U18. FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 • Aveira Skies w/ Hideaway, Bury The Fallen, Fail The Abstract, Atlantic, Wrangler Studios 8C Whitely Parade, West Footscray, 8pm, $10 door, AA. SATURDAY OCTOBER 18 • Fired Up Hip Hop and Break Dancing Tournament, w/ Rewind, Babysteps, YKC, A2D Varsity, and Kstar, Springers Leisure Centre, 400 Cheltenham Road, Keysborough, 5-9pm, $12, www.greaterdandenong. com/youthservices, AA. • Live@TurtleBend w/ Revolution, The Stackshots, Wild Eyed Like Fireflies, and Matt & Joel, Turtle Bend Reserve, Shelford Road, Teesdale, 2-10pm, Free, www.turtlebendevents.com, AA. SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 • Soulfest w/ Maxwell, Common, Aloe Blacc, Mos Def, Angie Stone, Musiq Soulchild, Leela James, Anthony Hamilton, D’Angelo, Arts Centre Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Linlithgow Ave, Melbourne, $139-$356, 12pm, www. ticketmaster.com.au, AA. • Comeback Kid w/ Rotting Out and Relentless, Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley Street, Footscray, 6:30pm, $42.85, www.oztix.com.au, AA. • Darcy Fox EP Launch, The Push Pop Up Shop, 234 High Street Northcote, 3pm, Free, AA.
Southbank. 8:00pm. $45.00.
• abuka Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00. • arianna on a bridge of stars - feat: peter
de jager + georgia loakimidis-macdougall Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
• nmit showcase Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. • ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: dexter’s
asian connection Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• sue rommel & mentone girls grammar Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.
• the alex stuart quintet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• the victorian college of the arts secondary
school presents - feat: generation next Bennetts
Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • dumb & bored Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00. • irish sessions Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • open mic Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. • robert ellis + jonny fritz + james thompson Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $27.50.
• ryan bingham + hary hookey + tim wheatley Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:00pm.
• wax lyrical Murmur Bar, 7:45pm
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STREET FESTIVAL This Sunday October 19 will see the return of the Spring Fling Street Festival for its 37th year of springtime merriment. Since its inception the festival has provided a forum for local artists, musicians, foodies and vendors from the inner north-west to showcase their wares, all in one action packed day from 11am ± 6p m. With live music, shopping, interactive activities and delicious cuisines, Errol Street and its surrounding laneways will be a veritable smorgasbord of multi-sensory goodness. The festival has grown from year to year to become a key community and cultural happening in the Melbourne events calendar. Run by The Centre, a not-for-profit community organisation based at 58 Errol Street, the festival is produced annually to celebrate North and West Melbourne as great places to live, work, socialise and join together. This year’s festival will include the jam-packed Three Crowns Music Stage, where Spring Fling is partnering up with North Melbourne’s Three Crowns Hotel to bring quality local, up and coming musicians out to entertain us for the day. Come along to support these makers of fine tunes while you enjoy a beer in the sun and some delicious food from nearby food trucks. Featuring over 20 acts including HOWQUA, Soul Safari, Thando, and Rockenspiele, it’s sure to be a rockin’ good time. Then there’s perennial crowd-pleaser, The Spring Fling Dog Show. A quest to find the inner north-west’s most obedient, best dressed pooch, festival goers are welcome to bring their best mate along on the day to compete for the grand prize. Registrations from 11am, Dog Show starts at 2pm. There’ll also be the chance to chat to the teams
from The Lort Smith Animal Hospital and The Lost Dog’s Home, and to pick the brain of one of North Melbourne’s most experienced local vets in an open Q&A. Want more? The all-new Multicultural Hub, with a range of performances and stalls highlighting the diversity of cultures and cuisines present in Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs, will have something to tantalise any taste. If that’s not enough, the Spring Fling Artists Market will make its debut too, showcasing the talents of crafty locals and the finest of vintage wares. Looks like we’re in for an eclectic day of all the things that make life good (especially costumed dogs). For a full rundown of all the details including the Festival Guide and transport info, head to www.centre.org.au/springfling. If you’ve never been, you’re seriously missing out ± it’s a family-friendly, multicultural, all-inclusive free event, and you can still watch bands while drinking beer in the sun. What are you waiting for?
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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
CITY OF YARRA SETS UP FUND TO SOUNDPROOF MUSIC VENUES
In a first for a council in Australia, the City of Yarra has put aside $25,000 for grants to help its 50 music venues soundproof their buildings. Venues can apply for $2,000 for a stand-alone, or $5,000 if the venue can match dollar-for-dollar for the project. The grants cover all sorts of soundproofing as well as fees for acoustic consultants, building surveyors and town planning consultants. Go to beat.com.au for the full details.
NEW SIGNINGS #1: NATIVE TONGUE WINS COURTNEY BARNETT
Courtney Barnett has assigned her publishing to Native Tongue as she preps the 2015 release of her debut album. After her sold-out Australian tour, she does a North American and European run for two months, returning for Laneway. Last week she won Best Independent Artist and Best Independent Single for Avant Gardener at the Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards.
NEW SIGNINGS #2: GOOCH PALMS GET US AGENCY DEAL
A 17-date US tour covering 12,000 kms (including Gonerfest in Memphis) not only won Newcastle duo The Gooch Palms new fans (including Outkast’s Andre 3000 who turned up to their Detroit show and was gifted with their tees and record) but an agency deal with North America’s Panache Booking (Mac DeMarco, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard). They return to the States in early 2015 to tour, record and release a second album. In San Francisco, they cut two tracks for Detroit label Urinal Cake.
NEW SIGNINGS #3: OVERSEAS DEALS FOR LITTLE MAY
Before heading out to play London, New York and LA, Sydney trio Little May signed deals with Island Records (UK) and Capitol Records (US). They also signed with US booking agent Kevin French of the Paradigm Agency. Capitol A&R Mike Flynn is confident they’ll “effortlessly translate here in the States.”
NEW SIGNINGS #4: SUI ZHEN AT TWO BRIGHT LAKES
Sui Zhen, aka Melbourne musician and DJ Becky Sui Zhen, will release her first single Infinity Street through Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control. Her music is described as “her own version of Japanese post-punk through a dreamy balaeric-bossanova filter,” with her debut album Secretly Susan out next year.
NEW SIGNINGS #5: UNIIFIED GETS OCEANS ATE ALASKA
Unified will release Birmingham UK experimental metalcore band Oceans Ate Alaska in Australia, via its distro deal with California’s Fearless Records.
NEW SIGNINGS #6: CABANA JOIN PILERATS
Melbourne teen three-piece Càbãnå who recorded their debut EP Done As Dinner at Chet Faker’s studio, will release it through Perth company Pilerats. Hailing
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FREE U2 ALBUM DOWNLOADED 26 MILLION TIMES
The U2/Apple deal of sending 500 million copies of Songs of Innocence to subscribers dismayed sectors of the music industry worried giveaways cheapen the value of music. But as a marketing exercise it’s exceeded all expectations. 81 million listened to it and 26 million downloaded it.
DAN NEVIN NEW AIR GM
Announced at the Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards was that Dan Nevin is new GM of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR). He was most recently Digital Music Manager at JB HI FI.
PANDORA TO BE IN 60% OF FORD CARS
Car entertainment is the new growth sector globally, and in Australia. Pandora cut a deal with Ford to install its internet radio service in its cars. It will be an app in the dashboards of the Fiesta ST, Focus ST and Kuga, and next year the Ranger and Transit. It is a great way for Pandora to grow advertising revenue. It already has deals in Australia with Holden, Mazda and Nissan.
THINGS WE HEAR
• Which manager, while returning to the physio for treatment for a car accident, tripped and broke his wrist at his door? • Which lead singer is bragging to friends he’s determined to land a role in Pirates of the Caribbean 5 when it starts shooting in Queensland? • How will Live Nation buying 51% into Big Day Out owner C3 Presents affect rumoured plans to change BDO’s name to Lollapalooza Australia? • Has Southern Cross Austereo offered a $10 million package to Hamish and Andy to do breakfast on the ailing 2DAY FM? • Are Jay Z and Beyoncé secretly recording an album to come with a movie? • Why does a new AC/DC video, shot in London, not feature drummer Phil Rudd but UK skinsman Bob Richards? Rudd was called away at the last minute on the second day of the shoot but they’re not saying why. • Midway through Amity Affliction’s US tour, cofounder guitarist Troy Brady announced on their Facebook page he has quit but declined to say why. • Up to 100 people who turned up to Alt J’s show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre found their tickets were invalid after buying them through Gumtree off a serial scammer who goes by the name “Alex Ferrero”. • Taylor Swift did a piano-centred version of Vance Joy’s Riptide for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge show saying it was one of her fave songs from 2014. • Sticky Fingers got evicted from NSW’s Union Club Hotel after their sell-out gig, with venue manager Jos Bradley telling the Illawarra Mercury their antics had been “disgusting” and “childish.” He claimed they were late, abused security, thrashed the in-house gear and one had pissed on the balcony. • Avicii finally went public about the health problems that cancelled most of his 2014 tour dates. He
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Melbourne guitarist and songwriter Hamish Anderson has gained acclaim from US guitar greats like BB King and Guy Clarke Jr since the 23-year old decided to spend more time in America. King asked him to open on some of his 10-day US tour (“a privilege and an honour”). On an interview for RevoltTV, Clarke Jr placed Anderson at the top of his list when asked which guitarists under 30 he rated. Anderson is back touring Australia, kicking off in Melbourne at the Ding Dong on November 11. He also recorded his new EP Restless (out November 7) live on the floor in Los Angeles’ Henson Studios with Krish Sharma, and filmed a video in an old mansion there.
VOTING FOR MUSIC BANK EXTENDED
Voting for the Melbourne Music Bank is extended to October 19. From hundreds of applications, 12 finalists are Matt Walters The Lion, NY aka Nyuon, Tim Ischia/Boyeur, Selki, This Public Life, Rick Steward, Davies West, Heloise, Richard Cashion, Under The Arch and Alex Britton with Eilish Gilligan as the wildcard.
YOUNG ELDER OF JAZZ COMMISSION RETURNS
PBS 106.7FM and Melbourne International Jazz Festival this week opened applications for the 2015 PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission. It promotes innovation and excellence in jazz composition, and is open to Victorian jazz composers 35 years and under. $10,000 will be awarded for the creation and presentation of a new work to be broadcast on PBS and premiered at the 2015 Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF). Closing date is Oct 31.
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said that just having just a month off after his gall bladder and appendix surgery in March had made him sicker. “I was dropping weight. I needed to take a break.” He was recording during that month off. High performance sports car enthusiast Deadmau5 got a cease and desist letter from Ferrari when he painted his Ferrari 458 in rainbow colours. So he told Ferrari to get stuffed and now driving only UK firm McLaren’s vrooms. Violent Soho almost didn’t make it to Melbourne for the independent awards after either airline staff or security took umbrage at guitarist James Tidswell’s Painters & Dockers T-shirt Eat Shit Die. Thom Yorke’s solo album had 1.2 million downloads in its first week of release on BitTorrent. Cherry Bar’s James Young was in Spain last week to speak at Monkey Music Week in Peurto de Santa Maria, introduced as “Internationally acknowledged Ambassador of Australian Rock.” Melbourne gets a new live music venue when Brunswick’s Railway Hotel re-opens next month. See beat.com.au for more details.
LIFELINES Hospitalised: the father of 18-year-old Canberra musician Hamish Peterson complained the young pianist waited over a week for surgery at Canberra Hospital for a broken hand and had his operation postponed four times. Ill: Adelaide’s Come Out festival creative director Susannah Sweeney has continued to pull the event together during heavy chemo for breast cancer. Ill: Morrissey revealed he’s had four surgeries to remove cancerous tissue. In Court: Jack Apostolidis, 63, security chief at Adelaide nightclub Red Square jailed for 3 ½ years at the SA District Court He was found to have had a lead role in bashing a 19-year-old patron in December 2011. Nightclub owner Antony Tropeano, 34, got a bond (and may lose his liquor license) and security guy Wayne Patrick Ngaia, 45, copped a suspended sentence. Arrested: rapper Too Short for trying to bring a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag through security at a Californian airport. He fled when discovered. Died: pioneering Australian music journalist, author and historian Ed Nimmervoll, 67, from a brain tumor. He was editor of Go-Set, founder of Juke and radio’s Take 40 Australia and wrote books on Aussie music history. He was the first local scribe to provide serious critical analysis for local music and one of its ardent supporters to the end. More at beat. com.au. Died: Paul Revere of ‘60s US band Paul Revere and The Raiders, 76, after a period of ill-health. Their biggest hit was Indian Reservation. Died: British dubstep poet and singer Stephen Samuel Gordon, aka The Spaceape, after a five-year battle with a rare form of cancer. Died: Rob Skipper, guitarist with UK band The Holloways, 28, accidental heroin overdose while drying out in Thailand.
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10% TAX ON CROWD FUNDING
Crowd funding has been such a boon for the music industry, so it was inevitable that someone would piss on the picnic basket. In this case, the Australian Taxation Office told Parliament that as crowd funding is essentially services in exchange for revenue (donations) it should be up for 10% GST.
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