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BLUESFEST

Bluesfest has gotten even bigger with the addition of their second round of acts. Led by Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, the second announcement also features Paolo Nutini, David Gray, Ben Howard, Counting Crows, Gary Clark Jr., Angélique Kidjo, Jimmy Cliff, Mavis Staples, Dispatch, Ruthie Foster, The Beat, Keziah Jones, Sheppard and Playing For Change. Bluesfest 2015 will take place from Thursday April 2 – Monday April 6 at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm outside Byron Bay.

DICK DIVER

Fresh from their first ever US tour, Melbourne deep pop thinkers Dick Diver are playing a rare headline show at The Hi-Fi in Melbourne, Friday November 28. The past 12 months have seen Dick Diver smash Meredith and Laneway Festivals, tour the nation and release on US labels Matador and Fruits & Flowers. They will be joined by an all-killer, no-filler support lineup of Sydney’s Holy Balm, the Native Cats from Hobart, and Geelong’s own Hierophants. Tickets are available now through the venue.

THE DICKIES

The Clown Princes of punk rock The Dickies are touring Australia and New Zealand for the very first time. Considered one of the oldest surviving punk bands, The Dickies have toured with the likes of The Damned, The Ramones and The Queers and brought you classic albums such as The Incredible Shrinking Dickies and Dawn of the Dickie. You can catch them in Melbourne at the Evelyn Hotel on Thursday April 16, 2015 with very special guests Nursery Crimes. Tickets available now via Metropolis Touring.

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Rock icon Billy Idol has announced he will return to Australia for the first time since 2002 when he graces our shores next March. After releasing his autobiography and his first album of new material since 2005 this October, and jetting off around Europe and North America, Idol will head around Australia playing both indoor shows and A Day On The Green winery events. Support throughout the tour will come from Cheap Trick, with The Angels and The Choirboys also playing selected dates. Billy Idol will play at Margaret Court Arena on Tuesday March 24. Tickets through Ticketek. He’ll also hit A Day On The Green on Saturday March 21 at the Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

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Well hi there! Who are we speaking with and what do you do in the band? Hello! James Chandler here – I play bass and do questionnaires. Pleased to make your acquaintance. What sparked the name change from Perch Creek Family Jugband to simply Perch Creek? We wanted to keep it simple – five nouns are too many for one band name. Also, we have grown up a bit and the jug band cap doesn’t really fit anymore. You’ve recently embarked on the Home Again tour in celebration of your return to Australian soil following a whirlwind tour of Europe, North America and South Africa. Care to share the highlights? Playing at WOMAD in England was a great experience, as was Larmer Tree Festival and Edinburgh Fringe, they really know how to do festivals in the UK. For those who haven’t yet heard your most recent album, Jumping On The Highwire, can they expect a similar sound to that of your 2011 release, Tall Tales? Expect less cute, more psychedelia, and all original songs including at least one funky soul track and a few other surprises. You’ve got a gig coming up at the Substation and another at the JamGrass Music Festival. If you could give audiences three reasons to attend these gigs, what would they be? To pick up a freshly pressed 12” copy of Jumping On The Highwire, to check out the range of great bands at JamGrass, to hear some road stories and, if you need a fourth reason, to have a great time. PERCH CREEK are playing Substation Friday October 24 and JamGrass at the Thornbury Theatre, Saturday November 1. Tickets are available via perchcreek.com.

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RUDELY INTERRUPTED

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In support of their new single and EP, I Am Alive, Rudely Interrupted have announced a national tour. The nine-stop tour features sets at three festivals and will see the band play right around the country. Rudely Interrupted will take over Northcote Social Club on Sunday, November 9.

JOHN LEGEND

Neo-soul superstar John Legend has locked in an Australian tour. The tour follows the release of his fourth highly-acclaimed album Love In The Future, featuring five-time platinum ARIA #1 single All Of Me. While in Australia, Legend will perform a series of arena shows alongside A Day on the Green winery shows. Victorian fans can catch him at The Plenary on Friday December 12 and at the Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley on Saturday December 13.

SEA LEGS

Sea Legs have announced a further six stops to their Christopher Strong single tour, taking the tally to 13 shows across the east coast this December, January and February. Christopher Strong is the second single taken from the Central Coast band’s forthcoming sophmore EP, due out next April. Sea Legs will play Shebeen on Friday January 9, with Skyways Are Highways. Tickets are available through the venue.

PHIL ADELPHIA GRAND JURY

Philadelphia Grand Jury are back, and they’ve locked in a national tour for this November. After touring around the country to celebrate the release of Simon Berfinger’s solo album as Feelings late last year, the trio are hitting the road to raise funds for their sophomore album. Tentatively titled Ulterior Motif, the LP will mark their first since 2009’s Hope Is For Hopers, which spawned hits like The Good News and I Don’t Want To Party (Party). Head to Ding Dong Lounge for feel good party times on Saturday November 8. Tickets are available through Oztix.

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In what could be its biggest international draw ever, Irish superstar Sinead O’Connor has been added to the already huge bill for next year’s Port Fairy Folk Festival. Best known for her 1990 hit Nothing Compares 2 U, the controversial performer has risen to become one of the seminal voices in music over the course of her 30-year career. She’ll join the likes of international draws Charlie Musselwhite, Sharon Shannon Band, Ash & Bloom and many more. The Port Fairy Folk Festival is set to go down from Friday March 6 to Monday March 9. You can buy tickets here.

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Fat Freddy’s Drop will return from across the ditch early next year. Ahead of their fourth album, Fat Freddy’s Drop will preview the new material and perform old classics in January. Anyone who’s seen them live will attest to the power and irrefutable energy of their live show, so this one’s unmissable. Catch ‘em on Friday January 23 at the Palais Theatre. Tickets from Ticketmaster.

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Jane Tyrell will be taking to the stage in Sydney and Melbourne this December in support of her debut album Echoes in the Avery. Playing out like a series of intricate vignettes, Echoes in the Aviary ventures deep into the juncture where indie and electronic meet the warmer soulful tones of Tyrrell’s timbre. Jane’s evocative vocal delivery and utterly compelling presence has seen her perform with the likes of Firekites, Claire Bowditch, Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly, The Herd and more. Catch her at Northcote Social Club Saturday December 6 with a full band in tow or Friday January 9 at The Forum supporting Asgeir. Tickets on sale now.

LURCH & CHIEF

Melbourne indie-rock six-piece Lurch & Chief have announced an east coast tour this November playing in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Since dropping their sophomore EP Wiped Out in 2013, the band have from gone from strength to strength off the back of massive support from triple j, culminating with a soldout Australian tour in March 2014 and recent buzzband status at Brisbane’s BIGSOUND. Their latest single Keep It Together illustrates a maturing darker sound for the chaotic six-piece. The track is the first taste of the band’s double A-side, which is due for release on Friday November 7. Lurch & Chief will be playing Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club, Saturday November 29.

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Face the Music have just opened applications for the ten workshops on offer as part of the 2014 two day conference. Designed to focus on skill sharing and exploring the creative process, the workshops will give participants opportunities to meet and discuss ideas with some of Australia’s most talented and fascinating composers. Kirin J Callinan will use demonstration, participation and manipulation to illustrate how he programmes loops and makes his signature sound. He will guide audience members to show how you too can sound strange, beautiful and unique with the help of technology. The APRA Masterclass will be hosted by one of Australia’s biggest exports Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm. This Masterclass will be limited to eight selected artists and applications are open to all. Several other sessions are now open for application. For all the details and to register, head to facethemusic.com.au.

THE POP GROUP

Post-punk outfit The Pop Group have announced their first ever tour of Australia, playing dates in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. The British rockers will play a set at Adelaide Festival as well as headline dates in Sydney and Melbourne for a three-day whirlwind tour Down Under. After splitting early on in their career, the band reunited in 2010, playing together for the first time in 30 years. The Pop Group will hit Melbourne on Saturday March 7 for a show at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are on sale from Monday October 20 through the Corner Hotel website.

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The Ballarat Beer Festival has announced their full lineup, as well as details of their Home Brewed Band competition. Joining the already announced Ash Grunwald and Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes will be Way Of The Eagle, Harry James Angus, Chicken Walk, Buddah In A Chocolate Box and Timberwolf. The festival has also revealed that one lucky band, plucked from their newly added Home Brewed Band competition, will play alongside this crème de la crème of Australian talent. Artists have until November 7 to submit their original music online for consideration by the Directors, who will decide on a shortlist of five finalists who go on to perform in front of a live audience and expert panel of Australian music industry judges at The Eastern Hotel in Ballarat on November 15. The winning artist will perform a 45-minute set on the main stage of the 2015 Ballarat Beer Festival. For more information and where to enter go to ballaratbeerfestival.com.au/bandsearch. The 2015 Ballarat Beer Festival takes place Saturday January 24 at Ballarat City Oval. Tickets and drink tokens for the event are available now via Ticketek.

TONSTARTSSBANDHT

Tonstartssbandht have announced they’ll be heading to Australia for a run of shows this December and January. The Floridian duo, made up of brothers Andy and Edwin White, create psychedelic boogie-rock which sees Edwin driving the percussion and Andy on his 12-string Danelectro. Tonstartssbandht will take over The Tote on Friday December 26. Tickets go on sale Thursday October 28 through Oztix. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV

The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) has revealed the conference program for its 2014 incarnation, featuring a range of industry experts and heavyweights. The conference program will feature a number of panel discussions from both local and international guests, on topics such as songwriting, festivals, touring and media. The conference will also feature talks from artists such as Nicky Bomba and Ash Grunwald and directors and bookers from international festivals such as Glastonbury and Bonnaroo alongside our own Meredith Music Festival. Oh, and we’re hosting a panel! Come and check out The Shift In The Media Landscape with Tyson Wray (Beat) moderating speakers Cara Williams (Beat) Adrian Basso (General Manager, PBS 106.7fm), Si Jay Gould (Manager, Hiatus Kaiyote / Oscar Key Sung) and Vanessa Bassili (Promoter, Howler) on the Friday at 2.30pm at the Amcor Lounge. The AWME conference will take place on Friday November 14 and Saturday November 15 at the Arts Centre Melbourne.

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It’s been four years since Glaswegian indie-pop collective Belle & Sebastian last hit Australian shores, and now the band have announced they’ll return to Australia this summer for a string of headline shows. Belle & Sebastian will step into The Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Sunday February 1. Tickets on sale now via Ticketmaster.

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Multi-instrumentalist Jasia has locked in a number of dates around Australia. Born in Jamaica, raised in the US and now living in Australia, Jasia (real name Josiah Willows) is a classically trained vocalist, violinist and guitarist. Jasia will bring his unique sound, which sits somewhere between Sigur Rós, M83 and Passion Pit, to stages around Australia for a number of both headline and support shows. Jasia will play at The Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday November 8. Fans can also catch him supporting Airling on Friday October 17 at Shebeen.

THU 23 OCT

THE OCEAN PART Y

As The Ocean Party prepare to play their first ever US shows, the band have announced their national Soft Focus Tour for this November. The tour follows the release of The Ocean Party’s fourth album Soft Focus, out October 31 via Spunk Records. Catch them when they play The Tote in Melbourne, Friday November 21.

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You’ve barely played at home lately, doing festivals all over the country – Darwin, Tassie, WA, er, Deniliquin. We saw some footage of you playing in the pits of hell? What was with the flamethrowers? That was Dark MOFO down in Tassie. We closed the Dark MOFO Winter Feast. It was one of the best gigs I’ve ever played. There was no stage and the band was surrounded by the crowd. Spread through the venue were massive flame throwers that would shoot flames 60ft in the air. The heat from them was intense. Any highlights spring to mind from those other stellar festival lineups? We’re happy to hear which other acts were heinous divas totally awesome. We have seen so many awesome bands over the last year. The two highlights for me would have to be The Doobie Brothers at Deni Blues And Roots [recently renamed Big Sky Blues & Roots Festival – Ed.] and King Gizzard at Wave Rock Weekender. The Doobie Brothers were hilarious, massive harmonies and guitar solos. We watched them from side of stage, I didn’t even think I was a fan but I knew all the songs. We hear you’re road-testing some songs for the next album. Last year’s The Hypnotiser really eclipsed 2011’s Wolf. What’s different with the most recent material? It’s hard to say what’s different this time around. I’m really trying not to lock myself into anything. There’re a couple of songs that are very Last Drinks but there are a couple that are definitely different. I’m about halfway through writing the album. I’m pretty happy with how the songs are

coming out. I’m at a stage now where I’d like to try some new stuff on our home crowd, see how it holds up. You’re renowned for your beautifully wrought story-telling: got a quick one you can share from the new songs? One night I was waiting for a friend and I walked into the Vic Hotel and there was a dance class happening in there. The scene was amazing but also so unexpected it seemed absurd to me. There must have been about 50 people go-go dancing on a rainy Thursday night. I sat at the bar next to a guy eating chicken wings and watched while I drank a beer. I wrote a song about it. I left out the guy eating chicken wings. Your upcoming VIC shows are all in really diverse venues: what experiences have you had playing them before? The great thing about these shows is each of the venues is going to have a very different crowd which will mean we can put on different shows. I’m expecting Howler to have our regular Melbourne crowd, lots of familiar faces up for a party with The Last Drinks. Sooki is a bit more rough and tumble, a little more like a traditional raucous pub gig and Flying Saucer Club is more of a seated affair. It’s the kind of gig where people sit and listen so we can get away with playing some of the slower stuff. But now I’ve said that, who knows what’ll happen? Catch CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS at Howler on Saturday October 25, Sooki Lounge on Saturday November 1 and Flying Saucer Club on Friday November 7.

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TOURING

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INTERNATIONAL NIKKI LANE The Toff In Town October 22, Northcote Social Club October 23 RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre October 25, 26, November 2, The Plenary November 15 ELBOW The Forum October 28, 29 DREAM THEATER Palais Theatre October 29 MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN LuWow October 30 JAMGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL Thornbury Theatre October 31 – November 2 WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various Venues October 31 – November 3 TIME FOR THREE Hamer Hall November 1, 2 AQUA Palais Theatre November 3 SOULS OF MISCHIEF The Espy November 3 SPANDAU BALLET Hamer Hall November 5, Flying Saucer Club November 6 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 ANVIL The Hi-Fi November 7 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, 18, 19, December 4, 6, 7, 10 ACCEPT Corner Hotel November 15, 17 TORI AMOS Palais Theatre November 15 A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN Melbourne Recital Centre November 15 JIMMY EAT WORLD The Forum November 17, 18 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 26 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, Meredith Musical Festival December 12 JOAN ARMATRADING Melbourne Recital Centre December 8, Comedy Theatre December 15 ICE CUBE The Forum December 6, 9 THE LEMONHEADS Corner Hotel December 9, 10 JAMES HOLDEN The Hi-Fi December 10 UB40 Palais Theatre December 11 FACTORY FLOOR Howler December 11 CLOUD NOTHINGS Corner Hotel December 11 CYPRESS HILL The Forum December 11 JOHN LEGEND The Plenary December 12, Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley December 13 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, 170 Russell December 8, 16, The Hi-Fi December 11 TY SEGALL Corner Hotel December 14, 15 THE SKATALITES Caravan Club December 17, 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 TONSTARTSSBANDHT The Tote December 26 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 FAT FREDDY’S DROP Palais Theatre January 23 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 BELLE & SEBASTIAN Palais Theatre February 1 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The Forum February 3 SUZI QUATRO Melbourne Arts Centre February 5, 6, 7 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 SINEAD O'CONNOR Port Fairy Folk Festival March 6 – 9 THE POP GROUP Corner Hotel March 7 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 8 BILLY IDOL Margaret Court Arena March 24, A Day On The Green March 21 BETH HART Melbourne Recital Centre April 2 BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS Bluesfest, Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm April 2 – 6 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 THE DICKIES The Evelyn April 16 SAM SMITH Margaret Court Arena April 30 PALOMA FAITH Palais Theatre May 5 YELLOWCARD Margaret Court Arena July 11

NATIONAL MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Various Venues October 22 – 28 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 Melbourne 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, 30 DON WALKER Bella Union October 29 AUGIE MARCH Howler October 29, 30, 31, November 1, 2 TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD Yah Yah’s October 30, Whole Lotta Love November 15 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 PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY Ding Dong Lounge November 8 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 PIERCE BROTHERS Corner Hotel November 7, 9 ONE ELECTRIC DAY Werribee Park November 9 RUDELY INTERRUPTED Northcote Social Club November 9 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22

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HUSK Y N O RT H E RN L I G H T S By Meg Crawford

Previous interviews with Husky Gawenda and cuz Gideon Preiss (respectively, the frontman and keyboardist of the indie-folk fourpiece sensation Husky), leave the impression that although they’re super polite and lovely lads, they err on the serious side. Today, even though they’re sitting at a boardroom table in the midst signing about 800 thousand copies of their new album Ruckers Hill, they’re happy to relax for a bit. For a start, while it’s well known Preiss used to watch with envy while Gawenda and Preiss’ brother played guitar in the garage, it turns out there were at least some awkward musical years.

“There was a tiny, little metal phase,” confesses Gawenda. “It wasn’t that tiny,” Preiss chortles. “I remember when Husk got his first electric guitar, which was a BC Rich. It’s a metal guitar and it’s set up for shredding and playing fast. I used to go around there and Husk and my big brother would be working out Guns N’ Roses and Metallica solos - Enter Sandman, that kind of thing. I could not have been more jealous.” “But that phase didn’t last long,” Gawenda interrupts, trying to regain some ground. “That guitary, wantingto-shred thing lasted a couple of years and then I went back to Leonard Cohen songs.” Gawenda then dobs and lets slip Preiss’ Mum (together with most ladies of the time) had a little thing for Ricky Martin. “And you loved it,” he says gleefully of Preiss, but is made to recant immediately. The boys have made no secret of the fact they’re influenced by singer/songwriter greats. Husky draws on Dylan, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Beach Boys and, of course, Cohen. They’ve been life-long loves and despite a few musical lapses, it’s clear they’ve always had pretty mature musical tastes. For Gawenda and Preiss, it was the stuff playing in their folks’ cars when they were kids and they’ve always connected with them. “They’re artists that you grow with as you develop,” Preiss explains. “But I loved Dylan, Neil Young and Cohen as a kid. I loved them then and I love them in a different way now. I guess we were lucky to have good musical influences early on – good records playing in the lounge room.” There’s actually a lot of discussion about Cohen, the golden-piped 80 year old, partly because he’s releasing his 13th studio album that day and also because Gawenda was reading bits of his last novel Beautiful Losers in his local café during the recording of Ruckers Hill. To be clear, neither Gawenda nor Preiss compare Husky to Cohen or any of the other greats listed above, but they do provide a yardstick of sorts for their song writing. “If the song’s not taking me away, I’m thinking, ‘Man, what’s the fucking point?’ when guys like them can make this kind of music and these kind of songs,” says Gawenda. “On the flip side, you don’t have to write the greatest songs ever and make the greatest albums. You can just aim to do something good and move people. Most of the time, I feel like if we are achieving that at all, we’re achieving plenty. I’m still jealous of Leonard Cohen though. He’s a once in a century kind of guy.” Steering away from Cohen (who we could chat about all day) and back to Husky recordings, Gawenda and Preiss describe the experience of recording their debut BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24

album Forever So as unique, insofar as they’d complete creative control over the process. They recorded it at Gawenda’s rented Fitzroy abode in a shed out the back, which also meant they weren’t fettered by time or money constraints. So, if holding the reins is something the band values, how did the experience of recording Ruckers Hill compare? “I think we did have the same degree of creative control,” reflects Gawenda. “The difference this time was that the label and other team members invested in what we were doing. That creates some pressures and expectations that we hadn’t dealt with before, but, essentially, we were totally in control of what we were doing and I still feel that the greatest expectations and pressures came from ourselves, as they did on the first record.”

“IF YOU’RE TRYING TOO HARD FOR AUTHENTICITY - THAT’S NOT AUTHENTIC. YOU NEED TO LET GO OF TRYING TOO HARD FOR ANYTHING. OFTEN, IT’S BEST JUST TO LET GO OF ALL OF THAT STUFF AND JUST WRITE AND RECORD.” Similarly, the fellas’ve said they didn’t write Forever So with any particular audience in mind and it’s equally true this time around – the band’s musical integrity is not up for grabs. “You’ve got to answer to yourself on all of these things,” says Preiss. “In 20 years time you want to feel like you created something you’re happy with. When we made the first record, we never really had any expectations around how people would receive it. I was actually very surprised that it was well received. I feel like I don’t have a choice about it. You have to set those standards for yourself. There are certain things that you don’t compromise and authenticity is one of them.” “It can be a little bit like chasing shadows with a flashlight though,” qualifies Gawenda. “If you’re trying too hard for authenticity - that’s not authentic. You need to let go of trying too hard for anything. Often, it’s best just to let go of all of that stuff and just write

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and record.” Did they achieve that with Ruckers Hill? “An album’s a snapshot,” reflects Gawenda. “Forever So was a snapshot of three years ago and Ruckers Hill’s a snapshot. If the album sounds different, that probably has more to do with the fact that time has past and life has changed and we’ve read different books, listened to different music.” “And spent time touring,” Preiss interjects. “That has an effect on the things you write and what you want to do going forward.” However, they both agree it can be a detrimental to their mental health. “In other words, we go crazy sometimes,” Gawenda laughs. Although they say you should never work with mates and family, Preiss and Gawenda are an exception to the rule. It’s obvious not only are they good mates but their shared history is an advantage. Preiss has a nice spin on it. “I feel that it makes at least parts of working together easier,” he reflects. “The best example I can think of is when you’re touring, because when you’re away for long stretches and you’ve got family there you feel like you’re taking a bit of home with you and there’s a lot of comfort in that for me. “If someone had said to me when I was a kid that I’d get to tour and work and play music and do all of the things we’ve done together with my big cousin, I would have been the happiest little kid in the world. It’s nice to remember that.” This leads into a discussion of the shit they used to get up to as kids, which is definitely worth recounting. “We were very into action movies,” Preiss admits. “There was a lot of acting out Steven Seagal, Van Damme and Young Guns. I remember feeling very stiffed that I was always Lou Diamond Phillips and only got this little dagger, while Husk was Emilio Estevez and Benj, my big brother, was Charlie Sheen and they had the guns. I never got the gun.” “It wasn’t so much a musical thing,” reflects Gawenda. “Although me and your brother did the Beat It fighting dance sequence. There were a few months there were we did it every morning. We used to go and get forks from the kitchen – we weren’t allowed to do it with knives.”

HUSKY are playing Queenscliff Music Festival on Sunday November 30, Beyond The Valley on Tuesday December 30 and Wednesday December 31, plus The Hi-Fi Saturday November 29, Ben & Jerry’s Open Air Cinema Sunday November 30. Ruckers Hill is available now through Liberation.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN You’ll get a chance to experience Icelandic songstress Björk in all her glory when Bjork: Biophilia Live comes to the ACMI this week. Shot on 16 cameras over one night at London’s Alexandra Palace in 2013, the concert film features the eccentric pop star performing songs from her eighth studio album, Biophilia. With an Icelandic choir, pendulum harp, shimmering crystals and the voice of David Attenborough all in tow, the film promises to relive the FOMO that comes with the fact that Björk hasn’t hit our shores since 2009. Björk: Biophilia Live will screen at ACMI from Monday October 27 to Sunday November 2. For more information visit acmi.net.au.

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ON STAGE For one night only Short & Girly (With A Bit of Burly) is bringing together a host of this country’s funniest stars with all proceeds going to Victorian AIDS Council. Following its debut in 2006, Short & Girly returns in 2014. In charge of laughter on the night is Rachel Berger, Cal Wilson, Hannah Gadsby, Claire Hooper, Fiona O’Loughlin, Tom Gleeson, Joel Creasey, Kevin Kropinyeri, Tom Ballard and Adam Richard. The Short & Girly event raises funds for the Victorian AIDS Council so that they can continue to reduce the transmission of HIV in the community, whilst preserving the independence, dignity and health of people living with HIV/AIDS. Short & Girly (With A Bit of Burly) will bring the laughter to the National Theatre, St Kilda on Saturday October 25.

ON DISPL AY Scienceworks’ latest exhibition will allow visitors to learn about some of the unique creatures that live in the ocean’s deepest depths. The exhibition displays a range of deep ocean specimens, including the Vampire Squid, Dragonfish and Sea Mouse, and features a range of hands-on activities. Visitors can test the effects of water pressure, see how colours change in different ocean depths and hear audio accounts of deep sea divers. Deep Oceans will be open daily from Saturday October 25.

PICK OF THE WEEK When the mountain changed its clothing

It’s the final week of the 2014 Melbourne Festival and you’ve got no excuse not to get involved. Some of the many highlights taking place this week include the legendary Heiner Goebbels’ When the mountain changed its clothing, an epic-scale production with 40 teenage girls from Slovenia; a retrospective paying tribute to the career of renowned choreographer Trisha Brown featuring the performance of no fewer than 17 of her works; and AM I, an ambitious new dance work from award-winning Australian choreographer Shaun Parker which is a stunning collision of movement and music, spirituality and science. Head to melbournefestival.com.au for more details and tickets.

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TRISHA BROWN: FROM ALL ANGLES

Directors) and Neal Beasley (another dancer). While it works as a stand alone piece, Rogues has now become part of the larger work Pure Movement. When Serle was in New York earlier this year he was asked if he’d like to perform Rogues with the company when it comes to Melbourne and his answer was an emphatic yes. Serle’s also going to do some introduction and pre-show talks, which is a sterling way to get some insight into the works if you’re not familiar with them. Brown’s repertoire is huge – spanning over 100 dance works since 1961. It includes stuff that’ll grip you even if you’re not that into dance ordinarily. Take the Early Works, which include a piece called Walking On The Wall. It involves all of the dancers being suspended from the ceiling and hanging perpendicular to a wall. It’s mesmerising and it looks like it’d be a hoot to perform. “It was really fun, I’m so glad I was able to perform that,” Serle reflects. “We re-mounted that at the Whitney, which is where it was first performed. You’re in a harness and literally walking along the wall horizontally. It was a slightly nerve wracking the first time getting into the harness, but it’s actually very secure. It’s not often you get the opportunity to walk on a wall. It’s a great piece and something like that stands the test of time – it’s still fascinating, even when you see so many aerial acts and circus, but the simplicity of just watching what looks like pedestrians just walking across a wall is still fascinating to watch.” Interestingly, in order for the Early Works to be at their most effective, they don’t just require a bit of daredevil, they also require imperfection. “They were quite experimental,” explains Serle. “There were certain risks involved and lot to do with weight, gravity and counterbalance. A lot of the pieces used equipment – long sticks, long pieces of wood that were balanced or used in various ways. For a viewer might seem simple, but completing the tasks is quite difficult, so sometimes when things go wrong it better demonstrates the difficulty with these tasks as set out.

By Meg Crawford

Goddamn spam. It so easily could have gone tits up if Melbourne born, now international dancer and choreographer, Lee Serle had persisted with that thought. Although he was already doing very nicely for himself (dancing with Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc.) he was about one click away from missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime, namely the chance to participate in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé program under the tutelage of iconic contemporary dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown. “I received the initial email, notifying that I’d been nominated for this protégé and mentor arts initiative – and I didn’t know anything about it at that point of time – I thought that maybe it was spam to begin with. I was coincidentally on tour in New York at that time with Lucy Geurin and I asked her about it and she said, “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard about this’ and mentioned a few other people she knew who’d been nominated, not realising at the time that she’d been the person who’d nominated me. I only found that out later, because they keep the process anonymous until it was all finalised.” Suffice to say, Serle made the grade and was mentored by Brown for a year from 2010 until 2011 and it’s an understatement to say that working with her was a big deal. “I hadn’t ever anticipated that something like that would happen – I never even thought I’d meet Trisha Brown let alone be part of the company and get to live in New York for 12 months.” Serle had studied dance at VCA and knew damn well that many of the techniques he was taught had a direct lineage back to Brown. Serle puts it neatly in context. “Trisha was pioneering back in the ’60s and ’70s in what’s described as ‘pure movement’,” he explains. “It was about movements that are not expressive in an emotional way – it was much more about the

mechanics of the body and sometimes more pedestrian movements. It was the weight and momentum of the body and its natural mechanics that Trisha was really investigating. She was developing these techniques alongside choreographers in and around New York at that time. It’s been passed down, as things do, through different dancers and different choreographers, it all just flowed down and a lot of those techniques are taught today.” Serle credits the mentorship with quite literally opening up a whole world to him. “It opened up a huge, worldwide network of artists and that was something that was really beneficial to me in branching out further, including into other artists’ work – not just in dance. I recently went to do a residency in Beirut – I struck up a friendship with the protégé in theatre in my Rolex Mentor cycle and she invited me to the company. It’s opened up a whole other network of people and it’s been great because it’s developed this relationship with the Trisha Brown Dance Company that’s been continuing.” Indeed it has – Serle’s going to perform in Melbourne Festival with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in a piece called Rogues, which he created with Brown, Carolyn Lucas (one the Company’s Associate Artistic

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“As a performer you always want to complete a task or not make a mistake, but sometimes if you’re doing a piece called Leaning Duets and somebody tips the weight too far to one side and one person falls to the ground, it can demonstrate more clearly what’s happening in that work.” Trisha Brown: From All Angles is taking place as part of Melbourne Festival and pays tribute to Brown who retired in 2012. The series features Early Works (Wednesday October 22 and Sunday October 26 at Arts House, Meat Market), Trisha Brown Dance Company films (Saturday October 25 at ACMI) and Pure Movement (Thursday October 23, Saturday October 25 and Sunday October 26 at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse). Visit melbournefestival.com.au for more information.

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THE COMIC STRIP EDDIE IZZARD

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Eddie Izzard is coming to Melbourne. Hailed as one of the foremost stand up comedians of his generation, Izzard will bring his Force Majeure tour to Australia early next year. His most extensive comedy tour to date, thus far he’s taken Force Majeure to more than 25 countries on five continents. Catch him at Hamer Hall on Monday February 9.

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THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S 2015 SEASON

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have unveiled a huge season for 2015. Dubbed ‘a year of cult classics’, the 2015 season will feature diverse performances ranging from Babe to Beethoven. Kicking off with Star Trek Live in Concert, throughout the year the orchestra will team up with Tripod for the show This Gaming Life (part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Nigel Westlake (original soundtrack composer) of Babe will conduct a performance of the film’s score adapted especially for the concert hall to celebrate its 20th anniversary and as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival they will join forces with Kurt Elling, a performer of who Barack Obama is such a fan that he invited him to play at a White House state dinner. The Metropolis New Music Festival will return in May. Led by conductor André de Ridder, the festival will feature performances of the soundtrack of There Will Be Blood (composed by Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood), Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto and Philip Glass’ The Light among others. Other highlights include the free summer concerts in the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, a powerful ANZAC tribute conducted by Diego Matheuz, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see history repeated with Beethoven: The 1808 Vienna Concert - a five-hour concert with two intervals which will recreate Beethoven’s fabled benefit concert at the Theater an der Wien on a chilly December evening two centuries ago. Visit mso.com.au for tickets, more information and the full program.

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

A little piece of Washington DC will be put into song when Pennsylvania Avenue comes to Melbourne this summer. The production follows Harper who has worked in the East Wing since the first weeks of the Kennedy presidency. For 40 years she watched and heard history being made-taking in all those singers who sang for the President. Written by Joanna MurraySmith, the play stars Bernadette Smith in yet another impressive one-woman show. Pennsylvania Avenue will run from Saturday November 8 to Saturday December 20 at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.

JUMPER FOR GOALPOASTS

Red Stitch Actors Theatre will present the Australian premiere of Tom Wells’ Jumper for Goalpoasts this summer. Written by one of the UK’s most celebrated young playwrights, the romantic comedy follows two young gay men finding their way in a transsexual football league. The play comes to Melbourne fresh off of a critically acclaimed season in London where it earned five star reviews from both The Independent and The Telegraph. Jumper for Goalposts will run from Friday November 21 to Saturday December 20 at Red Stitch Actors Theatre.

FREE $HIT 22 YEARS OF BIG HART: A FILM RETROSPECTIVE

There are very few arts companies like Big hART – an organisation that embodies the belief that making great art while also creating social change is not only a possibility, but a vital necessity. Throughout its 22year history, Big hART has created a remarkable body of film and documentary works that give voice to our nation’s invisible and forgotten. Presented by Big Hart and ACMI in association with Melbourne Festival, this weekend ACMI will screen 22 Years of Big hART: A Film Retrospective, two engaging programs of film present highlights from the Big hART archives. We have some double passes to give away.

PAX

The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is returning to Australia next week. This year’s PAX Aus will feature more than 100 panels across six theatres, featuring

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SETTING SUN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Are you a filmmaker? The 2015 Setting Sun Short Film Festival is now open and calling for entries. Taking place next April, the official films will screen at the Sun Theatre in Yarraville, while the best of the rest will screen at Bar of Bengal Bar at Kindred Studios. Everyone that enters a film this year will receive a free 2015 Open Channel membership. The festival came into fruition last year, with 45 films screened over four days. The 2015 Setting Sun Short Film Festival is set to take place from Thursday April 16 to Sunday April 19. For more information please visit settingsunshortfilmfestival.com.au.

REQUIEM FOR DALINKA

The Artisan Collective will return this November with the premiere season of Requiem For Dalinka. Based on a true story, the interdisciplinary work follows four surviving prisoners at concentration camp Dalinka that plot to overthrow the Nazis. Combining a top-notch cast of actors, live music and a riveting tale, Requiem For Dalkina promises to be a trip to the theatre you won’t soon forget. Requiem For Dalkinka will run from Wednesday November 12 to Saturday November 22 at Gasworks Theatre. everything from Q&As, game demonstrations, quiz shows, cultural discussions, how-to lessons, concerts and more. It will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Friday October 31 to Sunday November 2. We have a double three-day pass to giveaway - these are the ultimate tickets, and it’s a money-can’t-buy experience for gamers, as they’ve been sold out for almost a year.

MY MISTRESS

My Mistress is the first feature film from Australian director, Stephen Lance which is an unconventional and provocative love story in which an infatuation between a vulnerable teenage romantic Charlie and S&M mistress Maggie soon becomes something more dangerous. Starring AFI Award –winning actor Harrison Gilbertson (Tim Winton’s The Turning) and acclaimed French actress Emmanuelle Beart (Mission Impossible, 8 Women) My Mistress is an unexpected tale of misplaced love. It opens in cinemas on Thursday November 6. We have some double passes to give away.

Next year the internationally acclaimed St Petersburg Ballet will touch down in Melbourne. The company will present their full-length classic production of the world’s most loved ballet, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which was first performed in St Petersburg in 1895. The performances will also mark the first time that a ballet has ever been presented at The Plenary. It will be performed on Saturday June 20 at 2pm and 7.30pm.

BEN & JERRY’S OPENAIR CINEMA

Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema is back this summer, bringing music by day and movies by night to St Kilda. Open nightly throughout the season, the colossal screen will be showing films on a 2K HD digital cinema system. This year the cinema will be screening a selection of new releases, cult classics, sci-fi thrillers and family favourites, including Gone Girl, The Best of Me, The Breakfast Club, Frozen, Jaws and more. On Saturdays and Sundays the cinema will also be hosting live music from some of Melbourne’s best up-andcoming artists. Local lads Husky will headline the first session on Sunday November 30 with all of the proceeds from ticket sales going to WWF-Australia’s efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema will be held from Sunday November 30 - Sunday December 21 at South Beach Reserve, St Kilda.

NEXT WAVE KICKSTART

Applications to secure a highly-coveted spot in Next Wave’s Kickstart artist development program are now open. The program runs for over 12 months, making it the longest of its kind in Australia and will offer selected artists seed funding of up to $8,000, an invitation to a rural retreat in rural Victoria, participation in three seminars held throughout the year in Melbourne and access to Next Wave’s resource pool, including a dedicated producer. Now in its 14th year, Kickstart runs in the year prior to the biennial Next Wave festival, which is a city-wide, month-long celebration of arts and culture from around Australia and the globe. Application for the 2015 program are now open and will close on Monday November 17. For more information visit nextwave.org.au.

PASSION

Life Like Company have announced a new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony Award winning musical Passion, for four nights this November. Passion transports audiences to a remote military outpost in 1863 Italy, where army captain Giorgio has become separated from his beautiful - but married – mistress, Clara. He is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs about love when he becomes the object of the obsessive, unrelenting passions of Fosca, his Colonel’s plain, sickly cousin. The original Broadway production of Passion received 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. Passion opens at The Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne from Wednesday November 5 until Saturday November 8. We have some double passes to give away. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.

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BILLY CONNOLLY Beloved Scotsman Billy Connolly will embark on an 11-city tour of Australia early next year. Connolly has spent the past four decades touring the world (first visiting Australia in 1978) and appearing in a plethora of television series and movies. He’ll hit Hamer Hall on Wednesday January 28 and Friday January 30.

FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY

Joel Creasey headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday night, who is one of the hottest comedians in the country right now. Plus Anne Edmonds, Karl Chandler, Michael Workman, Demi Lardner and more. Five Boroughs has been so packed for months, you’d better get down early. It’s all happening this Thursday October 23 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 their host is Josh Earl, plus Nick Cody, Greg Larsen, Steele Saunders, Jason English and more. It’s on this Monday October 27, 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.

KARL CHANDLER’S GOT TALENT

This Thursday there’s going to be a a one-off performance of Karl Chandler’s Got Talent, the story of Karl Chandler going on a terrible talent show (guess which one?) and how hilariously bad it all went. It’s the last chance to see this show starring one half of hit comedy podcast The Little Dum Dum Club. It’s on at 7pm, at Five Boroughs Comedy (just before the regular showcase starring Joel Creasey), this Thursday October 23, at 68 Hardware Lane (upstairs), CBD.

THE QUARTERLY RETORT

The world’s biggest small comedy festival is back for one night only with four fantastic shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival that you may have missed. This time around The Quarterly Retort will feature Oliver Clark in Comeback Special, Fiona O’Loughlin in My Brilliant Career, Michael Workman in War and John Conway in John Conway Tonight. It goes down on Saturday October 25 from 6pm at Revolt Artspace. Visit quarterlyretort.com.au for tickets and more information.

THE GOOD HURT Be a part of the studio audience at the next recording of The Good Hurt. See some Australia’s best comedy acts get on stage to perform some of their best jokes for the camera. This night is quickly establishing itself in Melbourne as one of the best nights of laughs for amazing value. It goes down next Wednesday October 29 at Revolt Artspace from 8.30pm. Visit thegoodhurt.com. au for tickets and more information.

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AM I By Tegan Jones

Pondering who or what we are is quintessential to the human experience; regardless of where we’re from, what colour our skin is, or which gender we like to get down with. Renowned choreographer Shaun Parker will be exploring this question at the most raw at the 2014 Melbourne Festival with his dance piece, AM I. A true collaboration between dance, music and spoken word, AM I looks at the notion ‘self ’ through a scientific lense and questions whether we’re still just the same tribe-obsessed Neanderthals who fear The Other. Beat spoke to Parker about his fascinating work and how he came to meld the worlds of dance and science. “The piece observes science and genetics and explores the quantum physics of what created the world that we live in in the first place,” he explains. “It then jettisons all the way through to the evolution of the brain. We know more because our brain has evolved and the more knowledge we attain, I feel that it’s shifting key aspects of spirituality in humans.” The fact that the realms of art and science are generally so far removed from one another is one of the aspects of this piece that makes it so fascinating. Interestingly, Parker was inspired to combine these two worlds by the 2005 Cronulla riots, but it quickly evolved into something far bigger. “I wanted to do a piece that was really Australian and inspired by topics here,” he says. “It started off being very socio-political and I asked, ‘Why do people have to shun, reject and kill others that are different to them?’ Humour Australia presents “We pretend to be quite sophisticated but we’re still violent and savage. As I kept researching as excavating it became more universal. I wanted to go beyond one event. The more I researched religions, gods, cosmology and quantum physics the more I wanted to look before men were effected by other men in terms of religion, brain washing. I wanted to start at the cradle of civilization.” Another unique aspect of the piece is that Parker collaborated with scientists whilst putting it together. “I went to see Dr Heather Johnson, a professor in physics and cosmology at the University of Sydney. At the time, the Higgs Boson particle had been discovered, which they had been trying to prove the existence of for 60 years. She loved the idea that some of her theories could be taken into the creative realm. I would show her choreography and discuss the concepts and she would give me things to read so I could manifest some of that stuff into the physical actions of the dancers. Injecting scientific theory, religion and spirituality into the world of dances sounds like an impossible feat. “My aim is to always bring it back to core, crystalised ideas that are specific, but also universal,” he explains. “We have a sub-textual narrator in the work, so there’s spoken word. She does a nice text about Pi and other scientific elements. What she does is presents information and people can then use that however the want. “ Considering that we’re living in the modern world, it seems rather apt that Parker also mined technological sources for inspiration. “We actually got some of the text [for the narrator] from Facebook. It’s used almost like a modern day bible or confessional. People get free counseling just by posting about how they’re not feeling well today and 20 people respond,” he laughs. “It then also becomes a political forum where people can protest homophobia and racism. It’s become its own little digital church and political arena. I find that incredible, so I was able to pluck out some things that people were concerned about [to use] and Facebook gets a little nod in the piece.” Dance only makes up a singular element of AM I. The choreographer also stressed how important music is to the piece. “I’m working with the composer Nick Wales and we’ve built up a very interesting collision of music and dance in the theatrical world where dance takes place and where the music is just as important and is intrinsic to it. “The music itself is drawn from rhythmic patterns from different cultures, from a new language that they created which is a mixture between Latin and Pygmy Papua New Guinean with new melodic structures. If there was a band that was part world music and part cult, that’s what we’ve gone for,” he laughs. After having a working relationship with Nick Wales for over eight years, it’s unsurprising that the choreographer continues to wax rhapsodic about his work and his fascinating sources of creativity. “There’s some beautiful stuff that Nick does with his singers. He traveled to Africa to get some inspiration, and some of the monkey calls he heard when he was alone in the forest have been worked into the musical framework. Musically, hopefully that translates. The audience sits there and they hear this music, and they feel it as it invokes this other-worldly tribe. We then use that with the narrator who uses snippets of scientific information throughout.”

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LADY ZAZA SINGS TABOOS By Meg Crawford

“If you can joke, you can cope,” says Zara-Lyn Swindells-Grose. It’s her guiding principle. Recently, the multi-talented Swindells-Grose has been a TED talker (addressing the “epidemic of over-seriousness”) as well as host, but she’s also a comedian, singer, actress, co-creator of a cracking kid’s cartoon, and she’s about to have a run at Melbourne’s cabaret institute The Butterfly Club with Lady ZaZa Sings Taboos. Irrespective of what she’s doing though, good humour is her rudder. Swindells-Grose has been treading the boards since she was little – in fact she still ranks as the youngest to have been admitted to an acting college in Queensland where she only had to tell a minor porky to get in. “I was 15, but I lied about my age and said I was 17 – I’d basically finished the course by the time I actually turned 17. I was such a brat and so disorganised back then. I never actually even filled in the application form for the audition. It was a really stringent process too – they only let in something like 14 people each year out of several 1,000. Anyway, I just showed up and they said, ‘You can’t audition, we don’t have your details,’ and I threw a bit of a hissy fit and said ‘Well, I mailed this in two months ago, if you’ve lost it that’s your problem, but I’m here to audition and you’re either going to see me do it or not, but either way someone’s going to hear about it. So bold and ballsy.” In a weird and karmic twist of fate, the person she blagged turned out to be her future-husband’s Aunty and she was forced to confess subsequently. One of Swindells-Grose’s chief skills is making people laugh and she’s been aware of its power since she was a kid. “In grade six I had this teacher called Mr Grey,” she recollects. “He pulled me aside before I was going

to grade seven and said, “You know what, you can’t get away with acting the fool and doing what you did this year next year’ and I said, ‘Oh, that’s what they said to me last year.’ He paused and then he laughed and I thought, jeez, there’s a bit of power in being able to make someone laugh – it feels good and it’s a good influence strategy.” After acting college, Swindells-Grose was temporarily at a loose end and went to work in her family’s comedy club. If there was ever any doubt that she was going to entertain for a living, that coffin was nailed. “For the first couple of years I was an 80-year-old bag lady. Then I went into the show and at some point my brother said, ‘You’ve got one week to learn a stand-up comedy routine and you’re going on Friday night.’ I was absolutely terrified. It was written for me and I wouldn’t say that the jokes were particularly great, but I learned it. It’s like a big cleanse being told you have to perform in a week’s time – there were all kinds of things coming out of all kinds of holes. I went on stage two kilos lighter. But, I did it and it was wonderful and I thought ‘I love doing that” and then I immediately wanted to write material.” Remember the boldness that fuelled Swindells-

Grose’s early endeavours? Well, she’s still got a touch of it now, but she’s made a virtue out of it for Lady ZaZa Sings Taboos. Amongst other things, the show’s about death, daddy issues, truth and knocking one out (although, undoubtedly, Swindells-Grosse would hate that phrase). “It’s about taboos,” she explains. “Not the big taboos though. I’m not talking about bestiality or necrophilia or cannibalism. “You know all of those things you shouldn’t say? I like to say them. I’m the kind of person that, in the past, has been described as a bit tactless. I like to talk about the things that are a little bit difficult to talk about. I think that we go through life being very correct and trying not to offend people and I get very bored by small talk. I’d rather get to the heart of it, so if you’re talking about cancer let’s talk about cancer, if you’re talking about masturbation, let’s talk about masturbation. I don’t want to use the euphemisms or just talk about the

weather. So, it’s about being able to be 100% who you are and talk about what you want to talk about - and it’s all tied up in a bunch of show tunes.” Swindells-Gross attributes her guiding ethos to her Nan, who also took the splendidly Marxist attitude that we should work and play in equal measure. “It’s a human instinct to want to hold on to something that is going to make you see the lighter side. We’re on the planet to survive and keep living and it’s a survival mechanism sometimes to be able to have a laugh at yourself. Nan grew up during tough times – they lived in a tent for several months and they caught their own rabbits for years because they had no food, they had to build an entire life, but they were really grateful for what they got and laughter just came easily.” Lady ZaZa Sings Taboos is currently being performed at The Butterfly Club until Sunday October 26.

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on tour LIL JON [USA] Friday October 24, Trak TODD TERRY [USA] Friday October 31, Ms Collins PROSUMER [UK] Friday October 31, Mercat Basement SIDNEY CHARLES [GER] Sunday November 2, Revolver Upstairs SOULS OF MISCHIEF [USA] Monday November 3, The Espy SASHA [UK] Monday November 3, Prince Bandroom LEE FOSS [USA], MIGUEL CAMPBELL [UK] Friday November 7, Brown Alley JOHN DIGWEED [UK] Friday November 14, Prince Bandroom SEAN PAUL [JAM] Friday November 14, Festival Hall LAURA JONES [UK], GAVIN HERLIHY [IRE] Sunday November 16, Revolver Upstairs TEN WALLS [LIT], DUSKY [UK] Sunday November 16, Queen Victoria Market UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE [USA] Tuesday November 18, Queen Victoria Market PACHANGA BOYS [GER], OPTIMO [SCO] Wednesday November 19, Queen Victoria Market ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER [USA] Friday November 21, Queen Victoria Market NIGHTMARES ON WAX [UK] Friday November 21, Howler STRAWBERRY FIELDS: ÂME [GER], TRUS’ME [UK], PACHANGA BOYS [GER] + MORE Friday November 21 - Sunday November 23, TBA DJ SPINN [USA] Sunday November 23, Queen Victoria Market EARTHCORE: RAJA RAM [UK], JOHN ‘00’ FLEMING [UK] + MORE Thursday November 27 - Monday December 1, Pyalong, Victoria GIRAFFAGE [USA] Thursday November 27, Howler THE PHARCYDE [USA] Thursday November 27, The Espy PANTHA DU PRINCE [GER] Thursday December 4, The Hi-Fi STEREOSONIC: CALVIN HARRIS [UK], TIESTO [NED], DIPLO [USA] + MORE Saturday December 6 - Sunday December 7, TBA ICE CUBE [USA] Tuesday December 9, The Forum JAMES HOLDEN [UK] Wednesday December 10, The Hi-Fi CYPRESS HILL [USA] Thursday December 11, The Forum BLACKSTREET [USA] Friday December 12, Trak DE LA SOUL [USA] Friday December 12, 170 Russell MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL: VAKULA [UKR], GHOSTFACE KILLAH [USA] + MORE Friday December 12 - Sunday December 14, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre GHOSTFACE KILLAH [USA] Friday December 19, The Espy BADBADNOTGOOD [USA] Saturday December 27, Laundry Bar SALT N PEPA [USA] Saturday December 27, The Forum FALLS FESTIVAL: TODD TERJE [NOR], TENSNAKE [GER], TYCHO [USA] + MORE Monday December 29 - Thursday January 1, Byron Bay BEYOND THE VALLEY: ACTION BRONSON [USA], CLAPTONE [GER], ALUNAGEORGE [UK] + MORE Tuesday December 30 - Thursday January 1, Phillip Island Circuit BIG FREEDIA [USA] Tuesday December 30, Howler DJ ALFREDO [ARG], MAXMILLION DUNBAR [USA], PENDER STREET STEPPERS [CAN], SCOTT FRASER [SCO] Thursday January 1, TBA ABOVE & BEYOND [UK] Thursday January 1, Sidney Myer Music Bowl LET THEM EAT CAKE: CARL CRAIG [USA], TODD TERJE [NOR], CASHMERE CAT [NOR] + MORE Thursday January 1, Werribee Mansion SBTRKT [UK] Wednesday January 7, The Forum TYCHO [USA] Thursday January 8, The Hi-Fi JOEY BADA$$ [USA], RUN THE JEWELS [USA] Thursday January 8, The Forum RAINBOW SERPENT: MARCEL DETTMANN [GER], LEE BURRIDGE [UK], PETAR DUNDOV [CRO] + MORE Friday January 23 - Monday January 26, Lexton SUGAR MOUNTAIN: SOUL CLAP [USA], ANTHONY NAPLES [USA] + MORE Saturday January 24, VCA (Victorian College of the Arts) FINNEBASSEN [NOR] Sunday February 1, Revolver Upstairs DETROIT SWINDLE [NED] Sunday February 22, Revolver Upstairs GOLDEN PLAINS: THEO PARRISH [USA], DJ SHADOW & CUT CHEMIST [USA] + MORE Saturday March 7 - Monday March 9, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre FOREST SWORDS [UK] Saturday March 15, Howler

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uberjak’d wo rd s / a ug u st u s we lby The expression ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’ has deflating resonance if you happen to know a lot, but don’t have any friends in high places. This adage is explicitly applicable to the music world, but it’s not a black and white condition for success. Simply put, if ‘what you know’ is impressive enough, than you’re better positioned to get the attention of someone you need to know. Over the last couple of years, Adelaide-born, Sydney-based club producer Uberjak’d (aka Ben Grzywacz) has gone from local curiosity to an artist capable of selling out shows both at home and abroad, thanks largely to support from Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak and Laidback Luke’s Mixmash Records. It’s true that certain influential

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parties have played a part in Uberjak’d’s enviable ascent, but that’s not all it took. “I played a show at Apple Bar in Adelaide, doing the closing set after Laidback Luke,” Grzywacz says of his first major breakthrough. “I opened up with this new track that I’d just finished. It was a remix of Rattle by Bingo Players. The next day I got a tweet from [Laidback Luke] saying ‘Love that first track you played, can you send me a copy of it?’ From there I just kept in touch with Luke.” These days, Grzywacz too is in an influential position, which means he’s someone you’d want hearing your music. And the possibility of that happening just got a whole lot easier. Along with Canberra’s

Register with Budweiser Made For Music at budweisermadeformusic.com.au by Friday October 31. Uberjak’d will also play at Stereosonic which will take place in Melbourne on Saturday December 6 and Sunday December 7.

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The Aston Shuffle, Grzywacz has signed on as a Budweiser Made for Music mentor. Basically, this means their experienced ears will listen to every tune that gets uploaded to the Made for Music website before the end of the month. “I’m really excited to be involved with that,” Grzywacz says. “It’s going to be a really good opportunity, more than anything else, for young producers to get some real industry feedback on their music.” Providing helpful criticism to young hopefuls isn’t the sole purpose behind the Made for Music initiative. One act demonstrating especial flare will be selected for a rather tasty prize package. “I think I might enter myself,” Grzywacz jokes. “There’s a lot of studio gear, private listening sessions with the Universal guys, as well as [four finalists] get to support The Aston Shuffle in Sydney. If that isn’t motivation to get involved with it, I don’t know what is.” He’s right; these are prizes worth going to extraordinary lengths to get your hands on. However, Grzywacz doesn’t advocate adopting a competitive attitude. Rather, he emphasises how valuable it is to build a network of like-minded musicians. “Especially with the Melbourne sound that’s coming through at the moment, it’s not like you can tie it to any one person that owns that sound. What it comes down to is everyone’s working together and everyone’s playing each other’s tracks and it creates a sound that people can relate to a number of DJs, rather than any one particular person. I think that’s a really cool thing.” Grzywacz has spent 2014 in a maelstrom of activity. While he’s already released two EPs, conducted multiple overseas tours and issued a stack of remixes, there’s more new music and summer festival appearances to take care of before the year’s out. On top of all this, six months ago he launched the Uberjak’d producer forum on facebook. As it turns out, appraising the work of budding producers is something he’s already rather familiar with. “[It’s about] getting new guys involved and helping people become better at what they do,” he says. “It’s the only way you learn.”

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Globetrotting duo Young Magic will head to Australia later this year for a series of shows around the country. Young Magic is comprised of Indonesian vocalist Melati Malay and Australian producer Isaac Emmanuel. The tour will see the pair play tracks off their second album Breathing Statues, released earlier this year, as well as some older favourites. Young Magic will play at Shebeen on Saturday November 22.

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badbadnotgood Jazz instrumental hip hop outfit BadBadNotGood have locked in a show for this December. The gig comes on the back of their third studio album, III, which hit shelves in May. With champions including Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean and RZA, the guys have become known for their innovative live performances, taking them around the world from Coachella to Glastonbury. They’ll play Laundry Bar on Saturday December 27.

animals dancing Animals Dancing will once again ring in the new year with a hand-picked lineup of underground electronic talent. Their fourth foray into NYD celebrations, this year the local party purveyors will be hosting Ibiza legend and Balearic beat father DJ Alfredo, the don behind DC-based label Future Times Maxmillion Dunbar, Vancouver’s finest Pender Street Steppers and Glasgow native Scott Fraser. Supporting, as always, are Tornado Wallace, Otologic and Andee Frost. It goes down on New Year’s Day, Thursday January 1, at a venue soon-to-be announced.

rainbow serpent Rainbow Serpent are now accepting applications to volunteer at next year’s event. For those looking to save some cash and lend a helping hand, head over to the Rainbow website and fill out the application for your chance to work for a ticket. The festival’s 18th incarnation is set to feature the likes of Marcel Dettmann, Beats Antique, Petar Dundov and many more. The 2015 Rainbow Serpent will take place from Friday January 23 - Monday January 26. For more information please visit rainbowserpent.net/apply.

prequel Local producer Prequel is set to launch his killer new EP this weekend, making his debut on the hotly tipped Rhythm Section imprint from Peckham. Titled Polite Strangers, the four track release oozes jazz, lush orchestral experiments with sprinkles of Detroit-flavoured house, already receiving support from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Lefto, Alex Nut, Ben UFO, Mister Saturday Night, Osunlade and Midland. Catch him at Boney on Saturday October 25 with support from Edd Fisher and Bradley Zero.

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English electronic producer Forest Swords will head to Australia early next year. This will be the first Australian tour for Forest Swords, AKA Matthew Barnes. Fans can expect to experience the immersive HD projections and visuals seen at his overseas shows when he brings his tour to Melbourne in March. Forest Swords will play Howler on Saturday March 14.

While here for Strawberry Fields, Nightmares On Wax has announced he will play a DJ set in Melbourne this November. The English DJ, aka George Evelyn, is celebrating 25 years with Warp Records this year. He will play a two hour DJ set when he takes over Howler. Support on the night comes from Lower Spectrum and A13. Nightmares On Wax will take over Howler on Friday November 21.

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It has taken quite some time to pin down the busy duo for an interview, but anything worth waiting for, is well, worth waiting for – and we are chuffed to have been able to pin down the Growling Mad Scientists (G.M.S for short) for a quick chat before their return to Australia for the Earthcore festival. “Sorry for the massive delay,” explains Bansi, one-half of the group. “It has been a mad couple of months over here and it has been a real juggling act between producing and touring.” Of course, you get there in the end, and although the whole experience of late has been a whirlwind for the guys, they are excited about being on the home stretch – for the hills around Victoria are beckoning with the sound of music. So G.M.S is in-fact Riktam and Bansi, a couple of lads who met in high school at 14 in The Netherlands. Both were excited about the prospect of a career in music and chose to pursue their chosen vocation instead of undertaking any kind of formal education. Even before they were old enough to legally attend a club as punters, the guys were already holding it down behind the decks in their native Amsterdam. “We had to go in via the back to avoid the authorities,” chimes Bansi. A trip to Goa and a spiritual awakening later, G.M.S relocated to Ibiza in Spain in 2000, forming their own imprint called Spun Records and renaming themselves G.M.S. In hindsight too, it was something they considered a fait accompli, particular given they had already committed themselves to music. “All of our friends and family were already going to parties and listening to electronic music on the radio and so on. By the time we got to India, we were blown away by the whole movement and couldn’t help ourselves from falling in love with it. And while the scene wasn’t so big in The Netherlands, it didn’t stop us from dreaming and luckily, getting to where we are now.” Fast forward some 20 years and G.M.S are getting deep in the studio in Ibiza where the bulk of their music is getting made. “It’s truly the best place for us,” says Bansi, referring to their love of

twiddling knobs. “The scene is global now and it’s great to be a part of it. It has allowed us to focus on the many projects we are working on. We’ve just had 1200 Mics in the studio and have done collaborations with Legohead as well as Ozzy from Australia. There should also be a new and fresh G.M.S album coming soon and will hopefully be done by our winter, so we are definitely keeping very busy these days.” But psytrance isn’t their only love – for Riktam and Bansi are also part of the R&B project (not to be confused with Rhythm and Blues) - that is a pure progressive house venture. Bansi explains: “you can definitely hear the familiar G.M.S sounds but it also contains a bit of a tech-house vibe.” In reality though, it is the sounds of psy that are truly in their hearts – and as such, they rarely stray from the underlying sound. “Sure we try to do different styles of music with our other projects – it might include drum and bass, electro, deep house and dub. Technology too has helped us evolve and together, we have moved with it. Those geniuses behind the software and hardware are the people that make our lives easy. If I think back to when we played our first gigs over 20 years ago, I realise just how far things have come.” Finally, the lads have an extensive fan base in Australia and are looking forward to their imminent return for the Earthcore festival. “We love the scene out there,” says Bansi. “It’s so far to come to Australia but we have still been there almost 10 times. We’ve got a really great collection of old, new, fresh and rotten beats that we really want to blast the dance floor with. We know how to do it, so we’ll see you on the floor at Earthcore.” Growling Mad Scientists will play at Earthcore which goes down from Thursday November 27 to Monday December 1 in Pyalong. Tickets are on sale now from the earthcore.com. au - where you can also check out the full lineup.

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five things with adana twins 1. Growing Up Friso: I grew up in between Cologne and Frankfurt. Two house and techno capitals during this time. That inspires me a lot, because you had different clubs, labels, record stores, etc around. I would also say being in my mum’s car going to the shops listening to Fleetwood Mac or Paul Simon with the sun beating down through the car sunroof. My mum and dad would listen to music all the time. It was a big factor in our lives, especially the Motown sound. Take it Easy: I grew up in a small city called Celle. In this city it was all about hip hop. Here the Battle of the Year was founded and we had one of the most famous graffiti Hall of Fames in Germany. It was no surprise that I had been influenced by rap music when I grew up in this type of place. I also started DJing here. Another influence was my dad who is a big fan of Bob Marley and UB40. 2. Inspirations Friso: I grew up from a very young age with house and techno music. During this time, Daft Punk’s Homework was the inspiration as it was for many. I loved how they combine all this different worlds, from house to techno to pop. The last really inspiring live gig I saw was from Kink – he is a genius. Take it Easy: During my time in Celle I was inspired by acts like Dilated Peoples, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common or Gangstarr. When I moved to Hamburg 12 years ago I first came in touch with the real electronic club scene and I loved it. In this time acts like Boys Noize, Justice or Digitalism influenced me a lot. Today I am really inspired by artists like DJ Koze, Wiz Khalifa, Kendrick Lamar, &ME or Maceo Plex. You see I have not only one music direction and my heart is still fully anchored in hip hop. 3. Your Crew Hamburg was always a really good and helpful spot for us. It is such a good thing if you have some many open-minded friends around. Hamburg was the hotbed for our career. We love our crew and this city. 4. The Music You Make It’s hard to describe your own music. But we are really thankful that so many people like what we do. We love to see the smiling faces at night. I remember a really nice moment during our first Australia tour in the morning hours at Revolver in Melbourne: We were playing one of our tracks and the crowd was singing our song. We were just speechless. 5. Music, Right Here, Right Now The electronic music scene is changing so fast. Right now we have the feeling that the things getting more minimalistic and a bit harder again. Catch Adana Twins at Brown Alley on Sunday November 2.

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club guide wednesday oct 22

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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. NUSSY + MO + MAXI Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $14.30. PURE POP @ EXCHANGE Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 6:00pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SEX DREAMS - FEAT: BOOMA + GLASS MIRRORS + SURVEY Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

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THE BEAT RAFFLE - FEAT: URBAN FOX & DJ BUIC Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + MAFIA + FOR YOUR EARS DJS + FAKE FORWARD + RIFFE + DOM DOLLA VS BOOT ACTION + JACK LOVE + BENSON VS MIKE METRO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. CQ SESSIONS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. 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. MATTER FROM THE VOID FEAT: ZEKT COLLECTIVE DJS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SOUND SPLASHES - FEAT: DJ WET BEAT + DOCUMENT SWELL Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE RITZ - FEAT: KEN WALKER + ANDO + JOSHUA GILLILAND Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $20.00. U B QUEER Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 6:00pm. VARSITY - FEAT: KITI + FOOFARAW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. XS DISCO - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. YES PLEASE BIRTHDAY - FEAT: LUCIANBLOWKAMP + LEAKS + QUEEN MAGIC Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00.

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#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. BEAT THE BUSH - FEAT: JULIEN LOVE + JIMMY CAUTION + CAZEAUX OSLO + WINTERS + DJ SUSAN Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. BREAD & BUTTER FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd.

8:00pm. DAVE CLARKE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $27.50. DJ APPLEJACK Victoria Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 9:00pm. DJUMBO 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. 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. GET LIT - FEAT: TWERKSHOP + D’FRO + GET BUSY + HANS DC Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. IRIE RIDDIMS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + ELLIE B + JESSE + DUB PRINCESS & SNEAKY DREAD + SEKKLE MAN Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. K405 VS BASS MANIAC - FEAT: KIDD KAOS Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. LA DANSE MACABRE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LIL JON DJ SET Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. LUCK TRUCK FRIDAYS DOWNSTAIRS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. MI CASA - FEAT: RETZA + SILVERSIX + DAMON WALSH + LUCCA TAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 1:00am. MOKUMO (6AM AT THE GARAGE) + MONKEY PAWS + MARCUS HOLDER + VIKTOR + CLARE BLAKE + SHANNON BRIGGS + BIANCA TANZEN Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + KATIE DROVER + SAFARI + OLIBUSTA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SALVADOR + TRNSMT Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SAM MCEWIN + FLAGRANT + HIJACK Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. SPECIAL REQUEST VOL. 1 New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. THE FRIDAY CLUB - FEAT: DJ OBLIVEUS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm. THE NEW ORDER - FEAT: VOLTERA DJS + ERIS + MISERYS MALICE + SKINNY + KITTEN + MAD MARTIGAN + ANARKI The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. TUNES BY DAVE GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

saturday oct 25 ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: DR. ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. BIG MOUTH SATURDAYS FEAT: DJ ROWIE + ANDYCAN + NACKERS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 9:00pm. C GRADE - FEAT: OTOLOGIC The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DEEPEROOTS - FEAT: CHRIS NG + ANYO + WAHL + MIKE GURRIERI + GIO GARCIA + MAS PAOLI My Aeon, Brunswick. 10:00pm. DEUCE Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DISCO APPRECIATION SOCIETY Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 4:00pm. ENDLESS NIGHTS + MICHAEL RICCI + LAILA + BERT MACKLIN Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. GARDEN BEATS - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE + WILJAM LAGERBLOHM + AARON ARTHUR + DUNCAN FUNK The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. GET UP SMASHES IT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8.00. HOT STEP - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW + GRAYSKULL + KELTEC + MYLES MAC + PETER BAKER + REV. THORN + SAM MCEWIN + SHANE COPAL + TOM EVANS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. MANIA - FEAT: SLEEP D + MICHAEL RICCI + DAZE + PWD Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIDNIGHT RUN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. $7.00. NAM + NO NAME NATH + MATT RAD Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. ORGANIC AUDIO - FEAT: STEVE WARD + GRIFF + JAMIE STEVENS + AUSTERO + THE WEDNESDAY EXPERIMENT + PHIL K + MOOD MACHINE + WASABI La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $30.00. PASSION END OF YEAR SHOWCASE 2014 - FEAT: REWIND + BKODE + THE COLLEKTIVE + MUTE CREW The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00. PSYBERSPACE - FEAT: XEN OCHREN + NEOCORTEX + STAVROCK Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. RESPECT Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. $20.00. RHYTHM SECTION - FEAT: PREQUEL + GILLES PETERSON + LEFTO + ALEX NUT + BEN UFO + MISTER SATURDAY NIGHT + OSUNLADE + MIDLAND + MOXIE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South

Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDY FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $35.00. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + MAT CANT + GET BU$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 MISS BLADES Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. URTEK + PLANE’TE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. VAULT SATURDAYS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. WAREHAUS - FEAT: YOUNG FRANCO + BACON BOOTY DISCO + J-LAW + SLEEVES First Floor, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $15.00.

MELLOW-DIAS THUMP - FEAT: CAZEAUX O.S.L.O + GEEZY + RAAGHE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. BUCK 65 The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 8:00pm. $35.00. MVP - FEAT: ROB STEEZY + THADDEUS DOE + STEPHELLES + LOW-KEY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

thursday oct 23

JELLO DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: SILENTJAY + VERSAJ Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. NORTHSIDE SPACE FUNKERS - FEAT: HYPERFOKUS + KODIAK KID Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

friday oct 24

BUMP FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ KAHLUA 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. HOMEGROWN FEQS Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. JOELISTICS + SIETTA + MATHAS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00.

saturday oct 25

BATTLE OF THE MICS ROUND 5 - FEAT: AM BIGGS + IMPERIAL C + INFAMOUS NOIZE + INFINITE PRIDE + HEARTSICK + RAPID RHYTHMN + TOME + WILSO MC & JAY + V-NOMOUS + YVÉ GOLD + ZHANE WHITE Musicland, Fawkner. 6:30pm. $15.00.

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sunday oct 26 BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. EARLY MORNING CREW - FEAT: HOOPS + BRAD SASSMAN + JOSH PAOLA + JESSE YOUNG + OLLIE HOLMES + DEAN SPANOS Onesixone, Prahran. 1:00am. EASY NOW - FEAT: AGENT 86 + TOM SHOWTIME + DJ MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. FERDYDURKE RECORD FAIR + GUTTERHYPE RECORDS + BOUNCE AUDIO + ALLEY TUNES Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR & DAMON WALSH + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE SUNDAYS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. STRIPPED BACK SUNDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. $15.00. URTHBOY The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.

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monday oct 27 MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.

tuesday oct 28 CUSHION TUESDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. GIGGLE TUESDAY - FEAT: WHO + JAKE JUDD Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TASTEMAKERS - FEAT: ABLE 8 Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

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wednesday oct 22

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KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUA & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

sunday oct 26

VISIBLE MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: AMIN PAYNE + MEHR ENSEMBLE + THE LALIBELAS The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 3:00pm. BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00.

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BULLHORN

By Augustus Welby

Don’t let the singular noun fool you, Bullhorn is a many-pronged beast. The Brisbane collective comprises nine key members and seven of them do in fact straddle a (brass) horn. The title of the band’s latest record Players/Sounds is an accurate summation. These are players’ players, who comfortably adapt to a wide range of sounds. “We just didn’t want to restrict ourselves,” says founding member and sousaphone player, Steve Buchanan. “We wanted to put together a band where we just play awesome music. Our instrumentation is what defines our sound, so we don’t need to be defined by genre. We’ll try all concepts, everything from hip hop and funk to a lot of electronic dance music – drum and bass and break sort of stuff. It’s a constantly adapting process to just see what works.” Players/Sounds follows up Bullhorn’s self-titled debut from 2012, an album which came together just months after the group’s formation. While Bullhorn is neither a scrappy nor a jumbled record, Players/Sounds is a better depiction of the band’s collective strength. “[Making Players/Sounds] was a really planned process,” says Buchanan. “The whole album has been nearly two years in the making. We knew exactly what tracks we were going to do from the start, but at the same time, after two years you work out a lot of things as you go along. All the tracks we were gigging live. There’s some things that work really well live and then you take it

into the studio and it doesn’t work quite as well, so you really have to adapt it.” The most obvious distinction between the two records is the recent introduction of MC, Roman Albert. Players/Sounds still features a handful of instrumental tracks, but it’s at its most interesting when Albert’s front and centre, either spitting rhymes or busting out an uplifting chorus melody. “We were going [for about a year] before Roman came into the band,” Buchanan says. “We started writing a lot for his being in the group and our sound really started to change. Being the front man, the vocalist, you really have to work closely with him on your writing as well.” Grouping nine people together in any situation is enough to create a noisy mess. When there’re seven conspicuous brass instruments involved, chaos could quickly ensue. While each member of Bullhorn makes a constructive contribution, the band’s songwriting method is exceptionally controlled. “It’s actually all written out,” Buchanan says. “Individuals generally will come up with an idea and they’ll write a

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song out, totally arrange it, bring the charts, put them on the music stands in front of everyone and we’ll sit down and rehearse through them. There’s definitely collaborative input, but it’s individuals who are writing songs. “When I was first putting the band together,” he adds, “I wanted to put a band together that was a party band and all about getting people on the dance floor, but also [the music was] charted so it was adaptable. I’m sick of playing in bands where one person couldn’t do a gig or someone leaves town and the band just folds. Bullhorn, because it’s all charted, we can just get different players in if we can’t do gigs. Bullhorn is nine people, but we’ve probably got about 14 or 15 regular players, depending on who can do the shows.”

Bullhorn launched Players/Sounds at Brunswick’s Spotted Mallard just last month. They’re heading back our way to support Nahko and Medicine For the People during next month’s roots music extravaganza, AWME. Buchanan – a proud Brisbanian – looks forward to the visit. “It’s going to be a great show. Stoked to be playing with Nahko as well. Looking forward to hitting Melbourne again – always love it down there. We’ve only been down there a few times, but we already seem to be getting a good following.”

had put up a post on there and Laf got in contact with me and said something along the lines of, ‘I’m not a very good guitarist, but I like all the bands that you mentioned as liking and I like wearing suits,’ to which I said, ‘Great, you’re in.’ ” The bands Jones had listed were Elvis Costello, The Clash, and Talking Heads. One would be forgiven for thinking that band’s penchant for suits and the name would imply at least one member is a member of the legal fraternity. However, Lee is explains clearly they’re not lawyers. “We are definitely not solicitors,” he laughs. “We’re in no way involved with the legal profession either – the

suits are a bit of a throwback thing, and it was important to us to have an image. We laboured over names for awhile and then a friend said, ‘You’re always in suits, why don’t you call yourselves the lawyers or something?’ Then we thought, ‘How about The Solicitors?’ because it has different connotations, and being an indie-pop band it was nice to have ‘The’ in there.”

something that you can relate to rather than something you are forced to relate to through a flood [or] an excess of whatever they tell you. We want to get into as many ears as we can. It’s not for a consumer media to pick up and flog to people. It’s for us to get it out to the kids who are disengaged and to anyone who doesn’t want to be part of the poppy sheen.” The band’s passion isn’t confined to discussions of such hot topics as they also explode with feverish energy whenever they hit the stage. “It’s a release,” the band enthuse, explaining the inspirational and cathartic power of live performance. “When you are up there and you strike that chord and you see some stranger’s eyes going back into their head, it’s brilliant. There’s nothing like it. There’s no better drug. It brings out the animal

in people. It’s complete instinct. It’s primitive. At our second gig we started an all-in brawl. It ended up with the two bouncers on the floor. Some people want that jangle pop or that twang pop or something but that’s all bullshit. We get that chang. It’s like martial arts coming at you, it’s rock‘n’roll.” Discussing the upcoming album launch, the band promises, “We have got the best lineup. We have got the most shakin’ bands going around. When we come on, it will be sonic prowess. It’s disgusting. It’s all over your face. It’s great.”

BULLHORN play The Australasian World Music Expo (AWME) on Friday November 14 at the Hi-Fi Bar. Tickets available through the website.

By Denver Maxx

Snappily-dressed and touting tight, punchy indie-pop with attitude, Melbourne’s The Solicitors are a band that demand attention. The band’s fronted by Liverpool-born, now local Lee Jones who’s joined by lead guitarist Laf Zuccarello, bassist James Manning and drummer Matt Stirling with the acts recording output, the EP – Made To Measure (2013), a standalone single – Quicksand in the same year and now, in 2014, their debut album, Blank Check. The lead and preceding single from Blank Check is called If You Let Me Hold You and musically, the song is punchy and attitude-laden, with Zuccarello’s deliberate guitar style the perfect bed for Jones’ half-spoken Elvis Costello vocals. The film clip for If You Let Me Hold You is slick, with the band performing under stadium lighting and executing many well-rehearsed rock moves – all dressed in suits, with Lee sporting thick rimmed glasses. This visual aesthetic, combined with the band’s musical style, evokes Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. Funnily enough, not only was this reference unintended but Lee didn’t even know who River’s Cuomo was until a couple of years ago. “I’ve gotten into [Weezer] over the past year or two and love them but the first time I heard of them was when someone said we sound like them and I was like, ‘These guys are great.’ I’m not sure if Rivers has exactly the same record collection as me, but we definitely remind

people of Weezer,” Jones says. After listening to both bands, one could confidently infer the aforementioned ‘look’ it’s a collection of Elvis Costello’s records Lee and Cuomo have in common. Jones is chatting to Beat ahead of The Solicitors’ album launch this Saturday October 25 at The Gasometer. According to him, his band evolved from a dream in England to the current four-piece which play gigs around Melbourne. “We’ve evolved as a band in a similar fashion to how our audience has gathered,” he says. “We’ve been gaining a bit of traction slowly but surely, and have gotten to this point where we have an album that we’re proud of, and it is about the same time we’re starting to get a few people to our shows.” Before Jones and Zuccarello had even left England, they’d already connected via a social site for musicians wanting to start a band in Melbourne. “We met on Melband: that’s like a musicians’ community forum. I

THE SOLICITORS are launching Blank Check at The Gasometer on Saturday October 25 with Hunting Season, Ginkinta and The Wellingtons.

THE BRAVES

By Graham Blackley

If you feel a burning desire to blast the cobwebs from your poor, tired old skull, then a thunderous dose of The Braves is likely to be the medicine you’ve been waiting for. Featuring the speaker-destroying talents of Ethan “John Duke” Lerversha (drums), Djesse Bolte (bass) and Kelly Watson (guitar), this adrenaline-fuelled trio will cheerfully blow off your roof, bust your speakers and mess with your mind. As they are about to unleash their debut album South Paw Product upon the unsuspecting public, the band caught up with Beat for a lively chat about their commitment to pumping out genrebusting rock‘n’roll. With the band members all chipping into the conversation with massive amounts of enthusiasm, colourful language and mutual agreement, it seems only appropriate we attribute their words of wisdom to The Braves as one shuddering collective entity. Talking about their eclectic sound, the band exclaims, “We are anti-genre. We don’t want to put ourselves in a box. Genres confine you and then you are doomed to be in some sort of category or scene. If you have your own sound, you have your own product. You’re not doing it for anyone else. You are doing it for yourself.” Contrasting the new album with the previous 10” single Taipan/Raving Young Sons, the band say, “It’s completely different. [The album] was recorded in five hours and it is raw as shit. It’s just a different vibe. It captures the live sound more than any of the other recordings.” This rawness of the sound is matched by the edginess of the

lyrical content which covers “everything from power excess to the abuse of trends in the youth nowadays whether it’s drugs or self-abuse,” they say. “We have songs about the death of gallantry. It covers a myriad of themes including diabolical madness.” Such lyrical concerns reflect a series of core underlying philosophies the band has almost turned into a manifesto. On their Facebook page they proclaim that they have “set out to do something apart from the crowd” and during the interview they explain they are discontented with “the perpetuation of the media nowadays that keeps on rolling and that tells kids over and over again that excess is good and [with] the consumer ideal that more is better”. They despise what they call “the glossy sheen of bullshit”. So, what are they seeking as a viable alternative? “We want the most out of little,” the band says. “What we really want is

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GRAVEYARD TRAIN By Meg Crawford

Beat’s previous interviews with Graveyard Train have always been at the pub. On its face, that seems appropriate because the band, those six splendid horror-cowpunk aficionados and rock monsters, have a reputation for being able to put it away. Everything’s subject to change though.

Today, although we convene at the pub, Nick French, one of the band’s vocalists and guitarists, has his dear baby daughter in tow and Josh Crawley, the band’s lead guitarist, has brought Hank along for the ride, a friendly black and white spotty rescue dog he’s had for two weeks. Over the course of the next hour, French and Crawley consume one pot each total, Hank down’s some dog-jerky and French’s little girl has a roll and grapes from a tiny Tupperware container, while occasionally glancing at a Peter Rabbit baby hardback book. French apologises twice, at the start and end of the interview. “I’m sorry that we’ve both brought our family along”, he says. For our part, it was pretty damn idyllic – a quiet, sunny Wednesday arvo in the pub with band, baby, dog and laughs. That said, there’s a fair bit of reflection about the band’s boozing escapades and French and Crawley’s role in the band. Apparently, six errant lads do well with a bit of structure and someone’s gotta provide it. So, French has pegged himself as band mum and Crawley as band dad. “In some old, Australian sexist way, dads get to be the drivers and I’m always the driver,” Crawley explains of the role assignment. “I have the power to turn around and say, ‘We’re not going to Disneyland’.” Thinking about some of the band’s booze-related misadventures (one band member once got so plastered in Edinburgh he missed a show, only to be found asleep later on garbage bags), are they acquitting these roles well? “No,” Crawley rues. “Maybe I pushed them too hard, who knows?” “We’ve got some naughty kids,” French adds. “We were actually having a chat in Belgium about the band’s drinking and we were thinking, ‘What have we done? Is this a healthy thing?’ We’re still going at it though, just like every other band, although we both drink a lot less now.” “I gave up smoking two years ago,” says Crawley proudly. “I’ve saved $12,000.” Good for you man. The band’s genesis was a bit boozy too, which is not unsurprising – some of the lads worked together in a record store that doubled as a bar (Prudence) and spent a lot of time listening to Tom Waites, Nick Cave and getting pissed. “I think every band starts the same way, whether it’s a bunch of mates working in a record store or a bunch of mates listening to the same records at home: it’s always just a bunch of mates wanting to play music together because they’re on the same page. Prudence probably had an advantage though, because it was a record store slash bar and the boss was pretty generous with the staff buying records each week for the bar.”

“I THINK EVERY BAND STARTS THE SAME WAY, WHETHER IT’S A BUNCH OF MATES WORKING IN A RECORD STORE OR A BUNCH OF MATES LISTENING TO THE SAME RECORDS AT HOME: IT’S ALWAYS JUST A BUNCH OF MATES WANTING TO PLAY MUSIC TOGETHER.”

“Yeah, we nerded out,” French concurs. “We got drunk and went down wormholes of weird music. We were just all hanging out and the band was a kind of a drunken idea.” “It was a really drunken idea,” Crawley qualifies. “We weren’t even musos. There was definitely a serious element there though – we were trying to make a band, doing the hard work.” Both Crawley and French attribute the music and the drinking, at least in part, to the suburb – God bless North Melbourne. “North Melbourne - that was a drinkin’ little suburb,” Crawley muses. “It was a country town – people could just hang out at those North Melbourne bars for months without even going to the city. Nick called it the meat grinder – it’s this vortex that just sucks in early 20-something men.” “Kids would come from the country,” French explains further. “They’d get a job at one of the pubs and tattoos would start growing on their arms and their stare would get a little bit more glassy and you’d just see the meat grinder grinding them out, then they’d start playing drums in some garage band.” “At the end of saying all of that about North Melbourne, what a scene,” Crawley reflects. “I could name a heap of good bands out of North Melbourne – Midnight Juggernaughts, the Smith Street Band’s from there and Children Collide. We all basically lived on the same street – on Queensberry Street.” “We all knew each other because we worked and drank at the same places,” French continues. “No one left the suburb. I once went two months without leaving 3051.” This follows into a quick, nostalgic segue about the joys of obtaining music in the olden days. “I don’t want to sound like an idiot, but it was before iTunes and downloading onto your phone and it was a bit more special,” Crawley recollects. “It was before even YouTube,” responds French. “It was a different experience trying to find music back then. You’d go to record shops and you’d read the sleeves of a record and find out who played on what, rather than just clicking.” Everyone at the table, bar baby, is now nodding furiously in agreement about the musical virtues of ye olde days. “Not to say that I didn’t start downloading or stealing music. Oh, we were stealing music,” laughs Crawley. “We still are,” corrects French. GRAVEYARD TRAIN’s Halloween Party is on again at the Forum Friday October 31 where they’ll be joined by the Puta Madre Brothers. Tickets through Ticketmaster. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 36

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THE MEANIES By Patrick Emery Just over 25 years ago a scruffy bunch of teenagers took to the stage at the Tote Hotel in Collingwood. According to legend, the band’s dreadlocked lead singer inadvertently offended the headline act, mistaking the dapper appearance of a punter for the stuffy attire of a corporate type. In a weird sort of a way, it couldn’t have started any other way. The Tote’s booker, amused and impressed by the singer’s exuberant on-stage antics and the band’s devil-may-care punk rock sound, decided these guys needed a manager; six months later, he was the band’s bass player. The band subsequently whipped up a tornado of local interest. A series of now-classic singles were quickly lapped by the band’s adoring fans, while a succession of high profile supports – including a spot on Nirvana’s ‘92 Australian tour – saw the band thrown on course for national and international celebration. That band was The Meanies. It hasn’t always been a smooth ride, however: in the mid ‘90s Link Meanie pulled the pin on the band for the sake of his own health and sanity, before agreeing to reform the band a couple of years later. In ‘08 The Meanies lost their original guitarist, DD Meanie, to cancer; six months later Tas Meanie (who’d replaced DD in ‘95) was killed in a freak car accident on the Bellarine Peninsula. But The Meanies live on, as punk in spirit, attitude and sound as ever. When I meet Meanies lead singer Link and bass player (and still, after all these years, the band’s manager) Wally at a Vietnamese restaurant in Richmond, Link is on crutches, courtesy of an accident on stage at the band’s recent Adelaide show. But being the rock’n’roll trouper he is, Link not only finished the Adelaide show with what turned out to be a broken foot, and managed to play the Sydney leg of the band’s 25th anniversary show entirely on crutches (“A couple of times he forgot he was on crutches and decided to dance around a bit,” Wally laughs). “You’ve got to pretty well be in hospital to get out of doing a show with The Meanies,” Link remarks, “But the worst was probably when I had my jaw broken by a disgruntled punter who took umbrage at me being naked on stage.” Given The Meanies’ longevity, my plan of interrogation at the interview is via the SWOT – strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats – analysis typically adopted in corporate environments. Given The Meanies’ decidedly un-corporate approach for the entirety of their career (“None of us have that corporate mentality,” Wally observes), it’s wholly inappropriate to adopt that line of analysis – but that’s the point. So, what are The Meanies’ strengths? “Me!” laughs Wally. “That is one our strengths, yes,” Link replies. “But I think one of our strengths is that we’re much better musicians and performers these days, we also enjoy it a hell of a lot. So it’s always a pretty good vibe. We’re capable of being proficient and prolific. And we all get along really well – they’re a great bunch of guys.” Beyond the strength of his own personal involvement, Wally sums up The Meanies’ essential qualities as simply, “Great frontman, great songs.”

“BUT THE WORST WAS PROBABLY WHEN I HAD MY JAW BROKEN BY A DISGRUNTLED PUNTER WHO TOOK UMBRAGE AT ME BEING NAKED ON STAGE.” Turning to weaknesses, and, not surprisingly, Link identifies his “whole body” as a specific weakness, coupled with The Meanies’ lack of financial acumen. “It’s a weakness that the band isn’t available to be our number one thing at the moment, so we can’t go at it like we used to,” Wallys says “But while that’s a weakness in the literal sense, we don’t consider it a weakness because we prefer it to be a bit loose.” When we get to opportunities, The Meanies’ future recording and touring plans, Wally promises “the opportunities are endless at the moment.” “The night before our last show of this 25th anniversary tour, we’re playing the Triple R performance space, which we were invited to do, so that’s really nice. Then the re-issues start: Tym Records in Brisbane is re-issuing our Never 7”, an old t-shirt is being reproduced and the artwork from the 7” or the t-shirt is going to be appropriated onto a skateboard deck.” But don’t send any money yet – there’s more. “Tym are putting out a vinyl version of our Cruelty is Fun EP. Buttercup Records is going to put out a split 7” with Nursery Crimes. Then we’re going to put out the series of 7” singles we started a few years ago with an unreleased Meanies track on one side, and other bands covering us on the B-side. The first one, featuring Double Agents and Digger and the Pussycats will be out before Christmas, with You Am I, Glenn Richards, Even and a bunch of other bands on the next lot of 7”s. And Poison City records are putting out all our other stuff on vinyl with bonus material, starting later this year. And then we recorded a new album, that’ll come between now and next June.” Whew. Finally, what are the band’s threats? “I threaten to be around a lot longer yet,” Wally offers. Link is less brazen, more considered. “I find the notion of not having any skills apart from music a threat – ending up in the gutter when I’m 70.” Wally concurs. “Maybe because The Meanies is all we’ve got, there is the threat of living in a boarding house in our old age.” “Maybe we’ll just find ourselves taxidermied,” Link muses. It’s an idea Wally finds perversely appealing. “How good would that be? Maybe that’s what the next album should be called: Get Stuffed,” he laughs. THE MEANIES celebrate 25 years of being young and relevant at the Hi-Fi, Friday October 24. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV

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ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS

By Adam Norris

All Our Exes Live In Texas might be cursed. The band comprises Hannah Crofts, Katie Wighton, Elana Stone and Georgia Mooney, and while I have seen them several times over the last few months, it’s never been with the full lineup. Someone’s always missing, and indeed for this interview we are down to two. By the time you finish reading this, they will likely be reduced to one. The most sensible conclusion is they are gradually being kidnapped by some harmony-mad composer lurking in the depths of the Opera House. A less plausible answer might be their busy schedules – they each maintain strong solo careers, and all were recently enlisted for a children’s musical. As the Exes themselves would have you believe, the mystery surrounding the quartet is stranger than you might expect. Stone purses her lips in consideration and leans back in her chair. “We are just totally funky vegetables,” she says. Sitting opposite, Mooney agrees. “It’s all about the fun associations you can make with an avocado, really,” she says, and the two singers burst into laughter. Their fruit-and-veg chat refers to The Vegetable Plot, a “roots musical” penned by fellow songwriter Luke Escombe, which saw the Exes take on the roles of various vegetables singing about the virtues of healthy eating. The show drew an audience decidedly different from their usual folk-loving crowd. As Stone and Mooney describe the gig, the banter between the pair steadily builds, and it’s easy to see how the band’s established such a reputation for charm in so short a time. “It’s interesting seeing little kids reacting to loud music,” Stone says. “There were guitars and bass, a full drum kit. We might have been a bit too loud. But it’s the comedy in those songs that really sells them. It’s all incredibly punny, and we’re all in silly costumes. But every audience response is different, everywhere you go. I think it depends a lot on where we’re playing.” “And we’re pretty family-friendly,” Mooney adds. “We’re not particularly rock’n’roll. We want to be, but we’re so not.” “Yeah, the room’s never full of sexy hipsters. Well, some sexy hipsters. Not many though. First Aid Kit probably takes all of the sexy hipsters.”

“We don’t want them anyway, they’re fickle.” “No fickle hipsters,” Mooney nods, happy with the decision. “We’re the kind of band our mums would feel comfortable taking their friends to.” “And now we can start making salads onstage,” adds Stone. Mid-gig cooking breaks are something the hipsters would probably flock to, but the Exes have enough on their plate without worrying about capricious crowds. The band’s set to embark on a national tour to support their latest single Tell Me, before working towards an album in 2015. Not bad for a group that began quite casually. “It all started as friendship, really,” Mooney recalls. “Some friends invited us to a country roadshow at The Vanguard, so we formed this all-girl singing band and it just stuck.” “We Googled bad country song titles for our name,” Stone elaborates, “and found this George Strait song All My Ex’s Live In Texas, which we thought was hilarious. Katie was screaming, ‘Noooo!’ She hated it at first. We had a month to learn our instruments – I already played the accordion, but Georgia took up the mandolin for the band – and put a set together for the gig, and we really enjoyed it. It was a really good crash course in what it’s like just getting something happening.” “For a while there we were looking at calling ourselves something like The Pretty Pollys,” Mooney remembers,

and Stone groans in mock disgust. “We had nothing, and then walking home it suddenly came up: All Our Exes Live In Texas. People always ask if it’s true, and it’s not true, sadly. They still live in Newtown.” “They all play in the same band,” Stone quips, and Mooney laughs. “Hannah always introduces us as having 10 husbands who we’ve all shared, and they’re all dead in Texas. Sometimes we killed them. Sometimes we’re Amish, I don’t know.” “And we’re actually all magical,” Stone adds. “Clearly we’re still working this all out,” Mooney sighs. At the rate the band’s progressing, you’d suspect any audiences taking the time to learn the Exes’ backstory or analyse writing influences quite misses the point. Their strength lies in the beauty of their harmonies, their instrumentation, and the pleasure of watching them perform; all things that don’t require a prologue to enjoy. Such is the growing enthusiasm for the group; they themselves are surprised by the reception. “It’s always weird talking about the writing stuff,” Stone admits. “I’ve been thinking about it lately though, because I’ve been trying to work out what motivates people to play music. Working out what drives someone

to get up in front of an audience and demand love from strangers. It’s an odd profession, and I’m constantly asking myself, ‘What is it about me that needs this?’ I’ve never had the answer.” “Because your identity becomes so caught up in it,” Mooney says before pausing, considering her reply. “Then comes this whole level of self-promotion, striving for big shows and needing to push yourself. It’s confusing, working out what the motivation behind being a musician is. Mostly you just want to play and have an audience find a bond with what you’re saying. It’s all a weird game, but so far everything [with the band] has been a nice surprise.” “Though we’ve stepped up the size of the venues a bit so we’ve had to push a bit harder, make sure people know about them,” says Stone. “But this is our first ever actual publicity. So, you know,” she looks hopefully to Mooney, “I hope people actually come to the show.” “Yeah,” Mooney nods. “That would be nice.”

that can perhaps be applied to Simon’s entire body of work, and that’s the way she would like it to remain. “I create something, and I give it to the world. From there, it has its own destiny, and I like the fact that people understand something differently; I like the fact that everyone has their own interpretation. I love the fact that some people don’t even want to know what I’m talking about – it’s true! It happened to me as a child. I wasn’t speaking fluent English, but I was listening to so many English and American songwriters, and it didn’t matter. I didn’t need to know what they were saying; to me it was magical. It was like making your own story, or like reading a book and then seeing the movie. Maybe

you’ll be disappointed, because your movie was better.” She laughs. “I like to see things that way. I like the fact that not everyone will understand the language and get what’s going on, that instead it’s completely conceptual. I love that.”

ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS play the Port Fairy Folk Festival Friday March 6 to 9 2015, tickets are selling fast through the festival’s website.

ÉMILIE SIMON

By Adam Norris

Émilie Simon is a difficult artist to categorise. Having released her self-titled debut album back in 2003 – an electronic record whose success saw it still charting three years later – the French singer’s subsequent releases have seen her embark on vastly different paths. Her soundtrack for March Of The Penguins was geared towards the cold; replete with the sounds of splintering ice and winter weather. 2006’s Vegetal drew its inspiration from flowers and vegetation, while still retaining her electronic roots. Now, with the release of her sixth album, Mue, we see Simon move in another direction again with a stripped-back, acoustic sound. To term her output ‘prodigious’ is an understatement. While each of Simon’s releases explore a different flavour, the idea of the concept album seems to have dropped out of vogue to a certain extent these days. So when Simon reflects on the shape of her music thus far, you get the sense the concept album is pretty far from her thoughts. “It’s a very strange thing,” she says. “The songs always happen in a very different way. A lot of the time things just come together, and it appears to me very suddenly that I’m writing about a certain theme. For example, with Vegetal, I started to write completely freely, without any theme, and after around four songs there was the name of a flower in every song. So I just started calling the folder on my computer Vegetal, because it seemed to be the link, which then inspired new songs that were really playing with the theme. So sometimes it’s real organic, it’s not me deciding on something and then I’ll write about it. The songs come that way, and they kind of put me on the track, and then it’s a lot like working out a puzzle until you figure out where you’re going.” While ‘puzzling’ is not entirely the word to describe Mue – which translates, rather appropriately, to ‘morph’ – there’s certainly a level of pleasant ambiguity to the record, chiefly due to the fact the majority of it is in French. Simon says the ideas translate. “There’s not really a language barrier. I feel like my music is not really built [as much] on lyrics as it is on the sound, on the production and melody – it’s something that is beyond language. Sometimes it doesn’t even seem to matter if it’s in French or English. It’s a whole – it’s not just about words, it’s about a whole poetical world. The language is a part of it, of course, but the BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38

melody and voice are the main elements, are always the core. All the sounds, the environment in a song are important – a little bit like a movie, something that you experience as a whole. Sometimes people get it, even if they don’t understand it. And my music isn’t really telling a narrative story, so it’s very poetic. Even if you understand French, it’s more about poetic images, it’s very visual.” An exception to this is the sweetly sad The Eye Of The Moon. It’s an evocative song with its feet planted firmly in folk, but adding to the accessibility is the fact it’s sung in English and written by British speculative fiction author Graham Joyce. There’s an added poignancy to the song, given very recently Joyce passed away aged 59. “I’m glad to talk about these beautiful lyrics, because Graham actually just passed away last week,” says Simon. “It’s very sad. He wrote songs for me in English. We met years ago and collaborated on a few songs for The Big Machine and Franky Knight. The Eye Of The Moon is something he sent me for Christmas, and he said, ‘I wrote that for you, and one day perhaps it will become a song.’ So, it was a present. I had this melody in mind that I thought was quite beautiful, and when I got the lyrics it made sense, they fit in perfectly. It’s a very powerful song onstage, and even on the album it’s one of my favourites.” Suffice it to say, throughout Mue there’s great variety and much room for interpretation. Like a choose-yourown-adventure story, the precise shape of the song is left up to the individual to determine. Meaning can be teased from the lyrics, or the tone alone can conjure subjects unique to the listener. This is a characteristic

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ÉMILIE SIMON will steal hearts at So Frenchy, So Chic in the Park at the picturesque Werribee Mansion, Sunday January 11. Tickets available through the website.

THE CHURCH

By Augustus Welby

Rock fans often view a band’s classic lineup with a sort of sacred affection. On account of this, any disturbance to a longstanding combination will be met with severe disappointment. Last weekend, Sydney psychedelic dream purveyors The Church released their 25th album, Further/Deeper. For the first time in the band’s career, guitarist Marty Willson-Piper is absent. In his place is former Powderfinger lead guitarist, Ian Haug. These are certainly big shoes to fill, but Haug didn’t cower under the pressure. “Luckily the first jam, and the whole recording process, came where it was all new stuff,” he says. “I thought, ‘Yeah, I’ll bring it. I’ll try to step up.’ There was nothing to lose, really. If they went, ‘Nah, we don’t like what’s happening here,’ it would’ve been like, ‘OK, cool, that’s fine.’ ” Ever since The Church’s 1981 debut, Of Skins and Heart, intertwining electric guitars have been a prominent feature of the band’s sound. So, for Haug’s entrance to be worthwhile, it was essential he made a creative contribution. Considering The Church’s long history, stately critical standing and avid global following, this could be a rather intimidating task. Conversely, Haug says the invitation to bring things to the table made his initiation fairly organic. “It wasn’t like I was just coming in to be told what to do. They were extremely encouraging and non-limiting to anything. There was no preconception of what it should be like. Because it’s new shit, nothing’s really technically wrong. We all seemed to be on the same page with where it was all going. I was put at ease pretty quickly.” While Haug’s previous band are one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of Aussie rock, his presence doesn’t mean Further/Deeper is a stab at mainstream success. Recorded earlier this year, the record’s an hour-long journey, featuring 12 elaborately-drawn, melodically-lush compositions, with nary an obvious chorus in sight. “It’s by no means an easy listen,” Haug says. “I think there’s quite a bit of depth to it. We couldn’t stop ourselves. We wrote it all as we were recording it and it pretty much was just all a big jam session. It’s not going to be to everyone’s taste, which is fine. That’s the way art should be. I think it’s good if things polarise people.” Further/Deeper mightn’t include anything acutely similar to iconic Church singles, such as Under the Milky Way or The Unguarded Moment, but it’s undeniably The Church. Right from opening number Vanishing Man, the constituent parts combine to generate a strikingly familiar and strangely comforting sensation. “I think there is a certain sound that The Church have – whatever it is,” Haug says. “It’s not even that it’s similar to something that they’ve done before. There are several moments on the record where it really strikes me as sounding very Church-y. Like, the bridge of Pride Before I Fall and the whole of Old Coast Road to me sounds pretty Church-y. “There’s definitely moments when Peter [Koppes] and I, our guitars entwine to meld into one thing which sounds like The Church. And obviously [Steve] Kilbey’s voice is so iconic as well. When I would be playing and I heard him singing, it was like, ‘Fuck, this is The Church’.” Powderfinger weren’t quite vendors of soulless pop music, but a large portion of their material did possess radio-ready appeal. The Church, on the other hand, specialise in surreal soundscapes and sometimesdramatic sonic density. Despite the seeming contrast, Haug says this wasn’t unchartered territory for him. “That’s what Powderfinger always wanted to do anyway and we always did have a certain amount of songs that were a trip as well. Then there happened to be some radio songs, because there was certain people in the band and in the organisation that encouraged it.” By all accounts, Haug’s transition into The Church has been largely seamless, but it doesn’t mean his perspective exactly mirrors that of his fellow band members. In fact, given he’s also a longtime fan of The Church, his outsider’s viewpoint could be used to the band’s advantage. “If we’d be playing something and someone would say, ‘Oh that’s too much like the old Church,’ I was like, ‘That’s why people like you. Come on let’s just do it.’ I think they were a bit reticent to do stuff like that and I was like, ‘Guys, this is awesome – it just sounds good.’” A national Further/Deeper tour commences this week, where the band will perform the record in its entirety. While many of The Church’s devoted following are likely to closely scrutinise Haug’s performance, he’s confident the journey’s only just begun. “I’ve been accepted as part of it and we’re going go and tour around the world next year together, so I’m definitely part of a unit. Hopefully we can do more records. It was definitely artistically inspiring for me and I think for everyone. “It is just music when it comes down to it,” he adds. “There’s fucking bombs being dropped and Ebola and bad stuff everywhere, so if we can make this beautiful music that lets people have a trip away from all of that, then great. We couldn’t ask for anything more, and it’s great to be part of a band that does that.” THE CHURCH play live to Jean Cocteau’s 1932 film Blood of a Poet for Melbourne Music Week at ACMI Friday November 21; and Queenscliff Music Festival on Friday November 28 to Sunday November 30. They’re also touring nationally, playing at Ormond Hall on Friday October 31. 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THE MIGHTY KINGS

Photo by Chowie

By Denver Maxx

Melbourne based rockabilly three-piece The Mighty Kings, consisting of Gaby Bainy – guitar, Don Giovinazzo – bass, David Geraghty – drums, have a mission: “To bring the rockabilly sound to the masses; to show that even this sub culture has a place in everyday music.” On the Sunday after the third installment at Rockabilly Sundays at Prince Of Wales Public Bar’s month-long residency, the band caught up with Beat on the bench out the front of St Kilda’s famous rock haunt to tell their story. The band has been championing the aforementioned goal as The Mighty Kings since late 2013, with a set that transverses classic rockabilly from the ‘50s and ‘60s right across to ‘80s and ‘90s rock and pop, and can also include underground rock royalty guests like Heath Brady (Dirt River Radio) and Rosie Conforto (Pretty Villain) getting on the mic for these occasions. But The Mighty Kings story goes much further back than 2013, as explains Giovinazzo, it goes right back to the early ‘80s and the suburb Reservoir. “Gabby and I met in Prep and then went to high school together,” recalls Giovinazzo. “In about Year 10 I was heavily into dance music and then Gaby introduced me to Elvis.” A nostalgic Giovinazzo now recounts the exact experience when Bainy converted him to classic rock’n’roll. “I remember we walked around Edward’s Lake in Doncaster with a ghetto blaster just playing Elvis Sun Sessions and from that moment I fell in love with Elvis and that style of music.” To add further legitimacy to The Mighty Kings’ claim they are Melbourne’s local champions of promoting and sustaining rockabilly, listening to Elvis was the only reason that Bainy and Giovinazzo learnt to play guitar and at this point the band’s history Bainy takes over the narrative. “We were actually a little bit confused of how we were going start this. ‘Who was going to play double bass?’ ‘Was there going to be a double bass?’ ‘How were we going to get a double bass?’ ” The two high school students, in typical pubescent boy fashion, had a guitar solo competition to see who

would be the band’s guitarist with the loser taking on the imposing task of learning the double bass. From the band’s current lineup, it’s clear Bainy won, with Giovinazzo becoming the double bass player, resting his stand-up bass a plank of wood on a crate with a makeshift Sure mic and a single string. From here, the boys got a real double bass and recruited their original drummer Deryl Watson and began gigging. Giovinazzo now gives context to Melbourne’s music scene in 1989-1990. “[During] the period we began, the band Stray Cats had just hit the scene and rockabilly had become a fad so everyone started going to rock’n’roll and rockabilly shows and wearing the hairstyles.” The three piece, now known as The Mighty Kings were, back then, known as The Runaway Boys – the title of a Stray Cats song – and they gigged around for about a year until one night when the band was forced to change their name, resulting in a decline in momentum and ultimately the end of the band until they reformed last year. “One night around ’92, we were just piss-farting around at the drummer’s house, because that’s where we rehearsed, and his mum called us into the TV room and this talent show New Faces was on and said, ‘Watch these guys.’ It was a band called The Runaways Boys, same as us, so we looked at each other in disappointment and said, ‘We gotta change our name,’ ” states Bainy with a cheeky wonderment before revealing, “The Runaway Boys [are] now known as The Living End.” From then, even though they weren’t in a band together anymore, the two school friends remained close

mates. Last year Bainy, now a family man, called up Giovinazzo and asked him to reform their rockabilly band. Both guys had remained active musicians in the time elapsed so it wasn’t a huge ask, but the fact remained Giovinazzo hadn’t played a double bass in 20 years. “He called me up in mid-2013 and said, ‘Hey Don, I’ve got this open mic night in Reservoir can you help me out? – I’ve got a double bass in garage you can use and I was like, ‘Shit I haven’t played in 20 years but bring it over,’ so he gave me a list of rockabilly covers and we rehearsed the songs with drummer, who was actually a guitarist but he could keep a beat, then we played the open mic night under the name Just Because – that is an Elvis song – and everyone lost their minds so we thought, ‘This has legs, let’s see where it can go,’ So I Googled some band names that weren’t taken and found The Mighty Kings and thought, ‘This is perfect for a rockabilly band,’ ” explains a chuffed Giovinazzo.

In just over a year, The Mighty Kings have become regulars in the Melbourne music calendar, with at least a gig a week. This week’s performance at Rockabilly Sundays at Prince of Wales Public Bar will see the band celebrating a very successful month-long residency with the show potentially featuring a cover song the band have been working hard to convert from glamrock to a rockabilly format, sitting well with their other covers, like Walk This Way, Tainted Love and Fight For Your Right. “Mötley Crüe Kick Start My Heart – we’re trying to get it right so we do it justice, we have practiced it for months, but we are struggling to keep it ballsy but make it fit into a rockabilly set.”

Overall, the rest of 2014, and then moving into next year, is looking potentially very exciting and productive for Leha. “I’m not sure just yet, but more writing I’m sure,” he says. “Who knows what’s going to happen from this [album]? We’re doing the album launch in Melbourne, coming up. And we’re also doing the Australasian World Music Expo there next month. There’s been little stories that have come from there about people

being taken overseas from there. “So hopefully something like that might happen, and that’d be okay, but look, I already feel successful in what I’m doing, I’m pretty happy at the moment.”

THE MIGHTY KINGS are playing Rockabilly Sundays at Prince Of Wales Public Bar this Sunday October 26 from 4pm to 8pm. Opening the afternoon is Kim Volkman.

RADICAL SON

By Rod Whitf ield

David Leha, AKA Radical Son, is an Australian artist with an exotic and storied past. A son of Aboriginal and Tongan parents, he’s had several run-ins with the law, but he’s since done his time and has come out the other end stronger than ever. He uses music to keep him focused and heading in the right direction. Not only is he a talented and credible singer/songwriter, he’s also studying for a Bachelor of Music at The University of Newcastle. He is, slowly but surely, maturing beyond his wilder early days. “Not as quickly as I would like,” he admits, “But yeah, definitely. “It’s where we’ve all come from, from our experiences. In the future I’d like to, thanks to this musical course and being introduced to musical concepts, I’ve found it really interesting, and I’ve met a few artists who want to get away from just writing about our experiences.” He and his band have just released a brand new album, entitled Cause ‘n Effect, and on this occasion the name of the record and most of the lyrical ideas presented therein are directly influenced by events from his past. “Cause ‘n Effect, it’s just about change,” he explains, “and looking at oneself, with regards to change, for me anyway. We have people looking at change, and politics, and all this sort of stuff, but for me it’s a step within... It’s just about taking responsibility for our actions, and knowing that whatever it is we do or say, has some kind of effect. “We’re all limited by our own experiences,” he goes on, expanding on the lyrical themes explored on the album, “and what we’ve been exposed to. There’s so much stuff out there, there’s enough to learn from until the day we die.” He’s enlisted the help of several luminaries of the local music scene to help him complete the album, on top of his regular band. One very well known artist in particular hasn’t only performed a guest spot on the record, but is also assisting him with his career. “Archie Roach is probably the key guest here,” he reveals. “He’s decided for some reason or another to take me under his wing and lend me some support, so [I’m] very grateful for that. And because of that, I feel there’s a few doors opening. “We’ve also got Pat Mau from Torres Strait, we’ve got Deline Briscoe, we’ve got a few of the fellas that I’ve worked with over the years. So it was great to get the opportunity to give back in that sense.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40

The album reveals a myriad of different influences, from rock to pop to soul, through to hip hop and reggae, and this reflects the very broad range of artists Leha indulged in his formative years, and still today. However, there’s one artist that made the biggest impact, musically and otherwise. “I just listened to whatever anyone else said,” he says discussing his influences, “But it was not until I was given a bunch of Bob Marley albums, I think because I was at the age of about 14 or 15, and I tried to be like that person, be like those people you listened to. “Unfortunately, I remember being in not such a good way, which is why I take my music so seriously. I believe I smoked a lot of pot because Bob Marley did. And I had this bad attitude towards police and the system, because I used to listen to NWA. That’s why I’m so careful now about what I do and say, because music is such a powerful thing.” Radical Son has a whole bunch of tour dates coming up, up and down the eastern seaboard, from mid November right into early December. Leha looks forward to this run of shows with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. “I am [excited about the tour],” he states, a touch hesitantly. “To be honest, I’m a family man and I’m studying, and going on tour is a new kind of thing that I’m going to have to get used to.” Despite this touch of apprehension about going out on the road, Leha has a decade of experience behind him now, and has been praised for his onstage dynamism. He and his road-hardened band are still sure to give the audiences who come out to see them play an intense and entertaining time. “A lot of people comment on my presence,” he says, “and the band that I’ve got, they’re seasoned as well. They give you some real good music, and we hope for a really great show, with a storyline.”

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RADICAL SON will be appearing at the Australasian World Music Expo (AWME) on Monday December 15 at Shebeen. Tickets available through the website.

THE SMITH STREET BAND

By Lachlan Kanoniuk

Despite perpetual touring at home and now making inroads overseas, The Smith Street Band have managed to put forth a steady stream of recorded material, harbouring potent ammunition for their raucous live performances. Their latest LP Throw Me In The River saw the band retreat to a secluded Otways location, accommodating their most spacious recording yet, imbuing their penchant for shout-along anthems with fresh air. Ahead of the band’s European run of dates, frontman Wil Wagner speaks on the album’s genesis. With the success of their 2013 EP Don’t Fuck With Our Dreams gaining an influx of new followers, it’s difficult to place Throw Me In The River as a follow-up to that release or its predecessor full-length Sunshine And Technology. “I’ve never really thought about it like that,” Wagner says. “We recorded Don’t Fuck With Our Dreams live in a couple of days. It was all quite immediate, with recent songs all about the same topic. That was because we didn’t have time to make a record. That seems like a fun thing we can do – an album one year, then a live-recorded EP the next year when we don’t have time to make a record. I think this is the first full-length we’ve made with the band we’ve had for the past couple of years, where we’ve been a four-piece. We haven’t actually made a record like that. I wouldn’t consider it a follow-up.” The thematic elements of Throw Me In The River often touch on darker territory, however imbued by a perspective of past tense – with triumph winning out both lyrically and in song craft. “I have quite bad anxiety and depression, and I’ll write when I’m in a bad state as a way of dealing with it, like a therapeutic kind of thing. I guess a lot of the darkness comes from dark times. There are a few things I might not have been that comfortable talking about on past records – sadness and depression – but I feel I should talk about it, because I’d like to make our music honest. Maybe other people can relate to it. It’s definitely darker. There are things on the record about a specific break-up, so that might be a case of looking back. I’m older and more experienced, so you’re writing about past experiences more rather than about going out and getting fucked up with your

mates. There is more sadness on the record, but that also comes from being on tour so much and away from home. “I’m someone who needs to be alone sometimes otherwise I can be an arsehole to everyone around me for no reason. I grab those chances on tour where I have ten minutes to myself to pound something into my phone or scribble something on a serviette. Some of those darker lines might come from when I’m desperate.” Maintaining a steady prolific streak, Wagner manages to write whenever the opportunity arises, even under duress. “I definitely struggle with writer’s block,” he confesses. “I try to write everyday, a portion of a song, either a verse or a chorus. But even if I’m writing something and it’s shit, it’s still good to keep up that habit so when something good does come, a riff or a chorus idea, I can make better use of them. Like stretching before a game of footy, you need to have those muscles ready when you have that moment of inspiration where it’s like, ‘Fuck, I need to get these lyrics down now.’ I tend to write quite maniacally. A lot of the songs on the record started out as fucking 10 minute stories with two chords underneath them and then I’ll whittle them down. There was one song that was so long I split it into two things. Every idea I have I try to write down. I’m always trying to figure out new ways to play chords, there’s always a guitar within arm’s reach all day. I would write as much as I did even if I wasn’t in the band. It’s my hobby as well as my job. I fucking love everything about playing guitar,” Wagner says. “I’m lucky that I enjoy it all as much as I do.”

Recording in their idyllic Otways hideaway in the community of Forrest, the band relished their surrounds, bringing with them fully-realised songs to record. “We actually did the drums before we went out to Forrest. You can do everything in a temporary studio except drums – you need a lot of space and microphones. We did the drums at Sing Sing in Melbourne, which is a really nice studio, then took those tracks out to Forrest. All the songs were written, maybe a few lyrical changes happened. But the environment and amount of time we had was a massive thing. You could fret over a guitar part for two hours, then you could just walk up a hill, look at a kangaroo, then think, ‘Fuck, who cares?’ instead of freaking out at 3am in a studio about a guitar part you know you can play but can’t at that moment for some reason. Recording is so fucking stressful if you let

it be so fucking stressful. It was such a beautiful space, the whole town was incredible, giving us baked goods, letting us ride on the local fire truck. It was just crazy; it couldn’t have been a better country town experience. I think we’ll try and record everything we do now in that house,” Wagner says. “It was perfect.”

raising. However, Rozenbergs contends they’re simply heeding to their own outlook. “Even if it’s dumb-head fun, it’s constructive. We are positive guys, that’s our vibe. You go listen to Lydia Lunch and that’s like fucking heavy, heavy shit and that’s going to resonate in someone. Our only pressure is to be true to where we come from. We write for us and [we’re] expressing our concerns. Even sometimes to make a fucking song that’s just about smoking heaps of joints, I want to fucking hear that song.” It’s plain to see The Bennies’ core positivity isn’t dwindling. As far as Rozenbergs can tell, there are plenty of good times to come.

“This is dream come true 101,” he says. “We’re learning, we make mistakes and shit like that, but we really feel like we’re part of something together and that’s pretty powerful shit, man. That’s a fair old fucking booster rocket for our ambition and our ability and willingness to get better at our instruments and write better songs.”

THE SMITH STREET BAND have well and truly sold out both shows at The Corner Hotel on Thursday November 27 and Friday November 28, but you can catch them at NYE on the Hill from December 30 - January 1. Their new LP Throw Me In The River is released on October 31 via Poison City Records.

THE BENNIES

By Augustus Welby

It’s been a big year for Melbourne punk/ska party boys The Bennies. Since releasing their second LP Rainbows In Space late last year, the foursome has conducted a series of sold-out Australian tours, supported the likes of Dead Kennedys and played shows in China, New Zealand and the US. What’s more, not only were The Bennies one of the few Australian acts on the Soundwave 2014 lineup, they’ve been invited back to play at next year’s festival. As the band’s job requirements become more demanding, the primary pursuit remains unchanged: to have a damn good time. “Spirits are high, the gigs have been great, no dramas,” says The Bennies guitarist Jules Rozenbergs. “Just setting ‘em up and knocking ‘em down. I’m totally stoked that it’s having a positive impression on people and that they’re getting inspired. It’s fairly fucking rewarding.” Several of The Bennies’ songs refer to getting drunk, high and pushing all worries aside. It’s safe to assume the band members practice what they preach and know how to make the most of tour life’s constant invitation to let loose. However, they basically haven’t had any time off in the past 12 months, so has the excess of fun taken its toll by now? “I could be at work and I could be dealing with customers,” Rozenbergs says. “The grass is super green on the performance side. I never forget that. I’ve got a smile on my face because I don’t have to slave away today to pay my rent. We’re out on the road making our art. If we keep it in perspective, it’s just been kind of dreamy and everyone’s just so fuckin’ lovely. We’re blessed, man.” Further proof The Bennies’ party-boy appeal now holds weight outside of the underground punk community lies in the fact they recently stormed through a massive regional tour. But while the band has made considerable advances in the last year, it’s not an overnight success story. The Bennies are an independently-run operation and the band members have spent several years learning how to effectively do things themselves. “Each one of us has been playing music for quite a while now,” Rozenbergs says. “You start from like Tuesday night, Battle of the Bands, some fucking crook is trying to make you sell 200 tickets to go on a compilation that’s never going to get pressed. And you learn that you just got ripped off and you push through

and you play a Wednesday night and this can happen for fucking ages. The evolution to get anywhere is like a lot of small victories. I see it like this education that has only just begun. “Behind the scenes there’s a lot of hard work that goes into putting this stuff together,” he continues. “When the feedback from the people and the effort you’re putting in – when that ratio works, then you can’t help but be humbled and just really thank the people who are helping you do it.” Rainbows In Space was released through Melbournebased punk rock imprint Poison City Records, whose roster includes other local successes The Smith Street Band, The Nation Blue, and Clowns. Rozenbergs believes raising the band in Melbourne has played a crucial role in developing both a fearless attitude and genre-blending sound. “The music scene in Melbourne is extremely competitive and it’s a tight-knit group of really passionate individuals. But if you can cut your teeth against the Melbourne critics’ association, it toughens you up for sure. It’s not easy and a lot of people get discouraged, but once people see you’re really working for it, there’s encouragement, there’s people willing to pull you up. “There’s not a lot of money going around,” he adds. “It’s a passion-based industry. In Melbourne, where we’re blessed to have so many bands and live venues and music seven days a week, 24/7, the standard just keeps going up and as the standard goes up, you get better.” Being serious about your art doesn’t necessarily mean producing work that should be described as ‘serious’. Rainbows In Space features songs such as Let’s Go Get Stoned, Ice Cold Beers And Juicy Juicy Buds and ganjasoaked love letter Sensi-mi. While The Bennies’ commitment to their vocation certainly isn’t in doubt, the content being expressed is somewhat eyebrow-

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HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD

By Jody MacGregor

Four years ago rap-rock band Hollywood Undead were scheduled to play the Soundwave Revolution spin-off festival. But then, as rapper Funny Man elegantly summarises, “Van Halen got sick.” With the festival cancelled but the travel time scheduled, they decided to come out anyway, playing their own headlining tour. They even put in the effort to head across to Perth for a show. “We spent, like, three days in Perth – that was pretty cool, man. We got to hang out on the beach; our hotel was right on the beach. Kicking around there, check out the city a little bit. We even saw an opera at the Sydney Opera House.” I’m slightly suspicious of this unrelated factoid, so I ask Funny Man which opera he went to see. “I think it was called Dan Antonio? The Shakespeare play?” he says. “I left halfway through. It was a little too much. I couldn’t sit through the whole thing.” The line between fact and fiction is pretty blurry with Hollywood Undead. Though the rock half of the band sounds pretty pop-punk, their aesthetic and subject matter is straight horrorcore. I tried to sum up their sound to a friend by calling it, “Good Charlotte fronted by Insane Clown Posse” and he made the most horrified face. They rap-sing about murder, suicide, the apocalypse and chloroform while wearing masks like hockey-playing killers or Mexican wrestlers. Funny Man insists several members of the band have actual criminal records, which is why they found it hard to get into Canada. “They don’t take that shit lightly up there,” he says. “They don’t allow DUIs, drug charges, any sort of criminal charges. If they see it and you don’t have any documents saying, ‘It’s OK, you’re here for work, blah blah blah,’ they will not allow you in. Luckily we have a lawyer who files all these documents for us to make sure that we get across, that we don’t have any trouble. They give us a hard time as is, but it’s always a fuckin’ pain in the arse and it always costs a lot of money.” He’s sanguine about the trouble with the authorities they’ve had on tour, however. “That’s our own fault because

we’re idiots. We’re just a bunch of degenerates.” To illustrate that fact, Funny Man tells a story about giving half a prescription sleeping pill to an unnamed bandmate on a plane, and the trouble it caused. “He woke up in his sleep, started sleepwalking into the galley and he started pissing everywhere. He had no recollection of it whatsoever. As the flight attendants are telling him, ‘Dude, you just pissed all over the galleyway, what are you doing?’ he’s just like, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about, that wasn’t me.’ It turned into a huge argument. Then when we landed, I forget where, we had a layover somewhere in Australia, and the TSA and all the cops were waiting at the gate for him. He got in some trouble; we had to talk all the cops into letting him go and all that stuff. It got pretty hectic but it was pretty funny. I guess it was my fault for giving him that little sleeping pill.” There’s one odd fact in the catalogue of bad behaviour that makes up the Hollywood Undead biography. Back in 2009, they toured with Sonny Moore, the man who would become famous as Skrillex, in the period when he’d left hardcore band From First To Last and put together a new group called Sonny and The Blood Monkeys, but before he’d surprised everyone by switching from angry mall-punk to world-conquering electronic music. “He grew up with us,” says Funny Man, a fellow LA native. “We’ve known that kid for a long time. He started this band and we picked him up and as he was touring with us he was writing all that music for Skrillex, and then next thing you know he’s fuckin’ Mr. Skrillex. It was cool, man, it was fun. That tour we did, he did a cover of Fuck Tha Police by N.W.A and I heard

it the first night and I got stoked, then he asked if I wanted to come up onstage and sing it with him every night.” Funny Man cites N.W.A as a formative influence, along with the rest of the ‘90s hip hop boom, like WuTang Clan and Snoop Dogg. “All that, man. That was what I listened to. It was certainly nice having older cousins growing up who knew what was up, stealing their mixtapes and listening to them in my bedroom, getting yelled at by my parents for listening to all those cuss words. Look at me now – I talk about pussy, weed and butthole all day, every day, dawg.” There’s a sour note in that fulfilling life of his, however. The members of Hollywood Undead all redesign their masks for each album, and Funny Man’s current design, a black lucha libre mask with “FM” written in gold – an

accessory he wears at every show and sees on kids in the audience who know all the words – doesn’t have any meaning for him. “It’s just a mask that covers my face,” he says bitterly. “You know what’s funny is, I regret doing that one, because after a while I started not feeling it anymore; I just went back to my old mask and [I’ve] been using that one. I learnt my lesson for this next cycle to make something that I’ll appreciate more and want to wear. Not be so bummed out about it.”

wasn’t the world’s happiest time when the band went into recording, particularly given Fallon had just divorced his wife of ten years. Fallon now speaks of the experience as being cathartic. Levine’s take on it is there’s an opportunity for air-clearing every time you play, not just when you record. “Yeah, I think that every artistic experience is cathartic,” muses Levine. “It’s always an escape from everyday life. Making music has absolutely always been my release and escape.” As unlikely as it’d be, if the whole thing ever goes to shit for Levine, he’s got a job to fall back on: Levine’s a barber. “Yeah, I started out by cutting my own hair

when I was a teenager, because I didn’t like how anyone else was cutting it,” he chortles. “I’ll cut people’s hair now when we’re on tour. I was thinking about setting up a barber shop too, but I haven’t had time to get around to that yet. I have set up my own clothing label though, which is kind of barber-shop inspired. It has that essence and vibe of how men used to dress.” Cool.

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD play Soundwave Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at Flemington Racecourse. Tickets through the festival website.

the GASLIGHT ANTHEM

By Meg Crawford

Alex Levine, The Gaslight Anthem’s bassist, is in a New Orleans casino playing poker and on a winning streak – he’s 1000 bucks up when his arse is dragged away from the table for this interview. Um, is now the best time? Really? All things considered, Levine’s pretty affable about the interruption. It raises an interesting question though. The Gaslight Anthem’s frontman Brian Fallon is famous, or maybe infamous, for not boozing and getting high – he even goes to church. Given we’ve just pulled Levine out of a gambling den, is he on the opposite end of the partying spectrum? The answer is no: in fact, the whole band have cleaned up their act. “I got sober in recent history,” Levine says candidly. “I’ve cooled down a lot – I’ve got a family now. In fact, the whole of The Gaslight Anthem have kicked drugs and alcohol to the back seat.” Same as the Boss, The Gaslight Anthem were born out of New Jersey. Keeping in tight with the locals, Springsteen’s even joined them on stage a few times. Levine describes the moment as the biggest ‘holy fuck’ moment in his career. “It was like being blasted out of a fucking rocket ship,” Levine hoots. “He was suddenly there and it was like, ‘How the fuck did this happen?’ That one is going to be hard to top.” Even though Fallon’s voice is not dissimilar to Springsteen’s, traditionally the band sat more on the punk side of the fence. With that in mind, it makes sense The Clash holds a special place in The Gaslight Anthem’s heart. Even now, Levine holds Joe Strummer aloft as his number one singer/songwriter and veritably perks up with the mention of his name. “My father was into The Clash,” he recalls fondly. “He actually got to see The Clash and The Who at the Chase Stadium in New York back in the ‘80s. I just pretty immediately fell in love with everything about them – their style, their songs, their vibe, what they conveyed. Man, they are the greatest rock band ever. They’re always going to be an influence on us – it’s always going to be there, because they were a huge part of the reason that we wanted to play music in the first place.” Thinking about the band’s beginnings, Fallon’s been BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42

known to say a sense of frightened urgency kick started the outfit and Levine doesn’t disagree. “We all had very humble beginnings,” he recalls. “None of us had a real way out, other than for doing this. We all fell on the same page – this was what we really wanted to do and we really wanted to make it. We weren’t necessarily the most talented, but we were certainly driven – it’s an important part of success.” Going back to The Clash, one of the things Levine admires about Strummer was his ability to evolve. Guided by this ethos, there’s been a musical change in tack with Get Hurt, the band’s fifth studio album. It’s still very recognisably The Gaslight Anthem, but it’s different to prior releases – it’s more straight down the line rock’n’roll, no whiff of punk and the band have even gone a bit country on Red Violins. This shouldn’t be surprising - Fallon once said unless you invented a unique sound like the Ramones, you’ve gotta change at some point. “Well, that was a wise call,” laughs Levine. “I wish I’d said it - because you do have to adapt. It’s tough if you’re just regurgitating the same stuff and it’s not rewarding creatively.” Part of what helped the band mix it up on Get Hurt was working with producer Mike Crossey – they sought him out specifically on the basis chances of him disagreeing with the band were high. Is that a weird call, picking someone with whom you’re destined to butt heads? Or was it because they had suffered previously at the hands of yes men? “I wouldn’t say that we’ve worked with yes men before,” Levine demurs. “We definitely wanted to work with someone this time who had a different style from us though. We’d never really explored before what it would be like to record with someone who wasn’t focused on the singer/songwriter aspect – Mike’s more focused on the sound and how it’s recorded and we wanted to have some fun with that.” We’re glad there was some fun to be had, because it

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PUNK, SKA, HARDCORE NEWS, REVIEWS & GOSSIP

By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com What a time to be alive! LA pop punk veterans The Dickies will tour Australia for the first time next year. The Dickies boast being the first west coast punk band to bring the ruckus to a major label and the first to go to Europe. They’ll chuck some east coast shows next April, hitting the Evelyn Hotel on Thursday April 16 with Nursery Crimes. Tickets are up for grabs from Friday onwards. Music and coffee go hand in hand right? Right! Adelaide-based indie label Hobbledehoy (responsible for bringing you jams from This Will Destroy You, Ceres and more) are teaming up with coffee makers Monastery to present a coffee collaboration. They’re selling some beans on their online store that boast the same ethos as Hobbledehoy Records, which is: “Putting the artist/producer at the centre of how we do things…respecting the people involved at every stage from planting to production.” Side One Dummy have launched a 24-hour online radio station called The Basement. Dudes are getting tech savvy hey? They’re playing ‘round the clock selections of indie/alt/punk for your ears and there’re some specialty programs including Mornings In The Basement where label co-owner Joe Sib will host the bizniz. Sounds good! Pinch Hitter are hitting the road in support of their debut album When Friends Die In Accidents (oof, rough title). Make sure you see them at The Reverence on Saturday November 29 with Jamie Hay and Linc le Fevre, or head to the house show at The Milk bar on Sunday November 30 with Linc le Fevre and Lucy Wilson. Violent Soho are going regional this summer, ensuring the good vibes are spread beyond the big smoke. They’re hitting venues in Albany, Shepparton, Geelong and Port Macquarie (to name a few). They’ve just announced that they’re bringing Melbourne favourites Ceres along with them on every single date. Huzzah! They’ve scheduled a sneaky 170 Russell show in for us

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METAL, HEAVY ROCK. CLASSIC ROCK LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOOD SHIT

With Peter Hodgson: crunchcolumn@gmail.com Thursday October 23: Dropbears, Hands Of Hope, Incentives, Arcadian,

Harbour The Hostage at The Bendigo Friday October 24:

The Meanies, Batpiss, Clowns, Flour at The Hi-Fi Sons Of Rico, Miss Elm at The Gasometer Witchgrinder, Spaulding at Your Break

Spinning Rooms, The Burning Sea, Halt Ever, The Kremlings at The Old Bar

Dead, Meat Cake, Yachtburner, Die Cut at The Reverence

Cabin Fever, Postal, Kodiak Throat, Organ Donor, Bombs Ove Brunswick, Lion Fight at The Bendigo Saturday October 25: Prepared Like A Bride, Graves, Trainwreck, Griver

at Central Club

Creepshow Festival at The Espy

Electrik Dynamite, Bury The Fallen, Athenas Wake at Bang

Sunday October 26: Prepared Like A Bride, I Valiance, Hunt The Haunted, Alpha Wolf at Phoenic Youth Centre

Darren Gibson, Linc le Fevre, Grace Lawry at The Reverence

city folk on Friday November 28 but that shit is sold out already so go suss a Bendigo gig on Wednesday November 26 at Star Bar. Garn.

MAR MORTUUM STREAM NEW TRACK

NEW SEGRESSION OUT NOW

Pop this one in the calendar: Mar Mortuum release their new album Nihilistic Advance via Impure Sounds on Friday December 12. To launch the album they’ll be hitting the stage with Dead River Runs Dry (NSW/ QLD), Adamus Exul and Wood of Suicides at The Tote on Friday December 12, too. The title track of the new album is now available to stream from the Impure Sounds Facebook page.

My soundtrack as I’m writing this week’s column is the brutal new Segression album, Painted In Blood. It’s their first newie in three years, and is frigging massive. In addition to the already solid lineup of axe men Michael Katselos, Sven Sellin and enigmatic front man Chris Rand, the album features new drummer Adam Bunnell. And it’s a huge, world-class-sounding slab of metal, and the band are special guests on international metal legends Prong’s highly anticipated debut tour of Australia this November.

BENDIGO HOTEL: SMASHING IT AS USUAL

DEVIN TOWNSEND THIS WEEK

Some killer stuff coming up at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood this week. Thursday October 23: Dropbears, Hands Of Hope, Incentives, Arcadian and Harbour The Hostage. Friday October 24: Cabin Fever [CD Launch], Postal [NSW], Kodiak Throat, Organ Donor, Bombs Over Brunswick and Lion Fight. Saturday October 25: Eshkaton, The Nihilistic Front, Voidchrist and Hexreign. And Sunday October 26: Ne Obliviscaris Citadel listening party at 1pm.

CELEBRATE KISS AT CHERRY

Melbourne glam-rock psychobilly, heavy metal monsters Thunderstag return to Cherry Bar on Saturday October (Stagtober) 25 to help celebrate the 40th Anniversary or the KISS album Hotter Than Hell. Also an all-star line-up of some of Melbourne’s most infamous rockers will be playing Hotter Than Hell plus the first KISS album in their entirety.

SLEEP IN DECEMBER

Devin Townsend’s Australian master class tour for Thump Music is at St Kilda Town Hall this Wednesday October 22), where you’ll be able to get up close and personal with Devin hear him talk about guitar, production and vocals. He’ll be taking questions too, and promises to hang around afterwards to say hello. “It gives me an opportunity to dig into some of the things I’ve wanted to share with people,” he says. “I’ve spent a long time making records and I’ve kinda gotten to this point recently where it’s like, shit, now it’s time to step it up and get other people to start taking over. I think it’s an opportunity as well not only guitar-wise but production-wise, vocal-wise, recording techniques and questions, essentially. I’ve found recently that a lot of people have a lot of questions about production and I think an opportunity to do this is a forum for me to share some of that with people.” Devin’s new album, Z2, will be released on Friday October 31 but there will be a limited number of advance copies available for sale at the clinic.

US Doom/Stoner legends Sleep (featuring High On Fire’s Matt Pike) are here later this year for the Meredith Music Festival and they’ll also be playing some of their own shows. They’ll be at The Corner Hotel on Saturday December 6 and Sunday December 7, and tickets are on sale now.

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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22

TRIVIA AT THE VIC HOTEL

Every Wednesday the Victoria Hotel is offering a free evening of trivia where you can win booze just for knowing things about stuff. Test your wits and prove to your friends you have gathered more useless information than they have in the span of your life. It starts at 7pm on Wednesday, October 22. Get ya trivia on!

ELLA’S HIGH

Ella’s High are playing The Bendigo Hotel on Wednesday, October 22. The Melbourne-based grunge band draw influences from the Seattle scene in the ‘90s and other great bands from that era contrasting with music ranging from heavy beats and bass to screaming vocals. Supporting them on the night will be Holyoake and Little Miss Remembering. Doors open at 8pm.

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Time to spice up your Wednesday nights with some gypsy jazz music. Ruby’s music room is playing host to a gypsy manouche swing group. Come check it out. Doors open at 7pm, $15 entry. Wednesday October 22 at Ruby’s music room.

THE VENDETTAS

Each Wednesday in October, The Vendettas are playing a slot at Melbourne’s favourite rock’n’roll drinking hole, Cherry Bar. This week support comes from the very talented Chris Altmann plus The Jacks. Doors open from 6pm with bands kicking around from 9pm. DJ Mermaid will be spinnin’ all your most loved tracks till 3am. $5 entry, this Wednesday October 22 at Cherry Bar.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 23

Melbourne folk act Flash Company will be bringing their signature sweet, close harmonies to The Retreat Hotel with a Wednesday residency in October. Weaving together beautifully penned original songs with folk ballads from Australia and Ireland, Flash Company sing back across the years and out across the oceans to create a distinctly Australian sound. They’ve recently expanded their duo to include Elise Winterflood on double bass, and will be joined by special guest musicians throughout the month. They’ll be on at 8.30pm on Wednesday, October 22.

DUMB PUNTS

Your mates Dumb Punts are hitting The Gasometer in Collingwood this October for a bunch of mid-week, mad-dog, mates-rates music. They’ve wrangled all their favourite bands who like them enough to come play some tunes to help snap you outta your midweek slump. Come smash a frothy with Dumb Punts, Fermunted and special guests, Wednesday October 22. $6 from 8pm.

ROXY LAVISH AND THE SUICIDE CULT

Roxy Lavish and the Suicide Cult are bringing their raucous brand of helter skelter blues to Bar Open for a rare headline show on Thursday, October 23. The show is a lead-up to the launch of the band’s debut album, Join Us Or Die Alone. Supports for the evening are the excellent Ghost Towns of the Midwest and The Family Thorax. Doors open at 9pm.

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WILDING

Wilding is the project of songwriter Justin Wilding Stokes whose music is a joyous blast of beat-pop that sounds like the missing evolutionary link between Merseybeat and Madchester. He will be playing with his full band and previewing songs from his forthcoming second album. Catch him at 10.20pm at The Retreat hotel on Thursday, October 23 with The Zebras and James Teague.

MICHAEL PLATER

Having played in various bands in Queensland and Melbourne, Michael Plater began playing solo in 2005. Taking in various indie, artrock, Americana, and noir influences, his music has been compared to the likes of The Velvet Underground, The Triffids, Nick Cave, Tindersticks, Joy Division, Rowland Howard, Iggy Pop, and The Go-Betweens. See him at The Drunken Poet on Thursday, October 23 at 7pm.

CYNDI BOSTE

Cyndi Boste wears her heroes influences, and her heart on her sleeve on her latest release Nowadays. It’s been seven long years since her last album, the critically acclaimed Foothill Dandy. Seven years of personal turmoil, loss, self doubt and a deep desire to just stop for awhile and take stock. However, like all great artists, the black coal of life fuelled the crucible of creation and Cyndi began to write again. Her creations not just songs, but gems. Cyndi will be playing at The Post Office Hotel with Peter Fidler this Thursday October 23. Music from 8pm.

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This Thursday, head down to The Brunswick Hotel to catch local four-piece Little Miss Remembering. Fresh off the release of their debut EP, the boys will be setting the Brunny stage alight alongside pub rockers Offspring of Convicts, the giant sound of A Very Small Band, and the soulful harmonies and killer groove of The Elliotts. DJ Lil Rossco will be spinnin’ tracks late into the night. Thursday October 23 at The Brunswick Hotel.

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PERCH CREEK

Perch Creek are a band of five energetic multiinstrumentalists and vocalists, four of whom happen to be siblings. This Melbourne-based band play harmonic music with a creative energy and fearless spirit that sparkles with imagination and individuality. Perch Creek, who have appeared everywhere from ABC’s Spicks & Specks to The Sydney Opera House, as well as extensive tours and major festival appearances across Australia, Europe and the UK, stand to be counted with their new album Jumping On The Highwire. The band consistently delivers unforgettable, high-energy shows - at moments haunting, but ultimately uplifting. Catch them on Friday, October 24 at the Substation. Tickets are $27 on door, kicks off at 8pm.

MEAT CAKE

Sydney’s Meat Cake are making their way down to Melbourne for a few shows and The Reverence is very lucky to have them. Featuring members of Front End Loader and Midget & Grand Fatal, Meat Cake will melt faces with their stoner rock belters. Supporting them will be doom/hardcore/stoner lords Yachtburner, and the new, goth inspired punk band Die Cut. The night kicks off at 8pm on Friday, October 24, and it’ll cost $10 at the door. Seriously, don’t miss this one.

THE MEANIES

25 years is a long time for anything to last really but especially a punk rock band in the uncertain world of music. The Meanies have somehow weathered many a storm to still be not only around but more relevant now than ever before. To celebrate, these punk rock legends are embarking on The Meanies Silver Jubilee Tour 2014, 25 Years Young & Relevant. Also for the Meanies 25th anniversary, Tym Records are releasing, remastered on limited edition wax, the re-issue of the Meanies Never / Steve Sex God / Sorry ‘Bout The Violence 7” on glorious coloured vinyl with the original artwork and insert and something special, as if it needed it. The Meanies are playing The Hi Fi in Melbourne, Friday October 24 with Batpiss, Clowns and Flour.

GP Saxy, former trumpeter of Seun Kuti & Fela Kuti’s, internationally renowned Afrobeat orchestra, Egypt 80, has created his own recipe. Alárìíyá is hot out of the oven and ready to serve traditional Nigerian Afrobeat. Nigeria’s multi-talented GP Saxy (Olugbade Okunade), mastered his trumpet and song arrangement skills with the band that originally served Afrobeat to the world. Join Alárìíyá and GP Saxy for their official Melbourne launch party with support from Lachlan Cross Gets Danceable. Friday, October 24 at Bar Open. $10 entry, doors from 9pm.

MIGHTIEST OF GUNS

Mightiest of Guns are bringing their dark, slacker country to The Retreat Hotel this Friday, October 24. Their gritty, raucous songs are inspired by desperation, drunkenness and cruelty. Their debut EP Strangebirds was released in September 2013 to a sold-out crowd at Fitzroy’s The Old Bar. It received airplay on PBS and RRR and has seen Mightiest of Guns cross state borders, tour Regional Victoria and join various festivals. Joining them will be three-piece garage rock’n’roll band The Yard Apes. They douse their audiences with buckets of spring reverb, fuzzy freak outs, songs of angst, self-destruction and other goofy things like zombies and eating monkey brains. These guys have been twanging around for close to five years now, and are getting better with age. Get ready to shake and get loose at The Retreat Hotel on Friday, October 24 at 9.30pm. See you at the bar.

THE ADELAIDE CROWS

On the cusp of releasing their second EP, The Adelaide Crows have dropped their latest single Little Heart and are celebrating with a shindig at the beloved Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford on Friday, October 24. The BOM have predicted a 90% chance of Hawaiian shirts, so their buddies Surfing in Hawaii are joining in on the aural pleasure explosion. They’ll be on at 8.30pm, entry’s free.

attitude, has seen the band supporting some of Australia’s finest including Darkc3ll, Witchgrinder and King Parrot. Catchy rhythms, thumping bass lines, passive-aggressive drum beats and gnarled vocals create a musical roller-coaster, the likes of which will have you terrified yet wanting to experience again and again. Catch ‘em at The Espy on Saturday, October 25. They’ll be on at 5.45pm.

PONY GIRL & THE OUTSIDERS

Melbourne rockers Pony Girl & The Outsiders have been kickin’ around Melbourne and Sydney since 2008. In 2011 they released their debut album, Rebel Rebel. A whole lotta gigs later, the band released their double A side single No Big Deal/Three Words and are currently playing and promoting their latest EP, Throw. You can check them out at the Prince of Wales with Uptown Ace and Escape Goats, Friday October 24. Free entry from 8pm.

FOURPLAY

FourPlay String Quartet return from wowing audiences at New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Barbican Centre with their new album, This Machine – the next step in the evolution of the string quartet as songwriters. Australia’s favourite electric string quartet began life playing mostly covers. This Machine is their first album of 100% original material, and arguably their finest, most intriguing long-player to date. Catch them in Melbourne at Caravan Club Friday October 24 or at The Toff In Town, Saturday October 25.

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SPAULDING

Spaulding is the four-piece horror-punk/metal outfit from Warrnambool, Victoria. The band’s mish-mash concoction of thrashy punk mentality, modern and traditional metal styles and a very tongue in cheek

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CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS

After an incredible 18 months following the release of their critically acclaimed LP The Hypnotiser, Cash Savage And The Last Drinks announce a handful of select, hometown shows including a set at Howler this Saturday, October 25. The Hypnotiser, an incredible work of depth, sorrow, love and tragedy racked up an EG Award Song Of The Year nomination for lead single I’m In Love, and was also one of the Top 25 Highly Recommended albums on the Coopers AMP Music Prize list. Tickets are $18+BF through the venue’s website.

THE SOLICITORS

The Solicitors are a Melbourne based new-wave band that combine an English songwriter with an American guitarist. The band have been likened to a modern version of popular late ‘70s artists such as The Knack, Elvis Costello & Joe Jackson, but their sound is unmistakably their own and tailored to the modern world. They have just released a new clip for their single If You Let Me Hold You. They launch their new album Blank Check at The Gasometer Hotel Saturday, October 25. Tickets are $13 on the door.

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KAT ORGANVY

The Taste of Indie Collective will be dishing up a huge serving of live local original music at Tago Mago on Saturday, October 25 from 7pm onwards featuring indie grunge madam Kat Organvy, lead vocalist and guitarist from Kill TV. Supporting her are new Tassie importy Rod Fritz, and the always brilliant trio Acoustic Foxx doing their indie rock thang. Get down to Tago Mago this Saturday October 25.

KISS TRIBUTE ANNIVERSARY

Rock out at Cherry Bar on Saturday, October 25 for their 40th anniversary tribute show to the almighty Kiss, with all-star support from the fantastic Thunderstag and a jam packed lineup to follow. Tickets are $20 from the venue’s website, or $25 on the door if available. Doors open at 8pm. Don’t miss this.

STEVE SEDERGREEN

Open to all musicians wishing to further boost their performance abilities in a supportive, non-threatening environment under the guidance of the great Steve Sedergreen. The workshops intend to focus on the interactional, deep-listening aspects of music performance. Doors open at 2pm, $15 entry. Saturday October 26 at Ruby’s Music Room.

HUGO RACE AND TRUE SPIRIT

The True Spirit is a loose, freewheeling fraternity of like-minded free spirits with a shared love of psychedelic rock and roots music. Their irreverent experimentalism has fleshed out Hugo Race’s music onstage and in studio for over twenty years. Hugo and True Spirit are launching a new album in 2015, their first in seven years, and are regrouping at Melbourne’s Spotted Mallard on Saturday, October 25 to present onstage, new material and vintage hits. Supporting them will be Howl at the Moon. Get down from 9.30pm.

DYSFUNXIA

This Saturday Dysfunxia are taking over the stage at The Brunny. Joining them will be local legends Don’t Cry Wolf, Sordid Ordeal and Kung Fu Monday. Come on down for a lot of beers and enjoy the good times! It all kicks off from 9pm, Saturday October 25 at The Brunswick Hotel.

THIS WAY NORTH

This Way North started as a few jams between Leisha Jungalwalla ( Jungal) and Cat Leahy (Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel and the Rolling Wheel, Benny Walker), after the pair met touring with their respective bands in Canada 2012 and 2013. Blending Leisha’s crunchy slide dirty swamp rock guitar sounds with Cat’s instinctive groove drumming, these two experienced musos match their instruments and sounds perfectly, creating a new blend of slammin’ rock pop with a little psych grunt thrown in. Catch them Saturday October 25 at The Retreat Hotel from 8pm. Free entry.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 26

DARREN GIBSON

Darren Gibson brings his honest and nostalgic stories to The Reverence Hotel each and every Sunday in October. He’s now a regular performer at The Reverence, though you may have caught him previously at The Arthouse. Grab a beer, order some tacos and enjoy some free music before you start your working week. He’ll start at 3pm on Sunday, October 26.

THE STETSON FAMILY

The Stetson Family are part of the new generation who respectfully tip their hats to Americana, bluegrass and folk, whilst delivering a fresh twist on these timeless sounds. They’re said to be more Old Crow Medicine Show and Gillian Welch than Del, Jimmy or Bill. Their original songs are filled with lush harmonies and their stories take the listener on a journey down life’s often-joyous and sometimes-crooked highways. The band achieved international recognition in 2013 with their independently-released album, O Winding River, charting in the USA, spending time in the #1 spot on the Top 50 Bluegrass-Folk albums. They’ll be at The Drunken Poet on Sunday, October 26 at 4pm.

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TUESDAY OCTOBER 28

GREENTHIEF

Greenthief are a three-piece psychedelic grunge band who have crashed the indie scenester party with their unique take on rock. They’ll be tearing up the Cherry Bar stage with support from the brilliant Qlaye Face, Slim, Reaper and Moonshifter. The night kicks off at 6pm at Cherry Bar. Entry’s free, Tuesday October 28.

KIM VOLKMAN

After a splendid debut, Rockabilly Sundays is back again at Prince Of Wales Public Bar for the remainder of October. Kim Volkman will be the opening each band at around 5pm and The Mighty Kings will welcome the dusk with their mix of rockabilly and party. Heels On Decks DJs impress punters with their incredible selection of classic rock’n’roll. Come down on Sunday, October 26 at 4pm. Entry’s free.

LOW SPEED BUS CHASE

Finish off your weekend with a rockin’ lineup of local bands at The Brunny on a fine Sunday evening. Kicking things off are emerging pop-punkers Half The Sky, taking over will be crowd loving, pop rock outfit The Spitting Swallows and finishing off your evening are melodic rockers Low Speed Bus Chase. It’s free entry from 8pm. Sunday October 26 at The Brunswick Hotel.

MONDAY OCTOBER 27

LOU REED ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE

Check out a jam packed lineup of brilliant musicians at Cherry Bar this Monday, October 27 as they pay tribute to the ever talented Lou Reed on the first anniversary of his death. Those paying homage to the music legend

GOATPISS GASOLINE

Van Walker joins forces with Mailtand guitar prodigy Hank Elwood and Dave ‘The Suit’ Watkins in Goatpiss Gasoline – the bastard brothers of such acts as Three Kings and Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk – houserockin’ electrified blues boogie with no bass and plenty of piss and vinegar. Combining the irresistible killer slide of Elmore James and the down home toothless boogie of Jimmy Reed, Goatpiss Gasoline are natural good time music who flirt with a wine stained shirt and understand that simplicity is a virtue. They kick off at 7.30pm at The Reverence Hotel on Tuesday, October 28.

AUTONOMY AND DELIBERATION

Marcus, lead singer of Melbourne band The UV Race, is trying to get the band back together after gambling misfortunes ruined everything. Johann Rashid’s directorial debut combines lo-fi footage, obscure humour and endearing characters. The film also features plenty of Melbourne musician cameos, including members from School of Radiant Living, The Twerps, Boomgates, Total Control, Lost Animal, Dick Diver and Woollen Kits. Howler will be screening the film of Tuesday October 28. Tickets are $15+BF through the venue’s website.

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HELLO WEEN

Super Rock and Roll Party are here to present Hello Ween. Who doesn’t love Ween? With a career spanning over 30 years, the experimental rock band has delivered multiple epic albums to keep you dancing all night long! Come and help celebrate this eclectic, hilarious and thoroughly enjoyable band this Halloween, with Melbourne’s favourite Ween tribute band smashing ear holes for the fourth year running. This team of Ween aristocrats will be shredding all the classics with two mammoth sets of all your favorite songs from 1984 to 2014. Supported by Josh Cashman at Bar 303 in Northcote. Doors at 8pm, $5 entry. Friday October 31 at Bar 303. Dress up in your favorite Ween costume for extra fun!

WINTER MOON

From humble beginnings as an acoustic duo, to the rolling thunder rock revue they now command, Winter Moon have marked their progress to date as anything but ordinary. Finally delivering on the promise of their legendary live shows, the band’s debut EP Lucid Dreaming serves up five songs of raucous blues pop rock, with fat bass grooves sliced up by searing guitar work and those striking vocals. Winter Moon are set to launch their long awaited debut EP with two blistering launch gigs in Melbourne and Sydney. Catch them when they headline Yah Yahs’ annual Halloween extravaganza, Friday October 31. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46

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TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES

MELODY MOON

Fresh from a whirlwind of gigs around the country, local Melody Moon will be bringing her folk-indie sounds to The Retreat Hotel as part of her Down to the Sea album launch tour. The rising folkstress is having a new wave of success with her debut album and receiving national radio airplay. She’ll be kicking off the Melbourne Cup long weekend with an early show at The Retreat, Saturday, November 1 from 5pm.

TONI CHILDS

The Substation is proud to announce American singersongwriter Toni Childs will be performing a special one night only concert in Melbourne’s west. As an Emmyaward winner and multiple platinum album artist, Childs first burst onto the charts in 1988 with her debut single Don’t Walk Away from her Grammy-nominated album Union, and officially entered the collective pop-rock consciousness. With a string of iconic hits including Stop Your Fussin’, Don’t Walk Away, House of Hope, Many Rivers to Cross, and the hugely popular I’ve got to Go Now; be sure to book early for this memorable evening. Get down to The Substation on Saturday, November 1 at 7.30pm. Tickets are $27 on door.

BEN OTTEWELL

As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well-known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering and inspired guitar solos. With a newly-recorded album of songs for his second solo project, Rattlebag, Ottewell is set to return on the road, performing his new music at The Substation on Monday, November 3. Tickets are $32 on door, the show starts at 8pm.

MAYFAIR KYTES

Melbourne five-piece Mayfair Kytes are launching their brand new single Seasonal Thaw from their forthcoming EP Animus at the Gasometer Hotel on November 1. The debut single from the Matt Kelly and Austin Busch fronted outfit features players from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, as well as Simon Mavin and Paul Bender from Hiatus Kaiyote. Their music incorporates elements of folk, jazz, chamber music and post-rock all tied together by tightly layered and interlocking vocal hooks and ‘60s-inspired harmony arrangements. Tickets to this special show are available now from Oztix.

Tex Perkins has shown us many faces over the journey. Frontman for the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea and the hard edged pub rock of The Beasts of Bourbon, collaborator on the Tex, Don and Charlie outings, compadre to Tim Rogers on the TnT project and more recently fronting the rock band The Ape, Tex is now back once again to the mysterious moody groove of The Dark Horses, returning this October/November with a select run of tour dates in support. Catch him at The Thornbury Theatre on Cup Eve, Monday November 3. Tickets are available through the venue.

ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENIKS

It’s almost that time of year when The Melbourne Cup holiday comes galloping into view. Which means sunshine, champers and reckless betting plunges preceded by the sure thing that is Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks’ third annual Spring Rockin’ Carnival . Combine all your guilty pleasures at once during the most decadent week on the calendar. Not only expect to hear songs of place from his latest I Come In Peace CD like Fishin’ on a Rainy Day and Land of Contentment, but reworkings of classics like Living In The Land Of Oz and maybe even the Wilson produced Skyhooks classic anthem Carlton. It’s all set to go down at The Yarraville Club, Monday November 3. Doors for dinner and show at 7pm, show only at 8.30pm. Tickets available through the venue.

THE BLACKEYED SUSANS

The Blackeyed Susans need little introduction to Melbourne audiences. Their moody songs and opshop stylings are a beloved part of the firmament of Australian music and every show they play is a memorable event. They have toured the world, played with the likes of Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen and released countless albums and beautiful music. Their acclaimed shows have been staged in sold-out seasons across Australia and Europe with this concert being no exception. Catch them at The Substation Friday November 7. Doors open at 7.30pm.

LIZ STRINGER

Songs That Made Me is becoming an institution. Katie Noonan gathers together three other female singers to perform songs that chart their lives. Last years show was hugely entertaining and touching. Don’t miss out. Liz Stringer is one hell of a guitarist. She is launching her live CD/DVD recorded at The Yarra Hotel on Friday November 14 at The Thornbury Theatre.

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CHARGING STALLIONS

Some bands make great music that’s filled with deep meanings, beautiful melodies and a greater understanding of life. Charging Stallion is not one of these bands, instead they play a weird mixture of dumb pub rock with catchy comedy lyrics. Tim and Cam are the bands frontmen and are backed by some of Melbourne’s finest, with members from Drunk Mums, WOD and Dumb Punts. Thursday November 6 at The Toff in Town is the blokes first ever single launch and after building up their rep over the last year as a good live act, this one is shaping up to be a banger! Their single is called Eddie McGuire and is a predatory love song about the big man himself. Supporting will be Skegss, Dumb Punts and Kinloch Troons. And how did the Charging Stallion lads get involved with Dan Watt (Watt’s On Presents)? I’ll give you a couple of clues: Wet On Wellington and a rock climbing harness. $10 entry or you can save $2 and get a presale through the venue.

FIVE MILE SNIPER

From the remnants of Motor Ace, Prettymess, Icecream Hands and P76 comes Five Mile Sniper. Recorded on a vintage 1972 Teac mixing console at Mountain Sound Studio at the foot of Hanging Rock, the Melbourne indie-rock outfit are launching their single Gone at The Workers Club on Friday November 7. Gone is taken from Five Mile Sniper’s forthcoming album The Sound of Silence due for release early 2015. Music starts from 9pm. Tickets on sale now.

Sydney-based indie-rock songsmith Francisco’s Fortune has just released his debut single Magnetic Lines, and is preparing to stun audiences along the east coast with a run of tour dates. Francisco’s Fortune is the indie-rock brainchild of Sydney-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, Manik Mayadunne. Mayadunne began writing, performing and recording songs in his bedroom as a teenager with a guitar in one hand and a trumpet in the other. With a new alias came a new chapter of melodies and lyrics, and Mayadunne teamed up with ARIA-nominated sound engineer and producer, Lachlan Mitchell, to capture them in his first professional studio tracks at Jungle Studios in Sydney. Catch him in the Melbourne leg of the tour at The Penny Black, Sunday November 23. Free entry.

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HAILEY CRAMER It’s pretty tough sometimes when all you want to do is create and perform your music but in order to get your music ‘out there’ you have to create performance opportunities and outlets for your music to be heard. How do you hope to benefit from the 2014 AWME in regards to your career in the music industry? I hope to develop international connections so that I can build my profile overseas in order to reach beyond the genre limits of the Australian music industry.

Tell us about your involvement in the 2014 Australasian Worldwide Music Expo. I will be performing at the Hi-Fi Bar alongside Hiatus Kaiyote, Myele Manzanza and Rita Satch on Saturday November 15. My five-piece band combine minimal, bass-driven electronic beats, accelerated by tasteful injections of live percussion and a blanket of lush vocal harmonies. 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? Everything. Without the business side of the music industry, we would all be bedroom musicians who never get to be heard outside those four walls.

What’s your number one unmissable AWME event this year? That’s a tough one! Well, besides my own gig, because that would be just silly to miss. I plan to see as much as physically possible but I definitely will be checking out Lois Baker and Estere. Give three reasons as to why you believe the AWME is a vital occasion for the national and international music industry. AWME is a great platform for showcasing talent we might otherwise not have the chance to discover. It’s melting pot of musicians and industry insiders that are brought together from around the world to connect. This coming together creates exciting career development opportunities for musicians trying to export their music and gain greater exposure in Australia. HAILEY CRAMER will be appearing at the Hi-Fi as a part of AWME Saturday November 15. Tickets through the AWME website.

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TUBA SkINNY Melbourne Festival Hub Friday October 17 In an age where you can find out what the members of your favourite band had for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the music of New Orleans still feels fantastically out of reach. New Orleans’ unique culture appears as something of a fictional reality. You can believe it exists, but such wondrous individuality seems to surpass the parameters of this dimension. New Orleans octet, Tuba Skinny, don’t toy around with a great deal of new material. They stick to the good stuff, traditional jazz and old blues tunes. These sounds are entrenched in history, so evoking that fantasy impression isn’t as simple as learning the notes and waiting for the cash to flow in. These eight NOLA residents have essentially implanted themselves in a bygone past. Time, however is a misleading concept. We were enshrouded in the magic of this moment, making notions of antiquity irrelevant. Tuba Skinny prove themselves to be adept players with a finely curated understanding of pre-rock’n’roll New Orleans. But in static 2D form it’s not quite a legendary phenomenon. On stage, the traditional New Orleans sounds were allowed to gather propulsive tactility. The eight players ± clarinet, cornet, trombone, banjo, guitar, tuba, washboard and vocals ± sat together in a semi circle, as if crowded around a campfire. The rhythmic momentum ± which came from washboard, tuba and a beaten bass drum ± didn’t drop during the 80 minutes stage time. The set was split 50-50 between instrumentals and songs featuring Erika Lewis’s enchanting vocals. Lewis’ vocals created such a time warp you were convinced they’d come spilling out of a rust-encrusted gramophone. Two thirds through, a local dance troupe assembled directly in front of the stage to perform choreographed swing dance routines during two songs. This was great, but it was slightly odd for everyone to stand still watching the dances, instead of seizing this invitation to let loose. Tuba Skinny seemed slightly bemused, perched high up on stage with a full room of idle punters. There was plenty to watch, so the crowd’s minimal motion didn’t indicate lack of enthusiasm, but this music belongs in a setting where everyone’s on the level, moving in unison with the creole stomp. The applause at the set’s conclusion however, spoke of tremendous appreciation; a sign people were infectiously moved by this alternate LOVED: The washboard. feel-good reality. HATED: Kirin, Kirin or Kirin?

Justin Townes Earle, Photo by Kane Hibberd

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Certain aspects of growing older are pretty excellent. Having the stamina to endure an all-day festival isn’t one of them, but the inaugural Out On The Weekend certainly wasn’t a skoll-a-bottle-of-spirits and rage-the-day-away kind of affair. A couple of thousand well-dressed punters made the trek out to what Henry Wagons would later describe as the evil side of the city. The big shed at Williamstown’s Seaworks housed two contiguous stages, offering alternating entertainment throughout the day. The atmosphere was casual, there were no disheartening security checks upon entry and the food and drink options weren’t just legitimately desirable, but also very decently priced ($5 for a tin of Melbourne). The festival’s name and artwork are pinched from Neil Young’s 1972 classic, Harvest. Accordingly, that album’s songs influenced Out On The Weekend’s curatorial decisions. One of many acts out here from Nashville; Jonny Fritz got the hoedown started early on. Fritz’s fairly conventional country narratives were spliced with inviting humour and crazy-uncle vocals. Fritz held down the beat on acoustic guitar, while Josh Hedley’s fiddle work added saloon-band dimension. Robert Ellis provided twanging lead guitar to a few tracks. His guest contribution was the first of several such instances of the day, which enhanced the festival’s familial warmth. Up next was Canadian-born Nashvillian, Lindi Ortega. She was joined by a blistering electric guitarist, which gave her interpretations of country a tad nastier edge than what features on her records. Ortega was most captivating when throwing herself into a gutsy vocal, but the set became a little same-y about two thirds through. Next we had Nikki Lane, who’d brought a whole band out for her first Australian visit. Lane piled on the sass, singing about getting stoned, having sex with strangers and basically advising, “It’s always the right time to do the wrong thing.” Her pop-rock dappled country isn’t utterly breathtaking, but it was essentially impossible not to like her. The highest billed Aussie of the day was Henry Wagons. While the blokes from Wagons (the band) were on stage with him, most of the setlist came from the Henry Wagons-billed mini album, Expecting Company. Mr. Wagons is a pillar of grotesque charisma and, in contrast to the rest of the lineup, his performance was an explosive rock spectacle. After some help from Jonny Fritz on Neil Young’s Are You Ready For the Country, several more guests (including Hedley and Emma Swift) jumped up for the set’s ultimate romp, Willie Nelson. It’s not a brilliant song, but good lord it was a lot of fun. After Wagons’ unflinching showmanship, Ryan Bingham’s cookie-cutter country rock was a little hard to chew. It seems as is the LA-based star is positioning himself for a Keith Urban-like ascent, and all power to him, but his set cut a little too close to the radio fodder that gives Nashville a bad name. Taking us home was proud Tennessee boy, Justin Townes Earle. Earle’s accounts of heartache and squalor, and his unpolished heart-out vocals, are capable of bringing an entire audience to its knees. Unfortunately, this evening he leant heavily on the mid-tempo tepidity of his latest release, Single Mothers. The keen detail of Mama’s Eyes and relaxed demeanor of Ain’t LOVED: There was no grass Waitin’ were highlights, but Earle didn’t quite climb to the climax a HATED: The craft beer supply ran headline set demands. out mid-afternoon AUGUSTUS wELBY Henry Wagons, Photo by Kane Hibberd

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DRANk: JD, with a side of MB.

DRANk: Kirin.

SOULFEST The Sidney Myer Music Bowl Sunday October 19 D’Angelo, Photo by David Harris

The announcement of the Soulfest line up some months ago sparked a surge of excitement through the Australian urban music scene. With that said, however, there was also a great amount of speculation as to whether everything would go ahead, or if the lineup would alter significantly before the due date, given the tumultuous history of urban festivals Down Under. Sydney goers had the misfortune of missing Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) due to a missed flight, and the no-show hit a nerve, with many Melburnians anxious he wouldn’t attend. Fortunately, we were the first city to get the complete line up as promised. Up first was Australian pop/funk/soul artist, Dru Chen, who warmed up a very thin crowd. By the time Leela James hit the stage, the audience was filling up. She gave a high energy performance, aided by her strong voice and stage presence. Performing some of her hits including Music, she had the audience standing up, dancing and admiring the epic spiral earrings she was sporting (adorned by an equally beautiful afro). Anthony Hamilton was the motif of the day. While James was onstage, he flitted around the backstage area dancing, and talking to people left and right. He was next and his performance drew inspirations from church gospel, and traditional Southern soul. Ain’t Nobody Worryin’ saw a surprise appearance by James, who picked up a tambourine and started jamming along. He was proceeded by Angie Stone, who took a slower momentum and really focused on her amazing vocals, covering soul greats including Curtis Mayfield. She finished with Wish I Didn’t Miss You and was greeted by James and Hamilton once she walked off stage. That was the underlying strength to the whole festival; all the artists’ shared a huge amount of mutual respect and love. Aloe Blacc offered his unique blend of vocals to a very appreciative crowd. He had a big band with a trumpet, saxophone, keyboardist, drummer and two guitarists. The audience was very responsive to his hits like I Need A Dollar and Wake Me Up, while more bona fide fans enjoyed You Make Me Smile and The Man. I was most anxious for D’Angelo. He’s one of my favourite artists and he’s also notoriously slippery when it comes to performances. His hiatus kicked in shortly after the release of his second studio album Voodoo in 2000, and since then performances have been rare. Coupled with various health and legal problems, many had decried the end of his career. His musical structure is what you may find at a more intimate venue, not a music festival. He played his songs long, with delicate bass murmurs, and layers of textures sourced from other instruments. He finished with Untitled (How Does It Feel), with a few audience members screaming for him to remove his shirt (in reference to the notorious film clip), but most remained respectful and let the guy perform, serving his incredible, raspy vocals. LOVED: D’Angelo. HATED: The turnover between sets. TAMARA VOGL DRANk: Water.

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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews THE BLURST OF TIMES Seaworks Maritime Precinct, Williamstown Sunday October 19 Velociraptor, Photo by Mark Stanjo

The Blurst of Times, besides having one of the best festival names ever, was held for the first time last year in Brisbane, showcasing some of the city’s best and brightest. This year the organisers decided to do it bigger and blurstier by expanding to include dates in Sydney and Melbourne – a ballsy move, especially considering the Brisbane-centric lineup and venue sizes. Held at the Seaworks Maritime Precinct in Williamstown, the Melbourne skyline veiled in a cloud of smog and the moored Sea Shepherd provided an interesting backdrop to the day’s events. Spread out over three stages, there was something admirably DIY about having these indie bands set up in the shipping warehouse, however all of the acts suffered from the sort of sound quality you could expect from erecting a PA in a giant tin shed. Melbourne’s Apes sounded great on the big stage with their big riffs, long tom rolls and Steve Tyler-ish raspy vocals. Maybe it was the early time slot but they felt a little reserved, I imagine they would be a lot of fun when they get a chance to get a bit looser and wilder. After solid sets by Damn Terran and Palms, The Ocean Party broke up the vibe a little their take on Australian guitar pop. Even though the lead vocals were shared equally among the five-piece, the sound was consistent, and they managed to be upbeat without being twee, their clean guitar jangle balanced with a dreamy synth. Jeremy Neale provided one of the afternoon’s highlights as he managed to uniquely blend elements of the Brisbane punk sound with a smoother indie-pop feel, some songs going more one way than the other. Capable when both screeching and crooning, Neale is also a natural frontman, and even though the crowd wasn’t large, by the time he hit set closer In Stranger Times he had them singing and dancing along. Drunk Mums’ bogan-punk shtick felt a little one dimensional, which is not a problem by itself but when it felt forced it made me wish I was seeing the pub rock bands from the ‘80s they are aping, (hello Cosmic Psychos). Harmony played a solid set and probably had the best sound of the night due to the basic nature of their instrumentation and lack of effects. Their dramatic use of the quiet/loud dynamic, while effective, made the songs feel pretty similar and the beauty versus brutality idea of having the female vocal trio involved worked most of the time, but also felt like two separate bands at points. Having appeared earlier as part of multi-armed behemoth Velociraptor, DZ Deathrays’ own set was the antithesis of that wall of guitar sound, with just the two instruments of drums and guitar mixed loud and heavy. Extra interest was added along the way with vocal and guitar effects, plus a second guitarist, but it was mainly down to the chemistry between Shane LOVED: The chance to quote the Parsons and Simon Ridley that makes them an exceptional band. Simpsons, followed by YouTube-ing Renowned for being a reliably great live act, the duo were the obvious said quote. headliners and did not disappoint. HATED: My decision to dress for “Soon these monkeys will have written the greatest novel known to summer despite living in Melbourne man,” – Mr Burns. since forever. ALEX WATTS

SEX ON TOAST Hugs & Kisses Thursday October 16 Photo by Ian Laidlaw

I heard the first of Sex on Toast (SoT) last Thursday through brick and plaster and am pleased to report they sound great if you happen to be stuck outside while they play inside. Semi-incidentally, finding Hugs & Kisses (Xoxo) is its own odyssey. Xoxo’s door is tucked away inside a brick alcove totally invisible from La Trobe Street, or even Lonsdale, depending on the side from which you’re approaching. You’re dealing with alleyways from whatever side, and real cobblestone bastards at that, so if you or your companions are wearing wedges of any intensity, you/they will have to de-wedge. Say you’re coming from the La Trobe side; ANZ branch at 10 o’ clock, suit-fitter at 2, Xoxo entrance at an elusive 11.56 or thereabouts. There’s supposed to be purple neon above the door; your reviewer found nothing remotely aglow. Being not of an orienteering mind, your reviewer and his companion (she having had to de-wedge, re-wedge, dewedge) struggled to find an in. Sex on Toast would start without them. By 9.10pm, entry was gained thanks to a guy who, bless his heart, got his coat stuck in the door. After ordering his-and-hers drinks, we joined the throng. SoT are an explosive lot. It looks like fun comes to them pretty easily. Xoxo’s cordoned music pro area is painfully small so it’s worth saying they did a good job calibrating their quirks to suit. The nine-or-so piece ate and metabolised their audience quick smart, standing in one long semi-formal West Side Story-esque rank and smiling/nodding/back-slapping each other in time. Each member has their own holding pattern, which basically has them jiving along in neutral until they’re required to contribute something jazzy at a louder and more flashy level than the rest, after which time an aforementioned back-slapping is duly awarded. Sometimes, mostly in the singer’s case, it’s awarded pro rata. The boys played all the hits, including the delightful Takin’ Over of Miami Vice-era pomp and gusto. Sax and trumpet valves poppled out melodies to the tune’s cheeky time signature with finesse so intense it seemed pantomimed by the holder. Their brass exemplified, better than the guitar or the drums, giving it that weird feeling you’re watching music, like in an athletic, breathing sense, not only hearing it – hence the suspicion of panto. A few slow-jams were given, too. One was surely their newest single Hold My Love, a song reminiscent of Prince in a way that seems equal parts lazy and appropriate for me to mention, and at least one other was over encumbered with chorus-ified, reverberated vocal bleats. SoT’s fun would occur with or without an audience. It’s fun to dress LOVED: Counted ten handleup and understand complex jazz modes and positively drip with bar moustaches. Heard somebody macho-sexual irony. For reasons best not spoiled, Ricky’s tour should compliment them as ‘moustakas.’ be seen. SoT are the best kind of band you can hope to walk in late on. HATED: Feedback issues aplenty. DRANK: Carlton Draught. NATHAN HEWITT

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1. Welele! GRACE BARBE

.5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner)

2. City of Dreams MIKELANGELO

In a way, it’s almost predetermined as to whether the fifth studio album from Iowan rabblerousers Slipknot is a worthwhile investment of your time. Over the course of fifteen years, in a clear defiance of both generation gaps and the musical food chain, the band have enthralled and enraptured just as many as they have terrified and displeased with their primitive, intense take on heavy alt-metal. Leaving no room for fence-sitters, it makes sense that both sides would continue on their respective paths. With that said, it’s worth mentioning that there’s more to .5: The Gray Chapter than meets the eye. For the first time in many years, it feels as though Slipknot have something to prove – not only to their listeners and their detractors, but above all else, to themselves. The death of bassist Paul Gray and the departure of drummer Joey Jordison have had a significant impact on the personal and professional progression of the band, which partially explains the six-year gap between releases. Frontman Corey Taylor was even on record at one point claiming that the future of the band itself was up in the air. It’s a relief, then, considering exactly how much is riding on its release, that .5: The Gray Chapter is an exercise in triumph over tragedy. The at-times-uneasy marriage of hammering whiteknuckle intensity with sweeping, raised-fist melodicism is refined here, often serving as a definitive trait of the album’s standout moments. The Devil In I serves as one of the best singles the band have released, while Skeptic is an unabashed and fitting tribute to the late Gray. Elsewhere, the surviving septet (and two anonymous newbies) maintain the rage with cathartic, blistering infernos such as The Negative One and Custer, the latter of which amazingly manages to sport as definitive and

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3. Gon Boogaloo CW STONEKING 5. Live at the Yarra LIZ STRINGER 6. Nebraska PONY FACE 7. Goat XYLOURIS WHITE 8. Ooo la la Bastard LA BASTARD 9. Lily-O SAM AMIDON 10. You’re Dead FLYING LOTUS

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1. Time To Die LP ELECTRIC WIZARD 2. Popular Problems LP LEONARD COHEN brain-invasive a refrain as anything you’ve heard on top 40 radio this year. An hour-plus runtime means that not everything on the tracklist is able to justify its existence – the inconsequential interlude Be Prepared for Hell and the by-numbers Nomadic spring to mind in this case. Across the lion’s share, however, it feels as though the band have been able to come into their own again; their decision to continue validated. .5: The Gray Chapter is life after death for Slipknot – and it’s bound to leave their devotees grateful that they have survived.

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Shouts out to music festivals.

GUY SEBASTIAN FEAT. 2 CHAINZ

Mama Ain’t Proud (Sony) Guy Sebastian regurgitates some Jason Derulo steez, adding a head-scratcher of a Chuck Berry-style guitar lick in an EDM trap-lite soggy banger. And surprise guest Tity Boi’s gotta eat, I suppose. I’ll just go back to pretending he’s taking 2014 off after crushing it in 2013.

RUN THE JEWELS FEAT. ZACK DE LA ROCHA

Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) (Fool’s Gold) The initially off-hand team-up between Killer Mike and El-P has grown into a monster, and this is a fairly goddamn monstrous cut. Mike and El go in over a chopped De La Rocha vocal snippet, with the RATM frontman surfacing to spit bars on the final verse. Good shit.

The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) (Island) I hate how it’s so easy to hate U2. I hate that I hate U2. I hate this song. I hate that they’ve named this song after a Ramone. I hate how Bono has been a right sooky cunt about the iTunes bullshit. I hate that he’s portrayed this release as an album by a few blokes from Ireland who poured their heart into a record. Get down to the fuckin’ Tote any day of the week, Bono. See a band like Power. See them pour their heart into a set. See them show, not tell, the spirit of Ramones. Buy them a tin of Melbourne with your filthy Apple money, ya bastard.

TKAY MAIDZA

Switch Lanes (Dew Process/Universal) Rising Adelaide MC Tkay Maidza hits the mark on bars in the verse and a sung hook, flowing over relatively sparse production that employs EDM banger elements while withholding a truly bombastic blowout, and the track is stronger for it. Another promising salvo from one of Australia’s most promising acts.

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RECORD PARADISE TOP 10 1. Order of Operation AUSMUTEANTS 1. Typical System TOTAL CONTROL 2. Soft Focus THE OCEAN PARTY 3. Martyr Privates MARTYR PRIVATES 4. You’re Dead FLYING LOTUS 5. Over Me COLD BEAT 6. Popular Problems LEONARD COHEN 7. Syro APHEX TWIN

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Play Ball (Columbia) Previous AC/DC album Black Ice had some pretty worthy moments, most notably lead single Rock’n’Roll Train. The first taste from Rock Or Bust, the first album without national treasure/icon/god Malcolm Young, isn’t a reassuring one. It’s standard AC/DC, a solid bluesy riff from Mal and Angus’s nephew Stevie Young, not too much solo action from Angus, a lacklustre chorus. But hell, new AC/DC is new AC/ DC, and AC/DC are the greatest fucking band in the world. Get well, Malcolm. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 50

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JACK LADDER & THE DREAMLANDERS

Her Hands (Inertia) A crisp, snappy down-tempo synth jaunt, Her Hands builds with creeping hypnosis, Jack Ladder delivering a darkly croon. A world away from the levity of previous single Come On Back This Way, into a realm of smoky cool.

POND

Elvis’ Flaming Star (EMI) I dig Pond most when they’re in full Sabbath riff blowout mode. Or at least I did until Elvis’ Flaming Star, a finger-snappin’ piano-led boogie, diggin’ a brilliant groove. A dizzying trip. Taken from upcoming LP Man It Feels Like Space Again, out early 2015.

BEN FROST

Venter (Evian Christ TF 12” Mix) (Mute) Putting his spin on one of the many highlights from Ben Frost’s AURORA, forward-thinking producer Evian Christ doesn’t go nuts on the original, instead adding light aural embellishment in just the right places.

JAMES BLAKE

Building It Still (ATLAS) It’s been a banner year so far for UK producers (especially in the past month or so), now we have Jimmy Blake joining the fray with Building It Still, a largely instrumental cut that carves rich swathes of sub-bass. Debuted during his BBC Radio 1 residency, it’s lacking from context as an album track or a single, benefitting from the semblance of off-handedness.

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1. Falling For You THE HARPOONS 2. You’re Dead FLYING LOTUS 3. Groove Curse JORDAN RAKEI 4. Follow The Path SHAOLIN AFRONAUTS 5. Automatic LADI 6 6. Various NEW ORLEANS SOUL 7. Spyro APHEX TWIN 8. Operation Doomsday MF DOOM 9. Our Love CARIBOU 10. s/t SEX ON TOAST 11. The Best Of ETTA JAMES

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TWERPS

Back To You (Chapter) Everything about Back To You should be anxietyinducing – the lyrics, “Somebody out there is doin’ better than me”, the rushed three-note riff and its audible glisten on the strings. But everything about Back To You feels so good. It’s heartfelt pop, indicating that just-released EP Underlay’s rawness might’ve been a ploy for misdirection, or at least a divergent creative outlet in the lead-up to album number two. Its palpable charm commands repeat listens, soaring with an incredible, resonant chorus. LP two Range Anxiety is out early next year, and if Back To You is any indication, we’re in for a treat.

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THE FROWNING CLOUDS

Legalize Everything (Rice Is Nice) Let’s get this straight from the off – legalizing everything probably isn’t a good idea, and it’s safe to say Geelong retro garage-rockers The Frowning Clouds know that. That aside, this is a band with some serious pop-writing chops, as this third album from the quintet shows. Plenty of 60s inspired jangly pop with more than a few welcome psych-rock touches is the modus operandi that long-term fans of the band will recognise, although there are a few neat new tricks slotted into a series of two to three-minute tracks to keep things interesting. Indeed, it’s the lack of extended King Gizzard-esque psych-rock wig-outs that make Legalize Everything bounce along so nicely, although at no point does the mood get beyond incredibly laid-back. Opener Carrier Drone sets the tone with a chilled and distorted chorus of “take me, take me anywhere you want”, while Sun Particle Mind Body Experience carries on the relaxed vibe with some shiny guitar moments. Tracks like Move It and No Blues display an intriguing diversity to the band’s sound that points to a more eclectic future, while space-rock instrumental Radio Telescope sounds like a group of guys making ear-searing noise just for the sheer pleasure of it. All in all, it’s this mix of elements that BEST TRACK: Sun Particle Mind Body Experience combine to make an album that’s catchy, crackly and IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: THE a whole lot of fun. KINKS, THE SMALL FACES, THE BYRDS IN A WORD: Swingin’ BY PAUL MCBRIDE

LA BASTARD

Ooh La La Bastard (Beast Records) The bastard has finally met the beast. In other words, Melbourne’s La Bastard have scored a deal with French record label Beast Records. And given French society’s ability to deal maturely and gracefully with extra-marital conception, it’s an entirely appropriate cross-cultural pairing. Ooh La La Bastard is a cross-section of La Bastard’s material taken from its previously released LPs and EPs. Starting with the torch-hot sockhop drama of Beaten Down, this is an album that offers the good, the great and intense of La Bastard. Skip through to Get Up Get Out and you’re in the crashing white water with an amphetamine-laden Dick Dale; on Bewitchery you’re mesmerised by dirty romantic tone. Timorese Ninja is Link Wray via Dili and Osaka, In Deep is 60s girl garage in a sly grog shop and Cold Rainy Night finds Lee Heazlewood trading licks with Ennio Morricone in a shady Baja nightclub. Call of the Wild takes La Bastard out onto the savannah with only a jungle beat and some sultry Peggy Lee vocals to protect them from the dangers of the wild; Promise Me is a Saturday night in the company of hotted up dragsters and ne’er do well leather-clad Eddie Cochrane fans. On It’s Not Like I’m Telling a Lie matters get hot, sweaty and loose in a Gene Vincent sort of a way; Stranger in the Night is nocturnal danger with a jagged rockabilly soundtrack. And if you’re caught in the night with BEST TRACK: Stranger in the Night all sorts of weird shit happening, La Bastard might IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: LINK just be the only thing that’ll get you out alive. WRAY, LINK HEAZELWOOD, DICK DALE IN A WORD: Surfabilly PATRICK EMERY

GERARD WAY

Hesitant Alien (Warner Bros) Hesitant Alien, the debut record from ex-My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, is different. In lieu of dramatic darkness and heroic-escapisms employed in My Chem, the album sees Way adopting musical maturity through zesty shoegaze rock. Hesitant Alien opens with Bowie-esque number The Bureau: a personal commentary of showbiz that enthrals with gritty guitars, complacent drums and punchy lines – “They’re gonna make you a star/To get you all to behave” – before transitioning to sound-wall Action Cat –a typical shoegaze track, full of muffled vocals and guitar noise. No Shows draws upon Way’s brit-pop influences with rich harmonies wrapped around a guitar backbone while criticising the glamour of showbiz and suggesting that music is an intrinsic connection between artists and fans. Brother is a diamond. Lyrically, it embodies the tender relationship between Way and his younger brother, Mikey; stringing up his affection on bittersweet piano rhythms and pure melodies, whilst creating a sense of helpless melancholy through sublime vocal superposition. In Zero Zero and Juarez, Way sonically tributes The Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream (1993) through distorted metal and heavy drums while Drugstore Perfume provides the balladic break the album needs. Get the Gang Together picks up the pace through energetic percussion and expressive vocals. Second-last track, How It’s Going To Be, is a stranger among the album. Way neatly closes the album with dream-pop number, Maya the Psychic: a song about mental illness inspired by personal experience and BEST TRACK: Brother Kazuya Kudō manga Mai, the Psychic Girl. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Overall, Hesitant Alien is an excellent debut. It’s CROCODILES, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, screams Gerard Way. It’s raw, it’s gritty and it’s pure PULP, THE HORRORS, THE SMASHING rock’n’roll. PUMPKINS IN A WORD: Rock’n’roll grime. BY AVRILLE BYLOK-COLLARD

THE PEEP TEMPEL

Tales (Wing Sing Records) Tales sounds like a post-apocalyptic suburban horror story version of Ramsay St set in the late ‘70s. It has you shifting in the drivers seat - white knuckles and all. Although I must say opener Getting’ On By feels like a misleading beginning to the album. It’s all swag and rock’n’roll and dare I say, almost cheerful. Well, there is at least a pocket of optimism somewhere in there... That it’s not worthy of being on the album is a stretch. It’s fucking sick. But that pocket of optimism makes it stick out like dog’s balls compared to the body of the album found between track two and track nine. It’s when you’re a kid and your parents tell you you’re going to Maccas but you end up at the dentist – a real head-fucker. Vikki The Butcher is one of the best tales on the album, maybe only superseded by the near perfect Carol. On these two songs everything seems to just fit perfectly for this band. The delivery and sentiment are at their sardonic, creepy best and the music charges behind like an out of control locomotive threatening to derail. The excerpt from a local Bingo night is the icing on the cake. Big Fish and Edgar’s Lament aren’t far off these two and culminate in Untitled, which is as hilarious as it is brilliant. The self described ‘rock on pills’ juju in Big Fish is another interesting and appreciated cul-de-sac on the album. Keef is a driving instrumental which would be a lot of fun to watch live. And Then there’s Carol. I’ve already mentioned it, but shit the bed what a tune. You know Trevor after a couple of listens. You know Carol. You know the other bloke. You can see it all in front of you, and the characters BEST TRACK: Carol (Vikki The Butcher a close second) stay with you. This is an inspiring, intriguing and IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: exciting rock’n’roll album. And other adjectives too. GRAVEYARD TRAIN IN A WORD: Unsettling JACK PARSONS

FOXYGEN

…And Star Power (Inertia) The obvious next step for retro-rock revivalist duo Foxygen is an embrace of the epic double album, and you can instantly visualise …And Star Power’s 1970s-style cover gracing a gate-fold sleeve in its vinyl format. It’s not the sort of album that will instantly charm you, unlike last year’s minor classic We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic. But it does pull you into with its wild, wavering force, particularly during its classic-rock opening quintet (knowingly subtitled The Hits) and the four-part Star Power Suite, combining to make a satisfying first side that easily matches their past work. With 24 tracks clocking in at 82 minutes, you can pretty much throw consistency out the window. The organled Mattress Warehouse, the Stones-like garage thrash of 666 and the drugged-out grooves of Cannibal Holocaust stand out as highlights in the album’s Side Two: The Paranoid Side, but then patience is sorely tested with the freeform but fumbling Side Three ( Journey Through Hell) and a soggy couple of soft-rock ballads weighing down the end of the album. You could argue that there’s enough on here to make one great album that’s half the length of …And Star Power, but there’s no denying that its BEST TRACK: Mattress Warehouse sprawling length, raw production and willingness IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Embryonic to experiment is all part of its cosmic charm. It’s FLAMING LIPS, The Pod WEEN, Lousy with certainly an… experience. Sylvianbriar OF MONTREAL IN A WORD: Ambitious CHRIS GIRDLER

HAT FITZ AND CARA ROBINSON

Do Tell (Planet MGM) In their live gigs, Hat Fitz and Cara are gorgeous on stage, taking the piss out of each other like only a married couple can, only with a few hundred of their closest mates in the audience laughing along. Musically, they’re just as endearing, both vocals and instrumentals complementing each other beautifully; Cara’s powerful but soulful steam-train of a voice meshing seamlessly with Fitz’s more gravelly, bluesy tones. For this album Fitz takes on vocals, guitar and banjo, while Cara is on vocals, drums, percussion, fife, flute and acoustic guitar, and they have some guests, including Ian Collard on harmonica (the mouth organ on Excuse Me was particularly foot-tappingly good). On bass is the album’s producer, Jeff Lang, who also produced their previous effort, Wiley Ways. The ten original tracks are a mostly blues/country affair, heavier on the blues than the country, with some sexy slide guitar and string work proving one of the highlights. But the final track gives the album a hillbilly finale with some excellent fiddle and banjo. There’s no doubt this album is more string-heavy than Wiley Ways, which had a more Celtic feel (Cara hails from Ireland) thanks, in part, to much more flute and fife. As much as I do wish slightly that the album had more of the flutes because it’s not a sound we get a lot of in Australian country blues (she whines, wistfully) it’s BEST TRACK: Excuse Me and Do Tell fantastic that this album feels like a new effort and a IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: EATEN step up, with another growth in sound and maturity. BY DOGS IN A WORD: Badarse

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WEDNESDAY OCT 22 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••APHRODITE’S FAVOURITE LOVERS + MALE MODEL

+ TOM DENTON John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. ••COQ ROQ WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

••DEVIN TOWNSEND’S GUITAR CLINIC St Kilda Town Hall, 7:30pm.

••DUMB PUNTS + FERMUNTED Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $6.00.

••ELLA’S HIGH + HOLYOAKE + LITTLE MISS

REMEMBERING Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ••LUKE KOSZANSKI + AIDAN RISTUCCIA + HUGH THORNEYCROFT Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. ••SARAH STONE + OLIVER’S ARMY + DISCOVERY OF A FOX + MICHAEL RAYMOND HOOD Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••STEPHANIE GRACE + TASH SULTANA + MONIQUE

SHELFORD Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••THE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: NATHAN LOMAS + SOPHIA BROWN + JAKE NICHOLLS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm.

••THE VENDETTAS + CHRIS ALTMANN + THE JACKS

+ DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. ••THE VERNONS + THE NAYSAYERS + RECKLESS JUNE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.00. ••TIM WHEATLEY & MICHAEL BADGER + MICHAEL BADGER Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. ••VINYL SPLINTERS + THE FACTORY + WOLFFATHER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••WALT + TELESCOPES + OOLLUU Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.00.

••WILLOW DARLING + AMADEUS TULIP + GREEN TIN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••BRAZILIAN NIGHT - FEAT: ABUKA + RASTA UNITY

+ DJ RAPHAEL RAMIRES Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

$10.00.

••LO-RES + QUANTUM MILKSHAKE + MORMAL

COMMISSION 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••LYRIC OPERA OF MELBOURNE (MASSENET’S WERTHER) Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 7:30pm. $35.00. ••PAT METHENY UNITY GROUP Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.

••PETER HEARNE & DIZZY’S BIG BAND WITH

CELESTE COULSON Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: HOT

GINGER & DYNAMITE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

••THE CITRADELS + THE BAUDELAIRES + THE DALAI

SAMAS + COLOURED CLOCKS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $5.00.

7:00pm.

••WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: NICOLETTE FORTE

+ JULZ EVANS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY OCT 23

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••THE POPE’S ASSASSINS + FRAUDBAND + M.A.D Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.00.

••ARCANE SAINTS + JESTER + THE VELVET LIPS +

CLICK Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••CROSSFIRE HURRICANE + DUOUX + YUM YUM

••DEAD CITY RUINS + DON FERNANDO Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

••DROPBEARS + HANDS OF HOPE + INCENTIVES +

ARCADIAN + HARBOUR THE HOSTAGE Bendigo Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••ELECTRIK DYNAMITE + TRIGGER + SMOKIN

MIRRORS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••JIMMY MADDON + TWO MAN GROUP + JAMES HALL Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. ••LITTLE MISS REMEMBERING + OFFSPRING FOR CONVICTS + A VERY SMALL BAND + THE ELLIOTS + DJ LIL ROSSCO Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••LOOBS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••MOONEE VALLEY SOUNDS - FEAT: THE TRIED + ROCKING HORSE RACE + ABOVE KINGS + JORDAN BAKKER Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm. ••PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: JAMES VAN COOPER + WE ARE BUT CITIZENS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $7.00.

••POP CRIMES The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 8:00pm. $45.00.

••RICH DAVIES + CLIVE J MANN + AYLEEN O’HANLON

+ AMBER ISLES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. ••ROXY LAVISH & THE SUICIDE CULT + GHOST TOWNS OF THE MIDWEST + THE FAMILY THORAX Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

••SELKI + MEALS + DAFT FOLK Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.

••SPORTSMEN + THE DARJEELINGS + CREPES Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00.

••THE DEAD LEAVES + GUS RIGBY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.

WEAPON IS SOUND + SID O’NEIL John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $12.00.

Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $52.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••CHRIS LAKE & OPEN MIC Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

••DON HILLMAN’S SECRET BEACH Clifton Hill Hotel, Clifton Hill. 8:30pm.

••DRIVING SOUTH - FEAT: ZEVON & THE

WEREWOLVES Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

••FLASH COMPANY + EMILEE SOUTH Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

••GOAT PISS GASOLINE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. ••JO MEARES Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••NIKKI LANE + THE DELINES + RUBY BOOTS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $38.50.

••OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. ••OPEN MIC/JAM Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

••ROBERT ELLIS & JONNY FRITZ + JAMES

THOMSON Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:00pm.

$27.50.

••SHADY LANE + THE DARJEELINGS + RABBLE

ROUSER + LUPINE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00. ••STRIPPED BACK Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL’S OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

••THE HAMMOND ORGAN NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner.

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••BOB HUTCHISON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••BRENT PARLANE BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

••CHRIS ALTMANN Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 9:00pm.

••CYNDI BOSTE & PETE FIDLER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.

••DAN KROCHMAL + NEUMARK Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

••GUY KABLE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••MARK WILKINSON (SOLO SPRING TOUR) + OLLIE

BROWN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $31.00. ••MATTHEW FAGAN Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm. ••NICK EVANGELOU Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••NIKKI LANE & THE DELINES + RUBY BOOTS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:00pm. $38.50.

••OH PEP! + BROOKE RUSSELL Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

••OPEN MIC Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 8:00pm.

••PRINCE THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

••THE PURPLE DENTISTS + CIARAN FLETCHER +

BEN MCATAMNEY + ANTHONY O’NEILL Spotted

Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

••THE ROYAL ARTILLERY + THE HUNTED CROWS +

ELBRUS + STONE REVIVAL Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:30pm.

QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. $20.00. ••AURORA ORCHESTRA (INSOMNIA) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $59.00.

••AYE CANDY + AKOYA + ARORA + RAH RAHS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

••B IS FOR CHICKEN Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

••FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: JAKE JUDD +

TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.

7:00pm.

••GLORY B 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••KAIN BORLASE TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. ••MARCUS WYATT & THE FEM BELLING BAND

Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

••MATT DWYER & THE MAGNATONES Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

••MEL SEARLE & THE CRAIG SMITH QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

••PETER MARJANOVIC Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: THE

THURSDAY TRIO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.

7:00pm. $15.00.

••SOUL IN THE BASEMENT - FEAT: THE DEANS +

DJ VINCE PEACH & PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar,

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••THE JACK PANTAZIS GROUP Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

••THE MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••FUDGE Pier Live, Frankston. 9:30pm. $5.00.

••HOLLOW GROUND + AS CROWS FLY + SLYDEKRIEG Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm.

••KISS (HOTTER THAN HELL) - FEAT: TIM HENWOOD

+ PAUL DRENNAN + TRAVIS DRAGANI + MATTHEW MACAULIFFE + DAVE BOWERS + THUNDERSTAG Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $20.00.

••LANKS (SINGLE LAUNCH) + MERCIANS + TELLING Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.

••LAZARUS MODE (IGNITE LAUNCH) + TWENTY

TWO HUNDRED + SMOKIN’ MIRRORS + WARBIRDS + EXILE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00. ••LILITH LANE (LP LAUNCH) + STELLA ANGELICO + RICHIE 1250 + THE BRIDES OF CHRIST + JIMMY CLINKERFIELD Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. ••MEG MAC Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••POP CRIMES The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 8:00pm. $45.00.

••RELEASE THE HOUNDS + BRITTLE BONES + LASER

BRAINS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

SEAN SIMMONS + MICHAEL PLATER + THE BEARDLESS HARRY’S Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

••SHAMBELLES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

••VELVET POET (A TRIBUTE TO LOU REED) - FEAT:

7:00pm.

••WAYNE JURY Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. ••WILDING + THE ZEBRAS + JAMES TEAGUE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

FRIDAY OCT 24

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

••ANIMAL JUSTICE PARTY FUNDRAISER - FEAT:

FIGUREHEAD + MANHUNT Grace Darling Hotel,

••FOURPLAY Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.

••RPG RADIO + KHRISTIAN MIZZI & THE SIRENS +

••THE MINIATURES + BLACK ORCHID OASIS +

$25.00.

SUPERNATURALS + THE QUICKFIX Ferntree Gully

Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12.00.

••ALLDAY - LP LAUNCH + REMI + BARO Corner Hotel,

••ANNA GILKISON & THE JOHN MONTESANTE

MELBOURNE BALLET ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

••THE KIN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

••TRIODEGRADABLE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne ••US & THEM (SYMPHONIC PINK FLOYD) - FEAT:

Rowland S. Howard’s legacy arguably makes even the most legendary musician makes them tremble in their Dr. Martens. On what would’ve been his 55th birthday, original members of his band get together to perform an assortment of his iconic hits in two special concerts. Pop Crimes will be held at the Melbourne Festival’s Foxtel Festival Hub on Thursday October 23 and Friday October 24.

••THE EXPLODERS + THE PRETTY LITTLES + THE

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

POP CRIMES

CULT + JACK RUNAWAY Public Bar, North Melbourne.

8:00pm. $8.00.

••THE JACK EARLE SEXTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

GIG OF THE WEEK!

Richmond. 8:30pm. $25.00.

HAYLEY COOPER + ALI E + NEW ESTATE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $12.00.

••BEAR THE MAMMOTH Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

••BLACK NIGHT CRASH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm.

••BLOODHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL + CONTRAST + LUNA

GHOST Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $9.20. ••BOB ‘BONGO’ STARKIE (MILLION DOLLAR RIFF) Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $23.00.

••BOB LOG III + THE PORK CHOP PARTY + THE

BURNT SAUSAGES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $20.00.

••BROOKLYN’S FINEST + EDEN’S MARCH + RUNNING

YOUNG + ORLANDO BROWN Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••CABIN FEVER + POSTAL + KODIAK THROAT +

ORGAN DONOR + BOMBS OVER BRUNSWICK + LION FIGHT Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ••CHERRY BOMB European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

••CHRIS WILSON Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm.

••DOUBLESHOTS WEEKENDS - FEAT: SPINNING

ROOMS + THE BURNING SEA + HALT EVER + THE KREMLINGS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00. ••DROPBEARS + HANDS OF HOPE + INCENTIVES + ARCADIAN + HARBOUR THE HOSTAGE Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 8:00pm.

••EINSTEIN TOYBOYS + WILD CATZ Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••ELVIS IS IN THE BUILDING - FEAT: DAMIAN

MULLIN Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. ••EXCHANGE FRIDAYS - FEAT: SPEED DEMON + MUSCLE MARY + STACKHOUSE + ME GRAINES Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 9:00pm. $10.00.

••FLANAGAN’S FRIDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: THE

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DIDIRRI + LAUREN GLEZER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••SMUDGE + THE ASTROS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $20.00.

••SNARKY PUPPY & KORMAC’S BIG BAND The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 11:00pm. $45.00.

••SPIDEY SPIDEY + MISSSTA + SHEWOLF Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.

••STRAYLOVE Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••SUBJECT TO CHANGE + TORCH + PITT THE ELDER Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••TANZER (SINGLE LAUNCH) + MILES & SIMONE +

FRIDA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8.20.

••THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS + THE PIERCE BROTHERS +

BOBBY ALU 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $35.00.

••THE EIGHTY 88S Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9:00pm.

••THE JACKS + BROCKWAY LIGHTS + THE BALLS +

PEGBUCKET Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

••THE MEANIES + BATPISS + CLOWNS + FLOUR The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.50.

••THE TARANTINOS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

••YACHTBURNER + MEAT CAKE + DIE CUT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9:00pm. $10.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••ANNEMARIE SHARRY’S MADAMSHAZZ Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

••DANCE FEAST - FEAT: ALÁRÌÍYÁ EQUISITE

AFROBEAT & LACHLAN CROSS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.

••DIANA CLARK & THE DOUG DE VRIES QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.

••LYRIC OPERA OF MELBOURNE (MASSENET’S

WERTHER) Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 7:30pm. $35.00.

••MOODIE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15.00.

••PUGSLEY BUZZARD Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm.

••RAPHAEL KARANIKOS & BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.

••RUBY’S SEARCH FOR JAZZ CATS 3 - FEAT: STEVE

SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.

6:00pm. $10.00.

••RUBY’S CLASSIC BLUE NOTE SERIES - FEAT: SAM

APPAPOULAY Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

••SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. ••STEVE MAGNUSSON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••THE BROKEN HILLS BAND Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.

••THE FURBELLOWS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

••THE RANDY ANDERSON Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

••THE VINCE JONES QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $40.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••BLUES NIGHT - FEAT: DOLLAR 20 BLUES BAND Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 9:00pm.

••CONCHILLIA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

••CRAYZEE COUNTRY - FEAT: PATRICK WILSON

& THE BARE RIVER QUEENS + FAMOUS WILL + MURDEENA The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel (nth Fitzroy), Fitzroy North. 9:30pm.

••HUGH MCINLAY & THE RECESSIVE GENES Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

••IAN COLLARD Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. ••JUSTIN YAP BAND Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm. ••MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + THE YARD APES + DJ

TRAFFIC Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

••MUSKETEER Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••THE ADELAIDE CROWS + SURFING IN HAWAII + DJ

SQUEEZEBOX Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. ••THE HERE HERES Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. ••THE JO MEARES BAND + VAN WALKER Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••THE TIPPLERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

••TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN

BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. ••TWIN AGES + MOON RAJA + MELISSA JAMES BAND Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

SATURDAY OCT 25

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••BANG - FEAT: ELECTRIK DYNAMITE + BURY THE

FALLEN + ATHENAS WAKE Royal Melbourne Hotel,

Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

••A NIGHT OF IMPECCABLY QUESTIONABLE TASTE

- FEAT: SANDRA BOGERD + RMIT OCCASIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY + QUEERMANCE’S MATTHEW LANG Hares & Hyenas, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00. ••ALLDAY - LP LAUNCH + REMI + BARO Corner Hotel, Richmond. 12:30pm. $25.00.

••ARIJIT SINGH Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $56.04.

••BLACK EYED SUSAN TRIO Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••BOSS MOXI + THE STRANGE The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

••BRITISH INDIA + MAGIC BONES + THEM BRUINS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25.00.

••CABIN FEVER + POSTAL + FCKUPS + MAGGOT MEN

+ ISCARIOT + COFFIN WOLF Twe12e, Frankston. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS Howler,

THE MEANIES

A meanie, according to Urban Dictionary, is a flirtier way of calling someone a jerk. But the Meanies aren’t jerks; they’re good natured legends who might get a little raucous from time to time but that’s cool. Long live punk. Get the fuck around them at The Hi-Fi on Friday October 24.

LAUNCH) Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $22.00. ••GAYLE CAVANAGH & THE MIXED COMPANY BAND + STEVE LUCAS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. ••GL (EP LAUNCH) + BROADWAY SOUNDS + WOOSHIE & MCINNES Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.

••GOATPISS GASOLENE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. ••GREEN THEIF + LATHAM’S GRIP + HYPERDRONES

+ THE ROLLER CRANES Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••GREEVES (ALBUM LAUNCH) + THE LOVELY DAYS

+ ROLLOWAYS + GREG STEPS & THE GEORGE LAZENBY BAND Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $7.00. ••HOLY MOSES HEARTACHE Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRIT + HOWL AT THE MOON Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ••JUKE BOX RACKET Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ••KALACOMA + DEAR PLASTIC + BREVE + OWEN RABBIT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. ••KISS (HOTTER THAN HELL 40TH ANNIVERSARY) - FEAT: ALL STAR BAND + THUNDERSTAG + DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00. ••KIT CONVICT & THE TERRIBLE TWO + GOING SWIMMING Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. ••MODESTY (ONE NIGHT BOYFIREND LAUNCH) + LOOSE TOOTH + ROLLING BLACKOUTS John Curtin

Kilda. 8:00pm.

OVERPROOF GROOVE Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm.

••CYNDIE BOSTE + PETE FIDLER Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15.00.

••DONNAFEST - FEAT: THE DIPSTICKS + REDRO

Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.00.

••SLIGHTLY LEFT OF CENTRE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. $10.00.

••SLOW GRIND FEVER #18 Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

••EVIL TWIN + TWO HEADED DOG + THE DANDANS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

••FOURPLAY STRING QUARTET (THIS MACHINE

Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••THE RULING MOTIONS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••THE VINCE JONES QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $40.00.

••VIRUS QUINTET Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••ACTION SAM European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 10:30pm.

••GREG WALSH Umbrella Lounge Bar, 12:00pm.

••JEP & DEP + GRETTA ZILLER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

TUESDAYS

TRIVIA

@ 7pm - $6 CHILLI DOGS

Wednesday 22nd oct

••SMUDGE + THE ICYPOLES + CHOOK RACE Northcote

ChRIs@LAke & Open MIC 7pm - 2 fOr 1 meaLS

••SNARKY PUPPY & KORMAC’S BIG BAND The Foxtel

Thursday 23rd oct

10:00pm.

Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Festival Hub, Southbank. 11:00pm. $45.00.

••SUNDAY CHAIRS + ONCE WERE WILD + SIENNA

WILD Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00. ••TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES + BENNY WALKER Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $39.00. ••THAT GOLD ST SOUND Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. ••THE BRAVES + THE NIGHT PARTY + THE FIBS + SHEEK STAIN + THE CREEP Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.

••BRUNSWICK STREET TO BOURBON STREET Paris

JOSH The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••ESHKATON + THE NIHILISTIC FRONT + VOIDCHRIST + HEXREIGN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

••THE RUBY ROGERS EXPERIENCE Wesley Anne,

RELEASE THE HOUNDS + CHARM Public Bar, North

••DYSFUNXIA + DON’T CRY WOLF + SORDID ORDEAL

••EIGHTY 88S + GOGO GODDESSES + DJ JUMPIN

Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.

••THE ROYAL SWAZI SPA + MARCUS WYATT Bar Open,

••RAMSHACKLE ARMY + TAKE YOUR OWN +

••AURORA ORCHESTRA (TESTAMENT) Melbourne

9:00pm.

••THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club,

Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm.

••DR RIC’S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE Brunswick

+ KUNG FU MONDAY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

JORDAN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

$20.00.

••OOLLUU 303, Northcote. 8:30pm.

••THE SOLICITORS + THE WELLINGTONS + GINKINTA

Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

••STEVE SEDERGREEN WITH GEOFF KLUKE & MIKE

••OLD SKOOL SATURDAYS - FEAT: RUSTBUCKET

REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS + BIG DIRTY + COW’S MUFF Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. ••DOUBLESHOTS WEEKENDS - FEAT: SPINNING ROOMS + SIB + MEATCAKE + SPACEJUNK Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00.

••STELLAFAUNA & THE VIBRAPHONIC ORKESTRA

+ SARAH MARY CHADWICK + VIV Tote Hotel,

••RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

••CRYPTIC ABYSS + THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE +

Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••SING BLITZ Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00.

6:00pm.

BEAT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 5:30pm. ••CREEPSHOW - FEAT: BUSHIDO + SYDONIA + MY ECHO + THE SINKING TEETH + HELM + ANNA SALEN + TEAL + PANDORUM + TEN THOUSAND + GRAVEYARD ROCKSTARS + BATTLE AXE HOWLERS + CAPTIVES + FULL CODE + FADING HOUR + THREE QUARTER BEAST + THE CONTROLLERS + RUMOUR CONTROL + DRIVEWINDER SPAULDING Espy, St

2:00pm. $15.00.

••REVOMATIX + SOUL SALVATION + JALA Reverence

Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••REPAIRS + EXEK + RITES WILD Grace Darling Hotel,

••COX PLATE CELEBRATION - FEAT: BLACKSHAWS

They say it’s impossible to lick one’s own elbow. You just tried to, didn’t you? England’s mostfamed synovial hinge joint will be showcasing their intoxicating brand of crafty melodies in two shows at the Forum. Elbow plays The Forum on Tuesday October 28 and Wednesday October 29.

••OLD MATE (LP LAUNCH) + ORLANDO FURIOUS

Brunswick. 8:00pm. $18.00.

••CHRISTOPHER SEALEY TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote.

ELBOW

+ HUNTING SEASON + CHERRY DOLLS DJS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $99.00.

Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

••HAPPY BIRTHDAY NORTHCOTE! Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm.

••HETTY KATE & NICK MULDER BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

••JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••MISAKO Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

••NMIT RECITALS 303, Northcote. 6:00pm.

••PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP WITH STEVE

SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.

The BeAT RAffLe

wItH Urban fOx & DJ bUICk @ 7pm - fUnk/SOUL/party JamS $1 Wings all night. Drink drinks, hear beats, win stuff.

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free tO pLay, bOOZe tO wIn. @ 2pm

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GrUmpy HOUr $6 pIntS anD $5 baSICS Tues-Fri from 4-7pm. 125 Smith Street, Fitzroy.

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

60 SECONDS with WOMEN IN DOCS

For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au ••JESSE VALACH + BLUES MOUNTAIN Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••PLURAL + HOLYOAKE + VINYL SPLINTERS + THE

DIRTY BIRDS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00.

••KELLY AUTY BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

••PORK CHOP PARTY Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

••KRAKEN FOLK CLUB Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

••SONIC MOON + NOTHING HURTS ROBOT + SARAH

9:30pm.

3:00pm.

••KRISTINA OLSEN & PETER GRAYLING Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $23.00.

••MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

••RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

JEAN Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: BIG KEV GARANT &

STEW KOHINGA Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne.

4:00pm.

••SHANNON BOURNE BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

••TRULY HOLY + GREEN TIN + PALM SPRINGS Public

••SHIVERING TIMBERS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••TRUST US + OOLLUU + ALEX FRANCIS Workers Club,

9:30pm.

••SUGARFED LEOPARDS + DJ TILLY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

••TASTE OF INDIE COLLECTIVE - FEAT: WATERLINE

+ ASHBURY MEDICINE SHOW + ACOUSTIC FOXX + THE MINUTE TAKERS + ROD FRITZ KAT O Tago

Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm. Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.

••WELCOME TO THE NUMB Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••ALL DAY FRITZ Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $6.00.

••DESMOND WHITE (SHORT STORIES LAUNCH)

Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.

••LIVE KARAOKE - FEAT: DEXTER’S ASIAN

••THE GLOAMING Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), ••THREE KINGS Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm.

••TWENTY TWO HUNDRED + THIS WAY NORTH +

MELISSA MAIN + DJ XANDER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

SUNDAY OCT 26

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••ATMOIC HI-TONES Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 4:00pm. ••BAD UNCLE + FIFTH FRIEND + TUX Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

••BENJAMIN BONES & BRENDAN FORWARD Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••BRIAN NANKERVIS & THE ROCKWIZ ORKESTRA Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30.00.

••CABIN FEVER + POSTAL + THE KREMLINGS +

ATOMIC DEATH SQUAD + FLOWERS FOR COPS + DRAIN LIFE Dropout, Yarraville. 2:00pm. $10.00. ••DEVIL MONKEY + SOOP + PHANTOM HITMEN Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.

••DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + RUN RABBIT RUN + THE

PEEKS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $11.00. ••DON FRANKENSTEIN + HEMY & MARSHALL + THE BLUEGRASS FLIES Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. ••EXCHANGE SUNDAYS - FEAT: PAUL ONETWOFARKYOU + KAT ORGOVANY Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 4:00pm.

••GHYTI + MY OLD DUTCH + COLOMBIA Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $6.00.

••ITCHY SCABS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. ••LOW SPEED BUS CHASE + THE SPITTING

SWALLOWS + HALF THE SKY Brunswick Hotel,

Brunswick. 8:00pm.

••MAY (SINGLE LAUNCH) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

••MOANA + LOUIS & THE HONKYTONK Public Bar, North Melbourne. 1:30am.

••MOANA + LOUIS & THE HONKYTONK + JUKAI

FOREST + THE PRIMARY + THE NEW POLLUTION John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm.

••NE OBLIVISCARIS (CITADEL LISTENING PARTY) Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 1:00pm.

Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

CONNECTION Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.

••LYRIC OPERA OF MELBOURNE (MASSENET’S

WERTHER) Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 3:00pm. $35.00.

••MICHELLE CHANDLER WITH NEESY SMITH &

THE TRACEY ROBERTS BAND Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 2:00pm.

••ORCHESTRA VICTORIA WIND QUINTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 3:00pm. $40.00.

••OSCAR NEYLAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••SUN-DAZED - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

••THE MAGIC OF PAUL DEAN - FEAT: FLINDERS

QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:30pm. $40.00.

••THE TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote. 3:30pm.

ALLY SPAZZY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

TUESDAY OCT 28

The Bodega, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS

••CHERRY BLUES - FEAT: CHRIS WILSON + DJ MAX

••SUNDAY SESSIONS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond.

••ALI BARTER + DX HEAVEN Boney, Melbourne Cbd.

••THE ALISON FERRIER BAND Union Hotel, Brunswick.

••CHEAP KRAKEN RUM NIGHT - FEAT: JAMES

Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 2:00pm. $10.00.

CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. ••DARREN GIBSON + LINCOLN LEFEVRE + GRACE LAWRY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. ••EASY SUNDAYS - FEAT: AMISTAT + SAM BRITTAIN + ARIELA JACOBS + BEN WHITING Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $8.00.

••ESTEE BIG BAND Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm. 4:00pm.

5:00pm.

PEPPER JACK + COLOURING CATS Old Bar, Fitzroy.

••WALT + TOBY JAMESJOY + SPIRAL ARM Public Bar,

••HANNAKA (THE COLOUR OF WAR) + TRAPPIST

••I DO LIKE MONDAYS - FEAT: FAMOUS WILL +

AFTERLAND + HOLLOW DRUMS Wesley Anne,

Northcote. 8:00pm.

••JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm.

••JO MEARES + DANGERBIRDZ 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••JODY & THE JOY RIDERS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:30pm.

••JOHN DOWLER’S V PROJECT + LITTLE MURDERS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm.

4:00pm.

8:00pm. $6.00.

••JAZZ PARTY John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.

••LOU REED SPECIAL TRIBUTE - FEAT: SPENCER

P JONES + TEX PERKINS + KAT SPAZZY + KIM SALMON + WHITT + TEX NAPALM + GARRY GRAY + LAURA IMBRUGLIA + STEVE LUCAS + SLY FAULKNER + RON S PENO Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.

8:00pm. $30.00.

••MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: SCOTDRAKULA +

ANDRE & PLYIERS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.

••KIM & LEANNE + GENA ROSE BRUCE Retreat Hotel,

••WHO’S THIS? Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00.

••KRIS SCHROEDER Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••KRISTY APPS & THE SHOTGUN SHIRLEYS + EMMA

WALL + NICOLETTE FORTE + TIGERLILLY Evelyn

Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $12.00.

••LARGE NO 12’S Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••JIANGSU FOLK MUSIC ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm.

••PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.

••LIVE PAWN ACOUSTIC SUNDAY - FEAT: VARIOUS

••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: PIANO TÉ

••LOT 56 Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 3:00pm.

••SIR ZELMAN COWEN MONASH SCHOOL OF MUSIC

ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

••MARTY KELLY & THE WEEKENDERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

••MENTAL AS ANYTHING + JACK HOWARD & NICKY

DEL REY Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $30.00.

••OBSCURE RELICS + RUSTY TERMINALS Carters Bar, Northcote. 6:00pm.

TUITION YOGA & VOICE TEACHING Fawkner and Mobile, Melbourne. 1 hour holistic sessions from $60. www.facebook. com/voxartyogastudio

••PAUL MCMANUS + THE STETSON FAMILY Drunken

MISCELLANEOUS IS A BACKWARDS TURDUCKEN A CHUCKEY? Email: think_about_it@srslybigchickens.com

••SMALL TOWN ROMANCE Standard Hotel, Fitzroy.

Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

••PHOEBE DAICO & THE SIMMER DOWNS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. 7:30pm.

7:30pm. $10.00.

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $15.00.

MONDAY OCT 27

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••HIGH VOLTAGE ROCK SCHOOL SHOWCASE

••GREG WALSH Umbrella Lounge Bar, 12:00pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

TEAGUE + LOUIS & THE HONKYTONK + MOANA + SOOKY LA LA Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00. ••ELBOW Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $91.49. ••GREENTHIEF + QLAYE FACE + SLIM REAPER + MOONSHIFTER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. ••MIA SCHOEN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. ••VIBRAVEIL + SKYMOTH + LITTLE HOLLOW Workers

••TOMMY CASTLES Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••FRANKIE ET AL Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:30pm.

Collingwood. 7:30pm. $15.00.

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••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: THE GRAND MAGOOZI

••BLOODY SUNDAYS - FEAT: BRIDGE WATER Whole

••JULES BOULT & FRIENDS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

SERVICES SOUNDPARK REHEARSALS NORTHCOTE. From $50. Great rooms/p.a’s. Parking/Storage/Hire. Phone Andrew 0425 706 382. Soundparkstudios.com.au

WOMEN IN DOCS play the Melbourne Folk Club at Bella Union on Wednesday October 22. Tickets through the venue and at the door on the night if still available.

••TRIO AGOGO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm. $10.00.

••JOSH T PEARSON + EMILY ULMAN Gasometer Hotel,

MUSICIANS WANTED PSYCHEDELIC ROCK BAND SEEKING CREATIVE MALE SINGER. Influences: Black Angels, White Denim, Tame Impala. Contact Paul 0400 194 782 SINGER & BASS PLAYER WANTED for a St Kilda based five piece original rock band. Must be enthusiastic and have time for weekly rehearsals, recordings, and gigs. Preferred age 20-30. Phn: 0427 303 322 *

Define your genre in five words or less: Folkie/pop/a bit country. What do you love about making music? The soaring feeling you get when you write something that resonates with your band, your writing partner and ultimately your audience. What do you hate about the music industry? Cliques and realising you’ll never get in there or be one of them. What can a punter expect from your live show? A punter can expect to sing-a-long, be a part of the show, and hopefully have a laugh. We’d really like them to leave with a song or a story in their heads they just can’t shake. Or we’d like to hear one of their stories and when we come back to that town, give them a song about it. We are the ultimate story collectors. I guess every songwriter is. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Carousel (our latest album), Red Wine and Postcards (album release in 2008 – the story of our lives really), Times Like These (an EP 2006), Under a Different Sky (2002) – lots of songs on this record were playlisted on ABC. And we haven’t reprinted the other early albums for fear of hearing them somewhere on our travels. We were so young.

When’s the gig and with who? Wednesday October 22, with Rowena Wise and Ryan Nico at The Melbourne Folk Club. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? Hey, we saw these girls playing at The Melbourne Folk Club last night. They were bloody funny, and played some songs I thought they’d written about me. And geez they had good fashion sense too. We had a drink with them after the show, bought their records off iTunes straight away, and now we’re gonna tell our mates in Adelaide to go see ‘em. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Be smart and innovative, really connect with an audience. Keep writing and, as always, don’t let a “no” get you down. There’s generally another way to get want you need or want. Describe the worst gig you have ever played. In a town more remote than Bundaberg. How do you balance making and playing music with your other commitments? Everything we do is about and around music – I produce and program an Arts Centre in tropical Cairns (Tanks Arts Centre) and Chanel lectures music business at a private college. I also work in remote communities around Arnhem Land and remote QLD writing songs and making music with kids, so the balance is really between supporting others making music and making our own. Time management is essential, but it’s an amazing ride, that’s for sure.

Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

SMALL ENSEMBLES Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.

••THE ALLAN BROWNE QUINTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

••THE MAGIC OF PAUL DEAN - FEAT: FLINDERS

QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $50.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••SLEEPY DREAMERS + I KNOW THE CHIEF + THE

SAND DOLLARS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

••THE MUTUAL APPRECIATION SOCIETY - FEAT:

WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV

Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.

North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••GRIGORYAN BROTHERS - FEAT: RALPH TOWNER

+ WOLFGANG MUTHSPIEL Melbourne Recital Centre,

Southbank. 7:30pm. $50.00.

••MASQUERADE - FEAT: KEGELSTATT ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.

••MINGUS THINGUS - FEAT: NICHOLAS MCCUSKER Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••QUARTET ON COLLINS #3 - FEAT: FLINDERS

QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 1:00pm. $38.00.

••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: DEXTER’S

ASIAN CONNECTION Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

••SIR ZELMAN COWEN MONASH SCHOOL OF MUSIC

SMALL ENSEMBLES Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.

••STANDING TALL Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

••THE QUNTIN ANGUS QUINTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••CHRIS PICKERING & THE ABBOTSFORD 3 +

BROADS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

••GOATPISS GASOLINE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. ••HOLLOW DRUMS + SHANNON CARPENTER +

ANNAN BLIX 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••IRISH SESSIONS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. ••OPEN MIC Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

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VENUE PROFILE:

MR. BOOGIE MAN BAR Mr Boogie Man BAR rose like a phoenix from the ashes of IDGAFF on Saturday March 1 2014. With a passion for music, David and Jenny reformed the iconic location on Hoddle Street Abbotsford to its current aesthetics and feel, they encourage you to come and have a look at the music memorabilia, because you’ll love it. Mr Boogie Man is the quintessential Melbourne intimate venue for live bands up close and personal. The service you’ll receive from the minute you walk in is nothing short of welcoming and friendly: rude is not cool at Mr Boogie Man BAR. “[My] favourite show was just recently during a benefit weekend hosted for Beyond Blue,” says David, “Where a young band called Sisters Doll performed and just blew the whole crowd away. Keep your eyes out for this band as they are just amazing,” he exclaims. Open from Wednesday to Sunday with live music every night, Jenny and David pull the beers themselves, and they reckon they provide pretty darn good service to everyone who joins them at the bar. Wednesdays are open mic night, and when you’re among friends, there’s no need to be timid. If you’ve got talent, they welcome you to strut your stuff from 7.30pm every week. “Functions are what we’re famous for,” enthuses David. “Take over the entire bar for your next party, if you’ve got enough friends I’ll close just for you, [if ] it’s small and intimate, we can cater for your nibbles and of course spoil you with service.” It’s pretty clear the pair is super passionate about what they do. They’re also becoming rather famous for their food, which includes Jenny’s delectable homemade sausage rolls, veggie pasties and gyoza are among David’s favourites, but pizzas are also available to be delivered

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right to the bar. How does one get there, you may ask? Mr Boogie Man is located oh-so-conveniently 100 metres from Collingwood station and there’s a bus stop right outside the bar. Genius. The crowd, David says, is extremely varied, ranging from “youngsters coming to support their friends’ debut band performance, to older, seasoned blues and rock loves of my era,” so you can be sure there’s plenty of warmth and hospitality at this joint. SOPH GOULOPOULOS

MR BOOGIE MAN BAR IS LOCATED AT 160 HODDLE ST ABBOTSFORD, OPEN FROM 4PM TO 1AM WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY AND 4PM TO 11PM SUNDAY. Bands play most nights, with a door charge of $5 to $10 which all goes to the bands as their payment. Gotta love that.

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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

APRA AMCOS DISTRIBUTES $27M TO AUSSIE WRITERS, PUBLS

The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) jointly paid royalties of $256.2 million over 2013/14. This was for 205,343 songwriters, composers and publishers worldwide for 783,070 songs. 35,464 of its 87,000 Australian and New Zealand members got paid for public performances of recordings. APRA’s foreign income for overseas use of AU/NZ songs increased by 24% to a record of $27.1 million. 124,000 businesses across AU/NZ now hold APRA licenses to play music in public. Digital revenue (downloads, streaming, video on demand, websites) remained static at $43 million – a result of unlicensed sites. APRA allocated $914,875 to 117 grants for music industry projects.

GET LUCKY WINS BMI SONG OF THE YEAR

Daft Punk’s Get Lucky took song of the year at the (US licensing body) BMI awards to celebrate songwriters with the most airplay on US radio and TV. Sting’s Every Breath You Take was honoured for 12 million plays through the years, as well as Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl (11m), Eric Clapton’s Layla (9m), the Stones’ Honky Tonk Women (7m), with Free’s Alright Now and Van Morrison’s Have I Told You Lately (5m). Swedish DJ Avicii won the dance award for Wake Me Up which went to #1 in 22 countries while Ed Sheeran and Ellie Goulding had three songs each.

MUSO FRIENDLY AGENCY EVERGREEN ARTISTS LAUNCHES

A musician-friendly boutique PR agency run by musicians launched in Melbourne. Evergreen Artists was set up by Michael McKiernan, who plays with bands including Red Beard. He was a publicist/ booking agent for Various Artists and several other agencies in recent years. McKiernan told us musicians most understand the pressures (financial and others) other musicians undergo as they record, tour and promote. Evergreen also offers consulting services for bookings and management (lesson #1 to indie bands: passion for everything, don’t do it if “you’re driven by money”). Musician and booker Matt Coleman (of Sydney band Smoke & Mirrors) and musician/venue manager Morgan O’Brien handle bookings. Another publicist will be announced shortly. Its roster has Mercury White, Sea Legs, MAR HAZE, This Fiasco, Owen Rabbit, Centre & The South and WREN as well as USA’s The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, MC Sage Francis and Hawthorn Heights for their tours. More info at www.evergreenartists.com.