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PARQUET COURTS
Brooklyn lads Parquet Courts have announced a headline show in Melbourne next year alongside their appearance at Golden Plains. The rockers have fast become a favourite among Australian audiences after appearances at Laneway and Splendour in the Grass. The band recently announced a new album, Content Nausea, to be released under the band’s alias Parkay Quarts on November 11. Joining the band for their Melbourne show will be UV Race and The Stevens. Parquet Courts will play The Hi-Fi on Friday March 6.
FACE THE MUSIC
One of Australia’s most revered and long-running bands, The Living End have joined the already stellar Face The Music lineup. The Living End will press pause on their first run of headline shows in two years to share an in-depth look at their career at Face The Music. All three band members—Chris Cheney, Scott Owen and Andy Strachan— will discuss the stories behind their songs, their songwriting process, the highs and the not so’s and what the future holds as they begin work on their seventh album. The Living End will be joined on stage by their highly-respected, long-standing manager Rae Harvey. Face The Music is on at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Friday November 14 and Saturday November 15. Tickets on sale via www. facethemusic.com.au.
FOREST FALLS
Forest Falls combine folk, indie and intelligently concocted pop styles in alluring, warm-blooded songs. In conjunction with Australian Music Month, the band will tour the east coast of Australia in November to celebrate the release of new single, Heavy Hearted Girl, from their EP, Julia. Having recently workshopped a stack of new material with iconic producer Wayne Connolly ( Josh Pyke, You Am I, The Vines), this headline tour sees Forest Falls take to the stage as an acoustic five-piece, a nod to the raw and visceral qualities at the heart of the Forest Falls musical philosophy. Catch them in this unique stage of musical evolution at Wesley Anne November 1, Federation Square November 13 or The Spotted Mallard November 26.
Splendour in the Grass and summer rock favourites – Band of Skulls – will return to Australia in 2015 for a host of shows, including the sought-after support slot for frequent touring buddies The Black Keys’ Rolling Green concerts, a coveted performance at Bluesfest and two very special limited capacity club shows. After a year of perfecting their latest album on the live stage, a string of high-profile shows across the UK and Europe - including a notorious performance on Later… with Jools Holland, the trio are heading over to Australian shores. Don’t miss your chance to see Band of Skulls when they play Bluesfest in Byron Bay Friday April 3, Rochford Wines with The Black Keys Sunday April 5 and when they take over the stage at the Corner Hotel for a headline show, Tuesday April 7.
SEMPLESIZE BLOCK PART Y
Last month, Melbourne music and lifestyle bloggers Semplesize lifted the lid on a New York style Block Party at Howler this December, showcasing 2014’s chief ‘It Girl’, Banoffee, Milwaukee Banks and House of Laurence. They've just dropped their second announcement featuring pop duo Deja, rowdy fivepiece Twin Beasts, art-rockers The Stiffys, NZ-viaMelbourne’s Fortunes and 3RRR’s ‘Golden Syrup’ presenter and hip-hop DJ extraordinaire, Fletch. Additionally, co-presenters and sustainable fashion title Hessian Magazine will be offering up some cocurricular activity on the day in the form of a runway fashion show featuring the cream of emerging local designers. The daytime affair will kick off at 1pm, Sunday December 7 at Howler. Tickets on sale now through the venue.
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Mick Thomas and The Roving Commission are hitting the road this November and December in what has become an annual ritualistic gathering of friends and performers and something of a Christmas tradition to celebrate the silly season. A staple of Melbourne’s music scene for well over 25 years, the Christmas shows began when Mick Thomas fronted Weddings Parties Anything and has continued the custom that has evolved into Mick’s solo brand bringing with him a rotating schedule of tremendous performers. The Christmas Time Already Tour will be taking in 13 summer dates around Australia. Catch Mick Thomas and The Roving Commission at The Corner Hotel on Saturday December 20 with the superb Ruby Boots in support.
NELLY
It’s getting hot in hurrrrrrrr. Double Grammy Awardwinning rapper Nelly will hit Australia early next year. The tour follows the the release of his seventh full-length album, M.O, which featured guest appearances by Nicki Minaj, Pharrell, Future, T.I. and 2 Chainz. He’ll be joined on the tour by Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. He’ll hit the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Friday January 16. Tickets through Epic Presents.
XMAS EVEN
After taking a well earned break last year, Xmas Even is back with a vengeance in 2014 with two big nights at the Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood on Friday December 19 and Saturday December 20. Special guest for both nights is the talented Jasmin Kaset, all the way from Nashville, Tennessee. Jasmin released her second album earlier this year, Quiet Machine and the Even boys adored it so much they invited her along for the ride. Xmas Even will be debuting brand new songs from their forthcoming seventh album too, it’ll be a cheeky little Christmas present for y’all.
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Nahko and Medicine for the People return to Australia after their enormously successful national tour earlier this year, which included two main stage performances at the Byron Bay Blues Festival. Nahko entered the world with duelling identities composed of Apache, Puerto Rican, and Filipino roots. At 14 years of age, Nahko’s mother was forced into prostitution by her own mother and gave birth to a son. Adopted by a family in Oregon, Nahko found music as an outlet, playing piano, guitar, singing, and even writing his own music. In the Victorian leg of the tour, he’ll be playing at The Hi-Fi on Friday November 14. Tickets are available through the artist’s website.
BEN FROST
Off the back of his recently released album, A U R O R A, Ben Frost will bring his live show to Melbourne this February. Finding inspiration in the more minimalist, instrumental and experimental corners of electronic music, Frost was chosen by producer Brian Eno to study under him in 2010. Four years later and he has added composing music for films including Sleeping Beauty, In Her Skin and The Deep to his list of achievements. Ben Frost will return to Melbourne with a show at The Hi-Fi on Thursday February 5.
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It feels like Alt-J were just here, and now they’ve announced yet another tour - this time, they’ve ditched the theatrical ambience of the Forum Theatre and are hosting a spectacular arena show after their New Years Eve slot at Falls Festival. Catch Alt-J at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday May 10.
FIRST AID KIT
First Aid Kit will make their return to Melbourne next March. Already announced for Golden Plains, the Swedish duo have also locked in a series of theatre performances across the country. The tour follows the release of their third studio album Stay Gold. They’ll hit the Palais on Friday March 6. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
Peter Hook & The Light will visit Australia next February. On the tour they’ll be performing New Order’s third and fourth albums, Low Life and Brotherhood, for the first time ever in Melbourne next year. They’ll also be playing the support slot, performing a series of Joy Division classics. It goes down on Saturday February 21 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets go on sale on Thursday October 30 via Metropolis.
THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS
Australia’s favourite bluegrass export. The Davidson Brothers have just returned from an arse-kickin’ whirlwind tour of the US and have now locked in a free November Residency The B-East. Catch the Davidson Brothers playing their Sunday residency in November at The B-East or playing with Special Consensus, Monday November 17 at Northcote Social Club.
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THE COATHANGERS
It may have taken eight years, but finally The Coathangers have announced they are bringing their live show to Australia this January. The tour comes off the back of their fourth album Suck My Shirt and will see the trio play eight shows while they are here, taking over stages in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland. The Coathangers will smash through The Tote Hotel on Friday January 16. Tickets go on sale Saturday November 1 through Outix.
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B-BOY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR
Casual house superstars Andras & Oscar, aka Andras Fox and Oscar Key Sung, have announced launch dates for their debonair debut album Café Romantica. Released officially just last week, the album has been hitting sweet spots all around the world. Their sold-out Melbourne single launch in August was a whirlwind of berets, costume changes, dancers and champagne, so don’t miss out as they take Café Romantica around the countryside. Catch them at the Shadow Electric, Saturday December 6.
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HARDSTYLE HALLOWEEN
THE AUSSIE ALTERNATIVE
The Aussie Alternative is bringing a stunning lineup of progressive and experimental rock acts to The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday November 8. The lineup is made up of legendary instrumental act Mushroom Giant, Melbourne-based experimental rockers Full Code and Glasfrosch as well as the mind bending Bear the Mammoth. Tickets for the event will be available at the door on the night. Get your experimental fix.
Brooklyn singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten has announced a number of sideshows ahead of her appearance at Golden Plains next year. Van Etten’s fourth album Are We There was released in April this year. Joining her for her headline shows will be Tiny Ruins and Heather Woods Broderick. Catch Sharon Van Etten at The Hi-Fi on Tuesday March 3.
THE TIGER & ME
After extensive national touring over the past 18 months, The Tiger & Me are back with a brand new single, Call Me On Your Own, produced by the inimitable Steven Schram. Following the success of 2012’s The Drifter’s Dawn, the band have signed with ABC Music’s imprint label FOUR|FOUR for a second album, joining Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Tim Rogers, Damien Dempsey and others in their stable of artists. Call Me On Your Own is the first taste of The Tiger & Me’s upcoming album, due out in 2015. They're celebrating the release of their new single with marquee shows in Melbourne and Sydney before returning to the recording studio over summer. Catch them in Melbourne at The Toff in Town, Saturday November 15.
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MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS
The Melbourne Zoo have announced their biggest, boldest and brightest Twilight Series yet. Settle in for a combination of starry nights, wild animals, onsite gourmet food, or your own leisurely picnicking – all sound tracked by performances from a collection of international and local musicians. The 2015 series will feature the massive lineup of Crawl, Bernard Fanning, Sarah Blasko, Paul Kelly featuring Clairy Browne, Kira Piru, Vika and Linda Bull, Dan Sultan, Boys in the Band, The Bombay Royale joined by The Budos Band, Spiderbait, Stephen Malkmus with The Jicks, Conor Oberst, The Village People and The Cat Empire. The twilight events run from January 30 through to March 7 at the Melbourne Zoo, Elliott Ave Parkville. Tickets go on sale Thursday, October 30 from 9am. For full details and ticketing head to zoo.org.au/twilights.
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RUBBER RECORDS 25TH BIRTHDAY
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Rubber Records have announced a series of shows to celebrate reaching the quarter-century milestone. The indie label grew out of a Melbourne bedroom in 1989 and have now released over 250 titles. To celebrate the milestone, they've put together some specially curated shows featuring some of the acts that Rubber Records have hosted over the years. Rubber Records 25th anniversary celebrations will begin at Northcote Social Club with The Casanovas on Wednesday December 3, bZARK on Wednesday December 10 and Cordrazine on Wednesday December 17. 1200 Techniques will take over Howler on Friday December 12 and undergroundLOVERS will close out things on Friday December 19.
THY ART IS MURDER Sat 20 Dec
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Mon 5 Jan
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MELBOURNE MUSIC BANK FINALISTS
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GLASS ANIMALS
Having received thousands of votes for the 12 finalists, the general public’s votes have been tallied and Bank of Melbourne has announced the top four semifinalists of the Melbourne Music Bank competition. The winners are Heloise, NY, Selki and Under The Arch. The semi-finalists will now perform their song in front of an expert panel who will then determine the 2014 winner of Melbourne Music Bank. Sitting on the expert panel is competition Ambassador Ella Hooper, Beat editor Cara Williams and PBS Music Director Chelsea Wilson. Don’t miss the final showdown at the Melbourne Recital Centre event on Wednesday October 29.
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Museum of Old & New Art’s (MONA) four-day festival of music and art is back for 2015. Offering a superabundance of eclectic acts, the 2015 music lineup features the likes of New York post-punk rockers Swans, seminal J-pop riot grrrls Shonen Knife, Amanda Palmer with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, The Clean, Dan Deacon, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker and much more. On the arts front, Chinese performance artist Li Binyuan will be smashing 250 hammers, Architects of Air’s giant inflatable Exxopolis will provide a luminous experience, while experimental Jogjakartans Senyawa with Lucas Abela will be creating a gamelan pinball machine, just to name a few highlights. MONA FOMA will take place from Thursday January 15 Sunday January 18. Tickets on sale now.
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QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL
THE CLEAN
The Clean have announced they'll be returning to Australia for the first time in five years this January. The tour will mark their third visit to Australia in 25 years. The trio have released five studio albums, including 2009’s Mister Pop. Catch The Clean at Corner Hotel, with special guests Lower Plenty, on Thursday January 22.
Queenscliff Music Festival have expanded their lineup even further, adding three new acts to the 2014 event. Joining the festival will be the Good Times Band, featuring Aussie rock veterans Daryl Braithwaite, Richard Clapton and Russell Morris; country singer Emma Swift; and soul outfit The Sweethearts. The new inclusions will replace Kasey Chambers, who had to pull out of the festival due to inflamed vocal chords, and will join the likes of Dan Sultan, Claire Hooper, The Church and The Jezabels. Queenscliff Music Festival takes place from Friday November 28 to Sunday November 30. Tickets are on sale now through the QMF website.
MIKE NOGA
THE RAILWAY HOTEL
It’s been a busy year in London for Mike Noga, where he’s been bunkered down writing the follow up to his critically acclaimed 2011 album The Balladeer Hunter as well as touring with Kurt Vile and Mick Turner of Dirty Three. But Mike's back on home soil for a short time and will be celebrating the launch of his Pozible Crowd Funding campaign for the new album with a special one-off gig at The Post Office Hotel, Coburg. It all takes place on Wednesday, November 12 from 8pm.
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THE FUCK FUCKS & MIGHT Y BOYS
This Cup Eve the Prince Public Bar, St Kilda, is hosting a veritable passing of the baton between one of Melbourne’s greatest pub rock bands, the Fred Negro fronted The Fuck Fucks, and true up and comers of a truly Australian rock sound, Mighty Boys. It’s a free show with the night kicking off at 9pm with Drunk Mums Dean Whitby opening proceedings. Closing the night will be DJs The Ross St. Cheese Platter and Denver Maxx (A.k.a DJ Dan Watt). Monday November 3 at the Prince of Wales.
MACY GRAY
Macy Gray will croon Australian audiences once again when she returns to our shores for a national tour next March. The Grammy-Award winning singer/ songwriter is touring in support of her high acclaimed ninth album, The Way. Gray first skyrocketed to fame with her international chart-topping single I Try in 1999, picking up a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She last visited Australia in 2012, selling out shows across the country. Macy Gray will play the Palais Theatre on Saturday March 7. Tickets go on sale today through Ticketmaster.
Brunswick’s historic Railway Hotel will re-open their doors next month, and last week they announced the lineup for their launch weekend. Ausmuteants and Exhaustion will do the honours, with Nun DJs setting the tone for what’s to come. After a major refurbishment, the venue has an upgraded intimate band room with a new PA, lighting and video system. The venue will feature nightly gigs from Wednesdays to Sundays, with live bands, DJs and more. It will also be open until the early hours, with 24 beers on tap, authentic Italian pizza, plus a wine selection to complement the kitchen fare, which will be served daily from 7am until late. It goes down on Friday November 7 and Saturday November 8.
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THE MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN
Who am I speaking with and what do you do in the band? I am Takayuki Kawahara, aka Fabian. I play kick-arse beat guitar in Minnesota Voodoo Men. It took a little while for your sound to kick off internationally, but now with Europe under your belt, are you ready to take on the Australian music scene? We formed in Tokyo, 1998. We’re one of world famous garage bands. We have three albums, which have already kicked arse in Japan and Euro. The next is Australia’s turn. Apart from your performances at The LuWOW later this month, what is one activity you want to do once on Australian soil? We want Australian girl tempura. Watch out, Reprobettes and Rebelles. For those who haven’t yet had the pleasure of hearing your music, how would you best describe your sound to them, using just three words? Wild kick-arse beat. If you were to give audiences one reason to come to one or all of your shows at LuWOW, what would that be? Playing the guitar upside down while drinking a beer, perhaps? This is the only chance to see our crazy show without being in Japan. We will shake your mind and you will want more and more and more. THE MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN hit LuWow on Thursday October 30 with The Rebelles with The Reprobettes; $12 door tickets only and on Friday October 31 for the Halloween Voodoo show with The Tarantinos $15. Presales available through Moshtix.
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INTERNATIONAL ELBOW The Forum October 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 RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre November 2, The Plenary November 15 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, Flying Saucer Club November 6 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 SASHA GREY Anyway December 6 STEREOSONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Melbourne
Showgrounds December 6-7 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) X-MAS EVEN Gasometer Hotel December 19, 20 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 NELLY Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 16 THE COATHANGERS January 16 EVERYTIME I DIE Corner Hotel January 16 THE CLEAN Corner Hotel January 22 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 JOHNNY 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 G-EAZY Howler February 16 ROXETTE Rod Laver Arena February 20, Rochford Wines Yarra Valley February 21 PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT Corner Hotel 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 SHARON VAN ETTEN The Hi-Fi March 3 FIRST AID KIT Palais Theatre March 6 PARQUET COURTS The Hi-Fi March 6 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 MACY GRAY Palais Theatre March 7 THE POP GROUP Corner Hotel March 7 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 8 65DAYSOFSTATIC Northcote Social Club March 8, 9 FOREST SWORDS Howler March 14 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 BAND OF SKULLS Bluesfest, Byron Bay April 3, Rochford Wines April 5, Corner Hotel April 7 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 ALT-J Rod Laver Arena May 10 YELLOWCARD Margaret Court Arena July 11
NATIONAL 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 SYMPHONIC PINK FLOYD Melbourne Recital Centre November 1 CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS Sooki Lounge November 1, Flying Saucer Club November 7 THE FUCK FUCKS & MIGHTY BOYS Prince of Wales November 3 DALLAS CRANE The Espy November 3 FOREST FALLS Wesley Anne November 1, Federation Square November 13, Spotted Mallard November 26 BRIGGS The Espy November 1, Workers Club November 3 DAVIDSON BROTHERS B-East November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Northcote Social Club November 17 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 PIERCE BROTHERS Corner Hotel November 7, 9 MUSHROOM GIANT Bendigo Hotel November 8 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 ONE ELECTRIC DAY Werribee Park November 9 RUDELY INTERRUPTED Northcote Social Club November 9 MIKE NOGA Post Office Hotel November 12 NEW NAVY Northcote Social Club November 13 PEPA KNIGHT Shebeen November 13 HAND OF MERCY The Evelyn November 13, Phoenix Youth Centre November 14 TUMBLEWEED Gasometer Hotel November 13, 14 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
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AWME FESTIVAL Various venues, Melbourne November 13 – 16 NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE The Hi-Fi November 14 MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK Various venues, Melbourne November 14 November 23 HILLTOP HOODS Margaret Court Arena November 14 DANIEL LEE KENDALL Shebeen, November 14 EZEKIEL OX Grace Darling November 14 THE TIGER & ME The Toff in Town November 15 TEETH & TONGUE Shadow Electric November 15 RIVER ROCKS Barwon Club Hotel November 15 C.W STONEKING The Forum November 15 JIMMY BARNES A Day on the Green November 15, December 13, 20 THE VANNS Shebeen November 20 LITTLE MAY Northcote Social Club November 21 YOUNG MAGIC Shebeen November 22, Strawberry Fields Festival November 23 YACHT CLUB DJS Corner Hotel November 22 DREAM ON DREAMER Gasometer Hotel November 22 THE PREATURES The Forum November 22 DOWN ON THE FARM Emu Plains Racecourse Reserve November 22 HAT FITZ AND CARA ROBINSON Thornbury Theatre, November 23 BACK BACK FORWARD PUNCH Shebeen November 28 DICK DIVER The Hi-Fi November 28 LULUC Northcote Social Club November 28 THE SMITH STREET BAND Corner Hotel November 28 VIOLENT SOHO 170 Russell November 28 PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL November 28 – 30 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliff November 28 – 30 LURCH & CHIEF Northcote Social Club November 29 HUSKY Hi-Fi November 29 THE WAIFS Queenscliff Music Festival November 29, Corner Hotel December 1 SHAUN KIRK Northcote Social Club November 30 DALLAS FRASCA Brunswick Hotel November 30 EMMA DONOVAN Northcote Social Club December 4 ECCA VANDAL John Curtain Hotel December 5 THE BLACKEYED SUSANS The Spotted Mallard December 5, Caravan Club December 6 MARLON WILLIAMS Yarra Hotel December 6 THE SMITH STREET BAND Reverence Hotel December 6 (U18) ANDRAS & OSCAR Shadow Electric December 6 JANE TYRRELL Northcote Social Club December 6, The Forum January 9 SEMPLESIZE BLOCK PARTY - Banoffee, Milwaukee Banks and more, Howler December 7 GYROSCOPE Corner Hotel December 13 NICK CAVE The Plenary December 16, 17,18 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS The Hi-Fi Bar December 20 KNIFE PARTY Shed 14 December 20 THE ROVING COMMISSION Greendale Hotel, Ballan January 1 SEA LEGS Shebeen January 9 GROUNDSWELL MUSIC FESTIVAL Lake Tyers Beach, East Gippsland January 10 SUMMER OF SOUL Mossvale Park January 10 UNIFY FESTIVAL South Gippsland January 10 – 11 BEECHWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL Madman’s Gully Amphitheatre, Beechworth January 24 BALLARAT BEER FESTIVAL City Oval, Ballarat January 24 BEN FROST The Hi-Fi February 5 RIVERBOATS MUSIC FESTIVAL, Echuca-Moama February 13 – 15 CHEAP TRICK AND THE ANGELS The Forum Theatre February 13 MEGAN WASHINGTON 170 Russell February 13 KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL Kyneton Mechanics Institute February 20 – 21 BETWEEN THE BAYS FESTIVAL Penbank School, Moorooduc February 28 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy, Victoria March 6 – 9 VANCE JOY Palais Theatre March 13 KYLIE MINOGUE Rod Laver Arena March 18 ROLLING GREEN FESTIVAL Rochford Wines Yarra Valley April 5 THE BLACK KEYS Rolling Green April 5, Margaret Court Arena April 7 RUMOURS: LENNy KRAVITZ, CAPTAIN KIRK AND THE SPRITES, BETTE MIDLER = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
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THE MANY SHADES OF
LANIE LANE By Meg Crawford
Down-to-earth and straight-talking singer/songwriter lanie lane had a meteoric rise to fame: Jack White invited her to record on his label before she’d even released her debut album To the Horses, her song Bang Bang featured on Glee, she’s hung out with rockabilly’s Regent Wanda Jackson (in fact, lane bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Jackson) and she went touring for a solid two years. it was mind-blowing as well as knackering.
While Lane’s grateful for the experience, the end of her tour in 2012 marked the necessity for a pretty significant change. “It was too stressful and I didn’t want to keep living that way,” she says candidly. “It was the first time that I’d ever been so much the centre of attention and I didn’t have the internal resources to cope with it, it was tiring. By the end of the regional tours, it had got to the stage where I didn’t even have the energy anymore to do signings at the end of the show, which I’d always done previously, there was just no energy left to give. “Since that time I’ve filled up the tank. I’m more mindful now too, I can pull back if I look like I’m starting to run on empty.” So, exactly how has Lane changed? Well, for a start, she’s no longer a rockabilly princess: she’s gone for something much more earthy. “I am definitely more comfortable now,” she chortles. “This is a lot less work: that kind of look took a lot of maintenance. This wasn’t just about my physical appearance, though. I made some conscious decisions about how I operate and started working on myself from the inside out. When you make those internal changes, at some point that’s going to shine through in how you look.” While this kind of change may come as something as a surprise to her fans, for Lane, it’s nothing new. “I’ve always made heaps of changes in terms of my appearance and had lots of different looks over the years,” she confides. “That’s been normal for me, it’s just that no one’s ever seen it before, it hasn’t been a public thing.” Her sound’s different now, too. If To the Horses was rockabilly, Night Shade is more pop-country and in terms of content, it’s a celebration of change and feminine power. Lane’s found the shift in sound liberating. “I can go anywhere now,” she laughs. “In the same way that I’ve always changed my look, I’ve always changed musically too, again, it’s just that this is the first time I’m doing it publicly. If I was worried about how other people would receive it, nothing would change. I’m not worried about that though, I’m freed and no one will be able to dictate to me creatively now.” The importance of being honest and true to herself is a consistent theme with Lane. Not that she needs it anyway, but Lane specifically stopped people from fiddling with her pictures for Night Shade’s artwork. “They weren’t totally un-retouched,” she confesses. “There are always a few weird things that need to be fixed. The re-toucher was a lovely guy, but I think he works mostly in the fashion industry where the aim BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
is perfection. The first set of pictures he gave me were completely re-touched and I had to say to him, ‘It looks great, but that’s not me anymore,’ and he apologised and said he’d actually had a conversation with the photographer about how I wanted the photos left as is, but he just went on auto-pilot. “With retouching, an arm gets trimmed and a jawline’s made perfect. I’m not a supermodel though, so I just asked him to take it back about 10 steps. I wanted things to be very minimal, because otherwise I felt that I’d be lying to people. This album is so from the heart and if it had immaculate, retouched images on the cover it just would have totally compromised my integrity.”
“IN THE SAME WAy THAT I’vE ALWAyS CHANGED My LOOk, I’vE ALWAyS CHANGED MUSICALLy TOO, AGAIN, IT’S jUST THAT THIS IS THE fIrST TIME I’M DOING IT PUBLICLy. If I WAS WOrrIED ABOUT HOW OTHEr PEOPLE WOULD rECEIvE IT, NOTHING WOULD CHANGE.” As part of the whole shift, Lane moved to the bush and is on the verge of moving another 40 minutes out (taking her two hours out of the city in total). Some folk find sea-changes are not all they’re cracked up to be, but Lane’s thriving out yonder. “It is so much more peaceful,” she enthuses. “You just don’t get bombarded with advertising and consumerist stuff. I’ve made a decision not to be involved in that part of our culture. When I first moved out here, I didn’t have too much in the way of a social life, but now that I’m recharged I go into the city to catch up with my friends, although I can’t do it for too long, I start looking forward to being home, surrounded by nature again.”
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If that weren’t all idyllic enough, Lane’s also raising four chickens. “They’re all very friendly,” she smiles fondly. “Two of them let me pick them up and cuddle them, but the other two are like, ‘No way.’ They’re so sweet; they’re part of the family.” She’s also been baking like crazy. “I do that sometimes, especially if I have people around because it gives me a purpose to bake,” she says. “Sometimes I don’t know quite what to do with myself and baking’s good for that. Say on the day that Celeste [Night Shade’s first single] was being released I was so nervous I cleaned the house for a bit, but then I ended up baking and it was awesome.” Another change has been Lane’s increasing attraction to physical and visual art. You can check out what she’s been up to in the clip for Celeste, which features beautiful mandala-like sculptures constructed out of natural materials. “One of the things I like most about them is that they’re impermanent,” she explains. “You photograph them and then they’re destroyed – they blow away. That’s where I feel I am at the moment; doing something more physical and less wordy.” Part of Lane’s skill set in this department arises from the fact she used to be a florist – something she now regards as a bit of a blessing. “It gave me a physical awareness,” she reflects. “In floristry, you can’t force things. Something hard and spiky is not going to go with something soft and delicate, you need to have subtle layers.” Lane’s inspired in this regard by British sculptor and environmentalist Andy Goldsworthy, who also makes site-specific and land-based artwork. “He’s been working with rock and shale or flat stones and building these amazing sculptures that look like pine cones,” she notes. “He says that he needs to listen very carefully when he’s doing it, he needs to listen to what the sculpture needs. Sometimes, after working on things for five or six hours, he’ll have the whole thing tip over and he just says, ‘It’s my fault for not listening.’ That’s something I think about a lot – how can I listen better.” Rightly, Lane’s pleased by her metamorphosis. “I feel more in touch with myself now and it’s given me more empathy,” she observes. “I also feel like I’ve softened a bit; I’ve got softer edges now. I’m not living in such a hard way.” lanie lane hits the Corner Hotel on Wednesday October 29. Tickets are available through the venue. Her glorious second release Night Shade is out now on ivy league Records.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN ACMI are currently presenting the Australian premiere of Cathedrals of Culture, a film which showcases some of the world’s finest architecture. Cathedrals of Culture explores six architecturally distinct buildings around the world and asks the question “If buildings could talk, what would they say about humans?” Each building is explored by a different filmmaker – Wim Wenders examines the Berlin Philharmonic, Michael Glawogger the National Library of Russia, Michael Madsen looks at Halden Prison, Robert Redford the Salke Institute, Margreth Olin the Oslo Opera House and Karim Ainouz the Centre Pompidou. Cathedrals of Culture will run at ACMI until Tuesday November 11.
With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm. making: he earned his stripes at Tracks, a surfing mag, and met Falzon and a bunch of the crew making surf movies around the same time. “I was hanging around the whole culture of creating stuff – whether it was photography, films, writing, magazines – I was immersed in it and found it incredibly interesting. So, when I finished at the magazine and a friend and I went off and made a film, it just seemed like such a natural, easy thing to do. I never even questioned whether we could do it – we just did.” As you’d expect, Spirit of Akasha features some modern legends (Stephanie Gilmore, Beau Young, Mick Fanning, Kelly Slater and Tom Curren, amongst others) and has a mind blowing soundtrack (Dirty Three, Grouplove, Xavier Rudd, Brian Wilson, Angus Stone, Bonnie Prince Billy and then some). “As the film developed, as different musicians, surfers and photographers got involved, I realised that everyone was making an homage to this thing they loved – that’s what the film became. Since Alby made that film 40 years ago, all of these sprouts of inspiration have gone off in all of these different people and now they’re able to give back to it in this project.”
ON STAGE Naked Girls Reading have announced a special Halloween event, Naked Ghouls Reading, taking place this month. Since starting up in Chicago in 2009 Naked Girls Reading has grown to have chapters in 14 US cities, Canada, the UK and Australia. This month Naked Ghouls Reading will feature everything from slasher film scripts to hammer horror classics, campfire thrillers to true crime biographies, as the Naked Girls Reading naked ghouls delve into the dark and twisted world of devils, demons and depravation. Naked Ghouls Reading is taking over The Noble Experiment, Collingwood on Wednesday October 29.
ON DISPL AY The National Gallery of Victoria have returned with the latest instalment of their popular Friday Nights series. Friday Nights at Jean Paul Gaultier allows visitors to enjoy after-hours access to the The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition and hear from a lineup of Australian and international performers, including electronic artists, solo performers and bands. The Friday Nights series will also present pop-up fashion talks and offer food and dining opportunities within the heart of the Gallery. This Friday October 31 there will be a performance from Cibo Matto, who first gained fame in the ‘90s with their now classic records Viva! La Woman and Stereo Type A. Visit their website for more information.
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The world’s first classically-trained garage band, Time for Three, will team up with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for American Panorama: Bernstein, Gershwin, Williams and Brubeck this weekend. Hailing from Philadelphia, the trio will perform their unique sound alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Boston Pops’ Chief Conductor Keith Lockhart. They’ll perform a self-penned contemporary piece that combines classical elements with jazz and bluegrass. Their repertoire will feature Bernstein’s Candide: Overture, Gershwin’s Three Preludes, Aaron Copland’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, John Williams’ Far and Away: Suite, Dave Brubeck’s Unsquare Dance and Blue Rondo a la Turk and Chris Brubeck’s Travels in Time for Three. It all goes down on Saturday November 1 and Sunday November 2 at Hamer Hall.
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SPIRIT OF AKASHA By Meg Crawford
There’s been a lot in the press recently about surf culture thuggery, but it hasn’t always been tarred with that brush and it’s certainly not that way across the board. Back in ’71 Alby Falzon and David Elfick self-funded Morning of the Earth, Australia’s first surf feature film. It featured Nat Young, amongst other surf legends, and a cracking soundtrack. For the non-surfer, the film managed to convey the peace that comes with surfing and, being in midst of the Vietnam War, it became part of a counter-culture invitation to chill out. 40 years later, muso, surfer and surf movie maker Andrew Kidman was pressed to make a film paying tribute to Morning of the Earth. Kidman bucked against it like a bastard at first. “I was definitely reluctant to do it,” he laughs. “I just couldn’t see the point.” It took a call from Falzon to swing him around. Falzon encouraged him to have a crack and just see what unfolded. As it turned out, Kidman had some pretty firm views on what’d make it a valid undertaking, but if Warners didn’t fancy what he had on offer, he was prepared to walk away. Happily though, there was a meeting of the minds and Spirit of Akasha was born. “It’s a modern homage to Morning of the Earth,” Kidman explains. All of Kidman’s work links back in someway to the sea – he’s had that connection with it for ever. “I grew up immersed in it – as a little kid I was always in the sea,” Kidman reflects. “I always loved it and my kids have that now. It’s a wonder world I guess.” Kidman needs the sea. “Any time that you get to go down the coast and ride waves, whether you’re doing it by yourself, or with your friends, kids or wife, it’s such a separation from all of the other things we have to do in our lives to get by,” he observes. “It’s that one thing you do and all of the troubles of the world are basically
gone. I can see why people call it an addiction, because it probably is – you’re always wanting to go back to it. I can’t see my life without it. I spend a lot of time in New York and I still have to go and spend time on the coast there. I don’t feel right unless I’m out there – even if it’s just standing on the beach.” Kidman’s first introduction to Morning of the Earth was via the soundtrack. When he was young, he and his bro used to park their boards at a doctor’s house. One day, when they stopped in for a cuppa after a surf, said doc played the soundtrack for them on vinyl. “It was the early ’80s and at the tail end of punk,” Kidman reflects. “But this soundtrack was a whole other thing – it had classical elements and was just really beautiful.” Kidman describes watching the flick the first time as “mind blowing”, but he didn’t get to see if for quite a while – it was in the olden days (way pre-DVD) and he had to wait for a couple of years until it came out on video. In between its initial release and when it surfaced on VHS, Morning of the Earth had all but disappeared (other than for the soundtrack and the movie being indelibly printed in the minds of those lucky enough to see it the first time around). It’s not surprising that Kidman ended up in surf movie
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Mick Turner, Dirty Three’s electric and bass guitarist, was one such artist. Turner remembers very clearly his first encounter with Morning of the Earth. “I saw it back in the day. I was a young teenager and I had the album on cassette – I still know it backwards. I used to play it a lot.” Suffice to say, Turner was happily roped in. He’d known Kidman for donkey’s years. “He asked Dirty Three if we’d contribute some music, which we did, and he also asked if we’d be interested in doing a cover version of one of the songs off the original Morning of the Earth soundtrack. I tried to get the others into it, but they were really busy and not familiar with it, whereas I knew it really well.” Turner’s another one who has an enduring relationship with the sea. “I grew up next to the bay, which meant that there was no surf unless it was really stormy, but I’ve always been drawn to large bodies of salt water,” he laughs. “I surfed a lot when I was teenager, but then I started playing in bands and I was suddenly rehearsing on the weekends instead of going surfing. So, I didn’t do it for a while, but I’ve taken it up a bit again lately. I love going out on the water. There are a lot of good things about it – it’s like the old days – there are no phones.” Spirit Of Akasha will be screened at Hamer Hall on Friday November 7 accompanied live by some of the soundtrack’s musicians, including Greg Walker (Machine Translations), Jack River, Mick Turner and Oliver Mann.
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Lawrence Mooney hosts another big one tonight at Crab Lab with Josh Earl, Fancy Boy, Jonathan Schuster, Nick Capper and a whole heap more just for the low, low price of $5. It kicks off at 8.30pm, 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
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SummerSalt Outdoor Arts Festival have revealed a gargantuan program that promises to transform Melbourne’s arts precinct like never before. The massive undertaking is led by the Melbourne Recital Centre in collaboration with Arts Centre Melbourne, ABC, Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts, Chunky Move, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet and the Victorian College of the Arts amongst many others. From late night music, cinema and participatory arts events, SummerSalt is unlike anything Melbourne, yet alone Australia, has seen before. The program will be comprised of activities undertaken by the consortia members alongside independent submissions by companies, artists and the community, and will activate under-utilised public spaces. “Bringing so many companies and artists together in collaboration to present SummerSalt is a first, as is the uniquely outdoor focus of the Festival,” said Festival Director Kirsten Siddle. “‘SummerSalters’ can expect cross-pollinations of arts companies and exciting cultural mash-ups – a bit like Melbourne itself – happening in surprising places around the precinct. We hope that people will delight in SummerSalt and discover the city’s quirky artistic heart.” Some highlights of the program reveal include Home, which will see 7,000 colourful wooden houses popping up across the city; Creature Features, a series of giant inflatable animal installation artworks; the Sugar Mountain festival which will be headlined by Nas; Chunky Move’s latest work gentle is the power; the labyrinth of light and colour that is Exxopolis; free concerts at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; and The Curious Game, which will see Dodds St transformed into a giant chessboard awaiting human pieces. The closing weekend will also coincide with White Night Melbourne, where audiences will revel in the adrenaline-fuelled exuberance of Pixel Mountain, in which a specially constructed 10 metre wall will be used as a performance area for high octane aerial dance and interactive projection work. SummerSalt Outdoor Arts Festival will take place from Friday January 23 - Saturday February 21. She Male Snails
FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Jeff Green headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday night. The legendary UK comedian has done it all in England, and he’s done plenty of TV over here too. Plus Xavier Michelides, Lehmo, Greg Larsen, Kate McLennan and Nick Capper. Five Boroughs has been so packed for months, you’d better get down early. It’s all happening this Thursday October 30 at 8.30pm at Five Boroughs Comedy, 68 Hardware Lane (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12.
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Melbourne’s first transgender and gender diverse film festival have unveiled their inaugural program. tilde marks Melbourne’s first international film festival created to showcase the work of trans and gender diverse filmmakers along with films containing trans and gender diverse content. Running in partnership with the Sydney Transgender International Film Festival (STIFF), the festival will screen five feature length films and a collection of shorts, including Boy Meets Girl, My Prairie Home, She Male Snails and more. tilde will take place from Friday November 21 Sunday November 23 at the Bella Union.
The St Kilda Film Festival will return for another year in 2015, with a new home at the iconic St Kilda Town Hall. The festival is now calling for entries to its varied categories, including Australia’s Top 100 Short Film Competition, the SoundKILDA music video competition and the Under the Radar competition for filmmakers under 21. St Kilda Film Festival will run from Thursday May 21 to Saturday May 30.
Tonight Public Bar Comedy welcome back the LA-based Australian comedian Ash Williams. He never fails to destroy at the Public Bar. Plus it’s a rock solid support lineup with the hilarious harp work of Linda Beatty, Dirty Laundry Live’s Greg Larsen, Jack Druce and Sean Bedlam with Steele Saunders hosting. And you never know how might pop in for a spot, in just the last two weeks they’ve been treated to unadvertised sets from Tom Gleeson and Dave Thornton. Grab $5, get down there and find out why Public Bar Comedy has become a favourite with comics and punters alike.
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Museum of Old & New Art’s (MONA) four-day festival of music and art is back for 2015. On the arts front, Chinese performance artist Li Binyuan will be smashing 250 hammers, Architects of Air’s giant inflatable Exxopolis will provide a luminous experience, while experimental Jogjakartans Senyawa with Lucas Abela will be creating a gamelan pinball machine, just to name a few highlights. MONA FOMA will take place from Thursday January 15 - Sunday January 18.
One of the most-read and iconic children’s books of all time, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is set to come to life on the stage in a world premiere at next year’s Sydney Festival, before touring around Melbourne, Brisbane, Penrith, Queanbeyan and Newcastle throughout 2015. Celebrating its 45th year, The Very Hungry Caterpillar will excite, educate and entertain new readers and first time theatre-goers, as well as those who grew up with the books in this brand new Australian made show. Featuring 75 puppets made by New York company Puppet Kitchen (who have worked on shows including Sesame Street and Bear In The Big Blue House),the show will feature characters from three more of Eric Carle’s bestselling classics including Mr Seahorse, The Very Lonely Firefly and The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse. Characters include an eight foot red crocodile, a life size yellow cow, an underwater world filled with all types of sea creatures, a three metre beautiful butterfly and of course The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The Very Hungry Caterpillar show will come to Chapel Off Chapel from Monday March 23 until Thursday April 2.
There’s 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, they’ve got another shed-ton of guests including Greg Fleet, Corey White, Kate McLennan, Matt Klein, Gerard McCulloch, Simon Taylor and more. It’s on this Monday November 3, 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.
THE MOULIN BEIGE Melbourne’s most experimental comedy night returns this week. Featuring Tessa Waters, puppeteer Sarah Jones, clown Cam Venn of the Broccoli Brothers, Liz Skitch, balancing teacups with Sue Broadway, Jonestown delivering freshly baked sketch comedy, circus cabaret from Papillon and irresistible theatrical comic tease from Poppy Cherry. Tickets are $12 at the door or try the $25 show and meal deal. It goes down on cup night, Tuesday November 4, at The Wesley Anne. Show starts 7.30pm.
CORKED UP!
Celebrating the third year of their partnership with Annamila through the BLAKflip program, Circus Oz have announced a new production Corked Up! opening this November. The Circus Oz program creates pathways for professional development and performance in circus for First Nation Australians and is kicks off this year with a month-long intensive in the Circus Oz home before wrapping things up with the new production. The Circus Oz BLAKflip program has grown from the first master class in early 2012, which focused on skills development to an expanded four-week intensive program consisting of individual and group training as well as creative and show development. This year the program features nine participants from across Australia. Corked Up! will bring together aerials, burlesque and comedy presented by a mob of acrobats, live musicians and comedians. Circus Oz BLAKflips’ Corked Up! will take over The Melba Spiegeltent in Collingwood from Wednesday November 5 until Friday November 7. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
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MONSTER FEST
Australia’s foremost celebration of international cult and horror cinema, Monster Fest, is back for 2014 and today they’ve announced their program in all it’s gorey. This year Cinema Nova and Yah Yah’s (which will also be turned into the festival’s lounge and event space, The Monster’s Lair) will play host to screenings to some of the scariest, weirdest, most twisted and depraved films from Australia and around the world. Kicking off on Thursday November 20 with Chris Sun’s slasher reboot Charlie’s Farm, some highlights of the festival include screenings of The Green Inferno, Dead Snow 2, Under A Kaleidoscope, The Plague and Honeymoon. The international guest list this year boasts a host of cult movie luminaries, including The Twisted Twins ( Jen & Sylvia Soska), Ashley C. Williams (star of The Human Centipede - First Sequence), Conor Sweeney and Matthew Kennedy (star and director of Astron 6’s The Editor) and the king of trash cinema, Lloyd Kaufman. It goes down from Thursday November 20 - Sunday November 30. Visit monsterpictures.com.au for more details. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV
THE AUSTRALIAN TATTOO AND BODY ART EXPO
Now in its fourth year, the Australian Tattoo and Body Art Expo will take over the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre for three days in December. The expo will feature more than 750 local and international artists, as well as tattoo contests, live music, burlesque performances, a pin-up pageant, retail stores and a car and motorcycle display. The Australian Tattoo and Body Art Expo will be held at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from Friday December 5 to Sunday December 7.
Weed Land, Peter HecHt $27.95
Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden -- a medicinal and spiritual refuge for the sick and dying. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine, stirs the opening of Weed Land, an up-close journalistic narrative that chronicles a transformative epoch for marijuana in America. Moving from the passage of California’s Proposition 215, the nation’s first medical marijuana law, through law enforcement raids and the emergence of a lucrative cannabis industry, Weed Land reveals the changing political, legal, economic, and social dynamics of pot.
Parting SHotS, anna BroWn $56.00
It has been a little over a year since The Royal Artillery Hotel closed its doors for the final time under the tenancy of the Kelly family. More commonly known as The Arthouse or more affectionately as The Arty, the Royal Artillery became a host to some particularly stringent strains of original musical output in Melbourne. For two decades the Arthouse fostered vibrant punk, hardcore, metal and grindcore scenes and more within it’s garish walls. … What began with Maree and Mel at the familial nucleus has grown outwards to the adoption of a cast of thousands. Its an extended family that is not just contained to the greater Melbourne, the Arthouse’s roots mine deep interstate and around Australia. These are the bonds have taken my bands around the country dozens of times and the hospitality we first encountered walking through the doors of the arty is a familiar template found Australia wide. And this is what Anna brown has achieved so beautifully with this book; she has captured an extended family in all its many guises and forms.
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Kerry Thornley never imagined that after starting a spoof religion in the 1950s that worshipped Eris—the Greek goddess of chaos and discord—that this seeming joke would unleash a torrent of actual chaos into his life in the years to follow. During the late 1950s, Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald when the two served together in the Marines, and was actually writing a novel based on Oswald three years before John F. Kennedy’s assassination. These connections would later cause New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to suspect that Thornley was one of the notorious Oswald doubles and a part of a JFK assassination plot. Initially, Thornley denied these allegations, but later came to believe that he’d been used as an unwitting pawn in the conspiracy.
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Growing up, Kurt Cobain believed that he was an alien and that his parents weren’t really his parents. He thought that his alien race would rescue him sooner or later or that he would at least meet others like him, never feeling alone again. Eventually, Kurt Cobain will meet like-minded friends and start the band, Nirvana, that changes the musical landscape forever. Created by two up-and-coming Italian comic artists, this nonfiction, coming-of-age graphic novel follows Kurt Cobain from his childhood to the brink of worldwide fame with the release of Nevermind, showing how tough suburban life can be for a teenager and how friendship and music can fill that emptiness, especially when you feel different. Alone.
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The Command to Look is considered one of Mortensen’s most momentous and rare books. Until now, copies on the antiquarian book circuit sold for many hundreds of dollars. It is a crucial book for understanding both Mortensen’s philosophy and his use of psychology in the making of his pictures. To illustrate the text Mortensen includes an amazing gallery of his best-known and most challenging images with explanations, by him, of what makes those photographs so compelling. The reprint of The Command to Lookalso contains two new major essays that assess the significance and impact of the original book.
cenSored 2015, micKey Huff $24.95
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life-signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need—despite what Big Media tells us.
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Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker. In his paranoia, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to explore in detail every last vestige of the private life of the only man he considered a worthy opponent, and to clarify beyond doubt the circumstances of his death. For months two captives of the Soviet Army—Otto Guensche, Hitler’s adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his personal valet—were interrogated daily, their stories crosschecked, until the NKVD were convinced that they had the fullest possible account of the life of the Führer. In 1949 they presented their work, in a single copy, to Stalin. It is as remarkable for the depth of its insight into Adolf Hitler—from his specific directions to Linge as to how his body was to be burned, to his sense of humor—as for what it does not say, reflecting the prejudices of the intended reader: Joseph Stalin. Nowhere, for instance, does the dossier criticize Hitler’s treatment of the Jews.
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Marijuana is more widely available and accepted than ever before, with more people coming to the plant every day for a range of reasons. From the experts at High Times magazine—the world’s most trusted name when it comes to getting stoned—here is an authoritative, accessible guide to marijuana, its uses, and culture. This illustrated handbook offers clear and friendly primers on subjects such as what pot is and how it works, tips on getting high and managing the experience, cooking with pot, and FAQs as well as an “I’m High, Now What?” selection of activities and amusements for the freshly baked. Part manifesto, part party invitation, Marijuana for Everybody! is an informative and entertaining read for the uninitiated and practiced users alike.
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THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S 2015 SEASON By Meg Crawford
Ben Northey’s been lucky enough to be conducting with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the oldest professional orchestra in Australia, since 2003. If you’ve ever imagined that an orchestral conductor’s going to be a stiff, Northey, now the Associate Conductor of the MSO (as well as the recently appointed Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony and a heap of other massively prestigious things), will make you think again. The dude is funny, down-to-Earth and hell easy to speak to. In fact, the interview kicks off with a post-mortem of Richmond’s performance over the past year.
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The interview coincides with the announcement of the MSO’s 2015 season – again, if you were inclined to think it might be stiff, think again because it’s looking better than hot. For a start the MSO’s running a series of free concerts again at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl during the balmy, early part of the year. It’s hard to beat a good picnic and beverage at one of the MSO’s outdoor concerts. Each event’s nicely themed too – for instance, the series includes A Musical Valentine, on Saturday February 14 for the romantically and/or musically inclined (featuring highlights from Romeo and Juliet, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess), and the Summer Nights in Budapest concert, which brings a bit of gypsy revelry to the Bowl with Brahms’ Hungarian Dances and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, one of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century. Understandably, Northey is looking forward to the MSO’s 2015 season, which spans popular as well as more traditional choices – everything from movie soundtracks (Star Trek and Babe), a concert with Tripod as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival through to Ravel’s Bolero and Mozart. Obviously, Northey can’t conduct them all, but is there anything he wishes he was conducting? “Not out of any kind of resentment,” he laughs. “The people who are conducting all of these concerts are fantastic. Probably the ANZAC tribute though – I’d love to be conducting that. It’s going to be pretty special – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 as an ANZAC concert is quite exciting I think, but really I’ve got plenty of my own concerts to worry about.” It’s pretty clear that Northey is extremely smart – he was some kind of child genius/prodigy (he could play the piano and violin at the age of five, when most of us are still learning to tie our laces). He’s musically unstoppable and is as affable as all get out, so no wonder he’s raced to the top of the pack, despite the fact that, conductor-wise, he started late in the piece. Northey was a freelance muso (of course, he was a multi-instrumentalist – flute, clarinet and sax), but it was no longer entirely floating his boat, so at the age of 29, he went back to spuni and started studying under the tutelage of John Hopkins (famous and fabled British born, but longtime Australian-based conductor). Hopkins encouraged Northey to bat on and indeed he did. In fact, Northey went on to win the award for Young Conductor in 2001, then saw himself through a grueling two day audition process for the world’s most famous conductor course in Finland
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before moving back in 2006 to develop his career. The fact that Northey started his conductor training at 29 and did so darned well is astonishing, but he’s a walking advertisement for following your passion, irrespective of years under the belt. “Once I started, I got the bug and when you get the bug for something, whatever it is, it becomes a calling. For me it became obvious that conducting was my ultimate form of artistic expression. For some people it’s playing, for some people it’s composing, but for me it’s this art of conducting. I felt like it just fitted my personality and skill set really well, and I really loved to do it. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else once I started – it was that obvious. I’d prefer to cut off a little finger than stop conducting.” Similarly, Northey can readily articulate his love for classical music. “Classical music does this really well, it shines a light on us as human beings and is able to teach us something about who we are, where we come from and perhaps where we are going. That’s the interesting thing for me about the big master works. It doesn’t need to be in a modern context. Take Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 – it makes us feel something that is common to us all – this feeling of fraternity and this feeling that we are all together. Classical music and the orchestra have the power to make everybody feel the same thing at the same time and that’s what’s amazing about it.” The other amazing thing is how Northey goes about putting his stamp on a score – he can visualise a work being played note for note from start to finish. How the hell does he do that? “It just comes from deep absorption in the score, the music,” he explains. “For example, when I did my first big professional concert with the Melbourne Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, for about four or five months before I literally went to bed with that score – I took it to bed with me every night and I feel asleep with it under my pillow. I just built up this very deep understanding of the piece and the structure of it.” Northey has got to run. He waits until the last minute out of politeness before telling us that he has 10 minutes before a concert – shit, well, you better go suit and stick up or whatever it is that you conductor fellas have to do pre-gig. Northey bids us adieu, but then there’s a pause followed by a familiar roar: “Go Tiges.” Visit mso.com.au for tickets, more information and the full 2015 season.
TITTY TWISTER
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By Augustus Welby
Titty Twister, the self-proclaimed “rudest, sleaziest, freakiest, honky-tonk in all of Melbourne”, is directly inspired by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 film, From Dusk Till Dawn. In the film, Titty Twister is an all night strip club and brothel located in a remote part of Mexico, which is staffed entirely by vampires. When Titty Twister takes over The Hi-Fi this Halloween, that’s essentially what you’ll get. “Until about midnight it’s all rock’n’roll,” says event organiser and film maker Chris Mitchell. “And then after midnight, as per the film, the blood bath begins and it’s carnage. There’s a transformation where fangs pop out and faces become ugly and all the rest of it. “It’ll be The Hi-Fi bar like you haven’t seen it before,” he adds. “We’re a no frills operation and we prefer to keep it fucking gnarly and nasty, rather than a Baz Luhrmann production. There’s flame cannons and industrial scaffolding. We try to keep it as raw and rugged and industrial as possible.” The brainchild of Mitchell and his partner Garrath Holt (who are responsible Chapel Street fringe arts anomaly Red Bennies), Titter Twister’s From Dusk till Dawn homage brings together a number of the country’s finest striptease, burlesque, sideshow and rope bondage artists, along with mean local rockers Mesa Cosa and Sexy/ Heavy. After a 12-night romp at Collingwood’s A Bar Called Barry late last year and a night at Brown Alley in February, Titty Twister’s return for Halloween will push the insanity even further. A notable feature of the event is the inclusion of Shibari. For a large portion of the evening, Sydney dominatrix Mistress Tokyo and alternative fetish model Bliss will be set up on stage performing this ancient Japanese form of rope bondage. “They’re my highlight,” says Mitchell. “Shibari’s really cool. There’s an artform to it that goes back to feudal Japanese prisoner times. There’s a whole craft to it and there’s people around the world who are just nuts for rope work and they get off on it as a very specialised
niche. “From the outsider’s perspective, it is just two super hot, mean as fuck girls, one tying the other one up and sort of torturing her. But when you get into the closer details there’s a very specific craft. What might seem like some weird alternative sideshow that’s running throughout the course of the night is probably one of the most carefully executed elements of our production.” While punters of various interests have embraced Titty Twister, it’s easy to see how an event of this nature could shock the city’s stuffed shirt contingent. “People’s issues with performing arts in that ‘burlesque’ sense has always been a fairly confused one,” Mitchell says. “When we first launched Titty Twister we had an amazing response from people who understood it for what it was, which is a homage to the bar in From Dusk Till Dawn. Then you get this camp which don’t even look past the surface level and immediately go up in arms because the word titty is in there, there’s girls who are half naked, yada yada yada. “There’s two ways you can interpret a woman on stage taking her clothes off dancing. There’s one in the exploitative kind of way and another that’s in an empowerment kind of way.” It hasn’t just been finicky members of the public voicing concern about Titty Twister. Rather, when it
comes to advertising, Mitchell and Holt have come up against significant censorship issues. “A Melbourne based government organisation basically told us we couldn’t use [expressions] like the ‘dirtiest crab infested whore house in Mexico’ because apparently that infers that we’re actually a whore house. The word striptease, we weren’t allowed to use. It got to the point where they said you can’t use ‘neck gouging’.” While Titty Twister deals with these themes regardless, it’s rather disenchanting that the marketing for a Halloween gig has caused such controversy. “If you can’t say neck-gouging or talk about these kind of things in the context of a themed event, what liberties do we have to actually create art?” Mitchell questions. “Art is the one thing that you should have complete freedom to be able to express, because that’s what the purpose of art is. It’s expression so people can get things off their chest, so people can say things and find resolutions. When you start restricting people’s capacity to do that, where does it end?” It’s not only a tad ridiculous to find Titty Twister’s finely curated homage to a celebrated film offensive, but that
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perspective also neglects the participating performers’ artistic merits. “There’s a story involved in what we produce,” Mitchell says. “I’m definitely not condoning people having illegal underground trafficking brothels. That’s just wrong. And I’m not condoning people saying that women are any less capable than men. But there’s something pretty cool and rock’n’roll about a Mexican vampire titty bar.” Speaking of rock’n’roll, anyone who caught Mesa Cosa at last year’s Titty Twister launch will confirm that the Melbourne punk rock fivesome are basically the most dangerous performers on the lineup. “The guys from Mesa Cosa are about as crazy as they get on stage,” Mitchell says. “That’s actually what these censorship bureaus should be more concerned about – Mesa Cosa playing, rather than our go-go dancers. If there’s any blood letting on stage it’s going to be those dudes, versus the vampires.” Titty Twister goes down at The Hi-Fi on Friday October 31.
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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 LIDO [NOR], SOPHIE [UK] + MORE Friday December 19, 170 Russell 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 NELLY [USA] Friday January 16, Sidney Myer Music Bowl 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 G-EAZY [USA] Monday February 16, Howler 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 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DRAKE [USA], THE PRODIGY [USA] + MORE Sunday Match 9, Flemington Racecourse FOREST SWORDS [UK] Saturday March 15, Howler
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Juan Atkins, Hieroglyphic Being, Vatican Shadow, Shackleton, Mika Vainio, Container, The Bug, Evian Christ, Omar-S, Modeselektor, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Mister Saturday Night, Addison Groove, Netsky, London Elektricity, DC Breaks, State of Mind, Moodymann, Leon Vynehall.
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optimo
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Back in November 1997, fearless Glaswegian DJs JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes launched the Optimo club night. Optimo proceeded to take over Glasgow’s Sub Club every Sunday evening up until April, 2010. Not long after introducing club Optimo, Twitch and Wilkes were in demand all over the world. “It’s a pretty great job,” Wilkes says. “We have seen so much of the world through it and met and been inspired by so many great people and places.” Optimo will head our way next month to participate in Melbourne Music Week. In Melbourne we’re quite proud, often boastful, about our music scene. Optimo, similarly, are longtime champions of their hometown scene. “Ever since I can remember Glasgow has had a thriving and innovative music scene,” Wilkes says. “For a city of half a million people, it’s quite incredible the number of new bands that come along and the number of live gigs it’s possible to attend in a single week.” While Optimo stopped weekly club operations four years ago, they didn’t disappear from the Glasgow scene. In fact, Wilkes and Twitch host an event every second month, which regularly spotlights local talent. On top of this, they’re behind the Optimo record label, which also fosters the city’s leftfield music scene. “There’s always new stuff emerging and musicians from different bands collaborating on new projects,” Wilkes says. “Check out new Glasgow two-piece Laps on Clan Destine Records, who feature on the Optimo mix for triple j.” Twitch and Wilkes are certainly proud Glasgow denizens, but
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When? Monday November 3. Where? Circus. Who’s playing? Grouch is playing a three set, supported by Child and a very high quality selection of local artists. What will they be playing? Grouch will be taking us on a magical three hour live journey in which we will see his talents across a few genres all incorporated into a deep, dark and foot stomping production. Our other artists will be a mixture of broken beat and 4/4 slingers all putting forward a stellar performance on a night of premium music from the “doof” scene. What’s the crowd going to be like? the crowd you should expect to see here is music lovers of all ages. This will be a very vibrant crowd normally seen on the dance floors at outdoor festivals. If you have a passion for quality music and smiling faces then you will
enjoy this event. What will we remember in the AM? This will stick in your mind as an event - just as the name says - that was intimate and one where you felt a personal connection to the music and the people. It won’t only be the music that enables you to have an unforgettable night but also the vibe of the venue and the people as well. You will remember walking out beaming from a night full of incredible energy. What’s the wallet damage? for this exclusive show it won’t be a bank breaker. Tickets are only $20 and will stay that way. Give us one final reason why we should party here? If you love high quality, technical music and are keen to be taken on a journey then this is where you should party. Join us for a night of great music, great people, lots of smiles and a wild time.
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future music festival Future Music Festival will return to Melbourne next March with one of their biggest lineups ever. Led by hip hop megastar Drake, Swedish star Avicii and Future veterans and firestarters The Prodigy, the lineup features a heavy-hitting slew of talent including Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Example, Sigma, 2Chainz, Kiesza, Klingande, Robin Schulz, Nero, Die Antwoord, Gorgon City, Blasterjaxx, Bassjackers, Tchami, Carnage, Throttle, Cocoon: Sven Vath, Art Department, Appollonia and Yellow Claw. Future Music Festival goes down on Sunday March 8 Flemington Racecourse.
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Oakland’s G-Eazy will make his maiden voyage to our shores for a series of club appearances next February. The hip hop artist behind tracks like Lotta That and Say is touring on the back of his second full length These Things Happen, which topped the Billboard Hip-Hop/R&B and Top Rap Albums Charts earlier this year. He’ll hit Howler on Monday February 16.
It’s getting hot in hurrrrrrrr. Double Grammy award-winning rapper Nelly will hit Australia early next year. The tour follows the the release of his seventh full-length album, M.O, which featured guest appearances by Nicki Minaj, Pharrell, Future, T.I. and 2 Chainz. He’ll be joined on the tour by Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B. He’ll hit the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Friday January 16.
ben frost Off the back of his recently released album, A U R O R A, Ben Frost will bring his live show to Melbourne this February. Finding inspiration in the more minimalist, instrumental and experimental corners of electronic music, Frost was chosen by producer Brian Eno to study under him in 2010. Four years later and he has added composing music for films including Sleeping Beauty, In Her Skin and The Deep to his list of achievements. Ben Frost will return to Melbourne with a show at The Hi-Fi on Thursday February 5.
sasha grey Sasha Grey will hit Australia for a series of DJ performances later this year. Best known for her former work in the film industry, Grey moved on and has since taken on a DJ career, with sets spanning from industrial techno and deep house. She’ll hit Anyway on Saturday December 6.
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zoo Section 8 and Ferdydurke have revealed the lineup for when Melbourne Music Week’s Live Music Safari takes over Tattersalls Lane with ZOO this November. The iconic laneway will close for an eclectic lineup featuring everything from established local bands to up-and-coming Melbourne beatmakers, plus performance art and a giant four-storey-high projection wall. French deep-house producer Brawther will lead the charge, while City Calm Down, Paces, Chiefs, Lower Spectrum, Milwaukee Banks, Dugong Jr, Document Swell, RaRa, Scatter Scatter Sound System, Deer, Citipower, Skomes & Cazeaux O.S.L.O, Stax Osset, Fossa Beats and Haarlo round out the lineup. ZOO will go down on Thursday November 20 from 4pm in Tattersalls Lane.
xmas weekender Future Classic and BBE have teamed up once again to put together Xmas Weekender, a full weekend of Christmas shindigs taking place in Sydney and Melbourne, this December. They are bringing together a lineup of more than six artists from around the globe, with each of the international artists making their Australian debut, and promising some of the most exciting and cutting-edge electronic artists in the world right now. Joining festivities from across the pond is Lido, Nadus, Sophie and QT, with homegrown support coming from HWLS and UV Boi. The Melbourne Xmas Weekender is taking over 170 Russell on Friday December 19.
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Optimo will play alongside Pachanga Boys at the Melbourne Music Week 2014 hub at the Queen Victoria Market on Wednesday November 19.
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it’s unlikely they could’ve upheld an irrepressible party-starting reputation for the past 17 years if they’d blindly supported everything bearing a Glasgow post code. “The fact is that there is a lot of really great music produced here in Glasgow and so we support that if we can,” Wilkes says. “However if it wasn’t any good, we wouldn’t play it. We feel privileged to be a part of it and to be in a position to support artists by hosting bands we love and releasing music we really believe in.” Given the current music industry climate, a network of solidarity and kinship among musicians – and others whose lives are invested in music – is important for preserving authenticity and spreading the word about quality music. This is something that Melbourne Music Week both celebrates and enhances. Wilkes says a similar spirit permeates Glasgow. “In my experience of living in Glasgow as an artist myself, and someone who has been in the position of hosting a lot of new young bands at the club, the spirit of kinship is alive and well.” Optimo’s support for Glaswegian culture extends beyond what happens in clubs on the weekend. For instance, in the wake of the last month’s Scottish independence referendum, all proceeds from an Optimo gig were put towards providing food for people in Glasgow’s poorer areas. “That was a great experience for us all,” says Wilkes, “The plan is to continue with a program of fundraising events in 2015, on a larger scale in fact. It’s a disgraceful state of affairs that we need food banks in Glasgow. However, the
fact remains that the government has failed the poorest in our communities. We have always strongly believed in ‘community’ and a DIY approach is integral to everything we do. So, we pledge an ongoing commitment to doing what we can to help the people in our community who are in the greatest need.” The fact that they’re such proud Glaswegians could suggest Twitch and Wilkes would be reluctant to ever leave. However, Optimo’s gig schedule requires they be away from home for a significant portion of the year. As it turns out, Wilkes is more than happy to venture around the world with his partner in crime. “[We] never feel reluctant to leave. Getting to travel is amazing and the fact that we are a duo means we always have company, which is important too. It’s a nuisance when you get delayed and let your loved ones down by getting home later than planned or getting sick on tour or losing your records after a transfer, but you won’t hear us complain much.” Upon Optimo’s late-‘90s inception, Twitch and Wilkes quickly gained notoriety for pushing past the confines of techno and filling their DJ sets with everything from funk, post punk, noise rock, electro and ‘50s swing. Adopting a boundless approach to DJing could of course upset certain crowd members, but it hasn’t obstructed Optimo on the path to popular repute. In fact, it’s become their leading character trait. “That’s something that just comes naturally to us, I think,” Wilkes simplifies. “Music is music. I think it’s been a case of always being willing to try something new or something at least previously not known, in other words, new to me. “Within any style or genre that one initially might find distasteful, it’s always possible to discover within it. Maybe first looking for the better end of it is important and then maybe finding a gem in there somewhere when you least expected it. It’s better to not shut anything off completely.” Optimo evidently keep their ears alert for exciting, adventurous new music to include in their DJ sets at all times. But they also refer back to plenty of old favourites. “I’m always pulling out records I shelved years previously,” Wilkes says, “which relate somehow to the new material and that I can play alongside [it].”
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The Juke Joint have locked in a killer lineup for their third party. This time around The Juke Joint will be headlined by Daily Meds launching their new album Sour Milk, plus performances from Safire, Cheshire, Deefin and Able8, plus visuals by XY01 and decor by Creatura. In case you hadn’t heard, The Juke Joint is a throwback to the glory days of dusty Mississippi, and sees Howler transformed through the collaboration of several local cutting-edge collectives, the clandestine The Operatives, audio-frequency engineers Whomp! and Opiuo’s record label Slurp Music to showcase local artists, secret guests, visuals artists and art installation in a newly decorated space each month. The Juke Joint takes place every third Thursday of the month with the lineup released exclusively via Beat. Round three of the The Juke Joint goes down on Thursday November 20 at Howler.
club guide wednesday oct 29
snaps anyway
BOOTY WORK Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. GEAR SHIFT - FEAT: SIKANDER + LAN ANALOGUE + OBJECT_STATE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. PURE POP @ EXCHANGE Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 6:00pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
thursday oct 30 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. GROENI + FORTUNES + EMERSE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. HALLOWEEN EVE - FEAT: DJ THE COLONEL + DJ ONTIME Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. LOVE STORY - FEAT: TRANTER + SLEEVES + MEGAWUOTI + SUPREMES + MICKEY P Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. NEW GUERNICA 5TH BDAY - FEAT: OTOLOGIC + ANDEE FROST + POST PERCY + SUPERCHANG + MISTY NIGHTS + KRIS BAHA + SPIN CLUB + GROOVE CONTROL New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE BEAT RAFFLE - FEAT: POSTIE P & DJ BUICK Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 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.
friday oct 31
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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. ANIMALS DANCING - FEAT: PROSUMER + OTOLOGIC + ANDEE FROST The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. BREAD & BUTTER FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CLUB ESC #5 - FEAT: MARCUS WHALE + LARRIE + RAP SIMONS + AIR MAX ‘97 + ASPARTAME Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm. $5.00. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DELTA (PYRAMID SCHEMES LAUNCH) Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:30pm. $28.60. DENTAL OF THE FITTEST - FEAT: HAROLD + RON BIG & IRV KATZ + MASON MADDY + MICHAEL RICCI
+ NALI + OLIVER DAVE + JAMES BARROS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DJ BARNEY Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 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. GEORHYTHM 2 - FEAT: ANDY RANTZEN + VERDE + SQUIDDLY FIDDLER + ARCANE TRICKSTER + MR BRONSON Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. GRUMPY HALLOWEEN Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HALLOWEEN - FEAT: STEVE WARD + JAMIE STEVENS + FLEX COP Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. HALLOWEEN BLEND - FEAT: FARJ + GALTIER + BEVIN + CAMPBELL TONY BLACK + BADDUMS Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. HALLOWEEN SHOWDOWN - FEAT: SEKKLEMAN VS TOKEN + MONKEE VS MUSKA + SOULFLEX VS SWITCHSTATE + ZAYLER + JCHAU VS KYMAERA La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. LA DANSE MACABRE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LQ’S (HALLOWEEN DRESS UP FIESTA) - FEAT: DJ MATT CROSS + J CASTELL + T.P.C 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. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASHLEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. PLAY THE PART! + D THERAPY + SIR J CLEVERLY Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SAM MCEWIN + HIJACK + MATT RAD Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. THE FRIDAY CLUB - FEAT: DJ OBLIVEUS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm. TUNES BY DAVE GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. XO FRIDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
saturday nov 1 A HARDSTYLE HALLOWEEN FEAT: ATMOZFEARS + BASS MODULATORS + TONESHIFTERZ + THE STRANGERZ The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $85.50. 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. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DJ LONEWULF Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. D’FRO + NO NAME NATH + MATT RAD Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. FRENCH FEST WAREHOUSE LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: THE SCULLAMOOKS + RIP VAN HIPPY + PZP + TWISTED MOLECULE + STICKLEBACK + TASH SULTANA + PARAGRAPH + MOONAH RIPP 18 Dawson Street, Brunswick. 5:00pm. $10.00. GOLD CLASS + TERRIBLE TRUTHS + ORLANDO FURIOUS + MOLLUSC Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00. HELMET Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW + GRAYSKULL + KELTEC + MYLES MAC + PETER BAKER + REV. THORN + SAM MCEWIN + SHANE COPAL + TOM EVANS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. MIDNIGHT RUN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. $7.00. MINDFOLD + BRAINIAC + MATERIO + POKMON + OZZY + GLACIAL + FRUMP La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. PROGNOSIS - FEAT: RICH CURTIS + J-SLYDE + SIMON MURPHY + AARON STATIC + SCOTT FREEDMAN + KJ + VDMO KSTATI Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. RESPECT Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. $20.00. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. SOUL BE IN IT Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDY FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $35.00. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + MAT CANT + GET BU$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. VAULT SATURDAYS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. WE LOVE HOUSE MUSIC Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $15.30.
sunday nov 2 ADANA TWINS & DOORLY Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $27.50. 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. HAZE - FEAT: HAROLD & DOC BROCK Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN
+ ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. PONY CLUB - FEAT: TERRIBLE TRUTHS + CHAPTER MUSIC + SCHOOL OF RADIANT + DARREN SYLVESTER + GILL & JOHN TUCKER + GEOFF O’CONNOR + SAM KARMEL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. 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. SUMMER SERIES #3 - FEAT: SIDNEY CHARLES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm.
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monday nov 3 CUP EVE AT FERDYDURKE FEAT: MR. SMITH + LEO + JIMMY CAUTION Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. DOROTHY REUNION - FEAT: TRUMPDISCO + ACID JACKS + AIRWOLF + RAT & CO + CNUTS + GLASS MIRRORS + JOEY & YANNI + JASPER + DOLLARS + CASSANDRA JANE + POP A CAP Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00. GR SUPERCLUB - FEAT: DJ MARK ANGELO + SHAYA + DJ CONEE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. GROOVE CONTROL & LOOSE JOINTS TAKE OVER - FEAT: EDD FISHER + GRANT CAMOV MIDNIGHT TENDERNESS + RORY MCPIKE + WOZ + TUSCAN PRINCE + MAXWELL + CHICO G + PAUL JAGER Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. HIJACK + FLAGRANT + MATT RAD Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. LOCALS 05 - FEAT: DANIEL FILIPOVIC + BRYCE LAWRENCE + WAEL NAJM + UNFETTERED Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MAT ZO + NICK THAYER + SENSULAISE + DIGITAL DREAMERZ + EXIS 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. PLAYHOUSE MANSION PARTY FEAT: NYD + PHILLY + RUFIO + MIKEY KAY + TAHMA + KOSTA KAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REVOLVER CUP EVE - FEAT: TWO SECRET INTERNATIONAL GUESTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. SASHA & SUBB-AN Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $61.20. SPRING AFFAIR - FEAT: WHISKEY HOUSTON + SUGAR PLUMP FAIRIES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. VOID - FEAT: HAROLD New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. WHITE PARTY - FEAT: BEDROCK + EMMA STOREY + KC LILY + LOLA HEART + ROSS HORKINGS + DJ ICEMAN Pier Live, Frankston. 8:30pm.
tuesday nov 4
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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.
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MELLOW-DIAS THUMP - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + CAZEAUX O.S.L.O + GEEZY Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. MVP - FEAT: ROB STEEZY + THADDEUS DOE + STEPHELLES + LOW-KEY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
thursday oct 30
JAMIL ZACHARIA + JAMIL ZACHARIA + ENNIO STYLES + MIKE GURRIERI Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. JELLO DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: SILENTJAY + VERSAJ Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. THE REBIRTH OF COOL - FEAT: DJ MR LOB Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
friday oct 31
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. HALLOWEEN VS DAY OF THE DEAD - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE + DJ AYNA + DJ DEXTRUS The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 12:00pm. HIP HOP HALLOWEEN - FEAT: YUNG WARRIORS + JNR-BOY + ROLEAF REACTION + REASON Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15.00. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JUZZY B + KAYZ Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
saturday nov 1
30DEEP - FEAT: DJ BIZZ + JJOOBBEE + ROYALTY NOISE The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. AUSSIE HIP-HOP BBQ - FEAT: HIRED GOONS + L-GEEZ + FRAKSHA + GRAVITY PONDS + JESSE JAMES + DEX + DIKTION ONE + TORNATO Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. $10.00. BIG DANCING Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. BRIGGS (SHEPLIFE TOUR) + HAU Espy, St
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Kilda. 8:00pm. HALLOWEEN VS DAY OF THE DEAD - FEAT: WALTER JUAN + AARON ARTHUR & DUNCAN FUNK The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 12:00pm. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. RE UP - FEAT: SWISHER + DJ TRANTER + STEPHELLES + GEEZY + BOOTY QUEST The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. RELIC + GHETTOSOCKS + JEFF SPEC + DJ JEFF LEPPARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:30pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUA & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
sunday nov 2
BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00.
monday nov 3
SOULS OF MISCHIEF Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
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EDUCATION SPECIAL Are you having trouble deciding what to study and where to study? Are you unsure about where to go and who to discuss your options with? Well, never fear as our end of year Education Special well help point you in the right direction and get your career off to a flying start! From short courses through to Tafe and Bachelor Degree courses, we take a look at some of the most trusted names in the industry and their arts, design, music, television and radio courses on offer.
If you’re a recent high school graduate looking for that next step or if you’re simply thinking about a career change, then we highly encourage you to visit one of the many upcoming 2014 and early 2015 information evenings and open days listed in this special. It’s all about gaining the best perspective that will help you make that all important decision. So, make sure you book
in a visit and get up close and personal with the facilities, staff and current students that will help take your skill-sets to the next level. All it takes is a visit, learning about your options and having a few questions answered - before you know it, you’ll feel more confident with your career choice and place for vocational study. Go on, hop to it, it’s time to get schooled!
SAE QANTM CREATIVE MEDIA INSTITUTE OPEN DAY: Saturday November 15, 11am - 3pm. INTAKE DATES: February, May , September ADDRESS: 235 Normanby Road, South Melbourne 3205 PHONE: (03) 8632 3400 E-MAIL: melbourne@sae.edu WEBSITE: sae.edu.au SAE Creative Media Institute is the world’s leading education provider in creative media industries with more than 50 campuses globally. SAE Melbourne has been supplying creative media graduates to the world for more than 35 years. They offer degree, diploma and certificate courses in animation, audio, design, film and games. The campus offers nine fully equipped, state-of-the-art audio studios, three film editing suites, a fully-functioning film set, green screen and computer labs fitted with Apple iMacs, ensuring students gain the most from their studies. SAE Melbourne is currently undergoing a major expansion and will become the largest SAE campus in the world. The expansion will provide students with a new student lounge complete with learning spaces, meeting areas and quiet study spaces. The expansion will include more post-production and recording facilities, more classrooms, an art gallery of student works, the introduction of a 360
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square metre sound stage and much more. SAE Melbourne Campus Manager Paul Ledingham said each course at SAE focuses on teaching highend technical production techniques specific to its niche, “for more than 30 years, SAE has maintained a strong commitment to providing high-quality practical training in creative media technologies, producing graduates with industry skills to fill integral professional roles within the sector.” SAE invites all those interested in learning about a career in creative media to the Melbourne Campus Open Day on Saturday November 15 from 11am3pm. Check out the state of the art equipment, hear from academics and speak with the team about enrolling. With a great reputation for career-ready graduates and a campus unlike any other, the SAE Melbourne Open Day is the place to start your creative journey.
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EDUCATION SPECIAL JMC ACADEMY
COLLARTS
OPEN DAY: Friday January 16, 2015. INTAKE DATES: February, June, September ADDRESS: 171 Bank St. South Melbourne 3205 PHONE: (03) 9624 2929 E-MAIL: melbourne@jmc.edu.au WEBSITE: jmcacademy.edu.au Are you still undecided about how you want to spend the next one to two years of your study time? Do you want a preview of what your years after school might hold? Are you after a career change and looking to move into the creative industries? Then this is your opportunity to get to know JMC Academy. On Friday January 16 in 2015, JMC Academy will open its doors and give you the chance to explore the possibilities and discover a creative career with the Academy’s inaugural Open Day. On this day you’ll be able to tour the campus and facilities, undertake a focused overview of your course of interest, speak firsthand with students, scholarship winners and the heads of JMC Academy’s Music, Audio, Animation, Game Design, Film and Television,
OPEN DAY: Saturday January 17, 2015. INTAKE DATES: February 9 (limited places available), May 25, September 7 ADDRESS: 55 Brady Street, South Melbourne 3205 PHONE: 1300 818 777 E-MAIL: info@collarts.edu.au WEBSITE: collarts.edu.au and Entertainment Business Management departments. You’ll also be able to view student work, listen to bands, view student films and even see live audio and film production in action. JMC Academy is Australia’s leading private education and training provider for students who are passionate about pursuing a life-long career in the creative industries. They hold six courses on scope including Audio Engineering and Sound Production, Contemporary Music and Performance, Songwriting, Entertainment Business Management, Film and Television Production, 3D Animation and Game Design with each course delivered at a Bachelor Degree and Diploma level with Fee-Help to support eligible students. Register online now and visit the website for more information.
Pursue your career in music with a degree at Collarts in Audio Production, Entertainment Management or Music Performance. Collarts provides a simulated music industry environment (audio, management and performance) to prepare students for successful careers whilst growing their networks from day one. The courses provide structured learning, delivered by industry leaders (ARIA award winners, Academy Award Nominees), where students are regularly offered opportunities to actually work within the industry whilst studying. The degree includes a tailored 60hour industry placement. Collarts connection with the industry is second to none, with partnerships across the Association of Artist Managers, Face The Music, St Jeromes Laneway Festival amongst others, providing immediate access to the industry for their
students. The learning style at Collarts is also unique, with small class sizes and discussion based learning providing a more intimate experience for students. Collarts boutique style campus is specifically designed for students to engage and build relationships regardless of cohort or studies. Collarts powers the creativity of their students though combining their structured degree programs with endless access to real opportunity, a warehouse style 120-seat auditorium, world-class recording studios, post production rooms, two fully equipped Mac Pro Labs and multiple practice rooms. Their three fully accredited bachelor degrees are offered full-time over two years or part-time over four years. Applications are currently open for their Trimester 1 start in February 2015, so to begin your career in the music industry head to collarts.edu.au to find out more.
NCAT 2014 GUITAR EXPO
GUITAR EXPO DATE: Saturday November 29, 10am - 5.30pm. LOCATION: Deakin Edge – Federation Square, Melbourne CBD. CAMPUS ADDRESS: 62 Murry Road, Preston 3072 PHONE: (03) 9478 1333 E-MAIL: ncat@edumail.vic.gov.au WEBSITE: ncat.vic.edu.au On the Saturday November 29 NCAT (Northern College of the Arts) will stage the second Guitar Expo at Deakin Edge – Federation Square. There will be over 50 handmade guitars from established makers (Luthiers) and graduating students from the NCAT Certificate IV in Musical Instrument Making and Repair course. There will also be a range of demonstrations regarding instrument set up and neck shaping. As was the case last year, there will be a string of high profile performances and workshops throughout the day some including; Rebecca Barnard and The Rockwiz Orkestra, Hetty Kate and James Sherlock, Steve O’Hern Matthew Fagan with a ukulele workshop and even Cuban musicians and dancers who make up the Yumeros collective. NCAT developed the Instrument Making and Repair program six years ago and is the only training facility in Australia that offers qualifications in instrument making. It was put together with the assistance from their industry
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partners Maton Guitars Australia. Since then other industry bodies including Muso City, Cole Clark, and the AMA are in full support of the program. The makers who will be displaying at the NCAT 2014 Guitar Expo are Maton Guitars Australia, Andy Allen (Maton Custom Shop), Cole Clark Guitars, Benedict Stewart, Bolitho Brothers, Tim Kill, Gary Rizzolo, Clingan Guitar Tone, Andy Thompson T Guitars, Shane Briggs, Richard Howell, Jeff Crisp, Jack Spira, Southern Tonewoods, Benedict Puglisi (Double Bass) and the NCAT instrument Making and Repair team. The expo will prove as an invaluable opportunity for graduating students to network amongst makers, resulting in students picking up custom orders for instruments and making their debut into the instrument making world. Visit ncat. vic.edu.au for more information about NCAT’s instrument making programs and further details of the 2014 Guitar Expo.
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EDUCATION SPECIAL RADIO TRAINING INSTITUTE
OXYGEN COLLEGE – ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
INTAKE DATES: February 2015 and continuing throughout the year. ADDRESS: Level 5, 20-22 Albert Road, South Melbourne 3205 PHONE: (03) 9929 7000 E-MAIL: heidi@radiotraininginstitute.com.au WEBSITE: radiotraininginstitute.com.au
INFORMATION SESSIONS: November and December, 2014. INTAKE DATES: February 2015 ADDRESS: 22 Gordon Avenue, Geelong West 3218 PHONE: 1300 195 303 E-MAIL: enquiry@oxygencollege.com.au WEBSITE: oxygencollege.com.au To succeed in music it takes so many things to go right. It takes nurturing and developing potential, management and networking opportunities, along with knowledge and an experience of how all facets of the industry operate. Oxygen College offers all of this and is under an hour down the highway in a world class state of the art facility. The secret is out. Introducing Oxygen College’s Artist Development Program, a course that looks to develop an artist’s artistic potential into something tangible and that can be applied to the current music environment. Where a lot of young musicians struggle, is not with creativity, but with the necessary knowledge of how to turn this creativity into a product, and that product
into a career. Phase one of Oxygen’s program, is the exploration and development of original music whilst networking and bonding with other young artists and industry professionals. Phase two, is taking you and your product to market. Oxygen facilitate artists with a production team to work on their EP, marketing material, live show, tours and a business model to turn their passion into a sustainable career. The college focuses on providing an environment more like a contemporary industry hub, rather than a school and includes world class recording facilities, the latest equipment, social areas for students to connect and best of all the program is Government funded.
At The Radio Training Institute (RTI), students are taught the most relevant and current content, as they’re the only radio education institute in Australia owned by a commercial radio network. In 2015, RTI will offer a brand new extensive Advanced Radio Course. This course is highly transferrable in the industry and assists students to prepare for their professional radio careers. Students will study announcing, industry standard broadcast software, programming, audio engineering, music scheduling and are taught relevant skills in executing commercial voiceovers, creating online content, podcasts and utilising social media. Students that have a community radio background, or have relevant experience in related industries, the Advanced Radio Course is ideal. Commencing in February, this course is new and in high demand, so enrol soon to avoid disappointment. For the novice radio announcer,
RTI also offers their industry-based course, Intro to Radio. This is for people interested in learning more about the industry, or committed to starting their radio career. The course content has been designed to help build students’ confidence and transfer skills into industrybased placements. This course includes training in announcing, broadcast software, copywriting, social media and voiceovers. RTI runs this course in multiple formats to suit full-time or part-time workers as well as uni or secondary students. Given there are various areas within the radio industry, RTI also offer short courses for those who want to gain additional skills or focus on the specific areas of voiceovers for TV and radio, sports broadcasting , copywriting and news presenting. If you’re interested in starting or building your career in radio, be sure to contact Radio Training Institute.
AIM (AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC) OPEN DAY: Saturday November 15. INTAKE DATES: Trimester 1: January 27 2015 Trimester 2: May 18 2015 Trimester 3: September 7 2015 ADDRESS: 120 King Street Melbourne VIC 3000 PHONE: (03) 8610 4222 E-MAIL: enquiries@aim.edu.au WEBSITE: aim.edu.au Make sure you make the time to visit Australian Institute of Music’s Open Day happening on Saturday November 15 at their Melbourne CBD campus. As a prospective student, you will experience the vibrant city campus come to life with free workshops, master classes and live performances. Catch local Melbourne act White Summer tear up the stage for a live performance, sit in on the industry panel forum to hear guests share their advice and insights on how to break into the entertainment industry, or go on a tour and have a chat with friendly AIM staff and students. The AIM Open Day is the perfect opportunity to get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a student at the leading school for today’s creative industry. Check the AIM website for more information.
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WELCOME I thought I saw a ghost once. While having a cup of tea with Grandpa at the local cricket club, I needed to answer the call of nature. At the end of the hall stood an old man in cricket whites, he smiled at me and walked into the room opposite the loos. I smiled back and thought nothing of it but as I pushed open the door to the ladies’, I turned to face the opposing room into which he’d walked and saw it was completely empty. Don’t say you aren’t just a little bit spooked if not a tad curious. There’s an abundance of people reporting ‘ghostly activity’ around Melbourne and if you’ve ever experienced a brush with the supernatural, you’ll know those arseholes on Ghost Hunters are full of complete BS. Let’s face it, there are some things in life you can’t explain, like when shower heads turn on and off by themselves, or you feel a weight at the end of your bed as if someone were sitting there and before you roll your eyes in rational disgust, yes, these anecdotes are coming from reputable, existing human sources. And so it brings us to our subject of the day: Halloween. The holiday’s traditionally an opportunity to remember the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs and “faithful departed believers” (whatever that means), but insights into modern pop culture suggest it’s just an excuse to dress up as Superman, or a mouse ± duh ± a nd do
everything our parents told us not to do like asking complete strangers for candy. We can probably all agree The Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors of the ‘90s were among some of the best episodes. While Halloween has predominantly been an American celebration, Aussies have taken to it like a zombie horse to water, with the two major supermarkets expecting a rise in sales of 30 per cent across lines of costumes, confectionary and pumpkins; although it doesn’t match the $8 billion Americans are tipped to invest ($350 million of that apparently goes towards costumes...for their pets). In this ghoulish issue of Beat, we’re paying homage to all things spooky, creepy and downright spine tingling in our Halloween special. Mwahahahahaha. JACKIE O’LANTERN
HEDGEND’S A-MAZE-IN HALLOWEEN
TITTY TWISTER job. Just come to get messy, any ol’ creatures of the night will do! Failing that, for the noobs and boobs, quit massaging your snake and watch from Dusk Till Dawn. Comprende esé? Any spooky drink specials? You’re a spooky drink special. $7 beer specials, $7 tequila cocktails or a hip flask of O-negative. What about prizes for best costume? Lifetime membership to all Titty Twister events. With future inflation, that could be worth millions.
Now in its second year, Hedgend’s Halloween celebrations are set to hit new heights with the inclusion of zombie laser to a myriad of other activities. Hold the phone, what? Did you just say zombie laser? Owner of Hedgend Maze Lea Bowen describes it as a “combination of modern computer games and military training scenarios, where players who work with a strong emphasis on tactics, stealth and strategies win missions against dreaded zombies.” So, it’s essentially Laser Tag, made even more awesome by the presence of zombies. Fucking. Sick. It’s an interactive thrill session, where survivors could become infested and morph into zombies, which means you could find your mates turning on you, surely to keep you on your toes. A little over an hour drive from Melbourne, Hedgend sits within uninterrupted panoramic views of the sweeping hills, located in the picturesque Yarra Valley. For Halloween night only, a zombie apocalypse will also be coming to Hedgend. “We can’t wait to launch this new event,” enthuses Bowen. “I’ve dreamed up a fantastic fluid story and built some amazing props to help bring this event to a whole unique level. “Maddie Van, our head makeup artist has come up with some brilliant designers to make the ravenous, blood hungry zombies come
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alive.” The trail will start you at the Military HQ within the property of Hedgend Maze, Yarra Valley. With only a handful of friends, you’re required to walk through the 20 acre park following a cut grassed pathway that meanders with the aid of a little light from one old flickering lantern. Just hope the lantern doesn’t blow out. Steadily make your way through the two woodlands, up to the entry of the enchanted maze, weaving your way through the twists, turns and dead ends of the 1.2km maze, over the grave yard and finally into the clearing and the safety of the stables which Bowen suggests may not be as safe as they appear. HEDGEND MAZE’s Halloween celebrations kick off from this Friday until Tuesday November 4. Tickets are available online for $20 and $24 on the door. Fright Night ± Zombie Apocalypse runs Friday night only, $20 online and $25 at the door. Booking your preferred trail time is essential. See www.hedgend.com. au/ for more details.
What will we remember in the AM? If we do our job right you won’t have anything left but a pass-out stamp to remember the night by. Leave your self respect at the door and your inhibitions in the cloak room. What happens at Titty Twister? You don’t want to remember. Where is it? The Hi-Fi Bar, 125 Swanston Street, Hellbourne. What sort of frightening decor should we expect? Nasty, brutal, industrial, no thrills Mexican vampire titty bar madness, and fire. Lots of fire. What’s the entertainment going to be like? Alright, we’ve got white, black, Spanish, yellow vampire go-go dancers. We’ve got hot, cold bands Mesa Cosa and Sexy/Heavy. We’ve got wet Shibari BDSM Bliss and Mistress Tokyo. We’ve got smelly freaks and geeks. We’ve got hairy, bloody punk punters. We’ve got snapping grinder girl Sparkarella. We’ve got silk, velvet, Naugahyde escape artist Captain Ruin. We’ve even got horse, pussy, chicken, down right and dirty MC James Grim and a whole lot more. If we don’t got it, you don’t want it. Do you have a costume suggestion for us? What am I, your stylist? To quote the great Louie Armstrong: “If you have to ask what Jazz is, you’ll never know.” Our punters look like they’re at a costume party during their day
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We scare easily, what’s going to terrify us the most? At Titty Twister, anything’s possible, we don’t want to show our cards at once, but anyone who has attended our previous gigs will know what’s in store, Ultimately you’re likely to be most horrified at yourself for sanctioning this insanity. What’s the wallet damage? $35+bf presale, $45 on the door. If you can find cheaper Titty Twistin’ anywhere, fuck it! Give us one final reason why we should party here. The authorities have been trying to shut this gig down since we first started, 13 events later we’re still dealing with legal censorship letters. If that doesn’t sound like fun, well. While all the other parties continue trying to bite our style, while we remain satisfied with just biting our punters. Why wouldn’t you want to party here? Oh fuck, that’s two reasons. TITTY TWISTER is back at their new home of The Hi-Fi 125 Swanston St, Melbourne CBD. The Halloween festivities get cranking from 10pm.
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THE FITZROY BEER GARDEN
Where is it? The Fitzroy Beer Garden, home to one of the most terrifyingly awesome beer gardens in Fitzroy. What sort of frightening decor should we expect? The whole venue will be decked out with all things chilling, disturbing and horrifying: ghosts, ghouls, freaks, skeletons, death, and Sugar Skulls and Mexicana to celebrate the Day of The Dead What’s the entertainment going to be like? Live DJ’s each night in the garden, free horror/
sugar skull face painting each night from 6pm and a whole lot of other scary shit. Do you have a costume suggestion for us? The more disturbing the better. If you can scare the Fearless Leader (remember she is fearless) she’ll buy you a shot. Any spooky drink specials? $2 tequila shots (yes $2!) and $20 Corona Buckets. What will we remember in the AM? The sweet taste of tequila. We scare easily, what’s going to terrify us the most? Gary. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. What’s the wallet damage? Free entry, $2 tequila shots, $2 tacos, $20 Corona buckets. Minimum wallet damage, maximum head damage. Give us one final reason why we should party here. Because if you don’t Gary will haunt your dreams forever. BEWARE. You can find THE FITZROY BEER GARDEN at 243 – 245 Gertrude Street Fitzroy. Their Halloween/Day of the Dead celebrations are from midday.
THE PENNY BLACK’S HALLOWEEN
Where is it? The Penny Black band room. What sort of frightening decor should we expect? We’ll have it all decked out! Cobwebs and spiders, your grandma’s socks and your uncle’s Speedos. Skulls and skeletons, pumpkins and the likes, all over the shop. What’s the entertainment going to be like? A gloomy night of soul music, featuring Alone with Tiger, Lady Abundance project and DJ Saul Knight spinning spooky tunes and soul trax all night, happening on the band-room. Do you have a costume suggestion for us? Well, we’re expecting a lot of Beetlejuice, Jokers, zombies and the like. Be original, there’s plenty of ways to be scary, how about the iconic Freddy Krueger or the shit your
pants or It, the scary clown? Any spooky drink specials? We are getting a bunch of American ales, pumpkin ale and other Halloween reminders drinks. What about prizes for best costume? Voucher and booze, booze, booze. Oh yeah, and more booze. What will we remember in the AM? That you’ve forgotten to brush your teeth. We scare easily, what’s going to terrify us the most? No cover charge, and probably your grandma’s socks. What’s the wallet damage? No entry fee, the rest is all up to you and your liver. Give us one final reason why we should party here. Because we’ve got it all; and if you’re sick of being scared you can always escape through the back and party with normal people. Mind you, that might be just as scary. THE PENNY BLACK’s Halloween festivities are kicking off from 8pm. 420 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
THE VIC BAR What sort of frightening décor should we expect? Dimly lit alcoves and fog draped dance floors. What is the entertainment going to be like? Dirty duo We Built The Pyr∆mid bring debauchery and an eclectic blend of hip hop and party tracks to inspire your inner boogeyman. Do you have a costume suggestion for us? Let’s bring back the ‘90s. Get your Chucky, Edward Scissorhands and Kreuger on.
Any spooky drink specials? Hell yes, spooky punch so delicious it’s dangerous for $5 all night and our usual happy hour 6-9pm. What about prizes for best dressed? Here at The Vic Bar we don’t like to play favourites. Come in costume and you’ll unlock happy hour for yourself all night. That means $10 cocktails and $5 pints. Everyone’s a winner. What will we remember in the AM? Let’s just see if you can make it through the night first.
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What’s the wallet damage? If you’re coming in costume bring a $50. 10 pints should probably do you. Give us one final reason why we should party here. Did we mention $10 Long Island iced teas and espresso martinis? THE VIC BAR kicks off Halloween celebrations from 8pm 281 Victoria Street, Abbotsford.
RETRO VAMPT AT DRACULAS Just quickly, who am I speaking with? Philippa Harrison. What role do you play at Dracula’s? Aorta. What’s your personal relationship with the place? I have worked for Newman Entertainment since 2006. I started as an understudy for the production show and then earned my stripes to become a full-time cast member in 2008. Tell us about this new show, Retro Vampt. It’s time to whip out the handlebar moustaches, flares and Afros to groove on back to the 1970s. Retro Vampt celebrates everything about the decade of disco and funk. What are some of the defining features of this show? Big hair, big fabric prints and big platform shoes. Live music is a huge feature of Retro Vampt; I think we’re at 10 different instruments and still counting. The show also features aerial acts, an awesome ‘70s song list and everyone’s favourite: the Black Art Puppets. How’ve rehearsals been going? Rehearsals have been great; there’s so much new material for us to sink our fangs into and everyone always pulls together a fantastic show in such a tight schedule. How do you prepare for a show? First things first, I make sure there’s enough food in the pantry to last four weeks. I do like to wait until our read-through on day one and then submerge myself in scripts, song lyrics and choreography for the rehearsal period. Have you got a favourite or outstanding moment from Dracula’s history you’d like to share with us? In 2009 we had a number of patrons who had been directly affected by the Black Saturday bush fires. These people were so complimentary when we spoke with them after the shows and it made me realise how important a venue like Dracula’s is for the local and extended community. A night of escapism at its best. How do you think it fits into Melbourne’s live entertainment landscape? How is it special? I think Dracula’s is a unique venue within Melbourne’s fantastic entertainment industry. As a city we have hundreds of live music spots, cabaret shows and hospitality experiences but Dracula’s combines all aspects of entertainment and offers a night that no other theatrical setting can. Each production that Dracula’s offers appeals to a diverse cross-section of society, there’s something for everyone. Tell us about Dracula’s history with celebrating Halloween. What goes down? Every night is Halloween at Dracula’s. Retro Vampt opens on Friday October 31 this year so the venue will be having a groovy ‘70s fang-fest. It seems to be a multi-faceted beast. What’s your favourite thing about Dracula’s? I enjoy live performance; it’s unpredictable and audiences are completely different night to night. For someone who’s never experienced a cabaret/theatre restaurant, what should I expect from a night at Dracula’s? Why should I go? Expect a sensory experience from the moment you enter: where else can you find a Ghost Train on the second floor of a building? The unique gothic theme runs through the venue, the menu is contemporary and the show is spectacular. Is there anything in particular we should know that we haven’t touched on? Anything you really want to people to know about Dracula’s? I think you need to see it to believe it. The show has amazing technological aspects that you wouldn’t expect to see in such an intimate venue, the costumes are to die for and we now have our own custom-brewed beer, O Negative, created by Kooinda Boutique Brewery. RETRO VAMPT will hit the stage at Dracula’s this Friday October 31, 100 Victoria St Carlton. See www.draculas. com.au for more info. HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
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HELLO WEEN
303 is a steadfast venue for good, party times in Northcote. It’s op-shop chic with loads of character. Here’s a Halloween party with a bit of a different take on the theme, however. Super Rock and Roll Party are here to present Hello Ween, because who doesn’t love a night of Ween with a little pun thrown in for good measure?
With a career spanning over 30 years, the experimental rock band has delivered multiple epic albums to keep you dancing aaaall night long, but we’re sure you already knew that. Like the good lads say, “Hey there, fancy pants, play the songs that make us dance.” Come and help celebrate this eclectic, hilarious and thoroughly enjoyable band this Halloween, with Melbourne’s favourite Ween tribute band (what a job, ammirite?) 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 favourite songs from 1984 to 2014. It’s pretty impossible to say you won’t want to stay forever, and leave thinking you had the best time at their party, later dreaming of you maybe throwing a party and how great that would be. Supported by Josh Cashman at Bar 303 in Northcote. Doors are at 8pm, $5 entry. This Friday October 31 at Bar 303. Come dressed up in your favourite Ween costume for extra fun, like you needed any convincing.
5 DIMENSION’S HALLOWEEN PARTY THAT’S OUT OF THIS WORLD We get this a lot: “BIGGEST PARTY EVER,” “MELBOURNE’S BEST [INSERT PARTY HERE]” and “LOOK AT THE FUCKING SIZE OF THIS THING,” but when 5 Dimension say it, they’re actually telling the truth. After a hugely successful, sold-out Halloween at the Haunted Chalet last year in Wattle Park, the reigning kings and queens of Melbourne’s Halloween bashes are back for a second instalment, this time in South Melbourne. Marquee, where this year’s party of truly epic proportions is set to be held, has a fairly spooky history itself. Built in 1996, the venue is close to an area of land previously home of Melbourne’s first children’s asylums. Because of this, they tell us, it’s rarely opened its doors for Halloween for fear of awakening the spirits of the children who once lived in the area. Fair enough. Apparently, the sound of children laughing has been known to echo down the stairs and through the foyer, and you’ll probably know if The Exorcist and an eight-year-old Macaulay Culkin are anything to go by, children are scary as fuck. There’ve also been sightings of the spirit of a woman who was thrown out a window appearing near the place she’s believed to have fallen. Needless to say, it’s a pretty damn appropriate location to throw the Halloween party of the year and they’ve got a mammoth lineup of performers, music and other things on offer. So where do we begin? First of all, the venue is absolutely huge. Spanning over two levels, there are three bars including a rooftop smokers’ area and music to suit everyone’s party taste. The top floor will be playing commercial bangers and Top 40 hits, while the lower floor DJs will be appealing to the metal/punk and alt crowds. Happy hour will take place from when the doors open until 11pm, which means $4 basics, $3 wet pussy shots and $10 spooky cocktails, free Meko coconut water
and Hell Energy drinks all night. Need more? You got it. Special effects makeup artists will be assisting you for all your gory details for freezies. If you’ve ever looked this stuff up in Google images and seen how realistic this stuff is, you’ve probably shat yourself like we have. Characters of the horror variety will be roaming around to build atmosphere and scare the living daylights out of you, while the entire venue will be decked out with all the appropriate embellishments of course. Appearing for the entertainment of the night are [breathe in], Zia Electric, one of Melbourne’s finest gorelesque (yes, it’s a thing) dancers will be mixing sci-fi, gore, clowning and absurdity to create tasty viewing treats, dancers Jesyka Rose and Kc Kynk, fire twirlers, sword swallowers, DARK illusionists, acts of electrocution, human blockhead, Wednesday Adams-inspired burlesque, fire eating, steampunk magicians,
pain-proof acts that will keep you on the edge of your seat and much, much more [aaaand breathe out]. It goes without saying this is a costume party, so dress to impress and $1,000 in cold, hard cash could be yours for best costume, there are also heaps of other prizes to be won, and you know how much we love free shit. If last year’s event is anything to go by, this one will sell out in advance so be quick. MELBOURNE’S BIGGEST HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSE PARTY is happening Friday October 31 (duh) at Marquee, 127 Dorcas St South Melbourne. First and second round tickets are sold out so get in quick to secure the third and final release. Tickets will be for sale at $100 on the door if still available, but mention you saw this in Beat to get two for one entry. Doors from 9pm and go to www. trybooking.com/73870 for tix.
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JOSH PYKE
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Josh Pyke has announced the third and final leg of his national Lone Wolf solo tour, and he’s hitting up four regional centres in Western Victoria with local boy Jackson McLaren and his band The Triple Threat in support. Beat had a chat with him about support artists, his Busking For Change project, and the upcoming shows. “I’m just at home at the moment,” Pyke says. “I’m actually doing a quick two and a half week UK tour before heading into the regional shows, so I’m off to the UK in a couple of days.” Isn’t it a little bit trippy playing in London one day and Castlemaine the next? “It is different,” says Pyke, “But I’ve done it so many times now it kind of feels normal for what it is. The main thing I find is with the smaller shows in the regional areas is that people enjoy it more. It’s not necessarily every week that artists they want to see are coming to town so when they do they seem to enjoy it a lot more and appreciate it a lot more, it’s really lovely. “I don’t really pay attention to what other musicians do, but I’ve always done a lot of regional touring, I see it as a completely necessary part of being an artist, a touring artist with hopefully a long career in Australia. You kind of just have to take your music everywhere that you can take it. For me, I’m really grateful that I get to play there as well. It’s a real blessing to be able to play any show where people want to be there and will pay money to come and see you.” Jackson McLaren and his band The Triple Threat are joining Pyke on the Victorian leg of his tour, playing songs from their debut LP Songs To Greet The Dawn, released last May. “Jackson was always an easy choice for me,” says Pyke. “I love his music and he’s a total champion of a guy. He grew up in Warrnambool and I met him there at a show, I’ve known him for a long time. It’s a no-brainer for me to get him on shows whenever I can. For me, choosing supports, you’ve got to see how an audience of yours would respond to their type of music. “It’s either there’s an act that I specifically want like, ‘I love that band, they should come on tour with me,’ that’s happened a few times, like with Cloud Control and stuff like that, and then at other times it’s like Jack[son] is another example. I liked his music but I didn’t really know him and I met him at a mutual friend’s farewell party and we had a beer and I thought, ‘I like this guy, I’m going to get him to come on the road with me’,” he explains. “He’s a good guy to hang out with. I have a really awesome team, my managers and booking agents so they’ll put together a list of like, 20 possible acts that are available and might suit my thing and I’ll go through and have a think.”
“THE MOST FREQUENT QUESTION I GET ASKED IS, ‘WILL I BE PLAYING A RANGE OF STUFF, OLD STUFF AS WELL? THE ANSWER IS YES – I’M DEFINITELY PLAYING A MIX OF EVERYTHING.” “Sometimes it’s good to have supports that aren’t that similar to you but they offer something that your audience will also like. I had support from The Jezabels years ago before they kind of blew up on quite a long regional tour and they’re very different from me but it just worked so well. Every night the audience was captivated and they sold a lot of CDs. You’ve kind of got to curate it like you would anything, and think about it rather than just thinking, ‘I’m a singer/songwriter so I’ll put on a singer/songwriter as a support.’ ” The Lone Wolf tour has been a bit of a marathon, stretching over the best part of the year. “The most frequent question I get asked is, ‘Will I be playing a range of stuff, old stuff as well?” he says. “The answer is yes – I’m definitely playing a mix of everything.” Not that fans would complain if he stuck to newer material – The Beginning And The End Of Everything is an ARIA-nominated record after all. When he’s not touring, Pyke, being the all-round nice guy he is, runs the Busking For Change project, raising money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation through an annual concert on Indigenous Literacy Day, with the latest concert being held on Thursday September 4. “I’ve been doing it for five years now. It’s a really casual thing, pulling in favours from mates I’ve been working with on and off during the year. The first time I did it I pulled in some guys from The White Album tour, which I’d been doing that year. It’s just a really casual event the crux of it is that we raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation which I’ve been an ambassador for about six years now. It’s been great. We’ve raised $50,000 now and I hope it’s helping.”
You can catch JOSH PYKE at a bunch of regional dates to round off his tour. Check joshpyke.com for more details. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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MAYFAIR KYTES By Augustus Welby The name Mayfair Kytes evokes images of smiling faces submerged in baroque splendour. Accordingly, the band bearing that name – helmed by Melbourne songwriters Matt Kelly and Austin Busch – weaves together finely-wrought acoustic instrumentation and delightful three part vocal harmonies. “I always feel like I’ve been best as a balladeer, in a way, and I never really got to do my folk project,” Kelly explains. “So it’s me doing that and something that’s lush and orchestral. I generally compose a lot of my songs not just in the departments that I’m playing. I have grandiose ideas in my head.” Along with drummer Andrew Congues, Kelly started Mayfair Kytes roughly two years ago. The forthcoming debut EP Animus – due for release in early 2015 – is the work of a five-piece band, with supplementary input from a string quartet. “There’s a huge amount of collaboration,” Kelly says. “The intention was always to form a solid band with solid characters, not just to be ‘lead singer and the other guys’ kind of vibe. It’s been good working with Austin, who’s a singer/songwriter I’ve known many years and who I’ve really, really liked for many years. All my favourite bands are generally bands that have strong personalities in all departments, not just up front.” The new single and first taste of the EP, Seasonal Thaw, is an artfully arranged piece of chamber pop – certainly no mere garage jam session. Considering the extensive contributing personnel and deliberated creative approach, Animus necessitated a lengthy construction process. “We started pre-production over a year ago and went into the studio to start doing the EP about eight months ago,” Kelly says. “It’s definitely been like schedule-Tetris and then just refining once we’ve recorded things. We’re definitely all perfectionists.” Kelly’s spent the last decade venturing through diverse stylistic territory. His past projects include “experimental dance/soul band” Ghost Orkid; “psychedelic rock band” Matt Kelly and the Keepers; and Honeymaker, which was “funky stuff.” Given his amorphous track record, it’s apt to inquire into the major influences behind Animus. “I kind of have the Bjork approach to songwriting with this record, which is: each song is a universe unto itself. So we can put instrumentation in there that may not be the most logistically easy thing. We might just have a song with one instrument in it that’s not in any other songs. Whatever each song needs itself, we’ll do it. “There’s Bjork and there’s The Dirty Projectors for that kind of chopping vocal rhythmic thing they have going on. Ever since I came across that, I’ve been totally obsessed with it, so I wanted to do my own spin on that. Plus I’ve also been getting into the Beach Boys a lot. I was taking part in a Beach Boys tribute thing. Just that harmony thing, I’ve always loved it very much.” Beyond these concrete reference points, Kelly has realised another, more fundamental aim with Mayfair Kytes. “It’s probably me, being myself musically, the most,” he says. “Inside my head and the world that exists there musically, this is probably the most authentic to myself that I’ve ever been. And it took me a while to find it, which makes sense.” As mentioned, Kelly isn’t the band’s sole creative force, nor is he the immovable leader. The group’s emphasis on collaboration does seem somewhat at odds with the desire to flesh out his ultimate inner vision. Yet, Kelly maintains the input of his band mates is invaluable. “I always wanted a good collaboration,” he says. “A lot of the time, I’ve just been the chief. So with this project I got to play the vibe that I wanted, which was something that was really lush and something that didn’t necessarily require a dance floor. And I got to work with all the musicians that I really love and respect and get their spin on the music as well. “I’ve got a good ear, but I need other musicians. To get the very best out of a song that I might potentially start, I feel like I need to work with other people. I can’t do it all myself.” Mayfair Kytes will launch Seasonal Thaw at Collingwood’s Gasometer Hotel this Saturday night. It’s fair to predict taking the band on the road could pose certain difficulties. Nevertheless, Kelly’s determined to make it work. “It should be fine. I might be able to create a national network of string players so we don’t necessarily have to take the same string players everywhere we go. “We’ve spent a year on the record and it’s all been independent, it’s all been our own money. The investment’s been huge and I pretty much don’t have a life for anything else at the moment. On the performance end, I want to take the band as far as it can go. I want people to see the work. We’ve done so much of it that I really want it to spread. I want to get overseas. I want to get it to Europe, I think Europe would love it.” Indeed, Mayfair Kytes’ high brow aesthetic lends itself to a European cathedral setting. The band’s leading aspiration, however, falls within our borders. “If we can do this band in the Opera House, then at least the band itself has realised its own dream.”
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TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES By Meg Crawford A while back, Tex Perkins said you can’t be considered a legend unless you’re 50 or over. By our calculations, he’s not far off (all things being equal, that milestone ticks over for him in December). Perkins is not enamoured of the “legend” handle though. “That term, ‘You’re a fuckin’ legend,’ gets bandied around a lot,” he snorts. “You get called a legend when you come back from the bar with a jug and a packet of chips.” But whether Perkins likes it or not, a legend’s what he’s become and it’s not just because time’s passed - it has more to do with the fact all of his bands are gold (Beasts of Bourbon, The Cruel Sea, Band of Gold, T&T, Tex, Don and Charlie, The Dark Horses and Ape) and as a frontman, he’s a mesmerising, long streak of menacing growl. Reflecting on his success, Perkins is equal parts piss-taking and grateful. “I’m very fortunate,” he starts, seriously enough. “I’m one of those people who made what they love into what they do and how they feed themselves. I still don’t take it for granted. I do take pause and think, ‘This is pretty good,’ and there are moments where you go, ‘Wow, if I was a plumber, I’d never get to be in this situation right now.’ The simple fact of me fiddling around with a guitar, making a few funny noises and recording it leads to the way I feed my family and I’m so grateful for that small wonder. I do pat myself on the back, quietly – not publicly of course.” Perkins finds it almost impossible to build himself up for too long and inevitably, he falls back on a bit of selfdeprecation. “You’ll always hear me saying what a dickhead I am and how small my talent is, but actually, I’m pretty cluey about what I’m doing,” he says. “You might think I’m an idiot savant, but I’m actually just an idiot – oh, there I go again.” Perkins has also described himself as having an anxiety about the necessity to get shit done. Maybe it accounts for why he’s so damned prolific. Having heard his answer, that appears to be true, but it’s a tad more complicated. “I do believe we live in the end times,” he says, in earnest. “I’ve always thought that, even as a kid in the ‘70s and growing up in the ‘80s, there was always this apocalyptic shadow over me: if it wasn’t the Russians in the ‘80s and nuclear war, then it was AIDS, now it’s terrorism and climate change, take your pick. “I’ve always had the sense that, ‘This could be your last chance,’ and at some periods of my life, I get a sense of urgency. That’s what motivated me subconsciously for a long time: we’re not here for long. We could all go out tomorrow, and I mean we could ALL go out tomorrow, not just one at a time, which is inevitable. That’s a good thing to have in the back of your mind, but you can’t let it completely traumatise you. It leads me to a healthy existentialism. It’s not, ‘Why bother? We’re all gonna die,’ it’s more, ‘We’re all gonna die, so get on with it, this is your chance.’ ”
“YOU’LL ALWAYS HEAR ME SAYING WHAT A DICKHEAD I AM AND HOW SMALL MY TALENT IS, BUT ACTUALLY, I’M PRETTY CLUEY ABOUT WHAT I’M DOING.” Moving from the philosophical to something much more profane, although Perkins is a muso through and through, when he was a kid, he briefly dreamed about being something else. “I thought I was going to be a stuntman,” he chortles. “That looked like a good job. I liked to leap off things. We used to find as many cardboard boxes as we could find and put them together or drag out a mattress and jump off the trampoline and into the pool, various things like that. I can remember that stage where I found out, ‘What? People do this for a living?’ ” Having just said Perkins is a muso through and through, he tells us these days he’s putting his golden pipes to other purposes. “A musician is just part of what I do – my career has developed many different tentacles. I work in the entertainment and media industry and that can take many forms. I’ve done a lot of voice-over work over the last few years and that’s quite enjoyable. In my grown up life, that seemed like an attractive job to have, to be ‘one of those guys,’ [he says, dropping into an even lower bass rumble] or even the guy that does, ‘In a world gone mad, one man stands alone.’ I’ve done documentaries and various ads and even public service announcements. I guess it all leads from the fact that I’m known for being able to open my mouth and stuff comes out.” There’s that selfdeprecation again. He’s a busy dude, so how does Perkins juggle everything he’s got on? “Well, I don’t do them all at once. One thing leads to another. For instance, over the last month I’ve played with Tex, Don and Charlie, I’m playing with the Dark Horses this weekend, I played with Ape last month. You have to make sure you’re prepared for all of these things and sometimes they do overlap a little bit, but I think I’m on top of it. I love working that way. I’m an amazing multi-tasker.” TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES hit the Thornbury Theatre Monday November 3 and the Yarraville Club on Saturday November 8. Tickets available through the venues. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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THE SPOTTED MALLARD
By Soph Goulopoulos
Max Meshers, Sam Grose and Samanda Black had been searching for ages to find the perfect location that would be the future resting place of Brunswick’s now-much beloved Rare, Reclusive, Oft Neglected Lesser Spotted Mallard, or just The Mallard, as it’s more affectionately known. When they set their eyes on 314 Sydney Road, it was a retired reception centre and a failed French restaurant. Nonetheless, the sentiment was unanimous: “Yep, this is the one.” The favoured Sydney Road live music venue and eatand-drinkery is set to celebrate its second birthday this week, so Beat caught up with Meshers to discuss the journey. The space which the Mallard now occupies has had a pretty peppered and assorted history: in the ‘60s it was a dining room; it was a nightclub and bar in the ‘80s and was a reception hall from the ‘90s until it became the Metropolis Dining Hall in 2010, which didn’t quite work out. Needless to say, the elegantly sprawling dining hall appears to be a true chameleon on the Melbourne landscape, which perhaps is arguably ultimately what this city craves. After a huge amount of renovations including rebuilding a dilapidated kitchen, building a bar and a stage, it became the place you know today: a haul of op-shop furniture and couches, friendly vibes, a trendy-
but-unassuming crowd, Australian craft beer and really mouth-watering pub food. “We went in balls-deep,” he says. “[But] it’s still evolving. We do whatever works.” While the last two years have been a process of finetuning, e.g. focussing more on their hugely popular burgers, what’s working for the Mallard currently is sticking true to its original philosophy: down-to-earth and homemade with love and you can’t argue with that. Dubbed ‘the prettiest live music pub in Melbourne,’ the Mallard is exceptional in it offers pretty much everything in one beautifully crafted package, which Meshers sees as its defining feature: it’s a one-stop
shop for late-night dining, pub grub, weekly trivia and a 300-capacity live music venue. “We’re unique,” says Meshers. “We’re trying to do everything in the one place.” So what does the future hold for the Spotted Mallard? A fair bit by the sounds of things. Meshers informs us he’s got plenty of exciting prospects in the works for the joint. He’d like to see downstairs expand into a casual tapas bar, and expand outside into a beer garden while keeping upstairs dedicated to live music, but there’s no set date yet as to when this might happen. For now, though, they’re “galloping along” and doing what they do best, which is, in all honesty, a really fucking hard thing to do: making everyone happy. “When it’s close to a full house,” he enthuses, “that really rocks my boat.” If you asked Meshers to recall a particularly memorable moment in the Mallard’s short albeit colourful and
vibrant history, it would appear he’s spoiled for choice, and you couldn’t blame him. “Let me have a couple of beers and think about it,” he chuckles. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please raise your glasses. We’d like to wish a ‘Happy Birthday’ to our feathered friend to the north. Here’s to the next two years and beyond.
and I had just come back from France being second camera on Luke Nguyen’s France trip show on SBS. We’d both finished that and they were talking to me about working on another show and at the same time they offered Jack a full-time job, which never happens. Around the same time though, we both just said, ‘Let’s go and chase music.’ We only live once so we may as well do what we really want to do and it’s come up really well, we’re stoked with the choice that we made.” It all sounds pretty idyllic for The Pierce Brothers right now; however, they do have at least one creative difference. “When I was a kid, I used to say that the biggest difference between me and Jack was that I liked cheese pizza and he liked Hawaiian. Here’s the issue.
It’s not that I don’t like country music, it’s just that Jack’s right into it and the more cheesy it is, the better. He eats it up. He reckons he just loves it and he’s always saying, ‘Let’s make it a bit more country and get some cheese into it,’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, let’s keep it cool man, try and take it easy on that.’ ”
is a collaborative effort between himself and his production team of Sensible J and Dutch. Although they do not appear in photoshoots or within Kolawole’s mononymic project moniker, he’s quick to emphasise their importance to what he does. “When we first started doing rap together – Sensible J, Dutch and myself – I was just doing mixtapes,” explains Kolawole. “Most of the stuff was over a variety of people’s beats. It would have been ridiculous to call it anything other than what it was. It was like, ‘What’s my rap name? Remi? Cool.’ So we did that when we put the mixtapes out. I produced one track on the first EP that we did, and then they produced the whole of
my first album. From there, I was just so comfortable making music with J and Dutch, I didn’t feel any need to change it. The tracks may still be under my name, but I’ll always talk our music from a collaborative sense. We do everything together.”
THE SPOTTED MALLARD at 314 Sydney Road, Brunswick, celebrates its second birthday this weekend with the likes of Beth Patterson (US), The Harlots, The Infants, Royal Jellies, Johnny Can’t Dance, Cajun Trio, and Ron S Peno and the Superstitions. Some are free, some are ticketed but bookings are essential. See www.spottedmallard.com for more details.
THE PIERCE BROTHERS
By Meg Crawford
Poor Pat Pierce is full of snot. One half of the Pierce Brothers outfit (the other half being his twin brother Jack), is still as chipper as fuck though, which isn’t surprising because it mirrors with the band’s work ethic. These lads go at it like bastards, so a little snot’s not going to keep Pierce down. The Pierce lads flew in from touring on Monday at 8pm, went to bed at 12pm and will be out busking the very next day. Despite having sold over 30,000 EPs independently, these fellas still busk at every given opportunity. It’s how they honed their skills (and sold so many CDs). “I’d best get better by tomorrow because we have to go busking,” laughs Pierce, sounding like death on a stick. “We still want to keep busking as much as we possibly can. Everything’s on a grass-roots level… We’re flying a lot of places, so busking definitely helps.” Cash for flying is something they’ve definitely needed. The Pierce Brothers have played at the Netherlands Lowlands Festival (on a bill including Queens of the Stone age and Snoop Dogg), all over London and Edinburgh Fringe. They were the second-highest selling artists in the merch tent at Lowlands – yep, they out-sold Snoop.
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“We were first on stage at Lowlands, so we didn’t think we were going to get a big crowd, but when I looked out about an hour before we were supposed to start, there were already about a 1,000 people,” he recalls, appropriately chuffed. “At the half an hour mark, that had blown out to about 2,000 or 3,000 people and by the time we walked on, it was absolutely packed. While we were playing, it only got more packed and everyone was going mental. It was completely surreal. The fact that The Corner Hotel is nearly sold-out is another example. It was my life ambition to sell out the Corner one day.” The Pierce Brothers are following their passion, but were both were on a pretty steady wicket before living the dream. “We actually had a really pivotal moment around the same time mid-last year,” Pierce reflects. “Jack had just finished up an internship straight out of university at DDB, which is a massive advertising firm
THE PIERCE BROTHERS’ show at the Corner Hotel on Friday November 7 has sold out but they’ve added another one on Sunday November 9 which is selling fast. They also appear at Ding Dong Lounge alongside Bonjah as part of AWME on Saturday November 15. Tickets on sale now.
By David James Young
Still in his early 20s, Melbourne MC Remi Kolawole has managed to achieve what it takes some artists an entire career to do. A lauded and respected artist, Kolawole was recently awarded the Carlton Dry Global Music Grant at the AIR Independent Music Awards, with a princely sum of $50,000. This coming roughly a year after being deemed triple j’s Unearthed Artist of the Year, too. It truly feels as though all of Kolawole’s hard work is being validated in this regard – and no one is more appreciative of it than the man himself. “We’ve always been the kind of group that is just making the kind of music that we want to make. We’d never try and change it for a certain radio station or to fit the margins of a genre. To be rewarded for that, it’s the best feeling in the world.” Kolawole’s already put the grant to good use, now in Europe for a run of dates. It’s a curious prospect as to how Australian hip hop’ll be received in a European context amid its own musical climate, but Kolawole maintains a faith in what he’s doing, despite being all too aware it’s a lot easier for international acts in Australia than it is for Australian acts internationally. “A lot of us in hip hop don’t really have the opportunity to get out of here. It could be lack of funding, but there’s also a lack of a blog presence here as well. That seems to be a huge way of people being able to get out of their own country without any real promotion. Blogs seem to totally dictate that.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 44
There often appears to be a stigma attached to the realm of Australian hip hop itself; even within Australia, where talented artists with less recognition are tarred with the same brush as lesser-quality acts within the mainstream. Although he doesn’t weigh in on the matter directly, Kolawole’s adamant his music isn’t about to be lost in translation, either here or overseas. “It comes down to people sticking to their own shit,” he muses. “Maybe earlier Australian hip hop didn’t speak to those people, but the glorification of the American lifestyle did. It’s hard for me to speculate, because I was never into Australian hip hop growing up. I wasn’t really exposed to it... Later, of course, I came to discover all of these incredible dudes with incredible skills. I’m hoping that, if there is a stigma, that’s still attached to this music, that we can break it.” You may have noted Kolawole often uses ‘we’ as opposed to ‘I.’ He relegates this to the fact his work
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REMI will perform at the Queen Victoria Market on Sunday November 23 as a part of Melbourne Music Week. He’ll also appear at the Corner Hotel on Friday December 5 alongside Hiatus Kaiyote, Kirkis, Silentjay and Jace XL, before bringing in the New Year at the Falls Music and Arts Festival.
THE MARK OF CAIN
By Dan Watt
There is nothing better than a band with a good back story and it’s even better when the said band’s music is an unclassifiable mix of punk genres. The Mark Of Cain have one of the most impressive back stories of any rock bands still active on the scene. The impact of the brutality in the band’s enthralling music and dark lyrical themes was always elevated due to the mythology which has never been debunked until now. The legend goes the two brothers, Kim and John Scott, had spent time on the frontline serving in Australia’s army. “John and I, both as engineers coming out of University went into the defence industry,” says Kim Scott, the younger of the two. “John’s an electronic and I am a mechanical engineer. John worked for a defence company and I worked for the Department Of Defence and then went overseas during the first Gulf War and worked with The US Marine Corp. John, at that time, got deployed to Israel with the company he was working for. “We always worked closely with the military but John as the principle lyricist has always had a fascination with particularly the Vietnam War,” contends Scott before adding with a warm chuckle, “John and I never saw any real action but over the years we have happily
let the rumours circulate that we were ex-special forces.” However, this isn’t to say fans and observers were deluded in believing the Scott brothers were exsoldiers. The Mark Of Cain’s lyrical themes, artwork and John and Kim’s constant crew cuts were all highly militaristic. With their debut album entitled Battlesick (1989) the band were fully embracing the aesthetic. Yet Scott points out the themes of their songs are not bound to battleground. He uses the concept surrounding the aforementioned album and song title Battlesick as an example. “John would liken the extreme emotions on the battlefield to the similar emotions you might go through in life like the break up of a relationship where
things go wrong. Our first album Battlesick was an analogy for that you can actually be sitting at home and be ‘battle sick’ – fatigued of life, not just of battle,” he explains. Despite various work projects overseas both Scott brothers have remained locals of The City Of Churches, Adelaide, for their entire lives. Anyone who has read the sleeve of The Mark Of Cain’s Ill At Ease, widely accepted as their breakthrough release, would know it lists military field hand signals. The inclusion of these militaristic instructions incurred the wrath of a Special Forces troop at a gig in Perth, but he still bought a t-shirt. “I have always liked combat hand signals so when John had a field manual with all the signals in there so I was like, ‘Hey great, let’s print them in the album cover and on the backs of our t-shirts,” sets-up Scott. “A guy came up who claimed to be Special Forces and said,
‘[You] can’t put that on back of shirts – that’s classified information.’ The field manual John had got them from was restricted but it was from the 1950s and not secret information… Both John and I had top secret clearance at the time but there’s no way we would jeopardise an operation,” Scott details. “The guys says, ‘You can’t do that, I’m telling my CO [commanding officer]’ and then as quick as a flash the t-shirt lady says, ‘Look mate, why don’t you buy a t-shirt and you can show your CO?’ so he went and bought a t-shirt and off he went and we never heard anything,” laughs Scott.
fascination to know what the band would think about these versions. “Consequently we got to meet Peter Garrett, and I already knew Rob Hirst. It was met with curiosity on their behalf. They’re fans of the project. Not sure about big fans, but they’re fans.” The first two singles taken from the record, The Dead Heart (featuring Donovan) and Beds Are Burning (featuring Yamma and Pat Powell), were both immediately picked up by radio stations all around the country. Kelly believes the recording and forthcoming tour will not only emphasise the undying strength of Midnight Oil’s songwriting, but also introduce these songs to a new listenership.
“Hearing the songs done in a more Afro-centric form is going to definitely open Midnight Oil’s music up to a different demographic,” he says, “And also some of the younger generation that didn’t get to feel the power of their music will get to link back to some of the older recordings they put out. They’re timeless, I think.”
“I was with her last night,” he enthuses. “She played a 1500 capacity room and it sold out here. She’s doing really well, and she’s such a great person too, I really get along with her well.” So who’re some of the hardest and easiest artists he’s worked with? “You know I can’t tell you that,” he laughs. “Are you trying to pull a fast one on me? Betts continues to be busy for the rest of this year and moving into 2015, including some tours in Australia. “I’ve got tours going on all over the world,” he states. “I’ve got Cibo Matto coming through Australia in a
week, and Courtney’s doing the Laneway Tour, and I’ve got a few other bands doing that. But overall, I’m just booking tours and festivals all over the world.” Tough life.
THE MARK OF CAIN are playing at 170 Russell with King Of The North this Friday October 31. Tickets are available through the venue.
DECLAN KELLY
By Augustus Welby
Over the last two decades, Sydney’s Declan Kelly has made a name for himself both as a drummer – working with artists such as Katie Noonan, Alex Lloyd and Bondi Cigars – and a songwriting bandleader; most recently with the reggae/Afrobeat group, The Rising Sun. Kelly’s latest release Diesel N’Dub is the boldest collaborative venture of his career. Each track features a different lead vocalist, including Noonan and Lloyd, as well as Emma Donovan, Frank Yamma and King Tide’s Tony Hughes. While this is an impressive list of guests, the album content is of even greater note. Put simply, Diesel N’Dub takes 10 classic Midnight Oil songs and gives them a dub-reggae makeover. “Some of the songs just feel like a natural fit for turning them into reggae style,” Kelly says. “Also the sentiment – the Jamaican reggae music has always been a platform for social commentary. Especially after hearing the Easy Dub All-Stars doing Dub Side Of The Moon and Radiodread – those albums inspired me to do one for our own heroes here.” Though the title Diesel N’Dub is a direct nod to Midnight Oil’s 1987 LP Diesel And Dust, the record includes songs from various stages in the band’s history. The earliest composition is 1981’s Armistice Day and the most recent is the 1993 single Truganini. Throughout their career, Midnight Oil’s lyrics frequently addressed matters of contemporary political relevance, but the songs haven’t aged poorly as a result.
“There’s a few bands that are deeply embedded in the Australian subconscious and Midnight Oil are one of them,” Kelly says. “Their songs written, some of them over 30 years ago, still ring true today.” It wasn’t just the material’s sustained significance that encouraged Kelly to put this project into action early last year. Even though his own music bears little semblance to Midnight Oil’s, the band played a crucial role in his musical education. “I think one of the first vinyl records I ever heard was 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and before that it was just whatever was on Countdown and Rage at the time. Hearing the music for the first time was like hearing progressive rock and having my mind blown without even realising it.” The Oils’ original recordings blew minds and burrowed into the hearts of countless listeners all over the world, which inevitably applied pressure during the construction of Diesel N’Dub. “It was just more of a forethought of what their hardcore fans would feel about us changing the songs or interpreting the songs,” Kelly says. “Also, it was not sort of a fear, but more of a
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DECLAN KELLY PRESENTS DIESEL N’DUB will be performing at The Hi-Fi as part of the Australasian World Music Expo (AWME) on Friday November 14. Diesel N’Dub is out now through Diaspora/MGM.
By Rod Whitfield
If you ask just about anyone heavily involved in the music industry, or indeed just about any industry, they will tell you networking and building relationships is absolutely essential for success. In music, there’s an excellent outlet for this happening almost every day of the week in the form of live gigs for musicians and industry personnel to attend on a regular basis. Beyond this, there are also industry conferences happening quite regularly across the course of the year, such as the Face the Music summit, which is coming up in Melbourne in mid November. This year, one of the key guests for Face the Music is American booking agent Marshall Betts, who works for the prestigious Windish Agency out of New York. Speaking from the Big Apple, he agrees “pressing the flesh” is absolutely vital, and networking is the major value of conferences such as this. “Personal relationships, getting to meet people faceto-face [are so important],” he emphasises. “Email is so easy to be dismissive [on], and it’s hard to avoid someone when they’re right there and standing in front of you. The relationships that you get from these conferences, whether it be Face the Music or South By Southwest or CMJ, are so much more valuable. “Even though, at the end, you meet a ton of people and you’re not going to remember all of them, or at least go on to be best friends or something like that, but I do think it’s very valuable that way. From an artist’s perspective, if you have a room full of a bunch of taste-
makers, these could be the people that help you sell out venues.” This will be Betts’ first trip to Melbourne in any capacity, and he’s very much looking forward to immersing himself in one of the world’s great musical cities. “I’ve never been to Melbourne, and from what I’ve been told, the scene there is up my alley in terms of indie rock and things like that. A key to being an agent is finding people early, discovering them early, and I think this could be pivotal in that. “If I can find some bands down there, or maybe some managers that I think have some great tastes, I’m just really looking forward to it.” Part of the attraction to Australia and Melbourne for him is one artist he managed to discover relatively early: Melbourne-based indie pop/rock, singer/songwriter and guitarist Courtney Barnett, whose career’s been on a very steady upwards path in recent times.
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KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
By Lachlan Kanoniuk
I’m sitting in a cosy North Melbourne bar, nursing a few pints with King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard vocalist-guitarist-flautist Stu Mackenzie and guitarist Joe Walker. We’re here to talk about I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, the fifth full-length LP released with dizzying proliferation. It’s the band’s final week in Australia for some time, with an extensive return to the US for the second time in 2014 looming on the weekend, backed up by a European expedition to see out the majority of the remaining year. Continuing their jack-knifing stylistic resolve, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz doesn’t sound like any other King Gizz album: its experimental elements more subtle than previous conceptual pursuits. “There are quite a few experiments in there,” Mackenzie explains. “The first few tracks are based on the one thing, a sort of song cycle. That was an experiment putting that together, they were all recorded separately and pieced together. We experimented a lot with production more than anything,” he reasons. “A lot of producers would say it’s the worst possible way to go about recording an album, traditionally,” Walker adds. “But this works with the aesthetic; you can hear all the weird out-of-phase, the clicks.” “Specifically by themselves, it was unintentional. But we wanted to make it sound mashed up. I wanted to make this record sound like a band, more than anything we’ve done before. It’s hard to make it sound like that when you’re not listening to it loud. I think you need those random, loose elements,” says Mackenzie. “Throughout the record, there are a lot of repetitive motifs. The same riff will come in on five of the songs, contextualised with a different timing or different key. Reimaging these ideas.” “It’s the most holistic thing we’ve done. Oddments, hence the name, was more of an idea and aesthetic. Float Along was 10 songs, and that was the album. This is the longest we’ve worked on an album. We worked on our set, then toured America with it. It’s sweet, we’re very happy with it,” Walker states.
With $50,000 of grant money in tow, King Gizzard set off for the US, not letting their geographical shift impede their prolific workflow. “We did half of the album before we left,” Mackenzie explains. “The songs weren’t finished. We did the rough outlines of half of them, and most of the other songs were vaguely written before we left. We did one half at the studio we always work at in Fairfield, then the other half at Daptone in Brooklyn.” At a recent run of hometown shows, Mackenzie brandished his newfound skills on the flute – an instrument that features throughout I’m In Your Mind Fuzz. “I made a pact with myself that I’d try and learn a new instrument every year till I’m dead,” he deadpans. “I learned flute for a while, and it kind of crept its way onto the album. When we were living in America, I was practising it every day. That was the thing I had to do every day to fulfil my pact and maintain my sanity. Then it just filtered its way onto pretty much every song on the album.” History dictates we shouldn’t be waiting too long for the next King Gizz offering. “Every time a record comes around, we’ve been talking about the [next] record for six months. So when the time comes to put together songs, you know exactly what they’re going to sound like,” says Mackenzie. “When we’re in America this time around we’re going to do some more recording. One of the songs is already done. It’ll be different again. I don’t want to give away anything, because we’ll probably change our minds 300 times
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before it comes out.” With momentum still barrelling ahead for the mighty Gizz, Mackenzie is pragmatic when it comes to long term ambition. “Personally, I just sometimes feel like I want to be more normal. Just to have a normal life. I’m a simple kind of guy; I want to do basic things with my life, as well as creative things with music. I feel that decision in every classic rock autobiography where they have to choose between two things in their life,” he considers. Throughout their rise and their current overseas traction, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard are a band that operate on their own terms. “From really early on, we always wanted to be independent,” Walker says.
“Then as time went along, we had these opportunities with labels, and we’ve decided to stick to our guns. Eric [Moore], our manager slash drummer, has started his label, then we signed with Remote Control, and that’s been all on our own terms. Musicians can be doing really well, but they might not have the creative control that we have. There’s no external force or pressure other than within the band, and that’s purely musical. And that’s kind of great.”
Chisel and The Divinyls. “It was awesome working with him,” Cameron says. “I’d been reading the Opitz autobiography. I’d always known his name from his involvement with ‘80s bands, even though a lot of those bands weren’t on our list of influences. But you had to respect what he’d done. And after reading about him he seemed like a really good fit for our band because his whole approach to production is based around songwriting. So we got in touch with him, and got along really well with him.” Bad//Dreems’ association with Opitz will extend to the recording of the band’s first album in December. “We’re aiming to have the album out mid next year – that’s what we’ve got penciled in.” But while Bad//Dreems is now signed to Ivy League and has the notional support of an established label, Cameron says the band will
continue to take things at its own pace. “The timing for the album isn’t hard and fast, we don’t want to be put under any specific industry pressure or time frames, we just want to do something that we’re happy with.” As for the future, Cameron says the band will remain in Adelaide for the immediate future. “So much of the band’s identity is tied to being in Adelaide,” Cameron says. “It’d weird if we decamped to some thriving scene, it could totally screw us up!”
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD’s I’m In Your Mind Fuzz is out on Friday October 31 on Flightless/Remote Control.
By Patrick Emery
Bad//Dreems guitarist Alex Cameron is sitting in his house in Adelaide while his bandmates take in the sights of the United States on the band’s first American tour. “I couldn’t go because of work, unfortunately. Because of my job, I’m not able to do all the gigs, so we’ve got a fifth member who can fill in for me,” Cameron says. The existence of a surrogate touring member immediately brings to mind The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston, which, Cameron muses, probably makes him Brian Wilson. “Yeah, I’m a less stable version of Brian Wilson,” he laughs. “I’ve got a sandpit and any meetings have to be conducted in the swimming pool.” Bad//Dreems formed in 2012 after Cameron returned to his hometown of Adelaide after spending a few years living and working in Melbourne. Pulling on the boots at his local football club, Cameron met the other members of the band – guitarist Ben Marwe, bass player James Bartold and drummer Miles Wilson – and the seeds of Bad//Dreems were sown. “I met Ben first and got to talking to him about music, and we started writing some songs, and then we started jamming with James and Miles, who were playing in a band with Ben’s older brother, and there was an instant chemistry,” Cameron says. The band took its name from the bad dreams Cameron says he’s prone to experience; in a backhanded nod to the power of Google, the misspelling mitigates the risk of the band being lost in an almost infinite digital heap. “If you Google ‘bad dreams’ on the internet, it just comes up with this myriad of self-help sites and weird peoples’ blogs,” Cameron says. Bad//Dreems’ lyrics, and the film clips that accompany some of the band’s songs, suggest a bittersweet relationship between the band and the city in which it continues to reside. “I’ve got a pretty negative view of Adelaide most of the time, which I feel guilty about a lot of the time because the city cops a lot of criticism,” Cameron says. “I moved back here on a whim because the band I was in while I was in Melbourne finished, and there was a job back here that I could start straight away, and I had no money, so I could come back and live with my parents and sponge off them for a bit. It was a one year plan, but I’m still here five years later,” Cameron laughs. Almost paradoxically, Cameron says the strengths BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
of the Adelaide scene possibly lie in those attributes commonly used to criticise the city: the limited number of venues, the isolation and the relative dearth of opportunities compared to Melbourne and Sydney. “It’s a very cheap and easy lifestyle, with a nice climate,” Cameron says. “Because there’s such a paucity of cultural stuff going compared to places like Melbourne, you can look at all music with fresh eyes without being coloured by what everyone is talking about. So that isolation and insularity is a bad and a good thing. So as much as I’m always jealous about not being in Melbourne, for music and songwriting it’s been good to be able to take a step back and see what’s going on in other cities, where there’s more vibrant scenes. That said, I do find Adelaide very frustrating, it can be stifling conservative.” Cameron recounts a theory he developed and proffered to his father about the relationship between Adelaide’s conservative cultural idiosyncrasies, and the city’s weird criminal history. “I had this theory that tied together the Family murders and the cultural decline of Adelaide,” Cameron says. “Coming out of the 1970s when it was this vibrant time, but then there were the Family murders with all the conspiracy theories involving judges and doctors and that stifled everyone and made them all stuffy and conservative. And I put this theory to my dad and asked him what he thought. And he paused for a bit, and then said, ‘That’s the biggest load of bullshit you’ve ever come up with,’ ” Cameron laughs. Outside of the confines of Adelaide, Bad//Dreems trekked across to Sydney at the end of 2013 to record some songs with Mark Optiz, famed Australian producer of The Angels, The Models, INXS, Cold
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com There are tonnes of excellent gigs for your ears this Halloween. Check the gig guide below for some suggestions, or just follow the cool kids and head down to The Reverence Hotel for a double banger of The Peep Tempel in one room and a legit Mariachi band playing in the other room. Plus Mexican foods all night! You can’t lose really! San Francisco’s Dead To Me announced via Twitter they’re getting back together with original member Jack Dalrymple and the band will now be a five-piece. They’re going into the studio early next year to record the follow up to 2011’s Moscow Penny Ante. Sleep have announced supports for their upcoming Australian tour. The sold-out Corner Hotel show will feature Horsehunter and Bonnie Mercer, while the newly on sale show will host Mammoth Mammoth and Hotel Wrecking City Traders. Angels and Airwaves are going about the release of their new album a little differently. The Dream Walker will cop an international release on Tuesday December 9 and be primarily available online as well as a host of other multimedia offerings including comic books, animations and even a feature film. Rancid dropped their new album Honor Is All We Know last week. They didn’t make the album available to any media prior to its release. Wonder if they managed to avoid a leak? Bring Me The Horizon have also dropped a new song and it’s kinda’ breaking hearts. Their new track Drown got immediate rotation on triple j and upset a bunch of fans when they heard frontman Olli Sykes has truly abandoned his deathcore growl in preference for some melodic sing songs. If you get your hands on just one album this month, track down the new one from Restorations. Due for release this week via Side One Dummy/Shock Records, LP3 is a stunning realisation of the shape of punk to come (okay, that’s a bit far, but it’s very, very good). UK’s post-rock princes 65daysofstatic will return to Australia next year to play two shows at Northcote Social Club. It’ll be in support of their most recent release Wild Light. They’ll bring Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving with them when they hit NOCOSOCO on Sunday March 8 and Monday 9. Tickets are available now. Sleater-Kinney have reunited and announced a new album. The much-adored, three-piece will rip out a new album and a big ol’ tour next year. It’ll be the band’s first release since The Woods in 2005. Sick. Tyson Stevens, vocalist for the disbanded but once very popular hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids
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CORE GIG GUIDE Wednesday October 29: Dream Theatre at The Palais Theatre Lanie Lane at The Corner Hotel Bricks, All We Need, Neville Bartos at The Bendigo Hotel Thursday October 30: Bastard Squad, Fortnight Jumbo, DICK at Laundry Bar Belle Haven, Acrasia, DayDreamer at Next Maggot Fest featuring Internal Rot, Black Deity, Headless Death, power, Sewercide, Hobomagic at The Bendigo Hotel Friday October 31: The Peep Tempel, Kids Of Zoo, Blue Stratos at The Reverence More Than life, Pespectives at Yacht Club The Mark Of Cain, King Of The North at 170 Russell Witchgrinder at Bang The Workinghorse Irons at Cherry Bar Dream On Dreamer at Hastings Community Hall Kisstroyer, The Glen Danzig Tapdanzig Extravadanzig, party Vibez, Diamond Noir at Plastic Bulletbelt, Bombs Over Brusnwick, Stormbane, Maniaxe, Deathripper, Grudge at The Bendigo ScotDrakula, The Infantts, The Shabbab, Girl Crazy, DJ Josh Wells at The Old bar Saturday November 1: More Than life, Perspectives at Wyndham Youth Center Outright at Dropout Nathan Seeckts & The Dead City Lights, Max Goes To Hollywood, The Scouts, The Berkeley Hunts at The Reverence Hotel The Jacks, Peeling Sun, Elbrus, 180 Proof + Acolyte at The Bendigo Asylum Seeking Resource Center benefit: The Shitfits, The Kremlings, Spermaids, Flour, Lucy Wilson at The Old Bar Sunday November 2: More Than Life, Perspectives at The Reverence Hotel Drayfus, Georgia Maq, uke Seymoup Band, Charm, Elevator Talk, Foley, Pigtails Monday November 3: Clowns, Party Vibez, Firearms, Goon On The Rocks, Coffin Wolf at Cherry Bar has passed away at the brutal age of 29 years old. No official word yet on the cause of death but some rather salacious gossip sites are pointing the blame squarely at drugs. Toxicology reports are due in a couple of weeks. Devastating news nonetheless.
SLIPKNOT AT #1
Congratulations to Slipknot for debuting at #1 on the ARIA album chart with their brutal new album .5: The Gray Chapter.
PROGRESSION OBSESSION! AT THE BENDIGO
The Aussie Alternative brings a stunning lineup of progressive and experimental rock acts to The Bendigo Hotel on Johnston Street in Collingwood on Saturday November 8 under the banner of Progression Obsession. Legendary instrumental act Mushroom Giant released their latest opus Painted Mantra to great acclaim this year, and they see out what was a massive year for them at this show. The formerly New Zealand now Melbourne-based experimental rockers Full Code bring their dark, powerful, electronicallyinfluenced sounds to The Bendigo, so prepare to be mesmerised by these guys’ songwriting and instrumental prowess. Bear the Mammoth also fly the flag for all-instrumental music, and they join the mind bending, cerebral fun, playing tracks from their stunning new album Yamadori. Quirky but extremely cool is the best way to describe Melbourne experimental band Glasfrosch, and they will be weaving a spell with their own peculiar brand of musical magic on this night. Tickets for this left-ofcentre but compelling evening’s entertainment will be available on the door.
HALLOWEEN AT THE BENDIGO
The Bendigo Hotel continues its onward march to become the Castle Grayskull of Melbourne heavy music. This Friday October 31 (Halloween, ooooo), catch a bunch of gruesome brutality including New Zealand black/thrash band Bulletbelt, female-fronted Bombs over Brunswick, Lustration, Maniaxe, Deathripper and Grudge.
THE VANNS HIT THE ROAD
Fresh from recording in Melbourne with legendary award-winning producer Mark Opitz (AC/DC, INXS, Bad//Dreems), The VANNS announce new single Operator from their forthcoming EP due early 2015. To celebrate the new release the band head off on an east coast tour through November. The VANNS have honed in on a truly unique sound, playing from their own instincts and creativity to produce Operator, a seriously fun track about living a reckless youth and doing what you love. It’s about breaking free and not living your life how other people think you should. Operator is released digitally on Friday October 24 via Inertia. Catch them at Shebeen on Thursday November 20 with Halcyon Drive and Tyne-James Organ.
SINISTER FINALLY COME TO OZ
For the first time since forming all the way back in 1988, legendary Dutch death metal band Sinister are coming to Australia. One of the world’s most revered and respected exponents of extreme music, Sinister recently released their 11th full-length, entitled The Post-Apocalyptic Servant, and are doing a string of tours and dates in support of the release. Catch them at The Bendigo Hotel on Monday November 3 (Cup Eve) with an awesome support line up of Inverloch, Destruktor, Mephistopheles, Sewercide and Internal Nightmare. Tickets are on sale now via Oztix.
TRIVIUM/IN FLAMES TOUR NEARS
The Trivium/In Flames tour is rapidly approaching, with a second show added to 170 Russell on Monday November 24 after the first (on Sunday November 23) sold out. I guess this would’ve been a perfect show to pack out The Palace Theatre in one night, but since that venue is no more we get the very cool opportunity to see both of these killer bands in a smaller, more intimate setting. Tickets are on sale now.
SMITH STREET BAND UNDERAGE ALBUM LAUNCH
The already legendary Smith Street Band have announced an underage album launch at The Reverence Hotel, Footscray on Saturday December 6. For this show only they will be joined by long-time best buds and Aussie ska-punk legends The Bennies, Poison City folk-punk favourites Fear Like Us and garage/bubble punk-rockers Rockenspiele. Currently on tour throughout Europe, The Smith Street Band are looking forward to hitting home soil for the Australian Throw Me In The River tour with The Front Bottoms (US) and Apologies, I Have None (UK). Released through Poison City Records, the third LP from The Smith Street Band is out this Friday. The tour hits the Corner Hotel on Wednesday November 26, 27 and 28 (all 18+). Tickets are selling fucking fast.
DEVIN TOWNSEND GEAR BEING AUCTIONED
How fricken’ awesome was Devin Townsend’s clinic at St Kilda Town Hall last week, right? Promoters Thump Music are auctioning off some of the gear Devin used. Keep an eye on their Facebook page to bid on the Vox wah-wah pedal and Fender Telecaster guitar Devin used. I hear he was really taken by that Tele. The new Devin Townsend Project album Z2 is released in stores on Friday October 31 but you can find it on iTunes now.
By Nicholas Atkins
Anvil — the demigods of Canadian metal — are once more bringing the noise Down Under with their new album and November Australian tour. Anvil’s Hope In Hell record has some pretty clear messages. “When you write lyrics, your state of mind always seems to revel itself, whether you want it to or not,” singer/ guitarist Steven ‘Lips’ Kudlow explains. “My surroundings at the time ended up being conveyed throughout. It’s about making your dreams come true, believing in yourself and going after something with a vengeance.” Lips has no time for negativity and delivers a clear message to his doubters. “Of course with the onset of the movie there were a lot of neigh-sayers that told us it wouldn’t last ten minutes. ‘Enjoy your 15 minutes while it lasts’, those kind of sentiments. Creating songs like Eat Your Words or Shut The Fuck Up, that’s who it was directed at.” The band’s notoriety skyrocketed following the 2009 movie Anvil: The Story Of Anvil, a Spinal Tap-esque rockumentary on the rise, fall and semi-rise-again of ‘The Demi-Gods Of Canadian Metal’. “We certainly didn’t win the millions of fans that our good friends in AC/DC got, but people know who I am nonetheless. Are they going to buy an Anvil record because they know who I am? Probably not.” The unfaltering commitment and positivity displayed by Lips and the boys gave the band and the movie so much appeal, and meant they could connect with
such a broad spectrum of new fans. “Some of the demographics of people that liked the movie are off the charts. We were standing outside a fast-food restaurant in Chicago a couple of years ago and a limousine pulls over to the side of the road and this rich lawyer pulls out his camera and starts taking pictures of Robb and me and then asking for an autograph. Five minutes later a garbage truck pulls over and a 200-pound black guy gets out from behind the wheel with his cell-phone going, ‘can I take a picture dude?’ and we’re going, ‘how does that work?’” Lips’ friendship with drummer and best mate Robb Reiner was laid bare in the movie, offering an intimate picture of two personalities, which complete one another. “We really take our friendship for granted. Not in a negative way, but we just kind of think that everybody’s got a buddy that they spent their life with. It wasn’t ‘til really after the movie that we came to realise that we’re not that common. We look at it as a gift, and we definitely have a deeper appreciation for what we have.” Anvil will always be known as the band that should have made it but never did, and have been lauded as the inspiration for metal bands from Anthrax to Slayer. “The first letdown and failure was after our third record. We created a record that was 20 years ahead of its time.
All the labels should have been interested but we were not really at the right place at the right time and they passed.” Anvil’s lifeblood and reason for being has always been playing live for their die-hard fans. “It is addictive. The endorphins that are released in your bloodstream from the excitement and the feeling that you’re in a room full of people that love you is overwhelming. Those are the moments I am most alive — that and when I’m having sex with my wife. It’s hard to say which is more enjoyable.”
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The upcoming November tour will mark the band’s third visit down under. “It’s like coming to Canada number two. You’re money looks like ours, your grocery stores and fast-food places are the same companies as ours and have the same looking streets and architecture. It’s a British colony just like Canada, you can tell. You go ‘G’day” and I say ‘Yah, eh, have a great day eh!’” ANVIL will play at The Hi-Fi Bar with Electrik Dynamite on Friday November 7 2014. Tickets on sale via www.thehifi.com.au. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 47
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BETH PATTERSON
New Orleans-based Beth Patterson gathers musical influences like she’s cooking up a simmering pot of particularly spicy gumbo to share with her audiences. Her travels to Ireland and her ethnomusicology studies at University College Cork have sharpened her palette for music from all over. Listeners can now feast on the sonic flavours of Celtic, West African, Indian, Balkan, and Indonesian music, with a dash of her youthful progressive rock leanings here and there. Catch her musical prowess at The Spotted Mallard this Thursday, October 30 from 9.30pm. Entry’s $5 at the door.
DREAM THEATER
The five year wait is over, Dream Theater are finally here. This is extremely exciting news for prog-metal fans that are set to experience the three-hour musical extravaganza of An Evening With Dream Theater. Witness their fingers fly as they stir up their own weather system of atmospheric and hauntingly hypnotic prog prowess at the Palais Theatre, Wednesday October 29.
BOSS MOXI
Brisbane psych phenomenon, Boss Moxi, have been deep in the studio recording their debut full length release. The album has been crafted over the past two years while their performances have taken audiences to uncharted territories. Celebrating the release of their most recent single, Song of Joan, the group are currently on tour, stopping off at Melbourne’s Bar Open this Wednesday, October 29. Joining them are Pinball Machine and The Baudelaires. Don’t miss this concoction of interstate rock’n’roll mayhem.
RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK: NICOLE CHEN
Liven up your Wednesday afternoon with Ruby’s Live Jazz After Dark. This week, Ruby’s plays host to accomplished pianist and singer/songwriter, Nicole Chen as she gives a new take to jazz standards. Doors open at 2pm, $15 entry, Wednesday October 29.
ADAM GIBSON & THE ARK-ARK BIRDS
Sydney-based spoken word performer, writer and musician, Adam Gibson is heading to The Post Office Hotel this Thursday, October 30. His credits include two acclaimed albums with band The Aerial Maps, voice behind the spoken word part of Modern Giant and three books of poetry. Through a blend of song, spoken word and music, he seeks to delve beneath the surface of the picture postcard, sunny bright exterior of the country. Catch him with The Ark-Ark Birds, Sean M Whelan & the Interim Lovers this Thursday at The Post Office Hotel from 8pm.
FRIDAY OCT 31
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 favourite songs from 1984 to 2014. Support comes from Josh Cashman. Doors at 8pm, $5 entry. Friday October 31 at Bar 303. Dress up in your favourite Ween costume for extra fun.
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CHILD
Formed in the rock’n’roll underground of Melbourne, Child have captured the attention of blues and heavy rock enthusiasts from all corners of the globe. Their self-titled debut release is a look through the pinhole at a band's honest and unhindered purge of expression. Drawing influence from an ever growing, ever evolving sonic palette, you will find Child’s roots tightly entwined in and around the blues whilst taking a heavier and more visceral approach. The group take pride in upholding the strong tradition of Australian rock that preceded them and gave birth to likes of AC/ DC, Rose Tattoo, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and Masters Apprentices to name a few. See ‘em at The Retreat Hotel on Friday, October 31.
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Colour Bomb is joined by Canary and DXHeaven for a night of music, drinking, and music videos. Following their previously sold-out show, Colour Bomb will be shooting a film clip for their next single at The Gasometer on Halloween, Friday October 31. Come down and be a part of it so you can watch yourself on Rage in the future. Don’t miss Colour Bomb’s vivid and beautiful alternative modern pop from 8pm. Tickets are $12 on the door or $10+BF through Oztix.
BULLETBELT
It’s that time of year again, Halloween! And what better way to celebrate than a night at The Bendigo with gruesome black, thrash, hardcore punk bands? The lineup features Bulletbelt, Bombs over Brunswick, Stormbane, Maniaxe and Deathripper. This Friday, October 31 at The Bendigo Hotel.
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THE PEEP TEMPEL
The Peep Tempel’s second album Tales was released to a rather rapturous reception. Having sold out their album launch at The Tote, The Peep Tempel have been rollin’ on up the east coast throughout October, and are returning home for one last night cap at The Reverence Hotel. Don’t snooze on your chance to catch one of Melbourne’s most infectious live acts. The Peep Tempel’s live show urges you to dance and drown yourself in its grotty, boisterous rock’n’roll. They’ll be on at 8pm on Friday, October 31. Tickets are $15+BF, available through Oztix.
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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 launch gigs in Melbourne and Sydney. Catch them when they headline Yah Yahs’ annual Halloween extravaganza, Friday October 31.
Indie-pop five-piece Tully on Tully will launch their gorgeous new single Two Birds at Shebeen this Friday, October 31. Prepare yourself for a foundation of floating synthesizers; simple melodies and an interesting rhythmic structure calling back to yesteryear as the band incorporate some of their new material into their set. Grab your tickets now.
SHAKING HELL
This Thursday, Shaking Hell, McBain, Dark Fair, Orlando furious, Go Genre Everything and Standard Life will be hanging at The Catfish to celebrate a year since their birth into this crazy world. Last October, James Timothy Frahm, Ruby Soho and Alexander Pink were three naive, misty eyed misfits going blindly into the light. Now the three are world weary, crusty and rustic and still don’t fit in. $8 gets you into the party. Thursday October 30 at The Catfish.
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Grandeur are set to rock the Brunswick Hotel this Thursday October 30. Joining them will be Diamonds of Neptune, Hyperdrones, and Plastic Spaceman. Expect a night of great live music with elements of rock, psychedelic, space Punk, and indie tunes. If that doesn’t wet your whistle, there’s $3 schooners as well.
Your Victorian tour is fast approaching. What are you most looking forward to regarding this short tour? Getting a chance to step into the power of It’s All A Beautiful Noise find the spirit of the music in the live experience. It’s a chance for the band to really expand its connection. It’s one thing to record new music, and find the spirit of each song in a studio. I love that, and I love how a song evolves differently live and how important it is to play and play and play new songs in new environments to new audiences. Your performances in Vic will include some exciting additions to the stage, such as motion graphics and 3D mapping. Any other surprises fans can expect? Actually, the 3D mapping and the fully developed production with installations and hats/masks come together in our February/ March tour. These four dates are a way for us to keep playing a connecting in with the spirit of the new music and this time. Our theme: We
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are all pollinators, what we buy we grow. Our evening honours the littlest angels that keep our world alive and thriving. With the production of your approaching release, Citizens Of The Planet, you’ve emphasised the concept of sound imagery. What was your goal with this work? Citizens of the Planet will be released officially the end of 2015 or the beginning of 2016. This depends on site development. The album is only available as a part of our crowd-funding online campaigns and will be available at the upcoming shows. Why did you decide to end your collaboration with record labels and venture out on your own as an independent artist? I didn’t decide, life decided it for me. In 1997, I was diagnosed with Graves Disease. Graves stopped my life, and when I recovered years later, the record industry changed and I didn’t mean much to the major record companies. This caused me to grow and connect with myself in a deeper way, and trust what I really believed: that we create our reality and allow myself to stretch and explore the possibility of crowd-funding. I found that I can continue to make music the way I have always made music and continue to grow as an artist. TONI CHILDS will appear at Substation on Saturday November 1. Tickets and more information are available through the venue, read the full interview at beat.com.au.
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REBECCA BARNARD
FIONA & HER HOLY MEN
Melbourne-based Australian singer/songwriter and musician, Rebecca Barnard is playing at The Post Office Hotel this Friday, October 31. Barnard is featured in many Australian bands over the years, the most notable being Rebecca’s Empire from 1994 to 2000. After the release of Fortified in 2006, Rebecca Barnard forged her career as a solo artist. See Rebecca Barnard when she plays The Post Office Hotel, this Friday from 9.30pm.
Have you been blessed lately? Fiona & Her Holy Men are bringing entertainment blessings to The Exchange Hotel this Halloween night, to celebrate the release of their Double A side single, To Be The Woman/ Leading You On. This release is for digital distribution worldwide, however for the occasion Fiona & Her Holy Men have a limited edition CD single on sale at the launch. Special musical treats for the evening include solo acoustic sets in the lounge from Les Thomas and Glenn Maynard, and main room band sets from Kim Volkman & the Whisky Priests. Dress up, rollup, tune in, turn on, feel free to dance and speak in tongues! This Friday, October 31 at The Exchange Hotel. $10 entry from 8pm.
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SHOALS
Melbourne dream-pop band Shoal are releasing their debut EP Undying and taking the stage upstairs at The Grace Darling to celebrate. Shoal’s music has been compared to the likes of Cocteau Twins, Lush and The Cure and on this Halloween night, they will be supported by alt rock/folk masters of melancholy Discovery of a Fox and the ethereal, noisy shoegazers, Miniatures. Gotta get down on Friday, October 31. Tickets are $10 on the door from 8.30pm.
THE UNKIND
What’s more fun than dressing up and getting free drinks? Doing both whilst listening to live music. Halloween at The Brunny features the kickass lineup of The Unkind, Jason Lives, Hope in Hell and Coffin Wolf. With free entry and prizes for the best dressed – there’s really no excuse. This Friday, October 31 at The Brunswick Hotel.
Tiny Giants are bringing their own brand of garagey blues psych to the basement at The Grace Darling this Halloween night. After gaining national and community radio play on triple j, Triple R and the Pulse and playing alongside bands such as Oh Mercy, Tiny Giants are ready to release their debut album at the Grace Darling basement this Friday October 31. Joining them will be coastal space wizards Fenn Wilson, Dayzed and Dalai Samas. $10 on the door from 9pm.
TOGA ROCK
There’s one night of the year when people like to dress up in fancy costumes and hope they can get some lollies from strangers upon whose doors they have knocked. We thought the best way to celebrate this night is by getting a band who dress-up every other day of the year – Toga Rock. These fine folks wear their togas to the milkbar, the footy, school drop-offs and pick-ups, but most importantly, they wear their togas when it's time to rock. With a cast of many familiar faces from the Melbourne music scene, Toga Rock is the partiest party band going around. Come and trick or treat with them at Bar Open this Friday October 31. Free entry from 10pm.
BEWARE! BLACK HOLES
Instrumental surf/garage heroes Beware! Black Holes are bringing their best beats to The Vic for a Voodoo/ Tiki Halloween hoedown. They’ll be playing original material as well as genre classics and obscurities. Twangin’, foot stompin’, melodic – check, check and check! Spinnin’ tunes later into the night will be DJ Jet Laggue. It all kicks off from 9pm this Friday, October 31 at The Victoria Hotel.
SATURDAY NOV 1 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 Saturday 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. Grab tickets through Oztix.
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MELODY MOON
Fresh from a whirlwind of gigs around the country, local gal Melody Moon will be bringing her folkindie sounds to The Retreat 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 singer/ songwriter Toni Childs will be performing a special one night only concert in Melbourne’s west. As an Emmy-Award winner and multiple platinum album artist, Childs first burst onto the charts in 1988 with her debut single Don’t Walk Away from her Grammynominated album Union. Her string of iconic hits includes Stop Your Fussin’, House of Hope, Many Rivers to Cross, and the hugely popular I’ve Got to go Now. Get down to The Substation on Saturday, November 1 at 7.30pm. Tickets are $27 on door.
COSA NOSTRA
Cosa Nostra will be returning to The Reverence Hotel this Saturday November 1. If you like your rock brutal and you like it loud, then this is the band for you. Supporting will be The Try Hardz with their strong Aussie rock tunes. It’s only $10 for a very big and very memorable night, so get along from 8pm.
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RIFF FIST
After nine months of slumber, the power-trio beast of Riff Fist will return to Collingwood. Armed with plenty of new stuff and a good dose of the old stuff, they’re very prepared to destroy The Bendigo yet again. Riff Fist are getting fired up for December’s Annual Riffmas Celebrations, with a six band mega lineup of old hands and new faces in the Melbourne world of rock’n’roll. Saturday, November 1 at The Bendigo Hotel.
SUGAR FED LEOPARDS
Sugar Fed Leopards are a glamorous six-piece band that play joyous original disco and girl group songs with a twist of soul. A shimmering spectacle of rich sound, Sugar Fed Leopards drip with the energy of three female singers, a spangling guitar and solid rhythm section that has been igniting dance floors across Melbourne for the past 12 months. They're currently recording their debut album, Sweet Spots, set for release later in the year. Find your inner animal when the Sugar Fed Leopards play The Post Office Hotel, this Saturday, November 1 from 9.30pm.
NORIA LETTS & STEVE SEDERGREEN
This Saturday at Ruby’s Music Room, singing diva Noria Letts and jazz legend Steve Sedergreen will offer a smooth blend of French Chanson inspired music. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $20. This Saturday, November 1 at Ruby’s. Doors at 8pm.
THE JUNGLE CROOKS
After going into hibernation to lay down some evil vibrations in the studio, West Heidelberg’s wildest soul-infused surf rock gang will be rolling into Fitzroy for two raucous sets of washed-out, sun-drenched tunes at The Catfish. The Jungle Crooks will be throwing down brand new tunes, as well as some of your favourite bangers done up in hard-hitting, dirty grooving Crooks surf rock style. Expect to get wild surf fans, this Saturday November 1 at The Catfish.
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MOTEL LOVE
Feeling a little bit spooked after Halloween? Then head down to The Victoria Hotel for some good old fashioned Motel Love. The four-piece make you want to start listing the bands who defined power pop drawing influences from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. In tow will be Teenage Fanclub, Guided By Voices and The Smell Goods. Catch Motel Love this Saturday, November 1 from 9pm.
Jerome Knappett is a cool guy who plays cute little hard folk songs on a nylon string guitar and kicks around in some pretty cool bands. Every Sunday in November, Jerome Knappett’s mates will be helping him celebrate the release of his debut EP not myself-titled. Come down for a cool beer and some cool food. He’ll be on at 3pm on Sunday, November 2 at the Reverence Hotel. Entry is free. Sundays are pretty cool, right?
MONDAY NOV 3
THREE QUARTER BEAST
Feeling a little dead after Halloween? Then head down to The Brunny because they’re throwing a Day of the Dead party. Come on down to drink tequila, smash piñatas and act like crazy animals. Providing your live music for the night will be Three Quarter Beast, Long Holiday, Lieutenant Jam and Dixon Cider. It all goes down this Saturday, November 1 at The Brunswick Hotel.
SUNDAY NOV 2
THE VILLAGE FESTIVAL The Village Festival returns to North Fitzroy’s Edinburgh Gardens for four days and nights of music, mischief and mesmerabilia. It is hard to pinpoint, but this beguiling event has for seven years been the way that tens of thousands of Melburnians choose to start the summer festival season. Part old-school circus, part village carnival, and part risky art fair – The Village Festival is a quirky beacon of Melbourne ingenuity. The main stage music program includes the Tek Tek Ensemble, Ungus Ungus Ungus, Horns of Leroy, Frida and Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir. It all goes down Thursday October 30 – Sunday November 2.
AUGIE MARCH
A fifth and final show has been announced due to an overwhelming response from fans. Way back in 1995 Augie March – well they weren’t really actually a band at that point, just some friends with a notion of being a band – were invited to play at an art gallery in Brunswick, Victoria for the opening of a friend’s art exhibition. It started an eventful journey and saw them create a much-loved body of work, winning multiple awards and a multitude of ardent fans here, and all over the world. A full 19 years later, just a few streets away from the first venue the band played, Augie March will take to the stage after a five-year hiatus playing songs from their fabled back catalogue as well as some songs from their forthcoming album. Catch them at Howler Sunday, November 2. Tickets are $45+BF, available through Oztix. Get ‘em while you still can.
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BEN OTTEWELL
SiB is the stage name of French-born Australian fuzzsoaked guitar player and raw as guts singer/songwriter Adrien Siboulet. His songs are electric landscapes full of sexy rawness: smooth, soulful and somewhat sultry. See for yourself this Sunday November 2 as he takes over the beer garden at The Victoria Hotel from 5pm.
As a singer and lead guitarist in rock band Gomez, Ben Ottewell is well-known for his unmistakable voice and talent for blistering guitar solos. With his new album, Rattlebag, Ottewell is set to return on the road hitting up The Substation on Monday, November 3. Tickets are $32 on door, show starts at 8pm.
CASS EAGER
TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES
Named by folk-blog Timber and Steel as "Janis Joplin and Ben Harper’s love-child," Cass Eager’s mix of raw blues, husky soul and lighthearted ditties are all punctuated with her unique whisky-soaked vocals. Emotive, slightly raspy, tender and at times powerful – Eager’s voice is the driving force of her music. Eager was a finalist for Best Band and Best Vocalist in the Australian Blues Music ‘Chain’ Awards and Blues/ Roots category of MusicOz Awards, and the band’s latest release, Down On My Knees was voted Top 10 Album of the year in Rhythms Magazine. Playing at The Catfish Sunday November 2 from 5pm at The Catfish. Free entry.
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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 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 Yarraville Club, Saturday November 8.
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ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENIKS
It’s 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 offering, I Come In Peace, 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.
BACKWOOD CREATURES
Spearheaded by Jeb Cardwell, energetic swampblues trio Backwood Creatures harks back to the glory days when guitar-driven riffs and rich vocals were king. When these guys get going, musicianship, charisma and impossibly slick fingerwork leave crowds transfixed. Bassist Grant Cummerford and drummer Tim Burnham join Jeb on stage to deliver a spontaneous and skilled live performance that masterfully ebbs and flows, from languid Sunday pub sessions to frenetic Aussie festivals. Get down to The Retreat Hotel this Cup Eve. Kicks off at 8pm, Monday November 3.
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to go. With brand new tunes yet to be performed on Australian soil, this is one for the die-hard Woohoo fans. Free entry from 10pm.
TUESDAY NOV 4
ZEVON & THE WEREWOLVES
Melbourne’s Zevon & the Werewolves are a thunderbolt of electric boogie blues. A four-piece, alloriginal band welding a sound risen from the haze of the Mississippi delta region, the blues clubs of Chicago, and the hellfire streets of Melbourne, they’re a look into the future of blues past – soulful as a preacher, powerful as a locomotive. They’ll be taking to the stage at the Drunken Poet on Monday, November 3 at 8pm. Be there or be a very sad, regretful square.
SINISTER
Death metal legends Sinister are heading to our shores all the way from Deutschland. One of the world's most revered and respected exponents of extreme music, Sinister are doing a string of tours and dates in support of their newest record The Post-Apocalyptic Servant. With the band writing and performing at such a high standard, the timing seemed perfect for them to make their first ever appearance on Australian soil, something that will undoubtedly excite old and new fans alike. Do your stretches and get your headbang on at The Bendigo Hotel Monday, November 3. Tickets available through Oztix.
THE WOOHOO REVIEW
The Woohoo Revue return to the Bar Open stage for one spectacular evening of pre-Melbourne Cup shenanigans. This raunchy and rumbustious event marks the first show back on Australian shores after their whirlwind European tour. Armed with tall tales from abroad and pieces of instruments that made it through Heathrow customs, they are back and raring
KING OF THE NORTH
Tuesday November 4, The Retreat Hotel Brunswick celebrates 11 years of live music with an incredible lineup. Featuring Kylie Auldist and the Glenroy All Stars, Charles Jenkins and the Zhivagos, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, King of the North, and Spoonful. The Melbourne Cup will be screening in the main room before the action starts on the main stage. Tickets are $20 on the door. Get in early. Doors are open from 12pm onwards.
STELLA ANGELICO
Calling all stallions and fillies. Head down to The Gasometer for a Cup Day lineup that’s definitely on the money. First out of the gate, Arthur Penn & The Funky Ten are a race unto themselves with eleven members bolting to a photo finish. And on the inside will be Stella Angelico leading the pack, fresh from her sold out single Prey. This dark horse will catch you by surprise. Track-side are DJs Mohair Slim & Richie 1250 spinning the finest tunes. Frock up and come early for a glass of sparkling on arrival. There will be Pimms slushies all day, the roof will be open and you might even be a lucky winner in the sweep. If you’re betting on the nose on Cup Day, head to the Gasometer Hotel from 12pm until late. Giddyup.
Who are you? Melvin Bickle, cousin of Travis, and ghost member of Ron S Peno and The Superstitions. The First Record I Bought: An Elvis Presley compilation (weren’t they all) on vinyl. I hadn’t heard of Elvis In Memphis yet. I liked the cover and his hair and his sideburns. The Last Record I Bought: Ian Dury’s New Boots and Panties. I wear the cuffs of my jeans rolled now. I am on the lookout for braces. I prefer the live version of Sex Drugs and Rock n Roll, 1977. The First Thing I Recorded: On my Sharp cassette player held up to the telly: the theme from Psycho. It was amazing then with the TV volume turned down applying the soundtrack to different images. Hogan’s Heroes had a more sinister opening. The Last Thing I Recorded: On my Cashies minidisc recorder held up to the carousel as Morris ran around his cage making it spin. Rhythm track that I’ll be ad-libbing over. Quite accessible. And he’s much faster than a hamster. The Record That Changed My Life: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Until I found out I was listening to Neil Young’s Trans album instead. I now have a love for the vocoder and a confusion to this day between Lou Reed and Neil Young. RON S PENO AND THE SUPERSTITIONS perform at The Spotted Mallard on Friday night, October 31, sans vocoder. It’s their first show in five months due to overseas commitments.
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews PAT METHENY UNIT Y GROUP Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Wednesday October 22
The Melbourne Festival consistently throws up wonderful surprises and this was one of the finest. A generation has passed since Metheny last visited our shores and this time he brought with him a contraption called the Orchestration to accompany the human element of The Unity Group: a mechanised beast that has to be seen to be believed. Even in his sixtieth year, Metheny remains precocious and has not diluted his art despite a closet full of Grammy Awards and the amount of fans in attendance. Characterised by intensely melodic compositions and modified guitars, the concert provided an extraordinary insight into improvised music with perfectly executed rhythms. Upon taking the stage, Metheny performed a solo composition accompanied by a guitar. No ordinary guitar, mind you, but an invented instrument allowing him to robustly explore the range of stringed sounds. The performance then became clearly segmented. Firstly, the quartet Unity Band played some material from their 2012 recording and some early ‘80s Metheny work. The Bat, Roofdogs, James and Folk Song #1 gave scope for all players to shine. Antonio Sanchez was exquisite on drums throughout and veteran Chris Potter also displayed some dynamism on saxophone. Pianist Giulio Carmassi then joined the fray and The Unity Group was complete to play several current compositions from the Kin (<-->) recording. To further express the skills of the band, Metheny then took turns in playing a duet with every member of the band before closing with a couple of encores. Upon reflection, you begin to appreciate the live efficiency of Metheny and his ability to combine academic musical application with warmth and a human edge that is not oblique but rather holds virtuoso musicianship in good stead. The symbiotic interplay between the musicians was also something to admire, as was a gifted performer being so generous with his performance. Commendable. It’s a rare set of musicians that can display such virtuosity while inspiring such quixotic comments from the audience as, ‘Why LOVED: A legend spreading out for would you make the guitar sound like a saxophone when you have a nearly three hours. saxophonist in the band?’ Why indeed. HATED: Some audience members not having the courtesy to see out the BRONIUS ZUMERIS entire show. DRANK: Abstinence.
KALACOMA Evelyn Hotel, Saturday October 25 Photo by Willi T Dennithorne
Ed Kuepper Melbourne Festival Arts Hub, Saturday October 25 Seeing Ed Kuepper play is a rare treat at the best of times, so tonight, a two-hour request set, was like getting a goddamn present. “You thought you were coming to a cultural event, but you’ve ended up at an RSL,” he chortles. Dude, if that’s the case, the RSL beats the shit out of any cultural event. The wry bugger actually played on demand – which meant we got to hear everything you could ever want from a back catalogue spanning five decades (other than for a few songs where he purported to forget the words – fair enough, Kuepper’s got a truck load of songs). Playing at the Arts Hub was a million miles from playing the grubby old Sarah Sands during the heyday of Honey Steel’s Gold in the ‘90s and even further from the Saints’ punk halcyon days in the ‘70s. There was nary a punk in sight - Kuepper’s crowd has matured with him, but is no less appreciative. It must be gratifying for Kuepper to play an audience so familiar with his work, even the obscure stuff. It beggars belief Kuepper’s not more famous – he has a steadfast cult following, but he’s a genius and deserves to be loved more broadly. You’d hate to get on his wrong side, but Kuepper’s as funny and as charming as fuck, despite starting by telling us he feels crook and had sworn off request nights. Everything was gold, but if pressed, the highlights included making a horn section of the audience for Know Your Product, The Way I Made You Feel, the beautifully sad Ghost of an Ideal LOVED: How Kuepper dealt with Wife and his covers of Ring of Fire and Highway to Hell. Horror is fireworks mid-set: “You’ll miss them the usual response when anyone fiddles with Johnny Cash or AC/ when they’re gone.” DC (please don’t fuck with that shit – it’s perfect), but Kuepper more than gets away with it, imbuing them with low growling, sexy menace. HATED: People, who were truly old enough to know better, taking pics with the flash on. MEG CRAWFORD DRANK: Nothin’.
60 seconds with winter moon
It’s refreshing to know a band like Kalacoma exists. Still carving out an impressive cavity in the hip Melbourne indie scene, this five-piece has stayed true to their desire to push boundaries. According to frontman Nick Herrera, this is the kind of music you can benefit from no matter what; “You know when you hear something and you don’t necessarily like it? But you know they’re taking it to the next level, and their music is really onto something.” At the launch of their latest EP, Lost For Words, Herrera was confident yet poignant, intense yet delicate, and just that much clearer without the seas of dreadlocks he sported until very recently. Amid a sea of colourful pyramids, he lit up the stage with every trip-tonic ebb and flow of the music. Without conceit, the set started with an as yet untitled track, which edged the crowd into submission as Herrera slowly warmed up his voice. The follow-up and title track from the EP rang true with one of the band’s biggest influences, Radiohead, utilising the syncopated beat and offbeat rhythm made famous by the UK outfit. This sound, the backbone of Kalacoma, permeated through the set as Herrera’s vocals directed a rollercoaster of sentiment. In Nancy, like a stroll through the Wild West of Hollywood, there was an undercurrent of longing while its instant successor White Line Fever drew out a cheeky glint in the eye, impossible to ignore. This energy peaked in the more upbeat of offerings, Spiral Eyes, as well as crowd favourite Anxiety. This intensity soared through Waves, one of the band’s well-known songs and an apt illustration of light and dark that had the audience on the tips of their toes waiting for the beat to drop. And the drop – not an ounce too heavy, yet it’s still so powerful. Just like the video, it surely sent some heads exploding (perhaps internally this time). Closing with a stripped-back instrumental that showcased an emotionally charged vocal from Herrera followed by a highlight from the new EP, There For, it felt like the audience had just begun to warm up. It was at this time the band thanked the room for heaving on their behalf and disappeared LOVED: The rollercoaster of vocal into the night – no encore to be seen. The air of longing extended from intensity stage to dance floor. Until next time. HATED: No encore. DRANK: Whatever Thom Yorke JEN WILSON likes to drink.
ELEPHANT EGO The Northcote Social Club, Thursday October 16
Who are we chatting with and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Milly Moon. I put the words to page, co-write the music and sing my little heart out. And what does Winter Moon sound like? Winter Moon sound like a whole lot of raucous love and energy thrown around bluesy riffs, groovy bass lines and big vocals. We love our ‘70s rock’n’roll, old school blues and wailing psychedelia. You’re launching your new EP Lucid Dreaming at Yah Yah’s on Halloween. Do your dreams ever influence your music? I experience very vivid and often lucid dreams quite a lot. I’ve always written down my most intense dreaming experiences and will draw content, poetry or atmosphere from them, yes. Gotta’ use everything thrown at you, right?
Can we expect you legends to be rockin’ out onstage in a Halloween get up? What’s your costume for the night? I’m surprised how many people ask us this. We dress up on stage anyway. Halloween will be one mad dress up party for sure, but we’re not giving away our costumes yet. Tell us why we should get down to your show. There will be some incredible energy and talent on stage throughout the night, the party will be lose, the drinks will be plenty, there are prizes for your costume efforts and no one, I say no one, will be too cool to dance their asses off. WINTER MOON launch their EP on Halloween, this Friday October 31 at Yah Yah’s from 8pm til 5am. Tickets are available at the door.
Melbourne four-piece Elephant Ego had an incredibly successful launch at The Northcote Social Club. When the supports played, however, the room was barely a quarter full, and it depresses me a little when people don’t check out the support act. I remember checking out a little-known band supporting Die! Die! Die! back in 2005 called Eddy Current Suppression Ring, so start getting to gigs early people. I really like the stage curtain at The Northcote Social Club. It creates excitement and builds anticipation, because the first time you see the band is when they’re playing their first song. This wasn’t quite the case with Elephant Ego, as they had an intro song consisting of 90 seconds of driving electro house. While being at odds with the band’s standard rock band set up – Zak Degengardt on lead guitar, Ted Mitchell on rhythm guitar/vocals, Alex Capper on bass and drums with Will Clancy – the ravey intro worked for the packed room. The intro gave way to a thick and textured instrumental, a profound collusion of musicianship between the four Eastern suburb locals. When I first saw Elephant Ego at Ding Dong Lounge 18 months ago – they were called Star Caps On Will back then – their sound was deeply ethereal with a slightly Byron Bay diddle. However, the band gracing the stage at NSC was a full on rock beast that paid homage to rock’n’roll greats right across a number of eras, namely the ‘60s and ‘80s. Sometimes I Get Carried away was a powerful song with the calm drive of Fleetwood Mac; it made the perfect bed for Mitchell’s Sting-esque wail. A great visual element was a projection of a POV camera driving around Melbourne that slowed and sped up with the music. In an interlude, Degengardt, who was dressed in oversized denim overalls, told some terrible jokes based around his attire: “It’s great that everyone came down. I can see everyone at the front here, but I can’t see anyone at the back OVERALL all these people,” and: “I’m sure you’re getting tired of the jokes, some might even say you’re OVERALL of them.” Loved: The ‘Ego. The band’s last song was the suitable large rock track, Silverback Jack. Hated: Only a quarter of the crowd It opened with the riff from Hendrix’s Foxy Lady – a hat tip to one of watching the first two bands. the Elephant Ego’s many stylistic influences. Drank: Some cheap beer with Day DAN WATT
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews THE MEANIES The Hi-Fi Bar, Friday October 24 Photo by Mary Boukouvalas
THE VINES Ding Dong, Wednesday October 22 Photo by Ian Laidlaw
Friday night saw seminal punk outfit The Meanies close their Silver Jubilee tour at the Hi-Fi Bar to an unruly mob of fans. Three-piece punk hardcore outfit Batpiss unleashed their hard-hitting assault on the eardrums to copious head thrashing and mohawked punters. Notable fashion shout-outs to the dude with the heavily studded, “Who killed spiky jacket” emblazoned on the back of his jacket and the chick in the Meanie’s t-shirt, and black jacket sans bottoms. Now, that’s punk. As The Meanies took to the stage, Link, with crutches in tow, gave new meaning to the phrase “break a leg.” His broken foot sustained during their Adelaide show didn’t dampen his antics. Opening with Never, frenetic riffs flew forth, kamikaze-like and with the first guttural scream, it was on. “I can’t read the set list,” exclaimed Link, commenting on the green dots generated all round the joint by a stage light prop. “It’s romantic. Grab the girl next to you and dance.” He needn’t feared, stalwart bassist Wally Meanie screamed out song-names before they were played. Dark Side of My Mind incited a mosh pit that didn’t abate until the last note was played. Jaw’s prowess with his wah-wah effects pedal was showcased in Lyin and drummer Ringo kept the pace fast and steady. Link was using his crutches as a prop to lift his legs in unison with the beat and delighted us with his sporadic, electric shock-like dance spasms. The hits spewed forth in quick succession; Sorry Bout the Violence, their number one indie hit, then there was 10% Weird, Conan, and Gangrenous. There’s a Gap, the brand new song on their new album was given an airing and after a hilarious “premature” appearance by Link for the encore, The Meanies ended their memorable set with “one of their favourites:” Bored!’s Feed the Dog. There’s something inexplicable about punk rock that captures a primal mood, fires up the neurotransmitters, and makes you feel alive more than any other genre of music. Maybe it’s the fast pace and without a doubt, it’s because The Meanies are a truly fucking exceptional band. They did LOVED: Link’s dance moves. the punters proud on their Silver Jubilee tour. HATED: Fuckwits throwing empty cans at punter’s heads. ANNA-MARIA MEGALOGENIS DRANK: Gin and Tonic.
The brand new Vines scampered onto the stage without too much fanfare and launched into a run of four new tunes. They were unmistakably Vines songs and all sounded pretty cool. It’s a weird one. Frontman Craig Nicholls has a bit of a formula: when it hits, it really hits, and it really hit about 10 years ago. Don’t Listen To The Radio was the first of the oldies to come out and it got people shuffling. This was followed by a cover of OutKast’s Ms. Jackson, which was predictably fantastic. Get Free and Get Out were back-to-back in the middle of the set and a real treat to see in a small joint like Ding Dong. It’s a fine sized place but to see a band like that in there was a treat. Nicholls seemed in pretty good spirits. He thanked the crowd a lot in between sips of his Coke. The new rhythm section seemed like a good fit. There was a definite lack of chemistry between the three of them but that was made up for by the classics and the fact the two new guys had been playing together a long time. The boys then left the stage thanking the crowd, but I have to confess: encores shit me to tears. They seem extremely outdated and kind of insulting. When you see the stage hand scampering around on stage getting everyone’s things in order, they just seem dumb. They came back to the chants of “one more song” and played three more, one of them being Ride which was sick. Another was Autumn Shade – equally sick. The real winner on the night was Nicholls’ voice. He effortlessly moved between scream and sing and had an impressive range in both. Some macho men threw their weight around in the front couple of rows, which was very entertaining. One guy had his top off. I saw another guy Snapchatting someone. What a derp. The Vines finished the last song, thanked the crowd once more and that was that. As I was leaving, I over heard someone say, “I guess he kind of lost it towards LOVED: The oldies. the end a bit,” perhaps hoping for a meltdown. That’s a shame. HATED: Snapchat. DRANK: Nostalgia. JACK PARSONS Photo by Ian Laidlaw
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (Flightless/Remote Control)
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I feel like every other week, there’s another King Gizzard release. They seem to be able to churn out records with the same frequency I wash my hair, and each individual release is as worthwhile as the last. Their latest offering I’m In Your Mind Fuzz slots into the endless succession of King Gizzard releases effortlessly. It picks up where Head On/Pill and Oddments left off. However, it’s apparent now King Gizzard don’t necessarily evolve from record to record, but rather through each record and into the next. If your turntable was to play the anthology without breaking, the sound would be just as intelligible between records as it would be within the one record. That’s not to say they haven’t changed or they don’t experiment with certain releases, they do. I’m In Your Mind Fuzz has a persistence to it, particularly in the drumming that doesn’t let up and feels more inspired by Thee Oh Sees than previous records. By the same token, there seems to be a less complex array of guitar tones in the record, less colossal clashes of tone and less points of heavy breathing. As a whole the record is light and bouncy, with a strong metronomic movement to it, particularly in the earlier stages of the album from I’m In Your Mind to Hot Water. The record opens up a little toward the end, where slower and broader tracks like Slo Jam and Satan Speeds Up round out the record well. I’m In Your Mind Fuzz has a very fluid, stream of consciousness feeling to it. Each song moves seamlessly into the next, the tone is warm, and the beginning of each track is invited in by the conclusion of the one before it. While the record ebbs and flows with varying levels of complexity, it always seems constant. It’s a
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Pavor Nocturnus NIGHT TERRORS Lily-O SAM AMIDON Fall Into the Sky DAN WARNER The Order Of The Brave Young Souls SPEED ORANGE 5. Start Together 1994-2006: A Sampler SLEATER-KINNEY 6. Cosmic Logic PEAKING LIGHTS 7. Re: Residual PETER KNIGHT AND DUNG NGUYEN 8. ‘71 (Original Soundtrack) DAVID HOLMES 9. Our Love CARIBOU 10. Flesh and Machine DANIEL LANOIS
DRAKE
Heat Of The Moment (OVO Sound) Like a less heady Marvins Room, Drizzy Drake gets his croon on over a liquid beat from long-time collaborator 40. It could be a slow jam if it wasn’t so sentimental, the strong hook dripping with melancholic resolve. The strongest of three strong tracks released the day after Drake’s birthday – RT @Drake “That wasn’t an EP. Just 3 songs that I knew some hackers had. But enjoy. Back to this album.” That album, Views From The 6, has a high chance of dropping this year. Cue prayer hands emoji.
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difficult thing to do. Any old schmo can cut his record with each track bleeding into the next, but few can make it make sense. There’s quite an innate humanism to it other bands have attempted, but haven’t been able to properly replicate. The essential quality to brilliant psych music’s central to the concept: it’s the ability to decode the human psyche and reinterpret it sonically. Few artists genuinely hold that ability, but without it, all the fuzz and reverb in the world won’t bring your song back. Without it, the music doesn’t have a pulse. KEATS MULLIGAN
BEST TRACK: Am I In Heaven? IF YOU LIKED THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Thee Oh Sees, Frowning Clouds, Ty Segall and Hair. IN A WORD: Fuzz.
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PANDA BEAR
Mr Noah (Domino) The last Animal Collective LP, 2012’s middling Centipede Hz, suffered from a severe lack of Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox. I don’t use the label ‘psychedelic’ lightly, if at all, but there’s really no other way to describe the chugging, garbled riff that forms a stream throughout the fairly excellent Mr Noah. It’s a fun sojourn, with residual elements of anxiety occasionally bubbling in the lyrics. It’s the lead track from Panda Bear VS The Grim Reaper, an album title signalling at a more carefree inhibition. While AnCo’s track record took a bit of a derailing, Panda Bear’s solo efforts have been invariably rewarding.
SLEATER-KINNEY
Bury Our Friends (Sub Pop) A surprise comeback more welcome than most, SleaterKinney make their studio return with a stomping maelstrom of intertwining, inter-knifing guitar tones. It’s not a classic, but Bury Our Friends is a serviceable salvo for what we can hope is an extensive touring run. Splendour? Meredith? Fingers crossed.
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Birthday Celebration: Live in NYC DVD DAVID BOWIE 2. Piece Of cake LP MUDHONEY 3. Six Strings That Drew Blood 2CD ROWLAND S. HOWARD 4. Peel Me Like An Egg CD HARDONS 5. Phantom Radio 2CD MARK LANEGAN 6. Radio Birdman 7CD/DVD Box Set RADIO BIRDMAN 7. Time To Die 2LP/CD ELECTRIC WIZARD 8. Foggy Notion / I Can’t Stand It 7” VELVET UNDERGROUND 9. The Conjuring LP/CD WO FAT 10. Unchained CD ELIAS HULK
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Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone LUCINDA WILLIAMS 2. Order of Operation AUSMUTEANTS 3. ...and Star Power FOXYGEN 4. Havens Dumb AUGIE MARCH 5. Soused SCOTT WALKER/SUNN O 6. Typical System TOTAL CONTROL 7. Falling for You THE HARPOONS 8. Dude Incredible SHELLAC 9. Syro APHEX TWIN 10. Popular Problems LEONARD COHEN
Song Of Joan BOSS MOXI Raise The Roof FELICITY GROOM Gold (Thomas Jack Remix) GABRIEL RIOS 4. The Fool GUNNS 5. Anytime Anywhere MAGIC BONES 6. Went Out THE OCEAN PARTY 7. Kick Another Flip THE STIFFYS 8. Two Birds TULLY ON TULLY 9. Stories, Not Sorry 44TH SUNSET 10. Multiply A$AP ROCKY
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FOO FIGHTERS
Baby Don’t Lie (Universal) Songwriting credits for Gwen Stefani’s latest aren’t in the wild yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find Sia’s name in there, with Gwen channelling that strain of vocal intonation, with a touch of exaggeration. The chorus isn’t quite spectacular, especially the soggy touch of Coldplayscale fanfare. The percussion-heavy verses are fairly solid. But overall, disappointingly uninspiring pop from a proven maverick.
4 - BOX SET LED ZEPPELIN Houses Of The Holy BOX SET LED ZEPPELIN 3. Phantom Radio LP MARK LANEGAN 4. And The Chocolate Factory LP PRIMUS 5. Honor Is All We Know LP RANCID 6. No Mercy LP SUICIDAL TENDENCIES 7. Songs Of Innocence LP U2 8. Everything Will Be Alright LP WEEZER 9. The Best Day LP THURSTON MOORE 10. Adore LP SMASHING PUMPKINS
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Something From Nothing (RCA) Weak couplet chains from Dave dampen an otherwise passable track. Recorded by Steve Albini, its pugilistic riffs, assisted by what sounds like some tasty electric piano action, carry Something From Nothing, but only so far. It’s decent when it hits a stride towards the close.
Iodine (Flightless/Remote Control) So lovely in its alt-country charm I can accept the weird pronunciation of Iodine. Maybe it’s not weird, but my only reference point is Mrs Glick’s pronunciation on The Simpsons okay. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 54
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Waterfalls (Warner) Did you know TLC’s Waterfalls is a sorta-cover of a deep cut from Paul McCartney’s McCartney II? Did you know McCartney II is by far the best Beatles solo record? You know TLC’s Waterfalls is a classic. You know Bette Midler can sing. The Divine Miss M’s sparse piano-led ballad is a richly affecting transformative wonder, nailing emotion in perfect measure. Taken from upcoming covers LP It’s The Girls!, which, if Waterfalls is any indication, presents itself as something more than a conceited stocking filler cash-grab.
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ABSOLUTELY FREE
Absolutely Free (Lefse/Inertia) From the ashes of abstract math-rock band DD/MM/YYYY comes the Zappareferencing Absolutely Free. This self-titled debut from musicians Matt King, Moshe Rozenberg, and Mike Claxton is a milder proposition than the sound of their former band, adding a hypnotic, psychedelic-rock haze and a hint of krautrock to their propulsive compositions: a mix recalling the style of Here We Go Magic. While the music of Absolutely Free less discordant and experimental than the Toronto trio’s previous work, there’s still plenty of layers to get lost in here. Blessed with well-balanced production from Fucked Up’s Mike Haliechuk, the album delivers controlled chaos as immaculately placed as the art installation elements of the front cover art. Trippy and textured but smooth and accessible, this is the work of nerdy mad scientists who are coolly and confidently in control of their intricate equipment. It’s a sonic experience best taken as a whole, rather than stripped down to individual songs, though the pounding drums and psychedelic swirl of early album tracks Beneath BEST TRACK: Striped Light The Air and Striped Light makes for a particularly IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Here We impressive double-whammy. Go Magic, Cabibou, Tame Impala. IN A WORD: Freewheeling.
CHRIS GIRDLER
MACHINE HEAD
Bloodstone and Diamonds (Nuclear Blast) It’s interesting to trace the journey and development of long-running bands, from the perspective of the quality of their output over the years. In the case of the nowlegendary Californian metallers Machine Head, they started with all guns blazing: their first two albums being all time metal classics. They then had a slight dip, before exploding back to form. That form continues with the release of their eighth album, Bloodstone and Diamonds. It appears Robb Flynn and co. have truly decided what their signature sound and style is. Take the nuclear strength groove and balls-out aggression of the first two records, infuse an epic vibe and a little more light and shade into the songs, and you have latter day Machine Head. And after four albums pursuing that sound, they’re arguably doing it better than ever. Bloodstone and Diamonds is nothing short of awesome, everything a great Machine Head album should be, and plenty more. They’ve reached a point in their career where virtually every song they write is an epic, although the songs are never overblown at the same time. Plus, there’s a fabulous sense of ebb and flow and variation across the course of the album’s almost 70 minute length. There’s plenty of mid-paced stomp and grind (Beneath the Silt for example), thrashy moments, as you might expect, gothic elements (In Comes the Flood), a quiet but dark ballad (Damage Inside), an instrumental (Imaginal Cells) and plenty more.Bloodstone and Diamonds is probably Machine Head’s most complete and varied BEST TRACK: Sail Into the Black. album. It’ll truly satiate existing fans, and could very IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Pantera, well gain them a bunch of new ones. Lamb of God, Gojira. IN A WORD: Mighty.
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MARIACHI EL BRONX
Mariachi El Bronx (III) (ATO Records) New Beat is an excellent start to the album, delivering the get-up-and-danceafter-thumping-some-nachos tunes we’ve come to know and love as Mariachi El Bronx. However, from here on in, the mariachi part gets lost somewhat. Rather than try to once again nail a traditional mariachi album, the boys from the Bronx set out to make an album inspired by but not constricted to the genre. Perhaps as a result, there’s a mix of tempos here, including some slower numbers such as Sticks and Stones. This track, and others, incorporates a chorus of backing vocals which don’t quite hit the mark. High Tide, too, is a bit bland, even though there’s sometimes a lot going on. Perhaps it’s the throw-in-a-million-strings approach or the uninspiring vocals, but it’s definitely one of the more forgettable Mariachi El Bronx tunes. Nothing’s Changed is an example of a slower one that works, while Wildfires and Raise The Dead are both enjoyable tunes. However, on the whole Mariachi El Bronx III is a little disappointing after the rollicking feel of I and II. Perhaps the hugely successful side project has run its course? Maybe it’s just a transitional record, and BEST TRACK: Wildfires. the next offering (if there is one) will feel a bit more IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Johnny cohesive and settled. It’s a bit difficult to tell. Cash, Jose Aguilar. IN A WORD: Underwhelming.
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ALDOUS HARDING
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Broken Bones (MGM) Acting out a jilted lover doesn’t mean one can write a good love song, although thespian Guy Pearce gives this form a good crack. Broken Bones is his first record and doesn’t suggest there’ll be a raft of releases in the near future, but it’s not the shuddering abomination efforts by actors-turned-singers invariably turn out to be. Pearce on the other hand, sounds like a person who doesn’t want all the information handed to him on one piece of paper. Rather, he seems to work with scraps of information he receives, collates it and shapes it into something he can coherently imagine. Pearce unashamedly declares this recording was, in no small part, due to “some very supportive people who care about my mental health. I’ve finally realised the value of completing things and getting them out of my head.” This very statement suggests a degree of gallantry of the spirit. With a voice occupying the landscape between Mark Seymour and Hugo Race, Pearce begins the task with the commanding Overflow. Then the bass heavy funk of Storm follows, although the higher notes appear to be a difficult task to tackle, being oddly reminiscent of Brian Eno. I Can Be Some Good initially crackles like some wartime Vera Lynn sing-a-long before evolving into a compelling listen. The weary Golden Heart is anchored by the minutiae of life that leave an impact by their very ordinariness. By the title track, Pearce sounds like he’s auditioning for a Webber stage production before restraining himself for Fly All The Way and touching ‘70s pomp rock. Like his primary artistic pursuit, Broken Bones is a selection of scenes not all linked with the necessary golden thread and some of the flow is jolting. This aside, it’s BEST TRACK: Leader Of The Land. a low-key record of gentle pleas for solitude, love and IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Mark inner peace. Good on him for that. Seymour, Neil Young, Neil Finn. IN A WORD: Introspective. BRONIUS ZUMERIS
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Katie Noonan’s Songs That Made Me (Kin Music) After the success of her Songs That Made Me tour in 2013, Katie Noonan has expanded the project this year to include an album. It features Noonan collaborating with some of Australia’s finest female musicians including Deborah Conway, Kylie Auldist, Angie Hart and Ainslie Wills. One of the many highlights on Songs That Made Me is their mesmerising interpretation of The Pretenders’ Hymn To Her, with beautiful harmonies. The artists on this album cover songs which mean a great deal to them. Melody Pool impresses with her version of Joni Mitchell’s River. Sam Buckingham’s acoustic cover of the Phil Collins hit, Another Day In Paradise, is a personal favourite. Noonan’s angelic vocals shine on her unique take of a Jeff Buckley classic, Last Goodbye. Wills’ rendition of Feist’ Let It Die and Maples’ cover of Radiohead’s hit Street Spirit are other highlights. Songs That Made Me is a great album and will encourage listeners to further explore music from BEST TRACK: Hymn To Her. each artist. Let’s hope Katie Noonan creates similar IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Ainslie compilations in the future. Wills, Melody Pool.
Aldous Harding (Spunk) I’ve been quite transfixed by this record since I bought it at Harding’s recent Melbourne Folk Club gig. It’s literate female folk, somewhere in the Joanna Newsom/Tiny Ruins kind of realm, but I’ve found a connection with it I don’t get from similar artists. Opening track Stop Your Tears is Aldous Harding in a nutshell for me; it’s an impressionistic pastiche of pain, longing, beauty and feminine wisdom which belies the tender age of the woman singing it. This kind of mellow mournfulness and haunting musicality carries far more weight for me than the scarred ‘poor me’ storytelling so present in the popular music of some of her contemporaries. There’s an almost medieval bent to some of Harding’s lyrical content but it’s no gimmick; the occasionally folkloric imagery serves instead to underpin the timelessness of human experience. However, the album is not mired in tales of mead-fuelled battles or underscored by lyres and Gregorian chants. Some of the production is thoroughly modern and more reminiscent of Beck or Bjork than it is of Beowulf. Marlon Williams also has a few fingerprints on this album; his echoic backing vocals perfectly compliment the gentle strength of Harding’s delivery in tracks like Titus Groan and gospel-esque Merriweather. While much of the production is quite sparse there are still some more energetic songs in the mix, and the raw nature of the recordings really highlights both the frailty and the strength of the performances. Maybe I just needed a strong woman around while my lady was away this past month, but I think my attachment to this record comes more from the gravitas of the songwriting than from missing my girl. Harding captures the essence of the grieving widow, the nurturing mother, the blushing virgin and the warrior princess each in turn with an understated intelligence that is, at times, jaw-dropping. I played a couple tracks for my lady BEST TRACK: Stop your Tears. when she got home and she almost cried. ‘Nuff said. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, Tiny Ruins. IN A WORD: Boadicea.
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY 29 OCT INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ••AUGIE MARCH Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
••BOSS MOXI + PINBALL MACHINE + THE
BAUDELAIRES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. ••BRICKS + ALL WE NEED + NEVILLE BARTOS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
••COQ ROQ WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
••DREAM THEATRE Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $100.00. ••DUMB PUNTS + THE KREMLINGS + SEWER SIDE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6.00.
••DEAD CITY RUINS + THE DEEP END + VOODOOCAIN Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
••DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR + HYPERDRONES +
DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + PLASTIC SPACEMAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
••ELECTRIK DYNAMITE + RED SKY BURIAL +
TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••KICKIN THE B AT 303 - FEAT: SAM COPE & THE
TRAINED PROFESSIONALS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
+ HOLLOW DRUMS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford.
8:00pm.
••LIEUTENANT JAM + BELOVED ELK + JUNK HORSES
HOUNDS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00. ••LANIE LANE + OLYMPIA Corner Hotel, Richmond.
••LOOBS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
8:00pm. $32.00.
••MISSY HIGGINS Regent Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
••NUSSY + I KNOW THE CHIEF + FEELDS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $14.30.
••REREADERS (LIVE RECORDING) John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
••THE CITRADELS + LUNG GHOST + GANG DARTS +
DAYZED Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5.00. ••THE VENDETTAS + THE BALLS + THE DUKES OF DELICIOUSNESS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $5.00.
••UNICORNS CRICKET TEAM FUNDRAISER - FEAT:
GRINDHOUSE + THE ROLLING BLACKOUTS + RAFFLE + DJ DAIRY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••VINYL SPLINTERS + 130 + KEITH PARSONS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
••WILLOW DARLING + AMADEUS TULIP + THE
GALAXY FOLK Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $6.00.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••GRACE PAGEANT Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
••GYPSY JAZZ DUO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
••JOSH KELLY TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.
••LO-RES + CHRIS YOUNG TRIO + TOM FRYER & JAN
BAS BOLLEN 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••MO SOUL FEAT. SOULFEAT Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
••NILUSHA DASSENAIKE (THE LOTUS VERSES) Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••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: NICOLE
CHEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00. ••THE AARON SPIERS BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••BAD HOBBITS + ACOUSTIC FOXX + KAT ORGOVANY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.
••BRENDAN GALLAGHER + KUTCHA EDWARDS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
••DRIVING SOUTH - FEAT: ZEVON & THE
WEREWOLVES Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. ••FLASH COMPANY + AMARILLO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
••OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. ••OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. ••OPEN MIC Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••OPEN MIC/JAM Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.
••THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL’S OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
••THE HAMMOND ORGAN NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.
••VAN WALKER Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
••WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: FREYA HANLY +
MONIQUE SHELFORD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
8:00pm.
THURSDAY 30 OCT
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ••AUGIE MARCH Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
••BASTARD SQUAD + FORTNIGHT JUMBO + D.I.C.K Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.
••BOSS MOXI + SLEEP DECADE + ROMEO MOON +
TINY GIANTS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $8.00.
••BYO VINYL NIGHT Yarra Lounge, Yarraville. 7:30pm.
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RODRIGUEZ
The name Rodriguez has many claims to fame in the US of A. Robert Rodriguez is credited on films such as Sin City and From Dusk till Dawn and Michelle Rodriguez is known for her tough girl characters in Fast and Furious and Lost. Funnily enough, the majority of her Wikipedia page is focused on the total cost of her speeding fines. Little was known about the life of American folk King Sixto Rodriguez until the release of the 2012 documentary film, Searching for Sugar Man. The film doesn’t tell us how many road rules he’s broken, but it does detail his amazing life and musical career. Drive yourself to the Palais Theatre at a legal speed to see the mystery man himself, when Rodriguez plays this Sunday, November 2.
$10.00.
••LAMB BOULEVARD + LITTLE MISS REMEMBERING
••ELBOW Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $91.49. ••GOSSAMER PRIDE + THE SLIMS + HOLLOW
GIG OF THE WEEK!
+ BIG BAD Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00.
••MAGGOT FEST V - FEAT: INTERNAL ROT + BLACK
DEITY + HEADLESS DEATH + POWER + SEWERCIDE + HOBOMAGIC Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ••MINNESOTA VOODOO MEN + THE REBELLES + THE REPROBETTES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00. ••NEBRASKATAK + THE KARMENS + HUNTING SEASON Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00. ••NEXT - FEAT: BELLE HAVEN + ACRASIA + DAYDREAMER Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. ••PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: JOHN LINGARD + ROBBIE BALMER Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••RACHEL BY THE STREAM Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00.
••SFK GAMES - FEAT: 8 BIT LOVE + SHIT SEX +
LOOSE TOOTH + GANG DARTS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.
••SON OF SET + CHARM + ROBOT MUGABE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $7.00.
••SOUL IN THE BASEMENT - FEAT: REVEREND FUNK
& THE HORNS OF SALVATION + DJ PIERRE BARONI + VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••SPLIT SECONDS Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00. ••THE SCREAMING JETS (25TH ANIVERSARY TOUR)
+ TRACER Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $41.00. ••THE TOWNHOUSES + PARKING LOT EXPERIMENTS + DENIM OWL Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••BETH PATTERSON + THE JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE
CAJUN TRIO Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $5.00.
••BLACK VOICES Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
••GUY KABLE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
••JANE MCARTHUR Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
••KEIRAN LARKEY Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••OH PEP! Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
••OPEN MIC Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 8:00pm.
••POWERLINE SNEAKERS + THE DIRTBAND +
GUTTERSNIPES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
••PRINCE THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
••RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
••RYAN NICO + CATHERINE SIETKIEWICZ Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY 31 OCT
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ••AMAYA LAUCIRICA + THE ELIZABAND + LAURA
JEAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $14.30. ••ARTERIES + JACK THE STRIPPER + GRIEVER + DEADWEIGHT + RECLAIM THE FIRE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••AUGIE MARCH Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
VENDETTA + MASS REJECTION + SARCOPHONY + AGENTS OF ROCK Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
Music Hall, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
••OCEAN ALLEY (THOSE DAZE LAUNCH) + EL MOTH
+ MY ELEPHANT RIDE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.
••PAMELA WACHIRA & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
••ROBERT SIMONE BIG BAND The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: THE
THURSDAY DUO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
7:00pm. $15.00.
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••SIN FRONTERA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.
••SLOW CHASE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.
••SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. ••SUPER ROCK & ROLL PARTY (HELLO WEEN) 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
••TERROR ON HALLOWEEN EVE - FEAT: BULLETBELT
+ BOMBS OVER BRUNSWICK + LUSTRATION + MANIAXE + DEATHRIPPER + GRUDGE Bendigo Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.
Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
••THE NIGHT TERRORS (PAVOR NOCTURNUS
LAUNCH) Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
••THE SCREAMING JETS (25TH ANIVERSARY TOUR)
9:30pm.
IRONS + THE JACKS + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••CHILD + HOBO MAGIC + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
••CHRIS WILSON Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm.
••COLOUR BOMB + CANARY + DXHEAVEN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
RAPIDS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.
••FIONA & HER HOLY MEN + LES THOMAS + KIM
VOLKMAN & THE WHISKEY PRIESTS Exchange Bar
(south Yarra), South Yarra. 8:00pm. $10.00.
RICHIE 1250 Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ••HALLOWEEN @ YAH YAHS - FEAT: WINTER MOON + KASHMERE CLUB + THE HUNTED CROWS + GRANDMASTERMONK Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00. ••HALLOWEEN AT THE BRUNNIE - FEAT: THE UNKIND + JASON LIVES + HOPE IN HELL + COFFIN WOLF
••MATT DWYER & THE MAGNATONES Forester’s Beer &
••SHOAL + MINIATURES + DISCOVERY OF A FOX Grace
••CHERRYWEEN - FEAT: THE WORKING HORSE
TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.
••KAIN BORLASE TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
+ GIRL CRAZY + DJ JOSH WELLS Old Bar, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $10.00.
••THE PEEP TEMPEL Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm.
7:00pm.
••SCOTDRAKULA + THE INFANTS + THE SHABBAB
••CHERRY BOMB European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd.
••FUDGE Pier Live, Frankston. 9:30pm. $5.00.
••FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: JAKE JUDD +
+ DEATH BY SIX + VALLEYS OF VERMONT Colonial
Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
••THE MARK OF CAIN + KING OF THE NORTH 170
Cbd. 11:30pm.
••EXP AT HALLOWEEN Birmingham Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
••FEM BELLING & THE JOHN MONTESANTE
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
••PLASTIC - FEAT: BARBARION + WITCHGRINDER
••BOOGIE MAN HALLOWEEN PARTY - FEAT:
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.
DANZIG TAPDANZIG EXTRAVADANZIG + PARTY VIBEZ + DIAMOND NOIR Royal Melbourne Hotel,
••THE CANING + DISAPPEAR + DIECUT Public Bar, North
••DAVEY LANE + SONS OF RICO + THE GRAND
••ENRICO RAVA & THE MONASH SCHOOL OF MUSIC
+ DARCEE FOX Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.
••PLASTIC - FEAT: KISSTROYER + THE GLENN
••BLACK NIGHT CRASH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
7:30pm. $99.00.
••CHITARRA E LIUTO - FEAT: CONTINUO COLLECTIVE
••MY SECRET CIRCUS + SHARAYA + A LESSSER EGO
••GRAVEYARD TRAIN + PUTA MADRE BROTHERS +
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA - FEAT: AUSTRALIAN
KINGSWOOD FACTORY Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••HALLOWEEN PARTY - FEAT: AURORA TIDE +
INTIMATE APPAREL + PARMY DHILLON Vinyl Bar,
Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm.
••HOLLOWEEN SPECIAL - FEAT: EINSTEIN TOYBOYS
$15.00.
+ TRACER Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $41.00.
••THIRD EYE Burvale Hotel, Nunawading. 9:00pm.
••TINY GIANTS + DAYZED + THE DALAI SAMAS +
FENN WILSON Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00.
••TITTY TWISTER - FEAT: MESA COSA + SEXY HEAVY The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $30.50.
••TOGA ROCK Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
••TULLY ON TULLY (SINGLE LAUNCH) Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••UNGUS UNGUS UNGUS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••VOODOO ISLAND HALLOWEEN - FEAT: MINNESOTA
VOODOO MEN + THE TARANTINOS The Luwow, Fitzroy.
8:00pm. $15.00.
••WILD NORTH RECORD PLAYERS (DJ SET) The Bodega, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••CASS EAGER & THE VELVET ROPE The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
••ANNA GILKISON Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
••ERROREM + CHASING THE MYSTICS Conduit Arts, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••GREEN’S DAIRY ANGEL ENSEMBLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
••KARATE BOOGALOO Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm.
••KERBEROS & DAINA JOWSEY Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
••LOS ROMANTICOS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 6:00pm. ••MUSICAL SPECTRUM - FEAT: DUO CHAMBER
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.
+ MORTH Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.00. ••JAM THE FUNK - FEAT: ALL STAR BAND Flying Saucer
Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••KING PARROT Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $18.00.
••RAS JAHKNOW + KOOYEH + CHANT DOWN SOUND
••THE AUDREY POWNE QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, ••THE MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE ••WINDARI Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••ADAM GIBSON & THE ARK-ARK BIRDS + SEAN M
WHELAN & THE INTERIM LOVERS Post Office Hotel,
Coburg. 8:00pm.
••CHRIS WILSON Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
••FETER HENDEL (EP LAUNCH) Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $20.00.
Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00.
••KIT CONVICT & THE TERRIBLE TWO + NUN OF THE
TONGUE Off The Hip Records, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
••LADY ABUNDANCE PROJECT + ALONE WITH TIGER
+ DJ SAUL KNIGHT Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. ••MAGGOT FEST V - FEAT: LAST CHAOS + PRAG + BLACK DEITY + RIPPED OFF + KROMOSOM + RIP FUCKER + RORT + LEATHER LICKERS + SICK PEOPLE + SPLIT TEETH + BLOODRULE + METER MEN + GENE HELL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.
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MELANGE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm.
$38.00.
+ LO-TEK + ZARE DEMUS Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
••RUBY’S CLASSIC BLUE NOTE SERIES - FEAT:
FRIDAY TRIO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
••SUKARO GYPSY JAZZ BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.00.
••THE BENNY LACKNER TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
••THE PUTBACKS Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••TONI CHILDS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $50.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••BEWARE! BLACK! HOLES! Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••CELTIC LEGENDS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $85.00. ••DJ STICKMAN Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
••FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 9:30pm.
••GET SERIOUS Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm. ••JAMGRASS 2014 - FEAT: THE SEALS +
SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS + RAISED BY EAGLES + WILLOW DARLING + THE STAGE HOGS + CAT & CLINT Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $30.00.
••LIVE ACOUSTIC - FEAT: LATE NIGHT RADIO Rose
ZACHARIA + BEATRICE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.
••MORE THAN LIFE (U18 SHOW) + PERSPECTIVES Wyndham Youth Centre, Hoppers Crossing. 7:00pm. $13.30.
••MOTEL LOVE + THE SMELL GOODS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••MURDENA + CYNTHIA CATANIA Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••NATHAN SEECKTS & THE DEAD CITY LIGHTS +
MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + THE SCOUTS + THE BERKLEY HUNTS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $8.00.
••NEVERMIND (THE NIRVANA EXPERIENCE) - FEAT:
NEVERMIND: THE NIRVANA EXPERIENCE Musicland,
Fawkner. 9:00pm. $10.00.
Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm.
••RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Forester’s Beer & Music
Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15.00.
••RIFF FIST + THE JACKS + PEELING SUN + ELBRUS
••LIZ STRINGER + FREYA HOLLICK Bridge Hotel, ••LIZ STRINGER Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. ••MANISHA Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
••MIGHTY DUKE & THE LORDS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.
••REBECCA BARNARD Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. ••ROBERT JAMES KIRK & THE SISTERS OF SIN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
••RON S PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS + EAST
BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR Spotted Mallard,
Brunswick. 9:00pm. $20.00.
••ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENIKS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00.
••TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN
BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
SATURDAY 1 NOV
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ••PLAGIARISM BEGINS AT HOME Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.00.
••THE SHOCKING PINKS + FORCES + WHITE HEX +
TEENAGE MOTHERS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. ••A DAY OF CLINT - FEAT: MIHRA + DIRTY ROOMERS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
••ASYLUM SEEKER RESOURCE CENTRE BENEFIT -
FEAT: THE KREMLINGS + SPERMAIDS + FLOUR + LUCY WILSON + LUKE SHIELDS + THE SHITFITS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.
••AUGIE MARCH Howler, Brunswick. 7:30pm. $45.00.
••AVASTERA + AFTER THE CURFEW + ATLANTIS
AWAITS + PORTRAITS OF AUGUST + THE HEROINES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••BAND NIGHT - FEAT: MICHAEL PLATER & THE EXIT KEYS + THE HAPPY LONESOME + PIKELET + BROWN & HURLEY + DMOA + COUGAR VOX + J M S HARRISON + SAM FILMER & ANIMACHIN FILMS Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 7:00pm. $5.00.
••BANG - FEAT: SIENNA SKIES + CAMBRIDGE + OUR
PAST DAYS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
9:00pm.
••CABBAGES & KINGS & PORCELAIN PILL Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $7.80.
••CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. $15.00.
••COSA NOSTRA + THE TRY HARDZ Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••CREEPING BAM + GIRL CRAZY + SLYDER Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm.
••CYCLO TIMIK + UNGUS UNGUS UNGUS + IVY
LUCILLE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm.
+ 180 PROOF + ACOLYTE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
8:00pm.
••THE ACE 60S MOD CLUB - FEAT: DJ PIERRE
BORONI + SURPRISE BAND + GOGO GODDESSES The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••THE ATTICS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
••THE AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY +
JOE GUITON & THE SUICIDE TUESDAYS + LUKE SEYMOUP BAND 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8.00. ••THE HARLOTS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••THE JUNGLE CROOKS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••THE ROLLING STONES (BLACK & BLUE CELEBRATION) - FEAT: ALL STAR BAND + DJ PAUL MILES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00. ••THE VIBRAPHONIC ORKESTRA + PAPA G & THE STAR CATS + MONKEY’S PIRATE + DJ MIDDLEC Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.
••THREE QUARTER BEAST + LONG HOLIDAY + DIXON
CIDER + LIEUTENANT JAM Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
9:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••ADAM RUDEGEAIR Green Park, 2:00pm.
••BUDDY LOVE & THE JAZZ NOTES Famous Blue Raincoat, Kingsville South. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••DAY OF THE DEAD - FEAT: LOS ROMANTICOS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
••JENNY M THOMAS & THE SYSTEM - FEAT: THE
••GOLD FIELDS (HOLD ME LAUNCH) + DEJA + BEL
Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
••MAGGOT FEST V - FEAT: AUSMUTEANTS + ROYAL
HEADACHE + TYRANNAMEN + RUINED FORTUNE + ZODIAC + CONSTANT MONGREL + MISS DESTINY + LOW LIFE + DRIBBLE + WHITE WALLS + MASSES + POWER + UNPEOPLE + BOTOX + LAKES + BAD FAMILY + ORION + DRUG SWEAR Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 4:00pm.
••MARIANAS TRENCH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $50.90.
••MAYFAIR KYTES + SLEEP DECADE + JAMIL
THE RECESSIVE GENES + CANVAS ROAD Brunswick
Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
••TREVOR GREEN Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
••VIC OLD TIME JAM SESSION - FEAT: CRAIG
WOODWARD + WARREN ROUGH Victoria Hotel,
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
SUNDAY 2 NOV
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ••THE EXPLODERS + THE DUKES OF
DELICIOUSNESS + MAN THE CLOUDS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••AT HOME RECORDS LABEL LAUNCH - FEAT: CARGO
CULTS + MASS + IT’S SO FUCKING GREAT TO BE ALIVE + KUMIKO SEX BAND + DOGGEREL + ADNAN
NORIA LETTS & STEVE SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music
Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
••SOUL A-GO-GO - FEAT: PBS DJS CHELSEA WILSON
+ MISS GOLDIE + ALESSIA PEGOLI + LYNDELLE WILKINSON + DJ LADY SOUL + DJ GINGER LIGHT Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••STONE FLOWER (A JOBIM TRIBUTE) - FEAT:
PANORAMA BRASIL + DIANA CLARK + DOUG DE VRIES Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.00. ••SUGAR FED LEOPARDS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
••TEK TEK Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
••THE COPE STREET PARADE (CD LAUNCH) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
9:30pm. $25.00.
MELBOURNE BALLET ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $52.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
••CELTIC LEGENDS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $85.00.
••KINEMATIC (ALBUM LAUNCH) + THE REBELLES
5:00pm.
••THE WOODLAND HUNTERS + HUGH MCGINLEY &
6:00pm.
••JOEY AMENTA BAND + VERY HANDSOME MEN +
LAMB BOULEVARDCAT PIE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
••TERRY MCCARTHY SPECIAL Union Hotel, Brunswick.
••RUBY’S CLASSIC BLUE NOTE SERIES - FEAT:
••ACTION SAM European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd.
$10.00.
••SISKIN RIVER Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.
QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
AIR Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $17.00. ••GRAVEYARD TRAIN AFTERPARTY - FEAT: ORLANDO FURIOUS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00am. ••JACKSON REID BRIGGS & THE HEATERS + THE STRANGE + FRAUD BAND + TEX NAPALM Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.
8:00pm.
••MELODY MOON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
••RUBY’S AT SIX Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
••US & THEM (SYMPHONIC PINK FLOYD) - FEAT:
REIKA + NOTHING HURTS ROBOT Ferntree Gully
Thornbury. 8:00pm. $30.00.
••MCALPINES FUSILIERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
••REBECCA MENDOZA & THE ROGER CLARCK
••DJ DR LUDWIG Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. $5.00.
+ PARVYN & JOSH BENNETT Thornbury Theatre,
LONELY STRING QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre,
••THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
••FAMILY FUN DAY - FEAT: THE ROLLERCANES +
Did anyone hear about that storm on Monday night? Well if you didn’t hear enough about it, here’s another story for ya. Beat Magazine editor Cara Williams can sleep peacefully through the buzzing of bees in her backyard but the claps of thunder late Monday night, woke her up with a jolt. When awoken by a storm, one’s thoughts might turn to washing on the line or that mattress you left outside that is probably now mouldy and you’re housemates are going to yell at you. Cara’s instant thought however was Graveyard Train. We have no idea why. Catch Graveyard Train when they storm their way into The Forum this Friday, October 31.
Southbank. 7:30pm. $38.00.
••DEAD CITY RUINS + CHILD Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
GRAVEYARD TRAIN
10:30pm.
••BENEFIT GIG - FEAT: NUMBERNINE + THE MARTY
STONE BAND + BILLY DUFFY + SOULBLUE Newport Bowling Club, Newport. 7:00pm. $10.00.
••CASS EAGER & THE VELVET ROPE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
••DAVE WRIGHT + CHRIS WILSON Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.
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••DON WALKER & THE SUAVE FUCKS Caravan Music
DJS pLayInG aLL yOur favOurIte funk/SOuL/ DISCO/JamS On wax @ 8pm.
••GRAND WAZOO KINGS OF SOUL Flying Saucer Club,
Sunday 2ND NOVEMBER
Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00.
Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $25.00.
••HOMESICK RAY’S MILD BUNCH Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
••JACK CARTY Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.00. ••JACKSON MCLAREN + CHRIS WATTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••JAMGRASS 2014 - FEAT: THE MORRISONS + SAL
KIMBER & THE ROLLIN’ WHEEL + ONE UP TWO DOWN + TATTLETALE SAINTS + JAMES KENYON
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& THE WHALE + NIKO NIKO + WRITE IN BINARY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 2:00pm.
••AUGIE MARCH Howler, Brunswick. 7:30pm. $45.00.
••BIN JUICE + MILD MANIC + ZEPHYR Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.
••CARUS + THE NATIVE PLANTS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.
••CASS EAGER Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
••CHRIS WILSON & SARAH CARROLL Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
••EXCHANGE SUNDAYS - FEAT: DEAN RICHARDS +
WACO ACOUSTIC + VIC MEEHAN Exchange Bar (south
Yarra), South Yarra. 3:00pm.
••FOLEY + ELEVATOR TALK + CHARM + PIGTAILS +
LUKE SYMOUP BAND + GEORGIA MAQ + DRAYFUS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
••FOOVANA (NIRVANA TRIBUTE) Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••FREAK CITY + GLORY + MICHAEL ROBINSON +
TIGER HAWK Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.
••GREENMOUNT + MANTA 5 + THE BURNING
ROACHES + MILD MANIAC Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
••KEGGIN’ Public Bar, North Melbourne. 1:30am.
••LET’S DANCE BIG BAND Mentone Rsl, Mentone. 1:00pm. $15.00.
••MAL WEBB + KYLIE MORRIGAN 303, Northcote.
Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
••MINIMUM WAGE - FEAT: SUPERSTAR + ASTRAL
SKULLS + SARAH MARY CHADWICK Grace Darling
Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
••MODELS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $35.00.
••MORE THAN LIFE + PERSPECTIVES + SURRENDER
+ THE EVERCOLD Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:00pm. $23.50.
••MTV UNPLUGGED ANNIVERSARY - FEAT:
NEVERMIND THE NIRVANA EXPERIENCE + SAM HANSON Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••RADIO BIRDMAN + HITS + PENNY IKINGER Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $50.00.
••RODRIGUEZ Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. ••SIB Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
••SUNDAY SCHOOL - FEAT: THE SHIFTERS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.
••THE DIRT BAND + THE D GRADES + SLY
SPLATTERHEAD Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. ••THE PRETTY LITTLES - FEAT: THE HARLOTS + SID O’NEIL + THE PRETTY LITTLES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••THE ROYAL JELLIES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••THE STARKS + COLUMBIA + CYNTHIA CATANIA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••ANDREW OGBURN Green Park, 2:00pm.
••IMPROV CONCERT SERIES #8 Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
••JULZ EVANS Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
••QUINCE JAM 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
••ROMAN PELLADITO HERNANDEZ WITH THE ALEX
& NILUSHA BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne
Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
••STEVEN TEAKLE Green Park, 5:00pm.
••SUN-DAZED - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
••THE ALBARE QUINTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $45.00.
••THE FURBELOWS Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••AINTREE SWEET Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:30pm.
WOLVES + AUTUMN IN ALASKA Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
••PLASTIC - FEAT: KING PARROT + SCAR THE
SURFACE + OEDIPUS REX Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
••RADIO BIRDMAN + HITS + PENNY IKINGER Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $50.00.
••ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE - FEAT: ROLLING
STONES TRIBUTE BAND Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••SINISTER + INVERLOCH + DESTRUKTOR +
Mercat, Melbourne. 1:00pm.
EXPEIRIENCE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 2:00pm.
$10.00.
Brunswick. 3:00pm.
••CAM & THE AMBROSE Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:30pm.
••DAN LETHBRIDGE & THE CAMPAIGNERS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
••DAVE HOGAN’S MELTDOWN + DJ MAX
CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm.
••DAVID LACEY & MISAKO RECITALS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 12:00pm.
••DAVIDSON BROTHERS The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
••DUKES OF DESPAIR Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
7:30pm. $12.00.
MEPHISTOPHELES + SERERCIDE + INTERNAL NIGHTMARE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $40.80. ••THE CLASSIC 60S ROCK SHOW + RENATO’S RREVOLVER + THE ALEX TAYLOR EXPERIENCE Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
••THE DETONATORS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••THE PRETTY LITTLES - FEAT: THE HARLOTS + THE
MARY GOLDSMITHS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••THE WOOHOO REVUE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••BENNETTS LANE BIG BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
••GENERATIONS IN JAZZ Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
••GK STRATTON Carters Bar, Northcote. 6:00pm.
••JAKUBI + JAYME DEBOUCHERVILLE MUSIC + KID
••JAMGRASS 2014 - FEAT: THE RAMBLIN’ ROSES +
••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: PIANO TÉ
••JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm.
TRACEY MCNEIL & THE GOODLIFE + ANNIE LOU + GREEN MOHAIR SUITS + SWEET JEAN + BROADS + BRUNSWICK BLUEGRASS COLLECTIVE Thornbury
Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $30.00.
••JEROME KNAPPETT + ZIGGY BRITTON + CALEB
KNAPPETT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. •• KEN MAHER + AL WRIGHT & TONY HARGREAVES
RADIO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
& DROP-IN SINGERS Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne
Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••BACKWOOD CREATURES + LITTLE RABIT + DJ
SHAKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
••CAJUN DANCE PARTY - FEAT: THE ‘JOHNNY CAN’T
Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
DANCE’ CAJUN BAND Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. ••JUKEBOX RACKET Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. ••ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENICKS Yarraville Club,
7:30pm.
••TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES Thornbury
7:00pm.
••THE BAND WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Open Studio,
5:00pm.
••THE STEVE MILLER BAND + EMPAT LIMA Yarra Hotel,
Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
••KIM VOLKMAN & THE WHISKEY PRIESTS Labour In ••LOST RAGAS + AMARILLO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. ••MELBOURNE UNCLAIMED Wesley Anne, Northcote. ••MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. ••OPEN MIC Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm.
••ROSS WILSON & THE PEACENIKS + PAT WILSON Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $33.00.
••SLOW GALO Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm.
••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: A MAN CALLED SON The Bodega, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Yarraville. 8:30pm.
Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $35.00. Northcote. 8:00pm.
Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
••TONI CHILDS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $45.00.
••WAGONS + ARCHER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $27.00.
••ZEVON & THE WEREWOLVES OF MELBOURNE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
TUESDAY 4 NOV
Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
••THE BONA FIDE TRAVELERS + THE HORNETS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
••THE HARMANIAX Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
••THE JUNES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 2:30pm. $20.00.
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••PEPPERCORN JAZZ BAND Open Studio, Northcote.
••LAST GOODBYE (A TRIBUTE TO JEFF BUCKLEY)
12:30pm. $51.00.
••KANGAROO SKULL + JAMAL AMIR + ELISABETH +
••MELBOURNE CUP EVE - FEAT: GOATPISS
••BRIAN BAKER Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm.
••MIKE WATERS + EMMA MCDONALD DUO Mr Boogie
ELBRUS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ••HTMLFLOWERS + HABITS + PHILLIPA OMEGA
4:00pm.
••BLUEGRASS OPEN SESSION Sporting Club Hotel,
- FEAT: HAYDEN CALNIN + SEAGULL + SLEEP DECADE + TINY LITTLE HOUSES + RUN RABBIT RUN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:00pm. $25.00. ••MAGGOT FEST - FEAT: TOL + 2200 + THE MISHAPS + NUN DJ John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 12:00am. $10.00. ••MARIANAS TRENCH (U18) Corner Hotel, Richmond.
8:00pm.
••ELDRITCH RITES + RIFF FIST + PEELING SUN +
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.00.
••KLP + DEJA + CASPER ZAZZ Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $8.00.
••DALLAS CRANE + KING OF THE NORTH Espy, St Kilda.
••AQUA Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $66.65.
••BEN OTTEWELL + BUDDY Substation, Newport. 8:00pm. ••BRIGGS (SHEPLIFE TOUR) Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $17.85.
••CLOWNS + PARTY VIBEZ + FIREARMS + GOON ON
THE ROCKS + COFFIN WOLF Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••CUP EVE CARNAGE - FEAT: THE RUINER +
YANOMAMO + BROOZER + WARPIGS + OLDER MEN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••CUP EVE PARTY - FEAT: THE COMPLEMENTARY
HEADSETS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
$7.80.
INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/PUNK/COVERS ••CHEAP KRAKEN RUM NIGHT - FEAT: ‘RELICS’
ART OPENING + COSMIC KAHUNA + RUSSETT BURBANK + THRASHER JYNX Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00.
••CUP DAY AT THE GAS - FEAT: STELLA ANGELICO +
ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN + DJ MOHAIR SLIM + DJ RICHIE 1250 Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 12:00pm.
••CUP DAY MASS - FEAT: SUPERSTAR + KRAKATAU
+ MICHAEL BEACH + COOL SOUNDS + MOUTH TOOTH + ZAYD THRING Northcote Social Club,
Northcote. 3:30pm.
••CUP MY THIRD BALL - FEAT: LEGENDS OF
MOTORSPORT + TTTDC + THE KREMLINGS + DARK FAIR + MUTTON + THE PERFECTION + GRINDHOUSE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. ••THE GOOD PEOPLE PARTY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. $15.00.
••THE RETREATS 11TH BIRTHDAY CUP DAY
CELEBRATIONS - FEAT: KYLIE AULDIST & HER GLENROY ALL-STARS + CHARLES JENKINS & THE THE ZHIVAGOS + CHRIS RUSSEL’S CHICKEN WALK + KING OF THE NORTH + SPOONFUL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm.
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THE PUSH PRESENT
ACCESS ALL AGES WITH RUTH MIHELCIC The full program for this year’s Face The Music industry conference was released last week, which you can now check out at www.facethemusic.com.au. There are over 40 different sessions to be part of this year, and you’ll be kicking yourself if you miss out on the opportunity to hear the latest on the hot topics and issues of today’s music scene, as presented directly from the who’s who of the Australian and international music industry. Here’s just a smattering of what’s on offer… Taking place on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 November at Arts Centre Melbourne, the two day industry conference kicks off with a study of Australasian artists’ amazing success in infiltrating international markets this year, discussing the phenomenon that has seen acts likes Vance Joy, Sheppard, Kimbra, the Jezabels and Gotye fuel the wave of interest in Australasian music, and how local artists can strike while the iron is hot. In a conference first, Face The Music features an in-depth focus on The Living End featuring all three band members discussing the stories behind their songs, their songwriting process, the highs and the ‘not so’s’ and what the future holds as they begin work on their seventh album. They’ll be joined on stage by their highly-respected, long-standing manager Rae Harvey. Once again there will be a Splendour Forum Debate, this time posing the question “Will there ever be another Elvis (Dylan/Madonna/Nirvana/The Beatles/insert global trailblazing artist name here)?”. Can there ever be anything as new or as revolutionary in contemporary music terms as what any of those artists achieved? Joining the debate will be the amazing Pinky Beecroft, Cherry Bomb author Jenny Valentish, publicity maven Chrissie Vincent, writers Marcus Teague and Jess McGuire and R.I.P Society’s Nic Warnock. Throughout the two day conference there will be a series of exclusive meeting opportunities with industry professionals and small group workshops. Designed to facilitate skillsharing and discussion of the creative process between artists, the creative workshops offer a unique opportunity to mind meld with some of Australia’s most talented artists and producers, including Kirin J Callinan, Gossling, Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote), Tommy Spender, Oscar Key Sung, Alex Akers (Forces), Pip Norman, Matt Ridgway (Winterpark), MoMO (Diafrix), Tim Shiel (Faux Pas, Gotye) and Joelistics. You’ll get the opportunity to meet and discuss your music, career options, song writing, musical arrangements, and one-on-one meetings with Australia’s leading music lawyers and artist managers. These small sessions will require you to rsvp a place, which you can do at the Face The Music website (you’ll need to be a ticket holder to do so). Whether you’re interested in panels, presentations, open round table discussions and workshops, for musicians, artist managers, event producers and those interested in music business and career development, there’s something for everyone at Face The Music 2014. Check out the full program and speaker list at www.facethemusic.com.au and buy your tickets too!
ALL AGES TIMETABLE
THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 • Ink About It w/ Matty A, Atlantic Arrows, and writing competition exhibition, Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale, 6.30pm-7.30pm, Free, contact Mealea Soeun on 1300 369 436, AA FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 • Halloween Between the Books, Beaumaris Community Centre, 6pm – 9.30pm, $10, bayside.vic.gov.au/youth, U18 • Parody Prom VI w/ DJ MzRizk, Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthworn, 7pm – 11pm, $12, hawthornartscentre.com.au, U18 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 • Phruntsdye Skate Park Jam w/ DJ Denver Richter, Junior & open age groups for skate / BMX / scooter competition, Mansfield Skate Park, Highett St, Mansfield, 12.30pm – 3.30pm, $5, www.mansfield.vic. gov.au, AA • Rock Out w/ DJ Denver Richter, local young musicans aged 12 - 25 years, performing on stage, photo booth, jumplng castle, BBQ & pops donuts, ice cream, and kids activities, High Street Median Strip, Mansfield, 5.30pm - 8.00pm, Free, www.mansfield.vic.gov.au, AA • More Than Life w/ No No The Bees, Sheltered, Harbours, Free World, Love Alone, Perspectives, Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, Derrimut Rd, Hoppers Crossing, 6pm – 11pm, $10 presale or $15 door, www.youth.wyndham.vic.gov.au, AA
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC ••RUBY’S LIVE JAZZ AFTER DARK - FEAT: DEXTER’S
ASIAN CONNECTION Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
••BUDDY LOVE Open Studio, Northcote. 6:30pm.
••ISM TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00. ••THE SPOKE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••BLOOD RED BIRD + ASH NAYLOR Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 3:00pm.
••GALLIE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.
••IRISH SESSIONS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. ••RHYS CRIMMIN Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
••THE CLIP CLOP CLUB + JEMMA & THE CLIFTON
HILLBILLIES + JODY GALVIN & THE JOYRIDERS + LEAH SENIOR & THE ABBOTSFORD 3 Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 12:00pm.
Thurs 30rd @ 8.30 pm
RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD (Blues genius)
Friday 31th @ 9.30pm
THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER
GUY KABLE FROM 8.30PM FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER
DJ STICKMAN FROM 9PM SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER
BLACKEYED SUSANS TRIO THEN DJ DR LUDWIG PLAYING ROLLING STONES ALL NIGHT LONG
ROBERT JAMES KIRK & THE SISTERS OF SIN (NZ) (Classy alt-country )
Saturday 1st @ 9.30 pm
CASS EAGER & THE VELVET ROPE (NSW) (Brassy bluesy diva)
Sunday 2nd @ 5.30pm
THE JUNES (Cowgirl chunes)
@ 9.00 pm
SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER
KEN MAHER, AL WRIGHT & TONY HARGREAVES
FROM 5PM
Tuesday 4th@ 8.00pm
FROM 5PM
KIM VOLKMAN & THE WHISKEY PRIESTS
(Acoustic roots)
TUESDAY 4 NOVEMBER
IRISH SESSION
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8pm: Catherine
Sietkiewicz 9pm: Ryan Nico
Fri 31st October 6pm: Traditional Irish Music Session with Dan Bourke & Friends
8.30pm: Manisha Sat 1st November
9pm: Homesick Ray’s Mild Bunch Sun 2nd November
4pm: The Hornets
6.30pm: The Bona Fide Travelers Mon 3rd November (CUP EVE)
8pm: Zevon & The Werewolves
of Melbourne (trio) Tues 4th November (CUP DAY)
6.30pm: Gallie
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GLUE STORE To kick off Summer ’14, Glue Store has teamed up with Deus, The Critical Slide Society and Stussy, three of the most influencial surf and streetsyle brands, to create a surf and vintage inspired campaign titled Surf & Supply. Keep an eye out for the T.C.S.S Custom Boardshort service traveling between selected stores allowing shoppers to design their own custom board shorts. The campaign stars Glue Store Ambassador and social media superstar Mimi Elashiry.
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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 SIGNS WORLD FIRST DEAL FOR DJ MUSIC
APRA AMCOS is the first performing right organisation in the world to use Pioneer Corporation’s new web service product KUVO to enhance royalty distribution for music played by DJs in nightclubs, venues and festivals. It’ll supplement data already obtained from club charts, selected broadcast logs and music recognition technology provided by Dutch company DJ Monitor. APRA AMCOS Deputy Director of Writer Services Frank Rodi said the organisation’s aim is to maximize payments for songwriters and publishers from nightclubs. “We were early adopters of music recognition technology used in nightclubs and venues throughout Australia and are now the first collecting society in the world to sign a deal with Pioneer DJ for KUVO.”
PANDORA LAUNCHES ARTIST MARKETING PLATFORM
The 1,100 Australian and NZ artists on Pandora can track their music via the new free Artist Marketing Platform (AMP). It shows which track’s spinning the hardest, which songs are working best and the ages of their listeners. This data could help to plan a tour, select a single and target the audience. It’d also tell if their radio listeners are necessarily different from the hardcores who come to their gigs. Pandora claims AMP’s data is important because 80% of the artists on its site do not get played on traditional radio.
ACCC ON INQUIRIES ON “DRIP” TICKETING CHARGES
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has finished its eight month investigation into “drip pricing” by ticket agencies. “Drip pricing” is progressively unveiling hidden charges (like processing and delivery) progressively through a transaction. The ACCC said the full price of the ticket must be stated – prominently – from the outset including compulsory fees and charges. Any “later” charges mustn’t be compulsory. Both Ticketek and Ticketmaster said they’ve already improved their ticketing practices.
DEAN RAY SIGNS WITH SONY MUSIC AUSTRALIA
Sony Music Entertainment Australia has signed X-Factor 2014 fave Dean Ray. The 22-year-old from Melbourne releases his self-titled debut album on Friday November 21, which includes new single Coming Back written by Sydney’s DNA team.
FRASER A. GORMAN LANDS GLOBAL DEAL
23-year-old Melbourne singer/songwriter Fraser A. Gorman landed a world deal with the UK’s Marathon Artists. It’s also the home of Courtney Barnett, whose Milk! Records Gorman is signed to for Australia. New single Book Of Love is out on 7” vinyl by Marathon via its House Anxiety imprint. The track sees him incorporate his Americana sound with a Lou Reed/ Big Star touch.
123 AGENCY SIGNS ANJA NISSEN…
Melbourne’s 123 Agency signed Anja Nissen, winner of this year’s The Voice. During the season she got two million views on YouTube. Her mentor will.i.am took her back to Los Angeles post-win to cut her debut single I’m So Excited, appearing on it with Cody Wise. He also supervised her video shoot.
THINGS WE HEAR
• Which agency has a staffer working for it for no money to pay off a debt? • Which two music industry flat mates almost got into a punch up when one accidentally marred the other’s prized Dave Grohl autograph? • Which music charity, when approaching a music conference about a free pass, was sent a discount plan provided it sent in an x amount of delegates? • A US study found that only 16% of teens listen to radio. Pandora is higher at 18% while MP3s including iPod, iTunes and downloaded music was 42%. • Sheer Chart Attack: Slipknot get their second Aussie #1 this week … Neil Diamond promoting his new album saw his 1970 big seller Hot August Night re-enter the Top 40 and now certified 10 x platinum … The Veronicas’ You Ruin Me picked up its second platinum … Melbourne’s C.W. Stoneking has his second ARIA chart entry with fifth album Goin’ Boogaloo debuted at #17. • Ozzy Osbourne complains today’s technology in music is losing young players an ability to jam and shape ideas together. • Liam Gallagher revealed Beady Eyes have split. • NZ rapper MC Scribe’s oldest son, 18-year-old Jackson Luafutu Taylor, is a sports star on the rise. He just did a rugby tour of the US representing the New Zealand Institute of Sport, and they whipped the Yanks at all the games. • EDM star Steve Aoki rented out the toilet of his Dim Mak label’s office in Los Angeles as a porn set for $300. • Beats By Dre co-founder Jimmy Iovine says it was originally going to be a trainer brand and was inspired by Steve Jobs to make headphones instead. • Courtney Love says Billy Corgan stopped having hits when he stopped writing about her.
MADDIE DUKE WINS DAREBIN SONGWRITERS AWARD
Folk/pop performer Maddie Duke who began gigging last year, won the Darebin Music Feast Songwriters’ Award with her song Joshua. Its grand final was held at the Northcote Town Hall on Sunday October 19.
JERICCO RAISING MONEY
To raise $10,000 via Pozible, Melbourne hard rock outfit Jericco are leaning on their culinary skills. A $5,000 pledge means they’ll cook you and 20 mates a BBQ before an acoustic set. For $2,000, they’ll do an intimate dinner for four. Recording their album Machine Made The Animal drained their bank accounts, so they need help for their national tour behind new single Colour Outside The Lines.
BALLARAT BEER FESTIVAL INTRODUCES BAND COMP
The 2015 Ballarat Beer Festival has introduced the Home Brewed Band comp to find a young act to play the main stage. Acts have until Friday November 7 to submit original music at ballaratbeerfestival.com.au/ bandsearch. The grand final’s before an audience and music industry judges art Eastern Hotel on Saturday November 15. Winner plays the festival on Saturday January 24 at City Oval with Way Of The Eagle, Ash Grunwald, Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Buddha In A Chocolate Box and SA’s Timberwolf.
ST KILDA MUSIC SALON LAUNCHES AT ROBARTA’S
…AND GUY PEARCE
Also joining the 123 roster is actor/musician Guy Pearce. He releases his debut album Broken Bones on Friday November 7 after which he’ll do shows at the Toff In Town on Wednesday November 12 and Sydney’s The Basement on Wednesday November 19. Pearce had been making music at home in the past 25 years but was motivated to finish the tracks after meeting John Butler Trio/Split Enz drummer Michael Barker during the 2009 Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Poor Boy, written by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn. Barker played in the band. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 62
The St Kilda Music Salon is a fortnightly threehour Saturday afternoon event featuring songwriters, comedians and poets at Robarta nightclub (107 Fitzroy Street St Kilda). It launches on Saturday November 1 at 2.30pm with Chris Wilson, Brian Nankervis, Michael Crane and Murdeena. Coming up are Sarah Carroll, Rebecca Barnard, Monique Brumby, Steve Lucas and Kerri Simpson with Shannon Bourne. An early bird offer of six shows for $40 also gets you a free copy of the Paradise Anthology which includes lyrics and poems from Steve Kilbey, Greg Arnold, Kerri Simpson, Sarah Carroll and others.
FUNDING FOR GPAC
The State Government’s investing $35 million in revamping the Geelong Performing Arts Centre. It will include a 150-seat cabaret and music space, more dance studios and greater disability access. The refurbish will create 150 construction jobs and 120 ongoing jobs. Over 230,000 people attended a performance at a GPAC venue over the past year including music, theatre, comedy, dance and film as well as awards, conferences and exhibitions.
THREE KINGS WIN MBAS BLUES CHALLENGE
One of Melbourne’s best blues trios, Three Kings, took out the MBAS Blues Challenge at the Greyhound before 250 enthusiasts. Made up of Ian Collard, drummer Jason Liusoon and guitarist Benny Peters, their self-titled live-in-the-studio CD last year won the inaugural blues album gong at the Age EG/Music Victoria Awards. Three Kings and John McNamara – winner of the MBAS Blues Challenge (Solo/Duo) in July – fly to Memphis in January to compete in the International Blues Challenge. The six other finalists were Miss Lizzy & The Nightowls, James Southwell Band, Dreamboogie, Andy McGarvie Trio, Matt Dwyer & The Magnatones and Safari Motel. The Challenge was organised by Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society and PBS. Judges were Helen Jennings, Matthew Frederick, Adrian Jackson, Billy Pinnell and Greg Fisher.
AIRWAY LANES PREPARE FOR TAKE-OFF
Melbourne band Airway Lanes took a hiatus in mid2009, a year after their debut album In Vino Veritas. During that time, Dan Hall issued a solo album A Parting Shot under the name South Side Rebel through his own label Missing Presumed Dead (MPD), cleaned up in rehab and battled a three-year writer’s block. Drummer Spyder Marrett had a son, Cooper. Hall says the reunion came late last year after “we all ended up living within 500 metres of each other, with the Inkerman Hotel separately becoming our local.” They did shows at the Inkerman, then at the Espy. They’re recording their second album Light of Day at Black Pearl Studios, with Hall and Chris Hawker producing. It’s due in March, with a single Blood On Your Hands out late November on MPD. They play the Exchange in Prahran Friday November 14 with Jack Howard.
SPLENDOUR, FALLS BYRON, GENERATE $41.4M FOR REGION
This year’s Splendour In The Grass and Falls Music & Arts Byron – both held at North Byron Parklands – generated $41.4 million in the Northern Rivers area. Of this, $24.1 million benefitted Byron Shire. The Economic Impact and Benefits 2014 Report by RPS Australia said the two fests created 308 full time jobs and provided a total of $11 million in wages and salaries.
LANEWAY CO-FOUNDER CHASED BY ATO?
The Australian Tax Office is chasing St. Jerome’s Laneway co-founder Jerome Borazio for over $100,000, the Herald Sun reported, citing documents filed in the County Court. It was over two businesses Rob Roy Local (which ran Fitzroy’s Workers Club) and The 2nd One, now externally administered according to ASIC documents, the paper said. Borazio told the Herald Sun the allegations were wrong, as the amount for Rob Roy was paid out on Thursday October 2 and he finalised arrangements with the ATO for the other. He also runs successful clubs as Thousand Pound Bend and Ponyfish Island.
EVENTBRITE LAUNCHES EVENTBRITE NEON
Self-service ticketing and global events platform Eventbrite launched a free app called Eventbrite Neon. It lets Australian promoters and venues transform their mobile devices to check in attendees, monitor real-time sales data and process customer requests as ticket reissues, cancellations and refunds.
FIVE MORE FOR AMP’S LONGLIST
The 15 music industry judges of the 10th Coopers AMP $30,000 prize have come up with five more additions to the 37 on the long list. The latest are Bored Nothing’s Some Songs, John Butler Trio’s Flesh & Blood, Lowlake’s Iceberg Nerves, Nun’s Nun and Sweet Amphetamines’ Duke. See www,thecoopersamp.com. au for whole list, winners unveiled in March.
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LIFELINES Injured: Sydney singer/songwriter Steve Smyth ended with a broken jaw after being assaulted by two thugs in Newtown. He was walking home with his brother Jake (who runs bar and burger joint Mary’s) when he witnessed an altercation and tried to defuse the situation. He’s recovering from surgery (on his birthday) which could take two to six weeks. Shows will be affected during the current 50-date Exits album tour are announced this week. Ill: Kasey Chambers was diagnosed with small nodules and inflammation on her vocal cords, forcing her to postpone her Bittersweet tour until early 2015. Hospitalised: 16 fans at a Skrillex show in Chicago, from overdoses. Engaged: during her Manchester show, Lady Gaga encouraged friend Jay to propose to his boyfriend Shawn who was in the audience. When he accepted, she performed Born This Way. In Court: Lee James, 44, founder of South Australia’s Academy of Rock pleaded guilty in Adelaide District Court to possessing 41 images of child porn and will be sentenced in November. In Court: a 27-year-old Townsville woman pleaded guilty to drunkenly assaulting a security guard at Bulwinkles nightclub with her stiletto, hitting him so hard it was embedded in his cheek and needing surgery. Died: Influential bass player Jack Bruce, 71, liver disease. Best known for Cream (he sang and co-wrote White Room and Sunshine Of Your Love) his solo albums were a precursor to the jazz rock fusion movement. His eclectic but low profile career then moved from power trios to jazz ensembles. Died: ‘70s British pop singer Alvin Stardust (My Coo Ca Choo), 72, after a brief battle with metastatic prostate cancer. Died: Nashville songwriter Paul Craft, 76. He wrote lyrics for songs as Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life, Dropkick Me, Jesus (Through the Goalposts of Life), Brother Jukebox and It’s Me Again, Margaret. Died: Tim Hauser, founder and singer of the Grammy-winning vocal troupe The Manhattan Transfer, 72, from a heart attack. Died: reggae singer/songwriter John Holt, 69. He’s best known for writing The Tide Is High as well as Police In Helicopter. Died: Tyson Curtis Stevens, 29, singer with Arizona post punk bands Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Coma Prevail. Died: Raphael ‘Raf ’ Ravenscroft, the saxophonist who played THAT riff on Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street at 60 from a heart attack after a long illness
NINE AUSSIES IN FIRST ROUND FOR SXSW
The first round of 180 artists to showcase at South By Southwest in Austin in March included nine Aussie acts. They are The Church, Angus & Julia Stone, Ball Park Music, Courtney Barnett, Sydney’s Bloods, Newcastle duo The Gooch Palms and Melbourne’s Twerps, Luluc and Demi Louise.
MORE PAYMENT FOR EDM ARTISTS
The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) launched a campaign called Get Played Get Paid to ensure EDM artists, writers and producers get properly paid. Currently, electronic music creates £15m a year in royalties in the UK. But £100m a year in performance royalties is estimated to be missing due to incomplete or misplaced data because they don’t join collection agencies. The AFEM’s also pushing for a dance awards and more safety at festivals.