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melbourne music week
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sohn
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BALKAN BEAT BOX
Off the back of their recent inclusion in the WOMADelaide & WOMAD NZ 2015 lineups, Brooklyn/Tel Aviv’s Balkan Beat Box have just announced shows in Melbourne. Hailing from Israel, New York and all points of the rhythmic compass, Balkan Beat Box’s Tamir Muskat, Ori Kaplan and Tomer came together in Brooklyn’s underground musical melting-pot, crafting an exquisite sonic blend of Mediterranean-inflected, globalised electronica alongside a discontented and outspoken world view. Drawing upon their wide-ranging backgrounds in global nomad musical culture, their sound is a high-energy fusion of ancient traditions, with the modern language of hip hop, dancehall and electronic sampling. Balkan Beat Box will play The Prince Bandroom in Melbourne Thursday March 12 supported by Brisbane’s Dubmarine.
Hey Jeremy! Thanks for taking the time to chat to Beat. You’re hitting up Melbourne for a gig at the John Curtin with Dorsal Fins and Louis Spoils. On a scale of one to ten, how goddamn excited are you to play? Hands down, Dorsal Fins are one of the most exciting new bands I’ve seen live in recent months. So on a scale of one to ten, I’m more excited than the time I thought Raiden was gonna’ pick me to be Earth’s champion in the Mortal Kombat tournament. He ended up going with Liu Kang (again) and in hindsight I’m okay with that ‘cos it frees me up to tour more. In numerical form this translates to a 9. You’re hard at work on a new album. How’s it shaping up? Any surprises in store for us? I’ve got four songs mostly recorded and a bunch more written but I’m out of cash for a while so it’s back to professional gambling for the summer until I can afford to get back into the studio. Surprises though: I’ve got a few. It’s a hard juncture point in ways because I want to make so many different kinds of music sonically and yet I want to make something that’s somewhat cohesive. Pending where I go from here some might say “unfocused”, others might say “a mixed bag of pop treasure.” To the completely uninitiated, how would you describe your music and live show? The live show incorporates a bunch of material and stretches from the ‘60s revivalist tracks of my
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debut EP, the new club bangers which are much closer to ‘80s Phil Collins in nature and then of course the power metal classic I wrote for April Fools Stallion Rider. Regardless of the music, I remain your host for the evening, taking you on a quest through existential thought, awkward humour, powerful guitar poses and motivational speaking. My next support act will be a bed of hot coals that we all walk across to get into the venue to prove you are stronger than your fear. As long as your fear was walking over hot coals. On top of music, you have some other passions which some could consider a little extreme. Apart from a cage diving adventure, what other ridiculously awesome activities have you been involved in? (Side note, this here editor went cage diving recently, and no sharks rocked up. It was a waste of time and money. The view was pretty nice though). Like I always say, “When there are no sharks in the water, you must become the shark in the water.” It’s science that once you become a shark you can telepathically communicate with other sharks and summon them to a meeting. Other than being a Street Shark there’s not much else to me. A few other bands, a failed TV sitcom called Jammin’ with Dr. Jeremy where I played a doctor who healed his patients with the power of guitar solos and of course, the truffle pig sanctuary I volunteer at where I rescue truffle pigs from capitalist pigs. Anything else you want to tell us about your gig? Why should punters head along? Things are changing, I mean, that’s life y’know? But it’ll be the last chance to see the live show in its current form before I release the new single and move the focus to the next release where you’ll find yourself hanging ten on some extreme vapourwaves. Catch JEREMY NEALE at the John Curtin this Friday November 14. Presale tickets are available through the venue.
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For their third instalment, Down on the Farm are bringing back Aussie rock, cork hats and the eternally stylish mullet. With an epic lineup fronted by Cosmic Psychos, Drunk Mums and Bad//Dreems the only real question is – Where the bloody hell are ya? Down on the Farm goes down Saturday, November 22 at Emu Plains Racecourse, Balnarring. If you want to win a double pass, hit us up at beat.com.au/freeshit.
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American rock band MAE will hit our shores for their debut Australian headline tour this March. They’ll be celebrating the ten year anniversary of their sophomore LP, The Everglow, playing the album in its entirety. MAE last visited Australia in 2008 as part of the Soundwave circuit. They’ll play the Corner Hotel on Saturday March 14. Tickets are on sale now via variousartists.com.au.
LITTLE DRAGON
Alongside their commitments at Laneway, Little Dragon will play a headline show in Melbourne early next year. The tour will mark the second time the Swedish quartet have visited Australian shores since the release of their latest highly-acclaimed LP Nabuma Rubberband, which features hits such as Klapp Klapp and Paris. Last stopping by for an intimate two-date tour in August, their show in Melbourne sold out in under an hour. Catch ‘em on Monday February 2 at 170 Russell.
ANGEL OLSEN
Angel Olsen and her band will play an intimate headline show alongside her appearance at next year’s St Jerome’s Laneway Festival. The St Louis-based singer is touring in support of her sophomore LP, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, which was released in February. She’ll hit Howler on Wednesday February 4.
OMAR SOULEYMAN
Already confirmed for the 2015 incarnations of MONA FOMA and Sydney Festival, Omar Souleyman has confirmed a Melbourne headline show. Last in Australia for an appearance at Meredith, Souleyman creates scorching Middle Eastern dance music that turns any venue into a raving Syrian street party. The tour will follow the release of his latest studio record Wenu Wenu, which was produced by Four Tet. He’ll hit the Corner Hotel on Monday January 19.
VIC MENSA
Chi-town’s Vic Mensa has announced a headline show alongside his appearance at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival. The 21-year-old first burst onto the scene in 2013 with the release of his mixtake, INNANETAPE, landing him a spot in XXL’s prestigious 2014 Freshman Class. His debut EP Street Lights is set for release later this year, with lead single Down On My Luck already generating buzz. Vic Mensa will hit the Corner Hotel on Thursday February 5. Tickets through Live Nation.
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JOHN SMITH
UK folk singer John Smith will tour Australia for the first time this December/January, playing at Woodford and Cygnet Folk Festivals alongside headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Widely regarded as one of the UK’s finest guitar players, Smith’s latest album Great Lakes has also seen him recognised as one of the most exciting voices in the new British folk scene. The success of Great Lakes has taken Smith’s career to a new level internationally, touring North America, Europe and Australia in 2014, and this month performing his biggest headline show to date at the 2000 capacity Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. Don’t miss John Smith when he plays the Bella Union with Caitlin Harnett Wednesday, January 7.
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PAOLO NUTINI
Scottish singer/songwriter and musician Paolo Nutini will hit our shores in April to play shows in Melbourne alongside his appearance at Bluesfest. The 27-year-old Paisley born singer, who brought us innovative, thoughtprovoking, soul and funk-infused tunes such as These Streets, Last Request and Jenny Don’t Be Hasty is back with a new album, Caustic Love. Caustic Love is an album of unforgettable songs and choice grooves, topped with Nutini’s gutsy voice, which just get better and better with time and singles him out as arguably the best singer of his generation. Catch Paolo Nutini at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne Wednesday April 1. Tickets available through Ticketmaster.
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Lawrence Arabia is coming to Melbourne. Arabia is the pseudonym of New Zealand singer/songwriter/ producer James Milne, who's released three solo albums under the name, including 2012’s The Sparrow. Since he last visited our shores in 2012, Arabia has toured Europe three times, recorded most of a new album and acted in and co-developed a radio comedy about explorers with an erotic fixation on plants. Fans can expect to hear tracks from across his releases as well as new songs from his forthcoming album, due out in mid-2015. Lawrence Arabia will play The Gasometer Hotel tonight, so get your skates on.
MICHAEL FRANTI
Stretch it out, guys. Not only is Michael Franti embarking on a massive national tour next March and April off the back of Bluesfest, he’s also bringing Soulshine, his own music and yoga festival, to Australia after its successful launch in Bali and the US. Soulshine is a first of its kind tour, bringing together bands, fans and yoga into one ridiculously awesome jam. Michael Franti’s Soulshine will take place at Bluesfest on Easter Monday, and in Melbourne on Thursday April 2 at Festival Hall. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
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GARY CL ARK JR.
The six-string virtuoso Gary Clark Jr. has already been announced as part of the Bluesfest 2015 lineup, and now Australian fans will have the chance to see their favourite guitar hero up close and personal in his recently announced Melbourne headline show. Last here in Australia in support of his debut album Blak and Blu, the Grammy Award-winning artist’s return coincides with the release of one of the richest live albums in recent decades, Gary Clark Jr. – LIVE. Catch Gary Clark Jr. at 170 Russell on Wednesday April 8. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV
Hey! Who are we speaking with? I’m Nicole and I’m the singer for Shaded Grey. Where did you grow up? I grew up in a small town in the Yarra Valley called Gladysdale How long have you been playing together? We’ve been playing together for about five years now, forming in VCE music in high school. Tell us about how you went about putting your EP together? Originally we were in the studio to record a single and a B side, but we were so happy with how things were going two tracks pretty quickly became seven tracks, and sure enough we produced our first EP. What can a punter expect from your live show? You can expect a bunch of really good mates with a fun performance that will no doubt leave you wanting more from our catchy tunes. What do you love about making music? I love how we generally all have an input into how each song is written, and we’re so supportive of each other’s ideas. There’s nothing better than the excitement it brings all of us when a new song falls into place and we play it for hours on end, jumping around in the rehearsal room. What do you hate about the music industry? There are so few live music venues for local acts now, whenever we play a show, we’re asking our fans to travel long distances to come and see us. It’s hard on them, which only makes us love them more. Why should everyone come and see your band? When Shaded Grey play we turn a show into an event, it’s pop/rock at its finest. Do yourself a favour and see SHADED GREY launch their EP on Saturday November 15 at The Village Green. $10 on the door.
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C.R. AVERY
Legendary Canadian spoken word artist, musician and songwriter C.R. Avery has announced his second tour of Australia this November. Avery last toured Australia in Dec/Jan performing at Woodford Folk Festival and Sydney Festival, blowing away audiences with his signature blend of spoken word, beat-boxing, harmonica and blues piano. With 15 albums, three musicals and two books of poetry to his name, Avery will also bring to Australia his new book Some Birds Walk For The Hell Of It. C.R. Avery will be at Bella Union at The Melbourne Folk Club Wednesday November 19 with Del Barber.
RAILWAY HOTEL
After a huge opening weekend, the newly transformed Railway Hotel in Brunswick has announced a massive November lineup, featuring a diverse mix of homegrown acts in Melbourne’s newest bandroom. The tremendous lineup features Kim Salmon & Leanne Cowie, Stella Angelico, Harry Howard and the NDE, Red Ink, The Brazuca Sessions, Lowtide and a ton more, who’ll deliver live music from Thursday to Sundays and beyond. This weekend indie legends Kim & Leanne take over the stage on Friday November 14 (supported by Spencer P. Jones), while on Saturday November 15 soulstress Stella Angelico with Papa G & The Starcats and Gina Rose Bruce will grace the stage.
RATKING
Harlem hip hop outfit Ratking will hit Melbourne for a Laneway sideshow next year. The trio released their debut album So It Goes, earlier this year, which featured the fucking killer lead single Canal. They also had a busy year on the road, touring with the likes of GZA, Death Grips, King Krule and Trash Talk. Ratking will hit Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday February 6.
GRACE
Celebrating the release of the dramatic single Pluto, Grace will be bringing her music to audiences around Australia for a run of headline shows at the end of this month. Pluto debuted on The Fader (USA) and Clash Music (UK), and has since garnered a multitude of praise from the global online community. Completely in her element onstage, this solo run of dates mark the first taste of her full live show with band and will see her playing music from her upcoming EP, slated for release early next year. Catch Grace at the Workers Club in Melbourne Saturday December 6. Tickets through iheargrace.com.
NENEH CHERRY
Award-winning singer Neneh Cherry will bring her new sound and live show to Melbourne for a oneoff performance next March. After an 18-year pause in her solo career, Cherry released her fourth studio album Blank Project, earlier this year. She’ll play at Hamer Hall on Friday March 6.
ODESZA
Seattle’s ODESZA will hit Australian shores early next year. The duo are descending on Australia in support of their debut album In Return. Already announced for Sugar Mountain, they have now announced that they will also play a headline show. ODESZA will be performing at Howler on Sunday January 25. Tickets are available through Moshtix.
A TALE OF TWO ORGANS
Don’t be fooled kids, this isn’t the story of how the kidney met the spleen (although that’d probably a story we’d invest our time in reading). This tale's a little less macabre, yet pretty damn cool. You can watch some truly historical business go down when the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ and Regent Theatre Wurlitzer organ team up for the first time ever later this month. The two-part day of music will feature performances from the UK’s Richard Hill and Melbourne’s Tony Fenelon, with all profits going to support the Royal Children’s Hospital. The two organs date back to 1929 and between them, they’re sounds have accompanied hundreds of films, welcomed royalty and even featured in the world premiere musical King Kong. It all goes down on Sunday November 30 from 2pm.
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INTERNATIONAL LAWRENCE ARABIA Gasometer Hotel November 12 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Corner Hotel November 13, 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 C.R. AVERY Bella Union November 19 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 HiFi December 11 T.I. AND DMX Festival Hall December 12
TY SEGALL Corner Hotel December 14, 15 THE SKATALITES Caravan Club December 17, Corner Hotel December 18 GHOSTFACE KILLAH The Espy December 19 SCOTT RUSSO AND PHIL JAMIESON Corner Hotel December 19 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS The Evelyn December 19, Arrow on Swanston December 20 (AA) BEN FOLDS Hamer Hall December 20 TONSTARTSSBANDHT The Tote December 26 SALT N PEPA The Forum December 27 BIG FREEDIA Howler December 30 SADAR BAHAR The Toff In Town December 31 VIOLENT FEMMES MONA January 1 DANNY BROWN Corner Hotel January 4 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 JOHN SMITH Bella Union January 7 SBTRKT The Forum January 7 GEORGE EZRA Corner Hotel January 7 ASGEIR The Forum January 9 WYE OAK Gasometer Hotel January 10 GLASS ANIMALS The Hi-Fi January 10 SPOON The Forum January 11 TIM HECKER Howler January 14 MARDUK AND INQUISITION Northcote Social Club January 14, The Hi-Fi January 16 JESUS JONES Corner Hotel January 15 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 OMAR SOULEYMAN Corner Hotel January 19 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 ODESZA Howler January 25 RUSTIE Howler January 29 LYKKE LI The Forum January 29 PERFECT PUSSY Corner Hotel January 29 SOHN Corner Hotel January 30 EYEHATEGOD The Hi-Fi January 30 JOHNNY MARR The Forum January 31 CHIODOS Corner Hotel January 31 BELLE & SEBASTIAN Palais Theatre February 1 LITTLE DRAGON 170 Russell February 2 THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The Forum February 3 RAURY Howler February 3 ANGEL OLSEN Howler February 4 MAC DEMARCO The Hi-Fi February 4 JUNGLE 170 Russell February 4
HIGHASAKITE Corner Hotel February 4 VIC MENSA Corner Hotel February 5 BENJAMIN BOOKER Northcote Social Club February 5 CARIBOU The Forum February 5 SUZI QUATRO Melbourne Arts Centre February 5, 6, 7 RATKING Ding Dong Lounge February 6 LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 7 STING AND PAUL SIMON A Day on the Green February 7, Rod Laver Arena February 10 SARAH MCLAUGHLAN Melbourne Recital Centre February 9 LAMB The Forum February 14 DANIEL ROSSEN Northcote Social Club February 15 PERFUME GENIUS Corner Hotel February 15 G-EAZY Howler February 16 TINASHE The Hi-Fi February 20 ROXETTE Rod Laver Arena February 20, Rochford Wines Yarra Valley February 21 PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT Corner Hotel February 21 THE EAGLES Rod Laver Arena February 22, Hanging Rock Macedon February 28 REAL ESTATE Corner Hotel February 25 DELTRON 3030 The Hi-Fi February 27 FOO FIGHTERS Etihad Stadium February 28 MOGWAI Hamer Hall March 1 SHARON VAN ETTEN The Hi-Fi March 3 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Palais Theatre March 4 NENEH CHERRY Hamer Hall March 6 FIRST AID KIT Palais Theatre March 6 PARQUET COURTS The Hi-Fi March 6 MAITREYA FESTIVAL Sea Lake, Victoria 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 BALKAN BEAT BOX Prince Bandroom March 12 MAE Corner Hotel March 14 FOREST SWORDS Howler March 14 BILLY IDOL Margaret Court Arena March 24, A Day on the Green March 21 PAOLO NUTINI Palais Theatre April 1 MICHAEL FRANTI Festival Hall April 2 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 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 GARY CLARK JR. 170 Russell April 8 JIMMY CLIFF Corner Hotel April 8 THE GIPSY KINGS Palais Theatre April 10 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
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A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN AMBIEN T AST RONOMERS AT MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK By Tyson Wray
In the niche world of ambient music, there are few names as illustrious as the duo that constitute A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Comprised of Adam Wiltzkie (founding member of other ambient acts Stars of the Lid, The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm and Sleepingdog) and Dustin O’Halloran (post-classical composer and pianist, best known for his original film scores in Marie Antoinette, Remember the Daze, The Other Dream Team, The Beauty Inside and Breathe In), since first meeting in 2007 in Bologna, Italy and bonding over a shared love of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, the duo have gone on to pen some of the most seminal ambient works of the past decade.
In early 2013 the duo were approached by contemporary dance choreographer Wayne McGregor (The Royal Ballet, La Scala Theatre Ballet of Milan, Random Dance Company – best known to Australian audiences as the choreographer of The Australian Ballet’s Helpmann Award-winning work Chroma) and asked to create an original score for his latest work ATOMOS. “We went into it really not knowing anything about the dance world,” notes O’Halloran. “Wayne was a really great collaborator – he gave us a lot of freedom. A few of our friends had also worked with him in the past so we had a lot of trust in him.” “Before Wayne contacted us we actually had a lot of new music that we’d previously been working on,” adds Wiltzkie. “After Wayne contacted us we completely dropped everything, we didn’t want to bring anything over to this project. We wanted to start totally fresh and create something completely new.” “Before we had even began writing all four of the premiere shows had been booked. There was no greater fire under our arses,” laughs O’Halloran. “We had to come up with 70 minutes worth of music in four months. There was no going back.” Fast-forward to October 2013 and ATOMOS had its world premiere at London’s historic Sadler’s Wells Theatre. “At the premiere, we finally got to watch the piece come to life,” adds Wiltzkie. “It was then that we just stared at each other in the orchestra pit and realised that this should be our next album. “It sounds cliché, but we had no idea that this was going to happen. When you’re working on something so intensely over four months, you’re not really thinking to yourself that this is something that could stand alone by itself. We just wanted to create something that worked as a score for the dance – not something that was its own separate entity. We were really lucky that it turned out as well as it did.” Following this orchestral epiphany, the two began the process of recording the follow-up to their self-titled 2011 debut, ATOMOS the record, which was released last month on seminal ambient labels Kranky and Erased Tapes. “The process was pretty much a reverse of anything that we’ve done before,” notes O’Halloran. “When we were working on the piece we were playing things almost immediately after we wrote them. That BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
never happens. Generally you always write something, you record it, then you figure out the live process. Everything happened so fast. We didn’t even have anything recorded until after the premiere. It was a very interesting process, but it worked.” The resulting body of work was 11 sweeping soundscapes with grand pianos, swelling strings and light electronics combining to create delicate and highly immersive ambience. “Our very good friend Francesco Donadello, who also introduced us in Italy, had recently moved to Berlin so we were able to work in his beautiful analogue studio for ATOMOS,” details Wiltzkie. “Dustin also took a trip to Iceland to work with Ben Frost on some of the tracks on the record, to revamp some of the overtones and movements.”
“BEFORE WE HAD EVEN BEGAN WRITING ALL FOUR OF THE PREMIERE SHOWS HAD BEEN BOOKED. THERE WAS NO GREATER FIRE UNDER OUR ARSES.” The duo also worked with Frost on the three-track EP ATOMOS VII, which was released in July this year to precede the album. “Coincidentally, Ben also worked with Wayne McGregor on his dance work previous to ATOMOS called Far,” adds O’Halloran. “When Wayne initially contacted us we asked Ben for his opinion and whether or not we should give it a go. He told us, ‘Guys, when it comes to dance, you have nowhere to go but down after working with Wayne’. ” “Wayne is a really special guy in the dance world,” notes Wiltzkie. What he does is so unique, and the way that he brings together music with his choreography – it’s so intelligent. “As Ben said, Wayne’s been doing this for over 20 years. If we were to work with dance again I’m not sure where we’d go. But we’d definitely be open to it if the right project came along.” “I was thinking this morning, when I was watching a video of glaciers melting, that someone should put on
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a concert for the glaciers,” adds O’Halloran. “Because it’s pretty much the end of the world. I’d totally be up for that.” “Yeah, playing on a glacier and then melting in the sea,” laughs Wiltzkie. “As this point in my life, things that inspire me to write and compose, it’s much less about music, it’s things like visual art, especially,” he continues. “Going to museums and looking at paintings has a far more profound effect on myself and my work than listening to records.” While Wiltzkie was in Australia earlier this year for an Adelaide-exclusive performance with Stars of the Lid at Unsound Festival, this weekend will mark the debut shows Down Under for AWVFTS, which will see them perform accompanied by a string quartet. “Performing ATOMOS live comes very easily these days,” details O’Halloran. “We played it so often with the orchestra at the Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company. But as it’s the very first time we’ve ever performed together in Australia alongside tracks from ATOMOS we’ll also be playing a few tracks from our first record. “This will be the first time I’ve ever played in Australia,” he adds. “It’s one of those places that you don’t imagine that you’ll ever be able to go because it’s so far away and very expensive for us to get there.” As for Wiltzkie’s thoughts on returning to Australia? “There’s a total douchebag running every country, but Tony Abbott? Damn. He’s a special one for sure.” Following their journey to Australia, the duo will then tour around Europe and close off the year with a run of concert hall performances in the United States before returning to their separate endeavours in 2015. “After we finish all of this touring I think I’m going to get back to work on making another solo album,” notes O’Halloran. “I believe Adam is going to get back to work with Stars of the Lid.” “Oh man, I’d love to finish another Stars of the Lid record before I die,” laughs Wiltzkie.
As part of Melbourne Music Week, A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN will perform at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday November 15. ATOMOS is out now via Erased Tapes/Kranky.
It’s pretty much like Christmas when Melbourne Music Week rolls around again. Now in its fifth year, it’s become one of the biggest highlights on the Melbourne music calendar, and with good reason. The 10-day program as always features a plethora of free and ticketed events across almost 40 locations, meaning you’ll never be short of things to do. We’re absolutely spoilt for choice this year, with over 250 artists, 75% of them from Victoria. Midnight Juggernauts
THE HUB AT THE QVM
The illustrious Queen Victoria Market will act as the centerpiece for Melbourne Music Week, for music lovers, art aficionados and foodies alike, throughout the day and into the night. The stage will feature a brilliant lineup of local and international acts curated by Melbourne’s celebrated promoters and record labels. Inside the ticketed area, a revolving lineup of fine Melbourne eateries to sate you, including Hammer & Tongs, QVM neighbours Fancy Hanks, Supernormal and Wonderbao. Architecture In Helsinki
LIVE MUSIC SAFARI
This is all going down on Thursday November 20 across the city in 14 locations. The Live Music Safari is a smorgasbord of FREE live music across some of Melbourne’s most revered venues and, for the first time, some places are offering food as well. Breathe it all in.
Foreign Brothers are set to transform 1000£ Bend into a roller disco of epic proportions in partnership with Northside Records. Catch Chris Gill, DJ Manchild, Lewis Cancut, Mondo Freaks and Ms Butt from 6pm
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to 1.30am. Munch on spicy quesadillas and burgers. Requiem present a celebration of gothic subcultures at Liberty Social, with Agent Cleave, Habits, Lakes, Repairs and Rule of Thirds, from 7pm until 2am. In a nod to up-and-comers, the Hi-Fi presents Bad Family, Magic America, The Good Morrows and Where’s Joss, from 7pm until 2am.
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club present two rooms of Kingswood launch the festivities at MMW’s flagship electrifying live jazz from 7.30 til 1am. Catch Joseph venue at the Queen Vic Market form 6.30pm until O’Connor, The Furbelows and Tom Noonan. 8.30pm. The iconic Cherry Bar is known for the most part as Section 8 and Ferdyduke build on their reputation a rock’n’roll institution, but their Soul Thursdays are for knocking laneway parties out of the park with equally famed. As part of the Music Safari, Cherry will Brawther, Chiefs, City Calm Down, Document Swell, be hosting Kingston Crown, Stella Angelico and The Haarlo, Milwaukee Banks, Paces, RaRa, Scatter Scatter Harlots from 8pm til 11pm. SoundSystem, Skomes and Stax Osset from 4pm until The Harpoons and The Parking Lot Experiments take 1am. It also features star-studded frankfurters and over the Toff In Town from 7pm until 4.30am, be sure nachos to nibble away at. to pack your dancing shoes. Indulge in some Thai cuisine Boney have put together some of Melbourne’s chief thanks to Choo Choo. electronic acts, spanning over two levels, spilling into The peeps behind St Jerome’s Laneway Fest have put Magic Mountain and flowing out into the Westwood together their first MMW event at The Kelvin Club, place laneway. Featuring Dylan Michél, Julien Love, featuring Japanese Wallpaper, LUCIANBLOMKAMP Kane Ikin, Misty Nights, Nic Hamilton, Silentjay, The and Klo. From 8pm to 11pm. They serve up some Fandroids, Versaj, Wax’o Paradiso. 4pm all through the carbonara croquets, burgers and a huge list of toasties. night until 5am. Snack on jalapeno donuts, chicken kofta or cashew and carrot bao buns or fill a bigger Public Bar throw open their doors once more for the Music Safari. Featuring Little Desert, Pearls and White appetite with the beef brisket. Hex. Miss Katie will be serving up her famed traditional Lounge present fuse new artists with those wellcrab boil with all the trimmings. established in Caledonian Lane. From 5pm to 1am, catch Cale Sexton, Dan White, Harvey Sutherland, Disco and ‘80s pop will hit the John Curtin, with Sex Jake Blood, Kangaroo Skull, M5K, Sleep D, Tom Day on Toast, Sugar Fed Leopards and Vaudeville Smash. and Voiteck. Philly cheese steaks, Texan BBQ ribs and There’s also the pop-up kitchen of Huxtaburger to keep that hunger in check. fried green tomato sliders are all on offer. Down the stairs in the dank and sweaty Mercat Basement, Andee Frost, Otologic, Rat & Co and Tornado Wallace will keep you in a state of sonic wonderment from 9pm to 5am. Upstairs, you’ll find Fancy Hanks with slowcooked American BBQ for the soul.
Some of the highlights on the music schedule include: - Architecture in Helsinki, Total Giovanni and Rainbow connection on opening night, Friday November 14. - Oneohtrix Point Never, Robin Fox and S I M U L Æ++, Friday November 21. - Midnight Juggernauts, Kirin DJ Callinan and Pelvis, Saturday November 22. - The Queen Vic’s glorious Night Markets return again, with two of the world’s most innovative duos Pachanga Boys and Optimo making a special appearance for MMW thanks to Thick As Theives. Catch these guys, plus Melbourne veterans Mike Callander and T-Rek on Wednesday November 19 from 7pm.
A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN
Performing in Australia for the first time at Melbourne Music Week, Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran combine traditional instrumentation, i.e. a string quartet, a French horn and bassoon juxtaposed with ambient guitars and washed-out melodies, all songs are recorded to tape. A Winged Victory for the Sullen play at the Recital Centre’s Elizabeth Murdoch Hall on Saturday November 15. This is a ticketed event.
A legendary electo outfit that really needs no introduction, Tangerine Dream were founded in 1967, they invented the movement known as the Berlin School, and members paved the way for future incarnations of electronic genres. They’ve worked on a number of Hollywood soundtracks, including Sorcerer, Risky Business and have recently composed the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto V. This underground sensation will be hitting the Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday November 16. They’ll also be playing the score for Sorcerer live to accompany William Friedkin’s film over two sessions on Thursday November 20 at ACMI. This is a ticketed event.
THE CHURCH PLAY THE BLOOD OF A POET
UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE PRESENTS TIMELINE
The Timeline links the chain between the past, the present and into the future of Detroit techno, this timeline has taken on many forms, most recently in this linking of UR DJ/Producer Mark Flash as Mad Mike, Jon Dixon and DeSean Jones. The four take on elements of jazz and techno to combing them into something familiar, yet different.
Last but certainly not least, Ding Dong present a stellar lineup for the Music Safari with Jakubi and Ngaiire from 9pm until 4am. Traditional Cajun and Creole cuisine is up for grabs with Girl with the Gris Gris.
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This is a very special, once-off event happening at ACMI: one of Melbourne’s best-loved bands, The Church, turn their attention to Jean Cocteau’s avantgarde film The Blood Of A Poet at ACMI for a live score. Not to be missed. This is a ticketed event.
INNOCUOUS LANEWAY PARTY
This new events company is hosting their inaugural laneway party for MMW, an outdoor day party showcasing some of Melbourne’s most talented, independent EDM community. Taking over Somerset Pace, DJs will be spinning tunes until late into the night. Catch 6AM at The Garage, Bacon Booty Disco, Baker St, Loose Joints, Mokumo, Move Your Feet, Out of Focus and PWD. This is a ticketed event, presales $20, door tickets $25.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN This year’s British Film Festival has just opened in Melbourne, and what better way to experience it than celebrating British music and film all at once. In Six From the 60’s, the festival features six of the best films from an era that saw cinema, especially in London, become more radical and spirited. In a special 50th anniversary event, A Hard Day’s Night showcases the Beatlemania phenomenon in 1964, capturing the fab four’s first venture into film in all its digitally restored glory. Nominated for two Academy Awards and featuring a heap of classic Beatles’ tunes, A Hard Day’s Night is a highly irreverent look into a day in the life of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Catch the special event screening at Palace Cinema Como on Wednesday November 12.
With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm. and really brilliantly performed.” In addition to a spectacular selection of new and innovative films, Monster Fest will be hosting a series of workshops, panels and presentations at The Monster Fest Academy of Horror & Mayhem, a five-day series at Yah Yah’s. Not to be confused with Monsters University (2013), The Monster Fest Academy of Horror & Mayhem will not be teaching attendees how to harvest children’s screams for energy, but rather, teaching audiences how to create real and truly terrifying films. The Monster Fest Academy of Horror & Mayhem will kick off with a two-part master class series with cult legend Lloyd Kaufman. Entitled Make Your Own Damn Movie, the series will introduce wannabe filmmakers to necessary skills to create innovative cult and horror films. The remaining four days of The Monster Fest Academy of Horror & Mayhem will feature guest panels, informative presentations and workshops, where actors, writers, directors etc. will provide sage advice about the horror and cult genres. Others may even divulge the dirty, dirty secrets behind absurdist Italian-horror-inspired cult title The Editor – here’s looking at you, Tristan Risk, Connor Sweeney and Matthew Kennedy.
ON STAGE Inspired by the Finnish ‘open dialogue’ treatment method, The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland uses an ambitious split staging technique, where the action and dialogue from two different sequences of scenes are simultaneously performed to two different groups of audience in the same space, to produce an experience of auditory hallucination. Conjuring both a comic, delusional nightmare and a hopeful world of uncertainty, the production is based on the idea that psychosis happens between people, not within them. The first of a trilogy of works focusing on mental illness, it’s a startling and transformative piece, which stages the first psychotic episodes of a mother and son with results involving Finnish folk, roast vegetables, Adolf Hitler and a knitted toilet roll cover. The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland opens at Arts House, Meat Market on Wednesday November 12.
ON DISPL AY Gathering inspiration from classic Hollywood cinema and fashion photography, Alex Prager’s profile has skyrocketed following the success of her Face in the Crowd series at this year’s Art Basel art fair. The breakthrough American photographer and filmmaker makes her Australian solo debut at NGV this week, with an exhibition featuring works from her 2007 Polyester series to her most recent body of work, last year’s Face in the Crowd. Her work has become renowned for not only its lushly coloured, melodramatic intensity but also the glamorous, vintage-styled women that are her characters. Alex Prager will be on display at NGV International from Friday November 14. She will present an artist talk on Saturday November 15.
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John Safran will take audiences on a journey through his award-winning book, Murder in Mississippi, when he hits The Yarraville Club this weekend. After a white supremacist in his 2010 series John Safran’s Race Relations was murdered, Safran flew to Mississippi to cover the trial and ended up with a memoir following his experiences. His upcoming show will detail the trip and also give fans a chance to pick his brain, with a Q&A session following the performance. Catch him at The Yarraville Club on Saturday November 15.
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MONSTER FEST 2014 By Avrille Bylok-Collard This month will see the return of Monster Fest, a deviant film festival dedicated to satiating all of your abhorrent cinematographic needs in the horror and cult genres. Created in 2011 under the title of Fantastic Asia Film Festival, a name that inevitably changed, and hosted at Cinema Nova, Monster Fest has evolved into a festival dedicated to showcasing some of the most anticipated and exciting new cult films, developing a large following over its four years of operation. In fact, earlier this year it gained the support of Screen Australia, which, according to Festival Director, Neil Foley, is a big deal.
“[Monster Fest is] a big thing this year,” explains Foley enthusiastically over his morning coffee. He appears ebullient and brimming with excitement as he launches into what Monster Fest has prepared this year. “Screen Australia came on board and are supporting the festival now. They’re committed to [it for] the next three years. So we’re getting a bit more money in the festival this year, [which] we decided to spend on guests.” These guest appearances include visits from Canada’s favourite Twisted Twins, Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary, See No Evil 2), screenwriter Aaron Sterns (Wolf Creek 2), respected Australia filmmaker Stu Simpson (Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla), The Human Centipede survivor and all-round actor, Ashley C. Williams, and co-founder of Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ‘Em High). “They all represent a fantastic selection of films,” stresses the Festival Director, describing the programme in detail and its smooth curation. “My personal favourites are – there’s an Australian premiere in there of a film called Inner Demon,” the follow-up to Adelaide filmmaker Ursula Dabrowsky’s debut Family
Demons (2009). “She made this really kind of creepy, scary horror film that’s pretty amazing. There’s another film in there that’s called Honeymoon,” a film starring Rose Leslie, Ygritte from Game of Thrones, and Harry Treadaway, Victor Frankenstein from Penny Dreadful; “and it’s this really great story about this couple that go off on a honeymoon and things go really awry and become really sort of twisted. [It’s kind of ] body horror with a twist, which is brilliant. “My favourite film in the whole program is a film called Starry Eyes. It’s from America and is made by two directors, Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer [Postcards from the Future: The Chuck Palahniuk Documentary (2003)], and it’s this story about an actress in LA who compromises her integrity to accept a role in a film,” confesses Foley ardently, expressing he is a lover of elevated genre: films that take selective genre tropes and conglomerate them to create a less formulaic, but more horrifying, form of film. “She does the unthinkable and sleeps with a producer; and that was a really, really bad mistake because it opens up a gateway to something deeply disturbing and satanic. I won’t say how it ends, but it’s this really brilliant twist
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“This year we’ve got two film programs within the program, which we haven’t had in the past either; and it’s competitive this year, which is new for Monster Fest,” explains Foley, elaborating on the short film night Trasharama, hosted in the middle of the festival at Yah Yahs on November 26. “We have awards and the awards ceremony is taking place on the closing night. So there’ll be 15 different awards from Best Film to Best Actor to Best Special Effects, etc.” This is not the only new addition to Monster Fest. There is a central hub called the Monsters’ Lair, hosted at Yah Yah’s. A place where, for ten days, fellow Monster Fest aficionados can socialise and help foster and nurture the horror/cult community of Melbourne. “We’ve got a whole bunch of events going on, from a trivia night to opening and closing night,” lists the Festival Director. “Monster Fest is an opportunity to be part of a community of people who are passionate, creative, innovative [and love] exciting genre cinema from all over the world. We’ve got a karaoke night and there’s a happy hour everyday with a free movie and cheap drinks. It’s a community thing, you know?” Feast on depravity this month at Monster Fest from Thursday November 20 – Sunday November 30 at Cinema Nova and Yah Yah’s. Tickets, more information and a full program can be found at monsterfest.com.au.
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The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
★★★★★ ”...innovative and compelling… highly recommended…see it more than once.” Fresh Fringe (UK)
★★★★ “...as a piece of stagecraft it is completely remarkable.” Time Out London (UK)
★★★★ “…inventive, surreal and unsettling.” Edinburgh News (UK)
★★★★ “…intriguing…provokes a discussion which is most certainly needed.” The Public Reviews (UK)
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LES ARTS FLORISSANTS AND THE SIXTEEN
BEERHOVEN
If beer and classical music are a combination you just can’t pass up then you don’t want to miss the second instalment of Beerhoven. Beerhoven combines the art forms of craft beer and classical music to produce one unique sensory experience. While listening to some of the great works of the classical repertoire peformed by MSO musicians, you will taste a variety of craft beers, selected and matched by Beerhoven to create the perfect pair. Beerhoven No.2 will be held on Sunday November 30 at Bakehouse Studios in Richmond. To find out when you can get tickets you’ll have to sign up at mso.com.au/muso.
Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ Nosferatu
THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL
The world’s leading disability film festival, The Other Film Festival, has revealed the program for its sixth incarnation. Set over five days, this year will feature a specially curated program of full-lengths, shorts, documentaries and dramas. Some of the highlights include the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu, in which people from the audience will use an open mic to live describe the action for the vision impaired; opening night documentary Fixed: The Science Fiction of Human Enhancement; Phantom Pain, a visual exploration of one woman’s experience of phantom limb sensation; and The Globe Collector, the story of a Tasmanian man on a solo quest to protect a technology that is quickly becoming forgotten. Tommy Edison will be this year’s special guest, acting as chief judge on Nosferatu. Blind since birth, he burst onto the US film scene three years ago as the blind film critic, attracting the endorsement of Roger Ebert. The Other Film Festival will take place from Wednesday December 3 to Sunday December 7 at the Melbourne Brain Centre.
LOVING REPEATING
Vic Theatre Company will present a new musical about American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein for their debut show. Loving Repeating has been adapted from the writings of Stein and follows her from her student days in the late 19th century through to the height of her artistic career in Paris. The musical explores Stein’s relationship with lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas as well as her love of self-expression and language. Loving Repeating will run from Wednesday January 21 to Sunday February 8 at Chapel off Chapel.
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A TALE OF TWO ORGANS
History will be made when the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ and Regent Theatre Wurlitzer Organ team up for the first time ever later this month. The two-part day of music will feature performances from the UK’s Richard Hill and Melbourne’s Tony Fenelon, with all profits going to support the Royal Children’s Hospital. The two organs date back to 1929 and between them have accompanied hundreds of films, welcomed royalty and even featured in the world premiere musical King Kong. Act 1 will commence at the Melbourne Town Hall and feature a selection of composers such as Bach and Holst, and feature guest artists Jacqueline Porter and the Melbourne Opera Choir. Act 2 will take place at the Regent Theatre, featuring contemporary pieces, including a medley from the musical theatre canon. The performance will also feature a short silent film from 1921 which shows the Wurlitzer organ being constructed and shipped across the USA to its original home in San Francisco. It all goes down on Sunday November 30 at 2pm.
THE FINAL CHASE
Award-winning cabaret artist Tomas Ford has announced he is bringing his spy thriller, The Final Chase to Melbourne this November. The Final Chase combines noir, comedy and cabaret as the suave Australian spy, played by Ford, chases down his arch nemesis and a devastating femme fatale throughout south east Asia. A hit from Edinburgh Fringe to Adelaide Fringe, the show – in Ford’s electro-cabaret style – is set to a pulsing electronic soundtrack and video projections. The Final Chase is coming to The Butterfly Club for a short run of shows from Wednesday November 19.
Early music groups Les Arts Florissants and The Sixteen will return to Melbourne in March for shows at Melbourne Recital Centre. Period instrument orchestra Les Arts Florissants will return to Melbourne after more than a decade, led by founder William Christie. The orchestra will perform favourites from the Italian Baroque operatic repertoire. UK choral group and period orchestra The Sixteen will also head to Australia in March, following a run of sold-out performances in 2012. With a career spanning over 30 years, The Sixteen are renowned for their performances of English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, Baroque and early classical music, along with 20th and 21st century music. Les Arts Florissants will perform at Melbourne Recital Centre on Monday March 9 and Tuesday March 10. The Sixteen will perform on Thursday March 5.
URBAN KOORIE TOUR
Did you know there’s an eel hiding behind Federation Square? Or that Elizabeth Street was once a river? You’ll find out this and more when you embark on the new Urban Koorie Tour. The 60-minute tour begins at Federation Square and takes visitors on a journey around Melbourne through Koorie eyes, stopping at significant sites along the banks of the Yarra River, Birrarung Marr (River of Mists) and Federation Square. Led by a Koorie Heritage Trust guide, visitors will be taken through the history and development from its Koorie roots. The Urban Koorie Tour will begin on Monday December 8 and will then run twice-daily from Monday to Friday.
Nicholas Johnson and Sarah Jones, aka Jonestown, are getting together with a variety of acts to present Safety House this December. Each night, Jonestown will be joined by three guests from their rotating lineup of vaudevillian vulgarians, unorthodox acts, marginalised magicians, comedians, oddballs and eccentrics including Rod Quantock, Damian Callihan, Geraldine Quinn and Xavier Michelides. Described as a refuge for the everyday and the mundane, all proceeds from the shows will go to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Safety House is coming to Northcote Town Hall from Tuesday December 2 until Saturday December 6.
CRAB L AB Right in the heart of the CBD tonight Crab Lab offers the best Australian comics for a measly $5. There’s Dan Connell, Danny McGinlay, Tommy Dassalo, Jon Bennett, Simon Keck and much more. 8.30pm at the House of Maximon, 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
PUBLIC BAR COMEDY Drop everything, tonight at the Public Bar it’s a barnstormer of a lineup. There’s top to bottom quality with Justin Hamilton, Adam Zwar, John Conway, Nick Cody, Tegan Higginbotham and Steele Saunders for just $5. Show kicks off at 8.30pm sharp with $10 jugs before 8pm.
FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Russell Gilbert
Russell Gilbert headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday night. You know Russ from Hey Hey It’s Saturday and The Russell Gilbert Show, now come down to see him for his very first time at Five Boroughs Comedy. Plus there’s Ben Lomas, Tommy Dassalo, Jason English and more. It’s all happening this Thursday November 13 at 8.30pm, at Five Boroughs Comedy, 68 Hardware Lane (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12. Dead Centre
RED STITCH ACTORS THEATRE 2015 SEASON
2015 will see Red Stitch present two world premieres and five Australian premieres, as well as shows in Sydney and regional Victoria. Red Stitch will present the world premieres of Tom Holloway’s Dead Centre and Dan Giovannoni’s Jurassica. The company will also present the Australian premieres of The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Wet House, Love Love Love, Sea Wall and Middletown; the Victorian premiere of Detroit; and the return of 2014 sell-out The Flick. Visit redstitch.net for tickets, more information and the full program.
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COMEDY AT SPLEEN 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, Nick Capper hosts, plus there’s heaps of guests including Karl Chandler, David Quirk, Daniel Connell, Ryan Coffey, Alisdair Tremblay-Birchall, Adam Knox and more. It’s on this Monday November 17, 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.
PRESENTS
A T S A E F OF AVITY ! DEPR
Opening Party
NEXT FRIDAY • NOV 21 at Yah Yah’s Special Guests
The NIGHT TERRORS 9pm - Late
Australia’s weirdest, sickest, most demented film festival is back! 11 Days and nights of the latest, greatest and rarest cult and horror cinema from Australia and around the globe!
• SCREENINGS • MASTERCLASSES • SPECIAL GUESTS • SPECIAL EVENTS • ALL NIGHT MARATHON • TRIVIA • KARAOKE • PARTIES • and MORE!
Special Guests
include: H Bill Moseley (USA: HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES) H Lloyd Kaufman (USA: Troma Entertainment) H Jen & Sylvia Soska (USA: AMERICAN MARY) H Astron 6 (CAN: FATHERS DAY) H Ashley C. Williams (USA: THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE) H Tristan Risk (CAN: AMERICAN MARY) and many more!
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THE ERADICATION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN WESTERN LAPLAND By Augustus Welby Over the last two-and-a-half decades, UK theatre-makers David Woods and Jon Haynes have built a reputation for delivering on stage hilarity and absurd insight. However, the title of the duo’s latest play The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland suggests a bold departure from their comedy roots.
The play seeks to demonstrate that attempts to combat psychosis through the prescription of mentally sedating drugs are hardly conducive to the titular eradication. Instead of this prevalent treatment method, the play advocates a relatively simple solution called Open Dialogue. “It’s the idea that people speak or cry out for help,” Woods says. “They’re listened to and they then enter into a dialogue about that illness, rather than being automatically medicated.” The Eradication of Schizophrenia takes its lead from the successful implementation of Open Dialogue in Finnish region, Lapland. Now, in case you’re already yawning towards the exit, the play isn’t a clinical exposition of this breakthrough psychiatric practice. Rather, Woods and Haynes (who are joined by Ben Grant and Nicola Gunn for the play’s Melbourne run) extrapolate Open Dialogue in a farcical, comic manner. “Open Dialogue’s totally un-dramatic,” Woods says. “It’s so successful at defusing tension and psychoses and stress that it makes for a very bad play. We wanted to make a good play full of tension and dramatic conflict and so on.” The Eradication of Schizophrenia is the first play in a planned trilogy for Woods and Haynes, all centred around mental health issues. By exploring this topic in a dramatic manner, they’re seeking to communicate how the imposition of ‘normality’ in Western societies – geared towards capitalistic productivity – effectively shuns whatever can’t be snugly put in a box. “The difference between eccentricity and madness is often a label that’s dished out by somebody who’s incapable of tolerating uncertainty,” says Woods. “What we try to show is how close [schizophrenia] SWANS, is to supposedly normal behaviours. It’s so close to exuberance and so close to chaotic thoughts and so MARDUK, close to comedy – in the way that comedy juxtaposes FAUX MO, ideas that don’t normally go together.” Just to plainly clarify, Woods and Haynes aren’t a ZAMMUTO, couple of entrepreneurial psychiatrists utilising theatre LI BINYUAN, to endorse a zany new treatment method. In fact, they THE CLEAN, only came across Open Dialogue quite recently. “It came from our family stories,” Woods says. “We’d AMIR FARID, had experiences involving mental issues. We were BEN FROST, MEDIA PARTNERS: devising a play about families and inevitably drew on TIM HECKER, our own experiences. Then as we looked into what the mental health environment was like now, that’s JIM MOGINIE, when we found out about the Lapland people and that NEIL GAIMAN, sparked this idea of championing dialogue. We realised we had a great affinity with that because we’ve been DAN DEACON, working with dialogue for 25 years or so and found it AVA MENDOZA, to be a really rich vein of inquiry for ourselves.” ALVIN CURRAN, OK, so we’ve established that The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland has a fairly bold SHONEN KNIFE, premise. But the actual way the play’s performed XYLOURIS WHITE, is another level of ambitious. In order to provide GENEVIEVE LACEY, audiences with a sense of the auditory hallucinations experienced by people with psychoses, Woods and GABRIELLA SMART, Haynes came up with an entirely novel staging format. OMAR SOULEYMAN, “We’re basically playing two plays in the same room at the same time, to two audiences,” Woods says. “There’s PHILLIP JOHNSTON, a wall between those two theatres, but it doesn’t stop ROBYN HITCHCOCK, the noise travelling from once space to the other. So ARCHITECTS OF AIR, the idea is that you’re watching and hearing a play, but at the same time you’re hearing another play as well. ATTICUS J. BASTOW, And the same’s going on for an auditorium on the SPEAK PERCUSSION, other side of this wall. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF, “So you get this tension, almost like a kind of conflict between the two groups of people and how they MICHAEL KIERAN HARVEY, respond and initially it’s quite frustrating and chaotic.” SENYAWA + LUCAS ABELA, Perhaps this performance method is a little hard to get your head around, but that’s precisely the point. DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA, See, life itself isn’t always a tidy sequence of coherent JOHANNES S. SISTERMANNS, experiences. ALLAN HALYK & ADAM WOJCINSKI, “It is a very complex topic and we wanted to honour that,” Woods says. “We didn’t want to do some sort of MOFO SIDESHOW: VIOLENT FEMMES, banal simplification of the experience. We wanted it to YOUNG WAGILAK GROUP & AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA, be as complex as the topic. AMANDA PALMER & THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, “We live in a chaotic scrambled world, let’s embrace that rather than denying it and trying to simplify it and PAUL KELLY PRESENTS THE MERRI SOUL SESSIONS - FEAT. categorise things.”
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Two years ago, the then-unknown SOHN emerged with an EP called The Wheel. Before long, the EP’s title track was making the rounds of the blog circuit, which led to radio play and praise from media outlets the world over. But the question loomed, who was behind this release of souldappled electronic pop? A bit of detective work revealed the mysterious moniker belonged to British tunemaker Christopher Taylor, who’d previously gone by the name Trouble Over Tokyo.
The strength of The Wheel nabbed Taylor a release deal with UK indie luminaries 4AD (home to likes of Bon Iver, Grimes and Ariel Pink). A few more singles followed, which boosted anticipation for SOHN’s debut long player. Titled Tremors, when the record landed in April, it debuted at #31 on the UK Albums Chart. Taylor recorded Tremors while living in Vienna. In order to completely submerge himself in the process, he operated entirely alone. “I can work and not even think about eating for 24 hours,” he says. “I close every blind and every window. It’s night at all times when I work, basically.” Making music can be an effective way to escape from everyday stresses. When working in intimate solitude, creative exploration is also likely to provide insight into one’s own strengths and weaknesses. Thanks to some useful discoveries made during the recording of Tremors, Taylor’s uncertain about persisting with the solitary studio approach in future. “[Being alone] definitely was important in the making of the album,” he says. “One of the bad things about working alone is you can get too obsessed with things which actually don’t matter at all. Basically I want to loosen up a bit creatively. When making the next album I want to have more of a turnover of
people coming in and out.” Tremors isn’t over-stuffed with production details, but it’s certainly an intricately constructed work. The crafty layering and mutating of voices, synths and percussion indicates that Taylor’s in-studio seclusion leads to relentless tinkering. But perhaps he’s not as pedantic as you’d think. “I’m quite good at making sure that I let go early,” he says. “I’m really focused on what I’m doing and then every now and then I have a little wake up call and think, ‘No one gives a shit if that snare drum needs to be one dB louder or not’. “I am actually at heart quite a meticulous perfectionist,” he admits, “and I don’t like that about myself particularly. So I quite often try to stop myself from doing that.” Taylor’s spent the majority of 2014 on the road – including a mini Australian tour in June, as well as stacks of US and European festivals. There’s a round-the-clock social imperative tied up with being a touring musician, which means Taylor’s lifestyle underwent some major changes. This inevitably took some getting used to. “I’m still loving getting to go to new places and I’m still loving discovering music and making music,” he says. “The one thing which is really grueling is the fact that you don’t really have a
home. I try to keep slapping myself out of those thoughts,” he adds. “Every now and then when I think, ‘I’m so exhausted, but I don’t have a home…’ I’ll slap myself in the face and say ‘come on get on with it.’.” Taylor’s acute self-awareness, and ability to curb his own pessimism, is reflected in the emotional range of Tremors. On the one hand, the record rumbles with downcast tones, accentuated by emotive vocal wailing, but it’s also dressed with several relatively sprightly moments. Given several songs on Tremors are steeped in honest feeling, a successful live performance rests on Taylor’s ability to communicate these emotions with an audience. “In many ways, it’s the same thing as putting on a play or something,” he says. “Of course, you can’t just switch on this same feeling that you got when you were alone and quite vulnerable. But what you can do – in the same way that an actor does – is get your head into the space where the words that you’re singing mean the meaning to you in that exact moment.” Along with establishing this method for delivering songs convincingly, Taylor’s relentless touring schedule has brought home an insight that will assist with his creative decisionmaking going forward. “The tour has revealed which [songs] definitely are the
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strongest,” he says. “The ones which every single time will get some sort of reaction, and it’s not based on people knowing the songs. It’s based on the energy of the songs themselves when you play them. It’s normally quite heartening because it’s normally my favourite ones and I think, ‘That’s good because that means I’m going in the right direction,’ in terms of when I’m trusting myself and letting myself do whatever comes into my mind.” Following up on his brief mid-year visit, Taylor heads back our way for next year’s Laneway festival. Nestling into his own home might still be a distant prospect for the thoughtful Brit, but sometimes that’s not such a bad thing. “All of the other bands that I know who’ve been already, they get kind of glazed over, sugary eyes when they say ‘Oh Laneway, I wish I was going back there,’” he says. “I loved the last time I came out to Australia, so I’m really looking forward to it.” SOHN will perform at Laneway which will go down in Melbourne on Saturday February 7 at the Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC) and The River’s Edge. Fans can also catch his sideshow on Friday January 30 at the Corner Hotel. facebook.com/SOHN
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on tour 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 TOM TRAGO [NED] Sunday November 30, Lounge 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 FLORIAN KUPFER [GER] Sunday December 21, Lounge 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: CLAPTONE [GER], ALUNAGEORGE [UK] + MORE Tuesday December 30 - Thursday January 1, Phillip Island Circuit BIG FREEDIA [USA] Tuesday December 30, Howler SADAR BAHAR [USA] Wednesday December 31, The Toff In Town GREG WILSON [UK] Wednesday December 31, Little& Olver 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 DANNY BROWN [USA] Sunday January 4, Corner Hotel 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 OMAR S [USA], DANIEL AVERY [UK] Friday January 9, Brown Alley
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five things with nick sentience Growing Up I think I was lucky enough to grow up in the ‘80s and ‘90s when there was so much good music all around. All of my family kept up to date on everything in the charts back when I was 5 - 13, then as I got to 14 - 16 I just loved the sound of the electronic side of music and started to explore it. Inspirations It can vary from world music, to dance, to the Beatles and Rolling Stones and cinematic soundtracks by Hanz Zimmer, all are welcome. But as far as dance music the obvious choices are The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Astrix, J00F, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox and Leftfield. I was a part of the ‘90s in full swing so that comes through in what I do.
chill out sets and I love cinematic music, but it’s rare that people will ask for those sets. At Earthcore you will find me playing to the environment. Outdoors is different to club sets and I think you can stretch it out and play with the crowd more rather than just nail out hits. I will be playing some new material I have written and some roof raising psy. This music will go best outdoors and it will have surprises in there, some tech and some breaks to keep it interesting.
Your Crew I write my own music, play DJ or live sets and also hire my studio to up-and-comers, whoever may need tutorials and advice. I find it rewarding to help people achieve as well as do my own music.
Music, Right Here, Right Now I think the music scene is really strong and there is a lot of talent out there, but I think the art of making an album has been lost a bit in most places, which is sad as I loved the anticipation of a new CD coming out when I was a teenager. I prefer the act of buying hard copies than hunting on download sites really, but it’s just the way it’s gone. Having said that there is a lot of new talent out there and if you dig deep enough there is a wide variety of new music to play all the time. The industry has changed and the new generation keep you on your toes so you have to keep adapting, which I think is a good thing.
The Music You Make I am mainly booked for high energy club music as that’s what my name is known for. I would also love to do experimental breaks and
Catch Nick Sentience at Earthcore. It all goes down from Thursday November 27 to Monday December 1 in Pyalong.
60 seconds with... document swell Define your genre in five words or less: Electronic music. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Rhythmic, melodic, colourful and simple in nature. Influences of mid to late ‘80s/early ‘90s dance music can usually be found in my music. Describe the best gig you have ever played. My EP launch earlier in the year at Boney. Or at my friends bungalow party in the Apollo Bay Otways where I used a piece of wood with contact mics fed into my custom max patch. Tell us about the last song you wrote. T’was a sludgy summery number that reminded me of being in a traffic jam on a hot Los Angeleno day. Bright cheerful ARPs with a discordant crud infused bass line on top of a slow Akai house beat.
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Catch Document Swell when Section 8 and Ferdydurke take over Tattersalls Lane with ZOO as part of Melbourne Music Week’s Live Music Safari on Thursday November 20 from 4pm.
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Where would you like to be in five years? Playing music and hanging out with friends in inspiring environments. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Plugging cables into drum machines and synthesisers while enjoying a cold and refreshing lager. Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. What is the meaning of life? “I don’t know.” If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? It would be of the organic variety because the music is real and free from undesired additives.
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caribou Caribou aka Dan Snaith is the latest Laneway artist to lock in Melbourne headline show. The tour follows the release of his latest studio album, Our Love, of which our reviewer stated: “Our Love is perhaps not one of Caribou’s most exploratory works, but it will definitely be one of his most crowd-pleasing.” He’ll hit The Forum on Thursday February 5.
tim hecker Already confirmed for the 2015 incarnations of MONA FOMA and Sydney Festival, Tim Hecker will also visit Melbourne in January. Over the course of his career, the Canadian electronic and ambient sound artist has released records on seminal labels such as Kranky, Alien8, Mille Plateaux, Room40, Force Inc, Staalplaat and Fat Cat. He’ll hit Howler on Wednesday January 14.
rustie One of the hottest electronic acts on the 2015 Laneway lineup has locked in a Melbourne headline show. The tour follows the release of the enigmatic Glaswegian producer’s latest record Green Language. On his 2015 tour he’ll also be debuting a brand new and highly-acclaimed live AV show. Catch him on Thursday January 29 at Howler.
body contact This summer Lounge has your Sundays sorted. The beloved city institution will be opening up their doors (and balcony) to Body Contact - a series of Sunday gigs featuring a host of international and local talent. Kicking off with Rush Hour luminary Tom Trago, over the summer the parties will feature performances from the likes of Florian Kupfer, Space Dimension Controller, Mister Saturday Night, Leon Vynehall and Tama Sumo with support from local legends Sleep D, Myles Mac and guests. It all goes down from Sunday November 30.
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Modeselektor will bring their live show to Australia for the first time ever next February. The German duo were slated to hit our shores with their live show back in 2011, but were forced to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. Self-described as more of a live act than studio musicians, the pair are expected to treat fans to selections from their highly acclaimed 2011 album, Monkeytown, as well as tracks from across their other two LPs. They’ll hit The Hi-Fi on Thursday February 12.
Chi-town’s Vic Mensa has announced a headline show alongside his appearance at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival. The 21-year-old first burst onto the scene in 2013 with the release of his mixtake, INNANETAPE, landing him a spot in XXL’s prestigious 2014 Freshman Class. His debut EP Street Lights is set for release later this year, with lead single Down On My Luck already generating buzz. Vic Mensa will hit the Corner Hotel on Thursday February 5.
greg wilson UK disco legend Greg Wilson will bring in 2015 when he headlines Warehaus’ New Year’s Eve party this December. In what will mark his only Australian show, Wilson is set to play a four hour disco-inspired set. He’ll be joined by an assortment of Melbourne’s best local disco and house DJs including CC: DISCO!, Edd Fisher and more. It all goes down at the soonto-open Little & Olver in Fitzroy on Wednesday December 31.
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sadar bahar One of Chicago’s finest selectors will stop by Melbourne this NYE. The definition of a DJs DJ, Sadar Bahar is a favourite amongst the likes of Theo Parrish and Ron Trent. A regular fixture on the scene since the birth of Chicago house music, Bahar also regularly throws his infamous Soul In The Hole parties with partner Lee Collins. He’ll hit The Toff In Town on Wednesday December 31.
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flying lotus One of the biggest drawcards on the 2015 Laneway bill has locked in a headline show in Melbourne. Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, will be returning to our shores following the release of his latest studio record You’re Dead! His 2015 tour will see him return with his ever-evolving Layer 3 stageshow, of which when he last toured our reviewer said: “Layer 3 is an impressive multidisciplinary achievement: three screens showing off strange, abstract visuals that flash forth and change as quickly as the direction of FlyLo’s strange and compelling musical world.” With his Layer 3 show set to be enhanced to 3D mode, audiences are to expect allnew animations and eye-popping effects (not to mention fast-selling tickets). Flying Lotus hits 170 Russell on Friday January 30.
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Back for round five, Melbourne Music Week is returning this week - and it’s bigger and bolder than ever. Featuring over 250 local and international artists, throughout the ten days 110 dynamic events will be held morning, noon and night across 40 uniquely Melbourne locations. These include quirky music events in laneways, trams, power stations and elevators to experiential performances at iconic Melbourne institutions. This week there is some major electronic talent perform at the new MMW hub - the Queen Victoria Market - which will be transformed into a dynamic space of cuttingedge installations and programming. Highlights this week include Glasgow’s finest party-starters Optimo and Germany’s Pachanga Boys, Ten Walls alongside Dusky and a heap of local talent including Architecture In Helsinki, Total Giovanni, Rainbow Connection DJs, Cut Copy, Andras & Oscar, Roland Tings, No Zu, World’s End Press, Sleep D and more. Head to melbourne.vic.gov.au/mmw for more information.
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MELLOW-DIAS THUMP - FEAT: CAZEAUX O.S.L.O + GEEZY Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. BOOTY WORK Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. PURE POP @ EXCHANGE Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 6:00pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
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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. CRATE INVADERS - FEAT: EDDIE MAC + MZ RIZK Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. DJ MISS KERRIE (MOVEMBER MUSIC) Victoria Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 9:00pm. DJ MR FISH + EDD FISHER + SACA LA MOIS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. GOOD EVENING Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. LOVE STORY - FEAT: TRANTER + SLEEVES + MEGAWUOTI + SUPREMES + MICKEY P Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE BEAT RAFFLE - FEAT: POSTIE P & DJ BUICK Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. 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 nov 14 C GRADE - FEAT: OTOLOGICAL + TORNADO WALLACE The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. #EATDRINKPLAY - FEAT: ANDY MURPHY + MGMC + DJ JORJ + CAM WOODARD The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. #MASHTAG - FEAT: MALPRACTICE + AGENT 86 + BENZO + ANDRE LE VOGUE + SILVERFOX + AHAB + OLLIE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BREAD & BUTTER FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. COCOA NOIRE Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.
CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DJ RICHIE 1250 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. JOHN DIGWEED + PHIL K + ROLLIN CONNECTION Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $61.20. LA DANSE MACABRE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LUCK TRUCK FRIDAYS DOWNSTAIRS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. LUCY CLICHE + TLAOTLON + SOFT POWER + FREE JACK & IRONHEAD + FAD + PLATE + DOCUMENT SWELL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00. MI CASA - FEAT: RETZA + SILVERSIX + DAMON WALSH + LUCCA TAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 1:00am. MISTA SAVONA SOUNDSYSTEM + CHANT DOWN SOUND Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. NAM + D’FRO + MR LOB Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. 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. POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. PRINCIPLE SPINNERS + PRINCIPLE SPINNERS + GROOVE CONTROL + BARRY SUNSET Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + KATIE DROVER + SAFARI + OLIBUSTA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. STIRCTLY VINYL - FEAT: DOC MARTIN New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00. SUITE SELECTION - FEAT: MYLES MAC + YOUNG EDITS Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE FRIDAY CLUB - FEAT: DJ OBLIVEUS Big Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm.
saturday nov 15 THE SHADOW PARTY - FEAT: LUKE MILLION + POST PERCY + WOW BEAUTIFUL + DJSH 524 Flinders, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $30.00. #GOTH PARTY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. 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. BLEEP CUTS LOFT PARTY - FEAT: KUYA + SUPER MAGIC HATS + BENATWORK + JUXTPOSE + ABLE8 Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DISCOXCHANGE - FEAT: DJ PHILVESTER Exchange Bar (south Yarra), South Yarra. 9:30pm. DJ HILLBILLY FILLY Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. DJ MS BUTT + LEWIS CANCUT Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. GARDEN BEATS - FEAT: DJ WILJAM LAGERBLOHM + ANDRE LE VOGUE The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 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. IDIOM - FEAT: AERIAE + LUBAR PROJECT + MILES COSMO + DENIAL + BEVIN CAMPBELL + DJ DING Forgotten Worlds, Collingwood. 8:00pm. LOGAN D + LOW DOWN + DEEP La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MAMA SAID - FEAT: JACOB MALMO VS OLIVER JAMES VS DANIEL TARDREW Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 1:00am. MR LOB + B-TWO + OBLIVEUS Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. NEELIX & INTERACTIVE NOISE Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $81.20. OFF THE HEAZY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00. RESONANCE - FEAT: ARKOHM & KEVIN FAXT + DUSTY KIRK Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. RESPECT Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. $20.00. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEAN PAUL + MYA Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. SUPER GROUSE SATURDAY 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. TUNES BY STICKMAN Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UNDERGROUND HOUND + AZTY + ATLAS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. VAULT SATURDAYS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm.
MVP - FEAT: BURN CIRCUIT + DJS ARKS + LOW-KEY + THADDEUS DOE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
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30/70 + NAFASI + JAMAIS VU Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. JELLO DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: SILENTJAY + VERSAJ Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. NORTHSIDE SPACE FUNKERS - FEAT: HYPERFOKUS + KODIAK KID Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
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Hi Tanha, thanks for chatting to Beat! Please tell us about the music you make. The music I write uses strong imagery, from “tip toeing like a ninja, through the world’s great dictionary of mysteries,” to being “fed by a geisha with tweezers.” However, underlying my word play, and use of catchy multi syllable rhymes, is a brutally honest self reflection. The challenge in what I write is to present these dark truths in a playful way. There’s always hope, light and inspiration in all of my songs. How did the work you did and your experience in Colombia shape the music you create today? Without a doubt the kids in Colombia taught me more than anyone ever will. Organising the poetry, dance and painting project Amiguitos Canguritos (small friends, the small kangaroos) in Colombia, with street kids in the local slums opened my eyes up to the suffering and hardships a lot of people
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sunday nov 16 AWME AFTER PARTY - FEAT: DJ MANCHILD + SACA LA MOIS + LEWIS CANCUT Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. DUSKY + TEN WALLS Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $40.00. EARLY MORNING CREW - FEAT: HOOPS + BRAD SASSMAN + JOSH PAOLA + JESSE YOUNG + OLLIE HOLMES + DEAN SPANOS Onesixone, Prahran. 1:00am. EASY NOW - FEAT: AGENT 86 + TOM SHOWTIME + DJ MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR & DAMON WALSH + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SANTA TARANTA + YOYO TUKI + BONGEZIWE MABANDLA + OH PEP! + LEAH FLANIGAN + GLENN SKUTHORPE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. 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 #4 - FEAT: LAURA JONES + GAVIN HERLIHY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. THE OPERATIVES, - FEAT: LADY BANTON + A13 + SILENT JAY + NAM + SEAN DEANS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.
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monday nov 17 MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.
tuesday nov 18 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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WAX DJS Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BUMP FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ KAHLUA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. FRIDAY NIGHT RHYTHM - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE + SCARLETT MINX The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HILLTOP HOODS Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JUZZY B + KAYZ
are born into. It was quite full on at times because peoples’ vulnerabilities were out there for everyone to see. It did however highlight the strength of the human spirit, because many times these communities who had literally nothing would still give you a smile and many were very positive. I think witnessing these struggles and hardships face to face in such an intimate way gave me the confidence and strength to face my own demons and work through them in positive ways. This has really shaped my writing style. Tell us about your concept of ‘worship-hop’: how does it fuel your creativity as an artist? To me hip-hop and what I write is sacred, and spiritual, like a god or Buddha; a place of pure worship. It’s a place where I feel totally connected and accepted free of judgement. I feel totally in flow, I feel present and very connected to how
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Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
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BIG DANCING Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUA & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
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BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00.
I am feeling at any given time. Writing is the ultimate gift, as it permits me to express myself at a soul level. Accessing this very intuitive, spiritual level allows me to express things which couldn’t normally manifest in daily life. The depth of these ideas comes out as the most beautiful colours and metaphors in what I write. What is it that makes your music stand out from the crowd? I see my art as a gift I want to give the audience, and I try to create a space where they can easily receive it. When I perform I get into flow, and literally forget myself. If I can get the crowd into some type of flow state as well, the experience will be a positive one, and that’s important to me. TANHA MC will be performing at Horse Bazaar this Saturday November 15 from 8.30pm.
HIATUS KAIYOTE
By Augustus Welby
Throughout the history of popular music, overseas interest in Australian artists has ebbed and flowed. At present, offshore curiosity is at an all-time high. Seemingly, the international imprint made by the likes of Tame Impala, Cut Copy and Sia has demonstrated Australian music doesn’t begin with Savage Garden and end with Jet. Melbourne’s Hiatus Kaiyote are another locally-grown act currently making inroads in the Northern Hemisphere. The group’s singer and guitarist Nai Palm says their growing profile has cast light on the strength of Australian music at large.
“It’s pretty awesome to be able to tour to all these different places around the world and [people there] check out other music in the scenes that we’re involved with, because they like what we do. A friend of ours who’s a producer – MFP – he came over from Japan because he loved our music and assumed there’d be a dope music scene here. He actually moved here to experience that, which is pretty cool.” What’s distinguishing the present situation from previous instances of international intrigue is, thanks to the Internet’s takeover of the music industry, it’s now possible to discover stacks more Aussie music than just the acts with overseas record deals. “[In the past] there’s been a lot of successful Australian musicians that have broken through to the other side,” says Palm. “Like the Bee Gees and Kylie Minogue and AC/DC. I feel like that recognition has already been happening, but I think people are more aware that it’s specifically Australian now, because of the Internet and because people are finding it in their own way, instead of just having it marketed to them.” An interesting consequence of the contemporary hunger for Australian music is that a growing numbers of local artists are getting significant recognition overseas, prior to making a serious impact at home. The likes of Courtney Barnett and Jagwar Ma received mountains of hype in the US and UK before Australian listeners really latched on. “My manager’s been releasing this Wondercore Island Mixtape, which is all local acts like Remi and Laneous and the Family Yah,” says Palm. “It kind of gives people a direct link to check out the scene. Just recently I was in Warsaw, and there were massive Sex On Toast fans. It was so funny. “The amazing thing about the Internet and social networking is that all the information is there and, if you catch people’s ears, they tend to do some digging.” Hiatus Kaiyote’s recent ascent is a prime example of social media’s attention-steering capacity. However, rather than reaping the benefits of a viral spamming campaign, Hiatus Kaiyote’s overseas fortunes were greatly boosted by Twitter endorsements from the likes of Questlove and Prince. In both instances, the praise was directed towards Nakamarra – the lead single from Hiatus Kaiyote’s debut LP, Tawk Tomahawk. The album came out locally in mid-2012 and the four-piece have just finished working on a follow up. “It’s coming together and I’m so excited about it,” says Nai. “We’ve just come back from a tour, which gave us a fresh perspective and we’ve been working on the final mixes. “I went to Miami to track vocals at Salaam Remi’s house, who’s the head label [Flying Buddha Records]. He’s a musician first and foremost, so there’s no real solid deadlines. He just wants us to be happy with it. So we’ve been taking our sweet arse time and getting it really intricate and I’m really proud of it.” Considering the unprecedented impact made by Tawk Tomahawk, contemplating where to go next could be intimidating for the band. However, it’s not only impossible to guarantee the rapt public response will be repeated, but attempting to do so is likely to hamper the adventurous spirit that made Tawk Tomahawk stand out in the first place. “We don’t have to tailor to a demographic,” says Palm. “We’ve already been accepted for how we naturally are. It’s actually really inspiring and motivating to just keep bringing it. “All the artists that I love, the reason that I love them is because their music is timeless. The reason it’s timeless is because they’re sincere in their art. I’ve always been a little bit left-of-centre creatively and I guess we would be that way regardless.” On top of their convention defying persuasion, since recording Tawk Tomahawk Hiatus Kaiyote have grown into a far stronger collaborative unit. “With Tawk Tomahawk we’d only been together as a band for six months or a year,” Palm explains. “We were still working it out – I’d never been in a band before. Whereas now, we have a couple of international tours under our belts, our playing is really cemented, so it gives us more of an opportunity to go deeper with it. “Tawk was such a rookie record, and it’s cool,” she adds. “To have the response that Tawk Tomahawk had when we were still just working it out, it gives you faith that now that we’re really bringing it you have the ears already there.” Even though her fiercely independent attitude is unwavering, Palm admits there were a few unnerving moments during the recording process. “The scariest part was knowing that Stevie Wonder and Prince and all these people would hear it. I was definitely hyper aware of that when tracking vocals. Like, ‘Is this good enough for my idols to hear?’ ” Catch HIATUS KAIYOTE when they headline Saturday November 15 at The Hi-Fi as part of AWME, Queenscliff Music Festival on Friday November 18, and The Corner Hotel on Friday December 5. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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FRANK YAMMA
By Augustus Welby
Frank Yamma’s an old soul. The Adelaide-based songwriter’s disarming vocal power implies a life of rugged experience, which belies his 44 years. This impression is enhanced by Yamma’s oft-sorrowful, figurative lyrics. In conversation, Yamma’s a man of few words. It’s not as though he’s blunt or uncooperative; he’s just not interested in wasting breath.
When reflecting on his new record Uncle – which follows 2010’s celebrated Countryman – Yamma simplifies, “Uncle’s quite different than Countryman.” He continues, “It’s like the next step. It’s similar to Countryman, but it’s different to Countryman. It’s another level.” Uncle and Countryman do share a number of key characteristics. Yamma’s songs are regularly driven by his expressive acoustic guitar work – impressive but never peacocky – and simple, yet unexpected chord progressions. Melbournian musician David Bridie produced both records, and Yamma explains how important Bridie’s been for developing the recordings. “It’s my own stuff that I play and he sort of likes twisting it around and make it more sound simple and all that stuff. That’s great for me to work [with]. Sometimes he likes my stuff and I like how he changes it all the time. All the old songs in Countryman, some of them used to be rock’n’roll and he just slowed it down, way way slow and said, ‘They’re supposed to be slow songs’. It wasn’t being rock’n’roll sort of music, so he made them be slow songs. “Working on Uncle, there was three of us,” he adds. “We had a sound engineer, David and then me. Three heads work better than one. It’s a juggling thing. So, I have to do this stuff which I want and then David’s just sort of always there, finding an option or which way we have to play. Singing-wise, I have to sing it my way.” The lifeblood of both records is Yamma’s unassailable vocals and the detailed unravelling of his unique perspective. At certain moments – such as Uncle’s opening number, A Black Man’s Crying – this binary spawns enshrouding poignancy, which appears to be sent from another dimension. Attempts to articulate the precise cause of prodigious artistry are hardly ever useful, but Yamma’s willing to shed light on his songwriting process. “I find a scale and then I have to fit the words into the scale,” he says. “Singing in a scale, [I have to choose] what words are going to be in that particular area. It makes me think really wild. I’m thinking, ‘I’ll give this word, I’ll give this word’. [It’s] bits and pieces and when I sing it together, it just sometimes really makes me feel good. “Sometimes it’s surprising,” he elaborates. “You see some things all the time and it sounds like you, or it’s waiting for you to write it down or something. This happens sometimes as a surprise, like, ‘Oh mate, I can’t get this thing out of my head’, so I put the words in a pattern and I have to find the music for it. All the things happen in that moment, so you have to grab it before it slips away.” Yamma may be a city dweller, but he prefers to keep to himself. His preference for solitude could explain why several of his songs appear to be intimate selfportraits. That said, he’s always thinking of how far his compositions will travel. “When I’m writing a song, I think about the audience and the response from the song. That’s the main important part. I just don’t like writing songs for myself. I need the audience to listen when I sing on stage.” Even though Yamma values privacy, he hasn’t been deterred from taking his music out on the road. As well as multiple Australian tours, over the last few years he’s performed at reputable festivals in the UK, Canada and Europe, and just last month accepted an invitation to perform at the prestigious WOMEX world music conference in Spain. Powered by his stunning vocal apparatus and unvarnished lyrical revelations, Yamma’s live performances are known to induce sincere vulnerability in audience members. “The great thing about the audience; [it makes you think about] how you’re going to feel comfortable when you sing the song on stage,” he says. “All that stuff, that’s got to be prepared for the audience to listen, that’s the main part. “I like to find those little wicked chords. That helps the song stand out amongst an audience, in a crowd. What I create, it’s really simple for the audience and I find nice words for it and see how the response gets from the audience.” Melbourne audiences get the chance to witness Uncle live when Yamma launches the record this Saturday at Shebeen, with support from rising Australian songwriter Radical Son. Both Yamma and Radical Son’s David Leha are frequently described as ‘Indigenous Artists’. It’s true Yamma comes from Central Australia and identifies as a Pitjantjatjara man, however, he suggests this feature of his biography needn’t be used to define his music. “I know what I am, but plus I’m just a muso who wants to play music. I know my background and I’m proud of that. It’s all right to be an Indigenous music singer, but you have to share it around for everybody to listen to what you’ve got. That’s important.”
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FRANK YAMMA will be launching his new album, Uncle, at Sooki Lounge on Thursday November 13, and as part of AWME on Saturday November 15 at Shebeen. Tickets are available through the venue. He’ll also be appearing at Rivers to Recognition on Sunday December 7 at the Commonwealth Reserve in Williamstown.
BEAT’S GUIDE TO AWME 2014
The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo is upon us for the seventh year, and there’s mountains of incredible music and conferences on offer. Each year, over 500 music industry delegates from Australia, New Zealand and around the globe descend upon Melbourne for what is undoubtedly the biggest and best industry conference and showcase event for roots music in the region. The immense showcase boasts an impressive number of representatives from the world’s leading festivals, global booking agencies, record labels, musicians, performers and arts organisations, who all work together to cultivate stronger relationships during the four days of non-stop music, networking and conference sessions. Taking place over four days from Thursday November 13 to Sunday November 16, AWME 2014 will feature a whopping 58 live performances and 16 concerts in six venues across central Melbourne, while highlighting artists from all corners of the globe. With such a tremendous amount of AWME
offerings, it’s only natural to feel a little overwhelmed by it all. Well fear not, friends, Beat’s got you covered for all your AWME needs. It was pretty darn tough to compile a list of all the must-see events at the conference this year, but here’s a couple of killer events you probably shouldn’t miss.
WHAT MAKES A GREAT FESTIVAL?
It’s a longstanding debate, the old ‘what makes a great festival?’ quarrel. Is it the live music or the punters? The food vendors or the portaloos? Presented by AWME, this specially curated conversation will feature an astonishing number of industry heavyweights, including Malcolm Haynes from Glastonbury Festival, UK, Peter Noble from Bluesfest, Robin McNicol from Bonnaroo, USA, Divya Bhatia from Jodhpur RIFF (Rajasthan International Folk Festival), India, Danni Colgan from WOMADelaide, Woody McDonald from Meredith Music Festival/Golden Plains and Richard Moffat of Falls Music and Arts Festival. This festival, experts will explore a range of topics – how does one festival distinguish itself from the next? How do festivals maintain their relevancy? How do key events maintain a balance between new and emerging artists versus established and heritage artists? This intriguing panel will be moderated by John McAuslan of Minor Key Touring, and takes place on Friday November 14 from 2.10pm – 3.20pm in the Lower Playhouse Foyer, Arts Centre Melbourne.
Pete Murray is no stranger to the AWME stage. This Byron Bay local and distinguished singer/songwriter will kick start AWME on Thursday November 13 with a sold-out show at The Arts Centre, Melbourne. Joining Murray onstage is the brilliant Indigenous singer/songwriter Benny Walker, whose love songs and epic tales are entwined with summer vibes and deep grooves. It’ll be a chilled introduction to your massive AWME itinerary.
To put it bluntly, Tjintu Desert Band are fucking killer. These guys hail from Central Australia, and create a magical mixed-bag of tasty grooves that blend elements of reggae, dub, funk and rock, creating a distinct desert sound. Seriously – listen to this music while visualising the vast scenery of the outback amongst a star-filled sky and you’ll understand; this is powerful stuff. Colossal tribal choruses combine with roots and rock influences and feature Spanish inspired acoustic guitar and rock-reggae electric riffs, all supported by a consistent moving dub bass.
Q&A with
NICKY BOMBA (MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA)
Tell us about your involvement in the 2014 Australasian Worldwide Music Expo. This year’s pretty exciting as we’re re-launching our record label, Transmitter, with a big event on the Sunday night. I’ll be performing with Bustamento, helping with the showcase for Ska Vendors and Mighty Duke & The Lords and then conducting The Melbourne Ska Orchestra to end the night. There are also speaking appearances on some panels associated with international touring and getting musicians motivated. AWME endorses business-related concepts of the music industry such as bookings, marketing, distribution, licensing and networking. How important have these concepts been in the development of your career as a musician? Our performances with The Melbourne Ska Orchestra over the last couple of years, as well as the meetings that were arranged, were totally instrumental in our Canadian and UK tours that happened earlier this year. It gives all delegates a chance to see a band in full flight on a decent sized stage. Organising meetings and follow-ups was essential in bringing it all home. We ended up playing to over 60,000 people at Montreal Jazz Festival as a result. How do you hope to benefit from the 2014 AWME in regards to your career in the music industry? Essentially it’s all about connections and relationships. This is a perfect environment to establish links with
delegates who are open to ideas and suggestions. You’re really building an international team at expos like this. I first experienced this vibe in Seville, Spain at the WOMEX gathering. With the right preparation it’s a multi-faceted opportunity to join some global dots. What’s your number one unmissable AWME event this year? I have to say it will be the Transmitter showcase at The Hi-Fi on Sunday night. It reminds me of the classic travelling label revue of the ‘60s with companies like STAX and CHESS. Give three reasons as to why you believe AWME is a vital occasion for the national and international music industry. 1. We live in a time where Planet Earth is getting its own global postcode and the connection through music, especially traditional and roots music, is vital to our understanding of each other. 2. Australia, and Melbourne especially, is a wonderful melting pot of cultures and spirits and we really do stand up well on the international stage in terms of quality of compositions and performance. This is a place to shine. 3. Some of the food you get to sample at these events is really, really tasty. MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA will headline the closing party of AWME presented by Transmitter Records on Sunday November 16.
Ever wondered how media outlets keep abreast of the changing landscape within the music media industry? Are you across the ever-evolving trends and transformations across the vast media landscape? Have you ever felt the overwhelming urge to witness Beat’s Music Editor Cara Williams and Arts, Associate Music & Online Editor/Social Media Manager Tyson Wray bicker in a public forum? Well here’s your chance. This panel will feature Beat’s aforementioned editors alongside industry leaders Adrian Basso, General Manager, PBS 106.7fm; Si Jay Gould, Manager of Hiatus Kaiyote and Oscar Key Sung; and Vanessa Bassili, promoter of Brunswick’s Howler Bar, who’ll all voice their views on how you can utilise contemporary media to best convey messages, information and engage with your audience actively and effectively. It all happens on Friday November 14 from 2.30pm – 3.20pm at the Amcor Lounge, Arts Centre Melbourne.
TRANSMITTER RECORDS AWME CLOSING PARTY
TJINTU DESERT BAND
PETE MURRAY & BENNY WALKER
THE SHIFT IN THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE
Everyone digs a party, right? Well this is gonna be one shindig you don’t want to miss. AWME have well and truly saved the best till last with this stellar bash, featuring the crème de la crème of feel-good party acts the town has to offer. Get your funkiest boogie boots on and burn a hole in the d-floor as Melbourne Ska Orchestra take the stage alongside Bustamento, The Ska Vendors and Mighty Duke & The Lords. It all goes down on Sunday November 16 at The HiFi Bar from 7.30pm until super late, so throw your inhibitions out the window, forget it’s a school night and get down. Catch you on the dance-floor.
Q&A with
OH PEP!
Tell us about your involvement in the 2014 Australasian Worldwide Music Expo. We (Oh Pep!) have been selected to showcase at AWME 2014. It’s been on our wish list, so it’ll be exciting to take the stage at Lounge. AWME endorses business-related concepts of the music industry such as bookings, marketing, distribution, licensing and networking. How important have these concepts been in the development of your career as a musician? Crucial. From the outside it may not look like it, but there are a huge amount of business-related concepts working behind the scenes of artists; booking, promoting, distributing and publishing, etc. For us this has been an eye-opener and something to develop. We aim to surround ourselves with a great team, as artists with good teams are unstoppable. How do you hope to benefit from the 2014 AWME in regards to your career in the music industry? AWME is a platform with which to make contact with representatives, national and international, in all these aspects of the music business. Hopefully we can impress enough at our showcase to entice our ‘dream team’ to work with us.
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What’s your number one unmissable AWME event this year? We can’t miss our own gig, as it’s our last in Melbourne for 2014, but also I’m keen to see Hiatus Kaiyote. I saw their first gig at Bar Open a few years ago and was blown away. After all their success, I’m super keen to see them live again. Give three reasons as to why you believe the AWME is a vital occasion for the national and international music industry. 1. It celebrates world music in Australia, something we’re so lucky to have a lot of in our multicultural country. 2. It particularly celebrates Indigenous artists, who aren’t featured nearly enough around the Australian music scene. 3. It’s the premier music showcase event in the country, something internationals and nationals take note of.
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MAX RICHTER
By Rod Whitfield
Max Richter is a German-born, now UK-based composer and musician, and just one of those people who get on with achieving greatness with minimal fanfare. He may not be a household name, but you’d certainly know his work, having been involved in scoring the soundtracks of films directed by the likes of Clint Eastwood, Ridley Scott and Terrence Malik. He also records and releases his own music, and is involved in major ballet, opera and other stage works. Until now, his illustrious career’s never brought him to Australia to perform, but that will change in late November, when he will bring his Wordless Music Orchestra to our shores for two exclusive performances. “[I’ve] had a few near-misses to try and make it, but the timing’s never worked out. It’s nice to be able to get these shows organised.” The show he’s bringing to Australia is entitled Vivaldi Recomposed, and comprises of he and his backing orchestra re-working and re-imagining one of the most famous classical pieces of all time, Vivaldi’s remarkable The Four Seasons, a piece that Richter considers as hugely significant. “It’s probably one of the first pieces of orchestral music most of us ever get to know,” he says. “That happened to me as a child, I fell in love with this beautiful material, it’s got wonderful melodies, it’s beautifully structured, it’s full
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of drama and stories and pictures.” Over the years, with the piece or at least parts of the piece being used in advertising and other less worthy settings, he feels some of its wonder was being lost, and he wanted to bring it back to its original beauty. “Having fallen in love with this material, I just started to become aware of it, growing up and studying music, that I wasn’t really hearing it in the way that I felt it deserved to be heard,” he recalls. “I knew intellectually that it was beautiful music, but I just couldn’t love it anymore, and it started to bug me,” Richter explains. “This whole project is me trying to re-connect with this landscape which
Vivaldi’s made, and to take a new trip through it, to try and fall in love with it again, basically. That’s the plan, anyway.” Richter’s new take on the centuries-old classic means in 2014, he’s able to up the ante a little on the delivery of the piece. “We have a wonderful ensemble, which is the Wordless Orchestra from New York, as well as Yuki Namata playing fiddle, and they’re my favourite band on this piece. I played it with them in New York one time and they just blew the roof off the venue. I just think they’re absolutely brilliant. “I always think with Vivaldi, you hear the original, and you can hear him trying to get more power out of the band in the way he’s writing it, and I’ve actually sort of taken that instinct on from him, and gone, ‘Ok, so I’m just going to turn it up,’ and these are the guys to do it.” Coming off a triumphant show at the Royal Albert Hall in London in early October, Richter’s looking forward
to bringing this show to another of the world’s most prestigious music venues; the Sydney Opera House. “It’s like a dream, right? You dream about that stuff.” Beyond the Australian tour and moving into 2015, Richter has a number of exciting projects on the go, including something for the British ballet scene, more film and TV work, and his sixth solo album. “I’m writing a new ballet,” he reveals. “It’s kind of a big project that’s for the Royal Ballet in London. And then we’re going to get onto the second series of [HBO’s] The Leftovers. And meanwhile I’m just putting to bed a new record of my own. My solo records are just kind of like a private space, a diary entry, where I do my thing.”
than just a cute sub-heading. “This tour is dedicated to a prayer for the awakening of the water within you,” Nahko explains. “As a human being you’re pretty much made of water. [We want to] help awaken people to an understanding of what’s important to the basic human condition. “You only get one source of fresh water and you only get one clean ocean. Amongst so many other things right now on our planet, we’re facing serious shortages of uncontaminated water and clean resources. That has a lot to do with, of course, policies in different governments towards energy.” Far from being a bratty rock singer, Nahko’s well educated on the causes he advocates. However, he realises not everyone attending his shows wants to witness a politically motivated treatise. “I touch on it a bit,” he says, “But I don’t get too preachy. I don’t spend too much time talking about the details. I just say, ‘This is what’s happening, you guys either know or you
don’t know about it, and this is the intention that we have for this tour.’ ” Evidently, despite his pro-active bent, Nahko’s not setting himself up as an omnipotent saviour. When it comes down to it, Nahko and Medicine for the People are a group of entertainers whose most powerful resource is music. “I certainly don’t have any solutions to any of these things that I’m speaking out about,” he says. “I’m here to tell stories and to get at the heart of people in a way that’s unique, and I know that now. So, politics aside, for the world that I’d prefer to live in, I know that I’ll probably travel and play songs and tell some stories for the better part of my life.”
there, people started to write comments saying things like, ‘Hey guys, great song you’ve got, but just letting you know that your name means ‘toilet’. So we looked it up, and yep, it was a mess. The boys thought it was hilarious; me, not so much. I’m just hoping no one throws toilet paper at me.” There’s probably a dunny-related analogy that could be employed here, but however you cut it, Klo isn’t slowing down. They’re featuring on some major festival bills in the coming months, including a handful of Melbourne Music Week showcases, Strawberry Fields and Paradise Music Festival, but the one Kaul is looking most forward to is Beyond the Valley, happening for the first time this New Year’s Eve. “That will be great fun; I’m so pumped, but it’s quite nerve-racking as well, just because it’s the largest one,” she says. “We’re so new and we don’t have a variety of songs to choose from; we’re creating them as we go. So for me, I’ve had to stop doing a lot of other stuff in my life and
focus on music.” Joining Klo at two of their forthcoming festivals is Melburnian producer Oscar Key Sung, who Kaul says is a great inspiration. “He’s a phenomenal dancer, and he mixes electronic with R&B so well,” she enthuses. Speaking of R&B, Kaul says listeners can expect a healthy dash of the genre in Klo’s next release. Though broadly speaking, she insists there’s little intention to stick to specific styles or genres. “It’s more about making a good song,” she clarifies. “We’re constantly changing direction, and hopefully it’s a good thing.”
Max Richter and Wordless Music Orchestra bring Vivaldi Recomposed to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Monday November 24.
AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE
By Augustus Welby
Every now and then, an artist comes along that immediately burrows into the hearts of Australian audiences. As a result, their visits become more frequent and their tour itineraries grow in scope. Hawaiian acoustic rockers Nahko and Medicine for the People are a recent example of this phenomenon. The band’s forthcoming tour – featuring a major AWME headline show – is easily the group’s biggest exploration of the country so far. “[We’re] really feeling a lot of hype and a lot of really powerful stuff from everyone out there,” says songwriter and bandleader, Nahko. “We’re getting a lot of feedback from people and I’m excited to jump out and start it off at AWME too. It’s going to be great.” It’s not unusual for visiting musicians to speak adoringly for Australia. However, due to the brevity of most bands’ Australian tours, these appraisals generally refer to nothing more than their experiences in the country’s major cities. Nahko’s quick to voice affection for the land down under, and he’s actually managed to take an in depth look at the country. “It’s kind of part of our schedule to have time off, because your country is absolutely magical,” he says. “Our tour manager out there has been a great tour guide for us. Also,
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one of my close friends that I befriended within the first week of being in Australia my first time there was Xavier Rudd, so he also showed us some really beautiful places. “I’ve scheduled in this tour coming up some time, after we’re done touring, to just hang out. Half of the band are surfers, so we’re all pretty keen to get in the ocean. Also, I always look forward to spending time with elders and being with a family.” It’s certainly unusual for touring musos to make an effort to connect with the Australian land and the country’s original inhabitants, but Nahko isn’t your run-of-themill rock musician. While traversing the stages of the world, Nahko makes a point of endorsing cross-cultural unity and respect for the planet we live on. The band’s forthcoming tour is titled Water is Life, which is more
NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE will headline a massive show at the Hi-Fi on Friday November 14 as part of AWME. They’ll also be appearing at Queenscliff Music Festival over Friday November 28 to Sunday 30.
By Izzy Tolhurst
On whatever level of importance you rank family as an institution, for Melbourne duo Klo, honouring this kindred allegiance has paid off. Chloe Kaul, along with her cousin, Simon Lam – already the lead singer of synth-heavy trio I’lls – admit it was their mothers who encouraged the collaboration in the first place. “Mum always used to drive me over when I did my solo recordings with Simon, and both of them were really supportive, even insistent, on us doing a collaboration,” Kaul reveals. However, Kaul admits that when fusing Lam’s electronic inclination with her predominantly soul and jazz background, there were definitely some hiccups. While artists like Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Amy Winehouse had the biggest impact on Kaul and defined the way she wanted to sing, there were a few minor disagreements in the beginning. “There were things we threw back and forth and were not entirely keen on, but you can’t love everything, right? Overall, I think we’re more impressed at how well we work together; I don’t think we thought it would be this good.” Indeed, their music is good; their debut EP Cusp is already
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receiving wide airplay and garnering bucket-loads of positive reviews. It’s five songs long, and given the pace Klo have set off at, the singer confirms it’s a collection of almost everything they’ve written to date. “We played our first show not long ago, and what we played there was pretty much everything we’d put together. I think there’s one song that didn’t make the cut, but everything else has literally been what we’ve created.” As for their sharp, single-syllable title, a quick Google search of the term, ‘Klo’ yields some visually interesting results. But Kaul’s no stranger to this news, and is now at peace with the oversight. “We looked it up and let’s just say, we didn’t look into it enough,” she laughs. “We thought it was just someone’s idea of a joke, that they’d just posted something stupid on Google. Then when we released our song, and it was out
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You can catch KLO at Saturday November 15 at Melbourne Music Week’s Morning Ritual at the Queen Vic Markets, Strawberry Fields from November 21 - 23, Paradise Music Festival from November 28 - 30 and Beyond the Valley festival over New Years Eve.
MURDENA
By Rhys McRae
There’s a point in most people’s lives when the idea of starting a band fills their minds, though their ambitions are generally driven by fantasies of stardom, money and abandoning the nine to five. However, most quickly drop off when they’re confronted with the fickle music industry, hours of travel time and unlikely possibility they’re ever going to be able to live off their work. Since 2012, folk/country outfit Murdena have steadily persevered through the hard slog and the fruits of their labours have shown. The past two years have seen the band overcoming the harsh odds with sold-out EP launches at Cherry and Worker’s Club as well as taking out awards at Tamworth and Queenscliff music festivals. Originally from the Bellarine Peninsula, Annie-Rose Maloney and her brother Hugh started playing as a duo around Geelong before getting a band together and making the move down to Melbourne. The original band has since dissipated and for the past two years the siblings have been backed by Mitch Rice on Hammond organ, bassist Ivan Blackett and drummer Daniel McKoy. Hugh Maloney, Blackett and Rice all look a bit worn out from their day jobs as they soak up the sun in the Retreat Hotel’s beer garden as Maloney recalls the move to Melbourne. “We got offered a few gigs at the start so that was really lucky,” Maloney says. “It’s so hard when you don’t have contacts to get gigs. You’re just trying to ask venues but you don’t know who to ask and you don’t know where to ask. We’re in a position where Annie’s done a real lot of hard work of getting good connections around Melbourne and she’s able to organise a tour this December where we’re playing seven or eight shows in two weeks. We organised it in about a week with Annie just sending text messages to people and booking shows.” Tamworth Country Music Festival seems to have fallen for Murdena’s country-infused folk with the band being invited back this year after playing the festival in 2013. That first year, the band took out the highly competitive Busking Championships and won a slew of new fans. Something akin to the thousand yard stare enters the eyes of the lads when they talk about the festival most recently past. In 13 days, the band performed nine times not including the daily busking stints they played to raise cash to fund the trip with a couple of dedicated fans following them to every show. “That was really frigging hard,” says Maloney. “We came away from that exhausted. Busking on top of those shows, playing three 45 minute sets during the day, going back to camp, trying to get something to eat and go in and busk. We were playing for five hours. It started off fun but by the last of the three days we were just exhausted.” “I never wanted to see any of you ever again,” Blackett chuckles. “We were expecting that we’d be too weird for them,” Maloney continues. “We’re not weird music but just for what they’re used to. Australians are not into contemporary country. They like their Lee Kernaghan and that sort of thing. I think they warmed to us though especially the first year. Seeing a bunch of young people having a crack at country music, we still have people asking us to come back.” Despite their concerns being quashed, it’s easy to see what Maloney means as, despite their obvious country influences, their sound leans more towards folk than the bush country Tamworth celebrates. Their latest EP Ruby shows the group are spending more time to develop the textures and dynamics of their songs as they continually refine their music which Maloney owes to his more musically-minded band mates. “Our first EP was a lot lighter because it was just Annie, me and Cameron McKenzie who was the fella that recorded us,” he explains. “We would just come with an acoustic guitar and record what we’ve got and then layer until we got what sounded like a band. The second EP was basically just us. He [McKenzie] didn’t have much involvement, he just recorded so it was nice to do that and experiment with sound and muck around with dynamics.” Plans to record their first album are set for January when they’ll make a trip down to Tasmania to record in their friend Bart Thomas’ studio, but before that they’ve got an interstate tour set for December. A Murdena show is definitely not your usual folk event with rowdy punters at the Ruby EP launch stripping down to their unmentionables, crowd surfing and generally causing havoc. It showed the dedicated community that has built up behind the group which is something no artist can exist without. A nugget of wisdom from another friend of the band before their sold-out first EP launch at Cherry cemented this idea in the band’s collective mind. “I remember going into that gig and Chris Wilson, who taught Annie how to play harmonica, said, ‘When you do your EP launches you should do it for everyone who’s helped you out’,” Blackett recalls. “We went in with the idea of getting all our friends together and having a sick time. It’s really not about you; it’s about everyone who’s got you there.”
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JAMES WILLIAMSON
By Augustus Welby
During their late ‘60s/early ‘70s heyday, The Stooges created a trio of records announcing the arrival of a dangerous future for rock music. Not only did the Michigan-based band’s fierce guitar attack and finger-to-the-man attitude pave the way for punk rock and grunge, The Stooges’ classic legacy continues to influence countless bands today. The thing is, the term ‘legacy’ suggests the band belongs to an immutable past. Meanwhile, last month, surviving Stooges guitarist James Williamson released Re-Licked, which is made up of songs he co-wrote with legendary Stooges vocalist Iggy Pop shortly after the release of the band’s seminal 1973 record Raw Power. To create Re-Licked, Williamson teamed up with current Stooges members, bassist Mike Watt, drummer Toby Dammit and saxophonist Steve Mackay. More importantly, the album features an assemblage of estimable guests taking on the vocal parts originally penned by Iggy Pop. “When I went to ask people, ‘Are you interested in doing this?’ people just jumped at the chance to do it,” Williamson says. “I was so pleased by the responses. Alison Mosshart flew from London to California to do her tracks. It was really great from that perspective. That comes across on the album – the enthusiasm from these singers, and from the musicians too.” Re-Licked isn’t simply a covers record. Other than scrappy studio demos and live bootlegs, prior to now these songs hadn’t been properly caught on tape. Thus, Williamson endeavoured to preserve the songs with the fidelity they deserve.
“We were quite prolific in those days anyway and I think the music reflected our evolution as a band and songwriters,” he says. “I think this album is a tribute to the songwriting of Iggy and myself, more than anything else.” It’s safe to assume the majority of the featured vocalists – who include Bobby Gillespie, Mark Lanegan, Ariel Pink and The Bellrays’ Lisa Kekaula – have learned a thing or two from The Stooges. By teaming up with a number of younger musicians, Williamson effectively put The Stooges in direct contact with their own legacy. “The fact that these singers are all influenced by The Stooges is a side effect of me looking for singers,” he says. “The people that I was introduced to and who made sense on these tracks, it just so happened that they also had a very strong background in influence from The Stooges.” Re-Licked kicks off with former Dead Kennedys frontman and provocateur Jello Biafra tackling Head on the Curve. It’s a thrilling introduction, which has Biafra barking lyrics like, “Motherfuckers trying to run my world,” with striking urgency. “When he heard about this project he demanded to sing on Head on the Curve,” Williamson recalls. “He
always had listened to [1974 live recording] Metallic KO growing up, so that was the essential version in his mind. I had no idea what to expect, but when I heard him sing it I was like, ‘Oh my God’. He had 35 years to think about it, so he was ready.” The youngest vocalist on the record is Mario Cuomo from burgeoning US garage punkers The Orwells. Performing with The Orwells, Cuomo’s already gained a reputation as being an explosive frontman. His unhinged performance approach shows remnants of Iggy Pop’s frenzied onstage attack. Understandably, Cuomo was a tad overwhelmed to participate in this project. “He came in and he was a huge Stooges fan, but he’s so young that he was a little bit awe-struck,” Williamson says. “It took me a little while to calm him down and get him in the right frame of mind to really deliver that song. He did I’m Sick of You and he did a fantastic job on it. “Some of these people would act like I’m some kind of a sacred being or something,” Williamson continues. “I’m like, ‘No, thank you for coming here and singing on my track or playing on my track’. That’s the farthest thing from my mind. I’m really impressed with what these people were doing.” Of course, the burning question is where in the devil is Iggy Pop? While Williamson claims Iggy is on
the record “because he co-wrote all these songs,” that doesn’t explain the absence of his inimitable vocals. Last year, The Stooges released a record of all new material, Ready to Die. Williamson explains that prior to that album they contemplated recording the songs from Re-Licked. “We decided against it,” he says. “When we bring out a new Stooges album everybody compares it to Raw Power. So if we came out with this album, which is really the successor to Raw Power, it would be obvious comparison between the young Stooges and the old Stooges. We just didn’t want to go there. I’m happy with that album, I’m quite proud of it in fact. It’s very good and I thought Iggy stepped up and did a good job with the lyrics, and the singing.” Even without Iggy Pop’s peerless frontman flair, on Relicked Williamson and co. dish out ten tracks of searing rock’n’roll. With the record in the can, Williamson feels he’s at last fulfilled his duty to these 40-year old compositions. “I just cringed every time I would listen to those bootlegs knowing what good songs they are. This was my opportunity to right that wrong and I did it and I’m very, very pleased with it.”
completely off-guard. “We were getting so many requests come in that I ended up way over-booking us,” Ambler says. “For two months we were out and we didn’t have transportation lined up or anything. It was snowballing way out of control. So we ended up getting our friend who’s a booking agent to help us out. “It’s pretty much destroyed my entire life,” he laughs. “So, there’s that. When you’ve been touring for a year, you’re like, ‘I can’t bear to travel anymore’. I have so much anxiety and mental health issues that I’m dealing with. And we’re all dealing with being with each other so constantly.” Given Perfect Pussy is, in essence, a synthesis of several distinct personalities, Say Yes to Love hints at several possible directions the band could pursue in the future. For instance, there’s elements of technical hardcore (a la early Dillinger Escape Plan), no wave (a la early Sonic Youth) and more accessible post-hardcore (a la latterday Fugazi). Meanwhile, Ambler says working on a follow-up isn’t a priority just yet. “What we’re trying to do now is focus on other projects and figure out where our own individual strengths lie. We talk about how we’re going to write another record eventually, but at this time it’s fucking impossible to think about getting together to do something like that
and how it would even turn out. It would be so much different than what this band is in a nutshell, which is this beautiful disaster. “It’s five very different people being led in very different directions by our industry and it’s become harder and harder for us to overlap. We’re all circles, but the coolest thing about this band is where our circles overlap. That’s the tiny space where we all agree. Those have become fewer and farther between as this year’s progressed.” Perhaps we shouldn’t get ahead of ourselves and expect another record of thrilling originals, post-haste. The fact remains Say Yes to Love is a convention-defying punk rock record that stands on its own two feet. Thankfully, after a couple of months away from tour, Perfect Pussy will cruise down to Australia for next year’s Laneway Festival. The mention of this trip sparks genuine enthusiasm in Ambler. “I’m so excited to go to Australia. After we take a little bit of time off it’ll be cool to come over and maybe have fun playing music again.”
JAMES WILLIAMSON’s Re-Licked is out now via Leopard Lady Records.
PERFECT PUSSY
By Augustus Welby
If you’re wondering why you’d never heard of Perfect Pussy until a little over a year ago, it’s because no one really had. Hailing from Syracuse in Upstate New York, the band originally convened in 2012, but remained largely inactive until mid-2013. Prior to coming together, Perfect Pussy’s five members had each spent a number of years toiling in their hometown’s punk, hardcore, indie-rock and noise scenes. The band was something of a novelty interest at first, but it wasn’t long before the individual members’ varying musical persuasions gave rise to a genre-trumping sound. “It’s just one amongst many things that we have going on right now,” explains bassist Greg Ambler. “Every other band we’re in is kind of a niche band. Me especially – I’ve always been in very anti-music bands, like power violence and grindcore, so it’s really only for one kind of person. [With Perfect Pussy], we were going to do what we wanted to do, as opposed to being a niche band.” Following last year’s debut EP I’ve Lost All Desire for Feeling in March, Perfect Pussy unveiled their debut album Say Yes to Love. It’s easy to describe the record as one of 2014’s standout releases. However, thanks to a confluence of hardcore instrumentation, washes of feedback, experimental synths and Meredith Graves’ emotionally urgent lead vocals; it’s not so simple to describe what Say Yes to Love sounds like. “We’re five very different people from very different backgrounds,” says Ambler. “So there really is five totally different elements brought into it. People come together so often and they’re like, ‘I want to start a band that sounds like this’, or, ‘I want to write a song
that sounds like this’. [Perfect Pussy] is a general unacceptance of current ideals. No matter how progressive punk is, there’s always room to build.” While Say Yes to Love is the sound of five individuals working together towards a collective end, the mark of the separate personalities is clearly discernible. However, instead of this resulting in a confounding listen, the record’s frantic 23 minutes contain plenty of memorable song craft. “There’s a lot of different things that people can take from it,” Ambler agrees. “At least enough for it to be relatable, for someone to find a personal element. Whether it’s one end of the spectrum or the other. That’s something we noticed, but it’s not anything we honed in on.” Released via trendsetting Brooklyn indie imprint Captured Tracks, upon its release the album garnered high praise from the likes of Pitchfork and DIY Magazine. As a result, Perfect Pussy have spent the majority of 2014 on the road. Not surprisingly, achieving near-instant notoriety caught the band
Catch PERFECT PUSSY at The Corner Hotel Thursday January 29 and at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival Saturday February 7.
BEAT’S ARTIST PROFILE: MIDNIGHT WOOLF What’s your name then? The Midnight Woolf. Oh. And the name of your band. Midnight Woolf. And what do you do? Make a real cool racket with guitars, bass drums and vocals, maybe drink and get people to shake their butts and have a good ‘ol time. When did you start doing that? All I remember is it was a dark and stormy night and the wind blew hard on the outskirts of town, I was looking for a quiet place to get a good night’s sleep but instead ended up in this Old Bar and one thing
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lead to another. Before you knew it, I was having a great time playing with these crazy hep cats. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Not having a boss and watching people have a good time. What’s you proudest moment of doing what you do? I don’t really have a proudest moment, but having done it for over 20 years makes me feel good. Playing overseas in Europe was also heaps of fun and just generally being able to still play and have new people and regular fans come and enjoy themselves is the best.
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And your least proud? Some night when I’m too tired or too drunk to give a shit, [laughs] but that doesn’t last. When are you doing your thing next? Midnight Woolf are playing two nights at the Old Bar on Saturday November 15 with Los Tones and Wet Meal and Sunday November 16 with Brat Farrar and Bonnie Doom. It’s the Johnston St Spanish Fiesta so there will be heaps of food and drinks and music all over Johnston St, it’s gonna’ be great fun. You heard them, catch MIDNIGHT WOOLF at Old Bar on Saturday November 15 and Sunday November 16.
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Many knickers were knotted last week when Fat Mike from NOFX booted a young fan in the head after he climbed on stage and put his arm around the singer. The footage shows Mike pushing the fan off him but the real clincher is the follow up kick which is pretty sickening. Many have jumped to Mike’s defence. He’d after all complained of neck pain throughout the entire performance, but is that enough to justify a kick to the head? Ben Weasel wrote an epic thesis on the topic, lending a barrage of advice on how to handle to imminent shitstorm. He’s still suffering from epic backlash he copped when he punched a woman during a SXSW performance. Mike’s since apologised to the fan, invited him backstage, invited him onstage, and appeased his every fanboy whim in the most sincere form possible. The more cynical observer might suggest it’s a very tactful way to try and avoid a potential lawsuit but either way, it’s been handled admirably. Is that enough to overcome the sour taste left in fan’s mouths? Rancid and NOFX are both issuing deluxe 20th anniversary editions of their massive albums Let’s Go and Punk In Drublic. Re-mastered from the original tape recordings and pressed onto 180 gram vinyl the editions will cop an Australian release on Friday November 28 via Epitaph. Ceres dropped a surprise EP on everyone last week with the sudden unleashing of Selfish Prick. Recorded in Hobart with Lincoln LeFevre, the four new tracks are available for purchase now. The band are currently joining Violent Soho on their massive Australian regional tour. Mogwai will return to Australia next year for four shows only. You’re going to want to see their performance at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on Sunday March 1. Tickets are available now so get in early to ensure you have the best seats to bliss out in when they play. Touché Amoré are taking a little break after over 800 shows together. They’ve posted they “plan to take time off to remember how to live a normal life for a while.” The continued, “We hope you understand that for mental and physical health sake, we need to relax.” They’re not dead; they’re just resting their eyes.
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CORE GIG GUIDE Wednesday November 12: Hand Of Mercy, Hellions, Void Of Vision, Viles, Viper Love at Masonic Hall, Wodonga Thursday November 13: Manchester Orchestra, APES, Kevin Devine at Corner Hotel Hand Of Mercy, Hellions, Void Of Vision, jack The Stripper, Earth Caller at Evelyn Hotel Tumbleweed, Bruce at Gasometer Monte at Musicman Megastore, Bendigo 50 Lions, Thorns, Freeworld at Next Friday November 14: Not Fest 2 at Public Bar Gorguts, Portal, Departe at Northcote Social Club Manchester Orchestra, APES, Kevin Devine at Corner Hotel Ezekiel ox, The Twoks at Grace Darling Bandroom Nunchukka Superfly, Wicked City, Older Men, Weedy Gonzalez at The Reverence Tumbleweed, Bruce at Gasometer Hotel Hand Of Mercy, Hellions, Void Of Vision, head Of A Lion, Raise Atlantis at Phoenix Youth Centre Engine Three Seven, Lung, The Soulenikoes, Entropy at Gershwin Room Monte at Victoria Hotel, Brunswick Rumjacks, Not OK, Australian Kingswood Factory, OJ Simpson at The Bendigo Saturday November 15: Not Fest 2 at The Public Bar Sydonia, Alithia, Mass Sky Rais at The Espy Aversions Crown, Molotov Solution, Iconoclast, Athenas Wake at Bang Monte, Ten thousand, Oh Pacific, Village Echoes at The Reverence Undercast, Rooftops at Dropout, Melbourne Monte at Reverence Hotel Ezekiel Ox at Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Hey Lady, Axe Girl, Chores at The Reverence Accept at Corner Hotel
KRISIUN AT THE BENDIGO
Brazilian death metallers Krisiun triumphantly return to Australia and New Zealand with their newest monument of brutality, The Great Execution, out now via Century Media. Catch them for some high speed death metal violence this Saturday November 15 at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood with support from veteran Adelaide’s Truth Corroded and Melbourne heavy hitters MetalStorm and Sewercide.
KILL TV RETURN
Kill TV have a great first show back after their break. Catch them at The Surrey Hills Music Festival playing on the Bendigo Bank Stage on Saturday November 15 at 5pm. Bring your kids and dogs if you have them for an awesome family day of music and fun.
GET A ROOM, PAUL LAINE AND THE RADIO SUN
Local Melbourne melodic rockers The Radio Sun have announced Paul Laine (solo, ex Danger Danger, Darkhorse) will mix the band’s second album. Laine also mixed The Radio Sun’s debut album titled Wrong Things Right which was released a few months back in May through Melodic Rock Records. With very positive reviews worldwide the band also received rave reviews for their live shows at the 2013 and 2014 Melodic Rock Fests and as Paul Laine’s solo backing band. The Radio Sun look to release their second album early/mid 2015. Head to theradiosun.com to keep up with the latest news.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA HEADS TO THE STUDIO
It’s been a long time between albums for Dweezil Zappa – 10 years, in fact – but he’s hitting the studio with engineer and co-producer Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool) to begin work on a new album featuring his Zappa Plays Zappa bandmates Scheila Gonzales, Kurt Morgan, Ryan Brown, Ben Thomas and Chris Norton. And Dweezil has launched a Pledge Music campaign to help fund the record and
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let backers be a fly on the wall of the recording process, with an unprecedented look inside the creative process, what instruments are being used and many other studio details of note. “For the last decade I have been working on developing new guitar skills and blazing a new trail for myself,” Dweezil says. “Along the way I have worked hard to fuse unusual musical influences within my playing. I’ve always been fascinated by the sound of Arabic and Indian music as well as Balkan rhythms and melodies.” Head to pledgemusic.com/ projects/dweezilzappa to get involved.
CATCH NE OBLIVISCARIS JUST PROIR TO THEM TAKING OVER THE WORLD
Melbourne’s progressive wizards Ne Obliviscaris release their incredible new album Citadel last week and are ready to begin their national tour with Canadian progressive death metallers Beyond Creation. Citadel is seriously world-class progressive metal and this is probably your last chance (apart from Soundwave) to see Ne Obliviscaris before they ‘level up’ and start hitting larger rooms and ruling the world. Catch them at 170 Russell on Friday November 21. Presented by Destroy All Lines, Mixdown and Killyourstereo.com
CATCH MONTE THIS WEEK
Four piece Kiwi-turned-Sydney-siders Monte recently released Who We Are, an explosive post-rock-influenced debut album produced by Samuel K (Gatherer, Shihad, Bodyjar). The album delivers massive walls of sound paired with driving rhythm, dynamic layers of guitar and gripping vocal melodies. They’re hitting the road with a few Victorian shows to promote the album, including Musicman Megastore in Bendigo on Thursday November 13, Victoria Hotel in Brunswick on Friday November 14 and the Reverence Hotel in Melbourne on Saturday November 15.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12 KRIS SCHROEDER
Kris Schroeder, founding member of The Basics, has been hiding behind the marvellous talent of bandmates Wally De Backer (Gotye) and Tim Heath (Blood Red Bird) for far too long. Returning to his hometown of Melbourne after three years in Africa, Kris has recently rediscovered the joy of playing solo, being free to play whatever songs he wants, beholden to none. Songbook in head and guitar in hand, Schroeder's looking forward to belting out a few new originals along with some choice covers that’ll bring a half-smile to your face. He’ll be playing at the Retreat Hotel on Wednesday, November 12. Doors open at 7.30pm.
TRIVIA AT THE VIC
Every Wednesday night The Victoria Hotel is hosting trivia, where you can win booze (the formal currency) for just knowing things about stuff. To assist in enticing you, The Vic are also offering a pie+pot for $15 dollars. Get your trivia on. Starts at 7pm sharp.
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overhead luggage compartments they seem to have installed in all large modern flying machines. Singing because it seemed to calm the goat I owned as a child. Do you think you’re good at doing that? Calming goats? Yes.
THE STU THOMAS PARADOX
Melbourne musical enigma The Stu Thomas Paradox continue their Wednesday residency at Tago Mago throughout the month of November. Get a taste of their mondo-trashola sounds at Thornbury’s rock Mecca. Each night will run a different theme, this Wednesday he'll be presenting the philosophical and thoughts provoking theme of ‘The Evolution of Thought’. The Stu Thomas Paradox will hit the stage at 9.30pm, entry is free.
THE YARRA’S FOLK FEDERATION
The Yarra Hotel’s 8,9,10 Folk Federation continues on its merry way with another three fantastic contemporary songsters tonight, Wednesday November 12. This month it’s Gus Rigby, Jenny Biddle and Ma Petite who’ll be doing the honours. They’ll be hitting the stage at, you guessed it, 8, 9 and 10pm. It’s not too loud, or too late, or too long, and it won’t cost you a thing. See ya there.
VALDAWAY
Western Australian-based indie rockers Valdaway are kicking around Australia, and they’ll be gracing the stage of The Bendigo Hotel this Wednesday, November 12. The Inventions, Peeling Sun and Gabriel Vargas will be supporting. Doors open at 8pm. Get down.
If you weren’t doing that, what would you be doing? Trying to get funding for an Australian adaptation of Law & Order. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? The medicine.
HAMISH ANDERSON
Off the back of a ten-date US tour, gifted Melbourne guitarist and lyrical wordsmith Hamish Anderson has announced the release of his new EP Restless. Anderson will be promoting his new release with an Australian national tour kick-starting at Melbourne’s Ding Dong Lounge on November 13. To celebrate the release, Hamish will be joined by the electric foursome Villainettes as well as the lovely Hayley Couper. Doors open at 9pm, tickets are $10+BF or $15 at the door if they’re still available.
SAHARA BECK
Over the past year, Brisbane artist Sahara Beck has released a critically respected EP, toured and played shows non-stop, had her music featured on radio, online and on television, collaborated with numerous artists, written countless new songs and grown into an exceptional songwriter. Don’t miss her at the Wesley Anne this Thursday, November 13.
What’s your name then? Oh. And the name of your band… Joshua Seymour. Cherrywood. And what do you do? Mandoliner, electric six-stringer and occasional singer. When did you start doing that? Guitar since I was a teen, mandolin since 5pm 2009. Why did you start doing that? I picked up guitar in an attempt to be cool. Mandolin because a guitar wouldn’t fit in the
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And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing? Ballads. What’s your proudest moment of doing what you do? Being offered $50 by Tex Perkins to shut up. And your least proud? Being offered $50 by Tex Perkins to shut up. Cherrywood launch their new single Every Other Birthday on Friday November 14 with Bayou and Kinloch Troons. Every pre-sale ticket purchase comes with a free single download and a feeling of impending doom.
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PRESIDENT ROOTS
President Roots are an alt-country, folk-rock outfit of smile-inducing consequence. With two well-received albums and over seven years of live performances under their belt, President Roots prepare themselves to roll out the new Late Night Radio album with gigs in Melbourne, Sydney and their spiritual homeland on the Mornington Peninsula. Be a part of the launch at The Retreat Hotel this Thursday, November 13. Doors open at 8.30pm.
DJ MISS KERRIE
DJ Miss Kerrie, well known at The Victoria Hotel for her super fun DJ stylings, is proving you don’t need facial hair to help out in Movember, as she’s dedicating this set to raising money for charity. She’ll exclusively be playing music by or about moustachioed men, furrylipped fellas and hirsute hunky himbos all night long. Get on board this Thursday, November 13 at The Vic and help a good cause. The night kicks off at 9pm, entry is free.
mightiest of almighty rock lords, including Turbonegro, Supersuckers, Brant Bjork, Regurgitator, Beasts of Bourbon, Cosmic Psychos, Tumbleweed, and most recently supporting Violent Soho in Sydney on their sold-out Australian tour. Catch BRUCE! when they play The Gasometer Hotel, November 13 & 14 in support of Tumbleweed.
Thursdays in November, The Yarra Hotel plays host to a residency from the splendid Brooke Russell and The Mean Reds. After a successful trip to Nashville, the band are ready to launch their new sound with the masterful Ben Franz moving permanently to pedal steel and the delightful Luke Richardson taking over on the double bass and singing some harmonies. There’ll be new tunes, old tunes, some covers and special guests each week. Admission is free and The Yarra Fish and Burger Cookhouse will be open until 9:30pm. See you there.
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3. Your Band I’m usually a solo guy on the road, a singer/ songwriter through and through, but I just finished my first full band tour with my new outfit The Profiteers. It’s much more honky tonk, and gives me a chance to do a totally different type of show. Next up, before I get to Australia, I’ll be opening a few dates for Lee Ann Womack in the US, which feels like a wild dream.
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No nonsense four-piece stoner punk powerhouse BRUCE! are hitting the road in November, with a string of dates up and down the east coast of Oz to promote their latest offering BRUCE! The EP available on 10” vinyl. BRUCE! have been flat out since releasing their 2012 full length debut, sharing stages with the
FIVE THINGS with DEL BARBER
Two friends, musicians from different backgrounds, wondered what would happen if they got together once a week and wrote songs. Late on Wednesday nights, just after the week’s hump, Leena drove out of Melbourne and over the length of the West Gate Bridge, west. After a green tea and a spin of both sides of a Dusty, Dolly, Ry Cooder or Sam Cooke record, the conversation deepened and settled on the subject of the week. A poem by Rimbaud that moved her, a lost lover that haunted him or a moment that had defined them. It was so easy to find common ground, so easy that the words and the music came fast and like a river. They wrote one song a week until there were ten. This body of work reflects three months in the lives of two country folk in city bodies, lost in time, blinded by lights, soft in heart, clear in the intent to say something true and have fun doing it. Catch Voix D’or at the Retreat Hotel from 10.30pm.
1. Growing Up My dad worked as a millwright at a factory in Winnipeg and my mum ran a drug treatment centre. I was surrounded by all kinds of people growing up. With the breadth of people came a breadth of music. If you wanted to know something about my parents, they would probably instruct you to judge them by their record collection. Wide-ranging and keen, I was constantly bombarded by songs and styles that didn’t exist on the radio. 2. Inspirations Music and songwriting especially, has always been an essential part of my life. I have vivid memories of listening to Dylan with my dad in his old dodge truck, Tangled Up In Blue blaring above the sound of truck tires on gravel roads. Music was given to me as fragile gift, something almost sacred, something that could be broken.
4. The Music You Make As a songwriter four albums into a career, my foundation is as a story-teller. I long to hear songs that tell a good story, true or made up. I want to be transported by characters and scenes, I want to hear sonics that support the narrative. My approach is certainly story first sound second. 5. Music, Right Here, Right Now I’ve always tried to model my writing after American singer/songwriter John Prine, I love his ability to turn the most tragic aspects of society and make them palatable and at moments even comic. I love how he’s able to walk the fine line between comedy and tragedy while also putting forward narratives that act culture critique and are also historically relevant and keen. Like Prine, I hope I’m able to take up important subjects while keeping a light-hearted not too serious or mopey tone. DEL BARBER will be appearing at the Melbourne Folk Club at Bella Union on Wednesday November 19.
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POLISH FESTIVAL AND ARTS SHOW
The Polish Festival and Arts Show will feature the finest Polish musicians playing a range of music genres, from classical to jazz. The festival is also hosting an exhibition of artworks by Arthur Lyczba, a renowned Polish artist. Ruby’s will be serving a selection of delicious Polish food and drinks. It’ll run throughout the weekend, but get down to Ruby’s Music Room on Friday November 14 at 7pm for opening night. Like the venue on Facebook for $10 entry, otherwise entry is $15 at the door.
GETTING TO KNOW THE DIECASTS How stoked are you with your EP? This has raised the bar by far. Nothing we’ve done has had this much effort in writing, rehearsing and production.
MANTA FIVE
How would you describe your live show to someone who hasn’t heard you before? It’s fast, hot, sweaty, and over before you know it. Much like your first time. But will keep you going back for more.
Melbourne locals, Manta Five will be releasing their latest single Man of Mystics from their upcoming album this Friday November 14 at Alia Arthouse. Helping them launch the space rock/pub anthem genre bender will be fuzz futurists, The Grand Rapids, lo-fi psych balladeers, The Beegles and to open, Filthy grunge’n’rollers, The Burning Roaches. Doors at 8pm, $5 entry, free single for first 30 people through the door.
Hey! Who are we speaking with? Tim Burton, Tom Jackson and Jez Burton of The DieCasts, a three-piece rock outfit from the Mornington Peninsula. G’day.
THE RUMJACKS
Releasing their double A-side 7”, The Rumjacks return to the stage at The Bendigo this Friday eve. After great reception generated from their last show in May, all we can say is don’t miss ‘em. Supporting are their very good friends Not Ok, Kingswood Factory and OJ Simpson. Needless to say, shit’s gonna get unreal. Come down on Friday November 14 at 8pm and get messy at The Bendigo Hotel.
TEMPER TEMPER
Temper Temper, one of Melbourne’s favourite bands from the early ‘90s, are back and better than ever. With soaring vocals, hook-laden choruses and buzzsaw guitar over one of the tightest, punchiest rhythm sections around, this power pop trio with a West Melbourne swagger will have you up, out of your seat and dancing with your ears and listening with your feet in no time. They’ll be playing a rare gig at The Flying Saucer Club on November 14. The set starts at 8pm sharp, tickets are $25+BF.
THE FLOORS
Like a steam train to your chest, The Floors play dizzying, skuzzy, dirty fuzz blues. Hailing from across the Bight, these lads live to play and to create living sound. Beautiful, ugly, imperfect and somehow, still flawless. Un-fucked by computers or radio formulas, they create living sound. They’re making raucous noise this Friday November 14 at The Old Bar with La Bastard, plus Alex Elbury & The Stranglers. $10 on the door, let your hair down.
How did the band get together? The original lineup was formed as a side project but quickly became more of priority through mid-2008. Jez joined the band earlier this year and things have really started kicking into gear with the recording of our debut EP Getting Out of Dodge. Why “The DieCasts”? Tim: I was going through a huge phase of Top Gear and we needed a rad name that sounded retro and vintage to fit in with our earlier rockabilly-esque sounds, so cars and rockabilly went together and I thought hey, model cars, die casts, The DieCasts. So that sums it up.
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If you could go on tour with anyone, who would you go on tour with? Tim: Touring with Neil Finn would be awesome, even just a one off show. His work has had such an influence on our writing it’d be incredible to share the stage with him. Jez: I’d love to hit the road with Kingswood or the Black Keys, how do we get onto that? Tom: Calling All Cars, we played our first show with them years ago and they were incredible, I could watch them every night. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Tim: I get to make music with my brother and best mate, there’s no better feeling. Tom: I’m just in it for the rider. THE DIECASTS are set to rip up the Bendigo Hotel on Thursday November 13. $10 on the door.
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LIZ STRINGER
Songs That Made Me is becoming an institution. Katie Noonan gathers together three other female singers to perform songs that chart their lives. Last year's show was hugely entertaining and touching. Don’t miss out. Liz Stringer is one hell of a guitarist. She's launching her live CD/DVD recorded at The Yarra Hotel on Friday November 14 at The Thornbury Theatre.
TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS
Hot off the back of an impressive seven WA Music Awards (WAMi) nominations, including Best Live Act and Best Album, Perth locals Timothy Nelson & The Infidels have announced the release of their new single All the People from the album Terror Terror, Hide It Hide It, set for official release on November 14. They’ll be playing their new material at The Old Bar this Friday November 14.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15 HAYDEN CALNIN
Melbourne based singer/songwriter and producer Hayden Calnin has been busy with the release of his sophomore EP Oh, Hunter earlier this year. Calnin has played a series of sold-out shows as well as his recent solo Melbourne residency and a showcase slot at Brisbane’s much loved BIGSOUND music conference. To round off a massive year, Calnin and his band, along with some special guests will be playing at Howler this Saturday November 15. Tickets are $15+BF.
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THE CHICKEN STONES
Feel like gettin’ down this Friday? Then head over to LuWow to catch The Chicken Stones, Dogsday and The Screamin’ Hönkies as they bring their raucous brand of high voltage, plank spankin’, slide guitar stompin’ bluesrockin’ music to the stage. The very special event will see The Chicken Stones launch their new album Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Friday,November 14 at LuWow. Doors from 8pm.
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With obvious influences from the ‘30s and ‘40s such as Bob Wills, Cliff Bruner and Milton Brown, Slim Dime and The Prairie Kings throw a dose of honky tonk and bluegrass via The Delmore Brothers and Hank Williams to create a modern blend of classic sounds. With an energetic live show that features smokin’ guitar twang, slappin’ bass and all guns blazing, Slim Dime and The Prairie Kings are an old time party band with a difference. They’ll be hitting the stage at The Drunken Poet on Saturday November 15 at 9pm. Free entry.
HIRED GUNS
This Saturday November 15, The Yarra Hotel plays host to the Hired Guns as they launch their brand new album Golden Home with special guests Van Walker and Shane Reilly. Fresh from a season of shows supporting Ron S Peno, the Guns are back with a fine record of cosmic country and grimy garage rock. Entry is free, and The Yarra Fish and Burger Cookhouse will be open until 9.30pm. Don’t miss out.
GEORGIA FAIR
Georgia Fair are back with a new single, new label and tour with three headline shows across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Their debut single Break is out now on littleBIGMAN records and they're currently working on a new album set for release in early 2015. Don’t miss your chance to catch Georgia Fair when they play the John Curtin Hotel Saturday, November 15. Tickets available through the venue.
VIKA AND LINDA
Burn, the first single from your EP to be released later this month, Restless, has already received rave reviews. What else can fans expect from this upcoming EP release? Definitely a mix of genres and sounds ranging from heavy blues to folk to rock. The main goal with this EP was to capture the feeling of the live performance; I wanted to do as little overdubbing as possible. You began your musical career here in Melbourne, before basing yourself in the US. What sparked this change of location? I was invited over to play a few showcases in LA at the start of this year and from there it just turned into doing more and more shows in the US and playing in different cities. Recently, you were lucky enough to have the opportunity to open for BB King before he fell ill, which forced the cancellation of the rest of the tour. What was the highlight of this experience? For me it was just the feeling I got after the first set opening for BB King in Phoenix, it hit me when I was standing and watching him play from side stage. Mr. King’s music means so much to me and has been such a huge influence it was a really surreal moment I’ll never forget. Catch HAMISH ANDERSON at Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday November 13 for the launch of his new EP, Restless.
For 25 years, the glorious voices of Vika and Linda Bull have comprised one of the most distinctive, versatile and emotionally charged sounds on the Australian music landscape. Since their multi-platinum conquest of pop radio with the Black Sorrows in the late ‘80s, the sisters have forged diverse pathways into soul, gospel, blues, country and the island music of their Tongan ancestry. By turns tender and powerful, their rich solo vocals and instinctive harmonies have spawned eight albums of their own, as well as illuminating studio and concert performances by Paul Kelly, Renee Geyer, John Farnham, Hunters & Collectors, Tim Finn, Kasey Chambers, John Butler and many more. Don’t miss Vika and Linda in a very special performance at The Caravan Club this Saturday November 15. Tickets are $30-42+BF presale or $35 at the door if available. Doors at 8pm.
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A band of brothers, Gavin and Simon Bowles formed Picture Perfect with bassist Cameron Hill in 2005. Since then, the band have released two full-length albums and scored supports with Calling All Cars and The Radiators. Their new single Faceless Man is taken from their latest EP, Well Alright!. Its steady beat gets you rockin’ while dreamy delay-laced guitar riffs and full vocal harmonies showcase the band in full stride. They’ll be in the Revolver Bandroom on Saturday November 15.
STEVE KILBEY
Following The Church's 30th anniversary performance at The Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, their much loved frontman Steve Kilbey is finally coming to the Yarra Ranges as part of his November Australian tour. An Australian Music Hall of Fame inductee, Kilbey's composition Under the Milky Way is considered by many as one of the greatest Australian songs of all time. Kilbey is arguably at his creative peak having spread his wings as a visual artist, writer, highly sought after raconteur and blogger with over 10,000 readers a day. Do not miss Steve Kilbey when he comes to The Montrose Town Center for a very special performance on Saturday November 15.
THE HORNETS
The Hornets are hitting up the stage at The Retreat Hotel to play songs from their upcoming sixth CD as well as selections from their extensive back catalogue. Boasting a lineup of some of the country’s most talented musicians; rock’n’roll hall of famer Jeff Burstin ( Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons, Black Sorrows, Renee Geyer, Vika and Linda), Andrew Ogburn, Craig Horne, Wayne Duncan (Daddy Cool), and Chris Tabone Drums (Renee Geyer, Bad Loves) this is a show not to be missed. Catch them this Saturday November 15 at The Retreat Hotel. Free entry.
MIDNIGHT WOOLF
For the sixth time in a row, Midnight Woolf, purveyors of Melbourne’s finest garage and good time music will be partying up at The Old Bar for two nights of crazed fuzz-drenched rock’n’roll, as part of the Johnston Street Spanish Fiesta 2014. On Saturday November 15, they’ll be joined by Los Tones (fresh off their European tour), Wet Meal and DJ Juke Joint (PBS). Sunday November 16 support will come from Brat Farrar and Bonnie Doom. There will be lots of food and stalls outside on Johnston Street. So get down to the Oldie for a sangria, a beer, tequila or all three. Bands start at 8.30pm, just $5 entry. Get your dancin’ shoes on hombres and muchachas.
KON KALAMARAS
Kon Kalamaras will be launching his debut album Rebetiko, a suite of recordings showcasing traditional Greek Rebetiko music from the 1920s and 30s, this Saturday at Open Studio. Rebetiko is storytelling spanning love, loss, drugs, and heart-breaking refugee tales. Known as the music of the poor and the dispossessed, it combines different musical styles of the region and with lyrics describing the joy, the sorrow, and the difficulties of everyday life. This album of traditional works features the songs of Markos Vamvakaris and Vasillis Tsistanis. Get down to Open Studio, 204 High Street Northcote this Saturday November 15 for a very special event.
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ABOVE KINGS
The Above Kings are an electrifying five-piece who have taken 2014 by the scruff of the neck and are about to launch their self-titled debut EP at Yah Yah’s. Their own brand of alternative rock infused with pop elements and progressive undertones could be likened to the sounds of early Incubus. This EP is a must have and these lads are a must see. Get down to their EP launch this Saturday November 15 at Yah Yah’s.
On Sunday November 16, The Gasometer will be playing host to a very special Bob Dylan and The Band Basement Tapes tribute. The show will feature performances from 16 of Melbourne’s finest acts, including Luke Sinclair (Raised by Eagles), Van Walker, Lonesome, “Evil” Graham Lee’s new outfit Phake Phur, Sean McMahon (Downhills Home), Emily Ulman, Alex and The Lashlies, Michael Plater and The Exit Keys, Small Town Romance and many more. The show will cover a multitude of songs written by Bob Dylan and The Band during 1967, not just the basement recordings, but also the albums that came out of the basement experience. Doors open at 2pm, admission is $10 presale, or $15 on the door. Come and pay tribute to a music legend.
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BURLESQUE & BAND NIGHT
It’s that time of year again kittens, and to celebrate turning another year radder, Baby Cherry is throwing together a night of burlesque and bands like no other. Kicking off the night will be music by Melbourne rockers Prolapse, alongside Liquor Snatch. Later in the evening be dazzled by some of Melbourne’s finest burlesque performers. It all goes down at The Bendigo Hotel this Sunday, November 16. Doors open at 6pm.
Q&A with
SEÑOR BBQ How important is the culture of eating in Argentina? Due to our native roots, ancient cultures community orientated and the cross with immigrants, where family was central to survival, seating down to share a meal has an important place in our culture.
How would you describe the food of Argentina? Argentina is well known for the Parrillada o Asado: a gargantuan grill of local cuts of beef, pork, chicken, and chorizo. I met my first vegetarian in the late ‘80’s. What are the main ingredients of Argentinean cuisine? Beef. We cook all parts of the animal. Chimichurri, the Argentinean magic flavour, is the sauce we add to the meats after the cooking. Other than that, the cuisine is influenced by Spanish/Italian immigration and blended with local ingredients.
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So what’s on the menu for the Coburg Night Market? Señor BBQ is not just about our traditionally charcoal-grilled food, it’s a cultural immersion. Exotic aromas, irresistible flavors, the sensuous sounds of Latin America and the charisma of our crew. Chorizo, beef ribs and chicken wings. All comes with salad and our famous Chimichurri (also available in take home jars). OK, it’s your last meal on earth. What are you going to cook? Preferably at the side of the road in a barrio, it would be a juicy Choripan [chorizo sandwich] with plenty of spiced homemade Chimichurri. Live to eat or eat to live? Live to eat and dance. SEÑOR BBQ will be grilling up a storm at the Coburg Night Market, running every Friday night from November 18 to December 19. Check out coburgnightmarket.com.au for more info.
THE F100S
The twangin’ sound of the F100s is catching on fast with fans of roadhouse honky tonk, boogie and rockabilly. Over the past couple of years, the F100s have been burning dance floors and establishing themselves as a fine live act. Influenced by the stylings of Buck Owens, George Jones and Merle Haggard, the F100s have a sack full of original toe tappers spread through their repertoire. They’ll be performing an exclusive show on November 16 at The Retreat Hotel front bar from 5pm-7pm, make it a date; you’ll be glad you did.
THE BLUES PREACHERS
The highly regarded and critically acclaimed pre-war acoustic blues duo The Blues Preachers are heading to the Way Out West Blues Club on Sunday November 16 at Williamstown RSL. Chosen by Yoko Ono as one of the winners in the John Lennon 70th birthday anniversary song writing contest for their song, Divine Justice Coming Down, this impeccable duo are performing songs of peace and reconciliation. Music starts at 2pm.
TRACEY BUNN
Part swing chanteuse, larrikin cowgirl and passionate witness, Darwin singer/songwriter Tracey Bunn delivers a gutsy swag of songs that express mixed feelings of desire, regret and wanderlust, leavened with a healthy dollop of good humour. Bunn's debut album By the Wayside, produced by Anne McCue and recorded in Nashville, is a luscious blend of country, folk and pop rock, somewhat reminiscent of KD Lang and Patsy Cline. See her at The Drunken Poet this Sunday November 16. Her set begins at 4pm.
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THE WILSON PICKERS
The Wilson Pickers play banjo, fiddle, harmonica and acoustic guitar-based songs that draw on bluegrass, folk, country and lots of other things. Last sharing the stage at the 2013 Byron Bay Bluesfest, The Wilson Pickers are set to reunite to play a special matinee show on November 16 at Caravan Music Club. In their time away from The Pickers, the band’s members have worked with Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson, Sweet Jean, The Painted Ladies, Giants of Science, Bernard Fanning, Mick Thomas’s Vandemonian Lags project and under their own names; a testament to their impeccable pedigree and mad networking skills. Catch them together again this Sunday at The Caravan Club. Doors from 3pm. Tickets are $22 at the door or available presale through the venue.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 17 SAM APPAPOULAY
From the tropical island of Mauritius, Sam Appapoulay is a musical genius who has the ability to re-originate any song he plays. A deep understanding of music and his piano stem from over ten years of professional work and experience playing jazz and all types of commercial music. He’ll be sharing his talents at Ruby’s Music Room on Monday November 17 from 7-10pm. ‘Like’ the venue on Facebook for $10 entry; otherwise entry is $15 at the door.
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18 KRISIUN
Brazilian high-speed death metallers Krisiun are hitting our shores to launch their eighth studio album, The Great Execution. New and old fans alike can get ready to be blown away by this intense, precise, and unashamedly vicious album. Krisiun will be joined by very special guests, Melbourne’s own In Malice’s Wake plus Internal Nightmare. See ‘em at Ding Dong Lounge on Tuesday November 18 at 9pm. Presale tickets are $38+BF.
BREABACH
Coming off the back of their stand out tour earlier this year, Scottish act Breabach are on Aussie shores in support of their new single Scotland’s Winter. The folk group have been steadily gaining international acclaim, having just toured Europe following their successful 2013 release Urlar. Catch them at The Spotted Mallard this Tuesday, November 18. Free entry.
LOOKING FORWARD
FRANCISCO’S FORTUNE
Sydney-based songsmith Francisco's Fortune has just released his debut single Magnetic Lines, and is preparing to stun audiences along the east coast with a run of tour dates. Francisco's Fortune is the indie-rock brainchild of Sydney-based multi-instrumentalist and singer, Manik Mayadunne. Mayadunne began writing, performing and recording songs in his bedroom as a teenager with a guitar in one hand and a trumpet in the other. With a new alias came a new chapter of melodies and lyrics, and Mayadunne teamed up with ARIAnominated sound engineer and producer, Lachlan Mitchell, to capture them in his first professional studio tracks at Jungle Studios in Sydney. Catch him in the Melbourne leg of the tour at the Penny Black, Sunday November 23. Free entry.
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THE PUBLIC OPINION SIX This will be your first live performance as Public Opinion Six, what can audiences expect? The same fiery afro-beat show we’ve been known for these past few years. We’ve got a big set of deep grooves that will dance people into a hypnotic state, ready for Lamine Sonko to deliver messages of consciousness, political justice and positivity. What do you consider the significance of afrobeat? Afrobeat is a music that is inseparable from its origins as a political movement in Nigeria. As such, its message is as important as the music and while it makes you move it makes you think and learn as well.
ANIMAL HANDS
Indie rockers Animal Hands are kicking off their month-long residency at Cherry Bar this Tuesday, November 11. Joining them on the stage will be The Chops, serving up a heady mix of rare groove, krautrock and home-brew inspired jams that will be performed and will never be able to be played again, because everything The Chops do is a one-time-only thing. Also on the lineup are the highly cultured sounds of The Sunday Reeds. Free entry from 8pm.
VAN WALKER
Van Walker, the original bearded hipster from Tasmania, is coming to the Gasometer this Tuesday, November 18. His credits include recording five solo albums in just over a few years, fronting dirty rock’n’roll groups such as The Swedish Magazines and The Heartbrokers and forming jangly vox heavenly harmony pop outfits like The Livingstone Daisies. Catch him at the Gasometer on Tuesday 18 November. Free entry from 8.30pm.
THE BLACK SEEDS
No strangers to Australian shores, New Zealand reggaesoul heavyweights The Black Seeds are returning to our shores this month to perform two very special shows. Renowned globally for their epic live shows, and having been invited to appear at various Australian festivals such as Splendour in the Grass and Golden Plains, the six-piece outfit always deliver solid performances. Having formed in 1998, with five albums, a live album, and two remix albums, The Black Seeds have been enjoying continued momentum ever since, winning over new fans’ hearts wherever they go. The Black Seeds will have you dancing up a storm when they play the Prince of Wales Hotel Thursday, November 28. Tickets through Oztix.
Hello, who am I speaking with? Tristan Ludowyk, I play trumpet/guitar/keys in the band. How did you all get together? We formed as a side project to a group we are involved with ± The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, which is a massive lineup. We decided to have some jams with a small ensemble to workshop song ideas and things, but in no time at all found we had a set of some really interesting songs and a tight little unit, so we decided to make it an official band rather than an unofficial side project.
The genre is experiencing quite a resurgence lately, why do you think that is? A lot of genres of music both past and present have enjoyed more popularity and this is in no small part due to the internet and the ease we can discover music. Music that previously was played on the radio in Africa (a lot) in the ‘70s has been rediscovered and enjoyed by many more people. But afrobeat in particular is such a unique rhythm and style that many people have taken to. THE PUBLIC OPINION SIX are headlining the opening night of the Coburg Night Market on Friday November 28. Check out coburgnightmarket.com.au for more info.
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Sat 22nd Nov Caravan Music Club Oakleigh with guest Alsion Ferrier
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THE UPSTANDING MEMBERS
The best clue to what makes Foo Fighters’ eighth studio album such a great listen comes from the title of the band’s second album that came out in 1997 ± The Colour And The Shape. For Sonic Highways Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Nate Mendell and Taylor Hawkins gave the album shape by limiting it to eight songs about their eight favourite cities in US ± Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington DC. They gave the album colour by writing and recording each of the eight songs in one of the aforementioned cities ± letting the literal and conceptual flavours of each city seep into the songs which, somewhat oxymoronically for a themed album, has resulted in each song being desperately unique and untied to any other song on the record. Opening song Something From Nothing begins with a super chill with Grohl almost whispering the opening lines of, “Give me the flammable life/I’m cold as a match ready to strike/So here I go.” Then, at exactly 30 seconds in, the song takes shape and builds, building again and again before ending on frantic rock out only Grohl and co can do without sounding like effigies of the calmer soft rock band that began this song. This song was written about Chicago, with this info gleaned from watching the eight-part documentary series the band is releasing part by part online. However, the references to the river ± The Chicago River ± and the “cold as a match” indicated the song was about a northern US city with a river running through it. The standout track from the album is Outside. Driven by icy guitar and a huge chorus this is sure to be fan favourite.
2. Self Titled PIC DISC 2LP BLUE’S PILLS 3. First 3 Albums BOX SET IRON MAIDEN 4. Strange Weather 12” ANNA CALVI 5. Islands LP KING CRIMSON 6. Filth Pig LP MINISTRY 7. Remasters CD SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES 8. Live In Germany LP SOUNDGARDEN 9. Ocean at The End LP THE TEA PARTY 10. Tago Mago 180g 2LP CAN Due to the balls out nature of the rock’n’roll in this song I picked it has the song inspired by Los Angeles. The final song of the album ± I Am A River ± is an impressive farewell for an excellent album. Similar to the way the album began, I Am A River has three parts to it. From a deep organ that’s caressed by a slightly picked guitar, to the effortless pre-chorus this song has all the best parts of Foo Fighters with a little bit of extra depth. DENVER MAXX
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Draw, You Harlequin Saints! GAY PARIS
2. Under Lie KLO 3. Cappuccino LUNATICS ON POGOSTICKS 4. Melbourne Goodbye (feat. Serena Ryder) 5. Short Term Plan MICHELLE XEN
BEST TRACK: I Am A River. IF YOU LIKE THIS, YOU’LL LIKE THESE: SILVERCHAIR, RIVAL SCHOOLS, AUDIOSLAVE. IN A WORD: Octagonal.
6. Hider’s Waltz MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS 7. Wandering, I SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE 8. The Lucky Country THE BASICS 9. Everything You Never Had Pt II ANDREYA TRIANA
SINGLES
BY LACHLAN
Mick Jagger’s throat problems blamed on too many nangs. Or, not enough nangs.
COLLARBONES FEAT. OSCAR KEY SUNG
Only Water (Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control) Okay, I’m not an audiophile jerkoff, but please, please, please don’t listen to new Collarbones on laptop speakers. You’ll still enjoy it, but goddamn there’s some outright fuckery going on in the bottom end that’s driving me crazy in the best way possible. That sub bass creeps in when you least expect it, on previous single Turning and again here on Only Water, tickling in just the right places. What I like to call the ‘cool sex zones’ of the human receptor system. It’s science, read a book alright?
TOTEMS
Kuri (Independent) For a while there it looked like Kiwi overachiever Reuben Winter might well be retiring his Totems solo project. But thanks be to basedgod, Totems has returned with the killer EP the dream is over. Opening track Kuri jack-knifes at a sick pace in between nostalgic garage and jungle touchstones, all the while sounding distinctly modern. Get around it.
DIE ANTWOORD
RECORD PARADISE TOP 10 Throw Me in the River THE SMITH
STREET BAND 2. Order of Operation AUSMUTEANTS
HARTS
When A Man’s A Fool (Shock) Melbourne blues-funk one-man dynamo Harts carries the swagger from his recently released debut album Daydreamer into standalone single When A Man’s A Fool. It rocks when it’s time to rock, imbuing the quieter moments with character, for the most part teasing out empty space with deft tonal quirks. The spurting synth horns toward the end are a bit wack, but there’s every indication Harts’ immense talent will be fully utilised into refined songwriting and production chops in the very near future.
PEARLS
Big Shot (Dot Dash/Remote Control) A twisted disco groove anchors a pastiche of perfect melodic composition ± almost too perfect, but any semblance of safety is nullified by creeping unease. It’s hard to place Big Shot in the realm of current trend; it’s kinda like if a late 2000s guitar band had a shot at Goldfrapp’s Strict Machine. Maybe. It’s all in the right measure, just short enough to tease another repeat listen.
3. Soft Focus THE OCEAN PARTY 4. Singers Grave a Sea of Tongues BONNIE PRINCE BILLY 5. Primitive and Deadly EARTH 6. Pavor Nocturnus THE NIGHT TERRORS 7. Time Wounds All Heels POWDER MONKEYS 8. Tied To A Star J MASCIS 9. Soused SCOTT WALKER/SUNN O 10. From Her to Eternity NICK CAVE
COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK TOP 10 1.
IV 180g reissue LPs LED ZEPPELIN
2. Mobile Of Angels LP WITCH MOUNTAIN 3. Houses Of The Holy 180g reissue LPs LED ZEPPELIN 4. Unpeople tape UNPEOPLE 5. Dopesmoker 2LP/CD SLEEP 6. Phantom Radio 2CD MARK LANEGAN 7. A World Lit Only By Fire LP/CD
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
Satan Speeds Up (Flightless/Remote Control) Five albums in, and it feels like the mighty Gizz are just getting started. Satan Speeds Up is a relatively sedate cut from I’m In Your Mind Fuzz ± their best album yet. The Scorsese-rivalling clip was shot in NYC around their CMJ sojourn last month. Since then, I’ve seen the boys pop up on Twitter when a Canadian friend raved about their Toronto show; then a high school friend who I haven’t seen in yonks uploaded an Insty of their Iceland show. King Gizz are taking over the world, and the world’s better for it.
10. Flashlight BONOBO
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Ugly Boy (Zef ) Against the odds, Die Antwoord have showed staying power beyond novelty, tempering their ~transgressive~ film clips with just enough musicality to carry on. I kinda’ dig Die Antwoord in banger mode. Ugly Boy isn’t a banger, but it isn’t unlistenable. It lifts heavily from Aphex twin’s Ageispolis, sifting its pop elements to the top. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 48
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Sonic Highways (Sony)
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER
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GODFLESH 8. Gon’ Boogaloo CD C.W. STONEKING 9. Six Strings That Drew Blood 2CD ROWLAND S. HOWARD 10. Foundations Of Burden CD PALLBEARER
BEAT’S TOP 10 SONGS ABOUT VICTORY 1.
We Are the Champions QUEEN
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2. The Winner Takes It All ABBA
Double Negative (Bedroom Suck) It’s been a long time comin’, but we’ve got the first taste of the upcoming Love Of Diagrams LP BLAST (following 2009’s Nowhere Forever), in the shape of the urgent Double Negative. Abrasive, turbo-charged guitar cuts through “ooh-oh-ooh” backing melodies. A wonderfully crafted serving of early-‘90s-invoking rock.
4. Simply The Best TINA TURNER
LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
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3. You Win Again BEE GEES 5. Play to Win JOHN FARNHAM 6. Playing To Win LITTLE RIVER BAND 7. Winner Takes it All SAMMY HAGAR 8. Win DAVID BOWIE 9. One Little Victory RUSH 10. What a Feeling IRENE CARA
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RANCID
PRIMUS & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY WITH THE FUNGI ENSEMBLE
...Honor is All We Know (Epitaph Records) In the early ‘90s, Rancid were fresh-faced punk rockers from Berkeley, California. Charged up on youth nitro, Rancid figured they could rattle cages forever. Partly true. On their eighth record, time hasn’t wearied Rancid so much as hardened them. The trouble starts with a crashing, bruising Back Where I Belong, shouter/ guitarist Tim Timebomb carelessly rambling, “Well I’m standing in the rain and I kind of want the blame/And it’s all the fucking same and I’d do it all again.” For Rancid, punk rock isn’t just for life, it is life. There’s comfort in Raise Your Fist’s bouncing bass line, a cheeky bit of pop prefixing salty, rough-housing punk. They invite customary ska rhythms in Evil’s My Friend, likewise Everybody’s Sufferin’ rocking up to dance. Honor’s filled to brimming with upbeat punk rock anthems like A Power Inside and In the Streets, the latter possessed by a looming, sneering spirit of The Clash. Malfunction glows redder than red among the cuts. Timebomb’s hoary croaking staggers like he’s had a few too many. Tambourines are shakin’ asses like its 1964, and it sounds like Wasted Youth’s doing the watusi. Rancid’s still seized under currents of shop-worn punk anarchy, but Honor’s all about the basics. Get angry, go wild. If you have fun during, great. As far as that goes, Honor does what it says on the damn tin. BEST TRACK: Malfunction. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: NOFX, TOM VALCANIS BAD RELIGION, THE OFFSPRING. IN A WORD: Half-full.
Hello Wonkites (ATO/[PIAS] Australia)
Drummer Timothy Alexander rejoins Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde for the release of this extremely weird, and therefore Primus-like, record. The story goes Claypool – himself somewhat of a Wonka-like eccentric genius – had been fascinated with the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for much of his childhood, and this fascination manifested first in a Wonka-themed New Year’s Eve performance in 2013, and now a tribute album. Hello Wonkites opens the record, dark and atmospheric, setting the scene for the grungy reimaging of Dahl’s world. Claypool’s bass plays havoc on Candy Man, which is about as far as you can get from the Sammy Davis Jr. version. The various Oompa Loompa musings are included, as is the Veruca Salt special I Want It Now. The best moments are delivered by the madcap circus vibe of Golden Ticket and the thoughtful rendition of Cheer Up Charlie. All in all, it’s not a great album. However, if you’re a fan or if you like your music a little experimental, it’s worth a listen. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough meaty songs here to showcase Primus at their best. BEST TRACK:Golden Ticket. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: TOM JOSH FERGUS WAITS, MR BUNGLE. IN A WORD: Nuts.
SCOTDRAKULA
S/T (Independent)
BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY
Singer’s Grave/A Sea of Tongues (Inertia)
What draws us back to Will Oldham after all these years? Is it the sense of warmth and familiarity that sets in with even the faintest whisper of his distinctive drawl? Perhaps it’s got something to do with the private universe that he’s set up for himself, all slow waltzes, dreamy guitars and creaking-floorboard subtlety. Whatever the case, here we are again. Singer’s Grave marks the 16th album to bear the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy name, and it has more in common with his Everly Brothers cover album with Dawn McCarthy from 2013 than it does the eponymous self-released LP that followed some months later. It’s richly textured and easy listening in the sense it settles into a certain groove early on and marinates there. In essence, it’s the kind of album Oldham could make in his sleep. It pulls no punches, sets off no alarms and is out of your hair within the hour. If that’s something that works for you, you’ll have no problem getting into Singer’s Grave. With that said, for someone who created something as fragile and devastating as I See a Darkness, it’s a little disheartening to think he might not even be trying anymore. BEST TRACK: So Far and Here. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BILL DAVID JAMES YOUNG CALLAHAN, LAMBCHOP, SUN KIL MOON. IN A WORD: Breezy.
FOOD COURT
The frequency with which something is produced and in turn consumed impacts greatly on the product in question. Quality can drop when product starts to get ‘churned out’. Despite their six-year life span as a band, ScotDrakula are definitely not churning out albums. This self-titled release is their first full-length, although they’ve been spruiking samples of their wares with two previous EPs and a 7” under their belt. Lead single and opener O’ Clock exhibits a sort of naivety to it, but is offset by guitarist/frontman Matt Neumann’s unhinged yet tuneful yelp. Kill What You Love feels a little Hunx and His Punx, the doo-wop refrain, “There’s nothing to it, just go and do it,” sounds like encouragement for everyone to learn a hip new dance move but we assume it’s a gentle nudge to ‘kill what you love’. Those in search of a summer anthem may just have found it in Shazon. The lyrics, “I’m getting high in the backseat,” are meant to be shouted on the dance floor at 3am. Pig Eyes oozes cool, its extended intro setting the scene effectively. The bass drives this song but sits back to let the vocal overlays and extensive riff work dominate. Very few lyrics make the ones present even more powerful; “Look at this one, it wants me dead,” feels icy cold just like it should. ScotDrakula build it up, break it down and pull the pin when you least expect it on this killer track. Starter Humanism is feel good pop, brimming with classic chord changes, while follower Idlewild burns with a desperate energy. It’s illusively simple garage that’s occasionally epic, with ‘50s chord progressions disguised under distortion and snarl, but repackaged into something far less BEST TRACK: Pig Eyes. predictable. ScotDrakula have nailed it on their IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BLACK debut album. LIPS, HUNX & HIS PUNX, KING KHAN & THE SHRINES. KRYSTAL MAYNARD IN A WORD: Appealing.
Big Weak (Independent)
This is the second EP from Sydney-based garage band, Food Court. Much like their well-received debut, Smile at your Shoes, their latest is an impressive collection of layered vocals and chaotic instrumental mixes. Their influences come in many forms; from the Californian surf twang that opens 14 Years Young, through to the ‘60s psychedelic acid rock feel of Every Day After. Genre-wise, their sound fits comfortably beside popular post-punk revival bands like Babyshambles, particularly on tracks Rewind and Red Wine Teething. Dripping breaks into much poppier territory, sounding more like The Kooks. It’s driven by a distorted riff and an infectious chorus, which you can tell would be even better live. Already Asleep’s percussion-heavy and experiments with various tempo changes to admirable effect, particularly towards the end. On the River holds a lot more structure, tying things up in a neat little package. This four-piece already have a clear direction for their sound and demonstrate the talent to do it well. What’s most impressive is just how they seem to do it so effortlessly. It won’t be long until the masses start BEST TRACK: Rewind. swooning so get in early while they’re fresh. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BABYSHAMBLES, THE HIVES, THE KOOKS. CHRIS BRIGHT IN A WORD: Fuzzy.
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When I dove into Rhubarb Rhubarb, the second full-length offering from East Londonian garage rockers The Voyeurs, I heard a plateful of sounds, from Coxon to Bland, which the band had to have listened to at least once while recording this album. To put it in its shortest form, The Voyeurs are just another lo-fi British rock outfit. You’ll hear essences of The Stones (especially on the opening track, Train To Minsk) and you’ll grin to yourself a little when you inevitably think, “Gee, these guys certainly sound like The Who,” but that’s just about where the novelty ends. That being said, it’s one of those albums that will fit into your Spotify ‘Britpop/rock’ playlist (don’t act like we don’t all have one), and every time a song finishes you’ll simply forget about it until it pops up again on the next rotation. A serious question to ask is: after how many albums is it no longer OK to have that rustic eight-track sound in the age of easy track mastering? Is the sound nostalgic? BEST TRACK: Stunners. Yeah. Is it palatable? Absolutely. Will you remember IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: this album a few months from now? Fairly unlikely. GRAHAM COXON, LITTLE BARRIE, This is a safety album. FIREHOSE. IN A WORD: Derivative. JACOB MILLS
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews JACK L ADDER & THE DREAML ANDERS Northcote Social Club, Friday November 7
Photograph by Charles Newbury
THE ROLLING STONES Rod Laver Arena, Wednesday November 5 A religious experience is the only way to describe seeing The Rolling Stones, with the band having achieved a divine miracle in surviving for the past 50 years. While the myths and stories surrounding the band are of biblical proportions, it’s their musical creations that’ll transcend their bags of bones. Their songs are responsible for turning so many potentially respectable citizens into drug-fuelled, sex-hungry maniacs who drew inspiration to make their own marks on the music world and for that we give thanks. An elaborate stage design gave early-comers something to marvel over while comedian Chris Lilley was apparently bemusing drummer Charlie Watts backstage at his daughter’s invite. Shaped in the iconic Stone’s tongue and lips logo, the outline of the tongue acted as a semicircle catwalk surrounding the few people willing to put up the megabucks to be in the pit. As the lights dimmed, the arena felt like a vacuum as a collective heave of air was taken to stretch the lungs for the oncoming roar. From that moment, church was in as Keith Richards’ instantaneously recognisable opening riff of Jumpin’ Jack Flash sucked the frenzied air back into the cavernous room. As soon as they hit the stage, time and space fused into one and my shit seemed lost forever. Serotonin and dopamine surged through my brain, harder than any drug effect has ever managed, causing my body to spasm and vision to blur from welling tears. I’m a grown man but they were rock‘n’roll in its purest form and I was close to an overdose. That feeling lasted for the two-hour-long set as Mick Jagger traipsed on the catwalk throwing all his finest pouts and hand flourishes with microphone shoved down his pants. Richards and Ronnie Wood played funny buggers around the stage smoking suspicious ciggies with Watts calmly looking on. Ex-guitarist Mick Taylor made his appearance on Midnight Rambler with Jagger battling Taylor’s guitar with his harmonica as they advanced on one another eye-to-eye. Gimme Shelter let backup singer Lisa Fischer cut loose on the catwalk absolutely nailing the female vocal parts and pianist Chuck Leavell gave a lesson in bar room piano with his solo in Honky Tonk Women. The crowd choice Street Fighting Man maybe threw Jagger a bit as he seemingly missed a few cues and Richards’ apparent unwillingness to finish Start Me Up made for a sloppy outro. Finishing on a double encore of You Can’t Always Get What You Want and Satisfaction, the congregation were farewelled by the prophets with a bow and a wave perhaps LOVED: Charlie Watts pegging a security guard for the last time on this patch of the world. in the head with his drumstick from 30 metres. HATED: Everything is amazing. RHYS McRAE DRANK: Holy water.
HOLY HOLY The Northcote Social Club, Saturday November 8 Holy Holy are a band going places. Since dropping their fantastic debut single Impossible Like You just over a year ago, they’ve gone on two mostly sold out national tours, supported the likes of Boy & Bear as well as Ball Park Music, and will shortly begin a tour with The Preatures. Despite only being in existence for a short time, Holy Holy have all the professionalism of a band that’s been touring for a decade. This isn’t surprising: their performance at the Northcote Social Club was flawless. Lead singer Timothy Carroll’s voice is delightful, and his lyrics are compelling. Lead guitarist Oscar Dawson is phenomenal. His riffs are original and drive many of Holy Holy’s best songs, and his solos are even better. Their cover of Neil Young’s Southern Man epitomises their sound: folk rock at its finest. Clearly, Holy Holy are heavily influenced by Neil Young, but take his work to another level. This sound, with a slight hint of country to it, has the potential to crack the highly lucrative American market. Holy Holy’s only fault is their three singles – Impossible Like You, House of Cards and History – are so good every other song feels almost disappointing in comparison. House of Cards is perfection. The lyrics are clever and the guitar’s simply astounding. History, their latest single is just as good and was greeted with a strong reception from the crowd. Impossible Like You was also brilliant and should have been the closer. Other songs like Heroine, Pretty Strays and Wonderland are quality, but simply can’t contend with this trio. Hopefully Holy Holy LOVED: The bouncer who only needed to see will add more classics to their repertoire in their debut my Facebook account to verify my age. album being released next year. HATED: Forgetting ID. DRANK: Water. JOSH THORBURN
It’s a good thing Jack Ladder’s roughly ten feet tall, because there were some big personalities to compete with on stage. Ladder’s brand new album Playmates (his fourth) finds the Sydneysider fraternising with some of the country’s savviest showmen. Here to launch the record, Ladder brought along guitarist Kirin J Callinan, bass player Donny Benet, drummer Laurence Pike (PVT) and keyboardist Neal Sutherland (ex-Bertie Blackman). The mere presence of either Callninan or Benet is enough to divert attention, but nothing was going to prevent Ladder’s pathos-inspiring vocals from claiming sovereignty over tonight’s audience. In Martin Scorsese’s Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, Joan Baez explains some people just aren’t interested in Dylan, but for those who are, “He goes way, way deep.” The description could be applied to Jack Ladder. The appeal of his splintered romanticism is by no means a given, but once his work connects, you begin to feel as though it’s been fashioned specifically for you. Despite being less than a week old, Playmates has already made a persuasive pitch for album of the year. The majority of the setlist material came from the record. Opening with Come on back this Way, a sense of devotion permeated the sold-out room and remained throughout the performance. Callinan’s influence was particularly potent in the nightmarish anti-disco jam, Reputation Amputation. The down-tuned sensuality of Neon Blue verged on perverse and the relatively modest To Keep & To Be Kept showed how little’s needed for Ladder to utterly captivate. There were a few tracks taken from 2011 opus Hurtsville as well, which was a reminder this towering, melancholic figure has been making fucking excellent music, on his own terms, for some time now. Of course the band – the ‘classic’ lineup of The Dreamlanders – were brilliant. Callinan was a moreish centre of energy and seeing him with only a guitar illustrated how much of a wizard he is. Benet’s technique is perhaps less daring, but he kept at a constant sizzle. Rather than simply taking pleasure in the performance, the crowd clung desperately to every damn word. And, using Lou Reed (via Morrissey) as his guide, Ladder certainly has some words worth clinging to. His descriptive verses could seem prosaic at first, but each song developed into an exquisite journey, comprising oft-tragic and sometimes-hilarious LOVED: Laura Jean’s solo support set. details of skewwhiff characters and woebegone longing. HATED: Thinking I’d been found. DRANK: Up your blood like wine. AUGUSTUS WELBY
MARIAH CAREY @ Rod Laver Arena, Friday November 7 Music doesn’t form in a vacuum. Its creation zaps across history, like majestic synapses firing throughout across epochs worth of global consciousness. There are cosmic echoes, familiar cascades found within the new. The new becomes old, the erratic, anachronistic cycle carries forth, self-referential and celebratory. In old-school revue fashion, the band preceded the night’s star, entering to embellish a recording of Bobby Womack’s Across 110th Street with touches of live instrumentation. Then, an extreme close-up apparition of the late, great Ol’ Dirty Bastard appears on the wall-encompassing screen: the main event; Fantasy (Remix). That beat, sampled wholesale from Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love, is the perfect elation for The Elusive Chanteuse’s escorted entry into the spotlight. No pyrotechnics, just a superstar, with a capital M. The remix version of Fantasy and its necromantic ODB verses didn’t have to be performed tonight; the decision to enlist ODB, a rapper with still-unmatched levels of unhinged brilliance, wasn’t exactly logical in the first place. It marked the beginning of a fruitfully symbiotic relationship between Carey’s chart-topping dominance and hiphop’s burgeoning mainstream embracement. Every aspect of Carey’s presence was stunning. Her voice is still a weapon; a finger-in-ear-triggering, glass-shattering, jaw-dropping higher registers: flawless throughout. This wasn’t an arena pop spectacular. It was an R&B master class. The setlist was a delicious overload of modern R&B’s biggest, most powerful songs, achieving that canny brain scramble towards the close: “There can’t possibly be any more hits.” Then bam, the definitive power ballad, Hero. “Okay now there can’t possibly be any more hits.” Always Be My Baby. Of course. Irrepressible diva acumen was in full force, but Mimi was still personable and playful. Opening act Nathaniel reemerged for a rare (tour exclusive, apparently) duet of One Sweet Day. Mariah strolled through the crowd during Thirsty, explaining the move as if it were spontaneous, which it might as well have been, when she returned to the stage. The show was, presumably unintentionally, a cold war between timelessness and nostalgia. It was the ‘90s, purified slightly, bottled. Film clip excess, especially in Honey and Heartbreaker, was relived in standard definition glory. A reminder of the days when Jay-Z was not quite a businessman, let alone a business, man. The modern follies of the intense pop paradigm rest on Mariah like mere garnish – an obligatory hashtag in the title of 2013’s decent #Beautiful, the onLOVED: The musical twists and turns. trend parlance of the middling Thirsty. But Mariah rises above. An HATED: The empty seats behind the icon, resilient through voice, song and beauty. Bow down. top-tier curtain. DRANK: One sports drink. LACHLAN KANONIUK
PHIL ADELPHIA GRAND JURY Ding Dong, Saturday November 8 It’s been three years since Joel “MC Bad Genius” Beeson and Simon “Berkfinger” Berckelman officially called it a day for the much-loved Philadelphia Grand Jury, and judging by the sold out crowd at Ding Dong, the love had not waned. An excited chatter spread throughout the venue, people laughed and spilled beer and a guy tried to show me an iPhone video of him getting a blowjob. I, a Man played a solid set; their chiming guitars all washed in delay yet still delivered with enough distortion and sustain to be dynamic in parts. Being the local support, and a few sound problems, meant they didn’t seem to really get the audience’s full attention but they did well nonetheless. The charismatic down-to-earth personas and seemingly overwhelming desire to bring the party have always endeared The Philly Jays to their audience, ensuring despite the pop leanings of the melodies, they’ve all the hallmarks of a cult band, laying claim to a small but dedicated fan base. Grabbing his bass and walking to the front of the stage, the bearded, wild-eyed Bad Genius launched into the opening riff of Ready to Roll,, which seemed to speed up as soon as Berkfinger and original drummer Dan “W. Sweat” Williams joined in behind him. With the opening call of, “I just want you to know/that I am about to get my game on,” this was a statement of intent from the band. Moving straight into Growing Up Alone, one of the highlights of their 2009 album Hope is for Hopers,, the relationship between the bass and guitar parts created a heavy, soulful and melodic sludge, upon which Berkfinger’s pretty vocal melody sat perfectly. Even on their poppiest tunes, such as set highlight The New Neil Young,, the heaviness of the rhythm and the loose energy of the delivery add a groove and punk edge, which are defining characteristics of the Philly Jays’ sound. As the set progressed, the energy amped up, until finally Berkfinger was sitting astride an audience member’s shoulders while belting out the band’s Like A Version cover of 99 Problems,, as the throng around his ankles went nuts. Going to the Casino (Tomorrow Night) and I Don’t Want to Party (Party) rounded out the set in a typically exuberant and sweaty manner, reminding everyone just what a great band they’d been and how much we have to look forward to with the promise of LOVED: The Return of the Philly Jays. a new album. HATED: Tony Abbott. DRANK: Water. ALEX WATTS CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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WEDNESDAY 12 NOV INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • coq roq wednesdays - feat: various djs Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
• diamonds of neptune + twin haus + sleep
decade + fierce mild Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• flight facilities Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• gig4a cause - feat: mahalia barnes + alanna
cassidy + soul contention + zk + shanelle dargan + dj braveheart Royal Melbourne Hotel,
Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $99.00.
• guy pearce (broken bones album launch)
+ dancing heals + emma anglesey Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $40.00.
• keith mason + kell/ua Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • lawrence arabia + geoffrey o’connor +
creeks Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• nick saxon (sherpa tour) + ryan nico +
hollow drums Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.
8:00pm. $8.00.
• occult blood + split teeth + unnatural
• open mic/jam Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.
• the acoustic sessions - feat: maxi + louis
majiwa + demi louise Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
6:30pm.
• the brunswick hotel’s open mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• the hammond organ nights Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.
• wine whiskey women - feat: laura hill +
naomi jones Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY 13 NOV
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • admiral ackbar’s dishonourable discharge
+ kings cup + lo pan + tzatziki party Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
• chips rafferty + new birds + ross cottee
timezone Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $7.00.
• fields + coloured clocks + d.a.calf Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.
• flight facilities Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• hamish anderson + villainettes + hayley
couper Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
birth Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. • oscar galt & the eventual somethings + sweets + the atlas room Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
• hand of mercy + hellions + void of vision +
• river of snakes + little desert Cherry Bar,
• icah + james wiley + team reasonable +
8:00pm. $7.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $5.00.
• ronn moss + player + peter beckett Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $49.00.
• the elliots + sunborne + the screaming
stockholms Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. • the stu thomas paradox Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm.
• valdaway + inventions + peeling sun +
gabriel vargas Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
jack the stripper + earth caller Evelyn Hotel, golden age Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• manchester orchestra + apes + kevin
• next - feat: 50 lions + thorns + free world
• sarah mckenzie (we could be lovers
Northcote. 7:30pm. $12.00.
Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• nmit recitals 303, Northcote. 7:00pm.
• bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• mietta & chantal mitvalsky Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
• peter hearne & dizzy’s big band with
celeste coulson Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• relativity - feat: australian string quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.
• ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: the
wednesday quartet Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• sarah mckenzie (we could be lovers
launch) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
$25.00.
• secret tones + lightly toasted + tom
noonan trio Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• the jack earle sextet Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• tom fryer band + the burke bros & ben
nickel 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. • triodegradable (the italian songbook) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • desperateens John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
• gareth ed lindsay Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • gus rigby + jenny biddle & ma petite Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• mike noga Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.
• open mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
$18.00.
• ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: the
• plugged in thursdays - feat: diet Revolver
• hey frankie + up up away + 30/70 Boney,
How much live music would MMW give, if MMW could give live music? It pretty much rolls off the tongue. Melbourne Music Week’s Live Music Safari involves ten venues across the city simultaneously celebrating live music in Melbourne with free entry shows. Kingswood will be launching this year’s events with a special performance at the flagship venue of MMW, Queen Victoria Market. Melbourne Music Week’s Live Music Safari takes over venues city-wide on Thursday November 20 including Section 8, The Toff In Town, 1000 £ Bend and more. For all information head to melbourne.vic.gov.au/mmw.
devine Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. • new navy + chase city Northcote Social Club,
• pepa knight (hypnotized tour) Shebeen,
6:00pm.
LIVE MUSIC SAFARI
Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $16.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • clair de lune Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $7.00.
• revomatix - feat: ted vining + stevie & the
sleepers + mo louie + maxi + dj lotus Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
• sooky la la + the shabbab + bonnie doom +
thursday trio Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
7:00pm. $15.00.
launch) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
$25.00.
• soul in the basement! - feat: fulton street
+ dj vince peach & pierre baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the browne, murphy & macaulay trio + the
browne + murphy & macaulay trio Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• the melbourne improvisers collective Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
james seedy Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • strawberry fistcake + fantails + elevator talk + shelby clements & spencer scott Old
• the riot squad Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• the basics Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.
• the diecasts + the quarters + holytrash +
into the earth Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • the electric guitars + right! + drooling mystics Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00. • the ugly kings + the hunted crows + the black alleys Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • tumbleweed + bruce! Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• twin haus (blood tapes tour) + romeo
moon + the valley ends Boney, Melbourne Cbd.
8:00pm. $10.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • anniversaries - feat: trio anima mundi
• the songs of joni and rainee - feat: rainee
lyleson Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
$20.00.
• ash grunwald + digging roots + the bart
willoughby band The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $31.50.
• austin brady Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• brooke russell & the mean reds + ben
• james flynn & the john montesante
quintet The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. • ms murphy + estere + bongeziwe mabandla + louise baker Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• cam giles-webb & the collective Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• e.s.p quartet Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• electro swing club - feat: electric swing
circus + the woohoo revue + incontrol + mortisville + red dragon 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.
• mojo juju + marlon williams + finding
albert + ross ainslie & jarlath henderson Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• nahko & medicine for the people +
bullhorn + batucada sound machine The HiFi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $35.50.
• rebecca mendoza & the john montesante
quintet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
$25.00.
• ruth roshan & tango noir Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00.
• tank dilemma Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. • the furbelows Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• geoff achinson Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $6.00.
• nick saxon + jack gramski Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
country Arts Centre, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $40.00. • president roots + police & thieves + alison ferrier Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. • sahara beck Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12.00. • sean kirkwood (tales for the barman tour) + ryan nico + hollow drums Grace
7:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• tjintu desert band + stewart gaykamangu
Belgrave. 8:30pm. $20.00.
$14.00.
tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.
FRIDAY 14 NOV
• the hoodangers Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• olivers army Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
• free range funk - feat: jake judd +
Coburg. 8:00pm.
mastwy Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • eva mcgowan Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. • forest falls Federation Square, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • frank yamma & radical son Sooki Lounge,
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.
• dig we must Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.
• van walker & shane reilly Post Office Hotel,
• pete murray + benny walker + welcome to
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
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$12.00.
• the lalibelas The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• the steve grant quintet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
+ jacinta price Forgotten Worlds, Collingwood.
12:00pm.
• white man cant reggae Tram Stop Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:30pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • mmw opening night - feat: architecture
in helsinki + total giovanni + rainbow connection djs Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne.
7:30pm. $35.00.
• cherry bomb European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
• cherrywood + bayou + kinloch troons
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bourke Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
• voix d’or + sean mcmahon + dj fee fee Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
• wilson pickers + harry hookey Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $18.00.
SATURDAY 15 NOV
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • ezekiel ox + jack daddy Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• above kings + going swimming + paper
giants + the raffaellas Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
• accept + mason + elm street Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.
• activist arts festival - feat: les thomas
+ abe nouk + little foot + sordid ordeal + kate bart + saint jude Bella Union Bar, Carlton.
TRANSMITTER RECORDS AWME CLOSING PARTY
Anyone who’s ever done a group assignment will react to those words with the same reaction. Trying to coordinate activities with more than one person can be a dreaded task. If you’re after some tips, maybe ask the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, they manage to coordinate up to 30+ members to create a fun-loving big band experience playing music from the golden ska period of 1963 through to modern day classics. Melbourne Ska Orchestra will headline the massive closing party for AWME 2014 presented by Transmitter Records on Sunday November 16 at The Hi-Fi featuring Bustamento, The Ska Vendors and Mighty Duke & The Lords + DJ Jesse I (PBS). Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• choirboys do ac/dc Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $40.00.
• chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm.
• coffin up + lazy bones Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm.
• daniel lee kendall (album launch) + tully
on tully + nick saxon Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• einstein toyboys + cassette Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• engine three seven + lung + the
soulenikoes + entropy Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $15.00.
• ezekiel ox + the twoks Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• face the music - feat: jen long + steve
albini Arts Centre, Melbourne. 12:00pm. $70.00.
• flight facilities Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• fudge Pier Live, Frankston. 9:30pm. $5.00.
• gami gami devils Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm.
• gorguts + portal + departe Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $45.00.
• hand of mercy + hellions + void of vision Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. 8:00pm.
• hits + sheriff + dukes of deliciousness +
grindhouse Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00. • jack howard & the long lost brothers feat: the cliches + billy pommer’s guilty plea + airway lanes + the originals + dj jack davies Exchange Bar, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15.00. • katy perry (prismatic tour) Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $109.00.
• lake minne Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• legends of rock - feat: shed zeppelin + the
australian inxs show + the absolutely live doors show Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. • manchester orchestra + apes + kevine devine Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $46.20. • mcalpine’s fusiliers + rattlin bones blackwood Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. • notfest - feat: laser brains + oslow + initials + tired breeds + revellers + gladstone + fantails + robot mugabe Public Bar, North Melbourne. 6:30pm. $15.00.
• nun + miles brown + taipan tiger girls +
vacuum + nice:noise djs Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
8:30pm. $12.00.
• nunchukka superfly + wicked city + older
men + weedy gonzalez Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• papa pilko & the binrats + mightiest of
guns + the baudelaires + mick dog’s bone yard Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • rumjacks + not ok + australian kingswood factory & oj simpson Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• seedy jeezus + the veebees + loveless +
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lumber Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • slumber doom 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. • sweet as taylor + oceans to athena + one kingdom + coastline + cymatics Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• tangled thoughts of leaving + kerretta +
hazards of swimming naked Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $18.00.
• temper temper Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00.
• the bon scotts (modern capitalism gets
things done album launch) + alexis nicole + the rechords Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • the floors + la bastard + alex elbury & the strangers + timothy neilson + dj bitchy Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• the funkelleros Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
• the tarantinos Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
• three quarter beast + plymouth reverends
+ dukes veda + femme noir Whole Lotta Love,
Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• threez-a-crowd + don frankenstein Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
• tumbleweed + bruce! Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• village echoes + monte + oh pacific + half
the sky Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
12:30pm.
• bang - feat: aversions crown + iconoclast +
athenas wake Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
• brockway lights + logic defies logic +
lago + four zero one four + max goes to hollywood + shadow league + adeline pines + georgia maq + myth of democracy + spencer scott Public Bar, North Melbourne. 5:30pm.
$15.00.
• picture perfect Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. • river rocks Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm.
• rock the night - feat: bakehouse tuesday Tram Stop Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• sarspell + amaros + cymatics Cbd Nightclub, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $12.00.
• sete star sept + the kill + headless death
+ umbilical tentacle + diploid + tactical attack Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • shovels (lp launch) + east brunswick all girls choir + bone Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • spit syndicate + baro Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• sudamerican rockers Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. • teeth & tongue + the ancients + time for
dreams + kangaroo skull The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
drova + mstake Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • choirboys do ac/dc Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
• tequila mockingbyrd (video launch) +
• chugga & the fuckheads + wet blankets Tote
• the ben smith band Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
8:00pm. $40.00.
Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
• cut copy + andras & oscar + roland tings +
no zu + world’s end press + sleep d + speed painters + nile delta Queen Victoria Market,
Melbourne. 4:00pm. $45.00.
• david cotter & dean’s martini Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• echo drama + mose & the fmly + the black
harrys + the oil baron Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $12.00.
• face the music - feat: jen long + steve
albini Arts Centre, Melbourne. 12:00pm. $70.00. • flangipanis + keggin’ + wolfpack + stoned to death Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • frangipanis + dixon cider + wolfpack + muscle mary Vinyl Bar, Moonee Ponds. 8:00pm. • frank yamma & radical son (double album launch) + tha feelstyle Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• fuck the g20 - feat: bombs are falling +
admiral ackbars dishonorable discharge + a commoner’s revolt + postscript + crackwhore + tom denton + king’s cup + liquor snatch + cosmic kahuna + bottlecaps + cordell Melbourne Anarchist Club,
Northcote. 3:00pm. $10.00.
• funk rabbit + the upstanding members Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
sudden state + long holiday Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the cherry dolls + the crookeds + the tiny
giants + josh rawiri Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:45pm. $10.00.
• tori amos Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $89.90. • waxhead Alia Arthouse, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • zuma 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • a winged victory for the sullen - feat:
adam wiltzie & dustin o’halloran Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $38.00.
• bonjah + pierce brothers + timberwolf +
kim wempe Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• chelsea wilson + the burundian drummer
group of victoria + uptown brown + black indie Arts Centre, Melbourne. 3:00pm. • con kalamaras (rebetiko launch) Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm. $8.00.
• duo tone divas & bob sedergreen Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $20.00.
• emotionworks cut opera presents bizet’s
carmen Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $33.00.
• good music - feat: ethan mclaren Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• johnston street spanish fiesta - feat: the
funkalleros + dj derek m + jumpin josh + gogo goddesses The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. • leigh barker & the new sheiks (cd launch)
• watt’s on - feat: various artists Prince Public
• glass empire + copia + qlaye face + lucid
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• greens dairy angel ensemble Penny Black,
• matt dwyer and the magnatones Forester’s Beer
• cool sounds + soda eaves + grand prismatic
• hey lady! + axe girl + chores Reverence Hotel,
• music in me - feat: melbourne singers of
Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm.
Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.
• daryl roberts & hey gringo Pirates Tavern, Williamstown. 8:00pm.
• duncan phillips Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
• flying engine stringband Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 9:30pm.
• flying engine stringband Testing Grounds, Melbourne. 6:00pm.
• guild country band Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• jeremy neal + dorsal fins + louis spoils John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
• liz stringer + philemon + genevieve
chadwick Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $20.00. • mikelangelo Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. • on the prowl (frankie j holden & wilbur wilde) - feat: frankie j holden & wilbur wilde Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00. • raised by eagles Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. • rebellious bird Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:30pm.
planet Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $12.00. Brunswick. 3:00pm.
Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• hiatus kaiyote + myele manzanza + hailey
cramer + rita satch The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd.
8:00pm. $33.50.
• johnston street spanish fiesta - feat:
midnight woolf + los tones + wet meal + dj juke joint Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. • katy perry (prismatic tour) Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $109.00.
• krisuin + truth corrded + metalstorm +
sewercide Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• left dimension + smokin sam & the cargo
blues band Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
• leisure suite + lanks + habits + rat & co Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• lizard punch Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00am.
• mass sky raid + sydonia + alithia Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15.00.
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00. & Music Hall, Collingwood. 9:30pm.
gospel + the soul train South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne. 3:00pm. $35.00.
• papa pilko & the binrats + mick dog’s
boneyard Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• performance workshop with steve
sedergreen Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
2:00pm. $15.00.
• polish festival & art show Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• stephen grant Green Park, 2:00pm.
• t-bones Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. • ted vining Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• the explorers - feat: streeton trio Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
• the fem belling quintet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
• the tiger & me (call me on your own
launch) + brendan welch Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
• monte + ten thousand + oh pacific + village
• up up away + trick dog syndicate The B.east,
• reflejos & alma mater Wesley Anne, Northcote.
echoes Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00. • morning harvey & the tamborine girls Grace
• yellowbird jazz band Paris Cat Jazz Club,
• spencer p jones + dj vince peach & pierre
• my piranha + destrends + the lovelies +
baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. • the chickenstones The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• notfest - feat: super best friends + ride
$20.00.
8:00pm. $15.00.
$12.00.
• traditional irish music session - feat: dan
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
mathlete Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.
the tiger + strathmore + yo put that bag back on + too soon! + hard aches + del
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Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • cat or pillar + slowjaxx & the kozmik love
orkestra + owen rabbit Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.
9:30pm. $10.00.
• cw stoneking Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
Manchester Orchestra are not an orchestra, they’re not from Manchester or made of household linen. But don’t let that get you down; the Atlanta rockers are playing some dope tunes around the country in support of their fourth full-length album, Cope. Catch them when they play The Corner Hotel November 13 and 14 with Apes and Kevin Devine. • cygnet folk festival - feat: eva mcgowan &
the hoochie couch men + madeline hudson + dan & amy + taliska Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. • folk rock in the beer garden - feat: ashbury medicine show + priestessa & dash + rod fritz Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • george kamikawa & noriko tadano Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• georgia fair (break launch) + nik thompson John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
• greg walsh Umbrella Lounge Bar, 7:30pm.
• hayden calnin + ben abraham Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• hired guns + van walker & shane reilly +
djo roberts Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • matt glass Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. • michael meeking & the lost souls Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
• moonee valley drifters Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• slim dime & the prairie kings Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
• tek tek ensemble Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. • the australian johnny cash and june
carter tribute show Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm.
$20.00.
• the houndlings Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• the scouts + the hornets + dj jeff leppard Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• the wilson pickers + harry hookey Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• vic old time jam session - feat: craig
woodward + warren rough Victoria Hotel,
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• victoriana gaye Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • vika & linda Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00.
SUNDAY 16 NOV
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • melanie horsnell & love poetry + brian
campo 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $25.00.
• calle mocondo Bar Open, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
• chantal mitvalsky Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 3:00pm.
• cumbiathon party - feat: de la calle +
cumbia killers + jose nieto + tunes by sonidero esperanza Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • electric swing circus + mortisville + the chef + dice fx 303, Northcote. 2:00pm. $5.00. • emerge in brimbank - feat: tinagee + the movement + burundian youth dancers culture queens + rap3021 + hip hop girls + young ezy + special crew + young bwizzi and young g-storm + fredrick kpakpo + zero degrees Errington Community Centre, 1:00pm. • jazz happy hour - feat: connie lansberg quartet Mardo’s, Port Melbourne. 2:00pm. • ken maher, al wright & tony hargreaves Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• papa chango + that gold street sound +
nahuatl sound system Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
8:00pm. $8.00.
• polish festival & art show Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
• ricochet Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• sam keevers & the josh kyle duo (cd
launch) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
$20.00.
• soul blue Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 3:00pm.
• sunday serenades - feat: john crawly Palace Cinema (westgarth), Northcote. 6:00pm.
• sunday sessions - feat: rosario de marco The Bodega, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• the furbelows Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• the jeremy rose quartet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• tim neil Green Park, 2:00pm.
• tim neil & julian wilson Green Park, 5:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • all we need Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00am.
• allday + l-fresh the lion + baro + the d.y.e
FACE THE MUSIC CONFERENCE
As the uniforms at Coles get uglier, the pressure placed on your band ‘making it’ gets greater. If your musical career isn’t moving as fast as you’d hoped, then maybe you need a little advice from the people that know music. Face The Music gives you a platform for professional and creative career development. The two day event features presentations, discussions, networking, musicmaking workshops, and the hottest tips and tools to give your music career the edge. Face The Music takes over the Arts Centre Melbourne on Friday November 14 and Saturday November 15. For the full program head to www.facethemusic.org.au.
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne. 12:00pm. $25.00.
• axe girl + hey ladies Exchange Bar, South Yarra. 4:00pm.
• baby cherry’s birthday bonanza - feat:
prolapse + liquor snatch + melbourne’s finest burlesque performers Bendigo Hotel,
Collingwood. 6:00pm.
• barb waters & the mothers of pearl +
cyndi boste Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • benefit show for jeff risk - feat: jam the funk + wild catz band + joey amenta band Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm.
• billy miller Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm. • brian nankervis & the rockwiz orkestra Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30.00.
• carus thompson Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• cherry blues - feat: chris wilson Cherry Bar,
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • backseat serenade Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:30pm.
• benny peters blues revue Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• bloody sundays - feat: dogsday +
chickenstones Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 2:00pm.
• bluegrass open session Sporting Club Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.
• c r avery + andy white Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• dan lethbridge & the campaigners Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
• dollhouse Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm.
• dumb diamond Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5.00.
• dale ryder band + stand & deliver 80s + dj
roc landers Espy, St Kilda. 6:00pm.
• jimmy stewart Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. • johnston street spanish fiesta - feat:
midnight woolf + bonnie doom Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• melbourne ska orchestra + bustamento +
the ska vendors + mighty duke & the lords The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $35.50.
• million dollar bash (bob dylan & the
band basement tapes tribute) - feat: luke sinclair & the soup kitchen collective + van & callan walker + emily ulman + sean mcmahon + lonesome + phake phur. cold irons bound + michael plater & the exit keys + alex & the lashlies trio + the coves + the happy lonesome + matt malone + brendan mitchell & small town romance + jms harrison + adnan kadric Gasometer Hotel,
Collingwood. 2:00pm. $10.00.
• normalised launch - feat: seating plan
+ diecut + wolfshield + school damage + masses Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. • notfest - feat: foxtrot + secondhand squad + foley! + joe guiton & the suicide tuesdays + gerry rival & the sunsetters + team reasonable + tim hampshire + if i were a boy + shelby clements Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00pm. $15.00.
• rodeo dirtbag + lizard man & sorry
meditators Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• scorcherfest Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm. • shadow queen + cicadstone + the rash of
satan Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• storm & stress + winternationale + tender
bones + holy lotus + r. electrique Workers
Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• suzanne kinsella (the conversation
launch) + nussy + damon smith Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• tangerine dream Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $55.00.
• the f100s Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• the let your hair down girls John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
• the sure shots Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
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There will be 150 speakers featuring on this year’s FACE THE MUSIC industry conference when it hits the Arts Centre Melbourne this Friday and Saturday. You can check out the full program at www.facethemusic.com.au for the full list of speakers and sessions, but here’s a quick rundown of the discussions, workshops, panels, and keynotes that will be on offer.
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI (MMW OPENING NIGHT)
My affiliation with spray tan began in 2007. I started with one of those gradual moisturisers that makes your body a glossy shade of yellow with exceptionally bronzed knees and elbows. Stepping up to professional spray tans I thought I was pulling it off as a real tan pretty well. In 2007, Architecture in Helsinki released Heart it Races with the one lyric that haunted me for three months of the year ± “and lately you’ve been tanned suspicious for the winter”. Scrub off your fake tan and get your arses to Architecture in Helsinki as they kick off the opening night of Melbourne Music Week. With support from Giovanni and Rainbow Connection DJs it’s gonna go off Friday, November 14 at the Queen Victoria Market. • easy sundays - feat: cousin tonys brand
new firebird + olivia ruth + caitlin ruth + benjamin james caldwell Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $8.00.
• forest falls Beav’s Bar, Geelong. 8:00pm.
• glenn ford & the record machine Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
• greg walsh Umbrella Lounge Bar, 12:00pm. • jam sundays Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm.
• jerome knappett + spencer scott +
lachlan stuckey Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. • laura hill Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm. • lisa crawley band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
• living music presents (meeting ground
launch) - feat: big bear + lochbee + mason + mc forevermore + moroni + rhiannon Revolt
Artspace, Kensington. 2:00pm.
• open mic night Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm.
HIATUS KAIYOTE
In year eight music class I was given the trumpet. I took it home in excitement, prepared to practice everyday. My dad was really not into noise so he told me that if I played the trumpet, my lips would be eternally blistered and pretty much my face would be gross for the rest of my life. A few, more inspired musicians met in high school and formed neo-soul outfit Hiatus Kaiyote. Fronted by the enigmatic Nai Palm, the music of Hiatus Kaiyote strikes the perfect note merging poetry and polyrhythms. Get some soul into ya when Hiatus Kaiyote play the Hi-Fi Bar this Saturday, November 15 with Myele Manzanza, Hailey Cramer and Rita Satch.
Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $28.00.
• wayfare Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• we two thieves + jim laurie Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $25.00.
• zevon & the werewolves of melbourne Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
MONDAY 17 NOV
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • sir zelman cowen monash school of music
small ensembles Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.00.
• 303 funk jam 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• nofx + bodyjar + the bennies 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $60.00.
• piano trio masterpieces - feat: wilma smith Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.
• ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: piano té Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. $15.00.
$38.00.
• see + running young Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00.
• the jack earl big band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• yes Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $134.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • breabach Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. $31.00.
• goldner string quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 11:00am.
• joe o’connor sextet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• monash recital night Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $10.00.
• ruby’s live jazz after dark - feat: dexter’s
asian connection Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• sir zelman cowen monash school of music
small ensembles Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.00.
• slow galo Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm.
• the allan browne nihilist quartet Bennetts
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
bunn Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. • sunday sessions - feat: various artists
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• irish sessions Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
• stomping nick & his blues grenade + tracy
Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
• sunday sessions - feat: better late than
never acoustic trio Tram Stop Bar, Moonee Ponds. 4:00pm.
• the ‘johnny can’t dance’ cajun band Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• the blues preachers (dead cats can
bounce tour) Williamstown Rsl, Williamstown. 2:00pm. • the engine room Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • the large no 12s Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. • the stetson family Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm. • the story so far - feat: vika & linda bull Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 2:30pm. $20.00.
• the wilson pickers + harry hookey Caravan
Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• accept + mason + harlott Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $59.00.
• call it in - feat: james tom & dylan michael Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
• htmlflowers Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.00. • jimmy eat world Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• mundane mondays - feat: veer essence +
• leah senior & the abbotsford three Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• nmit showcase Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. • open mic Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• open stage night Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. • van walker Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. • wax lyrical Murmur Bar, 7:45pm.
• wrok down - feat: nikki nicholls Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $5.00.
great john himself + frontiers Old Bar, Fitzroy.
• wolf shield + bono ono + mnttab Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • cajun dance party - feat: the ‘johnny can’t
dance’ cajun band Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• special consensus + davidson brothers Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $17.00.
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• the mutual appreciation society Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
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• animal hands + the hidden venture +
arcane saints Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
• cheap kraken rum night - feat: kevala
buttonshaw & georgina matherson art opening + jess ribiero + amarillo + dark pools Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00. • emilee south + alysia manceau Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• happiness + ben hooper + the my way
killings Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00.
• jimmy eat world Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• katy perry (prismatic tour) Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $109.00.
• krisiun Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
And that’s just Friday. Here’s what Saturday has to offer: explore a whole suite of digital platforms and how they’re being utilised to promote artists and current release strategies; keynote presentations by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, Detroit’s Underground Resistance, recording engineer Steve Albini, and Daddy Cool; how to increase your value through entrepreneurialism and innovation, and analysing gaps to ensure you’re bringing something new and needed to an evolving landscape; discuss the role of artist managers in building careers and a business around multiple revenue streams; what Melbourne as the Music Capital of Australia looks like in the future and how we get there; a checklist for emerging managers and self-managed artists; a look at how media is changing rapidly and some of the new ways that music media platforms, writing styles, publicity approaches, label releases and bands’ online identities are adapting in a quest for attention amongst all that noise; and a look at gender in music. Once again the conference will wrap up with a lively Splendour Forum debate, this year’s topic: “Will there ever be another Elvis? (Dylan / Madonna / Nirvana / The Beatles / Michael Jackson / insert global trailblazing artist name here).” Ticket holders also have the opportunity to register for exclusive one-on-one meetings and workshops, which include submitting a CD to get feedback, speed meetings with the most clued-up and well-connected independent music people in Melbourne, a skill-building session on improving your home recording and preparing for post-production, free legal consultations, and small group workshops with Gossling, Kirin J Callinan, Joelistics, Pip Norman (Countbounce) and Momo (Diafrix) to name a few.
8:00pm. $5.00.
• push songs Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
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Friday’s packed-out program features a study of Australasian artists’ success in infiltrating international markets; why bands should tour regional Victoria and how to build long-term audiences in their home state; a discussion of the different grants available to bands and how to turn a great idea into a strong application; breaking down the strategy behind a successful release; how to navigate through the international and local music conference landscape and a look at the more alternative or genre-specific music conference; how artists can take advantage of the latest technology to connect with audiences beyond radio airplay; how to build long-term fans and momentum in an environment where audiences are always looking for the next thing; expert advice on what your press kit says about you; The Living End discussing everything from their songwriting process, their highs and lows, and what the future holds as they begin work on their seventh album; a presentation of the up and coming innovative minds who are applying independent thinking to their approach in the music industry with far-reaching creative and commercial success; a discussion of the future of digital music rights in Australia; and explore the best live music strategies delivered by leading agents from every aspect of the live music world.
A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN
The trailer for the last instalment of The Hobbit got released this week, here’s hoping to one of those epic victory scenes where the dwarves get lifted to safety by some sort of giant winged creature. Kind of like that feeling you get when you’re really drunk and someone offers you a lift home so you don’t have to get a cab. Atmospheric and ethereal, quite like Peter Jackson’s latest trilogy, A Winged Victory For The Sullen perform their austere yet lavish, classical but contemporary soundscapes at the Melbourne Recital Centre this Saturday, November 15 as part of Melbourne Music Week.
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15 • Skate of Mind w/ Mexican Music Man, Ajay, Sir William Fry Reserve, Corner of Bay St and Nepean Hwy, Highett, 10am ± 4pm, Free, www.kyfs.org.au, AA SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16 • Malahang Festival Youth Stage w/ Caution, J.Jay De Melo, Jide, Selby, Jack Hewitt, and DJ Cojito, Malahang Reserve, corner of Oriel Rd and Southern Rd, West Heidelberg, 12pm ± 4pm, Free, www.banyule.vic.gov.au/ Arts-and-Events/Malahang-CommunityFestival, AA • Inverloch Family Festival Skate Park Freeza w/ DJ, local young bands and musicians, and scoot/skate/BMX competition, 10-14 Church St, Cowes (enter via Park St), 11am - 4.30pm, Free, www.facebook.com/BassCoastFreeza, AA
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STORE PROFILE: EASTGATE MUSIC Established: 2001 Location: 1131 Burke Rd, Kew, 3101. Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 9.30am to 6pm. Friday: 9.30am to 7pm. Saturday: 9.30am to 5pm. Main brands and products you specialise in: Electric and acoustic guitars, tube amps, FX pedals, bass gear, PA systems, home and live mixing and recording equipment, drums, keyboards, violins and cellos. Brands include Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Epiphone, Yamaha, Marshall, Vox, Badcat, Fryette, Fuchs, Voodoo Lab, TC Electronics, PedalTrain, Home Brew Electronics, Lehle, Maxon, AMT, Plush, Guyatone, AKG, Shure, Martin, Taylor, Maton, Cole Clark, National Reso-Phonic and many more. Services offered: We offer repairs, setups and restorations to all instruments and amplifiers. Our in-house service techs are players who understand the subtleties of
STUDIO PROFILE: SOUND CITY MELBOURNE RECORDING Location: 10/59 Hudson Road, Spotswood (15 mins from the CBD). Hours of operation: From 12 pm, 7 days a week. Tell us about the history of your studio. When designing our studio, we wanted to be able to track a live band playing a gig on our stage or in our bar and be able to give them a release quality product. This is why we consider our studio unique. We have the capability of recording a live gig with a studio quality production. The reason we say unique is that while the band is performing on our stage the music is fed back up into our control room and tracked and mixed by one of our in house engineers or producers on the same night. If you were after the more traditional side of recording we also have packages to suit most budgets with access to some of Australia’s best producers. What are your studios digital and/or analogue capabilities for recording? We have imported a new console from Allen & Heath, our friends over in England. It’s the Gsr24M which is a 24 channel analogue fully automated desk. This is the centrepiece of our control room. This gives us great freedom to use it as a DAW controller and use it to get that great analogue mix. As well as this we have loads of great outboard gear and mic’s available. If we don’t have it, we will outsource it. How many rooms do Sound City Studio have and what are they ideal for? Our recording studio is made up of three rooms which are all monitored by camera that feed back into our control room. We also have a tracking room with its own isolated booth and a live stage area that is ideal if you are after the huge live drum take. What recording gear is available to use? Our console is the Allen & Heath GS-R24M, we use an iMac 27” 2.93GHz i7 16 GB RAM with ProTools, Logic Pro and Ableton. We also run Yamaha NS10 near field monitors and Event 3 Way monitors. The outboard gear we run includes an Avalon VT-737SP, Universal Audio 4-710d, Universal Audio LA-610 MkII, Universal Audio 1176LN, Warm Audio WA76 (1176 clone), Focusrite Platinum Voicemaster Pro, Focusrite ISA One,
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Silver Tube Ultragain T1953, Avid Eleven Rack, ART Pro Audio 6 x 2 (headphone amps). We also have a huge selection of Condensor and Dynamic Microphones including Rode, Neumann, AKG and Shure to name a few. We have a huge library of plug-ins from Waves and UAD to boot! Are there any instruments available to use or hire whilst recording? Yes, we have Fender, Gibson, EVH, Maton and Yamaha guitars, alongside Lakland and Music Man basses. We have a a few Marshall, Fender, Engl and Ampeg amps alongside Pearl drums. Who are your in-house engineers? Our in-house Producer is Danny Simcic, who first came to prominence as the drummer/composer/ producer of the internationally successful band Real Life, who had a string of hits - ‘Send me an Angel’, ‘Catch me I’m Falling’, ‘God Tonight’ and ‘Let’s Fall In Love’ selling well over 3 million records worldwide. Danny has worked with many prominent record producers including Steve Hillage (Simple Minds) David Holman (Bush, No Doubt) Peter Henderson (Supertramp) Ross Fraser ( John Farnham) and Paul Wiltshire (Delta Goodrem, Guy Sebastian, Human Nature). Danny has also played drums as a session musician with M People, Kim Wilde, Taylor Dane, Kids In The Kitchen and Dave Evans (AC/DC) Extras worth mentioning: We pride ourselves on our excellent service and a central location easy to access from anywhere in the Melbourne metropolitan area and surrounding suburbs. There are over 20 onsite car parking spaces available and it is only a 2 minute walk from the railway station. Our location is close to all amenities, with the local shopping strip as well as the Spotswood Hotel nearby.
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tone and the requirements of working musicians. We provide fast, friendly and affordable service. Point of difference: Eastgate Music is a full line independent music retailer specialising in all types of guitars, amps, FX pedals and music gear. We stock a huge range of accessories, music books, guitar and amp parts including vacuum tubes and pickups. Eastgate also sell second hand and vintage instruments and amplifiers, offering cash and/or trade-ins for quality used music gear. We also sell limited edition custom shop electrics and acoustics. If “searching for tone” is important to you, this is the place to shop. Extras: We offer great deals in store and pride ourselves on stocking the best brands at the best prices. We offer friendly customer service, so don’t be shy, come in and ask the questions you need answered and get a great deal, you won’t be disappointed. PHONE: (03) 9817 7000 WEBSITE: eastgatemusic.com.au
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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
AUSTRALIAN, NZ, CHARTS TO INTEGRATE AUDIO STREAMS
Following UK and some European countries, both the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and Recorded Music New Zealand will include audio streams in their official singles charts. ARIA will on Monday November 24 include the data compiled for the two year old ARIA Streaming Track Chart into the Singles chart. “Over the past two years, audio streaming has grown at such a rapid rate,” ARIA CEO Dan Rosen said. Audio streams will continue to be calculated from Deezer, JB Now, Rdio, Samsung Music Hub and Spotify. (An estimated 510,000 Australians were using streaming services at the end of 2012, with an annual growth rate of 36 % up to 2015). Recorded Music NZ said music streaming revenue has tripled since 2012 in NZ. It’s now nearly 10% of all revenues by format and close to 20% of digital revenue.
HEAT ON DANCE FESTIVALS
WA Police are investigating links between bush doof parties and a Perth bust, where $210,000 of cannabis and hallucinogenics were allegedly uncovered and two men arrested. In Sydney on the weekend, 78 people were busted at Harbourlife (attended by 5,000) and 19-year old Georgina Bartter died from a suspected overdose or adverse reaction. Harbourlife sent a message of sympathy to her family and pointed out she had medical attention from the on-site medical team a minute after she collapsed.
BESGROVE, O’BRIEN, LAUNCH BARELY DRESSED
Artist managers Katie Besgrove and Nick O’Byrne set up Barely Dressed Records in partnership with Remote Control. First release is Beloved by New Gods, formed last year by former Little Red members Dominic Byrne and Adrian Beltrame. Besgrove and O’Byrne say their music will be treated with respect, enthusiasm and care. “It’s not a particularly original or complicated concept, but it’s the way that all good labels should be.”
SPICE GIRLS’ WANNABE CATCHIEST POP TUNE SINCE ‘40s
Research by the University of Amsterdam declared Spice Girls’ Wannabe the catchiest song since the 1940s. Of 220 tunes, the 1997 track (the seven million global seller topped 22 countries) was recognised on an average of 2.3 seconds compared to 5 seconds for others. Second on the list was Lou Bega’s Mambo No 5, Survivor’s Eye Of The Tiger, Lady Gaga’s Just Dance, ABBA’s SOS, Roy Orbison’s Pretty Woman, Michael Jackson’s Beat It, Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You, The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me and Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing.
AIRPLAY! BACK AT MELBOURNE AIRPORT
Music Victoria and City of Melbourne’s AirPlay! Project returns for a third year with local acts playing for three days at the airport. The Basics kick it off on the main stage outside the Virgin Domestic departures area at 5pm on Thursday November 13. Over the next three days, passengers will be entertained by The Age Music Victoria Awards nominees including Cookin’ on 3 Burners (with Kylie Auldist), Charles Jenkins, Freya Hollick, Animaux, Marlon Williams, Al Parkinson and Jules Boult on four stages around the airport. “Melbourne’s the greatest music city on the planet right now, and as native Melbournians we’re stoked to be the band that welcomes people to our home for Melbourne Music Week,” said The Basics. Music Victoria will also launch the latest digital version of the Melbourne Music City guide and promote it to travellers to help them navigate their way around the state’s musical offerings.
THINGS WE HEAR
• Which major Australian rapper pulls out all the controversial tracks before playing an advance copy to his parents? • Which label exec is living in fear that a post-liquid lunch email sent to a colleague describing one of their acts as “a bloody poofter” could go viral? • How true is speculation the Merrick and Rosso team will reunite for Drive on Triple M next year? Absolutely not, says Merrick Watts who’s doing the time-slot by himself. Not the time or the place for a reunion, he reckons. • Will Insurgent actress Shailene Woodley be accompanying boyfriend, Hawaiian musician Nahko, when his band Nahko and Medicine For The People play around Australia over the next few weeks? BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 58
• Taylor Swift’s 1989 album is the fastest selling album of the year in Australia, shifting 43,428 copies in under four days. It beat Coldplay’s Ghost Stories which moved 34,097 units in seven days. • Justice Crew’s Que Sera now certified 5 x platinum. • Queen’s Brian May paid A$18,000 for a First Class seat on a flight to America for his Red Special guitar so it wouldn’t have to be stored in cabin lockers. He built in his father’s workshop in England 40 years ago. • NOFX’s singer Fat Mike was so mortified he kicked fan Alex Medak in the face when he jumped up onstage during their Sydney show, he tweeted saying he’d buy him a beer. • Australian music service Guvera entered the Indian market last week. • Fergie and Delia Doyle, owners of Sydney live music venue Cat and Fiddle were celebrating Melbourne Cup: they co-own winning horse, Protectionist. • Melbourne’s Smith Street Band cancelled their US tour midway after singer Will Wagner had to rush back to Australia to take care of a personal matter. This week their Throw Me In The River entered the ARIA chart at #18.
PEARLS JOIN DOT DASH/ REMOTE CONTROL
Melbourne glam-popsters Pearls signed to Dot Dash/ Remote Control for the world release of debut album Pretend You’re Mine in February. The trio formed in 2011. Last year they released a split 7” on Glasgow label Re-Peater and covered The Standells’ Dirty Water for the Australian 40th Anniversary Nuggets compilation. The launch for single Big Shot is on Saturday November 29 at Hugs & Kisses. Remote Control’s roster includes Courtney Barnett, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Client Liaison, Saskwatch, Klo, Velociraptor and Sunbeam Sound Machine.
TOTAL GIOVANNI WITH TWO BRIGHT LAKES
Melbourne-based European-chic disco/house collective Total Giovanni signed with Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control through which they released their debut single Human Animal. They made their name playing live and DJ-ing on the local club and festivals circuit, with a debut album not too far away.
UK DEAL FOR MELBOURNE’S KLO
Melbourne electronic duo Klo’s first single Make Me Wonder was picked up by BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe. So it’s no surprise debut EP Cusp has a UK release, through new Merge Records imprint, Year One. The EP’s out in Australia by Dot Dash/Remote Control Records. The cousins, producer Simon Lam and singer Chloe Kaul, made their live debut last August.
CANADA SCORES FOR SIMON ASTLEY
Melbourne singer/songwriter Simon Astley’s song My Temptation got signed to a publishing deal with Phantom 4 Music in Canada. Meantime, his set at Bakehouse Studios on Saturday November 29 is streamed to video while new single All Falls Down is due in late February.
TRIPLE J’S FIRST ROUND OF OZ ALBUMS…
The first round of titles nominated for the J Award Australian Album of the Year are #1 Dads’ About Face, Ball Park Music’s Puddinghead, Chet Faker’s Built On Glass, The Preatures’ Blue Planet Eyes, Remi’s Raw X Infinity, Total Control’s Typical System, Flight Facilities’ Down to Earth, Seekae’s The Worry, Hilltop Hoods’ Walking Under Stars, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, sleepmakewaves’ Love of Cartography and Thundamentals’ So We Can Remember.
…DOUBLE J ARTIST OF THE YEAR NOMS
Up for the first Double J Artist of the Year are Augie March, Kate Miller-Heidke, Steve Smyth, Caitlin Park, Mia Dyson and Blank Realm.
WAS ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ RACIST?
A US judge is hearing testimony in a case where a dozen African American contestants are suing American Idol for racism and fraud. It says rather than be a fair judge of vocal talent, producers had stereotyped thinking, put up roadblocks to stop them from going to the next round and used background checks if they’d been in trouble with the law and then tipped the media.
15 MUSIC MANAGERS CHOSEN FOR CONTROL PROGRAM
15 music managers from AU/NZ were chosen for the six month professional development program CONTROL: The Business of Music Management. It’s run by the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN). Six are from NSW (Jess Beston, Stefan Emslie, Clara Iaccarino, Dave MacGregor, Monique Rothstein, Matty Woo), two each from Vic (Alistair Burns, Nick Lynagh) and QLD (Jane Slingo, Josh Taylor Anderson) and one from SA (Daisy Brown) and WA (Bel Skkinner). The first three from NZ are Cushla Aston, Scott Grafton and Ninakaye TaaneTinorau. Mentors are Terry McBride (Canada), Paul McKessar (NZ) and Australia’s Correne Wilkie. CONTROL incorporates two residential workshops. The first is in Terrigal near Sydney this month, the second at end of the program in 2015.
NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSIC LESSON APP
Adelaide’s Learn To Play Music is next June launching the ApolloM app to provide music lessons for $4.95 per month. It'll have a library of 10,000 eBook, video and audio lessons covering all styles, popular instruments and ages. Co-founder Gary Turner says the Netflix-style initiative is aimed at new students, established musos and educators. “There really is no other app or website in the world that will come close to matching ApolloM’s features and value,” he said. Being developed for the platform are social networkfocused on learning, making and playing music, a suite of digital music tools, interactive gameplay learning tools, and a LiveTeacher streaming video system, connecting students and teachers. An Indiegogo crowd funding campaign’s launched this month to build Phase 1. See visit apollom.com.
SYDNEY’S X STUDIO COMPLEX LAUNCHING
New Kings Cross Sydney complex The X Studio’s 500-capacity entertainment venue X54 opens its doors for the first time on Saturday November 22 to mark the official opening of the X Studio. Guy Sebastian and band will launch his new album Madness. Based on New York’s Studio 54 club, the X Studio’s hosting showcases by Universal Music and Redbull Music during ARIA week and is sponsoring Kings Cross’ Ignite spotlight on local venues, and hosting events for the Electronic Music Conference. Sebastian’s November 22 set also launches The XCast, a worldfirst social broadcast site, which’ll be broadcasting live content across the globe to social media networks like Facebook and Twitter.
ELECTIONS UPDATE: TEX STANDING, THE BASICS REGISTERED
St. Kilda-based Tex Perkins is contesting the seat of Albert Park as an independent in this month’s state elections. His goal is to secure funding for the Palais Theatre which needs $25-40 million in refurbishment to stay open. “The neglect of such an iconic performance venue, along with all the buck-passing from both sides of politics, it’s just not good enough,” he said. “So push has finally come to shove, she needs a funding commitment now.” The Basics’ Rock’n’Roll Party have been given party status by the Victorian Electoral Commission for the state elections on Saturday November 29. With the three members as Office Bearers, the party started out as a discussion on their Facebook page about the lack of leadership in Australian politics and quickly gathered the 500 members required for a political party to be registered. Kris Schroeder explained: “We’ve been doing this as a last-ditch effort to inject some faith back into our failing democracy.”
MORE CLIENTS FOR MILWAUKEE MUSIC
Milwaukee Music, which launched this year, is expanding its client list. It’s promoting UK trio Adrian Duffy & The Mayo Brothers’ single Someone Like You on radio and hoping to tour them here. It’s also booking jazz/pop outfit Call Collect who’re doing a residency at Dizzy’s Jazz Club in Richmond.
ONE ELECTRIC DAY SOLD OUT
The second One Electric Day held on the weekend at Werribee Park was a sell-out, like last year’s. This year Hoodoo Gurus headlined with Mondo Rock, Boom Crash Opera, Daryl Braithwaite and James Reyne.
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LIFELINES Expecting: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, their first child. Expecting: US guitarist Gary Clark, Jr and Aussie model Nicole Trunfio. Dating: Brit singer Jessie J and US R&B songwriter Luke James are an item, she confirmed on Instagram after they were spotted together. Split: Sydney singer Timomatic and dancer Talia Fowler after five years. Hospitalised: ex-Drowning Pool singer (now Soil) Ryan McCombs, stroke. Recovering: Def Leppard’s guitarist Viv Campbell could be home this month after a stem cell transplant for his ongoing battle with cancer. Jailed: Mary J Blige’s father’s ex-girlfriend Cheryl White, for a year, for stabbing him during a domestic argument. In Court: Chris Brown settled a lawsuit against a man whose nose he allegedly broke when he tried to get a pic together outside a Washington D.C. He reportedly paid him off for $100,000, the man had wanted $3 million. Died: English clarinet player Acker Bilk (Stranger on the Shore), 85. Died: long time Neil Young bassist Rick ‘The Bass Player’ Rosas, 65. He also toured Australia with Joe Walsh.
25,000 AT WANGARATTA JAZZ FESTIVAL
The 25th Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues drew 25,000 over three days. Artistic Director Adrian Jackson programmed 100 shows with 300 musicians at venues and wineries throughout Wangaratta, as well as free artist talks and master classes. The box office result was up on previous years, organisers said. Among highlights were sets by US drummer Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Italy’s trumpet/flugelhorn maestro Enrico Rava, New York based Aussie saxplayer Lisa Parrott, US composer/trumpeter Laura Watts, and piano performances from Paul Grabowsky and Steve Grant in the Cathedral, Jazz Mass on Sunday morning with Shirazz and National Jazz Awards judges Stephen Magnusson and James Muller collaborating on stage in their quartet. The 2014 National Jazz Awards saw 26-year-old Carl Morgan take out first prize, winning $12,000, an ABC recording session and an invitation to perform at the 2015 Stonnington Jazz Festival. Melbourne’s Hugh Stuckey was runner-up and Sydney’s Peter Koopman received third prize.
AC/DC LAUNCH DOES A DAFT PUNK
Alberts and Sony Music are getting AC/DC to do a Daft Punk, by having a world premiere in a tiny NSW rural town. In this case, the 3,082 residents of The Rock (30km from Wagga Wagga) will be first to hear Rock Or Bust on Sunday November 23. The rest of the world will have to wait until Friday November 28. The band won’t be there, and certainly not drummer Phil Rudd after his traumatic 48 hours last week.
BACKLOT STUDIOS OPEN BACKLOT POST
Southbank-based film facilities Backlot Studios has partnered with DDP Studios to set up Backlot Post, offering post-production audio services for film, television, online and associated media from its audio production facility in Yarraville. More info from Tony Ianiro at tony@thebacklotstudios.com.