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LIVE MUSIC: Thursday February 26

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Melbourne indie rock outfit Calling All Cars have announced a special one-off hometown show at Ding Dong Lounge, going down on Friday April 17. Since releasing their critically-acclaimed third record Raise The People in early 2014, it’s been a whirlwind ride for Calling All Cars. The last 18 months has seen the band relocate to England, tour extensively throughout Europe and US and play a stack of festivals, including The Great Escape, Nouvelle Prague, CMJ in New York and Sonisphere in England. The guys will be back in the country to take the opportunity to showcase some brand new material at this limited capacity show. Supporting them on the night will be Halycon Drive. Calling All Cars are performing at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday April 17. Tickets are available through the venue.

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BETWEEN THE BAYS

What’s the best way to spend the very last day of summer? How about lounging around the sunny Mornington Peninsula at Between the Bays festival? Joining you will be James Reyne and Hunters and Collectors frontman Mark Seymour. Also on the bill are Custard, Wagons, Sweet Jean, Combo La Revelacion and Indigenous Hip Hop Projects. There’ll be food, drinks, activities and rides and all proceeds from the festival will go to Wulgularr School in the Northern Territory. Sound like your cup of tea? Head to beat.com.au/freeshit because we’ve got a bunch of double passes to give away. Between the Bays goes down this Saturday February 28 at Penbank School, Moorooduc.

ADALITA

Adalita’s reign as one of Australia’s most respected and influential artists spans almost two decades, and is set to continue with her recently announced residency at Collingwood’s Gasometer Hotel. Each Wednesday in March, fans will have the chance to catch Adalita in action as The Gasometer Hotel hosts a series of intimate shows, where the Magic Dirt frontwoman will play a sneak preview of newly fleshed material. Tickets are available through Oztix.

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MACHINE HEAD

Metallers Machine Head have announced a series of shows in Australia, their first time gracing our shores since 2010. Hailing from California, the Evening With Machine Head tour sees them hitting all capital cities in Australia before shooting off once again. Machine Head perform in Melbourne on Monday June 22 at 170 Russell.

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Speed Date With…

The Ruth Moody Band Person answering questions: RUTH MOODY.

TKAY MAIDZA

MARY OCHER

On a world domination mission – Mary Ocher, the queen of Berlin underground returns to the pacific region for a series shows. After completing 60 dates in North America and almost the entire continent of Europe in 2014, Ocher’s back at Dane Certificate’s Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags and Theatre on Friday May 8, possibly possessed by demons, perhaps by ghosts of deceased prophets. Born in Moscow/ Russia in 1986, Ocher grew up in Tel Aviv and became a prominent figure in the European performance world in just half of a decade. Her recent album was produced by Canadian rock’n’roll guru King Khan (Black Lips) and came out on two German and two American labels. Karen O loves her, you will too.

Fresh from slaying Laneway Festival audiences around the country, Tkay Maidza has announced a national tour for her whip-cracking new single M.O.B. The first track from her upcoming and debut album is an anthem of Money Over Bitches – mixing calypso beats with a lightning-fast emcee flow – delivered with Tkay’s now trademark energy. Joining Tkay on her cross-country take-over will be up-and-comers UV Boi and Joy. Tkay Maidza takes over Northcote Social Club on Friday April 24. Tickets are available through the venue.

HOT WAVE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Hot Wave Music Festival is the newest festival on the block, set to debut in Docklands next month. The festival is a free event, and will feature live music, a range of cuisines from every corner and culture of Melbourne, market stalls and various other forms of entertainment. It will take place on Saturday March 7.

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1. Your Profile We’re a string band and we play folk music, with pop, classical, Celtic, old-time and bluegrass influences. I write the songs and the guys bring their magic. We all sing. We’re looking for people to come on our intimate folk journey with us, who aren’t afraid of getting a little emotionally involved.

2. Keeping Busy We’ve been touring pretty much constantly since we released These Wilder Things, in 2013, playing shows in North America, the UK and Europe, and now heading over to New Zealand and Australia. We couldn’t be more excited.

3. Best Gig Ever We had the honour of opening some shows for Mark Knopfler about a year ago, six of which were at the

Royal Albert Hall. It was an incredible experience - I was constantly pinching myself.

4. Current Playlist I recently heard Beck’s newest record, it’s stunning. I saw Nickel Creek on their reunion tour this summer, they were on fire.

5. Your Ultimate Rider My needs are pretty basic, really. If there is a dressing room, and it has a heater in it, I’m happy. If we have access to some kind of yummy local/organic fare then I’m over the moon. If there is a bar of fair-trade dark chocolate lying around, that’s the icing on the cake.

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ECCA VANDAL

Ecca Vandal has just dropped her new single Battle Royale and announced a residency at Collingwood’s Gasometer Hotel alongside it. With influences ranging from Bjork to Meshuggah, Mr Bungle and Fugazi, describing her as ‘broad’ doesn’t quite cut it. This chick fucking rules, ok? Catch Ecca Vandal every Wednesday in March at The Gasometer Hotel. Tickets on the door only. For more information visit www.eccavandal.com.

THIS WEEK JACKSON FIREBIRD

After extensive touring through Europe and Brazil, rock‘n’roll duo Jackson Firebird are returning to Australian shores with a run of shows across March and April as part of their Bang The Mohican tour.

The Bang The Mohican tour sees the boys performing in Melbourne at The Workers Club on Saturday March 14. Tickets are available through Oztix.

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Hi there! Who are we speaking with and what do you do in your band?

I’m Lachlan from Horris Green. I play guitar and sing in our two-piece with James who drums.

Describe your sound in five words.

Heavy, thrashy, poppy, bluesy, rocky.

When and how did you form?

We were uni mates who were in different bands.

I was in a psychedelic rock band and he was in a metal band – we both love Royal Blood and started by jamming to that.

How would you describe your experience in FReeZa’s Push Start Battle of the Bands competition so far?

It’s been incredible. We only started a couple of weeks before we played Ballarat – it’s incredible to think our little project was good enough to win.

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Tell us about your journey. What or who do you believe helped you the most to get where you are?

It’s been such an unusual journey for us. We’re only a very new band and we had no intention of properly playing but we’re driven by that success and trying to better ourselves.

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Jazz royalty Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea will join forces to open the 2015 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. This is the first time in 37 years the two keyboard legends have toured together, after originally performing together in 1978. The pair boast 34 Grammy Awards between them and more than five decades of experience on stage. Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea will play Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on Thursday May 28 as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Tickets are on sale now through melbournejazz.com.

A WILHELM SCREAM

New Bedford’s A Wilhelm Scream have announced their return to Australia this April and May. No strangers to our shores with their most recent festival appearances at Soundwave and Hits and Pits, A Wilhelm Scream will play five headline shows in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart.

Their most recent record is 2013’s Partycrashers. A Wilhelm Scream will take over The Evelyn Hotel on Friday May 1. Tickets are available now through Oztix.

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If you were to win the Grand Final, how would you spend the $11k grand prize?

It’d be handy to have that money for a tour, but having an EP professionally recorded is also on our minds.

What big goals do you have after the competition finishes?

We would love to jump on some more festival bills and meet more bands who we can network within the future.

HORRIS GREEN are performing at the FReeZa Push Start Battle of the Bands Grand Final at Moomba on March 7.

The City of Melbourne’s FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands is set to feature nine finalists from across the state performing at this year’s Moomba Festival, competing for the $11k+ grand prize. The grand prize includes a comprehensive kit of band supplies with a day of engineering, recording and mixing from Hothouse Studios, a $2000 publicity campaign from Remedy Music PR, a mastering session with Jack The Bear Deluxe Mastering, a Mapex snare from Electric Factory, $1000 clothing/accessory voucher from Dangerfield, $1000 poster and marketing distro campaigns from Plakkit and Shout Out Loud, artist interview feature article in Beat Magazine (probably the best prize), pressing of 500 copies of a recording and a graphic design layout session from DEX Audio, a shirt run of 50 colour prints from Love Police valued at $500, and last but not least, an artist feature on The Push’s website. Plus all nine grand finalists will receive a $200 prize voucher and complementary styling session from Dangerfield in the lead up to the event.

The Battle of the Bands finalists are: A-Ron and J.Jay, The Bean Project, Ember Rain, The Evercold, The Flats, Horris Green, The Quick and the Dead, Requiem and Revolution. 2015’s FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands takes place on Saturday March 7 at Birrarung Marr Park. For more information visit thepush.com.au.

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE

The Hills Are Alive had added three new acts to the lineup for their 2015 incarnation. The festival have announced comedy master Jimeoin, plus Melbourne’s Theme Team and South Gippsland’s own rock’n’roll stalwarts Fossil Fuel. They will join the acts already announced, including Remi, SAFIA, Pierce Brothers, Asta, Luca Brasi, Little Bastard, Harts, Jen Cloher, Lucianblomkamp, Grace, Baro, Spookyland, Marlon Williams, Timberwolf, Kirkis, The Lulu Raes, The Pretty Littles, Spender, Fortunes, The Scrimshaw Four, Lanks, Real Slinger’s A-to-Z of Music and Manchoir.

In what will be their seventh year, for the first time ever the event will also span over two evenings. Volunteer applications have also just opened. The Hills Are Alive 2015 will take place at The Farm from Friday March 27 to Sunday March 29.

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MOTLEY CRUE & ALICE COOPER

The rumours were true, Mötley Crüe fans have one final chance to see them live. In January last year the original four members of the band gathered to sign a binding ‘Cessation Of Touring’ agreement taking effect at the end of 2015. The legendary rock icons have confirmed dates for the highly anticipated Australian leg of their Final Tour, bringing along Alice Cooper with them. It goes down at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday May 12. Tickets through Live Nation.

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The unstoppable time-traveling maestro Hot Dub Time Machine has announced a huge Australian tour for 2015. Arguably one of Australia’s most popular entertainers, Hot Dub Time Machine has had an enormous 12 months with sold-out shows across the globe, headlining the 100,000 strong Hogmanay NYE Festival, appearing centre-stage in the domain for Sydney Festival, not to mention the Falls Festival and Splendour In The Grass performances. Hot Dub Time Machine performs in Melbourne on Friday June 5 at The Hi-Fi. Tickets are available through hotdubtimemachine.com.

SAN CISCO

After releasing their debut self-titled album to international acclaim in 2012, San Cisco are back with their latest offering, Gracetown. Taking the title from a laid back coastal town in south-western Australia, Gracetown showcases a more worldly approach to life, exploring the tyranny of love, displacement, homesickness, heartache and heartbreak, via disco, funk, soul and hip hop undertones. To celebrate, the band will be touring around Australia in May. The tour will include matinee shows as well as some all ages shows. Catch San Cisco in Melbourne at 170 Russell on Friday May 22 (18+) or at The Hi-Fi on Saturday May 23 (U18). Tickets on sale Thursday February 26. Gracetown is out Friday March 6.

MOBB DEEP

US hip hop duo Mobb Deep will return to Australian shores this year. The pair are set to embark on their biggest Australian tour to date, stopping in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. The tour marks the 20th anniversary of the New York duo’s second album The Infamous. To celebrate, the rappers will play the album in its entirety. Catch Mobb Deep at The Espy on Saturday April 11. Tickets are available through Oztix.

STEVE SMYTH

Still receiving acclaim from the release of last year’s Exits, Steve Smyth has come out with a series of shows announced across Australia over the next three months. The recently announced shows follow his South By South West appearance in Austin, Texas later this month. Steve Smyth performs in Victoria at Port Fairy Folk Festival March 7 - 8, Howler on Saturday April 11 and Karova Lounge on Sunday April 12. Tickets available through the venues.

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INTERNATIONAL BUTCHER BABIES Cherry Bar February 25 FALLING IN REVERSE AND ESCAPE THE FATE 170 Russell February 25 ALL TIME LOW The Hi-Fi February 25 REAL ESTATE Corner Hotel February 25 THIS WILD LIFE Ding Dong Lounge February 26 THE COURTNEYS John Curtin Hotel February 26 CAMP CASUAL Gippsland, Victoria February 27 – March 1 DRAKE Rod Laver Arena February 27 STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS Melbourne Zoo February 27 DELTRON 3030 The Hi-Fi February 27 THE EAGLES Hanging Rock Macedon February 28 FREDDIE GIBBS Corner Hotel February 28 FOO FIGHTERS Etihad Stadium February 28 BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL Various Venues, Brunswick March 1 – 15 MOGWAI Hamer Hall March 1 SHARON VAN ETTEN The Hi-Fi March 3 RUTH MOODY Bell Union Trades Hall March 4, Caravan Club March 5 DIE ANTWOORD Trak Lounge March 4 SHOVELS & ROPE AND SHAKEY GRAVES Corner Hotel March 4 SINEAD O’CONNOR Hamer Hall March 4 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Palais Theatre March 4 TOUMANI & SIDIKI Hamer Hall March 5 GRUFF RHYS Northcote Social Club March 5 TECH N9NE The Hi-Fi March 6 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 WOMADELAIDE Botanic Park, Adelaide March 6 – 9 SINEAD O CONNOR Port Fairy Folk Festival March 6 – 9 STEVE SMYTH Port Fairy Folk Festival March 7 – 8, Howler April 11, Karova Lounge April 12 GRAVEYARD Ding Dong Lounge March 7 WAYNE ‘THE TRAIN’ HANCOCK Ding Dong Lounge March 6, Caravan Club March 7 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 GOODLIFE Flemington Racecourse March 9 PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING Northcote Social Club March 10 OBLIVIANS The Tote March 11, 12, 13

LOS STRAITJACKETS & BIG SANDY LuWOW March 12 BALKAN BEAT BOX Prince Bandroom March 12 ADAM COHEN Caravan Club March 13, The Toff In Town March 14 JACKSON FREEBIRD The Workers Club March 14 MAE Corner Hotel March 14 FOREST SWORDS Howler March 14 HTRK Shadow Electric March 15 JESSIE J Margaret Court Arena March 17 MARTA PACEK & THE JESSICA STUART FEW March 18 The Espy, March 19 Beav’s Bar, Geelong, March 22 Elwood Food & Wine, March 23 Retreat Hotel, March 26 The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine, March 27 The Vine Hotel, Wangaratta.

TONY JOE WHITE Thornbury Theatre March 18 KELE Corner Hotel March 18 BOBBY BROWN The Forum March 19 BONOBO Prince Bandroom March 19 HORRORSHOW Ormond Hall March 20 SMALLTOWN Secret warehouse location TBA March 21 SUN KIL MOON Athenaeum Theatre March 21 URIAH HEEP Shoppingtown Hotel March 21, Chelsea Heights March 22 BILLY IDOL Margaret Court Arena March 24, A Day On The Green March 21 THE WATERBOYS Recital Centre March 27 MASTODON Festival Hall March 27 THE HILLS ARE ALIVE The Farm March 27 – 29 EMERY Northcote Social Club March 29 YELLE Corner Hotel March 29 SWITCHFOOT 170 Russell March 31 BEN HOWARD Margaret Court Arena March 31 KEB’ MO’ Melbourne Recital Centre March 31 CHARLES BRADLEY Corner Hotel April 1 JURASSIC 5 Festival Hall April 1 PAOLO NUTINI Palais Theatre April 1 SERENA RYDER Northcote Social Club April 2 MICHAEL FRANTI Festival Hall April 2 BETH HART Melbourne Recital Centre April 2 BOOGIE 9 Bruzzy’s Farm, Tallarook April 3 – 7 REBELUTION Corner Hotel April 3 GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC 170 Russell April 3 BAND OF SKULLS Bluesfest, Byron Bay April 3, Rochford Wines April 5, Corner Hotel April 7 COUNTING CROWS Palais Theatre April 4 G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE Thornbury Theatre April 4 THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Corner Hotel April 4 THE BLACK KEYS Rolling Green April 5, Margaret Court Arena April 7 TROMBONE SHORTY AND ORLEANS AVENUE Corner Hotel April 6

HUNTER HAYES Prince Bandroom April 6 DISPATCH Palais Theatre March 31, Prince Bandroom April 7 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Palais Theatre April 7 POKEY LAFARGE Caravan Club April 8, Corner Hotel April 9 GARY CLARK JR. 170 Russell April 8 JIMMY CLIFF Corner Hotel April 8 MARLON WILLIAMS Gasometer Hotel April 9 DAVE & PHIL ALVIN Northcote Social Club April 9 JEFF MARTIN The Espy April 9 DONAVON FRANKENREITER Corner Hotel April 10 NORMA JEAN Evelyn Hotel April 10 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Northcote Social Club April 10 THE GIPSY KINGS Palais Theatre April 10 MOBB DEEP The Espy April 11 IRON REAGAN The Tote April 11 FRANK TURNER Corner Hotel April 12 ARCHITECTS 170 Russell April 12 ATILLA Arrow On Swanston April 15 (AA), Corner Hotel April 16 (18+) THE DICKIES The Evelyn April 16 THE OCEAN The Evelyn April 18 CITIZEN Reverence Hotel April 20, 21 (AA) DEMI LOVATO Margaret Court Arena April 24 SAM SMITH Margaret Court Arena April 30 PEACE Ding Dong Lounge April 30 A WILHELM SCREAM The Evelyn Hotel May 1 CHARLI XCX The Corner May 1 GROOVIN THE MOO Bendigo Prince Of Wales Showground May 2 ACE FREHLEY The Forum May 2 PALOMA FAITH Palais Theatre May 5 ANASTACIA Palais Theatre May 7 MARY OCHER Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags and Theatre May 8 THE BACKSTREET BOYS Rod Laver Arena May 8 SILVERSTEIN 170 Russell May 8 SUFFOCATION & DECAPITATED Corner Hotel May 9 ALT-J Rod Laver Arena May 10 MOTLEY CRUE & ALICE COOPER Rod Laver Arena May 12 THE HAUNTED & INSOMNIUM The Hi-Fi May 15 NICKELBACK Rod Laver Arena May 15 HERBIE HANCOCK & CHICK COREA Hamer Hall May 28 BAD MANNERS Corner Hotel June 4 AGAINST ME! Corner Hotel June 6 MACHINE HEAD 170 Russell June 22 YELLOWCARD Margaret Court Arena July 11 JOHNNY MARR The Forum July 22 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena September 26 NEIL DIAMOND Rod Laver Arena October 27 AUDRA MCDONALD Hamer Hall October 31 TAYLOR SWIFT AAMI Park December 11

INTERNATIONAL ANGUS AND JULIA STONE Margaret Court Arena February 27 DZ DEATHRAYS Northcote Social Club February 27, 28 THROTTLE Shadow Electric Bandroom February 28, March 7 VICTORIAN HARBOR SUMMERFEST Victoria Harbour Promenade February 28 OUTFIELD Railway Hotel February 28 DEAD CITY RUINS Cherry Bar February 28 HOW YA GARN? YEAH NOT BAD John Curtin Hotel February 28 BETWEEN THE BAYS FESTIVAL Penbank School, Moorooduc February 28 BRARSEY SUNDAYS The Spotted Mallard March 1 – April 26 THE FELICE BROTHERS The Toff In Town March 1 ECCA VANDAL The Gasometer March 4, 11, 18, 25 ADALITA The Gasometer March 4, 11, 18, 25 RUTH MOODY Bella Union March 4, Caravan Club March 5 DAN SULTAN Melbourne Zoo March 5 LARISSA TANDY Northcote Social Club March 6 JESSE DAVIDSON Shebeen Bandroom March 6 MOTOR CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL Geelong Showgrounds March 6 – 8 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy, Victoria March 6 – 9 CLOWNS Bendigo Hotel March 6, 9 (AA) CHERRYROCK015 featuring Red Fang, Beastwars, Child and more, AC/DC Lane Sunday May 10 MOOMBA BATTLE OF THE BANDS Birrarung Marr Park March 7 HOT WAVE MUSIC FESTIVAL Docklands March 7 HARTS The Espy March 7, Hills Are Alive Festival March 27 ASHLEY NAYLOR Yarra Hotel March 9 – 15 VANCE JOY Palais Theatre March 12, 13 PSYCROPTIC Hi-Fi Bar March 13, Wrangler Studios March 21 KINGSWOOD The Forum March 13 BENNY WALKER Melbourne Zoo March 13 THE GIN CLUB John Curtin March 13 COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL Edendale Farm, Eltham March 14 WINTERBOURNE Wrangler Studios March 14 (U18), Shebeen Bandroom March 14 LUCA BRASI Northcote Social Club March 14, Wrangler Studios March 15 DEAN RAY The Corner March 15 KYLIE MINOGUE Rod Laver Arena March 18 NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE Hi-Fi Bar March 20, Northcote Social Club April 25 CLIENT LIASON 170 Russell March 20 INCA ROADS Ballarat March 20 - March 22 DAVID BOWIE TRIBUTE SHOW Yarraville Club March 21 XAVIER RUDD The Forum March 21

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VILLAGE PEOPLE DISCO FOR DAYS

By Tyson Wray

In the mid-’70s French dance composer Jacques Morali and his business partner Henri Belolo took out an ad in a musical street press. It read: “Macho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache.” A few nights before, Morali, who was also the creator of the novelty act The Ritchie Family, had attended a costume ball at Les Mouches, a gay disco in Greenwich Village in New York, which at the time was renowned for its high-level homosexual population. Having just begun working with singer/actor Victor Willis, the three saw the opportunity to create a disco group based upon the masculine stereotypes and fantasy personae of the gay men of Greenwich Village.

The concept for Village People was sold to Casablanca Records before the members had even been found.

Morali’s first recruit Felipe Rose (Native American) came from a serendipitous meeting where the two literally bumped into each other on the streets of the village. Alex Briley (began as an athlete but then took on a soldier persona) was hand-picked by Willis, while Mark Mussler (original construction worker), Dave Forrest (original cowboy), Lee Mouton (original leatherman) and Peter Whitehead (one of the group’s early songwriters) rounded out the group. Thus by 1977 at the very height of disco, Village People had finally formed.

“You weren’t even born back then,” laughs Alex Briley when reminiscing of the group’s formation. “It’s a really heart-warming thing to realise that people from younger generations, perhaps in their 20’s, still want to hear Village People. People from all walks of life and all ages love disco. It’s such a welcoming genre.”

Indeed, the appeal of Village People’s infectious take on camp disco traverses many generations. Since the release of their 1977 self-titled debut, the group have released nine studio albums over their career and have gone on to sell over 100 million records worldwide, with their penchant for catchy musical motifs and suggestive lyricism resulting in some of the most ubiquitous hits of the era, including Can’t Stop the Music, Macho Man, In The Navy, and of course YMCA. “To put it simply, 2014 was just another great year for us,” he details when juxtaposing his current life as a member of the Village People against the earlier days of their formation. “We got to travel to so many countries and perform for so many different people.

Of course, we played at a lot of places in the States, but it’s always a great honour that our job allows us to visit so many different people. We had a chance to visit Columbia, we had a chance to visit Chile, and we even got to visit Russia. We always look forward to getting out and experiencing new audiences, where ever that might be. It was a really busy year - but that’s a good thing.”

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to many generation of music lovers, and have solidified their position as the undisputed kings of disco.

“Over the course of our career, we’ve revisited and toured so many places, but every single time we get to experience a new audience,” he notes. “We’re always looking forward to returning to some countries and also exploring new and different territories.

“I rEMEMBEr ONE Of THE fIrST TIMES WE EVEr PLAyED IN AUSTrALIA. WE ALL NOTICED HOW NICELy THE CrOWD WAS DrESSED - AS If THEy WErE GOING OUT fOr A fANCy DINNEr Or SOMETHING. By THE END Of THE NIGHT, THE WOMEN HAD kICkED Off THEIr HEELS AND WErE DANCING ON TABLES, THE MEN THrOWING AWAy THEIr SHIrTS, TIES AND jACkETS.” “The only difference is that children of the fans from the ‘70s are coming to see us now,” he laughs.

With a back-catalogue laced with so many feel-good hits, does Briley have a favourite to perform on stage?

“I’d have to agree with the audience, and when we’re performing there’s no doubt that YMCA gets the biggest reaction out of all of our hits,” he shares. “Songs like YMCA, people enjoy hearing it because it reminds them of great times they’ve had in the past. It really just gets the crowd going. But then again, you never

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know. It depends where you’re playing. Sometimes Macho Man gets the biggest response, sometimes it’s In The Navy. When it comes down to it, our music is just non-pretentious, no-frills fun. I really enjoy performing each and every song that we have.

“Recently we’ve also been performing a new song that was written for us by KC and the Sunshine Band, and it’s been getting a great response every night. Having been around for so long, one of my favourite things these days is running into friends who also grew up in the disco era, and to see them still working, and to get to share music with them.”

Next month will see the group return to Australian shores for a run of headline performances alongside a late-night slot at Golden Plains. “One thing that we’ve always enjoyed about coming to Australia is the energy that you get from the audiences,” he notes. “Whether it be Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide or Perth, the energy is just like no other country on the planet.

“I remember one of the first times we ever played in Australia. We all noticed how nicely the crowd was dressed - as if they were going out for a fancy dinner or something. By the end of the night, the women had kicked off their heels and were dancing on tables, the men throwing away their shirts, ties and jackets.

We’ve visited Australia so many times. We’ve had some wonderful times and met so many wonderful people.

We’re going to hit that stage with as much energy that we can muster up and just have a really good time.”

As for the future of the Village People? While Briley is soon to reach his 40th year with the group, he details that he doesn’t see them stopping their spreading of the good word of the gospel of disco any time soon.

“How long will the Village People stick around? Well, that all comes down to how long people want to hear from us,” he laughs. “We’ve been doing this for well over 35 years but it’s never showed any signs of slowing down. Our touring schedule for the rest of this year is really jam-packed. We’re really lucky to do able to do what we do, and to have been able to do it for so long.”

VILLAGE PEOPLE will perform at the Melbourne Zoo Twilights on Friday March 6. They will also perform at Golden Plains which goes down from Saturday March 7 to Monday March 9.

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This Week:

With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm.

A special doggy movie night will take place at ACCA later this week. The night is co-presented

by ACCA alongside Farnsworth’s Republic for Dogs, an off-leash world for Melbourne’s muchloved four-legged friends created by acclaimed artist Anastasia Klose. Screening on the night will be one of the most batshit films ever made, the crazy canine cult film DOGGIE-WOGGIEZ! POOCHIE-WOOCHIEZ! for humans outdoors in the ACCA forecourt. Classic doggie films will be screened for your four-legged visitors inside the Farnsworth kennels. It takes place on Thursday February 26.

performers allowed within the strong Cirque du Soleil culture? “Cirque du Soleil is open-minded. They don’t ever say no. There are choreographies but the culture is creative; there is some freedom, although the show is directed and created within certain guidelines, and there is a choreography you have to follow. Part of being a professional artist is that you get to create your own story on stage. You can make choices. You can still feel free within the guidelines and the regulations and the things you have to follow.”

Did Resnick always aspire to be part of Cirque du Soleil? “It wasn’t in the front of my mind. I knew I wanted to perform. I did gymnastics for quite a long time. Performing was something I was really interested in.” Needless to say, the life of an acrobatic is a very demanding one physically. How does Resnick look after himself ? “You have to take care of your body,” he answers. “I was taught that my body is like a temple and we have to take care of it. You have to do consistent warm-ups, and cool down properly; you have to do the core work. My shoulders take the most impact. It’s about taking care of injuries, not to keep pushing. Knowing when you’re tired, that’s the main thing. You listen to your body.”

A new exhibit at the University of Melbourne will seek to provide a unique behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of visual artists.

During the I Is Another exhibit, which will run over two weeks, visitors will get the chance to watch the artists at work – mistakes and all. Each day, a new artist will work individually, adding to the work created by a different artist the previous day. Eventually a theme will begin to take place, with the final work revealed on Wednesday March 11. I Is Another will run from Wednesday February 25 to Friday March 13 at the George Paton Gallery at the University of Melbourne.

Melbourne Theatre Company are currently presenting the world premiere of a unique new collaboration between You Am I’s Tim Rogers and playwright Aidan Fennessy. What Rhymes With Cars and Girls weaves together songs from Rogers’ debut solo album with words by Fennessy to create a contemporary Australian story of love across the class divide – complete with a three-piece band led by Rogers himself. The show tells the story of Tash (Sophie Ross) and Johnno ( Johnny Carr) who fall in love despite their different backgrounds and lifestyles. What Rhymes With Cars and Girls will run until Saturday March 28 at Arts Centre Melbourne.

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TOTEM

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Melbourne will experience Tan Dun’s Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women for the first time this Chinese New Year. Presented by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the 2013 work captures the disappearing, ancient language of Nu Shu, developed by women in secrecy over hundreds of years in feudal China during the 13th century.

After researching the language for years, Tan Dun recorded Nu Shu women in the village of Hunan, China, creating 13 micro films about the tradition. Nu Shu will bring the language to life with the 13 films projected on a screen while the MSO performs the new music composed to accompany them. The orchestra will also perform iconic Chinese music and will present Ravel’s Bolero alongside Puccini’s most famous arias, featuring celebrated Chinese soprano Bing Bing Wang. It will take place on Saturday February 28 at Hamer Hall.

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David Resnick is a happy acrobat. He’s a member of Cirque du Soleil, currently in Melbourne performing in TOTEM at the big top at Docklands. “I play two different characters – the Crystal Man, also known as Mirror Man and I also play a frog,” he says.

“They are both so different. I do something different every night of the show. I get to change. Some nights I’m hanging from a harness, 60 feet in the air. I get to experience the show from a different point of view.” Resnick was born into gymnastics - his father coached the US female national team so the gym was his playground from a very young age and he grew up dreaming of joining the Olympic team. He was a member of the US national team in the mid-2000s and was discovered by one of Cirque du Soleil’s talent scouts in 2009, eventually joining the company to perform in the Carapace (high bars act) as well as playing the lead role of Crystal Man. Beat asks Resnick what really tests his skills in this show? “There are different challenges for each role,” he answers. “When I’m Crystal Man, there’s only me,” he answers (the role is rotated among the performers).

“When I’m a frog, I work with three other acrobats.

We perform it in comedy style with the other acrobats or as a duet, so we have to learn the timing of each other’s beats, learn that awareness. At one stage Crystal Man is onstage with the frog. When I’m Crystal Man I’m telling the story of the show, it’s a big part. At the beginning of the show it’s all amphibians, Crystal Man comes down at the beginning, he’s the essence, the energy, Crystal Man brings life to all the other characters.”

Life’s pretty good for this performer who’s still only in his mid-’20s. “My favourite part of the day is when I’m on stage,” he reflects. “Number one is being in

front of people, hearing that appreciation of what we do. It’s why we train so hard, that wraps it up, why we do what we do.” How does Resnick cope with the pressure of being part of the world’s largest and most famous, and most famously technically accomplished, circus company? “The level of artistry in the company is compelling,” he answers. “At this level of professional circus and the talent, you have to have discipline. The pressure, it’s not something right in your face but it is what pushes you. You look around the show; you see other people’s work. There’s a little bit of pressure.

As a frog, there are five other frogs and we all learn from each other. We’re always asking each other, what is exactly the best way of keeping this show the best it can be? We look at images and documentaries, watch videos of frogs together; we take notice of those things.” How much creative freedom are the

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“Cirque du Soleil is openminded. They don’t ever say no.

There are choreographies but the culture is creative; there is some freedom, although the show is directed and created within certain guidelines, and there is a choreography you have to follow.”

Resnick is enjoying Melbourne. “I came here once before now. Saw a lot of graffiti. When I was in Brooklyn I went into a bookstore and found a book about the graffiti and street art in Melbourne. It’s an easy going city. It feels laid back, it reminds me a bit of home,” (Resnick is from Reno, Nevada). He’s impressed with the strong presence of circus here, both in the independent arts scene and at a national level, Melbourne being the home of Circus Oz and NICA, the National Academy of Circus Arts. Will the Cirque do Soleil cast visit NICA while they’re here? “We have some workshops, aerial stuff, we’re going to make a group visit to NICA and talk to the kids, hopefully we will make a pretty good connection. It’s good to see that here. In the States; you might have circus schools, maybe in New York. But there’s nothing like you have here in Australia.”

TOTEM is, of course, a big show with its cast of 45 acrobats and musicians. Since its world premiere in 2010 it has been seen by more than three million people across 25 cities worldwide. “There’s a fun, family, connected feeling,” notes Resnick. “No matter where you sit in the tent everybody can feel the same thing. Seeing it at the Big Top is highly recommended.

I would say we do something special. There’s no other company like Cirque du Soleil.”

Cirque du Soleil’s TOTEM is currently being performed at Flemington Racecourse until Sunday March 29.

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Absinthe

Spiegelworld has arrived in Australia and the team is busy preparing for the opening of its smash-hit Las Vegas show Absinthe, a follow-up to its record-breaking show Empire which was seen by an incredible 200,000 Australians. Inspired by the absinthe-drenched cabarets of late 19th century Europe, Absinthe is an adultthemed cocktail of circus, comedy, burlesque and vaudeville for a 21st century audience. Melbourne audiences at Absinthe will be treated to three new international acts, specially hand-picked for the Australian tour, which will join the show’s lineup of jaw-dropping acts which have been wowing Las Vegas crowds. It’ll open on Saturday March 21 on the Rooftop at Crown.

The Owl and the Pussycat

Local theatre The Owl and the Pussycat has entered a whole new era, with new artistic directors, a new season and a revamped theatre space. The first season for 2015 will run from February to June and will feature five plays, including two Australian premieres.

FleshEatingTiger and Riot will bookend the season with Australian premieres, while Pizza Man, Aalst and Breed flesh out the rest of the season. Visit The Owl and Pussycat website for tickets and further information.

Sugar Skull – CharleS BurnS ($29.95)

The long, strange trip that began in X’ed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending, heartbreaking end, but not before Doug is forced to deal with the lie he’s been telling himself since the beginning. In this concluding volume, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality. Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s “Raw “magazine in the mid-1980s, and since he has worked on a wide range of projects including album covers, ad campaigns, and set design.

MaSS Control: engineering huMan ConSCiouSneSS – JiM keith ($22.95)

Conspiracy expert Keith’s latest book on mind control, Project Monarch, and mass manipulation. Keith says that here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will not under any circumstances perceive the actual. His happiness is delivered to him through a tube or an electronic connection.

His God lurks behind an electronic curtain; when the curtain is pulled away we find the CIA sorcerer, the media manipulator Chapters on the CIA, Tavistock, Jolly West and the Violence Centre, Guerrilla Mindwar, Brice Taylor, other recent victims, more.

inSatiaBle – aSa akira ($22.95)

Asa Akira has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her #1 bestselling series “Asa Akira Is Insatiable.” In Insatiable, Akira recounts her extraordinary life in chapters that are hilarious, shocking, and touching. In a wry, conversational tone, she talks about her experiences shoplifting and doing drugs while in school, her relationship with other porn stars (she is married to one) and with the industry at large, and her beliefs about women and sexuality. In a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream, Akira is one of very few articulate voices writing from the inside.

eCodefenSe: a field guide to MonkeywrenChing – dave foreMan ($27.95)

Never was such a book so needed by so many, for such good reason, as here and now. This is a book that will fit handily in any saddlebag, in any backpack, in any river runner’s ammo can and in any picnicker’s basket. Dedicated to Edward Abbey and inspired by his Monkeywrench Gang, this is a manual on sabotage of establishment property. It carries the standard disclaimer - “for entertainment proposes only.” It is entertaining. No one involved in the production of this book – the editors, contributors, artists, publisher, distributors, retailers, or anyone – encourages anyone to do any of the illegal things contained herein.

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Lennon: Through a Glass Onion

Following a sold out season of 122 performances in New York, Lennon: Through a Glass Onion will return to Australia. Created and performed by renowned Australian actor/musician John Waters and esteemed singer/pianist Stewart D’Arrietta, the part concert and part biography show reveals the essence of the life and astonishing talent of one of the most admired icons of the past century with a story and 31 songs. It will be performed at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse from Wednesday May 13 - Saturday May 16.

no godS no MaSterS: an anthology of anarChiSM – daniel guerin ($29.95) The first English translation of Guerin’s monumental anthology of anarchism, published here in one volume. It details a vast array of unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestos, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms and reasoned analysis; the history, organization and practice of the movement--its theorists, advocates and activists; the great names and the obscure, towering legends and unsung heroes.This definitive anthology portrays anarchism as a sophisticated ideology whose nuances and complexities highlight the natural desire for freedom in all of us. The classical texts will re-establish anarchism as both an intellectual and practical force to be reckoned with. Includes writings by Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Berkman, Bakunin, Proudhon, and Malatesta.

divine MuShrooMS & fungi – John w allen ($29.95) Filled with beautiful color photographs, Divine Mushrooms and Fungi is a must-have for anyone who wants to step into the magic mushroom field of ethnomycology. With detailed information on how to distinguish magic mushrooms from potentially dangerous lookalikes, this guide also features a detailed history of the ritual use of magic mushrooms among pre-Columbian inhabitants of the New World and the evolution of the use of psychedelic fungi from sacred rituals to today’s recreational use. Common epithets used for naming mushrooms around the world are accompanied by photographs and descriptions of both magic mushrooms and their poisonous lookalikes. An ideal companion for mushroomgathering forays, Divine Mushrooms and Fungi provides readers with the sacred knowledge that can lead to a visionary experience.

the SeCret life of PlantS – Peter toMPkinS ($22.95)

Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. The Secret Life of Plants explores plants’ response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants’ surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their curative powers, and much more. This book affirms the depth of humanity’s relationship with nature and adds special urgency to the cause of protecting the environment that nourishes us.

Shot By kern – riChard kern (49.95)

In the last seven years Kern has traveled to Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States with a Vice video crew. Fans follow his adventures on Vice.com, from interviewing the real women who dream of being New York Girls, through styling and shooting. What they don’t see, what no one has ever seen, are the photos that result from these video sessions. “Shot By Kern” presents some 300 of these photographs for the first time. For those who’ve followed Kern’s adventures on VBS this is the book they’ve been asking for, but all fans will enjoy these fresh-scrubbed amateurs in their first time before the camera. Some are shy, some are brazen, but all have that quirky cuteness Kern seeks in his subjects.

Following an overwhelmingly positive response to its inaugural season, the Holocaust Film Series has announced it will return to Melbourne this March.

Despite the title of this film series, the journey that audiences are invited to embark upon is not grim, but one of courage, fascination and admiration for the people who have lived through some of modern history’s most challenging events. The film series will present 35 feature films, documentaries and shorts from around the world, all of which will be screening for the very first time in Australia, with no guarantee of repeat viewings beyond this film series. The eclectic range of stories showcased will enthral, inform and give pause for reflection. Titles featured throughout the festival include Forbidden Films, telling the story of the 40, of 1,200, remaining feature films created during Germany’s Third Reich, To Life, is French director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann’s follow up feature film to his documentary Irene and Her Sisters that tells the story of three young Jewish women who were deported to Auschwitz and finally reconnect with each other 15 years later. Lessons of Survival: Conversations with Simon Wiesenthal is a documentary that depicts a series of intimate and friendly conversations with legendary Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who shares his insights into the psychology, philosophy and sociology of the Holocaust, and A Blind Hero - The Love of Otto Weidt which tells the story of Otto Weidt, a factory owner who hid his mostly Jewish and blind employees from the Nazis. The Holocaust Film Series will screen from Thursday March 12 until Wednesday March 25 at Classic Cinemas, Elsternwick.

The Sound of Music

The lavish London Palladium production of The Sound of Music will come to Australia in late 2015 for a national tour. This acclaimed production of the legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein musical premiered in 2006 at the home of West End musical theatre, the London Palladium, where it celebrated a record-breaking 954 performances seen by well over two million people, before going on to enjoy sell-out seasons internationally. The Sound of Music tells the uplifting true story of Maria, a fun-loving governess who changes the lives of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven children by re-introducing them to music, culminating in the family’s escape across the mountains from Austria. Season venues and dates will be announced later this year.

The Vagina Monologues

V-Day Melbourne and Artsman are presenting a staged reading of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues for three nights only. V-Day Melbourne is a community group comprised entirely of volunteers with the purpose of raising funds to support safe steps Family Violence Response Centre (formerly Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service). Written

by Eve Ensler in 1996, The Vagina Monologues is based on hundreds of interviews with women, who shared their most intimate desires and fears in a backdrop of humour, heartbreak and sometimes violence. The production is being held in the Sacred Heart Oratory at the Abbotsford Convent from Thursday March 5 Saturday March 7.

Every year the Melbourne International Comedy Festival puts a call out for comedy enthusiasts with no life to apply for The Funny Tonne – a competition to see just how many shows it is possible for one person to see during the festival.

Applicants are interviewed and a few lucky lads or lasses, oozing stamina and enthusiasm, and once again nothing to do in their lives, get a pass to see as many shows as they can for the whole month. With a unique Comedy Passport in hand, three festival fans join the Amazing Race of comedy, using their own tactics (like quitting your job) to try and win the title. Each Funny Tonne competitor reviews show they see and posts them on the Comedy Festival website daily. The record for The Funny Tonne is held by Funny Tonner Chris Menezies, whose eyeballs and earholes witnessed a whopping 158 shows during the 2014 Melbourne Comedy Festival. To enter, go to the festival’s website. Once selected, Funny Tonner participants are set free to seek their comedy fate. The winner will be announced during the Annual Comedy Festival Awards on Saturday April 18.

PORtLAND HOtEL COMEDY Charlie Pickering headlines Portland Hotel Comedy this Thursday. You’ve seen him on The Project, Talking ‘Bout Your Generation and he’s got a brand new show on the ABC coming up. Also, Ben Lomas holds the night together with Sam Bowring, Liam Ryan and special guests (they’ve had Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes and Ronny Chieng as special guests in the last month).

It’s all happening this Thursday February 26 at 8.30pm, at Portland Hotel Comedy, 127 Russell Street (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12.

COMEDY At 24 MOONS Comedy at 24 Moons returns this week with headliner Anne Edmonds and MC Simon Keck.

From 5pm every Sunday afternoon some of the best comedians in Australia strut their stuff before the MICF. There are also cocktail specials all afternoon, and $8 presale tickets available through 24moons.com.au.

FOR PEtE’S SAKE Comedy guru Pete Crofts needs to find a new home for his huge collection of comedy memorabilia. Come enjoy an incredible lineup for this special fundraiser, including Elliot Goblet, Rod Quantock, Lehmo, Andrew Brown, Russell Gilbert, Bruno Lucia, Mayumi Nobetsu, Dave O’Neil, Tom Rose, Mia Stanford, Bev Killick and Mark Murphy. It’s on Sunday March 1 at The Comics Lounge at 7pm.

COMEDY At SPLEEN Monday nights in the city are chockers full of comedy yet again, thanks to Comedy at Spleen.

This week, Melbourne favorite Anne Edmonds hosts the show, and introduces a bunch of surprise guests, plus Xander Allan, David Tulk, James Masters, Adam Knox and more. It’s this Monday March 2, 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.

Theatres of War

To commemorate the Anzac Centenary, Arts Centre Melbourne will present Theatres of War: Wartime Entertainment and the Australian Experience this April. Theatres of War aims to present a fascinating examination of the sometimes overlooked importance that theatre and performance has in the hearts and minds of those who find themselves in war zones and on the home front. It will examine the important role played by the performing arts in the lives of Australians affected by war. From improvised theatrical performances used as a means of escapism in POW camps, to celebrities visiting the front line to entertain our troops, performing arts has had – and continues to have – a powerful role throughout Australia’s war history. Chronicling the First World War to Afghanistan, Theatres of War reflects on the power of performance within conditions that are often creatively stifling. It also explores how artistic expression can draw people together during times of adversity. Theatres of War: Wartime Entertainment and the Australian Experience will come to Arts Centre Melbourne from Saturday April 18 until Sunday September 20.

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Coming Up Depth of Field

Friday March 6 - Saturday March 14 Malthouse Theatre

Dance Massive

Tuesday March 10 - Sunday March 22 Various Venues

Giselle

Friday March 13 - Monday March 23 Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre

The Ocean Film Festival Australia Wednesday March 11 - Thursday March 12 Village Crown Cinemas & Village Rivoli

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Out Of TheClOset

Queer happenings around town with Anna Whitelaw.

It’s fitting that the first column I’m writing is when The Village People are gracing the cover. When I discovered the Village People were playing at Golden Plains, it was basically the next best thing to being told Freddie Mercury had risen from the dead to headline a comeback tour of Queen. Unfortunately, this year Golden Plains falls on the same weekend as Mardi Gras and ChillOut Festival, so many queers will be torn between singing along to In The Navy at the Supernatural Amphitheatre, heading to Daylesford’s country pride festival Chill Out or heading north for ‘gay Christmas’ AKA Mardi Gras. Those making the annual pilgrimage up to Sydney are lucky enough to have Monday off this year, so you don’t have to suffer the indignity of returning to work on Monday morning with glitter still in your hair and having slept for three hours in three days.

For those popping their Mardi Gras cherry, there’s only one way to truly experience Mardi Gras ± and that’s to march in it. Skipping, dancing and running along Oxford Street dressed in sequins and hot pants doing synchronised dance moves to Katy Perry isn’t even the best part of being in the parade.

The best part is actually the four hours I spent in the marshalling area in Hyde Park with 8,000 of your fellow marchers - a colourful kaleidoscope of buff bodies, body paint, Speedos, sequins, feathers, Lycra, uniforms, papier-mâché and wigs. Here you’ll see pink-wigged fairies dancing with shirtless angels and naughty nurses making out with nuns. Basically, it’s like being backstage in homosexual heaven.

If you plan to watch from the sidelines, bring a milk crate and stake out your position early or be prepared to squint at the passing floats through the armpits of throngs of tourists crammed five deep. Dannii Minogue and Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters will be at the Mardi Gras Party this year, but as always, the hot ticket in town will be the Laneway Party at the Beresford on Sunday. For more details, visit mardigras. org.au.

If you’re not able to get out of town, The Greyhound Hotel will be hosting their infamous Mardi Gras Party on Saturday March 7. It’s the annual night of nights,

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Australia’s LGBTIQ-munity annual general meeting, and the GH is putting on a party to rival anything Sydney is throwing. If you can’t make it to Sydney for this year’s Mardi Gras, head to the next best thing.

If you’re looking for a more sedate way to wave their pride flag over the Labour Day weekend, you can head to the annual ChillOut Festival in Daylesford. Just an hour and a half from Melbourne, Daylesford makes a nice windbreak at the best of times.

During ChillOut, Daylesford’s day spas and craft stores will be overrun with lesbians and gay men from all over Victoria. This year’s program includes wholesome activities like yoga, tea parties, book readings and a roller derby as well as their usual bush doof, street parade and comedy gala. For the full program and accommodation, visit chilloutfestival.com.au.

The Melbourne Queer Film Festival have revealed their full 2015 program - set to delight, excite, shock and surprise as the festival celebrates its 25th year in style.

Along with 45 feature films, 12 documentaries and 17 shorts packages, the festival will host a string of events, special presentations and the most cutting edge queer cinema has to offer from around the globe in a vibrant festival atmosphere. The festival will open with the bittersweet coming-of-age-tale The Way He Looks, close

with German feel-good comedy I Feel Like Disco and feature screenings of The Circle, Anita’s Last Cha-Cha, All About E and many more. The festival will kick off on Thursday March 19, head to mqff.com.au for tickets and more information.

The clown in a dress herself, Bianca Del Rio is bringing her new show Comedy Special to our shores. The winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race season six will hit theatres in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, following a sell-out season in New York. Supporting her on tour will be her special guest, Courtney Act, who was in the final three of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Catch Bianca Del Rio on Monday March 2 at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse.

Got tip offs, praise, complaints or cat photos? Email annawhitelaw@gmail.com to be included in this column.

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SYDNEY ROAD STREET PARTY GUIDE MARCH 1, 2015

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WELCOME

Without a doubt, 1989 will go down in history as the year the Sydney Road Street Party was first held. There are many different street-based festivals in Melbourne, but a lot of these celebrate a particular occasion or cultural group.

The Sydney Road Street Party however, celebrates the diversity of one of Melbourne’s culturally rich suburbs. For one special day of the year the communities of Brunswick and Moreland throw a party, and everyone’s invited.

The Sydney Road Street Party captures the roaring creative spirit of its local artists, venues, retailers and residents in a colourful, inclusive and noisy seven-hour fiesta. Converging along Sydney Road and spilling onto the adjoining streets between Union and Victoria Streets, you can expect talent-packed stages with an original lineup of stellar music, dance, roving entertainment and art installations. Quirky, innovative and unique, the Sydney Road Street Party encapsulates the lively vibe that makes the area so attractive. Explore market stalls from local and hand-picked designers alongside mouth-watering food vendors and side streets packed with surprise programs and venues, as well as a swathe of workshops to engage young and old along the way. This is a celebration of what Brunswick is now. No holds barred. Come and explore. Get decorated and of course, dance in the streets. Not sure where to start? Easy.

We’ve got you sorted with a comprehensive guide to what’s going on, and where to find it.

GETTING THERE For up to date travel details visit ptv.vic.gov.au

BY TRAIN

Take Upfield Line to Jewell or Brunswick Station. These stations put you within walking distance of the festival venues.

BY TRAM

During Sydney Road Street Party: 1 March 2015 Trams will NOT run on Sydney Road between Union & Victoria Street between 9am - 9pm.

You can still take the tram to and from the Festival. Take the #19 tram from the City to Stop 19 at Brunswick Road.

Take the #19 tram from Stop 27 at Donald Street to North Coburg.

BY BIKE

We suggest accessing the Upfield Bike Track.

BY UBER

Brunswick Music Festival has partnered with Uber to give new users a FREE first ride (up to $20). Uber is free smartphone app that connects riders with drivers at the touch of a button.

It operates 250+ cities worldwide including Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Gold. Download the Uber app on an iPhone or Andriod device, enter the promo code ‘BMF2015’ and request a ride.

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HOWLER 7 - 1 1 daW S O N S T

By Augustus Welby

It’s true, Howler isn’t on Sydney Rd, but that won’t stop the venue serving up a bevy of bands and DJs from Sunday afternoon until early Monday morning.

Spreading acts out through the bandroom and the beer garden, the bill features the likes of Mighty Duke and the Lords, Cumbia Cosmonauts, JPS and Sugar Fed Leopards. Brunswick-based doo-wop/ disco quintet Sugar Fed Leopards have spent plenty of time playing around the neighbourhood in the past couple of years. Although it’s a relatively new venue, Howler’s become a firm favourite.

In fact, it’s where the group launched their debut LP Sweet Spots just a few weeks ago.

“We’ve all been living in Brunswick for five or six years so we watched [Howler] being built,” says frontwoman Steph Brett. “My housemate helped build it and it was part of the excitement of growing Brunswick. So it was a good opportunity and it’s a good size for what we wanted to do.”

Sydney Rd Street Party is a prime representation of Brunswick having flowered into a cultural mecca. Some might put this down to the hipsterfication of the area. It’s natural to find change alarming, particularly when perpetrated by pretty young things who’ve an inexhaustible amount of time to learn about coffee roasting methods and hops varieties. But there’s no point projecting disparaging missives from afar. The proliferation of sensual delights and entertainment hubs offers plenty to rejoice and, as evidenced by the growing stature of the Sydney Rd Street Party, the area’s thriving popularity isn’t running dry.

“We played there last year on the Edward St stage,” Brett says. “That was really exciting for us.

It was one of the biggest things we’d done. It was so nice, it was so sunny and everyone was out in the streets. It was so busy and I’m sure it will be busier this year.”

Sugar Fed Leopards know how to bring the

spectacle. For starters, each member has a lipsmacking stage name; Brett becomes Sugar Breath, while backing vocalists Louise Terry and Carrie Webster transform into Lemona Squeeze and Carriemella Koala respectively. Accordingly, they feel most comfortable taking the stage dressed in sequins, heels and extravagant hair adornments. The conspicuous emphasis on peripheral details can be a gimmicky distraction, but the strong foundation of Sugar Fed Leopards’ songs prevents this from happening.

“The songs do come first,” Brett says. “I wrote the songs with this particular kind of personality in mind. It’s more coming from the music, the style of the character that would sing that music, but it’s not really that separate from Steph Brett.

“It was after a gig, we were sitting around at The Gem in Collingwood deciding on all our names,” she adds. “It was really early on and we were just drunk and scheming and coming up with all these names and it just keeps growing. Now it’s just really fun. It’s just another element to be able to add spectacle to the performance and to think about the music visually, and the whole experience of it is bigger than just audio.”

About those songs; released in late January,

Sweet Spots darts all over the feel-good spectrum.

From the slick disco glimmer of Ghost of Disco to the doo wop buffet that is Come On Jim and the horn-laden mariachi number Mi Querida, it ’s a summer soaked affair, fit to soundtrack a paradisal cruise. The band’s concocted an effective formula for luring outsiders into their wonderworld and in 2015 they hope to take things far beyond home turf.

“We’ve been up to Sydney and Newcastle and we’d like to go to Brisbane and the Northern Rivers and come down the coast again and do

THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL 140 SydNEy Rd

Well it’s here again, that first Sunday in March where the council closes the street and puts bands on stages. There’s a shitload of good food on the street. That’s all well and fine. But when you want to get your real party on, The Brunny will be the place to be. The Brunswick Hotel was the first pub on the street to get a liquor license back in the 1850s when Sydney Road was the main thoroughfare for gold diggers going up the Hume Highway. There is also a mention that it used to be a brothel for those lonely travelers as well. With their massive beer garden and bandroom pumping with some great tunes from the best local acts they’ve had here in the past year. They may not be your first stop but we all know it’ll be your last.

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Inside 12:30 ± 1:10 ± R ad Navajo 1:30 ± 2:10 ± Th e General 2:30 ± 3:10 ± Th e Peeks 3:30 ± 4:10 ± N iandra 4:30 ± 5:10 ± F ifth Friend 5:30 ± 6:10 ± The Early Openers 6:30 ± 7:10 ± D evilMonkey 7:30 ± 8:10 ± Gr indhouse 8:30 ± 9:10 ± Th ree Quarter Beast 9:30 ± 10:30 ± R iff Fist 10:30 ± 1:00 ± D J Darryl Danger Outside 12:00 ± 12:40 ± W here’s Grover?

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a week tour like that,” Brett says. “We’d like to do weekend tours to Adelaide and maybe over to Perth in the middle of the year. Then everyone wants to go to Europe.”

Catch SUGAR FED LEOPARDS at the Sydney Rd Street Party on Sunday March 1 at Howler with Mighty Duke and the Lords, Cumbia Cosmonauts, Scatter Scatter Tropical Soundsystem, No Name Nath, Jelly Fish, A13 and more. Entry is free.

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What can we say? Maurice Salvador at Tre Espresso Cafe/Bar runs a great Italiano shop ± some say it’s Little Italy in the heart of Brunswick.

Salvador brings his expertise, along with his passion for people, food and music together with his reputable Chef Frank Mammone for an unforgettable Italian encounter. Recipes are traditional from various provinces of Italy as well as other European regions. Tre Espresso prides itself on serving authentic Italian food at affordable prices in a relaxed and casual environment that caters equally well for breakfast all day and lunch. Tre Espresso menu specialises in homemade pastas, from lasange to ricotta and spinach cannelloni to their unique pizzas. These super tasty Italian specialities include polpette, pizza topped with fresh tomato, basil, cheese and meatballs. Tre Espresso is also

renowned for their all day breakfast dishes that include baked eggs with prosciutto, cherry tomatoes, scamorza cheese, and roquette, served with ciabatta bread; plus organic free range eggs with spinach, baked beans, scamorza cheese and served with ciabatta bread. Tre Espresso is fully licensed with a wide range of beverages available including New Zealand, Italian wines and champagne by the glass or bottle. The cafe oozes the European feel, a stylish piazza in the heart of Brunswick. In celebration of the Sydney Road Street Party, there’ll be live music from 12.30pm to 5pm, as there always is every Saturday and Sunday from midday to 3.30pm.

TRE ESPRESSO is located in Sparta Place, 10/459 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.

THE RETREAT 280 sydnEy Rd

They’re bringing in a proper stage for their beer garden and PA, with an eclectic lineup of international and local artists on the beer garden stage starting at 2pm. The pub opens at midday.

Then in the early evening, the party moves to the main stage with Modesty, excellent new-bandon-the-rise The Gun Barrell Straights, and the one and only Adalita taking over the room until the wee hours.

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BEER GARDEN STAGE 2-2.30pm G.T. Arpe (KOREA) 2.45-3.15pm Jody Galvin Music 3.30-4pm Dan Lethbridge 4.15-4.45 Eaten By Dogs 5-5.30pm Larissa Tandy W/ Strine Singers 5.45- 6.15pm Goatpiss Gasoline 6.30-7.15pm The Gun Barrel Straights INSIDE STAGE 7.30-8.15pm Backwood Creatures 8.30-9.30pm Modesty 9.30pm Adalita Official (DJ set) The Retreat is located at 280 Sydney Road, Brunswick.

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wally kempton’s band t-shirt eXhibition & sale r e C o r d pa r a d i s e - 1 5 U n i o n s t

By Dan Watt

For music fans, band t-shirts can become invaluable. These printed designs on plain cloth have a rare quality within the clothing industry where they actually become more meaningful and valuable as time passes, as opposed to standard ‘fashion’ that goes out of style in 12 months.

One man who knows the deep-seated value of band t-shirts is Wally Kempton. For the past 30 years, Kempton has spent the best part of each year on tour, whether it be as a bass player (The Meanies and Even) or band/tour manager ± Kempton is the current manager of Money For Rope and has TM’d a multitude of international artists. Kempton has gathered an impressive array of band t-shirts over the years but after three decades he has decided to part ways with his collection. Kicking off this Sunday as part of The Sydney Road Street festival, Record Paradise will be making over 200 of Kempton’s t-shirts available for purchase.

“There’ll be a Queen The Works tour t-shirt from 1985, a Tears For Fears t-shirt also from 1985 and a Tina Turner tour t-shirt from 1985 or 1986,” reveals Kempton. He then remembers one truly golden item: “There’s a really early Crowded House one in there to ± that’s probably the most impressive in the collection.”

These early t-shirts were attained by Kempton the music fan; sauntering along to shows as a young man from the ‘burbs in his late teens to early 20s. The Queen tour t-shirt brings up the question, ‘Was there friction from the bogans about Queen being a mainstream rock act but frontman Freddie Mercury was openly bisexual?’

“I was very fond of it,” laughs Kempton. “I have always loved Freddie’s over-the-top campness. I never found it to be an issue because most of the people I went to school with didn’t even realise he was that way inclined.”

Having outlined the oldest, Kempton also sheds light on which of the recent t-shirts of his collection will be available for purchase: “The most recent ones will be from the tours I have worked on lately, so there will be a Seasick Steve t-shirt that I might’ve felt the urge

to own and then got home and realised that it didn’t fit my bloody large frame.”

“Truth be told, the reason I’m selling them is that I just don’t wear t-shirts anymore. If you see early pictures of The Meanies and Even, I might be wearing just a t-shirt or a tee under my shirt, but these days, I don’t wear them anymore and they’re taking up space in the wardrobe. So I figured other people should own these things ± I don’t want to throw them away.”

And it’s certainly not like Kempton is profiteering off his collectable and rare tees, with prices ranging from a $5 rack to only a $20 rack with that rack housing “maybe a Supergrass t-shirt that I never wore.

You know what? At least 50 per cent of them have never been worn.”

With this rich knowledge and experience with band tees, Kempton describes what he believes are the paramount qualities of a band t-shirt: “The ones that used to shift the most units for The Meanies were actually the t-shirts with the record cover on the front… If you’re going to get your own band t-shirts done make sure the t-shirt itself is decent quality because there is nothing worse than forking out cash for a t-shirt and after one wash, it’is fucked.”

WALLY KEMPTON’s band t-shirt exhibition and sale kicks off this Sunday at Record Paradise, 15 Union St Brunswick. The sale coincides with Sydney Road Street Festival and will run until the t-shirts sell out. EVEN will play two shows at The Yarra Hotel on Friday March 13 and Saturday March 14, while THE MEANIES play Northcote Social Club on Saturday March 28.

Shop 10/459-465 Sydney Road (03) 9381 0209

OPEN 8:00AM – 5:00PM, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Breakfast and lunch served all day

EVERY SATURDAY FROM 12:00 PM TIL 3PM La Mauvaise Reputation (Gypsy/Jazz - French Band) EVERY SUNDAY FROM 4PM TIL 6PM Bella Ciao (Jazz Italian band) TRE ESPRESSO ALSO CATERS FOR PRIVATE FUNCTIONS! Function Room And Catering For Small Intimate Events Up To 25 People

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Sydney Road Street Party 1 MARCH 2015 UNION TO VICTORIA STREETS, BRUNSWICK • 12 NOON TO 7PM

Edward St Stage 12:30pm » BRUNSWICK SECONDARY COLLEGE BAND 1:30pm » LOS CUMBIA KILLERS 2:30pm » SANTA TARANTA 3:45pm » THE SEVEN UPS 5:00pm » EMPAT LIMA 6:15pm » MANGELWURZEL

SKYSCRAPER STAGE Expect spectacular performances on and off the ground as Sydney Road Street Party reaches new heights with an aerial rig!! Featuring Westside Circus, Rockie Stone and music by O’ZIRIGUIDUM BRAZILLIAN DRUMMERS, MELBOURNE UKULELE KOLLECTIVE & more.

Iramoo Stage 12:00pm 12:45pm 1:30pm 2:30pm 3:45pm 5:00pm 6:15pm

» WELCOME TO COUNTRY CEREMONY » SOUNDS OF POLYNESIA » CHARM OF FINCHES » AINSLIE WILLS » TEK TEK ENSEMBLE » MADRE MONTE » THE HORNS OF LEROY

MECHANICS INSTITUTE FAMILY FRIENDLY

12:30pm » “SHOW ME THE MONEY”

BY COBURG NTH PRIMARY 1:15pm » COBRA CULTURE: GLOBAL BEATS & UNITY PARTY 2:00pm » AZURA’S OASIS SHOW 2:45pm » CUMBIA DRUMMING WORKSHOP 3:30pm » ALL DAY FRITZ (BAND) 4:15pm » BRUNSWICK SHAPE NOTE SINGERS WORKSHOP

BEATS ON THE STREET Catch spontaneous performances and art popping up all day along Sydney Road featuring; REAL HOT BITCHES, HAVANA PALAVA, MORELAND CITY BAND, BINDAAS BOLLYWOOD DANCERS, WESTSIDE CIRCUS, AZURA’S OASIS BELLY DANCERS, SWORD CRAFT DEMONSTRATIONS, KATUMBA LATIN AMERICAN DANCERS, MELBOURNE CITY BAND, MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE CHOIR, PANS ON FIRE, AUSTRALIA FAIR GRAND CONCERT ORGAN and much more!

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Oxygen Stage Presented by Moreland Youth Services and FReeZA 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:20pm 1:50pm 2:20pm 3:30pm 4:50pm 5:30pm

» DJ LADYFINGERS » DEAR JANE » JULIANA » DJ LADYFINGERS, Dance Crew & MC » BLACK HARRYS » INDIGENOUS HIP HOP PROJECTS » BIDDLEWOOD » DJ LADYFINGERS, Guest dance crews & MC 5:50pm » SURPRISE BAND! 6:30pm » DJ LADYFINGERS

Albert St Arena 12:30pm 1:30pm 2:40pm 3:50pm 5:15pm

» THE WILLIE WAGTAILS » MANNY FOX » THE BURNT SAUSAGES » MOSÉ + THE FMLY » WASSAWUMBA + BAND

The Boîte World Music Café The Boite has presented the World Music Café for over 25 years in various Melbourne venues. Drop into their new home on Albert Street and sample music in an open-mic format. The Café invites the diverse cultures who live in this community to share a song or two from their distant homelands. Just rock up with your voice, instruments or dance. Musical hosts are local Greek gypsy outfit Byron and the Gypsy Cats. 1-5pm.

Pedal Stage Presented by the Sydney Road Traders Association 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:45pm 2:45pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 5:00pm

» FRATELLINI GRAM-O-PHONIE » FRUITIE HOOTIES » VARDOS – GYPSY TRIO » FRATELLINI GRAM-O-PHONIE » FRUITIE HOOTIES » VARDOS – GYPSY TRIO » AFRICAN SESSI DRUMMERS

With roaming acts EMU NOMADS, MUSCLE MAN STILTS, CARMEN UP, HIGH SOCIETY STILTS & GARDEN CHARACTERS.

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BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE

By Graham Blackley

Groundbreaking Native American singer/songwriter and philanthropist Buffy Sainte-Marie has been writing, recording and performing since the early ‘60s.

She was ‘punk’ in the truest sense of the word, long before the term had been applied to any narrow musical subculture as she toured everywhere from colleges to reservations, delivered her songs with unbridled energy, defied conventions and maintained a firm commitment to political activism. The good news is she’s still the deeply committed activist and musical renegade she always was.

She also seems to be phenomenally busy. For instance, not only has she just recorded her 20th album, which will be released in May, but she recently played a gig at The Bootleg Theatre in LA to an audience that featured such luminaries as Jackson Browne.

Despite often being labelled a “folk singer”, Sainte-Marie has pursued an eclectic musical path. When Catch BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE at The Brunswick Music Festival on Wednesday March 4 and discussing what has shaped this approach to music she says, “It’s my own interest [in music]. I really do love Thursday March 5. She’s also playing Port Fairy Folk Festival on Friday March 6 and Saturday March pop music. I really do love the music of the 1600’s in Scotland. I like music from China, India and the Middle 7, and then heads to WOMADelaide on Monday March 9. The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures, the Mid 70s East and I always have. I didn’t know enough to do it one way only. [Also] I guess I get bored easily.” When Recordings is out through True North Records.

I raise the idea that Sainte-Marie was punk long before the movement’s ‘70s heyday, she bursts out laughing and says, “Thank you. You are the only person who ever noticed that. Because I don’t know any better, haven’t been to musical school and I’m not one of the guys, it has kept me unique. Sometimes I try things.

My doing punk before punk came along was a lucky coincidence.”

With protest songs such as Universal Soldier, in which the futility and madness of war is laid bare, Sainte-Marie demonstrates music can achieve a whole lot more than mere entertainment: it can provoke thought, inspire reflection and perhaps even change minds. Speaking about the benefits of using music to convey political messages, she says, “In my heart what it’s all about is the art of the three-minute song. If you can say something in three minutes, I think you can have more impact than as if you had written a 400-page book that sits on the shelf too heavy to lift. It’s a real people’s way of saying something concisely. [With] the world being what it is, [I] think maybe I can make my little contribution through the three minute song. ” Her belief in the power of brevity was confirmed when she got to ARCHIE ROACH BOMBINO (NIGER) BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (CAN) mingle with the denizens of a rather famous fictional street. “For five and a half years I was on Sesame Feat Jeff Lang & Bobby Singh Street and that brought that home to me again,” she explains. “The idea of short attention spans and being able to make a point in three and a half minutes is something to aim for.” The durability of song is also important to Sainte-Marie. “Great music is not only diverse and comes from everywhere but it lasts,” she exclaims. “A great song doesn’t stop being great just because another song comes along.”

A song’s durability and currency is guaranteed when it’s kept alive not only by the originator but MARU TARANG (IND/AUS) L-FRESH THE LION SÓLEY (ICE) by other musicians who imbue it with their own style. It’s testament to the quality of Sainte-Marie’s songwriting that so much of her work has been covered by a staggering and diverse range of artists.

Sainte-Marie’s dark tale of addiction Cod’ine, for instance, seems to have been covered by everyone from Donovan, Janis Joplin, The Charlatans and Quicksilver Messenger Service to Dave Graney and Courtney Love. Discussing her response to other people covering her material she says, “I wrote a song called Until It’s Time For You To Go which is a real pop song and I didn’t even tell people that I AKA DJ SPOOKY wrote it as it’s such a pop song. The ‘folk police’ used THE BLACK SORROWS PAUL D. MILLER (USA) ROSS & JARLATH (SCO) to get after you if you strayed into pop music. But then Bobby Darin recorded it and he didn’t do it the way I did and I just didn’t know what to think of that. It took me a while and then I started to just take it as such an incredible compliment that people who I have never met, people from different kinds of music than I’ve ever played were recording my songs and it was a real thrill. It’s a great compliment when anybody else does your song. It’s good.”

Discussing her upcoming gigs in Australia SainteMarie says, “The program that we will be doing in Australia this time is very diverse. Depending on the length of the show, I will usually throw in the DELANEY DAVIDSON (NZ) MARGARET LENG TAN (SING) GRAND SALVO songs that I think everyone is hoping that I will do like Until It’s Time For You To Go, Up Where We Belong which won me my Academy Award, Universal Soldier, some Native American things like Starwalker, some that you have never heard before that are from the new album. It’s always a mix of what I think people are hoping we will do and things that will surprise them. I don’t just do a greatest hits The Brunswick Music Festival is proudly presented by show because that would get boring for me so I Performing Arts Moreland with the continued support always throw in some new ones. It keeps the band of princial public partner Moreland City Council. fresh too.”

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THE SPOTTED MALLARD 314 SyDnEy RD

The annual Sydney Rd Street Party is upon us once more and this year, The Spotted Mallard is celebrating in big brassy style. The kitchen will be a-cookin’ and the ale will be a-flowin’ from 12pm and of course, it’s free entry all day. No pesos required. They’ve got big band brass from 2pm with The Pearly Shells followed by Esstee Big Band. Just to keep you on your toes, they’ve thrown in a bit of bluegrass courtesy of The Davidson Brothers to bring the party home.

Over more than ten years, The Pearly Shells have gained a reputation as Melbourne’s premier jazz/ swing/R&B band with a classic style and look reminiscent of the golden age of Ellington, Basie, Goodman and Brother Ray. Famous for their swingin’ back beat sound and Hollywood style, luminescent clam-shell stands, The Pearlys have been providing atmospheric sound tracks and irresistible dance grooves in bars and clubs, festivals and dance halls as well as parties, receptions and other shindigs. With their enormous repertoire and variety of band sizes, The Pearly Shells pride themselves on striking the right tone for any musical situation.

at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, Crown Palladium, the Forum, Portsea Hotel among many others. If you like Frank, Ella, Harry, Nina, Buble or even a bit of Mingus, Basie or Ellington then Esstee Big Band is the band for you.

Having performed together for over 20 years, The Davidson Brothers have firmly carved their contemporary acoustic style into the Australian music scene. Hamish and Lachlan Davidson grew up in the rural Victorian town of Yinnar.

Raised in a musical family, the brothers began playing music and performing from a young age.

With seven albums under their belt, they have built the reputation of being one of Australia’s hottest bluegrass acts ± multi-instrumentalists on banjo, fiddle, mandolin and great entertainers who deliver high powered acoustic music at its best.

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2pm - The Pearly Shells 4.30pm - Estee Big Band 7.30pm - The Davidson Brothers

Esstee Big Band is Melbourne’s hardest-swinging 18-piece jazz ensemble. Featuring fabulous singers Margot Leighton and Zac Teichmann, plus regular special guests, Esstee had a residency at Manchester Lane every second Monday from 2002-2009. The band performs the best of the classic big band vocal repertoire, as well as the most exciting instrumentals and original compositions in town. Esstee has performed

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THE CORNISH ARMS 163A SydNEy Rd

The Cornish Arms was built in 1854 and was one of the first pubs in Brunswick. In 1857, it held the first Brunswick council meeting and remains a centre-point of the local community to this day as one of Brunswick’s premier eating destinations.

They have a large, well-priced food menu with a third of it catering to vegans. In celebration for the Sydney Road Street Party, they’re putting on a special street party menu where all pizzas are $12, all light meals are $13 and all main meals are $19. Did we mention their food absolutely rocks?

It’s true. They’re also chucking on a heap of bands for the day/night’s entertainment, making The Cornish the ultimate hang out spot.

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LINEup:

12pm Hungry and Foolish 1pm The May Rivers 2pm Foxtrot 3pm I am the Riot 4pm The Harlots 5pm The Workinghorse Irons 6pm My Echo 7pm The Pretty Littles 8pm Holy Serpent The Pretty Littles

LOS HERMANOS

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Los Hermanos means ‘brothers’ in Spanish and the first time you pop your head into this place, you’ll understand why it’s been named this.

There’s a real family vibe to this Brunswick eatery and it’s the perfect spot for late night tacos after a big night. A dream was born a long time ago to bring this food to Australia, and Los Hermanos is the realisation of that dream. The quesadillas and anotjitos are best shared with family and friends over a few cervezas; it’s traditional Mexican food, generous, fresh and bursting with flavour. They have an extensive tequila selection and a simple, but totally delicious (and super cheap) selection of street-style tacos for $5 each.

Loved by locals and foodies, it’s the perfect place to enjoy a relaxed meal with friends.

You can find Los Hermanos at 339 Victoria Street Brunswick. They’re open from Monday to Wednesday 6pm to 11pm, Thursday to Saturday 6pm to 1am.

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If you find yourself wandering down Sparta Place in Brunswick, you’d best be sure to head into one of Brunswick’s glistening gems, Kitty Rose Couture. Offering a glorious selection of unique and beautiful rockabilly garments and accessories, Kitty Rose Couture is a must visit for any rockabilly aficionado. Opening the store was a dream in the making for partners Emma and Adam, whose passion for design and classic clothing lead them to launching the boutique clothing store in the heart of Brunswick. This talented duo have incorporated the best from several overseas labels with their own original clothing, and the result is a glorious range of kickarse rockabilly outfits and accessories. They endeavour to source materials of the highest quality from their home in Melbourne, and Emma and Adam are involved in the entire process, from fabric design right through to the cutting and stitching of their garments. Their hands on approach ensures the very best standard of clothing. “Our goal is to create beautiful garments and pass on the joy of our passion,” they say. “Nothing is better than the look on the faces of our customers when our joy becomes theirs.”

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RETROSTAR WAREHOUSE SALE 3 - 3 7 S T E WA R T S T

It’s time to go retro. This weekend, Retrostar will be putting out over ten thousand items of clothing and best of all? Everything is $10 or less: dresses, skirts, shirts, knitwear, blouses, pants, tee’s, singlets, sneakers, hats, band tee’s, sunnies, hoodies, flannels and stacks more, with more stuff being put out all through the day.

With over 12,000 items being made available for under $10 there is really no excuse for not attending.

With just a little sifting, the vintage piece of your dreams could be waiting for you to cherish in your arms.

The sale will run from 8.00am-5.00pm Saturday February 28 to Sunday March 1 at 3-37 Stewart Street, Brunswick

THE PENNY BLACK

420 SYdNEY Rd

It’s that time of year again and as part of the Brunswick Music Festival, The Penny Black are hosting some of Melbourne’s best folk, blues, country, soul, hip hop and funk acts at the famous Sydney Road Street Party. With 15 extraordinary live acts inside and in the beer garden, it’s the event of the year. If you have attended previous years, you know it would be rude not to dust off your dancin’ shoes and summer party dress and get down for an afternoon and evening of musical bliss.

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Main Bar Stage: 12pm ± Hel oise 1:30pm ± The Sideshow Brides 3pm ± M oonee Valley Drifters 4:30pm ± The Scrimshaw Four 6pm ± D anny Walshe Banned 7pm - The Drunken Poachers 8pm ± Alo ne With Tiger 9pm - Arthur Penn & The Funky Ten 10pm ± J ack Jack Jack

Beer Garden Stage: 12:45pm ± B ob Hutchison Trio 2:15pm ± The Darjeerlings 3:45pm ± B elove 5:15pm ± Tash Sultana

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SCHNITZ

b1/90-106 SydNey Rd

The humble schnitzel has worked its way to being almost as Australian as Vegemite. Schnitz began its journey in 2007 when founder Roman Dyduk opened with a single restaurant. The Polishborn schnitzel expert had helmed restaurants in the past, all featuring his signature schnitzel on the menu. But this was different. With this restaurant, Dyduk and his sons Andrew and Tom had a single-minded focus to perfect the art of schnitzel making. The Schnitz way is not that of the production line, but of the perfection line.

Each schnitzel is made to order and pan-fried to bring the best out of our special crumb.

Is a schnitzel just a schnitzel? Hell no. At Schnitz, they bring the age-old culinary tradition of the schnitzel to modern-day tastebuds through fresh ingredients, a healthy pan-frying technique and a delicious, crunchy crumb that would make even the most seasoned schnitzel pro swoon.

Schnitz offers four types of pan cooked schnitzels (chicken, beef, fish and vegetarian) which are crumbed and cooked to order. Each can be ordered in a toasted roll or wrap in 18 flavours to experiment with. For those who don’t feel like crumbs, they can enjoy crumb free chicken fillets. The menu also extends to a range of gourmet salads that are served with or without schnitzel strips.

cut and beer-battered Tasmanian Russet potatoes cooked in 100 per cent cholesterol-free canola oil, then lightly sprinkled with Tom’s secret seasoning that he spent three months perfecting.

Schnitz can say this with confidence: once you have one you won’t be able to stop.

With more than 100,000 Facebook fans, formally known as Schnitzaholics, Schnitz’s growth is no surprise. Since those humble but dedicated beginnings, Schnitz has grown from one restaurant to the 32 we have today.

As part of the Sydney Rd Street Party Schnitz Barkly Square are giving away a free small chips with any wrap or roll purchase. Winner, winner schnitzel dinner.

SCHNITZ at Barkly Square is located at b1/90-106 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.

Schnitz is also rapidly developing a reputation for having the best chips in Victoria. Diamond-

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DRAKE [USA] Friday February 27, Rod Laver Arena MARCELLUS PITTMAN [USA] Friday February 27, Mercat Basement THEO PARRISH [USA]

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Saturday February 28, Corner Hotel DIE ANTWOORD [RSA] Wednesday March 4, Trak Live Lounge Bar TECH N9NE [USA] Friday March 6, The Hi-Fi GOLDEN PLAINS: THEO PARRISH [USA], DJ SHADOW & CUT CHEMIST [USA] + MORE Saturday March 7 - Monday March 9, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre TAMA SUMO [GER] Sunday March 8, Lounge FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DRAKE [USA], THE PRODIGY [USA] + MORE Sunday Match 9, Flemington Racecourse SHACKLETON [UK]

In the late ‘70s, the hard-luck town of Bristol on London’s outskirts was the scene of endless strikes, high unemployment and crime waves. As the country’s economy slumped, Ghost Town by The Specials – a band grown in Bristol’s post punk movement – became the unofficial national anthem. By the close of the following decade, Bristol would be rebranded as the home of an exciting new musical explosion, with the spotlight firmly on a young AfroSwedish immigrant – Neneh Cherry. Just as Blondie’s Rapture and Grandmaster Flash’s The Message had exposed growing subcultures to mass audiences for the first time, Cherry’s debut Raw Like Sushi was the new sound of Bristol’s once ghostly, hopeless slums.

Once established though, Cherry failed to capitalise on her first rush of success and by the late ‘90s she had all but disappeared from the musical map. Her last solo album Man, released in 1996 was followed by only sporadic guest appearances, until she finally re-emerged last year with striking new set called Blank Project. Of her 18 year absence Cherry offers, “I wanted to be a part of my kid’s lives, really. Also, things had changed so much by the time Man came out, and I just wasn’t willing to compete with the likes of the Spice Girls, no disrespect to them, in order to get my music heard.” She says in an equal parts English/American/Swedish

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accent. Cherry sounds defeatist as she describes folding in the face of perceived ‘competition’: “I tried to make another album, but to be honest the wind had kind of gone out of my whistle a bit.” She laughs. “I had to have a longing to make another album, and that longing was gone for some time.” Motivation for recording again came once Cherry had reached a comfortable conclusion as to where she fitted in to the current musical landscape.

“I am totally into a lot of new music being made, but I had to make the decision to not worry about what’s considered cool or whatever.

I had been away for some time, so I had to reconnect with that part of my brain where I wasn’t worried …or over thinking what I was doing.” Blank Project is a collaborative effort, as with most of Cherry’s output, involving husband/collaborator Cameron McVey as well as percussion ensemble RocketNumber9 and producer Four Tet. The resulting album is a mostly sparse collection of electro/ beat poems, unlike anything Cherry has attempted before. “It’s interesting how audiences have reacted to this work,” she states.

“I have had some people even walk out of the shows because it’s not what they expect me to be doing or whatever, but then, I’ve also had such a positive reaction from other fans who really seem to get what I’m trying to do with this project.” It was risk-taking to make an album reminiscent in part of latter-day Radiohead, but it’s clear that

the music of her roots – jazz and punk – have informed the album, giving it a raw honesty which translates well.

“When I made Raw Like Sushi and those early recordings, I kind of felt like I was outside the process a bit… sort of watching it come together. I mean those were my songs, but with Blank Project, I felt so completely involved …like I was fully in charge of what I was doing.” It’s not commonly referenced, but while attempting to launch her solo career after stints with London punk acts Rip Rig + Panic, The Slits and X-Ray Spex, Cherry met with Pete Waterman of Stock, Aitken & Waterman fame and found herself presented with the possibility of a Kylie/Rick Astley-type pop career. “Had that little experiment not been a complete failure,” she laughs. “I would have found myself with little or no input whatsoever in my music, I think. I would have hated working in such a sterile environment for one thing.

I mean I look at Kylie Minogue, who I have the upmost respect for, and although I really didn’t get her in the beginning, I see now that she has maintained her identity so brilliantly throughout her career.”

Pete Waterman and Neneh Cherry’s partnership ended as quickly as it had begun, she explains: “There were no hard feelings about being rejected,” Neneh laughs. “It was pretty clear we were from different worlds and I didn’t really appreciate how they did their thing.

The bottom line was Pete didn’t think my voice was ‘pop’ enough and so they manipulated my vocal and it just sounded awful.” Luckily, the song itself was not entirely shelved. Looking Good Diving With The Wild Bunch was wisely retitled Buffalo Stance and completely overhauled by producer Tim Simenon (Bomb The Bass).

“It was Tim’s idea for me to ad-lib all the ‘know wha’ I mean?’ and ‘what’s he like anyway?’ spoken word parts in that, which I think really made the song.” The track was a global hit single and is widely rumoured to be the inspiration for Madonna’s Express Yourself.

These days Cherry has gotten used to how much the track has continued to define her. “It was relevant at the time from a feminist point of view, and when I see how sometimes so little has changed for women in music, with endless videos objectifying female artists, I do feel a sense of pride that we were addressing that issue in Buffalo, but a lot still has to change.”

Neneh Cherry along with Blank Project collaborators RocketNumber9 will perform a career-spanning set at Hamer Hall on Friday March 6. They will also perform at Golden Plains which goes down from Saturday March 7 Monday March 9 and WOMADelaide which will be held from Friday March 6 to Monday March 9 in Adelaide’s Botanic Park.

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Business idea: Plucka Duck-themed restaurant where the rotisserie is like the Hey Hey It’s Saturday wheel powered by a dude on a bike.

AUDIOJACK [UK] Sunday March 15, Revolver Upstairs KELE [UK] Wednesday March 18, Corner Hotel

1200 techniques

BONOBO [UK]

1200 Techniques are finally back. The Australian hip hop pioneers broke their break their decade of silence with the announcement of their new EP Time Has Come which dropped in January 23 through Rubber Records, now they’re set to take it out on the road. Catch ‘em at Saturday March 14 at Laundry Bar. Tickets through Oztix.

Thursday March 19, Prince Bandroom JURASSIC 5 [USA] Wednesday April 1, Festival Hall AUDIOFLY [ESP], MARTIN BUTTRICH [USA], BLOND:ISH [UK] Friday April 3, TBA MOBB DEEP [USA] Saturday April 11, The Espy

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Earthcore have revealed a bumper first round lineup for 2015. The first round of acts for the 2015 incarnation include AES Dana, Ajja, Alan Fitzpatrick, Alex Stein, Animato, Anklepants, Audiomatic, Captain Hook, Carbon Based Life Forms, Chris Liebing, Coming Soon, Danny Daze, Eat Static, Electric Universe, Grouch, Interactive Noise, Kukan Dub Lagan, Liquid Hook, Liquid Soul, Major 7, Matthias Tanzmann, Miss Kittin, Morten Granau, Oskar Offermann, Outside the Universe, Outsiders, Oxia, Phaxe, Pig & Dan, Ranji, RØDHÅD, Sam Paganini, Solar Fields, Sonic Species, Symphonix, Talamasca, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, U-Recken, Vertical Mode, Victor Ruiz, Vini Vici, X Noize and Zyce. It goes down from Thursday November 26 - Monday November 30.

Hot on the hells of the release of their new EP Psychonautics (out on their revered Gruuv label) ol’ mates Audiojack have announced a return to Australia. The EP itself is a tech-house stormer, and is already receiving praise from the likes of from Loco Dice, Dusky, DJ W!ld, Luna City Express, Huxley and Ralph Lawson, just to name a few. Catch ‘em on Sunday March 15 at Revolver Upstairs.

After beginning in July last year, Warehaus has cemented itself as a late night disco for Northsiders, filling a void for all the Fitzroy crowd looking for somewhere to dance after midnight without braving the city. The roster of producers and DJs who’ve graced their decks is already a veritable who’s who of Melbourne’s disco and house - including Andras Fox, Young Franco, Edd Fisher, Simon TK, CC:DISCO!, Myles Mac, Prequel, 6am At The Garage, Bacon Booty Disco and many more. After hosting a sold out NYE show with disco and re-edit legend Greg Wilson, Warehaus hosted their firstly monthly with Total Giovanni stripped down to their y-fronts and Andy Hart. They’ve also secured Late Nite Tuff Guy from Radelaide on Friday March 20 and then Harvey Sutherland on Friday April 17. Warehaus goes down at Little & Olver.

flying circus The wildly successful global brand Flying Circus have announced that they’re bringing their infamous parties to Australian shores. In the past year alone the Circus has popped up 60+ events in over 35 countries, with over 100,000 partygoers attending worldwide. For their Australian tour they’ll be bringing over three heavy-hitting international names, including Audiofly, Martin Buttrich and BLOND:ISH. It goes down on Friday April 3.

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wednesday feb 25 CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. thursday feb 26 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC WITH GET BU$Y + JESSE YOUNG + WHO & SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

DANCE TECHNIQUE - FEAT: POST PERCY + GROOVE CONTROL + BEN RYAN New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

DJ KENNETH WALKER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

11:55pm.

FLANAGANS THURSDAYS FEAT: DJ ONTIME + COLONEL Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm.

JUNGLETRONICA + BEN KELLY Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.

8:30pm.

SUMMER NIGHTS Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm.

THE RITZ - FEAT: KEN WALKER + ANDO + JOSHUA GILLILAND Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $20.00.

VARSITY - FEAT: KITI + FOOFARAW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

XS DISCO - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran.

8:00pm. friday feb 27 #MASHTAG - FEAT: MALPRACTICE + AGENT 86 + BENZO + ANDRE LE VOGUE + SILVERFOX + AHAB + OLLIE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

ANIMALS DANCING - FEAT: MARCELLUS PITTMAN + TORNADO WALLACE + OTOLOGIC & ANDEE FROST The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm.

CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

DAVID MORALES Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 10:00pm. $51.00.

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.

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.

IBIZA - FEAT: BEN NICKY + WHO KILLED MICKEY + ZAC

WATERZ + SPECIAL K CLAZ + DJ PHILLY SHOOK La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

LATIN QUARTER - FEAT: DJ SAB C Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak.

8:00pm.

LOCAL TRAFFIC - FEAT: JOSH P + DANIEL FABRIS + PACKPRESS + BILLYFLIPPER + UDMO + OLIVER DAVE + MIKE WOODS Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

LUCK TRUCK FRIDAYS DOWNSTAIRS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

M-PHAZES + HIJACK + KODIAK KID Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

MISTY NIGHTS ‘STUDIO 5420’ - FEAT: TORNADO WALLACE + LIL HOTEP + SALMON BARREL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00.

OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00.

PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

RODNEY P + FRAKSHA + GUTZ Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

SILO PRESENTS (JOACHIM SPIETH) - FEAT: JOACHIM SPIETH New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00.

SKAAKI + UN SOUNDBWOY + DJ AB + MCK + MUMA DOESA + SISTA ZAI Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $6.00.

SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

THE BRUNNY GOES GLAM FEAT: DJ HEELS + DJ HOOPS HOOPER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.

THERAPY FRIDAYS - FEAT: STEVIE MINX + MATTY G + APAX + CHRIS MAC Level 3 @ Crown, Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00.

TUNES BY DAVE GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

WORTHY + WORTHY + MIKE CALLANDER + KATIE DROVER + ISAAC FRYER + MICHAEL OZONE + WHO + SILVERSIX + LUCCA TAN + DAMON WALSH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. saturday feb 28 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.

CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne

Cbd. 8:00pm.

DJ KIT CONVICT, SEE SAW DJS + DJ KIT CONVICT + SEE SAW DJS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $5.00.

ELECTRIC DREAMS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00.

FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00.

FLAGRANT + NAM + MATT RAD Penny Black, Brunswick.

7:00pm.

FORWARD EVER - FEAT: YT 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm. $20.00.

FREDDIE GIBBS + BARO + MAT CANT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $45.00.

GARDEN BEATS - FEAT: AARON ARTHUR + DUNCAN FUNK 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.

LOOPHOLE RECORDINGS - FEAT: JIMMY LEE MAC Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

7:00pm.

MIDNIGHT RUN (LATE NIGHT PARTY) Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm.

PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

RE UP - FEAT: SWISHER + DJ TRANTEWR + STEPHELLES + GEEZY + BOOTY QUEST The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $10.00.

ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak.

8:00pm.

SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am.

SATURDAY SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: COURTNEY MILLS + JESSE JAMES + J-HEASY + MITCH COEN + BIG MAC + JARREN RYAN + TESS VOCKLER + NATHAN BRASIER Cushion, St Kilda.

9:00pm.

SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00.

SHENANIGANS - FEAT: RADIO CHOAS Pier Live, Frankston.

8:00pm.

SUMMERFEST - FEAT: SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM + RUBY ROSE + CHUNKY JAM Victoria Harbour Promenade, 12:00pm.

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.

THEO PARRISH AFTER PARTY + INVISIBLE CITY + TAKO +

BAKER STREET DJS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $20.00.

THERAPY Level 3 @ Crown, Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00.

TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

TUNES BY DJ MATTHEW FREDERICK Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

UNSTABLE SOUNDS - FEAT: FRACTALEYES + CONSTRUX Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. sunday mar 1 BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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 Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: WAFF Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

8:00pm.

SUNDAY DJ SESSIONS @ JARDIN TAN - FEAT: MIMI Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. 2:00pm.

SYDNEY STREET PARTY @ PENNY BLACK - FEAT: JACK JACK JACK + HELOISE + THE SIDESHOW BRIDES + MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS + THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR + DANNY WALSHE BANNED + THE DRUNKEN POACHERS + ALONE WITH TIGER + ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN + TASH SULTANA + THE DARJEELING + BELOVE + BOB HUTCHINSON TRIO Penny Black, Brunswick. 12:00pm.

THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

DJ MURO (KING OF DIGGIN/JAPAN) + ARKS + JUMPS + MANCHILD + AUX ONE + EDDIE MAC + JIMMY CAUTION Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

friday feb 27

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

DRAKE Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.

8:00pm. $109.80.

FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

tuesday mar 3 OASIS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

THE SPIRIT OF DUB + MIA WALLACE + T-RHYTHM Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.

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FRIDAY NIGHT RHYTHM - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE + DJ AYNA + TOM SHOWTIME The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

NEXT CROP - FEAT: BLAVISHB + DEEFIN + ILLUSIVE + T-BAR + SOLEX + SUMMIT + LIL JEZ + OWAISE F Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

NICO GHOST Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JUZZY B + KAYZ 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 TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

SWAGGER LIKE US - FEAT: DOUBLE DUCHESS + BOY_FIREND + SEYANCE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

saturday feb 28

sunday mar 1

BIG DANCING Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

BRIGGS (VIDEO LAUNCH) + SIETTA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.

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khokolat koated

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monday mar 2 CALL IT IN - FEAT: JAMES TOM & DYLAN MICHEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

urban club guide thursday feb 26

snaps

BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00.

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MOGWAI

By Adam Norris

Barry Burns, keyboardist extraordinaire and Mogwai stalwart since 1998’s Come On Die Young, is a sharp and funny guy. I’d be lying, however, if I told you this was immediately apparent; his Scottish brogue takes some unravelling. It is somewhat fitting for a band that has, by design or circumstance, become quite difficult to deconstruct. Not many acts can claim the kind of evolution that characterises Mogwai’s career, although as Burns explains, their electronic development came as something of a surprise.

“It came from luck,” he admits happily. “We were in New York to do the second album, and went to this studio that had all this gear that we’d never seen before.

We wanted to find a way to use it, of course; we were quite young and basically wanted to play with these new toys. That’s really what they were at first, kind of weird toys. It was more a chance opportunity rather than anything else. We didn’t have any money to buy these things ourselves, so we’d just borrow what we could from the studio. Though when we did have the money to buy these things, we started to get quite a keen eye for what was becoming available. But it all began with luck.”

With eight studio albums and 13 EPs to their name now, Mogwai’s time in New York was clearly a watershed moment. Though electronic influences sit at

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the core of the group these days, it nonetheless took the band members some time to understand just how these technological advancements would impact the style of music they were moving towards. “[2006 single] Friend Of The Night was a song when we just started to take on the technology, where we could record demos around the house,” says Burns. “I remember having some program and just sitting with all of the new plug-ins that I’d got, and it was all quite overwhelming. So much to choose from. I remember sitting down with the computer open, trying to work it all out, and thinking, ‘Bah, I’ll just use the piano’,” he laughs. “Even though I slowly added other pieces, a few guitar parts, they were all originally written as piano parts. I do remember, I asked John [Cummings] to tune his guitar ABECEF just to see what he could

come up with for it, and that has turned out to be the most annoying tuning. Whenever we go on tour we now have to take this one guitar that has no other use.

But that’s a song that we worked on a lot, just playing it and playing it, and it came together quite naturally. A lot of our songs are like that.”

Mogwai’s most recent EP, Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1., is a testament to just how far their style has progressed. A serve of new and remixed tracks, it again demonstrates their sporadic use of vocals over their otherwise instrumental music – an aspect of writing that turns out to rarely be deliberate, but rather a kind of songwriting Hail Mary play.

“I’d say they’re more of a last resort to save the song

from getting thrown in the bin,” says Burns. “If it can’t be improved with a vocal sample or a loop, then the last resort is one of us trying to pull some lyrics out of our arse. It’s good having the Internet; we can always send each other MP3s beforehand for an idea of what we’re going to try and do. I do wonder if other bands do it the way that we do, or if we’re strange that way. I’m not really sure. But every record, all our work is really a joint labour of love.”

October via Sydney label Plastic World Records, and now the EP’s been repackaged in cassette tape format with two additional tunes thrown in to seal the deal. It’s taken a while, but Thompson says the cassette release has been on the cards from the outset.

“Before we even had any idea of how to release we were like, ‘We can just dub our own tapes and sell them. That would be cool.’ Graeme was looking up blank tapes on eBay and stuff. We were just going to do that and then we started working with Vic [Edirisinghe], who’s our manager and also runs Plastic World. He was like, ‘Let’s put out this stuff and put it on vinyl.’ Then he agreed to do the tape thing, so now it’s finally come to fruition, which we’re pretty excited about. “[Cassette] is sort of like vinyl, in that it’s nostalgic,” she adds. “Hopefully people buy them, but it’d be cool to do them even if they don’t. It’s more like a collector’s thing, in a way. I like having that kind of limited style object.”

This past month has provided GL with the perfect

opportunity to peddle the release, as they’ve been hopping around the nation supporting Chet Faker on his massive, sold-out tour. However, we haven’t sent them to the bright lights and decadent pleasures of stardom just yet, and next month the duo will head back underground for a three-date residency at Hugs&Kisses.

“We’re really excited,” Thompson says. “With these support shows in a big room, you have to work really hard to get to the back of the room and engage with people. So it’ll be nice to be able to see exactly who you’re performing to. We’ve been working on our album, so we’re going to play some new songs. It’ll be good to play in a more intimate setting, and they’re our first headline shows in a while, so we’re looking forward to it.”

bunkered down in Abbottsford’s Aviary Studios, with in-house engineer Fraser Montgomery at the helm.

Given they’re a relatively young band, Montgomery’s mediating presence proved greatly beneficial.

“Fraser was very involved in recording the songs,” Fell says. “He guided us through parts that we were unsure of or wanted a second opinion on and he reaffirmed our prior decisions. We went into the studio feeling pretty prepared with our demos, but we left the studio feeling that the tracks had grown a lot after working with Fraser.”

Stylistically, the band weren’t trying to channel any one artist in particular, but there are a few primary touchstones: “The Jezabels would definitely serve as a model for Once Were Wild, being an Australian band that we are all influenced by,” Henry says. “Other artists include UK bands such as Daughter and The xx.”

“We didn’t really discuss other artists specifically,” Morgan adds. “However, we are all fans of The Jezabels and we’re able to connect some of the themes in our

songs to their music.”

Dreamfield lands on Saturday and the best place to grab a copy is the official release party at The Bendigo Hotel. Once Were Wild have selected a trio of support acts to help make it a celebratory occasion.

“Kicking off the night will be alternative folk-roots singer/songwriter Davy Simony,” says Fell. “[He’ll be] followed by Beautiful Beasts, who are a five-piece folk/ rock psychedelic band. The Princetons will then be hitting the stage with their high energy, upbeat indie rock tunes.”

From here, Once Were Wild plan to stay busy and keep growing their following. “We want to share these songs with as many people as possible,” Whittle says. “[We’ll] continue writing music for sure, but definitely put an emphasis on playing live.”

Catch MOGWAI at Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne on Sunday March 1. Music Industry 3.

Fitness Industry 1. is out now through Rock Action.

By Augustus Welby When beat maker Graeme Pogson and vocalist Ella Thompson teamed up early last year, GL was born. Even if you’re yet to encounter GL’s cosmic electro-funk, chances are you’ve come across either Pogson or Thompson sometime in the past few years.

Thompson is one of the lead vocalists in power-pop tribe Dorsal Fins, who just launched their debut album, and she’s also on the cusp of a solo LP. On top of this, until recently Thompson was singing with The Bamboos, for whom Pogson still plays drums, in addition to bashing the skins in Mondo Freaks and Kylie Auldist’s Glenroy Allstars. It’s plain to see that these two aren’t scratching around for creative opportunities. Even so, when forming GL, there was a basic desire to fulfill.

“I’ve always wanted to have a project where everything is completely equal,” says Thompson.

“We write everything, record everything, share all the responsibilities, so it’s nice to have something where there’s only two of you to worry about.”

Assuming equal responsibility is a lot easier said than done. The path to perdition is paved with good intentions and collaborative parity can often splinter once pursued with force. However, GL’s two practitioners have several years of experience playing together, which aided in the division of duties.

“We both grew up around the Warrandyte/Eltham area,” Thompson says. “Graeme’s a bit older than me but I sang in one of his first bands, which was like a Memphis-y funk/soul band, when I was still in high

school. Then we both did our own thing, then we both played in The Bamboos together for a couple of years, then we wanted to do something of our own.”

When it came to the concrete details, Pogson and Thompson had an overriding aesthetic in mind.

Though, it was hardly an oppressive stylistic framework.

“Without it sounding cliché and too throwaway, we did want to have something that was really fun,” Thompson says. “It is meant to be fun music and universal themes.

We’re not trying to be too metaphoric or abstract in our lyrics or anything. It’s just love songs or heartbreak or those kinds of themes and also hopefully it’s danceable.”

The result is a sound that drips with pleasure, courtesy of chunky electronic beats and Thompson’s delectable vocal hooks. GL’s debut EP Love Hexagon landed last

ONCE WERE WILD

GL will be performing every Wednesday in March at Hugs&Kisses.

By Augustus Welby

First impressions count, so artists have plenty to consider when preparing their debut release. This weekend, budding Melbourne five-piece Once Were Wild will cast their first EP Dreamf ield into the world. It’s been a labour of love for the past six months, with the brooding alt-rockers taking every measure necessary to create a confident opening statement.

“We were all fairly hard on ourselves throughout the writing and recording process,” says bass player Sean Henry.

“We put a lot of time and effort into the songs on Dreamfield,” adds vocalist Alana Porter. “Being our debut EP, we wanted to share our music in the best quality possible.”

Since forming in mid-2013, it’s been Once Were Wild’s mission to play on every Melbourne stage they could. The five-piece – completed by drummer Renee Morgan, guitarist Georgia Fell and keys player Andrew Whittle – each have relatively disparate musical backgrounds, which coalesce under the Once Were Wild banner.

“Renee has a heavier influence, which shows through her use of the double kick in some of our music,” Whittle explains. “Sean has a broad theoretical knowledge, which is displayed in his writing ability. Georgia has more of a punk and alternative background, Alana has

a huge passion for dream rock as both a lyricist and a vocalist, and I come from a classical background and have quite diverse music taste.”

After a year spent gigging and writing like mad, the time looked nigh for Once Were Wild to knuckle down on an introductory release. The quintet weren’t interested in releasing a haphazard home demo, so there was the issue of finance to worry about. Thankfully, they’d gathered enough support to implement a Pozible campaign, which reached its crowd-funding target in just three days.

“With the money raised through Pozible we were able to cover most of our recording time, which therefore allowed us to spend more on the other costs associated with production,” Porter says. “Without the support of everyone who got behind our campaign, we wouldn’t have been able to record the EP to the quality that we have.”

Indeed, with cash in pocket, Once Were Wild

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ONCE WERE WILD are launching Dreamf ield at The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday February 28.

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LAKE STREET DIVE

By Krissi Weiss

Formed via the hallowed halls of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 2004, Lake Street Dive found their decade-long, overnight success through that Jackson 5 cover that went viral on YouTube (if you haven’t seen them completely own I Want You Back live on a street corner, stop everything and watch it now). The jazz-infused, pop/ soul band have always been more than the covers they pepper their sets with, but it took the band a long time to really find out what this band is and hopefully that journey will play a part in their longevity.

“None of us are burned out yet, fortunately,” trumpet/ keyboardist and band leader Mike ‘McDuck’ Olsen says. “I think a lot of bands that are three years old or have one record or no record at all, they have these very specific sounds. It’s like they sprang fully formed from the head of their musical influences which is not how we did it at all. We did a lot of musical soul searching, well, I’m sugar-coating it. What I mean is we wrote a lot of bad songs; we wrote a lot of questionable records that you can only find on eBay. So I think we probably wouldn’t have lasted if by some bizarre act of God we’d become somehow notable in the early days because we just didn’t have a sound.”

The band is a cacophony of musical skill, but in the earlier days, Lake Street Dive were victims of being clever for clever’s sake. “We were lost, musically,” he says. “These things go hand in hand; you get attention because you’re worth paying attention to and we just weren’t worth paying attention to for five, six, seven years. I don’t know why we stayed together for that long really, in the end that’s the crux of it, we stayed together when other bands would’ve said, ‘Screw this.’ We were pals and we weren’t in it for the money. Now we have the touring chops and the ability to keep doing this.”

Despite having the musicianship under his belt after years of study, Olsen is honest enough to admit that songwriting is a different beast altogether. “I’d love to

be able to say that I always knew that we were searching [for a better sound] but I think that would be giving myself too much credit,” he says. “Every new song was a step in the right direction and every time we said, ‘Oh my God, this is the best song we ever wrote,’ it probably was at that point. That excitement of improvement keeps you going because every good song was so much better than the last.”

Their eventual sound, this unique blend of genres (a term so oft used you probably just switched off, but don’t), managed to collide razor sharp musicality with pop infectiousness and indie edge. “That gets into the happy accident of the band,” he explains. “The four of us were the first four people in Lake Street Dive because we were unique in music school, because we always did err on the side of simplicity and fun. It’s not like I took a poll when I started the band but the unquantifiable, magical part of this was that we learned, only after playing together for a year or so, that we all liked the same sort of music. I think we all assumed that because we were all studying jazz that we all must love jazz but that’s not actually the case. We all have a healthy appreciation for jazz but were on a brief tour.

We realised that we could all sing every word to every Paul Simon song that came on the radio and we saw the common thread – we didn’t care if the music was complex, we shared the joy of music.”

THE SUNNyBOyS

The band now have the unenviable task of following up on their breakthrough album. While finding your sound can be a lonely, thankless task, releasing an album to a fresh and adoring fan base eager to be as impressed as they were the first time can be outright daunting. How is the new material differing to Bad Self Portraits? “In the past, we’d write the songs and then begin playing them in front of our audience and so by the time we get into the studio we record the songs the way we’ve been playing them for a year or six months or whatever,” he says. “The songs are road tested, tried and true. Because of the last year that we’ve had being far and away more intense than any other year we haven’t worked up new material in the same way we used to,

it’s been such a different experience preparing for this album. We have 25 new songs, unrecorded – way too much for one record and way too much for a double record – so we have no idea what the identity of this new record will be. The place we’re finding ourselves right now is both exciting and 100 per cent mortifying.”

albums, complete with bonus material. The discovery of some original demos done for the Individuals recordings has allowed The Sunnyboys to finally present the songs as they were originally intended, while the re-release of Get Some Fun includes tracks taken from The Sunnyboys’ appearance at the rainswept Narara festival in 1983. “What I remember about Narara was the headliners – Midnight Oil and

Split Enz. We played at about six o’clock, and then we hung around to watch the Oils play. And they were such an awesome live band. So that’s what I remember most about that festival,” Burgman laughs.

LAKE STREET DIVE will be at Port Fairy Folk Festival on Saturday March 7 and Sunday March 8, at WOMADelaide on Monday March 9, and at The Corner Hotel on Wednesday March 11. Bad Self Portraits is out on Signature Sounds.

By Patrick Emery

Back in 1980, Jeremy Oxley, Peter Oxley, Bill Bilson and Richard Burgman were in a rehearsal room trying out some of Jeremy’s new songs. Also in the room was Rob Younger, former lead singer of Radio Birdman and a friend of Burgman’s since Birdman’s halcyon days in the mid-‘70s. Younger, whose current band The New Christs will be supporting The Sunnyboys on the latter’s upcoming national tour, had been enlisted as the fledgling group’s lead singer; it didn’t take long for Younger to realise his services wouldn’t be required.

“Rob was actually our lead singer when we first got together,” Burgman recalls. “We had a few practices with him – we learnt a bunch of songs, some Stooges songs, some of Jeremy’s songs. Rob would ask Jeremy how his songs went, and Jeremy would sing them. And Rob said, ‘I don’t think you need me – you’ve seem to have a perfectly good singer already’, and we agreed.”

Sadly for the fanatical collector fraternity, none of those original rehearsals ever found their way to tape. “It was a different era back then,” Burgman says. “It was all analogue, nobody had a little digital recorder or phone they could just hold up and record it.”

Younger’s assessment proved correct: by 1981, The Sunnyboys, with Jeremy on vocals, were arguably the hottest new rock’n’roll band in town. The band’s debut album went gang busters; the first single from the record, the now classic Alone With You, captured perfectly The Sunnyboys’ blend of surf-rock licks and adolescent spirit.

The recording and subsequent release of The Sunnyboys’ second album, Individuals, wasn’t as enjoyable. Under commercial pressure to release an equally successful follow-up, The Sunnyboys’ record company dispatched the band to New Zealand – apparently, for tax reasons – with producer Lobby Loyde to record the album.

While Burgman says the band had enough material from the first album to put together a new record, Jeremy’s songwriting had already moved on.

“Jeremy was writing a lot of new stuff that wasn’t like the first album,” Burgman says. “The songs were different, and we treated it differently – they weren’t as up, they weren’t as pop as the first record, but we really enjoyed learning and recording the songs. But it didn’t have a hit song the record company could get behind.”

While the band was happy with what they recorded, when they listened to the final product, which Loyde had mixed in LA, it wasn’t what they were expecting.

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to criticise Loyde’s production. “At the time we just went with it. Lobby was our mentor and leader, and a bit of an all-round guru,” Burgman says. “We were immediately disappointed but we didn’t know what the consequences would be. We didn’t know if the album would sell or not. The first one was all youth and brashness, we were straight out of the box. But the second one was more thoughtful and deliberate, more considered. So we went with what we got, and the consequences were what they were.”

33 years later, and Burgman’s assessment is that Loyde’s efforts to make an album a commercial success had drained the songs of much of their original character.

“It was like Lobby had taken them to Los Angeles and mixed them in a studio with an engineer while trying to shape the songs, sound-wise, into something that might appeal to the American pop market at the time,” Burgman says. “New wave, poppy, rock’n’roll, something for the American market – but I don’t really know. But that’s what changed it – the songs we recorded are actually very good.”

For the band’s third studio album The Sunnyboys headed across to the UK to record Get Some Fun. Burgman looks back on that time fondly: “It was a big adventure going to England,” Burgman says. “It was our first time outside of Australia. We needed to have a focus, and being there gave us that focus.” While special moments such as playing the legendary Marquee Club in London took the edge off Jeremy’s increasingly erratic behaviour, Burgman says The Sunnyboys were still unsure of their next artistic and professional step.

While Get Some Fun – which included the hit single Show Me Some Discipline – was heralded as something of a return to form, by the end of 1984 The Sunnyboys were a spent force.

The Sunnyboys’ renaissance as a live band in the last few years, facilitated by Jeremy Oxley’s return to mental health, has brought with it the opportunity to revisit both Individuals and Get Some Fun and rerelease both

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THE SUNNYBOYS are playing at The Forum on Thursday March 5.

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ

By Adam Norris

José González is a rather hesitant, softly-spoken man. It’s unsurprising in a way, since this is the man responsible for some of the most delicate songs to capture global audiences in years. Heartbeats, Stay Alive, and his complete reinvention of Kylie Minogue’s Hand On Your Heart have secured him a place in that strange pantheon of singer/songwriters we’ll most likely listen to on rainy days while staring out windows reeling from a breakup.

Speaking from his home in Gothenburg, González is a friendly if distracted fellow, and as our conversation unfurls, his free-wheeling attention span emerges as quite an ingrained character trait.

“There is a big kitchen I write in, with a window that looks out into my backyard,” González coughs down the phone. He’s just finished breakfast, and by the sounds he is in the midst of a winter cold; the conversation is punctuated by harsh coughing and snuffling. “But it’s quite empty out there. Sometimes instead I’ll find myself at the front of the house, open the door and just look out onto the street: watch as everything passes by, watch the day.

Then I have to try and sit back down and try writing. I get distracted, and find myself watching YouTube videos instead.”

Speaking with a singer of González’s ilk, one whose lyrics and bittersweet instrumentation give such a strong sense of thoughtfulness and accessibility, you can never anticipate how closely their music will match the person behind it. There’s always a mask, but how firmly affixed it is can take time to understand. González is a pleasant yet reluctant conversationalist, and though he takes great and clear pride in his recent work, it’s very evident he would rather skip the whole publicity wagon altogether.

“When I’ve been writing Vestiges & Claws, I’ve been informed by the first albums, but I’ve consciously been [finding] inspiration from new areas. Three other songs on the album, Stories We Tell, What Will, After Glow, are more inspired by Western African guitar playing, [and] some Latin American influences. And of course there’s Simon & Garfunkel, who I had listened to when I very first started playing acoustic guitar. But what I find myself listening to today is much more electronic,” he laughs a little sheepishly.

They’re some wide-ranging influences, and it’ll be interesting to see what his long-term fans think of this latest direction (especially given this is the first album which features solely original material). The reception of his songs is something that he’s happy to removed from, however early reviews of the record have left him chuckling.

“There was one review where the writer kept talking about how the song Leaf Off is all about death,” he laughs, “and to me it’s pretty uplifting. She kept referring to the light mentioned in the song like it was the light at the end of the tunnel, and how I think about death so much. It was pretty gloomy. It was like they thought I’d released my graveyard album. If I had to describe it myself,” he pauses, and suddenly sounds quite uncomfortable. “I would describe it as guitar and vocals. I don’t usually like to talk about myself so much.

With interviews, I have some short-cuts. I can mention Simon & Garfunkel, that’s usually enough for them.

I usually leave it up to other people to describe my music.”

Given he’d mentioned Simon & Garfunkel not three minutes earlier, I’m not sure what to make of this revelation. I certainly respect the desire not to corral one particular meaning on a song – I agree that is the province of the listener more so than the artist – but turning to other fields of interests meets a similar hesitation. González studied as a biochemist, and you can’t help but hope there’s some bewildering and esoteric connection between this background and his music – how spectacular would it be to learn that Heartbeats was composed according to the molecular rhythms of an actual human heart? Sadly, the two disciplines are quite removed. The fascination in biochemistry has not waned however, and is a field González still follows, if not to the same level of commitment.

“In the sense of going back to university or reconnecting with study, no. But in the sense of being interested in science in general, the broad range of areas where there is much happening right now. It’s almost more interesting than ever. So many things to be excited by, but I don’t have the time to really follow it all. Too many obligations. I always find myself getting interested in new science, though, before I get distracted and start following some other [aspect] instead.”

I can now hear voices in the background, and it is clear González is hoping to wrap things up. It has been an unusual though friendly chat, and before finishing I ask what he does between those rare times he’s not recording, writing, touring or collaborating.

“I enjoy hanging out with friends, having a beer, talking. I like running in the forest. When I’m alone and I have a day off, there’s always something I’d like to watch or read. But mostly a lot of hanging with friends and drinking beer.”

Amen to that.

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ’s Vestiges & Claws is out now through Shock.

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BETWEEN THE BAYS FESTIVAL

By Christine Lan

The Between the Bays Festival – which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year – is a vibrant family music event on the Mornington Peninsula, known and adored for its all-inclusive community spirit. All proceeds from the festival go towards the wonderful partnership the Woodleigh School have with the Wugularr School in the Northern Territory. The Between the Bays Festival features an incredible musical lineup, mouthwatering stalls and special children’s activities, but the festival’s key aim is to raise funds for programs that will establish the teaching of Australian indigenous culture in our national school curriculum.

Festival director Paul Thompson believes it’s crucial for more schools to encourage an understanding of Australian Indigenous culture. “We need to recognise it in the Australian curriculum,” he asserts. “It needs to be throughout primary schools and not just in high school.

It’s not just about Aboriginal art and talking about eating witchetty grubs, but actually teaching authentic cultural differences; it’s about teaching our kids that these people were the first Australians, recognising that and going from there. We’ve found that our program works so well and we’ve had so much trouble trying to raise funds for it, so that’s a big problem and a question that we need to ask politicians.”

Thompson has been teaching at Penbank/Woodleigh

School (Woodleigh merged with Penbank at the beginning of this year) for 11 years and regards the growth of the Wugularr partnership as a defining achievement. “In 2007, one of our teachers took a position up in the Wugularr School, which is in Beswick in the Northern Territory. From that, we were able to connect with their community and their kids at the Wugularr School.

“The whole idea of this program is that we share our cultures and our community and we learn about each other’s differences in terms of not just skin colour, not just where we live, but everything to do with merging culture and creativity and sport. Being so young, our kids are entering a different world with no prejudice,

no judgement, and very mutual respect… kids are just kids and they just play and simply grow up together. It’s working beautifully.”

Thompson asserts that the kids in Beswick live very different lives to the kids on the Mornington Peninsula: “They come down and experience what we do and join in the after-school activities such as tennis and basketball, singing and music; from being immersed in that, they can go back to their communities and really make a comparison to it,” says Thompson. “And our kids, when we go up there, we notice things that they do differently. They walk softly; they don’t rush. Eye contact is very different; we’re used to looking people in the eye. They don’t mind silence, whereas we feel we have to fill silence with words. Subtle stuff like that.”

The Beswick (aka Wugularr) community reside on the south western corner of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, on the traditional land of the Jawoyn people.

Wugularr is home to people from the language groups of Jawoyn, Dalabon, Rembarrnga, Mialli and Rittharngu/Wagalak. “The kids have learned different words, sayings and ways of greeting people,” Thompson

enthuses. “Our children were taught very quickly that they never say goodbye; they always say, ‘Boh boh,’ and that means ‘Til next time,’ It’s beautiful. They learn that and different ways of approaching people and different ways of speaking to people. It’s very respectful and we’ve got a lot to learn from them.”

Michael Farrah’s Indigenous Hip Hop Projects is an inspiring program that encourages young people in the Indigenous community to seize their opportunities.

“Michael worked with The Billabong Boyz and got them to a stage where they had written a song, a hip hop track, and put together a show that goes with it,” Thompson enthuses. “Indigenous Hip Hop Projects funded that act to come down, rehearse and be involved with Between the Bays. It’s amazing what they’re doing.”

such a positive manner is one of their major goals in putting the festival together.

“That’s the general idea, you bring people together, hence the name Come Together, and what better way to try and deal with things but just to have a nice time in a nice place, nice food, nice music, and to just try to create a positive vibe that way?”

Once the decision was made to put the festival on, it was a simple matter of approaching Beyond Blue and The Red Kite and announcing their intentions to support them through a new music festival.

“The people whose daughter has leukaemia, they said The Red Kite Foundation had been amazing... They drive a lot of stuff around depression,” Greenwood says, “and their profile is just huge, they have a great reach and they’re just a great organisation.”

The festival offers an extremely diverse and eclectic

range of acts for the enjoyment of the punters rocking up on the day. From tribal/Indigenous outfits to African hip hop to a Hammond organ trio, and plenty more.

“It’s turned out to be a bit more worldy,” Mannix describes. “It’s quite good timing, being just after WOMAD. I’ve had a chat to the WOMAD people, and next we’ll be able to pitch in with those guys, and piggy-back off some of the acts, which will be awesome.

“We’re going to let things evolve, the first year’s a bit of a ‘suck it and see,’ we’ve probably overcommitted on the amount of bands and DJs we have, I wasn’t very good at saying no to people,” he laughs.

right up in the air to then catching them and bringing them down to almost touch the ground with their faces.

When you’re slowing that down and seeing how close the chick is coming to hitting her head. This sort of footage really inspires me so I wanted to put that in the show,” enthuses Davies.

However, despite his admiration for humans in the footage used for Throttles’ visuals it is the automotive machines that have a special place in this drummer adept’s heart – the events poster prominently features a muscle car.

“I love the cars. The Throttle image reflects an era of

cars that fits the show sound wise,” says Davies. “I have a ’65 Holden HD; that is a really great car.”

Finally Davies names his team and comments on the where Throttle is taking place: “My team is Cobie Orger - Video/Visual Design, Justin Dwyer - Video/ Visual Design, Jason Bovaird - Lighting Design and Blake Stickland - Sound Engineer. We will be turning Shadow Electric into the Throttle theatre show space.”

BETWEEN THE BAYS is taking place on Saturday February 28 in Moorooduc on the Mornington Peninsula, and features custard, wagons, James Reyne and more.

COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL

By Rod Whitfield

Starting up a brand new music festival from scratch can be a daunting task, but Damien Mannix and Ian Greenwood, organisers of the new Come Together Festival, are determined to get their festival happening anyway.

“We’re really busy,” Mannix begins. “It’s generated a lot of interest on social media, and I’ve had a lot of contact from the press media, a lot of bands have contacted us directly.”

It’s also a very personal labour of love for the guys; a couple of very sad stories are behind their strong desire to get the festival up and running, find some positive in the negative and also support two very worthy charities.

“The reason we’re [supporting] Beyond Blue is [because] a couple of years ago, my very close brotherin-law committed suicide,” reveals Mannix. “It was completely out of the blue, and that was my first hand experience with suicide in the family, and the devastation it had left behind. His whole mindset of thinking that he was doing the right thing by his family I just still cannot believe it now.”

It was this tragedy that was the initial spark for starting the festival. “It was my experience of that, and afterwards going through quite a shitty experience myself, I wanted to find something positive out of it,” he recalls. “The neighbours who were living next to us at the time [and had been for about ten years], our kids had grown up together, we’d been into music together.

About a month later, in January last year, their daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia, this 13 year-old. So [it was a] complete whirlwind for them as well, hence The Red Kite.”

It’s not just about ticket sales or even just about supporting those very worthy charities, but also about keeping issues such as depression, suicide and cancer in the public focus, since they touch so many of us but aren’t discussed as much as they could be. To do this in

COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL is being staged at Edenvale Farm in Eltham on Saturday March 14 with The Public Opinion Orchestra, The Cactus Channel, Ganga Giri and many more.

THROTTLE

By Denver Maxx

Forget The Terminator, Melbourne drummer Ashley Davies is the closest thing man will ever come to a machine. His ability to make noise and precisely keep time has seen Davies win an ARIA award and work with Australia’s most revered songsmiths such as The Waifs, The Models, The Dingoes and many more. Davies is also renowned for his precocious solo works and, on Sunday March 1 at Shadow Electric, he’ll be setting out to marry his lauded album Muscle Drum Music Volumes 1 and 2 with images of muscle cars and other scenes associated with powerful engines – both inorganic and organic. This formidable yet innovative display of power is suitably titled Throttle.

“It’s me on my drum-kit but it’s in quadraphonic sound and there is music sync’d in with it as well. It was inspired by seeing how DJs use visuals inspired me along with seeing productions like Chunky Move, theatre and any performances that were a little bit different,” states Davies.

For those playing at home, quadraphonic sound is an audio set-up that is a little bit like the surround sound experience at the movies compared to a standard rock show, usually featuring two sets of speakers either side of stage. It’s suitable that Throttle mimics the audio system of a cinema because this show relies heavily on the visual display. “A proper set is being built and the visuals are projected onto a series of screens and objects,” explains Davies. “I have used a video choreographer and a lighting artist, we have dug up some great eclectic footage and mixed it in with the light show.

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“The subject matter of the show is based around ideas pertaining to the music that is very physical and strong – very percussive. Some of the footage is based around cars, motorbikes and rockets but the show is also about pushing the limits and some of the other footage we use is about dancing and the Lindy Hoppers. And just seeing what they’re doing because in their own way, they’re pushing what they do and that is what Throttle is about.”

On this theme of the human engine and the extremes of physical form Davies enthuses that synchronisation of the footage with beats in a slow motion display allows the audience some insight and catharsis on the often unseen extremes of the human form.

“Sometimes things go unseen to the naked eye because it’s moving so quickly... [The Lindy Hop] is the style of dancing where the blokes are chucking the chicks

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THROTTLE is happening at Shadow Electric Bandroom, Abbotsford on Saturday February 28 and again on Saturday March 7.

CORE

PUNK, SKA, HARDCORE NEWS, REVIEWS & GOSSIP

By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com Melbourne Soundwave Festival is done for another year, and 2015’s lineup officially delivered on the goods. Faith No More, Steel Panther and Manson drew extremely eager audiences as anticipated but the real winner was the outstanding turnouts for the local acts on the bill. I witnessed fantastic crowds for Ne Obliviscaris, King Parrot, Tonight Alive and The Bennies despite their sets taking place relatively early in the day. It’s almost like the smaller lineup, with less local acts prompted people to deliberately take heed of the selection of bands this year. 2015’s lineup was a carefully curated, handpicked offering of the finest Aussies out there. It’ll be interesting to see how next year’s festival looks.

Melbourne’s Super Best Friends will release their debut full length LP Status Updates on Friday March 20 via Gun fever. They’ll also hit the road shortly thereafter to launch it. See them at The Old Bar in Melbourne on Thursday March 26. They’re also at Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Wednesday April 15 and The Black Swan in Bendigo on Thursday April 16.

Ecca Vandal, the lady responsible for one of last year’s best songs White Flag, has revealed the next instalment, by the name of Battle Royal. She’s also announced a string of Gasometer shows so you can finally see her do her thing live. The Gasometer will host a monthlong residency every Tuesday this March.

New Zealand’s Antagonist AD are going to release their fourth album via UNFD on Friday March 27. It’s a banger of an album and features guest vocals from an array of big names including Architect’s Sam Carter, The Amity Affliction’s Ahren Stringer, JJ Peters from Deez Nuts and Comeback Kid’s Andrew Neufield.

The Ghost Inside’s Aaron Brooks also works behind the desk.

You Me At Six, previously announced for Groovin The Moo festival, have revealed more extensive headlining dates for this April. They’re going to hit up Melbourne’s Hi-Fi Bar again on Thursday April 30 but this time they’re bringing Luca Brasi along for the ride. CannigeddaHELLYEAH!? Tickets are up for grabs from Thursday March 5.

Machine Head are coming. Ready to support their 2014 release, Bloodstone + Diamonds, the legendary band will visit for the first time since 2010. They’ll play at 170 Russell on Monday June 22 and tickets are available now. “We cannot wait to plunder your cities into the dust,” the band warned.

Brisbane’s A Breach Of Silence will embark on a run of dates in march to support their newie The Darkest Road. They’re hitting up Melbourne’s Evelyn Hotel on Friday February 27. Supports yet to be announced but we’re anticipating a quality local bill.

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CORE GIG GUIDE Wednesday February 25: Mineral, Garret Klahn, Arrows at The Reverence Incubus, Antemasque, Le Butcherettes at The Forum All Time Low, Fireworks at The Hi-Fi The Swellers at Ding Dong Lounge Falling In reverse, Escape The Fate, The Colour Morale at 170 Russell Butcher Babies at Cherry Bar Real Estate, Dick Diver, The Stevens at The Corner Hotel Thursday February 26: Coffin Wolf, The FckUps, Short Leash, DICK (Dream In Colour Kids) at The Bendigo The Corner Hotel This Wild Life at Ding Dong Lounge DZ Deathrays, Bass Drum Of Death, Hockey Dad at Northcote Social Club Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, Steel Panther at Festival Hall ZEX at The Old Bar Void Of Vision, Epimetheus, Annihilist at Next Friday February 27: The Aquabats! at Ding Dong Lounge Feed Her To The Sharks at The Evelyn Hotel Take Your Own, Blindspot, Drexler, Del Lago at Bar 303 The Lizard, Coffin Wolf, Luke Seymoup, The Beggars Way, David Grimson at The Public Bar A Breach Of Silence at The Evelyn Hotel Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard, Abrasion, Broozer, The Ruiner at The Bendigo DZ Deathrays, Bass Drum Of Death, Hockey Dad at Northcote Social Club Saturday February 28: Break Even, Hopeless, Endless Heights, Postblue at The Reverence Hotel DZ Deathrays, Bass Drum Of Death, Hockey Dad at Northcote Social Club Young Lions, Amethyst Close, To Light Atlantis at Bang Foo Fighters, Rise Against, The Delta Riggs at Etihad Stadium ZEX at Black Goat Warehouse Glen + The Peanut Butter Men, Shock Waves, The Interceptors, Underground Hound at The Reverence Hotel Sunday March 1: Break Even, Hopeless, Endless Heights, Postblue at Phoenix Youth Centre With Confidence at Rubix Funhouse

ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD, THE RUINER, ABRASION, BROOZER

Friday February 27 sees an epic lineup of dirty rock and stoner metal at The Bendigo Hotel. In one night, you’ll be assaulted in the most epic way with beer, weed and naked girls – okay, maybe not the naked girls, but you get the idea. Fuelled by gasoline and weed out in the barren north-west Victorian wasteland comes the slow, groove ridden dirty slide stoner rock of Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard. Described by J Fuller from Blood Duster as the missing link between Kyuss and Ministry, this bearded beast mixes its love of choppers, muscle cars with B-grade films and dirty sexploitation sci-fi and monster films. If Mad Max had an eighttrack in his car, ZMWY is what he’d be listening to as he shoots mohawked sports, bike fuel scavengers across the barren Victorian wastelands. They’ll be joined by rifflords The Ruiner, featuring members of (Christbait and Blood Duster), Abrasion and Broozer.

MUSIC FOR NATIONS IS BACK IN OZ

Sony Music Entertainment Australia has announced that legendary metal/prog/rock label Music For Nations will once again be distributed locally via physical and digital product. In a series of reissues, the label will be celebrating some of the most iconic records by some of world’s most influential bands. As well as reissues, the label will be signing new artists for the first time in over a decade. Available in April 2015, Liverpool’s Anathema release their Music For Nations back catalogue. Songwriter and guitarist Daniel Cavanagh says, “I’m really happy that after all these years, the Music For Nations era of Anathema music is finally receiving the attention, respect and treatment it deserves. It has been a great pleasure to work on this package. Everything from supplying the additional artwork, the remastering process of the albums, and the chance to add a surprise or two, has been a wonderful process.”

NEW VIDEO FROM THE ANSWER

Northern Irish rockers The Answer have released a video for Long Live The Renegades from their new album Raise A Little Hell. “It’s a bit of a rocker and we tried a slightly different production technique on this track by keeping it very dry,” the band says. “The song is about just doing what you do best and having a bit of a bunker mentality. This is our fifth album and we’ve gone back to our earlier blues and roots style with what we think are harder rockin’ grooves. Hope you like it as much as we do.” Raise A Little Hell was produced by Guillermo Will Maya and mixed by Chris Sheldon and you can find the new video on the YouTubes.

AN EVENING WITH MACHINE HEAD

Machine Head are one of the biggest names in metal.

Starting with the 1994’s earth-shattering Burn My Eyes and continuing up to 2014’s Bloodstone & Diamonds, they’ve consistently redefined the very notion of heaviness and are one of the few in modern times that can boast an unbreakable connection with the hearts and minds of the metal faithful. Now Machine Head are bringing their phenomenal live performance to Australia on a headline run all across the country.

Frontman Robb Flynn says, “Our first time headlining in Australia since 2010, and our first time headlining in New Zealand EVER. To say that we are fucking stoked beyond belief would be the understatement of the year. We cannot wait to plunder your cities into the dust, Head Cases.”

They’ll be at 170 Russell on Monday June 22. Tickets on sale now from bit.ly/HeadCasesTix

YOUNG LIONS AT BANG

Young Lions kick-started their Blue Isla tour with a near capacity hometown Brisbane show last week and they hit Melbourne on Saturday February 28 at Bang at The Royal Melbourne Hotel.

THE BL ACK DAHLIA MURDER RETURN

The Black Dahlia Murder have released five genredefining albums since forming in 2001 and it’s impossible to discuss melodic death metal without mentioning their name. They were last in Australia for Soundwave 2014 which saw them as part of an epic tour package of top shelf Metal Blade acts including Gwar and Amon Amarth (and also Satyricon).

While delivering the punch to the face fans expect of the band, TBDM also strive to better themselves as vocalist Trevor Strnad explains, “We’ve always tried to create something that’s rooted in classic death metal but at the same time offers something fresh and new, and [latest album] Everblack is everything that we collectively love about the genre.” They return in June and Melbourne will be treated to no less than three shows at Northcote Social Club; 18+ evening shows on Saturday June 20 and Sunday June 21, plus an all ages afternoon show on June 21. Tickets on sale now from corner.ticketscout.com.au

ROOK

By Rod Whitf ield

During the mid to late 2000s, the name ‘Rook’ was highly prestigious in Australian heavy alternative rock circles. They played to packed venues across the country, and their reputation for putting on a scintillating rock show preceded them. They also released several extremely well-received records, including the classic Add Colour EP in 2008.

Late 2010 saw a parting of the ways for the band however, and their name has now been consigned to Aussie alt-rock history. The members have all gone on to other excellent musical projects.

Punters heading to the prestigious Rock the Bay Festival at St Kilda’s Esplanade Hotel are in for an absolute treat, as the band are reforming to play a set.

Frontman Forbes McKail, speaking from his home in Brisbane, tells us it’s strictly a one-off show, so fans should get in while they can.

“It took a little bit [of convincing],” he says. “I was wondering whether it was the right time or not, because our bass player is in New York, so he’s actually going to have to miss it which is a shame. So I was a bit torn.”

McKail feels there was something very special about a Rook show that set the band apart from other bands doing the live rounds at the time, and he’s looking forward to recreating that vibe at Rock the Bay. “It was big, big loud tunes,” he enthuses. “We wrote good songs and we had a good stage energy. You felt something at a Rook gig that you didn’t really feel with other gigs. It was a family vibe; within the guys on the stage, within ourselves and with the people that we were playing for.”

It’s not just a reunion for the guys in Rook and their fans, two other high profile alternative rock acts from a similar era are also making comebacks at Rock the Bay, making this show a big rock’n’roll family reunion.

“Bushido reformed at the end of last year and Rook and Bushido always had a sibling relationship, which was really wonderful,” he recalls. “Competitive, yet healthy and full of love. .hinge, they were like the big brothers.

We grew up watching them, and they blew us away every time. A dream gig for us, which we were able to do a few times, was always Rook, Bushido and .hinge, to have those three on the same night was always good.”

McKail has not wasted time since Rook parted ways.

He’s now a family man, and also has at least two other high profile musical projects on the go: The Khyber Belt, which has been going for a few years now and has released one EP; and a brand new project called Three Tonne Deep, which can only be described as an alternative/progressive rock supergroup, featuring current and former members of Dead Letter Circus and Melodyssey. This band’s released a lone single so far, but it’s an exciting prospect for Aussie rock if that single is anything to go by.

“The Khyber Belt have got a show the week before

Rock the Bay at The Prince,” he says. “The Khyber Belt has been good, we never went anywhere, we just slowed down. We all got busy, we all started businesses and had babies and got married. Sometimes that stuff takes some focus away from music. But we’re writing again very soon, and we’re midway through releasing a single.

“And Three Tonne Deep, it just sort of happened really,” he continues. “Scotty [former Dead Letter Circus drummer Scott Davey] wrote this song on the drums. A friend of his Govinda [award-winning producer Govinda Doyle] put some bass down on it, and then sent it through to Vinnie from DLC. He put some guitaring on it. Then they sent me the track and

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said, ‘Do you want to have a go at singing on it?’, and I was like, ‘Yeah man, absolutely’.”

He’s quick to point out that Three Tonne Deep are not necessarily a full blown recording and touring band, being more of a ‘project’ at this stage. “It’s not a full band in the sense of touring and let’s write, but it’s a sense where we were really happy with what we created with the first song, and the inspiration to create more is there.”

Check out ROOK when Rock the Bay takes over The Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda on Saturday March 21.

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Q&A

60 SECONDS WITH…

Sumeru

How would you describe the sound of your most recent release, Holy Lands?

It’s a riff record. A bunch of sounds we stumbled across while jamming together. There’s a kind of cosmic vibe to it but it’s still straight up hard and brutal music.

In Buddhist cosmology, Sumeru refers to the central world-mountain. How does this idea relate to your music?

It’s a Buddhist concept, so it’s related to waking up to a wider vision of oneself. The lyrics express different aspects of Sumeru in terms of what’s possible for a human being and what it means to embody that.

You’ve been described as a band that melds together many genres to create your unique sound. Which would you say your music is most closely related to?

We’re all at that point where genres really aren’t that important to us. We’re always looking for a heavy groove that makes us smile. When it feels good, we know.

Tell us about your first headline show in Melbourne.

We’ve been to Melbourne twice before this as a supporting band but with the release of Holy Lands we thought we might see how we go as a headliner.

SUMERU are playing at The Bendigo Hotel on Friday March 13.

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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25

LIZ STRINGER

Melbourne’s Liz Stringer will play her first inner-Melbourne show for 2015 at The Gasometer on Wednesday February 25 as part of the Collingwood Open series. Stringer’s latest album, Live at the Yarra, showcased her utterly captivating live shows, and was featured on several of last year’s Top Ten lists, including triple j’s Roots & All and PBS’s The Breakfast Spread. Tickets are $18+bf or $22 on the door.

THE SEENSOUND

The SeenSound visual/music series provides a space for the presentation of short visual and music works. The series commenced in 2011, curated by Melbourne-based audio-visual artist Brigid Burke, and is proudly supported

by Loop Project Space and Bar. Get down to Loop Bar on Wednesday February 25 from 8pm to see works by Rainer Linz/Jody Kingston, Jim Sosnin, Maciej Jedrzejewski, Chris Perren Migle Ka/George Botis/Inga Ivanora, Sebastian Avila, Mark Pedersen and Brigid Burke. $10 entry.

FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA

On Wednesday February 25, Fourteen Nights At Sea returns to The Public Bar with a new set and a new member.

Support on the night comes from The Remotes, featuring Kristian (S:Bahn) and Ollie (Art Of Fighting). Good friends Cabin Inn rounds out the lineup. Get down to The Public Bar early, music starts 8pm. $8 entry.

PETER BIBBY

Legendary goon-blues singer Peter Bibby is doing a solo show at one of Brunswick's most unique and talked about venues; Dane Certificate's Magic Theatre & Bar (red curtains and all).

Support comes from the mysticalsci-fi electro-lover, a magic show by Brunswicks most iconic trick inventor Dane Certificate. There will be a raffle with prizes including booze (top shelf ), tattoos (by a real tattoo artist), cakes (by a real good baker) and other goodies. All the money from the tix and raffles will go towards a documentary on adoption in Australia that a bunch of young filmmakers have been working on for the past months. Come for a unique night of magic and music and prizes. Doors open at 7.30pm. $10 entry. Wednesday February 25 at Dane Certificates Magic Theatre & Bar.

THE SWELLERS

From recording demos in their basement to touring with Paramore, Less Than Jake and Motion City Soundtrack, The Swellers’ popularity has spread like wildfire. After a successful EP re-release followed by their Warped Tour stint in 2013, The Swellers released their debut LP The Light Under Closed Doors, before announcing the band’s time will soon come to a close. Having toured over five continents and 18 countries, the band felt it was the best time to go out with a bang. The guys will be bringing their infectious punk rock to Ding Dong Lounge for a special Soundwave sideshow this Wednesday February 25, as the band embark on their final Australian tour before they disband.

Tickets are $30+BF available from Oztix. Doors open 9pm.

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MINERAL

Seminal Texan band Mineral are in the midst of their worldwide reunion tour, which includes their first ever live show for Australian audiences. Formed in Houston, TX in 1994, Mineral proved to be a powerful and lasting influence across a then-burgeoning indie and emo music scene in spite of their short career.

The band cut their teeth on the road before recording a single note, touring alongside bands including Jimmy Eat World, The Promise Ring, Texas is the Reason, Knapsack, Braid, and The Get Up Kids. Their debut LP The Power Of Failing in 1996 is still looked up to as one of the best offerings of the emo genre. Also travelling with Mineral and making his debut Australian appearance is Texas Is The Reason frontman Garret Klahn. Catch Mineral at The Reverence Hotel this Wednesday February 25, tickets are $45+BF available through the venue.

BUTCHER BABIES

Come down to Cherry Bar this Wednesday February 25 for Butcher Babies' only sideshow appearance after coming down for Soundwave. Fresh from their groundbreaking release Goliath, you need to be there as Butcher Babies juxtapose brutal, aggressive riffs with beautiful melodies that wail with anguish and hope for redemption.

Support on the night comes from Heaven The Axe and Kashmere Club.

Tickets are $30 available through the venue.

AGENTS OF ROCK

It’s the last Wednesday of summer so get out and about, grab your midweek beer at The Bendigo Hotel and catch a rockin’

lineup kickin’ off at 8.30pm. Taking over the stage will be Agents of Rock, Demonic Cowboys and Vintage Ruin.

It’s free bloody entry so get your asses down for some metal.

ZOE K

Who said the holidays were over? They’re still kicking as long as you get your arse down to The Retreat every Wednesday in February. Zoe K and her full band featuring Will Gijsbers, Tim Burnham and David Adams will be playing with your ear holes and guess what? For free.

Catch Zoe K and her band along with special guests every Wednesday night in February at The Retreat Hotel. Entry is free, show starts at 8pm.

THURSDAY FEBURARY 26

COFFIN WOLF

Thursday February 25 at 8pm. Coffin Wolf are back at The Bendigo, with a lineup of punk and hardcore commodities. The FckUps, Short Leash and DICK (Dream In Colour Kidz). What else are you gonna do on a Thursday night? Come check out these rad bands for only $5.

SUGARCANE COLLINS

pop-hooks, with influences steeped heavily in ‘70s rock and alt country.

With raw talent and tender hearts, Bell St Delays offer the dark and the light, the lion and the lamb and all that’s good about songwriting. Catch them at The Post Office Hotel Thursday February 26 with Dan Parsons.

Winner of last year’s Australian Male Blues Singer of the Year Award, Andy ‘Sugarcane’ Collins hails from way up north, but his raw intense take on the blues is right out of the Deep South.

With a heady mixture of aggression and grace Sugarcane’s feel for the blues is intrinsic, his musicianship polished and his self penned songs authentic. It’s blues like it’s supposed to be: personal, powerful and pertinent. He’s a singer/ songwriter, guitarist and recording artist of the highest order, melding an acoustic roots-y style with an earthy contemporary edge that will leave you with no doubt that you are seeing and hearing the real thing. Sugarcane Collins performs this Thursday February 26 at Mr Boogie Man Bar. Doors open 8pm, with $20 entry.

MILLAR JUKES AND THE BANDITS

CYCLO TIMIK

The Spotted Mallard are hosting an exceptional French night this Thursday February 26 featuring two Melbournebased French bands, Cyclo Timik and Chalouche. Cyclo Timik bring together an infectious mix of gypsy music, punk rock and French musette, with dark and powerful stories of love, loss and the strange nuances that encapsulate everything from fetish to a broken heart.

Catch this free entry gig at The Spotted Mallard, from 8.30pm onwards.

Don’t miss Americana act Millar Jukes and The Bandits as they farewell Australia before embarking on a nationwide tour of the US. Joining them is the bluesy tunes of Damon Smith, while local Andrew Swift opens the night, hot off the new single Sound The Alarm. Catch Millar Jukes & The Bandits, Damon Smith and Andrew Swift at The Retreat this Thursday February 26. Free entry show, from 8.30pm onwards.

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THIS WILD LIFE

Self described as ‘sketchy dudes, beautiful tunes’, California’s This Wild Life are heading to Ding Dong Lounge, and you can get up close and personal with them this Thursday February 26 for a Soundwave sideshow to remember.

The duo behind This Wild Life grew up

BELL ST DELAYS

Bell St Delays are accomplished Melbourne singer/songwriters Tracy McNeil and Luke Sinclair. This husband and wife duo deliver gorgeous harmonies riding on beautifully crafted

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Lung

DAVEY CRADDOCK

Aimee Volkofsky & The Molotovs are taking over Yah Yah’s every Thursday night this February. Hailing from Bourke, Broken Hill, Bendigo, Melbourne and Newborough, Aimee Volkofsky & the Molotovs sing tales of murder and magic and cannibal love.

Support comes from Lucas Paine and GODS. Music kicks off from 8.30pm to 11pm, and Cherry DJs til 3am. Free fucking entry.

Drifting back to the sound of the early ‘90s while reflecting a fun-in-the-sun West Coast mentality, The Courtneys deliver a special blend of fuzzy slacker pop that draws comparisons to Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and The Clean. Their self-titled eight track album is alive with fuzzed-up jangle and clever pop that makes for the prefect soundtrack this summer. The Courtneys will be playing at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday February 26.

doing exactly what’s expected of kids growing up in the tight-knit DIY scene in Long Beach – avoiding MTV and the radio, attending punk shows, the ear gauges, the tattoos. And of course, they started their own pop-punk band. They played fast, they played loud and they didn’t stand out from the crowd until they did the least “punk” thing possible: they got quiet. Get your presale tickets, $30+BF from Oztix. Doors open 9pm.

“And your breath smelt like ANZAC Day, bitumen and horse shit... I could tell you’d been walking, I could tell you’d been hit”. So laments a character in WA Americana artist Davey Craddock’s single Better Alone, a soaring, acidic take on the traditional love song. It’s been busy for Craddock, last year saw Davey and The Spectacles receive WAMi nominations for Country Act of The Year and Folk Song Of The Year, nominations at the upcoming WA Country Music Award for Best Act and Best Songwriter and an invitation by Australian folk icons The Waifs to support them at two sold out homecoming shows. Now to kick off the year, he comes down to The Drunken Poet for a free gig this Thursday February 26. Music from 8pm.

So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?

LUNG. I (Liam) sing and scream and provide counselling for the other band members.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like?

We’ve heard everything from Tomahawk to Tool.

What do you love about making music?

The freedom. You can say whatever you want and not give a fuck about anyone’s feelings.

What do you hate about the music industry?

I don’t take it seriously enough to hate it. It's given me four grouse mates, so I thank it for that.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?

Exactly which ‘stuff ’ are we referring to? Either way it would be David Sylvian so I could learn to be cool.

What can a punter expect from your live show?

A balls-to-the-wall effort from every one of us. We love people takin’ time out to listen to us so we give it all every time.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?

A lot of Terrence Trent Darby.

Catch LUNG at The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday February 28.

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THE LIZARDS

Brockway Lights Define your genre in five words or less: Party rock, punk, pop.

So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?

“This band has some nice bass lines, some cool riffs, a good singer and a tight drummer. They’re alright; I want to sink beers with them.”

How long have you been gigging and writing?

Two years.

What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date?

We’ve enjoyed all of our gigs so far. We’ve shared the stage with so many great bands and been hosted by awesome venues. Picking a favourite would be impossible.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

We want to make good, catchy music. It should stay with you after the show, and make you want more.

What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?

Play kickarse shows, sell some merch and have a good time doing it. And knowing a few people probably doesn’t do any harm either. Playing your instruments properly is good, too.

Do you have any record releases to date? What?

Where can I get it?

Our recently released EP is available from our shows and there are some free tracks up on bandcamp.

Why should everyone come and see your band?

Because we are good, properly good.

BROCKWAY LIGHTS are playing at The Brunswick Hotel this Friday February 27.

ZEX

Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, ZEX play no nonsense classic street punk, with obvious influences from early British heavy metal and rock‘n’roll. Onstage, they present chantey female vocals and pogo riffs reminiscent of acts such as Vice Squad, X-Ray Spex, The Runaways and Suzi Quatro. They play The Old Bar this Thursday February 26, with Havitajatt, Scab Eater and Soma Coma coming along for support.

Music from 8pm, $10 entry.

FRIDAY FEBURARY 27

THE GATWICK HIGHLIFE

Those Gatwick Highlife boys are putting on a shindig at The Old Bar this Friday February 27, bringing along with them The Braves, Plague Doctor and Me-Graines.

Me-Graines are a punk‘n’roll uppercut from a boozed up PSO, Plague Doctor knows the true meaning of the Blues, and The Braves are shell shock therapists, warlords of rhythm, disciples of Samurai. The Gatwick Highlife are a band comprised of the most soughtafter dinner guests in the Melbourne music scene. A dark, gritty blues enema that leaves you oddly satisfied.

Entry is free, doors from 8pm.

CREPES

Reverb-riddled and bursting with charm, Melbourne’s newest slacker-pop sweethearts, Crepes, will take to the stage to support the release of Stages of Fear — the soon-to-be-released second single from their forthcoming debut EP. Joining them will be experimental pop maestro Lehmann B Smith and his live band, along with Pure Moods and Jealous Husband. It all goes down at The Grace Darling, Friday February 27.

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The Lizards are coming all the way from Adelaide for their Future Life LP launch party. The Public Bar stage will be home to some good ol’ punk rock bands across the whole night, with friends Coffin Wolf, The Luke Seymoup Band, and The Beggars’ Way planning on showing up and giving the audience a taste or two.

Get down on Friday February 27, doors open 8.30pm with $5 entry.

Fuelled by gasoline and weed out in a barren Victorian wasteland comes ZMWY, slow, groove ridden dirty slide stoner rock. Having been described as the missing link between Kyuss and Ministry, this bearded beast mixes its love of choppers, muscle cars with B grade films and dirty sexploitation sci-fi and monster films. This Friday February 27 sees an epic line up of dirty rock and stoner metal at The Bendigo. Supporting on the night are awesome rifflords Abraision, Broozer and The Ruiner.

Doors open 8pm.

SATURDAY FEBURARY 28

THE PERFECTIONS

The only thing serious about this band is how much it kicks arse. “The Perfections are Melbourne’s finest garage soul outfit, delivering a mix of obscure and not-so obscure soul covers mixed in with originals that sound like Otis Redding and The Stooges had a fist fight. The Perfections have stamped their uniqueness on the soul scene here with their garage soul sound, they are a fantastic band, the great thing about The Perfections is that they do what Sharon Jones does so well, they take songs and they make them their own, they are a quality band” - Miss Goldie, PBS FMs Boss Action. Catch ‘em at The Post Office Hotel on Friday February 27.

LOCAL TRAFFIC

Local Traffic are hosting their second event at their new home Loop. Special guests Oliver Dave and Mike Woods are joining the regular resident DJ lineup of Josh P, Daniel Fabris, Packpress, Billyflipper and Udmo. From 9pm to late.

HOW YA GARN? YEAH NOT BAD!

How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad! returns for its second year with another action packed day of bands, booze and bloody good times. This year’s outstanding lineup boasts a range of incredible acts from across the country including Gay Paris, Colonel Vipers Whipstick Band, Sheriff, Sun God Replica, The Stiffys, My Left Boot, The Berkshire Hunting Club, Child, The Gatwick Highlife, Grindhouse, The Sugarcanes, Mightiest Of Guns and Willow Darling, plus on the second stage, Dr Finklestein’s Stage Of Oddity and Wonder hosts a swag of weird, wonderful and whacky acts such as Made For Chickens By Robots, BJ Morriszonkle, Skyscraper Stan, Island Duckeye (I Am Duckeye acoustic), Goatpiss Gasoline, Dane Certificates Magic Show, The Drunken Poachers, Tom Dockray and Green Tin. Catch How Ya Garn at The Curtin Bandroom on Saturday February 28.

THE AQUABATS!

CRATE DIGGERS RECORD FAIR

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Melbourne’s only regular inner city record fair, Crate Digger Record Fair returns to its home at Brunswick Street’s Bar Open on Saturday February 28.

With stalls both upstairs and down, regulars to the fair can find many of the usual suspect stallholders, as well as some new crew coming onboard for the first time. Half of the stallholders are selling from private collections, so there won’t be many John Denver, Kamahl or Jim Nabors records kicking around just stuff you actually want to buy. Plan an outing for yourself, your lover, your family and come on down to search for some new additions to your growing record collection – or make this the day that you get started – at Bar Open’s Crate Digger Record Fair. Free entry from 12pm-5pm.

American rockers and lovers of all things spandex The Aquabats! are bringing their silver helmets, black Zorro masks and matching blue costumes down to Ding Dong Lounge this Friday February 27 for what will (probably) be remembered as the best Soundwave sideshow ever. Easily identified by their claim to be crime-fighting superheroes and simultaneously “the best band in the world”, this theme serves as subject for much of the band’s music and as part of their theatrical stage shows, which typically feature over the top stunts and fight scenes with costumed villains and monsters. If you haven’t got on them yet, what superhero themed rock have you been listening to? Ding Dong Lounge, $30+BF, 9pm.

Every Friday night throughout February PBS legends Vince Peach, Jack Sparrow and Joel Hamlin will be DJing in the front bar of The Reverence Hotel from 8.30pm ‘til midnight. You’re in for a real treat and best of all it’s free. Get down to The Rev for a delicious meal and even more delicious cold beverages and soak up the last warm nights of summer.

JULES BOULT

Jules Boult draws from a plethora of genre influences, jazz, blues, country or folk, he doesn’t care. Hearing his father play live blues as a child, live music has fuelled Jules Boult’s hunger to explore, create and develop his act for audiences everywhere, having previously impressed at Chicago’s infamous Blues Music Festival. Now, Jules Boult plays a free entry gig at The Catfish this Friday February 27, with Aaron Seale and Aaron Richard filling the support slots.

GEORGIA BROOKS QUINTET

After years of classical training and subsequent teaching, Georgia Brooks moved into the world of jazz, picking it up with ease and in doing so discovered a natural flair for interpreting many of the well known, and some lesser known, works of the early 20th century, adding her own touch of fun and sophistication.

Imbued with a decidedly vintage tone, a natural elegance and a great respect for the classic repertoire of the ‘20s and ‘30s, Brooks is just at home singing alongside a guitar or piano as she is with her full complement of musicians, and she’s bringing them all down to The Spotted Mallard this Saturday February 28. The Georgia Brooks Quintet are performing two sets from 9.30pm, with free entry.

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ONCE WERE WILD Once Were Wild are so incredibly stoked to be launching their debut EP Dreamfield, they’ve strung together a great lineup to help celebrate the success. Come down to The Bendigo Hotel to catch Once Were Wild, as well as The Princetons, Beautiful Beasts and Davy Simony performing this Saturday February 28. Doors open 8pm, tickets are $10.

SUZANNAH ESPIE

This Melbourne-based singer/songwriter has been casting spells over audiences ever since she first took to the stage with her alt-country pop band, GIT, in 1997.

A gentle, sweet trill that can move grown men to tears one moment, or an Arethaesque hellcat belt that can raise the roof the next; however she sings it though, it’s still unmistakably Suzannah Espie.

In the eight years they were together, GIT — Espie, Sarah Carroll and Trish Anderson — released five criticallyacclaimed albums, toured the US three times, and gigged extensively throughout Australia including regular spots at major festivals such as Port Fairy, East Coast Blues and Roots and Woodford. Don’t miss the very wonderful Suzannah Espie at The Post Office Hotel on Saturday February 28.

ROCK FOR REYNOLDS

The Brunswick Hotel’s resident photographer and poetry night organiser Michael Reynolds recently lost his laptop to a beer spilling incident. After hearing about the loss of his equipment, local bands and members of the community put their hands up to play Rock for Reynolds at the venue in order to raise funds to replace his damaged gear, and quickly restoring everyone’s faith in humanity. 27 bands and soloists have jumped on board for an enormous day at The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday February 28. There’ll be two stages and a barbecue for only $5 entry with all proceeds going to Reynolds. Be there from midday to support Brunswick’s king.

SHOCK WAVES DIY. Punk Rock. The Reverence Hotel.

Sound fun? The boys from Shock Waves have gone and recorded an EP, and you best believe their fucking ready for the launch, featuring special guests Glen and the Peanut Buttermen, The Interceptors and Underground Hound. A night of punk rock madness will ensue. Saturday February 28. 8pm. Free entry.

UNSTABLE SOUNDS

Unstable Sounds is back again at Loop, proclaiming it’s their duty “to rock this earth off its axis and become as unstable as hell.” To guide the way, they welcome back Positive Thought to the stage, as well as Loop regulars Fractaleyes and Construx. Accompanying them on the night are Unstable staples Photo 5, Volta, Neocortex and Worlds Kaleid. It’s going to be another late one, so get in to Loop early. Music from 10pm ‘til very late. Entry is free.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON WAKE

To commemorate the decade since his death, the 10th Anniversary Great Southern Hunter S. Thompson Wake will be held at Cherry Bar on 28 February from 6.30pm. Upon receiving news of Dr Thompson’s departure on 20 February 2005, the now notorious first wake in the Southern Hemisphere was quickly arranged and held in Melbourne at Cherry Bar. It featured readings from Thompson’s greatest works, a machete grapefruit rum concoction, cigarette filter surprises and several other items and incidents that are now only whispered of in hushed tones by those who attended. Make your way down to AC/DC Lane on Saturday February 28 to pay your respects to our most admired counter-cultural literary icon. Featuring readings from Music Victoria CEO Patrick Donovan, The Age Shortlist Editor Martin Boulton, Herald Sun Rock City scribe Mikey Cahill, editor of The Cliteratti Club Karen Conrad and David Langsam, arts writer and editor of Biotech Daily. MCd by RRR favourite Tony Biggs, tunes spun by DJ Max Crawdaddy and live music provided by Kim Volkman. You will also be invited to solemnly indulge in a BBQ and Paintball Shotgun Art. Venerated Thompson illustrator Ralph Steadman has personally donated three prints for auction especially for The Wake, with all proceeds going directly to Support Act Ltd. $12 entry. See you there.

ALEXIS & THE MISSING PIECES

With her band The Missing Pieces, Alexis shares her raw, organic sounds, entertaining audiences everywhere.

The Missing Pieces come together to perform the songs reflecting Alexis Nicole’s honest observations in life. They include some of the best musicians from around Australia and beyond, bringing to life the rhythms and melodies developed

by Alexis. Obvious to everyone is their love of the music and the fun they all have on stage. Alexis & The Missing Pieces perform at The Retreat Hotel this Saturday February 28. Free entry.

SHANNON BOURNE BAND

Shannon Bourne came to the attention of most Blues fans through his time playing alongside Blues legend Chris Wilson, with whom he’s recorded two albums and toured extensively throughout Australia and abroad. Not exactly work shy, Bourne has continued to tour and record as a session player on top of the demands of establishing a highly regarded solo career. Shannon Bourne brings his band down to The Rainbow Hotel in Fitzroy, for a free show happening this Saturday February 28. Music from 9pm.

KING WOLF & GOATPISS GASOLINE

King Wolf and Goatpiss Gasoline are kicking off the year with a fight to the death, a double headliner at The Catfish.

Enjoy the self described mix of animal shaman blues and toothless electrified blues this Saturday February 28. This second of two shows is a can’t-miss, there’s no telling when another lineup like this will be. Two giants of the local blues scene, one massive night. Free entry, music from 9pm.

ROCK THE BAY

TUESDAY MARCH 3

ASH & BLOOM

THE STETSON FAMILY

The Stetson Family are kicking off their 2015 series of gigs by returning to their favourite Melbourne watering hole, The Drunken Poet, this Saturday February 28 from 9pm. Hot on the heels of the success of their double single, Travellin’ Man & Haunted Hills, The Stets will be cranking out their classic bluegrass-y kinda’ love, as well as brand-spanking new songs off their soon-to-be released third album. Free entry too.

SUNDAY MARCH 1

SYDNEY ROAD FESTIVAL @ HOWLER

The Sydney Road Festivities keep on coming with Howler announcing an amazing lineup over Sunday March 1. Making an appearance on the Theatre stage are Sugar Fed Leopards, Mighty Duke & The Lords, Cumbia Cosmonauts, Scatter Scatter, No Name Nath, Jelly Fish, A13 and DJ Manchild.

The beer garden out back will also host a slew of artists including Toot Toot Whistle Crew, Kirkis, Kuya, JPS and Float. One huge lineup all on one day, and best of all its free.

THE DAN DINNEN TRIO

Dan Dinnen is bringing his acoustic blues show to The Rainbow Hotel this Sunday March 1. The frontman for Greg Dodd & The Hoodoo Men, Dinnen plays acoustic guitar and harmonica, stomps his feet, and really, really sings the blues. This music is in the hands of an award winning tune-smith, singer/ songwriter. He’s a dynamic, energetic blues performer with an authentic feel and style, so come on down to The Rainbow from 4pm.

Canadian powerhouse duo Ash & Bloom (Matt McKenna and James Bloemendal) are launching their fantastic album Let the Storm Come and will be performing and promoting tracks from the album during their Australian tour in March 2015. They’re doing one special show in Melbourne Tuesday March 3 at The Gasometer Hotel Collingwood at 7.30pm before heading to Port Fairy Folk Festival.

THE HUNTED CROWS

The Hunted Crows could easily be mistaken for a 20-piece bassoon ensemble. But they’re not. They’re a two-piece straight outta Melbourne featuring heavy sweet riffs, groovin’ beats and catchy vocals to boot. The Hunted Crows will bring their musical stylings every damn Tuesday in February to Cherry Bar, this week bringing along Dear Thieves and GODS to support, with DJ Mermaid playing it out till 5am.

Doors open 6pm. Free entry.

LOOKING FORWARD MARCH

THE POST OFFICE HOTEL FIFTH BIRTHDAY

Gosh, they grow up so fast, don’t they?

On Sunday March 5, The Post Office Hotel in Coburg is turning five. Naaaaw.

To celebrate this milestone occasion, they’re throwing an all day bash, full of spectacular food and a range of live music. Part of Melbourne’s Food and Wine Festival, the backyard banquet promises the best produce from local butchers, with a range of tasty, seasonal side dishes for various diets. Mick Dog’s Bone Yard, La Bastard and Spoonful are ready to hit the front bar stage, with DJ’s O-Train, Oritone and SJ Christmas spinning tracks on the deck out back.

All day unlimited dining for $40, kids $20. Get down there and check it out.

DAY RAVIES

Sydney indie/pop workaholics Day Ravies are playing a run of shows to celebrate the 7” release of Hickford Whizz – out now through French indie label Beko Disques. It the follows up on 2014’s hook laden krautpop single This Side of the Fence and sees Day Ravies at their turbo charged, raucous and distorted, synth swirling best. Catch Day Ravies at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday March 12.

GRIM FAWKNER

Grim Fawkner, recent winner of Melbourne’s Best Busker (Once the Musical, Herald Sun) heads from the streets of the world to The Gasometer’s stage on Friday March 13 to kick off his east coast tour with UK folk songstress Hannah Ashcroft. Catch him for a rare full band show before his itinerant busker lifestyle takes him over sea and state line. Melbourne soul-folk singer Al Parkinson will be supporting on the night, and this show will also be Hannah Ashcroft’s Australian debut, after serenading Manchester audiences for the past year. Come and see why Grim’s unique brand of folk-country balladry and intriguing guitar work has been winning him over audiences in NZ, UK and of course, Australia.

MONDAY MARCH 2

TRIVIA AT THE GASOMETER

Do you love rock and roll? Fancy yourself as quite the film buff ? Find yourself constantly accused of watching too much television by judgmental friends and family? Well, why not turn your obsession with pop culture into an adorably boozy (and thoroughly educational) night out with mates. There are three rounds of trivia and beers to be won. It goes down every Monday from 8pm in the Front Bar of The Gasometer Hotel.

THE GIN CLUB

TULLY ON TULLY

Melbourne based five-piece Tully on Tully are off around the country with Canberra’s Slow Turismo. The two bands are playing a free show at The Retreat Hotel on Friday March 6. Delivering raw, honest, pop narratives Tully on Tully have built a reputation for bringing a new distinctive flavour to the pallet of indie pop. Pop March 6 in your diary. It’s free, which means more money for beer.

SOUL-A-GO-GO

Soul-A-Go-Go is proudly returning in 2015! This Saturday March 7 sees PBS DJ’s Vince Peach, Miss Goldie, DJ Manchild, Ritchie 1250, Matt McFetridge and special guest DJ Ladysoul all hitting up the Shebeen Bandroom stage. It’s $10 for PBS members, $15 for nonmembers. All the action kicks off at 9pm, and the party has no plans of stopping till 3am. Tickets available through pbsfm.org.au.

Australia’s best kept musical secret, The Gin Club are heading back out onto the road in March in support of their fifth studio album, Southern Lights. The Brisbane/Melbourne/Stockholm-based festive introspective collective will be doing a handful of shows along the east coast to launch the new album. See the Gin Club at The Curtin Bandroom on Friday March 13.

SUMERU

Previous playing in Melbourne at the Doomsday Sunday show in October, Sumeru are back for their first ever Melbourne headline gig this Friday March 13. For the show Sumeru will be performing their recently released Holy Lands record in full, playing some songs live for the very first time. Joining them on the night are Melbourne sludge/doom/metal lords Watchtower, with Caged Grave, Grim Rhythm and Cement Pig completing the unholy line up. Doors are at 8pm, entry is $10.

THE RAINBOW HOTEL'S

BEER OF THE WEEK Two Birds, Wolf of the West IPA

DEAN RAY

Melbourne’s phenomenal singer/ songwriter Dean Ray has locked in a special hometown show in March. Ray shot to fame after he placed second on X-Factor last year. Since then, he has released his self-titled debut album and has been booked as the support act for The Veronicas’ Australian tour this month. Dean Ray will perform at The Corner Hotel on Sunday March 15. Tickets are available through The Corner website.

SUN KIL MOON

Sun Kil Moon aka Mark Kozelek will hit Australian shores next March. The tour follows the release of his sixth studio record Benji. Most recently, Kozelek has been embroiled in a feud with War On Drugs following an incident at Hopscotch festival. Catch him on Saturday March 21 at The Athenaeum Theatre.

Q&A

THE SUNDAY STONER SESH

Sunday Stoner Sesh at Yah Yah’s, do we need to say any more? Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard, Broozer, Dr. Colossus, Drifter and Redro Redriguez and his Inner Demons are all set to hit the Yah Yah stage from 7pm. $10 entry, free Jäger shot on arrival, Yah Yah’s DJ till 5am. Huge fucking lineup, cheap as entry. Come along.

Rock The Bay returns to The Espy on Saturday March 21. Now in its seventh year, the popular music festival will feature 40 bands across four stages ranging from stoner rock to prog rock.

The 2015 lineup has something special in store – two popular disbanded Melbourne acts, Rook and Hinge, will both be reforming for special one-off performances. Joining Rook and Hinge are Bushido, Palace Of The King, Don Fernando, Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene, Chaos Divine (WA), Mushroom Giant, Greenthief, Arcane Saints, Hailmary and heaps more.

Brewed over in Spotswood; Two Birds let their brewer, Wilson, loose in the brewery and he busted out a Pale West Coast IPA, inspired by a trip to the US he took late last year.

This straw coloured ale is spicy, piney and dank. Don't be fooled by it's pale appearance, the Wolf has just enough lean malt to support the resinous finish and lingering bitterness. This beer is all about hops - in all their leafy, citrusy glory. Columbus, Centennial and Crystal.

Peter Maxwell Slattery

What’s the most recent UFO encounter/sighting you’ve experienced?

My experiences are daily, though my most recent sighting was during an event I held at Seaford beach over last weekend on Saturday night.

When you talk about healing the Earth, how do you go about this?

By one working on themself and projecting the reality they want outside of themselves.

How did you begin doing what you do?

After learning about myself, I just somehow fell into it.

What’s the most exciting part about what you do?

Helping people.

What sorts of things will you be talking about tonight?

My experiences, and showing videos and photos I have captured of inter dimensional crafts, beings and paranormal activity.

Catch PETER MAXWELL SLATTERY on Wednesday February 25 at Dane Certificate’s Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre.

FUELLED BY @PISTONHEADLAGERAU

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Fromage A Trois presents

Meatballs & Sons Launch Monday Meatball Maddness

You’ll be able to grab a meatball’s main or a burger with a beer for only $12. Harking back to the good ‘ol days, the restaurant’s philosophy of “goodness all ‘round” continues with their value, local craft beers and produce, organic and free range meats. Owner, Carlos Swinton-Lee says, “At the heart of everything we do lies a commitment to wholesome food and drinks that offer both great quality and best value.

Our craft beers are all from local brewers such as Barrow Boys and Mildura Brewery and our meats are all sourced from farms in Victoria. Combined with great service, great music and a lively atmosphere, we have the perfect night out.” Find Meatballs & Sons at 266 Brunswick Street Fitzroy. Bookings are recommended on Mondays, call 9416 3006.

This might be the best name for a cheese festival I’ve ever heard. Held in the spectacular grounds of the Werribee Park mansion, only 30 minutes from the CBD, the Great Lawn of Werribee Park will play host to artisan cheese makers and boutique cider producers at this year’s Fromage a Trois. With relaxing music from the main stage, visitors can meander from marquee to marquee to savour some of the best local and regional produce, meet the makers and learn about the craft of cheese and cider making. The demonstration stage will entertain and educate patrons with free presentations and master classes. The entire festival will be a truly sensory affair. Whether it’s sampling local and international cider and wines, watching live cooking demonstrations by some of Melbourne’s best chefs, witnessing fresh mozzarella being stretched, sampling the delicious offering from some of Melbourne’s most iconic food trucks, indulging in local and imported cheese, or inspecting Prickly Moses’ on-site brew house and lounge, there will be things to see and do for both the young and young at heart. $35 tickets include entry, an official Fromage A Trois glass and event program.

Issue #1 February 2015

Free!

The Jameson Jeroboam Jamboree Is Coming To The Beaufort

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Beat Eats The Magazine Oh baby, this is HUGE news. Beat Eats launched as its very own magazine today, edited by yours truly. Serving up a smorgasbord of culinary features, restaurants, recipes and opinion pieces, what you’ll find is food writing sans the bullshit. We think it’s rad and we hope you do, too. You’ll find it everywhere you find Beat, plus heaps more locations. Eat. It. Up. ± Soph Goulopoulos

Port Phillip Mussel Festival

Over two days, the South Melbourne Market will be delivering mussels by the bucket load. Kicking off on Saturday March 7 and Sunday March 8, some of the region’s top chefs and restaurants will be taking part, including St Ali, Mr Lawerence at the London, Dandelion and Acland Street Cantina, plus South Melbourne Market restaurants Claypots Evening Star, Paco y Lola, Köy and Simply Spanish.

For those who like some muscles with their mussels, the Australasian Natural Bodybuilding Association will also be presenting their own Muscle Festival.

The Port Phillip Mussel Festival is taking place on Saturday March 7 and Sunday March 8 from 11am to 10pm at the South Melbourne Market. It’s totally free, and more information can be found at their website.

Pier To Plate Festival

Some of Melbourne’s best restaurants are poppingup at Seaworks along with some local Williamstown favourites and the latest in gourmet vendors. Pier to Plate is a unique food event to delight the pallet, enrich the senses and offer something to suit all tastes and budgets. Seaworks is working with Seafood Industry Victoria to deliver a pier to plate experience.

Fresh fish will be on offer from the Seaworks’ pier, demonstrations will show how to clean and prepare seafood, while restaurants and caterers serve it up on a plate. Hellenic Republic and MoVida will join local restaurants and food vendors at the Pier to Plate seafood festival at Seaworks on Saturday February 28, running from midday to 9pm. The Pier to Plate is part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival and the only event focusing solely on seafood. The Pier to Plate event is supported by Hobsons Bay City Council, Greg Hocking Elly Partners, Seafood Industry Victoria, the Bank of Melbourne and the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Tickets cost $15 an adult and children under 16 are free. Bookings can be made at www.piertoplate.com.au or through the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Port Phillip

Long gone are the days of the normal soul, putting on his or her Sunday best for a day of Irish whiskey tasting, pickle eating and some good ol’ fashioned hip shakin’. Though this weekend’s trend may’ve been lost in the hearts and minds of a group surpassed by the weekly obligations of the nine to five grind, the team at The Beaufort has stepped onto Melbourne’s metaphorical soapbox to cast these wayward thoughts aside. The Beaufort is breaking the consensus that Sunday is the day of rest with an event that will no doubt go down in the record books. With the added support of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey and McClure’s Pickles, The Beaufort’s Jameson Jeroboam Jamboree will be filled with adult activities to sharpen the mind and spirits of any attendee. The day’s festivities will include Brooklyn’s famous McClure’s Pickle Eating Competition, a Pickle-Back Ice Luge (yep, probably the first one in history), famous* DJs (*may not be famous), Jameson Reserve Tastings and The Beaufort’s inaugural Urban Woodsman Survival Workshops. Those famished and in need of comfort from the excessive amounts of joy from the day, will find themselves in the hard hands of Ike, whose shanty Rack Shack will be serving smoked culinary delights all night long to alleviate hunger pains.

Mussel Festival FEATURING

THE SHUFFLE CLUB MARGIE LOU DYER QUINTET PEARLY SHELLS HOT 6 PAUL WILLIAMSON AND MORE

A Seafood Street Party

Saturday 7 AND Sunday 8 March FROM 11AM–LATE

CECIL STREET, SOUTH MELBOURNE MARKET FREE ENTRY & ENTERTAINMENT

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Seaworks presents

PIER

A Wyndham City Event to

PLATE

A festival for lovers of seafood

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival comes to Williamstown. On site cooking right where the boats come in. Food from Melbourne’s finest including...

SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2015 WERRIBEE PARK

11am - 5pm

MoVida | Hellenic Republic | Duchess of Spotswood Ragusa | .IT | Pinchys

$35

INCLUDES TASTING GLASS

KIDS UNDER 12 FREE proudly sponsored by

melbournefoodandwine.com.au

facebook.com/fromageatroisfestival

fresh fish market I gourmet food I Children’s craft corner I fishmongers tips with demonstrations I Dept. of Fisheries education I entertainment I coffee I boutique beer and wine .

Buy your tickets online at piertoplate.com.au

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THIS WEEK AT

THURSDAY 26TH FEBR UARY IN THE BEER GARDEN -

NORTHSIDE SPACE FUNKERS

feat. Hyperfokus & Kodiak Kid, Hip-Hop, funk, trip-hop, electro soul & swinging jazz. Playing inside & out from 7pm FRIDAY 27TH FEBR UARY MAIN BAR FROM 9.30PM

REUBEN STONE MATSOMUTO ZOKU DJ’S

7PM KODIAK KID / 9PM HIJACK / 11PM M-PHAZES SATURDAY 28TH FEBR UARY

7PM MATT RAD / 9PM NAM / 11PM FLAGRANT SUNDAY 1ST MARCH MAIN BAR FROM 5PM

SYDNEY RD STREET PARTY FEATURING

HELOISE, THE SIDESHOW BRIDES MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR DANNY WALSHE BANNED THE DRUNKEN POACHERS ALONE WITH TIGER ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN JACK JACK JACK IN THE BEER GARDEN -

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK

TOP TENS: HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN

JESSICA PRATT

On Your Own Love Again (Spunk/Drag City)

1. G Stands for... THE GO-BETWEENS 2. Live LP OM 3. To Ride Shoot Straight LP ENTOMBED

Tape hiss is a prominent feature on Jessica Pratt’s On Your Own Love Again. It’s a signal that you’re going to be drawn in and held at close quarters so that Pratt can seduce you with her enigmatic, helium-sucking vocal and harp-like guitar plucking. You have little choice but to be completely engaged over the half hour of storytelling that follows.

Anyone contemporary with an acoustic guitar and considered ‘quirky’ is immediately categorised as ‘freak folk’, but Pratt’s style is more in line with classic folksters like Marianne Faithful and Nick Drake. On Your Own Love Again has a timeless folk feel, but it’s still fresh and vital. Pratt sticks to a stripped-back, skeletal framework but scatters the songs with sonic surprises. The final minute chord change of Game That I Play subtly changes the tone and also makes it act like a segue to the following song, Strange Melody. The dragged-out pitch shift that slows Pratt’s vocal in the poignant Jacqueline In the Background cleverly snaps the listener out of the clarity of the present experience and throws you into a shadowy memory. Then there’s the forward-looking clarity of Back, Baby; this penultimate

4. Tender Prey LP NICK CAVE 5. Shrink LP THE NOTWIST 6. Shadows In the Night LP BOB DYLAN 7. Agaetis Byrjun LP SIGUR ROS 8. Live San Francisco LP TY SEGALL 9. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes LP THOM YORKE 10. Backstage Passport LP NOFX track has an unexpectedly buoyant lift to it that sums up the collection’s assuredness and clarity. There are some sad subjects dealt with here but it’s never a downer. Pratt’s bewildered by the ‘moon dudes’ of her past, though she never lets the baggage of the past weight her down, and delivers an evocative work that makes good on the promise of her 2013 debut.

CHRIS GIRDLER

RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN 1. No Cities To Love SLEATER-KINNEY 2. Come And See THE MEANIES 3. Gangrenous/In Search Of...THE MEANIES 4. About Time CHOOK RACE 5. Gon’ Boogaloo C.W.STONEKING

SINGLES

BY LACHLAN

BROADWAY SOUND

Sing It Again (Independent) You had me at airhorns, also had me at the frenetic pop intro, something like PC Music’s Kane West, flipping the switch instantly into an organic-sounding, frenetic funk freak out. And you definitely had me at sax solo.

It’s a ride, an exhilarating one at that. An irresistibly tasty dancefloor frenzy.

BLUR

Go Out (Warner) The only good Blur song is Tender, yet this comeback track seems turgid and stuffed even by Damon Albarn’s standards. Boring, noisy shite.

YAWS

The Seventh Continent (Etched Traumas) Paced out brilliantly, The Seventh Continent eases into grandiose scale with an underhanded repetition, captivating throughout its 11-minute-plus runtime.

UK-based expat Yaws flexes compositional muscle, not reaching for an all-consuming sheer aural destruction akin to Ben Frost, retaining a resolute focus throughout.

TOTALLY MILD

Christa (Bedroom Suck) Beautiful, languid, and pretty much, as much as it pains me to do so, impossible not to describe as Lynchian.

Christa is a luscious dreamscape, rippling with trebly chimes. A deft ol’-timey ballad laced with romance.

CANNIBAL OX FEAT. ARTIFACTS & U-GOD

Blade: The Art Of The Ox (IGC) Wu-Tang is the obvious reference point here, not just due to the U-God guest verse, fusing solid bars with classic East Coast production. NYC duo Cannibal Ox return with their first album in 14 years, sounding like we’d hope Wu would sound like in 2015. Blade: Art Of The Ox, lifted from Blade Of The Ronin, is a cruisey posse cut, hitting the mark many times over, especially with a Chapelle’s Show reference in the opening verse.

BLANCK MASS

Dead Format (Sacred Bones) Fuck Buttons’ Ben Power returns to his Blanck Mass guise, this time bringing percussion and a few chopped up vocal samples to boot. Doesn’t feel as atmospheric as the self-titled debut, maybe even a bit too corny. The payoff of the closing wall of sound, more in line with the previous record, doesn’t feel necessarily worth it, nor does the fade out of rolling toms familiar to Fuck Buttons’ oeuvre. Nice enough, just feels a bit by the numbers.

7. Living Large THE LIVING EYES 8. Drunk Mums DRUNK MUMS

For all the latest singles check out beat.com.au Hearing rumours Drake is set to appear as half-time entertainment at Whitten Oval this Saturday.

6. Romeo Must Cry JONNY TELAFONE

9. Russell St Bombings RUSSELL ST

OLYMPIA

Honey (EMI) Honey trembles down the runway but doesn’t quite soar into liftoff, the power is in Olympia’s voice, but feels burdened by the Arcade Fire-level arsenal of instrumentation. I wanna hear a guitar-vocal version, but I don’t really wanna hear this again.

CLOWNS

Euthanise Me (Poison City) Pretty sick punk belter that overstays its welcome just a tad. I mean, I don’t get what the point of a mellow middle eight (didn’t actually count the bars, FYI) breakdown is in a song like this, other than to take pause in a film clip to showcase fully Xtreme activities like smoking bongs and riding cool motorbikes and drinking beers which some people over the age of 16 find interesting enough to boast about, apparently. But yeah, the track holds its own, would go off chops live, I reckon.

BLISS N ESO

Two Weeks (Independent) When I first heard FKA Twigs’ stunning, empowered, nuanced portrayal of candid sexuality in Two Weeks, my initial thought was, “Man this would be heaps better if instead of Twigs’ soaring vocals it had two derro Australian cunts who are coming off a barely repentant display of flagrant misogyny flipping the ‘higher than a motherfucker’ refrain into some preachy horseshit anti-drugs message,” and waddaya know? My wishes came true. Fuck everything about this, a fucking travesty, a national embarrassment.

INFINITY BROKE

Only The Desert Grows (Come To The Dark Side Luke) This could be a worthwhile outlaw rock sojourn, but, not to get all “you don’t record heavy metal in Dobly,” the mix betrays Jamie Hutchings’ vocal, hard to make out in the dust storm of tremolo guitars swirling overhead.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK TKAY MAIDZA

M.O.B. (Dew Process) Well on track to breaking through in a major way, Tkay opens M.O.B. with a solid pop croon, leading up to some quick fire bars over some grinding beats that almost, but not quite, lean towards dubstep, contrasting with the sugary pop glee presented elsewhere. It’s intriguing in its construct, chorus-less in a way, still laden with hooks. Daring and versatile, Tkay shows no sign of tapping the brakes. Look out world.

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BOMBING 10. Scotdrakula SCOTDRAKULA

3RRR TOP TEN 1. On Your Own Love Again JESSICA PRATT 2. Shadow Of The Sun MOON DUO 3. Ooh Yea: The Betty Davis Songbook MAHALIA BARNES & THE SOUL MATES FT JOE BONAMASSA 4. Pretend You’re Mine PEARLS 5. Rut EP NICK HILL 6. All We Are ALL WE ARE 7. Wild Onion TWIN PEAKS 8. Teaspoon To The Ocean JIB KIDDER 9. The French Do Surf LA FEMME 10. Sour Soul BADBADNOTGOOD & GHOSTFACE KILLAH

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS TO WORK OUT TO AT THE YMCA 1. Work It MISSY ELLIOT 2. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger DAFT PUNK 3. We Will Rock You QUEEN 4. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction THE ROLLING STONES 5. Jump Around HOUSE OF PAIN 6. Push It SALT-N-PEPA 7. Twist and Shout THE BEATLES 8. When The Fire Starts to Burn DISCLOSURE 9. Do Better FATIMA 10. Feed The Rhythm CLIENT LIAISON

ALBUMS ENTER SHIKARI

New music in review this week - For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews

STORM THE SKY

JESS MOSKALUKE

The Mindsweep

(PIAS)

Permanence (UNFD)

Light Up The Night (Sony)

Four albums deep, Hertfordshire’s Enter Shikari are the iPad generation’s answer to genre-bending. They weave between several in the space of a few bars; hardcore, metal, punk, electronica, dubstep, hip hop, drum and bass. Seemingly a scattergun approach, The Mindsweep crystallises their style hopping with purpose.

As a self-described rock band, Enter Shikari only pick up guitars when they wanna. Throughout, electronics layer over varied worlds of sound.

Jungle-inspired The Anaesthetist is sparse on guitars, likewise is dramafuelled anthem Never Let Go of The Microscope. Beat-pulsed single The Last Garrison might unite moshers and ravers in the one pit, though the band aim at rousing rabbles, there’s a tender heart beating inside The Mindsweep.

Rou Reynolds lends vulnerability, the fire behind his screams feeling all the more potent. Cribbing Beastie Boys’ Sabotage, Torn Apart fuses throwback hardcore with streetwise rhymes and lush vocals. Dear Future Historians pensive piano and confident climax of colour and light is both a technical and artistic achievement.

Mastery of one genre usually comes at a price: weakness in all others.

It’s a price Enter Shikari have skilfully avoided paying. Innovative and ambitious, The Mindsweep is a mature, consistent effort. It’s far greater than the sum of its genre-mashed parts.

Hailing from Saskatchewan, Canada, Jess Moskaluke has taken her home country by storm with the release of her debut album, Light Up The Night.

It’s full of radio friendly songs which combine country, pop and rock.

Opener Good Lovin’ is one such track, which sets the tone for the rest of Light Up The Night. The following track, Cheap Wine & Cigarettes is one of the best songs on the album. Strong As It’s Ever Been, Moskaluke’s duet with fellow Canadian singer Bobby Wills, is another highlight, with great harmonies. Show You Crazy is the most country oriented song on the album. The tempo slows slightly with title track ballad Light Up The Night. Although all songs are of a similar style, they’re extremely catchy.

Moskaluke has a powerful voice, and has created an album to match.

Jess Moskaluke’s star should continue to rise as a result of Light Up The Night. A fine debut which suggests she’s one to watch in the future.

ALI BIRNIE

TOM VALCANIS

The melodic metalcore scene seems to go from strength to strength, both in Australia and internationally, and shows zero signs of slowing. This country has just thrown up yet another contender to the post-hardcore thrown.

This is this Melbourne-based six-piece’s debut album, and while it doesn’t really break any new ground in this musical space (an extremely difficult thing to achieve), it displays remarkable self-assurance. Everything is in place; everything is perfectly engineered to help ensure its success in international metalcore. There’s an ideal blend of clean melodic vocals and aggressive screams/growls, the guitars roar with fury and the drums pound like thunder.

While its overall effect is highly aggressive, there’s an almost pop sensibility going on here, especially in some of the choruses. Check out Dead Giveaway, with its pop-punk style melodies leading into a bonecrunching, heavy breakdown.

Lyrically, it’s apparently a concept piece, and cuts quite deep, taking on dark and existential themes: the futility of life and the realisation of our tiny place in the universe. These guys are not pissing around with frivolities.

File these guys alongside Northlane, The Amity Affliction and that ever growing bunch of bands: world class Aussie metalcore acts who have international profile written all over them.

ROD WHITFIELD

KID ROCK

THEE GOLD BLOOMS

First Kiss

(Warner)

THE VANNS

Scattered by Sundown EP

(Independent)

Thee Gold Blooms

(The A&R Department)

Kid Rock’s newest album, First Kiss, continues what has been dubbed the ‘Heartland Era’ of his career. First Kiss is a rock album with a strong country influence. The album features electric guitar riffs, piano and violin solos, which paints the image of a honky tonk bar. At the outset, First Kiss resonates well. However, after the first few tracks, the songs become monotonous and almost unbearable.

First Kiss reflects Rock’s longing for the past, which he argues was a much simpler time. The title record and opening track describes Rock visiting his hometown Romeo Michigan and how the experience reminds him of his first love. On the other hand, in Drinking Beer with Dad, Rock sings about the alleged immorality that exists in today’s society: “This whole world is going down the drain / there is no God in schools / talking guns is the latest fad.” First Kiss also details Rock’s struggle with alcohol and how he found God, “I was lost in sin / I was on my own / I went from Jim Beam to my bible” (Jesus and Bocephus).

Despite some poignant moments, First Kiss is an underwhelming album that lacks variety. First Kiss is a massive departure from Kid Rock’s initial hip hop, rap roots and will leave fans longing for his previous sound.

JACK LACY

The late Tom Hafey was adamant that football was, at its beating heart, a simple game: get ball, kick ball, chase ball. It’s doubtful Hafey paid as much attention to the choice between style and simplicity in rock’n’roll; if he had, he’d probably reckon Thee Gold Blooms have got the balance just right.

Thee Gold Blooms’ quest isn’t to change the world, and what’s wrong with that? The songs on the band’s debut album are the ubiquitous fare of adolescence – romantic attraction, sexual tension, unrequited love and the emotional weight of indecision. Musically, and Thee Gold Blooms have found themselves half a dozen chords and, in the greatest rock’n’roll tradition, that’s all that matters.

Listen closely, and you can hear The Everly Brothers in a Tacoma garage in Katie-Sue; Natalie is the best song The Black Lips haven’t recorded. We Can Hide is the soundtrack for a nervous high school afternoon with only a copy of the first Scientists album to held you through, Alana glows with the innocence of youth and the memories of a pre-coke Ricky Nelson and behind the loneliness of Night Time can be found the misunderstood brilliance of Buddy Holly.

My Girlfriend is a Nuggets-inspired romantic firecracker, Some Girls is about as banal as you need, and as wonderful as anything found on the floor of the Paisley Underground and Let Me Know yearns for an answer to every unresolved romantic proposition and only gets Bruce Johnston on amphetamines – which is a pretty damn good place to be. On Thee Gold Blooms’ Boogie, we get a Cramp-ishly excellent voodoo boogie jam, Do You Really Want Me is The Beatles via Painters and Dockers’ Nude School and Please Wake Me is the end of the night, when the booze has run drum, your girl has run off with that dickwit from the local footy team and life is festering pile of shit. But you’ve still got rock’n’roll, so that’s good enough – and if you’ve got Thee Gold Blooms on the stereo, things are looking on the up.

The Vanns hail from Kiama, don’t be ashamed if you have no idea where that is either. It’s 120km south of Sydney and the three-piece are set to become big on the Australian music scene. Their freshly released Scattered by Sundown EP shows off some mighty fine infectious pop-rock. They sound unlike pretty much any other band on the local landscape, and that’s a good thing; we need more bands like these guys.

There are five tracks on the EP, and if you can get your hands on a physical copy, do it. It comes with a bonus disc with another five tracks, so it feels like you’ve got a full album to listen to. And the bonus tracks are not just filler you wouldn’t want to listen to. Guilty Love, for example, is one of the catchiest songs you’ll ever have the pleasure of hearing.

Given on iTunes or streaming sites you just get the original five tracks, we’ll focus on those. Keep My Cool is a classy polished track that still manages to feel slightly raw in the rock’n’roll way we all love. The vocals by James Vann especially sound on point while at the same time allowing his strains and limitations to show to great effect. Operator continues to keep the toe-tapping vibe while Cold Silence is a stripped back affair that again shows off Vann’s sublime vocals alongside some well executed minimalist instrumentation.

The final two songs are also quality tunes; there’s a reason triple j can’t get enough of these guys right now. Do yourself a favour and check them out.

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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews SOUNDWAVE Melbourne Showgrounds, Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 Slipknot

Marilyn Manson

It was the biggest weekend in Melbourne’s history, and not because of White Night, The Eagles, The Cricket World Cup, The Black Caviar Lightning Stakes and Cirque Du Soleil all falling on the same weekend. No. It was because for the first time ever, Soundwave was over two action-packed days. After one train, one tram and a long walk to find Gate Seven, Soundwave had finally begun.

The Wonder Years were first up, and brought a lot to their loyal fans that braved the 35-degree heat to watch their set. With their Australian tour last September being cancelled, The Wonder Years made it up to their fans producing a highly energetic performance with plenty of sing-a-longs and circle pits.

If there was one band to rave about at this year’s Soundwave, my stamp of approval would definitely have to go to Animals As Leaders. The three-piece progressive metal band out of Washington DC produced one of the most notable sets of day one.

Guitarist Tosin Abasi mesmerised the crowd with his incredible technical ability. The band gave their fans plenty to cheer about throughout the set, playing a mix of old and new songs, however closing with COFA had their fans leaving with a grin.

The Vandals were… well, they were exactly what you’d expect from The Vandals. Insane. Mentally that is. In their rich and fruitful history, most know that The Vandals take their music very lightly, and bring satire and humour to their songwriting and live shows. The lads gave the crowd one hell of a show, playing some classics like I’ve Got An Ape Drape and People Who Are Going To Hell, proving to the crowd that the veterans of punk aren’t dead yet.

Flash back to 2002 and Papa Roach had hit Stage Two with a storm. A rather big crowd gathered in anticipation to hear a catalogue of classics from the rock veterans, who hadn’t been on our shores in over 13 years. They may be past their prime, but that didn’t stop Papa Roach from bringing one hell of a performance. Fans were treated to a couple of new songs off their latest record F.E.A.R, and also got to hear some classics with Scars and Last Resort gathering the crowd into one big sing-along.

It truly was four seasons in one day in Melbourne. After having blue skies and blistering heat in the early afternoon, a large downpour of rain fittingly greeted fans just before Marilyn Manson hit the stage.

It isn’t old news that Marilyn Manson was a touch off his best last time he was at Soundwave in 2012. In fact, our friends over in Sydney even booed the intoxicated frontman off the stage after a rather dull performance. This time around, it luckily went a little differently. It was clear from the start that Manson had cleaned up his act and gave the crowd a bit more to cheer about. He had them singling along in unison to Obscene before destroying everything in his path to The Beautiful People. The charismatic front man was everything you would expect from Marilyn Manson. Outrageous, destructive and completely psychotic.

Slash, accompanied by Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators took to the stage with a roar from his long time fans, and gave them everything the expected. Slash showed off his astonishing talent with blistering solos during Stoneblind and Wicked Stone, before sending the crowd into an eruption with Guns ‘N’ Roses classics Welcome To The Jungle and Sweet Child of Mine.

Vocalist Myles Kennedy may be a shadow to Slash in title, but he had the crowd at his command throughout the set, showing them why he’s the front man for the world’s most iconic guitarist. Slash finished with the Gunners classic Paradise City, with the whole crowd belting it out and pulling out their air guitars.

Closing the lights on the day one event was none other than metal giants Slipknot, who brought an entirely new look to coincide with their latest release .5: The Grey Chapter. Slipknot delivered carnage to their devoted fans, playing a back catalogue of hits including The Heretic Anthem, Wait and Bleed, Before I Forget and Duality, and a few new ones including The Devil In I and The Negative One.. If you thought it was impossible to top their last performance at Soundwave, you’re terribly wrong. Their set was nothing less than faultless. Frontman Corey Taylor conducted the audience into mayhem during Spit It Out,, which saw half of the Melbourne Showgrounds kneeling before them (literally). Captivating their fans, Slipknot finished their set with crowd favourites (Sic) and People = Shit, before closing the day one antics with Surfacing.

If you think one day at Soundwave in 35-degree heat is tough, try two days straight. Punters flocked to the Showgrounds with high spirits; some nursing hangovers from the previous day, and some still intoxicated.

Hometown heroes The Bennies were first on my list for day two, and when frontman Anty Horgan took the stage with zebra print tights and a joint in hands, you knew it was going to be a party. The self-labeled ‘psychedelic reggae ska doom metal punk rock band from hell’ were there to have fun, and the crowd loved every minute of it; singing along to My Bike and going crazy to Heavy Disco.. The Melbourne boys thrived off the energy of their local fans and gave an entertaining set. These lads are ones to watch in 2015.

Asian rock bands aren’t all that common to feature on Soundwave lineups, therefore my venture to stage one to catch One Ok Rock was out of curiosity more than anything, however the Japanese rockers definitely left a good impression. They were catchy, energetic, and had their fans moving.

Steel Panther absolutely killed it on the main stage. Opening to a barrage of metal heads raising their horns in the air, the charismatic quartet brought a performance that was way too politically incorrect, much to the delight of the crowd. The banter between vocalist Michael Star and guitarist Satchel provided amusing entertainment for their fans, with conversions as left field as screwing Nicole Kidman arising. Steel Panther aren’t all just theatrics though. The talent of this band goes without question. Death To All But Metal had Satchel and Lexxi Foxx shredding while their stage presence and gang vocals in Party All Day had their fans going nuts. Highlights included a raw acoustic rendition of Community Property, as well as Asian Hooker, which saw numerous girls being brought onto the stage.

The latest project to come from At The Drive In’s and Mars Volta’s Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Antemasque, were a nice addition to the already jam packed lineup. Their performance showed shades of At The Drive In, and Rodríguez-López busted out some insane riffs. Flawless.

There were not many surprises out of Incubus’ set. Besides the fact that they didn’t play crowd favourite Drive, the Californian lads delivered an unforgettable performance. Incubus got their fans singing right from the start, opening with Wish You Were Here, before treating fans to new material playing Trustfall and Absolution Calling. Pardon Me was the highlight of the set, with everyone at the main stages dancing and singing along.

Unfortunately, at some point a man has got to eat, and Soundgarden’s set was the one that had to be sacrificed. Luckily I managed to catch the second half of their set while fighting through the masses, and what a treat it was. In short, Chris Cornell still rules. Black Hole Sun had the crowd buzzing, before the band closed with a mesmerising rendition of Slaves & Bulldozers, which ended with Cornell tearing the strings straight off of his guitar to close one hell of a performance.

The crowd was building and there was a sense of excitement in the surf as Faith No More prepared to take stage to a packedout Showgrounds. There’s no hiding the fact that frontman Mike Paton is all about the theatrics, therefore it was fitting that the band all came out in matching white garments, with Paton wearing a surgical mask and white gloves. Opening with Motherfucker, FNM were simply flawless.

Ending my two-day Soundwave experience was pop punk legends New Found Glory, who undeniably stole the show at Stage Three. With so many great bands closing the festival, the pop punk veterans definitely earned their reputation as one of the best in their business, with a set that had fans singing and moving. Opening with new track, Selfless, the newly changed fourpiece were as tough as ever. Fans were going mental to classics Listen To Your Friends, Dressed To Kill, and All Down Hill From Here; with vocalist Jordan Pundik barely having to sing a word the crowd were singing that loudly. To close Soundwave 2015, NFG ended with hit My Friends Over You, which had the crowd jumping.

This all-star Soundwave lineup was one for the ages, and we can only start speculating who might feature on next year’s lineup.

MICHAEL EDNEY PHOTOS BY IAN LAIDLAW

LOVED: Everything.

HATED: The heat.

DRANK: Sweat.

Do Die Line

rint es Not P

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BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL Various Venues, Brunswick March 1 – 15

If Brunswick wasn’t already packed enough with good beers, good company and great live music, it’s about to get better. The Brunswick Music Festival is taking over with a huge lineup of artists and events. The bill includes Australian acts The Black Sorrows and The Bushwackers as well as a variety of international guests, including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maru Tarang, Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson, Sóley, DJ Spooky, Depedro, Margaret Leng Tan, Sharon Shannon, Bombino, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. The festival will kick off this Sunday March 1 with the Sydney Road Street Party. Brunswick Music Festival will run from Sunday March 1 to Sunday March 15 at Brunswick Town Hall and surrounding venues. Seeya there for a beer of 100.

WEDNESDAY FEB 25

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

••FREIDA LE BJORN + NICOLA WATSON Drunken Poet,

••ALL TIME LOW + FIREWORKS The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd.

••JOHN FLANAGAN + BROOKE RUSSELL Yarra Hotel,

••BUTCHER BABIES + HEAVEN THE AXE + THE

••LIZ STRINGER + CAT CANTERI Gasometer Hotel,

7:30pm. $56.10.

KASHMERE CLUB + DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar,

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.00.

••CHET FAKER + ROLAND TINGS + GL Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

••CLOSET STRAIGHTS + BAYOU + TIME FOR DREAMS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.

••COQ ROQ WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky

West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

Collingwood. 7:00pm. $18.00.

••OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

••OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

••OPEN MIC/JAM Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

••THE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: CINDY LOU

KRAMME + AARON CREIGH + JULZ EVANS Revolver

Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm.

Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

••THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL’S OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel,

Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

••THE HAMMOND ORGAN NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner.

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••ZOE K + HOT WINGS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

••DEAD ALBATROSS + THE ASMATICS + ATLAS Grace ••FALCONIO + THE FACTORY + COUNCIL OF ELDERS ••FALLING IN REVERSE, ESCAPE THE FATE + FALLING

IN REVERSE + ESCAPE THE FATE + THE COLOR MORALE 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

••FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA + THE REMOTES + CABIN INN Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $8.00.

••INCUBUS + ANTEMASQUE + LE BUTCHERETTES Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $104.64.

••KICKASS KAREOKE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:30pm.

••MINERAL + GARRETT KLAHN + ARROWS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $45.00.

••PETE EWING’S HEXHAM VOX - FEAT: BLOWN CONES

Brunswick. 7:00pm.

7:00pm.

THURSDAY FEB 26

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••AIMEE VOLKOFSKY & THE MOLOTOVS + LUCAS

PAINE + GODS + DJ MERMAID Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••AINSLIE WILLS + RICHARD IN YOUR MIND + JAMIL

ZACHARIA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00.

••AUDITION NIGHT - FEAT: KIMBERLEY HEBERLEY +

THE LION TAMERS + SUBURBAN PROPHETS + HALF THE SKY + RED WORM + AGENTS OF ROCK Musicland,

Fawkner. 7:00pm.

+ KATE ALEXANDER + DAVEY CRADDOCK + PETE EWING’S HEXHAM VOX Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

••REAL ESTATE + THE STEVENS + TOTALLY MILD Corner

••BACKYARD Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••BURLAP + LOOBS + PLYERS + ICAH + EMPLOYMENT

••RECKLESS JUNE + LOVELY BEAST + PRIMITIVE

••BYO VINYL NIGHT The Bodega, West Melbourne. 7:00pm.

••CHET FAKER + ROLAND TINGS + GL Palais Theatre, St

••SLIM JEFFRIES + VAN NOSTRUM + CHRIS WATTS

••CHRIS CAVILL & THE PROSPECTORS + BEN SMITH +

Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.

LANGUAGE + RONIT Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Kilda. 7:00pm.

ANGIE MOON Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.

••STELLA COLLAPSE + VODNIK + JAKE MCPHERSON +

••CLUSTERFUNK + FUNK RABBIT + THAT GOLD STREET

••THE COURTNEYS + MANGELWURZEL Bridge Hotel,

••COFFIN WOLF + THE FCKUPS + SHORT LEASH +

EDITH LANE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.

Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••THE KITE STRING TANGLE + KLO + ANDRAS FOX +

TORADO WALLACE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

••THE SWELLERS + MY ECHO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.

••THE VENDETTAS + THE JACKS + SPACEJUNK Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00.

••VINTAGE RUIN + AGENTS OF ROCK + DEMONIC

COWBOYS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

••WHITE WIDDOW + SISTERS DOLL Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••BOHJASS QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

••LOS COUGARMEN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

SOUND Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

DREAM IN COLOUR KIDS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $5.00.

••CONOR OBERST + THE FELICE BROTHERS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $66.00.

••DZ DEATHRAYS + BASS DRUM OF DEATH + HOCKEY

DAD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

••HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE + STEVE MILLER BAND

+ M.A.D. EMPIRE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

$11.00.

••KIM BOEKBINDER, TANZER & JEN KINGWELL + KIM

BOEKBINDER + TANZER + JEN KINGWELL The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••NEXT - FEAT: VOID OF VISION + EPIMETHEUS +

ANNIHILIST Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

••PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: SUNBORNE +

LAUREN GLEZER + DIET + BAILEY JONES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $7.00.

9:00pm. $20.00.

••ROUTE 61 & BRENDAN FORWARD Whole Lotta Love,

Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

••SHARROW + BATTLESICK + BLACK MAYDAY Tote

••PETER HEARNE & DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, ••PUGSLEY BUZZARD + ALEX YAROSH Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $15.00.

••STARR-SCHULZ & FRIENDS Open Studio, Northcote.

8:00pm.

Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY & THE

CONSPIRATORS + STEEL PANTHER Festival Hall, West

Melbourne. 8:00pm. $124.57.

••THE COURTNEYS + MANGELWURZEL + GOOD

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MORNING John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $20.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

••THE EAGLES Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $168.17.

••THIS WILD LIFE + CHASING GHOSTS Ding Dong

••ANDY COLLINS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.

••VICE PARTY - FEAT: EXEK + THE SHIFTERS + ASTRAL

••AROWE + ODEN + BRIAN EL DORADO & THE TUESDAY

••WILDCRAFT + EPITHETS + THE BOY WHO SPOKE

••BLUES JAM - FEAT: ANDY PHILLIPS AND THE

Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.

SKULLS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

CLOUDS + THE RIVER OF HEAVEN Public Bar, North

Melbourne. 8:00pm. $8.00.

••YOU & YOUR FRIENDS + SIREN SUNS + NINOX +

$20.00.

PEOPLE + DJ BRIAN EL DORADO Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

CADILLAC WALK + D.J. BARRY MAXWELL + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE HOUSE BAND Musicland,

Fawkner. 7:00pm.

CRAYON KING Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

••CYCLO TIMIK + CHALOUCHE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••DAVEY CRADDOCK + COEN DIXON Drunken Poet, West

••ZEX + HAVITTAJAT + SCAB EATER + SOMA COMA Old

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

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

••JASMINE & PIG Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

••JUDE PERL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

••JULIE O HARA & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm.

••MERLE STREET JAZZ BAND + BRETT FRANKE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $15.00.

8:30pm.

Melbourne. 8:00pm.

••MILLAR JUKES + ANDREW SWIFT + DAMON SMITH Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

••NICK ANDERSON Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••OPEN MIC The Wilde, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

••OPEN MIC Station 59, Richmond. 8:00pm.

••SALLY DASTEY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

••THE BELL ST DELAYS + DAN PARSONS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

••VAN WALKER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

FRIDAY FEB 27

••MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE SESSIONS The B.east,

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

••REMEMBER TOMORROW (AUSTRALIAN STRING

••CREPES + LEHMANN B SMITH + PURE MOODS +

Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

QUARTET) - FEAT: WILMA SMITH Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $76.00.

JEALOUS HUSBAND Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

9:00pm. $8.00.

••SALSA THURSDAYS - FEAT: DEL BARRIO La Chinesca,

••BLACK NIGHT CRASH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne

••SOUL IN THE BASEMENT - FEAT: THE SHACKMEN

••BROCKWAY LIGHTS + SUB ROSA + DROVA + PEG

Melbourne. 8:00pm.

+ DJ VINCE PEACH & PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar,

Cbd. 11:30pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

BUCKET Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••CHERRY BOMB European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd.

+ TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.

••CHET FAKER + ROLAND TINGS + GL Palais Theatre, St

••THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO 7:00pm.

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

••YAMAHA PIANO SERIES - FEAT: JOE CHINDAMO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.

How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad! How about fucking awesome? One of the most badarse events in Melbourne town is back for another huge day of kickarse music. Fronting the lineup are Gay Paris; the band too sweet for Satan and too hot for God that are literally burning though stages and venues around the country. Also on the day will be Colonel Vipers Whipstick Band, Sheriff, Sun God Replica, The Stiffys, My Left Boot, The Berkshire Hunting Club, Child, BJ Morriszonkle, Skyscraper Stan and a fuckload more. Get some tinnies inya. Two stages, no clashes. How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad! Festival goes down on Saturday February 28 at the John Curtin Hotel.

••THE PIGS The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.

••ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD + ABRASION +

BROOZER + THE RUINER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••SARAH MACLAINE & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.

••ANNEMARIE SHARRY’S MADAMSHAZZ Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00.

••BROOKLYN’S FINEST + DJ BRODIE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:30pm.

••BYRON & THE GYPSY CATS + DJ FLOYD THURSBY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

••CANNONBALL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

7:00pm. $20.00.

••BETWEEN THE BAYS - FEAT: JAMES REYNE + MARK

SEYMOUR + CUSTARD + WAGONS + SWEET JEAN + COMBO LA REVELACION + THE BILLABONG BOYS + INDIGENIOUS HIP HOP PROJECTS Penbank, Moorooduc.

2:00pm. $69.50.

••BREAK EVEN (I’D RATHER BE GIGGIN’ 2015) +

HOPELESS + ENDLESS HEIGHTS + POSTBLUE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $22.45.

••BREATHING SHRINE + GHOST GUMS + TAIPAN TIGER

GIRLS + TOP CAT DVD Public Bar, North Melbourne.

8:30pm. $10.00.

••BRING THE SWARM - FEAT: SPOONBILL + ANDREILEN

+ MR BILL + JPOD + GRIFF + MONKEYMARC The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $38.50.

••CHOOK RACE + THE PINK TILES + WET BLANKETS +

9:30pm.

••JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

Kilda. 7:00pm.

••LIVE JAZZ SUNDAYS Elephant & Castle Hotel, Geelong.

••DARK FAIR + OUCH MY FACE + CLAWS & ORGANS Old

••MIRIAM WAKS WITH JOE RUBERTO TRIO + JOE

••DEAD CITY RUINS + REDCOATS + THE BLACK ACES

••CHEV RISE + LANEWAVES Victoria Hotel, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

••DEADFALL + DIRTY RATS + DESERT EAGLES Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm. $10.00.

••DELTRON 3030 The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $64.50.

••DZ DEATHRAYS + BASS DRUM OF DEATH + HOCKEY

DAD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.00.

••EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + STONEAGE ROMEOS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

••FEED HER TO THE SHARKS + A BREACH OF SILENCE

+ JACK THE STRIPPER + THIS FIASCO + DRIVEN TO THE VERGE + ATLANTIC Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15.00.

••FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE - FEAT: SINGLE INCOME &

EASTWOOD REVINE Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $5.00.

8:00pm.

3:00pm.

RUBERTO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

••PBS DJS - FEAT: VINCE PEACH + JACK SPARROW +

SESSIONS + ROLLING PERPETUAL GROOVE SHOW + INVISIBLE DEARS 24 Moons, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••LUCIANBLOMKAMP + MARTIN KIN + GOOD MANNERS DJS Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.

••MASSIVE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.

••MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS + TWERPS Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $50.00.

••DZ DEATHRAYS (U18S) + BASS DRUM OF DEATH +

••VENETIAN FEAST OF FOOD & MUSIC - FEAT:

••FLOUR + GREEN TIN + THE SMB Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

GARSDEN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.00.

STEFANIA BELLAMIO + MASSIMO SCATTOLIN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.

Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $35.00.

••ANDY GRANT DUO European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

••ANGUS & JULIA STONE Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

••CASSETTE Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:30pm.

••CHRIS WILSON Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••CONTINENTAL ROBERTS’ BLUES PARTY Lomond Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••PAINT THE TOWN RED - FEAT: JUKAI FOREST +

CRIMSONETTES + THE CONCLUSIONS Tago Mago,

Thornbury. 8:00pm. $5.00.

••RICHARD IN YOUR MIND + MAGIC HANDS + ALYX

DENNISON Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••TAKE YOUR OWN + BLINDSPOT + JOE GUITON &

THE SUICIDE TUESDAYS + DEL LAGO + DREXLER 303,

Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••THE AQUABATS! + FOXTROT Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.

••THE EARS + FRAUDBAND + GO GO SAPIEN +

D-GRADES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••THE GATWICK HIGHLIFE + THE BRAVES + PLAGUE DOCTOR + ME-GRAINES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••THE HERE HERE HERE’S The B.east, Brunswick East.

9:00pm.

••THE LIZARDS + COFFIN WOLF + LUKE SEYMOUP

BAND + THE BEGGAR’S WAY Public Bar, North

Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.

HOCKEY DAD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 12:30pm.

$20.00.

5:00pm.

••FOO FIGHTERS (SONIC HIGHWAYS TOUR) + RISE

AGAINST Etihad Stadium, Docklands. 6:00pm. $98.73.

••GARETH LIDDIARD + ELA STILES AND JENSEN

TJHUNG Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $30.00.

••GARRY GRAY & THE SIXTH CIRCLE + MARILYN ROSE

& THE THORNS + WINTER SUN Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.

••GLEN & THE PEANUT BUTTERMEN + SHOCK WAVES

+ THE INTERCEPTORS + UNDERGROUND HOUND Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••HOW YA GARN? YEAH NOT BAD - FEAT: GAY

Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $33.00.

••HUNTER S THOMPSON 10TH ANNIVERSARY WAKE

FEE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

••EMPRA + BRIGHTER AT NIGHT + ABLAZE + DJ LUCY

ARUNDEL Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••SHANE HOWARD + ÁINE TYRRELL Flying Saucer Club,

+ THE APPROACH + CROOKED PATH Tote Hotel,

DAD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.00.

Brunswick. 9:30pm.

NEWTON Wyreena Comm Arts, Croydon. 7:30pm. $28.00.

••DRUNKEN POACHERS + STRUM REBELLION + DJ FEE

••OPPRESSOR + VICIOUS CYCLE + SICK MACHINE

Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00.

HYPERDRONES The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.

PARIS + COLONEL VIPERS WHIPSTICK BAND + GRINDHOUSE + SHERIFF + SUN GOD REPLICA + CHILD + SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE COMMISSION FLATS + THE SUGARCANES + THE STIFFYS + MADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS + MY LEFT BOOT + I AM DUCKEYE + GOATPISS GASOLINE + THE BERKSHIRE HUNTING CLUB + THE GATWICK HIGHLIFE + DANE CERTIFICATE’S MAGIC TRICKS + GAGS & THEATRE + THE DRUNKEN POACHERS + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + WILLOW DARLING John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 12:00pm.

••HUMAN FACE + THE IMPRINTS + MATT KELLY Grace

Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

••DAVID BLYTH + JAMIE ANDERSEN + MICHAEL

••MORPHEME + THE MIDNIGHT SOIL Whole Lotta Love,

WYLIE J Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

$10.00.

••THE PERFECTIONS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

••THE STEVE SEDERGREEN QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club,

••JED ROWE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

••JIM LAWRIE Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

••REUBEN STONE + MATSOMUTO ZOKU Penny Black,

••MELISSA JAMES BAND + WE ARE EXILE + 3SOME +

OF STORMS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 6:00pm.

••DZ DEATHRAYS + BASS DRUM OF DEATH + HOCKEY

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

••LOCAL SOUNDS - FEAT: LIVING EARTH SOUND

Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

••DEMOLITION SQUAD + BROOKLYN HOOKERS + DAY

••THE BITTER SWEETHEARTS + BIG SMOKE + ALEX

••GET SERIOUS Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm.

••JULES BOULT Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

••KILL DIRTY YOUTH + FIFTH FRIEND + BAD UNCLE +

8:30pm. $5.00.

Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••DR COLOSSUS + KING EVIL + SORDID ORDEAL +

••VINCE JONES & PAUL GRABOWSKY DUET Bennetts

SPIRAL ARM + ZUTROY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $10.00.

••LA BASTARD + THE BUFFALO CLUB The Luwow, Fitzroy.

SILVER MOON Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

JOE HAMLIN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.

••PUGSLEY BUZZARD + MICHAEL COOK Ruby’s Music

••GARETH LIDDIARD + ELA STILES AND JENSEN

TJHUNG Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $30.00.

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HOW YA GARN? YEAH NOT BAD!

••SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.

••STEVE LUCAS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm.

••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.

••THE FINKS + EMMA RUSSACK Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

8:30pm. $15.00.

••TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN

BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

SATURDAY FEB 28

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••5 BANDS IN ONE SHOW - FEAT: PURE BLONDE + KISS

THE VYPER + HOLY DIVER + IAIN ARCHIBALD BAND + MIDNIGHT ALIBI Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. $10.00.

••ABSOLUTELY LIVE - THE DOORS SHOW - FEAT: ABSOLUTELY LIVE DOORS SHOW Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $33.00.

••BANG - FEAT: YOUNG LIONS + AMETHYST CLOSE + TO

LIGHT ATLANTIS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.

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Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $15.00.

- FEAT: KIM VOLKMAN + BIGGSY + PADDY D + MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $12.00.

••JIM LAURIE + JESS RIBEIRO & BAND + BIG SMOKE Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••JUSTIN YAP BAND + BLACK & BLUE + RHIANNON

SIMPSON & THE DUELISTS Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••KING WOLF & GOATPISS GASOLINE Catfish, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

••LA BEATLES BOHEME Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 4:30pm. $34.70.

••LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

••MELBOURNE UKULELE KOLLECTIVE + MYSTERIOUS

MOSE Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 2:00pm.

••MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: CONOR

OBERST Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $60.00.

••MISS LIZZY & THE NIGHT OWLS The Luwow, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $5.00.

Thursday 26th @ 8.30pm

VAN WALKER & CO (Country roots)

Friday 27th @ 9.30 pm

JUSTIN YAP BAND BLUES, SOUL & FUNK SATURDAY 28TH FEBRUARY

FROM 7PM

THREE KINGS SUNDAY 29TH FEBRUARY

IAN COLLARD BENNY PETERS JASON LIU SOON FROM 5PM

DOUGY & WESTON BBQ ON THE ROOF TOP EVERY FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY ALL SUMMER

CONTINENTAL ROBERTS’ BLUES PARTY (Way up country)

Saturday 28th @ 9.30pm

ALI PENNEY & THE MONEY MAKERS (Honky-tonky R&B)

Sunday 1st @ 5.30 pm

BRENT PARLANE BAND (Alt-country songster)

Sunday 1st @ 9pm

THE STEVE MARTINS (Acoustic roots)

Tuesday 3rd @8pm

IRISH SESSION (Fancy fiddlin’)

ALL GIGS ARE FREE EXCELLENT RESTAURANT AND BAR MEALS

LOMOND HOTEL 225 NICHOLSON STREET BRUNSWICK EAST, VIC 3057 9380 1752

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Fri 27th February

6pm: Traditional Irish Session 8.30pm -

Jed Rowe 3pm - Kraken Folk Session 8.30pm - The Stetson Family Sun 1st March 4pm: Dan Warner 6.30pm: Harmony James Tues 3rd March 8pm: Weekly Trivia Sat 28th February

The Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au ••MURDER RATS + CYCLONE DIABLO + PUNCHING

PONIES Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••NICK FLETCHER Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm.

••ONCE WERE WILD (EP LAUNCH) + DAVY SIMONY + BEAUTIFUL BEAST Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.25.

••OUTFIELD Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

••PRYMAL + THE BALLS + AUSTRALIAN KINGWOOD

FACTORY Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00.

••RENDEZVOUS (NEW GODS VS. CHERRY DOLLS) FEAT: NEW GODS + THE CHERRY DOLLS + YOUNG HYSTERIA + THE TINY GIANTS + THE DELTA RIGGS DJ SET + FIRST LOVE DJS + RENDEZVOUS DJS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

••RICHARD IN YOUR MIND + SWOOPING DUCK +

PRETTY CITY + STACKHOUSE + PHIL PARA Espy, St

Kilda. 8:00pm.

VICTORIA WELSH MALE CHOIR Melbourne Recital

Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $46.00.

••STEVE SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. $25.00.

••THE BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB + SMALL TOWN

5:00pm.

••THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.

••THE GEORGIA BROOKS QUINTET Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

••THE JAMES FLYNN QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

••VARDOS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••VENETIAN FEAST OF FOOD & MUSIC - FEAT:

STEFANIA BELLAMIO + MASSIMO SCATTOLIN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 12:00pm.

••RIVER OF SNAKES + SPACEJUNK Bridge Hotel,

••VINCE JONES & PAUL GRABOWSKY DUET Bennetts

••ROCK FOR REYNOLDS - FEAT: ANIMUS + ANTIQUO

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15.00.

+ BUTCH PROSODY + BRICKS + CHEV RISE + DAMN THE DAWN + DAMN THAT RIVER + DOGGEREL + EEO + INCARCERATE + KEGGIN’ + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + LIEUTENANT JAM + LUNG + NIKO NIKO + PETER DICKEYBIRD + POISON FISH + PROLETARIAN RIOT + RICHARD FLETCHER + SARAH EIDA + STRAWBERRY FISTCAKE + THE BLEEDING FLARES + THE MOOPS + THE SOLICITORS + VISION ST + TINE & THE NO BOYS ALOUD + LIVING EARTH SOUND SESSIONS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm. $5.00.

••TAM VANTAGE + WHITE WALLS + BAD FAMILY + LEAH

SENIOR Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.00.

••THE GIANTS Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm. $10.00.

••THE MORDIALLOC FOOD WINE & MUSIC FESTIVAL - FEAT: KINGSWOOD + RUSSEL MORRIS Peter Scullin Reserve, Mordialloc. 12:00pm.

••THE SHEILAS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••THROTTLE The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm.

••WILD TURKEY + ALEXIS & THE MISSING PIECES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••ALLAN BROWNE QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

••CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT - FEAT: TAN DUN +

YINUO MU + BING BING WANG + ZHAO LEI + YUAN LI Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 6:30pm. $75.00.

••CULTURES OF CHINA (FESTIVAL OF SPRING) - FEAT:

LI NING Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

••DAVID REX QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

9:00pm. $20.00.

••GEORGE BORTHWICK TRIO Station 59, Richmond.

2:00pm.

Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $35.00.

••ACTION SAM European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

4:30pm. $30.80.

BUTCHER BABIES

Working in a shop constantly filled with little kids and babies really makes you not want to have kids.

Californian metal band Butcher Babies is fronted by mega babes Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey, who will most definitely change your mind. They’re kicking around Melbourne after their recent appearance at Soundwave and you can catch them at Cherry Bar this Wednesday February 25. Schwing!

+ AZURA’S OASIS + CHARM OF FINCHES + COBRA CULTURE + EMPAT LIMA + BYRON & THE GYPSY CATS + HORNS OF LEROY + SANTA TARANTA + MANGELWURZEL + THE BURNT SAUSAGE + TEK TEK ENSEMBLE + WESTSIDE CIRCUS + MORE Sydney Road Street Party Stages, Brunswick. 12:00pm.

••ALI PENNEY & THE MONEY MAKERS Lomond Hotel,

••THE FELICE BROTHERS + LOST RAGAS Toff In Town,

••BAKEHOUSE TUESDAY Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.

••THE LARGE NUMBER 12S Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North.

••BEN KELLY COLLECTIVE + DJ FRANCES WITH

••THE MORDIALLOC FOOD WINE & MUSIC FESTIVAL

Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

8:30pm.

WOLVES Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

••CHAIN Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $28.00.

••COLD IRONS BOUND + MICHAEL PLATER & THE EXIT

KEYS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••JUSTIN YAP BAND Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

••KRAKEN FOLK SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

3:00pm.

••LIZ STRINGER BAND + SUZANNAH ESPIE & THE LAST

WORD + MIDNIGHT HUNTING CREW Commonwealth Reserve, Williamstown. 2:00pm.

••MATT BORG TRIO + DJ JACINTA PARSONS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••SHANNON BOURNE BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

••SIDESHOW BRIDES Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 9:00pm.

••SPOONFUL Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••SUMMER SOUNDS - FEAT: LIZ STRINGER BAND +

SUZANNAH ESPIE & THE LAST WORD + MIDNIGHT HUNTING CREW Commonwealth Reserve, Williamstown.

2:00pm.

••SUZANNAH ESPIE & THE LAST WORD Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

••THE GROOVETONES Harts Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm.

••THE STETSON FAMILY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

9:00pm.

••VIC OLD TIME JAM SESSION - FEAT: CRAIG

WOODWARD + WARREN ROUGH Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

SUNDAY MAR 1

••LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE +

AFRICAN PARTY Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee.

THE COURTNEYS

ROMANCE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

••THE EAMON & DUDI PROJECT Open Studio, Northcote.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $47.00.

4:30pm.

- FEAT: LOUIS KING & THE LIARS KLUB + THE FAT TUESDAY ORCHESTRA Peter Scullin Reserve, Mordialloc.

12:00am.

••THE SUNDAY STONER SESH - FEAT: ZOMBIE

MOTORS WRECKING YARD + BROOZER + DR. COLOSSUS + DRIFTER + REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

••THE SURE SHOTS Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••THE SYDNEY RD STREET PARTY - FEAT: FLYYING COLOURS + RIFF FIST + THREE QUARTER BEAST + GRINDHOUSE BURIED FEATHER + DEVILMONKEY + THE EARLY OPENERS + CONTRAST + THE NEW POLLUTION FIFTH FRIEND + NIANDRA + STRAWBERRY FISTCAKE + LUNA GHOST + THE PEEKS ADMIRAL ACKBAR’S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE + DOGSDAY + THE GENERAL + RAD NAVAJO + WHERE’S GROVER? + DAN ATTARD + DANGER DJ Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

8:00pm. $70.29.

••MOZART IN PRAGUE - FEAT: STEFAN CASSOMENOS

+ MELBOURNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Melbourne

Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:30pm. $59.00.

••MOZART/SIBELIUS - FEAT: FLINDERS QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:30pm. $40.00.

••CHAIN Williamstown Rsl, Williamstown. 2:00pm.

••DZ DEATHRAYS + BASS DRUM OF DEATH + HOCKEY

••SYDNEY ROAD STREET FESTIVAL - FEAT: THE

••SLOW GRIND FEVER - FEAT: MOHAIR SLIM + DJS

RICHIE1250 + PIERRE BARONI Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

10:00pm. $5.00.

••ST DAVID’S DAY CELTIC CONCERT - FEAT: THE

$15.00.

••EZRA LEE Clare Castle Hotel, Port Melbourne. 8:00pm.

••I’D RATHER BE GIGGIN’ 2015 - FEAT: BREAK EVEN +

HOPELESS + ENDLESS HEIGHTS + POSTBLUE Phoenix

Youth Centre, Footscray. 7:30pm. $22.45.

••JAM THE FUNK + STAND & DELIVER 80’S TRIBUTE +

SUPERSOUNDS MIXTAPE Espy, St Kilda. 6:00pm.

••LA BEATLES BOHEME Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 4:30pm. $34.70.

••LOW RENT + COLD IRONS BOUND + OLD SMOKEY &

WANTED BANDS/ACTS WANTED for Espy Shows. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details DJ COMPANY SEEKING event managers, promoters, party organizers and djs for projects. Please text 0411 024 794 for a prompt reply.

NEW WAVE GUITARIST WANTED 0433 726 449 SERVICES SOUNDPARK REHEARSALS NORTHCOTE. From $50. Great rooms/p.a’s. Parking/Storage/Hire.

Phone Andrew 0425 706 382. Soundparkstudios.com.au MISSING RUBBA DUB DUB I’m missing my tub because three blokes ran off with it. I believe they were a butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker. wishiownedashower@ meatbreadcandles.com BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 44

THE RAVEN Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

••MENTAL AS ANYTHING Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick.

3:00pm. $30.00.

••MINIMUM WAGE SHOW - FEAT: BAD FAMILY +

MINING BOOM + ALOHA UNITS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

••MUSCLE CAR + CHINATOWN ANGEL + ROCKET

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

PEARLY SHELLS + ESSTEE BIG BAND + THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

12:00pm.

••SYDNEY ROAD STREET PARTY @ THE VIC - FEAT:

9:00pm.

••THE THREE KINGS + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $15.00.

••THREE KINGS + IAN COLLARD + BENNY PETERS +

JASON LIU SOON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••TIDAL MOONS + BARBARA JEFFERY Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

MONDAY MAR 2

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

••GLOBAL BATTLE OF THE BANDS - FEAT: VARIOUS

ARTISTS Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

••HORRIS GREEN + LEPERS & CROOKS + JARROW Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00.

••MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: LAFIDKI + FOOTY +

WATERHOUSE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC 7:00pm. $15.00.

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

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ••MONDAY NIGHT CAJUN DANCE PARTY - FEAT: THE

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••PUSH SONGS NIGHT Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

••THE MUTUAL APPRECIATION SOCIETY - FEAT: RUTH

LINDSEY + AMARINA WATERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

7:30pm.

TUESDAY MAR 3

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

THE SUGARCANES + THE ESCARGOT-GO’S + BJ MORRISZONKLE + THE SHABBAB + SAINT JUDE

••CAVALIER + HOARSE + UNION Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

••SHARON VAN ETTEN + TINY RUINS + HEATHER

••THE BUDDY LOVE JAZZ 6 Open Studio, Northcote.

5:00pm. $5.00.

••WINTER SUN + BRONWYN ADAMS + PHILIPPA SINGS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm. $5.00.

$6.00.

WOODS BRODERICK The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $53.50.

••THE HUNTED CROWS + DEAR THIEVES + GODS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

••DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote. 3:30pm.

••ABABCD FILMING - FEAT: REMI + FRASER A GORMAN

••BEN CARR TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••DEXTER’S ASIAN CONNECTION + OLIVIA QI Ruby’s

+ REPTILES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

••ACOUSTIC AVENUE Black Hatt, Geelong. 4:00pm.

••ACOUSTIC SESSION Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:30pm.

••ALL DAY FRITZ Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

••BANJO-B-QUE - FEAT: CRAIG WOODWARD The Mercat, Melbourne. 12:30pm.

QUEEN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

••PIMP MY MUF Bar Open, Fitzroy. 2:30pm.

••PORK CHOP PARTY Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm.

••SUNDAY SCHOOL - FEAT: CAVALIER + UNION + PUSSY JUICE Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.

••SYDNEY RD STREET PARTY @ THE RETREAT - FEAT: ADALITA + MODESTY + THE GUN BARREL STRAIGHTS + BACKWOOD CREATURES + GOATPISS GASOLINE + LARISSA TANDY + STRINE SINGERS + EATEN BY DOGS + DEN LETHERBRIDGE + JODY GALVIN Retreat

••BRENT PARLANE BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

••SYDNEY ROAD STREET PARTY - FEAT: MANNY FOX

••LUKE TOOZE Station 59, Richmond. 2:00pm.

Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm.

Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm.

••THE STEVE MARTINS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

••MOZART/SIBELIUS - FEAT: FLINDERS QUARTET

••MENINA FLOR 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••OLIVIA CHINDAMO QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club,

DAD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.00.

••ELK & MAMMOTH + HOLLOW HOUNDS + MALADAPTOR Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00.

••ESPY ARTIST SHOWDOWN Espy, St Kilda. 12:30pm.

BYRNE + SIMON PAPARO + ANNA CORDELL + NICK EVANGELOU Carters Bar, Northcote. 5:00pm.

••THE CARTRIDGE FAMILY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••THE SOOKI LALA’S BAND - FEAT: BEN KELLY COLLECTIVE + OPEN DECKS & OPEN MIC Sooki

••MOGWAI Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank.

••MUSICAL THEATRE OPEN MIC NIGHT Ruby’s Music

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00.

Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.

••SUNDAY SONGWRITERS - FEAT: JILLY.FM + THOMAS

••ALEX BUSTAMANTE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.

Northcote. 8:00pm.

••BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: SUMMER BLOOD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••RACHEL COX + GEORGIA MAQ Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.

••SIME NUGENT Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

••STEPHEN CUMMINGS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:30pm.

••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky

••AME TOURMENTEE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

••FOLK-JAZZ-WORLD - FEAT: STAV Open Studio,

••MAREK’S JAZZ EXPRESS + JOHNNY LOVE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.

I saw Jupiter Ascending earlier this week. For those of you who don’t know it’s a new sci-fi with Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum. So you’d expect a far out war and some pretty sexy sex scenes right? Wrong. Canadian fuzzy slacker pop trio, The Courtneys have just dropped the video clip to their Lost Boys/Mars Attacks 7-inch alt A-side banger, Mars Attacks. It is undoubtedly beautiful, sexy sci-fi pop for your ears. You can catch the dream team that is The Courtneys at the John Curtin Hotel this Thursday February 26.

5:30pm.

••BRIAN NANKERVIS & MEMBERS OF THE ROCKWIZ

ORKESTRA Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $15.00.

••EARS WIDE OPEN 1 - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY

ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $25.00.

••ELISSA RODGER SEXTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

8:00pm. $14.00.

••KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

••ON WENLOCK EDGE - FEAT: ANDREW GOODWIN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

$30.00.

••ASH & BLOOM Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

4:00pm.

••CHRIS PICKERING & EMMA SWIFT Yarra Hotel,

••CHRIS WILSON Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne.

••DAN DINNEN TRIO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

••GRETA ZILLER Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

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

••JAMESON JEROBOAM JAMBOREE The Beaufort, Carlton. 8:00pm.

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Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

••IRISH SESSIONS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

••MITCH POWER + ALISON FERRIER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

••SHOVELS & ROPE + SHAKEY GRAVES Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:30pm. $49.50.

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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

THREE STRIKES PROPOSED IN DRAFT CODE

Australia’s ISPs and content owners raced to come up with a voluntary code to address online piracy by last Friday. That was the deadline given by the Federal Government or else put up with its own regulations.

Both decided that the most effective way was to introduce a three-strikes approach, where someone accused of illegal downloading would be warned three times. Then their data would be handed over to rights holders and they could be sued.

The voluntary code will be followed by 30 days of public discussion, and an approval by the Australian Communications and Media Authority by Tuesday September 1.

UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING INKS ONE ABOVE

Universal Music Publishing Australia signed multiplatinum producer and songwriter One Above (aka Andrew Burford) to a global deal. Best known as co-writer and keyboard player with Hilltop Hoods (including three x platinum single I Love It and three on Walking Under Stars) he also co-wrote and produced for Illy (Heard It All which just went gold), Sia, Allday and Chance Waters and currently working with Drapht, Pez and Kylie Auldist.

CHANNEL 31 LAUNCHING THE MUSICIAN SPEAKS

Channel 31 (or Digital 44) has a new Monday night show from 7.30 pm called The Musician Speaks.

Arriving on March 2, the six-part series is created, produced and hosted by jazz singer Jade Leonard. It showcases acts in a lounge room situation, with the first season featuring jazz pianist Joe Chindamo, guitarist and tutor Doug DeVries, electro groove Cocoa Noire, award-winning soprano Kathryn Radcliffe, folk pop band Forest Falls and jazz soul singer/songwriter Arowe.

FINALISTS FOR PUSH START BATTLE OF THE BANDS

The nine finalists for the FReeZa Push Start Battle of the Bands have been announced, with the winner going for the grand prize of $11,000. They play at the Moomba Festival’s Push Stage at The Green between 1pm to 5.45 pm. The nine are A-Ron & J.Jay (Craigieburn), The Bean Project (Upway), Ember Rain (Melton), The Evercold (Narre Warren), The Flats (Wellington), Horris Green (Ballarat), The Quick and The Dead (Wangaratta), Requiem (Horsham) and Revolution (Golden Plains). See beat. com.au for more.

SCORCHER FEST INCORPORATES LIVE RECORDINGS

After introducing online tickets to remove upfront costs to acts, this year’s Scorcher Fest is offering the option to apply to have a live recording of their set via www.scorcherfest.com.au. In another move, YHA backpackers in each state will receive 100 free tickets.

The Melbourne show on Sunday April 26 is at its longtime home, The Brunswick.

TEMPER TRAP TO SUE OVER CIGARETTE AD?

The Temper Trap’s management called in lawyers alleging that cigarette company Philip Morris International used a track on their global Don’t Be A Maybe campaign that sounded similar to their 2008 hit Sweet Disposition. “We are disgusted by this blatant rip-off of the band’s music and it’s currently in the hands of our legal team,” they said. The ad, depicting young folks having fun, was banned in some countries for targeting a younger demographic.

RED BULL ACADEMY ROUND UP

Red Bull Music Academy’s takeover of Studios 301 Sydney saw the likes of Flight Facilities, Seekae, Touch Sensitive, Vic Mensa, Izzi Manfredi of The Preatures, Nina Las Vegas and Jono Ma of Jagwar Ma get involved in collaborations, Q&As recordings and workshops. It was held to mark the application phase for the 17th Red Bull Music Academy in Paris this year. Highlights included Q&A with Goodgod Small Club’s Jimmy Sing and Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo alumni Lewis Cancut, Mark Maxwell and Summer Disbray as well as FBi broadcasting sets from Touch Sensitive, DREEMS and Jensen Interceptor, Michael di Francesco (Touch Sensitive) and Lorna Clarkson on the broadcast of music, while Warp Records’ Aussie-based English electronic producer Mark Pritchard’s hands-on production workshop included the use of a metal saw as a musical instrument.

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UNFD, SPUNK, SIGN NZ ACTS

UNFD have signed Antagonist A.D, releasing their fourth album Haunt Me As I Roam in late March.

Architects’ Sam Carter, The Amity Affliction’s Ahren Stringer, Deez Nuts’ JJ Peters and Comeback Kid’s Andrew Neufeld contribute vocals, with former Amity guitarist Troy Brady, The Ghost Inside’s Aaron Brooks and producer Will Putney working the desk.

Spunk’s latest signing is Nadia Reid, who grew up in folk clubs and the indie scene of Dunedin and Christchurch. Her debut album Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs is out Friday March 27, preceded by some Australian shows.

THINGS WE HEAR

• Which association is being wracked with divisions due to the abrasive style of its new leader?

• Who was the musician who copped a $354 fine after he was caught veering over the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne while he was playing his trumpet?

• Why didn’t Zayn Malik finish One Direction’s final Aussie show in Perth?

• After tweeting Adelaide was off the schedule in future Soundwaves due to low sales (12,000), AJ Maddah in other tweets reckoned that a) Soundwave will revert to one-show-per-city in 2016; and b) when Big Day Out returns it would only play Auckland and the Australian east coast.

• At the NME awards where Kasabian took best band, worst band went to 5 Seconds of Summer, against nominees The 1975, One Direction, U2 and Bastille.

5SOS guitarist Michael Clifford said he was “so damn happy right now. thx to everyone who voted” and retweeted a link to the article.

• A man in the US raised over $18,000 for charity in the ultimate test of human endurance – promising to listen to Nickleback 24/7 for an entire week.

• Flume has quit his successful What So Not side project with Emoh Instead.

• Illy’s currently on his first tour through Canada.

• triple j’s One Night Stand will take a break in 2015 as they’re too busy with 40th-anniversary events.

• Cypress Hill’s B Real is opening a medical marijuana dispensary in California (he won a lottery from 630 applicants) and wants to have sets in it by prolegalisation names as Snoop Dogg and 2 Chainz. B Real recently took third prize for “best sativa flower” in the Cannabis Cup in San Bernardino.

• After Kanye West’s Grammys stage invasion Steel Panther posted a ditty online describing Ye’s music as “sounds like hamster turds,” “a donkey fart,” and “Beck should kick you in the nuts with steel-toed boots to make it right.”

• Timomatic has reverted to his birth name Tim Omaji, releasing his next single Something Bout You on Sunday March 8 through Sony under that name.

• Cradle Of Filth’s t-shirt featuring a nun masturbating on the cover and ‘Jesus Is A Cunt’ on the back, was banned in New Zealand in 2008. But it was included in an exhibition called T-shirts Unfolding at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch. A lobby group Family First tried to get it removed, and a woman attacked the t-shirt but was thrown out before she could damage it.

WANNA WORK AT CREATIVE VICTORIA?

Creative Victoria is looking for a Manager of Contemporary Music. Creative Victoria is the State Government funding and advisory body dedicated to supporting, championing and growing Victoria’s creative industries – music, arts, culture, screen and design. Deadline is Sunday March 1, job duration is four years, salary between $85,215 - $103,103. See jobs.careers.vic.gov.au.

SYDONIA HEADING TO CANADA WITH POZIBLE CAMPAIGN

To get to showcase at Canadian Music Week in May before North American music biz heavyweights, Melbourne’s Sydonia has started a Pozible campaign (www.pozible.com/project/190985). It will cover airfare, and accommodation for five, van hire and a PR company to lift their profile. Any money left will go into recording their third album, which they’ll record in August and which they preview on their March/ April Australian tour.

PIERCE BROS SIGN UK/EUROPEAN DEAL

Melbourne duo The Pierce Brothers plan to spend more time in Europe, following the signing of a UK and Europe deal with Sony Music Netherlands through the RCA imprint. They’re already booked for two club shows in London in May. They release a second EP this year, produced with Jan Skubiszewski, following their first which sold 40,000 copies.

STREET | LIFE EXHIBITION

Multicultural Arts Victoria is staging Street | Life exhibition from Friday March 6 to Thursday 19 at Space@Collins. It’s part of a multi-media project and presentations that also staged in Indonesia, and which it developed with Australia’s Cake Industries (Jesse Stevens and Dean Petersen) and Indonesian artists Bimo Suryojati and Altiyanto Henryawan RM. See multiculturalarts.com.au.

NEW FESTIVAL FOR BALLARAT

The inaugural circus, theatre and music World Sideshow Festival is staged in Ballarat on Thursday May 21 to Saturday May 23 at the Mechanics Institute. It is produced by Shep Huntly, who performed in Ballarat before touring internationally for 20 years including 17 Edinburgh Festivals. Another international performer from Ballarat, Patrick Bath, brings his show The Dark Party in the old hometown.

JOY LAUNCHES CENTRE STAGE COMP

JOY FM’s Centre Stage is a short-play competition focusing on any and all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer issues. Ten finalists will record and be voted for by the station’s 329,000 listeners, with the four winners recorded and filmed over a weekend and getting $500 each. See joy.org.au.

INDIES PISSED WITH SAMSUNG’S MILK MUSIC DEAL

Last week’s arrival of Samsung’s radio streaming service Milk Music has got the thumbs-down from the indie sector. Charles Caldas, of London-based independents’ digital rights agency Merlin, told Billboard that Milk Music’s initial range of content did not include those from larger indie labels. “Given the success our labels have enjoyed in the Australian market, I’m sure Australian consumers will notice that, and be disappointed at their absence.”

• Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk sold one million copies in the UK. • The Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival drew 5000 over four days.

SCA’S NEW DIGITAL & INNOVATION HEAD

• When the original lyric sheet to Don McLean’s American Pie goes for auction in New York in April, McLean will attend and reveal the meaning of its lyrics. Bob Dylan’s lyrics for Like A Rolling Stone set the auction record for a handwritten manuscript, when they sold for $2 million last year.

• Alice Cooper, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and Johnny Depp will play as Hollywood Vampires at Brazil’s Rock In Rio festival in September.

Split: Fifty Shades of Grey actress Dakota Johnson and singer guitarist Matthew Hitt of New York band Drowners, apparently because her life was getting hectic after the movie and he didn’t want to be part of it.

Recovering: Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey was hit by a car while loading for a show in Austin, Texas. He was treated for rib and wrist injuries and got ten stitches to the head.

Recovering: Eyehategod revealed they cancelled their Australian tour because of concerns about the mental health of frontman Mike IX Williams.

Recovering: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson after treatment for tongue cancer.

Recovering: Subways drummer Josh Morgan temporarily left the band as he battles Asperger’s Syndrome.

Hospitalised: US jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, 94, due to advanced diabetes.

Arrested: US rapper Afroman for punching a female fan who ran onstage behind him and started to dance with him, at a show in Biloxi, Mississippi.

In Court: former US concert promoter Jack Utsick, who ran Worldwide Entertainment, pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges in an alleged $300 million fraud scheme.

Arrested: Vanilla Ice in Lantana, Florida for allegedly stealing furniture, a pool heater, bikes and other items from an empty home, where he was shooting his TV home-renovation show The Vanilla Ice Project.

Died: US singer/songwriter Lesley Gore, cancer, 68. Her ‘60s hits It’s My Party, Judy’s Turn to Cry and You Don’t Own Me gave voice to a generation of angst-ridden teenage girls.

Died: UK singer/songwriter Gavin Clark, collaborator with Unkle, Sunhouse and Clayhill.

Died: Nicki Minaj’s tour manager De’Von Pickett, 29, after a brawl in a bar in Philadelphia where she was rehearsing for a tour.

GIG BUDDIES LAUNCHED

Gig Buddies is an admirable new initiative launched in Sydney this month. It’s about volunteering to take people with learning difficulties to gigs and to enjoy themselves. Most support workers clock off at 9pm, which obviously creates a problem with gigs. See www.gigbuddiessydney.org.

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REECE MASTIN JOINS SOCIAL FAMILY

Reece Mastin, whose 2011 win of The X-Factor led to two platinum #1 albums and three #1 singles, has gone the indie route. He signed with Social Family Records, with a new EP and album in coming months. “They’re really lovely people and are so supportive of my new music,” he said. SFR CEO Jake Challenor admitted, “We’ve been genuine fans for a long time.”

• Katie Noonan’s PledgeMusic campaign for new EP Peace Is My Drug reached its target in 48 hours. It quickly reached 152 per cent with 133 days left.

LIFELINES

Southern Cross Austereo’s new Director of Digital and Innovation, Vijay Solanki, starts in May. He launched Shazam, helped NME.com and BlackBerry grow digital customers, and is currently Senior Director of Global Digital Innovation at Philips in Amsterdam.

His brief is to grow SCA’s digital space, including strategy, innovation, digital partnerships and data analytics.

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HILLTOPS 3 X PLATINUM, SULTAN GOLD

Hilltop Hoods’ Cosby Sweater landed its third platinum (sales of 210,000) while Dan Sultan’s ARIA-winning Blackbird album went gold. Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk is five x platinum and Hozier’s Take Me To Church three x platinum. Picking up their first platinum were Rihanna, Paul McCartney & Kanye West’s Fourfiveseconds, Meghan Trainor’s Dear Future Husband, Ariana Grande’s Love Me Harder and Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne’s Real Love. Maroon 5’s Sugar (their eighth Top Ten in Oz) went gold.