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SETH SENTRY The Australian lyrical larrikin recently dropped his new single Hell Boy from his forthcoming album Strange New Past and is now heading out on his biggest tour ever, playing a whopping 45 shows across the country. The ARIA charting artist will be hitting regional Victoria for a series of shows once his album drops on June 5, before finally wrapping up with a show at The Forum on Friday September 4. Get your tickets from sethsentry.com.au now, this one’s set to be one of this year’s biggest Australian hip hop tours.
Garage rockers Food Court will be heading out on a headlining tour. The Sydney quartet have been making a name for themselves, playing alongside Kingswood, The Delta Riggs and UK’s Catfish and The Bottlemen. With their singles 14 Years Young and On The River added to high rotation on triple j, Food Court will be gearing up for their tour by supporting Courtney Barnett and Peace. Food Court will play at The Gasometer Hotel on Friday June 26. Tickets available from the venue.
California punk band The Story So Far are joining forces with Man Overboard for their Supply Australia tour this September. The shows will be hot on the heels of their May 22 release of self titled album The Story So Far, and is expected to feature songs spanning the 2011 debut, to their later releases. Joining the US artists will be Melbourne rockers Apart From This. Two Melbourne shows will be held on Thursday September 10 at Arrows on Swanston, and Friday September 11 at Max Watt’s. Tickets are available from Destroy All Lines.
C AT-PI R AT E Brand new band Cat-Pirate are all warmed up and ready to bring their new sound to High Street Northcote. Hailing from the folk/punk/pop side of the tracks this Melbourne based band has a wealth of new material to share with the lucky listener. Catch them on Saturday May 16 at Open Studio, where they'll share the stage with Rosenstein, the gypsy trio featuring Jhana Allen of The Woohoo Review. Doors open at 8.45pm and it’s just a sweet $5 for the two.
THE TELEVISION ADDICTS On August 9, 2014 legendary Perth punk band The Victims were temporarily reincarnated in the guise of The Television Addicts, playing a one-off gig at The Rosemount Hotel in North Perth. Founding Victims members James Baker and Dave (“Flick”) Faulkner were joined on stage by lifelong Victims fan Ray Ahn and the trio proceeded to belt out a set of classic Victims tunes, most of which had not been heard since the band broke up in mid-1978. The trio has since played a couple more shows and are geared up to smash out a set at The Tote on Friday July 17. Get your tickets from oztix.com.au.
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The WAM Song of The Year winner will be embarking on a national tour as she leads up to the release of a new EP. The tour will give audiences the first taste of her unreleased material, complete with a new set of live visuals. It has been a big year for the electro queen, who has been cutting her teeth supporting George Maple, Clark, SAFIA and landing a set at Laneway Festival. KUČKA will be playing at Hugs & Kisses on Saturday June 6.
WICK STUDIOS Brunswick’s newest music hub Wick Studios is set to open its doors on Sunday May 17, with an opening ceremony officiated by The Hon Jane Garrett, State Member for Brunswick, and Cr Meghan Hopper, Mayor of Moreland. The opening ceremony will be followed by a huge free outdoor celebration from 2pm with food, drink and live music that all are welcome to attend. The launch party will include an afternoon of live music from a wide range of independent Melbourne artists, including Ella Hooper, Mojo Juju, Shaun Kirk, Oscar Bublé and the Butterboys, Eleven, The Seaford Monster, Sub Rosa and My Echo. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 12
ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS The frontman of seminal acts Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin has returned with a new band, gearing up to perform songs from his critically acclaimed solo release, alongside favourites from Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate. After beating cancer, selling out shows the world over, getting married and recieving an Emmy nomination, the singer/songwriter has spent the better part of a decade recovering and is now ready to take his show to Melbourne where he’ll play a show on Sunday August 23 at 170 Russell to his dedicated fan base. Tickets are available from 170russell.com.
NIGHTWISH Having charted at #16 on the ARIA charts with their latest release Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Finland’s Nightwish will be taking their internationally acclaimed symphonic metal to Australian shores to play a single show at The Forum, performing their classic and fan favourite tracks along with songs from the new album. Boasting impressive guitar work, a stunning vocal range and the curiosity of atmospheric pipe work in the background, be sure to get your tickets from metalobsession.net for their show on Monday January 11 when they arrive next year.
JAPANESE WALLPAPER The electronic wunderkind will celebrate his debut EP with a final show before he hits the books in the lead up to his last high school exams. After starting Japanese Wallpaper at only 13-yearsold, Gab Strum has been going from strength to strength. The past few years have seen him land a single in the Hottest 100 and collaborate with Wafia, Airling and Dustin Tebbutt. His brand new solo show will feature guest vocalists and a new collection of visuals. Japanese Wallpaper will play at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE While in the country as part of Splendour In The Grass, Death Cab For Cutie have announced they will play a full run of national headline shows throughout July and August. Their last Australian appearance was back in 2012, when they toured in support of their Grammy-nominated album Codes and Keys. Now they are back with their eighth studio album Kintsugi, playing shows in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Wollongong, Canberra and at the Sydney Opera House. Death Cab For Cutie will take over 170 Russell on Sunday July 26. Tickets are on sale through the venue.
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NEPAL EARTHQUAKE BENEFIT GIG Some of the area’s biggest names in alt-country and folk will take the stage to raise money for victims of the Nepal earthquake. The lineup for the night includes Jemma & The Clifton Hillbillies, Chris Pickering, Brooke Russell & The Mean Reds, Lincoln Le Fevre, Charm of Finces, Jules Douglas and DJ Fee Fee Star. All proceeds raised will go directly to the Australian Red Cross Nepal Region Earthquake Appeal. The organisation is on the ground responding to issues resulting from the devastating earthquake on Saturday April 25 which left hundreds of thousands homeless and without proper sanitation, water and medical assistance. Help make a difference on Friday May 15 at the Yarra Hotel. Recommended donations on the door range from $10-15. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14
Xavier Rudd & The United Nations have just announced a monster Australian tour hot off the back of their appearance at Splendour In The Grass this July in celebration of the release of Flag, the passionate second single from their acclaimed debut album, Nanna. After their sold-out national tour in March, Xavier Rudd and The United Nations have become a tour de force, consistently proving themselves to be one of the best live bands in the world with their global sound and eight piece international band. The tour will take place throughout August, September and October with 35 dates across all states. Catch them at the Palais Theatre on Friday September 11. Tickets are on sale now at www.xavierrudd.com
Admit it. At least once you’ve imagined Australia’s superstar Daniel MacPherson sci-fying the fuck outta life. No? That was just us? Ok... well, the new Australian sci-fi film Infini will showcase MacPherson in a way you’ve never seen before. He’s spaced out to the max, man. So, to celebrate the digital release of Infini, we’ve managed to snag a sci-fi DVD pack to give away, which’ll include a copy of Skyline, Europa Report and Source Code. Nice, hey? Go on then, you know what to do. Hit up beat.com.au/freeshit to go in the running to win.
UB40 Iconic reggae troupe UB40 are coming to Australia. With a career that spans almost 40 years, the UK’s most successful reggae band have sold over 100 million records and had over 40 hit singles, as well as receiving five star reviews for their latest album Getting Over The Storm. Now they’re hitting Australia for the first time with new lead vocalist Duncan Campbell for a rehash of their greatest hits. Catch the gang in Melbourne on Tuesday November 24 at The Forum. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.
NGAIIRE After vanishing into thin air after Glastonbury, leaving a two year gap between her critically acclaimed debut album Lamentations and now, Ngaiire is returning to drop her second album Blastoma, co-written with Megan Washington and produced by Paul Mac. The album captures the essence of running towards the unknown, surrendering to a moment and having nothing left to lose, covering themes of fear and risk taking. She’ll be playing an exclusive show at Howler to premiere tracks from the new album on Wednesday May 27, so get your tickets from moshtix.com.au as she delves into the next stage of her career.
THEM BRUINS Tuesdays are about to get a whole lot sweeter. Following an east coast tour in support of their new single, Walk A Line, Melbourne boys Them Bruins have locked in a Cherry Bar residency. Each Tuesday, fans can expect to hear the psych-rockers tease songs from their forthcoming debut album, as well as the older tracks which have thrust them into the international spotlight. They’ll play Cherry Bar every Tuesday this month with a new guest each week. Entry is free.
PASSION PIT After releasing their third album Kindred last month, Passion Pit has made a triumphant return to the indie pop scene and is announcing a tour along the east coast to support the release of their new album. Since releasing the critically acclaimed debut album Manners in 2009, Passion Pit has garnered widespread recognition for a joyous and unique songwriting talent, which transfers perfectly to an eager live audience. They’ll be playing a show at The Forum on Friday August 21 – scoop up your tickets from ticketmaster.com while they last.
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HERMITUDE BUZZING T HROUGH T HE NIGHT By Adam Norris Despite hordes of fans and a rigorous touring schedule, Hermitude is a rather appropriate name for the electronic duo. While some musicians prefer to have streams of people in and out of the studio, wheeling in ideas and impressions by the barrowful, Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart are much more content sealing themselves away to see what they can conjure on their own. Indeed, much of their time lately has been spent in what sounds suspiciously like a fallout shelter in Sydney, pulling together a record so exciting that even Dubber himself sounds a little surprised. But then, part of their ethos has always been to toss a tune in the air and see what comes down.
“For a long time there we were kind of fumbling around in the dark,” Dubber reflects. He is a speaker who commands your full attention; while his words are clear, the man talks a mile a minute. “We’d finished recording HyperParadise and finished touring, and it’s an exciting time. You’re not really sure what you’re going to do next, you’re free with an open canvas. So you come in and dick around, which is all good and fun, but at some point you start thinking you need to lock down what the record is going to be, and it gets kind of tricky to navigate through the endless ideas that are in your head. “You eventually get to a point where you say, ‘Right, we want the record to sound like…’” he considers, “bacon sizzling, or chicken sandwiches. It doesn’t matter what it is, it just has to be a direction you can steer the ship towards. I think we found that direction maybe a year or so after mucking around. Once we found that, the songs started forming a lot quicker. But it can always work in various ways. Sometimes you come in with a really simple idea of what you want to do and you do the opposite. Sometimes the idea reveals itself to you, and sometimes you have to be dictating it all from the beginning. This one was a lot of experimenting and out of that came a couple of tracks that made us want to follow that direction, and so that’s what we did. From there it all just started to happen.” While Hermitude’s new album Dark Night Sweet Light comes out this weekend, fans who caught them on the recent Groovin the Moo tour got an early taste of the record’s shape and sound. Already Dubber and Stuart are rehearsing for their national headline tour in June, piecing together a set that conveys a broader sense of their music than festival time limits permit. It also allows for a certain level of freedom on stage. “The first headline tour off a record is always fun,” says Dubber, “because you don’t know what people want because nobody has heard the record. So at this point we’re kind of just doing whatever we want. We’re going to play as much material as we can off the record and try to piece it together in a way that it flows. It feels like it flows naturally, but we have to keep in mind the kind of reputation we’ve earned over the few years since HyperParadise, which is for quite a high-energy set. The headline show will probably be a little more dynamic, and gives us the opportunity to do some of the quiet ones as well – to take the time to take people on a bit of a journey. We’re trying to organise some improvised moments into the set as well, where we don’t really have a set structure. We’ll go in and just psych out on some crazy sounds. We want it to be an interesting set, but have enough of everything to keep everyone happy. Have some full banging segments, and some chilled stuff.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
Whatever the shape of their sets, it’ll be a welcome break in the drought for Hermitude fans the world over. HyperParadise dropped at the start of 2012, after a four-year break. Dark Night Sweet Light arrives just over three years later and it draws on all of the experience that comes with touring, recording, and perhaps most importantly, the recognition of when to scrap something. Dubber suspects there are hundreds of unreleased fledgling Hermitude songs and cast-aside beats; tracks that could never find their feet or were cannibalised into something larger.
“YOU GO INTO THE FOLDER, LISTEN TO OLD SONGS AND BE TRANSPORTED INTO WHATEVER HEAD-SPACE YOU WERE IN THAT DAY. AND YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ALWAYS A COUPLE OF GOOD ONES. A HANDFUL WHO WERE CLOSE CONTENDERS, AND THEN A WHOLE BUNCH OF WHAT THE FUCK WERE WE THINKING” “It’s good to write as much as you can, even if you’re away,” he says. “HyperParadise was written entirely in Sydney. It had been around four years since the last record, so we were long off the radar. But this latest period has been the real test. It’s not like you have to write a masterpiece in the back of a van – or at least, it wasn’t for us,” he laughs. “We kind of just start something, and there might be some little spark in a bunch of rubbish. A song might not be that exciting, but ‘hey, that bass line is kind of cool’, or ‘that drum pattern there is exciting’. Sometimes on those days when you come into the studio – and we’re coming in five days a week to write – everyday you’re digging for creativity. Sometimes if you’re feeling flat, you can go back to those moments in the van when you wrote some weird beat and think, ‘Hey, there’s something in that’.” For budding songwriters, this is simple advice to hear, but much harder to put into practice. Creating anything from scratch must be a labour of love, but for Hermitude, the focus is on the labour; every day, sifting
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streams until they find the gold (or get mistaken for trout by a hungry bear, but that’s stretching the analogy past breaking point). Create until your fingers are raw and don’t stop until you hear Armageddon. “These days, everything is pretty much written in the box, so to speak,” Dubber says. “All in the computer. So there’s not a great deal of live recording with our records. We might do some live percussion, but it’s pretty minimal. Physically, the vibe of the room, the feng shui or whatever you want to call it, definitely has an effect. The HyperParadise studio was on Parramatta Road, which is such a busy place, and every time a semi-trailer went past, which was every fucking thirty seconds, the whole room would vibrate. So you kind of got used to that vibe. Now we’re in this Glebe studio, which is like a bunker, fully soundproofed. There could be an apocalypse outside and we’d have no idea. But there’s also a lot of history to this room, it’s been around a lot of years, so there’s an energy. A lot of bands have recorded in here. So I think that stuff can have a subliminal, residual effect on our music.” It’s too soon to speculate about where Hermitude might move from here. In truth, they don’t seem to have a clear idea themselves, but that’s all part of the thrill. Though, in two years time, once the album is released and the tour concluded, who knows? There are, after all, those hundreds of half-songs still floating around, crying out for assembly. “We just listened to a few of them the other day,” Dubber says. “You go into the folder, listen to old songs and be transported into whatever head-space you were in that day. And you know, there are always a couple of good ones. A handful who were close contenders, and then a whole bunch of what the fuck were we thinking. There’s definitely some there that we’ll do something with at some stage. We’ve already thrown out a lot of them already. It’s a bit like hoarding in a way. Every so often you have to empty out the hard drive and ditch all of these weird and random things you’ve been holding onto. But there’s definitely some close-calls there, or songs that just weren’t suited to a particular record. Maybe they’ll be resurrected. One day.”
HERMITUDE’s new album Dark Night Sweet Light is out this Friday May 15, via Elefant Traks. The Sydney duo are heading down for two shows at 170 Russell, on Friday June 19 and Sunday June 21.
This Week:
The Melbourne Theatre Company will explore IVF in a new light in The Waiting Room. Written by Kylie Trounson, the production celebrates the development of IVF in Melbourne from a unique perspective. Trounson’s father made a breakthrough in fertility research in the 1970s, spawning controversy about whether he was a hero or a mad scientist playing God. The Waiting Room was first performed to a huge response as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2014 Cybec Electric play readings. See it on the mainstage when The Waiting Room runs from Friday May 15 to Saturday June 27 at Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio. Footscray’s Nicholson Street will play host to Emerge in the West this weekend. The festival will feature music, art, fashion, dance, circus and spoken word, set across two stages, with performances by The Lalibelas, Nhatty Man, SKAAKI, Raw Elements, Somali Peace Band, Jazmaris and Royalty Noise. There will also be a fashion show coordinated by Vissolela, craft workshops, food and drinks, dance performances and a range of stalls. Emerge in the West 2015 will take place on Saturday May 16.
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Fluvial By Liza Dezfouli Beat has a chat to composer Matthias Schack-Arnott about his work Fluvial, a sound performance coming up at the Arts House. Hearing Schack-Arnott, who’s recently won a Green Room award for this work, speak about Fluvial is like listening to a poet. The ideas for the piece came from a dreamlike image that stayed in his mind. “I had this absurd visual picture, which triggered the idea, and it stayed with me – of rippling metallic waves of percussion, of taking metal objects and turning them into liquid, sonically.” Fluvial takes inspiration from tidal movement, Schack-Arnott explains. “It’s impressionistic, an abstraction of hydraulic movements, the idea of currents in water, tides and currents, expressed with solid materials like metal, granite and glass. The original impulse of Fluvial was to create a glittery metallic river of percussion, and then it spiralled out of control! It’s a polyphonic cacophony of shimmering metal – music from some strange kind of animal you’ve never heard of.” Although Fluvial is described as being a performance of one soloist engaging with one large-scale kinetic percussive instrument, the sounds are actually created by 100 different objects forming one percussive whole.
“Some are glass bottles; there are aluminium tubes, brass plates,” continues its creator. “The metal objects hover above 1.5 metre pools of water and their pitch is changed as they dip into the water. The aluminium
SHIT The Alma De Groen classic The Rivers of China will return to the stage this week. The performance follows the story of a woman with tuberculosis, an alternative dimension where women reign supreme, and a suicidal young man whose identity is reconstructed. See The Rivers of China at Theatre Works in St Kilda from Tuesday May 20 to Saturday May 30.
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Arts House will present Tamara Saulwick’s homage to loved ones no longer living in Endings, this week. Developed as part of Arts House CultureLAB, Endings is part chamber concert and part performance work that explores the experiences – both ordinary and extraordinary – that cluster around death, dying and afterlife. Tamara Saulwick employs portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live performance in a moving meditation on cycles and the ending of things. Endings premiered at Sydney Festival 2015, and is built, in part, from one-on-one interviews-real people’s stories, reflections and voices that are cut onto vinyl records-operated, accompanied and extended through live performance and song. Endings opens at Arts House on Wednesday May 13.
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Beat has a chat to Martina Murray, a producer at the Melbourne Theatre Company, about the third NEON Festival of Independent Theatre, which sees productions of five works of theatre by independent companies or artists take to the mainstage alongside a host of other activities such as readings and workshops. “The world of indie theatre is close to my heart,” says Murray. “It’s where I come from.” Choosing which companies will participate is a vast process, she says. “Like the last two NEON Festivals, it’s not a formal application process. People do contact us and I personally met with 40 different independent collaborators. Basically it comes down to who the MTC thinks is ready for this kind of exposure, it does expose theatre companies to a wider audience. And it’s all about diversity. We don’t make companies jump through hoops; that’s unnecessary. It’s an opportunity for collaboration.” Some of the companies and artists involved include Dirty Pretty Theatre with The Lonely Wolf, as well as new works and readings by new companies such as the People of Colour Performing Arts Company’s Yes Way, a new work about migrants who have made Australia home. The non-Anglo features too in a reading of The Day I Left Home from Rasma M Kalsie and a reading of Sean McIntyre’s Kids presented by Jimmy Flinders Productions. NEON 2015 features three works about transgressive women, and not necessarily nice women either, with Calamity, ‘part musical, part western and part biography’, by The Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson Shakespeare Company, a work looking at
‘difficult women’ (Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane, for example) and the way they’ve been traditionally portrayed; there’s Elbow Room with We Get It, pitting the great heroines of classic theatre against each other; and at long last Patricia Cornelius’s work will be seen on the mainstage: she and director Susie Dee bring Cornelius’s new work Shit to NEON, about girls (not famous ones) behaving very badly indeed. Murray reckons there’s little chance of independent companies not being noticed by the MTC. “If they’re creating, and if they’re putting work out into the world and they’re ready for this level of exposure, we’ll be aware of them.” Murray says the team of
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tubes hover above a bed of granite. There are 2.8 metre lines of granite tiling on the table. Black granite is a beautiful stone; it’s the hardest form of stone you can buy. It’s so dense and hard, so it has the most resonant clear ringing pitch, and when you’re cutting each tile there are tiny flaws in design, giving each tile a unique pitch.” Schack-Arnott works is obviously as inspired by image as much as sound. “I am a visual person; I’m also an improviser, I’ve trained in classical notated performance, I have a background in orchestra but I get inspiration from improvisation practice. I’m always writing while developing my work. I hone my own thoughts, and I’m recording ideas, listening back and refining, so it’s using a lot of different processes, different concepts bubble to the surface. It’s a mix of a lot of different processes.” Audiences coming along to Fluvial are in for astonishing imagery along with aural surprises. Just walking into the space is a dramatic experience to begin with. “I worked with a lighting designer and an art technician in construction of the instruments.” The visual effect is very dynamic. It creates a kind of world unto itself,” says Schack-Arnott. “When people enter the space they walk into an environment where the instruments are so big – there is a quite vast horizon of glistening metal. The idea created in their minds when they see it leads to a very different type of expectation than they would have for a typical musical performance. The objects have a musical life of their own, the movement of the instrument is a source of sound, and the poetic tension of that is interesting to me.” Does he play the whole thing himself ? “I am a soloist but I exist as a conduit for this natural form, rather than the traditional idea of a soloist; I gradually traverse the length of the instruments in a 40-minute piece and express some ideas. That is the heart of what I’m trying to do.” Fluvial will be performed at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall from Wednesday May 13 Sunday May 17. seven involved in sourcing the shows for NEON is ‘across what’s happening out there.’ “We see a lot of theatre every week. There are artists we’re aware of and we look at what they’re doing next.” Murray says the NEON Festival stays ‘true to its word’ in so far as not having any curatorial aspect to it – in other words, the independent theatre companies and artists have complete artistic freedom. MTC provides support but not interference. “We haven’t read the scripts,” she says. “That’s not part of the theatre making process of NEON. We watch each production in the rehearsal room but our conversations with the companies around the productions are usually about health and safety issues!” The festival has other activities besides productions going on. “It’s important to us to put other activities on around the shows. It creates dialogue and points of access for other artists and for theatre lovers to get involved.” There’s a NEON Residency, this year occupied by RAWCUS Ensemble. “Humbling and beautiful and fascinating,” is how Murray describes her experience of working with these performers. “We ask what we can do to support them, offer them access to things they might not have, like a voice specialist, which will be of great benefit to their ensemble. The Master Class opens up the NEON Extra to performers with or without disabilities.” Murray reckons there are some high-calibre theatrical mash-ups in this year’s NEON. One of the company productions in NEON is MKA Theatre, with Double Feature, a mash-up of Lucky and Lord Willing & The Creek Don’t Rise, the latter which was a NEON 2014 Up Late Reading. The Last Tuesday Society will also present Pimp My Play which Murray describes as being almost like a theatresports. “They’re an amazing group of artists. They take an existing work, divide it all up and put it back together. It’s shambolic but fun, very tongue-in-cheek. It’s great to see that kind of thing within the walls of the Southbank Theatre,” says Murray. “There’s a little bit of ‘how dare you!’” This year the NEON Bar is moving into the Southbank Theatre foyer. “It symbolises how important NEON is to the MTC. The company is willing for NEON to take over the entire establishment even though there will still be mainstream productions happening at the same time,” says Murray. “It’s quite exciting. Wait until you see my decorations!” NEON Festival of Independent Theatre will take place from Thursday May 14 to Sunday July 25. Visit mtc.com.au for more details.
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Love, Love, Love Red Stitch Actors Theatre will present UK playwright Mike Barlett’s baby-boomer epic Love, Love, Love this June. The story of Love, Love, Love begins in 1967 with the introduction of 19-year-old students Kennth and Sandra. Knowing that the world is changing around them, they want to get in on the action and end up heading to the altar. The rest of the play follow them through the ups and downs of their 40 years of marriage. Love, Love, Love will run at Red Stitch Actors Theatre from Friday June 5 to Saturday July 4.
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Gillian Armstrong’s Women He’s Undressed will receive its Melbourne premiere as part of a gala event to reopen the iconic Astor Theatre. “We are thrilled to start our tenure at the Astor Theatre with a premiere for Women He’s Undressed,” said Palace Cinemas’ CEO Benjamin Zeccola. “The film features such wonderful footage from the golden age of Hollywood; it made perfect sense that this should be our choice as Palace re-open the Astor, which itself has such a rich history in showing classic film.” Women He’s Undressed takes an intimate look at the life of three-time Academy Award winning Australian costume designer, Orry-Kelly. Kelly’s design credits include; Hollywood’s biggest studios, most memorable stars, and hit films such as Casablanca, Some Like it Hot, Oklahoma! and An American in Paris. The Astor Theatre, which is one of the last remaining single-screen theatres in the southern hemisphere, will re-open to the public on Sunday June 7 with the red carpet gala event for Women He’s Undressed following on Thursday June 25. Furthermore, The Astor’s new calendar will be revealed on Thursday May 21. Tickets for the premiere and opening night event will be available from Palace Cinemas’ website in late May.
Friday nights in Melbourne will never be the same again. Presented by Monster Fest, Friday Fright Night will showcase the “latest, greatest and rarest cult and horror cinema from Australia and around the globe” weekly. Taking place at Hawthorn’s new Lido Cinemas, it will host world and local premieres as well as showing all the classics. Screenings will also feature special guests for Q&As and signings. The launch night next month will present the new installment of The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), with star of part one and two, Laurence B Harvey making an appearance.“There are so many incredible films being released in this country that never get seen on a big screen,” said Monster Fest Presents curator Ben Hellwig. The full program will be revealed shortly. Friday Fright Night will launch on Friday June 26 at Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn.
Sammy J and Randy headline Portland Hotel Comedy this Thursday. They’re absolute comedy superstars, and with a brand new ABC television series about to hit our screens, they’re only getting bigger. Plus Matt Dyktynski, Daniel Connell, Xander Allan and heaps more. Last week they sold out, so get in early. It’s all happening this Thursday May 14 at 8.30pm, at Portland Hotel Comedy, 127 Russell Street (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12.
I LOVE GREEN GUIDE LETTERS LIVE This Saturday afternoon I Love Green Guide Letters is having a rare live podcast at the Public Bar. Former Fox FM breakfast cohorts Jo Stanley and Adam Richard will be facing some of their green guide letters along with Steele Saunders and more. In such a intimate room tickets will go fast so hit ilovegreenguideletters.com to grab yours and catch up on previous live episodes with the likes of Chrissie Swan, Andy Lee and Jono Coleman mixing it up with some of Australia’s finest stand-ups.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Monday nights in the city are chockers full of comedy yet again, thanks to Comedy at Spleen. Another full house is expected, as Spleen hosts a bunch of surprise acts, including Adam Richard, Ben Knight, Laura Dunemann and more. It’s this Monday May 18, at 41 Bourke Street, CBD, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
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Birdland The Melbourne Theatre Company will examine the inner-workings of celebrity obsession when it presents Birdland this winter. Written by award-winning British playwright Simon Stephens, the satire follows the life of a rock star who is struggling to keep it together despite being surrounded by all of the luxuries in the world. This winter’s season will mark the Australian premiere of Birdland, which has been praised as one of the most exciting new plays to come out of London in the past year. Birdland will run from Saturday June 6 to Saturday July 11 at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.
Retro Futurismus Anni and Maude Davey will join forces with Anna Lumb (Pocket Rocket) and Gabi Barton (The Town Bikes) to present Retro Futurismus, a cutting edge vaudeville show with a vintage twist. The variety show will channel cultural icons of the 21st century, including Fritz Lang, David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick, Bjork and Barbarella. Featuring dance artists, gravity defying circus acts, songs and performance art, the show promises to be a contemporary take on burlesque traditions. Each performance will also showcase guest artists including Stella Angelico, Leah Shelton,Joseph Chetty and Glitter & Snatch. Retro Futurismus will run from Wednesday June 10 - Sunday June 28 at fortyfivedownstairs.
The Dream The Australian Ballet will celebrate the life of master choreographer Frederick Ashton when it presents The Dream next month. The huge triple bill will include classics Monotones II, The Dream, and the company’s first ever staging of Symphonic Variations, all set to the soundtrack of the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. One of the most influential choreographers of the mid-20th century, Sir Frederick Ashton’s ballets have been danced around the world and were a big part of The Australian Ballet’s early repertoire. See his work come to life from Thursday June 4 to Saturday June 13 at Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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Eden Lovers of French house music are in for a treat. ACMI have announced that they will they be screening Eden, a new documentary they goes in-depth of the rise of French house music. Spanning two decades, Eden goes back to the halcyon Parisian house party days (where Daft Punk really was playing in the house), to the giddy highs of DJing to packed crowds at MoMA PS1’s legendary dance parties. To coincide with this, they will also be screening Daft Punk’s Electroma (with a soundtrack that features the likes of Chopin, Brian Eno, Sebastien Tellier and Curtis Mayfield) which first screened at ACMI in 2007, alongside Kazuhisa Takenouchi’s anime interpretation of Daft Punk’s classic album, Discovery, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. Eden will screen at ACMI from Monday June 29 – Sunday July 19 July; Daft Punk’s Electroma will screen from Wednesday July 1 – Sunday July 12 and Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem will screen from Saturday July 4 – Thursday July 9. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
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Infini By Kate Robertson Infini is a tense sci-fi thriller about a specialist search and rescue team sent to retrieve the only survivor of a biological contagion on an off-world mining facility. In this hostile environment, the characters are overwhelmed by their primal instincts and base emotions in what becomes an extreme contest for survival. We spoke to actor Daniel MacPherson about his lead role as Whit Carmichael and his experiences on set. “[Infini] just looks like another sci-fi movie,” says MacPherson, “and then it just flips on its head and takes
Theatre Review: Oedipus Schmoedipus After spending a few minutes staring at a blank white stage, the theatre lights dimmed and a voiceover announcement warned that anyone caught using their phone would be taken outside and killed. Next thing we knew, two women appeared on stage, accordingly dressed in all-white, and proceeded to enact one of the most horrific, shocking, slapstick and hilarious opening scenes
you down this hole that I hope that you never expected.” This immersive experience is shaped through the film’s in theatre history. Accompanied by the gaudy sounds of Rihanna and Eminem’s Love the Way You Lie, the creators and stars of Oedpius Schmoedipus, Mish Grigor and Zoe Coombs Marr, carried out a succession of increasingly extravagant suicides and murders. In a roundabout way, this introduction was designed to tell us that Oedipus Schmoedipus would be about death. Having scrutinised several 1,000 so-called classic plays, Grigor and Coombs Marr reached the conclusion that the only inarguable universal truth is death. So, what followed was an exposition of how death’s been portrayed throughout the history of Western theatre. Oedipus Schmoedipus might appropriately be called a
lo-fi aesthetic, with the production design by George Liddle visually evoking classic 1970s sci-fi. “[The film used] very little green screen, especially for an ambitious sci-fi movie like Infini,” MacPherson explains. “It really helped that old-school feel. You look at the control room; all the computers were old-school, the graphics were old-school, the lighting was very specific to a time in sci-fi history.” Being cast in the lead role of the stranded soldier Carmichael in a cast that also features Grace Huang and Luke Hemsworth was a great opportunity for MacPherson. “I read the script and was pretty convinced that I wasn’t going to be the guy for the role – I was pretty convinced that this was going to go to some kind of big-name Hollywood dude,” he says. “I ended up having a very long Skype session with [director] Shane Abbess when I was in LA and we clicked. We recognised a deep hunger in both of us to do something different, to do something better, and to go and prove to the world what we were capable of. “I got to the point in my career where I was craving a big challenge, and I was craving proving myself – hopefully, I think, beyond anyone’s expectations, including myself and what I’m capable of as an actor. And that meant throwing myself into it 150 per cent. “Thankfully, I had Shane Abbess as a very close ally as post-modern performance piece, a bizarro comedy show or an extreme TED talk. But a conventional work of narrative theatre it ain’t. Along with making incisive claims, Grigor and Coombs Marr’s rhetorical dialogue was frequently hilarious. For instance, quotes from great plays were unraveled to suggest things such as if “Death is an island,” then Australia must be death, but if “Death is bitter,” then drinking a whole bottle of Angostura will kill you. But it was the involvement of 25 performing volunteers that made Oedipus Schmoedipus an exceptionally engaging and absurd spectacle. Obeying video prompts, the unrehearsed volunteers upped the onstage chaos and added a haphazard charm. This risky ploy not only tempted on-stage
the director and we worked very closely together … [he is] a master manipulator, a master tactician, and a real film connoisseur, and in particular a sci-fi connoisseur – he was kind of the puppetmaster throughout the set, and a lot of the reactions that we captured on camera were due to Shane manipulating the actors against each other to force authentic reactions that no-one expected. So a lot of that stuff onscreen was unrehearsed and spontaneous.” When it came to working on the set proper, the former Neighbours star and Dancing With The Stars host says his experience was both exhausting and exhilarating. “This was done in a stinking hot converted warehouse in Western Sydney through the beginning of summer – it was such an oppressive, intense environment to work in,” he says. It was also emotionally gruelling. “The stuff that you couldn’t prepare for was this onslaught and this barrage of ferocity that took place on set when the entire cast were in there together. It was a ferocious set; it was a very intense set that demanded the most out of everybody. It was the single most challenging set that I’ve ever worked on and because of that it was the most rewarding, for sure.” Infini is out now digitally through iTunes and other major platforms. death (figuratively speaking), but also subverted the conventions regarding the sort of behaviour that belongs on theatre stages. After an irony-laden crescendo – which saw Grigor and Coombs Marr pledge allegiance to the ‘universal’ works, largely written by straight white men, propagating patriarchal ideals – the show concluded with a gang of ghosts, flapping from inside white bed sheets. By now, all pathos had disappeared and hysterical laughter threatened to remove several audience members from their seats. Who said that death isn’t funny? BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
OUT OF THE CLOSET While we march head first towards marriage equality (or in the case of Australia, lurch slowly and yet inevitably), some topics within the LGBT remain a lot more taboo to discuss as dinner party conversation. For the staffers of Prime Minister Tony Abbott, apparently the mere idea of meeting two gay men at the same time was too much to bear. The Ambassador to France Stephen Brady apparently went understandably ballistic and offered his resignation after his long-term partner Peter Stephens was told to wait in the car when the two men met the PM at a Paris airport, during an ANZAC Day visit. Thankfully, the matter appears to have been a misunderstanding, and the resignation was not accepted so he remains our first openly gay serving diplomat. One of those taboos arguably surrounds how mainstream society still regards the idea of two men in bed together as something icky and gross. Take for example when last week The Guardian posted an agony aunt advice column on a gay couple where one had a fear of bottoming, leading his partner of two years to feel increasingly frustrated by their one-sided sexual relationship. The Comment Is Free section of The Guardian’s website turned into Comment Is Freaked, with homophobes howling that anal sex was disgusting, and that they shouldn’t have to read about the intimate details of gay sex. Never mind, of course that these shocked and appalled readers had obviously clicked on the story themselves, and that of course straight sex has plenty of column inches dedicated to it in The Guardian and elsewhere. Another taboo surrounds the treatment of HIV in our community. With HIV no longer a death sentence, but rather a chronic but manageable disease, there is increasingly a push from the HIV+ community to remove the stigma associated with HIV, and to also encourage the use of PrEP which allows gay men to take a tablet a day and dramatically reduce their risk of contracting the disease (although it must be said of course that unprotected sex still carries lots of other risks of STIs). One magazine in Austria has dealt with the stigma surrounding HIV in a novel way by printing the current issue of the magazine in HIV+ blood, thus putting the
Queer happenings around town with Anna Whitelaw.
issue literally in the hands of readers. HIV does not survive outside the body for more than a day, so it is perfectly safe to touch but the Vanguardist wanted to make a statement about the rise in HIV infections largely due to many gay men not getting tested. No word yet on whether this will see the 3,000 copies of the magazine fly off the shelves. This Friday night, CLOSET returns for a night of 90s inspired debauchery in honour of the 25th anniversary of Pretty Woman. This month’s poster boy is Richard Gere. The lineup includes a 90s house set from DJ Grant Camov (the local legend of Loose Joints fame), alongside YO! M.A.F.I.A, JLAW, Salvador Darling and Catriona Contance vs Mellydee. CLOSET will be at Little & OIver, 393 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy from 10pm until 5am. Entry is $15 on the door (unless you’re lucky enough to find yourself on a gues tlist). For details or the chance to win free entry, visit facebook. com/closetpartyoz. Also on Friday, Sircuit will be turned into Queen, onenight-only party in homage of five divas. DJ Argonaut will be spinning a marathon six hour set dedicated to five queens of pop – Madonna, Lady Gaga, Britney, Beyonce and Rihanna back-to-back. QUEEN will also see a host of pop-up performances inspired by the divas throughout the night. QUEEN Party will be a mixed event open to queens of all kinds. Tickets are available on the door or presales are $20. Sircuit is located at 103 Smith Street, Fitzroy. For details, visit facebook.com/5QueenParty This Sunday is the International Day Against Homophobia, otherwise known as IDAHO where LGBT people all over the world get together in solidarity. It is only fitting therefore that there will be a March for Marriage Equality on this Sunday organised by Equal Love (who have now been campaigning for marriage equality for a decade!). Shake off your hangovers on Sunday and get down to the State Library from 1pm for the protest march down Swanston Street and up to the Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. For details, visit facebook.com/equallove. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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thursday may 14 XS DISCO - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. 3183 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC WITH MOONSHINE + JOEY & YANNI SARANTIS + SAM GUDGE + JESSE YOUNG Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. DANCE TECHNIQUE - FEAT: POST PERCY + GROOVE CONTROL + BEN RYAN New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. FLAKO + PREQUEL + JONNY FAITH + SKOMES + BEVIN CAMPBELL + BREAKING & ENTERING Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. FLANAGANS THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ONTIME + COLONEL Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. GHETTO FABULOUS THURSDAYS Gh Hotel, St Kilda. 9:00pm. JUNGLETRONICA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: EDD FISHER + GRANT CAMOV + MATT NICO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE RITZ - FEAT: KEN WALKER + ANDO + JOSHUA GILLILAND Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $20.00. VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. friday may 15 #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ALLEYCAT - FEAT: THE CARTER BROS + DAN WHITE + SLEEP D + DJ MILES + DYLAN B The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $15.00. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CHEEKY TIKI FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $20.00.
CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CLOSET - FEAT: DJ CAMOV + MAFIA + JLAW + GRANT CAMOV + SALVADOR DARLING + CATRIONA CONSTANCE VS MELLYDEE Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $15.00. 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. FORMATT. - FEAT: DANIEL BEATON + MATT STEVENSON Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. 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. IVAN OOZE Platform One, Melbourne. 10:00pm. MUSE FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. POPROCKS AT THE TOFF FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. STEELE LEO Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. UNSTABLE UNIVERSE FEAT: ZEN MECHANICS + WHITEBEAR + TERRAFRACTYL + HYPNAGOG + IMPERFECT CIRCLE + ILLUME + AZRIN + MATTER Railway Hotel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. $20.00. Ø [PHASE] Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $25.00. saturday may 16 ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. APERTIVO + PATRIZIO ADAMO + DJ GEORGE HYSTERIC Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ASHA DIRGE + MOOPIE
+ HAROLD + SPILT SILO + DUAA SVIM + JOSHUA WELLS The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. 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. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. ELBOW SPACE - FEAT: TUC + CITIPOWER + DJ CAMOV + PWD Railway Hotel, South Melbourne. 4:00pm. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00. HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. IN THE CARRIAGE - FEAT: JNETT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: BEN FESTER Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. LQ SATURDAYS GRAND OPENING - FEAT: DJ CASPER + DJ TPC + DJ PATO + DJ SHAGGZ + DJ MATT CROSS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. MANIA - FEAT: SLEEP D Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. ONRA Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. PUSSY POWER Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. SHENANIGANS - FEAT: RADIO CHOAS Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. SUPER ENJOY - FEAT: CASPIAN + MO ICHI + EDDIE EXAMPLE + CLINT HARGREAVES + JAKE MCDONALD Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. TEDDY’S Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $25.00.
TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. sunday may 17 DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. EDU IMBERNON + BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. ENCORE - FEAT: DAN SLATER + ADAM LOVE The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. PENGUINS + REFUND + DEEP AREA + PARE OHM Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. PLEASURE PLANET - FEAT: TUC + HAROLD + WILL ELDER & PHAON + PWD Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00am. $15.00. SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. THE OCCASIONAL FEEL GOOD PARTY - FEAT: HAZIM + OLIVER DAVE + WORLDLY Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. monday may 18 CALL IT IN - FEAT: JAMES TOM & DYLAN MICHAEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. tuesday may 19 AO - FEAT: MOW + MIMICRY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $3.00. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TWERKSHOP Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $15.00.
urban club guide thursday may 14
BEY DANCE The Luwow, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. RNB & HIP HOP JAM - FEAT: GET BUSY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. ROYALTY NOISE + BRIDGE CITY NIGHT ADVENTURE + DADA ONO + MIDFLITE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
friday may 15
BACKSTAGE HIP HOP - FEAT: DJ BEAT JUNKIE + TEE MAC Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm. $10.00. BEY DANCE The Luwow, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat
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club guide wednesday may 13 MELLOW DIAS THUMP FEAT: CASEAUX + OSLO + GEEZY Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. MIDWEEK SHAKA - FEAT: 6AM AT THE GARAGE + LOOSE JOINTS + SPIN CLUB Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:45pm.
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Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. GET LIT - FEAT: TWERK SHOP + THADDEUS DOE + D’FRO + NAM Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. MEET. EAT. BEATS. - FEAT: ANDRE LE VOGUE The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: YVÉ GOLD + JUZZY B + SONIC VIBES Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
saturday may 16
BIG DANCING SATURDAYS - FEAT: GET BUSY + MAFIA + LARRIE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. CLONE OF MEET. EAT. BEATS. - FEAT: ANDRE LE VOGUE + WALTER JUAN + VIKTOR The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
electronic - urban - club life
CRXZY SXXY CXXL - FEAT: JADE ZOE + MIMI + GLASS MIRRORS + OLIVER FRANCIS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. NECRO + RAWLAB Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $56.00. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
sunday may 17
BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00.
earthcore Earthcore organisers have revealed that psy innovators Infected Mushroom have been locked in to headline this year’s festival. The psytrance pioneers are set to play a rare, old-school psychedelic set as the sun rises over Pyalong this November. Since releasing their first album in 1999, Infected Mushroom have made a huge imprint on the psy scene, having played mammoth festivals like Coachella, Burning Man and Tomorrowland. They’ll join the likes of Chris Liebing, Electric Universe, Outsiders, Ranji, Symphonix and more. Earthcore 2015 is set for Thursday November 26 to Monday November 30 in Pyalong, Victoria.
seekae Seekae’s digital remix package of The Worry is out now on Future Classic. The package features remixes by local and international favourites such as Germany’s Henrik Schwarz and Melbourne local András. In line with their new release, the boys have revealed that they will headline a Melbourne show as well as playing at the sold out Splendour On The Grass on Friday July 24. Seekae will perform at The Howler on Friday July 10.
the house de frost One of the absolute best club nights in Melbourne has announced two huge parties to celebrate seven years of debauchery. Even if you don’t think you’ve been to The House de Frost, trust me, you’ve been to The House de Frost. Remember that time you got dragged by your friends to The Toff In Town on a Saturday night and you felt like you were back in Studio 54? Yeah, you’ve been to The House de Frost. Over two consecutive Saturdays, Andee Frost will welcome two big name internationals to man the decks - Italian DJ legend Beppe Loda and one of the finest slingers of disco in the game, Daniel Wang. Furthermore, there will also be performances from Zanzibar Chanel, Misty Nights, Hysteric, Tom Moore (Ricky Zero) and J’Nett. It goes down on Saturday May 30 and Saturday June 6.
japanese wallpaper The electronic wunderkind will celebrate his debut EP with a final show before he hits the books in the lead up to his last high school exams. After starting Japanese Wallpaper at only 13-years-old, Gab Strum has been going from strength to strength. His brand new solo show will feature guest vocalists and a new collection of visuals. Japanese Wallpaper will play at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.
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Winter in Melbourne sucks.
Here at Beat we’re always hunting for that perfect winter jacket, rare vintage band tee, or a pair of sweet kicks, and now we’re sharing all of our insider tips with you. We’ve compiled our favourite vintage outlets for your hunting pleasure, from markets to stores, new and old; this is your one stop vintage shop.
Subterranean Subterranean are one of the pioneer vintage stores of Melbourne. Originally located in Northcote, they have picked up roots and relocated to a brand new store at 252 Johnston St Fitzroy. Come and unearth all of the hidden gems that this store is known for and deck out your winter wardrobe. Subterranean have vintage garb for women and men, and stock only the finest in vintage and retro clothing. Sourced both locally and from around the world, they have a massive collection of vintage frocks, warm winter coats, furs, hats and accessories. Community plays a huge part in all that Subterranean do and following a good decade or so in Northcote, they are very excited to now call Fitzroy home. If you can’t make it in-store, you can buy online at www.subterranean.com.au also find them on Instagram: @ subterraneanvintage. Get a 20% discount on Thursdays when you flash your student card. It’s all yours for the taking when you come visit their new home.
252 Johnston Street, Fitzroy Open 7 days, 11am-6pm ph. 0458 354 183 www.facebook.com/subterranean.vintage
Lost & Found market
RetroStar We hope by now you’re well acquainted with RetroStar. Located in the iconic Nicholas building, this Melbourne institution is Australia’s largest vintage clothing store, boasting over 10,000 vintage pieces and accessories. With an eclectic collection ranging from the 1940s through to the now-retro ‘90s, it’s the ultimate playground for vintage lovers. Whether you are searching for vintage dresses, psychedelic prints, western boots, vintage tee shirts, jeans or jackets, there’s no doubt that RetroStar will have something that will catch your eye.
Lost and Found Market started out as a group of collectors selling things in an abandoned nightclub on Smith Street, Collingwood in 2005 and has grown substantially in the past ten years, finally settling in East Brunswick. Lost & Found Market is a vintage market covering 1000 square metres. This gem has over 60 stall holders that sell vintage furniture, industrial lighting, art, fashion, books, musical instruments, records, kitchenalia and bric-a-brac. They’ve got a huge variety of collectable, vintage and retro items spanning the 1940s through to the 1990s. These legends are open Saturdays and Sundays from 10am – 6pm and are closed to the public on Fridays. However, film, fashion, stylists and TV industry folk are more than welcome to pop in between 10am and 6pm to have a look.
First Floor Nicholas Building 37 Swanston St (cnr Flinders Lane) ph. 9663 1223 www.retrostar.com.au
511 Lygon St, Brunswick East ph. 9383 1883 www.lostandfoundmarket.com.au
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Melbourne’s most popular pre-loved women’s pop-up fashion market is back at Queen Victoria Markets C Shed. There’s an impressive 30+ stalls of vintage and designer fashion, with discounts up to 80% off the original price. Take 2 Markets offer savvy fashion lovers a delicious selection of Australian and international designer labels, chic high street brands, vintage garments, and all the hats, jewellery, bags and shoes to go with them. You will also find rack-after-rack of pristine garments, including vintage winter coats and wool jumpers from the ‘80s, as well as dresses, shirts, pants, shoes, handbags and jewellery. With low prices and high quality, you can update your wardrobe as regularly as you like for a fraction of the retail price. Strictly women’s wear only and on this Sunday.
Phillips have unworn vintage shirts and Italian knitted sweaters in all the colours of the early ‘80s, plus jackets, tees, plaid shirts and other garments that you won’t find anywhere else in Melbourne. From bright prints to paisley Liberty slim fits for the boys, and tailored dresses, '80s knitwear and pastel shirts for the girls, Phillips has a huge assortment of garments in every fabric, cut, print and weave you can think of. Fabric fiends will also want to make a date with the Phillips Shirts factory, as 800 rolls of fabric from their 4000-bolt strong archive is on sale, including rare vintage Liberty prints. It is seriously not to be missed.
Victoria Markets C Shed (near the Peel Street entrance) Sunday May 17, 9am – 4pm www.take2markets.com.au
274 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne Fabric Sale: Friday May 15 10am - 6pm, Saturday May 16 10am - 5pm www.phillipsshirts.com.au
Chapel St Bazaar is an iconic vintage, antique and collectibles bazaar and houses over 70 stallholders featuring vintage clothing, jewellery, industrial, taxidermy, dolls and toys, books, vinyl records, movie posters, china, kitchenalia, vintage lighting, military, comics, glass, furniture, paintings, prints, radios, typewriters, cameras and more. Chapel St Bazaar is an absolute south side institution and if you haven’t been before, you are missing out. The place is split up into individual stalls and each one is run by a different vintage aficionado. Make sure you allow yourself heaps of time to explore, as it’s easy to lose yourself in there. If you are searching for something special, you will find it here.
Larry Clothing is an eclectic boutique stocking contemporary, vintage and loved designer wears. They source their entire collection of quality one-off pieces locally and from overseas and cater for both men and women. At Larry they have done the sorting for you – if it’s a gorgeous leather bag you’re after, a pretty vintage dress, a funky paisley shirt or a pair of leather lace-up ankle boots, you will find it in abundance at Larry. They also have a large collection of leather jackets made from recycled leather and enough denim-on-denim to impress all. For those who are designer savvy Melburnites, there’s an impressive range of recycled designers, such as Gorman, Zimmerman, Alpha 60 and Acne just to name a few. With new stock arriving weekly, Larry is sure to satisfy even the most discerning vintage lover.
217 Chapel St, Prahran Open 7 days 10-6pm ph 9529 1727 www.facebook.com/ChapelStreetBazaar
341 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Instagram: larryclothing
Christine’s fabulous new store has just opened in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Christine’s stocks a massive range of '40s and '50s reproduction clothing by Vivien of Holloway Brand, and it’s the only store in Australia to do so. The brand is made by Christine’s sister Vivien in London and is a favourite of celebrities such as Paloma Faith, chef Nigella Lawson and rock’n’roll queen Imelda May, and it’s easy to see why. Cunningly boned, halter neck bodices give a nipped waist and a gentle bullet bust that nods to the past without being too extreme, but the dress that’ll captivate the imagination of every girl is the signature halter neck circle dress, perfect for a night on the town. Wear with a contrasting, double-layer petticoat, and you’re guaranteed to turn heads and drop jaws. And just for Beat readers, cut out this story to receive 20% off in store.
362 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Open 7 days 11-4pm www.facebook.com/pages/Christines
Mutual Muse is about sharing with your community. By providing your under-used clothes, you are giving them extra life and adding value for yourself and others where there previously was none. When you bring in your clothes to be sold in the store, you are keeping resources in your neighbourhood. By giving new life to our clothes, we can scale back our consumption, reduce our waste, and keep value in our communities. It’s a simple, guilt-free solution, just bring in everything you don’t wear, and they’ll sort through your items and pick out the things their customers would most love. Mutual Muse specialise in contemporary clothing, but love vintage too. And in exchange, you’ll get a cash offer or 50% of the retail value in store credit. Mutual Muse also stocks Australian designers and high street brands in addition to vintage wares, and is family owned and operated, so you know you are in good hands.
687 High St, Thornbury Mon, Thurs & Sat: 10am–4pm, Sun: 10am–3pm Instagram: mutualmuse www.facebook.com/mutualmuse
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IVAN OOZE S O C I A L A LI E N AT I O N
By Tom Clift Too often, success in the music industry brings with it an inflated sense of selfimportance. Thankfully that’s not the case with Melbourne rapper Ben Townsend, aka Ivan Ooze. An up-and-coming star of the Australian hip hop scene, Townsend has plenty to be boastful about, and yet our chat reveals no trace of ego. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even like the sound of his own voice. “It just sounds weird,” Townsend says. “I’m like, ‘Who the fuck is this?’” To be honest, until recently, we might have asked just the same question. While Townsend’s been rapping for a while now, it wasn’t until he uploaded a series of freestyle rap videos, in the lead-up to his debut EP Ringwood Rich in August last year, that Ivan Ooze really blew up. Since then, he’s performed at the Beyond The Valley and Raggamuffin festivals as well as opening for both Ice Cube and Cypress Hill on their recent Australian tours. “That was really crazy, because I grew up on Ice Cube and Cypress Hill,” Townsend says. “I chatted heaps to Cyprus Hill. They’re like the chillest people, which you can probably imagine. Ice Cube I didn’t get to meet until I think the last show, in Brisbane. We got to meet his whole posse – he brought his whole family. It was sick just talking to him. They’d tell you stories and it’s just like being a little kid again.” Touring with hip hop royalty also provided a valuable opportunity for the Aussie upstart to hone his skills. “The Cyprus Hill crowd was chill,” Townsend says. “The amount of weed you could smell in every venue was sick. But the Ice Cube crowd was a lot harder. They don’t give a fuck about who’s playing at the start, because all they want to see is Ice Cube. So you have to try really hard. [That] was probably the best experience I had; having to try my hardest just to get their attention.” In any case, he’s certainly got our attention. Ivan Ooze’s new release, The Social Alien Mixtape, dropped at the end of last month. Described by Townsend as “a reflection of the good, the bad and the ugly from my life on the planet so far,” the mix sees the rapper continue to develop his style and explore “every avenue I could in terms of styles of rap.” “I put all different kinds of tracks down,” he says. “I’ve got some trap songs on there, and some boom bap songs, and then there’s some more personal songs. I just wanted to see if people connected with it. And there was some really good positive feedback. I posted the other night on Facebook asking, ‘What was your favourite song?’ and it was all mixed. It’s good to see that everyone has a favourite.
“THE MOST FUN PART IS THAT I GET TO SEE ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPORTING ME...I’LL ALWAYS DRINK A BEER WITH THEM AND GET FUCKED UP WITH THEM” “The rhymes I used to do were a lot more violent and stuff. It wasn’t really me. I was more adjusting to a crowd, rather than being myself. I had a lot of anger in my childhood, so I pretty much just aimed it towards my music. That’s probably why, when I first started, I was writing all that hardcore shit.” Townsend’s been on the road since late April, promoting the new mixtape. “The most fun part is that I get to see all the people who are supporting me,” he says enthusiastically. “I get to see all their faces and meet them afterwards. I’ll always drink a beer with them and get fucked up with them. I think that’s the most fun. Like, it’s fun doing the shows as well, but it’s even more fun connecting with the people that buy your music. I know that’s what I’d like to do if I was a fan of someone. I’d definitely want to see them after the show and show appreciation.” Townsend’s relationship with his fans seems likely to hold him in good stead. “I hate it when people are dicks,” he says. “Like, I fucking hate Kanye West. I hate him. He used to be cool, but now he just sucks. All those artists. Like they’re pretty big, but I just hate arrogant arseholes. You don’t need to be like that – you weren’t raised to be like that.” When asked about what comes next for Ivan Ooze, Townsend says he’d like to get wider exposure, but only if he can do it on his own terms. “It’s cool to hear your stuff on the radio and get it out to heaps of people. But it’s just the way that you do it. It can be really hard to do a song that you enjoy that also gets on the radio. I’d like to see a track of mine on rotation, but one that actually means a lot to me.” In the meantime, he’s happy just taking it one gig at a time. “I guess I’d just like to see people enjoy my music for what it is,” Townsend says. “But I’d also just like to play a lot more festivals, and just have a lot more fun. You just want to have the most fun you can over making this sort of shit. Hang out with people and meet heaps of new people, and just see what’s next.”
IVAN OOZE is coming home to play at Cant Say on Friday May 15. The Social Alien Mixtape is out now independently. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
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OSCAR KEY SUNG SELFLESS LONER
By Augustus Welby It’s been fourteen months since Oscar Key Sung released his breakthrough EP Holograms. This was a long enough delay to prompt rumours about the pending arrival of Key Sung’s debut album. But it wasn’t to be, and the Melbourne songwriter/ producer has just returned with a new six-track EP, Altruism. Considering Oscar Slorach-Thorn (as he’s otherwise known) also teamed up with Andras Fox on the collaborative LP Café Romantica last year, perhaps there simply wasn’t time to produce a solo record. Though, a busy schedule isn’t the only thing delaying him. “I keep almost making it, then deciding to make it into an EP and then putting songs aside,” he says. “I feel like I’m still improving and coming to terms with what I want to do as an album. I want it to be really good when I do it. EPs are a less high pressure scenario.” Although he’s just 24-years old, Key Sung’s no novice when it comes to the creation of full-length records. Back in 2009, he released an LP with the experimental electronic group Psuche. The following year, he and fellow Psuche member Martin King broke away to form Oscar + Martin, a fruitful partnership that culminated in 2011’s For You LP. When his focus shifted to Oscar Key Sung in early 2012, he had some specific stylistic parameters in mind. “I wanted everything to have a restraint to it in the arrangements,” he says. “I wanted the elements to be limited so that there would be a lot of focus on bass sounds and sampled voice and then have the main focus be about the feel of things.” The fundamental restraint of Oscar Key Sung’s material doesn’t limit its dynamic scope. Among Altruism’s six tracks, the likes of Skip and Brush edge towards a straight-up pop sound, while Premonition and Light take a lateral look at R&B and Inside Job is an avant garde instrumental. “I try to not just have five of the same song, but still try to create a thread,” Key Sung says. “Basically there’s an idea I’ve got for the EP and within it there are the levels of extremity. So Inside Job is obviously on the exterior, then it kind of gets closer and closer to pop. That’s an aspect of it, but they’re also just the songs I made. If I made one track a certain way, I felt I didn’t need to repeat that idea in the next track. “Something I’m still trying to think about in my solo stuff is spaces,” he adds. “The idea of going from a small room to a large room to an expansive space to an underground/ underwater space. That’s what I try to do through the tracks. Rather than adding a sax line, I’ll choose to go underwater for a bit.” Akin to All I Could Do from Holograms, songs like Skip and Brush highlight Key Sung’s knack for writing instantly memorable electro-R&B numbers. While many songwriters would happily sacrifice limbs to possess such melodic flair, pumping out catchy hits isn’t what Oscar Key Sung is all about. “The issues I have with some pop music is that sense of inevitability to the point of feeling a bit like a zombie while you’re listening to it,” Key Sung says. “What I really love is pop music that’s active. Even if it is antimaximal and really basic, it’s doing something that functions in a way you don’t expect it to. To me when a song comes together and starts to feel real, it’s about a cohesion between the tone of all the melodies and the intention of the words and the feel of everything. I think pop music should be somewhat meaningful.” With Altruism, Key Sung puts his money where his mouth is. The whole work conveys a dense emotional resonance, which stems as much from Key Sung’s emotively invested vocals and unveiled lyrics as his deft minimalist production. The entire EP is narrated from a solitary perspective, and the lyrics frequently deal with cravings for inter-personal connection. Key Sung explains how the EP’s core themes are a response to the sorts of dilemmas that arise from social privilege. “You know when you fulfill a stereotype and it’s scary and you disgust yourself ?” he says. “Say, like me, you’re male and relatively middle class and relatively white, there’s this whole thing of ‘I’m in a number of positions of entitlement’. When some of those clichés play out, they become an aspect of yourself that you’re not necessarily proud of. A lot of the perspective of the EP is somebody who doesn’t like the world and can see themselves falling into the patterns they find disgusting in other adults. It’s a coming of age thing and feeling like the only way to escape is to be solitary and apart from what everybody else is involving themselves in, because they find it a bit gross.” In spite of Key Sung’s use of second person pronouns, Altruism isn’t a purely observational work: “It’s a way of releasing some of the ideas of how people have perceived me in the past,” he says, “and trying to come to terms with how I perceive myself beyond what they’ve projected onto me. Then trying to acknowledge what I have done to them and maybe didn’t intend to – and just because I didn’t mean to, it doesn’t mean I didn’t do it.”
OSCAR KEY SUNG’s Altruism EP is out now through Warner Music. Catch him live on Saturday June 13 at Howler. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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DEE DEE B R I D G E WAT E R SOUL OF THE BIG EASY
By Adam Norris After several wrong connections, when I finally get through to jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater, she’s in cheerful spirits and raring to talk. You’d expect nothing less from a woman who’s not only one of the most esteemed names in the business, but also the host of NPR’s JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Bridgewater will soon be in Australia with Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, promoting their new album Dee Dee’s Feathers, which is steeped in the soul of Bridgewater’s adopted home city. “What is happening in New Orleans now is that it’s a type of renaissance city,” she says. “The people here are very, very proud that the city has come as far as it has in ten years. There are a lot of people who have not and will not come back. Irvin himself lost his father in Katrina. Just working with him is a kind of humbling experience, to see this young man who himself lost so much in Katrina and who believes so whole-heartedly in this city and wants to do so much for his community. I am a person who feels very strongly about family, about close friends and community, and this here is the birthplace of jazz. So to come here and work, to be embraced like I have been ± not just by the band, but by the city itself ± is quite unusual, and I’m very moved by it. It made me feel like I belong.”
This acceptance paved the way for Dee Dee’s Feathers, a collection of traditional jazz favourites embedded in the cultural history of the Big Easy. As it turns out, we’re quite lucky to have this record, because Bridgewater and Mayfield initially didn’t plan on it being a commercial release. “Well, it was originally conceived to be a CD that would be sold only at the new New Orleans Jazz Market,” Bridgewater explains. “But after we recorded it and listened to the final product, I thought ‘This is much better than I had anticipated’. So then my daught-ager, who is my daughter who is my manager, got in touch with Sony who said, ‘Absolutely’. So that’s how that happened.” Bridgewater suddenly drops into a more serious,
reflective tone. “I was in a particular space at the time,” she says, “having had to move cities, get settled in, touring at the same time. It was crazy. I said to my daughter, ‘I just can’t do this.’ So I’m very pleased with the result. It has this live element to it, this rawness, so it doesn’t sound too polished. All I said to Irvin was that I wanted it to have that real feeling of New Orleans, and I wanted to make sure everyone involved in the project was from New Orleans, and this is what we ended with.” In a career spanning four decades, and with highlights as varied as leaves in a gale, it must be incredibly difficult for Bridgewater to isolate the musical moments that have truly stood out for her. However, one that certainly hasn’t faded from memory is Precious Thing, her 1989 duet with the late, remarkable Ray Charles. “Oh, it was so very surreal,” she says, “to find myself in an actual studio and to have him standing across
from me with headphones on, singing. And when Ray says my name in that song, ‘Oh Dee Dee, take your ring,’ I cried. I couldn’t sing and I just started crying. And then he says, ‘What’s the matter, baby girl?’ and we went into the control room, sat down and listened to it, and I thought I sounded like a little girl next to him. And Ray said, ‘I haven’t been inspired by a voice like yours since Betty Carter. Let’s go back in and do the take.’ So we went back in and did the take. It was quite something.”
take the new relationship slowly, you dive back in full throttle and can’t slow down. “I love Star Trek and anything space ± I want to go into space one day ± so I tried to use some ship references in the chorus,” Wilson continues. “‘Lock it in, engage, drop to maxim phase, my love skyrockets into space’ ± it’s a wee-bit cheesy and nerdy, but when Lisa sings it, the words sound powerful. I sang the tune at The Athenaeum when I supported Macy Gray last month and the audience responded well. People dig mushy stuff.” Melbourne’s Women of Soul is not just a showcase of impressive vocalists, but also features some damn fine instrumentation. The band that plays on the record features members of The Putbacks, Cookin’ On 3
Burners and The Bamboos. Wilson feels very fortunate to work with such talented musicians. “It was lovely to have all these different acts come together for the biggest collaboration in the Melbourne soul scene,” she says. Although this album was purely a Melbourne-based effort, in future Wilson hopes to expand the project to record with other “soul sisters” from around Australia.
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER and Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra play at Hamer Hall on Sunday June 7 for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Dee Dee’s Feathers is out now through DDB Productions/ Sony.
WOMEN Of SOUl
D O I N ’ I T F O R T H E M S E LV E S By Ali Birnie
For the past five years, Melbourne’s Women of Soul have been thrilling audiences with their powerful and energetic live performances. Founder Chelsea Wilson reflects on the project’s origins in 2011. “Our first show was actually at Red Bennies on Chapel Street, which featured Candice Monique, Randa Khamis, from Randa and the Soul Kingdom, and myself,” she says. “Randa and I met at the Oz Soul Collective and got to talking about a night featuring Australian soul women, and realised that we’d both been recording with the same band line up, who were actually Candice’s regular band. It isn’t super cost effective to bring over a full band from WA for one show and [Candice and I] loved the idea of a triple gig with Randa. So we all used the same band for the show, named it Women of Soul and amazingly, packed out the venue. The event then just kept growing.” Indeed, over the past few years, Women of Soul has become one of the most popular events in the Melbourne soul scene, with the collective of women regularly performing to sell out crowds. Wilson attributes this success to the party-like atmosphere created at their shows, as well as the diverse assortment of artists involved. In celebration of their fifth anniversary, Women of Soul have released a collaborative album, Melbourne’s
Women of Soul. The ten track release features vocals from Wilson, Monique, Kylie Auldist, Rita Satch, May Johnston, Lisa Faithfull, Stella Angelico and Christina Perfection. Rather than throwing together a compilation or live album, each artist recorded a song especially for the record, which makes it a very unique document. Thanks to the contributions of such an illustrious list of performers, Melbourne’s Women of Soul encapsulates a diverse range of subgenres, including northern soul, funk, neo-soul and garage soul. The album also explores different themes, from survival to heartbreak. Wilson is especially prominent on Melbourne’s Women of Soul; she recorded the solo number Who Told You, performed a duet with Candice Monique, What We Had Back Then, and wrote Accelerate for Lisa Faithfull. “Accelerate is about being so hurt and so broken from past relationships that you have shut down emotionally and haven’t let anyone in for a long time,” she says. “Then you finally meet someone special that makes you open up again and start to fall in love. However, once the flood gates are open, you can’t stop and rather than
Come party with WOMEN OF SOUL at Malvern Town Hall on Friday May 22. It’s part of Stonnington Jazz Festival’s 10th anniversary celebrations and the women will be performing tributes to their jazz idols, plus tracks from the new album.
J A Z Z PA R T Y
AI N ’T MISBEHAVI N By Augustus Welby
Going out and getting trashed on a Saturday night can be such a drag. Wherever you go, either the dance floor’s over-crowded or the music’s just plain terrible, so you end up idling by the bar and spending way too much money. But Monday night fun is of a distinctly different flavour. Instead of getting as hammered as possible, so as to keep up with the prevailing trend, it’s about genuinely enjoying yourself. When it comes to facilitating a damn good time, Melbourne’s Jazz Party collective have got you covered. “Monday night has always been my favourite,” says saxophonist and Jazz Party founder Darcy McNulty. “No one’s ever got anything on ± anyone in music or hospitality ± and you don’t get the Saturday night vibe.” McNulty began his career busking on the streets of Brisbane. Before long, he was playing alongside the city’s cutting edge jazz musos, but his greatest inspiration came during regular visits to Melbourne.“I’d see Paul Williamson Hammond Combo play on a Monday night,” he says. “That was free and that was my favourite gig anywhere. You could just walk in and you’d hear this unbelievable music.” After moving to Melbourne himself, McNulty seamlessly integrated into the local scene. Yet, despite being populated by stacks of quality musicians, he identified a strange uniformity in the Melbourne jazz scene. “You just go to so many gigs and they’re all the same,” he says. “It seems like very little thought ever goes into them.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
Thus, with help from Wondercore Island’s Si Gould, Jazz Party was born. Over the last few years, Jazz Party have held month-long Monday Night residencies at a range of Melbourne venues, and every Monday in May, Jazz Party are taking over St Kilda’s recently refurbished Memo Music Hall. McNulty’s core associates in the Jazz Party collective are vocalist, pianist and co-leader Hue Blanes, bassist Jules Pascoe and guitarist Aleister Campbell. As the name suggests, McNulty and co. are devoted to generating an inclusive good times atmosphere. “It’s a pretty easy formula,” he says, “having it free and not having a stage and having a piano and having it on Monday night. There’s such a different vibe when a gig’s free ± it just loosens people up a lot more. Also you get a lot more young people if the gig’s free.” Given Jazz Party’s emphasis on loose, uninhibited fun, it comes as no surprise that their repertoire consists of high-energy hot jazz, straight out of New Orleans. “We
play anything that’s danceable and anything that’s fun,” McNulty says. “Like Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton. Kermit Ruffins ± who still plays every week in New Orleans ± is one of our heroes.” There’s still two weeks left to catch Jazz Party at the Memo, but if getting out on a Monday night just isn’t feasible, they’re also playing at Melbourne Bowling Club this Friday night for Stonnington Jazz Festival. Meanwhile, all those people eager to engage in Monday night revelry needn’t worry about missing the first two weeks at the Memo, as the best is yet to come. “Usually the first ones can be a little bit quieter then it’s always cranking by the last one,” McNulty says. “There’s
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always people there and the people always dance. We’ve never done one where people haven’t danced, which is great especially for a jazz gig. We’ve had the bar staff dancing on the tables. Generally it gets pretty raucous. I mean, we haven’t had everyone take off their clothes yet, but we’re getting there. [Perhaps in St Kilda], no one knows what goes on down there.” Join the JAZZ PARTY fracas on Monday May 18 and Monday May 25 at the Memo Music Hall. You can also get involved at their Stonnington Jazz Festival gig this Friday May 15 at Melbourne Bowling Club.
T H E C AT F I S H
CRAF T BEER AND A THREE DAY GROWTH By Augustus Welby Craft beer, it’s everywhere now. Heck, even your mum drinks it. So, what’s the trouble? The ubiquity of independently owned, expertly brewed beer hasn’t made it taste any less delicious. Besides, even if you’re a craft beer aficionado, chances are you haven’t tried them all. And if you have, then what a blessed (and bloated) life you must lead. The Catfish on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy stocks a wondrous selection of craft beer all year-round. Along with 12 on-tap selections – the names of which are chalked onto the wall and likely to change during the course of an evening – they’ve got a fridge full of dangerously large and intriguingly labeled bottles. It’s enough to provoke shrieks of glee from even the most advanced hop-o-phile. “We like slinging booze without pretension. We want people to try it,” says Catfish co-owner Kieran Yewdall. “The good thing is that in a lot of the bars around here, in Fitzroy and North Carlton and North Fitzroy, there are a lot of good beer fans. We specialise in beer, but we do sell everything else as well – we have a good range of spirits and a good range of wine. We don’t want to rip people off. We want to serve it the cheapest we can and encourage people to try something different. There’s so much good booze out there, there’s no point getting stuck on the same thing.” The Catfish is one of many Melbourne pubs committed
to making every week a good beer week. Given that Saturday May 16 till Sunday May 24 is officially Good Beer Week, their extensive beer supply will become even more voluminous. “We’ve got 12 taps and they’re just going to change,” Yewdall says. “After every keg goes, something else is going to go on. Because it’s Good Beer Week, every time you come in we’re going to have a different beer for everyone.” To coincide with Good Beer Week, The Catfish will be unveiling their newly renovated upstairs band room. “We’re going to make it a bit more pleasant to sit in,” Yewdall says. “I think the last time it was refurbished was back in the ‘80s when it was a Mediterranean restaurant. It’s going to be a much more comfortable place to be in to watch music, but also just a more comfortable place to hang out when we don’t have a band on.” Speaking of music, over the course of the week, there’ll be free shows from The Tarantinos, The New Savages,
That Gold Street Sound and DJ Richie 1250. The venue’s major Good Beer Week event is Monsters of Hop, which goes down on opening night. Along with four of Melbourne’s heaviest bands, including Whitehorse and Kromosom, The Catfish have sourced some especially dark, hop-stuffed concoctions from the Edge, Feral, Dainton and KAIJU breweries. “It’s basically four big beers and four big metal bands,” says Yewdall. “For 25 bucks, they’re all very good name bands and you get four beer tasters or your choice of one pint.” Of course, live music and quality beer are perfect companions. Yet, for goodness knows how long, overpriced commercial beer has dominated bandroom bars. Fortunately, venues like The Catfish are working to remedy this inconsistency. Plus, along with the added sensual kicks, diversifying one’s beer choices serves a range of benefits.
“A lot of the big beers that people drink are owned by international organisations,” Yewdall says. “Most of our beers are by Australians. One’s imported from Richmond, one’s imported from Brunswick and one’s imported from Thornbury – as opposed to beers owned by a South African company based in London [SABMiller]. So you’re looking after local industry, but the other thing is there’s less chance of a hangover. It tastes really good and you don’t get a hangover from it, because you’re drinking something nice and fresh and that’s natural and doesn’t have all these preservatives and additives and chemicals pumped into it.”
Shaffer, Lou Reed and Nirvana, and she’ll assist the owners in promoting the centre and building it into an entertainment powerhouse. “These days it’s so tough for young bands to even cover costs on the road,” Scott says, “so really the only way a band is going to kick on is if they can find a market overseas. But if you’re a young band, how do you do that? How do they find that market overseas, without contacts, without any experience?” Robnett’s involvement will help Australian bands in making connections with overseas contacts and markets. “Lynn actually signed an artist that we had made a record with,” Scott says, “so we got a relationship going with Lynn. This vision kind of organically happened between myself, Dan and Lynn over a period of time, just talking about this concept. There’s just so much good music happening down here, but none of them
really know how to make that jump. “What if there was someone here in Melbourne that had the experience, had the contacts to help bands make that leap? It’s actually a bit of a roll of the dice, we don’t know exactly how it’s going to look, but it’s something that we believe is worth a shot, because there are markets overseas where there’s money to be made and there are acts that we’ve worked with who are doing just that right now.”
what happened is, he wrote all of these songs that just weren’t really Good Ship songs. Some were, but a lot weren’t. So things got really hard for him. I think he felt like he didn’t want to apply this arbitrary condition to what he wanted to be doing. As a songwriter it was really challenging to him, and in the end, as his songwriting was developing, well...” Lees pauses. “It was developing away from the band. Not choosing to, but that’s how it was. And I think eventually he felt it was pulling him away from where he thought he should be going.” Harris wasn’t the only one feeling change in the air. The only thing worse than seeing the project you love come to a close is seeing it pushed to the point of exhaustion, where your workload muddies the memories of grander times. “I think everyone was feeling it, and we all had those conversations,” Lees says. “But it wasn’t some great big, nuclear doomsday screaming-fest at all. Everyone in the band are adults – most of the time [laughs]. Over time we all came together and knew that this is what we really should do. “There was definitely a sense of, ‘Well, we have six years of work and what do we have to show for it?’ A hell of a
lot. I don’t think there’s anyone thinking, ‘Well, we put a whole lot of work in and we got bloody nothing’. We have three albums, videos, a fantastic trip to Canada, we have the stage musical [The Seven Seas]. We stretched ourselves artistically, we stretched ourselves as an Australian band, and we had a lot of fun.” And now, we find ourselves with but two final shows; the last chance to see, the last chance to play. “I hope audiences are going to walk away feeling that we have paid them respect,” Lees says, “and that we have shown them how much we appreciate them. That’s the main thing. I know so many people, friends and fans, and I see those people sharing our videos on Facebook, they come to the shows, they like our posts – I just think, ‘Wow.’ That is a just a lovely thing to have in your life, we’re really lucky, and we’re about to say goodbye to that. We want to give them as good a show as we possibly can, because it’s their last show as well as ours. That’s what I would like audience members to remember.”
Want to put Yewdall’s theory to the test? Head down to THE CATFISH for a pint or ten during Good Beer Week, which runs from Saturday May 16 till Sunday May 24.
WICK STUDIOS IGNITING THE WICK
By Rod Whitf ield Wick Studios in Brunswick has arisen from the ashes of the old Dane Centre rehearsal studios, and it aims to be far more than a place where rock bands jam. According to coowner and Australian music luminary Glenn Scott, the building has a prestigious, storied history, so it was about time someone gave it a proverbial lick of paint and brought it into the 21st century. “A couple of years ago, our rehearsal space got flooded,” says Scott, “so that engendered a bit of a sit-down with me and my business partners. The music industry is not in a healthy state, so investing in the music business is a bit of a reach. We had a recording studio and we had 13 rehearsal rooms that were pretty run down, they were very old, very tired, the systems were very old. It was one of those situations where we just had to pack up and go home, or re-invest seriously and look at it as a serious business. So we’ve built 15 recording studio quality rooms.” Beyond simply being a rehearsal studio, the revamped Wick Studios is set to become a massive, full blown music and arts hub, where creative people of just about every type can come, hang out, network and practise their art. “There was a lot of real estate there,” Scott says. “The
front reception area was huge. We’re taking it slowly, but we’ve built it with a mind to it becoming a full bar and café. Next door there was a huge auditorium that we’ve turned into our live recording studio. We’ve been getting a lot of high-end rehearsal in there, like Leo Sayer just rehearsed there before his tour, Joe Camilleri and all those guys just rehearsed there. But you could fit 400 people in that room. So that’s the vision; to turn those areas into live venues by the end of the year. “Apart from that, we’ve also got the photographic studio,” he adds, “and that fits into the rest of the framework. There’s video production there as well.” Scott and his business partner Dan Corless have appointed American music industry professional Lynn Robnett as the venue’s Director of Entertainment and Development. Robnett has previously worked with the likes of Rob Zombie, David Hasselhoff, Paul
The brand new WICK STUDIOS has its grand opening this Sunday, May 17. Things kick off at 2pm, with live music from Ella Hooper, Mojo Juju, Shaun Kirk, Oscar Bublé and the Butterboys, Eleven, The Seaford Monster, Sub Rosa and My Echo.
THE GOOD SHIP
ALL GOOD SHIPS MUST SINK By Adam Norris
After six raucous years, three albums, and countless bawdy adventures, The Good Ship have finally given in to the siren’s call and are poised to sail off the edge of the world. It has been a winding saga for the Brisbane band, who have entertained audiences from Melbourne to Canada and seen almost thirty musicians weave in and out of their crew. Ahead of this weekend’s farewell show, Beat speaks to drummer and all-round gadabout James Lees about the strange successes of the band; why they feel it’s the right time for scuttling; and what to anticipate from their last hurrah. “Good Ship went through four drummers in their first year,” Lees recalls. “I don’t know if there was some kind of Spinal Tap thing happening, some gardening accident or spontaneous combustions, but I’ve somehow survived. One thing I really liked when I joined is, I saw them being quite filthy, quite funny, but underneath there was something dark. A kind of Nick Cave vibe beneath some of the music, and that was the part that really attracted me. We’ve only got maybe five or six songs that have that nautical theme, but it’s kind of what has branded the band. We tend to go more for the dark, fucked up cabaret feel. You can come perilously close to being a band that only sings about certain topics – turn into a novelty band, you know? We didn’t want to do that, but we wanted that aspect in there somewhere. We wanted it to be quite a moveable thing we can just play with as needed.” To that end, they’ve been hugely successful. Few bands can claim to be as malleable as The Good Ship over the years, and also retain their audience and creative core.
This was put to the test when one of the band’s founding members – and principal singer-songwriter – Daz Gray departed at the end of 2013, presumably clutching a faded treasure-map to his chest and cackling wildly as he disappeared into the jungle. “That had two really big effects on the band,” Lees says. “The first was that a very large amount of material we just couldn’t perform any more, because they were Daz’s songs. So we lost a large amount of our repertoire. It also affected Brett Harris, the other singer/songwriter on the album, who had two songs on the second album, one song on the first and a couple of new ones coming up.” Lees sighs, and for the rest of the interview, while he’s quick to laugh and seems at ease with the band’s decision, he sounds saddened by the impending end. “We were needing to fill that space,” he continues, “which Brett totally stepped up to do, and wrote a whole lot of new music. I think Good Ship for him, but also for everybody, gave this huge boost in confidence for our individual recordings and projects. But I think
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Excellent local band The Pretty Littles revealed the video for their single Man Baby last week, as well as sharing details of an upcoming mini-album. Gospel will be released on June 9, before the band go on tour with Ceres and Sincerely, Grizzly. There are two Melbourne shows scheduled, so make sure you get along to The Tote on June 27 or The Old Bar on July 25. If you want to see The Pretty Littles at their official Gospel launch then lock in The Workers Club show on July 31. After the massive success of the last couple of Parkway Drive DVDs it ’s kind of surprising that it took so long for Amity Affliction to follow suit with a film of their own. Seems Like Forever has been slated for release this July and will feature interviews with the band, management, label, booking agents and some ‘high profile’ Amity fans. If winter was starting to feel a little cold then Rocky Votolato and Chuck Ragan are destined to warm us right up with their new split 10”, which is coming out on Side One Dummy Records next month. Kindred Spirit is going to cure what ails you. Blueline Medic and Fear Like Us have booked in a bunch of rad shows this June as part of an informal (but very exciting) mini-tour. Can’t WAI T to see this one at The Rev on June 5. Local supports to be added to each show shortly. A fantastic video popped up on our internets last week of Laura Jane Grace, Joan Jett and Miley Cyrus performing a Replacements song together. Feelings were mixed, emotions were high, cynicism was through the roof, but my gosh we enjoyed what we heard. The three sing a pretty little version of Androgynous as part of the promotion for Cyrus’ Happy Hippy Foundation (supporting homeless youth, LGBT youth and other vulnerable populations). Cyrus: 1, Us: 0. After everyone went and got so excited about Gwar adding Kim Dylla’s Vulvatron to their lineup, the band has dropped Dylla in a not very nice public manner. The band announced that Dylla will no longer perform with them saying, “Kim did a great job, but we wanted to go a different direction with the Vulvatron character. No ill will, no drama.”. Dylla had other thoughts though when she posted, “It’s really nice when you find out important things from people you consider to be your friends from posts on the internet and messages from strangers. There is something called basic respect not existing in that modus of communication.” “Never get famous – it sucks,” she concluded. Melbourne pop-punk staple The Playbook have released a new track and video with a new singer. Built To Break showcases the skills of new vocalist Laura D’Urbano. There’s a new album slated for release later this year. Exciting stuff.
The Bendigo Hotel has a Saturday absolutely packed with excellent local punk rock this week. From 2-6pm see Hostile Objects launch their new 7” Cave In on their first trip south of the border for over a year. Then stick around from 8pm-onwards to see Brissy’s Gifthorse play tracks from their new album Give My Body To This Town, with support from Union Pacific, Maricopa Wells and Tigers.
CORE GIG GUIDE WEDnEsDay May 13:
• Karnivool, Cairo Knife Fight at the Corner Hotel • The Nuremberg Code, Bond Street Vandals, The Archaic, Drivetime Commute at The Bendigo
ThURsDay May 14:
• Miles Away, Blacklisted at Northcote Social Club • Karnivool, Cairo Knife Fight at Corner Hotel • Among The Abyss, Caution:Thieves, Nemoya at Next • King Parrot, High Tension, Colossvs at The Loft, Warrnambool • Courtney Barnett, Teeth and Tongue at The Forum
FRIDay May 15:
• Red Fang at Prince Bandroom • Agent 37, The Suicide Tuesdays, Dead Joe, Bombs Are Falling, The Shorts, The Punching Ponies at The Brunswick Hotel • Clowns, Summer Blood at The Loft, Warrnambool • Courtney Barnett, Teeth and Tongue at The Forum • Karnivool, Cairo Knife Fight at Kay St, Traralgon
saTURDay May 16:
• The Gifthorse, The Union Pacific, Maricopa Wells, Tigers at The Bendigo Hotel • Courtney Barnett, Teeth and Tongue at The Forum • King Parrot, High Tension, Colossvs at The Corner Hotel • Conation, Outright, Choke, Caged Grave, Diploid, Sick Machine at The Reverence Danger! Earthquake, Evolution of Self at Bang • Hostile Objects, Trench Sisters, Organ Donor, Bombs Over Brunswick at The Bendigo (afternoon) • Karnivool, Cairo Knife Fight at The Wool Exchange, Geelong
sUnDay May 17:
• Dance Gavin Dance, Acrasia, The Valley Ends, Gladstone at Corner Hotel • King Parrot, High Tension, Colossvs at Wrangler Studios
METAL AT THE BENDIGO
Mar Mortuum will slay The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood this Friday May 15. Following the recent release of Nihilistic Advance, Mar Mortuum return to the stage for a horrifying night of black metal. Joining them are razor sharp melodic black metal outfit Sorathian Dawn (NSW), playing for the very first time in Melbourne; Atra Vetosus, bringing their intense live show back to the mainland from their Tasmanian home; Maniaxe, the email simply says “These bastards will kill you. You know what they do and you know how hard they fucking do it.”; and the suffocating barrage of death metal madness that is Oligarch.
THE AMITY AFFLICTION ANNOUNCE DOCUMENTARY DVD
The Amity Affliction will release their first documentary DVD, Seems Like Forever, on Friday July 10. A film spanning their extraordinary story thus far, Seems Like Forever will be available to pre-order via 24hundred.net on Thursday May 14. It’s an access-allareas look at the band’s history, including footage from their early days through to last year’s epic Let The Ocean Take Me World Tour. It documents their meteoric rise to become one of Australia’s most accomplished bands and features interviews with the team that have supported them over that time, including their management, label Roadrunner Records, booking agents and even some high profile Amity fans (you’ll have to watch to find out who). Australian fans ordering Seems Like Forever pre-release via the 24hundred.net store can also choose from a number of preorder-only merchandise bundles, with one-off exclusive designs, and some strictly limited bundles also include a ticket to see Seems Like Forever before anyone else at advance screening events in each capital city. A special deluxe edition of the band’s #1 ARIA album, Let the Ocean Take Me will also be available digitally from July 10 and feature previously unreleased tracks Skeletons and Forever.
incomparable. The band will perform tracks from their latest album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, which debuted at 16 on the ARIA charts, plus plenty of favourites from their extensive back catalogue. For the first time ever in Australia, Nightwish are also offering strictly limited VIP meet and greet passes, available for only 20 people per show, obtainable exclusively from metalobsession.net. You can catch Nightwish at The Forum Theatre on Monday January 11.
SEPULTURA FEATURING STEVE VAI
Whoa. On the weekend, Steve Vai joined Sepultura at the Rock In Rio USA festival in Las Vegas to perform 15 minutes worth of awesomeness including Sepultura’s Roots, Bloody Roots and his own Bad Horsie. And holy crap, the energy and aggressiveness of this performance was utterly amazing. You can find it on YouTube and I highly recommend checking it out.
SLEEPING WITH SIRENS PREMIERE NEW VIDEO
Sleeping With Sirens, fronted by Kellin Quinn, released their chart-topping new record Madness earlier this year, and the band has just unveiled the music video for the album’s lead single The Strays. Go check it out on the YouTubes.
NEW FAITH NO MORE ALBUM THIS WEEK
The wait is so ver y, very nearly over. Faith No More’s new album Sol Invictus is released this Friday May 15 and, believe me, it ’s as good as all the pre-release reviews say it is. My favourite is from Kerrang editor James McMahon who tweeted back in February, “Struggling to review the Faith No More record. The best I’ve got so far is, ‘remember how you felt when you first watched Star Wars’.”
MÖTLEY CRÜE THIS WEEK
THE RETURN OF NIGHTWISH
If you’re reading this on Wednesday you missed last night’s Mötley Crüe show at Rod Laver Arena (with Alice Cooper), but you might still be able to get tickets for tonight’s, which will be your final opportunity to see Mötley Crüe in Melbourne ever again since they’re pulling the pin on the whole shebang in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
to try new things, but Slattery says – to borrow a phrase from Crowded House – that it ’s only natural. “I wouldn’t say it was completely intentional. I think it was just a different approach to creating. We had a month off last year in America because it was too expensive to fly back between two tours, so we had four weeks in which we just wrote, rehearsed and created. Instead of how we were used to doing it – which is our two guitarists just riffing back and forth – we had all five of us in a barn together. We were able to explore different elements – go slower, go heavier, go faster. It all came down to the way we were writing.” If you’re one of the select few that’s yet to see King Parrot live, you’ll have ample chance to do so in the coming weeks. The band are touring nationally in support of Dead Set. Joining them will be cutthroat punk-metal proponents High Tension, as well as blackened-doom barnstormers Colossvs. It’s a
decidedly-mixed bill, which is something Slattery and the rest of King Parrot pride themselves on. “I’ve absolutely no interest in going to a show where every band sounds the same,” he says. “That’s what metal is – it ’s so many different things. I think that punters will feel the same. It’s so much better when every band on a bill is bringing something different to the table. That’s why you’ve got ot get there early and you’ve got to stick around till the end. With us three together, honestly, it ’s going to blow people away.”
The mighty Nightwish return to Australia in January 2016. Led by the orchestration, direction and musical genius of the band’s founder and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, the brilliant vocal range of Floor Jansen (now an official member after helping the band out on their last tour), the great guitar work of Emppu Vuorinen and bassist Marco Hietala, and intertwined with the uplifting and atmospheric pipe work from Troy Donockley, Nightwish are pretty much
KInG PaRROT RATHER BE DEAD By DavID JaMEs yOUnG
It’s late on a Monday afternoon, and Wayne Slattery has just come out of a meeting. Not a Flight of the Conchords-esque band meeting, mind you ± when he’s not busy playing bass for Australia’s wildest metal sensation, King Parrot, Slattery’s an everyday office worker. Thankfully, he hasn’t had to enact a Superman/ Clark Kent subterfuge to deal with his mild-mannered co-workers. “They’re very proud of me,” Slattery says, with a laugh. “Every time I come back from tour, they want to know all the details.” It’s worth mentioning that, in recent months, King Parrot have spent more time on tour than not. Since the release of their debut album, 2012’s Bite Your Head Off, the Melbourne quintet haven’t let anything stand in their way; tallying up multiple national tours and international jaunts that grow bigger with every return. “We’ve been going back and forth overseas for a good six months,” says Slattery, who is also known as Slatts (or Auntie Slatts if you’re nasty). “We’ve definitely noticed a shift in the audience and an increase in support for the band, including a lot of high-profile people getting on board and showing us some love. It’s pretty ridiculous, but we have worked bloody hard to get to this point.” King Parrot are very much a band needs to be seen to be understood. To bring someone up to speed with the band’s character, you could do far worse than show them a King Parrot music video, the most famous being the Bonox-endorsing viral sensation Shit on the Liver. The video, with all of its ensuing catchphrases (“It’s in the system,” “Jeez, I’ve had a good day” et al.), set a precedent in terms of the band’s audio-visual identity. While many would consider this a burden, Slatts sees it as a challenge. “I get emails from people that have never listened to heavy metal in their life – they just like the videos,” he laughs. “We get shared around offices and things BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32
like that. You have no idea how many jars of Bonox I’ve had to sign every time we visit a regional town. We’ve really come to enjoy making them – when that first video came out, we more or less had no idea what we were doing. We were just looking to draw attention to the band, especially for people that’d never seen us live before.” A key feature of King Parrot’s film clips is the connection between the band’s extremely aggressive music and dark visual humour. “We always play our music professionally, but away from that we’re all just fucking around,” says Slattery. “We always like to inject humour into what we do. I know there are a lot of bands out there that are predominantly concerned with their corpse paint or looking tough or what have you. There’s certainly a place for that, but at the same time, I think there’s room to be a bit of a fuckwit as well.” This week King Parrot will release their second album, Dead Set. Fans have already been treated to the singles Like a Rat and Home is Where the Gutter Is. The latter, in particular, deviates from the faithful take on extreme thrash and grindcore that dominates Bite Your Head Off. In contrast, Where the Gutter Is is a slower, blackened metal song, with vocalist Matt Young showcasing a far lower range than what King Parrot fans would be used to. One might assume tracks like this are the result of the band challenging themselves
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KING PARROT’s new album Dead Set is out this Friday May 15 via EVP Recordings. They’re playing at The Corner Hotel on Saturday May 16, as well as The Loft, Warnambool on Thursday May 16 and Wrangler Studio, Footscray on Sunday May 17.
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ROCKNROLL A 2 The Prince Bandroom, Friday May 8 It seemed like another run-of-the-mill night in St Kilda. People were stumbling around the street, either trotting in high heels or clad in suit jacket and jeans that mimicked the fashion prowess of Jeremy Clarkson. But behind the glitz lay a den of the filthiest and most misplaced noise south of the Yarra. With none other than Melbourne’s premiere punk blokes Mighty Boys headlining the show, RocknRolla’s second instalment was still raw and lively despite being placed in an odd location, thus proving an adequate birthday night for show host and local live music champion Dan Watt. Showgoers were greeted by a barber’s chair with added barber, and many a head shaving took place in a side room separate from where the bands played. Up first were Tasmania’s Verticoli, who, while appearing well-rehearsed, didn’t necessarily play an inspiring set. The band’s music offered little to grasp, besides a few interesting instrumentals nestled firmly in their otherwise average rock‘n’roll sound. Striking hard and fast, Kill Dirty Youth ripped the floor open with metal-inspired grunge rock; tore the room apart with blast beats and scream driven rock; and grabbed bits and pieces from other genres to put together a Frankenstein’s monster of sets. While punishing at first, the band did well to scare off any remaining yuppies (one woman literally curled her immaculately manicured fingers back in ‘oh my god’ terror). Though, unfortunately they didn’t maintain that fire, and the latter part of the set consisted of slower, less chaotic grunge songs.
Clowns
Finally, Mighty Boys took the stage in what was possibly this year’s most unexpectedly fantastic set for multiple reasons. RocknRolla attendants were treated to a version of Mighty Boys even greater than before ± an eight-piece beast that showcased their signature tongue-in-cheek viciousness along with a newfound technicality. All eight members used their individual talents in a much more intelligent manner than before, incorporating clever lead guitar riffs, dramatically chopped musical breaks and smart drumming. Never fear, though, because when frontman Keats howled like a mad dog, he still fit in perfectly with the instruments. It signalled some big steps forward for Mighty Boys, which the moshing crowd were more than OK with. The set wrapped up with an encore that featured birthday boy Dan Watt taking vocal duties. Happy birthday buddy, RocknRolla was a blast. BY THOMAS BRAND LOVED: The girl singing wildly right in front of the stage. YOU. ARE. A. HERO. HATED: The ‘bro’ who tried to mosh with four people in front of the stage. YOU. ARE. A. DOUCHE. DRANK: Nothing, again. Should I claim straight edge?
ALT-J Rod Laver Arena, Sunday May 10
Pics by David Harris Red Fang
Pics by Ian Laidlaw
CHERRYROCK15 AC/DC Lane, Sunday May 10 A layer of cigarette smoke hangs above the crowd like the pollution clouds of Hong Kong, cartons of Melbourne Bitter are being sold faster than they can physically appear and there are emergency ponchos for sale next to the cider. That means that CherryRock15 is here mother-funksters. Boasting two stages, 13 bands and no clashes, it’s a rather exciting affair. In a sea of ginger beards, blue denim and Stetson hats, Melbourne doom duo Dr. Colossus kick off proceedings to a dedicated and already bustling crowd. The Ugly Kings are up next and they don’t disappoint with the bluesrock sound and impressive baritone we’ve come to expect from the Melbourne four-piece. Everyone who jumps to the Cherry Bar Stage to catch My Left Boot becomes enveloped in one honker of a riff-storm and front man Matt Chapman’s powerful Robert Plant vocals. This is one serious live show that prepares viewers nicely for HITS. The Brisbane five-piece have to contend with the wind tunnel that AC/DC lane has become, resulting in the visual delight of whirling smoke, billowing hair and a lead guitarist who comes dangerously close to being entangled in the glittering red backdrop. With thick guitar tones and all the doom one needs, Horsehunter finish their set with We Hate The Australian Government – and my God, you don’t doubt it. As the sun starts to set Thor’s glowing red lightning bolt is hovering above the stage as Beastwars tear
shit up accordingly, and one hardy bloke down the front gets mutilated in the name of sludge metal by a flailing dreadlock. Melbourne punk rockers Clowns deliver the most outrageously vibrant show of the day, before LA acidnibblers and professional hair-growers The Shrine drench the lane in some riff-ridden, psychedelic rock’n’roll. F*ck the Fitzroy Doom Scene put on a sexy show that eats up the last of our blood sugar and gains “four thumbs up” from a very impressed member of the crowd. Red Fang are unsurprisingly excellent with some hearty power lunges that leave everyone drifting off home to glue their faces back together and get the smell of sweat out of their delicates. Let’s hope the marvelous James “Cherry Bar” Young can bribe local establishments again next year to keep this truly excellent show of homegrown talent and rock deliciousness installed in its rightful home. Who needs eardrums anyway?
Alt-J have been good to Australia. Since playing their first Australian show at Ding Dong Lounge back in 2012, they’ve returned to our shores faithfully, sampling from a smorgasbord of Melbourne venues. Over the last three years, they’ve probably been to Australia more times than some international artists will in a lifetime. After selling out last October’s show at the 3,300 capacity Forum, they decided to give their fans a break and move to the roughly 15,000 capacity Rod Laver Arena (which was nearly sold out). As the arena filled, Icelandic singer/songwriter Ásgeir put on a pleasant performance, with his song King and Cross getting the kind of reaction that up and coming artists in support slots usually do when they play their one big song. Unfortunately, I was up in reserved seating (a very good reserved seat at that), meaning any sort of reaction to the music would have to be conveyed with some awkward chair grooving. But it wasn’t a total bore up in the seats. A fan a few rows in front of me did take it upon himself to bow down a few times and hop up for a quick boogie, so plus-ten to him. Anyway, having seen alt-J a few times, I’ve noticed they’re nicely progressing into the role of rock stars. Lead vocalist Joe Newman hopped around on stage, led sing-a-longs and
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interacted with the crowd with a newfound fervour. It was on songs like Fitzpleasure and Bloodflood that the four boys from Leeds truly showed off why they’ve sold out some of the biggest arenas in the world, pumping out heavy instrumentation and flawless harmonies. As to be expected, there were a few sound hiccups throughout the night, but nothing so unsavoury as to take away from the electric energy that coursed throughout Rod Laver. As for their stage show, it was as simple as their all black ensembles, yet effective. Graphics swam across an LED screen and colourful lights illuminated the massive crowd. One of the night’s most alt-J moments came with Tessellate, which boomed through the mammoth speakers as oceans of fog engulfed the stage and a swarm of triangles were raised in the air. The four-piece included songs from both their breakthrough debut An Awesome Wave and its follow-up, This Is All Yours. From the latter, The Gospel of John Hurt came across splendidly, which isn’t surprising since its huge breakdown is practically made for the arena environment, while the former’s closing track Taro was showcased exquisitely in an extended rendition. After their regular set, they emerged for an encore that was capped off by their big hit, Breezeblocks. It had everyone singing, “Please don’t go, I love you so,” but eventually the four-piece laid down their instruments, exiting the stage with excited grins plastered across their faces. BY LAUREN GILL LOVED: The guy in GA who was dancing with his crutches in the air. HATED: Chair grooving (or the lack thereof ). DRANK: Nothing, just stared longingly at those $13 daiquiris with the light up cups.
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LOVED: The wind, hair and guitars. HATED: That no one caught Clowns frontman Stevie during one particularly extravagant stage dive. DRANK: DOOM and cider.
JACK L ADDER AND THE DREAML ANDERS Howler, Friday May 8 Performing solo, Alex Cameron seems taller, more angular and thinner than he is in Seekae. The long hair, the slick business attire, the gaunt appearance; he could be mistaken for a reverential Melbourne icon, circa 1989. That, or a mix of Roxy Music-era Brian Eno and Nosferatu. But Cameron has enough chutzpah to set him apart and command attention. His moves resembled Simon Bonney and Ron Peno, but backed by tape loops and Roy Molloy on sax, the likes of Take Care Of Business, Happy Ending and The Comeback flourished. Cameron gyrated his lanky frame around the stage without being bashful and it was a great reward for effort. After a short break, a mob of tall, angular and thin types took to the stage. Are we working on a theme? The stage was bookended by sartorial bass-beast Doney Benet, who could be a fusion of Dave Graney and Ron Jeremy, and guitarist Kirin J Callinan, who radiated even more once bare-chested. Standing in the centre, Jack Ladder towered over the audience and launched into a thoroughly enjoyable set with Come On Back This Way. Without Sharon Van Etten’s vocals, this song and To Keep And Be Kept could be said to lack something intrinsic. However,
the band delivered these songs in sterling manner. The melodic rotations and adroit understanding of purpose meant Her Hands and The Miracle were pulled off meritoriously. This impression grew with a colossal rendition of Hurtsville. There were times when individual musicians came close to virtuosity but not to the extent that they became tedious or severe. This show was full of memorable snippets that could not be easily forgotten. It was everything indie dreams are made of; rich with eccentricity and fascination, and less concerned with commercial achievement than attempting to document a lascivious, grotty and dark world. BRONIUS ZUMERIS LIKED: Being surrounded by mirror images of Steve Martin and James Belushi. HATED: “Seat taken” means “Seat taken”. They are not confusing words. DRANK: Very little. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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Q&A
THE NUREMBERG CODE
WEDNESDAY MAY 13
Help Nepal! Fundraiser
BENDIGO HOTEL
Grunge rock, heavy metal riffs, mathpunk and hardcore are having an unholy child of a set come Wednesday May 13, so hit the Bendigo Hotel and shake off those Wednesday blues by moshing your ribs off with this loose as fuck set. Tonight’s guests are Bond Street Vandals with The Archaic, DriveTime Commute and The Nuremberg Code. Doors open at 7.30pm, entry is $5.
You’re hosting a fundraiser to help Nepal. Tell us why you decided to put together this event. We wanted to attempt to do something big to help. Music is the best way to bring people together. Especially when it’s for a good cause. Proceeds from the night will help Nepal in the aftermath of their tragedy. What will the money help to accomplish? All money will be going towards the rescue teams, emergency services and children without homes/ parents – their medical costs, clean water and shelter. Proceeds will be going to The Big Umbrella and GlobalGiving. Can you tell us about these organisations? GlobalGiving is a charity fundraising website that gives social entrepreneurs and non-profits anywhere in the world a chance to raise the money needed to improve their communities. The Big Umbrella is an NGO based in Australia, which works with international and local partners to address issues impacting on marginalised youth and children. You’ve put together a big lineup, with eight bands all playing free of charge. Can you tell us a bit about a few of these acts? Jane Sea is an acoustic singer/songwriter that loves artists like Matt Corby, Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, Nirvana and Missy Higgins. Kevin Murphy is an Irish born musician who has a big fanbase all around the globe due to his hypnotising, incredibly emotional and soft harmonic tunes. Cameron Holmes plays the slide guitar and sings a very memorable, melodic tune. Influences include anything from John Lee Hooker through to various current day artists.
SEEDY JEEZUS CHERRY BAR
TASH SULTANA
Seedy Jeezus are hitting Cherry Bar for part two of their May residency, taking their beards and riffs out for rockin’ sets from the church of sweet jams. This installment has guests Motherslug and Two Headed Dog supporting – get to Cherry Bar from 6pm to catch a steadfast set of Wednesday night rock. Doors open at 6pm, entry is $5.
HOWLER
Week two of the 123 Agency Takeover brings Tash Sultana to the stage, a 19 year old roots reggae/folk inspired singer/songwriter from Melbourne. After an independently successful beginning, 2014 saw Tash Sultana release her EP Yin Yang, play regional and interstate shows, festivals, triple j airplay, community radio airplay, and some television appearances. 2015 is the journey of new direction and focus on her music. With the recent release of her 3rd EP Higher, her carefully crafted, edgy fusion of multi-instrumental pieces, beat-boxing and percussion styled finger tapping guitar will leave you in awe. Get your tickets for $15.30+BF when the doors open this Wednesday May 13 at 7.30pm.
HELP NEPAL by heading along to the gig this Sunday May 17 at The Purple Emerald in Northcote.
THURSDAY MAY 14
THE YOUNG SAVIOURS BENDIGO HOTEL
Years on from The Vaudevillains, Adrian Whyte joins blues backbeat man Scot Aird and jazz bassist extroardinaire Hiroki Hoshino to form The Young Saviors, knocking out music culminating from over ten years of songwriting and performing experience in the psychobilly and rockabilly genre. Joined by none other than good friends Sans Sheriff, with James Chrystal opening the night as a solo act, get out of the house this Thursday May 14 and down to The Bendigo Hotel to see what this bunch of now grown up psychos have been doing with themselves. Doors open at 8pm, tickets are $8 on the door.
THE FUNKOARS
THE WORKERS CLUB
Documenting the early madness of the sold out tours, collaborations, festivals, four albums, one EP and DVD that The Funkoars have managed to rack up it’s obvious that their sound is not only distinct but also their own. Sealing the deal of danger and joining the gents is none other than the almighty DJ Total Eclipse, ELOJI and phenomenal Perth MC Mathas. They'll take over the Workers Club on Thursday May 14.
NO MONEY NO PROBLEMS
COMING UP FRIDAY 22ND MAY
pApA pilko & THe binrATs WEDNESDAY 13TH MAY
+ MiCk DoGs boneYArD
2 sets. 8.30pm | FRee eNtRY
SATURDAY 23RD MAY
DesTinATion Moon THURSDAY 14TH MAY
soul CupCAke + Pick Pocket + Lake Minnetonka 8pm | FRee eNtRY
FRIDAY 15TH MAY
ivY sTone AsseMblY
2 sets. 8pm | FRee eNtRY
9.30pM, Free enTrY.
THe
wHirlinG FurpHies
+ MADeline leMAn & THe DeserT swells. 2 x seTs, 8pM, Free enTrY.
SATURDAY 16TH MAY
THe GooD sHip “peTiTe MorT” + the Bon ScottS + DJ MaDDy Mac
HAppY Hour
(PBS 106.7fm HomeBrew)
8.30pm | FRee eNtRY
SUNDAY 17TH MAY
AnDrew nolTe orCHesTrA
Performing 2 x sets from 4.30Pm - free entry THen:
Kettle Green BrewinG Co taP taKeover PreSentS
biG seAl
& THe slipperY Few
7Pm - free entry
TUESDAY 19TH MAY
FACT HunT TriviA DooRs 8pm | FRee eNtRY
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BONEY
No Money No Problems is a new weekly hip hop party at Boney with a twist each week a different crew will take over the venue and provide their unique spin on the genre to bring you the finest in hip hop from boom bap to dirty south to new jack swing to R&B to soul, funk and disco influenced beats. Encompassing live beat performances, DJs, b-boying, and karaoke, No Money No Problems is guaranteed good vibes all night long. Come early for the performances, stay late for the dance floor this Thursday May 14. No money? No problem. Entry is free. Doors open at 10pm.
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ANDREA MARR AND THE FUNKY HITMEN CHERRY BAR
Since 1999, Andrea Marr has been delivering her brand of feel-good, high energy original funk, groove, blues and soul music around Australia. Since the beginning of time, Thursday night has been delivering a good excuse to get out of the house and make questionable decisions leading up to the last day of the working week. Combine the two for this edition of Soul in the Basement and you’re sure to have a winning combo. Get soulful this Thursday May 14 at Cherry Bar. Doors open at 6pm, entry is $10.
TOUCHED FEST
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
No, it’s not for people who have been touched by an angel – more a festival for bands that are self described as ‘touched’ or ‘not quite right’. The night features the Rowland Howard-esque stylings of Kollaps, the beast that is Angry Mules and the carnival sounds of Waco Social Club. Three great bands
from the Melbourne underground scene on one killer lineup. Get in when the doors open at 8pm this Thursday May 14 – entry costs $5.
taking up a residency for every Thursday night in May, with supports this week coming from Terry and Tol. Entry won’t set you back a single dollar, so get in when the doors open at 6pm for some free, furious rock this Thursday May 14.
and fellow music men: Rosencrants, The Digs and The Early Openers. They urge you to make the most of the show, take the Friday off work and maybe even indulge in some cheap drinks. This rock/indie fivesome of wholesome fun promises an interesting night where you can all relive your misspent youth down the Brunny, ‘avin a tinny and probably having an alright sort of time. Truck on down for an 8pm start and prepare for a 1am finish.
THE JUNGLE GIANTS HOWLER
THE CONCLUSIONS R E T R E AT H O T E L
A Melbourne-based quartet whose classic songs bring a modern edge to the best of sixties guitar pop and freakbeat. The group’s love of '60s rock is plain, but doesn’t consign them to retro rock status - bands like The Kinks, The Who, Badfinger and The Raspberries are roots, not anchors. This year the group have honed their chops on a slew of local and interstate shows and head into the studio next month to begin work on their debut record, so catch them at the Retreat Hotel on Thursday May 14 for some old time rock'n'roll. Entry is free as always, doors open at 8.30pm.
POWER
YA H YA H S
Power is an apt name for a band that performs high voltage rock the way it was played 40 years ago. The Melbourne three piece delve into a murky and loud world where hard rock and boogie is mixed with punk, metal and psych as they plot their next move in a basement with walls adorned with Black Flag, Stooges and Hawkwind posters. They’re
VOWEL MOVEMENT
Having recently released Every Kind Of Way - the first taste from their asyet-untitled second album - The Jungle Giants will take to the road this May in support of their new single, performing a series of shows that will see the band perform old favourites as well as teaser tunes from their forthcoming new album, due out this August. The first show has unsurprisingly sold out, so be sure to score tickets from moshtix.com. au for their second show at Howler on Thursday May 14. Tickets are going for $29.95+BF – doors open at 8pm.
THE BASEMENT
After spreading their rock/pop seed across Australia and New Zealand earlier this year in the form of one hell of an EP tour, Vowel Movement decided they needed a cheeky break. They return, relaxed and prepared, to a residency at The Basement to road test a whole swag worth of new material for our ears to feast on. This week brings part two of four with support from Biddlewood and the Chris Watts Band. Doors open at 8.30 with tickets going for just $5.
FRIDAY MAY 15
ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD YA H YA H S
FLOUNDER
THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Flounder is returning to the stage for the first time since 2013 with great friends
Fuelled by gasoline and weed out in barren North Western Victorian wasteland comes Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard - slow, groove ridden dirty slide stoner rock. 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.
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Q&A Iain Wallace from
Patches
1. The First Record I Bought: As a four year old, I decided to spend my pocket money on two singles. One was La Bamba by Los Lobos and the other was Livin’ Doll by Cliff Richard. I liked to boogie and had an early inkling for slow blues. Not much has changed really. 2. The Last Record I Bought: I just turned 32 and was very kindly gifted two vinyl records: Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit and Lana Del Ray’s Ultraviolence. I love them both. Ultraviolence was one of my favorite albums from last year. She divides people but I love her husky voice. 3. The First Thing I Recorded: I sang in a ‘rock’ band as a 16 year old. Massive cringe. We recorded some terrible lush rock ballads written by the band’s Aerosmith diehards and played one gig on a little uninhabited island in Scotland. 4. The Last Thing I Recorded: Patches beautiful debut EP Sour Fruit, which is available now at our Bandcamp page. We recorded it with Damien Sutton from the Bon Scotts in his home studio. Everyone who has listened to it seems to like it, which is nice. We are really proud of it. I sing, play guitar, piano and xylophone, Nick Pensa plays bass guitar, Ben Fulcher plays cello and our old percussionist Clare Hopper plays drums. We have a new drummer, Nathan Power. PATCHES launch their new EP Sour Fruit on Saturday May 16 at the Wesley Anne, Northcote. Support comes from Kilby and Scrub Wrens. Sour Fruit is available now via bandcamp.
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Get your grease on when they drench Yah Yahs in some luscious musical chops on Friday May 15. Doors open at 8pm and entry will set you back $13 plus a free Jager shot at the bar.
AGENT 37/ DAVE’S 30TH BIRTHDAY THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Adam Gibson
1. The First Song I Wrote The first song I wrote the lyrics for was for one of my brother’s bands, an underground Bondi cult band called The Few. The song was called Travelling Girl and was a heavily Midnight Oil-influenced punk rocker. I can still sing the words but you don’t want me to. 2. The Last Song I Released We’ve just released my new album called Australia Restless. One of my favourite songs on it is called The Years Nobody Cared. It’s about a time, not that long ago, when no one really cared what you did and you just lived your life. Now everyone seems to want to monitor you and keep track of what you’re doing. And many people actively encourage that. I don’t. 3. Songwriting Secrets I am primarily a lyricist and a vocalist. Other people, like my brother Simon, more often than not provide or articulate the music. In terms of lyrics, I look for the small things in life, the little details and unusual angles. Language usage is important to me, as are vernacular phrases. I generally find I do the most and best writing when travelling, when on the road in some dodgy coastal Australian motel. 4. The Song That Makes Me Proud With my other band The Aerial Maps we did a song called On the Punt. It was about my father and a certain era of Australia, now passed, and seems to have struck a chord with quite a few people. 5. The Song That Changed My Life Wide Open Road by The Triffids changed my life. It gave me the real sense of Australian distance and space and fuelled a desire to try to also write about such space. I regularly listen to it to try to uncover its mystery after all these years. ADAM GIBSON and the Ark-Ark Birds are playing at the Yarra Hotel on Saturday May 16. The new album Australia Restless is available now via Bandcamp.
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Dave. Does everyone here know Dave? Well it’s his birthday and he’s putting on a right bash for you and all your mates. And it’s free which, let’s be honest, that’s just the punk rock way and lord is the line up a sexual beast. Joining Agent 37 for a night of shenanigans will be Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays, Dead Joe, Bombs Are Falling, The Shorts and The Punching Ponies. KOWABUNGA DUDES, get there for 8pm and make sure you have enough dollah to get Dave a pint.
all the classics, expect an evening with all the energy and enthusiasm from the heydays of the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and so much more. The band is kicking off a show on Friday May 15 from 8.30pm at The Reverence Hotel’s front bar, with the astounding entry price of free.
KIRKIS. BONEY
Four DJs, one place, and one very special mystery guest. Boney is kicking off for a Friday night dance party with Jamazon, featuring a DJ set from Kirkis., S I L E N T J A Y, Raaghe and Jimmy Dawg. Expect a solid night of electronica from an even more solid lineup of talented producers and delve into the sonic jungle. Doors open at 9pm, tickets are $15 on the door.
RED FANG
PRINCE BANDROOM
TONI CHILDS
T H E PA L M S C R O W N C A S I N O
Best known for her hit singles Don’t Walk Away, I’ve Got to Go Now and the Emmy winning Because You’re Beautiful, Toni Childs is set to play a show at The Palms Crown Casino on Friday May 15. As she gears up to release her Kickstarted funded new album later this year, this upcoming concert marks a very special one off show to promote her new songs as well as performing all at the hits she is so well known for. Be sure to catch her when the doors open at 7.30pm on Friday May 15 – tickets available from ticketek.com.au.
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Relapse Recording artists Red Fang have been delivering first-rate hard rock’n heavy metal since 2005. With three albums to their name and countless world tours under their belt, Red Fang have been blowing minds globally to great success, and they’re expected to do the same for their first headliner tour south of the equator. Support for their show on Friday May 15 comes from King of the North, Warped, Holy Serpent. Get your tickets from princebandroom.oztix.com. au, or at the doors at 8pm.
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ROXY LAVISH AND THE SUICIDE CULT YA H YA H S
The thing about street-core punkthrash is – the street always wins. You’ll do well to remember that when Roxy Lavish and The Suicide Cult take to Yah Yahs on Saturday May 16, getting ready to shred the shit out of ears, heads and probably the rest of your bodies. To sweeten the deal, you’ll get a free Jager shot at the bar with your ticket, so hit Yah Yahs on Saturday for a night your tinnitus won’t forget. Entry is $7, doors open from 8pm.
DANNY ROSS
CAT-PIRATE
OPEN STUDIO
Cat-Pirate are an exuberant folk/ rock band from Melbourne. With songwriting described as “a cross between Billy Bragg and Leonard Cohen” and “like Sid Vicious doing poetry,” the band features gorgeous harmony vocals, swirling gypsy accordion and soaring electric guitar spanning a range from delicate trancelike sensitivity to kick arse grungy exhilaration – all of this backed up by an energetic rhythm section with a punk edge. Come down to Open Studio on Saturday May 16 to catch the folk fusion in action. Doors open from 8.45pm. Entry is $5.
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
An artist with a musical background that is best left summarised by his compositions, Danny Ross has shared international stages and radio playlists as diverse as the moods he tends to traverse during a set, accompanied by a guitar style that is a masterful mix of '60s Brit-folk , Spanish-Classical and early delta-blues. His songs maintain a transcendent quality - suffused with a dark, melancholic wit that evolves his performances into something difficult to forget. This special night of soloists sees Ross supported by young troubadour Reilly Fitzalan and the mesmerising Danicka Smith – be sure to get to The Reverence Hotel on Saturday May 16 for an engaging evening with these singer-songwriters. Entry is $10, doors open from 8pm.
GRINDCORE FOR LIFE 2 THE TOTE
Get ready to bleed something fierce out of your ears, kids – the Tote is hosting a Grindcore festival with a feast of bands as equally interesting in name as they will be in punishing riffwork. Treat yourself to luxurious shred sounds from Dic, Scrotal Vice, Wounded Pig, Blargstrad and many more and remember to pack your earplugs because going deaf sucks heaps. Saturday May 16 at The Tote’s band room. Doors open at 7pm, entry is $12, shred is forever.
THE HIRED GUNS R E T R E AT H O T E L
The Hired Guns write songs. They arrange them, sing and play them, record them and most of all, love them – hence moving to Melbourne to bring their talents to a city that enjoys music as much as they do. Their songs run through rock'n'roll’s wide bends and banked turns, along back streets and down gun-barrel roads, tracing the band’s musical influences. They’ve recently released their third album and late last year played as Ron Peno’s band in performing Singing Pretty— the songs of Died Pretty. Head down to the Retreat Hotel to catch their curious form of rock when they play on Saturday May 16. Entry is free, as always – doors open from 8pm.
PATCHES
Flounder
Define your genre in five words or less: Cloaca — look it up. 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? Have you seen that shitty Chili Peppers cover band in there? No? Don’t bother. How long have you been gigging and writing? Eight years. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Opening for the legendary My Pal Foot Foots, or Miranda’s 14th birthday. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? The Missing Colour. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? We have many influences, but the most prolific would probably be a young man named James Rennison. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Probably learn some Ed Sheeran covers — people seem to like him. Why should everyone come and see your band? Because it is a cosmic experience that has to be seen to be believed. Plus we are really sick of just playing to our parents.
SATURDAY MAY 16
THE WESLE Y ANNE
MAMMOTH MAMMOTH T H E R E T R E AT
INFINITY BROKE THE TOTE
Sydneysiders Infinity Broke have just launched their sophomore album Before Before and are heading out on the road. The band describes first single from the album Only The Desert Grows as “a sinister spaghetti-western surf-scarred howl.” Get down to the Tote on Friday May 15 and see how that looks live. Support from Ivy Street and The Pale Heads.
JUKE BOX RACKET
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Juke Box Racket are a niche three piece rock and roll act – a bunch of folks in their 20s playing songs from the '50s and '60s. Slapping their own stamp on
All gather for the last of Mammoth Mammoth’s high energy, unicornslaying, ground-thumping, cat-punching, skull-exploding live shows this Friday along with garage upstarts, Diana Radar, at the Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. It’s your last chance to catch some live belters off this highly acclaimed and brand spanking new album, VOL4 Hammered Again, which has been whipping up a frenzy both here and abroad.
WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS THE PURPLE EMERALD
At the core of this weekly event is the idea that our natural groove has been sabotaged by dreary, frantic everyday life but don’t panic, What The Funk Fridays are here and they are most definitely bringing back the funk and replenishing those lost vibes. You can expect funky tracks and band sets along with deep funk and rare grooves with Mama Patch playing two massive, funk-loaded sets to guarantee you shuffle your feet. It’s free entry because that’s just how they roll and it all kicks off at 9pm.
DYLAN JOEL
WORKERS CLUB
The sold out status of this album showcase just goes to show the popularity of Dylan Joel, fresh from back-to-back success with his first two singles Numbers and Swing. Joel is hitting Workers Club on Saturday May 16 to deliver a special one-off intimate showcase, previewing a selection of songs from his forthcoming debut album along with some of his earlier material. This will be the only headline show before his album drops and the hype sends people silly.
HYBRID NIGHTMARES CHERRY BAR
Potentially or unintentionally referencing some sort of horrific half man, half bear-pig beast, metal act Hybrid Nightmares are set to rip out a horned set at Cherry Bar this Saturday May 16 much to your delight. Preparing for the release of their new CD, The Second Age, this show will give fans enough of an excuse to whip out the corpse paint and get real spooky for the band’s next chapter. Get down to Cherry Bar and check it out. Doors open from 8pm, tickets are $15 on the door if still available.
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Led by Scottish songwriter Iain Wallace, the Melbourne based Patches are influenced by the dark emotional ballads of Roy Orbison, soft vocal melodies of Jose Gonzalez and the elegant arrangements of Lennon and McCartney, but they don’t have to namedrop to find an audience. Simply put, Patches transform indie rock elements to create a unique brand of great contemporary pop. Their debut EP Sour Fruit drops this Saturday May 16, and they’re playing a set at Northcote’s Wesley Anne to celebrate, along with Scrub Wrens and Kilby. Doors open 8pm with $10 entry.
ONRA
THE PRINCE BANDROOM
Parisian producer Onra has announced that he will be adding four dates to his impending visit to Australia, including a Melbourne show for the May edition of the free monthly Red Bull Music Academy Club Night series. Onra’s unique sound takes inspiration from across all genres and eras, be it soul, jazz, funk or rock, the '80s or the '90s, so get down to The Prince Bandroom on Saturday May 16 for a taste of this enticing melting pot of music. Doors open at 9pm, show is free (as long as you RSVP on dashtickets.com.au).
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THE GIFTHORSE BENDIGO HOTEL
Melodic punk rock outfit The Gifthorse are hitting the Bendigo Hotel for a show on Saturday May 16, in support of their new release Give My Body To This Town. Instead of looking this one in the mouth, get down to the Bendigo Hotel and catch them while they celebrate their next big leap into band life. Tickets are $10, doors open at 8.30pm.
Sentia
If you could no longer be a musician, what other occupation do you see yourself in? I work as a video editor for a day job, which is still quite creative, so I don’t think much would change there. Do you remember the song that was playing when you lost your virginity? I don’t think we had any music on at the time but I’m sure I had something triumphant playing in my head. Would you rather be able to play any instrument in the world but unable to write creative lyrics, or write the most beautiful lyrics in the world but unable to play any instrument? The great thing about melody is it doesn’t require language. Music is just so visceral that it can tap directly into your emotions without needing to be understood or translated. If you had to play a completely different genre of music to what you do now, what would it be? Electronica. I’ve loved synthesisers since I was a kid and the kind of hypnotic layering in a lot of electronic music is something I’m very drawn to. Have there been any sexual exploits between band members? Never say never. If you could have anyone review your record or gig, who would it be? David Attenborough, but he’d have to narrate our gig rather than review it. How do you prepare for a show? Any weird routines? Always get a bit silly before getting on stage. Even it it’s just going into the green room and screaming nonsense at each other. Great way to kill nerves. Catch SENTIA live at Laundry Bar this Thursday May 14.
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STRATHMORE PUBLIC BAR
After slugging it out for over five years, enduring eight members, one EP and one full length LP the punk rock rascals, Strathmore, have decided it’s time to be no more. Saturday May 16 will see Public Bar hosting the final farewell with backup from tour brother Gladstone & Del Lago and Coffin Wolf. They’ll be bringing back some past members to play some of their back catalogue for pure hits one last time.
at the Retreat Hotel on Sunday May 17. Entry is free as always. Support comes from Stu Thomas Paradox. MONDAY MAY 18
JAMES TOM & DYLAN MICHEL
May sees the first headline outings for the band ahead of their first single release from the album in June. You can expect to see rock party DJ sets along with Melbourne and Geelong’s finest artists, this week with Fierce Mild. For $0, that is literally a steal. TUESDAY MAY 19
THE TOFF
James Tom & Dylan Michél will be easing you into your week, with called in guest DJs playing music to accentuate your dining experience - so please, pull up a chair and be their guest for the evening. Cruise in for a late night ride featuring resident DJs every week for dinner with a themed twist. Entry is free, but aren’t all the good things in life? Stumble on in to The Toff from 8pm and grab some eats while you listen to beats.
SUNDAY MAY 17
THE CLAREMONT STREET SINGERS R E T R E AT H O T E L
THE INFANTS THE OLD BAR
For every beer soaked Sunday session this May, The Old Bar has volunteered to babysit The Infants, so head on down and witness a musical tantrum like none before. With an array of talented and juicy morsels supporting each show, this week sees help from Crepes and Archer Moore. Shift yourself off your couch and down to The Old Bar for $5 on the door.
PRETTY CITY
WORKERS CLUB
After releasing three singles and playing three east coast tours last year, Pretty City was doing anything but thumb twiddling. Determined not to rest, they have spent the beginning of 2015 holed up in their studio recording their debut album. This residency throughout
The Claremont Street Singers are a Melbourne based band that bring a fun and kooky style of new wave acoustic soul, pop and folk that has mesmerised audiences across the city. This fabulous group includes multi talented Julia Watt, most recognisable as the hero drummer of Melbourne band, La Bastard. With enchanting harmonies, moody melodies and quirky antics, The Claremont Street Singers and their original tunes will leave you wanting more and more. Come down to the Retreat Hotel on Tuesday May 19 for this gentle blend of the audibly smooth when the doors open at 7.30pm. Entry is free, as always.
ALANNA AND ALICIA LOMOND HOTEL
Folky/jazz twins, Alanna and Alicia play their first Melbourne gig since returning from the US and are ready to play a set of original songs, as well as previewing some new tracks from their upcoming new album, Songs I’m Singing with Me, a tribute to acclaimed singer/songwriter, John Beavis. Be sure to catch a deeply dedicated show when they pair up at the Lomond Hotel for a wonderfully free set this Sunday May 17. Doors open at 5.30pm.
KEITH HALL AND PAT DOW BAND THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
No Sister
Define your genre in five words or less: Guitar, guitar, bass guitar, drum. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? They’ll say we sound like '90s alt-rock bands and Sonic Youth. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Lou Reed, because as Jonathan Richman said, “How in the world were [Velvet Underground] making that sound?” What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Trying to replicate Greg Sage’s [Wipers] stage presence. Describe the worst gig you have ever played: Having band members quit mid set. How difficult has it been moving from QLD to Melbourne and how have you fit in with the locals? Tiarney and Mino moved to Melbourne and tee’d up with Jack and Murray as they were already down here. Melbourne is nice and the people are also pretty nice, except for this one guy. NO SISTER are playing this Sunday May 17 at the John Curtin Hotel front bar, joined by Hooper Crescent and Chores.
The legendary Keith Hall and Pat Dow Band will be casually stopping by The Brunswick Hotel as part of their Hard Working Man Blues and we’re all in for something of a corker. In an all time first for Melbourne audiences, the Tim Hulsman Trio will be sharing the stage with the Keith Hall and Pat Dow Band with opening act Brothers in Law also gracing the stage to ensure that the Brunny is a’rockin’. Fun for all including prizes for the best heckler and best dancer. Free entry with a smile on Sunday May 17.
JA Z Z PA R T Y WITH SUPPORTS FROM
GEORGE WASHINGMACHINE & FEEL THE MANOUCHE HUGO RACE & TRUE SPIRIT
R E T R E AT H O T E L
Ex-Bad Seed and founder of The Wreckery, Hugo Race and his long time collaborators the True Spirit play their final Australian show before taking off to Europe for their Summer as they are set to release their first album in seven years this July. Upcoming album The Spirit presents a return to his roots in a psych-rock zone tagged by Melody Maker in the band’s early days as ‘industrial trance blues’. Be sure to catch the next chapter of Hugo Race & True Spirit when they play
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
TOP TENS: PBS TOP TEN 1. Down Time TOTALLY MILD
FAITH NO MORE
2. Talk Tight ROLLING BLACKOUTS
Sol Invictus
3. Janus ELLA THOMPSON
Reclamation Recordings / Ipecac Recordings
4. Colours of The Night PETER BRODERICK 5. The Bowie Project ADAM RUDEGEAIR 6. Beast Records Sampler VARIOUS ARTISTS 7. Rose Windows ROSE WINDOWS
Those who were fans of Faith No More as teenagers in the ‘90s are now in their 30s or 40s, and new music becomes a little less important to some folks as they march forth into familyhood. So, does Sol Invictus, Faith No More’s first album in 17 years, have what it takes to please rabid contemporary music fans as well as the, “I haven’t listened to much new music since the kids came along”-types as well? Fuck yes. Faith No More have never made the same album twice, especially since Mike Patton joined in 1988. Angel Dust is as different from King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime as The Real Thing is from Album Of The Year. This is the same. The closest you can come would be to say ‘Imagine if keyboardist Roddy Bottum was more involved in King For A Day,’ or ‘Imagine if King For A Day (1995) was recorded before Angel Dust (1992),’ but such comparisons are ultimately pointless. On its own merits, Sol Invictus is a dark, energetic, sprawling album, which does everything you want a Faith No More album to do. It has atmospheric keys, lonesome piano melodies, crushing walls of rhythm guitars, seamless tempo shifts and animated vocals. The bass of Billy Gould drives the arrangements forward in ways we haven’t heard since The Real Thing, even though the material doesn’t really sound anything like that except maybe Superhero, which at least sounds like it was written by the same band who wrote Epic. If you’re a Jim Martin nutswinger, you’ll probably still miss his early-Hetfield guitar riffage, but current guitarist Jon Hudson slots into the Faith No More vocabulary even
8. II METZ 9. A Sweet Release ALL THEM WITCHES 10. The Words that Seem to Slip Away JESS LOCKE
RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN 1. Sound and Colour ALABAMA SHAKES 2. Down Time TOTALLY MILD more comfortably than he did on Album Of The Year. If you love Faith No More for their quirkiness, there’s Sunny Side Up, Cone Of Shame, Rise of the Fall, Black Friday and From The Dead. If you’re into the dark stuff that made Angel Dust so compelling, there’s the rest. Interestingly, two of the three songs released prior to the album - Matador and Motherfucker - are placed towards the very end. It’s a smart move that allows Sol Invictus to draw you in and lead you through. Overall, that’s what’s so right about this record. It makes you want to listen over and over again and rewards you with hidden layers and inflections. It taps into the spirit of what always made this band so identifiable, even amid all the genre-hopping, and it does so without alienating those who crave something new or those who are worried about Sol Invictus pulling a Phantom Menace on everyone’s youths. BY PETER HODGSON
3. Carrie and Lowell SUFJAN STEVENS 4. Marry Me Tonight HTRK 5. Chambers LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE 6. No Me Quejo De Mi Estrella JONATHAN RICHMAN 7. The Wind 7” THE SHABBAB 8. Chimes HUDSON MOHAWKE 9. Damogen Furies SQUAREPUSHER 10. Table for Two SUPERSTAR
HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Sour Soul LP BADBADNOTGOOD & GHOSTFACE KILLAH 2. Gentle Persuasion 12” DOUG HREAM BLUNT
SINGLES
3. Run The Jewels 2 LP RUN THE JEWELS
BY LACHLAN
(EL-P AND KILLER MIKE) 4. Birdman Soundtrack LP ANTONIO SANCHEZ 5. Little Hells LP MARISSA NADLER
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6. Kingdom Come 7” DAVID BOWIE/TOM VERLAINE 7. Believe 7” MUMFORD & SONS 8. Shadowmaker 2LP/CD APOCALYPTICA
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TV COLOURS
The Neighbourhood (Dream Damage) Purple Skies, Toxic River, my top album pick of 2013 just had its US release, so TV Colours concocted a film clip for The Neighbourhood to celebrate, featuring rapid snippets of Canberra’s suburban landscape. The track still holds up as a belter nearly two years on, driving with a ferocity that invokes shades of Jay Reatard and his flying-V. Give Purple Skies… a burl if you haven’t already. Give it another burl if you have.
A$AP ROCKY FEAT. ROD STEWART, MIGUEL & MARK RONSON
Everyday (Sony) If you couldn’t tell by the features, this is fucking weird, and not really in a good way. The Rod Stewart credit is a sample, and a pretty obscure one at that, with Miguel jumping in to echo the hook. It’s just not interesting enough; the midway switch-up to near-dubstep territory isn’t as impactful as the gear change on last year’s Multiply.
HOPIUM
MAMMOTH 10. Bad News Boys LP KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW
COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK TOP TEN 1. Black Seeds Of Vengeance LP NILE 2. Caged In Flesh LP HORSEHUNTER 3. Kinksize Hits 7” THE KINKS
Right Now (Outpost) After a steady few years of local producer/singers busting out tired Weeknd imitations (as was the case with Hopium’s trash single Dreamers), I began quietly begging for an artist to go all in on mainstream US R&B production. And now that it’s finally here with Right Now, I feel like a dog that’s finally caught up to the car it’s chasing. Is this good? I dunno. Hopium and co-producer M-Phazes nail the DJ Mustardbiting beat, heading into My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy territory with the blown out, autotune coda replete with lush orchestration. It’s a pretty bizarre, and commendable, breakdown of stylistic barriers. I have the feeling this song is trash, but if it is, at least it’s interesting trash.
4. Dead Mates demo tape DEAD MATES
JESSICA SAYS
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS WITH ‘TUDE
Xanax Baby (Independent) Loaded with a yearning beauty, Jessica Says’ return drips with an urgent melancholy, almost devoid of metaphor in its detail of the titular drug. There’s double entendre in the lush chorus, backed by a dreamy backing choir, “I’m a Xanax baby / But I wanna get off ”. There’s a realness to the melodrama.
WILLOW
F Q-C #7 (Roc Nation) It’s been evident for a while now that the Smith kids are operating on a whole other level, and this is Willow’s finest musical moment yet (though, Whip My Hair still slaps). It’s off-kilter pop, Willow showcasing powerhouse vocals, reminiscent of Kimbra’s breakthrough. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38
9. Vol IV Hammered Again LP MAMMOTH
5. Stolen Thoughts split 7” WEHRMACHT / DISINTEGRATOR 6. Hallelujah All The Way Home CD VERLAINES 7. Beat Bop 12” RAMMELLZEE VS. K-ROB 8. Black Power Flower CD BRANT BJORK AND THE LOW DESERT PUNK BAND 9. Angel Of The Sixth Order LP/CD ARMOURED ANGEL 10. Unchained CD ELIAS HULK
SINGLE OF THE WEEK BLACK CAB
Victorious (Mikey Young Rework) (Slightly Delic) Black Cab’s hypnotic, Suicide-esque Victorious gets an adrenaline-charged edit from Mikey Young, here in full Lace Curtain mode, doing everything a remix should. It’s a belter through and through, with shades of Quincy Jones’s Money Runner in its high-octane funk flourishes, and it all comes together in a gold medal triumph. Pressed in a limited edition 12”, with a handful of copies available for online pre-order and at the record’s launch show, taking place in Melbourne at The Corner on Friday July 17.
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1. New Attitude PATTI LABELLE 2. Attitude BAD BRAINS 3. Fuck Tha Police N.W.A 4. Bad Attitude DEEP PURPLE 5. Attitude Adjustment AEROSMITH 6. Attitude Dancing CARLY SIMON 7. Your Love’s An Attitude CHICAGO 8. Attitude YOUNG BLOODZ 9. Workin’ On My Attitude SESAME STREET 10. Positive Attitude AL GREEN
ALBUMS New music in review this week - For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews
FOREST FALLS
WOMEN OF SOUL
JAMIE T
Melbourne’s Women of Soul
Magnolia Melancholia
Hounds
(House Of Valarie Joan)
(Virgin EMI)
(Independent)
Hounds is the latest EP from Melbourne indie-folk band Forest Falls. This is the second release from the six-piece, following last year’s Julia EP. It was recorded and engineered at Melbourne’s Winter Sound Studios and Sydney’s Alberts Studios, alongside ARIA Award winning producer Wayne Connolly (Paul Dempsey, Josh Pyke and Cloud Control). Hounds showcases the band’s talents, oozing with five-part harmonies and calming melodies, but also sees them experiment with different sounds. The opening track Where Do We Go From Here sets the scene, beginning with the soothing lead vocal of Jon O’Neill and the sweet complement of Lucy Rash. More of a pop song than the other five, the cascading drums and electric guitars evoke a calm vibe. The title track gives off a Motown feel, with an electric keyboard jamming underneath folk melodies, plus barbershop harmonies at the beginning and groovy sax work. This is done without losing their folk touch, as a chill atmosphere breathes beneath the pulsing chords on the keys. The remaining tracks stay true to the band’s relaxing vibe and the guitar picking and haunting five-part harmonies are a highlight throughout. Additional kudos goes to the string-solo in the third track, Alistair, which is reminiscent of the Game of Thrones theme song.
Jamie T’s 2007 debut album Panic Prevention was an instant classic, ambitious and original, but the UK songwriter has struggled reach that standard again. With two fairly lacklustre studio albums in between, Magnolia Melancholia takes us back to where it all started. The six-track EP is as raw as it gets. It starts with the smooth, reggaeinspired Don’t You Find, which crackles and kicks along just enough to keep you wanting more. Marilyn Monroe is classic Britpop, echoing the likes of The Libertines or early Arctic Monkeys. A cover of Bran Van 3000’s Mama Don’t Smoke sounds like it was recorded in an intimate bar setting, which adds to the charm and feeling. Carrying on the theme of mamas, the title track, Magnolia Melancholia, is as vocally-driven as T’s earliest and best work. Riverbed is probably the weakest track, building slowly but never really evolving into anything memorable. The EP could’ve used another pick-me-up to finish, but instead drops the tempo further with another cover, this time The Replacements’ Bastards of Young. If this were any artist’s debut EP it would be impressive, and it’s refreshing to hear Jamie T strip it all back and rediscover his roots – after all, this is the kind of music that got him here in the first place.
To celebrate five years of their live performance series, Women of Soul have released their debut collaborative album. Featuring Candice Monique, Kylie Auldist, Chelsea Wilson, Lisa Faithfull, Rita Satch, Stella Angelico, Christina Perfection and May Johnston, this album showcases the best of Melbourne’s soul music scene. Each artist has recorded a song specifically for Melbourne’s Women of Soul. It showcases many different subgenres including neo soul, funk, garage soul and northern soul. For this album, Women of Soul are backed by a funky band, which includes members of The Bamboos, Cookin’ On 3 Burners and The Putbacks. The sweetly melodic Beautifully Broken Heart, featuring Candice Monique, is a favourite. Other highlights include Kylie Auldist’s More Than A Mouthful, Who Told You, featuring Chelsea Wilson, which is a song about “standing up for yourself in relationships where you aren’t being treated right”. Woman Got Soul, a highly energetic group track, is a great way to end the album. Melbourne’s Women of Soul is a powerful, polished album; a must-have for any soul music collection. ALI BIRNIE
CHRIS BRIGHT
JENA MARINO
THE MILK CARTON KIDS
SURFER BLOOD
KING PARROT
1000 Palms
Dead Set
(Spunk)
Monterey
(EVP Recordings)
(Milk Carton Kids/ Anti)
The Milk Carton Kids are a breath of fresh air in the contemporary folk scene. The duo, comprising Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, eschew the saccharine lyrics and hey-ho choruses that have become serially overused to whip festivals into frenzied hoedowns. Instead, their latest album Monterey opts for something more nuanced, genuine and ultimately rewarding. Armed with just two guitars and two hushed voices, this intimate eleven song collection was recorded live in theatres and a Nashville church. Although the stripped back instrumentation can be limiting at times, it’s the ideal format for their talent to shine through. Title track Monterey exemplifies this, featuring the duo’s close vocal harmonies alongside Pattengale’s virtuosic flat picking, which weaves its way through the tune until exploding into an extended, lyrical solo. Such sparse production puts The Milk Carton Kids’ chemistry at the forefront. Pattengale’s fiery fretwork is anchored by Ryan’s steady rhythm. Ryan’s raspy, weary voice is matched perfectly by Pattengale’s high and pure tone. When their voices combine on the haunting Getaway, it becomes almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. After nearly five years of playing together, The Milk Carton Kids know each other’s subtle inflections, habits and playing style so well that it echoes the effortless connection of Simon and Garfunkel or contemporaries Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. At times, the lack of variation can become frustrating. In the lead up to the release, Ryan stated, “this record is the same as our last one, just slower and sadder.” Looking past the self-deprecating humour, he’s not exactly wrong. One song can seem to blend into the next without much differentiating them. In saying that, The Milk Carton Kids have found a winning formula that they are content to continue exploring.
Surfer Blood’s promising debut album Astro Coast was full of carefree vibes and sunny melodies, but the Florida quartet’s subsequent releases have been cast in dark shadows. Domestic battery allegations (dropped) against vocalist John Paul Pitts surfaced during the production of follow-up Pythons and the band’s new album 1000 Palms is released to the news that guitarist Thomas Fekete is fighting a rare, aggressive form of cancer. While the disappointing Pythons felt weighed down by trials and tribulations (including the reality of working with an ill-fitting major label), 1000 Palms punches through the pain with a run of quality tracks that pair rugged surf-pop riffs with loved-up, blissed-out melodies. Astro Coast remains Surfer Blood’s masterwork, though they may have devised their finest song yet in I Can’t Explain – telling the tale of a romantic encounter on New Year’s Eve, it ends with a guitar riff that sounds like a saxophone blowing staccato notes in a static-drenched snowstorm. There are a number of other high points scattered throughout: the nostalgic Island is a sturdier number than the album-starter Grand Inquisitor; wistful single Dorian builds to a fist-punching guitar solo; and the marching drums and math-rock guitars of the forward-thinking Other Desert Cities and reflective comedown of NW Passage make for a heady finish to the album.1000 Palms stoically keeps its focus in the face of turbulence and finds Surfer Blood with a new spring in their step. BY CHRIS GIRDLER
The front cover of the second album by Melbourne’s demented masters of insane metal and hardcore, King Parrot, looks like the promo poster for some crazy horror flick. And the most telling aspect is the little ‘R Rated’ symbol next to the album’s title. Dead Set truly isn’t for those of sensitive disposition or the frail of mind. It’s for those who love extremity in their music. Opener Anthem of the Advance Sinner bursts from the speakers and the album maintains a venomous, spitting, but tongue-in-cheek rage for every living second of its length. The band bludgeons the senses with fury, and frontman Matt Young howls, screams and screeches as though his life depends on it. You can just imagine the vocal booth in the recording studio after he completes his vocal takes for the album, the spit, blood and maybe even a few chunks of lung adorning the walls. Such is the commitment with which he delivers his lines. If you’re at all familiar with King Parrot, you’ll know exactly what to expect. The songs are completely insane slabs of extreme metal, punk and hardcore, and the band occasionally inject some groove into the mix, giving welcome respite from the thrash-y maelstrom. The title track and album closer is well worth the near-three year wait. In recent years, King Parrot have built their notoriety in Australia and around the world, and this album is set to continue that form. A completely unhinged masterpiece. BY ROD WHITFIELD
JAMES DI FABRIZIO
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY MAY 13 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • aidan chu Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• christine anu 20th anniversary of stylin’
• christine anu 20th anniversary of stylin’
up Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45.00.
• ensemble offspring (light is calling) -
feat: steve reich + michael gordon + nico muhly & more Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
6:00pm. $38.00.
up Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45.00.
• gumbo club - feat: pugsley buzzard Ding
8:30pm.
• jack earle big band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.
Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• jazz thursdays - feat: james flynn The
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.50.
• melbourne improvisers collective Uptown
• destination moon Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
• dizzy’s big band - feat: peter hearne Dizzy’s • galliano sommavilla Ruby’s Music Room, • julien wilson ‘b for chicken’ quartet 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• legends of jazz piano - feat: mike nock
& tony gould Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.
Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. 8:00pm. $14.00.
Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. $5.00. Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• soul cupcake + pick pocket + lake
minnetonka Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• soul in the basement - feat: andrea marr
8:00pm.
and the funky hitmen + vince peach + pierre baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00. • steinway piano series - feat: various artists Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• tamandua The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
• letters to you Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• northside jam collective 24 Moons, Northcote. • rob burke push Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne • stellafauna + rachel by the stream + el
moth Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • tamandua Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
• the light - feat: melbourne symphony
orchestra Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm.
$54.00.
• the rookies The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
$17.50.
• the good egg thursdays - feat: henry who
+ tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.
7:00pm.
• thomas lorenzo trio Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• tim stevens Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• timbalero thursdays La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• america + sharon corr Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
• bam margera’s ffu Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong.
• atlas + ame tourmentee + the essentials +
• bowie unzipped - feat: jeff duff + jak
7:00pm. $95.00.
old etiquettes + we are but citizens Toff In
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $5.00.
• chelsea bleach + the girl fridas + wet lips Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• collage - feat: various artists Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
8:00pm. $42.00.
housden + glenn rhodes + jess campia Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $35.00.
• coffin carousel + sub rosa + flat-liner + mr
stitcher Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00. • courtney barnett Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $33.00.
COURTNEY BARNETT
So, Courtney Barnett has been described as the “new Bob Dylan” by those chaps in America, which is exciting indeed, considering she is starting the national tour of her debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I just Sit this month. Barnett will wrap up the tour in Melbourne over the weekend of May 14 and she’s only gone and sold out two of the three Forum dates. That’s why you get Gig of the Week Courtney, because you’re excellent. Stay excellent Courtney. Courtney Barnett will play at the Forum on Thursday May 14, Friday May 15 and Saturday May 16.
• backstage blues night - feat: mr black &
blues + the shake shack boogie house band + dj barry maxwell Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. • charlie parr Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $28.00. • fusion night Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $15.00. • jack evan johnson + michael platter Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
• johnny cash in solitary - feat: daniel
thompson Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm.
$20.00.
• jude perl Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00. • king wolf Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
• lilly tunley & flash company 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• nardia b ft. paul vergara & thomas byrne Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm.
grande Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. • the handsome bastards Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.
• flounder + rosencrants + the digs + the
chrystal Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • thomas dylan + john flanagan + josiah Mr
Melbourne. 7:30pm. $101.00. Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• king parrot The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.
rabbit Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $8.00. • karnivool + cairo knife fight Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
• kickass karaoke competition Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.
• mötley crüe + alice cooper Rod Laver Arena, • plebs + lanewaves + beware black holes Old • seedy jeezus + motherslug + two headed
dog + dj mermaid Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• the nuremberg code + bond street vandals
+ the archaic + drivetime commute Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $5.00.
• total giovanni + golden girls + cc: disco Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • amarina waters + amarillo Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• the band with no name + ross thompson +
chjant + this is grace & terry the tiger Bar
Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• girls on key Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• girls on key poetry edition - feat: anne
carson Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm. $8.00. • jude perl Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00. • open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. • open mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • open mic night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. • spencer p jones & charlie marshall Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• tash sultana Howler, Brunswick. 7:30pm. $12.00.
• the brunswick hotel’s open mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• wine, whiskey, women - feat: lou bradley +
tiaryn Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY MAY 14
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • chalouche Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
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Richmond. 7:30pm.
• mayfair kytes + lalic + jaala + jami
zacharia Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00. • miles away + blacklisted + 50 lions + outright + born free Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $25.00.
• next - feat: among the abyss + caution:
thieves + advocates Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
8:30pm. $15.00.
• politically incorrect - feat: admiral
ackbar’s dischonourable discharge + d.i.c.k + socially handicapped + the wash 24
Moons, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• power + terry & tol Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• whole lotta blues - feat: southbound
snake charmers + brendan forward Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY MAY 15
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • anton delecca quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• black jesus experience + dj rick howe The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.
• bowie project - feat: adam rudegeair
quintet David Williamson Theatre, Prahran. 8:30pm.
eclipse Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $20.00. • the jungle giants + moses gunn collective + foreign/national Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $32.95.
• total giovanni + 1/0 + fka tbl djs Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• voix d’or Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• vowel movement + biddlewood + chris
watts band Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.
• waco social club + angry mules + kollaps Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
$35.00.
$50.00.
• bowie unzipped - feat: jeff duff Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30.00.
• chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • clowns The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.
• courtney barnett Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• dj dave gray Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm.
• doctrin + chris watts band + gordon
holland Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• einsteins toyboys + made in purple Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• electro swing club - feat: slamboree +
ensemble formidable + andrew nolte & his orchestra with the jazzebells + mortisville + dr cat + miss friby 170 Russell,
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $40.00.
• friday night live - feat: single income &
eastwood revine Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• hostile objects + join the amish + acid vain
Southbank. 6:00pm. $20.00.
• christine anu 20th anniversary of stylin’
up Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45.00. • dana czarski & nicolai sanadze Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
• elissa rodger sextet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• ivy stone assembly Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
• the funkroars + mathas + eloji + dj total
8:00pm.
+ flinders quartet Melbourne Recital Centre,
• marshall mcguire + genevieve lacey
• sentia + the grey file + sharrow + medicine
$8.00.
tuesdays + dead joe + bombs are falling + the shorts + punching ponies + dj steve spenceley Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • angry seas, maggot men, drexler + angry seas + maggot men + drexler 303, Northcote.
• greg champion & the useful members of
• fem belling quartet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
dog Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. • the fabric The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:30pm.
• agent 37 + joe guiton & the suicide
$22.00.
• romeo moon + no sister + super-x Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
mama patch Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm. INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• bootleg beatles Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
• everclear 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $60.00.
early openers + dj lil rossco + dj attack jack Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • harrison storm + holy moses heart + josh cashman Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • isaac chambers + dub princess + matiu tu huki Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00. • karnivool + cairo knife fight Corner Hotel,
West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
• what the funk fridays - feat: dj musicman +
• the conclusions + the crimsonettes + rio
• open mic nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.
• the young saviours + sans sheriff + james
• forest falls + gena rose bruce + peter
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.00.
• traditional irish music session Drunken Poet,
• bam margera’s ffu Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.
• drongo & the drongos Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $7.00.
• the steve sedergreen quartet Paris Cat Jazz
• open mic The Farmer’s Place, 8:00pm.
• diana radar + messed up + sunnyside Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $6.00.
Chapel, Prahran. 7:45pm. $25.00.
• the shuffle club Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
9:30pm.
• jamazon #2 - feat: kirkis + silent jay +
raaghe + jimmy dawg Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.90.
• jazz party Melbourne Bowling Club, Windsor. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• konrad olszewski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $17.50.
• melaluka Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• open jazz workshop (creating meaningful
solos) Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 1:30pm.
• reimagining burt bacharach - feat: nicola
watson + nathan liow Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
• rory clark quintet Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.
• the komeda project & syji - feat: andrea
keller & miroslav bukovsky octet Chapel Off
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society Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
+ caged grave + christ crusher Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• hot wings + the vibrojets + the
reprobettes Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
• infinity broke + ivy street + the pale heads Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
• juke box racket Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. • la danse macabre - feat: brunswick
massive resident djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
9:00pm.
• last chaos + trench sisters + gentlemen +
whipper + tactical attack Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
8:00pm. $10.00.
• liam gale & the ponytails + the scouts
+ willow darling + sib Grace Darling Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• mammoth mammoth + diana radar + dj
mermaid Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• mar mortuum + sorathian dawn + atra
vetosus + maniaxe + oligarch Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• middle street Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
• naysayers + honeybone + jeffrey’s cabbage
+ la belle Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• nepal earthquake relief fundraiser - feat:
bottlecaps + she beast + ding dong death
HOLE + KOLLAPS + JERKBEAST Dancing Dog,
Footscray. 8:00pm.
• NICKELBACK Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $101.00.
• OFF THE HEAZY - FEAT: REI BARKER & MALONEY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• RED FANG + KINGS OF THE NORTH + WARPED
+ HOLY SERPENT Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
$56.00.
• ROLLING BLACKOUTS + LOOSE TOOTH + ANDRE Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD
KELLY + HYSTERIC + K.HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne
Cbd. 6:00pm.
• THE BENNIES + APART FROM THIS + PARTY VIBEZ
+ THE OUTSIDERS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • THE CASANOVAS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.
• THE EIGHTY 88’S Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.
• THE FUNKROARS + MATHAS + ELOJI + DJ TOTAL
ECLIPSE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• THE HAUNTED & INSOMNIUM + ORPHEUS OMEGA Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $64.50.
• THE JUNGLE GIANTS + FOREIGN/NATIONAL +
MOSES GUNN COLLECTIVE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $29.95.
• THE SHABBAB + MINING BOOM GORSHA + JAALA
+ ROYALTY NOISE + ZERO DEGREES + JAZMARIS + L2R NEXT GEN + SINIT TSEHAY + TEAME ERSIE + MARY ANWAT + MITO ELIAS + VICKI KINNAI + AFRO-AUSTRALIAN STUDENT ORGANISATION + ANITA LARKIN Emerge In The West Site, Footscray. 1:00pm. • ENSEMBLE FORMIDABLE + 8FOOT FELIX Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
• FOKR FUNK-RAISER - FEAT: JACK JACK +
SOULGIANT + MELALUKA + GAIA MUSIC Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• JAMAICA JUMP-UP - FEAT: JESSE I + STRYKA D
+ MOHAIR SLIM + RICHIE 1250 & MS BUTT + THE SKA VENDORS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
$15.00.
• JAZZ NOTES - FEAT: KEVIN BLAZE + ANN CRAIG Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET FT. SARAH
MACLAINE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
• JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE CAJUN BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
• LOUISA RANKIN BAND Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
• MEL SEARLE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• MONIQUE DIMATTINA, JULES BOULT & THE
REDEEMERS + MONIQUE DIMATTINA + JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran.
KING PARROT
KARNIVOOL
The charming King Parrot boys are back again, preparing to dissolve our finely tuned senses until they resemble nothing more than the smoothest of smooth peanut butter. The metal cataclysm that’ll ensue at their Corner Hotel gig on Saturday May 16 will be heard but not remembered, so best make sure you’re there to witness it firsthand. Bring the thrash, bring the beats and for God’s sake be on time. King Parrot will take over the Corner Hotel on Saturday May 16.
It’s been ten years since perth lads Karnivool released their seminal debut album Themata, and now they’re taking over the Corner Hotel to celebrate. Head on down to the Corner on Wednesday May 13 or Thursday May 14 and allow the ‘vool to inject some heavy prog-rock into your life, which’ll surely loosen a few vertebrates and leave us with spinal fluid in our knee caps. Rad.
• BANG - FEAT: SECRET BAND (USA) + DANGER!
• SIMON HUDSON SOUL BAND The Luwow, Fitzroy.
• BYO VINYL NIGHT The Fox Hotel, South Melbourne.
• SO IT SEEMS THAT WE HAVE MET BEFORE¼
• CAT PIRATE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• TOTAL GIOVANNI + DREEMS + EDD FISHER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
• VISION STREET + THE IVORY ELEPHANT The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• WATTS ON PRESENTS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS
8:30pm. $5.00.
AN EVENING OF RODGERS & HART - FEAT: CLANCYE MILNE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00. • TANGO MUNDO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $17.50.
Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• THE GOOD SHIP + THE BON SCOTTS + DJ MADDY
INCLINE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
• THERE WILL BE BLOOD - FEAT: ANDRE DE RIDDER
• ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD + LOW FLY
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • 2015 NEPAL EARTHQUAKE BENEFIT - FEAT:
JEMMA & THE CLIFTON HILLBILLIES + CHRIS PICKERING + BROOKE RUSSELL & THE MEAN REDS + LINCOLN LE FEVRE + CHARM OF FINCHES + JULES DOUGLAS + DJ FEE FEE STAR Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 11:00pm.
• ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 8:00pm.
• BANDAOKE Pier Live, Frankston. 9:00pm.
• CASH TRIBUTE SHOW Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $35.00.
• COLD IRONS BOUND + THE BAREBONES Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• DAN WARNER & DAVE EVANS Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.
• DOLLAR 20 BLUES BAND Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
MAC Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $13.00.
+ SOPHIE ROWELL + MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
8:00pm. $54.00.
• TINA HARROD BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• FIONA BOYES Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean
Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
Grove. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• BASHKA The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• TONI CHILDS The Palms, Southbank. 7:30pm. $63.00.
Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
BLIND ORACLE + DRIVE TIME COMMUTE Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 7:30pm.
EARTHQUAKE! + EVOLUTION OF SELF Royal
• ROGER CLARK QUARTET WITH DAVID COTTER Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.
• DRIVEN TO THE VERGE + SHE CRIES WOLF +
Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
+ TRULY HOLY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. • THE UGLY KINGS + GREENTHIEF + WINTER MOON + SAM MCEWIN + KODIAK KID + MR LOBB Penny
8:00pm. $25.00.
Moons, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• ALMA KALORAMA + OLLY FRIEND Grace Darling
• FLOUR + MESA COSA + A.D. SKINNER + MOTEL
• BORN JOY Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
LOVE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• BOWIE UNZIPPED - FEAT: JEFF DUFF Flying Saucer
• FRIENDS OF SAMMY JOE FUNDRAISER - FEAT:
Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30.00.
WIZEGUYZ + STRANGERS IN TOWN + RONG + WHOAU + COVER ME Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm.
7:30pm.
$15.00.
• CINEMA 6 + ELK & MAMMOTH + REDX + MAGIC
• GRINDCORE FOR LIFE #2 - FEAT: DIC + SCROTAL
MELONS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
DIPLOID, SICK MACHINE + CONATION + OUTRIGHT + CHOKE + CAGED GRAVE + DIPLOID + SICK MACHINE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 6:30pm. $15.00. • COURTNEY BARNETT Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd.
VICE + WOUNDED PIG + BLARGHSTRAD + STONING + UMBILICAL TENTACLE + BOMBS OVER BRUNSWICK + GRUDGE! + CORDELL + CHRIST CRUSHER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $12.00. • HYBRID NIGHTMARES + BANE OF WINTERSTORM + HARLOTT &TRIGGER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
• DANNY ROSS + REILLY FITZALEN & DEAD
• KING OF THE NORTH + PALACE OF THE KING +
• CONATION, OUTRIGHT, CHOKE, CAGED GRAVE,
8:00pm.
ARROWS + DANIKA SMITH Reverence Hotel, Footscray.
8:00pm. $10.00.
• DOUBLE LINED MINORITY + SEASLOTH + PINBALL
MACHINE + MANORISM + FALLBACK OPTION 24
8:00pm. $12.00.
EMPRA + STACKHOUSE + PHIL PARA Espy, St Kilda. 6:00pm.
• KING PARROT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20.00.
DIANA RADAR
• HANK ELWOOD BAND Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • HOLY MOSES HEARTACHE + HARRISON STORM Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.
• HUMDINGER BLUES BAR - FEAT: WILSON & WHITE Humdinger, Frankston . 8:00pm.
• JJ & THE BLUES DOGS Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm. • JOHN WILLIAMS’ DOUBLE SHOT OF BLUES Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• JUDE PERL Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00.
• MARK CAMPBELL Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
• MUSTANG Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8.00. • PETER BIBBY + ORLANDO FURIOUS + TANZER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. • STEELBIRDS + TOOZE & BRUCE + SUNNY
HAWKINGS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
$5.00.
• STEVE LUCAS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm. • THE GAMI DEVILS Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• THE JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE CAJUN BAND Pistol Pete’s Food N Blues, Geelong. 8:00pm.
• THE REVENANTS + CHERRYWOOD Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
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• CRAIG SIMON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
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• DANA CZARSKI & NICOLAI SANADZE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
• DEEP STREET SOUL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
• DJ ETHAN MCLAREN Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. • EMERGE IN THE WEST - FEAT: THE LALIBELAS
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
• la bastard & the 88’s Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.
• slime dime & the prairie kings Retreat Hotel,
• lurch & chief The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.
• sons of lee marvin duo Tramway Hotel, North
• mangelwurzel + .1 + html flowers Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• michael bolton + 1927 Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $89.00.
• monsters of hop - feat: whitehorse +
kromosom + old love Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
• the black harrys + tommy castles Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• the cartridge family Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• the hornets Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
$25.00.
• the prayerbabies Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
offspring of convicts + vendora + hollow ground + kenaniah 1522 Mr Boogie Man Bar,
• tim hulsman trio + keith halland pat dow
• morth + prophetess + vendetta + reddoor +
Abbottsford. 3:00pm. $15.00.
• nickelback Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $101.00.
• orb + wet blankets + sewer side Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• palace of the king + memphis belle +
chasing alice Sound City Melbourne, Spotswood.
8:00pm. $15.00.
• razor cut + murder rats + trauma boys +
the transitions Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
8:00pm. $8.00.
• roxy lavish & the suicide cult Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
• strathmore + del lago + gladstone + coffin
wolf Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00. • tang! farewell natho show + kill two birds Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • the cannanes + the ocean party + depp country Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• the dead city lights Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the deloraines + singles + bears Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
• the gifthorse + the union pacific +
maricopa wells + tigers Bendigo Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the hired guns Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• the lachy doley group, zevon hiltz & the
werewolves of melbourne 303, Northcote.
8:00pm. $18.00.
• trench sisters + hostile objects + organ
donor + bombs over brunswick Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 2:00pm.
• tunes by sabo Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • adam gibson & the ark ark birds + danny
walsh band Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. • ben wright smith + the pretty littles + tiny little houses Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 9:00pm. $12.00.
• better late than never Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• brunny saturday arvo session - feat: david
wright & the midnight electric Brunswick
Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
• chelsea wilson + dj kezbot Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:30pm.
• the starks Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm.
band & cc thornley Black Hatt, Geelong. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• vic old time jam session - feat: craig
woodward + warren rough & friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
SUNDAY MAY 17
whistler Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. • band wars heat 4 - feat: novakayn + telling silence + ignite antares + dead to reality + mountfield plains + for what its worth Musicland, Fawkner. 5:30pm. $10.00.
• battle of the bands - feat: furious george
+ cymatics + south end + lost in moments + notice of eviction + black radius + brief chemistry Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00. • beersoaked sundays - feat: the infants + crepes + archer moore Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• cancer council charity show - feat:
whoretopsy + epimetheus + earthender + incentives + gravemarkings Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• chores + no sister + hooper crescent John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 4:00pm.
• crosstrack Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.
• dance gavin dance + acrasia + polaris + the
valley ends + gladstone Corner Hotel, Richmond.
7:30pm. $37.40.
• gunn music showdown Espy, St Kilda. 12:30pm. $15.00.
• hugo race & the true spirit + stu thomas
bruce + hyperfokus + hijack + nam Penny
Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• schizy week jam - feat: melbourne mass
gospel choir + heidi everett & hotel echo + bipolar bears + tomorrow’s sky Northcote
Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $5.00.
• the ruby page & joe ruberto jazztet Milano’s Tavern, Brighton. 1:00pm. $15.00.
• tina harrod band Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.00.
• vivaldi unwired - feat: brendan joyce
+ christina leonard Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm. $68.00.
crowley Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. • banjo-b-que - feat: craig woodward Fancy Hank’s Bbq Joint, Melbourne. 12:00pm.
• cherry blues - feat: kerri simpson + dj max
crawdaddy Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00. • chill back sunday - feat: miss tuesday Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm.
orlando furious + holy lotus + pare ohm Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• mundane mondays - feat: kt spit +
waterfall person + denim owl Old Bar, Fitzroy.
8:00pm. $5.00.
• pretty city Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $3.00.
• tv + summer blokes + constultant Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
+ james mccann & the new vindictives + fraudband + tender bones + the attractor beams Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 3:30pm. $10.00. • danny ross + jules boult Drunken Poet, West
• brooke penrose & liam linley Tramway Hotel,
Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• field + see & mason Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm.
• jude perl Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00.
• ken maher + al wright + tony hargreaves Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• krista polvere Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm. • lamb boulevard + jose luansing + ben
william Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5:00pm. • lost ragas Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • mandy connell & the red shoes Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
North Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• kagu & ali barter + 1/0 Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• the johnny can’t dance cajun band Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• the mutual appreciation society - feat:
imogen clark + paige renee & darcy fox Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
TUESDAY MAY 19
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • craig schneider Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• irish session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
• mary carewe & philip mayers Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 11:00am. $49.00.
• open stage Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• rockabilly sundays Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .
• the claremont street singers +
• keith hall & pat dow band + tim hulsman
• ross mclennan + slow galo Post Office Hotel,
• the count basie orchestra Hamer Hall (arts
• rpg radio + tony creeden + strum rebellion
• the original bennetts lane big band Bennetts
7:30pm.
trio + brothers in law Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• masters of rock - feat: madder lake &
spectrum + blackfeather + the sharon molls + ronnie charles + ross ryan + ted lethborg + the sisters of song: bekkii o’connor + enza pantano - peers + kelly auty + mae parker & soozie pinder + gil tucker + thee marshmallow overcoat The Palms, Southbank. 6:00pm. $40.00. Melbourne. 4:00pm.
7:00pm. $7.00.
band + mf jones 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $5.00.
• standing tall Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm.
• sunday school - feat: freejack + short
future + phantom Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.
8:00pm.
Coburg. 4:30pm.
+ matt borg trio Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. • sunday sessions Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
• sunday sessions Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
• sunday songwriters - feat: nicola brown +
brett franke + the tattered sails + neeko + windmill kingdom Carters Bar, Northcote. 5:00pm. • the bellwethers Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. • the new savages Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • the shotgun wedding ft. dan waters Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• the t-bones Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • tim ireland Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.
• tooze & bruce sunday residency Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm.
• van & cal walker Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
MONDAY MAY 18
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• murdena duo Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• the drunken poachers + rach brennan Beav’s
• 303 jam 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
Geelong. 5:00pm. $5.00.
Bar, Geelong. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• the laudanum project Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $35.00.
• the mcqueens + albert salt + slim jeffries Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $7.00.
• tim crossey & his adult contemporaries Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• timothy nelson Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • void of vision Musicland, Fawkner. 1:45pm. $10.00.
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Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
• monday night mass - feat: pikelet +
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• test pilot molly + dj chook Barwon Club Hotel,
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After a huge year long redevelopment, Wick studios of Brunswick is ready to open and gosh darn it’s looking sexy. It’s cutting edge, it’s shiny and you had better believe that the free opening party on Sunday May 17 is going to rule. The party kicks off at 2pm and features the likes of Ella Hooper, Mojo Juju, Shaun Kirk, Oscar Bublé and the Butterboys, Eleven, The Seaford Monster, Sub Rosa and My Echo. Get down to The Wick Studios on Sunday May 17 and party on.
• claire birchall & the phantom hitchhikers
• matt gresham Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $30.00.
WICK STUDIOS LAUNCH PARTY
• petty cash Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• pageant families + balter vada + ken oath
• krista polvere + bernie carson + gena rose
Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm.
paradox Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • jam at musicland sundays Musicland, Fawkner.
• joshua seymour band Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. $25.00.
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• russell morris + nudist funk orchestra
• alanna & alicia + michael waugh + kate
• momentum - feat: coretet Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
• jude perl Butterfly Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
zwartz + julien wilson + niko schauble
• andrew swift + nathan seeckts + wolf
• georgia maq + steph hughes Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
Northcote. 4:00pm. $10.00.
• jex saarelaht quartet ft. jonathan
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• mike oliphant & friends Big Huey’s Diner, South
2:00pm.
maddon + jane sea + cameron holmes + richard fletcher + kevin murphy + itchy & arian + lyzee & hayden + r&r Purple Emerald,
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• dylan joel + peezo + kwasi Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $16.00.
8:00pm.
• help nepal fundraiser - feat: jimmy
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dj maars Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• ensemble formidable Open Studio, Northcote.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• allan browne with julien wilson + scott
tinkler + phil rex Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• discovering percy grainger - feat:
penelope thwaites Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:30pm. $25.00.
• vca large ensembles - feat: various artists Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
• vivaldi unwired - feat: brendan joyce
+ christina leonard Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $68.00.
• andrew nolte & his orchestra Spotted Mallard,
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• bianca aviaz band Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.
• 88 with mose Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm.
Brunswick. 4:30pm.
• easy now - feat: agent 86 + tom showtime +
• maddawg mondays - feat: t-rek Boney,
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ravenswood Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $109.00.
Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.
• tinalley string quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
• ultrafox Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• vca large ensembles Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • brightside Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm.
• fitzroyalty - feat: the new savages +
thomas reeve Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• gang of youths Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• oliver paterson beat project + allysha joy Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• ruby tuesday - feat: ausmuteantes + tommy
t & the classical mishaps Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
• spandau ballet Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $50.00.
• them bruins + the controllers Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• tuesdays are fridays Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • ainslie wills + cold hands warm heart Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• cheap kraken rum night - feat: timothy
john + jay fraser & lina andonovska + adam cousens Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00. • weeping willows with dan waters Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
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With Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm
WILL SPARKS SETS UP LABEL WITH M.O.S., LUCKY ENT
Top tiered Australian DJ Will Sparks has launched his own label Bourne Recordings. “When I first started producing, I always wondered how on earth I could get my music signed and released or who to contact,” said the 22-year old who helped take Melbourne’s Bounce sound global. “I created this project for anyone with talent. If you’re seriously confident and know that your track is great, I’d love to hear from you.” For more info and submission details, go to www.facebook.com/ BourneRecordings. The label is set up in conjunction with Ministry of Sound Australia and the Lucky Ent management company which looks after Sparks, Joel Fletcher and Tigerlily among others. Jeff Drake, head of A&R for Ministry of Sound Australia, said, “As one of the very first artists to deliver the classic Melbourne bounce sound beyond its origin city, Will is largely responsible for inspiring a generation of producers, so collaborating with him and Lucky Ent to curate and deliver those sounds to the world is hugely exciting.”
ROWLAND S HOWARD LANE A REALITY
The Office Of Geographic Names has gazetted that the unnamed lane in St Kilda between Jackson St and Eildon Rd is to be called Rowland S Howard Lane. The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls guitarist, who died in 2009 from liver cancer, used to take that route when he went to get his daily coffee. A two year grassroots campaign was started by promoter Nick Haines, who first got the idea for it on the way to Howard’s funeral.
MIKE WATERS SIGNS MANAGEMENT AND BOOKING AGENCY DEALS
Melbourne singer songwriter Mike Waters signed with WAU/ UNFD for management and Select for bookings. At WAU (Vance Joy, The Kite String Tangle, Violent Soho), his affairs are overseen by Aidan and Rhett McLaren, who also manage REMI and McLaren Brothers and run The Hills Are Alive
Q&A
Oliver Paterson Beat Project
The First Record I Bought: H2 by DJ Honda – a Japanese hip hop producer and turntablist. It’s a rap album and has a bit of a DJ Premier vibe. At the listening station I was totally blown away by the raw energy and the sheer aggression of the music. It paved the way for a deep love for hip-hop later on. The Last Record I Bought: Hiatus Kaiyote’s Choose Your Weapon – absolutely on-point future-soul clap hip hop, what the hell do you call it? They are doing things that I never thought possible – breaking out and moving forward from what everybody in the scene is doing now. The First Thing I Recorded: The first jam I had with my musical soulmate, drummer/ producer Michael McNab, who plays MPC and percussion in my Beat Project. It was 2003 and we were jamming in the same garage we still use today. We were 12 and it was the start of a huge musical partnership. The Last Thing I Recorded: I’ve been working on a new solo beat tape album. It’s called See You Again and was made at home using just my guitar, loop stations and effects pedals. Lo-fi electronic beats ranging from boom bap to minimal techno. The Record That Changed My Life: Fantastic Volume 2 by Slum Village. I found J Dilla in about 2010 and since then his work has become my main influence. Dilla covered so much ground in his short career and this album is one of the highlights for me – it’s raw, loose, dirty and fat. You can catch the OLIVER PATERSON BEAT PROJECT at the Workers Club on Tuesday May 19 (supported by Allysha Joy) and Tuesday May 26 (supported by Thhomas). BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
festival. Adelaide-born Waters is touring behind debut EP LIFE. The video for lead-off single Gambling Man was made with award-winning photographer buddy Oli Sansom. There was no budget, and involved Waters sitting for repeated run-throughs in a chair “in the freezing cold, shirtless and with my head covered in a mixture of sorbolene, cornflour and food colouring. Oli’s studio doesn’t have hot water, so cleaning up afterwards was testing.”
AUSSIE AUCTION SITE FOR MUSIC EQUIPMENT
An online auction site for musical equipment, Gearflip, has launched in Australia by Chris Shaw, bassist with Dream On Dreamer. He said he’d seen too many musos getting ripped off by international retailers, fallen to scams or lost their money from PayPal disputes. Gearflip only deals with Australian musicians, so everything’s in Aussie dollars. Shaw invites retailers to use the site as an extension of their own websites. Gearflip takes a 2.5% commission.
MORE ON VIC BUDGET
As a postscript on Beat.com.au’s report on the Victorian budget’s $12.2 million support for the contemporary music sector through MusicWorks, we should also report that $30 million was promised to redevelop the Geelong Performing Arts Centre and $26.5 million for the independent arts sector to support small to medium organisations with their education, youth and multicultural arts programs. Multicultural Arts Victoria got $150,000 for a feasibility study on developing a new cultural and creative hub, ‘House of World Cultures’ at Port Melbourne’s Station Pier. Arts Centre Melbourne got $2 million and Melbourne Recital Centre $500,000 for their programs.
THINGS WE HEAR
• Is there going to be a legal skirmish over the name of a festival that’s been axed for good? • Which rising singer/songwriter is causing a family rift about a new song (not played live yet) recounting a family scandal involving a dead relative? • Will Australians have to pay more money for digital music as a result of a proposed 10% GST on digital transactions? • After his Aussie tour, Ed Sheeran went on to do six shows in South America, selling 750,000 tickets and grossing $4.7 million. • Foo Fighters may be cool with playing concerts that fans crowd-sourced for, but Pearl Jam turned down a fan who raised $140,000 for a show in New York. Their manager said they loved the “passion and enthusiasm” of such fans but want to make it clear they won’t do such shows. • Flight Facilities’ show in October with the 55-piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in October at the Myer Music Bowl sold out its 12,000 tickets. • The heritage listing of the Palace Theatre was brought up at a meeting of the proposed 2015-16 annual Plan Actions at Future Melbourne committee meeting. But there was a reluctance to speak too much about heritage listing when it was before VCAT. The next VCAT hearing is on May 15. • Melbourne Pub Group’s Julian Gerner and wife Alicia are moving to live on the peninsula, and put their St Kilda West pad on the market. • Police and organisers of the new age Yemaya Festival at Redcastle State Forest, north-west of Heathcote in regional Victoria, bandied words. The cops were furious that 30 of the 3,000 attendees were charged with drug offences, and cops had to be called to eject six people who refused to leave the site. • Drake had to fork out $6,000 to fellow rapper The Game after losing a bet over a basketball match. • Blank Tape is about to announce a new home for the studio, label and stable, as well as some new signings. • Sufjan Stevens is playing only Vivid in Sydney this time but says he’ll be back for a full tour next year. • Broods and Flight Facilities bonded during Groovin’ The Moo and have recorded together. Meanwhile, Remi jumped onstage with The Delta Riggs at the Bendigo show, after the two collaborated on a new version of Hey Victor. • Deep Purple topped a poll of Rolling Stone USA readers on who should be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016. Following were ELO, Yes, Cheap Trick, Chicago, Warren Zevon, Little Feat, Iron Maiden, The Moody Blues and The Smiths.
ACTS NAMED FOR SLEEP AT THE G
Entertaining the Melbourne City Mission’s Sleep at the ’G (Thursday May 21) are British India, hip hop social activist L-Fresh The Lion and roots musiciansocial activist Penelope Swales. Over 1,500 will sleep overnight at the MCG to raise funds to support young people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness in Victoria. “There are many contributing factors
that cause young people to be living their day to day without a safe place to call home,” says L-Fresh The Lion. ‘”There are individual and or personal factors and systemic ones. It’s important that we do our best to address those issues at their core whilst continuing to build support structures to assist those in need.”
FRANKI SIGNS TO PAVEMENT
Melbourne indie electro-pop singer, songwriter Franki has signed with Matt O’Connor’s A&R department/ Pavement Records. First single Lost was written, performed and produced by Franki in his home studio. The song, he says, “is about finding your way out of a dark place and I tried to use all the elements to capture that.”
MUSIC VICTORIA’S WOMEN’S INITIATIVE SURVEY
Music Victoria is seeking to gain an understanding of the experiences of women working in the music industry to better support them as well as those wanting to develop careers in the industry. If you are a woman working in the local music industry take 5-10 minutes to complete this survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/ mvwomensinitiative. It closes on Sunday May 17.
HOLY HOLY TAKE ON UK/ EUROPE
Melbourne/ Brisbane’s Holy Holy are off on their first tour abroad this week thanks to an Australia Council International Pathway grant. They’ll do 14 shows in eleven days from May 14 till May 30. These include festivals such as UK’s Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City and Dot To Dot, Amsterdam’s London Calling and Spain’s Primavera Sound ,as well as club dates in Cologne, Berlin, London and Ghent. The dates were booked by Oliver Ward of The Agency Group, with whom they signed last August (as well as with Rob Zifarelli of the Agency for the US). The video shoot for new single You Cannot Call For Love Like A Dog went down in Tasmania’s hills. It included a missed flight, $700 in excess baggage fees, eight people squeezed into two vehicles and a missed shot of a pair of Wedge Tail eagles, which suddenly flew over them in all majesty. They recounted to us, “It was stunning – would have made a killer moment in the clip, but in a way it was nice to have a moment that wasn’t on film.”
SO DO KLO
Melbourne’s Klo head off for their first UK shows, doing eight dates between May 14 and 30. They’re doing mostly festival appearances, including The Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City and Primavera Sound as well as the Aussie BBQ London. The band’s records are released in that part of the world through Year One Recordings (and Remote Control in Oz). Klo are made up of cousins, producer Simon Lam and singer Chloe Kaul, and just released a live video to accompany the track Make Me Wonder.
SONY MUSIC PULLS TRACKS OFF SOUNDCLOUD
Sony Music quit licensing negotiations with Soundcloud to set a rate for which their acts will get paid. It has pulled out half a dozen acts, including Adele, Hozier, Miguel, Kelly Clarkson and Passion Pit. Warner Music has already signed. Soundcloud has 350 million monthly users, it helped break Lorde and is used by major names like Beyonce and Drake to debut new material.
LARRY MALUMA HEADING BACK TO AFRICA
Larry Maluma heads back to Africa (Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) on a promo tour at the end of May behind the release of his Ulemu (Respect). Although his 12th album release, Ulemu is actually his first album, recorded in Zambia 30 years ago, before he moved to Melbourne. It is out in Zambia ahead of its spring release in Australia. In Zambia, his track Punzisani Aana has been included in Mystic Pictures’ educational documentary on the importance of medical attention for children with eye problems to avoid blindness.
EOI OPEN FOR MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK
City of Melbourne is calling for Expressions of Interest from promoters, venues, record labels, businesses and individuals to get involved in Melbourne Music Week (Nov 13 to 20). They are for Live Music Safari, The Hub, Umbrella programming and the Self-Made series. Deadline is June 3, head to melbourne.vic.gov. au/mmw.
WANNA VOLUNTEER FOR RECLINK CUP?
The Reclink Community Cup (Elsternwick Park, Sunday June 21) is looking for volunteers for food and beverages sales and service, gate attendants and traffic
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LIFELINES Born: son, Alfie, to Nova presenter Tim Blackwell and wife Monique, their second. Blackwell quipped, “We waited two days for a magazine exclusivity deal, but apparently a Princess was born on the same day.” Engaged: Emma Watkins and Lachy Gillespie aka Yellow and Purple Wiggle. Recovering: BB King, 89, is at home in Las Vegas after a minor heart attack. Police were called after an argument between King’s daughter and manager over his medical treatment. Hospitalised: Daniel Johns with minor head injuries after tripping and hitting his head on the pavement outside Sydney’s Low 302 during a night out. In Court: a 32-year old stalker of radio host/ singer Sophie Monk got a suspended eight month sentence. He cannot leave Tasmania, contact her, or go within 200 metres of her and has to undergo psychiatric treatment. He’d been sending her nasty messages via social media. In Court: US police dropped charges against Richie Sambora over an angry phone call to his ex-girlfriend regarding a business deal, when he threatened to “dig a hole in the desert and bury her.” It was a “big misunderstanding”. In Court: a US Exodus fan locked up for eight days on terrorism charges – to wit, posting online the lyrics to their Class Dismissed (“Student bodies lying dead in the halls, a blood splattered treatise of hate. Class dismissed is my hypothesis, gun fire ends in debate”) – is suing the arresting cops. In Court: Las Vegas police dropped a charge against singer Chris Brown brought on by a man who said that they had been playing basketball at a resort and Brown punched him after they got into an argument. In Court: a UK woman, 23, jailed for two years for selling £121,280 of false tickets to 311 EDM fans (made on her laptop complete with barcode) to Belgium’s Tomorrowland festival after its 180,000 tickets sold out in hours. In Court: 19-year old Matthew Forti, accused of selling the E tabs that led to the death of teenager Georgina Bartter at Harbourlife, changed his plea to guilty last week in Downing Centre Local Court. He returns to court May 15. Died: Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate, 71, from liver cancer. Died: original Rainbow bassist Craig Gruber, 63, of cancer. He also appeared on Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell album. Died: Swedish bassist Rutger Gunnarsson, 69. He worked with Abba, the Chess musical, and appeared on records by Celine Dion, Westlife, Elton John and Adam Ant. management (we’re talking 13,500) and event set-up and pack down. You get a limited edition event t-shirt and food and drink voucher. Go to reclink.org/events/ reclink-community-cup.
JOBS AT MELBOURNE FRINGE
Melbourne Fringe is looking for a Creative Producer, Marketing Manager, Ticketing Manager and a Marketing Coordinator. Go to melbournefringe.com.au/about-us/jobs.
JOY CONGRATULATES BECK STAND
LGBTIQ station JOY 94.9 applauded a decision by volunteer Dean Beck to publicly disclose his positive HIV status. Station GM Conrad Browne said that too often, such disclosures “are met with responses that are less than supportive”, adding “We should act against HIV stigma, not stigmatise those with HIV.”
WANNA JUDGE THE CBAA AWARDS?
Wanna be a judge for the CBAA Awards? These are held by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia to recognize achievements in radio and TV. You can be involved in up to three of 18 categories. They cover best music radio program, excellence in music programming, outstanding contribution to music and outside broadcasting as well as community participation, volunteers, training, current affairs, sports etc. Go to cbaa.org.au.