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CHET FAKER Chet Faker will embark on a final celebration of his multi-platinum, chart-topping album Built on Glass. Touring the east coast, Faker will take to the stage in his biggest venues to date, featuring an expanded band with guests, never before performed live songs and more. To coincide with the announcement, he’s also just released his latest track Bend. Catch him Friday October 30 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl Melbourne. Tickets via Ticketmaster.
Melbourne’s Void Of Vision have just announced the release of their latest single/film clip Sun//Rise, attracting an extremely positive response from fans and media alike. The band have toured with the likes of heavyweight Australian and international acts Hand Of Mercy, Hellions, Elegist, Villes plus many more, and will soon be hitting the road with Melbourne based Ocean Grove for a run of national tour dates. They’ll be playing two shows in Melbourne, the first at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday July 17 and the second at OLP on Sunday July 19. Be sure to grab your tickets from destroyalllines.com while they last. Aldous Harding
PRESENTATION NIGHT Commentary legend Dennis Cometti is teaming up with Dave Graney for an evening of conversation about football, music, and their careers. The pub rock talk show, now in its third year, will be hosted by Francis Leach as he proceeds to host a conversation between an elite footballing type who loves music, and a storied musician who loves football. Presentation Night will take over the Corner Hotel on Sunday August 16. Tickets go on sale Friday June 19 through the venue.
THE REBELLES 19 piece Melbourne girl group The Rebelles are launching their high energy debut at Thornbury Theatre on Saturday July 25. While drawing on the classic girl group sounds of The Ronettes and The Shangri Las, as well as their beloved Ramones, The Rebelles tip a wink to artists as diverse as Nancy Sinatra, The Beatles, Suicide, and The Modern Lovers. The band have a huge night planned for the launch, including a special performance by magician Dane Certificate, with Indonesian rock’n’roll act Empat Lima kicking off festivities on the night.
SUN GOD REPLICA The three-piece rock band have returned from an overseas tour to headline The Gasometer’s first birthday celebrations. After playing The Great Escape and Sound City in the UK alongside Primavera Pro in Spain, the group has secured a record contract and promoter. Coming along for the birthday bash are Peter Bibby, Twin Beasts, Elizabeth Barker, Esther Rivers and Chris Goff as well as DJs Tom & Shan to keep the party going. Sun God Replica will play The Gasometer Hotel’s first birthday on Sunday June 28.
NORTHEAST PART Y HOUSE Northeast Party House have locked in a run of farewell shows before they make the leap into international waters this September. Set to play their first string of dates across the US, UK and Europe this September, October and November, the dance pop outfit will bid their homeland adieu with six gigs along the east coast. Having spent much of the year in the studio working on their follow-up to their 2014 debut Any Given Weekend, the boys will unveil the new material as one last treat before they head off to conquer the northern hemisphere. They’ll play 170 Russell on Friday August 28. Tickets are on sale from the venue’s website. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 12
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HELLIONS Hellions recently unveiled their new video for Nottingham from their current release Indian Summer and have announced plans for a national tour. The new video was shot at Sydney’s Marble Bar with Chris Elder, Ed Reiss and The Haus Party, and stars the ever-adept Brady Kitchingham and Charlotte Schinckel-Brown. They’ll be bringing along Capsize and ’68 from the USA along with them when they tour Australia, booking an all ages show at Arrow on Swanston on Wednesday August 26 and an 18+ show at Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday August 27. Tickets available from Destroy All Lines.
TIMBERWOLF After breakout performances at Groovin’ the Moo and Big Pineapple, Timberwolf has announced that he’ll take his live show on the road for a trio of gigs this August. The mini-tour will celebrate his widely praised new EP, Flux, which was released at the beginning of May. Since the project’s release, the folk singer has been generating heavy buzz, with singles It Burns, Fallen Sun and Whiskey Jar securing slots on the national airwaves. He’ll play Northcote Social Club on Saturday August 22. Tickets available from the venue’s website.
LYA L L M O L O N E Y Lyall Moloney’s debut album Only Lonely is out now, and he’s heading into town with a celebratory show this August. Lyall Moloney finds the perfect groove combo between electronica flavoured hip hop and floaty sub-aquatic guitars, gnawing his way through musical genres on Only Lonely like a rabbit on a carrot. Currently on a four week tour throughout Europe, Lyall’s Only Lonely Tour finally comes to Melbourne on Thursday August 27 at the Shebeen Bandroom.
Celebrating the launch of their website, I Heard A Whisper are throwing a show at The Gasometer Hotel with a slew of their favourite acts scheduled to play on Saturday July 4. Featuring a lineup of Aldous Harding, Broadway Sounds, Crêpes and RaRa, the night will consist of a balanced mix of hip hop, dancey tunes and alt-country for attendees. Head over to I Heard A Whisper’s website for tickets and more details.
ANIMAUX Melbourne’s Animaux have unleashed a party starting new single and they’re hitting the road to celebrate. The sevenpiece have announced they’ll head out on an east coast tour this August to showcase their latest single, Come on Over. Following in the same vein as the rest of their high-energy dance pop, the track goes big with huge, funky hooks that will be sure to get The Gas groovin’. Catch ‘em on Saturday August 29 at The Gasometer Hotel, and grab your tickets from the venue’s website.
GENA ROSE BRUCE To celebrate the release of her new EP, Mad Love, Gena Rose Bruce has announced a couple of shows for this July. Gena has previously supported the likes of Bonjah, Timberwolf and Ben Wright Smith. She will play headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne. In 2014 she was awarded 2nd place in the Unsigned Only Songwriting Competition as well as a Grand Finalist in the International Songwriting Competition alongside Missy Higgins and The Preatures. Gena Bruce Smith will play at The Workers Club on Friday July 24. Tickets are on sale through Oztix.
ED KUEPPER Ed Kuepper has announced that he’ll unveil a wealth of new material when he heads out on his Nostalgia for the New Tour next month. After spending the last two years performing by request shows, Kuepper will take a break from the familiar and play sets of largely new and unrecorded material along with a selection of classics. And in another interesting twist, Kuepper’s tour will include a three week midweek residency in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. He’ll hit Northcote Social Club on Thursday July 16, 23 and 30. Tickets available from the venue’s website.
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK Everything is alright, Motion City Soundtrack will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its classic album Commit This To Memory with a national tour this spring. Released in June 2005, the emopop LP features tracks like Everything is Alright, When You’re Around and Make Out Kids. They’ll play the album in its entirety alongside cuts from the rest of their catalogue and material from their forthcoming studio album when they hit five cities across Australia this August. Catch ‘em on Sunday August 30 at 170 Russell. Tickets are available from the venue’s website.
MADONNA Madonna will bring her Rebel Heart tour to Australia next year. Released earlier this year, Madonna’s critically acclaimed 13th studio album Rebel Heart was her 11th record to hit #1 on the Australian ARIA Charts. The historic tour will see Madge return Down Under to perform live in Australia for the first time in 23 years. Catch her at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday March 12 and Sunday March 13. Tickets via Live Nation.
VA L L I S A L P S The electronic duo will be taking to Melbourne on their debut national tour. Since releasing their self-titled debut in January, the pair have amassed over two million hits on Soundcloud and peaked at number one on Hype Machine. They will be taking to the stage alongside performing at this year’s Splendour In The Grass. Vallis Alps will hit Shebeen on Friday August 7. Tickets available from the venue’s website.
UNPLUGGED LIVE AT NGV The National Gallery of Victoria has unveiled the music program for its free performance and conversation series Unplugged Live. Returning in July and August, the weekly series will play host to performances by Thelma Plum, Olympia, Megan Washington, Katy Steele, Alex Gow and Tom Iansek. Curated and hosted by Jae Laffer of The Panics, Unplugged Live features conversation and short performance by each artist while surrounded by artwork from some of the NGV’s current exhibitions at The Ian Potter Centre. The series will run every Sunday from July 5 to August 9 at the National Gallery of Victoria. Entry is free, visit ngv.vic.gov.au for more details.
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DEAR PLASTIC Dear Plastic are returning to The Workers Club this July to launch their latest single and video clip Overwinter. Overwinter will be the fourth single released from their acclaimed 2014 album The Thieves Are Babes. Dear Plastic will also be launching a special edition red double LP of The Thieves Are Babes, available at the show on Friday July 10 at The Workers Club, which will feature visuals by local artist David Abbott, in collaboration with Gertrude Street Projection Festival.
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Melbourne musos Black Cab have announced this week the launching of their vinyl edition of their double album Games of the XXI Olympiad as part of 2015’s Leaps and Bounds festival. The release has been four months in the coming and follows two sold out launch shows held right here in Melbourne. Black Cab celebrate the vinyl release of Games of the XXII Olympiad on Friday July 17 at The Corner Hotel, with supports Lost Animal and The Infants. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketscout.
Part of Leaps and Bounds Festival for the third year running now, RRR’s Jonnie Von Goes proudly presents Brown River, a night of variety extravagance reminiscent of one of his epic and infamous BBQ Days or his Stopping All Stations Except East Richmond Gigs. A lot of music happens in the City of Yarra, and a lot of other stuff happens too. Brown River has music and other stuff too, with Mick Thomas, Peter “Dr Pump” Lawler, Angie Hart, Mikelangelo, Broads, Danny McDonald and Ian Bland all making appearances on the night, plus the all star Little Brown River Band. Brown River goes down from 8pm on Friday July 3 at Fitzroy Bowling Club, tickets are available through the Corner Box Office or on the door if available.
LIAM GERNER Singer songwriter Liam Gerner is announcing an upcoming six date Tour Of Yarra as part of the Leaps and Bounds Music Festival. Liam’s Tour Of Yarra will find him road testing new songs and playing a new set each night with an alternating lineup of musicians at six intimate venues within the City of Yarra. He’ll be playing shows at The Gem in Collingwood on Sunday July 5, The Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford on Tuesday July 7, and a set where he will play songs to his favourite Banjo Patterson poems during a screening of art film Latcho Drom at Long Play on Friday July 10. Head to Gerner’s website for tickets and more information.
THE SCIENTISTS Perth rock’n’roll favourites The Scientists are reforming with their original 1978 lineup for I’m Flipped Out Over You, a huge night of celebration going down Saturday July 18 at The Corner Hotel as part of Leaps and Bounds Music Festival. The show will see the original Scientists line-up of Kim Salmon, James Baker, Rod Radalj and Boris Sujdovic reuniting one time only for this special, one-off show. The Dubrovniks, Rocket Science, Spencer P Jones & The Escape Committee, Hits, The Pink Tiles, The Electric Guitars and Girl Crazy will all be performing on the night before The Scientists close the night out. Catch this one time performance on Saturday July 18 at The Corner Hotel from 7.30pm, tickets are available from Ticketscout.
LIVING LEGENDS T R I B U T E T O DAV E GRANEY & CLARE MOORE First bursting out of the St Kilda post punk scene, Dave Graney and Clare Moore have been chasing their unique rock’n’roll vision for over three decades. There are over 21 acts set to pay tribute, including Harry Howard & Edwina Preston, The Ocean Party, Mike Turner and more, plus a promise of a few more special guests. The Living Legends Tribute to Dave Graney & Clare Moore will be held at The Gasometer on Sunday July 12 from 5pm, tickets are available from the Corner Box Office.
LEAPS AND BOUNDS BUS TOURS Leaps and Bounds Music Festival has announced the return of one of the festival’s most popular attractions, the bus tours of Yarra City’s music history, past and present. Operating every Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the festival, this year the tours will include a different Yarra celebrity on each trip, complimentary afternoon tea at Bakehouse Studios, and ends with a drink and a chat at The Corner Hotel. The Leaps and Bounds bus tour operates from Friday July 3 to Sunday July 19, bookings are available at leapsandboundsmusicfestival.com.
SPIEGELTENT SESSIONS Presented by event partners The Social Crew, as part of Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, The Spiegeltent Sessions, held at The Melba for the first time this year, will feature a specially curated selection of performers across musical genres every Saturday during the festival. The Melba, located at the Circus Oz headquarters in Collingwood, has a long held love of live music and is excited to be taking inspiration from new next door neighbours The Tote to mix things up a little, outside the classic styles of vintage cabaret/burlesque. Get your tickets for one of the three Spiegeltent Sessions at The Melba via leapsandboundsmusicfestival.com.
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The reigning gods of technical, historically-themed ferocity, NILE are launching an Australian tour to accompany the release of their new album, What Should Not Be Unearthed. Due for release worldwide on August 28, Australians fans will be among some of the first anywhere in the world to observe theses new creations in a live setting, along with the classics of the past. Tickets will go on sale from Tuesday June 23 from Oztix for two shows at The Corner Hotel on November 21. Get them while they’re hot.
FREE $HIT RETIREE Sydney foursome Retiree have just dropped their new EP This Place, and they’re cutting loose with a string of launch parties round the nation. Coming along for the road trip is good friend Sui Zhen, bringing her signature Susan style and promoting her upcoming single Take It All Back. Retiree are playing Howler on Thursday July 2, and we’ve got a double pass that we’re just itching to give away. Head to beat.com. au/freeshit before someone beats you to it.
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JOSHUA SEYMOUR Having spent the last few years as cosongwriter in Melbourne based altcountry band, Cherrywood, Joshua Seymour has launched his debut LP Rope Tied Hope to mark his solo career as a singer/songwriter. The album, recorded in Argyle, Texas, sees him take an Australian spin on the Americana sound drawn from his personal experiences and fictional accounts. Rope Tied Hope is out June 21 on Lucky Buck Records. Catch Joshua Seymour live when he launches it at The Toff In Town on Saturday June 27 with Jim Lawrie, Van Walker Trio and Palm Springs.
SWAGGER FEST No hashtags here, kids. The fifth annual Swagger Music Festival, held in Wandiligong, Victoria, is gearing up for the weekend of Saturday October 24 and Sunday October 25. The festival is an annual reunion amongst the picturesque pines of friends and friends to be. It’s a chance for people to get back to the roots of true community, the heart of unforgettable music and the spirit of the majestic earth, a two day celebration of music, with food and market stalls to boot. This year’s lineup features the likes of Caravãna Sun, Timberwolf, Woodlock Music, Archer, Tash Sultana, Sons of May, Ziggy Alberts, Benny Walker, Al Parkinson, Kallidad, The Badlands, Chris Tamwoy, Josh Rennie-Hynes, The Northern Folk, Emilee South, Centre & The South and This Way North. Be sure to check out Swagger Festival’s website for ticketing and more information before the two day camper lands in October.
Sydney prog rockers Breaking Orbit have announced they’ll play a string of shows in support of their sophomore album, Transcension. They’ll unleash their heavy live show on Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, playing cuts from their latest release as well as their debut LP, The Time Traveller. Joining them will be Gatherer and The Soulenikoes. Breaking Orbit will hit The Toff in Town on Saturday July 11. Tickets are available from the venue’s website.
THE CACTUS CHANNEL The Cactus Channel have announced an east coast tour in celebration of their new single, Cobaw. Filled with heavy drums and reverb-drenched guitars, the track marks the third 45” from the Melbourne-based instrumental collective. They’ll premiere it live when they travel up the east coast, hitting stops in regional and metro Australia along the way. They’ll play at The Shadow Electric on Saturday July 18 and Shebeen on Friday September 11. Check out the venue’s website for more details.
NGAIIRE Without a doubt, Ngaiire has emerged as one of Australia’s most unique, eclectic and fearless artists, as evidenced by her electric shows, spine-tingling vocal deliveries and outrageous costumes, Ngaiire now gears up to release Blastoma’s first single, Once, at Shadow Electric on Friday July 31. Cowritten with Megan Washington and Paul Mac, and produced by Paul Mac and Jack Grace, Once is about taking risks that turn into revelations, the story of her life. Be sure to catch her Friday July 31. See the venue’s website for tickets and more information.
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LABEL OF LOVE Saturday July 11 brings five artists to Shadow Electric, as the Leaps & Bounds Label of Love series ramps up their next event featuring artists from Rice is Nice Records. You Beauty, SPOD, Alex Cameron, Summer Flake and Sarah Mary Chadwick are heading down to the Abbotsford Convent for a night featuring both premiere and recent releases from all of the artists for a night of live performances that will bring to life their new material. Get your tickets from the Rice Is Nice Records website, and check out some of the new music while you’re there too.
Q U E E N S C L I F F M U S I C F E S T I VA L Returning to Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula to enjoy its 19th year, Queenscliff Music Festival has just dropped the first lineup for this year’s festival. Leading the announcement are brother-sister folk pop duo Angus & Julia Stone. They will be joined by the likes of Australian legends Hoodoo Gurus, Kate Miller-Heidke, in her only solo show in Victoria for the year, Something for Kate front-man Paul Dempsey, and country musician John Williamson. Melbourne Ska Orchestra will also be playing the festival along with Go-Betweens co-founder Robert Forster. Rounding out a lineup saturated with up and coming Australian talent is Harts, Kingfisha, Oka, Ainslie Wills and Hey Frankie. Queenscliff Music Festival takes place from Friday November 27 until Sunday November 29. Early bird tickets are on sale now from qmf.net.au.
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A Decade. Let’s Dance It’s our tenth birthday and season program launch, so let’s party! Short performances and live music from 15 artists: Forces, Sophia Brous, Evelyn Morris (Pikelet), Mark Atkins, Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo), Ania Walwicz, Jo Lloyd & Shian Law, Alisdair Macindoe, James Batchelor, Nat Grant, Satsuki Odamura, Sarah Aiken, Benjamin Hancock and more! Friday 3 July, 7.30pm North Melbourne Town Hall FREE, bookings essential The July – December program is announced Friday 3 July, 9am – check the website for details.
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INTERNATIONAL EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL Palais Theatre June 25 SPRAY PAINT The John Curtin June 27 MARLON WILLIAMS Corner Hotel July 3 WAXAHATCHEE The Toff July 4 SEETHER Forum Theatre July 4 GARY ÓG Prince Bandroom July 5 CHRIS BOTTI Hamer Hall July 5 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Corner Hotel July 5 SHIHAD Corner Hotel July 11 YELLOWCARD Margaret Court Arena July 11 JMSN Brown Alley July 17 RYAN ADAMS Forum Theatre July 19, July 20 OF MONSTERS AND MEN The Forum July 20 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Palais Theatre July 22 CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN Corner Hotel July 22 JOHNNY MARR The Forum July 22 MS MR 170 Russell July 22 WOLF ALICE Corner Hotel July 23 PETER ROBINSON The Forum July 23 JAY ELECTRONICA Howler July 23 THE KING KHAN AND BBQ SHOW Corner Hotel July 24 SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS North Byron Parklands July 24 – 26 PURITY RING 170 Russell July 24 MARMOZETS Ding Dong Lounge July 25 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING & URBAN CONE The Corner July 25 TIGERS JAW Reverence Hotel July 25, July 26 (AA) PALMA VIOLETS Ding Dong Lounge July 26 GENGHAR Northcote Social Club July 26 BEST COAST Corner Hotel July 26 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 170 Russell July 26 AZEALIA BANKS Prince Bandroom July 26 THE VACCINES Corner Hotel July 27 THE DISTRICTS Northcote Social Club July 27 EARL SWEATSHIRT Prince Bandroom July 28 MØ & ELLIPHANT The Corner July 28 BLUR Rod Laver Arena July 28 THE WOMBATS Palais Theatre July 28 MARK RONSON Margaret Court Arena July 29 SHLOHMO Corner Hotel July 30
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YEARS & YEARS Max Watt’s July 30 KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS 170 Russell August 2 GOOD RIDDANCE Corner Hotel August 7 GREAZEFEST Sandown Racecourse August 7 - 9 SUPERSENSE Arts Centre Melbourne August 7 – 9 THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION Arts Centre Melbourne August 8 ANTHONIE TONNON The Gasometer Hotel August 9 CHELSEA GRIN Corner Hotel August 14, Wrangler Studios August 15 (AA) SNFU Bendigo Hotel August 15 THE BELLRAYS Ding Dong Lounge August 15 YOB Max Watt’s August 21 A SKYLIT DRIVE The Corner Hotel August 28 HELLYEAH Corner Hotel August 29 MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK 170 Russell August 30 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS The Corner Hotel September 4 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Palais Theatre September 4 POISON CITY WEEKENDER 170 Russell, Public Bar September 4, Corner Hotel, The Old Bar September 5, Reverence Hotel, Corner Hotel September 6 JOSHUA RADIN Corner Hotel September 9 SCOTT BRADLEE’S POST MODERN JUKEBOX The Forum September 9 LOWER CLASS BRATS Bendigo Hotel September 12 DEATH DEALER The Hi-Fi September 13 CIRCA SURVIVE 170 Russell September 20, September 21 (AA) A STATE OF GRACE: THE MUSIC OF TIM AND JEFF BUCKLEY Melbourne Recital Centre September 23, 29 JOAN BAEZ Arts Centre Hammer Hall September 24 SEBASTIAN BACH The Forum September 25 LISTEN OUT FESTIVAL Catani Gardens September 26 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena September 26 THE STORY SO FAR Max Watts September 11 JJ GREY & MOFRO Northcote Social Club October 7 KISS Rod Laver Arena October 8, October 10 HELLOWEEN Metro Theatre October 16 SNOT Corner Hotel October 17 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Rod Laver Arena October 22 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell
October 25 SOULFEST Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 25 NEIL DIAMOND Rod Laver Arena October 27 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre October 29 HOZIER Palais Theatre October 30 AT THE GATES Friday October 30 ANATHEMA Corner Hotel October 31 AUDRA MCDONALD Hamer Hall October 31 FLEETWOOD MAC Rod Laver Arena November 2, 4, Mt Dundeed Estate November 7 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Forum Theatre November 7 AUSTRALASIAN WORLD MUSIC EXPO Various Venues November 12 - 15 POKÉMON SYMPHONIC EVOLUTIONS Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre November 13 DEF LEPPARD Rod Laver Arena November 18 THE BEACH BOYS Palais Theatre November 18 NILE Corner Hotel November 21 UB40 The Forum November 24 EARTHCORE Pyalong, Victoria November 26 – 30 CHRIS CORNELL The Palais December 4 ED SHEERAN AAMI Park December 5 SAM SMITH Rod Laver Arena December 8 TAYLOR SWIFT AAMI Park December 11 ELTON JOHN Rod Laver Arena December 11, Mt Duneed Estate December 12 NIGHTWISH The Forum Monday January 11 MADONNA Rod Laver Arena March 12, 13
NATIONAL TIM ROGERS AND THE BAMBOOS Corner Hotel June 25 ROCKNROLLA 3 Prince Public Bar June 26 TOTALLY MILD John Curtin Hotel June 26 THE KITE STRING TANGLE & DUSTIN TEBBUTT 170 Russell June 26 TITLE FIGHT Corner Hotel June 26 EDDIE PERFECT Melbourne Recital Centre June 26 STONEFIELD Shadow Electric June 26 JOSHUA SEYMOUR The Toff In Town June 27 CERES The Tote June 27, The Old Bar July 25 MAJOR LEAGUES John Curtin Hotel June 27 CLOWNS The Barwon Club June 27 KISS ALIVE The Yarraville Club June 27 ALPINE The Forum June 27 HARTS Ding Dong Lounge June 27 MOJO JUJU Corner Hotel June 27, Caravan Music Club July 4 SUN GOD REPLICA The Gasometer Hotel June 28 MIGHTIEST OF GUNS Old Bar June 28 THE NATION BLUE The Tote Hotel July 2 BROWN RIVER Fitzroy Bowling Club July 3 HOWQUA The Gasometer July 3 BROTHER JAMES The Workers Club July 3 DARREN COGGAN The Palms July 3 YOUTH GROUP Northcote Social Club July 3 HOLY SERPENT The Tote July 3, Brunswick Hotel July 19 SPIEGELTENT SESSIONS The Melba July 4, July 10, July 18 I HEARD A WHISPER LAUNCH The Gasometer Hotel July 4 MINIBIKES The Post Office Hotel July 5 LIAM GERNER The Gem July 5, The Yarra Hotel July 7, Long Play July 10 EMILY ULMAN Kent Street July 6, Gasometer Hotel July 7, Conduit Arts July 9, LongPlay July 14, Richmond Theatrette July 15, Some Velvet Morning July 19 FIFTEEN YEARS OF SOUL IN THE BASEMENT Cherry Bar July 9 DEAR PLASTIC The Workers Club July 10 CITY CALM DOWN Northcote Social Club July 10 THE CHURCH 170 Russell July 10 LABEL OF LOVE Shadow Electric July 11 BREAKING ORBIT The Toff in Town July 11 HIGH TENSION Howler July 11 ICE CREAM HANDS The Evelyn Hotel July 11 JARRYD JAMES The Forum July 11 LIVING LEGENDS TRIBUTE TO DAVE GRANEY & CLARE MOORE The Gasometer Hotel July 12 I AM DUCKEYE The Toff July 12, Brunswick Hotel July 26 ED KUEPPER Northcote Social Club July 16, 23, 30 BLACK CAB The Corner Hotel July 17 VOID OF VISION Ding Dong Lounge July 17, OLP July 19 THE JENSENS Shebeen July 17 BATPISS Howler July 17 FRASER A. GORMAN Gasometer Hotel July 17 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Northcote Social Club July 17 BLACK CAB The Corner July 17 THE CACTUS CHANNEL Shadow Electric July 18, Shebeen Bandroom September 11 YOUNG LIONS Royal Melbourne Hotel July 18 THE BABE RAINBOW The Gasometer July 18 LANKS The Workers Club July 18
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JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre July 18 THE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel July 18 GENA ROSE BRUCE The Workers Club July 24 THE REBELLES Thornbury Theatre July 25 TIRED LION Shebeen July 25 KID RADIO Shebeen July 30 NGAIIRE Shadow Electric July 31 ELLA THOMPSON Shebeen July 31 URBAN SPREAD Village Green Hotel July 31, Chelsea Heights Hotel August 1 CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN COLLECTIVE Northcote Social Club August 1 TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES MEMO Music Hall August 1 JOSH PYKE Bella Union August 5 VALLIS ALPS Shebeen Bandroom August 7 MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW National Theatre August 7 DAY RAVIES The Tote August 7 BREWTALITY FEST The Tote, The Bendigo Hotel August 8 TOMMY EMMANUEL Hamer Hall August 15 THE GRATES Corner Hotel August 15 PRESENTATION NIGHT Corner Hotel August 16 WAY OF THE EAGLE Howler August 20 MIAMI HORROR 170 Russell August 21 TIMBERWOLF Northcote Social Club August 22 OH MERCY Howler August 22 JACK CARTY & JORDAN MILLAR Grace Darling August 22 UPSKIRTS Shebeen Bandroom August 22 LYALL MALONEY Shebeen Bandroom August 27 HELLIONS Arrow August 26 (AA), Ding Dong Lounge August 27 GANG OF YOUTHS The Corner Hotel August 26 MUSCLES Shebeen Bandroom August 28 NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE 170 Russell August 28 MEGAN WASHINGTON Northcote Social Club August 28 ANIMAUX The Gasometer Hotel August 29 SETH SENTRY The Forum September 4 REGURGITATOR The Prince Bandroom September 4 THE SMITH STREET BAND The Corner September 19 PARKWAY DRIVE Festival Hall September 26 BEN LEE The Corner October 7 THE RUBENS The Forum October 9 LIOR The Athenaeum Theatre October 16 FLIGHT FACILITIES & THE MSO Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 17 SWAGGER MUSIC FESTIVAL Wandiligong October 24 - 25 CHET FAKER Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 30 MSO BACK TO THE FUTURE LIVE The Plenary November 6, 7 COLD CHISEL Hanging Rock Reserve November 21 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliff November 27, 29 AC/DC Etihad Stadium December 6 THE WHO, MASSIVE ATTACK, KENDRICK LAMAR = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
WOLF ALICE PLAYING HArD tO GEt By Adam Norris
“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.” So wrote Angela Carter in Wolf Alice, the story from which this genuinely exciting London quartet take their name. Their songs are as arresting and evocative as Carter’s own prose, and while this extract may seem to herald a band that’ll exist only briefly and then disappear, that is not at all the case. Wolf Alice are protean in a way, shifting across stories and sounds, impossible to pin down. Upon the release of their debut album My Love Is Cool, Beat speaks with lead singer Ellie rowsell, who underlines the band’s core spontaneity.
“I don’t ever look back and read anything I’ve said in the past,” says Rowsell, her voice at first tired and slightly distant, “but things have really changed now, and it would be interesting to see what we thought was going to happen. I’m sure in interviews we were saying we’d have an album out in the next six months, and now we’re a million years down the track. It’s a weird one to think about. Our first interview was something like four or five years ago now. Some days you’re up for chatting away, some days you have to kind of psych yourself up, be presentable. I hope that journalists understand that and give people the benefit of the doubt and aren’t like, ‘Oh God, what’s wrong with this stupid girl?’” She laughs, and at the risk of overplaying the conversation, it sounds like colour has started to creep into her voice. It is early morning in London, yet Rowsell is already at the end of a trail of interviews. It’s a surprisingly rough gig, entertaining the press, especially when you’re generating the kind of buzz that Wolf Alice have been over the last couple of years. “I don’t know. I don’t think of it too much. I’m flattered and excited by it and if I ever start to feel anything else, I try not to let myself…” Rowsell pauses, looking for words. “People often ask if we’re feeling under pressure from the media, and it’s all still a new thing, really, and makes everything really exciting. You’re just grateful that people are interested and into what you’re doing. Part of you is thinking ‘Well, we haven’t put an album out,’ and you don’t want people to make up their minds too much of what they think of you before it’s released. It’s the album that really cements you as a band. Without it, I feel like we were floating and now this will really anchor us. I think it will be more scary once we have the album out, because people will have a better idea of what we’re about then.” My Love Is Cool has now dropped, and to be honest, it’s been a long time since I’ve found myself so taken by a record. Across 11 tracks, Wolf Alice display striking musical distinction, and there’s rarely a dull moment. When transitioning into a debut LP, many new acts appear inclined to distance themselves from the sounds that first endeared them to their audience. Yet, Wolf Alice’s style has been subtly shifting ever since the release of debut single, Leaving You. They don’t pinwheel blindly across genres, but seem relentless in exploring where each new song might lead. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
“Well, my writing’s always changing,” says Rowsell. “In a way, I guess I’m more confident because I always feel I’m doing something new, but...” she pauses, and when she speaks again, it’s like she has changed gears. At first hesitant, Rowsell quickly gains pace until her words are flowing fast and her laughter comes easy.
“I DON’T rEALLy FEEL MOrE CONFIDENT. IF ANyTHING I FEEL LESS CONFIDENT, BECAUSE WHEN I FIrST STArTED WrITING SONGS, IT WAS NEW TO ME AND I jUST THOUGHT, ‘GOD, I’M rEALLy GrEAT.’ BUT NOW, I’vE LISTENED TO MOrE MUSIC, I’vE GOT MOrE ExPErIENCE, AND I CAN LOOk BACk NOW AND SEE ‘WHOA, THEy rEALLy WErEN’T GrEAT AT ALL.” “I don’t really feel more confident. If anything I feel less confident, because when I first started writing songs, it was new to me and I just thought, ‘God, I’m really great.’ But now, I’ve listened to more music, I’ve got more experience, and I can look back now and see ‘Whoa, they really weren’t great at all.’ I can pick out all the holes. But I think now I have a kind of place, somewhere with a knowledge of songwriting. I don’t just write something now and think ‘Yeah, that one’s done’. Now I know it’s more like different pieces ± ‘Oh, that part may be a chorus,’ you know? It’s hard to know if we’ve come far, because each song we put out is quite different. I think we have a variation of moods and dynamics in our songs, at least from Creature Songs on. You can’t quite see a very natural progression because we jump from one thing to the other. I feel ± and I’m speaking for myself, but I feel like I can also
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speak for the boys ± we’ve come along a fair bit in our instruments, our technical skills. And that’s not a direct reflection of our writing songs, but I guess it helps. We’ve… we’ve come along a bit.” Around a year ago, I made a discovery while reading Angela Carter. Crossing Sydney Harbour on a ferry, I realised that this was absolutely how she was supposed to be read. The waves, the space, the sense of passage ± for whatever reason, Carter is best enjoyed afloat. Asked about the ideal environment for firsttime listeners of My Love Is Cool, Rowsell has some evocative ideas of her own. “You know, the first time I listened to the final mixes, from first to last, I was on the London underground,” she says. “I don’t know if it was because the mixes were finally where we wanted them, or because I was making such a big journey, but I felt really emotional. I thought that was a really nice listening experience. I don’t know. I like watching people,” she chuckles. “In a non-creepy way. There’s no better way to do that then sitting on the tube. I think that would be a good place to first hear the album. People always ask if being in London effects the songwriting, and I really don’t know. If it does, it’s subconscious, but I like to think it plays a big part in my life.” Before we unshackle Rowsell and release her back into the wild ± back to stalking in that present tense ± talk turns to covers. Wolf Alice have recorded a delicate (then soaring) version of Katie Perry’s Roar, and there’s plenty of potential for future covers. “It’s something I’m really interested in, and something that I think is really hard,” Rowsell says. “It’s quite easy to do an OK cover, or cover a song which is already really good, but it’s hard to get that perfect, unique cover that’s going to stand the test of time. Like Nirvana’s Where Did You Sleep Last Night ± the ones that really become that artist’s song. So I think you have to be sparing with your covers, and just wait for it to feel right.” WOLF ALICE are playing the Corner Hotel on Thursday July 23, with support from Bad//Dreems. You can also catch them at Splendour in the Grass 2015, from Friday July 24 ± Sunday July 26 at North Byron Parklands. My Love Is Cool is out now via Sony.
This Week:
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 this week will present the new installment of The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), with star of part 1 and 2, 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. Friday Fright Night will launch on Friday June 26 at Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn. Acclaimed performer Evelyn Krape will celebrate women of all ages in her new onewoman show More Female Parts. The production revisits characters from Krape’s headline-making 1980s play, Female Parts, exploring contemporary gender issues like divorce and control in a relationship. Set out across three separate monologues, More Female Parts has been hailed for its comedic approach to sexism and gender inequality. It will run from Tuesday June 30 to Saturday July 4 at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne. Carol Morley’s 2014 film The Falling opens at ACMI this week. The haunting drama, starring Maisie Williams (Arya, Game of Thrones), charts the outbreak of mass hysteria at an all-girls school in 1960s Britain. Williams stars as Lydia, a whip-smart and angst-ridden teenager who lives in a cramped hairdressing salon with her brother Kenneth ( Joe Cole), and emotionally comatose mother (Maxine Peake). To overcome the boredom and oppression of school and their teenage lives, Lydia and best friend Abbie (Florence Pugh) engage in a series of secret rituals. However, when their bond is broken, Lydia’s world spirals into chaos and strange things start to happen. The Falling will screen at ACMI from Monday June 29 until Sunday July 26.
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Lido Cinemas By Augustus Welby There’s been loads of chatter about the slaughtering effect downloading is having on the cinema trade. The general outcry warns us that if less people are leaving the house to go to the cinema, then cinemas will soon cease to exist. Meanwhile, this week the owner of the iconic Cameo Cinemas in Belgrave and the Classic Cinemas in Elsternwick, Eddie Tamir, will launch Lido Cinemas on Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn. Tamir’s business expansion doesn’t reflect the supposed disarray of the cinema trade whatsoever. So what gives? Well, the fact that he’s lovingly resurrected three original cinema buildings surely helps his cause. “It all started 20 years ago when I got into the notion of running cinemas and had this little dirty paper pamphlet with a pale blue cover from the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society that listed every original cinema building in Victoria,” Tamir says. “The Classic and the Cameo were in that pamphlet and the Lido was very exciting but not available at the time. I really wouldn’t be interested in a green field site and building something new. I am a bit of a sucker for the old energy as well as the old aesthetic of original cinemas.” An eight-screen complex including a rooftop cinema, the Lido certainly is a stunning site. But is a nice building really enough to buck the prevailing trend? Anyone with a fully loaded hard-drive could probably
be convinced otherwise. Tamir agrees; cinema’s unique appeal isn’t purely contingent upon architecture. “This tune kind of reminds me of the songs being sung about the cinema business in the ‘50s and the closure of the neighbourhood cinemas around the world,” he says. “So really, cinema’s been dying since the ‘50s in people’s general view. DVD, TV, video, CD, stealing online, legally streaming online, fragmentation – the song continues. Yet there seems to be something kind of basic and slightly primitive, in a good way, about shared experience, which is riding above all of that pessimistic singing.” The notion of shared experience doesn’t end there. Since opening the Classic in 1997, Tamir’s been intent
The Falling By Liza Dezfouli
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 red carpet gala event for Women He’s Undressed following on Thursday June 25.
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Psychogenesis, mass responses like fainting or shaking, (often thought of as mass hysteria) is much more common than you’d imagine. Beat talks to writer/director Carol Morley about The Falling, her film examining fainting fits amongst teenagers in a girls’ school in the late ‘60s. “I wanted to celebrate the phenomena of mass psychogenesis, the mass response,” says Morley. Although inspired by true events, Morley’s film is a fictional story starring Maisie Williams (Arya from Game of Thrones), as the 16-year-old protagonist, Lydia. “It’s good to go behind a case, to really look at what’s behind it,” says Morley. “That’s the possibility you have with film, you can centre on one of the girls, on her character, and explore what it is about her that enables this to happen. After seeing the film lots of people have told me that fainting epidemics happened at their school – girls fainting all at the same time – it happens a lot more than we know.” The Salem witch trials of Massachusetts come immediately to mind; Morley named one of her characters after Abigail Williams who was the first girl in Salem to exhibit symptoms of what was then attributed to demonic possession. “The girls in Salem were accused of faking it,” notes Morley. “Mass psychogenesis is very complex and interesting, and it mostly occurs amongst adolescent girls; it’s common
at that age. There is something young women have - what do you call it? Empathy? Connection? They have connected feelings. I wanted to celebrate that power – not attribute it to ‘just hormones.’ These girls are insisting on not being ignored. In the past women who experienced mass psychogenesis were subjected to witch trials, women were being punished for being carnal, for being interested in creating potions to cure
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upon making his cinemas unique – and this also relates to what gets shown on screen. The Lido will screen general commercial features, as well as much loved classics. But even that won’t distinguish it from several other cinemas around Melbourne. Exclusive features like the 8K Radius film series, on the other hand, most certainly will. Developed in coordination with the City of Boroondara, and directed by Kenny’s Clayton Jacobson, the series of mini documentaries puts people from the local area up on the local cinema screen. “I was speaking to Clayton five years ago originally and I said ‘Let’s do something original. They can be really short, but I want something original and special.’ And Clayton came up with the idea of the mini documentary and that evolved into minidocumentaries about people who live and/ or work within an eight kilometre radius of the cinema. The whole idea was that locals would be the stars of their own cinema screen, as well as patrons would see these films and either know well or identify these characters from their area and go ‘Wow. That’s amazing. Another Lido exclusive is the Melbourne premiere of the Aussie independent film Last Cab to Darwin, directed by Jeremy Sim and starring Michael Caton and Jackie Weaver. They’ll be doing their own spin on a red carpet gala, which will feature a Q&A with Caton and Sim. Moving forward, Tamir promises plenty of similarly natured exclusives. “One of the major focuses at the Lido will be Australian,” he says. “Especially what we call the commercial orphans of Australian cinema – the ones that distributors may not feel have enough commerciality to get involved with. So we just deal direct with filmmakers and invite them to present the films with us. We’re in a historically very-Australian area, we’re also next to Swinburne, which they’re calling the largest film and TV school in Australia now. So we’ll definitely focus on it.” Lido Cinemas opens on Thursday June 25. Visit lidocinemas.com.au for more information. illness. Their communities turned against them and it resulted in genocide of women. It’s the age when young women explore things like the Ouija board. There’s a character, Kenneth, Lydia’s older brother (played by Joe Cole), who’s sort of into occult, he talks about things like ley lines and talks about how ‘occult’ means ‘secret’. He’s that ‘60s boy reading philosophical books, he’s into Aleister Crowley, he thinks that maybe there’s a power to the young women.” Morley set her story about adolescents at a time when society itself was in flux. “The girls are at a really critical age, they are young women working out who they want to be. The ‘60s themselves were a really adolescent time,” she continues. “Society was on the verge of change. We had this amazing technological innovation – sending a man to the moon, yet women still had to wear these big belts to keep their sanitary napkins on. There are lots of representations in film of swinging London, but most people were still set back in so many ways in this country. In 1968 the abortion laws were passed and there were no longer back street abortions but it would have still been very difficult to get one. I wanted to have a look at the ‘60s in a much more internal way. I set the film in a single sex school setting so they don’t have issues with young men, or weren’t around them that much. I wanted to explore that time and setting without creating that typical old school yard bitchy world.” The character of Lydia embodies this need for change. “Lydia is looking for change, she’s looking at things around her, she’s a political character,” says her creator. “She’s anti-authority – she sees what’s wrong with the school. She creates an outbreak. The authorities are asking questions about her, trying to repress her. The young often feel the older generation don’t understand them, it’s a classic thing, the young on old, they judge older people as never having lived, and they haven’t had sex.” The Falling will screen at ACMI from Monday June 29 until Sunday July 26.
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CRAB LAB
Coming Up
Anne Edmonds hosts another huge lineup at Crab Lab tonight Wednesday June 24. There’s Celia Pacquola, Lawrence Mooney, Dilruk Jayasinha and a heap more, and it’ll cost you absolutely nothing. Kicks off at 8.30pm at the House of Maximon, 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
Future Future Friday July 3 Arts House
PORTLAND HOTEL COMEDY
Letters Home and Saltwater Wednesday July 1 - Sunday July 12. Theatre Works
Ronny Chieng
Cuckoo
Wednesday July 8 - Sunday July 26 fortyfivedownstairs
Gertrude Street Projection Festival Friday July 10 - Sunday July 19 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
MSO: Babe: The Twentieth Anniversary Concert Saturday July 11 - Sunday July 12 Hamer Hall
Dead Centre & Sea Wall
Friday July 17 - Saturday August 15 Red Stitch Actors Theatre
I Am A Miracle
1984 Melbourne Festival have announced that Headlong’s radically staged production of 1984 will feature at their 2015 incarnation.Published in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most influential novels of all time. A massive hit in London’s West-End, this critically acclaimed adaptation co-written and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan has been dubbed as one of theatre’s most powerful events of recent times, and has received a nomination for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and won a UK Theatre Award for Best Direction. 1984 will have an exclusive Australian season from Friday October 16 - Sunday October 25 as part of the 2015 Melbourne Festival.
Saturday July 18 - Sunday August 9 Malthouse Theatre
The Lobster
Dylan Moran
Melbourne International Film Festival Thursday July 30 - Sunday August 16 Various Venues
Melbourne Writers Festival
Thursday August 20 - Sunday August 20 Various Venues
Bad Jews
MSO: Back To The Future Live In Concert Friday November 6 - Saturday November 7 The Plenary
The Dirty Dozen
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Comedy at Spleen are always full, and this week will be no different. The only place to be on Mondays will be chockers full of laughs with guests like Danny McGinlay, Daniel Connell, Laura Davis, Brett Blake and more. It’s this Monday June 29, 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.
Monday July 27 - Saturday August 1 Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre
Thursday August 27 - Sunday September 13 Alex Theatre
Ronny Chieng headlines Portland Hotel Comedy this Thursday. Plus there’s Mike Goldstein, Mike Klimczak and heaps more. Last week, Arj Barker and Pete Helliar dropped in, so you never know who you’ll see. Portland Hotel Comedy is the biggest independent comedy room in Australia, so get down early to get a good seat. It’s all happening this Thursday June 25 at 8.30pm, at Portland Hotel Comedy, 127 Russell Street (upstairs), CBD, all for only $13.
David Bowie Is In conjunction with the David Bowie Is exhibition, ACMI have announced an eclectic mix of short talks exploring the man behind the icon in Strange Fascinations this July. Offering a broad insight into Bowie’s work, as well as the man himself, the series touches on everything from his impact on the fashion world, to his time on screen, and even personal accounts and first-hand insights into Bowie’s time visiting Australia. Speakers will include Bowie mega fans, critics, writers, musicians and pop culture aficionados in this intimate, detailed look at Bowie’s iconic work and life. Jeff Duff will open the series, he is widely known for his show Ziggy, a portrayal of the music of David Bowie, as well as his BOWIE Unzipped shows. He will take audiences on a journey behind the scenes of his onstage engagement with Bowie and his music. Other speakers include artist, writer and researcher Tanja Stark who will examine Bowie’s long-term fascination with psychoanalyst Carl Jung, Clementine Ford as she looks ay Jim Henson’s 1986 Labyrinth and Bowie’s portrayal of the iconic Goblin King, Bowie Down Under’s Bruce Butler showcasing his personal Bowie slideshow, Mel Campbell exploring the links between costume and character and Emma Beddows exploring the prominent science fiction themes that feature in Bowie’s work. The first short talk will take place at ACMI on Thursday July 16. The full program and booking information is available through acmi.net.au.
City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program is set to reignite the underpass beneath Degraves St with their upcoming program The Dirty Dozen. 12 glass display cases in the underpass will be transformed into into exhibition spaces for creative practitioners ranging from curators to engineers. The program, which was formerly known as Platform Art Spaces, has been named with a wry nod to their location and number of display cases. The Dirty Dozen is funded by a different sponsor each year and therefore the exhibition space is provided free-of-charge to successful applicants. Great Scott! Due to popular demand, the MSO have Exhibitions run for approximately eight weeks each added an extra concert of their live performance of with a week to install at the start of the term and a the classic film, Back to the Future. In celebration of week to uninstall at the end. The launch of the the film’s 30th anniversary, the orchestra will perform space and opening of the first exhibition, curated by Alan Silverstri’s entire score live while the film is the group of engineers and scientists called Skunk projected overhead to a large screen. The MSO will Control, will occur on Wednesday June 24 at 6pm. also premiere new material written and arranged by Interested? Exhibition proposals can be submitted Silverstri specifically for the event. Jump on your hover between Thursday June 25 - Friday July 24. Visit board and get down to Plenary, Melbourne Exhibition creativespaces.net.au for more information. Centre on Friday November 6 - Saturday November 7.
Back to the Future: Live In Concert
Melbourne International Film Festival As they lead up to releasing their full program, MIFF have revealed the feature films they will premiere from this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Melbourne audiences will be given the first chance to see the films, following their world premiere at the renowned French festival last month. Titles include several award winning features such as The Lobster ( Jury Prize), Chronic, Land and Shade, The Treasure and The Assassin. As well as award winners, the festival will screen the controversial Love, a 3D journey into romance, sex and money-shots alongside Don’t Tell Me the Boy Was Mad, a film delving into the Armenian genocide. For more information, head to the miff.com. au. Stay tuned to Beat for when the full program drops on Tuesday July 7.
Yours The Face
FLIGHT
Theatre Works have announced their brand new initiation FLIGHT. Developed in partnership with the Victorian College of the Arts, FLIGHT will consist of mini-seasons of Australian works from playwrights graduating within the masters program. The bill includes Kindness, Yours The Face, Virgins and Cowboys, Grief and the Lullaby and The Dead Twin, which reimagines the horror genre through the lens of theatre as it moves in and around the Footscray Community Arts Centre. For a full rundown and tickets, head to theatreworks.org.au.
Great Britain Retro Film Festival Death and the Maiden Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of the psychological thriller Death and the Maiden is set to captivate audiences this winter.The play is set after the rule of the Pinochet regime in Chile as victims like Paulina are imprisoned by their own memories. Director Leticia Càceres describes the play as part of her heritage as she acknowledges the horrors shared by many South Americans and others all around the world. Written by Ariel Dorfman, the play won the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. It will star Puberty Blues’ Susie Porter, Eugene Gilfedder (QTC’s Macbeth) and Steve Mouzakis (MTC’s The Cherry Orchard). Death and the Maiden will premiere at The Sumner, Southbank Theatre on Saturday July 18. Tickets are available at mtc.com.au
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David Stratton will bring some of the finest British films Down Under when he hosts the inaugural Great Britain Retro Film Festival this August. The festival will screen 19 classic British films in cinemas across Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. The Australian premiere of the digitally restored 1951 film, The Tales of Hoffman is amongst the highlights, featuring a six-minutes of never-before-seen footage and an introduction by Martin Scorsese. The festival will also include the Australian premiere screenings of the digitally restored The Third Man (1949), the classic noir that was voted the greatest British film of all time by a British Film Institute poll. Other screenings from across the two-week event include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Don’t Look Now, Brassed Off and Slumdog Millionaire. The 2015 Great Britain Retro Film Festival will run from Thursday August 6 to Wednesday August 19 at Cinema Nova. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
Out Of The ClOset
Queer happenings around town with Anna Whitelaw.
Holding The Man
This week, Midsumma announced it will drop the alphabet soup known as the LGBTIQ and replace the acronym with another lesser known acronym of DGS, which stands for Diverse Gender and Sexuality. The announcement came at the annual GLOBE fundraiser dinner where Midsumma unveiled its five year plan. “A couple of years ago we realised we didn’t have a very clear vision of where we were heading as an organisation,” Midsumma Festival Director Tennille Moisel told Same Same. “We weren’t deliberately focusing on one part of the community or thinking about whether there was enough representation for another. We started to think about what we wanted Midsumma to be synonymous with, and what we came down to was inclusivity.” While some will argue that the term DGS implies unity within the community as a whole and captures the whole rainbow under one umbrella term, I also wonder if this so-called evolution doesn’t throw away years of history and meaning in a nod to political
correctness. Although I never loved the whole alphabet soup and it certainly is a mouthful - I do wonder whether a term as vague and broad as “diverse gender and sexuality” washes its hands of the very identities we’ve fought so hard to have recognised. For starters, the acronym DGS places sexuality last, when in fact the community it represents mostly identify as gay and lesbian. As one gay man told me: “I’m not diverse, I’m gay.” Although it is important to be inclusive, I’m not sure a term as vague as “diverse gender and sexuality” is one that most of the community identifies with, and certainly it may not mean much to the mainstream who’ve only just stopped using the word gay as a synonym for lame. Oh, that and I fear DGS sounds like a psychiatric disorder and when spelled out, it makes us sound like well, “DaGS”. Last week, a Baltimore woman received a note from a neighbour who chastised her for having rainbow
solar jars in her front yard, screeching: “Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay!” the letter reads. “Myself and others in the neighbourhood ask that you Tone it Down… This is a Christian area and there are Children. Keep it up and I will be forced to call the police on You! Your kind need to have Respect for GOD.” Besides coining the best hashtag in history #relentlessgay, the viral letter has prompted the owner of the house, mother of four Julie Baker to fight back with a crowdfunding campaign to fight bigotry with more rainbows, promising to turn her house into one big gay pride symbol - even painting her roof rainbow colours if she raises enough money. Since she launched her campaign, she’s already raised over $40,000. You too can donate to the relentlessly gay cause at her GoFundMe page.
The very long awaited biopic film of Timothy Conigrave’s beautiful, brilliant, much-loved and criedover novel Holding The Man, which tells the 15-year love story of how Tim met his lifelong love John, the captain of the school football team at Xavier in the late ‘70s and how both men were lost to the HIV epidemic is finally on the verge of coming to cinemas. Adapted from Tommy Murphy’s stage play, by the playwright himself, Holding The Man will be the centrepiece gala presentation at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival on Saturday August 8. For tickets which are $65 including the screening and the after party, visit miff.com.au. Queen Party is back on with its second edition Queen II at Sircuit this Friday June 26. Once again, the mixed event will see six hours of music devoted to five gay icons - this time round its Britney, Beyonce, Madonna, JLO and Katy Perry back to back. DJ Argonaut will be on the decks delivering the solid gold from the pop divas, while there will be pop up performances throughout the night. Doors open 9pm. Sircuit, 103 Smith Street, Fitzroy On Saturday, you’ve spoilt for choice with Trough X and The Outpost. On Sunday June 28, Catnip - the lesbian social Sunday session formerly in Carlton - relocates to Mollie’s Diner, the bar and diner-style eatery which was once the sex club upstairs at Sircuit. Free entry. Got tip offs, praise, complaints or cat photos? Email closetpartymelbourne@gmail.com to be included in this column.
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off the record
electronic + urban + club life
snaps khokolat koated
wednesday jun 24 GEAR SHIFT - FEAT: CLAN ANALOGUE + OBJECT_ STATE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
friday jun 26 #MASHTAG - FEAT: NUGEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ALLEYCAT - FEAT: DAZE + TUC + BABICKA + SLEEP D The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $10.00. BASS MANIAC - FEAT: DANNY WILLIAMSON + AMBER D + BASS AGENTS Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $30.00. 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. END OF TERM WHITE PARTY (U18) Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $30.00. FABULOUS FRIDAYS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS +
SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. FRIDAYS @ ONESIXONE - FEAT: JEN TUTTY + LUKE MCD + LEWIE DAY + PREQUEL + KATIE DROVER + MITCH KURZ + MIC NEWMAN + TOM EVANS + JOEL ALPHA + LIAM WALLER + AARON TROTTMAN + NICK JONES + JESSE YOUNG + ANDRAS FOX + JAC OSCAR WILKINS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. JOEL Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm. MISTY NIGHTS - FEAT: DANNY HOTEP & SALMON BARREL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MUSE FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS - FEAT: AMIN PAYNE + WINTERS + JACKSON MILES + CHRIS NG Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. POPROCKS AT THE TOFF FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + ISAAC FRYER + BRENDAN RUYS + MIKE BUHL + DJ WHO + DOAKES + JACK LOVE + LUCILLE CROFT + NICK COLEMAN + PETE LARGE + SOPHIA SIN + WE’RE DEUX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SPECIAL REQUEST VOL. 2 - FEAT: LOOSE JOINTS + BEN WALTON New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5.00. STEPHAN BODZIN Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $27.00. THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. WHAT SO NOT Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:30pm. saturday jun 27 AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: DR. ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM
EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. COSMIC GATE Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $73.00. CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DAVEYS SATURDAYS FEAT: SUPERFLY DJS + SAMMY DRED Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 8:00pm. $10.00. DJ FEE FEE STARR Gem Bar, Collingwood. 6:30pm. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00. GEARDY Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm. 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: JAY DANIEL + LA POCOCK + MYLES MAC + CHICO G + JIMMY DAWG + CC: DISCO + ANDEE FROST Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. LQ SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ CASPER + DJ TPC + DJ PATO + DJ SHAGGZ + DJ MATT CROSS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. MANIA - FEAT: SLEEP D + DYLAN B + BABICKA + GRANT CAMOV Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. OISIMA Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $15.30. PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. PROGNOSIS - FEAT: PHIL K + MISH’CHIEF + SEBASTIAN WILD + SIMON MURPHY + J-SLYDE + AARON STATIC Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 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. 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. UV BOI + HOWL + CASPER ZAZZ Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00. WHAT SO NOT Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $25.00. WINTERS OF OUR DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: WHISKEY HOUSTON + MR WEIRD + JNETT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $15.00. sunday jun 28 DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 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. REVOLVER SUNDAYS FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. monday jun 29 CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON & DYLAN MICHAEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. tuesday jun 30 AO - FEAT: MIMICRY + ZANNA MAZZITELLI + COLOMBO KIDD + HEADSTONE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $3.00. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TWERKSHOP Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.
urban club guide thursday jun 25
NO MONEY NO PROBLEMS - FEAT: TOM SHOWTIME + ARKS + KIRKIS + SILENT JAY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. RNB & HIP HOP JAM - FEAT: LARRIE + GET BU$Y + MAT CANT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TRUE VIBENATION Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
friday jun 26
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A succinct summary of things I have learnt in 2015: Never ever trust someone who owns a Scarface poster.
club guide
thursday jun 25 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. FLANAGANS THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ONTIME + COLONEL Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: EDD FISHER + PREQUEL + DJ CAMOV Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. ODYSSEY - FEAT: ANDREW OLSEN + REUBEN SLADE + DAY-V + YONI BRESLEY Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. 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. XS DISCO - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.
faktory
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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CODA CONDUCT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. MEET. EAT. BEATS. - FEAT: ANDRE LE VOGUE The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
saturday jun 27
GREY MARLE MUSIC VOL 1.0 RELEASE - FEAT: CHIEFS + DEER + MIKEY HUNDRED + DUGONG JR + FOSSA BEATS The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $15.00. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. MEET. EAT. BEATS. - FEAT: MARCUS
electronic - urban - club life
HOLDER + WALTER JUAN + SILVERFOX + ANDRE LE VOGUE The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. SPEECH THERAPY - FEAT: MANTRA + DIALECTRIX & TOM SCOTT Workshop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. THE UNDERGROUND ASSAULT + KIDCRUSHER Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $55.50.
sunday jun 28
BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00.
SBTRKT
listen out Boutique dance festival Listen Out will return later this year, and today they’ve dropped the lineup for their 2015 incarnation. Featuring a range of high-calibre electronic and hip hop artists, the 2015 festival will be headlined by Childish Gambino and SBTRKT, and will also feature performances from Joey Bada$$, Alison Wonderland, Odesza, Rae Sremmurd, Golden Features, Dusky, Ryan Hemsworth, ILoveMakonnen, George Fitzgerald, Lido, Hayden James, Client Liaison, Roland Tings, Halfway Crooks and Jordan Burns, with more to be announced. Listen Out will take place on Saturday September 26 at the Catani Gardens in St Kilda.
miami horror Hot on the heels of their sold out North and South American tours, Miami Horror have revealed that they’ll play a run of homecoming shows in August. They’ll be touring in support of their sophomore LP, All Possible Futures, which was released to widely positive reviews last April. Since then, the Melbourne synth pop outfit have been enjoying its success, playing shows around the world and most recently unveiling their latest dancefloor ready single, Cellophane (So Cruel). They’ll play 170 Russell on Friday August 21 with Cleopold, JOY and Young Franco.
northeast party house Northeast Party House have locked in a run of farewell shows before they make the leap into international waters this September. Set to play their first string of dates across the US, UK and Europe this September, October and November, the dance pop outfit will bid their homeland adieu with six gigs along the east coast. Having spent much of the year in the studio working on their follow-up to their 2014 debut Any Given Weekend, the boys will unveil the new material as one last treat before they head off to conquer the northern hemisphere. They’ll play 170 Russell on Friday August 28.
muscles Fresh off the back of his latest single, Unicorns, Muscles has announced he will head around the country this August. The Melbourne-based one man party machine will be heading to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, playing tracks from his previous records as well as remixes from his upcoming third album. Muscles will take over Shebeen on Friday August 28.
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D E AT H C A B fOr CUTIE COMMON PEOPLE
By Natalie Rogers “We’re just a bunch of average Joes,” says Death Cab bassist Nick Harmer. “We like running, going to the movies, we like talking about books and music, you know? That’s about it,” he pauses, “until we put our instruments on ± t hen all bets are off.” Harmer’s modesty is endearing, but it takes more than a handful of Joe Blows to sell millions of albums and consistently pack out venues worldwide, all while maintaining a reputation as one of the most influential and respected bands in indie rock. “Unless I’m standing on stage, I’m fairly anonymous in my life,” Harmer insists. “In fact I’m very rarely recognised in any other context than a Death Cab show.” Harmer claims to have flown under the radar many times in Australia, which is one of the reasons he can’t wait to come back next month. Regular visitors over the last 15 years, the Seattle foursome are coming back in support of their eighth studio album Kintsugi. “I’ve taken a couple of vacations in Australia, independent of touring, and I try to visit as much as possible,” he says. “It’s one of those countries that every time I leave, I’m a little sad that I can’t stay longer.” Since their last trip to Oz in early 2012, Death Cab
have undergone some monumental changes ± the most profound of which being the recent departure of founding guitarist and keyboard player Chris Walla, who was also the band’s in house producer. “One thing we’re trying to be clear about is that Chris was definitely with us during the entire recording process,” Harmer says. “He announced to us in the middle of making the album that this was going to be his last and that he was going to concentrate on other things in his life.” While Walla’s decision came as a shock to all concerned, the band made a point of carrying on with business as usual. They had help from LA producer Rich Costey (Sigur Ros, Muse, Foster the People), whose input enabled Death Cab to make their most important album since 2005’s Plans. Another significant event that left an imprint on the album was the demise of frontman Ben Gibbard’s marriage to actress Zooey Deschanel and his subsequent
return to Seattle from Los Angeles. Gibbard’s songwriting has always dealt with loss, love and heartbreak, and these themes take precedent in tracks like Little Wanderer, The Ghosts of Beverly Drive and No Room In Frame. “A lot of the songs on this album really came out of a few years of demo-ing from Ben,” Harmer says. “He was looking back at a lot of things in his life that he’d been going through personally and reflecting on them. He’d also been listening to a few of our friends that had been going through some painful situations in their lives too. He has an incredible talent for wrapping all these different experiences up into the format of a song. Similar to what I was saying before, we’ve always tried to be transparent in our lives and about the fact that, when we’re not holding our instruments, we’re just normal guys doing normal things and experiencing life’s highs and lows.” With that in mind, it’s easy to imagine the eureka moment when Harmer stumbled upon the Japanese art of
kintsugi, which involves repairing cracked ceramics with gold to highlight flaws instead of hiding them. “This band is our life’s work,” he says. “We’re not going to slow down. I’m very encouraged and excited about what lies ahead of us. I’m very proud of everything we’ve accomplished and I really love making music with Ben and Jason [McGerr, drums]. It’s a gift that after seventeen years of playing in this band I can stand on stage and it feels very fresh and new to me. It’s so inspiring ± the atmosphere is electric and I think Jason, Ben and I are re-energised spirits.” DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE are hitting 170 Russell on Sunday July 26, Monday July 27 and Tuesday July 28. You can also catch them at Splendour in the Grass 2015, from Friday July 24 ± Sunday July 26 at North Byron Parklands. Kintsugi is out now through Warner Records.
WA X A H AT C H E E ALONE, TOGETHER By Augustus Welby Waxahatchee; is it a band or a solo project? It’s hard to tell. The 2012 debut album American Weekend featured Katie Crutchfield alone, singing over bare acoustic guitar strums. But, while Crutchfield remains the project’s sole official member, on Waxahatchee’s latest two records ± the 2013 breakthrough Cerulean Salt and this year’s Ivy Tripp ± she’s regularly backed up by a full band. Ahead of Waxahatchee’s very first Australian tour, Beat checks in with Crutchfield to get some definitive answers. “Cerulean Salt and Ivy Tripp, I worked with the same two people, which is Kyle Gilbride, who engineered it, and Keith Spencer, who produced it and he’s also my guitar player,” she explains. “This record was super collaborative. I wrote all the songs, all the melodies and lyrics and things like that, but as far as all the instrumentation goes, that was all done as a group. So definitely, it felt more like a band and it’s a record I never could’ve made on my own.” Perhaps by virtue of the collaborative gestation, Ivy Tripp journeys from noisy power pop to computerisedemo, and fuzzy beach-pop to intimate minimalism. In accordance with the stylistic breadth, the instrumentation and production is more diverse than Waxahatchee’s previous releases. “I wanted to challenge myself,” says Crutchfield. “Also, Kyle has been recording so much and he has developed
a style. Things have changed since when he recorded Cerulean Salt. It’s the same with Keith and I; we had more gear, we had more ideas. I felt it was important that we do something else and challenge ourselves. It felt natural to make something that was grander.” Crucially, while carrying out a variety of stylistic excursions, Ivy Tripp attains a sense of cohesion from Crutchfield’s unvarnished vocal performances and empathetically engaging lyrics. The 26-year-old songwriter’s willingness to vulnerably present herself is a core part of Waxahatchee’s blossoming appeal. In spite of this, when making Ivy Tripp, she blocked out thoughts of what would please her listenership. “I took a lot of time from when I was touring Cerulean Salt to when I started writing,” she says. “I wanted to take enough space of not playing shows, just to go back to the solitude of it all and focus on the kind of
emotions I wanted to evoke in myself and just really listen to how I was feeling. I honestly think that’s the secret for me to be able to write songs that mean something to people.” Indeed; not every song on Ivy Tripp is sad or miserable, but the whole record has an emotively stimulating subtext. Interestingly, although Crutchfield did her utmost to prevent expectations from interfering with her compositional process, she was very aware of what she was working towards. “I always try to write songs in terms of an album,” she says. “I feel like that’s kind of the way that I see things. That’s why I never really make EPs or short releases. So it’s in the back of my mind always. Even if the songs on paper are nothing alike, I try to string them together and keep them cohesive.” Crutchfield’s album-oriented songwriting approach
perhaps explains why the three Waxahatchee records have arrived in relatively quick succession. In spite of this, she feels no pressure to uphold her prolific reputation. “That’s a position I would never want to be in,” she says, “where I am rushing to finish an album. I have some moments that last for months, where I am not writing or nothing is coming to me or I don’t have time. I just try to work through it and there will always be moments where I have a lot of ideas. I really do try not to beat myself up if I can’t think of things, because people go years and years without writing songs and then make a great record. It’s just part of it.”
Johnston St. It’s also a new band featuring members of Graveyard Train, Cherrywood and Bodies. What can you tell us about them? The line up is amazing. Bunch of gross familiar faces in Tankerville. I haven’t seen them yet, but they sound as ragged as those efforts in the smokers area that spit teeth at students waiting to cross at the lights.
interesting musicians make it a lot more enjoyable.
WAXAHATCHEE plays the Toff in Town on Saturday July 4. Ivy Tripp is out now via Wichita Recordings.
T H E N AT I O N B L U E
IF NOT FOR THE GOOD THINGS I’VE DONE
By Augustus Welby Next Thursday evening, The Nation Blue will top a bill of loud and messy entertainment at The Tote. The gig is a fundraiser organised by the band’s frontman Tom Lyncoln to help cover a friend’s medical costs. Beat caught up with the man himself to get some insight into the event and his multifarious musical commitments. Life throws up all sorts of ugly challenges ± nobody said it was going to be easy. What role has rock’n’roll played in your life in terms of helping you get through the tough times? Me at my lowest isn’t fun to be around. Music has always been the light at the end of the tunnel and a great stabilizer. It’s how I self medicate. Communally, it also allows a rare opportunity to be of benefit to others in need. As well as The Nation Blue, you’re the frontman and driving creative force of Harmony and Pale Heads. Do you feel compelled to make as much music as you can while you’ve got the chance? That’s my agenda. For the last ten years I decided to say yes to every possible opportunity and work as hard as I can. I write, record, mix, self release, organise tours and have started making film clips too. As of next month I am going to say no to everything for a while and take a BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
break. I think I need to develop some alternate theories and establish a new set of parameters to work within. I am working on a new performance piece where I generate beats using boxing gloves, contact mics, and a sparring dummy with a sampler. It’s physical and weird. The Nation Blue are performing with Adalita at this show. Is it essentially a Nation Blue gig with added Adalita vocals/ guitar? Or have you come up with a special setlist? Adalita is going to join us on a few songs. We toured with Magic Dirt every year since we moved over from Tassie in 2000. Our drummer Dan [McKay] plays in her band and she is our favourite Australian musician. It’s always an honour to share a stage with her and we are sorting out the setlist as we speak. Also on the lineup is White Walls, Deep Heat, Bonnie Mercer and Tankerville. Tankerville is a gross pub on
Are all of these bands personal friends? Do you think you could’ve stuck around playing music so long if it hadn’t been for the wide community of friends you’ve picked up along the way? Yeah they are all friends. Some recent and some long time. I enjoy operating in isolation for the most part. Scenes are boring. All of the bands on the line up are strays too to certain degrees. I do find inspiration in authentic expressions of personality and all of these bands do that well. I will make music till the end, but being fortunate enough to play along side great and
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The Nation Blue have been around for 19 years, but it’s been over five years since you guys put out an album. Are there plans/ hopes for more Nation Blue releases in the future? We are working on an album at the moment for release next year. We recorded in January and I have been staring at the hard drive not wanting to dive in and start mixing yet. From memory it sounded better than any of the other TNB records to date. Next year we will try to play more than two shows in a year and pretend to be a band better. Illusions.
THE NATION BLUE play The Tote on Thursday July 2. All proceeds go towards helping a friend in need.
THE KITE STRING TANGLE & DUSTIN TEBBUTT EYE TO EYE
By Augustus Welby Two songwriters with a keen ear for production, Dustin Tebbutt and The Kite String Tangle (AKA Danny Harley) recently teamed up on the single Illuminate. Despite the pair’s clear chemistry, Illuminate didn’t transpire out of a long-time friendship. Rather, mutual admiration for each other’s work is what brought them together. Ahead of a quick national tour on which Tebbutt and Harley will each perform separately before bringing it home with a collaborative set, Beat arranged for them to get to know each other a bit better. Dustin Tebbutt: I was interested to know, with songwriting, where’s your line in terms of how far you push something away from reality, or how much of it is actually to do with your life? The Kite String Tangle: What seems to be most prominent is I’ll start working on music first and then the feel or vibe will remind me of something that is going on in my life and I’ll kind of extrapolate on that. I never like to make it intensely personal, because I like people to be able to relate to it and apply it to themselves. The new Sufjan album is someone writing intensely personal stuff and just pulling it off really immaculately. I think I need to build up to that. DT: Would you say production dictates the direction of the end product, as opposed to starting out with a song idea and then taking it into the production realm? TKST: Yeah, I’d say probably 80 per cent of the time, and then the remainder is when I’ve just sat down at a piano or a guitar and something’s come out that has stuck with me and lived on. Because I originally started playing guitar, I find piano to be more expressive because I know less about it. I was interested to know what instrument you found most expressive and whether you had a similar experience? DT: I played a lot of guitar when I was younger and I learnt how music works on that instrument. Even now, if I play something really simple on the guitar, my brain immediately knows what it is and I think, ‘Oh that’s been done a hundred times,’ or ‘You’ve already used that’. Whereas I’ve got a set of chime bars and you can put them in any shape and then play rhythmic ostinatos on them and it will generate melodies, depending on how you set them up. Or I just bought an Ableton Push and you can make the pads on that into different scales, but they’re not really in any recognisable shape. To just try things out that are directly related to what your ear’s hearing as opposed to what your brain thinks you’re playing, I think that’s really important. Even though we’re both working in the pop world, where we’re using mostly major or minor basic scales and there’s only certain chord progressions, there’s still infinite possibilities… but it is a limited palette. TKST: I relate to that a lot. There’s infinite possibilities, but you’re also really restricted, because it is essentially eight notes we’re working with. It reminds me… there was an inventor in the 1800s who went to the patent office and was like ‘There’s nothing more to invent. Everything’s been invented.’ And this was in the 1800s. I feel like that about music. Quite often you can feel like everything has been done and then the next day you’ll stumble across something that has a new feel to it. DT: If you didn’t have any constrictions ± financially or stage sizes or whatever ± and you got to do the show you wanted to do, what would it be? TKST: Unfortunately for my wallet and for my production crew, a big lights and visuals thing is what I always lean towards. I wish I could be one of those artists that’s completely stripped back and go for something honest, but my strength lies in creating a bigger show ± a lot of the sounds I use can be quite big and I prefer a big bang at the end. I was just in Japan for a festival and I got to see Nosaj Thing, who was collaborating with this Japanese visual artist. They had millions of dollars worth of gear and it was just insane. It was a ground-breaking use of new technology in a visual live performance. Then the next show was Autechre, who perform in complete pitch black. So the whole festival had to turn off all the lights, which was equally as amazing. What is success for you? At what point can you say hands down ‘I’ve done it’? DT: It’s just about creating an environment where I can make things that I want to make in the way that I want to make them and afford to have a normal life. I think that’s when I’ll be completely happy with the trajectory. Apart from enjoying those moments where you go ‘Holy shit, I’m playing Splendour in the Grass with some of my favourite bands in the world’ or you hear your song on the radio for the first time or you get to go overseas and play gigs ± all those moments you have to just treat them for what they are. But the bigger thing, it’s not about taking over the world, it’s just about setting up a sustainable career. THE KITE STRING TANGLE & DUSTIN TEBBUTT play 170 Russell on Friday June 26. Tebbutt is also appearing at Splendour in the Grass 2015, which goes down Friday July 24 ± Sunday July 26 at North Byron Parklands. Illuminate is out now.
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ACTIVE CHILD
S how N o M ercy By Shaun Cowe
It’s a cool overcast evening in Boston. In the park, a party is going on. Children play soccer in the dying light and the sound of cars and the occasional siren cut through the air. Sitting at a bench enjoying his first day off from a gruelling touring schedule is electronic songwriter Pat Grossi, AKA Active Child. He speaks to us upon the release of his new introspective studio album Mercy. “I put a lot of personal pressure on myself to keep making it bigger and better,” says Grossi. “That was the focus of the album, just to make it much sharper and more professional-sounding, as well as stronger songs. I think some people just stay in the same gear – which is totally fine – but, for me, I want to grow as an artist, but also as a live show.” The new album encapsulates this growth. From humble beginnings centred on Grossi’s voice and harp playing, Active Child has now expanded into a full band setup. Accordingly, he’s taken a more mature approach to songwriting. “The record is a reflection of the ups and downs of the different relationships I’ve had over the past four years,” he says. “It’s been a couple years since the first record and I wanted to show the different perspectives on love. I think the record has a little bit of everything – more hopeful reflections on the positive side and then it gets darker with introspective feelings of regret and guilt. You know, things that have gone wrong.
“It’s a reflection of my growth,” he continues, “as a person and an artist and on the subject of love, which is like 90 per cent of my music. It seems to be something to continually come back to. My manager comes to me sometimes and is like ‘You know, do you ever write anything else?’ and we sort of laugh about it. But I’m not going to force anything out of myself that doesn’t feel natural.” Considering love is so central to Grossi’s songwriting, the obvious question is whether there were any great love stories that inspired Mercy? “Almost exactly a year ago I went through a rough breakup with my girlfriend, who I’m back together with now,” he says. “We took some time apart and went through a tough period. I did a lot of the album’s songwriting at that time. I was a little bit lost creatively at that point, but it became the inspiration for the album and the artwork. It all came from how much I need music to make sense of my emotions. That was the idea of Mercy; that whoever was giving me that ability to do that, it felt merciful because
I’d feel really lost without that.” With such personal events forming the basis of his work, playing the songs in front of the woman that inspired them was bound to be heart wrenching: “She was at my first show in San Diego,” says Grossi. “The last song on the record, Too Late, is a pretty frank reflection on that whole experience and it was the song we finished with. I could see her in the front row, pretty much gushing, and I lost it too. It was one of the moments where I couldn’t physically sing anything.” The conversation now turns to his day off, and Grossi admits he desperately needed the down time. “I write music and get trapped in it for so long and end up
getting a little bit burned out,” he says. “We rehearsed for a solid eight weeks before tour, and at this point we’ve only played ten shows and we’re all pretty tired of the music because we’ve been playing it for the last two-and-a-half months straight. I think you have to continually raise the bar – that’s how I feel.”
end of this year or early next.” In the meantime, the band are revving up for the release of the EP with a headline appearance at RocknRolla 3; a four band explosion that comes to the Prince Public Bar on Friday June 26. “Yeah, we’re pretty excited,” Aubry says. “We’re really keen to play the night there, and it looks like it’s going to be a fun night. Nice, small intimate show, which will be good, and definitely an excellent, rockin’ lineup. So we can’t wait.” We ask Aubry to describe The Cherry Dolls live experience for uninitiated punters who may be thinking of coming down to RocknRolla this week. “We always try to keep it interesting,” he says. “We like a lot of
chaos, and we like it loud and sweaty and gruesome – just the way rock’n’roll should be.”
was that there were actually people resonating with this and kind of investing in it and making it their own thing, and that to me is amazing. There are people out there who are dedicated to spending some money on iTunes or going into a store and picking up a copy or even streaming it. That means a lot to us. “The first time Tyler and I ever hung out, we stayed up until probably 8am sharing with each other our visions and dreams, musically,” he adds. “We were both just so on the same page. We both shared [the idea] that this whole thing could be bigger than ourselves or could potentially reach a lot of people.” Blurryface was put together in a bunch of studios around the US with a collection of producers, including Mike Crossey (who’s worked with such crossover acts as Jake Bugg, The 1975 and Gaslight Anthem), Ricky Reed (of pop-hip hop act Wallpaper) and Dr. Dre collaborator Mike Elizondo. Taking into account Dun
and Joseph’s united creative vision, they weren’t going to let outsiders lead them astray. “We had a lot of good conversations with these producers and that got us to a place where these guys got to know what we were envisioning,” Dun says. “Then there’d be suggestions that they would bring up later that were a lot more geared towards what we wanted. It’s always just good to be honest when you’re dealing with your art.”
ACTIVE CHILD’s new album Mercy is out now via Spunk.
THE CHERRY DOLLS
L O U D , S W E AT Y A N D G R U E S O M E By Rod Whitf ield
Cynical detractors have been almost gleefully predicting the extinction of loud, bluesbased rock’n’roll for years now. But, although it may be beyond its absolute zenith, rumours of the genre’s impending death are more than a touch exaggerated. Thanks to a noisy and resilient bunch of bands and fans, the style keeps kicking on. One of the bands determined to never let it die are Melbourne five-piece The Cherry Dolls. “Oh man, you can’t kill it,” says frontman Josh Aubry. “Everyone tries to, but it’s always there, around the corner, waiting to come back. It’s immortal, man.” The Cherry Dolls have been around for just over a year, and they’ve already built up a strong reputation around the country. Following a string of singles, the band are about to step things up a notch with their debut EP. “We’ve got the EP dropping in August,” says Aubry, “and then we’re off to the States to record our debut album, and then we come back and we’ll be touring the EP.” The first single from the EP, The Last Time, was released in early May. Aubry tells us that the song’s moody, laid back nature is an aberration from the disc’s remaining four tracks. “We’re getting asked a lot if the single is where we’re heading,” he says. “And with the EP, it really isn’t. We did the EP with Alex Markwell of The Delta Riggs at Soundpark [Studios, Northcote]. The EP is actually very different from the single. That was
the song on the EP that just stood out, but the rest of the EP is just loud and really heavy. So we’re looking forward to people hearing the other side of it.” The Cherry Dolls aren’t messing around; although the EP is yet to be released, they’ve already locked in a Los Angeles based producer for the recording of their debut album. “We’re going to be in the studio with a guy called Dan Horne,” says Aubry. “I don’t actually know what the studio is called, but it’s on Sunset Boulevard. He’s just a friend of the boys, and he just wants to have us, and we were just like ‘Yes. Yeah, definitely.’ “We’re recording it in August,” he continues, “so we’re literally going into the studio as soon as the EP drops. I have no idea when that will be released. I’d like it to be released in October… but that’s not going to happen. But hopefully we can have the first single out by the
THE CHERRY DOLLS are headlining RocknRolla 3 at the Prince Public Bar this Friday June 26. They’ll be joined by The Eighty 88s, Millar Jukes and The Bandits, plus Sam Krieger (acoustic) and the inimitable DJ Dan Watt.
Twenty One Pilots
D ouble V ision By Augustus Welby
Twenty One Pilots’ second major label LP Blurryface came out in May. Since that time, the duo from Columbus, Ohio have been very busy, both onstage and off. “In the so-called quiet time, when there aren’t big shows that we’re tweeting and instagram-ing about, there’s still a lot going on,” says drummer Josh Dun. “But it’s fun. I was thinking about it today; early on after high school when I was playing in different bands, I remember thinking ‘I would give anything just to be able to play three shows in a row’. I like when my calendar gets filled up and then there’s things to do. I think now, having a calendar actually completely full pretty much until 2016, it’s a pretty good feeling. As much as it is crazy, I love being on the road and having things to do.” Given the success of the band’s last LP, 2013’s Vessel (and its breakthrough lead single Car Radio), it’s fair to say Blurryface was highly anticipated. Twenty One Pilots – completed by vocalist/ songwriter Tyler Joseph – are signed to a big-name label (Warner subsidiary Fueled By Ramen), and it’s inevitable that the label would insist upon a similar level of commercial success. Never mind that though, because upon its release, Blurryface exceeded expectations. “When we were about to release this record, the people around us who work with us were starting to make projections,” Dun says. “I kind of like to stay out of that frame of mind. The business side of it – as much as I am involved with it, at the end of the day, going on stage BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
and playing my drums, that’s what I love the most. That being said, there are always conversations; our manager was like ‘I want us to try for a number one album,’ and then he was like, ‘here are some projections of what some other people think it might do.’ What I will say is that it’s already surpassed those projections.” Indeed; not only did Blurryface reach number one in the Billboard charts, but the album also debuted at number 11 in the ARIA charts. For Dun, it took a little while before the significance of this achievement really sank in. “I didn’t even know what a number US record meant, and I kind of didn’t care that much,” he says. “But then as I sat with that and thought about it, what I realised
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TWENTY ONE PILOTS play two shows at the Corner Hotel on Sunday July 5; an all ages matinee and an 18-plus evening show. Blurryface is out now via Fueled By Ramen/ Warner.
PA l A C E O f THE KING
TA K I N G F L I G H T
By Kelsey Berry
If numbers are anything to go by, Palace of the King are a band to keep an eye on. With six members, two EPs, more than 200 live shows and now a ten-track double album under their belt, the band have certainly made the most of their two and a half year history. The band’s debut album White Bird / Burn The Sky was released locally last week. It’s 44 minutes of blues-infused rock’n’roll, led by an explosion of guitar riffs and plenty of soulful hooks. “During the writing and recording sessions, my personal favourite was always the opening track Take Your Medicine,” says guitarist Matthew Harrison. “To me that just felt like the tone-setter for the rest of the album ± the one song that led the structure for a few other songs to follow. But now, since we’ve started playing a lot of the songs live, one of the title tracks, White Bird, has been a really cool one and is always a climactic moment in the set.” Since forming at the end of 2012, Palace of the King ± completed by vocalist Tim Henwood, bass player Andrew Gilpin, drummer Anthony Troiano, keyboardist Sean Johnston and guitarist Leigh Maden ± have barely stopped for breath. The album was written in an eight week period and recorded across
one weekend. The band have now embarked on a nationwide album tour, which stops into the Cherry Bar on July 4. Having already played 200-plus shows around the country, being on the road is nothing new. Heck, they’ve even been to Darwin. “We’ve done shows there a couple of times over the last few years,” says Harrison. “I think the music scene and rock fans up north, more so than anything, they simply appreciate a band making the effort to go there. The shows we’ve had in Darwin in particular have been really crazy and we’ve been treated like absolute gold. “I guess the main thing that we try to achieve out of our live shows,” he continues, “aside from just putting on an energetic rock’n’roll show, is to make each show itself quite unique ± not only for the punters but for ourselves
as well. We try to change the setlist as frequently as possible and, now that we have two EPs and the album, we have a larger pool of songs to draw from.” Palace of the King’s extensive touring schedule has included all kinds of gigs, from small headline shows to festival appearances and some highly esteemed support slots. “We certainly take the opportunity to do support gigs whenever we can,” says Harrison. “For a band as new as us, they’re great for getting in front of a larger audience and getting in front of people who, in most cases, haven’t previously been introduced to our band. We’ve done a bunch of shows with a lot of really cool classic Australian rock’n’roll bands.” Those bands include The Angels, The Screaming Jets, Airbourne and Kingswood. They also supported Canadian three-piece The Tea Party on a run of gigs late last year. “[The Tea Party shows] were awesome for us, just in terms of getting in front of a larger audience
and the right audience for us as well,” Harrison says. “The type of people who are going to be there for The Tea Party are certainly the type of people we want to be winning over and converting as fans.” After spending the past few years driving up and down the east coast of Australia, the band are looking forward to making their maiden trip to Europe this October. “It’s quite a short tour,” says Harrison. “I think it’s only about three-and-a-half weeks or so, but we’ve got something like 24 shows in 24 days, so no nights off or anything like that. It will be a nice hard slog, but great fun I’m sure.”
but they rejected me unfortunately. “I have a lot of respect for KISS,” he continues. “I think with those guys, what I find interesting is that a lot of people write them off as being a bit frivolous. A lot of serious rock fans will regard KISS as being a bit uncool, not technically difficult enough, things like that. But the thing is, they have great songs, super-memorable, and they were a real bitchin’ rock’n’roll band. I think it’s pretty undeniable, and if there’s anyone that I try to model myself on, I definitely look to Paul Stanley. He was a great frontman, great singer and songwriter, he wrote amazing songs.” KISS Alive will pull together a slew of hot shot Melbourne musicians for a one-night-only gig the likes of which you won’t see again in an age. Along with fleeting supergroup Cold Gin, composed of Ashley Naylor, Jim Coelli, Marc Welsh, and Brett Wolfenden,
we have Boyce, Pat Carmody, Gemma Sharard, and Kat Spazzy. “When they asked me I was, ‘Fuck yeah, I’ll do it’,” Boyce laughs. “I knew it would be heaps of fun to do since I love the band, I love playing, and with [the others] playing, it’ll definitely sound cool. I guess with a tribute show like this, not being a cover band or dressing up like the band, I’ll just be singing as me… but I don’t think I could help but throw my best Paul Stanley into the mix.”
together, but he was like ‘Hey I’m in Canada. I’m in a canoe on this river and it’s beautiful. I just wrote a lyric I had to tell you.’ I took the lyric and I straight away started writing some music for it and that became the song Yukon.” Yukon ± named after the river that played an unlikely role in Lindemann’s future musical direction ± however isn’t reflective of the album’s core themes. For the most part, the record’s subject matter isn’t too far removed from Rammstein’s output: sex (Fat, Fish On, Golden Shower), black comedy (Praise Abort), and pondering life’s big questions. “The sex songs are on the table for people to take or leave,” Lindemann says, “but I think there are much more provocative lyrics in Children of the Sun.” In this
track, Lindemann contemplates how fleeting life is over an epic Tägtgren arrangement. This project itself is likely to be a fleeting thing as Rammstein are planning to start work on a new album later this year. But for now, Lindemann is enjoying the break from his day job. “Rammstein is a very strict six-headed machine going into battle and it can be exhausting,” he says. “Writing with Peter was a chance for me to prove I could do music another way, in English and get out of the little comfort zone I have in Rammstein.”
PALACE OF THE KING’s debut album White Bird/Burn The Sky is out now through Devil’s Music Records. Catch them at Cherry Bar on Saturday July 4.
KISS AlIVE
T H E R O C K ’ N ’ R O LL PA R T Y C O N T I N U E S By Adam Norris KISS are comfortably one of the highest-earning bands of all time, with a ridiculous 28 gold albums to their name and enough merchandise to sink Tasmania. The band’s commercial good fortune all started with the 1975 release of Alive!, their first live album and first top ten album. Along with being a major chart breakthrough, Alive! has since become one of the most worshipped live albums in rock history. Forty years later, KISS Alive is coming to the Yarraville Club. The Casanovas’ Tommy Boyce takes time out from channelling the spirit of guitarist/ vocalist Paul Stanley to chat about the full-scale tribute gig. Though, he’s not planning on applying the requisite make-up. “We’ll be doing it au naturel,” he laughs. “Whenever I’m on stage, I feel like I’m just myself up there. I don’t have much of a persona. I know that guys like Paul Stanley really worked on that persona, with the make up, talking like a preacher, that kind of stuff. And I mean, I love that, it’s a really cool way to go. But I think with the Casanovas, we tried to do that a bit but it just sounds so stupid in an Australian accent. It doesn’t really work. But the way that Stanley does it sounds great, but of course he was taking his cues from Steve Marriott over in England, who was doing it in an American accent. It’s a weird mix.” KISS have put a lot of effort into ensuring their name and image is deeply entrenched in popular culture. From cartoons to wine, coffee mugs to Las Vegas mini
golf courses, the demons of gleeful glam are inescapable. They’re also responsible for some of the catchiest songs of the last half-century. The likes of Rock And Roll All Nite, Detroit Rock City and I Was Made For Lovin’ You are all cemented in our collective consciousness. For Boyce, he was bitten by the KISS bug at an early age. “From when I was really little, four or so, I’d get mum to set me up with KISS on the turntable,” he says, “and I’d be there with massive headphones on, poring over the inner sleeve reading these letters from fans. I remember they came out in 1980 to play in Fairfield Park, and I remember scrounging around the floor of my house trying to find one and two cent pieces and sent them all in a big envelope to the KISS Army requesting a ticket. And they actually replied. They sent me a letter,
KISS Alive comes to the Yarraville Club on Saturday June 27, featuring Ashley Naylor, Jim Coelli, Marc Welsh, Brett Wolfenden, Pat Carmody, Tommy Boyce, Gemma Sharard, Kat Spazzy and guests The Ugly Kings.
lINDEMANN
PHARMACEU TICAL BENEFITS By Leigh Salter Aside from being two of the most adored artists in European metal, there’s few traits shared by Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann and multi-instrumentalist/ producer Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy/ PAIN). Nevertheless, they’ve partnered up under the banner Lindemann, and are filled with adoration for their rather brutal offspring, Skills in Pills. Before the business of promotion begins, it’s party time in Lindemann’s hotel room. Greeted at first by Tägtgren, who appears to be in the middle of getting dressed, I’m faced with a slew of contradictions. He slips a pair of suspenders over his shoulders and rolls up his tailored sleeves. Then, when reaching out to shake my hand, I catch sight of his fluffy slippers. Meanwhile, from the neck up, he’s every bit the gothic rock auteur. He ushers me to my seat and, with Lindemann yet to appear, he starts to relate the story of how the two first met. “He was going to get his arse kicked in this biker bar in Sweden,” Tägtgren says. “He was making a move on some biker’s girlfriend and those guys were going to kill him for real.” Being a well-connected and respected local, Tägtgren stepped in to defuse the situation, and made a friend for life in Lindemann. “We hung out a lot before we ever attempted writing…” he pauses as the door opens, revealing Lindemann’s hulking frame. “You want a drink?” Lindemann asks. I’m sat with a half-full glass of cranberry juice bought from the bar BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
downstairs, and before I can reply, vodka is poured into my juice. “We don’t go hard anymore,” Lindemann says, in his instantly recognisable, accented voice. “This is all we will drink today”. Tägtgren corrects him, “This and the four beers we had before you came.” They share a smile before Lindemann positions himself to face the door, which is how he remains for the entire interview. Over the course of Rammstein’s 20-year career, Lindemann has been among the most heavily criticised artists in metal. He has been accused of being a neoNazi, blamed for triggering school shootings and labelled a general menace to society. It’s almost a given that Skills In Pills will face the same sort of scrutiny. In this case though, Lindemann is more exposed than ever before. In a first, he’s sung an entire album in English. “I needed Peter to be able to know what I was singing,” he says. “He can’t speak German and I can’t speak Swedish.” “I remember last year I got this call from Till,” Tägtgren says. “We had kind of talked about doing something
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singer/songwriter and guitarist Bob Crain. For a night of local songwriting talent at Prince Public Bar, head down this Wednesday June 24. Doors open at 8pm.
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Eddie Skiba
So, who are you, and what do you do? Eddie Skiba: singer, songwriter, guitarist. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? A fresh creative version of Oz and UK alternative rock. What do you love about making music? Everything, from planting the seed, to watering it, feeding it, to setting it free into the atmosphere. What do you hate about the music industry? Segregation, target marketing, and describing music. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Midnight Oil just after 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 ,2, 1 came out, so I could pinch some of that raw good energy and just because I’d give a shit what they think. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it be and why? Kanye West, because intellectually I think he is pop music’s George Bush moment. What can a punter expect from your live show? Earthly crew playing great songs with some edge, energy and substance. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? The new album is called Blend on the Border. Catch EDDIE SKIBA at Yah Yah’s on Saturday June 27 with Chasing Alice and Holy Trash.
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HARMONY JAMES
THE DRUNKEN POET
ASHER
THE WORKERS CLUB
Fresh off the release of his new single, Asher will show off his full live set for the first time at the iconic Workers Club following the launch of his debut EP Sentiment. Praised as a dreamy ambient pop gem, his two releases to date have turned more than a few heads, while featured vocalists Ari Wenig and Lauren Irwin-Ray (Luke & Loz) have earned plaudits for their heartfelt lyrics and skilled vocals. With support from soulful Melbourne threepiece The Black Harrys and vibrant duo Luke & Loz, Asher’s four-piece band along with special guest Ari Wenig will charm and captivate. Don’t miss their The Workers Club debut this Wednesday June 24. Doors open at 7pm. Entry is $14 on the door.
Queensland songwriter Harmony James, encouraged by publishing icons Alberts, took on the challenge of cowriting with musical inspirations like Don Walker, Jenny Morris, and Kim Richey. In the years since the release of her album, Cautionary Tales (listed in The Australian as one of Australia’s top 20 country albums of all time), Harmony has toured nationally, acquiring fans of her insightful writing and unaffected style. James plays The Drunken Poet on Wednesday June 24 as part of the Wine, Whiskey, Women series, with support from Jemma Nicole. Doors open 8pm with free entry.
MARLENE SAMSON PRINCE PUBLIC BAR
This week, the Prince Public Bar are going back to the Nashville Song Fest format. On stage together having a chat with the crowd, spinning some yarns, and playing some fantastic original music will be singer/songwriter and keyboardist Marlene Samson, along with St. Kilda singer/songwriter and guitarist Paul Snowden debuting his first solo CD, and Ashbury Medicine Show
Hard rock blues crew Crossfire Hurricane are coming all the way from Cobden to launch their debut EP Ear to Ear this week at the Toff in Town. The trio are breaking into the Melbourne music scene and this is your chance to see what they can do. Head down to the Toff in Town this Wednesday June 24 to have a dance and experience what is, Crossfire Hurricane. Tickets are $10 on the doors when they open at 7pm.
TWO HEADED DOG CHERRY BAR
Two Headed Dog, the three-piece band with a love for fuzz, loud drums and organ will be taking over Cherry Bar again this Wednesday June 24. They’ll be playing an all killer, no filler set brimming with hard blues mixed with grunge and psychedelia. Taking the aim of stylising their music around raw ‘60s and ‘70s style rock, the band will be taking to the Cherry stage every Wednesday in June for their residency, with support this week coming from guests Dr Colossus, Drifter and Redro Redgriguez & His Inner Demons. Doors open 7pm, entry will cost $5 and grants you a free Jager shot on the door.
DELSINKI RECORDS CELLAR BAR
Craig Johnston, AKA Delsinki Records is a Melbourne based singer songwriter
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who’s been involved in several musical projects over the years. He was the founding member of Gretchen Lewis, and his latest and most intimate project falls under the name Delsinki Records. Craig, working with Cameron McKenzie, has begun to capture his uniquely deep, raw and earthy sound. His strong lyrics and melodies arrive from a place of truth and sincerity that in turn give the listener permission to relate and interpret the style and musical genre for themselves. Catch Delsinki Records, along with special guests Karl Broadie, Danny Walsh and Jeff Tynan at St Kilda’s Cellar Bar this Wednesday June 24 from 8pm onwards. Tickets are $19. THURSDAY JUNE 25
TRUE VIBENATION L I T T L E & O LV E R
It’s a been a crazy ride since Sydney hip hop/producer trio True Vibenation put out their second album ON nine months ago. They hit the touring circuit hard, selling out their Sydney launch and playing to packed venues across Australia. Their first international tour soon took them to Africa, playing in front of thousands with main stage festival appearances alongside international legends such as Salif Keita, Les Nubians and Mi Casa and selling out their first international headline show in Maputo. Now the trio returns home for the Africa/Australia tour to continue the party, with a show penned in at Little & Olver this Thursday June 25. Doors open at 8pm, tickets will set you back $10.
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The Old Bar are holding a benefit gig to raise funds to rebuild the stage and upgrade the PA. The three day event will go over Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, with a massive 21 band lineup including Deep Heat, Eaten By Dogs, Pit The Elder, Pussy XXX, Grindhouse, Midnight Woolf, Tankerville, Cherrywood, Twin Beasts, Bad Vision, The Shabbab and heaps more, plus a few secret guests. For more information about each night’s lineup, be sure to check the venue’s website. In the meantime however – each night costs $10 and Thursday June 25’s instalment will feature Personal Space Invaders, Deep Heat, Eaten By Dogs and Pitt The Elder. Be sure to catch round one when the doors open at 7.30pm.
THE MARLENES
THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Got nuthin to do Thursday night? Get around the Marlenes as they headline a lineup of some bloody great acts at the Brunny. Kicking off the night is Geelong-based reggae mastermind, DEIJAH, who's super cool set up is guaranteed to leave you mesmerised and wanting more. Space cadets, Balter Vada will then be playing their signature mish-mash of reggae, psych blues and bad jokes. The Brunswick Hotel will then be introduced to newcomers Bristol Cairo, who have wasted no time playing at venues around Melbourne and wooing the hunnies with their cool take on indie rock. Garage/indie rock 3 piece The Marlenes will finish the night on an absolute bloody high, we guarantee it. With drink specials and a slick lineup, you'd be stupid not to rock up.
are genuinely different combining ethereal high vocals, sweeping orchestral swells, epic drums, powerful, emotional piano lines, scorching guitar licks, and thumping bass lines. With support on the night coming from Tux and Liam Linley, come down to The Retreat Hotel this Thursday June 25 for a night of free music to warm you up for Friday. Doors open at 8.30pm.
ARCANE SAINTS YA H YA H ’ S
Arcane Saints have just released their new EP In The Shade of the Juniper, and are hitting Yah Yah’s to promote the release. In The Shade of the Juniper boasts some of the heaviest songs the band has recorded, with a mix of lighter pop tracks to keep their sound balanced. Between touring the rest of the country, the band will be jumping back to Yah Yah’s every Thursday as part of a residency, with support this week from Elusive and Past Present. Entry is the astounding price of free, so get down when the doors open at 7pm.
AINE TYRRELL
THE TOFF IN TOWN
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Artist Proof creates cinematic, visually rich music that is deep in emotion, and rich with anthemic grandeur and explosive energy. They make no excuse for the fact that they create songs that
Coda Conduct
Raising $15k via Pozible to record her stunning debut album Queen Of Swords on a bus journey into the Australian outback, Irish-born, Australia-based Aine Tyrrell then won Queenscliff Music Festival’s Emerging Talent 2014 award. Under the warm guidance of Shane Howard and Claire Bowditch, Aine’s been sharing her story ever since. Be sure to catch this strong new voice in contemporary Australian music at The Toff In Town this Thursday June 25. Doors open at 7.30pm. Tickets are $15.
BOBBY AND THE PINS
THE SPOT TED MALLARD
Spotted Mallard will transform into a traditional 1950s hop this June as they host the special event, Big Band Barbershop Hop – featuring Melbourne’s best loved barbershop quartet, Bobby and the Pins. The night will be kicked off by a big band set from The JC Little Big Band featuring hits across the 40s and 50s, followed by cabaret and classic a capella from Bobby and the Pins - before the two come together for a collaborated set of 50s songs. Expect hits such as Mister Sandman, High Hopes and At The Hop. Be transported back to the last century with Melbourne’s best vintage performers: barbershop quartet Bobby and the Pins, and The JC Little Big Band. One night only, Thursday June 25. Entry is $23 on the doors when they open at 8.30pm.
So are you guys from Canberra? Or Sydney? Both? Neither? We were both born and raised in Canberra, but are living in Sydney at the moment. We’re still very strongly connected to the Canberra hip hop scene, so I guess you could say both. Hip hop has a long history of hometown pride. Is that something that influences your music? We’re always engaging with the Canberra scene no matter where we are, and make sure to drop in sneaky Canberra references in our lyrics when we can. The sample of Ray Warren’s swimming commentary on your song Susie O’Neill is strangely emotive. Do you have memories of seeing Susie win gold? I remember the slow-mo replay on the news for weeks after she won. The excitement in Ray’s voice gets us right in the feels every time. Your EP Butter Side Up came out in March. Is this a representation of the journey so far for Coda Conduct? It took us a while to have our act together to the point where we were capable of making an EP. There’s a lot more to releasing music than just penning lyrics, and Butter Side Up was a huge learning curve for us. Your songs feature really strong production and excellent rhymes. But what seals the deal is the stick-in-your-head chorus refrains. Is that a big focus for you when writing? Choruses are important, but it isn’t usually the main focus when making the song. Sometimes the chorus comes first, other times it’s written the night before. But usually the chorus is based on the verses, so that everything feels cohesive. CODA CONDUCT are playing Laundry Bar on Friday June 26.
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Tankerville
What’s your name then? Oh, and the name of your band…? Joel Morrison and Tankerville is the name of the band. And what do you do? Play fun/ drunk/ loud/ heavy/ punk. When did you start doing that? With this band only a couple of months ago. Why did you start doing that? Me, Matty Chow (Graveyard Train) and Chris Drane (Cherrywood) were sick of just sitting around drinking and talking crap so we thought we’d put some music to it as well. Do you think you’re good at doing that? World champion musical bullshitters. If you weren’t doing that, what would you be doing? Working at Old Bar/ Public Bar. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Bringing joy to bartenders everywhere. And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing? Chris Drane. What’s you proudest moment of doing what you do? Maybe recording 13 songs in a couple of hours last week, but most likely playing the upcoming Old Bar Stage benefit this weekend with a bunch of local legends. And your least proud? Recording 13 songs in a couple of hours last week.
Come Thursday June 25, The Public Bar will be hosting Rock for the Reef, a benefit event for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition’s For The Love Of The Reef Campaign. All funds will go to protecting the Great Barrier Reef from the threat of a proposed coal port expansion just 50 km from the Whitsunday Islands. Headlined by Kill Dirty Youth, with support from A Basket Of Mammoths and Mosey Jokers, the night is sure to get punters rocking out for the love of the Great Barrier Reef. All proceeds from the night will be going to AYCC for the Love of the Reef Campaign. Tickets are $10, doors open at 7.30pm.
HAYLEY TEAL CELLAR BAR
Over the past few years, Hayley has been working with a number of producers on original songs; however she has been reluctant to release anything unless she truly believed it could compete with the best on a national level. Now as a full time professional singer, Hayley has learnt to be versatile, performing a range of genres from pop to RnB, dance to house, and soul to rock. For the first time ever, she's ready to take on the music scene at Prince Cellar Bar on Thursday June 25. Be sure to come down for this exciting chapter of her musical career. Tickets are $24, doors open at 8pm.
TANKERVILLE are playing this Saturday June 27 at The Old Bar with an absolute pantload of other bands including The Shabbab, River of Snakes and Pussy XXX. It all kicks of at 3pm.
Inside Out. Her passion is performing in productions that entertain and inspire positive change, with this leg of her tour proving to be no exception to this rule. Be sure to catch her when she arrives at Howler on Thursday June 25. Tickets are $23, doors open at 7.30pm. FRIDAY JUNE 26
THE DESERT SEA
THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Sydney four piece The Desert Sea are hitting the road and heading south to The Brunswick Hotel on Friday, June 26 for the Melbourne release of their debut EP Oceanic. Combining elements of grunge, blues and rock into a fusion of earthy riffs, pounding rhythms and raw vocal melodies, The Desert Sea’s highenergy live show is sure to get the blood pumping. They will be joined on the night by some of Melbourne’s finest rock and blues acts with Ten Cent pistols, Twin Ages and Tillerman Pete setting the tone for a night not to be forgotten. Doors open 9pm with free entry.
GONZOVILLAIN THE PUBLIC BAR
Gonzovillain are the soundtrack to madness and they’re going to prove it this on Friday June 26 at The Public Bar to promote their new EP, Malaysian Hairlines. Their primordial drums, driving bass and verge-of-breakdown guitars propelled along by urgent vocals about paranoia, panic attacks and pissed off building inspectors. Joining them on the night are local dirtbags Worm Crown, who’ve just released their relentless trash punk Trauma LP, as well as psych-wanderers Fierce Mild. It all goes down at The Public Bar on Friday June 26, 8pm onwards. $10 on the door.
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Crooked Colours, responsible for hits Come Down & Capricious, are back with their latest single Another Way to coincide with the launch of their new club nights concept shows, which aims to educate music lovers on what a club experience can be. The band will be performing live at every capital city across the country bringing deep house kings of the scene Torren Foot and Mickey Kojak along for the ride performing in every city alongside hand selected special guests and a closing DJ set from Crooked Colours. Be quick as their show at Howler this Friday June 26 is a strictly limited capacity event. Tickets are $18, doors open at 8pm.
ROCKABILLY RAGE
THE BENDIGO HOTEL
The Bendigo have pulled together a triple rocker shocker sure to spark some on stage Rockabilly Rage this Friday June 26. The Infernos are headlining this scorcher, along with new band on the block Rumblin’ Wolf and The Flyin’ Saucers sure to keep you going throughout the night. Better get down from 8pm, tickets are $15 on the door.
RAY MANG BONEY
With releases on Noid Recordings, Eskimo, DFA & his own label Mangled, as well as collaborations with legends like Idjut Boys & Glimmers, Mr Mang has made quite a name for himself in the disco scene as both a producer and a DJ. His finesse for the edit/remix has landed him in plenty of your favourite DJs’ record bags and on Friday he’ll be landing into Boney’s Misty Nights party for an extended night of funky pleasure. Get ready to party down this Friday June 26 at Boney. Doors open at 10pm, entry is $10 before midnight, $15 afterwards.
of two country folk in city bodies, lost in time, blinded by lights, soft in heart, clear in the intent to say something true and have fun doing it. With support from Tobias Hengeveld and DJ Jeff Leppard spinning tracks after the show until 3am, your Friday night is sorted at The Retreat Hotel. Come down from 9.30pm when the music starts this Friday June 26. Entry is free as always.
LIDO JAZZ ROOM OPENING LIDO CINEMAS
Lido Cinemas is set to unveil a hidden gem, the Lido Jazz Room on Friday June 26 as part of the cinemas’ opening week celebrations. Tucked underneath a cinema screen and down a narrow stairway, the bar will boast live music every Friday and Saturday with the best jazz players in town. Kicking things off for the venue is The James Sherlock Trio playing this Friday, with The Stephen Magnusson Trio on the following night. Music goes from 9pm till 11pm.
FOOD COURT
THE GASOMETER HOTEL
Sydney garage quartet Food Court are heading out in June on a run of their own headline shows along the east coast of Australia, following a massive run of sold out shows around the country supporting Northeast Party House. With singles 14 Years Young and On The River both added to high rotation on triple j, the band have also gained boasting rights by playing support shows to The Delta Riggs, Kingswood and Catfish and the Bottlemen. Arguably one of the catchiest acts in Australia at the moment, be sure to catch them when they hit The Gasometer Hotel on Friday June 26. Tickets are $12 through oztix.com.au.
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Stonefield
AMY FINDLAY - VOCALIST/ DRUMMER
1. The First Song I Wrote It was a seriously cringe-worthy tune called Soon. I wrote it when I was about 14 years old and yes, it was a teen love song. I did get asked to play it for the old folks at the local retirement home… it must’ve been suitable for sending people to sleep. 2. The Last Song I Released Golden Dream: it’s the first taste from our new record coming out later this year and we’re really proud of it. The song was a collaboration with Kram from Spiderbait, which was an incredible writing experience. 3. Songwriting Secrets I honestly feel that every time we write a song it’s a fluke. We generally like to just jam as a band from a small idea that someone brings into our shed where we write. I find it easier to come up with a melody and lyrics after we have the music, however, I have recently been focusing a lot more on lyrics in my own time, which has been really beneficial for me. 4. The Song That Makes Me Proud I think my proudest song will be forever changing as I grow as a musician and songwriter. Life and experiences are what makes great songs, so I think that the more I live and experience, the better my songs will be. 5. The Song That Changed My Life My all time favourite song is Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. Through my whole life it has been a song I have been inspired by. This song ticks all the boxes for me – a great riff, groove, an insane freakout section and wailing vocals. Stonefield are playing Friday June 26 at The Shadow Electric. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34
With a combination of slick beats and sassy vibes, Jay Power is taking to Cherry Bar on Thursday June 25 for a show with her award winning band in tow. Described as a collection of some of Australia’s most talented musicians, the band are pulled together to create what can only be described as soulful poetry. Be sure to catch Jay Power and the band at Cherry Bar when the doors open at 9pm. Tickets are $10 on the door.
THE ROYAL JELLIES
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
WHOLE LOTTA BLUES
Modern Melbourne meets the New Orleans old-school. Frontline horns duke-it-out while the rhythm section cooks up raucous grooves in a neovintage stew of pop hooks, traditional jazz and some straight up songwriting. Led by Yarraville local Raphael Hammond, The Royal Jellies play at The Reverence every Friday in June. Entry is free, doors open at 8.30pm.
Whole Lotta Blues is back with this week’s showcase featuring The Andy Layfield Sound. The blues roots fourpiece are bringing their original old time tunes to Whole Lotta Love this Thursday, and joining them in his usual support slot is Whole Lotta Blues favourite Brendan Forward, fresh from touring as the new guitarist with Massive. A big night planned, so head to Whole Lotta Love this Thursday June 25 from 8pm. Entry is free, and there’s $6 Jack and Cokes all night.
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RocknRolla have announced the lineup for their third instalment, kicking off this June. Headlining the night will be Melbourne rock act The Cherry Dolls. They will be joined by eight-piece garage rock soul band The Eighty 88s, Millar Jukes and The Bandits, and Sam Krieger from psych-stoner outfit A Basket Of Mammoths. RocknRolla 3 kicks off at Prince Bandroom on Friday June 26. Entry is free, doors open at 8.30 and discounted Sailor Jerry’s will be flowing all night.
CHRIS WILSON YA H YA H ’ S
Start your evening off with Chris Wilson this Friday June 26 at Yah Yah’s as the Australian blues legend opens the evening with after-work knock off drinks. If you’re about later on, be ready to check out Melbourne Backline’s first birthday from 8pm with DJs running until late. Head down to Yah Yah’s from 5pm onwards to catch Chris before the Backline’s birthday. Entry is $15 and will score you a free Jager bomb.
TOTALLY MILD
Totally Mild have decided to throw an encore show to thank fans who were rudely confronted with a full house sign on the night of their launch. The band has been blowing minds with their new brand of songwriting and skewed pop composition and, in turn, they’ve very deservedly generated a lot of hype around Melbourne. Fronted by Elizabeth Mitchell, a woman with an arguably unrivalled ability to sing falsetto, and featuring members from Full Ugly, Kes Band and Sui Zhen, it’s sure to be a hell of a night. They’ll be at the John Curtin Hotel on Friday June 26, entry’s free. Doors open at 8.30pm.
HOOLIGANS
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
Sunny D Promotions are hosting their inaugural Hooligans event this week at Brunswick’s Whole Lotta Love. With a cheap as $5 entry, Hooligans has three local acts set to strut their stuff on stage. Tzatziki Party are bringing some east side Ska, rockabilly punks Where’s Grover? are jumping on afterwards, followed by Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays to give you a folkin’ good time. Three sweet acts all for just $5. Come down to Whole Lotta Love this Friday June 26 from 8pm. SATURDAY JUNE 27
ULCERATE
THE BENDIGO HOTEL
VOIX D’OR
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Two friends, musicians from different backgrounds, wondered what would happen if they got together once a week and wrote songs until there were 10, and Voix D’or was born. This body of work reflects three months in the lives
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Unorthodox death metal act Ulcerate was formed in NZ by guitarist Michael Hoggard and drummer Jamie Saint Merat 15 years ago with the aim of creating dark, oppressive death metal. The focus has since developed and metamorphosed into a far more dynamic approach with a fully realised sense of atmosphere and mood, while furthering their foray into the darker end of the genre’s spectrum. Ulcerate have been on their Australasia tour since April, with Melbourne audiences getting their last chance show this
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bluegrass, folk, gospel and rock as their original songsmithery melds effortlessly with their more traditional influences appealing to a diverse audience of music lovers. Catch them at The Drunken Poet on Saturday June 27 from 9pm. Free entry.
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I AM MINE
THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Alternative hard rock four-piece I Am Mine are taking on The Brunswick Hotel this Saturday June 27 with their heavy drop tuned riffs, ballsy vocals, thick distorted bass and a massive drum sound, all peppered with blues and stoner influence. I Am Mine will be teaming up with acoustic/electric powerhouse Damn That River, and blues rockers Twin Ages and Vision St to make it a night for lovers of hard rock’n’roll to have a dance and drink. Catch them at the Brunny this Saturday June 27 from 9pm. Entry is free.
Cairns based singer-songwriter Eddie Skiba will launch his new album Blend On The Border at Yah Yah’s on Saturday June 27. Taking inspiration from voices of reason such as Christopher Hitchens, Tim Flannery, Lawrence Krauss and Miriam Lyons, the new album offers a thoughtful perspective whilst putting it’s own stamp on alternative rock. Joined by special guests Chasing Alice & Holy Trash, get your tickets for $13 at the door. Doors from 8pm.
TITLE FIGHT
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Title Fight has announced an Australian headline tour this June in support of their new album Hyperview, released earlier this year. In the summer of 2014, the band decamped to Studio 4 in Conshohocken, PA. in order to make Hyperview – the follow-up release to the band’s Spring Songs EP. Hyperview is a massive leap forward from previous releases and is difficult to summarise with words, yet it brings a muted charm, an opaque lyricism and an individuality that strips it of attributable influences. Support on the night comes from Adelaide’s Paper Arms and locals Apart From This. Be sure to catch Title Fight this Saturday June 27 at The Reverence Hotel from 2pm onwards. All ages event, no drugs and alcohol permitted. No passouts.
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DUAL CARNAGE
THE WORKERS CLUB
Day two of Dual Carnage hits Melbourne hard at The Workers Club in Fitzroy, with a monster lineup of death metal and grind core. Six of the best from South Australia including Obsidian Aspect, Wounded Pig and Seminal Embalment will join six of Victoria’s best including Whoretopsy, Iconic Vivisect and Internal Nightmare with a brutal guest from Queensland in the form of Expulsed. Belligerent Intent are last minute additions, stepping in for the injured Blunt Shovel. Get ground to pulp from 1.30pm this Saturday June 27 at The Workers Club for a breezy $20.
MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB THE DRUNKEN POET
Moosejaw Rifle Club are a four piece folk/country/ bluegrass band from Melbourne, with layered four part harmonies and hooks galore. Inspired by the likes of the Old Crow Medicine Show, Moosejaw Rifle Club have firmly set their reputation for fun loving, good time music on their own terms. Their sound starts at country, but stops all stations including blues,
Lost Weekend presents the return of Detroit’s rising superstar Jay Daniel for another sweaty night of acid, house, funk, techno, disco and everything in between. Releasing some solid 12s over the last couple of years on Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature, Kyle Hall’s Wild Oats and FunkinEven’s Apron Records, Jay now has a brilliant new EP out on his own new imprint Watusi High. Who knows what Detroit flavoured goodness he’ll bring for his Boney return, just know it will be from the top shelf. Support from Bryce Lawrence, Myles Mac, Midnight Tenderness, Dawn Again and Colette + Andee Frost after hours. Doors open at 10pm, tickets are $15+BF.
Parquet Courts and Protomartyr, and have been offered two invitations to play cult punk festival Goner Fest in Memphis. The tour will follow the release of their fourth full length album, Punters On a Barge on June 1 via local Melbourne label Homeless. Catch them when they play Saturday June 27 at The Curtin, tickets cost $26 and the doors open at 8.30pm.
MELBOURNE CITY SKA COLLECTIVE
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
Whole Lotta Love are throwing a massive Ska shindig this Saturday afternoon with local heroes Melbourne City Ska Collective. The party starts from 2pm with Kristin Galla, The Dizzies and The Soul Salvation Revue all taking on the stage for a set, with Melbourne City Ska Collective sending off the night in style. Catch these four talented locals Saturday June 27 at Whole Lotta Love. Doors open 2pm with free entry.
TOO SOON!
THE PUBLIC BAR
Too Soon! are calling it quits, but they’re chucking one last party as they bid fond farewells from the Public Bar. This Saturday June 27, they’ve convinced some of their best buds to come along for one last ride. With Super Best Friends, Foley! Del Lago, Meezer and Not Brad Pitt backing the band on the night, there’s also a few other offbeat shenanigans that they’ll announce before the night but expect equal parts nonsense, excess, mayhem and good times anyway. Say hi and bye this Saturday June 27 at The Public Bar. Entry is $10, doors open at 8pm.
UV BOI
SHEBEEN
Brisbane producer UV Boi has locked in a run of dates in support of his new single, LUV. Taken from his forthcoming debut EP, the track expands upon the hip-hop influenced sound that has drawn attention from heavy-hitters like Nina Las Vegas and Ryan Hemsworth. UV Boi will unleash that sound to the masses when he plays our capital cities and and takes
Mosey Jokers
You’re playing Rock the Reef this Thursday. Tell us about the fundraising nature of the gig. 100% of the profits will go to Australian Youth Climate Coalition for the Love of the Reef Campaign. The proposed coal port expansion 50km from the Whitsundays will damage the fragile reef. Abbot Point is the last proposed major coal port, and even after UNESCO’s warnings, an international campaign gaining over a million signatures, and 11 international banks refusing to touch this project, it could still go ahead. The stuffy shirts in parliament continue to make terrible decisions regarding the environment. Is it up to the people to convince them otherwise? We cannot trust that the governing bodies and parties involved will act with the interests of the environment, or the communities that depend on it to survive. What’s the history of Mosey Jokers – how long have you been kicking it? Mosey Jokers have been writing and rehearsing for about nine months. This will be our first outing in the wild. When you look up at your musical idols, is there much history of political involvement that you aspire to replicate with your own band? Singing about titties and beer and using the profits to invest in the environment so it can be enjoyed by future generations is something we’re more than happy to do. If not Melbourne, where in the world would you like to be playing music? In Tony Abbott or Joe Hockey’s bedroom, with a full stack at 11. MOSEY JOKERS play Rock the Reef at the Public Bar with A Basket of Mammoths and Kill Dirty Youth on Thursday June 25.
THE WINTOUR OF OUR DISCOTHEQUE
THE GASOMETER HOTEL
Launch your Winter 2015 DISCOllection on Saturday June 27 at the glorious and glamorous Gasometer. DJs Whiskey Houston, Mr. Weir and Melbourne style icon J-Nett will be going deep in vogue from 9pm til 3am. This is a mixed event for gay guys, gals, and their pals. No dickheads or homophobes, and try to avoid coming across as cold or brusque. Simply strive to be the best. Shake your hips to spinning discs at The Gasometer Hotel this Saturday June 27. Doors open at 9pm. Tickets are $15 on the door.
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JOHN CURTIN HOTEL
Texan punkers Spray Paint have locked in an Australian tour. Having clocked up countless US tours, in recent times the group have played alongside bands such as
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Balter Vada
Define your genre in five words or less: Super duper mega fucking chill. 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? “Their guitarist is wearing pyjamas, their drummer is like really ridiculously good looking, and their vocalist needs to stop leaving the stage for more beer." How long have you been gigging and writing? We started off as an acoustic duo, just Bridget and Frankie playing crappy acoustic music, then Row joined in on the chaos and we found this musical common ground between us that we really liked and we started taking it more seriously and getting more gigs. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? We were stoked to be asked to support Sydney lads Bootleg Rascal on the Victorian leg of their tour last year. A few beers were most definitely had. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? We’re lucky that we’re playing music now at a time when there’s so many sick Aussie artists doing so well both at home and internationally. Our sound has this psych-blues/ reggae vibe to it and I think that’s heavily inspired by bands like Sticky Fingers and Dunies and all the different kinds of bands and artists we’re listening to. Why should everyone come and see your band? We play mad funky melodic reggae and usually our gigs are cheap or free entry, so that’s more money for beer. Catch Balter Vada on Thursday June 25 at The Brunswick Hotel.
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the stage at Splendour in the Grass this winter. He’ll will hit Shebeen on Saturday June 27. Tickets are $15 on the door if still available on the night, doors open at 8.30pm. SUNDAY JUNE 28
BAD VISION
JOHN CURTIN HOTEL
This Sunday June 28, the front bar of the Curtin will be filled with high energy garage punk frequencies. Bad Vision headline an impressive lineup that includes the degenerate slacker garage of Dumb Punts and the out-of-thisworld guitar noise of Cosmic Kahuna. An assortment of colourful garage and punk treats that’s pretty representative of Melbourne’s heavily cross-pollinated garage scene. Entry is free, doors open at 3pm.
GASOMETER’S 1ST BIRTHDAY
THE GASOMETER HOTEL
The past 12 months have been a roaring success with The Gasometer now established as Melbourne’s premier mid-sized band room. Highlights include five sold-out shows from Total Giovanni, the open-air Collingwood Open series including Lanie Lane’s final performance for now, pumping club nights like PBS FM’s Jamaica JumpUp and The Outpost, international acts like Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks & Wye Oak, the first all ages show in a Victorian pub for 20 years from Client Liaison and 250 or so other gigs, benefits and launches they have been honoured to host. Now The Gasometer is gearing up for a big night with a new kitchen and menu unveiled this week, along with sets on Sunday June 28 from the likes of Sun God Replica, Twin Beasts and Esther Rivers with Chris Goff in the band room, plus Pete Bibby and Elizabeth Barker at the front bar. Best part of all? There’s free entry to this massive show. Get in to The Gasometer Hotel from 4pm and help celebrate.
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Wolfpack
Define your genre in five words or less: Not for profit punk thrash. 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? “Bloody hell, so not only are this band totally nuts live with a singing drummer and mad riffs but they also give all their profits to charity and animal welfare. They’ve raised over $17,000 so far. You have to come check Wolfpack out.” What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? We’ve been really lucky to have done some amazing tours with everyone from Dead Kennedys to DRI and also Corrosion of Conformity and CJ Ramone. But our fave gigs are the ones with heaps of rad locals playing. Australia has an amazing, diverse array of heavy acts and it is always awesome catching up with old mates and finding new local bands that totally shred. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? My kelpie Riot and cat Charlotte, vodka, cider, good friends, hard times and the manipulation of our lives by money and media. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? We have two EPs, one was a fundraiser for Lost Dogs Home and the other for The Save A Dog Scheme, but they are long sold out. However, our debut album is available now. It is a benefit release for Victorian Dog Rescue and is out on revered North American punk label Sudden Death Records. See WOLFPACK at the Free West Papua benefit gig on Saturday June 27 at The Brunswick Hotel. It’s a great cause for an excellent organisation and is free entry with donations accepted. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 36
acts and DJs electrify the dance floor with the best down and dirty soul, funk, and vintage RnB every Sunday at The Retreat Hotel. With bands playing from 7.30pm and DJs spinning until 1am, it might be the best fun you’ll have for nothing – come down and see. Yep, entry is free.
JESS LOCKE
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Jess Locke will be warming your hearts and body parts this June, scoring a Sunday residency at The Reverence. With her indie inspired garage-y folk, and backed by a full band, Jess Locke will be playing songs from her new album Words That Seem to Slip Away, and will be joined each week by a rotating cast of talented local artists. This week she’s joined by Gonzovillain, Lehmann B Smith and The Flying So High-Os. Jess Locke plays at The Reverence Hotel every Sunday in June from 3pm. Entry is free.
MA-MA’S COOKING Sugar Fed Leopards
some of the musical offerings to sooth your weekend brain and set you up for the week ahead. The party starts 10pm every Monday, with the kitchen open till midnight. Free entry, too.
CHERRY JAM CHERRY BAR
Now here’s a novel concept – ever wanted to play air guitar on stage in front of a bunch of strangers, except you have a real instrument? Cherry Bar supplies the backline in this event while their expert soundie does the rest of the work as you jam out on the famous Cherry Stage. Bring your guitar, leads and sticks down for an open air jam unlike any other from 6.30pm to 11.30pm. Entry is free, email red@cherrybar.com.au if you and your mates want a timeslot on the immortal stage.
PHOENIX DAY
Melbourne five-piece Phoenix Day are welcoming the week with the release of their debut EP We Are All The Same, out Monday June 29. Meyer brothers Christian, Julian and Markus meld a lifetime of collaboration and rock solid musical history into their most personal project yet. With the addition of Dave Cousins’ compelling vocal versatility and the musicality of virtuoso guitarist Luke Sciberras, Phoenix Day is ready to make its mark on the Australian prog scene. We Are All The Same comes out Monday June 29 through Bandcamp and iTunes. TUESDAY JUNE 30
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This Sunday June 28, Ma-Ma’s Cooking a Sunday Roast as part of Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s Put Victoria On Your Table & Winter Roasts Collection. Celebrating the best in seasonal Victorian produce and wine, the traditional roast with an Asian kick will be accompanied by the sweet doo-wop sounds of Sugar Fed Leopards, who’ll be playing on stage from 8pm onwards. Roast delights and fine wines will be on offer all day at Belleville starting from midday, check out the venues website to make a booking.
The Toff in Town is hosting Edge this Tuesday June 30, a one-night only performance-extravaganza with all proceeds going to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Come along to support some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in Australia to gain access to some of the most basic human needs. With Isabel and Rachel presenting a full length show by 11-yearold aspiring tween sensation Stella, the night features support from Karen From Finance, Laura Davis, Tessa Waters, David Quirk with Geraldine Hickey hosting for the night. Be sure to hit The Toff In Town this Tuesday June 30 for this award winning performance. Entry is $20 at the doors when they open at 6.30pm.
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THE WORKERS CLUB
After months of hard work in recording seclusion, cultivating their concoction of soul, jazz, and hip hop sounds, The Hypnotic are ready to unleash their debut EP. To help with the Sunday afternoon celebration of the record’s release, The Hypnotic have enlisted some help from feel-good fiends Pvblo and Wallace. Keep your blood pumping and your bodies grinding at The Workers Club this Sunday June 28. Doors open at 1pm. Entry is $10. Zoe K
FREAK & THE FAT CATS THE BENDIGO HOTEL
Four-piece funkers Freak & The Fat Cats are chucking on a gig this Sunday arvo at The Bendigo Hotel, along with a couple of their local mates. Indie pop singer/songwriter Jade Alice takes to the stage from 5pm, with folk blues artist Yasin Leflef up at 6pm, and Freak & The Fat Cats sending out the night from 7pm onwards. Catch ‘em all at The Bendigo Hotel this Sunday June 28, entry is a cheap $5 on the door. MONDAY JUNE 29
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Clap your hands. Brunswick’s iconic Soul Sundays returns to the Retreat every Sunday Night. Presented by Thunder Road, Melbourne’s best soul
Every Monday night at Boney sees T-Rek playing whatever he wants, although it’s not necessarily aimed at the dance floor. Take sleazy late night rock ’n’ roll, all forms of pre ‘80s blues, toe tapping kraut rock excursions, dirt computer guitar histrionics and dubbed out desert space jams - these are only
PATRICK WILSON & THE BARE RIVER QUEENS T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
With a level of musicianship that excels past most young bands, Patrick Wilson & The Bare River Queens are an act of young instrumentalists playing country music at a level unexpected from a bunch of ‘mere’ university students. The members, all meeting at Melbourne’s Collarts University, rock a mean twangy lead guitar, combined with heavenly background harmonies, fiddles and a solid bass rhythm section. With the love songs and murder ballads Wilson writes, the group’s subject matter certainly falls within the country tradition – but see for yourself when they play The Retreat Hotel this Tuesday June 30. Doors open at 7.30pm, entry is free.
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THE OLD BAR STAGE BENEFIT EXTRAVAGANZA JUNE 25-27
The Old Bar have decided it's about time to give their beloved stage a bit of lovin', with an upgraded sound system and a raised stage on the cards. So get down there this Thursday, Friday or Saturday (or all three) to help them raise the funds. At $10 a show, it's a measly sum to help keep one of Melbourne's quintessential venues at the top of their game. So garn..get amongst it and have a couple while you're at it.
THURSDAY JUNE 25 PLAYING TIMES ‘Persona l Space Invaders' 11:00pm – 11:40pm Deep Heat 10:00pm – 10:40pm Eaten By Dogs 9:00pm – 9:40pm Pitt The Elder 8:00pm – 8:40pm FRIDAY JUNE 26 PLAYING TIMES Twin Beasts 12:00am – 12:40am Cherrywood 11:00pm – 11:40pm Midnight Woolf 10:00pm – 10:40pm Bad Vision 9:00pm – 9:40pm BJ Morriszonkle 8:15pm – 8:45pm Water Music 7:30pm – 8:00pm SATURDAY JUNE 27 PLAYING TIMES The Shabbab 12:00am – 12:40am River Of Snakes 11:00pm – 11:40pm Pussy XXX 10:00pm – 10:40pm Grindhouse 9:00pm – 9:40pm Mutton 8:00pm – 8:40pm Tankerville 7:00pm – 7:40pm All The Weathers 6:00pm – 6:40pm Ninety Nine 5:15pm – 5:45pm Lucy Wilson 4:30pm – 5:00pm Yoko Bono 3:45pm – 4:15pm Leah Senior
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews RECLINK COMMUNIT Y CUP Elsternwick Park, Sunday June 21
JEBEDIAH Corner Hotel, Wednesday June 17 In our more pretentious moments, we can all try to convince ourselves that nostalgia doesn’t cloud our judgement – that when we listen to music we enjoyed at an earlier point of our lives, it’s because we still genuinely appreciate it. However, it’s hard to make this claim with any certainty. Pure reflective nostalgia, rooted in a longing for the ‘good old days’, isn’t a particularly positive inclination. But when the power of nostalgia fills you with sheer joy, and generates unity among a group of strangers, then surely it serves a constructive purpose. It’s fair to say Jebediah’s ability to sell out four-straight shows at the Corner Hotel has something to do with nostalgia. This is the Perth band’s 20th anniversary tour and they were here to perform their 1997 debut Slightly Odway in its entirety. But the positive feeling in the Corner wasn’t punctuated by a yearning for how things used to be. This was a room full of people who bloody love the Jebs, and who were proud to celebrate that fact. To be fair on Jebediah, they didn’t stop dead in the distant past. The night was divided into two parts; before the main event came a set condensing all of the band’s post-Odway output, which dates up to 2011’s Kosciusko. At no point did the band look like they were imitating their former selves. OK, the foursome still look exactly the same, but they were here in this moment, passionately invested in the songs. Kicking off the early set with Star Machine (from 1999’s Of Someday Shambles), it didn’t take long for the sing-alongs to start. Several songs generated a similarly rousing response; Please Leave’s “Screw up your life again,” refrain had never felt so pertinent, while the likes of Animal and She’s Like A Comet got fists pounding the air.
Jebediah haven’t really tinkered with their setup during the last 20 years. They’re a four-piece rock band with a clearly defined rhythm and lead guitarist. The guitar sounds still alternate between clean and fucking dirty, and frontman Kevin Mitchell continues to bleat pseudo-English in a nasal, self-distorting tone. Here’s where the issue of nostalgia crops up: introducing someone to Jebediah today, it’s a hard sell. In 2015, we’re supposed to know better than to like these kinds of sounds. However, taste and intellect are by no means inextricably connected, so if this sounds good to us, but is hard to swallow for someone else, there’s no right or wrong. That said, anyone who didn’t tune into Jebediah the first time around is plainly missing out. When the Jebs came back out and launched into Slightly Odway, there was more than one person in the room struggling to fight back tears of joy. The album begins with Leaving Home, and from there on it was hit-central. Crowd favourite Harpoon reintroduced the scent of teenage romance, while the band’s breakthrough single Jerks of Attention continued to stand-up for drunken pride. The biggest event of the night was Teflon. While many folks were already engaged in an elated pogo-boogie, Teflon relaxed the shoulders of even the most reticent punters. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
LOVED: “LIKE A HAR-BOO IN MY HIGH”. HATED: Feeling like one of those ‘triple j’s changed’ old guys. DRANK: Until I became ten feet tall.
HERMITUDE 170 Russell, Sunday June 21 The first time I saw Hermitude was as a support act for Urthboy’s national tour in 2007. At the time, there was a bit more hip hop to their sound, collaborating with various MCs on several tracks. These days, Hermitude are much more dance/ electro, but I ain’t complaining. The poster boys for independent label Elefant Traks, they’ve been riding high since the 2012 release of HyperParadise, and with the release of their latest album Dark Night Sweet Light, I can’t see any signs of them slowing down. When they hit the stage at 170 Russell, this sleazy old nightclub felt like it could have been any of the top, exclusive club venues around the world, such is the energy Hermitude bring on stage with them. They brought some bass early before easing everyone into the set with the catchy, sugary single Ukiyo off the new release. On a few occasions, it felt like they were toying with us, weaving together mashups of several of their well-known tracks. I’m not embarrassed to say I false started on going crazy to HyperParadise a bit too early, but when they did unleash it two tracks later, oh boy did the crowd lose its shit. Somehow Hermitude have created a plethora of almost anthemic dance tracks, both old and new. Dubs and El Gusto bounce off each other innately, jamming out with their weird, electro instruments to create music that, quite frankly, is almost impossible to not jump around to.
Highlight of the set for me was Speak of the Devil. Back when I first saw Hermitude, I had a bit of a take it or leave it attitude towards them. A few years later, I caught them at a festival gig and it was this track that got me hooked. Tonight they brought out a guest vocalist/ dancer, who acted as a hype woman, not that they really needed it. They closed out the set with a couple of their new hits; Through The Roof and The Buzz, which you get the feeling will be getting more airplay than Frank Walker from National Tiles in the coming months. The encore of Get In My Life was nearly enough to raise the roof and then bring it crashing down, as they finished up leaving the crowd absolutely buzzing. What I like most about these guys is that there is just no fluff. They don’t bother too much with trying to hype up the crowd – they let their music do the talking for them. With a completely sold out Australian tour nearly done and dusted, and several big festivals to come across North America (including Lollapalooza), it doesn’t look like things will be slowing for these guys any time soon.
Photo by Emily Day As the sun beamed down on Elsternwick Park, bringing scarves and heavy jackets into question, it was tough to imagine a more perfect day for one of Melbourne’s most beloved and iconic events. The stage was set for another Community Cup, the event in support of Reclink Australia and their mission to provide and promote sports and arts programs for disadvantaged people. Live music carried the crowd through the day from start to finish. Pearls were introduced as ‘70s glamrock-revivalists, though given their droning, wallof-sound aesthetic, the tag seemed ill-fitting. They provided the soundtrack to an oval-wide kick-tokick session, their set perfectly digestible if a little underwhelming. Adalita continued the trend a short time later and, at half time, the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra confirmed a pattern. It must be said, though, that considering the AFL has been pre-occupied with staging the perfect ‘match-day experience’, this year, the Reclink Community Cup put them to shame. Fittingly, the day’s main event – the football match itself – brought the best action. The crowd were expecting another close contest between the two teams, as per tradition. While the Rockdogs had the ascendancy early, they peppered their forward 50 with wayward kicks, enabling the Megahertz to rebound and capitalise. Paul Satur slotted the first goal of the game and, with Jarrad Kennedy opening his account soon after, the Megahertz suddenly looked likely. As they found confidence, they began to link up well and keep the scoreboard ticking over. In a scrappy and physical affair, the Megahertz simply managed to find a way to the goals more often than their opposition. Alex Rahill, ultimately awarded
the Steve Connolly Medal (Best on Ground), led by example all over the ground. The Rockdogs had their opportunities, but squandered most of them, snuffing out any chance of a late charge. They were plucky, though largely without polish. Their shining light was Leisha Jungalwalla ( Jungal), who fought hard and notched up a couple of goals for her efforts. Benny Walker also offered a significant contribution. Ultimately, though, the bigger-bodied Rockdogs were no match for the nimble Megahertz, who broke their five-year drought within a convincing 27-point victory. A strong performance from Graveyard Train capped off another successful Community Cup. The event is now 21 years old and still going strong, and it’s easy to see why. From the patrons to the players, and right down to the volunteers who did such great work bringing everything together, the sense of community was palpable all day long. Congratulations to the Megahertz and a special congratulations to those selling hot chips from a food truck named Chippy Chippy Bang Bang. You might be the real winners after all. BY NICK MASON
LOVED: The warmth and goodwill of the entire event. HATED: The margin. A closer contest is always that much more enjoyable. Dust yourselves off Rockdogs and bring the fight next year. DRANK: Tinnies.
BY EBEN ROJTER LOVED: Something to cut loose to on a Sunday. HATED: 170 Russell is still Billboards, and there’s still too much sleaze here. DRANK: MB x VB.
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CITIZENS OF THE STREETS Shadow Electric, Thursday June 18 Shadow Electric is one of the most hot and cold venues in Melbourne. The concrete smothered venue, surrounded by the lush atmosphere of the Abbotsford Convent gardens, has earned a special place in the hearts of show attendees. People can go on an evening walk through the gardens, enjoy a meal at Lentil as Anything and then catch a show at the venue. But the site is also somewhat isolated from the bustling music hubs of Melbourne, making it hard for people to get there, which results in some shows being bigger than others. Take for example the first instalment of Citizens of the Streets, Speaker TV’s new monthly arts and music event. While pitched as an interesting night of live music, DJs, art and photography, the night suffered from a small turnout – perhaps due to the venue’s isolation, or the fact it was a Thursday night during the turbulent uni exam period. Admittedly, while the photography and art were of good quality – Dan Soderstrom’s photography and Instagram are well worth looking up – the layout of the pieces (in a room to the side of the stage) seemed too spacious and empty compared to other exhibitions around town. On the bright side, it was a great night to meet people. Members of the Speaker TV team were interviewing attendees and the team knew a lot about upcoming shows and the local music scene. Beyond that, the photographers and artists were walking around the venue, casually chatting to punters
or potential buyers (depends on how you look at it, really). From an industry and a social point of view, it was nice to interact with people who knew what they were doing in their own field of business. Music-wise, the line-up of My Elephant Ride, Breve and Flyying Colours, broken up by sets from DJ RKDA, weren’t too bad and fit in well with the overall feel of the event. Over the course of the three bands, there were all sorts of psychedelic sounds and projections shot throughout the gig hall, generating feelings of mystery and intrigue, which the event seemed to deserve. All in all, the event seemed like the beginnings of a great idea, though still only an approximation of a finished product. Should Citizens of the Streets continue and gain momentum, there’s no reason why the series won’t become a larger and respected night. That said, the hurdles of the location, timing and lack of attendees need to be addressed. BY THOMAS BRAND
LOVED: Meeting people around the venue. HATED: The weather. Getting sick of freezing already. DRANK: Coopers in a parking lot. What of it? CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU
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1. Cum The Raw Prawn LP/CD COSMIC PSYCHOS 2. Blind Melon + Sipping Time 2LP BLIND MELON 3. Game Of Thrones soundtrack LP RAM DJAWADI 4. Brando’s Island 7” BRANDO’S ISLAND 5. In Their Darkened Shrines 2LP NILE 6. Whoracle reissue CD/LP IN FLAMES 7. The Conjuring CD WO FAT 8. Smashes The State! 2CD ENEMY SOIL 9. Runaways CD KIM SALMON & SPENCER P. JONES 10. Madvillany LP MADVILLAIN
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1. Cum The Raw Prawn LP COSMIC PSYCHOS 2. Spirit Of The Airwaves LP RUSH 3. Promises Of Death LP BRIGHTER DEATH NOW 4. Beautiful Freak LP EELS 5. La Cucaracha LP WEEN 6. Electric Storm LP WHITE NOISE 7. Sweet Sour LP BAND OF SKULLS 8. The Conjuring LP WO FAT 9. Slatanic Slaughter LP VARIOUS ARTISTS 10. Live In America LP BLUE OYSTER CULT
BATPISS Biomass (Poison City)
I always love a good ten-track record, but I will forgive Batpiss for settling with just nine. Biomass follows up the band’s wildly thumbs-upped 2013 record Nuclear Winter with 40 minutes of grisly, bone-raw swing, punch and sting. The local trio pick up where they left off, while also moulding their already established sound into a more considered and winding beast ± which probably has something to do with the group’s enhanced ability to capture the sweat-and-swagger of their live shows on tape. The Store is a banging, flailing intro, which sets the tone pretty well, but keeps its hat on. Not long after, however, Batpiss pull their bootstraps up and really get thrashing with the cracker of a tune that is Daredevil. From there, the battering rarely lets up. Midway through, the absolutely punishing Orchard brings to mind departed Sydney underground rockers
Four Days In A Maze. That’s by no means a bad thing ± in fact it’s a nod to the ‘Piss’ own levels of grit, grind and groove. Biomass contains plenty of trudging, sonic behemothtype moments as well; the slow-burning Pulling Out feels like the band’s ‘take a breather’ song and this moment of respite leaves them rejuvenated in order to swing the throttle up and flay through one more banger; Waking Up at the Wheel. To be sure, Waking Up at the Wheel is the smoothest ride on the list by far, but it’s delivered with enough force to justify closing the album. From beginning to end, Biomass is one to enjoy loudly and mercilessly. BY MATT PANAG
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BY LACHLAN Jurassic World 2 plot should revolve around cloning Phil Lynott back to life and then it just turns into a Thin Lizzy concert movie. HIDEOUS TOWNS Heart Attack (Lost & Lonesome) Australia’s current batch of solid shoegaze talent tend to indulge in melody a touch more than the genre’s progenitors. Hideous Towns truly soar on Heart Attack, the vocal all but consuming the mix, which wouldn’t really work if those soaring melodies faltered in any way. But Heart Attack stands tall in its gazey majesty. DURAN DURAN FEAT. JANELLE MONAE & NILE RODGERS Pressure Off (Warner) So this was never going to live up to its all-star billing, but it’s still highly listenable modern Euro-pop. It’s emboldened by Sir Nile’s indelible licks, while both Duran Duran and Ms Monae are sold short by fairly lousy, if playful, lyrics, but manage to sell the package all the same. It reminds me of Giorgio Moroder and Kylie’s recent team-up, which came to life in the live setting ± but unfortunately all of Pressure Off’s cast will most likely never align in the one stadium. Still, the studio version is fun enough.
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ROBYN & LA BAGATELLE MAGIQUE FEAT. MALUCA Love Is Free (Konichiwa) Pop icon Robyn returns with a new project in La Bagatelle Magique, and the first taste is a glorious dancefloor banger that will pretty much evaporate your shirt and oil up your torso. Love is free, baby. CHET FAKER Bend (Future Classic) Chet Faker (real name Chad Faker) revels in some adventurous, and a little bit sleazy, production swank on Bend. It almost gets there for the most part, then finally everything congeals into a steamy, sticky payoff. It’s hypnotically good, and I think this marks the first time I’ve ever enjoyed a Chet Faker song. Keep up the good work Chad.
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Creep Heart (Milk!) One of the most solid, and fucken’ loudest, live bands in Melbourne return with a huge script-flip on Creep Heart, relaying some purified pop chants with only a hint of blown out fuzz bubbling underneath the surface. It’s unnervingly brilliant, the spritely infectiousness of it all compounded by the blatant stalker theme. A deranged little gem.
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1. The Travelling Kind EMMYLOU HARRIS AND RODNEY CROWELL 2. Magick Spells GATEWAY DRUGS 3. Billy Tea to Burgers ORIGAMI TRIO 4. Perpetual RYUICHI SAKAMOTO/ ILLUHA/ TAYLOR DEUPREE 5. Cold Hot Plumbs DAMAGED BUG 6. As We Were REFRACTION 7. Garagee II GARAGEE 8. Low Fidelity ROB SNARSKI 9. Fight/Flight WINTERPLAN 10. Go! Rebelle! THE REBELLES
RECORD PARADISE
VANCE JOY Great Summer (Atlantic) Fucking hell. This shart-laden disaster is nearly enough to make you wish for an Alex Lloyd comeback. Nearly.
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1. Cum the Raw Prawn COSMIC PSCHOS 2. Punters On a Barge SPRAY PAINT 3. Lantern HUDSON MOHAWKE 4. Algiers ALGIERS 5. Mutilator Defeated At Last THEE OH SEES 6. Freedom Tower THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION 7. Anyway IMMIGRANT UNION 8. I Don’t Want to Let You Down SHARON VAN ETTEN 9. In colour JAMIE XX 10. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
BEAT’S TOP TEN WOLF SONGS
1. Wolf Like Me TV ON THE RADIO 2. Hungry Like The Wolf DURAN DURAN 3. She Wolf SHAKIRA 4. Wolf TYLER, THE CREATOR 5. Ken the Wolf Boy MAC DEMARCO 6. Sparrow & The Wolf JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW 7. Someone’s In The Wolf QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE 8. Smokestack Lightnin’ HOWLIN’ WOLF 9. Wolf SYLVAN ESSO 10. A Wolf At the Door RADIOHEAD
ALBUMS New music in review this week - For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews
ARCANE SAINTS
I’LLS
DANIEL jOHNS
In the Shade of the Juniper
Can I Go With You To Go Back To My Country
Talk
(Independent)
(Eleven)
It’s often difficult to combine good, fun rock music with a forceful message, but Melbourne four-piece Arcane Saints have pulled it off on this six track EP. These guys aren’t re-inventing the wheel, but that’s hardly the point. They write vital, kick-arse rock’n’roll music that’s delivered with enough exuberance and passion to get you moving, grooving and singing along. Some of the lyrics that you’re singing along to are also quite thought provoking, especially on Faith of the Faithless, with its political, religious and environmental inferences. It’s good to hear a fun-times rock’n’roll band singing about something a little deeper than chicks and partying. There’s also some nice variety across the six tunes, ranging from the all-out, ballsy rock of Faith of the Faithless, to the grunge-oriented Streetlights & Symphonies, and the quiet, minimalist Cellophane Eyes. The latter shows off frontman Michael John’s sensitive side, which is a nice change from the all-or-nothing approach applied elsewhere. See You in the Summertime finishes things off by introducing a bluesier style, before bursting into a full throttle chorus. All up, In the Shade of the Juniper is a ripping effort from these Melbourne boys. It’s definitely worth a listen if you’re into any kind of catchy, high energy rock.
In moving on from Silverchair, Daniel Johns stepped out of the spotlight completely, relishing a seven-year hiatus. He retreated, recalibrated and, in the process, planned his re-emergence. Given the context, Johns’ first release as a solo artist makes perfect sense. Talk is an album both made by a recluse and fit for reclusive people. “I preach to the lonely,” Johns confirms in the bombastic, falsetto-flecked early album track Preach. Given its lengthy gestation, you’d be forgiven for hoping for more from Talk. “Now I dance to my own beat,” Johns declares proudly (again in Preach), and yet, on the contrary, Talk feels very much in vogue. Here’s the thing: it turns out that when you recruit Lorde’s producer Joel Little (who co-wrote a handful of tracks), you end up with an album that echoes Pure Heroine. No, not every artist has to reinvent the wheel with every release, but much of Talk feels so attainable elsewhere. Johns’ melodies sit just fine atop the electro-soul backdrops, but there’s so obviously a gem of a pop record bubbling beneath the surface ± album highlights We Are Golden and By Your Side illustrate as much. It’s frustrating that the record’s poppy streak goes largely unrealised. That said, things could have been much worse. We can be thankful that, in the tug of war between soulful and snore-inducing, the right side manages to win out, making Talk worthwhile, if a little familiar.
BY ROD WHITFIELD
BY NICK MASON
(Solitaire Recordings)
Listening to the new I’lls EP is like meditating beneath strobe lights. The electronic trio are in a league of their own, drawing from a background of jazz whilst employing tweaked synths and picked guitars. The latest in a succession of short-form releases, Can I Go With You To Go Back To My Country is an experimental success. Carried by the sombre vocals of Simon Lam, whose lyrics are often cloaked in heavy reverb, this six-track release is as mysterious as it is ambitious. Opening track Aves doesn’t give much away, but tracks two and three, A / B / A and Keep, bring added tempo and wistful melodies. Let Me Have Just One is the clear standout, which will appeal to anyone interested in afrobeat and swear words. There’s a lot to love about Substitutions as well, which sounds like holidaying in a place you’d never really go, like far Eastern Europe perhaps. In all, this EP is a massive chillsesh, and it’s only major failing is that none of the songs eclipse the four minute mark. BY jESSICA ANKOMAH
THE PINK TILES
OH MERCY
TIM ROGERS & THE BAMBOOS
Snax, Spirits and Classic Hits
When We Talk About Love
(Independent)
(EMI)
The Rules of Attraction (Atlantic)
After 2012’s bass-heavy, funk-fused Deep Heat, Alexander Gow retreats back to the pensive acoustic indie-pop that defined Oh Mercy’s earlier releases. Fourth album When We Talk About Love is stylistically closest to 2008 debut Privileged Woes, and the lyrics show Gow at his most personal. Sweeping strings accompany softly strummed tales of loneliness and heartbreak to emasculating effect. Let Me Be Him is a plea to be another man who might have a better shot with his object of affection, while the pained verses of Iron Cross climax with a defiant “I’m a man.” The opening track, Without You, is a sunny but sad affair that recalls Wild Nothing, and it’s quite the stunner. Gradually building without the need for a chorus, the song’s strength is in its simplicity. Meanwhile, that same simplicity hinders a handful of the album’s midtempo numbers; the repetitive hooks and lyrics on tracks like I Don’t Really Want To Know and If You Come Around Tonight make them accessible on first listen, but somewhat insubstantial on return visits. More successful are the gentle, aching ballads like Lady Eucalyptus, Iron Cross and Cool Water. The cathartic strength of these weepy wonders more than makes up for those moments when it all gets a bit beige. CHRIS GIRDLER
It’s been said that the most enjoyable books are those that the reader wishes they’d written themselves. In that context, The Pink Tiles write instant pop classics, for theirs are the songs we all wish we’d composed in those emotionally charged, creatively inspired moments in the bedroom of our adolescence. Picking up from where the band’s debut album left off, Snax, Spirits and Classic Hits is five songs of bubblegum pop glory. Replete with Farfisa organ and ‘60s girl group harmonies, Work It Out is the soundtrack for a work experience placement with the late, great and brilliantly eccentric songwriter/ producer/ manager Kim Fowley. The Boy I Love is a romantic lament for the ages; love is lost, and all that’s there to soften the blow is a stack of Motown records. Cut It Out! gets you up and out on the bedroom floor, with images of Ronnie Spector, The Go-Gos and Angie Pepper flooding your mind. Music Industry Event augments romantic obsession with a statement of political rebellion: you want us to look like that, but we won’t do it. It’s pithy, but significant, and if more bands took that attitude, maybe the music industry would be a better place. Finally, there’s Blue Rinse, a cheek-to-cheek slow dance at the end of the night, when love’s still there, but tomorrow will always be another day. The Pink Tiles’ pop party is over, and it’s been the best fun you’ve had in ages. PATRICK EMERY
Let’s be honest, when Tim Rogers and The Bamboos collaborated on the 2012 single I Got Burned, there was no way in hell that it would fail to be a hit. The wild extroverted rocker teaming up with the funkiest funk-soul band in the land? It’s not surprising the track was nominated for two ARIAs. When news came out recently that they were collaborating again for the album The Rules of Attraction, well, that right there is almost too much ‘yes’ to handle. Not surprisingly, with Rogers added to the creative process, there’s a bit of a departure from some of The Bamboos’ previous work. For one thing, this album is a lot more up-tempo than the album I Got Burned appeared on (2012’s Medicine Men), and it leans more towards pop and rock rather than soul. Tracks like Better off Alone and Now and Then sound a lot more Rogers than Bamboos, and opening track S.U.C.C.E.S.S introduces the album with an almost syrupy upbeat sound. But the title track brings some of that familiar funk and soul that’ll get you shuffling your shoulders, and then there’s Rogers’ duet with regular Bamboos vocalist Kylie Auldist, Did I Wake You? Wow. Calling it early: this will be one of the singles of 2015. The Bamboos know how to turn on a smooth groove. Add a dash of Tim Rogers, and you’ve got yourself some seriously funky tunes with some seriously fun lyrics. The Rules of Attraction has such a great energy and contains so many catchy tunes that it should be made compulsory listening at the start of everyone’s working week. It’ll make you smile more than a 20-day yoga intensive. EBEN ROjTER
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••alfi rocker Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm.
••bears + sporting + deloraine Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
••brain damage art show - feat: girl crazy
+ the girl fridas + cathouse canary Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00.
••crossfire hurricane + sunnyside trio +
water bear + dirty soul Toff In Town, Melbourne
fischer & stephen magnusson Open Studio,
Northcote. 8:00pm.
••the company of pianos iii - feat: tim stevens Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.
••the rookies The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••tim rogers & the bamboos Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $40.00.
••tom fryer band + kris wanders outfit 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.00.
••asher + luke & loz + the black harry’s
scrimshaw four + the teskey brothers + georgia spain + sienna thornton Tote Hotel,
••davey lane Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
••king puppy & the carnivore + the
Collingwood. 7:30pm.
••kodiak galaxy + villainettes +
bloodhounds on my trail + crimsonettes Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
••pockets Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $12.00.
••mandy connell trio + kelly menhennet Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
••margaret dennis Commercial Hotel, Morang South. 10:00am. $5.00.
••muddy’s blues roulette Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••open mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
••snark + one day maybe + once were lost +
••open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
satellites & stereos Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••stella collapse + purr + floods Grace Darling
••rebecca & billy’s sing-a-long St Kilda Memo, St
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
••open mic night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. Kilda. 7:00pm. $15.00.
GASOMETER’S 1ST BIRTHDAY
It’s already been a year since iconic Collingwood venue The Gasometer Hotel reopened it’s doors to the delight of local punters, and as year two swings around, it’s time to celebrate. The Gaso’s 1st Birthday kicks off this Sunday June 28 from 4pm, featuring Peter Bibby, Esther Rivers & Chris Goff, Twin Beasts, Elizabeth Barker, and headliners Sun God Replica, as well as DJs Tom and Shan sending the night out. Free fucking entry too. Come down and celebrate a year of great music at The Gaso.
••summon the birds + tarcutta Retreat Hotel,
••movement 9 Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
battle Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.
••the brunswick hotel’s open mic Brunswick
••press, play (declaration) Melbourne Recital
••alpine + darts + olympia Karova Lounge, Ballarat.
redro redriguez & his inner demons + dj mermaid Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00.
••tom dockray John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:00pm.
••rosenstein Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
••andy phillips & the cadillac walk Ormond
••sunday mondays + looks like rain + off to ••two headed dog + dr colossus + drifter +
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Brunswick. 7:30pm.
Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
••wine, whiskey, women - feat: jemma nicole
+ harmony james Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY JUNE 25
••dizzy’s big band - feat: peter hearne Dizzy’s
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
••merle street jazz band Ruby’s Music Room,
••5 seconds of summer Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.
••origami Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
••alpine + darts + olympia Barwon Club Hotel,
••starr-schulz & friends - feat: danny
••anna cordell + kevin murphy + greg steps
Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00. Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $17.50. $15.00.
Q&A
7:30pm. $91.65.
Geelong. 8:00pm. $23.50.
+ alannah eileen Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $7.00.
••arcane saints + elusive + past present + dj
mermaid Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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••shhor Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.
••soul in the basement - feat: jay power +
vince peach + pierre baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne
diecut + miles brown Public Bar, North Melbourne.
2:00pm.
8:30pm. $20.00.
Hall, Ormond. 8:00pm.
••calamity lane + the freezebeards + south
end Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.
••captain spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $12.50.
••chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
••steinway d piano series Ruby’s Music Room, ••the good egg thursdays - feat: henry who
+ tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.
7:00pm.
••the marlenes + balter vada + bristol cairo
+ deijah Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••the melbourne improvisers collective Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••tim rogers & the bamboos Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $40.00.
••timbalero thursdays La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd.
••back 2 reality - feat: passion pop + neil
••vivaldi’s four seasons - feat: dale barltrop
c & ness 1010 + yung brujo + seyance + goldencoco Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
You’re launching your new EP A Soldier’s Wife this Wednesday. Convince us to rock up. It kicks off with support from Karl Broadie, Danny Walsh and Jeff Tynan singing their songs in a songwriter in the round style. Then Delsinki Records play with a six-piece band. The guys I have playing have performed with the likes of Nuno Bettencourt, Ross Wilson and Suzi Demarchi, so they’re all really great musos to watch. This is your third EP over the last couple of years. Is that the format you prefer? Or are you working towards an album? We basically treat each tune as its own piece, so I find the EP format is good to be able to stay out there each year. It allows us to do videos for each song on the release. I find videos are one of the best tools for getting people to listen to your work. Delsinki Records is officially you (Craig Johnston) & Cameron McKenzie. Who else are you playing with at the moment? The full band live is Jeff Consi on drums, Gaz Thackrah and Dion Hirini on guitar, Ben Cripps on bass, and John Kendall on fiddle. Are the creative duties split between you and Cameron, or is there a definite leader? I’ll write a song and Cam will adjust, then we decide on what could be good for it and get in the musos. Cam does a lot of arranging and comes up with melodic parts for some of the instruments and sometimes he just lets the player go for it.
Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
••artist proof + tux + liam linley Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
Delsinki Records
8:30pm. $20.00.
9:30pm.
••crooked colours + torren foot + mickey
kojak Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••deep space supergroop + naked bodies +
monnone alone + del boca vista Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••disasters + removalist + yachtburner +
pagan Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••dj brat farrar Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••dr crask & his swingin’ elixir Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
9:00pm. $10.00.
••einsteins toyboys + cranked Musicland, Fawkner.
+ matthew tomkins Melbourne Recital Centre,
••elvis tribute show - feat: damien mullin Big
Southbank. 8:00pm. $85.00.
7:30pm. $10.00.
Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
••food court - feat: wod + dumb punts
& the pins + the jc little big band Spotted
••áine tyrrell - feat: aine tyrrell Toff In Town,
••get serious Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm.
••byo vinyl night Nevermind Bar, Hawthorn. 7:30pm.
••backstage blues night - feat: jump devils
••big band barbershop hop - feat: bobby Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $23.00.
••dada ono + fierce mild + the submarines +
patra kay Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $8.00. ••elk & mammoth + sweet gold + cinema 6
Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
+ the shake shack boogie band + dj barry maxwell Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. ••brendan lloyd & michael crowe Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.
••club catty - feat: atlas + baby blue + kate
Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.
alexander Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. ••emmylou harris & rodney crowell Palais
••nafasi + owen rabbit & dcoi Hugs & Kisses, ••old bar stage benefit - feat: ‘personal
space invaders’ + deep heat + eaten by dogs + pitt the elder Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00. ••orange + taipan tiger girls + polo Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
••riot! riot! riot! - feat: pridelands + atlantic
+ abreact + the evercold Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••rock for the reef - feat: kill dirty youth +
a basket of mammoths + mosey jokes Public
Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $109.00.
••hayley teal + joel creasey Cellar Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20.00.
••kickin’ the b at 303 hammond sessions -
feat: spectrum 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10.00.
••monica weightman band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
••nick anderson Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm.
••tesla cøils + sasha çuha + audioblivion Club Voltaire, North Melbourne. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••box hill institute presents... Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
••gumbo club - feat: pugsley buzzard Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
••jazzaoke - feat: mordialloc jazz
Belgrave. 8:00pm.
••small hour songs - feat: alex hamilton +
domini forster + sean m whelan The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••the flyin’ o so high-o’s Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.
••van walker & shane reilly Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.
••waco social club Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
••whole lotta blues - feat: the andy layfield
sound + brendan forward Whole Lotta Love,
Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY JUNE 26
orchestra Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
various artists The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
••3cr burning vinyl live broadcast - feat:
••minton’s playhouse sessions - feat:
Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
••king of the north + sheriff + dj max
crawdaddy + laurence r. harvey Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
••kings & queens + the soulenikoes +
quarterdrive + numerator + sunslave + faded revolution Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $14.00.
••la danse macabre - feat: brunswick
massive resident djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
9:00pm.
••max goes to hollywood The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.
••middle street Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
••slim dime & the prairie kings Sooki Lounge,
Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 7:00pm.
$10.00.
••hey hey it’s friday - feat: astro boys Royal
••rugcutters Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm.
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
ellen-rose Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $15.00. ••strumarama - feat: rachel by the stream
tongue numbers Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm.
••melbourne backline first birthday - feat:
••open mic nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.
••sisters doll + kiss the vyper + wild violet +
••gonzovillian + worm crown + fierce mild +
••open mic Station 59, Richmond. 8:00pm.
Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10.00.
••run rabbit run + dreamcoat + mirando Evelyn
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
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yah yah’s djs Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••motioner + once were wild + winterplan +
99 problemz + no name nath + hyperfokus Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••old bar stage benefit - feat: twin beasts +
cherrywood + midnight woolf + bad vision + bj morriszonkle + water music Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.
••red door Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm.
••retromax Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
••rock ‘n’ rolla #3 - feat: the cherry dolls +
the eighty 88s + millar juke & the bandits + sam krieger + dj dan watt Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm.
••rockabilly rage - feat: infernos + rumblin’
wolf + flyin’ saucers Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
8:00pm. $15.00.
••shock waves + stompbox + red motors Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
••sleazy listening - feat: arks + richard
kelly + hysteric + k.hoop Toff In Town, Melbourne
Cbd. 6:00pm.
••state champs + forever ends here +
sidelines Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $30.00.
••stonefield The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $20.00.
••stonefox + when we were small + young
vincent Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.
••swhat + dixon cider + the shorts The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••the cannanes + the uv race + moon ritual +
the shifters Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00.
••the desert sea + ten cent pistols + twin
ages + tillerman pete Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••the kite string tangle & dustin tebbutt 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
••the suicide tuesdays + where’s grover +
tzatziki party Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
TOTALLY MILD
Totally Mild have been blowing up ever since last month’s Down Time album launch at The Curtin sold out. And deservedly so. The launch gig was killer, and so is the album, which has been getting some attention from international press as of late. To say sorry to the fans who missed out last time, and to thank those who made it a success, Totally Mild are coming back to The Curtin for an encore album launch on Friday June 26. Free entry too.
SATURDAY JUNE 27
8:00pm. $5.00.
••title fight Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $33.00.
••totally mild + sui et sui + philippa omega +
waterfall person John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••a spoonful of sugar Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
••acapulco nights disco The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••clotilde & alexandre Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $38.00.
••concert for nepal - feat: saroj rana &
keshav khatiwoda + the guilts + frank jones + high street bells choir + jenny taylor + sarah mandie + greg spencer Thornbury Bowls Club, Thornbury. 2:30pm. $15.00.
••craig schneider trio Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
••dana czarski & nicolai sanadze Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
••daveys fridays - feat: disco dave thornton Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 9:00pm. $10.00.
••diggin’ the slowness - feat: miss goldie
+ daniel harvey + dave wickerson Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
••fats wah wah Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
••los dominados + plyers + hoarse + 100 acre
woods Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. ••noria letts quintet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.00.
••rigidy rourke & the love dogs + the ivory
elephant The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
••songbirds + dannielle deandrea + gaby
moreno + erica canales Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.
••southside soul - feat: lady soul + big daddy
warbucks + dj miss honey Kingston City Hall,
Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $5.00.
••tango mundo Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $17.50.
••tek tek Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
••tim rogers & the bamboos Torquay Hotel, Torquay. 8:00pm.
••traditional irish music session Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
••what the funk fridays Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ••8 eyez, round 3 + 8 eyez + round 3 Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.
••anna o + rkda Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00. ••chris wilson & shane o’mara Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.
••david cosma Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. ••finishing school Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:30pm. ••howqua Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••melody pool + hannah robinson Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
••songs from the middle - feat: eddie perfect Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $45.00.
••spencer p jones Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. ••steve lucas Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:30pm. ••the music of james taylor - feat: sun on
the moon band Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick.
8:00pm. $23.00.
••the royal jellies Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. ••the wild comforts Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
••tobias hengeveld + dj jeff leppard Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
••tracy mcneil & the goodlife + murdena Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••zerafina zara & the alleged associates Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••5 degrees of distortion - feat: stronger
than all + seattle anthems + raging in the machine Central Club Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $15.00. ••alpine + pearls + olympia Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $44.00.
••athena’s wake + the arbiter + architects
of evolution + the hazard circular Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••bang - feat: d at sea + admit one + kids in
control Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
••black dog + two headed dog + little miss
remembering + dj mermaid Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.
••brunny saturday arvo sessions - feat:
shane diiorio band Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
5:00pm.
••ceres + the pretty littles + sincerely
grizzly + oslow + the flying so high-os Tote
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••clowns + poppin’ mommas + crossed +
summer blood Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••decimatus + envenomed + damnations day
+ daemon pyre + toxicon Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
THE OLD BAR STAGE BENEFIT extravaganza
The Old Bar needs some cash to bump the stage and PA up to scratch, so they’ve called what looks like every band that’s ever played there for their massive three day long benefit gig. Personal Space Invaders, Deep Heat, Eaten By Dogs and Pitt The Elder kick things off on Thursday June 25, with 21 bands in total set to play before things wrap up on Saturday. Support the local scene, this Thursday at The Old Bar from 7.30pm.
bastard squad + wolfpack + cabin fever + liquor snatch + nma + ferocious chode + stoned to death Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. ••roadhouse - feat: minnie me Mr Boogie Man Bar,
Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.
••wod + tomb hanx Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
••america do sul ft. jacqueline gawler Paris
Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
••cairo club orchestra Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
••saturdays r covered - feat: radio star Royal ••spoonful Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••spray paint + ausmuteants + cuntz + exek John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $24.00.
••the bitter sweethearts + black aces +
super saloon Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••the cannanes + the uv race + the stevens Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10.00.
••title fight + paper arms + apart from this Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 2:00pm. $33.00.
••too soon! + super best friends + foley! +
del lagom meezer + not brad pitt Public Bar,
North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.
••tourist dollars + bj morriszonkle + did
you eat me Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
••ulcerate + denouncement pyre + altars
Q&A
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
9:30pm.
••citrus jam + malcura + men imitating
machines + erik parker + anthony de masi Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
••clotilde & alexandre Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $38.00.
••dancehall throwback - feat: jesse i +
ras crucial + stryka d + sista itations + ranking yoni Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••dr crask The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••floyd thursby & eliza chansons Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.
••heather stewart sings billie holiday Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
••james sherlock trio Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
••jazzur latin jazz & funk Vamos, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.
Q&A
7:30pm. $15.00.
••dual carnage - feat: whoretopsy + beyond
mortal dreams + iconic vivisect + explused + internal nightmare + obsidian aspect + headless + seminal embalment + blunt shovel + blood covered shovel + wounded pig + behold the defiant + putrescent + seepage Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $20.00. ••eddie skiba + holy trash + chasing alice + dj leopard Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00. ••eyes wide open + left for wolves + hideaway Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $6.00. ••geelong punk rock round 2 - feat: wot rot + the half pints + the louds + in the esky Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. $5.00.
••i am mine + the crookeds + twin ages +
vision st Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••john kendall & the shot glasses Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
••joshua seymour + jim lawrie + ramblin’
van walker trio + palm springs Toff In Town,
Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.00.
••juke box racket Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ••junes Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. ••karaoke with zoe Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm.
••kiss alive 40th anniversary celebration -
feat: cold gin + the ugly kings + mc james young + dj max crawdaddy Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 7:30pm. $25.00.
••last dinosaurs + i know leopard + reika Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
••lonely rider Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
••magic bones + the deloraines + glass skies
+ obliveus + d’fro + matt rad Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
••melbourne city ska collective Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 2:00pm.
••old bar stage benefit - feat: the shabbab +
river of snakes + pussy xxx + grindhouse + mutton + tankerville + all the weathers + ninety nine duo + lucy wilson + yoko bono + leah senior Old Bar, Fitzroy. 2:30pm. $10.00. ••punks for west papua benefit show - feat:
I Am Mine
Define your genre in five words or less: Hard rock, alternative, stoner, blues. How long have you been gigging and writing? Two years now, it’s been good fun so far. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? The best show to date was at The Retreat Hotel in April. Great crowd, great set, great bands, and great beers to go along with it. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? We’d love to take on Prymal, ‘cause we’d probably just end up ditching the battle and start playing covers together from our favourite bands, then sit down to a few beers and talk shit all night. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? The bands that we’ve watched move out from the local scene and are now thriving in either Europe or the US are all bands that put on ridiculously amazing live performances and make themselves stand out from the bunch. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? Our 2014 single Sold Out and our 2013 self-titled EP are available on Bandcamp. All physical copies are available at our shows. Why should everyone come and see your band? For our distinctive sound that works to stand out from the crowd, with a presence and energy to match some crazy hard hitting drums, power riffs and intensely emotional yet raw vocals. Catch I AM MINE at The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday June 27 with The Crookeds, Twin Ages and Vision St.
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The Desert Sea
Define your genre in five words or less: Grungey blues-rock. 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? Hopefully they are so enticed by our music that they don’t want to miss another second so they brush going to the bar and just yell at their friend to “Get over here and rock out.” What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? We’ve supported great acts like Ash Grunwald, Jebediah and Sticky Fingers, which were all amazing. In the end it doesn’t matter if the gig is big or small, headline or support, what really makes the gig memorable is the crowd and the way they interact with you as a band. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Foo Fighters or Queens Of The Stone Age. It’s unlikely you’re going to win the battle against the likes of those guys, but the exposure would be incomparable and you’d get to see some of your favourite bands up close. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? We have just released our debut Oceanic EP and it’s available for purchase on iTunes. Why should everyone come and see your band? Because we hand out wads of cash at the end of our show. You have to be there at the start of the set and stay till the very end to get your cut though. Catch THE DESERT SEA on Friday June 26 at The Brunswick Hotel. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 41
GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
THE PUSH PRESENT
ACCESS ALL AGES
For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au • massive The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
• mojo juju Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20.00. • phila para Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. • pique + junki 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• roger clark quartet w/ sarah maclaine Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• shelley segal Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.
• the songbirds St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $23.00.
• the wikimen Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• vivaldi’s four seasons - feat: dale barltrop
+ matthew tomkins Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $85.00.
guns + sheriff + green tin Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
$6.00.
• byo vinyl sunday session Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 4:00pm.
• cherry blues - feat: chris wilson & band
+ dj max crawdaddy Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
2:00pm. $5.00.
• city sharps + new age + the missing piece Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
• dallas & mickeyd Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• devvo times + 3 boys & a fire + michael
james kugel Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• don hillman’s secret beach Warrandyte Rsl,
• bo jenkins Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• freak & the fat cats - feat: elk & mammoth
• chris wilson & shane o’mara Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.
• dan warner band Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • harts Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00.
• howqua The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.
• kraken folk session Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
Warrandyte. 4:00pm.
+ yasin leflef + jade alice Bendigo Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• from oslo + dear thieves + oscar galt &
the eventual somethings Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Cbd. 8:30pm.
• jester + dario & elise + sporadic children +
• rick hart & the sweet addictions Retreat
saint henry Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. • minimum wage - feat: t.v. + all the weathers + jarrow Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm. • oxygen music college presents - feat: elasticalpaca Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • sunday best - feat: tom showtime + agent 86 + maars Penny Black, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • the detonators Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.
• shannon bourne band Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
• the gas 1st birthday - feat: sun god replica
3:00pm.
• louis baker Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • mallee songs Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. • moosejaw rifle club Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
• penny iklinger + andrew mccubbin Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 5:00pm.
Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
9:30pm.
• stevie & the sleepers + the scrimshaw
four Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. • the scouts + the nitty gritty + dj adalita Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
SUNDAY JUNE 28
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 2015 bach competition - feat: various
artists Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 3:00pm. • all day fritz Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. • glasfrosch + oolluu + yum yum cult Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• janet ross-fahy Milanos Tavern, Brighton. 1:30pm. • jawa pitu Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• moreland soul revue Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• musical theatre open mic night Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.50.
• nadav Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 1:00pm.
• refraction Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $18.00. • solstice Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $15.00.
• tamandua band + dj manchild Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $15.00.
• the retreat sunday soul session - feat: zoe
k + karate boogaloo + dj musicman Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • airway lanes Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.
• bad visions + dumb punts + cosmic kahuna John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.
• band wars quarter finals 2 - feat: various
artists Musicland, Fawkner. 1:00pm. $10.00.
2:30pm.
+ twin beasts + esther rivers w/ chris goff + peter bibby + elizabeth barker Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
• the glorious north Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • the hypnotic + wallace + pvblo Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.
• the rusty terminals Carters Bar, Northcote. 5:00pm. • thomy sloane presents... Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
• unsealed road Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • wilson & white - feat: troy wilson &
matthew white Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • aleyce simmonds + barb waters trio Drunken
• dana czarski & nicolai sanadze Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • godwolf + nicholas costello + parks
department Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $3.00.
• gorsha + the shabbab + shiny joe ryan +
chief richards Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• maddawg mondays - feat: t-rek Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
• mundane mondays - feat: nun of the
tongue + girl fridas + hooper crescent + crotchety knitwits + the rats Old Bar, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
• narrows + matthew kenneally Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm.
• paul williamson’s hammond combo Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • broadway unplugged - feat: gillian
cosgriff Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00.
• mary ann van der horst Altona Bowling Club, Altona. 3:00pm.
• the mutual appreciation society - feat:
duncan graham & guy parkman Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
TUESDAY JUNE 30
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
honkies + melbourne city ska collective
• disturbing experiences - feat: perfect skin
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $8.00.
• brent parlane band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
We hope you’ve been having fun supporting your buddies or playing with your own band at your local FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands. The heats are still in full swing and we send all our luck and good wishes if you’re a competitor. If you’re interested in a career in the music or event industry, check out our free training summits which kick off early next week. The first Push FReeZA Summit is happening on Tuesday June 30 in Traralgon and there will be a range of music industry professionals taking sessions throughout the day. The summits will then hit Ballarat on July 7 and Fitzroy on July 9. Speakers include Wil Wagner (The Smith Street Band), Ash Sambrooks (Higher Plains), Steve Nichols (Spinning Half ), Josie Smart (SYN Media), Phil Pandongan (Yung Philly, The Push) and DJ Rellik talking across a variety of topics. The summits are free and open for anyone to attend. All you have to do is register by this Friday at www.thepush.com.au. If you’re a fan of the classics, or just a fan of Slowdive, Pitchfork has released a fifty minute documentary on the band and their 1993 magnum opus Souvlaki. The film follows the band as they come up in the flourishing Thames Valley shoegaze scene and chronicles the making of the album. It features interviews with all of the band members as well as Creation Records’ Alan McGee, producer Chris Hufford, and engineer Ed Buller. Jump on to www.pitchfork.com to have a watch. The David Bowie Is exhibition will open at ACMI on July 16. Featuring over 50 legendary costumes, original stage set designs, handwritten lyric sheets, album artwork, rare film, video and photographs and interviews, the exhibition showcases Bowie’s impact as a performer and fashion guru. A full price ticket is $25 while concessions are $19 and $15 for children under 15. Visit tickets.acmi.net.au to grab some tickets and see this gorgeous, rare exhibition. If you’re looking for something to cheer you up, Mac DeMarco shared a voiceover ‘travel video’ on Twitter the other day featuring him in Israel in the Dead Sea caked in black mud. Look up “Too dry dudes” on Youtube. Trust me, guys. Kurt Vile has announced a new album called B’lieve I’m Goin Down. We don’t know when it’s going to be released, but apparently some time in our spring, and we’re darn excited. If you get on Youtube you can also watch a one minute video featuring behind-the-scenes footage from recording sessions for the new LP. Remember, if you’ve been to any ace gigs or listened to some music you think is something special, write a review and send it to us here at The Push. Email your best work to push@thepush.com.au.
nazrod Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
ALL AGES GIG GUIDE
+ military position + hyperspace vision
FRIDAy JuNE 26
Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
Footscray. 3:00pm.
• wanton shillelaghs Open Studio, Northcote.
Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• UnMute at EV’s Youth Centre, 212 Mt Dandenong Rd, 7pm - 11pm, $5, www. maroondahyouthservices.com, AA. • Jam Sesh ± open to any young musicians at Southern Peninsula Arts Centre, 245 Eastbourne Rd, Rosebud, 6pm - 8pm, Free, www.facebook. com/impaktfreeza, AA. • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Darebin Heat w/ local performers at Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote, www. facebook.com/darebinfreeza, AA. • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Dandenong Heat w/ local performers at The Castle, Dandenong, www.facebook.com/ cgdnightlightsounds, AA. • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Stonnington Heat w/ local performers at The Space Dance and Arts Centre, 318 Chapel St, Prahran, www.facebook.com/ SoundslikeProductions, AA.
• patrick wilson & the bare river queens +
SATuRDAy JuNE 27
5:30pm.
• dave graney & the mistly Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
• poly + tv + coastbusters Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.
• deer prudence + dave stevens + the bean
• tuesdays are fridays Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
project 303, Northcote. 6:00pm. • elwood blues club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .
• van nostrum + the creeping bam Workers Club,
8:00pm.
• great love + heloise + lisa crawley Evelyn
4:00pm.
Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• guiprabio Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• irish session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
• jack howard & the long lost brothers • jam at musicland sundays - feat: jameoke Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
• jess locke band + gonzovillain + lehmann
b smith + the flying so high-os Reverence Hotel,
• michael meeking & the lost souls Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• midnight creep Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
• sunday sessions - feat: various artists Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
• the bona fide travellers Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy
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Pennsylvania’s emo darlings Title Fight are in town this week, touring to support their critically acclaimed album Hyperview, out earlier this year. Title Fight haven’t played in Melbourne since 2013, and with no guarantees of a follow up tour, fans should latch on to this. They’ll be playing at The Reverence Hotel on Saturday June 27, along with Paper Arms and Apart From This. Friendly reminder that this is an All Ages gig, so no drugs, alcohol or passouts.
• animal hands + spacejunk + fortress of
• kerri simpson Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.
GARAGE SALE. 3x5m slab of concrete surrounded by brick walls. Includes one roller door with dodgy remote control. Vehicle not included. If interested please contact badpunsrgood@lolzalicious.com
TITLE FIGHT
Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• big seal & the slippery few + the screamin’
• ken maher + al wright & tony hargreaves
BANDS/ACTS WANTED for the Melbourne Artist Showdown. Including prizes from ESP Guitars, Dean Markley Strings, Live Photos, Studio time, PR Package and more. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic. com.au for more details.
WITH JESS ZANONI
• beersoaked sundays - feat: mightiest of
North. 5:00pm.
• the drunken poachers Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 5:00pm.
• wilson & white Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
MONDAY JUNE 29
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
$12.50.
• peter voglis Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
• richmond music acdemy - feat: various
artists Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 6:30pm. $9.00.
8:30pm.
deer prudence Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • sun on the moon (the music of james taylor) - feat: gavin pearce + darryn farrugia + dan conway + damon grant + phil turcio + luke howard + dave palmer + shane gillard + ed fairlie + sandi pearce + haydn meggitt Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $23.00. • tago mago open mic Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. • taste of indie tuesday - feat: bob crain + marlene samson + paul snowden Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• b3 breakout 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV
• FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Banyule Heat w/ Local Performers at Macleod YMCA, 157 Wungan St, Macleod, 5pm - 9pm, $10, www. facebook.com/JetsFReeZA, AA. • Freeza Push Start Battle of the Bands, Frankston Heat 2 w/ local performers at Mechanics Hall, Frankston, 6pm, $10, www.facebook.com/ freshentertainment.frankston, AA. MoNDAy JuNE 29 • Bribry w/ Dodie Clark at Wrangler Studio, 8C Whitely Parade, West Footscray, 6pm, $23.50, tickets.oztix.com.au/, AA.
Wed 24th June
W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: Jemma Nicole 9pm: Harmony James Thurs 25th June
Brendan Lloyd 9pm: Michael Crowe 8pm:
Fri 26th June
6pm: Traditional Irish Session
David Cosma Sat 27th June 3pm: Kraken Folk Session 8:30pm:
9pm:
Moosejaw Rifle Club Sun 28th june
Barb Waters Trio 6.30pm: Aleyce Simmonds 4pm:
Tuesdays
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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
With Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm
CROXTON PARK HOTEL TO RELAUNCH AS MAJOR LIVE VENUE?
Rumours are that the Croxton Park Hotel – on High Street in Northcote/ Thornbury – is being revived as a major venue. A deal has apparently been struck with a promoter associated with one of the city’s best known venues to relaunch it in mid-spring as a regular place to see top and rising acts. The Crox was one of the city’s hottest spots in the 1970s, where the likes of Skyhooks, Cold Chisel, Rose Tattoo and Little River Band would play.
AUSSIE INDIES PISSED WITH APPLE MUSIC
The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) is pissed that Apple Music included a clause in its contracts regarding indie acts around the world. They receive no royalty payments during the free three month trial. It told members it does not endorse the clause, saying, “The speed at which Apple has introduced their plans and its lack of consultation with the independent music sector over deal terms has left us with the uneasy feeling that independents are being railroaded into an agreement that could have serious short-term consequences for our members’ interests.” It says it is detrimental to a label which sells or streams most of its new releases in the first three months. Indie bodies from the US (A2IM), Canada (CIMA), UK (Merlin, AIM), Germany (VUT) and France (UPFI) also expressed anger. Apple threatened to drop indie music from its catalogue.
CASSETTE STORE DAY HEADS TO AUSTRALIA The global Cassette Store Day returns for a third year on October 22. Founded by UK indies Suplex Cassettes, Kissability, and Sexbeat in 2013, last year’s Cassette Store Day saw Burger Records coordinating US releases and events. This year they are joined by Sydney’s Rice Is Nice for Australia, Arch Hill in New Zealand, and Mansions and Millions in Germany. Applications to be a part of Cassette Store Day will open for events, shops and labels on July 11 at Rice Is Nice’s website and close on September 1. It will be free to list your store or event, with a small admin fee of $5 for labels looking to list an official release
BRIT MUSIC TOURISTS WORTH $4.8B, DRAWS 9.5M
Foreigners visiting Britain to attend music events are big business. Last year, 9.5 million “music tourists” generated £3.1 billion (A$6.25 billion) to the UK economy. According to the Wish You Were Here
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2015 report by trade body UK Music, attendance was a 39% rise from 2010. Each spent an average of £751 or A$1514 (up 13%) and helped maintain 38,238 full time jobs, a 57% increase from 2012. Of the 9.5 million, over 500,000 specifically attended a gig or a festival. Up to 41% of the crowd at any major festival are made up of foreigners.
He will be repped by Aidan and Rhett McLaren and new UNIFIED recruit Joe Miles. He just returned from London – where he was playing guitar for fellow Adelaide artist Jesse Davidson – with the first recordings of his debut album. He’s playing Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide behind his Flux EP and off to NZ for his first tour there.
VICTORIAN NAMES SCORE NEW OZCO GRANTS
BID TO BAN TYLER, THE CREATOR FROM AUSTRALIA
13 Victorian acts and organisations landed themselves new Australia Council grants worth $9.1 million. 273 projects were supported, 20% of them from firsttimers, and 20% from regional areas. Those from this state included Triple R ($80,000), Remi ($20,000), Ecca Vandal ($17,500), Ballarat’s Slow Music Festival ($28,685), Luluc ($25,000), Mia Dyson ($13,415), Katy Abbott ($21, 730), Australian Art Orchestra ($40,000), Charles Jenkins ($15,000) and Speak Percussion ($24,304).
DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST RETURNS
This year Darebin Music Feast returns from October 23 till November 1 with 100 events over ten days in ten venues celebrating the area. Events include the songwriters awards, the day-long Hello Sunday at the Northcote Town Hall on Oct 25, the Shop Talk program of seminars and workshops, and the chance to re-visit local venues as part of the Local Venue Shows. All details at musicfeast.com.au.
NORTHTONE LAUNCH
New Melbourne label Northtone Records, “founded by a love for creating beautiful music and run in a close-knit family-esque nature”, officially launches at the Evelyn Hotel on Sunday July 12. Showcased are soul act Revival Nona, Melbourne jazz lounge Sweeps and singer/ songwriter Sean Marchetti.
THINGS WE HEAR
• Which punk/ metal band got locked out of a studio – non-payment or bad behaviour?
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Catch JESTER launching their new single Jane on Sunday June 28 at the Workers Club with support from Saint Henry, Sporadic Children and Aries.
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BARNETT, GIZZARD, UP FOR BEST LIVE AWARD
Melbourne acts Courtney Barnett and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are among the 56 nominated independent acts up for Best Live Act at the AIM (Association of Independent Music) Awards in London. The 56 come from all around the UK, Europe, US and Canada. The two Melbourne names – the only Australian acts included – are up against the likes of alt-J, FKA Twigs, Belle & Sebastian, Run the Jewels, Swans, Erasure, Django Django, Drenge, Jack White, The Prodigy, The War On Drugs, Enter Shikari and Papa Roach. The award is voted for via Songkick, where the online form is hosted in a blog post at http://bitly.com/bestliveact2015. Voting ends June 29, awards are Sept 6.
TROUBADOUR MUSIC TURNS 10
As part of its 10th anniversary, Troubadour Music hosts a shindig on Sunday July 5 at the Prince Bandroom, which features Scottish folk act Gary Og and fast emerging Ryan Sheridan from Ireland.\
VACANCY AT TRIPLE R
• 24 hours after being hospitalised with burns after a London stage accident, was 5 Seconds of Summer’s Michael Clifford partying at Prince Harry’s fave hotspot, Mahiki in Mayfair?
Triple R is looking for a Sponsorship Coordinator for six months, to find new sponsors and manage existing ones. You need experience in a sales or marketing role, organisational skills and experience with Microsoft Word and Excel, while desirable is extensive knowledge of community radio, the music and arts sector and experience in other roles in the media. Contact Gemma Noble for a full position description (gemman@rrr.org.au). Deadline is Monday June 29.
• Did Prince and Stevie Wonder perform a private gig at the White House for President Obama?
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• Which band are quietly trying to stop an ex-member from playing their hits?
• The Imperial Hotel in Sydney’s Erskineville was closed for 72 hours on the weekend by police who allege bar staff were taking E while serving booze to patrons. Authorities point the finger at Spice Group International, which moved the Spice Cellar dance club from Martin Place to the hotel in late April. • Perth is the fourth city to get the Reclink Community Cup. On Sunday August 30, musicians (Bandgropers) and community media (Newshounds) go up against each other AFL-style at Steel Blue Oval in Bassendean.
Define your genre in five words or less: Pop rock and/ or roll What can a punter expect from your live show? Midget jokes, a rap medley and a drunk bass player Describe the worst gig you have ever played. We were playing a show without Reuben as a fourpiece and Patty had recently put new strings on his guitar so was tuning a lot. Right before our set he did a last minute tune on stage using Elise’s crappy tuner that tuned him down a whole tone so the first song was very interesting. We laugh now but it was horrible. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Probably Reuben from Jester because he’s never at practise. Haha, only kidding. Where would you like to be in five years? Backstage at Rod Laver Arena demanding ridiculous rider items like a petting zoo and 10 kilos of Jilla Mints.
Activist group Collective Shout has written to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to stop US rapper Tyler, The Creator from touring Australia in September. It battles media content that it sees as misogynistic and encouraging violence against women. It tried to stop his 2013 visit as well, and Snoop Dogg last year.
• A 42-year old US man who spent $5000 to get 29 Miley Cyrus-inspired tatts is getting rid of them (including one of her face) after Miley called them “ugly” and “creepy” in an interview. • A row broke out in Bendigo over the new Ulumbarra Theatre project. Payments by the main builder to sub-contractors have been slow, leading to one of them, Kaizen Fire Protection, being owed $130,000, telling the Bendigo Advertiser he might have to go into liquidation this month as a result. • The Country Music Association of Australia is polling members to see if New Zealand names can also be included in its Golden Guitar awards. So far two thirds think it’s OK. • Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke let it slip he’s playing Laneway in 2016. • The Veronicas had to scrap a US tour due to begin on the weekend after members of their band couldn’t get work visas due to a “technical malfunction” at US Immigration Department.
WAU TAKES ON TIMBERWOLF MANAGEMENT
Adelaide folk singer Timberwolf signed to Melbourne’s WAU Management, home to REMI, The Kite String Tangle, Violent Soho and Vance Joy.
The Francis Leach-hosted Presentation Night pub talk show returns to the Corner Hotel on Sunday August 16. Sports-loving musician Dave Graney and commentator Dennis Cometti discuss music, football, careers and life.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR THE SEED FUND
In its 11th year, The Seed Fund has opened applications to support emerging musicians, artists and arts workers via grants and workshops. Deadline is July 31. Go to www.theseedfund.org. This year its successful (and life-changing, many recipients say) Management Workshop is held in Melbourne, in October. An inaugural fundraising gig and music industry soiree is due to be held in the same month. A Pozible campaign is set to run for the month of September. The grants cover helping out managers if they are not earning while they are setting up a tour or album release; recoding artists to cut a track; the management workshop for 25; funding for mentors for a three day indigenous music workshop in the NT; and new instruments for asylum seekers.
AUDIOPAXX & KOSHER JOIN FORCES
Kosher agency has taken on fellow-Sydney agency Audiopaxx’s bookings while it refocuses on management. Kosher managing director and head agent Jon Debeere are “looking to the future in building one of Australasia’s strongest talent agencies.” Kosher grew out of tour firm Leibowitz & Weinberg and signed Dutch producer GANZ, electro pop act Chela and beat-maker Chiefs. After a merger with Swerve Productions in June 2012, Audiopaxx moved from events to artist bookings, international tours (Klingande, Zeds Dead) and corporate activations (Microsoft, Red Bull). Acts managed included Carmada and Just A Gent.
UNIVERSAL WINS CASE OVER MODULAR’S PAV
Universal Music Australia has won its Supreme Court
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LIFELINES Expecting: Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders and fiancée Breana McDow (the model appeared in three of their videos), their first child. Hospitalised: Sydney metal band Northlane singer Marcus Bridge needed surgery in Germany for an unspecified medical problem, which caused them to blow out some European festivals. Ill: Belgian electro pop artist Stromae cancelled all live shows until August apparently due to “serious” secondary effect linked to a treatment against malaria picked up in Africa. Ill: US comedy team Cheech & Chong cancelled their Australian tour because Tommy Chong has rectal cancer. Injured: Pierce The Veil guitarist Tony Perry ended with 3 broken ribs, a torn shoulder, collapsed lung and a broken sternum from a mountain biking accident. Hospitalised: Of Mice & Men frontman Austin Carlile from a cardiac issue related to Marfan syndrome. Hospitalised: George Michael reportedly entered a rehab in Switzerland for substance abuse (i.e. 25 joints a day). Ill: Supersuckers’ Eddie Spaghetti diagnosed with cancer in his throat. Sued: Beyoncé for $7 million by her backing singer Javon for allegedly stealing from his song XOXO for her XO on her 2013 album. In Court: Courtney Love is trying to stop the release of a documentary called Soaked In Bleach, which claims it is “a compelling case” to re-open investigations into Kurt Cobain’s death. In Court: Justin Bieber’s former bodyguard Hugo Hesny sentenced to 45 days in jail after stealing a photographer’s camera in Atlanta last year. In Court: a US appeals court has reinstated a $10 million lawsuit which claims that Justin Bieber and Usher’s Somebody To Love copied parts of a song of the same name written by two Virginia songwriters Devin Copeland and Maerio Overton. A judge last year said the songs were not similar enough. The appeals court had another listen and said they were. In Court: Monster Energy drink have to pay the Beastie Boys $668,000 in legal fees after the band won their claim that copyright had been infringed when their songs were used in a video.
case against former Modular Recordings co-owner Stephen Pavlovic. Late last year it had terminated his employment and emailed him four settlement deeds. Pav decided not to sign the final and fourth deed saying the agreement was null and void after his separation from Modular Recordings.
ANTONY DONATES FEE TO WA ABORIGINAL CAUSE
Antony donated her fees from Antony and The Johnsons’ two shows last week with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at Dark Mofo festival to the Conservation Council of WA. It is inspired by her concerns for the Martu people in Parnngurr, in WA’s Pilbara region, who live near where multi-nationals are digging for uranium. In late 2013, she and Sydney media artist Lynette Wallworth spent time in the community creating multimedia footage for an installation at the Adelaide Biennial and says, “It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. The wisdom and radiance of these people is humbling.”
SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND
The Gasometer in Collingwood hosts two Songwriters in the Round sessions on July 7 and 14 as part of Leaps & Bounds and presented by APRA AMCOS. Names such as Monique Brumby, Charles Pickering, Dan Brodie, Andy White, Ben Salter and Emily Ulman share tips and stories behind their songs. See thegasometerhotel.com.au.