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ART OF THE CITY, THE COMIC STRIP, CALENDAR

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HOT TALK THE BIGGEST IN INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL NEWS N G V F R I DAY N I G H T LIVE SERIES

MUMFORD & SONS SIDNEY MYER MEGA SHOW

Mumford & Sons are returning to Australian shores later this year, and they’re bringing along some pretty special guests with them. The tour follows the release of their third studio album, Wilder Mind, which was written in Aaron Dessner’s (The National) garage studio and produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkey’s, HAIM, Florence + The Machine). Maryland synth pop collective Future Islands and fellow Brits The Vaccines will join them on the Melbourne leg of the tour. It goes down on Thursday November 13 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Tickets via Secret Sounds.

BODYJAR HOW IT WORKS ANNIVERSARY SHOW

Bodyjar are returning for a show to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of their breakthrough album How It Works. To coincide with the anniversary, How It Works will be released on limited edition vinyl for the very first time, via UNFD. This is strictly limited to 500 copies total worldwide and is expected to sell quickly. The show will feature support from Melbourne hard-punks Clowns and will go down at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 3. For more details, visit Bodyjar’s website.

BIG 3 ROOTS RHYTHM AND SOUL F E S T I VA L

The Flying Saucer Club hosts the Big 3 Roots Rhythm & Soul Festival next month. The night will be kicking off with the former lead singer of ‘80s soul band The Dynamic Hepnotics, Continental Robert Susz. He’ll be joined by Louis King & The Liars Klub, who were formed by Tommy McEwan, the drummer and songwriter for the legendary ska band, No Nonsense. Completing the evening will be Robert James Kirk, who, after three decades all over the music industry, is currently enjoying the success of his latest release, A Bottle Full of Heaven. Catch ‘em on Friday August 7 at The Flying Saucer Club. Tickets are available from the venue’s website.

The National Gallery of Victoria have announced a lineup of indie, pop, jazz, folk and rock music for the return of their Friday Nights series at Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great, beginning this October. Leading international and Australian musicians including Jaako Eino Kalevi, Paul Grabowsky Trio, Gareth Liddiard and Glenn Richards are all featured in the series. National Gallery of Victoria’s Friday Nights series opens with Paul Grabowsky Trio on Friday October 2.

HAU SOLO SHOW AT LAUNDRY

Best known as the front man for ARIA award winning duo Koolism, Hau will be coming to Melbourne off the back of his new single KILL.I.AM. 20 years of writing and performing has seen him work with The Hilltop Hoods, Hermitude, Rodney P and Oddisee as well as hosting triple j’s Hip Hop Show. His latest single, taken from his forthcoming debut album The No End Theory, is produced by Remi collaborators Sensible J & Dutch. Hau will play Laundry on Friday July 24.

THE CHARGE HIT WHOLE LOTTA LOVE

Melbourne-based hard rock/grunge/ sludge/alternative metal outfit The Charge are returning after a 12 month hiatus from playing shows with their new single, Acid in My Veins, set to be released on Friday July 17. They’ll take on the stage at Whole Lotta Love that same day, with Lillye and Black Mars as supports. The Charge’s newfound popularity saw them share the stage with Bugdust, Dead Letter Circus, King Parrot, Floating Me, Over-Reactor and The Nerve. Hit up the Facebook event page for tickets and more details.

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HAMMERFALL FIRST EVER AUS SHOWS

Swedish heavy metal pioneers Hammerfall are performing in Australia for the first time ever, playing a feature packed fan favourite show in Melbourne on Tuesday October 13 at 170 Russell. After revolutionising the genre by the end of the ‘90s, the Gothenburg based quintet released a total of nine studio albums, several compilations, live recordings and have toured the globe relentlessly. With an exclusive meet and greet pass also available for 25 people only, be sure to check out metalobsession.net for ticketing and more information.

PUCK HIT THE ROAD

Perth band Puck are taking their brand of sophisticated, down tuned stoner rock for a tour of the Australian East Coast in August. Having landed supports with the likes of Title Fight, Sleep, Karnivool, Miles Away and Make Them Suffer in the last six months, Puck will be releasing their new single Take The Day on Friday July 17. Be sure to catch them when they hit The Public Bar on Friday August 7. Tickets available from the venue’s website. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 12

RICHMOND’S NEWEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE

Richmond’s newest live music venue has arrived for this year’s instalment of the Leaps and Bounds festival, with the Richmond Theatrette scheduled to host eight concerts between Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 19. The first weekend kicks off with two special performances from Sydney based singer/songwriter Perry Keys, along with a massive lineup over the following days from the likes of Ashley Naylor, The Grapes, The Fauves Ross McLennan and the New World, and Even.

Ali Barter she will team up with Gordi for a double headliner single launch show this July. Barter will be launching Hypercolour, the first single from her forthcoming record AB-EP, and follows on from tours with the likes of The War On Drugs and Phosphorescent. Sydney-based folktronica artist Gordi, will be launching Can We Work It Out, from her debut EP set for release in August. Ali Barter and Gordi will perform at The Workers Club on Thursday July 16. Tickets available from the venue’s website.

LOOKS LIKE RAIN EP L AUNCH AT VICE BAR

Fledgling musical outfit Looks Like Rain are about to release their debut EP next week, Friday July 17 at Vice Bar. Consisting of a gang of almost 30 year olds, the band uses a baritone guitar, tenor sax and drums to make music that falls somewhere in the broad old rock/punk category. Taking influences from Morphine, Ramones, Eels, Saints, Nick Cave, Looks Like Rain can be described as punky, but wordy at times. Be sure to check out the venue’s website for more details.

WIZ KHALIFA FINALLY RETURNS

SLOW DANCE SOCIAL AT LITTLE & O LV E R

Slow Dance Social, a fundraising evening of class with a slow soul and blues soundtrack, will be held on Friday July 17 from 6.30pm at Little & Olver as part of Leaps & Bounds Music Festival. The Slow Dance Social is a nonheteronormative soiree and fundraiser for Equal Love (marriage equality advocacy) and Beyond Blue (recognising that the queer community reports more instances of depression and anxiety than the mainstream numbers). Tickets are limited, so make sure you grab yours quick from slowdancesocial.com.

ALI BARTER & GORDI DUAL LAUNCH

CHAOS DIVINE TO SUPPORT ALITHIA

After last week’s announcement of Melbourne astral space rockers AlithiA’s short film release at The Evelyn on Saturday August 29, Chaos Divine have been announced as a support act. With a suite of industry accolades, national and international tours and a recent appearance at the 2014 Soundwave Festival under their belt, be sure to catch them when they support AlithA at The Evelyn on Saturday August 29.

THE DEMON PARADE CIRCLE THE NATION IN AUGUST

In support of their forthcoming EP Stone Circles, The Demon Parade have announced a string of east coast shows for this August. Since they first started, The Demon Parade have clocked up almost 300 shows, released two EPs and six singles, supported groups such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Swervedriver, The BellRays, Sleepy Sun, The Preatures, Something For Kate and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The Demon Parade will take over Yah Yah’s on Friday August 28.

Wiz Khalifa will make his longawaited return to Australia this October. He’ll be touring in celebration of his chart topping new single, See You Again, which was featured on Furious 7’s soundtrack and dedicated to the late Paul Walker. Wiz’s brief return will see him play shows in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, where he’ll spit rhymes spanning from his early Waken Baken days to last year’s Grammy-winning Blacc Hollywood. He’ll hit Margaret Court Arena on Thursday October 1. Tickets go on sale Tuesday July 7 at 10am through Live Nation.

DIZZ1 DROPS NEW SINGLE, ANNOUNCES TOUR

Dizz1, aka Melbourne-based producer Dave Norris, has dropped a new single titled What You Want ahead of his upcoming national tour. The track features R&B duo Killbot Kindergarten and legendary Detroit MC Frank Nitt, and is taken from his latest album, In Sickness and In Health, which he will be supporting with eight shows around the country. Dizz1 will take over Boney for the last show of his national tour on Friday August 21. Tickets are on sale through Moshtix.

BAHAMAS RETURNS IN SEPTEMBER

Canadian musician Afie Jurvanen has announced he will return to Australia as Bahamas, with his full band, this September and October. Last in Australia in 2012 supporting City and Colour, Afie returns on the back of his third album Bahamas is Afie. Bahamas will take over Howler, with Fraser A Gorman and his band, on Wednesday September 30. Tickets are on sale through Moshtix.

TUMBLEWEED: 20 YEARS OF GALACTOPHONIC

‘90s Australian rock group Tumbleweed are returning to mark the 20 year anniversary since the release of their second album, Galactophonic, with The SuperGalactophonic Tour, which sees them take to The Corner Hotel on Friday August 21. The anniversary stands as a strong legacy for both the band and the album, as many of the tracks from that era still proving to be crowd favourites at the band’s fiery live shows. Tickets are on sale now through The Corner’s website.

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RISE AGAINST BACK TO OZ

It seems like Rise Against can’t get enough of Australia. After touring the country earlier this year with the Foo Fighters, they’ve locked in their return, announcing that they’ll play a string of arena shows this summer. The politically charged punk outfit will make the journey from Chicago for a trio of gigs in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. To celebrate the announcement, they’ve unleashed a new single, People Live Here, which is taken off their 2014 album, The Black Market. They’ll play Margaret Court Arena on Wednesday December 2. Tickets go on sale Thursday July 9 through Ticketek.

JAMES MORRISON, MEGAN WASHINGTON & MARIAN PETRUSCU TO TOUR

The highly entertaining James Morrison is playing a special, three nights only performance this August with ARIA Award winner Megan Washington, and jazz piano extraordinaire Marian Petrescu. With each artist rocking an impressive jazz background, expect to hear popular favourites by the likes of George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and other greats. The trio play in Melbourne on Friday August 7 at Hamer Hall. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.

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SAFIA AUGUST HEADLINE TOUR

Following their appearance at this year’s Splendour In The Grass, Safia have announced a national tour, kicking off in August. The trio from Canberra have been on the rise ever since winning the triple j Unearthed competition to play Groovin’ The Moo back in 2012. Catch Safia at the Corner Hotel on Saturday August 22. Tickets go on sale Friday July 3 through the venue.

MSO PRESENT HITCHCOCK AND HERRMANN

In February 2016, the Hamer Hall stage will be filled with some of the most suspenseful music and iconic cinematic imagery of the 20th century when Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents Hitchcock & Herrmann. The quintessentially British director Alfred Hitchcock worked with US composer Bernard Herrmann on eight of his films, seven of which will feature in this special Australian premiere event. Tickets to the event go on sale 9am on Thursday July 9. Be sure to grab them from MSO.com.au.

REMASTERED MY THS 2015 AT HOWLER

ReMastered Myths brings together artists from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds into unique collaborative sessions that create something entirely new. This year features three collaborations between Abdul Hammoud, Tjupurru & Ebony Mocrief followed by Ria Soemardjo, Oisima & Noriko Tadano and capped off by Sinit Tsegay, Beatrice & Supina Bytol. ReMastered Myths is a completely free gig, presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria. It goes down this Sunday July 12 at Howler.

Hobart’s Verticoli have revealed the video for their latest single, Happiness, alongside a string of tour dates. Taken from their forthcoming album, Punching Bag, the track has already enjoyed spins across triple j and community radio around the country. They’ll play it live, along with a slew of new material when they head out an eight-date national tour this winter. They’ll hit The Bendigo Hotel on Friday July 31 – grab your tickets from the venue’s website while they last.

Classical pianist Yuja Wang will treat audiences to her rendition of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2 when she plays a trio of shows at Hamer Hall later this month. Under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Diego Matheuz, she’ll also play Tchaivosky’s Marche Slave and Brahm’s Symphony No. 4. Yuja Wang will play at Hamer Hall on Thursday July 23, Friday July 24 and Saturday July 25. Tickets are available from artscentremelbourne.com.au.

Adelaide punk rock trio Grenadiers are touring the country this coming August and September. Having just wrapped up a 20 date national tour with indie stalwarts British India, Grenadiers seemingly came from nowhere before dropping their album Summer earlier this year to critical success. They’ll be playing a show at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday August 28.

The Bendigo Hotel is playing tribute to A Festival For The Gods this Friday July 24 by hosting six live acts for a night of experimental, electronic and hip hop tunes. Held in the sweltering month of July in Japan, this 1000 year old tradition is dedicated to Sugawara Michizane, the Japanese deity of scholarship and learning. The festival lineup features HTML Flowers, MSG fever(OVeNaXx & Snuggy Man), Men Imitating Machines, Rhythmic Gibberish, Germs and Agrius, and DJ Danielsan.

Brisbane’s hard-hitting, punk inspired, rock’n’roll four-piece WAAX have just released their ferocious new single, I For An Eye, and are heading to Melbourne to launch the single at The Curtin on Friday July 17, with special guests Reptiles. WAAX’s intense and powerful live prowess has seen them already share stages with names like Guitarwolfe, White Lung, Kingswood, The Delta Riggs and Stonefield. Check out The Curtin’s website for tickets and more details.

C .W. S T O N E K I N G SEND OFF TOUR

C.W. Stoneking has just wrapped up a massive 36 stop tour across the UK and Europe, and he’s already gearing up for a string of shows on his return to Australia. Set to make appearances in NSW, QLD, VIC and WA, the tour will see CW Stoneking revisiting tracks from his latest album, Gon’ Boogaloo, and will be the last chance for local audiences to catch him before he relocates to the US. He plays in Melbourne on Friday November 6 at Thornbury Theatre, and Saturday November 7 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are available through the venues.

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MANNY LEWIS

Australian film Manny Lewis stars comedian Carl Barron in his big screen debut, playing a stand up comic (what a stretch) named Manny Lewis. The semiautobiographic piece follows Manny as he struggles with depression and alienation at the height of his comedic fame. To celebrate the home video release of Manny Lewis, we got our hands on a couple DVDs, and we’re sending them out to two lucky readers. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit for your chance to nab one.

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Oxfam’s famous Oxjam Festival is coming to Australia for the first time, with a huge lineup of acts now confirmed for the month-long program being held across the country from the end of July. The first Melbourne gig will take place on Thursday August 6 at the Grace Darling headlined by Pronto (with further acts still be announced). On Saturday August 15, I OH YOU will be taking over The Shadow Electric with World’s End Press, Sunbeam Sound Machine and Fortunes, and on Friday August 21, Cant Say will host Luke Million, Airwolf, Mike Metro and more. Visit Oxjam.org.au for more information.

DALLAS CRANE FOR LEAPS & BOUNDS

Local rockers Dallas Crane are getting in on the Leaps & Bounds festivities, with the announcement that they’re hitting up The Evelyn Hotel on Saturday July 18 with old friends and touring buddies, The Casanovas. After debuting new material during their national tour in January, soon to be released on their upcoming 2015 album, Dallas Crane have promised to give fans a first look at the remaining album tracks during this Evelyn Hotel performance.

SICK OF IT ALL RETURN IN OCTOBER

Hardcore punks Sick Of It All have announced that they will be treating local fans with a tour of Oz later this year, set to hit all major states across October. The New Yorkers originally formed in 1986 and haven’t slowed down since, releasing 1994’s Scratch The Surface to wide critical acclaim, and more recently dropping their eleventh album Last Act Of Defiance back in September. Sick Of It All play at The Corner on Friday October 9, tickets go on sale this Friday July 10 through Ticketscout.

CANNED HEAT REVEAL 2015 MELBOURNE SHOW

The American blues and boogie band will return to Melbourne to celebrate their 50th year as a group. Their live show features hits including Going up the Country, On The Road Again and Let’s Work Together, as well as the extended improvisations and jams the band is known for. With 32 studio albums to their name, Canned Heat have collaborated with luminaries including John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim and Albert Collins. It all goes down Thursday October 29 at the Corner Hotel, tickets are available through Metropolis Touring.

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INTERNATIONAL SHIHAD Corner Hotel July 11 YELLOWCARD Margaret Court Arena July 11 THE FLYING SORCERERS Ding Dong Lounge July 12 JMSN Brown Alley July 17 NOSAJ THING Howler July 18 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 YUJA WANG Hamer Hall July 23 - 25 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 YEARS & YEARS Max Watt’s July 30 KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS 170 Russell August 2 JAMES MORRISON, MEGAN WASHINGTON & MARIAN PETRESCU Hamer Hall August 7 GOOD RIDDANCE Corner Hotel August 7 GREAZEFEST Sandown Racecourse August 7 - 9 SUPERSENSE Arts Centre Melbourne August 7 – 9

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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 SELF DEFENSE FAMILY Viva Hate September 7 JOSHUA RADIN Corner Hotel September 9 SCOTT BRADLEE’S POST MODERN JUKEBOX The Forum September 9 THE STORY SO FAR Max Watts September 11 LOWER CLASS BRATS Bendigo Hotel September 12 DEATH DEALER The Hi-Fi September 13 LUNA Northcote Social Club September 17 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 BAHAMAS Howler September 30 AS IT IS The Evelyn Hotel October 1 (AA), October 2 JJ GREY & MOFRO Northcote Social Club October 7 KISS Rod Laver Arena October 8, October 10 SICK OF IT ALL Corner Hotel October 9 HAMMERFALL 170 Russell October 13 LIFEHOUSE The Forum October 15 HELLOWEEN Metro Theatre October 16 SNOT Corner Hotel October 17 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Rod Laver Arena October 22 - 24 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell October 25 SOULFEST Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 25 NEIL DIAMOND Rod Laver Arena October 27

CANNED HEAT Corner Hotel October 29 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre October 29 10CC The Palms at Crown October 30 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 MUMFORD & SONS Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 13 POKÉMON SYMPHONIC EVOLUTIONS Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre November 13 DEF LEPPARD Rod Laver Arena November 18 THE BEACH BOYS Palais Theatre November 18 HANK MARVIN Memo Music Hall November 21, 22 NILE Corner Hotel November 21 UB40 The Forum November 24 EARTHCORE Pyalong, Victoria November 26 – 30 RISE AGAINST Margaret Court Arena December 2 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 LEPERS & CROOKS, Laundry Bar July 9, Worker’s Club July 13, 20, 27, The Vineyard July 16, Penny Black July 18, St James Geelong July 24, Torquay Hotel July 25, Brunswick Hotel July 28 EMILY ULMAN 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 PALE HEADS John Curtin Hotel July 9 SPIEGELTENT SESSIONS The Melba July 10, 18 LIAM GERNER Long Play July 10 LIVING LEGENDS TRIBUTE TO STEVE LUCAS The Tote July 10 FUNKALLEROS The LuWow July 10 THE EIGHTY 88s John Curtin Hotel July 10 DEAR PLASTIC The Workers Club July 10 CITY CALM DOWN Northcote Social Club July 10 THE CHURCH 170 Russell July 10 DEVOTIONAL The Tote July 10, Grace Darling July 11, Old Bar July 12 MAJOR LEAGUES John Curtin Hotel July 11 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 REMASTERED MYTHS 2015 Howler July 12 REMOTE CONTROL RECORDS PARTY Shadow Electric July 12 MID WINTER BEARD FEST 73 Cromwell St Collingwood July 12 LIVING LEGENDS TRIBUTE TO DAVE GRANEY & CLARE MOORE The Gasometer Hotel July 12 I AM DUCKEYE The Toff July 12, Brunswick Hotel July 26 LEAH SENIOR The Gasometer July 14, Shebeen July 30 LYDIA GOLDTHORPE Longplay July 15 ALI BARTER & GORDI The Workers Club July 16 THE TWOKS The Gasometer July 16 ED KUEPPER Northcote Social Club July 16, 23, 30 SUN GOD REPLICA Cherry Bar July 17 THE CHARGE Whole Lotta Love July 17 LOOKS LIKE RAIN Vice Bar July 17 EVANGELINE Shadow Electric July 17, Bended July 19 NUSSY Shadow Electric July 17 RAS JAHKNOW The LuWow July 17 WAAX John Curtin Hotel July 17 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 DALLAS CRANE The Evelyn Hotel July 18 ROSS HANAFORD BENEFIT CONCERT Memo Music Hall July 18 BED WETTIN BAD BOYS John Curtin Hotel July 18 DIANA MAY CLARK The LuWOW July 18 THE CACTUS CHANNEL Shadow Electric July 18, Shebeen Bandroom September 11 BED WETTIN’ BAD BOYS John Curtin Hotel July 18 YOUNG LIONS Royal Melbourne Hotel July 18 THE BABE RAINBOW The Gasometer July 18 LANKS The Workers Club July 18 JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre July 18 THE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel July 18 AARGHT RECORDS LEAPS & BOUNDS SHOWCASE Copacabana July 19 HOLY SERPENT Brunswick Hotel July 19

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LEAPS & BOUNDS CLOSING NIGHT SPECTACULAR The Tote July 19 HAU Laundry Bar July 24 A FESTIVAL FOR THE GODS Bendigo Hotel July 24 GENA ROSE BRUCE The Workers Club July 24 CERES The Old Bar July 25 THE REBELLES Thornbury Theatre July 25 TIRED LION Shebeen July 25 BALLOONS KILL BABIES Brunswick Hotel July 26 KID RADIO Shebeen July 30 VERTICOLI Bendigo Hotel July 31 DREAMCOAT John Curtin Hotel July 31 NGAIIRE Shadow Electric July 31 ELLA THOMPSON Shebeen July 31 URBAN SPREAD 4 Village Green Hotel July 31, Chelsea Heights Hotel August 1 HEADS OF CHARM Budd Street Collingwood, August 1 THE LAURELS & NICHOLAS ALLBROOK The Curtin 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 OXJAM FESTIVAL Grace Darling August 6, Shadow Electric August 15, Can’t Say August 21 BIG 3 ROOTS RHYTHM AND SOUL FESTIVAL The Flying Saucer Club August 7 PUCK The Public Bar August 7 NUN John Curtin Hotel August 7 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 STYLUS The Flying Saucer Club August 14 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 DIZZ1 Boney August 21 TUMBLEWEED Corner Hotel August 21 LITTLE NOBODY My Aeon August 21 STORM THE SKY The Gasometer August 21, 22 (AA) MIAMI HORROR 170 Russell August 21 SAFIA Corner Hotel August 22 BORN LION Bendigo Hotel August 22 HURST The Penny Black August 22 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 THE DEMON PARADE Yah Yah’s August 28 GRENADIERS Ding Dong Lounge August 28 MUSCLES Shebeen Bandroom August 28 NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE 170 Russell August 28 MEGAN WASHINGTON Northcote Social Club August 28 ALITHIA + CHAOS DIVINE The Evelyn Hotel August 29 ANIMAUX The Gasometer Hotel August 29 SETH SENTRY The Forum September 4 REGURGITATOR The Prince Bandroom September 4 HOLY HOLY Howler September 5 THE DRONES The Forum September 5 URBAN SPREAD 5 Plaza Tavern September 10, Chelsea Heights Hotel September 11, The Village Green September 12 THE JUNGLE GIANTS The Corner September 12 THE SMITH STREET BAND The Corner September 19, 20 PARKWAY DRIVE Festival Hall September 26 BODYJAR Northcote Social Club October 3 BEN LEE The Corner October 7 THE RUBENS The Forum October 9 THY ART IS MURDER The Corner October 16 LIOR The Athenaeum Theatre October 16 FLIGHT FACILITIES & THE MSO Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 17 DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues October 23 – November 1 BAD//DREEMS Northcote Social Club October 24 SWAGGER MUSIC FESTIVAL Wandiligong October 24 - 25 CHET FAKER Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 30 CW STONEKING Thornbury Theatre November 6, Corner Hotel November 7 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 MSO PRESENT HITCHCOCK AND HERRMANN Hamer Hall February 5, 6 RUMOURS: REFUSED, ALABAMA SHAKES, YOUNG THUG = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS

MS MR SHINE ON EVERYONE By Adam Norris

No use trying to hide it, I’m a little smitten with Ms Mr right now. And by smitten I mean compulsively listening to their 2013 debut Secondhand Rapture and its exceptional follow-up, How Does It Feel, which lands on July 17. It also doesn’t hurt that singer Lizzy Plapinger turns out to be one of the most entertaining interviewees in recent memory; honest, engaging, and laugh-out-loud funny. We chat about the significant shift in the band’s sound, and the surprise at discovering deeply personal lyrics can still resound with a legion of fans.

“Hold on to your hats ladies and gentlemen. Shit’s about to get real. You’re about to talk to Lizzy Plapinger. And coming up next: the interview,” she laughs. “God, what is happening? I feel like I’m on some kind of imaginary carnival ride.” And so the tone is set for the duration of our interview; a little madcap, a little reflexive, and never a dull moment. Although worlds apart, there is a parallel here with media darling Jennifer Lawrence – someone who appears quite genuine and earnest, yet is also disarmingly charming. It makes sense that Plapinger’s gregarious, somewhat vulnerable character translates into music with such ease. What is surprising, however, is the extent to which the band hit the ground running. “Honestly, I’d never sung in my life before Ms Mr,” Plapinger says in a rush. “I hadn’t sung for anyone before Max [Hershenow, band mate], and Secondhand Rapture were the first songs that I’d written in my entire life, the first time that I’d ever seriously used my voice. I think it’s something that’s very inherent to me. I never feel like I’m putting on airs or being someone that I’m not. But I do feel like I found my voice by just singing along to all of my favourite artists, learning how to sing through them, whether that was Patsy Cline or Aretha Franklin. The women that I’ve grown up loving my entire life – even if I don’t actually sound anything like those women – have somehow taught me vocally how to come back to myself. I think that’s sort of beautiful, and makes me hope that maybe someone out there is listening to my voice and singing along and they’re finding their own voice through that.” Plapinger’s mention of Patsy Cline is quite topical, given that Hologram USA have just announced a holographic tour of the late country singer. Anyone out there still waiting for the future to arrive can finally kick back and relax – and really, if they can bring back Tupac, Cline’s holographic reincarnation was well overdue. But, novelty aside, you can’t shake a vague sense of horror at the whole enterprise. “You’re kidding? Oh, that’s just awful,” Plapinger laments. “How interesting. I think I would rather just sit at home and listen to Patsy than go out and see some virtual reality version. I think that would be quite sad. Sometimes when you’re on the grind of tour, a fantasy like that does have its appeal, but ultimately… I don’t think I’d ever be comfortable with that. There’s something so important about physically being there with your audience, connecting with them. The other part about performing live is working out how you’re growing, how your audience influences and inspires you. I’d say that playing live is becoming more and more one of my favourite pieces of having this opportunity to be in a band. I think I love being on stage more than anything now, and I only really discovered that about myself through touring the last record.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18

Plapinger has had ample opportunity to test this theory of late; Ms Mr’s tour schedule has seen the duo not only cross oceans and hemispheres, but feature at tentpole festivals such as Coachella and Glastonbury, as well as a forthcoming return to Splendour in the Grass. Acknowledging the importance of live performance formed a vital part of the new album, and even the most cursory first impression reveals a compelling departure from Secondhand Rapture.

“WE WANTED TO MAKE MUSIC THAT MADE PEOPLE MOVE AND ENGAGE. SO THE CHALLENGE WE SET UP WAS TO MAKE A DANCE RECORD THAT SORT OF REDEFINED WHAT DANCE MOVEMENT WAS FOR US... WE REALLY WANTED TO ENGAGE OUR AUDIENCE PHYSICALLY AS MUCH AS WE COULD, AND I THINK PEOPLE WILL FIND THAT NOW AT THE SHOWS. ” “So much of enjoying touring was brought into How Does It Feel,” says Plapinger. “We wanted to make music that made people move and engage. So the challenge we set up was to make a dance record that sort of redefined what dance movement was for us – and for our audience. We didn’t want dance music to have to be EDM or house born, but to find different ways of moving to different sounds. You know, there are songs where it’s all about fist-pumping and dancing around as loudly as possible, but there are also songs that make you want to grind, to sexually move against your partner. And then there are songs that are more rock-steady stoner dance, where you just want to bop your head,” she laughs. “We really wanted to engage our audience physically as much as we could, and I think people will find that now at the shows.” Interviewers have a tendency to gush to an artist’s face about just how much they loved their recent project. The alternative – ‘Man, your new album really sucks. How does that feel?’ – might sometimes be more sincere, but would make for a brief conversation. Yet in this case, the praise is genuine. How Does It Feel is a bold evolution in sound, but sacrifices none of the

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integrity or musical prowess of Ms Mr’s debut. What’s more, it journeys from celebration to despair, with stand-outs Tripolar and Leave Me Alone showcasing this range. “Tripolar is one of my favourite songs on the record, and Leave Me Alone is probably the favourite, so you chose well,” says Plapinger. “[The album] is absolutely the most intimate, personal and honest extension of who I am. Especially in a song like Tripolar – that one almost more than any other song on the record. In a way, I thought that people would never connect with it because it felt too personal, but maybe that’s what makes a successful song. What makes me feel like a successful songwriter is that every song will sound individual to everyone who listens to it. “I think we’re starting to cross-pollinate different songs,” she continues, “and I think musically there is an element of call-and-response across the entire record. The lyrics play off each other as a whole, even if the experience in the end is quite specific on a song-bysong basis. I think Painted is very much a song about picking yourself up and finding a way forward, but I also think All the Things Lost is one of the darkest songs I’ve ever written – a song about being the lowest, most lost and tortured version of yourself. I think each song has its own journey, but they need to be brought together for the bigger story to be told.” Even the darker aspects of the record are presented in such a way that audiences will find something to connect with their own lives. Mention of this topic finds the singer suddenly serious. “I think I’m someone who operates in extremes,” Plapinger says. “I feel high highs and incredibly low lows. I guess part of my character has always been that balancing act between dark and light. I think How Does It Feel is a more mature relationship to that darkness. So much of Secondhand Rapture was about wallowing in it, really marinating in misery. How Does It Feel is about acknowledging that darkness within you and recognising that it’s something that you have there as a catalyst. “I think by no means do you come out the other end of How Does It Feel and you’re triumphant. It’s not that. It’s about seeing a way forward, and bringing that darkness along with you for the ride. I think that’s a sign of where I am personally in my life, and I think it’s also just how people have to grow in order to move on. The alternative is to let something bring you down so much that you’re just paralysed by it. I would never want someone to feel that way.” MS MR play Splendour in the Grass 2015, which runs from Friday July 24 – Sunday July 26 at North Byron Parklands. They’re also playing 170 Russel on Wednesday July 22. How Does It Feel is out Friday July 17 through Sony Music Australia.

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JOHN BISHOP

Coming Up

One of the biggest names in UK comedy has announced that he’ll tour Australia for the first time ever this October. John Bishop has revealed that he’ll perform his stand-up show in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. Even though the tour will mark Bishop’s first, he’s no stranger to our shores, having completed a mammoth cycle up the east coast in 1992. His experiences formed the basis of his three-part series, John Bishop’s Australia, which premiered to rave reviews last year. With a sizeable list of accomplishments under his belt since hitting the comedy circuit in 2000, Bishop is currently the host of his own BBC One show, The John Bishop Show. Catch him on Thursday October 22 at the Athenaeum Theatre.

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Thursday July 16 - Sunday November 1 ACMI

Dead Centre & Sea Wall

Friday July 17 - Saturday August 15 Red Stitch Actors Theatre

Death and the Maiden

Saturday July 18 - Saturday August 22 Southbank Theatre

I Am A Miracle

Saturday July 18 - Sunday August 9 Malthouse Theatre

Dylan Moran

Monday July 27 - Saturday August 1 Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre

Melbourne International Film Festival Thursday July 30 - Sunday August 16 Various Venues

Melbourne Writers Festival

Thursday August 20 - Sunday August 20 Various Venues

Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei

The National Gallery of Victoria have announced a landmark exhibition will open this summer, Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei. The exhibition will host over 300 works by pop art demigod Andy Warhol alongside Chinese contemporary artist-activist Ai Weiwei, including major new commissions, immersive installations and a wide representation of paintings, sculpture, film, photography, publishing and social media. It will be the biggest contemporary exhibition ever staged at the NGV, and afterwards it will move onto The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. As part of the exhibition NGV Kids will also present a large-scale installation especially for children and families which highlights both artists’ love of cats. “I believe this is a very interesting and important exhibition and an honour for me to have the opportunity to be exhibited alongside Andy Warhol. This is a great privilege for me as an artist,” commented Ai Weiwei. Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei will open on Friday December 11 and remain open until Sunday April 24. A Drone Opera

Antigone

Friday August 21 - Sunday September 23 Malthouse Theatre

MSO: Back To The Future Live In Concert Friday November 6 - Saturday November 7 The Plenary

Legends Legends is the latest creation from Harley Hefford and Carly Milroy, as they take a comedic look to ancient myths. Inspired by new and old school sketch-comedies including Monty Python and Portlandia, Legends brings characters such as Noah, Zeus and Midas into an absurdist world. It is the second collaboration for Hefford and Milroy after receiving acclaim for last years’ Fringe festival production, Post/Post. Legends will run from Tuesday July 21 - Sunday July 26 at The Butterfly Club.

Fly By Night Fly By Night is preparing to transform Hamer Hall this month. The immersive alternative reality adventure fuses ‘real-time’ and screen-based elements into a virtual theatre of images. Weaving together dance, physical theatre, sound design and video art, the sitespecific work uses iPhone devices to deliver a surprising, promenade-style, self-guided tour via a purposebuilt mobile application. The work was inspired by Australian iconography, Alice in Wonderland, the history of Hamer Hall and its inhabitants. Fly By Night will transform Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne from Thursday July 23 until Sunday July 26.

Al Murray The Pub Landlord will bring his new live show One Man, One Guvnor to Melbourne this October. Al has hosted an array of TV series over the last few years including Compete for the Meat, Al Murray’s Happy Hour, Time Gentlemen Please and Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder. He has also released eight best-selling live DVDs My Gaff, My Rules, Glass of White Wine for the Lady, Giving it Both Barrels, Live at the Palladium, The Beautiful British Tour, Barrel of Fun, The Only Way is Epic and One Man, One Guvnor. Al’s huge stand-up tours have made him one of the most popular live comedy acts in the UK. He won the Perrier Award (after a record four successive nominations) and secured Olivier Award nominations for both of his celebrated sell-out West End runs. Al Murray The Pub Landlord will come to The Forum on Friday October 16.

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Bad Jews

Thursday August 27 - Sunday September 13 Alex Theatre

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Melbourne International Film Festival

Boasting 370 films, 17 program strands, 28 world premieres, 163 Australian premieres, 23 Talking Pictures events, over 29 international guests and over 100 local guests, the 64th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is the largest to date. The MIFF Premiere Fund has continued to help independent filmmakers achieve world premieres, with this year’s highlights including Downriver, directed by Grant Scicluna and Lawrence Johnston’s Neon, a documentary exploring the beauty and romance of neon lighting. More local films will be featured at the Australian Showcase, with a bumper program including Brodie Higgs’ culturemashing debut Elixir and George Gittoes’s world premiere of Snow Monkey, documenting his first-hand journey through Afghanistan. Australian guests welcomed to the festival include award-winning writer Lally Katz and Kriv Stenders (Red Dog). The International Panorama is bringing a curated selection of global cinema to Melbourne with a program including psychological drama, romantic comedy and absurdist satire. Complementing this is the Accent on Asia program, with a focus on regional cinema from Australia’s closest neighbours. Highlights include Partho SenGupta’s thriller Sunrise and avant-garde director Khavn de la Cruz’s dialogue free Ruined Heart: Another Love Story between a Criminal and a Whore. Alongside all this is a comprehensive documentary, short film, music, digital cinema, psychedelic and sports program. To dive into everything MIFF 2015 has to offer, head to miff. com.au for tickets and a full guide.

Theatre Review: Saltwater The premise of Saltwater almost read like a recipe for awkwardness, disappointment or disaster. Held at Theatre Works, this wasn’t a conventional night at the theatre. There was no stage-audience divide. In fact, the theatre’s entire seated section was curtained off. Instead, we followed the hallway straight onto the stage. Upon arriving there, we were greeted by our host, Singaporean ex-pat Jamie Lewis, who introduced us to one of our fellow guests who’d help wash our hands in preparation for dinner. Yes that’s right, we were here at Jamie’s place for dinner. But before we could tuck into the meal, there was work to do. When the 14 of us took our places at the round

Arts House 2015 Season Two Arts House have today revealed arguably their most ambitious, dynamic and eclectic season to date. The season will include ten productions, of which five are from international artists/companies, six are world premieres, three are Australian premieres and one is a Melbourne premiere. Some highlights of the program include A Drone Opera, an experimental multimedia performance where artist Matthew Sleeth has designed, built and programmed customised drones specifically for the performance context and has collaborated with artists Kate Richards, Robin Fox, Phil Samartzis and Susan Frykberg, lighting designer Bosco Shaw and choreographer Shelleylasica; Dance of the Bee, an interspecies musical collaboration performed by three pianists, the vocalists of the Astra choir and a live swarm of bees, housed inside a sculpted, transparent hive; and Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic, a solo creation at the intersection of theatre, dance and visual art installation, which tells the tale of the relationship between two girls on the verge of adolescence in 1980s outer-borough New York. The season also boasts a collection of local, national and international collaborations, including PS122, Melbourne Festival, Taipei Festival, Melbourne Fringe and Spring Fling. Season two will kick off, literally, with Ahilan Ratnamohan’s SDS1, a work which sees soccer meet theatre on Wednesday August 19. Visit artshouse.com. au for more information and the full program. dinner table, we were handed a pile of mung bean sprouts and instructed to pluck off the ends. You see, this wasn’t in accordance with theatre customs – physical contact, building a rapport with the other audience members – and it might sound like an uncomfortable theatre sports experience. But the near-meditative practise of plucking beans put everyone in an open frame of mind. “You can’t beat simplicity,” remarked a fellow guest, and right he was. We were all neutralised by our task and happy to get to know one another. Strangely enough, Jamie remained mostly silent for ten minutes or so, before asking a few of us about the kitchen of our childhood. From here, she detailed her experiences cooking with her mother – what she was restricted from doing and the invaluable things she learned. Eventually, we had prepared enough beans and Jamie left the table to finish preparing

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Stand-up comedian Omid Djalili has announced a trip to Melbourne this October. The British born Iranian comedian’s television credits include the Fagin in West-End smash-hit Oliver. and Dr Rance in Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw. He has also acted in films including Shaun The Sheep Movie, Mr. Nice, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Sex and The City 2, Notting Hill and The Infidel. This will be Omid’s first trip to Australia. The show will see him discuss themes of overcoming your fears, relationships, the perils of celebrity and getting older. Omid Djalili will perform at the Athenaeum Theatre on Tuesday October 20.

COMEDY AT THE WILDE Tuesdays at The Wilde some of Melbourne’s best young comedians join with ‘sign up on the night’ open mic acts for one of the loosest nights in town. Stand Up at Bella Union’s Sonia Di Iorio joins Alice Fraser and more this week for another big, fun night of comedy. It’s this Tuesday July 14 at 153 Gertrude St, Fitzroy at 8pm. And, it’s totally free.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Last Monday at Spleen was out of control, and this week won’t be too far off either. They have a massive lineup, including Tom Ballard, Josh Earl, Adam Rozenbachs, Karl Chandler, Xavier Michelides, Ivan Aristegueta, Miles Milson and more. It’s this Monday July 13 at 41 Bourke Street, CBD, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

the meal at a nearby stove. On the menu was a traditional Singaporean dish, Devil’s curry. Though, the vegetarian variant we ate is a major deviation from the hot dog-heavy version that Jamie’s family prefers. As we proceeded to eat, the round table conversation lessened and the focus switched wholly to Lewis’ story – her tale of being born to a bi-racial couple in Singapore, her experience marrying an Australian man and moving here, and the respect she’s gained for her mother since becoming a married woman. In spite of subverting regular theatre customs, at no point did Saltwater seem strange. In fact, the experience felt entirely natural, which meant the inter-subjective connections, the sharing of thoughts, ideas and recipes, were truly enhanced. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

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Letters Home A partisan crowd greeted Joe Lui like a rock star as he stepped onto the stage at Theatre Works in St Kilda, wearing a brightly coloured Chinese robe and began to perform his deeply personal and candid one man production Letters Home. Lui is an exile from his native Singapore, branded a criminal because of his refusal seven years ago to return home for compulsory national service. Lui is an artist who was a child star in Singapore where he co-hosted a daytime children’s television program. He came to Australia to study at university before establishing himself on the Perth scene with his largely experimental performance pieces. Here he shapes a show around several letters he wrote to his parents back home in Singapore in which he tries to justify his choices in life and maybe seek their approval or forgiveness. Lui exposes his own personal life in a revealing and unflinchingly honest 75-minute monologue, supposedly addressed to his parents back home in Singapore. He tries to work through his confused feelings, and explore his troubled relationship with his parents who tried to raise him according to centuries of strict tradition and Chinese culture. The personal revelations are laced with some bits of Chinese folk lore that explain some of these strict traditions that honour the elderly and emphasise respect for the family. The young Lui rebelled against these strict traditions, which disappointed his parents, who also disapproved of his choices. Lui also shapes his monologue with plenty of selfeffacing humour that explores the pull of history and the past and the lure of a future as a performance artist, something that probably could not have happened in his native country. He talks about some of the courageous writers, authors like George Orwell, who have helped shaped his rebellious and questioning nature.

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The staging is quite simple. In one corner is a stool on which Lui sits, bathed in a spotlight as he recounts some of the letters he wrote to his parents but never sent. At the rear of the stage is a book case containing some memorabilia and items from his life that have helped shaped him as a performance artist. And towards the centre of the stage is a small wooden table, with two empty chairs, meant to symbolise his absent parents. While he talks, Lui cuts up vegetables and cooks them in a hot pot. This is meant to symbolise a reunion dinner with his parents, a dinner that will probably never happen, which casts a rather melancholy pall over proceedings. While most of Letters Home provides a fascinating insight into a foreign culture, at 75 minutes it does stretch the material a little. The final scene, in which he talks about the insignificance of man in the greater universe, seems a little unnecessary. BY GREG KING

Since the US Supreme Court declared same sex marriage was legal, conservatives in Australia have been well and truly losing their shit over this issue. In an opinion piece in Fairfax Media, Tasmanian Coalition Senator Eric Abetz declared that the media was biased in its reporting of the issue, declaring that while the Supreme Court decision was an act of judicial activism by an unrepresentative bunch of judges, we had overlooked a legislative vote in Austria where the Austrian legislature overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage. In his view, laws should reflect the will of the people, not the judiciary or the media. Unfortunately, Senator Abetz ignores the fact that our federal legislature is completely demographically unrepresentative of Australia since its dominated by middle-aged, straight, white men and every poll on the issue suggest more than two thirds of Australians support marriage equality, and this figure is only increasing every year. In other words, laws should reflect the will of the people currently elected to the Parliament, not the will of the Australian people themselves. Senator Abetz himself of course invokes the Austrian legislative vote against same sex marriage, and the protests in France and Italy to justify his position that there is a significant mainstream movement of people who oppose gay and lesbian people getting married. However, he conveniently failed to mention the very recent referendum in Ireland where the will of the people saw marriage equality prevail with nearly three-quarters of the votes. When conservatives reel out their opposition to same sex marriage, invariably there are a number of arguments raised to justify their position. Firstly, there is the old slippery slope argument that if we allow gay and lesbian couples to marry that pretty soon we’re paving the way for polygamous marriages or worse. Secondly, there is the argument that marriage is the social institution at the bedrock of families, and protecting marriage from the gays somehow ensures children won’t be born without both their natural parents. “Study after study, time and time again, shows that children benefit from having a father and mother,” wailed Senator Abetz, “That is the foundation that marriage provides, and has provided for millennia. The institution of marriage has stood the test of time. For our children’s sake it needs to continue to do so.” Of course, Senator Abetz ignores the obvious truth that the right to marry and the right to procreate are not in fact one and the same. Plenty of children are born to unwed parents all the time both to single LA Pocock

parents and to unmarried de facto couples. Plenty of married couples can’t or don’t have children. Most importantly, the Howard-era ban on same sex marriage has not stopped same sex couples from having children, and the horse has well and truly bolted on that one. Of the estimated 50,000 same sex couples in Australia, nearly 20 per cent are already raising children. Numerous studies have found that children of same sex couples are just as well adjusted as those from heterosexual parents. The toughest thing about being a gayby it turns out is dealing with homophobia towards your family. As openly gay Senator Penny Wong (herself a mother of two children) put it on ABC radio: “Memo to Eric: we’ve already got children, all you are doing is saying the parents can’t be married.” In other words, allowing same sex couples to marry won’t lead to more divorces or fewer heterosexual marriages or more single parent families. While Senator Abetz was hand wringing about the rights of children, Senator Barnaby Joyce had an even more creative reason for not allowing same sex marriage in Australia: Asia will think we’re “decadent”. Despite the fact that every other developed English speaking country in the world has now allowed same sex marriage and many other countries besides, Barnaby Joyce argues that because our Asian neighbours have yet to legalise it, Australia shouldn’t either (I wonder if on this basis Senator Joyce thinks we should adopt the social and cultural policies of our Asian neighbours, such as majority Muslim Indonesia or Malaysia, or the one-child policy in China). For now, the single biggest obstacle isn’t Asia – who frankly couldn’t give a shit what Australia does with its own domestic social policies – but our own neoconservative Catholic Prime Minister. After both the ALP and the Greens introduced private member’s bills on same sex marriage, Tony Abbott declared that should the issue come to a vote it should be a bipartisan bill, but has since poured cold water on an attempt to bring the vote to ahead. Now, a cross-bench bill is being put forward by a multi-party consortium including Liberal backbencher Warren Enstsch and Labor MP Terry Butler has been tabled to be introduced on Tuesday August 11 and is due to be put to the Liberal party room on Tuesday August 18. While 60 of 80 Labor MPs are expected to support marriage equality, the Coalition would need a free vote in order for the bill to pass.

door. Doors open 10pm until late. Early arrivals will be treated to a free glass of sparkling from 10pm - 11pm. Hairy chested party THICK N’ JUICY return to the Laird for a schoolyard-themed School Reunion Party. The long-running men’s only party will see Peter McNamara on decks along with Grank Cook, Magnus and Damien Mack and performances by James Welsby. The whole Laird will also be packed with jocks, quarterbacks, cheerleaders, freaks, geeks, Plastics and Heathers. Tickets are $25 presale or $35 on the door (until sold out). Doors open from 8pm at The Laird Hotel, 149 Gipps Street, Abbotsford.

This Friday July 10 at Little & Olver CLOSET celebrates six years and nearly 50 parties with its own birthday bash which promises the usual golden gay times with some birthday surprises. The lineup includes a debut from LA Pocock – the man behind the Northside Sunday session Daydreams – who is fresh from playing Dark Mofo, Golden Plains, Sugar Mountain and Camp Nong. He is joined by M.A.F.I.A., JLAW, Mimi, Salvador Darling and Tali. For the birthday bash, partygoers of all persuasions are encouraged to dress up in honour of the party’s spirit animal Freddie Mercury. Entry is $15 on the BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24

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Once upon a time, Northcote was the lesbian capital of Melbourne (if not Australia before Newtown took that trophy), but these days the Sapphically inclined seem to be found all over town from Windsor to Yarraville to Preston. However, Fanny’s at Franny’s is a Sunday social catering to the original north side sisterhood. Their monthly Sunday social will be held on Sunday July 12 from 5pm – 1am with DJs Dubdarko, Estee Louder and MacAtk, along with ping pong and winter bevvies. Franny’s at Francesca’s, 222 High Street, Northcote. Free entry from 5pm - 7pm, $5 after 7pm. Got tip offs, praise, complaints or cat photos? Email closetpartymelbourne@gmail.com to be included in this column.

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wednesday jul 8 JAPANESE WALLPAPER + MONTAIGNE + EDWARD FRANCIS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.

friday jul 10 #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. #TRENDYFRIENDS - FEAT: RECLUSE + GABE GLEESON MIMI MITSUNAMI GAMEGIRL TRANTER + J.D.MAR VOTEFORSCOOTER Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $10.00. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CHEEKY TIKI FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $20.00. CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CLOSET 6TH BIRTHDAY FEAT: LA POCOCK + MAFIA + JLAW + SALVADOR DARLING + MIMI + TALI Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $15.00. ELBOW SPACE 005 - FEAT: DAZE + DAN WHITE + LUIS CL Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 9:00pm. FABULOUS FRIDAYS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA +

BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. 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. MILES BROWN + DJ JONNINE STANDISH + NUN DJS + JAKE BLOOD + DJ KITI New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $10.00. 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 + MAMACITA BONNITA 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. SEEKAE + LUCIANBLOMKAMP + I’LLS DJS Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $25.00. THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. saturday jul 11 ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. ASH BUSCOMBE Howler, Brunswick. 4:00pm. AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: DR. ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. CIAO MEOW Little & Olver,

Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. 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. 8:00pm. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00. FORCES + MULTIPLE MAN + LUCY CLICHE + LAKES + REGIONAL CURSE + KOKPIT DJS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. 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. JAPANESE WALLPAPER + MONTAIGNE + EDWARD FRANCIS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: POCOSMOS + 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. PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. PROGRESSIVE WAREHOUSE PARTY - FEAT: IKARO + PEX + LEVEL D + STEVIE STRAWFFORD + VALERIO SINATRA + MONKEY PAWS + RAYMAN + LUNAR + P LIVANOS + POSITIVE PETE + MAX SKULL Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 3:00pm. $10.00. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT:

ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. sunday jul 12 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. JAPANESE WALLPAPER + MONTAIGNE + EDWARD FRANCIS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. JAPANESE WALLPAPER (U18) + MONTAIGNE + EDWARD FRANCIS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $15.00. 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. THE BOOK DOOF FUNDRAISER - FEAT: SPOONHEAD + RHYTHM NECTAR + STINKWOOD + RHYTHMIK + NASTAJI + WYLDCARD + KALEID + TUMBLE + GELIDO + REINDEER SUN Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 12:00pm. $15.00. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. monday jul 13 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 jul 14 AO - FEAT: MIMICRY + COSMIC RHYTHMS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $3.00. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TWERKSHOP Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

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30/70 COLLECTIVE PRESENTS MELBOURNE’S OG HIP-HOP/NUSOUL JAM SESSION Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.

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RNB & HIP HOP JAM - FEAT: LARRIE + GET BU$Y + MAT CANT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

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thursday jul 9 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. DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: EDD FISHER + PREQUEL + DJ CAMOV Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. SEEKAE + LUCIANBLOMKAMP + I’LLS DJS Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $25.00. 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.

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MEET. EAT. BEATS. - FEAT: ANDRE LE VOGUE The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JADE ZOE + MS DOOG + ROBIHUSSLIN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

saturday jul 11

BIG DANCING SATURDAYS - FEAT: GET BUSY + MAFIA + LARRIE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. CLONE OF MEET. EAT. BEATS. - FEAT: AARON ARTHUR & DUNCAN FUNK The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. CRXZY SXXY CXXL - FEAT: JADE ZOE + MIMI + MPDG + CELERY HAM + LOTUSMOON Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE +

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DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. STAND UP 2015 - FEAT: LAZY GREY + JAKE BIZ & DJ DCIDE + VENTS + KINGS KONEKTED + CIECMATE & NEWSENSE + PRIME + LGEEZ Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 5:00pm. $40.50.

sunday jul 12

BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00. MELBOURNE ARTIST SHOWDOWN FINAL Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 12:30pm. $15.00.

thief at lounge Last weekend a sticky-fingered culprit stole a mixer from the DJ booth of the late night CBD institution Lounge. The venue took to Facebook today to announce the theft and that they were appealing for anyone with information to come forward. “During the course of the evening a mixer was stolen from the DJ booth,” noted the post. “The brazen move is quite upsetting, Lounge is a venue that has strong grassroots and goes to great lengths to support the local music and arts scene. The night itself hosts a vast array of Melbourne acts and this theft will impact them all. Stealing is unacceptable and not something Lounge and its affiliates will stand for. Those responsible are certainly not welcome here and clearly misguided about what the night and venue is about in general. We try to create an environment where people feel safe and comfortable, you have been invited to share in a night so many work hard on so don’t disrespect it with a bad attitude and behaviour.” If you have any information regarding the incident please contact info@lounge.com.au.

dizz1 Dizz1, aka Melbourne-based producer Dave Norris, has dropped a new single titled What You Want ahead of his upcoming national tour. The track features R&B duo Killbot Kindergarten and legendary Detroit MC Frank Nitt. It is taken from his latest album, In Sickness and In Health, which he will be supporting with eight shows around the country. Bringing musicians together from across the globe is nothing new for Dizz1, whose list of collaborators on his debut album includes Aloe Blacc, Motely, Candice Monique, Sadat X, Om’Mas Keit, Ali Fern, Rucl, Warrior Queen, Tame One and Spike Tee. Dizz1 will take over Boney for the last show of his national tour on Friday August 21.

wiz khalifa Wiz Khalifa will make his long-awaited return to Australia this October. He’ll be touring in celebration of his chart topping new single, See You Again, which was featured on Furious 7’s soundtrack and dedicated to the late Paul Walker. Wiz’s brief return will see him play shows in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, where he’ll spit rhymes spanning from his early Waken Baken days to last year’s Grammywinning Blacc Hollywood. He’ll hit Margaret Court Arena on Thursday October 1.

hau Best known as the front man for ARIA award winning duo Koolism, Hau will be coming to Melbourne off the back of his new single KILL.I.AM. 20 years of writing and performing has seen him work with Hilltop Hoods, Hermitude, Rodney P and Oddisee as well as a slot on triple j’s The Hip Hop Show. His latest single, taken from his forthcoming debut album The No End Theory is produced by Remi collaborators Sensible J & Dutch. Hau will play Laundry on Friday July 24.

MIGUEL

SENSITIVE TO SEX By Tyson Wray You simply can’t write songs about fucking the way that people used to. Nor should you. Of all mainstream genres, R&B has a greater way of capturing the current publics’ ethos towards sex, gender and empowerment. The unimaginative, male-pleasure dominated lyricism that was rampant in the ‘90s is now far less prevalent. Today’s R&B artists are delving below the surface; they’re not just exploring the hows of sex, they’re exploring the whys. They’re singing about the consequences, the aftermath and the emotional impact. Coitus has always been multi-layered, but it’s taken this long for these complexities to be explored underneath the concert hall spotlight. Alongside peers such as Frank Ocean and How To Dress Well, Miguel is at the forefront of a new movement in R&B, one that basks in the glory of the unspoken intimacy that takes place during sex. “For me, I think it’s more about all of the emotions behind it,” he says. “I don’t find it difficult, but I think it’s really cool that there are people out there who are into the way that an artist like myself writes about sex. I take it as a compliment that it doesn’t come off as cheesy, corny or cliché. Music has always been about emotion and what it’s meant to represent. When you get to talking about the connection, or the vulnerability that you give to someone, that’s what makes writing about sex so fulfilling.” Miguel’s third studio album, Wildheart, runs untamed throughout the realms of sexual indulgence, emotional susceptibility and personal liberation. “I wanted to capture the unapologetic energy that becomes the force for any wild-hearted person,” he says. “Being wild-hearted begins with knowing who you are, what you stand for, what you believe in and then living by that. Once you take the time to figure these things out you’re more likely to make decisions for a more spiritual and deeper place. A place where intuition is. I believe those decisions are the ones that resonate with our purpose the most. That’s what life’s about, man, it’s about living out your purpose. This album was a way for me to paint out the energy that I have in my life. I think it’s more aggressive, at least sonically. It’s all about that drive. It’s about being unapologetic and non-conformist.

“BEING WILD-HEARTED BEGINS WITH KNOWING WHO yOU ARE, WHAT yOU STAND fOR, WHAT yOU BELIEVE IN AND THEN LIVING By THAT.” “I’ve spent a lot of time really digging into the creative side of it,” he adds in relation to the graphics that accompany Wildheart. “It’s been all hands on deck. I’ve spent a lot of time planning what we’re going to do visually, it’s really important for me that all of the visuals match the music.” While Miguel’s 2010 debut All I Want Is You was a sleeper hit, the 2012 follow-up Kaleidoscope Dream catapulted the LA native onto the global stage ± its lead single Adorn going on to win a Grammy for Best R&B Song. Needless to say, he realises that a lot more eyes (and ears) will be following the release of Wildheart. “I don’t want to call it fame, but knowing that you have a broader audience makes it more exciting,” he says. “It makes taking the chances more exciting. It gets a lot more risky. There’s a lot of expectation that comes with it, but you need to just put that out of your head. That’s when it becomes exhilarating. You’re making music that resonates with you but you don’t know how your fans are going to take it. You want to give them the truest bits of yourself as possible. At the end of the day, I have to be able to look back at my music and my legacy and be able to say ‘Man, I’m really proud of that’. That’s what it’s really about.” The album boasts a number of high-calibre guests, including Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat and Kurupt, with the curveball of Lenny Kravitz thrown in for good measure. “When I was growing up Lenny was a musical mentor of sorts,” he laughs. “Working with someone that you grew up listening to and looking up to? It was a dream come true for me. When someone like that wants to create something with you, it’s a crazy feeling.” Having supported Bruno Mars on his Australian tour early last year, Miguel will return Down Under this October as one of the leading acts on the 2015 incarnation of Soulfest. “I think I’ve always had a really energetic way of performing, but I feel that this album is the closest thing to encapsulate what it’s like when I’m on stage,” he says. “I’ve finally got to make an album that speaks the way that I come across when I perform live. That’s why I’m so excited to play this album live on stage. I’ve always had a certain style when it comes to performing, and I think this music is perfect for that. When I’m performing it’s just non-stop fun. It’s sexy and it’s wild. That’s what it’s like on stage.” Wildheart is out now via Sony. Y’all can catch MIGUEL at Soulfest, which takes place on Sunday October 25 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Kings Domain Precinct. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV

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ALEX CAMERON

C E LB R AT I O N O F FA I L U R E By Augustus Welby

The Leaps and Bounds Label of Love series puts the spotlight on ten independent labels from around the country. This Saturday night, the focus turns to Sydney label Rice Is Nice, who’re bringing a lineup including SPOD, Sarah Mary Chadwick and You Beauty to the Shadow Electric. Also on the bill is solo artist and Seekae frontman Alex Cameron. Ahead of the event, Beat spoke to Cameron about his various projects and creative processes. Not long after releasing Jumping the Shark, Seekae released The Worry. You wouldn’t pick that the same guy was central to both. Is there much overlap between the moods and creative processes you rely on for the two projects? Or is one like gardening, the other like painting a fence? With Seekae, we all write everything. Like ticking boxes. We all have to approve of a melody or a lyric before it makes the cut. With Jumping The Shark, I wrote every melody and every lyric. I was in charge. There’s really no comparison. Most of my songs are written in my head before I even make it to a keyboard or am in a room with a piano player. Those end up being supercharged by somethin’. Like I want to link my songwriting with my imagination, quite directly. I don’t really like jamming, because I’m not drawn to it naturally. I never gardened or painted a fence. I painted my

bedroom once. I had an inspired girlfriend who painted things all over my walls. Little pictures, I didn’t like them, butterflies on my wall and what not. So I painted over them. We had broken up before I did that on account of I wasn’t sensitive to her emotions. Jumping the Shark is engaging on many levels, one of which is the off-kilter lyrical humour. If you read a little deeper, it touches on somewhat perverse topics, but at a surface level there’s plenty to make you laugh, especially when coupled with the deadpan vocal performances. I laugh at good things. I laugh at sad things. I think it’s a matter of finding something true. If I find a true thing and deliver it properly then the common reaction is for people to laugh. Most of my humour comes from a place of anger or some other negative thing. I find it funny that people are able to laugh at the lyrics when they’re so overtly sad. I’m not a clown, but I know

what’s good and true and if people feel like laughing at that then as long as they bought a ticket or a cassette they can do whatever they want. I always said it was a celebration of failure, how it’s all so inevitable. I’m not making jokes though. I’m not making fun of my songs. They’re serious to me. Another feature of Jumping the Shark that’s continually impressive is the root simplicity. From an instrumental point of view, the majority of songs cumulatively build upon a single core idea. Making the album, was it of fundamental importance that you upheld that kind of patience? It wasn’t really patience. It all happened naturally. I focused on the words and tried to get that across in the songs. They’re loops that build. It was simple. My good friend Ivan Vizintin and his brother Pavle coloured the album with guitar parts and some keyboards. Ivan was good to work with on that record because he was

constantly telling me each song was finished. Not to fuck with it too much. Your on-stage dance style is somewhere between Nick Cave and Elaine Benes (from Seinfeld). It has a strong libidinal aspect as well as a really erratic, dance-like-nobodies-watching ugliness. Is there much mediation about the way you comport yourself on stage? Not really. Roy [Molloy, saxophone] just keeps talking in my ear telling me to hustle. Telling me to get paid. Telling me to sweat my fucken’ arse off. So I do that. Roy’s my guy.

“I spend probably four hours a day at least on the internet looking for records,” says Peach. “Sometimes you’ll find something that makes you think, ‘Yes, this will definitely do the job,’ and then the people don’t dance to it, and you persist for a while, but in the end you have to look for something else. Even though I might like the record and think it’s brilliant, if you can’t get the audience to like it, well, you’re knocking your head on a brick wall.” As the years have gone by, Peach has seen Northern soul swell from a low-key subculture into an enduring music and dance movement. “One thing that I have noticed in the last ten years or so is that young people have started buying Northern soul records and are now wanting to DJ with them,” he says. “That’s something I find really good, because it will see the music go on into

the future. A lot of young bands are putting their own slant on it as well. Bands like Saskwatch, Cactus Channel, you can definitely see are influenced by this music. That’s something that’s certainly only happened in recent times. But the music itself has stayed consistent. “The highlight of my day is still going to the post office and picking up a little brown package with a couple of records in it. That’s the biggest buzz you can give me. So many records still out there that I want, so many that I still haven’t even heard. That will be how it is until the day I die.”

ALEX CAMERON plays the Rice is Nice Label of Love party on Saturday July 11 at Shadow Electric, alongside SPOD, You Beauty, Sarah Mary Chadwick and Summer Flake.

S O U L AT C H E R R Y

C R AT E D I G G E R F O R LI F E By Adam Norris

You know, Vince Peach never really expected this. When he first took the reins of Soul In The Basement 15 years ago, he couldn’t have dreamed the gig would evolve into the world’s longest running soul music night. But, along with DJing partner-in-crime Pierre Baroni, over the last decade and a half ‘The Prince’ Peach has cultivated an audience of impassioned fans from all backgrounds, everyone united under the umbrella of soul. With the 15th anniversary party just days away, it seemed a fitting time to ask for The Prince’s recollections. “It did take on a life of its own, really,” Peach drawls in an instantly recognisable Liverpudlian accent. “We had been running some soul nights prior to starting at Cherry Bar. When it started here, it begun with a guy called Chris Chapple, back when Billy Walsh [Cosmic Psychos] first opened the bar. He left because of band commitments, and that’s when Pierre came on board. But it was always held in the basement, and it was always going to go for as long as it possibly could. I mean, it was very surprising to see it lasting even after the first year. We’d tried these things before, and none had gone for more than six or seven months. But everything just seemed to fall into place at Cherry Bar. They were queuing to get in after about three months ± it was really amazing.” Even without the success of Soul In The Basement,

Peach could already claim to be Australia’s foremost champion of soul. For more than thirty years now, he’s been the host of Soul Time on PBS, which incidentally holds the record for the world’s longest running soul music radio program. You’d be forgiven for thinking the music is something of an obsession for Peach, and he’s amassed an astonishing personal collection over the years. “It’s like an addiction,” he says. “Once you start you can’t stop. I’d be better off on ice or heroin ± it certainly wouldn’t cost me as much.” A hallmark of the Northern soul movement was the relentless push for DJs to track down releases that had been overlooked or forgotten by the public. Once finding these elusive vinyls, they would return triumphant to the decks. Although it first took flight in the late ‘60s, that hunt has never truly subsided.

SOUL IN THE BASEMENT celebrates its 15th Birthday on Thursday July 9 at Cherry Bar, with DJs Vince ‘The Prince’ Peach & Pierre Baroni spinning original funk and soul 45s until daybreak.

BABE:

THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT MELBOURNE SYMPHONY PORKESTRA By Liza Dezfouli “It’s wonderful,” says composer Nigel Westlake, talking about the celebration concerts for the 20th anniversary of Babe, the Australian film that won a Golden Globe for best musical/comedy in 1995. Over two nights at Hamer Hall this weekend, Westlake will conduct the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra through his original score. “The MSO played the music on the original soundtrack for the film,” he says. “The score’s changed stylistically, I’ve taken the chance to revise the score, taken the opportunity for enriching some of the details, but it’s structurally identical to the score everyone knows.” Westlake remembers being commissioned to write the score for Babe 20 years ago. “The creators had already commissioned a score from a Hollywood composer who didn’t want to make any changes,” he says. “It wasn’t what they wanted, so they auditioned some local composers. They gave me a video with three or four scenes and I took the footage home, started playing it and fell in love with these crazy characters ± farmer Hoggett, the pig. I was so excited I didn’t sleep for a week while I was working on my submission. A week later I was offered the job.” Westlake might describe being commissioned to BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28

compose the score for Babe as “a great stroke of luck,” but he was already making a name for himself as a composer. Since the film’s release, he’s written scores for numerous documentaries and feature films, including Children of the Revolution (1996), Miss Potter (2006), and the Babe sequel, Babe: Pig in the City (1998). In spite of his close involvement with Babe, Westlake still genuinely enjoys the film. “When the movie came out I paid my $12 to go and see it like everyone else,” he says. “I really love this film and I didn’t want to get sick of it, so I didn’t see it again until now. It’s so beautifully made, shot so beautifully by Andrew Lesnie [who died

last month, sadly]. The characters, the story ± it all really holds up after 20 years. I’m so excited to have the opportunity to present it with a live orchestra in the concert hall. Revisiting Babe, performing live, I’m so delighted to be part of this tribute to the movie.” Westlake explains how a conductor prepares for a recital. “It comes from what happens in rehearsal. I’ve conducted the MSO a number of times in the last year and have been building a relationship, so the orchestra responds better. I have a conducting mentor, Ben Northey, the Associate Conductor with the MSO, who’s also friend. He shows me patterns and choreography and I go away and practice.” The audience watches what a conductor does on stage in front of an orchestra, but there’s something very mysterious about how conducting actually works. “In this instance conducting has a much more practical application,” says Westlake. “The music needs to be totally synchronised with the picture so I have a version of the film in front of me playing on the podium and

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there’s a flashing light to keep the tempo. That’s how I transfer information to the orchestra. So it’s not quite as esoteric as all that.” Another joyful aspect of the Babe 20th anniversary concerts is that many of the original musicians who played on the soundtrack in 1995 are actually still members of the MSO. “It’s wonderful, for sure,” says Westlake. “The principal woodwind, principal oboe, principal trumpet, all of the percussion section were there then, and a number of the string players also. It’s great to see them all again. It’s brought back many fond memories. The music is challenging to play, it’s a big score, 80 minutes, and it’s detailed like the score to an old-school animation, but I know the MSO will rise to the occasion.” Nigel Westlake and the MSO present BABE: THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT at Hamer Hall on Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12.

BORN LION

SUCKERS FOR PUNISHMENT By Keats Mulligan There are only so many things you should realistically expect to achieve in music. Dreams of rock’n’roll stardom fade all too quickly as you move from the blissful naivety of childhood into adolescence and eventually adulthood. In truth, playing music is little more than a labour of love, and the members of Sydney’s Born Lion have been labouring relentlessly for some time now. Although the band’s present incarnation has only been around for a relatively short time, the four members of Born Lion have all spent several years cutting their teeth in the Wollongong music scene. “As Born Lion, we’ve been doing it for about three years now,” says frontman John Bowker. “We started in Wollongong, the guitarist and I are from Wollongong. Born Lion I guess comes from another band that comes from Wollongong. We played in different bands that had known about each other for a while, and then we started playing in the same band as each other about seven years ago.” Now based in Sydney, and with their debut album Final Words just released, Born Lion’s star is most certainly on the rise. Their earnest persistence is evident in both their music and work ethic, and the band’s efforts have been rewarded with performances at festivals such as Bigsound and a support slot on Yellowcard’s current national tour. While the boys from Born Lion aren’t completely unfamiliar with playing to audiences of this size, approaching these shows can be a little difficult.

“You have to rehearse a whole bunch, and I think it’s going to take a couple of shows to get the hang of those big venues,” Bowker says. “We’re a little more at home playing smaller venues, even playing on the floor. It takes a little while when you play the bigger venues to figure out how to use that space and how to perform, especially with the space between you and the audience. I’m used to moving myself out as close to the middle of the room as I can so I can be as close as possible to people, so the show becomes about the experience of the gig, and not about how precisely we’re playing.” The band’s loaded gig schedule, together with the release of the album, has culminated in a particularly hectic time for Born Lion. The band members aren’t new to the recording process, but Final Words is the biggest project any of them has committed to, and it was a test of endurance. “We worked with exactly the same person, and followed the same process we’ve done with every other recording,” says Bowker. “But I guess it was a bit more

involved. I’d never recorded a full-length album before, and just the sheer amount of songs we recorded was kind of draining. It was good, it was still fun, but I was heading up to Sydney every day, so I was driving constantly for a few weeks there.” To reiterate, at the end of the day, music is in essence a labour of love, and nobody knows that better than the people that labour over it. Fortunately for Bowker, he’s been steadily checking off achievements from his musical ‘things to do list’. “I just wanted to have quality recordings and have songs that we’re proud of,” he says. “It’s difficult to get a bunch of people together and form a band that makes music of a reasonable quality. It’s a dream just to find

good musicians to play with, as one goal, and then I guess to play to as many people as possible. I guess we’ve achieved some of those things I aspired to do when I was younger, such as playing bigger venues and going on tour with good bands. That’s what I wanted to do when I was young, to go on the road on successful tours.”

Silverchair influenced Ritter’s guitar playing. However, in the past twelve months, he’s had Violent Soho and DZ Deathrays on high rotation, which inspired the heavier sound and bigger chorus of Kneeling On Her God. As for formative influences, it’s something of a surprise to discover the first album Ritter ever bought was by the Eurhythmics. “I know, it is very un-grunge, but I used to love Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart,” he says. “She used to fascinate me and the whole vibe that they had going throughout their live shows and video clips was great. I definitely remember being grabbed by their songwriting and their dynamic as an early musical

memory.” Looking ahead, after next weekend’s launch, Leez Lido plan to take Kneeling On Her God all around the country. Given the lengthy gap since the band’s last release, Ritter’s audibly excited to get moving. “We have a new manager organising some dates for us at the moment,” he says. “We can’t wait to head out on the road and tour and then look forward to releasing an EP in early 2016. See you out somewhere on the road.”

and they weren’t really structured that well and they didn’t have the vocals,” Ekstrom says. “So when we went in, Anthony [Green, vocals] went with Will [Yip, producer] and they started hashing out some vocal ideas for those songs. Then the band just went into a room. I think, in a way, it was easier for us to all be equally involved in that environment. It was us getting together and then just saying ‘What are you guys feeling today?’ and then everybody starts playing and by the end of the day – literally five days in a row – we had a completely new piece of music for Anthony and Will to take a look at.” Thankfully, five albums into their career, Circa Survive are yet to run into any serious creative inertia. Ekstrom’s respect for the talents of his fellow band members

motivates him to keep searching for new ways to innovate. “As a fan of Anthony, early in the band I was just so in awe of what he was doing that it became really apparent the purpose for the band was to find a platform that we could do something that we felt was unique,” he says. “[Something musically] different enough that it was worth us being a band and to really give him a platform to reach people and deliver a lot of messages that I think are really powerful and help people.”

BORN LION will support Yellowcard at Margaret Court Arena on Saturday July 11. They’re also playing at The Workers Club, Geelong on Friday August 21 & The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday August 22. Final Words is out now via Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

LEEZ LIDO

THE SUN ALSO RISES By Tex Miller Andrew Ritter, lead vocalist and guitarist for Melbourne rockers Leez Lido, is tremendously excited about the band’s new single Kneeling On Her God. Since forming in 2011, the trio have been an ever-present feature of the local scene, playing everywhere from The Espy’s Gershwin Room, to The Brunswick Hotel, The Reverence and the John Curtin Bandroom. With Kneeling On Her God, they’re ready to crank things up a notch. “It’s a really exciting time for us at the moment, man,” Ritter says. “We have been sitting on this new single for a little bit. We recorded it at Headgap with Nayo, this fantastic Japanese producer. He really knows how to get the best out of the post rock/hardcore sound in the studio. We have a new manager now and after the launch we are looking to do some interstate and regional touring.” The band will launch the new single at Cherry Bar on Sunday July 19. Joining them on the night are all female rockers The Divine Fluxus and solo acoustic songstress Bianca Jane. “The launch itself is going to be massive,” says Ritter. “Bianca has a song that is tenth in the top 100 of triple j Unearthed at the moment, so it will be a special moment to see her play, [especially] given she is from New South Wales. And Divine Fluxus always put on a killer show, so it’s going to be a great night.” Leez Lido came together roughly four years ago, after the dissolution of various other projects. In fact, the

band’s core lineup wasn’t secured until they supported a thrash metal band and discovered drummer Jack Mac. In early 2013, they released the single Sunrising, along with an impressive film-clip starring model Helena Vestergaard. Ritter reminisces on filming the video at the Elwood Beach car park. “We used our drummer’s old ‘71 Valiant that wasn’t registered and Helena had to drive a manual which she hadn’t done before,” he says. “So the cops rocked up and we had to quickly shuffle her out of the front seat. By the end of it, I think we had three cop cars involved in the shoot and they ended up loving it. It was a bit nerve-wracking because the whole project could have been shut down before we began.” Being a three piece comes with its fair share of benefits and restrictions. Leez Lido are constantly thinking about how to optimise their sonic breadth and provide the best experience for the audience. Early on, ‘90s bands such as Grinspoon, Magic Dirt, Regurgitator and

LEEZ LIDO will launch their new single Kneeling On Her God at Cherry Bar on Sunday July 19, with support from Divine Fluxus and Bianca Jane.

CIRCA SURVIVE

TEAR IT DOWN By Augustus Welby

Circa Survive are headed back our way this September for a string of shows in support of their latest LP Descensus. Descensus came out in November 2014, and from a fan’s perspective it’s still an exciting curiosity. But for the band, by the time the record came out, they’d already been through the writing and recording process, endured a lengthy wait for its release, and have since been on the road performing the material every night. Seven months on from the release of Descensus, guitarist Brendan Ekstrom reflects on his relationship with the record. “It’s a very different vibe in a way,” he says. “Some of the songs have a bit more of a raw, aggressive feeling to them, so that’s an interesting dynamic to add to our live set. Also we’ve been playing Nesting Dolls, which has kind of become my favourite song to play live. It’s kind of an emotional song and then we do some special sauce at the end to spice it up a little bit.” To give Descensus a more aggressive edge, the band members looked towards some of their formative influences. “We’d all been through a lot before this record was written and there was definitely some anger and some things that we really needed to get out musically,” Ekstrom says. “I was just going back and listening to really raw music that made me want to feel that energy again, like Nirvana and old Soundgarden. That first Soundgarden record, that’s what I grew up listening to. And probably the Deftones and Tool; I

think there’s definitely some Deftones influence on the newer record.” The record’s embrace of raw energy is a contrast to the band’s major label flirtation, 2010’s Blue Sky Noise. “I have a great attachment to everything that came out from [Blue Sky Noise], and our experience recording it was really cool,” Ekstrom says. “But moving on from there, we needed to wipe that stuff out of our minds entirely and just do whatever the fuck we want and trust everybody else’s energy.” The majority of Descensus was written in the studio, which was a new approach for Circa Survive. The Philadelphian fivesome have long portrayed an image of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts and writing in the studio meant the individual members could be even more in sync. “We probably had five or six ideas before we went in

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BLACK COBRA

DOUBLE TROUBLE By Natalie Rogers

San Francisco sludge-metal outfit Black Cobra have just landed in Australia for the third time. The heavyset duo were last here in 2011 when they went road-tripping with Fu Manchu and co-headlined Melbourne’s Cherry Rock Festival. Four years on and Black Cobra have been to Europe twice, toured the States numerous times and have just wrapped up mastering their fifth studio album. Ahead of their trip, Beat spoke with drummer Rafa Martinez. “I just flew back from LA yesterday ± I was out there to master the record with John Golden,” he says. “A lot of musicians don’t attend their [mastering] sessions but I always do because I’m an engineer myself. I’m kind of a geek when it comes to sound and tech stuff. We’ve worked with [Golden] on every album - I really trust him and his input. He’s worked with just about everyone. Right now he’s re-mastering every Sonic Youth record, and he also just finished up a job for Soundgarden. He’s definitely got some stories to tell.” The forthcoming album was produced by Jon-Tore Dombu, formerly of Norwegian nu-metal band Torch. “We went to Florida to record it with Jon, and it was done in ten days,” Martinez says. “This is our first release on Season of Mist Records ± we signed with them earlier this year. As soon as everything is packaged and ready to go, it’ll be released. We’ll be playing it live at these Australian shows and we can’t wait for people to hear it.”

Kicking off this week, Black Cobra’s Australian tour also includes fellow US sludge duo Jucifer. Coined the Twins of Evil tour, Black Cobra’s performances are certain to justify that title. “We love to play live and loud,” Martinez says. “Jason [Landrian, guitar/vocals] and I like to mix our set-lists up and choose songs from all our albums. We now have 49 songs in our repertoire. We play so many different styles ± slow southern sludge, mid-tempo and creepy psychedelic metal ± that we mix with our thrashier-sounding songs.” Black Cobra officially formed in 2001, but the pair’s friendship goes back almost 20 years. “Jason and I met each other in Miami growing up,” Martinez says. “We had a band called Point Blank ± we both played guitar. This was in ‘96 or ‘97. We met through a mutual friend Sonya ± she played drums. We had so much fun back then. Sonya ended up working with Norah Jones. “Anyway, I moved to California and Jason was living in New York when we started thinking about starting

another band. I called him and said, ‘Hey, let’s do something long distance’. We never thought anything would come of it. Black Cobra was really just an experiment. A progressive metal two-piece? We’d never seen anything like this, we didn’t know how it would work live and if anybody would like it. We had no idea.” Black Cobra are proud representatives of San Francisco’s Bay Area. It has a long history of producing world-class rock, metal and punk bands; Faith No More, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Primus all call the area home. “As far as metal bands from around the area, there’s Exodus and Testament,” Martinez says. “Metallica and Slayer come here all the time. I mean, it’s not like it was in the ‘80s ± I didn’t live here then but from what I

understand it was absolutely insane. But I still love San Fran. There’s a lot of amazing independent music here and there’s a strong underground culture.” In fact, Black Cobra met Jucifer when they were sharing the bill at an underground club. “They were one of the first two-piece bands that we’d ever heard of,” Martinez says, “and it’ll be their first time ever in Australia. Jason and I are going to take them to see the Bon Scott statue in Fremantle. We can’t wait.”

couple of years before, and because I lived in Canberra, all I did was go to hardcore shows and metal shows. I loved going to those, seeing bands like 4 Dead play. I was so blown away and thought, ‘Fuck, I’ve got to learn how to sing like that somehow.’ So I think Young and Restless… well it wasn’t an experiment, but it was the first go, trying to sing in that style. Since that experience and era, and being older and now having Damian [Coward, drums] and Matt in the band, what we like and what we get stoked about is much more aligned, so much more solid, and maybe that’s why it seems like such a big leap.” On Take Control, Utomo sings, “I don’t know what success feels like.” It stands out on an album brimming with positive energy. “Every other song on High Tension

and Bully has been about positive reinforcement with positive themes,” she says. “It’s never personal, but that particular song was the last song I wanted to approach. It was so different to our other songs, with these gross themes, with anxiety and depression, where you really hate yourself and addressing those concerns. When I proposed the idea to the guys I said ‘Tell me if you think this is shit’, and they said ‘Nah’. Especially for Bully, that song is about being a bully to yourself.”

be even longer than that. So it’s very freeing for us to know that we can directly reach our audience and start sharing our music.” Jucifer’s two most recent releases are historical concept albums, and we’ll hear plenty of material from them at the band’s two Melbourne dates this month. “For us the real energy is based on being super stoked about what we’re playing, and our most recent stuff is some of our best, or at least we think so,” Valentine says. Here for the Twins of Evil tour with Black Cobra, the band’s first trip to Australia has been a long time coming. “It’s something we realised about a year ago,” Valentine says. “I just looked at Edgar and said, ‘You

know, we really better get to Australia.’ It’s something that we’ve always talked about but hadn’t gotten to do before. So to do it with our buddies Black Cobra is so perfect. We’ve known those guys for a long time, so it’ll be cool to be on a tour together. It’ll be the first time that we’ve done more than just a one-off show with them. Black Cobra are trance-y, pummelling and heavy, and their live sets are really exciting. Wait, I hate exciting as an adjective, but they are.”

BLACK COBRA play at Yah Yah’s on Thursday July 9 and Cherry Bar on Wednesday July 15. For both shows, they’ll be joined by Jucifer and special guests Dead.

HIGH TENSION

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT By Lachlan Kanoniuk

Melbourne outfit High Tension have been tearing up stages across the country and generally living the dream in Collingwood ± the suburb that gives its name to one of the standout cuts from the band’s self-titled debut. The four-piece are now gearing up to unleash album number two, Bully, and I’m sitting with vocalist Karina Utomo, fittingly enough, in a café in Collingwood. It’s a Monday afternoon and she’s nursing a Bloody Mary. A member of the wait staff comes over to ask if the drink is OK, or if it’s too spicy. “Actually it could be a bit spicier,” Utomo responds, and the waiter runs off to fetch more Tabasco. “We live here, pretty much,” she says of the band’s affinity for Collingwood. “Before High Tension formed, Ash [Pegram, guitar] and I we were in a band previously together [Young and Restless], and after that band broke up we still stayed in touch. Eventually we said, ‘Fuck, let’s do something else.’ I told Ash I wanted to do something far more brutal than what we were doing. Ash is not a heavy music fan, but he loves to play guitar. With Collingwood, I always remember seeing Matt [Weston, bass] at the Gas back in the day. I remember when we were looking for a bassist, I thought ‘Well what about Matt?’ I never really had chats with him so I hit him up on Facebook, and realised that we were next-door neighbours. It’s easier when you’re doing something with people that are close by, there’s no hassle or piss-farting around. So I met up with Matt

again at the Gas, and we were on the same page to begin with. I think Collingwood is a nod to that… well not easiness, but just feeling incredibly lucky to live on Easey Street, basically. We’ve had a lot of great times here, and the song was a semi-autobiography.” While Young and Restless weren’t devoid of aggression, the heaviness of High Tension is on another level entirely. “It came from living in Canberra,” Utomo laughs. “I have my theory about it. I grew up in Jakarta where there’s a big metal scene, which I think comes from the Javanese culture of passiveness, and being submissive. I think when you have that much submissiveness and forms of repression, that’s where heavy music thrives. But it’s all in a really positive way. “I think with Young and Restless, that time around mid-2000s when the band started, I only turned 18 a

HIGH TENSION’s new album Bully is out Friday July 10 through Double Cross Australia. They’re playing Saturday July 11 at Howler with support from I Exist, Outright and YLVA.

JUCIFER

KEEP I NG I T I N T H E FAMI LY By Natalie Rogers Jucifer’s music isn’t for the faint-hearted. The husband and wife act are one of the loudest bands in the world. At a live show, you’ll be greeted by a wall of speakers, typically standing at over three metres high and almost five metres wide. “We’re not everyone’s cup of tea because we’re extremely heavy in a live setting,” says guitarist/vocalist Gazelle Amber Valentine. “That’s something people don’t necessarily know if they’ve only heard a couple of songs from our albums. But if you’re into the really heavy shit then we’re your thing.” Valentine and her husband, drummer Edgar Livengood, are pioneers of the sludge/metal/thrash two-piece format. Prior to their formation in 1993, many thought it impossible to produce such a depth of sound without the use of loops or backing tracks. However, armed with only a drum kit and distorted guitars, Jucifer continue to break the rules and push boundaries to give the listener a “full on out-of-body experience”. A desire for the full experience runs deep in Valentine and Livengood. Fifteen years ago they left their hometown of Athens, Georgia and adopted the lifestyle of touring musicians. “We moved into our Winnebago in 2000 and we haven’t lived anywhere else since ± we’ve been on the road the whole time,” Valentine explains. The nomadic way of life may sound appealing, but Valentine is quick to clarify that having no fixed address doesn’t mean zero responsibilities. “Everything BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30

that people do when they live in a house, we still have to handle ± except that our house can break down and we can get stranded somewhere on the way to a gig. So it’s not exactly the simple life. It’s something that we sacrificed a lot for, but it’s rewarding and it allows us to do the thing that we love most in the world ± that is, playing music together all day, every day.” Jucifer uphold a DIY ethos, which led to them starting their own label Nomadic Fortress Records in 2010. “We handle it ourselves almost entirely,” Valentine says. “So far we don’t have a large catalogue, but we’re able to put out our own music when we want to for the first time during our career, and that’s an amazing liberty. It was always really frustrating being in the queue when working with other record labels. Now if we have an idea, we’re able to record it and get it out immediately. The label turnaround is usually at least a year, and it can

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JUCIFER play at Yah Yah’s on Thursday July 9 and Cherry Bar on Wednesday July 15 with Black Cobra and special guests Dead.

Melbourne skate punks Bodyjar have announced the release of their highly successful 2000 album How It Works on vinyl, for the first time. The record will be pressed on orange and blue vinyl, in a limited run of 500 copies. The band has also announced a release show on October 3 at Northcote Social Club, with special guests Clowns. Tickets and record pre-orders available now via 24Hundred. New York hardcore legends Sick of it All have announced a national tour in October. The band will play The Corner Hotel on October 9. The band continues to tour in support of their 2014 album The Last Act of Defiance. Tickets available July 10 from the venue. New York City ska-core pioneers Leftover Crack have reportedly finished recording their new album. Guest musicians on the record are members of Bouncing Souls, Blackbird Raum and Mischief Brew. The album is to be released via Fat Wreck Chords, their first since 2004’s Fuck World Trade. Long running pop-punk icons Descendents are reportedly working on a new record. In a short Facebook post by guitarist Stephen Egerton, accompanied by an image of empty candy wrappers, the band is explained to be working on new material. The band’s last record was 2004’s Cool to be You. In yet another formation of a supergroup ± it seems to happen every week these days ± Ty Segall, Steven McDonald (Redd Kross/OFF!) and Dale Crover (Melvins) have announced their new band Broken Bat. The band has released a short teaser recording, available online now. Chicago political punks Rise Against have announced a national tour in November. Last here in February supporting Foo Fighters, the band will perform at Margaret Court Arena on December 2. Tickets available June 9 from the usual outlets. Melbourne’s long running metallic hardcore outfit Mindsnare have released various social media posts showing the recording of their as yet untitled new album. Although with no release date or record label announced, the band remains active and is set to play The Bendigo Hotel on August 7. The band’s last release was a 2011 split 7” with Ringworm

CORE GIG GUIDE THURSDAY JULY 9:

• Graves, Disparo, Grudge, Solis, Removalist at The Bendigo Hotel • Black Cobra, Jucifer, Dead, Child at Yah Yah’s

• Clowns, Apart From This, WET Pensioner, Three Headed Fool at Reverence Hotel • The Playbook, The Valley Ends, Glass Empire at Next! • Mangelwurzel, Good Morning, BJ Morriszonkle at The Grace Darling Hotel • Pale Heads, Legends of Motorsport, Jacky Winter at The John Curtin Hotel • Rock Against Racism feat. Julez & Manix, Royalty Noise, Special Guests, Tactical Attack, The Shabbab at The Evelyn Hotel

FRIDAY JULY 10:

• Dangers, Staunch, Sick Machine, Broken, Retrace, Years of Abuse at The Bendigo Hotel • Coffin Wolf, Mayweather, Postscript, Joe Guiton and the Suicide Tuesdays, Drexler at The Public Bar • Belligerent Intent, Metalstorm, Atomic Death Squad, Counter Attack, Substance Abuse, The Fuckups at The Reverence Hotel • Wil Wagner, Laura Imbruglia, Georgia Maq at The Thornbury Theatre • Ezekiel Ox, DJ Marze at Laundry Bar

SATURDAY JULY 11:

• Dangers, Free World, Staunch, Rebirth, Proclaim at Secret Location • Bucky’s 50th feat. Debacle, Liquor Snatch, Half Pints, Crackwhore, Wotrot, Strawberry Fistcake, Powerskids, Means of Appeasement, Substance Abuse, Bad at Knitting, Con Troll, Goose AKF at The Dancing Dog • High Tension, Outright, I Exist, YLVA at Howler • The Vultures, Muscle Car, Tooze and Bruce, The Essentials at The Reverence Hotel • The Mercy Kills, Tequila Mockingbird, Twin Ages at Cherry Bar • The Ramshackle Army, Doubleblack, Yard Apes, The Young Saviours at Ding Dong Lounge

SUNDAY JULY 12:

• Disparo, Graves, Hailgun, Bombs Over Brunswick, Pagan, Years of Abuse at The Tote • The Revenants, Maricopa Wells, Ry Kemp, Tim Hampshire at The Reverence Hotel • Bin Juice, Robbo, Flatman and Ribbon, RIP Lars at Warren’s Upstairs Basement

MONDAY JULY 13:

• Disparo, Graves, Wounded Pig, Midwife, Grudge at The Public Bar • 713 High Boys Smokeout feat. Bong Worship, THC/DC, Grim Reefer, Need 4 Weed, Casey Stoner at Gibby’s Retreat

THIS WEEK AT THE BENDIGO

Headlining on Saturday July 11 are the mighty Earth, who have spent 20-plus years crushing audiences with their melodic death metal inspired by the early-‘90s Swedish scene. Main support is Adamus Exul, who are a sadistic swipe at the modern poison of man. On tour for their sophomore album, Canberra’s atmospheric black metallers Claret Ash are not to be missed. The blackened death/doom outfit Feralian will perform hymns of sorrow and woe. Wood of Suicides will also be joining this line-up, performing their brand of harrowing black/drone/death doom. And opening is one-man band Subterranean Drilling Machine with his unique brand of chaotic black/grind/noise.

ORPHEUS OMEGA RELEASE NEW VIDEO

Melbourne melodic death metallers Orpheus Omega have released an official video for the song Karma Favours The Weak from their upcoming album Partum Vita Mortem. The video was shot in Melbourne by director Daniel Nolan of Clear Reel Productions and you can find it on YouTube. The band says, “As circumstance and unpredictability can get the better of us, it’s hard not to feel we fight a losing battle against fate. But destiny is in the eye of the beholder and we forget that we are the ones in control of our future.” Orpheus Omega will be heading out on tour to support the Friday July 24 release of the album (through Kolony Records and in Australia via Rocket/Nerve Gas). They’re playing Friday July 31 at The Corner Hotel with Be’lakor and Hollow World, and Sunday August 9 at Musicland with Truth Corroded, Hadal Maw & more.

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME RELEASE COMA ECLIPTIC

Grandiose, dynamic, heavy, melodic, technically challenging: these are all words that fall short when trying to describe Between the Buried and Me. Their seventh full-length album, Coma Ecliptic, stands as a significant step in the evolution of the group as a whole, as well as the individual musicians: vocalist/keyboardist Tommy Rogers, guitarists Paul Waggoner and Dustie Waring, bassist Dan Briggs, and drummer Blake Richardson. Rogers says “Coma Ecliptic is a new life for BTBAM. Throughout the process we worked harder than we ever have and really pushed the BTBAM sound to a new identity.

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In a world of repetition, I’m very proud to be a part of something that is extremely rewarding, as well as frightening. When you don’t push yourself you will never know what the outcome is. The outcome is Coma Ecliptic.” The album was recorded in January and February of 2015 with long time Between the Buried and Me producer Jamie King, mostly at the Basement Recordings in North Carolina. It’s out FridayJuly 10 via Metal Blade/Rocket.

HAMMERFALL PLAY EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN SHOW IN MELBOURNE

The career of Swedish heavy metal pioneers Hammerfall is one amazing march of triumph. After revolutionising the genre by the end of the ‘90s, the Gothenburg quintet released a total of nine studio albums, several compilations, live-releases and toured the globe relentlessly. Finally, for the first time ever, Hammerfall will perform in Australia and it will be for one exclusive, no holding back, feature packed fan-favourite show in Melbourne on Tuesday October 13 at 170 Russell. You read that right; it’s not even a tour, it’s one show. There will be strictly limited VIP meet and greet passes available for only 25 people, obtainable from metalobsession.net. Early bird tickets are on sale now from Metal Obsession and will hit ticketing outlets on Monday July 13.

NEW BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

Over the course of their career, Bullet For My Valentine has sold millions of records, amassed a worldwide army of fans, appeared on dozens of magazine covers and received mass critical praise for their highly-influential albums. Now, the band looks to transcend genres with their game-changing album, Venom. Vocalist Matt Tuck says, “Anything that went a slight bit too melodic or pop, we scrapped right away. We wanted to keep this as dark as possible. It was very important that the album sounded intense. That’s what our fans loved the most since day one.” The album was produced by Carl Bown and Colin Richardson (Slipknot, Machine Head, Trivium) at Metropolis Studio in London. It’ll be released Friday August 14 via Sony Music Australia.

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Chris Cavill

1. Growing Up I was introduced to many great artists growing up, such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Elton John, all thanks to my mum. My dad’s favourite band was The Seekers, he also loves my music… don’t know if this is a good thing? 2. Inspirations My most prominent musician influences are Neil Young, Ben Harper and Ryan Adams, to name a few. Though, the main people who inspire me are my loved ones. I have a seven-month-old son who lights up my world everyday. 3. Your Band The Prospectors are great musicians, and even better blokes. We’re all very family-oriented guys, the kind of band who likes to bring their kids to festivals, but can also throw back a few beers after dusk. 4. The Music You Make As a songwriter, I try to keep things pretty true to myself and the world I’ve experienced. The songs tend to waver between folk acoustic ballads and full-blown rock’n’roll, not too dissimilar to the musical influences mentioned earlier. As a band, we definitely like to play to the audience we have on the night and are pretty flexible with our sets. 5. Music, Right Here, Right Now We’re continually inspired by our friends who get up time and time again, pouring out their hearts onstage. The musical family, our supporters, and a genuine love for authentic music are what keep us going as songwriters and performers. CHRIS CAVILL & THE PROSPECTORS Midnight Train Tour arrives at The Toff in Town on Saturday July 18 with support from Rob Sawyer and Mousecapades.

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as a solo artist, but also comes with his new record Psalm IV: Den Sista Sorgen. His Gasometer performance will most likely be his only live performance this year, and it’s unlikely he’ll be returning to our shores again anytime soon. Catch Lindsay Phillips at the Gasometer, with Broads and Brendan Welch in support, this Wednesday July 8 from 7.30pm. Tickets are $15 on the door.

THURSDAY JULY 9

GEOFF ACHISON

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E B A R

Blues master Geoff Achison is back from touring the States for a brief time, and he’ll be showing us how it’s done at this week’s Whole Lotta Blues on Thursday July 9. Find out what he’s been up to, and listen to your favourites the way the man does them best. Doors open at 8pm with free entry.

one at The Reverence Hotel for all you connoisseurs of hard as nails local punk. With supports on the night coming from Apart From This, Wet Pensioner and Three Headed Fool, try juggle your priorities this Thursday July 9 so Clowns comes on top. Doors open at 8pm, tickets are on the door only for $15.

OLD ETIQUETTES

T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L

Old Etiquettes are a local five piece started by J M S Harrison and Thomas Maginn, who mutually shared a love of The Cure and old fashioned ways. Things have gone off in all kinds of directions since then, but the band is very much alive with a very rich sound of three guitars, bass and drums. With music that is riddled with haunting, pretty walls of sound that crash and cascade both furiously and delicately, be sure to catch them when they hit The Retreat Hotel this Wednesday July 8. Entry is free as always, the band starts at 8.30pm.

LINDSAY PHILLIPS THE GASOMETER

Having left his native home-town of Melbourne three years ago for permanent residency in Sweden, singersongwriter Lindsay Phillips is back for a brief stop in Australia, playing in Melbourne as part of Leaps and Bounds Music Festival. 2015 not only marks the 10th yeah or Lindsay’s career

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HELEN PERRIS

T H E B U T T E R F LY C L U B

Helen Perris is proud to forge her own path in the independent music scene in Sydney. Eschewing the major-label model, she has successfully crowdfunded her two EPs and recently launched her own subscription community (similar to Patreon) to work on her music directly with her fanbase. She is bringing her unique and honest suite of songs to the intimate downstairs bar of The Butterfly Club on Wednesday July the 8th at 7pm. Entry is $20.

The Lost Day return to The Retreat this week to launch their second EP, Oceans. Recorded at Ginger Studios in Cremorne, their latest EP captures the raw energy of The Lost Day’s live shows, featuring the band singing choruses en masse and energetic stompy outtros. The Oceans EP Launch is supported by bands Atlas and Mark Campbell and the Ravens, both renowned for their excellent live shows. Be sure to catch this big lineup from 8.30pm onwards on Thursday July 9. Entry is free, as always.

CLOWNS

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NICHAUD FITZGIBBON THE COMMUNE

This Thursday July 9, Nichaud Fitzgibbon takes over The Commune for a night of sultry, warm jazz. Recognised as Australia’s premier jazz stylist, her natural charisma and feisty elegance brings sophistication to performances offering a repertoire of popular jazz standards from the Great American Songbook - leaving you wanting more from her selection of swing and grooves to bossa and blues. Although there’s no cover on the night, a minimum of $20pp is required to see her when she plays at The Commune this Thursday July 9. Doors open from 6pm.

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San Francisco’s premier doom laden heavy metal duo Black Cobra will be making their highly anticipated and long awaited return to Australian shores this July. After two hugely successful Australian tours, their last seeing them opening for Fu Manchu across Australia and New Zealand and co-headlining Cherry Rock Festival, this unrelenting twopiece are ready to blow minds all over again. With a loyal following the world over, and two critically acclaimed albums under their belt, Black Cobra’s return will be a welcome one amongst fans of High on Fire, Motorhead, Sleep, Mastodon, The Melvins and the likes. Catch them on Thursday June 9 from 7pm at Yah Yah’s, tickets are $30.

TIPRATS

T H E C AT F I S H

Good time garage guys Tiprats get Club Catty heaving on Thursday July 9 as part of a bumper night of raucous rock and roll at The Catfish. That’s not all on offer, with support on the night coming from party starters Wet Meal, and the deep, blues drenched rock of Submarines. An electric lineup featuring some of Melbourne’s best musical exponents of loose, gritty guitar tunes, maybe take Friday off work in advance. Just $5 entry, from 8.30pm at The Catfish.

PALE HEADS

THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL

With all the pressing plants of the world swamped by Lars Ulrich’s dick move of pressing one million Metallica albums to vinyl for Record Store Day 2015, bands like Pale Heads have had to tour their newly released album Headless without

copies of the record at shows. To make up for this, Pale Heads are pleased to announce a vinyl release show at The John Curtin Hotel, going down this Thursday July 9. Featuring current and former members of The Nation Blue, Batpiss, Harmony, Pairs & The Drones, you get a pretty decent idea of what Pale Heads might sound like - dirgey punk rock, high on the noise and drunk on power. Come and see them tear the roof off the Curtin Hotel. Tickets are $10 on the door, doors open at 8:30pm.

CHERRY SOUL 15TH BIRTHDAY CHERRY BAR

On Thursday July 9, Cherry Bar will celebrate its historic 15th birthday of their legendary Soul In The Basement night with original soul DJs Vince ‘The Prince’ Peach and Pierre ‘Soulgroove’66’ Baroni, making it the world’s longest running weekly soul night. Vince and Pierre only play original 45rpm vinyl singles from their own vast collections and from 9pm to 5am on this special birthday celebration they’ll be DJ-ing for 8 hours straight - playing the most popular dance-floor tunes of their incredible 15 year reign. Doors open from 8pm, entry is $10 on the door.

MELODY POOL CELLAR BAR

Since the release of her acclaimed debut album The Hurting Scene, Melody Pool has continued to write and develop her rare sound, exploring arrangements and collaborative processes to develop a new collection of material that is captivating and raw. Ahead of some studio time to work on her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Melody is taking her songs,

old and new, through venues around Victoria. Catch her at Cellar Bar this Thursday July 9 from 8pm, tickets are $15 on the doors.

JACQUI STERLING THE WESLE Y ANNE

Jacqui Sterling’s music is an eclectic blend of progressive folk, celtic roots and storytelling, and her music is imbued with traces of this Irish heritage with rhythmic foot to floorboards accoustic guitar and hauntingly beautiful vocal melodies. She has shared the stage with Clare Bowditch, Declan O’Rourke, Josh Pyke, Lanie Lane, The Pierce Brothers, Tex Perkins and Glen Hansard to name a few. This will be her farewell gig before she heads off to Ireland to once again tour there and record her long awaited album, and with support from friends Sarah Carroll and Harmony Byrne – her show at The Wesley Anne this Thursday July 9 is not to be missed. Tickets are $15, doors open at 8pm.

GOLDEN FEATURES PRINCE BANDROOM

Golden Features is performing at the Prince Bandroom for two nights as a part of his national XXIV tour. The masked crusader and producer has spent the past six months preparing music, visuals and production for his most spectacular tour yet. Golden Features, best known for his hits Tell Me featuring Nicole Millar, and Guillotine, unveiled brand new track Baxter from his forthcoming EP and describes the track as one of the darkest songs on the release. He’ll be bringing his new material to the Prince Bandroom on Thursday July 9. Tickets will set you back $40, doors open at 9pm.

GRAVES

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

Want some hard riffs this Thursday night? Of course you do. Graves have popped their mugs in from NZ to bring brutal hardcore to our shores, and with punishing jams from DisXparo, GRUDGE!, Removalist and Drain Life, you’re in for a skull splitter if you pop in to the Bendigo this Thursday July 9. Entry is $8, doors open at 8:30pm. FRIDAY JULY 10

THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL THE BRUNNY ’S 6TH BIRTHDAY

How many times have you woken up the next day and had a hangover courtesy of the Brunswick Hotel? On the 10th of July, they’re celebrating 6 years since going from a small low key music venue with a concrete outdoor area, to the live oasis for up and coming bands to cut their teeth on stage, a lavish beer garden and the destination on everyone’s list when out on Sydney Road. Come dressed as your favourite medieval character (Or GoT if you swing that way) and you’ll get cheaper drinks. To help celebrate, they’ve got music from Cabbages & Kings, DEAD SET LEDGER, Australian Kingswood Factory, Lieutenant Jam and Luna Ghost. And it’s free.

TRENDYFRIENDS BONEY

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Define your genre in five words or less: Raw-wave grunge psychedelic pop. Swomeone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “Hey man, check this band. They’re pretty rawwave.” How long have you been gigging and writing? A couple of years. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Arirang Festival in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It was wild. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Battleaxe. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? The second Star Wars VII trailer. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Great hairdos, a keytar, and some cigarettes. Do you have any record releases to date? We have a released a single called Cough Syrup. You can stream and download it in all the usual places, or you can watch the music video. It has slow-motion, a bubble machine, reverse, dry ice, and some other special effects. Why should everyone come and see your band? Because seeing Cinema 6 at the Brunswick Hotel is much less old and boring than sitting at home watching renovation shows. See CINEMA 6 on Thursday July 9 at the Brunswick Hotel, with Spiral Arm, Palmerslum and Big League.

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60 SECONDS WITH…

Lydia Goldthorpe

What’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? I’m Lydia Goldthorpe and I’m a solo artist. At the moment I am focused on my voice and the keys on my piano. During the creation of my new EP Simple Local, I was doing a lot of scavenging for sound so that my producer and I could create a story. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Likenings seem to include Portishead, Tori Amos and Kate Bush. I suppose that like Tori Amos and Kate Bush, I use piano as my primary instrument (outside of my voice). Portishead pulsates with intense emotion, which is how I feel most days. What do you love about making music? Making music has, so far, been my answer to life. It unconditionally welcomes me with wide-open arms, no matter what state I am in and lets me stay there, without judgement, for as long as I need. What do you hate about the music industry? I would prefer that recording and performance artists weren’t expected to give away their skills for such a low wage, if any wage at all. Also, the drinking culture that surrounds live music is unhealthy. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be? Paris, 1900, Claude Debussy. Except I wouldn’t want to waste time showing him my stuff, I would want him to show me his. His music paints pictures. LYDIA GOLDTHORPE will launch her debut EP Simple Local on Wednesday July 15 at Longplay Cinema. If you come to the show and mention something in this article you’ll get a free copy of Simple Local.

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Gold Medal Famous

You’re playing a triple-header of Melbourne shows. Has the indie scene in Wellington, NZ, been an encouraging environment for you guys to cut your teeth? There’s a lot of bands, some more interesting than others. Some of our favourite Wellington acts to play with more recently have been Mr Sterile Assembly, Das Uber Nana and Karl Jensen. New Zealand has a good DIY scene. Gold Medal Famous aren’t a run of the mill band indie band. You work with noisy electronics and your lyrics can be pretty severe. Did you feel a need to distance yourselves from the pack? It just seems to be the style that comes out. Our songs usually come from the perspective of a brutally honest late-30s middle class office worker who has a liking for making noise, especially with his Theremin. The lyrics are factual and no nonsense, which often makes them hilarious, the modern world being what it is. As far as political statements go, the song John Key is Still A Dick is about as blunt as they come. Do you think there’s been an absence of protest music in the current century? Totally. There’s so much to protest about and not many musicians making protest music. John Key is still a dick is a sequel to John Key is a dick, which we did 14 different versions of including handbag house and chillwave for the 2011 general election. Musicians have an opportunity to speak truth to power and should do it. GOLD MEDAL FAMOUS play The Public Bar on Thursday July 16, Bar Open on Friday July 17 and The Grace Darling on Saturday July 18. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34

dance, turnt yet wavy rap, tarp bangers, old indie memories, cheesy dumb shit and everything in between. Trendyfriends is so cool that it’s uncool, but that’s what makes it cool maybe. Kinda. Go party at Boney on Friday July 10 from 11pm. Entry is $10.

DANGERS

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

It’s a rare occasion where you get to catch some pissed off, dirty Californian hardcore this side of the equator, but lucky for you – The Bendigo delivers. Dangers are hitting the Bendigo this Friday with supports from Staunch, Sick Machine, Broken, Retrace and Years Of Abuse. Mosh like your dole check depends on it. Entry is $15, doors from 8pm.

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DEAR PLASTIC

THE WORKER’S CLUB

Dear Plastic are returning to The Worker’s Club for a huge night this Friday July 10 as part of the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. Not only are Dear Plastic launching Overwinter, the fourth single and film clip from their critically acclaimed The Thieves Are Babes album, it will also be the long awaited deluxe release of The Thieves Are Babes on red vinyl. The show will also feature projections by local visual artist and collaborator David Abbott, who assisted in filming the clip. Catch Dear Plastic at The Worker’s Club, Friday July 10 from 8pm. Tickets are $15.

PLAYWRITE

THE GASOMETER HOTEL

Playwrite are gearing up to release their latest single Animals Housed, which has been knocking around since the very beginning of the band, at The Gasometer this Friday July 10. For three years they have captivated audiences with their vibrant live performances, with pounding drums, samples and swirling guitars. Their latest single Whittaker garnered them a position as FBi’s Unsigned Artist of the Week, as well as securing them a support slot for British icons Elbow. Playwrite launch their single, Animals Housed, at the Gasometer this Friday July 10, with Mayfair Kytes, Woodes and Dorsal Fins DJs in support. Doors open 8pm with $15 entry.

IAN MOSS

T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B

Respected as one of Australia’s iconic musicians, five times ARIA winner Ian Moss delivers an unforgettable sound – not only as a telling soloist on guitar but especially with his silken voice, ringing with clarity resonating with pure soul. Ian will be performing all of the classic hits from his well renowned Six Strings album, as well as the big hitters form his Let’s All Get Together and Soul on West 53rd albums. He plays at The Flying Saucer Club this Friday July 10. Tickets will set you back $35 when the doors open at 6pm.

Rusty James is out to spread the good word that is his new gospel, rock’n’roll blues, country-esque band, Rusty James & The Hellfire Flames. They’ve built something in St Kilda as a real musos band, playing tracks like Gotta Serve Somebody, Ventilator Blues, Ooh Las Vegas (Gram Parsons) and originals of that ilk. Be sure to catch them at Cherry Bar this Friday July 10 from 5pm onwards. Entry is $13.

FIERCE MILD YA H YA H ' S

A psychedelic event takes off at Yah Yah's this Friday July 10, featuring some of Melbourne’s biggest and best shoegaze, psych and fuzz bands alongside live visual projection displays, to coincide with the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. With Fierce Mild headlining and support coming from The Black Heart Death Cult, Spiral Arm and Lorikeet, head down to Yah Yah's and catch some music while enjoying the sights and sounds of the projection festival. Entry is $13, doors open at 8pm.

THE LIVING EYES T H E C AT F I S H

The Gertrude Street Projection Festival launches their festival hub at The Catfish this week, with an opening night party set for this Friday July 10. After checking out the visual artworks, you can catch some live music with The Living Eyes, Pink Tiles and the Chook Races DJs taking on the Catfish stage upstairs. The music kicks off from 9pm, with free entry.

POPROCKS WITH DR PHIL SMITH THE TOFF IN TOWN

PopRocks rocks The Toff every Friday from 9pm, playing no brainers, guilty pleasures, club classics and the best in pop from Chuck Berry to Katy Perry and everything in between. There’ll be eight hours of hits from the ‘50s to the ‘10s, including everything from disco to yacht rock, and maybe even a show-tune or power ballad thrown in. The party starts at 9pm and entry is always free, so hit the Toff In Town this Friday July 10 and bust any move you want.

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CITY CALM DOWN

NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB

After three years in the studio, City Calm Down have revealed some big news about their debut full length. The four-piece have announced that they’ll release their debut album, In A Restless House on September 11, and will preview the LP at a one-off show this July. Even more, they’ve unveiled the first single from the album, Rabbit Run, which can be listened to via Soundcloud. Since releasing their Movements EP in November 2012, City Calm Down have enjoyed a mountain of success, with their music receiving international media attention and heavy airplay, landing them on tours with alt-J, CHVRCHES and Bombay Bicycle Club. They’ll reveal In A Restless House on Friday July 10 at Northcote Social Club. Tickets are $15 through Ticketscout.

CROSS CITY SESSIONS SHADOW ELECTRIC

To round out the past two nights of crushing hardcore, The Bendigo will be hosting some melodic death metal for your aural pleasure this Saturday July 11. The Swedish, death inspired metal titans Earth are headlining, with support coming from Adamus Exul, Claret Ash, Feralian and Wood Of Suicides – with one man band Subterranean Drilling Machine opening with a black/ grind/noise set that’s sure to turn heads. Get down to the Bendigo this weekend, doors open 6.30pm with $12 entry.

SATURDAY JULY 11

FORMIDABLE VEGETABLE SOUND SYSTEM 303

With growing recognition at home and overseas, Formidable Vegetable Sound System have become known and loved on every continent for their brasssoaked electro-swing tracks on peak-oil, plants and permaculture. Their song No Such Thing As Waste received a WAM Song Of The Year Award in 2013, and the band was nominated for Best World Music Act in the 2014 WA Awards. They’ll be following up on their homegrown successes by hitting 303 this Saturday July 11 to launch their forthcoming album Radish Beets – be sure to get down to 303 from 7.30pm onwards to catch these fresh jams. Entry is $20 on the door. You should definitely turnip for this one, it cornt be missed.

TOM DOCKRAY

T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L

Tom Dockray has been mesmerising crowds across Australia with his wit and syrupy vocals, picking and singing like a man possessed. With the critically acclaimed Iron Suit EP under his belt, strong radio airplay, and a growing base of dedicated fans, Tom is a unique and exciting newcomer for fans of great guitar picking and songwriting alike. Head down to The Retreat from 5pm to catch Tom’s set, and stick around for some more guitar tunes being played over the course of the night. Start your night right with Tom Dockray, entry is free.

THE DROP BEARS

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E B A R

Triple M darlings The Drop Bears are headlining this Saturday July 11 at Whole Lotta Love for what will be their only July show. Come and see what all the fuss is about, and catch supports Follow No Rules as they unleash their new music video. Along for the ride are grunge babies Shadows At Bay, and Darwin faves Pole Top Rescue. Doors open at 8pm with $10 entry.

THE EIGHTY 88S

THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL

After a highly successful Pozible campaign, raising some cash to record their debut album, The Eighty 88s are finally ready to drop said album. This Friday July 10, The Eighty 88s are bringing some dirty soul and driving grooves to the Curtin as they headline a sweet lineup, with rock stars The Projectionists and DJ Richie 1250 getting in on the action. Get down to the Curtin from 8.30pm, entry is just $10 at the door.

EARTH

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Big Village and Rawthentic Records, in collaboration with Leaps And Bounds Festival and Label Of Love, present Cross City Sessions. With a first rate lineup, Cross City Sessions featured artists from their respective labels, coming together to showcase there work and collaborate on one massive event. On the Big Village side, we got Soul Benefits, P. Smurf, Rapaport and DJ Cost coming down, and over with Rawthentic they’ve got P. Link, J Mac, Downpat and DJ Relik showcasing their stuff. Doors open 6.30pm with $15 tickets.

THE REVERENCE HOTEL

The Drunken Poachers, with their wily ways and wooden instruments, have snuck boot-clad and boozed onto Melbourne’s live music stages. The dubious sextet are not to be trusted, they poach the tunes of others, and after a whitewash of their brand of Irish-blue-grasscountry, they declare what never belonged to them their own. Dishonest and dirty and wearing flannelette better than you do, they’re leaving heavy heads and dented floors in their very catchy wake. Be sure to catch The Drunken Poachers this Friday July 10 when they take over the front bar at The Reverence Hotel. Entry is free, doors open at 8:30pm.

stages they never thought they’d hit. To celebrate their five years together, The Ramshackle Army are getting rowdy at Ding Dong Lounge this Saturday July 11 with good mates Double Black, The Yard Apes and The Young Saviours. Join the festivities from 8pm, entry is $12.

BELLE HAVEN

THE WORKERS CLUB

After three years of writing, recording and waiting, Belle Haven have finally released their debut album, Everything Ablaze, and are currently touring around Australia in celebration. Their Melbourne show is locked in for this Saturday July 11 at The Worker’s Club, and with support from Strickland, Caulfield, Spectral Fires and DriveTime Commute, be prepared to scream the night away and head home at peace, safe in the comfort that your night was well spent. Doors open 7pm with $15 tickets.

THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY

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It’s June 2010, and a naive group of six step onto a Melbourne stage for the first time, debuting a new batch of Celt punk tunes with the intention of fun and chaos. Fast forward five years and The Ramshackle Army have travelled up and down the country a number of times, played with heroes, mates, and on

Boney’s Lost Weekend party series returns, this week featuring Pocosmos shooting a four hour intergalactic fantasy set. Every Saturday begins with CC: Disco and friends at the controls, turning tropical flavours into delectable diva anthems in the seductive suite, all before Andee Frost takes charge with a

DING DONG LOUNGE

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This will be one of Forces’ few live performances of 2015 before they head over to Europe, so be sure to catch them while you can. Tickets are $14, doors open at 8pm. Come down for some electronic fun.

The Steve Miller Band

erence Hotel this Saturday, playing the second of three Melbourne shows on their ten date Walkholme City Single Tour. They will be supported by The Essentials, Tooze & Bruce and Muscle Car, who recently supported Motley Crue and Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena. The night kicks off at 8pm with a $10 entry fee. Get on it this Saturday July 11.

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POP DREAMS

THORNBURY BALLROOM

After the demise of Preston art space The Bank, the monthly Pop Dreams gigs had to find a new home. Now located (for the time being) at a swanky Thornbury dance studio, Pop Dreams have assembled a star-studded line-up to celebrate the change and to make a party with something for everyone. Melbourne’s most handsome and impressive garage streetwalkers The Steve Miller Band will be headlining a nineband bill along with monkey rebels Witch Hats performing their first show in over a year, so get down to the Thornbury Ballroom this Saturday July 11 and catch Pop Dreams’ revival. Entry is $10, show starts at 5pm.

THE DELVENES

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Melbourne’s premier power pop, country, psyche folksters The Delvenes are launching their Rex EP at The Retreat Hotel this weekend, Saturday July 11. They’ll be teaming up with Monique Brumby, playing a fundraiser show for Kim Pinker who is suffering from MS, and Cold Irons Bound who will open up proceedings on the night. Doors open 8pm with free entry.

MAJOR LEAGUES

THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL

FORCES

THE TOTE

Melbourne synth outfit Forces are headlining a stellar lineup this Saturday July 11 at The Tote, with Multiple Man, Lucy Cliché, Lakes, Regional Curse and Kokpit DJs all supporting on the night.

Hard rockers Torrential Thrill are returning to the stage this Saturday July 11 for the release of their first single, King of the Road. Following from the bands widely acclaimed album launch at the Cherry Bar this past May, the hooligans are sure to annihilate the winter chill with a meltdown of hard crunching hits from their April release MARS. Completing the line-up are special guests H.Zed and Drova, bringing their own blend of mayhem set for a night no head-banger will want to miss. Catch them all on Saturday when they take over Yah Yah’s from 8pm. Tickets are $13.

THE VULTURES

THE REVERENCE HOTEL

Award winning Gold Coast rock trio The Vultures are heading to The Rev-

Brisbane’s Major Leagues have established themselves as one of Australia’s most endearing advocates of garage pop, with their 2013 debut EP Weird Season drawing praise from tastemakers worldwide. This year, the four piece are returning with an east coast headline tour and soon-to-drop single, preceding the release of their sophomore EP. Major Leagues play The Curtin on Saturday July 11 from 8.30pm, with Redspencer and Ciggie Witch. Tickets are $10+bf online, and on the door if available.

LABEL OF LOVE: RICE IS NICE EDITION SHADOW ELECTRIC

Saturday July 11 brings five artists to Shadow Electric, as the Leaps & Bounds Label of Love series ramps up their next event with 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 the 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. Tickets are $10, doors open at 6pm.

BREAKING ORBIT

THE TOFF IN TOWN

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 $18, doors open at 7:30pm.

HIGH TENSION HOWLER

In support of their new album Bully, High Tension have announced a small run of shows this July. The Melbourne four-piece have just returned home after touring the country with King Parrot. Now they’ve announced three shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to celebrate their second album. Bully is the follow up to 2012’s Death Beat, which

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Mcrobin

Name/Band: James McGuffie AKA Mcrobin. Define your genre in five words or less: Elegant mesmerising alternative folk rock. How long have you been gigging and writing? I’ve been in bands since I was about 15, but I only started the Mcrobin project 12 months ago. I’ve been playing solo pretty constantly since then, but the EP Launch will be the first gig with a full band. What inspires or has influenced your music? The music and movies that I’m exposed to influence my music a lot. Most of my own songs are written somewhere in the euphoric period immediately following a great gig, the first listen of a new album, or after watching an outstanding film. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? I’d like to think that a band has to earn their place over a long period of time to have long lasting success. I’m not a fan of the overnight success story. Do you have any record releases to date? I released a single last year called Waiting For The Rain and in the last month I’ve released two singles from the upcoming Fault Lines EP. They’re all available on my Bandcamp as well as Spotify, iTunes etc. Why should everyone come and see your band? Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. If this sentence does anything for you then you should definitely come to the gig. MCROBIN launches the Fault Lines EP on Sunday July 12 at The Evelyn, as part of Leaps & Bounds Festival. Support comes from Liv Cartledge, Alma Kalorama and DASH. It all kicks off at 2pm.

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Oisima

You’re heading back our way for ReMastered Myths. ReMastered Myths facilitates collaborations between artists from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds. Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background? My father’s side of the family come from a Fijian background and my mother’s is Australian/English. Your new album Nicaragua Nights is full of immersive electronic and acoustic textures, charting a massive breadth of stylistic influences. Where did your musical journey start? I grew up surrounded by friends who were amazingly talented guitarists, drummers etc. My musical journey started at a young age predominantly as a blues/folk guitarist and vocalist. Late in high school I started experimenting in more electronic-based sounds and things gained momentum from there. When you were making the album, was it a conscious goal to merge music from various cultures? I think it really was just a subconscious thing as I listen to such a diverse range of musical styles on a daily basis. It was only natural that particular elements from each of these sound palettes made it onto Nicaragua Nights. At ReMastered Myths, you’re teaming up with Javanese musician Ria Soemardjo and Japanese musician Noriko Tadano. What do you know about these two women? I wasn’t too familiar with their music, to be completely honest. But after spending a lot of time researching both their individual compositions and the history of their native styles of instrumentation, I’m extremely excited to see where the journey of this project takes us. OISIMA will team up with Ria Soemardjo and Noriko Tadano at ReMastered Myths 2015, which goes down on Sunday July 12 at Howler. The free gig will also feature collaborations between Abdul Hammoud, Tjupurru & Ebony Mocrief and Sinit Tsegay, Beatrice & Supina Bytol.

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landed them nominations for Best Hard Rock Album at both the ARIA and AIR awards. High Tension will take over Howler on Saturday July 11, with support from I Exist, Outright and YLVA. Tickets are $18, doors open at 8pm.

HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE

T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B

Back from multifarious world adventures, Harry Howard & The NDE cross the mighty Yarra to play with old friends and St. Kilda stalwarts, Garry Gray and The Sixth Circle, featuring the lead singer of the Sacred Cowboys and friends that date back to Melbourne’s primordial punk scene: Spencer P Jones, Tex Napalm, Rob Wellington, Angela Howard and Graeme Ward. Come down to The Flying Saucer for some uncompromising pre-punk punk rock, Saturday July 11 from 6pm. Tickets are $20 on the door.

SHIHAD

THE CORNER HOTEL

New Zealand’s finest hard rock band Shihad will cross the pond for a special headline show this July. The Australian sojourn follows a year that signalled a huge return to form for the group, with their 2014 release FVEY scoring critical acclaim worldwide. Shihad will be joined on the night by the two loudest rockers they could find, King Of The North and Captives. It goes down Saturday July 11 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are $38 when the doors open at 8.30pm. SUNDAY JULY 12

THE FLYING SORCERERS DING DONG LOUNGE

The Flying Sorcerers have already flown into town from NZ, and are taking to the Ding Dong stage this week to make their Melbourne debut. Armed with their debut EP The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of The Flying Sorcerers, clocking in at ten minutes running time, The Flying Sorcerers first ever Melbourne show at Ding Dong will be supported by Mad Manna, with the promise of some special guests. Get down to Ding Dong this Sunday July 12, doors open 8pm with $10 pre-sale tickets online.

THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL T H E V U LT U R E S

Award-Winning Gold Coast Rock Trio, The Vultures head to the Brunswick Hotel for the final date of their ten date Walkholme City single tour, supported by These City Lights, Once Were Wild and Amber Isles. The night kicks off at 8.00pm and is free entry.

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The National Evening Express

So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The National Evening Express. I play bass, sing and keep the peace. What would people will say you sound like? Like a bitch slap at Sunday mass. What do you love about making music? Watching people going off to the end product from an elevated height. What do you hate about the music industry? The commercial rock radio stations playing the same shit from the same bands over and over again. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be? Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). I reckon he’d appreciate a few of the bass lines. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Well, Ian Astbury (The Cult) could cop a bullet for his ungrateful ranting all the time. What can a punter expect from your live show? A raucous fest of delicious lead breaks, ripping songs aplenty, and a warm fuzzy feeling when it’s all over. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We have a digital download, which we will be giving out free on Saturday night. THE NATIONAL EVENING EXPRESS play the Brunswick Hotel on Saturday July 11 with Sisters Doll, Mojo Pin and Ace Bricklaying. Entry is free. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 36

JOHN TOOGOOD

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E B A R

As the frontman for New Zealand heavyweights Shihad, Jon Toogood has racked up ten studio albums, toured with Gyroscope and AC/DC, and been inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. As a rare treat, Jon will be playing an acoustic set on Sunday July 12 at Whole Lotta Love. Get close enough to breathe in his passion for music. It will be just the man and his guitar in a small venue, with special guests Aimee Francis and Brad Marr (Massive). Doors open at 7pm, tickets are $20+bf.

MCROBIN

T H E E V E LY N

You probably won’t see McBatman at this one. Inspired by the euphoria sewn by the music and the movies around him, Mcrobin is the solo project of James McGuffie – a charming blend of elegant, mesmerizing alternative folk rock. After the release of his Waiting For The Rain EP last year, along with two singles released from his forthcoming Fault Lines EP, Mcrobin has drawn comparisons to the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. He’ll play a show this Sunday July 12 at The Evelyn from 2pm onwards. Entry is $10.

THE SONGS OF ALAN MENKEN THE TOFF IN TOWN

Alan Menken has composed some of the most beloved scores and songs of our generation. He is best known for his work on a plethora of Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules and Pocahontas, with a career spanning over 30 years and garnering him many accolades including eight Academy Awards, eleven Grammy awards and five Tony Award nominations (with one win). A talented cast of six will showcase his song at The Toff In Town this Sunday July 12 from 2.30pm, grab your tickets online or on the door for $30.

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SUZANNAH ESPIE

THE POST OFFICE HOTEL

Suzannah Espie’s sound is an intoxicating mix of country, folk, blues and soul. A gentle, sweet trill that can move grown men to tears one moment, with an Aretha-esque hellcat belt that can raise the roof the next. It was only last month when Espie released I’m Sorry, the first single from forthcoming album Mother’s Not Feeling Herself Today. Now this week, Suzannah Espie she launches the track live at the Post Office Hotel on Sunday July 12. Tickets are $18, doors open at 5pm.

PRINCE PUBLIC BAR

It’s Aspiring Songwriters Night this week for Taste of Indie Tuesday at the Prince Public Bar, presented by the Taste of Indie Collective. This week is the opportunity for up and coming songwriter performers Melissa Hineman, Quillan, Josh Baker and Luke Seymoup to put their original tunes to the test on the big stage at the Prince. Hosted this week by Brett Franke from Temple of Tunes. The fun starts at 7.30pm, with free entry.

SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND THE GASOMETER HOTEL

Running as part of Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, Songwriters In The Round offers a genuine insight in to the craft of songwriting from 24 different perspectives and writers in various stages of their careers. This show is all about songwriting, songs and the stories behind them. The evening features four songwriters on stage at the same time, each taking a turn to play a song over three rounds. This week’s musicians are Andy White, Brooke Russell, Dan Brodie, Gena Rose Bruce, Jessie Lloyd, Jim Lawrie, Leah Senior, Liam Gerner, Luke Peacock, Monique Brumby, Peter Bibby and The Weeping Willows. Seating is available and tickets are limited to half of the Gasometer’s regular capacity. Tickets are $12+bf online, $15 on the door. Doors open 8pm.

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Hard on the heels of Grand WaZoo’s highly successful Soul Divas Show at The Flying Saucer Club, we are delighted this legendary band returns with its Special Sunday ‘60s–‘70s Soul Extravaganza. Soul man Wylie J Miller is back from overseas and he will link up for this special daytime event with two band divas, Joys Njambi and Samantha Morley. Add to that, an iconic six piece horn section and four rockin’ rhythm players, and you have an unforgettable and highly entertaining musical event. Be sure to get your feet tappin’ and your hips swingin’ this Sunday July 12 at The Flying Saucer Club. Entry is $25, doors open at 3pm. T H E C AT F I S H

Our Man In Berlin have managed to carve out a unique corner in the Australian music scene with their diligent touring schedule and unique sound, which combines melancholic, guitar based songwriting with lush, rhythmic electronica. With the recent release of their long awaited sophomore EP, Spirit Down, Our Man In Berlin has hit the road to support it, with a Melbourne show on Sunday July 12 at The Worker’s Club. Catch Our Man In Berlin, along with Blackchords and DXheaven, this Sunday from 7pm onwards. Tickets are $10.

MELISSA HINEMAN

GRAND WAZOO’S ‘60S – ‘70S SOUL EXTRAVAGANZA

MY ELEPHANT RIDE

OUR MAN IN BERLIN

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My Elephant Ride writes honest songs about being high and dealing with strangers. They are gearing up to release their debut single In The Water, mixed by Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard) with a video produced by Dr D Foothead. The video is filmed on the snow-capped Himalayan peaks, depicting a man in an oppressive relationship but totally consumed by love. The video will be and launched at the Catfish as part of the Gertrude St Projection Festival this Sunday July 12. Free entry from 5pm. MONDAY JULY 13

T-REK

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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 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

Your band can play the Cherry stage. Yes! Yours! Grab your mates and head down to Cherry Bar every Monday to get in on the action. Backline is supplied and their expert in-house soundie will mix you, all for the astounding price of free. To book a slot, simply email red@cherrybar.com.au and let the good riffs roll.

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Harry Howard & The NDE

If you could no longer be a musician, what other occupation do you see yourself in? I would probably try and write. You don’t get paid for that either so I’m well and truly used to the work conditions. Do you remember the song that was playing when you lost your virginity? It was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. One did. I heard it. How did you all meet? What was it that brought the band together? My girlfriend Edwina staged an improbable scene in Smith St to get my attention. She knew I was ripe for it. Dave and Clare were musicians, often neighbours. Dave still watches Neighbours. Have there been any sexual exploits between band members? I heard a rumour that Dave and Clare have had sex and also that Edwina’s daughter is actually mine. We are morally bankrupt. What has been the biggest fuck-up you’ve made during a live performance? How do you usually handle mistakes? So many memories. So many feelings of awfulness. In my own band I allow myself these ‘mistake’ luxuries and I actually often feed off them. Mostly. Talk us through your first ever live show. My first proper show was a date playing bass on a short Birthday Party tour. It was extraordinary. A baptism by fire. I felt very strangely still as tornados, fireworks and violence in general ricocheted all around me. The promoter said, ‘That was the greatest show since the Doors at the Roundhouse.’ I smiled weakly and swallowed hard. I think of it surprisingly often. Catch HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE at the Flying Saucer Club on Saturday July 11 with support from Gary Gray & The 6th Circle.

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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews THE CASANOVAS The Tote, Saturday July 4 Saturday wasn’t a great day. The weather was cold, dark and wet; the tragic events in Adelaide cast a long black cloud over the usually spirited atmosphere at the MCG. The Tote was hosting what was billed as an ‘old school’ show: headlined by The Casanovas, and featuring Cockfight Shootout, Sun God Replica, Legends of Motorsport and The Sunset Club. A last-minute change to the running order meant that we missed Legends of Motorsport’s deafeningly loud garage sonic attack, but caught Sun God Replica in full flight. You can always recognise a Link McLennan song – an elliptical three-chord riff, left-field lyrical musings and an off-beat pop sensibility. With The Meanies, it’s smashed through a snotty adolescent punk lens; with Sun God Replica it’s infused with a psychedelic Sabbath wash. And it never disappoints. No-one could remember the last time Cookfight Shootout graced a Melbourne stage, but just about everyone was looking forward to their return. We got what we expected, and wanted: a shirtload of power chords and a dirty punk rock’n’roll aesthetic. And then we had The Casanovas, playing on the back of their latest album, Terra Casanova. The band hasn’t deviated far from its original starting point. You can still hear plenty of Kiss, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC and Humble Pie. Yeah, it’s formulaic and self-indulgent in

TWENT Y ONE PILOTS Corner Hotel, Sunday July 5

places, but no-one wanted to hear a freeform jazz-rock odyssey. We came for blue denim and black leather rock’n’roll and we got it in spades. The licks came in fat chunky pieces, as filling as a 300g Texan beef steak, without the corn syrup and steroids. The set came to a head with 10 Outta 10, and we got the sing-along we’d all been waiting for. Tommy Boyce’s voice stretched into a ‘70s rock shriek and there was a lot of love in the pit. A short break, and the band returned with Keep It Hot and, fittingly given it was American Independence Day, Ted Nugent’s Just What the Doctor Ordered. As we scream the chorus, we forgot for a moment what a gun toting, conspiracy fanning, right-wing nut job Nugent’s become and enjoyed the moment. Yeah, this was a good night, despite all the shit that had gone done beforehand. BY PATRICK EMERY LOVED: Just What the Doctor Ordered. HATED: Light rain on the way home. DRANK: Mainly Fat Yak, but with a couple of dark ales thrown in for good measure.

MARLON WILLIAMS Corner Hotel, Friday July 3 The uprising of the singer-songwriter has brought us some of the greatest music of the modern era. But let’s not forget that for every excellent singer-songwriter, there have been countless average-to-awful also-rans. The singer-songwriter is closely associated with the acoustic folk singer, the major difference being that they write and perform their own material, instead of faithfully re-applying traditional songs. But the mere fact of performing their own material isn’t the point of essential importance. Rather, what matters is that what they’re saying something worthwhile, and doing it with enough individual appeal to make us want to listen. Tonight’s headliner Marlon Williams has all the trappings of a quintessential singer-songwriter. His songs related details of intriguing, often malign, desperate or skewwhiff characters. He adopted various venerated genres – folk, country, bluegrass and soul – and carried out enough subtle transgressions to push the conventions forward. He sung in a powerful, affective voice, which ranged from a down-low drunken weep to a yodelling castrato. He conversed with the audience, cracking jokes specifically for our benefit and making it known that our presence was valued. And as splendid

as the performance was, it never felt too slick or overrehearsed. But to classify Williams as a singer-songwriter isn’t entirely justified, for one simple reason: he didn’t write a significant portion of the songs he performed tonight. Who wrote them? Well, there was The Zombies’ The Time of the Season, Billy Fury’s Lost Without You, and the stunning re-arrangement of the traditional When I Was A Young Girl. But really, when evaluating the impact of tonight’s performance – its relevance, entertainment value, personability, and technical marvels – none of that really matters. Tonight was truly Marlon Williams’ night. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY LOVED: Laura Jean. Oh, Laura. HATED: Marlon Williams’ overwhelming supply of good traits. DRANK: Out of the ale house and into the jailhouse.

RON S. PENO The Corner Hotel, Saturday July 4 The Hired Guns started proceedings, whetting the slowly building audience with their brand of countrified melodic rock. Up next, The Pink Tiles were guitar rock supremos. Along with the beautiful harmonies of Spector girl groups, they had just the right amount of scuzz to set ears ablaze. Certainly an enjoyable entry point to the main act. True to belief, The Hired Guns were hired guns backing Ron S. Peno as he navigated the vast repertoire of Died Pretty. Save for last two records, the band’s entire catalogue was performed. Throughout, Peno bounded about the stage, crucially involved in the spectacle and coordinating with the attack of the band. Singing Pretty was a wonderful nostalgic trip for the long converted and Peno satisfied every conceivable whim of the more than comfortably full audience. It was a vigorous reminiscence on times past, featuring songs you never get tired of hearing. The crowd’s enthusiasm could be gauged by the fact that nearly no one moved from their vantage point throughout the

generous two-hour performance, captivated by the little ball of energy exploding onstage. The likes of Stoneage Cinderella, Everybody Moves, Final Twist, D.C, Sweetheart, God Bless, Satisfied, Lie To Go (Landsakes), Turn My Head Around, Mirror Blues, Good At Love were were just some of the mighty songs that conjured up sensations of a certain time in the lives of those present. Visceral and unrelenting, immense kudos goes to Peno, who has avoided becoming a diluted parody of his former self.

Twenty One Pilots are undeniably huge. For a band that’s had little support from mainstream networks, it’s impressive they sold out both an afternoon U-18 and evening 18+ show at the Corner Hotel. The screams that welcomed the duo’s arrival were thunderous. Arriving onto a pitch black stage, lead singer Tyler Joseph beamed in a glow-in-the-dark ghost mask and glowing red microphone. On drums, Josh Dun launched into Heavydirtysoul, from latest album Blurryface. Stage presence may well seem like a challenge for a two person act, but with Dun’s drum-kit and Joseph’s grand piano taking up half the stage, it made the entire event feel more intimate than even the Corner usually allows. The crowd response was astonishing, with every audience member matching Joseph’s ferocious rap delivery (Ride provided the most impressive challenge). Joseph also absolutely nailed the high notes in The Judge – an element that’s absolutely crucial to the band’s appeal. And amid Dun’s complex playing (Guns For Hands packs multiple time changes) and the duo’s frequent outfit and instrument changes, there were no omissions. Rather than letting backing tracks take care of certain parts, Joseph swapped between ukulele, piano, keyboard and bass guitar. Before climbing onto the crowd to sing fan favourite Holding Onto You, over screams of adulation, Joseph asked if it was anyone’s

birthday. A few hands shot up, to which the singer cheekily responded, “I actually don’t care… I love doing that.” If they weren’t already lapping it up, Joseph’s refreshingly honest stage banter kicked the audience’s emotions into overdrive. When the band closed with Trees, both members proceeded to stand on body-boards and drum simultaneously on top of the crowd. BY JONTY SIMMONS

LOVED: The band performing on the crowd. Always a winning move. HATED: A particular group of girls singing at each other the entire night, filming with their phones, and dedicating approximately 10% of their time actually watching the band. DRANK: Red Bull.

THE MILK CARTON KIDS Athenaeum Theatre, Tuesday June 30 Having missed out on seeing Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale AKA The Milk Carton Kids twice last year (here and in the US), I immediately jumped at the opportunity this time around. The Athenaeum Theatre is an amazing old theatre, rich in historical ambience and beautiful acoustics, which made it the perfect setting for the Californian duo to showcase tunes from their latest record, Monterey. After taking my seat, the lights dimmed and Ryan appeared on stage to introduce the first act of the night, Timothy James Bowen. The stage was set out with just one condenser microphone and over the course of the night, neither Bowen nor The Milk Carton Kids amplified their instruments. Playing tunes from his latest EP Steel and Wood – released especially for this tour – Bowen is an astounding talent and it can’t be long before he seriously hits the big time. Hand-picked by TMCK, highlights of his set included Love is Loving You, After Wintertime, and Whatever Makes You Happy. After a brief intermission, allowing the audience to marvel at the homemade goods Bowen had created, the main event finally commenced. As soon as they hit the stage, Ryan and Pattengale had the room in the palm of their hands. It’s quite easy to accept the comparisons between this duo and the likes of Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers. That said, it took a couple of songs for Ryan to warm

up to talk to the crowd, and initially it seemed like Pattengale was shying away from the microphone. However, after some anecdotes from their show in Sydney, the duo revealed the two most important rules of on-stage etiquette. Firstly, don’t introduce the song title, and secondly, don’t give any song explanations. But they proceeded to break both of these rules, which led into the title track of their latest record. It was within this song that the pair’s distinctive playing styles really became apparent. Ryan plays an almost simplistic rhythm part similar to that of a bass guitar, while Pattengale unleashes little lead licks reminiscent of classical guitar playing. Honey Honey was next, and after Pattengale’s lead solo, the audience erupted into appreciative round of applause. Other set highlights included Heaven, Snake Eyes, New York and the slower, more peaceful Michigan. BY TEX MILLER

LOVED: Sweet vocal harmonies and killer songs. HATED: That the concert had to end. DRANK: Ice cold Coopers.

BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS

LOVED: The satisfaction that is better than independence. HATED: Next to nothing. DRANK: Cider.

WAXAHATCHEE The Toff In Town, Saturday July 4 Waxahatchee is the indie music project of Alabama’s Katie Crutchfield, who appeared on stage at Toff In Town in only her second ever Australian show. With little fanfare, she launched into a song from one of her other projects, Great Thunder. It seemed strange that she chose to kick off the 15-song set with something that isn’t on her third full-length album, Ivy Tripp, which was released in April. But with it’s repeated lyrics “Would you go? Would you go?” the Great Thunder tune beautifully set the scene for what felt more like a beat poetry night than a band performance, with the lyrics, rather than tunes, taking centre stage. Crutchfield performed solo with a guitar and had the crowd mesmerised from the first bar, but there was little interaction, apart from when she pointed out that the crowd was “so quiet”, and therefore much better than Sydney, because “in Sydney they talk a lot”. It led me to wonder whether the Sydney crowd simply lost interest. The lyrics are special and the delivery was heartfelt,

but without the input of her band, the songs – which spanned Ivy Tripp as well as Waxahatchee’s other two albums, American Weekend and Cerulean Salt – started to blend into one. However, there’s no doubt it’s this simple-butintense delivery that many people had come for, and Crutchfield kept the crowd engaged for the entire duration of the one-hour set. Some of the highlights included Bathtub, Brother Bryan and La Loose. On a cold winter’s night in Melbourne, her songs and voice wrapped the audience in a fluffy yet slightly depressing fleece onesie. BY ISABELLE ODERBERG LOVED: The intensity. HATED: The sadness. DRANK: Hibiki whiskey, neat. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU

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1. Blood In My Eyes For You BERT DEIVERT & COPPERHEAD RUN 2. Slow Gum FRASER A. GORMAN 3. Classic Stellar Overdrive Pt.II THE PSYDE PROJECTS 4. Dark Bird Is Home THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH 5. Tiresias NITRON 6. Guimauves LE CLAN DES 7. Mornings/Evenings FOUR TET 8. Afterthoughts in Limbo WHITE WALLS 9. Catharsis INSTITUTE 10. Rope Tied Hope JOSHUA SEYMOUR

COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK TOP TEN

1. Child LP/CD CHILD 2. A Furrow Cut Short 2LP DRUDKH 3. Cybotron LP CYBOTRON 4. Cum The Raw Prawn LP/CD COSMIC PSYCHOS 5. Diana Radar CD DIANA RADAR 6. Ungod LP MORGOTH 7. Clearing The Path To Ascend CD YOB 8. Whole Earth Cleansing LP KREMLINGS 9. Walk Among Us LP MISFITS 10. Volume IV: Hammered Again CD/LP MAMMOTH MAMMOTH

DESAPARECIDOS Payola (Epitaph)

On Desaparecidos debut album Read Music / Speak Spanish, frontman Conor Oberst sang, “I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live/ I don’t want to be ashamed to be American.” Thirteen years later, he and the rest of the Omaha-based rock band are still struggling with the shades of grey that colour American life. The band’s second LP Payola plays out like a logbook of Uncle Sam’s failures and the frustrations that come with them. Recorded over the course of five years, Payola takes listeners on a trip through the land of the free, making pit stops in gun crazed, racially charged, war frothed and currency-driven America. On opener, The Left is Right, Oberst’s voice is brimming with hostility as he spits out rallying cries like, “It begins when we chain ourselves to the ATMs” and “take our baseball bats to the limousines.” While the LP’s lyricism veers away from flowery verse, evidence of Oberst’s lyrical talent are abundant throughout, with Shakespearean allusions to the founding fathers (City on the Hill) and metaphorical references to the most coked-out frat house in the northeast, Wall Street (Golden Parachutes). The latter features an appearance from Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace, which makes for a

delightful two minutes of bull stoning. The most flammable lines on Payola are not so much calls to arms, but astute observations of day-to-day life. On Radicalized, Oberst sings, “Can’t afford no dream without a GED/ The recruiter shakes my brother’s hand/ Now he’s all he can be.” Later, Slacktivist assumes the persona of a bedroom activist, comically narrating a keyboard tapping 20-something, “Cleaning out my closet to make amends/ Send a Nike swoosh to an African.” But, although Payola is more or less a summation of MSNBC newscasts, it never becomes submerged in its lyrical fury, with bright instrumentation relieving the pressure that builds with every track. Having taken thirteen years to hone their skills and mature not only as artists, but political activists, it’s difficult to fault Desaparecidos’ sophomore effort. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of Payola lies in the bleak observation that they’ll probably still have cause to write songs about these issues in thirteen years time. BY LAUREN GILL

SINGLES BAD//DREEMS

To Pimp A Butterfly is an album with few clear-cut singles. i is the foremost candidate, and Alright is the other clear single on the LP, with its killer feel-good hook, now accompanied by an incredible video. Despite functioning as a single, there’s no compromise in themes or arrangement; bounce-along beats underpinned by skittish jazz flourish.

GIRLS PISSING ON GIRLS PISSING

Rainbow Islands (Muzai) Time slows down in the best way during Rainbow Islands, a dizzy triumph from Kiwi collective Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing. Each second is loaded with satisfaction, with an incredible sax payoff. It’s one of the best instances of outsider pop from our end of the Earth in recent times. Listen close and you’ll hear a giant.

Hiding To Nothing (Ivy League) Look, I know I’ve ripped this piss out of these blokes in the past – deservedly so, because they’re fucking shithouse – but previous criticisms centred on their tendency to blatantly emulate infinitely superior acts from the Australian underground, while relaying lyrical tripe that often steered to borderline misogyny. Hiding To Nothing actually does its best to avoid these blunders, and the result is, well, nothing. Absolutely bloody nothing. Mid-tier shit-rock. Jet without a hook, British India with worse vocal talent.

GYPSY & THE CAT + CLIENT LIAISON

Evolution (Independent) Not totally feeling this, but it’s a serviceable throwback to turn-of-thedecade Australian indie-dance, feeling like Cut Copy, PNAU, Van She all viewed from a barely nostalgic lens.

TYRANNAMEN

I Can’t Read (Cool Death) When I hear a song as good as I Can’t Read, I picture an old-timey montage of ‘50s teeny-boppers tuning in their wireless with their jaws dropped and fingers a-snappin’. A more reasonable analogue is seeing the song performed to a packed Tote front bar last Saturday arvo. That feeling of connectivity is a real bloody virtue, and having a corker of a song – and I Can’t Read is a corker on every level, capped off by a singer who can sing – makes it all the more sweeter.

BLANK REALM

River Of Longing (Fire) Brissy’s Blank Realm have a great knack for making you jangle your bones like a marionette, and with its mini hurricane rhythm, River Of Longing is no different. New album Illegals In Heaven is due out later this year, but until then, flap your skeleton around to this.

W E

BRIGGS FEAT. GURRUMUL & DEWAYNE EVERETTSMITH

The Children Came Back (SkinnyFish) Things aren’t exactly great in Australia at the moment, and hope is extremely hard to find. Led by Shepparton rapper Briggs, The Children Came Back is a song full of hope. Briggs effortlessly lists a veritable hall of fame featuring Aboriginal heroes past and present, the track arrangement swelling majestically, leading to a bait and switch lyrical serve directed at our PM that’s so masterful in tone (no pun intended) that quoting it here would be an immense disservice. Listen for yourself.

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1. Hours LP DAVID BOWIE 2. 10,000HZ Legend LP AIR 3. F.F.S. LP/CD FFS 4. Split Album LP FATSO JETSON/FARFLUNG 5. Desired Effect LP BRANDON FLOWERS 6. Blue Day LP SLOWDIVE 7. Resonance LP BOX SET VNV NATION 8. Luminiferous LP/CD HIGH ON FIRE 9. I’m Not There 4LP BOB DYLAN SOUNDTRACK 10. Plague Within LP PARADISE LOST

RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN

BY LACHLAN

It’s #soup weather baby, oh hell yeah. #soup KENDRICK LAMAR Alright (Interscope)

HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN

1. Slow Gum FRASER A. GORMAN 2. Marlon Williams MARLON WILLIAMS 3. In colour JAMIE XX 4. Why Make Sense? HOT CHIP 5. Anyway IMMIGRANT UNION 6. Cum The Raw Prawn COSMIC PSYCHOS 7. Stone Lazy THE SUNSET STRIP 8. Garagee II GARAGEE 9. Mornin, EveniN BEN MASTWYK 10. Tragic BEEF JERK

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS FROM GIRL-BOY DUOS 1. Love Is A Stranger EURYTHMICS 2. Amanaemonesia CHAIRLIFT 3. Paper Bag GOLDFRAPP 4. Elasticity VIGILANTES 5. Full Of Fire THE KNIFE 6. Lover Of Mine BEACH HOUSE 7. This Is Not A Test SHE & HIM 8. U.R.A Fever THE KILLS 9. The Denial Twist THE WHITE STRIPES 10. Anyone Else But You THE MOLDY PEACHES

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

EVERYTHING EVERYTHING

White Bird/Burn The Sky

Silverball

Get To Heaven (Sony)

(Devil’s Music Records)

(Vanguard Records)

True to their band-name, Manchester four-piece Everything Everything cram a great deal into their music and yet, it’s often never enough. The band’s exhaustive splicing of genres and layers has a tendency to overwhelm, but their third album Get To Heaven takes strides toward a more accessible, less scattered sound. Competing with Get To Heaven’s maximalist compositions is the overstuffed production. Producer Stuart Price (Madonna, Kyle Minogue, Take That) pushes all the elements to the fore, which works against the compositions at times. But the best of the heady pop songs are stacked at the front of the album, and they dish up enough hooks and twists to appease chin-strokers, clubbers and radio listeners in equal measure. Even better are the triumphant tracks, which resist trying to cram too many ideas into a single song. Take for instance the ‘60s-strut of winning single Respect, or the gentle respite offered by No Reptiles near the end of the album. Throughout, frontman Jonathan Higgs continues his frenzied account of troubled modern times, but doesn’t get bogged down in angst like he did on the second half of the band’s previous album, 2013’s Arc. This time around, there’s a lighter touch to Higgs’ lyrics, but they’re still caught in the same denseness. Although Get To Heaven is occasionally too eager to please, it’s definitely Everything Everything’s finest recording to date.

It’s been quite some time since the collective conscience even thought about Barenaked Ladies. Aside from a side-gag in Community and a running joke on Comedy Bang Bang, it’s probably a safe bet you didn’t even know they were still around. However, Silverball is the band’s 14th album, which indicates the Canadian foursome never truly went away. We just stopped paying attention around the turn of the century – and, from what can be gathered, we haven’t missed out on much. Silverball is wimpy, perfectly-pleasant and generally-dull indie-pop that plays like a Scrubs soundtrack – and the fact that show hasn’t been on air for years will give you an idea of the timeliness of the record. There’s a snicker to be had here and there – Piece of Cake carries an endearinglydorky chorus (“It was a piece of cake/ But making cake’s not easy”), and opener Get Back Up is about as faithful a send-up of ‘80s-movie montage music as you could ask for. Perhaps, though, the most telling lyric comes from the record’s title track: “If you’ve seen one, then they’re all the same.” It has, indeed, all been done before. BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

With White Bird / Burn The Sky, local five-piece Palace Of The King set a new standard in Aussie hard rock. As opposed to the large majority of debut releases, there is literally no filler on this ten-track release. Album opener Take Your Medicine begins with a riff that would put Eddie Van Halen to shame. At the two minute mark, the songs drops down to a gut shaking bass solo, only to be followed six seconds later by the eruption of that same riff. The dual album title refers to the fact it’s split into side-A, White Bird, and side-B, Burn The Sky. The second half of the album opens with Ain’t Got Nobody To Blame But Myself; a song driven by a heavily phased guitar line, which is accented by a rich organ. It should be noted that the opening statement of this review was far from hyperbole – White Bird / Burn The Sky fucking rules. A core component of the album’s sheer awesomeness is vocalist Tim Henwood, whose rich and versatile voice is heavily reminiscent of Kyuss’ John Garcia. Meanwhile, the rollicking energy of Leave Me Behind – where drummer Anthony Troiano and bassist Andrew Gilpin threaten to overwhelm Leigh Maden and Matthew Harrison’s screeching guitar lines – sees Henwood doing his best Axl Rose impersonation. If you like your rock’n’roll with more juice than a bodybuilding competition, then checkout this high quality rock album from a bunch of talented locals. BY DAN WATT

BY CHRIS GIRDLER

THE EIGHTY 88S

REFUSED

MAJOR LAZER

The Eighty 88s

Freedom

Peace Is The Mission

(Independent)

(Epitaph)

There are three types of people in this world: those who love Refused, those who don’t get what the hype is all about and those who have no fucking idea who Refused are but got a hard-on the first time they heard the band’s massive single from 1998, New Noise. Your correspondent falls firmly into the former category, having first come across the band when Max Cavalera (Sepultura/Soulfly) programmed rage in 1998 and prefaced the film clip for New Noise by saying “This is the best fucking band in the world at the moment.” Seventeen years on from Refused’s last album – the bold, yet accurately, titled The Shape of Punk to Come – the band’s core lineup are back with Freedom. The highly anticipated release sounds like the natural follow-up to The Shape of Punk to Come, only it would’ve made more sense had it come out in, let’s say, 2001. Don’t get me wrong, this is a very different record to everything that has come before it and it doesn’t rely too heavily on the hallmarks of The Shape of Punk to Come. At times, like on Dawkins Christ, the riffage is more in line with the metal-core tone of Refused’s second album, 1996’s Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent. There is one song, however, that does feel like it was recorded in the same session as The Shape of Punk to Come, and that’s the late album track 366. It actually has an uncanny similarity to track two of the 1998 album, Liberation Frequency. Attempting to decode the mindset of the band’s antihegemonic frontman Dennis Lyxzén, one could hypothesise that 366 is a statement that the band has come full-circle and then some. This album will not disappoint diehard Refused fans, but unfortunately it doesn’t make the same colossal impact that their earlier work did. BY DAN WATT

PALACE OF THE KING

BARENAKED LADIES

The self-titled debut from Melbourne garage rock/soul outfit The Eighty 88s is a unique vessel amongst the armada of throwback rock and soul bands currently floating around Melbourne’s music scene. The big difference is they don’t funk around. That’s right, despite their eight-piece personnel, there are zero horns on this album, which is a good thing if you had to live through the ‘ska revival’ of the mid-to-late nineties. The Eighty 88s’ rock’n’roll/soul sound has more in common with garage blues outfit The Dirtbombs than The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The patches of grit that lie amongst what’s essentially a clean style of music allude to that the fact vocalist Scott Connolly, guitarist Lachlan McDougal and bass player Chris Yates are from defunct punk outfit The Sophisticants. Case in point is opening track Lovers Master, which is driven by a bruising rhythm and jacked-up drumming, over which deep male vocals crack an evil laugh before sneering, “I don’t know what you told him/ I don’t what you promised him/ But now I’m not a man.” The final song on the album Who Do You Love evokes images of a 1950s dance-floor packed with lindy hoppers losing their shit as Connolly cries, “Oh baby, who do you love? Oh, baby. Who. Do. You. Love?” It’s probably the most straight-up revivalist number on the album, where most other tracks embody a range of stylistic shades. Long Way Down is helmed by the eldest of the band’s two female vocalists, Zoe Rinkel – her younger sister Miki is the other chick you’ll hear on this record. It’s a smoky bluesy number that simmers on Rinkel’s deep voice and Teddy Mitchell’s squalling lead guitar, with Alex Warner’s responsive keys offering a nice counter-point. Lead single Old Folks is a particular highlight that reveals the band’s own sound, which seems to throw in all of the aforementioned styles and produce something unique.

(Warner)

When you think of Major Lazer, I’ll be surprised if you don’t immediately think of 2013 single Get Free. With this song, it really felt like Major Lazer nailed it. Two years later, they’re back with Peace Is The Mission. When you listen to this record, don’t be expecting any slow, dreamy indie influenced tracks in the vein of Get Free or Jessica from Free The Universe. By contrast, Peace Is the Mission is the epitome of electronic club music meets lavish pop. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: there are some stand out tracks, like Night Riders, which has the most infectious groove on the record. The song also features some of the biggest names in hip-hop right now, including Travi$ Scott, 2 Chainz, Pusha T and Mad Cobra. In fact, Peace Is The Mission is commendable for its featured guests alone, with the likes of Chronixx, Ariana Grande, Ellie Goulding and MØ showing up elsewhere. Major Lazer are far too good at what they do to make pop music that lacks personality and finesse. Tracks like Powerful and Lean On are perfectly crafted radio hits, which have topped the Australian charts, but they’re also two of the most succinct and warm tracks on the record. Blaze up the Fire incorporates familiar bass and synth work, but it has a Jamaican sounding soundscape with horns and a bouncy reggae rhythm, not to mention exotic vocals from Chronixx. Too Original also combines influences of dancehall and jazz whilst being an intensely electronic-driven track. Peace Is The Mission is an impressive, colourful pop record. There’s no way it won’t be on at the next house party you go to, and there’s no way you won’t have a damn good boogie to it. That’s what it was made for. BY JESS ZANONI

BY DAN WATT

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au

WEDNESDAY JULY 8 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • #1 dads Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $7.00.

• betty & oswald Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.

• black cobra + jucifer + dead + child Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $30.00.

• frank society + gods + romeo moon Grace

• brother love + levitating churches + the

• kickass karaoke Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.

• label of love - feat: slowly + the evening

Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00.

• kinder + department + hayley couper Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.

• lamb boulevard + the black harrys + james

howlett Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• open mic Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm. • the engagement + echobeep + asylum

sisters Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • the mary goldsmiths + dole mates + ike ruckman + dj mermaid Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00.

• vinyl splinters + woo who + born horny Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• dizzy’s big band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

• florian boesch & malcolm martineau Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $55.00.

• galliano sommavilla Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.50.

• mark lockett trio Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.

• michael gate Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

• the new unoriginal melbourne dixieland

jazz band 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • alex aronsten & the southern lights Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

• damon smith & the quality lightweights Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

• huanchaco Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• jordan clay & the skeleton band +

sugarteeth Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • lindsay phillips + broads + brendan welch Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $12.00.

• mitch power John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.

• muddy’s blues roulette Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• old etiquettes + isaac de heer & the river

tracks Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • open mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. • open mic night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. • the brunswick hotel’s open mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

• wine, whiskey, women - feat: jacqui

sterling + harmony byrne Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY JULY 9

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • #1 dads + slum sociable Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

• arrester + dr doctor + denim owl Toff In Town,

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enclosures Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

cast + owen rabbit The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $10.00.

• cinema 6 + big league + palmerslum + spiral

arm Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• clowns + apart from this + wet pensioner

+ three headed fool Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• dangers + staunch + eyes wide open + the

PALE HEADS

Pale Heads was the name of my video project where I took a photo of myself everyday for a year. Didn’t get up to much that year, mostly just took photos of my nerdy white self. And while I’m sure no one’s very interested in my pale head, don’t let it put you off seeing these Pale Heads live, Thursday July 9 at the Curtin.

orchies Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• follow no rules + marcvs + shadows at bay

+ for pluto Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • golden features + the m machine Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $40.00.

• graves + disxparo + grudge! + solis &

• soul in the basement 15th birthday - feat:

vince peach + pierre baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• steinway d piano series Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $12.50.

removalist Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. • great earthquake Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. • idiots never say die - feat: closer + kodiak galaxy + peter lubulwa Grace Darling Hotel,

• the good egg thursdays - feat: henry who

• main stage band wars quarter finals 3

• thomas lorenzo trio Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne

Collingwood. 8:30pm.

Musicland, Fawkner. 5:30pm. $10.00.

• mangelwurzel + good morning + bj

morriszonkle Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

• meals + stellar remnants + miles glyphers

+ javan ash Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00. • next - feat: the playbook + the valley ends + glass empire Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

+ tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.

7:00pm.

• the melbourne improvisers collective Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.

• timbalero thursdays La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • acid country - feat: suzannah espie + barb

$10.00.

waters + craig pilkington + bakersfield glee club trio Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. • allison ainsworth Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm. • backstage blues night - feat: the steamrollers + dj barry maxwell + the shake shack boogie house band Musicland,

+ half mongrel Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• buffalo nickel Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

$15.00.

• pale heads + legends of motorsport +

jacky winter John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. • peter bibby & his hippy squatters + gorsha

Fawkner. 7:00pm.

• tingy celestino Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 8:00pm.

• whole lotta blues - feat: geoff achison Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY JULY 10

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • #1 dads + slum sociable Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.

• a tribute to living legend steve lucas -

feat: spencer p jones + seminal rats + fiona lee maynard + tom & pugs lyncoln + kim volkmann + los dominados + joey bedlam + 100 acre woods + gorsha + half mongrel Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• belligerent intent + metalstorm + atomic

death squad + counterattack! + substance abuse + the fuck ups Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

7:00pm. $12.00.

• beneath benetta + mondorgreen + talk-un-

da + naz + sam mcewin + hyperfokus Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• betty & oswald The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

• label of love - feat: soul benefits + p.smurf

• collard + greens & gravy Lomond Hotel,

+ rapaport + p link + downpat + j mac + dj relik The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 6:00pm. $15.00. • black cobra + jucifer + dead Barwon Club Hotel,

• gin wigmore + timberwolf Gasometer Hotel,

• captain spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

9:00pm. $10.00.

• gumbo club - feat: blues bash Ding Dong

• checkerboard Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8.00.

• helen ryder + spencer p jones Yarra Hotel,

• phaeces + aktion unit + penguins + necking

+ nerve Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. • rock against racism - feat: the shabbab + juelz & manix + royalty noise + tactical attack + special guests Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. • the shifters + atom + the factory Public Bar,

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • beneath benetta + tak-un-da + aphir 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• bon scott birthday tribute Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.

• club catty - feat: tiprats + submarines +

wet meal Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. • john montesante quintet ft nichaud fitzgibbon The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm. • july jazz notes - feat: wade morgan + ann craig + kevin blaze + daniel pickard + rob mercer + joshua sihombing Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• owen Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20.00.

• casey bennetto’s winter sets Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm.

Brunswick East. 8:30pm. Collingwood. 7:30pm.

Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

Geelong. 8:00pm. $30.00. 9:30pm.

• chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• city calm down + crepes Northcote Social Club,

East. 9:30pm.

• coffin wolf + postscript + joe guiton &

• jack derwin & tom dockray The B.east, Brunswick • liam linley Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.

• louis spoils Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Northcote. 8:30pm.

the suicide tuesdays + drexler Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• mick dog’s bone yard + alister turril + dj

• cool sounds + ciggie witch The Eastern, Ballarat

jack flash Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • morning melodies - feat: sue correll Daveys

• dangers + staunch Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 10:00am. $15.00.

• open mic nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.

• the lost day + atlas + mark campbell & the

ravens Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

• the railway gang string band Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 8:30pm.

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East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

8:00pm.

• dear plastic + tanzer + bj morrizonkle Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00.

• dj dave gray Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

• dumb punts + pow pow kids Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• einsteins toyboys + bronnie gordon &

bellatrix Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00. • ezekiel ox + dj marze Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • fierce mild + the black heart death cult + spiral arm + lorikeet Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. $13.00.

• fiver night Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:00pm. $5.00. • golden features + the m machine Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $40.00.

• hey hey it’s friday - feat: astro boys Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

• house wreckers Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm. • hucsters Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

• jerome smith & the covering addicts +

jerome + richie mawer & matt dwyer Big

Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.

• la danse macabre Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• lepers & crooks Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• mercies end + sealed our fate + headless +

the nuremberg + spaulding + mr wolf Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• modesty - feat: danny walsh banned + liam

linley Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • nat allison ft spyder Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

• off the heazy Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• playwrite + mayfair kytes + woodes +

dorsal fins djs Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• powertool records showcase #1 - feat:

brother love + levitating churches + miniatures Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • rusty james & the hellfire flames Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.

• sleazy listening - feat: arks + richard

kelly + hysteric + k.hoop Toff In Town, Melbourne

Cbd. 6:00pm.

• the brunswick hotel’s 6th birthday - feat:

luna ghost + lieutenant jam + australian kingswood factory + dead set ledger + cabbages and kings + djs heels on decks + dj mr sharp Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • the church 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $55.00. • the eighty 88s + the perfections + dj richie 1250 John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00. • the new order - feat: jason buchanan + spyke + anarki + spooky + shaz + voodoo kitten + skinny + eris The Mercat, Melbourne.

• ian moses Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $33.00.

• jour de la bastille a la spotted mallard -

feat: the escargo-go’s + les minijupes + dj dave gray Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • kit convict & thee terrible two + wild rocket + dj fee Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. • liam gerner Long Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • miss gabbie goldenvoice & the alleged associates Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm. • phoenix Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8.00. • sean & callan Altona Rsl, Altona. 7:00pm. • spencer p jones Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. • steve lucas Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:30pm. • the drunken poachers Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

8:00pm.

• more fire - feat: jeese i + ras crucial +

adrians wall + dj pit + lion s + ras jahknow The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $12.00.

• paul carey & julian scheffer Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.

• paul williamson quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• phila para Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

• rodgers & hart Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.

• shimmy shimmy #2 - feat: dusty stylus +

lady blades + cece brown + mohair slim + the exotics + bruce milne + miss goldie + richie 1250 Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. • steve sedergreen quartet ft. mal sedergreen & dave palmer Paris Cat Jazz Club,

HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE

• tom noonan quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

Some years ago, Harry Howard suffered a near death experience. Although he survived, the shock from the event became the catalyst he needed to begin writing music for what would eventually become Harry Howard & The NDE. Funnily enough, the NDE stands for Near Death Experience. Catch Harry Howard & The NDE this Saturday July 11 at The Flying Saucer Club.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

• family jordan + the bleeding flares + roxy

• 7th melbourne international chamber

• andy phillips & the cadillac walk +

8:30pm.

• the moth body + the ears Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

• wil wagner Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $15.00.

SATURDAY JULY 11

music competition round 1 - feat: altius quartet & castalian string quartet South

Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne. 11:00am, 3:00pm & 7:30pm. $20.00.

• anna powell & jono Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.

• captain palette! w.o.w. 24 Moons, Northcote. 9:00pm. $15.00.

• de la calle Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• formidable vegetable sound system +

hugo & treats + mal webb & kylie morrigan 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20.00.

• gertrude street projection festival - feat:

bladerunner djs Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • harry howard & the nde + garry gray & the 6th circle Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00.

• hearts of glass Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:00pm. • hetty kate’s swingville Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

• manins & gould with graeme lyall Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $45.00.

• miss lizzy & the night owls The Luwow, Fitzroy.

Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.

• the glass moon w/ cam webb Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.

6:00pm.

lionhouse Ormond Hall, Ormond. 1:00pm. $10.00. • bang - feat: death by six + danger! earthquake! + to light atlantis Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

• belle haven + strickland + caulfield +

spectral fires + drivetime commute Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $12.00.

• betty & oswald Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

lavish & the suicide cult Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• godwolf + the slurrymen + alex pizzol Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• high tension + i exist + outright + ylva Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $15.00.

• icecream hands Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $25.00. • jarryd james Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $35.52.

• brain shaker - feat: resonance Loop, Melbourne

• john kendall & the shot glasses Inkerman

• breaking orbit + gatherer + soulenikoes

• jones jnr. + amin payne + emrsn Shebeen,

Cbd. 10:00pm.

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

• brunny saturday arvo session - feat:

dogsday Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • conjurer + sealed our fate + fail the abstract + ignite antares + massacre of innocence + ayva Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $15.00. • devotional + time for dreams + matt bailey Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

• earth + adamus exul + claret ash + feralian

+ wood of suicides + subterranean drilling machine Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm.

Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.

• karaoke with zoe Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm.

• major leagues + redspencer + ciggie witch John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• nun of the tongue + fraudband + king

choonga John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.

• plastic knife #14 zine launch - feat: city

of cool + the church of hysteria + the girl fridas Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5.00. • pop dreams #3 - feat: the steve miller band + witch hats + lalic + tanzer + tankerville +

10:00pm. $12.00.

• thomcords Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• underground + the dark ales + slim pickins Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • andy baker’s straight shooters + the life

WEDNESDAY 7TH 7PM

of riley Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. • dana czarski & nicolai sanadze Ruby’s Music

MELLOW DIAS THUMP

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

FEAT.

• ella Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $17.50.

CAZEAUX O.S.L.O & GEEZY

• gertrude street projection festival

opening night Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • michael griffin Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

THURSDAY 8TH 7PM

9:30pm. $25.00.

• moogy Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

C.C. DISCO

$20.00.

• panorama do brasil Vamos, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• pitt the elder + japan for + tired breeds +

FRIDAY 9TH 7PM

the shadow league + del lago 303, Northcote.

REVOLUTION

8:00pm.

• principle spinners Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

FEAT.

• the craig smith quintet Paris Cat Jazz Club,

JIMMY JAMES J’NETT

Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.

• the funkalleros The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• the joe ruberto trio w/ annemarie sharry Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.

SATURDAY 10TH 7PM

• the squeezebox trio Open Studio, Northcote.

CALYPSO OF HOUSE

8:30pm.

• traditional irish music session Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

• upstanding members + alariiya + sorcha

chisholm music + nimbus trio + the jills. 24 Moons, Northcote. 7:30pm. $13.00.

SUNDAY 11ST 5PM - 1AM

• what the funk fridays Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.

MULTIPLE MAN KANGAROO SKULL MOOPIE JOSHUA WELLS MOOD UNIT

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • ali e + east brunswick all girls choir Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• boof Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

• daveys fridays - feat: rob & tarquin +

superfly djs Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.

9:00pm. $10.00.

• doggerel Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

• finishing school Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:30pm.

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

5:00pm. $10.00.

• rice is nice label of love presents - feat:

you beauty + spod + summer flake + alex cameron + sarah mary chadwick The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 6:00pm. $10.00.

• rust Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

• san lazaro The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

• saturdays r covered - feat: radio star Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

• shihad + king of the north + captives Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $35.00.

• the breadmakers + wild rocket + the

reprobettes + jukai forest Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $10.00.

• the drop bears + follow no rules +

shadows at bay + pole top rescue Whole Lotta

Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

• the mercy kills + tequila mockingbyrd +

twin ages Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. • the national evening express + sisters doll + mojo pin + ace bricklaying Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• the ramshackle army + doubleblack + the

irons bound duo + dj kezbot Retreat Hotel,

Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• mr alford + tom dockray Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• the drunken poachers Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

• the stetson family Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye.

$10.00.

• victoria old time jam session - feat: craig

woodward + warren rough & friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

SUNDAY JULY 12

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • 50 years of billy miller beatles magic

Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• torrential thrill + h.zed + drova Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. $13.00.

• totally 80s Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. • van walker’s heartbrokes + jeff lang &

• disparo + graves + hailgun + bombs over Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

lindrea + ash davies & mark ferrie Labour In

Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $7.00.

gusset rustlers + chris wilson + sarah carroll + barb waters + mark c halstead + little liver band + leslie avril + brenda joy + jeff williams + kenny joe blake Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm.

• ben salter + ridge town porch band The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• davidson brothers Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • deer prudence Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

• holy moses heartache Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

• ian moss Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.

• jack howard & the long lost brothers Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• jane cameron + tim woodz + greg steps +

chrissie hogarth Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

• jason kerrison Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

• leather lickers + miss destiny + grotto Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• leather lickers Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

• luke brennan + tim hampshire + ry kemp +

joe guiton Old Bar, Fitzroy. 2:00pm.

• madeline leman & the desert swells +

danny walsh & the weed Some Velvet Morning,

Clifton Hill. 7:30pm.

Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. 7:00pm.

In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• mcrobin + dash + alma kalarama + liv

cartledge Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $10.00.

• michelle gardiner Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 3:00pm.

• perico + positive feedback loop Retreat Hotel,

jess ribeiro band + devotional + milk teddy

• pheasant pluckers Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

• leaps & bounds beersoaked sundays - feat: Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

• long holiday + kill tv + thrasher jinx +

Musicland, Fawkner. 1:00pm. $10.00.

• minimum wage - feat: head clouds + tourist

dollars + tender bones Public Bar, North

Melbourne. 4:00pm.

• our man in berlin + blackchords +

dxheavan Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

WITH JESS ZANONI

Collingwood. 8:00pm. Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• rick price Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 3:00pm & 7:00pm. $44.00.

• sunday sessions - feat: various artists Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.

• suzannah espie Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 5:00pm.

• suzette herft & patrick evans Ascot Vale Hotel,

There may be a bit of a lull in gigs and FReeZA events this week but no matter, there’s still plenty of news to share with you. Tonedeaf have a few sweet as competitions that you should enter. The first is a double pass to Soulfest. The second is for any Tigercub fans out there: Tonedeaf are giving away the one and only copy in existence of their double A-side 7” Blue Blood/Centrefold, with handdrawn art, numbered and signed by the band themselves. Jump on to http://www.tonedeaf. com.au/ to fill in your details and enter. Only just over a week until Tame Impala’s third record Currents comes out, we hope you have pre-ordered this baby. You can listen to their song Nangs in a short clip called Currents In the Making on their Youtube account, which features shots of Kevin Parker in his beachside studio. Can you tell we’re keen as heck? Pop surf rockers Wavves and Cloud Nothings have joined forces for a new record that you can find on Bandcamp for $10 called No Life For Me. It’s really fun and we’ve been waiting ages for it. Visit https://wavvesxcloudnothings. bandcamp.com/ to listen and buy. Tickets to Mumford and Son’s recently announced November show with Future Islands and The Vaccines at Sidney Myer Music Bowl are released today. Hopefully you’ve snatched up some tickets for yourself. If not, get on to http://www.ticketmaster.com. au/ to suss out if there’s any left. Listened to a neat release lately? Seen any good shows? Write up a review, send it to us, and we’ll publish it on our website. Hit us up via push@thepush.com.au

ALL AGES GIG GUIDE

SUNDAY JUlY 12 • Open mic/jam at Musicland, 1359 Sydney Rd, Fawkner, Free, 7:30pm, AA, http://www. musiclandonline.com.au/

Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

• the crawl + large no. 12 Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• the howling 55s Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

• the revenants + maricopa wells + ry kemp +

tim hampshire Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.

music competition round 2 - feat: classicus trio & trio adorno South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne. 3:00pm & 7:30pm. $20.00.

• bernadeta glow & scott griffiths Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.50.

• pleasure dome + lehmann b smith Tote Hotel,

• the sugarfoot ramblers Bar Open, Fitzroy.

• ears wide open 2 Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

• label of love - feat: pearls + teeth &

• the three kings Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• gareth voight Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.

Collingwood. 5:00pm.

tongue + methyl ethel + dorsal fins + sunbeam sound machine The Shadow Electric,

3:00pm.

• tom stephens & dylan james 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.00.

MONDAY JULY 13

Abbotsford. 6:00pm. $15.00.

• rio grande + ten gallon head + ridgetown

porch band Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. $10.00.

• sunday best - feat: tom showtime + agent

86 + maars Penny Black, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • the family jordan + white bleaches + pentacostal Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. $10.00.

• the flying sorcerers Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $7.50.

• the songs of alan menken - feat: various

artists Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 2:30pm. $25.00. • the vultures + these city lights + once were wild + amber isles Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 7th melbourne international chamber

music competition round 1 - feat: aris quartet & verona quartet South Melbourne Town

Hall, South Melbourne. 11:00am, 3:00pm & 7:30pm. $20.00. B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

• emilia & the scarlettes Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

• etienne & the sankayi 303, Northcote. 4:00pm. • grand wazoo’s special 60s-70s soul

extravaganza Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $25.00.

• hetty kate & matt boden Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

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Abbotsford. 4:00pm.

• jam at musicland sundays - feat: jameoke

Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

• katana cartel + faded revolution Bendigo

• beneath benetta + nluke + tak-un-da The

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4:00pm.

• green’s dairy angel ensemble Yarra Hotel,

• paulie bignall & the thornbury two Gem Bar,

• middle street Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.

• ap johnson + crown of thorns + the

8:00pm.

• field + see & mason Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North.

Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

lionhouse + vincent phillips Workers Club,

• elwood blues club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

• kyle lionhart + luke morris + mia wray Toff

vivant Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. • main stage band wars quarter finals 2

• andy phillips & the cadillac walk +

Mercat, Melbourne. 12:00pm.

• daryl roberts The Woodlands Hotel, Coburg. 4:00pm.

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $20.00.

• a tribute to dave graney & clare moore

ash davies Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • yellowcard + born lion Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $88.59.

• banjo-b-que - feat: craig woodward The

• jon toogood Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

• the three pairs Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

+ mr lobb + tom showtime + hijack Penny Black,

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• ultrafox Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $18.00.

• jvg guitar method + jon von goes + dale

• tom stephens + dylan james + forever son

2:00pm.

• the melbourne jazz co-op presents Uptown

• animus Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

brunswick + pagan + years of abuse Tote

• thunderstruck Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00.

manchild Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

• sounds of songlines Bella Union Bar, Carlton.

9:30pm.

+ the essentials Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.

ACCESS ALL AGES

Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

• the vultures + muscle car + tooze & bruce

PRESENT

• soul sundays - feat: zoe k + side stacks + dj

8:00pm.

• the steve martins Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

yard apes + the young saviours Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00.

moncrief & abdul hammoud Howler, Brunswick. • revival nona + sean marchetti + sweeps

• monique brumby + the delevenes + cold

THE PUSH

2:30pm.

• remastered myths - feat: tjupurru + ebony 2:30pm.

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orlando furious + bobby brave + swim team + first response Thornbury Ballroom, Thornbury.

• owen campbell Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.

• ken maher + al wright & tony hargreaves Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

• mike oliphant & friends Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 6:00pm.

• musical theatre open mic night Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.50.

• my elephant ride Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

• nadav Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 1:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 7th melbourne international chamber

music competition round 1 - feat: patronus quartet & giocoso string quartet South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne. 3:00pm & 7:30pm. $20.00.

• dana czarski & nicolai sanadze Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

• the exquisite corpse big band Catfish, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• disparo + graves + wounded pig + midwife +

grudge Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $8.00. • leaps & bounds mundane mondays - feat: plebs + ghost dick Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. • lepers & crooks Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00. • maddawg mondays - feat: t-rek Boney,

6:30pm. $36.00.

$10.00.

• gertrude street projection festival

industry event Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• irish session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • lazercats 200 + movement 9 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• milonga Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm.

• peter voglis Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • fitzroyalty - feat: the marquis + itsokman Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• from oslo Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• hollow hounds + the marlenes Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

• kraken rum night - feat: the vacant smiles Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.

• mirando + robot house Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

• the brunswick hotel discovery night -

feat: the living creatures + violet Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• tuesdays are fridays Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

+ euphoriacs + premium fantasy + bj morriszonkle Northcote Social Club, Northcote.

• xmas in july - feat: denise drysdale Milanos

• monday night mass - feat: time for dreams

6:00pm.

• orlando furious + langlo paniflax + plyers

+ waterfall person Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.

• pink harvest Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • matthew armitage 303, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• nick bastiras & loni rae Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

TUESDAY JULY 14

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 7th melbourne international chamber

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4:00pm.

Tavern, Brighton. 11:00am. $35.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • owen campbell Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. • songwriters in the round - feat: andy

white + brooke russell + dan brodie + gena rose bruce + jessie lloyd + jim lawrie + leah senior + liam gerner + luke peacock + monique brumby + peter bibby and the weeping Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00. • stav Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • tago mago open mic Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. • taste of indie tuesday Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

Wed 8th July

W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: Harmony Byrne 9pm: Jacqui Sterling Thurs 9th July

8pm:

Louis Spoils Fri 10th July

6pm: Traditional Irish Session 8:30pm:

Doggerel

Sat 11th July

9pm:

The Drunken Poachers Sun 12th july

4pm:

July Cyndi Boste & Pete Fidler

6.30pm:

Dave Johnson (WA) Tuesdays

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MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

With Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm

MUSIC ASSOCIATIONS CALL FOR TASK FORCE

The Australian Music Industry Network (which represents eight state associations), APRA AMCOS, Music Australia, The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) and The Association of Artist Managers (AAM) jointly asked the Australian Government to set up “a Federal, cross-portfolio task force,” to help support the contemporary music industry. It supplied 2013 figures from Music Australia that it brings in $7b to $8b a year. But uncertainty and constraint due to globalisation, piracy and the shift to streaming services is “significantly impacting on the ability of professional musicians to earn a living wage”. Most earn less than $10,000 a year, it said. “Ninety-nine per cent of Australia’s music and performing arts businesses turn over less than $2 million per annum, and some 88 per cent are microbusinesses, turning over under $200,000 per annum,” it continued. “In other words, almost the entire

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Formidable Vegetable Sound System

What do you sound like? A bunch of gypsy-muppet gardeners throwing crusty old ukuleles, horns and violins into the blades of the Moulin Rouge in the hope that they’ll come flying back as compost for next season’s crop of fresh beats. When, and why did you start writing music? Ironically, I started writing songs just after I’d decided to quit playing music for a living to do something more ‘useful’ with my life. After touring with bands for years up and down the West Coast, I decided to head out east to study permaculture so that I could become the kind of professional hippie better equipped to deal with the imminent apocalypse. While I was doing my course, I realised that this shit was way too important to just be left to the hippies and had to get out there in a big way. So, as you do, I started writing songs about it. What do you love about making music? Its almost alchemical ability to change perspectives and bring people out of misery. That and those awesome moments when everyone is interacting, integrated and activated. As Pete Seeger said, “Participation ± that’s what’s gonna save the human race.” What can a punter expect from your live show? A high-energy dance party with plenty of chicken impersonations, references to kimchi, and rantings about climate change, peak oil and growing food everywhere. FORMIDABLE VEGETABLE SOUND SYSTEM launch their brand new remix compilation Radish Beets on Saturday July 11 at Bar 303 alongside Hugo & Treats and Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan.

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industry is built on independent or small-to-medium organisations.”

PAUL O’GORMAN JOINS GI & SANICKI LAWYERS

Entertainment lawyers Darren Sanicki and Paul O’Gorman have merged their firms GI & Sanicki Lawyers and Paul O’Gorman Entertainment Lawyers. The two have extensively represented artists, managers, publishers, authors, producers, labels and festivals. Sanicki said, “Paul was a great mentor of mine. He is a highly regarded industry lawyer as well as being a cracking bloke, and our whole team is excited by the prospect of Paul joining us.” Gorman added the merger would be a great mix for their clients. “Darren, apart from his music practice, has a commercial and litigation arm to his practice which I didn’t have, so now being able to offer a range of services to my clients is a real bonus.”

ALLDAY SIGNS GLOBAL DEAL

Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based rapper Allday signed directly to New York’s Wind-Up Records. It covers all territories except for Australia and NZ where he is with ONETWO, Illy’s label with UNFD. His manager Jim McKinnon says Allday is the second Aussie hip hopper after Iggy Azalea to score a direct deal in America. Debut album Startup Cult, which debuted at #3 on the ARIA chart last July, also went Top 20 in America’s CMJ hip hop chart.

TWO DEALS FOR DIVIDEM

Melbourne EDM duo Dividem, formed at a Berlin rave, mark their return to gigging with two new business partners. There’s a record deal with onelove, who are releasing an EP, and a booking deal with New World Artists repped by Edwin Tehrani.

CHET FAKER’S LABEL INKS CLEOPOLD

Chet Faker’s boutique label Detail Co. inked Cleopold, releasing debut single ‘Down In Flames’. Based in LA, he’s penned singles for Miami Horror and Cassian (he does vocals on MH’s new single ‘Love Like Mine’), collaborated with Chet and Bag Raiders and done film scores for Roman Coppola. Chet has given him the keys to his Melbourne studio, so when Cleopold returns to Australia in August to tour with Miami Horror, he’ll start work on an album.

THINGS WE HEAR

• Which new nightclub promoter faces court for an incident in his past as a travel agent ± for allegedly taking $200,000 in payments for holidays that were not booked? • Which artist manager had to spend money to change his vehicle because of a freebie? His artist was given a new keyboard by a company. Alas it wouldn’t fit into his sedan, so he had to fork out for a new van. • Hilltop Hoods’ Walking Under Stars was certified double platinum. • Dave Grohl’s broken foot caused Foo Fighters $10 million in lost fees and merchandising sales after blowing out shows. • On the third night of a five-night stay at Chicago’s United Center, U2 slipped in Gloria as third song in, after ten years. • Prince pulled out his music from all streaming services except Tidal. • Warrnambool’s Royal Hotel, which showcases live music, is up for sale. • Plans to stage an Adelaide version of Thailand’s notorious Full Moon Party in October as part of Asiafest caused a row. Late night clubs are demanding

it face the same liquor licensing policies as they do, residents are complaining music festivals shouldn’t be held in Rymill Park, and Adelaide Council is feeling uneasy about the Thai event’s hedonistic reputation. • Ex-At The Drive-In singer, currently with Antemasque, Cedric Bixler-Zavala revealed that during his The Mars Volta days, he’d spent $1,000 a week on pot. • The return of The Voice drew 1.557 million on its first night, and 1.397 million on its second night. US import Lip Synch, on after The Voice, got 1.124 million. • * Kanye West’s expletive-heavy set at Glastonbury, aired on BBC Two, drew 1.1 million viewers and 44 complaints. Subtitlers changed some of his language to “liggers” and “motherducker”. Meantime, a Brit comedian ran onstage during the show, in retaliation for Kanye’s Grammy run-ons. • Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Oz tour is minus Fleshn-Bone. He decided to stay in the US after being denied a visa into New Zealand due to a past jail term. • US instrument maker firm Artisan Bass Works has offered to make a special guitar for Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson who suffers from arthritis in his hands. An angled neck design will take away much of the strain caused by having to keep the guitar in a playing position and makes the fretboard easier to navigate.

ROSS HANNAFORD FUNDRAISER SELLS OUT

The fund raiser for ailing legendary muso Ross Hannaford sold out in 24 hours. Concert For Ross Hannaford: Dance If You Want To is on July 18 at Memo Music Hall. The splendid lineup includes Ross Wilson and Wayne Duncan of Daddy Cool, The Black Sorrows, Mike Rudd, Bart Willpughby, Kerryn Tolhurst, Steve Hoy, Bruce Haynes, Margo Barrett, Ray Pereira and The Rockwiz Orchestra.

ONELOVE’S RYAN WINTER AT SONY MUSIC

DJ and producer Ryan Wilson is the new director of Electronic Music at Sony Music Entertainment Australia. He replaces Jon Hanlon who is to concentrate on his business interests. Wilson was most recently national & international marketing & promotions manager for onelove. Between 2005 to 2011 he was music director at Adelaide dance station Fresh 92.7 Wilson produces and hosts Australia’s longest dance music radio show Release (now Episode 754).

LUTTON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT MALTHOUSE

Matthew Lutton is Malthouse Theatre’s new artistic director. Formerly an associate artist with the company, he has been acting artistic director since Marion Potts left in March. At 30, Lutton is the youngest artistic director of a major theatre company in Australia.

ART MUSIC AWARDS BACK FOR FIFTH YEAR

The Art Music Awards are back for a fifth year, covering jazz, experimental and classical. Produced by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre, they are held Tuesday August 11 at the City Recital Hall in Sydney. Fenella Kernebone, host of triple j’s long running electronic music show The Sound Lab and Radio National’s By Design, is host.

AMP’S NEW JUDGING PANEL

The judging panel for next year’s $30,000 Australian Music Prize is chaired by Dave Faulkner. The Hoodoo

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LIFELINES Expecting: Peter Bayliss, managing director of Canberra’s music management and accounting firm Into Tomorrow, and his wife Brianna, their fourth child. Ill: Meghan Trainor forced to cancel two US shows after suffering vocal cord haemorrhage and told not to talk or sing. Recovering: Joni Mitchell did suffer aneurysm but is “speaking well” and “a full recovery is expected”. Hospitalised: Russell Morris for an operation for an unspecified condition. In Court: Felony charges against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs over his son’s coach, are dropped. He was up for assault with deadly weapon and terrorist threats. In Court: Enrique Iglesias for driving with a suspended license, and trying to change seats with his manager when caught on a closed express lane in Miami. Sued: Despite the fact Bobbi Kristina Brown is in a coma and coming to the end of her life, a motorist says she crashed into his vehicle on a LA freeway in January when she tried to avoid the car that stopped in front of her Jeep. Sued: Rod Stewart for a song Corrina Corrina on a recent album, by the heirs of US bluesman Armenter “Bo Carter” Chatmon who wrote the folk blues song Corrine, Corrina in 1928, for alleged similarities. Died: Brit drummer Bruce Rowland ( Joe Cocker, Fairport Convention), 71, cancer. Died: Nashville songwriter Red Lane, 76, cancer. He penned hits as Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa for George Strait, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard and lived in a converted DC8 passenger jet airliner.

Gurus frontman is one of three artists on the 16-person jury along with Al Grigg and Phil Jamieson. Those from the media are Mikey Cahill, Bryget Chrisfield, Sosefina Fuamoli, Kate Hennessey, Caitlin Nienaber, Sarah Smith, Myf Warhurst and Bernard Zuel. From the retail sector are Chris Berkley, Mike Glynn, Shannon Logan, Nate Nott and Christopher Powell. The winner is announced in March. See www. facebook.com/australianmusicprize

AUSTRALIAN RADIO AUDIENCE GROWS BY 7%

GfK’s latest AudienScope report shows that Australian radio audiences have grown by 7% in the last five years. 19% are listening to more radio than they were a year ago and 66% listen while driving. 48% stay on the same station for long periods, showing it’s a multi-tasking medium. 59% choose their station for personality-driven content, 82% drawn to humour.

SONGWRITERS CONFERENCE RETURNING

Registrations are now open for the fourth Australian Songwriters Conference (ASC) to be held June 10 ± 13, 2016. It covers publisher pitching sessions, seminars, workshops, on-site recording and performance nights. See www.australiansongwritersconference.com for details.