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Those award-winning brothers in bluegrass are back for a fast-pluckin’ ride of superlative bluegrass and mayhem. They can play the heck out of anything with strings.
Sat 25 July 9pm
DIrT rIvEr
The Dirties are in town! Expect original tunes of bar-room romances, break-ups and “something about football”. It’s a collision of original gutsy country and dirty raaawwwrrrrrock.
Sun 26 July 3.30pm
FlASH CoMpANY Harmony-drenched folk tunes by Flora Smith and Gen Fitzgerald.
Sunday 26 July, 5pm
DUNCAN pHIllIpS & THE loNG STAND Rockin’ alt-country outfit playing original tunes.
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BRIAN NANKERVIS AND THE DING DONG ALL STARS PL AY E A S Y R I D E R
2014 Bank of Melbourne's Music Bank Winner: Heloise
BANK OF MELBOURNE’S MELBOURNE MUSIC BANK After a highly successful competition last year, Bank of Melbourne have revealed the return of Melbourne Music Bank for 2015. The competition is a community music initiative that gives aspiring local musicians a chance to break into the industry. Any Victorian musicians are eligible to enter, and all they have to do is submit an original song to go in the running to win the ultimate kick-starter pack for a career in music. It includes two days of recording at Sing Sing studios, a film clip by Oh Yeah Wow, album artwork, printed CDs and the chance for their song to feature in a Bank of Melbourne TV ad, alongside industry expertise from a dedicated A-team including management and mentoring by Chris Robinson, publicity by On The Map PR, radio plugging by Varrasso PR and gig bookings by 123 Agency. ARIA winner and Melbourne-based musician Ella Hooper is returning as Melbourne Music Bank’s ambassador. Four finalists will be voted by the public (from a shortlist of 12 entrants), who will then perform live on stage on Thursday October 8 at the State Theatre in front of a panel of industry experts who will choose the winner. To enter, submit your song via info.bankofmelbourne.com.au/melbmusicbank/ before Sunday August 23.
T H E V E LV E T UNDERGROUND TRIBUTE
KISSCHASY ANNOUNCE FAREWELL TOUR Aussie pop punks Kisschasy are calling it quits, with their final tour scheduled for this October. Coinciding with the ten year anniversary of their debut LP United Paper People, which spawned the hit singles Do Do and Whoa-Ohs, This Bed and The Shake, the tour will see Kisschasy playing United Paper People in its entirety, alongside other crowd faves. Joining them for all dates on their farewell tour will be Tassie punks Luca Brasi. Kisschasy play in Melbourne on Saturday October 10 at the Corner Hotel. Head to the venue’s website for tickets and more information.
LOWTIDE TOUR IN AUGUST Following on from last year’s debut album, Lowtide have announced its follow up, their Julia/Spring 7” as well as a trio of Australian shows to support it. Recorded in Melbourne by Matthew Hosking (VHS Dream), Julia was originally written and recorded in 1988 by French band Asylum Party. Spring was recorded by Gareth Parton (The Go! Team, Foals) during recording sessions for the band’s self titled debut. Lowtide will play Northcote Social Club on Saturday August 29, tickets are on sale now through the venue. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14
To mark the 50th anniversary of The Velvet Underground’s first paid gig, some of their biggest fans will head to The Flying Saucer Club, to pay tribute to one of the most influential bands of all time. The Spoils will be reprising their Pure Pop Records performance of The Velvet Underground & Nico, playing the album live in its entirety. Psychedelic punks Sand Pebbles will then take to the stage to play all of The Velvet Underground’s second album, White Light White Heat. Two classic albums performed back to back, track by track. Peel Slowly & See goes down on Saturday August 22 at The Flying Saucer Club. Tickets are available now through the venue’s website.
THE RUBBERBANDITS RETURN IN NOVEMBER Following their sold out run of shows in Ireland, London and Edinburgh earlier this year, the multi award-winning hip hop comedy duo The Rubberbandits have finally announced their return to Australian shores. Hailing from Limerick, Ireland, the duo of Blindboy Boatclub (Dave Chambers) and Mr Chrome (Bob McGlynn) shot to fame in 2010 with their YouTube video, Horse Outside, currently sitting on over 13 million views. The Rubberbandits play in town on Friday November 6 at Max Watt’s. Tickets are available through the venue’s website.
Bringing their much loved dinnershows back for 2015, Brian and his Ding Dong All Stars will be performing the classic soundtrack to the 1969 film Easy Rider, as well as other songs from ‘60s outsider movies. Easy Rider smashed box office records at its time of release to become an instant counter-culture classic. The film follows two hippies as they ride motorcycles across the States set to the music of Steppenwolf, The Band, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds and Bob Dylan. Running with the Americana influence, the team at Ding Dong will be supplying three courses of Southern, home style cooking including chargrilled oysters, sausage jambalaya and braised short ribs. Step onto your chopper and cruise on down to Ding Dong on Sunday August 16, tickets are available through Eventbrite.
MUSTERED COURAGE AUGUST TOUR Melbourne’s own Mustered Courage have come out to announce an east coast tour this week, coinciding with the release of their latest single, Honesty, the first taste from their upcoming studio album. Thanks to their 2014 US tour, which included a whopping 60 shows across 70 days, Mustered Courage caught the eye of Lost Highway Records and eventually signed a worldwide deal. 2015 has already seen the band take out the CMAA Golden Guitar Award for Instrumental of the Year, before playing at the revered Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado. Mustered Courage play Friday August 21 at Northcote Social Club. Head to the venue’s website for tickets and more information.
QUEENSCLIFF M U S I C F E S T I VA L LINEUP EXPANDS The beachside music festival have added a stellar collection of ten new acts to their bill. Coming along for the ride will be Augie March, Cookin’ on 3 Burners featuring Tex Perkins, L-Fresh the Lion, The Snowdroppers, Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine, Tinpan Orange, Raised by Eagles, All Our Exes Live in Texas, Morgan Bain and Blue Eyes Cry. They will join already announced names including Angus & Julia Stone, Hoodoo Gurus, Kate Miller-Heidke and Paul Dempsey. Massive, right? Queenscliff Music Festival runs from Friday November 27 – Sunday November 29. Check out http://www.qmf.net.au for more info.
THE MEANIES CONFIRM NEW ALBUM, TOUR Iconic Melbourne pub punks The Meanies have announced an end to their two-decade long musical drought with their latest album, It’s Not Me, It’s You, due for release on Friday September 25. Forming in 1989, The Meanies exploded in popularity that saw them tour the world with the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Beastie Boys and Fugazi. After calling it quits in ’95, the band reformed three years later and have since played a handful of shows each year to keep The Meanies spirit alive and kicking. The It’s Not You, It’s Me tour sees The Meanies play The Tote on Friday October 2. Tickets are available now through Oztix.
LAST DINOSAURS ALBUM TOUR Last Dinosaurs have announced a run of national dates to celebrate their upcoming second album Wellness, kicking off this September. The nine-stop tour, which follows their performance at Splendour In The Grass, will feature two shows in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne as well as dates in Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra. Last Dinosaurs will launch Wellness at the Corner Hotel on Thursday October 1. Tickets go on sale Wednesday July 22 through the venue.
JOSH GROBAN RETURNING NEXT YEAR Multi-platinum selling singer Josh Groban will be coming our way for the first time in three years next April. He’ll be accompanied by both an orchestra and choir for a set that will span his entire recording career including Closer, Awake, Illuminations and 2013’s All That Echoes. Groban is currently in the country promoting his latest album, Stages. Josh Groban will play at the Palais Theatre on Monday April 25.
The National
NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB 10TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES Northcote Social Club turns ten-years old this September, and they’re throwing a series of top notch gigs during the month to celebrate. The Northcote Social Club’s 10th Anniversary Series will feature an all star Australian lineup with Regurgitator, Jebediah, Adalita, Hiatus Kaiyote, The Bamboos, Clare Bowditch and Andy Bull, with more announcements to come. The Northcote Social Club 10th Anniversary Series kicks off on Wednesday September 2 and goes right through until Wednesday September 30. Grab your tickets from northcotesocialclub.com.
BLUESFEST 2016 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Bluesfest have dropped their first round of artists for next year’s event. Leading the lineup in a festival exclusive performance are The National. They will be joined by City and Colour, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue, blues rock maestro Joe Bonamassa and Grammy award-winning group Tedeschi Trucks Band. Other artists include The Cat Empire, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, The Word, Rhiannon Giddens and Songhoy Blues. Bluesfest 2016 will take place from Thursday March 24 until Monday March 28, just north of Byron Bay. Hit up bluesfest.com.au for more information.
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In what’s already been touted as the heavy music gig of the year, the incomparable Elder and Earthless are joining forces for a gargantuan tour Down Under this October. Sharing the stage for the first time, bathe in the psychedelic guitar riffs of Earthless, while Elder celebrate the release of their latest album, Lore. Earthless and Elder will take to the stage at the Corner Hotel on Friday October 23. Tickets are available now via lifeisnoise.com.
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PERCH CREEK SINGLE LAUNCH Formerly known as Perch Creek Family Jugband, the five-piece have returned with a revitalised sound in their new single, Mama Sings, and they’re hitting the road to share it. Comprised of four siblings and one partner, the group have been on a performing hiatus for the first part of 2015 to focus on writing for their upcoming album. Produced by Greg J Walker (Machine Translations, Paul Kelly, CW Stoneking), the single was recorded at his converted bakery studio in country Victoria. Perch Creek will bring their new tunes to Howler on September 12.
L I T T L E M AY SEPTEMBER TOUR To celebrate their upcoming debut album, For The Company, Little May have announced they will head off on an Australian tour this September. The Sydney-based trio will release the album this October. The album was produced by Aaron Brooking Dessner (The National). During April and May, Annie Hamilton, Liz Drummond and Hannah Field, along with their band, made their way to Hudson in upstate New York and began recording the record with Dessner at Future Past Studios, a converted 19th century church, with the remainder of the album completed in Aaron’s garage in Brooklyn. The tour will see Little May play stages in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth before embarking on a 25-stop international tour that will take them to the US, UK and Europe. Little May will take over the Corner Hotel on Thursday September 24. Tickets are on sale through the venue.
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The ever-rowdy Midnight Woolf are returning to The LuWow on Friday July 31 to offer another wild night of epic fuzz proportions. The boys have spent the last few months bunkered down in their garage writing new material, with the idea to record them live at The LuWow for their upcoming release. Joining them on the night will be good friends Yard Apes. Midnight Woolf play The LuWow on Friday July 31.
With his forthcoming debut solo album The Names due for release this September, Baio has announced he will play a show in Melbourne this August. Baio, aka Chris Baio, has already conquered stages worldwide as the bassist for Grammy winners Vampire Weekend, remixed the likes of Broken Bells and Cults and DJ’ed dance floors around the globe. Now he is preparing to add a full length solo album to his list of solo EPs, and multi-platinum VW records. Baio will take over Shebeen on Tuesday August 18. Tickets go on sale Friday July 24 through the venue.
THE SNOWDROPPERS BACK TO BUSINESS The Snowdroppers have announced their first run of Australian shows in over 18 months to celebrate their forthcoming album, Business, kicking off this September. The tour will take in 13 venues around the country, with their final show at Queenscliff Music Festival on the final weekend in November. This will be the first time The Snowdroppers have played their new material live, 12 new tracks covering everything from classic soul and R&B to fuzzed-out stoner riff-rock and distorted country. Catch The Snowdroppers at Northcote Social Club on Saturday September 19. Tickets are available through the venue.
S H E R I F F PL AY T H E GAS After spending most of the year on tour, Melbourne’s sons of psychedelic horror blues Sheriff are returning to their home at the Gaso to launch their latest 7” single, The Ghosts Of Saturday Night. Joining Sheriff for an evening of high energy action will be majestic sextet Mangelwurzel, blues rockers Smoke Stack Rhino, and Melbourne muso BJ Morriszonkle. Sheriff play Friday July 31 at The Gasometer, hit up the venue’s website for details.
Gershwin’s classic symphonic poem will be played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra alongside Ravel and SaintSaëns. Composed in 1928, An American in Paris is one of Gershwin’s best-known works, inspired by his experiences within the French capital. At the time, Gershwin was one of the first composers to blend classical music with elements of jazz and blues. The night will also feature Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G alongside Saint-Saëns’ final symphonic work - a piece to specially utilise the majestic town organ. Head down to the Melbourne Town Hall on Friday October 30. Tickets are available now through www.mso.com.au.
ACOUSTICANA LIVE AT THE MEMO Four Australian music legends will be putting songwriting prowess at the forefront when they come together later this year. Presented by Shock Records founder David Roy Williams, Acousticana is set to feature Dave Mason (best known for writing Quasimodo’s Dream during his time in The Reels), ARIA Hall of Famer Sean Kelly, the multi-ARIA nominated Rob Snarski (The Blackeyed Susans), and Brendan Gallagher, who released six albums with Karma County including the ARIA Award winning Into The Land Of Promise. Acousticana goes down on Friday September 11 at Memo Music Hall. Tickets are available from tombowler.com.au.
Coinciding with the launch of ACMI’s David Bowie Is exhibition, the recently released Enchanting David Bowie comes as the complete compendium book for Bowie fans, introducing readers to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues central to understanding the multi-faceted artist. To celebrate the release, we’ve got our hands on a couple copies of Enchanting David Bowie to giveaway. Head over to beat.com.au/freeshit for all the deets.
MS MR – HOW DOES IT FEEL
Dream pop duo MS MR launched their third studio album How Does It Feel last week, and thanks to Sony Music, we’ve got a couple copies hanging around the office just itching to be passed on. beat. com.au/freeshit if you want ‘em.
THE REBELLES
19 piece girl group The Rebelles are launching their debut album, Go! Rebelle!, this Saturday July 25 at Thornbury Theatre. If some ‘60s girl group nostalgia with a modern flair sounds like fun, we’ve got a double pass to the launch with your name on it. beat. com.au/freeshit is the place to go.
STEREOSONIC REVEAL 2015 LINEUP The electronic festival juggernaut has revealed a huge lineup for this year. Topping the bill are international heavyweights Major Lazer, Armin Van Buuren, Diplo, DJ Snake, Clean Bandit, Duke Dumont and Axwell & Ingrosso. As well as this, Australian favourites Peking Duk, MaRLo, What So Not, Will Sparks, Hot Dub Time Machine, Timmy Trumpet, Tigerlily, Gernerik, Slumberjack and Carmada are playing, alongside a whole heap more. Returning for 2015 are custom built stages specialising in genres from house and trap to trance and electronica. This year, the festival is going back to the original one-day format. They will also offer three ticket types, including upgrades and VIP specials. Stereosonic will come to the Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday December 5. Head to their website for the full lineup and ticket information.
THE BEARDS TURN TEN To celebrate a decade of follicle based rock together, the bearded boys are hitting the road along with new music. The Beards will be releasing an anniversary double album featuring a ‘best of ’ compilation, rarities, and a live set recorded at Sydney’s Metro Theatre earlier this year. The group formed in 2005 with the intent of playing a single show. Since then, they’ve ridden the beard wave across multiple international tours, ARIA nominations, sell out shows and over five million YouTube views. The Beards will hit the Corner Hotel on October 8, grab your tickets through the venue’s website.
THE STIFFYS LOCK IN ALBUM TOUR Melbourne duo The Stiffys will be hitting the road off the back of their new EP, ART ROCK ONE. Recently releasing two singles, Kick Another Flip and Kissy Kissy, the group have been touring with The Beards and picking up steam as they head towards another EP release later in the year. The Stiffys will play The Tote on October 1.
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TOURING
WHO'S ON TOUR, WHERE AND WHEN
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INTERNATIONAL 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 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 BAIO Shebeen Bandroom August 18 YOB Max Watt’s August 21 GINUWINE Trak Friday 21 THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Prince Bandroom August 28 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 DEVIN THE DUDE Laundry Bar September 25 LISTEN OUT FESTIVAL Catani Gardens September 26 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena September 26 PENNYWISE 170 Russell September 28 BAHAMAS Howler September 30 AS IT IS The Evelyn Hotel October 1 (AA), October 2 JJ GREY & MOFRO Northcote Social Club October 7 SILENT KNIGHT The Bendigo October 8 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
ELDER AND EARTHLESS The Corner October 23 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 THE RUBBERBANDITS Max Watt’s November 6 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 CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Caravan Music Club November 25, Northcote Social Club November 26 EARTHCORE Pyalong, Victoria November 26 – 30 RON SEXSMITH MEMO Music Hall November 27, Northcote Social Club November 28 RISE AGAINST Margaret Court Arena December 2 CHRIS CORNELL The Palais December 4 ED SHEERAN AAMI Park December 5 STEREOSONIC Melbourne Showgrounds December 5 SAM SMITH Rod Laver Arena December 8 HALESTORM 170 Russell 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 THE 1975 Festival Hall January 20 MADONNA Rod Laver Arena March 12, 13 JOSH GROBAN Palais Theatre April 25
NATIONAL ED KUEPPER Northcote Social Club July 23, 30 LEPERS & CROOKS, St James Geelong July 24, Torquay Hotel July 25, Workers Club July 27, Brunswick Hotel July 28 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 I AM DUCKEYE Brunswick Hotel July 26 BALLOONS KILL BABIES Brunswick Hotel July 26 KID RADIO Shebeen July 30 LEAH SENIOR Shebeen July 30 MIDNIGHT WOOLF The LuWoW July 31 SHERIFF The Gasometer July 31 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 THE OCEAN PARTY Shadow Electric 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 PAUL GRABOWSKY & VINCE JONES MEMO Music Hall August 2 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 MAIDS Public Bar August 7 MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW National Theatre August 7 DAY RAVIES The Tote August 7 JAMES TEAGUE Dane Certificate’s Magic Theatre August 7 BREWTALITY FEST The Tote, The Bendigo Hotel August 8 STYLUS The Flying Saucer Club August 14 JOSHUA SEYMOUR Spotted Mallard August 14 TOMMY EMMANUEL Hamer Hall August 15 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
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THE GRATES Corner Hotel August 15 BRIAN NANKERVIS AND THE DING DONG ALL STARS Ding Dong Lounge August 16 PRESENTATION NIGHT Corner Hotel August 16 WAY OF THE EAGLE Howler August 20 DIZZ1 Boney August 21 MOSES GUNN Shebeen 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 MUSTERED COURAGE Northcote Social Club 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 PEEL SLOWLY & SEE: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND TRIBUTE The Flying Saucer Club August 22 GANG OF YOUTHS The Corner Hotel August 26 LYALL MALONEY Shebeen Bandroom August 27 HELLIONS Arrow August 26 (AA), Ding Dong Lounge August 27 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 LOWTIDE Northcote Social Club August 29 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 GATHERER/GUARDS OF MAY Toff In Town 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 CACTUS CHANNEL Shebeen Bandroom September 11 ACOUSTICANA Memo Music Hall September 11 PERCH CREEK Howler September 12 THE JUNGLE GIANTS The Corner September 12 SOL NATION Rubix Warehouse RAE HOWELL Memo Music Hall September 18 THE SNOWDROPPERS Northcote Social Club September 19 THE SMITH STREET BAND The Corner September 19, 20 BIG STRONG BRUTE The Evelyn Hotel September 20 LITTLE MAY The Corner September 24 PARKWAY DRIVE Festival Hall September 26 MEG MAC The Corner September 27 THE STIFFYS The Tote October 1 LAST DINOSAURS The Corner October 1 THE MEANIES The Tote October 2 BODYJAR Northcote Social Club October 3 BEN LEE The Corner October 7 THE BEARDS The Corner October 8 THE RUBENS The Forum October 9 KISSCHASY The Corner October 10 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 TUKA The Corner November 6 MSO BACK TO THE FUTURE LIVE The Plenary November 6, 7 COLD CHISEL Hanging Rock Reserve November 21 HERMITUDE Festival Hall November 28 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliff November 27, 29 AC/DC Etihad Stadium December 6 MSO PRESENT HITCHCOCK AND HERRMANN Hamer Hall February 5, 6
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Dy l A N MOrAN Hook, LInE & SInkEr By Tyson Wray
What the absolute fuck is happening to this country? Seriously. Under the leadership of the Abbott government our once great nation has seemingly reverted on the majority of our social, political and environmental advancements in the name of the almighty dollar. We’re completely destroying the environment, we’ve fallen so fucking far behind in contemporary civil liberties, we’re completely ruining the lives of 1,000s of asylum seekers who have been tortured and abused and we’re not doing a single thing except trying to hide it because our ethic-less officials are fucking spineless. Considering the general public elected in the hob-goblin onion-biting lizard king himself with a landslide victory in 2013 it’s gotten to the point where aligning yourself as Australian has reached cartoonish levels of embarrassment. This is, of course, the first thing that Dylan Moran wishes to discuss when I reach him on the phone at his Edinburgh home.
“I’ve got to ask you, how much domestic support does he actually have?” laughs Moran. “The international reputation that Tony Abbott has is that he’s not a terribly imaginative right-winger who blames climate change on the lesbian Illuminati.” For fuck’s sake. “He’s regarded as having his head in the sand. For 20 years Australia had such massive growth,” he notes. “The whole world looks to Australia - especially Europe and America as we’re all allies. Everyone looks to you as a bellwether and an indicator of what the hell is going on, especially when it comes to climate change. To hear now that big business is coming first is pretty ridiculous.” Another world leader that Moran has shown his disdain for quite vocally is Jorge Mario Bergoglio AKA, Pope Francis, the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church who has received widespread media coverage and acclaim for holding much more progressive views than his predecessors. “The only reason that anyone could think someone like Pope Francis is a progressive leader is, because well, look at what you’re comparing to,” he says. “The entire church is pretty damn toxic.” Returning to Australian shores with his latest show Off The Hook, Moran will once again treat audiences to a sardonic and insightful look into his world. “It’s about family, it’s about getting older, it’s about looking at your kids growing up,” he details of the show. “I’m like anybody else who has children, they become the centre of your life. I don’t ever worry about my health, but I don’t want to die anytime soon because I want to be around to do things with my children. “When I look at my kids and their generation, I wonder about what sort of world they’re going to grow up into. I don’t think it’s easy for anyone to find their way through the world when their 18, 19, 20. It’s pretty scary stuff. You’re being spat out of an education system and your home and into the world been told you’ve got to figure it out. In retrospect I don’t really know how I got it together.” While family life will take centre stage throughout BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
much of Off The Hook, vitriolic lashings towards world leaders, Americans and Greeks also feature throughout. “It’s also about politics and the world, well, to a degree. To be honest I’m starting to get sick of talking about that sort of stuff, all of the media. Are you actually being informed or are you just distracting yourself from your own life by going, ‘Oh there’s been another disaster in another country 1,000s and 1,000s of miles away from me’. Of course it’s interesting and of course it’s important to be connected, but we’re pixelating ourselves with all of this stuff.”
“THE ONly rEASON THAT ANyONE COUlD THINk SOMEONE lIkE POPE FrANCIS IS A PrOGrESSIvE lEADEr IS, BECAUSE WEll, lOOk AT WHAT yOU’rE COMPArING TO...THE ENTIrE CHUrCH IS PrETTy DAMN TOxIC” Moran’s return Down Under is his first Australian sojourn since 2011, and it’ll see him perform over 30 shows nationwide (including seven nights at Arts Centre Melbourne’s 2000-seat State Theatre). However, he’s adamant that no two shows will ever be exactly the same. “I’m still messing around with the show every night, I’m playing it upside down, inside out, throwing out this bit, trying to write new bits,” he says. “I play with my shows until the very last minute I have to put it down. I don’t really want to know how it’s going to be 100 per cent, from A-Z. I never really have with anything I’ve ever done. That’s how it’s been ever since I started. I’m always refining things until it comes to point where I just have to kick it away.” While Moran is best known for his work as the drunken and cynical Bernard Black in the television show Black Books, his approach to stand-up comedy
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is far less pessimistic. “I don’t think it’s very useful to iterate an endless tablet of humanity’s ills, woes and faults,” he says. “I’m not saying that everyone has to be an Easter bunny hopping around all time with a lust for optimism, but if you don’t have any hope at all there’s no point in crawling any inch further. You have to have some hope that we’ll find answers to the problems in front of us, or why bother?” Another lesser known feather in Moran’s bow in his penchant for illustration. “As I’m talking to you right now I’m actually doing some drawing,” he shares.”I have a lot of artwork, and I’ll probably bring out these small books that I’ve made with me and sell some of them at the gigs.” And what are these books about? They’re fables of animals who are having mid-life crises, naturally. “They’re from this world that I’ve developed over the past few years. I’ve had these characters rolling around for about ten years, actually. That’s really all I can tell you just now.” As we conclude our conversation, I quiz Moran on what’s left to accomplish in his career, and the legacy he wants to leave behind. “I’m not interested in making a mark on the world,” he says. “I’ve never been interested in making a mark on the world. I just want to make things that are good. I know that may sound child-like, but I want to be able to make things that people engage with and laugh with. Things that make people forget their worries, even if it’s just for ten minutes, half an hour or an hour. I don’t care if it’s comedy, if it’s books or if it’s television programs. That’s all I’m interested in doing.”
Dylan Moran will perform his new show Off The Hook from Monday July 27 - Sunday August 2 at the Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre. If you’re looking for the perfect reason to escape to the Top End you can also see him at the Darwin Entertainment Centre on Tuesday August 11 as part of the 2015 Darwin Festival.
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Queenie van de Zandt
Impro Melbourne’s Celebrity Theatresports is back bringing together a handpicked collection of talented celebrities before throwing them into a whirlwind of improvised theatre. The talent includes Queenie van de Zandt (Girl Clock, Winners and Losers, King Kong, Les Miserables), Geoff Paine (Neighbours, Blue Heelers, A Country Practice) and Jason Geary (Impro Melbourne alumni, iSelect commercials). Alongside the Impro Melbourne ensemble, they’ll be competing in a fast paced, unpredicatble showdown judged by Derek Guille, Mike Jackson and Kate Ceberano. Get down to The National Theatre on Saturday July 25 to join in. The star and co-writer of Black Books Dylan Moran hits Melbourne this week. A regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival, Dylan Moran is constantly voted as one of the greatest stand-ups in the world, and has also been involved in films such as Shaun of the Dead, Run Fatboy Run and Good Vibrations. His upcoming tour will see him bring his latest show, Off The Hook, to Australian shores. Catch him from Monday July 27 Sunday August 2 at the Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre. Choreographed and performed by 2015 Dancehouse artist Sarah Aiken, SET invites the audience to “consider the space between the mundane and the spectacular.” Aiken’s astonishing choreography takes the way we look at the world and humanity by taking regular everyday items and then distorting them to a whole different scale. Melbourne-based performer and choreographer Sarah Aiken now joins the list of creators in the eighth year of the Dancehouse Housemate program which commissions, produces and presents a new dance piece every year. SET will premiere at the Sylvia Staehli Theatre at Dancehouse from Wednesday July 22 to Sunday July 26.
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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 this week. Under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Diego Matheuz, she’ll also play Tchaivosky’s Marche Slave and Brahm’s Symphony No. 4. At 27-years-old. the virtuoso has already racked up a long list of accomplishments, having played Carnegie Hall and alongside notable orchestras like the London Philharmonic and New York Orchestra. Yuja Wang will play at Hamer Hall on Thursday July 23, Friday July 24 and Saturday July 25.
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Death and the Maiden By Myf Clark Written in the wake of the Pinochet regime in Chile, Ariel Dorfman’s captivating psychological thriller Death and the Maiden was performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1993, and 22 years later, is making its return to the MTC stage in a new production starring Susie Porter, Eugene Gilfedder and Steve Mouzakis and directed by Leticia Càceres (who recently directed MTC’s Birdland). Beat had the opportunity to speak to Mouzakis who has had an impressive career over the years including theatre (MTC’s The Cherry Orchard for which he won the Green Room award for Best Actor), film (Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are) and television (Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap). The show is set in a time when military rule is over and the new democracy looks towards a brighter future. But for victims of the old regime, such as Paulina Salas, memories are a prison. Through months of pain and degradation she never saw her tormentor’s face, but she heard his voice, calm yet menacing in her ear, a voice she will never forget. When her husband Gerardo invites a stranger back to their isolated beach house, she hears that voice again. When speaking with Mouzakis about the show, he explains that the show is set just after a dictatorship has ended in an unnamed country and about the return to democracy. “There are a couple of different aspects to the show. Notably there’s the political aspect of it in that it’s a play about reconciliation and how we reconcile with the past as a society and as people. The personal comes into the story wherein I play Gerardo Escobar who’s been appointed to a commission to investigate crimes against human rights violations against my wife Paulina. The show takes place in one night at our beach house with a guest who may or may not be a person that was involved with some crimes of the past against my wife.” For Mouzakis, the show has quite a complex, yet deceptively simple premise where the political, the psychological and the emotional all come together. “It’s basically about the past coming back, the inescapable past that we must deal with as a country and as people.” Mouzakis was introduced to Càceres when working on The Cherry Orchard and when the opportunity came along to work with her, there was no way he was going to pass it up. “I got a call about Death and the
Maiden and I was like ‘wow’. Leticia is originally from Argentina, which is a country that also dealt with a military dictatorship, so she had first hand, in terms of her family, experienced a lot of that stuff and it was very personal for her. I just couldn’t think of a director better suited to take this play on, so I feel very grateful and honoured and privileged that I’ve been invited along. You feel a lot of debt and responsibility not just to the play but to the fact that we want to do this justice because we’re representing real people.” Càceres herself comments that, “I regard Death and the Maiden as part of my heritage, part of a dark past shared not only by a number of South American countries such as my homeland Argentina, but over and over again in so many places around the world. I am honoured to demonstrate why this play is so powerful, and remains so tremendously important.” Despite the dark nature of the show, Mouzakis has had a great time working with the cast and crew. “The play deals with some really grueling, gruesome stuff – well gruesome events definitely – so some of it is quite harrowing in terms of rehearsal. But at the same time, as a company of people, we’ve had a great time, one of the best I’ve ever had. We’ve been having a really enjoyable time as artists, even though the work has been so really full on. There’ve been a lot of laughs and quite a bit of tears as well.” For a show that was written over 20 years ago, the stories told in Death and the Maiden are still unfortunately relevant today. Dorfman himself said in 2011 “It happened yesterday but it could well be today…I can’t help but ask if 20 years from now I will be writing this
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“It’s basically about the past coming back, the inescapable past that we must deal with as a country and as people.” phrase all over again: this story happened yesterday, but it could well be today.” Mouzakis also believes that the show is relevant as ever, especially as there is nothing in the story to limit it to a certain time or place. For him, the play asks “what is justice, what is appropriate, what is the difference between justice and revenge, how do we let go and forgive and move on as people and as a collective? How does that happen in the face of horror? Outside of that, the real great challenge of this play is that it’s got a real visceral, happening in the moment thing about it – we wonder did he do it? Didn’t he do it? What are they going to do now? What’s right, what’s wrong, what’s the right or wrong thing to do? The hope is that it places the audience in a place where they think not just ‘oh god, what’s going to happen next’ but ‘what would I do’? I think it’s a very exciting play and it gets to the point and it punches really hard, really quickly.” Death and the Maiden be performed at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner from Thursday July 24 Saturday August 22.
A Look Inside Melbourne’s Regular Comedy Rooms Comedy rooms are funny places, aren’t they?
However, so many people seem to think that comedy in Melbourne draws to a halt when MICF finishes. That’s why we at Beat thought it would be a great idea to put together a special that celebrates the places that provide people with an escape from their hum drum existence and day-to-day drudgery. We’ve spoken to our favourite rooms around town to find out their secrets to success and keeping the crowds chuckling.
Funny at the Brunny
Mad Dog Comedy @ Dancing Dog Cafe
@ The Brunswick Hotel
Address: 42 Albert St, Footscray
Address:140 Sydney Road, Brunswick
So how come you think you are so funny? Just because.
So how come you think you are so funny? The people seem to keep laughing. People laughing with a mouthful of food is gross, do you serve food? No. If your walls could talk what joke would they tell? The walls do talk, you’ll have to come down and listen yourself. Is there anything you would change about the comedy industry? Not a thing. How do comedians prepare for a show? Any weird routines? Requests? Frequently with alcohol, the weird ones use water. What has been the biggest fuck-up you’ve seen during a live performance? Things didn’t go so well for that narcoleptic act. What do you think it is that sets your venue apart from the rest of the Melbourne comedy scene right now? We’re all so lovely. When is your comedy night/s and how much does it cost? Every second Monday and you can come for free. Thanks (see, we’re lovely).
People laughing with a mouthful of food is gross, do you serve food? Bar snacks, wedges, pizzas, nachos...is beer food? If your walls could talk what joke would they tell? A bar walks into a man. Is there anything you would change about the comedy industry? Nope. How do comedians prepare for a show? Any weird routines? Requests? No idea what they do. What has been the biggest fuck-up you’ve seen during a live performance? Hitler Nazi routine. Not funny. What do you think it is that sets your venue apart from the rest of the Melbourne comedy scene right now? Open comedy for artists to test their material and it’s filmed by the host. Open to all. When is your comedy night/s and how much does it cost? Tuesdays night at 8pm. Free.
Ivan Aristeguita
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Lucky Comedy
@ The Local Taphouse
@ Lucky Coq
Address: 184 Carlisle St, St Kilda East
Address: 179 Chapel Street, Windsor
So how come you think you are so funny? Scientific reasoning. We’re all for evidence based claims and can’t help but notice the tens of thousands people roaring with laughter every Monday for the past 12 years. Faced with that avalanche of testimony we feel confident about flying the comedy flag and putting out the welcome mat. The one with a smiley face printed on it (with a whopper cushion underneath it).
So how come you think you are so funny? The problem is that we’re not funny…that’s why we have to hold these comedy nights every week!
Do you serve food? Hell yeah. Not just food, excellent food. The Monday menu has been carefully tailored for comedy to cut down on clattering cutlery. Top tip: the delectable morsels of Southern fried chicken are so addictive you’ll be dreaming about them all week. Golden, chickeny, finger lickin’ dreams. If your walls could talk what joke would they tell? Barry and Kevin were building a house. Barry was looking through a bag of nails and putting some in a box and tossing others into the rubbish bin. “Why are you throwing those ones away?” said Kevin. “Because they’re pointed at the wrong end.”, said Barry. Kevin laughed his arse off. “You idiot!”, he said. “Those nails are for the other side of the house”. Is there anything you would change about the comedy industry? Install windmills/energy convertors on top of comedy venues – when comedians generate laughs the laughs turn the windmill which generates electricity that in turn powers the lights and sound system of the venue enabling comedians to generate even more laughs. Yes, I am a genius. How do comedians prepare for a show? Any weird routines? Requests? Having made an offering at the shrine of the great god LOL, comedians take a moment of quiet contemplation before suddenly asking - two minutes prior to the show - something along the lines of: “Hey Janet, you wouldn’t happen to have an inflatable dinosaur/ a strobe light/Elvis singing “In The Ghetto”/velcro strips/party poppers/10m of rope/a taxidermied mongoose fighting two cobras..would you?” The answer is always ‘yes’ (comedy room runners have the same motto as boy scouts). What has been the biggest fuck-up you’ve seen during a live performance? Some whackjob got up and said “I now look forward to forming a government that is competent and trustworthy” and he became our Prime Minister. Sheesh. What do you think it is that sets your venue apart from the rest of the Melbourne comedy scene? The recipe is unbeatable: take one warm, atmospheric venue with 20 on tap craft beers and a highly rated kitchen, add a generous helping of Australia’s finest comedians and drizzle with the crème de la crème of talented up-and-comers. All ingredients are lovingly hand-selected by world-renowned comedy curator extraordinaire – Janet A. McLeod. When is your comedy night and how much does it cost? Mondays, 8.30pm (doors open 7.30pm). Full $15, concession $12.
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Arj Barker
A Look Inside Melbourne’s Regular Comedy Rooms
People laughing with a mouthful of food is gross, do you serve food? We’re slinging $4 pizzas from 7pm - 11pm Monday – Thursday, 7pm - 9pm Friday and Saturday, 11.30am – 4pm weekdays and all day Sunday. Unfortunately for the comedians this means their show falls smack bang in the middle of our $4 food specials – there’s salami flying all over the stage! Is there anything you would change about the comedy industry? I think if you asked a 100 different comics you’d get a 100 different answers. To me the scene is pretty healthy right now, especially in Melbourne. Five years ago there seemed to be half a dozen gigs you could do a week, now there’s that many a night. If you’re a new comic there’s lots of friendly open mic rooms around. I guess every comic thinks they should be bigger than they are, getting more gigs than they are and seeing more money. I think with YouTube and social media now a comic, just like a band, has the opportunity to self promote a lot better if they can bothered. You can make yourself rather than waiting for someone to do it for you. How do comedians prepare for a show? Any weird routines? Requests? I’ve never really seen any weird preparations. For most comics it just involves a pint or two to quench the nerves. There’s a few guys and girls who pace round a bit, I know someone who sucks their thumb. Some probably need to take a big a old shit. Nothing too weird. What has been the biggest fuck-up you’ve seen during a live performance? It’s always fun to go watch some heats of RAW Comedy. A lot of boys will bring their mates who’ve no doubt told them to enter, sarcastically or not. They’re full of confidence before they go on but when they get up there they’re petrified. The first joke (always about fucking chicks) will inevitably bomb and you see the life drain out of them. I’ve never really seen too many major fuck ups though. I saw a comic who threw their MICF show after three minutes when he realised that he knew everyone in the six person strong crowd. Bar one person. He just sat on the stage talking garbage, about how depressed he was, that no girls liked him and how the MICF was draining all his money. It wasn’t very funny. The one person he didn’t know in the crowd turned out to be a reviewer for The Age. What do you think it is that sets your venue apart from the rest of the Melbourne comedy scene right now? I think mostly our main point of difference would be that we’re one of the only venues on Chapel Street that provides a free standup comedy night every week. We have a rotating roster of great amateur stand-up comedians and to name drop a little, we’ve even had some big names in the comedy industry - Arj Barker and Dave Hughes people that you would normally pay $50 - $100 to see for a measly $0 at the Coq! When is your comedy night/s and how much does it cost? Every Tuesday night from 9pm - 11pm and its always and forever 100% free!
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Queer happenings around town with Anna Whitelaw.
On Saturday July 25, Midsumma will host the annual Pride March Bake Off at the DT’s in Richmond pitting the gay bakers against each other. This year’s categories are the Best Tasting Made Cake, Best Looking Cake, Best Bite Size Sweets and the Great Pride March Challenge. The cakes will be auctioned off, with all funds raised from auctions and ticket sales going to Pride March. DT’s Pub, 164 Church Street, Richmond. 2.30pm. Tickets are available at midsumma.org.au.
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner was awarded ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award and gave her first public address before a cheering crowding in Los Angeles. The former Olympian 65-year-old acknowledged that while it was a honour to be called brave, she was also fortunate. “All across this country right now, all across the world at this very moment, there are young people coming to terms with being transgender,” she said. “They’re getting bullied, they’re getting beaten up, they’re getting murdered and they’re committing suicide.” “If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead - I can take it… But for the thousands of kids out there coming to terms with who they are, they shouldn’t have to take it.” Of course, Caitlyn Jenner being awarded for courage was bound to incur the wrath of conservatives and homophobes who were quick to dismiss the idea that gender transition is courageous. Instead, they argued, such accolades should be reserved for true bravery: soldiers. Thankfully, even US soldiers came to the defence of
Jenner. A 23-year-old soldier Joey Vicente posted a powerful rebuttal on his Facebook page, saying: “You are on the wrong side of history…like many bigots of the civil rights era, you will one day answer for your hate.” Although the post was intended only for his friends, the post went viral and was shared over 5,000 times, proof that sometimes social media can do some good. It goes without saying that courage is not an exclusive trait. War veterans can be courageous, and so is Caitlyn Jenner. It shouldn’t be a competition. Meanwhile, those who would say that a transwoman doesn’t deserve a medal that should be awarded to a soldier of course ignore that there are transmen and transwoman actively serving in the US military who are currently denied the right to be recognised as their chosen gender, and forced instead to wear uniforms of their biologically born sex and be addressed by the opposite sex pronouns. One estimate suggests there are more than 15,000 service men and women who are forced to deny their identity in order to continue serving their country. Now that’s what I call courage.
If baking isn’t your strong suit, you can still support a good cause by joining the Equal Love Rally at the ALP National Conference at the Jeff ’s Shed on Saturday afternoon. Rather than their usual rally point, on Saturday July 25, Equal Love marchers will rally outside the ALP conference to remind the ALP of the need to support a platform for marriage equality and to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Howard-era gay marriage ban. From 1pm at Melbourne Exhibition and Conference Centre, 1 Convention Place, CBD. For further details, visit equallove.org.au A new social nudist night has started each week at Sircuit on Smith Street. On Monday and Tuesday nights from 6.30pm, ADAM will welcome men only
Catnip Sundays is back at Mollie’s Bar above Sircuit this Sunday July 26 for a casual evening of cocktails with the girls who like girls and the boys who like boys. Drink specials from 3pm - 6pm. DJs Koala, Estee Louder and Woolvagine. On Tuesday July 28 the immensely popular Wank Bank workshops return to the Gasometer Hotel where artist and author of bestselling memoir of a New York happyTending masseur will teach men and women how to satisfy your man with your hands (or yourself in the case of the boys). Classes are at 6.45pm and 8.15pm, and tickets are strictly limited as this has been a sell out event. Got tip offs, praise, complaints or cat photos? Email closetpartymelbourne@gmail.com to be included in this column.
News Bites. Lûmé
There has been some serious buzz around Lûmé (pronounced looh-may) for months now, and after being open for a few weeks now, it has proved to be well deserved hype. The dream team behind Lûmé is Shaun Quade of Quay, Royal Mail Hotel, Biota, and Bar Nacional and John-Paul Fiechtner of Paris’ Le Chateaubriand, and Michelin-starred Bo Innovation in Hong Kong, so you know that the desire to create phenomenal food runs in their blood. You’ll find Lûmé in a modest building that was formerly a burlesque lounge, which is fitting as the food has a beautiful style and flare. Speaking of, there is no menu here, it’s a designated 15-20 course tasting menu, degustation style. “We just want everything to be new,” says Quade. “It’s the same stuff everyone says - local and seasonal and all that. But we’ve got a guy growing two hectares of gardens - things like aromatics for tea, a lot of different shoots and herbs. We’re embracing the fact that the direction we’re going in is different to the casual track everyone else seems to be on.” This is fine dining with flare as Quade and Fiechtner are trying to turn the concept of the dégustation on its head. They’ll be mixing up the courses - “it won’t be snacks, seafood, bigger proteins, the end. The menu will ebb and flow so people don’t know what’s coming next.” Lûmé is open now and bookings are essential.
Hooked Fish & Chipper
Fish and chips are always a good idea. Fish and chips cooked by an ex-Gordon Ramsay chef is a better idea. Ray Good from Hooked Fish & Chipper has teamed up with Neale White of Papa Goose and an ex chef of Gordon Ramsay, to bring you a new British inspired menu guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart. You’ll now find Brit classics such as minted smashed peas, smoked fish croquettes, panko crumbed prawns in a basket (or affectionately known as ‘scampi in a basket’), plus a fish and scallop pie. Neale has based these new dishes on the concept of “the beautiful tradition of what it is. Classics such as the minted smashed peas and the fish and scallop pie, you just don’t see around these parts. Melbourne has one of the best food cultures in the world, which is why it is so great to see Ray bringing back the classics.” The new menu is joined by a relaunch as Hooked Fish & Chipper, a nod to Ray’s British heritage and his uncle Johnny’s ‘chippy’ by the English seaside where Ray spent his summers as a little nipper. To celebrate the menu, Hooked are launching a range of new specials including a $10 sustainable fish, chip and salad lunch and $2 beer and wine on Tuesdays. That’s cheap as chips!
Yarra Valley Chocolaterie Hot Chocolate Festival
Now in its third year, the hot chocolate festival is back to take the edge off winter. Offering over 31 flavours of hot chocolate, the festival will be serving up both classic and crazy iterations of the drink. This year the team have put together creations BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
for a cheeky drink in the nude. The only catch is you have to be naked, with the only clothes permitted being sensible shoes. Thankfully, ADAM will have plenty of heaters to ensure you don’t catch cold in your birthday suit. Every Monday and Tuesday night, 6.30pm till 11pm. Entry is $10, or $7 for students.
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including bacon and maple syrup, honeycomb and lavender, cookies and cream, mint madness and bittersweet basil. There will also be tasting sessions run by top chocolatiers and the chance to win your own bodyweight in coverture chocolate, simply by voting for your favourite festival flavour. The Yarra Valley Hot Chocolate Festival runs throughout August with free entry.
Hank Marvin Markets
Featuring more than 40 stalls, the Hank Marvin Markets will play host to a spectrum of delicious eats - all under the one roof. Some of the food stalls include Happy Camper Pizza, The Brulee Cart, Cobb Lane, Trailer Made, Little Mushroom Co and Hammer & Tong. There will also be a range of stalls hosted for charity and community groups, as well as all the fresh produce you would expect from a top quality market. Hank Marvin Markets will open every Saturday from 9am - 3pm at 204 Dandenong Road, St Kilda East. The best part? It’s here to stay.
45 Degrees
A new pizza shop has opened its doors in Richmond, offering a deliciously diverse twist to pizza night. 45 Degrees is now serving up premium pizzas on Bridge Road, drawing inspiration from Melbourne’s rich variety of cultures. This diversity displays itself in the menu, which consists of creations like Vietnamese pork, kale beetroot and Korean fried chicken pizzas. And of course, customers can still order up favourites like the Hawaiian or Capricciosa. Focussing on high quality ingredients, all pies are topped with mozzarella cheese (with the option of vegan cheese) and all meats are cooked on site. 45 Degrees is also fully licensed, serving craft beer and wine to wash down that pizza. And to top it all off, the dessert menu consists of mouth-watering sweets like brioche doughnuts and classic choc tops. 45 Degrees is located at 31 - 33 Bridge Road, Richmond. Delivery is available from Monday July 13 to East Melbourne, Abbotsford and Hawthorn.
Truck Stop Deluxe
There’s finally a place to stop off at other than Macca’s on those trips out west with the news that Truck Stop Deluxe is coming to Werribee. The west coast inspired truck stop diner promises to serve up mouth watering burgers alongside waffles, signature spiked shakes, cocktails and desserts. Created by Joshua Lefers (Pawn & Co, Big Dog Creative) as the truck stop sibling to Grand Park Taverna, the new diner also features support from heavy hitters like Jimmy Hurlston ( Jimmy’s Burgers) as well as James Fava and Adam Toffolon (Mynt, Love That Music). Stop off on your next roadtrip at Truck Stop Deluxe, located at 98 Watton St, Werribee. Follow their Facebook for opening details.
Got any juicy grub goss? Let me know on tegan@beat.com.au
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electronic + urban + club life
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wednesday jul 22 AMY FRANZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. CDR - FEAT: DISCO PARMIGIANA + JONNY FAITH MUSIC + BEVIN CAMPBELL Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PORTER ROBINSON + WAVE RACER + COSMO’S MIDNIGHT Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $70.00. DINNER TO DISCO - FEAT: SAM GUDGE + JAMES STEETH + OLLIE HOLMES + HANS DC + HAZIM + JESSE YOUNG + JOEY & YANNI SARANTIS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. PARADISCO - FEAT: SPIN CLUB DJS + TIMBUK TU Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. PURITY RING + FRIENDSHIPS 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $51.00. THE RITZ - FEAT: KEN WALKER + ANDO + JOSHUA GILLILAND + HARRY ROWSTHORN + EDDY D + JAMES ROSS + JESSE PERKINS + LUCILLE CROFT + MATT HANNA + ALEX YASKI + JACK HOWELL + TIM LIGHT + JARREN RYAN + TOM BEDFORD Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $20.00. VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
friday jul 24 JAMAZON #3 - FEAT: SHAOLIN AFRONAUTS + FRANK BOOKER + BABICKA + RAAGHE & BIG BUBBA TICKETS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00. #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. A FESTIVAL OF THE GODS - FEAT: TENJIN MATSURI + CURSE OV DIALECT + HTML FLOWERS + MSG FEVER(OVENAXX & SNUGGY MAN) + MEN IMITATING MACHINES + RHYTHMIC GIBBERISH + GERMS AND AGRIUS + DJ DANIELSAN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ANSWER CODE REQUEST Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $27.50. CALGARY ‘88 WINTER OLYMPICS PARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Forgotten Worlds, Collingwood. 8:00pm. 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. DJ DAVE GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm. FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. FOLDING SPACE + TAHL + SUNSHINE + LUKE VECCHIO + ALEX CRAM + SCOTTY PESTICIDE + ANNA MAY + SHANNON BRIGGS The Mercat, Melbourne. 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. MI CASA 5 YEARS - FEAT: DJ WHO + JACK LOVE VS SILVERSIX + JPA VS DAMON WALSH + TIMMUS VS LUCCA TAN + MORBS + MIKE CALLANDER + SAFARI + BRENDAN RUYS + ISAAC FRYAR + SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. MUSE FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS FEAT: JACKSON MILES + AMIN PAYNE AND WINTERS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. PURITY RING + FRIENDSHIPS 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $51.00. THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.
saturday jul 25 ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: DR. ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DAVEYS SATURDAYS - FEAT: HURLEY + CRAIG MOORE +
ASTERIX Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 8:00pm. $10.00. DJ STICKMAN Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm. FAMILIAR STANGERS - FEAT: ANDY MURPHY + MIKE METRO + LUCILLE CROFT + JESUS + TOM EVANS + JOLYON PETCH The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. GEARDY Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm. HIGHLY EVOLVED ORGANISMS - FEAT: EVIL OIL MAN + KNOBS Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 5:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. IN THE CARRIAGE - FEAT: JNETT + DJ RICHARD CAMPBELL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. J-NETT New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. LEISURE SUITE (SINGLE LAUNCH) + MARTIN KING Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00. LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: LUIS CL + ANDEE FROST Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. LQ SATURDAYS (6TH BDAY BLACK AND GOLD EXTRAVAGANZA) - 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. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. SPIN CLUB + BARRY SUNSET + NORACHI + RAY BORNER The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $10.00. SPOONBILL (‘TINKERBOX’ ALBUM LAUNCH) + CHESHIRE & KODIAK KID Howler, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $25.00. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + BOOSHANK + PAZ + MOONSHINE + MONTY MCGAW + JIMMY LE MAC + FLIP3K + DAVID SPACE + MAT CANT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. THERAPY SATURDAYS - FEAT: G-WIZARD + COURTNEY MILLS + FEMME + TATE STRAUSS + DJ ONTIME + MATTY G + DU DUTCHESS + MICKY-FLO + DEAN T Level 3 @ Crown, Southbank. 10:00pm. $20.00.
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TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. UNSTABLE SOUNDS - FEAT: PSPIRALIFE + FORMATIONZ + IKARO + J-DUB + ZIBELL + HARRY BLOTTER + AZRIN + WORLDS KALEID Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
sunday jul 26 BOP ART Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. FABRIKATION SUNDAY SOUNDS - FEAT: SUNSET SILHOUETTE + HANA BELICTOR + NIGE + ANDRE JONES + SANDRA SUNDELIN + DELTOID CURVE + LUNA Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. ROOFTOP SUNDAYS - FEAT: KHAN ONG + KEN WALKER + LUKE BOWDITCH The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. SPITROAST SUNDAYS - FEAT: ANDY MURPHY + COURTNEY MILLS + JULES JAY + FRAZER ADNAM + TOM EVANS + WINSTON WOLF + HEY SAM + ZIGGY + AARON TROTMAN + SEAN RAULT + JOSH PAOLA + ELLIOT HUNTER Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + DJ SHAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. TOMORROW NEVER COMES FEAT: OLIVIER GIACOMOTTO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. $20.00. WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
monday jul 27 MADDAWG MONDAYS - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.
tuesday jul 28 AO - FEAT: MIMICRY + COLOMBO KIDD + DONNY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CIAO MEOW Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. FRESH INDUSTRY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
urban club guide wednesday jul 22
30/70 COLLECTIVE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. SETH SENTRY + DYLAN JOEL & IVAN OOZE Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $30.00.
thursday jul 23
RNB & HIP HOP JAM - FEAT: MAT CANT + LARRIE AND GET BU$Y Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. RNB & URBAN - FEAT: K DEE + HORIZON + JON BLING + RUSH + KINGI + DAMION DE SILVA Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. SOUL IN THE BASEMENT - FEAT: THE STAX BROTHERS + VINCE PEACH + PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
friday jul 24
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club guide
thursday jul 23
faktory
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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
DREAMWAVES LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: MIMI + ODEN + TALI + YMBF + BERTIE + BI$$Y The Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $7.00. FABULOUS FRIDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. GRIM RHYTHM + BLACK WITCH + SPACE JUNK + PARNELLS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00. JA RULE Level 3 @ Crown, Southbank. 9:30pm. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JADE ZOE + MS DOOG + ROBIHUSSLIN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K. HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
saturday jul 25
BIG DANCING SATURDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
electronic - urban - club life
KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. SATURDAYS ELECTRIC DREAMS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm.
sunday jul 26
AZEALIA BANKS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:40pm. $73.00.
tuesday jul 28
EARL SWEATSHIRT Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $66.30.
stereosonic The electronic festival juggernaut have revealed a huge lineup for this year. Topping the bill are international heavyweights Major Lazer, Armin Van Buuren, Diplo, DJ Snake, Clean Bandit, Duke Dumont and Axwell & Ingrosso. As well as this, Australian favourites Peking Duk, MaRLo, What So Not, Will Sparks, Hot Dub Time Machine, Timmy Trumpet, Tigerlily, Gernerik, Slumberjack and Carmada are playing, alongside a whole heap more. Returning for 2015 are custom built stages specialising in genres from house and trap to trance and electronica. This year, the festival is going back to the original one-day format. They will also offer three ticket types, including upgrades and VIP specials. Stereosonic will come to the Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday December 5.
boyz ii men Boyz II Men have announced their long-awaited return to Australian shores this October. The four-time Grammy award winners will perform all their mega hits including A Song for Mama, Motownphilly, On Bended Knee, Water Runs Dry as well as Australian #1’s End of the Road and I’ll Make Love To You. The hits will feature alongside their a cappella covers and spontaneous on stage jam sessions. The trio, who are the best selling R&B group of all time with 64 million albums sold worldwide, will play eight Australian shows. Boyz II Men will take over Palais Theatre on Tuesday October 6.
devin the dude Infamous Houston rapper Devin The Dude has announced his very first Australian tour for September. With over 15 years in the game, the underground rapper is known for his collaborations with Dr. Dre, Young Jeezy, Snoop Dogg and Andre 3000. As part of his Australian tour, Devin will hit Laundry Bar on Friday September 25.
ginuwine Ginuwine will visit Australian shores for the first ever time next month. The American singer-songwriter, dancer and actor released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Most recently, he released the full-length Three Kings in the group TGT (alongside Tyrese and Tank), which earned them a Grammy nomination. Catch him at Trak on Friday August 21.
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PICKING UP AND MOVING ON By Augustus Welby There are many things involved in building a band’s following apart from producing some attention-grabbing output. Luck will always play a role, but good organisation and shrewd decision-making certainly doesn’t go astray. Day Ravies released their debut LP, Tussle, in late 2013. While the record’s woozy alt-pop sound gained critical praise and nabbed the band a coterie of enamoured fans, it’s fair to say the Sydney foursome is yet to make a major breakthrough. Day Ravies’ second album, Liminal Zones, has just been released, and this time around the band is better positioned to make a big impact. “The first album was a massive learning curve in every respect,” says co-vocalist and keys player Caroline de Dear. “None of us had put out anything quite as significant before. The first album came out with Popfrenzy, but we decided we wanted to do something a bit different with this one ± that was quite a conscious decision.” It is a poor workman who blames his tools, but Day Ravies don’t begrudge their former label for failing to make them superstars. Nevertheless, they decided to take the release of Liminal Zones into their own hands. “Sam [Wilkinson, guitar/vocals] actually started his own label, Strange Pursuits,” says de Dear. “And we’re releasing the CD through Strange Pursuits and the vinyl through Sonic Masala. We’ve made decisions about this release because of our experiences the first time around. We’re all feeling much more confident
about it this time.” The band’s increased confidence isn’t limited to the logistical details. Liminal Zones showcases a sharper and more intrepid group than the one responsible for Tussle. Over the course of their relatively short history, there have been stacks of subgenres thrown at Day Ravies ± everything from shoegaze to art rock, no wave and dream pop. To add to that pile, Liminal Zones introduces a wacky synth-based new wave sound. “All of our musical tastes are fairly diverse, and I think it’s only natural that that comes across through the music you make,” says de Dear. “It’s entirely dependent on what we’re listening to and what we’re inspired by. We’ve all been huge Devo fans forever, and then we started investing in synths, and it seemed only natural that would be part of the album, and we’d try to make it more textural and experiment with different kinds of
instrumentation. Lani [Crooks, bass/vocals] and I play flute and clarinet on the album as well. We were a lot more experimental with our choice of instrumentation in general.” Day Ravies’ willingness to experiment with new tools also led to a modified recording arrangement. While Tussle’s mixing engineer Pete Beringer was involved again, they also tried out a homespun approach. “We did record this one with Peter and we also recorded with Sam at his and Lani’s house on their eight-track,” de Dear explains. “There’s a few tracks in the middle of the album that we recorded at home on the eighttrack in the middle of last year. We liked them so much, we couldn’t not have them on the album. Seeing as the musical influences are fairly diverse, we thought, ‘It doesn’t really matter if there’s inconsistent recording technology.’ So we were working with Pete again ± and it was mixed by Sam and Pete.”
Thankfully, the implementation of various recording techniques hasn’t made for a patchy listening experience. In fact, as a whole, Liminal Zones is a more sprightly and sonically forceful affair than its predecessor. “I think everyone had a lot more fun with this one,” agrees de Dear. “It’s like that awkward first date ± you get the first one out of the way and then you have a better idea about how it’s going to go and you can have so much more fun. So even though it took so long to record ± I think we were recording over a year and we had issues with hard drives and all of that kind of stuff ± it was a very enjoyable year.”
women ± is the irony of what we’re singing in this day and age,” Rhonda says. “So when we set out to sing original songs, we’re actually feminists, so quite a few songs were worked on with that in mind.” As for logistics, organising a project with 15 female vocalists backed by a four-piece band is never going to be easy. But Rhonda’s background in secondary school teaching has provided her with the requisite skills to overcome the many logistical challenges. In fact, having so many members played an integral part in getting Go! Rebelle! released. “We’re able to call upon singers in the band to help out in doing this album,” Rhonda says. “Some people have taken charge of costumes, or distribution, or promotion, fund raising, merchandise. So everyone has
a role beyond their role as a singer.” Rhonda cites the opportunity to play the inaugural White Night Festival in 2013 and sing with Dan Sultan at the Community Cup as particular highlights for The Rebelles. At the end of the day, The Rebelles is a gang with a sense of fun and enjoyment at its core. “It’s a passion,” Rhonda says. “No-one gets paid, obviously, because there’s too many of us to split fees. But we do it for fun, and rehearsals are a laugh, and friendships are formed and the community spirit is there.”
final touches on the artist he is turning into, it’s not hard to believe he’s on the right track. There remains, however, a streak of uncertainty and cynicism that Azon finds himself contending with every day. “It’s an important part of being in a band. There’s the business side of things and the artistic side. But there’s also just being in a group. You need to take into account their lives, their dreams, the different personalities. You have to breathe and find the positives. See, constantly in my mind ± even now, talking to you ± I’m thinking, ‘How is this guy going to misinterpret what I’m saying? How is he going to take things out of context? How much should I be saying?’ And that’s a lifelong battle,
because I don’t want to be so negative. “My parents have this saying for me: ‘Kill the cynic.’ It’s not how I want to live. I don’t want to go to bed thinking about all the problems in the world, in my life, how dark and draconian our government is, how messed up and political our music industry can be. I want to keep open eyes and meet new people, experience new situations. And you can’t if you have your head down all the time, focused on the problems that may arise. That’s no way to live.”
DAY RAVIES new album Liminal Zones is out now through Strange Pursuits/Sonic Masala. You’ll have to wait until Friday October 23 to see them play The Tote.
THE REBEllES
COMMUNITY REBELLION By Patrick Emery
Rhonda Rebelle, titular leader of the 15 female vocalists who front The Rebelles, agrees there’s a gang aspect to the garage girl group. “Gang is definitely a word that we use quite liberally,” she says. “A lot of the lyrics in those early girl group songs are written from a gang perspective, and female friendship is an element in the songs that we do. Often what we hear at our live shows is that it must be so much fun to be a Rebelle ± a lot of people who see us say after the show that they want to be in a band, they want to be in our gang.” The founding idea for the Rebelles came from Rhonda and her husband, the band’s musical director and guitarist Bob B Rebelle. “We had this vision of a real live wall of sound backed by a rock’n’roll band smashing out amazing rock’n’roll tunes, punk rock attitude,” Rhonda says. The pair advertised through word of mouth, community radio and flyers, eventually coming up with a pool of female vocalists to choose from. “We did loose auditions and we ended up with 15 members straight away,” Rhonda says. “So it just kind of went from there and we’re still amazed at the momentum we generated and the commitment to our crazy idea, and that people are listening and coming to gigs.” The Rebelles started out covering a mixture of classic ‘60s girl group songs by bands such as The Crystals, The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes and rock’n’roll tracks
from the likes of The Beatles and The Ramones (they even recorded a version of The Belle Stars’ 1982 hit The Clapping Song, complete with gang-themed video). “We try and bring these sounds together to show how closely related they are,” Rhonda says. “So the idea is really girl groups and related styles. We’re combining harmonies and heart-breaking lyrics with punk rock energy. We’re loud ± our four-piece band rocks hard, and there’s 15 microphones on stage, so there’s a lot of loud energy.” Eventually the group started writing their own songs, culminating with the recording of The Rebelles’ debut album, Go! Rebelle! The record celebrates the Phil Spector-inspired wall of sound while offering a contemporary spin on the gender politics of yore. “We’ve spent a lot of time singing ‘50s and ‘60s lyrics and one thing that we’re aware of ± we’re modern
THE REBELLES will launch Go! Rebelle! on Saturday July 25 at The Thornbury Theatre with support from Dane Certificate and Empat Lima. Go! Rebelle! is out now via RB Records.
J I N J A S A FA R I
A WAY T O G O By Adam Norris
Jinja Safari were very nearly that cautionary tale. You know the one; young band storms onto the live music scene, gets picked up by a label, releases an album, ricochets across the world on a run of exhaustive touring, starts to form cracks, and explodes in a blaze of debauchery and disillusionment. It makes for a great movie, but a terrible life, and for that reason we rest easy that the Central Coast collective were able to put the brakes on before burning out. Instead, they’ve taken the last 18 months to focus on the things that matter most: writing songs, playing music, and not chasing the fame game. “After our album came out and didn’t perform the way that the record company or managers had hoped, we felt a little burned out by the process,” says co-frontman Marcus Azon. “Not only recording the album, but touring pretty heavily as well. During those summer festivals there were definitely conversations where the thought of another album, of going through that same process all over again, just wasn’t on the cards. It wasn’t interesting or inspiring to us in any way. “Around then we parted ways with our management, who were wonderful dudes but we just had a creative split. From there we all started to get a bit busy with other things. It didn’t stop the writing, though. We’ve been writing non-stop. But it’s given us 18 months to really focus on what kind of group we want to be and what kind of music we want to be releasing.” Two years have passed since Jinja Safari last released BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
a single, and it seems fitting that the track to finally break the drought is titled Find My Way. It has been a see-sawing couple of years, with solo projects gaining traction and collaborations with other musicians taking root (in particular, Azon’s own work with troubadour Josh Pyke). “I’m in a pretty transitory time at the moment,” Azon admits. “I broke up with my long-term partner a little while ago, so I’ve moved out of my place and back to Tasmania. I’m between there and one of our drummers’ couches. But even though this has been an awful experience, writing is possibly the most cathartic process I’ve found in my life, except maybe for performing. You can get out every thought, every phrase that you wouldn’t want to say to someone out loud.” While you get the impression Azon is still putting the
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JINJA SAFARI play Howler on Friday August 7 with support from Sea Legs. Find My Way is out now.
MARMOZETS
THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL By Adam Norris Despite the fact it’s some ungodly hour in Europe and the night is bitterly cold, Sam Macintyre of Marmozets sounds wide awake and raring to roll. On a tour bus to somewhere in the south of Germany, at an uncertain point between midnight and dawn, his description of the band’s momentum seems damned appropriate: keep excited and keep moving. This philosophy has served Marmozets well so far, with a slew of soldout gigs, festivals and awards trailing in their wake. On the eve of their Splendour appearance, Macintyre talks about the realities of how this young act continues to burn bright.
“We’re working on our second album right now, so we’re always looking ahead, really,” he says in a rolling Yorkshire brogue that somehow makes him sound much older than his 20-something years. “You try not to look back. Clichéd as it sounds, we don’t have any regrets. When the album was finished we instantly started writing more, and looking back, I don’t think there’s anything there that we would change. I wouldn’t, at least. “I think the album has given us a good first step,” he continues. “Thinking of the band now compared to when we released the album, I mean, we were very, very small. We couldn’t even pull a hundred people anywhere. Then after the album, that all changed. Just last week we won Best Album at the Kerrang! Awards, which is kind of cool. But you don’t want anything to happen too fast, either. We’re enjoying it here ± it’s a journey. If everything happened really quickly, you’d be missing out on all of that cool stuff in the middle.” It has been quite a whirlwind for the alt-rock quintet, arcing across from Europe to the United States for increasingly larger performances. Of curious note is the fact they’re a family band; Sam’s sister Becca is the band’s frontwoman and brother Josh is on drums, while another pair of siblings, Will and Jack Bottomley ± bass and guitar respectively ± round out the group. Although nobody knows how to piss you off better than a brother or sister, it also ensures that any time the fame game gets too reckless, someone is there to pull them back from the edge. “We used to absolutely rage with the whole partying aspect of music, but we’ve all really calmed down now,” Macintyre says. “We still love to have fun, but at the end of the day what’s most important is making sure this band has a career. Everyone’s very focused, no-one is all that reckless. We’re not stupid. Everyone helps each other out, and everyone knows when one of us is starting to step on that line, you know? Of course we’ve done some pretty funny and wild stuff. But it’s a nobrainer. I think in terms of people going off the rails, things like the 27 Club, they obviously have a hard past and have been introduced to these substances that make the pain go away. But we don’t need to rely on things like that to make us feel better.
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“...WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING MUSIC AND DOING IT RIGHT, IT’S SOMETHING THAT TAKES ALL yOUR fOCUS” “I mean, I’m not saying we’re perfect ± that’s a bold statement,” he laughs. “But when it comes to making music and doing it right, it’s something that takes all your focus. As a band, we’ve always had that in us, we’re all really hard workers. I think that’s something you can see with us onstage as well. You hear plenty of bands say, ‘You have to give 100 per cent every single time for each performance,’ and I guess that’s true, but it’s also really hard. But you know, people who say they bring 100 per cent to every gig, I reckon that’s a load of bollocks. 100 per cent? Ha. Yeah, yeah, of course you do. You’re saying you’ve never been onstage and thought, ‘Fuck, I just cannot be bothered?’” The band’s debut, The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets, was released last September. When it comes to describing the band’s sound, even a brief glimpse online reveals a plethora of genres attached to them. But Macintyre is happy to let the songs speak for themselves. “I think nowadays, because there’s so much music and genres out there ± and I generally think having genres is pretty stupid, it seems like there’s a new fucking genre every day ± it’s hard just to listen to one certain thing. Ask anyone, ‘What do you listen to?’ and everyone has a wide range now. Back in the day, people dressed up like punks, you’d look at them and know, ‘Well, they like punk music.’ But personalities are so varied now and a lot of that’s because everywhere you go there’s different music. Someone might look completely normal, and you talk to them and they’re really into hard metal and Bon Iver and Slipknot and Ben Harper. “I’m not into metal music at all,” he adds, “not in the slightest, but I can still appreciate quite a bit of it, and there are certain metal bands that I think are absolutely wicked. But then I’ll also sit down and listen to, like, three albums of some Sigur Rós back to back and then some of The Dead Weather. Everyone is spread out, and everyone’s tastes are blurred. It’s great.”
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MARMOZETS will appear at Splendour in the Grass 2015, Friday July 24 ± Sunday July 26. They’re also playing Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday July 25. The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets is out now through Roadrunner/Warner. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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BLUR
HOLDING ON FOR TOMORROW By Chris Martin
The journey to Blur’s comeback album began in unfavourable circumstances. The reunited British indie icons had been booked for the 2013 Tokyo Rocks music festival ± yet another bigger-than-ever gig since their live reunion on home soil in 2009 ± but barely a month from show time, the event got scrapped. With a spare five days on their touring schedule, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree convened in a recording studio in Hong Kong: a chance to mess around with some new musical ideas, see where the mood would take them.
Nearly two years later, the material from those sessions had been fashioned into The Magic Whip; this lineup’s first full record since the 1999 masterpiece, 13, and now a universally lauded return to form. Blur have a history of building bridges over troubled waters, from the upheaval in Albarn’s personal life that birthed 13 to the departure of Coxon before 2003’s nonetheless excellent Think Tank. During those 24 months between the genesis of The Magic Whip and its release, Blur were booked for a headlining slot on the 2014 Big Day Out tour in Australia and New Zealand. Eight weeks out from the festival, they cancelled their visit. “It certainly wasn’t a happy time for us,” says Rowntree, the band’s drummer and a high-profile member of the UK Labour Party. “We were really looking forward to coming ± in fact, I was desperately excited at the prospect of coming to Australia ± but I just think we picked a rather rickety old ship to sail on. We probably should have picked something a bit more solid.” At the time, Big Day Out pointed the finger of blame at Blur for being inflexible over playing times and staging. Now that the festival’s future is perilous at best, Rowntree maintains the band hadn’t a choice. “It’s difficult to know what to do in those situations,” he says. “We were a long way away from it, and couldn’t see at the outset that things weren’t quite as they were being represented to us, so when it became clear that was what was going on, it meant that we had to cancel it all rather late in the day.” This time around, Blur have chosen Splendour In The Grass and a couple of sideshows to make their return Down Under. Their first shows here in 18 years will also be their biggest, belying the suggestion the band’s heyday came and went with the ’90s Britpop era. “It’s as if we’d never taken a break; it’s as if we’d carried on making music throughout those years,” says Rowntree. “We’ve kind of grown and grown, even in our absence ± maybe even because of our absence. Maybe that gave people a chance to catch up and listen to all the old albums. I have no idea.” When he looks back now on the so-called Britpop era ± the days of Parklife and Country House, when Blur battled Oasis for chart supremacy and Tony Blair threw a ‘Cool Britannia’ party at Downing Street to cash in on British pop music’s newly rediscovered cultural capital ± R owntree is slightly baffled.
“IT’S AS IF WE’D NEVER TAKEN A BREAK; IT’S AS IF WE’D CARRIED ON MAKING MUSIC THROUGHOUT THOSE YEARS” “We weren’t invited to that party ± or I think we may have been invited but we didn’t go. We weren’t on the list of bands that epitomised all of that at the time. There’s this dreadful word ‘Britpop’ that was coined, and people look back and make this assumption that we were spearheading that somehow, but actually that was very little to do with us.” Rowntree pauses to consider the prevailing idea that Blur were icons of this cultural movement, and chuckles. “We may have kicked it off, but by the time it all happened we were thinking about other things. The new album doesn’t sing about Englishness and Britishness and ‘la la la’ and characters running around parks ± w e haven’t done that for a long, long time.” The Magic Whip instead distils the atmosphere of Hong Kong around the time of those initial sessions, and from when Albarn returned there in late 2014 to finish his lyrics. In between, the project was headed by Coxon and Blur’s producer from the old days, Stephen Street, who together worked on editing the recordings into a cohesive set of ideas. “After that initial editing process, some excited emails with a few of those edits circulated to all of us, and we were all fired up with enthusiasm,” Rowntree explains. “[Then] more refined edits were played to Damon to see if he was up for making an album out of them. The fact that Alex and I were up for making an album was a given, because we were jumping up and down going, ‘Let’s make an album.’ Damon rather wearily said yes, because it was clear from the quality of what they’d done so far that this was going to have to be an album, and he was going to have to juggle quite a few things this year. “It’s certainly a very different way of making a record, not something we’ve ever done before, so you never quite know how things are going to go… It may have been the case that we went in, had fun making some new music, and actually when we listened to it back it wasn’t any good, or wasn’t good enough, or wasn’t inspiring enough to carry us forward. “A lot of things came together, a lot of happy coincidences and accidents happened, that meant this album could happen.” BLUR will play Splendour In The Grass 2015 from Friday July 24 ± Sunday July 26 at North Byron Parklands. They’re also appearing with Jamie T at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday July 28. The Magic Whip is out now through Parlophone/Warner.
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DISCREET + OBLIQUE
THE MUSIC OF BRIAN ENO By Adam Norris
We all wear different faces. The public and private, of course, but also the face we wear for our parents, for our lovers, for the acquaintance we wish to impress. David Coulter understands the freedom of masks better than most; as a composer, director, multiinstrumentalist, curator, collaborator, father, and general gadabout, he is not a man constrained by lack of choice. A highlight of next month’s Supersense program is Discreet + Oblique; Coulter’s tribute to a milestone of minimalism, Brian Eno’s Discreet Music. He talks to Beat about the different reflections of his creative life, and the stories audiences might uncover in the 40-year old ambient classic. “I think the first thing that is possibly different to other [music directors] who work on these kind of multi-artist tribute shows is that I come from a theatre background,” Coulter says. “So for me, I think the theatrical experience of the whole event is of paramount importance. I like to consider the whole experience, from the moment people will enter the theatre to when they leave, and try to make that as visceral an experience as possible. “I try to think of every project as another chance to improve on what came before. I don’t ever feel that I’ve actually done what I wanted, I always want more. That isn’t greed, I don’t think, but a desire to constantly push boundaries and create new experiences.”
Coulter has undertaken a huge variety of projects in the service of this philosophy, and has racked up some unexpected partnerships in the process (his collaboration with celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal arguably the most bizarre). Yet, while expanding his own artistic limits is at the core of Coulter’s work, his foremost goal is to deliver an individual audience experience. “[Improbable Theatre Company artistic director] Phelim McDermott and I made a piece earlier in the year called The Eldership Project, performed to a maximum of eight audience members,” he says. “The audience were led through an empty theatre into an enclosed space on stage where we had a group of five performers, all of whom were in their 80s. I was there playing live music, and the music changed for every performance based on the reaction and interactions between the elders and audience. It was a very bespoke experience, different every time. So I always try really hard to make the most vibrant experience, but stay
considerate of the space and the performers you have at your disposal ± t he context and content.” To that end, Supersense is a festival almost uniquely tailored to Coulter’s background and sensibilities. It’s billed as an event of overlapping sensations, with various musical genres and artforms staged amid showcases of light and sound. Alongside co-creator Leo Abrahams, Discreet + Oblique gives Coulter the opportunity to pay vivid homage to Eno’s unlikely 1975 classic, Discreet Music; an album widely held as the birth of ambient music, and something very close to Coulter’s heart. “You know, the idea sort of appeared to me one night after dinner with my son,” he says. “He left to go back to his apartment and I put on Discreet Music, which I do fairly regularly. But then I read through the sleeve notes, which I hadn’t done in a really long time, and it struck me that it was nearly 40 years since Brian had made this piece. 40 years. It’s one of those things where you’re so familiar with the piece, it’s like wearing your favourite shirt or putting on a pair of comfortable shoes. It’s a piece of music that just sits in me quite well. But it’s a bit of a sacred beast, really. I just hope that the way in which we approach it, which isn’t replication, but still keeping it familiar ± and by working with people like The Necks, Golden Fur, and Matthew Brown ± will give it a new slate, will seem like a response of the moment.” Supersense presents the world premiere of DISCREET + OBLIQUE: THE MUSIC OF BRIAN ENO, featuring David Coulter, The Necks, Leo Abrahams, Golden Fur and Matthew Brown, at the State Theatre on Saturday August 8.
TOM SHOWTIME
BRINGING THE FUNK By Augustus Welby
Melbourne producer, DJ and saxophonist Tom Showtime will launch his new EP Universal Funk this weekend at Belleville. For the most part, the EP is a collaboration between Showtime and MC D’Fro of The Psyde Projects. In order to bring it to life on stage they’ll expand into the Showtime Quintet; an impressive ensemble completed by drummer Conrad Tracey, double bassist Zvi Belling and keyboardist Matt Murphy. “They’re all very gifted and talented musicians,” Showtime says. “Conrad, AKA Defcon, has worked with Drapht, Jade MacRae and countless others; Zvi/ Zedsix is a major part of The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and their small combo Public Opinion 6; Matt Murphy is known to us as ‘the man with a thousand fingers’ and plays with The Gun Barrel Straights; and Benjamin, AKA D’Fro, provides rhymes, freestyles and flavour out front.” Showtime regularly performs with the Quintet, the lineup of which has grown over the last couple of years as his priorities have shifted. “First we were Showtime Trio with Defcon, Zedsix and I using different guest MCs from gig to gig,” he says. “I started recording tracks with D’Fro, so it made sense for him to become the regular MC. Then after a few more shows we decided we needed another instrument to fill in the gaps and Murphy became the last member of our quintet. Funnily enough, it turns out that most of
the guys already played in a band together called The Inflatables back in the day.” Universal Funk comprises five tracks of upbeat, eclectic hip hop. It loosely fits into the hip hop/jazz category, but isn’t bound to any one style. “Aside from my mashups and dance-floor oriented/party style bootlegs, I feel my production has always leaned towards trip hop and has influences of funk, jazz and more recently reggae,” Showtime says. “I listen to such a variety of music and as a DJ play across the board, I guess this is reflected in the tunes I make.” Although the Quintet have been performing tracks from Universal Funk for the last few months, the EP was put together by just Showtime and D’Fro. “I did a track with The Psyde Projects called Funk Pants a while back and following that I really wanted to do a project with D’Fro,” Showtime says. “We followed the classic routine of producer sends an MC a beat tape, they pick their favourites and put pen to pad. We recorded the
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title track Universal Funk and Too Much Ice Cream first, then Ben surprised me saying he wrote verses to an instrumental track I already released called Where The Best Herbs Grow. We laid it down and it appears now as Best Grown Herbs, which is possibly my favourite cut on the record.” The EP was preceded by the single Soul Alchemy, which features rhymes from N’fa Jones (1200 Techniques) and Mosé (Mosé + The FMLY). “Many moons ago I was fortunate to have N’fa record a hook and verse, around the time we did The Bullet Train [from Showtime’s 2011 release EP3013]. It sat untouched for about a year until I was sifting through beats for this project. Around this time Mosé filled in as MC with the Quintet and I was well impressed, promptly getting him on board for a verse. Then it was only fitting for D’Fro to lay down the final piece of the puzzle.”
Universal Funk will be released digitally this Friday, but if you’re looking for a physical copy, you’d better be quick. “We’re only making fifty hand-cut records,” Showtime says. “Made right here in Melbourne by Small Run, assembled by yours truly and featuring original artwork by Melbourne artist Think. It just seems more special knowing that only a few people will have the actual record in their homes. I’m really hoping to sell the majority hand-to-hand, so get on down to the launch and cop one.” TOM SHOWTIME will launch Universal Funk this Saturday July 25 at Belleville. Showtime Quintet will be joined by special guest MCs N’fa Jones, Mosé, 1/6 and Class A. Support comes from So.Crates and DJs Moonshine and iLLresponse.
THE DARK SIDE OF POP By Tex Miller In a relative sense, Kid Radio are on top of the world. In the next week, they’ll release their long awaited debut record and play one of the biggest shows of their career. Speaking down a phone line from an inner city street, guitarist/synth-player Marcus Ross is both excited and nervous to unleash the self-titled record. When it comes to the launch show, however, Ross feels no ambivalence. “I’ve never played at Shebeen before, so I am definitely looking forward to that,” he says. “I’ve been and checked out a couple of gigs there and the sound is amazing and I am so glad that they decided to open it up as a live music venue. It’s a bit of a pinch yourself moment that I get to go from being a punter to being the artist up on stage. Being a studio band and not having too many live shows under our belt thus far, we have been really busy trying to get an awesome visual show happening. I think this show at Shebeen is going to be off the scale.” Following a familiar narrative, Kid Radio formed after the dissolution of Ross and vocalist Dylan Smith’s former band Direct Influence. Meeting in high school, Ross reminisces fondly about the pair’s early musical creations and the bond they’ve developed over the last ten years. “Dylan moved over here from New Zealand when he was around 14,” he says. “He was never trained in music or anything, but at that time I was playing in numerous BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34
bands. He got up as a rapper with us once in one of my teen projects and I spotted his talent and musicality straight away. From there we formed Direct Influence and played both here and internationally. We got a bit sick of the reggae rock stuff though and that’s when we turned to the dark side of synths and drum pads.” Teaming up with Count Bounce of Australian hip hop crew TZU, Kid Radio spent the best part of two years crafting their debut record. Along the way, both Ross and Smith encountered some severe personal issues, which threatened to overthrow the album entirely. “Dylan’s father passed away and I was going through a really bad breakup,” Ross says. “He nearly moved back to New Zealand and was considering throwing in the towel on music altogether. I think that there is definitely a therapeutic power in music and, despite all this crazy stuff going on in our lives, we channelled those emotions into song and you can hear that on tracks like My Universe and Young Heart.”
Kid Radio’s songs usually begin with ideas Ross and Smith compose on acoustic guitar and piano. They then gradually transpose the songs onto synthesisers and electric guitars. It’s a method Ross adopted after hearing something Justin Timberlake said. “You can easily create a song with large amount of equipment and effects, though unless you can pick up a guitar or play it on a piano and it still sounds good, it isn’t going to be a good song,” he says. “I think that’s a real test of a song ± if it strips back well to just the acoustic guitar. JT made that statement of making an album with Pharrell,
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I think.” Along with heeding Timberlake’s advice, Kid Radio’s debut was directly influenced by The Presets and Glass Animals; two acts Ross would love to collaborate with. With a European tour booked for March 2016, head along to the Shebeen Bandroom next week so you can say you were there before Kid Radio really blew up. KID RADIO will launch their epic self-titled LP at Shebeen on Thursday July 30. Kid Radio will be released independently on Friday July 24.
THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW BAD BOY ZEN By Patrick Emery
In 2010 the artistic and platonic bond between Arish Khan and Mark Sultan, AKA King Khan & BBQ Show, began to buckle under the weight of a hectic touring regime, the recent deaths of some close friends (including Jay Reatard) and the protagonists’ increasingly frayed temperaments. The pair had been invited by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson to play a show at the Sydney Opera House for the Vivid LIVE Festival. After objecting to Khan’s on-stage antics, Opera House staff strongly suggested that Khan not attend any of the festival’s remaining shows.
Licking their wounds, and with Khan still smarting from the attitude of Opera House staff, King Khan & BBQ Show went to Korea where, after a couple of volatile performances, their musical union broke apart. It was the temporary end of a collaborative partnership that had begun with the formation of Canadian garage trash punk band Spaceshits in the 1990s. Khan admits there’s a manic side to his personality, which made the Opera House incident almost inevitable. Sultan concurs. “We were on tour just before that for a really long time with Black Lips. It was building and building, and finally we had a Steve Segal marathon in the hotel room, and all of a sudden it just went boom,” Sultan laughs. Even before coming to Australia, things were looking bad. “I was briefly in gaol in Spain, just before we came to Australia, for standing on a taxi cab,” says Khan. “My girth bent the roof and I wound up in a gaol cell for a few hours before we left. That put a strain on everything.” “And what they did to you in gaol with pistachios was fucked up,” Sultan adds. Fast forward a couple of years, and while listening to a King Khan & BBQ Show record with his daughter while playing the Game of Life, Khan’s daughter lamented that her father wasn’t playing with Sultan anymore. “So the olive branch of reconciliation was really extended by my family,” Khan says. Growing up as teenagers in Canada, Khan and Sultan were drawn to the excitement of the garage punk scene. Khan, at that time going under the nom de plume Blacksnake, formed Spaceshits in the mid-‘90s; shortly after, Sultan joined. Spaceshits had a reputation for provocative live performance, which led local venues and authorities to limit the band’s opportunities to play. As it were, the resulting mystique furthered the band’s reputation. “There wasn’t a deliberately shocking element at the beginning, but for some reason we weren’t embraced,” Khan says. “So for some reason it was shocking. People were uptight, competitive on some level, which I found strange because I thought we were playing rock’n’roll, which was traditional in a way. They took it as shocking, although it wasn’t GG Allin or anything. But a lot of the audience reaction to us was pretty crazy as well ± in fact, those antics were sometimes more shocking than the actual show.” Spaceshits broke-up in 1999, after which Khan moved to Berlin and started King Khan and his Shrines, while Sultan formed Les Sexareenos before playing as a oneman band under the BBQ moniker. The animosity that arose between the pair five years ago appears to have abated. “I love Arish’s caring personality ± that tenderness,” Sultan says. “On one level I admire that and wish I could live up to that. There might be an injured mouse on the ground on a bunch of rocks, and he’ll offer it some honey water to revive it. And I’ve grown to like all the things that I used to not like for no particular reason, because his heart is tremendous, even though he smells really fucking bad [laughs].” For his part, Khan embraces his own peculiar odour. “I think there’s something endearing about the repulsive odour that’s created. It’s like a brine that unites us, and keeps us enslaved.” Bad News Boys, the new record from The King Khan & BBQ Show, stays true to the pair’s doo-wop garage punk formula. “We have an oracle that we contact for certain things ± it’s very important to us,” Khan says. Sultan points to a more proctological inspiration. “Do you know Tae Bo? The move Nolan’s Finger in Tae Bo is very important. It’s like you focus all your energy into your pointing finger, and then you gently massage your anus.” When I suggest that When Will I Be Tamed from the new album might be a reference to Khan’s wayward personality, Khan and Sultan demur. “I think it originally had a different title ± When Will I Be Maimed,” Sultan says. “I can’t wear certain fabrics, like polyester. Polyester is weird ± it can ride on really weird angles. One time I got off tour and one side, perfectly symmetrical, of my penis was really hairy. So I’ve given up polyester.” As for the meaning behind the final track on the record, Zen Machines ± well, who really knows? “I guess it is kind of a reflection on our artistic partnership,” Khan says. “We were really inspired by Zen machines for a long time ± we imagined someone really large with a shopping cart full of ice cream and beer walking down the streets, just being really Zen as they brought the shopping cart home and left it front of the apartment building.” “And then they’d put their handicapped son in the cart and swaddle him,” Sultan says. THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW comes to the Corner Hotel on Friday July 24. They’re also appearing at Splendour in the Grass 2015, Friday July 24 ± S unday July 26 at North Byron Parklands. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV
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Kisschasy are going to say goodbye. One of the most successful Aussie rock acts of the ‘00s are packing up their amps and riding off into the sunset, but before they do they’re going to chuck a United Paper People tour. The band said recently, “Some of you may see this as sad news but we feel quite the contrary. Kisschasy as a unit is stronger than ever, we have more fun playing live than ever and we are more grateful to our fans than ever. The main point is, we don’t feel like, as a band, we can supersede what we’ve already accomplished musically. We have three records that we’re incredibly proud of and, rather than milk the band for everything it’s worth, we feel the best way to honour our fans and the music is to bow out with integrity.” Make sure you catch them with Luca Brasi in Geelong at The Barwon on October 8, Spirit Bar in Traralgon on October 9 or the Corner Hotel on October 10. They’ll be playing United Paper People in full as well as some other crowd favourites. Suicide Silence have unexpectedly and suddenly withdrawn from the Parkway Drive tour this September. But fans should be satisfied with the news that Australia’s Thy Art Is Murder will be taking their spot. The massive tour will arrive at Festival Hall on September 26 and the band will be doing a headline tour of their own afterwards. Thy Art’s new album Holy War is out now via UNFD. Resist have signed local hardcore band Relentless to their roster. They will release their new album Price Of Pain on September 18. The band have been gigging mercilessly since formation in 2007, and with the power of Resist on their side, Price Of Pain will probably be a belter. The Beards can’t belive they’ve been around for ten years just singing about how sweet it is to have a hairy face. They’re going to celebrate in October by doing an anniversary tour with Dallas Frasca. Check them at Corner Hotel on October 8. Tickets are cheap so go get some suds in yer beard and have a sing along. The Evelyn Hotel will host an all ages mini festival this October called Tape Deck Fest. Headlining the event will be Trophy Eyes (currently on Vans Warped Tour), As It Is (UK), Have Mercy (US), With Confidence, Harbours and more. Should be a neat little mosh meet. Tickets are on sale now for the October 4 festivities. The motherfucking Meanies are back. The excellent Aussie punk rock band will release their first album (It’s Not Me It’s You) in 21 years this September via Poison City Records. They’re also launching the new album at The Tote on Friday October 2. Tickets on sale now. It happened guys, The Weakerthans broke up. No one is particularly surprised considering the lack of output from the band (Reunion Tour came out way back in 2007), but it’s still heartbreaking all the same. Drummer Jason Tait broke the news on his Twitter
and manager/guitarist Stephen Carroll confirmed the news. The band released four perfect studio albums that each broke our hearts in new and unanticipated ways. RIP.
CORE GIG GUIDE WEDnEsDay JUly 22: • FNR, For Pluto, Chasing Alice, Shadows at Bay at The Bendigo • The Saxons, The Sunset Club, Heloise, Tiarni Carne at The Old Bar
ThURsDay JUly 23:
• Fail The Abstract, Amethyst Close, Xure at The Bendigo Left For Wolves, Driven To The Verge, Nemoya at Next • Wolf Alice, Bad//Dreems at The Corner Hotel
FRIDay JUly 24:
• The Drunken Poachers at Reverence Hotel Luca Brasi, The Sinking Teeth, Strickland at John Curtin Hotel
NEW ALBUM FROM WARREN HAYNES Warren Haynes has always given the world some great guitar playing, whether with Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule, The Dead or solo, and his new solo album takes his musical expression in a more Americana/folk direction than ever before. Ashes and Dust, Haynes’ third solo album, is an opportunity for the guitarist/ vocalist to present songs that never felt right for Gov’t Mule, the Allman Brothers or his previous solo work. “I’ve been writing songs all my life from a more folky, singer-songwriter, even Celtic direction,” he says. “So this record was really a chance to bring a lot of that music to fruition. It’s really given me the opportunity to take a lot of songs I love, that didn’t have a home, and build a home for them.” Haynes collaborated with New Jersey-based Americana band Railroad Earth on the album, which is released on Friday July 24.
METAL AT THE BENDIGO
This Saturday night at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood, The Arbiter are launching their newest beastly EP with some killer support from heavy maniacs Headless, Bloodline, The Hazard Circular, Blunt Shovel, Requiem and Dystopian.
saTURDay JUly 25:
• Tigers Jaw, Georgia Maq, Shiny Coin at The Reverence Hotel • Kill Dirty Youth, Littlefoot, Overdoze, Charm at The Reverence Hotel • Ceres, The Pretty Littles, Sincerely Grizzly at The Old Bar • Tired Lion at Shebeen • Marmozets at Ding Dong • Ouch My Face, Loose Tooth, Dark Fair, Stockades at The Tote • Endless Heights, Ambleside, Broken at Bang
MOnDay JUly 27:
• The Vaccines, Palma Violets at Corner Hotel
TUEsDay JUly 28:
• Blur at Rod Laver Arena • The Wombats, Circa Waves at Palais Theatre
Organising a split record with another band can be a pain in the arse, so sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands and take care of both sides yourself. That’s exactly what the Dead/Dead One Way Split LP featuring Toshi Kasai (Melvins/ Big Business) is. Accompanying the LP Captains Of Industry, it’s out now. You can get it in a 180g LP with hand screen printed covers, limited to 140 copies, plus a US tour version limited to 50 copies via Rock Is Hell.
KISS JOINS WITH COLLINGWOOD FOR COMMEMORATIVE TOUR T-SHIRT
KISS and the Collingwood Football Club have teamed up to produce a one-off commemorative ‘KISS Magpie Army’ t-shirt to celebrate the band’s return to Australia this October. In August 2013 Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons became co-founding partners of the only football team of any kind in the greater Los Angeles area, LA KISS, which is part of the US Arena Football League. Suffice to say, Stanley and Simmons are huge football fans and so an alignment with Collingwood in Australia seemed the perfect fit. The shirt features drawings of the four iconic KISS faces on the front with the KISS and Collingwood FC logos, while the back is emblazoned with the words “KISS MAGPIE ARMY”. It retails for $40 plus postage and is available for a strictly limited time; from Thursday July 16 until Friday October 2 through both the KISS and Collingwood Football Club websites. Fans may also purchase the t-shirt in a bundle with a Gold Reserve concert ticket for the Friday October 9 show at Rod Laver Arena for a reduced price of $140 from Ticketek.
NEW TESSARACT ALBUM ON THE WAY
sUnDay JUly 26:
• Tigers Jaw, Georgia Maq, Jess Locke at The Reverence Hotel (AA) • Maricopa Wells, The Lost Day, The Saxons at The Reverence • Best Coast at Corner Hotel • Summer Blood, Cosmic Kahuna, Young Offenders at The Bendigo
DEAD/DEAD ONE WAY SPLIT LP
TRAGIC EARTH AT CHERRY BAR Catch Tragic Earth this Sunday July 26 at Cherry Bar with support from The Soulenikoes and Logic Defies Logic. Doors at 8pm, free entry. They’ll also be at the Brunswick Hotel for an OXFAM fundraiser on Sunday August 9, more details to be announced.
The UK’s premier progressive act TesseracT have announced an all new LP titled Polaris, due out September 18. “TesseracT has been through a roller coaster of a ride since our first EP,” says the band. “We seemed to always have been filling the holes in our ship’s hull to stop this ship from sinking, as we raced around the world time and time again.” Polaris will follow up the highly regarded Altered State LP that was released in 2013. The new album will be the band’s third studio album and first for Kscope. “Polaris is a different scenario. The first chance for us as a group to stop and take stock of what we are right now, to explore a TesseracT of melody, dynamics, and singular focus. For the first time, too, we feel free from the bounds of genre specific expectations.”
CEREs
OUT OF THE WOODWORK By aUGUsTUs WElBy
Without unfairly pigeonholing Ceres, the Melbourne quartet’s sopping wet emo rock aligns them with a number of Aussie bands who’ve gained increasing recognition in recent years. It’s difficult to pinpoint what catalysed this semi-movement, but it’s fair to say the popularity of The Smith Street Band opened listeners up to bands like Ceres as well as Hobart’s Luca Brasi, Adelaide’s Paper Arms and Brisbane’s The Gifthorse. “That was all a happy accident,” says Ceres frontman Tom Lanyon. “When we started the band we almost instantly fell into that kind of scene – the Reverence [Hotel], the old Arthouse scene in Melbourne. It’s so lucky. I don’t really know how; I assume it is because of like-minded sensibilities in the music. But I feel like we just fell into it and started making friends that way, and those friends were also in other bands, including Smith Street and Luca Brasi.” When you search for the local progenitors of this sound, the likes of Horsell Common, Blueline Medic and Kisschasy come to mind – all of whom seem to have left an imprint on Ceres’ sound. However, Lanyon can’t claim to be an underground music buff. “We were so green when we started,” he says. “I hardly even went to Melbourne punk shows. I went to see a lot of US bands that came out, but I never really supported the Melbourne DIY scene, which sucks because it’s given me so much back. I feel kind of guilty about it. Every time I play a show I’m like, ‘Oh God, I don’t deserve these people singing these songs back at me’.” Despite being a late bloomer, Ceres’ well-constructed songs indicate that Lanyon isn’t an utter philistine. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 36
He fills us in on what compelled him to start making “We recorded that in October 2013 and didn’t release music. “When I was a kid, Jebediah were my favourite it until April 2014,” Lanyon says. “It makes you sick, band,” he says. “I was a tragic Motor Ace fan. “They but you just listen to it the whole time. By the end, just were two big bands for me that really made me want before we were going to release it, I was like, ‘This thing to try and write songs. Kisschasy as well of course, that is fucked – no-one’s going to like it, the songs aren’t was a big one. cool.’ I just had the craziest doubts about it. “I was in Year 12 in 2003 and that was the second wave “I was super excited to release it,” he adds. “I couldn’t emo boom,” he continues. “At the start of that was wait for people to hear it, but there was definitely a incredible – Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back feeling of being like, ‘Should we just sit on this record Sunday and Brand New and all those kind of bands. and do a new one?’” And that comes from listening to Blink-182 as a kid.” However, once he witnessed listeners’ reactions to By the time Ceres popped into view in mid-2012, the the record, Lanyon’s doubts were instantly repealed. second wave of emo had all but dissipated. Nevertheless, “It was so crazy that people connected to it the way after a couple of EP releases, they’d gathered enough they did,” he says. “We’ve had people telling us about interest to nab a spot on the Melbourne leg of the 2014 their favourite songs and how they helped them Soundwave Festival. A couple of months later, Ceres through stuff. That is the most clichéd thing – I can’t dropped their debut LP, I Don’t Want To Be Anywhere believe I can say that. How many times have you read But Here, and thanks to some triple j airtime, plenty an interview where a kid’s like, ‘This song helped me of people were waiting to gobble it up. OK, so the through my life, blah blah blah’? But a kid said that record wasn’t a smash hit success, but it certainly struck to me and it just blew my mind. So the response was a significant chord with listeners around the country. ridiculous. The way people connected to it seemed However, on the cusp of the album’s release, the band pretty deep and I was like, ‘Maybe this doesn’t happen wasn’t feeling massively confident. for a lot of bands. Maybe we got lucky here?’” WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV
Not willing to test the limits of their good fortune, Ceres have kept busy in the 14 months since the album’s release, unleashing the Selfish Prick EP last November and following it up with the single Ceres Is For Lovers earlier this year. “I wonder what it would’ve been like if it just bombed and no one was into it except for our mums,” Lanyon says. “But it was definitely like a carriage in front of a donkey, to get back in there. We figured, if people are around listening to the songs, we may as well get them while we can and just keep releasing stuff. Selfish Prick was a scrappy seven-inch we recorded over three days down in Tassie. We wanted to keep it secret and just drop it on people as a semi-surprise. Now we just want to keep recording. We can’t wait to start this new record, start recording it.”
CERES’ Selfish Prick is out now through Hobbledehoy. Catch them play The Old Bar, with The Pretty Littles and Sincerely Grizzly, on Saturday July 25.
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THE MARY GOLDSMITHS CHERRY BAR
According to The Mary Goldsmiths, they’re simply ‘a bunch of boys playing guitars real loud.’ Sound good? Good, then. If you’re into intelligent art rock, with a Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds dressed-without-giving-a-flip attitude, head down to Cherry Bar this Wednesday July 22 and catch The Mary Goldsmiths doing their thing, with special guests Keggin and Sid O’Neil. Doors open 9pm with $5 entry.
Americana, the journey to this sound has taken Davies’ right back to his origins. Growing up in Scotland and the son of a folk singer, Davies spent his childhood in folk clubs. These roots are hauntingly woven into his acoustic story-songs with passion. There is still an unmistakable connection to Davies’ previous work, his relationship with American songwriting principles serving as the contemporary grounding for this fusion. Rich Davies & The Low Road play The Retreat on Wednesday July 22 with Anne Of The Wolves. Free entry.
Luke Plumb. Kate and Ruth are two of Australia’s most respected and renowned folk musicians. Their vocal harmonies, exceptional musicianship and unique interpretations of traditional songs have won them national and international acclaim over the years, and their fifth studio album should be no different. Kate Burk and Ruth Hazleton’s Declaration album launch opens at 6pm with $15 entry.
PAUL COLMAN
FAIL THE ABSTRACT BENDIGO HOTEL
RICH DAVIES
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
Stepping away from his signature style of raucous rock, Rich Davies (King Wolf, The Devil’s Union) has emerged from the studio with a stripped back and very intimate new solo acoustic project. Lyrically and sonically landing somewhere between folk and
KATE BURKE AND RUTH HAZLETON THE SPOT TED MALLARD
The Spotted Mallard lights up for another star-studded evening this Thursday July 23 with Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton launching their latest album, Declaration, with special guest
THE STRAGGLERS
THE DRUNKEN POET
Singer/songwriters Samara Cullen and Teresa Dixon (The Little Sisters) are The Straggglers, Melbourne’s latest country folk outfit ready for a swinging good time at The Drunken Poet. Get ready for some beer soaked country folk, with The Stragglers joined by EJ Van Geest on banjo and lead guitar. Catch them all at The Drunken Poet this Thursday July 23 from 8pm onwards. Entry is free.
Grammy nominated singer/songwriter and entertainer Paul Colman (The Newsboys) hits The Wesley Anne Hotel this Thursday July 23, bringing his well traversed musical stories with him. Joining him on the night is indigenous singer/songwriter Scott Darlow from Yorta Yorta country, a fellow world roaming troubadour and passionate advocate for Aboriginal culture and reconciliation. Get down early, the show starts at 8pm with $15 tickets on the door. British India
GORDON HOLLAND
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Head over to the west this Thursday night to catch a stacked lineup at The Reverence Hotel. They’ve got The Naysayers’ frontman Gordon Holland hitting up the stage, as well as Queensland’s Neighbour, who are coming down for their debut Melbourne
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The Vendettas
THE WESLE Y ANNE HOTEL
THURSDAY JULY 23
PHNX Music has organised a huge night of experimental post-hardcore prowess this Thursday July 23, with Fail The Abstract headlining at the Bendigo. Supports from metalcore punks DriveTime Commute, Amethyst Close and XURE. Doors open 8.30pm, $10 on the door.
show, plus local legends JMS Harrison and Mara Threat opening the night. Doors open 8pm with $5 entry.
SAINTS UNPLUGGED PRINCE BANDROOM
St Kilda’s bay side heartland will play host to one of the most unique events on the entertainment calendar this
What’s your name then? Oh. And the name of your band… I’m Stevie and the band is The Vendettas. And what do you do? We organise a group of similar sounding chord patterns with a melodic lyrical accompaniment for roughly 3 ½ minutes. Repeated ten times per gig, pausing only for beer. When did you start doing that? 2191.45 days and counting... (or about six years now). Why did you start doing that? Because John Lithgow told us that rock music was forbidden in our town. Do you think you’re good at doing that? No complaints. If you weren’t doing that, what would you be doing? An Uber driver, a body builder, a soccer coach, a record store owner and a flamenco dancer, respectively. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Playing awesome shows with awesome bands to awesome crowds. What’s your proudest moment of doing what you do? Recording our second album Bystander and Destroyer last year was very pride worthy. And your least proud? Unfortunately we can’t comment until the trial concludes next month. THE VENDETTAS play Yah Yah’s on Saturday July 25 with Two Headed Dog and A Gazillion Angry Mexicans. Bystander and Destroyer is available now via Bandcamp.
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This weekend’s gig is a fundraiser for the Thin Green Line Foundation; the world’s only charity solely dedicated to protecting endangered species and threatened ecosystems by supporting park rangers. Is this an issue that’s close to your heart? I have always known that illegal poaching has been happening and been appalled by actions as these in the name of profit. The foundation has highlighted that this is of great importance and needs to be addressed on all levels in the name of our animals, environment and the protectors who put themselves on the line. What will the funds raised go towards? This gig will raise much needed funds that go towards training park rangers in dealing with illegal poachers. Also to families who have lost members to poachers murdering rangers. And most of all raising awareness so that illegal poaching is stamped out and abolished. The Diesel n’Dub album came out last September. Has the response to the project exceeded your expectations? Expectations have been surpassed from the very beginnings of this album – to have an amazing wealth of talented singers and musicians committing to the songs of the Oils and the cause of the project. A significant portion of the albums vocalists will appear at the gig: Emma Donovan, Radical Son, Pat Powell and Kingtide’s Tony Hughes. Is it rare you’re able to get so many vocalists together in one place? All the singers we have on the album have their own projects going on. But we have ways and means to deliver if one or more of the singers is absent. DECLAN KELLY presents Diesel n’Dub this Friday July 24 at The Gasometer Hotel as part of Green Line Grooves, a world ranger day fundraiser.
week with Saints Unplugged, a charity gig raising funds for Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision (MRV). Triple M’s Lee Simon will host the event at the Prince Bandroom, featuring headliners British India, just returning from a 25-date tour of Australia, alongside Tex Perkins, Sean Marchetti, Billy Miller and more to be announced. Show your support for a good cause this Thursday July 23 at The Prince Bandroom. Doors open 7pm, tickets are $55+BF from OzTix.
FRIDAY JULY 24
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
This Thursday July 23, Southbound Snake Charmers will go ahead and knock people’s socks off and slither on their bellies like reptiles with their big, chunky, grooving, psychedelic, electric, dirty blues. Hot, right? Last time they played Whole Lotta Love they set the place on fire, only to have Brendan Forward join them for a jam and blow the roof off. The insurance bill was hefty as fuck, yet the Whole Lotta Love crew have allowed them back. Who knows why. Expect more of the same, only better this time around. 8pm. Free entry.
good friends Suburban Prophets, FnR Follow No Rules and Shadows at Bay, this is bound to be a show of rocking and rolling. Doors at 8pm. $10 entry.
Curse Ov Dialect
THE THIN GREEN LINE WORLD RANGER DAY FUNDRAISER
THE GASOMETER HOTEL
SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS
to the city early, music kicks off from 4pm, with The Saxons going on at 5pm. Best of all, it’s free entry.
Want to rock out for a damn good cause? Well, head on over to The Gasometer Hotel this Friday July 24 as Declan Kelly brings Diesel n' Dub to the stage, with the aim of raising funds for World Ranger Day in association with The Thin Green Line. Diesel n' Dub, featuring Emma Donovan, Radical Son, Pat Powell, Tony Hughes and Declan Kelly, will perform the iconic protest songs of Midnight Oil in dub and reggae, alongside performances from Oscar Jimenez (Watussi) and the Amaru Tribe, as well as Yirrmal Marika of Yolngu Boys (original singer form Yothu Yindi). Head down and support a good cause, this Friday July 24. Doors open 7pm, tickets are $50+BF from OzTix.
THE SAXONS
THE PUBLIC BAR
Coming all the way from Launceston as part of their Going North tour, The Saxons have locked in a lazy Friday afternoon gig this Friday July 24 at The Public Bar. The alt indie rockers will be paired with the folk stylings of NZ born, Melbourne based duo Sulks. Better get
TENJIN MATSURI - A FESTIVAL OF THE GODS
GENA ROSE BRUCE
BENDIGO HOTEL
Held in the sweltering month of July, and with a history spanning 1000 years, A Festival of the Gods is an old Japanese celebration dedicated to Sugawara Michizane, the Japanese deity of scholarship and learning. The festival personifies what makes Osaka such a culturally distinct district, and The Bendigo Hotel is holding true to tradition with experimental, electronic and hip hop acts taking to the stage this Friday July 24. The lineup features Curse Ov Dialect, HTML Flowers, MSG Fever (OVe-NaXx & Snuggy Man), Men Imitating Machines, Rhythmic Gibberish, Germs and Agrius, and DJ Danielsan. Catch them all at The Bendigo this Friday July 24. Doors open 8pm and tickets are a measly $10.
CALLING UTOPIA
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
Calling Utopia are back with a vengeance with a brand new lineup, smashing new songs and a new attitude. Making up for lost time, they’re launching all their singles that have been released but never been officially introduced. Joined by
THE WORKERS CLUB
Melbourne singer/songwriter Gena Rose Bruce launches her Mad Love EP this Friday July 24 at The Workers Club. Teaming up with legendary producer Steven Schram, Gena Rose Bruce comes to The Workers on the back of her recent success with single Good Thing, giving fans a taste of things to come from the upcoming EP. Support on the night comes from WILSN and Josh Cashman. Gena Rose Bruce plays at The Workers Club this Friday July 24. Doors open 8.30pm with $12+BF tickets presale.
DAN LETHBRIDGE & THE CAMPAIGNERS THE SPOT TED MALLARD
Following their big single launch in March, and with a recently finished album under their belts, Dan Lethbridge & The Campaigners return to the Spotted Mallard for a full band show this Friday July 24. The show will see Dan & The Campaigners previewing their new album in full, which includes lead single I Want You With Me, before
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THURSDAY 23RD JULY
KATE BURKE & RUTH HAZLETON ‘DECLARATION’ ALBUM LAUNCH
GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOUL DIGGERS + CHRIS WILSON + PAUL WILLIAMSON + JIMI HOCKING + DJ MATTHEW FREDERICKS (PBS 106.7FM) DOORS/DINNER 6PM, SHOWTIME 9:00PM SATURDAY 8TH AUGUST
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+ HEATHER STEWART + THE JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE CAJUN BAND $5, SHOWTIME 8:30PM
+ LUKE PLUMB + THE JOHN FLANAGAN TRIO DOORS/DINNER 6PM, SHOWTIME 8.30PM - $15
FRIDAY 24TH JULY
DAN LETHBRIDGE & CAMPAIGNERS
HAPPY HOUR
+ CHRIS PICKERING + DJ MCGREGADETH SHOWTIME 9.30PM - NO COVER
SATURDAY 25TH JULY
FUZZSUCKER + THE MARQUIS + GIRLCRAZY + SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE DJS SHOWTIME 9.30PM - NO COVER
SUNDAY 26TH JULY
THE STETSON FAMILY
‘TRUE NORTH’ ALBUM LAUNCH + DAN PARSONS + DJ DAVID HEARD (ACID COUNTRY 106.7FM)
DOORS 4PM/SHOWTIME 4.45PM - $15
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THE STILLSONS
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL
Country folks The Stillsons are heading down to The Post Office Hotel this Friday, bringing an end to a long 12 month hiatus. The trio comprises of Justin Bernasconi on guitar and vocals, Cat Canteri on drums and vocals, and pedal steel string guitarist Ben Franz (The Waifs), and this week’s gig will be marked by the addition of special guest Edmondo Ammendola (Augie March) on bass. Catch some contemporary roots this Friday July 24 as The Stillsons take on The Post Office Hotel with two back to back sets from 9.30pm. Entry is free.
JOEYS COOP
R E T R E AT H O T E L
Joeys Coop is a motley bunch of some of Australia’s pioneering Indie musicians of the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Brett Myers (Died Pretty), Matt Galvin (Eva Trout, Perry Keyes, Loose Pills), Andy Newman (Deniz Tek Group, The Visitors, Decline of The Reptiles), Mark Roxburgh (Decline of the Reptiles) and Lloyd G (The Atlantics, Perry Keyes, Dave Warner) come together as Joeys Coop this Friday. Their partystarting tunes sound like the lovechild of Fleetwood Mac and Bikini Kill, and if that doesn’t make you jump up and pay attention, then what the hell is wrong with you? Joeys Coop play The Retreat this Friday July 24. Doors open 9.30pm with free entry.
launch We Are the Sons at Ding Dong Lounge this Friday July 24. Doors open 9pm, tickets are $8+BF presale or $12 on the door.
BUSY KINGDOM CHERRY BAR
For some rock’n’roll soul straight out of Brunswick, head down to Cherry Bar this Friday July 24 for Busy Kingdom’s self titled EP launch. Not content with just the one band, Cherry Bar have got a hold of two more with Neon Queen and I Am Mine, who are launching their new single on the night. Three bands, two launches, one place: Cherry Bar. Doors open 8pm with $13 tickets.
vintage Johnny Cash, Wayne Hancock or Hank Williams and you’ll be right at home. Comprised of members from local acts The Detonators, Gatorbait, The Roadsters and The Flat Foot Shakers, join Cold Heart this Saturday July 25 at The Drunken Poet from 9pm onwards. Entry is free, as always at The Poet.
SATURDAY JULY 25
PERRY KEYES
T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B
Sydney’s Perry Keyes is making his way back to Melbourne this week. Raised in the inner-city working class suburb of Redfern, Keyes has released four critically acclaimed albums including 2007’s ABC Radio National Album of the Year, The Last Ghost Train Home, and the ARIA nominated Johnny Ray’s Downtown. Earlier this year he released his fourth studio album Sunnyholt, the personal tale of a family disintegrating under social and economic pressures. Perry Keyes comes to The Flying Saucer Club this Saturday July 25, with support from Bernie Hayes. Doors open 8pm with $20 tickets.
THE REBELLES
T H O R N B U R Y T H E AT R E
Join in on the action as local 19-piece girl group The Rebelles launch their debut full length album, Go! Rebelle!, this Saturday at Thornbury Theatre. Drawing on the classic girl group sounds of The Ronettes and The Shangri Las, as well as their beloved Ramones, The Rebelles have planned a huge night for their album launch, with magician Dane Certificate and the psychedelic pop of Empat Lima, all hosted by comedian Andrew McClelland. Catch The Rebelles at Thornbury Theatre on Saturday July 25. Tickets go for $15+BF presale, $20+BF reserved seating, or $55+BF for dinner and the show.
THE VENDETTAS YA H YA H ’ S
Fresh from their massive support shows with The Casanovas and Palace of the King, The Vendettas hit up their old stomping ground Yah Yah’s this Saturday July 25. The Vendettas have promised to drag along two great local acts with them too in Two Headed Dog and A Gazillion Angry Mexicans. Catch all three upstairs at Yah Yah’s new band room this Saturday July 25 from 8pm. Entry is $7 from midnight.
RUNNING YOUNG
DING DONG LOUNGE
Melbourne band Running Young will be launching their debut EP We Are the Sons at Ding Dong Lounge this Friday July 24. Combining contemporary, emotionally charged indie alternative rock with four part harmonies straight out of the '60s, Running Young sound like the stadium music of U2 and The Temper Trap with the vocals of ELO or The Beach Boys. They strive to write music the old fashioned way, with what you hear on the record being what you hear at the live show. Running Young
SPOONBILL HOWLER
COLD HEART
THE DRUNKEN POET
Rocking twangsters Cold Heart are a trio of old school stripped back country hillbillies, sporting an acoustic, an electric, and a double bass. You won’t find any drums here but the rhythmic click and slapping of the double bass, think
SUNDAY JULY 26
MARICOPA WELLS
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Maricopa Wells are taking over the Reverence Hotel front bar this Sunday afternoon, wrapping up their July residency with an acoustic twist on their own brand of soulful melodic rock, showcasing new tracks from their upcoming full length debut, Places To Land. Catch their free entry gig this Sunday July 26 at The Reverence Hotel front bar from 3pm. Entry is free.
MINIMUM WAGE THE PUBLIC BAR
The Public Bar’s free Minimum Wage Sunday sessions are the perfect chance to catch the best of the local music scene while keeping your wallet cool, calm and collected. Jumping on stage this week are Hills Hoist, with special guests The Eggs and Femi all getting a chance to pedal their musical wares. Catch these live acts on Sunday July 26 from 4pm at The Public Bar, entry is totally free.
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
Jack Howard has been described as one of the great quiet achievers of Australian music. Previously an integral member of Hunters and Collectors, he’s performed with Midnight Oil, Rodriguez, The Violent Femmes and a host of others; and he’s been releasing his own great CDs for the past fifteen years. Jack Howard and his band stroll into The Retreat this Saturday July 25, kicking off his set at 8pm, with garage rockers Doubleblack jumping on stage afterwards. Entry is free.
YA H YA H ’ S
Omelette Records is joining forces with Howler this weekend to launch Spoonbill’s fourth studio album, Tinkerbox. The album sees Spoonbill shift from the recent dance floor heft to a much more lush, cinematic listening experience. This special live show will feature a choice selection of guest musicians from the album, alongside a custom projection mapped by VJ Dropbear. Catch Spoonbill on Saturday July 25 at Howler. Doors open 7pm, tickets are $25+BF from the venue.
The Tek Tek Ensemble are an anthropological dance band that cross genre boundaries every time they get on stage. Consisting of guitars, trumpets, trombones, violins, percussion, a double bass, piano accordion, and the human voice, Tek Tek Ensemble create hybridizations of most of the world’s music, incorporating a startling variety of ethnographic and popular genres. The encyclopaedic repertoire of the ensemble is bound by the strict yet simple stipulation of danceability. Join in on the action as Tek Tek Ensemble take on The Post Office Hotel this Friday July 25, playing two sets from 9.30pm. Entry is free.
JACK HOWARD BAND
SOCIETY OF BEGGARS After hitting the Yah Yah’s stage earlier this year to release their debut single Hyena, Society of Beggars went through a wave of successful shows, both local and interstate. Now they return to their home away from home, where they began their live performances just under a year ago. Smoke Stack Rhino and Battlesick round out the lineup. Head down to Yah Yah’s this Friday July 24 and catch three great acts in action. Doors open 8pm, entry is $13.
TEK TEK ENSEMBLE
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Blackwitch
Define your genre in five words or less: Doom-core. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “Let’s go start a circle pit.” How long have you been gigging and writing? About a year and half with a few months gap in the middle. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? A friend Karl from Beerfridge in Margaret River organised a local festival last year with Perth and Southwest bands playing along side a mini ramp skate comp, dirt bikes, BMX and bikini model search. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Bands like Witchcraft, Red Fang, The Sword, Baroness, Doomriders, and Black Sabbath have influenced the doomy side of things. But bands like Cancer Bats and Refused and a lot of ‘90s punk has shaped us as well. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? We recorded an EP last year available at http:// blackwitchwa.bandcamp.com/. We are 3/4 the way through writing a full length album and hope to record late this year/early next year. BLACKWITCH are playing The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday July 25 with Musclecar, Wolfpack, Laser Brains and Wing Attack Plan R.
STARBOARD CANNONS
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL
Moving across the realm of sparse and haunting folk, diving head first into full-blown, beer spilling, whiskey swilling sea shanty territory, Starboard Cannons craft string-based tales that sit somewhere between the Scottish highlands and the Aussie bush. Throw in some strong vocals and it’s a recipe for emotional turmoil. Head down to The Post Office Hotel this Sunday July 26 and shed a tear to the soundtrack laid down by Starboard Cannons. They play two sets from 4.30pm with free entry.
THE STETSON FAMILY
THE SPOT TED MALLARD
It’s been two years coming, making their way through hell and high water to get here, and now The Stetson Family are launching their third album, True North, this Sunday at The Mallard. The follow up to The Devil In His Sunday Best, noted as a landmark Australian roots album for 2011, True North is grassy with more than a hint of down to earth Americana. Get a taste of their new sound this Sunday July 26 at The Spotted Mallard. Doors open 4pm, tickets are $15+BF through the venue.
COMMUNICATION – THE MARC HUNTER SONGBOOK
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ARIES
THE WORKERS CLUB
Melbourne electronic-pop duo Aries will perform their first ever headline show at The Workers Club this Saturday July 25. The duo, whose influences include the likes of BANKS, Little Dragon, Sohn and Lykke Li, will be performing an array of original tracks, before they retreat to the studio to record their debut single, which is due for release in September. They will be joined on the night by the stunning Aphir and Nicholas Costello. Doors open 8.30pm with $10 tickets on the door.
Communication - The Marc Hunter Songbook will debut at The Flying Saucer Club this Sunday July 26 with an all-star lineup of acclaimed performers celebrating Marc Hunter’s music. This special event has been organised by Alex Formosa Baudo, a very close friend of Marc’s, who also organised the highly successful 2013 show to commemorate Marc’s 15th anniversary since his untimely passing. The stellar lineup includes Joe Creighton, Mick Pealing, Michael Oliphant, Alex Formosa Baudo, Mike Doyle, Tracy Kingman and Cres Crisp. Better get your tickets early, doors open 3pm, tickets are $25+BF from the venue or $28 on the door.
GLENN’S 31ST BIRTHDAY BENDIGO HOTEL
The Drunk Promoter’s Glenn Stewart turns 31 this week, and he’s gonna do what promoters do and chuck on a gig to celebrate, well, him. This Sunday July 26 the Bendigo will play host to Summer Blood, Cosmic Kahuna, Organ Donor, Sweet Gold and Young Offenders, with acoustic sets by Glory and Late Nights, topping the night off with DJ Amanda & The Plumbs. The free entry party starts 5pm at the Bendy.
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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au due in August, Ribeiro and her band are finally wrapping up their month long Old Bar residency this Sunday July 25. Supports for this week’s Sunday session are Empat Lima and Jealous Husband. Doors open 8pm with $5 entry, and $10 jugs all night long. Don’t be a fool, go check this show out.
SOUL SUNDAYS
AZEALIA BANKS
TRAGIC EARTH CHERRY BAR
Loud, melodic, riff-driven and raucous are Melbourne four-piece Tragic Earth’s musical trademarks, blending a mesh of grunge, metal and stadium rock to their own unique sound. Kicking off their Stumbelina tour this week in ACT, Tragic Earth are following it up with an appearance at Cherry Bar this Sunday July 26. Support on the night comes from The Soulenikoes and Logic Defies Logic. Doors open 8pm with free entry.
PRINCE BANDROOM
Fresh from tearing up one of the most internet-breaking sets of Coachella, Azealia Banks promises to deliver one of the most talked about performances of 2015 when she hits the Prince Bandroom this Sunday July 26. She grabbed the world’s attention as one of the biggest artists to break through in 2012 with bangers like Liqourice, Van Vogue and the Splendour favourite 212, and crowds have been watching her ever since. Her long-awaited debut album, Broke with Expensive Taste, dropped last year and proved it was well worth the wait, being met with international critical acclaim upon release. Azealia Banks plays the Prince Bandroom on Sunday July 26. Doors open 8pm, tickets are $70+BF through OzTix.
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
Brunswick’s Soul Sundays keep on coming, returning to the Retreat this Sunday July 26. Presented by Thunder Road, Melbourne’s best soul acts and DJs electrify the dance floor with the best down and dirty soul, funk, and vintage R&B, and it all goes down every Sunday at The Retreat Hotel. Bands start from 7.30pm, followed by DJs on the decks till 1am. Entry is the ridiculous price of free. It’s the best fun you’ll have all week for nothing. MONDAY JULY 27
LEPERS & CROOKS
THE WORKERS CLUB
A consistent stream of blistering live shows has earned Lepers & Crooks a reputation as one of the country’s mustsee live bands, with their intelligent and emotive songs brought to life by dynamic, raucous performances. In March 2014 the signed with Chris Murphy’s management, and have since toured Australia three times, recently finishing one that saw them play 60 shows across four months to support their Her Kiss EP release. The Workers Club jumped at the chance to book Lepers & Crooks, and they’ve given the band a Monday night residency across July to keep them busy until the next tour. Head down to The Workers this Monday July 27, doors open 7.30pm with $3 entry. TUESDAY JULY 28
American rapper and producer Earl Sweatshirt makes his welcome return to Australian shores this week for a series of headline shows, delivering his fiercely cerebral brand of hip hop to audiences in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth along with his appearance at Splendour in the Grass. Breaking onto the scene with 2010’s Earl mixtape, Sweatshirt released his highly anticipated follow up Doris in 2013 to critical acclaim, receiving perfect scores from The Guardian and LA Times and debuting at #1 on the Australian iTunes album charts. Earl returned to the spotlight with the release of I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside earlier this year, and comes to town off the back of the ten track masterpiece. Earl Sweatshirt plays the Prince Bandroom on Tuesday July 28. Doors open 8pm with $65+BF tickets.
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TIGERS JAW
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Between the power pop melodies of early Saves the Day and the hard driving fold rhythms of Fleetwood Mac lies Tigers Jaw, a band whose raw immediacy is infectious and intoxicating. Shimmering organ textures, chunky guitar chords, and male/female vocal harmonies show the Scranton, PA natives taking rural rock music from its legendary past to its vibrant future. Among the more innovative acts on Run For Cover Record’s star studded roster, Tigers Jaw have a profound musical purity that is as equally stirring in a basement of 40 people as it is in a club of 1,000. Catch Tigers Jaw this Sunday July 26 at The Reverence Hotel. Doors open 2pm with $28+BF tickets.
EARL SWEATSHIRT
PRINCE BANDROOM
PRINCE PUBLIC BAR
SHRIMPWITCH
SHAKEDOWN SHAKES
Head down to The Public Bar this Monday July 27 and catch three local acts for a measly $6 entry. The shrimpcharged garage punks Shrimpwitch headline this stellar evening, but before they go on you can sink your teeth into a slice of Dicey’s Pizza House Band, and the ever energetic Cabbages & Kings. To catch these fine acts on stage, get down to The Public Bar from 7.30pm.
Tuesday night at the Old Bar can only mean one thing: Cheap Kraken Rum Night. Head down to Fitzroy, sink a few spirits and check out the local acts on offer. Headlining this week are the ‘60s inspired Shakedown Shakes, with Electric Wallpaper and Greenmount supporting. Head down to The Old Bar this Tuesday July 28, doors open 8pm with $6 tickets.
THE PUBLIC BAR
JESS RIBEIRO THE OLD BAR
Warm yourself up this winter and go check out the phenomenal Jess Ribeiro at The Old Bar. Playing to celebrate the release of Kill It Yourself, the first single and title track from her upcoming album
THE OLD BAR
It’s Duo Trio Night at the Taste of Indie Tuesday this week at St Kilda’s Prince Public Bar. The Taste of Indie Tuesday is the place to catch some songwriting and musical collaborations from some of Melbourne’s finest original artists. Headlining this week’s instalment is The Kat “O” Duo, with support from Nina & Greg and Mr Greedy. Original songwriting, fantastic vocals and brilliant instrumentation on offer, this Tuesday July 28 at the Prince Public Bar. Entry is free.
The Melbourne Guitar Show
This August, Melbourne will host a guitar festival like no other. Australian guitarists and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the instrument as the Melbourne Guitar Show brings together manufacturers, players and performers from a range of styles and levels of expertise. Beat caught up with Festival Director Rob Walker to find out more. Tell us about the motivation behind setting up the Melbourne Guitar Show. The guitar is the world’s most popular instrument and we want to celebrate it. The members of the Australian Music Association want to inspire and excite the public about playing music, by presenting the best products, the biggest brands and the best players all under one roof. I have organised seven guitar shows over the last couple of decades and I know the vibe that is created by getting the Melbourne Guitar Community together. What is your history with the instrument? I got my first guitar as a teenager and I still love playing it, but the bass has been my lifetime (so far) passion. I still play professionally and regularly. The 1973 Fender Jazz is my favourite, but I love a 1980 P Bass Special, a Noyce Dolphin 5-string, a Music Man Stingray and a Taylor AB1 acoustic as well. Who is the event aimed at? Our show is aimed at guitar (and ukulele) enthusiasts who want to see, try and buy the latest guitar products as well as some interesting vintage items. It will be the biggest pop-up guitar store in the southern hemisphere – open for business for one weekend only this year – for anyone who’s into guitars, this is the event for them. Music lovers will also love the Melbourne Guitar Show with a killer lineup of players performBEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40
ing all weekend on two stages, in many different guitar styles and genres. There will also be two workshop stages, free lessons, tips and tricks from the professionals. From beginners to professionals - there will be something for everyone. How many exhibitors will be there? We’ll have about 50 exhibitors among them, the major suppliers and brands, local and interstate retailers, local guitar and ukulele makers, local custom amp makers and a decent collection of vintage to see and buy. All our major players in the Australian guitar industry will be represented at the show. What sort of performances and special guests can we look forward to? The Melbourne Guitar Show will host the best of the local guitar scene. There are multi-award winners and superb up-and-comers in our lineup of artists. There’s something for all guitar and traditional music lovers. From Jeff Lang, Lloyd Spiegel and Fiona Boyes, to Racer Axe, Nat Allison and King of the North, Wayne Jones, The Davidson Brothers, Geoff Achison and Jimi Hocking – a lineup of performances and clinicians not seen at a Melbourne guitar show before. What educational workshops and seminars are available? There is a great opportunity to learn stuff from our clinicians – all weekend there’ll be product clinics and
workshops featuring the likes of Steve Mackay, Brett Kingman, Phil Ceberano, Jimi Hocking, Marcel Yammouni, Shannon Bourne, Lloyd Spiegel, James Ryan, Simon Hosford and many more. You can get a free lesson, tip or trick from Professor Guitar at regular sessions over the weekend. What can prospective players expect to learn over the weekend? They can see first-hand how the professionals do it – both in performance and in clinics and seminars – they have the opportunity to learn from the best. There’ll be several guitar technology sessions, how to get great tone, cutting edge amp technology and talking boutique pedals. They might see what goes into building a guitar or learn about how to play a style like metal or bluegrass. What type of products will be available and can punters expect a good deal? There will be guitars at the event that punters might have only seen online, or who knows, maybe even the world. The exhibitors will be dealing on the weekend. There will be amps, FX and accessories, print and learning resources. There’ll be a group of Australian makers of fine instruments and custom amplifiers.
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And there’ll be a fine collection of vintage instruments and amps, including a 65 Hofner Beatle Bass Signed by Sir Paul, a rare Rose Morris 12 string Rickenbacker used by George Harrison on the 64 Beatles tour and a rare 1952 Fender Telecaster to name just a few. What are the dates and times? Saturday and Sunday August 8 & 9 – 10am to 6pm both days. Where is the venue? Caulfield Racecourse, located 13kms from Melbourne’s CBD – parking at the racecourse is free and public transport will be running on the day. We’ll be using two levels for exhibition and performances and clinics. How much are the tickets? $20 on the door (or cheaper via our website) with concessions and family prices available. If you come on Saturday, your wristband is good for a Sunday visit also. Once you’re in, all activities are free, so you won’t get better value for $20 anywhere. Visit www.australianmusician.com.au/melbourneguitar-show for all the details.
LIVE
REPORTS FROM THE FRONT ROW
For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews THE BABE RAINBOW The Gasometer Hotel, Saturday July 18
RYAN ADAMS The Forum, Sunday July 19
Photo by Robert Marks
The Babe Rainbow have struck a union with a very specific era, sub-culture and soundtrack. That is: the mid-‘60s, summer of love/flower power and psychtinged British pop music. The dream ain’t over as far as these guys are concerned. Tonight they ran through a bunch of songs openly indebted to the work of The Beatles, The Kinks and Barrett-era Pink Floyd ± shrewdly formed, instantly familiar melodies dressed a hallucinogenic backdrop. Accordingly, they wore their hair down low and guitars slung high. And from this vantage point, it was still another two decades before sunglasses at night would be declared a faux pas. It’s a formula that could easily sit poorly with audiences. For starters, their entire shtick ± from the sticky sweet tunes and surrealist lyrics to the nononsense instrumental set-up and throwback fashion ± is nostalgic to the point of rigidity. On top of that, the band exuded brazen positivity and, despite their psychedelic leaning, the performance was exceedingly controlled. But The Babe Rainbow deployed a power that extended
beyond their tributary aesthetic. They seemed entirely at home inhabiting the time warp, and as a result a significant portion of the audience were entranced, eager to join them in their hazy-eyed bubble of joy. In certain contexts, indulging in nostalgia is the first step towards complacency and subsequent greed. But even if this gig wasn’t your bag, it was hard to find it anything short of pleasant. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
LOVED: Forever. HATED: The future. DRANK: Tinnies, mate.
BL ACK CAB The Corner Hotel, Friday July 17 The Infants were a noisy, brash group with a female vocalist clearly inspired by the little bands and no wave scenes of the distant past (think Lydia Lunch). They caused a suitable racket. Lost Animal was a solo male looking like a black tarantula, or David Johansen’s lost hair style. The love for Suicide was obvious. He slunk around and looked suitably distressed and moody. The blistering cold of the Richmond streets brought Heaven Knows l’m Miserable Now to mind, before attentions returned to the stage. Black Cab should be global but remain local. Why they’re not conquering the universe is a pertinent question. Is it the general public that are misguided, or just those who think this band are supreme? From the outset, Black Cab were a completely captivating trio that filled that Krautrock hole in your musical experience. As the drummer tub-thumped away like a metronome, the other two members handled electronics and vocals. The volume level quadrupled when they started playing and did not abate, sufficiently delivering the antidote to the weather induced sorrow.
Victorious, Combat Boots and Sexy Polizei were glorious, as was the New Order touchstone 5 8 6, which edged craftily toward the dancefloor. Black Cab blend electronica and alternative rock so effectively it is easily forgotten just how ambitious their music is. Hearts On Fire made a welcome appearance, and whilst sometimes the vocals came across as deadpan, the overall impact was impressively accessible. Although the volume was overwhelmingly loud, it just stabilised the impression that Black Cab are a scorching outfit that cannot be manufactured.
Photo by Ian Laidlaw The relationship that fans have with Ryan Adams’ music tends not to be a casual one. It can take many forms, from those drawn to him with desperate affection, to the countless musicians who’ve modelled themselves after his songwriting. Similarly, it can spring from a variety of starting points, such as the abrupt romanticism of Heartbreaker, the Nashville sparkle of Gold, the quintessential singer/songwriter fare of Ashes & Fire and the slick arena stylings of last year’s Ryan Adams. Tonight at the seemingly over-capacity Forum, we started with Gimme Something Good, the lead track from Adams’ most recent effort. It was the first of several tracks lifted from the new album and the song’s rocked-up positivity set the tone for what was to come. Adams has a history of public crankiness, but in the last few years he’s become conspicuously relaxed. Tonight, there was no question the shaggy haired dude wearing a Misfits t-shirt ± fronting a stage flanked by comically huge guitar amps and a couple of pinball machines ± was having a fucking excellent time. And it was hard not to join him there. The sound at The Forum was near flawless and Adams gained solid support from his backing band The Shining. They weren’t overly flashy, nor should they have been, but there was a palpable alliance between
everyone on stage, which crucially lifted the overall experience. The setlist roamed broadly through his 15-year solo career, ticking a lot of boxes without feeling like a bestof set. Among the set’s many highlights was a cover of Natalie Prass’ My Baby Don’t Understand Me and an impromptu rendition of Happy Birthday sung for a crowd member. Support act Jenny Lewis returned to supply Emmylou Harris’ harmony parts on Oh My Sweet Carolina. It was achingly sweet, tickling the romantic side of even the most reticent onlookers. The night ended with Come Pick Me Up; a clawing breakup song that’s lost none of its heartbreaking edge. Though, with Adams in such a good mood it felt less like a vicious attack and more a triumphant pledge to keep moving forward. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY LOVED: Guitars. Lots of them. HATED: Mondays. DRANK: Heavily.
BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
LOVED: Victorious. HATED: Victoria’s bitter weather. DRANK: Victoria’s finest.
BATPISS Howler, Saturday July 18 Despite the evening’s cold and wet nature, an army of denim wearing, tattooed women and men rammed the doors of Howler to see local sludge punk trio Batpiss launch their new album Biomass. People who dripped in early to see The Electric Guitars were blasted by the band’s loud and powerful sound. By the end of the show they had the attention of the whole room with their supersonic garage tunes, reminiscent of Jay Reatard under the influence of LSD. Local veterans Deep Heat were next to hit the stage. The personal highlight of their set of Wipers-meets-Sonic Youth sounding classics was watching drummer Katie Harrigan slaying it behind the tubs, not missing a beat and nailing every fill. Main support was filled by Deaf Wish, whose presence on the bill was not only a rarity but also an honour to witness. It’s great to see this band still kicking arse so far into their career, which has seen them complete a number of international tours and release music through highly esteemed US label Sub Pop. By now, the room was packed full of adoring fans and a Chinese whisper suggested tonight was going to be a Batpiss show like no other. When they hit the stage,
visual projections illuminated the band and the screen behind the stage, displaying the new album’s artwork being animated. Not a single eye in the room was cast anywhere but the stage as the band performed tracks from Biomass and their cherished first record Nuclear Winter. The crowd were in awe as Thomy Sloane’s bass blasted out of its cabinet like a freight train carrying explosives into the firey pits of hell. The show progressively got more chaotic, peaking with final song Loose Screws, which drove many audience members to jump from the stage it as if it were a tall building, and compelled the two stars of the song’s film clip into a homosexual embrace live on stage. What a glorious moment it was. BY YUKON FUCOV
LOVED: Thomy Sloane’s bass. HATED: D-Bag bouncers. DRANK: All night.
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1. Trash Or Treasure KERBSIDE COLLECTION 2. Tinkerbox SPOONBILL 3. Twelve Reasons To Die II ADRIAN YOUNGE AND GHOSTFACE KILLAH 4. The Epic KAMASI WASHINGTON 5. Instrumentals 2015 FLYING SAUCER ATTACK 6. Jason Lowe JASON LOWE 7. Every Fuckin Day LOLAWOLF 8. The Rough Guide To Blues Legends BARBECUE BOB 9. Erosion RINGS AROUND SATURN 10. Mad Love EP GENA ROSE BRUCE
HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Changes 7” RSD PIC DISC DAVID BOWIE 2. Bowie In Berlin DVD DAVID BOWIE 3. Hours LP/BOOKLET DAVID BOWIE 4. Scary Monsters PIC DISC LP DAVID BOWIE 5. Sorrow 7” PIC DISC DAVID BOWIE 6. Space Oddity 180g LP DAVID BOWIE 7. Zeit 77-79 CD BOX DAVID BOWIE 8. Kingdom Come RSD 7” DAVID BOWIE 9. Earthling 180g LP DAVID BOWIE 10. Glass Spider Live 2LP DAVID BOWIE
T ACurrents M E(Modular/Universal) IMPAL A “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but the ones most responsive to change.” It’s a misquote often attributed to Charles Darwin, and it’s an idea to which Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker seems acutely attuned on the project’s third LP Currents. Psych rock has been the tag attributed to the band up to now, but would you expect such an accomplished band as Tame Impala to trundle out the same smack as before? “They say people never change, but that’s bullshit,” Parker sings defiantly on Yes I’m Changing, as guitars make way for more electronic (read: dance and pop) elements than on any Tame Impala release thus far. There are a few notable exceptions, such as the record’s emotional tipping point Eventually and the
goofy disco-funk number The Less I Know the Better. Parker’s love of ’90s Michael Jackson shows in Love/ Paranoia, while Gossip recalls Moon Safari-era Air and Past Life gets deep into dream-pop territory. There’s no big rock number in the vein of Desire Be, Desire Go or Elephant, but the addition of one doesn’t feel like it would be a good idea. In fact, this is the most coherent Tame Impala release yet. These are the times, people: some of the best Australian music is being made right here, right now. Well, in Fremantle, to be precise. Currents is the sound of Parker dropping his guard and embracing everything he loves about great pop music. PAUL McBRIDE
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Oprah Winfrey (DJ Set) official after party going down at New Guernica, but you didn’t hear it from me ;) WAVVES Way Too Much (Warner) The down-stroke blast of Way Too Much is pretty gnarly, but the whole singing about getting wasted is pretty borezo at this stage, yeah? Also Wavves smanged this on SoundCloud early without Warner’s permission apparently. I’m sure this will end well for all involved. Like, did he see what happened with JEFF The Brotherhood and think, “Sweet. Sign me up for some of that.” THE RUBENS Hoops (Ivy League) I like the hand-clap snare, but everything here feels like Hozier mumbling out a demo for a track destined for discarding. That might be too much of a slight, because Hozier fucking sucks. The Rubens almost come up with something memorable with the vocal hook, but it falls short to resemble a weak imitation of weak music, lacking that idiosyncratic vocal spark.
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1. Slow Gum FRASER A. GORMAN 2. Something More Than Free JASON ISBELL 3. Bully HIGH TENSION 4. Oh Inhuman Spectacle METHYL ETHEL 5. Marlon Williams MARLON WILLIAMS 6. Why Make Sense? HOT CHIP 7. Nothing Has Changed DAVID BOWIE 8. Turns Into Stone THE STONE ROSES 9. Bad News Boys THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW 10. Push The Sky Away NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS FROM SPLENDOUR ARTISTS 1. Keep I’LLS 2. Zond POND 4. Test & Recognise SEEKAE 5. Just One Of The Guys JENNY LEWIS 6. Hey Jane SPIRITUALIZED 7. The Moment TAME IMPALA 8. Lonesome Street BLUR 9. I Can’t Lose MARK RONSON 10. Gimme Something Good RYAN ADAMS
BEAT’S TOP TEN FUNNY SONGS
1. Funny Little Man APHEX TWIN 2. That’s Not Really Funny EELS 3. Not That Funny FLEETWOOD MAC 4. Funny BLACK LIPS 5. Funny How Time Slips Away WILLIE NELSON 6. Ain’t It Funny MARVIN GAYE 7. My Funny Valentine MILES DAVIS 8. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore THE SMITHS 9. He’s Funny That Way BILLIE HOLIDAY 10. Back at the Funny Farm MOTORHEAD
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY JULY 22 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • johnny marr + flyying colours Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $80.00.
• catfish & the bottlemen + big white Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
• coq roq wednesday - feat: mr thom +
joybot + agent 86 + blaberunner Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm.
• florence & the machine Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm.
• fnr follow no rules + for pluto + chasing
alice & shadows at bay Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• emma heeney + ten gallon head + tall
buildings Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
• fail the abstract + amethyst close + xure Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• next - feat: left for wolves + driven to
the verge + nemoya Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
6:30pm. $15.00.
• oolluu + pelorus + trigital Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
• pea & ham soup + slow fires + peach
happening Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
• phat whore + strings for belts + two di’s +
james frances & the bad men Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• frank society Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.
• postblue + maybe + platinum rat Grace Darling
• girl crazy + cable ties + shrimpwitch Bar
• riot! riot! riot! Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• klo + martin king + felicity yang Northcote
perkins + belle roscoe + sean marchetti + billy miller (70’s band - the ferrets) Prince
8:30pm. $7.00.
Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15.00.
• ms mr 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• officer parrot + squid nebula + dougal
james Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $8.00.
• rich davies + anne of the wolves Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• the mary goldsmiths + keggin + sid o’neil Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• the saxons + the sunset club + heloise +
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.00.
• saints unplugged - feat: british india + tex
Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $50.00.
• sex on toast + the venusians + dj am radio The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• sisters doll + kiss the vyper + stangers in
town + dangerous curves Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• tomb hanx + fuzzsucker + born horny Yah • wolf alice Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $50.90.
• we, tigers + james moloney & the mad dog
• bat country + sam mcauliffe + the man who
harrisons + lalic Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
$5.00.
• who cares fundraiser ft. mangelwurzel
care + the shababb + habits dj Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. $10.00.
SPLENDOUR SIDESHOW WRAP UP
Festivals in winter are cold and wet, there’s no room to sit and there’s lines for everything from going to the toilet to refilling your water bottle. Splendour In The Grass starts up again this Friday, so this week’s your last chance to see your favourite artists while avoiding the inevitable mass of posers on their way to see Mark Ronson. Catch Catfish and the Bottlemen at the Corner on Wednesday July 22, Azealia Banks at the Prince Bandroom this Sunday July 26, Wolf Alice at The Corner on Thursday July 23, Years & Years play Max Watt’s on Thursday July 30, and Marmozets play Ding Dong Lounge this Saturday July 25. There’s a fucking mountain more, so best check the Splendour website for a full list of sideshows.
Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
tiarni cane Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00. • vinyl splinters + the eggs + t.v. Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
wasn’t there Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. • checkerboard Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. • jawa pita Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. • lieder des abschieds Melbourne Recital Centre,
West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
• tim woodz Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• tingy celestino Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 8:30pm.
• whole lotta blues - feat: southbound
snake charmers + brendan forward Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY JULY 24
Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• melbourne improvisers collective Uptown
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• big easy soul sessions Carlton Club, Melbourne
• midnight express - feat: prequel + edd
• agents of rock (cd launch) + 4tress + mr
Cbd. 8:00pm.
• bohjass 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• cathy menezes Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
fisher + grant camov Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
10:00pm.
• o’hara, spiegl & pantazis + o’hara + spiegl
& pantazis Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• dizzy’s big band with peter hearne Dizzy’s Jazz
• rugcutters - feat: the skellingtons Bella
• merle street jazz band Ruby’s Music Room,
• standing tall Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.
Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00. Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
• open mic night Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. • starr-schulz & friends - feat: deborah
kayser + rod waterman Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • damon smith & the quality lightweights +
nick batterham Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • danny walsh banned duo Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• lamb boulevard + timber bones + atlas Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• melbourne ukulele kollective beginner’s
class Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • open mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • open mic Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm. • open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm. • open mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. • oskar herbig John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. • toby graham album launch + co-cheol + bheli Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.00. • wine, whiskey, women - feat: brash the empire + freida le bjorn Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY JULY 23
Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $16.00. $14.00.
• steinway piano series Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $17.50.
• cuntz + barbiturates + teaser pony Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
• disparo + starving millions + weedy
gonzalez + drain life + retrace + ding dong death hole Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $8.00. • ed kuepper Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $22.00.
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• biddlewood + the black harrys + hills
hoist + phatsquad Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
$5.00.
• busy kingdom + i am mine + neon queen +
• captain spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
• timbalero thursdays La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. • yuja wang plays prokofiev + diego matheuz Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm. $30.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • andy white & the band of gold + danika
smith Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• baby blue & the homesick howlers + emilee
south The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • backstage blues night - feat: andy layfield band + dj barry maxwell + house band the shake shack boogie house band Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.
• david cosma Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm. • gordon holland + neighbour + jms
harrison + mara threat Reverence Hotel, Footscray.
8:00pm. $5.00.
• kate burke & ruth hazleton + luke plumb +
the john flanagan trio Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
6:00pm. $15.00.
• linus wilson & the countless numbers +
Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
chris commerford Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.
8:30pm. $15.00.
9:00pm. $10.00.
+ tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.
• alex elbery & the strangers Sooki Lounge,
+ sarged & the nuked Mr Boogie Man Bar,
• better than the wizards + sons of daniel +
7:00pm.
• kinematic Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
• blackwitch + the balls + dixon cider
Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
• babba Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:30pm. $34.00.
cherry dj Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. • calling utopia + follow no rules + shadows at bay + suburban prophets Whole Lotta Love,
• the good egg thursdays - feat: henry who
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS Belgrave. 8:30pm.
stitcher + never the empress Mr Boogie Man
• krista polvere Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.
cat canteri + rough river Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• malcura + terra + gareth wiecko + amy
pollock 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10.00. • open mic night Station 59, Richmond. 8:00pm. • open mic nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm. • paul coleman & scott darlow Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.
+ van walker & the heartbrokers + dj bitchy Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • picture perfect + honeybone + my piranha Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
• poprocks with dr phil smith Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• roadhouse the band Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm. • rule of thirds (album launch) + tol +
miss destiny + grotto + mollusc Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• running young Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $8.00.
• sons of rico + jim lawrie + greeves Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• spencer p jones Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.
• tartarus + mourning + requiem + bury me in
autumn Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $6.00.
• the king khan & bbq show + mark sultan
+ the living eyes + pink tiles Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $40.00.
• the saxons + sulks Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.
Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the society of beggars + smoke stack rhino
9:30pm.
• twin ages + stone revival + the spitting
• dan lethbridge & the campaigners + chris
pickering Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $10.00. • dj kez Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • ebony hare & dash 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. • einsteins toyboys Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
+ battlesick Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
swallows + all the animals Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• video games live Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $50.00.
• watt’s on presents Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• finishing school Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:30pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• fraser a. gorman Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong.
• anna powell & jono Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne
• fredrick kpakpo addo + little foot +
• brunswick street to bourbon street - feat:
$10.00.
8:00pm. $13.00.
afrolankan drumming system Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• gena rose bruce Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00.
Cbd. 8:30pm.
bob sedergreen & adam rudegeair + myles mumford Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $20.00.
• hey hey it’s friday - feat: astro boys Royal
• congo bongo in the island village - feat:
• hot box + djs fletch + flash gorgeous +
• dana czarski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
flashgif + yung jacu$$1 & schoolboy d + baby bonus Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.
$5.00.
• joeys coop + modesty + dj mermaid Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
• johnnie & the johnnie jonnies Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• king wolf + backwood creatures + emilee
south Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• la danse macabre - feat: brunswick
massive resident djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
9:00pm.
• luca brasi John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• the railway gang string band Railway Hotel,
• nat allison ft. spyder Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.
• the stragglers + ej van geest Drunken Poet,
• nothing hurts robot & the escapades Sooki
Fitzroy North. 8:30pm.
Lounge, Belgrave. 9:30pm.
• papa pilko & the bin rats + the perfections
8:00pm.
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mike sax dj + dekdrum The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. 6:00pm.
• green line grooves for world ranger
day - feat: yirrmal marika + the lalibelas & amaru tribe + dj max crawdaddy Gasometer
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• li-wei qin + adam chalabi + kristian chong Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $50.00.
• meet. eat. beats. - feat: dj andre le vogue The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• nicholas costello + amber isles + king
puppy & the carnivore Little & Olver, Fitzroy.
10:00pm. $10.00.
• pilot Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00. • roger clark quartet with katerina
mysnova Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $14.00.
THE THIN GREEN LINE WORLD RANGER DAY FUNDRAISER
CERES
If you’ve never heard the term emo pop, well, that’s probably pretty good because it mostly sucks. Ceres, however, are of a different blend, taking power pop progressions and giving them a dark edge that hits close to home. Shed a tear with them as Ceres play The Old Bar this Saturday July 25. • stephen magnusson trio + simon barker Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• the lyrical + jason lowe Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• the raah project + tulalah + mike gurrieri
dj Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $25.00. • what the funk fridays - feat: blts Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
• you’re my thrill - feat: wendy matthews Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45.00.
• yuja wang plays prokofiev + diego matheuz Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm. $30.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
• daryl braithwaite Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00.
• daveys fridays - feat: rob & tarquin +
superfly djs Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.
9:00pm. $10.00.
• dj billy casanova Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• dave graney & the mistly Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. $10.00.
• dear thieves Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 2:00am. $7.00. • edward r Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• everything everything & urban cone Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $55.90.
• fuzzsucker + the marquis + girlcrazy +
sunbeam sound machine dj’s Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
• garry gray & the sixth circle + the blown
clones Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • greeves The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. • john kendall & the shot glasses Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
• kill dirty youth + littlefoot + overdoze +
charm Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5.00. • luke brennan + palm springs + shima Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
• magic america + black heart death cult Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• major leagues + redspencer + good
• emilia & the scarletts Wesley Anne, Northcote.
morning John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00. • marmozets Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd.
• lost ragas Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.
• melbourne ska collective Whole Lotta Love,
• dj knave knixx Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 10:00pm. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• maddie duke Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• moonee valley drifters Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• patrick wilson & the bare river queens +
borris b Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • paul reid Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. • perry keyes + bernie hayes The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm.
• the drunken poachers Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm.
• the stillsons Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
SATURDAY JULY 25
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • 4 local bands - feat: tom stevenson band
+ dec mckinnon & the knockabouts + rick murphy + noise set Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. • a nightmare on elm street 2 + harlott + cherry dj Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $13.00. • alex taylor experience + shewolf Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
• allysha joy + thhomas & alex + madlib
mondays Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• bang - feat: endless heights + ambleside +
broken Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
$25.00.
• blackwitch + muscle car + wolfpack +
laserbrains + wing attack plan r Brunswick
9:00pm. $42.00.
Brunswick East. 2:00pm.
• mick dog’s boneyard Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • ouch my face (album launch) + loose
tooth + dark fair + stockades Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• pheasant pluckers + jack howard +
doubleblack + dj jeff leppard Retreat Hotel,
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• saturdays r covered - feat: radio star Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
• tankerville + loobs + shiny coin John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.
• tek tek ensemble Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
• the arbiter + alkira + headless + bloodline
+ blunt shovel + requiem Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• the deadlips + chasing lana + entropy +
surrender the sun + quarterdrive Prince
Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $14.30.
• the ultimate ‘the rolling stones vs the
• cold heart Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
• tigers jaw + georgia maq + shiny coin
power Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• bashka (dance music from the dirt
streets) + dj volga tunca Bella Union Bar,
Carlton. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• cannonball Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
• jamaica jump-up #4 - feat: mohair slim +
johnny longshot + top ranking + systa bb + fabulous fez + solomon + miss fee Gasometer
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• jazz notes Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• junco jambalaya - feat: damon smith
& adam coad + barbara blaze dj + gogo goddesses The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. • kerbside collection + karate boogaloo + ennio styles + ari rose + paprika Bar Open,
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 10:00pm. $8.00.
• tango mundo Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
• the browning song cycle Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $38.00.
• the groovetones Harts Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm.
• the pacific belles Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
• yuja wang plays prokofiev + diego matheuz Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm. $30.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • backwood creatures Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
• central rain Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• davidson brothers Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • dirt river Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• harrison storm + tom west + baby blue Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• karaoke with zoe Customs House Hotel,
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• mick thomas & the roving commission +
• kimba griffith septet Paris Cat Jazz Club, • meet. eat. beats. - feat: aaron arthur +
Williamstown. 9:00pm.
jemma & the clifton hillbillies Caravan Music
duncan funk The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • mel searle sextet Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.
• oliver’s army Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.
• michael gate Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
• perry keyes + bernie hayes Flying Saucer Club,
• phila para Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• rob snarski with shane o’mara + jess
9:00pm. $20.00.
6:00pm.
• sam keevers quartet + simon barker Uptown
Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20.00.
7:00pm.
Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $18.00.
ribeiro Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $24.00.
Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• sam linton-smith + lovers & madmen Lomond
Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
• starboard cannons The Eastern, Ballarat East.
• scott tinkler + simon barker duo Uptown Jazz • shab-e-tarrannoom 2015 - feat: taqi
khan + musa sahar + altaf raees + aman mohammadi + anwar sarwari + murtaza jafari + reza fazeli + sayed zaman + tahir khwari Drum Theatre, Dandenong. 8:00pm. $20.00. • shanty town Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. • simon barker drum workshop Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
8:00pm. $10.00.
• victoria old time jam session - feat: craig
woodward + warren rough & friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
SUNDAY JULY 26
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • “communication - the marc hunter
beatles’ event - feat: the beatlez tribute show + emotional rescue the rolling stones tribute show Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. • the vendettas + two headed dog + a
• cool death records residency - feat:
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
pierre baroni + simon laxton & lady blades
$15.00.
grizzly + slowly slowly + self talk + dj shit laksa Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. • child + sun god replica + tttdc + grindhouse Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.
Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
6:00pm. $12.00.
shane diiorio band Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
5:00pm.
black cross + maniaxe + abraxxas Whole Lotta
• slow grind fever #27 - feat: dj richie1250 +
boca vista + birthday girl + tom fowkes + tiani cane 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. • the gun barrel straights & danny walsh banned Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • the lost & lonesome (label of love presents) - feat: the zebras + milk teddy + footy + ciggie witch + tim richmond + monnone alone The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. • the rebelles Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm.
• ceres + the pretty littles + sincerely
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• whole lotta thrash - feat: hordes of the
• the flying so high-o’s + the saxons + del
Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• brunny saturday arvo sessions - feat:
World Ranger Day commemorates rangers killed or injured in the line of duty, and celebrates the work they do protecting the world’s natural resources. This Friday July 24, The Thin Green Line Foundation is marking World Ranger Day with a fundraiser down at The Gasometer, with Declan Kelly’s Diesel n Dub, Emma Donovan, Radical Son and more playing across the night. Head down to The Gasometer from 7pm this Friday and lend your support for World Ranger Day.
$20.00.
gazillion angry mexicans Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy.
6:00pm. $13.00.
Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
• tired lion + darts + pretty city Shebeen,
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• sunday sessions - feat: various artists Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
• the bloomin’ heathers + the bona fide
travellers Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. • the drunken poachers Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
• the stetson family + dan parsons + dj david
heard Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm. $15.00. • tommy castles & band Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
MONDAY JULY 27
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • death cab for cutie + say hi 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• lepers & crooks Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00. • mundane mondays - feat: loobs + lazertits
+ department Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• orlando furious + spike – shima + worng &
films of christina tester Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
8:00pm. $6.00.
• paul williamson’s hammond combo Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.
• shrimpwitch Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm.
MARICOPA WELLS
It’s the final show of the Maricopa Wells July Revidency. That means it’s your last chance to head over to Footscray to see the boys bring an acoustic twist to their own brand of soulful melodic rock. Joining them will be The Saxons and The Lost Day all for the low low price of nothing at all. So get down to the Reverence Hotel on Sunday July 26 at 3pm. Don’t miss it.
songbook” - feat: joe creighton + mick pealing + michael oliphant + alex formosa baudo + mike doyle + tracy kingman + cres crisp Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $25.00. • #jdfuturelegends presents gengahr + velociraptor + iohyou dj’s Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.
• airway lanes Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.
• band wars (semi finals 1) Musicland, Fawkner. 1:00pm. $10.00.
• best coast + totally mild Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $49.00.
• byo vinyl session Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 4:00pm. • chapter ray + jeffry’s cabbage + marc
stucus Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $10.00. • dead + clowns + curly wurm Bridge Hotel,
Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 2:00pm. $28.00.
• tragic earth + soulenikoes + logic defies
logic Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
$6.00.
• the districts Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $39.00.
• the mutual appreciation society - feat:
neighbour & leigh dallimore Retreat Hotel,
Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• the vaccines & palma violets Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $60.90.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• all day fritz Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• b3 breakout 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• benjamin skepper Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
• dana czarski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
• clunk orchestra Newport Bowling Club, Newport.
• ella’s live swing quartet Ruby’s Music Room,
• esstee big band Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• siegel selleck blues concerto - feat:
5:30pm. $35.00. 5:00pm.
• huanchaco & tara walsh 303, Northcote. 3:00pm. $5.00.
• kultura kosmica 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. $12.00.
• mjc presents origami - feat: adam simmons Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
6:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
johanna selleck + corky siegel Melbourne
Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $35.00.
• the daryl mckenzie jazz orchestra The Apartment, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
TUESDAY JULY 28
Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $12.00.
• musical theatre open mic night Ruby’s Music
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• nadav Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 1:00pm.
• bernadeta & scott griffiths Ruby’s Music Room,
• death cab for cutie + say hi 170 Russell, • glenn’s 31st birthday - feat: summer blood
+ cosmic kahuna + young offenders Bendigo
Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• i am duckeye + balloons kill babies +
chico flash + family jam funtime show spectacular Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. • jarrow + biddlewood + edith lane + woo who Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. • jeffers limit + tariffs + gaza stripper Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.50.
• ruth roshan & tango noir St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 3:00pm. $25.00.
• soul sundays - feat: moreland city
soul review + jean-claude sam dan + dj manchild Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • sunday soultrain - feat: dylan boyd trio Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 2:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • annexe arts (sunday session no.1) - feat:
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
• essence 2 - feat: gemma turvey + anna
orzech & jeremy blackman Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
• i fagiolini - feat: andrew schultz Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $52.00.
• irish session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • loreto mandeville hall toorak annual
music concert Hamer Hall, Southbank. 7:30pm. $35.00. • peter voglis Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
• midnight sol + francisco flood + robo
me & the elephant + the midnight turtles
house Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • minimum wage - feat: hills hoist Public Bar,
Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $12.00.
• bakersfield glee club Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• osborne againe + hot palms + matthew
• beersoaked sundays - feat: jess ribeiro
• blur + jamie t Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
North Melbourne. 4:00pm.
dreams Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. • palma violets Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd.
5:00pm.
band + empat lima + jealous husband Old Bar,
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• exile in melbourne - feat: lepers & crooks
6:00pm.
• fitzroyalty - feat: chris pickering +
Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 4:00pm.
• duncan phillips & the long stand Union Hotel,
heart The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $10.00. • the starliners Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm. • tigers jaw + georgia maq + jess locke
• elle et la contrebasse Wesley Anne, Northcote. • elwood blues club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• flash company Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. • flying engine string band &
johnny cant dance cajun Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. • flying engine stringband The Mercat, Melbourne. 12:00pm.
• ken maher + al wright & tony hargreaves Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
• maricopa wells + the lost day + the saxons Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.
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Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $66.00.
+ colouring cats Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
heather stewart Little & Olver, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • greg steps, mitchell ward + greg steps + mitchell ward Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • hollow hounds + slim jeffries Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
• mirando + tom lee richards + ange stella Dandenong Workers Club, Dandenong. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• mø & elliphant Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $45.90.
• the wombats Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $73.00.
• michael meeking & the lost souls Yarra Hotel,
• tuesdays are fridays Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
• michelle gardiner Customs House Hotel,
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• moosejaw rifle club Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
• jacky winter Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Abbotsford. 4:00pm.
WANTED BANDS/ACTS WANTED for the Melbourne Artist Showdown. Including prizes from ESP Guitars, Dean Markley Strings, Live Photos, Studio time, PR Package and more. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details. STYLE COUNCiL COVER BAND FORMiNG. Vocals, guitar and keys wanted. Phn: 0433 726 449
• cheap kraken rum night - feat: the
crawdaddy Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5.00.
• cherry blues - feat: phil para band + dj max
• the spheres + miso + cold hands warm
Club, Richmond. 6:30pm. $9.00.
shakedown shakes + electric wallpaper + greenmount Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00. • death cab for cutie + say hi 170 Russell,
Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
9:00pm. $30.00.
• sharp sundays - feat: city sharps + new age
• richmond music academy open mic Dizzy’s Jazz
Williamstown. 3:00pm.
5:00pm.
• nick saxon + hollow drums The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
• open mic finale Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 1:00pm.
• open mic/jam Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
• starboard cannons Post Office Hotel, Coburg.
4:00pm.
• old hat Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• tago mago open mic Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. • taste of indie tuesday - feat: the kat “o”
duo + nina & greg + mr. greedy Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 7:30pm.
4:30pm.
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THE PUSH PRESENT
ACCESS ALL AGES WITH RUTH MIHELCIC There’s a bunch of good things happening this week whether you’re a muso or involved in the music industry. The FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands continues on across the state with no less than ten battle events being held this month, and a whopping 21 events coming up in August. If you’re in a young band (with members under 25 years old) then you’d be crazy to miss it. The winners from each heat will go on to play at their regional finals, where those winners will then play for an amazing prize pack worth over $11k at Melbourne’s Moomba Festival next March. Show support for your local competing bands by getting along to an event. You can find all the event details on our website www.thepush.com.au. Check out the gig guide or the dedicated FReeZA Push Start 2015 Series gig page. In other competition news, triple j Unearthed High 2015 is still open. They’re looking for the best high school act in the country to follow in the prestigious footsteps of acts like Japanese Wallpaper, Lunatics on Pogosticks, ASTA, Stonefield and more. The best entries will be played on national radio, and the winner will be flown to triple j to record, remix or master a track. You’ll also get professional music advice from a top Australian act and their manager, and triple j will come to your school. If you’re a songwriter, in a band, a producer or MC, then enter by uploading an original piece of music to www. triplejunearthed.com by August 3. The new Creative Victoria Music Works Grants have recently been announced, providing support of between $2,500 and $75,000 for music projects and programs across all contemporary genres and in all areas across the state. Applications opened just last week and will close on August 12. You can find more info at www.creative.vic.gov.au. If you hadn’t heard, Telstra Road to Discovery applications are currently open. The program gives artists the flexibility to achieve their goals their way. Alongside a $15,000 development grant, two winners are given an all-expenses paid trip to the USA, local gigs, ongoing education and the opportunity to work with industry insiders to help them kick-start their music career. Applications close August 23 and you can get more info at www. beinvolved.com.au/telstraroadtodiscovery. Ever thought about getting involved with SYN? Anyone aged 12-25 can make radio, TV, digital media or work behind the scenes. The first step is to attend a free one hour Info Session, which is also compulsory if you want to book for a radio training course. The upcoming info session is on Thursday July 23. Go to www.syn.org.au/getinvolved to RSVP your place. If you haven’t already done so then get over to our site and subscribe to our fabulous monthly Push Newsletter. You’ll get the latest info on music news, programs, comps and a few great opportunities delivered straight to your inbox (no spam). You can also send us your news to share on our Opportunities page. Just email push@thepush. com.au.
ALL AGES GIG GUIDE FRiDAY JULY 24 • YAC Winter Series of Movies - St Arnaud w/ The film: Paddington at St Arnaud Town Hall, 40 Napier Street, St Arnaud, 7.30pm-10.30pm, Free, www.facebook.com/ngYAC, AA • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands Cardinia heat: Santamental Music Comp at Pakenham Hall, 6.30pm-11.00pm, $10 presale, $12 door or $10 in costume, www.facebook.com/ cardinafreeza, AA
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THOUSANDS CONTRIBUTED TO CREATIVE CONSULTATION
Thousands of Victorians provided input during a fiveweek consultation process for Victoria’s first creative industries strategy. 1000 took part in workshops on the challenges and opportunities of the creative/cultural sectors, while another 8,500 contributed ideas online. Themes to emerge included the value of collaboration across disciplines, the need to invest in new ideas, research and development, the importance of arts education, and putting diversity and inclusion at the heart of the strategy. The Creative Industries Taskforce, led by Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler, will now develop a draft strategy to present to the Government by the end of the year. Victoria’s creative industries contribute almost $23 billion to the State’s economy and support over 200,000 jobs. To stay up to date with the strategy development process visit www.creative.vic.gov.au.
PPCA DEADLINE APPROACHING
The PPCA’s deadline for current distribution is August 31. If you are an Australian recording artist whose music is being broadcast or publicly performed, or you hold the copyright in recordings being played, you may be eligible to share in licence fees collected by the PPCA from over 70,000 businesses across the country that play recordings and videos. Last year PPCA collected almost $33 million for registered artists and labels. If you are already PPCA-registered, you must advise them of which releases you’re eligible to claim on (this is not the record company’s responsibility). Josh Pyke bought all his studio gear from PPCA cheques, Paul Dempsey puts the money into his music. More info ppca.com.au.
APRA’S $120K PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)’s Professional Development Awards (PDAs) are back. Eight winners get $15,000 worth of career support. Sponsor Audio Technica is also giving away a mic and headphone pack. The eight are chosen from six categories: popular contemporary (three), country, jazz, classical, film and television, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. This year the Smugglers of Light Foundation (set up after the violent street death of composer Nigel Westlake’s 21 year old hip hop son Eli) has created the Indigenous Music and Media award worth $12,000. Applications close 5pm on August 25 at apraamcos.com.au/pda.
VCAT SETS PALACE HEARING DATE
The VCAT hearing over the Palace Theatre site is September 28. In the meantime, at a July 14 Future Melbourne Committee meeting, musician and activist Chris thanked the planning team for the way it coordinated venues for Melbourne Music Week. He suggested that the Committee look at the Palace Theatre (which had a “style and scale no other venue in the City has,”) as a future venue for MMW. His other suggestion, that the Town Hall be used for smaller acts with a box office set up on Collins Street, aroused the Deputy Lord Mayor’s interest. In the meantime, a source tells us that UK’s Mint Group is still interested in buying the Palace site from Jinsan to redevelop it as a hub.
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COACHELLA HIGHEST GROSSING FEST AT $84M
California’s Coachella is the world’s highest grossing festival. Figures just released show that over two weekends (April 10-12, April 17-19 with the same line-ups), it set a new record for earnings (a staggering $84,264,264) and attendance (198,000 tickets). Tickets were priced $375±$899.
THINGS WE HEAR * After closing its last Australian store in 2010, is HMV planning a return to this country? * Is Apple Music to be investigated for charging an extra 30% on apps by rivals, and refusing to advise customers they can buy these elsewhere or from the rivals’ websites? * Nervo are in talks with Simon Cowell to appear on his Ultimate DJ TV show, which launches early 2016, but have not yet decided in what capacity. * Midway through Johnny Marr’s four-song encore at Powerstation in Auckland, the city’s favourite musical son Neil Finn strolled on. The two worked on Finn’s 7 Worlds Collide project, Marr called him one of the best songwriters around. Finn played guitar on I Fought the Law and took lead vocals on The Smiths’ There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.
* Court papers allege that Birdman and Young Thug conspired to kill Lil Wayne when the rapper’s tour bus was shot up in April. Wayne and Birdman are beefing because Wayne wants out of his deal with Cash Money Records and refuses to release his album The Carter V until it’s sorted out. Little wonder that the two clashed at Miami night club LIV. Wayne was performing onstage when Birdman and his entourage allegedly threw drinks at him, causing the club to close early. * Slipknot have long been pissed off with Axl Rose disrespecting his audiences by making them wait for up to three hours at times. Corey Taylor recalls that when Slipknot were with Guns N’Roses at a European festival he got revenge by sneaking into the backstage area and playing on Rose’s piano… with his penis. * Aussie musician Arundel is relocating to Germany this month. Since 2010, his records have had airplay in Europe. * Maroon 5’s shows in Beijing and Shanghai in September were axed after Chinese authorities discovered they tweeted Happy Birthday to the Dalai Lama.
NEW AUSSIE PLATFORM ACTCESS TO LAUNCH
Jeff Martin, leader of Canada’s four-million selling The Tea Party, has set up the new Riverhouse Studios in Byron Bay in a 100-acre rainforest, to produce acts and bands. In 1993, Martin was the youngest producer of an EMI record (Tea Party’s Splendor Solis). Aside from digital and analogue gear in the studio, Martin offers an array of exotic instruments to use, including saz, cumbus, oud, sitar, sarod, hurdy gurdy, esraj, harmonium and a 1916 Gibson harp guitar. For all production and recording interest, contact Melissa Barrett at melissa@hummingbirdpr.com.au or 0410 478249. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 50
‘AMATEUR HOUR’ NEW ONLINE SHOW
Amateur Hour is a new half-hour arts and culture online show put together by singer songwriter Laura Imbruglia. It is a variety show bringing together Australian bands, visual artists, performers “and straight up weirdos.” Last year, fed up with the lack of Australian variety shows, Imbruglia posted on Facebook she wanted to make her own and asked if anyone wanted to join her. A crew of 30+ volunteers from five cities across many discipline resulted. Laura Jean hosts a cooking show. Ray Ahn (Hard-Ons) illustrates hilarious tour memoirs in real time and the trailer also shows Sarah Blasko, punk rockers Batpiss, cartoonist Lluis Fuzzhound, writer Clementine Ford, artist Celeste Potter and cult comedian Neil Hamburger. The first of the fortnightly series comes alive on Tuesday Sept 1 on www.amateurhour.tv. See facebook.com/amateurhourtv.
* On their North American tour, Foo Fighters have pissed off media by demanding that photographers hand over ownership of their images to the band following their initial publication. The Washington City Paper deemed it “exploitative” and refused to cover the show, while the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil got around it by sending a cartoonist.
* Just days before 50 Cent declared himself bankrupt because he lost a multi-million dollar sex tape case, he was seen celebrating his birthday at a club with wads of $100 notes amounting to $5,000 peeking out of his pockets.
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A man from Portland, Victoria, was fined and his equipment confiscated after being prosecuted for running a pirate radio station. He broadcast classic Australian rock on the 101.3FM frequency and faced Portland Magistrates Court.
ACT-cess is a new online music community database set up in Adelaide that “will include individuals, bands, groups and industry. It will be an easy to use, up to date service that will benefit communication, connectivity, awareness, accessibility, networking and in some cases, act autonomy within the music community and to its reach.” Before its October launch, it has started a fund raising campaign at www.pozible.com/project/193598. Those wanting to register to list their profile for free, email act-cess@bandtogetherinc.com.au
SPOTIFY UNVEILS MUSICAL MAP OF THE WORLD
Spotify unveiled Musical Map: Cities of the World, an interactive visual guide of how people listen to music in different cities around the world. It features 1,000 city-specific playlists that reflect their unique musical preferences; that is, songs listened a lot to in a city but not in other cities. Sydney loves producer Golden Features’ No One (featuring Thelma Plum), Brunswick in Melbourne is flipping over Hermitude, while Drapht is the bomb in Adelaide, Hobart and Perth, local act Conrad Sewell in Brisbane and SAFIA in their hometown Canberra. Urban and EDM seems to be most streamed and often in their own locale. In New York, it’s The Chainsmokers, in Berlin it is MIA, MC Nego do Borel in Rio de Janeiro, while London and Brooklyn dig Jamie xx. The map analyses 20 billion tracks listened to by Spotify users and updates every two weeks.
VICTORIAN CREATIVITY TO MARKET
Creative Victoria’s Marketing Innovation Fund announced $50,000 of grants to help five Victorian arts organisations take a creative approach to their marketing. They each get $10,000. Geelong’s Back to Back Theatre will elevate ensemble member Scott Price to in-house journalist to report on its activities. Footscray’s Western Edge Youth Arts will have a project focused around an interactive street performance where audiences will interact with performers both physically and online via a blog, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. North Fitzroy-based burlesque theatre company Finucane and Smith will develop a series of one minute webisodes based around its Salon shows in unique venues until December. The Koorie Heritage Trust will hold a video marketing campaign around the first exhibition at its new Federation Square location called The Aborigine is Present. For two weeks in November, North Melbourne’s Chamber Made Opera will run Intimately Epic in collaboration with local businesses. It will see Chamber Made compose contemporary opera works to be played in local business to accompany everyday activities, from buying a coffee to choosing a bunch of flowers.
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Together: New Zealand model Stella Maxwell, 24, confirmed she and Miley Cyrus are an item. Ill: Billy Zoom, 67, of US punk vets X will start chemo treatment for bladder cancer. He was treated for prostate cancer five years ago. Fans responded to a $50,000 crowd funding campaign for his expenses by throwing in $67,000. Ill: George Michael denies “highly inaccurate” reports by a family member he went to rehab for crack cocaine addiction. Arrested: a 26-year old Boston heavy metal fan, after he panicked passengers on a bus when he entered wearing metal garb. They thought his fake bullet belt was real and telephoned police he had a gun, which he didn’t. Jailed: AC/DC’s Phil Rudd is behind bars just weeks after being ordered to eight months of home detention, possibly because of a breach of the sentence. In Court: a 26-year old Victorian man was fined $3000 by Bendigo Magistrates’ Court and must behave for 12 month bond after being charged on trafficking charges. He was nabbed by sniffer dogs at the Above and Beyond festival with eight bags of speed, 20 ecstasy pills and seven MDMA caps. He insisted he bought the stuff for his seven companions and wasn’t trying to make a profit. In Court: Goulburn Local Court ordered a 29-year old local to 100 hours of community service for punching a security officer at Flamingo’s Nite Club after he tried to re-enter after being thrown out In Court: a Geelong man, 31, pleaded guilty to a number of charges at Geelong Magistrates Court over an incident where he tried to run down an off-duty bouncer in his 4WD after being refused entry to Rumors Nightclub. In Court: X Factor host Luke Jacobz disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined $700 after being convicted of drink driving. He blew 0.116 when pulled over in Moore Park, Sydney, in May. Jailed: DMX for six months for not paying $400,000 worth of child support. Investigating: US tax office IRS asked a Detroit court to demand that Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse provide income details for 2011 and 2012. Investigated: a coroner found B.B. King was not poisoned to death, as family members claimed, but as a result of Alzheimer’s disease and other physical conditions at the age of 89. Sued: Kendrick Lamar by New York photographer Giordano Cipriani for using his photo of a mother breastfeeding two babies on the cover of his The Blacker the Berry single allegedly without permission. Died: Kylie Greenlees, co-founder of MGM Distribution with husband Sebastian Chase (and avid supporter of indie acts and events) from cancer. Died: the body of former Angels road crew member turned youth worker Rodney Trigger, 64 was found by fire crews at his Newcastle home after smoke was seen billowing from inside. Died: Sugar Hill Records’ exec and Sugar Hill Gang member Joseph “Joey” Robinson Jr. from cancer. He was the son of late singer-songwriter Sylvia Robinson and Joe Robinson who founded the ground-breaking hip hop label. Died: Dave Somerville, 81, singer of ‘60s Canadian vocal band The Diamonds (Little Darlin’, Silhouettes) from cancer.
TORB PEDERSEN’S VOCAL SEMINAR
Vocal expert Torb Pedersen, founder of the acclaimed Torb Pedersen Institute, is holding four vocal seminars on how to increase your vocal range, sustain notes for longer, develop a personal style and prevent injuries. The two-hour sessions run for two weeks, starting on August 11, at Moorabbin’s Black Pearl Studios. Go to www.blackpearlstudios.com.au.