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Toe-tapping dance hall fun with urban blues and folk-rock, fronted by brother-and-sister songwriters Annie-Rose and Hugh Maloney.
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HOT TALK
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TOURING
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JOSH PYKE
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WHAT’S ON, FLIGHT
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ART OF THE CITY, THE COMIC STRIP, CALENDAR
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THE 2015 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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STORIES I WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON, ARTS REVIEWS
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OUT OF THE CLOSET, BEAT EATS
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GET EDUCATED
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THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, GREAZEFEST, TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES
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THE BAKEHOUSE PROJECT, OXJAM, MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW
THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION page 39
THE BAKEHOUSE PROJECT page 40
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WILLIAM BASINSKI, KNXLEDGE, THE PREATURES
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THE LAURELS, ABOVE KINGS, GLASFROSCH
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CORE/CRUNCH
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MUSIC NEWS
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LIVE
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK, SINGLES, CHARTS
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ALBUMS
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GIG GUIDE
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THE LOCAL, CROSSWORD
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THE SHADOW ELECTRIC TEAM TO TRANSFORM BRUNSWICK’S ESTONIAN HOUSE The creative team behind The Shadow Electric are set to transform the historic Estonian House (formerly the Marco Polo, and Western Cinemas) with Visions, a music and video collaboration series. For three days and nights The Shadow Electric’s creative directors and producers Jay Rayner and David Chestwig will relocate their 34-metre square cinema screen to Estonian House and combine it with musical performances to create incredibly atmospheric events such as the ones they’ve staged within the Abbotsford Convent with the likes of Kurt Vile, Mac De Marco and Courtney Barnett. Visions will showcase commissioned works from Teeth and Tongue, The Bombay Royale and Rat and Co. Visions will enable the opportunity of collaboration between musicians and visual artists, allowing them to develop a unique presentation and interpret their music visually on a grand scale. Furthermore, the venue will also host a rare live performance from Juice Rap News with Nazeem Hussain on warm-up duties. Visions will take place from Friday August 28 - Sunday August 30. All tickets on sale now via shadowelectric.com.au/visions.
FERDYDURKE ANNOUNCE 3R D B I R T H DAY CELEBRATIONS
TOTALLY MILD ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT PBS ROCK-ABYE BABY SESSION Forget The Wiggles, PBS are bringing live music to a family friendly environment that’s perfect for you and your baby sister. The latest session will feature Melbourne dream pop band Totally Mild. Now in its sixth year, Rock-A-Bye Baby is a no-frills, daytime show for families of all ages with an emphasis on sweet sounds instead of sugary drinks. Rock-A-Bye Baby goes down on Thursday August 6 at Fitzroy Town Hall, with free entry for children and the first 50 concession card holders.
RON SEXSMITH RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith is touring Australia with his band this November for the first time in six years. Having released his 14th studio album Carousel One to rave reviews in March, Ron’s shows will be eagerly anticipated by fans of dynamic performance and spine chilling vocals as he showcases two decades worth of classic song craftsmanship. The opportunity to see Ron Sexsmith and his band perform will be relished by long-time fans and tickets are sure to go quickly. Sexsmith will hit up the Caravan Music Club on Friday November 27 and Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 28. Tickets on sale now from tombowler.com.au. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 16
Ferdydurke are turning three, and they are celebrating their birthday in style. The night will feature music from Sleezy Raw, CC Disco, Edd Fisher & Simon TK, Midnight Tenderness, Prequel, Raaghe, and Chico G. There will also be free food and free barrelled cocktails. Ferdydurke’s third birthday party will be held on Thursday August 6. Ella Hooper
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.
Experimental German pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann will be bringing his updated take on classical music to Melbourne. Specialising in prepared piano, Hauschka places foreign objects into the body of a piano to coax new sounds from it. Carrying on the legacy from artists such as John Cage and merging it with contemporary collaborations, such as his work with Calexico, God’s Favourite Dog and Múm - Hauschka aims to bring classical piano into the 21st century. He will play the Melbourne Recital Centre on Tuesday, November 17.
THE PAPER KITES ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE SHOW The Paper Kites have announced an extensive national tour to celebrate the release of their latest album twelvefour, kicking off this October. The album is based around a theory that an artist’s creative peak is between the hours of midnight and 4am. So for two months the band’s vocalist Sam Bentley spent four hours every night working, penning 30 songs in his home studio. The band then travelled to Seattle to record with Grammy-nominated producer Phil Ek. Catch The Paper Kites at 170 Russell on Friday, October 23. Tickets on sale now through the venue.
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE ANNOUNCE 2015 MELBOURNE RETURN Splendour headliners Florence + The Machine have locked in a return to Australia later this year. The lady with the golden pipes, Florence Welch, is in town at the moment on the back of her new album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Catch her on Tuesday November 10 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Tickets via Ticketmaster.
EVELYN TO HOST XMAS EVEN
THE PEEP TEMPEL AND BATPISS TEAM UP FOR MELBOURNE SHOWS
XMAS EVEN returns for another year to celebrate Christmas and Melbourne’s live music scene. This year, the Evelyn will play host to the festivities that'll feature Even, Minibikes, Money For Rope, Sun God Replica, The Meanies and Tumbleweed. The annual event will span over the weekend of Saturday December 19 and Sunday December 20, and there’s a very strong chance that the bands will be premiering new songs with singles and merchandise available for sale on the day. Tickets available via Oztix.
The Peep Tempel and Batpiss have announced they will team up for two big nights this October. If Grand Final weekend in Melbourne isn’t quite big enough, The Peep Tempel and Batpiss have joined forces for a weekend of back to back co-headliner shows. They will be joined by Spinning Rooms and Devil Electric. The Peep Tempel and Batpiss will play Yah Yah’s on Friday October 2 and Cherry Bar on Saturday October 3 – head to the venue’s website for more details.
METHYL ETHEL ANNOUNCE EAST COAST TOUR Perth’s Methyl Ethel are hitting the East Coast of Australia to premiere their critically acclaimed debut release Oh Inhuman Spectacle in early September. 2015 has seen the band support San Cisco nationally across the country, win a WAM award for single Rogues as well as been named the top album of 2015 so far by The Herald Sun. This headline tour will see the band playing Melbourne on Friday September 4 at Shebeen. Supporting the band in Melbourne will be fellow Dot Dash band Sunbeam Sound Machine and Melbourne’s Good Morning. Full ticket details available at the Shebeen website.
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ALDOUS HARDING ANNOUNCES EAST COAST TOUR Fresh from a successful tour of the UK and Europe, Aldous Harding has announced she will hit the east coast for her first ever Australian headline tour, starting this August. While her self-titled debut album was released in her home of New Zealand almost a year ago, its more recent Australian release saw Harding invited to play the Sydney and Perth Festivals and Golden Plains, as well as support Tiny Ruins, Perfume Genius and Laura Jean. Aldous Harding will play The Gasometer with Palm Spring, on Wednesday August 12. Tickets are on sale through Oztix.
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JUICE RAP NEWS ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE LIVE SHOW Home grown YouTube sensations, Hugo Farrant and Giordano Nanni of Juice Rap News ( JRN), are bringing their controversial critique of mainstream media, politicians and other public figures, to the Melbourne stage at Shadow Electric. Created in a suburban backyard studio in Melbourne, Juice Rap News have revolutionised news delivery with a unique and riotous collision of radical satire, rigorous research, righteous beats, and razorsharp rhymes. Managing to gain over 13 million YouTube views and 100,000 subscribers to date, Juice Rap News is adored by a globe spanning and loyal cult following. They’ll play a show at Shadow Electric on Sunday August 30. For ticketing and more information, head to the Shadow Electric website.
SHIR MADNESS MELBOURNE JEWISH MUSIC F E S T I VA L ANNOUNCE 2015 PROGRAM Melbourne will host a celebration of Jewish music at the inaugural Shir Madness Melbourne this September. The festival will bring together 30 acts across five stages, spread over nine hours. Confirmed acts include Tal Ben Ari from Tel Aviv, Zusha direct from NYC, The Portnoy Brothers from Israel, Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, George Dreyfus AM, Tin Pan Orange, Monsieur Camembert, Lucky Oceans, Simon Tedeschi, Luke Howard with Leonard Grigoryan and The Alter Jazz Ensemble. The Song of Songs event will feature 15 Melbourne singers performing their favourite song by a Jewish composer. Performers include Archie Roach, Kate Ceberano, Shane Howard, Emily Lubitz, David Hobson, Ron Peno, and Jeff Lang. Shir Madness Melbourne will come to Classic Cinema, Gordon St. & Kadimah Hall, Elsternwick on Sunday September 6. Tickets are available through the festival’s website.
Handpicked by triple j Unearthed back in 2010 to play Splendour In The Grass, and invited back twice since, Jinja Safari have graced festival bills such as Big Day Out, Falls, Southbound and Bestival, as well as played sold out club shows both locally and overseas in London and New York. To celebrate the release of their latest single Find My Way, Jinja Safari are heading on a tour of the east coast, with a performance at Howler on Friday August 7. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win a double pass to the show, on us.
THE BAKEHOUSE PROJECT After taking out the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award - Facilitators Prize for their contributions to the Australian music industry and creative arts practice, Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean have released The Bakehouse Project, an art book like no other. As the owners of Bakehouse Studios since 1991, Helen and Quincy have drenched The Bakehouse Project with musical history. The full colour hardback book documents a collaborative project of visual artists creating installations in the Bakehouse rehearsal rooms, and features artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Mick Turner, Peter Milne, and The Hotham Street Ladies. Click on beat.com.au/freeshit for your shot to take home a copy of The Bakehouse Project.
HERE COMES THE SUN JESS RIBEIRO PREMIERES NEW TRACK, ANNOUNCES ALBUM + TOUR Melbourne based singer/songwriter, Jess Ribeiro has released her new single Hurry Back to Love, the second taste of her new album Kill It Yourself, set for release on Friday August 14 via Barely Dressed / Remote Control. To celebrate the release of her new album, Jess Ribeiro and band are heading on a national tour this September, with a show booked in at Northcote Social Club on Saturday September 26. For tickets and more information, head to the venue’s website.
Sunnyboys frontman Jeremy Oxley has had an interesting life, to say the least. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at 22 during the height of Sunnyboys fame, Here Comes The Sun chronicles Jeremy’s life as he spiralled into depression, lived as a recluse in New South Wales, and his triumphant return through the help of Mary Griffiths, who he went on to wed. Authored by Jeremy Oxley and Mary Oxley Griffiths, Here Comes The Sun is the complete story of Jeremy and the Sunnyboys. We have five copies of Here Comes The Sun to give away, beat.com.au/ freeshit if you’re feeling lucky.
THE MISFITS ANNOUNCE 2015 MELBOURNE SHOW The Misfits have announced they will heading to Australia this December, bringing two of their earliest records with them. When they grace our shores they bring with them not only their second album 1983’s Earth A.D - featuring Die Die Darling, Green Hell and Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight - but also it’s 1997 follow up Static Age. If that’s not enough, the band will also play classics from across their career. Misfits will take over Max Watt’s on Friday December 11. Tickets go on sale Monday July 27 through the venue.
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT ANNOUNCE TWO MELBOURNE SHOW Metal hero Devin Townsend will return to our shores, bringing a career defining set with songs spanning his prolific catalogue. Moving from thrash to death metal, progressive rock to ambience, Townsend has pushed and defied boundaries of contemporary metal for over 20 years. Coming with him will be fellow metal upstarts Periphery, off the back of their latest album Juggernaut: Alpha and Omega. Devin Townsend Project will be shredding their way through 170 Russell on Sunday October 25 and Monday October 26. Tickets available through Oztix.
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INTERNATIONAL 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 ALDOUS HARDING The Gasometer August 12 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 Lounge Friday 21 MARK NADLER Melbourne Recital Centre August 22 THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Prince Bandroom August 28 A SKYLIT DRIVE The Corner Hotel August 28 SHADOW ELECTRIC’S VISION SERIES Shadow Electric August 28 - 30 HELLYEAH Corner Hotel August 29 INTO THE MYSTIC – THE MUSIC OF VAN MORRISON Ding Dong Lounge August 30 JUICE RAP NEWS Shadow Electric August 30 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
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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 BIG K.R.I.T Max Watt’s 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 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell October 25, 26 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 HIGHLANDS FESTIVAL Yea October 31 – November 2
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JOSH PYKE T H E PA T H W I T H H E A RT By Augustus Welby
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Nietzsche’s a well known proponent of the idea that existence is intrinsically meaninglessness. However, this isn’t necessarily a pessimistic notion. In fact, in Nietzsche’s view this essential meaninglessness is what drives us to engage in activities that give life purpose. In light of this theory, the idea that love is both mad and reasonable makes a bit more sense.
This weekend Josh Pyke returns with his fifth LP But For All These Shrinking Hearts. Pyke’s now in the second decade of his recording career and the Sydney tunesmith realises there’s no point creating music that doesn’t have a strong emotional resonance. “I probably write 50 songs a year and maybe five of them I will take to demo point,” he says. “They have to have what I call the madness – when I’m writing the song or demoing the song, they have to make me feel something really deeply. “I remember when I was writing [2008’s] Chimney’s Afire, I was living in a two bedroom flat and one of the rooms was a studio,” Pyke continues. It’s an early winter morning in Melbourne and Pyke’s sitting opposite me fighting a cold with lemon and honey tea. “I covered up the windows and everything to block the sound and my now-wife would go off to work in the morning and I’d demo all day – and I’d be in my underwear because it was so hot in the room. She’d come home and I’d be crazy, but I was crazy with joy and the madness of these songs that I was writing. “Unless I feel that emotional fragility and madness and hyper-ness, I don’t pursue it,” he adds, driving the point home. “That is more important to me than ever, because I know what I’m doing. It’s not hard to sit down and write a song, but it’s very hard and it’s very rare to write a song that makes you feel a real emotion for it.” From a lyrical standpoint, several tracks on But For All These Shrinking Hearts interrogate the singer’s relationship with the creative process. Pyke’s debut LP Memories & Dust came out in 2007 and since then he’s rolled out a new LP roughly every 18 months. Evidently, he’s never faced an overwhelming bout of writer’s block. But on songs such as the recent single Hollering Hearts, it becomes clear Pyke doesn’t take songwriting for granted. “The background story is years and years ago I read a book called The Path With Heart: The Mescalito Way of Knowing,” he says. “It was about an anthropologist who went to South America and did heaps of peyote and trained to be a shaman, basically. The big bit of knowledge that he learnt out of this whole process was that the only path is the path with heart. In this context heart meant struggle and work – not negative struggle, just pushing up against something. That’s always stuck with me.” It’s seems patently obvious songwriting is the activity that underpins Pyke’s meaningful engagement with existence. “You’ve got to follow the hard work if that’s what’s giving you that emotional payoff,” he says. “And that emotional payoff is kind of the hollering heart metaphor; whatever makes your heart fucking sing and cr y.” Although Hollering Hearts includes lines such as, “I BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
spend time and money trying to escape myself,” long time fans needn’t be alarmed, as the new album isn’t a radical departure from Pyke’s previous work. There are a few novel elements – Songlines sports a buoyant pop rock chorus, while Momentary Glow is fitted out with immersive ambience – but as with his previous releases, the record revolves around understated melodies, poetic yet slightly off-kilter lyrics and warm, controlled and occasionally conversational vocals.
“OVER THE YEARS THERE’S BEEN TIMES WHEN PEOPLE HAVE SAID ‘YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT,’ AND I JUST LOOK TO MY FAVOURITE SONGWRITERS AND DISAGREE. I THINK YOU CAN EVOLVE AND DEVELOP WITHOUT HAVING TO RECREATE YOURSELF.” “From the very, very beginning I always said I would never write with an agenda,” he says. “So I just write songs. Over the years there’s been times when people have said ‘You need to do something different,’ and I just look to my favourite songwriters and disagree. I think you can evolve and develop without having to recreate yourself. People like Neil Finn and Paul Kelly – they’re great examples. They don’t reinvent themselves, but their songs sound very different. I listened to the latest Neil Finn solo record and it’s really fucking good. It’s really interesting and there’s some production elements that we haven’t heard from him, but it sounds like Neil Finn.” But, while Pyke’s refrained from reconfiguring his stylistic outlook, it’s not as though he’s consciously hewing to a trademark sound. “I don’t really try to do anything in particular at all,” he says. “I just write songs. I never sit down and say, ‘Now I have to write a new record.’ I don’t really think about writing in the framework of me because I am me. It would do my head in if I started really thinking of myself as a thing that I need to stay true to.” The two aforementioned songs – Songlines and
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Momentary Glow – were actually both written in collaboration with a co-writer. Momentary Glow features input from Pyke’s old friend Dustin Tebbutt, and Songlines was put together with Jinja Safari frontman Marcus Azon. “When Marcus and I wrote [Songlines], it just happened so naturally,” Pyke says. “We’d never met, but I knew of him; we had the same manager. I was in a café up the road from my house and I heard something come on the stereo and I was like ‘I really want that kind of sound.’ So I was like ‘Who is this?’ and the lady was like ‘This is Jinja Safari’.” Lyrics have always been of central importance for Pyke, so despite his willingness to collaborate, he retained control over the words. “I didn’t want to be influenced by the other guys lyrically, because I wanted them to become my songs,” he says. “I needed to go away and write those myself so that they were 100 per cent personal and applicable to me. It’s more important than ever to me that those things stay true.” Given that these two songs originated in a different manner than what Pyke’s used to, he decided to experiment with an unconventional lyric-writing method. “I read that Jeff Tweedy records whole Wilco albums with a mumble track,” he says. “He’ll sing gibberish and the song will be 100 per cent finished and then he’ll go off to his lake house and translate his own gibberish. So I tried that with Momentary Glow and Songlines. It’s a really bizarre process but it’s really good.” Pyke’s songwriting possesses a range of notable qualities, but the foremost distinction is his lyrics. In many ways, the lyric writing capacity is rather flimsy. Finding an intriguing way to express something while also conveying a unique personality is far more difficult than simply scrawling words in a diary. “I probably find it harder now than I did when I was younger because I have something to prove,” Pyke says. “Whether or not I think my lyrics are good, it seems to be something that people have identified with over the years. I don’t want to go backwards in my life or my art, so they have to be better and better. “I’ve found that just writing is the way to get through it. Whether or not I’m writing a song, I always write. So I’ve just got pages and pages of prose, constant stream of consciousness stuff. The title of the album came from a verse that I wrote that didn’t end up in a song or anything, but I just loved the little line. It’s harder, but I think I’m actually getting better at it just from doing it.” JOSH PYKE’s new album But For All These Shrinking Hearts is out Friday July 31. He’s playing a fans first show at Bella Union on Wednesday August 5.
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Yours The Face
The Birthday Suit is an attempt to capture a raw beauty in expression, identity of self and human flesh. The first solo exhibition from Serena Vella presents a series of self portrait nude photographs alongside intricate geometric drawings, with snippets of journal entries kept by the artist. Take a peek into Vella’s relationship with herself and with her universe. The photographs capture both a vague and stark image of the physical body, while line drawings express imagination; the contrast to the beauty of flesh and the beauty of the mind, unbound and untied. The Birthday Suit will run from Saturday August 1 until Saturday August 29 at Kent St Bar, Fitzroy.
Grief and the Lullaby
In conjunction with the Lemnos Gallipoli Project, Women in War will commemorate the Anzac Centenary. A contemporary opera set in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, Women in War delves into the lives of three wartime women - an Australian nurse, a Turkish mother and a Greek widow. Using traditional operatic structure alongside a contemporary cinematic approach, the production blends musical styles, cultures and rhythms alongside a story of unity. Women in War runs at Arts Centre Melbourne from Thursday July 30 - Saturday August 1. Feat Theatre are set to present The Piano Thief and Receivers this weekend. Before the theatre company makes their Sydney debut, they’re giving Melbourne audiences one last chance to catch them before they jet off. They’ll be performing two original works written by Gareth Ellis. Both comedies, The Piano Thief is a love story between two unlikely acquaintances and Receivers is an absurdist science fiction about a farmer who comes across a multitude of colourful characters. It all goes down on Saturday August 1 at Feat Theatre.
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The 64th Melbourne International Film Festival is set to be the largest to date. MIFF have returned with a colossal program of diversity and quality. The MIFF Premiere Fund has continued to support independent filmmakers achieve world premieres, with this year’s highlights including Downriver, directed by Grant Scicluna and Lawrence Johnston’s Neon, a documentary exploring the beauty and romance of neon lighting. More local films will be featured at the Australian Showcase, with a bumper program including Brodie Higgs’ culture-mashing debut Elixir and George Gittoes’s world premiere of Snow Monkey, documenting his first-hand journey through Afghanistan. The International Panorama is bringing a curated selection of global cinema to Melbourne with a program including psychological drama, romantic comedy and absurdist satire. Alongside all this is a comprehensive documentary, short film, music, digital cinema, psychedelic and sports program, plus much more. It all kicks off on Thursday July 30. Turn a few pages for a deeper look into the festival.
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The Dead Twin
FLIGHT
By Liza Dezfouli
The Artistic Director of Theatre Works Daniel Clarke, is excited, more excited than nervous, even though he’s about to oversee two shows a night at Theatre Works during August’s new mini-season of five new plays, FLIGHT. Clarke tells Beat about how FLIGHT, er, took flight. “It is a mini-season of new works by graduates of the VCA’s MA in Writing for Performance,” he explains. FLIGHT was Clarke’s idea, and the name of the mini-season is significant, as he explains. “It’s good to have these writers take flight – which is why I called it that. This season is launching them, launching their careers as playwrights.” How did it come about? “Theatre Works had a call out for selected works, and we received such strong submissions from playwright graduates from the VCA course that we asked ourselves how we could partner with VCA, in what context could we create a strong platform, a supportive environment with high production values for new Australian works?” Clarke says it took 19 months of negotiation with the VCA to pull FLIGHT together. “VCA was excited,” he recalls. “They wanted to come on board. It’s great! All of the work is new work coming out of VCA, it’s a program focused entirely on new writers having a season at Theatre Works.” Not surprisingly, Clarke says, course leader Raimondo Cortese, of Ranters Theatre, is thrilled about the new partnership. “We’re very, very excited,” he continues. “All the works are quite different from each other thematically; they’ve been developed over time. I’ve seen changes since they started rehearsal; the plays have been worked on over a long period of time.” All but one of the five plays will be staged at Theatre Works – the Footscray Community Arts Centre is the venue for The Dead Twin by Chi Vu. “It is a site specific work,” continues Clarke. “The Dead Twin involves the audience moving around the venue, it goes downstairs and in and around the Community Arts Centre. There’s a lot of surprises so I can’t talk too much about it; it’s a text-based work and the genre is horror which is different, unusual in such circumstances. Deborah Leiser-Moore is the director – she is very integral to
the development of the work. She is also performing in this very physical work. Footscray have been supportive of Chi’s work in same way as we are with the Theatre Works shows. We’re working together, making sure everyone feels supported.” How did Clarke decide which plays to include? “They pitched to us and I selected the writers and the scripts. They are all graduates of the course, from a few years ago. This program is ‘of the writer’ – our directive is to support the writer. Apart from the season here, there is the potential to tour. As with all of our productions at Theatre Works we support them by inviting in producers and presenters.” Have the works come to FLIGHT program as complete packages, or have Theatre Works and the Footscray Community Arts Centre had to pull them all together? It varies, according to Clarke. “Two of them have had interstate seasons –Yours the Face by Fleur Kilpatrick has had two seasons interstate and this is the Melbourne premiere. The director, Sarah Walker, is actually a photographer, moving into theatre direction. Some of the works come funded, some not, some are more resourced than others. Patrick
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McCarthy is writing and directing his own work, Grief and Lullaby. Morgan Rose got a director from Brisbane to come and direct her play Virgins & Cowboys. Two directors are working on Kindness by Bridget Mackey, which is unusual; I think one of them is about to have a baby so they are co-directing,” continues Clarke. “My first experience as a director was as a co-director. It was all fine until tech week! So I know from my first show what it’s like.” One popular feature of Melbourne theatre festivals is the inclusion of post-show discussions about the works and the process of creating them, as well talks as about current trends in theatre in general. FLIGHT is happily pursuing this trend. “We’ve got panel discussions happening over several weeks,” continues Clarke. “The FLIGHT artists want to talk about their practice, they said ‘let’s make this happen’ so the writers put it together – they wanted to talk about the relationship between training and the main stage, about that ecology, and there’s also a talk about the status of text- based theatre; the talks feature theatres like the MKA, the MTC, and theatre makers like Patricia, Emma Valente, as well as Chi Vu.” Clarke says the biggest challenge in pulling FLIGHT together involves logistics – which is to be expected. “The technical staff say to me ‘Dan, you’ve given us 15 minutes to change over!’ There are 70 artists involved across the project – so it involves a challenge. It’s a big one for working around clock, with five shows about to open! We’re presenting two shows a night at Theatre Works.”
FLIGHT kicks off on Friday July 31 and will continue until Sunday August 23. For a full rundown and tickets, head to theatreworks.org.au.
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Friday August 21 - Sunday September 23 Malthouse Theatre
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Thursday September 3 - Sunday September 6 Arts House
MSO: Back To The Future Live In Concert Friday November 6 - Saturday November 7 The Plenary
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Friday December 11 - Sunday April 24 National Gallery of Victoria
Boite Millennium Chorus
Over 350 voices will fill Hamer Hall with songs, stories, music and dance in a celebration of African music ranging from ancient songs to contemporary fusion. The performance will feature eight regional choirs from Africa and special guests including Grammy award winners the Soweto Gospel Choir, Bouly Sonko, Oumy Sene Sonko, Tariro Mavondo, King Bell, The Asanti Dancers and the Burundi Drummers Group Of Victoria. Directed by Lamine Sonko in collaboration with choir director Andrea Khoza, One Africa explores the many forms of African music and traditions with an underlying message of unity. It all goes down at Hamer Hall Sunday August 30. Bookings through the Arts Centre.
Glow Winter Arts Festival
The streets of Stonnington will come alight once again, when Glow Winter Arts Festival returns for its second year, with a diverse and contemporary lineup of comedy, cinema, installations, roving performances and live music. This year the festival will feature five events. An open-air ice skating rink will be set up in the centre of Prahran, surrounded by projections, installations, performances and food stalls. Here you can find the Glow Festival Hub, constructed from an assortment of shipping containers and raw materials, providing live entertainment throughout the festival. Flicks & Feasts returns, offering four nights of classic films paired with matching cuisines alongside Prahran market. This year’s program includes Blue Hawaii, Spirited Away, Bride and Prejudice and The Italian Job, teamed with American, Japanese, Indian and Italian dishes from local food trucks. Chapel Off Chapel will host Comedy Club, with a lineup of Australian comedians including Fox FM’s Dave Thornton, Nova FM’s Tommy Little, Cal Wilson and Michael Chamberlin. The team behing the Gertrude Street Projection Festival will be taking over Greville Street with a kaleidoscopic exhibition of shapes, colour and light, while Arts Burst will take over the streets with a vibrant and eclectic display of roving performances, installations and music. Glow Winter Arts Festival will take over Stonnington from Thursday August 13 until Sunday August 23.
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Melbourne Museum are set to host an adults-only event stuffed with demos, drinks, talks and a dash of digital media that will make you think differently about taxidermy. You’ll be able to learn the skins and outs of this morbidly magnificent pastime with the Museums very own taxidermists so be sure to have your curliest questions at the ready. It’ll take place on Thursday August 20 at the Melbourne Museum.
Arts House have announced they will present Dance of the Bee, a remarkable interspecies musical collaboration, this September. Dance of the Bee is a work performed by three pianists, the vocalists of the Astra Choir and a live swarm of bees, housed inside a sculpted, transparent hive. Woven through the mysterious song of the bees, the pieces range from soundscapes to intense virtuosic arrangements, punctuated by semi-improvised sonic excursions. As the bees sing, live video allows us to observe the marvel of the hive at work ± and to ponder on the fragile connection between our world and theirs. Dance of the Bee will buzz through Arts House from Friday September 11 until Sunday September 13.
Mavericks on Film
In collaboration with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, ACMI is celebrating the enfant terribles of the fashion world who challenge the status quo and question the way clothing is made. The selection will showcase five films, all focusing on different elements of fashion and design. #Couture, The New Queens of Haute, Jean Paul Gaultier at Work, Fresh Dressed, Fashion House Marga Weimans and the acclaimed Traceable act as the primary features, with screenings accompanied by mini-documentaries and short films. Mavericks on Film runs from Friday August 28 - Sunday September 13 at ACMI. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
The Astor Theatre
Following in the paw prints of much-loved ‘Astor cat’ Marzipan, who sadly passed away in March 2013, today Palace Cinemas have announced the arrival of new cat Duke at the iconic Astor Theatre. Duke is a black and white short-haired cat, who will make the Astor his permanent home after being adopted from not-for-profit organisation The Lost Dogs’ Home. Fittingly, given his new address, Duke is named after silver screen legend John Wayne (whose nickname was “Duke”) by avid film fan and the Astor’s General Manager Zak Hepburn. “When we picked him out, he was pretty relaxed and had such a nonchalant swagger that I immediately knew his name should be Duke. Since Palace took over the Astor, there have been so many enquiries as to whether we’d get another cat and while Marzipan is irreplaceable, we thought as this year has marked a new chapter for the Astor, why not give Duke a new chapter in his life? And support a worthy cause like Lost Dogs’ Home.” The Astor is located on the corner of Chapel St & Dandenong Rd.
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Dance of the Bee
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival have charted a massive year, boasting 5,000 artists, 555 events and over 7,000 shows. The festival saw a multitude of pubs and unconventional spaces turn into stand-up hubs, as well as sell out shows in some of Melbourne’s biggest venues. Show attendance this year clocked in at 770,290, as well as the 4.5 million who tuned in to the festivals’ television specials. In turn, this brought a direct benefit of $7.8 million to the Victorian economy, in addition to the $19.7 million injected into the Victorian economy by patrons from greater Melbourne and regional Victoria. Thanking Melbourne for its support, Festival Director Susan Provan said “humour runs through Melbourne’s veins and I am so grateful for your enthusiasm for the Festival and artists.” The festival is currently taking its roadshow overseas before gearing up for its 30th anniversary year in 2016. As usual, Beat will be your go-to for next year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival, running from Wednesday March 23 Sunday April 16, 2016.
Melbourne Writers Festival are celebrating their three decade milestone in a huge way, announcing their biggest program ever. With more than 500 international and local authors, scriptwriters, bloggers and thinkers over more than 60 venues throughout the city across the 11 day festival, there will be a lot to take in. The first of 531 events features best-selling novelist Louis de Bernieres (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Red Dog). On the eve of his latest novel, The Dust That Falls From Dreams, he will retrace his journey as a writer. He will be followed by Rob Thomas, the creator of TV cult classics Veronica Mars and Party Down. British novelist and journalist Will Self will have closing night address honours. He will reflect on the love/hate relationship he has built over 30 years with Australia and the repression and denial he sees at its heart. Other program highlights include activist Naomi Klein will lead one of a series of discussions about climate change and the war capitalism is waging on our planet, while Nobel Prize winner Prof Brian Schmidt and astrophysicist Katie Mack present a multimedia Guide To The Universe. Lifestyle leaders Leo Babauta (Zen Habits) and Sarah Wilson (I Quit Sugar) team up to share visions for what a good life looks like in Health & Happiness Dot Com and New Yorks hottest and hippest literary ticket The Moth Mainstage comes to Melbourne, as storytellers weave stories around the theme of ‘between worlds’ in this live theatrical production. Melbourne Writers Festival will take place around the city from Thursday August 20 until Sunday August 30.
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New York City-based singer and comedic pianist Mark Nadler has announced he will make his Melbourne debut this August. He will perform his show, Let’s Misbehave ± A Cole Porter Soiree for two shows, both here and in Sydney. Throughout the show he will explore the wit, romance and the life of one of the greatest American songwriters: Cole Porter. Songs featured in the performance include hits Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love), In The Still Of The Night and You’re The Top. Mark Nadler will present Let’s Misbehave at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday August 22.
CRAb lAb Tonight Wednesday July 29 at Crab Lab there’s Daniel Connell, Bart Freebairn, Greg Larsen, Jack Druce and a whole lot more, all for free! It’s at the House of Maximon, 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
COMEdy At SPlEEn Comedy at Spleen is always full…and there’s a good reason! It’s always jam-packed with the best comics in town. And what else are you going to do on a Monday? Bart Freebairn, Rob Hunter, Adam Knox, Gabe Hogan, Jay Morrissey and heaps more! It’s this Monday August 3, at 41 Bourke Street, CBD, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
Out Of The ClOset
Queer happenings around town with Anna Whitelaw.
Over the weekend, the Australian Labor Party held their national conference in Melbourne, where the same sex marriage was the most hotly contested policy platform on the agenda, after the party’s increasingly hard-line and retrograde stance on boat people. The conference had been billed as a looming showdown for the ALP’s left and right factions to debate whether to adopt marriage equality as a binding policy position (which would mean all Labor MPs had to support a marriage equality bill regardless of their personal views) or merely continue to commit to bringing about marriage equality through a conscience vote. In the mean, a compromise was met wherein Bill Shorten pledge to bring in marriage equality within the first 100 days if he became Prime Minister, and for the party as a whole to push for marriage equality for two parliamentary terms as a conscience issue before making such a vote binding. While it shouldn’t be necessarily unreasonable to impose marriage equality as a a compulsory vote, even LGBTIQ community advocates would rather see marriage equality brought about by a conscience vote as it would be a real victory rather than a begrudging one. Of course, we also hope that it would take two parliamentary terms - or even a Shorten Labor government - for this to come about. In fact, it might be a matter of weeks not years. South Australian Senator Penny Wong spoke eloquently and fought back tears in a speech that earned her a
standing ovation, when she summed up the movement: “The aspiration for equality is remarkably persistent, and we will continue until we win. Marriage equality is a campaign of hope, it is a campaign of justice, it is a campaign of equality but most of all - and this is why we will win - it is a campaign for those we love.” While marriage equality preoccupies our attention in Australia, it is a valuable reminder that elsewhere in the world many gay, lesbian and transgender people still face imprisonment for being who they are. President Barack Obama highlighted this point in a powerful speech in the country of his father’s ancestry, Kenya when after being told to avoid mentioning gay rights, he gave an impassioned plea for the African nation to support gay rights. Kenya has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world, where homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment. He reiterated his belief that LGBTIQ people deserve to be treated equally under the law, and that treating people differently could be dangerous. ““When a government gets in the habit of treating people differently, those habits can spread. And as an AfricanAmerican in the United States, I’m painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law.” Instead he argued: “The state does not need to weigh in on religious doctrine.”
upcoming events: Same sex singles looking to meet someone outside of Tinder, Grindr, Scruff and Waapa can try their luck at meeting someone IRL at The Owl and the Pussy Cat Theatre in Richmond who are hosting Lesbian and Gay Speed Dating events. The weeknight speed dating events have limited tickets, on sale online for $20 with a maximum of 15 people per group. The next sessions are Wednesday August 5 at 8pm for ladies aged 22 - 32 and Thursday August 6 at 8pm for gents. The Owl and the Pussy Cat Theatre, 124 Swan Street, Richmond. On Friday August 7, BARBA is returning for a night of sweaty beards, hairy chests and techno beats this time at Roxanne Parlour. Presale tickets are onsale now for $20. DJs Kiti, Grant Cook, Danny Noir, That Fahri Guy, Storven Sponsor, Matt Format.
For those homosexuals who’ve ever suffered from having a gay voice, the MIFF documentary Do I Sound Gay? seeks to answer the age-old question of why some people sound gay with the help of fabulous and funny gays such as George Takei, Dan Savage, Margaret Cho and David Sedaris (whose own gay voice and speech impediment is the subject of one of his most hilarious essays). David Thorpe’s documentary comes to MIFF after being a hit at the Toronto Film Festival and DOCNYC. Screenings are on Friday July 31 and Thursday August 13. For tickets, visit miff.com.au. Got tip offs, praise, complaints or cat photos? Email closetpartymelbourne@gmail.com to be included in this column.
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WoodyP These guys don’t make you cue out in the cold like the rest of Flinders Lane. When we arrived we were welcomed in and seated immediately in the calm front dining room that is nicely fitted out including planter style dividers providing separation and privacy between tables. The ambiance works well and the noise level (even with an open kitchen) allowed for easy table conversation. Anyway, it is all about the food after all, and it’s there that Wood P really shone. The menu is quite diverse and although it doesn’t specifically slot into one category, its diverse and covers European, Mediterranean, Italian-ish’ styles. There’s a great pizza selection if you want to keep it casual, through to creative offerings in pasta, steak and seafood so it suits most palettes and appetites. Gluten free eaters will be thrilled to see seven out of the 11 entrees and a nice sprinkling of the rest of the menu were marked as GF and we happily chose two entrees to share. The pan seared scallops were
huge and plump and served with a pumpkin puree (with a good hit of smoked paprika?), and a further flavour kick courtesy of the fried crumbled nduja, which is a spicy, spreadable pork sausage from Italy. The oysters are served natural and could have been lifted straight from the sea onto the plate ± the art was in what wasn’t done to them. For mains we went straight for the 48hr slow cooked beef ribs with roast onion and gremolata; so divine in its light juice style gravy that we’ve declared it the ‘new pork belly’. We also tried the grilled whole snapper with fennel, citrus & pickled radish that was perfectly cooked and the best way to play with your food. The protein mains are served without any accompaniment so we chose the broccolini which had a sweet onion and honey mustard dressing that was so good it could trick anyone into eating their greens. Book now at woodyp.com.au.
News Bites. Juanita Peaches
Pic: Sean McDonald
Juanita Peaches has opened in Brunswick, serving up some of the best fried chicken this side of the equator. Opened by Raph Rashid (Taco Truck, Beatbox Kitchen), the Southern-style fried chicken joint takes over the night shift at his other business, All Day Donuts. The menu is short and to the point, consisting of classics like fried chicken, which is marinated in salt, pepper, coriander, lemon and cayenne overnight, three kinds of “burro” (burrito) and fries. The restaurant is licensed as well, boasting beers like Mornington Pale Ale and Melbourne Bitter along with a five-drop brand-less wine list. Feast on fried chicken from Thursday to Saturday 5pm to 10pm. Juanita Peaches is located at 12 Edward Street, Brunswick.
WiLO Pizza Brother duo Will & Ollie Thorn (geddit?) have flicked on WiLO Pizza’s neon green sign at 440 Church St, Richmond and are making waves and establishing themselves as more than just the new kids on the block ± making delicious thin crust pizza with a unique spin. The boys are combining authentic pizza making and modern gourmet toppings, making WiLO Pizza creations that burst with freshness and flavour. The Thorn brothers have been planning the menu for two years, so it boasts an array of decadent pizzas, saucy sides, intriguing salads and sweet, sweet desserts, plus they cater for vegetarians, and food intolerances. All of the menu items are worthy of favouritism but highlights include the Pork Belly, the Chilli Chicken and the Salted Beef. WiLO Pizza is open daily from 4pm -10.30pm and you can eat in or takeaway. They deliver to Richmond, plus selected areas in Collingwood, Abbotsford, East Melbourne, Cremorne, South Yarra and Hawthorn. Follow them @WiLOPizza
Melt Away Chocolate Festival
With workshops, masterclasses, activities for the kids and tastings spanning over three days, chocolate lovers, this is for you. The Melt Away Chocolate Festival will feature the masters behind Mörk, Tonantzin Aztec Artisan Chocolate, Sissy’s Gourmet Delight and The Chocolate Lovers’ Kitchen as well as chocolate fountains, chocolate lounges, DJs and more. Located at both Library at the Dock and NewQuay Piazza on the Docklands, this festival isn’t one to miss. General admission prices start at $25 with kids under 10 free. The Melt Away Chocolate Festival will run from Friday August 7 to Sunday August 9.
Got any juicy grub goss? Let me know at tegan@beat.com.au
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electronic + urban + club life
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thursday jul 30 3183 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC WITH MOONSHINE + JOEY & YANNI SARANTIS + SAM GUDGE + JESSE YOUNG Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. INDIETRONIC THURSDAY - FEAT: ESC + TOGETHERAPART + GOLDEN GIRLS + CIVIQUE The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $10.00. MOOPIE, KANGAROO SKULL, JOSH WELLS, MOOD UNIT + MOOPIE + KANGAROO SKULL + JOSH WELLS + MOOD UNIT Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. PARADISCO - FEAT: POST PERCY + WATER FACE + MAXWELL WEIRD + TRANTER + SWEETLAND + GLASS MIRRORS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. SHLOHMO + PURPLE + D33J + NICK MELONS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $40.00. 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 31 #MASHTAG - FEAT: NUGEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ARMADA NIGHT - FEAT: BEN GOLD + DAVID GRAVELL + OMNIA 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $60.00. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CHEEKY TIKI FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $20.00.
CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. FRIDAYS @ ONESIXONE - FEAT: JEN TUTTY + LUKE MCD + LEWIE DAY + PREQUEL + KATIE DROVER + MITCH KURZ + MIC NEWMAN + TOM EVANS + JOEL ALPHA + LIAM WALLER + AARON TROTTMAN + NICK JONES + JESSE YOUNG + ANDRAS FOX + JAC OSCAR WILKINS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. MOTORSOUL - FEAT: SIMON SLIEKER + DJ KITI + ANDRE LE VOGUE + Z.A.N.N.A + VISUALS BY PIXEL ANGEL Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MUSE FRIDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. OFF THE HEAZY ‘90S DANCE PARTY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 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. PHIL GOOD FRIDAYS FEAT: PHIL K Railway Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 6:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS & REWORK - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + SAFARI + JAMES STEETH + KIDS TABLE + WHO + MARKJ + RETZA + MIZA + TIM TYLER + KULTRUN + DAMIR SMITH + MARCUS HOLDER + SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. saturday aug 1 ANDY PADULA Railway Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 10:00pm. 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. DAVEYS SATURDAYS - FEAT: HURLEY + CRAIG MOORE + ASTERIX Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 8:00pm. $10.00. DEFINITION - FEAT: JAC FRIER + RIVA STARR + LEE FOSS & DETROIT SWINDLE + STEF PETROVIC + MATT ADLINGTON & KENNIE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. 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. HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. KID RADIO Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. LOST WEEKEND PRES. HARVEY SUTHERLAND FEAT: CC:DISCO + ANDEE FROST + LA POCOCK + MYLES MAC + CHICO G + JIMMY DAWG Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. LQ SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ CASPER + DJ TPC + DJ PATO + DJ SHAGGZ + DJ MATT CROSS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. PARTY EYES - FEAT: DJS MALE MODEL + RAAGHE + MISTY NIGHTS & JNETT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00. PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. SATURDAY NIGHT DJS FEAT: DJ SHAMIKAZI Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 11:30pm. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. STARGAZED (IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME) - FEAT: FIERCE MILD + BREVE + LUNA GHOST + HIDEOUS TOWNS + VHS DREAM + UNCLE BOBBY + DADA ONO Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 5:00pm. $6.50. 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. 11:30pm. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + SPINFX + MAT CANT + DANIELSAN + MS BUTT + PAZ + LEWIS CANCUT + EDD FISHER + WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. sunday aug 2 BOP ART Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ENCORE - FEAT: DAN SLATER + ADAM LOVE The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 3:00pm. 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 Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + DJ SHAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. monday aug 3 MADDAWG MONDAYS FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. tuesday aug 4 FRESH INDUSTRY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. KEVALA BUTTONSHAW (ART OPENING) - FEAT: SPACE JUNK + SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE + DARK POOLS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. THE FABRIC - FEAT: L A M + ANIMAUX DJS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $7.00.
urban club guide wednesday jul 29
30/70 COLLECTIVE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
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Is there anything more depressing than witnessing a failed Pozible attempt?
club guide wednesday jul 29 JULCURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN AKA DJ DANIELSAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
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50/50 X ONE PUF - FEAT: GRIME TIMES + AFFIKS + ARCTIC + FRAKSHA + ALASKA + DIEM + GINGUS Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. KID RADIO Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00. RNB & HIP HOP JAM - FEAT: MAT CANT + LARRIE AND GET BU$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.
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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: JADE ZOE + MS DOOG + ROBIHUSSLIN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
electronic - urban - club life
saturday aug 1
BARO + GILL BATES + MARCUS Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00. 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.
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PRETTY RICKY & ASHANTI Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $58.00.
big k.r.i.t the Def Jam signee and Mississippi native will be making his Australian debut. The announcement comes hot off the heels of Big K.R.I.T’s collaboration with Hermitude, The Buzz, which has gathered heavy rotation on triple j. Catch Big K.R.I.T when he hits Max Watt’s on Thursday September 24.
ferdydurke Ferdydurke are turning three, and they are celebrating their birthday in style. The night will feature music from Sleezy Raw, CC Disco, Edd Fisher & Simon TK, Midnight Tenderness, Prequel, Raaghe, and Chico G. There will also be free food and free barrelled cocktails. Ferdydurke’s third birthday party will be held on Thursday August 6.
baio 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 dancefloors 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. Off the back of a performance at Japan’s Summer Sonic, Baio will take over dancefloors in Melbourne and Sydney, giving fans a sneak peak of The Names before it is released. Baio will take over Shebeen on Tuesday August 18.
naughty by nature Naughty By Nature have announced they will be kicking off their 25th anniversary celebrations with a tour around Australia this November. Naughty By Nature first hit our stages in 1995, as part of the Cool Naughty Pain tour with House of Pain and Coolio. Since then they have made regular visits performing shows across every major city and a number of regional towns. Naughty By Nature will take over Trak Lounge on Friday November 6.
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Get Educated.
Are you looking to study? Are you unsure about where to go and who to discuss your options with? Well, never fear as our education special well help point you in the right direction and get your career off to a flying start. From short courses through to TAFE and bachelor degree courses, we take a look at some of the most trusted names in the industry and their arts, design, music, television and radio courses on offer. If you’re a recent high school graduate looking for that next step or if you’re simply thinking about a career change, then we highly encourage you to visit one of the many upcoming information sessions and open days listed in this special. It’s all about gaining the best perspective that will help you make that all important decision. So, make sure you book in a visit and get up close and personal with the facilities, staff and current students that will help take your skill-sets to the next level. All it takes is a visit or a phone call, to learn more about your options and having a few questions answered before you know it, you’ll feel more confident with your career choice and place for vocational study. Go on, hop to it, it’s time to get schooled.
MBA & Postgrad Studies Expo
Whether you want to move up the management ladder, update your skills and knowledge base, or equip yourself for a career change, this is an open day with a difference. Speak with multiple universities about your postgraduate study options, all under one roof for the day. It’s a great time-saver as it’s effectively a “one-stop-shop” to evaluate postgraduate certificates, diplomas, masters and doctorates in all disciplines, from universities both local and interstate. If you’re considering a career change, development of your skills or advancement in your field, mark your diary. Entry is free. Register online or upon arrival. Talk to these universities about your study options: Australian Catholic University, Australian Institute of Management, Charles Sturt University, Deakin University, La Trobe University, Monash University, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology, University of New England, University of Newcastle, University of South
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AFTRS
Courses on offer: For 2016 AFTRS is accepting applications for the Bachelor of Arts (Screen) and a swag of practical, industry-focused diplomas and advanced diplomas in the specialist craft areas of film, television and radio. What makes us different: AFTRS is literally the national screen and broadcast school of Australia, set up by the Australian government over 40 years ago. The facilities and gear at AFTRS are unrivalled by any other university or college in Australia. All lecturers at AFTRS are working industry professionals and the connections between the school and industry are deep. Many high achieving alumni return to the school to give master-classes to current students, the most recent being; Alex Proyas (I Robot, The Crow, Knowing Gods of Egypt) and Jane Campion (Top of The Lake, Bright Star, The Piano, An Angel at My Table).
Australia, University of Tasmania, Victoria University. Attend an Information Session by: Deakin University, La Trobe University, Monash Business School, Swinburne University, University of New England and Victoria University.
Open day: Tuesday September 15, 12pm - 7pm, free entry. Register online at postgradexpo.com.au or upon arrival. Address: Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Street, Melbourne Email: info@exhibitionsplus.com.au Website: postgradexpo.com.au, facebook.com/postgradexpo
Courses on offer: SAE Creative Media Institute offers government accredited degrees, diplomas and certificates in audio, film, animation, games, design, web and mobile. What makes us different: At SAE we know creative media students benefit from practical, hands-on teaching and learning. We recognised this back in 1976; that’s why we pioneered our project-based, industry-focused and tailored curriculum, and employed the most qualified and experienced staff to teach our students. With 53 campuses in 27 countries, SAE is now a melting pot of students and teachers who create a unique, diverse and global creative community. We are internationally renowned for setting benchmarks in creativity and realworld learning. Take the next step: SAE is bursting with success stories, including Grammy, BAFTA and Bollywood award
winners. In the past year, our alumni have achieved incredible success, securing jobs with leading game developer and an animation companies, nominating for major screen awards, securing government funding for documentaries, producing chart-topping albums overseas and taking out the Eurovision song contest. What else you need to know: SAE was established in Sydney, Australia in 1976 as the world’s first audio engineering institute. Our new Melbourne campus has recently undergone a $6m expansion, making it the largest and most advanced SAE campus globally. The campus features cutting-edge facilities for teaching and learning as well as student break-out areas. SAE offers accredited and fast-tracked learning pathways, so you can be industryready with a bachelor degree in just two years. Enrolment dates: Our next intake commences Monday
Take the next step: AFTRS graduates are working in Australia and around the world across the entire spectrum of the screen and broadcast industries in feature film, television (drama and factual) and radio. A large number of AFTRS graduates have made it to the highest levels of their craft, which has seen them win Academy Awards, BAFTAs and Emmys for their work. Each year there are hundreds of nominations at the local level for the work of AFTRS alumni and also for AFTRS student productions at festivals and guild awards. What else you need to know: Entry into most AFTRS award courses, such as the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, diplomas and advanced diplomas is by merit selection and is competitive. Required tasks and examples of creative work are often part of the application process. Enrolment dates: The AFTRS online application portal
where you register and submit applications to study at AFTRS will open on Tuesday September 1. All of the information required by prospective students is available now on the website. Bachelor of Arts (Screen): aftrs.edu.au/degrees. Diplomas and Advanced Diplomas: aftrs.edu.au/specialise
September 21. Our 2016 intake dates are February 15, June 6 and September 21. Open day: We’re opening the doors to our brand new, state-of-the-art Melbourne campus on Saturday August 8. Open day runs from 11am - 3pm. To find about more information or to register, visit sae.edu.au/events Address: 235 Normanby Road, South Melbourne Phone: (03) 8632 3400 Email: melbourne@sae.edu Website: sae.edu.au
Open day: Saturday September 5, 10am - 3pm. Address: Building 130 (inside the entertainment quarter next to Hoyts) Lang Rd, Moore Park, NSW Phone: 1300 13 14 61 Email: study@aftrs.edu.au Website: aftrs.edu.au/opendays
AIM (Australian Institute Of Music)
Courses on offer: Contemporary Performance, Composition & Music Production, Entertainment Management. The AIM open day: Make sure you make the time to visit Australian Institute of Music’s open day happening on Saturday August 15 at their Melbourne CBD campus. As a prospective student, you will experience the vibrant city campus come to life with free workshops, master classes and live performances. Catch local Melbourne act White Summer tear up the stage for a live performance, sit in on the industry panel forum to hear guests share their advice and insights on how to break into the entertainment industry, or go on a tour and have a chat with friendly AIM staff and students. The AIM open day is the perfect opportunity to get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a student at the leading school for today’s creative industry. Check
William Angliss Institute Courses on offer: William Angliss Institute is the specialist training centre for the foods, hospitality, tourism and events industries. In our events area we have: Bachelor of Event Management, Advanced Diploma of Events, Diploma of Events What makes us different: With our Event Management courses you can learn how to plan, fund, market and manage successful events. Our award winning programs will equip you with skills and knowledge in a range of subjects, from onsite event management to project scheduling and supplier management. Throughout your course there will be opportunities to work across a variety of specialties and events ± everything from international sporting events to festivals and conferences. Take the next step: Event Management degree gives students the edge in a dynamic industry. Student Matt
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Wakely is turning his passion for music festivals into a career by studying the Bachelor of Event Management at William Angliss Institute. He moved from Gippsland to Melbourne to complete his degree, with the aim of eventually running his own events business. Matt has already been involved at the Falls Festival, Big Day Out, Meredith Music Festival and Golden Plains Music Festival, and would like to work with a company that runs major events or run his own event business. To someone who is considering studying event management, Matt recommends getting some prior experience in the area. “You can relate to the material you are learning, use real world examples and it is easier for the knowledge to stick when you have seen how events work,” he said. What else you need to know: All events courses are
the AIM website for more information. Special music industry guests: It wouldn’t be an AIM open day without special music industry guests who will be sharing invaluable knowledge, tips and advice on how to break into the entertainment industry. These include Joanne Withy (Live Nation), Darren Percival (singer), Charles Fisher (producer of Savage Garden) and Jason Weir (musician and producer, releases on Mushroom, Shock, RCA). Not to mention: A Darren Percival vocal workshop, tour and festival management talk with Joanne Withy (toured the likes of Madonna, Jamiroquai, Faithless, Scissor Sisters, Laura Mvula), Adam Montgomery from Calling All Cars and an AIM Big Band performance. Plus Ableton workshops, DJing/DJ demos, recording and music production demos.
available through on campus delivery in Melbourne. We have also partnered with TAFEs in regional Victoria so students can gain the Bachelor of Event Management through blended delivery, combining online and remote access with the support of their local TAFE. Enrolment dates: We accept applications all year round for July and January intakes. Open day: Sunday August 9, 10am - 4pm. Address: 555 La Trobe Street, Melbourne Phone: (03) 9606 2111 Email: study@angliss.edu.au Website: angliss.edu.au
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Open day: Saturday August 15, 10am - 3pm. Address: 120 King Street, Melbourne Phone: (03) 8610 4222 Email: enquiries@aim.edu.au Website: aim.edu.au
1st Year Hairdressing Apprentice Vacancy Y Salon in Windsor is looking for a 1st Year Hairdressing Apprentice. No experience necessary. We are looking for a motivated creative with high energy to join us in our beautiful salon.
The successful applicant will join a team of experienced and talented hairdressers, will be given the very best training available in the industry and work in a supportive environment.
This is a great opportunity to get a great start in the industry. Contact us at accounts@ysalon.com.au Call Y Salon on 95291159
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Y Salon
Where is your salon? We have taken an industrial apartment space overlooking Chapel St in Windsor. There’s a saw tooth roof that gives us lots of natural light and we have a private garden terrace above the laneway entrance. It is a discreet location that is in the heart of what has become the happening end of Chapel St. Over the 18 years that we have been operating we have always housed the salon in private settings. Our clients love the hidden spots we’ve created over the years. It’s exciting to walk down a gritty alleyway to find the green door come upstairs and then experience the opulent décor, it’s secret squirrel and it’s fun. What does an apprenticeship with you involve? Lots of hard work. The faint hearted need not apply. We are busy all the time and we aim high. We maintain a very high standard of experience for our clients. Having said
that you would be hard pressed to get better training and experience anywhere. We have staff who have been with us for 18 years so you know it’s all worth it. We even take our apprentices on excursions to see exhibitions to help develop a better understanding of design and imagery across such artistic disciplines as photography, performance, painting and architecture. Our next outing is to the David Bowie is exhibition. What makes your salon different? It’s probably down to how we see beauty. The way we approach finding looks for customers is steeped in a love of great design and a desire for luxury. It gives our work a refined and polished appearance. We are keen observers of the luxury fashion houses and look to them for inspiration. We have also been doing this a long, long, time so we have developed our look. Its glamour but its relaxed. It’s well groomed
but not uptight. It’s more stylish than trendy. It’s sexy and confident. How many staff do you have? There are ten at the moment, and we’d now like to add more talent to our already diverse team. It’s a great environment, we all support and care for one another, it makes working at Y a very special and nurturing experience. Address: 14 Mechanics Ln, Windsor Phone: (03) 9529 1159 Website: ysalon.com.au
Abbey Road Institute Courses on offer: 12 month full-time Music Production and Sound Engineering program. What makes us different: Abbey Road Institute is the educational arm of the world famous Abbey Road studios in London. The courses have been designed by the engineering and production teams in London and have tapped into 80 years of knowledge gained from working with some of the world’s most famous artists and productions. From The Beatles and Pink Floyd to Kanye West and the new Star Wars film score, students will have unprecedented access to acquiring the knowledge that goes into the world’s greatest productions whilst refining their skills on the very latest in audio production technology. Take the next step: Abbey Road Institute are passionately committed to training the next generation of music producers, not just audio engineers. The institute strives
Shillington College Courses on offer: Certificate IV in Graphic Design. What makes us different: Our innovative approach to design education means students achieve amazing results in a seriously short amount of time. Study graphic design in three months full-time or nine months part-time and graduate with a polished portfolio and website showcasing your best work. We only employ practicing designers who teach in a learning environment that is run like a real design studio, not a stuffy classroom. You’ll learn in varied ways, through engaging deliveries, dynamic presentations, hands-on presentations and group workshops. Take the next step: At Shillington you’ll graduate with more than a Certificate IV in Graphic Design and a bunch of good ideas. You’ll graduate with a top-notch portfolio, a working website, and the confidence to back yourself.
Success story: Sinead Murphy, Owner of Lovelock Studio and winner of the 2014 Desktop Create Award. lovelockstudio.com.au What else you need to know: Join us for an info session on Friday August 7. Meet teachers, chat to graduates and view student work. We’ll share our mission, walk you through an actual classroom brief and share graduate success stories. We promise the presentation will last less than an hour and we’ll leave plenty of time for Q&A. It’s the perfect opportunity to get all your questions answered. Spots are filling fast for our next intakes in September and February. Enrol now. Enrolment dates: Three months full-time: September intake: classes start Monday September 14, February intake 2016: classes start Monday February 15. Nine months part-time: February intake 2016: Monday
to foster a creative community made up of students, staff and the music business as a whole, where education and industry integrate and collaborate on a daily basis. What else you need to know: Courses are heavily practically based and student productions take pride of place. Internships will be offered to some of Australia’s largest and most prestigious commercial recording studios who work closely with Abbey Road studios to provide real world perspective and pathways into the music industry. Enrolment dates: The next intake for 2015 will commence on Monday September 21.
and Tuesday course or Wednesday and Thursday course. Classes start week of February 15. Open day: Join us for an info session on Friday August 7, starting at 6pm sharp. Address: L9, 55 Swanston Street, Melbourne Phone: (02) 9299 1166 Email: info@shillingtoncollege.com.au Website: shillingtoncollege.com.au
Footscray City College
Courses on offer: We offer three courses in the CUF07 Screen and Media Training Package: Advanced Diploma Of Screen And Media, Diploma Of Screen And Media and Certificate IV In Screen And Media. What makes us different: We teach in a holistic way, where the units of work are incorporated into the timetable, rather than being taught unit by unit. In term one we go on location for filming for a week in Somers and we shoot about 30 films. Students work on a minimum of 20 films per year. Last year we introduced the GLOBAL film project, filming in New York. This year we are going to Berlin in late September. Take the next step: Many of our students get work from the professionals who teach them as several of our students are already independently working. We have had several of our students go on to make feature films and
work in Hollywood. This year two of our students went to Cambodia to help promote a water project for Rotary. We have a strong network of ex-students who offer work to new graduates. Internships are also available when they arise. What else you need to know: Each course is one year long. Direct entry applies, with entry determined through an interview where students need to present a folio of work they have made. We are looking for students who are interested in becoming filmmakers; we’re looking for storytellers. If you haven’t made a film but have written or photographed or composed music you can still apply. We have VET fee funding through the Victorian Training Guarantee Program to deliver government subsidized nationally recognised training. Students enrolled in Certificate IV in Screen and Media may be eligible for a
Australian Guild Of Music Education About Us: The AGME was founded in 1969 and has been a leading education and examining body in Australia for over 45 years. What makes us different: The Australian Guild of Music and Speech Education System can be broadly divided into three sections: Public Examinations for music and speech/drama students from introductory to advanced, Certificate II to III for music industry employment, Certificate IV, Diploma and Advanced Diploma for professional musicians, music teachers and degree preparation, Bachelor of Music for professional musicians and music teachers. What career opportunities we offer: Recording ± artists and repertoire specialists, recording artists, studio session musicians, writers and arrangers, record producers, studio engineers, technicians, managers, copyright and contract specialists, promoters and marketers, artists managers and agents, music
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archivists, performing rights specialists, radio plugging. Live performance – musical directors, instrumentalists, vocalists, writers/arrangers/composers/copyists, artists’ managers, booking agents, stage producers, stage managers, transportation personnel, instrument technicians and tuners, mixers/audio engineers, designers and technicians, lighting designers and technicians. Computer software and multimedia ± producers, programmers and designers of music software packages for composition, performance and learning applications, producers, artists, programmers and designers of multi-media packages, artists and creators. Music retail ± managers, marketing staff, sales and merchandising personnel, buyers, wholesalers and distributors. Music publishing (notation) - licensing specialists, sample editors, copyists, editors, graphic designers. Concert halls and venues ± composers, performers, programmers,
Open day: Saturday August 22. Places are strictly limited so those wanting to attend should register online. Address: 1/135 Sturt St, Southbank Phone: 1800 ARI EDU (1800 274 338) Email: melbourne@abbeyroadinstitute.com Website: abbeyroadinstitute.com
administrative and management staff, catalogue compilers, stage managers, sound engineers, technicians, promoters, presenters, human, physical and financial resources staff. Music publishing (licensing) - copyright/licensing specialists, marketers, promoters and distributors, managers. Music video - writers/arrangers, designers, producers, technicians, licensing specialists, copyright specialists, sourcing personnel, sampling personnel. Advertising ± jingle writers, specialist performers, musical directors, sourcing, sampling, copyright, music librarians. Music teaching - schools (government and private), adult and continuing education, TAFE, higher education, private music teaching, studios and instrument shops. Radio, film and television ± music programmers, music directors, music promoters, music video specialists, technical staff, composers/arrangers of film and radio scores, soundtrack
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concession rate, if they meet the criteria. Enrolment dates: We offer year-long full time courses. Our next intake begins on Monday February 8, 2016. Open day: Sunday August 23, 1pm - 4pm. Prospective students can also call and make a time to see us if they can’t make the open day. Address: 1 Kinnear Street, Footscray Phone: (03) 8387 1511 Email: film@footscray.vic.edu.au Website: footscrayfilms.com.au
producers, editors, mixers. Address: 451 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong Phone: (03) 9822 3111 Website: guildmusic.edu.au
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JMC Academy What makes us different: Investment in facility upgrades and new technology is a key priority. Our longstanding relationships with reputable industry suppliers have enabled us to honour our continual facilities upgrade commitment. Curriculum-wise, the higher education programs offered at JMC Academy are unique in combining essential critical thinking and theoretical principles, with the production-based work and practical experience critical to the industry. Students are guided through their studies by a network of committed academic professionals. Our lecturers are highly experienced, well-connected, accomplished and above all passionate about equipping their students with everything they need for success. Staged at popular venues, music and audio students gain experience by playing, performing, mixing and recording to live audiences. Film, animation and game design students, in turn, enjoy the opportunity to exhibit their work in both private and public spaces. Entertainment business students are responsible for the marketing and coordination of many of these opportunities. Students are able to access a range of effective support systems
including orientation, mentoring, counselling and academic assistance programs. Accessibility to lecturers and equipment is essential for an optimum learning experience. Class sizes rarely exceed 25 students to ensure every student receives the attention and learning outcomes expected. In practical classes, however, the ratio could be as low as four students to one teacher. Take the next step: Beyond the stream of real and exciting work opportunities that often arise throughout the course of study, all students graduate with a professional portfolio of their work suitable for future employment interviews. What else you need to know: Our unique program enables students from all departments to work together on collaborative projects, providing them with a diverse opportunity in which to apply their skills. Enrolment dates: September 2015 and February 2016. Open day: Saturday August 22. Address: 171 Bank St, South Melbourne Phone: (03) 9624 2929 Website: jmcacademy.edu.au
Collarts (Australian College of the Arts) Collarts offer Bachelor Degrees in Music Performance, Audio Production, and Entertainment Management. Our students are working towards careers as musicians, songwriters, music producers, audio engineers, live sound technicians, artist managers, publicists, festival and event managers. The campus: The college’s warehouse campus is based in South Melbourne and is a dynamic and creative learning space full of energy, passion and opportunity. With topnotch facilities including a 120-seat auditorium, world-class recording studios, post-production rooms, two fully-equipped Mac Pro labs and multiple music rooms, it’s a space that inspires. You’re taught by music industry professionals. We focus on small class sizes, taught by working industry professionals. Teaching staff are ingrained in Australia’s music and entertainment industries, which means you learn from teachers who are ARIA-award winners, teachers who are touring the country, teachers who run their own recording studios and teachers who work with some of Australia’s best music talent as publicists and artist managers. In addition to these connections, our teaching style is hands-on, collaborative
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and practical. Our music, audio, and management students work together on projects that simulate the working music industry. For example, you will record, produce and distribute EPs and run live music events as part of your course work. Industry connections: We are proud of our vast network of industry connections. We partner with St Jerome’s Laneway Festival so that our students gain exclusive, backstage work experience. We also partner with Melbourne’s premier music industry panellist event, STEP (Society of Tastemakers and Industry People), as well as the Association of Artist Managers (AAM). We hold exclusive workshops for our students with musicians like Nick Murphy (AKA Chet Faker), Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote) and Graeme Park (Hacienda DJ) to name a few. Open day: Saturday August 1, 10am - 3pm. Address: 55 Brady Street, South Melbourne Phone: (03) 9281 8888 Email: info@collarts.edu.au Website: collarts.edu.au
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
TA K E B A C K T H E C I T Y By David James Young
Across ten albums and nearly 25 years in the game, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have cemented a reputation as one of the loudest, coolest and perennially badarse rock’n’roll outfits on the planet. Never once changing their lineup, nor their belief in the blues being number one, theirs is a sharp-dressed, down-and-dirty take on electric blues, which has tackled everything from bell-bottoms to the Bush administration. Most recently, the band paid tribute to their beloved New York City on their tenth LP, Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party. According to the band’s titular leader, the album’s central theme wasn’t pre-meditated “That’s certainly how the record ended up, but I don’t think that’s necessarily the record that we set out to make in the first place,” says Spencer. “At some point, it became clear that these songs kept coming back to our home and that made the sequencing of this record a lot easier. When we recorded, we actually recorded and mixed more songs than we would need for an album. I found myself drawn to the songs that found themselves closer to the theme of life in New York City – it really made the record come together.” Of course, the band’s link to NYC is inextricable – no matter where in the world they perform, Spencer is quick to remind the audience that what they’re hearing
is, “Comin’ straight out of New York City.” When queried on his relationship with New York – the city he’s lived in for over half his life – Spencer says the place is constantly evolving. “The reasons that I moved to this city are gone, mostly,” he says. “I’ve seen a lot of landmarks, bands, musicians, dive bars – the whole deal, I’ve seen it all come and go. They still hold an important place in my heart, though – there’s a connection made in my memory that means it will never really go away. I think that I’ve changed just as much as this city, too. I arrived here in my 20s. The things I get up to now, the things that I’m involved with in New York... it’s all very different now that I’m
an older man. This city has grown with me.” It’s been more than a decade since Spencer and the Blues Explosion released Hot Gossip, the second single from their 2004 album Damage. Not only was it a dramatic stylistic shift – featuring a guest verse from Public Enemy’s Chuck D – it was also one of their most politically-charged works; a clear and targeted attack on then-president George W. Bush. It’s brought up here in the context of another Bush – Jeb – entering the political picture as the 2016 election looms. This opens a discussion on the political climate of the country – something that the vocalist is still greatly dissatisfied with. “First off, I honestly don’t even think that Jeb Bush will make it past nominations at this point,” Spencer says. “The Presidential election is still a ways off – I think there’s a lot more things happening right now that are worth me getting pissed off about, both as a musician and a citizen. There was a shooting just recently in Carolina – how many times are we, as Americans, going to have to go through this? There’s so
many things wrong with this. We don’t need guns. We certainly don’t need automatic weapons. We don’t need a consensus on flying the Confederate flag. It’s been a very hard year. This is something of great concern to me.” This August the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will head back our way to perform at Melbourne’s Supersense Festival. The band have been to Australia several times over the years, but perhaps their most infamous visit was in 1997, which included an appearance on ABC’s Saturday morning music program, Recovery. “Australia is a place that has always been nice to us, and I think that is one of the days where it was the nicest,” Spencer says. I mean, you guys let us completely freak out on national television.”
showcases exciting performers. It’s a balance between bands the audience wants to see, and bands we want the audience to see.” Of course, GreazeFest is about much more than the music. There are market stalls (including tattooists and hairdressers), vehicle pinstriping workshops and a massive 700-car hot rod show. With such a range of attractions, it’s no surprise the event appeals to a broad audience. “I see it as different entry points for different people,” says Cash. “Some folks are into the music, some are into the hot rods, some are into the pinups and the fashion, others want to just come along for a big dose of eye-
candy. I hope there are always new things for punters to discover at GreazeFest.” While GreazeFest has never been an exclusive event, the fact that rockabilly and kustom kulture keep gaining more followers has helped expand its demographic. “It used to be an underground thing,” Cash says, “but you no longer need to know the secret handshake to access these types of shows. The whole scene is above ground and this is happening all across the world.”
be jamming for 20 minutes and find ten seconds of that whole jam and be like, ‘Hey – that part.’ It can build up again completely from there.” As you’d expect, Perkins and The Dark Horses are following the release of Tunnel with a national tour. When it comes to his demographic, Perkins is incredibly self-aware: there’s the rock-oriented folk that are best acquainted with the man through acts like Beasts of Bourbon and The Cruel Sea; he’s also drawn in a crowd with his quieter solo material; likewise his many tribute show appearances, including his portrayal of the legendary Johnny Cash. There is, however, something that binds this broad selection of fans. “What I’ve really noticed is that my core audience is my age; late-40s, early-50s,” Perkins says. “That’s who I generally see – the people that have known about me for the last 20, 30 years. You also tend to notice different people that come to shows depending on the venues that I’m playing. If we’re playing a sweaty, rock’n’roll club, it’s a rock’n’roll audience. If we play a
nice comfortable club, you’ll get the people that like the nice comfort. I don’t think I’m picking up the teenage audience – they’re not really in tune with what I’m doing. It’s still pretty broad, though. I try to put the right crowd in the right venue, and therefore the right audience will come.” Of course, there’s no rest for the wicked, and Perkins has proven to be one of the most wicked figures out there. As well as dates with the Dark Horses, Perkins has some forthcoming regional dates with long time cohort Charlie Owen (remember Tex, Don & Charlie? He’s Charlie). On top of that, he has a run of shows coming up with television personality and occasional chanteuse Justine Clarke.
JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION will play at the Arts Centre Playhouse on Saturday August 8 as part of Supersense – Festival of the Ecstatic. Marc Ribot will be in support.
GREAZEFEST
RO C KA B I LLY RU LES , O K By Augustus Welby
This year’s instalment of GreazeFest Kustom Kulture Festival is destined to be the biggest one yet. A spectacular of rockabilly music, vintage fashion and classic hot rod vehicles, GreazeFest is now into its 16th year. That’s a damn impressive achievement, especially for event organiser Lori Lee Cash who’s been holding the reigns since the very beginning. “I started the event with a good friend Baron Von Weirdo back in 2000, and I came up with the name GreazeFest when we were road tripping one weekend,” she says. “We lost so much dough on the first year, the Baron had to bow out and I’ve been flying solo ever since. Of course the fest has grown so much now. It’s not just me, I have a solid team of event workers who are all sensational at what they do.” GreazeFest began its life in Brisbane before branching out to Melbourne last year. “Each year I’ve always sought a new challenge, and in 2014 Melbourne was the biggest challenge yet,” Cash says. “I wanted to see if we could organise an event the size of GreazeFest remotely, and if we could duplicate the special GreazeFest vibe. Thankfully we achieved what we set out to do. There was one stage when the rain clouds rolled in and I thought we had blown it, but the Melbourne rockers still came out and the weekend ended up being huge.” Cash now has a better idea of how to run GreazeFest in Melbourne. “We’ve done some fine tuning behind
the scenes, and as the word spreads about GreazeFest, people are getting to understand the event and how we roll,” she says. “We’ve made the event longer in Melbourne by starting it on the Friday night and we have also added the skate deck art challenge, where 21 artists have customised a skate deck, people vote for their favourite deck by donating a coin, the deck with the highest value is the winner and all the coins go to the RSPCA.” On the music side of things, this year’s lineup includes rockabilly demi-gods The Go Getters from Sweden, Labretta Suede and the Motel Six from New Zealand and Will and the Hi Rollers from Las Vegas, as well as stacks of Australian artists. For Cash, putting together the lineup is a labour of love. “I’m a big fan of music, especially rockabilly,” she says. “All of the GreazeFest team are big music fans – we live it, we love it. That means going to gigs every weekend, collecting records, reading up on bands, staying up to date and supporting the scene. GreazeFest always
GREAZEFEST comes to Sandown Racecourse from Friday August 7 – Sunday August 9.
TEX PERKINS
AND THE DARK HORSES HORSES FOR COURSES By David James Young The way that Gregory Stephen Perkins – known to the world as Tex Perkins – is spoken about, you’d think he was a mythological character. The veteran performer is revered for his work in pub-rock, blues, alt-country and adult-contemporary, having released records with a stack of different bands as well as notching up an extensive solo catalogue. He’s an omnipresent figure in Australian music – if he’s not making an album, he’s touring, and vice versa. Perkins’ latest project is a new record with his long-time collaborators The Dark Horses, entitled Tunnel at the End of the Light. “Originally I had planned to call this album Journey to the End of the Day,” he says. “I often map out albums – this album, you could say it’s from midnight to midnight. There’s a middle of the night, there’s a morning, there’s an afternoon, there’s an evening and then there’s the end. It’s seasonal, even – it’s cyclical. The last album had a very similar opening sentiment – an opening of the eyes, seeing the world around it and thinking ‘What’ve I got to deal with today?’ There’s a lot of existentialism. That can be positive, and it can be not so positive. It can be ‘Why do we bother?’ but it can also be ‘Why shouldn’t we bother?’” Perkins is, as one might expect, the kind of interviewee that takes whatever ball you throw his way and runs
with it. Much like in his songwriting, he mixes gentle ramblings and meanderings with vivid imagery and the occasional bit of storytelling. Fittingly, his approach to creating new music is the next subject we touch upon. As far as Perkins is concerned, everything he creates is both contextual and circumstantial. “A lot of the songs that I write are stemmed from their environment,” he says. “Through the various bands I’ve been in, sometimes a song would spring out of nowhere – it would just appear in front of me. I’d have to decide which band it would come to life with. I think the best way, though, is to assemble those musicians and start playing. Hopefully someone’s recording your ramblings, and you pick out the parts that seem to work. You could
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THE BAKEHOUSE PROJECT
S C R A P S O F I N S P I R AT I O N By Patrick Emery
Quincy McLean, co-owner of Melbourne’s internationally-renowned Bakehouse Studios and former lead singer of punk blues band Blue Ruin, is pondering the link between visual and conceptual artists and rock’n’roll. “I like to think there was a symbolic baton that was passed from Andy Warhol, who gave it to The Velvet Underground who toured all over American and seeds sprung up all over the place,” he says. The association between Dada, The Velvet Underground and Bakehouse Studios has some subliminal currency in the evolution of The Bakehouse Project; the new book documenting visual, sculptural and conceptual art project conceived by McLean and his wife and business partner Helen Marcou. As a fine arts student, McLean developed an interest in Dadaism. He was particularly drawn to the work of Marcel Duchamp; the influential French-born artist at the forefront of the Dadaist movement who asserted the artistic potential of even the most banal found objects. “Anything could be art – it was more how the artist conceived it,” McLean says. Inspired by this notion, McLean named his first band Scrap Museum, and the same name would eventually be used for one of the rehearsal rooms in Bakehouse Studios on Hoddle Street in Richmond. The building that now houses Bakehouse Studios started out as a furniture store, then a squat and a derelict rehearsal
space before McLean and Marcou took over. Although the studios have operated successfully for a couple of decades, it was the death of The Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed in 2013 that provided the catalyst for the evolution of Bakehouse Art Project. Shortly after Reed’s death, a Melbourne-based street advertising company pasted two posters of Reed on the external front wall of Bakehouse Studios. The visual tribute to Reed sparked an immediate reaction. “Helen remembers Spencer Jones texting her to say how moved he was to say those images up there,” McLean says. The giant Lou Reed poster sparked a bigger project, with the building gradually transforming into an arts space, featuring photos from Melbourne’s punk scene in the 1970s and artworks by such local artists as Mick Turner, Patricia Piccini, Julia deVille, the Hotham Street Ladies, Veronica Kent, Moya Delany, Stewart Russell, Adele Danielle, Garrett and Will Huxley and
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Brustman + Boyde (who designed the green room adjacent to the upstairs performance space). The art project saw the various rehearsal rooms re-named to reflect a particular theme. Individual rooms and corridors are adorned with artwork showcasing various local artists, images of which are now captured in The Bakehouse Project, a hardcover book featuring art works in the studio art space and the stories behind them. Turner’s inclusion is especially apt – in the early days of the Dirty Three he’d rehearse for hours on end at the original Bakehouse Studios in North Fitzroy. For his contribution, he decided to eschew the usual apolitical tone of his artwork to paint a picture highlighting the tragic plight of asylum seekers and the diffident policies of the major political parties. As the art project evolved, McLean got the opportunity to indulge his interest in Dadaism, with the foyer to the Scrap Museum and the upstairs performance space
including various sculptures true to Duchamp’s belief in the artist potential of found objects. “I’m big on rummaging through the rubbish bin and seeing what’s there,” McLean says. McLean says the Bakehouse Project is ultimately about inspiration, both in the works created by the featured artists and for the musicians who come through the doors to rehearse and record. “We like the idea of not influencing what the musicians do, but inspiring them,” McLean says. “We’re really excited that we’ve created a space that somehow is giving ideas to musicians – they can discuss things from another perspective and then move on.” THE BAKEHOUSE PROJECT by Helen Marcou, Quincy McLean and Sophy Williams is published by Schwartz City and released on Thursday July 30. For more information visit blackincbooks.com.
World’s End Press
GO ON, SAVE T H E WORLD By Adam Norris It’s hard to imagine many folk today who are unfamiliar with Oxfam. The global charity has been devoted to alleviating poverty and hunger since 1942, and has been active in Australia under various monikers for decades. Oxjam, however, is something new; a month of parties and performances staged to spread awareness about global hardships and gather support for the myriad causes to which Oxfam is committed. Between putting the finishing touches on an outstanding lineup, fund-raising coordinator Nadia Watson can barely contain her anticipation. “It’s getting so exciting. All the activities are under way now, all the big and the small,” she says. “We’d been looking at doing this for a few years now, but the time hadn’t been right for a number of reasons. But we’ve got such awesome teams working with us now, in Sydney and in Melbourne, and we’re all such music lovers. Most of our teams are musicians as well, and it just came together at the right time. The theme also seemed to fit in Australia at the right time, too. With groups like Parlour [house performance connoisseurs] doing gigs, getting involved that way, it’s almost like this push for people to unplug their instruments and come back to this local level. Just jamming, playing with friends, and that’s what we wanted to tap into. So the timing feels perfect.”
Oxjam has been operating in the UK for close to ten years now, and the public enthusiasm suggests the Australian version is set to achieve a similar level of success. Their ethos is simple; throughout the month of August, the opportunity to host or participate in DIY gigs in support of Oxfam’s work will be offered to one and all. No matter where you are – from major cities to small regional towns – and no matter what your level of experience, the chance to party against poverty is there. “Our support for gig makers is incredible,” Watson says. “We have an awesome team working here who have been doing events for a long time, and absolutely anyone can sign up to be involved. It doesn’t matter how big or small it is, we’re here to help. There are top tips from experts that we send out, and they also get a gig-
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maker guide when they sign up, which is about thirty or so pages of information about how to really throw an awesome party. So there’s a lot of support from us, but there’s also a lot of support from industry people and our partners. Places like I Oh You, Goodgod, One Dayers, UNDR ctrl, those guys are providing us with tips on how to throw parties and do these events on a limited budget, whether you’re doing it from a big venue or from your home. And we’re really encouraging people in rural areas to get involved, because it’s all about bringing communities together. “The great thing about this concept,” Watson continues, “is that music, no matter what genre you’re into, is something that everybody loves and that brings people together.” Kicking off this month of awareness and festivities are headline events in both Sydney and Melbourne. But, while Watson and the team have curated a tremendous
line-up of musicians (including World’s End Press, Fortunes, Set Mo, Cosmo’s Midnight and plenty more), it’s not too late to get involved yourself. “We’ve really tried to make it our own and we’re looking at some big name Australian artists on the line up. But we’re also asking people to run their own events then and dig into the buzz that will be generated around the launch. They’ve got until the start of August to register a gig. It can really just be as simple as getting your mates together and doing a little DJ set. You could even be a week out and register something that just involves inviting everyone around to get their instruments out and have a great time.” OXJAM Australia runs throughout the entire month of August. Head to Oxjam.org.au for more details or to register your own event.
Jeff Lang
V E RY S H R E D U C AT I O N A L By Peter Hodgson
There’s nothing else quite like the Melbourne Guitar Show, which happens on Saturday August 8 and Sunday August 9 at Caulfield Racecourse. Unlike, say, the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California every January, the Melbourne Guitar Show gives guitarists the opportunity to buy the gear they’re checking out. The event is dedicated to the guitar and its stringy cousins, plus associated technologies and published materials – amps, effects, gadgets, gizmos, educational materials, guitar-centric media. It’s also a showcase of home grown manufacture and craftsmanship with boutique designs from Australian luthiers and amplifier manufacturers. Collectors will be displaying and selling vintage masterpieces, retailers and distributors will be showing off their wares, and there will be performances from a diverse range of guitarists including Jeff Lang, Lloyd Spiegel, Davidson Brothers and King of the North plus many more. Rob Walker, CEO of the Australian Music Association, says, “We’ll have over 50 exhibitors. Among them the major suppliers and brands, prominent local and interstate retailers, local guitar and ukulele makers, local custom amp makers and a decent collection of vintage to see and buy. The major players in the guitar industry in Australia will be represented at the show.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40
There will be hundreds of different brands to see, try and buy, making it the biggest pop-up guitar store you’ll ever see. “We tried to showcase the guitar in as many forms as possible,” says Walker. “We will present the cream of Melbourne’s guitar scene. From the young guns to the seasoned pros presenting anything from ambient music and ukulele maestros, to bluegrass, and blues and roots, and jazz to straight ahead rock and high performance shredders. The clinics and workshops feature the likes of Stevic Mackay of Twelve Foot Ninja, Brett Kingman, Phil Ceberano, Jimi Hocking, Marcel Yammouni, Shannon Bourne, Lloyd Spiegel, James Ryan, Simon
Hosford and many more, tapping into the guitar as a communal experience concept – the ‘Dude, you have to check out this lick,” nature of the instrument.” We ask the revered folk and blues axeman, Jeff Lang, if he had any mentors when he was coming up. “Early on I played alongside a guy named Mick Riley in Geelong,” he says. “He was very encouraging. And then when I first started touring around the country Phil Manning was the guy who was incredibly supportive and kind of showed me the ropes, made me feel welcomed into the scene. He was and remains a great player too.” Importantly, unlike the NAMM Show or its Australian equivalent AMAC, the Melbourne Guitar Show is for the public. You don’t need to be associated with a brand, retailer or media to attend. It’s for anyone who loves the guitar or the music it makes, so families are welcome, as are those who just want to hear a couple of days’ worth of great music from some of Australia’s best. So what is it that makes the guitar so enduring in the face of shifting genres and changing technology? “I guess that I was drawn to music where the guitar is
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prominent – rock’n’roll in particular early on,” Lang says. “The electric guitar can sound really nasty and mean and that probably appealed to all the pent up frustration and confusion of being a teenager.” Walker has his own take: “I think because it can be played in so many different styles and ways,” he says. “It can be used for any style of music as well as creating its own styles. The guitar is very much connected to the technological world, so the way it is played has progressed along with technology. The guitar has embraced technology really as it has expanded the applications and sounds you can get out of it. The acoustic guitar’s popularity in Australia is at an all-time high. It’s portable, you have percussion and melody in one instrument and it is the most accessible instrument for accompanying yourself too.” The MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW takes place on Saturday August 8 and Sunday August 9 at Caulfield Racecourse, 10am-6pm both days. Tickets are $20 at the gate or $17 when pre-ordered.
WILLIAM BASINSKI
D E AT H A N D D E C AY By Tyson Wray
I was eight years old when I witnessed my aunt ± struck down from cancer following a lifetime of heavy smoking ± die. To this day it remains the most hauntingly vivid epiphany I’ve ever had. Over the many millenniums of human life only one thing has been constant: death. Death is inevitable. Everyone you know and love will one day turn to dust. When you’re on your deathbed you’re going to be forced to reflect on the life that you lived, the people you loved, the people you fucked over and the people you never gave the time of day to. You’ll think about the mistakes you made, the regrets you foster and the moments that you’d give anything to have a second chance at. You’ll also reflect fondly on what shaped the person you became: the influences, the people, the art and the societal constructs around you. William Basinski’s 2002 album The Disintegration Loops ± the five-hour aural documentation of his own music physically decaying, which unintentionally became an elegy to the 2,977 victims who died during 9/11 attacks ± will be something that crosses my mind just before I pass. At least I hope it will be. I’ve never felt so influenced, so impassioned or so absolutely infatuated with a single piece of music. I wouldn’t dare try to deconstruct or explain the connection I feel with the music. The ideology of unknowing is what makes life beautiful. Earlier this year Basinski released his latest record Cascade, a 40-minute piece where he manipulates a single piano tape loop recorded in 1982. “Cascade starts
with just one repeating piano tape loop, one from my early days in Brooklyn when I was making all my loops,” Basinski says from his home in Los Angeles. He’s smoking a cigarette and nursing a beer, a police siren wails in the background before gradually fading out. Hauntingly apt. “It’s from one of my earliest piano compositions. The composition wasn’t working so I cut it up and made a bunch of loops. This was one that I always liked but had never done anything with. It’s really just the loop repeating, and it does it in a really beautiful way. It’s got a very strange rhythm. It’s very wilting and it kind of just carries you.” A deeply melancholic and forlorn piece, the loop is swirled within a whirlwind of tessellating currents,
which deteriorate in a ghostly fashion. It’s a harrowing work ± a piece that weaves its way through the deepest and darkest corners of your mind. As the loop begins to die the brute emotional force comes from what music isn’t heard. It’s sound in its most physical and pure form ± a minimalist documentation on the frailty of life. “It should have been a really easy record to make, but it was torture getting Cascade the way I wanted it,” Basinski says. “I almost threw it out several times. As with all of the original recordings that I used to make, it wasn’t very good. There was some crunchiness that I was having a horrible time dealing with. After so many attempts I finally got it to sound like a jewel, like an organic plasma spaceship or something. I’m very happy with the way it turned out.” As part of the Australian record label Room40’s event Open Frame, Basinski will bring Cascade to life in Sydney. “I created a live version of Cascade which I call The Deluge,” he explains. “It’s quite simple: I have two rather small ‘70s-style Uher Report Monitor reelto-reel decks. I’ll have several different reels with me that contain different parts of the piece. I also have my laptop which contains the processing for the main body of the work. I sit there and listen to the space and decide how long certain sections of the piece should go for. The loop starts, and repeats, and then I send it through a bunch of feedback loops which pick up lots of different harmonics and creates a lot of tension. Behind me there’ll be this beautiful sparkling video that was made by my partner James Elaine that works really well with the piece. That’s it. It’s simple.” Cascade is out now through 2062. If you feel like jetting up to Sydney, you can catch WILLIAM BASINSKI Room40’s Open Frame at Carriageworks, which takes place from Thursday July 30 ± F riday July 31.
KNXWLEDGE
BOTTOMLESS WONDER By Dina Amin
When I told Knxwledge that he was our decade’s J Dilla, he didn’t quite know what to say. It got a little awkward while I waited for a response. “That is a crazy statement,” he finally choked out. But is it really that unfathomable a comparison? Like Dilla, Knx lives and breathes hip hop ± making countless beats a week and producing for the illest cats in the game. Both are also key members of the Stones Throw family ± even after Dilla’s passing in 2006, posthumous releases were brought out though the label. Both are incredibly prolific ± Knx’s bandcamp discography is evidence alone. Since 2009 he’s released 70plus mixtapes, albums and EPs. Dilla and Knx a “crazy” comparison? I don’t think so. The LA beat scene is a rabbit hole. As a listener, just when you think you know the game, you fall headfirst into a brighter and richer soundscape. Unlike Alice though, you don’t reach the bottom ± you keep falling and falling. It’s brilliant. Knxwledge (aka Glen Boothe) is an invaluable player in that bottomless wonderland. Fusing hip hop, soul and jazz, Knx provides the perfect soundtrack for those late night feeds and early morning car rides. Put simply, his music is very cool and very west coast. Like Knx’s music, the ‘LA’ sound is equally epitomised through the iconic label Stones Throw, founded in 1996 by Peanut Butter Wolf. The label has played host to a bunch of key hip hop records, including Dilla’s Donuts, Madvillian’s Madvilliany and Quasimoto’s The Unseen.
After Knx made the move from Philly to LA in 2009, it didn’t take long for Wolf to snatch him up. “I was playing a Boiler Room session,” Knx says. “Wolf came up to me while I was playing a Charizma remix and we had a meeting a few days after that. I’d met him back in Philly when I lived there a few times. We’re family now. Wolf is an incredible human being.” Raised in New Jersey, Knx’s affection for music was inevitable. Not only was his house full of instruments, but the church he belonged to was also a goldmine, stocked with an array of instruments that he would eventually inherit. After establishing skills on a bunch of instruments, Knx turned to production and sampling. “I was always trying to record,” he says. “I was playing everything from scratch. In the beginning everything
was primarily keys and drum-based. I bought a Roland SP-303 ± that was my first piece of hardware I could get my hands on. I wasn’t able to have a computer yet.” The last six years have been fruitful to say the least. An impressive discography and numerous production credits has awarded Knx ubiquity on the west coast. A recent collaboration with crooner Anderson Paak (under the name NxWorries) is scheduled for manifestation any day now. Having already released a very sexy single called Suede, the duo are tying up some loose ends on a forthcoming full-length. “It’s gonna be a good one,” Knx says. “I’m just getting the artwork done and we’ve just done a video for Suede. It’s coming out soon.” The rest of 2015 will undoubtedly see even more collaborations and mixtapes, but the producer is currently carrying out an Australian tour. Having
played the Red Bull Music Academy Stage at last week’s Splendour in the Grass, he’s coming our way next weekend to play the Toff in Town. So how does such a prolific producer with such a huge back catalogue decide what to play in a single set? “That’s a good question,” he says. “I actually don’t ever plan anything when I play. It’s kind of weird, but less stressful that way. I just like mixing it up and playing whatever. I’ll either drag something in or I’ll just stop everything and ask somebody in the crowd what they want me to play. My computer is full of songs ± I’ll just play whatever.”
Between the band’s early demos from 2011 and the Is This How You Feel? EP in 2013 (their second EP release) they experimented with a range of different sub-genres, from alt-country to classic rock and glam pop. Then between the EP and the album, there were some further shifts in the band’s sound. “It’s always going to change, what our identity means to us,” Moffitt says. “That’s what it means to be a band, I guess. It’s one thing to be a band in the world right now ± bands are so old-hat, guitars suck, people don’t give a fuck about the stuff that they used to care about in the ‘60s. It’s impossible to ignore where we are. We’re always looking at what we are in the face of people that we really admire who are making music these days.
That’s what happened with the album, that’s what happened with Is This How You Feel? “We found something in [Is This How You Feel?] that we could really put around ourselves as a framework to view the rest of the stuff that we do inside of. That’s what the album was really about, and I think that’s what we’ll probably keep doing until maybe we can’t push ourselves anymore as a group. But who’s to say when that will be.”
Red Bull Music Academy presents KNXWLEDGE, with special guests Cazeaux Oslo, Average Rap Band and Raaghe, on Friday August 7 at the Toff in Town.
THE PREATURES
BASKING IN THE AF TERGLOW By Augustus Welby
In September last year, The Preatures released their debut album Blue Planet Eyes. 12 months prior, the band had a major international breakthrough with the single Is This How You Feel? As a result, the Sydney five-piece have spent a hefty portion of the last two years travelling around the US, UK and Europe. Thankfully they haven’t forgotten where it all began, and in late August they’ll kick off a massive Australian tour. Beat caught up with lead guitarist Jack Moffitt for a recap of the band’s upward climb. In contrast to the communal enjoyment of a pop hit, albums are experienced in quite a personal way. You can get 100 people in a room whose favourite album is The Beatles’ Abbey Road and they’ll all love it for a different reason. Having lived with Blue Planet Eyes for almost a year, Moffitt’s observed the myriad identities it’s taken on based on different people’s relationship with it. “It’s definitely taken on a lot of different lives in different countries,” he says. “[In Australia] there’s a parochial sense of support that you can only get from your home country, where people are aware of you on a different level ± and we feel that people are proud of us for going overseas and doing that stuff. That might sound a little bit coy, but people overseas don’t know about us and we’ve done four tours there in the last little while and we’re just kind of chipping away. Being reminded of where all of that hard work counts ± it doesn’t really mean anything if you haven’t got stuff
to play for people that they really enjoy. Is This How You Feel? is almost like a little cult thing that we have around us, where people might not know who we are, but they know that song when they come to the show. “We’re really grateful for the fact that people responded to that song the way they did,” he continues. “We felt really good about it and we knew we had something that was really different. [It’s different] from the songs that we’d written even six months beforehand and even up to the point where we were making the EP; there’s a totally different bunch of songs on that record. Is This How You Feel? was the little afterglow of having done all that stuff and it came really easy. It just happened in exactly the right moment and that was a big lesson for us to learn, whether we were aware of it at the time or not. Despite the near-ubiquity of Is This How You Feel?, The Preatures have proven a hard band to pin down.
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THE LAURELS
ANYTHING BUT PLAIN By Augustus Welby
Rock music was never meant to be rigidly confined. Like any good expressive medium, it grew from a curiosity to find a way of communicating something honest, or at least persuasive. But over the years rock music has spawned plenty of diehard followers with a reactionary mindset ± those who fear change and don’t want to hear anything that diverges from the original format. Sydney band The Laurels are not those guys. The Laurels have been active for the better part of the last decade, at first distinguishing themselves with a ridiculously loud wall-of-guitars live show. But on their 2012 debut LP Plains, the band pared things back to reveal lucid songcraft. “We thought, considering everyone sees us so much basically being loud idiots on stage, we should actually try to do something that is slightly different,” says co-frontman Piers Cornelius. “We’ve always been interested in the idea of having records that are a different experience to what you would see live.” Once the record was out, the band toured like mad around Australia and the US. However, for the last three years they’ve kept quiet on the release front. “We put quite a lot of effort and a fair bit of our band funds into [the US tour], so we needed to have a bit of a break when we got back from that,” Cornelius says. “We started working on our next batch of songs shortly after that and they were all pretty different to what we
already had. The only way we could foresee ourselves being able to afford to record was to do it ourselves and build the recordings up from the ground ± not rehearse the songs for ages and then try to capture a performance of them.” In spite of the gung-ho enthusiasm coming from Cornelius and The Laurels’ co-leader Luke O’Farrell, the new writing method didn’t appeal to the band’s drummer Kate Wilson. “She was more of a fan of working on songs in a live environment,” says Cornelius. “There was a little bit of time where we weren’t really sure what we were going to do and then Kate eventually left. We got a new drummer in called Jasper [Fenton] who’s totally into just experimenting with the band, having the recording part of it be separate from the live part. It seemed to click a bit better and we got back into the swing of things.” In May The Laurels released the new single Zodiac K, which clearly represents their songwriting overhaul. While the guitars are still in use, Zodiac K is a groove-
based number, where Fenton’s drumming and Conor Hannan’s bass playing interact with a philosophically engaging spoken word sample. The track recalls the likes of Massive Attack and DJ Premier as much as it does the spacey rock of Spiritualized and The Jesus and Mary Chain. “I’d always been interested in hearing songs that have weird audio quotes in them,” says Cornelius. “After we got back from the US and while we were in the US, Luke and I were listening to a lot of golden age hip hop and just things with so many samples and weird spoken word parts. We’re just trying to find something that can transport a listener rather than just trying to blast their head off with guitars.” The Laurels are hard at work on their second album,
which is slated for release in early 2016. We’ll get to hear a few new songs when they head down to the John Curtin Bandroom this weekend. Though, they’ve yet to develop a method for transferring the altered studio approach into their live show. “We’re still recording the album and because we’re doing it a different way, none of us have really learnt the songs we’re working on before the final recordings,” Cornelius says. “So we’ll just put all these ideas down and then sample the best ones and make the song that way. At this stage it’s just us with a synth and guitars.”
like to rock the shit out of the stage and we pull the crowd into our party. We have elements of emotive instrumental and vocal stuff, but we can also have really heavy and funky elements and really ridiculous aspects to it as well.” Above Kings recently released a brand new single, a typically smooth but rocking track called The Fall. Jarrad confirms the single is lifted from a forthcoming album. During the album writing process, the band have worked hard to flesh out their instrumental and songwriting chops and show off some unique elements. “We’re very, very excited for [the album],” Jarrad says. “We’ve got about six or seven songs that we’ve been
holding onto intentionally that we’re going to record around September. We are so excited to get them out, because I think we really don’t sound like anything else out there at the moment. I trawl through Unearthed every week, and I listen to a lot of music, and I’m excited to say that I think we’re onto something new. I think the songs that we’re going to release after September are going to knock people’s socks off.”
in 2013. “Both albums were massive processes and learning curves,” says Ashworth. “It was tricky writing the nocturnal side and being conscious of the selfreferencing we were doing in linking/mirroring the tracks without just going through the motions. I still think it was more efficient to explore the dual concept in this separated two album way.” While these two records are directly linked, with each album, Glasfrosch endeavour to apply new techniques and uncover new stylistic elements. “Our first album was really eclectic and that’s because we weren’t really a live band yet,” Ashworth says. “It was all assembled from a haphazard recording process and developed to the stage afterwards. With Aubades and Nocturnes we’ve been exploring what it’s like being a live band in Melbourne and making work that challenges that setting.”
On that note, Glasfrosch will launch Nocturnes at Howler next week. Given the band’s fervently creative mindset, you can expect a night of unashamed eclecticism. “We’ve got three of our favourite local acts with us, all from completely different music worlds, but they’re all flavours that make up the Glasfrosch palette. We’ve got a bunch of generative audio-visual experiments to accompany our music, mixed in with some video work that we’ve had collaborators make. There’ll be some homemade instruments and some guest players, and lots of gear on stage. So much gear.”
THE LAURELS play the John Curtin Bandroom on Saturday August 1 with support from Nicholas Allbrook. Zodiac K is out now.
ABOVE KINGS
FIGHTING FIRE WITH FUNK By Rod Whitf ield At the precise moment that my interview with Above Kings’ Dylan Jarrad was supposed to commence, the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist was involved in a bizarre incident with a serial arsonist. Needless to say, we had to postpone the interview for 24 hours. “I got back to my car with my colleague from work and we saw a big plume of smoke coming from the street parallel,” he says. “We drove ‘round to the front of it and ran up to the front of the house to see if anyone was inside. A neighbour said they saw someone running out of the house into the alleyway next to the house. So I sprinted into the alleyway and saw this old bloke who said, ‘That’s him in the distance’. So I took off after him… a woman in a car literally cut him off and half ran into him. I ran up and grabbed him and we restrained him until the cops came. It was fuckin’ full on for a Wednesday afternoon.” You can say that again. Such a malicious scene is a far cry from the progressive funk rock that Jarrad’s band are responsible for. Nevertheless, he’s pleased to have done his bit for the safety of the community. “It turns out he’d had priors for arson,” Jarrad says. “That house had been burned down before. So I think we got him.” Above Kings create a wide fusion of sounds, from funky pop to big heavy rock. The Melbourne quintet’s adventurous spirit is partially due to the separate
upbringings of Jarrad and his brother, rhythm guitarist Dan Solomon. “We grew up playing different instruments and had completely different writing styles,” Jarrad says. “About three years ago I moved in to really get to know him, and we decided to form a band ± and that started everything. “He had a funky kind of pop element,” he continues. “I was more heavy and dark. We put them together and came up with a really cool sound.” The band name is actually inspired by a deck of cards. “In poker in the 1600s, apparently the ace could never be higher than the king. So because of that they relegated it to being the one as well, so you couldn’t be above kings.” The band have a huge gig this Friday night at Yah Yah’s, and Jarrad is adamant the Above Kings stage show completely measures up to their varied and eclectic sound. “We try to make our sound incredibly progressive ± funky verses, big, rocky, huge choruses,” he says. “We
Taste the eclectic funk-rock of ABOVE KINGS when they play Yah Yah’s this Friday July 31, with support from The Resignators, Kashmere Club and Honeybone.
GLASFROSCH
FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS By Augustus Welby There’s a scene in the Scott Walker documentary 30 Century Man where Brian Eno speaks about how embarrassing it is that pop music has barely progressed in the last 30 years. It’s a sentiment that Melbourne four-piece Glasfrosch have a great affinity with. “I guess we’ve all come together in this band because of our adventurous nature,” says vocalist/guitarist Justin Ashworth. “But I think that comes from more than just a disheartened relationship with pop music. There’re so many other streams of music to explore. Cinema/film music is a big one for us, and probably as diverse and malleable a format to play with.” Indeed, no matter how irreverent or adventurous you are, no musician can deny the impact of their influences. For Glasfrosch, these are many and varied. “There are artists whose work has an aesthetic influence, and then there’s all the stuff in the process, and the politics,” says Ashworth. “My favourite artists are the ones I find trying and embracing new things consistently. Bjork is a big one for me, but we’re all constantly consuming new music like hungry hungry hippos. Zorn is another big one for me ± Bowie, Liars, Radiohead. The example to be gleaned here is that in order to maintain a fulfilling career in music you need to continue exploring sound the way you did when you started.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42
Considering Glasfrosch are intent upon continual exploration, it makes sense they describe their music as ‘post-genre’. Now, an issue that often plagues overtly experimental music is that it takes itself a bit too seriously. There’s nothing wrong with taking a serious approach to music making, but it can be difficult for people to relate to something that conveys an imposing solemnity. “We try to be playful and enjoy ourselves, and that playfulness and experimentation is part of what leads to the serious discoveries,” Ashworth says. “I think that’s what experimental is ± it’s a process. If you’re not experimental, what the hell are you doing? The reason we adopted ‘post genre’ is because we don’t have one, this is the kind of music you can only make after you give up thinking about where you fit. I feel we can say that honestly, and I am not interested in sound bites to more easily pigeonhole us for the casual Spotify user.” In early August, Glasfrosch will release their third album, Nocturnes. It’s actually a companion piece to the band’s previous release, Aubades, which came out
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GLASFROSCH launch Nocturnes at Howler on Thursday August 6, with support from The Spheres, Miles Cosmo, and Origami. The album will be available from that date forward via Bandcamp.
The Misfits and their very murky, confusing, rotating lineup are returning to Australia this December. Black Flag’s Dez Cadena is no longer in the band and Jerry Only’s son (uh, Jerry Jr) has stepped in to fill his spot. There’ll be some new music from this revamped lineup prior to their Australian tour, during which they’ll perform their classic 1977 debut Static Age in full. You can see all this madness at Max Watt’s on December 11. Unsurprisingly all the tickets for Bodyjar’s How It Works show at Northcote Social Club have disappeared, so there’s going to be a second anniversary gig on Friday October 2. Clowns will be lending their support again and it ’s going to be a banger of a night. How It Works will also be released on limited edition vinyl for the shows. You can pre-order some now. UK prog pros TesseracT will tour Australia this October. Aussie crowds will be treated to the new tunes from upcoming album Polaris which drops on September 18. Locals Caligula’s Horse will join them on all dates including the Melbourne show at Max Watt’s on October 16. Tickets on sale now. Northcote Social Club is celebrating its tenth birthday, which is pretty great. I remember when the venue first opened how excited I was to have a northern suburbs venue just a little bit closer to home instead of being forced into the city for gigs. Happy Birthday NOCOSOCO. They’ve got big headliners lined up for the month of September including Jebediah (Wednesday 2nd), Regurgitator (Thursday 3rd) and Adalita (Sunday 6th). Not sure if you’ve noticed but Laundry Bar on Johnson Street has started hosting heavy music on Thursday nights, which is very kind of them. $10 door charge at 8pm every week will get you a handful of solid local bands, which this week include The Nuremberg Code, Zeolite and Villa Morta. Keep an eye on Laundry’s website for weekly lineups. Clowns are having a wee send off before they go over to the USA and tackle Riot Fest. Pencil in Saturday August 22 at The Old Bar to see them team with a sick as lineup of locals including Dr Colossus, Flour, Freakwave and Tankerville. Tickets will be available on the door only from 7pm. The Mindsnare show originally scheduled for Friday August 7 has been postponed indefinitely due to drummer Gordy Forman breaking his arm pretty badly after hitting the floor when a stage dive went sour during a show with his other band Frenzal
Rhomb. The break looks pretty gnarly so don’t expect the reschedule to happen any time soon. Let this be a lesson to us all that everyone loses when you stage dive.
CORE GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY JULY 29:
• One Day Maybe, Satellites, Stereos, One More Weekend, Jack Frawley at The Bendigo Hotel
THURSDAY JULY 30:
• Unicorn on The Cob, Intimate Apparel, Medicine Dog at The Bendigo • Arkive, Of Stolen Moments, Behold The Defiant at Next
FRIDAY JULY 31:
• The Pretty Littles, Nun Of The Tongue, Brother James, James Maloney and the Mad Dog Harrisons at Workers Club, Fitzroy • Captives, Dividers, Union Pacific, Crowbalt, Verticoli at Bendigo Hotel • Luke Seymour, Admiral Ackbar’s Dishonourable Discharge, The Suicide Tuesdays, Lizard Punch, Seasloth at 303, Northcote • The Post, Mild Manic, The Bond St Vandals at The Reverence Hotel • The Drunken Poachers at The Reverence Hotel • Verticoli at Bendigo Hotel
SATURDAY AUGUST 1:
• The Ramshackle Army, Secondhand Squad, Coffin Wolf, The Suicide Tuesdays, Agent 37, Postscript, 51 Percent, Bombs Are Falling, Jay Wars, Josh Arentz, Tim Hampshire at The Reverence Hotel • I Valiance, Our Great War, Villa Morte at Bang • Batpiss at The Eastern, Ballarat • A Process Of, Bateman, Wet Pensioner, Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard, Drova at The Bendigo • The Delta Lions, The Dead City Lights, Rich Hart & The Sweet Addictions, Duncan Graham & His Co Accused at The Reverence • Whitehorse, Hologram Whitney Houston, Tol, Red Wine and Sugar at The Tote
SUNDAY AUGUST 2:
• Midnight Shift, Avenues, Chambers at The Bendigo
NEW JOE SATRIANI ALBUM OUT NOW Joe Satriani’s new release Shockwave Supernova is one of his best albums in years (although his previous one Unstoppable Momentum was pretty badarse too). It’s available now and JB Hi-Fi even has the vinyl version incoming. Speaking of Satch, his former student Steve Vai recently released Stillness In Motion: Vai Live In L.A in audio and video formats and you probably should get that too.
THE AMITY AFFLICTION SCORES #1 DEBUT
Congratulations to The Amity Affliction, who just scored their third consecutive #1 debut on the ARIA chart, this time for their first documentary DVD Seems Like Forever. The film, which has already achieved gold sales, spans their extraordinary story thus far and offers an all-access look into the band’s entire history, including footage from their early days through to last year’s epic Let The Ocean Take Me world tour. It was filmed in all corners of the globe including Australia, Europe and the USA. The special deluxe edition of Let the Ocean Take Me has also launched digitally with the previously unreleased tracks Skeletons and Forever, which are also featured on the DVD.
SECOND MELBOURNE DATE ADDED TO DEVIN TOWNSEND/ PERIPHERY TOUR With a dream pairing like The Devin Townsend Project and Periphery it’s never going to take long for shows to start selling out. Melbourne fans have reacted first and the Sunday October 25 show at 170 Russell is now completely sold out. But fear not, both artists have agreed to perform a second and definitely final Melbourne show on Monday October 26 at 170 Russell. Tickets go on sale Thursday July 30, 9am AEST.
BLIND MELON TO TOUR In recent years, the tale of Blind Melon has taken a dramatic turn from an abrupt and tragic end to a rebirth and reconnection with their legions of dedicated fans.
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No matter how you slice it, the group was responsible for some of the most memorable and pure rock music of the ‘90s. Reforming with Travis Warren occupying vocal duties, Blind Melon have picked up with their fans exactly where they left off. Originally formed in 1990 in Los Angeles by five transplants from other states – singer Shannon Hoon, guitarists Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens, bassist Brad Smith and drummer Glen Graham. Tragically Hoon died of a drug overdose at the age of 28 while on tour. The four remaining members have now reactivated the band with the ridiculously talented Warren on vocals and they’ll be at Max Watt’s on Sunday October 25.
THE RADIO SUN REVEAL HEAVEN OR HEARTBREAK ART WORK
Australian melodic rockers The Radio Sun will release their sophomore record Heaven Or Heartbreak via Melodic Rock Records on September 25. Once again they’ve teamed with Paul Laine, who mixed the new album as well as co-writing three tracks and adding a special guest lead vocal on a song Science Fiction Make Believe. Guitarist Stevie Janevski says, “The Heaven Or Heartbreak album title stands for our belief in melodic heavy rock. It’s our ‘heaven’. We’ve grown as a band – and it would be our ‘heartbreak’ if this new album doesn’t extend our fanbase.” Heaven Or Heartbreak will be released in September in conjunction with Cargo Records UK and will also be available as a limited Special Edition direct from MelodicRock.com.
WAIT, NILE IS TOURING? Yes: Nile, featuring one of the absolute nicest guys in metal Mr. Karl Sanders, unleash their eighth bonecrushing masterpiece to the masses, What Should Not Be Unearthed, on Friday August 28 via Nuclear Blast and will also be touring in November, hitting The Corner Hotel on Saturday November 21. “The goal for the new record was sheer epic brutality,” Sanders says. “The focus this time around is on brutal heavy metal riffing and songwriting; kind of like of an Annihilation Of The Wicked approach but very streamlined to achieve maximum destructive impact.”
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WEDNESDAY JULY 29
MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW
With King Of The North
How long have you had a love affair with the guitar? A long time. I started playing at 15 or 16, but earlier I used to paint and draw guitarists, mainly Jimi Hendrix. I just thought he was the coolest looking dude ever and he was great for all types of art. You’ve written and recorded many songs, what’s been one of your favourite guitar licks and why? It will vary. Wanted is an effective and easy one. At the end of the day the one riff that gets the crowd rocking is good enough for me. What drives you to challenge your playing style? Playing inspiration? To be honest the set up I’ve created for myself in the 3 From 1 guitar technique. There are distinct pedal sequences or orders and if I forget which way one particular song goes, it can go wrong. Tell us about your involvement with the guitar show. King Of The North are doing a live show on Saturday at 3pm and I will be launching my new pedal, the 3 From 1 pedal. To create this system for KOTN shows previous, I had modified some pedals, created another and synced up others with two guitar amps and a bass amp. I’ve now (with some professional help) condensed this into one pedal. I still run the same amp set up but this will be the first show with the prototype pedal. Pretty exciting. King Of The North play the MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW on Saturday August 8 at Caulfield Racecourse.
gauzy dream pop. Deftly combining the confessional and the abstract, reflections on impermanence, the futility of language, and finding (and losing) connection with people and the natural world will be told with vulnerability, dark wit and poetic grace, this Wednesday July 29. Mallee Songs plays two sets from 8.30pm with free entry.
July 30 as they take the stage, featuring supports on the night from King Choonga and Car Holes. Doors open from 6pm, entry is free.
ONE DAY MAYBE
THE BENDIGO HOTEL
GRETTA ZILLER
THE DRUNKEN POET
Every Wednesday at The Drunken Poet, two female songwriters perform as part of their Wine, Whiskey, Women series. This Wednesday July 29 features Gretta Ziller and Anne Of The Wolves. Gretta Ziller is a woman of modern country music. She is not what you would expect from a country singer and is yet so much more, showing snippets of her diversity thoughout her songwriting and performances. With vocals that range from sweet folk to gritty blues, you could describe her as alt country, roots or Americana. Luscious and epic piano pop with a twist of lime, Anne of the Wolves embrace the darker side of human nature using melancholic jazz-noir and piano pop. A mixture of sultry blues, toe-tapping jazz, eastern style gypsy folk, wistful pop and heartwrenching ballads. Catch these two ladies from 8pm. Entry is free.
THE GROVES
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
The Groves’ live shows consist of a visceral raw energy of rolling deep grooves, sonic downpours of pounding drums and crunching guitars, as well as sonic explorations of desolate - desert blues with a touch of garage psychedelia. A wild ride through a labyrinth of genres, their live set has won audiences over throughout Melbourne with their versatile and powerful shows. The Groves will simmer down their sound for a warm and intimate set at the Retreat Hotel front bar on Wednesday July 29. Doors open at 7.30pm and entry is free. Support on the night comes from singer/ songwriter Scotty Candlish.
REGIN LE FAYE
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E B A R
The Retro Girls Vocal Jam is an open performance evening where networking and promotion of gigs, CDs, DVDs, and merch is actively encouraged.
One Day Maybe are pressing for recognition with their home-hitting and heart-tugging lyrics. Backboned with hard hitting beats and soaring melodies, their music draws inspiration from the late ‘90s and early ‘00s pop-punk scene. Support comes from Satellites & Stereos - a contemporary band built on a traditional foundation. Catch them on Wednesday July 29 when the doors open at 8pm. Entry is $5. THURSDAY JULY 30
UNICORN ON THE COB THE BENDIGO HOTEL
Come chase those winter chills away this Thursday at The Bendigo with some hard rock from some of Melbourne’s best up and coming bands. Unicorn On the Cob will be leading the bill with friends Intimate Apparel and Medicine Dog. It’s sure to be a great night of loud drums, even louder guitars and a shitload of cheap beer. Tickets are $5 on the door, entry is at 8pm.
MALLEE SONGS
FUZZSUCKER
Mallee Songs deliver sharply observed lyricism with a fluid sound that runs through jangly indie rock, beach pop, rainy day folk, cathartic psych rock and
Fancy yourself a bit of punk’n’roll in the spirit of The Stooges and Jim Jones Revue? Fuzzsucker has the ticket. Get yourself down to Yah Yah’s this Thursday
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SEAN MCMAHON & THE MOONMEN T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
Sean McMahon is a versatile singer/ songwriter and guitarist with an unmistakable style and voice that rings true across a variety of sonic landscapes captured in his recording career so far. While his last album with acoustic trio Western Union was described as “a journey through heartfelt altcountry that beautifully conveys a singer/songwriters love affair with the American songbook and a 1930’s Kay guitar”, Sean McMahon and the MoonMen sees him returning to the land of electric guitars, and reunited with Michael Hubbard and Josh Duiker of Downhills Home, embracing a more eclectic blend of elements of blues, country, folk and rock’n’roll to deliver a stack of exceptional songs, rich in melody, poetic narrative and poppy hooks. With supports on the night coming from Rich Davies & The Low Road and Davey Craddock, be sure to catch this night of melody and enchantment this Thursday July 30. Doors open at 8.30pm. Entry is free, as always.
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visual shows as stunning as the musical talent. They’ll be playing a show at Shebeen on Thursday July 30. Tickets will set you back $15 on the door if still available when they open at 7.30pm.
MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE SESSIONS
THE CORNER HOTEL
SHLOHMO
THE B.EAST
MANDEK PENHA
THE WORKERS CLUB
Join Mandek Penha at The Workers Club this Thursday July 30 for a stunning union of music and performance art. Mandek Penha’s newest music video, launching on the night, sets out to expose one of mans many institutions infected by The Hish’ry Cosh’ry: a terrible spirit and the worst evil in the universe. Moving from North Korea to Melbourne, those at The Church of Sarrean Alignment work tirelessly to save humanity and guide man towards Lord Mandek Penha’s Love. The current earthly embodiment of Mandek Penha appears to the public at every live appearance. These live shows are centred on music and synched to video designed to entertain and inspire you. Bring it, we say. It all happens on Thursday July 30 from 8pm, $10 entry.
Minton’s Playhouse is a jazz club and bar located on the first floor of the Cecil Hotel in Harlem. Famous for its role in the development of modern jazz, Minton’s Playhouse was home to many jam sessions in the early 1940s with musicians such as Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie all playing a part in pioneering this new style of music. The B.East has joined forces with Robert Simone and Aleister James Campbell to create this monthly event, bringing an array of brilliant musicians who carry the old vibes of Minton’s Playhouse in jam style format. Come down, or even get on the stage yourself, this Thursday July 30. Doors open 8pm with free entry.
PAPA CAINE AND THE FUNK MD BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Papa Caine and The Funk MD are making their debut live appearance this Thursday July 30 at The Brunswick Hotel. Guaranteed to satisfy the area in and around your ears, a tastebud moistening fusion of funk, disco and
KID RADIO SHEBEEN
Four-piece electronic act Kid Radio have refined their live set to bring a unique soulful-electronic, organic sound to stages across the country, mixed with
After his sell-out tour last year, and Splendour appearance last week, this is 25-year old Henry Laufer as no one has seen before – the chopped and screwed conductor to a crazed live band. He’ll be joined by D33J, Purple, Nick Melons and special guests. It goes down on Thursday July 30 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are $40+BF. Doors open at 7.30pm.
It’s been a long wait for fans since the release of their debut EP, A Long Winter, but the time is right for the band to hit the road with the release of their new single, Best Laid Plans. Filled with catchy hooks, huge guitar riffs and frenetic rhythm, Best Laid Plans is a suckerpunch to the senses. Get down to The Bendigo this Friday July 31. Entry is free, doors at 8pm.
FRIDAY JULY 31
THE WORKINGHORSE IRONS
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E B A R
After a short rest from the live scene, Melbourne psychobillies The WorkingHorse Irons are back, better, stronger and more relentless than ever. Charged with the killer jams from their new CD along with a bunch of crowd favourites, these guys will get you swinging up a psychobilly sweat. Supporting them are two piece lo-fi fuzz-rockers My Old Dutch celebrating the release of their recent single, Queen Of The Dogs, and the incredible cosmic psychedelic sounds of Spiral Arm will fuzz your little mind with a journey of drone-influenced rock jams. Doors open 8pm with $10 entry.
DIVIDERS
THE BENDIGO HOTEL
Dividers have a plan and they’ve got the hooks to take you along with them.
HARRY JACKMARRA THE DRUNKEN POET
Throughout his relatively young musical career, Jackmarra has played with and supported acts such as John Butler, Missy Higgins and Paul Kelly, to name a few. Jackmarra’s songs are a mix of poetic mastery combined with raw and rhythmic playing. Drawing on a wealth of life experience uncharacteristic of his age (including time spent as a crocodile skinner), he creates a dark and complex lyrical world. He is an accomplished
The Retro Girls
What’s your name then? Oh. And the name of your band… Retro San dee and Retro Rach. And we are The Retro Girls. And what do you do? Sing, dance and move to the grooves in a cabaret style duo performance. Why did you start doing that? Well, it’s all Wendy Stapleton’s fault. She made us. She reckons, “You girls have got it.” So that’s how we started. Plus I had a great idea about a retro girl group. Do you think you’re good at doing that? Of course. As you can tell we are also extremely shy. Not only have we been under the influence of Wendy Stapleton, we’ve also been very lucky to study and work with Debra Byrne. Both strong, legendary woman still working in the Australian music industry. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Definitely the feathers. And the smiles and the joy we bring with our music and feathery silliness. And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing? When you take a breath to let out that big note and a feather floats in What’s you proudest moment of doing what you do? Every time we set a goal and we achieve more than we set out to do. Catch THE RETRO GIRLS this Wednesday July 29 at Whole Lotta Love.
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THE IN THE OUT + SPECIAL GUESTS
SHOWTIME 9PM, NO COVER
SUNDAY 2ND AUGUST
THE BAND WHO KNEW TOO MUCH PERFORMING 2 X SETS
SHOWTIME 4:30PM, NO COVER / KITCHEN SERVING SUNDAY ROAST
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THE JACK EARLE BIG BAND DEBUT ALBUM LAUNCH DOORS/DINNER 6PM, SHOWTIME 8:30PM PRE SALE $15 + BF
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MIKE McCLELLAN IN CONCERT + KERRYN TOLHURST & STEVE HOY DOORS/DINNER 6PM, SHOWTIME 8PM PRE SALE TIX $29 + BF
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The Pretty Littles
Define your genre in five words or less: Dumb cunt punk pop rock. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We do a song with a mate Dix Pix and she overheard someone say we sounded like a “Rockier version of Angus and Julia Stone,” which almost makes me wanna put the guitar in a hole and move on. Describe the best gig you have ever played. We played the last Vasco show at the Espy and that was bitter sweet. They’ll bury me with the poster. Tell us about the last song you wrote. Oh, probably some shit about being emotionally destitute and being emotional about that. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? I wish we could ritualise writing a setlist because it always gets away from us. Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. List every Vasco song in order of preference and give detailed reasons for the position of each. I won’t do it now, but if you ever want it, just tap us on the shoulder. If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? A White Knight or a Chomp. So shit, but sometimes you only have 50 cents, you know? So you compromise and you realise that most of the time shit chocolate is better than no chocolate, so you get the shit. THE PRETTY LITTLES play the Workers Club this Friday July 31.
bass, rhythm and lead acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro, percussion, harmonica, and they love to sing up a harmony. Join them this Friday July 31 at The Post Office Hotel, as the Pheasant Pluckers play two free entry sets from 9.30pm.
ABOVE KINGS YA H YA H ’ S
Brothers Dylan Jarrad and Dan Solomon have combined two vastly different writing styles to create a sound that is unique, and refreshingly familiar as Above Kings. They have melded dark and soul twisting rhythm and intertwined it with catchy funk inspired riffs that give birth to a sound that belongs in your ears as you drift through space. Progressive funk rock you can sink your feet into. Be sure to catch them this Friday July 31 when they hit Yah Yah’s. Entry is $13, doors open at 5pm.
ELLA THOMPSON SHEBEEN
Singer/songwriter Ella Thompson will launch her new album, Janus, this Friday July 31. After previous collaborations, Janus sees Thompson soar as a songwriter and vocalist in a solo setting. Catch Ella Thompson at Shebeen on Friday July 31. Tickets are $15+BF, doors open at 8.30pm.
NGAIIRE
SHADOW ELECTRIC
Without doubt, one of Australia’s most unique, eclectic and fearless artists, as evidenced by her electric shows, spinetingling vocal deliveries and outrageous costumes, Ngaiire now gears up to release Blastoma’s first single, Once, at Shadow Electric this Friday July 31. Cowritten with Megan Washington and Paul Mac, and produced by Paul Mac and Jack Grace, Once is about taking risks that turn into revelations: story of her life. Be sure to catch her this Friday July 31. Tickets are $20 on the door if still available. Doors open 7.30pm.
BØG
Define your genre in five words or less: Sickened downbeat hyena punk sludge. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “Their sound was sick in a primal way. I’m not sure if I’m going to like their Facebook page, but you should go back in there.” How long have you been gigging and writing? One year of ugly sweat and consistent physical damage at the jam hut in Preston. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? We gig with Hunter S Thompson’s brainless corpse in our dreams every Wednesday on the moonlit slopes of the Brunswick velodrome. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? If it’s a real physical battle with hammers and chains then Radiohead 'cause we’ll win. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Mostly inspired by unique bands owning their style. Obviously we love a lot of different international bands, but also heaps of local stuff from Pissbolt to Dead to Drones. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? Recording is done (Cellar Sessions Studios) and an EP due for release in September/October 2015. Why should everyone come and see your band? If you like dirty unpolished primal punk and sludge then you can get that at a BØG show. If you’re not into that, at least it’s usually a bit of a laugh. BØG are playing the Brunswick Hotel on Friday July 31 with Bodies, Yachtburner and Old Love.
VERTICOLI
THE BENDIGO HOTEL
Hobart’s Verticoli have revealed the video for their latest single, Happiness, alongside a string of tour dates. Taken from their forthcoming album, Punching Bag, the track has already enjoyed spins across triple j and community radio around the country. They’ll play it live, along with a slew of new material when they head out an eight-date national tour this winter. They’ll hit The Bendigo Hotel on Friday July 31 – grab your tickets from the venue’s website while they last.
PHEASANT PLUCKERS
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL
With almost 20 years and five albums under their belt, Melbourne’s Pheasant Pluckers continue to entertain audiences of all ages with their own country bluegrass sound. With a progressive and alternative slant they play fast, mellow and everywhere in between. Upright
THE B.EAST
Aleister James, the bearded Kiwi troubadour, will lead one of Melbourne’s most exciting young blues ensembles through two tasty sets of blues classics and originals this Friday July 31. The line up of the Blues Assembly is stacked with some of Melbourne’s finest young musicians. Sharing guitar duties is Ale’s long time collaborator Adam ‘Jimmie’ Waldron, and in the engine room are exHusky drummer and bass player Luke ‘Chooky’ Collins and Evan ‘Meatball’ Tweedie. On keys is Tim ‘Soul’ Solly from Captain Apples, and the horn section is a rotating cast of classy dirt bags and dapper degenerates. Northside Blues Assembly play two sets from 9pm this Friday, with free entry. If you’re in the mood for a tasty burger and a blues party, you know where you need to be. SATURDAY AUGUST 1
THE LAZYS YA H YA H ’ S
This Saturday August 1 sees The Lazys hit the stage at Yah Yah’s, with the addition of the Meet Wagon’s quality southern fried kitchen now open for all your dinner needs. Coming along for the ride will be Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood playing a raucous rockabilly set from 12am onwards. Entry is free until midnight, where the $7 fee for upstairs will land you a delicious jaffle from the Meet Wagon’s kitchen.
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 CHERRY BAR
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Dishonest, dirty and wearing flannelette better than you do, The Drunken Poachers are leaving heavy heads and dented floors in their very catchy wake. With the aid of banjo, guitar, ukulele and mandolin, backed by Irish fiddle, uke bass and propped up with lager phone and a trifle of trumpet, their hearty harmonic throat is unlike any other. They’re about to wrap up their Friday night residency at The Retreat Hotel, so make sure you’re down on Friday July 31 for the last instalment before they vacate the joint. Entry is free, doors open at 8.30pm.
NORTHSIDE BLUES ASSEMBLY
This could actually be your dream show, if your dreams involved being sliced to ribbons by consecutive metal covers. Featuring back to back weekends of this heavy metal cover show, Elm Street are taking the stage. They’ve received rave reviews for their debut album Barbed Wire Metal resulting in a tour across Europe in 2013 – and now they’re coming to Cherry Bar. Head down on Saturday August 1 to catch them in the flesh. Doors open at 5pm, tickets are $13.
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claw hammer banjoist and his guitar playing is uniquely intricate. He has recently been nominated for a WAM song of the year award. Jackmarra plays The Drunken Poet on Friday July 31 at 8.30pm and entry is free.
JASPORA
THE LUWOW
MIDNIGHT WOOLF THE LUWOW
Midnight Woolf are returning this Friday to The LuWow, offering up another wild night of epic fuzz proportions with all the ingredients they have become known for: good times, hip-shakin-dance-abilly, high-octane-energy and sonic madness. Over the last few months, the boys have been feverishly writing a garage full of new songs, with the idea to record them live at LuWow for their new release. So set your ears to stun and be prepared to get blasted by the mighty Woolf. Joining them on the night will be good friends Yard Apes. Catch both acts at The LuWow this Friday July 31.
GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOULDIGGERS
Things are heating up at The LuWow this Saturday August 1 with their Tropico Carnival night. Smooth groovy reggae will be on offer from Jaspora, with Trio Tropical and DJ Congo rounding out the lineup. Enjoy a tiki cocktail at The LuWow this Saturday August 1, doors open 8pm with $5 entry.
WINTER NATIONALE
THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL
Drawing influence from post punk, experimental and folk traditions, the Winter Nationale have cut their teeth singing storm and stress in the warehouses and bar-room dives. They’ll be joined by VHS Dream and the Guy Parkman Band when they bring their unique sonic hybrid to the front bar at The John Curtin this Saturday August 1. Doors open at 3pm, entry is free.
CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN COLLECTIVE
NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB
Tasmanian born singer/songwriter Christopher Coleman has released a new single with his collective, Just Like A Needle. Recorded in a barn in the south of Sweden, where Coleman was mixing the Collective’s debut album, the four verse, no chorus track meanders through Coleman’s thoughts and emotions, playing out like a stream of consciousness. Having impressed with the strength of their self-titled debut album back in 2014, the Christopher Coleman Collective are heading out for a short run of shows to promote Just Like A Needle, including a show at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday August 1. Tickets available from the venue’s website.
SUN GOD REPLICA YA H YA H ’ S
Sun God Replica only just came back from shows in the UK and Spain, and have already played a slew of welcome back shows to the delight of their dedicated fan base. This week, Sun God Replica are rolling out the red carpet for Sydneysiders The Lazys, who they’ll be playing another cracking gig with this Saturday August 1 at Yah Yah’s, plus a few guests. Catch this Yah Yah’s double headliner for just $13 entry, from 8pm onwards.
TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES MEMO MUSIC HALL
Hold your horses, Tex Perkins and his band are back and releasing their new album, Tunnel At The End Of The Light, with a tour to boot. The album thematically touches on the self, questions about questions and themes surrounding the idea of ‘the bigger picture’. The album, due for release this week, stands as a third part in a trilogy of albums that feature the landscape as an ever present character, following on from 2011’s self titled and 2012’s critically lauded Everyone’s Alone. They’ll play a show at MEMO Music Hall on Saturday August 1. Doors open 8pm, tickets are $40 on the door.
LITTLEFOOT
THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
SPOT TED MALLARD
Geoff Achison hits the big 50 this year and he’s celebrating as you’d expect, with a big ol’ throw down of world-class blues, funk and boogie. Geoff ’s 50th will bring together some of his talented friends, including Melbourne’s great blues singer and harp player Chris Wilson, fellow blues rock guitarist Jimi Hocking and Geoff ’s favourite sax man Paul Williamson. They’ll be backed up by Geoff ’s always superb Souldiggers with Roger McLachlan, Richard Tankard and Kevin Murphy, with more promises of some special guest appearances. Celebrate Geoff ’s birthday in style, this Friday July 31 from 9pm at the Spotted Mallard. Tickets are $25+BF.
Daddy Cool’s Wayne Duncan on bass, the Bad Loves drummer Chris Tabone, and singer songwriter Craig Horne on guitar. The Hornets recently released their sixth CD Dangerous Dancing to rave reviews, and a four star rating by Garry Williams in the Herald Sun. Be sure to catch this once in a lifetime show on Saturday August 1 when the doors open at 5pm. Luckily enough, this show is also free.
THE HORNETS
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
The Hornets are celebrating their 20th Anniversary as a band on Saturday August 1 at a very special show at the Retreat Hotel from 5pm. The Hornets feature the cream of Australia’s roots music scene, Jeff Burstin guitar (Black Sorrows, Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons),
If you don’t know what to do this Saturday night, the Brunswick Hotel has got you covered. Five huge acts will be hitting up the stage, with Tusk, Dawn of the Jackal and A Gazillion Angry Mexicans all making appearances, along with punk rockers Littlefoot and fuzz lords Drifter. Music kicks off at 9pm, this Saturday August 1 at the Brunny. Entry is free.
THE DELTA LIONS
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
The Delta Lions hit the road again with their new tunes, Smoke Bombs and Mac & Laura. On the Saturday August 1 they’ll be making a stop
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BLACK DOG CHERRY BAR
Here’s some paws for thought. Local rock’n’roll act Black Dog are playing a show this Sunday August 2 to help you bone up on those ruff tunes you’ve been fanging - you’d best be dachshund down to Cherry Bar for this one. Labradoors open at 8.30pm, entry is free. Dogs.
ALI HUGHES
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Ali Hughes’ music is a mix of folk, soul, rock and R&B. She spends her time refining her songwriting, combining her life long passion for music and poetry, while exploring emotions and character. Come on along to The Reverence Hotel on Sunday August 1 to witness Hughes and her friends. Doors at 3pm and entry is free. Empat Lima
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SHADOW ELECTRIC
For one night only, Bedroom Suck takes over the Shadow Electric, presenting a carnival of wonders and oddities from across the country they have dubbed ‘Australiana’. Catch some of your favourite bands alongside a curation of the best oddities Australia’s music scene has to offer. Anything could happen. The lineup for this edition features Kitchen’s Floor, Terrible Truths, Joel Carey’s ‘Songs of Devotion: Hymnals from South Australia’, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Milk Teddy’s ‘The Dance of The Kookaburra: An Australian Opera’, The Ocean Party, Dag and an exhibition by Dane Certificate’s Magic Show. Be sure to get down to the Shadow Electric to catch the action when it happens on Saturday August 1. Pre-sale tickets are $15 from the venue’s website. Doors open at 6pm.
VICIOUS CIRCLE BAR OPEN
With 22 years of performances under their belts, Vicious Circle still show no signs of slowing down. This Saturday August 1 sees the hardcore punks head down to Bar Open in Fitzroy to launch their latest album, Never Give In, on vinyl, with support coming from killer acts Substance Abuse and Removalist. Better get in early to secure a vinyl; doors open 9pm with a cheap $10 entry. SUNDAY AUGUST 2
GRIYA
GRACE DARLI NG HOT EL
Hailing from the eastern hills of Melbourne, Griya draw inspiration from folklore tales, and gunslinger love. With Alexandra Isobella at the helm, her dark raspy tones lead the siege of gentlemen behind her into the depths of a dreamy soundscape. Griya and the Grace Darling have come together for a residency, with Griya taking to the stage every Sunday in August. For the first instalment, Sunday August 2, Mcrobin and Alma Kalorama are coming down to support. Doors open 6.30 with $7 entry.
MINI MELTDOWN’S SONG WRITING SUNDAYS THE B.EAST
LABEL OF LOVE RECORD PARADISE SHADOW ELECTRIC
Record Paradise is an independent record store based in Brunswick, run by music lovers Paul Allen and Renae Maxwell. The store specialises in vinyl, with a focus on underground local and Australian releases. This Sunday, Record Paradise presents a very special showcase of five acts that have been personal highlights of theirs over the last year. Bands they feel will make you think, smile and dance, with a wonderful mix of garage, punk, art and pop noise. This edition’s lineup features Empat Lima, Mangel Wurzel, Pink Tiles, Girl Crazy plus special DJs. It all goes down on Sunday August 2. Pre-sale tickets are available from Shadow Electric’s website for $12. Doors open at 6pm.
DEX
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
Local hip hop artist Dex has a lot to show for himself at just 16 years of age. With three mixtapes to his name already, and having played shows all over town, head down to Whole Lotta Love this Sunday August 2 and catch Dex launch his latest EP, 16. This event won’t just celebrate the launch, but also Dex’s 17th birthday. Also on the bill are Narly, Eloji, Selby, Connor Blake and Codix. Join in on the festivities, this Sunday August 2 from 2pm onwards at Whole Lotta Love. Entry is free.
EMPRA
Oxfam Australia and MTV Music Australia have come together to present EMPRA’s acoustic rock residency at The Brunswick Hotel, with all proceeds going directly to Oxfam. Remember those MTV Unplugged shows from Nirvana and Pearl Jam? Now it’s EMPRA’s turn to swap their electrics for acoustics, with a smooth bass, kahon drums and glockenspiel, small cymbals, brushes and a cellist. Perfect vibes for a Sunday afternoon at the Brunswick Hotel. Free entry (donations welcome) from 4pm, every Sunday in August.
THE HANDSOME BASTARDS
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL
The Handsome Bastards are a local act spawned by Rick Plant, Shane O’Mara, Dan Lethbridge and Ralf Rehak. Conceived in O’Mara’s Yarraville lounge room in 2012, the band ventures out once in a while to show their favourite dark and twisted country songs to the world. They’ve played with everyone, come see them play with themselves, this Sunday August 2 at The Post Office Hotel. The Handsome Bastards play two free entry sets from 4.30pm. MONDAY AUGUST 3 Bodies
THE SPOT TED MALLARD
CHERRY BAR
Cherry Bar are setting up your Tuesdays with a residency of rock. Busy Kingdom, off the tail of releasing their new EP Woman, are taking over for the month of August with special guests at each show. This week features support from Honeybone and The Sunset Club. Be sure to catch them when they hit Cherry Bar this Tuesday August 4. Doors open at 7pm, entry is free.
TASTE OF INDIE TUESDAY SONGWRITER SESSION PRINCE PUBLIC BAR
The Nashville Showcase style format is a fantastic opportunity for the audience to get an insight into songs and the songwriting process, with songwriters getting the opportunity to pull back the curtain on why a song was written. This week’s songwriter session showcases the brilliant local performance talents of Acoustic Foxx, Josh Forner and Tim Hulsman together on stage, telling stories, singing songs, and having a laugh or two with each other and the crowd. 7.30pm at the Prince Public Bar this Tuesday. Entry is free.
BODIES, BATPISS, SPERMAIDS THE OLD BAR
Mundane Mondays are presenting a very special Monday night this week at Old Bar. Bodies, Batpiss and Spermaids have all joined hands and are releasing a split 12” record with individual artwork on each album. That’s right. On the night you can head upstairs to The Oldie Gallery and pick your very own work of art of the wall and go home and chuck in on the record player. Bands kick off at 8pm – get in early as there’s only a limited number of records for sale. Monday night at Old Bar, $5 entry. $30 for a record.
SLIM WILLY
Get a little Slim Willy into your groove on Sunday August 2 at The Retreat Hotel. Let Gareth Rivers, Dave ‘Spider’ Robinson and Little Ricky Skinner satisfy your cravings for country styled music, just the way you like it: slow, soft and ever so tender. Just for fun, if you bring a date on the night - they’ll dedicate an appropriately themed song to him/her. They’ll be playing at The Retreat Hotel this Sunday August 2. Be sure to catch Slim Willy when the doors open at 5pm, entry is free as always.
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Huntsman
Define your genre in five words or less: Ozcore hip hop with titty sprinkles. 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? Something along the lines of spitting fire with hooks more catchy and deadly than cholera. Or maybe how flabby Jay is and how sweaty T-Mose gets. How long have you been gigging and writing? Writing since probably grade three or four, although the quality is highly debatable. Oh, you meant with this band? Bit shy of a year. We’re up to our third gig. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Everyone and anyone. As long as it’s down behind the safety of a router and QWERTY keyboard so I have time to formulate witty responses. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Living just above the poverty line in your early 20s, TISM, the current government’s war on everything, crappy jobs and terrible bosses, TISM, Indian food, how goddamn better than taxis Uber is, not being able to afford anything, being fat and stupid and TISM. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Aside from being unique and passionate, a damn good business sense and the flexibility to change on the fly into a bunch of different mediums. Adaptability in regards to selling your product and not being stuck in the “glory days” that initially inspired you to make music. HUNTSMAN play the Brunswick Hotel on Thursday July 30 with Papa Caine and the Funk MD.
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Vicious Circle
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
The Meltdown are a local soul, jazz and blues ensemble. Purveyors of the finest radioactive gospel, they create a bold, brassy, twangy steam train of bumping backbeats and swinging shuffles. Then there’s that voice, sweet as honey and full of soul, with a strong country tinge. Join The Meltdown five-piece every Sunday in August as they work up some brand new material and belt out the old ones at The B.East. Music from 8pm, with free entry.
TUESDAY AUGUST 4
BRUNSWICK HOTEL
THE BAND WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
The Band Who Knew Too Much are a bona-fide foolproof floor-packing band. Exciting Australian songs propelled by energetic jazz-like woodchop rhythm, add in some strong local lyric with gang vocal delivery, and their unique sound is complete. Washboard and/or accordion driven anthems about spending the rent, hard rubbish nights and of course, the immortal beer o’clock. It’s happy hour, energetic party music for everyone. Free entry, too. Catch The Band Who Knew Too Much every Sunday in August at The Spotted Mallard, playing two sets from 4pm.
shaw Four are throwing a weekly shindig, just for you. Every Monday throughout August, The Scrimshaw Four will be getting all down and dancey at The Workers Club, with a new theme, new costumes and new musical guests invited to the party. And like all good parties, these ones are free. This week will see Dan Parsons and Arthur Penn & The Funky Ten get involved. You should get involved too. Go on. Get warm on a Monday night. Doors at 7.30pm.
THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR THE WORKERS CLUB
Bow down and show some gratitude, Monday night music fans. The Scrim-
THE BURNT SAUSAGES THE WORKERS CLUB
Squirt some tomato sauce into your water pistol for this helluva show - BBQ punk pioneers The Burnt Sausages are giving The Workers Club a red-hot grilling during their August residency to launch their aluminium album – The White Bread Album. Prepare to be dunked in tomato sauce, coleslaw and smokin’ original hits such as processed meat anthem Burnt Sausages (Raw On The Inside), BBQ Party, and the ultimate tear-jerking cover, Throw Bread Arms Around Me. Shanks to a saucetastic guest lineup, Tuesdays at The Workers will become sensory explosion of dance, funny jokes, synthesizers and ear music wrapped in a piece of bread and a napkin. Every week will include the world’s only meat raffle where the meat tray is the organiser, not the prize, and the mind burger-ling “Mystery Box”… what could it be? It’s a goddamn mystery. All we know is we’re hungry already. Doors at 7pm, $11 on the door.
Who are we speaking with and what’s your role in Vicious Circle? Paul, vocalist. l have been with the band since its inception in ’83. I book and organise how we all do stuff to contribute. You guys have been making music since the early ‘80s. In what way has your sound developed or transformed since then? The music and vocals have gotten heavier. l think it’s a reflection of what the band wants to do live. Material once recorded ends up having a harder edge live. It’s got to do with energy and keeping it fun for us to play. How has the hardcore scene changed over the past 35 years? I suppose all the sub-genres, which is an evolution of any music form. Each to their own. People enjoy what speaks to them, from grindcore to melodic punk to hardcore. 35 years ago you could get your face punched in for looking like a punk. These days no one would bat an eyelid. You’ll be hitting the stage at Bar Open on Saturday, August 1 with material from your new LP Never Give In. Paint a picture of how you imagine the night’ll go. Crew come on down and have a hell of a night and enjoy themselves. It’s a great venue, Substance Abuse and Removalist are killer bands. Much merriment will be had and Vicious Circle are on stage at 12pm – the witching hour, all kinds of good craziness shall happen. Strict no dickheads policy. VICIOUS CIRCLE play Bar Open on Saturday August 1.
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There’s a natural phenomena that occurs when water falls from the sky and mixes with earth to form a liquidly, slippery substance. It’s called mud. There’s another natural phenomena that occurs when raging young party animals, dressed in psychedelic get ups, take a cocktail of uppers, downers, and in-betweeners. It’s called the munted punter. When mud and munted punters combine in a larger than life amphitheatre that heralds a quality of sound that’s close to fucking amazing, it’s a spectacle to behold. A crowd losing their shit, going arse over tit, is one for the now defunct Australia’s Funniest Home Videos best of reel. That was Splendour in the Grass 2015. Or more like Splendour in the Mud. I’ve never seen and tested so many different consistencies of mud ± s ludge, tan bark infused crud, bottomless puddles of muck, and of course sloppy diahorrea-like ooze. But mud aside, Splendour was an odyssey, and I’m not just talking about hiking around the rolling hills of the festival grounds. Here’s what happened at the North Byron Parklands. Friday: Upon entering, you’re face-to-face with a giant Nicolas Cage in a Cage, an internet meme inspired inflatable sculpture, which became mud-stained within minutes from those wanting to bounce around on it. Walking over heartbreak hill into the initially intimidating amphitheatre, the sounds of San Cisco got things swinging, rallying the troops with their war cry, “If you don’t know the words, just dance”. Death Cab For Cutie belted out tracks from their recently released record Kintsugi, within a setlist littered with old favourites. Moving into the G.W McLennan tent, J. Spaceman from Spiritualized launched the crowd into space, really coming together with the Come Together; white-cloaked gospel singers providing the celestial backdrop. In between sets, running back and forth from the loos, you couldn’t help but bump into the many girls braving the male toilets to avoid the usual endless female toilet queues, getting jealous at the men peeing at the urinals, saying, “How good are dicks?” Then came the rain and Ryan Adams amongst fake Marshall stacks and arcade machines, thanking the audience for ditching the “fake” music of Mark Ronson and Peking Duck. I’m paraphrasing here, but Adams said, “If you think hair metal looked silly, imagine what laptops will look like in ten years”. He was a bit bitter, maybe because he didn’t get the amphitheatre spot, or maybe he’s just a song man fighting for his craft. Saturday: After a night of rain, the things just got muddier, and slipperier. BBQ show, from The King Khan and BBQ show, blew nipple kisses through his shirt with nipple holes as they cranked up their brand of acid Wolf Alice
tripping, garage rock to 11, causing the kids to get loose. Next up was the expansive guitarscape of ‘80s rockers The Church, performing with recent recruit, ex-Powderfinger guitarist Ian Haug. The Dandy Warhols were still riding the wave of their past successes ± no t to say it wasn’t good. Everyone was getting off, feeling all bohemian like you. Florence + the Machine had the prime time Saturday night position, back at Splendour after an appearance in 2010. Florence ran up and down the stage, dress flowing, getting all the ladies gooey. The burley guys were getting right into it too, singing all the words. She got everyone taking clothes off, even herself, “running around in her bra like a crazy lady,” as a dude waving his shirt in the air reported. Sunday: Royal Blood made a valiant effort to get the exhausted crowd rocking out to their octave generated bass and drums assault, before Tame Impala took the stage, putting smiles as wide as the amphitheatre on everyone’s faces. Blur hit the stage to an ice-cream truck medley, with Damon Albarn’s golden tooth glistening in the moonlight, underneath the giant glistening disco balls. It’s hard to know which was shinier. With the mud in the crowd, he might’ve had flashbacks of Glastonbury, shouting “It’s just like England”. They delivered a hit filled set, but without Country House. Come on. I’m sure there were a few in the crowd who needed a herbal bath in the country. Still a teenager in its 15th year, what is it that differentiates Splendour from the cavalcade of festivals that lather the Australian soundscape? It’s the crowning jewel of the festival off season for the triple j crowd, and for us down south, it’s a way to escape the chills and throw on your shorts while enjoying the epic North Byron Parklands amphitheatre. You can understand why it was a site worth fighting for. by lee sPencer-michaelsen Photos by ian laidlaw
loved: The massive fuck off amphitheatre. hated: The full priced entirely mid strength bar. drank: Classic Dry Whites.
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to dance to the intro music, Queen’s Under Pressure, the vibe was perfect. After the intro shenanigans were over, the duo from Quebec (Khan on guitar and BBQ/Mark Sultan on drums) kicked into the visceral Fist Fight from their 2004 self-tilted debut. The first song to really get the audience bopping was Zombies. Another musical highlight was the rollicking Tastebuds (which features the line, “Tastebuds on my cock.”) But the stand out was the BBQ sung I’ll Be Loving You from 2009’s Invisible Girl. As BBQ intoned the song’s title over Khan’s lose and jangly riffage, the mood of the entire room was lifted. BY DAN WATT LOVED: I’ll Be Loving You. HATED: The piss poor turn out. DRANK: Liquid.
JOHNNY MARR The Forum, Wednesday July 22 Johnny Marr cuts a small figure on stage at The Forum but his legacy speaks volumes. With a mop of hair, bright red shirt and skinny black jeans, the guitarist that helped establish the unmistakeable sound of The Smiths is quintessential British rock. Flickers of strobes kick off the hefty two-hour set that bounces from current recordings to timeless cuts from his back catalogue. The show gets off to a slow start; not even an early rendition of Panic revs up this crowd largely composed of Smiths loyalists. Whatever Marr may lack in frontman attitude, he certainly makes up for in musicianship. The performance is tight and sophisticated. Although the vocals take a backseat to his guitar skills, they aren’t lost in feverish tracks such as Easy Money and 25 Hours. This isn’t Marr’s first rodeo: even his interaction with the crowd, where he fires up the Melbourne versus Sydney debate, cements him as a seasoned performer. He weaves from his solo work to Smiths classics,
leaving the crowd awash with his best Morrissey impersonation on songs such as Big Mouth Strikes Again and Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want. Johnny Marr’s solo work is great, but it’s these Smiths offerings that get people going. This is clearest when he treats us to There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, which is lovingly dedicated “to Melbourne and nobody fucking else.” This was a performance that perfectly married Johnny Marr’s past and present and refreshingly offered the crowd what they came to see.
The near-20 song set rounded out with nothing but bangers, including Ice Princess, ATM, Esta Noche and closed with 212, which every single person in the room sang along to. Banks left the stage to catch her breath for a moment, but was brought back by a deafening encore request from fans. She returned to finish with Yung Rapunxel, which had her rapping the last few verses into a megaphone ± deafening fans who were too happy to care. BY CHRIS BRIGHT LOVED: The intensity. HATED: Bad sound making it hard to decipher lyrics. DRANK: Beer.
BY ISABELLA UBALDI LOVED: Face melting guitar skills. HATED: Not much. DRANK: Moritz.
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band treating fans and the uninitiated alike. Of the highlights, the crunchy, simplistic pop of Crooked Teeth stood out alongside the galloping epic El Dorado. Predictably, I Will Follow You Into The Dark took the honours for the evening’s most memorable song, the entire venue united in voice. In this segment, fans’ intense reverence for the band was not only at its most obvious, but most justified too. Put simply, this was an immensely enjoyable performance. Even a pesky technical hitch was not enough to derail proceedings. In fact, in the music-less moments that followed, the band demonstrated they can draw a laugh about as well as they can tug at the heartstrings. Overall, Death Cab For Cutie were in exquisite form over the course of two hours, the group every bit as accomplished as you would hope.
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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 170 Russell, Sunday July 26 Seattle’s own alt pop whiz kid Say Hi, aka Eric Elbogen, was first to the stage, playing to an already-sizeable crowd. His transition from the studio to a live setting quickly became a bone of contention. Formed from an excess of pre-recorded samples, each deployed with astonishing ease, the performance was consequently stripped of any organic feeling. From the fuzzed-up 8-bit-inspired basslines to the intricate drum tracks, there was no discounting Elbogen’s musicianship, but so much groundwork had been done behind-the-scenes to make the set what it was. You had to wonder what was actually occurring besides karaoke, albeit with songs unfamiliar to the average punter. At least Elbogen brought his best dance moves to keep things entertaining, which came in handy when the electronic ditties, though fun, began to bleed together. A saving grace of Elbogen’s set was undoubtedly his dorky charisma that eventually struck a chord with the crowd. Conversely, indie rock veterans Death Cab For Cutie had everyone in the venue convinced from the outset. Ben Gibbard’s distinct vocals and oft-bittersweet heartexplosions cut through a crisp and precise performance. Jangly guitar-driven rock dominated early before the band delved deeper into their bag of tricks. The everpopular Title and Registration infused the set with an acoustic element, before Codes and Keys saw Gibbard tickle the ivories. As the evening wore on, each song became yet another impressive metamorphosis, the
It was a long wait for Banks to hit the main stage, but once she did it was nothing but sweaty dancing and mass chants. Having just come off the high that was Splendour In The Grass, she was in fine form ± working the stage and regularly breaking into synchronised numbers with her back-up dancers. Backed by a live drummer and her long-time collaborator, DJ Cosmo, Banks pulled out all the big guns from her two releases, 1991 and Broke With Expensive Taste, plus a few new ones for good measure. The subtle piano backing of Desperado had the entire crowd cheering along. Banks worked the room, high fiving fans and screaming lyrics at their faces. Other crowd favourites included Jumanji and BBD, before Banks left the stage for a quick DJ intermission. She returned only to amp things up with Count Contessa, which got her so worked up she had to pause again to take her shoes off. Everyone in the room raised their hands to clap along with 1991, and then bounced along with the intense chorus.
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I felt a pang of sadness as I entered the Corner Hotel to see two of the greatest exponents of modern garage rock, King Kahn & BBQ: there was hardly any fucker there. OK, it was quite early in the night, but even though it did fill up, the dividing curtain stayed out, essentially reducing the capacity by a third. Primary support came from four Geelong guys in their early-20s that go by the name The Living Eyes. They rose above the so-so attendance to deliver a stirring 35 minutes of mid-to-high tempo garage/surf rock. Having released their sophomore album Living Large earlier this year, the band’s set had the contagious excitement that comes from a band rapt to be playing new songs. When The Living Eyes rocked into Put It Back, I spied two separate instances of friends sharing knowing smiles ± y ou know that tacit, “Right on.” For The King Khan & BBQ Show, the stage was bathed in muted blues and purples, making it seem like the inside of a lava lamp; an appropriate tone for their schlocky 1960s aesthetic. When the two go-go dancers ± one blonde and one brunette, dressed in the mode of I Dream of Genie ± appeared on either side of the stage
AZEALIA BANKS Prince Bandroom, Sunday July 26
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LOVED: It was a comprehensive set, covering more besides Death Cab’s recent material. HATED: Standing next to possibly the only person in the entire venue unable to hold a tune. DRANK: Pepsi, or highly-questionable post-mix Coke.
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1. First & Last & Always 4LP SISTERS OF MERCY 2. Live At Roadburn LP CHELSEA WOLFE 3. Something More 2LP JASON ISBELL 4. Live at Carnegie Hall 6LP BOX RYAN ADAMS 5. Currents 2LP TAME IMPALA 6. Self Titled LP WOVENHAND 7. Key Markets LP SLEAFORD MODS 8. Skills In Pills LP/CD LINDEMANN 9. King of The Road 2LP FU MANCHU 10. Fame 7” PIC DISC DAVID BOWIE
NEIL YOUNG AND THE PROMISE Of THE REAL The Monsanto Years (Warner)
The last time we heard from Neil Young, he was sitting on the proverbial front porch, chewing on his psychedelic pill and muttering between the mistyeyed idealism of his youth and the commercial selfindulgence of the present. In 2015 Young is back, and he’s still not impressed with the world he thought he was helping to create. Sure, on A New Day for Love, the opening track from The Monsanto Years, Young seems to suggest it’s 1967 all over again and we’re all going to hold hands and shed our fiscal obsessions and social prejudices like an illfitting double breasted suit. But it’s irony laced with sarcasm; beneath the façade of community lies the unbackable winner of self-interest. Wolf Moon provides a centring context for Young’s subsequent rants: the natural world is full of splendid sights and sounds, but peer closely enough and you can see the shadowy business interests reducing nature to an inventory of exploitable intellectual property rights. On People Want to Hear About Love, Young is torn: Marx claimed religion is the opium of the masses, but the modern opiate is the insipid platitudes of the political class, offered up to distract attention away from the self-serving agendas of Chevron, Coca Cola and any number of corporate behemoths. By the time Big Box comes around, Young has taken to the hills, his armoury the colourful, albeit contradictory discourse of the libertarian fighting the cause of a nebulous popular front, draped in the Norman Rockwell-sponsored mythology of a proud working American population. The message of A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop is two-
fold: it’s a talk of the evils of Starbucks and its ilk, cloaking themselves in the veneer of alternative culture, and an expose of the myriad of corporate relationships that make up the abstract concept that is ‘the market’. Workin’ Man is a thinly-veiled re-working of Bobby Womack’s It’s All Over Now, which is surely deliberate. The workin’ man has struggled against The System and The Man, and he’s lost his money, job and livelihood, but retained his identity. The Monsanto Years gives corporate influence a name, and its name is Monsanto, the agribusiness ogre so protective of its intellectual property and, according to counter-culture rumour, so willing to litigate against the most innocent individual in its quest to preserve its capitalist interests. By the time If I Don’t Know comes around to finish the record, Young recognises he might just be the crazy old hippy fighting the lost battles of yore. Maybe this is the future he was fighting for, and he missed the memo in the blizzard of cocaine, stadium rock tours and ponderous self-indulgence that was the 1970s and ‘80s. The Monsanto Years is as lofty, confused and contradictory as the rhetoric of the hyper-capitalist Benjamin Franklin and the slave-owners Thomas Jefferson and George Washington (all of whom feature in the reproduction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in the insert to the record). But fuck it, there’s bad shit going down, and someone’s got to say something ± and that someone is Neil Young. Thank God for Neil.
COLLECTORS CORNER MiSSiNg LiNk TOP TEN
BY PATRICK EMERY
1. Currents TAME IMPALA 2. Bunyip OUCH MY FACE 3. The Magic Whip BLUR 4. Oh Inhuman Spectacle METHYL ETHEL 5. Slow Gum FRASER A GORMAN 6. In Colour JAMIE XX 7. Purple Skies, Toxic River TV COLOURS 8. The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... THE FALL 9. Premier Hits GARY NUMAN 10. Live At The Matterhorn FAT FREDDY’S DROP
SINGLES
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1. Currents LP TAME IMPALA 2. Child LP/CD CHILD 3. A Thousand Miles Of Midnight 2LP/CD MARK LANEGAN BAND 4. Holy Serpent LP/CD HOLY SERPENT 5. Manhunt LP MANHUNT 6. Unknown Pleasures LP JOY DIVISION 7. Tau Cross LP/CD TAU CROSS 8. Russell St. Bombings LP RUSSELL ST. BOMBINGS 9. Human 2.0 LP NASUM 10. Caged In Flesh 2LP/CD HORSEHUNTER
RECORD PARADiSE TOP TEN
BEAT’S TOP TEN HEARTy SONgS
1. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? MOBY 2. Quiet Heart THE GO BETWEENS 4. My Terracotta Heart BLUR 5. Heartbeats THE KNIFE 6. Heart Skipped A Beat THE XX 7. Heart of Gold NEIL YOUNG 8. Heart Of Glass BLONDIE 9. Heart Shaped Box NIRVANA 10. Heartless KANYE WEST
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ALBUMS THE GETAWAY PLAN
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SLAVES
Are You Satisfied?
(Virgin EMI/Universal)
Dark Horses
RATATAT
Magnifique
(XL Recordings/Remote Control)
(Independent)
The Getaway Plan have been around for more than ten years now, including a twoyear hiatus, and the Melbourne boys are back with what may be their finest work to date. It’s been four years since the band’s last record, Requiem, and a single listen to this, their third album, confirms they’ve made good use of their time. In fact, it seems they’ve poured their heart and soul into writing and recording this album, and the finished product is immensely impressive. Dark Horses starts off strong with Landscapes, and from there it traverses some seriously dark but appealing alternative rock terrain, unfurling many moods, colours, twists and turns before finishing in truly epic style with the eight-minute Exodus. The Getaway Plan have really stretched out on this record, eschewing the need for commerciality to create a real musical journey. As is this band’s wont, their influences are plainly displayed on their sleeve. Dark Horses gives a nod to Muse, Jeff Buckley, The Butterfly Effect and more, but it channels these into something that’s very much The Getaway Plan. Dark Horses is a high quality release, which should further cement The Getaway Plan as a major player in Aussie alternative rock. BY ROD WHITFIELD
British geezers Slaves were recently slapped on the cover of NME, accompanied by the pull quote, “We’re exactly what this generation needs.” It’s the kind of attention-seeking hyperbole you’d expect from one of the Gallagher brothers, but from a relatively unknown garage rock duo ± really? Luckily for Slaves, their debut Are You Satisfied? does a decent job of vindicating their cocky banter. Oceans apart ± literally and stylistically ± from the Californian posthardcore band of the same name, the UK Slaves take the flatlining heart of classic British punk and zap it back to life with some sneering social commentary and incognito pop hooks. Guitarist Laurie Vincent and drummer Isaac Holman share vocal duties, routinely taking aim at middle-class ennui on Cheer Up London, Do Something and Live Like An Animal, the latter of which features the morbidly infectious refrain, “Become a carcass rotting in the midday sun.” They spit and hiss with cockney bravado, belting their instruments until the mix enters the red. You can practically hear the sweat pouring through the speakers. It’s all high-energy hooliganism until the fleeting acoustic title track interjects, proving the duo can mix in melody amongst mayhem. Are You Satisfied? squirms around in its own snotty imperfections ± it’s raw, reckless and a lot of fun. Will these guys justify the hype and go on to become the next Jamie T or Arctic Monkeys? Only time will tell. For now, let’s not overthink it and just be satisfied with this album. BY JACK PILVEN
TOVE STYRKE
BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
JOSH PYKE
Kiddo
ADRIAN YOUNGE & GHOSTFACE KILLAH
But For All These Shrinking Hearts
(Sony Music Australia)
(Wonderlick/Sony)
Swedish pop darling Tove Styrke had commercial success with last year’s Borderline EP, and she’s now followed up with her second full-length album Kiddo. It’s jam-packed with over-produced mainstream fodder that’ll no doubt make all of the major radio networks weak at the knees. For the scrupulous listeners of Melbourne town, I don’t know if her sound will fly, but abroad, especially in London where pop is king, she’s played to packed-out venues. It should be said, Borderline ± the second single from an album that lasts a little over 40 minutes ± has a great feel, with subtly diverse influences that make you think of Gwen Stefani in the early days of No Doubt. Though, it feels a bit like a grab at credibility; like thieving someone else’s inspiration. All of the tracks start out strong, but they don’t always have the depth to hold interest all the way through. That said, at just 22, Styrke’s still got plenty of time to find her feet. She has made good ground since her earlier material and perhaps with a bit more experience she’ll be an artist to be reckoned with. In the meantime, at least she’s extending herself beyond tracks such as Fuck My Brains Out, the 2011 collaboration with Swedish duo Caotico. On Kiddo, feminism is broached on a few tracks and she even throws in a bit of rap on Number One. Pretty much all of the songs follow a fairly traditional structure, which can be a little tiresome, especially from within a music scene that comprises so much multi-genre, convention-busting music. For instance, Decay again starts out strong, but a tune needs more than one hook to turn heads. Styrke rose to prominence at age 16 after placing third in the Swedish version of Idol, and Kiddo indicates it’s hard to separate yourself from the music machine when you’ve been created from within it. BY LITTLE STONE
Magnifique is a return of antediluvian proportions for Ratatat, who’ve remained out of sight and out of mind for half a decade. Almost uncontrollable in their flight of fancy, Intro introduces the listener to the most jittery of discotheques. Dance like Ian Curtis with unbridled abandon as you listen to this, from the James Chance funk of Cream On Chrome to the Caribbean sounds of Magnifique. This duo go up and down, in and out and sideways in search of the perfect instrumental. Taking a trip on the wavelength of an old school AM radio, you can hear soundbites of prog rock, electro, calypso, country rock and everything in between, including hints of Kraftwerk and Stars On 45. Primetime has enough dub in the background to keep ears perked up waiting for the next surprise. Then comes I Will Return, which commences with the languid, longing feel of a Hawaiian summer holiday for those doomed to struggle through a sub-zero tundra. Every track is a winner, including the Daft Punk homage, Nightclub Amnesia. Cold Fingers presents the antidote to any sticky fingers as you cannot stop snapping along to the beat, as electro refinement combats traditional distortion. During the first years of their existence, Ratatat appeared capable of releasing albums on call. Although Magnifique has taken substantially longer, the gestation period has allowed them to generate a magnum opus that’s brimming with ideas.
12 Reasons To Die II (Sony Music Australia)
Now five albums into his career, Josh Pyke has cemented his place as one of Australia’s premier songwriters. His latest album, But For All These Shrinking Hearts, finds him in the middle ground between consolidating and experimenting with his lyrically illustrative and classically melodic style. Opener Book of Revelations is a subtle, yet significant departure for Pyke. Led in by droning bass, atmospheric bells and a steadily warbled organ loop, the song stretches out and demonstrates Pyke’s interest in exploring new textures. Similarly, There’s A Line is probably the first of Pyke’s songs to eschew an acoustic guitar as its driving force. Instead, an arpeggiating keyboard accompanies him, while the instrumental bridge unfurls rich washes of colour. Pyke isn’t trying to reinvent himself completely, but analysing the finer details reveals a carefully considered and quietly refreshing production palette. Like the rudimentary perpetual motion machine depicted on the front cover, the album is filled with tiny experiments. Perhaps the biggest contribution to Pyke’s willingness to incorporate diverse instrumentation is his recent stint of shows alongside the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Throughout, songs are enhanced by tasteful arrangements of strings and brass, which add a new dimension that ultimately lifts many of these tracks to another level. Arguably, the further Pyke moves away from the mainstream, the higher quality his work becomes. Ukulele-touting single Hollering Hearts and the hook-laden Be Your Boy fall flat compared to the gorgeous ballad When Your Colours Go and the Beatles-esque Doing What You’re Told, complete with an extended Hey Jude-style coda. Lyrically, much of the album deals with Pyke’s relationship with creativity and his longstanding pursuit of it. What this album proves is that as long as he continues to follow his muse, there will be many more enjoyable records to come. BY JAMES DI FABRIZIO
2013’s Twelve Reasons To Die saw Ghostface Killah cast as the lead character in a concept album, created and produced by weirdo soul/hip hop musician Adrian Younge. Number two is a more focused and interesting record than its predecessor, and while Younge’s music still takes centre stage, this time Ghostface feels as though he has earned equal billing. Raekwon is a very welcome addition to the album, his well-honed drug dealing persona slotting perfectly into the plot, perhaps even more so than Ghost’s. It’s good to hear the legendary hip hop duo trade verses again, particularly on tracks such as Blackout, which brings to mind 1995’s Only Built For Cuban Linx. It’s one of the more minimal productions where the music doesn’t threaten to outshine the vocals. Younge’s signature tremolo guitars, operatic backing vocals and organ flourishes sound every bit the ‘60s noir soundtrack, and provide dark, cinematic drama suitable for the tale. The deluxe version of the album features instrumental versions of all the tracks, which actually hold up on their own. The story, a supernatural tale of revenge amongst gangsters, is slightly more complex than that of the first album, and it’s stronger for it. It’s to Ghostface and the other lyricists’ credit that they can take an abstract narrative and write verses from their characters’ point of view. However, what’s missing is Stark’s own personality, which has been a major part of Ghost’s music since the beginning of Wu-Tang. The humour and loudmouth style that has typified much of his best work is sorely lacking here. The plot’s ridiculous supernatural horror themes and RZA’s over the top between-song narration acknowledge that this is all slightly silly in a cool way, rather than simply pretentious. In classic B-movie style, the album ends with RZA promising, “This is not the last you will hear from Tony Starks”. Ready the projector for Part III. BY ALEx WATTS
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au
WEDNESDAY JULY 29
• the brunswick hotel’s open mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
• thursby & connell (a secret history
• elk & mammoth + van nostrum + maverick
of song) - feat: mandy connell & floyd thursby La Niche Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • whiskey, women - feat: gretta ziller + anne of the wolves Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• band slam (heat 1) Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $7.00.
• broke & wasted - feat: taco leg + drug
sweat + fruit & nut Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • damon smith & the quality lightweights + nick batterham Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • frank society ‘gracement’ residency + duoux & frida Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00.
• glory + late nights + joel parnell Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
• mallee songs Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. • mark ronson + kevin parker + daniel
merriweather + andrew wyatt + theophilus london & keyone starr + pond + tkay maidza + yolanda be cool + jones jnr Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 6:30pm. $80.00.
• one day maybe - feat: satellites & stereos
+ one more weekend & jack frawley Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• retro girls vocal jam - feat: regin le faye Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.
• scotty candlish + the groves Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• the mary goldsmiths + sugar teeth +
harmony byrne + dj mermaid Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• the songwriters’ club - feat: kim salmon +
the originals + hamish macleod Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $16.00.
• transition in the pub (the green pledge)
- feat: mango retreat + nicks lion + humus & inagural climate action charades Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm.
• van walker Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • vinyl splinters + plural + eamonn eats Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
• who cares fundraiser - feat: banoffee dj
+ kirkis dj + i’lls dj + planete dj + wabz (live) + good morning Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd.
7:30pm. $10.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 8 hands. 40 fingers. infinity of
possibilities Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
6:00pm. $38.00.
• big easy soul sessions Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• bohjass 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• dizzy’s big band with peter hearne Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• nathan slater quartet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• open mic night Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. • sassy sisters & friends Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• the belle company Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.
• wesley college (a winter concert) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $38.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
GIG OF THE WEEK!
THURSDAY JULY 30
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • bashka Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• kickin the b at 303’ - feat: cookin on 3
burners 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. • malt & rye with mark coffey Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• melbourne improvisers collective Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
YEARS & YEARS
Years & Years are gracing our shores following their first ever UK headline tour, which completely sold out three months in advance. Originally booked in at Howler, this Splendour sideshow blew up so fast the band had to jump ship to the much roomier Max Watt’s. I guess the point we’re trying to make is, Years & Years are fucking huge right now, and they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Well, anywhere except Max Watt’s this Thursday July 30.
• michael cook Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• midnight express - feat: prequel + edd
fisher Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • minton’s playhouse sessions The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
• nluké (single launch) - feat: nluke +
another batch + mya wallace Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• papa caine & the funk md + huntsman +
tolls + yes/no/maybe Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
8:00pm.
• soul in the basement - feat: soul cupcake
+ djs vince peach & pierre baroni Cherry Bar,
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• st catherine’s school stories (2015 gala
concert) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.
$20.00.
• steinway piano series Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $12.50.
• surface Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• the good egg thursdays - feat: henry who
+ tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • anne of the wolves Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • blues night - feat: the sensational
hurricanes + d.j. barry maxwell + the shake shack boogie house band Musicland,
Fawkner. 7:00pm.
• davey craddock + rich davies & the low
road + sean mcmahon & the moonmen Retreat
Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• jane cameron + karl huttenmeister + mr
alford country Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
• justin doncevic & the bean project Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.
• monica weightman band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
• open mic Station 59, Richmond. 8:00pm.
• open mic nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.
• open swimmer Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. • sian evans + dean schulz Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
7:00pm.
• the gumbo club - feat: the blues bash Ding
9:00pm. $10.00.
• the railway gang string band Railway Hotel,
• timbalero thursdays La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.
Fitzroy North. 8:30pm.
• tim woodz Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• band wars (semi finals 2) Musicland, Fawkner.
• tingy celestino Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown.
• disasters + aggressor + the evercold +
• whole lotta blues - feat: rio grande +
5:30pm. $10.00.
drivetime commutte Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $10.00.
8:30pm.
birdshit brothers + brendan forward Whole
Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY JULY 31
• ed kuepper Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $22.00.
• elephant ego + the sand dollars +
barefoot brandon & the taggerty boys Toff
In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• fuzzsucker + king choonga + car holes + dj
mermaid Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • mandek penha + pilots + tetrahedra Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
• next - feat: arkive + of stolen moments +
behold the defiant Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
6:30pm. $15.00.
• orpheus omega + stormtide + athenas wake
+ hollow world + amberyse Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• riot! riot! riot! Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• showcase nights Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • craig schneider trio Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.
• jam the funk Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $18.00.
• keijzer/kelaart/magnussen/farrugia
hammond combo Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• meet. eat. beats. - feat: andre le vogue & dj
ayna The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• miss brigid & her mixed nuts Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• miss jugo & friends + tania bosak + steve
• the over easys Claypots Evening Star, South
• muddy’s blues roulette - feat: lisa
• tom dockray Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
• queen magic & silentjay & jace xl Boney,
House Hotel, Williamstown. 7:00pm.
crawley Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • open mic Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm. • open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm. • open mic night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. • oskar herbig John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. • rebecca & billy’s sing-a-long - feat: rebecca barnard & billy miller St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• seensound - feat: nunique quartet + brigid
burke + steve falk + megan kenny + charles mcinnis + mark pedersen Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• sib Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
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Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
Melbourne. 8:00pm.
• two headed dog + redro rodriguez & his
inner demons + ward 13 + uptown ace Old Bar,
$25.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.
medicine dog Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• waterfall person + the factory + egypt
lies + sunset nevers Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • years & years + panama Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:30pm.
9:30pm.
• captives - feat: dividers + the union pacific
+ crowbait & verticoli Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• child Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.
• chris stockley Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.
• dj draw 4 Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• doctopus + the shabbab + diana’s + lalic +
half mongrel Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• don’t argue + little house godz + mark
gardner Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
• dreamcoat (single launch) + frida + tom
lee-richards John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm.
$12.00.
• einsteins toyboys + cranked Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
records djs Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00. mullin Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.
• ezekiel ox + dj marze Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• gladstone + and...burn + laser brains + the
duvtons + punching ponies Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• hey hey it’s friday - feat: astro boys Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
• kings & queens + fallen ends + scorching
winter (ep launch) + evolution of self + conjurer + beyond vegas + mojo pin Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $14.30.
• kit convict & thee terrible two + the red
motors Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
• la danse macabre - feat: brunswick
massive resident djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
9:00pm.
• luke seymoup band + admiral ackbar’s
• ministry of plenty + bears + uncle bobby + i
• westbourne grammar school annual
$5.00.
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
• captain spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
9:00pm.
6:30pm. $38.00.
jules pereira Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• bodies + yachtburner + bøg + old love
$24.00.
• something blue Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. • traditional irish music session Drunken Poet,
• unicorn on the cob + intimate apparel +
zombitches & flocks Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne
Cbd. 9:00pm. $7.00.
dishonourable discharge + the suicide tuesdays + lizard punch + seasloth + the berkeley hunts + josh allen + g-pop + jo neugebauer 303, Northcote. 7:45pm. $10.00. • middle street Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm. • midnight wolfe + yard apes + barbara blaze dj + gogo goddesses The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $12.00.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• two steps on the water + kt spit + geryon &
Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $20.00.
• black night crash - feat: the rollercanes +
• elvis is in the building! - feat: damian
• olivia chindamo quartet Paris Cat Jazz Club,
class Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.
darling james + emily ulman duo + tom redwood Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $18.00. • be’lakor with orpheus omega + decimatus + hollow world + colossvs + cryptic abyss
6:00pm. $10.00.
• dana czarski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
• monday night cajun dance party Customs
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• melbourne ukulele kollective beginner’s
8:30pm.
• ben salter & band (album launch) +
• ella thompson + leah senior + gripless
dannika Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • snowy nasdaq & snowy life (album launch) + teamwork + pea & ham soup Catfish,
• slim jeffries + lam + gilligan smiles +
ryder + scott carne + david sterry + sean kelly Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $85.00. • all the colours + red ink Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
9:00pm. $20.00.
grant + dan witton + andrew tanner + dave evans + jon delaney Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. • movement 9 presents (the music of amy winehouse) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• lamb boulevard + aztx + the elliott’s Evelyn
• absolutely 80s - feat: brian mannix + dale
West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
concert Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm.
• what the funk fridays Purple Emerald, Northcote.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • above kings + the resignators + kashmere
club Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
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spent most of 2008 pretending not to hate myself Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • ngaiire + vaudevile smash The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $15.00.
• poprocks with dr phil smith Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• prayer babies Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. • purple tusks Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 10:00pm.
• sheriff (7” single launch) + mangelwurzel
memorial Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• zerafina zara & the alleged associates Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.
SATURDAY AUGUST 1
& smoke stack rhino + bj morriszonkle
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• amaru tribe + the new monos + la negra The
feat: soul sacrifice: the music of santana
• an evening with showtime quintet - feat:
• soul sacrifice (the music of santana) St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $18.00.
• spencer p jones Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. • sunbeam sound machine + good morning +
crepes Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• taipan tiger girls + mick turner with
ian wadley & kishore ryan + vacuum + antediluvian rocking horse dj’s Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• the big hoo-haa’s 5th birthday Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $18.00.
• the lazys Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. • the post (ep launch) + mild manic +
drexler + the bond street vandals Reverence
Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the pretty littles + nun of the tongue +
brother james + james maloney & the mad dog harrisons Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00. • the romeo knights + cicadastone + tillerman pete Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 7:30pm. • urban spread - feat: the delta riggs + my echo + the vanns Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 8:00pm. $22.00.
• watt’s on presents Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• whitaker + howqua + old feather Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.
B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
class a + cocoa noir Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• anna powell & jono Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• australian world orchestra - feat:
conducted by sir simon rattle Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm. $99.00.
• from past to present - feat: dj alcalde &
dj nelson Popol Nah, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• herd trio - feat: michelle nicolle Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00.
• jaspora + jumpin josh dj + gogo
goddesses The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. • jessica carlton quintet + hetty kate quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • los cojones Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. • meet. eat. beats. - feat: nate harding The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• michael gate Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $12.50.
• movement 9 presents (the music of amy
winehouse) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
• phila para Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• rory clark (rory remembers launch) Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.
• soul a-go-go live - feat: kylie auldist
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
+ vince peach + pierre baroni + matt mcfetridge + richie 1250 + miss goldie + dj manchild Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20.00. • what words can’t describe Melbourne Recital
• rob snarski + shane o’mara + jess ribeiro
• what words can’t describe Melbourne Recital
• working horse irons + my old dutch +
spiral arm Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.
• blue eyes cry Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• blues are back Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm.
• blues party - feat: northside blues
assembly The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. • chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm. • daveys fridays - feat: rob & tarquin + superfly djs Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.
Centre, Southbank. 3:00pm. $38.00. Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $38.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • a nightmare on elm street 2 Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.
• a process of - feat: bateman + wet
8:30pm.
pensioner + zombie motors wrecking yard + drova Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • anchors + party vibez + knife hands + laura palmer Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • babba Commercial Hotel, Morang South. 8:00pm. $30.00. • batpiss + fried goods + tsugnarly + the yard apes The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00. • bedroom suck records (label of love) - feat: kitchen’s floor + terrible truths + the ocean party + dag The Shadow Electric,
East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• ben smith band Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
9:00pm. $10.00.
• geoff achison & the souldiggers birthday
bash + chris wilson + paul williamson + jimi hocking & dj matthew fredericks Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $25.00.
• harry jackamarra Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. • matheson + freya hollick The Eastern, Ballarat • nadia reid + emma russack Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• patrick wilson & the bare river queens +
borris b Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• gettin’ loose for the lost (fundraiser for
suicide prevention australia) - feat: lurch & chief + the pretty littles + empra Prince
• skaturday night - feat: the kujo kings +
papa g & the starcats & morbidly o’beat Toff
In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• small town aliens Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15.30.
• spencer p. jones & the escape committee
// myridian + rise of avernus + the archaic
• tex perkins & the dark horses album
• hybrid nightmares + hadal maw + naberus Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $18.00.
• instrumental asylum with
jasmine mahon
Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
• jed rowe & alison ferrier (album launch)
+ van walker Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00. • john kendall & the shot glasses Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
• littlefoot + drifter + mudslide + dawn of
the jackal + a gazillion angry mexicans Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• live it up on saturdays - feat: sarah
casauria + shane blewitt + nathinal tanter + dear matilda Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
3:00pm. $8.00.
• miss destiny + military position + chelsea
bleach Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
• nluke Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• saturdays r covered - feat: radio star Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
launch St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $37.00.
• the harlots Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the in the out Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • the laurels & nicholas allbrook +
doctopus John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• the lazys + sun god replica Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.
• the ramshackle army + secondhand squad
+ the suicide tuesdays + coffin wolf + agent 37 + postscript + 51 percent + bombs are falling + jay wars + josh arentz + tim hampshire Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 4:30pm. • the wellingtons Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. • tim maxwell, jerome knappett + tim maxwell + jerome knappett Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
• tommy castles band & saltreyne 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
7:00pm. $5.00.
• cryptic abyss + ion drive + cryptic abyss +
• the pheasant pluckers Post Office Hotel, Coburg.
• feat ya (little feat tribute), - feat: dj
9:30pm.
Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00.
ancients + the cannanes + fraudband + nun of the tongue + bad guys Coburg Rsl, Coburg.
tiaryn Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. • the drunken poachers Reverence Hotel, Footscray. • the retreats rebetiko residency + dj shaky
• georgia fair (farewell show) Ding Dong
Urban Spread is back again this Friday and Saturday night, at the regular haunts of Village Green and Chelsea Heights. After a month long hangover from the last one thanks to DZ Deathrays and Northlane, this instalment will feature performances by The Delta Riggs, My Echo and The VANNS. Urban Spread 4 goes down Friday July 31 at Village Green Hotel, and Saturday August 1 at Chelsea Heights Hotel.
• coburg rsl band night #14 - feat: the
• cosmos strings + for belts + elevator talk
8:30pm.
If you don’t know who Tex Perkins is by now, have a squiz at his discography. It’ll take about an hour to get through, but by the end you’ll realize that Tex IS Australian music. He’s played in The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon, the Tex, Don and Charlie trio, he’s done it all. The on again, off again Dark Horses project is thankfully back on again at MEMO Music Hall on Saturday August 1
URBAN SPREAD 4
Abbotsford. 6:00pm. $15.00.
• rough cut Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8.00.
• sarah jane + maddie duke + charlie lane +
TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES
Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.
anient + day of clint + zyphoyd Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 6:00pm. $15.00.
storm’n norm Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00.
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abuse Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
• winter nationale + vhs dream + the guy
parkman band John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.
Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
• the band who knew too much Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• the steve martins Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
• raised by eagles & the heartache state
• triple baroque - feat: ioana tache &
Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.
• “leave your hat on” (joe cocker tribute)
- feat: bob spencer + andy burns + jeff barnes + the delta ladies Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $23.00.
• a high st. winta session - feat: the fondue
set + the ukulele ladies + queen beaver Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• big seal & the slippery few Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.
• brunny saturday arvo blues sessions -
feat: southbound snake charmers + double shot blues band + dr malone Brunswick Hotel,
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• christopher coleman collective + broads
+ the beautiful chains Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• glorious north Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• hello satellites + open swimmer Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• karaoke with zoe Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm.
• nadia reid + tim moore + naomi keyte &
golden syrup Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the blackeyed susans Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• the blues bros tribute - feat: bronnie
gordon & bellatrix + dayle uberti + ken bell & the show dancers Musicland, Fawkner.
7:30pm. $20.00.
• the delta lions + the dead city lights +
rick hart & the sweet addictions + duncan graham & his co accused Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• the hornets 20th anniversary show + bad
vision + digger & the pussycats + the gun barrel straights Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. • vic old time jam session - feat: craig woodward + warren rough & friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
SUNDAY AUGUST 2
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • encuentro dos Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• mini meltdown’s song writing sundays
- feat: the meltdown The B.east, Brunswick East.
8:00pm.
• musical theatre open mic night Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
• nadav Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 1:00pm.
• peppercorn jazz band Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• sian evans + mal webb & kylie morrigan 303, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• soul sundays - feat: moreland city soul
review + raleigh williams + dj manchild Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• sunday soultrain - feat: jimi hocking Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 2:30pm.
• tamara kuldin’s ‘dirty martini’ + steve paix
9:00pm.
kristian winther Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:00pm. $40.00.
• vince jones & paul grabowsky (‘one voice
– one piano – magic’) St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 3:00pm. $32.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • amped up presents (dex’s birthday party)
• beersoaked sundays - feat: 100 acre woods
• michelle gardiner Customs House Hotel,
+ tankerville + spencer p jones Old Bar, Fitzroy.
8:00pm. $5.00.
• black dog + harvest + little miss
remembering + katana cartel Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
• caroline no + meg butler + dj adalita +
slow motion pictures + wayward breed & thomas hyland Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
4:00pm. $12.00.
• champagne alley Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm. • cold irons bound Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. • empra + massive + aimee francis Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
• ezra lee Clare Castle Hotel, Port Melbourne. 8:00pm. • gilligan smiles + machine gun sunrise +
bristol cairo Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00. • griya + mcrobin + alma kalorama Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. $7.00.
8:00pm.
Williamstown. 3:00pm.
• mick thomas & the roving commission Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $23.00.
• nick charles & blue strings Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
• open mic sunday Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. • open mic/jam Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
• slim willy Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• sunday sessions - feat: various artists Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
• the handsome bastards Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
• the new savages Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
• van walker Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
MONDAY AUGUST 3
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
• hollywood tall + atomic cockroach +
• dana czarski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
fresh violet Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
• ella’s live swing quartet Ruby’s Music Room,
7:00pm.
• mantis & the prayer + the hedonistic
pleasures + san sakaar Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $5.00.
• matt kelly + owen rabbit + david adams +
cam lopez Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • merri community childcare fundraiser - feat: the rrrrrockets Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 3:00pm.
• midnight shifter - feat: avenues +
chambers Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $8.00.
• minimum wage - feat: the shifters +
kitchen’s floor + karli white Public Bar, North
Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• rage for refugees - feat: anchors +
raccoon city police department + set the score + summer blood + pitt the elder + knife hands Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 1:00pm. $10.00. • record paradise (label of love) - feat: school damage + empat lima + mangel wurzel + pink tiles + girl crazy The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 6:00pm. $12.00.
• six degrees Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm.
• smile + the great outdoors Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• sunday mosh session - feat: the nuremberg
6:00pm. $10.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• james hullick (unravelled) - feat: curated
by peter neville Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
6:00pm. $25.00.
• jazz party Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • julian banks trio 303, Northcote. 8:30pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • mundane mondays - feat: bodies +
spermaids + batpiss + split 12 Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• the mutual appreciation society - feat:
mandy connell & oliver downes Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• the scrimshaw four + dan parsons +
arthur penn & the funky ten Workers Club,
Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • monday night cajun dance party - feat: the
‘johnny can’t dance’ cajun band Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
TUESDAY AUGUST 4
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • bernadeta & scott griffiths Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.50.
code + evolution of self + the weight of silence Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • sunday session - feat: brunsy Ferntree Gully
• irish session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• spirit of india - feat: dr jayanthi kumaresh
• ali hughes & friends Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.
• banjo-b-que at fancy hanks bbq - feat:
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It’s a full moon this Friday July 31 (cue wolf howl), and Midnight Woolf are playing at The LuWow the same night. Coincidence? I mean, I’m not saying anything, I just think someone should be asking these kinds of questions. With a bunch of new material written for the night, Midnight Woolf will be recording the entire set for their upcoming live album. It’s sure to go off, catch them at The LuWow from 8.30pm. • kitty, daisy & lewis 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd.
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
• aintree sweet Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:30pm.
ADViCE DO NOT EAT SOUP AND DRiVE
MIDNIGHT WOOLF
- feat: narly + connor blake + eloji + selby + codix Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 1:00pm. $10.00. • bang mid year formal + i + valiance + our great war + villa morta Royal Melbourne Hotel,
Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
WANTED BANDS/ACTS WANTED for the Melbourne Artist Showdown. Including prizes from ESP Guitars, Dean Markley Strings, Live Photos, Studio time, PR Package & more. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details. STyLE COUNCiL COVER BAND FORMiNG. Vocals, guitar & keys wanted. Phn: 0433 726 449
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+ kim may + jon delaney + danny fischer + paul williamson + gianni marinucci Paris Cat
craig woodward The Mercat, Melbourne. 12:00pm. • bob starkie band Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • cherry blues - feat: three kings + dj max crawdaddy Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5.00. • chris wilson Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• elwood blues club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• jeb cardwell Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.
• jesse valach & blues mountain Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
• milonga Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.
The dates have been announced for Face The Music 2015, with the contemporary music summit returning to Arts Centre Melbourne on Friday 13 & Saturday 14 November. Following an acclaimed program last year, the music community will gather again to discuss new ideas, investigate the fast-changing development of music & media technologies, learn from international experts & network with other artists & music businesses. It’s a do-not-miss for anyone wanting to break into the industry or expand their operations. A limited number of early bird tickets for $75 (full conference) have gone on sale. Get yours before they sell out, otherwise you can catch the first program announcement & general tickets on August 26. Go to www.facethemusic.com.au In other music news, August is literally the biggest month ever for FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands heats. No joke, there are 21 heats happening across Victoria next month, which is insane. If you don’t know yet, 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 your support for your local competing bands by getting along to an event (there’s bound to be one near you). You can find all the event details on our website www.thepush.com. au by checking out the gig guide or the dedicated FReeZA Push Start 2015 Series gig page. In other competition news this week, 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 & more. The best entries will be played on national radio, & if you’re their winner you’ll be flown to triple j to record, remix or master a track. You’ll also get professional music advice from a top Australian act & their manager, & 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. If you hadn’t yet 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 & the opportunity to work with industry insiders to help them kick start their music career. Applications close August 23 & you can get more info at www. beinvolved.com.au/telstraroadtodiscovery
ALL AGES GIG GUIDE THURSDAy JULy 30 • Music Industry Skills Demo Night w/ Liam Kendall, Michael Plex, Garden Nun, Wally Howlett at North East Artisans, 88-90 Bridge St, Benalla, 6-8.30pm, Free. Contact Amanda Aldous on 5760 2677, AA FRiDAy JULy 31 • Pop Punk Christmas in July w/ Foley, Brodown, Little Foot, Stuck Out at EV’s Youth Centre, 212 Mt Dandenong Rd, 6:30-11pm, $12, www. maroondahyouthservices.com, AA • Youth Film Fest at Southern Peninsula Community Theatre, 245 Eastbourne Rd, Rosebud, 6-8pm, Free, www.facebook.com.au/ impaktfreeza, AA • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands: East Gippsland Heat at Rumours Night Club, 14-22 Lauderdale Rd, Narre Warren, 6-10.00pm, $10, AA
• monash jazz orchestra Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
+ pandit kaivalya kumar Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 7:30pm. $45.00.
• the furbelows Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. • vincs & wakeling, das jazz + vincs &
wakeling + das jazz Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • busy kingdom + honeybone + the sunset
club Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
• cinema 6 Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00. • rubber soul revolver - feat: husky
gawenda + fergus linacre + jordie lane + marlon williams Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm.
$89.00.
• taste of indie tuesday - feat: acoustic foxx
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+ josh forner + tim hulsman Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 7:30pm.
• the brunswick hotel discovery night -
feat: pea & ham soup Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
8:00pm.
• the burnt sausages (album launch
residency) + shane talent time + magic melons Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $11.00. ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • jasper hollis, gretta ziller + jasper
hollis + gretta ziller Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT TASKFORCE PUTS SPOTLGHT ON LISTEN GROUP
The news that the Victorian Government has set up a taskforce to tackle sexual harassment and violence at gigs (as reported on beat.com.au), has put the focus on the music industry women’s group Listen (www. listenlistenlisten.org) which has 1650 contributors. Both Listen and SLAM were responsible for getting the taskforce up. They will help the taskforce, convened by Minister for Justice Jane Garrett, come up with a Best Practice Guidelines review, including issues such as what constitutes sexual assault and violence (some readers would state there’s no advice), education, whom people should report it to, security training and more female security team members. Research done by Listen contributor of Dr Bianca Fileborn of La Trobe University found that 96.6% surveyed agreed unwanted sexual attention happened in licensed venues and 80.2% considered it common. SLAM co-founder Helen Marcou, also a member of Listen, told this column that most women saw being hassled as part of going out, and seldom reported it. It affects punters, performers and club staff. In time, the Best Practice Guidelines will extend to festivals and to the LGBT community, which is equally as vulnerable.
FACE THE MUSIC BACK FOR EIGHTH YEAR
Contemporary music summit Face The Music returns for its eighth year on Friday November 13 and Saturday November 14, at Arts Centre Melbourne. Aimed primarily at a grassroots audience, it drew a record 850 last year, with an awesome program which included a thought-provoking keynote from Steve Albini and a panel of political parties outlining their music policies. The first program announcement and general tickets are on sale on Wednesday August 26.
FIRST CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ROUNDTABLE
About 40 music industry heavyweights representing over 20 associations from across the entire spectrum will discuss industry issues at the first Contemporary Music Roundtable. It is on Thursday August 6 at Erskineville Town Hall, hosted by Music: Count Us In with a keynote by APRA CEO Brett Cottle.
Among the groups are ARIA, AIR, Live Performance Australia, Association of Artist Managers, Australian Music Association and Australian Music Industry Network. The conference has five core strategies: increase public respect for Australian music, ensure a vibrant national live music scene, strengthen Australia’s terms of cultural trade in music, improve remuneration and employment for creators and performers, and optimise a skilled music workforce.
FRONTIER #1 AUSSIE, INDIE, PROMOTER IN WORLD
Frontier Touring was the most successful Australian ± and indie ± promoter in the world between November 2014 and June 2015. Billboard magazine’s mid-year touring report put it at #3 in the world, after massive promoters Live Nation and AEG Live. In this time, Frontier toured Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Eagles, Drake, Kylie, Rod Stewart, Chet Faker, Billy Idol and alt-j. Australia’s Dainty Group was at #7 with a gross of $45.5 million, and Nine Lives (One Direction, Ricky Martin) at #10 with $26 million. Frontier head Michael Gudinski said being an independent promoter was tough but, “We’ve never been so busy and our team has never worked as hard.”
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* Mark Ronson was furious a Perth club advertised he was playing there on Saturday night, when he was at Splendour, and took to twitter to say it “was BS”. * Allday posted on Twitter: “Was gonna go to Splendour today but I stayed up all night dancing to ‘90s boy bands and now I’m too tired.” * Eminem’s people are denying reports that he’s fronting a reunited NWA for shows to promote their new biopic
* A Sydney Earl Sweatshirt fan who jumped up on stage to give him a hug got a couple of punches from the startled hip hopper instead, while Garrett from Trash Talk gave him a boot up the arse as he was thrown off.
* 2500 people have made submissions to the senate inquiry into Arts Minister George Brandis’ arts funding cuts.
* A Change.org petition was started to get 500 signatures to get John Farnham to play at Meredith Music Festival. By this week, they were halfway there. * 3 Doors Down stopped a Colorado show mid-song when they saw a guy push a woman aside to get to the front. After giving him a pasting (“You dick, you don’t hit a woman”) they got security to throw him out. * A number of Ballarat acts played a fundraiser for the Ballarat Rural Australians for Refugees, which does important work for people starting their new lives here.
Hiring a publicist is about choosing someone to represent you within the media to get your project or brand seen and heard. If you’re an indie band looking to get the right people talking about you, you can employ a publicist. If you’ve signed a label deal, they’ll have an in-house publicity team to work your releases. Alternatively, if you’re unsigned, short on coin and living in Victoria, Bank of Melbourne’s ‘Melbourne Music Bank’ might be exactly what you’re after.
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Engaged: musician actor Jaime Robbie Reyne and model Louise van der Vorst, who once dated Daniel Johns. Born: Pseudo Echo’s Brian Canham is now a grandfather, with the arrival of Phoenix, Noise 11 reported. Split: American country music’s poster couple, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, after four years of marriage. Ill: Sinead O’Connor cancelled all her summer tour dates, “from exhaustion due to an existing not resolved medical situation.” Charged: Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav with driving under the influence (allegedly cocaine) after he was caught speeding in Las Vegas. Charged: former Australian Idol winner Kate DeAraugo with driving under influence of drugs (allegedly methamphetamines) and faces court this Friday. In Court: a Wollongong woman who broke into Questions nightclub and stole $16,000 worth of stuff including DJ gear, lost her appeal against a six month jail sentence. Died: Doug Rowe, co-founder, guitarist and main songwriter with ‘60s Sydney country rock band The Flying Circus who relocated to Canada. Rowe had a recording studio in Toronto before returning to Australia to join Grand Junction. Died: Josh Greenberg, 28, co-founder of the now defunct streaming service Grooveshark. His girlfriend found him dead in his bed. Died: Atlanta Rhythm Section songwriter and producer Perry ‘Buddy’ Buie, 74. Died: US songwriter Wayne Carson, 72. Among his hits were The Letter (Box Tops, Joe Cocker) and Always On My Mind (Willie Nelson). Died: Dave Black, guitarist for UK band Goldie, struck by a train in England. Died: influential German electronica pioneer Dieter Moebius, 71, with Krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia. Died: Eric Wrixon, founding member of Van Morrison-fronted ‘60s band Them (he named them after a ‘50s sci-fi movie) and was in the first Thin Lizzy lineup. Died: After The Burial guitarist Justin Lowe, 32, after falling off a bridge a month after leaving the band suffering mental trauma. Died: Eddie Hardin, who replaced Stevie Winwood on keyboards in ‘60s British band Spencer Davis Group, of a heart attack, 66.
* Our fighting boys abroad: Tame Impala’s Currents entered the UK chart at #3 and at #1 in Australia (the latter which Kevin Parker found out minutes before going on at Splendour.) Vance Joy’s Riptide video is up for a gong at the MTV Awards. 5 Seconds of Summer took Best Fandom in the second Alternative Press Music Awards in the USA.
THINGS WE HEAR
By Music Publicity Specialists On The Map PR
1. General media exposure: Whether it’s getting your music embedded on a music blog or a news piece, review or interview in a street press magazine, newspaper, on the radio or on the TV, publicity is about chasing exposure within the media. A publicist can pitch for a story or news piece and use their relationships with media to pursue free editorial exposure. Publicity is more of a gamble, but if you
* Why did Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah threaten to set Action Bronson’s beard on fire?
* Florence + The Machine did an acoustic “secret” gig at Mrs Macquarie’s Point, overlooking the Sydney Harbour Bridge before 500 people. Getting the treatment were new songs What Kind Of Man and Queen Of Peace, before she went on to perform Shake It Out, Dog Days Are Over a cover of Calvin Harris’ Sweet Nothing before wrapping up with Mother. Unfortunately, a passing bus interrupted one of the songs with its horn. We spotted tattoo artists from Manly Tattoo painting the proceedings.
* Which male UK journo was spotted wandering around the Splendour In The Grass site in eye-raising silver wellies two inches too small, due to a mix-up on sizes between Aussie and UK boots, and between male
LIFELINES
* Which festival promoter refused to employ a publicist because she had another festival as a client?
In the spotlight for 50 years, Michael Gudinski turned down lucrative offers to publish his biography. Stuart Coupe gave up asking and started writing one anyway, after which he got a call from the Mushroom Records founder grumpily saying he’d cooperate. Gudinski: The Godfather of Australian Rock’n’roll (Hachette), out this week, is well researched, with Coupe getting to many past associates who dished the dirt. It is compelling reading, with chapters covering negotiations (including the failed bid to sign Silverchair), the multi-million dollar loss of Mushroom UK, the dramas behind the Murdoch buy-out of Mushroom and the PR nightmare of the Stones’ tour cancellation retold in a brutally honest way
Three Tips For How Publicity Can Help Indie Artists
Submit your original song to www.bankofmelbourne. com.au/melbmusicbank before Sunday August 23 and you’ll be in the running to win a whole toolkit for success within the industry, including two days of recording at Sing Sing Studios, a film clip by Oh Yeah Wow, album artwork, printed CDs and the chance for the winning song to feature in a Bank of Melbourne TV ad. This year the prize also includes management and mentoring by Chris Robinson, publicity by us (On The Map PR), radio plugging by Varrasso PR and gig bookings by 123 Agency. For more insight, we’ve put together a few tips on how publicity might be able to benefit you:
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take that risk your $500 spend might get $50,000 in editorial exposure across various media outlets. 2. Brand awareness: The hardest thing to do in the music industry is get yourself seen and heard ± to somehow stand up above all other bands out there. Publicity helps target the right outlets to ensure the right people are stumbling across your brand and music. Do they read the newspaper or websites? Do they watch free to air television or Netflix? Even the world’s biggest bands and artists have publicity teams around them ± a dedicated team liaising with the media on their behalf, setting up interviews and announcing releases. 3. Cut-through and sustainability: If you’re releasing a new single, album or national tour ± publicity is the way to create awareness of your release. Publicity is your vehicle to help tell people that you’ve got new music and shows, this awareness of your news will then allow for release and ticket sales to flow in, hence making a career in music more sustainable.
* The State Government put in $50,000 for Malthouse Theatre to stage 12 shows of its production The Shadow King at London’s Barbican Centre in June 2016 to 10,000 people. It is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear as a blood-soaked tale of two indigenous families in northern Australia. It is staged in the UK to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley was in London last week to discuss the production and find new opportunities for Melbourne arts. * A$AP Rocky as 007? “We need a black James Bond. I’d get the job done.” * At Foo Fighters’ New York show, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith took over drums from Taylor Hawkins for a cover of Faces’ classic hit Stay With Me. * The Black Eyed Peas’ new video for Yesterday features them browsing classic hip hop LPs in a record store, with each cover coming alive with the BEPs filling in for the original artists. It hasn’t impressed Erykah Badu: it’s used the same concept as her 2007 video for Honey, even using some of the same albums which inspired her too. * ‘80s Sydney ska band The Allniters (Montego Bay) have released a documentary of their careers, A Rude Awakening. Available from allnitersinfo@gmail.com or Red Eye Records (www.redeye.com.au).
ECCA VANDAL LANDS AUST, UK, DEALS
Rising urban riot grrrl Ecca Vandal landed two record deals, with Dew Process for Australia and NZ, and Island in the UK. Ecca, who played Splendour In The Grass on the weekend, breakthrough to community radio and social media with singles White Flag and
Battle Royal. She’s currently recording her debut album for 2016 release. John Mullen, head of A&R at Dew Process said, “Hearing White Flag for the first time was one of those stop-you-in-your-tracks moments, and before I knew it I was on a plane to Melbourne to see her rip it up live.”
JESS CARROLL LAUNCHES INMOCEAN
Music manager and publicist Jess Carroll has launched her new management and promotions company Inmocean (www.weareinmocean.com). It includes her current management roster including Rat & Co, Hoodlem, Second Hand Heart and Ocdantar. Carroll guided these acts to album releases and tours through Europe and North America and worked at Falls Festival Lorne for six years. She is contactable at jess@weareinmocean.com.
TRIPLE R PAINTS THE TOWN
‘Paint The Town Triple R’ is the station’s radiothon slogan, running Friday August 14 to 23. It is a chance to celebrate its volunteers and ambitious radio and artistic freedom. Subscriptions are full ($75), bands, artists and DJs ($75), passionate ($125), concession ($40) and business ($150). Full details at rrr.org.au.
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