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Two of the biggest heavy acts on the planet are joining forces for a massive arena tour of Australia. Local heroes The Amity Affliction (whose latest record Let The Ocean Take Me was their third consecutive album to reach Gold certification) will join forces with the Florida-based group A Day To Remember (who were one of the headliners on the 2014 Soundwave lineup) for a tour that’s expected to reach over 60,000 fans across the country. Rounding off the bill will be The Ghost Inside and Motionless in White. It goes down at Rod Laver Arena on Thursday December 17. Tickets via Live Nation.
G AY PA R I S ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR This September Gay Paris will be releasing their latest album, Ladies and Gentlemen: May We Present To You The Dark Arts, and to celebrate they will be heading on tour for the three months following. The huge tour will see the band play 19 shows from September to December, kicking things off in Wollongong, playing a ton of regional and capital city venues, before wrapping things up in Launceston. Gay Paris will take over Cherry Bar on Saturday October 10. Tickets on sale through the venue.
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Having already toured their latest album across America and Europe, Santa Barbara punk rock act Lagwagon are hitting Australian shores this November. After a nine year hiatus, the band are back with the long-awaited album Hang which the band claim is their most coherent work to date. Joining them on the tour will be record mates The Flatliners. Lagwagon head to Melbourne on Friday December 4 for a show at Maxx Watt’s. Tickets and more information are available from the venue’s website.
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Melbourne’s Redro Redriguez & His Inner Demons have released their latest album Easy Magic, and are hitting Cherry Bar on Saturday September 5 to celebrate. Led by Dave ‘Red’ Whip, the band features an all-star lineup from some of Melbourne’s best underground bands. Members include Liam Cuffley on drums (My Left Boot), Mike Findlay on bass (Dukes of Deliciousness, Powdermonkeys) and sonic alien Toby Brandon on guitar. The album showcases guest appearances from Tarek Smallman (T-Rek, Low Fly Incline) and Neil Wilkinson (Redcoats). With a launch party full of these legendary locals, you’d be silly (or from Sydney) to miss it. Head down to Cherry Bar on Saturday September 5 to get in on the action. More information available at Cherry Bar’s website.
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TAME IMPAL A REVEAL 2015 MELBOURNE SHOW One of Australia’s most successful musical exports will round out a huge year with a tour on home soil. Following the release of their third studio album Currents earlier this year (which debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts), the Perth natives have been busy touring the globe including headlining slots at Coachella and Governors Ball. They’ll be joined on the tour by Los Angeles three-piece Mini Mansions and Koi Child. Catch them on Saturday November 7 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Tickets via Ticketmaster.
The creative minds behind PBS 106.7F M’s Hard and Heavy shows have come together with The Tote to organise Heavy and Hammered, a multi-stage celebration of everything loud going down on Saturday October 10. The Tote’s band room and Slow Club will play host to over 15 acts throughout the night, while a raging BBQ out back takes care of vegans and carnivores alike. The full Heavy and Hammered lineup includes Barbariön, Vicious Circle, Mammoth Mammoth, Arbrynth, Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene, Strawberry Fist Cake, Incrypt, Pissbolt, Borrachero, Birdcage, El Colosso, Catacombs, The Stabbing Trade, Zakytuss and Grim Rhythm. Heavy and Hammered will be held at The Tote on Saturday October 10 from 3pm. For tickets and more information, head to pbsfm.org.au.
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Australia, look how far we’ve come in the rap game. We’re no longer forced to join either camp Bliss n Eso or Hilltop Hoods and debate whether Nosebleed Section or Happy In My Hoody is a better song to down drinks to on a Friday night. No, with acts like Illy, Thundamentals and Allday garnering international acclaim, we’ve a broad selection of laidback beats or fast paced rhymes to sink our respective teeth into. But a list of the finest local hip hop purveyors would be lacking if it didn’t include Seth Sentry.
Beloved across Australia, a few months back Sentry’s second record Strange New Past debuted at #2 on the ARIA Charts. Not one to rest at the first sign of success, he’s currently on a mammoth 49-date tour across the country, ably supported by Dylan Joel and Ivan Ooze. When we catch up, he’s in Margaret River on the cusp of show number 40. “Tonight’s show’s sold out way in advance, it should be pretty sick,” he says. “Half and half of the shows have been selling out.” It’s an impressive statistic when you consider there are nearly 50 of the bloody things spread out all over our vast nation. “A lot of the time people are coming to three or four shows in a row and shit, ’cause it’s only an hour or two drive to the next one. So they’ve just been saying, ‘Fuck it, might as well,’ which has been nice to see the same faces in the front row.” Yep, you know you’ve made it when people are devoting four nights of the week to drive out and see you. So why not make it an even 50 show stint? “I don’t know actually. It is a bit annoying. I’m quite obsessive, so don’t mention that again,” Sentry laughs. “We’ve done way better than I anticipated though man. It really is quite a monster of a tour.” Although he’s packed out the majority of venues, the audiences haven’t been letting him off easy. “Hell Boy’s one of the ones where people stand back and say, ‘Right, let’s see if he can do it live’,” Sentry says. “That’s been cool; it’s been like a showcase time for me and I really enjoy it. It’s a good challenge to have.” Fans of Sentry’s work will be well aware of his turbulent relationship with growing up. He’s now over 30, but he doesn’t feel pressure to write songs about taking the plunge into adulthood. “I just write whatever my first instinct is,” he says. “If I write about feeling grown up, it’s ’cause I’m feeling that at the time. For example, I moved out of a share house recently, and when I’m telling a story you can normally find some element of truth in it about myself personally.” For some people share house living can be a bit too chaotic, but it turns out Sentry tended to contribute to the disarray. “I was one of the people stealing the food,” he says. “I was a food stealer, I had it down man. The trick is you take a photo of the inside of the fridge and then you just go fucking nuts and eat all the things. Actually, just nibble at all the things, never eat a whole thing, and then you use the photo you have on your phone to re-set the fridge. They’ll never know.” Giving out share house tips was previously one of Sentry’s favourite topics, but now that he’s moved on from that lifestyle, he’s no longer such an expert. “Keep your toiletries in your own room; that’s a classic. Oh man, I’ve been out of share houses for a year and a BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
half now and I can’t remember. I do miss it a little bit. I feel like the second I moved out of the share house I was plunged into the adult world. I even bought a plastic cup for my toothbrush to sit in, in the bathroom. That’s when I was like, ‘Fuck. I’m a grown up now.’ That was the defining moment. I felt really smart for even thinking about it. I was real proud of myself then that passed and I was just bummed out [laughs]. But as a rapper, you never really feel like an adult.” Hair-brained anecdotes are Sentry’s bread and butter,
“WHENEVER I WRITE A SONG I THINK, ‘FUCK, NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO RELATE TO THIS, THIS IS PURELY FOR ME AND MY BENEFIT,’ AND MOST OF IT IS, TO BE HONEST. MY DRIVE IS ALWAYS JUST TO BE A DOPE RAPPER. I’M A TOUGH MOTHERFUCKING CRITIC ON MYSELF. BUT REALLY, RAPPING’S NOT JUST A PASSION FOR ME; IT’S A PART OF ME” and his deviant charm falls directly in line with a history of slagging off former bosses. “The boss I ripped on in Thanks For Your Hospitality – I think – was at a seaside restaurant in Sorrento where I grew up. I quit there in a real ‘Fuck you’ way. Like mid shift, ‘Fuck this.’ As I was walking out, the dude said, ‘You’re still wearing our shirt there mate.’ So of course I replied, ‘You want your fucking shirt mate?’ and I ripped it off like the Incredible Hulk, threw it on the ground and walked out like a boss. So gnarly. I felt good about that one.” Sounds pretty macho, right? But what differentiates Sentry from your average rapper rattling off heroic tales is that he’s always up-front about the shit coincidences he’s orchestrated for himself. “About five years later I was working in another restaurant in Melbourne and my boss said, ‘My friend’s opened a new restaurant, can you go help him out?’ So of course I went to go help him start a business. And it was the same fucking guy I Incredible Hulk’d. But it’s always been like that in hospitality. Other workers would ask, ‘Why is Seth outside on his tenth cigarette this shift? He looks stoned as fuck.’ And the boss
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would just be like, ‘That’s just Seth’s thing’.” Sentry’s rebellious side played a major role in establishing his massive fanbase. But die-hard fans shouldn’t despair that their favourite game-geek stoner has given up on what endeared him in the first place. “I still play video games on the reg. I wouldn’t say I’m an adult. I still couldn’t tell you exactly what negative gearing is.” Does anyone really understand what negative gearing is, though; apart from the fact some people are really angry about it? “Oh is it a bad thing? I don’t know even know if it’s bad or good. That’s what I mean man [laughs].” The combination of Sentry’s happy-go-lucky demeanour and his intimately detailed lyrics mean as soon as he’s mentioned in conversation, people quickly attest to how closely his lyrics mirror their lives. However, he doesn’t make a concerted effort to write songs that’ll directly relate to his fans. “Whenever I write a song I think, ‘Fuck, no one else is going to relate to this, this is purely for me and my benefit,’ and most of it is, to be honest. My drive is always just to be a dope rapper. I’m a tough motherfucking critic on myself. But really, rapping’s not just a passion for me; it’s a part of me. But as soon as songs are released people hit me up with a ‘me too’ and relate to it. It’s validating, knowing that I might not be that weird.” After coming to attention with The Waitress Song in 2008, Sentry had a major breakthrough with the 2012 hoverboard-referencing Dear Science. Basing your admiration for the Melbourne MC on these tracks alone would be selling him short, but it’s hard to have a lengthy conversation with him and not make mention of hoverboards. “Oh man, this Lexus board? It’s not really what we’re after is it? This one only works on certain surfaces. It’s so funny with that song, it was me being really high for about 40 minutes; that’s how long it took to write the song. It’s just a lifetime of links to hoverboard memes from now on [laughs].
SETH SENTRY will cap off his national tour at the Forum Melbourne on Friday September 4, with support from Dylan Joel and Ivan Ooze. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. Strange New Past is out now via High Score Records Inertia.
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Melbourne Theatre will present Harold Pinter’s arresting relationship drama, Betrayal, opening this weekend. Following seasons in Adelaide and Canberra, this will be MTC’s third outing of the play, following its premiere in 1980 and again in 2001. Betrayal is inspired by Pinter’s real-life affair with a British TV presenter and the reaction of her husband. Alison Bell finds herself at the centre of the love triangle, when Emma and Jerry meet for the first time since the end of their affair. The coals they rake over have long grown cold. Emma reveals she is finally going to leave Robert, the husband and best friend they betrayed. When, later that day, Jerry decides to confess all to Robert, he discovers that Robert found out about the affair years ago and said nothing. Was this secret his betrayal? Or his revenge? As memory reels backwards towards the moment the affair started, the lies tangle into a web of deception. Betrayal opens at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner on Saturday August 29. Oy vey! The critically acclaimed, Broadway and West End hit Bad Jews will make its Australian debut this week after rave reviews in the US and UK. Recently selling out its run at London’s St. James Theatre, the play tells the story of the Feygenbaum family vying for the priceless heirloom their deceased grandfather has left behind. The black comedy will feature an all-Australian cast including Maria Angelico, Simon Corfield, Anna Burgess and Matt Whitty. Get your tuches down to the Alex Theatre from Thursday August 27. Red Stitch Actors Theatre will present the Obie Award Winning and Pulitzer finalist Detroit, a darkly comic investigation of the divide between rich and poor. Detroit tells the suburban tale of Ben and Mary as they cultivate an unpredictable friendship in a town hit hard by the economic downturn. The play reunites NSFW director Tanya Dickson with Red Stitch and features ensemble members Paul Ashcroft (Wet House, Herding Cats), Brett Cousins (The Aliens, Stockholm), Ngaire Dawn Fair (The Flick, Eurydice, ROAM, 4000 Miles, My Romantic History) and Sarah Sutherland (That Face, Faces In the Crowd, Red Sky Morning). Detroit runs from Friday August 28 at Red Stitch Actors Theatre.
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The new work by Melbourne choreographer Jo Lloyd Confusion for Three will bring together top dancers and progressive movement to ask the question: where can confusion lead us? Featuring Rebecca Jensen (OVERWORLD, Dance Massive 2015) and Shian Law (Personal Mythologies, Next Wave 2014), the production uses complex choreographic parameters and a set of physically and mentally demanding tasks to explore the notion of order and disorder. A graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts and Green Room Award nominee, Lloyd has performed, choreographed and taught throughout Australia and overseas for over 15 years. Catch Confusion for Three at Arts House from Wednesday August 26 - Sunday August 30.
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20:21 By Liza Dezfouli
The Australian Ballet’s contemporary triple bill 20:21, opening in Melbourne this week, includes a performance of US choreographic legend Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, a dance created in the mid-’80s and is still considered a ground-breaking ballet. Beat chats to Nicole Curry, one of the ‘stompers’ in the dance. Stompers doesn’t sound very balletic, especially when we hear that Curry will be dancing in Reeboks. “I never do any other ballet in running shoes!” Curry says. “In the Upper Room is such a brilliant ballet. There are two different groups of dancers, the stompers in tennis shoes and the ballet people in beautiful red pointe shoes.” The dance is inspired by the Boston marathon, a reminder to the world that dancers are also athletes. In the Upper Room is set to music by Philip Glass. “Twyla Tharp was so far ahead of her time in every way,” notes Curry. “She was using Philip Glass’ music before he was famous.” In the Upper Room is in many ways closer to contemporary dance than ballet, at least for the stompers. “It involves some very interesting movements,” says Curry. “We’re dancing as close to the ground as possible ± usually, as ballet dancers, we’re used to being upright, lifted high up; this is a very different way of working.” How do dancers prepare for something so far outside their usual repertoire of movements? “The best way of preparing is just to do it, I don’t think you can prepare better in any way,” replies Curry. “This dance involves such specialised movements, so you do it over and over. Last week we were all feeling sore in our legs, in our thighs. The dance is very, very quick, but you learn it slowly, counting to music. It’s the best way to build cardio-vascular strength. There’s a lot of physical exertion with this work ± I almost get anxiety about how hard it is but when you do it, it’s so rewarding.” Curry says the demands of In the Upper Room, a medley of dances focused on speed and precision partnering, create a
special sense of achievement and camaderie among the performers. “The whole company comes together, we’re in it to win it together; it’s a wonderful group effort.” “It’s such a beautiful creation,” Curry continues. “It’s non-narrative, in nine segments and starts with the dancers appearing unexpectedly from the back of the stage. It’s so ‘80s, by the end of ballet our layers of clothing come off and we’re all in little red leotards and Reeboks and red bunchy socks, but it is still relevant; it’s withstood the test of time. All of the dancers are incredibly excited. It’s choreography we love doing. This is a show not to be missed!” Part of the idiosyncratic nature of In the Upper Room comes from the fact that it wasn’t originally choreographed to the piece of music accompanying it today. How does that work? “Twyla said ‘make it fit!’” replies Curry. “And it worked so brilliantly. If you didn’t know it wasn’t originally choreographed to this piece of music you’d never think it. She used to make these outra-
geous requests but her dancers were up for anything.” Making a dance fit a piece of music rather than the other way round isn’t as bizarre as it might sound, as Tharp, who worked with Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and Paul Taylor before setting up her own company, sometimes choreographed pieces with no music at all. Tharp is now in her 70s and is still creating dance. “Twyla was and is such a unique choreographer, Curry continues. “She always pushed the boundaries. Her dancers would try anything for her, they’d bend over backwards for her, so it wasn’t such an outrageous request; maybe it would be from someone else.” Another intriguing element of In the Upper Room involves cuts and breaks in the music. “Twyla paid for the music by the minute, per line” Curry explains. “Which is why it sometimes cuts out mid-sentence, in mid melody, ‘cos the money ran out!” The Australian Ballet is enjoying the benefits of working with US dancer/choreographer Shelley Washington, who is helping to stage In the Upper Room. “We are super fortunate to have Shelley Washington here,” notes Curry. “She was one of Twyla’s dancers and was working with her even before Upper Room was created; she was integral to the creative process of this dance so she has this amazing insight, she knows about the original thought behind the steps and the movements, about where this stuff came from.” Curry was with the American Ballet Theatre for ten years before moving to Australia six months ago. Has she noticed differences in cultures between the Australian ballet scene and that of the States? “In New York they know what they’re seeing. They have an educated palate and expect excellence all the time. People here are still figuring out if they really enjoy it or not. When The Australian Ballet went to New York they got a standing ovation and curtain calls. In the US when we finish a performance the response is like you get at a rock concert, we get that rock concert applause; here it’s different, here you think, ‘I hope the audience gets it’. You can’t quite tell. It’s tough; performers thrive on that applause and enthusiasm!” 20:21 will be performed at Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre from Thursday August 27 until Saturday September 5.
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Stand-up comedian Omid Djalili has announced a trip to Melbourne this October. The British born Iranian comedian’s television credits include the Fagin in West-End smash-hit Oliver! and Dr Rance in Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw. He has also acted in films including Shaun The Sheep Movie, Mr. Nice, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Sex and The City 2, Notting Hill and
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The Infidel. This will be Omid’s first trip to Australia. The show will see him discuss themes of overcoming your fears, relationships, the perils of celebrity and getting older. Omid Djalili will perform at the Athenaeum Theatre on Tuesday October 20 and we have some double passes to giveaway.
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Nina Forever
Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally will tour Australia for the first time early next year. The award-winning US comedians and real-life married couple are best known for their roles as Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation) and Karen Walker (Will and Grace). The two met in 2000 at rehearsals for play The Berlin Circle and married three years later. Having recently toured their Summer of 69: No Apostrophe comedy stage tour around the globe, they will bring it to Australia in early 2016. Mullally has described the show as, “Like comedic sex-ed. I think the show will be rather graphic so, you know, don’t bring your seven-yearold, but we hope to be very informative. It’s very all-American, really. It’s going to be a variety show comprised of talking, singing and sex acts.” Catch them at Hamer Hall on Sunday January 31.
All Ears
Thursday September 3 - Sunday September 6 Arts House
Environment Film Festival
Thursday September 3 - Thursday September 10 Various Venues
Dance of the Bee
Friday September 11 - Sunday September 13 Arts House
The Sleeping Beauty
Tuesday September 15 - Saturday September 26 Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Wednesday September 16 - Sunday October 4 Various Venues
Muppets, Music and Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy
Monday September 21 - Sunday October 11 ACMI
Melbourne Festival
Thursday October 8 - Sunday October 25 Various Venues
MSO: Back To The Future Live In Concert Friday November 6 - Saturday November 7 The Plenary
Poppy Seed Festival
Wednesday November 11 - Sunday December 13 Various Venues
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei
Friday December 11 - Sunday April 24 National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
An acid dropping friendship, a treasure hunting caper, ‘70s crime-comedy and chilling psychological thrillers are all on the cards for this year’s Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Presenting low budget classics, hidden gems and films that will ‘totally do your head in’ - The 16th annual MUFF is set to be a real trip. Opening night brings Under A Kaleidoscope, the feature length debut from Addison Heath. Elsewhere, a special event will showcase Richard Wolstencroft’s experimental The Second Coming Volume 1 (featuring Michael Tierney, Gene Gregorits, Boyd Rice, Pete Doherty, Jerome Alexander, Kim Fowley, William Margold and a host of others) followed by an exclusive Q&A with the director. With closing night comes the world premiere of Timothy Spano’s hilarious Sizzler 77 followed by the revered MUFF awards. The program also includes Throwback, homage to vintage exploitation cinema Gone Lesbo Gone, The Search for Weng Weng, Fakeshemp double feature My Name Is A and Road To Hell, From Parts Unknown and Nina Forever. Capping the bumper program off is MUFF Neu - featuring a selection of the best local and international genre features and the Mini MUFF series, bringing together short films under a common idea. Themed sessions include envy, bliss, happiness, despair, experimental and venomous vignettes of villainy and vengeance. Melbourne Underground Film Festival will run from Friday September 11 - Saturday September 19 at Howler and Backlot Studios. Grab your tickets through Moshtix.
Lavazza Italian Film Festival
32 films are lined up for this year’s festival including the newest comedies, dramas, fantasy and more. This will be the festival’s 16th year running as it takes over the country spreading the word on Italian cinema. Opening this year’s festival will be box office hit God Willing (Se Dio Vuole), starring Alessandro Gassman, Marco Gillani and Laura Morante. Acclaimed director Bernando Bertolucci’s The Conformist (Il Conformista), which follows the story of Mussolini based from Alberto Moravia’s novel, with will close the festival. Other movies to feature at this year’s festival include, Perez, Black Souls (Anime Nere), An Italian Name (Il Nome Del Figlio), Latin Lover and winner of Best Comedy at the Italian Golden Globes, The Legendary Giulia (Noi E La Giulia). The Lavazza Italian Film Festival will take place from Wednesday September 16 to Sunday October 11.
Bronx Gothic
Theatre, dance and visual arts come together in the latest production by New York-based writer and performer, Okwui Okpokwasili. Set in 1980s outer New York Bronx Gothic talks teenagers and sexual discovery. “It looks to communicate what is essential about a body in transformation, a universal experience that I can transmit through my brown body as I recall the breakthrough of pubescence and the humour, the love, the strangeness and even the terror that attends it,” said Okpokwasili. Collaborating with director and designer Peter Born, Bronx Gothic won a 2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production during its run in New York. Bronx Gothic be performed from Thursday October 8 - Monday October 12 at Arts House.
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Darebin Art Prize
Formerly known as The Darebin Art Show, the biennial Darebin Art Prize in association with Bundoora Homestead Art Centre will award a $10,000 grand prize and a $1,000 people’s choice award to two Australian artists. The award is designed to attract artists nationwide from a variety of mediums and career stages. Both emerging and established artists are encouraged to enter. The judging panel will include the Director of Monash University Museum of Art, Charlotte Day and multidisciplinary artist Nick Selenitsch. The Darebin Art Prize will take place at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre on Friday December 11 - Sunday February 21. Artists are invited to submit artworks with entries due Monday September 7.
Holding The Man Director Neil Armfield has been away from the silver screen for too long ± last gracing us with the hardhitting Candy in 2006 ± which makes his return with this adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s beloved memoir all the more splendid. Holding The Man is a simple yet deeply moving account of a great romance, told with genuine warmth, humour and astonishing intimacy. 17-year-old aspiring actor Tim (Ryan Corr) can’t take his eyes off John Caleo (Craig Stott), a star football player at his all-boys Jesuit Catholic high school. So begins a relationship that for 15 years defies every attempt to tear it apart, from social pressures to familial politics to sexual liberation and the deterioration of the body itself. While Holding The Man’s greatest strengths surely come
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Billed as the young bull and old bull of Australian political satire, Charlie Pickering and Rod Quantock will share the stage for one night only. Pickering moved on from his hosting role on The Project to pursue his own show on ABC, The Weekly. Quantock is a veteran of Australian comedy and has appeared at every Melbourne International Comedy Festival since its inception 30 years ago. Catch Charlie Pickering and Rod Quantock at The Yarraville Club on Friday September 4.
AdRIEnnE tRuSCOtt As seen on ABC TV’s Q&A, and direct from sell out tours in the UK, Canada, USA and NZ, Adrienne Truscott returns to Melbourne for one night only. Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Adrienne undoes the rules and rhetoric about rape and comedy and the awkward laughs in between. With blistering sarcasm and unflinching humanity, Asking For It A OneLady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else boldly explores the politics of comedy in one exhilarating hour. With commentary from George Carlin, Louis CK and Robert De Niro, she takes on ducks, miniskirts, rape whistles, and enough gin and tonics to get a girl in trouble. In this satirical broadside against rape culture, Truscott lets her pussy do the talking. Can you make jokes about rape? She plans to, all night long. Even if you tell her to stop. Catch her at Howler on Friday September 4.
CRAb LAb There’s another huge free show on at Crab Lab tonight Wednesday August 26 with Lawrence Mooney hosting. Plus Josh Earl, Stuart Daulman, Jack Druce and an absolute legendary stalwart of Australian comedy dropping in. 8.30pm at the House of Maximon, 16 Corrs Ln, CBD.
Carnival of the Animals
Australia’s Circa will perform their fusion of circus, animation and music when they bring Carnival of the Animals to Melbourne this spring. Dreamed up by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, the production puts the animal kingdom centre-stage as seven performers dressed in costumes take the audience through the lives of the tortoise, elephant, kangaroo, swan and more. Written in 1886, the new production has undergone a wealth of changes from its 1800s form, with the addition of animation and reworks of the original suites by composer Quincy Grant. Carnival of the Animals is coming to Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse from Monday September 28 to Sunday October 4. from its source material, praise must be lavished upon the star-crossed lovers of this tale. Corr is a magnetic force that attracts and repulses in equal measure; though he makes for an unconvincing teenager, he is an endearing lead and foil to Stott’s complex, vulnerable and genuinely transformative performance. The support cast is also excellent, with particular reverence owed to Camilla Ah Kin’s mother in a house divided, and a very amusing cameo from Geoffrey Rush. Both the actors and screenwriter Tommy Murphy may take credit for the subtlety with which currents of guilt, desire and rage flow through the film without ever breaking the surface. What sets Holding The Man apart from its soft-focus peers is its ever-present physicality and almost painful intimacy. We are constantly exposed to the body, in frequently graphic scenes of open sexuality that are shot in both a frank and tasteful fashion. Later, this carnality takes a darker turn as the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s
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tHuRSdAy COMEdy For the past five years, Thursday nights have been the best night of comedy in Melbourne. First at Softbelly, then Five Boroughs, then the Portland Hotel, and now it’s come to rest at the European Bier Café. And the lineups just keep getting better and better. In the last two weeks they’ve had both Wil Anderson and Tony Martin drop in. So get down there this Thursday to see what superstars are jumping up this week. Get down early, check out the meals and drink specials, and get a good seat. It’s all happening this Thursday August 27 at 8.30pm, 120 Exhibition Street (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12.
rears its head, and the aching tenderness of a forbidden kiss through a flyscreen gives way to the horror of gloved fingers probing open wounds. It’s also a profoundly Australian story, and Armfield has managed to tell it without any of the clumsy ockerisms or sentimental pandering that its contemporaries bandy about. He is unafraid of showing us at our best and our worst with little in the way of affect. There’s an absolute mastery of his craft on display, evidenced by a single extended shot near the film’s end, which is undoubtedly one of the most excruciatingly emotional moments you’ll witness this year. Holding The Man is a triumph, as a reflection of our culture, how far we’ve come and how far we have to go; as an honest and powerful portrayal of modern life, love and sexuality; and as a simple, heartbreaking and enduring romantic tale. Ci vedremo lassù, angeli. BY DAVID MOLLOY BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32
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Confusion for Three By Liza Dezfouli What happens when you go back to basics, when you look at why someone ± yourself, say ± and why you dance the way you do? If you’re Jo Lloyd, dancer and choreographer, the result is something called Confusion for Three, her new work premiering at the Arts House this week. “It erupted out of the last piece, Future Perfect, I did for Dance Massive,” Lloyd says. “In getting that ready I started to rethink the mode of performance, wondering if this is what I want. It comes from my awareness of what sort of piece I prefer performing and what I like to see. I’m making my ‘Disneyland’ piece ± meaning that part of my agenda is that it’s ultimately about what I like, what I would like to do.”
Creating Confusion for Three has led Lloyd to think about where all dance movement comes from, in terms of what happens on stage. “It’s not another ‘nice dance piece’ ± I know how to do that,” she continues. “I was reading an article about voguing (a dance style inspired by the posing of fashion imagery which came out of drag culture, in particular the ‘Houses’ of the 1980s) and the article was saying it shouldn’t be done by everyone, that it belonged to the transgender world. In the process of making this piece I deliberately used the imagery of different dance forms, things I could make a clear choice about that already existed in the history of my body. Copy mechanisms come into play. But I looked at the reasons behind this and asked ‘why?’ I’m always thinking about ‘why? This piece is a display of what we’ve found looking at the umbrella of dance, where it comes from.” When Lloyd showed a video of Confusion for Three to her composer, Duane Morrison, he remarked that it looked as though ‘she was falling down a well,’ not necessarily a bad thing in terms of imagery. “The music for the work is now in a similar situation to the dance,” Lloyd notes. “Duane has been reading a lot from us, he watches us work and composes while he watches. I asked him to work from the piano since he’s trained as a classical pianist but has moved into pop. I wanted the music to stem from the source. What has happened is less about a cinematic score creating a mood, although at moments it can go there, but it works to reveal modes of behaviour.” Morrison is a long-time collaborator and Lloyd is aware of how easy it is to fall into familiar patterns when you know how a creative process works well between artists. “We’ve worked together since 2002. It’s a long time. Through that it’s easy to become complacent, comfortable, or you can ask something more of each other, so what we’ve done now is kind of similar to my premise for the whole piece.” Lloyd hasn’t been able to totally indulge herself in developing Confusion for Three, as the title of the work states, it’s a piece for three dancers, and development of the piece has depended on her colleagues, Rebecca Jensen and Shian Law. “What role do they play? It’s a huge role,” says Lloyd. “There’s history in the dance of everything we’ve learned. I leave gaps for their histo-
ries, to play with concepts that are not derived from my body, which is much more interesting for me. It’s an investigation of sharing with other dancers in a new way. I set the parameters of the dance but it’s not tailored, it’s not as loose as improvisation, there is something to be depicted; we’ve stitched a set of attempts together.” The work might have ‘confusion’ in the title but the actual dance isn’t as random as that might suggest. “There are parameters,” Lloyd assures us. “I mean, I can’t just get on stage and sit and have a cup of tea! But I was disturbed by the idea of watching dancers think about what they’re doing, when they’re redoing steps from the night before, about dancing in that mode. I’m not so interested in that, I have done it for a long time. My agenda is to make the work I don’t know how to make.” Confusion for Three is described as containing a ‘hypnotic tension generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unravelling system of choreography.’ How much of the performance depends on a set choreography? “It’s a freeing up of how we go about dancing, it’s not right left right left, but there are definite boundaries, there are cues, stuff from one segment to the next,” says Lloyd. “One of us makes a choice that shifts the piece. We read each other’s choices and move from there.” The responses from early showings of Confusion for Three have been positive. “One audience member told me she felt like getting up and joining in,” says Lloyd. “That’s my fantasy; I’d love it if everyone could! But you’d have to think about the possibility of people getting injured, OH&S stuff.” As a choreographer Lloyd talks about herself as a ‘bridge’ ± as manifesting an idea into action. “It’s not like we’re up on a pedestal,” she muses. “We’re trained, we’re virtuosic and there are skills involved, but good work is when you can look at what someone’s done with an idea.”
Confusion For Three will be performed at Arts House from Wednesday August 26 to Sunday August 30.
David Bowie is ready for his close-up 20 August – 20 September From a big-screen performer to a cultural consumer and influencer, this season celebrates David Bowie’s cinema presence. Films screening include The Hunger, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Only Lovers Left Alive. Book online at acmi.net.au
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Betrayal By Liza Dezfouli “It’s a great play to do on a tour,” says actor Alison Bell, talking about Betrayal, UK playwright Harold Pinter’s famous ‘true’ play based an affair he had with a broadcaster in London. “People know about it but it’s rarely on in Australia. Not many people have seen it.” Betrayal opens this week at the MTC with Bell playing Emma. Geordie Brookman is directing a cast including, alongside Bell, John Maurice as Robert, Nathan O’Keefe as Jerry and Mark Saturno as the waiter. Although the play was written in 1978, its emotional right hook lands with as much impact as ever, Bell says. When Beat speaks to her she’s performing in Canberra. You’d imagine the story must make any number of audience members squirm with uncomfortable familiarity. “There’s a lot of black humour
in the play,” Bell says. “You get a different reaction each night, some nights people laugh at everything, the next night you’ll have silences and the audience gets into it as drama; it’s interesting to see the changes. It’s wildly different every night.” There are interesting challenges inherent for actors in any
Detroit By Liza Dezfouli Detroit comes with impressive credentials ± this play by US playwright Lisa D’Amour is an Obie Award winner and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Melbourne’s Red Stitch Actors Theatre are about to present the Australian premiere, directed by Tanya Dickson with a cast including Brett Cousins, Sarah Sutherland, Chris Wallace and Ngaire Dawn Fair. Beat has a chat to Fair about the character she plays, Sharon. “Sharon and Kenny come from very different worlds,” she says. “Sharon and Kenny are recovering drug addicts, they’ve been in rehab. Now they’re keeping on the straight and narrow but people keep blocking them so they’re plodding along in life. They move next door to Mary and Ben, who appear to be the perfect couple but then things go awry. The play goes wild,” Fair continues. “I don’t want to talk about it cos it will spoil the surprises but it goes wild. We wondered whether we should even warn audiences, there are such surprises in there. Detroit is ambitious for actors to perform.”
Boite Millenium Chorus:
One Africa
By Liza Dezfouli Melbourne ± get ready for a big fat sing! The 2015 Boite Millennium Chorus will be on stage at Hamer Hall on Sunday August 30 to perform the One Africa show to an audience of 2,000. This hugely popular event features music from all over the African continent sung by over 350 singers. The first millennium concert in 1999 was originally intended as a one-off to bring singers and musicians from around the world together in celebration of the new millennium. It has proved so popular that 2015’s One Africa is concert is number 19. Beat spoke to Lamine Sonko, Artistic Director of the show. “I’ve performed in the Boite millennium concert before. This is the first time I’ve directed,” Sonko tells us when we catch him just after having collected his mum and dad from the airport. “The song collections come from our Griot culture,” he explains. “There are stories behind them ± they are passed down our family lineage. In this show we are sharing some of these ancient songs BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34
with their stories in a choir setting.” What are the songs about? “They tell stories of how Africa is a big continent, how we are connected with animals, with nature, with the wider community,” answers Sonko. “Some of the songs are coming of age stories, and go towards creating inter-generational understanding.” Does Sonko have a favourite song? “I really like all of them. They are messages from the old days, they are part of our
production of Betrayal with its sparse dialogue with a backward spiralling plot; because the play jumps around in time, going backwards mostly, in many scenes the characters know less than they did in the scene before and are carrying ‘less baggage’ than they did a moment ago. “It demands something very particular,” says Bell. “I have to walk on stage with an enormous amount of emotion I haven’t accrued on stage that I then have to peel off, in moving forwards, you get to take one scene to the next scene only a couple of times. Usually the script accumulates emotion and you can let the narration drive you, but in Betrayal we have to keep peeling back, cut loose the stuff which we’ve just done, we have to trick our psyches.” How difficult is it to discard the psychological dynamics of one scene in order to move into the next scene in the same story with the same characters? “People talk about actors finding a touchstone in each scene to get them ready for the next one. In the rehearsal period we plotted how to use any emotional residue from the scene before that’s useful, to use as a starting point, it’s not necessarily connected to what you do, you identify just a quality. It’s a useful tip. You can go from a scene where you’re angry to a scene where you’re on holiday but there’s a sadness in one scene you can manipulate to take you into the next scene.” One way of emotionally ‘anchoring’ a scene, Bell says, is being conscious of what she’s doing physically. “I’m very clear of the starting point in each scene in terms of gesture, I know exactly the place on stage where I start,” she says. “I use tiny movements, my breathing changes, my walking changes, they are small moments and before I go on stage I’ll shake the tension out of my hands. Does she choreograph each of those tiny gestures;
are they the same each night? “They are mostly organic. I’ll start the top of the scene the same way each night, for instance there’s a scene when I’m with Jerry and I have my arms in a certain position and I’ll start that way each time. It’s an interesting play in terms of that stuff, it’s so intimate, so restrained, the characters are quite still in the piece, but there’s so much tension, so much happens underneath, all in the subtext. The tension is in the actors’ bodies.” What’s it really like performing love scenes on stage? “It’s always a little weird to begin with,” Bells says with a chuckle. “It helps if you have a rapport, that’s a great starting point. To create chemistry, sometimes you just have to laugh a lot with your first stage kiss. Then you’re just in thrall to the story and it doesn’t feel odd; we’re not Nathan and Alison, we’re Emma and Jerry. It helps that we’re pals. It’s a strange job that we do.” It must be hard to act closely with someone you really don’t like? “I’ve been lucky with all my leading men, they have been excellent humans; it’s a pretty good community, the acting world. It’s quite rare not to like each other.” Bell says the biggest stumbling block is an intellectual one: how does Emma actually manage to have an affair in the first place? “Emma has a baby, I have a baby myself so I think ± how does she do this? It made me think about how she has a great need for this relationship to continue, to sustain this for so long, to be so willing to compromise, to overcome the challenges of being a new mother to maintain her relationship with Jerry.”
Fair says the play offers a real something out of the ordinary for the cast. “The best thing about the play is that all the characters have real hearts, and are vulnerable, from the page to the stage. It’s a beautiful play; the dialogue is sharp, it’s fast-paced, sexy and funny, like a surreal fable. It’s naturalistic on a meta-level, a really airy tale that is dark and funny; we love dark and funny” Fair is enjoying wrapping herself up in a character so different from herself. “There’s something about Sharon, she’s positive, she sees the beauty in things, and she’s open to experience. Sharon has her heart on her sleeve; she expresses herself all the time.” How did Fair get into the right frame of mind and body to portray someone containing that sort of intense physical and emotional experience? “I did a lot of research into people recovering from drug addictions,” she answers. “My aunty works in drug and alcohol rehab. Some people have long term damage from their addictions. You can read in the body and voice of someone who’s been through it ± they can have a shallowness of breath and a lack of voice projection, which can be hard for an actor. You have to make those decisions.” “One of the challenges for the cast is in understanding the comedic elements in the play and how balance the lighter and darker moments,” Fair says. How do they get that right? “Truth always comes before the joke. I love that Detroit is a comedy, and it’s ethical and gutsy as well.” Where does the comedy happen? “In how Sharon and Kenny begin to expose themselves, when their true selves come out. Sharon and Kenny reveal themselves as ex-addicts early on to Mary and Ben; when they start to relax it’s clear they’re from another
world. Mary and Ben are uptight and conventional and they have to deal with that, have to decide whether they’re going to accept these people, They’re all trying to get along. They are sweet people; there are these beautiful little kernels of gold. You recognise them; they are all people you know. The neighbourly stuff is funny, it’s a great premise. Detroit asks us about our need to assimilate and asks what would it be like for us to really see each other? Society stops us connecting. What would happen if we really connected? And what do we truly want in life? It also looks at public space versus private space. How we inhabit the various spaces, how those spaces collide, and what happens when you let strangers into your private space. This isn’t something I’ve really seen before.” The cast are playing the play as it’s written, with US characters set in a US city. Were they tempted to ‘translate’ Detroit into Australian? “We talked about setting it in Australia,” Fair answers. “There are technical difficulties because of the accent, with speech patterns, as well as with references, and the setting. Speech patterns affect body language, which changes character. The play could be set in any city in the mid-west, so we use a general US accent. You’d have to get a dramaturg to rework it, to be true to the writer and that’s a lot more than our budget can manage. People say they’d connect more if it was done in Australia. It would be a different play if you made it Australian. But it would be fun.”
oral history along with the rhythms and dance; they map the world we live in. “We are giving Melbourne a taste of the big continent of Africa where there are thousands and thousands of tribes with their own music and their own stories. You can’t cover it all in a one or two hour concert but our collection of music spans the continent ± we have music from Tariro Mavondo, from King Bell, from Jimmy Mulovhedzi from South Africa, music from Ghana, the Burrundi Drummers Group of Victoria, from Ajak Kwai from Sudan, the Asanti dancers, music from Morocco, music from the Soweto Gospel Choir ± the concert is all about multi-culturalism in Melbourne; migrants are given the chance to showcase their work; that’s what the concert is all about.” As well as being multi-cultural, the concert spans age groups and will feature the Boite Schools Chorus for the 11th year; their part of the concert will travel to regional areas after performing at The Deakin Edge at Federation Square. “One Africa is intergenerational,” notes Sonko, whose parents have come to Melbourne to perform in the show themselves. “It’s a chance for audiences and musicians to hear from experts who have lived longer than us, to see them perform and to share their gifts in a very unique way and walk away with a greater understanding of life in Africa.” Are there any special challenges bringing works like this to the big stage? “These songs are usually sung in a community setting with traditional drums and rhythms, they aren’t written down,” explains Sonko. “They’re certainly not written in any western musical form. They have to be changed to make them suitable for a western setting.” As a drummer, guitarist and dancer, Sonko has worked with the team from Melbourne music institution the Boite including One Africa Musical Director Andrea Khoza to ‘transform’ the music in a way to make it easy to share. What does this involve? “I have to bring traditional songs
that might have only one or two part harmonies to where they have four part harmonies, find how the flow goes, focusing on the rhythm and the importance of finding where the voice fits in with it, and blending it carefully together.” Sonko, who plays with his own band and teaches drums when not leading choirs, sees the concert as being in some ways like a reflection of his own life after coming to live in Australia ten years ago. “It’s a fusion of the modern and the traditional, which is what I am now since I’ve resettled here in Australia. Changing the music for the choir is a bit like the resettlement process for me! The hardest thing has been changing my way of life, and the musical setting for these songs is very different.” It’s no accident that Sonko finds himself in this role ± his background as a Senegalese Griot means his family are known as culture keepers and it is a traditional responsibility of theirs to practice and teach stories of their culture through song, music and dance. “I am a modern Griot,” he says. “A modern culture-keeper. I get to tell these stories here, tell them in the modern way so people have an idea of what life is like in Senegal ± it’s our duty to really share what life is like there.” Sonko’s parents are well known performers in Senegal: his father, Bouly Sonko, is the Director for the Senegalese national drum and dance company Waaro Siita, and his mother, Oumy Sene, was the first solo dancer for Le Ballet National Du Senegal and is also a member of Waato Siita. Sonko is aware of how important it is to share cultural specifics given the history of slavery and the African diaspora where so much was lost. “What history really shows is that during slavery, or when people are taken outside their country, when they are leaving their culture they have to find new ways of keeping their musical knowledge.”
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Betrayal opens at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner on Saturday August 29.
Detroit opens at Red Stitch Actors Theatre on Friday August 28.
Boite Millenium Chorus: One Africa will take place this Sunday August 30 at Hamer Hall.
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Burger Boys is run by two 20-somethings in the city’s law district. After becoming obsessed with Melbourne’s burger scene, they taste-tested every burger they could get their hands on ± big burgers, little bugers and ones in between. They then selected the best elements of their favourites and put them together in their home kitchen to create the perfect hamburger, avoiding any gimmicks. Now Burger Boys have compiled a menu of well thought out and lovingly created burgers. Here are the top four burgers Burger Boys have to offer.
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The Oregon Trail
Kentucky Derby has twice-fried chicken, American hi-melt cheese, Saigon slaw, and some spicy Sriracha Mayo served on a Burger Boys brioche bun. The free range chicken breast is lightly battered and fried twice which gives it that extra crunch. This burger goes particularly well with the sweet potato fries and one of the seasonal IPAs. The Kentucky Derby burger costs $13.
the classic
Everyone loves a classic and this burger has a 150g beef patty, American hi-melt cheese, streaky bacon, American mustard, ketchup, tomato, red onion, lettuce, kewpie mayo and kosher pickle. The bold combination of tangy American mustard and ketchup make this burger a stand out, and serving a kosher pickle on the side furthers the complex flavour profile. A side of Southern style chicken wings and a pint of crisp pilsner or lager complements this flavour style. The Classic burger costs $12.
melt cheese, and sweet baby ray’s BBQ sauce. The BBQ sauce has a real smoky flavour, which combines with the deep fried onion rings to create a true American BBQ experience. Pair it with some twice cooked chips as well as a dark ale or stout to add to the smoky richness. The Rushmore burger costs $12.
the oregon trail
This is a really special vegetarian option. The main event of the Oregon Trail is a haloumi slab, then some sweet beetroot relish, rocket, tomato, red onion, kewpie mayo, and a wedge of lemon on the side. What’s different about this burger is how the zesty beetroot relish cuts through the saltiness of the haloumi slab. The wedge of lemon can be squeezed onto the haloumi to add a little extra bite. You’re seriously advised to grab some house onion rings, plus a citra hopped pale ale ± a perfect complement to the haloumi. The Oregon Trail costs $12.
the rushmore The Rushmore
The Classic
This is Burger Boys’ real Americana burger and it’s enough to make US expats homesick. You’ve got house onion rings, bacon, a special beef patty, American hi-
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The Man Burger Just take a walk down Little Lonsdale St and find a set of beautiful wooden doors, walk up the stairs and you’ll find yourself in the old world of the 1920’s prohibition era. Father’s Office Speakeasy Bar & Restaurant is adorned with amazing vintage pieces that line the establishment, including an original Swanston Street sign on the balcony. There is an impressive view of the State Library and it makes this venue a prefect destination for a warm day in the sun. There are cosy chairs inside the main bar, and a huge dining room worthy of royalty. The drinks menu includes a large range of Whiskey and Rum to mirror underground 1920s, complemented with tap beers from local microbrewers. The food menu is a sight to see however, with over 30 gluten free options, which is pretty astounding. The stand out is the Man Burger, which is not for the faint hearted, is made of a milk bun smeared with
fried Dijon mustard, topped with 200 grams of grass fed Queensland yearling MSA certified Black Angus beef, two pieces of Swiss cheese, a layer of beer battered fries, two more pieces of Swiss cheese, a fried egg, a full middle rasher of free range and gluten free bacon and chipotle mayo, served with a side of fries. It’s full on. It’s also really damn good and the perfect burger to chase away even the worst of hangovers. I would recommend a side dish, but if you can eat the whole thing you deserve a medal. Good luck. The Man Burger is $20
The Beef and Honey Works Burger The Shaw Davey Slum is based around a poverty report written in 1958 by two commissioners named Shaw and Davey about Carlton and surrounding areas. The name is an oxymoron and a celebration to Carlton’s diverse history of a great era for Australian Culture. The Slum is a venue that brings joy from the creative a bright interiors, and makes everyone feel at home with their impressive menu catering to vegans and food intolerants with ease. The venue is just off Lygon St and is going to be a treat in spring and summer with its openable rooftop. There is also a full service dining room focusing on unique Australiana flavours, styled with traditional Australian bush spices. In our opinion the Beef and Honey Works Burger is a testament to Australian culture and tastes. Kicking off with 180grams of MSA graded Black Angus beef patty, marinated to perfection in Australian honey and
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then char grilled and loaded into a milk bun topped with bacon, a fried egg, fresh pineapple, tasty cheese, lettuce, tomato, beetroot chutney, BBQ sauce and some phenomenal Vegemite mayo, all served with shoestring fries and a salad. It’s a meal for the ultimate aussie battler. The Polenta chips are also pretty impressive and a great choice for a side, and if you have some room left over, you cant go past the TimTam and mint slice cheesecake. You can also take your slum with you and there is a bottelo inside. Come on, you cant get more aussie than that. The Beef and Honey Works Burger is $14
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The Jordan Royale This family restaurant has dribbled and bounced into the popular North Essendon precinct, and is the place to be for juicy burgers and ice cold beers. The manager and owner of this new burger joint is the well known and much loved businessman Andy, the owner of Andy’s Place Cafe just across the road. Andy has built a lasting reputation with the locals for hard working and friendly staff as well as the best coffee in the area. The locals who were coming in for the coffees are now staying for the burgers. All of the burgers are named after basketball legends, like the LeBron Burner, the Shaq Stack, and the Birdman. The one that wins our hearts and is a crowd favourite is the Jordan Royale. This burger consists of a beef patty, fresh sweet tomato, lettuce, mustard, cheese and Andy’s own Dribbles sauce, which easily makes the burger as it ties in all of the ingredients. Best to grab the crunchy onion rings
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on the side and a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale to help wash it down. If onion rings aren’t your bag, you can enjoy a side of chilli fries and a range of creamy milk shakes, with flavours such as the peanut butter cup, the salted caramel or our favourite, the strawberry pop tart. Andy has made sure there are options for veggos with a fried mushroom burger on the menu and gluten free kiddos can get themselves a wrap. Make sure to bounce on down. The Jordan Royale is $9.50
The Lucky Mac There’s a bunch of burger experts singling out the Lucky Mac as something really special. Demazzi is a family run restaurant and their stonegrill steaks are their pride and joy. But it’s the burgers that have made them famous. The Lucky Mac has two incredibly juicy, delicious wagyu patties that are grilled to perfection and weigh in at 130g each. They’re seasoned with 12 secret herbs and spices, crispy maple bacon, two slices of American hi-melt cheese, optional jalapenos for spice lovers, crisp iceberg lettuce, a brioche bun, traditional American mustard, and the widely adored, home-made mac sauce and ketchup to top it all off. The burger is served with a basket of expertly seasoned, crunchy fries. The Demazzi family take their products very seriously and know the most important aspect of cooking is choosing the right stuff to work with. Let’s take a moment to talk about their mac sauce: it’s made in-
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house and it’s akin to McDonald’s’ big mac sauce, only worlds better. It adds a unique element to the burger that you just can’t find elsewhere. Tread carefully though, because once you go mac, you never go back. These guys also offer salted caramel popcorn and pretzel shakes to help you wash it down. Oh and don’t forget to take advantage of the cheesy fries upgrade, which incorporates cheesy mac sauce, crispy bacon and spring onion. The Lucky Mac is $21.90 with fries
the b.east
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hello sam
The Uncle Sam Burger
The Clint Beastwood So, the B.East are the self-proclaimed burger overlords of Lygon street, and we’ll give it to them, they’ve earned the title. They have just revised, reworked and re-greased their menu, but they have still kept all the old favourites and injected some fresh genius in the shape of new juicy-good burgers and sides. The menu includes the double-everything Dimmu burger topped with char grilled jalapenos, new maple syrup whipped peanut butter, jack cheddar, bacon and a beef patty. The XXX Sliders have sriracha aioli, roasted pumpkin and quinoa white beans, while the cheech marin veggie burgers have roasted carrot aioli and sweet potato taco crisps. Sides wise, there are the much loved tater tot nachos and street cart corn char grilled to smokey perfection, rolled in cayenne parmesan and drizzled in chipotle and lime aioli. But lets talk about the hero burger and already a crowd favourite, the Clint Beast-
wood, boasting an enormous southern fried chicken patty, and made up of dill pickle spears, thousand island dressing, jack cheddar, slaw and added bacon if you wish (yes you do). The Desi Arnaz is the drink we recommend you throw back with the burger. This tangy sherbet cocktail is a twist on the traditional Pisco sour complemented by the rosy sweetness of sloe berries and tartness of lemon zest. Plus my favourite side here is the chilli cheese loaded house beer battered fries, which are best enjoyed while eating burgers and watching some awesome live music. The Clint Beastwood is $14, or $18.50 with a side of poutine.
Foodies know Hello Sam as the classy burger joint on the south side of the Yarra. Since opening in October 2013, they’ve been producing gourmet hamburgers that cater for all tastes and dietary persuasions including vegetarian and gluten free. Two years ago the rundown cafe in South Yarra was converted to a vintage burger joint that filled the gap for those of us who wanted a classier burger experience. The mind blowing burger we want to spotlight is the classy Uncle Sam. It’s an American style burger that comes with a 100% Angus beef patty, American cheese, American mustard, ketchup, pickles, tomato relish and red onion, topped with super crispy fabulous onion rings. It comes in three sizes ± single, double or triple beef. The legend who created the burger featured here, went a bit wild and added a chicken schnitzel, cheddar ale melt, crispy streaky bacon and a hash brown. So get creative, go
nuts and build yourself a beast. Side options include beer battered chips and onion rings. Try their loaded chips including BBQ and bacon or Mexican nachos topped with salsa, guacamole, shredded tasty cheese and sour cream. If you’re looking for a healthy option, you can’t go past Hello Sam’s Naked Burgers. Pick any burger on the menu including beef, chicken, salmon, lamb or vegetarian and have it served on a bed of salad, quinoa and slaw - how good is that? The Single Uncle Sam burger starts at $13.50
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The Double Cheeseburger Sliders on Tyres do things differently. When you order a burger, you get two instead of one. Some say this is because they’re small, but what they lack in size, they make up for in fucking deliciousness. I personally could only get through one and a half. As far as total dude food goes, the Double Cheeseburger is pretty bloody awesome. It’s got 100 per cent ground grass-fed beef, smoked cheddar, dill pickle, onion, (secret) SOT burger sauce, stacked into a mini slider-sized brioche bun. The fun thing about food trucks is seeing your meal being cooked right there in the truck, and when you get to see it cooked you know that it’s not just the ingredients that are fresh, but also that the burger in your hand hasn’t been sitting around in a warmer for hours. This is really simple dude food with big flavours. It’s classic comfort food and always a treat when you see SOT parked down the road. Sliders on Tyres do have a
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vegetarian option as a special, but it’s not a fixture on the menu. So, keep your eye out for the Shroom Slider, which gives you a roast mushroom, BBQ capsicum, spinach, parmesan, and tomato aioli. There are heaps of options that go really well with the sliders, such as the chips. If you’re wise, grab some pea and three cheese arancini balls or some chicken wings. The Double Cheeseburger Slider is $6.50
The dudes at Perkup cafe and burger bars are proud to introduce the brand new Ich bin ein Uberburger (trans: I am the Uberburger), which is affectionately known as the Uberburger. Now we aren’t talking about uber in the taxi sense of the word; this is the ultimate burger with a triple beef patty weighing in at an astonishing 450g, joined by double bacon, triple cheese, chorizo, lettuce, tomatoes, a trio of mustard, mayo, and ketchup, all squished into a brioche bun. This totally insane burger is only available for a limited time, so skip brekkie and lunch and chow down as soon as humanly possible. As an added bonus, if you can actually finish your Uberburger you can show off your amazing talents and get a Polaroid snap on the wall of fame. Still feeling hungry? Match it with some sides, like sweet potato chips, or you can be kind to your body and get a salad. You could also get something that is so wrong it’s right:
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Perkup offer an extra heart attack option with their Nutella burger that contains strawberries, cream and ice cream in a bun that’s covered in powdered sugar. However, if you want to skip the chest pains you can grab the veggie burger, which has a gourmet veggie patty, mayo, French mustard, salad, beetroot, tomato, avocado and finished off with some sweet chilli sauce. The Uberburger is $24.90.
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The Triple Crown
The Bacon Cheeseburger
The Three Crowns Hotel is a well established local watering hole with a dirty secret, as the best local establishments do. However, this place isn’t home to a debaucherous history, it’s home to the heart stopping Triple Crown burger. Induce this heart attack with three juicy premium Angus beef patties that are dripping in American cheddar, crispy bacon, diced onion, dill pickle, tomato, baby cos lettuce with house made fancy sauce, American mustard on sesame brioche bun and a side of French fries. Now, despite its intimidating demeanour and sheer beastliness, The Triple Crown is juicy and flavoursome to the last bite. Which are some traits that can elude a burger of such magnitude. Some of the other stars of the American styled menu that are pleasing the masses include the Mac & Cheese Croquettes and killer Buffalo Wings. Then once the food coma hits, they have some tasty craft beers and cider
on tap to wash everything down. The younger brother American Cheeseburger kicks off at $18 whilst The Triple Crown in all it’s glory comes in at $26. Both are accompanied with French fries. If you don’t want your dinner to kill you, grab a smoked mushroom melt burger which has vegetarians covered, consisting of Panko crumbed house smoked field mushrooms, onion rings, melted American cheddar, tomato, baby cos lettuce dripping in house Ranch sauce on sesame brioche bun. Can someone give me a hell yeah? The Triple Crown is $26 and comes with fries.
The Tramway Hotel are famous for their ‘bands who rule’ burgers, but their classic Bacon Cheeseburger is the real star of the show. A mustard-seared, fuckin’ unreal beef patty is cooked to absolute perfection, topped with crispy, streaky, mouth-watering bacon, double tasty cheese, chopped onions, kewpie mayo and rocket on a super fresh griddled milk bun. For some extras, you’re recommended to smash down about four pints and a pickled egg chaser. The magic’s conjured by their Canadian head chef, Kyle Curran, who spent the first 31 years of his life living in the town of Sarnia, which is right in between Detroit and Toronto, before moving to Melbourne a few years ago. He learnt the art of a fine burger from some brilliant North American mentors, such as his father, the great Canadian superhero Jeff Curran, who imparted vital knowledge like, “If there is no juice running down
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The Beef Burger Mr Scruffs are really the cool kids on the block and their burgers live up to the hype. They combine an 100% Australian beef patty, with hi-melt American cheddar, finely chopped and beautifully crisp cos lettuce, diced red onion, delicious sliced pickles and their home-made Mr. Scruff ’s special sauce. It’s all held together by a perfectly textured brioche bun. If you’re game, you can always throw on some extras ± another patty or two perhaps ± to tower the shit out of it. What makes this one stand out is its extreme juiciness and overall simplicity. The flavours are perfectly balanced, the expertly chosen elements really complement each other, and they haven’t overcomplicated it at all. Crucially, they only use extremely fresh ingredients, which makes all the difference in the end. We’d recommend you drink beer with your burger. The delicious, extremely saucy poutine also goes nicely on the side, as BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40
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your arm, then it’s not a burger.” Similarly, the owner of an old-school burger joint just north of Toronto told him to, “Throw the diet book on the grill and watch that sucker burn,” because they’re not cooking salads, they’re making burgers. Healthy eating doesn’t really fit into Tramway’s idea of a quality burger. Nevertheless, they only source quality local produce, which allows them to stick to the burger philosophies Curran learned from his mentors of the past. The Tramway also has stacks of tip-top beer and wine and non-stop great local music on the stereo. You’ll feel like a Viking after this feast. The bacon cheeseburger is $15.
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The 3051 well as the tasty pork-belly bao bun. But honestly, beer goes best... always beer. If you don’t feel in the mood for beef, you can grab the exact same burger with a veggie patty instead. They use seasonal, fresh ingredients, making it arguably one of the best veggie burgers on offer in Melbourne. The Beef Burger is $10. But you can add extras for a little more.
The 3051 takes it name from the postcode of North Melbourne, which is a nod to the local village feel at Wonky Trolley. It’s one of their best selling burgers, made up of a double Gippsland beef patty, double cheese, double free range bacon, lettuce, special Wonky sauce in a brioche bun. The house made Wonky sauce is a real treat ± it’s a little bit spicy and a little bit sweet, giving the burger its own unique flavour. The 3051 pairs up well with any of the craft beers in the fridge, and there’s quite a few of them, all of which are only $6 all day, every day. For vegetarians there’s the Vego Burger, which includes a sweet potato patty, salad, relish, and the best two A’s of the condiment family: avocado and aioli. For an extra treat you have to try a $6 shake; the sticky date pudding shake is as sweet and sticky as can be. Wonky Trolley offer a range of new-style and traditional burgers to eat in or take away, and you
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can get one any day of the week. Wonky Trolley is just 1.5kms from the CBD and just up the road from the Queen Vic Markets, so it’s well worth marking it on your list of burger joints to checkout. Hot tip, if you follow them on Instagram you can check out their secret burgers and new burger specials. The 3051 burger is $14.90.
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The F150 Kustom Burgers is pretty fresh on the Melbourne burger landscape, but they stand up tall next to the best of them. Setting up the joint has been a passion project for Paul Hendrie, who worked hard for two years to turn his dream into a reality. The place is a petrol head’s dream, featuring a car-themed fit out that isn’t just beautifully detailed (they have a burgershaped landline phone), but includes an actual pickup truck inside. Fittingly, the burgers have car-themed names, and we’d like to focus on the F150 burger in particular. You can get this beauty in its original form, which merges a 100 per cent grass fed Tasmanian beef patty, with tomato sauce, kustom special sauce, hi-melt American cheese, bacon, onion and lettuce. You can also kustomise it and build up to a F250 or even an F350 by adding an extra beef patty, onion, egg, cheese and bacon. You can get it on either a brioche
bun or an old school plain seeded bun, and for especial kustomisation, every burger on the menu can be made with a veggie patty. Sadly these guys don’t have a liquor licence, but don’t fret, it’s possible to have your burger with a beer as they now deliver to local bars. So head to Palino Bar, Carwyn Cellars or Tago Mago and let Kustom Burgers bring the magic to you. While there you can choose from a large range of American sodas, like Dr. Pepper, and a fantastic range of milk shakes. For dessert, there are cupcakes that look like burgers. The F150 starts at $13.
The Beef Bacon and Cheese The Local Burger Co is going through a bit of a face lift at the moment and their brand new location in Cranbourne has just opened its doors, ready to welcome burger lovers everywhere. There are new burgers and old burgers, and even limited edition burgers, plus sweet delicious milkshakes, chicken wings and toasted sandwiches, its true comfort food as far as the eye can see. But enough banging on, let’s take some time to focus on a real highlight of this extensive menu, the Beef Bacon and Cheese burger. This beautiful monster contains a premium beef patty with unbelievable maple glazed bacon, classic American cheddar, lettuce, tomato, house made mayonnaise and ketchup. The Maple bacon is to die for but the real stand out is that the Local Burger Co make all of their sauces and milkshake syrups from scratch and in house. The sides are hard to pass up when there are Louisiana hot wings on the menu, and one could almost
order a second side of chilli cheese fries because they are just that good. These legends have two vegetarian options on the menu, The Mushroom burger with slow roasted mushrooms, grilled haloumi, eggplant, tomato relish, lettuce and house made mayonnaise. And the Chickpea Burger made of a crispy chickpea patty with Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, Spanish onion, Dijon mustard and mayonnaise. I think I’ve found my new local. The Beef Bacon Cheeseburger is $14.50
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The Andrew’s Burger Andrew’s Burgers is quite literally the original Melbourne burger joint. It has been family run for over 75 years and the burger business was voted in as Victoria’s best bun, coming in second on TripAdvisor’s list of Top 10 Boutique Burger Joints in Australia. “Second in Australia is amazing,” said manager Greg Mitropoulos. “We pride ourselves on our burgers and being old school. Good luck to all the trendy, new burger joints out there.” Andrew’s Hamburgers have been, and always will be dishing up the quintessential hamburger Ð classic, well-established recipes served with the promise of an unbelievably tasty burger experience. The Andrew’s Burger contains egg, double smoked bacon, double cheese, Andrew’s beef patty, smashed onions, double cheese, grilled tomatoes, and topped with T sauce. The thing that makes this burger stand out is that it hasn’t changed for over 70 years. It’s
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truly a burger of the ages, for all ages. With something as old school as this, you really only need a cold Coke and a side of classic chips with sauce. Andrews Burgers also serve up Mum’s homemade veggie burgers for the herbivores, and word is they are the best going around. The Andrew’s Burger is $11.50
The Beef and Bacon burger Goneburger is a sneaky little place as it only appears from 3pm each day, and before that there is no signage, so you wouldn’t even know it’s there. The menu consists of burger names after exactly whats in them, so we’ll chat about our favourite, the Beef and Bacon burger. The Goneburger house crafted beef patty is pretty damn special as its made from their own blend of Victorian grass fed beef chuck and short rib beef, plus their own GB sauce, smoked bacon and caramelised onions, lettuce, tomato, red onion, cheese and pickles on a toasted brioche bun. The patty is made in house from chuck and short rib sourced from Kirkpatrick’s in South Melbourne, one of the only butchers in Melbourne to continue to guarantee their quality by butchering their carcasses onsite. They then season the beef blend to give it a real savoury punch and gently hand press the meat. The smoky, meaty flavour of the patty is
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complemented by a tangy BBQ sauce, rich in molasses, smoke and citrus flavour. Char grilled streaky bacon sits on top of sweet caramelised onions and a punchy hit of mustard hit provided by the GB sauce balances out the elements with a sweet and slightly acidic finish to the burger. They add crisp iceberg lettuce, thinly shaved red onion and a soft, buttery Noisette Brioche bun to create a very special burger. There are plenty of beer and wine options to help it down, but our favourites would be an ice cold St Kilda brew on tap or a glass of Dodgy Brothers GSM. Burgers so good ... they’ll be goneburger. The Beef and Bacon burger is $12.00
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JUICE RAP NEWS EXTREME TRUTH TELLING
By Augustus Welby For a lot of people, closely monitoring global political matters can cause a mixture of anxiety, fear and depression. But the current affairs-oriented YouTube program, Juice Rap News, offers an alternative to the usual doom-and-gloom bombardment. Utilising the medium of rap music, Melbourne residents Giordano Nanni and Hugo Farrant unravel the complex details of various ugly, unjust or just plain stupid world events, and they do so while also giving you something to laugh at. Interestingly, when conceiving the show, humour wasn’t a priority. “Giordano and myself had a collaboration in mind, but we didn’t really know what format it was going to take,” says Farrant. “We knew it was going to be rap based and current affairs based. The comedy angle of it came along a little bit later. We have a really large section of our mutual Venn diagram that incorporates the great political comedians, like Bill Hicks or George Carlin, or UK satirists like Chris Morris or Armando Iannucci.” But aside from their shared interest in satirical comedians, the decision to portray the characters in the news broadcasts by dressing up in wigs and costumes is what made humour inevitable. “It became quite clear that this was going to look funny,” Farrant says. “It wasn’t really a conscious decision, ‘Oh, people need to laugh at this stuff,’ but I guess we’d seen it done so well by some of our greatest cultural heroes that when we saw that the show was going to be quite funny looking, we had no problem pursuing that angle.” Juice Rap News is blatantly humorous, but watching the show doesn’t necessarily make you feel good. Crucially, although these are serious issues that effect real people, Farrant and Nanni shine a light on the absurdity of the situation, rather than the crushing reality.
“We do deliberate a lot about how to deal with complex, and especially delicate, issues in an appropriate and respectful manner,” says Nanni. “At the same time, because of the irreverent and satirical nature of the show, humour is often the best vehicle to help us engage with those complex topics in an effective way. Humour can help to lower people’s defence mechanisms and to dispel our fears. So we don’t think of the relationship between humour and seriousness in terms of tension and opposition; so much as in terms of a symbiosis – a sort of yin and yang action between hilarious and deadly serious.” Since its conception in late-2009, 32 episodes of Juice Rap News have appeared on YouTube, and there’s now a new episode uploaded every month. There are several moments in each show specifically designed to get people laughing, but they’re careful not to poke fun at victims of tyranny and oppression. “To laugh at any of the victims of that would be just extremely distasteful. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh at the oppressors and the tyrannists. Those should be the targets of ridicule. The comedy, wherever it comes, is directed at those people. It might be in the form of putting words in their mouth that are
extreme truth-telling. We have our militarist character General Baxter – he’s an extreme representative of the military industrial complex. He speaks the truth and he revels in the darkness of the military industrial complex. A lot of the times the humour might come from a bit of shock factor – having a character express such extreme views about oppression and the might-isright philosophy of geopolitics.” While Juice Rap News is foremost a musical project, so far they’ve only performed one live show. However, their debut Melbourne show is happening this weekend, as part of the Shadow Electric’s Visions series. Along with the two co-creators/writers and performers, there’ll be a number of special guests involved. “We’re incredibly lucky to have some amazing people from the local scene. We’ve got Grey Ghost, who used to rap with The Melodics, he’s rapping as a couple of the characters. We’ve also got Mantra. So two of the best MCs in Melbourne, in my opinion Australia. We’ve also got a great female actress, Ellen Burbidge, who’s coming on board to rap with us as well.” Thanks to the collaboration with Shadow Electric, Juice Rap will have access to the venue’s enormous projector and screen. “We have visuals playing in sync with
the music and augmenting the lyrics that are being delivered by the actors. In much the same way as the episode is an all-out assault on the senses visually and auditorily, the same thing is going to happen in this live show. Massive beats out of the speakers and really tight syncing of visuals to those beats. And the lyrics will be delivered live by the actors on stage.” Despite the somewhat overwhelming nature of the issues that’ll be addressed in the live show, they endeavour to leave the audience with a feeling that there are simple actions we can take to improve these situations. “Primarily we want people to come and have a really good time and enjoy the music and get together with other people who love hearing discussions about similar issues. But also come away with feelings that there are tools, there are opportunities open to all of us to take really simple steps to addressing these issues.”
on the western fringe of the Adelaide city centre. “I suppose I can relate to that because I’ve been a 21-year old out at night, with plenty of testosterone,” Cameron says. “I wanted to make a short clip to accompany it, which was going to be a combination of The Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up and Head On with Alex Dimitriades with these two guys leading up to a fight, but they actually have sex. But I suppose it might not have had a good run on television [laughs].” The conversation turns to the pub rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s – bands like Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil and The Angels, whose tunes have become associated with so-called bogan culture. “You listen to those bands now, and you realise they were making really great art,” Cameron says. “Even a band like Hunters & Collectors with a song like Throw Your Arms Around Me, or even better, ‘You don’t make me
feel like I’m a woman anymore’ [Say Goodbye]. He’s a hyper-macho guy, but he’s singing from a woman’s perspective.” An ongoing issue of debate concerns whether the concept ‘bogan’ is about a specific attitude, a socioeconomic profile or, like the mod and rocker subcultures of the 1960s, a visible style. “I actually have more problems with the middle-class bogans,” Cameron says. “You look at the AFL – you’ve got people like Sam Newman, who’s a massive misogynist. I find that much worse than anything to do with economics. I actually don’t know what the word bogan really means.”
JUICE RAP NEWS will perform an afternoon show on Sunday August 30 at Estonian House, Brunswick for Shadow Electric’s Visions series with Nazeem Hussain along for the ride.
BAD//DREEMS D O G G E D D E T E R M I N AT I O N
By Patrick Emery Alex Cameron and Ben Marwe are adamant they don’t hate Adelaide, the city where they were born and bred, formed their band Bad//Dreems, and where they still live and work. “Adelaide’s got some really great things going for it,” Cameron says. “But it can be incredibly frustrating – it can be so conservative, so closed minded, so insulated. At the same time, you think, ‘Come on, you can do better than this’.” Bad//Dreems was conceived at Cameron and Marwe’s football club in the inner suburbs of Adelaide, back in 2012. “I reckon the toughest team we played against was Salisbury North,” Cameron says, when asked about his favourite footy memories from those days. “There was a fair bikie connection with that club. I remember one time we had a guy playing for us who was a member of the bikie task force and I asked him if he recognised anyone on the field, and he said ‘Sure: number 5, 12, 23, 17,’ [laughs]. “I don’t really like the AFL that much,” he continues. “What I like about football is the amateur leagues when you get situations like a privileged university or college team playing against a team like Salisbury North. It’s a real tribal thing. Most of the time it’s in a really good spirit, but sometimes it can get a bit carried away.” The dystopian aspect of suburban culture is woven
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through Bad//Dreems’ debut album, Dogs at Bay. On the track Bogan Pride, Bad//Dreems delve into the murky nocturnal world of steroid-laden bogans on the tear, a song that Cameron clarifies is “about the confused male youth of Australia.” The idea for the song came when Cameron was at a dance festival “stone cold sober”, observing the attendant male culture in its drugged up, shirtless glory. “There’s this hyper-masculinity which is also a bit homoerotic, but they’re also really aggressive ‘cause of the drugs they’re on,” he says. “It’s really gross, and it’s also really confusing. And heaps of them have also got Southern Cross tattoos – and it was about the time of the Cronulla riots, so it was really dystopian and also really disturbing.” Marwe compares the dance festival scenes to a “modern day Hindley Street”; the seedy entertainment strip
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BAD//DREEMS are playing Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 24. Dogs at Bay is out now via Ivy League Records.
BAHAMAS
KID IN THE KITCHEN By David James Young The last time that Bahamas ± AKA Afie Jurvanen ± was in Australia, it was as a solo tour opening up for another Canadian troubadour with a stage name, City & Colour. During that run, Jurvanen would begin his sets with a rendition of Someday Baby Blues; a blues standard from the 1940s, which has been reinterpreted by countless artists over the years. Although it was over three years ago now, Jurvanen remembers it well ± a child brought up on the blues, he naturally incorporated it into how he performs. “When I was really young, I was into Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker ± guys like that,” he says. “I loved the guitar playing. I loved how punk rock it was ± those guys just did whatever you wanted. I remember when I started playing that song, I was kind of doing it on tour to try and get people’s attention. Everyone’s got their own way around doing that. Some will try to do it as loudly as they can, but I’ve found that my instinct leads me to do the opposite. I like to play as quietly as I can and then lead people into my set that way.” Late last year, Jurvanen released his third studio album under the Bahamas moniker, the simplytitled Bahamas is Afie. After gaining some of the best reviews of his career, the record was named Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015 (Canada’s ARIAs). In contrast to its lofty fortunes, the album comes from humble beginnings. “The majority of these songs ended up being written
in the kitchen,” says Jurvanen. “That’s where I tend to play most of my guitar, and I tend to want to play a lot if I’m working on a record. Ironically, I don’t get to play a lot on tour. You’re travelling most of the day, you actually play for maybe an hour at the end and then you’re exhausted. When I was off the road I would get up in the morning, make coffee and just play guitar all day. Some ideas were great, some were terrible, but I kept going.” When it comes to the lyrics and central themes of Bahamas is Afie, Jurvanen says the majority of the songs stem from reflecting on the past ± not so much in the sense of nostalgia, but more looking back at moments in your life and learning from them. “When you’re in the thick of it, it’s easy to let your emotions get the best of you,” he says. “You do all kinds of things that you’d do differently if only you had more time. These songs are about time and
perspective. You can look back on something and have an entirely new outlook on it. You can reflect on how something wasn’t as big a deal as you had originally made it out to be, or it can be the exact opposite. It’s about allowing enough time to pass in order for you to properly assess what went on in your own life.” Jurvanen ± along with his full band ± will be touring through Australia in late September and early October. Although this is only Jurvanen’s second tour through the country as Bahamas, he initially made the trip when playing with another pseudonymous Canadian performer. “The first time that I came out to Australia was as a part of Feist’s band. Of course the shows were great, and the people were great. The coffee, though, man... we couldn’t believe how great the coffee was. The food,
too. For me, those are two of the most important things as far as visiting a new place is concerned. I think it’s a great foundation ± if you have a great coffee spot or you come across a great meal that can be enough to make you remember that place as being amazing. That’s definitely what happened with Melbourne. Whatever you can grasp onto is what will make it the most memorable.”
years old and record-less. I was thinking, ‘Well, is this the right thing for me to be doing, then?’ I was quite disheartened. But from there Crooked Saint started. I started touring it, which eventually led to where I am now. But it all made me realise that sometimes, good things can just take a while.” As pupal stages go, it has been a long and bumpy development, but Wheatley can be proud he’s produced damn strong because of it. From Valerie - which recounts Melbourne history with the troubled story of the Darrell Lea matriarch ± to title track, the album is a carousel of rich narratives and evocative lyrics. “I can’t wait for it to get out and more people to hear it.
I’ve been carrying it around with me for two years now, since we first went into the studio to get things started. That said, there are a couple of songs here that are even older than that. So it feels like I’ve been carrying this around the world on a hard-drive for far too long now, and I can’t wait for it to be out. It means I can spread my wings and start writing again.”
so we kind of needed Phil to be that person. Just having that experienced person in the room was good. It was all a learning process of trying to work together and be creative together.” In contrast to the acoustic folk styling of their earlier work, Twelvefour sees The Paper Kites embracing some more unexpected influences ± in particular, the crystallised sheen of the 1980s. “It’s taking the awesome parts from that ‘80s sound. It is shiny, but it still lends itself to those atmospherics. It’s about taking those bits and pieces and making them our own. There have been hints of these sounds coming back into music with things being released in the last five years. I think that’s great.” Thanks to Bentley’s intensive writing efforts and the band’s tireless dedication in the demoing and recording
process, Twelvefour comes across as the band’s most focused and cohesive sounding album to date. “For me, this album feels a lot more… I want to say it makes a lot more sense,” Lacy says. “States was a 13 track album. It was our debut. I feel like we had all these songs and we didn’t want to leave any good ones off. Whereas I feel like with Twelvefour, it’s a lot clearer. The intention of the album was clearer for us. It feels like a much nicer, neater package. It’s a ten-track, and it was so hard to choose those ten because we recorded 12 and the other two were so good”.
BAHAMAS comes to Howler on Wednesday September 30, with support from Fraser A. Gorman, before hitting up The Croxton Hotel in Northcote supporting You Am I. He’ll also headline the Dashville Skyline Festival in NSW, held on Saturday October 3 and Sunday October 4. Bahamas Is Af ie is out now through Republic/Brushfire.
TIM WHEATLEY
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It’s hard to get the measure of a person over a 20 minute phone call, but Tim Wheatley is such a self-assured, engaging talker, you get the impression he’d be an excellent addition to both your local pub trivia team and your zombie survival posse. Friendly and quickwitted, you nevertheless sense there is something impermanent about his company; that he is eager to move on to the next encounter, the next story. Listening to Wheatley’s new record, Cast Of Yesterday, goes some way to confirming this hunch. “All of these songs, bar one or two, are all about particular people that I’ve come across over the last couple of years,” he says. “Really that’s why I called it Cast of Yesterday. I thought that summed it all up ± the travelling solo, these songs about the characters I’d met along the way and the pieces of wisdom you find in them. There’s a line, ‘The real stars don’t hit, they ricochet’, which is about the people who come and go, who you forever put on this pedestal because you don’t get the chance to actually know them very well at all. They don’t stick around long enough for them to inevitably piss you off.” He laughs, though there is a thorn of truth to the observation. Wheatley has had a wilder ride than most over the last decade, seesawing between Australia and the US, dipping his toes in music, acting and modelling. In recent years he took on the mantle of Crooked Saint, but with his debut album finally at hand ± and lead
single, Valerie, already winning over critics and fans alike ± he’s now comfortable performing under his own name. “I was in The Sparrows when I was fifteen, and we had five years together, signed by Sony,” he says. “We disbanded having already recorded the album, but still waiting for it to come out. We were sitting around, pointing fingers, trying to figure out where we’d gone wrong and why the record wasn’t on shelves yet. That drew me away, but I did a lot of growing up in that time. From there we started the band Rushcutter, but same thing happened. We recorded, did all the hard work, and then found ourselves sitting around waiting for this album to come out. Once again we started pointing fingers at each other, no one could figure out what was going wrong. I pulled out. I thought I’d crossed the finish line twice by getting these albums recorded, but nothing happened. I was still standing there, almost 30
Cast of Yesterday is out Friday August 28 via Sony Music Australia. TIM WHEATLEY will launch the album on Sunday August 30 at the Grace Darling Hotel.
THE PAPER KITES
MAKING SENSE AFTER MIDNIGHT By James Di Fabrizio With two incredibly well received EPs and the debut album, States, to their name, The Paper Kites have grown from humble beginnings to international success. As they prepare to unleash their second full length, Twelvefour, the group are ignoring the pressures for a similar follow-up. According to vocalist and keyboardist Christina Lacy, they were more interested in creating something that made them proud. “I think it’s a case of just wanting to stretch ourselves and explore different sounds. It’s about releasing something where we feel like it isn’t the same as what we’ve done before,” she says between sips of coffee. “It’s challenged us, in a way, so we can be really proud of it.” Twelvefour marks new sonic ground for the group, taking their pop/folk capacity and blending it with lush, atmospheric production and a darker edge that was absent from previous releases. The album began as a labour of love for lead vocalist Sam Bentley, who reversed his sleep patterns for two months and penned 30 songs between midnight and the break of dawn. Hence the album’s title: the underlying concept is that that an artist’s creative peak is between the hours of midnight and four am. As such, the album occupies a dream-like space, beholden to neither night nor day. “Sam had an idea of these textural sounds that we wanted to include,” says Lacy. “It’s probably becoming a bit typical of our sound as well. States started to
experiment more with textures and building a little bit more depth. Sonically, I think Twelvefour is a continuation of that and kind of creating that midnight feeling.” Producer Phil Ek (Father John Misty, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, The Shins) played an integral part in translating and distilling that midnight feeling onto the record. Determined to capture the sound they heard in their head, the group travelled to Seattle to record with Ek. “Having someone like Phil on board with so much experience is awesome,” Lacy says. “Phil is pretty blunt, so if something isn’t working he’ll suggest, ‘No, no, no, let’s try this’. We were all on the same page with the sounds we were after, so when we got them, everybody knew. We loved working with him. There are some things on the record where maybe we wanted to make them a certain way, but it just wasn’t working. Sometimes as a band we can be too nice to each other
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THE PAPER KITES are playing 170 Russell on Friday October 23. They’ll also hit The Workers Club, Geelong on Saturday October 24. Twelvefour is out Friday August 28 via Wonderlick/Sony. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 45
THE DELTA RIGGS DOUBLE DIPPING
By Erin Rooney Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll? If only it were that simple. Despite wearing the influence of ’70s and ’80s bands like The Clash, The 101ers and Primal Scream, there’s much more to Melbourne rockers The Delta Riggs, according to bassist Michael ‘Monty’ Tramonte.
“Although we do have sex, take drugs and play rock’n’roll, we’re pretty tame,” he says. “We’re not actually very wild – we’re not one of those kind of bands.” In general, The Delta Riggs try not to take themselves too seriously – at the end of the day, they’re just mates hanging out, and that’s what they find most exciting about creating music together. But don’t be fooled – though they are certainly laid-back and humble, the Riggs have had some amazing opportunities thrust upon them. They’ve jumped on tour with Kasabian, Foo Fighters, and even met Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page by chance backstage at one of their shows. Tramonte is still in awe of touring with a band like the Foo Fighters, which the Riggs did in February and March this year, and can hardly believe they were given the opportunity. “The touring on that level was just ridiculous,” he says. “It was so well-oiled, there were so many crew involved, it was just amazing. You can do that forever, that kind of style of touring – you wouldn’t get sick of it.” But Tramonte also has dear memories of the 2014 tour with Kasabian, listing it as one of his favourites so far, because of how at ease the headliners made their counterparts feel. “They kind of reminded us of us, in a way,” he says. “They were just a bunch of really great mates, and got all personal. They were silly – like they carry on with a bunch of really silly stuff.” Indeed, The Delta Riggs can be pretty silly too. Though the name of their second album, Dipz Zebazios, was intended to be open for interpretation, Tramonte admits there is a bit of a story behind it. “Dipz Zebazios is a person that’s like the god of celebrities. He’s pulling all the puppet strings and he’s up in the clouds, and the name just came from our artist friend who had a piece of artwork that had a title that was similar. Then there was a pile of dips next to it, like Jatz and dips, so we were like, ‘Dipz Zebazios’. It’s kind of silly – we’re a silly band. People think we’re really serious, but we’re not.” It’s this quirkiness that gives the band its spark. Although there’s a wide spread of musical interests in the group, like hip hop, punk and alt-rock, different sounds get meshed together in the writing process and it all comes together to form a united sound. “It obviously has to end up sounding cohesive, like we are the same band, which I think we do quite well in the end,” says Tramonte. “We’ve got those punk songs, and rock’n’roll songs, and just kind of groovy songs and stuff, but it all sounds like the same band.”
“I JUST HOPE THAT WE CAN KIND OF TAKE PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE MUNDANE, THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES. LIKE YOU’RE WITH US FOR AN HOUR, AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW.” For Record Store Day in April, the band put out a new collection, Dipz From The Zong. Again, the Riggs made the name of the mini-album an in-joke – they were listening to Cyprus Hill’s Hits From The Bong on tour and figured they should pay tribute. Despite the fact Dipz Zebazios was still a fresh release, the choice to follow it up so quickly was inspired by the likes of Kurt Vile and The War On Drugs, who’ve similarly released extra tracks after an album and given a platform to songs that didn’t quite make the initial cut. “There was a couple [of songs] that were looming but didn’t really fit, but were still kind of cool and weird. There’s this fucking turbo song on there – 3D Jetfighter – it’s this crazy song. And there’s a song on there called Hey Victor that just didn’t fit on that record at that time, and it was just a good excuse.” The Delta Riggs will be playing at Panacea Festival in November alongside the likes of Tijuana Cartel, Palace of the King and plenty more Aussie acts. After appearances at Groovin The Moo and Splendour In The Grass earlier this year, the Riggs have made their way all around the festival circuit, and are sure to bring their best once again. “Groovin The Moo was just an amazing festival – we saw all our friends, like the DMA’s and The Preatures and we became really good friends with Sticky Fingers. That was a great family vibe festival.” But as much as they love hanging out, The Delta Riggs really are all about transporting people through their music. “I just hope that we can kind of take people away from the mundane, their everyday lives. Like you’re with us for an hour, and that’s all that matters right now.”
THE DELTA RIGGS are playing Panacea Festival, which runs from Friday November 20 – Sunday November 22 in Tatong, Victoria. The lineup also includes Drunk Mums, Batpiss, Leah Senior and more. Check out panaceafestival.com.au for full details. Dipz From The Zong is out now through Inertia. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
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TEETH & TONGUE
OFF THE GRID By Alex Watts
“I tend to jump around a lot stylistically and I can’t ever settle on one thing, so the visual representation of the band is constantly changing,” explains Jess Cornelius, frontwoman of Teeth & Tongue. “I feel you’ve got a responsibility to your audience to provide something that they’re not going to get from listening to it on their stereo.” Forward propulsion and a genuine interest in creating art that goes beyond the basic functions of a gig or a recorded work, have typified Teeth & Tongue’s career thus far. This is exemplified by their upcoming collaborative performance with visual artist Keith Deverell, as a part of The Shadow Electric’s Visions series. “I can’t really explain it, but Keith does this live video feedback loop from the desk and then it’s triggered by what’s happening onstage. It’s a video response to the sound,” Cornelius says. “When we’ve worked with him in the past he has these images that he uses, but for this one we’re creating our own images and footage for each song, so we’ve got a bit of work to do.” As if this weren’t enough pressure for Cornelius – the band’s driving force and sole core member – much of the projections will be accompanying brand new songs. “We’re working on a whole heap of new material that we’re going to be playing, which is really exciting and nerve wracking. It’s our last show for a long time ’cause we’re also making a record,” says Cornelius. “In terms of
doing projections and videos, I’d love to do a lot more than we’ve done in the past. It would be great to have something like that as a permanent element, but of course with costs and logistics it’s not always possible. So this is a great opportunity for us to really go to town on it.” The Melbourne-based songwriter has been very busy over the last year. Teeth & Tongue’s third album, Grids, was released last March to winning reviews, and the band followed-up with tours around the country, both as headliner and as support to Courtney Barnett. Cornelius also undertook a two-month artist’s residency in the small town of Skagaströnd in northern Iceland. “It was a very unstructured residency. Every day you went to the studio and sometimes you’d just go and stare at the wall, sometimes you’d do some work,” she says. “You couldn’t do any walking; it was just really cold and windy. It was a six-hour bus ride to the nearest city, and no one had a car. My whole existence existed within about one kilometre.”
During her stay Cornelius managed to record and release a single, Cupcake, with layers being added by her bandmates via email, along with an accompanying film clip, shot largely on her iPhone. “It’s funny because it was an open plan studio, nothing was sound proofed and nothing was private,” she says. “When I was at my desk I’d have headphones on, singing into a microphone and I’d just forget there’s this room full of people. The video was like that as well; everyone’s just doing their work and I’m lip-syncing to the song.” Although an album’s worth of material was written during those two months, at this point the singer has decided to put those songs to the side and continue
writing. “I thought I’d come back and be like ‘Yeah – let’s make a record,’ and I basically turned around and went, ‘I don’t think I like any of those songs’,” she says. “It was good to get it out of my system, but I’ve got a much more concise plan for the sounds now. In the past I’ve tracked everything myself and then we’ve put it together live, and this time I just want to get it ready as a band and then record it.”
Gillard-era,” says Simon. “I like re-establishing a song that had nothing to do with the context in which we are, which we can then make contextual relationships to what our situation is. “I’m interested in the idea of how songs can become traditional. Say the way that folk music became traditional, and it was more the recordings and interpretations and performances of songs than the authorial originality of the music.” The other half of the disc, Spring, picks up precisely where Lowtide left off. It’s hard to find any critical feedback on the album that doesn’t use the descriptors ‘shoegaze’ and ‘dream pop’. But, while the sound of the band suggests the members have a deep interest in those genres, taste and creativity don’t always directly correspond. “With Lowtide, we come together with mutual interests in these broadly defined genres of guitar
pop music and that’s where we try to keep it focused. Everyone has their own interests: Lucy has a pretty deep soft spot for country music and I’ve been listening to a lot of electronic music, like Laurie Spiegel and Eliane Radigue. But I see a relationship still between the music that we make and my music interests generally, but it’s more that we have a certain approach to making music and we use basic musical tropes to approach our songwriting. We’re playing bass, guitar, drums and singing – it’s not a groundbreaking setup for a rock band.”
It’s nice to have a limitation to work within. It gives you a direction. It’s more defined in terms of what belongs and what doesn’t belong.” Although Freeman is often in disguise in her selfproduced and directed output, the songs on Secretly Susan come from the ‘real’ her. Taking influences from Japanese lover’s rock, ’80s electro/boss nova and dubby lounge music, the record’s laced with danceable beats and tropical, poolside pop. “The songs relate to specific things to me personally,” she says. “This album is more about experiences from my life and different events that have happened. It’s more emotional in that sense. Though I didn’t always realise. You might be using your art form to process some emotional thing that you’re not actually aware of. Later you listen back and you’re like, ‘Holy crap, I was totally singing about that’.” As for the socks, they’re more than just an eccentric
passion. In the uncanny and confusing dystopia of Sui Zhen’s Infinity Street and Take It All Back videos, one can’t help but try to find meaning and make metaphors. “I feel like it’s quite representative of a lot of things I do, because I really like enjoying simple pleasures. There’s this not-scientifically-proven condition that people claim to have – it’s a bit of a fetish, and it’s one of the influences on the videos. It follows this idea of people speaking really softly and talking about everything they’re doing and tapping on things and making sounds.
TEETH & TONGUE will perform as part of the Shadow Electric’s Visions series at Estonian House on Friday August 28. Cupcake is out now via Dot Dash Recordings Remote Control.
LOWTIDE
L O O K I N G B AC K , M OV I N G F O RWA R D By Augustus Welby Midway through last year, Lowtide emerged from the Melbourne underground with their fully-formed, deftly constructed self-titled debut LP. For many fans of shoegaze-y dream pop, the band were a fresh discovery. However, two releases preceded the LP – 2010’s You Are My Good Light EP and 2011’s double A-side Underneath Tonight/Memory No.7 – making it a lengthy gap before the band’s first full length. In light of this, it was a surprise to see Lowtide return last month with a new double A-side 7”, Julia/Spring. “We had a lot of the songs from the album written and recorded in some form or another for a while, so I guess we’d already started work on new ideas while the album was coming out,” says one of the band’s two bass playing vocalists, Giles Simon. “So we felt more equipped to deal with some new stuff, but we don’t really run to any schedule in terms of releases and plans for how we’re going to put music out. It just happens as it happens.” The two tracks aren’t quite brand new – Julia is a cover of French post-punk/cold wave band Asylum Party (whose original version came out in 1988) while Spring was left over from the Lowtide sessions. There can be a stigma attached to bands for releasing covers as singles, but Lowtide so fully inhabit the song that doesn’t really matter who wrote it. “We weren’t worried about whether or not it was cover as much as making it our own version, given that we
have a limited palette in terms of what we’re prepared to do musically,” Simon says. “We wanted to keep the music live, to use instruments that we play live and not to over-produce things in a recording sense. “I was looking at the YouTube clip for Asylum Party’s Julia, and one of the comments was ‘Back then everyone and his dog had a Yamaha DX7,’ which is the keyboard you see front and centre of the video clip. Gabe [Lewis] prides himself on making as wild an amount of sound as he can out of his guitar and nothing else. That’s the kind of thing we’re interested in, more so than whether or not strategically it’s a good idea to be releasing a cover as a single.” The original was released 27 years ago, and the world has since become a vastly different place. So from a thematic point of view, Lowtide’s version gives the song a new significance. “I was thinking about it as maybe a nostalgia for the
LOWTIDE’s Julia/ Spring 7” is out on vinyl Friday August 28 via Lost & Lonesome. See them at Northcote Social Club, with Parading and The Shifters, on Saturday August 29.
SUI ZHEN
SOCKS APPEAL By George Nott
There is a weird detail in Sui Zhen’s recent music videos. OK, there’s a whole lot of weirdness – see her holding a dead fish while naked from the waist down, laying in contemplation of a loaf of sliced bread, or scooping pink jelly into her mouth with condom-covered fingers – but one particular detail stands out. She is never wearing shoes, but always wearing socks. Even by the pool. Plain socks. Are they a clue to decipher all the pastel-coloured bizarre banality of her promotional films? “Yes. Yes. Yes,” she says. “It’s like a little thing, a misplaced detail. I’m also really into socks. I’m always like, ‘What socks shall I wear today?’ I have equal amount of socks to everything else. I have two big drawers of socks. I have heaps of socks. Also, people know that they can ask me when they’ve run out of socks. I’ve got every kind of sock and I don’t even like patterned socks. I’m very specific.” Sui Zhen is a Chinese-Malaysian name, and the two middle names of Melbourne-based artist Becky Freeman. She performs under both her birth monikers, as well as DJ Susan and in various lineups including Sui Et Sui, Fox + Sui, Andrew & Rebecca and NO ZU. Last year she released two cassette tape EPs as Sui Zhen – Female Basic and Body Reset – through Tokyobased labels. She now has a new guise and a new album, Secretly Susan. It’s Susan who is the be-socked protagonist of Freeman’s surreal videos. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 48
“It is an alter ego,” she says. “Susan actually started before any of the visuals, in the mixing phase. I was listening back to the songs and trying to find a link – I was just listing girls’ names. I wrote a synopsis for her, like, ‘Susan lives in a post-apocalyptic world and there’s no water left on the planet and it’s all pink’ – this sci-fi thing.” Susan introduces herself in Take It All Back, her hand posed self-consciously on cheek as if in an awkward dating video: “Hi. My name’s Susan. I love the water. Sunrise. Sunset.” The character developed as Freeman worked on the album’s visual elements, which she takes full control over. “Susan emerged. She’s an amalgamation of how people might represent themselves in their digital documentation. It was a way of characterising that. The more time I had, the deeper I went into crafting this person. In the visual media, I definitely take on her role.
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SUI ZHEN’s Secretly Susan is out Friday August 28 through Dot Dash/Remote Control.
SILICON
B U R N I N G T H E C A N D LE AT B O T H E N D S By Augustus Welby Kody Nielson’s career path has moved through a series of stylistic mutations. After leading art punk/power pop outfit The Mint Chicks, he jumped over to the clean, pop eclecticism of Opossum, and then released a jazz-inspired instrumental solo EP, Devils, in 2013. Earlier this year he gave his brother Ruban a hand with the third album for his band, Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Multi Love). Now, Nielson’s gearing up to release Personal Computer ± an LP of funked-up, lo-fi electronic pop music under the moniker Silicon. Although his stylistic focus has undergone some distinct shifts over the last decade or so, one constant is Nielson’s keen melodic capacity, which gives his work a sense of cohesion. “I just like songs,” he says. “Whatever the production or style, it still actually needs a song. I’ve always tried to keep melodic songs throughout different projects. I suppose I just enjoy that kind of music to listen to.” Meanwhile, Personal Computer isn’t lacking in experimental flourishes. For instance, the album begins with a monologue recited by an android voice; the chirpy 60-second sequence Little Dancing Baby combines childlike female vocals with a club-ready bass groove; and Love Peace fluctuates between plaintive piano balladry and stabs of whacked-out disco funk. However, as with past projects, Nielson’s attention to songcraft stops his experimental tendencies from
overwhelming. “Everything I work on I try to keep a similar approach,” he says. “I just take extra things here and there ± whatever is inspiring or excited me to keep making music, I’ll just try to run with that.” With this in mind, one wonders what catalysed the Silicon project. After a handful of years leading Opossum (which also featured New Zealand pop singer Bic Runga and former Mint Chicks bassist Michael Logie), a combination of necessity and frustration led Nielson to break away. “Having broken up with Opossum ± or everyone in Opossum got a bit too busy ± I just continued trying to write music and make music on my own again,” he says. “I wanted the music to be the finished music. I didn’t want to write more demos. I was kind of doing it all as I went along. With this there was a bit more freedom
to just do it and finish it. I didn’t really have to consider anyone else’s ideas or feelings or anything.” But, while Nielson had a few aims for what this new outlet of expression would encompass, he didn’t bank on it evolving into a fully-fledged project. “To be honest I was just getting a bit sick of band music,” he says. “I was getting a little bit sick of, not just bands, but also just the band politics and dynamics. [Silicon] was sort of getting on with my own thing and doing it for fun, rather than having expectations of what people would think or having to plan it for a group. I guess it just ended up being a whole new project.” Personal Computer steers clear of the slick muscularity of 21st century studio productions. Instead, the masterfully produced album makes heavy use of keyboards, synth bass, drum programming and other electronic elements.
“I used to make electronic music on my own with a Roland W-30 sequencer and put it to four track. This was before The Mint Chicks. That’s when I first started recording. In a way I just went back to that default mode and just tried to start making music in that way again. “Most of the time it was a song I’d written on keyboard or written on drums and I’d start trying to layer it all up like that. Having said that, I still muck around with beat making, samples and stuff like that. I try to mix them together a little bit ± little ideas I come up with from a production point of view or beat making, I just try to apply them to the songs.”
“It made it harder to separate the songs,” says Purdey. “We couldn’t have done an EP or two EPs. This is a body of work and we put it out as one whole package.” The live force of Gold Class’s performances is undeniable, a frenzy of elements anchored by Curley’s stoic and soaring vocal prowess. “I don’t think the show itself has changed,” Purdey says. “I think we’re better at it, less nervous. As soon as we sped up the songs it felt natural. And that’s what carries us through a gig, rather than trying to nail anything or be militantly tight.” On record and in a live setting, Gold Class is a compound of each band member’s distinct element ± puzzle pieces that can stand in isolation, but click together so wonderfully. “Mark [Hewitt, drums] is a mind reader,” Purdey laughs. “He can play everything. We’re jealous, so we make him play drums. A huge part of getting him to play in this band and a reason
we’re thankful he was available is that it is so easy to communicate with him as a musician. You can say something pretty abstract and he’ll go ‘Oh yeah,’ and know what you’re talking about. You can get all Captain Beefheart, ‘play like a yellow tree,’ sort of thing.” “That’s probably the case with all of us,” Curley says. “There aren’t many musical terms that get thrown about, they’re all pretty abstract ideas. Everyone seems to be on the same page generally, understanding what each other is talking about. We do talk about keeping things pretty minimal. If anything gets too elaborate, or too grandiose, it gets cut down pretty quickly.”
SILICON’s debut LP Personal Computer comes out on Friday August 28 via Weird World/Domino.
GOLD CLASS
FINGER ON THE TRIGGER By Lachlan Kanoniuk It’s Monday night in Melbourne’s north. A decent turnout fills the newly renovated Northcote Social Club ± the venue’s Monday Night Mass program usually draws a strong showing, but there’s a certain electricity in the atmosphere tonight. It’s been a while since the last Gold Class performance, not too long, but long enough. We’re on the cusp of their debut album, It’s You, and even for the initiated, tonight was something special. The four-piece played loud, absorbing the panoramic stage as aptly as they conquered The Tote front bar earlier in the year. This is the start of something good. The week prior, guitarist Evan James Purdey and vocalist Adam Curley sat at a Fitzroy bar. It wasn’t too long ago ± around a year and a half ± they put together the initial idea for Gold Class, with a clear focus resulting in the prompt release of their debut single, Michael. “It was one of our first songs,” Purdey says. “That was after three rehearsals. There was one rehearsal where it was long, dirge-y ten minute jams, then after that we pieced together song ideas. After a few rehearsals, that was one of two or three songs we had. In terms of deciding to release it, we just thought it had a chorus.” “That was October last year,” Curley says. “We started playing in January, with our first show in April. We were sitting around and Evan said he had some guitar ideas he’d been playing around with. I think I wrote some
vocal stuff to those parts, then that was all scrapped by the time the four of us got together. We just started from scratch.” “That’s been the modus operandi, to put something together then deconstruct it completely until there’s a song,” Curley adds. “It’s laborious, but it’s good. You think ‘Thank fuck’ when you get to the end and you have a song.” There’s a sense that Gold Class arrived fully formed in the live setting. This notion is compounded by the forthcoming full-length; resolute in its vision and dynamic. “I don’t think any of us are particularly interested in releasing three EPs then a record, what’s the point of that?” Curley says. “The record should just be the songs you have ± the songs you’re playing live on an album.”
GOLD CLASS release their debut album It’s You on Friday September 4 via Spunk. They’ll be supporting The Garden on Thursday 24 at the John Curtin.
STEVE MILLER BAND
TROUBLE COMES RUNNING By Thomas Brand
Inside Handsome Steve’s House of Refreshment, located on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, sits the good looking bunch of so-and-so’s that constitute the Steve Miller Band. Frontman ‘Handsome’ Steve Miller, guitarist Erykah ‘The Duchess’ Dunville and drummer Phoebe ‘The Shewolf ’ Taylor recently returned from a stint of touring that included Dark Mofo in Hobart, and they’re about to jump into even deeper water. They’ve been asked to support The Drones in September before mounting the hallowed stage at Meredith Music Festival in December. Rest assured, there’s trouble on the horizon. “The authorities kicked us off stage [at Dark Mofo].” says Dunville. “At one point I was playing guitar and felt the curtain brush my person. They won’t drop the curtain at Meredith ± t here is no curtain.” “I have a shotgun this time,” adds Taylor. “If they touch your amp, mama’s got a shotgun.” Despite keeping a relatively low profile on social media, the band have played a staggering number of shows over the last 12 months, and they pack a serious amount energy into every single one. It’s this hell-raising energy that secured them a place on the Meredith lineup, but the SMB’s all-or-nothing work ethic is starting to take its toll. “We’ve been playing too many shows,” says Dunville, causing the room to nod in agreement. “We almost dropped dead in Tasmania,” Taylor adds. “We were accused of being too slack,” Miller says. It’s a
somewhat incongruous statement, given the brylcreem coursing through his immaculately styled hair. “The rehearsals are done on stage, so we tend to be a little bit slack.” “The Drones show will be good, because we’ll probably make them look great,” Dunville laughs. “Phoebe’s thinking of stitching up some costumes, but we’re not giving anything away.” In truth, the Steve Miller Band wasn’t designed to be a tightly configured rock’n’roll outfit. Rather, it’s a chance for the three members to do something different than what they’re used to. “Steve played in a band for a while and never sung,” Dunville says, “I’d played in a band for ten years and never played lead, and Phoebe’s never played in a band, full stop. We had a different drummer for the initial band, and then Phoebe came along and just played
Sleigh Bells for 40 minutes. She loves it.” “And then I got a text message saying, ‘You’re our drummer now’,” Taylor says. But despite the unfamiliar territory and lack of rehearsal, there’s no shortage of passion for the music. “When Steve’s on fire, it’s like baby Jesus is born ± a special time,” Dunville says. “But there’s also the times where you sing the verse where the chorus is at, or sing the chorus where the verse is supposed to be. Phoebe throws the sticks across, my guitar falls off the strap and I wonder, ‘Are we a comedy act?’ We’re not a comedy act, we’re trying really really hard.” “This brings us to a point where some of our contemporaries may think of us as a comedy act,” Miller says. “But we’re very serious, very determined, every man for himself. We can be as tough as Rook steel, we’re very serious about what we wear, we’re
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very serious about what hair product we put in our hair. That’s because the kids, they want to see a show. Enough of these people singing about their girlfriends, we’ve had enough of that.” “We’re also infamous for breaking up relationships.” Miller adds. “Occasionally it happens ± occasionally the boyfriend or the girlfriend will fall in love with us and the partner doesn’t appreciate it. I’ll see it across the room, the couple are in trouble, so I’ll drive a wedge between the couple where the boy will go, ‘Would she?’ and she asks, ‘would I?’” STEVE MILLER BAND will support The Drones on Saturday September 5 at The Forum Melbourne. They’re also playing Meredith Music Festival 2015, which runs from Friday December 11 ± Sunday December 13, Meredith VIC. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 49
R E G U R G I TAT O R CHEAP AND CHEERFUL
By Alex Watts As an artform and means of communication, music is fairly unique in its ability to be at once inherently personal and all encompassing. It can capture an indefinable feeling at a certain time that’ll forever be held dear as a memory, whilst simultaneously drawing large crowds together to share in a new, collective experience. So found Ben Ely, singer and bassist of Regurgitator, when they toured performing their lauded albums, TuPlang and Unit, in 2012. “I had at least six-to-eight couples coming up and going, ‘We had sex for the first time’, or ‘I met my partner and then we got married listening to you’,” he laughs. “And then you get people that go, ‘I used to listen to you when I was three and now I’m old enough to come and see you play’.” Unknown to the band at the time, their longtime manager Paul Curtis conspired to record the Melbourne dates of that tour, which are about to be issued as Nothing Less Than Cheap Imitations ± the band’s first live album in a career spanning 22 years. “It’s pretty warts and all,” says Ely. “It’s not like a live album like Kiss would do where they go back in the studio and make it all neat and clean. It’s pretty rough and live. I think a lot of people are keen for that.” Having emerged from the early-‘90s Brisbane scene, and rising to national prominence in a cluster of bleached hair, tattoos and attitude with the release of Tu-Plang in 1996, Regurgitator are something of a national treasure, and an anomaly in the narrative of Australian pop. As demonstrated on the live album, time hasn’t diminished the power and intensity of the ’Gurg ± something audiences will be reminded of when they return for a nine-date tour through August and September. “We haven’t played for almost two years now so we’re all excited about doing it again,” says Ely. “We want to treat it like a party and throw in a couple of older songs that we haven’t played for a while. Maybe grow some handlebar moustaches, get some leather hotpants, I’m not entirely sure. We’re still in preparation for that.” Despite the immense amount of time the pair have spent together since their early 20s, Ely is genuinely excited about returning to the stage with his cofrontman, Quan Yeomans. “Quan and I are best friends,” he says. “I’m getting married for the first time in September and he’s my
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best man and our manager’s my best man too. We probably fought quite a lot for the first ten years and now we’ve gotten to a point where we know how to be together without fighting. It’s like the most perfect family scenario you could possibly imagine. “I think the big trick in being in a band is working with someone that you really relate to on a musical level,” he continues. “I appreciate my relationship with Quan because outside of Regurgitator I’ve played in lots of bands, and I’ve never had a relationship that is as naïve and juvenile and fun. It just seems when we get together it works.” Yeomans and Ely’s latest project may surprise those who’ll forever associate them with songs like I Sucked A Lot of Cock To Get Where I Am. “We’re in the process of working on a kids TV show, which is really bizarre,” says Ely. “We just laugh our arses off all day coming up with these retarded ideas that are so juvenile, designing puppets and making really stupid songs. It feels really genuine, like we should have been doing this 20 years ago.” It’s refreshing to hear the same sort of wide-eyed enthusiasm that typified their early work is still in effect. Though, it’s being applied with a little less aggression. “We used to distort everything ± the drum kit, bass and guitar ± and Quan would scream kind of incessantly,” says Ely. “We used to swear a lot more, and that kind of worked to our benefit at the start. I remember when Quan wrote the song Blubber Boy; that definite shift from being angry young men to trying to toy with some sort of pop sensibilities and play with melody as well.” Regurgitator were among the last wave of Australian bands to be assisted by the massive budgets of major labels at the end of the 20th century. “It was great, they just let us do what we wanted, we toured American and Europe quite a lot. It’s a very different industry now, you’d have to be mental to do it as a career. You just have to really love the process of making music and the enjoyment of putting the puzzle of the song together.”
The band now produce their music in their respective home studios, with their albums available for pay-asyou-please via Bandcamp. “You can just have it if you want, we don’t care. That’s why we feel so fortunate that we’ve got those people that go to our shows. It blows me away every time we do a show and sell it out, or get a large crowd. I personally have a lot of gratitude for the band that exists as it is today and look back fondly on what we’ve been through in the past.”
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REGURGITATOR will play on Thursday September 3 for the Northcote Social Club’s 10th Anniversary series, before the Prince Bandroom on Friday September 4 with Ouch My Face and Ausmuteants. Nothing Less Than Cheap Imitations is out September 4 via Bandcamp.
After testing out a set of new tunes last week at The Old Bar, The Bennies have announced their next move; a massive Australian tour. They’ll take The Hard Aches and Wet Pensioner along for the run that includes Cairns, Darwin and Tassie. Their Melbourne show hits the Corner Hotel on Friday November 20. Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats have already been announced for Meredith this December and they’ll tack a couple dates onto their tour, including an extra gig at the Corner Hotel on December 13. They’re going to release their fourth album The Night Creeper on Friday September 4 so expect a bunch of tunes. A Skylit Drive have very quietly cancelled their Australian tour. It wasn’t terribly apparent over the weekend when it happened, but tour promoter has calmly confirmed that “Due to unforseen circumstances” the tour has been cancelled with the band hoping to make it back to Australia “in the near future”. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase for the Corner Hotel show. Sydney’s flamboyant rockers Gay Paris will release their new album Ladies and Gentlemen, May We Present To You: The Dark Arts on Friday September 18 and they’re going to have a hell of a lot of fun promoting it on tour throughout October and November. Cherry Bar will play host on Saturday October 10 or you can see them on Thursday October 8 at Workers Club Geelong or Friday October 9 at The Eastern, Ballarat. Punk rockers rejoice: Lagwagon and Flatliners are coming to town shortly with thanks to Blue Murder. Both bands have been celebrating Fat Wreck Chords’ recent birthday in the USA and they’ll continue the party down here with two Victorian shows. Pick between December 2 at Barwon Club, Geelong, or December 4 at Max Watt’s in Melbourne. What a nice bloody time. Tickets are available now. A Day To Remember and Amity Affliction are joining forces to have a crack at Rod Laver Arena. With the assistance of Motionless In White and The Ghost Inside they’ll smash through the arena show on December 17. Tickets will be available on September 1. Bullet For My Valentine and Dead Letter Circus have been confirmed as the first two acts on Soundwave’s 2016 lineup. Next year will see the festival return to the one-day format and travel the east coast only, excluding Perth and Adelaide. The dates have also moved forward significantly, now taking Big Day Out’s spot at the start of the year with the Melbourne date landing on the Australia Day Public Holiday on January 26. That means we should see the rest of the lineup unfolding rather quickly over the next couple of weeks.
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• Hellions, Capsize, 68 at Arrow on Swanston • Jebediah at Kooroora Hotel, Mt Buller • Basket Of Mammoths, Grim Rhythms, The Hunted Crows, Three Headed Fool at The Bendigo Hotel
thURsDay aUGUst 27:
• Hellions, Capsize, 68 at Ding Dong Lounge • Feed Her To The Sharks, Advocates, Wander Lost at Next
FRIDay aUGUst 28:
• Grenadiers at Ding Dong • Smoke Stack Rhino, Mayfield, Victor Cripes at Cherry Bar • Cosmic Psychos at The General, Mt Hotham • Ramshackle Army, The Playbook, Foley, Australian Kingswood Factory, Little Lamb, The Rosemarys at The Bendigo Hotel
satURDay aUGUst 29:
• Hellyeah at Corner Hotel • Ocean Grove, Atlantic, Ignore Antares at Bang • Tim Maxwell, Georgia Maq at The Old Bar • Bellusira, Tequila Mockingbyrd at Max Watt’s • Living Death Fest with Internal Nightmare, Iconic Vivisect, Dawn Of Azazel, Hollow World, Wounded Pig and more at The Bendigo • Spacejunk, Cosmic Kahuna, Uptown Ace, Ohms at The Reverence
sUnDay aUGUst 30:
• Motion City Soundtrack, Ceres, Strickland at 170 Russell • Bellusira acoustic show with Heaven The Axe at Woody’s Bar and Liquor • Lincoln Le Fevre, Georgia Maq, Tim Hampshire at The Reverence
MEGADETH & CHILDREN OF BODOM
In what’s bound to be one of the metal shows of the year, the mighty Megadeth will play at Festival Hall on Monday October 19 with special guests Children of Bodom. By then Megadeth’s new album should be out, featuring new guitarist Kiko Loureiro (Angra) and Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler. Although Adler will be balancing his Megadeth commitments with his Lamb of God obligations, and has vowed to put LoG first, he most definitely will be playing in Megadeth for this tour. Tickets are on sale now.
GREAT CHART RESULT FOR METAL
It’s a great time for fans of heavy music at the moment with a whole bunch of great new releases out there – Ghost, Fear Factory, Northlane, Dead Letter Circus, Lamb of God, Bullet For My Valentine – and it just so happens that the two bands confirmed for Soundwave 2016 so far (Bullet For My Valentine and Dead Letter Circus) currently occupy the #1 and #2 spots on the ARIA album charts. To what do we owe this great result for heavy music? I think the dedication of metal fans is certainly part of it: a lot of us still actually buy albums even though they’re available through streaming services. But there are also lots of hardworking people behind the scenes making sure you know about these albums too.
NEW TERAMAZE ALBUM ON THE WAY
Melbourne progressive metal ensemble Teramaze have signed to Music Theories Recordings, which is a part of the Mascot Label Group. The band’s first release for the label, Her Halo, will hit stores on Friday October 30. Featuring uniquely skilled guitarist Dean Wells, Teramaze blend amazingly tight and speedy syncopated guitar/drum riffs with melodic hard vocals for a very unique brand of metal. Her Halo was mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Kamelot, Primal Fear, Evergrey). Pre-orders for Her Halo are available now at http://smarturl.it/Teramaze
NEW SUZE DEMARCHI SINGLE
The Letter by Suze DeMarchi featuring Tex Perkins (originally penned by the late Wayne Carson Thompson and performed by The Box Tops) is the second single lifted from Suze’s new solo album, Home, which was released last month via Social Family Records. DeMarchi has an enduring friendship with Perkins. The pair performed The Letter when they hit the road for the RocKwiz tour a few years back and DeMarchi contributed vocals to a cover of Bob Seger’s ballad We’ve Got Tonight, which featured on Perkins’ 2008 record
Ladyboyz. “I always wanted to do something with Tex because he’s awesome,” Suze says. “Tex is just…c’mon he’s so hot. He’s a rock legend, he’s got the loudest voice of anyone I’ve sung with.” Suze will be at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda on Friday October 23.
ABBATH TOUR ANNOUNCED
This is going to be incredible. Former Immortal frontman Abbath is touring Australia in October. The press release puts it perfectly: “Some things are eternal, some are Immortal. Abbath is both.” The legendary frontman of one of the biggest and best black metal bands of all time, Immortal, will be returning to Australian under his own moniker this October. The Immortal frontman and songwriter has been working on new material will enter the studio very soon to record the debut Abbath album, which will be released in early 2016. Abbath’s first live performance since leaving Immortal was at the Tuska Festival in Finland where he treated fans to some classic Immortal songs plus a handful of tracks from his 2006 project with band mate King – simply titled I. The band also premiered a brand new song titled Fenrir Hunts. Joined by King on bass and Creature on drums, Abbath plays Saturday October 17 at Max Watt’s.
LIVING DEATH FEST
Living Death Fest is back bigger than ever with 11 badarse heavy bands from Australia and New Zealand. This insane show kicks off at 4pm and features Whoretopsy, Internal Nightmare, Altars (SA), Iconic Vivisect, Jack The Stripper, Mephistopheles (TAS), Dawn of Azazel (NZ), Hollow World, Athenas Wake, The Hazard Circular and As Flesh Decays. It happens at The Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood this Saturday August 29.
NEW ESCAPE THE FATE
Escape The Fate will release their new album Hate Me on Friday October 30 via Eleven Seven Music/Sony Music Australia. “Lyrically, a lot of these tracks are based around the hate we’ve received over the years and just embracing that and using it to our own advantage,” says Craig Mabbitt. “I’ve had to step up to the plate lately, for the fans as much as anything else, because they take the name Escape The Fate very seriously and I owe them something for that, for all the support they’ve shown us over the years. It’s very humbling for me to be able to listen to this collection of songs and think about where we’ve come from and what we’ve been through to get to this point.”
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So then, what do you ‘do’ in the band? I scream a lot and play guitar. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? An army of large cats driving bulldozers into the sunset. What do you love about making music? Having a positive outlet and definitely playing live. What do you hate about the music industry? I guess fake people or arrogance. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Janis Joplin. It would be amazing to jam with her.
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Can we assassinate Kevin Bacon? What can a punter expect from your live show? High energy and tunes you can mosh to. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We have an EP bodies, which is the name of the first song on the CD. There’s five songs on there all together. Anything else to add? There’s nothing like cold beer, live music and mosh pits. THRASHER JYNX play the Brunswick Hotel on Saturday August 29 with Little Lamb and The Rosemarys, Monkey Grip and Edith Lane.
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& The Knockabouts Define your genre in five words or less: Alternative blues/folk rock So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? “Those guys had pretty good songs, but weren’t wankers”. Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with? As daunting as it would be, probably the Foo Fighters. Those dudes are just absolutely astounding. What inspires or has influenced your music? We are pretty inspired by the music that goes on around us and a lot of pretty general day-to-day things. What do you think a band has to do to succeed? Pretty much just be nice people, work hard, practice a lot, make sure you are professional in all areas of what you are doing and don’t take one ‘no’ as a reason for packing it all in. Do you have any record releases to date? What? No we don’t, but we have one just around the corner. Why should everyone come and see your band? We personally think everyone should come and see us play because we are trying to evoke a community spirit at our gigs. We think that there should be less of a barrier between fans and the band, so if you like crowd interaction and banter you should get down and see us. DEC MCKINNON AND THE KNOCKABOUTS’ debut EP Knockabout At Your Own Risk will be released on Tuesday September 1 via Bandcamp. They’re playing Thursday August 27 at the Brunswick Hotel.
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It’s Open Mic Night this Wednesday August 26 at Whole Lotta Love. With Mark Garner hosting, guitarist for Suzi Quatro, Melbourne’s own Nat Allison will be headlining this week’s session with an acoustic set and answering a few industry questions. You want to know how a Melbourne girl and her guitar gets a gig with Suzi Q? Get on down to Whole Lotta Love from 6pm for a $5 pizza and a slice of fame. Free entry, of course.
WOO WHO
age. Waves of people are jumping on Cashman’s journey with the captivating vocal ability, heartfelt songwriting and instrumental energy in his live shows consistently drawing audiences in. 2015 is already moving steadily for Cashman, with the release of his latest single Running, an appearance at Bluesfest Byron Bay, continuously packing out Melbourne venues and a lot of hype for a new EP later this year. Audiences can expect a captivating vocal movement among acoustic folk inspired sounds, united with electronic textures and sublime loops. Catch Cashman this Wednesday August 26 as he continues his August residency at Ding Dong Lounge. Entry is free. Doors from 9pm.
PUBLIC BAR
Woo Who are playing their first ever headline show this Wednesday August 26 and you’re invited to burn the hell out of those winter chills over tinnies and other less legal substances. They’re launching their new single Palm Trees, they’re getting Charging Stallion and Fuzzsucker to support on the bill, and they’re getting messy. Hit Public Bar this Wednesday August 26. Entry is $7 and doors open at 7.30pm.
LOCAL ‘N VOCAL ALbUM LAUNCH ST KILDA TOWN HALL
The Local ‘n Vocal album, a Rotary Club of St Kilda project to raise funds for charities focused on youth homelessness, will be officially launched at the St Kilda Town Hall at 6pm on Wednesday August 26. The launch will include live performances, and food trucks will be there to feed the hungry hordes. The album, funded by a successful Pozzible campaign, was brought to life through the collaboration of more than 40 musicians. The album, and tickets for the launch party are available through www. localnvocal.com.au. The album will also be available for sale on the night and through iTunes after the launch. The launch party goes down on Wednesday August 26 from 6pm onwards. Tickets are $35.
Crawl in to the bottom of Cherry this Thursday August 27 from 8pm. Entry is $10.
TANkERVILLE T H E C AT F I S H
A rip snorting night of rock 'n' roll is on at Club Catty this Thursday August 27, with three-piece Tankerville headlining a blistering line up. Featuring members of Cherrywood, Bodies and Graveyard Train, Tankerville have quickly earned a rep as a must-see band with their no BS brand of banging garage rock. Their songs are short but there’s plenty of them - like doing a few dozen shots of potent liquor in a very short period of time. Get down to The Catfish on Thursday August 27. Entry is $5 if you’re a member, $10 if you’re not, and it’s all happening from 8.30pm onwards.
RYAN OLIVER
THE DRUNKEN POET
bAbY bLUE
THE JOHN CURTIN
Most often known for hosting intimate events under the guise of Graceland Presents, Baby Blue, AKA Rhea Caldwell is now turning the tables and playing music herself. Simple songs for sad folk, or sad songs for simple folk is how she describes her music. Of the few that have heard Baby Blue around a campfire or in the comfort of her own home, some have compared her voice as something between Jolie Holland and Karen Dalton which is more than OK by her. Catch Baby Blue’s last residency show at The John Curtin, this Wednesday August 26 from 7.30pm onwards. Entry is free.
Oliver's Army is the music of Barossa Valley born singer/songwriter Ryan Oliver. Reminiscent of his travels and the world around, his music channels cleverly concealed reflective brooding whilst bursting with live energy. An eclectic mix of folk storytelling and indie rock, it’ll reach into soul and infectiously make its way down into your inevitably tapping toes. Oliver’s Army released their debut album Nothing Ever Really Stays The Same in late 2014 and will see them embarking on a US tour and showcasing at Canadian Music Week in 2015, supported by Cohen MGMT and Footstomp Music. Oliver plays a special solo show at The Drunken Poet on Thursday August 27 from 8pm. Free entry.
Define your genre in five words or less: Sex and religion 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? “The singer has stinky breath. But a nice set of pearly whites.” How long have you been gigging and writing? Around two years. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Yah Yah’s first birthday bash this year. Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with? Kingswood. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Jesus. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Work really fucking hard. And be smart. And dumb. And sell drugs. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? We are releasing our self-titled debut album this week. It will be available via Bandcamp or you can buy a hard copy at our shows. Why should everyone come and see your band? Because our bass player has quite an impressive sword. THE MARY GOLDSMITHS are launching their debut self-titled album this Thursday August 27 at the Workers Club. bEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 52
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Radical psych/stoners A Basket Of Mammoths are playing every Wednesday in August for their first ever residency at The Bendigo Hotel. There are some killer bands on the bill so come down and have some absolute ripper times this Wednesday August 26. Tonight’s supports include Grim Rhythm, The Hunted Crows and Three Headed Fool. Free entry, doors open at 8pm.
Robert K Champion warms audiences with his tales of love and loss, sharing stories through his voice and with his quick skill on the guitar. Champion performs regularly across Melbourne as well as touring nationally to festivals and events such as the Garden of Unearthly Delights and the Fringe Festival in Adelaide. In 2013 Champion released his debut solo EP This Road Is Too Long and is currently working on his first fulllength album to be released later this year. Sneak a glimpse at some of his new tunes this Wednesday August 26 at The Retreat Hotel from 7.30pm onwards. Entry is free.
Boasting a mix of homegrown and international talent that’s sure to pack out rooms this winter, Australian heavy-hitters, Hellions are hitting Ding Dong Lounge along with first time visitors Capsize and the frenzied rock’n’roll attack of ’68. Hellions have already had a monster 2015 as their second release Indian Summer landed at #19 on the ARIA album charts. Embarking on their first headline run in March, the group were greeted with a number of sold out shows as well as recently joining their friends in Hands Like Houses and Enter Shikari on The Mindsweep Tour, taking in large-scale venues across the country. If you’re in the market for a bit of a headbang this Thursday August 27, get amongst the noise at Ding Dong Lounge. Entry is $30 on the door. Doors open at 9pm.
THURSDAY AUGUST 27
DING DONG LOUNGE
From country to city life, Josh Cashman is moving smoothly at just 20 years of
SIME NUGENT
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL
Sime Nugent has toured nationally and internationally throughout Australia, Europe and America over his 20 year career, appearing on no less than a dozen albums during that time. His work with indie duo Sweat Jean and bluegrass party band The Wilson Pickers has received both critical and popular acclaim. Travelling with an extensive repertoire as a soloist, band leader and band member, Sime Nugent now takes his live show to The Post Office Hotel this Thursday August 27, playing two free entry sets from 8pm. W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
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Soul in the Basement is back at Cherry this Thursday August 27, with this week seeing the Moreland City Soul Revue taking the stage for this round of smooth vibes. The two piece lineup of Jed Pickett and Adrian Whitehead will inspire your inner protester through intricate use of guitar and hammond organ. If that’s not enough to get your fire burnin’, DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni are gonna be spinning the decks all night.
Melbourne based singer/songwriter Chris Pickering may well be what will be one day become known as the ‘21st century songwriter’. He is not a slave to any dominant trend or fashion yet doesn’t shy away from comparisons to the great songwriters of the 20th century. His songs tell stories of love, the human condition, and the black humour of fate and inevitability. Speaking of inevitability, his show this Thursday August 27 will be a blast. Get down to The Retreat from 8.30pm for a free night of music and a touch of emotion.
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This week, Oxjam is wrapping up their month long residency at The Reverence Hotel. Featuring a selection of bands across the genres of rock’n’roll, punk rock, blues, soul and heavy metal, each Thursday showcased of some of the most entertaining bands in Melbourne. The final night is gonna be filled with good vibes, great music and good people who’d love for you to join in on mobilising the power of people against poverty. It all wraps up this Thursday August 27 at 8pm, entry to these residency shows is by a minimum donation of $10.
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Thursday throughout August as part of a joint residency with Greenthief at Yah Yah’s in Fitzroy. Since 2012, Borrachero have been taking audiences on a journey through a vortex of fuzzed up delay lined with walls of noise, and Greenthief crashed the indie scenester party with their unique take on rock’n’roll. Sound good enough for your Thursday? Hit Yah Yah’s on Thursday August 27 from 6pm onwards to catch the noise. Free Entry.
bORRACHERO & GREENTHIEf YA H YA H ’ S
Melbourne’s sludge space rockers Borrachero will be playing every
Whole Lotta Blues is back this week with Andy Phillips and The Cadillac Walk smashing out two rockin’ sets of Stevie Ray Vaughan as a tribute on the 25th anniversary of his passing. Late 2012 in Austin, Texas, Phillips had the great honour of being offered to play one of SRV’s guitars by Alan Haynes at the iconic venue Maggie Mae’s. Members of the Austin Blues Society were so blown away by his musicianship that they wanted him to stay, but lucky for
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captures the mood of a song more perfectly than this one. It’s the voice that soars with inspiration, soul and warmth. The voice of course belongs to Australian singer Daryl Braithwaite. In a distinguished career spanning more than 35 years, Daryl Braithwaite is one of Australia’s award winning premier performers and he’ll be performing once again at The Saucer this Friday August 28. Grab your General Admission tickets for $35. Doors open at 6pm.
FRIDAY AUGUST 28
THE DEMON PARADE YA H YA H S
It’s Friday, and you’re in for a night of aural and literal feasts at Yah Yahs. The Demon Parade are going to be throwing out some tunes from their Stone Circles EP as part of a national tour, and the Meet Wagon are going to be throwing out some tasty treats as part of your Friday night diet. Get down to Yah Yahs this Friday August 28 and let your body handle the rest. Entry is $13, doors at 8pm.
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Buttered Loaf are Melbourne’s rough and ready gurus of gritty funk and reggae-laden roots, rock and soul music. Moonlighting as half of the legendary supergroup Frankenstein, they are Melbourne’s most prolifically unproductive band and are proud of it. With a funky mix of drums, guitar, bass, keys and sax, catch Buttered Loaf at The Post Office Hotel this Friday August 28. They play two free entry sets from 9.30pm.
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Fresh from headlining the Arockalypse Music Festival with triple j sensation Harts, Melbourne blues-rockers Smoke Stack Rhino have announced they’re recording their debut album. What better way to celebrate than by hosting an exclusive, one-off party at Cherry Bar? With support from enigmatic sixpiece funk and soul outfit Mayfield and Australian street-blues artists Victor Cripes, jump on board for a massive night. $13 from 8pm, this Friday night at Cherry Bar.
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T H E C AT F I S H
It would be wise to visit The Catfish on Friday August 28. There’s an opportunity to see Cinema 6 storm set of songs that are frequently farcical, sometimes earnest, occasionally poetic, usually contradictory, and inevitably obscured in their meaning by a sonically massive wall of sound. But it is even better than this, for the punter will also have the pleasure of being blasted into smithereens by the punk musings of Mondo Bizarro, and soothed by a set of beautiful and sweet psychedelic pop courtesy of Sugar Teeth. Sounds like a sweet deal. Get to The Catfish from Friday August 28. Entry is $8, doors at 8.30pm.
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interpreter, and someone who can hold a captive audience in any situation. Having spent the last few years as cosongwriter in Melbourne based altcountry band, Cherrywood, Seymour has come out swinging with a fantastic set of his own songs. His debut LP Rope Tied Hope, recorded in Argyle, Texas, sees him put his own Australian spin on Americana. Drawing from his own personal experiences, sometimes hilarious, often poignant fictional accounts, he brings an honesty and frankness to his songs. His distinctive, enigmatic vocal style and unique take on finger picking with both guitar and mandolin should see this burgeoning talent considered one of Australia’s most exciting songwriters. Joshua plays The Drunken Poet on Friday August 28 from 8.30pm. Free entry.
HOWLER
All dynamite starts with a spark and ends with a bang. Asta’s latest single, Dynamite featuring Allday exploded onto Australian airwaves entering the top 10 of the ARIA Australian Artists singles chart. The burst of ‘80s infused R&B coupled with Allday’s biting words are the perfect counterpoint to the rocket ship lyrical spirit of the single. To celebrate the release, Asta has announced the Dynamite national tour which sees her hitting Howler this Friday August 28. Nab your tickets for $23 when the doors open at 8pm.
DARYL bRAITHWAITE
T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B
It would be hard to find a voice that
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN PRINCE BANDROOM
JOSHUA SEYMOUR
THE DRUNKEN POET
Joshua Seymour is a storyteller, an
When it comes to faultless reputations, the band everyone thinks of is The Dillinger Escape Plan. With a slew of brilliant albums behind them, the titans of envelope-pushing, ground-breaking heavy music have become one of the most formidable acts on the planet. For years, The Dillinger Escape Plan have been the metal standard-bearers
Wilding
Define your genre in five words or less: British flavoured kaleidoscopic pop. How long have you been gigging and writing? I released my debut album Bird’s Bread in 2012 and started playing shows around the same time. I have a new live band now and there are seven of us. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Wilding played with Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals while I was on crutches and in a moonboot. An achievement in adversity. And I still pulled a few dance moves. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? My record collection and love of British pop music, from The Beatles to Blur. And working with Robin Waters. It’s also likely that I’m empty inside and have a deep-rooted psychological need for approval, which in turn drives me to make music. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Well obviously you need talent, but like every other industry it helps to get ahead if you’re born into a privileged and wealthy family, which is unfortunate because so many influential groups and music genres have had working class roots. I just don’t see it these days. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? My second album Molecules To Moons was just released on Half A Cow Records/MGM. You can get it from the usual places as a digital download, CD or limited edition vinyl. WILDING’s album launch goes down on Friday August 28 at The Grace Darling with friends The Royal Jellies, Darling James, Royal Commission and DJ Harry Rag.
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of dizzying, time-signature torture and they will be bringing their ferocious live show to their passionate Australian fans this August. Catch a face full of shred this Friday August 28 when The Dillinger Escape Plan hit Prince Bandroom. Tickets are $57, doors at 8pm.
OLMEG
I AM MINE
THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Unseen forces have conspired to draw together a lineup worthy of a Friday night at the Brunny, with Saturn3, Olmeg, Wildeornes and Monsteria taking to the stage. Head to Brunswick for some uncompromising rock/groove/stoner/ punk/psych a-plenty with some of Melbourne’s finest, all rolled up into one epic gig for your convenience. Riffs? We got ‘em. Doors open 9pm with free entry.
THE SHABBAB
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
Hailing from Tel Aviv, Beirut and middle East Brunswick, The Shabbab bring their eclectic backgrounds together to create a high energy and original performance. Think Tarantino making love to the Gang of Four and giving birth to an even more punk rock Rachid Taha. Known for getting their chest hair all over the crowd their high energy shows have to be seen to be believed. Israeli born front man Shuki lights up the dance floor while banging his djembe and singing his passionate words. Come catch them in the front bar at The Reverence this Friday August 28. Doors are at 8.30pm, entry is free and good eats are aplenty.
THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY THE BENDIGO HOTEL
In 2012, a little band from Melbourne made the voyage across the pond to the U.S. of A to play a collection of shows with DKM for St Pat’s day and made a string of mates and memories along the way. This Friday is the last show before they depart, so make sure to join them for a night of beer swilling and celtmoshing. To keep the party going, joining them with be pop punk legends The Playbook, the awesome Foley!, kickarse rock 'n' rollers Australian Kingswood Factory and much delight-fullness from Little Lamb and the Rosemary’s. Gather around, friends and family and get amongst the action as they ram the shackles of your Friday night. That’s The Ramshackle Army, playing this Friday August 28 at The Bendigo Hotel from 7.30pm onwards. Entry is $12.
W H O L E L O T TA L O V E
LUNA DEVILLE
THE WORKERS CLUB
Castlemaine/Melbourne post-punk band Luna Deville are playing a rare headline show at The Workers Club this Friday August 28, with support from Mondegreen and Guy Parkman Band. Not only is this Luna Deville’s chance to final roadtest their new batch of songs before hitting the studio; it’ll also see the debut of ‘Luna Deville Mark II’, featuring the new addition of Lloyd Davies (Sarge and the Nuked) on guitar. Mondegeen’s jazzy boogaloo, rowdy pop music from Guy Parkman Band and dynamic, danceable post-punk from Luna Deville will send you careening into an excellent weekend, this Friday August 28 at The Worker’s Club. Doors open 8.30pm with just $10 entry.
BELLUSIRA
M A X WAT T ’ S
The mighty Bellusira are taking over Max Watt’s on Friday August 28, and are bringing fellow rockers Tequila Mockingbyrd, Chasing Lana, Acoyle and Black Dog along to the party. Bellusira have spent a huge chunk of their time in the US, and have recently supported Seether on home soil. Now, the Melbourne powerhouse have hooked up with former Static X guitarist Koichi Fukuda, who has now come on board as a permanent band member. This’ll be the first time Bellusira will featuring Koichi. Catch Bellusira, Tequila Mockingbyrd, Chasing Lana, Acolyte and Black Dog at Max Watt’s on Friday August 28. $18 Presale tickets available through Oztix now or at the door.
SATURDAY AUGUST 29
WIRE BIRD
T H E GRACE DARLI NG
Wire Bird will launch their anticipated debut EP New World at The Grace Darling Hotel on Saturday August 29. For their first release, Wire Bird have collaborated with some of Australia’s most reputable music pros, such as Kalem Bradborn, Matthew Gray and Adrian Hannan (Powderfinger, The Middle East, Gossling, Stu Larsen, Sia, Giorgio Moroder). The result is an authentic, epic and polished indie pop gem that has been receiving attention and praise from native Australia and abroad. Wire Bird are joined at their launch party by Geelong indie rock outfit Residual, and talented artist Peter Rabbit (ex Evermore). Check in from 8pm, entry is $10.
I Am Mine have blasted onto the local Melbourne scene with an arsenal of heavy drop-tuned riffs, ballsy vocals, thick distorted bass and massive drums. Get your earballs smashed this Saturday August 29 by I Am Mine, old school pop punk blasters The Strangers In Town, blues infused rockers Vision Street and new skids Rock’n Volts. Doors open 8pm with $5 entry, so why wouldn’t ya?
COLOUR CLIMAX BAR 303
Colour Climax are an eclectic collection of experienced and working Melbourne musicians from a swag of bands and genres, with previous members of The Union, Peeping Tom, Dynamo, Barbarion, The Livingstone Daisies, Dirty mac, Sons Of The Ionian Sea, TTTDC and much more. Colour Climax are heading to Bar 303 this Saturday August 29, with the smooth tunes of Philias, and together weaving a musical tapestry to scintillate and delight. Doors open 8pm, donation entry.
ANNA CORDELL
L I T T L E A N D O LV E R
Having received rave reviews for her recent debut single I’ll Wait Here, Anna Cordell now releases her anticipated EP, These Walls. Championing tender yet deceptively complex folk music, her voice soothes through her angst ridden tracks ± carried by her penchant for the minor key. Anna Cordell will be launching the EP in Melbourne at Little and Olver on Saturday August 29. Tickets are $12, doors open at 8pm.
This Saturday August 29 will see four unlikely counterparts band together to take on The Reverence and the good people of Footscray. Spacejunk, Cosmic Kahuna, Uptown Ace and Ohms are gearing up to add a dash of hard rock to your drink, so head on down to The Reverence if you’re thirsty for good tunes from good dudes. Entry is $9 and the show goes down from 8pm onwards.
JOHN FLANAGAN WESLE Y ANNE
DIGGER AND THE PUSSYCATS
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
THE HEARTACHE STATE T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
THE BENDIGO HOTEL
Living Death Fest is back bigger than ever with two stages hosting the onslaught at this years event. Featuring a lineup of Whoretopsy, Internal Nightmare, Alrars (SA), Iconic Vivisect, Jack The Stripper, Mephistopheles (TAS) Dawn of Azazel (NZ), Hollow World, Athenas Wake, The Hazard Circular, As Flesh Decays, you know where to be this Saturday August 29 for your dose of hard as nails metal. Hit The Bendigo Hotel from 4pm onwards, pay a cool $20 and bring earplugs.
Combining ‘70s folk singer/songwriter influences with a contemporary Americana sound, John Flanagan is firmly on music lovers and industry watch lists since recording his latest album There’s Another Way to Where You’re Going in Nashville with producer Viktor Krauss. In July he released his new single Whatever Makes You Happy with a live launch locked in at the Wesley Anne this Saturday August 29. Get down to the Wesley Anne when the doors open at 8pm. Tickets are $15.
Garage punk legends Digger and The Pussycats are taking up residency every Saturday evening in August at the Retreat. This will be one residency not to be missed. For the uninitiated, Digger and The Pussycats have garnered a worldwide cult following in their 10 plus years of hard touring and excessive recorded output, playing their brand of noisy, unstructured garage punk. After taking a well deserved year off, the band is ready to get noisy again. Doors open at 8pm, entry is free as always.
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SHEBEEN
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LOT 56
Lot 56 have been building an extensive list of original songs since 2008, featuring the laconic and unique turn of phrase by songwriter Steve Jean. You want a tale of a colourful character? Lot 56 delivers in spades with stories unfolding of Maurice and Sal, Eddy, Danny, Ol Johnny (Cash) and That Kelly Boy (Ned). Lot 56 play this Saturday August 29 at The Post Office Hotel, in preparation for the release of their minialbum, We Play Originals, due in September. They play two free entry sets from 9.30pm.
to deliver the goods to get you hopped up. The songs you know, you’ve never heard like this before. And the songs you don’t, you’ll want to hear again. With support from Killer Blues, Harvey Cartel play this Saturday August 29 at Labour In Vain. Doors open 7pm with free entry.
THE REVERENCE HOTEL
THE POST OFFICE HOTEL
VOLTAIRE TWINS Brother/sister outfit Voltaire Twins are launching their debut album Milky Waves this Friday August 28 at Shebeen. Following a series of successes for the duo which took them to SXSW, Canadian Music week and shows in NYC, they’ve returned with stars in their eyes and a mix of ‘70s to ‘90s influences in their music. If energetic dance is your cup of tea, hit Shebeen on Friday August 28. Tickets are $12+BF. Doors at 8pm.
and playing sold out shows. Since having her hands wrapped around a guitar at the mere age of three, the self taught artist quickly developed her own unique style that has people lining up to see her perform live. Tash has recently supported BONJAH, Jeff Martin and Pierce Brothers on sold out shows nationally, and will be fulfilling all expectations with an intimate show at Ding Dong Lounge this Saturday August 29. Tickets are $20 at the door. Doors open at 9pm.
CODA CONDUCT
THE WORKERS CLUB
Hip hop duo Coda Conduct are taking over The Workers Club this Saturday August 29 off the back of their latest single, Paint It Gold. Their first release since their debut EP Butter Side Up back in March, which saw Coda Conduct quickly gain attention, appearing on triple j Breakfast, being chosen as triple j Unearthed Feature Artist, playing Groovin The Moo in Canberra, and receiving airplay across the country, Paint It Gold thrusts Coda Conduct back in the spotlight and primed for the headline gig with supports Yve Gold and Dex. Get down to The Workers this Saturday, doors open 8.30pm with $12 tickets.
Justin Garner and Nick Barker have been playing together on and off for ten years ± Nick producing Justin’s band Southpaw’s debut album and Justin playing on Barker’s last solo record. The last 18 months have seen them hunched over acoustic guitars hammering a bunch of ideas into songs. Garner loves Aerosmith and the Allmans, Barker loves the Replacements and Neil Young, so the self-titled album that resulted is a collision of all. They then added long time friend and collaborator “Venom” on drums and Michael Hubbard (Downhills Home, Eagle and the Worm). They’re not reinventing the wheel; the old wheel still goes ok. Don’t take their word for it though, they’re more than happy to prove it to you this Saturday August 29 at The Retreat Hotel with a free show from 10.30pm onwards.
THE HARVEY CARTEL L A B O U R I N VA I N
ELIZABETH ROSE LAUNDRY BAR
The first lady of Australian dance music Elizabeth Rose will be bringing an R&B
TASH SULTANA
DING DONG LOUNGE
Tash Sultana is a young dynamic Melbourne artist, at just 20 years of age she is creating major waves, generating massive street buzz
Drawing from such bad-assery as razor blades, guns, and the desert, The Harvey Cartel provide the kind of slick, moody soundtrack of blues, R&B and rock’n’roll suited to any Tarantino flick. Formed in early 2013, The Harvey Cartel punch through a jukebox of river crossings, dodgy back alleys and sketchy plane rides
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100%
T H E C AT F I S H
100% are a Brisbane based new wave post punk group formed in 2014 by members Chloe Baxter, Grace
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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au Stevenson and Lena Molnar. Their sound comes from making sense of organic forms and synthetic function. 100% take inspiration from the tropical mangrove of their city, futurist films and their working lives. All work, all play. Coming to Melbourne off the back of their sold out cassette EP and before heading back into the studio to record for their next release, 100% are excited to give soulful colour in dark times. Pop your head in to The Catfish on Saturday August 29 from 8.30pm onwards to catch some of the action. Entry is $10.
TIM WHEATLEY
T H E GRACE DARLI NG HOTEL
Melbourne indie alt folk troubadour Tim Wheatley has released his new single Valerie off his debut solo album, Cast of Yesterday. Wheatley will be celebrating with a string of dates across the country, and is stopping off at The Grace Darling for the official album launch on Sunday August 30. Doors are at 2.30pm and tickets are a steal at $10. Get down.
performance with your up-and-coming band OR you take the opportunity to jam with other bands on Yah Yah’s downstairs stage. Fancy a shot? Shoot an email to ryan@yahyahs.com.au and get in when the action starts from 6.30pm, every Sunday at Yah Yahs.
CHRIS WILSON
THE DRUNKEN POET
The incomparable Chris Wilson plays a special show at The Drunken Poet on Sunday August 30. Wilson has been an essential part of blues and rock music in Australia since taking the stage with the Sole Twisters twenty years ago. Stints with Harum Scarum and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls followed, and the end of the '80s saw Wilson as one of our finest vocalists, harmonica players and songwriters, fronting the superb Crown of Thorns. Join Chris at the Poet from 4pm onwards this Sunday August 30.
SCOTT AND CHARLENE’S WEDDING THE JOHN CURTIN
Hey, remember back in the day when a Google search of ‘Scott and Charlene’s Wedding’ would only yield stills from that episode of Neighbours when Kylie and Jason’s characters got hitched? No one really gives a fuck about Neighbours anymore (although we’d probably fanboy out if we bumped into Toadie in the street). But we digress. Now, if you searched that phrase, you’d be infiltrated with imagery of velour tracksuits, basketball regalia and paintings of small red monsters. Thus is the impact Scott and Charlene’s Wedding have had on the Australian psyche. They’ll be at The Curtin to demonstrate their uniquely Australian winning spirit on Saturday August 29 with they’re good friends Free Time and the band they call ‘Crimestopper’s very own’, Tiprats. It’s all free in the front bar, and the action kicks off at 3pm.
SUNDAY AUGUST 30
GRIYA
T H E GRACE DARLI NG HOTEL
Griya, together with the Grace Darling Hotel, have put together four Sunday residency nights jam packed with Melbourne talent. Griya, hailing from the eastern hills of Melbourne, draws 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, war scape of sound. Griya will leave you with a mixture of nostalgia, wistfulness and ambivalence. Get down to The Grace Darling this Sunday August 30. Doors open at 6.30pm with $7 entry.
NIKKI NICHOLLS
You may know her as the sassy lead singer of Flying Saucer favourites, Jam The Funk, but now Nikki Nicholls is coming to the Saucer to present her own show, A Bridesmaid’s Journey on Sunday August 30. Over the years Nicholls has performed as a session singer recording a myriad of wellknown jingles as well as touring with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Suzi Quatro, John Farnham, Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Aussie Crawl and more. This performance will introduce songs from her most recent record Bridesmaid, her first independent release, as well as songs off her rock album Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (featuring music of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix), a collection of songs from artists she has toured and sung with and ‘on the road’ stories of her journey thus far. Tickets for this event costs $20 at the door, when they open at 3pm.
Already being described as a Melbourne blues super group, Three Kings brings together a trio of this country’s most dedicated, authentic blues artists, with down and dirty, totally inspiring results. Three Kings’ hard-hitting, greasy blues style takes you on a dangerous joy ride through the back roads and juke joints of American music history, combining the sounds of artists like Kid Thomas, John Lee Hooker, Slim Harpo and Jerry McCain with their own original spin. If you’re feeling like there ain’t enough blues in your jeans, head on down to The Retreat Hotel from 5pm onwards this Sunday August 30. Entry is free.
This Melbourne four-piece has a passion for drinking and tone that is only surpassed by their persistent squabbling. What do they sound like? Attempting to describe the Blown Cones’ style is as pointless as the use of the word style is questionable. If you can understand that last sentence, you should like the band. Fans, weirdoes and hipsters alike will relish the three minute pop songs as they are stalked by 20 minute wig-outs. Join in on the action as Blown Cones play Labour in Vain on Sunday August 30 from 5pm. Entry is free.
STELLAR REMNANTS BRUNSWICK HOTEL
A cutting edge night of live hip hop and future soul is on offer this Sunday August 30, kicking off with some serious chops from MC/producer Elf Tranzporter and DJ Wasabi (Combat Wombat). Royalty Noise keep it in the pocket with their high energy, sophisticated performance fronted by two MCs backed by funky live drums, bass and an array of keyboards. Stellar Remnants will perform live electronic fused hip hop with sample based grooves and a trombone to keep the night in full swing. Don’t miss this one, Sunday night at the Brunny from 7pm. Entry is free.
OPEN MIC SUNDAY YA H YA H S
It’s open mic Sunday. Yah Yahs supplies the backline and their expert in-house FOH Operator Ryan Scoble handles your sounds all for free from 6.30pm to 11.30pm. You provide the live
CHERRY BAR
Super Saloon are slappin’ up a residency in everyone’s favourite rock’n’roll saloon, Cherry Bar. Super Saloon is plain and simply some “Good ol ‘Fashion, TwelveBar Rock’n’Roll” between friends that had been talking about starting a band for longer than any of them would like to admit. They’re looking forward to many years of makin’ tunes and playing as often as possible for anyone that will let their music penetrate petite little ear holes. Are you gonna let them? Hit Cherry Bar this Tuesday September 1 from 8pm onwards and get some noise in ya.
TASTE OF INDIE TUESDAY - SONGWRITER SESSION PRINCE PUBLIC BAR
Showcasing the brilliant local original songwriting and performance talents of James Caddy, Greg Steps, Bob Crain on stage together tellin’ stories, singin’ songs and having a laugh or two with the each other and the crowd. This Nashville Showcase style format is a fantastic opportunity for the audience to get an insight in to the songs and the songwriters with the songwriters having to opportunity to pull back the curtain on why a song was written. Presented by the Taste of Indie Collective music, the doors will open from 7.30pm and entry is free.
GHOST DICK
MIHRA
BLOWN CONES
SUPER SALOON
THE PUBLIC BAR
THE WORKERS CLUB
L A B O U R I N VA I N
T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B
THREE KINGS
T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1
Mihra are bringing their unique brand of alternative pop/neo-soul to The Workers Club this Sunday August 30 to launch their latest single, I Wonder. Following their debut single Fly Screen, the catchy, harmony-driven I Wonder is the second single from their debut album set to be released at the end of the year. Joined by fellow Melbournebased bands NAFASI and Tetrahedra, it promises to be an evening full of smooth grooves and enigmatic sounds. Doors open 7.30pm, tickets are $5+BF presale or $10 on the door.
MONDAY AUGUST 31
CHERRY JAM CHERRY BAR
Your weekly jam session just got better. Cherry Bar have opened up the stage, and you’re invited. Shoot an email over to red@cherrybar.com.au, let him know you want to play and let the legend do your engineering for you. Shoot some riffs out and see if the crowd loves it. It all goes down every Monday at Cherry Bar, just make sure you email in advance.
MUNDANE MONDAYS
Look, we both know how long last September was. We both know you sat around watching the spring leaves bud with a desperate loneliness as the possums filled your heads with dark screeching that tore your inner ear to shreds. In the face of that inevitable suffering, why not get the hell out of the house, hang out with some friends and get your ears torn in a better fashion? Ghost Dick are hitting The Public Bar for a month long residency every Tuesday from 7.30pm onwards. Entry is $6. Subtlety can be left at the door.
CLAWS & ORGANS
The Old Bar Friday September 4
THE AUDREYS
Flying Saucer Lounge Friday September 4
REGURGITATOR
Prince Bandroom Friday September 4
WITCHGRINDER
Ding Dong Lounge Friday September 4
DORSAL FINS
The John Curtin Friday September 4
WILKINSON
Prince Bandroom Saturday September 5
SOUL-A-GO-GO
Shebeen Saturday September 5
THE WHITLAMS
The Corner September 10, 11
SOL NATION
Rubix Warehouse Saturday September 12
LOWER CLASS BRATS
Bendigo Hotel Saturday September 12
DUSTIN TEBBUTT
The Corner Hotel Friday September 13
HELEN RYDER
The Toff In Town Sunday September 13
CHIEFS
Laundry Bar Friday September 18
THE SMITH STREET BAND
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Kick those Monday night blues to the curb and do what the rest of us do when times are tough - head on down to Old Bar. This Monday August 31, Mundane Mondays delivers a stunning lineup of stunning industrial noise makers to kick the shit out of August. Kollaps, Vacuum and Gentlemen will warm you all up inside. Because isn’t that what we all want in life? Get down to Old Bar from 8pm and kiss your August goodbye.
LOOKING FORWARD
The Corner Hotel Saturday September 19
THE GARDEN
The John Curtin Hotel Thursday September 24
BILAL
Prince Bandroom Thursday September 24
DRUNK MUMS
Howler Saturday October 24
CANCER BATS
The Bendigo Hotel Thursday September 24
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BILAL
Prince Bandroom Thursday September 24
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Prince Bandroom October 1
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BAIO Shebeen Bandroom, Tuesday August 18 When I arrived at Shebeen, things were looking grim. It was only 45 minutes until Baio’s headline set was scheduled to start, and the room had only eight people in it (and two of those were members of support act Alta). However, by the time Baio took the stage, between 80 and 100 people had loaded in to see the solo electronic project of Vampire Weekend bass player Chris Baio. The sparse few who were there for Alta were treated to 30 minutes of sophisticated UK-tinged dub courtesy of producer Julius Dowson and attitude-laden MC Hannah Lesser. Alta brought to mind post-dubstep acts such as Rudimental and SBTRKT. Baio’s stage setup consisted of a mic stand and an indiscernible stack of equipment that was dressed in arabesque patterned scarves – one assumes it was some kind of sequencer and a synth or two. Baio’s music is a fascinating proposition: it’s too kooky to be ‘cool’ and too eclectic to slot into a specific dance sub-genre. Nevertheless, the performance managed to get almost everyone moving. The set’s second song, Sister Of Pearl, initially got the crowd rocking. It’s an unashamed hat tip to Roxy Music’s Mother Of Pearl (featured on their 1973 release Stranded). After sequencing the beats of this song, Baio – dressed in a white blazer and shirt with navy-blue
chinos – walked to centre stage and sang the song while dancing with a slightly ironic shimmy. It was fun stuff. Another of the set’s major highlights was an even more pointed reference the era that has clearly informed Baio’s sound: it was a cover of the Eurhythmics’ Here Comes The Rain Again. Although supremely entertaining, there was a slight awkwardness as Baio shifted between singing from centre stage and being stuck behind his production desk. This failing was forgiven when he pointed out that tonight’s performance was his first ever headline show as Baio.
Photo by Ian Laidlaw
BY DAN WATT
LOVED: Sister of Pearl. HATED: The poor turnout for Alta. DRANK: Coke.
BEASTWARS Cherry Bar, Saturday August 22 New Zealand favourites Beastwars delivered a night of heavy stoner sludge goodness. After not seeing the band live in a number of years, the four-piece have cemented their position as leaders of stoner rock not only in New Zealand, but here in Australia too. Denim-clad and with a thirst for no-bullshit riffs and grooves, the friendly and familiar Cherry Bar crowd welcomed heavy-rock youngsters Hydromedusa to the stage. With excellent songwriting and performance expertise on display, the band confidently lived up to recent hype and buzz. Channelling Sabbath’s Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi, plus the twin guitar attack of Thin Lizzy, the band cruised through a set of ‘70s longhaired rock‘n’roll, with an understanding of their musical roots well beyond their years. Greeting familiar faces along the way, I made it to the bar as frequently as possible to experience liquored up rock’n’roll as it should be. Fat Yak was on tap and went down smooth. Though, I still haven’t mastered the art of weaving through the packed bar and that annoying staircase that leads to the dancefloor without spilling my beer. Promptly taking the stage with no Bon Jovi choreographed introductions or theatrics, Beastwars kicked straight into metallic stoner riff mastery, sounding heavy as hell through Cherry’s more than capable PA. Playing fan favourites from 2013’s Blood Becomes Fire and their eponymous 2011 debut, plus one new track, the band’s set was free from the pretentious
wankery that often shows up in hard rock and metal. It’s refreshing to see a modern metal band steering clear of ever-changing trends and chasing what is ‘cool’. Lead singer Matt Hyde’s thick vocals filled the missing link between Black Sabbath and Baroness, carrying melody from high screams to low, brooding intensity. The band are more than familiar with the needs of the punter, performing for close to an hour with no encore – no more or less than exactly what a solid set requires. With experience and natural performing ability, the Beastwars set was as consistent as any of stoner rock’s Palm Desert originators. BY JOE HANSEN
LOVED: Feeling the power of rock‘n’roll. HATED: Traversing tight crowds with a lack of balance with multiple pints in hand. DRANK: Fat Yak (potentially Berocca spiked).
Some Saturdays the sun rudely awakens your halfnaked self on the couch to find a floor covered in mi goreng, and your body aching all over from being beat up by a crowd of flannel clad rockers. Tumbleweed’s Galactaphonic 20th anniversary show at the Corner was the instigator this time, which came with solid support from Batpiss and Hoss. First up were Batpiss with their raw, doomy punk sound, representing the new wave of Melbourne rockers. Their music’s imperfections and impurity gives them an edge in the current scene, finding an intensity that others have forgotten about and left on the front lawn for hard rubbish collection. Their set was loaded with tracks from their recently released Biomass – The Idiot a stand out. Does Biomass have the potential to have it’s own 20th anniversary show? Only time will tell. But I rate the album, the band, and the name. Extra points for the drummer’s fashion sense, putting his shirt over the back of his head, like a soccer player celebrating scoring a goal. Hoss’ performance proved that no matter how you look, you can still rock out. The short and stocky frontman Joel Silbersher exchanged some piss-take banter with the crowd, who may or may not have been listening, but it was funny nonetheless. With Dean Muller from Cosmic Psychos whacking the tubs, they brought the grunt of ‘90s garage rock to the stage before Tumbleweed took the reigns. When Galactaphonic was released in 1995, I was eight, and wasn’t cool enough to be into Tumbleweed. In my late teens, the record was passed my way, and from my first exposure to the riff-driven, fuzz-ridden power of every track, I knew it was a classic. In one-million-AD, if the world still exists, the record will remain a pillar of the Australian rock scene.
Not waiting for the curtains to be pulled back, the ‘90s rock’n’rollers blasted out Hanging Around. Singer Richard Lewis hunched over the mic stand and held on tight as if to stop the wall of sound from knocking him over. It took until the fourth song, Medicine, for the crowd to really get moving, trading bobbing-heads for some chaotic pit action. There was crowd surfing and stage diving, and one punter perfectly pirouetted onto the stage before completing an Olympic hop, skip and jump back into the audience. At one point, there was so much beer on the floor that all-terrain shoes were needed just to stand up. After playing the album in full, the band encored with a ‘best of ’ set, including the ripper Daddy Long Legs and Acid Rain, a tribute to their fallen comrade. It wasn’t sold out, but it was a killer show filled with people who’ve felt the lasting effects of Galactaphonic. BY LEE SPENCER-MICHAELSEN
LOVED: Batpiss. HATED: Not buying a Batpiss t-shirt. DRANK: Mountain Goat Steam Ale with vodka and pepper shot chasers (for Oma).
GINUWINE Ms. Collins, Friday August 21 On Fox FM’s RnB Friday, Ginuwine challenged callers to name three of his songs, the reward being free tickets to his performance later that evening. One caller couldn’t even name one, claiming she was under pressure. A second named Pony (as though that was hard) then proceeded to pronounce Stingy with a hard ‘G’, clearly indicating she’d Googled “Ginuwine songs” and had never actually heard it. In an attempt to redeem Melbourne’s poor effort and also pay literary homage to the man who merged two alcoholic beverages to form his stage name, I will weave ten Ginuwine song titles into this review. At the front of Ms. Collins I was literally So Anxious on account of the 50-metre plus line crawling down the Betta Half of Collins Street. Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait (Hell Yeah) and were quickly able to enter an already crowded venue. The key Differences between club concerts and regular gigs are: 1. Heels. 2. An environment where people come to be seen, rather than enjoy themselves – neither of which are ideal when preparing for the best of ‘90s R&B. On My Way to the balcony I was squeezed Toe 2 Toe against people. Securing our place we waited three hours for the performance. Sneaking in discreetly, the sex icon and Superhuman Ginuwine was ushered to his VIP/bottle area. It wasn’t too long before he began his performance. Initially on BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 56
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his balcony, he danced above the bulk of the crowd making good use of the glass panes for grinding. Perhaps sensing the odd panoptic effect of the balcony situation, Ginuwine indicated to security he wanted to venture out to the people and Get Involved, proving he’s still the Same Ol’ G. Atop the bar, Ginuwine sang, danced, body rolled and took a selfie for his TGT bandmates, Tyrese Gibson and Tank. At the signature throbbing bass punches, the crowd went wild when he sang, “I’m just a bachelor…” Twenty years may have passed since his prime, but Ginuwine still has it. BY TAMARA VOGL
LOVED: Ginuwine’s dance moves. HATED: The long wait. DRANK: Water. Water. Water.
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1. Till The End Of The Road PAPA PILKO & THE BINRATS 2. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS 3. High ROYAL HEADACHE 4. Neither/Neither THE BLACK DOG 5. M3LL155X FKA TWIGS 6. Kimba Griffith Septet KIMBA GRIFFITH SEPTET 7. Woman JILL SCOTT 8. Secretly Susan SUI ZHEN 9. Inner Western DAN LETHBRIDGE 10. Collins Lynch Watson COLLINS LYNCH WATSON
HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Meliora LP/CD GHOST 2. Substance 2LP JOY DIVISION 3. Made in Japan 2LP DEEP PURPLE 4. Mr Wonderful LP ACTION BRONSON 5. Lucifer 1 LP/CD LUCIFER 6. In Flame DVD/CD SLADE 7. Agents Of Ahriman LP GREENLEAF 8. Hole Lotta Love LP HOLE 9. In Memoriam 2LP CATHEDRAL 10. Slicker Than A Weasel 2LP ALICE COOPER
JESS RIBEIRO
Kill It Yourself (Barely Dressed/Remote Control)
Melbourne artist Jess Ribeiro’s second album, Kill It Yourself, is a cracker. Produced by Mick Harvey, it’s profound, yet unpretentious; it’s beautiful, but painful too; it’s open, yet deeply intimate; it’s local and it’s global. The opening track, The Wild, swells and soars, with Ribeiro’s vocals resembling those of Sharon Van Etten or PJ Harvey (the latter of whom has also had albums produced by the aforementioned Harvey) in their perfect potency and the way they seed intrigue. It’s a fine way to open an album. In keeping with its title, Born to Ride chugs along solemnly. It could be symbolic of a physical move, or perhaps symbolic of a journey far more spiritual and grandiose. Lyrics such as, “We go out/ Further than we’ve ever been before/ To see the whole world/ Leave the old world, behind,” support such a theory.
The title track ± a song about the moral and physical challenges that come with killing what you eat (in Ribeiro’s case, a chicken) ± is particularly clever, for without knowledge of this story, it’s a powerful metaphor for love and loss. Towards the end of side-B sits the sweet and delicate Strange Game. It’s the shortest song on the album, and also the one that has the most in common with Ribeiro’s 2012 debut album, a collection of country-folk songs called My Little River. It’s a big call, but it’s initially reminiscent of the iconic Elvis song, Can’t Help Falling in Love, and in that way it’s immediately sentimental. Sonically, all of the songs on Kill It Yourself are as diverse as the stories and ideas behind them, but it’s Ribeiro as the protagonist and storyteller that binds them all together. By IZZy TOLHURST
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by lachlan What will it take for AJ to book Mighty Mighty Bosstones for Soundwave 2016? Does Mike Patton have to join the fucking band? C’mon! JUNGLEPUSSy Now Or Later (Independent) Junglepussy is ridiculously dextrous with flow and delivery. New track Now Or Later showcases these skills and then some, riding a heavy chiptune-y beat with sharp bars bouncing between health food and fucking. Masterful. The first cut from upcoming album Pregnant With Success. Pay attention. SLUM SOCIABLE All Night (Liberation) Slum Sociable’s single from earlier this year, Anyway, is a dreamy grower, and All Night follows with a similar, evidently honed aural palette. Though, it lacks the flair for dynamic shown on Anyway. Not faltering, but never truly shining, either. BANOffEE With Her (Dot Dash/Remote Control) Opening with a big tip of the OVO cap to Drake’s Marvins Room (Banoffee does a killer live
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RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN 1. High ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Kill It Yourself JESS RIBEIRO 3. Another One MAC DEMARCO 4. As a Four Piece Band CURED PINK 5. Pain DEAF WISH 6. In My Dreams THE SUNDAY PAINTERS 7. Magnifique RATATAT 8. Wasteland DEAD FARMERS 9. Sorry CIRCULAR KEYS 10. Fear God Honour The King HMAS
AIR TOP TEN ALBUMS
1. The Gospel Album GURRUMUL 2. 1000 Forms Of Fear SIA 3. Speakerzoid THE JUNGLE GIANTS 4. Strange New Past SETH SENTRY 5. Dark Night Sweet Light HERMITUDE 6. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit COURTNEY BARNETT 7. Down To Earth FLIGHT FACILITIES 8. Outcast CAULFIELD 9. Gracetown SAN CISCO 10. Throw Me In The River THE SMITH STREET BAND
BEAT’S TOP TEN GAME SONGS 1. Video Games LANA DEL REY 2. Wicked Game CHRIS ISAAK 4. Blame Game KANYE WEST 5. Love Is A Losing Game AMY WINEHOUSE 6. Fair Game SIA 7. Foolish Games JEWEL 8. Back In The Game JAMIE T 9. Computer Games MI-SEX 10. Mind Games JOHN LENNON
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
MICACHU & THE SHAPES
Venom
( Jarrah Records)
Good Sad Happy Bad
(Sony)
(Rough Trade/Remote Control)
Known for being purveyors of reasonably friendly, non-violent metalcore, it sounds like someone shoved an Exocet missile up the Welsh band’s arse on Venom, Bullet For My Valentine’s fifth album. And it’s done them the world of good. After an eerie, building intro, the album explodes into opening cut No Way Out. Up next, Army of Noise maintains the fury and frenetic speed. Worthless is more groove based, but still hits like a sledgehammer wielded by Ronda Rousey. Have BFMV morphed into a melodic thrash band? Well not really, but it takes until track seven, the title track, for the band to loosen the throttle slightly. The Harder the Heart (The Harder it Breaks) is more of a slow burner, but after that the album piledrives once again all the way to the end. An argument could be made for Venom being this band’s hardest edged record so far. However, traditional fans need not be concerned. This is still very much a Bullet For My Valentine album ± there are still plenty of grooves and soaring melodic choruses to keep you happy ± they’ve just upped the aggressive ante slightly more. In a nutshell, Venom lives up to its name, and it’s a worthy addition to this band’s growing catalogue that’ll please existing fans while attracting a few new ones. BY ROD WHITFIELD
HEALTH
Whether it compelled you or repelled you, a big part of what made the Jonathan Glazer’s film, Under The Skin, so otherworldly and unnerving, yet strangely erotic, was its edgy soundtrack. The composer, Mic Levi, is better known as the singer of UK outfit Micachu & The Shapes. Her soundtrack work added a new layer to her sound, showing a spaciousness and restraint missing from her more sporadic band efforts. Good Sad Happy Bad continues where Micachu & The Shapes’ previous album Never left off, another collection of scattershot pop. The constituent tunes, or at least the bare bones of tunes, are given a two-minute framework and sometimes that’s more than enough. The theme of mixed emotions gives focus to a strong opening trio of songs (Sad, Relaxing, Dreaming), a lulling closer (Suffering) and a mid-album highlight (Oh Baby). But the emotion that forms the focus of much of the rest of the album is confusion. The collection is hindered by too many shapeless demo-style tracks or offcentre ideas that don’t quite come together. The biggest offender is the spoken-word Thinking It, where Levi wonders whether she should be smoking or jogging over sketchy instrumentation. This was a spontaneous recording, intentionally warts and all, so perhaps mixed results are to be expected. A handful of gems makes it almost worth it, though it takes patience to endure the work as a whole.
In January this year The Waifs stepped into 301 Studios in Byron Bay to record with Nick DiDia, who has worked with everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against The Machine to The Living End and Karnivool. The resulting album, Beautiful You, is a raw and emotionally charged showcase of the stunning songwriting of the Simpson sisters. The Waifs previous release, Temptation, marked an evolution in the trio’s songwriting and musicality, though it didn’t impress as much as Up All Night or Sun Dirt Water. In Beautiful You, however, The Waifs have produced a solid record made up of 12 brightly shining tracks. Dark Highway sounds like guitarist Joshua Cunningham has been listening to a tonne of Bob Dylan, and it’s quite possibly the strongest song of his career. 6000 Miles talks about the distance between Vikki Thorn (nee Simpson)’s current home of Utah and her Western Australia birthplace. There’s a touch of sadness to the track, which hints at a longing to be back home. It’s a slow reflective number, filled with reverb drenched electric guitar trills. The bridge is especially emotional, as Thorn sings “Not even oceans can keep us apart.” Penultimate track Born To Love is a rollicking number, featuring Cunningham on vocals. Overall, Beautiful You is full of delicate and honest songwriting, which’ll keep your feet tapping and your heart warm long after its conclusion.
BY CHRIS GIRDLER
BY TEx MILLER
KADAVAR
Death Magic
SUI ZHEN
Berlin
(Caroline)
Secretly Susan
(Nuclear Blast)
Health scare the shit out of me. Their music elicits the same anticipation of dread I got the first time I saw Wolf Creek. On the band’s third album, Death Magic, they’ve in no way mitigated the disconcerting sway of their sound. However, like a great story arcs, after the darkness comes the reprieve, and for the Los Angeles based four-piece this manifests in the monotone falsetto of frontman Jake Duzsik. The album opens with Victim; a moody two-minute atmospheric piece that quite literally sounds like the opening to a modern sci-fi film ± you know, that encircling low-end buzz used in every movie from Transformers to Godzilla. Track two, Stonefist, opens with a succession of face-shearing industrial stabs ± a sound actually comes from effects-laden guitar syncopated with the band’s classic fast-but-slow drumming technique. The lyrics that sit above this visceral musical landscape allude to the emotional numbness felt by LA’s young, trendy and beautiful: “And though we know how far we’ve come/ We stay possessed by what we lost/ And we both know, love’s not in our hearts.” Despite the ostensible simplicity of Health’s music, since the beginning they’ve exerted the ability to elicit a multitude of powerful emotions. While they’ve steadily progressed, it’s not like Health’s sound has altered that much. For example, the avalanche of drums that open Men Today is remarkably similar to the barrage of beats that opened the band’s breakthrough song Crimewave ± a collaboration with Canadian experimental band Crystal Castles. That being said, New Coke sounds like a track from a remix album: a hip hop beat is accented by a wall of distortion, making it an apt soundtrack for Megatron’s initial appearance in Transformers. Death Magic is a refreshing record from a band who’re doing something truly contemporary in an era of hat-tips and throwbacks. BY DAN WATT
THE WAIFS
Beautiful You
There seems to be a no-nonsense ethos to Kadavar. Not bothered about straying from the sound they dig ± ‘70s-era hard/ psych/stoner rock ± the band’s music says, “If we want to play guitar lick after guitar lick, we’re going to do it. If we want to adopt nicknames like Lupus, Dragon, and Tiger, we’re going to do it. If we want to name our album after our hometown, you know what, we’re going to do it.” The band’s third LP is the result of four months recording live in the studio on analogue gear, and their first since French-born Dragon replaced Mammoth on bass. Taking no prisoners, the band launch straight into an ear-ial assault with Lord Of The Sky. It’s held together by fuzzy-phaser guitar hooks and groove-driven bass, which are complemented by classic rock vocals and drums. It’s what AC/DC would sound like if they went psychedelic, and it prepares you for what’s to come. The Old Man, the first single off the record, follows a gypsy-ish riff. Lyrically, it sounds like they’re trying to stamp themselves into history: “And the old man sings this song/ This song I wrote”. Generally, the lyrics are pretty rudimentary, but they’re German’s singing in English so give them a break. Though, there are some poignant moments in See The World With Your Own Eyes, which tells the story of the band’s past troubles. The line “Rolling down in a broken car” refers to the 1964 Ford Galaxy they bought for their Come Back Life film clip (off their last record Abra Kadavar), which blew up only a couple miles down a New Mexico highway, blowing thousands of their dollars with it. They end with a bonus track, paying tribute to German songstress Nico by covering her Reich der Träume (Land of Dreams). It’s a departure from the rest of the record, moving into an avant garde space and singing in their native tongue for the first time. Overall it’s a solid effort from the longhaired, bearded Deutsche-men ± t he meat and two veg of psych rock.
(Dot Dash/Remote Control)
Secretly Susan opens with waves lapping on the beach, beckoning you into an imaginary exotic paradise. A gentle cooing vocal then drifts in to accompany opener Teenage Years’ lounge-y, chillwave grooves. But is it Becky Sui Zhen singing or her alter-ego Susan? The cover art features Susan, with her blonde-bob haircut/wig and sad, distant eyes, an image of beauty and emptiness. It’s a look that’s carried over from the clips for singles Infinity Street and Take It All Back. The minimalist, pastel-coloured visuals are stylised in a way that recalls Darren Sylvester’s carefully crafted fusion of art and music ± the retro stylings are verging on pastiche, but the artist is fully committed and backed up by some substantial pop songs. The influence of Grimes comes through on songs like Hangin’ Out, but Sui Zhen tends towards more low-key and approachable sounds. She applies a soft focus to her dreamlike compositions that entices you into her musical sphere, the musical equivalent of those lapping waves at the start of the album. She also makes the most of a minimalist framework to craft songs that take in various strands of gentle, acoustic folk and beat-driven electropop. The surprising part of it is that, by disappearing into another character, she has produced her most emotive and affective body of work. It’s an album that will leave you desperately seeking more Sui Zhen. BY CHRIS GIRDLER
BY LEE SPENCER-MICHAELSEN
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • a basket of mammoths + grim rhythm + the
hunted crows + three headed fool Bendigo
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• armour group + transparent flesh flag +
ruinnation + military position djs Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• brett lee + robert k champion Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• broke and wasted - feat: scotdrakula
+ wet meal + richie 1250 & the brides of christ Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • fritzwicky + lasers underwater + old etiquettes + patches Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • gang of youths (the positions launch) + i know leopard + zefereli Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
• hannah cameron + clio + yuko kono Workers
Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.
• movement 9 Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• 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.
• the silk road - a journey of peace -
feat: chu wanghua + george dreyfus + caroline almonte + john ferguson + wang zhengting Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $58.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • cash bonanza Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. • dzia Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 9:00pm.
• josh cashman Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• melbourne ukulele kollective beginner’s
class Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.
Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $8.00.
• open mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.
• open mic night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• jamie lawson + harry hookey Northcote Social
• open mic Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm.
• megan washington Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong.
• open mic night Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.
8:30pm. $28.60.
• open mic + hosted by mark gardner. Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.
• tequila mockingbyrd + darcee fox + two
headed dog Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• the creeping bam + bears + pink harvest Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
• uncle bobby + nafasi + greeves Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.
• woo who + charging stallion + fuzzsucker Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • big easy soul sessions Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• dizzy’s big band with peter hearne Dizzy’s Jazz
SHADOW ELECTRIC’S VISIONS SERIES
If you’re searching for a stunning collaboration of live music and a dazzling video and lighting displays this weekend, then look no further than Shadow Electric’s VISIONS series. Held at Brunswick’s iconic Estonian House and featuring the Shadow’s 34-metre square cinema screen, VISIONS will feature an outstanding cast of performers over the weekend. Teeth & Tongue will kick off proceedings on Friday August 28 alongside Pearls and Ocean Party, while Rat & Co, Klo and Hoodlem take over the venue the on Saturday August 29. The team behind Juice Rap News will be moving from the online realm to the main stage in a Sunday matinee show, where they’ll deliver your news in the style you really want to hear it. Melbourne comedian Nazeem Hussain will also take part. Finally, the bombastic stylings of The Bombay Royale and Sex on Toast will wrap things up the Sunday night. It’s a huge showcase of Melbourne’s finest artists, so get on down and check it out. Tickets and more info can be found at shadowelectric.com.au/visions.
• seensound - feat: rebecca ruiger + maciej
jedrzejewski + silent box + daniel thorpe debussy + dennis miller + mark pedersen + brigid burke Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • starr-schulz & friends (musical conversations) - feat: adam starr + anthony schulz + ben robertson + lisa young Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. • the sing-a-long society - feat: rebecca barnard & billy miller St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 6:30pm. $15.00.
• wine whiskey women - feat: baby blue +
amarina waters Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY AUGUST 27
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • hiatus kaiyote (choose your weapon
launch) + 0.1 + sex on toast Corner Hotel,
Richmond. 7:30pm.
• chris pickering band + heloise + brooke
russell & the mean reds Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
8:30pm.
• citrus jam Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
• conjurer + toxicon + the nuremberg code +
soulenikoes Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00. • declan mckinnon & the knockabouts + bound by hound + bond street vandals + pug Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • destroy music - feat: hellions + capsize + ‘68 Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $27.00. • duoux (its almost sunday launch) + dear plastic + zone out Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• glory + late nights + jo neugebauer + joel
parnell Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • greenthief & b0rrachero + motherslug + dj mermaid Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • jules sheldon + vowel movement + t.v + jess locke Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $7.00. • lazercatz 2000 + tulalah + jamil zacharia Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• lyall moloney + neon queen + tommy
castles Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• megan washington + the tambourine girls Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• next - feat: feed her to the sharks +
advocates + wanderlost Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
• saint henry + charm + the asthmatics Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8.00.
• showcase nights Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. • sisters doll + ellen rose + the spitting
swallows + state of silence Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• tankerville + ohms + euphoriacs Catfish, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.
• the mary goldsmiths + the shabbab + jim
jackson & the hats Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
$7.00.
• the over easys Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.
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GIG OF THE WEEK!
• the white tree Big Mouth, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
• wigwam psych night - feat: breve + bears +
uncle bobby The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm.
• waco social club Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.
• whole lotta blues - feat: stevie ray
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
vaughan + andy phillips and the cadillac walk + nick ferretti Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
• after dinner mint - feat: dj travis t Big
FRIDAY AUGUST 28
$8.00.
Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm.
• artie styles quartet 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. • grigoryan brothers (my latin heart) +
josé carbó Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
East. 8:00pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • anna powell & jono Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
7:00pm. $40.00.
• craig schneider trio Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.
8:00pm. $10.00.
• dana czarski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.
Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• dj cheeze & krackerz Littlefoot Bar, Footscray.
fisher + adi toohey Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
• fem belling Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
• the minton playboys house band The B.east,
• island village - feat: josh & dek The Luwow,
• mooncalf Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.
• joe o’connor trio Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• low down big band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. • melbourne improvisers collective Uptown • midnight express - feat: prequel + edd 10:00pm.
Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
$25.00.
• moreland city soul revue + dj vince peach
+ dj pierre baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
8:00pm. $10.00.
9:00pm. $16.00.
6:00pm. $10.00.
8:00pm.
8:00pm. $25.00.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• madamshazz Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.
• paul van ross & clavemania Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
• rob burke sextet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
• ruth roshan’s tango noir Paris Cat Jazz Club,
• rugcutters Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm.
• sleazy listening - feat: steele bonus + arks
8:00pm. $20.00.
• solquemia Vamos, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $8.00. • steinway piano series Ruby’s Music Room,
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
+ richard kelly + hysteric + k hoop Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $12.50.
• tank dilema Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.
+ tigerfunk + lewis cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor.
• university of melbourne orchestra - feat:
• the good egg thursdays - feat: henry who 7:00pm.
• yvette johansson quartet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • backstage blues night - feat: the mojo
corner + dj barry maxwell + the shake shack boogie house band Musicland, Fawkner.
7:00pm.
• trio agogo Vamos, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8.00.
harry sdraulig + gustav mahler Sidney Myer
Music Bowl, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
• what the funk fridays Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • andy phillips & the cadillac walk + iddy
reyes & the blues maniacs + mystic swamp Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• lotus feet Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:30pm.
• asta (dynamite tour) Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• peny bohan duo Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• astral skulls + kt spit + krli white + first
• open mic nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.
• ryan oliver Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. • sean mcmahon & the moonmen + dan
parsons Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. • sime nugent Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. • suzette herft + patrick williams + pete fidler Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $10.00. • terrasur + the pachamamas Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• the hunter express Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm. • the railway gang string band Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 8:30pm.
• the running english + clarke & white +
heavy kicks Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. • the songwriters’ club - feat: mick harvey + mark snarski + evan richards Toff In Town,
$20.00.
response + cable ties Public Bar, North Melbourne.
8:00pm. $10.00.
• bellusira + tequila mockingbyrd + chasing
lana + acolyte + black dog Max Watt’s, Melbourne.
8:00pm. $18.00.
• buttered loaf Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
• captain spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:30pm.
• chook race + steve miller band + bj
morriszonkle + dj mermaid Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• cinema 6 + mondo bizarro + sugar teeth Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.
• dan hall & spyda Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
• dead pharaohs + the underground Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $22.00.
• deafwish + power + cereal killers Barwon Club
8:00pm.
• dividir + umbilical tentacle + the world at
• tingy celestino Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown.
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Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.00.
THE DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN
GANG OF YOUTHS
I was in a gang when I was a teenager. Well, I’d like to think I was anyway. We used to cruise around the neighbourhood on sweet pushies and hang out the front of milk bars, just because. We thought we were totally badarse. That was until we encountered a real gang - the type that chromed on the train and beat the fuck out of you when you didn’t give them your Nokia 5110. Ah, childhood. Amirite? I can’t imagine that Gang Of Youths would be the type to beat you out of your lunch money or try and steal your phone. Instead, they’d just slay you with their wicked musical talents and general attractiveness. Don’t believe me? Get down to the Corner Hotel on Wednesday August 26 and see whether this is a gang of youths you really want to mess with.
a glance + nerve + dead mates Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• einsteins toyboys + cranked Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
• elvis tribute show Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.
• gang of youths + i know leopard Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• grenadiers Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00.
• hey hey it’s friday - feat: astro boys Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
• honeybone + ten cent pistols + self talk Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• la danse macabre - feat: brunswick
massive resident djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
9:00pm.
• luna deville + mondegreen + guy parkman
band Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • megan washington + the tambourine girls + ben wright smith Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• northeast party house (perfect lines
launch) + the shakes + gold fields djs + the pretty littles 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• olmeg + wildeornes + saturn3 + monsteria Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• rebetiko + dj shaky memorial Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• retromax Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• saskwatch Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. • sheriff & the horny bastards +
grindhouse + the dukes of deliciousness + the ugly kings Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00. • spectrum Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. • spencer p jones (friday knock-off) Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.
• teeth & tongue (estonian house) + pearls
+ ocean party The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm.
$22.50.
• the beautiful losers + phillipa sings +
jules douglas Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
• the cliches + paskie Carters Bar, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• the demon parade Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00. • the dillinger escape plan + jack the
stripper Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $55.00.
• the doors show (feast of friends) Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25.00.
• the ramshackle army + the playbook
+ foley + aust kingswood factory + little lamb & the rosemary’s Bendigo Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• the shabbab Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm.
• toni childs St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $40.00. • totally mild & terrible truths + simona
kapitolina + the shifters + small world experience Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • twin beasts + bad vision + kinder Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• voltaire twins Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• watchtower + lizzard wizzard + bog +
merchant Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• watt’s on presents Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • acapella madness Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:30pm. • acoustic avenue Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm. • alleged associates + miss gabbie
goldenvoice Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.
• andy mcgarvie Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. • chris wilson Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:30pm.
• daryl braithwaite Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $35.00.
• daveys fridays - feat: rob & tarquin +
superfly djs Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.
9:00pm.
• detonators Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm.
• dj soul loco Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• joshua seymour Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
• krista polvere + gena rose bruce + deer
prudence Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • miss jugo & friends Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. • rambutan jam band + josh goodrem Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• smoke stack rhino + mayfield + victor
cripes Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $13.00. • steve lucas Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm. • wildling (molecules to the moon launch) + the royal jellies + darling james + royal commission Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
SATURDAY AUGUST 29
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • a tribute to classic greek songs of the
40s & 50s - feat: polyxeni Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• arak + the sensayshuns The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Whenever someone rocks up to my house, the chances of a horror movie blasting in the background is at an all-time high. A mate rocked up the other day while I was lounging on the couch completely enthralled in Stephen King’s IT. Didn’t matter that I’d seen it at least 20 times, I was completely captivated - it was like I was a possessed demon child watching a scary film for the first time ever. He thought it was weird, but fuck him. So, imagine how thrilled I was when I discovered my new housemate was a total serial killer podcast addict. We didn’t even need to chat anymore - we just let the podcasts do the talking for us. The Dillenger Escape Plan’s last record was titled One Of Us Is The Killer. Who could it be? I don’t know about you, but I really want to know. So much so, I’ll be getting my arse off the couch and over to the Prince Bandroom on Friday August 28 to see these mathcore metal maestros in action. • bang - feat: ocean grove + atlantic + ignite
antares Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
$25.00.
• black diety + slothferatu + pissbolt +
desperate pigs Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• central rain Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • general men + gorsha + the michael j fux Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• hellyeah Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $59.00. • hot dog cup - feat: the dukes of
deliciousness + sherriff + grindhouse Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• hunting season (lost forever launch)
+ reika + jp klipspringer The Shadow Electric,
Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• john kendall & the shot glasses Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
• johnny stingray & the wanderers Watsonia Rsl, Watsonia. 8:30pm.
• king george Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8:30pm. $15.00. • live it up on saturdays Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm. $8.00.
• living death fest - feat: internal
nightmare + alrars + iconic vivisect + jack the stripper + mephistopheles + dawn of azazel + hollow world + athenas wake + the hazard circular + as flesh decays + whoretopsy Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
$20.00.
• lizzard wizzard + holy serpent + agonhymn
• fem belling quintet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
+ dr colossus Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • lowtide (julia/spring 7” launch) + parading + the shifters Northcote Social Club,
• fulton street + mya wallace Penny Black,
• merchant Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 2:00am. $7.00.
• colour climax 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• cumbia cosmonauts Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm. Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.
Brunswick. 9:00pm.
Northcote. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• scott & charlene’s wedding + free time +
tiprats John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.
• sonic road Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• spacejunk + uptown ace + cosmic kahuna +
ohms Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $9.00.
• tash sultana (brain flower launch) Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.
• the girl fridas + shiny coin + theft +
plastic knife Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• the heartache state + digger & the
pussycats + gorsha + isaac de heer & the river tracks + make like a tree + dj fee Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
• the high drifters + she beast + colostomy
baguette + olmeg Public Bar, North Melbourne.
8:30pm. $10.00.
• the strangers in town + i am mine + vision
street + rockin volts Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00.
• thrasher jynx + monkey grip + edith lane
+ little lamb & the rosemarys Brunswick Hotel,
Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• toxicon + nuremberg code + feast of crows Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm.
• winter moon + above kings + borrachero
+ marley wynn Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.
$13.00.
• wire bird (new world launch) + residual +
peter rabbit Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
$12.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • rick hart & the sweet addictions + burnt
letters The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
• andy phillips & the cadillac walk Pistol Pete’s Food N Blues, Geelong. 7:30pm.
• mesa cosa + scotdrakula The Eastern, Ballarat
• anna o Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.
• mark fitgibbon trio Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
• miss destiny + mystic eyes + stations Tote
• gayle cavanagh & the mixed company show
• mozart’s piano concerto no.17 - feat: sir
• oxjam (gigs for goos) Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.
• la rumba Vamos, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00. 8:00pm.
andrew davis + jean-efflam bavouzet Hamer Hall, Southbank. 2:00pm. $25.00.
• panorama brasil St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $23.00.
• phila para Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm.
• sarah maclaine & the roger clark quartet Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.
• swing train - feat: gianni marinucci + hetty
kate + bob sedergreen + frank disario + michael jordan Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm.
8:30pm. $16.00.
• prayer babies Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. • rat & co + oliverellmers/ + klo + hoodlem The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $21.00.
• raw brit + tyler wilford + bronnie gordon
+ bellatrix Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00. • saturdays r covered - feat: radio star Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
• dogsday Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
band + elvis! Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
• hello satellites + amy alex Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
• jarrah thompson & band Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
• john flanagan + liz frencham Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.
• karaoke with zoe Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm.
• lot 56 Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
8:00pm. $25.00.
• tango mundo Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.
• tank dilemma + shannon bourne Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• the furbelows Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
• the jc little band Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • 100% + vacuum + yaws + drug sweat Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
• 100% + crystal moth + phillipa omega +
jonny telafone Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• alithia + chaos divine + headtorch + sons
of abraham Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• alma kalorama + rathammock + alexander
biggs Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.
• animaux + up up away + lam + alex lahey Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.
• asta Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $17.00.
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• one night in brunswick - feat: melbourne
city ska collective + fionnuala mckenna + camaron holmes + mark gardner trio Luxor
Bar , Brunswick East. 7:00pm. $15.00.
• paul madigan + jex saarelaht Esu House, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $10.00.
• shane diiorio band Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:30pm.
• the harvey cartel + killer blues Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• tim durkin Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
• tim maxwell + georgia maq Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
• tony j king Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 8:00pm.
• vic old time jam session - feat: craig
woodward + warren rough & friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
SUNDAY AUGUST 30
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • into the mystic (the music of van
morrison) - feat: joe creighton Ding Dong
Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.
• a blonde moment Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
• airway lanes Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.
• beersoaked sundays - feat: space junk + 100
acre woods + kate alexander Old Bar, Fitzroy.
8:00pm. $6.00.
• byo vinyl session - feat: dj leif van den
dungen Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 4:00pm. • canyon- west coast sound St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 3:00pm. $20.00.
• city sharps + housewreckers Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
• digger & the pussycats Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm.
• greg champion & useful members of
society Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. • handsome bastards Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
• jam at musicland sundays Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
• matt dwyer & the magnatones Big Huey’s Diner,
angry mexicans + the hondas + midnight scavengers + falconio Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $10.00.
• smile + mouth tooth Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
• strangers in town - feat: where’s choofy
+ satellites & stereos + snark + once were lost Musicland, Fawkner. 1:30pm. $10.00. • the cosmopolitans Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • the midnight sol + dream fatigue + dada ono Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • three kings Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • after dinner mint - feat: dj travis t + danny
dobs Big Mouth, St Kilda. 5:00pm.
• alma mater Vamos, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.
• bombay royale (estonian house) + sex on
toast The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $24.50. • bossa brunswick Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
• jules boult Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
• musical theatre open mic night Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.50.
• nikki nicholls Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $18.00.
• soul sundays - feat: deep street soul + dj
manchild Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • stellar remnants + royalty noise + elf tranzporter + dj wasabi Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
• sunday soul sessions Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
• sunday soultrain - feat: mick pealing band
• lamine sonko + the boite millennium
chorus Hamer Hall, Southbank. 2:30pm. $29.00. • the melbourne jazz co-op presents Uptown
2:00pm.
• cold irons bound Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. • elwood blues club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
• flying engine stringband The Mercat, Melbourne. 12:00pm.
• homesick ray’s mild bunch + chris wilson Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• jim patterson Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
• king puppy & the carnivore + ike + alice
nelson Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $7.00. • lillith lane Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • michelle gardiner Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 3:00pm.
• open mic sunday Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.
• oscar lush Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm.
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Hall, Southbank. 6:30pm. $25.00.
• our lady of mercy college celebration
concert Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm.
$20.00.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • cherry jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• diamonds of neptune + running young +
walker Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $7.00.
• monday night mass - feat: horehunter +
child + flour + fried goods Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
+ gentlemen Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
• paul williamson’s hammond combo Rainbow
• minimum wage - feat: 100% + mollusc +
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andrew davis + jean-efflam bavouzet Hamer
9:00pm.
• charlotte roberts 303, Northcote. 3:30pm.
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• mozart’s piano concerto no.17 - feat: sir
• nigel wearne + lucy wise Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
• the steve martins Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
• andy phillips blues duo Sound Bar, Werribee.
memory 10 year anniversary) + ceres + strickland 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $49.50.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
• jazz party Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• mihra + nafasi + tetrahedra Workers Club,
• motion city soundtrack (commit this to
$15.00.
• ella’s live swing quartet Ruby’s Music Room,
• the mcqueens + albert salt + dj senpolo
• all day fritz Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
stations + masses Public Bar, North Melbourne.
gontsana The Apartment, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
Brunswick. 4:30pm.
• the band who knew too much Spotted Mallard,
Fitzroy. 12:30pm. $15.00.
4:00pm.
Melbourne’s best dream pop foursome Lowtide surprised everyone when they dropped their latest double A-side 7”, Julia/Spring. Beat gave the single Julia Single Of The Week, describing it as, “A triumph upon triumph,” while their epic, nine minute dual clip for Julia/Spring is a mind-blowing masterpiece. This weekend, on Saturday August 29, Lowtide will be celebrating the vinyl release at the Northcote Social Club with Parading and The Shifters.
• mundane mondays - feat: kollaps + vacuum
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.50.
LOWTIDE
Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 2:30pm.
South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
• melbourne artist showdown Laundry Bar,
WITH RUTH MIHELCIC
• naked bodies + the strange + a gazillion
• rob bennett 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
• stomp dog Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. • sunday sessions - feat: various artists Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
• the bakersfield glee club Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• the blown cones Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. • the harmaniax Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
• the pheasant pluckers Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.
7:00pm.
Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.
• ryan downey + lehmann b smith + lucy
roleff Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • andrew hagger (vivid launch) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $45.00.
• bernadeta & scott griffiths Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.50.
• carey grammar school Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm. $10.00.
• melba opera trust (to music) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.
• paul lewis Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.
• peter voglis Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.
• windari Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • cindy lou kramme + chris commerford Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
• fresh industry showcases Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
• jmc end of trimester show - feat: alyssa
carnell + ez queen ann’s revenge + taylor bradley-piggot + vanta + black daeth Workers
Club, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. $2.50.
• kooyeh + up up away + tiaryn Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.00.
4:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
2:30pm. $11.50.
• anna’s go-go academy Bella Union Bar, Carlton.
• tim wheatley Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. • waco social club Lost, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
• zevon & the werewolves of melbourne +
cold turkey Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00.
MONDAY AUGUST 31
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • b3 breakout 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
• dana czarski Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.
• daryl mckenzie jazz orchestra w/ sandile
6:30pm.
• irish session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. • klub muk 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
• lakyn Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
• morning melodies - feat: derrick jay Powell Hotel, Footscray. 10:30am. $5.00.
• super saloon + two headed dog + happy go
blues Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• taste of indie tuesday - feat: songwriter
sessions Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
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The first announcement for speakers at Face The Music 2015 has been released, and it already looks good. Taking over the Arts Centre Melbourne on November 13 and 14 this year Face The Music will feature American musician, producer, songwriter and DJ JD Samson, best known as a member of bands Le Tigre and MEN; Manchester based music activist Ruth Daniel; Nick O’Byrne, owner and director of Look Out Kid; Frank Cotela of ONELOVE; along with Anna Laverty, Andrei Eremin, Alex Zaccaria, Ben Preece, Brodie Lancaster, Dan Rosen, Katie Rynne, Marc Sousley, Nic Warnock, Patrick Donovan, Paul Sloan, Sara Hood, Sarah Hamilton, and Travis Banko. To read the announcement in full, go to www.facethemusic.com.au or check it out at facebook.com/facethemusicaus. General tickets are now on sale. Top Dog Entertainment are looking for a DJ who has some experience playing in Melbourne pubs and clubs to play in between a band for one of their regular Saturday night residencies on Chapel St. Mostly popular dance music, top 40 and R&B is played. You will need your own console to plug into venue’s sound system. They need someone who can commit to every other Saturday between September and December and possibly longer. Email info@topdogentertainment.com.au for more info or go to www.topdogentertainment. com.au. Applications close Monday. Applications are now open to work at Falls Festival 2015. They’re looking for people (18+) to join the team as paid staff and volunteers. You must be available from December 27 ± January 1, and be available to work a minimum of 15-20 hours over the duration of the festival (which may include morning, afternoon, evening or night shift). Perks include access to the arena and entertainment, free camping, free car parking, access to volunteer and staff facilities, meals when working, entry to the staff and volunteer celebration on January 1, work experience and a certificate of appreciation. There’s a bunch of roles available from ticketing, gates, green team, info booths, tokens, vehicle inspections, and pre-event site crew. Applications for bar staff close September 18. Go to www.lorne. fallsfestival.com.au/event-info/work-at-falls
ALL AGES GIG GUIDE FRiDAy AuguST 28 • This Is How We Glow at Beaconsfield Community Centre, 8 ONeil Road, Beaconsfield, 7pm-10pm, $5, www. facebook.com/cardiniafreeza, AA • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Maroondah Heat w/ Stuck Out, Lazy A & Zito, Atlas Mary, Harry Andrews, INH and Eris at EV’s Youth Centre, 212 Mt Dandenong Rd, Croydon, 6.30pm-11pm, $12, www.maroondahyouthservices.com, AA • Edge Youth Cat versus Curiosity FReeZA w/ Selaphonic, Music and Film inspired training at 106/112 Settlement Rd, Cowes, 7pm-9pm, Free, www.facebook.com/ BassCoastFreeza, AA • Laser Tag and Disco w/ DJ Haydos, ‘Down by the River’ at Apex Park, Wangaratta, 5pm-8pm, Free, contact Laura McKenna on 5722 0819, AA SuNDAy AuguST 30 • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands, Ballarat Final w/ Eyes Wide Open plus competing artists at Karova Lounge, 3pm6pm, $10 or $15 for all 3 Heats, www. youthservicesballarat.com.au, AA TuESDAy SEPTEMBER 1 • Hey I’m Romeo ± P erforming Arts Production: School Performances at Echuca Paramount Cinema and Performing Arts Complex, High St, Echuca, 9am-4pm, $10 adult, $5 student/child, $25 family, contact Rhonda Marshall on 5482 2517, AA
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APRA AMCOS GRANTS FOR ‘ART MUSIC’ COMPOSERS APRA AMCOS has introduced three new additions to its $1 million music grants program. The largest of the new initiatives is worth $135,000 for composers of “art” – jazz, experimental and classical. Nigel Westlake, an APRA board member and chair of the Australian Music Centre, said art music was recognised for its “influence … toward the creation of innovative and vibrant works, and acknowledges the need to nurture and embrace this contribution toward a healthy ecosystem, thereby promoting a diverse and fertile foundation for musical practice in Australia.” To commission up to eight new Australian or NZ composers, the fund will invest $100,000 in its first year, which is to be expanded on as partners come on board with matched funding. An Art Music Fund advisory group will be established in the coming months.
EMC ANNOUNCES MORE SPEAKERS After announcing DJ Carl Cox as the first keynote speaker, the Electronic Music Conference (Dec 1-2 at Ivy Sydney) announced 22 more names. They include DJ and festival curator Gilles Peterson, Perth producer Ta-ku, Beatport’s VP of Artist Relations Liz Miller, Tigerlily, Ministry of Sound Aust’s Anna Fitzgerald, Purple Sneakers’ Martin Novosel and Erin Flanagan (Thinking Loud/Boiler Room). This year’s theme is ‘Connectivity’. EMC founder Neil Ackland explained, “More than any other genre of music, electronic music relies on connections both to be created and to be shared.” The Visitors Program will see talent buyers from Asia, North America, Europe and the UK – led by AM Only senior agent Denise Melanson; one of the most powerful women in North America in EDM – with local artists and managers. The showcases lineup EMCPlay is to be announced in coming weeks.
FESTIVAL CHANGES NAME TO PANACEA The organisers of November’s inaugural Between The Hills in regional Victoria changed its name to Panacea “to avoid any confusion with existing The Hills Are Alive/NYE on the Hill festival brands.” The two groups met amicably over a coffee and settled their concern over the similarity of names.
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE GUITARIST GETS SHOT Crossfire Hurricane guitarist Daniel Unwin ended up in hospital after being accidentally shot in the finger in a freak workplace accident at his day gig with a furniture removalist. He and a colleague found a gun on top of a wardrobe they were moving. The other dude quipped, “If this hits you on the head, it would hurt.” Unwin replied, “Give it to me” and grabbed it, at which point it went off. Police charged a 31-year old Essendon woman with possessing an unregistered handgun. She appears at Broadmeadows Magistrates Court on October 19.
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD SIGN U.S. DEAL On the eve of a 20-date American tour, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have signed a US deal with guitarist Dave Matthews’ ATO label. ATO’s impressive roster includes David Gray, Alabama Shakes, The Bronx, John Butler Trio, Kaiser Chiefs, My Morning Jacket and Rodrigo y Gabriella. Their next album Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, out in Australia in mid-November, gets a US release in early 2016. The band’s US dates kicked off on the weekend at the FYF Festival in LA, and hits cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, New Orleans and winds up in New York City on September 16.
THINGS WE HEAR • With entertainment figures from the past being investigated for possible sex abuses, how many planned autobiographies have been shelved? • Which Australian website has been gleefully identifying top names in the consumer electronics field caught in the Ashley Madison mess by typing in familiar email addresses?
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• What was behind the brawl between two sets of road crews? • 5 Seconds of Summer guitarist Michael Clifford explains new single She’s Kinda Hot sounds similar to My Chemical Romance’s 2006 song Teenagers because of the “12-bar blues” and “it might be in the same key as well.” • In the meantime, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker revealed he got a letter from Samm Culley, of ‘70s funk outfit Skull Snaps, claiming the drum intro for new album track Eventually is an unauthorised sample from their 1973 track It’s A New Day. Parker says he played the intro himself. • After his latest European tour, guitarist and composer Joe Matera’s Feel Your Love debuted at #15 on Germany’s Radio Berlin Music Chart (ahead of The Scorpions), giving him his first Top 20 anywhere in the world. • After six years together, Melbourne’s Loon Lake are calling it a day, with a farewell tour in spring and the release of final recordings. • After Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. played his old man in the new NWA box office smash biopic Straight Outta Compton, one of its producers is discussing the two starring in a LA riots thriller. • Diplo says Major Lazer hit Lean On was turned down by Nicki Minaj and Rihanna. • Activist group Collective Shout, who put the brakes on Tyler The Creator’s Australian tour, also managed to get lads magazine Zoo pulled off Coles shelves. • Security is stepped up around Nicki Minaj’s wax model after fans started groping her and posing for inappropriate pics. • Singer/songwriter Mike Waters wants people to send him their best festival photos for inclusion in his video for new single Feels Like Home, which was inspired by his visit to last year’s Splendour in The Grass and interaction with fans.
VEVO TO GROW TO 200M MONTHLY STREAMS IN OZ? The Vevo platform has shown a significant growth in users and revenue in the first half of 2015 in Australia and New Zealand. According to Authentic Entertainment, which manages Vevo in ANZ, June reported a 14% year on year growth. Australia accounts for 9 million of its 11 million users. Both countries have 147 million monthly streams, 115 million from Australia. It also had a 205% increase in monthly revenue in the past 18 months. Authentic predicts hitting the 200 million monthly streams mark in the next 12 months.
WE CAN BE BOWIE, OH, JUST FOR ONE DAY An English academic will spend a year dressed in various David Bowie personas as part of research. Will Brooker, a professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University near London is “method acting” Bowie to better understand the rock icon for a monograph on him titled Forever Stardust. He will visit various Bowie landmarks and read the same books that Bowie did to “get into Bowie’s head and see it’s sometimes quite a strange place. A dangerous place, a place you wouldn’t want to live too long,” he told the ABC.
SNOWTUNES HITS BACK AT BREACH CLAIMS Organisers of Jindabyne’s inaugural Snowtunes, which drew 4,000, hit back at claims of breaches by the Office of Liquor, Gaming & Racing (OLGR). They’re taking action alleging the festival’s “seriously lacking and insufficient” security staff was too busy trying to catch fence-jumpers that it didn’t control acts of drunken behaviour including vomiting and urinating in front of other patrons. It also cited instances of under-age drinking, including a 13-year old being zonked in the toilets and another lost until after the seven hour allages event. Snowtunes responded it was “shocked” at the “inaccuracies” of the OLGR report, and that it received “positive feedback” from St Johns, Red Cross Save a Mate, police and security after the event. “[We]
reiterate that safety and responsible service of alcohol are always our highest priority during any event. The Snowtunes event met all security requirements with a high concentration of qualified personnel.” It challenged the OLGR “to provide clarity and evidence to support their claims.”
ARTIST FIRST LAUNCHES ONLINE MERCH COMPANY Artist First Pty Ltd is a new online music merchandise company that has launched in Australia. It specialises in personalised band, brand and event web stores and online fulfilment. It is headed by Dave Jiannis of Epitaph Australia with Love Police/ATM and the Staple Group as partners. Day-to-day operations are run by Caz Worsley (ex-Head of Marketing at Shock Entertainment and recently Consumer Marketing Manager at Converse Australia). Jiannis says, “Artist First will provide each band with their own online store branded with their logos and images, linked to their existing website and social media pages. Artist First are ARIA accredited so pre-order bundles will be a big focus.” A team-up with Kings Road Merch in the US will see Artist First represent Bad Religion, Tom Waits, Beastie Boys, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys and Ghost in this territory. See artistfirst. com.au.
CAROLINE AUSTRALIA LEARNS GOOD MANNERS Caroline Australia/Universal’s latest label partnership is with Melbourne’s Good Manners Records. Good Manners started in early 2014 as a management company (looking after Banoffee, I’lls, Klo, LUCIANBLOMKAMP, Planète) and then branching out to live shows and publicity (Oscar Key Sung, Chet Faker’s label Detail Co.).The first release by Good Manners Records is LUCIANBLOMKAMP’s second album Bad Faith in early 2016.
DOT DASH/REMOTE CONTROL SIGNS BANOFFEE Dot Dash/Remote Control Records signed Banoffee for the worldwide release of her October-due second EP Do I Make You Nervous? Banoffee is the solo project of Melbourne singer and producer Martha Brown. First single With Her was produced by long time collaborator Oscar Key Sung. Also interested in the arts, Banoffee is a sought after style figure and has featured in magazines such as Vogue.
THE PINHEADS AT 123 AGENCY Wollongong’s The Pinheads, signed with Melbourne’s 123 Agency for bookings. Agent Harry Moore who was “overwhelmed” by their live show, has booked them for their first east coast tour behind their debut I Wanna Be A Girl EP. The six piece (sometimes seven) who played their first show on Record Store Day last year, signed in blood with the Farmer & The Owl label in their hometown.
WHITE NIGHT TO GO REGIONAL? Melbourne’s popular White Night festival – which drew 550,000 into the CBD earlier this year to see buildings and laneways transformed into art – might also be staged in Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo. Minister for Tourism and Major Events John Eren emphasised plans are still at an early stage.
BOOMERANG BACK AT BLUESFEST Aboriginal music and arts festival Boomerang will be back at Bluesfest 2016, next to the Jambalaya stage. “The Boomerang precinct at Bluesfest is all about cherishing culture and ending the disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia,” said Bluesfest promoter Peter Noble. Boomerang debuted in 2013 and was nominated for the Best New Event at the 2014 Australian Events Awards and Best Indigenous Tourism for the 2014 NSW State Tourism Awards. But due to funding issues, it was not held this year. Boomerang organiser Rhoda Roberts said its vision was to integrate culture in people’s everyday lives and that “Having ready access to live culture from the globe’s first peoples is essential for our future as a cultural leader worldwide.” See boomerangfestival. com.au
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LIFELINES Married: Ronan Keating and Australian TV producer Storm Uechtritz in a Scottish mansion. Married: singer Ricki-Lee Coulter and Richard Harrison on a Paris holiday. Expecting: overcome while singing Piece By Piece about her strained relationship with her dad, Kelly Clarkson announced at a LA show she is expecting her second child. Recovered: after being rushed to hospital with severe dehydration, Slipknot bassist Alessandro ‘Vman’ Venturella has been given the all-clear. Injured: Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo’s US tour was cancelled following the guitarist’s emergency eye surgery. Ill: Black Flag/Misfits guitarist Dez Cadena has throat cancer. Hospitalised: two at Darwin’s Lostfest after taking an unknown purple pill. In Court: Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay won a restraining order against an Australian “unpredictable” and “aggressive” stalker Ilona Angel who camped outside his house for two weeks. She denied the charges but was fined £1,045 in total. Sued: A$AP Rocky sued for $75,000 by fan for a crowd surfing incident during which she fractured her spine. In Court: a family dispute between Jimi Hendrix’s stepsister Janie (who runs the guitar legend’s estate) and brother Leon over the sale of his merchandise through HendrixLicensing.com, is settled. Died: Peter Anson, guitarist with ‘60s Australian proto-punk band The Missing Links, The Id and Foreday Riders, from cancer. Died: British manager Jazz Summers (Wham!, The Verve, Snow Patrol) after a two-year battle with lung cancer, 71. Died: US producer Bob Johnston, 83, best known for his work on Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, Simon and Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence and Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison. Died: Doudou N’Diaye Rose, 85, Senegalese drummer who played with the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis and Peter Gabriel. Died: Karolyn Ali, 70, who produced the Oscar nominated 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection.
TICKETMASTER PARTNERS WITH THE PALMS AT CROWN Ticketmaster Australia is the new ticketing partner for the 800-capacity The Palms at Crown at Crown Resorts. The deal also includes the 2300-seat Crown Theatre Perth. Ticketmaster Australia is a Live Nation Entertainment company, in conjunction with Channel Seven as a digital, events and media partner.