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FA L L S F E S T I VA L R E V E A L S E C O N D 2015/2016 ANNOUNCEMENT Falls Festival has grown larger with the announcement of the second slew of artists performing at their 2015/2016 incarnation. Joining the music lineup are Soak, Jarryd James and Elliphant, while the comedy bill has expanded with the likes of Nazeem Hussain, Randy, Adam Rozenbachs, Nick Cody, Becky Lucas and Tien Tran.They join the acts revealed on the first announcement, including Alpine, The Avener, Birds of Tokyo, Bloc Party, Borns, Courtney Barnett, Disclosure, Django Django, Foals, Gang of Youths, Gary Clark Jr, Halsey, Hiatus Kaiyote, Hilltop Hoods, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Little May, The Maccabess, Mac Demarco, Meg Mac, Oh Wonder, Paul Kelly & Merri Soul Sessions, Rufus, Seth Sentry, Toro Y Moi and Young Fathers.The Falls Music and Arts Festival goes down from December 28 until January 1 in Lorne, Victoria, as well as December 29 until Jan 1 in Marion Bay, TAS and December 31 until January 3 in Byron Bay, NSW. Hit fallsfestival.com.au for full details.

JD MCPHERSON ANNOUNCES EAST COAST HEADLINE TOUR JD McPherson is set to take a trip down the east coast next February in support of his latest album Let The Good Times Roll. Backed by his long time four-piece band, JD will play five shows while he is here, taking in Melbourne, Castlemaine, Sydney, Thirroul and Brisbane. He has previously crisscrossed the US on headline tours and opened for acts including Robert Plant, Dave Matthews Band, Nick Lowe and Eric Church. JD McPherson will play the Corner Hotel on Friday February 19. Tickets go on sale Friday September 4 through the venue.

BANK OF MELBOURNE ANNOUNCES BANK OF MELBOURNE FINALISTS After being blown away by hundreds of submissions and the level of talent of Victorian music artists, Bank of Melbourne have announced the twelve finalists of the Melbourne Music Bank for 2015. The public is now invited to vote for their favourite and the four with the most votes will perform live on stage, Thursday October 8 at the Arts Centre’s State Theatre in front of a panel of industry experts who will then choose the winner. The twelve finalists include Anna Cordell from Ivanhoe, Arctic Maps from Preston, DL Music from Narre Warren, Feelds from Alphington, Imogen Brough from Geelong, Jade Alice from Viewbank, Kudzai from Narre Warren, Milo from Breamlea, Napier from Essendon, Playwrite from Northcote, Sam O'Connell from Mt Martha and Sarah May from Bonnie Doon. Public voting is open from today until Sunday September 27. Cast your vote over at bankofmelbourne.com.au/ melbmusicbank and enter the draw for weekly prizes such as Spotify vouchers or ticket giveaways.

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Melbourne is officially one of the world's leading music cities and if you are crazy about it you can now apply to volunteer at Melbourne Music Week.

Returning this November, Melbourne Music Week is an eight-day program of creative events dedicated to celebrating and supporting this city's world-famous music scene. In its sixth edition, MMW still continues to be the only event of its kind in Australia, partnering with a range of independent promoters, venues, labels and businesses, to create exclusive opportunities and experiences for artists and audiences. Now you've got the chance to get involved, as well as develop and further your skills within the industry, support your studies, meet music and events industry contacts. Melbourne Music Week will run from Thursday November 12 until Friday November 20. Applications close Friday September 11. If you’re interested, get on board by heading to thatsmelbourne.com.au/mmw.

F LY Y I N G CO LO U R S UNVEIL EP RELEASE TOUR REPOST ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA CONFERENCE LAUNCHES IN MELBOURNE Australia’s only Entertainment Media Conference, Repost, is launching in Melbourne’s CBD on Thursday September 17. The conference features an intensive evening of industry-led panels, Keynote Q&As, networking drinks and a live music showcase. First announced on the panellist line up is Tacey Rychter, Editor of Broadsheet Melbourne. She’ll be accompanied by the likes of Chris Wirasinha (Pedestrian.

TV) Jennie Sager (Twitter Australia), Josh Gardiner (Vice AU/NZ), Mikey Cahill, Jake Cleland, Sarah Bahbah and many other big names in the Australian entertainment media scene. Tickets on sale now via Eventbrite.

Fresh off the back of their sold-out Running Late single tour, Flyying Colours have announced a new run of headline shows to celebrate the local release of their sophomore EP ROYGBIV. Having recently supported the legendary Johnny Marr (The Smiths) in July and US noise-merchants A Place To Bury Strangers on their Australian tour early September, Flyying Colours will return for intimate shows in venues across the country. The shoegaze serenaders will hit Hugs and Kisses on Saturday September 26. Get on over to the band’s website for ticketing and more details.

SCOTDRAKULA, CABLE TIES AND SHRIMPWITCH LOCK AT OLD BAR It’s going to be one hell of a Mundane Monday at Old Bar as Scotdrakula, Cable Ties and Shrimpwitch gear up for a show on September 14.

Scotdrakula are coming out of a three month hibernation as they prepare to release some more garage punk tracks in the later part of 2015. The Mundane Mondays sessions are cheap as chips and run at Old Bar every (you guessed it) Monday. Pop your head in, drop a crisp tenner at the door and make sure you catch Scotdrakula, Cable Ties and Shrimpwitch on Monday September 14 before they leave again.

THE EXPLOITED LOCK IN DECEMBER TOUR DATES 1980s punk act The Exploited are reaching Australian shores ahead of a 2016 album release date. The socially and politically active act have been at the forefront of the anarcho-punk scene for over 30 years, putting forward their anti-authoritarian and anti-war stance from Britain to international waters, and still claim that their views are relevant as ever in today’s society.

They’ll be tearing up Australia on a national tour throughout December, with a Melbourne show locked in at Max Watt’s on Saturday December 12.

Head on over to the venue’s website for ticketing and more information.

GROUNDSWELL M U S I C F E S T I VA L RETURNS FOR 2016 Groundswell Music Festival will be staged once again next year on the waterfront in Lake Tyers Beach following the inaugural 2015 event. Organisers have confirmed a killer lineup for the festival set for Saturday January 2 2016 including Diesel, Ian Moss, The Break (feat Rob Hirst), Martin Rotsey, Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil) and Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes), Electric Mary and The Hoodoo Gurus.

The over 18 event will also provide food and wine in a picnic setting from midday to well into the night. Tickets and more details will be released through www.groundswellfest.com.au

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SPEEDBALL TOURING THROUGH AUGUST TO OCTOBER Sydney punk act Speedball are hitting the road for a national tour in promotion of their latest EP, Back From The Dead.

The band will also be handing out free copies of their limited edition live EP Smashes, Thrashes And Pits, featuring a bonus studio track on the recording. The shows will include all the band’s classics from previous records, including the new track Struggle Street from the live EP. They’ll be playing two shows on their Melbourne leg of the tour. The first is at Cherry Bar on Friday September 11, the second at Woody’s Attic Dive on Saturday September 12. Pop on over to Speedball’s Facebook to get your tickets.

Q U E E N S C L I F F M U S I C F E S T I VA L E X PA N D 2015 LINEUP Queenscliff Music Festival have announced another wave of artists for this year's festival, taking place in November on the Bellarine Peninsula. The new announcement adds twelve new acts to the mix. Leading the list is Lior, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his debut release Autumn Flow. He will be joined by Mustered Courage, Sahara Beck, Benny Walker, 19-Twenty, Franky Walnut, Hailey Calvert, Ben Whiting, Tash Sultana, Josh Cashman, Josh Rennie-Hynes and Alexandra Pye. After her appearance at last year's festival, Stella Angelico has also been invited back as part of the Cookin' on 3 Burners show featuring Tex Perkins. They all join the already announced acts including Angus & Julia Stone, Augie March, Hollie Smith, Hoodoo Gurus, Kate Miller-Heidke, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Morgan Bain and Raised by Eagles. Queenscliff Music Festival will take over Queenscliff in the Bellarine Peninsula from Friday November 27 until Sunday November 29. For the full lineup and tickets head to the festival's website.

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Swedish metal masters Soilwork have extended their world tour by adding an Aussie leg to their schedule. The band have returned with their latest work, The Ride Majestic. The album is an ode and celebration of family members the band have a lost over the years. With a career spanning over 20 years, the band have a critically acclaimed double album, a live DVD as well as a five-track EP to their name. Soilwork will take the stage at 170 Russell on Tuesday February 16.

Tickets come out Friday September 4 via soilwork.org.

The Belligerents have announced their national EP tour, coupled with the release of their new single Looking at You. The Melbourne leg of the single launch takes The Belligerents to the Northcote Social Club on Friday November 20.

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MAGIC AMERICA LAUNCH SELF TITLED AT THE CURTIN Psychedelic four-piece Magic America have announced details for the release of their self titled EP, with the launch going down in the Curtin Bandroom on Friday October 9. The EP is home to Magic America’s lead single Comes and Goes, and the launch will also feature fellow psychrockers White Bleaches dropping their fresh new single, with copies of both will be available on the night. Catch Magic America and White Bleaches at The Curtin on Friday October 9. Grab your tickets through the venue’s website.

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The LuWoW have announced that they’re hosting a night for international Speak Like A Pirate Day, taking Facebook’s pirate translator to it’s logical conclusion with the annual event. The home of the rum cocktail will be hosting bands on the night, featuring 8ft Felix’s funk/ska/dance music to the stage along with The Coast Busters playing a surf themed instrumental set. There’ll be plenty of nautical nonsense, sea shanties and possibly hangovers that’ll make you go arrrr. It all goes down Saturday September 19. Save the date..

THE BENNIES ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR The Bennies have announced they are hitting the road again, playing shows around the country this November and December. 2015 has been a huge year for the Melbourne four-piece. After appearances at Soundwave Festival and Golden Plains the band headed out on their Party Whirlwind tour. With no intention of slowing down anytime soon, they'll play Psyfari, take over Poison City Weekender, join Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish on their east coast Australian dates this October, and head to the US for some shows including Florida's Fest.

All that before this tour, which will see The Bennies play 18 shows, covering capital cities and regional towns. The Bennies will take over Corner Hotel on Friday November 20. Tickets are on sale through the venue.

C R AYO N F I E L D S PREPARE ALBUM L AUNCH DATES Melbourne pop purveyors Crayon Fields have revealed the November launch date of their upcoming third album No One Deserves You, the announcement coming hand in hand with their release of the album's second single Love Won't Save You. Due for release on Friday September 25, No One Deserves You is Crayon Fields' first album since 2009's All the Pleasures Of the World, a worldwide phenomenon which led to Pitchfork raves, tours of the US and Europe and releases in Japan and the UK. They’ll be hosting a night of sophisticated pop at Howler on Saturday November 14. Tickets available via Moshtix.

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World’s End Press’ latest single Tall Stories dropped last week, along with details of an upcoming EP of the same name and coinciding national tour. With the EP due for release on September 25, the tour sees World’s End Press playing in WA, NSW and QLD before appearing locally at Howler on Saturday October 17. Stay tuned to Moshtix for ticket details.

Due to popular demand, Heavy Metal Trivia is back for a third round at Melbourne's favourite burger and music joint, The B.East. Doug Steele (Alarum, HEAVY TV) and Yeti (exFrankenbok) will again host the night, bringing three rounds of increasingly brutal questions. Awards up for grabs to the most scholarly metal-heads include prize packs from Nerve Gas, Eureka Rebellion Trading and Nail Brewing Australia. Completing the night comes a special metal themed menu from The B.East, as well as random door prizes of advance copies of Aetherial's debut album, The Still Waters of Oblivion.

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I'LLS ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE EP LAUNCH SHOW To celebrate the release of their new EP Can I Go With You to Go Back to My Country, I’lls have announced a Melbourne show this September. This will be the first time fans will hear the EP in full. The show follows their recent appearance at Splendour In The Grass, as well as performances at a curated event at Shadow Electric and a seated A/V show at Howler. Catch I'lls at Northcote Social Club on Saturday September 12. Tickets are available through the venue.

AT THE DAKOTA ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR At The Dakota are heading out on the open road later this year, touring the nation across October and November to support the release of their debut EP Stories. The five-piece indie groovers' show is locked in for Friday October 9 at the Grace Darling.

Stay tuned to the venue’s website for tickets and more details.

F R I D AY N I G H T S AT N G V A N N O U N C E 2015 DJ PROGRAM Friday nights at NGV has returned for 2015, bringing in a stellar lineup of local talent for a series of intimate nights at the Gallery. First announced on the lineup is rising star Banoffee, Toff in Town’s resident DJ Edd Fisher and Melbourne party masters I OH YOU DJs. They’ll be joining a lineup of international and local headliners including Finnish dream-pop musician Jaakko Eino Kalevi (Finland), ARIA-award winning contemporary jazz group, the Paul Grabowsky Trio and Augie March’s Glenn Richards at Friday Nights at NGV at Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great. The Drone’s Gareth Liddiard, folk singer Laura Jean and the ARIA-Award winning Underground Lovers complete the headline lineup with support from festival favourite Airwolf, exciting new family duo Klo and Darcy Baylis, a DJ who had already toured nationally by the time he finished high school.

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INTERNATIONAL A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS The Corner Hotel September 4 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Palais Theatre September 4 SELF DEFENSE FAMILY Viva Hate September 7 JOSHUA RADIN Corner Hotel September 9 SCOTT BRADLEE’S POST MODERN JUKEBOX The Forum September 9 THE STORY SO FAR Max Watts September 11 LOWER CLASS BRATS Bendigo Hotel September 12 ANGIE The Curtin September 12 DEATH DEALER The Hi-Fi September 13 LUNA Northcote Social Club September 17 SAINT JUDE Shadow Electric September 19 KATCHAFIRE Max Watt’s September 19, Brunswick Hotel October 1 CIRCA SURVIVE 170 Russell September 20, September 21 (AA) SLEEPING WITH SIRENS 170 Russell September 22 LOS CORONAS The Gasometer September 24, Cherry Bar September 25 BILAL Prince Bandroom September 24 CANCER BATS The Bendigo Hotel September 24 THE GARDEN The John Curtin Hotel September 24 JOAN BAEZ Arts Centre Hammer Hall September 24 BIG K.R.I.T Max Watt’s September 24 STORMZY 524 Flinders September 25 SEBASTIAN BACH The Forum September 25 DEVIN THE DUDE Laundry Bar September 25 LISTEN OUT FESTIVAL Catani Gardens September 26 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena September 26 PENNYWISE 170 Russell September 28 BAHAMAS Howler September 30 WHITE FANG The Curtin October 1 GORILLA BISCUITS The Reverence Hotel October 1 REEL BIG FISH + LESS THAN JAKE Prince Bandroom October 1 AS IT IS The Evelyn Hotel October 1 (AA), October 2 CHUNK! NO, CAPTAIN CHUNK! Max Watt’s October 3 JJ GREY & MOFRO Northcote Social Club October 7 SILENT KNIGHT The Bendigo October 8 KISS Rod Laver Arena October 8, October 10 JAAKKO EINO KALEVI National Gallery of Victoria October 9 SICK OF IT ALL Corner Hotel October 9 KIASMOS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 9 CLINT MANSELL Melbourne Recital Centre October 10, 11 BABYLON CIRCUS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 10 HAMMERFALL 170 Russell October 13 LIFEHOUSE The Forum October 15 HELLOWEEN Metro Theatre October 16 COLM MAC CON IOMAIRE Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 16, 17 BRANDT BRAUER FRICK Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 17 OUT ON THE WEEKEND Seaworks, Williamstown October 17 SNOT Corner Hotel October 17 MEGADETH Festival Hall October 19 BIGBANG Rod Laver Arena October 21 RHYE Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 21, 22 THE EXPERIMENT Merlyn Theatre October 21-24 JAI WOLF Howler October 22 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Rod Laver Arena October 22 – 24 ELDER AND EARTHLESS The Corner October 23 THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Max Watt’s October 23 THE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT Max Watt’s October 24 THE FIELD Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 23 THE FALL Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 23 – 25 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell October 25 SOULFEST Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 25 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell October 25, 26 NEIL DIAMOND Rod Laver Arena October 27 CANNED HEAT Corner Hotel October 29 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre October 29 10CC The Palms at Crown October 30 HOZIER Palais Theatre October 30 AT THE GATES Friday October 30 PULLED APART BY HORSES Ding Dong Lounge October 30, 31 ANATHEMA Corner Hotel October 31 AUDRA MCDONALD Hamer Hall October 31 DAY OF THE DEAD TBA October 31 HIGHLANDS FESTIVAL Yea October 31 – November 2 DAVID GUETTA Hisense Arena November 2 FLEETWOOD MAC Rod Laver Arena November 2, 4, Mt Dundeed Estate November 7 THE RUBBERBANDITS Max Watt’s November 6 NAUGHTY BY NATURE Trak Lounge November 6 THE DARKNESS Forum Theatre November 7 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Forum Theatre November 7 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 10, 11 AUSTRALASIAN WORLD MUSIC EXPO Various Venues November 12 – 15 THE TEA PARTY Palais Theatre November 13 MUMFORD & SONS Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 13 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22

POKÉMON SYMPHONIC EVOLUTIONS Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre November 13 HAUSCHKA Melbourne Recital Centre November 17 DEF LEPPARD Rod Laver Arena November 18 THE BEACH BOYS Palais Theatre November 18 LIVE The Forum November 19 HANK MARVIN MEMO Music Hall November 21, 22 NILE Corner Hotel November 21 UB40 The Forum November 24 CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Caravan Music Club November 25, Northcote Social Club November 26 EARTHCORE Pyalong, Victoria November 26 – 30 MARLON WILLIAMS Prince Bandroom November 27 RON SEXSMITH MEMO Music Hall November 27, Northcote Social Club November 28 RISE AGAINST Margaret Court Arena December 2 GOAT + KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD The Croxton December 4 LAGWAGON Max Watt’s December 4 CHRIS CORNELL The Palais December 4 THE CORONAS Corner Hotel December 4 ED SHEERAN AAMI Park December 5 STEREOSONIC Melbourne Showgrounds December 5 RATATAT 170 Russell December 6 MERCURY REV Max Watt’s December 8 SAM SMITH Rod Laver Arena December 8 HALESTORM 170 Russell December 8 YELAWOLF Max Watt’s December 9 SHELLAC Corner Hotel December 9, 10 JESSICA PRATT Northcote Social Club December 10 FATHER JOHN MISTY The Forum December 10 BULLY Howler December 10 JULIA HOLTER Howler December 11 THE MISFITS Max Watt’s December 11 TAYLOR SWIFT AAMI Park December 11 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 11-13 ELTON JOHN Rod Laver Arena December 11, Mt Duneed Estate December 12 THE EXPLOITED Max Watt’s December 12 UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS Corner Hotel December 13 A DAY TO REMEMBER + THE AMITY AFFLICTION Rod Laver Arena December 17 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 – January 1 GROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL Lake Tyers Beach January 2 NIGHTWISH The Forum Monday January 11 THE 1975 Festival Hall January 20 SOUNDWAVE 2016 TBA January 26 JAMES BAY Festival Hall February 3 SOILWORK 170 Russell February 16 REGGAE ROYALTY Palais Theatre February 18 JD MCPHERSON Corner Hotel February 19 MADONNA Rod Laver Arena March 12, 13 JOSH GROBAN Palais Theatre April 25

NATIONAL THE EMBERS Sookie Lounge September 4, Bar Open September 5 SETH SENTRY The Forum September 4 REGURGITATOR The Prince Bandroom September 4 METHYL ETHEL Shebeen September 4 POISON CITY WEEKENDER 170 Russell, Public Bar September 4, Corner Hotel, The Old Bar September 5, Reverence Hotel, Corner Hotel September 6 REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS Cherry Bar September 5 HOLY HOLY Howler September 5 GATHERER/GUARDS OF MAY Toff In Town September 5 THE DRONES The Forum September 5 SHIR MADNESS MELBOURNE Classic Cinema, Gordon St, Kadimah Hall September 6 THE WHITLAMS The Corner September 10, 11 ORSOME WELLES The Workers Club, September 11 URBAN SPREAD 5 Plaza Tavern September 10, Chelsea Heights Hotel September 11, The Village Green September 12 SPEEDBALL Cherry Bar September 11, Woody’s Attic Dive September 12 THE CACTUS CHANNEL Shebeen Bandroom September 11 ACOUSTICANA MEMO Music Hall September 11 I’LLS Northcote Social Club September 12 ECCA VANDAL The Workers Club September 12 PERCH CREEK Howler September 12 THE JUNGLE GIANTS The Corner September 12 SOL NATION Rubix Warehouse September 12 HELEN RYDER The Toff In Town September 13 SCOTDRAKULA, CABLE TIES + SHRIMPWITCH Old Bar September 14 THIRSTY MERC Caravan Club September 14, MEMO Music Hall September 16 COSMIC PSYCHOS 170 Russell September 18 TIJUANA CARTEL Max Watt’s September 18 RAE HOWELL MEMO Music Hall September 18 DUSTIN TEBBUTT The Corner September 18 TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY The LuWow September 19 THE SNOWDROPPERS Northcote Social Club September 19 SLUM SOCIABLE Shebeen September 19 THE SMITH STREET BAND The Corner September 19, 20 BIG STRONG BRUTE The Evelyn Hotel September 20 A STATE OF GRACE: THE MUSIC OF TIM AND JEFF BUCKLEY Melbourne Recital Centre September 23, 29

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LITTLE MAY The Corner September 24 BLIND MAN DEATH STARE Bendigo Hotel September 25, Reverence Hotel November 20 FLYYING COLOURS Hugs and Kisses September 26 HAVE/HOLD Public Bar September 26 PARKWAY DRIVE Festival Hall September 26 JESS RIBEIRO Northcote Social Club September 26 MEG MAC The Corner September 27 DOGAPALOOZA Burnley Park, Richmond September 27 SKEGSS Grace Darling October 1 YOU AM I The Croxton October 1 THE STIFFYS The Tote October 1 LAST DINOSAURS The Corner October 1 CHOPPED FESTIVAL Newstead Racecourse October 2-4 MAT MCHUGH The Corner October 2 THE MEANIES The Tote October 2 THE PEEP TEMPLE + BATPISS Yah Yah’s October 2, Cherry Bar October 3 CITY CALM DOWN Howler October 3 TKAY MAIDZA Wrangler Studios (U18), Corner Hotel October 3 BODYJAR Northcote Social Club October 3 BEN LEE The Corner October 7 THE BEARDS The Corner October 8 COLUMBUS Reverence Hotel October 9 HANDS LIKE HOUSES Northcote Social Club October 9 ÁINE TYRRELL Shadow Electric October 9 PORT FAIRY SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL Port Fairy October 9 - 11 THE RUBENS The Forum October 9 MAGIC AMERICA The Curtin October 9 AT THE DAKOTA Grace Darling October 9 HEAVY AND HAMMERED The Tote October 10 GAY PARIS Cherry Bar October 10 BASENJI Howler October 10 OUTLAND BROTHERS The Thornbury Local October 10 KISSCHASY The Corner October 10 VALLIS ALPS Northcote Social Club October 10 KIRIN J CALLINAN Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 11 2015 SEED FUNDRAISER CONCERT Athenaeum Theatre October 12 THE BASICS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 13, 14 LOON LAKE The Corner October 14 THE BOMBAY ROYALE Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 15 GRAND DIVISIONS Arts Centre October 15 – 17 PETE MURRAY Trak Lounge Bar October 16 THY ART IS MURDER The Corner October 16 LIOR The Athenaeum Theatre October 16 WORLD’S END PRESS Howler October 17 FLIGHT FACILITIES & THE MSO Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 17 KATIE NOONAN’S VANGUARD Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 17, 18 LAURA MARLING Hamer Hall October 19 GEORGE MAPLE Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 20 RUFUS The Forum October 22, 23 2015 CARLTON DRY INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS Meat Market North Melbourne October 22 IVAN OOZE The Workers Club October 23 DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues October 23 – November 1 THE PAPER KITES 170 Russell October 23

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RÜFÜS The Forum October 23 AINSLIE WILLS Howler October 23 THE OCEAN PARTY The Tote October 24 CUT COPY DJS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 24 BAD//DREEMS Northcote Social Club October 24 THE WAIFS Palais Theatre October 24 DRUNK MUMS Howler October 24 SWAGGER MUSIC FESTIVAL Wandiligong October 24 – 25 LOVE STREET MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL Howler October 25 PONY FACE Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre October 28 CHET FAKER Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 30 MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE Melbourne Recital Centre October 31 WOODLOCK Northcote Social Club November 1 JAMES REYNE The Corner November 2 DROWNING HORSE The Curtin November 6, The Tote November 7 JOY. Shebeen November 6 MONTAIGNE Northcote Social Club November 6 TUKA The Corner November 6 NORTHLANE 170 Russell November 6, 7 (U18) CW STONEKING Thornbury Theatre November 6, Corner Hotel November 7 MSO BACK TO THE FUTURE LIVE The Plenary November 6, 7 JAMGRASS FESTIVAL Spotted Mallard November 6, Bundoora Park November 7 TAME IMPALA Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 7 MOJO JUJU Max Watt’s November 12, Caravan Music Club November 14 COLOUR FIELDS Howler November 14 THE BENNIES The Corner November 20 THE BELLIGERENTS Northcote Social Club November 20 PIERCE BROTHERS 170 Russell November 20 COLD CHISEL Hanging Rock Reserve November 21 PANACEA FESTIVAL Riverview, Tatong, November 20-22 BRITISH INDIA The Forum November 27 ROBERT FORSTER Thornbury Theatre November 27 PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, November 27-29 HERMITUDE Festival Hall November 28 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Queenscliff November 27 - 29 AC/DC Etihad Stadium December 6 PAUL KELLY PRESENTS THE MERRI SOUL SESSIONS A Day On The Green December 6 LUCINDA WILLIAMS A Day On The Green December 7 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Corner Hotel December 8 XMAS EVEN The Evelyn Hotel December 19 – 20 NYE ON THE HILL December 31 – January 1 COURTNEY BARNETT Palais Theatre January 22 MSO PRESENT HITCHCOCK AND HERRMANN Hamer Hall February 5, 6 ST KILDA FESTIVAL St Kilda February 6 - 14

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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON THE STRENGTH OF STREET KNOWLEDGE

By David Molloy At 17 years old, O’Shea Jackson, the boy who would become notorious rapper Ice Cube, was a young man seething with rage, tired of the daily injustices of life in inner city L.A., and hungry for change. He was also ready to show the world something they’d never seen before, whether they liked it or not. Nearly 30 years down the track, the teenaged Ice Cube has been recreated with uncanny accuracy on screen by his son O’Shea Jackson Jr.

Though, you wouldn’t expect it judging by Jackson’s phone manner – his voice is smooth, confident and carefree. After the gruelling process of creating the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, it sounds like he’s managed to release the anger and get some muchneeded downtime.

“I love Australia, we’re always down there,” he says.

“We’ve been to Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Darwin’s hot arse, Sydney – Australia’s kind of our second home.

I was out there a couple years ago, doing Supafest with my father – just sayin’, had a couple thousands there rocking out with me. So you know, that was really my comfort zone, being on the stage. All the acting, that’s what took a lot out of me.”

That’s not hard to believe, considering the weight that the N.W.A legacy carries, and the transformation that Jackson (as a self-professed “rookie actor”) had to undergo to portray his father.

“I went through a little bit over two years with three different acting coaches, going to acting classes and getting ready for the role,” he says. “Then I had to do crossfit training to lose some weight cos, y’know, I gotta look 17 years old. After that we had about two months or so of pre-production, making sure we got our mechanics on stage right, getting our scenes down pat, changing scripts – we had about four or five different scripts. It was close to almost a thousand days of hard work to get this role, to get everything right, and I’d do it all again if I had to.”

It was precisely this work ethic, along with Jackson’s striking resemblance to his father, that landed him the high profile role. The rest of the Niggaz With Attitude posse are portrayed by Corey Hawkins (as Dr Dre), Jason Mitchell (as Eazy-E), Neil Brown Jr. (as DJ Yella) and Aldis Hodge (as MC Ren).

“My guys, my brothers,” Jackson says, and I can practically hear him grinning. “We’re a very tight-knit group, and that’s all because of F. Gary Gray [the film’s director]. We re-recorded the entire album together.

Trying to make sure that when you’re doing things like that, making sure that each other’s voices sound right on the track or things like that, you really start to build a bond with each other. “[Gray] would have us prepare for a rehearsal to perform in front of him, and then wouldn’t show up for two hours. At the time you don’t know it, but during those two hours you guys are bonding, laughing together, building that brotherhood that has to translate on screen like you guys are lifelong friends, and that just all attests to Gary’s techniques as a director – that guy knows what he’s doing.”

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crew have certainly formed some powerful friendships.

Add to that the chance to work alongside a veteran actor like Paul Giamatti and it all sounds like a dream.

“The best thing about Paul Giamatti is that he doesn’t know that he’s Paul Giamatti,” laughs Jackson. “He’s so down to earth. He would do things to build confidence in me – his father’s a famous baseball [commissioner] and he used to tell me how he couldn’t imagine the pressure of playing your father in a movie.”

“I’M BLESSED WITH A FATHER WHOSE WORK ETHIC IS LEGENDARY...HE HAD A FIRE BURNING IN HIM; THAT WANT, THAT NEED TO GET OUT, TO BETTER HIS SURROUNDINGS, AND THROUGH ALL HIS HARD WORK I WAS ABLE TO GROW UP IN A NEIGHBOURHOOD THAT WAS BY FAR LESS DANGEROUS THAN COMPTON” Jackson has carried that pressure admirably, especially considering the “crazy motherfucker called Ice Cube” was there on set working as one of the film’s producers.

It was a rare opportunity for Jackson to get a deeper insight into his dad life.

“I would say this whole experience has given me a further understanding of my father’s realm of thinking,” he says. “He had a lot to do at a young age – y’know, being the youngest in the group and yet being the more responsible one, that speaks a lot to your character.”

His time on set also gave Jackson a greater appreciation of his own circumstances – working on the film made clear the vast disparity between Cube’s upbringing on the streets of Compton, living amongst gang violence and extreme police prejudice, and Jackson’s own life as the son of a prosperous musician, actor and producer.

“I’m blessed with a father whose work ethic is legendary,” he says. “He had a fire burning in him; that want, that need to get out, to better his surroundings, and through all his hard work I was able to grow up in a neighbourhood that was by far less dangerous than Compton. But at the same time, because of my father, because of my upbringing – y’know, it’s all about how

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you’re raised, that home, how you’re taught – and he had me well aware of the harsh realities of the world.

And those who choose to ignore them are foolish.

“Those who believe that racism or harassment by law enforcement or things of that nature only reside in inner cities – that’s another foolish statement right there. It’s all about knowing reality, knowing the rules of the game, because if you don’t, you’ll lose.”

That reality, says Jackson, seems to have remained unchanged since the emergence of the Straight Outta Compton album in 1988. Galvanised by footage of police brutality broadcast over the internet, as well as the Charleston shootings and Ferguson protests, the world is finally getting a glimpse into what set N.W.A off.

“We want Straight Outta Compton the film to affect people the way Straight Outta Compton the album did – we want to inspire people,” he says. “We want people to be aware of the situation that they may unknowingly have turned a blind eye to. N.W.A was the social media back then, they were the ones letting others know what’s going down in Compton.

“Every continent has people in power abusing their power, and that is something the entire world can relate to – being oppressed, being backed up against a wall, having others make you feel like there is no hope, and you taking that energy, that anger, that sadness that you feel and using it in a creative way to express yourself and you could possibly change the world.”

As for Compton itself, which Jackson calls “the jungles”, it’s as much a character in the film as the members of the posse, and the city’s community upholds the same resilient spirit to this day.

“We had people on rooftops with their families watching us, families coming out of houses bringing us food. It was just a surrounding of nothing but love from the city.”

It’s clear that, whatever your thoughts on the gangsta rap movement that N.W.A spawned, the music has had a profound impact on not just its place of origin, but the wider world.

“N.W.A was non-violent protest,” says Jackson. “If my father was here he’d tell you that they were constructive and not destructive, and that’s the same message we want to embed into people’s minds.

“As long as you are teaching others how to better themselves or you’re speaking to inspire the people, I feel that you are walking in the footsteps of N.W.A.”

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON is in cinemas from Thursday September 3.

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Arts House will present All Ears, the newest project by New Zealand-born, Brussels-based artist Kate McIntosh, this week. All Ears is about being in a crowd and being an individual in a group, as chairs are dragged, paper is torn and glasses are toppled. McIntosh creates an improvised and interactive laboratory for unusual recordings and acoustic experiments using everyday objects and materials. All these sounds are recorded and played back along the way. As curious scientist, mischievous questioner and eclectic storyteller, she takes the audience on a distinctive journey made of parables, fragments and jokes: of human and animal behaviour, of crowd control and linguistics, politics and group dynamics, birds and traffic jams, societies and social interactions. All Ears will take over Arts House from Thursday September 3 until Sunday September 6.

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.

Following the success of last year’s program, which marked the Abbotsford Convent’s 10th anniversary, Music In The Round will once again return to the venue this September. The event will bring together 15 of Australia’s most renowned chamber musicians for a series of intimate shows spread throughout the Convent’s historic venues.

Australia’s leading harpist Marshall McGuire returns with a program combining modern and baroque composers. Legendary organist and composer Calvin Bowman will also return, performing a series of contemporary Australian works and those by JS Bach. Paul Dean will join pianist Stephen Emmerson for a program of rare works from the 20th Century while violinist William Hennessy and pianist Louisa Breen will present a program of Mozart and Brahms.

Musicians Kristian Winther, Ioana Tache and Daniel Curro will perform a program of string duos and trios followed by solo cello works from Christopher Howlett. Along with this esteemed lineup there will also be free jazz in the heritage gardens throughout the day, and free children’s concerts with Patma Music. Music In The Round will transform the Abbotsford Convent on Sunday September 6.

PICK OF THE WEEK Good Things Await

The Environmental Film Festival Australia is back for their 2015 incarnation. For the first time ever, the festival will go expand to the national stage, with events also taking place in Canberra and Hobart. The Melbourne edition will launch on Thursday September 3 with the world premiere of Black Hole, a film about the Australian coal mining industry, along with a discussion with the filmmaker followed by an after-party with live music, drinks and canapes.

Other program highlights include a screening of Good Things Await, a film examining biodynamic farming, complete expert panellists, local food appreciators and best of all, tastings of biodynamic food. The festival will keep rolling with a screening of immersive film Sensory Environments at Loop Bar and will close out with Landfill Harmonic, featuring a special address from Greens MP Adam Bandt, a surprise performance, festival award announcements and a closing night party. The 2015 Environmental Film Festival Australia will run from Thursday September 3 to Thursday September 10.

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Under A Kaleidoscope

By Liza Dezfouli Once you’ve seen the film Under a Kaleidoscope, a new independent film by writer/director Addison Heath which opens this year’s Melbourne Underground Film Festival, you wonder how actor Kristen Condon got herself into the right frame of mind and emotional state to play some of her scenes. Her character, Beatrice is in a dire situation, physically and psychologically abused while she’s held prisoner by a stand-over guy who’s also a rapist. Beat wants to know how she did it so we ask her: “It’s hard to relate to someone in that situation,” answers Condon. “So you practice substitution – thinking of circumstances in your own life that are relevant to that character; you relate the situation to other circumstances that you might have experienced.”

It’s one thing getting into the right frame of mind but what about getting out of it again – does an actor experience any vicarious trauma when playing someone going through such horrible experiences?

We’re thinking of one scene in particular but we don’t want to give anything away. “We shot that scene over the weekend and when I got home I felt fine, but then my muscles started to ache and I ached for days,” Condon tells us. “I stored it in my body for a couple of days.” Interestingly, Beatrice’s final few scenes were the most challenging for Condon. Again, no spoilers, but it’s dramatic. “I felt nothing,” she says. “Absolutely nothing. I didn’t feel angry; I couldn’t get that will happening. But Addison is such a good director; he said to me ‘Beatrice doesn’t know how she feels here either; she doesn’t understand what she’s doing.’ And that really helped me with the scene.”

Under A Kaleidoscope explores the relationship between Caleb (Kenji Shimada), holed up in his flat because he’s agoraphobic and who spends most of his time dropping acid, and Beatrice, imprisoned in her flat

by Rog ‘the Hatchet Man’ Smith, a most unpleasant fellow played by Aston Elliot. “Aston is such a great

person to act with,” says Condon. “But in the film he’s so scary. So I almost didn’t really have to act, it was all him. He turns it on, gets right into it and turns it off again in a moment.” The relationship between Beatrice and Caleb almost does an about turn as the story unfolds. “She’s in this awful situation of her own but she is able to help him,” notes Condon, who trained at Sixteenth Street in Melbourne, in Los Angeles, studying for two years at the John Ruskin School of Acting. “Beatrice becomes Caleb’s protector at the end,” she continues. “The two communicate through a hole in the wall between their flats and their relationship takes an unexpected turn.” Under A Kaleidoscope is a genre-crossing film with some intriguing visuals and the odd moment of entirely unexpected humour, a psychological thriller and a stoner movie in one. And probably a few other things as well. It’s a really good film to have done,” notes Condon.

The name ‘Beatrice’ is Heath’s nod to Betty Blue, a 1985 film featuring French actor Béatrice Dalle. In this film Beatrice starts out as a victim but it quickly becomes clear there’s more to her than Caleb’s first impressions suggest. Did Condon have much leeway in

terms of developing the character of Beatrice? “As big a window as possible,” she answers. “So much leeway, and so much time to prepare. I don’t always expect that. Sometimes you get on set and you don’t have a second. I love working with Addison He’s amazing, he’s really open-minded. He’s clear, he’s an open book; he will tell you the reasons why he’s chosen this instead of that. I’ve really enjoyed it.” The admiration seems to flow both ways as Condon has acted in previous films by Heath, and he contacted her to play the part of Beatrice in this one. “Addison liked what I did in Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla,” Condon says. “It’s such a great film.” That film was written by Addison Heath and directed by Stewart Simpson, and also stars Aston Elliot as another very dark character.

Condon reckons Melbourne’s independent film scene here is a great example of a creative community. “It’s a good little scene. Everybody helps each other; you’re so dependent on other people. We all work together.”

Although she started off in visual arts, Condon has been acting professionally since she appeared in the feature The Beautiful and Damned in 2007, a film which went on to win award at various festivals. As well as appearing the opening film for MUFF, Condon is also in the closing film, Sizzler 77, and makes a couple of appearances in other films in the festival as well. Some of her other work includes Start.Options.Exit, Jugular, Second Coming Volume One, and John Safran’s Race Relations. She’s in the process of completing a web series, a comedy about an aspiring actor very much lacking in self-awareness.

Who does she love to see perform? “US actor Mireille Enos (seen in TV’s Big Love) Julianne Moore. She’s just incredible. I can watch her over and over again.

Everything she’s done is brilliant. She’s sublime.”

Under the Kaleidoscope will open the 2015 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which will run from Friday September 11 - Saturday September 19 at Howler and Backlot Studios. Grab your tickets through Moshtix.

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The one and only Stephen Fry will bring his penchant for frolic and frivolity to Australian shores this November. The Emmy award-winning English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director will be performing his latest show Telling Tales. Over the course of his career Fry has been the long-time host of the BBC television quiz show QI, starred in Blackadder, Kingdom and Bones, V for Vendetta and The Hobbit, presented several documentary series and has written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, just to name a few accolades. Catch him at Hamer Hall on Monday November 9.

Dance of the Bee

Friday September 11 - Sunday September 13 Arts House

Melbourne Underground Film Festival

Friday September 11 - Saturday September 19 Howler & Backlot Studios

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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

Bronx Gothic

Thursday October 8 - Monday October 12 Arts House

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

Malthouse Theatre 2016 Program Under the guidance of newly appointed Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, Malthouse Theatre are inviting audiences to ‘think again’ with a politically charged 2016 program that encourages debate about sex, death and revolution through new works from independent and international artists. To ‘think again’ means re-thinking the classics, with the season kicking off with postmodern diva Meow Meow subverting Hans Christian Anderson as she returns to Malthouse with Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid. The consciously un-Disney cabaret is the third instalment of the Little trilogy, which began with 2011’s Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl.

Continuing with the theme, Joan Lindsay’s classic Australian novel Picnic at Hanging Rock will be adapted by Tom Wright for its first ever professional staging in what is described as ‘Malthouse’s 2016 vision of Lindsay’s nightmare’. New life will be breathed into Edward II, with a radical staging that forgoes the Elizabethan language for a contemporary world of narcissism, addiction and uprising. Eamon Flack’s Helpmann Award winning production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie will make its Melbourne debut after a sell-out Sydney run, starring Pamela Rabe (Wentworth) as Amanda Wingfeld. Nakkiah Lui (Blak Cabaret, ABC’s Black Comedy) brings wit and provocative politics in her satire of 90’s dance films in Blaque Showgirls, telling the story of a white-skinned ‘blaque’ girl who dreams of becoming the best Aboriginal dancer in Brisvegas. Making an international partnership with Berlin’s Gob Squad, a new production takes on Tolstoy’s 19th century epic, breaking through the fourth wall and taking theatre to the streets in the international premiere of War and Peace (Around a Kitchen Table). Elsewhere in the program, collaborations continue with local communities in a Malthouse partnership with Belvoir in the Australian premiere of The Events from celebrated playwright David Greig, alongside a collaboration with St Martin’s in Gonzo - a new work that explores the relationship between teenage boys and internet porn. Rounding out the collaborations is Come Away with Me to the End of the World from local independent outfit Ranters Theatre. Capping off the program comes The Fiery Maze that brings together the music of Tim Finn with the late poet Dorothy Porter, a one man show from UK comedian Jonny Donahoe in his internationally acclaimed Every Brilliant Thing and a series of Artist Curated Events. Head to Malthouse Theatre website to check out the full program, subscription packages and tickets for their bumper 2016 season.

Curiosity

Jurassica

Written by Dan Giovannoni, this production tells a timeless story of the past, present and the future.

Inspired by the story of Giovannoni’s grandparents, this bi-lingual performance follows Ralph and and Sara who leave Tuscany to build a new life in Melbourne. We also see Kaja, who fled 1990’s wartorn Belgrade to work as an interpreter and who now has to help a man reconnect with his grandfather. “I started writing Jurassica to deal with my own grief in regards to my family’s migration, and the disconnect that I experience between my own Australian identity and my Italian heritage. I am not fully Italian or fully Australian and despite ignoring my family heritage for a long time, I don’t think I can really understand my family unless I understand what they went through, how they were raised,” said the awardwinning playwright. Dan’s work features plays for both adults and children including his recent work in the production of the successful Cut Snake. Jurassica will premiere at Red Stitch Actors Theatre from Friday October 9 to Saturday November 7.

YOUARENOWHERE

Blending physics lecture, pop culture and personal revelation, Andrew Schneider’s YOUARENOWHERE will have a season in Melbourne this October.

YOUARENOWHERE exposes cracks and anomalies in the cosmos, dissecting subjects from quantum mechanics and parallel universes to missed connections and AA recovery steps. The show will combine visual and aural effects, creative coding, interactive electronics and wearable sensor, as Schneider transforms physical space and warps linear time, imagining the awe and discomfort of meeting yourself. YOUARENOWHERE will run at Arts House from Thursday October 15 until Monday October 19.

With doors of the Melba Spiegeltent to be opened during the day, Curiosity is a combination of Dr. Seuss, Circus Oz and Alice in Wonderland.

In Curiosity, anything is possible as the world of little Alex comes alive in a theatrical circus performance.

See aerials and acrobatics including chair balancing, stilts, ladder routines as Alex discovers her new world.

“Children don’t want to know how we do our circus acts and tricks – they watch the characters and the stunts happen before their eyes, so they must be real.

No questions asked,” says Dislocate Artistic Director, Kate Fryer. Curiosity by Dislocate will appear at Melba Spielgetent from Saturday October 17 - Saturday October 24.

IMAX Melbourne

After undertaking the largest research and development project in the company’s history, IMAX have developed its next-generation laser projection and sound system that provides audiences with the sharpest and most immersive 3D cinema experience to date. Designed from the ground-up specifically for colossal screens, the industry leading technology boasts the world’s highest quality brightness, contrast, colour and sound specifications. IMAX will premiere their new laser technology with screenings of Everest 3D. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, the incredible resolution and 3D images are designed to make audiences feel like they are standing on the edge of Everest themselves. Be the first to experience IMAX Melbourne’s new technology when Everest 3D opens Thursday September 17.

The Boy at the Edge of Everything

Melbourne Theatre Company have announced The Boy at the Edge of Everything, written by Finegan Kruckemeyer and directed by Peter Houghton, will open at the end of September. Commissioned by New York’s Trusty Sidekick Theater Company and presented as a play-in-progress at New Visions New Voices at The Kennedy Center, The Boy at the Edge of Everything had its world premiere in March 2014 as a co-production with the Seattle Children’s Theater. The Boy at the Edge of Everything tells the story of the chance meeting between Simon Ives and his intergalactic counterpart, two boys with opposite lives on opposite sides of the cosmos. The Boy at the Edge of Everything opens at Southbank Theatre, The Lawler on Thursday September 24.

The Australian Movie and Comic Expo

The Australian Movie and Comic Expo (AMC, formerly known as the Armageddon Australia) returns to the Melbourne Showgrounds this October. Featuring an incredible line-up of local and international celebrities, fans will be treated to special displays featuring memorable movie props, live entertainment, activations and activities for all ages to enjoy. 2015 marks a major anniversary for a number of renowned TV shows and films.

AMC honours Back to the Future’ celebrating 30 years, Get Smart celebrating 50 years and The Flash celebrating its 75 year milestone, with multiple stars from each of these beloved shows and films making guest appearances.

Comic and voice over artists remain a huge drawcard for many expo fans, with husband and wife duo Hal Rayle and Maggie Roswell (The Simpsons), Melbourne’s own Tristan Jones (current artist on Mad Max Fury Road) and Australian Dean Rankine (Simpson Comics) making appearances. Melburnian’s will also have the opportunity to view iconic film props, with Back to the Future’s own Dolorean car and the 1966 Batmobile on display. Other attractions include the ever popular cosplay competition (this year expanded to include not only anime, but all genre costumes,) live performances from some of Australia’s best emerging artists, a Lazer Tag arena and an impressive LEGO ‘Brickvention’ constructed for the weekend. It will take palce from Saturday October 17 – Sunday October 19 at the Melbourne Showgrounds.

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The award-winning actor, novelist and much loved comedian will come to Australia to perform 30 Million Minutes, a show based on her life and career. Taking the audience through her own life experiences, lessons and observations, French has toured the show extensively across the UK to widespread acclaim. Catch Dawn French when she brings 30 Million Minutes to the Comedy Theatre on Tuesday February 16 and Wednesday February 17. Tickets through Live Nation.

JOE ROGAN Joe Rogan will hit Australian shores later this year. The LA-based stand-up comic has been honing his craft for over 20 years. The host of one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes, The Joe Rogan Experience, he has also provided commentary for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) since 2002, released multiple stand-up comedy specials and boasts TV credits including hosting reality show Fear Factor. He’ll hit the Palais Theatre on Saturday November 14.

THURSDAY COMEDY Dave Thornton headlines another massive show this Thursday night at the European Bier Café.

Dave’s one of the hottest stand-ups in the country, and it’s sure to be a massive night along with guests Xavier Michelides, Josh Earl, Ciaron Lyons and more. Get down early, check out the meals and drink specials, and get a good seat.

It’s all happening this Thursday September 3 at 8.30pm, 120 Exhibition Street (upstairs),CBD, all for only $12.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Monday comedy has been taken care of in the city by Comedy At Spleen for over seven years now. And there’s a reason why it’s full every week: great lineups. This week is no different. There’s Josh Earl, Bart Freebairn, Tommy Dassalo, Matthew Klein, Jess Perkins and heaps more. It’s this Monday September 7, at 41 Bourke Street, CBD, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

KINGS OF COMEDY Friday nights in the city just got funnier with the launch of Kings Of Comedy at La Di Da. Come and experience some of Melbourne’s best new talent supported by some of the big names in comedy every Friday night right in the heart of the CBD. The night kicks on with their special “after parties” where you can compete in lip sync, karaoke and boogie the night away. This week will be headlined by Dilruk Jayasinha, MCed by Simon Hughes and will also feature performances from Michael Shafar, Rohan Ganju, Mark McConnell, Sam Taunton, Blaise Alexander White, Greg Fury, Evan Hocking, Firdi Billimoria and Alexander Fusca. Come down this Friday September 4.

RJ Mitte

Off the back of years of advocacy for equality and diversity, the actor and activist behind Breaking Bad’s Walter ‘Flynn’ White Jr will come to Melbourne to discuss challenges, triumphs and the capacity for change. Born with cerebral palsy, Mitte has built a career on overcoming adversity, moving from acting to producing since his breakthrough role. He is currently a union advocate for actors with disabilities and a celebrity ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy. Mitte will take on topics including mobility, Hollywood and schoolyard cruelty. RJ Mitte will take over the Athenaeum Theatre on Wednesday October 14.

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After a stunningly successful year in 2014, Melbourne Underground Film Festival is back with MUFF16 - their sweet 16th year supporting independent and guerrilla local and international cinema.

MUFF16 will kick off on Friday, 11th September and run for 9 consecutive days across two great venues - Backlot Studios and Howler Bar.ꀀ Expect a KILLER curated program of feature films and shorts, as well as a special event screening of Festival Director Richard Wolstencroft's own The Second Coming Volume 1, starring the likes of Michael Tierney, Gene Gregorits, Boyd Rice, Pete Doherty from The Libertines, Jerome Alexander from The Deadcuts, Kim Fowley, and William Margold.

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Khode The festival's BEST OF THE REST category features work by Andrew Leavold and Travis Bain, as well as Daniel Armstrong's From Parts Unknown starring the great Ross Ditcham.

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IN REVIEW

Burger Boys Burger Boys have found a home in a small heritage building, nestled between high rises in Melbourne’s law district. It’s a building that has seen many different faces, not only as various watering holes, but in its original form as holding cells for the Melbourne courts. Bad boys to Burger Boys, 525 Little Lonsdale St is now run by two 20-something burger fanatics, that after becoming obsessed with our humble cities burger scene, tastetested every burger they could get their hands on to work out what floated their boats, and have now created their own gimmick free menu to satisfy even the harshest critics.

After hearing some substantial buzz around these guys, we decided to go and see what these boys were all about. We came up against our biggest hurdle as soon as we walked in and were greeted with a very impressive collection of craft beers on offer. Decisions like these are not easy to make in life, so we thought the best course of action was to try a bit of everything. After tasting our way through beers from near and afar, we were wooed by the Rodenbach Grand Cru, which is a sour beer with apple cider vinegar aromas and a sharp finish. Impressive, but not as much as the Hop Hog Feral IPA, which was the stand out with a citrus feel and a bitter and dry finish. Our choice hands down.

We also threw down some local ciders from 2 Brothers Brewery, which is always a favourite of mine. Sharing the load of the menu we sat down with the Classic beef burger, the Oregon Trail veggie burger, and the Kentucky Derby chicken burger, plus a side of onion rings and sweet potato chips. The Classic burger reminded me instantly of the ones my dad made me as a kid during hot summers, with no frills, classic ingredients of 150g of minced fresh beef patty, American hi-melt cheese, bacon, American mustard, ketchup, tomato, red onion, lettuce, kewpie mayo and kosher pickle on the side. It doesn’t look like much, but its instant nostalgia. The Oregon Trail as the veggie burger is a little different to most as the main attraction is a slab of haloumi, which my companion found too salty for her tastes, yet I happily helped her finish it off. The Beetroot Relish was a delicious addition to the haloumi however, and did balance out the salt. Finally we arrived at the Kentucky Derby, which is the chicken menu option, and has twice fried chicken, sriracha mayo, saigon slaw, and American hi-melt cheese. Our third wheel took this task on and had some strong emotions, passionately stating “This fucking little bit of coleslaw is the fucking tits. This is possibly the best chicken burger I’ve ever had.”

Top that all off with crispy onion rings and sweet potato fries that tasted way better than my drunken attempts, which are pretty spectacular, and we had ourselves an impressive meal. The Burger Boys have outdone themselves, and if you want to see for yourself, head to Free Shit at beat.com.au and tell us what your ultimate beer and burger combo is for a chance to win dinner for two and a beer tasting at Burger Boys.

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OUT OF THE CLOSET Queer happenings around town with Anna Whitelaw.

Last week, when I saw the Daily Telegraph’s vitriolic front page claiming parents’ uproar at a Sydney high school’s decision to screen Gayby Baby, a documentary looking at the lives of children being raised by same sex parents in Australia, I wasn’t surprised. When the NSW Education Minister responded to the Daily Telegraph not by calling out the newspaper’s editors and columnists for being hateful, homophobic and fear-mongering, but by banning the doco from being screened in any NSW public school during school hours (despite the fact he hadn’t seen the film) and then claimed it had nothing to do with the film’s content, I was mad. When the Guardian reported that the entire story was a beat up and in fact no parents had complained to the school, I was livid.

I also was grateful that I live in Victoria where our Premier Daniel Andrews had the decency and good sense to call out this bullshit when he saw it.

Like many who vented on Twitter, on Facebook or on talkback radio, I remembered all the countless hours I spent in high school watching a substitute teacher screen movies during class time that had nothing to do with the curriculum. I also remembered how even at a progressive co-educational high school in inner city Melbourne, I spent an hour a week in chapel and an hour a week being taught religion – which wasn’t considered propaganda – but I never once heard a teacher mention being gay in an official capacity in 12 years of schooling.

Despite years of sex education classes and despite some students being openly gay and out at school (and some teachers being widely known to be gay themselves), no teacher ever stood in front of my classroom or our auditorium and told us that statistically, out of the 450 kids in our year level, at least a few dozen of us were likely to be gay, lesbian or bisexual (let alone transgender). No one ever said that it was okay or that we would be okay. No one ever told us there was a door you could knock on if you wanted to talk about it, or if you were struggling, or if someone was bullying you.

Maybe if they had it wouldn’t have taken me until I was 22 years old to be able to utter the word myself.

I only once heard the word gay uttered outside of a schoolyard slur. My year nine homeroom teacher –

who was a bookish blonde science teacher in her early 30s – overheard a particularly obnoxious boy say someone was “gay”.

She called him up on it, and said to us she had friends who were gay, and she wouldn’t tolerate anyone ever using gay as a synonym for lame in her classroom. It shut him up, and the rest of the class too. After that, no one said such-and-such was gay, and that single moment stuck with me as the first – and only – time anyone in an official capacity stood up for gay rights in school.

What the NSW Education Minister and the Daily Telegraph’s editor, and Piers Ackerman didn’t realise was the screening of Gayby Baby wasn’t going to make any straight student gay, just as all those years of religious indoctrination and hetero-centric schooling didn’t make me straight. But it might have done wonders for the silent, suffering, significant minority of teenagers out there in Sydney schools who have same sex parents or see themselves as being same sex parents one day.

Here is hoping that all the publicity surrounding this documentary means that many, many more teenagers bother to see it in their own time.

HAPPENINGS:

For comic book geeks who happen to be LGBT, there is now a comic book club just for you. The Melbourne LGBT Comic Book Club meet monthly on a Monday night at the Hares & Hyenas. To join the group, or come along to their next meet up, visit their Facebook page.

Butch priestess Candy Royalle is coming to Melbourne for a one night only performance on Friday night at the Hare Hole, at the rear of Hares & Hyenas.

The performance artist, singer-songwriter and poet will be performing from 7pm. Tickets are available from $15 presale.

Swagger is back at the Bottom End on Friday September 4 for a party in honour of Beyonce’s birthday. Swagger as usual will see gays and girls twerking to Queen Bey and other R&B favourites.

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STEREOPHONICS S TA Y I N G A L I V E

By Augustus Welby Over the course of pop music history, only a select number of acts have managed to maintain an interested fanbase for more than two decades. Welsh rock mainstays Stereophonics are set to release their ninth album, Keep The Village Alive, this September.

It comes two-and-a-half years after the band’s previous effort, Graffiti on the Train, which was their first record to reach platinum sales since 2005’s Language. Sex. Violence.

Other? Beat caught up with bass player and co-founder Richard Jones to discuss the new record and find out the secret to the band’s longevity.

Keep The Village Alive has been in the works for quite a long time. It’s tagged as a companion piece to Graffiti on the Train, and the band initially toyed with the idea of releasing them together as a double album.

“When we started the whole project, the songs just kept on coming thick and fast,” says Jones. “Over the space of about 12 months we had about 36 songs. So we had the thought then of releasing a double album, but then through various talks with management and different people we know in the industry, they dissuaded us by saying that people’s attention spans ain’t what they used to be and they’d rather listen to single songs and shorter albums.

So we decided to condense Graffiti on the Train down to ten songs, and the other bunch of songs we thought, ‘We’re not going to waste those,’ so we continued to work on them along with a bunch of other tracks. And that’s rolled into Keep the Village Alive.”

Throughout their career, Stereophonics have made a concerted effort to distinguish each new album from its predecessor. And, while the latest two inhabit a similar stylistic and creative space, this remained an important task.

“Graffiti on the Train was a bit of a departure from Keep Calm and Carry On [2009],” says Jones. “We used a lot of orchestration and let the songs breathe a little bit – we weren’t afraid to add big instrumentation. I think we kept about five similar tracks for this album, but we stripped back a little bit. So even though they were from the same bunch of songs, I think people will distinguish this album from the previous one. We’ve got a lot more instant songs on this new release. The first two singles are a good indication [C’est la Vie, I Wanna Get Lost With You] of the type of direction we went on this album.”

Keep the Village Alive and Graffiti on the Train were both recorded between ICP Studios in Brussels and Stylus Studios in London. Although they scaled back the textural details, the recording and production methods stayed largely the same.

“I think the method is going to be pretty much the same, but we did change the actual instruments,” Jones says. “On each album we usually find an instrument that departs from the previous album. There’s something about playing a new instrument as well. It makes you play differently.

“We’ve got our own studio in London, so it gives us a lot more breathing space to try out new things as well. Jamie [Morrison, drums] is very accomplished and very experimental. He’s great at coming up with different sounds from anything – he hits anything and makes a good rhythm out of it. I think we spent a lot more time trying to find these different sounds and actually distinguishing the two records apart.”

As with every Stereophonics album since Language.

Sex. Violence. Other?, Jim Lowe co-produced Keep The Village Alive. By now, he’s integral to the band’s recording approach. “As soon as we get an idea, we want to get it out as quick as possible,” Jones says.

“Then what usually happens is the demo turns into the finished article. Jim is really good at getting everything set up so quick. He’s got tracks up and running even before we pick the instruments up, and he’s always really quick with coming together with demo drum tracks and sounds. He’s got a vast library of sounds and he’s always really quick at finding a good sound when we need it as well. He’s a great bloke to have around and he’s a good friend as well.”

Stereophonics have been through a few lineup changes over the years, but Jones and frontman Kelly Jones have been there since day one. Amid the various comings and goings, they’ve never had serious questions about doing another album “As far as the Stereophonics go, we’ve always said that ‘I don’t think any member of the band is bigger than the band.’ So if somebody isn’t that tied into what we’re doing and their heart’s not in the right place then sometimes you’ve got to let them go. The band’s got a life of its own life really. You’ve got to try to let it do what it needs to do.”

Evidently this attitude has been beneficial. On the cusp of album nine – which comes nearly 20 years since their debut – an enormous number of people around the world remain eagerly interested in Stereophonics.

“We’re really lucky,” says Jones. “We’ve got a good solid relationship with our fanbase and we never take it for granted. We always want to bring out new material which stands the test of time and not rely on past big records. We want to try to make the next record the big record.”

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REDRO REDRIGUEZ

& HIS INNER DEMONS STONER ROCK SORCERY

By Dan Watt

Dave Whip is a well-known bloke in the Melbourne rock scene. For the past five years he’s been the regular sound guy at Cherry Bar while also running Monday night’s Cherry Jam. However, on Saturday September 5, Whip (who is better known as Red) is taking over the Cherry Bar stage under the performance moniker, Redro Redriguez & His Inner Demons, to launch his latest offering, the Easy Magic LP. Upon listening to Whip singing in a fantastic rock’n’roll sneer while also displaying an adept stoner/blues song craft, it is clear this band isn’t his first rodeo. Yet, there appears to be a certain magic communicated through the music, that implies this band represents a musical sweet spot for Whip.

“This is probably the third band that I have been in that has really had any traction,” he says. “After the last band I was in, My Little Tornado, broke up in 2010 I had trouble getting the energy up to do another band.

But my friend Jay [Richmond], who had moved up to Brisbane, he’d saved part of his holidays to come down and play drums with me sometime – bless him. So that gave me the impetus to start this one. That was around 2013 and before that I had just been sitting on my

arse – musically – and he pretty much shamed me into starting this band.”

Whip dismisses the notion that his reluctance to start a new band was potentially due to a feeling he may be judged harsher than regular bands because of his profile in Melbourne’s live music scene. “I was worried that people would complain about me using some of my old songs,” he admits. “But I wasn’t worried about being judged.”

The lineup of Redro Redriguez & His Inner Demons features Liam Cuffley on drums (who also plays in My Left Boot and Matt Sonic & The High Times), bass guitarist Mike Findlay (frontman of Dukes Of Deliciousness), and guitarist Toby Brandon (who is a very established Melbourne sound engineer).

Easy Magic also features additional guitar work from Redcoats’ Neil Wilkinson and Low Fly Incline’s Tarek Smallman.

Track one, Laurel Canyons, is a grand and expansive stoner rock statement that perfectly sets the scene. “It was the other guys in the band that really made that the first song on the record,” says Whip. “We would go into the rehearsal space and that would be the first song they would want to play. So as a result of that, it became our little warm-up track and the first song that we would

play at gigs, so it ended up being the first song on the album. The track listing was organically put together because we basically just played the song that would be the song we would most like to play next.”

REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS are releasing Easy Magic this Saturday September 5 at Cherry Bar with support from Sun God Replica and Cotangent. Tickets are available now via cherrybar. com.au.

THE FUMES

MOTORS RUNNING

By Tex Miller

Steve Merry has his head in the bonnet of his F-100 attending to a leak in the water pump as we begin to chat about the imminent return of The Fumes. It’s been six long years since the release of their second album Sundancer, and with a newly expanded three piece lineup and third record Bloodless slated for release in November, Merry is excited to be back in the game. Stepping away from the public eye and working on different projects since 2009, there have been constant questions of when the follow up would be released.

Now, The Fumes have an answer.

“We have been working on this thing for years mate,” says Merry, the band’s guitarist/vocalist. “Other shit seems to get in the way these days, but we are finally back with a new record and at the moment it’s just with Ryan [Hazell, bass player/producer]. We have been working on it for a few years now and with a few false starts with release dates, we are pretty much there.

We’ve been playing shows and we are pretty fucking excited to get rid of it and out there into the world.”

Having played a few east coast shows in recent months, including a gig with The Beards, the new tunes have been getting a work out in the live set. The initial response from fans has been incredibly positive. The Fumes started out in the mid-2000s, and the music scene has changed quite a lot since then. Despite excitement to have a new record out, Merry is unsure

about how much success to hope for.

“I have absolutely no idea how this is going to go,” he says. “I’m not that involved in what’s happening right now in the Australian music scene and life is pretty darn busy that’s for sure. Things stick out now and then and I prick my ears up. Where are we going to fit in with what’s coming out at the moment? I don’t know.

I’m definitely older than kids playing out in the scene today. I know that much. How about I ring you when the record comes out and we see what you think of it [laughs].”

In the past, The Fumes have toured all around the world, and Merry actually lived in the US for a period of time working as a carpenter. Along the way, the band have encountered all sorts of craziness, both on and off the stage. One of the most bizarre experiences

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came about when Jim Diamond from The Dirtbombs produced their second record Sundancer.

“I mixed Sundancer with Jim over in Detroit in his ghetto studios. It’s right in the middle of the city and we had finished work for that day, and it just so happened The Black Crowes were playing at the venue next door. We were talking about Rodriguez and listening to Coming From Reality and next minute he asked if I wanted to meet him. We went down to the brewery and drank some beers and ate some pizza. To be sitting next to the sugarman himself and talking about music was quite a moment. It was like meeting Darth Vader.”

There are quite a few stories circulating that Merry learnt how to play blues guitar off the late, great legend Bob Brozman. Although it was just a jam session,

Merry says it was another a pinch yourself moment.

“I was hooked up to buy a resonator guitar through Brozman from some carpentry work I did in the states for a mate. I hung out with him and had a few jams.

He’s an interesting dude and to watch him play was pretty amazing. He’s a lunatic on the guitar and it was like looking at an abstract artwork by Picasso or Dali.”

A close observation into the rise and fall of some of the hip hop greats has given him advice about how to frame his writing.

“I’m a really big hip hop fan, and I’ve got this theory that early ‘90s was the best time for it,” says Dean. “All my favourite artists, their best works were just before they made it. If you put Illmatic with Nas or Ready to Die with Biggie, it’s them rapping about their surroundings with all this cool shit happening to them and it’s really interesting. Then when they get successful it’s just them rapping about cars, money, women – it loses its interest.

“Taking inspiration from what’s directly around you can be problematic if you do it for too long. If we were to get a bit of success and start touring, I’d imagine with the kind of ethos we have songwriting-wise we’d

be pushing the ways we’d be going about writing. The thing we’re trying to get in our songwriting now is pre-empting stuff we’re going to go through – what’s going to be fucking with me in ten-15 years’ time and trying to write a song about that, keeping your mind open. If you don’t do that, you can get caught in that repetitive style of just rapping about what’s around you, singing about what’s around you. Sometimes crazy shit could happen, I suppose. Maybe someone will develop a debilitating drug problem and we’ll write about that.”

THE FUMES are playing Chopped 2015, which goes down from Friday October 2 – Sunday October 4 at Newstead Racecourse. The lineup also includes C.W. Stoneking, Fireballs, Steve Smyth and more. They also play at Little and Olver on Friday October 2.

PSYCHEDELIC SEA DOGS

By Thomas Brand

The Australian psychedelic scene could be perceived as the new indie. More and more bands are forgoing the creation of upbeat, instantly familiar songs for the less conventional fuzzed out approach. However, this creates a paradox in which the alternative becomes the norm. A saturation of psych bands could result in the genre becoming increasingly indistinct, despite vying to be different. Melbourne foursome Slim Jeffries attempted to counteract this by jamming together several genres until it felt natural, then aiming to get noticed by adopting a nautical theme.

“We played, when we started, a bit of everything,” says guitarist/vocalist Hugo Dean. “A bit of rock, a bit of that punky hip hop, surfy pop – we hedged our bets in that sort of sense. Then we wrote the Pirate Song.

It all came very organically, a disenchanted young guy becoming a pirate. After that song, we all agreed it was our best song. A friend of ours who is an artist was doing some poster work for us, really liked the Pirate Song and came up with this pirate-y sailor style logo and it all snowballed from there.

“Our previous single was a song called Hung Over, a rock track. Our other friend who is a filmmaker came up with the concept for it – he had us dressed up, for no reason, as pirates for it. It’s as much a collaboration of all the people we’ve worked with as much as ourselves.

The pirate theme came organically and we’re going with it.”

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Working on an organic level is in the band’s chief aim, and this approach has had some unforeseen consequences. Dean’s songs have started to benchmark his life in the same way that flicking through old text messages does.

“We found creatively that the regularity of which fucking around and jamming, you come up with an end product which is applicable to your life in general,” he says. “It all comes around organically. You come up with a song, and three months later when the song’s done, I’ll think about the lyrics and how the songs work and think, ‘That’s totally what I was going through in those past months’. I don’t know if I interpret them in light of recent experiences but they’re definitely formed by each other consciously and subconsciously.”

Along with their honest approach to making music, Dean’s songwriting is patently influenced by hip hop.

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SLIM JEFFRIES are launching their single Pirate Song at The Workers Club on Friday September 4.

Andy Richards and Lam are supporting.

LOU BARLOW WAV E S O F T R U T H

By Patrick Emery Lou Barlow is big on truth and honesty: being true to yourself, being true to your band mates, and being true to your emotions, no matter how uncomfortable or confronting that truth might be. “I guess when I do sing, it’s important I tell the truth,” Barlow says down the line from Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he’s recently returned after almost two decades living in Los Angeles. “When I sit down and write, I just want to say things that are truthful, and the reality of the truth is very complicated.”

Barlow’s commitment to conveying the truth of his personal situation is apparent on his new solo record, Brace the Wave, his first release under his own name since 2009’s Goodnight Unknown. “I guess songs are my way of understanding [my emotions] in a lot of ways,” he says. “By putting them down and making them into a song is my way of writing a lesson about them.

Sometimes I can write a song and realise I don’t know a lot about them. And coming to that conclusion and still being able to sing that song reminds me each time I sing it how much I’ve changed.”

In the album’s opening track, Redemption, Barlow sings, “the story of my innocence is brief,” which accurately reflects his assessment of his own humanity. “The way people talk about things, y’know, ‘I don’t know why this happened’ – if you look at it, the reality of it, when I became a human being is that I can’t continue to claim my innocence. That’s ridiculous,” he says. “If I want to be truthful I can’t talk about things in a helpless way, or claiming that I am helpless. So I wanted to start the record out that way. Telling the truth is important, maybe not always for good. It’s better than devising a

whole new life that’s fabricated.”

In his early years Barlow was notoriously introverted.

His complex personality was the catalyst for his confrontations with Deep Wound and Dinosaur Jr band mate J Mascis. These days Barlow has a better understanding of his own psychological make-up, and recognises the catharsis that comes from exploring his personal feelings.

“I guess I deal with anger a lot in songs, so I’m talking myself down and trying to be reasonable and being truthful about myself,” he says. “The older I get, the more I realise how much of a hot-headed person I am.

So I talk myself down from my hot headedness.”

Brace The Wave was recorded in Easthampton with producer Justin Pizzoferrato, with whom Barlow worked on Dinosaur Jr’s recent trio of albums Beyond, Farm and I Bet On Sky. While Barlow says he went into the studio with an “opened mind”, he was hoping to achieve a particular sonic aesthetic.

“I only a few ideas in mind: I wanted it to sound like it was in a room, but I also wanted it to sound like it was close up as well. And it sounded like Justin got that

immediately. I played for about an hour and listened to what he’d done and I was like ‘That’s it – this is where we start’.”

Whereas Goodnight Unknown featured a range of guest musicians, Brace The Wave is a genuine solo record. “It wasn’t really about my creative vision – I guess I didn’t have anyone else to play with,” he laughs. “The last solo record I did I was just around people I know and trust.

This time I’d just moved back to Massachusetts and I didn’t really have a lot of people around that I could play with.”

In addition to acoustic guitar, Barlow plays ukulele on a number of tracks, which adds a distinct emotional vibe to the songs. “I don’t really play the ukulele in a traditional style. I play it a bit like a guitar, but it’s not a guitar really, it’s a small four-string guitar. With the heaviest and lightest strings I can get the both elements – the heavy stuff and the light stuff. I can do that more directly with ukulele.”

In addition to his solo work, Barlow continues to play with Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh, and juggling the

separate projects can be both exhausting and rewarding.

“I think it does give me a good musical balance. Bands are really interesting creatures, and the way you’re communicating with people evolves over years of your life. I enjoy very much having these relationships that do change over years and years because it makes it real.

And at some point you have to tell the truth to these people you’re working with, and be truthful about what you want and what you need.”

In the lead-up to the record, Barlow suggested Brace The Wave is a transformational album. Though, the same description could apply to all of his releases.

“I think they’re all transformational records. I think saying something like that now doesn’t mean anything more. I know that I’ve said that myself, and I always do, but I don’t know why. With every record I’m trying to reach some other place, so hopefully every record I do in my life will be a transformational record.”

little bit here, but let’s record it and I’ll record it in a way to make it better and make it sound how it should sound.’

“All my demos are very structured and electronic. I program everything – the drums, sometimes bass and guitar – and then I’ll translate it from midi to guitars later on. He got that; he made the drums super tight, really quantized and stuff like that. He wanted to keep elements from the demos in the songs. We talked about it and we were like, ‘That’s perfect’.”

In some cases, Horscroft deemed Caskey’s demos strong enough to preserve them for the album. “That song Wellness, for instance, that’s actually my demo,” he says. “It’s all stock Pro Tools plug-ins – drums and bass and synth.”

Intriguingly, this song is one of the album’s clear highlights – a sidestep from Last Dinosaurs guitarheavy signature that indicates where they could go in the future.

“That was more [like] the stuff that I listen to,” says Caskey. “I don’t really listen to the stuff that we play.

I’ll probably never listen to our stuff. Maybe except for Wellness. Wellness is closest to the stuff I really enjoy listening to – dreamy and a bit deeper and soundscapey.

“I’ve always listened to Panda Bear. Panda Bear Person Pitch [2007] would probably have come out 2,500 times now. Mr Twin Sister was a huge influence for me.

When I found them I was just like, ‘Oh my God.’ The thing that I admire was that every song of theirs sounds completely different, because it’s supposed to. They take it all the way. That’s what we haven’t really that much.

Demos I have, but then we peel it back and turn it into pop songs.”

It’s odd to hear that Caskey’s songwriting often doesn’t reflect his personal taste. Though, this doesn’t have a negative effect on his onstage attitude. “When you start rehearsing it, it sounds pretty crap at the start. It always does and you’ve got to try and remember that as well. But that’s also only our opinion as well, because people will still react to Evie. When we played that tour everyone was going crazy and at Splendour everyone went pretty crazy for Evie. It’s all about that anyway, and that’s all I really care about too – making sure everyone’s having a good time.”

LOU BARLOW’s Brace the Wave is out on Friday September 4 via Domino.

L AS T DI N O S AUR S NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON

By Augustus Welby

It’s been three and a half years since Last Dinosaurs released their debut LP In a Million Years. The breakthrough release thrust the Brisbane four-piece into major pub and theatre venues all over Australia and Southeast Asia. Despite such success, it wasn’t until late last month that they returned with album two, Wellness. Given the momentum generated by In a Million Years, the band’s initial plan was to follow it up as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the power to do so eluded them.

“You have no idea how difficult it is,” says vocalist/ guitarist Sean Caskey. “We just don’t have a choice. We can have all the songs, but it doesn’t matter – we can’t decide when we record and stuff like that. We’re very conscious of the fact that we’re on the edge of taking too long. It just kept getting delayed. But I’m hoping this one is good enough to generate interest again and then next album hopefully we can record when we should record.”

Caskey needn’t fret that people have forgotten about Last Dinosaurs. Wellness’ first single, Evie, was an instant success, leading to a sold-out national tour in June/July. This followed an impressive run of overseas touring.

“After exhausting Australian touring, this massive door opened for Asia – and it was awesome,” he says. “We went to South Africa as well. We realised there was a whole other side of the world that was very interested in what we were doing. So it was kind of a blessing taking that long, because if we didn’t we probably wouldn’t have realised there was this massive opportunity in Southeast Asia.”

Logistics seem to have been the major factor stalling

the arrival of Wellness, but that’s not to say they didn’t face any creative hurdles. “There was definitely pressure to try to beat the first one,” Caskey says. “The pressure I put on myself was just to make it cooler. I didn’t care about anything else. I wanted to do something I was proud of – songs that I thought were deeper and artistically better and sonically cooler as well. I got older and I listened to better music and had a better idea of what I thought was cool.”

Production-wise, while Wellness sounds like the work of a rock band, you can tell the band didn’t just bash it out live. It’s a tight, brightly produced record comprising atmospheric keyboards, guitar effects and electronic drums. Scott Horscroft produced the album and the band welcomed his constructive methods.

“I’ve admired Scott forever,” says Caskey. “I listened to Mercy Arms and Starky and The Protectors – all bands he wouldn’t really mention on his CV, but I’d see ‘Scott Horscroft’ [in the credits] and I realised who it was.

What I respect about Scott’s production style is that he doesn’t get your song, pull it to pieces and be like, ‘Nah this is no good.’ He’s just like, ‘OK that’s your thing, I get where you’re going, you probably don’t need this

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LAST DINOSAURS new album Wellness is out now via Dew Process/Universal. You can catch them at the Corner Hotel on Thursday October 1 for an U18s matinee and 18+ evening show. You can also catch them perform at Beyond the Valley in Lardner, Vic, held from Tuesday December 29 to Friday January 1 2016.

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HEART OF ST KILDA CONCERT HELP FEED THOSE IN NEED

By Natalie Rogers Since 2008, the Palais Theatre has been home to one of the most anticipated events on Melbourne’s live music and comedy calendar. Now in its eighth year, the Heart of St Kilda Concert brings together the cream of the Australian entertainment industry for an evening of celebration and community.

“If you’ve never been to a Heart of St Kilda Concert, you’re missing out,” says Master of Ceremonies Brian Nankervis. With over 25 years in show business and as co-creator/co-host of RocKwiz, the St Kilda local is right at home in front of a crowd. “Every year we try to make the show different, but we always have a mixture of older established artists with some younger bands and comedians. This year we have British India on the bill, but we also have Col Joye who made hit records in the 1950s. As for the comedians we have Denise Scott, Arj Barker and Luke McGregor – there’s really something for everyone.”

Returning to the Palais stage for the fourth time this year is the incomparable Tim Rogers. “Tim is a dear friend and a great supporter of the [Sacred Heart] Mission – he does lot of work in the community,” Nankervis says. “Last year we got him together with the Caravan Choir and they did You Can’t Always Get What You Want and it was just incredible. So this year we’ve got him again. I can’t tell you what he’s going to do – we want it to be a surprise on the night.”

Nankervis conceived The Heart Of St Kilda Concert along with Oz music heavyweights Larry Ponting and Wal Bishop OAM and Palais Theatre CEO Neil Croker. Their vision was to create an event to support the work of the Sacred Heart Mission, which has become a vital service within the community.

“I’d been aware of the Sacred Heart Mission for almost 20 years,” he says. “I moved to St Kilda in 1992 – I love the area. It has a great sense of history and a vibrant arts scene, but what I love the most is that the community of St Kilda is very good at recognising that there are a lot of people doing it tough. Everyone who comes to or takes part in the show knows that they’re responsible for continuing the Meals Program at the Mission.

They’ve got an incredible dining room there and they

feed anyone who turns up. If we can raise around $100,000, that will keep the program going.”

The Mission was started in 1982 by Sacred Heart’s parish priest, Father Ernie Smith. “One day he was in the presbytery preparing a meal for himself and someone knocked on the door and said ‘I’m hungry, can you give me some food?’ and he shared his lunch with that person,” says event coordinator Sara Harrington.

“Word got around and more and more people started to come along. Soon the parishioners started getting involved by cooking up roast dinners. It became so big they had to create a dining hall for people to come and receive food. The Meals Program at Sacred Heart began as a classic grassroots movement.”

33 years later, the large dining hall dishes out 400 meals a day. “We serve three course meals – there’s even a vegetarian option,” Harrington says. “The Meals Program doesn’t get any government funding. Suzanne [McDonnell], who’s an ex-journalist, runs the program and she works with an annual budget of about $24,000, which is like 15 cents a meal… So we really do need a lot of money to be donated. We are open 365 days a year – we never close. There are about 200 staff at the Mission and we work with about 1000 volunteers who we’d be lost without.”

All proceeds from the concert will be towards continuing the Mission’s inspirational work. “We see the dining hall as a communication hub,” Harrington says. “People that we see coming through the door have experienced a lot of trauma in their lives – they’re often dealing with substance abuse or mental health issues.

Once we get to know them we can put them in touch with the services they need. The Mission has a GP and a nurse there on a daily basis that people can meet with, and we offer the facilities to wash their clothes and have a shower. Our ultimate goal is to help people stabilise

their situation and become functioning members of the community.”

Last year’s concert was actually the first time Harrington worked behind the scenes, but it’s an experience she can’t wait to repeat. “It’s a fantastic community event and it’s one of the best nights I’ve had. There’s an incredibly euphoric feeling throughout the show, especially as it builds up towards the end and people realise that by being there they’re actually doing something really positive.

“All the artists donate their time – no-one is paid for anything – which is pretty amazing when you think of

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the calibre of people that we get. There are no egos – egos are left at the door. Everyone is there to do the right thing – and when you come out of the Palais Theatre and walk into St Kilda and you feel really good, nothing beats it.”

HEART OF ST KILDA CONCERT goes down on Tuesday September 22 at the Palais Theatre, with Kasey Chambers, Tim Rogers, Arj Barker, The Black Sorrows, Col Joye, Denise Scott, British India and more. Visit sacredheartmission.org for more info.

ANGIE

F R E E D O M A N D I S O L AT I O N

By Augustus Welby Midway through last year, word got out that production on the second solo LP from Sydney’s Angela Garrick (better known as Angie) was well under way. That album, Free Agent, will finally be released this Friday. Garrick’s affiliation with a number of garage rock and impulsively experimental projects (such as Straight Arrows, Circle Pit and Ruined Fortune) would suggest she prefers to get things done at a rapid pace. However, Free Agent was constructed in a more cumulative manner.

“The recording process took over six months, which I suppose is perhaps unusual,” says Garrick. “But I played all the instrumentation myself apart from drums, and I worked on it over a series of Mondays with my friend and bandmate Owen Penglis [Straight Arrows]. I went overseas on trips that broke up the process. But I feel it’s always good to have this sense of distance almost, so I can look at the record from a different temporal and emotional perspective.”

Free Agent started to germinate when Garrick was living in Paris. At the time she was dealing with a personal tragedy and living a largely isolated existence.

Her experiences during that period are inextricably bound to certain songs on the record.

“Crocodile Tears was informed by my obsessive true crime series watching while I was there, while also commenting on friends at home and the way we become trapped by our own decisions,” she says. “The area I was living, the 19th Arrondissement, Stalingrad, was a particularly interesting area with lots of immigrants and not yet gentrified. Ricky’s Street is informed by Rue Riquet, a street in the area, and the others are without a doubt about my time in Paris, but equally reflecting on events and conditions at home in Sydney.”

The isolated songwriting environment seems to foreshadow a record of intimate confessionals. Though, while Free Agent includes a few minimally arranged songs – such as opening track Breathing and Blue, where Garrick’s vocals are accompanied by just a muted keyboard and the sound of swirling water – for the most part, it’s not a particularly stripped-back affair.

“I mainly listen to minimalist music – Robbie Basho, Eno, Budd, et cetera – and it’s something I am definitely interested in,” she says. “But almost as interesting as creating stylistically bare music is the act of creating interesting rock’n’roll music.”

The majority of the record attends to the challenge of creating interesting rock’n’roll music. Like Angie’s 2013 debut, Turning, Free Agent explores fairly dark thematic territory, but it’s by no means fragile. Plenty of songs are led by filthy guitar playing, and there’s a general murkiness to the production.

“I find that really clean production, although great and necessary in some circumstances, often alludes to a commercial aspect in a strange way I can’t understand,” Garrick says. “Like bands making their records sound as clean as possible and the vocals louder than everything else so that they will get played on the radio…. I mean of course there is a reason for that, but I think if people are going to dig it, they’ll dig it no matter what. It’s more of a challenge, [laughs], to seek out the melody.

“When I listen to Turning, the track Wandering in particular, it’s just so peculiar. There’s no drums, it’s pretty unlistenable, but it’s itself and it doesn’t sound like a mobile phone ad. It sounds like it exists only for itself and the listener, not for any third party, and there’s something subtle and beautiful about that.”

As mentioned, Garrick has played with a whole stack of bands over the last seven or eight years. Despite how it looks from the outside, she doesn’t just whimsically drift from one project to the next. Though, she can’t limit herself to one project.

“I constantly write myself lists outlining things I have to remember. I have no problem deciding on a project to work on, and following it through, but the actual process I find difficult to maintain focus and not get distracted by easier or more immediate activities. I find it harder to relax, though, so I’m sitting nicely between focusing on projects and having a crisis about them, and trying to make myself relax [laughs].”

Despite Garrick’s compulsive songwriting proclivity, the solo project is actually only a recent undertaking.

Free Agent ranks among the strongest records she’s been involved with, and it’s almost certainly the most emotionally lucid.

“I’m interested in creating records. Making records by myself is my only measure – something I can draw upon and use to remember my own emotions, fleeting and solid, and complex histories. There are sonic territories and feelings invigilated within [me] that could only be presented working on my own. It’s not something I’m really comfortable with, especially in a live setting. I usually present the material live as a band, who I usually become quite attached to and I’m very conscious of the fact it is a band. I am quite selective about playing live

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and will probably do a few shows completely solo for a while after this next tour. “[But] it’s definitely the most relaxing project I’m engaged with, as it’s all run on my own terms, and most importantly at my own pace. There are pros and cons with every situation, however, and I guess sometimes I feel overwhelmed that I’m organising everything on my own. But I would say that it’s always worth it.”

ANGIE’s second LP Free Agent is out Friday September 4 via Rice Is Nice. The album launch goes down Saturday September 12 at the John Curtin Hotel, with support from Miss Destiny and Teuton.

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I N H E A R T S WA K E UNDER REGIONAL SKIES

By Matthew Tomich When’s the last time you saw the Queensland town of Maroochydore on a major tour announcement? How about Bateau Bay or Hoppers Crossing? Due to our country’s population spread, Australia’s regional towns are rarely paid much attention when it comes to live music. But for Byron Bay metalcore outfit In Hearts Wake, playing those small, far-flung parts of the country is a vital part of their continued success as a band.

“We’re from a regional town, so it’s very important to us,” says vocalist Jake Taylor, two hours before taking the stage in Toronto for the penultimate show of the band’s Canadian tour. “We know what it’s like to basically be at a disadvantage to see shows and also play shows as a young band. It was very hard for us because we didn’t get the influx of Brisbane or Sydney shows.

We had to travel to get to those cities, so it’s important to us that we make the effort and give other people the chance to be inspired and also to check out new places.

“I think we enjoy our regional tours more than the cities because we’ve got a local, hopefully a water hole or a beach to check out. The town’s got so much more character as opposed to a city which is, I don’t know – you get the same food chains all around the venues.

We’re all about regional touring and we always have been.”

In Hearts Wake are nothing if not hardworking.

They’ve spent the vast majority of 2015 in motion, clocking up well over 100 shows in the last seven months in support of their third album, Skydancer. The touring run has included three laps of North America, a tour across Australia and a jaunt through the European summer. And it’s not ending any time soon – a week after they round out the Canadian leg of their latest Northern hemisphere journey with Northlane, they’ll be back on home soil for another regional stint with Make Them Suffer.

Touring the world and playing to legions of adulating fans looks attractive from the outside, but in reality it’s an endless slog – a test of endurance with sleepless nights, entire evenings spent driving, showers skipped and unhealthy meals devoured at rest stops. On this most recent North American stint, Taylor says they’ll splash out on a shared hotel room maybe once every three nights. But covering so much territory in such a

short period of time presents unique opportunities to see the landscape and develop tour rituals.

“We camped out in Banff National Park [in Alberta, Canada] which was incredible,” he says. “For anyone who hasn’t who doesn’t know what it is, definitely look it up. It’s quite something. I think it’ll be one of the best national parks that you’ve ever been to. That was a really cool night, sleeping out under the stars, having a little fire. We got hooked on disc golf, actually, which is like Frisbee golf. So we’ve been playing that in almost every second city. We’ve been rocking up to parks and finding the local disc golf courses and playing so we’re active during the day.”

All this touring began upon the release of Skydancer, the band’s third record, in May this year. Skydancer was recorded at the same time as its companion album, last year’s Earthwalker. Both sold incredibly well, especially considering In Hearts Wake don’t exactly have a mainstream sound. Earthwalker peaked at #5 on the ARIA charts, while Skydancer reached the #2 position, trailing Mumford and Sons but beating out Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and Meghan Trainor in the week of its release. That kind of recognition is something few heavy bands attain, but for Taylor, it’s validation – not just for him and his bandmates, but for their fanbase and the entire community that supports artists like them.

“I do think it’s important because it’s the only time you’re ever measured up against any other pop artist of any genre. It is an important sign of reassurance that you’re doing something right. It’s also a testament – if we’re matching numbers of Ed Sheeran or Lily Allen in a week, I mean, it goes to show that a fraction of the Ed Sheeran fanbase might just be quite a small portion buying the CDs, but our fraction is quite a large one of our fanbase and it’s such a strong fanbase. I think that’s

important to see and it’s important for the fans who support the band to see that the band they’re giving their time, energy and love into is also succeeding.

It’s just a number, but it is quite a landmark and it’s a testament to a band’s growth. So it’s fantastic to have a top five record.”

After wrapping up the regional Australian tour at the end of the month, In Hearts Wake will return to Europe once again before heading off to America for the fourth time this year. After that, there are plans for

their first Asian tour. If they’re lucky, they’ll be home for Christmas.

IN HEARTS WAKE will headline Urban Spread on Thursday September 10 at Plaza Tavern in Hoppers Crossing, Friday September 11 at Chelsea Heights Hotel and Saturday September 12 at Village Green in Mulgrave. They’re also playing Sunday September 13 at Barwon Club, Geelong.

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CORE GIG GUIDE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3:

• Iron Chic, Self Defense Family, Ceres, Horror My Friend, Laura Palmer at The Reverence • Spectral Fires, Stolen Moments, Disasters, Turn South at The Bendigo • Kids In Control, Half Breed Heroes at Next Swedish metal legends Soilwork have announced their return to Australia on the back of new album The Ride Majestic. The album is out now on Nuclear Blast and the band will be in your hood this coming February to celebrate. See them at 170 Russell on February 16 and nick over to Live Nation’s website this Friday to get your tickets.

Unsurprisingly the tiny lil’ Gorilla Biscuits show at The Reverence Hotel in October sold out pretty quickly. They’ve announced an additional Rev show for October 2. You can steal one of those tickets now but be quick. It’s the first time they’ve been here since 2008 so everyone’s a bit psyched to see this go down.

Cancer Bats have sold out their only Melbourne show already, but if you managed to get a ticket you’ll be pleased to know that Jack The Stripper will support at the Bendigo Hotel show. If you missed out, fear not, you can see them at Barwon Club on September 25 with Rust Proof. Worth the trip.

The Exploited are on their way back to Australia this December. The tour rolls into Melbourne on December 12 to smash Max Watt’s. Tickets to see this super important chapter of British punk are available now.

New Zealand’s Antagonist AD are springing over the ditch again for an Australia headline tour this month in support of their awesome Haunt Me As I Roam album.

Adelaide’s Reactions will join them on the entire run including the show at Plastic on Thursday October 1 (that’s the day before our new public holiday, Grand Final Eve).

Modern Baseball have unfortunately had to withdraw from their upcoming, hotly anticipated debut Australian tour. Singer Brendan Lukens explained the cancellation on their Facebook page, asking for fans’ understanding. “It is with much difficulty to announce that we unfortunately have to cancel our upcoming plans of playing Reading and Leeds as well as our upcoming Australian tour. I just wanted to thank everyone for being so understanding and supportive during this time. I’ve spent most of my life struggling with anxiety and depression, and after the last few months it’s evident that it’s time to put everything else aside to focus on making steps towards positive mental health”. Poison City have details of replacements for each show on their poisoncityweekender.com website.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4:

• The Smith Street Band, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Luca Brasi, The Sidekicks, Postblue at 170 Russell • Hostile Objects, Crisis Alert, Shitripper, Weedy Gonzales at The Public Bar • Regurgitator at The Prince Bandroom • Claws & Organs, River Of Snakes, Darkfair, Cable Ties at The Old Bar • Witchgrinder, Decimatus, Atomic Riot at Ding Dong • A Place To Bury Strangers at The Corner Hotel • Verticoli at Yah Yah’s

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5:

• Iron Chic, The Bennies, Self Defense Family, Oslow, Tired Lion at Corner Hotel • Tankerville, Fresh Kills, Wet Meal, Cut The Kite String at The Reverence • Foxtrot, Kiri, Maricopa Wells, Spencer Scott at The Old Bar • Dream On Dreamer, Entitlements, Double Charmer at Bang • Gatherer, Guards Of May, Glass Earth, Bear The Mammoth at Toff In Town • Tragic Earth, Intercranial Tremors, Amethyst Close, The Weight of Silence, Massacre Of Innocence, Behold The Defiant at The Reverence • Bare Bones, Ghost Orchestra, Caution: Thieves, The Approach, Drivetime Commute at The Bendigo • Master Blaster, Hailgun, Join The Amish, Christcrusher, Drain Life, Grudge at The Tote • Witchgrinder, Severity, Above Suspicion at The Loft

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6:

• The Smith Street Band, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Iron Chic, The Sidekicks, Rockenspeil at Corner Hotel • Claim The Throne at Barwon Club • The Meanies, Clowns, Deep Heat, Relentless, Mere Women, Batpiss, Jen Buxton and the Slaughterhouse Five, Georgia Maq, Freak Wave, The Sugarcanes, Flour, Jess Locke Band at The Reverence Hotel • Shadows At Pay, Calling Utopia, Shewolf, Dojo Collectors at The Bendigo

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7:

• Iron Chic, The Sidekicks, Apart From This at Northcote Social Club • Self Defense Family, Postblue, Diecut at The Old Bar

CATCH DIVINE ASCENSION BEFORE THEY ASCEND TO EUROPE

Metal Obsession and Screaming Symphony present Divine Ascension’s farewell show before heading off on their European tour. After completing a hugely successful Liberating Australia Tour, Divine Ascension recently announced a massive 30 date European tour supporting power metal legends Stratovarius as part of their 2015 Eternal World tour. This Friday September 4 at The Bendigo Hotel they will perform an awesome farewell show with Amoronix and Acolyte.

FACE THE MUSIC RETURNS

Two jam-packed days of panel sessions, keynote presentations, meeting opportunities, practical music workshops and intimate master classes, Face The Music 2015 offers the opportunity to exchange ideas, make new connections and support each other’s professional development. Face The Music, in partnership with Melbourne Music Week, is proud to present international guest speakers JD Samson and Ruth Daniel. Announced to join this year’s Face The Music are producers Anna Laverty and Andrei Eremin, Frank Cotela (Onelove Music Group), Dan Rosen (ARIA), Nick O’Byrne (Look Out Kid), Paul Sloan (Billions Australia), Marc Sousley (Secret Sounds), Katie Rynne (Select Music), music writer Brodie Lancaster, Alex Zaccaria (Bolster Music), Patrick Donovan (Music Victoria), Sarah Hamilton (Ditto Music), Travis Banko (Lunatic Entertainment), Sara Hood (Record Store Day Australia), Ben Preece (Mucho Bravado), Nic Warnock (Repressed Records/RIP Society), Chris Bowen (Music Australia), Joanna Cameron (One Of One) and the National Live Music Office’s John Wardle and Damian Cunningham, with more to come. Face The Music tickets are now on sale at facethemusic.com.au, with tickets priced from $65 to $120.

PVRIS AUSTRALIAN TOUR

PVRIS’s debut album White Noise is a collection of dynamic, surging tracks, fostering an interest in electronic music and pop-tinged rock. “We knew we wanted to go in a more electronic direction on the album,” lead singer Lynn Gunn says. “We had that vision but we had no clue how it would actually sound.

We let the music find itself.” Pvris are playing their much anticipated first shows in Australia with Circa Survive this month. Catch them at 170 Russell on Sunday September 20 and Monday September 21.

ATREYU RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM

After a three-year hiatus, the embers started to collectively glow again for Southern California metal

trailblazers Atreyu – Alex Varkatzas (vocals), Brandon Saller (drums/vocals), “BIG” Dan Jacobs (guitar), Travis Miguel (guitar) and Porter McKnight (bass).

“The first time I talked to Alex in what seemed like forever was when I heard he and his wife were having a child,” Saller says. “I reached out to congratulate him.

That led to us having lunch together, catching up, talking about things, and discussing Atreyu. Soon, the five of us had dinner, and we began mulling around the idea asking, ‘What if we did this again? How would we do it? What would we want out of it?’ We all seemed to be on the same page. We agreed on doing things the same way.” In secret, they hit the studio with producer Fred Archambault (Avenged Sevenfold) and began cutting what would become their sixth full-length album, Long Live (Search and Destroy Records/Spinefarm Records) and first since 2009’s Congregation of the Damned. It’s out on September 18.

NEW BONAMASSA LIVE ALBUM ANNOUNCED

In January 2015, Joe Bonamassa played at the iconic Radio City Music Hall for a sold-out, two-night run that allowed him to fulfil his lifelong dream of performing in one of the world’s most legendary venues. On October 2, Bonamassa will share this experience with fans and music lovers around the world when he releases Joe Bonamassa – Live At Radio City Music Hall ( J&R Adventures) as a CD/DVD set and CD/Blu-ray set. It features over 75 minutes of music, two newly recorded songs, nine unreleased live tracks, over 2.5 hours of live footage, a special 45-minute behind-the-scenes featurette, a 40-page collector’s book with exclusive photos, and a sneak peek into Bonamassa’s childhood home and musical heritage.

THE FIRST PROG SUPERGROUP EVER TO NOT FEATURE MIKE PORTNOY

Progressive supergroup Jane Getter Premonition will release its debut album On via Madfish on October 2.

And check out this line-up: in addition to Jane Getter on vocals and guitar there’s Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson), bass player Bryan Beller ( Joe Satriani, Mike Keneally, Dethklok The Aristocrats), drummer Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth, Steven Wilson) and special guests including vocalist Corey Glover (Living Colour), guitarist Alex Skolnick (Testament) and saxophonist/ flautist/clarinettist Theo Travis (Steven Wilson, Robert Fripp). The album was co-produced by Jane Getter and Adam Holzman, mixing duties were handled by Adam Holzman and Anthony Ruotolo at Spin Studios in Long Island City, NY.

PVRIS

BREAKING THROUGH THE STATIC

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY Pvris is a three-way partnership between vocalist Lyndsey Gunnulfsen, guitarist Alex Babinski and bassist Brian MacDonald. Last year, the band teamed up with producer Blake Harnage (Versa/VersaEmerge) to give life to their debut album White Noise. The record came out in November 2014 and it’s been go, go, go ever since. The tireless trio will soon be hitting Australian shores for the first time. They haven’t had a moment’s rest during the last 18 months, but they ain’t complaining.

“This is the most touring we’ve done since we first started out,” Gunnulfsen says. “It’s gruelling, but I feel like we kind of adapted to it and we’re getting used to it. We got our touring schedule for the next year and a half and the only month we’re free is in December. It’s kind of daunting but we’ve already adapted to it and just gotten used to it – or figured out how to enjoy being away from home as much as we are.”

Pvris formed in Lowell, Massachusetts in 2012 and gained prominence on the local scene almost immediately. Things really ignited upon the release of their debut EP, Paris, in March 2013 and they haven’t looked back since. From the outset, they had no scruples about shooting for the stars.

“Our whole mindset with music or anything we do is, ‘If you have the opportunity to go as far as you can possibly go, you should absolutely aim for that, but you shouldn’t expect that’,” Gunnulfsen says. “So we don’t expect to be the biggest band in the world – we never expected to have all the opportunities and all this hype and amazing feedback on the record that we’ve gotten – but we wanted that.”

To casual observers, it seems like White Noise sprung forth with very little lead-up. Though, given the band

had released music as far back as late 2012, there was a decent cultivation period.

“We all had to earn our stripes and pay our dues and play local shows to like ten people and work fulltime jobs,” Gunnulfsen says. “The two years prior to having the record out we were always hustling and just working hard to even make this a possibility.

Now it’s finally paying off. To other people and it seems like this happened out of nowhere, but we’ve been working hard since day one and busting our arses.”

Co-written by Gunnulfsen and Harnage, White Noise is a good representation of not only the band’s diverse influences, but also a growing eclecticism in the tastes of the average listener. The record manages to intertwine everything from electro-pop and alternative rock to pop punk, and it also contains moments of soulful delicacy. Gunnulfsen says the genre merging isn’t overly contrived.

“I feel like it’s a natural thing and a subconscious thing that just kind of happens. Our main focus is just making music that we would want to listen to and music that we’re proud of and music that we’re happy with. That’s the ultimate goal and I think by doing that and not feeling pressured to fit into a

category or appeal to a certain audience, it brings the best out of your music. By just vibing off something and doing whatever you want, it makes it speak for itself.”

White Noise came out courtesy of Rise Records.

Having the support of an influential and wellregarded label is invaluable. Plus, the label didn’t attempt to steer Pvris’ songwriting in any direction.

“Rise is actually completely hands off with the creative process. They literally just were like, ‘Right.

You’re in the studio from this time until this time.

Whatever you hand in is what we’re going to work with.’ Which is super cool. I don’t think they were

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expecting what we handed into them but they definitely were shocked in the best way.”

PVRIS will support Circa Survive at 170 Russell on Sunday September 20 (18+) and Monday September 21 (U18s). White Noise is out now via Rise Records/ Warner Music Australia.

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DEVILMONKEY play Friday September 4 at Lyrebird Lounge and Saturday September 5 at The Brunswick Hotel. Blackbreaks will join them on both nights.

THE POST OFFICE HOTEL

It’s all blues and soul this Thursday September 3 at The Post Office Hotel as James Thomson & The Strange Pilgrims launch his second album Cold Moon.

This release follows his acclaimed 2012 debut, which saw him tour with the likes of Mark Olson (The Jayhawks), Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers) and The Gin Club. Catch them playing two sets from 8pm, this Thursday night at The Post Office.

Devilmonkey

Define your genre in five words or less: Electro 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?

They jump off their stool and shout at them, “Bang your head. Shake your thing. Lose your mind. All of this happens when you watch DevilMonkey. Go now to see them.”

How long have you been gigging and writing?

Close to two years of gigging and an extra year of writing.

What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date?

They’re all ace. Playing with each other and everyone we’ve played with has been totally sick.

Smashfest at the Brunny was mega fun.

Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with?

Blackbreaks. We’re doing it State of Origin style.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

Life, family, Killing Joke.

What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?

Work, write, play as much as possible. Try to be nice, but play rough if you have to.

Do you have any record releases to date? What?

Where can I get it?

We have an earlier EP available through Bandcamp called Psychonaut. We’ve also had tracks included on various comps.

Why should everyone come and see your band?

Because we want to play with all of their heads.

JAMES THOMSON & THE STRANGE PILGRIMS

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4

VERTICOLI YA H YA H ’ S

Tasmanian party starters Verticoli are prepping to smash Yah Yah’s into gear this Friday September 4, for a dual album launch show with The Fibs.

Verticoli are fixtures in the Tassie music scene, so give them a warm Melbourne welcome when they hit the stage. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $13.

night is none other than DJ Adalita, who’ll be spinning the decks until 3am.

It’s all free and a stupidly good damn party. Head on in from 9.30pm to catch the action.

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LILITH LANE

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

Independent Australian singer/ songwriter Lilith Lane will hit up The Retreat stage this Wednesday September 2, performing tracks off her third solo album Pilgrim. If you think you can stomach it, The Retreat’s doors await you from 7.30pm onwards. Free entry.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3

MASTER BLASTER

FAYE SOFT LUWOW

Poison City’s Weekender fest is upon us, and it all kicks off with Prekender at the Rev - the warm up to five intense days of local, national and international bands.

This Thursday September 3 will see an onslaught of killer artists - Iron Chic (USA), Self Defense Family (USA), Ceres, Horror My Friend and Laura Palmer will all grace the Rev stage.

Doors open at 7.30pm, and you can bet ya bottom dollar there’ll be a limited amount of tickets available on the night, so get the fuck down early or cry yourself to sleep, because FOMO. Entry is $25.

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E

Get your shovel down to LuWow this Thursday September 3 and get diggin’ on some of this sonic dirt. Pop Waste is presenting four bands from around town who are ready to rip up some indie-punk tracks for your aural pleasure. Tonight’s lineup features the musical stylings of Faye Soft, Wet Lips, Pussy Juice and Pure Shit. Probably bring an umbrella for those last two. Smack a fiver at the door at 8pm.

This Thursday night, the Kiwi lads from Master Blaster headline a night of thrash and hardcore at Whole Lotta Love with Hailgun, Atomic Death Squad and Dogshit ripping shit up. Master Blaster were actually formally known as Shitripper before going through some lineup changes, and still deliver manic early '80s influenced hardcore all over your face. Doors open 7pm. $5 entry.

DORSAL FINS

THE JOHN CURTIN

OHMS + TANKERVILLE T H E R E T R E AT H O T E L

Here’s a night of sweet live music to perk up your Friday night. The infamous Ohms and those wild scallywags Tankerville will hit up The Retreat Hotel on Friday September 4. Ohms, to the uninitiated, have been compared to The Kinks, The Pixies, X (USA) and Blondie. They’re a part alternative rock, part punk, part power-pop femalefronted four-piece. It’s been almost two years since Ohms released their selfrecorded, debut album Pity; this time they’re bringing a fresh 7” vinyl EP to the world. Tankerville, on the other hand, feature members of Cherrywood, Bodies and Graveyard Train. They reckon they sound kinda like a vengeful God projectile vomiting on the earth after a big night out. Rounding out the

This Friday September 3, The John Curtin Hotel will play host to Dorsal Fins - the brainchild of Melbourne’s busiest trumpet-playing songwriter, Liam McGorry (of Eagle & The Worm and Saskwatch fame). Dorsal Fins explores an array of sounds spanning ‘80s dance music to ‘90s grunge, to punk, synth pop and back again. Entry is $12, and doors open at 8pm.

MIDNIGHT WOOLF

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Here’s a residency you can sink your teeth into. Every Friday in September, Midnight Woolf will be stomping out their wild garage rock’n’roll show at The Reverence Hotel. Head on down to the ‘scray and watch the Woolf belt out two sets of their heady brew of surf-inspired garage dancefloor killers, as the band gears up for the release of a brand new live album. Get savage at The Reverence this Friday September 4 from 8.30pm onwards. Entry is free.

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Last year saw the festival present its biggest program ever (25% more shows than the previous year!), and in 2015 it’s set to be just as big. Beat is here to help you get the word out about your show, whether you’re an artist, a producer, a venue or more. festival an Beat will be continuing our tradition of producing a lift-out guide to the festival, all-encompassing bible of the Melbourne Fringe Festival that will be found in all 30,000 copies of Beat alongside 3,000 extra copies that will be carefully dispersed throughout the major festival hubs and venues.

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of classics from Bo Diddley and Tom Waits played on his amped up vintage Gibson lapsteel. For some free entry authentic folk stylings, head to The Poet this Friday from 8.30pm.

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SUN GOD REPLICA

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Sun God Replica has the pedigree of the talented Linsay McLennan taking on role of chief songwriter, singer and guitar shredder. You might know him better as Link Meanie of the iconic Meanies. So now, who’s in this lineup you may ask? Lochie Cavigan is now classified as Links main wingman, Loch kills it on drums and rips out a great backing vocal at the same time, and balls to the floor bassman Lance Swagger rounds out Sun God Replica’s sound beautifully. You know ‘em, you love ‘em, you can see ‘em this Friday at The Post Office Hotel and it won’t cost a thing.

Doors open 9.30pm.

THE AUDREYS

F LY I N G S AU C E R L O U N G E

Adelaide folksters The Audreys are bringing their melancholy melodies back to The Flying Saucer Lounge on Friday September 4. The Audreys’ first three records all won the ARIA award for Best Blues and Roots Album. They’ll be flying into the Flying Saucer this Friday September 4. Tickets are $30 on the door, doors at 8pm.

CLAWS & ORGANS THE OLD BAR

Melbourne three-piece scuzz rockers Claws & Organs unveil their latest efforts in the form of a new single, Alphabetti Spaghetti. The band, who’ve shared stages with acts like Adalita and DZ Deathrays, have spent 2015 wowing audiences across the country with their raw and energetic performance. They’ll be launching Alphabetti Spaghetti on Friday September 4 at The Old Bar. Pop your head in from 8.30pm, pay $10 and let the dark shoegaze wash over you.

STRANDED IN THE GARAGE

LUWOW Stranded in the Garage features a wash of today’s top '60s garage talents. Hypno Sex Ray will be throwing down some Cramps covers, The Kave Inn have you covered for ferocious fuzz riffs and Kit Convict and Thee Terrible Two, The Shockwaves, Dr Ludwig and Mickey will tear down the walls of LuWow until looks more like a garage. Park your self up LuWow’s driveway this Friday September 4. Doors open at 8pm.

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REGURGITATOR

PRINCE BANDROOM

Don’t say you don’t go to parties, baby.

All hail the mighty ‘gurge, who’re celebrating a solid 22 years in the biz, and will be hitting up The Prince Bandroom on Friday September 4 to party the fuck on. Joining them on the night will be Ausmeutants and Ouch My Face.

THE DRUNKEN POET After heading here from Sydney, folk blues singer/songwriter Sascha Klave makes his debut Melbourne appearance this Friday September 4 at The Drunken Poet. Back in his Sydney days, Sascha worked with a range of musos like John Swan (Swanee) Danny Heifetz (Mr Bungle, Link Wray) and Steve Clarke (Died Pretty). Sascha’s set features original balladeer songs full of searching and longing, alongside reinterpretations

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E It’s been a while since The Balls played at Whole Lotta Love, but it will be well worth the wait when the bearded meanies serve it up hard and heavy this Friday September 4. Good guys Coffin’ Up will play on the night, their first gig back from recording their debut EP, along with new guys The Last Dreg playing their debut gig together. Three bands, 8pm, $5.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5

STONE REVIVAL YA H YA H ’ S

Saturday night will host some sweet Melbourne based heavy stoner bluesy rock when Stone Revival hit the stage.

They’re joined in tow with Happy Go Blues, Ten Cent Pistols and Hollow Hounds on the night, and with the Meet Wagon frying up some quality southern dishes all evening, you’ll have your night sorted in the one place. Get to Yah Yah’s from 5pm onwards. Entry is free.

LOW RENT

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

It’s hard to think alt-country in Melbourne without thinking Low Rent. After seven years of slogging it out around the big city this sweet little band has scorched a burning brand on every urban cow-punk’s heart.

Mandolin laden ballads and all out

Left For Wolves

Define your genre in five words or less: Modern metal influenced by hardcore So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?

Hopefully they would say we sounded tight.

How long have you been gigging and writing?

The oldest ideas for the band were written about eight years ago and appeared on the demo. Left For Wolves played its first gig five years ago.

What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date?

Playing main support to Story Of The Year for a sold out show at 170 Russell/Billboards The Venue.

Having our own dressing room with showers and fluid catering wasn’t too shabby.

Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with?

Metallica. If nothing else (matters), it would just be cool to meet them.

What inspires your music the most?

Positivity. Maintaining a positive mental attitude to overcome life’s trials.

What do you think a band has to do to succeed?

Work hard. It’s not guaranteed, but hard work pays off. Some bands just seem lucky but someone somewhere is usually working hard to get those results.

Do you have any record releases to date?

We have released one demo and two EPs. We are currently writing a full length album.

Why should everyone come and see your band?

The energy. The main thing people usually tell us about our live shows is how much they like our energy and stage presence.

LEFT FOR WOLVES are headlining Laundry Bar on Thursday September 3.

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SUNDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER

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Verticoli

Define your genre in five words or less: Energetic, groovalicious, rifftastic alt-rock.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

Just the sort of music that we grew up listening to and love. Drums and guitars. If there’s a song that you can’t play without working up a sweat, we’re probably influenced by the band that plays that song.

What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date?

The Marion Bay Falls Festival last year. More festivals please.

Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with?

We’ve been trying to start a blood feud with the Madden brothers, so Good Charlotte. Otherwise 5 Seconds of Summer.

What do you think a band has to do to succeed?

Summery vibes and jangly guitars.

Do you have any record releases to date? What?

Where can I get it?

We released an EP at the end of 2013, that was fun but it was a bit of a DIY effort. Our debut album Punching Bag has just been released, which is a proper studio job and sounds excellent, we’re really proud of it. You can find it through JB Hi-Fi, iTunes and Spotify.

Why should everyone come and see your band?

To prevent the situation when your sister goes “Have you heard Verticoli?” and you haven’t, and then you’re too embarrassed to say you like it because your sister found out about us before you.

VERTICOLI are playing at Yah Yah’s on Friday September 4 alongside The Fibs, The Braves and Big Volcano.

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THE WESLE Y ANNE

Melbourne all female Middle-Eastern rock trio Kaisha are gracing the stage of The Wesley Anne on Saturday September 5. Following the release of their latest single Devils Tongue, this will be their final show before the release of their new album. They’ll be joined on the night by sacred belly dance group Bohka and world sounds of The Sound Mandala. Shuffle in to the Wesley this Saturday September 5 from 8pm onwards and catch the award winning act in the flesh. Entry is $10.

FRESH KILLS

THE REVERENCE HOTEL

South Australian punks Fresh Kills have loaded their latest album We Are / The People with soulpunk angst and post-everything rock n’ roll whimsy for the modern age and they’re heading to Footscray’s Rev to launch it this Saturday September 5. Tankerville, Wet Meal and Cut The Kite String are all on board, as you should be. Get in from 8pm before it goes too off chops. $8 charge on the door.

tickets for $29, doors open at 10pm.

THE CHANTOOZIES

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

The delectable, vibrant queens of pop The Chantoozies are coming back to heat up The Saucer this September. The girls will be performing all their hits including Witch Queen of New Orleans, Hes Gonna Step On You Again and Wanna Be Up, along with a few classic covers, all served with The Chantoozies’ signature sensual harmonies and sassy dance moves. Catch them at The Flying Saucer club this Saturday September 5. Doors open at 8pm with $33 GA tickets.

VAN WALKER’S HEARTBROKERS

T H E L A B O U R I N VA I N

Last summer, singer/songwriter Van Walker got together in a backyard studio with guitar extraordinaire Jeff Lang, piano hotrod Ezra Lee, skin monster Ash Davies and bass burglar Cal Walker to record an album of full-tilt bogan power boogie akin to Little Richard sitting in with AC/DC. Recorded live on a 40 plus degree day, the beer and sweat soaked songs turned into an album and eponymous live band, who perform very rarely but when they do go absolutely nuts. For those who love heartfelt roaring original Aussie rock’n’roll, get blotto down at the Labour in Vain this Saturday September 5. Entry is free as a bloody galah mate.

LUWOW

Keeping it tropical as always, The LuWow is hosting a double bill of Caribbean and soulful sounds this Saturday September 5. Kekoson bring to life all the charm and raunch of a blazing night in Havana with a sweltering set of Cuban ritmos, while Dan The Man will blow the dancefloor apart with his amazing tune selections. Slide on in to LuWow this Saturday for a piece of the pineapple.

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Masco Sound System

1. What Do You Look For in a Band?

We love bands who play like it matters to them. That means more than genre or scene. Getting to make art with people you love in front of people that connect to it in some way is an absolute privilege and there’s no quicker way to kill your band’s appeal than to get on a stage and act like you don’t acknowledge that.

2. Keeping Busy We’ve just released our first single The Nicest Faces (available from mascosoundsystem.bandcamp.com).

That single came out of some recording sessions that we did with another couple of artists on Wombat State Records. That’s been our main focus for the last little while. Now we’re looking forward to playing some shows and getting out of the studio for a while.

3. Best Gig Ever Our first show ever at the Kwingy 3000 festival. It’s a great little festival our friends organise and it was amazing. A tiny little hall in the middle of the bush filled with some of the best bands in Melbourne and some of the greatest people on earth. Pretty hard to top.

4. Current Playlist D’Angelo, The Modern Lovers, Big Star, Velvet Underground, Fat Freddy’s Drop, MF Doom, Flying Lotus, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin.

5. Your Ultimate Rider We’re pretty easy to please. I mean really, how hard is it to get a hold of a few slabs, a rack of nangs, balloons and a copy of Purple Rain on laser disc.

MASCO SOUND SYSTEM play every Monday in September at The Workers Club, with Tall Shores (7th), Scurvylicious (14th), Peter Lubulwa (21st), and Sugar Teeth (28th).

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WENDY RULE BAR 303

Now living in Portland, Oregon, Melbourne’s visionary songstress Wendy Rule is making a trip home to kick off her Australian tour with a gig at Bar 303 this Saturday September 5. Join Rule and friends for a unique night packed with music, magic and mythology. Doors open 8pm; tickets are $20, $15 concession.

Gearing up for the release of their debut EP due later this year, Erik Parker and The Chapters are crawling out of the wood shed to take their soul blues blend to the Grace Darling this Saturday September 5. Not ones to hog the spotlight, the night’s lineup also features Tom Lee-Richards (full band) with a new single and performance troupe, Monique Shelford showcasing her fresh ensemble, and Allysha Joy just back from her tour with 30/70. A busy night at the Darling, this Saturday September 5 from 8pm. $10 entry.

If you know a thing or two about Melbourne’s music scene then you should recognize the work of Charlie Marshall. The Melbourne based singer/ songwriter has been busy playing local pubs the town over, with personal lyrics proclaiming his interests in life, love, science, philosophy and the universe.

Charlie Marshall will stomp his foot and belt out a tune on The Post Office Hotel stage this Sunday September 6. The free entry show opens 4.30pm.

HOLY HOLY HOWLER

Their Saturday night show sold out tickets faster than you can say holy anything, so composer duo Holy Holy have opened a Sunday night session for anyone who missed out. With classic songs, extensive radio play, glowing reviews from blogs and press internationally, huge supports, soldout headline shows and international gigs under their belts, Holy Holy have already achieved so much. The release of their full length turned enough heads to result in the earlier mentioned sell out show, so get a slice of the action this Sunday September 6 at Howler. Entry is $23, doors open at 7.30pm.

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

The Just Listen Project have produced a CD to coincide with R U OK? Day, dedicated to inspiring all people of all backgrounds to regularly ask each other ‘Are you OK?’ on Thursday September 10. The Just Listen Project was born from a need to contribute to mental health awareness, and the very special event at The Bendigo Hotel boasts a lineup of Calling Utopia, She Wolf, Dojo Collectors and Shadows at Bay performing all in support of the charity.

The show starts at 5pm, entry is $5. Get on down if you fancy a listen.

SIMON ASTLEY

THE DRUNKEN POET

Australian singer/songwriter Simon Astley started his national tour this month and now, Astley is back on the road to play a special show at The Drunken Poet this Sunday September 6. You’ll find Simon at The Drunken Poet this Sunday September 6 from 4pm, with free entry.

DANNY WALSH

THE ROCHESTER CASTLE HOTEL

After releasing their debut album Rolling On back in 2013, The Danny Walsh Banned have become renowned for their often spontaneous, always high powered live performances. This Sunday, revelry blues man Danny Walsh is bringing the stripped back Banned Duo to The Rochester Castle Hotel, playing two sets from 5pm. For some serious Father’s Day tunes, get down to The Rochester this Sunday September 6.

THE JVG GUITAR METHOD BACKWOOD CREATURES

SHEBEEN

T H E L A B O U R I N VA I N

BETTER THAN THE WIZARD

WILKINSON

THE WORKER’S CLUB

Mark Wilkinson’s new school drum and bass from straight outta South London has the international scene utterly hooked. Lush, melodic and emotional, Wilkinson’s tunes have crossed into the realm of pop while still pleasing the hardcore fans with fast beats and hard drops. He’s touring nationally this week, with a Prince Bandroom gig this Saturday September 5. Grab your

Blending pop, funk, rock and jazz is a sound Better Than The Wizard are becoming known for. This local sixpiece takes their influences from a wide range of genres to create a diverse, fun, energetic and powerful live performance.

After releasing their self-titled debut album last year, and launching it to a full house at the Hi Fi Bar (now Max Watt's) in Melbourne, Better Than The Wizards

PRINCE BANDROOM

CHARLIE MARSHALL

THE POST OFFICE HOTEL

THE JUST LISTEN PROJECT

MEMO CLUB

SOUL-A-GO-GO Send off winter in style with Soul-AGo-Go at Shebeen this Saturday night.

Catch PBS DJ’s Vince Peach, Miss Goldie, Richie 1250 and special guests Andrew Young, Mr Rex and Big Daddy Warbucks on the decks for this special edition of PBS’ weekly party of soul. As always, it’s $10 entry for PBS members and $15 for non-members. The action kicks off at 9pm and keeps rockin’ right through to 3am this Saturday September 5.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6

world of nature – woods, mountains and songs of whales at the bottom of the ocean. Naturally, you’ll have a good time. Hit Cherry Bar from 8pm onwards to get in on the narrative.

Entry is free, much like the air you’re breathing.

KEKOSON

ERIK PARKER AND THE CHAPTERS

SPEED DATE WITH…

are back with more foot-tapping, indie pop music and they’re ready to bring it to you. Get to the Worker’s Club from 8.30pm to catch the magic, this Saturday September 5. Entry is $15 on the door.

Backwood Creatures is a Melbourne based swamp-rock act with a loving local following. The energetic trio harks back to the glory days when guitar-driven riffs and rich vocals were king, the stuff you were brought up on; the cassette tapes that rattled in the glove box of your first car. Get nostalgic when the Creatures crawl into the Labour in Vain this Sunday September 6.

MAKE LIKE A TREE CHERRY BAR

Make Like a Tree is a quintessention of travels expressed in music and photography created by Sergey Onischenko – a vagabonder from Ukraine hitchhiking round the world, spreading his indie-folk tunes with a touch of non-conformism and Beat generation ideas. Each concert is played with new members and all songs are created and recorded in different parts of the world. It’ll bring you to an inner

MEMO Music Hall is launching a new program of Sunday arvo music in their new venue MEMO Club - upstairs from the main room inside the St Kilda RSL. Every Sunday afternoon from 5pm to 7pm the Winnebago Lounge will roll. Each night will have two sets from a different band every week, along with an MC that has to perform a song with the band in each set. Tonight’s festivities are curated by The JVG Guitar Method with MC Jane Clifton – and with free entry and drinks at RSL prices you gotta love it. The first session kicks off this Sunday September 6 at the MEMO Club. 5pm onwards, free entry.

THE STICKING PLACE W H O L E L O T TA L O V E

Celebrate a dirty spring this Sunday at Whole Lotta Love with pints of Bloody Mary going for $10. Grab yourself one and kick back with music and spoken word performances from Ben William, The Dusty Minstrel and The Sticking Place. Nothing too strenuous, but

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TOP TENS

PBS FM TOP TEN

1. High ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Mother’s Not Feeling Herself Today SUZANNAH ESPIE 3. Oh The Gold AINSLIE WILLS 4. Illegals In Heaven BLANK REALM 5. Stuff Like That There YO LA TENGO 6. Invisible Wilderness Volume I & Volume II RAE HOWELL 7. Sacrée Obsession WILL GUTHRIE 8. Secretly Susan SUI ZHEN 9. Personal Computer SILICON 10. These Walls ANNA CORDELL

HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN

BLANK REALM Illegals In Heaven (Bedroom Suck)

The latest album from Blank Realm may be their most accessible, but Illegals In Heaven doesn’t exactly ease you in. Ragged licks of guitar introduce the impulsive, vicious opener No Views On It; a no-apologies submission to the visceral pull of their music. The chorus, “I got no views on it/ It’s just something that I do”, is chanted by siblings Daniel and Sarah Spencer, and it could well be the band’s mantra.

Overseen by producer Lawrence English, Illegals In Heaven carefully contains the band’s music without losing their manic energy.

Illegals in Heaven features a greater range of songs, which creates a more layered whole. After starting with the heaviest song, they move into what would traditionally be considered the obvious single, River of Longing. It’s romantic, melodic, primal, and an instant classic. The tempo drops right down for acoustic ballad Dream Date, and Cruel Night has weeping slide guitars and something of a Mazzy Star vibe. Blistering noise-pop returns in the form of fuzzed-out guitar and bashed xylophone keys on

the riotous Costume Drama.

Flipping the record over to side-B, any assumptions that River Of Longing is the album’s biggest charmer are challenged by a stunning twinset of power pop songs, Flowers In Mind and Palace Of Love. Sandwiched in between them is the gorgeous Gold, pulling Sarah into the spotlight as lead vocalist. It’s a great standalone track, but also adds to the dynamics of this well-balanced collection.

The vocals get wrapped up in the music’s frenetic energy, so it can be hard to grasp the lyrical subject matter. The common theme seems to be outsiders in love, finding joy and energy within the complex confines of their ‘palace of love’. Positive energy is exhausted completely by the final track, Too Late Now. It’s an eerie, disorientated stagger through psychedelic, shoeless sounds. Bleak and murky, Too Late Now echoes some of their earliest recordings and is a raw, emotive close to the album.

CHRIS GIRDLER

SINGLES

BY LACHLAN

I got so fucked up on the weekend I told someone that if Black Eyed Peas’ Where Is The Love? was instead a 2015 Kendrick song it would blow everyone’s fucking mind. I unreservedly apologise for this transgression.

FASCINATOR Dead Of The Night (Spinning Top) Children Collide’s Johnny Mackay continues to go all in on his psych indulgence with the charging Dead Of The Night, tip-toeing with Moroder synths that emanate an atmosphere befitting the title. Kept fairly low-key, there are some solid ideas on show here.

SEXWITCH Helelyos (Independent) Bat For Lashes (AKA Natasha Khan) surprise-announced her new side-project Sexwitch along with the track Helelyos – a creeping cover of an Iranian psych deep cut from the ‘70s. It’s a worthy divergence from Khan, and would be great in the live setting.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Paper Mache Dream Balloon (Flightless/Remote Control) Bringing their flautist inclinations heavily into their recorded form, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard herald their new record (seriously can’t be arsed looking up what number we’re up to at this stage) with some lovely vintage pop, panning for melodic gold and plucking a few choice nuggets. It’s chilled out, but still exudes energy with a few bursts of snare.

BROADWAY SOUNDS Shonky Man (Independent) Maintaining the killer dancefloor frenzy offered on their killer cut Sing It Again, Broadway Sounds showcase their tightly-wound ability to pressurise goodness between their electronic and organic elements. There’s some flair, some dynamic, and it feels good to get lost in the flurry.

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T H E

W E E K

THE HARPOONS

Ready For Your Love (Independent) Ready For Your Love revels in a certain purity, an embracement of platitude. A magic moment comes when vocalist Bec Rigby gives an offhand quip, “I was born ready for your love”, and in that moment, you believe – a triumph, a joy, a spirit.

A subtle reggaeton groove, a handclap raised above the head while hips sway, a choral beauty. This is heart music.

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LE1F Koi (Terrible/Remote Control) The condensed super-pop of PC Music’s Sophie usually finds itself coupled with hyper chipmunk vox (making a brief cameo here).

Le1f – a solid producer in his own right – provides a disruption of expectation with a sensual midregister, matching the frenetic production with a rapid flow that clears into a spacious build. It works for the most part, despite the diminishing potency of PC Music’s aural aesthetic.

JUSTIN BIEBER What Do You Mean (Universal) Picking up on the stripped back emotive EDM-pop laid down on the Skrillex/Diplo collab Where Are Ü Now, Biebz hits the mark yet again with a measured, refreshing romp, punctuated by tick-tock percussion and a pretty ridiculous flute line.

NO ZU Ui Yia Uia (Chapter) Heaving like a glistening, sweaty torso, No Zu flex their wares many times over during the throb of Ui Yia Uia, bringing to mind headbanging P-Funk when it all blows open – something it does quite fucking majestically. It twists the mind then slingshots it into the celestial.

1. Escape From N.Y. 2LP JOHN CARPENTER 2. Still 2LP JOY DIVISION 3. Daybreaker LP BETH ORTON 4. Ocean Beach 2LP RED HOUSE PAINTERS 5. Exit Stage Left 2LP RUSH 6. Fontanelle LP BABES IN TOYLAND 7. Double Trouble 10” PUBLIC IMAGE LTD 8. Self Titled LP MOTHERSLUG 9. Heathen LP DAVID BOWIE 10. Willow Lane 7” RYAN ADAMS

RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN

1. High ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Stuff Like That There YO LA TENGO 3. Kill It Yourself JESS RIBEIRO 4. Sorry I Let It Come Between Us SASKWATCH 5. Depression Cherry BEACH HOUSE 6. Universal Themes SUN KIL MOON 7. Death Magic HEALTH 8. As A Four Piece Band CURED PINK 9. Biomass BATSHIT 10. Blossom FRANK CARTER AND THE RATTLESNAKES

COLLECTORS CORNER MISSING LINK TOP TEN 1. High LP/CD ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Sol Invictus LP/CD FAITH NO MORE 3. Secret History LP PAVEMENT 4. High Country LP THE SWORD 5. Meliora LP GHOST 6. Demo tape REBIRTH 7. Afterthoughts In Limbo 2LP WHITE WALLS 8. Abyss LP/CD CHELSEA WOLFE 9. Fantasy Empire LP LIGHTNING BOLT 10. Currents LP TAME IMPALA

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS WITH EXPLICIT CONTENT

1. Fuck Tha Police N.W.A 2. Asshole DENNIS LEARY 2. Just Don’t Give A Fuck EMINEM 4. Every Fucking City PAUL KELLY 4. People = Shit SLIPKNOT 5. Fuck Forever BABYSHAMBLES 5. You Shit Me To Tears THE TENANTS 6. Mutha Fukka On A Motorcycle MACHINE GUN FELLATIO 7. Everything’s Fucked FRENZAL RHOMB 8. My Offence HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR 9. Bunch Of Cunts SLEAFORD MODS 10. Funky Shit THE PRODIGY

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DEFEATER

FRANK TURNER

Abandoned

GHOST

Positive Songs for Negative People

(Epitaph)

Meliora

(Spinefarm/Caroline)

(Xtra Mile/Universal)

Abandoned is the fourth studio album for Boston based hardcore band, Defeater.

It adheres to the high standard of their earlier releases, and continues the story which began in their first album Travels. All of Defeater’s music exists within a fictional landscape. The band has stated that nothing they create will stray from this concept, which follows the stories and violent struggles of a fictional New Jersey family.

The eleventh and final song, Vice and Regret, is a clear standout. Of course this might be because Defeater have mastered the art of building tension on the way to heavy and complex finales. The song features ridiculously fast drum work and gut-wrenching lyrics to make you feel nothing but hopelessness, which is echoed by the lyrics, “I am no one, I am nothing”.

Lead single Spared In Hell is a good indication of the explosive guitars, roaring vocals and reckless drumming found on the rest of the album.

Abandoned is fantastic for what it is. It’s awesome to see bands breaking the mould with releases that not only offer great music, but also a unique approach. Despite being immaculately played and produced, there’s a sense of predictability to each track. A group that are as talented and capable as Defeater could definitely push the envelope further.

When Frank Turner sings, “I’m trying to get better, because I haven’t been my best,” roughly five minutes into his sixth studio album, he lets on a little more than he would probably care to. The last record Turner put his name to, 2013’s Tape Deck Heart, was his most uninspired LP to date, suggesting the Wessex native had grown too comfortable in his own skin. That notion is almost instantly put to bed on Positive Songs – it’s quite literally the sound of Turner getting better.

This is a defiant record; one refusing to rest on foundations previously laid down and refusing to give up on the folk-punk dream. The Next Storm is triumphant, Silent Key is one of Turner’s best attempts at storytelling to date, and Out of Breath is the most punk song the man has performed since Punk Rock Saved My Life.

We almost lost him for a minute there, but Turner’s made a considerable turnaround. Positive Songs for Negative People is his best record in years and an exceptional showcase of how rewarding his music can be when his heart is in it.

Ghost are a really weird band.This Swedish band promote themselves as a death metal outfit, so you may have thought of other brutal acts from the continent like Suffer or Bloodbath. However, Ghost’s sound is closer to glam rock outfits like The Darkness, minus the leopard print and hairspray. Despite this, anticipation is high for their third album Meliora.

Ghost’s frontman takes on the stage persona of Papa Emeritus III, a satanic priest in skull makeup, but that’s about as metal as things get. Admittedly, Ghost do have fun with this concept, collecting fans and global acclaim with their comic and ghoulish façade. Of all the tracks on Meliora, Cirice is the most bearable. It features plenty of heavy guitar, addictive hooks and Papa shows off his impressive vocal range. The lyrics are catchy and you’ll probably find yourself humming the chorus hours afterward. Cirice is further backed by clean production and some innovative arrangements, which is true of other Meliora tracks, Spirit and Devil Church.

Although Ghost present a reasonably amusing gimmick, they are let down by the fact their music is, for the most part, underwhelming and derivative.

BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

BY BEL RYAN

BY BEL RYAN

SUZANNAH ESPIE

BEACH HOUSE

(Mistletone)

Free Agent

(Rice is Nice Records)

(Independent)

Depression Cherry is the fifth album from Baltimore duo Beach House. In the words of vocalist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally, the album is “a colour, a place, a feeling, an energy,” that describes the places you arrive at as “you move through endless, varied trips of existence.”

And it’s true, the sense of dreamy, wistful journeying that was present in the band’s previous two LPs, Bloom and Teen Dream, continues. Though, this time they’re focused on simpler sounds.

Opening track, Levitation, hovers gently at the top of the album, neatly heralding the sonic downsizing. In Space Song, a delicate melody hypnotically hums along, broken only occasionally by the repeated chorus lyrics, “Fall back in to place/ Fall back in to place.” You get the feeling the fall into space will eventually follow, but it never does, giving the song a wholly surreal character.

PPP opens by asking, “Out in the heartland/ I looked in your eyes and I asked/ Are you ready?/ Ready for this life?” This song unfurls a series of similar questions, commenting on love, responsibility and faults. Encased in a sweet melody, the pragmatism of the lyrics forms an interesting contrast.

The final track, Days of Candy, features eight singers from Hattiesburg, Mississippi’s Pearl River Community College contributing to a 24-part harmony. Midway through the song comes the repeated line, “Just like that, it’s gone.” It could be the lyrics, or maybe the knowledge that the album is, after nine songs, drawing to a close, but this refrain adds a cathartic quality. In Days of Candy, you’re saying farewell to a friend. It’s a stunning and moving end to the album, and another extraordinary display from Beach House.

BY IZZY TOLHURST

ANGIE

Mother’s Not Feeling Herself Today

Depression Cherry

In 2012 Suzannah Espie, who had previously released five albums with her popular alt-country combo GIT, received a great deal of acclaim for her third solo record Sea of Lights. It was named Rhythm Magazine’s Album of the Year and made it into The Age EG’s Top 15 albums of 2012. Despite Espie’s success, she spent many years struggling with anxiety, anger and self-doubt and wrestled with the fear that others were judging and questioning her abilities as a mother. On her new album Mother’s Not Feeling Herself Today, she confronts these thoughts and feelings in song; a process that, although possibly cathartic, has produced accessible music of great beauty and depth.

Espie’s vocal prowess is employed to great effect on What Would You Say, as she conjures up many emotions, yet does so with admirable subtlety and restraint. One of the album’s many impressive features is the manner in which Espie’s evocative lyrics pack an emotional punch whilst drawing the listener deep into the unfolding drama. The Day I Lost You, for example, is imbued with a still yet ominous atmosphere. She sings, “The day that I lost you/ I blackened the blue sky/ I poisoned the morning dew/ I trapped the birds that flew/ Cursed the waking hours/ Staring at the flowers in every room.”

Despite the emotionally charged lyrics, there are a multitude of toetapping moments throughout the album. I’m Sorry may evoke Espie’s sense of failure, yet it does so with gentle rhythmic power. The catchy central melody and soaring gospel-tinged vocal harmonies seem destined to lift rather than dampen the spirit. The title track, a shining slice of country pop, traverses melancholy topics, yet is buoyed by an addictive, swinging rhythm and punctuated with liquid guitar.

On this heartfelt and honest album, Espie has displayed a masterful ability to make the personal public through music that is poignant, inclusive and inspiring.

On her sophomore album Free Agent, Sydney-based singer Angela Garrick (of Circle Pit and Straight Arrow fame) continues the exploration of self that started with her debut Turning. While the journey is far from over, the path seems far less muddy. Earnest songwriting can be fraught with challenges but some artists, like Angie, execute it effortlessly and with total authenticity.

Opener Breathing In Blue is bare bones lo-fi pop, fuelled by piano. Lines like “Breathing in blue, I see red,” “I’m in two minds, but which one is mine?” convey a despondent sadness. Crocodile Tears is swaddled in reverb with a heavily over-driven guitar sound; the production not dissimilar to Ty Segall’s early output. Down For The Count is a pulse-raising hedonistic thumper. A Man Asleep holds its head high for an instrumental piece, dabbling in experimental noise; the use of effects and textures creates a fractured soundscape, both ethereal and visceral.

Out of Age turns the psych rock up a few notches – howling guitar leads battle with Angie’s vocals for a spot in the limelight, and it’s a fair fight.

“We’re living, we’re breathing, we’re seething,” feels like a call to arms and it’s a suitable thrasher of a song to deliver the command. The phrasing and delivery on closing track The Bell Rings True is reminiscent of neo folk anti-hero Kurt Vile and deals with the eye opening moment when people reveal their true colours.

Free Agent rises and falls in the all right places; nothing rattles your bones offensively. The depressive downswings meld slowly but surely into the manic upswings. Angie has produced an emotionally driven piece of work that is still heavily focused on musicality.

BY KRYSTAL MAYNARD

BY GRAHAM BLACKLEY

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

WHISKEY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $7.00.

• RESIDUAL + VELVET BOW + JORDAN RIDDLE Workers Club, Geelong. 7:00pm.

• BIG EASY SOUL SESSIONS Carlton Club, Melbourne

• SHIT SEX + CEREAL KILLER Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

• BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• SLOWLY SLOWLY + SELF TALK + JEFFERS LIMIT

Cbd. 8:00pm.

• CLAMBE + BOADZ 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

7:00pm.

Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.

• DIZZY’S BIG BAND WITH PETER HEARNE Dizzy’s Jazz

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

• GARRICK OHLSSON Melbourne Recital Centre,

• ACOUSTIC SUPERSTARS - FEAT: TARA WALSH

Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

Southbank. 7:30pm. $55.00.

Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.

+ ISABELLA RICHARDSON + LIANA PERILLO + NICOLE CONDOS + REBECCA CARDAMONE + JESSICA AIEZZA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00.

• LILLITH LANE + VAN WALKER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

• MELBOURNE UKULELE KOLLECTIVE BEGINNER’S

• HUE BLANES QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• MEDITERRANEAN STORIES Melbourne Recital Centre, • THE REBETIKO ENSEMBLE Open Studio, Northcote.

• TINY CHET TRIO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • BAT COUNTRY + EDEL PLASTIK + LINCOLN &

MARCOS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

• BROKE & WASTED - FEAT: KARLI WHITE + PILLOW PRO + HOT ACTION Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• IMAGINE DRAGONS Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne.

7:50pm. $91.00.

• JEBEDIAH + DJ SCOOTER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $50.00.

• JMC END OF TRIMESTER SHOW Workers Club, Fitzroy.

5:00pm. $2.50.

• MISS MISS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

7:00pm.

CLASS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

• NICK BASTIRAS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 9:00pm.

• OPEN MIC Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown. 7:30pm.

• OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

• OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MILLER’S

SINGALONG Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $18.00.

• RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: JOEY ELBOWS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: PENY BOHAN +

TRACEY HOGUE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3

• OPEN MIC + HOSTED BY MARK GARDNER Whole

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

• PALACE OF THE KING + DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar,

• ABUNDANCE - FEAT: SUSIE PARK Melbourne Recital

• PETE EWING & BAND + SCOUTS + SIDESHOW

• AFTER DINNER MINT - FEAT: DJ TRAVIS T Big

Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.

BRIDES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $15.00.

• PVBLO + TETRAHEDRA + THE FABRIC. Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $8.00.

• RED SKY BURIAL + THE DUKES OF

DELICIOUSNESS + FOREIGN KINGS + LACE &

Q&A

Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.

Mouth, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

• AMOR MATRIS ET FILIAE DUET RECITAL - FEAT:

EMMA & OLIVIA O’BRIEN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $28.00.

• AN EVENING WITH RENÉE FLEMING + SIR

ANDREW DAVIS Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• ANNA POWELL & JONO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.

• DIGBY HANNAH & THE PREACHERS + PAUL

(COLD MOON LAUNCH) Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

8:00pm.

• MASTER BLASTER + HAILGUN + ATOMIC DEATH

SQUAD + DOGSHIT Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

8:00pm. $5.00.

• NEW BIRDS + ARRESTOR + NIGHT WALKS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $7.00.

• NEXT - FEAT: ADMIT ONE + KIDS IN CONTROL +

HALF BREED HEROES Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.

8:30pm. $15.00.

• OPEN MIC NIGHT Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

• REGURGITATOR + DJ ANNALIESE REDLICH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• RIOT RIOT RIOT - FEAT: LEFT FOR WOLVES +

HIDEAWAY + DROWN THIS FURY + EVOLUTION OF SELF Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• SHOWCASE NIGHTS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• SPECTRAL FIRES + OF STOLEN MOMENTS + DISASTERS + TURN SOUTH Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $5.00.

• SUPER UNSIGNED MUSIC FESTIVAL - FEAT:

PHANTOM PANDA POWER WIZARD MASTER SMASHER + WATER BEAR + SÌYÕR + MUSCAT + LITTLE JEZ + ULYSSES WULF Max Watt’s, Melbourne.

7:00pm. $17.00.

• THE OVER EASYS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne.

• MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD

FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• QUARTER STREET + PUBLIC OPINION 6 + DJ EMMA PEEL Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

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• JAMES THOMSON & THE STRANGE PILGRIMS

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

ZUTROY play The Brunswick Hotel on Thursday September 3 with Oscar Galt and The Eventual Somethings, The Punching Ponies and Jurassic Nark.

It’s no secret The Drones are a much adored Melbourne outfit, so it was a no brainer this show was going to be our Gig Of The Week. I mean, fuck - the band graced our cover a couple of weeks ago, which is usually the sign of a pretty ace band. The Drones are on home turf this weekend, celebrating ten years since the release of their album Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Float By. Don’t let this show float on by. Catch their hometown vibes this Saturday September 5 at The Forum.

PENTON & FRIENDS Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm.

• HOT WINGS + ULTRAVIBRALUX + SATURN 3 Bar

So then, what do you ‘do’ in the band?

My name’s Dylan and I’m riding vocals.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like?

Our mate Tom says we sound like Red Hot Chili Peppers with Billy Idol vocals.

My mum says we sound shit. I think we’re somewhere in the middle.

What do you love about making music?

That feeling when a new song clicks into place.

What do you hate about the music industry?

The lack of bands that use cowbell.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?

Iggy Pop. I feel like he’d be down to jam and get fucked up with us.

If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why?

Leo Sayer, for allowing my Dad to torture me with his music when I was growing up.

What can a punter expect from your live show?

Beers, bad dancing and high energy, grungey punk rock. Oh, also nudity.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?

We have tunes up on Bandcamp and triple j Unearthed.

Anything else to add?

Make love and listen to Zutroy.

THE DRONES

• THE BOMBASTICS + THE WHITE TREE BAND Big

• HORNS OF LEROY & IMMORTAL HORNS Toff In

Zutroy

GIG OF THE WEEK!

$15.00.

• SOUTHERN STARS Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• STEINWAY PIANO SERIES - FEAT: CHAI JIE LOW Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.50.

• THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO

+ TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.

7:00pm.

• THE SHACKMEN 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ

PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• THOMAS LORENZO TRIO (CONVERSATIONS IN

MEDITERRANEAN JAZZ) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne

Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Mouth, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

8:00pm.

• ZUTROY + OSCAR GALT & THE EVENTUAL

SOMETHINGS + THE PUNCHING PONIES + JURASSIC NARK Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • ALANNA EILEEN + OSCAR LUSH + ROUGH RIVER Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN + THE FABRIC +

LAM Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.

• BACKSTAGE BLUES NIGHT - FEAT: CHRIS WILSON + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE HOUSE BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• GUMBO CLUB + THE BLUES BASH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

• ISAAC DE HEER DUO Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 9:00pm.

• JACKSON MCLAREN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

• JAYNE WEST Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

• MICK TURNER + MALCOLM HILL + CAROLINE NO Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: SUE CORRELL Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 10:00am. $17.00.

• OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.

• PHIL PARA BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• BLACK CLAW + DIRT BIRD + TK BOLLINGER Old Bar,

• SWEET FELICIA & THE HONEYTONES Lomond Hotel,

• FLAMINGO JONES & THE COCONUT YAH YAH

• THE RAILWAY GANG STRING BAND Railway Hotel,

Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

BOYS + LEISURE SUITE + WABZ Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• GRASSHOLE + GREENTHIEF + CARL RUSSO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

• GRIYA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

• HOLY HOLY (WHEN THE STORMS COME TOUR) +

FRACTURES Workers Club, Geelong. 8:00pm.

• IN CAPITAL + YOUNG HYSTERIA + JAVAN ASH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

• IRON CHIC + SELF DEFENSE FAMILY + CERES +

HORROR MY FRIEND + LAURA PALMER Reverence

Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $25.00.

• JACK LADDER & THE DREAMLANDERS + LOST

ANIMAL Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $25.00.

Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

Fitzroy North. 8:30pm.

• TINGY CELESTINO Yacht Club Hotel, Williamstown.

8:00pm.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • 8FOOT FELIX Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• A NIGHT TO REMEMBER - FEAT: CAMBERWELL

GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $16.00.

• FINISHING SCHOOL Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:30pm. $10.00.

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

• LOUISA RANKIN QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.

• NILUSHA DASSENAIKE (LOTUS VERSES) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $25.00.

• PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm.

• SASCHA KLAVE + TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC

SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

• SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: STEELE BONUS + ARKS

+ RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

• THE DUB CAPTAINS + THE EMBERS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

• THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• THE GLASS MOON Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.

• THE PINK TILES + GIRL CRAZY + SWIM TEAM +

LAZERTITS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• THE STEVE MAGNUSSON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

9:00pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS + FLYYING

COLOURS + LUNA GHOST Corner Hotel, Richmond.

8:00pm. $44.00.

• BANG - FEAT: DREAM ON DREAMER +

ENTITLEMENTS + DOUBLE CHAMBER Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

• CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

9:30pm.

• CLAWS & ORGANS + RIVER OF SNAKES + DARK

FAIR + CABLE TIUES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• COLD IRONS BOUND Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

• DANNY KRANSKY + SARGE & THE NUKED + FOOT +

OLI DEAR Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• DIVINE ASCENSION + AMARONIC + ACOLYTE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• DORSAL FINS + CREPES + LEAH SENIOR + DJ

STRATEGY FADS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + BRONNIE GORDON &

BELLATRIX Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• HEY HEY IT’S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

• HOLY HOLY (WHEN THE STORMS WOULD COME

TOUR) + FRACTURES Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $15.00.

• HOOLIGANS + STRAWBERRY FISTCAKE +

BOMBS ARE FALLING + DARK RAVEN + FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.

• LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• LED ZEPPELIN SHOW CASE - FEAT: ATOMIC RIOT + TWO HEADED DOG + THE PASS OUTS + THE IVORY ELEPHANT Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. $12.00.

• LISTEN FIRST BDAY PARTY - FEAT: LITTLE DESERT + JULIA WHY? + SARAH MARY CHADWICK + LUCY CLICHE + TWO STEPS ON THE WATER + ZONE OUT + SOVEREIGN TRAX + EATON MESS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $15.00.

• CANNONBALL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

• MASTER BLASTER + ISCARIOT Public Bar, North

• DANA CZARSKI Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.

• METHYL ETHYL + SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE +

9:00pm. $25.00.

6:00pm. $10.00.

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Melbourne. 4:00pm.

GOOD MORNING Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.

• MIDNIGHT WOOLF Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm.

• MY ECHO + CROWBAIT + THE CONTROLLERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. $13.00.

• OHMS + TANKERVILLE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

• POISON CITY WEEKENDER - FEAT: WEEDY

GONZALEZ + SHITRIPPER + CRISIS ALERT + HOSTILE OBJECTS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm.

$10.00.

• POISON CITY WEEKENDER FEST - FEAT: THE

SMITH STREET BAND + ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD + LUCA BRASI + THE SIDEKICKS + POSTBLUE 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

• PRETTY CITY + CHARLIE MONSOON + VON STAX Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• REGURGITATOR + OUCH MY FACE +

AUSMUTEANTS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

• NICK PIETSCH + AU DRAY QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

• PAUL WILLIAMSON QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• SOL NATION Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. 8:00pm.

• SOUL A-GO-GO - FEAT: MISS GOLDIE + VINCE

PEACH + RICHIE 1250 + ANDREW YOUNG + MR REX + BIG DADDY WARBUCKS Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• SOUND OF CUBA (KEKOSON) The Luwow, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

• TAMANDUA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.

• THE DUB CAPTAINS + THE EMBERS + HELOISE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• THE LAGERPHONES (JAZZ PARTY) Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

$44.90.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• AMETHYST CLOSE + INTERCRANIAL TREMORS

• SANSONUS + JOHN CITIZEN + TWINSPEAK Tote • SISTERS DOLL + CLAM SANDWICH + NAPOLEONIC

+ ELLEN ROSE & ODIUS Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

7:00pm. $10.00.

• SLIM JEFFRIES + HOLLOW HOUNDS + ANDY

RICHARDS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

• STRANDED IN THE GARAGE - FEAT: HYPNO SEX RAY + THE KAVE-INN + KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO + SHOCK WAVES + DR LUDWIG + MICKY SHUTDOWN The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• SUN GOD REPLICA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

• THE ANGELS (THE A-Z TOUR) Chelsea Heights Hotel,

+ TRAGIC EARTH + THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE + MASSACRE OF INNOCENCE + BEHOLD THE DEFIANT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $15.00.

• ARTIST PROOF + THE SAND DOLLARS + PIIE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.

• BARE BONES + A GHOST ORCHESTRA + CAUTION

THIEVES + THE APPROACH + DRIVETIME COMMUTE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• BETTER THAN THE WIZARD + STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS + SOUL SAFARI Workers Club, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $10.00.

Chelsea Heights. 8:00pm. $40.00.

• BLACKBREAKS & DEVILMONKEY + BATTLESICK +

Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00.

• BOOTLEG RASCAL + DESERT MULES + THE BROW

• THE BALLS + COFFIN’ UP + THE LAST DREG Whole • THE VERTICOLITAS & THE FIBS + THE BRAVES +

BIG VOLCANO Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $13.00.

• THE ’64 FALCON Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

• WATT’S ON PRESENTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:30pm.

• WIREHEADS & OLD MATE + THE SHIFTERS + THE

GREAT OUTDOORS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

• WITCHGRINDER Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • ANNA CORDELL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

• ATOMIC JAMBOREE (DANCEFLOOR HITS OF

THE 40S & 50S URANIUM ERA) - FEAT: YVETTE JOHANNSON + LOUIS KING + THE PEARLY SHELLS St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20.00.

• BOOTLEG RASCAL Northcote Social Club, Northcote.

8:30pm. $15.00.

• DAVEYS FRIDAYS - FEAT: ROB & TARQUIN +

SUPERFLY DJS Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.

9:00pm.

• JEROME SMITH & THE COVERING ADDICTS Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.

KAKARIKO Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $12.00.

• DAVE WRIGHT & THE MIDNIGHT ELECTRIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

• DEAF WISH (PAIN LAUNCH) + TOL + VACCUUM +

TERRY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• FRAUDBAND The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• GATHERER & GUARDS OF MAY + GLASS EARTH + BEAR THE MAMMOTH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• GLITTERGANG Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• GRAIN OF TRUTH Wesley Anne, Northcote. 1:00pm.

• HOLY HOLY (WHEN THE STORMS COME TOUR) +

FRACTURES + EDWARD R Howler, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

• HOLY SERPENT + A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

• HOT FEST - FEAT: SISTERS DOLL + ELLEN ROSE +

CLAM SANDWICH + SHADED GREY + THE MASON BOYS + LONE FREE + MORE Musicland, Fawkner.

10:30am. $10.00.

• HOWQUA + GENA ROSE BRUCE + ARIELA JACOBS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• JOHN WILLIAMS (BLUES FEST) Ascot Vale Hotel,

• JACKSON FIREBIRD Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd.

• KARISE EDEN Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.

• JOHN KENDALL & THE SHOT GLASSES Inkerman

• MAX TEAKLE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

• KAISHA + BOHKA + THE SOUND MANDALA Wesley

Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

$33.00.

• MICHAEL GT BLAIR & THE FUNKADELICS + SOUL

SALVATION + REVOMATIX Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• NATURALLY 7 Hamer Hall, Southbank. 7:30pm. $69.00.

• SPENCER P JONES (FRIDAY KNOCK-OFF) Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.

• STEPH MASCETTA + FINDING ISLA + NICK

HERMANUS + DAN BERRY Wesley Anne, Northcote.

SECRET ACT + MARICOPA WELLS + SPOENCER SCOTT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $5.00.

• POISON CITY WEEKENDER FEST - FEAT: IRON CHIC + THE BENNIES + MODERN BASEBALL + SELF DEFENSE FAMILY + OSLOW + TIRED LION Corner

• MASTER BLASTER + HAILGUN + JOIN THE AMISH

+ CHRISTCRUSHER + DRAIN LIFE + GRUDGE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• ONE BIG TRIBUTE NIGHT - FEAT: THE U2 SHOW:

ACHTUNG BABY + VIVA COLDPLAY Max Watt’s,

• REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS + SUN

GOD REPLICA + COTANGENT Cherry Bar, Melbourne

• PAUL MADIGAN + LES STACPOO Esu House, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• STEELE WARS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.

5:00pm.

• VAN WALKER’S HEARTBROKERS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6

Cbd. 5:00pm. $13.00.

• ROSS DE CHENE HURRICANES + THE LIVING EYES

+ CHOOK RACE + DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS Old

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.

Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

• ADALITA + FEE B-SQUARED Northcote Social Club,

POSITION + MEN WITH CHIPS + HIGH BEAMERS

• BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: MALLEE SONGS +

• SATURDAYS R COVERED - FEAT: RADIO STAR Royal • SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING + MILITARY Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• STONE REVIVAL + HAPPY GO BLUES + TEN CENT

PISTOLS + HOLLOW HOUNDS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy.

5:00pm.

• TANKERVILLE + FRESH KILLS + WET MEAL + CUT

8:00pm.

Northcote. 8:00pm. $30.00.

LEAH SENIOR + LUCY ROLEFF Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

• CHAMPAGNE ALLEY Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.

• CLAIM THE THRONE (10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY)

THE KITE STRING Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.

+ HYBRID NIGHTMARES + METALSTORM + STORMTIDE + JOIN THE AMISH + NEMESIUM

• THE CHANTOOZIES + SPLURGE ACOUSTIC Flying

• CLOWNS + THE MEANIES + DEEP HEAT + APART

$8.00.

Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30.00.

Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 2:00pm.

• THE DRONES + BATPISS + STEVE MILLER BAND Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $48.20.

• THE HORNETS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

• TRAGIC EARTH + INTERCRANIAL TREMORS +

AMETHYST CLOSE + THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE + MASSACRE OF INNOCENCE + BEHOLD THE DEFIANT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $15.00.

• WENDY RULE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00.

$25.00.

• HARRISON STORM + JAMES GRIM & THE

WOODCUTTERS + RICH DAVIES & THE LOW ROAD Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $12.00.

• HARRY HOOKEY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

• JUKAI FOREST DUO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

• KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm.

• KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO + LOW RENT

Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER + TIFT MERRITT

• POISON CITY WEEKENDER - FEAT: FOXTROT +

• MURDENA Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• TOM DOCKRAY Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

Melbourne. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30.00.

• MATT BORG TRIO Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

2:00am.

• ALEX LLOYD Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Hey, this guy was on our cover last week! Rap royalty and hoverboard aficionado Seth Sentry is back again in Melbourne, spouting real shit real spit at The Forum this Friday September 4. Anyone who knows anything about Aussie hip hop will be there, and you should too.

• THE PHEASANT PLUCKERS Union Hotel, Brunswick.

Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

• LAMA + DEAR PLASTIC Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

SETH SENTRY

Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm.

• RATTLIN BONES BLACKWOOD Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

• PASSERINE + ALBERT SALT + GINGER & DRUM

• THE NORTHSIDE BLUES ASSEMBLY The B.east,

Looking for some lush bedroom pop as you ease into the weekend? Methyl Ethel should sort you out. Sunbeam Sound Machine and Good Morning will be there for good measure too. Get down to Shebeen as Methyl Ethel launch their debut album, Oh Inhuman Spectacle, this Friday September 4.

9:00pm. $10.00.

8:00pm. $10.00.

• THE AUDREYS + SIME NUGENT Flying Saucer Club,

METHYL ETHEL

+ DJ JEFF LEPPARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $69.00.

Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

• ULTRAFOX Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• ZERAFINA ZARA & THE ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • A LA DANZA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 4:00pm. $29.00.

• AN EVENING WITH RENÉE FLEMING + SIR

ANDREW DAVIS Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• CASSANDRA & JOSEPH BECKITT Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $12.50.

• CRAIG SMITH QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

• DEEP STREET SOUL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

• DREW DOWNING & BAND Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

• ENCUENTRO DOS Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

• JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

9:00pm. $16.00.

• NICHAUD FITZGIBBON QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

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FROM THIS + BATPISS + THE SUGARCANES + MERE WOMEN + JEN BUXTON + FLOUR + FREAKWAVE + JESS LOCKE BAND + CAMP COPE

• SOUL SUNDAYS - FEAT: DEEP STREET SOUL Retreat

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 1:30pm.

• THE CHANGE UP - FEAT: SOULMAN STEPHEN +

• EDITH LANE + HOSPITAL + I SPENT MOST OF 2008

• SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

9:00pm.

$20.00.

JUCK ROCHE + GAIL SMITH + MICK SMITH + DAVE BOOTS Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• THE HERE HERE’S Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• THE IMMORTAL HORNS + THE JC LITTLE BIG BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• THE MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP PRESENTS Uptown

7:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

PRETENDING NOT TO HATE MYSELF Evelyn Hotel,

Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $5.00.

• EZRA LEE Clare Castle Hotel, Port Melbourne. 8:00pm.

• HOLY HOLY (WHEN THE STORMS COME TOUR) +

FRACTURES + EDWARD R Howler, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

• JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner.

• MINIMUM WAGE - FEAT: EAR OF THE BEHEARER

+ PAUL KIDNEY EXPERIENCE + SPASMOSLOP + HOLOGRAM WHITNEY HOUSTON + SOLVENT CAGE + HATE SAX + BONNIE MERCER + PENGUINS + CLEANING LADY + PARAPHILIA + DROOLING MYSTICS + DONKEY MUTHERS OF ARSE Public Bar, North Melbourne. 3:00pm.

• MOMENTUM - FEAT: THE CORETET Evelyn Hotel,

WITH RUTH MIHELCIC

Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• ALI HUGHES BAND + DI AU JAH + ANTHONY

YOUNG & THE NEXT MAN DEAD Bar Open, Fitzroy.

7:00pm.

• ANDY PHILLIPS & THE CADILLAC WALK One Fourteen Bar, Mentone. 3:00pm.

• AYLEEN O’HANLON (BLEND & SPILL LAUNCH) +

TOBIA HENGEVELD + GEORGIA SPAIN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00.

POISON CITY WEEKENDER

It’s fucking Poison City Weekender motherfuckers!

There’s way too many gigs going on over the four day event to list, just remember to hit up The Corner, The Reverence or 170 Russel and you should be fine.

This year’s insane lineup includes The Smith Street Band, Iron Chic (USA), The Bennies, Andrew Jackson Jihad (USA), Self Defense Family (USA), Luca Brasi, The Sidekicks (USA), Clowns, The Meanies, Deep Heat, Batpiss, Mere Women, Oslow, Apart From This, Georgia Maq, Postblue, The Sugarcanes, Crisis Alert, Flour, Tired Lion and Kiri. Poison City Weekender runs from Thursday September 3 to Sunday September 6.

Get the fuck on it.

• DANA CZARSKI Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.

• ST LEONARD’S SCHOOL Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

7:00pm. $10.00.

Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

• BABY BLUE + TK REEVE Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

- FEAT: THE SMITH STREET BAND + MODERN BASEBALL + ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD + IRON CHIC + THE SIDEKICKS Corner Hotel, Richmond.

• BACKWOOD CREATURES Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.

• CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• POISON CITY WEEKENDER FEST (U18 SHOW)

12:30pm. $30.00.

• SIMON ASTLEY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

• SUNDAY BEST - FEAT: TOM SHOWTIME + AGENT

86 + MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• THE DRONES + STEVE MILLER BAND Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. 7:00pm. $30.00.

• THE JACKRABBITS + THE MUNROES + LOUIS

SPOILS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• THE JUST LISTEN PROJECT - FEAT: SHADOWS AT BAY + CALLING UTOPIA + SHEWOLF + DOJO COLLECTORS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

• THE STICKING PLACE + THE DUSTY MINSTREL + BEN WILLIAM Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 4:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • ANTHONY B + HOUSE OF SHEM 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $49.00.

• CHARLIE MARSHALL TRIO Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

4:30pm.

• ELLA Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.

• MUSIC IN THE ROUND - FEAT: MARSHALL

MCGUIRE + CALVIN BOWMAN + WILLIAM HENNESSY & LOUISA BREEN + PAUL DEAN & STEPHEN EMMERSON + DANIEL DE BORAH + KRISTIAN WINTHER + IOANA TACHE & DANIEL CURRO + TRISTAN LEE + CHRIS HOWLETT + ENSEMBLE LIAISON Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford.

11:00am. $65.00.

• MUSICAL THEATRE OPEN MIC NIGHT Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• PEPPERCORN JAZZ Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

• SHIR MADNESS MELBOURNE Classic Cinema, Elsternwick. 12:00am.

3:30pm.

5:00pm.

• BILL MILLER & THE LOVE BROTHERS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm.

• CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

• CLONE OF

‘ANNEXE ARTS’ SUNDAY SESSION NO. 3 (FATHER’S DAY) - FEAT: MARK GREENWAY & FAMILY BAND + BOB REARDON & FAMILY BAND + ELECTICA Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $12.00.

• DAN WARNER DUO Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

4:30pm.

• DANNY WALSH BANNED DUO Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

• DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote.

3:30pm.

• ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:00pm.

• GRETTA ZILLA Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

• HAPPY ENCHILADA + REDWOOD + ALEXANDRA

PYE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. $5.00.

• JACOB MCGUFFIE’S DUKES OF HAGGARD Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

• JAMES KENYON + EMILEE SOUTH + MANNY FOX Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $12.00.

• KARISE EDEN + ABBEY STONE Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $33.00.

• KRISTA POLVERE + GENA ROSE BRUCE The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

• LARGE NUMBER 12S Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• LUKE AUSTEN Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.

• MAKE LIKE A TREE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 3:00pm.

• OPEN MIC SUNDAY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00.

• MUNDANE MONDAYS - FEAT: SELF DEFENSE

FAMILY + POSTBLUE + DIECUT Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $15.00.

• POISON CITY WEEKENDER FEST - FEAT: IRON CHIC

+ THE SIDEKICKS + APART FROM THIS Northcote

Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $22.00.

• SELF DEFENSE FAMILY Viva Hate, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • NICK O’MARA & BROOKE RUSSELL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $33.90.

• CAULFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2015 SCHOOL

CONCERT Hamer Hall, Southbank. 7:30pm. $14.00.

• CORRADINI & THE COURTESAN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.

• GALIT KLAS CABARET + TAMARA VASILEVITSKY Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.00.

• JOHN BADGERY QUINTET + NIRAN DASIKA 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• MENTONE GIRL’S SCHOOL Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

7:00pm. $10.00.

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

Williamstown Rsl, Williamstown. 2:00pm. $10.00.

• SPECTRUM Williamstown Rsl, Williamstown. 2:00pm.

• SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.

• SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.

• THE FLAMING MONGRELS Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

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TROUBADOUR Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• MASCO SOUND SYSTEM + TALL SHORES Workers

• SOUTHERN LIGHTS + BEKKII O’CONNOR + LES

• SCOTT BOYD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.

Melbourne. 4:00pm.

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• JARROW + HILLS HOIST + CHIPS RAFFERTY +

• PETER VOGLIS Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd.

• SPECTRUM + HEY GRINGO + DARYL ROBERTS

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CLOSE DOESN’T COUNT Public Bar, North Melbourne.

7:30pm. $6.00.

• OSCAR LUSH Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. $5.00.

GYORI + ROB HORNBUCKLE Big Huey’s Diner, South

WANTED ACTS WANTED FOR SUNDAY ROCK SHOWS contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au BANDS/DUOS/SOLO ACTS WANTED for Acoustic/Indie Fest - contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au ROCK/METAL ACTS WANTED for local rock shows - contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au

• DEAR JANE + THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT +

• THE JUNES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• THE REBELLES + WEST DJS Acqua E Vino, Yarraville.

6:00pm. $10.00.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD + CAMP COPE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• BILLY NO + STOCKPILING EROTICA + RILEY

HARRINGTON Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• ELWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL CONCERT Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 6:00pm. $17.00.

• GHOST DICK + TROPES + MICHAEL CERATOPS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

• GILLIGAN SMILES + MACHINE GUN SUNRISE +

BRISTOL CAIRO Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $7.00.

6:00pm.

• KOOYEH + ECHO DRAMA + SAMETZ Evelyn Hotel,

9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

Hotel, South Melbourne. 5:00pm. $5.00.

• 8 9 10 FOLK FEDERATION - FEAT: JAMES

• THE STEVE MARTINS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

• THE TRAVIS WINTERS BLUES BAND The Water Rat • THREE KINGS + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7

Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.00.

THOMSON + JOSHUA SEYMOUR + DE’MAY Yarra

Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

• ANNA’S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton.

6:30pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

• DAVID COSMA + SABRINA SANDAPA Retreat Hotel,

• AMERICANA - FEAT: JOE CHINDAMO Melbourne

• LAKYN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $40.00.

• ANNA POWELL & JONO Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $12.50.

• BOX HILL INSTITUTE SHOWCASE 303, Northcote.

8:15pm.

• CHARLOTTE ROBERTS (VARIETY NIGHT) Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Brunswick. 7:30pm.

• SUPER SALOON + LEOPARD SLUGG + LONEFREE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• TASTE OF INDIE TUESDAY - FEAT: ASPIRING

SONGWRITER SESSIONS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:00pm.

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Last week we announced the first round of speakers for this year’s Face The Music industry conference, which is happening on November 13 and 14 at the Arts Centre Melbourne. On the speaker list is 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.

General tickets have gone on sale and are available as one day or two day conferences passes. For the full announcement and information, go to www.facethemusic.com.au.

SYN Media is hosting a FREE one day workshop this month for young people from regional areas to build their skills in radio.

If you’re under 26 and living outside metro Melbourne and are keen to learn how to present or produce a radio program, join them for the sessions taking place at the House of Syn (16 Cardigan St, Carlton) on September 24. Places are limited so book early by emailing national@syn.org.au.

Perform Your Own Groove is a series of live electronic music sessions at Signal (Melbourne) facilitated by music producers and performers Moses Iten (Cumbia Cosmonauts) and Bryan Phillips (Galambo). Develop the creative process of live music performance and experiment with a variety of techniques and styles to discover the performer in you. No previous experience or specialist equipment required to participate. Sessions culminate in a live electronic music gig on the Signal sound walk. Workshops will run Saturdays in September, commencing September 5 through to September 26, 11am to 4pm each day. There will be a live performance on October 10 from 4pm-6pm. Book online at www.melbourne.vic. gov.au/signal.

There’s a few good things happening for the writers out there. Dumbo Feather’s New Conversations competition is now open for high school students in year 9 and 10.

Dumbo Feather is a quarterly Australian magazine featuring interviews with amazing and inspirational people. This competition is all about the power of storytelling and helping you to develop your communication skills.

You could win an iPad, one-year subscription to Dumbo Feather, plus cash. To enter, just interview someone who inspires you, and then write up your interview by September 5. Go to www.dumbofeather.com.

Lastly, if you’re aged between 16 and 22 and live outside the big cities, enter the Heywire competition to be heard. Tell your story using video, audio, photos or text. Winning stories will be featured on the ABC. Entries close September 16 and more info is at www.abc.net. au/heywire

ALL AGES GIG GUIDE

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 – FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4 • Hey I’m Romeo - Performing Arts Production at Echuca Paramount Cinema and Performing Arts Complex, High St, Echuca. $10 adult, $5 student/child, $25 family, contact Rhonda Marshall on 5482 2517, AA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4 • FReeZA Smackdown - Table Tennis Competition w/ Vice City, DJ SPLNDDD, Cadet, AfterGlow, King Crayon, Coconut Rush, Yoshimitsu at Corinthians Café, 37 Old Geelong Rd, Hoppers Crossing, 5pm-10.30pm, $5, www.facebook.com/ WyndhamFreeza, AA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5 • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands Colac Heat w/ The Refuge, Scarlett Valley, Chloe Miller, Atlas, New Vintage, Perfect Nonsense & Anonymous, COPACC, Rae St, Colac, 7pm-10.30pm, $5, www. colacotwayshire.com.au, AA SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6 • Loddon Mallee Hume Series w/ Code 5, YMCA Skate Park Round 1 Championships at Skate Park Atkinson Park, Murray Valley Hwy, Kerang, 10am-4pm, Free, contact Leonie on 5010 2000, AA

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Sascha Klave Saturday 5th September 9pm: The Hornets Sunday 6th September 4pm: Simon Astley 6.30pm: Luke Austen

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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH

MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

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

LA’S HOUSE OF GUVERA TO OPEN IN MELBOURNE Global streaming service Guvera is opening its new music hub House of Guvera in Melbourne next year.

The concept, recently launched in LA, is a performance space for gigs, film screenings and brand events. The company, formed on the Gold Coast, wants to use the space to promote local acts and provide a chance for them to link up with brands. Guvera is currently looking for a space in Melbourne, most likely in an inner city entertainment precinct. It plans to work closely with Australian artist managers and record labels on its events.

SWEAT IT OUT EXPANDS TO US Sydney-based Sweat It Out has set up an office in Los Angeles to cover its label, events and publishing operations. It’s built a presence there of late, with interest in their acts (including RÜFÜS, Porches, What So Not, Yolanda Be Cool) and the expansion of their party series to NYC, LA and Miami. Set up at 9119 Thrasher Avenue, its US team consists of A&R

by EDM artist and Grizzly label founder Sinden, A&R by DJ Trevor Moffit aka Bones, Matt Black from European tastemakers Your Army and Jo Fisher to handle US TV and commercial radio.

OPENLIVE LAUNCHES: DOWNLOADS, LIVE RECORDINGS OpenLIVE has launched in Australia. It is the country’s first high resolution music download store with 2.5 million tracks and a live recording platform. For the latter it will partner with venues for 24-bit/48kHz recordings of gigs, which artists can stream directly after. CEO Dale Moore, who was Marketing Manager at Yamaha Australia said, “We believe it’s important for people to have the option of choosing hi-res over MP3.” Simon Tait is Chief Technology Officer.

PAUL KELLY, KINGSWOOD, JOIN HALL OF FAME CONCERT Paul Kelly and Kingswood have been added to The Age Music Victoria 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame Concert. It is at the Palais on Friday November 20 with John Farnham headlining. To be celebrated are AC/DC, studio owner Bill Armstrong, Olivia Newton-John, Palais Theatre, Archie Roach, Stan Rofe, The Seekers, Sunbury Festival and The Thunderbirds. Also performing are Roach, Kate Ceberano, Brian Cadd, Normie Rowe, Vika Bull, Angie Hart, Mark Seymour and Paul Williamson.

Farnham will be inducted by Sony Music chief Denis Handlin, Colleen Hewett does the honours for Armstrong, while Kelly and Aboriginal elder actor and musician Uncle Jack Charles will induct Roach. Other inductors are David Mann, Billy Pinnell, Tex Perkins and singer Marcie Jones.

123 AGENCY SIGNS JON TOOGOOD, OPIUO 123 Agency added two New Zealand acts to its roster.

The first is Shihad singer, multi instrumentalist, radio presenter and theatre performer Jon Toogood.

The other is “funkadelic bass music” DJ Opiuo, who is relocating to Melbourne. Opiuo plays festivals abroad, his Robo Booty was a finalist in the Australian Independent Music Awards in 2010 while Meraki won the Best Electronica Album at the New Zealand Music Awards 2014.

MUSHROOM LAINCHES ROLE MODEL ARTISTS The Mushroom Group’s latest addition is artist management company, Role Model Artists, which launches with eight acts including Bliss N Eso. It’s headed by Matt Gudinski who set up management/ booking Illusive in 2002. Role Model’s director and senior artist manager is Adam Jankie (also from Illusive). Artist managers are Jon St Clair (Lurch & Chief, Mossy, Pearls, Slum Sociable), Tig Huggins (Total Giovanni) and Cara McDonald (Lila Gold).

ONELOVE UNVEILS TALENT AGENCY Dance label and club brand Onelove launched Onelove Talent Agency to represent local acts. “The aim here is to avoid overcrowding and the ‘one size fits all’ model in order to focus on a boutique artist roster,” says CEO Frank Cotela First signing is DJ Generik who also hosts Channel [V]’s EDM show.

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THINGS WE HEAR • Which UK band sacked its guitarist over an explicit text to an underage fan?

• How did two websites “break” the same story claiming it as an “exclusive”?

• Is a music magazine about to change ownership?

• While rumours fly that the original lineup of Guns N’ Roses will headline next year’s Soundwave (a story broken by Triple M), Fred Durst announced during Limp Bizkit’s set at England’s Reading Festival that the band were responsible for “Axl and Slash being back together.”

• While Disturbed’s comeback album Immortalized hit #1 this week on the ARIA chart, one of its online promos has been pulled. It featured a monster shooting people at a TV station, which seemed too close to the bone after the on-air double murder of American TV journalists.

• As the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton hits $113 million in its second week in the US (it opens in Australia this week), Raekwon has called for a WuTang Clan biopic. The N.W.A biopic has brought controversy. Dr Dre apologised for his past abuse of women, which was not included in the film, but one of them, R&B singer Michel’le, rejected it as “good PR at the moment.” N.W.A’s lawyer Jerry Heller says he talked Eazy-E out of murdering Suge Knight “for being a problem” while wild speculation is that Knight killed Eazy-E by injecting him with an AIDS needle. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Eazy’s son Lil Eazy also shared their conspiracy theories, with the latter implicating Ice Cube in his father’s death.

• Lorde joined Flume onstage at LA’s FYF Fest to dance to a remix of Tennis Court.

• Chinese banking payments company UnionPay International signed its first large-scale sponsorship in Australia, joining Melbourne Festival as major partner.

• The 16th Echuca Moama Winter Blues Festival drew over 15,000 over three days in July to see 40 acts, and injected about $6.4 million into the Shire of Campaspe, Campaspe Economic Development and Tourism said. In a survey of attendees, 67% attended before, 68% came from outside the shire staying at least one night and spending an average of $535 during their stay, and 29% rated the event 10/10, 39% rated it 9/10 and 24% rated it 8/10.

• While US rapper T.I. has been hit with a $4.5 million tax bill, Bono and Ali Hewson’s ethical clothes firm Edun lost £42m. The U2 singer is “confident”’ the company will become sustainable. The UK tax office is trying to bankrupt former Sugababes singer Jade Ewen saying she owes “thousands”. The band went on a temporary hiatus in 2012 but has failed to regroup.

• Tyler, the Creator is banned from the UK for up to five years he says.

• Adelaide’s Nova 919 yanked down a Facebook “joke” post after social media anger. It read: “A girl told me how hard it is for her to gain weight. I said it’s hard for me not to. We had a good laugh and then I punched her in the face.”

• Just before Aussie country performer Lee Kernaghan returns to play Maryborough, he made a call out to a fan who on his last visit got him to sign a boob so she could tattoo it. Lee said he’d sign it again if it needs a touch up.

NO ZU SIGN TO CHAPTER MUSIC Chapter Music signed Melbourne’s heat beat pioneers No Zu, and will release their second album Afterlife in early 2016. The band formed in 2007, releasing its first album five years later, contributed a track to Cut Copy’s Melbourne dance compilation Oceans Apart, and are collaborating with NYC punk-funk purveyor Sal P (Liquid Liquid). Out now is the single Ui Yia Uia (pronounced “Yi Yah Yah”), which was premiered

by London-based tastemakers Test Pressing.

CALVIN HARRIS TOPS EDM CASH KINGS LIST Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, who scored his first #1 this week in Australia, is the world’s top earning DJ/ producer, according to US magazine Forbes’ Electronic Cash Kings list. He earned $66 million over the past 12 months from high performance fees and

endorsement deals with brands like Giorgio Armani and Sol Republic. The Top 5 included David Guetta ($37 million), Tiësto ($36 million) and Skrillex and Steve Aoki tying with $22 million each.

GOOD WORKS #1: CONCERT FOR DAVID MARAMA A fundraiser concert is held for African born musician David Marama, AKA Mr Clean, as he recovers from a recent illness. It is on October 11 at Howler in Brunswick, with The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, The Royal Swazi Spa and Ray Pereira’s Afro-Lankan drum ensemble with DJs Manchild (PBS), Chris Gill (RRR) Systa BB (RRR) and Mpaphi Nfandizo (Botswana).

GOOD WORKS #2: ASYLUM SEEKER FUNDRAISER The Shadow Electric at Abbotsford Convent is hosting a fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on Thursday September 3. It features Ok Sure, Glasfrosch, Ninoosh with visuals from BK and Honor Eastly, spoken word and poetry from James AO with DJ Flex and Manny Sharrad playing African inspired beats and classic electronica. Tickets are $15 from shadowelectric.com.au.

PIKACHUNES DOES LIKE MONDAYS On the eve of his relocating to Melbourne, New Zealand’s G Loveless, AKA Pikachunes, has signed with Monday Records. He makes his Australian debut this Saturday at Brighton Up Bar, Sydney, after dates in the UK and Ireland.

VENUES #1: MEMO MUSIC HALL MEMO Music Hall launches a new free Sunday arvo session The Winnebago Lounge at its upstairs MEMO Club. The format is two sets from a band and a MC who sings with them. The first, on September 6, is with JVG Guitar Method with MC Jane Clifton.

VENUES #2: THE REV The Reverence Hotel has a new backline set-up in the band room, available free to acts, and a new digital console in the front bar to plug your USB into and record your entire show across 18 tracks. This week it hosts the Prekender Party for Poison City Weekender.

WHITE NIGHT EXTENDS ANDREW WALSH White Night Melbourne extended Andrew Walsh as Artistic Director for the event in 2016. He has programmed the two-day festival since its inception in 2013. Brendan McClements, chief executive of Victorian Major Events Company said, “White Night Melbourne has attracted more than 1.3 million attendees in its first three years and Andrew has been fundamental to this success.” White Night is looking for expressions of interest from performers, artists, businesses and organisations wanting to participate.

See www.whitenightmelbourne.com.au.

WORLD CHAMPION JOIN FUTURE CLASSIC

Sydney trio World Champion signed with Future Classic. Their debut single Avocado Galaxy was produced by Jono Ma with mixes by Melbourne’s Tornado Wallace and Sweden’s Dan Lissvik. The act formed when Julian Sudek (George Maple, Canyons, Jonti) heard Will Campion sing with The Chevaliers and they bonded over their love of psych pop and electronica.

AMBA SHEPHERD SIGNS MINISTRY DEALS Globally-acclaimed Australian EDM singer Amba Shepherd, best known for her work with Dutch producer Hardwell, has joined Ministry of Sound. She is now represented by its Crown Rights Management and Soapbox Agency for touring. Amba, as she’s known, plays festivals around the world such as Tomorrowland and Ultra and has also worked with Tiesto, Afrojack, Porter Robinson and Nervo.

LIFELINES Expecting: Take That’s Howard Donald and wife Katie Hall, their first together, his third overall.

Ill: jazz fusion guitarist Tony MacAlpine postponed Australian and Asian dates for surgery for intestinal cancer.

Ill: Alan Frew, 58, singer with Canada’s Glass Tiger, had a stroke, which affected his right hand.

Recovering: US pop-punk outfit Modern Baseball blew off Australian dates this week due to singer Brendan Lukens wanting “time to put everything else aside to focus on making steps towards [my] positive mental health.”

Ill: Motorhead cancelled a Salt Lake City, Utah show after four songs as leader Lemmy, 69, found it difficult to breathe because of the city’s high altitude.

Jailed: Matthew Forti, 19, for 22 months for supplying Georgina Bartter with the E-tabs which killed her at the Harbourlife Festival last November.

Jailed: Shane Kaufmann, former manager of Edward’s Tavern in Wodonga, for nine months, for having sex with a 14-year old runaway he found living on the street.

Jailed: Eli James Anderson, three years, for driving his car at a Geelong nightclub security team after he was refused entry, leaving one fighting for his life.

Died: the body of Tobias Sheldon, 35, who spent $100,000 to make himself look like Justin Bieber, was found in a San Fernando Valley, California, motel.

Died: Ken Powell, the Aussie Foo Fighters fan suffering from melanoma who made headlines when Dave Grohl promised him tickets to a Foos show in LA, succumbed to the disease before his trip this month. His family played the Foos’ My Hero as he slipped away.

JOHN STEEL SINGERS START OWN LABEL Brisbane’s band The John Steel Singers have set up their own Plutonium Records in collaboration with Create/Control. It will release their Midnight At The Plutonium album. Plutonium gets its name from the band’s studio in Kelvin Grove in Brisbane, which has been used by the likes of Cloud Control and Blank Realm. Their new single Weekend Lover continues their exploration in the past two years of ‘70s funk and soul records.

TROUBLED IMPERIAL HOTEL CHANGES HANDS The troubled Imperial Hotel in Sydney’s Erskineville, which remained closed after alleged drug and alcohol infringements, has changed hands. Owner Shadd Danesi sold it to publicans Scott Leach and Fraser Short for $6.5 million. They will spend $3 million in revamping it up and include a top class eatery.

Whether it remains a LGBTI venue, as it was for 13 years, remains to be seen. Danesi’s troubles began this year when he leased the basement to Murat Kilic to set up Spice Cellar ERSKNVL. It aroused the interest of the police and liquor authority and had two 72-hour shut downs in June and July.

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