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Well,here we are.1500 issues of Beat.I’d like to say I played a huge contributing role in the 29 years Beat Magazine has been in circulation, but we all know I’d be talking shit.This publication is older than me by one whole year, and while I may be nearing my two year anniversary as editor, I was, admittedly, pretty damn proud to have brought an enormous quantity of cuss words and general vulgarity to the mag. But after leafing through the swelling archives of Beat this week, it seems pretty clear that my predecessors did a damn fine job of that themselves. Fuck. In spite of all that, Beat has been a massive part of my life since I was old enough to understand how fucking cool music actually was. From breaking into my older sister’s alcatraz-esque bedroom so I could leaf through her gargantuan collection of Rolling Stone magazines or snoop through her bundles of CDs and cassettes (all up until that fateful day I was finally busted stealing one of her most prized albums, and she kicked the shit out of me in our dining room) to sneaking into gigs I was clearly far too young to attend, to eventually trying my hand at music journalism, it made sense I would eventually become the editor of Beat. And what a wild ride it has been. Late nights in the office, the inexplicable gut-wrenching dread of an impending Monday deadline that only a Beat editor could possibly understand and dealing with dickheads on the daily is juxtaposed with an endless stream of gigs, festivals, parties, booze, great times and even better people. I still have no idea how I landed this job, but I’m having a damn good time absorbed in the all-encompassing vortex and the one major constant in my life - music. I’m thankful my friends and family haven’t abandoned me yet, but time will soon tell. At the end of the day, at least I’ll still have the music. Right?
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CALEXICO ANNOUNCE 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW
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Alt-country stalwarts Calexico have locked in a one-night-only performance in the wake of their latest release, Edge of the Sun. The album was written and recorded in Mexico, featuring guest appearances from Sam Beam, Nick Urata, Neko Case, Ben Birdwell and Grammywinning singer Carla Morrison. Hailing from Arizona, Calexico have been blending elements of Americana, indie and Latin influences since the mid-‘90s. Over the course of their career, they’ve released a collaborative album with Iron and Wine alongside working with pop juggernauts Arcade Fire and My Morning Jacket. See Calexico at Hamer Hall on Wednesday March 2. Tickets available now through the Arts Centre Melbourne.
Urban Spread are bringing more beats to the streets with their most recent lineup, featuring an all-star Australian hip hop lineup. The night will be headlined by Seth Sentry, whose debut record This Was Tomorrow earned him a gold record, an ARIA nomination and accolades like Channel [V] Artist of The Year. Earlier this year he released the follow up Strange New Past to critical acclaim. He’ll be joined by Mantra and Ivan Ooze. It’s going down at Chelsea Heights Hotel on Australia Day Eve, Monday January 25. Tickets via Urban Spread.
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MIKELANGELO ANNOUNCES CHRISTMAS SHOW AND LIMITED EDITION EP It’s gonna be a very Mikelangelo Christmas this year as he locks in a special night to showcase songs from his latest record City Of Dreams. In true holiday spirit, he’ll be giving away 100 copies of an exclusive EP featuring unreleased B-sides. Mikelangelo’s supporting band on the night will feature artists who contributed to the City Of Dreams sessions, including Miles Brown, Justin Rudge and Dan McKay, alongside special guest vocalist Clare St Clare, direct from her tour to Europe and Cuba. Get festive with Mikelangelo when he takes over the Spotted Mallard on Saturday December 19.
KYLIE AULDIST ANNOUNCES SINGLE LAUNCH AT THE GASOMETER Kylie Auldist will grace The Gasometer this month to launch her brand new single, Sensational. Her impending album, Family Tree, will follow in February 2016 with a full scale national tour. Sensational features ‘80s disco beats and straight up raunchy lyrics, with the new album described by Auldist as “the love-child of Chaka Khan and Rick James in music form.” Auldist has performed throughout Australia and toured China, England, France, Spain, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Bratislava and Italy both with her own outfit and as the leading lady of soul sensations, The Bamboos. The launch is goes down on Saturday November 28, tickets via the venue. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
HIGH ON FIRE GEAR UP FOR OCEANIC TOUR Shredcellent news, metal heads. High On Fire has just announced they’re getting ready to raise hell on Australian shores (and hopefully piss off the Australian Christian Lobby in the process). Known as one of the best metal bands in the world, High On Fire are capable of creating monstrous metal tracks with remarkable consistency. They’re coming to us off the back of their latest record, Luminiferous. Catch High On Fire at Max Watt’s on Friday February 19. Nab your tickets from the venue’s website.
ROB DELANEY AND BENJAMIN LAW On Friday November 27, Rob Delaney and Benjamin Law are hitting the Wheeler Centre as part of The Interrobang: A Festival Of Questions. The question they’re tackling is, ‘Are cockroaches attracted to human tears, and if so, why?’ If you’d like to know, we’ve got five free tickets to giveaway. Hit up on beat.com.au/freeshit for your chance to win.
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ROCK A BYE BABY SESSIONS ANNOUNCED AT FITZROY TOWN HALL The team at PBS 106.7 are at it again. They’re revving up to launch a ripper of a daytime show at the Fitzroy Town Hall, employing the Afrobeat street funk of The Seven Ups for a rambunctious show in early December. The Rock-A-Bye sessions are designated as a no-frills daytime show for families of all ages, granting attendees a chance to see a band without the hustle and bustle of a crowded venue. The show is cheap as chips and friendly for all ages, so pop your head down to the Fitzroy Town Hall from 11am onwards on Thursday December 3. Entry is $5, but if you’re one of the first 50 concession card holders to arrive, you’re in for free.
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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, ILL NIÑO AND TERROR UNIVERSAL JOIN SOUNDWAVE Soundwave have locked in three heavy-hitting bands to join their 2016 bill. In a special Soundwave-exclusive performance, Killswitch Engage will perform the entirety of their seminal 2002 record Alive Or Just Breathing, while Ill Niño will be performing Revolution, Revolucion in its entirety. Also joining the bill is the supergroup Terror Universal, featuring current and former members of Machine Head, Soulfly and Ill Niño. They join a lineup which already features the likes of Disturbed, NOFX, Deftones, The Prodigy, Public Enemy, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine, Refuse d, Metal Allegiance, Hatebreed, Frenzal Rhomb, Failure, Lordi, Devil You Know, Moose Blood, Soulfly, Northlane, Dead Letter Circus, L7, Frnkiero and the Cellabration and Nothing But Thieves, with many more to be announced. Soundwave 2016 will be held on Tuesday January 26 in Melbourne. Visit the Soundwave website for tickets for more information.
Rising star Olympia is playing at the Shebeen Bandroom on Tuesday November 24. She’ll be launching her single Tourists and the tickets a quickly disappearing. Luckily we’ve got a few spare. To be one of two winners, go to beat.com.au/ freeshit and put your name in the running.
SARAH MCLEOD Sarah McLeod has had a long and varied career, perhaps most notably as the frontwoman for alt rockers The Superjesus. She’s also done a stack of solo stuff, which is what brings her to Northcote Social Club on Thursday November 19. We’ve got two double passes to give away. Beat.com.au/freeshit is where you need to go to be in with a chance.
THE UGLY KINGS The Ugly Kings take influence from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jack White and Black Sabbath, creating a predictably gritty rock’n’roll sound. They’re taking over Cherry Bar on Saturday November 28 and we’ve got two double passes to giveaway. Just head to beat.com.au/freeshit and the prize could be yours.
SEVENDUST UNVEIL AUSTRALIAN TOUR Atlanta’s own hard rock kings Sevendust have announced that they will grace Australian shores early 2016. The tour celebrates their blistering new album Kill The Flaw, which has received some of the best reviews of the band’s career. Sevendust kicked off their illustrious career with a string of three gold albums, beginning with their selftitled 1997 debut and continuing with Home in 1999 and Animosity in 2001. Along the way, they’ve sold out shows everywhere and played the likes of Rock On The Range, Woodstock and Ozzfest. Don’t miss them when they tear up 170 Russell on Friday March 18. Tickets via the venue. HOT TALK
TOM JONES ANNOUNCES 2016 AUSTRALIAN TOUR Fresh from his announcement as one of the headline acts at Bluesfest 2016, the one and only Tom Jones has announced that he’ll extend his Australian visit to take in a further five headline shows. Over his 50 year career, Tom Jones has sold more than 100 million records, won a Grammy and two Brit Awards and spawned countless hits including It’s Not Unusual, Delilah, Green, Green Grass of Home, Kiss, If I Only Knew, Mama Told Me, Burning Down The House and Sex Bomb. Jones will play Hamer Hall on Friday March 25. If you’re struggling for Christmas present ideas, tickets are on sale now via Livenation (hint hint).
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Adelaide songstress Sasha March is set to release her debut album, Don’t Go Falling, on Friday November 27, and she’s just released some additional tour dates in celebration of the upcoming release. Sasha has graced the stages of Gorgeous Festival Australia, Semaphore Music Festival and Fleurieu Folk Festival, along with touring her butt off in support of her well received debut EP, launched April last year. You can catch Sasha March in town on Wednesday December 2 at Some Velvet Morning, and Friday December 4 at The Wesley Anne.
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JEFF MARTIN LOCKS IN MELBOURNE SOLO SHOW It’s been over 20 years since Jeff Martin became the youngest ever producer of an EMI record (Splendor Solis) back in 1992, and now the slightly more grown up scamp is hitting The Croxton for an intimate show. Over the course of his career, the singer, songwriter, multiinstrumentalist and producer has sold almost four million records both as a solo artist and with The Tea Party. He’ll perform at The Croxton on Saturday December 12.
Following the release of their successful third album, Are You Alone?, Majical Cloudz have announced a Laneway sideshow performance in Melbourne that’s sure to be an absolute banger. They’ve managed to score rave reviews from Sterogum and a good rap from pop titan Grimes, along with earning their spot as a Pitchfork favourite through their strong releases and reputation for powerful shows regardless of the number of attendees. Catch the Canadian duo on Friday February 12 at The Toff In Town. Tickets on sale now through Moshtix.
MICK THOMAS & THE ROVING COMMISSION’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SHOW Mick Thomas and his band The Roving Commission are hitting the road this December for their annual celebration of all things Christmas-y. These shows began with the Mick Thomas-fronted Weddings Parties Anything and has evolved into Mick’s solo brand, keeping the party spirit alive through a rotating schedule of talented performers playing anything folk, roots or country. Get ready to deck the halls this Saturday December 19 at MEMO Music Hall, and don’t miss the annual New Year Day recovery show at the Greendale Hotel on Friday January 1. Grab your tickets to both shows through Trybookings.
THE WEATHER STATION ANNOUNCES DEBUT AUSTRALIAN TOUR Toronto’s The Weather Station are breezing into Melbourne, bringing possible showers of songcraft in from the far north. The Weather Station, the project of Canadian songwriter Tamara Lindeman, is a folk project based in the classic elements of traditional song. Her third album, Loyalty, has been hailed as her finest work yet, capturing her knack for crafting melody, tension and meaning into a neat little forecast of her own. The Weather Station has locked in a show at the Northcote Social Club on Monday January 4. Tickets on sale now through the venue.
G-EAZY REVEALS 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW After spending the last few years touring across the world relentlessly, G-Eazy is hitting Melbourne town this March in support of his second album, When It’s Dark Out. His most recent tour, which featured 60 sold-out shows, took him across the globe, including North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. This year he has also featured on a slew of festivals across North America and Europe, including Roskilde, Wireless Festival, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo. He will play shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Catch G-Eazy at Max Watt’s on Tuesday March 1, tickets through the venue.
SUNSET SOUNDS ANNOUNCE 2016 LINEUP COBURG NIGHT MARKET RETURNS FOR 2015 The ever popular Coburg Night Market is back for its sixth year, and you better believe the Friday night event has got what it takes to break the record over last year’s 8000 strong crowd. This year is looking to be their biggest yet as the markets bring local artisan crafts, international food (including bites from popular food trucks), and the music of the Public Opinion Six, Perch Creek, Little Rabbit, Juzzie Smith, The Everymen, as well as Tracey McNeil & the Goodlife, with much much more setting up shop in the Moreland suburb. And, if you want to learn how to twerk or go-go, don’t miss BeyDance and Anna’s GoGo Academy. Get your butt into shake mode at the Coburg Night Market every Friday night from Friday November 27 - Friday December 18.
This January, the City of Stonnington are putting on a series of Sunday evening shows in Sunset Sounds. First on the bill are multiple ARIA award-winning duo The Audreys. The blues and roots act will perform a special, intimate show at Victoria Gardens thanks to Sunset Sounds, and are followed by Emma Donovan and the Putbacks, who will be bringing together soul with a healthy twist of country and rock’n’roll at Central Park in Malvern East. Closing out the series at Malvern Gardens will be ARIA award-winner Dave Graney with his latest incarnation, The Mistly, featuring his collaborator of the last 37 years Clare Moore. They’ll be playing songs from their most recent album, as well as tunes from Graney’s back catalogue. Sunset Sounds kicks off on Sunday January 10, shoot over to their website for more details.
THE MUMMIES LOCK IN SHOW AT LOCAL HAUNT It may have taken more than a decade, but The Mummies have let slip they are coming to spook Australia this March. The bandaged Californian fourpiece will be gracing our shores for the first time ever, armed with 22 tracks from their classic master tapes. After forming in 1988, releasing two albums and a slew of singles and split records, The Mummies called it a day. In a move that should have been obvious from the start, the band rose from the dead back in 2003 with their record Death by Unga Bunga - a re-release of their earlier tracks and their only record to be released on CD. The Mummies will take over Max Watt’s on Wednesday March 9.
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TRUCKFIGHTERS BRING THE FUZZ BACK TO OZ Swedish fuzz rockers Truckfighters had a great time touring over here earlier this year, so they’re coming back to do it all again. Their Bringing Back The Fuzz tour sees them play all major states throughout January, touching down in Melbourne on Saturday January 9 in the Prince Bandroom. The trio have been a staple of the international touring scene for a while now, recently playing major festivals such as Open Air, Hellfast and Pukkelpop. Truckfighters play the Prince Bandroom on Saturday January 9. Tickets available now through Oztix.
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The PBS run Soul-A-Go-Go has already got a name for being Melbourne’s biggest and best soul/funk party, and now they’re taking to The Corner Hotel for a bumpin’ party this New Years Eve. With PBS soul and funk aficionados Miss Goldie (Boss Action), DJ Manchild (The Breakdown), DJ Crispi (The Breakfast Spread), Andrew Young, Zack Rampage, DJ Dave Boots, DJ Lady Soul and a very special live performance from Cookin’ on 3 Burners with The Wolfgramm Sisters, it’ll be a pretty sweet end of year plan if you want to keep things local. Tickets are limited and are sure to sell out. Advance tickets available at www.cornerpresents.com.au.
RARA RELEASE NEW MUSIC VIDEO, GEAR UP FOR EP LAUNCH Just over a year since the release of their Pink and Teal EP, Melbourne’s own alt-hip hop quartet RaRa are already firing up for their next instalment, the PLANET2016 EP. They’ve also just released a video clip for their track Machines, which was shot, directed and designed by long time friend Misha Grace of Friendships. Catch them at Shebeen Saturday December 19. Tickets via the venue.
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NCAT ANNOUNCES TOURING OPPURTUNITY AND CLASSES WITH REBECCA BARNARD Australian rock legend Rebecca Barnard has taken up a teaching residency with the Northern College of Arts and Technology (NCAT), and applications are now open for 15 positions. The successful applicants will receive tuition from Barnard, culminating with a tour as her backing band. This hands on course promises to develop skills in songwriting, recording, rehearsal techniques, performance, stagecraft, vocal techniques and more - all under the guidance of Barnard As well as receiving experience and paid gigs, successful applicants will complete the course with a full Certificate IV in Music. As an Australian singer/songwriter, Barnard garnered huge success with her band Rebecca’s Empire before developing a reputable solo career, securing her name as Australian rock royalty. Applications open through NCAT Music now with auditions held from Tuesday November 24.
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Thievery Corporation have made plans to raid Australian shores, announcing their first tour in four years with a full live band. The duo, consisting of Eric Hilton and Rob Garza, have spent two decades creating complex electronic music with a world music twist. Their recent release, Saudade, has been hugely influenced by Bossa Nova stylings, marking yet another genre swap for the ever versatile band. They’ve locked in a show at The Forum on Friday February 12. Tickets available via Ticketmaster.
Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas has unveiled his plans for an upcoming Australian tour, with dates locked in all around the country across February and March. The announcement comes with the news that Rob Thomas will play A Day On The Green’s Queensland and Victorian shows, with special guest Pete Murray joining him on all dates of the tour. Powderfinger’s Darren Middleton accompanies the festival appearances. Rob Thomas plays Rod Laver Arena on Saturday February 20, and A Day On The Green on Saturday March 5. Tickets for his Rod Laver performance go on sale Wednesday November 25 through Live Nation.
Falls Festival has added even more bands to its lineup, turning the event into a metaphorical clown car for bands. The news comes as a result of Marion Bay’s Falls Festival recently winning Best Festival & Event at the Tasmanian Tourism Reward, and they want to give something back to the fans that made it possible. They’ve added Josh Pyke, Ash Grunwald, Bag Raiders, Tiger Choir, Ben Walsh, Chicada and Jesse Davidson to their lineup, along with the new Music Tasmania: Homebrew Stage. It’s going to be a very happy new years indeed. Falls Festival goes from Tuesday December 29 until Friday January 1. Tickets are available through the festival’s website.
CHRIS ISAAK ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR
PASSENGER ANNOUNCES 2016 AUSTRALIAN TOUR
In a move that’s sure to bring swathes of middle aged women to the Margaret Court Arena, Grammy-nominated Californian Chris Isaak will be taking his tour to Melbourne next April before playing at A Day on the Green for the first time since 2006. Isaak holds an unparalleled eleven ARIA top twenty albums across his 30 year career, and has sold upwards of a million albums in Australia alone. Joining Isaak at all shows will be local legend James Reyne. Isaak will play Margaret Court Arena Wednesday April 13. Tickets on sale Monday November 23 via Ticketek.
Following on from his massively successful national tour earlier this year, Mike Rosenberg aka Passenger has announced his return to Australian shores, touching down in February of next year. Passenger shot to stardom in 2012 with his two-time platinum selling album All the Light Lights, which spawned the hit single Let Her Go. Before his 2016 shows, Passenger will support co-collaborator Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour of Oz throughout December. Passenger plays Palais Theatre on Tuesday March 1. Tickets go on sale Friday November 20. HOT TALK
CITY CALM DOWN ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM TOUR After waiting in gestation for longer than anyone expected, City Calm Down have released their highly anticipated debut album, In A Restless House. To celebrate, they’ll be playing shows all round the country next April. Following a sold-out national tour, the album has already scored huge praise, including earning the feature album spot on triple j and singles getting the nod of approval internationally. Not keen on slowing down, this summer will see City Calm Down tackle the festival circuit, including appearances at Lost Paradise, Falls Festival and Sugar Mountain. City Calm Down will take over Corner Hotel on Friday April 9. Tickets are on sale through the venue.
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This Week: The 2015 graduating class from the National Institute of Circus Art (NICA) are coming together to present Born in Sawdust, a new production that steps back through the history of circus. Directed by the internationally renowned Gavin Robins, Born in Sawdust celebrates the rich history of both circus performers and their trainers, specifically the trainers who have worked tirelessly with NICA itself. Connecting the past with the present, the production also features purposely created digital projections intertwined with the live acts. Born in Sawdust will run from Wednesday November 18 until Saturday November 28 at the National Circus Centre, Prahran. The 24 Hour Experience is set to turn Ballarat into a cultural playground, when the town is taken over with a series of 24 live art events running every hour for 24 hours. The 24 Hour Experience showcases the works of artists and ordinary people who have been creatively inspired by the course of everyday life. Unfolding in real time, live projects occur at different locations to weave a tapestry of art and intrigue throughout the town. Events include Death Over Lunch - a candid conversation about sustainable burials and the afterlife, alongside hospital dance piece The Healing Maneuver. Things I Am Not Afraid Of will transform the Lucas Arts Space for a physical interpretation of mental illness, Playful, Curious, Cosmos takes audiences through a cosmic journey while Light at the End... will see Tasmanian artist Rose Turtle Ertler present an intimate performance in one of Ballarat’s iconic bluestone tunnels. Explore Ballarat and all the art it has to offer when The 24 Hour Experience takes over from noon Saturday November 21 until noon Sunday November 22. Get on the ol’ V-Line. The works of classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach will merge with the world of contemporary theatre in RICERCAR, with violin and drums duo The Twoks joining forces with the Present Tense Ensemble to craft a story of love, death and legacy. Combining elements of live music and performance designed to be experienced and heard inside and out of Theatre Works, all elements of the production including music, design and choreography are created based on loops, numbers and patterns - inspired by Bach’s idea that restriction creates freedom. The result is a 96 minute operatic experience, presented in 12 movements. RICERCAR runs at Theatre Works from Tuesday November 24 until Saturday December 12.
PICK OF THE WEEK Celebrating its tenth festival, the biennial Big West Festival is opening up its house throughout Footscray this week. Located in the heart of Footscray at the Big West Village, HOUSE will be the centre piece of the nine day festival that will feature almost 70 events presented by over 350 artists in 12 locations throughout Footscray. HOUSE is a theatre, a prototype dwelling for social housing services and in 2016 will become a home. It has been curated by Big West’s Artistic Director Marcia Ferguson, designed by architects at NMBW Architecture Studio, quality controlled by women who have experienced homelessness and built by students at VU and Monash University. Big West Festival opening night at HOUSE will feature, The Siren Event a large-scale orchestration of vocal, instrumental, musical and sonic forces, massed choirs in No Excuses! and an open-air theatre experience called Dwelling. Other shows are set in a hutch, a wardrobe and a tiny caravan. Big West Festival will spread throughout Footscray from Friday November 20 until Saturday November 28.
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Give Me Your Love By Liza Dezfouli MDMA is something you take for a good time, yes? The rave generation’s favourite party drug has more than a recreational application as Beat finds out when we chat to David Woods, co-founder of Ridiculusmus and director of Give Me Your Love, his upcoming play at Arts House about innovative approaches to mental health, notably the use of psychotropic drugs. “It’s in its clinical trial phase,” Woods says on the use of altered states of consciousness in healing mental disorders, particularly among returned soldiers suffering combat stress. “There’s been a successful US trial, and it’s gone larger scale in the US. A thousand people have now been involved. Ultimately, it will become available in the UK and Australia as well.” According to Woods if you go back far enough through the history of the development of MDMA, it was always intended for therapeutic use, as was LSD before it became inextricably linked with the counter-culture of the ‘60s and consequently losing respectability. “MDMA was originally developed for use in marriage therapy,” notes Woods. Give Me Your Love is the second play in a trilogy of works written and performed by Woods and partnerin-theatre and other half of Ridiculusmus, Jon Haynes. As well as exploring complex mental health issues, the works feature a healthy dose of humour. The first play in the trilogy was the unforgettably titled The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland (about exactly that), where Ridiculusmus collaborated with Dr. Ben Sessa, author of The Psychedelic Renaissance and founder of Breaking Convention, the only UK psychedelic medical convention. “He’s the expert in this area, the voice of someone deep within the psychiatric world,” says Woods. Woods’ own father and brother struggle with impaired mental health so it’s a subject close to his heart; both plays in the trilogy draw
on personal family histories as well as stories Haynes and Woods gathered in their development “Theatre is a place for human stories, before intellect and ideas,” notes Woods, adding that the play is informed by the latest research into the use of psychotropic drugs in treating mental disorders. Along with Dr. Sessa, Ridiculusmus also work with Steve McDonald, an Australian-based war veteran whose organisation, PRISM, is lobbying for MDMA trials in Australia. Fittingly, the protagonist in Give Me Your Love is war veteran Zach, suffering from hyper-vigilant anxiety and insomnia. He has retreated to the inside of a cardboard box in his home in order to outwit enemies determined to send him crazy. The fact that Zach is a veteran is secondary to the story, however, and Woods is keen for a wider awareness of post-traumatic stress issues to grow and the associated stigmas to diminish: these sorts of mental disorders are not only suffered by soldiers. “Hopefully the play will have a universal interest, despite the situation being seen as an army situation,” he says. Woods wants the condition known as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome to be considered as an injury as opposed to an aberration. “The name is contentious and it attracts stigma. It’s not a disorder; rather than a psychopathology it’s a natural response to witnessing or being involved in an extremely stressful situation,” says Woods. He’s also keen to foster a more accurate public understanding of substances like
MDMA, associated in many people’s minds as a street drug laced with potentially lethal additives rather than as a resource to be used in a sensitive approach to creating mental well-being. “As far as I know people who have died from taking ecstasy is because they overheated due to excitement,” he ventures. “Pharmaceutically prepared MDMA isn’t mixed with ketamine or things like that. These drugs are just tools. They allow access to traumatic experiences so that they can be dealt with through dialogue.” Woods believes he is taking a theatrical risk in Give Me Your Love, as the audience never get to see Zach’s face. “It’s an audacious choice - not showing anyone’s face - but that’s our artistic offer,” he says. “People can like it or they can be challenged by it, be switched on. It seemed like a good image. It’s come together well. The audience will reflect on the fact that we’re all in a black box, in the theatre, and it suggests metaphorical boxes of other kinds.” The play is set in Port Talbot, an unsightly industrial town in south west Wales. Environment has a big impact on mental health, Woods says. “The house is associated with his stress. We’ve placed our character in this environment - a narrow terrace, a gutted empty house with the rain coming under the door, in an area where the streets are grim and low-lying steel works and petrochemical factories create this foul smell.” While the director states he’s naturally emotionally robust, making theatre helps with anything he might have to deal with personally. “If I’m angry or stressed and I’m doing a play, I can exorcise feelings through work. I can channel feelings in the process of creating theatre.” Give Me Your Love will run at Arts House from Wednesday November 18 – Sunday November 22.
Giveaway: Love Melbourne’s newest home of cult cinema, Lido Cinemas has confirmed a one-week encore season of the latest controversial film by master provocateur Gaspar Noé, Love, off the back of a successful two week run last month. This will be the final opportunity for audiences to see the film on the big screen, in 3D, before its release on DVD and Blu-Ray later this month, so you should probably head along. If for whatever reason you can’t make it, you’re in luck however. We’re giving away some copies of the DVD. Head to beat.com.au to win.
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Terror Byte Australian cabaret institution Dracula’s have announced a new show entitled Terror Byte, featuring camp costumes, slapstick comedy and circus acts. The new show promises to combine steampunk aesthetics with cutting edge theatrical and staging techniques, showcasing infrared video tracking technology to create futuristic effects - making them the only Australian theatre company to do so. Terror Byte has just opened, so get down to Dracula’s.
Returning for another year, the annual series has been part of Melbourne life for generations. Over three concerts, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will pay tribute to Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Piazzolla and more with a string of free twilight concerts. Dvorak Under The Stars will see the orchestra take on Symphony No.7, John Adams’ post-minimal masterpiece Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F featuring Melbourne soloist Stefan Cassomenos. To cap it off, awardwinning American conductor Joshua Weilerstein will also make his debut performance alongside the MSO. The second and third instalments will showcase Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5 - widely lauded as one the composer’s finest works - followed by Spanish and South American program Tang of the Tango. Featuring Australian guitar duo Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, conductor Benjamin Northey will lead the performance through renditions of tangos, a concerto for two guitars by Joaquin Rodrigo and works by Falla and Ginastera. The free series will run at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday February 17, Saturday February 20 and Saturday February 27.
Footscray Street Art Competition The Cheaper Buy Miles Footscray Street Art Competition is open to anyone, and entry is free. Artists are given a measured space to fill and are invited to use a variety of forms and mediums to create their artwork (aerosol paint, stencils, paste-ups, traditional painting and drawing techniques are encouraged artwork cannot protrude from wall). If you win, you’ll walk away with $5,000. Sounds up your alley? Head to footscraystreetart.com.au for more information. The winner will be announced on Saturday November 28, so get cracking.
Saint Martin’s Place The historic Duke of Edinburgh hotel will be transformed with the highly anticipated opening of Saint Martin’s Place, complete with food, liquor and live music. The Saint Martin’s Presents series will kick off Friday nights, hosting an array of cabaret, performance and music alongside art installations and screenings. The old hotel is being re-modeled by the team who achieved a five-star licensing accreditation whilst custodians of the venue for over a decade, creating two separate venues within the building, each with its own unique identity. Get down to the opening party of Saint Martin’s Place on Friday November 20, featuring Katie Underwood and Matt Dwyer.
It’s time for Kings of Comedy’s end of year special, featuring some of the best acts they’ve had in their 11 week run all in a super end of year special, including Greg Furey, Chris Wainhouse, Evan Hocking, Simon Hughes, Mark McConnell, John Dore, Rohan Ganju, Alexander Fusca, Marc Oszhka, David Boyle, Ross Purdy, Andrew Iles and Danielle Walker. It’s all happening at La Di Da this Friday November 20. They’ll be back in early January with some exciting developments in the pipeline.
CLUB VOLTAIRE COMEDY This Sunday November 22 at Club Voltaire there’s a cracking lineup, featuring the likes of Firdi Billimoria with MC duties alongside Kate Dehnert, Luka Muller, Danielle Walker, Clara Cupcakes, Martin Dunlop, Ross Purdy and Brianna Williams. It’s totally free (they’ll accept donations, however) and kicks off at 7.30pm.
MAD DOG COMEDY Mad Dog Comedy happens every Tuesday at the Dancing Dog, 42 Albert St, Footscray. Open mic, no booked spots. Come and tell some jokes. If you don’t know any jokes tell about your weekend or your new shoes or something. Now with cutting-edge “microphone” technology and pretty comfortable chairs. Sign up from 7.30pm, show at 8pm. You should come.
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Moonlight Cinema Dust off the picnic blanket and beanbag, because the team behind Moonlight Cinema have just revealed their 2015/2016 program–complete with advance screenings of 15 new release films before they reach the general public. Suffragette starring Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter will officially open the season, followed by two screenings of the final Hunger Games film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. Elsewhere in the program, be the first to catch Jennifer Lawrence in the hotly anticipated Joy with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, as well as a preview screenings of Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur and Goosebumps starring Jack Black. Other new release films slated for a moonlight screening include Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Sisters and Love the Coopers featuring John Goodman, Diane Keaton and Olivia Wilde in a Christmas time caper. Moonlight Cinema continue to provide a selection of classic and cult-favourite films, with this season being no exception. Dirty Dancing, Top Gun and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are all on offer as well as a special sing-a-long version of Grease. Capping it off, Moonlight Cinema remains a BYO event as well as featuring an LA-style food truck with a fully licensed bar serving up pork sliders, parmesan truffle fries, chilli cheese dogs and Nutella doughnuts. The Moonlight Cinema will run at the Botanic Gardens from Thursday December 3 Sunday February 14. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34
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In an Australian first, a two kilometre chain of over 7,000 dominoes will snake through the city and bring Melbourne to a stand-still over one day in a symbolic display of cause and effect. But they’ll need your help to do it. The Arts Centre are looking for 300 volunteers to be a part of this interactive spectacle to help build, guard the track and provide information to the public. The event is the third instalment of the Betty Amsden Participation Program, that has previously filled the city with numerous playable pianos and thousands of tiny wooden houses. The dominoes project is their most ambitious effort to date after hosting trial runs internationally, including Copenhagen and Helsinki. Dominoes will weave through both historic and everyday parts of the city including laneways and landmarks, transforming the rhythm of the city with a moving sculpture. The dominoes will fall on Saturday February 6. To volunteer, send an email to dominoes@artscentremelbourne.com.au or head to the Arts Centre Melbourne website. The route will be released early next year. G E T S O M E C U LT U R E U P YA
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Big West Festival By Liza Dezfouli Every two years something special happens in Footscray and around Melbourne’s western suburbs – the Big West Festival, a community-based, contemporary arts festival. Big West aims to stage a variety of high quality diverse events in the venues, cultural sites and suburban streets of the western suburbs. Beat talks to Festival CEO and Artistic Director Marcia Ferguson about Open House – the theme for the 10th Big West festival. How did housing become the focus of Big West 2015? “All the ideas came from people talking over coffee during the last festival about what’s difficult in their lives. So much of it comes down to affordable housing,” she answers. “There’s a massive population explosion in the west. 11 families a week are moving here, to Footscray, to Melton. This is forecast to continue until 2036. There are rising rates. With the gentrification of the west people are having to move away from their language groups, they end up in places with no transport and become isolated. There are so many issues facing young people when it comes to housing, finding somewhere affordable to rent.” The festival runs over nine days with 54 out of 69 events being free. Over 350 (mostly) local artists are involved in projects around 12 locations. Big West, Ferguson says, is about art first and foremost, but she sees the festival contributing to betterment of the world around her by raising awareness of social issues. “We want to make a difference, create more empathy, more understanding leading to social change,” she explains. “People are keen to participate in the festival. It’s spread far and wide; it has traction in the community.” The impact of gentrification made itself known in a particular way when Ferguson was working on the last Big West festival. “With the 2013 festival we were working on big heavy shows and many of the elders couldn’t turn up to work on their events because of their family or community commitments taking them so far away. They’re meant to be leading their communities but those communities are spreading far and wide and people were having to travel long distances. The language groups are separating out and people are becoming isolated in places like Tarneit with no public transport. We have to hope the housing bubble bursts because people can’t afford to live within their communities. Talking to people, over and over again, you hear them say ‘a house is what makes you feel well.’ Having a house is the big thing. This is backed up by a huge amount of research.” Ferguson sees housing as a society’s primary concern, and it’s not just about being able to afford somewhere to live, first you have to find somewhere to live, sometimes as a matter of urgency. “There’s a lot of consternation in the community about family violence,” she notes. “Where do women go when they don’t feel safe? When they are homeless within their own homes? How do they get themselves new homes? Women are in situations where they need low cost housing. It’s extremely dangerous for women and children to sleep rough. They have to go back home to an unsafe house rather than be on the streets. All of these things come into play.” Despite the seriousness of its subject and the politics involved, Ferguson says that most of the artists have created lighthearted joyful works on the subject of housing. “It’s gorgeous how artists have responded to the idea of housing. We’ve got 70 different versions of a house. It’s not just about heavy issues.” What fascinates Ferguson when it comes to a work of art? “I’m interested in fearless exploration of the inner world. I say ‘Go for it artists! Come up with something funny and whimsical.’ For example, For Heaven’s Sake, a project by Born in a Taxi, lets you into the Institute of Heaven where you can talk to angels in the Department of Compassion, Punishment and Advice.” How does she choose projects? Is Big West like Fringe where anyone can register and put on anything? “We’re not an open access festival,” she replies. “We put a call out with the theme and the parameters, and people send in their ideas. As long as they can be managed feasibly within a budget, and they fit the theme, we’ll say yes. We want to let the artists speak. We really believe in participation, our mission is to prioritise the community working together. We want to support those artists in the community, whether they’re performing artists, visual artists, or film makers.” Ferguson describes herself as a strategic thinker and it’s clear how much she enjoys what she does. “There is no such thing as a problem, just facts: how are we going to solve this? It’s about not being afraid. I’ve transformed from being an artist to a CEO and project manager, a fundraiser, an events manager. I nurture these new artists. I’m wearing all these hats.” Having an artistic background herself has she ever wanted to put her own work into the festival? “No. I’m satisfied with the level of creativity I have with my engagement with various artists.” What does she especially love about Big West? “The beauty – there’s such a tremendous amount of beautiful art. This matters to people, beautiful art with a rich meaning underneath it.” Big West Festival will take place from Friday November 20 - Saturday November 28.
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• CDR - FEAT: DYLAN BATELIC + ISAAC CHRISTIE + TOMSK + ANDY UKHTOMSKY + DISCO P Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • MONOLAKE + ECHO INSPECTORS + SPILT SILO The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $20.00. • MOP & GLOW - FEAT: BOOMA + CALIFORNIA GAMES + DJ INNES + DYLAN MICHEL + THIILII Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • RED BULL THRE3STYLE SHOWCASE - FEAT: DJ PERPLEX + FLAGRANT + MUGEN + J RED + MORE 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: MOONSHINE + DANIELSAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • SAFARI (AFTERNOON DJS) + KUYA + MATT RADOVICH The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 5:00pm. • SWELL The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 5:30pm. $39.00.
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• 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + FLOAT + SOFT TOUCHES + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • BOOKA SHADE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $38.50. • DAN WHITE + CALE SEXTON + KANGAROO SKULL + MORE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: FABRIS + TIM KOREN + SAMMY SWAYN + ALEX CRAM + JACK NELSON + PETER FOTOP + RYAN KEARY + MITCH BAIN + MANNY BUBOS + DAN BENTLEY + YASKI + RHYS BYNON + KHANH ONG + GEORGE KARA Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • FRIENDSHIPS + ALTA + WABZ + JONNY FAITH Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • KENTON SLASH DEMON + NULL + HOODLEM The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 7:00pm. • MORNING GLORYVILLE - FEAT: BLUNDERBUSS + CC:DISCO! + POST PERCY + ROCKEROBICS The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 7:00am. $22.00. • NEIGHBOURS THURSDAYS Oasis Parlour, Epping. 8:00pm. • RAT & CO + AUDEGO + ASDASFR BAWD John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. • RAT & CO. DJS (AFTERNOON DJS) The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 5:00pm. • ROBERT HENKE (LUMIÈRE II) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $50.00. • SWELL The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 5:30pm. $39.00. • TUC + SLEEP D + TOM MOORE + ELISABETH DIXON + MOOPIE + ZOBS PALACE The Mercat, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WAX’O PARADISO + SILENT JAY & JACE XL + ARKS + COCOA NOIRE + JIMMY CAUTION + KIRKIS + RAAGHE + WINTERS
Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
friday nov 20
• #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • A CLUB CALLED TRISH - FEAT: AKTA + BLOOM A/V + DJ SANPO DISCO + HIGH TEA + LEN LEISE + NICHOLAS LING + THE LANARK PROJECT Scratch Warehouse, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $15.00. • B-TWO + NAZ + MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • BLACK CAT + ALBRECHT LA’BROOY + TONY VERSACE + CHILL COLLINS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.00. • CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CLUK EPIK - FEAT: DJ DEAN The Croxton, Thornbury. 9:00pm. $5.00. • DJ KNAVE KNIXX Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • DJ SHAKEY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 11:30pm. • EATS EVERYTHING + DERRICK CARTER + JAMES CURD + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $35.00. • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • FRIDAYS @ ONESIXONE - FEAT: JEN TUTTY + LUKE MCD + LEWIE DAY + PREQUEL + KATIE DROVER + MITCH KURZ + MIC NEWMAN + TOM EVANS + JOEL ALPHA + LIAM WALLER + AARON TROTTMAN + NICK JONES + JESSE YOUNG + ANDRAS FOX + JAC OSCAR WILKINS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • GAMER 3D + BEAT RATIO + DJ ZEROTONINE + GAMER Croft Institute, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. • INTERSLICE - FEAT: ADRIAN BELL + ARCHYA + JIFFY & WHILE + INKI MANN + MORE Railway Hotel , Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00. • KIKI (A NEW QUEER PARTY) FEAT: SALVADOR DARLING + RUBY SLIPPERS + TALI + SCOUT + PIZZA SHAPEZ + MORE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $15.00. • LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • NORA EN PURE Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:30pm. • NTH^END FRIDAYS Oasis Parlour, Epping. 8:00pm. • PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS FEAT: AMIN PAYNE + WINTERS + JACKSON MILES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • PHIL GOOD FRIDAYS - FEAT: PHIL K Railway Hotel , Brunswick. 6:00pm. • PIERCE BROTHERS + ANNA O + JACK STIRLING 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. • PIG & DAN + OXIA + SAFARI +
TIM KOREN + GESALT + MORE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $29.00. • POCOCK (AFTERNOON DJS) The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 5:00pm. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • REVOLVER FRIDAYS & JUMP TO THIS 5 YEARS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + KATIE DROVER + HEY SAM + TORREN FOOT + SUNSHINE + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • SWELL The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 5:30pm. $39.00. • SYMBOLIC + TUNE RADER + OZZY + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $22.00. • TECHNOROBICS - FEAT: PERUW + SUNDELIN MUSIC + JULIAN CASTLES + ANNA MAY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.
saturday nov 21
• 15 YEARS OF TRANCE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 10:00pm. $34.70. • ABUNDANCE & THE BRINK – DISTRICT XIII - FEAT: DTMX + MASTER HOOK + DMS + DEVIANT 24 Moons, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00. • ANDY PADULA Railway Hotel , Brunswick. 10:00pm. • ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. • AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS FEAT: LE ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. • CHAMPAGNE INTERNET Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:30pm. • CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CUSHION SATURDAYS - FEAT: COURTNEY MILLS + JESSE JAMES + J HEASY + MITCH COEN + BIG MAC + TOP DECK + MORE Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • DARKBEAT DAY PARTY - FEAT: APPARAT + DAVE PHAM + ROLLIN CONNECTION + LISTER COORAY + MORE Railway Hotel , Brunswick. 12:00pm. $25.00. • DAVEYS SATURDAYS - FEAT: HURLEY + CRAIG MOORE + ASTERIX Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 9:00pm. • DJ ERNIE DEE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • DJ JNETT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • DJ XANDER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. • ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. • HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • KODIAK KID 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. • LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: GEOLOGY + RAMBL + MYLES MAC + JIMMY CAUTION + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • OP SATURDAYS Oasis Parlour, Epping. 8:00pm. • PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • ROARHOUSE V THE STATE 303, Northcote. 5:00pm. • SABO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • SEVEN SATURDAY
DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. • TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB SATURDAYS - FEAT: FAMILIAR STRANGERS + KIN + ANDY MURPHY The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. • THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + ELLE + DAVID SPACE + FLIP3K + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • TOMMY’S CLUB - FEAT: SCAT Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 8:00pm. $10.00. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • TUNED IN - FEAT: BEN CROMACK + QUALE + HARRY BLOTTER & VORN LEWIS + LANGERS Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
sunday nov 22
• BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • CRXZY SXXY CXXL (LOCA SEXY BUENA) - FEAT: DJ MIMI + DJ JADE ZOE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $10.00. • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel , Brunswick. 3:00pm. • JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. • PIERCE BROTHERS + ANNA O + JACK STIRLING 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.00. • REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • ROOFTOP SUNDAYS - FEAT: KHANH + KEN WALKER + JESUS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. • SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + SHAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. • WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
monday nov 23
• CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON + DYLAN MICHAEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. • SPECIAL REQUEST - FEAT: JOSH P New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • THE BREAKFAST CLUB - FEAT: LE ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. • THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK + MICKEY NOX Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
tuesday nov 24
• OASIS TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. •
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• IAMSU! + BOBBY BRACKINS + NIC NAC Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $59.00. • MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: DJ SNUG + KEITO Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
thursday nov 19
• THURSDAYS REIGN SUPREME - FEAT: AP70 + MIZRIZK Railway Hotel , Brunswick. 6:00pm.
friday nov 20
• ANDERSON PAAK + JOY RIDE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $36.90. • BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise
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Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • JASON DERULO + T.I. + AUSTIN MAHONE + PIA MIA Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $81.56. • NEVERFOFEVER + DAVE DRUMMOND + LYNN K Roo Baa, East Bentleigh. 8:30pm. • PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: SONIC VIBES + JADE ZOE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • VANESSA ELISHA Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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saturday nov 21
• BIG DANCING SATURDAYS - FEAT: THE WHIP + MIMI + LARRIE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • JOELISTICS + OMAR MUSA + BIRDZ Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $20.00. • KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge,
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rara RaRa have announced they will launch their PLANET2016 EP with a show at Shebeen this December. It’s been just over a year since the Melbourne fourpiece released their EP Pink and Teal, a collaboration heavy collection of bangers. This next chapter is a bit of a departure from that sound, focusing instead on melody, instrumentality, and personal lyrics and showcasing more of what the group can do on their own. RaRa will launch the EP at Shebeen on Saturday December 19.
urban spread Urban Spread’s Summer Series have announced their next event, featuring an all-star Australian hip hop lineup. The night will be headlined by Seth Sentry, whose debut record This Was Tomorrow earned him a gold record, an ARIA nomination and accolades like Channel [V] Artist of The Year. Earlier this year he released the follow up Strange New Past to critical acclaim. He’ll be joined by Mantra and Ivan Ooze. It’s going down at Chelsea Heights Hotel on Australia Day Eve, Monday January 25.
action bronson Back for the first time in three years, hip hop sensation Action Bronson has announced a string of Australian shows in support of his sophomore album Mr. Wonderful. Mr. Wonderful sees Bronson team up once more with longtime collaborators Party Supplies and The Alchemist, as well as broadening his horizons with collaborations from Mark Ronson, Chance the Rapper and Noah ‘40’ Shebib, one of Drake’s most trusted beat-makers. Catch up with Action Bronson when he hits The Forum on Tuesday March 15.
party profile: kiki When is it? Friday November 20, 10pm - 3am. Where is it? Laundry Bar 48-50 Johnston St, Fitzroy. Who’s playing? Salvador Darling, Ruby Slippers, Ms Incidental, Tali, Sarah Mac, Scout and Pizza Shapez. What sort of shit will they be playing? Future house, deep house, R&B and party tracks What’s the crowd going to be like? A mixture of north side and south side gays coming together for a wild night. What will we remember in the AM? Picture this: a sea of bubbles, attractive punters literally glowing with body paint as they dance with the energy and whimsical joy of children who have just been handed free Zooper Doopers…and then your number is called out and you just won bingo! What’s the wallet damage? $10 pre purchase or $15 at the door Give us one final reason why we should party here. This is our first ever KiKi and it is going to be a wild affair. The FOMO suffered for missing out on this one will take years to shake off.
MI CORAZON TEQUILA BAR Hey there. Who am I speaking with and what’s your role in the Mi Corazon Tequila Bar? My name is Kyle and I am the owner and general manager of Mi Corazon. Can you describe some of the best dishes you’ve got on offer? We have a selection of traditional Mexican food including tacos pescado, campenchanos, elote and chilaquiles as well as some less traditional food including corn chip crumbed chicken breast, tequila cured rockling, porter braised beef cheeks and coriander pesto chicken wings. You’ve often got live music pumping through the restaurant on the weekends. Any cool gigs we should check out in the near future? Highlights include La Picada, a Latin band featuring members of Quarter Street and San Lazaro, on Friday November 20 and 27. And on Saturday December 5, The Public Opinion Six. As well as Black Caeser DJs any weekend day that we don’t have a band. For those of us who aren’t tequila aficionados, what
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kinds should we try and why? We can find a tequila for any taste. But mezcal is definitely the flavour of the moment. A much more artisanal and small batch spirit with delicious smoky flavour and heaps of complexity. What’s both the best and worst experience you’ve had whilst drinking tequila? The best experience with tequila was up in Sydney for Agave Love in April this year. Basically we got a chance to taste all the different tequila and mezcal that was available and also hear from the producers and learn all about their stories and the history of agave spirits. There is so much more to tequila and mezcal than most people realise. They are drinks to be savoured and if you drink good tequila and mescal, there are no bad experiences. MI CORAZON TEQUILA BAR is at 462 Lygon St, Brunswick East. Check them out at micorazon. com.au.
EL PATIO SPANISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL
Hey there. Tell us about El Patio Spanish Language School. El Patio has been running for almost 15 years in Northcote and the CBD and is famous for its quality of course programmes mixed with fun. We have programmes that start from scratch and then continue on to total fluency. It takes some time, and we do have students who have been with us for 5 years and speak incredibly. Why should we learn Spanish? Do you know that there are 22 countries to speak it in? Not only that, the United States has a very large minority of approximately 40 million Spanish speakers. There are reasons other than travel, for example, to keep your brain in form, personal development, opening our mind to other cultures, to name a few. How do I work out what level I am? We have an online level test, which is a rough guide. For fine-tuning it’s good to chat (in person or by phone) with one of our lovely teachers. What are the terms/course lengths?
During the year the courses are ten weeks (90 minutes per week) or five weeks (three hours per week). There are some express courses of ten weeks for a double shot of Spanish (three hours per week). If you just want a taste, Spanish for Travel is five weeks (90 minutes per week). Then the famous El Cheapo for eight weeks (90 minutes per week). How long does it take to learn a new language? Generally we say that it would take around 70 to 100 hours to be able to hold a basic conversation where you are conscious of how to form the sentences, with a bit of past tense. From then on, it’s only up. How do I enroll? Online from the Enrol page. Just select the course you’re interested in and off you go. Otherwise you can come in or give us a call and do it over the phone. EL PATIO SPANISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL have two locations, one in the CBD and one in Northcote. Find out everything you need to know at elpatiospanish.com.au.
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I can’t hide from the truth any longer. I never really got into techno. In fact, I try not to even say the word out loud for fear that other people will mark me as the fraud I am. Techno, EDM, trance, house – it’s all a puzzling, pulsating blur. Given that Melbourne Music Week is in full swing, it seemed like it was now or never to finally get schooled in the fundamentals of the scene, and I could find no finer tutor than internationally celebrated artist Mathew Jonson. Jonson is appearing in a string of national gigs, both solo and with improvisational outfit Cobblestone Jazz. For someone held up as a truly unique voice in the wild annals of EDM, these gigs are going to be an education for newbies and diehard fans alike. “There are other people like me, I think, and I don’t personally think I have a stand-alone sound going,” Jonson says. “If you listen to a lot of EDM or techno, a lot of it can sound very similar. With me, when I write music and when I’m in the studio I usually have a bit of a story to tell. I’m writing very specific melodies, very specific bass lines. It’s hard to describe, but the melodies somehow just come to me in my head and I have to translate them onto the equipment. “That’s versus a lot of electronic music, where people are using random generators that are playing notes arranged in some kind of scale. There are a lot of people using presets and stuff like that, and the music can be based on placing a lot of different effects and sounds together. It can be very percussive in a way. That’s great, that percussiveness can have a lot of energy, but I guess because my music is so melodic and has the harmonies that it does, it seems to be able to stick in people’s heads more. There are definitely hooks, whereas in a lot of techno it’s so percussive, it’s not necessarily something you’re going to go home singing
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to yourself after the club closes.” Jonson’s interested in building a genuine narrative – something that has an intro, recurring themes and emotions that build towards the end – across the majority of his work. He is renowned for being a handson performer, someone less inclined to filtering beats through a computer than an artist prone to building a fully fleshed track from the ground up. “For me personally, if I get on the computer I find it a lot more difficult. If I was stuck on a computer trying to write techno, there might definitely be a feeling of it being contrived, because it isn’t something
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In Gold, Jay Donaldson’s third EP as Palms Trax, came out early this year via cutting edge Dutch dance label Dekmantel. The first Palms Trax EP, Equation, was released in 2013, and since then Donaldson’s continued to develop his style of house music while cumulatively amassing a following. Although it’s still early days, the Berlin-based Brit has already surpassed the project’s founding ambitions
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This year’s Strawberry Fields festival will feature a giant bamboo art work from The Pier Group, a collective of over 100 international artists. Beat talks to Matt Schultz, founder of The Pier Group, about what they have planned for this month’s festival. “We’re doing something completely new,” says Shultz, of their first major art project outside the US. “It’s based on our work for Burning Man 2014, Embrace, which was a pair of giant hands. It will be built as part of the festival and after the festival we want to find it a permanent home. “Pavilion is four five-metre tall bamboo hands, which form a symmetrical pavilion. We want it to stay in one place and become part of the natural environment, eventually have flowering plants growing over it.” The idea behind Embrace was to draw people together, and encourage humankind to look after the planet. “I loved the feeling that started with Embrace,” says Schultz. “Drawing nature and humanity together. The embrace links humanity to nature, we relate to the environment and to each other. With this new piece the idea is that the hands are growing up out of the earth to protect us. The message is to encourage responsibility, to preserve and protect the earth – that idea is a thread running through my art. I try to motivate people to make change. Currently we aren’t paying
that comes naturally to me. My techno, experimental stuff will be very hands on, intuitive, doing the entire arrangement as I feel it should be on the mixing desk. It’s more like a dub session, using mute buttons and volume faders to bring out different synthesisers and things I have going in loops. If I’m working with vocals, that will change quite drastically. I’m more in an arranging space, and that’s a very, very different process. There it’s closer to what you might find in a pop studio, and is considerably more time consuming as well.” Jonson’s Melbourne Music Week performance will feature visual displays orchestrated by local motion graphic designer, Krystal Schultheiss. In the spirit of improvisation, Jonson et al have not planned this collaboration in any detail. “You can set a lot of these [visual] programs to respond differently to different aspects, be it the tempo, or the bass frequencies might be triggering one visual while other things are going on. There are certainly a lot of possibilities, and I think it mostly comes down to the individual person. It depends on how deep they’re willing to dive down into it.”
attention, we’re so bloody decadent.” The Pier Group caught the attention of the Strawberry Fields organisers at Burning Man in 2011 and 2012. “Those were our breakthrough years,” says Schultz. “For Burning Man 2011 we created an Asian style pier which rose out of the desert, with a series of effects, of accoutrements, like waves splashing in the desert. We created a dreamy feel with it.” But they didn’t stop at a pier. “We followed that up with two projects in 2012,” says Schultz. “With our second pier we also built a full Spanish galleon, La Llorona, which had crashed into the pier. It was 30 metres long with a 20 metre tall mast. It was magical, legendary, like a movie prop. It had seven rooms and people could get inside it and have the experience of roving
around a shipwreck.” As well as sounding a clarion call for environmental responsibility, Schultz says he wants to create a magical space with Pavilion. “I love the idea that you could slip away in time to somewhere fanciful, where you could meet fairies or goblins or kobalts. Little girls will stumble upon it and think they’re in a fantasy book.” He also likes the idea of creating something that will outlive its creators. “Even if all we’re doing is building ruins, we have to do something to avoid a global catastrophe.” Schultz wanted to be an artist from a very young age, but this wasn’t a career path his family encouraged. “When I was extremely young, about three or four, I used to watch Sesame Street and I knew I wanted to be an architect, or an animator, before I knew those words. This carried through to adolescence. I just wanted to make art. But it was not seen as something viable or reasonable.” Schultz worked in various jobs after college, including graphic design and advertising, and made art in his own time. His first visit to Burning Man changed everything and eventually led him to commit fully to his own work. “It was my ‘A-ha’ moment,” he says. “I saw this huge number of people aglow with creativity. It was amazing. I’d been waiting for the ‘OK’ to do that. Here were real artists and weirdos and oddballs and freaks who’d made this world outside of society, this absolutely fantastic canvas where I could show my work. I was hooked.” THE PIER GROUP present Pavilion at the Strawberry Fields festival, which goes down Friday November 20 – Sunday November 22, in Tocumwal, NSW. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
“There definitely wasn’t any master plan,” he says. “I mean, I wouldn’t have even released a record were it not for Jimmy at Lobster Theremin pushing through with it. Every EP so far has involved me deciding not to release it at some stage in its production and if it weren’t for other people charging ahead regardless I’d still have no records to my name. “Anyway, I’d just moved to Berlin and was trying to settle in here so that was my main focus, and it’s taken a good two years to get to a point where I’m back in the habit of making music regularly. I did want to DJ out, but that wasn’t the motivation to release music or anything. I guess a couple of extra years to buy some decent monitors and learn how to program some good congas wouldn’t have hurt, but everyone starts out somewhere, right?” In Gold is an exploration through deeper strains of dance music, with its origins in the ‘80s/‘90s Chicago house and Detroit techno movements. That said, it’d be unfair to describe the EP as nostalgic – it definitely sounds like something that was made in 2015. This nimble balance results from the merging of Donaldson’s studio process and influences. “It’s not something I’m conscious of whilst I’m producing, I just know how I want certain things to sound and I don’t stop ‘til I get there,” he says. “For instance, I could never make one of those New Jersey house knock-offs that have been doing the rounds for the past couple of years. Probably just comes from listening to so much Omar S a couple years ago, and those Psyche records by Carl Craig, but then making it on a laptop and dealing with all the bad habits that come with that.” So far, critical feedback on Palms Trax has tended to make reference to the two aforementioned movements, which evidently form the foundation of his productions. When Donaldson starting working as Palms Trax, however, he wasn’t trying to pay homage to anything in particular. “I was just listening to a load of house and techno, which was all new to me at the time, and got really excited by it,” he says. “So when I was making anything, that was what I was taking inspiration from. Before that I was making new wave at my kitchen table so it’s all ticked along fairly naturally.” House music has never really faded from view, but there’s been resurgent interest in recent years. In terms of the mainstream, there are popular house
acts like Disclosure and Julio Bashmore, and even Four Tet’s recent material has more obviously embraced elements of house. The mainstream exposure has led curious listeners to seek out underground releases, giving life back to a genre that was somewhat languishing a decade ago. “Five years ago you had everyone like Joy Orbison and Ben UFO beginning to play more house records, so I think it’d be fair to say it’s been pretty dominant for at least half a decade,” Donaldson says. “I can’t really comment on anything before that because I wasn’t listening to much dance music back then, but I know Ron Trent and a few others have spoken about how their bookings dried up for a bit so it must have had an effect to some extent. “I suppose the line between underground and mainstream is a bit blurred now, because some artists who are commonly thought of as representing the underground command enormous fees and may have a team of people working behind them, and bigger acts see emerging artists as a way to boost their credibility so try and leech off the back of that without having to adjust their own output. I guess that’s bad for the homogenisation of music or whatever, but that’s always been the case and you can see groups of friends emerging all the time doing cool stuff, whether its Acting Press and Mood Hut or Endless and Janus at the other end of the spectrum.” Palms Trax releases are distinguished by Donaldson’s affection for paddy synth sounds and a robust bottom end, which makes them well suited to clubs and festivals. He’s due to appear at the Strawberry Fields festival this November, but don’t expect to hear the songs you’re familiar with. “I never play songs I’ve released live. It’s all just jams and ideas I might have had leading up to it. I do have all the patches I’ve made accessible to me, so I could end up using a lot of the same sounds. But I like the live set to flow more like a DJ set, with the exception of Sonar [Barcelona] – that felt more like a concert. It does all depend on the setting though, so a 5pm festival set will be different to 4am in Panorama Bar.”
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Birds Of Tokyo are a divisive band, though it’s difficult to gauge exactly why that is. They’ve found huge success since forming back in 2004, with four charting records and a compilation album, Playlist, now on shelves. Some of that divisiveness seems to have roots in the inevitable criticism of any act that finds mainstream success, but these charges have little weight here.
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Blues rock conservationists Vintage Trouble released their second album 1 Hopeful Rd. in August. It had been four years since the LA foursome emerged with their debut LP The Bomb Shelter Sessions, and their profile had subsequently blossomed in all corners of the world. Having toured with the likes of Brian May, The Who and AC/DC, there was a lot attention focused on Vintage Trouble in the lead-up to the 1 Hopeful Rd., which the band confidently took in their stride. “When The Bomb Shelter Sessions came out, it was kind of our calling card – it was really just a demo,” says bass player Rick Barrio Dill. “We recorded it in two and a half days after only being a band for three months, and then have been on the road the last four years supporting what ostensibly was a demo. A lot of songs were born on the road, because we were definitely a live band. So we really wanted to do the traditional record thing, but we had to choose from 37 songs, many of which had been road tested. So it wasn’t so much that there was pressure as it was just exciting for us.” The Bomb Shelter Sessions contains quite a few gutsy, old-fashioned rock’n’roll tunes. By contrast, the band’s sophomore release is a tamer beast, with greater focus on building up emotion via soul numbers and blues ballads. “What we finally decided to do was, ‘Let’s just make the best record right now, as far as songs’,” says Dill. “Some of that was wanting to showcase more of the ballads and more of the soulful side, as well as having an equal part of that crazy live thing that we’re known for. At this point we had gotten such confidence and such swagger from the last four years, from the fans that we had built up, that we almost felt there a big safety net there.” Vintage Trouble formed roughly five years ago, but the four members had all previously worked together in different outfits on the LA band scene. While they weren’t banking on Vintage Trouble becoming a career band, there was a distinctly different attitude from the outset. “We just wanted to stop chasing anything and just make music that we liked,” says Dill. “It wasn’t fashionable five years ago to even be thinking of the type of music that we were doing, especially in Los Angeles, but we just wanted to make music that we liked from the time period that we liked. Lo and behold, we had a gig three weeks after being a band and immediately it just took fire and before we knew it we had four residencies a week all over Los Angeles.” During the construction of 1 Hopeful Rd., the band was intent on producing a captivating start-to-finish album journey. Despite the advances in their creative bond, certain elements of The Bomb Shelter Sessions recording process were carried over to album two. “We tripped onto our mantra on Bomb Shelter Sessions in that we were trying to only make something so we could sell it BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
at our gigs,” Dill says. “Three months in we had so many people coming out to the gigs, and we had to put something onto CD so we could sell it at gigs. So we just went into the studio and all set up in a circle and just got ‘em down live. Most of what you hear is us all playing together all at the same time. Even though Ty [Taylor, vocalist] was in the side booth, he was singing at the same time as we were laying it down. “That was something that we held onto for this record, and in that comes a little bit of that recklessness and danger or excitement. Some things aren’t perfect, we’re not fixing things in Pro Tools. Hopefully the honesty still shines through, because I definitely think that was something people associated with it. It was sort of opposite the trend, especially with more popular forms of music where everything is really really perfect.” Taylor’s rich, soulful vocals and charismatic personality are the locus of much of the band’s appeal. From a creative point of view, however, there’s no clear leader of Vintage Trouble. “Obviously Ty is your quarter back – he’s arguably one of the greatest singers and frontmen on the planet. But we’re definitely four alpha personalities, which is interesting. On paper it probably wouldn’t work, but that was another thing we realised early on – this odd collection of these alpha males, there’s a lot that each one brings to the table. “Our biggest challenge is getting out of our own way. Sometimes somebody’s headstrong and luckily there is a respect that goes around the table. If somebody else is particularly headstrong about a certain issue or part or whatever, we’ll try it. We try all kinds of things to give everybody that respect. That’s probably one of the oddities that I think is so amazing about Vintage Trouble. Our age, we’re a little older, and if you throw too much testosterone and youth into that mix obviously it self-destructs and explodes, but I think we realised early on how lucky we were to be in a room with each other. All of us realised how lucky we were to find chemistry. That was the magic interlocking thing.” VINTAGE TROUBLE are playing the Corner Hotel on Wednesday March 30. They’re also hitting up Bluesfest 2016, from Thursday March 24 – Monday March 28, at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm.
Birds Of Tokyo are far from a generic band, and each album sounds significantly different to the last. This was one of the main motivations in releasing Playlist in the first place – to show just how far the Perth fivepiece has come, and unite songs that many listeners aren’t aware actually come from the same band. “We’ve been a band for ten years, and in that ten years has come a hell of a lot of change,” says frontman Ian Kenny. “It’s changed who each of us are as artists, who we are as a band. So when you do get the opportunity to say what you’re about, especially overseas where you’re kind of new, you can bring to the table what the band is now, as opposed to what it was. So it does feel like you get a chance to reinvent yourself, and we definitely take each opportunity to do that. We’re aware of where we sit in the public image, and in our scene. It comes as part of the territory. Things have grown as you get more access to people, people find more access to you – it’s all part of the territory of running a big gig.” Playlist is an album in reverse chronology, with songs arranged from newest to oldest. With new single I’d Go With You Anywhere leading the charge, it’s a winding odyssey. What distinguishes this from a best of release, though, is the strange evolution of the band’s catalogue. A recurring observation of Birds Of Tokyo is that while many are familiar with a wide sweep of their songs, a great deal are unaware there is one distinct
band anchoring them all together. Playlist, then, operates both as a mirror of sorts for the band to reflect on how it has evolved, but also a chance for casual listeners to assemble this musical jigsaw. “It certainly will be a mirror, but the whole idea was to connect the dots between these releases over the whole period, to link people in to where we’ve actually come from, what it is now and where it’s going,” says Kenny. “We came up with the idea of a playlist while touring overseas. People were asking us about our songs, and it made us realise that we have such a widespread range of material that is constantly being brought up by people. It made us think, ‘Man, we should definitely put this all out as a record someday and really canvass our [history].’ “But I also think that’s a massive part of today’s musical relationships, how everyone
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In the midst of various investigative pieces pertaining to the political climate of our country, Leigh Sales introduced a story last month on the ABC’s 7.30 program about Australian hip hop – more specifically, about individuals within it who are responding to the political situation through their music. One such artist is Sukhdeep Singh, better known as L-Fresh The Lion. Singh is a Bankstown-raised and Melbourne-based MC who has earned a considerable national profile and cult international acclaim over the last few years for his fearless, intelligent takedowns of stereotypes and systemic racism. For Singh, appearing on 7.30 was a prime opportunity to introduce himself to an audience that probably wouldn’t have heard of him otherwise. “It’s been a great way to engage in a mature conversation about politics and race in Australia,” he says. “Sometimes, when people haven’t heard of me before, they don’t necessarily listen to hip hop. As much as that’s a part of me, I think putting yourself forward in a conversation is really important. B E AT.C O M . A U
These issues I discuss, they’re human issues. A discussion is a great way to build an introduction. 7.30 worked really well on both sides of things – it served as an introduction to my music to people who hadn’t heard it, and it served as an introduction to my perspective and my politics to people who might only know the music.” Of course, for every contemporary and fan singing Singh’s praises, the Sikh rapper has also had to deal with more than his fair share of online abusers and comment-section trolls. He remains incredibly calm when discussing the topic of his detractors, but there is an obvious weariness and exhaustion that says more than anger ever could. “We live in a society with a real diversity
listens to music in their own little world. People are very much on a singular, onesong relationship with an artist. People go, ‘Oh, I love that song,’ and generally, they seem to be satisfied with that. That one song means something special to them, and that’s great. [There are] people who go a little further, who look into an artist’s history, but generally I think it’s very singular – it’s very short and sharp, quite concise.” While this is becoming a staple of music listening today – thanks largely to the digitised ease of access to individual songs – you nevertheless feel there must be a real frustration for artists intent on showcasing the full scope of their creativity. Though Playlist is indeed a means of addressing that, Kenny is quite accepting of the reality of musical consumption. “Well, that’s the way people will choose to access music, and that’s just how they’re going to roll. Mostly that’s with your firsttime or maybe part-time listeners. To our fans, who are actually well-informed about the band and know the records, who are interested in what we have to say, that’s something very different. In my mind it’s like two different parties happening next door to each other.” BIRDS OF TOKYO’s Playlist is out now through EMI/Universal. Catch them at the Falls Festival, which takes place from Monday December 28 – Friday January 1 in Lorne, VIC; Tuesday December 29 – Friday January 1 in Marion Bay, TAS; and Thursday December 31 – Sunday January 3 in Byron Bay, NSW. They’re also playing at Melbourne Zoo on Saturday February 13.
of opinion,” he says. “It’s interesting when you’re discussing something like the issues of racism with other people. For me, it’s something that I have experienced my entire life. It’s one of those things where people can respond by either listening to what it is that I have to say, or by talking over me, making their mind up about me before I’ve even said a word. Some folk just have that immediate agenda. That’s when you get people responding in a really harsh way. I don’t come from a place of anger or hatred – I come from a place of genuine love for community and for the country that I was born and raised in.” Singh is currently on tour in support of Get Mine, a new single from L-Fresh The Lion’s as-yet-untitled third studio album, slated for release in 2016. “I don’t want to give too much away just yet,” he says about the follow-up to his exceptional 2014 album, One. “I can say, though, that I’m extremely excited about what I’ve been working on and have a great confidence in these new songs.” As far as Get Mine goes, however, it’s more than enough to tide listeners over until the next record comes into play. Featuring the vocals of The Bombay Royale frontwoman Parvyn Kaur Singh (no relation), the song holds a magnifying glass up to the way people of colour and ethnic minorities are treated within Australia. “The song specifically deals with race, and the video deals with the way that political language is used,” says Singh. “We’re living in very challenging times – there is a lot going on with the immediate community. We’re in an age where ideas and issues are so easy to access, and yet they’re so often ignored. If there’s something I want to get across with this song, it’s about starting to think more deeply – not just what we’re involved with, but about ourselves and how we respond to things. Let’s talk about how we fit into the grand scheme of things and what roles we each play as individuals. It begins with me – first and foremost, these songs are reminders to myself, as I know I’m far from perfect.” L-FRESH THE LION plays the Queenscliff Music Festival, which runs Friday November 27 – Sunday November 29 in Queenscliff, VIC.
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Providing direction is nothing new for Rebecca Barnard. After fronting Rebecca’s Empire through the ‘90s, she went on to collaborate with the likes of Paul Kelly, Stephen Cummings and Tim Rogers. She’s also forged a name as a philanthropist across Melbourne, working with several charities and running workshops for the disadvantaged. Her latest endeavour sees her working with students at the Northern College of the Arts & Technology in Preston – although she doesn’t consider herself a regular teacher.
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We enter the scene with an old school VW convertible cruising the suburban streets of Sydney. It’s packed to the rafters with the four members of Palms —Al Grigg, Brendan Walsh, Tom Wallace and Dion Ford — each one looking more proverbially chill and sun-baked than the next. The clip for the band’s recent single Bad Apple flips the iconic ‘90s skate video genre on its head. Instead of the extreme stunts and bone rattling falls, nonchalant rollerblading and a total lack of skill reign supreme. Their Sydney outfit’s sophomore album, Crazy Rack, throws up slices of thrash pop and droves of fuzz imbued with this same irreverent larrikinism. It’s why I’m intrigued by the lyrics of guitarist and vocalist Grigg, which belie the effervescent nature of the music. “I need to care about wanting to play the song night after night to be able to draw from something to perform it all the time,” he says. “It needs to come from somewhere real, or at least honest. And it’s also cathartic for me to get these things off my chest or work through my thoughts.” Grigg says his writing process begins in a secluded and contemplative environment, fuelled by an organic drive. “When I start writing the song I’m on my own in my room usually playing acoustic guitar, so even the more punkier songs or the more energetic songs all start out on acousti guitar. So it’s a very isolated, personal, and probably introspective place a lot of the songs come from.” Palms’ music is inherently instinctive. Every wail of the wah pedal and landing blow from the bulleting rhythm section is the product of an uplifting collaboration between close mates. “It’s like me going and I’m playing with my friends and you put the drumming behind everything and it lifts it up. I guess the music is this really joyous thing, an exciting thing” Grigg says. It’s a component of the new album that, as Grigg suggests, allows fans to connect with the music on different levels. “If you want to find the intensity and you want to have this sort of emotional response to the album then it’s there and you can find it, but if you just want to like tap your foot or sing along or jump around then you can do that as well. It’s all there.” For Crazy Rack Palms once again recorded with good friend Owen Penglis (Royal Headache, Straight Arrows), splitting time between Linear Studios for live tracking, and Penglis’ basement studio where they pieced together overdubs, vocals and other bits and pieces. The fervent energy of the band coupled with Penglis’ natural feel for production has ingrained these new tracks with a propulsive immediacy. “Owen is definitely a less is more kind of guy, so if you can take something away he will. Instead of having a distortion pedal, let’s just drive the amp harder or just keep everything very simple. If you let a band just sound like themselves you get a better chance of that band having something sounding idiosyncratic – having something that another band’s not going to have.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 48
Beyond the familiarity and conceptual clarity offered by Penglis’ recording method, his impressive arsenal of quality vintage gear – everything from reverb units to classic microphones and a hefty reel-to-reel eight track – helped shape the album’s sonic fabric. “Owen has this amp, it’s an old Australian brand called Golden Tone, and it sounds like fucking magic. It’s all over our record and I’m pretty sure, because Owen just did a bunch of stuff on the Royal Headache album, I’m pretty sure it got a run on that album too. Everyone that plays it is just blown away. I know when Ty Segall was in the country he played through it. He was just like, ‘Oh my god man. I’ve got to get one of these amps.’ They’re like an Australian ‘60s kind of thing and people just totally fetishise [over them], and rightly so – they sound incredible.” As Grigg gleefully recounts shooting the Bad Apple clip at Sydney University, it’s easy to see how his sense of humour influences the band’s outlook. The clip was directed and produced by Brent Griffin (aka SPOD), and it wasn’t a laborious endeavour. “It was just us foolin’ around, and it was actually really fun and probably the easiest I’ve ever made. It was just like, ‘Hang out with your friends, do stupid tricks,’ and Brent just followed us around with a GoPro.” It’s the same sentiment behind Crazy Rack – it comes from a genuine place, both feel good and eclectic. “I wouldn’t want it to just be vacuous – you know, on the other hand too, who wants it to just be like this vacuous song of like just garage-y nothingness, where people are like, ‘OK’ once they’ve kind of heard the chorus three or four times it’s over. You know, [the sort of song where] there’s nothing more you can get from it. It’s a funny balance I guess, in between the fun and also the depth.” PALMS’ Crazy Rack is out now via Ivy League Records.
“What I do is I teach them a repertoire that is a bit out of their comfort zone and we do some of my old songs from Rebecca’s Empire. A lot of them are metal heads and I’m getting them to play Paul Kelly and other Australian songs. At first they’re hesitant – I mean some of them are serious metal heads – but when we go on the road they love it. They excel. They’re incredible. I suppose I’m a mentor, but it’s an industry based course. I’m teaching them the reality, what it’s like, that you have to be diverse if you want to survive in the industry. Even in successful bands, it’s not going to happen overnight and it’s not going to last forever.” The course is called Tour With Rebecca Barnard, and the singer’s main goal is to secure lasting jobs for her students. She’s promoting music less as a hobby, and more as a career path. Like all creative professions, flexibility is key to making a living in the music industry. “If you’re a diverse musician you can get session work,” says Barnard. “The rehearsal I just did, the bass player is Ben Franz who is currently on tour with The Waifs. He does jazz gigs, country gigs, he’s a very gifted musician and can cross all styles. If you want to make a living – which is what I do too in singing jazz and rock or whatever – if you want to stay in work, you have to be diverse. A lot of these metal heads are
really incredible guitar players – technically they’re brilliant – so I’m just getting them to use their techniques in a different way.” Barnard has been acquainting her students with songs from the Australian scene circa mid-‘90s, and it’s hard to ignore how much the music industry has changed since then, which comes with its share of ups and down. “It’s totally changed the world we live in,”
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Just six years since its inception, the Coburg Night Market has grown up fast. For four consecutive Fridays from late November until mid-December, the inner-northern market will host international food stands, local music and plenty of other activities to entertain young and old. Newly appointed mayor Samantha Ratnam and her Moreland City Council colleagues are pushing to make the event memorable. In fact, Ratnam believes this year’s attendance will top 2014’s record breaking figure of 8000. “We have a talented team here at the Council who are working hard to make sure we put on the best event possible,” she says. “The market has been run in-house since 2014, which was our most successful year to date – and if the sun comes out for us again this year I think we’ll top last year for sure. This event started as part of the Queen Vic Market Summer Night Market series in 2010 and has since changed and grown to become the well-known and not-to-bemissed event it is today.” Hosting a localised event such as the Coburg Night Market, the managing parties face a few obvious challenges. Either they can B E AT.C O M . A U
focus squarely on fostering the local scene or aim to create a livelier event that attracts people from all over the city. Beyond that, there’s also the issue of making the event enjoyable for adults, whilst keeping things family friendly. For Ratnam and the Night Market’s managing team, the goal is to satisfy all parties. “Keeping things local is important to us,” she says. “We have so many talented designers, performers and vendors in Moreland, so in this respect our job has been quite easy. This year we’ve worked to find a good balance of local and not so local partners to piece together an incredible
says Barnard. “Change is inevitable, but there’s something about this Internet world – it’s bringing people together, but it’s very isolating. People don’t need people. They don’t need human contact as much. But the thing that I find really positive about young musicians is that there’s so many girls now that can play instruments. When I was at school, if there was a female drummer it would have made the front page of the bloody paper. For years girls had to deal with that idea of ‘sex sells’, but now they’re doing stuff that’s musical and not having to rely on looks or work with record companies moulding them into a profile.” The course gives Barnard’s students an invaluable opportunity to learn the ins and outs of touring. And she’s even learning something herself. “I love doing it, I’ll say that much. I love working with younger people and it’s really, really rewarding, but mate I’ll tell you what it’s shown me – how fucking hard teachers work. Oh my god. The amount of work that they do that they don’t get paid for is unbelievable.” Applications for Tour with REBECCA BARNARD at the Northern College of the Arts & Technology are open now. Auditions begin on Tuesday November 24. Check out ncat.vic.edu.au/tourrebecca-barnard for more details.
mix that we think will go far in creating a memorable event for market-goers. I think we’ve also found a good balance of family friendly fun and a great night out for adults this year. We have a dedicated kids entertainment zone and kid-friendly activities happening early on, but we also have two stages, two bars and a stack of food trucks and stalls and handmade and locally produced wares on offer all night. It’s a safe and secure environment to have a good time, relax with friends at the end of the work or school week, and one of the best things about the market is that balance of things that interest everyone.” A couple of the interesting additions to this year’s Night Market come in the form of dance classes. On week two there’s BeyDance, an open minded, tongue in cheek class dedicated to Beyoncé. Then the following week punters will experience the swing and jive magic of Anna’s Go-Go Academy. “I think adding an element of interaction to the lineup this year is a great move,” says Ratnam. “I’ve attended BeyDance classes in Brunswick and they are always a lot of fun – I challenge anyone to stay seated when the BeyDance team joins the market crowd on December 4. I’ve heard great things about Anna’s Go-Go Academy so I’ll be there working on my moves on December 11 with the masses for sure. “Along with this, having two stages has allowed us to increase the number of bands and genres of music we feature at the event,” says Ratnam. “Opening night kicks off with the talented kids from the Coburg Primary School band, followed by Sin Frontera Trio and Mick Thomas with Squeezebox Wally. While this is going on, we have the infinitely talented Juzzie Smith performing three sets at the Cedar Tree tent. I’m looking forward to catching Woodlock on December 11 and I’ve heard Mars Madness, among others, is well worth a listen.” The COBURG NIGHT MARKET takes place every Friday from November 27 until December 18, 5.30pm – 10pm, at Bridges Reserve, Coburg.
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The English language is a constantly evolving and peculiar beast. Reach back far enough and you’ll find countless words that have slipped through the cracks of the cultural lexicon, long-lost artifacts of a time well and truly passed. One such word is ‘illywhacker,’ which immediately brings up a red line in all good word processors. However, the word has a little bit of history to it, and has now been revived thanks to Sydney band You Beauty.
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An exuberant force of Canadian rock’n’roll, Mac DeMarco has proven to be a consistent and evolutionary songwriter over the past five years. His last album Salad Days was swiftly followed by mini-LP Another One, and he’s blazed a trail globally with raucous live showings. Ahead of his return to Australia over the New Year period, DeMarco speaks on his approach, inviting fans to his home, and how he would change the world. On stage, DeMarco is invariably a bastion of uplifting spirit, even in the wake of the heavily introspective Salad Days. Is DeMarco acting up there? “The recording – definitely no. I mean, I’m at home doing it, it’s a very personal thing for me. I try not to think about what people are going think, like ‘Oh, I should try and write this kind of song.’ I don’t really think that way while I’m doing it, so that’s definitely pretty straight up,” he says. “The shows can be a little bit different I guess, ‘cause you know, people are coming out, you want to try and please people every night. But if I’m having a weird time or if the crowd is being weird, then the mood may shift. “I think certain aspects of my personality are blown way out of proportion. I’m kind of like an Internet meme at this point. But I try and stay true to myself. I think it’s the only way I can really stay sane doing this. But I try and keep it parallel with the outward persona that people dig into.” With success comes freedom, at least an ostensible sense of freedom. But even before reaching international acclaim, DeMarco has been rollicking with abandon. “I guess I have always had that freedom,” he says. “Playing music and playing shows and getting paid to do this kind of thing, and going around the country – it’s not work, it’s not a job. It’s ridiculous that we’re even able to do this, and now it’s some kind of fuckin’ industry-sized whatever thing. We make us money and we make other people money. For me music was always freedom from the nine-to-five job, or freedom from the grocery store shift or whatever. It is crazy now that it is my full, full gig. “For me it’s just the small things that really make the difference, as far as keeping it the way I want it to be. Like the people that I work with, I have to trust them. Say managers or booking agents, yada yada yada, tour managers, sound people, whatever – just small things, I want to keep it close to home. I don’t want to take tour buses; I don’t want to do any of that kind of crazy stuff. Even playing big venues, we’ve gotten to a certain point where we’re able to play 3000-person venues in some cities, and that’s kind of pushing it a little bit. I’d rather do a couple smaller shows than a big one. I want to keep it as down to earth as I can.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 50
In a bold, but typical move, DeMarco disclosed his home address on Another One’s closing track My House By The Water. Perhaps it was an existential artistic statement, perhaps he was just throwing rocks to see a response. “I don’t know what I was thinking,” he says. “I don’t regret it in any way, I’ve learned a lot from it. But I think it was like, when I make albums I’m alone and especially in my neighbourhood – I did it in the winter and nobody comes down to Far Rockaway in the winter. So I was very lonely this winter, all alone for months on end, and I recorded the album in that time frame, and then put that at the end and was like, ‘Ah there you go, maybe someone will come visit me.’ But then it turns into this big press thing and everyone’s like, ‘Look at Mac, he’s being crazy,’ and it’s like, OK that’s not really why I put it on there. “People came, it was cool, but after the press thing it got really crazy and then there’s kids coming and asking for stuff. I mean it’s cool, but when I did it I wasn’t thinking about how many people would listen to it. My roommates definitely feel weird about it too. It’s different meeting people on the basis where they don’t already know your whole Wikipedia page. It’s a different style of human interaction at this point, which is terrifying, and interesting, and also my own fault. So I can’t really complain about it. But it is crazy.” Recently released on a compilation, DeMarco indulged in his overt dad-rock inclinations with a take on Eric Clapton’s Change The World. So how would he change the world? “I would invent a tree where hamburgers grow on the tree, fully dressed. You know there’s veggie patties on some of them, but hamburgers – wrapped up, no wait, no over packaging, you don’t need that. But just a tree, that grows hamburgers. Yeah.” MAC DEMARCO is playing 170 Russell on Sunday January 3, Monday January 4 and Tuesday January 5. He’s also playing the Falls Festival, which takes place from Monday December 28 – Friday January 1 in Lorne, VIC; Tuesday December 29 – Friday January 1 in Marion Bay, TAS; and Thursday December 31 – Sunday January 3 in Byron Bay, NSW.
“It’s actually a really famous Australian book by Peter Carey from the mid-‘80s,” says lead vocalist, lyricist and percussionist Will Farrier. “I decided to steal it from him – I figured it wasn’t really his to use in the first place. He got the term from this old colonial Australian term for someone that’s a bit of a trickster or a confidence man. I thought to myself, ‘Peter, you’ve had your chance. It’s my turn to take back the word and drag it into the 21st century vernacular. I’m hoping that he’ll find out about it and get really upset and maybe want to sue us.” You Beauty’s second LP – the slightly changed Illywhacka – comes roughly 18 months after their debut, Jersey Flegg, which told the tale of a disgraced rugby league star. Although the debut effort gave the band an identifiable angle – the ‘footy band,’ if you will – Farrier makes it clear that this characteristic was created purely for Jersey Flegg. “It was never a case of prolonging that,” he says. “When we were first starting to play shows, you’d have guys turning up in their footy jerseys and their shorts and everything. Every time I saw that, I just thought to myself about how disappointed they were going to be. I’m sure there will be some people who just liked the footy subject matter or whatever, and that’s fine,
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but it was never about the one thing for us.” Illywhacka follows the story of an online scam artist who has set up a profile on a dating website, looking for rich older women to steal money from. He picks his pray, Dee, but things go askew when the scammer falls for her. His behaviour is similarly reprehensible to that of the footy star in Jersey Flegg, and the lyrics attempt to unpack the psychology of such a wayward being from inside his own mind. “I was looking for the same kind of character,” says Farrier. “Maybe what that character from Jersey Flegg might have
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Swedish collective Goat will make their first trip to Australia next month, including a visit to Meredith Music Festival and a run of shows alongside King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It’s a good match-up, considering Goat’s characteristic embrace of classic rock, blues rock and heavier psychedelic sounds. Many songs on the band’s 2014 LP Commune are rhythmically insistent, and there’s an intensity to the vocal delivery and guitar riffs. However, it never feels like there’s too much going on. “We are interested in rhythms and grooves and energy, we don’t want to cover this up with layers of overdubs and production,” says the mysterious band member, Captain Goatheart. “We record on a 16 track tape machine to force ourselves to not make too much overdubs. We never make more then three takes on anything. A lot of what you hear on our recordings are first takes. We never do any editing, hence you can hear a lot of mistakes in the songs. We work this way to keep the music raw and pure. And in my ears songs like Goathead, Det Som Aldrig Förändras, Stonegoat, Bondye, Gathering of Ancient Tribes and The Sun the Moon are really hitting it off.” B E AT.C O M . A U
Since emerging with the album World Music in 2012, a sense of mystery has surrounded Goat. The band members have claimed this project is a continuation of a musical collective that’s existed in the tiny Swedish town of Korpilombolo for several decades. However, some doubts have been raised about the truth of this tale. The mystery is emphasised by the fact there’s not much information about who the band members are, and they appear on stage in masks. “We want to be anonymous to preserve our individual freedom, and that is built in from our collective system while growing up in the Goat commune,” says Goatheart. “Any mystery that might come from that is just
been doing in another life. We didn’t want to change the blueprint so much – we just knew it had to have certain aspects that were different. I found some articles online that I found really interesting – just the mentality behind the kind of guys that will do this sort of thing. I read so many stories about these women getting chased online for their cash. It’s pretty full-on when you stop and think about it.” You Beauty formed two years ago. Although all members are now based in Sydney, the four members were previously split between Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne; meaning that a lot of Jersey Flegg was written by correspondence. Now with a central location, the songwriting process for Illywhacka was considerably easier. “The stories are shaped by the songs that the rest of the band gives to me. I hear what they’ve been working on, get some ideas in my head and just start writing with whatever I have in mind. For Jersey Flegg, the whole thing was already done. I had to come in and write around each structure – it had to be right down to the beat. They couldn’t go back and re-record anything or make a part longer or anything like that. At least for this record I had demos to work with. If I needed a little more rope or if they hadn’t given me enough to work with, we were able to go back and forth a bit easier. I feel more way out of the pocket on this one.” Illywhacka by YOU BEAUTY is out now via Rice is Nice.
luck, I guess. Or bad luck maybe.” Beyond the mysterious narrative, the band are determined to wipe away any tinge of ego. The individual contributions are sublimated into the greater entity, which they believe enhances the honesty and strength of what they’re trying to communicate. “In anything we do we try to keep the egos down,” says Goatheart. “We are very aware of this in our music and our daily lives – the destructive force of the ego.” Captain Goatheart stands behind the story of the band’s commune ancestry, which makes one wonder why World Music was Goat’s first release. In line with their antiego ethos, it wasn’t due to a feeling of creative superiority. “Goat as a rock band have only existed since 2012 but as a commune it is very, very old,” he says. “The reason it also became a rock band is because some of us moved to Gothenburg and started to jam with people here. More people joined and we built a small studio, recorded some stuff and somehow Rocket Recordings found out about this and encouraged us to record an album. By then we already had one finished and that was it. But a lot of musicians around the world can do what we do, and a lot better also.” When World Music came out, Goat expressed the opinion that all music, not just their own, is world music – a sincere claim, which is of integral importance to the band. “All music has always contained elements of other music, previous music and traditional music,” Goatheart says. “This is nothing new. All music has always influenced each other – simply evolution. In the end all music is very similar to each other if you listen to the similarities instead of the differences. It’s the same with people and their cultures, and since the evolution is an ongoing process, every expression belongs to everyone to use and be inspired by. The world would be a lot better if people could focus on the similarities between everything.” GOAT join King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at The Croxton on Friday December 4, and Howler on Saturday December 5 and Sunday December 6. They’re also playing Meredith Music Festival, which runs Friday December 1 – Sunday December 13 in Meredith, VIC.
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The title of Rudimental’s second album could be seen as a nod towards the widely receptive tastes of today’s youth. Released at the start of October, We The Generation is rooted in the pop realm, but the band haven’t restricted themselves in terms of stylistic influences. Frenetic breakbeats and drum and bass grooves sit next to arena pop choruses, R&B melodies and and flirtations with everything from house to reggae. A similar expansiveness characterised the London collective’s 2013 debut, Home.
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For as long as there’s been sunshine on a cloudy day, as long as people have known what true love felt like, as long as men have congregated in suits to sing in perfect harmony, that’s how long The Temptations have been around. Although the band’s personnel have changed dramatically since their formation in Detroit in the early 1960s, two things have remained synonymous with The Temptations name. The first is high-quality soul music in the truest sense of the term. The second is the man known as Otis Williams, the only original member who’s still alive, and the one man who has performed in every known incarnation of the group. As long as there’s been The Temptations, there has been Williams. “My motivation to continue as a part of the group is the fact that it’s what I do,” he says. “It’s what I was meant to do. Of the billions of people in the world, there’s only such a small percentage of them that can honestly say that they are doing what they love. I’m so blessed that I still get to do this – it’s a job that I will have held for 56 years come next February. It’s a job I plan on keeping for as long as time will allow it. I thank God for the chance every day.” The group’s now-legendary story has been shared through Williams’ own eyes over a handful of different mediums. A written memoir was released in the late ‘80s, and a four-part miniseries adaptation followed a decade later. The book has now been adapted into a Broadway musical, which is slated to launch in the first quarter of 2016. Even now, with the original memoir verging on 30-years-old, it’s an underdog story that paints a portrait of an ever-evolving America, an ever-evolving Detroit, and an ever-evolving musical sound. “I was first approached about writing a book about the group in 1986,” says Williams. “There was a woman from Platinum Publishing that was sent down to check out The Temps. She had a beautiful blue dress on, and I told the security guard to let her come back stage so that I could talk to her. Little did I know that was her plan all along. I didn’t even know she worked for a publisher. She told me that she’d been doing her research, and that she thought our story would make good copy. I was like, ‘Copy? What is that?’ She brought me into this whole world of books, and two years later I had my own. You never know where life is going to take you next.” Of course, the group’s path to super stardom wasn’t without its twists and turns. Several key members of The Temptations lost their lives under tragic circumstances – most notably founding member David Ruffin, who lost a long battle with addiction at the tender age of 50. Considering the group were particularly-prevalent at a time when the so-called summer of love brought drugs into common usage, Williams maintains
that he has never been lured in by such things. “Drug culture has always been a part of the music world,” he says. “Billie Holiday was on heroin, and that was in the ‘40s. It might have had a rise in the public eye through the ’60s, and all the information about it might be more accessible now through articles and YouTube and all that sort of thing, but it’s always been there. The way that I see it, it all comes down to the person. As for me, I saw the effect that those kind of things had on people that I knew. I saw what it did to them. The effects on them were residual on me. I made a point of rejecting it and saying it wasn’t for me. I like being in control.” Before Broadway comes calling, Williams and the current formation of The Temptations will pop over to Australia for an exclusive appearance at The Bureau Festival. Although the group’s original lineup never made it here, The Temptations have still been visiting for over 20 years. Their maiden voyage – although laced with tragedy and loss – wound up being a complete triumph. “The first tour The Temptations ever did of Australia began on a very bittersweet note,” Williams says. “I remember being at the airport, and I was calling back to the States to let my wife at the time know that I had made it over safely. She was in a state of shock when she called. She asked me, ‘Have you heard about Marvin?’ In the time it had taken us to fly over, the news had broken that Marvin Gaye had been killed by his father. It was an incredible tragedy, and we were all truly stunned at the news of our fallen brother. Those first Australian shows ended up being so much fun and such a joy – I think it’s because we were doing it for Marvin.”
THE TEMPTATIONS are playing at the inaugural Bureau Festival on Friday December 11 at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The lineup also includes Charles Bradley, Saskwatch, Andy Bull, Asta and more.
“We grew up listening to music from various backgrounds and various influences, and that’s shaped us as musicians and as a band and as producers,” says co-founder Kesi Dryden. “We grew up in East London and we had the whole drum and bass culture going on and jungle culture and there was a big house scene going on, and then the garage and grime influence as well. But then at the same time we’d come home and our parents would be listening to soul music and Motown and funk and reggae. It’s basically a snapshot of what we grew up with all that shapes the Rudimental sound.” In the wake of Home’s release, Rudimental became global pop stars – topping the albums charts in the UK and Australia, scooping up Best British Single at the Brit awards, and nabbing a coveted Mercury Prize nomination. The album’s pervasive impact saw the band spend the last couple of years on a blockbuster world tour, which left an imprint on the new record. “We The Generation is a snapshot of us being on the road the last three years,” says Dryden. “We’ve been all around the world writing the album. We didn’t have six months to a year to be in the studio – we’ve literally been doing shows, getting off stage, going into the studio the next day. So we’ve had studios in South Africa, we’ve
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Jakubi just wrapped up a loaded two-month tour around the US, which included a handful of major festivals and a lot of press commitments. The Melbourne band are still riding high on the buzz for their latest EP, Holiday, which came out in January. Next on the agenda is their debut album, and they’ve been trying to squeeze in songwriting wherever they can. “Our scheduling for the touring was pretty hectic,” says bass player Jacob Farah. “There was a time where it was one show every day, sometimes two shows in the one day. So what we tend to do is usually in sound checks; one of us will end up jamming a riff or a drum beat and then we write new songs. It’s really funny – usually people do it in the jam room or in a studio or whatever, but ours tend to be [written] during sound checks.” Given this songwriting scenario and the band’s recent touring schedule, the forthcoming release will showcase their live identity. “You take influence and inspiration from everything that you do as a group,” says Farah. “The thing with us is we don’t really have a way of writing music – it’s always different. But [there’s always] inspiration W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
and influences from new experiences we experience everyday.” Jakubi’s rising international profile illustrates how the world’s an increasingly smaller place. Thanks to various online platforms, overseas listeners now have enhanced access to Australian music and artists can get recognised before ever venturing abroad. However, that’s not enough to kick off a successful international career. Jakubi are represented in the US by 7S Management (home to Dinosaur Jr, Lucero, Dandy Warhols and Xavier Rudd), who have helped them build a solid base. “Our first song was Can’t Afford It All, which we just recorded ourselves. As soon as we did that we decided, ‘OK let’s get a manager,’ because the song started doing really well on Soundcloud,” Farah says.
La Havas. “We never like to limit ourselves or put boundaries on what we do,” Dryden says. “When we write music we don’t plan too much about where it will end up. But when we finished the album, we chose tracks that worked together. There’s another 2030 songs that could’ve been thrown on the album but didn’t quite fit the whole feel of the album.” While all of the guest vocalists sound at home on We The Generation, the presence of sadly deceased American R&B legend Bobby Womack is of particular note. “We met Bobby Womack at Jools Holland. We was performing and he was loving our performance and after we finished he came up to us and was like, ‘Guys that was amazing.’ And we was like, ‘Wow this is Bobby Womack.’ You know, he’s a legend. So we exchanged details and always planned to get in the studio. Unfortunately his health deteriorated and we never got a chance to get in the studio with him. Then he unfortunately passed away, but his wife contacted and said he had this amazing song, an a capella called New Day that she would love us to work on. We worked around the a capella and made this amazing track. Such a honour to be able to work on a track with Bobby Womack’s vocals. It’s something we can look back in the future and no matter whatever happens, we were lucky enough to work with Bobby Womack.” RUDIMENTAL are playing Forum Melbourne on Tuesday December 8. We the Generation is out now via Warner Music.
“Then we shot out an email to all different managers, only in Australia – at this stage we had no idea about America. Then our Australian manager who we now have, he reached out to us, then somehow along the line we got a US booking agent. One of the shows we did in Melbourne, the bass player from Mumford & Sons was there randomly, and he hit up the American booking agent. Then through the American booking agent we got 7S Management.” The recent tour was Jakubi’s second visit to the States, putting the band in front of several thousand punters at such festivals as Wakarusa (with The Roots, Major Lazer and Chance The Rapper) and Electric Forest (with the likes of Skrillex, Flume and Shpongle). Unsurprisingly, they’re eager to head back to that side of the world as soon as possible. “The first US tour, our US booking agent got it for us just to put the feelers out, which was awesome because he gave us that chance to just go for it pretty much. When we got there, the response was awesome and I think it was only a matter of four months and then we were back over for the second tour. Sometimes I feel like we have more of a following in the US than Australia.” For the time being, Jakubi are here in Oz and making the most of it. Later this month they’re hitting up the Panacea Festival, before trekking out to Beyond The Valley over New Year’s. Plus, they’re playing their biggest Australian headline show to date at Max Watt’s in early December. “Our strongest point has always been the live show. We love that more than anything. That’s our strong point, and the music and that, there’s always room for improvement. So playing a headline show in Australia is going to be the best feeling. It’s been close to a year since we did a headline Australian show, so I cannot wait to do that.” JAKUBI will appear at the Panacea Festival in Benalla, VIC, from Friday November 20 – Sunday November 22; they’re taking over Max Watt’s on Saturday December 5, with support from Reika and Kings; and they’re off to Lardner, VIC for Beyond The Valley, which takes place from Tuesday December 29 – Friday January 1. Holiday is out now via Create/Control. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 51
DEEP LEADS: THE ORBWEAVERS W E AV I N G T O G E T H E R A N D M U S I C
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Melbourne Music Week is a celebration of this city’s music makers, their audiences and the places where it all happens. Victorians produce 75% of the music and associated art featured in MMW. As well as live performance, the eight-day event (now in its sixth year) includes films either informed by or made to accompany music. Screening at ACMI are two films made for music: Success by Liam Finn and Deep Leads by Lucy Dyson. Beat speaks to the Berlin-based video artist about her animated work, which she created to accompany a selection of songs by Melbourne duo The Orbweavers.
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Dream On Dreamer’s latest release is the band’s first as an independent entity. While they’ve been working with a label for most of their career, the Melbourne post hardcore outfit’s newfound autonomy has allowed vocalist Marcel Gadacz to approach his craft in a more earnest way, and his outlook towards independence is bright. “I guess in some small way we still have that old school mentality like bands like Fugazi,” says Gadacz. “When I was 16 or 17 I was into that straight-edge hardcore. Obviously that’s changed, but compared to what was going on in the scene [back then], right now there’s nothing but pop art and pop music. It’s literally almost to a point where it makes you angry about what hardcore – or so they call it these days – has turned into. It’s an absolute joke. We’re competing with charting next to Justin Bieber.” It would’ve been very unlikely for earlier waves of hardcore or metalcore bands to gain airtime on any large-scale commercial radio station, but the genres have undergone some drastic changes in the past decade. As far back as 2009, bands like Parkway Drive began appearing on indie festival bills, while electronic influences and cleaner vocals started infiltrating the music of groups such as Bring Me The Horizon and Enter Shikari, replacing the chaos of older metal music with a more digestible sound for the broader public. While Gadacz admits there have been changes, both good and bad, the heavy scene’s newfound popularity has worked in Dream On Dreamer’s favour. “I’m not saying we’re not like that – we can’t help the fact that this music is getting more popular in the ARIA charts,” says Gadacz. “There’s nothing wrong with it, it just shows that there’s more chances and possibilities for these kind of acts to come out. In terms of the whole DIY thing, what’s the point? We’re trying not to be a band that just creates music – we create our own art, for example. When it comes to anything that we print, whether it’s T-shirts, CD artworks, everything, we’ve been able to create it ourselves. “It’s really something where if you’re connected to Dream On Dreamer you’re not just connected to the music, you’re connected to the lyrical side of things, to our art in general. For us, it’s a really good way to connect with the fans, especially on a personal level as I’m behind the whole artwork. It’s something I can really embrace – I’m fully myself. I can put as much energy as I want into the art side of things, and people are connecting to it and it’s one of the best rewards a band can have. It’s really amazing to see.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 52
Nevertheless, Gadacz believes there are too many heavy artists getting caught up in the rock star mentality, and forgetting what playing in a band should really be about. He sees it as a generational issue, where the purity of the old wave of metal and hardcore has disappeared. “We don’t really feel inspired by the industry at the moment. We don’t feel inspired by what’s going on. When you are involved with this stuff, you realise how fake everything is. Society is already fake as is. If we want to be in a scene where people are divided, where there’s a true passion or true movement or unity, mental states and the like, I think you can’t be doing what the bands are doing at the moment – doing the whole pop thing and betraying people or falling into their hands about things. The industry is so full of lies. It gets you to a point where I’d rather play to 50 people who actually give a shit over 5,000 people who just came because they were told to be there, told to like this because it’s what the industry does. “That’s just frustrating to see,” he continues. “It’s not why we got into this music in the first place. Bands like Fugazi, all that kind of stuff – we have our roots in that mentality, and the reason why those bands existed is that they didn’t want to get caught up in that fake stuff that’s going out. It’s just one of those things. I don’t know how many people give a shit these days and pick up that kind of stuff. Obviously we have younger fans as well that have no idea about these bands. They don’t know about bands that might come from a Deathwish label – they don’t know who Converge is. They don’t know that kind of stuff, and you can’t really blame them. “But you can set that example in the modern industry to be inspired by bands like ours, rather than – not to name anyone – but other acts.” Songs Of Soulitude, the new album from DREAM ON DREAMER, is out now independently. Catch them at Max Watt’s on Saturday November 21.
“It’s not heavily illustrative or character based,” says Dyson. “It’s not like the traditional idea of an animation or the traditional commercial video for music. It’s non-narrative abstraction. It’s experimental collage.” Dyson’s collaboration with The Orbweavers began with her recent work for their song Poison Garden. She takes direct inspiration from the band’s recordings. “I listen to the music, hear the song first, and I get an instant and clear idea of what I might be interested in exploring,” she says. “While I’m listening to the music, the imagery appears in my head. I don’t start with a complicated technical idea; the work develops as I go along. Yes, I am an animator, but I’m not working in the conventional pop music video realm. I combine lots of different techniques, I use found imagery, live action, whatever the project calls for. I look at old books, magazines, draw things on pieces of paper, and I explore, start creating a collage.” There’s a lot of work involved in creating the animations and a video may develop out of many small ideas. “A couple of my animations are quite similar in the way I’ve explored my ideas,” says Dyson.
Dyson hadn’t planned a career in making animations for music; she fell into it through creating experimental music videos for friends while she was studying media and arts at RMIT back in 2000. “I was at art school, surrounded by like-minded creative young people. A few of my friends are in bands. Although I’m not involved in music, I’ve always enjoyed the live music scene.” The choice of where she lives seems to be as haphazard as her career trajectory. “I don’t have a plan – it’s the story of my
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When Jeremy McKinnon was getting in trouble at school and working at a local supermarket in his hometown of Ocala, Florida, only in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that a decade later he’d be the head of an independent record label and the founder of one of the fastest-growing alternative music festivals in the US – all while holding down his day job as the leader of a band with loyal fans on every continent. “It’s surreal,” says McKinnon, the vocalist in A Day To Remember. “It was a slow burn in the beginning, but now life feels like we’re on a rollercoaster ride that never stops. We’re so fortunate – we’re just a bunch of friends having a good time, travelling the world and growing together.” However, like many success stories, A Day To Remember haven’t gone without scandal. In 2011, they filed a civil suit against their label Victory Records, claiming they were owed more than US$75,000 in royalties. A lengthy legal battle ensued with Victory countersuing them for breach of contract, but in 2013 the court gave the band permission to release their fifth studio album, Common Courtesy, on their own label B E AT.C O M . A U
ADTR Records. As to whether A Day To Remember will issue anything else via ADTR remains to be seen, but McKinnon is optimistic. “We’re always working on new material and I’m writing all the time, but there’s no final plan as yet,” he says. “We’ll see when the time comes, but we’re not opposed to the idea.” McKinnon might be elusive about future recording plans, but the Floridians have been busy preparing for the return of Self Help Fest, in which they are closely involved. McKinnon says the idea came up in conversation with his girlfriend as a way to give something back to the fans. With plans for a fifth and sixth festival on the
life.” Dyson’s been living in Germany for four years now, and she wasn’t anticipating staying there for so long. “I’d been living in London for two years and my boyfriend and I thought we’d try out Berlin. We’d visited Berlin but we didn’t give it too much thought. I wasn’t quite sure how long I’d be here. In my first year here I loved it.” Who knows what the future holds, but in the meantime Dyson has a studio in Berlin and enough work to keep her going. The video for Poison Garden was the first time Dyson formally collaborated with Stewart Flanagan and Marita Dyson of The Orbweavers. Yes, they are related: Marita is Lucy’s sister. “I have worked with Marita before, eight years ago,” says Dyson. “That last project was an animation about Coney Island, and still something from that project resonates with this collaboration today.” Deep Leads include music from a new album The Orbweavers are currently working on, exploring such things as mining, botany, poisons, architecture, folklore and the lives of workers in Melbourne. It could almost be considered a hymn to Melbourne’s industrial and cultural past – The Orbweavers’ music typically concerns itself with local history, celebrating small stories of factories, families affected by war, and songs about their environment, including the Merri Creek area in which they reside. The screening of Deep Leads during Melbourne Music Week is its first public outing. The Orbweavers and Lucy Dyson present DEEP LEADS on Thursday November 19 at ACMI.
horizon, it seems they’ve found a winning formula. “Everyone was very excited about the idea, and after the first one [in March last year] was such a success, it’s evolved very naturally. Not only did we get a lot of people at the first festival, but the bands that played were very happy with how they were treated backstage, because the people running it actually give a shit about the people performing. “Before [Self Help] there wasn’t really a festival besides Lollapalooza in our genre that really tried to take care of the bands, like your Soundwave or the Reading and Leeds Festivals do”, he continues. “They put a lot of time and effort into making the bands feel welcome, and that’s one of the main things we wanted to have as part of our festival. We would love to take it to Australia eventually, but we’ll just have to see what happens as it grows.” In the meantime, McKinnon says A Day To Remember’s return to Australia as part of the Big Ass Tour (which will see them co-headline with their buddies The Amity Affliction) could be considered a trial run. Rounding out the bill are LA’s The Ghost Inside and Pennsylvania’s Motionless In White, making the Big Ass Tour a big fat must-see. “Australians are always super welcoming and we’re excited to be coming back so soon,” McKinnon says. A Day To Remember are no strangers to our shores, with this tour marking the sixth time they’ll play for Australian audiences. While they’ve been known for energetic and unpredictable live shows for close to a decade, this year the good folks at Alternative Press finally caught on and named them Best Live Band Of 2015. “It was so unexpected. We’d been nominated for a bunch of stuff in different publications around the world but we’d never won anything, so when we did it felt awesome. We put a lot of time and effort into doing something special every time we do a big tour, so it was cool to see that people appreciate it.” A DAY TO REMEMBER play alongside The Amity Affliction, Motionless In White and The Ghost Inside at Rod Laver Arena on Thursday December 17.
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Is the life of a successful travelling musician more akin to a long-winded holiday than an actual job? Someone who does manual labour for a living might think so, whereas the musicians themselves enduring interminable hours of travel in between shows may disagree. Joe Hottinger, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for American rock sensation Halestorm, ponders this during some rare downtime in the lead-up to the band’s very first tour of Australia and New Zealand this December.
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Everyone’s favourite party animals The Bennies premiered their ultimate summer banger Party Machine on triple j’s Good Nights recently, but when I catch up with guitarist Jules Rozenbergs, the boys are hard at work in the studio laying down tracks for the rest of their forthcoming album. “We like to start the party when we record with a few beers and a few spliffs,” he says. “It helps to get out all the energy we’ve soaked in recently. We’ve been on the road and met so many different people. I love travelling with the boys, and we’re closer than ever. I think that’s really going to come through in the music – and so far, so good. I just listened to the drums and they’ve come up really nice. “This is the most prep we’ve done for any album before – I don’t know if that makes us sound better or worse.” Rozenbergs laughs. “But at the moment we’re really trying to create something special for us and for our fans.” A handful of lucky punters will already have heard some of The Bennies’ new material at an intimate gig they played earlier this year. “We put on a small show at The Old Bar and played half a set of new songs. It was a good exercise in stress, actually, because we’re so used to playing our old set, but it went over really well and gave us a good idea of what people will respond to. Even though the crowd didn’t know the songs, overall it seems like everyone was pretty psyched, which made us more psyched. After the show, we were smoking a bit of weed and we were like, ‘Fuck yeah.’ Every one has our backs, so we really can’t complain.” The fun loving four-piece recently supported US punk veterans Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake on a national tour. “Us ska dudes have to stick together,” laughs Rozenbergs. But after having to cancel their US tour halfway through last month, Rozenbergs says The Bennies are focusing all their energy on an 18-date Australian tour that kicked off earlier this month. Determined to reach all points of the compass, they’ll tear the roof off venues in Hobart, Bunbury, Cairns, Darwin, Newcastle and everywhere in between. “This time we’ll push ourselves to get even further north and further west,” says Rozenbergs. “It’s a sad reality that not every band can visit every town all the time, but it’s totally understandable because Australia is so fucking big. A lot of people miss out that aren’t in the main states or cities. I’m a music fan before I’m a musician, and it always means heaps to me when bands go out of their way on tour, and so it’s us paying it forward and it means the world for us to do that.” There’s no denying The Bennies are influenced by a lot of different bands. The fact they promote themselves as a ‘psychedelic, reggae, ska, doom metal, punk rock band from hell’ suggests they don’t like to be pigeon-holed. So I wonder who Rozenbergs was influenced by before he became a Benny. “One of my big influences when I was
a bit younger was The Bouncing Souls. The Souls are one of my favourite bands of all time, and when I was a very young guy I got to meet Bryan Kienlen, their bass player. It was around the time I was starting my first band and I didn’t really have a clue, and I was finding it difficult to get going or find any traction. “Anyway, I thought he was a god. I could barely talk to him I was so nervous, but he talked to me as if I was just like him. He told me to just have fun, make time for my friends and one day I could be touring America. He didn’t talk to me like he was a rad fucking bass player who had played with everyone and made amazing music. He didn’t tease or talk down to me, or put me down, and I’ve always held on to that. “Also, I’ve had the negative experience of when you meet your heroes and it’s not always that great. I won’t say who’s a fucking arsehole and who’s not, because that’s not good for anyone, but at the end of the day that does happen and it can crush young people’s dreams. I think sometimes musicians forget how much music can mean to people – music gets us through the darkness and it helps us celebrate the light, if you know what I mean.” Two bands that will help The Bennies shine on this tour are The Hard Aches, a duo from Adelaide, and Melbourne’s Wet Pensioner. “The Hard Aches are an independent band and they’ve worked really fucking hard,” Rozenbergs says. “They’ve made a name for themselves, not just in Adelaide but around Australia. They’ve done so much for the scene, so it was only natural that we wanted to get them on board and hang out with them. They’re great people and you want to be able to hang out if you’re going to tour everywhere. “Plus we’ve got Wet Pensioner, who are fucking mental as well. The band are really good friends of ours. They’re an up-andcoming band that we’re really excited about. They put on a great stage show and they bring the party – so everyone will have a lot of fun.” Catch THE BENNIES, with The Hard Aches and Wet Pensioner, at the Corner Hotel on Friday November 20.
“I haven’t been to Australia before, even as a tourist,” Hottinger says. “We don’t get around, man. We’ve never actually been on vacation. Granted, we travel constantly, and to me life is kind of a vacation – I do what I love with people that I love, and it’s awesome. But yeah, we’ve never vacationed before, so it’s kind of exciting to get to these new places, and maybe one of these days we will.” Given it’s his first trip to Australia in any capacity, Hottinger has no predictions for the behaviour of Australian audiences. “I don’t know what to expect, which is half the fun,” he says. “But from what I’ve heard from all of our rock buddies that go to Australia and New Zealand, they say you’ve got some of the best rock crowds in the world. That sounds good to me, I can’t wait to experience that for myself.” The band promises a big and emotionally cathartic, yet no-nonsense rock show for Australian crowds. The setlists will cover all three of Halestorm’s studio albums and some tracks from their earlier EPs. “We always say that when you come and see Halestorm, what you see is what you get,” Hottinger says. “There’s no trickery, there’s no backing tracks, we don’t even use a click track. We like to be able to do anything
at the drop of a hat. I just love feeding off the energy of a crowd and I know Arejay [Hale}, our drummer, does too. If it’s a great crowd, sometimes the songs are going to be a little faster, and that’s all right. “So yeah, we’ve been building a lot of improv into our set. Like, we try to trick each other, you know? It’s a blast. It’s rock’n’roll. We’re not saving any lives here, it’s a rock show.” Halestorm are planning to unearth some special and largely unheard tunes during
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It’s difficult to believe that an all-star collaboration like Metal Allegiance – one that features some of the biggest names in heavy music history – had relatively humble beginnings. The core of the project features members of Anthrax, Megadeth and Dream Theater, let alone some of the other artists who have contributed along the way. But according to former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, speaking from “somewhere in Oklahoma” on tour with one of his other projects, The Winery Dogs, this is absolutely the case. “Before we did the [2015 self-titled] album, years before, this thing started back in 2011 as a live thing first,” he says. “It started small – the very first one took place around the Big Four show in California, the spring of 2011. It was just the four of us: myself, Charlie Benante and Frank Bello from Anthrax, and David Ellefson from Megadeth, and it started as a clinic.” From those modest beginnings, the project quickly expanded into the monster conglomeration it is today. “We did it about six months later when the Big Four played W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
in New York,” Portnoy says, “and that time we were joined by Kerry King from Slayer, Phil Anselmo from Pantera and Scott Ian from Anthrax, so it grew from four people to seven people. Then we did it a few more times over the years, and it grew into ten people, then 12 people, and it just kept growing and growing and growing.” That journey has brought Metal Allegiance to late 2015, having morphed from a fun clinic and live-oriented project paying tribute to some of the members’ favourite classic bands, to a full-blown original group
this coming Aussie tour. “As Lzzy [Hale, vocals] was saying, we’re calling this the, ‘Do whatever the fuck we want tour’. We’ll probably play some of the new record, play a bunch of the old songs, stuff we haven’t played for a decade.” The band will be joined on tour by Los Angeles-based Aussie expats, Bellusira. Hottinger can’t wait to get on the road and share the stage with them. “I love those guys. We met them in LA when we went out there. They’re the sweetest people and they’re so good. We went to see them there when Will Hunt [Evanescence] was drumming for them, and it was such a good rock show. It was just awesome. They are true rock warriors. They do it with their hearts, and God bless them they’re awesome.” Halestorm’s popularity has been on a steady rise since the release of the debut self titled album back in 2009. Right now they have a list of tour dates stretching out as far as the eye can see in front of them, and the demand for them to play is only increasing. “Yeah, it really hasn’t slowed down, it’s been just growing. Since I joined the band 12 years ago, it’s been nothing but a growing behemoth, really.”
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that has just released its debut record. “It was always just a thing where we would play covers – bands like Sabbath and Motörhead and AC/DC, and Maiden and Priest,” says Portnoy. “That’s how it started. Finally, last year, we were doing it on the Motörboat [Motörhead’s heavy metal cruise ship], and we had this idea – ‘Hey, what if we got together and did an album of original material?’ So now we have it broken down to a core band – myself, David Ellefson and Alex Skolnick [Testament], along with Mark Menghi, who is the business guy behind it all. So that’s how the album came about, where we had about two dozen special guests, and there you go.” And in even more exciting news for Aussie classic metal fans, Metal Allegiance have been booked to play the Soundwave tour early next year, which will be – surprisingly, given the bands he’s played in over the years – Portnoy’s first-ever appearance on the festival lineup. “Man, I am so stoked,” he says. “I have been wanting to play Soundwave my whole career. Every year it comes and goes, and I’m in six different bands at the moment. I kept waiting for at least one of my bands to get invited, and it’s finally happened for Metal Allegiance. So I’m really, really glad to be making it back out there again, and finally to play Soundwave for the first time.” Since Portnoy left perhaps the biggest progressive metal band of all time, Dream Theater, back in 2010, he has experienced massive demand for his services, and he is now in the enviable position of being able to pick and choose from some of the world’s best players to collaborate with. “I have to respect the people I’m working with, first and foremost,” he says. “At this stage in my life, after 25 years in Dream Theater, I’m fortunate to be in a situation where I don’t really have to do anything. I can choose the things that I want to do, and people I want to work with.” METAL ALLEGIANCE will join Disturbed, Bring Me The Horizon, The Prodigy, Deftones, NOFX and more at Soundwave 2016, which happens at the RAS Showgrounds on Tuesday January 26. Metal Allegiance is out now through Nuclear Blast. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 53
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MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK OPENING NIGHT Braving the wet and windy weather, thousands of fans gathered at Sidney Myer Music Bowl to get lost in their cosmic love for English indie rock band, Florence + The Machine. Sydney collective, Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders were given the sweet pleasure of opening the night for the early arrivals. Keeping it short and sweet, the five-song set focused on the band’s 2014 LP, Playmates, including Come On Back This Way, Let Me Love You, Her Hands, Reputation Amputation and To Keep & To Be Kept. Dressed like a sartorial gentleman, Ladder’s subtle seduction behind the mic was a sight to behold. With his deep, brooding vocals and old school style, the frontman certainly gained the crowd’s attention as they awaited the arrival of the headliners. As the extensive burgundy stage set up was revealed, the 11-piece band swiftly emerged, followed by the coral-haired, bare foot Florence Welch. Twirling towards centre stage in white flares, the singer/ songwriter opened with What The Water
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One man singer/songwriter Archer kicked off proceedings. Archer’s troubadour persona, slicked back hair, dark wooded guitar and dusty voice all worked together to complement his rambling tales of criminals and crooked personalities. When he wasn’t focused on plucking his instrument, he nonchalantly held the audience in the palm of his hand; carrying confidence whilst both
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JOHN CURTIN HOTEL THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12
Apart from a bizarre nocturnal session watching The Banana Splits and listening to Nana Mouskouri at a share house in 1997, I’ve never delved into the Greek psychedelic scene. For that reason, it was the name – Acid Baby Jesus – that attracted immediate attention. If Fred Nile was a minister of the Greek Orthodox Church, he’d have been leading a pack of incensed parishioners through the city streets in a blaze of confected outrage, demanding these tripped out hippies take their blasphemous instruments elsewhere. But Acid Baby Jesus came, gazed, and bathed us in the wonders of psychedelic beauty. In an earlier incarnation, Acid Baby Jesus were a heavier, darker outfit, a Black BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 56
Gave Me. With a flood of white light and a shimmering backdrop, fans were on their feet faster than she could sing, “Lay me down”. After this track from Ceremonials, the sounds of latest record How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful dominated the set list. Album opener Ship To Wreck led into Third Eye, however the real showstopper was Delilah. Moving across the stage as if the crowd was her dance partner, Welch seduced her fans with every step as they belted out the anthemic chorus, “Dancing with Delilah and her vision is mine.” Those who’ve seen the ethereal beauty live before will know that up-close fan interaction is always a feature. Making no exceptions, Welch raced from the stage during Rabbit Heart, a security guard shadowing her every move. Jumping up onto the lawn barrier, Welch’s spontaneity and athletic ability cast a spell of absolute astonishment over the crowd. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful began with a female fan being invited onto the stage for a cuddle and a dance. The most intimate
interaction occurred during What Kind Of Man, as Welch serenaded an excited young man in the stalls, just inches from his face. A Florence + The Machine show wouldn’t be complete without older fan favourites such as You’ve Got The Love, Dog Days Are Over and Spectrum. However, it was Shake It Out that triggered the greatest reaction. Asking the audience to act as her choir for the dynamic track, it was an epic duet to remember. Conducting from centre stage, it looked as though the crowd weren’t the only ones in awe. Closing the night with a double encore of Mother and Drumming Song, in the eyes of their forever-faithful fans, Florence + The Machine could do no wrong.
performing and joking around with the crowd. After playing hide-and-seek behind the stage curtain, Jess Ribeiro unveiled her four-piece setup. There’s been buzz surrounding Ribeiro since the release of her latest album Kill It Yourself, and this performance outlined the reasons why. The band managed to drive home several different emotions across the course of the set. From the very beginning, Ribeiro wore the emotion on her face, guarding a coy smile behind the microphone, either one of shyness or pride. The band laid out a smooth groove before shifting into something more evolved. Led by Ribeiro’s storytelling, the tracks brought a sense of spaciousness; there were several pace changes as the band mixed in elements of grunge and desert rock, sloping melodies and passionate solos.
A clever performer keeps an audience eager to listen by changing tone and mood, thus heightening expectations. Ribeiro probably knows this, as that’s exactly the kind of performance she delivered. Mick Thomas should’ve been a good match to the other acts on the bill. He fronted a three-man band, featuring two guitars and an accordion, and purveyed a similar troubadour songwriting style to Archer. Yet everything about his presence seemed mismatched. BY THOMAS BRAND
Sabbath-inspired soundtrack for Homer’s Odyssey. Now they’re a more nuanced musical beast, infusing the classic threechord foundation of garage rock with a Greek folk-psychedelic inflection. The set started out in Californian ‘60s territory, all Country Joe and the Fish acid-spiked beauty and optimism. The cadences rolled away like images of love and hope, and that hippie bullshit that suffocated under the weight of drug abuse and egotistical obsession. Then it was into the garages of Tacoma and LA, equal parts The Sonics, The Seeds and The Wailers, overlaid with a syncopated Mediterranean rhythmic sensibility. Like The Black Lips, the intensity of purpose was counterbalanced by a subtle irrelevance – fuck artistic pretension, let’s have a good time. Back in the day, The Electric Prunes advertised the ability of the Vox Wah-Wah pedal to make an ordinary guitar sound like a sitar. Tonight, we were sure we could hear a bouzouki somewhere in the mix. Like the best psychedelic music, this trip dragged
BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON LOVED: The sound of a singing crowd. HATED: Absolutely nothing. DRANK: Water. Had to be on my A game.
FORMER ROYAL WOMEN’S HOSPITAL FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
Back again for another year and ready to tackle the high expectations set by previous incarnations, Melbourne Music Week kicked off at its new flagship venue – the Former Royal Women’s Hospital in Carlton. As the sun went down over the beer garden, eager fans descended the stairs to the newly transformed basement for the sold out opening night party. Fittingly, it was an all-Melbourne lineup, with Dorsal Fins, The Harpoons and Gypsy & The Cat all helping to christen the new space. First up were alt-pop outfit Dorsal Fins, whose nine members crammed onto the stage and quickly brightened the basement with their infectious energy and enthusiasm. Their blend of blissful psych, blaring horns and lovingly awkward onstage banter brought plenty of joy and set the bar high for the rest of the night. Next up were sultry yet sunny crooners The
Harpoons with their genre-bending mix of R&B, pop and soul. Slick percussion combined with singer Bec Rigby’s soaring vocals; tracks like Can We Work This Out provided the perfect opportunity for crowd members to cosy up to their date; while the final two songs – Ready For Your Love and Unforgettable – transformed the space into a giant dancefloor, which continued to expand throughout the night thanks to DJ sets from Misty Nights. After a short hiatus, headliners Gypsy & The Cat returned with a stack of fresh songs from new EP Hearts A Gun. Old favourite Jona Vark was an early highlight, with its airy synths and catchy harmonies, as was new single Evolution. Getting into the spirit of MMW, the band invited a few famous friends up on stage, including members of Client Liaison, Midnight Juggernauts and City Calm Down – much to the delight of the crowd. The high-energy set was a welcome return from the local lads and the perfect end to a thoroughly enjoyable night of bright and breezy performances, carefree dancing and plenty of local pride. BY KELSEY BERRY LOVED: The venue. HATED: Myself for bingeing on KFC for dinner. DRANK: Cider of some sort.
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LOVED: Ribeiro. I came in with no expectations and came out amazed. HATED: The crowd talking during performances. DRANK: Overpriced beer. Yay. you in, coloured your mind and took you on a journey where everything else didn’t matter. The rhythm accelerated, and the image of Anthony Quinn in a tie-dye kaftan hanging out with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters flashed subliminally through our consciousness. We got an encore, and the journey continued. And it could have gone on forever, were it not a school night and the realities of the real world just a few strikes of the clock away. But what a fucking trip it was. Someone, please get these guys back again, very soon. BY PATRICK EMERY LOVED: The fact it was possible to see an acid-psych band on a weeknight in Melbourne. HATED: Having to pretend the next day that work is more important than psych music. DRANK: Not too much, thankfully.
MATT CORBY FORUM MELBOURNE MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
Despite the fact he’s yet to release a fulllength record, Matt Corby has no shortage of fans – something that quickly became apparent when his recent Sydney and Melbourne shows sold out mere hours after going on sale. Heading to the Forum on a balmy Monday night, this dedication was again on display, with fans flocking to claim a prime spot before support act R.W. Grace even took the stage. The early arrivals were instantly captured by Grace’s dramatic voice that rang out through the theatre. Despite looking like your standard dainty songstress, Grace proved you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Her husky vocals, electric guitar and soulful tracks impressed, as did a stunning cover of Dancing On My Own. Corby’s set kicked off with a captivating rendition of the new single Monday, which he performed entirely solo, using a loop pedal to add vocals, harmonies and handclaps. Monday set the tone for the night’s setlist, which featured plenty of new
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songs – surely an indication Corby’s debut album is not far away. Despite his superbly powerful voice, Corby was incredibly demure between songs. With Corby it’s all about the music – no frills attached. Despite the odd muttering here and there, Corby’s crowd engagement was very minimal, instead closing his eyes and letting the music do the talking. Scattered in between new tracks were some old favourites. While Resolution is still as powerful as ever, Brother felt a bit rushed and is no longer the highlight it used to be. The clear standout was the bluesy Souls A’Fire, which provided some variety in the otherwise ballad-heavy set. With one of the best voices in music at the moment – which is even better in a live setting – it’s no surprise that fans flock to see Corby in the numbers that they do. If these shows are anything to go by, his debut album will do big things next year. BY KELSEY BERRY LOVED: New tunes. HATED: Drunk bogans yelling things. DRANK: Jim Beam.
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MELBOURNE TOWN HALL SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15
Draped in a projection of the French flag, the Melbourne Town Hall’s Grand Organ stood in all its colossal beauty waiting to breathe the music of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The room swelled with a crowd perhaps unusual for this space, which is more used to housing appreciators of Mozart and Handel. Although it’s a stretch, after Sunday’s performance there are probably a few fans comparing Anton Newcombe’s band to those classical masterminds. When I say Newcombe’s band, you best be sure I mean it. The man’s penchant for temper tantrums and slave-driving were
ROLLER JAM AND RIZKY’S BLOCK PARTY
FORMER ROYAL WOMEN’S HOSPITAL SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14
Like many 20-something Melburnians, I was born at the Former Royal Women’s Hospital in Carlton. Like some others, I became infatuated with the ghost-like (and rumoured to be haunted) building remains after the hospital’s relocation to Parkville in 2008. Unlike most, I have an unusual obsession with the ‘70s and even own a pair of Starfire 500 roller skates for no legitimate reason other than the fact that roller discos are my ultimate dream and I want to be prepared. The announcement of a roller jam in Melbourne was truly a dream come true. As part of Melbourne Music Week, the event took place in the basement of the Former hospital. The main floor had been transformed into a roller rink, and skate hire was included with entry. To the side of the bar were two hospital beds cast in an eerie green light (but they were useful if you needed a rest). The corridors to the bathroom were another space with neon green lighting and an old typewriter. Disco
tunes were blasting in between the live sets, and the MC was literally wearing a giant disco ball costume topped off by a natural afro. On the dance floor you had a mix of very skilled and unskilled skaters. A few girls were able to do a lot of fancy moves on their skates. There was an issue with the small size of the rink, which meant it became crowded very quickly. Not to mention the surface wasn’t completely smooth – a lot of people stacked it, but that’s a part of the fun. I tired out pretty quickly, but there was plenty of space to sit and enjoy the music. Eventually, I called it a day and took my skates off and went to leave with my friend. However, I was stopped by security who told me I had to return my skates. I explained they were my own and he refused to believe me, accusing me of being a skate thief. I literally had to pull up an old photo of when I first got the skates before he would let me leave. My love of ‘70s paraphernalia had gotten me in trouble, but if there’s one thing the Roller Jam reminded me of, it’s that it’s a love worth having. If loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right. BY TAMARA VOGL LOVED: That a lot of people dressed up like I did. HATED: The not-so-smooth roller rink surface. DRANK: Water.
MOJO JUJU, EMMA DONOVAN AND THE PUTBACKS, QUARTER STREET AND THE SEVEN UPS MAX WATT’S THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12
To celebrate the opening night of The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo a killer lineup of some of Melbourne’s most interesting acts trading under the wide banner of funk/soul/groove music congregated at Max Watt’s last Thursday. The amount of work that The Seven Ups have put into honing their act is now repaying them in spades. After working away on smaller stages and touring interstate it seemed natural to see them occupy the boards of the former Hi-Fi. The inclusion of congas is central to their take on funky Afrobeat, providing a looseness to the groove reminiscent of Antibalas, and the dance moves provided by the horn section showed a sense of showmanship. As the enigmatic MC of the night Chris Gill stated “you won’t believe these guys are from Melbourne”, but there was nothing hybrid or localised about the Salsa Dura
THE AGE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS 170 RUSSELL WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11
As the sound of industry chatter filled the room, it was soon apparent that The Age Music Victoria Awards are as much about networking as they are about celebrating the local music scene. However, with a lineup including Marlon Williams, Harts and Courtney Barnett, it wasn’t long until attention turned towards the stage. Hosted by charismatic PBS presenter Lyndelle Wilkinson and RRR’s roller skate wearing Chris Gill, the awards’ tenth anniversary kicked off with an epic performance from singer/songwriter, producer and multi instrumentalist, Harts. Drawing from his recent EP, Breakthrough, the young talent showed the crowd exactly what all the fuss is about. The short set included Breakthrough and Red And Blue, and a face melting guitar solo that saw Harts playing behind his head. Country bluesman Marlon Williams was next to grace the stage. The diverse crowd got a glimpse of Williams’ self-titled debut album, with tracks including Hello Miss BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 58
spotlighted in the 2004 documentary Dig! Although the now-bespectacled Newcombe seemed to have calmed with age, he wielded his guitar like a cat o’ nine tails, whipping the band into action with the strike of a chord and little warning. In the band’s 25-year history, they’ve amassed a huge back catalogue, giving them a veritable treasure trove of songs to choose from. Opening with Never Ever, the sound was immediately arresting and unforgiving, taking hold of every air molecule in the hall and refusing to let go. Anticipation grew to hear the grand organ as the band played through Goodbye (Butterfly) and Anemone. When the doors to its throne at last opened, a mighty roar was an unleashed. The Cat Empire’s Ollie McGill captained it like a fried and frenzied Picard as vivid swirls of light enveloped the stage for a mind-bending ten-minute solo. Belgian/Australian singer Deborrah ‘Moogy’ Morgan was then welcomed on stage for Philadelphie Story accompanied by McGill. Giving the organ a rest for the next hour or
so, the band jumped all around their history including tracks What You by Isn’t, Heart Photo IanOpen Laidlaw Surgery, Who and When Jokers Attack. The Devil May Care produced a tender moment in the ocean of brain boiling fuzz, and She’s Gone closed the evening with thundering accompaniment from McGill. Leaving the venue, deafened punters yelled adulation and mistook strangers for friends on account of their sun flared retinas. The surroundings were both aesthetically and acoustically suited for BJM’s music, which let the depth and intricacy of the performance be truly felt. Such moments can be few and far between, but when they happen, the mind is truly opened to the infinite possibilities of sound.
that Quarter Street were putting out. At one point five of the nine-piece band members were playing percussive instruments; the constant rhythmic movement allowing the electric upright bass and keys the space to cascade their melodic lines and move around the beat. Both Quarter Street and Emma Donovan and the Putbacks had won big at the previous night’s The Age Music Victoria Awards with the latter taking home Best Soul Funk Gospel and Best Indigenous Artist awards. Throughout the majority of their set Donovan and co. kept the tempo low and soulful, giving the singer room to impress with her dynamic and powerful vocal delivery. More than a slight nod to Booker T. and the MG’s could be heard in a few of the songs, with The Putbacks’ country guitar licks, jazz drumming and funky basslines never overshadowing the emotional scope of the material. An a cappella piece stunned the room into silence, save for a few nattering at the bar, before the band tore in with the heavy funk strut of the Dawn album opener Black Woman. Mojo Juju possesses a gutsy blues growl that would be sure to make Howlin’ Wolf, Tom Wait and Sister Rosetta Tharpe crack a sly grin. However, the diminutive singer knows to use this device sparingly, and thereby magnifying its power, opening the set with the downtempo Your Love, all single bass notes and brushes. Parisian
Rain’s latin feel showed the range that her ‘roots’ music encapsulates, as well as the proficiency of her band, which featured almost half of The Cactus Channel as well as baritone saxophonist Darcy McNulty. A gospel revival song complete with call and response backing vocals was a highlight, and got many up the front shaking everything they had, before Mojo rounded out the set with a cover of Leon Payne’s Psycho. With Gill immediately mounting the stage and answering the crowd’s pleas for more, Mojo and McNulty returned to the stage to perform a stripped down but no less passionate take on Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ classic I Put a Spell On You, an obvious selection that was immediately vindicated by the duo’s delivery.
Lonesome, Strange Things and Dark Child. A talented vocalist, the performance also showcased his guitar playing skills as he battled against the two other guitarists on stage. As the night moved on to the announcements of the Public Awards, the crowd settled down to hear who had come out on top. Best Festival went to Golden Plains, Best Venue was awarded to the renowned Corner Hotel. The regional awards went to Cosmic Psychos (Best Regional Act) and Theatre Royal in Castlemaine (Best Regional Venue). Other major winners included The Smith Street Band (Best Live Band), Raised By Eagles (Best Emerging Talent) and C.W. Stoneking (Best Male Artist). However, the night’s clear champion was Courtney Barnett, taking home Best Female Artist, Best Band, Best Song for Depreston and Best Album for Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit. The Melbourne singer/songwriter had already taken the stage before her award sweep and captivated the crowd with her humble charm and storytelling lyrics. The brief set included Depreston, Avant Gardener and Pedestrian At Best, demonstrating that Barnett’s ability to connect with a crowd in a simple, authentic manner is unlike any other. The EG Allstars soon set up on stage, teaming up with vocalists Emma Donovan, Olympia, Ajak Kwai, Briggs,
Ecca Vandal, Ben Salter, Iseula Hingano and Blake Scott (The Peep Tempel). The singers all brought their own flavour and style to the stage, each as impressive as the next. Closing the night was DJ Fee B-Squared (RRR) with a bunch of electronic jams for those that wanted to send the night off with a boogie.
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2. St Germain ST GERMAIN 3. Live ALISTER SPENCE TRIO 4. Crime Time WOODBOOT 5. Transmission THE VOLCANICS 6. This Narrow Isthmus JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 7. And After That, We Didn’t Talk GOLDLINK 8. Paper Mache Dream Balloon KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 9. Su Kasi Remixes MI CASA 10. City Lake (Re-issue) BING & RUTH
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From there it’s a trip back to the world of Saturday morning cartoons with Bone, the song William Hanna and Joseph Barbera always wanted. Dirt is the casual wander in your organic garden – if Michelle Bridges heard you playing this, she’d call you a freak, and you’d take it as a compliment. The title track is a sugar coated dream you don’t quite understand but you never want to leave; Cold Cadaver could be an exercise in perpetual amazement, if it weren’t for the surrealism of the song’s lyrics. The Bitter Boogie channels Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky and locks into a slick groove that you never want to leave, while the frenetic garage happiness of N.G.R.I. (Bloodstain) might be Mackenzie’s autobiographical explanation of his bedroom recording obsession. The allegorical significance of Time = Fate is almost as impressive as its psychedelic pop cadences; its companion piece, Time = $$$ bounces on a pop trampoline and subliminally dismantles the rigid economic obsessions of the world around us. Finally, there’s some more lounge pop with Most of What I Like, a love song of sorts replete with enough hidden meaning to make Carl Jung’s head spin. There are so many things to like about King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and most of them are still to be found. King Gizzard’s world is one of infinite possibility and perpetual enjoyment, and given how shit the world seems to be going, that’s got to be a good thing. BY PATRICK EMERY
SINGLE REVIEWS WITH OUR MATE LACHY
Hard to believe that this is my 1500th singles review column. Can’t help but think back to my first column back in 1986, when I gave a fresh new tune called You’re The Voice Single Of The Week while dispatching from the confines of my dad’s ballsack. We’ve come a long way, baby. LEAH SENIOR How I Miss The Womb (Flightless/Remote Control) Wonderfully skeletal arrangement of arpeggio guitar waves invoke golden era songwriters, an aesthetic that’s not so much homage or imitation – just a genuine respect for the craft. There’s no gimmicks with How I Miss The Womb, no trend alignment, just great songwriting.
MISSY ELLIOT WTF (Warner) Missy is a legend, a timeless legend, so it’s no surprise she’s slipped into modernity with the vitality of an up and comer and the finesse of a veteran. Some shonky guest bars from Pharrell, with some Rae Sremmurd style inflections, just emphasise how on point Missy is. Welcome back to royalty.
TT THE ARTIST Gimme Yo Love (Nina Pop) A charming club banger, indulging in saccharine with a more endearing approach than the PC Music stable, Gimme Yo Love grooves with homespun production and love-platitude imagery from TT The Artist. It feels like a piecemeal approximation of what a dancefloor stomper should sound like, but there’s magic in that. Addictive, but only in small doses.
ENYA So I Could Find My Way (Warner) This is fucking sick. I am so fucking relaxed right now. Related: Orinoco Flow goes off chops at karaoke. New Enya heat Dark Sky Island dropping in time for Chrissy so you can grab it for mum as something to listen to while she rips cones in the garage.
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HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Restless 12” NEW ORDER 2. Submarine 10” ALEX TURNER 3. Sardonic Wrath LP DARKTHRONE 4. Anthologia 2LP JOHN COOPER CLARKE 5. Mg EP 12” MARTIN GORE 6. Snailking LP UFOMAMMUT 7. Out Of The Coma LP COMUS 8. Solverv LP VREID 9. Babylon’s Burning 2LP THE RUTS 10. Don’t Deliver Us LP SATAN’S SATYRS
OFF THE HIP RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Live ‘77 2xLP ALEX CHILTON 2. Soul Clap LP VARIOUS 3. Parallax Error LP HIEROPHANTS 4. Boom LP THE SONICS 5. Down Today LP MIRIAM MILLER 6. Don’t Knock LP ROKY ERICKSON 7. Morbid Thoughts LP FLOUR 8. Selected Recordings LP ACID BABY JESUS 9. Summerteeth 2xLP WILCO 10. Juliette Seizure 45 JULIETTE SEIZURE
BEAT’S TOP TEN BEAT SONGS 1. Counting The Beat THE SWINGERS 2. Never Miss A Beat KAISER CHIEFS 3. We Got The Beat THE GO-GO’S 4. Turn The Beat Around GLORIA ESTEFAN 5. New Beat TORO Y MOI 6. Beat On The Brat RAMONES 7. Bring That Beat BASSJACKERS 8. Heart Skipped A Beat THE XX 9. The Beat Goes On SONNY & CHER 10. Beat It MICHAEL JACKSON
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DAN PARSONS
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For many, the anti-folk movement was as cringe-worthy a passing fad as nu-metal – a platform for people that couldn’t sing or play guitar to sing and play guitar to great critical acclaim. For others, it was seen as the knocking down of an ivory tower – winking at the self-serious nature of bygone balladeers and finding joy in simple pleasures. Wherever you stood, there’s something to be said about several of its key perpetrators surviving the movement’s peak and subsequent passing; with Jeffrey Lewis being a primary example. Lewis is still weaving together left-of-centre storytelling with weary, quivering vocals and succinct chord progressions. Here on his umpteenth release, the sometime-comic book artist is joined by backing band Los Bolts. The entire record is based around NYC’s outskirts (something his signature song, Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror, did in a roundabout way), and parts of Manhattan drag as a result (the meandering, middling Thunderstorm faring the worst). Even so, one can’t help but be charmed by Lewis’ off-kilter metaphors and his vividly-descriptive lyricism – that, and the fact that garage-rock ditty Sad Screaming Old Man is one of the year’s more strangely-silly numbers. BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG
The first time I heard Dan Parsons was in the basement of the Goldmines Hotel in Bendigo and I was so enamoured with the performance that I bought his album on iTunes halfway through the set. Parsons is one of the few artists that I will watch silently for an entire set as he is commanding with his vocals, lyrics and guitar mastery. He developed his skills as a session musician, traveling with Kate MillerHeidke before finding his feet and doing extensive regional tours as a solo musician. Valleywood is the Brisbane songwriter’s third album, which in itself is a shining example of his strengths, having defeated the sophomore album curse and curating a series of releases devoid of fat or filler. Valleywood, however, is his first flirtation with mainstream folk, and he brings a new accessibility to his sound without losing his original country style. It’d be easy to call out the beauty in tracks such as Angry Waltz and On The Way, Downtown, however there are secrets to this album that shine brighter. The chorus of It’s Not Like I Need Somebody’s Help evokes a need to sing along, as does I’ll Live and I’ll Die. The latter is an intimate portrayal of heartbreak, but nonetheless accessible with lines like “Now I’ve got these words and you’ve got your man / If I cannot have you I guess I’ll pretend / You tell me I’m happy, don’t fuck with the plan / So I’ll live and I’ll die and we’ll try to be friends.” Parsons’ vocals have an uncanny ability to make you feel as if you are his only focus and priority – a quality I’ve yet to see in another musician. BY TEGAN LOUISE
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MY DISCO
HOZIER (DELUXE EDITION) (Sony Music Australia)
BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON
THE THINGS WE DO TO FIND PEOPLE WHO FEEL LIKE US (Cooking Vinyl)
To say Philadelphia’s Beach Slang have been blowing up the US punk scene is quite the understatement. After two years of successful touring and with a couple of EPs to their name, Beach Slang have knuckled down and released the debut long player, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us. From the get-go, Beach Slang let you know that this is going to be a noisy record. With distorted vocals and energetic instrumental arrangements, the record gets off to a high octane start and barely stops for breath from there. The sound often breaks into the realm of 2000s pop punk (without the requisite woahs). You could even describe The Things We Do as the pinnacle of catchy-as-hell pop punk. Driven by heavy riffs and guitar hooks, you can imagine it blasting at a skate park or soundtracking a party full of teenagers drunk on stolen booze. The album invokes the classic pop punk sentiment of downtrodden youth uniting together under a sound. It also brings to light the love and adoration that Beach Slang have for their community. Noisy Heaven encapsulates this perfectly, especially within the lyric, “The songs that I make, I barely rehearse them / They’re hardly mistakes, they’re meant to be honest”. Beach Slang perform for the love of music and the people who come out to their shows. They’re not bringing technically refined, overly polished songs; they’re embracing the raw and untamed energy present within the punk scene. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us effortlessly demands its place in any respectable contemporary punk rock collection. An obvious amount of love and care has been put into each and every track, and it truly deserves your attention.
HOZIER
After the success of his self-titled debut album, Hozier has marked a trail across the world. Now a year on from the original release, Hozier gets a deluxe reissue, featuring 13 extra tracks. The addition of three bonus tracks and ten live recordings (including four covers) sees the Irish singer/ songwriter taking his music to entirely new heights. Listening to live renditions of fan favourites Take Me To Church and Someone New is an extremely satisfying experience. Between evocative vocal trills, shreds of guitar and the communal atmosphere created by the sound of his audience, Hozier proves this re-release is worth it. This deluxe edition allows one to ponder the heart behind Hozier’s somewhat dark tales. The young talent comments on issues ranging from his frustrations with the Catholic Church and religion to the many perils of life and love. Escaping the expected, Hozier’s brutally honest blues draw attention to subjects many chose to shy away from. Revisiting Jackie And Wilson, From Eden and My Love Will Never Die reveals them as love songs in their most authentic form. Whether it’s “She’s gonna save me”, “Honey, you’re familiar like my mirror years ago” or “Please try to love me”, Hozier’s lyrics explore the uncertainty of requited and unrequited love. The inclusion of Hozier’s BBC Live covers – Problem/Regulate (Ariana Grande), Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin), Do I Wanna Know (Arctic Monkeys) and Lay Me Down (Sam Smith) – is the ultimate cherry on top. Bringing his unique flavour to each of the popular hits, Hozier establishes himself as a truly diverse artist and a born storyteller, no matter the tale.
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SEVERE (Temporary Residence)
My Disco have always tempered their minimalist noise rock with machinic bursts rooted in ritual as much as rhythm. But on their fourth record, the Melbourne trio wield their instruments like weapons in a science fiction dystopia. In stark contrast to the sunny disposition of 2010’s Little Joy, Severe is a cold and bleak collection of industrial meditations. While Ben Andrews’ guitar historically drove My Disco’s momentum, here it takes a back seat to brother Liam Andrews’ pummeling basslines and Rohan Rebeiro’s militaristic percussion. Opening track Recede is My Disco’s most tense and ominous song to date. Rebeiro pounds the floor tom every 16th beat while Liam incants a monk-like chant over a six-note bass riff. Guitars whir in the background like factory equipment from the final scene of the first Terminator film. Technically it’s rock music, but My Disco have never really sounded like a rock band. The space between notes throughout Severe makes it almost jazzy. Successive Pleasure continues the meditative streak, with Liam almost whispering into the microphone over fading guitar chords, the strums and timbre of the instrument never quite audible. But this is ultimately My Disco’s most aggressive work – the staccato rhythmic gut punch of King Sound recalls the fury of Swans; the hypnotising beat of closing track Careless could soundtrack a battle scene in a John Carpenter-directed neo noir. It’s My Disco at their darkest and heaviest, but also their very best. BY MATTHEW TOMICH
DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU’VE SEEN OR YOU’VE HEARD (Festival Records/Warner)
Has any Australian band ever captured the zeitgeist as much as Skyhooks? The Melbourne band’s infectious melodies (largely written by bass player Greg Macainsh) blended early-‘70s Australian boogie with a pop sensibility that reflected the unbridled excitement of the Whitlam generation. The band’s ribald and occasionally smutty lyrics rode on the back of Australia’s newfound freedom of expression (see song titles such as Smut, Smartarse Songwriters, You Just Like Me ‘Cause I’m Good in Bed – the latter being the first song played on triple j’s predecessor, 2JJ). The local references in Balwyn Calling and Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo) confronted Australia’s historical cultural cringe, while Macainsh’s cute lyrical style disguised an acute political antenna (on display in Whatever Happened to the Revoution). And when colour television finally arrived in Australia in 1975, there were Skyhooks decked out in garish satin flares to usher in the new era. Don’t Believe What You’ve Seen or You’ve Heard is a three-CD compilation of the band’s first two albums, the definitive Living in the 70s and Ego is Not a Dirty Word, augmented with previously unreleased demos and live tracks from the era. The classics come thick and fast: Living in the 70s, Mercedes Ladies, Love On the Radio, Toorak Cowboy, Ego Is Not a Dirty Word – just as infectious now as they must’ve been 40 years ago. But to get a sense of just how culturally significant Skyhooks were in the mid ‘70s, it’s best to skip to the live tracks. The opening strains of Horror Movie live at Festival Hall in July 1975 are accompanied by a wave of teenage hysteria; by the end of Love on the Radio it’s verging on madness.For a couple of years, there was nothing bigger in Australia than Skyhooks. To hear this compilation is to realise just why that was. BY PATRICK EMERY
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OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm. THE DUKES OF HAGGARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
8:30pm. $15.00.
TONY J KING The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. VAN WALKER + SHANE REILLY Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
MY ECHO Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne CBD. NEXT - FEAT: IMPRISONED + SPECTRAL FIRES + GRAVE STREET BLUES Colonial Hotel, Melbourne CBD. ODDISEE + SHAOLINAFRONAUTS + FORTUNES + ANDREI EREMIN + STELLAR REMNANTS + STRICTLY VINYL DJS
JAKARTA CRIERS
THE REVERENCE HOTEL With an east coast run of shows lined up for November, Brisbane four-piece Jakarta Criers are gearing up to celebrate the launch of their latest EP, Regal Twin, with a good ol’ gig at The Rev. The band has previously toured with Australian heavyweights British India, Kingswood, Spiderbait and Stonefield, and played big name stages such as Big Day Out, Valley Fiesta and the Caxton Street Festival. Jakarta Criers play The Reverence Hotel on Thursday November 19 for the Melbourne leg of their tour. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $8
HALF/CUT (COMING OF AGE LAUNCH) + SLEEP DECADE + WINTERCOATS + DJ ANTHONY CAREW Gasometer Hotel,
Collingwood. 6:00pm. $8.00.
KINGS & QUEENS - FEAT: DEATH OF ART + REJUVENATE + UNDERGROUND HOUND + RANDOM SUBJECTS + CAPELLA Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. $12.00. LIVE + CHOCOLATE STARFISH Forum Theatre, Melbourne CBD. 7:45pm. $92.00.
LIVE MUSIC SAFARI (RICE IS NICE MIXTAPE LIVE) - FEAT: TERRIBLE TRUTHS + MISS DESTINY + EMPAT LIMA + MAJOR LEAGUES Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 7:00pm. MESA COSA + THE MIGHTY BOYS + LAZERTITS + SHRIMPWITCH + WETLIPS Public Bar, North Melbourne.
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Section 8, Melbourne CBD. 4:00pm. SHOCKING PINKS + A MINER The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00. SHOWCASE NIGHTS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. TEX PERKINS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. THE DACIOS + MOON RITUALS + WET MEALS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. THE ORBWEAVERS (DEEP LEADS) Acmi, Melbourne CBD. 7:00pm. $35.00. THE RUMJACKS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. WHITAKER + JAKARTA CRIERS + RIVAL FIRE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $8.00.
WHOLE LOTTA BLUES - FEAT: COLD TURKEY + POOR XCUSE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. YOUNG POETS + MAVERICK + THE BLACK HARRYS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12.00.
ALEXANDRA PYE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. CHRIS HENRY & THE HARDCORE GRASS + LITTLE RABBIT Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $25.00. CYNDI BOSTE & PETE FIDLER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. HARRY HOOKEY BAND + GRIZZLEE TRAIN Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $13.00. JAMES FAHY BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
THE OUTDOOR TYPE
THE GRACE DARLING HOTEL Melbourne songwriter The Outdoor Type has just announced a launch show for his latest single, On My Mind, setting up shop at The Grace Darling for a nice little session. Catch the purveyor of Americana in an intimate scenario, as he brings to life work that draws similarities between The War On Drugs, The Church and The Go-Betweens amongst many others. The Outdoor Type launches On My Mind at The Grace Darling this Friday November 20. Doors open at 8.30pm, entry is $10.
JOHN WILLIAMS + DOUBLESHOT OF BLUES + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE HOUSE BAND + HOUSE BLUES DJ
MIXED THURSDAYS (ROCK) - FEAT: SEMI FICTION + FADED REVOLUTION + DEC MCKINNON & THE KNOCKABOUTS + AUTUMN MARY + KATANA CARTEL
Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Station 59, Richmond. 8:00pm.
Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
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ELECTRIC MARY
MAX WATT’S Taking some time off from working on their biggest album to date, Electric Mary have locked in an exclusive Melbourne show at Max Watt’s this week. The next chapter in Electric Mary’s journey has seen the band play as a support next to rock legends Def Leppard earlier in November, allowing them to showcase their soon to be rock classics. You can catch Electric Mary playing a show at Max Watt’s this Friday November 20. Doors open from 8pm, entry is $18.
WEEPING WILLOWS + DANA HASSALL + ALLISON FORBES Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm.
WOODES (LUNCHBOX SESSIONS) The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 1:00pm. WOODSMITH + THE ASTRUDS + SLIM PICKINS 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20
100/25/1 - FEAT: ANNE NORMAN + CAROLYN CONNORS + CLINTON GREEN + DAVID CHESWORTH + EUGENE UGHETTI + MORE Conduit Arts, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Federation Square, Melbourne
CBD. 7:30pm. $30.00.
ANDREA KELLER QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
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COBBLESTONE JAZZ + MATHEW JONSON + MIKE CALLANDER + T-REK The Former Royal Women’s
Hospital, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $35.00. DJ SEU ANTONIO Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 8:00pm.
DEAR STALKER Define your genre in five words or less: Energetic, loud, passionate and meaty. How long have you been gigging and writing? Six whole years. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? A couple of months back we played a birthday gig at the Brunny for Tony Heyman. It went off. Which band would you most like to have a battle/ showdown with? Sub Rosa and Mr Stitcher in a three way. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Life, sticking it to the man and tasty, tasty food. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Do whatever makes you happy. Be yourself. Rock hard. Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? We have a self-titled EP and Whole Other Kind single available digitally and at shows. Our new EP Since When Were We Enemies? is out now digitally and will be available on CD for the first time at our launch this Saturday. Why should everyone come and see your band? We kick some arse and have fun doing it. DEAR STALKER are launching their new EP, Since When Were We Enemies? this Saturday November 21 at The Brunswick Hotel. Joining them will be Mr Stitcher, Sub Rosa and Underground.
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CUB CALLAWAY & THE REVOLUTIONNAIRES
CHERRY BAR Cherry Bar is hosting Cub Callaway before the weekend rolls in, promising a set curated by seasoned veterans of Australia’s music scene. Cub Callaway launches his new EP on the night, featuring ex-members of Died Pretty, Lime Spiders, Hunters & Collectors and The Underground Lovers as he whips out a slew of new tunes for all you cherry-goers. Slink on down to Cherry Bar this Friday November 20 and catch Cub Callaway & The Revolutionnaires’ EP launch. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $13.
FRIDAY NIGHT FISH FRY (THE MUSIC OF LOUIE JORDAN) - FEAT: THE PEARLYS SHELLS BIG BAND St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20.00.
LEBLANC BROS CAJUN ACES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick
East. 9:30pm.
MAI TAI FESTIVAL 2015 - FEAT: CARELESS NAVIGATOR + THE ALOHA DUO + QUEEN OF THE REEF + MORE The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
NEW ORLEANS STREET PARTY - FEAT: ADAM RUDEGEAIR’S BAYOU + TAPESTRY + HORNS OF LEROY + THE HOODRANGERS + THE LAGERPHONES + VCA JAZZ AND IMPROV ENSEMBLE Dodds Street, Southbank.
4:30pm. $25.00. PAPA CHANGO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. REBECCA MENDOZA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne CBD. 9:00pm. $25.00. REIMAGINED JAZZ Emporium, Melbourne. 10:00am.
REIMAGINING NINA SIMONE - FEAT: WATSON & LIOW Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne CBD. 6:30pm. $20.00.
ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS
HOWLER If you’re angling to catch a guy who’s got talents in drumming, producing, singing and songwriting, Howler will have what you need when Anderson .Paak rolls into town with his band, The Free Nationals. Making his way into the now explosive Los Angeles music scene as a multitalented musician, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals turn alternative rock classics into compelling, funkier versions by extracting every bit of soul, jazz, hiphop, electronic funk, and R&B from these great tunes- simultaneous paying homage to some of his all-time favourite songs and bands. Shake your thang to classics old and new when Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals roll into Howler this Friday November 20. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $40.
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NEW ORLEANS STREET PARTY
DODDS ST, SOUTHBANK It’s time to get your boogie on. Melbourne Music Week is hosting a banger of a street party out at Dodds Street in Southbank, pumping out tunes and vibes reminiscent of Lousiana’s party jewel, New Orleans. The event will match Melbourne’s vibrant culture of restaurants, laneways, bars and music, with round the clock nightlife, food and culture in this ‘best-of ’ unification of both cities. Shoot on over to Dodds Street this Friday November 20 for the New Orleans Street Party. Doors open at 4.30pm, entry is $25.
SIBELIUS’ FINLANDIA - FEAT: YAN PASCAL TORTELIER + KOLJA BLACHER Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne),
Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.
BLIND MAN DEATH STARE
THE REVERENCE HOTEL It’s been a busy as fuck year for Blind Man Death Stare, and they’re only making it worse for themselves as they lock in a show at The Reverence Hotel before the weekend kicks in. They’ve toured around the country twice with pals from Guttermouth and SNFU, independently released their debut EP in August, had their tunes slapped in tribute comps and still managed to find the time to make a music video in the midst of it all. It’s some surprise that Blind Man Death Stare are playing The Reverence Hotel this Friday November 20 with all that’s going on, but then again, maybe it’s no surprise at all. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $15.
SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne CBD.
5:00pm.
DAN SULTAN
MONTROSE TOWN CENTRE After selling out his first show in record time, the Montrose Town Centre has announced it’s hosting a second night with Dan Sultan. The three-time ARIA award winning artist will play two very special intimate shows as part of his OpenLIVE tour, road-testing new material and giving audiences the rare opportunity to see Sultan up-close and personal, along with giving them the chance to purchase a limited edition physical CD of Dan Sultans’ sold-out national theatre concert from earlier in the year. Catch Dan Sultan at the Montrose Town Centre on either Friday November 20 or Saturday November 21. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $40. Check the Yarra Ranges website beforehand as allocation may be exhausted.
THE COPE STREET PARADE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne CBD. 8:00pm. $25.00.
THE HAIRFARMERS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. TONY GOULD TRIO + IMOGEN MANINS Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.
WHOLE LOTTA HATE
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Spend your Friday night with some thrash from Belligerent Intent at Whole Lotta Love. Fans be warned, this’ll be the band’s second last gig of the year before leaving you out in the cold. Not ones to show up by themselves, Belligerent Intent will be joined on the night by some speed thrash from Abraxxas, with Twisted Fate and Exsul brand death metal keeping it black. Whole Lotta Hate at Whole Lotta Love this Friday November 20, doors open 8pm with $10 entry.
SOLO SOLO SOLO SOLO QUARTET - FEAT: SCOTT TINKLER + ANTHONY BURR + ERKKI VELTHEIM + ANTHONY PATERAS Church Of All Nations, Carlton. 8:00pm.
TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet,
JERICCO
BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. CAB CALLAWAY & THE REVOLUTIONNAIRES + JACK HOWARD & THE LONG LOST BROTHERS Cherry Bar,
$10.00.
PRINCE BANDROOM Australia and New Zealand will lock forces for something other than the immigration debate as Jericco, Sydonia and Villainy clash at Prince Public Bar this Friday November 20. The past 18 months have been huge for the three bands as they’ve each released critically acclaimed full-length albums – a show in Melbourne to celebrate their successes was too good of an opportunity to miss. With support from local champions in Gatherer and Majora, expect a fantastic night of riffs and rumbles when Jerrico, Sydonia and Villainy perform at Prince Public Bar this Friday November 20. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $24.
West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
Melbourne CBD. 8:00pm. $13.00. CANYON (WEST COAST SOUND) Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $18.00.
CAPTAIN CLEANOFF + SUPER FUN HAPPY SLIDE + KROMOSOM + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
$15.00.
CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:30pm.
DEAR STALKER + MR STITCHER + SUB ROSA +
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THE BENNIES
THE CORNER HOTEL The Bennies are back on the road again, and they’ve locked in a show at The Corner Hotel for their Melbourne leg of the tour. 2015 has been a huge year for the Melbourne four-piece, playing Soundwave Festival and Golden Plains before heading out on their Party Whirlwind tour. With no intention of slowing down anytime soon, they’ve played Psyfari, taken over Poison City Weekender, joined Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish on their east coast Australian dates, and even found the time to play some American festivals. This tour sees the boys play 18 shows around the nation; get on down to The Corner Hotel this Friday November 20 and tell The Bennies to slow the hell down before they wear themselves out. Doors open at 8.30pm, entry is $18.
UNDERGROUND Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. DJ CASSETTE WALKMAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. DR. COLOSSUS + THE DUKES OF DELICIOUSNESS + BLACKWOOD JACK + THE HUNTED CROWS Workers
Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.
SEEDY JEEZUS
YAH YAH’S With a name that paints a picture of the less than glorious hungover Christ of Fitzroy, Seedy Jeezus are locking in a show at Yah Yah’s before the weekend runs in. They’ve announced the launch of their 12” etched vinyl Echoes In The Sky, and they’re taking friends from Wicked City, Hotel Wrecking City Traders and A Basket Of Mammoths along for the ride. Catch Seedy Jeezus’ vinyl launch at Yah Yah’s this Friday November 20. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $13.
ELLA THOMPSON (LUNCHBOX SESSIONS) The Former Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. 1:00pm. EZRA LEE & THE HAVOC BAND Dog’s Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm.
Q&A
REBETIKA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SCATTERED DISC OBJECTS Station 59, Richmond.
7:00pm.
SLIPDIXIES Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. STEVE LUCAS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm. SWEET FELICIA & THE HONEYTONES Big Huey’s Diner,
South Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THE SLURRYMEN + MAPLE JAR The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse
101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.
EMILY ULMAN Hey Emily. Can you tell us a bit about what you do? Well, I basically put the expiry date of the items I buy in my Google calendar and set an alert. For example, this morning I had an alarm notifying me that the bottle of Pepsi Max I bought at Tullamarine airport in February 2014 expired today. I’m a forward thinker. You’ll be launching your new album Wear It Well at The Gasometer Hotel on Wednesday November 18. Can you describe the sound of the album in five adjectives? Timeless. 38 minutes long. You’ve previously stated that Wear It Well is about perception; what we choose to reveal about ourselves, and what we choose to hide. Where does your insight on this very relatable subject stem from? It started when I watched the orgy scene in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and realised that we’re all just wandering aimlessly down the hallways of life’s mansion wearing Venetian masks and silky robes wondering what ever happened to the Tom Cruise in Risky Business we thought we would marry but are more than pleased we didn’t. What’s on the cards for you in the coming year? After my launch on Wednesday I’m going to beat my sister at Words with Friends (and other family members). EMILY ULMAN launches Wear It Well at The Gasometer, with support from Jim Lawrie, Single Twin, and Loose Tooth DJs, on Wednesday November 18.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21
100/25/1 - FEAT: ANNE NORMAN + CAROLYN CONNORS + CLINTON GREEN + DAVID CHESWORTH + EUGENE UGHETTI + MORE Conduit Arts, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00. AUSTRALIAN GIRLS CHOIR ANNUAL CONCERT Hamer
Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 2:00pm & 7:30pm. $42.00. EGGNER TRIO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $43.00.
DREAM ON, DREAMER
MAX WATT’S Now known as Australia’s biggest independent hardcore band, Dream On, Dreamer are about to tie off the end of another massive year at Max Watt’s. With the release of their third album, Songs Of Soulitude, ever approaching, they’re touring around the country to showcase their past 18 months of hard work, played alongside old favourites from their ARIA nominated album Hearbound, their self produced sophomore album Loveless, and their breakthrough EP, Hope. Catch Dream On, Dreamer when they take to Max Watt’s this Saturday November 21. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $23.
MEL SEARLE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne CBD. 8:00pm. $20.00.
MOVEMENT 9 (THE MUSIC OF AMY WINEHOUSE) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne CBD. 6:30pm. $25.00.
NORMIE ROWE & THE PLAYBOYS ORCHESTRA Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $32.00.
8:00pm.
THE SHADOW ELECTRIC My Disco have announced a national Australian tour throughout November and December to coincide with the release of their fourth studio album, Severe, and they’ve locked in a show at The Shadow Electric for the Melbourne leg. The band have always employed space as an instrument - space between notes; space between instruments; even space between albums, as the Australian trio prepare to release their first fulllength record in nearly five years. Catch My Disco for what’s set to be a memorable launch at The Shadow Electric this Saturday November 21. Doors open at 3pm, entry is $23.
Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm. RENEE GEYER + GALLIE Yarraville Club, Yarraville.
GLOBAL SESSIONS - FEAT: GALATA EXPRESS + BYRON & THE GYPSY CATS Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:30pm. $7.00.
GRAND WAZOO (CUSP OF SAGITTARIUS SHOW) Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $28.00.
HANK MARVIN (GYPSY JAZZ) St Kilda Memo, St Kilda.
8:00pm. $40.00.
HETTY KATE QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. HISPANIC FIESTA - FEAT: MAMBO A GO GO + LOS FUNKALLEROS + TRIO CARIBO + LA INFLUENCIA The
WHOLE LOTTA CHAOS
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Rejoice in the sounds of death metal at Whole Lotta Love this Saturday thanks to The Arbiter, Order Of Chaos, Anient and A Greed Science. The acts are stripping away their technical layering and melody for a ‘less is more’ attitude to riffing; a groove metal with hardcore influence approach. What does all this mean for the gig? Fucking chaos. Get a Whole Lotta Chaos this Saturday November 21 from 7pm. Entry will set you back $8.
JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.
9:00pm. $16.00.
LEIF VAN DEN DUNGEN + TOM DEAR Littlefoot Bar,
Footscray. 8:00pm.
RICK HART AND THE SWEET ADDICTIONS
THE RETREAT HOTEL Rick Hart and his Sweet Addictions are taking over The Retreat Hotel this Saturday November 21, getting ready for a night of melodic simplicity etched on a canvas of heartfelt optimism. Sink yourself into an infectious soundscape of love, loss, heartache, regret and joy; pack your bags for an emotional journey like no other. Fresh off their latest single City Lights, Rick Hart and The Sweet Addictions will be previewing tracks from their forthcoming debut album, due in early 2016. Catch Rick Hart and The Sweet Addictions at The Retreat Hotel this Saturday November 21. Doors open at 5pm, entry is free.
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7:00pm. $32.00.
SALSA SOCIAL Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. SPANISH FIESTA - FEAT: DJ TROPICANTE + AMARU TRIBE + DJ SIR BOLIVAR Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. STRANGER COLE & THE JUMP-UP ALL-STARS + JESSE I + MOHAIR SLIM + STRYKA D + RICHIE 1250 + SYSTA BB + FABULOUS FEZ Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.
$50.00.
THE CULTURE KEEPERS Moreland City Band Hall, East Brunswick. 7:30pm. $10.00. THE RED BRIGADE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ALI E + PALM SPRINGS Records Paradise, 4:00pm. BANG - FEAT: BORIS THE BLADE + ATHENAS WAKE + MASSACRE OF INNOCENCE Royal Melbourne Hotel,
Melbourne CBD. 9:00pm. $20.00.
FULL OF HELL
THE REVERENCE HOTEL Full of Hell have trekked all the way down from the US this week, gearing up for a savage set at The Reverence Hotel this Saturday night. Forming in 2009, the band has managed to release three-full length albums through Profound Lore Records, garnering enough recognition to bring them over for a tour of Oz. Catch Full Of Hell at The Reverence Hotel this Saturday November 21. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $15.
WARMTH CRASHES IN
LITTLE DESERT + TEUTON + MOLLUSC + HALF MOGREL
DING DONG LOUNGE After the release of their debut self-titled album last month, Warmth Crashes In have announced a swarm of launch parties to celebrate, including a session at Ding Dong Lounge this weekend. The combination of trashy electro beats with psych guitar loops and smooth vocals has earned them a reputation as national partymakers. Strap yourself in for a good time when Warmth Crashes In sets up shop at Ding Dong Lounge this Saturday November 21. Doors open at 9pm, entry is $12.
CLOCKWORK ORANGE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DALLAS FRASCA + NICK ANDERSON + LISA MARY DRAKE Station Place Tavern, Werribee. 12:00pm. DANIEL LUHRS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY + RON S PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick.
6:00pm. $23.00.
DOWNFALL OF GAIA + HOPE DRONE + COLLOSVS + YLVA + DIECUT Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. EDEN MULHOLLAND + JENNIFER KINGWELL + ULYSSES WULF Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
$13.30.
FULL OF HELL + WHITEHORSE + DEAD BOOMERS + SEWERCIDE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $15.00. HELLO SATELLITES Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. HOLY MOSES HEARTACHE Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. I LOVE THE 80’S NIGHT - FEAT: SUNSET STRIP + IN THE AIR TONIGHT + SEXUAL CHOCOLATE Musicland, Fawkner.
7:30pm. $15.00.
JACKSON FIREBIRD + THE CHERRY DOLLS + CROWBAIT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.
JOHN KENDALL & THE SHOT GLASSES Inkerman Hotel,
Balaclava. 8:00pm.
LILLY TUNLEY + ASTRO & THE AGES Workers Club,
Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $8.00.
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00. MONTAGUE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
MPS PUNKSGIVING - FEAT: THE DUVTONS + THE BEGGARS’ WAY + WING ATTACK PLAN R + PUBLIC LIABILITY + MORE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MY OWN PET RADIO + LANKS + LOUIS SPOILS Northcote
Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.00.
NEW LEASE - FEAT: KARLI WHITE + GHOST DICK + SWANK
John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm. NILE + UNEARTH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $62.00. OBLIVEUS + D’FRO + AKIN Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
ORCHES + TOGETHER APART + THE PRINTER CONVENTION + COCONUT RUSH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
PARTY GIRLS (STILL LIKE A VIRGIN) Flight Deck Bar & Grill, Moorabbin Airport. 8:30pm. $65.00. PRAYER BABIES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
RIVER ROCKS 2015 - FEAT: COSMIC PSYCHOS + THE MEANIES + HOSS + THE CASANOVAS + MORE Barwon
Club Hotel, Geelong. 12:00pm. $44.90. RYAN SCOBLE ESQ. PRESENTS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 2:00am. $7.00. SATURDAYS R COVERED - FEAT: RADIO STAR Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.
SHE FEST - FEAT: SHE WOLF + SAVI BOMB + LONG HOLIDAY + MISSISTA + PURROXIDE + VIVANT Mr Boogie
Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
SPANISH FIESTA - FEAT: MIDNIGHT WOOLF + THE FLOORS + GONZO Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. SUI ZHEN Shebeen, Melbourne CBD. 7:30pm. $10.00. THE BENNIES + THE HARD ACHES + WET PENSIONER + CAMP COPE Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $15.00. THE CROSSING Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
DOWNFALL OF GAIA
Q&A
THE BENDIGO HOTEL If you’re a sludge metal enthusiast, this is one to seriously get excited about. Downfall Of Gaia are in town, all the way from Germany, and are gracing the stage at The Bendigo Hotel this weekend. Known for their mix of drawn-out sludge/doom tracks, with blasting segments riddled through the music, the band are touring in support of their recently released record, Aeons Unveils The Thrones Of Decay. They’ve got a ripper lineup backing them too, as Hope Drone, Colossvs, YLVA and Diecut come along for the ride. It’ll be one to remember, anyone who misses out will definitely regret it at one point of their lives. Downfall Of Gaia plays The Bendigo Hotel this Saturday November 21. Doors open at 8pm with $17 entry.
THE HADRON KALEIDOSCOPES + THE LOST JACKETS Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
THE NEWSLETTERS + WATERFALL PERSON + SOUND MOUNTAIN The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00. UNCLE GEEZER + HAILGUN + VICTIM CONTROL + WRONG + TERRA NULLIUS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm.
$10.00.
WESTERN STARS + OTHY GRAVES + SLIM PICKINS + THE NIGHTSHIFTERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5.00. BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Union Hotel, Brunswick.
5:00pm.
BIG SEAL & THE SLIPPERY FEW Union Hotel, Brunswick.
9:00pm.
THE ROMEO KNIGHTS
YAH YAH’S After spending eight months off stage, The Romeo Knights are ready to get back on the horse by announcing a gig at Yah Yah’s this weekend. Featuring the support of Twin Ages, Lieutenant Jam and Planet of the 8s, the band have hinted nearly nothing about what’s in store for their triumphant comeback show. Come and unravel the mystery at Yah Yah’s this Saturday November 21 when The Romeo Knights get back on the stage. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.
BILLY BRIDGE Werribee Masters Football Club, Wyndham Vale. 7:00pm. $10.00.
COBRA 45S Club Kilsyth, Bayswater North. 9:00pm. CRAIG WOODWARD + WARREN ROUGH & FRIENDS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. GREG STEPS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
BEAT CLUB Hey Emma. Tell us about Beat-Club. Beat-Club is a new ‘60s/’70s night presented by Bobby Dazzler & Miss Jane Doe. It’s something new for the Melbourne CBD and we’d describe it as an experience; bands, DJs, Go-Go dancers and some rather cool visual effects. Beat-Club, great name. What inspired that? We took the concept from the German music show that ran from 1965-1972 playing the best music of the time. ‘60s beat, R&B, psychedelic. You’re known for running The Bobby Dazzler Market. Tell us some more about Miss Jane Doe. She loves the ‘60s and ‘70s as much as me. Jane teaches Go-Go dancing and runs a troop called The Super Vixens, who will be dancing on the night. VIP ticket holders get the chance to see an exclusive show before the bands start. Tell us about the launch night line up. You’re in for a treat. ‘60s French yé-yé band Les Minijupes kick things off, then two sets from Thee Wylde Oscars playing ‘60s beat, garage, rock. Then it’s over to DJs Dave Gray from Rocket Science and El Bastardo from the old Gimme Shelter nights. Exciting stuff. What kind of atmosphere should we expect? With a light show, Go-Go dancing, some damn fine music and stylish folk everywhere, ‘electric’ might be one word to describe it. Dress code? Stylish – dress to impress. BEAT-CLUB launches on Saturday November 28 at The Golden Monkey. It runs from 8pm ‘til late. Tickets are available now at trybooking. com/167027.
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THE GASOMETER HOTEL Taking her delicate but mighty voice to The Gasometer, Lisa Salvo is preparing herself for a night to celebrate her debut album, I Could Have Been A Castle. She writes candidly about struggles and relationships, both romantic and about the world at large. Head to Lisa Salvo’s very special launch at The Gasometer Hotel on Sunday November 22, and she’ll give you a case of the soul shakes that you might not recover from. Doors open at 6pm, entry is $13.
THE STEVE MARTINS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
THE WINNEBAGO LOUNGE - FEAT: THE EXOTICS + MC ANTHONY MORGAN St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 5:00pm. A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.
8:00pm.
A CONCERT FOR EMMA - FEAT: THE SUGARCANES + CAT CANTERI + L.A.A + TELESCOPES + MORE Evelyn Hotel,
Fitzroy. 4:00pm. $25.00.
MEMO MUSIC HALL Legendary guitarist Hank Marvin is playing two exclusive shows this November at the Memo Music Hall, bringing a full band to impress audiences with the sound of swing. His quartet features virtuoso accordionist Nunzio Mondia, stand out rhythm guitarist Gary Taylor and guest bassist, Robbie Pisano. See them on Saturday November 21 and Sunday November 22. Doors open from 8pm, entry is $45.
MILD MANIC + THE MAZE + YOUNG POETS + NEON QUEEN + COLOURBLIND Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. REDEMPTION RD + BITTERFRUIT + HIGH NIGHTS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
TWO HEADED DOG
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Local trio Two Headed Dog make their triumphant return to the Whole Lotta Love stage this Sunday November 22, sharing the stage with Adelaide’s Kitchen Witch, Super Saloon and Happy Go Blues. Super Saloon and Happy Go Blues get your faces warmed up, before Kitchen Witch and Two Headed Dog melt them right off. Sounds like a solid plan, right? Get shredded with Two Headed Dog, from 7pm this Sunday at Whole Lotta Love.
SARAH MCLEOD Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. SPANISH FIESTA - FEAT: THE SCOUTS + PLEBS Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
DESPISED + GUILLOTINE + ACRYLIC FARM + STONE VALLEY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm. JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner.
7:30pm.
CHERRY BAR Jon Toogood, frontman of Shihad is playing a bunch of intimate acoustic shows across Australia in November, locking in one of these bad boys at the immortal Cherry Bar. He’s been doing his thing in Shihad for over 25 years now and was even inducted into the RIANZ NZ Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s planning to jam out to his favourite songs and even pull out some of his own on this tour. You can catch John Toogood at Cherry Bar this Sunday November 22. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $22.
Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $10.00.
Collingwood. 5:00pm.
THE MCQUEENS + NAKATOMI + FEELDS Toff In Town,
MATT DWYER & THE MAGNATONES Big Huey’s Diner,
South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
PRINCE PUBLIC BAR Melbourne’s longest running blues jam is taking up residency at the Prince Public Bar. Join the Elwood Blues Club for an evening of talent drawn in from all over Australia and the rest of the world. Each week, the Blues Club draws in a different special guest, who then gets backed by their in house band. Shoot on down to Prince Public Bar this Sunday November 22 and catch the Elwood Blues Club in action. Doors open at 5.30pm, entry is free.
JON TOOGOOD
THE BO-WEEVILS + WILD MEADOWS Northcote Social
LOOSE TOOTH + JOE NEPTUNE + HILLS HOIST Tote Hotel,
ELWOOD BLUES CLUB
MATT WALKER & LOST RAGAS
PIERCE BROTHERS
170 RUSSELL Good news everybody, after selling out 170 Russell, and due to popular demand, the Pierce Brothers are playing a second and final show on Sunday November 22. The boys have been out touring the world for most of this year and are returning home to launch their new EP called Into The Dirt. Limited tickets are still available but they are getting snapped up quickly, so get yours quick. Support they boys are Anna O and Jack Stirling (and The Perfect).
Melbourne CBD. 7:00pm. $10.00. TIMMY KNOWLES Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm. TOM SHOWTIME + AGENT 86 + MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
TWO HEADED DOG + KITCHEN WITCH + SUPER SALOON + HAPPY GO BLUES Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.
ZIG ZAG & DREAMIN’ WILD + MOSAICZ + HIDEOUS TOWNS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $5.00.
ANDY LAYFIELD SOUND + COLD TURKEY BLUES BAND + LILY & THE DRUM Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 6:00pm.
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THE POST OFFICE HOTEL Matt Walker & Lost Ragas residency at The Post Office Hotel continues this Sunday. Walker has been a stalwart of the roots music scene for more than two decades now, and he may have found his perfect musical marriage with Lost Ragas. The quartet truly embody the phrase ‘cosmic country’, serving up a sound that packs classic country, power pop and rock’n’roll into one streamlined set. For their third Sunday residency show, Matt Walker & Lost Ragas play The Post Office Hotel this Sunday November 22 from 4.30pm.
ANNIE & BERN (CHRISTMAS WITH YOU LAUNCH) + ALANNA & ALICIA + ELLEN SORENSEN Open Studio, Northcote. 6:30pm. $5.00.
BRENT PARLANE BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
5:30pm.
CATFISH VOODOO Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. CHARLES JENKINS Dog’s Bar, St Kilda. 7:00pm. COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
MANDY CONNELL TRIO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
6:30pm.
MICHAEL MEEKING & THE LOST SOULS Standard Hotel,
Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 3:00pm. MOSES LEIGH JONES Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 7:00pm. OPEN MIKE SUNDAY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. RYAN DOWNEY + LUCY ROLEFF + MALLEE SONGS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. $6.00. SMALL TOWN ROMANCE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. STEVII HILL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
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TESS MCKENNA Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. THE BARKLYS + KEV SULLIVAN Victoria Hotel,
SHAKEDOWN SHAKES Public Bar, North Melbourne.
THE BLOOMING HEATHERS Drunken Poet, West
Cherry Bar, Melbourne CBD. 7:00pm. UB40 Forum Theatre, Melbourne CBD. 7:00pm. $69.00.
7:30pm. $6.00.
THEM BRUINS + FEAR OF FLYING + SLOWLY SLOWLY
Brunswick. 4:00pm.
Melbourne. 4:00pm. THE HORNETS Cherry Bar, Melbourne CBD. 3:00pm. $5.00. THE LARGE NUMBER 12S Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 5:00pm. THE SLIPDIXIES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:30pm. THE TRAVIS WINTERS BLUES BAND The Water Rat Hotel, South Melbourne. 5:00pm. $5.00. THE WARNER BROTHERS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 23
100/25/1 - FEAT: ANNE NORMAN + CAROLYN CONNORS + CLINTON GREEN + DAVID CHESWORTH + EUGENE UGHETTI + MORE Conduit Arts, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00.
BOG + OLD LOVE + BODIES + GOOD TIME AUSSIE BOGALARS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00. JOSE & THE COFFEE MUGS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
JOSEPH PAOLA & THE STRAINS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm.
KRISTA POLVERE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
BOG
8:30pm.
THE OLD BAR The Old Bar is hosting an art launch exhibition this Tuesday, and are throwing down some serious tunes to complement the night. Featuring a lineup of Bog, Old Love and Bodies, expect a night of heavier and heartfelt noise when The Old Bar begins proceedings on this Tuesday of Tuesdays. Catch Bog at Old Bar this Tuesday November 24 at The Old Bar. Doors open at 7pm, entry is $6.
MORNING MELODIES AT THE COTTON CLUB - FEAT: RED HOT RHYTHMAKERS + ECHOES OF HARLEM Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 11:00am & 1.30pm. $20.00.
TASTE OF INDIE COLLECTIVE: DUO TRIO NIGHT
SEWERCIDE
THE OLD BAR Two bits of good news here. Firstly, Sewercide is playing at Old Bar this Monday. Secondly, Mundane Monday is still here, meaning you can not only catch a show from one of Melbourne’s upcoming psych influenced rock acts, but you can nab a $15 jug of Mountain Goat in the process. If it comes between letting Monday suck immeasurable arse or heading down to The Old Bar this Monday November 23 for Sewercide, you know which one wins here. Doors open at 8pm, entrance is $5.
BASEL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA - FEAT: SOL GABETTA Arts Centre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $43.00. BOHJASS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. JAZZ PARTY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
PRINCE PUBLIC BAR It’s Duo Trio night at the Prince Public Bar this Tuesday thanks to The Taste of Indie Collective. On offer this week are some laid-back vibes bouncing out of Lounge Detectives, dynamic rock tunes coming outta My Band and some stimulating sizzlers thanks to Baberaham Lincoln. Whatever your taste, they’ve got it covered, and it’ll all be there from 7.30pm this Tuesday. Free entry.
THANDO (DIVAS- JILL SCOTT) + MAYFIELD Toff In Town,
Melbourne CBD. 7:30pm. $13.00.
The Old Bar - Thursday November 26
PETER BLACK
The Old Bar - Friday November 27
THE MARK OF CAIN
Max Watt’s - Thursday November 26
TINY RUINS
TOOZE & BRUCE
The Retreat Hotel - Saturday November 28
GOAT & KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD The Croxton - Friday December 4
HOLY SERPENT
Yah Yah’s - Friday December 4
SKINPIN
ARBES + UNCLE BOBBY + JARROW + THE HUSTLE
The Public Bar - Friday December 4
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00.
THANDO
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THE TOFF IN TOWN It’s the next round of Thando’s month long residency at The Toff In Town, and this time she’s presenting the music of Jill Scott. She’ll be performing a showcase set of Scott’s songs, along with throwing together a brilliant cabaret style performance with costume changes, choreography, a dazzling light show and the musical talents of the Do Yo Thangs to boot. Get down to The Toff In Town this Monday November 23 and catch Thando pay homage to the venerable Jill Scott. Doors open at 7.30pm, entry is $13.
Fitzroy North. 7:30pm. $20.00.
CHERRY BAR Them Bruins are taking to Cherry Bar this week as part of their five show Victorian exclusive tour, taking them across the town for a series of seedy nights. As the band reacquaint themselves with Melbourne after their US tour, they’ll be hitting up stages all over the city. You can catch Them Bruins at Cherry every Tuesday from Tuesday November 24 onwards. Doors open at 8pm and entry is free.
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The Toff In Town - Saturday November 28, 29
CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne CBD. 8:00pm. INTO THE VOID (DOCUMENTARY SCREENING) Longplay,
THEM BRUINS
LO0KING FORWARD
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: JACKY WINTER + MOON RITUALS + HEART BEACH + GOLDEN SYRUP Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
PLEASURE AVALANCHE + ARAK + DANGEROUS GOODS
Max Watt’s - Saturday December 5
CUSTARD
The Toff In Town - Saturday December 5
THURSTON MOORE BAND
Prince Bandroom - Thursday December 10
MODELS
The Flying Saucer Club - Friday December 11
THE EXPLOITED
Max Watt’s - Sat December 12
AGENT ORANGE Bendigo Hotel - December 30
Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00. SEWERSIDE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00. THE STRAINS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24
100/25/1 - FEAT: ANNE NORMAN + CAROLYN CONNORS + CLINTON GREEN + DAVID CHESWORTH + EUGENE UGHETTI + MORE Conduit Arts, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00. ANNA’S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton.
6:30pm. $10.00.
BRAVE NEW WORLDS - FEAT: SUTHERLAND TRIO
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 FEMALE VOCALIST LOOKING FOR MUSICIANS to start an originals band. Also interested in starting an acoustic duo. Contact Marrianne 0405 929 923 EMPLOYMENT MODELING. We’re looking for confident women of all styles (aged 18+) for our pro-feminist photographic projects with an emphasis on style and creativity. Nude/ undies, paying $100 to $500 per shoot. Don’t overlook this til you’ve found out more about it. Rebecca 94956555 CONGRATULATIONS HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAT! Now somebody bring us some cake. You’re welcome. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 70
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $28.00. HUGH JACKMAN (BROADWAY TO OZ) Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $81.56. IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. MENTONE GIRL’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00. NAFASI + MONDEGREEN + LEVINGSTONE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.
BJ MORRISZONKLE + SEIUCHI + SPIDER GOAT CANYON
Toff In Town, Melbourne CBD. 7:30pm. $10.00. BYO VINYL NIGHT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. HILLS HOIST + GANGZ + RAD ISH + MOSAICZ Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.
INTO THE VOID (DOCUMENTARY SCREENING) Longplay,
Fitzroy North. 7:30pm. $15.00.
OLYMPIA (TOURISTS LAUNCH) Shebeen, Melbourne CBD. 7:30pm. $12.00.
SCRUB WRENS + SONKE + CHINESE HANDCUFFS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
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There are three days left to enjoy Melbourne Music Week so get out there and go to some gigs! If you’re more of a day-time music lover than a nocturnal rager, check out the Lunchbox Sessions at the flagship venue, the abandoned Royal Women’s Hospital. Come on down from 1pm to 2pm to see Luke Howard on Wednesday, Woodes on Thursday and Ella Thompson (The Bamboos) on Friday. On Thursday arvo Artful Dodgers Studios are launching their 2015 compilation to showcase the young musicians who have come into their Collingwood studios throughout the year. This open access studio offers art mentoring and free recording time for young people whose have experienced difficult circumstances. From Koori soul to Sudanese dancehall, glam rock to hard hitting hip-hop, the sounds are as diverse as the young people who create them. The show is free and it’s happening at Arts Centre Melbourne on Thursday from 4pm to 8pm. Women of Soul will be kicking off the summer music series Fed Square Live 2015 with a special acoustic version of their show on November 19. This outstanding group features some of Melbourne’s finest soul vocalists and songwriters including May Johnston, Rita Satch, Chelsea Wilson, Lisa Faithfull and Carla Troiano. You can expect to hear homegrown original soul, funk and boogie in stunning unplugged style from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. LISTEN and Signal present a panel discussion about women’s experiences in the Australian music industry followed by a live show featuring Empat Lima, Habits, KT Spit and Repellant. It’s free and it’s happening on November 20, from 6pm to 11pm at Signal, Flinders Walk, Melbourne. Head to www. thatsmelbourne.com.au for more details. Big West Festival is the leading communitybased, contemporary arts festival in Melbourne’s West and it’s starting this Friday! There are over 70 multicultural, multi-artform and mostly free events that celebrate the west through the theme ‘house.’ On Saturday head to the street party in central Footscray from 10am to 4pm to celebrate Big West Festival’s 10th anniversary. With DJs, dancing, poetry, live music and installations, there’s something for everyone to get down to. Check out HOUSE, the 2015 festival hub at the Big West Village on the corner of Paisley and French Streets, Footscray, where there will be a vast array of musical performances across the week. For more details and ticket information, head to www.bigwest.com.au. Got news you’d like to share with us? Send it to push@thepush.com.au
ALL AGES GIG GUIDE
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 • FReeZA Youth Art Prize w/ Youth Artists, ADFA Building, 41 Deakin Ave, Mildura, • 6pm-8pm, Free, www.milduraruralcitycouncil/youth, AA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 • Music in the Sticks Stage w/ Jose and the Coffee Mugs, Kyneton Show, 5pm-11pm, $10, www.facebook.com/macedonrangesyouth, AA • FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands w/ Half Breed Heroes, Gravemarkings, Scoot Molly, Tommy Castles Band, Harbours, Storm the Sky, Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, 86 Derrimut Rd, Hoppers Crossing, 6pm-10.30pm, $10, www.facebook.com/ WyndhamFreeza, AA • School of Rock w/ Ringwood Secondary band, Aquinas College Band, Tintern Schools Band, Melba College Band, Croydon Community School band & Norwood Secondary College band, EV’s Youth Centre, 212 Mt Dandenong Rd, 6.30pm-11pm, $5, www.maroondahyouthservices.com, AA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 • Fired Up! Hip Hop Tournament w/ MC Feva, DJ Tofu, Babysteps, KStar, PD Home Team & many more, Berwick Church of Christ, 432-446 Centre Rd, Berwick, 1pm9pm, $15 for 18 years and over, $10 for 17 years and under, www.casey.vic.gov.au/youth or www.greaterdandenong.com, AA • Youth Without A Roof w/ At Sunset, Chloe Miller, Tyler Lunn, The Refuge, Sister Dolls, Ellen Rose, Anonoymous, Memorial Square, Murray St, Colac, 6pm - 10: 30pm, Free, AA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24 • 2015 Boroondara Youth Short Film Festival, Palace Cinema, 231 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn, 7pm-9pm, $10, www.facebook.com/ boroondara.freeza, AA
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PRAYER BABIES (Adult pop !)
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Sunday 22nd @ 5.30 pm
BRENT PARLANE BAND
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THE STEVE MARTINS (Soul-searchers) Tuesday 24th @ 8.00pm
IRISH SESSION (Fiddlin’ frenzy)
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Mandy Connell Trio Tuesdays weekly trivia
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Melbourne winners of last weekend’s Community Radio Awards included PBS chief Adrian Basso who got the Michael Law Award for his long contribution to the sector. PBS also took the gongs for excellence in music programming (Babylon Burning) and training. JOY won excellence in digital media, best new radio program in music (Babble POP!) and station production during its radiothon. SYN won digital media and tied for community participation. 3MBS’s National Contemporary Landscapes took Contribution to Australian Music. DOCKS EXHIBITION REVIVES RAVE CULTURE
An interactive multi-media exhibition celebrating Melbourne’s ‘90s underground dance scene held in the sheds of the former Victoria Docks, is at the Library at The Dock in Docklands. It is presented by the City of Melbourne with the Electronic Music Association, Melbourne Raves and Monash Art Design and Architecture. Councillor Rohan Leppert, Chair of Council’s Arts and Culture committee, said the exhibition pinpoints a time where the city’s subculture was discovering its identity. “Electronic music, circus schools, women’s warehouse parties, queer stage spectaculars and dirt bike competitions were all part of this new scene.” More info at melbourne.vic.gov.au/whatson. PORT FAIRY FOLK’S JAMIE MCKEW STEPPING DOWN
Port Fairy Folk Music Festival’s much revered founder Jamie McKew steps down as festival director, with the 40th festival in March being his finale. McKew, who works as a doctor in Geelong, first staged the festival through his love for Australian folk and Irish traditional music before widening it to the event that now draws 15,000. The festival began advertising for a replacement on the weekend, with plans to hire a replacement by late January. McKew will retire in June, and mentor his replacement through 2017.
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You thought they stopped making video cassettes? Well, 14 years after Sony stopped selling compatible cassette players, they announced they would cease manufacture of Betamax in March. Sony launched Betamax in 1975 to much hype, but a year later Japanese rivals came up with the VHS which blew the Betamax out of the water because it was cheaper, lighter and had more storage.
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DJ Debris hit the decks. Hoods’ MC Suffa confessed to a hangover after imbibing the stuff the night before because he was more of a wine drinker. During the Tamworth country music festival, Virgin will put on six more daily flights each from Sydney and Brisbane to ease the load for its 50,000 attendees. A guitar owned by John Lennon got $2.41 million at auction and the cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain at Nirvana’s legendary MTV Unplugged $140,800. As reported on beat.com.au, the planned re-opening of the Espy in St. Kilda after six months’ renovation hit a snag when some neighbours protested at the possible noise of a new 145-square-metre rooftop terrace. Since then, the number of objections rose to 45 and a possibility of the matter heading to VCAT. In 2013, when Bendigo businessman and blues musician Phil Lazenby passed away, he stipulated in his will that his guitar collection be donated to young players. The Lazenby Young Blues Guitarist award at the Bendigo Blues and Roots Music festival was this year won by Rhiannon Simpson who will use the $2700 Fender Telecaster on her first album. Melbourne-based electro producer/multi-instrumentalist, Owen Rabbit’s new single Denny’s is about his battle with depression and anxiety. It recalls a time in Los Angeles when, “One night of panic attacks and delirium…was a catalyst for a long journey through different therapists, doctors and dosages. I’m in a better place now. I’m glad I got help. I’m lucky that I have music in my life.” Blues fans ahoy, Caravan Music Club’s Juke Joint Jump on Saturday November 28 not only has two sets by The Three Kings (the second with James Black on piano) but Ross Wilson and Joe Camilleri retracing their blues roots, and a DJ set from the incomparable Max Crawdaddy. A six second drum loop from Amen Brothers, the 1969 track by Washington DC soul group The Winstons, has been sampled 1900 times, according to Whosampledwho. com. These included NWA (for Straight Outta Compton), The Prodigy, David Bowie and Oasis. But they’ve never received a cent from it. Now fans raised $36,500 via crowd funding so they’d get some money from it. In the wake of the success of NWA’s Straight Outta Compton, an unreleased demo of Fuck Tha Police surfaced, with unheard rap from Ice Cube. It goes: “Stereotypes of a brother like me/ Down with the niggas from the CPT posse/ They callin’ me a thug ’cause I carry a piece/ That’s why I say, fuck police.” Spotted at Cold Chisel’s Cairns gig: Foreign Affairs minister Julie Bishop. Azealia Banks is under police investigation after an alleged fight with nightclub security in LA. They told her to get out after she allegedly tripped the fire alarms. Passion Pit singer Michael Angelakos is the latest to come out of the closet. Brit film maker Danny Boyle is “in grief ” after David Bowie nixed his plan for a film made around his songs. Chester Bennington quit Stone Temple Pilots to concentrate on Linkin Park. They played US TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Joss Stone out front. Rihanna’s father claims Kanye West spends $500 a day on haircuts
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Digital distributor and publishing administration service TuneCore has launched in Australia, setting up its fourth international office in Melbourne. Australia-based members can collect revenue from streaming services, digital download stores, songwriter royalties, and sync licensing opportunities, all in local currency. New members pay $14.99 to upload a track for distribution. The price for an album is $39.99 the first year and $65.99 after that. A one time fee of $99.99 provides access to TuneCore Publishing Administration. Since setting up in 2006, TuneCore expanded to Canada, Japan and the UK, earning artists $600 million.
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included $10,000 each to Dave Graney & The MistLY for a UK tour in early February and Kingswood to build up global networks. In addition, C.W. Stoneking got $7,741to help him relocate to America next year; WILSN $5000 so she and her manager/producer can go to NY and LA this month to meet with publishers and labels following Spotify airplay; DUNE (aka Jade McRae) $5000 to release her Knife Fight single internationally; $3500 for LISTEN towards their recent conference; Tim Guy $3499 to launch his Chords album; $3000 for Peter Knight to go to Chennai in India to collaborate with musicians there; and $1,759 to the Amphlett Lane Committee for The Amphlett Lane Stirrers to present the first event there. SECRET SOUNDS CONNECT EXPANDS: NEW HIRES, PARTNERSHIPS
As Secret Sounds Connect, the commercial rights agency for music festivals, expands its services and deals, it has made a number of new hires. Jade New (Future Entertainment, MTV) is GM, overseeing business operations with a focus on the new Talent & Content division. Nicole Lembke (ex-Sony Music) is Strategic Partnerships Manager driving new business for festival clients such as Laneway, Falls, Southbound, Listen Out, Field Day and Harbourlife. Zoe Murdoch (ex-Nova) is Strategic Partnerships Manager for Splendour In The Grass to build up its brand integration. Peita Dixon is Talent & Content Manager. Lucy Morris is Partnerships Coordinator, and Charlotte Ibbotson is Integration Coordinator. Other new partnerships include Foxtel + Falls Byron Bay (a marquee to watch 1000 movies across nine channels), Topshop + Laneway (official fashion sponsor, with festival offerings in its stores and on site), Pandora + Laneway (Pandora its official streaming sponsor for 2016 and 2017 playing tracks from a Laneway playlist before the festival and broadcasts on site). AUDIOFLY LINKS WITH X FACTOR
Perth headphone company Audiofly was selected to supply in-ear monitors to contestants on Channel Seven’s The X Factor Australia. They use the state of the art AF180 flagship quad driver in-ear monitor for their live performances. Boasting a team of musicians, technicians and designers, Audiofly has been operating since 2011, designing and building headphones with high quality materials for durability and speaker drivers for authentic sound reproduction. BLACK PEARL WORKSHOP FOR MUSICIANS
Black Pearl Studio’s next workshop Musicians Anonymous will be hosted by bluesman Andrew Lowden from 7pm on Tuesday November 24. RSVP by 5pm Friday. REBECCA BARNARD TEACHING AT NCAT
Singer/songwriter Rebecca Barnard of Rebecca’s Empire fame has taken up a teaching residency with the Northern College of Arts and Technology (NCAT) in Melbourne. 15 students get guidance in vocal and stage technique, songwriting and recording, after which they’ll get a Certificate IV in Music and tour with her as her backing band. Applications open at NCAT Music with auditions on November 24.
HENRY WAGONS SIGNS WITH ABC MUSIC
After years of fronting Wagons, frontman Henry Wagons went to Nashville to record a solo album After What I Did Last Night… with producer Skylar Wilson and a team of Tennessee players. He’s signed a solo deal with ABC/ Universal who will release the album in February. First single out is Cold Burgers, Cold Fries.
Lifelines Expecting: Mollie McClymont of country music act The McClymonts and husband Aaron. They married in May. Engaged: a Korn fan went down on one knee and proposed to his gaplal at a Korn meet’n’greet before their show in Georgia. The dude said Korn was their favourite band and actually first got to talking because he was wearing a Korn T-shirt. Injured: 5 Seconds of Summer’s Michael Clifford was on crutches after slipping onstage at London’s Wembley Arena before 10,000 music fans. Not too long ago he got hit by a pyrotechnic during their show on the same stage. Injured: a guy who attended a Garth Brooks show in Salt Lake City was beaten up by a group of African American men after they spotted a Confederate flag magnet on his pickup truck. In Court: Taylor Swift settled out of court a lawsuit by a Californian clothing company Blue Sphere that she infringed its Lucky 13 trademark. In Court: Soulfly singer Max Cavalera must pay $13,000 to his former sister in law for stating in his 2013 book My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura To Soulfly And Beyond she was a “bitch” and hit on him before hooking up with his brother Igor. In Court: British folk icon Roy Harper was cleared of all charges of an alleged sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl in the mid-‘70s. In Court: DJ Garrix is suing his former manager saying he was given “false and misleading information” before he signed to his management and record label, and wants back the rights to his early music. Died: New Orleans icon Allen Toussaint, 77, a heart attack. He produced ‘60s records for Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas, and Art and Aaron Neville and later LaBelle’s Nightbirds, which included Lady Marmalade. His songs included Working In The Coal Mine, Ride Your Pony and Fortune Teller. Died: Glen Barrie, 26, guitarist with Queensland hardcore band As Paradise Falls, went to sleep during recording sessions in Bangkok and never woke up. His wife is expecting their son in January. Died: Scottish drummer Andy White, 85, from a stroke. He famously played on The Beatles’ first two singles Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You after playing on Britain’s first rock record, The Sound of Fury by Billy Fury. He also played on Tom Jones’ It’s Not Unusual and Lulu’s Shout before moving to the US where he was hired to teach Steve Van Zandt drums for his role on The Sopranos and recorded with The Smithereens.
123 WELCOMES TROPHY EYES
Melbourne’s 123 Agency signed Newcastle melodic hardcore act Trophy Eyes. The five piece have created waves globally since 2013’s Everything Goes Away EP, which led to a deal with US label Hopeless and tours of Europe and the UK. THINGS WE HEAR
Died: former Motörhead drummer Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor, 61, after a long period of illness.
Which former music manager put a positive spin on his stay in hospital, saying it was his first holiday in 20 years? Which promoter is scouting a ghostwriter for his tell-all memoirs? Which reality star accused a friend of sending topless pics of her to media? Hilltop Hoods’s label Golden Era launched its Golden Ale beer, made with SA brewer Pirate Life, at a Warm Up event at which label acts Trials, Briggs, K21 and the Hoods’ BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 74
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Died: Martin Beard, 68, drummer with ‘60s psychedelic band Sopwith Camel before becoming an electronics technician in Silicon Valley.
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