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THE SUGARCANES TO PLAY ALBUM LAUNCH FAREWELL TO THE SACRED HEART COURTYARD It is time to say goodbye to the Sacred Heart Courtyard of the Abbotsford Convent – home of the iconic Shadow Electric outdoor cinema, which has won over a legion of fans since their very first sold-out screening of Drive back in 2012. The reason for the closure however, remains a positive one. After receiving a multi-million dollar grant in 2014, the folks at the Abbotsford Convent have decided to redevelop the buildings surrounding the courtyard. While this means the outdoor cinema will no longer be held in the previous location, there is promise of the event still continuing its legacy elsewhere on the grounds. To give the Sacred Heart Courtyard the sendoff it deserves, the cinema will play a whole swag of classics in the coming weeks including Spotlight, Hail, Caesar!, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert and The Big Lebowski.

To wrap it all up on Sunday April 10, they’re throwing a huge party with the help of Wax’o Paradiso for a music, art and visual extravaganza. Tickets to the screenings are available via the Shadow Electric website.

RENÉE GEYER LOCKS IN 2016 ANNIVERSARY SHOWS Australian music icon Renée Geyer will commemorate four decades of an awardwinning music career by performing two special Melbourne shows. Starting her career as a precocious jazz, blues and soul singer, Geyer has wandered into various realms of styles including pop and reggae, as well as hitting the studio with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Sting, Joe Cocker, Chaka Kahn and Paul Kelly. She was inducted to both the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2005 and was the first female solo artist to be inducted into the Age Music Victoria Hall of Fame in 2013.

Renée Geyer will perform at the Palais Theatre on Wednesday May 18. Tickets are on sale via Ticketmaster.

After recently premiering their latest video, Never Call, Melbourne soul powerhouse The Sugarcanes are preparing for a hotly-anticipated album launch.

Since their hugely successful single, Oh Darling, the band have toured nationally with the Smith Street Band, as well as winning over crowds at Beechworth Music Festival, The Happy Wanderer Festival and more. Having just wrapped up their month long residency at The Old Bar, The Sugarcanes are gearing up to launch their LP with what is promising to be one of their biggest shows to date.

Catch The Sugarcanes on Friday April 15 at The Tote, with support from Yard Apes and Jim Lawrie Band.

Usually if you wanted to see Cheap Trick in all their former glory, you’d need to bust out the DoLorean and high-tail it back to 1978. Luckily though, Riff Raiders are gearing up for their tribute show at Cherry Bar – promising to perform Cheap Trick At Budokan in all it’s glorious entirety. The gig goes down on Saturday April 9 so unless you just can’t wait, no time travel is required.

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Melbourne-based indie-pop artist Summer Flake will be hitting the road this May in support of her latest album, Hello Friends. Known for her creative harmonic compositions fused with a searing guitar style, Summer Flake is the solo project of musician Steph Crase. Her latest single from the forthcoming album, Wine Won’t Wash Away, was recently dropped with an accompanying music video, and is the second single from Hello Friends after Shoot and Score. Hello Friends will be out Friday April 8. Catch Summer Flake at The Tote on Friday May 20.

Buckle up – Aussie rock legends The Screaming Jets are celebrating the release of their new album with a national tour.

Their latest offering, Chrome, is their first album release in eight years after 2008’s Do Ya and marks an impressive 27 years together. Bringing along Melbourne’s own Massive, the tour promises to be a mix of new material and a selection from their extensive catalogue of classic anthemic hits.

Chrome is due for release on Thursday May 5. Don’t miss them when they hit up Hallam Hotel on Friday May 6 and the Corner Hotel on Saturday May 7.

British soul legends Hot Chocolate and The Real Thing are joining forces and venturing to Australian shores in October this year. Hot Chocolate enjoyed multiple hit singles across the ‘70s and into the ‘80s including You Sexy Thing, Every 1’s A Winner, So You Win Again and more. The Real Thing had numerous #1 hits in the US and across the world including You To Me Are Everything released in 1976, still heard on radio stations across the world today. Their follow up singles Can’t Get By Without You, You’ll Never Know What You’re Missing and Can You Feel The Force? were all hit singles in the UK. Don’t miss Hot Chocolate and The Real Thing when they play Palais Theatre Saturday October 22.

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BLIND MAN DEATH STARE LOCK IN 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW Blind Man Death Stare have announced they’ll be taking to the stage with a reinvigorated live show. Following a huge 2015 that saw the three-piece release an EP and play numerous shows around the country, Blind Man Death Stare are showing no signs of slowing down. Blind Man Death Stare will play Bendigo Hotel on Friday April 22.

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Oneohtrix Point Never – aka electronic musician Daniel Lopatin – has announced he will be treating Melburnians to an exclusive sideshow, as part of his Australian visit for the 2016 VIVID festival. The composer, musician and producer has been flat out since first busting on to the scene in 2007 – having released numerous albums, been commissioned for museums and festivals, in addition to dipping his toes into film scores and producing. His latest release Garden of Delete marks his seventh studio album, and is a hyperactive and often dark journey through the musicians psyche. Catch him on Wednesday June 1 when he plays at Max Watt’s. Tickets on sale via TicketScout.

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YOU AM I ANNOUNCE INTIMATE 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW Legendary Australian rockers You Am I have locked in an intimate Melbourne show in celebration of their latest releases. They’ll be taking to the stage in support of their special red vinyl edition of their tenth album Porridge & Hotsauce alongside the 7” Spilt Sauce EP of studio outtakes. Joining them will be Indonesia’s The Sigit, and Draught Dodgers making their stage debut. It all goes down at Ding Dong on Saturday April 30.

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VINTAGE TROUBLE The Corner Hotel, March 30 One of America’s finest rhythm and blues bands, Vintage Trouble, are stopping over in Melbourne following up from their slot at Byron Bay’s Bluesfest. This band is kind of a big deal, having opened for The Rolling Stones, toured with The Who and sold out their own headline shows across the globe. They even have the Whoopi Goldberg seal of approval ­–playing on live TV for her birthday in 2014. Get yourself down to The Corner Hotel on Wednesday March 30 for one hell of a saucy night.

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f only I had waited another fifteen minutes, this could have been a much juicer interview. Sure, Matt Okine is still a forthright and funny guy, happily acknowledging the darkness of comedy and his struggles to keep his days from capsizing – between hosting triple j’s breakfast show with Alex Dyson, his stand-up schedule, hip hop and his first DJ gig, the man is effectively running four lives at once – but we came this close to catching Okine on the cusp of sleep, with his guard down, ready to confess all. As it is, we have to settle for the award-winning comic lounging about in bed in the middle of the day, wide-eyed and alert. What a layabout.

“I was just about to try and sleep,” Okine admits, his voice slowly gaining animation. “Any later and I would have woken up at five o’clock this afternoon with only the vaguest memory of having some weird dream where I’ve been exposing my darkest secrets. You really missed out on some hot goss, dude.”

Not that we exactly want him to spill his guts about childhood fears and his first bedroom fumblings, but those kind of insights do give a glimpse of the person behind the art; a perspective that audiences are becoming increasingly hungry for. We want to break the surface of whoever captures our interest, and it’s a curiosity Okine shares in his own interview approach.

“I make the mistake of always wanting to know too much personal stuff. It’s only happened a couple of times, but you can see this little tweak in the artist’s eyes where you can tell they’re thinking, I do not want to answer this question on radio,” he says. “It’s difficult for me as a comic, because I’ve spent my whole life talking about everything. The good, the bad, the hairy and ugly – all of that.

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doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re up for talking about the most embarrassing thing they’ve ever done in the bedroom.

So I definitely try and ask pointed questions sometimes that get met with some hesitancy, but still, I like going to a real place rather more than fucking around with pleasantries.”

It’s an ethos that makes for some great on-air moments. Okine is an observational comic, but one who is happy to leap into his own foibles and embarrassments with ease. Part of his success must stem from his ability to make his act seem so relatable, and given the brace of awards he picked up last year – an ARIA, a Helpmann, the Director’s Choice Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and more – there are many in the industry who agree.

“The comedy awards that are out there, including the ones that I’ve won, nobody knows they fucking exist,” says Okine.

“It’s more an internal thing that lets people within the industry congratulate each other, and celebrate the work we all do, and how we do it; the constant monthly grind of doing twenty shows in a row at a festival, competing against 400 other acts, and making a product that really stands out in that onslaught of content and attention-seeking. That’s

where those awards come in to their own.

The ARIA was the most publicly known award, and funnily enough, the royalty check came in two weeks later and I think it was for around 60 bucks. What it does is make you feel that whatever you’re doing is on the right track. In our industry we’re also living in a world where awards don’t buy you dinner at night. Sometimes you wonder, do you want to be an award-winning comedian that plays for sixteen people in a closet at a fringe festival, or do you want to be a two-star comedian who sells 1500 tickets a night and couldn’t give a fuck except whether the caviar is more than a day old? Thankfully, what I’m doing has been really popular with people and I’ve been able to walk away with some awards, but that’s icing on the cake. Being able to do something that a lot of people are enjoying, that’s the most important thing.”

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has treated Okine quite well in the past – starting with his Best Newcomer Award back in 2012. Peter Helier once remarked the Festival has a very relaxed atmosphere compared to other festivals; not quite so dog-eatdog. You suspect that even if the festival were a cesspool of competitiveness, with comedians sabotaging each other and breaking kneecaps, it’s not like Okine would be naming names. Yet even the friendliest competition is still, well, a competition.

“We’re not competing with each other,” he says. “Really what you’re doing is competing in a market where there is only a limited audience to go to a whole lot of different shows. Everyone does their best to support each other – you drop in to other people’s shows, you’re Tweeting about them, sharing links.

But when there are that many shows at a festival, unfortunately there’s just not enough room at the top of the cup for everything to float. Sometimes you see people who deserve a lot more recognition getting lost within the rubbish. But at the same time, we’re all realistic about it. Daniel Townes told a great story of when he was at a festival once, he had to cancel a show, and when he told another comedian friend about it the guy said, ‘Ah, that’s no good’ – but he could see the sides of his mouth kind of quivering, just desperately wanting to

curl up into a smile. A lot of comics are dark in their thinking. We’ll laugh at a bad situation, and you just know when someone cancels a show how brutal that can feel. We’ve all been there where it’s not going to happen, no one’s turned up, it’s embarrassing as fuck. But at the same time, we’re genetically wired to laugh about it. It’s a really depressing feeling when you ask the ticket person how many sales you’ve had, and they tell you zero. You just … nothing braces you for that moment.”

His eponymous show is now in full swing at this year’s Comedy Festival, and while there are inevitable similarities with work that has gone before, Okine treats this as a very separate episode to prior performances. He’s still the same guy waking up at half past four every morning struggling to feel human, still spinning many different plates, but this is far from a sequel. It’s really just Matt, here and now, trying to make you laugh before collapsing in an exhausted heap.

“I really love making music, and do the odd hip hop gig on the side,” says Okine. “I just did my first DJ gig on Friday. If I’m not doing stuff, I feel really wasteful and lost in my time. Right now, I’m just training myself to use the time between the radio and the nightly gig to sleep. Otherwise, I might die. I got sick a lot last year, and that was from not stopping. It used to be [I would] do the radio, come home, try and make some music in the arvo, go out and do a show, get five hours sleep, do it again.

And after finishing a run of festivals, you instantly start getting emails that say the Sydney Fringe Festival has opened for entries. And it’s like, you just finished the New York Marathon, you’re watching the blood drain out of your sneakers from all the blisters, you’ve barely caught your breath and are still seeing stars, and before you’ve had a chance to grab a water bottle someone says ‘Oi, so when are you trying out for the Olympics?’”

He laughs. “It’s like, ‘Fuck you. Let me chill for a minute, somebody get me a wet towel.’”

MATT OKINE will perform at the Melbourne Town Hall from Wednesday March 30 – Sunday April 17 as part of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

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This Week: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Humour Us: 30 Years of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival arrives as a free exhibition highlighting the moments and comedians that have shaped the festival, from Melbourne’s comedy explosion of the 1980s, up until the present day. Thirty years ago an idea was hatched to create a festival to showcase and celebrate Melbourne’s ground-breaking comedy and cabaret venues and the performers who inhabited them. From its humble beginnings with 56 shows across 33 venues, the Melbourne Comedy Festival has become one of the biggest in the world. The festival has played host to thousands of local and international performers and millions of people have been entertained and inspired by their fearless imaginations in the pursuit of free speech and good times since its inception. The Festival looks back on unforgettable moments comedy lovers have been privy to, some rare and special encounters caught on camera and the things that keep the Melbourne International Comedy Festival so relevant and unique to this very day. It’s running all week at Gallery 1, Arts Centre.

It was called a musical offer that Francis Ford Coppola could not refuse. Indeed, Nino Rota’s score of Coppola’s great film, The Godfather, is just as haunting in memory as the movie itself. Rota was both a prodigy and prodigious composer, penning more than 150 film scores, including Fellini’s La Strada and 8½, and Visconti’s The Leopard and Rocco and his Brothers.

At one stage, Toscanini proclaimed Rota as ‘the Italian Mozart’. Rota’s work is immortalised in The Godfather, with its melancholy and memorable waltz that will go down in the annals of pop culture history. The Godfather in Concert celebrates the iconic film and its music in the best possible way: with a full orchestra playing the soundtrack and the film on the big screen.

It’s an offer you can’t refuse. Catch it at Hamer Hall on Thursday March 31 and Friday April 1.

Danger, risk taking and the seemingly impossible – that’s what’s on the cards for Stunt Lounge.

Witness the future of Australian circus from five talented graduates of the famous Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Classically trained acrobat and director Darcy Grantthey has created an edgy, heart stopping hour of physical skill and daring performance, exploring the complexities of circus and being a young person in a contemporary world. Following on from a stellar sold-out season for the Fruit Flies in 2014, these talented young graduates have advanced through the ranks to the top of their game having trained for up to ten years with the famous national youth circus.

They have performed in numerous productions including acclaimed tours, nationally and overseas, in Control Alt Delete and Circus Under My Bed. It opens at Fairfax Studio with a preview performance on Wednesday March 30 and runs until Saturday April 9.

With James Di Fabrizio. Do you have thoughts, news or time for a chat? Email james@beat.com.au.

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Cirque Adrenaline

Friday April 1 – Thursday April 7 State Theatre

Supanova Pop Culture Expo Friday April 15 – Sunday April 17 Melbourne Showgrounds

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The Shadow Electric Outdoor Cinema Now In Final Weeks

After opening with sold out screenings and continuing on with a season filled with brilliant films, the Shadow Electric Outdoor Cinema is now drawing to a close. While the destination of the cinema for next year’s season is currently under discussion due to pending redevelopments to the Sacred Heart courtyard, the 2016 season still has an impressive five weeks of film lined up. On the bill is likes of Hail, Caesar!, Spotlight and The Big Lebowski, before a special event is set to take place on the final night, featuring music from Wax’o Paradiso in a closing night spectacular that will bring together beats and art in an immersive experience. The finale is going down on Sunday April 10 at the Abbotsford Convent, with films running daily until close.

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Friday June 24 – Sunday September 18 National Gallery of Victoria

An Evening With Henry Rollins

Monday September 19 & Tuesday September 20 State Theatre

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Applications Open For ACMI’s Hothouse Program

ACMI and the Victorian Government have joined forces to create their latest initiative, offering life changing skills for emerging artists passionate about the moving image. The Hothouse program arrives as a week-long intensive course for Victorian students, aiming to nurture creativity and moving image skills.

Ten students will be selected each year and dropped into a fast paced production studio to gain first hand experience, contacts in the industry and career inspiration. The program will take an emphasis on cutting-edge virtual reality production techniques, zeroing in on an emerging creative field. Applications close Friday May 27 and can be submitted via ACMI’s website.

PICK OF THE WEEK Deborah Bruce’s The Distance has been garnering stellar reviews since opening, and the Australian premiere is now entering its final weeks with award-winning actors Nadine Garner (The Weir), Susan Prior (Puberty Blues) and Katrina Milosevic (Wentworth) taking to the stage. Billed as a collision of moral dilemma and comedy, The Distance studies friendships at their breaking point by exploring society’s views on motherhood and the fallout after a woman walks out on her husband and children. Rounding out the Australian cast comes Nathan Page (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Joe Klocek (Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore), Ben Prendergast (Dead Centre/Sea Wall) and Martin Blum (The Season At Sarsaparilla). See it at Southbank Theatre every night this week, bar Sunday.

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In a one night only Melbourne show, Kaleidoscope will showcase the best in cinematic virtual reality and immersive experiences. The Kaleidoscope world tour is a traveling showcase of the best in cinematic virtual reality and immersive experiences. Visiting 10 counties around the world, the event is now making its way to Melbourne. Curating a diverse selection of over 30 virtual reality experiences, Kaleidoscope is bringing together global innovators for an evening of virtual reality demos and discussions. Dedicated Virtual Reality enthusiasts are also able to purchase VIP tickets to gain exclusive access to VR and Vive Demos. Catch it on Tuesday April 12 at the Melbourne Meat Market.

Stargazed Festival Reveals Latest Lineup Melbourne Theatre Company To Present Peddling

The ground-breaking debut play from Harry Potter film star Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) will premiere in Melbourne in April. Told in free form snap-rap, Peddling tells a story of street kids selling goods doorto-door. The one man play starring NIDA graduate Darcy Brown and directed by the award-winning Susie Dee presents an unnamed, disaffected teenager on his journey of self- discovery in contemporary London. Peddling with run from April 21 to May 6 at The Lawler, Southbank Theatre. Tickets available now through the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Shadow Electric have announced the second instalment of Stargazed - their psychedelic, shoegaze and video art festival, bringing with it a new way to experience music and view art. The Shadow Electric stage will be transformed into a full installation, featuring full scale, multi-channel, video art projections and live visuals entwined with dark ethereal sounds delivered by a careful selection of Melbourne’s finest emerging bands. Music on the night will come from the likes of Fierce Mild, The Citradels, Beloved Elk and Masco Sound System. Nine visual artists have been selected to collaborate with the bands, to explore the possibilities that art can take audiences on. Featured artists include Stephanie Peters, Adam Dewhirst, Jutta Pryor and Adele Wilkes. Stargazed Festival will transform Shadow Electric on Saturday April 9. Tickets are on sale through the venue.

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The Spanish Film Festival have announced their 2016 program featuring 32 films and a session of shorts, opening in Melbourne this April. This year’s festival will open with a dose of hilarity, Spanish Affair 2, the sequel to last year’s opening night film. Then after indulging in almost three weeks of film from Spain, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, the festival will close with Ciro Guerra’s cinematic odyssey through the Amazon, Embrace Of The Serpent. Award-winning director Daniel Guzman will be in attendance to present his first long feature, the autobiographical project Nothing In Return. Soccer fans will be treated to a special screening of Barca Dreams, detailing the history of one of the most popular and admired football clubs, FC Barcelona. The film features interviews with Lionel Messi, Pep Guardiola and Johan Cruyff.

Feature selections include Mexican award-winner The Thin Yellow Line, about the journey of five men who become unlikely friends, Chilean drama Much Ado About Nothing straight from the Sundance and Berlinale Film Festivals, and Eva Doesn’t Sleep, an Argentinian film which tells the tale of Eva Perón and the political revolution. The 2016 Spanish Film Festival will take place in Melbourne from Wednesday April 13 until Sunday May 1.

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JEN KIRKMAN

BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

When Beat speaks with Jen Kirkman from her LA apartment, the comedian and author is at war. Not with terrorism, racism, or even herself. Instead, she’s in battle with a new sub-sect of Twitter trolls known as ‘Bernie Bros’ – those that want to make their love of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders known via a continued tirade and abuse of Hillary Clinton.

“It’s just crazy,” says Kirkman. “I love Bernie, and I’ve been quite open about that, but there’s something about the young men that are behind him that really doesn’t sit right. They’re all talking about how they’re not going to vote at all if he’s not the nominee. It’s things like that which are going to lead us to President Trump.”

It might be heady times over on Kirkman’s social media channels, but the woman herself is otherwise in high spirits. Her Netflix special, the R.E.M.-referencing I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), was released last May to some of the best

reviews of her career. Next up is the release of her second memoir, entitled I Know What I’m Doing – And Other Lies I Tell Myself, which also doubles as the title of her newest hour of stand-up that she will tour as a part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival along with one-off shows in Auckland and Sydney.

“My last book [I Can Barely Take Care of Myself] was very specific,” says Kirkman.

“It was a very specific response to a very direct line of questioning that I had faced.

This book is one that I was thinking about the entire time that I was writing the first

one – all this interesting stuff was going on in my life, but I’d specifically [been] contracted to write this book about not having kids. This book is about everything from to divorce to travel, to family to living alone. There’s all kinds of stories. There’s something for everyone in this book.”

Although Kirkman will unfortunately not have time for either book talks or live versions of her solo podcast, I Seem Fun, she hopes to appear on a few other podcasts while she’s here. No doubt many Australians have come to know Kirkman, in particular, from her appearances on

Wil Anderson’s FOFOP – including the episode, famously, where she went toe-totoe with him for three hours straight. The episode was literally titled The Best Episode Of FOFOP Ever.

“I love that so many Australians know me for that,” she laughs. “I’ll have to buy Wil dinner. I think the best part about it is that when I’m on FOFOP, I’m just being myself.

If people like me on that, that means they really do like me.” She also notes that the variety of things she is known for – standup, writing, TV, Twitter and podcasting.

Ultimately, it means there’s always

something to work on. “It keeps the mind going,” says Kirkman. “If you’re only known for one thing, you can easily be forgotten once that thing ends. My plan is to just keep working.”

member. Despite this, Sloss refuses to compromise the integrity of his material in the face of those who might be caught offside by it. “I have one atheist joke which when I told in Indianapolis, a man semithreatened me with a gun. I did get warned by my agent not to do that joke in that part of the country – don’t press that button.

And I was like, ‘I’ll fucking press the button, what’s the worst that can happen?’.

The joke is a very valid argument that there may not be a God, and I argue that if there was a Jesus, he probably wasn’t white. He was like, ‘Of course he’s white’. And I said, ‘Well, he was born in the Middle East, so that would have been fucking impressive’.”

For this year’s Comedy Festival show, there are several topics up for discussion. “I’ll be talking about God, sex, tampons and death,” says Sloss. “I find it really weird that tampons aren’t free. We’ve got free health care in the UK, but you still have to pay for tampons. I don’t understand how that’s not medical, because you’re

bleeding. That sounds medical to me. You can get Viagra for free, nobody needs fucking Viagra. You can get condoms for free at STI clinics, yet women have to pay for something they have zero fucking control over. It makes no sense.”

Sloss echoes the concerns that have also been raised in Australia. “In the UK they’re taxed as luxury items. A bunch of women took it to the Houses of Parliament a while ago, and they were like, ‘Quick question, the fuck? First of all we’re paying for them,

which we won’t complain about but will eventually because it’s stupid, but can we at least take the luxury tax off ?’ The PM David Cameron, who allegedly fucked a pig, said no. Well David, if they’re luxury items, buy one for your wife’s birthday.”

decide they’re going to let you go out into the world.”

Taking no time at all to step out on stage, the local performer was staring in his very own shows before he finished primary school. “I probably did my first little bit in a school talent show in grade three,” he admits. “I’d just recently seen The Umbilical Brothers Speedmouse on DVD, that’s basically the show that got me into comedy.

“Being an 18 year-old and having just finished year twelve, there’s obviously a bit of material about my genitalia and my mother – my mother’s a big part of the show,” he laughs while reflecting on his own sentence.

“It’s mainly just a sum-up of how I’m feeling and different thoughts that have occurred over the past few months.”

Plucking inspiration from real life pleasures and perils, Blake’s stories are delivered in many forms. A truly audio-visual experience, Ready Since I Was Five will incorporate spoken word, a selection of songs and skits.

“It has stand-up and musical comedy and I do acting as well, so I like the sketch side of things,” he discloses. “During the Fringe Festival, I think the best compliment I received was that it didn’t feel like an hour. I like to have that variety and I enjoy exploring all those different facets of comedy.”

While Blake’s range is evident and impressive, he admits his age is often what draws people’s attention and that it is incredibly gratifying when his audience is able to look past it. “I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘You’re very funny, not only for a young comedian but just a comedian in general’, which is what you need as a young comedian, to get recognised not just for your age but for your talent.”

With an obvious passion for his craft and a sheer desire to perfect it, Blake Everett is in no rush to return to his studies. Opting for a gap year to focus on performing, the up and comer has his family, friends and a budding acting career to support him on his journey

to comedic success. “Mum has always said, ‘Do what you want to do, just go for it’; she comes to nearly all of my gigs,” he states proudly. “She’ll be helping at the door on the night – I’m not paying her, she just wants to be involved. My dad likes it too but he’s a bit more realistic. When I told him he replied, ‘Are you sure? How’s that going to work out for you?’ – but he is quite supportive, he’s even got the poster up on his fridge.”

JEN KIRKMAN will perform I Know What I’m Doing & Other Lies I Tell Myself: Stories From A Life Under Construction at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre from Wednesday March 30 – Wednesday April 6 as part of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

DANIEL SLOSS

BY BEL RYAN

Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss has been making waves on the international circuit since he was 16 years old. With this kind of talent, it’s no surprise he has been a regular and crowd favourite at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for several years now.

“I’ve been coming across since I was 18 or 19, so it’s my seventh or eighth time here,” says Sloss. “I’ve got so many friends that I only see once or twice a year, so it’s good to hang out with everyone. They all take their shows very seriously, whereas because I’ve been doing this show for ages and it’s got some of my favourite stuff, I can hamper everyone else’s shows by dragging them out into the early hours.”

Having started his career in his teenage years, Sloss has a plethora of stories from his time cutting his teeth in the industry.

“I’ve eaten shit so many times,” laughs

Sloss. “Once when I was 17, I was doing a warm-up for a non-comedy TV show.

Every audience member was over the age of 70. The average age of the audience was clinically dead. The majority of my show was about masturbation, and the audience had lost function of their genitalia years ago. It was awful. There was a little lady in the front row who hated me so much, that from her wheelchair picked up her walking stick and tried to beat me off stage. I’ve eaten some proper shit.”

This isn’t the only time Sloss has encountered a less than enthusiastic crowd

DANIEL SLOSS will perform his show Dark at Roxanne from Wednesday March 30 through to Sunday April 17 as part of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

BLAKE EVERETT

BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON

Blake Everett is the youngest solo performer to grace the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival stage. Straight out of high school and into the spotlight, the Melbourne-based 18 year-old is yet to shake off his charming schoolboy ways.

Leaving the final preparation for his show, Ready Since I Was Five, to the very last minute, the young talent is in search of that top grade. “I’ve left it until the final weeks to get it all together because I like that sense of pressure, I feel like it makes me work harder but also keeps it fresh.

“Me and my friend were doing some postering last night and we ended up in a little skate-park in Coburg – that’s where I live,” Blake explains. “We were rehearsing and we got a little bit loud. A guy came out of his house, probably about twenty or thirty metres away, he started yelling, ‘Fuck off ! Get out of here’. I was like, ‘Yeah sorry mate, we’re on our way off ’ and he started sprinting towards me. He got up to me and yelled, ‘This is Coburg!’ – that was his threat to me. I just thought he’d been watching 300 - this is Sparta! He called me a hairy-headed PAGE 24

gorilla and told me to get the fuck out of Australia. I told him I am Australian, to which he responded, ‘No you’re not. You’re from dickland,’” he laughs. “He seemed like the kind of guy that could inhale an entire cigarette in just one go whilst curb stomping your head in. So, that’ll probably end up in the show.”

Clearly sourcing some cracking comical content in the final weeks leading up to his show, Blake ensures audiences that his comedic presence wasn’t immediately apparent and that just like his material, it’s something he’s been developing from a young age. “Five for me is the age where you’re not necessarily ready, but you can start to become ready,” he says. “No one is born ready, you’re pooing your pants all the time and you have to rely on your parents.

I think five is the age where your parents

BLAKE EVERETT will perform Ready Since I Was Five at Verve Studios from Thursday March 31 – Saturday April 9 at part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

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Amy Acker

BY CHRIS MICHAELS

American actress and self-professed “shy girl” Amy Acker will be making an exclusive trip to Australia in April for the Melbourne leg of the Supanova Pop Culture Expo, joined by a host of bigname television and film stars alongside comic book creators and more. The Supanova convention, hosted in six capital cities across Australia until November, will see Acker return to Australia for the first time since her husband and fellow actor James Carpinello became engaged on a Gold Coast beach many years ago. It will also give Acker another chance to spend time with some hardcore fans of her work in Person Of Interest, Angel, Suits and Alias.

“I really can’t think of anything better. It’s nice people saying nice things to you,” she says.

Supanova does have the ability as a conference of attracting the ultra-hardcore fan types, but for Acker it’s never gotten to a point of being unnerving.

“Not negative. I’ve met intense fans before – they quote things from work I have done. It’s nice to make an

impact on someone. It’s exciting [and] I have been very lucky. Most of the shows I have done have all had a strong fan base.”

Acker grew up as a dancer, but an injury became fortuitous when it forced her to look elsewhere for a creative outlet. That outlet became acting, leading her on a path that would see her star in numerous well-

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loved roles.

“I did ballet and dancing, and had knee surgery that stopped me dancing for about nine weeks. Growing up, I had been really shy. I took theatre class and had a wonderful theatre teacher. She wasn’t afraid to try different things, and push us as performers. As I say, I am very shy so it is always nice to have a different character to play than myself.”

These characters have seen Acker work on critically acclaimed and top-rating American television shows, including Alias and Person Of Interest. This year however, Acker has decided on a slightly different approach to her acting methods.

“Apart from a movie in May in Texas, I decided to take this year to be a little picky – to make sure I do something that I am really excited about,” she says.

“I’ve turned down a couple of opportunities. Most of the time as an actor you are just happy to be doing any work.”

Acker is currently starring as Root in Person Of Interest, and continues to guest-star in roles in shows like Con Man and Suits. Attending Supanova in Australia will be Acker’s second time around, and will be with fellow stars including Adrianne Palicki, Burn Gorman, Bonnie Wright (from the Harry Potter films) and Richard Harmon from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Amy Acker will appear at this year’s Supanova Pop Culture Expo alongside Jack Gleeson, Allison Mack and more from Friday April 15 – Sunday April 17 at the Melbourne Showgrounds.

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club guide wednesday march 30

• 3181 THURSDAYS FEAT: HANS DC + DYLAN B + OLLIE HOLMES + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

• CAMPUS THURSDAYS Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: DELTIOD CURVE + THE MILKMAN + BOWANCE + YANI ARSENAKIS + BALTIMORE GUN CLUB Onesixone, Prahran.

8:00pm.

• UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm.

• VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

• WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

FEAT: BOOG$ + JPA + MUSKA + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor.

9:00pm.

• MEN IMITATING MACHINES + CLEVENGER + OLIVE + ADAM LOWE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

9:00pm. $10.00.

• PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

• PHIL GOOD FRIDAYS - FEAT: PHIL K Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

• POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• REVOLVER FRIDAYS & SUCKMUSIC - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + KITI + DOAKES + LUCILLE CROFT + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

• RUFFHOUSE + MONKEE + KYMAERA + INKA + MORE Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• THE DISCO - FEAT: GREG SARA + LUKE MCD + JEN TUTTY + MORE Onesixone, Prahran.

8:00pm.

• UPFRONT FRIDAYS - FEAT: DOWNPAT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

8:30pm. $10.00.

friday april 1

saturday april 2

• #MASHTAG - FEAT: NUGEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• AVALANCHE CREW FEAT: DJ TURF + BEN RYAN Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

• CAN’T SAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• CHEMICAL WARFARE - FEAT: LOUIE CUT + LOOSE CANNON + HEATH MYERS + DAMON WALSH + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 9:00pm. $23.50.

• CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• 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.

• GFR012 - 12 HOURS OF HORSEPOWER - FEAT: DAVE PHAM + DEAN BENSON + SAFARI + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $11.00.

• GROOVE GROUNDS -

• ANDY PADULA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

• AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: LE ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + TOM EVANS + MORE Onesixone, Prahran.

9:00pm. $15.00.

• BELFAST 19 - FEAT: RICHIE RICH + VIRIDIAN + JEFF TYLER Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.

9:00pm. $39.80.

• CHAMPAGNE INTERNET Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

10:30pm.

• CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

• 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.

• IN THE CARRIAGE FEAT: DJ JNETT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

• JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am.

• ARCHIPELAGO Ferdydurke, 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.

• REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DANIELSAN + PLUTONIC LAB Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

thursday march 31

faktory

pulp

• LOOSE JOINTS - FEAT: JOSH P + MIDNIGHT TENDERNESS + GRANT CAMOV + MORE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• NITE FLEIT + BOBBY VIBE POSITIVE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

• PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne.

9:00pm.

• PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00.

• SHOCKONE + COMMAND Q Howler, Brunswick.

8:30pm. $30.00.

• TEKSTEP 24 Moons, Northcote. 11:00pm.

• 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 HOUSE DEFROST FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

• TO MAGAZI (GREEK NIGHT) - FEAT: SPASTA + TO MAGAZI GREEK DJS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm.

• TOMMY’S CLUB - FEAT: SCAT Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• TRIBUTE TO JAYZ Pulp Club, Melbourne. 9:30pm.

• ZONE TEMPEST + KROMAGON + HELLQUIST + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick.

9:00pm. $20.00.

sunday april 3 • ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• BEAUT #3 - FEAT: LUKE AGIUS + BROOKE POWERS + SALVADOR DARLING + MORE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

• BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• CALYPSO OF HOUSE (SECOND BIRTHDAY) Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

• CUSHION SUNDAYS FEAT: COURTNEY MILLS + TOM EVANS + FRAZER ADNAM + MORE Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

• 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.

• LIFE’S A PEACH - FEAT: JAMIE VALE + STAKSI + WARSAWYER Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

• PIKNIC ELECTRONIK FEAT: DUBFIRE + KEVIN SAUNDERSON + THE HACKER + KODE 9 + MORE Federation Square, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. $15.00.

• REVOLVER SUNDAYS FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

7:00am.

• ROOFTOP SUNDAYS - FEAT: KHANH + KEN WALKER + JESUS The Emerson, South Yarra.

12:00pm.

• THE SUNDAY SET FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + SHAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

• TRANSGENRE 2016 - FEAT: ALLISON GALLAGHER + BROOKE POWERS + CALLAN + SIMONA CASTRICUM + MORE Howler, Brunswick.

5:00pm. $10.00.

• WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

monday april 4 • CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON + DYLAN MICHAEL + ROBYN TREASURE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• MONDAY STRUGGLE FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.

• WEEKEND WARRIORS Penny Black, Brunswick.

12:10am.

tuesday april 5 • CARRIAGE 252 - FEAT: SALMON BARRELL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• CUSHION TUESDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

• OASIS TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.

7:00pm.

urban club guide wednesday march 30

friday april 1

• MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: MO • BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ KOLOURS + GEEZY + CAZEAUX O.S.L.O RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ + SKOMES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne 10:00pm.

Cbd. 8:00pm.

• FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE thursday march 31 SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

• MINI COOP + SOLEX + DEX & • MELALUKA + LUKE & LOZ Spotted DEMITRIOS Penny Black, Brunswick.

Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

9:00pm.

• ZII + S.O. CRATES + WALLA C Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $13.00.

electronic - urban - club life

saturday april 2 • GZUTEK Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

• RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• SHORT ORDER SCHEFS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

with james di fabrizio When in doubt, pack some mandarins.

Oneohtrix Point Never Locks In Melbourne Show In the country for this year’s VIVID festival, Oneohtrix Point Never is set to take the stage for an exclusive sideshow in Melbourne. Oneohtrix Point Never is musician, composer and producer Daniel Lopatin. Active under the moniker since 2007, Lopatin has released numerous EPs and albums, the most recent being 2015’s Garden of Delete. His discography has grown to include pieces commissioned by museums and festivals, as well as film scores and production credits. It all goes down on Wednesday June 1 at Max Watt’s.

Ocdantar Set For EP Launch Ocdantar has announced he will launch his Time In Flux EP with a hometown show, this May. Following his work as the frontman and producer of Rat & Co and bassist in Melbourne rock band Smile, Ocdantar is Joshua Delaney’s solo electronic project.

Time In Flux marks his first official release using the musical alter-ego. The record was mixed and mastered by fellow Melbourne producer Andrei Eremin.

Octdantar will launch the EP at the Gasometer on Saturday May 7.

Dylan Joel Locks In Melbourne Show Rising hip hop star Dylan Joel will jump on tour throughout May and June, hitting up his hometown along the way. Featuring much loved picks from his 2015 debut album, Authentic Lemonade, plus a slew of new and unheard tracks, the tour will be Joels’ second headline effort to date. Quickly becoming one of the most exciting up-and-coming hip hop acts in the country, the past year has seen Joel keep himself extremely busy, including supporting the likes of Australian hip hop legends, Seth Sentry and Illy, all while his album was receiving widespread acclaim. Dylan Joels’ Still Sippin’ tour will hit up Melbourne’s Prince Bandroom on Saturday June 18.

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The Onyas

The murlocs S T R E A M O F C O N S C I O U S N E SS

2 5 y ea r s s t r ong B Y PAT R I C K E M E RY

B Y PAT R I C K E M E RY

In 1996 The Onyas found themselves with the poisoned chalice of punk rock: a support slot on the legendary Sex Pistols’ Australian tour. According to rumour, The Onyas declined the opportunity to meet Johnny Lydon, Matlock, Jones and Cook, preferring to hoe into the Pistols’ backstage culinary fare instead. “Glen Matlock said hello. Paul Cook smiled and Johnny Lydon said ‘Where is the fuckin’ toilet?’ They had many packets of Marlboro cigarettes and yes, we ate the food,” recalls Onyas guitarist John ‘Mad Macka’ McKeering.

Midway through my discussion with Ambrose KennySmith, lead singer, harmonica player and songwriter with The Murlocs, the conversation veers into a discussion of the deviant behaviour of serial killers. Kenny-Smith’s interest in serial killer documentaries inspired the lyrics to Wolf Creep on The Murlocs’ new album Young Blindness; my own Adelaide background leads me to give a brief history of Adelaide’s notorious ‘Family’ serial killings in the early 1980s. I ask him if The Murlocs have ventured to Adelaide.

Bass player Richard Stanley’s recollections are similarly enigmatic. “I looked at John standing there looking bored in a dressing room swinging a bottle of water and thought maybe I should go say hi, but then I thought ‘What would that prove?’ and kept going,” Stanley says. But someone in the band’s entourage was impressed. “Our parents came and loved it,” Stanley says.

“Dad said, ‘That Mr Rotten is fabulous’.”

The Onyas – McKeering, Stanley and younger brother Jordan (aka ‘Jaws’) – formed in Brisbane in the early 1990s.

All three grew up in the notorious Bjelke-Petersen era, when, for Brisbane residents, rock’n’roll was genuinely a form of social resistance. While McKeering recalls growing up in Brisbane as being “reasonably protected and quite mild,” for the Stanley brothers adolescent life was standard suburban fare. “Jaws and I grew up in the western suburbs, hung out at Indooroopilly Shoppingtown and went skating at the Jindalee bowl,” says Stanley.

“We watched action movies, played Sega Megadrive, listened to Misfits and Public Enemy and I worked at McDonalds.”

Stanley and Jaws were also both Kiss fans back in the day, a band they unexpectedly count as a pivotal influence: “In 1979 Jaws and I both bought Kiss tapes; he got Rock and Roll Over and I got Dynasty. They were both extremely influential on the Onyas, and the two tapes are quite prophetic when you look at our post-Onyas musical output.”

More surprising, however, is Stanley’s teenage fascination with the Rock Steady Crew – the satin-clad breakdance troupe he saw live at Brisbane’s Festival Hall in 1983.

McKeering first crossed paths with Stanley in 1989 through a mutual friend, with the pair trading tapes. “Macka sent me GBH and The Exploited, I sent him Slayer and Metallica,” recalls Stanley.

The Onyas played their first gig at the 1991 Queensland Rock Awards. Given The Onyas’ irreverent attitude, it’s not so surprising that no-one in the band seems to have had any specific aspirations or role models. “I just wanted to be a mad cunt and annoy everyone,” says Stanley. “I liked the way Ray Ahn played bass a lot, but I never wanted to play like him.” McKeering, on the other, hand recalls the attitudes local venues had towards the band as diffident at best. “They hated our smart-arses.”

The Onyas’ first release was a seven-song collection of demos released in 1991, titled Bracks CS. A chance meeting with Bruce Milne saw The Onyas release a 7” single (Beergut b/w Run Amok!) on Milne’s AuGo-Go Records and, a few years later, a full-length album, Get Shitfaced With the Onyas.

“We’ve had this weird curse with Adelaide,” Kenny-Smith says. “The first time was alright, the second time our friend who we’d brought along to drive had lost his X1000 video camera along with the keys to the rental car, so the next day we had to fork out for a new car, and long story short we lost all the tour money. And the next time we played, which was on our last tour, the bass player had an allergic reaction and we had to play as a four-piece. So Adelaide’s been interesting.”

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The titles of The Onyas songs – Beergut, Live for Rejection, Hit You Up the Guts, Shut Your Mouth, Get that Shit Out of Your Face, Real Tight Arse, Clean Enough to Eat Off, How Old’s Your Sister, Drunk, Fat’n’Ugly, I’m Not Your Mate – are indicative of the band’s garage punk shtick, a shambolic collage of alcoholic excess, smutty humour and a nihilistic attitude. “About half of our songs are autobiographical,” McKeering says. “And the other half are about Jaws,” adds Stanley.

The Onyas could never be accused of pretension: the band’s propensity for alcoholic consumption was legendary, though not always without negative consequences. At one infamous gig, The Onyas were playing at the Esplanade Hotel when Stanley, fueled by liberal consumption of spirits backstage, became so inebriated that he barely lasted a song before passing out (Cosmic Psychos drummer Bill Walsh jumped onstage as Stanley lay semicomatose on the ground and declared it ‘the best gig ever’). “I have one flash of memory, looking down at my freshly dislocated knee,” Stanley remembers. “Rich used to say in the mid to late 1990s: ‘You can do anything and call it art’,” McKeering laughs.

Like so many other Australian punk rock bands, The Onyas’ overseas reputation often dwarfed its local reception. “Even the shit experiences were unreal because we were touring overseas,” Stanley says. “Musically, maybe [European audiences] did love it.

They may have understood what we were saying but I didn’t,” McKeering says.

A combination of extra-curricular activities, Stanley’s health issues and other band commitments saw The Onyas gradually wind back their live appearances about 10 years ago. “There was never really a deliberate decision to stop playing,” McKeering says. “Actually, there was never really a deliberate decision to do anything, beyond doing things that were over the top.” Now, 25 years after their first gig comes the band’s 25th anniversary show at the Tote Hotel. It’s been a bruising, shabby and fraught ride for The Onyas, but they’re still here, as tough, uncompromising and opinionated as ever. “I think if there’s one song that sums up The Onyas, it’s Hit You Up the Guts,” McKeering says. “Nah, I reckon it’s Shaddap You Face,” counters Stanley.

See THE ONYAS celebrate their 25th birthday on Friday April 1 at The Tote.

Swashbuckling Hobo records will be rereleasing Get Shitfaced With The Onyas and Six! on vinyl.

The Murlocs’ experience over the last couple of years has been a mixture of progress and delay. In early 2015 the band entered the studio with Stu McKenzie (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard) to record its second album. But despite recording the songs in a single week, it took over a year for the album to finally be released, the runaway success of King Gizzard (with whom Kenny-Smith and Murlocs guitarist Cook Craig also play) a logistical obstacle.

That said, according to Kenny-Smith The

TYRANNAMEN IN GOOD TIME

BY CHRIS SCOTT

After a five-year wait, the self-titled debut album from Melbourne’s Tyrannamen plays more like a greatest hits compilation than an opening statement. The raucous and ragged thump of You Should Leave Him has long been enrapturing audiences. So too the soaring group vocals on Ice Age – time and time again seizing and elevating crowds at will.

While Tyrannamen shows are few and far between – the product of its members playing in a host of other bands including The Stevens, Twerps, Whipper and Deep Heat – Tyrannamen have built a formidable reputation as a blistering live act, one embodying the visceral nature of rock’n’roll.

It’s the very reason the band formed, says frontman Nic Imfeld – to entertain the masses, and to be memorable for the right reasons. Which is why making the B E AT.C O M . A U

transition from the stage to the studio took some convincing.

“Well, that was pretty intentional; starting to play that long ago and just keeping it as a live thing. It took me a long time to come around to doing the idea of an album. It was just fully intended to be a live thing, and a rare live thing at that. It’s pretty good now, I’m glad that we’ve done it.

“It’s been going for five years, so eventually Bradford from Cool Death came to me and

Murlocs are gradually becoming more pragmatic with their attitude towards recording and mixing. “I think The Murlocs have become pretty formulated without meaning to,” Kenny-Smith says. “Most of the time Cal [Shortal] or I will come up with ideas and then flesh it out with the rest of the dudes. With this record a few of the songs were more so mine, coming up with them on guitar and bringing it to the rest of the guys. But most of the time it kind of comes out in a similar vibe to what we’ve always done. There’s not really a huge concept in the music, more so in the lyrics.

“Now and again, especially when we go away with Gizzard, I used to try and write something everyday, whatever, stream of consciousness sort of thing. But more and more so I just try to get a melody going on the guitar and then figure out the words later.”

The end result is an album that more accurately captures The Murlocs’ sound and influences, says Kenny-Smith. “The first EP was a bit hit and miss, but we got more of what we should’ve sounded like in the second one. We aspired to that garage ‘60s type of sound, but we also tried to get this soulful vibe going, and we also like a lot of punk music too, so it kind of gets thrown in the middle somewhere. Most of the time I like to keep it pretty in your face, but my voice can come across too squealing, pinching, something like that. I like to find as warm sound as we can, but also keeping it scruffy.”

After their forthcoming national album launch tour, The Murlocs will head over to the United States to play the Levitation Festival in Austin, Texas. While a great chance to strut their stuff in the US, so too will it be an opportunity to push these fresh songs into new sonic spaces. “We sit on songs for a bit too long sometimes, and we don’t really question our material until after we’ve been playing it for quite a while.

That’s probably where we lack the most – we’re happy with the first product, and then much further down the track we realise it has to change, for the better.”

THE MURLOCS will be hitting up The Tote on Friday April 8 and the Curtin Bandroom on Saturday April 9 in support of Young Blindness, out now via Flightless/Remote Control. spoke about wanting to do an album. He just wanted to do it because he wanted to have an album, you know? He wanted to have it at home. I just figured I should fuckin’ pull my head out my arse. If someone wants the songs and they’ve been around for that long, it probably means a bit more to other people than it does to me now, or to the band. So why deprive somebody of that?”

Tyrannamen write songs that crescendo with booming choruses. Whether taking aim at jolting, melodically-entwined punk (Retain A Man), or immersed in the immediacy of boisterous rock (My Concrete), there always exists a pay-off; a ‘fuck yes’ moment that endears the shouting of lyrics and a requisite first pump.

“I really like when you’re watching a band and you’re really digging a song, and then it goes in the exact direction that you want it to – I really wanted to do that. Cause it sucks the other way round, if you listen to a song and you’re diggin’ it and then they stick in some stinkin’ chord and it fuckin’ sucks.

So I wanted to do the opposite of that. I wanted people to know it.”

A month after the album’s release, Tyrannamen were back doing what they do best – punching out a pulsating live set, led by their buoyant frontman. This time around however, they performed to thousands of people at Golden Plains. “It was awesome man. Like I’ve never been there before.

I’d never really seen what the whole thing looks like. That’s kind of what I was most excited about, just sort of seein’ it,” raves Imfeld. “But it was wild to play there, and we had some good friends with us and our drummer’s dad was there backstage with us, getting us all g’d up, givin’ us massages and shit. It was so fun. And there’s just good vibes there. It was a pretty decent lineup as well, so that obviously didn’t suck either.

Got to see some great bands.”

TYRANNAMEN are playing The Tote on Saturday April 2. Their self-titled debut album is out now on Cool Death Records.

THE GODFATHER LIVE IN CONCERT

W it h F i r s t V io l in Sa r a h C u r r o

B y R yan N a j e l s k i

As both Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first violinist Sarah Curro and scores of others would agree, the way a film’s opening can immediately transport you to another planet or era is powerful stuff. Nino Rota’s score for The Godfather is undoubtedly one of the most famous pieces in both film and pop culture history, and his work also extends to some of Italy’s biggest films, including the Scorsese favourite, The Leopard and Fellini’s 8 ½. It’s unsurprising then, that his score will act as much of a drawcard for the MSO’s latest live-scoring film event as the iconic film from which it comes from.

“It’s almost impossible to watch just one scene of The Godfather, it sucks you in until the end credits every time,” says Curro.

“I thought I’d press record and watch it another time, and I sat down and thought, ‘I’ll just watch five minutes of it,’ but I couldn’t stop watching it.”

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are considered trailblazers in bringing contemporary programming to culture vultures and fans of orchestral music alike.

Many cities feature a famous orchestra, but not many are pushing for more interesting programming, or looking to find new audiences to experience a performance. For many, the MSO performing a blockbuster film score, or collaborating with Detroit techno DJs is a gateway to punters seeing an orchestra for the first time. Along with the film score performances, the MSO have recently treated techno fans to an evening with Jeff Mills and Derrick May at Sidney

Myer Music Bowl. It’s clear this type of programming is important to Curro and many of her fellow players.

However, Curro sees The Godfather Live in Concert rather differently to some of the other film performances the MSO have taken on in the past. While scores from The Lord Of The Rings and Indiana Jones are riveting to watch, with brilliant scores in their own right, it’s the way Rota uses silence to such chilling and dramatic effect that sets his score apart. In other words, it’s the space between notes that gives Coppola’s actors even greater screen presence.

“There’s really not much music, which is amazing for a film score,” agrees Curro.

“The way [Rota] has written the music for The Godfather is very sparse, so for us it’s going to be quite different when compared The Lord Of The Rings.”

Nino Rota was once described by Italian

conductor Toscanini – one of the most acclaimed musicians of the 20th century – as ‘the Italian Mozart’. His compositional credentials are second to none. It’s just another reason why The Godfather is ripe for an MSO collaboration.

“Film composition is the same as European classical music,” Corro explains. “People think that film composers stole from the style and traditions of classical music, but the truth is all classical composers stole

from each other back then. In fact, it was a flattering thing to steal from others.

And it wasn’t even called stealing. It was paying homage to Beethoven or Schubert or whoever. People like John Williams and Nino Rota did the same – they learnt every style over the 300 years of the different classical periods and converted that to music that enhances a film – and that is exactly the same as opera of the 19th century. You’ve got a stage, you’ve got

costumes and you’ve got a set. It’s a very old fashioned thing, the only difference now is that there’s a screen.”

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will perform THE GODFATHER: LIVE IN CONCERT at Hamer Hall on Thursday March 31 and Friday April 1.

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MAYFAIR KYTES DIMENSIONS OF SOUND

by ADAM NORRIS

Mayfair Kytes’ Matt Kelly is in fine spirits for someone coming down with the plague (he insists it’s just a bit of a cold, and he’s drowning himself in garlic to combat it, but we at Beat know better). The experimental folkpop foursome’s debut album, Animus, is on the verge of being released after a year of planning and production, the record a labour of love. Yet watching the film clip for first single, Sleepyhead, is quite an unsettling experience.

Between a stocking-clad head ripe with weird tumours, the shaggy black and white monster lurching around, and the overarching eerie harmonies and guitar lines, it’s an immensely surreal clip.

“It was a concept by the director, Tom Russel,” says Kelly. “He pretty much listened to the song, ran with it, and made this cool version of what he interpreted.

He definitely got that ghostly, haunting element. It’s a bit abstract and not exact, so you can leave it to your own conclusion. I don’t think film clips should be too literal.

That can kind of ruin it a little. I think Tom picked up on the right themes and vibes, and that’s why it works so well. I think if you start trying to show the direct narrative of the lyrics in the film, it can work sometimes, I guess, but a lot of times it doesn’t. I think it works well as poetry, maybe not so well as a short film.”

Creating the right vibe – that elusive sense of atmosphere and depth – is crucial for any album, but for Kelly the process was much more intensive. A range of different elements had to be balanced, from the songs themselves, to production, to the very locations in which they would be recorded.

To that end, the band were fortunate to source a converted chapel outside of Melbourne that provided the right kind of ambience and atmosphere.

“You can actually hear the dimensions in the space that give the record a certain vibe.

If you do one part in the chapel and one part in a small hallway, you combine the two and you’re also hearing the room. You’re not just hearing what’s being captured. That can make music very visual, I feel. There was such a vibe there. When we did the strings in the chapel, I felt like the air was crackling.

It was so beautiful. It wouldn’t have been as enjoyable if we just did it in a normal room and chucked a reverb on afterwards.

Apart from maybe a little bit of treatment, we didn’t add anything to the string sounds.

What we heard is pretty much the sound you hear on the record.”

These strings are provided by the everengaging Melbourne Ska Orchestra, though Simon Mavin and Paul Bender from Hiatus Kayote also stepped in as guests on production and synths. Animus proves to be a multi-coloured blend of artistic vision and talent, an experience Kelly encourages: “I love the different marriages you can find in collaboration.” While the Sleepyhead single BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30

does give some sense of the palette the band is working from, it is also Kelly’s hope that it demonstrate the springboard from which they will continue to push their sound.

“Sleepyhead is definitely a vehicle into [the album], but it’s also just the tip of the iceberg of what we can do musically. This whole project was more about forming that bond and relationship as a band, getting through the thought process of working on who we are, what we are. I feel like that across all the songs on this record, in that everything I’ll do with this project further along, the sky’s the limit. All my songs speak of things from a heavy place, but there’s always an option for making some kind of resolution. It’s never just, ‘Yep, things are bad.’ It’s more, ‘Here’s the problem, and here’s what we need to do’.”

Kelly has previously described the song in philosophic terms, suggesting it speaks of the road to self-discovery clashing with the pragmatic aspects of life. It is a sentiment you can’t help but wonder may be born of his own personal struggles.

“It’s difficult when you’re in a very saturated industry, and if you look at it in terms of odds, then maybe it’s not so promising.

But I have to separate that, because I’m an artist first, and I have been for as far as my memory goes back. I’ve always been interested in making music, and I’ve built my life around that. I have to find a way to have that in my life to complete my sense of purpose, and the trick is then, how do I sustain that? Making a very experimental album probably isn’t going to help,” he laughs. “But then, it’s not overly crazy. It’s not way out there, but it also isn’t straightup pop. But at least I got to live out the dream of getting an album done. From when I started to when I finished, I always knew I wasn’t going to stop until it was done. And the only thing I can do after that is get the live show good so that we can tour it. To really make something of it and keep moving.”

MAYFAIR KYTES will launch Animus on Friday April 8 at The Worker’s Club, following its release on Friday April 1.

Lennon and McCartney, Richards and Jagger, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – throughout history select musical duos have embodied a special chemistry. New York-based act Ms Mr vocalist Lizzy Plapinger and producer Max Hershenow are another fine example of this rare occurrence. After meeting at the renowned Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, the pair became fast friends and have become virtually inseparable ever since. “It must have been fate that caused Max and me to stumble into each other’s lives,” says Plapinger. “We’re lucky to have the relationship that we do – we definitely keep each other in check.”

Their debut single Hurricane propelled the two pals onto the world stage in 2012, thanks to its unforgettably haunting melody, and made way for the release of their first LP, Secondhand Rapture in 2013. Featuring tracks like Bones and Dark Doo Wop, this ambitious record cemented Ms Mr’s growing reputation as one of the breakout acts of the year.

“I think one of the reasons that we had the success and received the attention we did is because we both hadn’t made any music before Secondhand Rapture – so what people

were hearing was the rawest, most visceral and emotional version of music that we could possibly make,” Plapinger explains. “It was really us lyrically bleeding in your ears.”

Ms Mr spent the next couple of years touring the world with frequent visits to Australia, a place they call their “home away from home.” “The first time we played Splendour was honestly one of the best nights of my entire life,” Plapinger says. “So when we were asked to do it a second time I was pretty emotional and excited and it was such a spectacular evening.

ELLIPHANT NEVER STANDING STILL B Y E M I LY G I B B

Ellinor Olovsdotter, aka Elliphant, is speaking to me from her apartment on a foggy night in Sweden, feeling a little under the weather. It’s probably her first reprieve in a long time, the last two years spent touring the world, all the while writing her second studio album, Living Life Golden. The new album, which features collaborations with Major Lazer, Joel Little, Skrillex and Azealia Banks, is a release marked with an inherently international and musically diverse flavour.

“It’s been kind of really finished for almost two years and this is a good collection of songs and all what I like. I’ve been selecting stuff for EPs and so probably 70 per cent of the album is actually two-year-old songs, it’s just a couple of songs that have popped in the last year. Everything that’s been happening, it’s a whole new life of touring the whole world and [it] has to do with that album.”

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merely 25 years of age – Elliphant has gone from strength to strength, her rise to international stardom imminent. From our conversation, it’s easy to see why she’s attracted such a high calibre of collaborator and producer: an effortlessly cool nature, easy confidence and decidedly husky voice take little convincing, all of which are manifested in Living Life Golden.

The variation of those involved sees bursts of reggae, EDM, dub and pop littered throughout the record. The combination

“What made it even better was that Tame Impala were headlining, so they played at the end of the night. To see them playing the festival that they grew up going to, in front of all their hometown fans, was so inspiring. I know their records intimately, so it was amazing – watching them is my favourite memory from last time we were in Australia.”

This time around Plapinger and Hershenow will weave their magic at Groovin the Moo. It will be the first time that Australian audiences have the chance to hear their latest LP How Does It Feel up close and personal. “What we learnt after the release of Secondhand Rapture was that people who listened to our music expected us to be quite different in person, because our first album was rather dark and gloomy. Then they’d meet Max and me, and we’re very bubbly, upbeat people – and there was a disconnect.

So on this next one [How Does It Feel] we really wanted to marry the two worlds and create a rounder image and perspective of where we were in our lives, and who we were as people – and I think we did find a little bit more of a balance this time.”

As a co-founder of Neon Gold Records – the label instrumental in Gotye’s US success –Plapinger is also involved in the running of popular club nights in NYC, London and LA, and responsible for producing approximately 100 events a year, in addition to their flagship annual showcases at SXSW, CMJ and The Great Escape Festival, all of which gives Plapinger a unique insight into what festivalgoers really want. “We go to so many festivals and we hear our favourite bands all the time, so we know what it’s like.

You want to hear the new songs, but I know you also want to hear the songs that you’ve grown accustomed to and that are close to your heart. So we would never deprive people of the songs that we know that they want to hear. We’re always thinking about it from the fans’ perspective.”

MS MR will be gracing the Prince Bandroom on Friday April 29, and taking part in Groovin the Moo on Saturday April 30 at the Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo. How Does It Feel is out now through Sony Music. may seem pretty frantic but the result is a strong mix of warm, catchy, anthemic tracks – the lack of a definitive direction only adding a mystique and vibrancy to the tracklist. “It is very changeable and it is all over the place. It’s like a shuffle generation album,” she laughs. “I think if you don’t have an idea of what you want to do, then you’re open to everything and you’re going to have a lot to do because there’s so much out there.

I understand that some artists don’t want to do that but I don’t know what I want.”

Lyrics, however, are something that she approaches conscientiously. “I talk very stupidly but I’ve always had a really good way of writing, I just really love writing.

Right now I’m writing an amazing, realistic children’s book that I’m so excited about.”

While explaining the meaning behind her lyrical content Elliphant illustrates a keen intellect and thoughtfulness. I get the feeling that recent chatter over the simplicity of suggestive lyrics on single Spoon Me is, in part, spurring her on. “Because Elliphant became something very easy going, very strong, also kind of political, very feministic but still not so uptight... I just felt that I needed to find a language in Elliphant that was universal, that everybody could understand. I’d rather have a lot of people understanding the music than have a couple of people. I use a very simple language when I write. I just hope it’s clear and that it gives people some positive strength and emotions, good feelings, you know?”

Although her time at home is brief, Elliphant tells me that she’s reflecting on what’s ahead. “I want to see what songs people feel they’ve connected to. I feel like I need to just stand, chill after this big rush and just really reconnect with all these amazing musicians, people and contacts that I haven’t really been able to nurture yet, you know? I need to just take some control back and really try to make an amazing third album and, you know, that’s all. I just want to hang out with cool people and make cool songs and live the life.”

ELLIPHANT’S Living Life Golden is out now through Sony Music.

SHERIFF PREDICT THE UNPREDICTABLE

BY STEVE WILLIAMS

Sheriff are Melbourne’s answer to southern psyche, gritty blues and rampaging rock’n’roll. Since their 2009 inception the three-piece have played hundreds of gigs, cementing a reputation for chaos and destruction. While in 2012 they released their debut self-titled EP, followed by 2013’s electrifying Roughhouse Hymns EP, and last year’s wild single The Ghosts Of Saturday Night. Time and time again they have proven themselves a force to be reckoned in the local scene and beyond. At the forefront of their success is reckless and rowdy singer/lead guitarist, Tom Watson. It’s a role that he doesn’t take too seriously.

Here in lies the the band’s gripping unpredictability.

CALIGULA’S HORSE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PROGRESSIVE B Y K AT E E A R D L E Y

First and foremost, who are we speaking to and what is your role in Caligula’s Horse?

Hey. Jim here, lead vocalist.

You guys will be tearing down the stage at Ding Dong Lounge next week as part of your extensive Turntail Tour. What do you expect the atmosphere of the set will be like?

Melbourne is always crazy. It’s like our second home. We’ve picked out a setlist of our favourites, and we’re sharing a stage with Chaos Divine and your very own homegrown Melburnians Enlight, so this show is going to be packed out and physical.

Your 2015 release Bloom has been described as “the perfect mission statement for an act blurring the line between power and reflection.” Why is it so important to fuse these two elements in order to craft innovative prog rock?

For a couple of reasons - for starters, modern prog music, especially prog metal, seems to be fairly bogged down in not only the same sort of sound productionwise, but the same sort of songwriting, which to me isn’t what progressive music is about at all. So when we were writing Bloom we wanted something with not only light and shade, but a whole spectrum of colour, a total journey from beginning to end. Even more simply, this is just who we are, really. We’re all about that blending of emotional honesty and storytelling, so the mood of the music is really a reflection of who we are and what we have to say.

Heaps of modern musicians are trying their hand at melding together genres to create a sound that is unique and fresh. Would you agree that we’re living in a transformative time for music, and, is this approach the only way for contemporary artists to stand out these days?

I think this is something that’s been happening for a long time. There have always been artists pushing boundaries, blending styles, and creating new directions, but we’re fortunate enough to be living in a time when the world has

developed a taste for that music [and] sounds from left of centre. Heaps of people out there are going to the effort of seeking out new sounds, seeking out new and developing artists and doing their best to support them, for which we’re hugely grateful. Of course, that’s a double-edged sword. You have to stand out to be heard above the crowd, but the number of people looking means more and more original voices are being heard, so I think it’s a great time for new and innovative music right now.

You guys have shared the stage with some killer outfits of the metal and rock’n’roll world, namely, Opeth, Tesseract, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Twelve Foot Ninja. Have you learnt any invaluable lessons from these music greats?

Totally, you always walk away with something. Whether you’re just starting out and playing alongside your mates bands, or lucky enough to share a stage with your musical heroes, you always learn something about stagecraft or performance by watching these other artists do their thing. We’ve had such a great couple of years for that, so many opportunities to play with incredible bands. I know I’ve learned a lot, a lot of things I can apply to my own performance or my approach to make me a better vocalist.

What’s in the cards for you guys in the coming year? Can fans expect some new material, and if so, can you give us a little teaser about what it might sound like?

We’re definitely keeping busy in 2016 – while this will likely be our last tour for the year, we’ve got our work cut out for us and there’s already some new ideas we’re throwing around that I’m really excited about. All I can say for now is that whatever’s coming, it’ll be big.

CALIGULA’S HORSE are launching their new single at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday April 8. Bloom is out now through Century Media Records.

“We’re happy to be flying the southernpsychedelic-horror-blues-rock flag in VIC,” Watson says, while confessing that they “made up that genre name as a bit of a piss take”. That said, it encapsulates their sound and the many elements that make their live shows so explosive, chaotic and musically enthralling. “It’s just an outlet to blow off some steam,” says Watson. His onstage persona not merely a rock’n’roll fabrication, but rather reflective of Watson’s relaxed, care-free personality. It isn’t difficult to understand how their shows regularly swerve into complete anarchy. Watson has been known to navigate a ceiling fan while sitting on his mates shoulder, rip a mad solo and simultaneously play the Theremin with the head of his guitar. But when you have been taking to the stage day in and day out, stunts like this become the norm and simply the product of putting on a memorable performance.

With the one year anniversary of Sheriff ’s acclaimed 7” single The Ghosts Of Saturday Night quickly approaching, it seems fitting

to enquire about the band’s any upcoming releases. While Watson admits to a few internal hiccups along the way, he assures that the plan is to finally record a full

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punk rock architects B Y B E L R YA N

As A Rival’s Pete Cerni has a lot to be excited about. The Melbourne punk rock outfit’s recently released debut album, By Design, has already been making waves on a national scale. Years in the making, it’s no surprise he’s pumped to showcase the new material with some ripper live shows on their upcoming tour.

“It took about two years,” says the guitarist and vocalist. “Initially we were just going to do an EP. Then we were looking at different people to mix it and be a part of it. We happened to email Adam Kasper and he was really keen.” For those not in the know, Kasper has previously produced records for industry giants such as Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age and Soundgarden.

“After that we thought well, we can’t just do an EP. So we just started writing. The first year was sorting that out and making sure W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U

we had good, strong songs. Then last year was recording and fitting that in between working and getting other people involved.

So in the long run it was two years, but it was worth it. It’s the first time I’ve ever done an album. It was good, but it was different.”

Kasper wasn’t the only big name responsible for transforming By Design from a pipe dream into a realised work. The album was recorded by Bodyjar’s Tom Read, with fellow bandmates Shane Wakker and

length album. “The album is written, we know who we are recording it with. It’s Cam Trewin, who recorded our last EP and 7”.” Though no specific time has been set for the anticipated release, when Watson discusses their plans an impassioned sense of devotion and drive can be heard, both of which point to an album that is set to impress.

You will get a chance to see Sheriff at this year’s Wallapalooza Fest on a massive bill comprised of other scintillating live acts such as Electric Mary, The Mercy Kills, and Watson’s personal pick of the event, Dallas Frasca. As expected, Watson anticipates the show to feature their usual blend of madness and wild musicianship, while hinting that they have a few hidden surprises in store for the lucky crowd. “We’re planning to just get extra weird,” he says. “Josh who plays drums for Frasca, is a monster, maybe we’ll get him up to do some percussion or something.”

Aside from that, Watson doesn’t elaborate any further, other than adding with a cheeky grin and mischievous tone: “[We will be] allowing people onstage to get loose.” When it comes to the rock’n’roll, in all its intensity and ferociousness, Sheriff deliver on every front.

SHERIFF will be taking part in Wallapalooza Festival at The Corner Hotel on Saturday April 16.

Grant Relf laying down the drums and bass respectively. Though this isn’t the first time Cerni has worked with the boys.

“We have a side project called Burn The City. That’s a story in itself. I got fired from my job and I knew this guy who did design stuff. So I texted him and he said to give this other guy a call, he’ll sort you out. So I called this number, thinking it was an interview for a job and it turned out it was Tom from Bodyjar, replacing someone in the band. So that’s how it started. When the demos for the album were all done, I sent them to Tom for some feedback and he was immediately like ‘I wanna do it. I wanna record it.’ So that was awesome.

He’s my mate, but he doesn’t understand I grew up listening to Bodyjar, so it was cool.

It meant a lot that they got involved. Tom was really good to work with, it was really fun. And Wakker’s a top bloke and really professional.”

For live shows and touring, Cerni is joined onstage by bassist Kylie Groth and drummer Nathan Wheatley. “We started recording but I knew I was going to need a live lineup. I knew Kylie from some other bands and her old project fell through, so she put her hand up straight away. And then she knew Nathan. The lineup as it is has been around since June 2015, but you wouldn’t even know. They’ve come on board and smashed it. We’ve actually got a new guitarist for the tour too. It’s early days but he’s been a part of it for three weeks now.

He’s a bit younger and really fresh and keen.

“It’s the first tour for us together with the new lineup. It’ll be a big moment to play the show at Cherry Bar and hit that hard.

I’m excited to play other places. After this tour wraps up we’d love to tour again and maybe bring out something on vinyl, and do a second single or something. I’d love to play overseas, Japan would be awesome.

That’s a bucket list thing. I don’t even care if I play to no one.”

AS A RIVAL are launching their album at Cherry Bar on Saturday April 2. By Design is available now.

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Sydney’s With Confidence are having a banger of a year and are about to kick off their first headlining tour of the country in over a year. They’re arriving in Melbourne in April to play Arrow On Swanston with Set The Score to an all-ages audience. The band started 2016 by signing with pop punk powerhouse label, Hopeless Records.

Fear Like Us are back and will release a long-awaited second LP Succour via Poison City Records this May. They’ll tour nationally in support of the album too, with special guests Run Squirrel. See them in Melbourne at The Reverence Hotel on Saturday May 28. Tickets will be available at the door.

It’s been revealed this week that Thursday will reform to play together once more in 2016. The post-hardcore legends will play their first show in about five years at the upcoming Wrecking Ball Festival in the USA, which also boasts headliners like The Bouncing Souls, L7 and NOFX. The band’s lineup includes Geoff Rickly, Tucker Rule, Tom Keeley, Steve Pedula, Tim Payne and Andrew Everding. Australia next please.

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Off With Their Heads are currently in the country touring with The Bennies, but they’ll play a one-off headlining show at The Reverence on Wednesday March 30 with locals Foxtrot, Del Lago and Max Goes To Hollywood. Don’t miss this kickarse chance to see a big ol’ international at a wee lil venue this week. Tickets will be available at the door for just $15.

Laura Jane Grace has had an incredibly turbulent couple of years lately so it’s not exactly surprising that she plans on releasing a memoir this year. Tranny: Confessions Of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout will come out in November. The writing is co-credited to Noisey columnist Dan Ozzi so should see a sharp and biting sense of satire mixed in with what will be some serious reflections on Grace’s transition.

country, scoring an add to FBi and support from numerous triple j presenters. You can catch them at the John Curtin Hotel on Friday May 13.

KAT O SOLO

METAL, HEAVY ROCK. CLASSIC ROCK LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOOD SHIT

Kat O from Kill TV is playing her punk songs with just her voice and acoustic guitar on Tuesday April 5 at the Prince Public Bar for the Taste of Indie Songwriter Sessions.

The music starts at 7.30pm and entry is free.

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Filter will release their seventh full-length album, Crazy Eyes, on Wind-up Records/ Caroline Australia on Friday April 8.

Rather than partner with a producer, Filter mastermind Richard Patrick took the reins and oversaw production himself.

“You recognise it’s us from my aggression and singing, but the instrumentation had to change,” he says. “It wasn’t about just stacking guitars like we might’ve done on the last couple records. There are way more electronics and sound design.”

CAMP COPE ALBUM LAUNCH

Melbourne’s Camp Cope are set to release their self-titled album on Friday April 22 via Poison Records, and will hit the road for a five-date tour in May in support. Their latest single Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams has fast become a favourite around the

Wondering what Warped Tour is up to lately? The long running US festival just announced its lineup and massive list of US tour dates. Bands on the bill this summer include Masked Intruder, Falling In Reverse, Yellowcard, Sum 41, Teenage Bottlerocket, Less Than Jake, Good Charlotte, New Found Glory, The Interrupters, Reel Big Fish and more.

a video for Dark Light Child, and guitarist and main composer Michael Amott says, “I’ve had the music for this song a couple of years already, but we started jamming it again recently and everything fell into place when Per (Wiberg, keys) helped me finish it up with a great lyric and vocal arrangement.”

PRIMAL FEAR NAME LOCAL SUPPORTS

NEW SPIRITUAL BEGGARS OUT NOW

Touring Australia for the very first time in their distinguished and illustrious career, Primal Fear have one single mission on hand: perform the best show they can ever perform for Australia. Now, Primal Fear has locked in the local supports for their brief two-show Australian tour. The mighty Black Majesty will open the show in Melbourne on Saturday June 11 at the Northcote Social Club, and if you’re up for a road trip (I imagine many hardcore fans will be hitting both shows), Hazmat will open the show in Sydney on Sunday June 12 at Newtown Social Club.

support. But with Cherry, it’s fantastic, and also very humbling to be invited on at all since we’re such a young band. We’ve played a handful of shows and have started to get a reputation, so it’s great, and a nice step career-wise. It’s the first time I’ll have played Cherry, even though I’m usually there every year and do the artwork. It’s the first time I’ve played the stage outside.”

Van De Beek is a graphic designer – a career he shares in common with bassist Tom Hulse – his artwork comprising of carefully crafted tour posters and band merch. The band’s members are a disparate crew, all united by a shared love of stoner rock and Black Sabbath. Having banded together ten months ago, after meeting at

an Ugly Kings gig, Van De Beek, Hulse and guitarist Christos Athanasias began scouring the land for a lead singer able to elevate their sound to another level. Enter Pierina ‘Pip’ O’Brien.

“We had no real idea where we were going, we just knew we liked that good, slower stoner rock stuff, so we started writing and fooling around in the studio.

We jammed around for months and then started looking for a vocalist. We never knew we wanted a female vocalist, but we were totally open to the idea. It’s very much a male-dominated vocal scene, and Tom had put together a rough vocal guide to audition singers. He has a kind of Ozzy Osbourne voice, and sent it to some male

NEW GOATSOUND RELEASES

NEW FILTER ALBUM NEXT WEEK

Walter Delagado, singer of now-defunct punk rock outfit Rotting Out has been arrested for drug transport. Apparently he had 70 pounds of marijuana and 1000 hash oil jars in his car. The approximate street value of which is around $350,000 not to mention the $7,500 that was ominously in his possession.

Melbourne label Goatsound Records have just unleashed four releases: HardOns’ Dickcheese Reinterpretation, Looking Glass’s Volume 4, Birdcage’s self-titled album and Battlesick’s Questions, Comments?

They’re all available now, and all proceeds from the Hard-Ons album go to Camp Quality.

Swedish vintage style hard rock pioneers Spiritual Beggars have released their ninth studio album, Sunrise To Sundown, via InsideOutMusic. They’ve just released

GIGS

WEDNESDAY MARCH 30:

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS, FOXTROT, DEL LAGO, MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD at The Reverence Hotel ONCE WERE LOST, JASON LIVES, VULTURE CULTURE, SOUTH PINES, VALCROW at The Bendigo Hotel THE ENFORCED, DERAILMENT, NO CLASS, SYNTHETICS at The Old Bar

THURSDAY MARCH 31:

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS at 170 Russell EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, ALL THE COLOURS at The Croxton FRENZAL RHOMB, CLOWNS, SPOOKED at The Loft THE SKAMPZ, DAL SANTO, TURN IT UP at The Bendigo Hotel

FRIDAY APRIL 1:

THE BENNIES, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS, HIGHTIME, SWEET GOLD at The Corner Hotel THE GREAT AWAKE AT BAR 303, NORTHCOTE CAPTIVES, 131’S, HAVE/HOLD, COFFIN WOLF at The Bendigo Hotel SUN GOD REPLICA, WICKED CITY, BODIES, VOLCANO HEAD at The Old Bar CIRCLES, ORSOME WELLES, TERAMAZE at The Workers Club MORTH, THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT, ALL THE WISE, TRIUMPH OVER LOGIC, AMARONIX, THE BIG CITY at The Tote FRENZAL RHOMB, CLOWNS, THE MAGGOT MEN at Pelly Bar, Frankston DALLAS CRANE at Sookie Lounge, Belgrave FOX N FIRKIN, ALL WE NEED, ZAC CONNELLY, EATER OF THE SKY, THE BEGGARS WAY at The Reverence Hotel NOCTURNAL GRAVES, DESTRUKTOR, SEWERCIDE, OLIGARCH at The Reverence Hotel THE ONYAS, THE SAILORS, CUT SICK, MEATBEATERS, THE LAST HOTEL at The Tote

SATURDAY APRIL 2:

CITY AND COLOUR, LITTLE MAY at Sidney Myer Music Bowl AS A RIVAL, THE GREAT AWAKE at Cherry Bar COSMIC KAHUNA, DEL LAGO, LATE NIGHTS, THE PARNELLS, DAYBREAK at The Bendigo Hotel FRENZAL RHOMB, CLOWNS, AGENT 37 at Karova Lounge, Ballarat CITY SHARPS, RAZORCUT, CRACK WHORE, POWER SKIDS at The Reverence Hotel TYRANNAMEN, TOMMY T AND THE CLASSICAL MISHAPS, SPOTTING at The Tote

DEVIL ELECTRIC RISING CURRENT

BY ADAM NORRIS

Visionary blues musician Robert Johnson met a certain tall, dark stranger on a crossroads at midnight (so the story goes), and soon after found fame, fortune, and an early grave. Most would agree the Mississippi legend is apocryphal, and yet, now comes a band whose rise to respect and renown seems fuelled by the same uncanny fortune – oh, and they’re called Devil Electric, just to drive the point home. Drummer Mark Van De Beek would have you believe it’s all a result of hard work and timing, but let’s face it; selling your soul to Satan is much more rock’n’roll.

“We’re in constant planning mode now,” Van De Beek explains. “Our online group chats are constantly full with either talking shit or planning shows and releases, working on whatever’s coming up next.

We just had the launch and we’re planning more, we’ve got a tour coming up, we’re planning overseas trips. We’ll be releasing some vinyl, working on a new video clip for our next single. There’s always something on the go.”

The aforementioned launch released the lead single, Devil’s Bells, from their upcoming EP, and saw the four-piece share the stage with good pals The Ugly Kings. While there are more launches ahead (there is, in fact, an entire tour BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32

supporting Indonesian band The SIGIT taking place throughout May), as debuts go Van De Beek is feeling pretty good right about now; the success of the show was soon met with their inclusion on this year’s CherryRock lineup.

“The launch was probably better than we expected, to be honest,” he laughs. “We had Two Headed Dog on board as well, they’re such a good ‘70s rock’n’roll band.

It was a great response, we played a longer set than usual. Played some new songs.

Devil’s Bells, we played it later in the set whereas we used to open with it, so as soon as people heard it they started to really get into it. It was good to see people already knowing the songs, having that kind of

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vocalists. But having Tom on backing vocals, as he is now, is too hard meshing two male voices together. That’s when we started thinking about getting a female vocalist, and we’d had Pip on board with one of the Ugly Kings’ singles, Goodbye, and we all knew her pretty well so thought we’d see if she liked what we wrote. Turns out she does, thank God.” DEVIL ELECTRIC are playing CherryRock016 on Sunday May 1, and are supporting The SIGIT on their national tour from Wednesday May 4 – Sunday May 8.

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EAGLES OF DEATH METAL THE CROXTON BANDROOM FRIDAY MARCH 25

The Croxton Bandroom was larger than expected, like The Corner without the pole, and loud. Three-piece support band All The Colours were testing the limits of the PA early. With a sound reminiscent of early Muse, their tight black jeans squeezed out some high-pitched harmonies. Their cover of Van Morrison’s Baby Please Don’t Go was the highlight.

The big black curtain was closed, it opened, it closed again. Then it opened. And hey, there were EODM. This haphazard entrance foreshadowed the circus to come. A ginger moustached Hughes, with his trademark key dangling from his right ear, cheekily confessed they were all “loaded,” but because they were among friends it was better to “let it all hang out.” Much of the crowd looked

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE SOUTH GIPPSLAND HILLS

FRIDAY MARCH 25 – SUNDAY MARCH 27

In the week leading up to The Hills Are Alive, there were a few questions I wanted answered. How big is this hill? How many times do I actually have to walk up it? And how the hell am I going to cart all my crap over? Luckily, in their eighth year, it seemed the festival gods had thought of everything.

After heading to baggage drop, it didn’t take too long for my whining to be replaced by typical ‘woo-girl’ behaviour.

Opening the sold-out festival were Melbourne folk-pop princes, Venus Court.

Giving us a taste of Gravity from their debut album, the O’Brien brothers were generously gifted, yet extremely grounded. Heartfelt harmonies all round; they were the perfect way to begin the three-day party. Swiftly following the young guns were Fossil Fuel, who packed just as much punch and presented both originals and cult classics.

Making an ever so cool entrance, Man Made Mountain got the people groovin’ in no time. Merging the sounds of Brazil

MODEST MOUSE MARGARET COURT ARENA WEDNESDAY MARCH 23

There’s a train of thought in the contemporary music community that the age of indie-rock bands fuelled by white dudes dominating the airwaves is over. It’s hard to disagree, watching the never-ending tidal wave of bargain bin indie (bindie) bands touring the globe for a year on a record warmly received

by Pitchfork, before falling forever into the abyss. Look at the biggest (and sustained) acts on the planet right now: they’re rappers, they’re electronic producers, they’re, dare I say it, pop – not because the genre term itself is a contraction for popular – but because in the past five years the alternative crowd has (mostly) thrown away it’s allegiance to snobbery when it comes to turning their back without listening. Kendrick’s filling stadiums voicing black oppression, Bieber’s now lovable and a psychedelic rock outfit from Perth are one of the biggest acts on the planet. Music isn’t what it used to be. That said: it never should be.

There’s no denying that Modest Mouse are past their prime. While their last few records have had an amiable amount of interesting

to be in the same state anyway. Forgetting to swap guitars, the drummer starting the wrong song, missing vocal lines – no worries, it was party time. Who cares about dotting t’s and crossing i’s anyway. Lucky the devilish ‘Boots Electric’ is so loveable.

The set started with I Only Want You, as EODM rollicked through a mix of new and old material. The women in attendance were constantly saluted throughout the night, Hughes making sure no-one was being too rough down the front. One young woman held up a French flag. Hughes saw it and soon after asked the room to stop for a moments silence in respect for the Paris tragedy. Complexity from their 2015 album Zipper Down and boogie-tastic singa-long favourites So Easy, Whorehoppin’

(Shit, Goddam), I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News) and Cherry Cola kept the party swingin’.

Hughes’ knowledge of Tim Tams and other Australian treats won over many fans and we believed him when he said he wanted to be in Melbourne before playing Wanna Be In L.A. Lego-haired bass player Matt McJunkins laughed along with the running joke as Hughes kept demanding he eat 8,000 Mint Slices after the show. Despite their overthe-top cheesy ponce and tongue-in-cheek shenanigans, Eagles Of Death Metal bring a big show. Dave Catching, whose sizeable white beard and black sunnies look like he could be ZZ Top’s unofficial third member, is a fiend on guitar. Hughes constantly proclaimed his love for the man who he said was recently promoted to “second in the band’s hierarchy.”

Momentum was momentarily lost as Hughes took to the stage alone with a guitar for an encore including Stones classic Brown Sugar. The other members resurfaced and more disordered solos ensued, however EODM finished off strong with Speaking In Tongues and all was good with the world once more. Love and rock’n’roll shall overcome ‘n all that.

BY JAMES RIDLEY LOVED: Boogyin’ in the face of terrorism HATED: The slow queue caused by the extra security and metal detectors.

DRANK: MB pints.

and hiphop, the local duo offered up their Master Plan and a little Cachaça while the last glinpse of sunshine soaked into our skin.

Lyall Moloney kicked off the night in his PJ shorts, shirtless as usual. The Sydney stud rocked his two mic set-up, roaring out tracks like Running For You, Party Don’t Stop and Black Dog. Joined by Juñor and Matthew Craig onstage, it was a killer collaborative effort. Running solo, Tash Sultana soon encapsulated the crowd with her electric guitar, keyboard and beat pad. Distortion galore, the gal simply showed us all how it’s done. A tough act to follow, KLP’s set, while entertaining, lacked depth and any real dynamic.

Shaking off the first night’s aftermath, Tiny Little Houses greeted Saturday afternoon with open arms and acoustic guitars. When the afternoon truly set in it was time to make way for Melbourne’s Mesa Cosa. Complete and utter nonsense, they created havoc as expected. While smashing out Santanas, Shoplifter and Sydney, there’s no wonder two guitar strings were snapped. Obviously not aiming for perfection, the gang has a stage presence that speaks for itself.

Bootleg Rascal’s psychedelic, reggae rock had people dancing as the entire crowd sunk into submission. Fan favourites Kings & Queens, Overflow and Asleep In The Machine only touched the surface of what was a sensational set. Later on, The Belligerents

stunned the festival as their frontman embodied the saying ‘dance like nobody’s watching.’ Taking us past midnight were Bad//Dreems, who made big strides in front of their male-dominated fan base as the band members participated in a public game of Kiss And Tickle. While Bad News Toilet guided the party through the wee hours of the morning with bangers like Play That Funky Music, King Kunta, Jump Around and Paper Planes. The ultimate dance party, it would’ve been difficult to find a body standing still. Closing the set out with Titanic’s My Heart Will Go On, the Melbourne-based artist then got aboard a blow up boat with his blow up doll, sailing into a crowd in absolute awe. Lucky last for the night, Running Touch’s ethereal energy exceeded expectations and ensured easy entry into the lives of many new listeners.

Sunday morning soon appeared and the sound of Nic & Mads filled the air, and later on the legendary Barry Morgan with his world of organs. So yes, you guessed it, the hills were alive – with music, perfect punters and some seriously sweet talent.

fodder, even the most die-hard fan knows they’ll never again reach the heights of 1997’s The Lonesome Crowded West or 2000’s The Moon and Antarctica. The earliest of fans will tell you that 2004’s Good News For People Who Love Bad News is when things turned sour, but frankly, they can get fucked: that album rules. It was much closer to 2007, when the group released We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, that many of the earliest fans, began to abandon. Perhaps that in itself was a signpost for the genre – the iceberg ominously waiting to sink the Indie Rock Titantic.

Make no mistake – Modest Mouse is no longer a band. Modest Mouse is Isaac Brock – the sole remaining member of the group that formed 23-years-ago (alongside drummer Jeremiah Green, who went on a short-lived hiatus a decade ago), who surrounds himself with a collective of rotating musicians who add next to nothing to the performance.

That doesn’t matter; no-one sees a Modest Mouse show for any reason other than to see Brock in his element. Rarely sober, always theatrical, generally quite off-key and dramatically passionate.

Opening with a crude version of Ocean Breathes Salty (which found life in the latter third of the song), over two hours Brock led his adherents to march through a setlist heavy on material from 2015’s Strangers to

Ourselves (Shit in Your Cut, The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box, Wicked Campaign), all which were lapped up by the younger audience, but elicited groans from the older.

Then there were the reminders of why we all once fell in love with the band: Cowboy Dan, Gravity Rides Everything. Melbourne fans will no doubt jeer Sydney-siders who didn’t receive a rendition of Float On, however many would happily have exchanged it for their serving of Doin’ The Cockroach.

Like every band that has spanned three decades, Modest Mouse means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

To me, this night signified the end of my love affair with the band, one that was first spawned in my early teens. Isaac Brock is an incredible musician and an authentic songwriter, but over the course of their career and the many times I’ve witnessed them, it’s impossible to ignore that there’s little heart left in this forlorn project. There were glimpses of nostalgic bliss. I’ll occasionally still spin Dramamine when I’m in need of a moment of clarity. But one must know when it’s time to move on.

BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON LOVED: Felix the magician and his magic balls HATED: The seediest of Sundays.

DRANK: A slab of Jack.

BY TYSON WRAY LOVED: Saying goodbye.

HATED: Saying goodbye.

DRANK: It doesn’t matter.

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KAMASI WASHINGTON THE PRINCE BANDROOM TUESDAY MARCH 22

Despite the success of Kamasi Washington’s The Epic and his high profile collaborations, it was still surprising to be greeted by a long entry line and a packed to the gills Prince Bandroom. Old jazz heads commingled with younger fans, the mood: anticipatory.

At 9.36pm Washington and his group emerged and got down to work, teasing their toes into the set with a mid-tempo number featuring a wonderfully mellow trombone solo from Ryan Porter.

Although the album, as per its title, features a large core ensemble with many instruments being doubled by two players at once, the live version was still suitably grand. Both Ronald Bruner Jr. and Tony Austin helmed drum kits, while Brandon Coleman moved between electric piano, synth and keytar.

A large, shambling figure replete in his signature African clothing, Washington held down the centre of the stage, gripping his tenor like a loving force, barely contained. Despite Washington’s position as bandleader and songwriter, the show felt like a band performance, even an all-star band performance, as each member of the group brought their own distinct personalities and playing style to the mix. Washington explained that at the same time as recording The Epic they also recorded solo albums for each of the band members, making them the Wu-Tang Clan of jazz.

The spotlight was then shared equally

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MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE MONDAY MARCH 21

There are few musicians left out there like Jeff Tweedy. He’s the kind of person who lets his music do the talking and, most admirably, has always done things on his own terms. In this vein the Wilco frontman’s new project, Tweedy, features his son on drums. In their Australian debut the pair performed tracks from their collaborative album Sukierae, along with stripped back versions of Wilco and Uncle Tupelo tracks.

Support came from duo Those Pretty Wrongs. You would be forgiven for not realising who they were immediately, but clued up punters would know that it’s the side project of Big Star’s Jody Stephens and The Freewheelers’ Luther Russell. The pair quickly impressed with their heartfelt songs and harmonies. Ending with a cover of Big Star’s Thirteen, the duo seemed almost disappointed that they couldn’t play longer than their allotted half hour.

Soon after Tweedy and his band made their way on to the stage, clearly eager to deliver their epic 28 song set. Diamond Light Pt. 1 was notably more engaging than the tracks proceeding, with the song’s masterful guitar work allowing for Tweedy to loosen up a bit.

Upon hearing the cries of a baby, a puzzled Tweedy joked that the song Wait For Love was about abstinence. “’Maybe if you’d heard it before you wouldn’t be here with a baby,”

amongst the players as they each delivered a song of their own. Upright bassist Miles Moseley was ridiculously funky with a song called Abraham, during which he picked, slapped and bowed his bass, often utilising a wah-wah effect. Coleman similarly brought the funk when given his turn, singing through filtered effects on Spaceship as the horns stabbed and the bass walked at a fast pace. The song culminating in a wild keytar solo soaked in sustain and drive, recalling Hendrix, his face contorted with feeling.

Washington’s father, Ricky, was then brought out as a special guest on flute for Henrietta Our Hero – a tribute to his mother.

The Rhythm Changes was an incredible journey that shifted through several distinct passages beginning with a bright, upbeat melody and slowly building, dropping and building again into wild bebop. About midway through the song Washington began to really let rip, delivering furious bursts of music, his brow a crease of concentration.

After an hour and a half the group quit the stage, leaving none in doubt as to why many see Kamasi Washington at the forefront of jazz in the 21st century. More than simply technically proficient, he is an innovator that plays with deep feeling, producing bop, funk, blues all through a single, musically expressive language; a dialect acknowledging the past yet looking to the future.

BY ALEX WATTS LOVED: The way the group interacted onstage, as musicians and performers.

HATED: One very grumpy man who felt that anyone trying to move past him was an encroachment on his kingdom.

DRANK: Jazz. he quipped.

Tweedy performed solo for half an hour, playing songs many in the crowd were anxious to hear. Tweedy has the ability to cause mass hysteria upon the delivery of a single line, evidenced by the lyric “All my daydreams are disasters,” from the Uncle Tupelo track New Madrid. Wilco classics Passenger Side and Jesus, Etc. were personal highlights and a real treat to hear live.

“We’re going to play a David Bowie cover because we’re still in a bit of pain,” announced Tweedy before bringing out surprise guest Courtney Barnett. “She’s going to be my best friend,” gushed Tweedy who was obviously chuffed to have Australia’s rising star onstage with him.

The two delivered an incredible version of Bowie’s Queen Bitch, bringing the set to a with a standing ovation from the crowd.

While the night served as a retrospective of Tweedy’s illustrious career, the airing of a lot of his newer material proved that Tweedy still has a lot to bring to the table – songs that he’s itching to introduce to long time Wilco fans. With a backing band just as talented, it’s clear Tweedy is in a position to continue recording and performing live for years to come.

BY HOLLY PEREIRA LOVED: The fact someone brought their baby to the show.

HATED: When the baby started to cry during the set.

DRANK: Water. Gotta play it low key on a Monday night.

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1. Post Pop Depression IGGY POP 2. Young Blindness THE MURLOCS 3. Eddy Current Suppression Ring EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING 4. Tyrannamen TYRANNAMEN 5. High ROYAL HEADACHE 6. Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future UNDERWORLD 7. Hiperasia EL GUINCHO 8. The Winter Hymn PANTHA DU PRINCE 9. Emotional Mugger TY SEGALL 10. Bite Your Tongue SPACE JUNK

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1. Saturn Returns LOOSE TOOTH 2. The Wilderness EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 3. Self-Titled HERON OBLIVION 4. The Follower THE FIELD 5. Gensho BORIS WITH MERZBOW 6. Self-Titled THE GRAND MAGOOZI 7. Bloodsweat PLAGUE VENDOR 8. Black Rose SHIRLEY DAVIS & THE SILVERBACKS 9. Awake and Dreaming STINA TESTER AND CINTA MASTERS 10. The Hard-Ons’ Dickcheese Reinterpreted Vol. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS

PJ HARVEY

The Hope Six Demolition Project (Island Records)

PJ Harvey returns after a five-year absence, picking up where she left off with 2011’s acclaimed Let England Shake. Having been informed by trips she undertook to Afghanistan, Kosovo and Washington, Harvey remains appalled and enraged on The Hope Six Demolition Project, as she confronts social injustices with her ever eloquent and striking brand of poetry.

Surrounding herself with long time collaborator Mick Harvey and producers Flood and John Parish, these recordings were made during an open to the public exhibition a la Regurgitator’s Band in a Bubble concept.

Perhaps this method of recording encouraged the live feeling of these songs – despite the layers of overdriven guitars and screeching saxophones, the album still manages to sound quite organic and charmingly rough around the edges.

The prominence of rhythmic elements in the mix such as hand claps and acoustic guitars also contribute to a sound that is fairly sparse and acoustic, while conversely, the more involved instrumental parts form a wall of noise.

The Wheel is a good example of this, its entire first minute and a half is a repetitive blues stomp driven by an electric guitar soloing frantically, all before Harvey

begins to sing. However once she does, the melody and acoustic guitar chords reveal it to be an English folk song, and a style that the one-time poster girl for 1990s alternative rock has grown into gracefully. Over time Harvey has stripped away the sultry rock persona that once informed her vocal delivery and now sings in a higher register which feels more honest, more intimate, and as strong as ever.

On standout track Medicinals Harvey walks around Washington D.C., thinking of the spices and vegetables that once inhabited the city, growing wildly and used as medicine. She compares them with the alcohol that is used by the capital’s poor communities, in what is a moving piece of musicianship and songwriting.

“Do you see that woman / Sitting in the wheelchair / As from inside a paper wrapper she sips from a bottle / A new painkiller / For the native people.” It’s a very vivid image, and one in keeping with the album’s lyrical position as outraged narrator, wandering the cities as an outsider. Fans of Harvey’s recent output will find plenty to like here.

BY ALEX WATTS

SINGLE REVIEWS WITH LACHLAN

Despite the mighty Western Bulldogs executing a ten goal drubbing of last year’s minor premiers, I am keeping a Lid On It at this point in time. Stay tuned for any status change on the Lid in future rounds.

M83 Solitude (Pod/Intertia) Old m8 M83 shoehorns a Moog solo smack bang in the middle of a down-tempo symphonic ballad, the ambition well and truly overcooked to the point of nothing working. Hearing this live would call for a toilet break, and then another toilet break, and you’ll still come back to hear an instrumental coda that screams “that’s right cunts I can afford a fucking ORCHESTRA now!”

AMATEUR DANCE It’s Really Something (Ara Koufax Remix) (Independent) Melbourne’s Amateur Dance has proved adept at remixing, and now provides fodder for vice versa

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LADYHAWKE A Love Song (Universal) There’s nothing inherently wrong about creating music that eschews trend by a few years late, but the context of straight-faced synthpop in 2016, rather than say 2010, means that a sense of true spectacle and genius songwriting is needed to resonate. A Love Song is okay, well put together, decentish chorus. But that’s it, invoking recent memories of something greater, not quite nostalgic, not a

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NEARLY ORATORIO Occlude (Independent) I’lls and KLLO member Simon Lam continues to overachieve with the new solo project Nearly Oratorio. Single Occlude, from the soon-to-be-released EP Tin, weaves itself together intricately, an engulfing safety blanket lowering the heart rate. It’s remarkable, much like Lam’s previous material.

Nearly Oratorio provides a platform to extend beyond the aural touchstones embraced into Lam’s palette so far, honing a voice that projects more than the sum of its parts. This could be the spark to ignite something quite spectacular.

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BLACK CAB Uniforms (Remote Control) A measured croon punches up in a sea of triumphant synths – this being Black Cab’s purist venture into techno to date – the mood ascending to levels of triumph resembling parody. If their 2014 LP Games of the XXI Olympiad was the soundtrack, Uniforms is the credit music. You’ll struggle to imagine a more perfect balance of invigoration and introspection than this. Repeat listens reward, more of this please.

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HOW SICK IS MUSIC? HEAPS WICKED

HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN

1. Easter LP/CD PATTI SMITH 2. White Rabbit LP JEFFERSON AIRPLANE 3. Jesus Egg That Wept LP FLAMING LIPS 4. Easter Everywhere LP 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS 5. Passion Of The Christ LP SOUNDTRACK 6. Crosses LP/CD CROSSES 7. Crown Of Thorns LP MOTHER LOVE BONE 8. Whip It 7” DEVO 9. Heaven Up Here LP ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN 10. I Can See For Miles 7” THE WHO

OFF THE HIP TOP TEN 1. Isolation Drills GUIDED BY VOICES 2. Too Much Guitar REIGNING SOUND 3. Best Of THE WHO 4. It Is What It Is THE HITMEN 5. Leilani LE HOODOO GURUS 6. Self-Titled TYRANNAMEN 7. Jimi Hendrix Story JIMI HENDRIX 8. In A Free Land HUSKER DU 9. Anywhere and Everything RON S. PENO 10. Gangrenous MEANIES

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1. Talk Baby Talk EMMA LOUISE 2. Thankful FEKI 3. Feels Right GODWOLF 4. Numb LUPA J 5. Ladida POLE TOP RESCUE 6. We Don’t Have To Dance ANDY BLACK 7. Soft Like Clay BEATY HEART 8. Carpet FRENSHIP 9. No Star GREYS 10. No Joke ISLANDS

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS OF LONG WEEKEND REGRET 1. I Left My Wallet in El Segundo A TRIBE CALLED

QUEST 2. No Sleep WIZ KHALIFA 3. Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners AGAINST ME! 4. Oops I Did It Again BRITNEY SPEARS 5. Purple Pills D12 6. The Good Times Are Killing Me MODEST MOUSE 7. I Miss My Lung FRENZAL RHOMB 8. Tuesday YOU AM I 9. Gin And Juice SNOOP DOGG 10. Too Drunk To Fuck DEAD KENNEDYS

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WHITE DENIM

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STIFF (Create Control)

ALLEN STONE

METAL RESISTANCE (Sony Music)

RADIUS (ATO Records)

White Denim are the band a stoned fourteen-year-old, who has just finished rummaging through his dad’s seven inches, dreams of joining.

They’re delightfully adolescent in the best possible sense of the word: raucous and horny, they search for surface level pleasures, like a lothario passing a pair of nylon stockings from one hand to the other.

Stiff, their new album, keeps things basic yet cluttered; simple yet swollen.

It’s a deliberately jumbled collection, a junkyard of copper wire choruses and rusted verses about love and lust. The gloriously titled Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah) stitches together soul, blues and rock, creating a slick amalgamation that reeks of bodily fluid. Its influences are held together with spit and sweat.Though James Brown and The Rolling Stones provide the two most obvious touchstones, Stiff is a veritable roll call of classic ‘60s and ‘70s acts, with a song like Real Deal Momma invoking the likes of The Beatles, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Four Tops, and Tim Hardin all across a mere four minutes.

Nevertheless, though it has its gaze fixed firmly upon the past, Stiff never sounds like anything but the future. No one record has the right to be this much fun.

Who are Babymetal? Are they a simple marketing scheme: a greedy attempt to raid the swollen wallets of both J-Pop and metal fans? Or are they for real? I mean, really for real? Their marketing material doesn’t shed much light on the matter. According to their press release and fanfiction tome, the three innocents who front the band, Su-Metal, Yuimetal and Moametal, were recruited by the Fox God in order to unite the world – a backstory that doesn’t lend much credence to the “this is all sincere” argument. But even when one ignores questions of intent, a thousand more queries emerge. Namely: is Metal Resistance, their new album, any good? It’s certainly novel. Combining as it does treacly pop textures and grating guitar work, it’s all over the place in a way that resembles no other contemporary record. KARATE is a razor blade curled up inside an apple, and No Rain, No Rainbow is an overtly saccharine number that comes precisely out of nowhere, like a clown conducting a bank heist. On that level, the piece is an experience like few others, but then again, so is contracting Legionnaire’s disease. Metal Resistance is a sprawling tangle of unanswered questions: not quite a masterpiece, but not quite trash. A ‘trashterpiece,’ then.

Allen Stone’s rise has been steady and somewhat inevitable, but with Radius his sound has a resounding authenticity that all but cements him as a devotee and purveyor of soulful music with a message.

Perfect World opens the affair with a gospel vibe, complete with handclaps and group harmonies. Stone favours that vintage soul feel, heavy on the groove and heightened by a genuine vocal performance. While the production flourishes on Guardian Angel or the most pop-leaning cut on the album Freedom, it works best when Stone is marrying the two, like on the humble, slow jam of Circle or the funk slap of Upside. Where Stone truly excels is in the juxtaposition of his optimism with his some of his more biting tracks. He acknowledges white privilege and materialism in American Privilege with its stinging opening line, “It doesn’t seem right / that I was born white.” Later altering the vivid, multi-dimensional trip with the open-hearted streak of positivity that is Love. It’s this dueling nature that makes the album feel all the more real, and provides a more accurate reflection of the human experience.

Radius is an all-encompassing statement from an artist who feels all the same pain that we do. Yet Stone chooses to depict these universal experiences with a sprinkle of optimism, delivering a soothing remedy for said pain.

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SMILE

RHY THM METHOD (Smooch Records)

It’s been three years since we’ve heard a record from Smile. On album number two, the Melbourne five-piece take their soft rock, slacker-enthused contemplation to a whole other level. Rhythm Method deals with living in the city, and the style of life that it demands in order to make it through the day-to-day. It opens with Intro, a foreboding instrumental soundscape featuring dense apocalyptic synths and fuzzy guitar feedback. The piece seems a precursor for a dark, shuddering record fuelled by turbulent instrumentation. One of the earliest singles from the record, Holiday, not only contains the most outrageously gratifying bassline on the entire record, but also brings to the fore layer upon layer of blissful, harmonious guitar lines. From there Pete Baxter’s buoyant vocals reflect on “feeling better about myself.”

Boundless Plains to Share bears a hypnotic arrangement of Baxter’s chant-like vocals, with a slick bass groove, rich guitar swells and a cathedral-esque synth.

White Devil, a clear stand-out track, could be described as an aural depiction of a kaleidoscope – the track perpetually brings forth different aspects, each one dazzling in and out of focus; from the string section and earthly percussion in the versus to the soaring climax of harrowing guitars and vocals in the chorus, it’s a multi-coloured affair. Baxter’s lyrics are at their emotive peak here too: “Dreamer, where will your head rest? Nowhere.” In a playful seven minutes Central Business Dickheads details the chaos and strain of Melbourne’s CBD. The track moves from steady, twinkly guitar shredding to a slow ethereal fizzle.

BLVD was a single Smile released in 2014, now reinvigorated on this record with a soothing two-minute marimba-synth outro that acts as an interlude rather than a conclusion. Old Boys sounds like it’s come straight from the ‘90s.

A tambourine hovers over jangly guitar, as Baxter provides a lasting sentiment, “Your loving’s got me thinking twice.” It’s a warm, hushed song that brings a moving finality to the album. While Rhythm Method feels very succinct – it only runs for eight tracks – Smile demonstrate distinct songwriting and craftsmanship that sees the band entering new, and exciting territory.

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LIVING (Barely Dressed)

After touring the US last year – making notable appearances on the NPR Tiny Music Desk and CMJ Music Marathon – Oh Pep! are home. From their extensive live catalogue duo Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs have recorded four songs, the tracks re-released under the label Barely Dressed.

Opening song The Race is an upbeat start. Upon first listen, it comes across as a breezy piece of earworm, lingering long after its snappy finish. Hally’s vocals wrap around precise arrangements of chipper mandolin, sturdy bass and emotive percussion. However, on the second listen, it becomes a bittersweet lesson encased within a fairytale, gently chipping away at the initially innocent presentation. These subtle emotive glances are embedded across the EP. While finding their feet onstage, signing to a label has provided Oh Pep! with more compositional freedom, evidenced by a greater breadth and depth of arrangements. It has also allowed for some atmospheric touches.

War Song executes slick rhythmic patterns, something that goes slightly amiss on the theatrical Rest Assured. Final track Tea, Honey & Milk, translates beautifully. It begins stripped back, Hally’s vocals underlined with soft touches of keys and strings, before the arrival of guitar and vocal harmonies guides the song into a more recognisable folk ballad. With its slow build, it’s an easy pick to round everything off, yet its conclusion highlights the briefness of the album.

The four songs feel like they belong to a bigger body of work, providing an outline – yes, an astutely assembled and thoroughly enjoyable outline, but an outline all the same – of something else. Yes, my criticism is that there isn’t enough Oh Pep! here. Nonetheless, Living is a collection of sharply written songs that aptly explains why they are an act so rapidly rising.

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SATURN RETURNS (Milk! Records)

There’s an uncomplicated charm to Loose Tooth that is infinitely magnetic.

Their debut EP Saturn Returns fires up with opener Bites Will Bleed, the unadulterated buzzing of solid chords – reverb and grit – churn in a revolving groove. Vocals soar and swing, echoing hypnotic passages. “When you leave.

Your bites will bleed.” A broken relationship and the urge to hammer out a scathing right of reply is realised here with full force. Hopelessness, bitterness and resentment seamlessly become a source of strength, one that only intensifies with each listen. Playing with familiar sounds and themes, Loose Tooth quip the basic sensibilities of garage pop with a rare ability to reach both sweet seduction and unguarded rage at will.

In the lead up to this release the Melbourne three-piece became the latest signing to Milk! Records. With a song like Back of You there’s no questioning that they’re right at home on the local indie powerhouse’s roster. A heavenly slice of playful jangle sways alongside the effortless bop of a warm bassline – you can hear it sitting soundly between Barnett’s Avant Gardener and Fraser A. Gorman’s Broken Hands in a Milk! Records compilation. Bassist Luc Dawson gently sings and breathes sighs of contentment, as closure ensues. The lyrical direction of the seven-track EP dials in on human interaction, documenting post break-up tensions, vulnerabilities and shows of strength. The down to earth delivery says it all. Saturn Return’s certified belter, Will You, harnesses the edgy creative zeal of Thee Oh Sees, all guts and gusto. There’s no mistaking Mikey Young’s mastering on this release. When Loose Tooth step on the distortion pedal, or inject a mere touch of sonic urgency, it’s pushed to the brink with no intention of releasing the foot off the gas. In Saturn Return, Loose Tooth has a licence to change it up with a new-wave cut in Heat Waves or ride out the surfier Oooh… while never straying too far from their identity: the simple, and subtly beautiful sum of parts that make the release so beguiling.

BY CHRIS SCOTT

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 30 MAR OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

TH E RE V E R E NC E American punk-rock heavyweights Off With Their Heads are currently touring around Australia with The Bennies, but they’ll be playing one special headline show at The Reverence Hotel on Wednesday March 30. Support will be from Foxtrot, Del Lago and Max Goes to Hollywood. $15 will get you in, doors are at 8pm.

THE HUNTED CROWS

C H E R RY B A R Melbourne’s very own rock duo The Hunted Crows will be wrapping up their Cherry Bar residency on Wednesday March 30. Sugar Teeth are supporting on the final show bill, bringing their shimmery psychrock dreaming to start off the night. Doors are at 6pm and entry is $5.

NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS + ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $55.00.

OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

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

BACH & HIS ANCESTORS - FEAT: LATITUDE 37 +

RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: JOEY ELBOWS The

NICHOLAS DINOPOULOS Melbourne Recital Centre,

Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.

BIG EASY SOUL SESSIONS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

DAN BARNETT + DARREN HEINRICH ORGAN TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.

DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

8:00pm. $10.00.

LO-RES + EDEL PLASTIK + HATCHLINGS 303, Northcote.

8:00pm.

JOYCE PRESCHER

TH E D RU NK E N P O E T Originally from a small town in the Netherlands, singer/songwriter Joyce Prescher packed her bags and moved to Melbourne in 2008. Loved for her intimate live shows and poetry inspired lyrics, Prescher crafts her own brand of melancholic folk, with an album in the works due for release this year. She plays The Drunken Poet with Rachel Shaw for the regular Wine Whiskey Women session on Wednesday March 30 from 8pm. Entry is free.

TOBY ROBINSON

T H E R E T R E AT Melbourne singer/songwriter Tony Robinson will be gracing The Retreat to provide some folk-tinged pop on Wednesday March 30. Following up from his selftitled release of 2015, Robinson has recently brought out a new single Live Your Life, which is the first taste of his new work. Doors open at 8.30pm and in true Retreat style, entry won’t cost a thing.

JEFFERS LIMIT

THE WORKERS CLUB After a solid year of writing, recording, and finetuning their sound, Jeffers Limit are all set to release their debut EP. Comprised of members succeeding alternative-dark-folk Howard, and current members of Arthur Penn and the Funky Ten, Jeffers Limit have developed a distinct, rich soundscape you’ll want to delve into. Joining them on the night will be moody groovers Truly Holy, the garage-noir sounds of FigureHead and a solo set from Kevin Orr of Romeo Moon. It’s going down on Thursday March 31. 8pm with $8 on the door, too easy.

TIMBALERO THURSDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

Z-STAR DELTA + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

ANTHONY PETRUCCI (THE ELVIS PRESLEY SHOW) + ROSIE & THE MIGHTY KINGS Musicland, Fawkner.

7:00pm. $10.00.

RUSSELL MORRIS Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 7:00pm.

BENCH PRESS + THE WORLD AT A GLANCE + TARR +

$32.00.

KOUKATSUANI/OILS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

SUMMER SONGWRITERS - FEAT: ELISE KAUSMAN

CHUCK + ALL WE NEED + NORTHWOOD + DEFECTS Mr

+ MEMORY LASH + MIRIAM PULTRO Tago Mago,

Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

Thornbury. 8:00pm.

SWEEPS + STELLAFAUNA + KATHY HINCH Workers Club,

QUANTUM MILKSHAKE + REUBEN STONE LIVE LOOPS +

Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

PVBLO + CTRIX Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.

TAJ MAHAL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

SARAH MCDONALD + ADAM RUDEGEAIR TRIO Open

7:30pm. $69.00.

Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

VINTAGE TROUBLE + DJ PIERRE Corner Hotel,

SEX ON TOAST + AU DRE + 777-93-11 Gasometer Hotel,

Richmond. 7:30pm. $55.00.

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $17.00.

STAV + NITIDA + MIHRA Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10.00.

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DRIVEN ROCK NIGHT - FEAT: ONCE WERE LOST + JASON

THURSDAY 31 MAR

LIVES + VULTURE CULTURE + SOUTH PINES + VALCROW

CATHY MENEZES Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10.00.

8:00pm. $20.00.

HEY HEY IT’S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal Hotel

DARREN HEINRICH TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

(essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

$10.00.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE + IRISH MYTHEN Palais Theatre, St

GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club,

Kilda. 6:30pm. $95.15.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00.

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL The Croxton, Thornbury.

MIRIAM PULTRO + ELSIE & THE VIBE + MEMORY LASH

LOS CAJONES Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

8:00pm.

Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

MASHAKA Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.

ELEVATOR TALK + BLOOD ORANGE + COSMOS +

OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.

$10.00.

CITRONELLA CANDLES Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz

8:00pm.

PILLOW PRO + GOD SQUAD + PALM SPRINGS + ORYGN

Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff

EVIL TWIN

RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

8:30pm.

MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE SESSIONS - FEAT: THE MINTON

SWIM TEAM + BOBBY BRAVE Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

PLAYBOYS HOUSE BAND The B.east, Brunswick East.

8:00pm.

8:00pm.

THE ENFORCED + DERAILMENT + NO CLASS +

THE GODFATHER LIVE IN CONCERT - FEAT: JUSTIN FREER

SYNTHETICS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank.

YOU MINX + THE VIGNETTES + CHIMPER KIMBLAY Bar

7:00pm. $50.00.

FRENZAL RHOMB + CLOWNS The Loft, Warrnambool.

Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO +

8:00pm. $31.15.

EILEN JEWELL Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm.

TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.

GREEN BUZZARD + WHITE BLEACHES + SMOKE RINGS

$37.75.

7:00pm.

Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.

FRAZEY FORD + KRISTA POLVERE Northcote Social Club,

THE HIP JOINT - FEAT: WIND DOWN + EDD FISHER +

KILL THE DARLING + LIV CARTLEDGE + DOGOOD Tote

Northcote. 7:30pm. $20.00.

RAAGHE + WOZ + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

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THE B RUN SWI CK HOTEL It’s a night of punk, riot grrrl and garage live music at The Brunswick Hotel on Thursday March 31. Von Stache are a female fronted party punk outfit, ready to spit all over your face and make you feel things.

Shrimpwitch are an almighty duo of salty sexual magic who rule the ocean with their venereal garage rock.

Ghost Dick are just coming to skol beers. Free entry at 9pm.

WHOL E LOT TA LOVE Rock-blues duo Jared Mattern and Chris Beechey, aka Evil Twin, are out to steal your souls on Thursday March 31 at Whole Lotta Love. They’ll be joined by one-man-band Rattling’ Bones Blackwood, who’ll be serving up some raucous vintage rock, in addition to Slimbelly and his trusted drummer The Reverend, who’ll be busting out some dirty stomp-box blues with the pips left in. Catch all of them from 8pm, free entry.

GIG GUIDE YOUTH + THE 131’S 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd.

BOSSA NIGHTS - FEAT: DARIUS & NOEL MENDOZA + DJ

7:00pm. $59.90.

JUAN + DJ NAS Osti, Prahran. 7:00pm.

THE BURNT SAUSAGES + THE REAL HOT BITCHES

CROSSING THE BRIDGE (PARTY LIKE IT’S INSTANBUL)

+ SHANE TALENT TIME + LESSONS WITH LUIS +

- FEAT: BASHKA + GALATA EXPRESS + D-JINN St Kilda

WATERFALL PERSON Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20.00.

$10.00.

JASON ISBELL + EILEN JEWELL The Croxton, Thornbury.

THE SKAMPS + DAL SANTO + TURN IT UP Bendigo Hotel,

8:00pm.

Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00.

JULES BOULT Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

TOTALLY MILD + MILK TEDDY + JESSICA SAYS + SUSS

LADY OSCAR Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

CUNTS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

PRESSURE DROP + FEZ PUSKAS DJ The Luwow, Fitzroy.

$15.00.

8:00pm. $10.00.

WAFIA + JACK GRACE + LEISURE SUITE DJS Northcote

SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY +

Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.

HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.

ALLEN STONE + WILSN Corner Hotel, Richmond.

5:00pm.

8:00pm. $55.00.

SUKARO GYPSY JAZZ BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club,

LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY - FEAT: LEX PISTOLS + NORT

BACKSTAGE - SHOWCASE NIGHT - FEAT: JIMI HOCKING +

Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

‘N ROSES + THE BOARDROOM Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE BAND Musicland, Fawkner.

THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Melbourne Recital

LE COOL - FEAT: PRIMO + PERFUME + CARLA DAL FORNO

7:00pm. $15.00.

Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $69.00.

Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $4.00.

ELWOOD MYRE Babushka Lounge, Bakery Hill. 8:00pm.

THE GLASS MOON Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

MEN WITH CHIPS + DAG + SAVAGE NOBLES + KOMPACT

$10.00.

9:00pm. $16.00.

DEVELOPMENT Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

GOATPISS GASOLINE Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

THE GODFATHER LIVE IN CONCERT - FEAT: JUSTIN FREER

MEZZ LIVE Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights.

8:30pm.

Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank.

5:30pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

7:00pm. $50.00.

PETER DICKYBIRD + OATHY GRAVES + THE BLEEDING

7:00pm.

THE ROYAL JELLIES Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

FLARES + LANEWAVES Grace Darling Hotel,

WENDY RULE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $20.00.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet,

SUNNY HAWKINGS

T H E R ET REAT Sunny Hawkings is gearing up to release his new album, though punters can get a sample of what’s to come when he plays at The Retreat on Thursday March 31. Hawkings blends indie, roots and rock – weaving his way between soulful melodies through to fuzzy guitar riffs. He’ll be joined on the night by his band and it all goes down at 9.30pm, free entry.

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

RYAN DOWNEY + LISA SALVO + MATTHEW COLIN Toff In

WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

FRIDAY 1 APR

9:00pm.

8:00pm.

BOB SEDERGREEN & FRIENDS Paris Cat Jazz Club,

Williamstown. 9:30pm.

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS + JAY WARS & THE HOWARD

Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $12.00.

SHOWCASE NIGHTS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel,

Q&A

ABLAZE

Hi! Who are we speaking with and what do you do in the band?

Hi! My name is Danny and I’m the singer/elder statesman/co-songwriter/part-time tambourinist/ all ‘round nice guy of the band.

Tell us about the formation of Ablaze.

It started as five guys watching a cover band over a few pints and thinking they could do a better job. They quickly got bored of the cover idea and started writing. I came into the band a little later on, replacing the original Ablaze singer due to him wanting to branch out doing something different musically.

What kind of energy are you putting forward on the recording of your No Turning Back EP? Is it entirely relentless balls to the wall hard rock or do you mix it up with some quiet stuff?

We really wanted this to be more of a ‘mini album’ more than a traditional four track EP. The six tracks on the EP take you on a little journey so there are some mid paced rock songs. We have some balls to the wall tracks, and some bluesy/sleazy slower rock tunes happening.

Where are you planning on going after your gig at The Elephant and Wheelbarrow in St Kilda?

Are you taking the EP interstate?

If we drink the E&W dry, like we have done to a couple of venues before, we’ll probably just end up at Cherry like everyone else. Seriously though, we’re in the middle of booking a couple of little tour runs interstate with some cool friends we’ve made in Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide.

ABLAZE will take over The Elephant and Wheelbarrow in St Kilda on Friday April 1 with support from Sudden State, Atomic Riot and Darcee Fox. Entry is $10.

COMING UP SUNDAYS IN APRIL

ABBEY STONE 3PM TUESDAYS IN MARCH

FACT HUNT TRIVIA

CHEAP PIZZA + $16 JUGS OF THUNDER RD

Hosted by RRR’s Tristen Harris, this is a comfortably dumb trivia for music fans and couch potatoes, no sport, no politics and no book-learnin’.

QUIZ FROM 8PM - RESERVATIONS - samanda@spottedmallard.com NO COVER

WEDNESDAY 27TH MARCH

MALLARD MOVIES

PASSERINE 6:30PM

& PBS 106.7FMS’ ROOTS OF RHYTHM

PRESENT: Y BLUES?

+ PERFORMANCE BY GEOFF ACHISON MUSIC PERFORMANCE FROM 7:30PM Q&A FROM 8:30PM SCREENING STARTS 8:45PM, NO COVER CHARGE

THURSDAY 28TH MARCH

MELALUKA + LUKE & LOZ NO COVER CHARGE, SHOW TIME FROM 8:30PM

FRIDAY 1ST APRIL

DAMON SMITH

& THE QUALITY LIGHTWEIGHTS ‘THE SUN AND THE MOON’ LAUNCH + EMILY ULMAN $10 ENTRY FROM 8:30PM

sATURDAY 2ND APRIL

BAREBACK TITTY SQUAD + PETE BROADWAY

NO COVER CHARGE, SHOW TIME FROM 8:30PM

FREE WIFI AVAILABLE

SATURDAY 2ND APRIL

BAREBACK TITTY SQUAD

$8 Pints Craft Beer

Tues - Sat 4pm-7pm KITCHEN HOURS Tues-Fri open 4pm Sat & Sun open 2pm

TICKETS

For ticket sales visit www.spottedmallard.com 314 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

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Q&A

GIG GUIDE NOCTURNAL GRAVES

RIFF RAIDERS TALK CHEAP TRICK

Marty Powell, Riff Raiders’ guitarist takes us through some Cheap Trick Riffs we need to hear.

Heaven Tonight This is the title track from Cheap Trick’s third album, recorded at Sound City Studios in LA in 1978 (and one of the reasons Nirvana wanted to record there).

It’s an amazing power riff crossing The Beatles’ Abbey Road and the power of Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir, plus haunting vocals about the stupidity of drugs. This track also features the first ever recording of a 12 string bass.

Stiff Competition Also from the Heaven Tonight LP. No cheap tricks here, just a balls to the wall rock’n’roll riff and performance that was out on its own at the time of recording. Angus Young was a big fan of this band as Rick Neilsen was of AC/DC, and this track clearly demonstrates their bromance.

Go For The Throat This song is buried on the second side of the All Shook Up album (1980) produced by George Martin, and engineered by Geoff Emerick. The result is a manic display of riffing. Sir George obviously dug Trick’s hard rock and experimental approach, which comes through on this stunning recording.

One on One This is the title track for the 1982 album produced by Queen’s Roy Thomas Baker. It’s the album that gave us Aussie #1 If You Want My Love and this song, which smashes along with the band’s self-depreciating lyric, ‘reputation is a fragile thing, and don’t I know it.’

Hot Love This is the first track on their debut LP recorded in 1976. Hot Love was a prototype of the new wave of rock that came later in that decade and basically ever since. But at the time the public simply thought, ‘What the fuck?’

RIFF RAIDERS’ Cheap Trick tribute goes down at Cherry Bar on Saturday April 9. They’ll be playing the At Budokan album in full from 9pm sharp.

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TH E RE VE R E NC E The guys from Nocturnal Graves are playing their last show on Friday April 1, before they head over to America for their coveted slot at the Maryland Death Fest. Destruktor will be contributing a nice little slice of black metal to the evening, while Melburnian thrash demons Sewercide and Ogliarch will also be lending a hand for the night. Potter on down the Reverence at 8pm, $15 will get you in.

DALLAS CRANE + HOLY TRASH + GRASSHOLE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $16.35.

CIRCLES

ABLAZE

FOX ‘N’ FIRKIN + ALL WE NEED + ZAC CONNELLY + MORE

T H E WO R K E R S C LU B Progressive rockers Circles are hitting up The Workers Club on Friday April 1 to treat punters to a launch of their latest single, SAND & WIND. The new track has been long-awaited since their 2015 album, Infinitas, and promises to showcase a raw, energetic and even heavier side to the band. Orsome Welles and Termaze will be providing support and it all kicks off at 8.30pm.

Tickets are available for $20 on the door, or $15+bf via OzTix.

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

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

SAATSUMA + MARTIN KING + HUNTLEY Shebeen,

FRENZAL RHOMB + CLOWNS Pier Live, Frankston.

MORTH + THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT + TRIUMPH OVER

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $13.00.

8:00pm. $27.50.

LOGIC + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

SPIRAL ARM Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE - FEAT: BRADY JAMES + TAYLOR

MUD PEAS Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm.

SUN GOD REPLICA + WICKED CITY + BODIES + VOLCANO

PIGGOTT + BEN JANSZ + MORE Continental Hotel

OOLLUU + DEVILMONKEY + THE IMPRINTS + SLEEPLAB

HEAD + DJ JULES SHELDON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Sorrento, Sorrento. 9:00pm.

Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

$10.00.

LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT

Z-STAR DELTA

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

EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + KISS THE VYPER Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

FIGURES Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00.

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

DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

SHINERS

TH E L A B O U R I N VA I N Friday April 1 sees The Labour In Vain play host to some of the finest punk outfits kicking around, and it’s all for free baby. Shiners will be joined by The Skids, before Teenage Fantasies DJs will be taking over the decks from 9pm until late. You can catch the bands before you dance the night away, and pre-fuel your adventures with some tasty BBQ treats. Doors open at 7pm.

T H E G R AC E DA R LI NG HOTEL Brit-rock duo Zee Gachette and Sebastien Heintz are bringing their new project Z-Star Delta to The Grace Darling Hotel on Friday April 1. The stripped back, blues and folk inspired two-piece was first conceptualised when the full band, Z-Star, toured Australia last year. Gachette and Heintz surprised punters with a few intimate shows as duet – an idea that what would later be coined Z-Star Delta. Supporting on the night are Rigidy Rourke & The Love Dogs, plus Telos Teacup. Doors at 8.30pm, you can pick up a ticket for $13+bf via the Sticky Tickets website.

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EL EPHAN T & WHEE L B ARROW After surviving a year spent tearing up stages and punishing livers around Melbourne, Ablaze are hosting a launch party at Elephant & Wheelbarrow, celebrating the debut of their EP No Turning Back on Friday April 1. After taking a two month hiatus in the lead up to the release, Ablaze are bringing their anthemic brand of Aussie rock. Joining them are Melbourne rock legends Sudden State, Radlords Atomic Riot, and the ever groovy Darcee Fox. $10 entry.

THE CHERRY DOLLS + NEON QUEEN + THE DELTA RIGGS DJS + MORE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $14.30.

MOSEY JOKERS

CHE RRY B AR Stoner-grunge lads Mosey Jokers launch their debut EP Smoke at Cherry Bar on Friday April 1 with supports from Destroy She Said, Black Alleys and High Drifters. It’s gonna get real spicy, so bring some beer money and $10 for entry. Get down early for the four support acts kicking off at 8pm.

GIG GUIDE UNDERGROUND

WH O LE LOT TA LOVE Whole Lotta Love are hosting a night of rock’n’roll on Friday April 1. Headlining the bill is Melbourne’s Underground, who will be smashing out their trademark combination of electric and acoustic from their new EP Rattle The Cage. Joining them are postgrunge outfit The Dark Ales, with their blend of blues, soul and rock. It all goes down at 8pm, entry will set you back $10.

THE GREAT AWAKE + SUICIDE TUESDAYS + FOLEY + TIGER CAN SMILE + MIYAZAKI 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10.00.

THE PRETTY LITTLES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 2:00am. $7.00.

THE UNKIND + FOX N FIRKIN + BOTTLECAPS + THE COMMONLY INSANE Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford.

8:00pm.

TROPICAL ZOMBIE + CHASE CITY + SPORADIC CHILDREN + FUCHSEN & SAUCE SAUCE SAUCE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.

GOATPISS GASOLENE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

9:30pm.

JACKSON BROWNE Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $99.90.

SONS OF THE EAST Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $12.00.

STEVE LUCAS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford.

5:00pm.

SAATSUMA

THE RESIGNATORS

TH E RE TRE AT The Resignators are an outfit with an interesting gimmick – they provide covers of bands who refuse to tour in Australia. So if you’ve always wanted to hear the likes of Rancid or Mighty Mighty Bosstones, this gig is sure to quench your thirst. Expect some originals thrown in too, just to keep things interesting. It’s happening on Friday April 1 at The Retreat, so you know it’s free. Band starts at 9.30pm.

T.K REEVE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

SHEBEEN Friday April 1 will see the birth of Melbourne’s newest live electronic act at Shebeen, the enigmatic SAATSUMA, and their debut single Storm. Taking place within the subterranean depths of the Shebeen bandroom, SAATSUMA will be joined by Martin King (of The Harpoons/Oscar & Martin) and Huntly for an event that will celebrate their entrance into the live sphere. Storm is the captivating first taste of their upcoming EP, the entirety of which is set for release in mid-2016. Welcome SAATSUMA to the Melbourne music scene this weekend. Tickets are $13 with doors at 7.30pm.

THE ALEISTER JAMES INCIDENT The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

THE HAWKS SHOWBAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale.

8:00pm. $8.00.

WHERE’S JOSS Milano’s Tavern, Brighton. 5:00pm.

THE BENNIES

COR N ER HOTEL The party machine has finally arrived. The Bennies are in full throttle for their Wisdom Machine album tour and Friday April 1 sees them play their second sold out show at The Corner. The highly anticipated follow up to 2013’s Rainbows In Space, Wisdom Machine is 11 tracks of fuel for the soul. Recorded at Holes And Corners in South Melbourne with Sam Johnson, the album is out now out through Poison City Records.

Get down early to see Minneapolis punk band Off With Their Heads and Adelaide’s Hightime.

TUKA + ECCA VANDAL + ALPHAMAMA 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.

UNDERGROUND + DARK ALES + SLIM PICKINS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

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

8:30pm.

WET BLANKETS + MOON RITUALS + PRIMO + PAPPY Yarra

MIKE ERLINGTON

THE ONYAS 25TH BIRTHDAY

TH E TOTE Brisbane punk band The Onya’s are celebrating 25 years of music making this April Fool’s day. Joining them are The Sailors who are back from Taiwan for one gig, Cut Sick who are reforming for the occasion, Meatbeaters who are over from Adelaide and The Last Hotel who are playing their first ever gig in the front bar. Plus the Spazzys will be spinning the wax. Onyas’ Brack demo tape from 1991 will be re-issued for sale as well as a reissue of their first two albums Get Shitfaced With the Onyas and Six!, so you best be getting yourself to the Tote on Friday April 1. Tickets are $12 and entry at 8pm.

T H E FLYI NG S AU C E R C LU B Mike Elrington is back with his latest album Two Lucky Stars. The album reached #3 on The Australian Blues & Roots Charts on debut, and has also received airplay support right around the country. There’ll be a bunch of special guests to join Erlington on stage at The Flying Saucer Club on Friday April 1, including Roderick McLeod on drums/percussion, June Harrison on backing vocals, Sarah Busutti on violin, Silas Palmer on keys and the legendary Chris Wilson on vocals and harp. Tickets are $12 presale or $15 on the door, which open at 8pm.

Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm.

CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:15pm.

Z-STAR DELTA + RIGIDY ROURKE & THE LOVE DOGS +

DAMON SMITH & THE QUALITY LIGHTWEIGHTS + EMILY

TELOS TEACUPS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

ULMAN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

7:30pm. $15.00.

DREAMBOOGIE Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill,

Z-STAR DELTA Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd.

Ocean Grove. 7:00pm. $15.00.

12:45pm.

FRAZEY FORD Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.

ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse

$25.00.

101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.

WORLD’S END PRESS

H OWLER World’s End Press have called it a day, but are having one final party on Friday April 1 to celebrate all the good times and to say thank you to all those who have supported them throughout the years. This one’s sold out, so hopefully you snatched up your chance to say farewell. Supports come from Broadway Sounds and CC Disco. Doors at 7.30pm.

CAPTIVES

TH E B E N D I G O H OT E L Tasmanian born forest horror outfit Captives are taking over The Bendigo for Friday April 1 with 131’s, Have/Hold and Coffin Wolf. The boys from Captives have been touring relentlessly over the past couple of years and have released two EPs – a self-titled venture in 2013 and Butterflies, Diamonds and Lightning in 2014. In 2015, both EPs were combined and released as a 12-inch vinyl titled Waking the Dead. Wander down at 7.30 to check out what Captives are all about, tickets are $10.

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GIG GUIDE PAPA G AND THE STARCATS

A B BOT SF ORD CONVENT Ten-piece funk outfit Papa G and The Starcats have been hard at work in the studio, and it’s all paid off with their recent singles Figure You Out and Manipulation.

The release of the tracks on 7”, see the group combining elements of old-school soul, ‘70s funk and yacht rock.

Check out what all the fuss is about, when they play the Abbotsford Convent on Saturday April 2. They’ll be joined by Arthur Penn & The Funky Ten and The Jungle Crooks. It’ll get started at 7.30pm, and tickets are available via the Shadow Electric website.

BACKWOOD CREATURES Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

9:30pm.

BLACK SORROWS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.

8:00pm. $32.00.

CRAIG WOODWARD + WARREN ROUGH & FRIENDS Victoria Hotel , Brunswick. 5:00pm.

SHOCKONE

HOWLER Perth producer ShockOne, aka Karl Thomas has announced the release of his new EP In This Light. His new single City Lock stripped from the EP, features a collaboration with UK jungle pioneers Ragga Twins, who have appeared on tracks for Skrillex and Plan B. In This Light follows ShockOne’s acclaimed 2013 release Universus. The album debuted at #1 on the Australian iTunes chart and #2 on the ARIA album chart, solidifying his reputation as one of Australia’s premier bass producers. ShockOne spent all of 2014 touring the world off the back of this album success, with sold out shows across Australia, Europe, Japan and North America.

Command Q will take on the support slot for Saturday April 2 at Howler. $30 a ticket, 7.30pm entry.

Z-STAR DELTA + SWEET FELICIA & THE HONEYTONES Pistol Pete’s Food N Blues, Geelong. 7:30pm. $15.00.

SUNDAY 3 APR KARATE BOOGALOO

TH E RE TRE AT Soul Sundays are back at The Retreat and for this edition four-piece funk outfit Karate Boogaloo will be providing the tunes. Featuring a wailing organ, chanking guitar, bubbling bass and ghetto thumpin’ drums, this band will see you dancing off your hangover in true style. Hustle yourself down there at 8.30pm on Sunday April 3. Free entry so you’ve really got nothing to lose.

CLARK, VAN HOOFT & VOOGD + CLARK + VAN HOOFT & VOOGD Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

EMMA DONOVAN & THE PUTBACKS + THE MELTDOWN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $15.00.

PEPPERCORN JAZZ Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm.

SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

TYRE SWANS

T H E R E V E R E NC E The magical acoustic trio Tyre Swans – featuring Donnie Dureau, Darren Gibson and Jamie Hay – will be playing one very special show at The Reverence Hotel on the arvo of Sunday April 3. The beer is cheap and the show is even cheaper because it’s free. So drag your mates along and for what will be a fun afternoon of sweet tunes. It all kicks off at 4pm.

Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00.

COLD HEART Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote. 3:30pm.

ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:00pm.

THE SLIPDIXES

T H E D R U NK E N P O E T The Slipdixies are a six-piece, completely acoustic band devoted to bringing ‘20s and ‘30s Dixieland music to a new generation. Their repertoire ranges from hot driving rhythms to silky smooth ballads. They’ll be playing old favourites as well as lesser-known forgotten treasures of the bygone era on Sunday April 3 at The Drunken Poet. Catch ‘em from 6.30pm, free entry.

9:00pm.

FIREBIRD TRIO Terminus Hotel, Fitzroy North. 2:00pm.

SUNDAY SOULTRAIN - FEAT: ROSIE & THE MIGHTY KINGS

HANDSOME BASTARDS Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 2:30pm.

3:30pm.

THE NEW ORLEANS FUNK FACTORY + HORNS OF LEROY

HONEYBONE + HAPPY GO BLUES + LOLA Whole Lotta

The B.east, Brunswick East. 12:30pm.

Love, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

THE STEVE MARTINS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

JULES BOULT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

9:00pm.

MICHAEL MEEKING & THE LOST SOULS Labour In Vain,

ED KUEPPER Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SYMPHONY

Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

8:00pm. $48.90.

Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm.

MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel,

ELWOOD MYRE + FREYA HOLLICK Old Bar, Fitzroy.

AIRWAY LANES Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.

Williamstown. 3:00pm.

4:00pm.

BRIAN WILSON (PET SOUNDS & HIS GREATEST HITS)

MISS WHISKEY + DAN DINNEN Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel (nth

Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 6:00pm. $97.15.

7:00pm.

Fitzroy), Fitzroy North. 9:00pm.

TRANSGENRE 2016

H OWL E R Transgenre 2016 is a day-long music festival on Sunday April 3 at Howler, featuring a variety of trans and GNC-fronted bands, poets, DJs, and dancers from Melbourne and interstate. Performing in alphabetical order are Allison Gallagher, Astrid&, Brooke Powers, Callan, Chloe Alison Escott, Coral Ceto, Divinia Rainn, Geryon, Jules, Pikelet, rorts ([-o-]), Simona Castricum, SPIKE FUCK, trixie darko, Two Steps on the Water, WET KISS, Xen Nh and Yung Brujo. $20 if you’re not a concession, $10 if you are. Entry opens at 5pm.

COMMUNCIATION (THE MARC HUNTER SONGBOOK)

TYRANNAMEN

Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $28.00.

CONTAMINATED + DRAIN LIFE + CHRIST CRUSHER +

T H E TOT E Fresh from their antics at Golden Plains, The Tote presents cheeky four-piece Tyrannamen on Saturday April 2, who are launching their long-awaited, selftitled debut album. The record has already received shining critical acclaim, and on Saturday night you have the chance to give them a pat on the back. They’ll be playing with Tommy T & the Classical Mishaps and Spotting. Tickets are only $11, entry at 8pm.

Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm.

GHOST TOWNS OF THE MIDWEST Retreat Hotel,

JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner.

Brunswick. 5:00pm.

7:30pm.

GOATPISS GASOLINE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

KEEP STAR SHINING FUNDRAISER - FEAT: DAN SULTAN

KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel,

+ THE VASCO ERA + BIG SCARY + MORE Corner Hotel,

Williamstown. 9:00pm.

Richmond. 5:30pm.

SHOT GLASSES Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

MAN CITY SIRENS + LUCY TRAVIS + SEAN HUTTON

STEPHEN KENNEDY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

3:00pm.

MIKE NOGA BAND Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.

SULKS + MADELEINE DUKE + A B ROBB Workers Club,

PIERS FESTIVAL 2016 - FEAT: ARCHIE ROACH +

Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $5.00.

CLAYMORE + MAGNA GRECIA + ORKEZTRA GLASSO

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

BASHALDE + MORE Princes Pier, Port Melbourne.

JACK STIRLING

12:00pm.

S H EBEEN Jack Stirling is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fremantle in WA but now resides here in Melbourne. On Saturday April 2, Jack Stirling and The Perfect are adorning themselves in glitter and will bring their unique brand of sparkling pop to Shebeen for you to have a nice smoky dance to. The wine will be flowing. Tickets are $12 with doors at 7.30pm.

ASBESTOSIS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

DAISY CHAIN + JIMMY CHANG + INDENTED HEAD Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

DIRTY BOGARTS + AJ STEEL + GHOST GANG Whole Lotta

AINTREE SWEET Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

Q&A

THE ASCENDED So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band?

The Ascended – I’m the frontman/guitarist.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like?

We get a lot of comments saying we sound like Trivium.

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

I wouldn’t have to go back in time as my heroes are still touring their arse off. Trivium would be my choice, Matt Heafy in particular, and simply because they are my inspiration to play the music I do, and want to do what they do. It’s their music that set me on my path to metal, and more specifically, metalcore.

What can a punter expect from your live show?

We put on an energetic, high intensity, in your face performance from start to finish. We’re different to the metal that’s out there at the moment, and that’s something we’re finding is a huge positive.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?

We have our debut record Part I. Anything else to add?

Special mention to Evolution of Self and The Nuremberg Code. We’ve done over half of our shows on this tour with those guys and every night they have been incredible. Definitely worth checking them out.

THE ASCENDED are playing The Brunswick Club on Saturday April 2 with Evolution of Self, The Nuremberg Code and Wolves Among The Hallow.

“This band is the real deal, bloodlines link back to Heaven, Swanee and the singer is the brother of the late great Ted Mulry, you can see why they can pull a powerful goodtime rock sound in the spirit of Rose Tattoo and Bon Scott era AC/DC”.”

“Simply a great rock band.”

Kevin Borich

“Hardcore Aussie pubrock, blues rock and the way they play it is the Australian way.”

Australian Musicians Magazine

Pete Wells R.I.P.

“Black Label are the real deal, and they don’t have to establish that credential anymore. I love anything that lasts.”

Angry Anderson

(Rose Tattoo)

“Winning over a packed house of Angels fans hanging out to see their longtime favourite band perform isn’t easy.

But this band (Black Label) seemed to achieve it easily with a slick and tight performance, pulled together by a set of strong rock melodies and catchy lyrics.”

“Was great to tour with them. Great band and they play in the true spirit of Australian pub rock.”

Live Guide.com.au

(The Angels)

John Brewster

Friday 8th April with RANDOM SUBJECTS • AS CROWS FLY • TURK TRESIZE The Elephant & Wheelbarrow - 169 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

ALEX BURNS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

CASTELLAIN & DE PALMA + CRUZZ Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.

CHRIS WILSON & THE EMMA GARDNER BAND Cherry B E AT.C O M . A U

Saturday 8th April

with TURK TRESIZE • AS CROWS FLY • AUDEMIA Aireys Pub - 45 Great Ocean Road, Aireys Inlet www.blacklabelaustralia.com.au ~ www.facebook.com/blacklabelaustralia BLACK LABEL IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK IN AUSTRALIA

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Q&A

GIG GUIDE Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.

POOL COMP - FEAT: NOEL Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.

7:30pm.

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYBODY + QD Retreat Hotel,

THE COUNT WITH...

Brunswick. 8:30pm.

VON STACHE

Ten bands everyone should know about: Wet Lips, Miss Miss, Pretty City, Antiskeptic, Tiny Little Houses, The Hard Aches, Brand New, Against Me!, Modest Mouse, Saves The Day. Nine food items to make a kickarse dinner party: 55g caster sugar, 60ml water, 80ml chilled vodka, 80ml tequila, 80ml white rum, 80ml gin, 60ml Cointreau liqueur, 60ml fresh lemon juice, 250ml chilled cola.

Eight possessions that define you: Ibanez Roadcore, freezer full of ice blocks, Tarantino movie collection, $60 home job tattoo gun purchased in 2008, shitty van that breaks down every second week, Maton acoustic guitar, Super Nintendo, Dan Murphy’s member card.

Seven favourite movies/TV shows: Daria, 10 Things I Hate About You, Death Proof, Planet Terror, Xena: Warrior Princess, American Horror Story, Serial Mom. Six bad habits you can’t escape: Word vomit, joint cracking, getting bad tattoos, eating food that has been sitting on the bench for a week uncovered, drunk buying things from eBay, sleeping in my only clean clothes then wearing them to work for the next three days.

Five people who inspire you: Cat Stratford, Daria Morgendorffer, that captain that wears no pants from Futurama, the Man VS Food guy, every musician I see.

Four things that turn you on: Food, booze, music, boobs.

Three goals for your music: Make more, play more shows, always have fun.

Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why: Brand New, 2008. Jesse Lacey was his own acoustic support act. Descendents, 2010. I was late to discover their greatness and didn’t think I’d ever get to see them live. Plus, I only got punched in the face about three times.

One day left before the apocalypse and you…

Spend the day drunk at Disneyland VON STACHE play The Brunswick Hotel on Thursday March 31 with Ghost Dick and Shrimpwitch.

Q&A

ZII 1. The First Record I Bought: The first record I ever bought was Ma$e’s Double Up album. The first time I walked into a record store I couldn’t work out what to get – it was a foreign activity to me – so I decided to look at which covers looked cool. Being a fan of hip hop, that album stood out.

2. The Last Record I Bought: Hermicrania by 116th. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet but I loved his work on Diafrix’s album Concrete Jungle and loved the concept behind the album.

3. The First Thing I Recorded: The first thing I recorded was a song for a girl. At the time we had broken up and I was thinking of ways to get her back so I recorded a song I had written some time back and dedicated it to her.

4. The Last Thing I Recorded: This is Afrika, which was the first single from my upcoming EP Through These Eyes.

I recorded it with one of my heroes MoMO from Diafrix. I got to play both the bass and guitar on the track and got some amazing features including Ceeko and Sifaniso Bophela.

5. The Records That Changed My Life: Continuum by John Mayer for the amazing guitar tones, To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar for the jazz influences, D’angelo’s Black Messiah for the amazing grooves and Lecrae’s Anomaly for the content and energy.

ZII launches Through These Eyes on Friday April 1 at the Evelyn Hotel with support from SO. Crates and Walla C. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42

JERRY JOSEPH + STEVE DRIZOS & JENNY CONLEE + THE SPOILS DUO + JUMPIN’ JACK WILLIAM Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $10.00.

RILEY PEARCE

TH E WOR K E R S C LU B Riley Pearce is back with his new EP Outside The Lines inspired by a recent six month trip to Montana. In true coming-of-age style, Outside The Lines sees Pearce transcend from his debut EP We Are Fools, garnering a new array of sounds of percussive guitar, horns and smooth harmonies to achieve a new chilled, up beat sound. Pearce picked up a nomination for AU Review’s WA Best Male Vocals Award last year and support slots for the likes of Kim Churchill, Lifehouse and Josh Pyke Make your weekend last a little longer on Sunday April 3 at The Workers Club. Tickets are $10 and 7pm on the door.

ROOMFUL ‘O’ BLUES - FEAT: BLUE EYES CRY AND LAZY EYE Williamstown Rsl, Williamstown. 2:00pm. $20.00.

SLIMBELLY + KIER STEVENS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

MONDAY NIGHT CAJUN DANCE - FEAT: THE ‘JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE’ CAJUN BAND Victoria Hotel , Brunswick.

8:00pm.

TUESDAY 5 APR THE FORT ART OPENING

T H E O LD B A R Rebecca Kate’s Fort Art exhibition is back on Tuesday April 5 at The Old Bar, featuring the sounds of Eddy Dillon, Culte, Bloodhounds On My Trail, Barcelos, Maureen and Primm. Artworks will be open for viewing upstairs with non-stop music downstairs. Treat yourself this Tuesday. Bands kick off at 7pm with $5 entry.

SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel,

ADORE + MONDEGREEN + HOOSE Toff In Town,

Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.

DUNCAN PHILLIPS & THE LONG STAND

DEAR THIEVES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

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

ROYA L OA K H OT E L Scotland-born Duncan Phillips is launching his brand new single The Wilderness on Sunday April 3 at Royal Oak Hotel in Carlton’s North. The single comes from his upcoming debut album of the same name. Check out Duncan Phillips and his full band’s alt-country Americana tunes. Music kicks off at 4pm.

6:30pm. $10.00.

DE LA CALLE + JOSE NIETO + THE NEW MONO’S Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

IN TEMPORE PASCHALI Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $45.00.

SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky

MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.

MONASH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Dizzy’s Jazz Club,

THE FLAMING MONGRELS + TIM SMITH Workers Club,

Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Fitzroy. 1:30pm. $10.00.

JAALA

MONDAY 4 APR MUNDANE MONDAYS

TH E OL D B A R If Monday is getting you down (it usually does), The Old Bar knows just how to fix you up. This week’s Mundane Mondays on April 4 presents Jerry Joseph in Melbourne, featuring Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists) and Steve Drizos, The Spoils and Jumpin’ Jack William & Neil Wilkinson. 8pm with $10 at the door.

THE GASOMETER It’s Jaala’s last hoorah at The Gasometer on Tuesday April 5 as part of her month-long residency. Jaala has been celebrating her new album Hard Hold, which was recorded in just a week with Paul Bender from Hiatus Kaiyote. Jaala’s live show sees her and her band in their most dynamic, alluring form. Hard Hold welcomed a raft of glowing national and international reviews and was selected by triple j as the coveted feature album in early December, a distinction that was mirrored by other stations towards the end of 2015. Wish Jaala well on Tuesday night. Tickets are $18 with doors at 8pm.

The Push PRESENT

Access All Ages WITH GRACE KINDELLAN Here at The Push, we are thrilled to announce Walk This Way; a free five week journey into Melbourne’s urban music, arts & culinary culture. It’s a brand new program that introduces international students and newcomers to our city’s creative centre with a series of free hip-hop workshops, cultural tours and dinners.

Over five weeks, participants will be mentored by professional artists in the hip hop forms of MCing, DJing, Breakdancing and Street Art and they’ll get to explore some of our cultural institutions, like ACMI and the Arts Centre. Plus, Each week of the program finishes with a delicious dinner from one of the many different cuisines that flourish in Melbourne. Walk This Way is on from Thursday April 28 to Thursday May 19, concluding with a celebratory jam at Section 8 on Saturday May 28. Check it out here www.thepush. com.au.

Need more YouTube videos in your life? The Push have teamed up with youth radio station SYN 1700 to bring you new episodes of international viral music show BalconyTV, featuring artists from right here in Melbourne. There are more than fifty cities in the world with their own BalconyTV channel and we are stoked to be one of them. Our first episode is up and it’s a corker, with Alex Lahey playing her latest indie-popbanger You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me. Have a look at www.youtube.com/BalconyTVMelbourne.

Tonight is the last time you can check out live music across three stages at the Queen Victoria Night Market from 5pm till 10pm. You can catch the mesmerising folk duo Charm of Finches, altrockers Raised by Eagles, community world orchestra Footscray Gypsies and experience guitarist Sergio Ercole. More details are available at www.qvm.com. au/entertainment-2.

Check out the pop-art visuals with a soundtrack of sweet pop music at Friday Nights at NGV. This week, catch electro-goddess Ngaiire perform one of her unique, eclectic and fearless shows, filled with spine-tingling vocal deliveries and outrageous costumes. Tickets include entry to the Andy Warhol | Ai Wei Wei exhibition and access to exclusive talks, food and bars from 6pm to 10pm this Friday, March 25. For more information, head to www.ngv.vic.gov.au.

The Moonee Valley FReeZA Outdoor Cinema Summer Series brings great movies to lovely local parks and galleries for you to enjoy for free after dark.

It is going out with a bang this Friday April 1 with a screening of the sci-fi/action flick Guardians of the Galaxy at the Rosehill skate part. You’re welcome to bring your own food and non-alcoholic drinks, plus there will be a food truck and popcorn too. Check out www.facebook.com/MooneeValleyYouthServices for more details.

If you’re a young person living in the Banyule council, you might wanna check out Jets. It’s a multifunctional creative arts youth facility, delivering a range of programs and activities for young people in the area.

They run heaps of events, including the Banyule Youth Festival and they can provide access to a big range of professional music and multimedia equipment. For more information head to http://www.banyuleyouth. com/jets

All Ages Gig Guide WE D N E S DAY M A R C H 30

303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT + JUSTINE WALSH Open Studio,

JAZZ PARTY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Northcote. 8:00pm.

JOHN THORN & THE ROSES Open Studio, Northcote.

JLS & CO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Queen Victoria Night Market w/ Charm of Finches, Raised by Eagles, Footscray Gypsies, Sergio Ercole, Queen Victoria Market, 5.00pm – 10.00pm, Free, www.qvm.com.au/entertainment-2, AA,

8:00pm. $10.00.

KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

F R I DAY A PR I L 1

CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

LAKYN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

LOW Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm.

OPEN MIC Tago Mago, Thornbury. 3:35pm.

$59.00.

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

Rainbow Run w/ Cooper Lower, Jacob Pugh, Dj Rockzo, Emu Creek Pony Club, Terang, 3.00pm - 8.00pm, $10, www.corangamite.vic.gov.au, AA

MANGO RETREAT + MACULA + BRUNGAS BAND Workers

TASTE OF INDIE TUESDAY - FEAT: HOUSE BAND NIGHT

Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: WHITNEY HOUSTON’S

Outdoor Cinema Summer Series w/ Gardians of the Galaxy Screening, Rosehill Skate Park, Corner Rachelle Road and Rosehill Road, Keilor East, 6.00 - 10.30pm, www.facebook.com/MooneeValleyYouthServices, AA Friday Nights at NGV w/ Ngaiire, NGV International, 6.00pm – 10.00pm, Booking required, presale $24 member / $30 Adult / $12 Child, www.ngv.vic.gov. au, AA

CRYPT + MASSES + TWINROVA + DIECUT Northcote

CLASSIFIEDS 33c per word per week (inc GST) Send your classified listing to classifieds@beat.com.au.

Payment options include VISA/Mastercard or EFT (1.5% surcharge for

credit card payment).

Deadline is Monday 11am, prior to Wednesday’s publication.

Minimum $5 charge per week.

We do not accept classifieds over the phone - sorry.

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

NOW BOOKING BANDS at Dane Certificate’s Magic Bar. Email danecertificate@yahoo.com.au *

HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL GUITARIST WANTED. Must have experience and own songs/ riffs. Phn: 0433 726 449 *

WANTED TO BUY: Some self esteem, although I probably don’t deserve it.

ALL OF THE DIRT ALL AT ONCE - BAND SEEKS MANAGEMENT. After a falling out with our last manager (that we don’t really want to get into), we are now seeking a more professional manager.

Please email allofthedirtallatonce@gmail.com

ROCK/METAL ACTS WANTED for local rock shows - contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au

B E AT.C O M . A U

Wed 30th March

W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: Rachel Shaw 9pm: Joyce Prescher Thurs 31th March

8pm:

Open Mic Night Friday 1st April

6pm: Traditional Irish Music Session

T.K Reeve Saturday 2nd April 3pm: Stephen Kennedy 9pm: Michelle Chandler Sunday 3rd April 4pm: Alex Burns 6.30pm: The Slipdixies 8.30pm:

Tuesday 5th April

8pm:

Weekly Trivia

The Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au

BACKSTAGE GO FETCH

In our modern technologically driven world, it seems there are new products and services being introduced every day. However, the innovations that stand to simplify our lives continue to come out on top. Founded

by Blair Smith, Go Fetch is set to provide the most efficient, inexpensive peer-to-peer delivery system Melbourne has ever seen.

“The concept is a part of what’s called the peer-to-peer sharing economy,” Smith explains. “With the advent of smart phones, you’ve been able to cut out the middleman and the distributors - customers and products can now talk to each other. In a nutshell, what Uber does for ride sharing, we do for deliveries.”

Go Fetch is available via an app, enabling customers to log a delivery job from dry cleaning to a couch. It is then accepted by a nearby ‘fetcher’ and completed instantaneously. “You enter the pick-up and drop-off point, then you assign a pick-up person and a drop-off,” says Smith. “The fetcher then has a phone number at both ends. Afterwards, you enter the item type and at that stage the system will give you a fixed quote. We don’t do surge pricing and we honour the fee that was agreed upon at the start.”

It’s clear that unlike some competitors, Go Fetch’s aim is to provide the cheapest and most efficient personal delivery service for their customers. “It’s five dollars per fetch and fifty cents per minute,” Smith says. “Based on that model, the CBD is averaging at eight or nine dollars, inner city is about twelve to thirteen dollars. The app is clever enough to recognise current traffic conditions and it’ll work out a price based on how long it’s going to take someone to do the job.

“Every one of our transactions is same day, normally within an hour or so,” says Smith.

“When you look at same day delivery prices, Australia Post charges $135 to get an item across town and we’re charging $35. In terms of pricing, no-one has a lower

cost model than Go Fetch. Because we have no overheads and our fetchers are using their own skateboard, bike or car, we have no exposure to those costs.”

In addition, Go Fetch’s pricing model also maintains an improved rate of pay for couriers around Melbourne. “Each fetcher will set up a Stripe account, which is a payment system, the minute a job is finished the payment is split 80-20,” Blair reveals. “The fetcher gets 80% of the job and that money goes straight into their account. While there are rigorous screening processes involved, virtually anyone can become a fetcher. From students to those in the corporate world, there’s no telling who’ll be bringing you your items. “The very first fetcher we signed is a professional chef and does a couple of fetches on the way to work.”

“We started advertising for fetchers before we started pushing for customers. Our first strategy was Melbourne University and RMIT, so we’ve now got 650 fetchers signed up and a lot of them are students. A lot of Uber drivers are now actually doing this in their spare time. Bicycle couriers in Melbourne only get paid $3 per job, but with us they get about $7, so a lot of the professional bike couriers have come on board, too. We’ve also got one guy who is corporate and he just does one fetch in the morning, jumps on the tram and makes twenty bucks dropping stuff off from St Kilda on his way to work.”

Returning choice and control to the individual, Smith’s company redefines what it is to work casually. With 24-hour service and freedom to select your own jobs, life as a fetcher is nothing but flexible. “All of

our fetchers are effectively sole traders; they work for themselves, so they’ve all got their own ABNs,” he says. “We have a dashboard of jobs and the fetchers select the job that suits them. We’re kind of changing the casual labour market. Instead of having to go get a part time job, a lot of people could just Go Fetch and make better money just doing a few jobs between uni lectures or whatever. You don’t have to lock into an eight hour shift in a shop anymore.”

Placing the power into the customer’s hands, Go Fetch’s well designed app allows the customer to live chat with their fetcher, track the order progress and rate their experience. “I’ve spent a long time getting our app right, from the actual log in to requesting a fetch. I’ve spent a lot of work on the design so everyone has a good experience that is clear and easy,” Smith says.

Just as platforms like AirBnB and Uber, Go Fetch has transformed the traditional service and in turn, has bridged the gap between purchase and delivery. With new

goals in mind, Smith is now striving to close that gap for good. “We really want to get that hamburger market at two in the morning” he laughs. “Quite often, delivery people are new Australians or students, so we are working on a smarter way for fetchers to buy something on a customer’s behalf, without having to be financially exposed. We’re working on a debit system where the fetcher has got a Go-Fetch credit card and can actually buy something for you. That cost, on top of the fetch, would

then be billed to the customer in one transaction.”

BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON GO FETCH is available now on iOS, as a desktop application and via their website. An android app is set to be released later this year.

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MADONNA’S TOTAL TOUR GROSS EXCEEDS $1B After winding up her tour in Australia, Madonna’s Rebel Heart world tour had a total gross of US $169.8 million, from 1,045,479 tickets sold at 82 performances.

Billboard crunched the numbers to find that all her tours since 1990 have grossed $1.31 billion, extending her reign as highest grossing solo touring artist. She beat Bruce Springsteen ($1.25b) and Elton John ($1.05b). Madonna is third highest grossing act of all time, behind the Stones ($1.84b) and U2 ($1.67b).

DEATHS AT BLUESFEST, ULTRA Death blighted Bluesfest Byron Bay and Ultra in Miami. At Bluesfest, a 43-year-old man was found unconscious at his campsite at 2.30pm on Saturday. Emergency services were called, and police are awaiting results of a post-mortem. Meantime, a 21-yearold college student died of a heart seizure, a public transport supervisor is accused of raping a drunk woman and 67 were arrested on various charges at Ultra Music.

The festival finished with a reunion by Australia’s Pendulum (their first gig for four years) and were joined by Deadmau5.

123 AGENCY SIGNS RILEY PEARCE Melbourne based 123 Agency has signed Perth singer/songwriter Riley Pearce.

He’s currently touring nationally (landing at The Workers Club on Sunday April 3) behind his EP Outside The Lines (inspired by his love for overseas travel) through MGM, which got picked up by triple j and community radio. Meantime, the breakout track Brave has been nominated for WAM’s Folk Song of the Year.

CROWDDJ LETS YOU DECIDE CLUB MUSIC Want to decide the music at your local venue, or recreate last night’s clubbing at home? A new Australian app crowdDJ lets you. It is developed by Nightlife Music, which supplies curated playlists for 3000 clubs, gyms and bars across Australia, and the local operations of Spotify. Fans use the free app on their mobile device, or an in-venue kiosk as their remote control, to choose a song or connect their Spotify to request their tunes from the venues’ licensed library of tracks. It allows customers to become its DJ by requesting their songs to play in-venue, in real time. They can save the playlist to their Spotify account to relive the experience at home. Nightlife Music CEO David O’Rourke says it will create more engagement between customer and venue, saying, “Venues will start to see BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46

THINGS WE HEAR Which regional promoter was asked by the manager of a major band to return to their motel to get his cut of the night’s show? He arrived to find the band had checked out and returned to the city.

Are Guns N’ Roses doing a secret club show in LA this week?

Spotify now has 30 million subscribers, making it the largest streaming service.

BBC Worldwide has acquired the Avicii music documentary Stories but no screen date for Australia has been firmed.

As The Red Hot Summer Tour hit Bendigo Racecourse, the Jockey Club saw Jimmy Barnes, Jon Stevens and Dave Gleeson team up for Good Times.

Following Lorde’s tribute to David Bowie at the BRIT awards in London, his longtime pianist Mike Garson revealed that Bowie regarded Lorde as “the future of music and they had a few wonderful moments together.”

A contestant on Spain’s Got Talent started out with a flawless opera piece … and then ripped off her dress to reveal torn jeans to do AC/DC’s Highway To Hell.

Geelong musicians get a new place to play, at least on Sundays, with the return of Irish Murphy’s on Aberdeen St under four new owners.

Among this week’s ARIA certifications were Hilltop Hoods’ 1955 going platinum, and Flume’s Never Be Like You and Marcus Marr & Chet Faker’s The Trouble With Us both picking up their second platinum.

Spotted in the crowd at Bluesfest Byron Bay: Bernard Fanning, Chris Hemsworth, Jimeoin, Kasey Chambers (sporting a pink haircut), George Negus and former Treasurer Wayne Swan.

A proposal by City of Sydney, the Live Music Office and University of Sydney could see old buildings in the city turned into live music venues.

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For the second year in a row, The Peninsula Picnic at Mornington Racecourse was a sell-out, with near 5000 attending to see a bill that featured Missy Higgins, Kim Churchill and Darren Middleton, as well as offerings from local chefs, restaurants, expert vignerons and vineyards. “It was a fantastic day on the Mornington Peninsula,” CEO of Melbourne Racing Club Brodie Arnhold said.

The US music industry generated US$7.016 billion through 2015 – an increase of 0.09% from the previous year’s $6.951 billion. Streaming is now an important part of its revenue, for the first time accounting for 34.3%, compared to downloads (34%), CDs and vinyl (28.8%) and licensing tracks to movies, TV and ads (2.9%). Through 2015, there were 317.2 billion streams by Americans, compared to 164.5 billion the year before. Overall digital revenue, including downloads and streams, increased 6.2% to $4.8 billion, from $4.51 billion in 2014, accounting for a combined 70% of overall sales, up from 67%. Paid subscription revenue jumped 52.3% to $1.22 billion, compared to $800.1 million in 2014. Ad-supported streaming revenue increased 30.6% to $385.1 million.

Without streaming, digital revenue sales revenue was down 10.4% to $2.32 billion, with album download units down 7% to 10.4 million and tracks falling 14.9% to 1.2 billion. Physical formats were down 10.1% to 1.9 billion. The vinyl revival continued generating $423 million, with sales up 31.8% to 16.9 million albums and 500,000 singles.

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The Hills Arrive Alive boutique festival held over the long weekend sold out for the eight year in a row. With a bill of 33 acts, The Hills Are Alive took place on the same site as its younger sister, NYE on the Hill Festival, which has also sold out both years.

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SELECT MUSIC SIGNS ALEX LAHEY Select Music signed Melbourne singer/ songwriter Alex Lahey, joining a roster with Tkay Maidza, Client Liaison, Henry Wagons and Ivan Ooze. “Her new solo project just shows what a diverse songwriter and performer she is,” says Select’s Katie Rynne. “Totally relatable lyrics and infectious hooks, coupled with a great voice and killer band, what more could we want?” New single You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me was picked up by triple j and community radio.

DR. GONZO’S POP UP STORE For 30 years, 3CR identity Dr. Gonzo ran Polyester Books. It was a one stop for all things weird, wonderful, free spirited, sexy, disgusting, depraved, outrageous and occasionally illegal. For that he was arrested, banned, censored and raided, until he sold the store six years ago. It closed last month, the way of many indie stores. Now Dr. Gonzo has until early May set up the Sex, Drugs, Rock‘n’Roll pop up at the store’s former site at 330 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. It is offering rare and unusual books, vinyls, CDs, memorabilia and art, much of it from his own personal collection, as well as those from collectors as Bruce Milne. On offer are collectables as Charles Manson books, a vintage drive-in movie car window speaker, model kits, soft porn, mugs, boxed sets, killers’ art and drug magazines. On Sunday May 1, there’s a pop down party with Gonzo and Milne on the decks during the Brunswick St All Out Festival from 10am - 6pm.

WANTOK LAUNCHES IN PNG Melbourne’s Wantok Musik Foundation is launching in Papua New Guinea with a concert on Saturday April 9 at PNG National Museum in Port Moresby.

Among performers are George Telek MBE, Richard Mogu, Ben Hakalitz, Pius Wasi, Radical Son (Tonga / Australia) and Tha Feelstyle (Samoa). The launch is to introduce the Foundation and music label to PNG, while providing a platform for promotion and preservation of PNG cultures through music and arts. Wantok musicians and directors will hold workshops with students and artists, with info sessions from APRA AMCOS on the importance of collection agencies and copyright, and celebrating culture and identity in creation and performance.

MAITREYA PROMOTER FACING LEGAL ISSUES? Buloke Shire Council is talking legal action against the promoter of Maitreya Festival, it told the Bendigo Advertiser. The Friday March 11 to Monday March 14 EDM/ lifestyle festival was cancelled after Council refused a permit and Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal ordered the promoter to vacate the site by Friday March 4. But this was allegedly not done and hundreds of ticket holders still attended and camped at the Wooroonook Lakes site.

Council says significant damage to the site included “the almost complete removal of undergrowth” and “loss of a significant number of trees and habitat.” It is “currently developing a strategy for prosecution to recover costs.” The promoter couldn’t be reached for comment.

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secret that I’ve gone through some shit,” says 360. Now the multi-platinum rapper has helped set up a non-profit organisation 180 Movement to tackle mental health, addiction and domestic violence. He says these issues are still swept under the carpet in Australia, and needs healthy dialogue and action to confront them. Part of his issues, he admits, was he never talked about them with others.

MORE DIGITAL RADIO INSTALLED IN CARS The number of new cars on the road in Australia installed with DAB+ units has tripled to 307,500 in the past year. That helps lift digital radio uptake to 25% of the population in metro areas. 27% of new cars here are now digital friendly (it’s 80% in the UK). The 2016/17 models of Porsche Cayenne, Toyota Prius i-Tech and Mitsubishi Pajero and Lancer are among those who’ll have them. The radio industry is talking to brands including Mazda and Hyundai to include them. The total amount of digital radio receivers sold in Australia is 2.44 million with 3.35 million Aussies listening to radio via a DAB+ device in the five capital cities.

VIOLENT SOHO, PEACOCK, HITS AT QLD AWARDS Violent Soho and singer/songwriter Luke Daniel Peacock were multi-winners at the Queensland Music Awards in Brisbane.

Violent Soho took song of the year and the rock category for Like Soda, almost missing out on picking one of the trophies by arriving late. Their celebrations continued after their WACO topped this week’s ARIA chart (their first chart topper) while their third album Hungry Ghost, which peaked at #6 in September 2013, re-entered this week at #73.

Peacock took the Indigenous category and the $10,000 Billy Thorpe Scholarship. “I’ve never had half that money in all my life,” he said also admitting he brought his mum and dad to allay their worries about his music career. The Grant McLennan Lifetime Achievement went to Brisbane Courier entertainment journalist Noel Mengel for his long time support of Queensland artists. Blank Realm won Album of the Year (Illegals In Heaven), Sheppard took Export Achievement, Jarryd James’ Do You Remember was Highest Selling Single by a Queenslander in 2015, while The Veronicas had Highest Selling Album.

SYDNEY TO HOST EUROVISION ASIA Sydney will be the first to host the inaugural Eurovision Asia Song Competition next year. SBS which screens it and was allowed to enter Guy Sebastian in 2015 and Dami Im this year, was asked by organiser European Broadcasting Union to set it up in the Asia Pacific. Talks have begun with sponsors and broadcasters to suss if the idea has wings. After 2017, the competition would be held in the other 20 Asian cities expected to be involved. Eurovision gets 200 million European viewers a year; the Asia-Pacific link could grow it to 1 billion.

STREET NAMED AFTER BOWIE? Plans are for a street in the south London suburb of Brixton to be named after David Bowie. He was born there. A mural painted after his death has become a shrine, and will now remain permanently. Recently, the flat owned by Jimi Hendrix in 1968 (23 Brook St) was opened to the public after being recreated the way he had it. Last week, the 17th century London townhouse that The Sex Pistols lived and recorded

Lifelines DIVORCING: Frances Bean Cobain, 23 and Isaiah Silva of The Eeries after less than two years’ marriage.

The wedding made news in June 2014 when her mum Courtney Love was not invited. The divorce documents reveals she is seeking to protect her share of her famous dad Kurt Cobain’s $450 million fortune.

RECOVERING: Michael Schack of Victorian country band The Dead Livers after liver transplant.

INJURED: Carcass frontman Jeff Walker broke two bones in his foot before a Seattle show but did the final two gigs on their tour with Slayer and Testament.

IN COURT: Kesha has appealed a US judge’s finding that she must continue to record with Dr. Luke despite her claims he sexually abused her.

SUED: Ritchie Blackmore by Italian label Frontiers Records over the 2015 album All Our Yesterdays by his band Blackmore’s Night. Frontiers, which distributed the album worldwide, says it paid him an advance of $220,000 but had poor sales because the guitar hero refused to do any promotion for it.

DIED: US outlaw country troubadour Steve Young, 73, best known for Seven Bridges Road. His songs were covered by The Eagles and Waylon Jennings.

DIED: Ted Mellencamp, 62, tour manager and brother to John Mellencamp. The trained electrician visited Australia numerous times with John.

DIED: Phife Dawg (aka Malik Isaac Taylor) of the seminal A Tribe Called Quest, 45, after a battle with diabetes. in (6 Denmark St) was declared “historic” and given Grade II listing by Historic England. Its walls still have caricatures that John Lydon/ Johnny Rotten drew of the other Pistols, manager Malcolm McLaren and Nancy Spungen. Historic England describes it as “a rare example of the cultural phenomenon of Punk Rock, captured in the physical fabric of a building.”

ARTS PARTY RELEASES PLATFORM The Arts Party has nine candidates for the upcoming Federal elections. It wants arts funding tripled and the Australia Council’s fund budget increased by $124 million. It wants the arts to become a priority in education alongside science, technology, engineering and maths, and expand the Research and Development Tax Incentive to the arts. Its platform also covers public broadcasting, health care, disability support, marriage equality, climate change, immigration and refugees.

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