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QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL UNVEILS FIRST ROUND LINEUP FOR 2016 Queenscliff Music Festival is back for their 20th anniversary year, boasting an impressive selection of acts in their first lineup announcement. The lineup so far includes Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos, Abbe May, Alpine, Ash Grunwald, Julia Jacklin, Kyle Auldist, The Meltdown, Nattali Rize, Quarter Street and Urthboy. Queenscliff Music Festival will run from Friday November 25 - Sunday November 27. Stay tuned for further lineup announcements. Tickets through Trybooking.

30 YEARS LABYRINTH FUNDRAISER Oztentatious Occasions have announced the inaugural Dance Magic Dance event – a glorious masquerade party night to celebrate thirty years of the film Labyrinth.

All of the proceeds from the event are going to the Children’s Cancer Centre Foundation at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. The event is a way of showing gratitude for all that David Bowie contributed to the world across the years. You’re encouraged to dress up in an outrageous get-up and boogie on down to everything ‘80s classics, indie, soul, rock’n’roll, and of course plenty of Bowie’s favourite tunes. It goes down at Bobbie Peels 351 Queensberry Street on Saturday June 25. Tickets range between $10 - $20 through Eventbrite.

BANFF AND CAITLIN PARK ANNOUNCE EAST COAST TOUR BANFF and Caitlin Park have announced they’re teaming up and hitting the road for a co-headline, east coast tour this August. Punters can expect them to perform songs from each of their respective catalogues, including BANFF’s 2015 Future Self EP and Park’s critically acclaimed second album The Sleeper, along with their debut live performance of collaborative track My Love, My Lover. Get down and have a swoon to BANFF and Caitlin Park when they land in Melbourne at The Grace Darling Saturday August 13. Tickets via moshtix.

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After exploding onto the heavy underground scene in 2015, Merchant will launch their new album, Suzerain, in their hometown later this month. With support from the likes of YLVA, BOG and Roundtable, it’s set to be a blistering night of heavy music. Merchant will play the Bendigo Hotel Saturday June 25 from 8pm.

HODOR HAS A DJ SET FOR YOU Kristian Nairn (AKA, everyone’s favourite gentle giant Hodor) is returning to Melbourne on the Rave of Thrones Resurrection Tour, hitting the decks on a DJ tour of the country. An established DJ in his own right, Nairn will be dropping some of the deepest house from all seven kingdoms, with punters encouraged to dress up in the finest Game of Thrones-inspired garb for the event. It’s all going down at Trak on Friday October 21. Tickets via the Rave of Thrones website.

TOTALLY UNICORN ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE SHOW Sydney metalcore legends Totally Unicorn are set to release a new album, and to help launch it they’re tripping down to Melbourne for a special show.

Their outrageous new single Customer Service Station debuted via triple j’s Short Fast Loud back in March, and their crazy Top Gut single tour whet our whistles for what’s to come when Dream Life is released on Friday July 29, via Farmer & The Owl/Inertia. Featuring collaborations with Karina Utomo of High Tension, Robert Smith from Heavy Heavy Low Low, help from producer Tim Carr and even former member Tim McMahon, Dream Life will be riotous and disruptive without being erratic. Totally Unicorn will be causing a ruckus when they pop into the Northcote Social Club on Friday September 23.

BLIND MAN DEATH STARE ANNOUNCE TOUR Blind Man Death Stare are back on the road again, and this time they’ve got Melbourne mates Cosmic Kahuna joining them for the party. Cosmic Kahuna recently dropped their cracking EP, Wastoid. The string of shows sees them heading to Albury, Warnambool, Ballarat and more. There’s of course a couple of cheeky Melbourne shows too, with likes of The Decline (WA), Bombs Are Falling, Wolfpack and even Starving Millions from NZ. Catch Blind Man Death Stare and Cosmic Kahuna when they land at The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar on Friday June 24. and at the Bendigo Hotel Friday July 15.

BIG WHITE ARE COMING TO MELBOURNE Following the recent release of their debut album, Teenage Dreams, Big White are coming to Melbourne next month.

Teenage Dreams showcased their neoromantic rock vibes and lyrical depth when it was released back in March.

Big White have exploded onto the tour scene, having recently performed around Europe and the US, including their second South by Southwest Music Festival this past March. Find them at Yah Yah's on Saturday July 9.

thom lion gears up for ep launch Having just released his latest EP, Adelaide alt-pop musician Thom Lion is embarking on a national tour. Sleep Riots is due for release on Friday July 29, and boasts the input of legendary producer John Castle (Vance Joy, Josh Pyke) from The Shed Studios based in Melbourne.

Sleep Riots includes his recently released singles, Fire Escape and Mess At Best. The EP promises an engaging collection of piano-filled choruses, and gorgeous vocals. Catch Thom Lion at the Wesley Anne on Friday July 8.

UFOMAMMUT AND MONOLORD UNVEIL TOUR PLANS Italian space doom virtuosos Ufomammut and Swedish three-piece Monolord have announced they’re embarking on a huge tour. They’re arriving on Australian soil later this year for what is set to be a truly monolithic double-header. Ufomammut have released a stack of studio albums, culminating in 2015’s Ecate – a release that boasts nuanced doom perfectly encapsulating the band’s career to date.

Monolord draw on influences such as Sleep, Sabbath, Windhand, and Conan, taking reverence to the riff to new extremes. Their second record, 2015’s Vænir, mixes glacial tempos with hypnotic and otherworldly vocals. You can catch these powerhouses when they hit Max Watt’s Saturday October 8.

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LIZ STRINGER ANNOUNCES 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW AND ALBUM DETAILS Following the far-reaching success of her last release in 2012, Liz Stringer is set to follow up with a brand new album come Friday July 1, locking in a national tour to celebrate. With acclaimed producer and engineer Adam Selzer (The Decemberists, Jolie Holland, Fleet Foxes, M Ward) at the helm, All The Bridges, Stringer’s fifth studio album, was recorded over eight days in July 2015 at Selzer’s studio, Type Foundry, in Portland. 2012’s Warm In The Darkness was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize, and resulted in major festival appearances and shows on the international circuit.

Catch Liz Stringer at Howler Saturday September 17.

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STRAWBERRY FIELDS ANNOUNCES FIRST ROUNG LINEUP FOR 2016 Back for its eighth year, Strawberry Fields has revealed the first round of artists for their 2016 incarnation. Bringing the beats to the banks of the Murray will be England’s George Fitzgerald, as well as Henry Saiz in a full band show, Kuniyuki & DJ So Leftfield, Marcel Fengler, Move D and Patrick Topping. Adding to the action comes sets from Croatia’s Petar Dundov, Radio Slave, Stephan Bodzin, Super Flu, Tom Trago UR DJ Assault Squad and South America’s Victor Ruiz. Rounding out the experience will be the return of eclectic market stalls, art installations, live performance and workshops. Plus, there’s two new music areas being introduced this year – one being dedicated to hip hop, neo soul and reggae, and the other dedicated to Australian progressive trance. Strawberry Fields 2016 goes down from Thursday November 17 - Sunday November 20 at Tocumwal, New South Wales. Tickets are available via the festival website.

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Modern love is a minefield, and trust us É t he last thing you want to do is turn to Yahoo Answers for advice.

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Join us for a fun night of sexy stories with red velvet curtains, an intimate setting and signature cocktails to keep everyone well lubricated.

The stuff we choose to keep says something about ourselves, and Show and Tell for Grown-Ups is a place to share those stories.

Comedians Deirdre Fidge, Nath Valvo, and Demi Larder share their lewdest and rudest fan fiction, guaranteed to entertain you all night.

Host Tony Wilson invites each of his visiting hoarders, including Damian Callinan and Cal Wilson, to reveal a thought-provoking or memory-stirring curiosity Ð then, the floor is open to you.

Bedtimes Stories is a storytelling evening created by Saturday Paper editor Erik Jensen, where some of AustraliaÕ s best writers retell their books É as if for children.

In two very special performances at the Toff, Maxine Beneba Clarke (slam poet and author of Foreign Soil) will read Howl Ð Allen GinsbergÕ s seminal Beat poem Ð to modern music by jazz composer Darrin Archer.

Featuring Justin Clemens (academic), Jess McGuire (writer, broadcaster, DJ), Maureen Matthews (columnist) and Tim Rogers (musician).

Find out how Lorelei VashtiÕ s Dress, Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses would have been written differently for tots. Hear Romy AshÕ s soothing retelling of Floundering, or snuggle up with revealing macro-economic fables from George Megalogenis (AustraliaÕ s Second Chance). And lullabies? Singer-songwriter Laura Jean is here to help.

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PLEASURE GARDEN ANNOUNCE 2016 LINEUP A brand new festival has arrived on the scene, because Australia just can’t get enough of them. Coming to St Kilda this December, The Pleasure Garden is an immersive, creative music and arts experience – containing all the ingredients to become a premier arts and music event in Australia. In its inaugural year, The Pleasure Garden’s first announcement includes The Cat Empire, The Opiuo Band, The Correspondents, Tash Sultana, Spoonbill, Dub FX, Jakubi, Mista Savona, Boogs, Steve Ward and Kodiak Kid. More acts are yet to be announced, but early bird tickets are on sale now.

Check out www.thepleasuregarden.com.au for more details.

THE MONKEES CELEBRATE 50 YEARS TOGETHER Celebrating their 50th Anniversary and their latest album Good Times!, Micky and Peter will play a one night only Melbourne show. Originally cast in a television program depicting a struggling rock band inspired by The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, their first single Last Train To Clarksville was quick to hit number one. A regular on the billboard charts, the boys were best known for their hits I’m a Believer, (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone and A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You. Following the death of fellow Monkee Davy Jone’s in 2012, the surviving members reunited for a series of sell out shows.

To carry on this tradition, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork will bring The Monkees magic Down Under with a jam packed show of hits, clips and an intimate acoustic set. The Monkees will play Palais Theatre Wednesday December 7. Tickets via Tombowler.

BASSHUNTER ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR Swedish producer Basshunter is one of the world’s most in-demand dance artists but he’s never trekked Down Under until now, where he’ll be hitting up five states with six shows.

Heard loud and clear through summer dance halls all around the world, he’s known for producing a wild, energetic ride fuelled by driving beats, strong hooks and unforgettable choruses.

Watch for his hands-in-the-air anthems, Now You’re Gone, Saturday, I Promised Myself, All I Ever Wanted and Every Morning. What’s more, he’ll be joined by ten of the world’s brightest dance talents for the tour, including Luciana, Groove Coverage, Guru Project, Lasgo, D.H.T. feat. Edmée, Ian Van Dahl, Boogie Pimps, Flip & Fill feat.

Karen Parry, Fonzerelli and Sylver.

Basshunter will be harpooning into 170 Russell on Sunday November 27 and Monday November 28.

New Zealand’s groove legends Katchafire are heading to Melbourne in support of their new single, Burn it Down. The track was was co-written and produced with Stephen Rev Maxwell from Kingston, Jamaica, and is a global effort on behalf of the band – having been recorded and mixed in studios across Jamaica, Australia, and New Zealand. The diversity of these locations give Burn It Down an authentic reggae and ska sound. Catch them at the Chelsea Heights Hotel on Saturday October 8 and the Prince Bandroom on Sunday October 9. Tickets through the band's website.

DASHVILLE SKYLINE REVEALS FIRST ACTS FOR 2016 Australia’s premier alt-country festival is back for another year, boasting a national rock icon, international guests, and the next generation of the country’s best songwriters. Leading the lineup is Brian Cadd, whose songs have been performed by everyone from Ringo Starr to Joe Cocker. A prolific songwriter since the ‘60s, he’ll be bringing a batch of hits with him. Cadd will be joined by San Francisco’s The Brothers Comatose and Australian legends The Wilson Pickers. Rounding it out comes sets from Melody Pool, Raised By Eagles, The Hello Morning, Jess Ribeiro, Davey Craddock and The Spectacles, Karl S. Williams, Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats, Irish Mythen and Tamworth’s Andy Golledge Band. Capping it off is the Sunset Super Round, in which songwriters take to the stage to pay musical tribute to their favourite artists. It all goes down Friday September 30 to Sunday October 2 in Dashville, New South Wales. Tickets via Ticketbooth.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: LED ZEPPELIN MASTERS SHOW DOUBLE PASSES The Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Masters Show is set to be a night of nostalgia and plenty of shred. Adelaide’s iconic Zeppelin tribute outfit, Zep Boys, will be fronting the night alongside The Black Dog Orchestra and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. It’s all going down at Hamer Hall on Friday July 8 and Sunday July 9, and Beat has scored some free double passes for a few lucky punters. For your chance to win, head on over to beat.com.au/ freeshit.

THE WHEELER CENTRE AT THE TOFF DOUBLE PASSES The Wheeler Centre’s performance space is getting a makeover, but they’re soldiering on thanks to the good folks at The Toff. Their upcoming series covers everything from biography, comedy and even erotic fan fiction. For more details, head to The Wheeler Centre’s website. In the meantime, why not score yourself some free tickets to a reading of Allen Ginsberg’s visceral1955 poem, Howl on Monday July 25. Maxine Beneba Clarke will read Howl at 8.30pm to modern music by jazz composer Darrin Archer. Get yourself in the running and enter at beat.com.au/ freeshit on over to beat.com.au/ freeshit

DUSTIN TEBBUTT UNVEILS ALBUM TOUR DATES Armidale native and melodic dream catcher Dustin Tebbutt is gearing up to release his anticipated debut studio LP, and will celebrate with an expedition around Australia over August and September. Tebbutt has locked in a Melbourne date for the tour, which will see him sharing ten fresh new tracks from the new release, First Light.

Robbie Miller and Woodes will be joining him at Northcote Social Club, on Friday August 12. Grab your ticket via the venue.

THE BON SCOTTS RETURN WITH FREE SINGLE LAUNCH pretty city unleash a vinyl debut and tour Melbourne psych-rockers Pretty City have printed their hit debut album Colorize onto vinyl, and to celebrate, they’ll be touring around the country.

Colorize has garnered rave reviews, and has become a favourite for psych-rock fans in America. The record is a hit on US college radio and is one of only two independent releases to be included in their top 20 most played. Keeping company with artists like The Kills & Paul Simon, the band continues to go from strength to strength. They’ll be hitting Yah Yah's on Saturday August 13.

Tickets available via the band’s website.

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After a sizable hiatus in 2015, The Bon Scotts are back with a brand new single and they’re playing a free gig in Melbourne to celebrate. Main Street is the first single from The Bon Scotts' new album When I’m Lonely I Still Think Of You, due for release in March next year.

The single is an exploration into the often explosively-tense nature of race relations in Australia, and the need for empathy and conversation in the pursuit of peace.

The track is partly inspired by the recent Coburg Race Rally; The Bon Scotts have lived in Coburg for over seven years and were disturbed by the violent behaviour that erupted from both sides of the rally’s ideological perspectives. Catch The Bon Scotts at The Spotted Mallard on Saturday July 16. Doors open at 8 pm.

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BOB EVANS LOCKS IN 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW In support of his fifth studio album release, Bob Evans is set to head off on an Australian tour throughout August. Recorded in Sydney with Tom Buchen (The Preatures, Montaigne, Spookylands,) Car Boot Sale is a simple yet ornate album, with the title referring to the “travelling salesman style” of Bob Evans’ old school tours, where he would literally sell his music from his car boot. It will be the first time in three years that the ARIA-winning musician and his full band will play together, with his Melbourne show set to be supported by none other than Jim Lawrie.Car Boot Sale is out now via Universal Records. Bob Evans will hit Howler on Saturday August 13.

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Gig Of The Week GIVE ‘EM A LEG UP YA BASTARDS!

My mum tries to claim that my brother is a bastard, as if it’ll make her seem badarse. But while he was conceived out of wedlock, she was married by the time he was born, so it’s a false claim. I think it’s a bit ridiculous anyway, but then again, the word bastard is often used affectionately. Such is the case with this gig designed to help raise funds so Melbourne band Sheriff can record their debut LP. Joining them at Rye Civic Hall are Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Child, My Left Boot, Grindhouse, Redro Redriguez & His Inner Demons, Zombitches, Killerbirds, Broozer, A Gazillion Angry Mexicans, The Annie Crooners and The Moody Spooks. It goes down Saturday June 25.

LABEL OF LOVE: BEDROOM SUCK

Another week and another sweet show, thanks to the Label of Love series. The only bad thing about this series is that soon, it’ll all be over. This edition sees Bedroom Suck stepping up to the pitch, with key players Terrible Truths and Totally Mild re-uniting to smash it out of the park. More acts on board for the show include Lower Plenty, Childsaint and Pillow Pro. You’d be a nugget to miss it, so chuck a suss at The Shadow Electric on Friday June 24.

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I made a joke the other day that maybe The Bennies should change their name to The Billies, for obvious reasons. Nobody laughed. After having a ripper of a year with the release of Wisdom Machine and the accompanying tour, the loveable lads packed up the snacks and hit the road again to keep us all satisfied. Have a crack at a photobong, when The Bennies blaze it at The Corner on Friday June 24, with support from Clowns and Axe Girl.

Black Aces love Aussie rock’n’roll so much, they decided to put on their own mini-festival. Because why the bloody hell not? They’ve enlisted a swag of fellow rockers including Melbourne stalwarts The Casanovas, Adelaide’s favourite three-piece Tracer, The Bitter Sweethearts from Sydney and more. Of course, Black Aces themselves will also be tearing up the stage. So get on down to The Tote on Saturday June 25 and have yourself a night.

October 5 JOE BONAMASSA The Palais Theatre October 5 ENSLAVED Prince Bandroom October 6 PUP The Reverence October 6 THE ARISTOCRATS Bendigo Hotel October 6 BALL PARK MUSIC 170 Russell October 7 CHASTITY BELT John Curtin Hotel October 7 MAYDAY PARADE Arrow on Swanston October 8, 170 Russell October 9 KATCHAFIRE Chelsea Heights Hotel October 8, Prince Bandroom October 9 UFOMAMMUT & MONOLORD Max Watt’s October 8 ELLIE GOULDING Rod Laver Arena October 8 FRNKIERO ANDTHE PATIENCE The Corner October 11 LACUNA COIL Max Watt’s October 13 QUEENSRYCHE Prince Bandroom October 14 THE WOLFE BROTHERS The Palms at Crown October 15 OKTOBERFEST feat. Shannon Noll St Kilda October 15 TIKI TAANE The Evelyn October 16 RAVE OF THRONES feat Kristian Nairn Trak October 21 HOT CHOCOLATE AND THE REAL THING Palais Theatre October 22 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE 170 Russell October 25 GLEN HANSARD The Palais October 26 LOST LANDS FESTIVAL The Werribee Mansion October 28 - 30 STEVEN WILSON 170 Russell October 28 TRICK OR BEAT feat. J-Heasy, Indian Summer, Who Killed Mickey and more Festival Hall October 29 THE VENGABOYS 170 Russell October 30 SLIPKNOT Rod Laver Arena October 31

BAD MANNERS Corner Hotel November 3 MSO - INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Arts Centre November 4, 5 THE DANDY WARHOLS Palais Theatre November 5 TECH N9NE The Prince Bandroom November 7, 8 DEFTONES Festival Hall November 11 DESTROYER 666 Max Watts November 11 A DAY ON THE GREEN Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong November 12, Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley November 13 STRAWBERRY FIELDS feat. George Fitzgerald, Henry Saiz, Petar Dundov and more Tocumwal, New South Wales November 17 – 20 DISTURBED Margaret Court Arena November 18 DYLAN JOEL Prince Bandroom November 18 EARTHCORE Pyalong November 24 – 28 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen and more Queenscliff November 25 – 27 BASSHUNTER 170 Russell November 27, 28 JEREMY LOOPS Howler November 27 JIMMY BARNES Werribee Park November 27 RAISED FIST Max Watt’s December 3 THE USED 170 Russell December 5, 6 THE MONKEES Palais Theatre December 7 COLDPLAY Etihad Stadium December 9 FLUME Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 15

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Broods FREEDOM IN THE FAMILY

Sweden is renowned for its high turnover of quality, world-conquering pop music. But there’s another small, mountainous nation that’s also hotbed of quality pop songwriting: New Zealand. Over the last few years, Kiwi artists such as Lorde, Ladyhawke, Kimbra and Unknown Mortal Orchestra have claimed global success. You can now add South Island siblings Caleb and Georgia Nott, better known as Broods, to that list.

After their single Bridges attracted attention in early 2014, Broods’ debut LP Evergreen sent them off on a mammoth world tour. Along with sold out dates in Australia and New Zealand, they notched up North American tours with Ellie Goulding and Sam Smith and made multiple appearances on US network television. In the lead-up to their second LP, Conscious, Brood’s growing overseas success has prompted a permanent move to the States.

“We moved to West Hollywood. It’s a bit bigger than little old Nelson,” says Caleb. “It took me convincing Georgia.

No one had to convince me. I’ve been wanting to do it for a good year or so. So I was waiting for her to be ready to do it – she is, so that’s fantastic.”

Out this weekend, Conscious is a very assertive record in terms of both production and song craft. There’s plenty of sweeping choruses, emphatic vocal melodies and instrumental hooks.

Though, the eruptive choruses found in songs like Free and Are You Home are contrasted with the downcast tone of Worth the Fight and Bedroom Door.

“It’s a bit of a schizo album, but I guess that’s because it was written over two years,” Caleb says. “So there’s a lot of different inspirations that have come and gone. Depending on what kind of place you’re in at that time, [the songwriting] depends on that.”

The Nott siblings aren’t exactly kids, but they’re both still in their early 20s.

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development; a time in which you gain more conviction in your tastes and opinions. Looking back on Broods’ earlier recordings, Caleb can identify the whims of his younger self, but he feels no embarrassment.

“That’s always going to happen, but it doesn’t mean that I love those songs any less,” he says. “It was part of your life at that stage. All I really go back to is production type of things. But you can’t really go back and pick at your old songs, because that’s not going to do you any good, is it? You’d never release another song ever again.”

With the release of the Broods EP in January 2014, Broods quickly became aligned with pop music. Pop music tends to draw from all over the stylistic map, as exemplified by greats like The Beatles, David Bowie, Janet Jackson and Prince; contemporary pop stars Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West; and indie pop acts Grimes, Chvrches and Tegan and Sara. It’s no different for Broods – Caleb and Georgia have noted Kanye, M.I.A., Marilyn Manson, Haim and Azealia Banks as influences on the album’s lead single Free – which is largely a result of the pair’s individual preferences.

“If you listen to what I listen to in the way of other artists and you listen to what Georgia listens to, you’d think, ‘How do they work together?’ ” Caleb says. “[Our tastes] are pretty different and as songwriters we’re completely different as well. I think that’s kind of how it works.

“But with the whole pop thing, it’s pretty weird. If you asked me four or five years ago if I was going to be writing pop music for a living I would’ve said, ‘Fuck off. I don’t listen to pop music. I don’t B E AT.C O M . A U

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listen to mainstream radio.’ ” One listen to Conscious is proof that he’s since done a creative one-eighty. “Once you meet other people in the industry and you start working on stuff and you start slowly going that way… I think I just didn’t have the respect that I have now for the pop industry and how hard it is to actually make good pop music and how interesting it is to make it,” Caleb says. “Now I’m just like a pop geek. I can’t really explain why I changed my mind. It just happened.”

Being a self-described pop geek doesn’t mean Caleb obsessively follows prominent pop music trends and uses them as a filter for his own ideas. “The stuff that I’m bringing in is not really coming from anywhere pop, really,” he says. “That’s the funny part. It just kind of ends up being pop naturally when we work together. It’s a weird combination where pop happens by combining two different ideas that aren’t really pop. “[I was thinking about] the change in the album and how the sound’s changed.

That’s the most terrifying thing for me – coming back and people thinking that we’ve over-popped it, which I don’t think we have.”

While this sounds like an exaggerated fear, it’s understandable given how much attention is now directed at Broods.

Evergreen was a breakout success, converting fans from all corners of the globe, while the anticipation for Conscious blossomed with the announcement that Ella Yelich-O’Connor (AKA Lorde) cowrote the album’s latest single, Heartlines.

“Making this second album, I think it’s the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done in my whole life,” Caleb says. “There was no expectations when we wrote Evergreen.

You have those expectations hanging over you a little bit, you can’t really run away from that, but that first album did better than we ever thought it could. So it’s like, ‘How can we top it? Are people going to react in the way that we hope they are?’ That’s why it’s terrifying.”

On the cusp of the album’s release, the band’s worries haven’t subsided. However, Caleb says the high stakes didn’t interfere with the songwriting process. In fact, they might even have energised it.

“I think [fear] can be a useful creative tool. The second album, every decision you make, you take in a lot more than you did when you wrote the first album.

We just wrote music [for Evergreen], but then after touring for so long and being

in the industry for a wee while you think about other things that you wouldn’t have thought about when we wrote Evergreen. So that was why we decided to call it Conscious, because there was a lot more calculated decisions in writing it.”

Calculated decision-making implies the pursuit of certain goals, which makes you wonder what motives were arbitrating the Notts’ actions. “I think the only goal we brought to it was to write something better – to write something that felt like a development. If you’re writing music, you could write the same sort of stuff every time, but that’s no fun for anyone.

So I guess the goal was to make an album that felt like a development from not just our side but from our fans’ side and everyone else.”

Much like Evergreen, Conscious was developed alongside producer and co-writer Joel Little (Lorde, Daniel Johns, Jarryd James); plus additional production from Alex Hope (Troye Sivan) and Captain Cuts (Halsey, Tove Lo), and a vocal appearance from Tove Lo. In terms of the band’s internal dynamic, one could assume Caleb and Georgia’s roles are clearly defined. Georgia is the vocalist and lyricist, while Caleb takes charge of the instrumentation and arrangements. But while this is broadly how it works, their roles are flexible.

“Georgia has a say in production and instrumentation – she had a lot of input in instrumentation – and I have some input in some of the lyric writing,” Caleb says. “It was like that in terms of who did what on the first album, but you develop as an artist yourself, and as a team that line starts to blur a little bit.”

Meanwhile, there’s never any trepidation about stepping on each other’s toes.

“When you’re a brother and sister it’s pretty easy. You can be pretty blunt.

You can say what’s on your mind pretty easily. It probably could be [an obstacle], but it never is because we usually agree on whatever the other person says.”

Conscious by BROODS is available on Friday June 24 via Capitol Records/ Universal Music Australia. They play at Forum Melbourne on Monday July 11 with Vera Blue and Xavier Dunn.

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This Week: Written as a direct response to the 2011 Norwegian massacre, David Greig’s The Events is a performance that seeks to tackle one of the most difficult questions that comes after a devastating event: why? When a gun-twirling teenager targets a vicar’s choir, the vicar becomes obsessed with trying to understand the boy and his actions, ultimately wondering, could he have been stopped?

Although written five years ago, the performance is still devastatingly relevant today and seeks to uncover why such unthinkable events are seemingly the hardest to put behind us. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013, the Australian performance stars Catherine McClements and features a different Melbourne choir each night, including The Choir of Opportunity, Southern Voices, Keynotes Choir, Cranbourne Chorale and more. The Events will run at The Malthosue Theatre from Tuesday June 21 until Sunday July 10. Show times vary with more details and tickets available via The Malthouse website.

Ukranian-born violinist Vadim Gluzman will hold down the Arts Centre’s Hamer Hall over three shows this week, playing Brahms’ Violin Concerto in Gluzman Plays Brahms. More than a challenge for even the most established of musicians, Brahms’ concerto has even been described as almost impossible to play. Gluzman will play the show with conduction from Sir Andrew Davis, who will open the concert with excerpts from Hector Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, and the world premiere of a new work by Australian composer James Ledger. There will be a pre-concert talk with MSO Assistant Principal Second Violinist Monica Curro on the artists and works featured in the program on Friday June 24 and Saturday June 25, as well as a post-concert conversation on Monday June 27 with MSO Director of Artistic Planning, Ronald Vermeulen. For more details, head to the MSO website.

Esteemed Australian entertainer Robina Beard is set to perform in Geoffery Sykes one-woman play, Tales of Kabbarli, when it has a run at La Mama Theatre this week. Beard will play the role of Daisy Bates, the iconic woman who lived with outback tribal peoples early in the twentieth century. An aging Bates tells the story of her life while camped beside the Murray river, lamenting the continued loss of the tribes she has camped with for so long. Robina Beard brings incredible movement, characterisation, humour and passion to this piece and provides an insight into Australia and its Indigenous peoples that will resonate with modern audiences. Tales of Kabbarli will stage at La Mama Courthouse from Wednesday June 22 until Sunday June 26. Show times and tickets available via the La Mama website.

Glasgow-based performer Nic Green will stage her adventurous and celebratory theatrical event, Trilogy this week at Arts House. First presented to the UK to wide acclaim, Trilogy will make its debut in Melbourne as it aims to celebrate women in today’s world, weaving together performance, discussion, music and archival material. The show will run at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall, from now until Sunday June 26 with a pre-show panel discussion hosted in association with the shows producer on Saturday June 25. For more details, see the Arts House website.

pick of the week NGV just keeps on delivering with the big name exhibitions ± this time offering art lovers the chance to view the most comprehensive collection of French impressionist painter Edgar Degas’ work in a decade. The Degas: A New Vision exhibition comes as part of the gallery’s Winter Masterpieces series and is offered in partnership with Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Over 200 pieces of work will be on display, including paintings, sculptures, prints and photos which follow Degas’ vision of Parisian life. NGV International will hold down the exhibition from Friday June 24 until Sunday September 18. Head to the NGV website for ticket details

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The Axis of Awesome

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t began as a humble side project. But ten years and an incredible amount of talent and creativity later, musical comedy act The Axis of Awesome are continuing to kick goals worldwide. While the group ± J ordan Raskopoulos, Benny Davis and Lee Naimo ± c an’t quite believe it’s been a decade of songs and laughs already, they’re stoked to be holding down a ten year celebration show in Melbourne this month nonetheless. Beat speaks to lead vocalist, Jordan, about where The Axis of Awesome have been, where they’re going, and what their fans can expect from this almighty aluminum jubilee party.

“We started the act off as a bit of fun, as a bit of a side project on top of other things we were doing at the time, and then it just kind of kept going and going, and now we’re looking back and it’s been ten years,” she says. “It’s really good looking back on all the shows we’ve done and the songs we’ve sung…now we’re just putting together a show that’s different to what we did at the Comedy Festival, kind of celebrating all our stuff.

“Taking their audience on a trip down memory lane, the trio are set to deliver the stand out tonguein-cheek musical comedy that they’re known for, by belting out all of their hits from years gone by (cue: the 4 Chord Song - you know the one.) For Jordan, Benny and Lee, the celebration show is a personal reflection of their career. But it’s also a chance for their fans to bask in the ten years worth of material that they have so masterfully delivered.

“For people that didn’t see us at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, there will probably be songs that they haven’t heard before, but there’s nothing new written specifically for this show… this show will be a bit different because it’s more of a retrospective rather than putting out new stuff.” Revered and always

in hot demand, it was esteemed comedy and live music venue The Yarraville Club, who approached the band and asked them to play a celebration show. Belly laughs and sing-alongs are promised, with a delightful atmosphere and show bags full of gold and knives to to boot. ‘Knives?’ you ask? Well, while Jordan doesn’t divulge too much about the idea behind the peculiar take-home gift, she does promise that they are not your standard kitchen knife, but rather pretty and decorative ones - all for a bit of a laugh. The celebration show comes amidst the bands already heavily packed touring schedule. Having smashed through the domestic scene throughout the first half of the year, including their acclaimed MICF show, the trio are now slated to take to the international stage in the second half of the year. “We’ll do the Edinburgh Festival and then I think we’ll probably start writing again, working on a new show for next year and a new album,” Jordan explains. Their ability to write quickly and effectively is something especially notable about this group. With seven albums already under their belt for the decade, and a host more sure to come, there’s no question that The Axis of Awesome are masters at their craft. Their

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latest offering, Viva La Vida Loca Las Vegas, dropped in February and sees the trio continue to impress.

“We’re really happy with how that album is going,” Jordan says. “For me a lot of the newer stuff that we’re doing is some of my favourite work.” Looking back on the ten years of the band, and Jordan certainly has some highlights. For her, it was the first time that they played to audiences overseas, where English wasn’t the first language that really got her spine tingling. “We went to places like Sweden, Germany and Amsterdam, and that’s when it really hit home that our music had travelled beyond where we ever thought it would. To think that other people, whose first language isn’t English, knew the words to our songs, was a real milestone for us.” Heavily influenced by pop, Jordan says that the band make a point of staying in the loop with the latest in music trends, in order to stay constantly fresh and relevant. “Music is an international language, and I think because we perform pop music, that can kind of cross cultural barriers. But I think that it’s kind of our job to keep our finger on the pulse of what’s happening in music,” she explains. “Now that we’re kind of a bit older we sometimes look at the music kids are listening to and think, ‘That’s not like my day’. But then we make fun of it in the same way that we also make fun of the music from our day as well.” Although a decade deep into their musical comedy careers, The Axis of Awesome show no signs of slowing down. Old fans just keep flocking in, while new ones are constantly jumping on the bandwagon and it’s all because of this trio’s clever and simply lovable style. “I think [people keep coming back because] we have a fun show, it’s inclusive, it’s not mean spirited or anything like that,” Jordan says. “It’s cool because it is music, but it’s also about music, which people enjoy. They can see a familiarity when we’re ripping on something that they like and are familiar with, and that’s enjoyable.”

THE AXIS OF AWESOME will perform at The Yarraville Club on Saturday June 25.

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DIRTY SECRETS COMEDY

THE COMIC STRIP

Coming Up

COMEDY AT GEORGE’S

Degas: A New Vision

Friday June 24 ± S unday September 18 National Gallery of Victoria

The city’s favourite George Costanza-inspired bar continues to give a nod to Seinfeld’s standup roots with their weekly comedy night. On Thursday June 23 they’ll host John Dore as MC alongside Rob Caruana, Gamze Kirik, Geoff Setty, Anthony Jeannot, Danielle Walker, Joseph Green, Gabe Hogan, Seam Bedlam and more. Plus, The Are You Funnier than George competition kicks off July 7, with Melbourne’s up and coming comedians bringing five minutes and dropping it like it’s hot. 120 Johnston Street, Fitzroy.

Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host Thursday July 14 & Friday July 15 The Wheeler Centre

Gertrude Street Projection Festival Friday July 15 ± S unday July 24 Various Venues

Melbourne International Film Festival

ROCHESTER COMEDY Rochester Comedy invites you to come and see some of the country’s best stand-ups for free.

Thursday June 23 there’s a bunch of the country’s finest stand ups. They’ve all won awards, or are set to do so. There’s David Quirk, Geraldine Hickey, Chris Wainhouse, Tommy Dassalo, Alasdair Tremblay Birchall, Blake Freeman with more TBA. It all kicks off at 8.30 sharp, but get in early for $8 pints and some of the best pub food in the city. 202 Johnston St, Fitzroy.

THURSDAY COMEDY Charlie Pickering headlines the comedy at the European Bier Café this Thursday night. Plus, there’s Adam Richard, Sami Shah, Steve Hall (UK) and some surprise guests. It’s all happening this Thursday June 23 at 8.30pm at 120 Exhibition St, CBD ± a ll for only $12

CLUB VOLTAIRE Sunday June 26 is shaping up to be a huge night at Club Voltaire. Head along to see Murphy McLachlan as MC alongside Timothy Clark, Peter Jones, Rose Callaghan and more for a night of laughs you cannot miss. It kicks off from 7.30pm on 14 Ragan St, North Melbourne.

Thursday July 28 - Sunday August 14 Various Venues

Billy Crystal With Andrew Denton

Gertrude Street Projection Festival Returns for 2016 For the ninth year, Gertrude Street will be transformed into one of the most visible large scale, illuminated, outdoor art galleries when the Gertrude Street Projection Festival opens this July. Thirty-eight sites, including shop fronts, laneways, windows and footpaths on and around Gertrude Street will be transformed with bright lights, video and colourscapes across the festival’s ten days. Following the success of last year’s inaugural Mentorship Program, there will be three new site-specific projects exploring the use of projection through live performance, sculpture and holographic techniques. Featured artists this year include Gestural Intent by Nadia Faragaab, In Bloom by Brianna Hudson and The Detour by Aphrodite Feros-Fooke and Chase Burns. Other works on show will include the second installment of Uprising Youth Theatre’s Wheel Of Fate ± a ‘choose your own adventure’ style performance utilising cutting edge mobile LED projector technology, and Little Woods Gallery, hosting a series of pop-up artworks, performances, presentations and discussion groups. Capping it off, The Catfish will once again become the Festival Hub, offering a range of live performances and projection artworks, featuring the likes of Ocdantar, Deer, Friendships and Musicians 4 Hearing. The Gertrude Street Projection Festival will take place from Friday July 15 until Sunday July 24. The full program will be unveiled on Thursday June 23.

Abbotsford Convent Announces Convent Conversations Series

ACMI to Present Shakespeare on Film Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, ACMI will present a program from the British Council and the British Film Institute (BFI) that explores the deep affinity between cinema and The Bard. Featuring 11 films, including Play On! (Silent Shakespeare), a compilation of silent Shakespeare shorts, and a post screening Skype Q&A with Macbeth Director Justin Kurzel, the season will explore Shakespeare’s profound influence on cinema. Credited with more film adaptations than any other writer, the program explores the enduring love for Shakespeare in modern cinema. ACMI’s Shakespeare on Film program runs Thursday 14 July to Tuesday 26 July.

Session times via the ACMI website.

Bell Shakespeare to Present Othello The classic exploration of love and jealousy will come to the Arts Centre when Peter Evans directs Bell Shakespeare’s adaption of Othello. The triumphant general Othello returns from battle with the gratitude of the state ± and the love of Desdemona ± who defies social convention and her father’s will to marry him.

Jealousies around their match and Othello’s rise to prominence simmer to the surface, causing destructive rifts in a story that piles secret upon secret, and betrayal upon betrayal. The production features cast members including Ray Chong Nee (The Dream, Melbourne Theatre Company’s I Call My Brothers) as Othello and Yalin Ozucelik (Henry IV, Sydney Theatre Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac) as Iago. It runs at Arts Centre Melbourne from Tuesday July 14 to Saturday July 23.

The Abbotsford Convent is set to host another round of thought provoking panel discussions at their well loved venue. Over three weeks, visionaries from the fields of law, Indigenous affairs, the arts, asylum seeker advocacy and sustainability will present public discussions as part of the Convent Conversations program put on by The Abbotsford Convent Foundation. On Thursday July 7, panelists including Melbourne law school researcher Dr Kirsty Gover, Indigenous health workers and advocates Nayuka Gorrie, Adjunct Professor Muriel Bamblett AM and Joshua Smith will discuss the Referendum Councils recommendations to the federal government on recognising Aboriginal Australians in the constitution. Writers, poets, actors, artists and educators will hold a discussion on Thursday July 21, honing in on the reality of living in Australia on temporary visas for asylum seekers. On Thursday August 11, a panel of food and sustainability experts will discuss how we produce and consume food today, and whether we can make this sustainable and accessible for all. For more information on the 2016 Convent Conversation series, and to book tickets to a talk, head to the Abbotsford Convent website.

G E T S O M E C U LT U R E U P YA

Monday August 1 ± Thursday August 4 State Theatre

Alan Carr

Wednesday August 31 Arts Centre

John Olsen: The You Beaut Country

Friday September 16 - Sunday February 26 2017 Ian Potter Centre

An Evening With Henry Rollins

Monday September 19 & Tuesday September 20 State Theatre

Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert

Friday November 4 ± S aturday November 5 Hamer Hall

The Astor Unveils New Season Program Melbourne’s iconic Astor Theatre has unveiled their latest calendar of films, and it’s as brilliant as it is diverse. Expect a double feature of John Hughes classics, with a back-to-back screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Pretty in Pink in celebration of their 30th anniversary. Other banging backto-back screenings include Terminator coupled with Robocop; Rocky with Rocky II; Planet of the Apes with Zardoz, Elvis films and more. New release films are also on the cards, with the hotly anticipated Suicide Squad set to screen as well as the upcoming allfemale reboot of Ghostbusters, alongside a one night only showing of Nick Cave’s One More Time With Feeling.

Of course, it wouldn’t be the Astor without a healthy dose of classics. Expect to see Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur and cult favourite The Rocky Horror Picture Show with prizes for best dressed. Rounding it all out comes festival selections from The Italian Film Festival and the 23rd Greek Film Festival, plus more. It all runs at the Astor Theatre from Sunday July 3 to Saturday October 15. Check their full program for all the details.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race BATTLE OF THE SEASONS

BY LUKE FORESTER

Over eight seasons, RuPaul’s Drag Race has grown from a relatively low budget, niche reality show to quite possibly the biggest influence on the current world of drag culture. It has been responsible for discovering talents that (at least in the LGBT world) are now household names. Battle of the Seasons brings together some of the fiercest queens, the tightest tucks and the largest wigs the show has ever seen, and is coming to Festival Hall in its entire eleganza extravaganza.

Drag saves lives. It’s a point the show has brought up repeatedly and when speaking to Michelle Visage ± host of this year’s battle ± it’s one of the first

conversation points that comes up: “It’s an escape and at the same time, it’s an approval to these kids to know that they belong somewhere.”

Like many members of the LGBT community, it’s common to feel misunderstood, excluded and most dangerously ± a lone.

“Our audience is currently about eighty percent LGBT, twenty percent heterosexual, and it’s a beautiful thing,” says Visage. “All these kids, straight or gay, learn they have a place in the world. It’s OK to be weird, to not fit in, and to be creative in ways the world doesn’t always understand.”

Looking over the lineup for this year’s show, it’s proof that the approval spreads wide and far. Just for example: Jinkx Monsoon is a narcoleptic cabaret queen who learnt drag from her grandmother. Adore Delano is a former American Idol contestant whose mother told her to ‘be less gay’ on television. Ginger Minj is a self-proclaimed ‘glamour toad’, one of the first plussize queens to almost take the crown. Manila Luzon does the most incredible Imelda Marcos impression I’ve seen in my life.

“But they’re much more than one note,” reflects Visage.

“We push them to be more than just a queen. When they grab a hold of that they’re unstoppable. They’re all fully rounded performers and have gone on to create their own brand.”

When pressed for details of what to expect on the night, Visage is tight lipped.

“It’s the full gamut of all the entertaining elements of drag. On the TV show you only get to see these girls in a competitive sense. What’s great about the live show is you get to experience how well rounded a drag performer can be.”

Visage also let drop that she herself will be performing “a few numbers” over the course of the night, which is

exciting for someone who’s rarely seen her not sitting behind a judging panel.

As someone who’s dabbled into the world of drag, I was eager to hear Visage’s impression of the Australian drag scene. “I’m very lucky to visit Melbourne twice this year; I was blown away by the talent I’ve seen here. Some of the queens are definitely on par with the talent we’ve had on our show. I’m also literally obsessed with Kath and Kim. Half of our audience wouldn’t even notice how many references I sneak into the show.”

With some of the biggest names in drag on the bill, it’s tempting to ask who Visage’s favourite performer is. “It’s an impossible question to answer,” she says. “It’s almost like choosing your favourite daughter. They’re all so unique with what they do with their drag” Regardless, one can expect comedy, burlesque, stage tunes and some very sexually confusing moments for heterosexual men from RuPaul’s Drag Race: Battle of the Seasons.

“It’s a night of zero judgement and immerses you into the incredible world of drag.” Visage surmises.

It is an incredible world, full of lace front wigs, borderline offensive humour and impossible looking eight-inch waist lines. It’s not all about looking fierce though. Despite being a counter-culture in many regards, the world of drag is also all about family, acceptance and being the person you want to be no matter what. Sometimes it just takes three hours of make-up and a corset to do it.

swearing was a good one."

Ulric identifies with the principle once uttered by famed French magician, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin: "A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician".

He sees his pursuit as primarily theatrical, and though he appreciates the internet and film for delivering the wonder of magic to a wider audience, he values the raw awe that the traditional vaudevillian style of stage performance can instill. Presentation is king, and each delicate factor matters if you wish to create that perfect moment of impossibility.

"The reality is that the secrets don't matter," Ulric reveals.

"Anyone can go to the library, or on the internet and go buy magic, or learn it if they've studied well, but it's how you do it that makes it magic. As a magician, I've been studying it for 25 years, and I still get fooled all the time, and I love it. I go and watch good magic, or if I meet a

really good magician that ± without explaining ± shares some of his favourite routines, I will get fooled and I will have that moment of mystery, even if it only last a few seconds, or a minute, or an hour until I do my research or until he jams it with me, and that is invaluable.

So, it doesn't matter how much secrets may have become a bit more commercialised these days; the reality is that there's still so much scope to create with magic, but we've just got to keep refining the methods, and also, the presentation is a key one. Not everyone is a performer.

"We all want to do it, but then we forget and we grow up, so my job's to keep that little mystery alive "

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: BATTLE OF THE SEASONS will come to Festival Hall on Friday July 1.

Pierre Ulric

BY JAcOB cOLLIVER

The masterful Pierre Ulric will be packing mystery, mirth and mayhem when he arrives for a slew of dates to this year's Melbourne Magic Festival. The Québécois-born illusionist has 25 years of passion, 20 years of stage experience, three passports, a thousand skills, countless acclaim and one beautifully enigmatic extravaganza.

"I try and get that little moment," Ulric says. "Even if it only lasts for a bit, the emotion that it brings will stay forever, of not understanding how something is possible. It's pretty cool. Some people fight it, but if you do your job well, you win over the spectators in just playing along, essentially, in enjoying not understanding something ± even if it's only for that hour."

In his second trip to the Melbourne Magic Festival, Ulric promises a no-holds-barred onslaught into the otherworldly with his show Hard Core Mysteries. An updated version of his smash-hit, sell out performance at the Perth Fringe World Festival, it's a wild, multifaceted ride of entertainment that will inspire awe and keep you guessing.

His illusory antics include mentalism, slight-ofhand, escape, hallucinations ("all perfectly legal", he assures me) and even a hint of hypnotism, drenched in a wicked wit. He likes the thrill of taking risks, and that can often yield some amusingly unpredictable

results ± much like what happened at last year's Magic Melbourne Festival.

"I do a lot of metal-bending," Ulric reflects. "Really visual hallucinations where things look like they're floating or bending before the eyes of the audience. I had this old lady ± she would've been 75, perhaps? ± and the audience was a pretty small crowd; maybe 50, 60 people. It was dead silence as people were watching this metal bend. I had that right in front of her face, and in front of everyone, she just went, 'fuck'. She swore, really loud, because she couldn't believe it.

Everyone cracked up, because for this old, dignified lady, her reaction was just to swear. "Other times you get people just laughing. Some people just shake their head and they refuse to accept it. They cross their arms and they just say, 'I want to know how you do it'. Mainly, you get a mixture of laughter and just astonishment, when people don't say anything, but their jaw drops ± literally. Those are my two favourite reactions. But the

Emerge in Yarra Comedy Gala

BY JAcOB cOLLIVER

Sri Lankan-born comedic powerhouse Dilruk Jayasinha will be performing this week at the Emerge in Yarra Festival, a week-long celebration of the rich cultural diversity the Yarra area has to offer. “It’s awesome,” Jayasinha says. “I did it last year and it was an absolute blast. It’s just a really, really cool thing that they’ve put together, and I’m so excited that they asked me to come back.”

Held on World Refugee Week, Emerge in Yarra boasts live music, cooking, arts-and-crafts workshops, storytelling and theatre. One of the huge highlights is the Emerge in Yarra Comedy Gala ± an extravaganza hosted by a range of talented comedians from all walks of life ± with a focus to examine the intricate nature of cultural identity in Australia.

“It’s always nice to have an initiative that tries to showcase a multicultural Australia,” Jayasinha says. “To really sort of try and find those acts that most people might not have seen in the mainstream.”

Before becoming a comedian, Dilruk Jayasinha was another comedy fan ± and a hugely dedicated one at that. He estimates that he still spends $600 to $700 a year on tickets to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, purely to see as many acts as humanly possible.

When he casts his mind back to his earlier days, it’s still a surreal and fascinating thought for him to now be sharing the stage with the likes of Wil Anderson and Fiona O’Loughlin.

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“I think that part of the job of a comic, sometimes, is to look at those things in society that we’ve all noticed but haven’t been able to articulate,” he continues. “That’s the great thing about a good observational comic; whether it’s talking about observation in the sense of political or racial issues, or whether it’s something as simple as talking about toothpaste, or toothbrushes, or whatever it is. It’s always really great when the comic is able to find those things that we always knew but never noticed. When you have that moment of everyone watching going, ‘Oh my God, that’s so true’ - that moment is fascinating.”

He’s now an accomplished success with six years of experience that performs sell out seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

He frequents TV shows like Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane and Live on Bowen. He’s come a long way from those early days, but Jayasinha found in his experience that the comedy circuit is a supportive environment to start out in; an open community

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PIERRE ULRIC will perform his show Hardcore Mysteries at the Northcote Town Hall from Tuesday June 28 to Saturday July 2 as part of The Melbourne Magic Festival. where constructive advice and improvement are valued. Jayasinha understood early on how the smallest elements can make the biggest difference.

“I got put pulled up by Adam Richard quite early on in my career, because I used to dress quite slobby and slovenly,” Jayasinha laughs. “Ever since he talked to me, I realised the importance of actually dressing for the performance, treating it like a job and being professional. It’s not about just ‘suiting up’; it’s more having a sense of awareness of how you look on stage and not just about the things you say. It’s always nice to have someone tell you these things than having to go through the years before realising your mistake.”

Dilruk Jayasinha will be delving into his 19 years in Sri Lanka, his migration to Australia and his take on the Australian identity at the Emerge in Yarra Comedy Gala, where he’ll join the likes of Shannan Lim and Vidya Rajan, Shiralee Hood, and his good friend Sami Shah ± each with their own unique story and hilarious take on the world around them.

“It’s not easy to ‘change the world’ with comedy, because it is comedy at the end of the day,” he laughs.

“But it’d be cool if, say, one person out there walks away with a different perspective than when they’d walked in... for the better, hopefully. It’s always nice if you can give a little bit more than just laughter.”

Dilruk Jayasinha will appear at the Emerge in Yarra Comedy Gala at the Richmond Town Hall on Friday June 24 alongside Sami Shah, Vidya Rajan & Shannan Lim, Shiralee Hood and more. Emerge in Yarra 2016 runs across the City of Yarra until Saturday June 25.

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WITH T YSON WRAY and reaches another level. His newie Current 82 (on Keys of Life) is ridiculously good. Like, track of 2016 good. It’s a 12-minute slow-burn, and I swear at one point I thought I was listening to Deep Forest. Can’t recommend any higher.

Would also suggest spinning Ancient Methods’ A Collection of Ancient Airs (on aufnahme + wiedergabe) and Marquis Hawkes’ Social Housing (on Houndstooth). Sadly, Matthias Zimmermann’s self-titled album (on Sound Pellegrino) totally blows. Remember when this was one of the hottest labels on the planet? How far we’ve (well, some of us) have come.

Ooooooooh mumma. It’s been way too long in-between drinks, but house and techno dons Dense & Pika are coming back to town. They’re regulars at the likes of Trouw, Panorama Bar, Fabric and BPM, and have a fan-base featuring Adam Beyer, Dubfire and Jackmaster. Their Colt EP from 2013 is still all-time, with the title track one of the best piano-driven techno numbers of the past decade. Dig in – they’re coming for Brown Alley on Friday July 15.

If you’re into tech-house then you’ll want to get yourself along to catch the Parisian head Ron Costa next month. The cat has been running his own imprint Potobolo Records for over a decade, and his releases have found homes on the likes of Inmotion, Octopus Music, SCI+TEC, SNOE and Suara.

Catch him on Saturday July 2, venue TBA. Did you have tickets for the ill-fated 10th birthday of Maitreya?

Good news – they’re now being sued by their ticketing company for $400,000 for not providing refunds. How does one colossally fuck up a festival on what is meant to be an anniversary celebrating artistic growth and defiance of the norm? Another bites the dust. Hope y’all get your cash back.

Stay tuned for details of the case as they emerge.

TOUR RUMOURS: Daft Punk. You heard me.

BEST RELEASES THIS WEEK: Just when you think he couldn’t get any better, motherfucking DJ Sotofett goes

RECOMMENDED: FRIDAY JULY 1 DJ Pierre New Guernica SATURDAY JULY 2 Ron Costa TBA SUNDAY JULY 3 Matthias Meyer Pawn & Co

Faktory

FRIDAY JULY 22 Third Son New Guernica Delano Smith Brown Alley SUNDAY AUGUST 14 Gene Farris Revolver Upstairs

Khokolat Koated

FRIDAY JULY 15 Dense & Pika Brown Alley

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CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY 22 JUN

• 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: MR PITIFUL + DANIELSAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

THURSDAY 23 JUN • 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + BEENAK +

SAM GUDGE + JOEY & YANNI Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

• ARIZONA THURSDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

• COLD CUTS - FEAT: LILUZU + AYA MOOD Toff In

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

• COSY - FEAT: BRUNO ENZO + JENNIFER

LOVELESS Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

• DIN DIN DJS + SEVEN UP DJ Catfish, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

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

8:00pm.

• JACKY WINTER + DENIM OWL + ZONE OUT + GEZ SMITH Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 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.

FRIDAY 24 JUN • #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE +

FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

• CLUB SANGUINE - MASQUERADE - FEAT: DEATH

OF ART + SARAH EIDA + CROWLEY + RICK RUIN + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm. $16.67.

• DANCE PARTY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:30pm.

• DANCEHALL THROWBACK Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

• DJ 1/2 PRICE HANCOCK Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

• FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co.,

URBAN GUIDE 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.

• LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

• ONE-PUF - FEAT: PINCH + EPOCH + AFFIKS + MORE The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00.

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

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

• REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: ARGY + MIKE CALLANDER + LUKE STEIN + SHANNON BRIGGS + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. $17.00.

• STAR WARS - FEAT: BBB Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• THE DISCO - FEAT: GREG SARA + LUKE MCD + JEN TUTTY + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

• THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.

• UNDERTONE - FEAT: APOLLO + ROD FRANCE + TRANCENDENT + MORE La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• ZEN MECHANICS + HIGH JACKED + NIKELODEON + SCHWIFTY + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $20.00.

SATURDAY 25 JUN • AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: LE ZOK +

JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + TOM EVANS + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00.

• BISA- BISA - FEAT: ALUK + BAYU + JUDAN + PUTRA Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

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

• BUSTIN OUT - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

• CHAMPAGNE INTERNET Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:30pm.

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

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

• DIAL-UP #013 - FEAT: CLEVERHANDS + BBD + LAIKA + DJ BERT The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $10.00.

• DJ STICKMAN Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• DJ TROPICAL BREEZE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

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.

• LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: CC:DISCO + LILUZU + SOUL CRANE + MIDNIGHT TENDERNESS + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• MERCURY - FEAT: XENOSCAPES Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• ONE NIGHT STAND - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• OUTLOOK FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: CERN + BORDERLINE + SAFIRE + DUSTY FUNGUS + MORE Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $16.67.

• 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.

• SLOW GRIND FEVER #36 - FEAT: RICHIE1250 + MOHAIR SLIM + MONICA LUPPI + BRUCE MILNE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $10.00.

• SNACK ATTACK - FEAT: DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

• SPACEY SPACE’S END OF EXAMS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

• 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.

• THE MOON LANDING - FEAT: JAMIE STEVENS + JPA + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 8:00pm.

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

SUNDAY 26 JUN • ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End,

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

electronic - urban - club life

• BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK +

WEDNESDAY 22 JUN

MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• 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.

• 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.

• SASH - FEAT: SECRET GUEST + MATT WEIR + KERRY WALLACE + GABBY Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm.

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

• TOP GIRL + JADE & SAL Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

• TRE TERRE - FEAT: NALI B2B CITIPOWER + DIV + HAZIM + UDMO Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

2:00pm. $5.00.

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

• 30/70 COLLECTIVE + CAZEAUX OSLO + SAMETZ

MONDAY 27 JUN

• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + MAFIA + PAIGE

• 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.

• THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

TUESDAY 28 JUN • CARRIAGE 252 - FEAT: JOHAN 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.

•

+ TIARYN GRIGGS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $5.00.

• MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: WINTERS + GEEZY + CAZEAUX O.S.L.O + SKOMES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

THURSDAY 23 JUN

• SAM BRITTAIN + OLIVER’S ARMY + ARIELA

JACOBS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00.

FRIDAY 24 JUN

• BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE +

KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

• PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: SONIC VIBES + TALI Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• SOUTHERN LOVE - FEAT: MAT CANT + GET BU$Y + SLICK P + ROB STEEZY + MORE Vic Bar, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

SATURDAY 25 JUN

PLAY + MORE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

• 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.

• RIZKY’S HIP HOP HIGH TEA - FEAT: MZRIZK Belleville, Melbourne. 3:00pm. $53.24.

TUESDAY 28 JUN

• RAMBUTAN JAM BAND + BRICK ‘N’ MORTAR +

STOKA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

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MOURN

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B Y PAT R I C K E M E R Y

On their debut album, Catalan band Mourn took a rhetorical knife to the people around them in the way that only pissed off teenagers can. Your Brain Is Made of Candy wasn’t especially flattering in its observations, while the bonus track Boys Are Cunts left little to the emotional imagination. “We used to use anger and those kinds of feelings to write our songs,” says singer Jazz Rodriguez Bueno. “I think our songs are kind of a diary of things that happen in our life. And anger sometimes helps,” Bueno laughs.

BEN FOLDS F O R G O I N G

T H E

R O C K

B A N D

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Ben Folds’ latest record, So There, was made in conjunction with New York-based chamber ensemble, yMusic, who co-arranged the songs and contributed much of the

album’s instrumentation. The classically oriented sextet have previously worked with Dirty Projectors and Jose

Gonzalez, as well as recording works composed by the

likes of Nico Muhly and Sufjan Stevens. Prior to teaming

up with yMusic, Folds recorded the three-part, 20 minute Concerto For Piano and Orchestra with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, which prompted him to seek out a chamber ensemble.

“I had planned on making this record with small chamber groups to fill out the fact that there’s a piano concerto,” Folds says.

“But when I met y, we went into the studio and had a meet the parents day where we just threw around ideas, and I left going, ‘I’ve got lyrics – I think this is going to be that kind of album.’ And so we just headed down that path of my writing songs to suit them.”

The songs on So There are certainly enhanced by the accompaniment of yMusic (who contribute strings, flute, clarinet, and trumpet), but they’re not dependent on it. Phone In A Pool and So There rank among Folds’ most immediate pop songs, while Not A Fan is a stripped-back tale of disappointment.

“As soon as it gets into the craft of a pop song, I want to know that it’s built well, I want to know that I can play it in any way I need to,” Folds says. “I’ve been playing those songs solo sometimes as well. I think they work very well that way too, but there’s something really special about [yMusic]. We’ve been touring for nearly a year together now and have really hit that totally spontaneous, mind reading thing that happens sometimes. So we’re having a really good tour.”

Folds and yMusic are heading to Australia this August, and audiences can expect to hear songs from all across Folds’ multidecade songwriting career, as well as material from So There.

“They can sort of pivot on a dime, so if we decide to throw together something really quick from an old album, [we can],” Folds says. “A couple of times some of the members have said, ‘I’ve never heard that song. That’s a great song. Let’s arrange that.’

And it’s a hotel room session scoring the music and by soundcheck we’ve got a new one.”

Recent setlists have included several songs from Folds’ solo albums, including You Don’t Know Me, Zak and Sara and Landed, plus Ben Folds Five favourites Steven’s Last Night In Town and One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces. Folds enjoys reworking songs he’s played hundreds of times before.

However, long time fans needn’t worry about them being manipulated beyond recognition.

“I don’t get so bored with my songs that I feel I need to totally overhaul them,” Folds says. “I like to change them, but they don’t need to be unrecognisable. This is a good way to do it, because the instrumentation is so different that I feel like I can take the song at the tempo that it asks to be at

and the song is its most expressive in that way, but just the instrumental side of it is radically different. Because of that it brings new life into it, but at the same time it still speaks.”

Folds has done a series of collaborations over the last decade. He made Lonely Avenue with author Nick Hornby, recorded songs with Regina Spector and Kate Miller Heidke, and has frequently performed with symphony orchestras. But while he certainly has a sustained interest in working with different artists, he doesn’t see it as unusual.

“I think everyone does that if they stick around. You reinvent something, you work with new people – that’s pretty normal.

But I think mine were notably probably different. That’s probably the difference.

But even think about solo acts where it’s like, ‘Well that was their touring band for three years, then they did this with these people and then changed producers.’ They do that, it’s just not as noticeable. It’s a lot more radical to take someone like yMusic out and forgo the rock band. But I think it’s normal to find collaborators.

“I think my attention span is probably somewhat like Elvis Costello’s. I’ve been told that before.”

So There concludes with the aforementioned Concerto For Piano and Orchestra, but Folds’ flirtation with highbrow composition doesn’t mean he’s renounced his trademark sense of humour. For instance, Yes Man includes the line, “Why didn’t you tell me that I got fat / Now I’m crying all the way from the Fotomat / Because I see I’ve got more chins than the Chinese phonebook has.”

The album’s cheekiest moment, however, comes in the form of F10-D-A. The track’s title is indicative of the lyrics, which are a commentary on the notes being played.

Though, Folds skews it to become “F’d in the A with a D, with a big fat D.” “I was thinking of sort of an educational tool,” Folds says. “Right before the session I was like, ‘I guess there’s a way to have the names of all the pitches be words,’ and then kids would know there’s an A, there’s a G. And of course, the way my mind works it’s F’d in the A. So I guess that’s not a kids song anymore.”

BEN FOLDS and yMusic are playing at the Palais Theatre on Friday August 26 and Saturday August 27. So There is available now via New West Records/ Warner.

Bueno and her school friend Carla Perez Vas formed Mourn a few years ago.

Bueno’s father had introduced her to a range of classic and contemporary punk and rock’n’roll bands, broadening her music tastes well beyond the Europop that clutters Spanish radio.

“My dad is a musician, so he was always showing me bands. I discovered a lot of bands through him,” Bueno says. “When I was little I liked this sort of music so I started to look on the Internet. You can’t hear this sort of music on the radio, but you can’t find whatever on the Internet if you’re interested in it. But you have to go looking for it because you will never hear it here.”

In her early high school years Bueno and her sister Leia formed a band with their father, “just to have fun”. A couple of years later, while still at high school, Bueno and Vas decided to start their own band, recruiting Leia on bass and Antonio Postius on drums.

Mourn take cues from PJ Harvey and Patti Smith, augmented with The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Replacements and The Clash. The band’s 2014 self-titled album was recorded straight to tape over two days, a deliberate attempt to capture the band’s live sound.

“It was like a rehearsal but being recorded.

PHIA

C H A N C E

It’s like we were playing at home together, but in the studio. It’s cool but it captures how we sound. It’s not over produced,” Bueno says. “We did the same with the second album, but it took a couple of weekends rather than a couple of days. We recorded something like two songs a day.”

Mourn’s first record generated interest outside of Spain, including from hip Brooklyn indie label Captured Tracks.

Signing with Captured Tracks was the catalyst for Mourn playing outside of Spain, including shows in the US where the band members were amazed at the reception they received.

E N C O U N T E R S

BY JACOB COLLIVER

Spirited experimental pop artist Phia is back with some

exciting new music, and many a story to tell. “Most of

these songs, I had no intention about recording,” she says.

“It was all about performing them live, which was a really nice sort of boundary. I was like, ‘How can I tell this story to the audience?’ ”

Songwriting for Phia – the creative moniker of musician Sophia Exiner – starts far away from an instrument. Describing them as “light bulb moments”, she discovers stories and feelings that deserve to be captured, preserving them lyrically long before the arrangements form. She then weaves a selection of interesting sounds from an arsenal of expressive tools including loop pedals, beatboxing and her beloved kalimba.

Finally, Exiner refines her creations with the help of guitarist, producer and colleague, Josh Teicher.

“What I love about the kalimba and the loop pedal is that the limitations are really strong,” she says. “So I have to do a lot with W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U

a little and I find that very inspiring. I hate feeling like, ‘Oh my God, what instrument should I play?’ Anything could happen, and the possibilities spiral out of control.

The kalimba has two octaves, so that’s all I’ve got to work with, and I find – sort of perversely – that I’m much more creatively inspired when I’m in that situation; backed into a corner.

“I felt like I did as much as I could with these songs to get them to that live situation, and then Josh sort of teased out all the things that I was hinting at with the loops. I feel like it was really clear what our collaboration was, which is why it worked so well.”

“Playing in America was like being in a movie, it was really fun,” Bueno says.

“People there were really different to people in Catalonia or Spain. I think they are more inside the music culture – they feel it more.

It was more impressive that people came to our shows because it’s the United States – it’s so far away. It was a great experience.”

Mourn identify as Catalonians rather than Spaniards. Catalonia remains proud of its cultural heritage and radical political tradition: in 1936 Catalonia was the scene of the world’s first (and only) anarchist government; when art historian Robert Hughes went to write about the great art of Barcelona, he found himself drawn to the unique culture and politics of the region. “We’re Catalan and have our own traditions, so we don’t feel that we’re Spanish, but I don’t know how that’s influenced our music.”

Bueno isn’t so positive, however, about the economic future in Spain. “I think there’s no hope,” Bueno says. “It’s frustrating because nothing’s changing. Hopefully there are some political movements that are trying to change this, but it’s a slow process. But a lot of people here are angry with the world, and I don’t feel comfortable here. I’m studying and trying to make my own things, so I hope the situation changes because it’s not very good now.”

MOURN’s new album Ha, Ha, He. is available now via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records.

As part of the Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, Phia will be teaming up with Georgia Fields to launch Fields’ new single Open Orange (which features vocals from Exiner). Also on board are the Melbourne Indie Voices, an indie-folk choir that performs renditions of contemporary songs.

Exiner met Fields for the first time at an open mic night in Paris around 2011. From that chance encounter, a wonderful creative relationship was forged. Exiner herself has only recently returned to Melbourne after five years in Berlin.

“Having been away from Melbourne for so long, coming back I’ve just been so impressed with the quality of the music scene here,” Exiner says. “Everything’s just so good; the standard is high and it feels really stimulating to be back in this scene.”

Exiner can’t sit still for long, though. She’ll be touring Germany with her new album in September, and plans to keep on visiting for a couple of months each year. “I think when I’d left Melbourne, I’d just finished studying music here and I felt claustrophobic. I felt like, ‘I know everyone’. I’d studied piano, so I was feeling, ‘Everyone just knows me as a piano player – I’m never going to be able to be known as anything else.’ When, of course, who knows how much of that was just in my head?

“Whatever the reason was, I had to get away and Berlin provided me with this amazing sense of anonymity, which I could never have gotten here because I’d grown up here. That’s what Berlin gave me, this sense of total blank slate. That was really refreshing.”

Having learnt the intricacies of jazz at university, Exiner’s developed an impressively versatile approach to making catchy indie pop music. “I love that this type of music allows me to tell stories to people and be up on a stage. I feel very fulfilled by being allowed to do that. When I’m able to capture some sort of feeling that’s important to me, or a memory or something in a song, I really feel this sense of accomplishment. I don’t know where I would get that anywhere else; feeling like you’ve been able to immortalise something.”

PHIA and Georgia Fields are playing at the Gasometer Hotel on Sunday July 3 as part of Leaps and Bounds 2016.

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KRISTY COOTE S T I C K I N G

T O

W H AT

S H E

K N O W S

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

The title of Kristy Coote’s new album is reflective of the artistic realisation she came to in the lead up to its release.

Favourite Thing came out in May, a whopping eight years since her previous release, Chocolate Days. It was recorded at 2729 Audio in Nashville, Tennessee with producer and Aussie expat Mike Flanders, who played a crucial role in the album’s development.

FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NGV N E W

I N S P I R AT I O N

BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON

The NGV’s hugely popular Friday Nights series is returning for winter 2016. The 13-week series will feature live performances from local and international acts and after-hours access to the gallery. The latest instalment of Friday Nights at NGV coincides with the winter masterpieces exhibition, Degas: A New Vision, which celebrates the works of French impressionist Edgar Degas.

Friday Nights At NGV brings contemporary music and legendary art together to create a truly unique experience.

There’s also food and drinks available to accompany the live music. Curator Paul Curtis is the man behind the outstanding lineups that have attracted diverse audiences year after year.

“The gallery stays open late, there’s the exhibition itself, bars and food, pop-up talks and of course, the music element,” Curtis says. “Interestingly enough, when they first started the series for the Monet exhibition, the interest was quite dramatic – it kind of set off on it’s own. I was quite amazed.”

With each new instalment, the event has continued to grow. “I find it sees a very mixed range of people,” Curtis says. “You get people who come just because the gallery is open late and they’re not even sure what they’re getting. You get people who come for the exhibition itself, and then you get people that are drawn in for the music.

“I find that the gallery space almost recontextualises how people think about and approach music. In many cases, I find that there’s an audience that attends that wouldn’t necessarily be inclined to go to a music venue or festival. It’s also a situation that’s open to all ages as well, so we do get a wide range of ages coming in. You move around and some people are asking, ‘Who’s this artist?’ I saw people at Ngaiire holding up phones trying to Shazam who she was.

We’ve created this great umbrella to draw people in who may not even be aware of the featured artist, yet.”

The winter series will begin this Friday night with ARIA Award-winning singer/ songwriter, Clare Bowditch. Other acts appearing over the next 12 weeks include The Goon Sax, The Grates, Husky, The Apartments, Halfway, Jen Cloher, The Painted Ladies, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds (USA), Mick Harvey, and Augie March. The aim is to celebrate some of Australia’s greatest artists from a range of genres, while also providing a complement to the featured exhibition.

“I generally think about it from the perspective of a more abstract leaning of, ‘What would work in this situation? What lends itself to the themes and nature of the art exhibition?’ ” says Curtis. “I discuss a bunch of ideas with the gallery, where they and I think we should go with it, and we somehow piece a list together. There are so many factors involved – the emergence of new music, trying to mix things up, trying to satisfy a variety of demographics in regards to male and female artists, younger BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28

and older artists.

“I have a pretty insatiable curiosity for music – be it old or new, whatever. I don’t have a particular genre that I like, so I tend to be very aware of all types of music and am open to anything. I just ride on a feeling. But there’s a certain dynamic that occurs externally to what my thoughts are.

It is very much a strong collaboration with the gallery. I feel very privileged that I’ve been able to work for so long alongside them on the series and that they afford me the ability to do so.”

Launching this Friday, Degas: A New Vision displays the largest collection of Degas works ever seen in Australia. The exhibition encompasses over 200 works sourced from more than 40 countries around the globe, providing a broad look at the French painter’s inimitable oeuvre. The live music performance will shed new light on the artist’s talent, creating a dynamic experience for attendees.

“The space sits in combination with an art exhibition so it affords the opportunity to engage and indulge in that, in combination with the music performance,” says Curtis.

“They work in tandem together. All cultural experience offers something unique in a variety of ways. It is all subjective. I think these situations are great in the sense that they afford the possibility of a variety of people to take an interest in things they normally wouldn’t. Fans of various music artists who may not have knowledge or awareness of Degas, here’s an option to extend that. And vice versa: people who come for the art, here’s an opportunity to engage with live music that may or not may not resound with some kind of connection with the art.

“The physical space of the great hall and the psychology that comes with playing in this sort of context also tends to stimulate the music artists. Some want to really engage with the visual art or exhibition itself, responding directly to it and allow it to affect them in some way. Others just seem to be inspired by the situation because playing in that art gallery context is somewhat different and unique. There’s a sense of thrill that comes through and injects itself into the performance. New situations provide new inspirations.”

In conjunction with Degas: A New Vision, FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NGV runs every Friday up until September 16, with performances from Clare Bowditch, The Goon Sax, The Apartments, Jess Ribeiro, Jen Cloher and more.

“I sat down with Mike one day and he said, ‘Let’s work on this album closer to your own genre,’ ” Coote says. “These days you have to pocket yourself in a genre. It’s just about record sales – when you put them up on iTunes people can look for pop or country or whatever. Mike had known me a couple of years and we thought, ‘Well let’s just be clever about this and take our time.’ ” Patience was necessary for Coote to wipe away distractions and determine what sort of music she really wanted to make.

Perhaps it sounds like this should be easy, but Coote’s been doing this for a long time and she’d started to feel bound by external perceptions.

“I was a bit confused with my own genre,” she says. “People would pocket me into country-pop pretty much because I’d been going to Nashville for ten years or more.

And also I’ve got family in Tamworth, so I was going there a lot and I performed at the [Country Music] festival about four times. But the thing is, I don’t really listen to country music. Mike said to me, ‘What do you listen to? I don’t see you as country music per se.’ He compared me to Ingrid Michaelson, and she’s definitely more indie pop. And I said, ‘I love her songs.’

“You’ve got to stick with what you love the most, because otherwise you won’t get anywhere because it’s not authentic.”

The album bears Coote’s name, but a lot of songs were co-written alongside other Australian songwriters, including Sarah Humphreys, Clive Young and Anthony Snape. All of the collaborations were conducted after she’d decided to lean closer to pop songwriting.

“Clive Young, he’s been in the industry for a long time. I got recommended to write with him,” Coote says. “He used to be a ‘90s pop star – used to be on Countdown and stuff. When I heard his name I went, ‘Mmm... don’t know his name,’ but I looked him up on YouTube and it was hilarious; I remembered the song [Something Special] from the ‘90s. He had a mullet and he had

NOTHING BUT THIEVES D O N ’ T

B E L I E V E

T H E

H Y P E

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Growing up in southern England, the members of Nothing But Thieves became interested in lots of iconic guitar music, from Led Zeppelin to Queens of the Stone Age. Over the years they’ve picked up various other influences, including the likes of Jeff Buckley and Nine Inch Nails, but it’s difficult to view Nothing But Thieves as anything other than a guitar-led rock band. There are some really interesting, adventurous contemporary rock bands, but there’s also a lot of superfluous white noise made by superficially motivated guitar slingers. Given the context, the Essex five-piece vied to inject their own personality into all of the songs on their 2015 self-titled debut LP.

“For this album we worked so closely on each individual track – each element, each sound, each lyric,” says vocalist Conor Mason. “Everything was so individual for each song to make it stand out from the next song. We hate bands that every song sounds the same. It’s just boring.”

After their debut EP If You Don’t Believe, It Can’t Hurt You came out in 2013, Nothing But Thieves grabbed major label attention in the US and UK. Over the next couple of years they unveiled a series of singles and marked a trail of live shows across B E AT.C O M . A U

much of the Northern Hemisphere. A total of seven singles came out prior to the album, all of which appeared on the record when it finally arrived last October. This is indicative of how far in advance Nothing But Thieves was completed.

“It was funny actually – we came to record the record only after a few months of playing and then we played the record live for a good year/year and a half,” Mason says. “It’s a different way to do it, but it really worked for us – we’re proud of it.

“We figured ourselves out more as a live

a black leather jacket. It was a pretty big hit in Australia.”

The album doesn’t include any radically contrasting sounds – although it does feature some rapping – but it does combine elements of pop, roots, rock and folk, plus the R&B groove of first single Free Wind.

This was all mediated by Coote’s renewed self-understanding.

“We sat down and had a meeting and [Mike] pretty much said, ‘We can’t be fluffing around. We have to be 100 per cent focused on who you are and what you are.’

This is just who I am.”

Coote is launching Favourite Thing in Melbourne this weekend. The album has actually been ready to go for around 18 months. However, the release was delayed so that Coote could reassess her commercial ambitions.

“We were trying to pursue it over in America first up,” she says. “But at the same point I was thinking, ‘I’d love to break through on Australian soil – my own hometown – and see if they like it.’ I’ve been really lucky that I have a really good team here as well.

“People don’t know who I am. You have to put a single out and then you wait six weeks and put out another one and then release the album. Now it’s out and I’m happy.”

KRISTY COOTE is playing at the Croxton Park Hotel (front room) on Friday June 24 with special guest Jason Singh. Favourite Thing is available now via Maronte Music.

band after we did the album,” Mason says.

“It was a strange way to do it. In a way the songs almost came to life more when we got a chance to tour them. We’ve been touring for two years straight pretty much.

You definitely find more love in the songs when you get to play them live and get to play to an audience and see what they react to.”

Nothing But Thieves have had some massive audiences to help them gauge their music’s potential. They’ve toured with the likes of Arcade Fire and Muse, and appeared at such major festivals Summer Sonic in Japan, The Isle of Wight Festival and Rock in Roma. This experience will inevitably influence the band’s next release.

“We have taken so much from playing live and that’s transferred to the new record.

We’ve pretty much been writing solidly since we finished the last record, so we’ve got quite a few ideas. Playing with bands like Muse and just touring really profusely has taught us a lot about what we want for the next record.”

Despite the extent of their international profile, the band members are still in their early 20s. Inking a major label deal, working with accomplished pop producer Julian Emery (Lissie, McFly), releasing a UK top ten album and performing live all over the world – it’d be enough to get carried away.

But Mason says they’re able to keep their egos in check.

“We always look in the future. We’re never too involved with what we’re doing now.

We don’t think, ‘Oh we’ve achieved this, we’re great at this.’ We’re always looking for the next step. It might be playing bigger venues at the end of the year or getting a number five or number one record. We’re always looking forward to the future rather than thinking we’re the greatest at what we’re doing. There’s a lot of bands that believe their own hype. You shouldn’t overthink things.”

NOTHING BUT THIEVES are playing at Ding Dong Lounge on Wednesday July 20. They’re also playing Splendour In The Grass 2016, North Byron Parklands, Friday July 22 – Sunday July 24. Nothing But Thieves is available now via Sony Music Australia.

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While they were never flag bearers for the shoegaze movement, Swervedriver’s popularity stretched far enough to bring them to Australia a number of times before they entered a decade-long hiatus in 1998. They were quick to return after reforming in 2008, and they’ll be back again this week to play songs from last year’s I Wasn’t Born to Lose You – the band’s first record in 17 years.

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The Reclink Community Cup is the ultimate local showdown, pitting notable musicians up against radio broadcasters in a heated game of Aussie rules football.

The match celebrates Melbourne’s thriving music scene and community radio broadcasters while raising funds and awareness for the disadvantaged. Every winter, the event attracts thousands of punters to Elsternwick Park to see Rockdogs (musicians) and Megahertz (Triple R 102.7FM / PBS 106.7FM) battling it out for an undeniably great cause.

Triple R presenter and musician Kate Boston Smith weighs in on the upcoming game and her involvement in the event over the years.

“I love this city of ours,” she says. “The larrikin spirit runs deep through it and people know how to have a good time. I adore my Triple R family. When I got on air with them and an opportunity came to play I just couldn’t resist. There’s nothing like taking up a full contact sport at the tender age of 32. Playing with the Megas, and now the Rockdogs, is to kick a footy with a hilarious family for a great cause.”

Now in its 22nd year, the Melbourne Community Cup usually attracts more than 10,000 punters, raising over $100,000 for Reclink Australia. Offering unique sports, arts and recreation programs to individuals around the country, Reclink aims to provide participation opportunities for even the most disadvantaged. In turn, the Cup sees a diverse group of people coming together to enjoy some footy and live music.

“We all know how wonderful it is to be supported by strong community,” says Smith. “Reclink offers programs that build confidence in people who need it most.

All of our society is much better for these services. Both teams understand the huge privilege it is to play and represent an incredible organisation.

“The entire day is like a footy and music festival. There are kids, dogs, music, old friends from all over the city and beer.

There’s nothing better then bumping into an old flame or a mate you haven’t seen for a while to remind you that community is alive in Melbourne. Reclink and those who use its services benefit so much from the funds raised on the day. People who come to the Community Cup want to show that they care. They care for the well being of others and the organisations that support them. They know that their actions count.”

According to Smith, the Rockdogs are passionate, rock-fit and strong, whereas the Megahertz are focused, well trained and provide stellar cuddles. While she’s stepping onto the field as a Rockdog this year, the former-Megahert is all about the power of the unexpected.

“Variety is the spice of life and Community Cup loves a bit of controversy. I’m happy to provide it,” she says. “Mainly, I’m doing it to get back at Triple R’s Damien Lawlor.”

The head-to-head game is going down this Sunday, so all the players are deep into the

preparation stage. However, Smith assures us that competition aside, it’s all just a bit of fun.

“I’m currently in Bali,” she says. “I like to think of it as horizontal tropical training.

I’m hoping I bring some jungle magic – not just Bali belly – back with me. Realistically, I’m just glad to have a tan when running around in footy shorts.

“Reclink Cup is like footy Christmas, with 10,000 of your mates around and on the gas. I get excited, peak too soon, then realise we’re lining up for the bounce of the first quarter. I’m not much of an assist to either team. It’s nothing more than a good wrestle in the mud with old friends.”

Off-the-field entertainment at this year’s Cup includes a variety of food and beverage stalls, children’s activities and a great lineup of musical performers. Playschool’s Rhys Muldoon and Spiderbait’s Kram will open the show, creating the most rockedout kids band to ever grace the Cup stage.

The Sugarcanes will make their muchanticipated debut and Loose Tooth are sure to impress the crowd before the bounce.

Daddy Cool’s Ross Wilson will take care of the opening ceremony with a solo set, and Total Giovanni will appear at half time.

Closing the day will be profane legends, Regurgitator.

In addition to bringing awareness to Reclink’s valuable vision and providing family-friendly fun, the day places emphasis on the importance of community radio and the work of those involved.

Local radio representatives like Smith are currently rallying for changes to funding cuts imposed by the latest federal budget.

“Community radio stations are the lifeline of not only this city, but of Australia at large.

It’s not just independent music and art – community radio supports and connects minority groups and non-English speaking groups. I am appalled that government are actively choosing to silence stations while making it easier for commercial media to stranglehold the airwaves. They should be ashamed. I sincerely hope these cuts do not get off the ground. I shall be maintaining this rage for the Cup. See you there.”

RECLINK COMMUNITY CUP goes down on Sunday June 26 at Elsternwick Park with performances from Regurgitator, The Sugarcanes, Loose Tooth and more.

Released last March, I Wasn’t Born to Lose You arrived seven years after the initial reunion of vocalist/guitarist Adam Franklin, guitarist Jimmy Hartridge and bassist Steve George (with current drummer Mikey Jones entering the picture in 2011).

Franklin’s been pleasantly surprised by the impact of the album, especially considering his preliminary reluctance to add anything to the Swervedriver catalogue. “[When we got back together] everyone was doing other things and there wasn’t really time to think about putting our minds to a Swervedriver album,” he says.

“But then when we finally did and we’ve come up with this album – which we’re very proud of – we think it’s a great record, so now it seems quite strange to think that we didn’t do it earlier.”

Swervedriver’s previous LP, 99th Dream, was released at the beginning of 1998. It was their fourth album and the culmination of decade’s work. Then, after six months on the road, the band members decided to go their separate ways. Franklin stayed visible in the ensuing years, making albums with Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody, Toshack Highway and Magnetic Morning.

2005 saw the release of the Swervedriver retrospective compilation, Juggernaut Rides ’89-’98, which helped to spark the band’s enthusiasm and attract plenty of new listeners.

“At our shows now there’s certainly the older people that were there back in the day, but also clearly younger kids who weren’t

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there the first time around,” Franklin says.

When making I Wasn’t Born to Lose You, Franklin was mindful of the expectations of their expanded audience base. “It was obvious that we couldn’t go off and do a completely left field album. But on the one hand, it’s the natural sound of Swervedriver anyway, so it’s always going to sound the way it does. But I suppose we could’ve been experimenting with synthesizers or something, but [it] would’ve been ridiculous to come back with something that wasn’t the Swervedriver sound.”

The new album was recorded in the midst of the Raise tour, which had the band performing their 1991 debut LP in its entirety. Revisiting this album encouraged Franklin to reacquaint himself with many

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At 51, Mark Lanegan has been making music for over half his life. Since emerging as an angsty, long-haired teen back in 1984 as part of Screaming Trees, Lanegan has traversed a myriad of genres, styles and collaborators through a prolific and critically acclaimed career. Over the years, Lanegan’s recorded a number of songs that are yet to see the light of day – and who knows if they ever will.

“A few years ago, somebody started putting together a box set of my work,” says Lanegan, alluding to One Way Street: The Sub Pop Albums, which was finally released last year. “One of the discs was dedicated to previously unreleased stuff, so that took care of most of what I had in the archive.

There’s probably plenty more in there, y’know, for all I know. I used to record a lot of songs, and of course not all of them were going to make it onto the record. That’s not really how I do things anymore – those extra songs usually end up as B-sides to a 7-inch, or maybe I’ll put them on an EP. Those older songs, though, they’re all still out there somewhere, I’m sure.”

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latest release, last August’s Houston (Publishing Demos 2002). As the title suggests, the album is a collection of songs recorded by Lanegan and some close friends back in 2002. Some 13 years later, fans were able to hear that session in its entirety thanks to the project’s producer, Alain Johannes.

“Alain has remained a good friend of mine throughout the years,” says Lanegan. “We’d talked about putting it out for a few years now, but every time he had brought it up in the past I already had a new project or a new record that I was looking to put out at the same time. Sometime at the start of last year, Alain sent the songs over again.

To my surprise, everything sounded really great and the songs were fine. I had some

of the band’s formative influences. “[The first album] was when the first excitement about formulating the ideas and even the name of the band and the artwork and the song titles… It all coalesced into this one thing. I was listening to some music that I had been listening to when we first formed and re-reading things like Love and Rockets, the comic book that used to inspire me lyrically and just generally.”

A lot has changed in the world of rock music since 1991. Raise was released via Creation Records, a cult-like UK label that was also home to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine (and later Oasis). However, despite the impacts of changing technology and trends, Franklin doesn’t see much of a shift in the fundamentals of album making.

“People say these days that artists don’t think in terms of albums, but I think most artists probably still do. Perhaps it’s just artists of a certain age, but you think of an album as a whole piece of art in itself.

“The week the album came out there were people tweeting things, one of which was somebody saying, ‘Hey I’ve just discovered this new band. They’re called Swervedriver.’

And it appeared to be a teenager, and that’s great. I think [the album] definitely does standalone and I think it’s my favourite album of the lot.”

SWERVEDRIVER are playing at the Corner Hotel on Thursday June 23 with Grinding Eyes and Exek. I Wasn’t Born To Lose You is available now via Poison City Records.

time, so I just figured ‘Why not?’ It wasn’t all that mysterious, really.”

While he is best known for performing under his own name, Lanegan is also a noted musical collaborator. He was a key part of the first few lineups of Queens of the Stone Age, has recorded with The Gutter Twins (alongside Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers), and released three albums with Isobel Campbell and another, Black Pudding, with multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood.

So, what draws Lanegan to working with another performer?

“First and foremost, it’s the music,” he says.

“More specifically, it’s the music that they make without me – it’s something that I have to enjoy. The people themselves, too, are very important to the operation.

Almost always, it’s someone that I’m well acquainted with. If that’s not the case initially, it certainly is by the time the work is done and the project is finished.

It has to be something that I can see my part in. There are rare occasions where a collaboration hasn’t worked out for that very reason – I think I can handle something, and then we’ll get further into the piece and it will become clearer that it’s simply not the case.”

This July, the Mark Lanegan Band are headed to Australia to perform at Splendour In The Grass. It will be Lanegan’s third appearance at the festival, having previously visited in 2009 with The Gutter Twins and in 2013 alongside Isobel Campbell. It’s suggested that he may well be seen as the outlier of the Splendour lineup, an oddone-out inclusion among more hip and trendy acts.

“Maybe I’m delusional, but I don’t think about it in those terms,” Lanegan laughs.

“Naturally, I enjoy a more intimate setting, but I also get something out of the scale of festivals. I’m bringing my band, too, so it will be more fitting to the climate.”

MARK LANEGAN BAND are playing at the Croxton Bandroom on Friday July 22; also Splendour In The Grass 2016, North Byron Parklands, Friday July 22 – Sunday July 24.

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The purpose of Give ‘Em A Leg Up Ya Bastards! is to raise funds for the recording of Sheriff ’s debut album.

The event takes place this Saturday at Rye Civic Hall, and while Sheriff ’s fundraising motives are clear, they haven’t skimped on production details. There’s a heavy list of bands involved – in terms of big names, quantity of performers and the predominant stylistic persuasion – plus booze, fete stalls, hot food and raffles.

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If it were a living person, Shihad’s third studio album would be able to legally drink, buy cigarettes and drive a car in the band’s homeland of New Zealand. A self-titled effort, although it’s also known as the fish album, the record has a beloved history over there and has achieved cult status here in Australia, where some of the band members now live. It’s an album the band are learning to appreciate once again with its 20th anniversary looming and a reissue imminent.

“I never listen to an album after we’ve made it,” says frontman Jon Toogood. “I get a buzz when we’re creating new music.

I scoff it down like a little child in a candy store and I listen to it way too much. Then, after we’re done, just thinking of it makes me feel sick – a bit like a kid would after too many lollies, to extend the metaphor.

When it comes to these albums getting re-released, I’m revisiting them just like everyone else.”

For Toogood – who recently completed a solo tour and is also working on music education programs for young people – revisiting Shihad was not without surprises.

“It hits me exactly what I was talking about or what I was thinking about when I wrote certain songs,” he says. “Things that you totally forgot come rushing back to you. I remember listening back to the fish album and being completely taken aback by the drums. I realised that was the way that we’d recorded them – Tom [Larkin] had recorded drums for every song to get mixed into the left-hand side, and then recorded them all again to get mixed into the right-hand side. I mean, it was probably a waste of time, but it was fucking cool.”

After releasing two albums – 1993’s Churn and 1995’s Killjoy – that primarily leaned on down tuned riffs and wandering progressions, many saw Shihad as a surprising shift in direction. According to Toogood, this stemmed from a change in their listening habits, which affected their approach to songwriting.

“The fish album is a really unique Shihad record,” he says. “It was the first record where we consciously tried to write songs.

There was melody and a bit of arrangement on Killjoy, but we were never thinking about radio or writing a pop song. Those songs went for like five, six minutes. Things started to change once we started touring a lot. We ended up in LA and we were listening to a lot of Spiritualized, Guided

by Voices and even A Northern Soul by The Verve. It almost didn’t make sense, because we were still quite a heavy band at that point, but it made us want to write songs in a really different way. It doesn’t work for every song on that record, but it freed us up to be who we are now. We were allowed to be different.”

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Several singles from Shihad have gone on to to become anthems among New Zealand music fans, including La La Land and Yr’ Head is a Rock. There’s one song, however, that stands out above the rest – and it began, somewhat unexpectedly, with a champagne supernova in the sky.

“I can remember seeing Oasis at Roskilde,” says Toogood. “I remember being completely blown away. Here was this band, as loud as AC/DC, but writing and playing these huge pop songs. Something clicked for me, where I realised that’s what I wanted to be doing. I think that you can hear that in a song like Home Again. These days, it’s a standard Shihad song – I think we play it every single time that we do a show. In New Zealand, kids get taught that song at school.”

The band are heading out on an Australian tour at the end of the month, starting out in Western Australia and then making their way across to the east coast for three headlining shows with Adelaide’s Grenadiers. The shows will primarily focus on Shihad, as well as selected cuts from the entire back catalogue – including their most recent album, 2014’s FVEY. “I cannot believe that those songs are still so relevant,” says Toogood. “I mean, the Panama Papers just blew all of that shit wide open again. I’m watching Scott Morrison telling everyone they shouldn’t vote for Labor because they’re going to make you pay more tax – even though this prick could just tell his rich buddies to pay their fair share so we wouldn’t have this fucking problem. Everything that FVEY dealt with is even more intense now, so I’m going to have to get that shit off my chest in-between the nostalgia, I think.”

SHIHAD are playing at the Croxton Bandroom on Saturday July 16, with support from Grenadiers and From Oslo.

“It’s a beautiful big old hall with wooden floors and the old school stage with the curtains,” says Sheriff guitarist Tom Watson. “It’s feeling pretty good, there’s a bit of buzz about it. We think it’ll almost fill up with Peninsula crew, but I’m hoping to convince a hundred or so people to make the trek down from Melbourne and set up at the caravan park.”

Sheriff have been playing around Melbourne since 2009, and have managed to traverse much of the Australian continent in the years since. Along the way they’ve released two EPs (Sheriff 2012 and Roughhouse Hymns, 2013) and last year’s The Ghosts of Saturday Night 7”. An album, evidently, isn’t something they’ve wanted to rush into, but these funds will help make it a reality.

“The plan was that the money we raise will cover the entire recording process,” Watson says. “If not, we’re confident we might make half or two thirds of the recording process, and then through gigging a bit more over the next couple of months we’ll raise the rest. So the recording will go ahead one way or another later this year, but hopefully this is a big help.”

Sheriff play unhinged, riff-heavy rock music with a lot of gang vocals and nods to blues and southern rock. What they’re most renowned for, however, is their assertive

onstage approach, regularly involving audience members in the action. It could be difficult to capture the tactile experience of a Sheriff live show on record, but this worry hasn’t contributed to the delay of the album.

“We’ve been pretty happy to wait until we felt the need,” Watson says. “And now we’re finally like, ‘Right. It’s time.’ We’ve been together for almost seven years, so we’re coming to really find our sound. It’s been a similar sound with all the other releases, but after seven years we’re on top of our game music-wise, I reckon. We’ve developed it enough that we feel we should document it in the form of a full length release.”

In the meantime, they’re devoting all of their energy to Give ‘Em A Leg Up. The decision to host the gig down on the Mornington Peninsula is reflective of their

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We live in a time of hyper political correctness, where anyone that crosses the line of good taste is liable to be publically shamed. But for all of its positive intentions, this tendency often serves to silence people. UK rock band Fat White Family, however, aren’t tiptoeing around.

The band’s latest record, Songs For Our Mothers, explores a range of sensitive subject matter. For instance, Satisfied compares holocaust survivor Primo Levi’s desperate fight for survival to oral sex; Hits Hits Hits is a sarcastic take on Ike Turner’s physical assaults of his wife Tina; and Tinfoil Deathstar looks at escapism via heroin addiction.

Songs For Our Mothers isn’t an aggressive listening experience, mind you. For the most part, a less engaged listener could dig the warped garagey post-punk sounds without noticing the lyrical concerns. None of the songwriting’s especially unconventional either, and songs like Whitest Boy on the Beach and Satisfied are immediately ear-catching and melodious.

“I want to make pop music, sometimes,” says guitarist and chief songwriter Saul Adamczewski. “I think Hits Hits Hits is a pop song. I’m a bit out of touch with the mainstream, but that’s as close to pop as we’ve ever got. I wanted that to sound like Hot Chocolate.”

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Lennon in upstate New York, and in terms of production and song craft, it’s a development from the band’s last LP, Champagne Holocaust. That said, the whole thing possesses a druggy haze. It doesn’t necessarily sound like its makers were on drugs – regardless of whether they were – but the whole thing’s very woozy, very blurry.

Adamczewski says the smacked out sound of the record wasn’t intentional, inasmuch as there weren’t any grand intentions.

“There’s never an aesthetic that is premeditated. It’s just how it comes out. It probably did have quite a lot to do with the drugs that we were on at the time.”

The album covers a range of genres, from krautrock and garage blues to loopy Syd

intention to make it a unique experience rather than a dry fundraising initiative.

“The original idea was a big community hall-type old school feeling thing with a fete. Then a friend of ours late last year was pushing for us to do something similar down the Peninsula as well, because they love live music down there and they don’t get a lot of bigger events like that.”

Every band on the bill has a connection to the Peninsula, either through personal origins or past success. “There’s about four bands who are from down there, and then the Melbourne bands are in one way or another quite well known down there. The Moody Spooks are from the Peninsula; Redro Redriguez, he’s from Rye; Broozer are two-thirds Peninsula based, so they’ve always played down there quite a bit; and Zombitches are the other local crew.”

Elsewhere, the lineup features plenty of familiar names for fans of Melbourne’s heavy rock scene, including Child, My Left Boot and Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk.

It’s BYO cans too, which ain’t half bad.

“We’re also running a bar selling five dollar schooners of Thunder Road beer all day – our favourite,” Watson says. “Plus several varieties of hot food. It’s being MC’d by a livestock auctioneer [Nick ‘The Mouth From The South’ Fogarty].”

So if all goes according to plan, when should we expect to hear the finished Sheriff album? “Realistically it’d be early 2016.”

GIVE ‘EM A LEG UP YA BASTARDS! featuring Sheriff, Child, My Left Boot, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk and more goes down on Saturday June 25 at Rye Civic Hall.

Barrett folk-psych, glam rock, and even a grotesque waltz. But despite this diversity and the band’s aberrant psychological perspective, it all sounds reasonably familiar.

“Most of the band can’t really play their instruments, so there’s a naivety to the way we play,” Adamczewski says. “I’ve always found things like weird time signatures a bit irritating. I’m quite simple minded like that – I like the basic verse-chorus kind of structure. I like to twist that a little bit and distort it a little bit, but essentially that’s what I like. I’m not trying to be in Slint or anything like that.”

At the same time, nothing sounds like a rip-off. The record upholds a sinister and disconcertingly tongue-in-cheek personality, which is what separates Fat White Family from many of their peers.

“Because so many other bands these days are devoid of any kind of charisma or character whatsoever, when there is a band that sound like a bunch of human beings with ideas it actually seems to be something that people want to talk about. It’s not so much a compliment to us; more a damnation on everyone else.”

In this context, Fat White Family can be seen as a group of antagonisers trying to some inject life back into rock music, no matter how filthy or lurid. But in assuming this role, is there a greater social agenda – do they think rock music should go beyond the realm of entertainment and contribute a critical perspective on society?

“I don’t think rock music should do anything.

I just think it’s a shame that it doesn’t,” Adamczewski says. “I think that there are plenty of bands that are saying things, plenty of bands with great ideas, plenty of bands who are making interesting music with charisma and character and personality.

But it’s the male-run, middle-aged music industry that’s worried about the fact that they’re dying a slow death that is keeping things safe – and therefore killing themselves at the same time.”

FAT WHITE FAMILY are playing at Yah Yah’s on Sunday July 24 and Cherry Bar on Monday July 25; also Splendour in the Grass 2016, North Byron Parklands, Friday July 22 – Sunday July 24. Songs For Our Mothers is available now via Without Consent/PIAS.

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This New Zealand born duo keeps going from strength to strength, with only two years passing since their first studio album, Evergreen. The new album, Conscious, is their best yet – prompting happy feelings with their signature synth beats and melodic vocals from Georgia Notts.

We hit the ground running with Free, a song that’s been getting pumped on triple j as well as a few commercial stations. It’s incredibly catchy and feels like the song that’s going to launch Broods into the mainstream.

This might also have something to do with the fact this album was produced by long-term collaborator Joel Little, who’s worked with recent pop sensations like Lorde, Ellie Goulding and Jarryd James.

We Had Everything is a breezy summer tune, while Are You Home starts slow but breaks out into a cheesy ‘80s-inspired pop beat. The vocals really shine on Heartlines, a track that was co-written by fellow Kiwi Lorde. The mixed tempos echo similar-sounding bands

like Chvrches and The Naked and Famous.

Freak of Nature features the Swedish pop singer Tove Lo, a heavier-sounding ballad about embracing and overcoming your own personal demons. The piano backing behind All of Your Glory is a nice touch, making it one of the best songs on the album, while Recovery Revised gets back to that dreamy/dancey/Lorde-ish territory.

Couldn’t Believe and Full Blown Love pick up the pace again, and the album rounds out nicely with slow burner Worth the Fight, heavy-hitter Bedroom Door and the title track, Conscious, which ends things on a high.

BY CHRIS BRIGHT

Cart your arse down to Elsternwick this Sunday to see yours truly pull on the mighty Megahertz guernsey and absolutely cane myself by trying to take hangers all day.

BERNARD FANNING Wasting Time (Dew Process) I like the little tinkle of pianos, but Fanno’s penchant for obnoxious

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“To run it through again would only serve nobody no good.” It’s hard not to read it as a grapple with nostalgia, and in turn, gettin’ the band back together. There’s potency in exploring that time and longing at least.

DANNY BROWN When It Rain (Warp) Danny Brown is pure energy, always. Here he heads into darker territory with some brooding production, teaming up with some oppressive and unrelenting bass, only more powerful come the uptempo hook. It’s not a dancefloor banger, but can still rule one just through pure strength.

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Featuring vocals from Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue, the track recaptures vintage Avalanches magic, concocting a goddamn dream of a textural pallete. It’s sugary sweet without adding any corn syrup. Time to touch on to the Wildflower hype train again, we’re riding this baby out to zone two.

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It’s never been a simple task to pinpoint what it is that makes David Bazan tick.

This is, after all, the same person who spent his formative years in an indierock band professing Christianity, only for the first album under his own name to be a complete decimation of organised religion.

This time, on Bazan’s third solo outing, the curveball is thrown sonically: his indie folk inclinations are stripped away to bare necessities, substituting his usual arsenal for buzzing Casio and rattling, tinny drum machines.

Both are often shrouded in gain and distortion, sending Bazan’s vocals out into the ether in the process. It should be stressed, however, that these changes do not deaden the impact of Bazan’s succinct, emotionallydriven lyricism. A line as simple and poignant as “you are worthy of love,” taken from standout Trouble with Boys, unequivocally hits like a truck. Elsewhere, Both Hands alludes to the hands being “over my eyes”, and it’s quietly devastating; and Someone Else’s Bet lets its sparse, impactful words hang in the air, gaining tension with each passing second.

He doesn’t have all the answers, but Bazan is still asking the right questions ± a nd that’s what counts.

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THE GLOWING MAN (Mute/Create Control)

Inland Sea is the debut solo album from Marcus Whale and his first release outside of the electronic duo Collarbones. Almost avant-garde in its experimentation, the record becomes stale in its obnoxious 50 minute running time.

Although singles Vapour and My Captain address social issues like race, gender and sexuality, the conscious commentary is drowned out by overthe-top production. It becomes difficult to focus on these lyrical themes as Whale attempts to blend all the disparate elements of his sound.

While the always captivating Rainbow Chan delivers a stunning vocal performance on 1888 that proves to be one of the highlights of the record, Whale’s own performance is flat and stretched out to little effect. It is only through the almost choral and chilling harmonisation from both parties that the track is saved from utter obliteration.

Vulnerable is Whale’s most ambitious effort to date. Glitchy hi-hats build toward an eerie sounding synth that draws the listener’s attention. While being a departure from the pop-electronica sound of his previous band, the production on Inland Sea comes off as something akin to a B-grade movie score. This is not the debut he should be looking for to appeal to a wider audience.

If Swans’ chronology consisted solely of what they’ve achieved since regrouping, they’d still be considered one of the most important bands in both experimental music and art-rock.

Their last three albums ± 2010’s My Father Will Guide Me..., 2012’s The Seer and 2014’s To Be Kind ± have been rapturously received. They’re all challenging, apocalyptic journeys through jazz, noise, prog and no-wave nihilism. The fact that Swans are over 30-years-old, and now 14 albums deep, adds further weight to their legacy.

This is reportedly the final LP from Swans as we know it, and it’s an exhaustive two-hour wig-out. If it’s not mantra-like chants inducing a state of hypnosis, it’s walls of guitar screech, avalanching down mercilessly.

The half-hour title track and the 20-minute Frankie M are both terrifying and arresting ± the audio equivalent of staring into a towering inferno, unable to look away. Then again, it’s nigh-on impossible to properly segment The Glowing Man once you’re deep within its confines.

If this is indeed the last we hear from Michael Gira and co. ± as the closer Finally, Peace alludes to ± let the record show Swans went down in flames.

The exact way they wished.

By BenJamin Potter

By DaviD James young

Cat’S EyES

thE StrokES

CaSE/lang/vEirS

Future Present Past ( Cult Records )

TREASURE HOUSE (RAF Records)

Cat’s Eyes create music shrouded in darkness, largely due to the solemn voices of The Horrors’ Faris Badwan and soprano Rachel Zeffira. Treasure House follows the duo’s self-titled debut from 2011, and stylistically not much has changed. Cat’s Eyes’ signature chamber pop remains unchanged, with the sound still managing to be both dramatic and spellbinding.

The album exclusively laments relationships, with Badwan and Zeffira dividing vocal responsibilities as they home in on themes of regret and isolation. First track, Treasure House, is a cinematic opening enhanced by harp and string accompaniment. Badwan’s baritone sounds delicate as he sets the scene with a heightened sense of vulnerability. Drag has a light and cheerful melody but this doesn’t distract from the sinister lyrics that paint a portrait of an abusive relationship. Zeffira’s vocals shift from a nearwhisper to a level of intensity that borders on uncomfortable.

Be Careful Where You Park Your Car is the most energetic track on the album, reminiscent of ‘60s girl groups with its layered vocals and steady clapping beat. Girl in the Room is plagued with regret and nostalgia, steadily building up to a string outro that transitions nicely into the organs of We’ll Be Waiting. Perhaps the best display of Badwan and Zeffira’s contrasting vocals, the song is defiant but relies heavily on string arrangements that at this point in the album feel quite exhaustive.

The album suffers from a considerable lull in the middle but picks up again in order to leave a favourable lasting impression. The track Names on the Mountains is a particularly refreshing change in tone. While the sound and lyrical themes on the album feel overdone, Treasure House has an undeniable depth that unlocks on repeated listens.

By HoLLy Pereira

The Strokes have well and truly cemented their place in music history, but when you’ve reached the top, where else is there to plunge but headfirst into experimentation? Future Present Past is exactly that; a bizarre time travel adventure where the New Yorkers attempt to re-edit, warp and mutate themselves, generating a range of stylistic branches to choose from in the future.

However, the result of this expedition leads to a fairly predictable conclusion.

This EP is bouncy, spasmodic fun, but unsatisfyingly incomplete. The innovative approach is immediately noticeable with opening track Drag Queen. Julian Casablancas delivers an unexpectedly left-of-centre performance over a droning, ‘80s-flavoured post-punk strum. His usual harmonious murmur is replaced by a Psychedelic Furs-esque serenade, which ascends into a warbling, strangled cry. Oblivius comes back to The Strokes’ classic sounds with the warm, fuzzy guitar strums and crisp bass thumps they’re renowned for. Casablancas toys further with a sexy croon that adds a theatrical flair. Threat Of Joy continues the sunny tone, while the reckless abandon of the lyrics give it an added edge. It’s a smooth, melancholic ode to a night of forgotten troubles ± that is, before the bizarre close whisks you into unknown territory again.

Oblivius - Moretti Remix reconfigures the second track into a spacey, synthdriven galactic trip. On an album of unique choices, this is still by far the strangest. It’s not the future, but rather a nostalgia-spiced understanding of what the future might’e looked like back in 1994.

Future Present Past is a delicious explosion of individual flavours that clash and contradict each other. It’s a tasty treat to whet the appetite of established fans more than a jumping-on point for newcomers, but it’s good fun that leaves you wanting more.

CASE/L ANG/VEIRS (Epitaph/ANTI)

“I think we should make a record together.” This, sent via email to Neko Case and Laura Veirs by kd lang, was the spark that lit the flame for case/lang/veirs. This is brought up contextually on account of the fact the trio perform together on this debut effort as if they have been doing so for years.

By triangulating the sheer force and resonance of their individual voices, the group manage to create something that’s among the most powerful and captivating work of their combined careers ± and that is no mean feat when one looks at the body of work within that particular canon. Each artist brings bits and pieces from their corners of the folk-rock spectrum into the sound ± the stabs of strings and the slowwaltz swoon of Honey and Smoke are vintage lang; Delirium harks back to Case’s Middle Cyclone-era; and Veirs takes the steering wheel on the infectious Best Kept Secret. That’s not even touching the all-in efforts of the stunning opener Atomic Number or the choral I Want to Be Here, in which the trio truly exemplify the best of their respective worlds.

Forget supergroup stigma ± t his is one of 2016’s must-hears.

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30/70 COLLECTIVE Hi there. Who am I talking to and what do you do with 30/70?

Ziggy ± O G salmon slapper.

What’s on offer for your month long residency at the Toff?

This residency is the ultimate culmination of the extended 30/70 collective, showcasing some of Melbourne’s finest wordsmiths improvising with the house band laying down the soul salmon slap. Also featuring producers from the collective pushing through to the wee hours ± we got raw and improvised live electronic sets.

Tell us about some of the side-projects that you’re showcasing. Are the artists involved doing something starkly different from their main projects?

The side projects are a means of showcasing different shades of the 30/70 sound. That is the brother Leroy James with his new jazz renegades diggin’ on the free jazz/jungle boogaloo vibe. The sister Tiaryn Griggs be diggin’ on the nu soul tip.

A Brother Scratch dig deep on the jazz/improv tip originating as a tribute to the Dilla beat catalogue Another Batch. The sister Allysha Joy is always speaking the real from the underground.

30/70 describes itself as a hip hop family. How have you gone about drawing people into the fold?

30/70 always has been about expanding the community, starting as a trio and working up to a nine-piece band. Also the fact that we live together, hustle together, love together, cry together ± there’s a spiritual connection that goes way deeper than just the music. The focus has always been empowering and inspiring humans to realise their own creative potential.

30/70 COLLECTIVE are playing at the Toff in Town on Wednesday June 22 and Wednesday June 29.

GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 22 JUN POPPONGENE

THE TOTE Poppongene is the solo project of Melbourne-based musician and artist Sophie Treloar, who also plays in Melbourne dream-pop outfit Sunbeam Sound Machine.

Treloar hails from the beaches of Byron Bay and now resides in the rainforest lined hills of Belgrave. She’s employed Full Flower Moon Band (Babyshakes solo set), Waterfall Person and Field Maps to help put on a corker of a show. Check out what Poppongene is all about on Wednesday June 22. Doors at 8.00 with $10 entry.

ANON. Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.

BOHJASS + GLORY B 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

EMILY WILLIAMS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

KWAME APEILON - FEAT: SENPOLO + UMT + ADRIANA

Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

THE ROOKIES The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

AN EVEN SUN + SAM MCAULIFFE + TRIPMONKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00.

DADA ONO + MAYFAIR KYTES + LUNA GHOST Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.

DJ ALBO + DJ MERMAID + THE DRAUGHT DODGERS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $22.00.

EM GEORGE + CHAMBERS + YOUNGSMITH Bar Open, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

HUNTING DOGS + CABAGES & KINGS + TRIPMONKS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

MIKE NOGA + NEAR MYTH + LILLITH LANE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.

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

OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

30/70 COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY

THE TOFF Melbourne’s OG hip hop and soul collective have been putting on one banger of a residency at The Toff this month. Wednesday June 22 will showcase Tiaryn Griggs and the 30/70 All Stars featuring Cazeaux OSLO. To top it off Sametz is on board for a live set. Tickets are $5 on the door, get there at 8.30pm.

PHAROAH SANDERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:00pm. .

RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

ODIE IDA

DOWSER + BEN WRECKER + JOSH BACH + PRIMM + SEASL Tago

THE GRACE DARLING Odie Ida is an art pop five-piece, with cousins Biddy Healey and Maddie Thiele at the helm. On Thursday June 23 they are set to unleash a new EP at The Grace Darling with the full band, using their customarily eclectic array of instruments. On support are Office Parrot and singer songwriter Isadoré. Doors are at 7.30pm, tickets are $12 on the door or $18 with a copy of the EP thrown in.

LAURA JEAN + JESSICA SAYS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In

LUCIE THORNE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

MUDDYS BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: LISA CRAWLEY Catfish,

PBS ROCK-A-BYE BABY MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: BAYOU TAPESTRY Fitzroy Town Hall, Fitzroy. 11:00am. $5.00.

ROGER WOODWARD Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

8:30pm.

WOODY PITNEY + DAL SANTO Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

ABRAHM GUNN + JULIA KOK + BROTHER TO THE BIRDS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Mago, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $5.00. $10.00.

Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

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

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

ORIEL GLENNON + AINE TYRELL + PETE FIDLER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

SKRONKADOODLEDOO Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00.

WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: MISS JONES + MICHELLE DRIVER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY 23 JUN

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

7:30pm. $59.00.

SOUL POWER - FEAT: MIKE STEVA Purple Emerald, Northcote.

8:00pm.

THE BAMBOOS + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ RICHIE 1250 Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00.

THE FIGMENTZ Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO + TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

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

WOMBATUQUE + AIA TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00

AUSTRALIAN VOICES - RICKETSON Melbourne Recital Centre,

BONJAH + AL PARKINSON & THE BABES + GEORGIA MAE Prince

CHECKERBOARD Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

JEN DE NESS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

CLASSIC ALBUM CLUB (COVERS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN)

Southbank. 6:00pm. $15.00.

$20.00.

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

Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $28.60.

Eddie's Bandroom, 7:30pm.

DANNIKA + CIGGIE WITCH + FRANCES FOX + GOOD MORNING + BECOMING FRIENDS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

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COSA NOSTRA

WHOLE LOT TA LOVE Hard alt rockers Cosa Nostra are bringing the good times to Whole Lotta Love on Thursday June 23, with another face mashing set of melodic distortion. Shinplasters have signed on for support, as well as High Finance ± a blistering garage outfit with a reputation for chaotic live performances. Thursday never looked better with free entry and music starting at 8pm.

PRAIRIE NISCHLER

EMERGENZA FESTIVAL Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $20.00.

FABLES + ASTRAL SKULS + SPIKE FUCK + DJ ONION Old Bar,

THE DRUNKEN POET Prairie Nischler is a folky pop lady from Tassie. She has been playing extensive shows in Melbourne and interstate with her band Since We Kissed, and is currently branching out with some solo performances. Her songwriting is honest and inspired by a range of topics: The Wombats, her mother, her dog, her first and second love, strong women like Katy Perry, food, people in general and the struggle to stay balanced. She’ll be joined by Timothy John, who goes on at 9pm. Catch Prairie at The Drunken Poet on Thursday June 23, free entry.

FUTURE CORPSE + OCEAN BONES + RAD ISLAND + THE ORPHAN

LOVE MIGRATE + JADE IMAGINE + LONG LUNCH Gasometer

Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

MEZZ LIVE Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 5:30pm.

NGAIIRE + LANKS + JACK GRACE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20.00.

PHAROAH SANDERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

6:00pm.

Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

8:30pm. $20.00.

THE BEARDS Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $30.00.

THE CURSE + MAUREEN + CHIMPER KIMBLAY + HANNAH BLACKBURN Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North

GLEN & THE PEANUT BUTTER MEN + THE COUNCIL + JUNKYARD Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

HYJINX + THE HIP STREETS + UPSTANDING MEMBERS Bar HYPERBOREA + LOW FLUNG Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

JAGGED LITTLE SINGALONG - FEAT: TOM DICKINS + ALISON AVRON + LADY SINGS IT BETTER Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

PÖPLI KIDS + GIANT CLAM + CLIVE LUCA + KATE ALEXANDER SWERVEDRIVER + GRINDING EYES + EXEK Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $55.00.

Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

THE LIVING END Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

BACKSTAGE - FEAT: JARROD SHAW + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

CASA DE REBOCO - FEAT: MANDACARU + DJ PAPRIKA Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

DAVID COSMA DUO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

JARROW

THE WORKER’S CLUB Jarrow is the garage pop project of West Footscray local Dan Oke. After spending six months in Nashville, Oke has rallied his full band back together for a very special comeback show at The Worker’s Club on Thursday June 23. Also on the bill for the night is the bedroom jangle wizardry of Eddy Dillon, the electronic pop mastery of Tetrahedra and the garage punk supremacy of Plural.

Plus,130 and Physics will be spinning all your favourite tunes in between sets. Get down and welcome Jarrow back to the big city. Doors are at 7pm with only $7 entry.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 22ND

DOWSER + BEN WRECKER & JOSH BACH, PRIMM & SEASLOTH 7.30PM $5

THURSDAY JUNE 23RD

SOUND TRACKS FOR IMAGINARY FILMS TWO FT. FLYING SAUCER TERROR + GOLD GULL + THE FUTURE OF DEAD RELIC MEMORIES 7PM FREE

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OLLY FRIEND

THE WESLEY ANNE After two national tours with a full band, Olly Friend is taking his energetic raw solo show on the road for the first time. After playing with a handful of artists this year including Patrick James, Hein Cooper and sharing festival slots with the likes of Ainslie Wills and Kyle Lionheart, Friend is looking in mighty good form. On Thursday June 23 Friend will warm up The Wesley Anne, with special guest Joseph Van Der Hurk from New Zealand. Entry is $10 with doors at 8pm.

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FLYING SAUCER TERROR + GOLD GULL Tago Mago, Thornbury.

7:00pm.

JESS PARKER + CASH BONANZA Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

JOE GUITON + THE BERKELEY HUNTS + RIAN KF + TIM GORDON

303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

KOZMIK COUNTY Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.

9:30pm.

STEPH BRETT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

THE NEED Railway Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 8:00pm.

TIMOTHY JOHN + PRAIRIE NISCHIER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY 24 JUN THE CRAFT HOUSE PARTY

THE EVELYN The Evelyn are back with another steezy party. Heading the night are Zombitches alongside Elbrus, The Underhanded, Swamp and Mother Guru. Make sure you take off the next day from work, gather together as much spare change that you can for beers and get a bit fruity on Friday June 24.

There’s a bunch of other surprises in store, so just make sure you get there and the Ev will do the rest. Entry is $10 with doors at 8.30pm.

ALSO DRAGONS + KARATE BOOGALOO + SILVER DELAY Yarra

Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. $10.00.

ANTON DELECCA STANDARDS QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

BABBA Milano's Tavern, Brighton. 6:30pm. $34.00.

BACH (SPIRIT & SPECTACLE) - FEAT: BACH: SPIRIT & SPECTACLE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $69.00.

BASEMENT BOOGIE - FEAT: CHILL COLLINS + DEREK BUCKLEY + TONY VERSACE + BLACK CAT Grace Darling Hotel,

Collingwood. 9:00pm. $2.00.

BELMAR RECORDS TOP 10 VOL 4 LAUNCH - FEAT: BEN PETERS + ROD PAYNE + JULIE O'HARA + EAMON MCNELIS + MORE St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $18.00.

COLOR & LIGHT Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

7:00pm. $29.00.

PARKER OF

BLIND MAN DEATH STARE’S TOP FIVE INFLUENCES

Lagwagon’s Duh changed my life.

Derrick Plourde, RIP, was a phenomenal drummer and songwriter. He actually wrote some of Lagwagon’s best records and inspired me to drum and write and not give into being a guitarist/singer or just a frontman who tries to sing. He was one of the best drummers I’ve come across and his style of writing is second to none. Catchy, melodic, frantic and ruthless. One of my favourite albums.

Bad Religion’s... everything.

Not so much the records when Brett [Gurewitz, guitar] left, but I guess they are still OK. BR are the kings. So many sing-alongs, hooks and the most intelligent lyrics I have read ± so eloquent. The pace they play makes for easy listening despite it being ferocious punk rock.

NOFX are a huge influence.

Fat Mike’s shitty voice, rad riffs, tongue in cheek humour and mass amount of songs gave me hope I could sing badly too. Punk in Drublic and Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing.

Rancid’s …And Out Come the Wolves blew my mind.

Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen going back and forth, ska reggae punk rock at it’s best. Matt Freeman’s bass lines. Seriously, what the fuck?

Last but not least is the almighty Frenzal Rhomb.

Australia’s best punk band forever more. Meet The Family is killer. All their albums kick arse. Gordy Forman destroys the toms and Jay Whalley is hilarious. Great band, I admire their style a lot.

BLIND MAN DEATH STARE are playing at the Last Chance Rock N Roll Bar on Friday June 24 and the Bendigo Hotel on Friday July 15.

SUNDAY JUNE 26TH

MR ALFORD COUNTRY MATT ALFORD 6PM, FREE

TUESDAY JUNE 28:

OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH MATT MCFARLANE 7PM

WEDNESDAY JUNE 29:

DINGDONG DEATH HOLE + FCKUPS, MONKEY GRIP 7.30PM, $5

THURSDAY JUNE 30:

TAYLOR PROJECT DEAN SCHULZ, PATRICK WILSON 8PM, FREE

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GIG GUIDE MAJIWA

THE B.EAST Louis Majiwa is a Kenyan funk-soul singer and songwriter whose style is defined by syncopating soulful, multilingual vocals to his rhythmic acoustic guitar. After leaving Kenya, Majiwa studied in South Africa where his style began to crystallise playing in the dark corners of Newtown alongside some of Johannesburg’s heavy hitters in the underground music scene. Bringing Kenyan flavour to The B.East on Friday June 24, Majiwa will debut his threepiece-band, fusing elements of benga, soul-funk and reggae to produce a distinct urban-folk sound that is truly his own.

His set will kick off from 9.30pm.

CRANKED Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

DALLAS FRASCA + DEVIL ELECTRIC + PLASTER OF PARIS Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

DISCOVERY- DAFT PUNK TRIBUTE - FEAT: JOHN COURSE + GOODWILL + ANDY MURPHY Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.

9:00pm. $17.85.

DREAD + ORDER OF CHAOS + BROOZER Reverence Hotel,

Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

DUMB PUNTS + ORB + MIGHTY BOYS + WHITE BLEACHES Tote

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

EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + DOUBLESHOT OF BLUES Musicland,

Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

ELECTRIC MARY + PALACE OF THE KING + TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 8:30pm. $25.00.

EMILY ULMAN + GEORGIA MAQ Old Bar, Fitzroy. 2:00pm.

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

THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA

THE JOHN CURTIN Inspired by the infectious afrobeat music of Nigeria and its neighbours, The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra will be delivering their contemporary African funk to The John Curtin on Friday June 24. The mammoth 17-piece ensemble comprises musicians hand-picked from Melbourne’s music scene. Their conscious lyrics and West African grooves are relevant today, while remaining faithful to the message of afrobeat. The Orchestra will be joined by nine-piece soul outfit The Fabric, and DJ Manchild.

Tickets are a measly $15 for this extravaganza of a night.

Doors are at 8pm.

Q&A

PHAROAH SANDERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

PHIL JAMIESON + TIM SMYTH + HOLYTRASH Sooki Lounge,

Belgrave. 8:00pm. $34.70.

PURPLE REVOLUTION - FEAT: ANDREW DE SILVA Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $30.00.

RAISED BY WOLVES + GLADSTONE + THE PATIENT + GRAVE ST BLUES + DAVE CRIMSON 303, Northcote. 9:00pm.

TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD + THE HIGGS Pelly Bar, Frankston.

7:00pm.

THE BENNIES + CLOWNS + AXE GIRL Max Watt's, Melbourne.

8:00pm. $25.00.

OLIVER CLARK

HOWLER Fresh off the back of his most acclaimed album to date Atomic Thrust, Oliver Clark returns with studio album number four, Strangely Familiar. To celebrate, Clark is launching the new release at Howler on Friday June 24.

He’ll be performing live on stage with his nine-piece band, special guest DJs and more. Doors are at 7.30pm, get your ticket via Moshtix.

HEY HEY IT'S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

HOUSEWRECKERS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

JUKAI FOREST Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT DJS

Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

METRIK Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 11:00pm.

MIDNIGHT AFFAIR Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

NAKED + NO SISTER + JEALOUS HUSBAND + PEAK BODY Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

NGAIIRE + LANKS + JACK GRACE Karova Lounge, Ballarat.

8:30pm. $20.00.

OFF CHOPS + HESSIAN + THE BUTLERS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 9:00pm.

THE SPITTING SWALLOWS

WHOLE LOT TA LOVE Four-piece pop/rock outfit The Spitting Swallows are gearing up to get fancy at Whole Lotta Love on Friday June 24, with their super tight jeans and toasty tracks.

They’ll be taking to the stage with some ripper supports, including alt-rockers Chasing Lana, Fight the Sun and Sienna Wild. Doors are at 8pm, entry is $10.

THE BURNING ROACHES + PUSSY JUICE + DEAD END + DEL BOCA VISTA Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

THE JUNGLE GIANTS + THE LULU RAES + GIDEON BENSEN + MACHINE AGE 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $33.50.

THE LIVING END Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

THE PAPER KITES + I KNOW LEOPARD Athenaeum Theatre,

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $43.94.

TOECUTTER + FLAMING WREKAGE + NABERUS + TRIGGER + REQUIEM Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.

WESLEY FULLER + BATZ + SUGAR TEETH Bar Open, Fitzroy.

9:00pm. $11.25.

WINTERBOURNE + ROBERT MUINOS + YOUNG VINCENT Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

ANDREW ROBERTS Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.00.

ANTHONY WINNICK Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

BITS OF SHIT + AMYL & THE SNIFFERS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

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

GALATA EXPRESS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $25.00.

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

JOEY CIRILLO + MANGO RETREAT DUO Preston Market, Preston. 11:00am.

JOSH PYKE + JACK CARTY + BEN JANSZ Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 8:00pm. $34.00.

LANEOUS & GOLDEN SOUND Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $10.00.

MAX TEAKLE & FRIENDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

5:30pm.

B E AT.C O M . A U

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

My name is Dan and I sing and play guitar in Jarrow.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like?

Getting stuck in traffic on a Sunday afternoon.

What do you love about making music?

The freedom of being able to share and express yourself creatively.

What do you hate about the music industry?

Not enough free samples.

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

Mid-‘70s David Byrne when he was still twitchy and awkward so I could steer more of the conversation.

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

Russell Crowe.

What can a punter expect from your live show?

Decent garage pop tunes in between me laughing at my own jokes.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?

I’ll have 25 hand drawn copies of my EP Legitimate and maybe a shirt or two.

Catch JARROW at The Workers Club, with Eddy Dillon, Tetrahedra, Plural and 130/ Rhysics DJs, on Thursday June 23.

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Q&A

GIG GUIDE MILES BROWN + SHOVELS + KARL WHITE + AVOID Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

MISS WHISKEY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

PRESTONIA Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

RODGER DELFOS’ BEATRIDERS Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale.

CHOWIE FROM

#LIFESTOOSHORTGOSEEABAND Hey there Chowie. Could you tell us a bit about about #LifesTooShortGoSeeABand?

I started a hashtag with all photography posts years ago, that became the title of my first t-shirt in 2014 featuring nearly 100 bands from 10 years in photography, and now evolved to a proper event in support of live and local music.

What can you tell us about getting the shirt out there to the public?

The last time it was sold as a limited edition more out of artistic self-doubt, but I was surprised it was sold out in two days. This time, I did a lot more research and made it a little more prestigious for bands to be featured. I added a handful of my favourites and the shirt design became what it is today.

The project doesn’t seem like it could exist without a bustling live music scene behind it. What has live music offered you over the years?

I was fortunate that many of the bands embraced what I do, and I got to become the regular snapper for many over the years.

A great local rock lineup is on board to celebrate the launch of the shirt this weekend. Are these bands big supporters of you and the project?

I’ve worked with Electric Mary now for well over ten years and we’ve always spoken about doing an exhibition/show together. As with all the bands that are featured on this t-shirt, I can only gauge with the speed at which the 40 spots were snapped up, and the number of calls from bands wanting to be on the bill, that they all support what I do.

Chowie presents #LIFESTOOSHORTGOSEEABAND t-shirt launch with Electric Mary, Palace Of The King, Tequila Mockingbyrd and more on Friday June 24 at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.

Q&A

THE ETTA JAMES EXPERIENCE Can you tell us a bit about yourself as a performer?

I’m a soul singer, although I do love to sing jazz, funk and blues. Apart from being a performer, I am an intuitive vocal trainer and a mentor to young aspiring female singers entering the music scene.

You’ve received praise from Joe Cocker, is that correct?

Funny story. I was singing at Melbourne Hyatt Deco Bar in my 20s and there was this guy sitting in the corner of the room listening attentively. In my break, he came right up to me, looked me in the eyes and said, “You got a great set of pipes. You gotta lot of soul.” Moments later, a waitress ran to me and said, “Um, that was Joe Cocker.” My reply was, “Really?”

Your new show, The Etta James Experience, focuses on the music Grammy Award-winning singer. Has she inspired your journey into music?

She is an inspiration to me because of how she approaches music. She is just real. Her life was a little bit of a rollercoaster and so was mine. I guess it made me feel more connected to her in that sense.

What will the show offer for those both new to and familiar with Etta James’ music?

They are in for a treat. As Etta James with a wireless microphone in one hand, an amazing band and backing vocalists, I intend to be among the audience. The night is going to be about engaging the crowd, great music and vibes. There are a few surprises too that you have to come and see for yourself.

The Etta James Experience, with MAY JOHNSTON starring as Etta James, goes down on Saturday June 25 at Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Burnley.

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8:00pm. $8.00.

SLIM PICKINS + LUKE BRENNAN + COSMOS + KING STAG Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

SUGARFOOT RAMBLERS Longhorn Saloon, Carlton. 8:00pm.

SUN RISING (THE SONGS THAT MADE MEMPHIS) Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $30.00.

THE DETONATORS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

THE WILLIE WAGTAILS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

THIN WHITE UKES Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

U Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

SATURDAY 25 JUN

WOD

CHERRY BAR WOD is making a rare appearance at Cherry Bar on Saturday June 25, with the help of some special friends.

Those party boys from Mesa Cosa will be providing some in-your-face garage noise, while Lunatics on Pogosticks will have you bopping along to some catchy as surf pop.

Kicks off 8pm, $12 entry which includes a free pot of refreshing ale.

DEAR STALKER + SUB ROSA + LONG HOLIDAY Brunswick Hotel,

Brunswick. 8:00pm.

ELUSIVE + SHE WOLF + WILD VIOLET Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $15.00.

ENDLESS HEIGHTS + BORN FREE + REACTIONS BROKEN + SHELTERED Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.

GIVE EM A LEG UP - FEAT: SHERIFF + CHRIS RUSSEL© S CHICKEN WALK + CHILD + MY LEFT BOOT + MORE Rye Civic Hall, Rye.

SHAG PLANET

THE OLD BAR Shag Planet is the electronic cosmic banger project of Jess Tyler and Em Gayfer, who you may recognise from Chelsea Bleach. Saturday June 25 marks the very special event that will take you to the stars above ± Shag-A-Thon. Bringing you intergalactic beats from their home planet, Shag Planet are launching their first ever single Too Many Babes, Too Little Time into Earth’s orbit. Special Guests include Callan, Waterfall Person, Shrimpwitch, Pillow Pro and It Girl Dj’s. Entry is $10 with doors at 7.30.

SILVER SIX Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

TERRY + BLANK STATEMENTS Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

6:00pm.

11:00am. $31.20.

GROOVE BANDITS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

HEDGE FUND Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

IN STEREO + YOURS TRULY + VLADO + FOREVER ENDS HERE St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $47.20.

INDENTED HEAD + MARES + DOONA WAVES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

JOHN KENDALL & THE SHOT GLASSES Inkerman Hotel,

Balaclava. 8:00pm.

ROCK N’ A HARD PLACE

THE TOTE Regional rockers Black Aces are bringing you Rock n’ A Hard Place Festival on Saturday June 25, featuring a stellar mini festival lineup handpicked by the band themselves. After touring nationally and internationally, from country pubs to biker clubs, releasing EPs, videos and singles, and recently dropping their debut album, the boys from Black Aces just wanted to keep it all going.

Rock n’ A Hard Place features some of Melbourne’s finest acts ± heavy blues trio Two Headed Dog, funky rockers Smoke Stack Rhino, plus Melbourne rock royalty The Casanovas. Further acts include Sydney’s Celtic rockers The Bitter Sweethearts, Dellacoma Rio and the Dark Horses and Adelaide hard rock kings Tracer. Of course, the lads from Black Aces couldn’t throw a festival without chucking themselves in the mix.

Make sure you end up at The Tote on Saturday night, tickets are $19 with doors opening at 8pm.

THE ETTA JAMES EXPERIENCE

TIPRATS

KILL DIRTY YOUTH + AMYL & THE SNIFFERS + ENEMIES ALIKE + HIGH VIZ Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

KISSTROYER + APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION + SISTERS DOLL + WAR PIGS Shoppingtown Hotel, Doncaster. 7:30pm.

KYARY PAMYU PAMYU Festival Hall, West Melbourne.

THE BEARDS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.

THE BENNIES + CLOWNS + AXE GIRL + BOMBS ARE FALLING Pier

DIZZ Y ’S JAZZ CLUB Mighty May Johnston from Deep Street Soul will be transformed into the sassy, bold and no nonsense Etta James for one night only, on Saturday June 25. The tribute show will see Johnston covering a myriad of James’ blues, jazz and gospel classics. If you’re feeling peckish, a $65 ticket includes a two course meal at Dizzy’s Jazz Club’s restaurant from 6.30pm. Otherwise get there at 9pm for the show, tickets are available on the door.

8:00pm. $72.65.

DEAD PAN ALLEY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. FINISHING THE HAT Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

ABBEY HOWLETT

7:00pm. $29.00.

GLUZMAN PLAYS BRAHMS - FEAT: VADIM GLUZMAN Hamer

Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 2:00pm. $29.00.

LA BASTARD + HOWL AT THE MOON + FERLA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

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

PUTTING IT TOGETHER Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 4:00pm. $29.00.

RENEE GEYER Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $33.00.

STEVE SEDERGREEN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.

THE JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

THE KIMBA GRIFFITH SEPTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + DANIELSAN + PAZ + DAVID SPACE + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

ANCHORS + CAMP COPE + KISSING BOOTH + SWEET GOLD + JESS LOCKE BAND Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm.

$15.00.

BANG - FEAT: THE FIVE TROLLS + SATELLITES & STEROES + JUST ABOUT DONE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne

Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00.

DEAF AMBITIONS X SPUNK - FEAT: THE OCEAN PARTY + MACHINE TRANSLATIONS + WAY DYNAMIC + COOL SOUNDS + MORE The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 5:00pm. $12.00.

T.V + THE TROPES

TH E GRAC E DA R LI NG The Grace Darling are hosting a swag of rock/pop bands on Saturday June 25. The warped noise pop of T.V will be complemented by the blistering punk rock of The Tropes, in addition to sets from Avoid and The Newsletters. Doors are at 9pm and entry will only set you back $8.

Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $29.00.

THE DEAD CITY LIGHTS + THE GLORIOUS NORTH + SEAN PATRICK Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $9.20.

MARLENES + ZUMA + DONALD DANK & THE NAUGHTY BOYS

Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 3:30pm NGAIIRE + LANKS + JACK GRACE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

ORLANDO FURIOUS Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 2:00am.

PANTAL + ALPHA LOOPY + PETER NIGIDO Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm.

7:00pm. $20.00.

THE JOHN CURTIN Melbourne’s junk-pop slackers Tiprats have been burrowed away putting the finishing touches on their much anticipated debut LP, Eagle Up To Yourself. The fourpiece recently dropped the first single from the LP entitled Empty, teasing fans with a taste of what’s in store for the full release. On Saturday June 25, Tiprats will tear up The Curtin, joined by shoegazers Luna Gaze, surf lords NO WAVES and newly formed janglers Marathon for their debut show. Doors are at 8pm with $10 needed for entry.

THE WESLEY ANNE Gliding through warm guitar tones, deep synth lines and a voice that transcends dimensions, Abbey Howlett has created a significant buzz amongst the South Australian music scene. She has introduced eclectic rhythms and synth sounds to her ever-expanding sonic wilderness, cutting and creating a unique experience. Saturday June 25 marks the last night of Howlett’s four week residency at The Wesley Anne. Entry is free, so no excuses.

PHAROAH SANDERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

PHIL JAMIESON + TIM SMYTH & HOLYTRASH + ROYAL CHANT Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.00.

PUNKS FOR WEST PAPUA - FEAT: BASTARD SQUAD + WOLDPACK + JOIN THE AMISH + MORE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

PUGSLEY BUZZARD

DRUNKEN POET Pugsley Buzzard has played from the jazz cellars of Berlin to downtown New Orleans, dazzling audiences far and wide with his unique brand of piano-driven boogie, blazing stride and huge, mesmerising voice. It’s bound to be a big one, get down to The Drunken Poet on Saturday June 25 at 9pm to catch Pugsley do his thing. Entry is free.

THE DELTA RIGGS + THE PRETTY LITTLES + I OH YOU DJS Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $20.00.

THE MIDNIGHT OIL TRIBUTE SHOW Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm. $20.00.

THE RUBENS + MANSIONAIR + SLUM SOCIABLE + ALI BARTER

2:00pm.

Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 6:30pm. $61.07.

Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 8:00pm. $23.99.

REWIND 80S Commercial Hotel (sth Morang), Morang South. 8:00pm.

THE BENDIGO HOTEL After a brutal first year and an explosion onto the heavy underground of Melbourne, monolithic sludge outfit Merchant will see their debut album, Suzerain, released on CD through US label Snake Charmer Coalition.

Presented by The Obelisk, the lineup has been hand picked to feature some of Melbourne’s most genre bending heavy bands YLVA, BØG and Roundtable. It’s going down at The Bendigo on Saturday June 25 with entry at $12, doors wide open at 7.30pm.

PURPLE REVOLUTION - FEAT: ANDREW DE SILVA Chelsea

ROCK N’ A HARD PLACE FESTIVAL - FEAT: THE CASANOVAS + BLACK ACES + TRACER + THE BITTER SWEETHEARTS + MORE

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $19.40.

ROKK FOKKERS Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm.

ROYAL CHANT Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 11:00pm.

SAIL ON SAIL ON + SASKATCHEWAN + PURITY 303, Northcote.

8:00pm.

SATURDAYS R COVERED - FEAT: RADIO STAR Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

SHAG PLANET + PILLOW PRO + SHRIMPWITCH + WATERFALL PERSON + CALLAN Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.

SHINY COIN + THE FOOTBALL CLUB + ASTRID John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.

SHRIMPWITCH + THE ONLY BOYS + PINK LIPS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

B E AT.C O M . A U

MERCHANT

UNCLE GEEZER + REMOVALIST + TERROR NULLIS + ASH MOUTH Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $5.00.

WASTERS + CLAWS & ORGANS + MILD MANIC + LUNAR TIDE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.

XYLO ARIA + TALI SING + NOTI + LA HAZEL Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

YARRA BACKROOM LAUNCH - FEAT: EMPAT LIMA + THE SHABBAB + THE NEW POLLUTION + SHIT SEX + BENCH PRESS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $10.00.

GIG GUIDE DREW JAMES HARRISON

THE BENDIGO HOTEL If you’re feeling a nice quiet arvo of acoustic goodness, why not stroll down to The Bendy to relax and enjoy the silky smooth sounds of Drew Harrison, Acoustic Foxx and Lewis Nixon? Drew Harrison has recently pieced together an album entitled A Case Of A Dirty Soul. Get down at 2.30pm on Sunday June 26 and grab a copy off Harrison to support his efforts. Entry is completely free.

GOOD MORNING + PAULYCPAULYDO + MORE Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 4:00pm. $15.00.

PAUL RAWK Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.

PHAROAH SANDERS Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

REBIRTH + IN TRENCHES + PAGAN + YEAR OF THE RAT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 5:00pm. $15.00.

REILLY FITAZLAN + DANNY ROSS + THE LOVELY DAYS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.

THAKS ALI + HONEYBONE + ROBERT PATTON Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

THE BEARDS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $30.00.

THE BENNIES + CLOWNS + AXE GIRL Karova Lounge, Ballarat.

7:30pm. $25.00.

THE SURREAL ESTATE AGENTS + FURLONG + BLOOD ORANGE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

UZUMAKI + THE WALKING DED + 6 FOOT INCH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00

BAKKER/GARTON/GUNNOO + JAMIE PREGNALL TRIO Moreland City Band Hall, East Brunswick. 7:30pm.

JOSUÉ + EMRSN Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

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

MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 8:00pm.

SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

9:00pm.

OVER THERE AT THE TOTE

T HE TOTE A bunch of Swinburne graduates are raising funds for a future film entitled The Over There on Sunday June 26. They would really like it if you popped by, showed them a smile and had an afternoon bev to the corker of a lineup they’ve organised. On the bill are Good Morning, Cool Sounds, Paulycpaulydo, Sunnyside, River Yarra, Ricci and Western Ring Road. It’s just $15 entry, hugs all around and delicious tunes. It’s an afternoon special so doors are at 2pm.

UZUMAKI

CHERRY BAR Cherry Bar are chucking an all-ages fiesta on Sunday June 26, to help celebrate not one, but two young bands launching their first EPs. Uzumaki will be dishing up some hard rock and punk, alongside those rockin’ whippersnappers from The Walking Ded. Doors are at 6pm, and special guests 6 Foot Inch have also signed on for the night.

Entry is $10.

SUNDAY SOULTRAIN Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.

3:00pm

ACCIDENTAL BEDFELLOWS + A RIOTING MIND + GREG STEPS & THE SADDLEBAGS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

ALL DAY FRITZ Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm.

BILL BARBER & THE BLACKWOOD SHAKEDOWN + MIDWEEK BLUES + SONS OF THE BLUES Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm.

DAYDREAM APOLLOS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

DELLACOMA RIO + SKARLET + ANTH NEKICH Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

DREW JAMES HARRISON + ACOUSTIC FOXX + LEWIS NIXON Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 2:30pm.

ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

FIONA BOYES & FRIENDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

5:30pm.

FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

4:00pm.

JEAN CLAUDE SAM DAN + BARB WATERS TRIO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

JEMMA NICOLE + CONGRATULATIONS EVERYBODY + GENA ROSE BRUCE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

JUMPIN’ JACK WILLIAM + NEIL WILKINSON Tramway Hotel,

North Fitzroy. 3:30pm.

JUSTIN YAP BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

JVG© S WINNEBAGO LOUNGE - FEAT: THE LARGE NUMBER 12S + BILLY MILLER St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 5:00pm.

KEN MAHER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

MATT ALFORD Tago Mago, Thornbury. 6:00pm.

MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

3:00pm.

MICK PEALING & MAL EASTICK Caravan Music Club,

Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $28.00.

MURDENA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

OPEN MIC Rose Hotel (williamstown), Williamstown.

4:00pm.

SHANNON BOURNE + THE MOJO CORNER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00.

SOUTHERN LIGHTS Big Huey's Diner, South Melbourne.

4:00pm.

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

MURDENA

TH E WES LE Y A NNE Murdena are a five-piece band from Melbourne whose influences are so wide and varied it can be difficult to place their unique sound into a single genre, so they decide to call the sound they make an “Australiana take on Americana”. After selling out their first two EP shows, the group travelled to the edge of Tasmania’s wilderness to craft their debut forthcoming album, Freeway. Sunday June 26, Murdena are taking to The Wesley Anne to share the sounds of the album with you before its release date.

Music kicks off from 6pm and entry is nice and free.

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

THE COLLINGWOOD CASANOVAS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

4:30pm.

TIM IRELAND + DAMIEN LANE Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 3:30pm.

TK REEVE Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

TOBY ROBINSON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

UNSEALED ROAD Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

WILD TURKEY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

MONDAY 27 JUN MUNDANE MONDAYS

T H E O LD B A R Ah, what would we do without Mundane Monday’s at The Old Bar? No matter what kind of Monday you’re having, the promise of a rad lineup and $15 jugs of Goat all night will ease the sting that the start of the week brings. This Monday June 27 sees Jimmy Chang, Oscar Dowling from NZ/Spunk Records and Daisy Chain headline the stage. Get down at 8pm, entry is free all night.

HOWL E R Tom Tom Tuesday is back at Howler for Tuesday June 28. This week brings Scraps who have just returned from the US. They’ll be bringing their fantasy jive, dehydrated disco sounds to the main stage, along with First Baboon Civilisation, Dreamin’ Wild and Makeda. The wax will be taken care of by Playful Sound. Free entry as always, with cheap cans of Quiet Deeds and Sailor Jerry on offer. Doors at 8pm.

I AM LOST TO THE WORLD - FEAT: MELBOURNE ART SONG COLLECTIVE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.

$29.00.

LAKE MINNETONKA + PAPA G & THE STARCATS + DXHEAVEN + SEX ON TOAST DJS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

MIDORI + ÖZGÜR AYDIN Melbourne Recital Centre,

Southbank. 7:30pm. $50.00.

RICHMOND MUSIC ACADEMY Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond.

7:00pm. $9.00.

STARR & SHULTZ + JENNY THOMAS + CAERWEN MARTIN Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm.

BUONAMENTE - FEAT: CONTINUO COLLECTIVE Melbourne

SUYEON KANG & STEPHEN DE PLEDGE Melbourne Recital

GLUZMAN PLAYS BRAHMS - FEAT: VADIM GLUZMAN Hamer

ALYCE PLATT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

DAN WARNER BAND Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick.

Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.

Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 6:30pm. $29.00.

JAZZ PARTY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

JP BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

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

JIMMY CHANG + OSCAR DOWLING + DAISY CHAIN Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: TOMMY T & THE CLASSICAL MISHAPS + POLO + CANTEEN + KOMPACT DEVELOPMENT

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.

POOL COMP - FEAT: NOEL Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.

SLIM JEFFRIES + HOLLOW HOUNDS + THE SHAKES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

TOMMY CASTLES + THE BLACK HARRYS Workers Club, Fitzroy.

7:30pm.

MATTHEW DE LA HUNTY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

PAUL WILLIAMSON© S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

REBETIKO Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm.

Centre, Southbank. 11:00am. $20.00.

5:00pm.

KHAN

CHE RRY B AR Melbourne alt-rockers Khan are at the tail-end of their residency at the beloved Cherry Bar, and they’ve been having a ripper of a time so far. Tuesday June 28 will see them saying farewell to AC/DC lane for now, being the last show of their residency. Blood Orange will be joining them for the night, and entry is gloriously free.

Head on down at 8pm.

INDIE TUESDAY - FEAT: DUO TRIO NIGHT Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 7:30pm.

JEFFERS LIMIT + DEAD END PASTICHE Workers Club, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $8.00.

TWO STEPS ON THE WATER + CAMP COPE + SPIKE FUCK + DANCE PARTY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

$10.00.

TUESDAY 28 JUN

BABEL© S END Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

BEN BUTCHER© S ART SHOW - FEAT: NEAR MYTH + MERSEY + CRYSTAL MYTH Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $7.00.

FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

7:00pm.

HARRY JAKAMARRA + ALBERT GRAY Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

KAHN + BLOOD ORANGE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

OPEN MIC Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm.

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

TOM TOM TUESDAY - FEAT: SCRAPS + FIRST BABOON CIVILIZATION + DREAMIN© WILD + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

ANNA© S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm. $10.00.

The Push PRESENT

Access All Ages WITH SAMMY STRAWBAGS Freeza Push Start competitions have started kicking off state-wide. Bands, solo artists, electronic groups ± you name it ± they’re all gathering together to play heats all throughout Victoria with the hopes of going through to the next round. Check out your local Freeza group on Facebook to see when the battles begin and head down to support these emerging artists. Who knows?

The next Tame Impala could be amongst them, and you can say that you saw them before they got famous.

Push Songs is back for its third instalment in 2016, and for this round we have local legends such as Emily Lubitz (Tinpan Orange), Melody Pool, Joel Ma ( Joelistics), Monique Brumby, Jarrod Brown (Dorsal Fins) and Alex Lahey running oneon-one songwriting workshops. If you’re interested in more information, as well as how to apply to be involved in this very special program, visit thepush.

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com.au.

A couple weeks ago, we announced a series of workshops in Bendigo, Brunswick and Camperdown as part of 2k16 Push Freeza Summits. Over three days, The Push will be teaming up with a bunch of industry professionals to deliver tailored sessions, providing advice and information for young people who may be interested in pursuing a career within the music, events or wider arts industries. Learning stuff like how to not take bad photos, write the perfect resume and social media skills to pay the bills are just a few examples of sessions you can participate in. Visit thepush.com. au more information and to register for the 2k16 Push Freeza Summits.

In fact, just visit The Push website anyway, and don’t forget to ‘like’ us on Facebook. There’s plenty for your ears and eyes to wrap themselves around over there.

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All Ages Gig Guide FRIDAY JUNE 24 Wyndham Push Start Competition ± Hea t 2 w/ Space Kicks, Blind Insight, Blake Ellis, Levias and Void of Vision at Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, 6-10pm, $10, AA Darebin FReeZA Push Start Competition w/ Dear Matilda, Kane Lewis, B4ssl.ne, Ernie Loves Bart, Inn House, Outer Urban Projects Hip Hop Squad, Gestetner, The Scrims at Northcote Town Hall, 6:30pm-11pm, $10, AA Amped Up Productions Open Mic Movie Night at Oxygen Youth Space Coburg North, 6.30pm10.30pm, donation, AA Quiksound Productions 2016 Battle w/ Asking for Abscence, Outcry, The Fuse, False Truth, Danitchy, Cherita Chen, Tim Ziguras and IT3, Mount Waverley Community Centre, 6-10.30pm, $10, AA.

SATURDAY JUNE 25 Open Mic Night at The Corner Youth Centre, Mornington, 6-9pm, AA

Wed 22nd June

W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: 9pm:

Miss Jones Michelle Driver Thurs 23rd June 8pm: Prairie Nischier 9pm: Timothy John Friday 24th June

6pm: Traditional Irish Music Session 8.30pm:

Miss Whiskey

Saturday 25th June

3pm: Kraken Folk Session

Pugsley Buzzard Sunday 26th June 4pm:Barb Waters Trio 9pm:

6.30pm:

Jean Claude Sam Dan Tuesday 28th June

8pm:

Weekly Trivia

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

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RETROSTAR $10 OR LESS WAREHOUSE SALE Mr Wembley, it’s happening again. Retrostar is having another mammoth warehouse sale.

Running this weekend, Retrostar’s famous warehouse sale will see over 20,000 vintage items up for grabs at no more than $10 a pop. That leather jacket? $10. That vintage band tee? $10.

Those worn-in jeans? $10. You get the gist. You’ll also be able to score a range of dresses, tees, skirts, flannels, jumpers, knitwear, jackets, bags, accessories and more. It’s all happening at 33-37 Stewart Street, Brunswick from 8am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Catch you there.

Retrostar Warehouse Sale happens at 33-37 Stewart St, Brunswick on Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26 from 8am-5pm. Visit retrostar.com.au for more details.

HEAR YOUR OWN MUSIC LIKE NEVER BEFORE BEYERDYNAMIC HEADPHONES

Beyerdynamic encourages you to come along to the International HiFi Show, Melbourne, From Friday July 1 – Sunday July 3 and bring your own music collection. Over the course of the show Beyerdynamic will be exhibiting and displaying a wide range of their consumer headphones, along with both of their acclaimed headphone amplifiers.

Their stand will include a range of headphones, such as the cool and funky Custom Street headphones, highly acclaimed T 51 p on ear headphones and many more. Perhaps the most important aspect of the Beyerdynamic stand is the layout. At your leisure you can audition the headphones on display via the A2 and A20 flagship amplifier. But at the same time the stand has a layout specifically designed for show visitors to audition the headphones on display at each listening station with their personal media players, smartphones or tablets via a simple plug’n’play feature.

Typically, when you audition a new audio product it’s with some pre-selected music or a playlist. That’s fantastic if we all listen

to the same CD, DVD or playlist as what is being used to demonstrate the system, or for that matter if we intend to use the product we’re auditioning through the same highly expensive demonstration system.

Of course, it’s important to experience the best possible audio reproduction on any product you’re auditioning, but you should have the opportunity to audition the product with your own favourite music, be it ABBA, Adele, UB40 or U2. And even better if you can audition the product through your own smartphone or tablet.

At the International HiFi Show, Melbourne, Beyerdynamic encourages you to visit their stand with your own device loaded with your favourite music and take

the time to audition their wide range of consumer headphones. In short, they want you to take the driver’s seat during the auditioning process.

You want the best audio experience possible? For over 90 years Beyerdynamic engineers have been driven by that exact ambition.

Visit Beyerdynamic at the 2016 Melbourne International HiFi Show, Stands C1-C3. The International HiFi Show goes down at the Pullman Mercure Hotel, Queens Road, Albert Park from Friday July 1 – Sunday July.

PLONK SOME LETTERS DOWN IN THESE HERE SQUARES Hey there to all the day shift workers of the bars and cafes of Melbourne. How’s that weather?

Yeah me too.

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Is One Direction’s Harry Styles to play Mick Jagger in a new Rolling Stones film, based around the chaotic making of the Exile On Main St album?

…WHILE COMMUNITY RADIO PETITION HITS 52K

Are Spice Girls looking for replacements for Victoria Beckham and Mel C?

The Keep Community Radio petition aimed at the Government’s cutting $1.4 million per annum to keep its digital services operating in five capital cities, is a success with 52,000 signatures. The campaign received 90,000 mentions on Facebook. With the elections looming, MPs in marginal seats are being targeted.

Which NSW talent quest winner awaits their prize money three months later?

SIX ACTS GET PPCA/OZCO GRANTS

During their Australian tour, Air Supply met with the Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA) and donated 5 cents from each ticket – totalling $1,000.

The Game says that the upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me is “the real deal” and makes Notorious look like a “cartoon.”

Six acts share in a $75,000 grant from the PPCA and the Australia Council to create new sound recordings. They are Gordi (Sophie Payten), Fascinator (aka Johnny Mackay of Children Collide), Northeast Party House, singer/songwriter Martha Marlow, jazz pianist Barney McAll and Brisbane-based Robbie Miller. One of the success stories from the grant was 2014 recipient Courtney Barnett who used it to record her globally recognised debut album.

Adam Levine of Maroon 5, who mentored slain US singer Christina Grimmie when she finished third on NBC’s The Voice two years ago, is paying for her funeral.

Meantime Pantera expressed sorrow musicians could not be protected: in 2004 their guitarist Dimebag Darrell was fatally shot onstage.

PAGE DENIES NICKING ‘STAIRWAY’ OPENING

Melbourne’s Cookin’ On Three Burners’ This Girl topped the UK dance chart.

At the Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven versus Spirit Taurus copyright trial in Los Angeles, Jimmy Page was the first on the stand. He said he did not nick the opening intro from the 1967 instrumental, saying it was a common piece of music, also used in the Mary Poppins song Chim Chim Cheree and only lately had people brought up the Taurus comparison. “I knew I had never heard that before,” he said. “It was totally alien to me.” He’d bought two Spirit albums but was uncertain how their first one, with Taurus, ended up in his collection of 4,329 albums and 5,882 CDs. The lawyer kept quoting from interviews in the ‘70s where Page said he was a Spirit fan. Page couldn’t remember these. When the lawyer kept going on about them, Judge Klausner interrupted, “How many times can we beat a dead horse?” Obviously Zeppelin fans tried to creep into the courtroom. The judge banned devices such as mobiles and cameras. On the first day of hearing, two got turfed out for secretly filming.

The landowner who allowed the Omega rave to be held on his land was fined $3,000. “If landowners think they can host illegal events like this without penalty they are completely misguided,” said Clarence Valley Council GM Scott Greensill.

Omega, which drew 2500, was to be staged on an Aboriginal reserve at Jubullum Village at Tubulam, NSW, but moved last minute with no council permits. 24-yearold David Gallagher was found dead in his car after 12 hours.

SEED FUND BACK FOR 12TH YEAR Applications for this year’s The Seed Fund are open until Monday August 1 at www.theseedfund.org/2016-funding.

The idea is to help emerging talent and community projects. There are 25 spaces for the management workshops, held in Melbourne. There is up to $5000 funding for mentors for the three-day Bush Bands Business for Central Desert bands; up to $25,000 for music executives to attend the sixth Song Cycles Inbound to discover new indigenous talent; and up to $8000 to support the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre with instruments and mentorship.

In the past 12 years, the Seed has given $1 million to 430 projects.

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Parkway Drive won best video in the UK Metal Hammer awards.

Motorhead drummer Philthy Phil Taylor left £1.3 million to his sisters in his will. He acknowledged for the first time in his will that he’d been married.

Orchestral art rock band Red Paintings do their own thing. So it’s not surprising that their crowdfunding for their next album uses the pseudonym ‘TIME’ run by “Anonymous” who kidnapped the band and held them for ransom to ensure they made their next record. Link is www.pledgemusic. com/theredpaintings.

HARPOONS DUO LAUNCH INSTRUMENTS CO. Henry and Jack Madin of Melbourne band The Harpoons are launching their own music instruments company Hundo Instruments. They’ll invent and redesign instruments to make them easier to play.

“We’re both musicians, and we’re always looking for simple tools to make our processes easier and more fun,” said Henry.

“I started making instruments because I couldn’t find what I wanted in music stores.” These include acoustic marimba and an electronic drum-pad plugged into any laptop or iPad. Hundo Instruments officially launches Thursday July 7 at

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72% of Australians will vote for a party depending on its commitment to music.

98% want the government to invest in local music. The survey, done by APRA AMCOS of 9,858, also found that 91% believe music creates job growth and drives innovation, and 90% see it as an export industry contributing millions of dollars to the economy. As it is contemporary music injects $6 billion and live music $2 billion.

Parties that have committed to music and the arts are The Arts Party, the Greens and Labor.

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Schoolhouse Studios with an interactive exhibit and pop-up shop. Go to www. hundo.com.au for photos of some of the instruments.

PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA MAKE ASYLUM SEEKER STAND The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra are making a stand against the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers in Australia.

They recorded a live video, an adaption of Afro-beat pioneer Fela Kuti’s Sorrow Tears And Blood. Kuti penned it about the Nigerian military’s vicious response to his outspokenness after a violent assault on his community that led to the death of his mother. The local version, running for 13 minutes, focuses on Manus and Nauru. It begins with the Manus riots, and condemns the immigration policies of the major parties. The band performed the song on Sunday at Federation Square for the start of Refugee Week, and they’re playing on Friday June 24 at the John Curtin Bandroom with The Fabric and DJ Manchild.

MORE LEGAL WOES FOR MAITREYA FESTIVAL In the latest legal saga for regional Maitreya Festival, Kew-based ticketing agency TryBooking is suing in the Supreme Court over $400,000 of missing ticket money. According to documents filed, by the time it was cancelled on Thursday March 10, $1 million worth of tickets were sold. It alleges $950,000 was withdrawn between September 2015 and March 2016.

TryBooking refunded $520,524 to those who bought via credit cards, and says it is out of pocket by $409,082. It wants this money and damages. It names festival directors Lachlan Bell, Julius Webster and Sophie Oostermeyer​in court documents.

The festival had earlier said it will not make refunds but would stage a festival to make up. But this was scuttled by council because it is also considering legal avenues over the cancelled event.

STUFF FOR THIS COLUMN TO BE EMAILED TO C E L I E Z E R @ N E T S PA C E .N E T. A U B Y F R I D AY 5 P M

Crenshaw, Brian Setzer, Teenage Head, Albert Lee and Wakefield.

AAM SIGNS WITH TAG TO MAKE TOURING EASIER A deal between travel services company The Appointment Group (TAG, www. appointmentgroup.com) and the Association of Artist Managers (AAM, www.aam.org. au) will make it cheaper and easier for Aussie acts on tour, The Music Network revealed.

The AAM’s 230 members (along with their acts, road crews and staff ) now have access to corporate deals with hotels, airlines and ground transportation. It includes waived flight change fees, free WiFi, early checkins, additional baggage allowances, airport lounge passes and room upgrades

OXJAM RETURNING Oxjam, Oxfam Australia’s month-long party against poverty, is back in August for a second year, with Art Vs Science and Megan Washington as ambassadors. Last year, 180 Oxjam gigs drew 12,000 punters.

This year will have more gigs, including headline events in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Details due late June.

INAUGURAL AUSTRALIAN RECORD FAIR The Australian Record Fair debuts in Melbourne on Saturday July 2 and Sunday July 3 at Pullman Mercure Hotel, Albert Park as part of the International HiFi Show. Goodies on offer include old and new vinyl, merchandise and accessories.

BEAR PARTS GET CAPTIVE Melbourne management company Bear Parts Music has added Tasmanian punk outfit (or “Tasmanian forest horror” band) Captives to its roster alongside Drown This City and Circles.

The band are working on a debut record.

DRAKE SETS NEW US CHART RECORD

Lucy Spazzy, guitarist and singer of Melbourne punk trio The Spazzys, who has been living in London for the past two years, formed Lucy & The Rats with Mike Cannibal (bass), Joe To Lose (guitar) and Manu (drums). They’re on their third label, Dirty Water, and about to tour Europe and South America.

Drake broke the record for most weeks on top of the US Artist Top 100 by a male, with a total of 12 weeks. He passed Justin Bieber’s 11 total weeks at number one, with Adele (ten) and The Weeknd (eight). Taylor Swift leads with 31 weeks. The Artist Top 100 measures album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity. 46% of Drake is streaming and 23% digital sales.

OUTDOOR TYPE SIGNS BOOKING DEAL

FIRST ACTS FOR INDIGENOUS AWARDS

Bookings for Melbourne folk act The Outdoor Type are now through Sydneybased New World Artists booking agency.

The solo act is about to release a new EP later in the year, following up his debut EP, which yielded the triple j singles Are You Happy and When The Sun Goes Down, followed by On My Mind.

The first performers at the Saturday August 6 National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin are AB Original (Briggs & Trials), The Medics’ Kahl Wallis, Emma Donovan, Stanley “Gawurra” Gaykamangu, whose debut album Ratja Yaliyali is creating sparks, and new artists Rayella, Chris Tamwoy and David Spry.

This year marks milestones in indigenous history: the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk off, the 40th anniversary of the Land Rights Act, 30 years since the release of Yothu Yindi’s Tribal Voice and 25 years since Treaty topped the charts. “Music has stoked the fire and been a voice of protest for many years and what better way to recognize a year of milestones than celebrating the strong history of Indigenous protest songs”, says Mark Smith, executive director of MusicNT and the NIMAs. Also held on the same weekend in Darwin will be the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Art Award and the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair to spotlight indigenous creativity.

EX-SPAZZY RATS ON UK DEAL

WILSON RELEASES ‘WILD ONE’ FOR COMMUNITY CUP Ross Wilson is releasing an old unissued version he did of Johnny O’Keefe’s classic Wild One to coincide with Sunday June 26’s Reclink Community Cup at which he is playing. Wilson says the song is “demonstrably Australia’s first genuine home grown rock’n’roll composition”, and got him interested in music as a ten-year old. Through the years the song has been covered by Iggy Pop (the rage theme), Jerry-Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Jet Harris, Status Quo, Everlife, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Glamour Camp, Marshall MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

Lifelines SPLIT: a PS of the Taylor Swift/ Calvin Harris split is that she dumped him by phone and seems to have taken up with Brit actor Tom Hiddleston before that. Harris has disconnected her from his Twitter account.

RECOVERING: Lil Wayne is in “good spirits” after a seizure on his private plane flying from Wisconsin to California, forcing an emergency landing in Omaha, Nebraska.

HOSPITALISED: Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt with a suspected heart attack in Turkey. He had a quadruple heart bypass in 1997 and a heart attack in 2011.

HOSPITALISED: Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice had a “ministroke” causing them to cancel European shows. He woke up one morning to find his right side numb and unable to move his fingers.

HOSPITALISED: Meat Loaf collapsed during a Canadian show but was released after tests overnight. One newspaper got so excited it ran his obituary.

ILL: Eric Clapton says he has been living in pain for the last 12 months, with peripheral neuropathy – a condition that can result in muscle weakness, numbness and tingling in the feet or hands and loss of balance and co-ordination.

INJURED: The Smith Street Band’s Wil Wagner is in limp mode after hurting his leg during an Adelaide show and again in Melbourne.

INJURED: Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie fell off the stage at Caribana festival in Switzerland and hurt his back, cancelling nine European shows.

IN COURT: Foo Fighters hit insurance companies for failing to reimburse them for European shows they cancelled following the Paris attacks in November.

IN COURT: Erick Shute, former singer of US death metal band Pyrexia, is charged with shooting at three neighbours in West Virginia.

He claims they stole his possessions and had threatened him.

DIED: Irish guitarist Henry McCullough ( Joe Cocker’s Grease Band, Paul McCartney’s Wings). He was wheelchair-bound after a heart attack in 2012.

DIED: Lincoln ‘Chips’ Moman, US producer and songwriter, 79, lung disease. He engineered Elvis Presley’s comeback in the late ‘60s, recorded Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard and wrote Do Right Woman for Aretha Franklin.

DIED: Attrell Cordes, AKA Prince Be of P.M. Dawn, 46, of renal kidney disease. They had a #1 in 1991 with Set Adrift On Memory Bliss and four other hits.