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UNIFY FESTIVAL DROPS A MAMMOTH 2017 LINEUP After two massively successful years, UNIFY will return with its biggest lineup yet over two huge nights. Headlining this year’s Heavy Music Gathering are Alexisonfire, Violent Soho and Northlane. Also getting in on the action are Every Time I Die, The Getaway Plan (performing Other Voices Other Rooms), Letlive., Thy Art Is Murder, Luca Brasi, House VS Hurricane, I Killed The Prom Queen (playing Music For The Recently Deceased), Moose Blood, Storm The Sky, Counterparts, Deez Nuts, Trophy Eyes, King Parrot, Ocean Grove, Saviour, Columbus, The Dirty Nil, Polaris, The Brave, Bare Bones, Justice For The Damned, Drown This City and Ocean Sleeper. Once again, UNIFY will be held in the small rural town of Tarwin Lower, situated on their recreation reserve and football field just like the 2015 and 2016 events. Thanks to the support of the local community, the 2017 event is now a two night affair, which means more artists, more amenities and more good times. UNIFY: A Heavy Music Gathering will go down from Friday January 13 to Sunday January 15 at Tarwin
You Am I guitarist and local lad Davey Lane will direct a one-off tribute to the great George Martin, bringing together Melbourne’s rock royalty in “The Fifth Beatle – A Celebration” at the Corner Hotel. Performing selected songs from George Martin’s era with The Beatles, this unforgettable show features some of our best local vocalists, led by Davey Lane and Ashley Naylor, with guest singers Wendy Stapleton, Kat Spazzy, Linda Bull, Link Meanie and Ross McLennan paying tribute to the man who not only produced The Beatles, but was known as “the fifth Beatle”. The recently passed George Martin’s influence on pop and rock music over the decades is profound. Tickets are $35 available through the venue. It all goes down Friday July 15 at The Corner Hotel.
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Melbourne country rock trio The Glorious North will celebrate their debut album with a local album launch. Creating a sound of supercharged country pop, The Glorious North’s debut album Welcome to the Glorious North, takes us on a literal journey of Melbourne, both musically and lyrically. With stories of lost love, boozy nights, criminal doings and passion induced killings, with the traditionally southern American blues revived in a fresh Australian way. The Glorious North will kick off their album launch at the Northcote Social Club on Sunday July 24. Tickets via Ticketscout.
FOXTROT LOCK IN MELBOURNE SHOWS FOR SECOND ALBUM RELEASE Melbourne punk outfit Foxtrot have announced the surprise release of their second full-length album, following suit with a tour. Since forming in 2010, Foxtrot have become stalwarts of the Melbourne punk scene. Last year they completed a national tour with The Bennies, and have also supported the likes of Basement, Off With Their Heads, The Aquabats, and The Hotelier. The new record, Habitats, was recorded with Sam Johnson at Holes and Corners Studio. You can help them celebrate by trotting on down to the Reverence on Saturday July 23.
BIGSOUND ANNOUNCE FIRST LIVE ACTS FOR 2016 BIGSOUND has announced the first instalment of live acts for their fifteenth anniversary festival. With a whopping 89 acts ready to descend on Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley this September, and a stack more still to come, Bigsound 2016 is going to be one heck of a celebration. The annual music conference has already garnered a reputation as being the place for tastemakers and music lovers alike to get a glimpse of the next big things in the country’s music scene, and just a quick glimpse through the lineup proves exactly that. With acts including Sampa the Great, Alex Lahey, Wallace, Gabriella Cohen, Ferla Tigertown, Tash Sultana, BANFF, Tiny Little Houses and Owen Rabbit, all taking the stage across the festival’s three days, as well as international visitors including NAATIONS (US), Fazerdaze (NZ), Groeni (NZ), and Prateek Kuhad (India), Brisbane doesn’t seem like a bad place to get to. The festival will feature 150 acts across 15 venues, as well as an Industry Conference including UNIFIED’s Jaddan Comerford, Conan O’Brien booker Jim Pitt, music supervisor Marcy Bulkeley (Independence Day 2, Jurassic World), Universal Publishing’s Taylor Testa. Bigsound will take over Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley from Wednesday September 7 until Friday September 9. Tickets to both the conference and festival are on sale now via the BIGSOUND website.
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JULIA JACKLIN LOCKS IN MELBOURNE 2016 SHOW Fresh from putting the finishing touches on her forthcoming debut album, singer/ songwriter Julia Jacklin will be kicking off 2016 with a full band show. Jacklin has been paying her dues across the country for the last two years, touring and refining a collection of songs that have recently been put down to tape. Recorded in New Zealand with producer Ben Edwards (Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid), the upcoming album follows on from Jacklin’s selfreleased EP that spawned the acclaimed single Santafel. Julia Jacklin will play at the Old Bar on Tuesday January 19. Tickets via TryBooking.
COOL SOUNDS ANNOUNCE ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW Melbourne’s least Google-friendly band Cool Sounds have locked in a launch for their debut LP Dance Moves at The Tote next month. Featuring members of The Ocean Party, Ciggie Witch and Velcro, Cool Sounds have been accused of ripping off bands like Orange Juice, Destroyer, Here We Go Magic & DIIV. Dance Moves dropped last week via Deaf Ambitions. You can celebrate it on Friday July 22 when Cool Sounds hit The Tote with Good Morning, Hideous Towns, The Galaxy Folk and Dannika. Tickets via the venue. HOT TALK
GRID INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR EMERGING MUSICIANS GRID Series 2016 is an artistic development initiative that aims to equip musicians with skills and recorded material, in order to bolster a sustainable career in the music industry. This year’s series will be focusing on artists from the Frankston, Peninsula and outer south eastern region, with eight spots available for a two month long program. The free initiative will offer two paid gigs for each artist, two days of industry mentoring and a recording, production, mixing and mastering package to record a single. Sound good? Head to the GRID Series website and apply before Sunday July 24.
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GROUPLOVE RETURN TO MELBOURNE Indie pop legends Grouplove have locked in a Melbourne show, returning to our shores with tunes from their highly anticipated new album. Their third LP, Big Mess, is due for release in September and was recorded with Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses) in Los Angeles and Seattle. They’ll be joined by singer/songwriter Lisa Mitchell for their shows, who has just finished a new album slated for release this year. They’ll play The Corner on Thursday August 18. Head to Secret Sounds Touring for more details. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 12
Now in its fourth year, dance music festival Listen Out is back with a handpicked selection of artists for 2016. Taking to the stage for this year will be the likes of A$AP Ferg, Anderson Paak & The Free Nationals, Baaur, Claptone, Cosmo’s Midnight, Gorgon City (DJ Set), Jauz, Joy., L D R U, Ngaiire, RUFUS in their last Australian shows for this year, Stormzy, Sui Zhen (DJ Set), Tash Sultana, Willow Beats and Yung Lean. It all goes down Saturday September 24 at Catani Gardens, St Kilda. Tickets via the Listen Out website.
Emily Wurramara will launch her debut EP Black Smoke with a Melbourne show later this month. The record features six songs in both English and Anindilyakwa, the traditional language of her home on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory. Her debut single, Ngerraberrakernama, was released in March and hit the airwaves in every state and territory through stations including triple j, ABC Radio National, PBS, FBI, Triple R, Fraser Coast FM in QLD, Radio Adelaide, and Edge Radio Hobart just to name a few. The track also debuted at #7 in the Amrap Metro Charts, reaching #1 in late April. As well as performances at national festivals including Gaarma Festival, Island Vibes, and Woodford Folk Festival, she has also taken her music to stages across Sweden and France. Emily Wurramara will play at The Wesley Anne on Thursday June 30. Tickets are available at the door.
Kew Court House is defrosting the dance floor this winter with the House Party series of events. With the success of Quarter Street kicking off the series last week, the special events continue over the next few months of this chilly season. House Party 2 on Friday July 29 sees Melbourne-based eightpiece Papa Chango take to the stage. Delivering subterranean, trance-like movements of Afrobeat mashed up with psychedelic guitar lines and broken brass, Papa Chango takes it to the gritty, soulful edge. Finally, House Party 3 on Friday August 26 invites Melbourne-based Mariachi Los Romanticos to the intimate venue. The full lineup boasts an array of artists, including Nai Palm, Brendan Maclean, Yirrmal, Sophie Koh and much more. Check out the upcoming spectacles when they go down at Kew Court House, 188 High Street, Kew. Tickets are $25 per event, available via Hawthorn Arts Centre website.
ELLA HOOPER AND GENA ROSE BRUCE JOIN FORCES Alternative pop powerhouse Ella Hooper is joining forces with singer/ songwriter Gena Rose Bruce for a national tour. In the series of stripped back shows, rather than take the traditional main and support act route, both artists will play their new material together. They’ll be teaming up on electric and acoustic guitar while delivering harmonies throughout, dipping into material both old and new. Catch them at Some Velvet Morning on Saturday July 30. HOT TALK
BIG SCARY RETURN WITH FIRST HEADLINE SHOW IN THREE YEARS Big Scary are back with a swag full of new tunes, and they’re celebrating by heading out on their first headline tour in years. Ahead of their forthcoming album, Animal, they’ll be dropping into Melbourne with an expanded live show – growing to a five-piece experience. Animal is the duo’s third studio album and the follow-up to the Australian Music Prize award-winning, Not Art. Catch them at 170 Russell on Wednesday October 5. Tickets through Big Scary.
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ALEX LLOYD ANNOUNCES A NEW ALBUM AND MELBOURNE SHOW Multi-platinum songwriter Alex Lloyd is back with a new album and a national string of shows to support it. The upcoming release, Acoustica, will present 12 of Lloyd’s most memorable tracks reinterpreted in an intimate and acoustic format. The tour is set to follow suit, presenting his work with a stripped back band. Catch him at the Northcote Social Club on Sunday October 2.
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THE JIM MITCHELLS DROP NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCE TOUR Sydney psych-rock band The Jim Mitchells will be heading interstate for the first time in support of their second single. As part of the tour they’re set to stop by Melbourne along the way, for what promises to be a ripper of a show. Debut single Planet Absorbed was warmly received and You Unfollow Me presents a thumping rhythmic section wrapped in sparkling guitar hooks and vocal expression akin to that of Bradford Cox or Nicholas Allbrook. Their debut EP, Planet Absorbed, is coming too and is slated for release on Tuesday August 2. Supported by The Citradels and Hills Hoist, The Jim Mitchells will take over The Worker’s Club on Thursday June 30. Tickets via the venue or on the door on the night.
Emily Wurramura’s music is rich in cultural heritage, breathing fresh air into an industry which can sometimes be obsessed with the superficial. It’s clear that she’s on to something, having enjoyed rapidly escalating success since bursting onto the scene. Wurramura is celebrating the anticipated release of EP Black Smoke at The Wesley Anne on Thursday June 30. Get in quick and snag yourself some free double passes, by heading over to beat.com.au/freeshit
SKEGSS ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR AND DROP NEW VIDEO Byron Bay’s DIY three-piece Skegss have just announced they’ll be hitting the road for the Everyone Is Good At Something tour. It comes ahead of releasing their new EP of the same name, with the banging single My Face serving as the first delicious taste. On top of all this, Skegss have also dropped a brand spanking new video for My Face, serving as the perfect accompaniment to the summery rock’n’roll track. The band has been one to watch since taking the title for the triple j Unearthed Splendour In The Grass competition last year, and signing to Dune Rat’s label Ratbag Records. Catch Skeggs when they coast in to Melbourne on Saturday August 20. They will play an all ages show at Wrangler studios during the day, before hitting Northcote Social Club in the evening. Pick up your ticket via the band’s website.
Reverend Funk & The Horns of Salvation are paying homage to the godfather of soul, James Brown, in Melbourne this July. With a blasting three-piece horn section, the band will passionately recreate the songs that made James Brown an icon of soul. They’ll be revisiting every track they have ever played over their many super funky years of performing live. Reverend Funk & The Horns of Salvation will perform their tribute to James Brown at Spotted Mallard on Friday July 1. Tickets are on sale through the venue.
DIONNE WARWICK IS COMING TO MELBOURNE Five time Grammy Award-winning music icon Dionne Warwick is playing an exclusive one night only show later this year. With 75 charted hit songs including Anyone Who Had a Heart and I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, over 100 million record sales and a 50 year plus career, Warwick has firmly established herself as a cornerstone of American pop music and culture. The first African-American solo female artist of her generation to win the award for Best Contemporary Female Vocalist Performance, she was inducted into the Grammy Museum in LA, where her special 50th Anniversary exhibit was unveiled. To commemorate this monumental event, she released her 2012 studio album NOW, produced by Phil Ramone. Dionne Warwick will play the Palais Theatre Sunday November 13. Tickets through Ticketmaster. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14
PAPER HOUSE SET FOR TOFF RESIDENCY Melbourne’s own Paper House are set to hold down the Toff throughout July, when they take over their Sunday sessions for the month. The captivating duo are gearing up to take you on a sonically textural and genre-bending journey, all while the bar is brewing up mulled cider to help you ease those winter blues. Not only bringing their own dynamic live show, Paper House have also curated a lineup of special guests that will provide support each night. On the bill come the likes of Brooke Russell and The Mean Reds and Tilman Robinson, as well as DJ sets from Miss Goldie and Emma Peel, with more acts to be announced soon. It’s all going down on Sundays in July at the Toff In Town from 7pm, with tickets set at $12 on the door. HOT TALK
COPACABANA SENDS OFF LEAPS & BOUNDS FESTIVAL WITH A BANG A special one-off Sunday on the last night of the Leaps & Bounds Festival has been announced, featuring some absolute ripper bands. Sunday night at the Copacabana will feature six bands, two DJs, $6 Bloody Marys, cheap beer and the Independent Record Label Fair – and it’s all ages too. The lineup includes Tyrannamen, HABITS, Constant Mongrel, Gabriella Cohen, Loose Tooth, Whipper and DJs Fee B-Squared (RRR) and Joe Alexander (Bedroom Suck). Labels include Aarght Records, Anti Fade Records, Bedroom Suck, Chapter Music, Cool Death, Homeless, It Records, Lost and Lonesome, Spooky Records and more. Get your party on at the Copacabana International on Sunday July 17 at 1pm, $12 entry.
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LABEL OF LOVE PRESENTS: TEMPORAL CAST It’s time for another Label of Love Showcase this weekend, and this time Melbourne based label Temporal Cast will be lending some of their finest acts for the evening. Cale Sexton will be joined by Kangaroo Skull, who probably have the grimmest Aussie band name ever. Jamal Amir as well as label newbie Chiara Kickdrum are also getting amongst it. Get your fine self to the Shadow Electric on Sunday July 3.
LEAPS & BOUNDS FESTIVAL The Leaps & Bounds Festival aims to celebrate Melbourne’s thriving music scene over 17 days with gigs, workshops, bus tours, special events and a crud-load more. Brace yourselves Melbourne, it’s going down at over 50 venues and I shit you not, 900 artists are getting involved. The festival officially kicks off on Friday July 1 with performances at various venues from acts including CERES, Bullhorn, Pitt The Elder, Zerodent, The Surreal Estate Agents, Lurch & Chief – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Have a suss of the festival website to stay in the loop with all the crazy good gigs happening up until Sunday July 17. If anyone says there’s nothing to do this month, you should probably head-butt them.
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 MONTAIGNE Corner Hotel October 15 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 DIONNE WARWICK Palais Theatre November 13 A DAY ON THE GREEN Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong November 12, Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley November 13
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ONE & ONLY BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
There’s a long history of British musicians adapting quintessential American music and giving it a new identity. Everyone from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Blur, Massive Attack and The Arctic Monkeys have engaged in such a re-positioning of ideas. Since emerging in 2011, Jake Bugg has shown affection for US staples like rockabilly, delta blues, country and Americana. His latest record On My One continues in this fashion, while also taking in classic pop balladry and hip hop. With the album now available and Bugg preparing for a return trip Down Under, Beat quizzes the 22-year-old on his songwriting habits. “When I’m writing I tend not to listen to a lot of music to be honest,” Bugg says. “Of course sometimes it may sound like something else – it’s very, very difficult for it not to in this day and age. But that’s why I try to listen to as many different styles and genres as I possibly can, and try and incorporate that into my own music. [It’s] just to try and give it a more varied sound and something that’s a bit more open.” Bugg’s effort to entwine aspects of his varied music taste is more apparent on On My One than it was on his previous two releases. While 2012’s Jake Bugg and 2013’s Shangri La were both marked by the sound of discovery, On My One is a far broader genre exploration. “I never go in with an idea of, ‘I want a song to sound like this or a record to sound like that,’ because the adventurous part for me is not knowing what I’m going to come up with,” Bugg says. “And at the end of the day, when you’ve got a song… sometimes I think, ‘Wow I never thought I would have a song like that.’ That’s what keeps it interesting for me.” The songwriting takes a number of interesting turns throughout On My BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
One – the title track is a folky 12-bar blues ditty; Love, Hope And Misery interpolates classic singer/songwriter balladry; Gimme The Love is a frenetic psych rock piece; Never Wanna Dance is a soul-inspired ballad; Livin’ Up Country is a nod to down-home country; and All That is an easy going folk number a la Simon & Garfunkel. However, amid all of these shifts Ain’t No Rhyme stands out as an especially novel departure – a bluesy hip hop number in the mould of Beck or the Beastie Boys. “When I came up with that song I was just in the studio messing around,” Bugg says. “I didn’t think, ‘I want a rap song, I want a hip hop song,’ because I know I can’t rap for shit. I just went in there and I started with a beat and laid some guitars down – it’s just one riff, it doesn’t even change chord throughout the whole song – and then I just came up with a little melody over the top.” The song’s lyrics relate details of the violent realities that exist in Bugg’s hometown of Clifton, Nottingham. The hip hop framework is aptly complemented by the lyrical content. “I thought, because [the recording] had a rawness and a little bit of an edginess to it, the lyrics couldn’t be flowery at all. It had be a little more brutal,” Bugg says. “I’d heard a couple of stories recently at B E AT.C O M . A U
the time about some of the things going on up where I was from. I’m reflecting a little bit of how I felt about everything at the time regarding the subject, and then just based it around that.” Despite the patent difference between Ain’t No Rhyme and everything else in Bugg’s repertoire, he felt no trepidation about entering unchartered artistic territory. “Music’s music, you know. People can say whatever they want; I’m not going to stop doing the music that I want to make and experiment with what I want to experiment just because of people saying I don’t belong somewhere,” he says. “I think when you speak to most people now, they have a varied taste in music themselves. A lot of people, they don’t just listen to the one genre like they may have done a few years ago.” Despite these points of difference, On My One is the clearest depiction we’ve seen of the artist Bugg truly wants to be. The album was largely self-produced, while producer Jacknife Lee (Snow Patrol, Taylor Swift, Bloc Party) chipped in on three tracks and Bugg handled the majority of the instrumentation. “It’s nice to have control, but I also like to work with people. I worked with different writers on the first two records and that was a good learning experience. I got to learn some new stuff and get some experiences,” says Bugg. “On this record, it was nice to work on my own because it gave me this opportunity to experiment more. Usually when you have a producer they have their own ideas. So it was nice to have the opportunity to try things out for myself.” The production benefits from this experimental freedom; the instrumental palette has expanded to suit the various stylistic manoeuvres. This includes the use of keyboards, fuzz bass, grand piano, vocal effects, and whatever else took Bugg’s fancy. “To be honest, I don’t actually know what I’m doing in there. I couldn’t tell you technically how it’s done. I just use my ears, and if it sounded good, I left it alone. I know a lot of people go to study courses to be a producer, so I couldn’t tell you anything on that side.” A similar ethos has fuelled Bugg’s entire
artistic journey. He’s progressed as a songwriter and guitarist by figuring things out on the fly and largely ignoring theoretical formulations. “There’s a lot of people that can read music and the technical aspects of it, and that’s great, but I think the most important thing of all is the songs. You can be as technical as you want, but some of the best songs ever written have been some of the most simplistic ones. That’s the beauty of music.” While Bugg’s reluctance to gain a technical education could seem like an act of stubbornness, it’s got more to do with his core songwriting philosophy. “I think the music should always come from somewhere within. I play music to get away and escape from day to day shit. Sometimes I might just want to get something off my chest, like the rap song on the record. That’s not exactly escaping it very much when you’re talking about everything that’s going on around you at the time. But it’s also a powerful tool to project those emotions in a way you feel comfortable with.” Bugg’s songwriting evolution has happened in the public eye. His commercial breakthrough came at the age of 18, and he’s still expected to perform many of the songs he wrote as a teenager. Understandably, he feels slightly removed from the material on his first record, but with On My One, he’s got a batch of songs that directly correspond with the man he is now. “It’s nice to have some new songs to play live that have some relevance to me at this point in time. A song like Two Fingers, everyone will want to hear it so I still play it, but I’m not the 17-year-old guy that had written that song anymore. It’s nice to have some new material that will relate to this time of my life.” JAKE BUGG will perform at the Palais Theatre on Wednesday July 27 and at Splendour in the Grass, held from Friday July 22 - Sunday July 24 in North Byron Parklands. ON MY ONE is out now through Virgin/EMI Records.
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Beat’s Guide to t h e
2016 Federal Election By Patrick Emery
Well, here we are again. It’s election time and that means if you’re over 18, and registered on the electoral roll, you have to bloody well vote or else you can be fined. By most accounts, the general public lost interest early in the eightyear election campaign. In the last week or so we’ve seen the return of the time-honoured scare campaign: the ALP’s ‘Medicare will be privatised’ and the Coalition’s ‘removing negative gearing will cause a fall in house prices’. Neither of these claims have any particular credibility, but when did facts get in the way of some cut-through bullshit? We here at Beat care about democracy, so we’ve prepared a primer on the issues we think are of greatest interest to our readership: arts, transport, copyright, housing and the NBN. We’ve focused on the major parties – Liberals, Nationals, the ALP and the Greens – though we’ve done our best to trawl through the minor parties to round out the analysis. This isn’t intended to be comprehensive, but hopefully it’s useful. There’s a shit-load more major policy issues at play in this election: the gutter-scraping policies of the major parties on border protection, the fiscal complexities of superannuation taxation and the ideological battle ground between economic-based incentives to minimise carbon emissions and ‘direct action’ targeted funding and support activities. And then there’s all the pet policy peccadillos of the myriad of minor parties clambering for attention on the Senate ballot paper. The important thing is to think hard about the issues that matter to you – not as a selfish exercise, but in terms of the implications of those issues to the community in which you live. Look beyond the big numbers and the grandiose promises, challenge the superficial statements and don’t fall for a series of well-produced graphics and clever slogans. And remember: vote early, and vote often, but only in accordance with the requirements of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.
Breaking Down the Rhetoric In Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson portrayed the 1972 presidential race as a glorified sports contest. These days, elections often seem like a poorly attired advertising campaign. Policy issues are typically very complex, and too easily reduced to specious slogans, catchy hashtags, dank memes and enormous numbers that are never really explained, but sound impressive enough to sway enough voters’ opinions one way or another. ‘Jobs and growth’ has no more analytical depth than ‘fairness and equity’, or ‘let them all stay’. The Coalition is playing hard on its economic credentials: everything, even arts policy apparently, is about ‘jobs and growth’. There’s a whiff of Chicago school economics about the Coalition’s economic policies: grow the economic base, and everyone benefits. Plenty of economists would dispute the empirical evidence for that proposition, but as Talking Heads once said, “Facts all come with points of view / Facts don’t do what I want them to”. The ALP says it’s ‘putting people first’, which is great unless it’s at the head of a line to some nasty fate. The ALP typically polls better on health and education, the former strong suit which can be seen in its recent scare campaign on Medicare changes. The Greens take an even softer and fuzzier line, talking about ‘equality and compassion’. And, of course, the environment. The common charge against the Greens is that they over-promise because they will never be in a position where they have to deliver. The best of the rest is fascinating, compelling and disturbing, depending on your philosophical position. As a broad-brush observation, many of the minor parties have a libertarian bent. The Australian Sex Party lists its policy interests under the heading “We give a f**k about … ”. The Sex Party takes a generally libertarian line, supporting pill testing initiatives, euthanasia and the heavily critiqued Safe Schools program. Family First sees family as the cornerstone of society. The Citizens Electoral Council loves a global conspiracy theory more than Dan Brown. The Australian Liberty Alliance champions “individual liberty, small government, Western values, social fairness and an integrated multi-ethnic society”. The Australian Christian Party has managed to gloss over hundreds of years theological debate to promulgate a ‘Christian’ line; the Australian Secular Party says any theological analysis is irrelevant. The Animal Justice Party and Euthanasia Party are focusing on specific, and important, topics. And the Socialist Alliance Party and the Socialist Equality Party are in continuing the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Trotskyist ideological battles to the interest of few, and amusement of many more.
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The Stakes: High Roller Edition
Arts Policy: A Song of Cuts and Promises
This election is a double dissolution, meaning that the stakes are much higher. Both houses of parliament have been dissolved, meaning that all seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate are up for grabs. Usually, only half the Senate is spilt.
In the ranking of major election issues, arts policy generally comes in just above changes to tax arrangements for managed trust funds, but well below commitments to upgrade major sporting venues. The arts community is typically left-leaning; conservative parties tend to wrap their arts policies up in the rhetoric of accountability and popular appeal. The Coalition’s changes to distribution of arts funding (which included re-allocating funding to the Catalyst program, the successor to George Brandis’ excellence in the arts program) sent the arts sector into a tailspin. Amongst the losers were the highly-regarded Sounds Australia, which has undertaken Herculean efforts in arranging touring and promotional opportunities for Australian bands.
The voting rules for the Senate have also changed, mainly to address the potential for micro-parties to do clever preference deals to ensure that a few lucky minnows across the country get to sit on the plush red leather couches. But that doesn’t mean that the fickle hand of democracy won’t produce a motley parliamentary population. Apparently Derryn Hinch is a good chance in Victoria, and Tasmania may yet return Jackie Lambie. Ricky Muir can’t be ruled out in Victoria, though people have probably twigged now that David Leyonhelm isn’t from the Liberal Party. In the House of Representatives, the Greens are giving a scare to the ALP and the Coalition in various inner-urban seats, ranging from the hipster enclave of Batman, to the tree-lined streets of Higgins. In South Australia, Nick Xenophon’s personal popularity has rattled the Liberals in a couple of seats. Tony Windsor may yet cause Barnaby Joyce to wear the brown corduroy trousers on election night. And Bob Katter will win his seat in North Queensland because there’s no-one like him, whatever you think about him. But despite the apocalyptic warnings of the major parties, a parliamentary system that requires the majority party to negotiate with independents and minor parties will not be the end of the world as we know it. Vote for who you believes represents your interests – preferably, broader interests than merely selfish – not because you’re told the world’s going to end. Because it won’t.
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Coalition: Hmmm, who really knows? Rumour has it that Mitch Fifield wanted to have a major policy to announce at the Wheeler Centre debate on arts policy, but wasn’t allowed to make one, so was left with trying to shove the square peg of jobs and growth into the floral hole of arts policy. Jobs and growth. Greens: Restore lost Australia Council Funding. Allow ‘artistic activities that provide community benefit’ to be eligible for Centrelink compensation (‘paint for the dole’). Superannuation breaks for low-income artists. Additional funding to compensate artists whose works are publicly displayed, loaned or otherwise shared with the public. ALP: Boost music in schools program. Restore funding to Sounds Australia. Increase Regional Arts Fund. Return Catalyst funding to Australia Council. Invest in local drama. The best of the rest: the Arts Party won’t win any seats, but scored a minor victory when the Greens adopted one of its policies. The Liberal Democrats abhor government subsidisation of just about everything, especially the arts. But who else but a libertarian party is going to genuinely defend freedom of expression, however repulsive that expression is?
Housing Affordability: A Generation of Renters Let’s face it, most of us only care about the punchline in any discussion about housing affordability: will I be able to buy a house or not? Negative gearing is what the bike shop does to convert your ten-speed bike into a fixie, and demand elasticity is a pointy-headed euphemism for buying ten pints in the last two minutes of happy hour. But even if you haven’t put down a lazy $300K on your first property purchase, housing affordability is pretty damn important: high cost housing translates into higher rents, and the traditional inner-city artist/student enclaves being pushed out to the suburbs. Coalition: Retain negative gearing. Jobs and growth. ALP: Retain negative gearing only for new dwellings. No retrospective changes. David Feeney bought a house in the most expensive area of the electorate which he apparently represents, but still doesn’t live there. Sorry, I just had to say that. Greens: Phase out negative gearing, with budget savings to be directed to building new, affordable low-cost housing. National body to look after renters’ rights (not sure of the constitutionality of this policy, but anyway). Best of the rest: Family First wants to see the removal of restrictions on urban fringe residential development and more attention paid to price gouging in the housing market. The Citizens Electoral Council wants to freeze “all existing home and family farm mortgages for a period of however many months or years are required to adjust the values to fair prices, and restructure existing mortgages at appropriate interest rates”. Wow.
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Transport: Trams, Trains and Tribunals
Copyright: Ownership in the Meme Age
NBN: More Than Faster Netflix
Education: Is Gonski Gone for Good?
Tony Abbott said that the Commonwealth doesn’t fund public transport, it funds roads. Like the defenders of America’s second amendment, Tony’s reasoning chose historical happenstance over contemporary reality. But Malcolm Turnbull catches public transport, and even worried his way through a conversation with Dan Watt without pushing the emergency help button. Malcolm at least understands that public transport requires Commonwealth fiscal attention, he’s just more guarded about the economics of it. With their support base concentrated in the public transport-fed inner suburbs, The Greens know that public transport support is an absolute winner.
Have you ever watched a pirated copy of Game of Thrones, scored a bootleg download of the new Radiohead album (a crime of taste in itself ) or photocopied more than ten percent of the text book for your second year media studies class? If so, you’re part of a crime wave that’s costing the creative industry and the economy billions of dollars a year and you’ll go to both jail and hell very soon. Copyright – originally, the right granted by the Crown in mediaeval times to a person to allow the person to print a book – remains an unsteady legal crutch upon which the creative industry continues to lean. The Productivity Commission wants to introduce a fair use exception to copyright protection and parallel importation for books; book publishers and content owners are describing with typical eloquence the apocalyptic scenario that such changes will herald.
Remember the NBN? It was all those bolts of light firing around the neighbourhood, connecting people across the country, streaming video all through your house and allowing you to check your gratuitous self-diagnosis of some horrible disease with your doctor at the click of a mouse. Now it’s a mixture of different technologies, none of which are really understood by the average punter, who just wants to be able to stream copious amounts of interactive multimedia content while ordering designer clothes direct from the factory. The ALP says the NBN doesn’t need Malcolm’s copper magic; the Greens want fibre everywhere.
Malcolm Turnbull’s suggestion that the Commonwealth might no longer fund state schools was withdrawn almost immediately: there’s no votes in that one, even in the leafy streets of Vaucluse or Toorak. The Abbott government ditched the Gonksi model for distribution of education funding; the ALP and the Greens want to restore it.
Coalition: Mainly focused on specific projects: Flinders University rail link project (and shared bike path), Townsville Eastern Access Rail Ring corridor for rail freight, abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal and re-direct funding to the National Heavy Vehicle and Safety Program. ALP: Beef up role of infrastructure in assessing benefit of national infrastructure projects. Establish a High Speed Rail Authority. $1.25m to support development of National Cycling Strategy. Greens: Focus on public transport funding: airport rail in Melbourne, light rail in Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Hobart, trams in Adelaide and cross-river rail in Brisbane. National fund for cycle and walking infrastructure. Accelerate development of electric vehicles. Best of the rest: The Cyclists Party – which has fused with the Science Party – is pushing for major investment in cycling infrastructure. The Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party want to improve driver education, better roads and accommodation of off-road motoring activities.
Coalition: Cautious reaction to Productivity Commission report. Still pushing for content industry and telecommunications providers to come up with joint approach to dealing with online copyright infringement. ALP: “Consider any proposals or recommendations to adjust the current territorial copyright regime with caution.” Also support transition of community radio sector to digital radio transmission. Greens: Cautious reaction to Productivity Commission report. Attitude to copyright reform largely in context of arts policy. Best of the rest: The Pirate Party sees copyright law as a significant impediment to creativity. The Liberal Democratic Party would reduce copyright and patent protection to 15 years, increase exceptions such as fair use and prevent the Australian government asserting copyright, subject to privacy concerns.
Coalition: Retain the current multitechnology mix. Roll-out scheduled for completion in 2022. ALP: Replace copper-based technologies with fibre. Roll-out scheduled for completion in 2022. Greens: Return to all-fibre NBN roll-out, supplemented by wireless in remote areas. Best of the rest: The Pirate Party supports an all-fibre network. The other minor parties seem to have tired of the issue.
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Coalition: No return to Gonski. Focus on STEM subjects in school, including increase in funding for Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) style pilot sites. Increase in funding for Sport in Schools Program. ALP: Restore Gonski funding model. By 2020 all students to study maths or science in year 12. Primary and high school students to study coding. Greens: Restore Gonski funding model. Increase STEM incentives. Introduce sustainable schools fund based on Tasmanian program. Focus learning needs of disadvantaged groups and communities. Best of the rest: Rise Up Australia wants to revive the School Chaplaincy program, but doesn’t believe children need to learn a second language. The Australian Sex Party supports the retention of the Safe Schools program. The Pirate Party “believes that the flow of taxpayer funding towards religious and private schools should be checked” and supports the development of a national Science Plan. The Jackie Lambie Network wants to establish a National Apprentice, Trade and Traineeship system incorporating both the Australian Defence Force and TAFE.
Marriage Equality: Plebiscites, Pledges and Parliament Like so many social issues of yore, marriage equality tends to inflame the hearts, minds and passions of many more people than are directly affected by it. It’s a talisman of social belief system: it’s about equality and compassion, or it’s a direct assault on the fundamental structures of our civilised society. Opinion polls have suggested most Australians support marriage equality, but the shrill voices of opponents can still be heard. Coalition: Malcolm Turnbull supports marriage equality, but had to affirm a party room decision to hold a national plebiscite on marriage equality. ALP: Introduce legislation to recognise marriage equality within 100 days of taking office. Greens: Support Parliamentary vote on changes to the Marriage Vote to recognise marriage equality. Best of the rest: Sex Party supports marriage equality, Australian Christian Party and Family First don’t. Ricky Muir (Motoring Enthusiasts Party) supports marriage equality. David Leyonhelm (Liberal Democrats) thinks government should be kept well away from the bedroom, house and the community as a whole. No matter what your beliefs, make sure to make your voice heard by voting on Saturday July 2.
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This Week: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are set to perform a thrilling rendition of Mahler’s Symphony no. 6, The Tragic this weekend. Enticing the audience with slow movement, the symphony promises to excite as it moves towards its climax before reaching its fateful end. American pianist Jonathan Biss will act as solo pianist for the performances, while the concert will be lead by renowned conductor Sir Andrew Davis. The shows will be on Thursday June 30, Friday July 2 and Saturday July 2 at Hamer Hall at 8pm. There will also be a pre-concert talk with MSO Director of Artistic Planning Ronald Vermeulen before each show at 7pm. For more details and to purchase tickets, head to the MSO website. La Mama Theatre continues to stage Caroline Lee’s one-woman show on the 21st century Australian woman until its final performance takes place this weekend. Entitled, Catherine: the body politic, the show builds a complex landscape depicting a number of 21st century Australian “Catherines” (Catriona, Kathryn, Kate, Cathy, Katy and Katie to name a few) who are all on the brink of rupture, collapse and moments of enlightenment. The performance begs the question: what is the threshold? How did they get there? And what happens if they trespass? The final performances of Catherine: the body politic will take place from tonight until Sunday July 3 at La Mama Theatre, Carlton. Show times vary, for more details and to grab tickets, head to the La Mama theatre website. Come Away With Me To The End Of The World is set to open at the Malthouse Theatre this coming week. The show invites its audience to listen in on a conversation between three people, as they take themselves on a self imposed quest to reshape their physical and emotional selves. A truly voyeuristic production, it begs its audience to eavesdrop on the three characters, all while moments of eccentric song and dance erupt sporadically. Designed by visual artist Callum Morton, Come Away With Me To The End Of The World is a surreal and commanding journey. It will stage at the Malthouse Theatre’s intimate Beckett Theatre from Tuesday July 5 until Sunday July 24. More details and bookings via the Malthouse website.
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Howl BY AUGUsTUs WELBY
The phrase “run down by drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality” is one of the many instances of stream of consciousness genius located within Allen Ginsberg’s 1955 poem, Howl. It’s also the birthplace of the name for pianist Darrin Archer’s jazz accompaniment to the poem. Drunken Taxicabs of Absolute Reality: Howl to Music was commissioned for the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival in 2013. In late July, Archer will stage an encore performance as part of the Wheeler Centre’s winter series at the Toff in Town. Archer will lead a seven-piece jazz ensemble, with writer and slam poet Maxine Beneba Clarke reciting the poem. The Wheeler Centre event will feature some slight revisions of the original performance. “Two of the band members are based in New York now, so the band has slightly changed but instrumentation is exactly the same,” Archer says. “I’m probably extending the work a little bit and changing a few things to make it work a little bit better. So it’s going to be a slightly improved version, hopefully.” Ginsberg was a key figure in the beat literary movement. The beat writers’ practices were transgressive and post modernist, and their art was developed concurrently with jazz’s rise to broader popularity. The nonlinear, spiritually expressive capacity of jazz music resonated with the literary ambitions of writers like Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac ± Ginsberg actually described Howl’s longline format as being founded in the rhythm of bebop. “I remember reading [Howl] and it just blew me away, so I’ve always been interested in that poem and its relationship to jazz and improvisation,” Archer says. “Ginsberg references jazz as an inspiration for writing it, but also the flow of it… it’s almost like an improvisation.
It doesn’t really have a set metre. It doesn’t really abide by regular poetic rules.” Despite this, Archer’s musical accompaniment isn’t founded in improvisation. It’s not incidental background music, either. “When I first started the project, I wanted the music to interact quite a lot with the poem,” he says. “Instead of getting a singer for the gig, I wanted a spoken word poet. Maxine’s a poet and a great writer, but she’s not a musician. So that meant, ‘OK, I can’t write this as a vocal line. It’s going to be fully a spoken word thing.’ But the challenge is to not just have it as spoken word and accompaniment. “The first part goes for 12 or 15 minutes or something and there’s not really individual sections within it. It’s just like a stream of consciousness, but I still feel there’s certain areas which have a theme. “I did a graphic score where every musician has the poem written on their parts, and then they’ve got notes above [telling them] to emphasise certain words. I’ve written it so it actually is really interactive with the spoken word.” Ginsberg did perform Howl a number of times, but
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he was adamant that it was a poem and not a piece of performance art. As a written text, it’s lengthy, nebulously structured and disrupts traditional modes of comprehension. The addition of an interactive musical score provides another element to capture the imagination, and opens up new possibilities for finding meaning. “Because it is like a stream of consciousness, you don’t necessarily have to listen to the words the whole time through and try to capture the music as well,” Archer says. “You don’t have to understand everything the whole way through. There’s snippets of reality and non-reality, and snippets of his life and snippets of his observations of the world he’s living in at that time. Personally I feel like it’s OK to drift between those two things ± the music and the words. And then sometimes you can sit back and let it flow over you as a whole thing.” HOWL will stage at The Toff in Town on Monday July 25 with two performances running at 6.30pm and 8.30pm.
BY NIck MAsON
Lately, there’s been no escaping the all-conquering sketch comedy troupe Aunty Donna. The infamously energetic jesters have enjoyed a busy 2016, boasting multiple web series and a sold out Melbourne International Comedy Festival season.
Helpmann Award-winner Dean Bryant returns to MTC to direct David Hare’s contemporary classic, Skylight, featuring a brilliant cast led by Colin Friels (Red) and Anna Samson (Birdland). A few years ago, Kyra broke off her relationship with a wealthy married man, and settled for a tougher life as a teacher in a disadvantaged school. But is it idealism that drives her, or her need for penance? When her former lover Tom tracks her down to her cold London flat to rekindle their relationship, she must decide if she could ever again be the person she once was. Catch it throughout the week, right up until Saturday July 23.
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“There were some periods there where it just didn’t stop,” explains Mark Bonanno of their hectic schedule. “We try to write a new hour, a new live show every year and it’s always hard when you have to do something on top of that.” And when a moment to catch their breath presents itself ? “Things tend to calm down a bit and then we just hurt our bodies by touring so much, not to mention our whole spectrum of emotion gets thrown off and destroyed as well. We really like to fuck ourselves up. We over-commit a lot. It’s what we do.” Celebrated for their brand of ridiculous hyper-mischief, Aunty Donna have been known to suffer for their art. Bonanno recalls one particular injury that threatened to derail a festival season. “I pulled all the ligaments in the bottom of both feet. I just woke up one morning and I couldn’t walk. It felt like there were razor blades stabbing into the bottom of both my feet whenever I put any pressure on them.” Credit where credit is due: Bonanno somehow soldiered on, aided by four pairs of socks and silicon heel supports. That was last year’s show. If you thought Bonanno’s injury may have ushered in a new, less frenzied and less physically-punishing era for Aunty Donna, think again.
“While we were writing New Show, before we performed it for the first time in Adelaide, we were all like, ‘It’s a bit more chilled out this year, the show. We’ve dialled it back.’ Then we started doing it and everyone was like, “You’ve gone and you’ve turned it up a notch!” We really tried not to,” Bonanno laughs. “We get a bit too excited I think. We’re an excitable pack of boys.” At this point, you might be wondering how exactly an Aunty Donna show comes together. Trying to reverseengineer any one of their sketches is a tricky proposition, but the difficulty makes perfect sense once Bonanno begins to unpack their writing process. “There’s no one way that we write any sketch and there’s no one way that we write any one thing, but it always starts off with a lot of post-it notes,” he explains. “That’s how we start: we have a wall filled with post-it notes that just have an idea on them... It’s super, super collaborative. There isn’t a single sketch in Aunty Donna that’s been written by one person. “What we’ve been trying to do the last couple of years ± the biggest thing for us, the thing that helps the most in the writing process ± is failing and being shit. The best way to do that is to get things when they’re not ready and put them in front of audiences who don’t give a fuck
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about you. “That’s how we wrote this show. This show was very much written in front of audiences that didn’t know who we were, who were there for free, who weren’t going to laugh just because, ‘Oh, it’s those guys from YouTube’. Our audiences can be very forgiving sometimes and we’re very, very, very aware of that.” Aunty Donna’s increasing popularity has culminated in a national tour, and Bonanno remains humbled by the initial response to the show when they first performed it at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival. “I just feel like Melbourne has really embraced us for some reason, and it’s still confusing. It’s still completely baffling to me, because I don’t know who’s coming to the shows. I don’t know who these people are. I don’t even know how to talk about it. It just blows me away.” AUNTY DONNA will perform at the Athenaeum Theatre on Saturday July 2.
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GUERILLA COMEDY This Wednesday June 29, get down to The Resistance for a night of all-you-can-laugh comedy. Hawthorn’s only free and weekly comedy night will feature Nicky Barry hosting Danielle Walker, Blake Everett, Angela Green, Jeremy Webb, Paul South, Kevin Lim, Tim Same and Lenin. 6/672 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn.
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
CRAB LAB Scuttle down to Crab Lab this Wednesday June 29 for a cracking night of comedy. They’ll be hosting Tom Ballard, Sean Bedlam, Stuart Daulman, Pete Jones, Greg Larsen, Aaron Gocs, Anne Edmonds, Laura Dunemann, The Nelson Twins and Adam Rozenbachs. Plus, $7 pints, free entry and free popcorn. 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
Melbourne International Film Festival Thursday July 28 - Sunday August 14 Various Venues
Billy Crystal With Andrew Denton Monday August 1 ± Thursday August 4 State Theatre
COMEDY AT GEORGE’S 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 30 they’ll host Peter Jones as MC alongside Simon Carter, Geoff Setty, Kimberly Lisle, Jeremy Webb and Sofie Prints. 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.
ROCHESTER COMEDY Rochester Comedy invites you to see some of the country’s best stand-ups for free. Thursday June 30 there’s a bunch of the country’s finest stand ups. There’s Tom Ballard, Adam Rozenbachs, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Rose Callaghan with more to be announced. 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 Anne Edmonds headlines the comedy at the European Bier Café this Thursday night. Plus, there’s Daniel Connell, Georgie Carroll and some surprise guests. It’s all happening this Thursday June 30 at 8.30pm at 120 Exhibition St, CBD ± all for only $12.
CLUB VOLTAIRE Sunday June 3 is shaping up to be a huge night at Club Voltaire. Head along to see Jess Perkins as MC alongside Aaron Gocs, Rohan Ganju, Laura Dunemann, Megan McKay, John Dore, Matt Young, Claire Sullivan, Eve Ellenbogen, Rhi Down, Blake Everett and more for a night of laughs you cannot miss. It kicks off from 7.30pm on 14 Ragan St, North Melbourne.
WILDE WILDE WEST COMEDY Come check out Melbourne’s best established and up-and-coming comedians for free every Tuesday night. Playing this Tuesday: Sam Taunton, Aaron Gocs, Kevin Lim and heaps more. Plus, say ‘Kevin Kline’ at the bar for $5 house wines and $6 pints. Tuesday 8pm at The Wilde, 153 Gertrude St. Fitzroy.
Louis Theroux’s Scientology Movie to Screen in Melbourne Louis Theroux’s first feature-length film will run as a limited screening as part of the 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival. A revealing, funny and sometimes absurd film, Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie doesn’t just reiterate known facts and alreadytold stories, but endeavours to recreate the mindset at the heart of the notorious organisation. In his first film made for cinema, Theroux takes inspiration from The Act of Killing (MIFF 2013) while retaining his wellloved brand of personable but deadpan scepticism, even when he’s being trailed by Scientology henchmen who claim to be making their own documentary about his actions. Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie will screen as part of MIFF 2016. Tickets go on sale Friday July 8. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
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Gertrude Street Projection Festival Reveals Full Program for 2016
The Gertrude Street Projection Festival is back and bigger than ever, revealing a world class program of bright lights, entrancing video and mesmerising colour-scapes. Thirty-eight sites on and around the street including shop fronts, laneways, windows and footpaths will come alive with bold visions of award-winning projection artists ± all exhibited for free. With a program that focuses on connection between artwork and audience, highlights include the psychedelic Aperion that creates a meditative loop that tries to transpose codes into an abstract space, taking over the Builders Arms Hotel as part of the Festival’s street program. Kit Webster’s Morphic Prism will take over an abandoned shop with a large scale pyramid, video and infinity mirror to create reality-bending reflections. Nova Paul’s Notes on Props and Gesture will make its way to Gertrude Street, with the artist receiving international acclaim for her work that reflects on culture and place. Paul’s work is made from the extensive home movies of the Gadini Family from as early as the 1920s, held in the film archive Cinescatti at Lab80 Bergamo, Italy. Walking 8 will take punters on a unique projection tour through the back streets of Fitzroy, with the audience given mobile projectors. Gabi Briggs’ Cleanse, Tone Obscure tackles white privilege, while Anuencia: If This Building Could Speak explores the history of Fitzroy through audio and sound. Capping it off comes numerous other works from both local and international artists. The Gertrude Street Projection Festival will run from Wednesday July 15 to Friday July 24, each night from 6pm to midnight, featuring 38 sites along Gertrude Street.
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
Kylie Minogue Exhibition to Open at The Arts Centre
The Wheeler Centre to Present a Night of Erotic Fan Fiction
She’s been touring for nearly 30 years, and now, in celebration of all the costumes she’s worn in that time, the Arts Centre is hosting a dedicated Kylie Minogue exhibition. It will showcase some of Kylie’s elaborate costumes, as designed by the likes of Dolce and Gabbana, Jean Paul Gaultier and Peter Morrissey, dating all the way back to her Disco in Dreams tour in 1989. It will all be laid out chronologically, with themed areas that reflect the development of Kylie’s stage persona throughout her career. The last Kylie exhibition held at the Arts Centre, over a decade ago, attracted over 300,000 visitors, and it’s expected with the addition of artefacts from her latest tours, that this is only going to grow with this exhibition. The Kylie on Stage exhibition is a free event and will run from late September until January 30 2017 at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Gallery 1.
Taking the night off site, The Wheeler Centre will host a night of sexy stories helmed by some award-winning comedians. Combining red velvet curtains and signature cocktails, this adventurous instalment of their Erotic Fan Fiction series will feature Melbourne-based writer and comedian Deirdre Fridge, alongside the acclaimed Nath Valvo and RAW Comedy winner Demi Lardner. Erotic Fan Fiction will be held Monday July 4 at the Toff in Town.
Lido Cinema’s First Birthday BY JACOB COLLIvER
The Lido Cinema in Hawthorn recently celebrated its first birthday in style, with cheap tickets, flowing beer and pumping jazz. For cinema owner Eddie Tamir, it’s been a passion and a pleasure. What started as a pet project two years ago to revitalise a “crazy, old building” has turned into one of the coolest attractions in town. Despite Tamir’s enthusiasm, it hasn’t been easy crafting the Lido’s beauty. The original Lido Cinema closed in the sixties, and the ravages of time ± including brick drains and a creek running alongside it that undermined the foundations ± caused several initial issues. The building required serious love and attention - which, thankfully, Tamir was more than happy to provide. “I’m a bit of a sucker for old, derelict cinema buildings,” Tamir says. “Somehow, it gets me up in the morning, to connect to the history of those buildings and bring them back to life for the present, and well into the future. I’m into that.” As an owner of the Classic cinema in Elsternwick and the Cameo cinema in Belgrave, Tamir understands the importance of a building’s architectural individuality. Both cinemas have similar origins to the Lido: The Classic (which was built in 1889) initially closed in the ‘90s, and the Cameo (originally opened in 1935) was shut a couple of years before Tamir took the reins in 2003. For The Lido, it’s a freshness that encapsulates the surreal retro-futuristic spirit of the French New Wave. “I’m not sure how we actually did it, because I’m not
that cool,” Tamir says. “But I think we’re kind of known as the cool place in town at the moment. The architect, Aidan Halloran, was very clever. He hints at inspiration with the film Alphaville ± which is a ‘60s, sort of futuristic film ± and he’s bought that into the aesthetic there.” Tamir relishes the thrill of being a cinema-goer experiencing the unexpected. From the intimate ambience of the Jazz Room to the open awe of the Rooftop Cinema in the summer, the Lido is a gorgeous clash of clever lighting and lush colours. Tamir instills surprising little touches everywhere: He has a selection of local boutique beers on tap, a unique menu (with the likes of cheese platters, toasties and steamed dumplings), fresh popcorn served in the old-school recycled popcorn boxes, and has even taken time to wallpaper some of his favourite movie scripts on the bathroom walls. For Tamir, it’s not just a business ± it’s a communal experience. “I don’t watch TV,” Tamir laughs. “Because I’m an only child, I overdosed on television until the age of 15, through the golden era of ‘60s television. I don’t like that experience. I feel kind of claustrophobic... When I’m in a cinema space, I’m transported into
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another place physically and emotionally. I find that incredibly compelling, and I never get sick of it.” The Lido is known for showcasing a wide variety of film from independent sources to huge blockbusters. You immediately understand why when you ask Tamir about his tastes. If asked for a favourite film, he’ll say Federico Fellini’s La Strada, but he’s also keen to see Sausage Party in the near future. “With all of those films, one person may love all of them,” Tamir says of the Lido’s variety. “We just want to offer up great film, and great film takes many forms. We don’t ‘pigeon-hole’ and say, ‘we’re going to be the cinema that’s only going to show this type of film’. That same person that might want to see a foreign language film could be the same person that wants to see Independence Day, have a ginormous popcorn and live it up in that way. Who are we to say? We love it all.” Visit LIDO CINEMAS as they celebrate their first birthday on 675 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn.
O f f Th e Record We’re neck deep in European summer which means almost no electronic acts want to even consider coming via Australia due to our god-awful weather and the fact that they can make x10 $ over there (but really who knows after Brexit?). Even if they did fancy coming Down Under the promoters that have the contacts are too busy focusing on their foodbased venues now as seems to be the natural order these days. It may be dark times, but the pulled pork is on-point. Except I hate pork. Strap in, braving the cold and slaying house parties is the modus operandi for the next few months. Thankfully, there are still one or two good tours to look forward to. Plus a load of shit ones for the people that can’t feel the cold because they’re jacked-up on meth and love hardstyle/abusing innocent people on the nightrider home. At least the release schedule seems optimistic. Let’s ball. Bitta’ techno to lighten the mood? I mean dark, brooding techno. Oh. The Berlin-based enigma Subjected is coming our way. This dude kinda scares the shit out of me. Founder of the Vault Series label, he’s also scored releases on the likes of Affin, Eternal Drive Recordings and Prosthetic Pressings. The #38 Sleaze podcast still does my head in. Can’t sleep, clown’ll eat me. Flanked by Adrian Bell, DJ Kiti, Spilt Silo and Back Burners, it’s going down on Friday July 22 at The Mercat. Duke Dumont has just announced another return to Australia so if you’re into bullshit wannabe tech-house for the plastic fantastic crowd then head to his Facebook for the details as I don’t have enough inches to waste them here. Fun fact: when he was in Australia for Listen Out a few years ago he slid into the DMs of a friend of mine trying to get her to come to his hotel for “fun”. – xoxo Gossip Wray Speaking of Listen Out, If your biggest pull to the electronic crowd is Claptone then you know you’re in deep trouble. That said, all of the idiots that thought they were capable of bagging Chance the Rapper deserve to be disappointed. A$AP Ferg and Yung Lean instead? Cool, those guys are on the cutting edge of relevancy. Let me go and #rapsquat in 2012 before I get ready. Has anyone seen my cultural appropriation pants? That said my sister who doesn’t talk to me anymore liked it on Facebook so maybe I’m just the wrong demographic.
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WITH T YSON WRAY Tour rumours: ol’ mate Nina Kraviz has already locked in her return to Australia. Details coming soon. Best releases this week: well, definitely not the Ryan Elliot fabric mix. Wake me up when it’s over. Snoozefest. Feeling lukewarm about Kane Ikin’s Modern Pressure (on Type) and Luigi Tozzi’s Deep Blue: Volume 2 (on Hypnus Records). It’s really been one of those week when you just want to go back and listen to Prince of Denmark’s Live at Planet Uterus recording and drift off.
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Delano Smith Brown Alley SUNDAY AUGUST 14 Gene Farris Revolver Upstairs
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CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY 29 JUN
• COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • FUTURE DAYS #5 - FEAT: CORRECT LINE + CONCENTRATION + DAN LEWIS + SPLIT/MILK Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: POST PERCY + DANIELSAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
THURSDAY 30 JUN
• 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: JMCEE + GTB$Y + DYLAN B + JAMES STEETH + SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • ARIZONA THURSDAYS - FEAT: DANIEL ‘E’ + MALPRACTICE + HEADSTONE + PIXIE & PLAY + MORNING MAXWELL Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • ASTOUND RECORD DJS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • AURORA - FEAT: JAYSKULLO + I KNOW THE CHIEF + GREAT JOHN HIMSELF + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: DELTIOD CURVE + THE MILKMAN + BOWANCE + YANI ARSENAKIS + BALTIMORE GUN CLUB Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • JACKY WINTER + VANDAL EYE 3 + STILL MESS + SEX CASSETTE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. • PLASTIC DREAMS - FEAT: SCOOBY LOU & SHAGGY DAMAGE + KUTA BEACH BANGERS SQUAD Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • 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.
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FRIDAY 1 JUL
• #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • B-TWO + MATT RAD + NAZ Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • BREAKAGE + MONKEE + LICKWEED + C:1 + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CLOSET 7TH BIRTHDAY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
URBAN GUIDE • DJ BIGTALL_MAX Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • DJ THE KNAVE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 1:00pm. • ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • I LOVE DANCEHALL - FEAT: SO FIRE + TROUBLEMEKKA + NIGHTWRK + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • MAHALA - FEAT: DUBSPEEKA + KIKO Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $25.00. • 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. • SHARAM JEY + BOOGS + TOM EVANS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:30pm. • THE DISCO - FEAT: GREG SARA + LUKE MCD + JEN TUTTY + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. • TUTTI FRUTTI - FEAT: JIVE ASS WALRUS + ALECKAT + JIMMY TURNER + MORE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
SATURDAY 2 JUL • ANALOGUE ATTIC SHOWCASE - FEAT: UDMO + ALBRECHT LA’BROOY + MYLES MAC + RICCI Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: LE ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + TOM EVANS + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. • 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. • DJ BORRIS B Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
• ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. • FABRIKATION 5IVE - FEAT: JACQUES MALCHANCE + ITALY + STEPH YEAH + STEVIE STRAFFORD + MORE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • HYP-NOSIS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5.00. • IN THE CARRIAGE - FEAT: DJ JNETT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • OBLIVEUS + MATT RAD + HYPERFOKUS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. • PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • POUNCE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00. • PSYTRANCE - FEAT: PAUL TAYLOR + LOMAX BANGSTAR + HARRY BLOTTER + ZONE TEMPEST + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $20.00. • SET MO Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. • SNACK ATTACK - FEAT: DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • SNAKEPIT SESSION - FEAT: INDIGO RISING + SNAKEPIT SOUND + CORE.NZ + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm. • SNAKEPIT SESSION - FEAT: INDIGO RISING + SNAKEPIT SOUND + CORE.NZ + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 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. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
SUNDAY 3 JUL
• ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
electronic - urban - club life
• BEAUT #6 - FEAT: SALVADOR DARLING + POST PERCY + LUKE AGIUS + MORE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. • BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + 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. • MATTHIAS MEYER + J.PHLIP Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:30pm. • PSYCHEDELIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: ILLIMITE VS KETATONIC + DIGITAL SYNAPSYS + SKWID + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. $10.00. • REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: ANNA + BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. • ROOFTOP SUNDAYS - FEAT: KHANH + KEN WALKER + JESUS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. • THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS BETRAYAL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. • WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
MONDAY 4 JUL
• 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 5 JUL
• CARRIAGE 252 - FEAT: SKOMES 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.
WEDNESDAY 29 JUN
• 30/70 COLLECTIVE - FEAT: A BROTHER SCRATCH + CAZEAUX OSLO + SAMETZ + TIARYN GRIGGS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $5.00. • MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: JAZZ VS HIP HOP + GEEZY + CAZEAUX O.S.L.O + SKOMES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
THURSDAY 30 JUN
• THANK GUARD - FEAT: MANU CROOKS + NICO GHOST + CHARLIE THREADS + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
FRIDAY 1 JUL
• BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: SONIC VIBES + TALI + DOS BOY + YO!JIMBO Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • SOUTHERN LOVE - FEAT: MAT CANT + GET BU$Y + SLICK P + ROB STEEZY + MORE Vic Bar, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. • TONI SWAIN BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
SATURDAY 2 JUL
• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + MAFIA + PAIGE 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. • TOGETHER LIKE BROTHERS + DJ MADINGO Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $5.00.
SUNDAY 3 JUL
•MOMENTUM (FOREIGN BROTHERS) - FEAT:
MOMENTUM: FOREIGN BROTHERS + THE CORETET Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
TUESDAY 5 JUL
• NOW. HERE. THIS - FEAT: 30/70 + BLYDVS + ENTRO + MORE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $7.00.
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Get Educated. Abbey Road Institute
Abbey Road Institute offers an intensive 12-month Advanced Diploma of Sound Production, designed in the hallowed halls of Abbey Road Studios London. Their philosophy is that technical mastery in music production can only be achieved through intensive practical training. Abbey Road Institute’s program has been designed and constructed by the production staff at Abbey Road Studios London and is based on the in-house training that Abbey Road has been providing to it’s own staff for over 80 years - the program is more than just an audio engineering course, it’s also an intensive mentorship in music production. By imbuing students with a world view of the 21st century music production industry, Abbey Road positions them to lead from the forefront of the sector by forging their own reputation and brand. Producers find themselves more often on a laptop than in a studio, and music is usually consumed through a streaming service rather than a record store. With the weight of Universal Music Group and Abbey Road Studios driving our programs,
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any change to the social, consumer, or industry landscape is almost instantaneously transferred into our educational programs, meaning that students are always one step in front. Our guest lecturer and master class presenters have worked with artists as diverse as U2, INXS, Eskimo Joe, The Sex Pistols, De la Soul, Madonna, The Whitlams and on and on. Being Abbey Road, they have unprecedented access to the biggest names in the Australian and global music industry and ensure that their students have regular access to the staff at the cutting edge of professional production. ABBEY ROAD INSTITUTE runs open day events at select times throughout the year. To find out when the next intake is and register your interest in attending the institute, please call 1800 274 338 or email your enquiry through to melbourne@ abbeyroadinstitute.com or visit their blog, blog. abbeyroadinstitute.com.au
The Australian Guild of Music Education is a fully accredited nonprofit organization specialising in music performance, composition and technology. It’s a real music school for real students. They offer courses such as certificate II, III and IV in music, along with further classes such as Diploma of Music, Advanced Diploma of Music and a Bachelor of Music. Students can either choose to study online or on campus at Kooyong in Melbourne’s trendy inner east. The typical study year consists of two semesters. Students are admitted to a performance study on either an instrument or on vocals, with options to specialise in music performance, composition or in music technology in their third year. Students are provided the skills and flexibility required for the contemporary 21st century musician. The Kooyong campus boasts two state of the art recording studios, a concert stage, computer lab, practice rooms and recreation areas. Networking is vital, as are good communication and collaborative skills. AGME provide many opportunities for our students to
network and work collaboratively through performance ensembles as well as in other group projects and assignments. This extends to their online students who utilise technologies and social media to stay in touch and work together. They keep their fingers on the pulse and the beat, listening to what students and commentators are saying. As they only provide courses in music, AGME are agile and able to move quickly with the times. This means courses are vocationally oriented and in line with current industry practice. THE AUSTRALIAN GUILD OF MUSIC EDUCATION can set up an information session for you by appointment if required. Their next intake begins on Friday July 1 ± t o register your interest in attending AGME, please call 03 9822 3111 or check out www.guildmusic.edu.au for more information.
AUSTRALIAN GUILD of MUSIC EDUCATION Comprehensive music courses available Australia wide.
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Certificate IV in Music (CUS40109) Certificate III in Music (CUS30109) Certificate II in Music (CUS20109) 451 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong VIC 3144 Phone: (03) 9822 3111 www.guildmusic.edu.au
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Melbourne’s boutique language school specialising in teaching Italian, Spanish and French InLanguage Boutique: Ph:03 9939 3939 E:admin@inlanguageboutique.com.au Address: Entrance is next to 13 Ferguson Street, Abbotsford Postal Address: 7/10 Hoddle Street Abbotsford VIC 3067 www.inlanguageboutique.com.au
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Get Educated. SAE
Australian Music Examinations Board
SAE offers a two-year Bachelor of Audio Degree along with Diploma courses in studio production, electronic music production and live sound at six campuses across Australia. The diplomas and part-time Certificate III of Music (Electronic Music) provide pathways into the degree program. SAE’s courses are responsive to the dynamic needs of employers, and their programs are developed in collaboration with industry to ensure the best student experience and graduate outcomes. Each degree program is broken into three stages and delivered over three trimesters per year, with a typical full time degree or diploma student expected to engage in their course for a minimum of 36 hours per week. Full-contact classes are supplemented with plenty of individual studio time throughout the course. SAE also supplements their classroom teaching with a comprehensive program of guest lectures and master classes that connect students with industry leaders and provide valuable insights into launching and
The Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) now delivers Rockschool exams and syllabuses, allowing Australian students to earn a globally recognised qualification through the program. Based in the UK, Rockschool is a program of exams and qualifications focused on guitar, bass, drums, vocals, piano, band-based keyboards and bands in a number of genres, ranging from pop to metal. Offering comprehensive syllabuses, the program is truly global, with thousands of exams conducted in the more than 30 countries worldwide. The qualifications received at the completion of the program are also recognised internationally, something that Chair of the AMEB Federal Board, Mike Tyler, welcomes, “We’re excited to be working with the globally successful Rockschool to deliver the most up-todate contemporary music syllabuses and exams to the popular music sector in Australia.” The exam support materials they provide includes grade books, companion guides, technical handbooks and backing recordings, all of which are regularly updated by musicians from the academic, industry, and live performance sectors. The addition of Rockschool to AMEB’s suite of syllabuses diversifies their offerings and may well increase their influence in the area of contemporary music, allowing them to further reach out to musicians of all ages and backgrounds. The syllabuses and support materials are managed by the Federal Office, and a pool of national examiners have been trained for the new Rockschool exams, which Tyler sees as an important part of their operation, “We take pride in being able to support music teachers in this sector in inspiring their students to
sustaining an audio career. SAE is all about giving students extensive access to professional-standard facilities and equipment to support their studies and major projects, including Neve, SSL and Audient desks as well as Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Ableton Live and other audio software tools. Industry engagement is key to everything that SAE does; from consulting industry leaders in curriculum development to ensuring the use of the latest industry-standard technology for teaching and learning. They also strike strategic partnerships with key industry players to ensure they’re abreast of employment trends, an easy feat considering most of the faculty staff are either still in the industry or actively engaged in contemporary, cutting-edge projects. SAE is throwing open the doors to the Melbourne campus on Saturday August 6 from 11am till 3pm. For registration or more information, head over to www.sae.edu.au.
develop technique and musicianship to the highest standards.” For more information on ROCKSCHOOL or the AUSTRALIAN MUSIC EXAMINATIONS BOARD, head to www.ameb.com.au.
Cosmopoli’French Cosmopoli’French immersion courses are designed in an innovative way to promote French culture while helping Francophiles develop excellent communication skills. Each week, their students are exposed to new cultural experiences such as French film classics, food and dining, French television, music and art through to fashion, styling and meeting with French native speakers - all whilst learning grammar. With small groups of a maximum of 8 people, the school’s approach consists of teaching ‘real French’ rather than ‘text book French’ in a very supportive and relaxed atmosphere. There’s courses are tailored for all levels, offering an incentive to explore the French assets of our beautiful city Melbourne. All Cosmopoli’French teachers are French native speakers, each hailing from different parts of France to better present the beautiful regional diversity of the country. The teachers are all highly qualified and passionate about sharing their culture. The relaxed yet structured teaching approach makes the learning experience at Cosmopoli’French rewarding, enjoyable and immersive ± students are invited to put
their skills to the test with an annual trip to France. Students who join their courses not only learn about the French language through their grammar rules, colloquial and formal forms of speech - they also learn about French culture and some cultural do’s and don’ts. They take pride in being able to help numerous students fulfil their dream to move to France - some have joined the French workforce, others are studying or travelling, and some of them are yet to return to Melbourne. COSMOPOLI’FRENCH runs four terms a year along with a summer program, offering weekday, Saturday, afternoon and evening classes to their students. Make-up classes are also offered to busy learners at no extra cost. You can enrol at any time (athough it’s preferred to start at the beginning of term) by heading over to www.cosmopolifrench.com, or calling 0424 284 586.
Australian Institute Of Music At the Australian Institute of Music, students will find courses in contemporary performance for vocals and a variety of instruments. Courses in composition and music production, entertainment and arts management along with audio engineering are also on offer at their state of the art facility on King Street in Melbourne, only a block away from Southern Cross Station. Students come as far as Bendigo or Mount Macedon, taking only a single train trip to get to school. The staff are second to none, a pack of current national and international industry professionals respected for working at the top of their fields. Because the staff are all currently employed as industry professionals, they have their finger on the pulse and quickly adapt to social shifts to ensure positive outcomes for students, no matter how the industry changes. AIM boasts a regular schedule of national and international guest tutors who privde
workshops, masterclasses and lectures too. 2016 has already seen Lior, Spyro Gyra and Snarky Puppy engage with the students, with more of these engagements still to come. AIM’s Academic calendar works on a trimesterly system, featuring three thirteen week trimesters so that students can finish a Bachelor Degree in two years of full time study. Students can reduce the study load and complete the degree in a longer period if they wish ± AI M is very flexible in that regard. THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC hosts their next open days on Saturday August 6 and Saturday August 13. Their next intake begins on Tuesday September 6. If you’d like to register your interest in attending AIM, please call 03 8610 4222 or check out www.aim.edu.au for more information.
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Get Educated. Billy Blue College Of Design
Billy Blue is an iconic, inspirational space where ideas flourish. They’ve earned a reputation for creating graduates who push boundaries and challenge conventions. As a leading design college for almost thirty years with purpose built design facilities in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Billy Blue takes pride in providing a learning environment where students can experiment and investigate their expressive potential as visual communicators. Billy Blue has launched the careers of thousands of design graduates, with some of their alumni moving on to run their own studios, pursue freelancing careers or working with top creative agencies such as Interbrand and DDB, MC Saatchi, and brands like Camilla, Volley and Zanerobe. Students are coached by industry practitioners and academics to understand the rigour required to fold personal ideals and expression into professional demands of the field. Many work in creative studios or have their own freelancing businesses bringing current industry know-how into the classrooms. In 2015, Billy
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Blue teamed up with Torrens University Australia, part of Laureate International Universities, in order to connect students with over 80 institutions world-wide. Their sister school, Media Design School at Torrens University Australia has also announced it will be launching courses in game art and game programming in 2017. All courses at Billy Blue run on flexible timetables. Study full time, part time or get started with one subject. Billy Blue has three intakes per year; Feb, June and September. Applications are now open for their upcoming intake on Monday September 19, 2016. FEE-HELP is available to Australian citizens.
JMC Academy offers eight different courses in the creative industries. Each degree is six trimesters ± a total of two years of study with courses based around or including many components of practical and theory based subjects. There’s a wide selection of courses such as audio engineering and sound production, contemporary music performance, entertainment business management, animation, game development, film and television, digital design and songwriting on offer. JMC Academy also offers a concept called integration, whereby all students at one point during the degree will work on a project with students from other courses. For example, students in music performance, audio, film and TV, and entertainment business will collaborate on a music video project together. Each student takes on real-world industry roles for the project with the support of JMC Academy behind them. All lecturers are working industry professionals in their respective
BILLY BLUE runs their next open day on Saturday August 13. To find out when the next intake is and register your interest in attending, please call 1300 851 245 or email your enquiry through to info@ billyblue.edu.au. For more information, visit www. billyblue.edu.au.
JMC ACADEMY runs their next open day on Saturday August 27. If you’re interested in finding out more about the campus, you can book a private tour by calling 03 9624 2929, or visit www.jmcacademy. edu.au for more information.
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Gourmet Kitchen Cooking School The Gourmet Kitchen Cooking School has become extremely popular in the 12 months since they opened, and with good reason. They offer a variety of hands on cooking classes covering cuisines from around the world. Whatever your culinary preferences or skill level, you will be made to feel at home in a relaxed and social environment. Working through between five to ten recipes over the course of either three and a half, or four and a half hour classes, students benefit from the small groups sizes of six to ten. In classes ranging from Beginners to Masterclass, students will be guided through Spanish, Japanese, French, Thai, pasta making, gourmet vegetarian and vegan, pastry baking and many more. The school’s teachers were trained in Thailand, Japan and French patisseries, with many years of training large groups between them. Focusing on not only how to cook the food but where to source the best ingredients, what to do with your left overs and even how to store the produce. And the best part? You get to enjoy the prepared food around the school’s large communal table and will receive copies of all the recipes to take home and enjoy. Classes at GOURMET KITCHEN COOKING SCHOOL run all year round on Saturdays and Sundays at 9.30am, 10.30am or 2pm. Private classes are also available for groups or parties. Due to the small class sizes bookings of at least a month in advance are required. To find out more head to gourmetkitchencookingschool.com.au or phone 9375 7000. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
fields, and if students do well in their course, lecturers will help them with internships, work experience, or even in getting a full time job. In the music industry, a big part of helping your career to progress is to network and make connections. JMC Academy teaches students the basics of how to network and interact with like-minded people in their industry as it benefits all parties. JMC Academy regularly holds masterclasses and workshops for their students at JMC Academy, such as RaAb Stevenson, Dave Aron, Aaron Draplin, and NWA original member The D.O.C. Lecturers will also regularly bring in guest speakers for their classes.
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InLanguage is Melbourne’s boutique language school, specialising in teaching Italian, Spanish and French. Located in the historic fire station in Abbotsford, the school not only offers a range of trained and experienced native speaking teachers, but is also quick to reach from the city. Focusing on the student’s needs, the classes at inLanguage Boutique are personal, engaging and fun. They’re a great idea for people looking to travel, or even for those looking to get a deeper knowledge of the language of their choice. The teaching method is divided by levels that students complete at the end of a term, helping students develop all the vocabulary that’s needed to comfortably communicate in all situations studied. The boutique is a small school with big classrooms and small groups, giving students the space and time to learn in a personal and comfortable environment. Starting the next level usually means coming back at the same time to the same teacher and group, with students either continuing where they’ve left off or working the school’s flexibility to change a student’s class times or group. The courses are designed with the understanding that communicating is vital in learning and retaining what’s taught, which is reflected in everything they do. The method of teaching, the number of students in the class, even the classroom set-up of chairs, tables and whiteboards is all designed to help a student learn the best way they can. The modern textbooks are the most dynamic and up to date language texts coming out of Europe, all following the European standard. Because of this, students can easily get started and integrate to the courses regardless of their skill level. There’s many different levels that fit into the Common European Framework of Reference for Language. Classes start with level 1, for people with no knowledge of the language, and go up to advanced and conversational levels. The textbooks used are also structured to follow the Framework which makes it easy to understand a student’s language level as they continue learning in Australia or abroad. With most courses running over 15 hours, students can choose whether to study in one week, five weeks or 10 weeks ± the most popular option being the 10 week term due to the flexibility offered by a 1.5 hour weekly course. INLANGUAGE BOUTIQUE’s next intake begins on the week of Monday July 11. With a maximum of eight students per class, they tend to fill up quickly so be sure to book sooner rather than later. To find out more, get in touch with the team by calling 03 9939 3939. Visit www.inlanguageboutique.com.au for more info.
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BLUESBREAKERS WITH ERIC CLAPTON 50TH ANNIVERSARY LOCAL LEGENDS SALUTE O.G. GUITAR HERO BY PETER HODGSON
It’s hard to believe there was a time before Eric Clapton. His influence on rock and the guitar’s place in it can be traced through the heavy darkness of Cream, the soulful rock of Derek & The Dominoes, and the epoch-defining MTV Unplugged special.
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The rise of Oh Pep! is illustrative of the current advantages for Australian musicians in gaining overseas exposure. It’s not as though the Melbourne duo’s international profile has come easy, nor have they quite conquered the world. But their extensive touring of the Northern Hemisphere in the last 12 months, gaining a raft of positive press at CMJ 2015 and SXSW 2016, is pretty impressive considering their debut album isn’t out yet. Founding members Liv Hally and Pepi Emmerichs have been working hard on this project for a number of years, releasing three EPs in the lead up to next month’s Stadium Cake LP. Since the beginning, they’ve been eager to turn Oh Pep! into more than just a local band. “I think that our main idea the whole time, even before we had a recording, was that we wanted to have a band that toured internationally,” Hally says. “It’s funny because we always wanted to be doing this touring, and we are doing it now, but you couldn’t have told me five years ago that this is exactly what it would feel like, and touring would incorporate all these different things.” If you’re looking for somewhere to grow up as a band, there’s hardly a better place than Melbourne. The city’s loaded with talented musicians and stacks of venues catering to all manner of stylistic dispositions. Being surrounded by such large quantities of musicians assisted Oh Pep! in distinguishing their songwriting from the multitudes of other folk and altcountry acts. “I think Melbourne has such an incredible scene and the more that we’re away, [the more] I come to realise how lucky we are in Melbourne,” Emmerichs says. “There’s this great culture of everyone playing in a band and everyone playing shows and there’s so many great songwriters.” “Having so much going on all the time is really great when you’re building a band up, because you have to somehow shine through everything else that’s going on by doing your own thing. And playing lots – we did a lot of shows in Melbourne two or three years ago, basically every week, maybe more than once a week. That really built us up and got us used to performing, and everything else started to happen after that. I feel proud to be part of the Melbourne scene and I feel like we’re a good product of it.” Stadium Cake comes out in early July, but it’s actually been finished since last August when the pair jumped over to Canada’s Nova Scotia region to work with producer Daniel Ledwell ( Jenn Grant, Fortunate Ones). A couple of songs from last year’s Living EP (Tea, Milk & Honey and The Race) have survived onto the album, while many of them were written just prior to the recording process. “I think we were so keen to see what we could come up with before we went into the studio,” Hally says. “So we just pushed BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32
it really hard and then a bunch of songs came – like Doctor Doctor was written a few weeks before.” “And then we ended up cutting a lot of songs when we got to the studio,” Emmerichs says. “It was like, ‘We’re going to have to decide what ten songs we’re actually going to record,’ and we had quite a few more than that. You have to choose the songs that really work together, because an album’s different from what we’d done before with the EPs.” Stylistically, the album expands upon the band’s earlier releases. The folk and country tint is still apparent, but it’s augmented by conspicuous pop hooks, sombre indie rock sounds that recall The National and Arcade Fire, and layers of horns, strings, vocal harmonies, electric guitar and rock drumming. “We’ve always listened to heaps of different stuff, so I can’t say influences have changed dramatically,” Hally says. “But I think there’s more comfort in what we like. There’s kind of a settled feeling in the choices we make, and how we make choices. That’s probably just a result of having recorded a couple times before and just growing into the band that we are now.” Stadium Cake’s lush, layered sound indicates that some money went into its production. The album will be released via the respected indie labels Dualtone Records in the US and Barely Dressed/ Remote Control in Australia. However, the labels weren’t in the band’s ear during the album’s construction. “No one was on board at [that] stage,” Hally says. “We had a grant – I think it might’ve been the first one we’ve ever got – that helped record the album. But the album was recorded before anything else had been locked in. Sure, we had management on board and we had a producer, but there wasn’t that much pressure.” “It was more just the pressure from ourselves,” says Emmerichs. “We’d been making these EPs and preparing to record an album for a while at that stage, and then we found our producer and there was this big push of, ‘Oh, what other songs can we come up with?’ That was really our own pressure.” “We wanted to make the best debut album we can,” says Hally. “You only do it once.” Stadium Cake by OH PEP! is available on Friday July 1 via Barely Dressed/Remote Control Records.
Although he already had quite a following for his work in The Yardbirds since 1964, it was 1966’s John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton that really introduced Clapton to the world at large. Also known as The Beano Album because Clappers is reading a copy of Beano on the cover, it’s an album of blues standards and Clapton/Mayall originals that continually shows up in ‘top albums of all time’ lists. In celebration of the album’s 50th birthday a dedicated group of musicians will come together to perform the album at The Thornbury Theatre on Friday August 26. “I didn’t see anyone else putting together a show to celebrate it so I decided to do it,” says Leigh Maden from Palace Of The King, a die-hard Clapton fan who wanted to pay tribute to his hero. For Maden, the Clapton connection goes way back. “I picked up guitar when I was 12 or 13,” he explains. “The following year the guitar teacher at school was showing me a few chords when he said, ‘Oh you should learn this song Hideaway’, which is track two on the Blues Breakers record. It’s just great, spirited guitar playing. It really opened up the guitar for me and showed me how to link up different pentatonic licks and phrases. I discovered the rest of the album after that.”
From there Maden started to connect with other fans who also had their lives changed by the record. “It was the start for me, and the more people I talk to about this show, the more have a similar story,” he says. The lineup assembled for the evening includes heavy hitters of the Australian blues scene. “We’ve got Chris Wilson playing harmonica and singing. We’ve got Jimi Hocking singing and playing some guitar. I’ll be playing some of Clapton’s licks and a bit of rhythm guitar as well behind Jimi. We’ve got a great horn section lined up, and of course myself and Sean from Palace of the King.” “This kind of music doesn’t get a lot of
BROWN RIVER - LEAPS & BOUNDS OPENING NIGHT PARTY BACK IN BROWN RIVER AGAIN BY PETER HODGSON
There’s a great tradition of music capturing a sense of place. If you’ve spent time in California you’ll know that there’s a certain warm sunniness that translates into the music recorded there. You can hear it in Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors, for instance. Chicago has its blues, New York has its jazz and avant garde, Portland has its beards and acoustic guitars, Seattle had its grunge, Birmingham gave us metal. Melbourne, the mighty music city, is no exception.
Once upon a time it felt like you were either a Fitzroy band or a St Kilda band. There’s a pretty damn vibrant thing happening in the City of Yarra, as personified by Leaps & Bounds festival, where over 17 days and nights from Friday July 1 to Sunday July 17 there will be gigs, workshops, bus tours and a huge array of quality special events – all designed to give punters a unique and close up experience with all things Melbourne B E AT.C O M . A U
music. Now in its fourth year, the Leaps & Bounds Festival will celebrate its opening night with Brown River, a musical tribute to the local neighbourhood, held at The Gasometer Hotel. “Leaps & Bounds approached me because I’ve done a few other shows like this,” says curator Jon von Goes. “I did one down at Caravan Music Club which was called Stopping All Stations Except East
airplay in Australia so often the only way to discover it is for someone to turn you onto it,” he says. “The other thing that motivated me to put this together was that the Clapton lineup of the Bluesbreakers only existed for 12 months. I looked for footage of them playing and there is none. When you think about it only a couple of thousand Londoners in the ‘60s would have seen them play. If we can give even a taste of that visual, that’s good as well.” Much of Clapton’s appeal lies in his encyclopedic knowledge of the blues in its various forms from folk blues to blues rock and the variations that come out of Chicago, Texas and the Mississippi. Whatever your preference, there’s a Clapton album that pays tribute to it. “If you look to his later career he’s gone way back and done all that Robert Johnson stuff,” Maden says. “You could say this concert is a celebration of 50 years of Clapton in a way, because this was his breakthrough record. If you look through his entire career he’s had so many different ways of presenting the blues. And he was only 21, which is so young to be coming up with that kind of stuff.” BLUESBREAKERS WITH ERIC CLAPTON 50th ANNIVERSARY is happening at The Thornbury Theatre on Friday August 26. Tickets are available through Oztix.
Richmond, where we got a whole bunch of people to do songs about the suburbs of Melbourne. It always concluded with Skyhooks songs from as many Skyhooks as we could muster. Toorak Cowboy, Balwyn Calling, Lygon Street Limbo. They were great shows and I always liked that idea of Australians singing about where they come from, however unromantic some of the places may sound.” To an Australian, all those classic blues songs about the American South could feel alien and romantic, yet Paul Kelly singing about St Kilda and King’s Cross are our own kind of regional stories. “When I see old Australian men singing the blues about Louisiana and stuff it sounds so inauthentic it makes me shudder. And y’know, I’ve been to Galveston and it’s a dump, and how romantic does that song sound?” says von Goes. Like Leaps & Bounds itself, the night is a celebration of Melbourne, and a somewhat tongue-in-cheek one at that. “There has been a fair bit of stuff written about it being the artistic hub that it is, and as the years have gone on we’ve added other songs,” says von Goes. “For instance, we do a version of Moon River but call it Brown River. It just makes the whole event less earnest and in the end it’s just a big party, which is what you want if you’re going out.” The lineup features a range of local legends, many of whom are no strangers to singing about the local points of interest. “Mick Thomas has been with me from the start of this just because he referenced in his Weddings, Parties, Anything songs - and still does - the neighbourhood a lot,” says von Goes. “Also on the bill are Jemma Rowlands [ Jemma & The Clifton Hillbillies] and Lucy Dwyer [Lucy & The Diamonds] with a backing band, the Little Brown River Band. That features Bruce Haines on keyboards, Matt Earl from The Band Who Knew Too Much on the drums and Ed Bates on pedal steel.” BROWN RIVER - LEAPS & BOUNDS OPENING NIGHT PARTY is on at The Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood on Friday July 1. Tickets are $20 + booking fee or $25 on the door.
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Since dropping their daringly-different fifth album, Ire, this past September, Byron Bay’s primary export Parkway Drive have not shied away from sharing the album’s firebrand big-hitters on a global stage. From a sell-out national tour to a headlining spot at January’s Unify festival, Australian fans have gotten behind the band now more than ever before – even throwing them two positions in the coveted triple j Hottest 100 of 2015. Beyond that, they’ve been focusing on promoting Ire abroad, where they are growing a momentous following. Runs through the States and Europe earlier in the year proved fruitful, with the band playing to some of their biggest ever crowds. “Playing those massive festivals was such a wild experience for us,” says vocalist Winston McCall of appearances at Welcome To Rockville, Northern Rebellion and The River’s Rockfest. “There was such a massive audience out there – and I’m gonna guess that probably about 80 percent of them had never seen a Parkway show before. The reaction was so great. It was one of those things that really took you by surprise,” he says. “I don’t think we’ve ever had that much new ground to cover in years. We used the days off to play shows opening for A Day To Remember and do our own headlining shows, as well – we were only there for a relatively short amount of time, but it felt like a three-in-one. Every day was a different environment.” With dozens of songs in their catalogue to select from, it’s more difficult now than ever to balance out between all of the band’s releases, dating back to 2005’s Killing with a Smile. No one is more aware of this than McCall, who finds it’s best to adapt what the band will play depending on who they are playing to. “We’re trying to touch on everything,” he says. “We’re lucky that we have so many songs across our albums that go down so well in the live environment. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re trying to curate it as best as we possibly can. We’ll have a run of songs that we know will always work, some room for an old song and we even have a blacklist of songs that we’re never going to play. Those are the songs that we’ve played once and they ended up being a trainwreck – we don’t ever want to relive that moment again. Thankfully, there’s only a few that have made the blacklist.” A return to Europe is scheduled for August, and then it will be back to American soil in October for some more huge festivals. However, in the meantime the band have some serious shrimp on the barbie to fry here at home. As you read this the quintet are hurtling across the country on the Russell Coight-referencing All-Aussie Adventure tour. Far removed from the capital cities, the band are instead taking in places like Toowoomba, Wodonga, Bendigo and Wollongong – all, surprisingly enough, places they have played in the past on one of their several regional tours of Australia. Having grown up remote and regional themselves, McCall sees this as a chance to give back to the fans that have always had to travel for hours on end to see them in the city. “Our access to music was very limited when we were growing up,” he says. “That’s why it’s always been important to us to do these. I think the first regional tour we did was the second or third year of being a band, and it was all about providing a chance to see live music to areas that had none regularly coming through. When a show comes to town in a place like that, it’s about showing a sense of pride in your community and showing what your town has to offer. “I can remember the elation every time a band was coming to Byron when we were kids – we had to make sure that everyone was coming and that it was going to be wild. It was a chance for us to find out about local bands that we never knew about, and for us to make connections with people that we had no idea were into the same kind of music. I think tours like this strengthens the national music scene,” says McCall. So, what can people expect from a show on the All Aussie Adventure tour? With a laugh, McCall assures they won’t be trying to pack their pyro set-up into local community halls. “It’s going to be an adapted show,” he says. “We’re not going to try and set the place on fire or anything. We’ve made a commitment to try and make sure that we duplicate the visual effect of what we would do in a large venue, though. We want it to be equal to a show of any other size. We want this to be a show that can work in any environment. It’s a creative challenge, and we’re looking forward to meeting it on this run of shows. We’ve managed to overcome it so far.” PARKWAY DRIVE play the Chelsea Heights Hotel on Sunday July 3 and Monday July 4. Ire is out now via Resist Records/Epitaph.
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Melbourne’s Southbank is offering a taste of good old fashioned Southern hospitality this week to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Jack Daniel’s distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
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Billy Watts was four years old when he was invited on a special overseas holiday - joining his father, Cosmic Psychos guitarist Robbie Watts, on the legendary Australian band’s 1994 United States tour. “We ended up hiring a van and touring around America,” says Billy. “I think we went to about 48 states over six weeks.” It was only some years later when Robbie snuck his then 15-year-old son into a Psychos gig at the Apollo Bay Music festival that Billy got to witness his father playing in a live rock’n’roll band. While his dad’s music, and the music he loved, had been a constant soundtrack in the Watts household, witnessing it first hand sowed the seeds of Billy’s own eventual musical activities. “It was when I saw him play live that was probably when I started appreciating music and all that stuff,” Billy says. Tragically, Robbie Watts would suffer a heart attack barely a year later while on tour with the Cosmic Psychos. When Billy inherited Robbie’s guitar, he found himself drawn to the same musical traditions as his father. “I picked up his guitar and started playing it, just by ear,” Watts says. Billy agrees that getting more into music did help with the emotional healing process after his father’s death. “It was hard to learn to play guitar and watch footage of him at first, but it drove me to achieve something. He was world renowned [from] touring overseas, so it opened my eyes to doing that. Over time I decided to start my own bands and build my own experience,” Billy says. By the end of high school Billy had started jamming with friends, as well as joining his father’s former band mates on stage at the occasional show. “At that point in time Cosmic Psychos were a big inspiration on my guitar playing. When I started playing with them I’d only been playing for about a year, and some of these shows were sold out shows at the Espy, The Tote, even the very first show I played with them in Castlemaine,” Watts says. Prior to joining the band, Robbie had played bass in the infamous St Kilda punk troupe I Spit On Your Gravy, fronted by the irrepressible Fred Negro. “Because of my age I never got a chance to see I Spit On Your Gravy play or experience the full punk scene, but I know they were a pretty legendary band,” says Billy. “They were pretty out there, which you can guess from Fred Negro’s Pub strip – he’s a pretty out there sort of guy. There were always I Spit On Your Gravy photos in the photo albums at home, as well as Cosmic Psychos.” Billy did, however, get the chance to watch his father playing banjo on the steps of BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34
Flinders Street station, where he’d busk for some cash, and then take his children out to lunch. “He was actually very, very good at playing banjo, and he loved busking, so he’d take us all down to Flinders Street station. For half an hour he’d busk and then he’d take the kids out for lunch with the money he’d made,” says Billy. “He did it as a hobby, not because he needed the money.” On Friday July 1, Billy’s new three-piece band Destrends will headline a tribute show to Robbie Watts, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his death. Also on the bill will be his first band, The Dukes of Deliciousness, and the first live performance in 15 years – and possibly the last ever – of I Spit on Your Gravy. The idea for the show came from conversations between Billy and his mother; one thing led to another, and a full bill of bands was developed. “Because I’m a musician, I thought I could easily put together a few bands. I started asking a few bands, then I asked I Spit On Your Gravy, which was a bit of a long shot,” Billy says. After the punk legends did the rock equivalent of putting the issue to committee – that is, talking about it without coming to a conclusion – Billy had to hassle them into making a decision. “Nothing was getting organised, so I said ‘are you going to do it, or not?’, and they said they’d do it, it’d be the last show in honour of dad,” Watts says. “They haven’t played for such a long time, so I don’t know how it’s going to go. But I’m sure they’ll pull it together.” As for Fred Negro’s onstage antics – which over the years have included violating rubber chickens and a raft of other confronting acts that you still can’t show on prime time television, Billy isn’t sure. “There’s been a lot of talk about that,” Billy says. “They’ve got a few plans, but I can’t give any of them away. [In] some of the Gravys songs Fred plays drums, but he’s done his back so he won’t be able to. He’ll be out the front with The Spittettes, but I don’t know what else.” ROBBIE ‘ROCKET’ WATTS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW is happening at The Tote on Friday July 1 as part of Leaps & Bounds. Tickets are available via Oztix.
Home to the world’s most popular sour mash, the Lynchburg distillery is the sole producer of the fine export and today holds 2.3 million barrels of whiskey in 88 barrel houses. No matter where you are in the world, if you order a JD you can expect the same taste and quality that businessman and founder Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel intended more than seven generations ago. At this week long event a pop-up replica of Jack Daniel’s Barrel House will serve perfectly crafted drinks and a menu of Southern American cuisine, courtesy of San Antone by Bludso’s BBQ. These refreshments will be complemented with a program of live music including some of Australia’s premier acts like Furnace and The Fundamentals. The high energy Sydney band will be sure to have revelers up and dancing to their repertoire of modern pop medleys and mash-ups. Taking time away from their national Hot Dub Time Machine tour, the busy six-piece say they couldn’t miss this one of a kind event. “We’re really looking forward to it,” said frontman Furnace, AKA Elliot Crane. “Although we’re travelling around the country at the moment, we’ve been working on creating a bigger and better production for our live shows. We really want to fine tune things, and we’re definitely going to bring everything we’ve got to the Jack Daniel’s Barrel House.” Playing a healthy mix of chart topping hits from Foster the People, Blur, Daft Punk, Arctic Monkeys, Grouplove, Adele and The Black Keys, their set will also include a nod to the greats of generations past, such as The Clash, Queen, Paul Simon, Billy Haley and The Comets, Chuck Berry and
The Beatles. While they plan to bring their A game onstage, don’t be surprised if you see Crane and the boys indulging in the cuisine and beverages. “I’ve never been to the South but I’m expecting a big hearty meal,” said the singer. “If I’m out and I want a bit of energy I’ll always have a JD with some Coca-Cola. Caffeine and sugar, they go really well together. Otherwise I just enjoy it on the rocks when I’m at home, I like being able to
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Melbourne psychedelic rockers Greenthief have just released their second album, Tremors. After a long and arduous process, frontman Julian Schweitzer admits to feeling a strong sense of relief now the record is completed and out there in the world. “It was a big and scattered process, but all in all I’m really stoked with it,” Schweitzer says. “I think it’s marked an honest place and time for us, for what it represents and where we’re at. I couldn’t be happier. “We started tracking it maybe a year and a half ago. We did all these takes, and during that process we got a new drummer. I think we went in a bit early. We listened back when it was getting mixed and it just wasn’t gelling as well as we’d hoped. So we deleted the whole thing and started again from B E AT.C O M . A U
scratch,” he says. After much re-working and re-thinking, the band’s second recording attempt yielded more satisfying results. “Most of the songs changed. It turned out to be a different record, which is cool, and I think it came out stronger as a result of the restart,” says Schweitzer. “But it was definitely one of those processes where, by the time we’d got there, we were definitely ready to get it done.” Not only did the three-piece scratch
taste the subtle flavours.” Local crowd favourites The Little JC Big Band, and The Tarantinos, who are known for their surf, blues, soul, rockabilly and country vibes, will also play. Other names on the bill include ‘Australia’s greatest rockabilly delinquent’ Pat Capocci, Melbourne music veterans Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, The Immortal Silver Cornet Band, and local jazz heroes Shirazz, who will have their very own dancers in tow. For those who are looking to warm their bones against the winter chill, punters can try rockabilly dance lessons courtesy of Limpin’ Jimmy & the Swingin’ Kittens. After you’ve learnt some moves you ca hit the dance floor as Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos), Matt Frederick (PBS 106.7), Andras Fox and Oscar Key Sung will be playing DJ sets. JACK DANIEL’S BARREL HOUSE runs from now until Sunday June 3 on the Crown Riverwalk, Southbank.
those entire initial sessions and start over, but the finished product was eventually recorded across several locations using a variety personnel. “We used lots of different studios with different people mixing and engineering it,” he says. “One of the tracks was recorded a year ago in Brisbane as a single. Then we did two songs with a producer by the name of Steve Schram, which were both released as singles in the lead up to the the album coming out. Then there was lots of different people mixing - I think about four different people mixed the record.” Ultimately, Schweitzer feels the long and disparate process in the lead up made the record what it is today. “There was a lot of faith in the mastering that it would glue the whole thing together, and I think it did, but I think it’s a scattered record, and not necessarily in a bad way. It just comes back to what I originally said - it marks a moment in time for what it is. I’m not embarrassed or ashamed to say that.” Despite the diffuse nature of the recording and mixing of the album, the reaction to the music and its diverse content has been decidedly positive. “We’ve had heaps of cool feedback. Critics have seen that there’s a lot of variety on the record. I think someone referred to us as like being in a food court, where you can pick and choose your favourite food,” says Schweitzer. “I’ve always liked records that do that. I think there’s been a lot of transition within the band, like when I moved down to Melbourne three years ago. New lineup, new people to play with, and the record reflects that.” The band is about to kick off an extensive national tour this Friday in Hobart and Schweitzer can’t wait. “It’s lots of familiar venues that we dig playing at, so I’m really really pumped for this tour.” GREENTHIEF play Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday July 2 with Heads of Charm and The Hidden Venture. Tremors is out now via MGM.
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With an energy and kindness that coats his every word, indigenous Australian musician Scott Darlow is an instantly engaging man to talk with. The singer, guitarist and didgeridoo player had a radio hit earlier this year with his Australia Day cover of Goanna’s Solid Rock, which celebrated Australia’s rich multiculturalism. His new single Down Like Flies, the second from his upcoming sixth album, continues the theme.
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Ten years is a lifetime in pop music. If we’re being realistic, it’s several lifetimes. In that sense, The Veronicas are pretty much invincible. Popstars who live by trends tend to stall by trends, and while not impervious to any musical zeitgeists – even when teaming up with megaproducers such as Max Martin – The Veronicas have by and large either crested those waves or set their own path entirely. Their current merch range includes jumpers emblazoned with ‘THE VERONICAS STILL EXIST?’, showing a wry selfawareness in tune with many of the US’s current pop idols, but the sense of irony is emboldened by their indelible Aussie charm. In My Blood, their new song shows hints of EDM anthemia, anchored by a sense of intimacy. It’s a divide that The Veronica’s have effortlessly bridged since their breakthrough, that knack for massive hooks, while still connecting on a personal level. As we sit in a lobby café along Melbourne’s Yarra, Lisa and Jess, resting their takeaway coffee cups, generate perpetual energy from each other. It’s beyond the telepathic sense of finishing each other’s sentences, each passionate response hitting the mark like scripted beats. “As far as music we’ve been listening to, we’ve been listening to a lot of old school Kylie, Grimes, Elle Goulding, Tove Lo, and DJs like Peking Duk, Alison Wonderland, Yahtzel,” Jess says. “I think that we were trying to create something that had an electronic feel. But the way we write, that comes from personal stories.” Lisa adds, “Lyrically, it does tend to be emotively deeper and darker in a lot of ways, that’s just what we do. That’s who The Veronicas are. But we have been inspired by that kind of music, and it’s been so much fun melding the two together.” The track is the first taste of a yet to be detailed new album, marking a slight shift of modus operandi. “The main approach when writing this record has been us wanting each song to feel a certain way, then deciding what the song is about from that feeling,” says Jess. “With this track, it was that feeling of falling in love with someone at first sight. We wrote that story because we’ve had those experiences and just pulled from that.” “It’s been a fun, different way of writing this record for us,” says Lisa. “We have started with the music first rather than the lyrics. We let the music guide the lyrics this time around.” The Veronicas are versatile in their ability to traverse between heartfelt balladry and communal pop shout-alongs, or in the case of In My Blood, somewhere in between. It’s a versatility that comes from a genuine passion for the power of music and its ability to conjure meaning. “We hope what people get out of the music is that it moves them in some way,” says Lisa. “Whether it’s a song that someone
puts on before a night out, or whether it is their dancefloor anthem, or it is that heartbreak song when they’re going through something. That’s how we use music. Music should be the soundtrack to your life at that very moment, a snapshot of that. That’s the kind of music we try to create.” Popstardom is a funny notion, especially in the relatively small pond of Australia. “The first time I actually felt like a popstar was when we were up on stage at the ARIAs with Tina Arena, thinking ‘We’re on stage with an absolute musical legend.’ And she was there inviting us to sing beside her,” says Lisa. “We were so proud.” “We get so immersed in the music that we don’t really think of the public perception of us, to the point where we go out and still get shocked that people will recognise us, or want a photo with us, and we regret wearing our pyjamas to the grocery store,” says Jess. The landscape for the music industry, particularly that of the pop music world, has undergone dramatic changes since The Veronicas came into existence. But they’ve managed to adapt. “We’ve never really been rewarded musically for being on trend. When we released Untouched, it was hard to get it on radio. We had to beg everyone because it didn’t have guitars,” says Jess. Lisa pantomimes, “‘It’s too dance, it’s too electronic’.” “Australia led a little bit because we’ve always had a heavy dance following. The US and UK were ‘no, no, no’, until eventually they did, and it went fucking crazy,” Jess says. “It was a little ahead of its time, though,” adds Lisa. “Because we have been rewarded in being adventurous and risk-taking, that’s always what we’ve wanted to do,” reasons Jess. “I think we’re always gonna carve our own path. Because we’re twins, we’re always going to cheer each other on in whatever we cook up, whatever we dream up,” Lisa says. “If you’re a solo artist, you’re always looking for other people’s opinions. Because we have each other, we can just say ‘that sounds great’ and it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. Having said that, we’re loving where pop music is at currently.” “We’re more inspired than ever…” Lisa says, giving a slight pause for Jess to complete her sentence, in true twin style. “…about where you can take pop music.” THE VERONICAS’ new single In My Blood is out now via Sony Music.
When speaking about his convictions and songwriting process, Darlow mentions little moments of clarity that helped him reevaluate the way he lived his life. When his father passed away at 57 from alcoholism, he realised time was a precious currency, and decided to spend his wisely. “I thought, ‘what am I passionate about, what really matters?’ and to me, that’s my people,” says Darlow. “How do I do that? The only thing I’m good at is communicating. I talk, sing and write songs.” Darlow’s decision to help his people, coupled with his background in teaching, now sees him speaking to aboriginal children in schools and prisons. Instead of spelling or algebra, he now speaks about Australian indigenous history and culture. This work took him to Banksia Hill Detention Centre in Western Australia. The children there live in five by three metre cells, and are in lockdown from 7pm to 7am. Darlow says the youths are often there because they deliberately offend, preferring the prison to their often abusive home lives. Disturbed by the plight of these kids, and the fact that Aboriginal people are ten times more likely to be imprisoned than to finish high school, Darlow wrote Down Like Flies. The song is a plea to his people to take their own affirmative action to change their circumstances. “Those are lyrics I’m singing to my own
people, saying if we wait around for governments or politicians, we’ll be waiting forever,” says Darlow. “So let’s be strong, proud individuals who take action in our own communities. The grass is greener, and we as a people deserve better than we’re currently accepting.” Down Like Flies is an upbeat guitar driven rock track, which is in contrast to its bleak inspiration. There is a depth and earnest emotion to the lyrics, and the song is thought provoking in all the right ways. Darlow gracefully walks the fine line between poignant and heavy-handed, delivering emotions with clichés, and
MUSIC VICTORIA: GOOD MUSIC NEIGHBOURS D O I N G
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It’s no secret the Australian live music industry is in a major state of flux. In the last two years, discussions about noise restrictions, neighborhood gentrification and the closing of venues have leapt into the limelight. Amongst these debates, possible lifelines for Australia’s changing music industry have been few and far between. Fortunately for the denizens of Victoria, one extremely practical solution has emerged from the woodwork: Music Victoria’s ‘Good Music Neighbours’ program. In a nutshell, GMN is a grant awards program, wherein music venues can apply for a matched funding grant of up to $25,000 dollars to put towards ‘proactive sound management solutions.’ It’s an umbrella term that covers anything from hiring an acoustic consultant, designer, or sound engineer, or sound proofing installation. It’s an awesome initiative, and as we creep closer to the July application window for W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
this year, Beat decided to catch up with Music Victoria’s Operations and Program Manager, Nick Cooper to discuss the program. “The project originally came from a combination of interested industry players. For a long time Music Victoria has been advocating for everyone within the music industry, and as you can probably imagine, venues are one of the major players we deal with,” says Cooper. “We’re lucky having a really proactive state government, so it was all in cooperation with them, the venues, and a bunch of interested stakeholders.
imagery sans bad metaphors. There is no bitterness in his music, rather a story of hope for his people. The didgeridoo, which features on the track, is arguably one of the most underutilised instruments in rock music. The musician not only sings and plays guitar live, but also plays the didgeridoo. However, this is not a gimmick by any means. “We don’t put it in every song,” says Darlow. “We don’t use it as a tokenistic thing, it’s artistic. It has to fit.” The talented musician’s instrumental capabilities date back to his childhood in the Salvation Army church. “I can’t explain it. Music has always just been the thing I can do. Someone gave me a didgeridoo, and I could just do it. I could play it and I loved it,” he says. The accompanying video to Down Like Flies supports his message that people are often a victim of a circumstance beyond their control. The comments section of the clip is filled with messages from children he’s spoken to at schools, who have searched for his music after being touched by his stories of hope, change, and true reconciliation. “I find that when I tell stories, it not only educates, but it allows empathy. And empathy is the thing that will change a person’s heart, that can cause people to change behaviour that has been ingrained for years,” says Darlow. SCOTT DARLOW’S Down Like Flies is available now via iTunes.
We want to grow the music scene and our audiences as much as we can. It’s a program specifically designed to help venues in Victoria keep their doors open through responsible sound management.” It’s a project that has come about after a great deal of discussion, and the unfortunate loss of several iconic Melbourne venues, but it does offer a balanced solution. “The simplistic way to look at it is that people want to move to a suburb because of what it offers. In many areas, that includes artistic endeavours and specifically live music. It’s not a new issue, but it’s something that’s finally being recognised and dealt with responsibly by way of a really practical funding program,” says Cooper. “It’s been specifically designed to help give venues which might not have the time, resources or expertise to deal with sound management a leg up.” It’s a program that many businesses have enquired to Music Victoria about. These have included traditional venues, such as bars, pubs, and even recording studios, as well as some that are a little more unorthodox. “We’ve spoken to dozens and dozens of venues. At the moment we’re providing a lot of information, which is all on the Music Victoria, and the Creative Victoria website. It’s open to anyone who thinks they’re a live music venue, and even some who might not traditionally think so. For instance I visited my first church today,” says Cooper. “They have a really strong contemporary live music offering, so we’re trying to work out if they’re eligible. There’s some great diversity in the venues. As far as I’m concerned Melbourne is already one of the great music cities, but programs like this will help ensure it becomes the premier city in the world for live music.” You can apply for the GOOD MUSIC NEIGHBOURS grant funding between Monday July 4 and Wednesday July 13. For more information, including the times for information evenings in Melbourne and Geelong, visit the Music Victoria website. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 35
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The new Nails album You Will Never Be One Of Us is out now and it absolutely shreds. The cult hype is justified and everyone should get amongst it. Marshall stacks turned up to 11 with no subtlety or holding back to speak of. There’s less of a grindcore influence than their previous releases but the band has sacrificed nothing in the sonic brutality department. They’re easily one of the best bands in modern hardcore/metal. Promoters should definitely feel free to organise an Australian tour, that’d go down a treat. Take it from me: it’s badarse. Legendary Sydney skate punks Hellmenn have announced the release of a new 7” EP consisting of unreleased material recorded between 1987 and 1992. It is available now from Buttercup Records as a limited run of 300 hand numbered copies. The release also
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was an elaborate production and audio visual experience which received rave reviews. Early 2015 saw the release of the concept album Hand. Cannot. Erase. - a mesmerising, labyrinthine tale hewn from a vivid blend of fact and fiction. Catch him at 170 Russell on Friday October 28. Tickets METAL, HEAVY ROCK. CLASSIC ROCK LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL available at tombowler.com.au GOOD SHIT with PETER HODGSON crunchcolumn@gmail.com
ACE OF SPADES AT WHO CLUB
Motörhead tribute band Ace of Spades are playing at the Who Club in Warburton on Saturday July 2 with Alice In Chains tribute Alice Remains, their first with new guitarist Matto Carroll. The band has plenty more gigs on the horizon, including their first birthday in October where they’ll be playing the classic No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith album in full.
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Grammy nominated gosh-darned musical genius Steven Wilson returns to Australia in October for a run of shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. His last visit in 2013
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RE-LIVE WACKEN
‘Louder than hell’ and ‘rain or shine’ are both Wacken Open Air festival slogans. It is a great festival that will return to enlighten 75,000 metalheads having the time of their summer. Live At Wacken 2015 – 26 Years Louder Than Hell will be released on Friday August 5 - just in time for this year’s festival. The CD and DVD include Judas Priest, In Flames, Annihilator, Danko Jones, Uli Jon Roth, Death Angel, Sabaton, Europe, Armored Saint, Cannibal Corpse, My Dying Bride, Europe, Cradle Of Filth plus newcomers like Beyond The Black. It’s available in 2 DVD/2 CD DVD Digipack, 2 Blu-Ray / 2CD BR-Digipack, Standard Digital Audio (35 tracks) and Longform Video.
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comes with a free bonus temporary tattoo. Long running metallic hardcore rock’n’rollers Every Time I Die have announced the release of their upcoming eighth studio album. Entitled Low Teens, the album is due for release Friday September 23, with first single The Coin Has a Say out now. Preorders are available via Epitaph Records. Rapper and actor Ice-T’s long-running and controversial band Body Count have announced their recent signing to Century Media Records and plans for a new album. It will be their first since 2014’s well-received comeback Manslaughter. Boston MA hardcore grinders Trap Them have announced the upcoming release of their fifth studio LP. Entitled Crown Feral, the album was recorded with longanother track from their forthcoming album Periphery III: Select Difficulty, which is released on Friday July 22. “Periphery III: Select Difficulty is finally complete and we’re extremely excited to show everyone,” guitarist Jake Bowen says. “For the past couple of years we’ve been refining our collaborative process as a band and we feel that it’s only getting better with the completion of this album. We spent two months writing songs that are not only representative of the Periphery sound but also reflect where all of us are as musicians, working together has helped us tread new ground musically and creatively.”
NE OBLIVISCARIS DRUM PLAYTHROUGH VIDEO
Ne Obliviscaris drummer Dan Presland has released a killer drum play through video of the band’s track Painters of the Tempest. Taken from the Australian dark progressive legend’s latest full-length, Citadel, the clip is streaming at Dan’s official YouTube channel.
NEW WHITECHAPEL VIDEO
Whitechapel has released their sixth fulllength, Mark of the Blade, via Metal Blade/
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time collaborator Kurt Ballou, known for his production work and as a guitarist in Converge. Crown Feral is due for release this Spring via Prosthetic Records
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Hardcore sludge masters Neurosis have announced the release of a new full length LP. Entitled Fires Within Fires, the album is due out on Friday September 23 via the band’s own Neurot Recordings. Neurosis have recently celebrated their 30th year as a band with shows in the US and Europe.
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At the Drive-In have cancelled a series of dates on their current US tour citing issues with lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s voice. With several dates in Europe and an Australian tour next month still running, it’s yet unclear what the extent of BixlerZavala’s vocal damage has been. Rocket Distribution, accompanied by a video for the track Elitist Ones directed by Jim Foster. “As fans of Whitechapel, my entire team and I were stoked when Mike Faley [Metal Blade Records] asked me to write a treatment and direct for the band,” says Foster. “As a director, my job is always easier when the band is rippin’...and holy shit are these guys rippin’”
DENNER/SHERMANN RELEASE ‘SON OF SATAN’ VIDEO
Denner/Shermann - yes, that’s Michael Denner and Hank Shermann of Mercyful Fate - are back with Masters of Evil, a crushing new album that continues right where the 2015 EP Satan’s Tomb left off. They’ve also unleashed a video for the track Son Of Satan. Based loosely on the movie The Omen, the song and video deliver an ominous dose of heavy metal music and imagery. “We chose this song to be the first video because musically, it is a song that really captures the entire essence of what this band is becoming,” Denner says. “The lyrics are also very vivid, and it fills your imagination with dark, sinister images and visions that [the] director captured perfectly.”
HIBERNATE, MERE WOMEN, PALM SPRINGS, KARLI WHITE, DJ AMBIGUOUS UTOPIA AT THE OLD BAR ROBBIE “ROCKET” WATTS 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW FEAT. I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY, DESTRENDS, ABERRATION, DUKES OF DELICIOUSNESS AND POPPIN’ MOMMAS AT THE TOTE PITT THE ELDER, FEAR LIKE US, DAYBREAK, TIRED BREEDS, SWEET GOLD, ILL CAPONE AT THE BENDIGO HOTEL CERES, MAX QUINN’S ONOMATOPENIS, JESS LOCKE AT THE WORKERS CLUB
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LEAPS AND BOUNDS FEST: WHISK AND KEY 3RD ANNVERSARY FEAT. STRATHMORE, DEL LAGO, SUBURBAN AND COKE, TRASH BEARS, NEW LOW, SUICIDE TUESDAYS, TIGER CAN SMILE, HYDER SEEK, HEATH ANTONY, JAY WARS, DJ JOSH SEYMOUP AT THE OLD BAR HITS, JAMES MCCANN AND THE NEW VINDICTIVES, CABLE TIES AT THE TOTE T.H.U.G, PLAN OF ATTACK, BULLDOG SPIRIT, THOSE RAT BASTARDS, ROGUES, IMPACT ZONE AT THE BENDIGO HOTEL THE BENNIES, CLOWNS, AXE GIRL, BOMBS ARE FALLING AT THE VILLAGE GREEN
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In its six years of existence, Bedroom Suck Records has come to embody what it means to be independent and innovative in the Australian music scene. Run by all round
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nice guy and drumming extraordinaire Joe Alexander, the label is home to some of the most unassuming, genuinely talented people making music at the moment. Opening the night is Pillow Pro, who invite the audience into their world of ambient infused R&B and self described “lounge lux beats for the bedroom”. The duo are completely in sync, from their matching outfits down to their seamless harmonies, displaying the kind of intimacy that could never be forced. Up next is Childsaint who have travelled from Western Australia to make their east coast debut. Playing with a quiet conviction the band make a strong
impression with their shoegaze inspired sound and overall cohesiveness. Lower Plenty bring things down a touch with their melancholy set, playing songs from their much loved back catalogue alongside new songs due to be released on an album later in the year. The band are reserved on stage apart from a few smirks shared between band members, but still captivate with their sparse arrangements and emotive lyricism. In stark contrast Terrible Truths transfer their uncontained energy to the crowd, cramming as many of their blistering anthems into the half an hour set. Their live
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shows are always edge of your seat affairs characterised by an intense rhythm section complimented perfectly by Stacey Wilson and Rani Rose’s intimidating vocals. Totally Mild wrap things up with their glorious signature sound that combines lead singer Liz Mitchell’s blissful vocals and wonderfully melodic guitars. Their music glides at a pace that sits perfectly in the middle of upbeat and downtempo, making it easy enough to get a good sway going without feeling overly conscious of any poorly timed dance moves. Above all there’s a real sense that Bedroom Suck is more than just a record label.
Alexander has established an amazing community that serves as a platform for all kinds of sonic and artistic experiments each unique in their intrigue. A showcase to celebrate his achievements every year is certainly warranted. LOVED: That each band were a highlight. HATED: Not getting cash out to buy merch. DRANK: Expensive wine to reach the EFTPOS minimum. BY HOLLY PEREIRA
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THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE FRIDAY JUNE 24
2016 RECLINK COMMUNITY CUP ELSTERNWICK PARK SUNDAY JUNE 26
As representatives of both the Megahertz and Rockdogs descended from the clouds via parachute, touching down in the centre square to great ovation, the stage was officially set for another Reclink Community Cup. The event, held in support of Reclink Australia and their mission to provide and promote sport programs, as well as art programs, for disadvantaged people, looked set to be the biggest yet. The teams duked it out in cold, dewy conditions, on an overcast day that forever threatened rain. Unfortunately for the players, it had rained recently enough for a puddle to form into the forward pocket of the Glenhuntly Road end of Sportscover Arena. A huge marking contest culminated in a giant splash, and a collective, empathetic groan from the crowd. For the players, there was no choice but to embrace the scrappy affair and get their hands dirty. Chris Gill’s commitment to the contest early on proved superb, the Megahertz gun among the first to earn muddy buttocks for his trouble. His efforts were bested only by Mikey Cahill, whose miraculous diving mark on the wing earned widespread adulation. Ultimately, through Cahill, the Rockdogs managed to manufacture a major upset and draw first blood. Fellow Rockdog Angus Ingram would later deliver a precision pass to Spiderbait’s Kram, who lined up for a goal right on the quartertime siren. The resulting goal meant that the Rockdogs had a 10-point lead into quarter time. From there onwards, the plucky bunch of musicians were never seriously challenged. Though their endeavour shone through, the Megahertz simply coughed up too many opportunities. Their opponents easily intercepted each surge forward, feasting upon uncontested marks. On the rebound, the Rockdogs were ruthless too, demonstrating great poise in difficult
conditions to notch up 5.1 at halftime. As the Rockdogs’ control of the game tightened, random shenanigans stole the spotlight. Junktime arrived early when the game’s first streaker jumped the fence to follow the action up close. Meanwhile, an on-field sausage sizzle based in the Megahertz’ forward pocket earned a few laughs, players only too happy to take part in the custom. Paul Satur was arguably the Megahertz best player on a challenging day, owning the corridor and providing some much needed spark. The Megahertz also boasted a lightning quick ball magnet in Sam Cummins, who had a strong showing in the second half. Ultimately, though, the Rockdogs easily avenged last year’s loss, 10.3.63 to 4.6.30. Patrons were not treated to a particularly thrilling spectacle, the end result presumed with confidence early. However, those that stuck around until the end were handsomely rewarded, with Regurgitator teaming up with Dan Sultan and Waleed Aly for a cover of Purple Rain. Overall, the event proved a huge success, drawing charitable punters in seemingly record numbers. The day itself, though, concealed a second important cause. If you’ve paid close attention to social media of late, you may have noticed a swell of support for community radio. People have been desperately campaigning to procure funding to save the platform, hoping to #keepcommunityradio. Fittingly, just a week out from a federal election, the Reclink Community Cup doubled as a huge demonstration of support. It emphasised, at such a critical juncture, the power of community spirit, as well as the great things that people with shared passions can accomplish. One can only hope that it is noticed and that community radio is enabled to thrive going forward. LOVED: The return of the punniest food truck in existence, Chippy Chippy Bang Bang. HATED: The cold. The slightest breeze proved brutal every time. DRANK: Hot chocolate. BY NICK MASON
Walking into the Athenaeum Theatre, there was a sense of midnight mystery in the air. The regal venue would soon play host to Melbourne’s own The Paper Kites and their new twelvefour theatrical show. Sydney quartet I Know Leopard arrived onstage surrounded by the synth sounds. Halving the lead role, Luke O’Loughlin and Jenny McCullagh’s vocal arrangements were amplified throughout the theatre. McCullagh soon impressed with her violinplaying skills while O’Loughlin burst with energy behind the mic. Maintaining a moving rhythm and rich textures produced by an extensive instrument collection, I Know Leopard encompassed everything fun about electro-pop. An immediate change of pace, The Paper Kites’ intro embraced the sombre sounds of the city streets – cars, police sirens and footsteps. The Melbourne band stood around a single microphone and Sam Bentley began playing the acousticallydriven, Tenenbaum. As if the harmonises created by the five singers weren’t enough for our heighten emotions, the first of four window projections soon began. The visuals depicted a dispute between an outraged couple in an apartment setting. Halycon introduced a second guitar and storyline; a male artist in black overalls sat painting, as the woman from the first scene was left alone in her living room. Taking their places on stage for Turns Within Me, Turns Without Me, the band were in fine form under the dimmed blue and yellow lights, whilst the two opposing stories ran above them. After the group splattered Paint over the audience, Sam Bentley told them he’d be taking a break from talking to create a certain atmosphere for the show. Perhaps the most moving picture of all was the fourth. A couple performed a stunning contemporary dance routine in a pinkwashed bedroom against Too Late. An intricate instalment, The Paper Kites offered up a work of art rather than a typical concert. Turning down the lights, the room was silent and still. The Melbourne artists performed Tin Lover, Arms and Kiss The Grass in the darkness and the twilight theatre was drenched in utter romance. Flipping the light switch and kicking it up a notch, fan favourites Electric Indigo and Photos by Jaz Meadows Revelator Eyes saw the painter go home with a woman. Unfortunately, the love story didn’t even last the length of the beautiful Bleed Confusion. The four stories came to a close with A Silent Cause and The Mortal Boy King. The party ended, the painter painted, the dancers danced and the couple made up. Closing the show with the beloved Bloom, The Paper Kites knew exactly what their audience wanted and played right into their hand. A truly touching experience, their Melbourne performance was an amazing installation that had their hometown audience’s emotions soaring higher than ever.
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Even the coldest day of year, snowing in some non alpine regions of the state, couldn’t put a dampener on The Living End’s last show on the Melbourne leg of The Shift Tour. Luckily, the sold out Forum was heated and the beer was flowing. The 131s are a newly formed Melbourne punk group. Seeming chuffed to be there, the sleeve disliking boys arrived on stage, ready to warm up the frostbite riddled crowd. Lead singer Luke Yeoward has a near perfect voice for this level of punk, gritty enough that you believe he’s lived through some shit, yet also melodic enough to give the songs real emotional power. By the end of the set the guys had the crowd chanting along, well and truly won over. Adelaide boys Bad//Dreems took to the stage and, after letting table 54 know their chips were ready, the familiar sounds of new single Hiding To Nothing started up. Not really knowing what to expect from
these guys really made them all the more impressive to see. With the audience decidedly warmed up by now, it was time to welcome the reason everyone had braved the cold in the first place. On tour to promote their latest album Shift, The Living End kicked things off with their new single Monkey, quickly followed by the much older hit Second Solution. “It’s been nearly 20 years, don’t pretend you don’t know the words,” joked lead singer and guitarist Chris Cheney. Through the course of the set the boys pulled out a widespread mix of tunes from their vast discography. There were lesser known tracks like Hold Up and all time classics like West End Riot and Uncle Harry. No matter if you’re a diehard fan or a casual one, The Living End always deliver incredible high-energy shows. LOVED: The almost riot that broke out in the pit during Prisoner of Society. HATED: Lack of VB related guitar antics. DRANK: and drank and drank. BY CASSIE HEDGER
LOVED: My sister singing Celine Dion to me during the breaks. HATED: Not being able to sing along in the silence. DRANK: Lemonade. BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
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Oh Pep!’s Stadium Cake is a jingle jangle good old time. The album is dipped in intricate indie folk instrumentals and duo female vocal performance. The twelve track record is another homerun for the pair and proves that pop doesn’t have to come in the form of a cookie-cutter dance anthem. Bushwick introduces an enjoyable banjo line and a soft, subtle vocal. Characteristic of their adored style, Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs soon encourage a boogie with their multi-layered percussion backing. Also featured on the album are guitars, violins, mandolin and double bass. Hally’s performance is as compelling as it is pleasant. Wanting is a tale of a power struggle in which she sings, “You don’t learn how to breathe, breathing happens naturally/I didn’t learn how to say ‘no, you just can’t have it your way all the time’.” Crazy Feels sees the duo utilising traditional elements to recreate modern day synth effects for a song soaked in romance. The addition of an acoustic guitar adds a much needed coating, while Doctor Doctor benefits from a climatic drum section.
Taking a turn towards country, Trouble Now is a beautiful ballad about making a quick getaway. Oh Pep! continue to land right in between genres and ensure they are prepared to appeal to a variety of audiences. Sitting down for some Tea, Milk & Honey, listeners will be greeted by a string arrangement that is complimented with gorgeous guitar tones and a tantalising tambourine. Only Everyone is bolder than others on the album, kicking things up a notch with a kick drum and ticking electric guitar riff. In contrast, The Situation and Happenstance use daring and dynamic instrumental structures. Oh Pep! has constructed a killer release, between their refined harmonies and down home sound, the duo has outdone themselves. BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON
“Listen buddy if Texas seceded it would be the greatest fucking country on earth and don’t you forget it” – a thing a Texan musician once said to me, unprovoked.
SCOTDRAKULA Skeleton Fever (Independent) A slow-burn of an arm-in-arm anthem, Skeleton Fever never overcooks it while achieving a grand sense of space. It embraces simple melody, whirling together disjointed guitar and organ, transforming sadness into victory. Never truly explodes, but it stokes the coals.
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1. Almost Here ALICE IVY 2. Happy In Your Head CERES 3. Hallucinate GL 4. The Absolute JACKSON DYER 5. Bitter Leaf LANKS 6. Shades ALExANDRA SAVIOR 7. Faufile CHARLOTTE CARDIN 8. Melt JONES 9. Parachute KAISER CHIEFS 10. Love And Hate MICHAEL KIWANUKA
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COOL SOUNDS
WITCH HATS
MICK HARVEY
DANCE MOVES (Deaf Ambitions)
DELIVERANCE (Behind The Beat Records)
Ten years ago Witch Hats held court in the smoke, piss and vomit stained environs of Pony, banging out bruising gothic punk melodies and spitting invective against the office bearers of the Alphington Junior Football Club. At the time the prospect of them writing a song that sounded like The Go-Betweens would have been as incongruous as Bobbie Gillespie donning a Hawaiian shirt and fronting The Beach Boys. Yet, lo and behold, here it is - Religious Sickness, the third track off the band’s belated new record, Deliverance. It’s sweet, jaunty, and unashamed pop sensibility is buffed ever so slightly by the occasional jagged guitar lick and thundering bass line. But save for the equally poppy Peeperman – a pun-ish sequel to Pepperman from their debut EP – Deliverance is the logical quantum leap you’d hope and expect. Weekend Holocauster spits and snarls like a Wipers-inspired punk philosophical rant on the detritus of modern society. Trying to Forget is dark and threatening, with a surprising outro of soft sand pop. Child in the Ceiling is ‘70s FM radio rock with an acidic bite. The title track is an intense trip down the river into intriguing musical territory, played out against the contrasting scenery of early 80s Australian pub rock and angst-ridden English post-punk. Insecure Fear tries to make sense of our contemporary paranoia – why are we so afraid when we should be so safe? Strange Life sees the album out with a rambling seven-minute acid rock and pop journey that’s as sprawling as it is mesmerising. It’s good to have Witch Hats back. Long may they reign. BY PATRICK EMERY
Featuring members of The Ocean Party and Ciggie Witch, Cool Sounds is a wonderful hybrid of all these other projects, with a clear line of difference. Describing themselves as “jazz-gaze” the band utilise synths and even the odd saxophone to create a sound that is vibrant and buoyant in nature. With track names that are as to the point as the songs themselves, Cool Sounds jump straight into things with album opener Control. Intricate guitar picking introduces the song as a gentle synth comes into the mix without ever feeling out of place or overpowering. The faster paced songs on the record are also masterfully executed, with the likes of Runs Wild and Patina capturing the band’s immediate energy. Cool Sounds place a lot of emphasis on introspection and throughout the album are refreshingly forthright in the themes they want to convey. On Shake lead singer Dainis Lacey pleas “stop looking my way”, while Rinsed sees him passionately declaring “I need your heart and soul, total control”. The album reaches is peak during the title track, which serves as the best example of the band’s meticulous self-production. Nervousness is also a highlight and is perhaps the most relatable song on the album, made all the more effective by Lacey’s sincere vocals. Dance Moves has a sound that charms with its immediate appeal and is the strong debut you’d expect from a band boasting a number of seasoned musicians. While the album could at times benefit from a wider scope of sounds, it still dazzles from the very first listen and serves as the perfect snapshot of a band confident in their output. An exciting future as one of the leading bands in the independent scene is imminent. BY HOLLY PEREIRA
CRASHING INTO THE SUN
Like a recidivist grave robber, Mick Harvey returns for a third time to pillage the rather substantial body of work left by Serge Gainsbourg. This is a mausoleum that keeps drawing Harvey, and shows no sign of abating in his desire to re-enliven the work of the famous French dandy. Like a bourgeoisie chimney sweep, Gainsbourg managed to straddle the divide between aristocratic musings and drug den bohemianism. Similarly, Harvey steps too close to the cliff edge and has to catch himself from teetering over. It is with a degree of morbid irony that the album begins with The Man With The Cabbage Head. With Deadly Tedium and Coffee Colour we are introduced to seedy debauchery of late nights filled with lust. Just like the original, SS C’est Bon is a sucker punch of Wagnerian jack booting with frantic lyrics and feedback. The blistering finale leads into an equally anguished I Envisage, which stumbles around with gin soaked abandon to its sinister refrain of “I envisage the worst”. Unlike the first two volumes of this project, the songs are less familiar and more obscure, although the debauched roots are omnipresent. A Violent Poison, That’s What Love Is or The Decadence are examples of this. More And More, Less And Less is similar to previous interpretive work but kudos to Harvey for tackling a difficult subject with a degree of inventiveness and guile. Don’t Say A Thing is an especially vibrant example, a mouth watering chocolate that ends up leaving a mouthful of chipped teeth. There is clearly life in this project yet. BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
BAND OF HORSES
HEY GERONIMO (Chugg Music)
Crashing Into The Sun delivers surf rock laced indie pop that slides into cheekily sinister territory. In a word, this debut album from Hey Geronimo is ambitious. Millions Of Miles builds into a galloping, twangy cowboy rock echo before quickly bleeding into Lazer Gun Show, a space rock inspired stadium chant complete with ‘heys’, ‘hos’ and keyboard solos. Inversely, Bermuda turns a tale of a driver plunging to a watery death off a cliff into a dreamy surf pop ballad about floating along the East Australian tide. Hearing lyrics such as “cruising through the ocean with my flooded combustion, electric eels power my motion” elicit an Octopus’s Garden like display of imaginary anthropomorphic animals and cutesy adventures. That is until you realise the horrible reality of the depicted situation. Hey Geronimo are ultimately trying to blend the darkness of the content with sunny vibes to create interesting contrast, but haven’t quite figured out the blend yet. Songs that hit that perfect medium like Bermuda are far and few between, and when that pendulum of sweet and sour swings, it swings hard. Bake A Cake in particular is far too saccharine; it’s flawlessly engineered to get inside your head and will no doubt slot snugly into youth radio playlists. However, the ultra boppy ode to learning from past mistakes is annoyingly earnest and dripping with cheesy rhetoric. The album is better when it drops the flashy pretense and shoots for a feel that reflects the lyrics. India and Boredom are the two best songs included because they carry slightly heavier, rockier edges to suit their self-destructive themes. Stumbling blocks such as those are so frustrating, because the band is obviously packed to the brim with talent. There are beautiful flourishes trapped amongst the poppy backdrop trying to break out. They understand their craft well, but shift gears just a little too quickly, jumping in and out of interesting ideas before you can settle in to enjoy them.
DELIRIUM TREMENS (Create/Control)
TOM ODELL
WHY ARE YOU OK (Interscope/Universal)
Band Of Horses’ music has always been in the right place at the wrong time. The place - cruising highways, staring down sunsets, dreaming of California. The time -here and now. If Ben Bridwell and co. were writing songs like No-One’s Gonna Love You, The Funeral and even Knock Knock (from the maligned Mirage Rock) a few decades ago they’d be standard setters of their genre. Being of the 21st century, however, has relegated them to dweeb territory – a group of geewhiz stargazers with all the heart but none of the staying power. Shacking up with uncool cats like producer Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) and Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis, who guests on highlight In A Drawer, is bold enough unto itself. But Why Are You OK succeeds primarily on account of its acceptance of Band Of Horses’ strengths, and not budging from their dorky choirboy harmonies, nor their love of layered, sun kissed guitar. They’re not here to change the game – in fact, the only revolution Band Of Horses cares about is the one at 33 1/3 per minute. Still, Why Are You OK will ensure that – at least for now – you’ll remember the horse with no name. BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG
WRONG CROWD (RCA)
Tom Odell’s voice first graced my ears through the transformative and enticing single Another Love. Taken from his beloved 2013 debut album, Long Way Down, the song began my infatuation with the English singer-songwriter. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised that the bar was raised high when it came to his latest release, Wrong Crowd. Met by the pulsing drumbeat and a simple keyboard melody of the title track, I was immediately put at ease. Odell’s vocal then came seeping into the song, his performance subtle. Singing of a mother’s angst towards her son’s adolescent antics, Odell’s voice is soon joined by a running electronic tone and a whimsical whistle. Finding the perfect meeting place between pop and rock, Odell adds a sprinkle of his familiar dance element to the second single, Magnetized. The ode to an unrequited infatuation recalls recent Coldplay releases with its utilisation of percussive pop. Slipping into an R&B groove is Concrete. A seductively slow kick drum and alluring bass line are all it takes to remind you that this artist has grown up in more ways than one. Constellations soon strips his sound back to a beautiful piano led ballad. Rich in string arrangements, the song is the first of its kind on the record and is soon followed by the whistle filled Sparrow. While Silhouette is another fine addition to the album, it’s the 22 second Jealousy that really engages the ear on the second part of the record. It’s a simple, yet stunning piano piece, however it’s out of place nature creates quite a strange listening experience. Daddy is perhaps the most dynamic of the collection and tells the tale of a young man’s loss of innocence as a result of his troubled family. Ambitious yet obviously attainable, Wrong Crowd is the singer/songwriter’s most concentrated release so far. BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON
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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 29 JUN
ADKOB So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? ADKOB - once an acronym, now just a bunch of letters. Make it watch’ya want. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? KoRn but the R is forward and we have more strings on our guitars. What do you love about making music? It in itself. It’s a joy. Making music IS the fun part. Inception. What do you hate about the music industry? Mainly the severe lack of live music support in Australia. Not enough people going to shows, not enough venues, not enough government initiative to change these things, etc. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? John Lennon. I don’t think he would like it, it would just be way cool to meet the guy. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it be and why? Assassinate? Far out man, chill. For the sake of the question, I guess whoever was writing the lyrics for a white supremacist band I found once when I was a teen. What can a punter expect from your live show? Oh a fekken great time... we just want everyone to have as much fun as we have, and often they do. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our first EP, and we also sell CD-Rs of the best of Bread. ADKOB play The Workers Club Saturday July 2 with the one and only Owen Rabbit and the very great Neighbourhood Youth.
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TWISTED FATE
T H E B E ND I G O H OT E L If you’re hungry for some metal on a Wednesday eve, you might wanna check out what the Bendigo Hotel have in store. Thrash titans Twisted Fate headlining and Massacre Of Innocence are celebrating the release of recent EP Symptoms. Maggot Bath and Creatures Of Addiction have also signed on for the night. Get a little sloshy on Wednesday June 29. Doors are at 8pm with entry setting you back a measly $10.
DOM KELLY + KING CNUT & THE WAVES + LOVE GAMES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00. OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
POPPONGENE + DANNIKA + LEAH SENIOR + CHIPS CALIPSO Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
WOODY PITNEY
8:30pm.
BOHJASS + BITTER ALMOND 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond.
8:00pm. $10.00. LENA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00. RUTH ROGERS-WRIGHT Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $30.00. THE ROOKIES The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACCIDENTAL BEDFELLOWS + SUZETTE HERFT + SOLOMAN + LACEY Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
8:00pm.
CON KALAMARAS + ILLIAS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
MUDDYS BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: TONI SWAIN Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
TH E WOR K E R S C LU B After making waves in Europe on the back of his hit song You Can Stay, Woody Pitney has been tearing up The Workers Club throughout June. Wednesday June 29 is Woody’s final hoorah. Joined by his full band, Pitney will showcase new music along with some old favourites. Special guests include Rowena Wise and Lachie Ranford. Tickets are $8 on the door. Did we mention $12 jugs of draught?
OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.
8:00pm.
SKRONKADOODLEDOO Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00.
WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: DE’MAY + BABY BLUE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. WOODLAND HUNTERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
CLASS ACTS #10 - FEAT: FRAUDBAND + THE CURSE + DAYTIME Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. CUDDLE PUDDLE + BIG RIG Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd.
THURSDAY 30 JUN
7:00pm.
DADA ONO Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00. DING DONG DEATH HOLE + FCKUPS + MONKEY GRIP Tago
COOKIN ON 3 BURNERS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
Mago, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $5.00.
LAURA JEAN
RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.
TH E OL D B A R It’s Laura Jean’s last show as part of her month long residency at the Old Bar on Wednesday June 29. She’s been testing the waters, trialling out some new songs as well as playing old hits. Jean’s released four albums and several EPs across her career as a singer/songwriter. Wednesday June 29 sees Stina Tester/Cinta Masters take to the stage as a special guest. Doors are at 8pm, $10 entry.
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BABY BLUE
T H E D R U NK E N P O E T Beginning as a solo project for Melbourne’s Rhea Caldwell, Baby Blue has since grown into a rocking, rollicking three-piece combining ‘60s rock, folk and pop. Baby Blue’s songs retain a decidedly folk backbone but have grown to an electrifying roar. They’ll be joined by Dominique and Tracey Hogue at The Drunken Poet on Thursday June 29. It’s free entry with doors at 8pm.
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DIZZY’S ‘NIGHT OF NIGHTS’ PARTY Dizzy's Jazz Club,
Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.
JACKIE BORNSTEIN + JMQ JAZZ ENSEMBLE Leroy Espresso, St Kilda. 6:00pm.
MAHLER 6 - FEAT: SIR ANDREW DAVIS + JONATHAN BISS Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00. MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
GIG GUIDE JACKY WINTER
TH E TOTE Jacky Winter provides a unique approach to breaks, electronica and melody ± surprisingly born from years playing as a solo electric guitarist. The project has since evolved into a full band with Erica Dunn (Palm Springs), Paul Pirie (Batpiss) and Spencer Dyson. Jacky Winter will be playing upstairs on Thursday nights at The Tote during June, and the Thursday June 30 edition sees Vandal Eye 3, Still Mess and Sex Cassette on board as supports. Doors are at 8pm with $5 entry.
EMILY WURRAMARA
WESLEY ANNE The young and enigmatic Emily Wurramara is about to embark on her biggest tour yet, in support of her debut EP Black Smoke. The singer/songwriter has already attracted some serious attention with single Ngerraberrakernama earlier this year, and is showing no sign of slowing down yet. Help Wurramara celebrate the new EP at Wesley Anne on Thursday June 30. Doors are at 8.30pm, tickets are $15 a pop.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER + AWESOME WALES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
10:00pm.
ROBERT SIMONE BIG BAND The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
SOUL POWER - FEAT: MIKE STEVA Purple Emerald,
Northcote. 8:00pm.
THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO + TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
MERE WOMEN
MASCO SOUND SYSTEM
THE JOHN CURTIN After wowing crowds for the past year with their blend of progressive analogue dance music and live improvised painting, Masco Sound System are set to release their first EP recorded live at the Northcote Social Club. The EP is being released for digital download, and on limited edition 12” vinyl that will be available on the night. MSS will be joined by some very special guests, and tickets are a mere $11 with doors at 8pm.
THE GRUBS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
THE SEVEN UPS + THE PURPLE TUSKS + THE IVORY ELEPHANT + CREEK Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
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TIMBALERO THURSDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
THE SEVEN UPS
THE SUGARCANES
C HER RY BAR After slaying the stage at Reclink Community Cup just last week, Melbourne’s favourite rock‘n’soul quintet The Sugarcanes are now hitting up Cherry Bar on Thursday June 30. Formed by brother and sister Jack and Lucy Wilson, the five-piece band have been performing since early 2014. The outfit are continuing to promote the recent release of their debut self-titled LP. They’ll be kicking off from 10pm. Entry is just $10 from 8pm.
TH E E V E LYN Afro-groove-party band The Seven Ups are chucking a shindig to send off their trumpet player to Berlin. Adding to the nostalgic festivities, The Seven Ups old drummer Marcel has promised to smash through some old tunes plus a few newbies. Purple Tusks are reforming for one show only, and The Ivory Elephant and Creek are opening the night. Get down to The Evelyn on Thursday June 30 to celebrate the end of the financial year with $2.50 pots. Your entry is covered with $10, doors at 8pm
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SATURDAY JULY 9:
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MR ALFORD COUNTRY FREE, 4PM
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DINGDONG DEATH HOLE COLD IRONS BOUND 7.30PM, $5
DEAN SCHULZ, PATRICK WILSON FRIDAY JULY 1:
PIRACY AT TAGO MAGO FT. JETSON, CITRUS JAM, MICHAEL PLATER
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TUESDAY JULY 12:
THURSDAY JULY 14:
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Q&A
THE JIM MITCHELLS
T H E WO R K E R S C LU B Following the release of single You Unfollow Me from their forthcoming EP, The Jim Mitchells are bringing their psych-infused garage rock to Victoria for the first time. Fresh from playing Visions Festival in Sydney, the band is poised for a cracking back-end of 2016, with debut EP Planet Absorbed set for release in July via Third Eye Stimuli Records. On Thursday June 30 head on down to The Workers Club to catch The Jim Mitchells with The Citradels and Hills Hoist. Entry is $10, doors at 8pm.
Hello, who are we speaking with and can you tell us a little about the music you make? Hey! Flyn - guitar. Mere Women are a four-piece (have been a three-piece until recently) from Sydney that play abrasive post-punk pop. Our music can span across a few genres, which is the product of a vast influence base. For the entirely uninitiated, give us a brief history lesson in Mere Women. How did you form and what have you released thus far? Amy and I started jamming some ideas way back in 2011 probably. Amy played solo and I just finished up playing in another band. We were pretty different then, and if we didn’t get in contact with our now drummer, Kat, we would’ve probably sounded exactly like White Hex. We released our debut Old Life in 2012 and Your Town in 2014. This year we did a split with Melbourne band Gold Class on Black Wire Records. How has the band’s sound and style developed over the past four years? I think we only really solidified our sound on Your Town in 2014, which really doesn’t feel that long ago. We’ve added bass this year for the newest record, which we will record later in the year so the sound and style has changed a bit, but not too dramatically. The new stuff allows (keys player and vocalist) Amy to play less bass and for me to play some higher end stuff. I think we’ve gotten heaps darker and heaps poppier at the same time... What has been the biggest ‘holy fuck?!’ moment in the band’s history? I think when we played on the main stage at a festival in New Zealand called Camp A Lo Hum. We played at like 11pm to thousands of people in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees and mountains. Incredible feeling... MERE WOMEN play at The Old Bar on Thursday June 30, alongside the equally awesome Palm Springs and Karli White.
MONDAY JULY 18:
COMEDY OPEN STAGE FREE TUESDAY JULY 19:
OPEN MIC FREE, 8PM THURSDAY JULY 21:
DANNY $7,MARTINOV 8PM FRIDAY JULY 22:
DAVID COSMA DAMON SMITH 9PM, FREE
SATURDAY JULY 23:
BACKWOOD CREATURES 9PM, FREE AFTER DARK MY SWEET POWERLINE SNEAKERS - A TRIBUTE TO FILM OPEN MIC FREE, 8PM ABERRANCE, LEVITATING NOIR CHURCHES FT. RIPLEY HOOD 9PM,$8 OPEN MICFREE,SHOWCASE STEVE SMART AND EDDY BURGER, 8PM 8PM, FREE
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SATURDAY JULY 2:
TUESDAY JULY 26:
WEDNESDAY JULY 27:
MR ALFORD COUNTRY & MATT MCFARLANE
PANMAN, PUPPETEER LULU LALA, AND MUSICAL PERFORMERS TRACEY HOGUE, MICHAEL PLATER, KRISTINE ALLEN, AND ILL-GOTTEN BOOTY
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SATURDAY JULY 16:
SUNDAY JULY 3:
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COMEDY OPEN STAGE THIS WOMAN’S WORK: FREE A TRIBUTE TO KATE BUSH TRACEY HOGUE FT. RUTH LINDSEY, MANDY CONNELL, THURSDAY JULY 7:
MICHAEL PLATER, KRISTINE ALLEN FREE
FRIDAY JULY 8:
THE IN THE OUT
CLAIRE BIRCHALL & THE PHANTOM HITCHHIKERS $8, 9PM
THURSDAY JULY 28:
SOUND TRACKS FOR IMAGINARY FILMS FT. ANDREW WATSON, LADIE DEE $10/$7, 8PM
FRIDAY JULY 29:
CROSS EYED CAT SWAMPLANDS FREE, 9PM
SATURDAY JULY 30:
MISHELLE ALLAN, ALISON MCNAMARA, ILL-GOTTEN BOOTY, TRACEY HOGUE, MATT MCFARLANE, CIARA MARIE
TAGO MID-WINTER BALL
SUNDAY JULY 17:
SUNDAY JULY 31:
FREE, 7PM
PORT MANTEUX 8PM
FT. HAPPY LONESOME $8, 8PM
TOM DANIEL & FRIENDS FREE, 4PM
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PALM SPRINGS
Well hello there. Please introduce yourself and your position in Palm Springs to our readers. My name is Erica and I write the songs, sing and play guitar for Palm Springs alongside genius rhythm keeper Raquel Solier and incandescent bass/vox combo Sara Retallick. Presently, I am into finishing Moby Dick, learning about claw-hammer finger picking and listening to Yuzo Kayama. Your upcoming show at The Old Bar is in Palm Springs solo mode, what can we expect to see? When Raquel took time off to be a new mama and Sara hadn’t joined the band yet, I played solo all the time. Playing solo is psychological warfare but it’s important for any songwriter to have a crack at. I’ll be playing some of the Springs back catalogue, more of the pastoral folk, finger picking variety. You guys recently supported The Drones, how was that experience and did you learn anything from them? Another band I’m in, Harmony, have supported The Drones on national tours twice now, and the Harmony singers sang on Feelin’ Kinda Free. The Palm Springs support slot came off the back of that. Did I learn anything? Always. They are an amazing, hardworking band who constantly push all the envelopes and themselves. Watching them for six weeks smash through a 120 minute set with the same level of intensity…I was trying to take notes. You recently released The Flowers in a Vase, can we expect to hear material from that EP at your show at The Old Bar on Thursday June 30 or different material? Definitely some of the tape tracks. It’s exciting, I don’t often play some of those songs, as they are so pared back. In the tape recording sessions, Dan Luscombe was really good about letting some of the songs remain minimal, one take, and acoustic. I’m looking forward to giving those a whirl. PALM SPRINGS hit the The Old Bar on Thursday June 30
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GIG GUIDE REEL TAPES
TH E B RU NS WI C K H OT E L Reel Tapes emerged from the depths of the Moonee Ponds creek a few years back and have since developed an impressive sound. The band recently recorded a real people-pleaser of an EP that includes four crowd favourite tracks and on Thursday June 30 they’re celebrating at the Brunswick Hotel. Joining them will be the always- Blake Everett, The Fishheads and Blood Orange. Entry is free, bands from 8pm.
THE CUT N RUN BIG BAND
TONY J KING Surabaya Johnnys, St Kilda. 7:30pm. CLASSIC ALBUM CLUB (COVERS SUZI QUATRO) Eddie's
S P OT T E D M A LL A R D The Cut N Run Big Band features some top instrumentalists from Australia’s most influential jazz conservatory, The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music. The proof is in the pudding, with members of the group having been involved with the who’s who of national and international jazz ± including Gordon Goodwin, Paul Grabowskey, Kate Cebrano, Joe Chindamo, James Morrison, Daryl McKenzie, the AAO, Scott Tinkler and many others. On Thursday June 30 The Cut N Run Big Band are landing at the Spotted Mallard to spice up your night. Music kicks off from 8.30pm.
GREAT OUTDOORS + GREGOR + BLANK STATEMENTS + WORNG Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
REEL TAPES + BLOOD ORANGE + BLAKE EVERETT + THE PUDDLE IN THE CITY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
Bandroom, 7:30pm.
$12.00.
KARNIVOOL The Croxton, Thornbury. 8:00pm. MEZZ LIVE Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 5:30pm.
8:00pm.
SIXTY40 + XHAMBO + JEFF TYNAN Bar Open, Fitzroy.
8:00pm.
THE JIM MITCHELLS + THE CITRADELS + HILLS HOIST
MOJO JUJU Northcote Social Club, Northcote.
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
RED WINE & SUGAR + SLATED Post Office Hotel,
PEDESTRIAN DAZE
7:30pm. $20.00.
WH O LE LOT TA LOV E Indie pop four-piece Pedestrian Daze are headlining a show at Whole Lotta Love on Thursday June 30. Their eclectic sound blends influences from cabaret, pop, electronic, gypsy, hip hop and some old-fashioned wailing about lost love. Eric Benz’s solo project, Little Theatre, will be providing support along with singer/ songwriter Rachel Clark. Entry is free and it kicks off at 8pm.
Coburg. 9:00pm.
THE SIGN OF FOUR + SCOURGE + HARBINGER + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.
ROBERT SIMONE’S BIG BAND
TH E B.E A S T It’s almost that time again ± on the last Thursday of every month, The B.East pays homage to the iconic Minton’s Playhouse with some toe-tapping jazz. On Thursday June 30 Robert Simone’s Big Band are stepping up to the plate, recreating some classic ‘40s vibes. In true Minton’s Playhouse style, after the main act wraps up, the stage is open to anyone who fancies a jam until the end of the night. Entry is free as always, good times all around. Join the party from 8pm.
BACKSTAGE - FEAT: TONI SWAIN + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. $10.00. DAVID COSMA DUO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
6:30pm.
EMILY WURRAMARA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.
9:30pm.
MATT MCHUGH Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm. MATTHEW COLIN & THE POCKET PAIR + LUKE BRENNAN
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+ DE'MAY Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
NICK COCKLIN + BRENDAN LLOYD Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 8:00pm.
PUGSLEY BUZZARD Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. SONGWRITERS COLLECTIVE - FEAT: JESS HIESER East Brunswick Club Hotel, East Brunswick. 9:00pm.
STEPH BRETT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. TAYLOR PROJECT + DEAN SCHULZ + PATRICK WILSON Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. THE FLAMING MONGRELS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. THE FLAMING MONGRELS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. THE NEED Railway Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 8:00pm. YASIN LEFLEF + TOMMY CASTLES + JADE ALICE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00. FOUR LIONS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
FRIDAY 1 JULY JOHN LEE HOOKER CELEBRATION
CHE RRY B AR John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and legend. He was most renowned for his unique approach to Delta blues using an electric guitar, and cemented an inimitable driving-rhythm boogie style. On Friday July 1, you can celebrate Lee Hooker at Cherry Bar with tribute sets from Three Kings, Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood and Danny Walsh Banned. Tickets are $13 on the door from 8pm.
1-800 FREEBANDZ - FEAT: SONIC VIBES + TALI Laundry
Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
80'S NIGHT - FEAT: COVERDALE + 80'S EXPERIENCE + PURE BLONDE Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10.00.. ALEX LAHEY + THE OUTDOOR TYPE + FRANCES FOX
Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. BANOFFEE Roxanne Parlour, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. BARELY STANDING PRESENTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm.
GIG GUIDE OOLLUU
WH O LE LOT TA LOVE Electro-rock trio Oolluu are gearing up to play some tracks from their self-titled album at Whole Lotta Love, on Friday July 1. Their style is a bit like a fusion of Pink Floyd and Flock of Seagulls, with plenty of noise and synth. Glasfrosch and Pelorus are rounding out the night with effects drenched guitars and a whole swag of ambience. Have yourself a colourful evening, with doors at 8pm. Entry is $7.
CADILLAC DRIFTERS Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:30pm.
CERES + MAX QUINN© S ONOMATOPENIS + JESS LOCKE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
COFFIN CAROUSEL + HYPNO SEX RAY + DARCY FOX + LANA LUNACY Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
DJ GEORGIA IFYOUWANNAROCKNROLL Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
LOUIS GOUTOS FROM
SIENNA WILD
TRAGIC EARTH
MERE WOMEN
TH E E V E LYN Following a sold out visit in May, Sydney’s Mere Women are returning to Melbourne on Friday July 1 to bring us a taste of their unique and dark tunes. Mere Women’s entrancing vocals and abrasive pop sensibilities have been enthralling audiences across the country. Joining them are art-punk outfit Ouch My Face, Mares and finely crafted noise makers Jem & Lara. Entry is $12 with doors at 8.30pm.
DRO CAREY Roxanne Parlour, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. FRIDAY NIGHTS AT DEGAS A NEW VISION - FEAT: THE GOON SAX National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. GUILLOTYNE + BEYOND CONTEMPT + ADALITA DJS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
HEY HEY IT© S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm. KARNIVOOL The Croxton, Thornbury. 8:00pm.
THE TOT E Friday July 1 marks ten years since the untimely passing of local music hero Robbie “Rocket” Watts ± former guitarist of Cosmic Psychos and former bassist of I Spit On Your Gravy. Robbie’s eldest son, Billy Watts, decided to arrange a show to honour his dad’s memory. I Spit On Your Gravy are reuniting after 15 years for a rare performance and last ever show, in honour of their band mate and friend. Also on the lineup for the occasion are Destrends, Aberration, Dukes of Deliciousness and Poppin’ Mommas. Wear your best flannie and get down to The Tote to pay your respects. Doors are at 8pm with tickets for $19.
T H E B R U NS WI C K H OT E L Hard-rock four-piece Tragic Earth dropped their album Hatred And Tolerance at the beginning of June, and to celebrate they’re embarking on their biggest run of shows ever. Give Tragic Earth your congrats before they fly away to Kuala Lumpur on Friday July 1. Special guests for the night include Arcane Saints, Warbirds and Pegbucket. Music kicks off from 9pm.
LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LURCH & CHIEF Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. METRIK Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 11:00pm. PITT THE ELDER + FEAR LIKE US + DEAYBREAK + TIRED BREEDS + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. ROBBIE “ROCKET” WATTS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW - FEAT: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY + DESTRENDS + ABERRATION + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
6:00pm. $12.00.
ROBBIE “ROCKET” WATTS 10th ANNIVERSARY
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8:00pm. $19.40.
SIMONA CASTRICUM Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne.
PITT THE ELDER
7:00pm.
TH E B E N D I G O H OT E L Pitt The Elder are back with their second LP, Radio Silence, that dropped in May via Brisbane’s Arrest Records. To celebrate, the band are throwing party on Friday July 1 with some their best mates. Last time Pitt The Elder launched an album, they sold out the Old Bar and destroyed the bar record. Round two will see them attempting the same, but this time it’s at The Bendy. Good pals Fear Like Us, Daybreak, Tired Breeds, Sweet Gold and Ill Capone are all supporting. Entry’s $10 with doors at 8pm.
JAMES BROWN TRIBUTE
T H E S P OT T E D M A LL A R D Reverend Funk & The Horns of Salvation are celebrating the legendary James Brown at The Spotted Mallard this Friday July 1. Featuring three horns, the band encapsulates the smooth sounds of Brown’s work from the ‘50s through ‘til the ‘70s. The band kicks off from 9pm with doors as early as 4pm. Re-live the wonders of James Brown with a boogie in Brunswick on your Friday night.
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So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We’re Sienna Wild. I’m Louis Goutos on bass and vocals. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? No-nonsense rock’n’roll. A mix between Kings of Leon and Arctic Monkeys and Band of Skulls. We’re influenced by a lot of ‘70s rock like Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young, as well as ‘90s rock like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, RHCP and Soundgarden. What do you love about making music? I love how you can express yourself by making a sound that is entirely your own. It is a very natural, almost tribal process. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? I would probably show Jimmy Page our stuff. Once I gathered all the courage I had, I would play him our stuff and just tell him how much we listen to his band and how much we respect his music. Then I would ask for some advice on the music and the industry, and then run away like a nervous schoolgirl. What can a punter expect from your live show? A punter can expect a high energy, compelling rock’n’roll show. Big vocals, loud drums, scorching guitars and some fat bass. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our latest single My Parade is ready to launch, plus our self-titled album. When’s the gig and with who? The gig is at our favorite watering hole, Yah Yah’s on Smith St, Fitzroy on Saturday July 2. We are playing with some amazing bands, Trouser Force and Blac Belladonna. Anything else to add? Love rock’n’roll. And if you have to ask, you’ll never know. SIENNA WILD play at Yah Yah’s on Saturday July 2.
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GIG GUIDE CHRIS RUSSELL© S CHICKEN WALK + GREEN TIN + GRIM RHYTHM Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:15pm. CYNDI BOSTE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
GEORGIA STATE LINE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
A MILLION DEAD BIRDS LAUGHING T HE R EVERENCE A Million Dead Birds Laughing are back after almost two years, to serve up their experimental grind at The Reverence. At their peak AMBDL amassed a cult-like following, and you can be assured the comeback show is going to be absolutely mental. Fellow Melburnians Hollow World are supporting, along with Zeolite and Blunt Shovel. Get grim on Friday July 1, doors at 8pm and entry will set you back 12 bones.
SLOWCOACHING Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. SLUMBERJACK + THE MYSTIC TIP RATS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.
TEETH & TONGUE + SUI ZHEN + KARLI WHITE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00.
THE JIM MITCHELLS + THE CITRADELS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 9:30pm.
THE SURREAL ESTATE AGENTS + THE BEAUTIFUL CHAINS + COLIN KUCERA Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.
$10.00.
TRAGIC EARTH + ARCANE SAINTS + PEGBUCKET + WARBIRDS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ZERODENT + POLO THE PIGEON HOLES + AVOID Grace
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $8.00. A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.
BUTTERFLYING - FEAT: TAMARA-ANNA CISLOWSKA + ELENA KATS-CHERNIN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
GRAND WAZOO Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick.
8:40pm. $25.00. LUNATONES 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
MAHLER 6 - FEAT: SIR ANDREW DAVIS + JONATHAN BISS
Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00. NATURAL WHINE + CHICO & WUSH Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. REBECCA MENDOZA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
REVEREND FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION (PLAY JAMES BROWN) Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
$15.00.
SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
5:00pm.
STEVE MAGNUSSON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
8:00pm.
THE GOLDEN ERA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $20.00. THE WIKIMEN Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm. YVETTE JOHANSSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $35.00. ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm. ANDREW ROBERTS Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.00. BLUES HIP JIVE PARTY - FEAT: THE JACKSON FOUR + ANDY PHILLIPS & THE CADILLAC WALK Doyles Bridge
Hotel, Aspendale. 8:00pm. $10.00. BULLHORN Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $16.35.
JETSON - FEAT: CITRUS JAM + MICHAEL PLATER + CITRUS JAM + MICHAEL PLATER Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.
JOHN LEE HOOKER CELEBRATION - FEAT: THREE KINGS + RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD + DANNY WALSH BANNED Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. JVG BROWN RIVER BAND Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $25.00. LLOYD SPIEGEL Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean Grove. 8:30pm. $20.00. MAT MCHUGH Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $28.60. MAX TEAKLE & FRIENDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. NICKY BOMBA + BEN KELLY Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm. PEARL - THE JANIS JOPLIN STORY Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00. ROADHOUSE Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. THE HORNETS Big Huey's Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. U Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ZOE RYAN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
SATURDAY 2 JUL TOGETHER LIKE BROTHERS
TH E E V E LYN As part of the Leaps & Bounds Music Festival, Together Like Brothers are getting down at The Evelyn on Saturday July 2. It’s an exciting time for TLB, having just finished work on album Ambitious over two years. Support comes from travellers, BJ Steve, Clement and Empress MC. Doors are at 2.30pm, entry is $8 or $5 if you’re a concession.
KARL S. WILLIAMS
T H E S P OT T E D M A LL A R D It’s a big blues party this political day at The Spotted Mallard. Karl S. Williams is headlining, with a sound strongly influenced by the blues of the Mississippi delta and country gospel. His debut album Heartwood garnered considerable attention, leading to a bunch of festival slots including A Festival Called Panama (TAS), Blues In Bridgetown (WA), Queenscliff Music Festival (VIC) and more. Head to The Mallard on Saturday July 2 to check him out, along with Jack The Fox, Pear & The Awkward Orchestra, Opal Ocean, and more. $10 for presale tickets or $20 on the door. Doors are at 3pm.
PELVIS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PLANET OF THE 8S + SWAMP MOTH + LONG HOLIDAY + THE QUARTERS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. POWERLINE SNEAKERS + ABERRANCE + LEVITATING CHURCHES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm. $8.00.
(essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.
SLUMBERHAZE + PRETTY CITY + KID RADIO Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8.00.
SPACEMAN + JACK & NEIL + BEARS + ZIG ZAG Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.
THE B.EAST’S 4TH BIRTHDAY
T H E B.E A S T The B.East are turning four this Saturday July 3, and to celebrate they’re throwing a big birthday bash. Getting in on the party will be live music from The Bombay Royale, The Meltdown and a DJ set from Mojo JuJu. Plus, there’ll be circus acts and fortune tellers. Capping it off is cheap booze from some of the fine distilleries and breweries, plus free sliders all night. Rally together some pals and get down anytime from 5pm.
Collingwood. 7:30pm.
PLANET OF THE 8’S
T H E B R U NS WI C K H OT EL Things are bound to get a little sloshy when threepiece groove vendors Planet of the 8’s take over the bandroom at the Brunny on Saturday July 2. These Newcastle natives deliver a fine blend of stoner rock with a touch of dub and hardcore, meddling in the boogie end of rock’n’roll. Supports on the night will come courtesy of Swamp Moth, Long Holiday and The Quarters, so get yourself prepped for a huge night of bombastic mayhem. As always, entry is free, so save your pennies for those pints.
ELVIS (SONG SELECTIONS FROM THE ’68 COMEBACK SPECIAL) - FEAT: THE KNAVE & HIS BIG BAND Cherry
289 WELLINGTON STREET COLLINGWOOD - (03) 9419 5170
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THE JIM MITCHELLS + HILLS HOIST Karova Lounge,
THE OCEAN PARTY + THE ANCIENTS Post Office Hotel,
Coburg. 6:00pm.
THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE + FUTURE CORPSE + EVOLUTION OF SELF + MORE Reverence Hotel,
Footscray. 6:30pm. $15.00. THE WILDBLOODS Beach Of Brunswick, Brunswick. 8:00pm. TWISTED WILLOWS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
VERY BEST OF THE BEACH BOYS + THE VERY BEST OF FRANKI VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS + BELLATRIX Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00.
ZEN ROBOTIC + SLEEPLAB + YOUTHFIRE + DISCO COMPUTER + SYMMETRIX 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.
ALINTA & THE JAZZ EMPERORS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00. BERNADETTE HERMENS Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. COLE - FEAT: MICHAEL GRIFFITHS Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 4:00pm. $29.00. COLE - FEAT: MICHAEL GRIFFITHS Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $29.00.
Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $79.00. NATHAN HAWES St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $30.00.
PEARL (THE JANIS JOPLIN STORY) - FEAT: LIZA OHLBACK Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 8:00pm. $35.00.
COOKING AMERICAN STYLE BBQ LOW & SLOW SINCE 2012
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
$5.00.
HITS + JAMES MCCANN & THE NEW VINDICTIVES + CABLE TIES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $19.40. KOOYEH + EL MOTH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $13.30. MICHAEL JACKSON HISTORY SHOW - FEAT: DANTANIO
C H E RRY B A R In1968, Elvis Presley took the stage for the first time in over seven years to perform a series of live segments at NBC’s Burbank studios in California. The recorded live footage eventually became the famous ‘68 Comeback Special. The Knave and his Big Band Tribute Show have been performing Elvis since 2011, and on Saturday July 2 they’re paying a slick homage to The King with song selections from The 68 Comeback Special. Tickets are $13 with doors at 8pm.
6:00pm.
TENDERLOINS + KATE ALEXANDER Labour In Vain,
ZERODENT + KIT CONVICT & THEE TERRIBLE TWO + ANGRY MULES + PLEATHER PURRS Tote Hotel,
Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.
ELVIS SPECIAL
T.H.U.G + PLAN OF ATTACK + BULLDOG SPIRIT + THOSE RAT BASTARDS + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
THE TOTE Perth natives Zerodent are in Melbourne for the first time ever to launch their debut album. Bordering on no-wave and coarse ‘70s blue-collar punk, Zerodent keep the melodies flowing in a scrappy lo-fi style. Saturday July 2 sees Zerodent’s second show with Kid Convict and Thee Terrible Two, Angry Mules and Pleather Purrs in their first ever appearance. Doors at 8pm with entry setting you back just $8.
10:00pm. $15.00.
Electric, Abbotsford. 3:00pm.
Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
ZERODENT
ABSOLUTELY LIVE (THE DOORS TRIBUTE SHOW) + SABOTAGE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $25.00. BANG - FEAT: DAY OF CONTEMPT + CROWNED KINGS + XURE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
DIET + LACHLAN DUTHIE + TEMPLAR + THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH Gasometer Hotel,
SPACEMAN Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 2:00am. SPECTRUM Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. STRATHMORE + DEL LAGO + SUBURBAN & COKE + TRASH BEARS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $12.00. SURREAL ESTATE AGENTS + FURLONG + COLIN KUCERA
Ballarat. 9:00pm. $10.00.
8:30pm. $15.00.
CITY SHARPS + LITTLE HOUSE GODZ + ROCK MONSTER + MORE Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. CLAWS & ORGANS + DARK FAIR + BEING JANE LANE + MISS MISS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00. CUTTING SHAPES 2ND BIRTHDAY - FEAT: POCOCK + JESSE YOUNG + JEAN PIERRE + MORE The Shadow
PRI N CE B AN DROOM Smooth deep-house duo Set Mo are coming all the way from Sydney for a huge night at the Prince Bandroom on Saturday July 2. The boys list travel, tequila, sub bass and noodle soups as core influences, and the result is music that will have you hitting that D floor in no time. Starts at 10pm, tickets via the venue.
SATURDAYS R COVERED - FEAT: RADIO STAR Royal Hotel
A.D.K.O.B + OWEN RABBIT Workers Club, Fitzroy.
BOOM CRASH OPERA Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $28.60. CASSETTE Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
SET MO
STEPHEN KENNEDY
T H E D R U NK E N P O E T If you had a big Friday or you simply want to chill out for the arvo after enduring the lines at the polls, The Drunken Poet have got you sorted. On Saturday July 2 Stephen Kennedy will be providing some laid back tunes. Originally from Donegal, Ireland, Kennedy set foot in Melbourne back in 2009 and has since been performing about town as a solo musician. Take a wander to the Poet at 3pm, entry is free.
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THE FIENDISH FORTNIGHT OF METAL
THE REVE REN CE The Rev have a thing for supporting up and coming local bands, and for the next two weeks they’re hosting a massive lineup of metal. The Fiendish Fortnight of Metal kicks off on Saturday July 2, with a slew of hard-hitting acts including The Weight of Silence, Evolution of Self, Zelorage, Future Corpse and more. Doors are at 6pm and entry is $15.
GIG GUIDE
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ERIN CROWLEY
WH OL E LOT TA LOV E Self-taught singer/songwriter Erin Crowley is unafraid to tackle topics she feels strongly about. Utilising a strong roots formula, this makes Crowley’s music both conscious and thoughtful. On Sunday July 3 she will be opening minds at Whole Lotta Love, with a special solo set. Young indie folk singer Hannah Ashcroft will be supporting. Doors are at 8pm and entry is free.
SIENNA WILD
YA H YA H’ S Rock trio Sienna Wild are launching their new single My Parade at Yah Yah’s on Saturday July 2. The boys capped off a successful Cherry Bar residency recently, and are keen to showcase even more new work. Spend the first half of your day having your say about Australia’s political future and then go get a little loose. Blac Belladonna and Trouser Force are supporting, doors are at 8pm.
JACK EARLE TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
8:30pm. $25.00.
MAHLER 6 - FEAT: SIR ANDREW DAVIS + JONATHAN BISS
DZIA 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. ELIZA & THE DELUSIONALS + AUTUMN MARY + THE ATTRACTOR BEAMS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm.
ELK & MAMMOTH + MILLER + CARDINIA Workers Club,
Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00. GEORGIA FIELDS + PHIA Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $18.00.
HYDE SEEK + MICK PORTER + JEROME KNAPPETT + TIGER CAN SMILE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. ICE-CREAM IN A MUG Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 5:00pm. JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00. MORELAND CITY SOUL REVIEW Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. PHIL TURCIO Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $30.00. PHIL TURCIO Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $30.00. PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm. ROBERT BRATETICH + MARIO LATTUADA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. SOUL SACRIFICE Rockstar Bar, Frankston. 8:00pm.
PARKWAY DRIVE + MAKE THEM SUFFER Chelsea
9:00pm. $15.00. TAMANDUA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
RAT’TAMANGO + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + EVIL TWIN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. THE DANDY JONESTOWN MASSACRE + SUBURBAN PROPHETS + CAMAMITY LANE + TRIUZ Mr Boogie Man
SOUL-A-GO-GO - FEAT: MISS GOLDIE + RICHIE 1250 + VINCE PEACH + DJ MANCHILD Bella Union Bar, Carlton.
HYDER SEEKER
TH E RE V E R E NC E Few places have Sunday sessions sorted like The Reverence, and Sunday July 3 is proving to be no different. It will be a chilled afternoon of posi vibes featuring musicians from both Melbourne and Adelaide. The lineup includes Hyder Seeker, Lil’ Mickey Porter, Jeromio Knappet and Stevie Rosewarne. Entry is free so you can save your coins for some of the glorious treats on the Rev’s menu. Get there at 3pm, music starts from 4.20pm.
Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 7:00pm.
THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: MAT CANT + ELLE + RANSOM + NICK THAYER + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. THE JETSONS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.
THE OFFTOPICS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE PAUL WILLIAMSON QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe,
Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $7.00. VINYL + THE VIGNETTES + ADRIAN ELTON Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $6.00. CARINO SON Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
10:00pm.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE SLIPDIXIES Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. THE VIBRAPHONIC ORKESTRA Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. CANYON Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:40pm. $18.00.
CRAIG WOODWARD + WARREN ROUGH & FRIENDS
Victoria Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 4:00pm. ELLERY COHEN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15.00. FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 9:00pm. HARRY HOOKEY Grandview Hotel, Fairfield. 8:30pm. $15.00. INDIAN SUMMER Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm. LLOYD SPIEGEL Baby Black Espresso Bar, Bacchus Marsh. 6:00pm. $25.00. MAT MCHUGH + RILEY PEARCE + ZAC SABER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.00. PENY BOHAN Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm. RAMSHACKLE ARMY + STEPHEN KENNEDY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 3:00pm. THE BOYS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm. WARNER BROTHERS DAN’S PARTY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
SUNDAY 3 JUL A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
BEING JANE LANE + THRASHER JYNX + DEAR JANE + SLOW JOB Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. CARGO CULTS + THE VIGNETTES + SAINTHILL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
CHARLIE MARSHALL & THE BODY ELECTRIC + CAROLINE NO + TRAPPIST AFTERLAND Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
$8.00.
CODA CHROMA + MANDY CONNELL TRIO + MAYFAIR KYTES + SALTWOOD Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $16.35.
ELK + MAMMOTH
T H E WO R K E R S C LU B Blending elements of art-rock and pop, Elk + Mammoth are a four-piece outfit from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Their debut EP Culprit bears sinister staccato vocals and spooky guitar riffs that’ll make your hair stand on end. Their gig at The Workers Club on Sunday July 3 marks the final show of their mini national tour. Miller has already snapped up a support slot, with more to be announced. Doors are at 8pm with entry at $9.
BROOKE RUSSELL & THE MEAN REDS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
DOGSDAY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .
8:00pm.
ERIN CROWLEY + HANNAH ASHCROFT Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
FOREVER SON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. GARRY GRAY & THE SIXTH CIRCLE + MARILYN ROSE & THE THORNS + LOS DOMINADOS + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm. $15.00.
GREG WALSH Pera, Brighton. 3:00pm. KEN MAHER + TONY HARGREAVES + MORE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
MAT MCHUGH Pelly Bar, Frankston. 7:00pm. MAT MCHUGH Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $27.00. MELTING POT’S SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND - FEAT: REUBEN STONE + SARAH-ROSE + RICH DAVIES + MORE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $15.00.
THE JIM MITCHELLS + BAKED BEANS + TRAFFIC ISLAND
CISCO CAESAR + THE SUGARFOOT RAMBLERS LABEL OF LOVE PRESENTS TEMPORAL CAST TH E B.E A S T On Sunday July 3, the B.East are all about America ahead of Independence Day. Cisco Caesar will be providing the blues, soul and vintage rock, and The Sugarfoot Ramblers will be dishing up the jazz. The fun times don’t stop there. There’s a bunch of hilarious though delicious food specials on offer, including the Donald Drumpf Burger and Feel The Bern Fries. It’s happening from 3pm onwards, free entry.
PEPPERCRON JAZZ Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. SEQUENZA ITALIANA - FEAT: GIOVANNI SOLLIMA + SATU VÄNSKÄ + MAXIME BIBEAU Hamer Hall (arts Centre
Melbourne), Southbank. 2:30pm. $43.00. SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm. THE ANDY LAYFIELD SOUND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
T H E S H A D OW E LE C T R I C As part of the outstanding Label of Love showcase series at the Shadow Electric, record label Temporal Cast will take over the venue and showcase a huge mix of old favourites and exciting newcomers. Sunday July 3 will see sets from Cale Sexton, Kangaroo Skull, Chiara Kickdrum and Temporal Cast founder Jamal Amir. This is set to be a huge affair, kicking off in the arvo and heading deep into the night. Tickets will set you back a cool $12.
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel,
Williamstown. 3:00pm.
MR ALFORD + MATT MCFARLANE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm.
Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
WAYNE JONES Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
THE AHERN BROTHERS + DAVID BURKE Drunken Poet,
$35.00.
WAYNE JONES Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $35.00.
MONDAY 4 JUL 303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
ABOVE BELOW - FEAT: SONYA LIFSCHITZ Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
THE MAN WHO WASN© T THERE + MOTTE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
ALYCE PLATT & THE FISH SHOP Big Huey's Diner,
5:00pm.
Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
BEING JANE LANE
TH E B E N D I G O H OT E L Leaps & Bounds Music Festival is taking over The Bendy on Sunday July 3 with a celebration of scorching punk, heavy rock and grinding garage. The ripper lineup includes Sydney punk rockers Aberration and Melbourne rock’n’rollers Levitating Churches, as well as Junkyard and Serial Pest. Doors are nice and early at 5pm with entry at $10.
$5.00.
West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
THIN WHITE UKES + JEN CLOHER Standard Hotel,
ABERRATION
THREE KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm.
Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
THEE GRAVY TRAIN FOUR Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
The B.East celebrates their fourth birthday on Saturday July 2.
SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky
ZAMBA ROSSA BRAZILIAN PARTY Penny Black,
Brunswick. 3:00pm.
Hey there. Who are we speaking with and what do you do at The B.East? Hania Glapa, event creator and beer puller at The B.East. Rumour has it that your fourth birthday bash on Saturday July 2 will be a circus spectacular. Tell us all about it. We’ve lined up escape artists, some hula burlesque, fortune tellers, rolla bolla balancers and human blockheads to break up performances from DJ Mojo Juju, The Meltdown and The Bombay Royale. That’s quite a lineup, tell us more. We put our heads together and wanted to invite bands and DJs we collectively have enjoyed and who [will] bring the circus vibe. DJ Mojo Juju will open the night, she spins voodoo boogie, The Meltdown are an eight-piece soul party and The Bombay Royale have been described as ‘Eurovision on acid in Mumbai’, which I think may say it all. It’s hard to believe The B.East has been around for four years now. What’s been your proudest moment since working there? Not to sound cheesy but I’m proud of everything. I think we’ve created a pretty unique environment against a burger crazed Melbourne landscape by fusing it with good bands, good booze and good people. You’ve teased that you’ll be providing free mini burgers and the cheapest drinks in town. This is a big claim to stake, how cheap are we talking here? 10 or so of our favourite breweries and purveyors of delicious liquors have jumped on board to sponsor our birthday party, and they want us to have a (really) good time. Let’s just say a fiver will get you what you’re looking for, and there’ll be free roving B.East sliders all night, no catch. Tell us why we should come down and celebrate The B.East’s fourth birthday. It’s a big free party with some of the best bands, booze and burgers Melbourne has, and you’ll have an excuse to wear creepy clown garb or a sequined leotard in public while drinking beer and shooting dirt cheap picklebacks.
NEIL HAWKER BLUES BAND Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel,
THE SARAH MCDONALD QUINTET + THE COLLINGWOOD CASSANOVAS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
$10.00.
THE B.EAST FOURTH BIRTHDAY
T H E B R U NS WI C K H OT E L Queensland pop rock outfit Being Jane Lane are rounding off their east coast tour on Sunday July 3 by playing a final show at The Brunny. The gig celebrates the release of their debut, self-titled EP that has been compared to the likes Hole and The Distillers. It all kicks off from 4pm, and the lineup features support from Furlong, Dear Jane and Thrasher Jynx. Entry is beautifully free.
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GEORGIA FIELDS AND PHIA
THE G ASOMETER HOTEL This Sunday July 3, The Gasometer will receive a double shot of talent when Georgia Fields and Phia take over the venue with a huge double single launch as part of Leaps & Bounds Festival. Fields is celebrating the release of Open Orange, the stunning single from her greatly anticipated forthcoming album Astral Debris. Meanwhile, the art-pop extraordinaire Phia will launch The Ocean of Everything. Entry will only knock ya back $18, and doors swing open at 7.30pm. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 45
GIG GUIDE SKELETON HEAD
T H E O LD B A R On Tuesday July 5 a grown man and a young boy are presenting an exhibition and The Old Bar are exploring the minds of both. All characters were originally designed by little tacker Danger Matthews, and then brought to life as paintings by Joel Morrison. The night’s sponsored by Melbourne Bitter, so there’ll be $5 cans all night until the bar runs dry. Mosey on down at 7pm with $10 in your pocket to cover entry.
IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
FRIDA
T HE EVELYN Frida have recently released a new single, and to keep the party going they’re doing a month long residency at The Evelyn. It comes in anticipation of their followup single, which is due to drop soon, titled Everything (Is You.). Check ‘em out for yourself for week one on Monday July 4, with special guests Tetrahedra and Leeroy James, plus Ryan Wilson on the decks. Entry is $5 with doors at 8.30pm.
BIRD© S BIG BAND Bird's Basement, Melbourne.
KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. LLOYD SPIEGEL + CASS EAGER Wonderland Spiegeltent,
Docklands. 8:00pm. $20.00.
SPACEMAN
TH E OLD B A R Mundane Mondays at The Old Bar makes the start of the week decidedly less ‘mundane’ and a bit more ‘bloody sick aye’. On Monday July 4, psych pop sensation Spaceman have crossed the Nullarbor once again, as part of their tour to celebrate the release of recent album Palm Haus. Supports are Sugar Teeth, Congratulations Everybody and Castilles. Entry is $5 with doors at 8pm.
8:00pm. $20.00.
DOUGAL & THE SUNKEN SEA + SANDY HSU + LUCAS WILSON HARRISON’S JAZZ QUINTET Open Studio,
Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00. DREW JAMES HARRISON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. MJC PRESENTS Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
SEQUENZA ITALIANA - FEAT: GIOVANNI SOLLIMA + SATU VÄNSKÄ + MAXIME BIBEAU Hamer Hall (arts Centre
Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $43.00. TEMPESTA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00. CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.
PARKS DEPARTMENT + WATER BEAR + BARCELOS + MORE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. PARKWAY DRIVE + MAKE THEM SUFFER Chelsea
Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 7:00pm. $40.00. REBETIKO Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm.
TUESDAY 5 JUL NICK CAVE & TOM WAITS TRIBUTE NIGHT
TAGO M AG O It’s going to be a big one at Tago Mago on Tuesday July 5, with a massive lineup of 13 local musicians on board to play their favourite Nick Cave and Tom Waits tracks. Some of the confirmed acts so far include Jason Hatcher, Jane Cameron, Tracey Hogue, Django Upton and Simon Quinn. For budding singers wanting to contribute, you can still sign up via the Facebook event page. Entry is free with drink specials all night, it gets going at 7pm.
ANNA© S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm. $10.00.
HARMONIC INSPIRATION - FEAT: MELBOURNE GUITAR QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
6:00pm. $29.00.
JANE MONHEIT + NICHOLAS PAYTON TRIO Bird's
Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $65.00. MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00. OPEN MIC NIGHT Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. GLASFROSCH Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. GLASS ANIMALS 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. HOOPERS CRESENT + NO SISTER + SWANK Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00. JURRASSIC NARK Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
THE FALL OF TROY + CLOSURE IN MOSCOW + MENISCUS + OSAKA PUNCH Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE LOST DAY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. TOM TOM TUESDAY - FEAT: SPACEMAN + JIMMY CHANG + PASTICHE + MOTTE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. DE’MAY + ALICE WILLIAMS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
INDIE TUESDAY - FEAT: DUO TRIO NIGHT Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 7:30pm.
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The Push PRESENT
Access All Ages WITH SAMMY STRAWBAGS Things are starting to heat up (metaphorically of course), as the annual Leaps and Bounds Festival comes round for another year’s worth of showcasing some of the Yarra region’s most popular venues with plenty of musical treats that are sure to delight! Stay up to date with what’s on via Leaps and Bounds official Facebook page facebook.com/LeapsAndBoundsMusicFestival where all of the events have been gathered for your clicking convenience. Plenty of all-ages gems to keep you occupied through this chilly July! Speaking of July highlights, there’re only a few days left to register for our upcoming 2k16 Push Freeza Summits, which are happening in Bendigo, Brunswick and Camperdown next week! Join some industry professionals for a day of super handy and informative workshops on topics like social media, resume writing, setting up backline for your band and taking great pictures that are guaranteed to get you multiple of those digital thumbs up. Popular kid on the block, Alex Lahey will also be performing especially for attendees, which is just the icing on the cake, really. And did we mention it’s free? There’s your cherry on top! facebook. com/thepushinc Last, but certainly not least, this week see’s none other than New Slang’s third instalment to The Channel with a mega line-up sure to get your feet shuffling! We’ve got Tyne-James Organ, Sandy Hsu and more, just for you! Tickets are strictly limited, so if you’re suffering from the symptoms of FOMO, best get online and purchase your tickets in advance. facebook.com/ thepushinc As always, further info can be found on our website thepush.com.au. Stay warm out there, and happy gigging! Until next week!
All Ages Gig Guide F R I DAY J U LY 1 New Slang w/ Tyne-James Organ, Sandy Hsu, Claudia Marmilic and Liam Mackay at The Channel, Arts Centre Melbourne, 6-9pm, $10, AA City of Casey and Spectrum Entertainment presents FReeZA Push Start Competition Heats w/ Future Static, Here and Now, Monty, Jake Holah, Jessica Taylor, Jess and Courtney and Draught Punk at Cranbourne Public Hall, South Gippsland, 6-11pm, $10, AA
S U N DAY J U LY 3 Shake the Tree w/ The Pink Tiles, The Breadmakers and Mexican Music Man at Fitzroy Bowls Club, 2-5pm, $10, free for kids under 12, AA Vibe City w/ Ivan Ooze, Matt McGuire, Junor and local DJs at Rubix Warehouse, Melbourne, 5-8pm, $25-$35, Under 18
Wed 29th June
W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: 9pm:
Baby Blue De’May Thurs 30th June 8pm: Brendan Lloyd 9pm: Nick Cocklin Friday 1st July
6pm: Traditional Irish Music Session 8.30pm:
Cyndi Boste
Saturday 2nd July
3pm: Stephen Kennedy
9pm:
Ramshackle Army Sunday 3rd July 4pm:David Burke
6.30pm:
The Ahern Brothers Tuesday 5th July
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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Red Spice Road, Red Spice QV and Burma Lane announce Cheap Date Mondays Cheap Date Mondays is hitting Red Spice Road, Red Spice QV and Burma Lane, allowing you to eat a flashy meal without breaking the bank. The buy one banquet and get one free offer, available every Monday at the three restaurants, is part of an excellent offer available at the venues that treats diners to a delicious journey through the flavours of south east Asia whilst remaining in the heart of Melbourne. You’ll be able to sink your teeth into flavours ranging from a variety of meat curries, exotic sweet and spicy flavours, delicate uses of ginger, papaya, sichuan pepper, sesame and many other delights in a three course meal designed to take the palate to places you’ve never been before. It’s only available for a limited time, so make sure you get in touch with one of the three venues and ask about Cheap Date Mondays for your next Monday night booking. Head over to redspiceroad.com, redspiceqv.com or burmalane.com.au to make a reservation. Take note, there’s a maximum of four diners at a time, and the offer is only available until the end of August.
Variety – The Children’s Charity Announces A Variety Of Whiskeys Event Variety has just unveiled a special series of gourmet masterclasses at Sofitel on Collins Street, the first of these showcasing whiskey. This Thursday evening after work, take the elevator to the 35th floor of Sofitel and watch the sun set over Melbourne as you indulge in a special whiskey degustation menu. The night will also feature a Charity Whiskey Wall, granting patrons a chance to pick up a premium bottle of Whisky for a song. The team from Casa De Vinos, noted for their extensive knowledge and range of craft liquor, will be bringing a selection of interesting whiskies matched to the delicious food on offer at Sofitel. Whether you prefer yours on the rocks or neat, don’t miss a rare opportunity to taste and test your knowledge or even purchase a bottle or two of something special for your collection. All proceeds go to charity, so grab your tickets from www.varietypresents.org, then head to Sofitel’s on Collins Street this Thursday from 6pm and drink a good thing for a good cause.
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THE INTERNATIONAL HIFI SHOW IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Recent years have seen loudspeakers become smaller and more ‘lifestyle’ by design. We’ve embraced living in a technology driven ‘connected’ world and we can be thankful to Apple for the creation of the iPod and creating a world of music lovers once more. Younger readers have grown up with buds, designed and built to a target price rather than a focus on the actual quality of the sound. Neil Young himself has been a strong advocate for high-resolution audio formats, and the reproduction of music the way the artist intended. Music unites us, motivates us, is universally understood no matter what language you speak. But most importantly, it need not be compressed, lacking in dynamic range, and void of all the tone, depth and dimension that would be heard when recorded or listened to in a live environment. That’s the stuff that gets the foot tapping. Many talk of the ‘vinyl revival’, but ultimately it’s much bigger than that. It’s a HiFi revival. Best of all, you have the opportunity to hear for yourself the difference at the International HiFi Show, to be held at the Pullman
Mercure Hotel, Albert Park, Victoria between Friday July 1 to Sunday July 3. There will be over 135 of the very best brands from Australia and around the world converging to showcase everything from loudspeakers, turntables, home cinema, portable audio players, headphones, vinyl and much more. While there will be a $330,000 Raidho Acoustics HiFi system in action, plus a $100,000+ Dolby ATMOS home cinema demonstration, the show also includes genuine Hi-Fi systems from as little as $399 for a valve amplifier and speakers, and turntables from just a few hundred dollars. With over 32 rooms dedicated to HiFi, check out some of Australia’s own famous brands including Lenehan Audio, VAF Research, Whatmough Audio, Osborn Loudspeakers, Holton Audio, Richter Acoustics, Wyndham Audio and more. Headphones from the global giants including Sen-
MY MY, AREN’T YOU JUST THE BEST AT CROSSWORDS? If you haven’t got a pen this is probably really annoying. This weeks crossword is brought to you by the letter P.
Coopers Vintage Dinner To Be Held At Belgian Beer Cafe Featuring five vintage beers matched with four courses, the Coopers Vintage Dinner is set to be held at the Belgian Beer Cafe on Saturday July 2. The night is set to be a great event full of delicious food and beer as Coopers Education Ambassador Andrew Clark arrives all the way from Adelaide for a tasty and informative journey through the last five years of Coopers Vintage Ale, pairing each year of brew to a corresponding meal. The menu features the fine flavours of Moreton bay bugs, blood orange, Gippsland eye fillet, fluffy pumpkin gnocchi and many more, all paired up with varying degrees of aged bottles of Coopers Vintage and stout. Booking for the night costs $75 a head, or $650 for a table of ten. Grab your tickets for the event from www.trybooking.com/LHYL when it all goes down at the Belgian Beer Cafe at 7pm Saturday July 2. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 48
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nheiser, Audio-Technica and Beyerdynamic, or one of the best record players in the world designed by Australia’s Mark Dohmann; it’s all on display. If vinyl is your thing, the Saturday and Sunday of the show includes the very first Australian Record Fair with vendors from around the country selling new, used, rare and collectible records. Top it off with a nice drink in the StereoNET Lounge while listening to live music from Australia’s Mary Webb. The International HiFi Show is all about the music, played back in a variety of ways to suit your lifestyle. There will be something for every budget, and chances are you can enjoy a better sound quality than what you’ve become used to. The International HiFi Show runs from Friday July 1 to Sunday July 3, 2016 at the Pullman Mercure Hotel on Queens Road, Albert Park. Tickets are available online or at the door.
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NEW MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PLEASURE GARDEN Melbourne gets a new music, arts and visual festival, The Pleasure Garden, in December. It is based on the ambience of UK festivals as Bestival, Secret Garden Party and Boomtown Fair, and will include roving theatrical performances, art installations, themed stages, 3D technology sound, carnival rides and boutique cocktail and food options. Acts so far are The Cat Empire, electro-funk Opiuo Band, UK duo The Correspondents, Tash Sultana, electronica act Spoonbill, Dub FX, Jakubi, Mista Savona, Boogs, DJ Steve Ward and Kodiak Kid. The event is on Saturday December 10 at Catani Gardens St Kilda Foreshore.
PBS’s KALAMARAS HEADING TO MBS After four years as Marketing and Events Manager at PBS FM, Con Kalamaras is leaving on Thursday July 7. The onetime APRA executive is taking up his new appointment at 3MBS as Business Development Manager.
TRAINERS WITH BUILT-IN WAH WAH PEDAL Converse shoes intends to launch a new trainer with a wah-wah guitar pedal built into its sole. The ‘Chuck Taylor All Wah’ trainer is wirelessly connected to a wah box, and will work with an amp, or connected to a Mac or iPhone. No specific launch date has been announced.
THINGS WE HEAR How will the axing of the Mick Jagger/ Martin Scorsese Vinyl TV series after one season affect talks on an Australian version based on a local music mogul? Will a potential venue owner get his deposit BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 50
Congrats to Sydney DJs Alison Wonderland and Anna Lunoe on being the first two solo female spinners in the world to play Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival, drawing 140,000. The AIR (Association of Independent Record Labels) returned from Indie Week in New York City, vibed on making new connections and new insights from the various panels. The conference closed with the 5th A2im Libera awards which saw Courtney Barnett nominated in three categories. El-P of the hip hop duo Run The Jewels is pissed that actor Kevin Hart has plans for a movie with that name, about two nothing rappers scheming to rob an eccentric hip hop tycoon. Parkway Drive’s fifth studio album Ire has gone gold. So has Keith Urban’s Ripcord after six weeks. Cookin’ On 3 Burners vs Kungs’ This Girl getting airplay in 19 European countries as it stays in the charts for its 10th week. Bendigo’s music community is rallying behind Tony Spizzica, bassist with Mockbells and head of the music department at Echuca College. He has esophageal cancer that returned and is now in his adrenal glands. A Go Fund Me account generated $88,00 while a sold out benefit gig at the Hotel Shamrock raised $11,117.55 bringing the total to $20,000.
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A Prince musical, made up of his hits and hundreds of unreleased songs in his vaults, could be staged in Broadway, or be a Cirque du Soleil show like Michael Jackson and The Beatles. Two music executives have been appointed by a Minneapolis court to generate revenue for the estate. They are his longtime lawyer and manager L. Londell McMillan and music executive Charles Koppelman. Another idea is to turn the iconic singer’s Paisley Park complex into a tourist attraction to bring in millions like Elvis Presley’s Gracelands estate.
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In the run-up to this weekend’s Federal elections, the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN) – which represents peak state and territory music industry associations of Australia has come up with a $5 million a year proposal called The Contemporary Music Fund. It wants the political parties to endorse it. The fund will be used for AMIN and state associations to deliver a national Audience Development Initiative. This will increase engagement with music, fund Music Australia to deliver an education program and national skills forum, and establish an export grant program for showcases. There will also be a regional touring grant and a Music Entrepreneurs Internship Program to develop the skills needed to manage music businesses.
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in August through Elefant Traks. “Over the last 12 months, Urthboy (Elefant label manager) and I have built a solid relationship and I’ve always found his insights sincere and inspiring,” he says. The rapper says that signing to Elefant Traks will help him “create the way I wanted and not be afraid to do things a little different to what’s coming out of Australian scene at the moment.”
NEW SIGNING #2: HARTS AT DEW PROCESS Dew Process/Universal Music will release the future works of Melbourne funk, soul and rock virtuoso Harts, currently all over triple j with their single Peculiar. Harts, who once jammed with Prince at Paisley Park, had his career developed for the last seven years by The A&R Dept and Offtime Production, who continue to work with him. He just returned from a European tour, including a set at Pink Pop.
NEW SIGNING #3: GABRIELLA COHEN AT DOT DASH/ REMOTE CONTROL Enigmatic singer/songwriter Gabriella Cohen who moved to Melbourne from Brisbane late last year, has impressed with her recent debut album Full Closure And No Details. It was made with long-time collaborator Kate Dillon (Full Flower Moon Band) and issued through her own label, Dirty Power Studios. A new deal with Dot Dash/Remote Control Records sees the album now available digitally in Australia and New Zealand and a full release in North America via Dot Dash’s partnership with New York’s Captured Tracks.
NEW SIGNING #4: CERES AT COOKING VINYL
Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison described the way he was booted out of the band three years ago as ‘cowardly’ – by email. At the time he had been diagnosed with a rare disease of the nervous system, unable to play the drums and having to be carried onto the stage.
Melbourne quartet Ceres is now with Cooking Vinyl Australia, which releases their sophomore album, Drag It Down On You on Friday September 2. “Having Stu Harvey and Leigh Gruppetta, and the rest of their team in our corner, is all still a bit of a trip. Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else,” says the band’s Tom Lanyon on the signing. The album was co-produced by the band with Tom Bromley of Cardiff ’s Los Campesinos!. New free download track Happy In Your Head is launched at The Workers Club in Fitzroy on Friday July 1.
Breaking attendance records for a third year in a row, Vivid Sydney drew over 1.7 million visitors
NEW SIGNING #5: CHRIS WATTS AT 123
Media company oOh!media has forked out $11.05 million to buy 85% of Junkee Media, whose assets include inthemix and FasterLouder.
Melbourne’s The Pretty Littles responded to the Eddie McGuire/ Sam Newman/ Caroline Wilson fiasco with Sam’s Mob to be included on their upcoming album, due in September. “It’s about the power some people wield for the wrong reasons. About people defending their right to make other people feel shit.” Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook has landed a role playing an FBI agent in the upcoming film Z. 670 people arrived at dawn for the annual nude swim in the freezing Derwent River at Hobert’s Dark Mofo festival to mark the daybreak after the winter solstice. Mind you, 1000 had signed on, so a few obviously had last minute thoughts.
NEW SIGNING #1: B WISE at ELEFANT TRAKS African-Australian MC B Wise, buzzing with Prince Akeem and Lately has an EP out
Folk pop performer Chris Watts has signed with 123 Agency to handle his bookings. Aside from festival appearances, he was also asked to take part in MTV Brand New and MTV Beats & Eats in Sydney. Meantime, new single Wrong Or Right features Amy Sheppard taking time off from Sheppard’s second album to collaborate with him. Earlier single Let Go got 100,000 Spotify plays in six days.
NEW SIGNING #6: THE OUTDOOR TYPE AT NETTWERK Melbourne’s The Outdoor Type, singer/ songwriter Zack Buchanan’s year old project, signed globally with Nettwerk Records. Nettwerk, making the announcement said, “They’ve emerged out of a thriving music scene in Melbourne, their music is at once reminiscent of some of the great ‘70s acts like Crosby Stills and Nash and Lou Reed right through to MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
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current acts like War on Drugs and fellow Melbournite Courtney Barnett.”
NEW SIGNING #7: WAVE RACER AT BMG AUSTRALIA After five months, BMG Australia signed its fifth act, Sydney electronic artist Wave Racer (aka Thomas Purcell) to a global publishing agreement. He has played international festivals at Coachella and Ultra, headlined through the US in March/ April and had Streamers chosen by Bill Gates to be played during his annual letter speech for Microsoft. It was also in an Optus TV campaign last year.
SATELLITE LOUNGE LAUNCHING Mark Burchett of the Flying Saucer Club and Neil Wedd of Thornbury Theatre are opening the Satellite Lounge in the Wheelers Hill Hotel (corner Ferntree Gully and Jells Roads) in August. It’s a 300 capacity room with 150 seating. Live music begins from 8.30pm. Wedd says, “At present we are running one night a week, but after the footy season we expect to build up with more gigs.”
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JACK HOWARD: BRASS IN HIS POCKET Jack Howard of Hunters & Collectors, and of course a solo act in his own right, has tried an ambitious tack with his new show Epic Brass. In a two set tribute to Australian left-of-centre songs, he’s put together a band and brought in guest singers such as Sean Kelly (Models), Ron Peno (Died Pretty), Paul Stewart (Painters & Dockers), Steve Lucas (X), Penny Ikinger (Wet Taxis) and Fiona Lee Maynard. The catalogue covers the Oils, Saints, H & C; Laughing Clowns, X, The Wet Taxis and more, all at MEMO Music Hall in St. Kilda, on Saturday July 9.
AUSSIE MUSIC WEEKLY ON COMMUNITY RADIO Aussie Music Weekly is a new radio show launching on the Community Radio Network in the first week of July, replacing HomeBrew Radio, which ended after ten years of national syndication to 45 stations. It aims to give exposure to acts that don’t get mainstream airplay and will regularly feature live studio performances. For all digital releases, submit via info@aussiemusicweekly.com. au. Further info, sponsorship enquiries and music submissions, contact Jason ‘Noddy’ Velleley on 0418 661 534 or noddy@ aussiemusicweekly.com.au.
Lifelines BORN: son, Roman, to S Club 7’s Tina Barrett and partner Paul Cashmore. SPLIT: Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock secretly from footballer boyfriend Jordan Kiffin after more than three years. ILL: At The Drive-In had to bow out of US shows after singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala lost his voice due to a bad cold. IN COURT: US rapper Troy Ave was indicted on attempted murder after shooting five shots at TI concert in New York in May which left his own bodyguard dead. DIED: Bernie Worrell, whose array of keyboard sounds helped define the seminal ParliamentFunkadelic sound, at 72 from lung cancer. He also played with Talking Heads. DIED: Brian Rading, bassist for 70’s group The Five Man Electrical Band (Signs was #1 in Australia for two months), at 69 from throat cancer. DIED: NOFX paid tribute to a fan, Samuel Pollas, 20, who fell on the floor at a Copenhagen club, complained of dizziness and nausea, went home to sleep and never woke up. DIED: Wayne Jackson, trumpeter with Memphis Horns, at 74 from heart failure. He performed on recordings by 52 #1 hits including those by Otis Redding, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond and U2. DIED: ZZ Top manager Bill Ham, at 79, cause unknown. He worked in a record label until meeting ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbon backstage at a Doors show in 1967 and built them up, fighting for $7 million advances before recording each album.