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MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW UNVEILS FULL 2016 PROGRAM The Melbourne Guitar Show is back for 2016, and has revealed a whopping program for their upcoming event. The Aon Forecourt Stage will see the likes of I Built The Sky, Dean Ray, Teramaze, Dallas Frasca, Tequila Mockingbyrd and more pump out the jams. Bringing some tenderness to the Acoustic Stage will be Nick Charles, Matthew Fagan, and Jamie Pye, while the Mezzanine Stage will host Phil Manning, Mike Elrington and a special event titled Fretted Femmes in Song, featuring Heloise, Cat Canteri and more. Further highlights include a Maton Custom Shop seminar, a look into wireless guitar systems, and a workshop for those about to sit guitar exams. Rounding it out come free masterclasses from Troy Male, Robbie Little, Peter Hodgson, Tim Gaze and Bob Spencer. Musicians and fans alike will flock to the event, which is tipped to be even bigger than the 2015 incarnation, which saw over 5,000 people through the door. The floorplan has been extended to accommodate more performers, more fans and an acoustic only level, for those who prefer the quieter side of all things six-string. It all goes down from Saturday August 6 to Sunday August 7 at Caulfield Racecourse. Head to Melbourne Guitar Show’s website for more details.
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COLUMBUS ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM + AUSTRALIAN TOUR Brisbane three-piece Columbus have just announced their debut album Spring Forever, accompanied by a monster Australian tour that is set to grab the attention of people that havent heard the band’s incredible lead single Raindrop ± a song about love, relationships, and how a single event can destroy that. Columbus will be playing the track and many more recent cuts off their newest effort on Saturday November 5 at The Workers Club. Tickets available via the bands website.
CANCER, GET FUCKED: MELBOURNE BANDS COME TOGETHER IN BENEFIT SHOW A brilliant lineup has been put together to raise money for Kat Hamilton, a former bartender at Old Bar and former co-owner of The Bridge Hotel, who is now suffering from cervical cancer. Stepping on to the stage will be DEAD, Laura MacFarlane (ninetynine), Tom Lyngcoln (The Nation Blue), Test Patton and Silverlight Shadows. Kat Hamilton has been giving for a long time. For more than three years she ran The Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine, providing a space for bands and punters alike that would otherwise have gone wanting. Melbourne folk might know her from behind the timber at The Old Bar, and animal lovers may know her from the RSPCA. It’s all happening at Wetlands Studio, Sydney Road, Brunswick on Sunday July 31 from 4pm. Tickets are $15 on the door.
Sydney-based metalcore outfit For All Eternity are gearing up to bring their ferociousness to venues across Australia, for what will be their first national tour in three years. A mainstay of the Australian heavy music touring circuit between 2012 and 2014, they’ve played alongside heavyweights such as the Devil Wears Prada, Parkway Drive and The Amity Affliction. In mid 2014 they stripped back their touring schedule to cater for much needed recording time. They’ll be supported by Of Divinity and one other band which will be determined by their very own fan voting competition. For All Eternity have asked bands to submit information and music to their Facebook, from which the group will make a shortlist. The fans will then choose who the lucky support is. For All Eternity come to the Workers Club on Friday September 9.
ROLO TOMASSI TO PLAY BENDIGO HOTEL Rolo Tomassi is one of the UK’s most prolific and experimental mathcore outfits, and will be playing a monster set at the Bendigo Hotel on Thursday September 15 as part of a national tour in support of their latest fulllength effort Grievances. They will be supported by Melbourne post hardcore outfit Belle Haven, as well as Sundr, Disasters, and No Haven. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through the Big Cartel website.
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SCORPIONS TO PLAY THE PALAIS THEATRE Arguably Germany’s most successful rock band, Scorpions will bring their brand of ballsy, crunching hard rock to Australian shores for the first time ever, in what will be the 50th anniversary of the band. Scorpions are the only band to have played five consecutive soldout shows in what was then known as Soviet Leningrad in Russia. Having already conquered Russia, they’re planning to take over Australia via Palais Theatre on Tuesday October 18. Tickets will go on sale Friday July 29 and can be purchased through Live Nation. HOT TALK
PJ HARVEY LEADS HUGE MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL 2016 PROGRAM The Melbourne Writers Festival has pulled out the big guns for their first announcement, boasting a huge cast of literary heavyweights and critical thinkers for their 2016 event. In what will be an extraordinary visual presentation and fascinating conversation, acclaimed musician and Mercury Prize Winner PJ Harvey will share her poetry in The Hollow of the Hand, alongside photojournalist Seamus Murphy’s striking images from their travels together to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC between 2011 and 2014. The Hollow of the Hand will be held at the Athenaeum Theatre on Thursday September 1. Elsewhere on the program, Australian writer and slam poet Maxine Beneba Clarke will share from her poetry collections, while stand-up comedian, actor and writer Alexei Sayle will charm audiences with his sidesplitting memoirs, and multiple award-winning novelist Richard Flanagan will ask the deep question: ‘Does Writing Matter?’ The Melbourne Writers Festival 2016 will launch on Friday August 26 and will run until Sunday September 4. Visit www.mwf. com.au for the full program.
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The Kyneton Music Festival is back for 2016, and they’ve curated an outstanding lineup of acts who’ll perform in a relaxed country setting an hour out of Melbourne. Punters can look forward to performances from Henry Wagons & The Only Children, Mojo Juju, Dorsal Fins, Deep Street Soul, Gabriella Cohen, The Sugarcanes, Raised By Eagles and stacks more. It’s all going down in the new location of St Paul's Park on Piper Street, with performances also branching out to Kyneton’s favourite music venue, Major Tom’s, in addition to the historic Bluestone Theatre. The festival will run over Friday October 21 and Saturday October 22. For tickets and the full lineup, head to the Kyneton Music Festival’s website.
KYLIE AULDIST PERFORMING LAST SHOWS BEFORE EUROPEAN TOUR Recently having her voice featured on European smash hit This Girl by Kungs vs Cookin’ on 3 Burners, Kylie Auldist has released her 12” five-track vinyl EP, Waste of Time, before the much anticipated release of her electro-funk record Family Tree, out Friday August 5. She will perform two special shows before she heads off on her tour of Europe and the UK at The Night Cat in Fitzroy on Friday August 12 and at the Caravan Music Club on Saturday August 13. Tickets available through Moshtix.
MULTICULTURAL ARTS VICTORIA PRESENTS MAPPING MELBOURNE Multicultural Arts Victoria are presenting a new multi-art form events festival named Mapping Melbourne. The festival is set to display and showcase independent contemporary artists, exploring Asian art and identity through visual art, live art, live music, contemporary dance and new multidisciplinary collaborations at various locations across Melbourne. The festival will take place from Thursday December 1 until Sunday December 18, and the full program of events will be released in October.
THE WINTER GYPSY ANNOUNCE EAST COAST TOUR
GL ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR Coming off the back of their gripping debut album, Touch, dreamy synth pop duo GL have now announced an Australian tour kicking off in September. Having supported Client Liason on a national tour quite recently, GL is renowned for their pulsating and infectious energetic live performance. Their reputation has seen them draw crowds that move heavily to beats, dripping with elegance and class. GL will play Howler on Saturday September 10. Tickets and information through the Astral People website.
Indie folksters The Winter Gypsy are fresh off the release of their brand new tune Took Me By, one of the tracks off their brand new, yet to be released EP Page 1. The song is accompanied by a beautifully shot video filmed in Mount Barker, South Australia, and directed by Gerard Wood. If that’s not enough, they’ve also announced an east coast tour where they'll be showcasing new songs off the EP. The Winter Gypsy will be playing at Bar Open in Fitzroy on Sunday August 28. Tickets are available at the door.
BIGSOUND 2016 ADDS THREE HUGE ACTS TO LINEUP BIGSOUND 2016 is currently taking shape as one of the world’s most desired music conferences, with the lineup gaining three massive names to add to the already stellar card. Legendary Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon, and hip hop luminaries Peanut Butter Wolf and long time label-mate J Rocc, will be reflecting on their creative influence and the music that has led them to worldwide critical acclaim. BIGSOUND will also feature three nights of live music with 150 bands in 15 venues, with local Australian talent that is on the cusp of international success including Sampa The Great, BANFF, Tiny Little Houses and Sarah Connor. BIGSOUND will take over Brisbane's Fortitude Valley from Wednesday September 7 until Friday September 9. Special rate tickets are available from Sunday July 31, or $450 until sold out. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 12
JADE IMAGINE ANNOUNCES FREE MELBOURNE LAUNCH GIG Fresh from signing to Our Golden Friend, Jade Imagine has recently premiered her new single and is capping it all off with a free Melbourne launch gig. Stay Awake was written and recorded by the artist with help from good mate Dave Mudie (Courtney Barnett) on production and mixing duties. The track is the first single lifted from a limited edition 7” vinyl which will be released on Monday August 8. She’ll be launching it with help from her pals The Ocean Party, Dreamin’ Wild and Forever Son. It’s all going down for free at the Northcote Social Club’s Monday Night Mass on Monday August 8. HOT TALK
KIMYA DAWSON RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA American singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is packing her bags and heading our way. Dawson’s last Australian visit was in 2011, and 2016 will see her anticipated return including a Melbourne show. With her recent track At The Seams reaching out in support of political movement Black Lives Matter, she’ll be filling her set with both new material and favourites from her hefty seven-album discography. Catch Kimya Dawson at the Northcote Social Club on Friday September 16.
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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE TO TOUR AUSTRALIA One of the most defining metalcore bands of our time, Killswitch Engage, will be returning to Australia in March 2017 in support of their seventh studio album, Incarnate. The album has gained praise from fans and critics alike, confirming their long standing relevance almost 15 years after releasing highly regarded debut, Alive or Just Breathing. Joining the band will be San Francisco’s unstoppable Fallujah, on their first ever Australian excursion. Fallujah have been breathing new life into the death metal world, with their latest full length, Dreamless. Safe to say these shows will be some of the most ear-crushing and relentless performances you will see this year. You can catch the show on Tuesday March 7 at 170 Russell, tickets are on sale Thursday July 28 from 9am.
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Perth metal quartet Nucleust are set to unveil their new EP on Friday August 26, and to support it they’ll be embarking on their debut national tour. Resistivity is the follow-up to the group’s 2014 debut EP Fractured Equilibrium which saw them form an extensive fan base within their home state, and also led to a six date tour of Indonesia. Inspired by everything from classical music to doom and goth, the band flaunts a blend of unpredictable riff combinations, pounding polyrhythms and sophisticated lyrical motives. Nucleust will unleash on the Reverence Hotel on Friday September 9.
Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and composer Barney McAll has locked in a one-night-only show. McAll grew up in Melbourne and moved to New York City in 1997 after being invited to join the Gary Bartz Quartet. Today he continues to tour internationally with Bartz, in addition to Josh Roseman and Fred Wesley and the JB’s. He has also performed and toured with major US artists Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Cobb, Eddie Henderson and Dewey Redman, as well as leading his own ensembles. For his solo concert, McAll draws on spiritual harmonies he learned playing in the AfricanAmerican church for a decade, blended with slow meditative ambiences in a unique and uplifting experience. He’ll take to the stage at Kew Court House on Friday August 12.
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PERIPHERY TO RETURN TO AUSTRALIA WITH SIXTH ALBUM Six-piece metal juggernaut Periphery have just released their sixth studio album, and to celebrate they’re returning to Australia for a very special headline tour. Periphery III: Select Difficulty showcases their chaotic, relentless and addictive best with their signature triple-guitar attack and rhythmic dexterity that has won them a dedicated fan base encompassing a range of subcultures. Last year they released their most recent work with double albums Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega debuting at #15 and #16 on the US Billboard charts respectively. Capping it off, they toured Australia with the Devin Townsend Project in the same year. Periphery arrive at 170 Russell on Sunday February 5, 2017.
Commonground is a community of changemakers dedicated to the purpose of supporting social change. They’re preparing to host a swag of musicians for their 2016 Commonground Festival on 95 acres of rejuvenated bushland, one hour north of Melbourne. The grassroots, not-for-profit festival will so far host Dallas Frasca, The Deans, Sugar Fed Leopards, The Seven Ups, 8 Foot Felix, Quantum Milkshake and Deep Street Soul, with more to be announced in September. The festival will run from Friday November 18 through to Sunday November 20. For more info and to pick up a ticket, head to the Commonground Festival website.
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OCEAN GROVE ANNOUNCE 2016 MELBOURNE SHOWS Ocean Grove will be taking to stages across the country as part of a national tour, celebrating their new single. Having impressed countless audiences over the past twelve months, it was the band’s recent performance on the mammoth Equinox tour where they joined Northlane, In Hearts Wake and Hands Like Houses that marked their arrival at a national level. They’ll be bringing with them their latest track, Lights On Kind Of Lover. They’ll play The Evelyn on Sunday October 1 and Pheonix Youth Centre (all ages show) on Sunday October 2. Tickets via Destroy All Lines.
YWCA PRESENTS TINATALKS #5 The Young Women’s Christian Association will present TINAtalks #5 at the State Library on Friday July 29. It's a lively discussion panel hosted by novelist, journalist and editor Jenny Valentish. Also on board is an array of female writers including authors Lisa Carver and Michelle Law, and one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed songwriters, Adalita (Magic Dirt). The panel will focus on the female experience in media, and will act as a fundraiser and provide support for women in all areas including housing, education, entertainment, training and advocacy. Tickets are just $20 and can be purchased through Eventbrite. HOT TALK
KING PARROT TO PLAY SOOKI LOUNGE Off the back of their recent North American tour, the King Parrot boys will return to Melbourne for a tight run of shows. Warming up for their end of year European tour alongside Obituary, Exodus and Prong King Parrot are making a note of visiting towns off the beaten track, as well as city hotspots for their upcoming tour. King Parrot will play Sooki Lounge on Friday September 16. Tickets via Oztix.
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The time has come to bathe in the black tears of Robert Smith, with The Cure lurking into Melbourne town for a huge arena show. You can finally dust off those studded creepers you’ve had sitting in your wardrobe, smear your eyes with your finest, darkest, makeup, and solidify your goth do with enough hairspray to endanger yourself and all around in the event of pyrotechnics. Smiling is so passé, so have yourself a shitty time when you sulk your way down to Rod Laver Arena on Thursday July 28.
JAKE BUGG
Jake Bugg is like the ghost of Justin Bieber’s youth – offering better dress sense and far more palatable tunes. Like Bieber, Bugg was catapulted into the spotlight with the breakout success of his debut album, enjoying success at an age when most of us were simply sipping our first legal frothies. Unlike Bieber, there are not many who fantasise about feeding Bugg to Cthulhu. Check out Bugg when he hits Palais Theatre on Wednesday July 27.
BENNY WALKER
That handsome devil Benny Walker is in town to launch his glorious new single, Oh No You Don’t. The talented singer/songwriter hails from regional Victoria, and has been creating a huge stir as one of the most gifted indigenous performers kicking around. He’s already amassed a number of awards, and everyone is pretty darn excited to see what comes next. Swoon over Walker when he heats up The Gasometer on Friday July 29.
THE WOLFE BROTHERS The Palms at Crown October 15 OKTOBERFEST feat. Shannon Noll St Kilda October 15 FALLING IN REVERSE 170 Russell October 16, 17 TIKI TAANE The Evelyn October 16 THE SCORPIANS Palais Theatre October 18 KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Henry Wagons & The Only Children, Mojo Juju, Dorsal Fins and more St Pauls Park October 20 – 21 THE DELTA RIGGS Corner Hotel October 21 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 Palais Theatre October 26 THE SOFT MOON The John Curtin October 28 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 PRETTY LITTLES Northcote Social Club October 29 THE VENGABOYS 170 Russell October 30 VIOLENT SOHO Festival Hall October 31 SLIPKNOT Rod Laver Arena October 31 RICHIE RAMONE The Tote October 31, November 2 THE STIFFYS The Workers Club November 4 BAD MANNERS Corner Hotel November 3 MSO - INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Arts Centre November 4, 5 COLUMBUS The Workers Club November 5 THE DANDY WARHOLS Palais Theatre November 5 TECH N9NE Prince Bandroom November 7, 8 SCHOOLBOY Q Festival Hall November 9 DEFTONES Festival Hall November 11 DESTROYER 666 Max Watt’s November 11 CITIZEN Corner Hotel November 12, Arrow on Swanston November 13 DIONNE WARWICK Palais Theatre November 13 A DAY ON THE GREEN Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong November 12, Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley November 13 STRAWBERRY FIELDS feat. George Fitzgerald, Henry Saiz, Petar Dundov and more Tocumwal, New South Wales November 17 – 20 COMMONGROUNDS MUSIC FESTIVAL feat.
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SCREAMING FEMALES D O I N G I T F O R T H E M S E LV E S BY JOE HANSEN
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ew Jersey’s Screaming Females stand alone in their place in modern independent rock and punk. In an era of somewhat conservative musical trends and the uncoolness of extended guitar solos and jam sessions, the band continues into their tenth year as strong and self-determined as ever. Having released six full-length albums and played over 1000 shows, the band’s output remains as uncompromising and innovative as ever. A month away from their debut Australian tour, the band talks inspiration, songwriting methodology and what it means to be an independent band in 2016.
Screaming Females’ unique sound and accompanying artwork and visuals come directly from the voice, guitar prowess and visual creativity of frontwoman Marissa Paternoster. Recently listed in SPIN’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, the cult shredder has developed a style and approach to the instrument rarely seen in punk or indie rock. On the topic of influence and sourcing creativity, Paternoster explains, “I’ve been drawing ever since I was a kid. My mum was an art teacher, she’d let me sit in on her classes and teach me a lot of things. We always had art books around the house that I would look at for hours. I didn’t really understand a lot of the art language but I loved looking at the pictures. My mum always supported my interest in art and knew I’d always end up at a good art school.” Connecting her love of visual art and her emerging interest in playing music at 14, Paternoser naturally turned to the left-of-centre aspects. “I got really into comic books and Mad Magazine around the same time which is what got me into punk. Watching Ren and Stimpy and enjoying weirdo stuff has always been what I’ve been into and what has influenced me. I’ve been drawing and sketching my whole life and I ended up going to art school, doing a BFA in drawing and painting. I had BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
the ambition of becoming a full-time illustrator or visual artist but playing punk music took over.” On stage the band is known for often extending songs, jamming on new riffs or taking old songs down new and unexpected avenues. “We definitely have songs that have changed a lot live over the years, but then again we have other songs that we try to play as close to the recordings as possible,” explains drummer Jarrett Dougherty. “It comes down to trying to play the best possible show every night. For us that means having a little bit of the unexpected involved. At any moment one of us could try and change the song slightly and sometimes that derails but most often we’re good at knowing what parts are good to expand and change. Some of our best shows were when we played identically to the album and some of our best were when we deviated and played our songs completely differently. Occasionally it crashes and burns but that’s no big deal. If that happens you can just start bashing everything and pretend you’re Sonic Youth.” Complex songwriting and technical musicianship has been a staple of the band’s sound on all of their albums, with sonic experimentation and ambition pushing their sound forward. 2012’s B E AT.C O M . A U
Ugly saw the band work with legendary producer Steve Albini, pushing their sound and performances to the limit. Despite these hallmarks, 2015’s Rose Mountain took a stripped back approach to the songwriting and composition. “Marissa’s guitar playing gets a lot of credit and attention for obvious reasons,” Dougherty says. “On Rose Mountain we really tried to strip everything away that was extraneous and build the songs back up from there. Most often we’d write an instrumental track first and then add vocals on top of that. For years that meant Marissa would be playing a lead line, Mike would be playing a lead line on the bass, I’d be playing a melodic line on the toms and Marissa would try and fit a lead vocal line on top of it. It worked for us and became our style, but writing and recording often became so difficult because of how complex we were making it. “Since then we’ve become really focused on managing the whole project a lot better and simplifying some things. We did a tour with Garbage around the time that we were working on those songs and we were playing some of them to Butch Vig, trying to pick his brain. He said something that I thought was very insightful: ‘It sounds really cool what you guys are working on here and it’s a great way to go as a band, but remember the best thing about your band is that it sounds like three people all going nuts at the same time and it somehow works.’ I thought that was a cool thing to come from someone who’s worked on so many radio friendly records, reminding you that it’s ok to be crazy.” Taking such risks on an ultimate reversal of the band’s trademarks may read as an experimentation destined for failure, however bassist King Mike’s outlook on the album is just to keep the approach simple, honest and manageable. “We always try and put out something that makes us happy and I think we were all really proud of that album. We spent a long time writing those songs and rehearsing them until they were second nature to us. It was the first time we made an album where we didn’t have some sort of emotional breakdown during the recording,” he says. The state of the music industry in 2016 is a confusing mess at best, with no clear direction or sensical method of capitalising or having a safe career. In
terms of self-determination and control over their art and direction, Dougherty believes their approach is one of the only ways a band can have longevity and freedom in the industry. “Doing things DIY and independently is the only way we’ve ever known, and whenever we’d try to talk to people in the music industry who are more important or have more money, they look at us like we’re crazy when we talk about what we think is important about being a band. What we say misses their ears and what they say misses our ears. But somehow it’s worked for us. I’ve noticed that a lot of bands these days don’t even get an opportunity to do a lot of things for themselves and I don’t see how that lack of control from the very beginning can end well for anyone, especially bands who want to retain any degree of creative control over their music or career.” For the many modern bands that quickly get snapped up by large labels and are either worked to death or never even achieve lift-off, Dougherty’s outlook remains cautious. “Very quickly people swoop in and promise them lots of money for their new record or management offers. To me it seems like a detriment because bands never learn how to manage these things for themselves and if you don’t have the knowledge to handle these things you’re going to get screwed in the end. There’s been a very small minority of people in this industry who have been able to be financially successful in music. It’s a historical fact and I think it will always be that way,” he says. “We’ve always wanted to avoid those pitfalls in the industry. If you go into it with the intent of capitalising on the monetary side of it you’re destined to fail. We’re happy doing what we do, not because of the fact it’s all we really know, but seeing everything else that goes on in the industry as something that would just be incompatible with our band.” SCREAMING FEMALES play The Curtin on Saturday August 6. Tickets are on sale now via www. johncurtinhotel.com. The Australian tour edition of 2015’s Rose Mountain with exclusive b-sides and bonus tracks is available now.
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This Week: Hailed as Australia’s answer to To Kill a Mockingbird, Jasper Jones is lovingly adapted for the stage by Kate Mulvany and directed by Sam Strong (Private Lives, The Weir). In this wellloved Australian epic, young Charlie is startled by fierce rapping on the window of his sleepout late one summer night in 1965. It’s Jasper Jones, the baddest kid in Corrigan, begging him to come see something. Something that will change his life. A heart-warming comingof-age story wrapped in a mystery, Jasper Jones recalls a long, simmering summer in which friendships are tested and illusions are lost. Now, Melbourne Theatre Company transforms this tender small-town morality tale into a rich and poignant new production. It opens Monday August 1 and runs through to Friday September 9 at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.
With James Di Fabrizio. Do you have news, thoughts or a fantastic minestrone recipe? Email james@beat.com.au.
The Mill on the Floss BY AdAM NORRIs
A hungry servant bites off more than he can chew in The Servant of Two Masters. Watch this calamitous comedy unfold as he skids and schemes his way through multiple beatings, mistaken identity and love gone awry on the streets of decadent 18th century Venice. This new translation of Goldoni’s classic maintains the traditional improvised spirit and grotesque masks of commedia in a contemporary reimagining. Take a gondola ride and see cross-dressers and decadent aristocrats take to the stage at La Mama. It runs throughout the week, up to Sunday July 31. MIFF Talking Pictures kicks off this week, discussing the magic of cinema at ACMI. The program is designed to have you discussing, questioning and arguing all things cinematic with the Melbourne International Film Festival’s filmmakers and personalities, opening the box on the issues and ideas in this year’s program. This week, Dr Suelette Dreyfus speaks with academic Alex Edney-Browne, and former drone operators and subjects of the documentary National Bird on Saturday July 30, while the depiction of movement is covered in Bodies in Motion covering dance on film on Tuesday August 2. Simon Taylor is back from a stint in the US, bringing his new show to The Butterfly club. After writing jokes for Jay Leno, Sofia Vergara and Shaun Micallef, he will take to the stage himself to perform his own brand of stand-up, music, magic and more. Catch him covering life on the road, and some next-level magic he learned inside the inner sanctum of The Magic Castle in Los Angeles. His run of shows kicks off from Tuesday August 2 and runs through to Sunday August 7.
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Vertigo is an exhibition of contemporary artworks exploring ideas of imbalance, instability and cognitive dissonance featuring participatory sculpture, video and installation. The five artists investigate the body through a range of performative devices with a view to building new understandings of how we sense information. The exhibition is the first in a series of three exhibitions by Deakin Art and Performance at The Carlton over the next two months. It’s going down at Carlton Club on Wednesday July 29.
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ary Ann Evans isn’t a name that would ring a bell for many folks out there today. Come to that, the name George Eliot might reward you with a fair share of blank stares despite having penned one of our classic fictions, Middlemarch (indeed, Julian Barnes rates it as likely the greatest English novel). But Eliot was himself a fiction, a pseudonym employed by Evans to be taken more seriously by the 19th Century reading public. Now, over 150 years since publication, her more autobiographical work, The Mill on the Floss, is having its Australian theatrical premiere at Theatre Works, and actor Rosie Lockhart finds the story could not be more timely. “The play actually opens with the dunking of a witch,” Lockhart explains. “With all the recent commentary on women and witches, drowning them underwater, you really do think, ‘Gosh, how far have we actually come?’ It was this bizarre turn of events that happened around a week before we went into rehearsals. You’re there reading [the script] at home in your bedroom thinking, ‘Oh yeah, we’re talking about witches, what they thought of women back in the olden days’. And then the next thing, on commercial radio are these comments of dunking women underwater, and you just stop. In that sense, I think it illuminates where we are and keeps those questions at hand. Here I am listening to this story set in a faraway land with different accents, but talking about things that are actually still really close to home.” The story of Maggie Tulliver, here portrayed by three different performers across various ages of her life, is one that will certainly resonate with much of its audience. Full of fate, family, and love, The Mill on the Floss is very much a text of frustration; that of Maggie’s character, certainly, but also of Evan’s own struggles with social acceptance: maintaining a 20-year affair with a married man; determined to not find herself
contributing to the ‘silly novels’ she saw published by her female contemporaries; to be taken seriously as a literary voice; rejecting her family’s faith. To say Evans was something of a trailblazer is an understatement. “I think [director] Tanya Gerstle’s intention was to explore this woman’s life, who was largely ahead of her time. To provide a space and a context, Tanya is a female theatre maker of course, and there are so many female stories that don’t get told for one reason or another. George Eliot, of course, no one knew was a woman for a long time, and there’s an irony to that as well since Floss isn’t her best known work and not many people know it. I think the reason that this particular novel is explored in the adaptation by Helen Edmundson is because it’s largely autobiographical. In the exploration of the play, we’re also exploring George Eliot.” As Maggie ages, struggling against the cultural confines of a small English town, her physical and emotional development is mirrored in the performers themselves. Not simply in their appearance or elaborate staging, but through a method spearheaded by Gerstle called ‘Pulse’. “The actors on this show have all trained or worked with Tanya in some capacity in the past. Tanya was up
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until quite recently one of the acting teachers at the Victorian College of the Arts, so this is the culmination of around 15 years of training. In terms of process, Tanya developed ‘Pulse’. It’s basically approaching the text through impulses in the body. It means that the text and the body are the most important things, so you’ll have the text fed into the space, and then a physical score will develop from any kind of impulses that come to the actor. You basically make the show from this physical score. Usual staging in mainstream theatre is probably more, ‘Yeah, we’ve got this text, you can stand there and when you say this, I’ll move over here.’ This comes directly from the text, and gives the actor the agency to make those decisions based on their impulses. It sounds a bit ‘wafty-dofty’ when I talk about it, but it really serves the work. You’re not just making something up that is exterior to the language. It’s actually coming from within you.” It has brought great physicality to the production, though the show should by no means be considered experimental; the ensemble remains faithful to Evans’ original story, from nine-year old Maggie’s early life with her brother Tom, to her potential suitors, through to its tragic denouement. It is a method that allows the cast to fully embrace their characters, responding fluidly and naturally to the environment, rather than follow the rails of conventional blocking. “In theory, no matter what method you use, this is the goal as an actor. You want every night to feel different, you want to be present and available to the space and character and other performers. It’s not a prop heavy show, so wherever we can we use bodies and gesture to create an image or an animal. It’s quite a sophisticated way of working, I think, to use the body in a really intelligent way that doesn’t look like you’re playing out something. It can really surprise you, and audiences are quite smart. They don’t need a lot. If you have beautiful words and people being real on stage, you can create stories so well.” THE MILL ON THE FLOSS will run at Theatre Works from Thursday July 28 to Saturday August 13. Bookings via Theatre Works.
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DIRTY SECRETS COMEDY
Suburra
THE COMIC STRIP CRAB LAB
Scuttle down to Crab Lab this Wednesday July 27 for a cracking night of comedy. They’ll be hosting Greg Larsen, Damien Power, Aaron Gocs, Nick Capper, Becky Lucas, Adam Knox, Danielle Walker, Jess Perkins, Rohan Ganju. Plus, $7 pints, free entry and free popcorn. 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
Melbourne Exhibition Explores the Classic Australian Milk Bar
DIRTY SECRETS It’s another huge one for Dirty Secrets, with a great selection of comedians to get you through hump-day. Tim Hewitt is acting MC with Kirsty Webeck, Simon Taylor, Alex Ward, Naomi Higgins and more getting in on the action. It’s all happening Wednesday July 27. Get down from 8.30pm at 80 Smith St, Collingwood.
COMEDY AT GEORGE’S The city’s favourite George Costanza-inspired bar continues to bring the laughs to warm up the Winter of George. On Thursday July 28 they’ll host Naomi Higgins, Tim Hewitt, Geoff Setty, Dave Hynes, Ahn Tu, Kimberley Lisle, Lauren Bok and Matt Young. Plus, the next competitors for the ‘Are You Funnier Than George?’ competition are taking to the stage. 20 Johnston St, Fitzroy.
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The Blackhearts Club Reveals Entertainment and Menu for MIFF 2016 The Blackhearts Club at The Forum Theatre is the official bar of the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival, delivering an array of musical entertainment to take your festival experience to the next level. Within the hallowed walls of the Forum Theatre, the club mixes the old world grandeur of Hollywood’s Golden Age with the undercover frisson of speakeasies, featuring some of Melbourne’s best-loved cult musicians and DJs in a series of performances inspired by the festival’s programming. At the club’s heart will be a Steinway grand piano, standing as the centrepiece of the festival’s music activities. Jazz lord Mark Fitzgibbon will be tickling the ivories as the club’s Player-In-Residence, leading the cocktail hour most evenings. Other performances include The Drones’ Dan Luscombe taking to the piano for a rare stint on the keys. He’ll be followed by DJ sets from PBS’ DJ Manchild and RRR’s Woody McDonald. Elsewhere, performances include Jane Clifton, The Dusty Millers, Mr Ray “I ain’t afraid of no ghost” Parker Jr and two feverish nights of J A Z Z P A R T Y as they cut loose with hot-house rhythm and blues. Menu highlights include an ‘Apertivo’ night from DOC Gastronomia celebrating the very best in Italian eating and drinking ahead of Italian noir Suburra. Moreover, Blackhearts & Sparrow will be bringing in wine experts to discuss the Australian wine industry from grape to glass, topped off with a tasting from local vino artisans. The Blackhearts Club will run at The Forum Theatre from Friday July 29 - Sunday August 14.
Rochester Comedy invites you to come and see some of the country’s best stand-ups for free. Thursday July 28 features Damien Power, Tommy Dassalo, Becky Lucas, Ryan Coffey and a bunch more, all for free on Thursday in the heart of Fitzroy. Doors at 7.30 for an 8.30 start on 202 Johnston St.
TEDxMelbourne Celebrates Adventurous Minds with New Program
CLUB VOLTAIRE COMEDY Stepping up to the plate at Club Voltaire Comedy on Sunday July 31 are the likes of Firdi Billimoria as MC joined by Matt Stewart, Laura Dunemann, Rose Callaghan, Tessa Ryan, and more. It’s all going down at 14 Raglan St, North Melbourne, with brilliant comedy every Sunday from 7.30pm.
FUNNY AT THE BRUNNY Every second Monday at 8pm The Brunswick Hotel (AKA The Brunny) hosts Funny at the Brunny with host Glen Zen and his sidekick bubble mascot Momann on the DJ decks. The next event on Monday August 1 will see a slew of hilarious folk take to the stage for a night of laughs. Free entry and $10 jugs of Boags all night long. 140 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Tram No. 19, stop 20.
Coming Up Melbourne International Film Festival Thursday July 28 - Sunday August 14 Various Venues
Billy Crystal With Andrew Denton
Melbourne Writers Festival Unveils 2016 Program
Jack Charles V The Crown Returns for Limited Melbourne Run
The Melbourne Writers Festival have pulled out the big guns for their first announcement, boasting a huge cast of literary heavyweights and critical thinkers for their 2016 event. In what will be an extraordinary visual presentation and fascinating conversation, acclaimed musician and Mercury Prize Winner PJ Harvey will share her poetry in The Hollow of the Hand, alongside photojournalist Seamus Murphy’s striking images from their travels together to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC between 2011 and 2014. Elsewhere on the program, Australian writer and slam poet Maxine Beneba Clarke will share from her poetry collections, while stand-up comedian, actor and writer Alexei Sayle will charm audiences with his side-splitting memoirs, and multiple award-winning novelist Richard Flanagan will ask the deep question: ‘Does Writing Matter?’ The Melbourne Writers Festival 2016 will launch on Friday August 26 and will run until Sunday September 4. Visit www.mwf.com. au for the full program.
From Stolen Generation to the Koorie theatre in 1970s Australia, and from film sets to Her Majesty’s prisons, the story of Jack Charles shows a life rich in experience. The Melbourne International Arts Festival encountered the sell-out premiere of Ilbijerri Theatre Company’s Jack Charles V The Crown in 2010, and since then the work has transcended beyond national borders to play at London’s Barbican Theatre, the Dublin Theatre Festival, Canada’s National Arts Centre, PuSh Festival and the High Performance Rodeo. Charles was the first Indigenous person to win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Green Room Association Awards. He was also named the 2015 Victorian Senior of the Year. Since the work first premiered, it has gone on to play at 31 venues across Australia, to both significant cultural and critical acclaim. Jack Charles V The Crown runs from Tuesday November 15 to Saturday November 19 at the Playhouse, Arts Centre. Tickets are available now via the Arts Centre website.
Alan Carr
Wednesday August 31 Arts Centre
An Evening With Henry Rollins
Monday September 19 & Tuesday September 20 State Theatre
Friday November 4 – Saturday November 5 Hamer Hall
John Olsen: The You Beaut Country
Friday September 16 - Sunday February 26 2017 Ian Potter Centre
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Having announced ‘Adventurous Minds’ as the theme for its 2016 event, TEDxMelbourne has now divulged a thrilling lineup of guest speakers and esteemed thinkers for its seventh running. Through this original premise, the showcase will aim to inspire the Melbourne community in the areas of technology, innovation and design and is set to surpass last year’s ‘The Stuff of Dreams’ themed occasion by way of motivation, education and stimulation. Awardwinning space craft designer and scramjet engineer Professor Michael Smart will lead a bill featuring intrepid youthful adventurer Jade Hameister, architect and academic Dr Augustin Chevez, celebrated business leader and transgender community advocate Joanna Ferrari. Travis “The Bucket List Guy” Bell will also be there alongside social entrepreneur Jan Owen, Melbourne creative editor and writer Sam Doust and business leader Steve Vamos who is said to have changed the Australian technology landscape forever. TEDxMelbourne 2016 will launch at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Wednesday August 3. Tickets available via the TEDxMelbourne website.
Dynamo Brings Magic to Melbourne on Stadium Tour
Monday August 1 – Thursday August 4 State Theatre
Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert
A new Melbourne exhibition is exploring the nostalgic beauty of the Australian milk bar. Directed by Gorkem Acaroglu, Milk Bars is an interactive piece that will occupy multiple spaces across the entire Mechanics Institute venue. Ten artists and designers will combine visual art, sculpture, music and sound to create a unique yet familiar experience for audiences. Visitors will revisit a world of mixed lollies, newspapers, fridges, pinball machines and old-school TVs. Distant memories will undoubtedly resurface. After all, everyone has a milk bar story. Milk Bars runs from Wednesday July 27 to Saturday August 6 (Wednesday to Saturday) at the Mechanics Institute, Brunswick. Further details and tickets are available from Metanoia Theatre.
Pixel Announces Limited Melbourne Season Bringing together aspects of illusion, cutting edge technology, circus, hip hop and beautifully choreographed contemporary dance comes a world renowned performance making its way to Melbourne. Pixel is the brainchild of French choreographer Mourad Merzouki and digital designers Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, featuring a thrilling combination of classic artistry and avant-garde production. The performance uses advanced technology and projection to defy reality, working organically to complement the dance rather than stifling it. The performance arrives in Melbourne following on from rave reviews and sold out performances in the US and France. Pixel runs for one week only at Her Majesty’s Theatre from Wednesday August 31 - Sunday September 4. Tickets via Ticketek. G E T S O M E C U LT U R E U P YA
He’s walked on water, predicted the 2014 Football World Cup outcome and casually taken a trip across London levitated off the side of a double decker bus. Now, mind boggling street magician Dynamo is coming to Melbourne on his first ever Australian tour. Dynamo will impress fans across Australia, with the opportunity to see his magic skills in what promises to be a spectacular and unique live stage production. To date Dynamo has only taken the tour across the UK and Ireland, playing a massive 111 shows, with more than 400,000 tickets sold. In 2012, he was awarded the highest accolade by the magic circle with his promotion to Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star, a position only held by 300 magicians worldwide, including HRH Prince of Wales. Catch him at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday November 12 in a matinee and evening show. Tickets via Ticketek.
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Fitzroy’s Mio Locale Launches Sunday Only Southern-Italian Set Menu
Frankly Winehouse BY GEM dOOW
When Amy Winehouse died in 2011 from alcohol poisoning, thereby becoming another victim of the fabled ‘27 Club’, there was an outpouring of grief and a spate of finger pointing. The blame game was amplified with the release of Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary Amy. To what degree were her dad Mitch Winehouse and members of management culpable? Would Winehouse have been better left to her own devices, or was self-destruction inevitable? What did she see in that twerp Blake Fielder-Civil? And why the fuck wouldn’t she go to rehab? Ashleigh Kreveld’s hour-long cabaret extravaganza, Frankly Winehouse, obviously can’t answer all of these questions, but it goes some way towards portraying things from Winehouse’s perspective. Kreveld, an acting and musical theatre grad of Brunswick’s Showfit, felt that Winehouse’s spin on events was an important part of the narrative that had been overlooked in other works exploring Winehouse’s life and death. “You never really got her side of things,” Kreveld says. “Even in her interviews, she still didn’t really give that much away. This is why I think my musical is unique ± all of the dialogue in the show is actually pulled from interviews with her and lyrics.” Kreveld doesn’t purport to be a dead spit of Winehouse for her one-woman show, but she gives it a bloody good nudge ± right down to the pinup girl tattoo on her arm and beehive (which is a wig for this run, although she’s dyed her hair and built a beehive out of stockings before). Naturally, Kreveld’s an alto too, like Winehouse, rocking a lower range and mimicking her vocal stylings to a tee. Plus, she has the steel to tackle the more troubling aspects of Winehouse’s life, like bulimia and addiction. “Her life was tragic and that comes through in the show,” Kreveld explains. “For instance, I depict her Grammy performance where she said that nothing felt as good as being high. Not even the Grammys could compete, even though she still gave a slick, incredible performance. I don’t shy away from any of that.” Kreveld packs a lot in to Frankly Winehouse, which has now enjoyed sell-out seasons during Perth’s Fringeworld and Melbourne’s Fringe Festival. Audiences can expect 13 of Winehouse’s songs and covers, as well as anecdotes that Kreveld
has collected from meticulous research in preparation for the show. All of which means that Kreveld now has encyclopaedic knowledge when it comes to Winehouse’s life ± including the fact that Winehouse wanted to do musical theatre, like Kreveld, before jazz. Kreveld is also keen to rectify some misconceptions about Winehouse in the show. “We were so used to just seeing her as this crazy party girl, wandering down the street looking beaten and bloodied,” she says. “But she was so much more than what the media portrayed. She wasn’t just a crazy party animal ± she was funny too and witty and self-deprecating ± so the show is a holistic portrait. She was a real person, not just a messy beehive wandering the streets of Camden drunk. And who more recently has surpassed her musically or vocally? Her musical legacy is phenomenal.” It’s unsurprising that Kreveld has developed a shrine to Winehouse in the form of her musical ± Winehouse hit her hard from the outset. “I can still remember the first Amy song that I ever heard,” Kreveld says. “It was Rehab and I was in a shopping centre ± I assumed that she was a black woman, as I think everyone did before they found out about her. I liked her voice and she had a different sound, like I did.” It didn’t take long after that until Kreveld was playing Winehouse’s stellar first albums, 2003’s Frank and her 2006 release Back to Black, on high repeat. Winehouse’s approach to life’s vagaries touched a chord with Kreveld. “Hearing songs about heartbreak and the witty way she approached her lyrics made me love her all the more.” Sadly, she
remembers too exactly where she was when the news that Winehouse had passed away broke. “It was a Sunday, and I was very hungover and stayed in bed for a day in a forlorn state listening to her albums.” Now at the fifth anniversary of Winehouse’s death, it’s an opportunity not only to celebrate her music, but reflect on her demise. Let’s face it, watching Amy Winehouse unravel was an international past time for the media and members of the pap-reading public ± and you can’t entirely blame them: revelling in the Winehouse shambles was like rubber-necking at a caraccident. Kreveld has some views about the morbid fascination. “Part of it stems from the obsession with celebrity. Amy didn’t behave in the way that was expected, she spoke out and played up to the paparazzi. People liked the freak show that they perceived to be Amy Winehouse. I think the tragedy is that she was actually just like any other normal girl who found herself being famous as opposed to a pop star who sought it out. She was discovered when she was 15, so she never even had time to grow up outside of the limelight. Fame found her ± she wasn’t looking for it and just wanted to be left alone. Apparently, she sometimes put flour on her nose before leaving the house so the paps would think that she’d been snorting ± s he just didn’t give a shit, ever.” FRANKLY WINEHOUSE will run at Whole Lotta Love from Wednesday August 3 to Sunday August 7. Tickets via Moshtix. EVERYTHING MELBOURNE
Mio Locale, which translates to ‘My Local’ in Italian, has recently launched its new Sunday Feast menu, a four-course, themed lunch to be held on the last Sunday of every month. The new Sunday Feast menu features dishes passed on by the sibling owners, Emily and Maurice Paladino’s nonna, such as house made salamis, pastas, fresh salads and slow cooked meats. “We’re a family business with mum helping me out in the kitchen, dad doing the market run and my brother Maurice and I managing the cafe. When we were younger, every Sunday we would do a big cook up and invite family and friends over for lunch. Our Sunday Feast is an homage to that”, says Emily. “We hosted a trial Sunday Feast for some of our regulars and it went very well. Everyone has been asking when the next one is because they want to bring their family and friends. We’re excited to make it a regular event”, says Emily. Seating is limited so book in advance. Mio Locale is located at 465 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 3068 and open Tuesday±S unday from 7am till 4pm.
Hangi Jacks Hits Section 8 Section 8 and the Hangi boys are putting on a celebration of all things Kiwi. The Hangi Boys have created a traditional yet modern Maori menu which includes, of course, Hangi, a traditional Maori method of cooking food in an underground pit on top of hot rocks. There is also an all Kiwi DJ line-up and classic Kiwi beer specials for the day. The menu features not only Hangi, but other classic dishes such as Seafood Chowder, Kumara Chips, Fried Bread and Steamed Pudding. The all Kiwi DJ line up includes Thanks, Float and Jellyfish. This usually sells out - but you can pre order on the Hangi Boys website. Check it out from 12pm til 9pm down at Tattersalls lane in the Melbourne CBD. Look for the open containers ± y ou can’t miss it. Cash only.
The Carlton Unveils Winter Warmer Pie & Pot Mondays Melbourne’s inner city palace of decadence, drinks and good vibes, The Carlton, has just announced their Winter Warmer Pie & Pot Mondays. Every Monday in winter, the venue will be offering a selection of delicious pies with hearty sides to help fight off those outside chills, featuring a choice of wine or beer to help wash it all down. Every week features something different, but you can bank on there being a pastry parcel full of beef, chicken or veggies on offer, served with mushy peas and mashed potato all at the very affordable price of $15. Head on down to The Carlton on 193 Bourke Street in the CBD every Monday from 5pm until 10pm and get some good grub in your pie hole. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 23
O f f Th e Record Diss tracks are back in the house world? You better believe it. Earlier this month contributing editor for Pitchfork Philip Sherburne penned a piece that discussed the motives of electronic labels that solely releases records on vinyl – rhetorically asking if it’s elitist and perhaps promotes exclusivity. One of the interviewees for the piece, DJ Sotofett who is one of the heads behind the Sex Tags Mania family, wasn’t happy with how the article turned out. Following its publication, he’s now released his very first solo digital single with the lengthy title ‘Philip Sherburne, Your Word Should Be Worth More Than The Ignorance Of Pitchfork. Drama, drama, drama. On the plus side, it’s a pretty damn good track. It’s available via Hard Wax. Early next month we’ll be getting a visit from Greg Beato. Best known for his raw and grimy take on house, techno and electro, the Miami head is a mainstay on labels such as L.I.E.S. and Apron Records, and has also had his work find homes on Unrelated Records and the world’s best-named label, Russian Torrent Versions. He’s just released one of the latest installments on the Juno Plus mix series, and his Dekmantel mix is also killer. Give ‘em both a spin before he comes our way. It’s going down at The Bottom End on Friday August 5. It’s been 20 years since Rebekah began spinning 12”s behind the decks and she’s showing absolutely no signs of slowing down. A Birmingham native, she grew up as a regular at the legendary Que Club on a steady diet of Dave Clarke, Derrick Carter, Richie Hawtin and Billy Nasty. Since then, she’s released on the likes of Affin, CLR, Coincidence Records, Corresponding Positions, Sleaze Records, Soma Records and VENT, and of course established her own imprint Decoy Records. Word on the street is that her debut album isn’t far off being completed, so expect to be schooled with some new material when she hits the Railway Hotel on Friday September 23. Tour rumours: I’ve got $50 on a return from the Londonbased, Belfast-born blogger/production/DJ duo Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson AKA Bicep before the end of the year. Same goes for Randomer.
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WITH T YSON WRAY Best releases this week: oh man, the new full-length from Ukrainian deep house don Vakula has dropped and it is straight fire. I admit that the title Cyclicality Between Procyon and Gomeisa is fucking stupid, but still. It’s out now on Dekmantel. Otherwise I’d suggest giving a spin to KiNK’s Valentine’s Groove (on Royal Oak), Ø [Phase]’s Versions II (on token), Equiknoxx’s Bird Sound Power (on DDS) and Acronym’s Guadalquivir (on Northern Electronics). I didn’t dig Ernesto Tomasini & Shackleton’s Devotional Songs (on Honest Jon’s Recordings) as much as I was hoping, unfortunately. Good but not great. Oh, and someone played me a snippet of the new MSTRKRFT album the other day. Holy shit was it awful. Can you remember when they were popular? Dark times.
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FRIDAY AUGUST 26 Darshan Jesrani Boney
Greg Beato The Bottom End
Henning Baer Brown Alley
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 Gunnar Haslam Hugs&Kisses
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 Larry Heard AKA Mr. Fingers Melbourne Town Hall
SUNDAY AUGUST 14 Gene Farris Revolver Upstairs FRIDAY AUGUST 19 M.A.N.D.Y. Brown Alley
Khokolat Koated
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 Rebekah Railway Hotel
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CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY JULY 27
URBAN GUIDE
• 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + DYLAN B + JAMES STEETH + SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • COLD CUTS - FEAT: MILLÚ + PJENNE + RIVER YARRA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: DELTIOD CURVE + THE MILKMAN + BOWANCE + YANI ARSENAKIS + BALTIMORE GUN CLUB Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • JAMIE BERRY - FEAT: ISAAC CHAMBERS 24 Moons, Northcote. 7:00pm. • LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • PANIC CLUB Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: EMANUEL SATIE + MIKE CALLANDER + DEEN ARIFF + WINGMAN + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. $17.00. • RYTHMIK VIBES PSYCHEDELIC SESSIONS FEAT: MEGAPIXEL + JEWELZ + MISS JADE + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. $10.00. • SUPER MOVES - FEAT: GL DJ + BEN HOUGHTON + BIG RIG + NORTH POLLARD New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • THE DISCO - FEAT: GREG SARA + LUKE MCD + JEN TUTTY + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.
FRIDAY JULY 29
SATURDAY JULY 30
• #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CLUB MIAMI Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. • ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • FREQUENCY 001 - FEAT: ALEX CRAM + RORY MARSHALL + JAMES WINTER + MORE Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:00pm. • GLO-BOT’S ELECTRO DANCE PARTY - FEAT: SNOG + DEVILMONKEY + BATTLESICK + SOBRIQUET NATION + MORE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • GOOD WOOD - FEAT: SLEEP D + MOOD SECTION + THREE MILE + MORE Boney,
• AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: LE ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + TOM EVANS + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. • BUSTIN OUT - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • DARKBEAT WINTER BALL - FEAT: QUIVVER + DARREN EPSILON Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm. $21.00. • ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. • HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • IN THE CARRIAGE - FEAT: DJ JNETT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
• COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DANIELSAN + KITI Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
THURSDAY JULY 28
• JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • LOST WEEKEND (GOOD COMPANY RECORDS SHOWCASE) - FEAT: JACK DOEPEL + GINOLÉ + PHILL STROUD + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • PAWN & CO SATURDAYS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:00pm. • PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • PPB LATE NIGHT SATURDAYS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:30pm. • PRINCE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. • SNACK ATTACK - FEAT: DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB SATURDAYS - FEAT: FAMILIAR STRANGERS + KIN + ANDY MURPHY The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. • THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: REX + DANIELSAN + RANSOM + GTB$Y + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. • RADIATOR’S 40TH BIRTHDAY (FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER) - FEAT: BOOGS B2B BRIAN FONTANA + RADIATOR + DAMON WALSH + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. • REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • ROOFTOP SUNDAYS - FEAT: KHANH + KEN WALKER + JESUS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. • SOFT PAWN SUNDAYS - FEAT: COLOUR CASTLE Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:00pm. • THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + MR WEIR Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. • WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
SUNDAY JULY 31
• CARRIAGE 252 - FEAT: SKOMES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. • BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • HANGI JACK’S - FEAT: DJ THANKS + DJ JELLYFISH + DJ FLOAT Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00pm. • JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC
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MONDAY AUGUST 1 • CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON + DYLAN MICHAEL + ROBYN TREASURE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. • THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
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WEDNESDAY JULY 27
• MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: FAM-A-LAM JAM Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • THE INTERNET + DRELLER 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY JULY 28
• ARIZONA THURSDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • STRAIGHT OUTTA HIP HOP - FEAT: CAMDOGG + CHAD SKITTLES + KAYC + NNIGGY JAMES + MORE Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm. • THANK GUARD #2 - FEAT: BIG SKEEZE + MARCUS + CRAIGIEWAVE + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY JULY 29
• BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • MIX TAPE 009 LAUNCH - FEAT: LARRIE + BOOTY QUEST + HARLEY + MORE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: SONIC VIBES + TALI Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • SOUTHERN LOVE - FEAT: MAT CANT + GET BU$Y + SLICK P + ROB STEEZY + MORE Vic Bar, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
SATURDAY JULY 30
• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + BOOTY QUEST + MAFIA + 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.
SUNDAY JULY 31
• MOMENTUM (FOREIGN BROTHERS) + THE CORE-TET Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • THE INTERNET + DRELLER 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
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Whether gigging in a boutique moonshine distillery, or catching a rickshaw to see music at the end of St Kilda pier, this August, Live N Local Festival is offering Melbourne music lovers a unique week-long live music experience.
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It’s winter, so there’s really no finer excuse to light a fire, make coffee, curl up with a good book, and instantly dismiss it in favour of a computer game. Even Montaigne, AKA Jessica Cerro, agrees. Sure, she might have a debut album, Glorious Heights to be excited about – and honestly, it’s one of the best releases of the season – but get her talking about Final Fantasy (swoon) or, better yet, Kingdom Hearts, and you’ll be chatting for hours. It’s not just the entertainment they provide, for Montaigne, there are entire fictional cultures out there just waiting to be explored. “OK. OK,” Montaigne breathes in deeply, preparing herself. “My favourite games tend to be JRPGs, or puzzle-slash-adventure games. Growing up as a kid I played a lot of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro and the Harry Potter video games. All those things where you’re just trying to figure out how to pass levels. But when I got older I got into a game called Kingdom Hearts in a big way. Naturally from that, it stemmed into Final Fantasy because they’re developed by the same people. That’s how games took over my entire life,” she laughs. “I really love them, but right now I don’t get the opportunity to play that many. Sometimes when I have free time I’ll watch video game walk-throughs. Right now I’m really eyeing off Final Fantasy XV and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. That looks really cool. And I fell in love with Portal.” From the moment Glorious Heights’ titular opening track kicks off, you feel as though you’re stepping into some strange and enchanting new world. It is easy to think of the album in cinematic terms, but for Montaigne the roots once again stretch back to gaming. “I feel like [the cinema sound] probably stems from my game history and the epic soundtrack from video games. Especially JRPGs, which are all melodramatic and grandiose. I’m also really drawn to those really anthemic, stadium bangers that most people hate in Coldplay. I mean I love Coldplay, not just their newest album, but all the older stuff. Arcade Fire as well, Bjork, Sigur Ros, all of those really epic experiences in song. I’m also very drawn to the concept of the post apocalypse for some reason, exploring the end of the world. And there are all these video games that are set in this dystopian sci-fi world. It terrifies me, and awes me in equal parts. Here’s another weird paradox. I’m really adverse to violence and gore and suspense. I tried to play Fallout 4 recently, and I just couldn’t handle it. I was like, this is fucked. Even though I like the concept, I like it more aurally.” Not to frighten the Sydney singer unduly, but when the apocalypse does finally roll around, it doesn’t exactly sound as though she’s giving herself a fighting chance.
“Dude, legit, the zombies come and I’ll be the first one to die. I know I’m the first one to die in any horror movie. I’ve made peace with this. I’m just a fucking wimp, let’s be honest,” she laughs. Glorious Heights is a fairly significant step from her earlier songs. Not that Montaigne has gone the way of Lana Del Ray and completely reinvented herself, but listening to songs like Clip My Wings and Fantastic Wreck reveals an artist still moulding the kind of musician she’d like to be. “I think it’s a natural evolution that I’ve undergone. I’m pretty sure the next stuff that comes out will sound even more different. Even the individual songs on the record sound different, and that’s because I felt different things with them, and the way they are produced, entirely isolated from one another, we could use them in whatever way was best for that song rather than best for the record. There’s a sort of cohesive sound there, and that’s because the influences for the record were quite diverse, but there’s an overarching reference back to Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, Bjork. Those would be the main influences. I could never stop talking about Arcade Fire, I love them. That ‘80s-slash-anthemic pop-rock vibe.” Simply put, the result speaks for itself; it’s a damned fine record. The Luddite in me is quite taken by the level of production here; that journey from a handful of chords and scraps of lyrics to fully-fleshed song is a story that doesn’t get old, but given my ignorance, I ask Montaigne to explain the process as though I was a five-year-old trying to eat my playdough. “I think in order to achieve that kind of production you need to be a five-yearold eating playdough. I think the most important part of achieving originality in a song is to just play and not be afraid to play. Not be afraid to do the weird thing if that works. If it doesn’t you can subtract it, but you’ll be all the better for it if it does.” MONTAIGNE’s Glorious Heights is due out Friday August 5 via Wonderlick/Sony Music Australia. She will play Corner Hotel on Saturday October 15.
Heavily focused on fostering new and emerging talent and engaging Melburnians with the arts, Live N Local is a showcase not only for incredible Melbourne music, but for restaurants, bars and iconic bayside venues, including St Kilda Pier and Sacred Heart Church. This August marks the first time that Live N Local exists as a standalone event away from its original home, St Kilda Festival. The excited and passionate festival director, Adele Denison, says Live N Local came about after wanting to provide something more for residents than just a one-day-ayear festival. “Music is such an integral part of Melbourne. The way our music scene survives means anyone that comes here or lives here has a way of gathering together and celebrating something that everyone is enjoying,” she says. “There’s not much better than the camaraderie that comes from attending a gig. You can stream it at home, but it just can’t match the atmosphere that we’re so lucky to get right across Melbourne.” And the best part is that it’s all free. Well, if you can avoid getting carried away on the trip to Moonshine Melbourne. “Seeing live music can be super expensive, so allowing it to be free ensures there’s no barriers for people coming,” Denison says. Although you’ll likely need to rug up for some of the events, the timing of the August festival is an intentional contrast to a stereotypical sunny and warm Melbourne festival season, particularly February’s St
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Kilda Festival. “In part, this is about really showing how good music can be all year round. We get a bit quieter in winter, so Live N Local is about showcasing just how great we can be in the colder, red wine months,” Denison says. The lineup of musicians is incredibly diverse, boasting the lush vocals of the glorious Woodes, the theatrical post-punk rockers Destrends, and the moody sounds of Fierce Mild. With genres ranging from hillbilly trainwreck blues to galactic souls breaks, and a couple of choirs, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. “The lineup is representative of Melbourne’s overall culture and music scene that we’ve got the pleasure of living in,” Denison says. “There’s not many Melburnians who can say they don’t like Melbourne music because there really is every genre represented and
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If you haven’t heard NAO’s voice, let it be known it’s pretty sweet. Addictive like the highly processed equivalent in sugary treats, her voice is far from artificial. Not only are her vocals a saccharine mix of tone, timbre and wide range, but listening to her speak is even more potent. Fresh from putting the final touches on her debut album, All That We Know, the singer/songwriter, pronounced ‘nay-oh’, is currently in between festival slots at Glastonbury, Pitchfork in Chicago and Field Day London. “I was doing so much, it was really difficult to find the time to fully focus,” she explains. “Somehow, between waking up very early and going to sleep very late, it came together and I finally finished [the album] a couple of weeks ago.” One of the isle’s most hyped new artists since kickstarting her solo career in 2014, her bursting schedule is no surprise. From 2016’s BBC Sound Of shortlist to a speedy #1 Hype Machine track on her first single So W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
Good, to guest spots on Disclosure’s Superego and Mura Masa’s Firefly in 2015, the hype machine is well and truly churning. NAO’s musical endeavours prior to her solo work came to an end right as she met her manager, and a domino effect of opportune breaks came her way. “I always wanted to be the voice of my own project and that was scary. As the years went by I felt frustrated. Naturally I’m quite a creative person and I wanted to find my own voice and what it was that I wanted to say as a singer and a musician,” she says. “I met my manager, who just happened to be in the audience when I was singing for someone else. “A week later, he said to me, ‘If you wanted
every sort of way of playing it, every age group and community.” Denison’s top events to catch include The Warehouse in partnership with Beat, a blues rock set playing in the Melbourne Moonshine Distillery with the bar open to sample, a show at the end of St Kilda Pier envy the penguins with their exclusive seats - and a gig in Sacred Heart Church. “You can see music in your favourite restaurants and bars, and find new favourites, too. You can really take the pick of where you want to be and what you want to see, and it’s at no cost, so go out and find your own highlights,” she says. Live N Local is adding another layer to the festival through the introduction of an artist development program. The program features industry figures and experienced artists sharing knowledge about everything from basic songwriting processes to legal issues. “It’s been a really logical progression for a festival that at its heart, really is about celebrating emerging artists and new musicians and being able to present those to growing audiences,” Denison says. LIVE N LOCAL will run from Saturday August 20 until Saturday August 27 in various venues and locations throughout the City of Port Phillip, launching with The Warehouse, featuring Sugarcanes, Loose Tooth and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on Saturday August 20 at the Globe Warehouse in Fennel Street, St Kilda. Free Entry.
to support any act in the world, who would it be?’ and I remember James Blake and Little Dragon were the first two people that came up. Then to have Little Dragon hear my song and ask if I’d like to come on tour with them was a really lovely thing to happen.” When it came to starting work on All That We Know, NAO learnt from her EPs, So Good and February 15, about what sound she wanted to carve out. “The album sums up what I’ve learnt. I saw what I wanted it to look like musically. With albums from when I was younger like The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, I loved that it had little skits and intros and outros that tie it altogether. I wanted that for my album, it is something that Frank Ocean explores. I could see this picture but I just needed the music to fit in,” she says. All That We Know achieves NAO’s objectives skilfully; her influences like Hill and Ocean permeate across the record, as does her eclectic, multi-genre sound and touches from a solid lineup of producers. From voice memo pockets scattered throughout to the Unknown Mortal Orchestra-like Get to Know Ya, the gritty outlier In The Morning, the wild and lyrically lush Bad Blood and the funky acoustics on DYWM, it all works. “For me, there was only so far I could take it before repeating myself musically or lyrically,” NAO says. “It was really important to my process to open it up for other people to help me so that the vibe is something original, to show that I can have different colours and textures to my voice, lyrics and production.” North American and British tours fill NAO’s agenda until the end of the year but Australian shows are on her radar. “I think I’ve been asked to do Laneway Festival and that’s really exciting,” she says. “My band and I never thought we’d get this far.” All That We Know is out Friday July 29 through Little Tokyo Recordings/Sony.
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If you’ve ever played the burning house game (you know the one, where you’re forced to choose what you would save if, heaven forbid, your house and all its contents were about to go up in smoke), then you’ll know most people save everyday things like family photos, jewellery, material possessions - but if you take that notion and apply it to your all-time favourite music, the age-old game gets a little more interesting.
MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW WITH DALLAS FRASCA BY NICK BROWN
Dallas Frasca isn’t one to put her feet up. Recently returning from a string of shows across Europe, she’s jumped straight into the final stages of her new album. With a release date about to drop and some big news on the horizon Dallas and the band have also managed to cram in an appearance at the Melbourne Guitar Show. You’ve just gotten back from a month long tour of Europe with The Bellrays. Yep, 25 gigs across five countries in 30 days. It was incredible, especially touring with those guys. We toured with them in Australia last year and totally kicked it off and ended up going into the studio in St Kilda and recording a track together. You learn so much from working with bands like that on the road. How does it differ touring internationally? For one there’s a lot more people in Europe so if you look at the stats there’s a lot more people that are into rock music. We came third in the International Songwriting Competition a few years ago and that created a lot of interest for us. One girl rerecorded the song and had a top ten hit in the Czech Republic and we got signed to a French label. That was what you’d consider our door opening moment. Could you take us back to how you started on guitar? There’s always a moment for musicians. I remember I was 12 and I saw the film Crossroads with Karate Kid and Steve Vai and Ry Cooder did all the guitar work for it. That was the first time I faked a sickie and wagged school and watched the film 13 times in a row. It really put me on a path to discover blues music. I grew up in a town that wasn’t really exposed to blues music, so I went on a journey and asked mum if I could have guitar lessons. For years when I would join or play in bands I’d just sing. It wasn’t until later that I started playing too. Every player has a different style and my vocals were really being dictated by a certain style. Chris Wilson (Australian blues legend) grabbed me and said ‘Don’t just let the boys dictate what you do, pick up the guitar yourself ’ and I did. You guys are known for your energetic live show – is that something you’ve always worked on? Our style has definitely evolved. We’ve got two guitarists and a drummer with no bass. With our songwriting we do come across some challenges sonically to fill out the sound, so the drums are really integral. We also use octave pedals but Jeff (Curran – guitarist) and I have been playing together for 10 years, so when we write he might write a riff and then I’ll fit around him. We’ve worked out our weird little formula. My vocals are bluesy but it’s not really just BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
blues, it’s a pretty dangerous explosion when we get on stage. Does the band have any particular instrument/guitar gear favourites? We really love old vintage music and I play a 67 Silvertone that I traded in the Swop Shop, it’s such a great find. We’re pretty minimal with setups although we do have quite a bit of fuzz. Jeff ’s this weird guitarist, he’s a lefty playing a right hand guitar upside down. There’s not many like that, maybe Dick Dale and Albert King but he’s phenomenal. He’s self-taught and he doesn’t play like anyone I know – he really plays from his heart. You’re playing at the Melbourne Guitar Show. What can people expect? We might start the show with Jeff on my shoulders, who knows what’s going to happen. We get to look around and check out some gear. Jeff is the biggest gear junkie in the band by far so he’ll be loving it. There are some great acts playing which will be awesome to see but our show won’t change. We’re used to playing all types of shows to all kinds of audiences. I think Jeff and I have about 750 shows under our belts over the last 10 years and we’ve played everywhere from theatres to the Sydney Opera House, German audiences are different to French audiences so we’re just going to go and have some fun. The Guitar Show is a great thing for those wanting to learn guitar or anyone that wants to be inspired. Especially for the girls, get down and please come and say hello, if you want to do it and get into music that’s a really good place to ask questions. On a new music note, are you close to releasing a new album? I was just listening to the masters the other night and I’ve cracked a bottle of wine. People think musos have it easy, but this has been eight months in the making. Writing, re-writing, scrapping tunes and starting again. For all musicians out there, it’s such a huge feat to complete a recording because there’s so many stages to get through. We are so pumped about this release and we’ll have details very soon. THE MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW will take place at Caulfield Racecourse on Saturday August 6 and Sunday August 7.
This was the concept behind Diesel’s (AKA American-born musician Mark Lizotte) latest album. “I knew I had to do this,” he says. “The time was right, so I just picked the songs and started to work out how I wanted to attack each one. I knew I had to whack this one out of the park.” As promised, he doesn’t disappoint, taking on some of the most accomplished artists in recent music history including Buddy Holly, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and the Man In Black, Johnny Cash. “The first one I attacked was Ring of Fire. I had an idea while I was driving about how to make it my own. “And while it’s still recognisable as the Johnny Cash song that everyone loves, I knew I wasn’t going to be doing it verbatim with a two-step drum or a mariachi trumpet horn - I needed to put my stamp on it. “It was the same for Fire and Rain by James Taylor,” Diesel adds. “I wanted to take it away from that American folk thing and move it down south to Memphis and give it some soul. No one told me the rules, no one said you can’t mix and match. So I wanted to take artists, remove all their clothes, swap them over and dress them again.”
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Americana was a labour of love and a nod to Diesel’s humble beginnings in Fall River, Massachusetts, during the late-’60s before his family emigrated to Perth in 1971. “Just before we started to record this album, I took some time off and started peeling back the layers of my memory, right back to my first recollection of a song at the age of two, The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell, that seemed like a good place to start,” he says. “Growing up in a house with six other
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Supercry, the sophmore album from Brisbane musician Emma Louise, stands out for the sheer scope of moods on display. Across remorse, friendship, romance and nostalgia, Louise sings a remarkable journey. While the award-winning songwriter is the tie that binds them together, each song is very much an independent creature. “It’s not necessarily on purpose. I just love songwriting,” Louise says. “I want each song to be its own. I’ll always be an individual song person. In saying that, I think I’d rather release an album than just singles. With Supercry, I had all of these songs from different times, but I tried to find ways to segue them together. Even if just my voice is the connection. Some of the sounds are similar, we used the same bass sound for a lot of them, the same drum sound. We did most of the recording in three weeks, it’s like a blur now. I came in with 50 songs, we B E AT.C O M . A U
picked 12 of those and then only ten made it. I want to record those other songs as well someday.” It’s not that unusual to enter the studio with bucket-loads of songs that must slowly be filtered down to an album. What is impressive is the ambition of her output; Louise seems to always be moving towards the next melody, the next lyric. The fact she has already stumbled upon her third potential album is all the evidence needed. “If I’m spending time with a song and it’s not working, I think it’s just better to let
siblings all older than me was unforgettable. They were all in their teens buying records. I was a baby listening to their amazing albums. It was an incredible music education.” He remembers his brother telling him all about Springsteen’s Born To Run after reading a write up in Rolling Stone, and first hearing Tom Petty’s Here Comes My Girl while still living in the States in the early ‘70s. “I remember thinking ‘Wow, he just hangs on to that one chord the entire song.’ That song is a study in itself, it’s my favourite song on the album.” Diesel says his early introduction to music had a profound effect on him growing up. “The first live show I remember seeing was Bob Marley. I’ve still got the ticket stub,” he says. “My first real rock show was The Doobie Brothers at the WACA in Perth. It was outdoors and I remember my brother had me on his shoulders. They had a big line of amps as all bands did, and two drummers, one on each side, that looked amazing. Then the pyros started smoking and I thought ‘Oh my god, their amps are blowing up.’ “That day blew my mind. That leaves a huge impression on an 8-year-old. To me they weren’t human, they were superheroes, and I knew that’s what I wanted to do.” DIESEL will play Corner Hotel on Friday September 9 with Imogen Clark. Americana is out now via Liberation.
it go,” she says. “Write down the lyrics, try and get down the mood, keep note of it, but then let it go. If it’s meant to be it’ll resurface in another song, in an even better way. “A few weeks ago I went to Mexico for ten days and I wrote and demoed a whole new album,” she says. “I didn’t expect that. The songs come from a really untouched-byanything place. At the same time, it can be so stressful to go away to write if it doesn’t happen. I went to Japan and tried to write, and got nothing really interesting. I learned from that trip that I need to think of it as a holiday. Just soak it up, and then let it all out when you’re home.” Given Supercry has only just been unveiled, it’ll be some time before audiences hear any of these Mexican recordings. When they do, there’s a strong chance the immediacy of their creation will remain. Stitching demos into the mix has become a significant tool for Louise, capturing the unadulterated emotion that first brought the song to life. The album’s outstanding final track, I Thought I Was a Ship is not only one of her favourite songs from the record, but comes as close as you can get to that original spark of creation. “[I was in] the Old Museum in Brisbane. There were artists working across these different rooms, so you had lots of crossed paths. I found out some terrible news that really shook my world, and I snuck into the museum’s basement where they have this old piano. I went in with some little mics, and I wrote that song. It was total, pure feeling, and we ended up using that from the demo because we couldn’t reconstruct it later with the same emotion. With Supercry, a lot of the songs are really close to the demo. We tried sometimes to make it different, but the demo can capture something special about the time you’re building it. The song is fresh and you can still tap into what you were feeling.” EMMA LOUISE will play The Workers Club, Geelong on Friday October 7 and Corner Hotel on Saturday October 8. Supercry is out now through Liberation.
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Mo and Maia are Melbourne two-piece Habits, a project that has been inspiring intrigue and igniting dancefloors for the last three years. Defying conventional categorisation, the duo go by the genre ‘sad goth party jams’, a phrase they deem to be a fitting encapsulation of their sound. Habits create music that is both empowering and sinister and this juxtaposition, along with the urgency of their live performances, keeps audiences on edge as they become immersed into their world.
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Since their formation in 1978, Southern California’s Descendents have influenced an entire generation of punk rock. While their early contemporaries in the hardcore scene focused on negative social issues in their lyrics and image, Descendents proudly represented what mattered to them: girls, coffee, being a nerd and everyday life. Fronted by biochemist Milo Aukerman, whose likeness appears as the band’s unofficial logo and mascot on the bulk of their releases, the band is back with their new album Hypercaffium Spazzinate. Their first record since 2004’s Cool to be You, Hypercaffium picks up directly where the band left off, with ample time given to songwriting and avoiding the stresses of rushing out an album. “We started making it a year and a half ago and we finished it up in April or May this year. It was a long time coming and took us a while to synchronise our schedules,” says Aukerman. “It’s something we all wanted to do. We try and play a lot of the new songs live. When we play in Europe next month we want to play at least half the album live. It’s exciting to be playing new songs.” Since originally leaving the band in 1987 to pursue a career as a scientist, Aukerman has balanced his career with intermittent band commitments. Despite a successful career in the field, the call of music appears to have finally won the battle. “I had a corporate science gig and it was starting to get a little miserable. They were putting me in positions I wasn’t excited about. Over the past few years I’ve been thinking ‘Maybe I shouldn’t be doing this anymore’? It was really getting me down and then they laid me off. We were making the new record so the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. I was at the company for 15 years and I don’t see the need to go back to science any time soon. It soured me. We’ve been playing shows again since 2010, and I’ve been biding my time, waiting for an opportunity to cut ties with my job and get back to the band. It turns out the band is probably what I should‘ve been doing all along. Despite my advanced age, I finally figured out what I really wanted to do,” Aukerman says. “It’s the first time I’ve been in a band where I can say ‘This is what I want to focus 100 percent of my attention on’ without having to dilute it with other interests such as science. I’ve always been very passionate about science and I always considered that to be my main career with music as a hobby, but I’m learning that I had it the wrong way around; perhaps music should be my fulltime career and have science as the hobby.” Keeping a band together for over three decades is no easy task, however Aukerman credits the strength of the relationship with his bandmates, especially founding member and health-troubled drummer Bill Stevenson, as keeping the energy and
motivation alive. “When I was working on my science career we lost contact to some degree, however Bill Stevenson and I go back to high school and the bond there is so strong that we might not see each other for months, even years and I can give him a call any time. It’s one of those never ending constancies in our lives. In the mid-2000s we weren’t in contact much, but in 2009 when Bill had his health issues we got back in touch. I realised that I might be losing my best friend. He eventually had all these surgeries and recovered which reignited our friendship and the band. We were so ecstatic about his reversal of fortune where he beat his health issues and felt on top of the world again. It was a snowball effect from there. Since then, we haven’t looked back.” The band has always focused on real-world situations, with trademarks of being a social outcast alongside everyday frustrations. “We’re married to this ‘documenting our lives’ thing. Bands write songs about madeup stories, we can’t do that. We’re so focused on trying to document our own reality. I’m committed to trying to expand that palette, trying to delve deeper into my imagination, but as it stands we just write about our lives. We’ve got Bill who’s gone through health scares so there’s songs about that, plus songs about family issues and other things that directly affect us. We’re in a band together because we were these nerdy kids that wanted to vocalise our frustrations in high school. Now we vocalise frustrations about things that we’re currently dealing with.” While decade long gaps between albums and tours are often signs of a band lacking energy and determination, Aukerman used the extra time to their advantage. “Playing intermittently has meant that we’ve never burned out. It’s never been a drudgery or a drag. Now we’re all fully back into it we could put out another record in the next two or three years tour more often. We don’t do it because we have to, we do it because we want to and that’s what keeps us fresh and enthusiastic.” DESCENDENTS will release Hypercaffium Spazzinate on Friday July 29 via Epitaph Records.
“We met in high school and we’ve been bosom buddies ever since,” Maia says affectionately. Initially hanging out in share houses and experimenting with sounds over drinks, the pair didn’t know exactly where they were planning to go with the music they were making together. “We started messing around with loop stations and shitty keyboards making really drunk, spooky music,” says Maia. The closeness between Mo and Maia that characterises Habits is remarkable but they both acknowledge the importance of nutting something out on your own. “It’s so difficult with beat making,” says Maia. “The possibilities are endless. Picking a place to start can be really difficult whereas if you get through that awkwardness by yourself then bring it to the table it opens it up a lot more.” “It’s scary making that start, I still get a little shy,” says Mo. When discussing the process of their songwriting Maia is quick to note that they don’t have a single happy song. “I wouldn’t even know how to write a happy song,” jokes Maia. “I’m always writing from a personal place but a lot of my personal experiences are formed by the shit I deal with being trans and queer. Sometimes that seeps into the lyrics which are about being frustrated with the kinds of aggression and
micro aggressions I experience. We have a song that’s very unapologetically angry about bros with a working title of Check Yourself.” Mo also writes from a mostly personal perspective but is acutely aware of the special relationship listeners have with music. “My lyrics are quite abstract sometimes and everyone can get a meaning for themselves.” Both Mo and Maia put a great deal of time and energy into Habits outside the writing and performing of the music. “At the moment we do everything. Artwork, management, booking, social media, writing, everything ourselves,” explains Mo. “It’s exhausting but it’s great having that kind of control as we know the type of shows we want to play and who our audience is,” says Maia. When it comes to navigating around those that choose to be close minded the duo are defiant as to where they stand. “We’ve made a decision to be a publicly visible performing act. Part of that is dealing with people you wouldn’t choose to deal with in other circumstances. We’re tough, we can deal with shitty people.” Mo and Maia channel this resilience into a live performance impossible to tear your eyes away from. “When we get on stage we demand the respect of the room. I think a lot of people have reverence for that,” says
Maia. Their upcoming gig at The Evelyn will be their last Melbourne headline show before they take to Volumes Festival and BIGSOUND. “We haven’t had the chance to curate a lineup in a while. We just wanted to put on all these acts that we love but we don’t get to play with,” says Mo. And what’s in store for Habits in the future? “We’re working on a bunch of collabs with some friends at the moment and working towards some new recordings. It’s been fun trying out new processes of making music that we would never attempt.” HABITS play The Evelyn on Saturday July 30 with Bahdoesa, Karli White, Callan, slimbillgates & DJ Wahe.
JULIA JACKLIN OFF THE RECORD
The First Record I Bought:
The Last Thing I Recorded:
Crazytown’s Butterfly single at Springwood CD shop. I remember my sister saying how much she liked it so I wanted to buy the single first. I think that happened a few times, my sister would say she liked something, I’d try and buy it before her, then pretend I didn’t remember her saying that.
I just released the second single Leadlight off my debut album Don’t Let The Kids Win, which will be out Friday October 7. I recorded it last year in New Zealand with Ben Edwards. It was just a great month of my life. Living in Lyttelton, waking up to views of the mountains and the harbour every morning. Ben is a great producer and person and ridiculously entertaining at all times. I was very lucky to have that experience.
The Last Record I Bought: Chris Isaak’s Greatest Hits album from Vinnies. I was driving down to Melbourne with a friend and wanted a new CD for the car. I was curious about what his other hits were. Still not sure, but I did really enjoy driving down the Hume with the windows down screaming to Blue Hotel. Wicked Game just makes me want to cry every time that lead guitar comes in.
The First Thing I Recorded: I started recording myself at the beginning. The first one was a song called Paul which is a love song to Paul Newman, it’s on Youtube. I moved into a share house and one of my housemates was an audio engineer. I used to waltz down the hall and pop my head in the door and say “Hey man you free? Wanna record something?” He ended up recording my first EP and has helped me a lot over the years. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
The Record That Changed My Life: Fiona Apples’ Extraordinary Machine. I heard it when I was sitting on my first loves couch at 15. I hadn’t really heard anything like it before and it really got to me. She has a killer turn of phrase. That record followed me along for about a decade as I learnt the craft. I sang Parting Gift for a year 11 singing assignment, the first time I ever got on stage with a guitar I played Not About Love and my first band covered Extraordinary Machine. JULIA JACKLIN will perform at Northcote Social Club on Friday July 29 with Middle Kids and Ryan Downey. Don’t Let The Kids Win will be out Friday October 7.
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Long-running punks NOFX have announced the release of their 13th fulllength album. Entitled First Ditch Effort, the album is their first since 2012’s SelfEntitled. A lyric video has been released for first single Six Years on Dope. First Ditch Effort is due for released Friday October 7 on Fat Wreck Chords. Hardcore heavyweights Expire have announced the release of their third full
length album,With Regret. It’s due for release Friday September 23 on Bridge Nine Records. With Regret follows their compilation Old Songs, released earlier this year. Florida folk punk rockers Against Me! have announced the release of their latest full length record. Entitled Shape Shift with Me, the record follows up 2014’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Frontwoman Laura Jane Grace has explained the background behind the album, “Wanting to move on to write commentary on living from a trans perspective. I wanted to write the transgender response to the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St., Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville and the Streets’ A Grand Don’t Come For Free. All those records are relationship records. There’s been an infinite amount of records talking about what love means from a cisgender perspective. I wanted to present the trans perspective on sex, love and heartbreak.” Grace has also
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The paint fumes were awesome. The band then eventually managed to upgrade to an ablution block out the back of a dodgy chicken shop. No bacon, slightly less awesome fumes, but way crunchier tunes. Nowadays they use a ‘real’ rehearsal room and subsequently have been foolhardy and METAL, HEAVY ROCK. CLASSIC ROCK LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL naïve enough to pump out an ambitious and ‘unreal’ debut 52-minute epic concept GOOD SHIT album. It is Toxicon’s dream to one day with PETER HODGSON become big enough to release something crunchcolumn@gmail.com that will alienate fans of their earlier work. They might have already achieved it.” Which is all to say they’re releasing their debut album Purge on Monday August 1 TOXICON: FAIRLY GOOD- and will be backing it up with an east coast LOOKING tour in the not-too-distant future. I love a fun press release. Here’s an edited chunk of something I just received from ROUGH HANDS: KEEPING Toxicon. “Toxicon are (in their opinion) a THE CASSETTE ALIVE fairly good-looking collective of musicians, At the tail end of 2015, Rough Hands hailing from Geelong, Melbourne and entered Brighton Electric Studios to record Ballarat, who go mighty well with a plate of their long-awaited debut album Let Me cheese and crackers, and a cheeky glass of Win Your Hearts And Minds. Pushed to red. Combining various elements of groove, their absolute musical limits by producer speed and progressive metal, Toxicon Jag Jago (The Ghost Of A Thousand, The provide a sure-fire way of giving your neck Maccabees, The Xcerts) and mastered whiplash and your fingers a recurring case by Peter van ‘t Riet (DragonForce, ... of metal horns. The band formed after all And You Will Know Us By The Trail of members involved met during a round- Dead), the album has been described in robin table tennis tournament at their local Metal Hammer’s Firing Range section as YMCA, bonding over a mutual love of “A perfect blend of hardcore and postbacon and eggs - and metal. Toxicon slaved hardcore” that will no doubt be regarded as away writing a bunch of pretty crap songs, one of the most exciting releases of 2016. all the while rehearsing in a paint shop for Let Me Win Your Hearts And Minds will be the first six months of their conception. released on Friday August 5 on 12” vinyl
announced the release of her upcoming autobiography, TRANNY: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Sell-Out. The book documents Grace’s transition and well-publicised gender transition. Cowritten with Dan Ozzi, TRANNY is due for release on Tuesday November 15.
a new single as part of the soundtrack to upcoming TV-movie Sharknado 4. Airing on American station Syfy on Sunday July 31, the track is believed to be titled Sharknado. The band last released the single Coming For You in 2015, the only release since 2012’s full length album Days Go By.
Toledo’s Citizen have announced an Australian tour this September. Touring in support of their critically acclaimed second LP Everybody is Going to Heaven, the tour will mark the band’s second appearance on Australian shores. Citizen will play The Corner Hotel on Saturday November 12 and an all ages show at Arrow on Swanston on Sunday November 13. Tickets are on sale now.
In sad news, highly influential proto-punk vocalist Alan Vega of Suicide has passed away, aged 78. Formed in New York City in 1970, Suicide’s sound influenced alternative music to come, particularly electronic and industrial genres. In a statement from Vega’s family, “His legacy is described as ‘unflinching adherence to the demands of his art.’ After decades of constant output, the world seemed to catch up with Alan and he was acknowledged as the groundbreaking creative individual he had been from the very start.”
In a somewhat bizarre release strategy, long-running pop punks The Offspring have announced they will be debuting and cassette tape by prolific UK based label Dog Knights Productions, home to Nai Harvest, Old Gray, Birdskulls and many more.
THE WRATH OF STORMTIDE
Melbourne symphonic/folk/death metal band Stormtide will release their debut album Wrath Of An Empire on Monday August 1 via US label Metal Hell Records. Wrath Of An Empire is an intricately woven, nine-part epic tale of ruin, heroism and dark deeds centred around the adventures of the Warrior, the Prince and the Magician. The High Fantasy inspired sextet have been combining Euro metal themes with Asian influences since forming in late 2013. Stormtide will be playing with Anna Murphy (ex Eluveitie) on Saturday August 27 at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy.
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Save The Clock Tower’s album The Familiar // The Decay has just been unleashed into the world and is currently ruling the roost at the top of the iTunes Metal and Rock Charts in Australia. They’re currently on a national tour and they roll in to Melbourne on Sunday July 31 at Wrangler Studios supported by Driven To The Verge, Aspirations, Furious George and Perseverer.
explosive new single All For You, the first taste off their new EP, Haunt, set for release Friday August 26. To celebrate the new tunes they’ve locked in a Monday night residency throughout August at The Workers Club in Fitzroy. “All For You is about a relationship I was in,” vocalist Sam Burtt says. “We had both recognised that the end was nigh, but loved each other too much to ever call it a day. However, that day came a day before we started tracking vocals. I remember sitting in the courtyard at the studio and giving the lyrics a pretty substantial re-write. This song is really about giving yourself to someone, despite the knowledge that it will soon end.”
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Legendary bay area thrash metal giants Testament have announced the title and release date of the band’s upcoming twelfth album. The Brotherhood Of The Snake will be released on Friday October 28 via Nuclear Blast. Guitarist Eric Peterson says “It’s very diverse, but it’s very epic. There’s nothing on there that breeds commercial. And I think for 30 years of recording music and trying different formulas, I think we’ve found a formula that is very metal. I think for the metal fan that is looking for something for the nook and crannies… not just your normal, ‘Oh, it’s got a thrash beat and a riff.’ There’s a lot going on here.”
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GIGS THURSDAY JULY 28 MT ZERO, TERROR NULLIUS, TIRADES, P&D AT THE BENDIGO HOTEL STELLA COLLAPSE, BLOOD ORANGE, TRIPMONKS AND PUSSY JUICE AT THE TOTE AARON GOCS AT THE ROCHESTER HOTEL
FRIDAY JULY 29 WOLFPACK, NERDLINGER, LAURA PALMER, AS A RIVAL, LASER BRAINS, LUKE SEYMOUP AT THE BENDIGO HOTEL POWER, TERRY, THIGH MASTER, HOT TOPIC AT THE TOTE
SATURDAY JULY 30 GLEN AND THE PEANUT BUTTER MEN, SEBASROCKETS, DISTORTED TRUTH, SEX GRIMES, THE CREDITS AT THE BENDIGO HOTEL NERDLINGER, PITT THE ELDER, THE LIZARDS, JOE GUITON AND THE SUICIDE TUESDAYS, AGENT 37, JAY WARS AND THE HOWARD YOUTH, DAYBREAK, THE BEGGARS’ WAY, JO NEUGEBAUER, TIM HAMPSHIRE, LATE NIGHTS AT THE REVERENCE HOTEL DIPLOID, TIRED MINDS, PROPELLOR, RAD ISLAND AT CATFISH
SUNDAY JULY 31 SAVE THE CLOCK TOWER, DRIVEN TO THE VERGE, ASPIRATIONS, FURIOUS GEORGE, PERSEVERER AT WRANGLER STUDIOS (ALL AGES)
Alt-rockers Residual have released the
BLACK TUSK NEVER GIVE UP BY BENJAMIN POTTER
Swamp metal isn’t the most glamorous genre definition to shape your musical career. Instead, it’s a term you’d have to become comfortable with. For Georgian heavy metal outfit Black Tusk, it’s something they thrive on - a combination of ear-melting riffs and hard work above all expectation has helped establish them as one of the most efficient and determined bands of the last ten years. With the release of their most recent album Pillars of Ash, drummer Jamie May says Black Tusk are proud of the tag, having no one else to blame but themselves. “Where we stay is surrounded by swamp and it’s very humid here all the time,” he says. “I was asked how I’d describe our sound, and I didn’t really know how to. It’s thick, like a wall of heat, so I said ‘I don’t know, swamp metal’ and it stayed with us. We’ve printed it on a couple of things since, sewed patches – that was almost a decade ago.” While being plagued by misfortune and heartbreak with the death of bassist Jonathon Athon after sustaining irreparable brain damage from a motorcycle accident in 2014, May says the band became closer than ever, guided by the fact that they were able to finish Pillars of Ash with their friend BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
that meant the world to them. “Jonathon ended up dying about a month and a half after the album was recorded,” he says. “It got mastered and mixed without him there, but he got to play through the whole thing. Of course it’s something you don’t ever think is going to happen, but there wasn’t anything we could do. At least he was there.” Following Athon’s death, Black Tusk were in complete disarray. With tours right around the corner to promote their new album, there was uncertainty around the band’s future. While considering calling it quits, May claims that the band decided to continue based on passionate musicianship,
knowing they made the right choice for themselves and their fans. “We’re the type of band that have always respected other bands that stick together through all the bullshit and keep the same members,” he says. “To watch your friends grow as musicians is a really cool thing. But someone dying is completely unavoidable. “We’d thought about breaking up briefly, but if it was me that died, I’d want Black Tusk to keep going. And I know Jonathon would want the same. What do we even do all this for? I’d rather it have continued with the same members but it didn’t pan out that way. We had some massive tours coming up, so we had to make a quick decision. B E AT.C O M . A U
We’d just finished the new album. What were we going to do, release it and let that be it? No way.” A support slot for Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society was the turning point in the band’s career, helping them usher in new member Corey Barhorst. Chaos and stress ensued, but the band were determined to perform the shows as a thank you to their fans for sticking by them through the darkest time in their almost ten year history. “It was pretty big for Corey to jump on and learn the parts quickly,” May says. “He did so well and knocked it out of the park. We did two more tours with him after that and he killed it every night. We couldn’t not
initiate him, he completely deserved it.” The band are preparing to bring their positive energy to Australia. “We’re expecting the unexpected,” he says. “All we know of Australia is what we see on TV, but we know we have a lot of fans there. We’re completely stoked.” BLACK TUSK will tear up Ding Dong Lounge on Friday August 5. Pillars of Ash is out now via Relapse Records.
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They say the grass is greener on the other side, and crossing the boarder to NSW, it all makes sense. After spending too long in Melbourne’s cold winter, it’s easy to forgot what the sun feels like. Right from the getgo, Splendour In The Grass greeted punters with clear skies and 25-degree heat. There was no sign of the festival’s infamous mudfest this year, and after ten minutes, festivalgoers had already ditched the gumboots, opting for a weatherappropriate option. You could pick out a Melburnian from a mile away, the idiots dressed in black skinny jeans, buttoned up long sleeves and a denim jacket to match. Day one kicked off with Methyl Etheyl playing to an overflowing crowd at the GW McLennan stage. Rising up the ranks with airtime on triple j, the band went through plenty of crowd favourites from their debut album Oh Inhuman Spectacle, with Twilight Baby receiving the biggest pop. Australia’s favourite sons DMA’s played to one of the biggest crowds of the festival, with the amphitheatre full from side to side. Debuting on Australian soil, the one-man-band that is Jack Garratt made a good first impression at the Mix Up Stage. The UK newcomer covered all aspects of his music live – playing guitar, synth and drums topped off with his stunning falsetto vocals. Leon Bridges brought the soul to Splendour (and the best set of the day). The man from Fort Worth, Texas
had it all: the voice, the moves and an incredible backing band, led by the brilliant sax work of Jeff Dazey. Arguably the most anticipated act of the festival, The Avalanches returned to the stage after 16 long years to a packed out amphitheatre. The performance was a little underwhelming, with the band showing noticeable creases in their live set. Frankie Sinatra highlighted this, with guest rapper Spank Rock taking on the task of nailing Danny Brown’s verses. No easy feat, yet when he pulled out his iPhone to read the lyrics, it made for an awkward atmosphere. Given the degree of difficulty to recreate their songs in a live performance, Robbie Chater did well to coordinate the whole group to produce some memorable moments, including tracks Since I Left You and recent single Subways. The Strokes ticked plenty of boxes, yet their 20-minute late arrival made for a shortened set and a lot of disappointed fans. Julian Casablancas led the charge, perfectly belting out hits Reptilia, New Your City Cop and Is This It, much to the delight of the fans. Day two welcomed plenty of seedy looking characters stumbling around the festival grounds much like a scene out of The Walking Dead. The crowd may have gone a bit too hard on opening night, however Beach Slang didn’t get the memo, bringing the party in the early afternoon by participating in an old fashioned onstage skolling (or chugging as our friends in the north say). Shout out to Spring King, who not only were the
surprise package of the day, they also managed to draw a decent-sized crowd during their clashed set with King Gizz. Mikey Perry, AKA Paces, made plenty of memorable Splendour moments, with his set including cameos from Tkay Maidza and Australia’s greatest export (and the one true Idol) Guy Sebastian. Cedric Bixler-Zavala made himself at home, throwing lights off the amphitheatre stage and defying gravity during At The Drive-In’s blistering set. The crowd was small, but the band didn’t seem to care, dishing up hits One Armed Scissor, Invalid Litter Dept. and Quarantined to their devoted fans. At times, The Cure’s three-hour set ebbed and flowed, however much like the band’s 13 LP discography, it was flawless. The enigmatic Robert Smith still has it after 40 years, showing plenty of passion and emotion on stage. He topped off the unpredictable by continually referring to the set as being “stuck on a spaceship together for 55 years.” Interpret it however you want, but hypothetical passengers on this spaceship were surely screaming for an explanation as to why Lovecats and 10:15 Saturday Night didn’t feature on the setlist. True to the Australian standard of Sundays, day three didn’t start until the late afternoon after a much needed sleep-in. The baritone vocals of City Calm Down’s Jack Bourke projected throughout the sunny amphitheatre, captivating the fans that had battled through the hangover. There were many.
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The night was really owned but the Aussies. Melbourne legend Courtney Barnett brought the heat to the cooling amphitheatre with Dead Fox and Elevator Operator, while The Preatures had the GW stage moving to hits Somebody’s Talking and Is This How You Feel?. James Blake and Sigur Ros were the perfect backto-back combination to end the Splendour weekend. The sweet, smooth vocals of Blake silenced the amphitheatre, while the ethereal post-rock tunes from the Icelandic natives had the Mix Up tent in awe. SITG was nowhere near as frightening as previous punters had described. The ground held out, the food was incredible, the people weren’t all drug smuggling delinquents (to the surprise of NSW police) and the music… Oh the music. There’s a reason Splendour’s the best festival in Australia. LOVED: B-grade celebrity spotting. HATED: Being stuck in the day parking carpark for three hours after day two. DRANK: Urban Pasta’s napolitana sauce. BY MICHAEL EDNEY PHOTOS BY IAN LAIDLAW
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RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN EMMA LOUISE
Supercry (Liberation Music)
Emma Louise has peeled back the thin veneer between herself and her audience on sophomore album, Supercry, her heart thumping off her sleeve in what can only be dubbed her most authentic record yet. The Brisbane artist takes listeners down a woman-made rabbit hole of hauntingly beautiful vocals and electro-pop melodies. Produced with absolute precision, Supercry’s delicately constructed soundscapes are as captivating as the exposed psychological strain of broken relationships. The 11 track record reflects on where things took a turn for the worse. Drenched in nostalgia, Louise’s vulnerable vocal tone is harrowing, yet sprinkled with hope through uplifting key melodies. Supercry fuses the freedom of indie pop with sincere and incredibly relatable undertones. Diving into All We Ask Is Time will have you saturated in melodic magic. An ethereal performance of “Two hands tangled under pillows,” Louise outdoes herself on her opening track. Evocative of what you’ll hear throughout the record, it hands you a beautiful melody backed by a feather-light vocal. Talk Baby Talk backs it up with a catchy clap. West End Kids pulls on adolescent heartstrings, tangling the question “Will it stay the same?” with driving percussion and an echoed chorus. Touching on the ease
of young love, the song reminds us that it’s not easy to remain in an ideal moment for too long. Everything Will Be Fine places an emphasis on electronic riffs, deep-rooted keystrokes and the brass nature of a bass guitar. Inspiring the records artwork must be Colours. “I want to drip in colour/ Baby don’t paint me beige/ My heart is a wildfire” brings us back to the thick haze of Jungle. An effortless ability to slip natural imagery into her music, Emma Louise’s symbolism thrives here. Shut The Door is as devastating as a last waltz with a nearing end. Hoping for reassurance, the singer/songwriter shares the heartbreak of an out-of-reach happy ending. Like all great love stories, the closing of Supercry hurts most. I Thought I Was A Ship circles around infidelity and disbelief. Twinkling piano chords trickle over Louise’s soulful, gliding vocal. Precise and particular, each element accentuates her performance, punctured by heartache. Asking “But how does it stop? Swish to turn it off,” Supercry sees Louise bare her soul as if she were at a poetry showcase with her first love sitting in the audience. BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON
SINGLE REVIEWS WITH LACHLAN Hope you all had a great time at Splendour while I was busy taking care of more important matters: workshopping dozens of tweets observing how cold it is in Melbourne.
LOST ANIMAL Do The Jerk (Dot Dash/Remote Control) It’s been five years since the release of Jarrod Quarrell’s maiden fulllength as Lost Animal. Despite the timeframe, new single Do The Jerk doesn’t stray too far in terms of sonic makeup than what was found on Ex Tropical. The struggle here is that the debut album overstayed its welcome somewhat in Lost Animal setlists, compounded by a gradually stripped back live setup. Do The Jerk does refine what was great about Ex Tropical, lyrically stronger, threaded by gnarling sax and disorientating flourish. Both
the distance and proximity to Ex Tropical makes it feel less special, but still, it’s a little bit special. RACHEL MARIA COX A Phone I Can’t Use (Sad Grrrls Club) Possessing a similar candid lyrical spark present in Australia’s recent wave of (for lack of a better term) folk-punk acts, Rachel Maria Cox lays down some rolling, lush roadtrip guitar licks to achieve a perfect balance of space. It’s welcoming and real. Taken from the EP I Just Have A Lot Of Feelings, launched across the country with a series of shows in the coming few weeks.
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KATIE DEY Only To Trip And Fall Down Again ( Joy Void) There’s a crisp, ornate schoolyard chant percussion that carries throughout Only To Trip And Fall Again, keeping the mood spritely as synth tones whirl with a sense of struggle. But with that struggle, there’s hope. It’s a hope that feels out of place, but I guess that’s what hope is. When I hear this, I think of Bowie’s Sense Of Doubt. Not the oppressive piano line, but the countering synth that sprouts in the darkness. There’s hope in that. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
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On their second album, World Feels Wide, Riflebirds continue to showcase their impressive blend of genres and instrumental formations, helped by the fact they’ve got six talented musicians in the group. Opening track Last Train immediately puts your mind at ease, with a sweeping country melody and vocals from Rowan Roebig, while the guitarheavy instrumental intro of Dark Highway builds to an Americana-inspired anthem. Title track World Feels Wide is the strongest on the album, incorporating a bluesy organ riff, building to some impressive guitar. They’re Out To Get You starts with some handy guitar work, before adding the impressive saxophone from band member John Cocker. The sax returns on Wanderings, which is a bit grungier. Apart from having the lengthiest title on the album, The Lamentable Curse of Mrs. Smith and the 74 Flood is also one of its catchiest thanks to the uptempo drumming from Bon Krunic. The Mess kicks off with a very catchy harmonica intro, before unleashing Damien Toussaint’s impressive work on the keys. The album ends strongly, with instrumental Jaisalmer treading into the realm of psychedelic, and Goodnight All, a slow ballad that’s simple but effective. If you don’t mind a little country twang, this is the perfect music to accompany a boozy Sunday session ± which is perhaps why Riflebirds have made a name for themselves at some of Melbourne’s most popular venues. Be sure to check it out.
It’s been a fabulous year for progressive death metal, with magnificent releases from Fallujah, Black Crown Initiate and now Aussies (and adopted Canadians) The Schoenberg Automaton. Initial impressions are that of an absolutely brutal, visceral experience. The music relentlessly bludgeons the listener around the head with its intensity and the vocals howl like a thousand demons on satanic steroids. However, delve a little deeper and some nuance starts to make itself clear, hiding in plain sight among the blast. The dynamics, although subtle, become apparent. The Schoenberg Automaton knows how to take the foot off the accelerator and add sweet moments of something resembling melody or ambience, albeit fleetingly, and the arrangements are cohesively chaotic. This is definitely a progressive metal album, not just a mindnumbing barrage of brutality. To play music of this type, the players need to be ultra-precise, powerful masters of their craft, and the instrumentalists in this band have honed themselves to elite levels of development. The best bands in heavy music are those that are blisteringly brutal but do so in an interesting and imaginative manner, and The Schoenberg Automaton definitely do that. Apus is enormous. BY ROD WHITFIELD
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s Sworn Virgins is less of an album and more of a garage sale. It’s the first of 12 solo albums to be released this year. Yup, 12. The 40-year-old Puerto Rican of Mars Volta and At The Drive-In fame, has sifted through his personal works from 2008 to 2013 and laid them on the lawn. If it wasn’t for the label’s mission to be “a place where bands we admire have the freedom to release music they might not be able to, or want to, release on other labels,” Sworn Virgins would probably never have seen the light of day. It’s experimental and raw ± the recordings are live one-take cuts bar a few re-recorded vocals. It sounds like an entire prog rock band, but it’s not. It’s just RodriguezLopez and Deantoni Parks, also of Mars Volta, whacking away on the drums. A critical component to this illusion is the use of a sample pedal, allowing Rodriguez-Lopez to loop his guitar pitched up and down. It’s a little undercooked. Generally, practise makes better. The album comes across as overly self indulgent. It’s Rodriguez-Lopez messing about. Offer the gold, rather than making the listener wade knee deep through sewers of jam sessions (unless you’re Tom Waits or you’re dead). If you’re into Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, this is a way to intimately get to know him. BY LEE SPENCER-MICHAELSEN
BY CHRIS BRIGHT
STONEFIELD
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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (Wunderkind/Mushroom Group)
As Above, So Below is the second full length release from Victoria’s Findlay sisters, and it manages to take everything they’ve learnt from their swift rise to success and infuse it with the sound they so diligently established on their 2013 self-titled debut. Almost immediately, opening track Sister unveils a different Stonefield compared to three years ago. Once the opening feedback gives way to a heavy, doom infused wall of rock there’s no doubt that this is a more refined and mature group. Second track Dream keeps up the hulking sound, reinforcing that this is a more dynamic sounding Stonefield by taking everything that’s heavy about the first track and adding a more psychedelic feel. As Above, So Below settles into a slightly more moderate atmosphere, but that isn’t to say that the new, heavier sound has been left behind. This is a rock album through and through and the double punch of Stranger and Eyes pops up with all its heavy, gloomy, kaleidoscopic goodness to make sure you don’t forget. Towards the end of the album comes a change of pace with the Pink Floyd inspired Midnight, never quite becoming what it could be. It’s a good track, but within such an impressive album, the shortfalls stand out. If future Stonefield manage to nail progressive tracks as well as they’ve nailed the heavier, psychedelic parts of this album, they’ll be unstoppable. It’s enjoyable to hear Stonefield expanding their sound in multiple directions, the sisters crediting Spiderbait’s Kram for encouraging them to use their talents to explore more genres, and it shows. As Above, So Below provides a varied listen without ever really leaving the realm of what Stonefield do best, straight up rock.
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MARK OF THE BL ADE (Metal Blade)
WHERE MY HEART BROKE (Independent)
If you like going to the pub in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs, chances are that you’ve encountered honky-tonk aficionados, The Bakersfield Glee Club. Where My Heart Broke is their third release and while they stay close to their honky-tonk roots, they do travel some more Aussie-inflected country roads. Sweet Bird of Youth, the raucous, southern-rock washed Drinks Are On The House and the waltzy Thank You are all standout tracks. True to their hard country, West Nashville sound, it’s enjoyable listening whether in close vicinity of an actual bar or stuck behind the wheel on the road. The album’s second track, I Think I’ll Just Sit Here And Have A Drink forays into a more Tamworth-sounding country style. There’s more melody and some keys (less commonly heard in Melbourne’s inner-urban country scene), and an emphasis on strings. The album also contains a bold cover of Hank Mills’ classic Little Ole Wine Drinker Me. It may take a few moments to recognise the song, a cracking deviation from the standard Dean Martin version. The album ends on a high note, a melancholy instrumental titled Cleméntine, taking listeners back to Ry Cooder’s work on the Paris Texas soundtrack, or Marco Beltrami’s score for Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The fiddle in the hands of Greg Field is a welcome addition. There’s also some absolutely fantastic pedal steel guitar - even more rare than keys in our local country scene, the twang adding ambience to the melody. All you need is a frosted pint, a pair of good boots, a Stetson and a bar to lean on and you’ve got yourself a perfect Sunday afternoon with this album.
On the songwriting front, Mark Of The Blade is back to mid-tempo basics and brutal simplicity on many of the songs, anchored by Phil Bozeman’s cadaverous low growl. The album isn’t without its surprises, with much discussion surrounding Bozeman’s decision to use clean vocals. Bring Me Home sees the band try their hand at the largely unexplored concept of the deathcore ballad, beginning with a tenebrous overture and featuring sombre clean vocals in the verses. These aren’t cleans for cleans’ sake, they have their place, adding some variety to an album where Bozeman keeps things nice and guttural. As one of the frontrunners of deathcore, Whitechapel often end up under the magnifying glass of the genre’s conservatives. Bozeman blasts open the ever-present problem of elitism in Elitist Ones, a clarion call for respect. Further, the band has been criticised for its use of three guitars, perceived to be a bit overkill and ornate. It’s this melting pot that paves the way for the band’s gravid, unmistakable attack. The title track’s bruising steamroller riffs and crushing breakdowns serve as a prominent example of this technique’s effectiveness. Save for the intricate guitar work on the instrumental Brotherhood, Whitechapel dispense with much of their trademark technical proficiency on Mark Of The Blade. They draw heavily on the quick and dirty techdeath elements, retaining that apocalyptic, old school deathcore vibe, shining through on songs like A Killing Industry. This isn’t a particularly groundbreaking album, it’s Whitechapel doing what they do best - pounding you into submission from start to finish.
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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 27 JUL FURLONG
DEAD END Hey there. Who are we speaking to and what do you do in Dead End? Hi. I’m Tom, I sing and play guitar. What have you learned from playing in the Melbourne music scene? We’re relatively new but we’ve all played in different bands that didn’t work out over the past few years. We’ve come to appreciate the value of organisation and doing shit yourself. Is there is a fine line between getting yourself out there and playing as many gigs as you can, against choosing your gigs carefully? At the beginning we were saying yes to everything. We all live together so getting ready for a gig is no stress, and that’s led to us getting approached to play shows more often. It feels good to be in a position where we have to turn down gigs because we’re already booked. You’ve indicated that you want to keep writing punk tracks that manage to reflect your love for more complicated music. Is there any difficulty in doing this with what’s typically a ‘hard and fast’ medium? Not at all, it’s exactly why this style appeals to us. We want to express that short, sharp, no bullshit attitude of punk in our music, but also cram as much content as we can into our usually short songs. We’re all total music nerds with a real interest in theory and composition, so we try to get that across in our own music. DEAD END will launch their new EP at the Evelyn Hotel on Thursday July 28.
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B E N D IG O H OT E L All systems are go for a night filled with fun indie pop at Bendigo Hotel. Wednesday July 27 welcomes Furlong, Sailormouth, Dogood and Pearl Bay, who will all be assisting to alleviate those stinky mid-week blues. Go have a time from 8pm, doors will set you back $6.
COUNCIL OF ELDERS
T H E O LD B A R The Old Bar are having a grim as heck mid-week fiesta, with Council of Elders swarming in on Wednesday July 27. One of the real treats of the evening will be in the form of fresh-faced post-punk/metal outfit, Cascades, who have been causing a stir since they exploded onto the scene recently. Also on board for the night are No Haven. Doors at 8pm, entry is a measly $8.
JOSEPH BATROUNEY + INGAMELLS/ WERRETT/ HAYES Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
TINY LITTLE HOUSES + ELLA THOMPSON + THE OUTDOOR TYPE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.
UP THE GUTS - FEAT: SCOTDRAKULA + SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING + ALI E + BEN WRIGHT SMITH + MORE Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:00pm. ZOE FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS + HELOISE + HUGH FUCHSEN & SAUCE SAUCE SAUCE Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00.
JEMMA ROWLANDS + SEAN MCMAHON Retreat Hotel,
KARRIN ALLYSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm.
Brunswick. 8:30pm.
ADAM RUDEGEAIR (THE BOWIE PROJECT) Paris Cat Jazz
LOST LANDSCAPES - FEAT: SUTHERLAND TRIO
Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ANGELA DAVIS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
MESSY MAMMALS + NASTY MARS + AGRGT + MUMU BEBE + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. NINA FERRO + JIMMY CUPPLES Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
$10.00.
ROBERTO ALAGNA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne),
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. FIGHT CLUB + EUGENE BALL 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. HOLLIE SMITH + JOE MUNGOVAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.
$56.00.
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $29.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
Southbank. 7:30pm. $145.00.
SACRÉ CŒUR MUSIC CONCERT 2016 Melbourne Recital
Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $19.95.
Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
SHANNON BOURNE + TOM FORCELLS© LUAU COWBOYS + MARTY KELLY Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: ANNE OF THE WOLVES + DANIELLA LUCCHETTI Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
8:00pm.
BELOVE + MATTHEW CRAIG + TRICK DOG SYNDICATE Bar
THURSDAY 28 JUL
Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
CODA CHROMA + TOMMY SPENDER + JESSE LUBITZ DJ Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
FIFTH FRIEND + BRONZE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
PA L A I S T H E AT R E British troubadour Jake Bugg has just played the mammoth Splendour In The Grass, and now Melbourne fans can see what all the buzz is about when he headlines a show on Wednesday July 27. The 19-year-old Briton has been making waves since last year’s release of his self-titled debut, going on to prove a worthy support for the likes of Band Of Horses. Jake Bugg will perform at Palais Theatre, with special guest Blossoms. Doors at 7.30pm, tickets via the venue.
OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: JOEY ELBOWS The
WEDNESDAY JAZZ NIGHT - FEAT: THE ROOKIES The
Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
JAKE BUGG
MUDDYS BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: JESSE VALACH
6:00pm. $5.00.
ADE ISHS TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
8:30pm. $20.00.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2016 SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION Melbourne
JAMES BLAKE + MARK PRITCHARD Margaret Court
Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm. OPEN MIC SHOWCASE + JACKSON SMITH Tago Mago,
Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $84.90.
Thornbury. 7:00pm.
RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. SPIKE FUCK + TWO STEPS ON THE WATER + GREGOR Tote
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.
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JACK PANTAZIS GROUP Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne JUSTIN YAP BAND 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. KARRIN ALLYSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $56.00.
KARRIN ALLYSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $56.00.
GIG GUIDE MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE SESSIONS MUSIC JAMBOREE THE B.EA ST It’s time for everybody’s favourite jazz jam on Thursday July 28, with Milton’s Playhouse Sessions back for another hip-swinging night. Based on Harlem’s famous jazz club, Minton’s Playhouse, the night features a house band slamming through classics before the real fun starts, with the opportunity to jump on stage yourself. Free entry from 8pm.
MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz
Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff
In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
PUGSLEY BUZZARD Open Studio, Northcote. 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.
C H A RL E S WE S TO N Move over Safran ± there’s a new music jamboree in town. The folks at Charles Weston have been racking their brains for a solution to your winter blues, and they’ve come up with a real delight. The new concept night, Charles Weston Music Jamboree, will see a variety of four super special acts performing every Thursday, with an emphasis on fostering local music and a sense of community. If you get bored, there’s always table tennis. Chuck a suss of some free live tunes on Thursday July 28 from 8pm.
DEEP STREET SOUL
C H E R RY B A R Deep Street Soul: Formed in 2006 as a Hammond led instrumental four-piece, they honed their sound and craft on the burgeoning Melbourne soul scene paying homage to their heroes from the late ‘60s, in particular the sounds of the Meters and Booker T. & the M.G.’s. A homemade recording went on to become the first of two sold out 45’s on the local Jaycee’s label. These 7” were heard by the owner of Freestyle Records (UK) and the band signed to the label in 2008. Catch them at Cherry Bar on Thursday July 28.
DEAD END + THE BRAVES + THE WAX EATERS + FUZZSUCKER Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. DOONA WAVES + DREAMIN' WILD + SPLENDIDID Workers
OH YAY! THURSDAY - FEAT: KIDS AT MIDNIGHT
FLOYD COX + GREAT PLACES + TRILLIONAYERS Bar Open,
SAL WONDER + FOREVER SON + DIDIRRI Old Bar, Fitzroy.
Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.00.
Greenwood Loft, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
RESIDENT THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ SHADOW Pier Live, Frankston. 9:00pm.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
8:00pm. $8.00.
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $10.00.
SHOCK WAVES + TROPICAL DEADBEATS + PAPERBACKS
Coburg. 8:30pm.
8:00pm. $5.00.
SARAH MCLEOD Workers Club (geelong), Geelong.
TIMBALERO THURSDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd.
INDIE THURSDAYS - FEAT: DANDECAT + TOUGH UNCLE + JUNIOR UNDER THE MOON + ARTIST PROOF Toff In
|| (S) - FEAT: ||: S :|| Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne
JEALOUS HUSBAND + CRYSTAL MYTH Post Office Hotel,
Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.
BITTERFRUITT + THE BELLOWS + MARKET LANE Mr
JUKE BOX RACKET DJS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JURASSIC NARK + BU$ MONEY + THE DORKS + HIGH VIZ
SOUNDTRACKS FOR IMAGINARY FILMS - FEAT: THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE + LADIE DEE Tago Mago, Thornbury.
7:00pm.
9:00pm. $10.00.
Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
MT ZERO + TERROR NULLIUS + TIRADES + P&D Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
NORMIE ROWE & THE PLAYBOYS (XMAS IN JULY) - FEAT: THUNDER ROAD: SONGS OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Milano's Tavern, Brighton. 11:15am. $40.00.
NICHOLAS COSTELLO
G RACE DARL ING HOTEL Dream pop extraordinaire Nicholas Costello is launching his lush new single at Grace Darling Hotel on Thursday July 29. The young Melbourne solo artist has been crafting melodies for the better part of ten years, and shows no sign of slowing down yet. He’s brought along Anna Cordell, Didirri and Lauren Hart to support. Head to the Grace Darling’s band room for doors at 8pm, with a $10 cover charge.
WEDNESDAY JULY 27:
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H OWL E R Howler will be all about the bass when Ganz blows the roof off on Thursday July 28. Ganz is known for his innovative flips of other people’s tracks, remixing the work of massive acts including What So Not, Flume, Hermitude and A-Trak. By contrast his brand spanking new release, Gao EP, is filled to the brim with fresh and original tracks. Get down and grimy with Ganz from 8pm, tickets via the venue.
JOYCE PRESCHER HANNAH FRANCIS
THURSDAY JULY 28:
FRIDAY AUG 5:
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:
TAGO MAGO MID-WINTER BALL FEAT THE HAPPY LONESOME,
SONS OF LEE MARVIN (TRIO), JON WILLIAMS. $8, 8PM
SUNDAY JULY 31:
TOM DANIEL & FRIENDS FREE, 4PM
DOONA WAVES What’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Hello, we are called Doona Waves. Speaking to you are Mia and Bella, we do the singing and 2/3 of the guitar playing. What do you hate about the music industry? The lack of women, there are heaps of amazing women out there doing it, that’s for sure, but the space should welcome heaps more. Also, hate venues getting small bands to do events for them and giving them very average deals. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? It would be really nice to hang out with Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star). It’d be nice to hang out with Billie Holiday, even Diana Ross, maybe learn some dance moves and get a routine rolling.
8:00pm. $7.00.
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it and why? Whoever it was that came up electro-swing.
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.
What can a punter expect from your live show? Five friends playing groovy head boppers. Fair share of smiles and boogies. Plenty of happy vibes.
TAKING BACK THURSDAY - FEAT: LUCY ROLEFF + SARA SAVAGE + BABY BONUS + FLETCH Gasometer Hotel,
BILL JACKSON
T H E S P OT T E D M A LL A R D Singer/songwriter Bill Jackson is launching his latest album, The Wayside Ballads Vol 2 at The Spotted Mallard. On Thursday July 28 Jackson has brought a bunch of mates along to celebrate the new release, who will perform with him live on stage. The ensemble includes Pete Fidler (dobro), Hamish Davidson (fiddle, banjo, guitar), Lachlan Davidson (fiddle, mandolin, guitar), Cat Canteri (drums) and Ben Franz (double bass). Doors swing open from 6pm if you’re keen for a delicious feed via The Mallard’s renowned kitchen, with the show kicking off at 8pm. Tickets via the venue.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We have nothing released at the moment, but it’s in the works, come summer we will throw it your way. There’s a couple of demos on band camp though if you want ‘em. Anything else to add? Keep it wavy baby. DOONA WAVES will play Workers Club on Thursday July 28 with Dreamin’ Wild and Splendidid.
THURSDAY AUG 4:
OPEN MIC SHOWCASE FREE, 8PM
8:00pm. $23.50.
Q&A
FREE, 8PM
ALISON FERRIER RESIDENCY FREE, 9PM
SATURDAY AUG 6:
SONGS OF THE SEA:
SAILOR SONGS, PIRATE BALLADS, SEA SHANTIES, OCEAN LAMENTS
FEAT. ANDREW MCCUBBIN & MELINDA PRITCHARDM NICK BATTERHAM, QD, MICHAEL PLATER, TOM REDWOOD, ILL-GOTTEN BOOTY AND DAVE ELLISTON FREE, 7PM THURSDAY AUG 11:
STEVE SMART PRESENTS:
A NIGHT OF SPOKEN WORD AND MUSIC $7, 7.30PM FRIDAY AUG 12:
ALISON FERRIER RESIDENCY FREE, 9PM
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GIG GUIDE LOT56 + LOS PAUNCHEROS + WAYLON JOES Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm.
MATT JOE GOW & THE DEAD LEAVES Standard Hotel,
Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel,
Williamstown. 3:00pm.
MICK THOMAS & THE ROVING COMMISSION Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $28.00.
OLD TIME SWEETHEARTS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.
4:00pm.
PEARLY SHELLS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. SARAH CARROLL Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick.
DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: NEEKO + STEVIE BOFFA + THE STRAGGLER + ZOE RYAN Open Studio, Northcote.
8:00pm.
SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel, SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq,
TUESDAY 2 AUG
Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm. Windsor. 4:00pm.
TINY PIECES OF EIGHT + MATT LANGLEY Old Bar, Fitzroy.
4:00pm.
ULTRAFOX Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 2:00pm. VICTORIANA GAYE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. WOODWARD & ROUGH + GOB IRON STRINGBAND Some
Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 6:00pm.
MONDAY 1 AUG 303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. BARNEY MCALL ASIO BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
LORETO MANDEVILLE HALL TOORAK ANNUAL MUSIC CONCERT Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne),
Southbank. 7:30pm. $25.00.
STRAUSS & LAVISH OPULENCE - FEAT: KRISTIAN CHONG + NATSUKO YOSHIMOTO Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: MOUNT TROUT + MORE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.
POOL COMP - FEAT: NOEL Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.
7:30pm.
PRESENT
TH E OL D B A R Mundane Monday is back again at The Old Bar, and Monday August 1 will feature some standout acoustic acts to ease you into the week. Non-binary musician Rachel Maria Cox is gearing up to launch second EP, titled I Just Have A Lot Of Feelings through Sad Grrrls Club Records. Jess Locke and June Jones are supporting. Cheap as chips entry at $5, get there 8pm.
REBETIKO Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE GIN CLUB Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. THE LOCOHOMBRES Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
3:30pm.
The Push
RACHEL MARIA COX
ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS II Bennetts Lane Jazz
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
ANNA'S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm. $10.00.
ARCADIA QUINTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 11:00am. $20.00.
Access All Ages WITH DECLAN BURGESS
THE GIRL FRIDAS
WO R K E R S C LU B The Girl Fridas are taking over Workers Club for a monstrous five weeks, kicking off on Tuesday August 2. The post-riot grrl trio have been making some serious noise of late, culminating in the release of full-throttle, no-holds-barred single, Daggers ± an anti-catcall anthem. For each week of their residency, they’ll be bringing along bands featuring female, non-binary, or gender diverse members. Set up camp from 8pm, entry is pocket change at $7.
IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. TRIBUTE TO DOLLY PARTON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00. OPEN MIC NIGHT Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. QUARTET ON COLLINS #2 - FEAT: FLINDERS QUARTET KATE ALEXANDER + STEPH BRETT Tramway Hotel, North
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: BLEACH BOYS + SPASMOSLOP + SCUMWITCH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MIHRA + HELOISE + STAV Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
All Ages Gig Guide
6:30pm.
WE D N E S DAY J U LY 27
OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm. POLYKITE + FALF + DOGOOD Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
Jake Bugg w/ Blossoms, Palais Theatre, 12 Lower Esplanade, 7.30pm±10.30p m, $72, www.ticketmaster. com.au , AA
8:00pm.
THE MOULIN BEIGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $12.00.
James Blake w/ Mark Pritchard, Margaret Court Arena, Batman Ave, 7pm-10.30pm, $84, premier. ticketek.com, AA
TOM TOM TUESDAY (NICE MUSIC LAUNCH #1) - FEAT: FRANCIS PLAGNE + PAPAPHILIA + MARCO FUSINATO + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. TOTALLY MILD + TALI + JARROW Gasometer Hotel,
T H U R S DAY J U LY 28 The Cure, Rod Laver Arena, 7.30pm-11pm, $142, premier.ticketek.com, AA
Collingwood. 7:30pm. $12.00.
WHITE VANS + THE DEADPANS + THE MOODY SPOOKS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
F R I DAY J U LY 29
West Writers Forum, FCAC Performance Place, 45 Moreland St, 6pm-8.30pm, $20, footscrayarts.com, AA
DRUM LESSONS with ASH DAVIES
Freeza Push Start Comp w/ Woodlock, Harrison Storm, Cnr John St & Henry St, Pakenham, 6.30pm11pm, $10, Emily Ashton / 0408 845 824, AA
S AT U R DAY J U LY 30
"The consummate drummer" - BLUE REVIEW MAGAZINE, U.S.A.
Torquay Open Mic Night, Community Hub, 27 Grossmans Rd, Torquay, 5.25pm-9pm, Free, Contact: Jarrod Zdrzalka / 03 5261 0600, AA
20 years of teaching experience from novice to professional. Lessons tailored to your needs. 30 and 60 minute lessons available...first lesson free.
Freeza Push Start Competition w/ The Hounds Homebound, Harry Jamieson, Sling Shot, Zoe Mortella, Emily Leleans and Tallon and Milly, Bright Court House, Park Street, Bright, 5pm-9pm, $15, Jenny Corser / 03 5755 0524, AA
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If you’re in high school and in a band then you’ve got to be quick to apply for this year’s triple j Unearthed High competition. You’re probably thankful you saw this reminder because you would choke up if you accidentally missed the submission date for the Australia-wide competition. Previous years have brought the world acts including Stonefield and Japanese Wallpaper. The best entries get played on national radio and winners get a track recorded, mixed and mastered, as well as triple j attending their high school for a day. Submissions close on Monday August 1. Make sure you get your song onto triplejunearthed. com before then. TINAtalks #5: Writing While Female - Subverting Expectations will take over the State Library on Friday July 29. TINAtalks is an ongoing series of collaborative feminist discussion panels and its fifth iteration brings an astute gaze to women and the written word. Host (Jenny Valentish) and panel (Lisa Carver, Adlita [Magic Dirt], Michelle Law) dissect topics ranging from body image to romance through their work. Tickets are available from www.eventbrite.com.
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 1:00pm. $28.00.
"A lot more full and textured than your average drum clinic" - ROLLING STONE
It’s almost the start of another month and that means it’s time for another thrilling instalment of New Slang and it’s going to be a good one. It’s all kicking off on Friday August 5 with The Vanns at The Channel, supported by The Kite Machine and ICB. It’s a killer line-up at a killer venue and you’re going to have a killer time. Tickets are limited so make sure you grab some from thepush.com.au.
ATTENTION SINGERS Stage Door Singing Competition, $100,000 in cash and prizes to be won Entries close August 24th www.stagedoor.net.au LOOKING FOR A CAREER CHANGE? Try space law. Guaranteed to double your coolness in five words ‘I work in space law’. Contact: spacesheriff@ howcoolisthat.com
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Fri 29th July
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Tuesdays
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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LEARNING A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC A CHAT WITH GLENN CANNON & DARYL MCKENZIE BY NICK BROWN
Like many industries, music education has undergone a number of changes over the past few years. Changing technologies, course delivery methods and content has prompted institutions to refocus their offerings to remain adaptable and cater to a broader demographic of potential students. Originating in Sydney, The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) has emerged as one of the country’s leading independent education providers. Recently their Melbourne Campus has opened in the bustling CBD, providing modern facilities in a central location. Ahead of their Melbourne Campus open day on Saturday August 13, Beat spoke with Senior Coordinator Daryl McKenzie and Operational Coordinator Glenn Cannon. How long has AIM been running? Sydney originally started as a guitar school in 1968 and changed names a couple of times until what it is today, while Melbourne has been up and running for just over two years. What courses are on offer? We offer Diploma and Bachelor courses in both Contemporary Performance and in Composition, a Bachelor in Business Entertainment Management, a Diploma in Audio Engineering and Masters Degrees and Graduate Certificates in both Composition and Performance. Do entrance requirements vary? Yes, we cater for a range of students. In terms of Bachelor courses for students coming straight out of school, they need a pass in VCE and then it’s based on an audition. Mature aged students (21 and over) are based solely on an audition. These auditions involve meeting a performance standard and a theory standard. Entry into the Diploma courses are slightly different,
they have an audition and require a performance standard only. As a relatively new institution how does AIM differ to other traditional Music Education providers? Two of our main strengths are the quality and diversity of our teaching staff. It’s an industry-based course so we’re aiming to give students a really well-rounded education to prepare them for the music industry. In terms of logistics, a lot of people find our location attractive being right in the middle of the CBD on King St. We’re only one block from Southern Cross Station and we have students coming from places such as Bendigo, Mt Macedon and Geelong. Despite that seeming some distance, it’s only a single train trip in. In terms of our Sydney campus, students do have the option to transfer between the two. Both campuses run the same course program and we’ve had students move between both and enjoyed broadening their experience by studying in two different cities. Education seems to be more flexible with a focus on
catering to student needs these days? Absolutely. We have flexible study options – students can take one unit per trimester if that’s all they can manage, right up to full time study loads. With our facilities being modern, centrally located and well equipped, we help with this as much as possible. I understand you’ve had acts such as Snarky Puppy, Spyro Gyra in for workshops recently – is this a common occurrence? We regularly have events a couple of times a trimester, in both Sydney and Melbourne. We often have artists at both campuses for workshops and performances in a range of styles and genres. What opportunities do students have on completion of a course at AIM? We’re just about to complete our first Melbourne Graduation ceremony this week. Plenty of students have already found employment. One student is heading overseas on a performance contract, another has been doing assistant Musical Direction work, others have
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gone onto further study such as Graduate study or areas like Music Therapy. Plenty of musicians have taken up work in professional bands and playing settings and obviously with Sydney – having some further history than Melbourne – there have been students going on to work internationally and on TV. Most of our graduates from the Business Entertainment Management course have already found placements working in their field of expertise, which is a great success for us. Do you think it’s important for AIM to foster the Australian Music scene? Absolutely. We have professional musicians performing on campus where the students can interact with them. All the staff are professionals in their own right and students network with them and get out to see them at gigs. It’s a very interactive scene that we’ve got going. The Australian Institute of Music will be hold their Melbourne open day on Saturday August 13. For more information head to www.aim.edu.au.
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COMMERCIAL RADIO MUST PAY STREAMING FEES The seven-month wrangle between record labels and artists (represented by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia or PPCA) and commercial radio’s association Commercial Radio Australia over paying extra for streaming (or simulcasts) has ended with the Copyright Tribunal cast a victory for the labels. The PPCA argued that many stations had their own streaming platforms without paying more. The CRA sniffed the record industry was “double dipping” as it already forked out for broadcast fees. Radio can now pay the new fees either based as a percentage of their revenue (calculated on how much music the station plays) or a per-stream rate of $0.0059 similar to what the likes of Spotify and Pandora pay. The sevenyear battle involved a Federal Court case and appeal, a High Court review, several government inquiries and a protest where regional commercial stations stopped simulcasting for almost ten months.
GAWURRA BOOKED BY 123 AGENCY On the eve of a run of festivals around the country, Stanley Gawurra Gaykamangu, a Yolngu performer from Arnhem Land now living in Melbourne, has assigned his bookings to 123 Agency. He is up for five categories in the National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin, after winning the pop category for his demo for Ratja Yaliyali (Vine of Love) which was on his debut album out in April through CAAMA. Passionate about keeping his Gupapungu language strong, the young leader is also to be bestowed “elder” status by his people.
LATEST MELBOURNE RECORD SIGNINGS Barely Dressed Records/ Remote Control first noticed indie pop Jarrow (solo project of 20-year-old Footscray’s Dan Oke) through his debut self-released EP Legitimate last year, and now released his track Cube from his debut album down the track. Oke is just back from studying and performing in Nashville. Melbourne’s Our Golden Friend’s third signing is Jade Imagine, project of Jade McInally, who recently left Teeth & Tongue (the Tantrums founder also plays bass with Jess Riberio) to focus on a solo career. First up is single Stay Awake. Do The Jerk is the new release of Melbourne cult musician Lost Animal, who’s now with Dot Dash/Remote Control. It’s a taster to the dark pop album You Yang Out due in September but already getting international rave reviews.
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Sydney based Golden Robot Records signs two more acts –singer/songwriter Ben Gillies (Silverchair) who has a solo album due early 2017, and rock band The Art whose second album All In The Mind is due in November. Golden Robot has 15 albums set for release over the next 12 months.
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The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) appointed its Chief Financial Officer Maria Amato its new General Manager. She has been 25 years in the not-for-profit, music and entertainment sectors specialising in finance and business management. Melbourne-based Amato first entered the industry as financial controller for music association Victorian Rock Foundation, and then board member for Music Victoria, CEO/CFO for the Melbourne International Film Festival. AIR chairman David Vodicka said: “(Maria)’s experience and foresight is greatly valued by the board and we look forward to the next chapter as we enter our 21st year.”
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Australian act to headline the venue. New single Girls Talk Boys notched up 3 million Spotify streams away. A year ago, Splendour In The Grass began a campaign to stop Wicked campervans with offensive sexist slogans from its site. 12 months later, the Queensland government has found a way to get the vans off the state’s roads unless it cleans up the slogans.
Social Family Records added Glenn Shorrock and Casey Barnes. Shorrock’s album Rise Against, due on Friday September 9, has a track Hear My Voice about being LRB legal saga where original members lost rights to the name and can’t perform under it. SFR president Mark Alexander-Erber is a long time LRB fan: his huge collection of memorabilia has the original of the 1987 agreement LRB signed in the USA with MCA Records. Barnes’ Nashville-recorded Live As One album is out on Friday. Most tracks were co-written and co-produced with Rick Price, with contributions from Michael Paynter and Michael Delorenzis.
REPORT: HEAVY METAL CAN BE GOOD FOR YOU!
Dinosaur City Records’ first local pact is Bourgeois Earth, creation of songwriter Nicholas Griffith of High-Tails and Big White. Dinosaur City was conceived this year by friends in Hurlstone Park, Sydney. Their first release in March was a compilation of 22 acts. Through July they ran parties at Waywards, Newtown.
OPEN DAY FOR AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
THINGS WE HEAR Which former manager of a major music company, dubbed “Dr No” for saying no to requests, is now getting the same treatment from others now she’s running her own company? Which group of clubbers have banded together to try and buy out their fav live music venue, now on the market? In an interview with New Zealand’s Waikato Times, promoter Paul Dainty revealed he’s negotiating to bring Guns N’Roses and Adele to Australia. Wet Wet Wet congratulated Drake after his Once Dance equalled their 22-year-old record of spending 15 weeks at #1 in the UK (with Love Is All Around). As a thank you to US funk pop DNCE for being on its Live series, iHeartRadio Australia threw them an Aussie-themed party by the sea complete with Budgie smugglers, meat pies and pav. It reminds this columnist of the time a major record label threw a BBQ for a visiting singer – only to discover on the day he was such a staunch vegetarian he refused to wear leather. As part of a tribute to the 1985 movie Back To The Future, actor Michael J. Fox joined Coldplay at their massive New Jersey show to play Earth Angel and Johnny B. Goode. Triple R Melbourne presenter Tony Biggs (of Friday’s On The Blower) had 2000 records from his 40-year collection stolen from a lock-up in Prahran. Sydney store/hardcore performance space Black Wire Records is taking August off while the artist-run collective works out some issues. It will be back, though. Receivers and managers of The Keystone Group announced that CBRE will advise on the sale of its 17 venues. When 5 Seconds Of Summer played New York’s Madison Square Gardens last Friday to 12,500 fans, they became the eighth
A new study in the Journal of Psychology of Popular Media suggests that heavy metal’s obsession with death and dying is a good thing. It allows listeners to release fears of their death and gives them a meaning in their lives – and a greater sense of selfesteem than non-fans of the style. “Heavy metal music is often associated with death and dying by non-fans, whereas members of this subculture report that listening to metal music is their escape from depression and even helpful against death-related thoughts,” the report said.
The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) is having an Open Day iin Melbourne (120 King St, city) on Saturday August 13. It provides an insight to its specialised degree and diploma courses. Through the day, there will be free workshops, masterclasses and live sets, and panels to give parents and potential students the chance to ask questions about any area of the industry including business, management and performance. More info of the day’s events at www.aim.edu.au.
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Sjöberg. Poor Nils was the pseudonym under which she secretly co-wrote exboyfriend Calvin Harris’ This Is What You Came For which featured Rihanna. Harris lashed out on Twitter on the “hurtful way” Tay-Tay and her team released the news “and make ME look bad at this stage,” Swift is now officially credited as co-writer. In the meantime, that was not the only death associated with the singer. In the wake of bad publicity, first over the leaking of the Harris news and Kim Kardashian leaking a phone call between Tay Tay and Kanye West to prove that she HAD heard his Famous before its release (contrary to her claims), Melbourne graff artist Lushsux figured it was the “death: of her clean cut image. He painted a mural in Hosier Lane in loving memory of “the late” Ms Swift (called “Taylor Smith” because Lushsux made a mistake) and saw it go viral. Flowers, empty beer bottles and candles were placed under the mural while Swift fans inevitably threatened to burn the building down. Swift’s lawyers reportedly emailed Lushsux a cease and desist, so the mural got changed – first to Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in May, and then to Kanye West.
NATIONAL LIVE MUSIC AWARDS IN NOVEMBER The inaugural National Live Music Awards are held in Sydney on Tuesday November 29 as part of ARIA Week. Set up by AU Review founding editor Larry Heath, it will recognise achievements of musicians and bands, venues, events and live music champions. Heath is pulling together a board of music industry execs, and sister events will be held on the night around the country. More info at nlmas.com.au.
3RRR REVIVES ‘JEWEL IN JUNK HEAP’ SLOGAN
NEW CEO FOR ETIHAD STADIUM
For its 40th anniversary radiothon, 3RRR has brought back the “A Jewel In The Junk Heap” message. It was first used in the mid‘90s on a poster designed by artist (and current subscriber) Greg Ades. It’s given an update by Melbourne artist Billie Justice Thompson in conjunction with creative agency Actual Size. The radiothon runs Friday August 19 – Sunday August 28 to raise half the funds for its operations over the next 12 months. The station has almost 14,000 subscribers and more than 440,000 listeners per week. Subscription categories are full ($75), band ($75), passionate ($125), artist ($75), DJ ($75), business ($150) and concession ($40).
Etihad Stadium has officially announced that Michael Green is its new CEO. He has been acting in that role after the departure of Paul Sergeant in February. It was always expected that the much admired Green would stay on, as the venue didn’t bother to look for a replacement. He joined in 1998 when the stadium was being built, and held a number of executive positions. Unlike Sergeant who struck some strict deals with AFL clubs and put them offside, Green has a more “collaborative” approach to sports teams and has strong contacts with the entertainment industry. He aims to expand the number of events for the 2 million who attend Etihad Stadium a year.
ARTS BOOST FOR REGIONAL ARTS
SPLENDOUR DRAMAS
Regional Victoria gets a boost in arts and culture, courtesy the state government’s grant of $10 million over the next three years to 33 arts venues. Seven will actively work at developing closer ties with their local communities. Ararat Performing Arts Centre will host a hip hop festival that will bring local young people together with professional artists. Ballarat’s Her Majesty’s Theatre will create an interactive audio experience for students to explore the history. In Bairnsdale, the Forge Theatre and Arts Hub for workshops that explore the art of putting on a performance. Mildura Arts Centre partner with local tertiary arts students to create music, dance and performance works as well as exhibitions, sound and light installations that will transform the arts centre. See the full list of recipients at www.creative.vic.gov.au.
TAYLOR SWIFT: UNTIL DEATH DOES SHE PART Taylor Swift has ended the life of Nils MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
The public transport snafu on the Friday night at Splendour In The Grass might have been what generated the most publicity. To recap, more people brought their own cars, so promoters miscalculated the volume of traffic, leading to a three hour delay in people getting out of the site after the late-arriving Strokes finished a bit after midnight Splendour responded with quick textbook strategy: it apologised profusely, explained what went wrong, fixed the problem and made amends by giving free bus rides to those who’d bought tickets. Mind you, it was of concern that drunken, tired and stressed out people who were not given any water or proper information during their ordeal, may riot. Those in the queues certainly were apprehensive. But that wasn’t the only issue for promoters. Two hours before their set, The Avalanches decided to pull out of the triple j broadcast so they could just concentrate on the gig. Someone found a snake near the Mix Up Stage. Somebody insisted they’d spotted Taylor Swift in the crowd even though she’d already returned to America by then.
Lifelines Split: Lady Gaga and Chicago Fire actor Taylor Kinney ended their engagement after five years because “they barely see each other due to work.” Ill: Brisbane singer songwriter Jackie Marshall is diagnosed with breast cancer. The music community has begun a GoFundMe campaign to cover medical fees. Ill: Yes drummer Alan White has left the band’s current touring to recover from back surgery for spinal issues. Ill: ‘70s Australian singer songwriter Max Merritt had to cancel his appearance on the Go!! Show Gold tour after being hospitalised in his home base of LA. Ill: Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington needed heart surgery after chest pains. He had a heart attack last October and quintuple bypass surgery in 2003. Recovering: US pianist Leon Russell from a heart attack. In Court: Martin John Fulton, 18, the thug who kicked defenceless security guard Michael Rigby after he jumped a fence to get into the Good Life festival in Claremont (WA) in February, had his bail revoked after going to a wedding overseas and will stay behind bars until his next court appearance on Tuesday August 2. In Court: Chips Hawkes and Richard Westwood of ‘60s band The Tremeloes were acquitted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl after a show 50 years ago, after the judge said there was not enough evidence. Charged: a man and a boy with animal cruelty after a kitten was doused with alcohol and set on fire at a Canadian country music festival. The kitten, which survived, has been named Jamboree (after the fest) and now its official mascot. Died: Lewie Steinberg, original bassist with Booker T. & The MGs, 82, in Memphis, after a long battle with cancer. He played on the iconic ‘Green Onion’ before leaving in 1965. Died: police are investigating the suspicious end of Perth club DJ and promoter Jay Suave (aka Jaime Fernandez), 41 who was found in his apartment.
Still, The Cure’s three hour set, Violent Soho’s aggressive performance and Guy Sebastian getting a standing ovation were among the pluses which made Splendour ’16 another success.