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Free $hit THE DEAD DAISIES RAT & CO SIGN TO BOOKING AGENCY AND ANNOUNCE EAST COAST TOUR BEYOND THE VALLEY DROP FIRST ROUND LINEUP Festival season is just around the corner, and four-day-long event Beyond The Valley have just announced the first delicious taste of their 2016 lineup. The bill includes a stellar mix of both local and international artists, with the biggest incarnation of BTV yet. Acts that have been locked in include Chance The Rapper, Alex Lahey, Dune Rats, Sticky Fingers, Ladyhawke, DZ Deathrays, ZHU, Kllo, Eats Everything, Giraffage, Hot Chip (DJ set), Japanese Wallpaper and loads more. BTV runs from Wednesday December 28 ± Sunday January 1 in Lardner Park, Warragul. To snag your ticket and have a gander at further acts announced, head to the festival’s website.
AUSTRALIAN GONERFEST BANDS REVEAL MELBOURNE SHOW
Horrorshow are back in business with their brand new single and video, capping it off with a national tour. Horrorshow will be touring the country to launch their latest gem If You Know What I Mean, road-testing new songs with support from one of the most exciting MCs in Australia and recent Elefant Traks recruit, B Wise. Catch them at Howler Friday October 21. Tickets via their website.
Two huge local labels, Aarght Records and Bedroom Suck, have joined forces to celebrate Memphis’ annual Gonerfest in all its glory. Dubbed Electric Goner Boogie, a slew of Australian artists who’ve graced the Gonerfest stage, released records through Goner, turned up to the party or have simply been there in spirit will take over The Tote bandroom. As you might have guessed, the lineup is mental. Bitch Prefect will take to the stage alongside Chook Race, Dag, Deaf Wish, Digger & The Pussycats, Hierophants, Hot Topic, The Know Nothings, Low Life, The Only Boys, The Pink Tiles, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Shrimpwitch, The Stevens, Straight Arrows, Terrible Truths, Treehouse, The UV Race, Wet Lips and Whipper in an epic two-day festival. Electric Goner Boogie will take over The Tote on Saturday September 10 and Sunday September 11. For more details, head over to the Facebook event.
SUPERHEIST RETURN WITH NEW VOCALIST, ALBUM AND TOUR
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One of Australia’s biggest nu-metal acts has returned after 13 years with a new vocalist, new album and a string of shows to celebrate. Superheist has welcomed a new frontman in the form of Ezekiel Ox, who rose to notoriety through his involvement with Mammal, Full Scale, Over-Reactor and The Nerve, as well as his own solo endeavours. Catch Superheist at Max Watt’s on Friday November 18. Tickets via the Wild Thing Presents website.
Mike Noga will hit the road next month for a national tour to celebrate the launch of his third solo album. The former drummer of one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed bands The Drones, Noga has fronted numerous outfits of his own and has released two highly lauded solo albums. His long-awaited third album KING is out on Friday August 26 via Cooking Vinyl Australia. He’ll play the Northcote Social Club on Thursday September 29.
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Ambient-electronic purveyors Rat & Co have announce they have signed to Melbourne’s burgeoning booking and touring agency, Heads with Tales. Rat & Co will join an impressive roster of local and international artists, which include the likes of Mall Grab, Catlips, 30/70 and Lucy Cliché. The three-piece are throwing a string of parties across the east coast throughout September. Have a looksie at Rat & Co when they hit Howler Friday September 16. Tickets via Moshtix.
PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL REVEALS FIRST ROUND LINEUP FOR 2016 Now in its fourth year, Paradise has lifted the lid off a slew of quality acts for their first round announcement. The festival will be bigger and better than ever before, boasting a lineup featuring Gold Class, Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda, Baro, Pearls, GL, Lucianblomkamp, Sui Zhen, Gabriella Cohen, Fortunes, Julia Jacklin, Lossless, Buoy, Krakatau, Alice Ivy, Saatsuma, Corin, Simona Castricum, Christopher Port, Nali, Huntly, Kangaroo Skull, Ocdantar, Couture, Shouse, Dannika, River Yarra, Tom Baker, Jalé, DJ Kiti, Mu-Gen and Paradise DJs, with more to be announced. The event will be spread across three locations within the festival landscape ± the traditional outdoor amphitheatre, an indoor nightclub, and a newly added second internal music space. Paradise remains a camping festival and is BYO, so start stocking up on tinnies now. Paradise goes down from Friday November 25 ± Sunday November 27 just outside of Marysville, a 90-minute drive from Melbourne. Tickets are on sale now.
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PHILLIP GLASS ENSEMBLE ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE SHOW One of the most spellbinding films of the silver screen will be reimagined live on stage alongside an original music score by Philip Glass ± one of the greatest living composers of the late 20th century, with the Australian exclusive performance of La Belle et la Bête. Going down as part of this year’s stellar Melbourne Festival program, Glass will perform his own score to Jean Cocteau’s 1954 adaption of Beauty and the Beast in an illuminating ode to the transformative powers of love and art. Performed by four singers onstage whose voices appear to be in complete synchronization with the onscreen characters, the result transcends art forms to create a new experience of sound and cinema. It’s all happening at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday October 7 and Saturday October 8. Get your tickets through the Melbourne Festival’s official site.
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FALLS FESTIVAL REVEAL CHILDISH GAMBINO, DATES AND LOCATIONS The summer festival announcements are well and truly beginning to roll in, with the hallowed Falls Festival announcing the first taste of their 2016 lineup along with dates and venues. Bringing music, art and light to the rolling amphitheatres, streets and shores of Australia, Falls 2016 will go down in Lorne (Wednesday December 28 ± Saturday December 31), Marion Bay (Thursday December 29 ± Saturday December 31), Byron Bay (Saturday December 31 ± Monday January 2) and Fremantle (Saturday January 7 ± Sunday January 8) for some New Year’s antics. Topping the bill so far comes acclaimed rapper Childish Gambino. He’ll be heading over armed with PHAROS, his new record due out later this year. Head to the Falls Festival website to check out all the info.
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KILLING HEIDI ARE REFORMING FOR QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL With a lineup already boasting legendary acts Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, george (20th anniversary show), Alpine, Urthboy and Ash Grunwald, not to mention a swamp of other huge talent, this 20th anniversary lineup continues to raise the stakes. For its latest announcement QMF dropped the news that Killing Heidi, Australia’s ‘90s indie rock darlings, will reform for their first show in 10 years. The third lineup announcement also includes soul rock vocal phenomenon Liz Stringer, off the back of her second Canadian tour with a fantastic new album, All the Bridges. Also bringing their new album to Queenscliff are exquisite duo Sweet Jean, legendary blues performers Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers with special guest Chris Wilson, folk enigma Howqua, PBSFM’s Vince Peach as well as Joe Mungovan, Ayleen O’Hanlon, Reuben Stone and Simon Phillips. Queenscliff Music Festival goes down from Friday November 25 to Sunday November 27. Tickets are selling fast so get on them quick, further details can be found on the festival’s website.
JEN CLOHER TO PLAY DEAD WOOD FALLS ANNIVERSARY SHOW Jen Cloher will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of one of her most well-loved albums in a special anniversary show. Dead Wood Falls is the acclaimed debut album from Jen Cloher and The Endless Sea, marking 10 years since its first release. To mark its anniversary and its accompanying first pressing on vinyl, Cloher has pulled the original performing lineup together again to play the album in its entirety, as well as a handful of Endless Sea classics. It’s all happening Saturday October 15 at the Northcote Social Club. Tickets via the venue.
EVEN ANNOUNCE 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW IN SUPPORT OF NEW SINGLE As they gear up to launch their latest track to the world, Melbourne poprock experts Even have locked in a single launch. The three-piece have been working on new tunes for quite some time now, trickling music out here and there on limited edition 7” singles. However, a brand new single is set to be released Thursday September 1, with the group taking to the stage to celebrate. It all goes down at Bella Union, Trades Hall on Friday September 23 with special guests to be announced.
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CLOWNS ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE, VIDEO AND TOUR Melbourne legends Clowns are back with some spicy new material, heading out on a national tour to boot. New track Destroy the Evidence evokes summer arvos spent skating in some dude’s suburban backyard, jammed with Clowns’ typical punk effervescence. It acts as the explosive follow up to 2015’s Bad Blood LP, which scored the top slot on Short Fast Loud’s annual album poll. They’ll hit The Evelyn on Friday October 21. Tickets through their website.
Victoria’s much loved music festival NYE on the Hill has released a cracking lineup, securing some of the best acts our fine country has to offer. The mighty Preatures will headline proceedings, along with a swag of other mega-artists. The Pierce Brothers, Tash Sultana and The Bennies will grace the festival stage, while L-Fresh The Lion, Camp Cope, Mesa Cosa, CERES, Oh Pep!, The Belligerents, Sex on Toast and loads more also feature on the seriously stacked bill. Held over three days, NYE on the Hill are keeping their tickets at a minimum of 2,500, so better get in quick. NYE on the Hill will be held from Wednesday December 30 till Sunday January 1 in Loch Village, 20 minutes from Wonthaggi. Tickets are on sale now from www.nyeonthehill.com.au
GABRIELLA COHEN ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE SHOW & SIGNS NORTH AMERICAN BOOKING DEAL Gabriella Cohen is going from strength to strength, announcing a Melbourne show hot on the heels of signing a North American booking agent deal. Signing with High Road Touring, Cohen is working with the same agent who handles the likes of Alabama Shakes, Bloc Party, Django Django, Portugal The Man, Amanda Palmer and more. Cohen released her debut LP Full Closure And No Details via her own DIY independent record label Dirty Power Studios in March this year and was soon signed to Dot Dash/ Remote Control Records following serious acclaim from fans and critics alike. She’ll hit The Tote on Saturday September 3 and The Curtin Bandroom on Saturday September 24 with tickets via Oztix.
Melbourne Music Bank, one of Victoria’s largest music contests for aspiring artists, have announced their triumphant return for 2016, boasting an enormous pool of prizes to the tune of $60,000. The 2016 prize pack includes four days of recording at Melbourne’s The Studios In The City to record, mix and master an EP, plus two film clips, album artwork, printed CDs, styling, media training, and a photoshoot for the release. The winner also receives management and mentoring by Matt O’Connor, publicity courtesy of On The Map PR, radio plugging by Varrasso PR and gig bookings by 123 Agency, as well as the opportunity to tour the east coast of Australia and perform at the renowned festival, Beyond The Valley. Phew. To be eligible, musicians must be from Victoria and submit an original song by 5pm on Saturday August 27. The Melbourne Music Bank winner will be selected after a live performance by the finalists in front of a panel of industry experts at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on Tuesday October 25. For more details, visit www.bankofmelbourne.com.au/ melbmusicbank.
EZEKIEL OX LOCKS IN 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW FOR SOLO TOUR
ALEXISONFIRE REVEAL AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES Returning to Australia for the first time in years, Alexisonfire is coming together to play a string of national headline dates across the country. Following their slot at Unify 2017, the highly anticipated shows will act as the band’s first non-festival headlining dates since 2012. Alexisonfire released four hugely successful and critically acclaimed albums between 2002 and 2009, amassing a legion of devoted fans across the world. Having sold out tours in Canada, United States, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Japan, the group’s popularity has risen to cult status over the years. Watch out when they hit Festival Hall on Tuesday January 17. Tickets via Ticketmaster. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14
Heading out on his first ever solo rock tour, Ezekiel Ox has locked in a Melbourne show. Standing behind the masterful frontman are Steven Smith (drums), Sarox Martin (bass) and Drew Goddard (guitar). This quartet bring thousands of gigs worth of experience to the stage and will be unleashing tracks from Zeke’s first solo EP Proper Gander, plus hits from Ox’s back-catalogue. It’s all happening at Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 26. Tickets through his website.
STILLWATER GIANTS GEAR UP FOR NATIONAL TOUR Perth indie pop four-piece Stillwater Giants are making quite the name for themselves, with their debut album Munich having attracted critical acclaim. Now they’ve announced that they’re hitting the road to celebrate the release. They’ll be kicking off the tour this September, with reformed fellow-Westerners End Of Fashion. You can see them for yourself when they land at Northcote Social Club Friday September 9. Tickets via Oztix. HOT TALK
SOUTHBOUND MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FURTHER ROUND OF ARTISTS After recently dropping snippets from the lineup including Hermitude and a plethora of WA’s finest, Southbound 2016 has added a huge stack of names resulting in the most artists in the festival’s history. And there are still more to be announced. In alphabetical order, the lineup to date consists of The Bennies, Boo Seeka, The Cat Empire, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Dena Amy, Discovery: Daft Punk Tribute, Elk Road, Grrl Pal, Hermitude, Hideous Sun Demon, Highasakite, Hot Chip (DJ Set), Hudson Mohawke, HWLS, Hydraulix, Just A Gent, Klue, Koi Child, Kučka, Ladyhawke, Lilt, Luke Million, Mathas, Montaigne, Mosquito Coast , MSTRKRFT, Nicole Millar, Nina Las Vegas, Odd Mob, Paces, Peking Duk, Phantogram, Remi, Running Touch, Safia, San Cisco, Set Mo, Slumberjack, The Smith Street Band, Sticky Fingers, Throttle, Thundamentals, Time Pilot, Tired Lion, UV Boi, Vera Blue and ZHU. First release tickets are moving very quickly and now with more names than you can poke a stick at, allocation will be exhausted in no time. Southbound goes down from Tuesday December 27 to Thursday December 29 at Sir Stewart Bovell Park Busselton, WA. Info and tickets via the festival website.
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MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL LAUNCH NEW PROGRAM The Melbourne Fringe Festival is returning for 2016 and this year will see them hone in on providing a plethora of family-friendly activities. Melbourne Fringe Creative Director, Simon Abrahams says, “This year, we’re put a particular focus on children as cultural citizens with something important to say and their right to access great art.” Little tikes and adults alike can look forward to a huge range of activities on the program, which spans across Melbourne. It will include a designated Kids Club at the Arts House in North Melbourne, running the last week of the festival, an interactive and enchanting art space in the form of Bellbird by Polygot at ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr, the Kids Vs Art podcasts showcasing the brutal and hilarious honesty of kids reviewing art, and performances suitable for families such as Rainbow Cactus, The Adventures of Broer and Zus and Oliver Up A Tree by Josh Earl. The Melbourne Fringe Festival runs from Thursday September 15 to Sunday October 2. For tickets and additional, info head on over to the festival’s website.
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Singer/songwriter and overall paramount voice for Indigenous Australians, Archie Roach, has locked in a show at Melbourne’s Elisabeth Murdoch Hall this October. Joining Roach at these very special shows will be Corey Theatre and the Dhungala Children’s Choir. Playing tracks from his tenth studio album Let Love Rule for the first time as well as selections from an extraordinary career, these shows will be a celebration of the new record, and a celebration of humanity and love, two core themes on the release. Join Archie Roach when he heats up Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Saturday October 29. Tickets via the venue.
Melbourne based four-piece Airbourne are pretty psyched for the release of their fourth studio album, Breakin’ Outta Hell, due for release via Spinefarm Records on Friday September 23. They’ve locked in a Melbourne show, well in advance to elongate the celebration of the release. The 11 track record sees the band driving their party-starting prowess to even greater heights, supported by a World Tour taking in both major headline shows and festival appearances, plus an October/November European run with global heavy-hitters Volbeat. Airbourne will bring the heat on Friday January 20, 2017 at Trak Lounge.
2016 MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS ANNOUNCE EPIC AFTER PARTY LINEUP The Age Music Victoria Awards will celebrate its 11th year with a huge lineup of Victoria’s finest. Falling within Melbourne Music Week, all of the hotly anticipated awards formalities completed earlier in the evening will follow up with an after party of epic proportions. Co-presented by Triple R and PBS, the after party will feature live sets from Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Camp Cope and Tash Sultana. Continuing with past traditions, members from the RockWiz Band will once again form The EG AllStars, who will be joined on stage by guests Paul Dempsey, Gareth Liddiard, Kylie Auldist, REMI, Pierce Brothers, Alex Lahey, Gawurra and Freya Josephine Hollick, performing their best songs of the year. It’s all happening at 170 Russell on Wednesday November 16. Very limited tickets are on sale now. Once again, $5 from every ticket sold will be donated to charity partner Support Act Limited, which has received almost $50,000 from the event over the last ten years.
WEST THEBARTON BROTHEL PARTY DROP NEW SINGLE AND REVEAL NATIONAL TOUR Adelaide’s garage septet West Thebarton Brothel Party have shared their swaggering slacker anthem, Dolewave, from their upcoming 7” out through Clarity Records due out Friday September 2. West Thebarton Brothel Party are now back for a national tour, don’t miss the good times at The Old Bar, Friday September 30.
Usually, you’d have to trek all the way to Nashville to enjoy the yearly Americana Music Association Festival and Conference – which attracts hundreds of artists from around the world. The great news for Melbournians comes a month ahead of the festival, with The Retreat announcing they’ll be hosting their own rendition of the festivities. Furthermore, it will be in support of some of our finest local alt-country and roots artists, who will be heading over to US for the affair. It’ll be a day drenched in the smooth sounds of Americana, with performances from Sarah Carroll, The Weeping Willows, Susannah Espie, Sean McMahon, Mick Daley, Waz E James and Jemma Nicole, with surprise special guests joining them on the day. Entry is by donation, with all proceeds going toward supporting and promoting our mates at the conference. Spit shine your finest cowboy boots and head on down to The Retreat on Sunday August 21.
WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2016 LINEUP This one’s for all you jazz-heads out there – now in its 27th year and with a 2016 lineup that is sure to hit all the high notes, the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival is back in action baby. The festival is the perfect opportunity for jazz enthusiasts to unwind and enjoy a jam-packed long weekend of premium jazz and blues from a stellar lineup of Australian and international musicians. The 2016 lineup is a big one, including the likes of Melissa Aldana, The Bamboos, JJ Thames, James Morrison, Barney McAll, Geoff Achison, Joe Chindamo, WilsonManning-Southwell, Andrea Keller, Hetty Kate and Leigh Carriage and stacks more. Set over the last weekend in October – Friday October 28 to Sunday October 30, festival goers will be treated to the musical delights of more than 300 musicians in over 80 concerts, across seven concert locations. Tickets are on sale now, you can snap ‘em up via the Wangaratta Jazz website, and while you’re there check out the full lineup.
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CARLTON DROUGHT RELIEF SHOW ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP The blokes working for Carlton Draught have had a bit of a shit run recently, enduring mass sackings, horrendous wage cuts and loss of entitlements thanks to the bigwigs in charge. In order to show support and solidarity, plus raise funds for the displaced workers, The Bendigo is hosting a Carlton Drought Relief show. A bunch of honest and hard-working bands have jumped on to help, including Blind Man Death Stare, Grim Rhythm, Australian Kingswood Factory, Keggin, Drexler and Simon Wilson. Entry is free, but there will be a donation jar and all proceeds from the bar going toward the workers who have been given the short end of the stick. Support decent wages, fair workplace rights and drink the place dry on Thursday August 18. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 16
Melbourne-based trio Diploid have a tireless work ethic, and have staged multiple tours of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in recent years. The gang have confirmed that they’re back at it again for an east coast Australian tour. You can catch Diploid when they tear up The Bendigo Hotel Thursday October 13.
PRAY TV REUNITE FOR NEW ALBUM AND MELBOURNE SHOW After 20 years, Melbourne cult indie band Pray TV are back with a new album and a launch show to boot. A lot has changed over the years, but Pray TV’s new offering Horizontal Life promises to rekindle the golden era of ‘90s melancholic rock. Horizontal Life comes as their fifth album, and their first release in a decade. For the launch of their hiatus breaking album, Pray TV have some fellow stalwarts dusting off their guitars and reforming for a special reunion show – The Glorybox. Get nostalgic on Saturday September 10, when Pray TV transport you back in time at Grace Darling Hotel. HOT TALK
STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA TO PRESENT 40 YEARS OF TRIPLE R It’s hard to believe Melbourne’s favourite independent radio station, Triple R, is nearing 40 years of activity. To celebrate the stations longevity, the State Library Victoria is hosting an exhibition to showcase a behind the scenes look at Triple R over its lifespan. ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR tell the story and delves into the history, culture and character of the iconic station. There’s going to be an eclectic array of materials on display including signed posters from live performances, original artworks and rare photographs, which cross all musical genres from pop to punk. The free exhibition will be complemented by a free public program of talks, debates and an after-hours pop-up bar. ON AIR: 40 years of 3RRR runs at the State Library Victoria from Friday November 18 until Sunday January 29, 2017.
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ELLIE GOULDING Rod Laver Arena October 8 THE LEVELLERS Max Watt’s October 9 FRNKIERO ANDTHE PATIENCE Corner Hotel October 11 THE DIRE STRAITS EXPERIENCE Palais Theatre October 12 DIPLOID Bendigo Hotel October 13 LACUNA COIL Max Watt’s October 13 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre October 14 HAYES CARLL Thornbury Theatre October 14 THE SNOWDROPPERS The Gasometer October 14 THE JEZABELS The Croxton October 14 QUEENSRYCHE Prince Bandroom October 14 OUT ON THE WEEKEND feat. Marlon Williams & The Yarra Benders, Robert Ellis, Lindi Ortega and more Seaworks, Williamstown October 15 MONTAIGNE Corner Hotel October 15 SAFIA Festival Hall October 15 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 SCORPIONS 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 CLOWNS The Evelyn October 21 HORRORSHOW Howler October 21 THE DELTA RIGGS Corner Hotel October 21 RAVE OF THRONES feat Kristian Nairn Trak October 21 MORRISSEY Festival Hall October 22 HOT CHOCOLATE AND THE REAL THING Palais Theatre October 22 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE 170 Russell October 25 GLEN HANSARD Palais Theatre October 26 WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various Venues, Wangaratta October 28 – 30 THE SOFT MOON 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 ARCHIE ROACH Elisabeth Murdoch Hall October 29 THE PRETTY LITTLES Northcote Social Club October 29 THE VENGABOYS 170 Russell October 30 BERNARD FANNING Palais Theatre October 31 VIOLENT SOHO Festival Hall October 31 SLIPKNOT Rod Laver Arena October 31 RICHIE RAMONE The Tote October 31, November 2 REGURGITATOR Howler November 3, Prince Bandroom November 4 THE STIFFYS The Workers Club November 4 BAD MANNERS Corner Hotel November 3 MSO - INDIANA JONES & 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 The Prince Bandroom November 7, 8 SCHOOLBOY Q Festival Hall November 9 DEFTONES Festival Hall November 11 DESTROYER 666 Max Watts November 11 STICKY FINGERS Festival Hall November 12 CITIZEN Corner Hotel November 12, Arrow on Swanston November 13 DIONNE WARWICK Palais Theatre November 13
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t’s no surprise that Melbourne’s Camp Cope are resonating with people all over the world. The trio of Georgia Maq, Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich and Sarah ‘Thomo’ Thompson have only been together for 14 months but have accomplished some incredible feats in that time. None of those feats have been more important than leading conversations surrounding safety and representation within music. Each song is a statement, whether it be one about a relationship or about society, delivered with agonising conviction. Listen to Maq’s formidable vocals, set to the thundering backbone of their music and you too will be convinced – Camp Cope are a band with important things to say.
Prior to the band’s inception, Maq had been performing solo and upon hearing that Thompson played drums was insistent on jamming. “Georgia had never even played with drums before. It’s very different because you’re actually following someone,” explains Thompson. “Georgia’s face was crazy, it was this giant beaming grin and she stopped to say ‘Oh my god’.” While Hellmrich wasn’t present at the first jam she asserts her position in the band confidentially. “I hadn’t even met Thomo before and I didn’t know what to expect but I realised from the first rehearsal that no one was listening to what I was doing. That’s why I do whatever I want on bass,” she jokes. Having played in other projects prior to Camp Cope, each member expresses the joy of getting to work with your best friends. “It’s easy because we get along well and we can tell each other if something’s shit, not that it ever is,” says Thompson. Maq adds fondly, “I’ve never had a friendship like this where you create something together because I’ve always been a bit of a loner, but these people are special. We’re like a team.” “I feel the closer we’ve become the easier it’s been to make music,” Hellmrich says. “I know where Georgia’s going to go in her head now because I know her so well. We have a constant text thread BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
and when I get on my break at work there’s 24 messages from Georgia and Thomo.” The band’s rise over the last year has been rapid, seeing them play sold out shows all over Australia, reach #36 on the ARIA charts with their debut album and support the likes of Screaming Females and Modern Baseball. The band note their Melbourne album launch at The Curtin as a highlight, still riding the wave of excitement three months on. “That night was crazy,” Thompson says. “It was the first show we played where we had any recorded material whatsoever apart from demos. It was really weird for us because we aren’t used to anyone except for ourselves and friends knowing the words. I can never hear the crowd but at that show I could hear them over the top of my foldback, even over the top of Georgia.” “There’s something really special about shows with people who aren’t men,” says Maq. “We had a representation of all the unique kinds of people that come to shows. It felt really good to be able to do something like that and support other women, non-binary people and transpeople. When I go to a show that’s all men I’m like ‘What are you doing, you’re not helping anything’.” In regards to what the band feel ready for in terms of opportunities, Thompson B E AT.C O M . A U
is clear when outlining the band’s stance. “I get a lot of emails everyday from every person on the planet who can see a quick buck. I don’t think it’s a matter of being ready for things, we’re just going to do what we want anyway. No one’s going to tell us what to do so it doesn’t really matter.” As for how they feel when they’re on stage, given the increasing size of the audiences Hellmrich is quick to express her fear. “It’s terrifying, that’s why we look at each other and scream with our eyes. But we have each other, so no matter how scary or big the shows are we can look at one another and know that we’re all feeling the same thing.” Camp Cope’s songs are notably very personal in nature with Maq, the band’s lyricist, emphasising the importance of being vulnerable within songwriting and sharing your experiences with an audience. “It’s like yoga. When you touch your toes and want to retract, you instead leave it and relax into the pain, so the more you tell people these personal things the easier it is. That way your vulnerabilities become your strengths because they’re out there.” “It’s like when Eminem does that rap battle in 8 Mile and says crap about himself before the other guy can say it,” Hellmrich adds. “To sum up, Georgia is Slim Shady,” laughs Thompson. The band’s influence is already being felt in a major way as they become one of the loudest voices on issues relating to the representation of women and the LGBTIQA+ community. “I see shows as a political statement,” says Maq. “If you give a microphone to an all male band you’re giving them a platform to be heard. If you give it to a woman, trans or non-binary person you’re giving them a voice and bringing them into the picture. Men who are in bigger bands need to step up and do something and stop supporting the boys club, because the boys club can fucking take care of itself.” The band are currently in the process of putting together a zine titled People Like You and Me to give women and LGBTIQA+ people an opportunity to get their work published. “I want people to catch on to what we’re doing and why it needs to be done,” says Maq. “We have a platform now where people listen to us so we want to give back to other people who don’t have a stage to speak on,” adds Hellmrich.
Soon to play Sad Grrrls Fest, Camp Cope understand the festival’s importance in a male dominated market, where the inclusion of just two female performers on a bill is considered an oversight rather than a massive failing of the booker. “Every show’s a boys fest,” Maq says. “Sad Grrrls Fest shows how many female musicians there are,” adds Hellmrich. “That’s a very full bill with very established, talented women of varying genres. When people go ‘Oh there’s just not enough women to put on every bill,’ it’s like, no there actually is. I’m also very excited about the festival as a networking possibility. When we played Queer & Now in Wollongong it was amazing to meet a lot of female and queer young kids who had similar experiences. A lot of the bands on Sad Grrrls and Queer & Now I didn’t know before and now when we have a show we can put them on it.” The band are also gearing up for the Poison City Weekender, taking place in September, the same festival they played for their second show only last year. “There’s so many cool and diverse bands on both the Weekender lineup and Sad Grrrls Fest,” says Thompson. “There’s a bunch of stuff that hasn’t been announced yet for the Weekender which is really cool. Bands that I think are really important for people to see. I’ve been going there long before I started working for the label and you don’t rock up for one band, you go for the whole thing. It’s important to have those bands on the bill.” The future for Camp Cope is certainly shaping up to be mammoth as the band talk allusively about their plans for the next six months. “We’ve got some stuff coming up that’s a different audience to what we’re used to in different settings. There’s heaps of cool stuff coming up that we can’t announce yet,” says Hellmrich. “We’ll only be a band for a year and a half next year and we’ve got such big things planned,” adds Maq. “I’m so proud of us.” CAMP COPE will play Sad Grrrls Fest at The Reverence Hotel on Saturday October 1, Poison City Weekender at Corner Hotel on Saturday September 10 and The Age Music Victoria Awards Afterparty at 170 Russell on Wednesday November 16.
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This Week: Virtual reality has had its false starts, but since the 1990s ± when rudimentary 3D tech (and films like Lawnmower Man) gave mass audiences a hint at what might be possible ± VR technologies have slowly but certainly crept into our daily lives, from flight simulator training to Google Street View and the Oculus Rift. Eric Darnell is at the forefront of conversations about cinematic VR and the narrative possibilities of the medium. The director of DreamWorks animated features, the Madagascar series and Antz, Darnell last year cofounded Baobab Studios, described as one of the ‘Disneys of early VR’. In Virtual Reality and Storytelling, he’ll broach some of the big questions with which pioneers in his field are wrestling. How do you keep a viewer’s attention when there’s a 360-degree field of view? How do you manage questions of pace, rhythm and suspense? What kind of communal cinematic experiences can we expect to have with VR? And what can VR contribute to the future of storytelling? It’s going down at ACMI Saturday August 13. Tickets via The Wheeler Centre.
With James Di Fabrizio. Do you have news, thoughts or a fantastic minestrone recipe? Email james@beat.com.au.
The Fiery Maze BY GEM DOOW
Hollywood’s man of 10,000 voices ± Michael Winslow ± is on our shores bringing his hilarious stand-up and impressions to the people. The comedian was last Down Under when he sold out nine shows at the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival to rave reviews. Winslow is well known for his roles in Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs and Gremlins, and became a household name after his part in Police Academy as Sgt. Lavrelle “Motor Mouth” Jones. Not one to conform to traditional stand-up tropes, punters can look forward to a live show filled with impersonations, impressions, story-telling, music and sound effects. Winslow’s routine is a sound-fuelled delight that showcases his truly remarkable talent for vocal manipulation. Catch him at the Gateway Hotel on Thursday August 11, Shoppingtown Hotel on Friday August 12, and Chelsea Heights Hotel on Saturday August 13. The Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bob Poole will recall the inspiring account of his fight to save Africa’s ‘lost Eden’ Gorongosa live on stage. Audiences will hear daring tales of elephant rescues, see extraordinary images of Gorgonsa’s majestic animals, and learn how the wild places we’ve broken can be put back together. Drawing from his own experiences whilst joining forces with rangers and scientists, the fight for Gorongosa is one of the biggest conservation projects on the planet. Nature Roars Back will be held at Hamer Hall Wednesday August 10. Tickets via Arts Centre Melbourne.
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Edward II is a leader who fails to lead - a king who loses everything because of his addiction to another man. Newly crowned, King Edward II spends his days lavishing his lover Piers with titles and riches. Convinced he is invincible, he flaunts this affair, causing outrage across the nation. Marlowe’s tale of obsession and revolution has fascinated artists for centuries, and been reinvented by Bertold Brecht, and reimagined by filmmaker Derek Jarman. Matthew Lutton directs a new and radically revamped adaption by Australian expat Anthony Weigh. Dropping the Elizabethan language and infusing the work with 21st century lust and politics, this interpretation is a perverse, sexy and provocative look at an inglorious leader who pays the ultimate price for making the personal political. Edward is the narcissist you will stay up all night for, but there will be blood on the dance floor when the sun rises. Catch the acclaimed production at the Merlyn Theatre, Coopers Malthouse, throughout the week right up until Sunday August 21.
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et ready to throw away every preconception you might have about poetry when you read Dorothy Porter’s work. The late Aussie poet’s work isn’t the stuff of daffodils and clouds ± it ’s about flesh, sweat, sex, passion, love, obsession, murder, intrigue and death. Read Porter’s work on public transport and you risk blushing, but it’s as beautiful and evocative as it is erotic ± an d now Kiwi treasure Tim Finn is bringing her words to the stage, backed with his music in the form of a song cycle, The Fiery Maze. For most people, an introduction to Porter’s profane poetry comes in the form of her first book, Monkey’s Mask ± a slender novel in verse about a lesbian private detective investigating the death of a murdered girl in Sydney. It was Finn’s first introduction to her work and what compelled him to put pen to paper and correspond with her, old-school style, about a collaboration. “I just fell in love with the language,” says Finn. “I’d never done anything like it before or since, but I wrote her a letter, as one did in those days, and I said that the book had deeply affected me and would she like to write some songs?” Undoubtedly, Finn’s letter would have pleased Porter no end. After all, in her last essay before her death, On Passion, an exploration of Porter’s preoccupation with the type of love that burns you up, she admitted that rock’n’roll fuelled her muse. Plus, Porter had always believed that poets should be able to play arenas alongside rock stars. Porter responded to Finn immediately and the Fiery Maze was conceived. Finn threw some ideas her way, including the fact that there was renewed interest during grunge’s reign with the music of beautiful and doomed rockstar youth ± including Hendrix,
Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin ± musicians who were exhorting their audiences to lose themselves in rock and drugs. “Dorothy took that and ran with it almost like it was a metaphor,” Finn explains. Porter chose to use that as a backdrop for lyrics about a grand passion and doomed love affair ± another intoxicant in which an individual can get lost. “She wrote about that derangement of senses that occurs when you think that you’ve met with the love of your life, but it’s too hot not to grow cold,” Finn says. “That experience where you think, ‘This is what love is supposed to feel like, finally, this is this all consuming, obsessive passion that I’ve heard about and read about’. It’s overwhelming and you’ll surrender everything to it and slowly but surely, it might take weeks, months or even years, but you realise that you’ve lost yourself, so you try and pull yourself back out of that morass. That can be very difficult sometimes, because it’s so intoxicating and seductive.” Although Finn and Porter worked quickly, the songs were left to languish. “All the work was written around ’94 and the songs just lay in the bottom draw,” Finn recalls. “They were type written pages that had started to turn yellow. They just wouldn’t leave me alone. Every
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now and then I’d pull them out and read them or listen to some of these old demos and try and figure out what the chords were all over again, because nothing was written down. It was very stream of consciousness, musically and lyrically.” Sadly, Finn and Porter never had the opportunity to become proper mates. Porter died in 2008 at the age of 54 from an aggressive form of breast cancer. “We never kind of hung out, got drunk or talked very much,” Finn says. “It was just purely mind to mind. I didn’t even know that she was ill. We met at a pub in Melbourne and the next minute we were trying to do a workshop on this idea and news came through that she had died. It was very shocking and once again the songs were back in the bottom drawer, but they wouldn’t leave me alone.” The project was reinvigorated when Abi Tucker, who had worked on the demos when she was 19, emailed Finn and asked what had become of the songs. “So, once again I pulled them out,” he explains. “They wouldn’t go away ± these songs that refused to die ± and I’m glad, because finally it’s come together as a song cycle and it doesn’t need any other narrative. The songs themselves say so much.” Finn has some views about why Porter’s poetry hits so hard. “I think it’s rare for a poet to be able to use ancient myths and talk about ancient civilisations and have a very sensual command of language, so that you feel like you’re almost being touched by the words and then on top of that, you have this street-wise swagger. She had all of those things weaving in and out of each other and I think that’s pretty rare. She wasn’t high-brow or lowbrow, or any brow. She just raised eyebrows.” THE FIERY MAZE runs at the Malthouse Theatre from Thursday August 18 to Sunday September 4.
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DIRTY SECRETS COMEDY
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It’s another huge one for Dirty Secrets, with a great selection of comedians to get you through hump-day. Peter Jones is acting MC with Simon Carter, Stuart Daulman, Kimberley Lisle, Brett Blake, and more getting in on the action. It’s all happening Wednesday August 10. Get down from 8.30pm at 80 Smith St, Collingwood.
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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 August 11 they’ll see Toby Halligan as MC introducing Adam Knox, Alex Ward, Kimberley Lisle, Rob Caruana, Jeremy Webb, Rhi Down, Brett Blake. Plus, the next competitors for the ‘Are You Funnier Than George?’ competition are taking to the stage. 20 Johnston St, Fitzroy.
CLUB VOLTAIRE COMEDY Stepping up to the plate at Club Voltaire Comedy on Sunday August 14 are the likes of Adam Knox MC, Eve Ellenbogen, Rhi Down, Megan McKay, Leigh Qurban, and more. It’s all going down at 14 Raglan St, North Melbourne, with brilliant comedy every Sunday from 7.30pm.
Melbourne Fringe Festival Unveil First Taste of 2016 Program The Melbourne Fringe Festival is returning for 2016 and this year will see them hone in on providing a plethora of family-friendly activities. Melbourne Fringe Creative Director, Simon Abrahams says, “This year, we’re put a particular focus on children as cultural citizens with something important to say and their right to access great art.” Little tykes and adults alike can look forward to a huge range of activities on the program, which spans across Melbourne. It will include a designated Kids Club at the Arts House in North Melbourne, running the last week of the festival, an interactive and enchanting art space in the form of Bellbird by Polygot at ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr, the Kids Vs Art podcasts showcasing the brutal and hilarious honesty of kids reviewing art, and performances suitable for families such as Rainbow Cactus, The Adventures of Broer and Zus and Oliver Up A Tree by Josh Earl. The Melbourne Fringe Festival runs from Thursday September 15 to Sunday October 2. For tickets and additional info head on over to the festival’s website.
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 is going down this Monday August 15, and 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.
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Wednesday August 31 Arts Centre
An Evening With Henry Rollins
Monday September 19 & Tuesday September 20 State Theatre
Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert
Friday November 4 ± S aturday November 5 Hamer Hall
John Olsen: The You Beaut Country
Friday September 16 - Sunday February 26 2017 Ian Potter Centre
Red Stitch Dive in to Black Comedy with ‘You Got Older’ You Got Older is a black comedy written by US playwright Clare Barron, directed by Red Stitch ensemble member Brett Cousins. Have you ever had to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing around you? That is exactly what You Got Older is all about. The story follows the unemployed Mae, who has just been dumped and is suffering from a nasty rash, as she temporarily moves back to her childhood home to support her sick father. The awardwinning play comes to Red Stitch Actors Theatre from Wednesday August 31 - Sunday October 2.
Artists Unveiled for 2016 Melbourne Art Trams The MSO Come Together with Aussie Music Icons for Epic Bowie Tribute In a Melbourne Festival highlight, the music of the late, great David Bowie will come to life with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra alongside a slew of iconic Australian musicians. Tim Rogers, Iota, Adalita, Deborah Conway, Steve Kilbey and more will select their favourite hits of the rock star to perform in their own special way, backed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the sublime surrounds of Melbourne’s Hamer Hall. Named after Bowie’s last greatest hits collection, artists under the influence of the great man will gather to perform over 30 songs including his biggest hits; Changes, China Girl, Life On Mars,Under Pressure, Let’s Dance, Starman and more. It’s all happening at Hamer Hall on Saturday October 15 and Sunday October 16. Tickets via Melbourne Festival.
Eight local artists have been chosen for the 2016 Art Trams series, bringing some much needed colour to your morning commute as part of this year’s Melbourne Festival. Artists include Damiano Bertoli, Eddie Botha, Joceline Lee, Jon Cattapan, Mimi Leung and Reko Rennie, as well as emerging artist Eliza Dyball. This project transforms trams into contemporary public artworks with a selection of designs that depict a reflection of the artists’ own vision of Melbourne. For the first time, a community tram has been introduced by Megan Evans and Eve Glenn, conceptualised from the celebrated 1986 Smith Street mural. A People’s Choice Award will be announced following the release of all eight trams onto the network. All art trams will remain on the tracks until April 2017.
Waleed Aly Joins Presenters for 2016 Art Music Awards
Kim Gordon to Appear in Conversation
With one week to go until the awards take place in Melbourne, APRA AMCOS and the AMC have announced journalist and occasional guitar-slinger Waleed Aly to be part of the presenters lineup. Aly is a Walkley award-winning journalist, academic, author, broadcaster, rock musician and former AFL mascot. He’ll be joining ABC Classic FM’s Mairi Nicolson, Merlyn Quaife AM, Katie Noonan, Chair of the Australia Council Rupert Myer AO, Dr. Joel Crotty and more to oversee a presentation celebrating the best of experimental, jazz and art music. The ceremony will be dealing out Orchestral Work of the Year, Instrumental Work of the Year, Jazz Work of the Year, Performance of the Year, and more to honour Australia’s most outstanding talent in the fields of contemporary classical, electroacoustic, improvised and experimental music, and contemporary jazz. Winners will be revealed Tuesday August 16.
Artist, record producer and founding member of noise-rock pioneers Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon will appear in conversation in an event hosted by The Wheeler Centre. As Sonic Youth rose to prominence out of the post-punk, noise and visual art scenes in the 1980s ± then achieved worldwide cult fame in the 1990s ± Gordon stood out as a role model for countless women (and men) with her unmistakable voice and musical style. Sonic Youth’s last performance was in 2011. Four years later, Gordon wrote Girl in a Band, a memoir describing her formative years, marriage (to bandmate Thurston Moore) and career straddling the worlds of music and art. She’s crashed at Cindy Sherman’s place, produced a Hole record, collaborated with Yoko Ono and lived life by her own rulebook. There’s only one Kim Gordon, and she’s coming to Melbourne to talk rock, rebellion and resilience, on Friday September 9.
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Wit Incorporated are presenting what might be the first ever gender-flipped casting of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Beat chats with Company Manager Jennifer Piper about what sets their production apart on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Why swap genders in Macbeth? Why not? It seems trite, but there’s really no good reason not to mess with the genders in most scripts. People are people, regardless of their gender. We’re all products of our environment and upbringing, it’s just that some of us are told to be pretty and quiet, while others are told to be bold and brave. The thing about most of the storytelling we have around us is that it’s inherently biased in favour of male characters. They get to be multifaceted, complete and well-drawn human beings. Typically, female characters tend to serve a purpose in someone else’s story ± they’re spouses or plot devices, mostly. The strangest thing about it all is these characters have personalities that we think of as being inherently masculine or feminine, but they’re just not. It’s not only women who cry, or men who are brave. When you flip the genders in a classic, like The Tragedy of Macbeth, you get to view a story we know so well in a new light. How does the story of Macbeth relate to us in 2016? Like all good storytelling, the themes in Shakespeare’s play are things we continue to battle with throughout the ages. The original audience was captivated by a story set 500 years before they were born, but it still rang true. We’ve all found ourselves in situations that tempt us to take action that might not otherwise sit easy with us. We all experience love, hope, fear and loss. The political intrigue and large-scale betrayal is all too recognisable in 2016. Scratch below the surface of a news feed and you’ll pretty quickly see how much conflict starts with envy and ambition. How did discussions of privilege inform the production? When we look at privilege and gender in our society, the history is so vast that it’s almost impossible to imagine how a complete flip could come about. We haven’t changed anything in the power structures of the play, we’ve just changed which gender has the power and which does not. This meant that we had to imagine a world where religion, mythology, storytelling, politics, heritage and everything else held women above all else. We then had to consider which qualities we would assume were masculine and which were feminine, so feminine virtues in our world became about bravery, intellect, logic and reason, while masculine virtues include fertility, meekness, subservience and nurturing. It’s been a strange process, and a really enlightening one to deconstruct what we assume is inherent in our gender and figuring out what we have learnt. What sets your production apart from other adaptations of Shakespearean stories? Well, the gender-flip is a pretty big one. It’s pretty common to see some characters switched around in a contemporary production of Shakespeare. With hardly any female characters, and a whole lot of really talented women in the industry, it’s pretty-well inevitable. There are also occasionally single-gender productions, either the traditional all-male or a completely flipped all-female. I suppose the thing that sets this exploration of gender apart is that we’ve imagined an entirely new world, in which women have always held power, but it’s been under the same structure as our own world. We’re not suggesting it’s a better option ± absolute power for any one group of people in never a good thing ± we’re just presenting it as feasible. As far as we’re aware, this is the first time Macbeth has had a complete gender-flip. We think that the best foundation for good theatre is strong storytelling. We’re all about making sure the characters are well-formed, the actors and creative team all know the world we’re creating, and the story is clear. All we really want to do is entertain our audience. Wit Incorporated’s Macbeth runs for ten performances only from Friday August 12 to Saturday August 27 at Bluestone Church Arts Space, 10A Hyde Street, Footscray. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 23
The 2016 Glow Winter Arts Festival BY GEM DOOw
Every year since 2014 the Glow Winter Arts Festival has featured something so wild that patrons still discuss it. In the first year, UK’s Exxopolis Luminarium took over the car park of the roof of the Jam Factory with 3000 square metres of plastic molded into an illuminated, pulsating labyrinth. Last year, the car park behind Coles and Woolies in Prahran became a hotspot when it was transformed into an open air iceskating rink. This year’s highlight is undoubtedly going to be the nightly transformation of Greville Street into a light and soundscape wonder when the team behind the much-loved Gertrude Street Projection Festival take over the visuals. Kym Ortenburg founded the Gertrude Projection Association (GPA) with mate Monique McNamara in 2007 and started producing the Gertrude Street Projection Festival in 2008. In recent times, the GPA has wandered further afield than Gertrude Street, this August finding itself south of the river, bringing its skills to Glow. Ortenburg sits on the production side of the fence with the GPA, as opposed to being one of the artists, but she finds the works irresistibly magical. “I started this whole journey about 11 years ago, when I co-founded the Gertrude Street Projection Festival,” she explains. “I just loved the way light projection can change the space that you’re in and streetscapes become completely new areas to explore. We started with eight sites for the first GSPF, but it’s grown and grown and grown.” The GPA ran a pilot projection festival on a small scale last year in Greville
Street, but this year is going large with six artists set to light up the street, namely Fairy Turner, Ian de Gruchy, Kate Geck, Nick Azidis, Olaf Meyer and Yandell Walton. “If people saw it last year, it was something of a smaller event,” Ortenburg says. “This year is a bigger and brighter event, featuring much bigger projections.” Without giving too much away, Ortenburg hints at the luminous wonders awaiting. “Some of the signature pieces that happen in Gertrude Street will be featured,” she says. “Basically, we are aiming to draw people in off Chapel Street and down Greville with big, bright, colourful works. People are really going to be struck with how engaging and vibrant this is going to be. Also, without saying too much, people need to keep a special eye out for the rubbish bins.” Apparently, they’re becoming ‘disco bins’ ± appropriate for the off-Chapel location. Other highlights for the festival include the return of the pop-up cinema at
Prahran Market, which will see movies paired with appropriate food truck fare on Friday and Saturday nights. The series kicks off with David Bowie’s gloriously camp spin as the Goblin King in Labyrinth and US-related grub from Twisted Mac, Round the Way Bagels and Caliko BBQ. The program closes out with a chance to catch our Nic when she still had red, curly hair in BMX Bandits and Aussie tucker courtesy of Grumble Tumms, Billy Van Creamery and Smokin’ Barrys. The Glow Comedy Club also makes a return, taking up residency at the Melbourne Bowling Club. Enjoy headline performances from funny peeps Claire Hooper, Tom Gleeson and Luke McGregor. Keep an eye out too for roving performances from street artists Arts Burst. Expect roving CIA agents, rooftop opera, giant snails, geishas, sexy dudes in high-vis, floating jellyfish and a bike that
runs a projector, among other curiosities. Claude Van Ullin, Mayor of Stonnington, puts Glow’s success down in part to location and demographics. “There’s a very strong arts community in Stonnington, partly because it’s in the inner city and because we have lots of people who support the arts philanthropically,” he says. “We’ve had a very good arts program for the last ten years or so, including opera in the park. We try to involve everybody for all sorts of arts. I think the only thing we haven’t done successfully is dance, but ballet’s very difficult to do outside ± a spot of rain and you have to cancel it.” Ullin won’t be pinned down on the events that have most piqued his interest. “Well, the whole program is terrific,” he says. “I’m looking forward to everything across the board. I’m not sure that I could put one event before another. I’ll say this though, the projections are bound to be very popular.”
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Ullin is duly proud of the festival. “We do a lot of events in the City of Stonnington, but I always felt that we needed a community festival,” he says. “Glow has grown so much, that’s for certain. There are so many terrific events and it caters to such a diverse range of tastes. It’s a diverse and roving program, and some of it is quite kooky. Francesca Valmorbida, who puts it together, has a terrific understanding of the arts and things that are exciting and innovative. That’s what we aim to do with Glow ± we aim to put something on that’s innovative ± things that people wouldn’t ordinarily see.” THE 2016 GLOW WINTER ARTS FESTIVAL runs from Thursday August 11 to Sunday August 21 in venues and locations throughout the City of Stonnington.
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Filmmaker and producer Mitu Bhowmick Lange, the director of this year’s Indian Film Festival, believes that art can bridge cultural gaps. With that in mind, she cofounded the Bollywood and Beyond Film Festival, is a director of Mind Blowing Films (a specialist film distributor for Indian cinema and now producer for both Bollywood and Beyond and the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne), and is Festival Director for the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM). Basically, Bhowmick Lange is going above and beyond to make damn sure she is bringing the best Indian films to an Aussie audience. Bhowmick Lange is well placed to bridge any gap, not only by virtue of her involvement in the film industry, but also because she knows Australia like the back of her hand. Bhowmick Lange moved to Melbourne from India in 2002 and picked up work as a location scout, initially for the much loved Bollywood rom-com Salaam Namaste (also the first Indian movie to be filmed entirely in Australia), followed by other productions. “It was pretty much a dream job,” Bhowmick Lange says. “It kept my ties to Indian life, but I was providing local productions with support. It gave me a chance to see a lot of Australia, including the outback, and regional Victoria and New South Wales. For instance, the director might have wanted a dream house where one door opened to the sea and another door opened to a forest, so we went everywhere. It was a great opportunity to know Australia and an opportunity to make long-lasting friends; BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
it’s hard when you come from another country.” Bhowmick Lange stepped it up further when she started Mind Blowing Films in 2009. In particular, it was when she was screening Indian films for distribution that the idea for an Indian film festival first dawned on her. “We used to see a lot of second generation Indians who would bring their Australian partners and friends to watch their films. Clearly, there was a lot of curiosity about Indian cinema, so that’s when it courted to us that it would be a good idea to package some of the best films together and put a festival together,” she says. Good as her word, Mind Blowing Films partnered with Film Victoria and has been bringing IFFM to Melbourne audiences since 2012. Bhowmick Lange’s abiding love for and immersion in Indian cinema seems as natural to her as breathing. “I think some things you just have a natural
interest for,” she says. “Our whole family is book and film mad. We have big debates and arguments about films that we’ve watched and the books that we’ve read ± we take all of the characters very seriously. It’s always been in the family. None of us have any passion for jewellery, houses and cars. The only thing we brag about is who has watched what film and read what book first.” The theme for this year’s IFFM is female empowerment. It’s a natural thread for Bhowmick Lange to run throughout the festival, starting with the opening night film Parched, a beautiful and uplifting movie about gender inequality, all the way through to the festival’s close with Angry Indian Goddesses, a Hindi all-female buddy movie. In the middle, there are panel discussions about women in cinema ± with an expert lineup including Sue Maslin, the producer of the Dressmaker, and Parched director Leena Yadav ± and a master class about Bollywood and EVERYTHING MELBOURNE
body positivity with Richa Chadha, who Bhowmick Lange describes as one of India’s “edgiest actresses”. She is also a great supporter of women in the arts. “To be honest, if you come to our office, we are all women here. It’s a bit scary sometimes,” she jokes. “It’s a great energy and we talk about films and issues. It sounds like a cliché, but we do really believe that arts can bring about a lot of change. Not overnight, but it starts to condition people by creating an awareness. And there are so many beautiful films coming out of India now with female protagonists ± it was a very obvious decision for us to make. We want to start a discussion that should help women feel more comfortable in their own skin, more empowered and free to choose the path that they want to.” Over 11 days, this year’s IFFM program falls under five banners: Master Strokes, Hurrah Bollywood, Beyond Bollywood, From the Subcontinent, Film India
World and shorts and docos ± all of which go a long way towards smashing the notion that Indian cinema is just a non-stop musical. “It’s still a commonly held misconception, but it is changing” Bhowmick Lange says. “I feel that this is the most exciting time for Indian cinema, because we still have beautiful, traditional, mainstream Bollywood films with 150 dancers at any given time in the background, very uplifting and escapist, but at the same time we have all of these exciting new voices who are making edgy and interesting films, that offer something new.” THE 2016 INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MELBOURNE runs from Thursday August 11 to Sunday August 21 in cinemas and venues throughout the city. Head to www.iffm. com.au for more details.
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Cine Latino BEsT Of THE fEsT BY ALEx CAsTRO
The inaugural Cine Latino festival of Latin American cinema sambas its way onto screens this month, boasting more than 30 films from across Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. It’s a lot to take in, so we asked program coordinator Alex Castro to talk us through the highlights.
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Multi-award-winning Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s latest film, Neruda is a lavishly mounted reimagining of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda’s pursuit into political exile, and notably marks his reunion with No star Gael García Bernal. Set in 1948, the Chilean Government sends bumbling police prefect Peluchonneau (Bernal) to arrest Neruda. He tries to flee the country, but they are forced into hiding. Yet the poet is somehow inspired by the dramatic events of his new life as a fugitive, and uses this struggle as an opportunity to reinvent his work and life, leaving clues for his nemesis designed to make their game of cat andmouse more dangerous, more intimate.
This vivid pulsating vision of modernday Mexico calls to mind Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2001 debut Amores Perros. Miguel and Johnny are young lovers and skateboarders who ride with their friends through Mexico City’s labyrinth of streets. Miguel earns money selling human blood on the black market, with paramedics as his most dependable clients. One day Miguel gets a hot tip: some wounded drug traffickers are willing to pay big money for urgently needed blood. He enlists Johnny’s help, and the boys start working towards fulfilling the massive order, assembling family, friends and strangers ± until their plan goes horrifyingly wrong.
Lucas, a young lawyer from an upright Jewish family who has a penchant for detective stories, is on the verge of moving into his own apartment. When he unexpectedly meets the stunning Bárbara, he thinks he has found the perfect woman. She is smart, has great taste in books, and she seems to like him, too. But after she goes home with Lucas, he wakes up to find the cash deposit for his new apartment missing, along with Bárbara. Determined to find her, and to solve this mystery, Lucas uses the detective skills gathered from his beloved books and finds himself in an intriguing, twisted plot that leads to an unexpected source.
This pitch-black comedy is a razor sharp satire on that most Latin American of obsessions ± beauty queens ± from Venezuela, the land of beauty queens. Single mother Perla is determined to turn her young daughters Carolina and Estefanía into beauty queens. She drills them to practise the catwalk, parade swimwear and frilly gowns, and to diet endlessly. When Carolina fails to win her school’s fifth grade beauty pageant, Perla is outraged and the family turn to an evangelical Christian group as a form of solace. Years later, the now teenage girls try to win back their mother’s approval and enter themselves in the world of the adult pageants, complete with cosmetic surgery and other nasty surprises.
CLEVER Still bitter from a recent divorce, martial arts instructor Clever (yes, that’s his name) is trying to get his life back together. His ex-wife thinks he’s a loser. His beloved car is a wreck. And his young son would rather eat junk food and play video games than share in his father’s passions. After a night out he comes across a car tricked out with flames and sets out on a single-minded quest: to find the artist who painted the flames and design his own car. His journey leads him to a secluded village full of odd characters, and to an enigmatic personality (the artist) who isn’t quite what he expects. THE 2016 CINE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL runs from Wednesday August 17 to Wednesday August 31 at Palace Cinema Como and Palace Westgarth.
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O f f Th e Record Big ups to the local collective Thick as Thieves are due. As y’all probably know, the dons are often throwing charity gigs at Revolver Upstairs to raise money for The Fred Hollows Foundation, hosting encore sessions from their international touring artists all to help the blind. Well, recently to celebrate the 40th birthday of head honcho Mike Toner (AKA Radiator) they threw another – which pushed their overall tally raised to a quarter of a milly. Props, dudes. Marcel Dettmann makes techno. Heavy-hitting techno. The kind of heavy hitting techno that makes you want to lock yourself away in a smoky basement until you’re too dehydrated from a night of endless perspiration. Alongside Ben Klock – the other most highly regarded draw card at Berghain – there’s arguably no bigger name in the game. While he’s released two albums on Ostgut Ton and has remixed the likes of Junior Boys, Fever Ray, Moderat, Commix, Clark and Laibach, in recent times he’s been fostering the next generation on his own imprint MDR (Marcel Dettmann Records). Get schooled by the best in the business. He’s coming to Melbourne on Saturday November 12, venue TBA. The man with arguably the shittest haircut (don’t worry, his music makes up for it) in dance music, Green Velvet (or Cajmere), has locked in an Australian tour. A mainstay in the game for well over 25 years, the Chicago house don was a former chemistry student before he ditched studying and established the label Cajual. Since then, he’s released his own productions on the likes of Circus Recordings, Credence, Great Stuff Recordings, Kraftek, Relief Records and Superstar Recordings, and played basically every goddamn club and festival around the globe. His track from 1992 Coffee Pot (It’s Time For the Percolator) still goes hard. Catch him on Monday October 31 at the Prince Bandroom. BAD NEWS. One of Australia’s best festivals, OutsideIn, ain’t happening this year. No explanation has been given other than a post on their Facebook page stating that: “OutsideIn Festival will not be taking place in 2016, we hope to see you all again in the near future!” Bummer. Here’s hoping it returns in the future. Tour rumours: you can lock in visits from Lunice, Hudson Mohawke and Giraffage over the NYE period. I’d also expect to be seeing clubs shows from Jackmaster, Scuba, Matthias Tanzmann, Oscar Mulero and Tin Man during
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WITH T YSON WRAY November. Best releases this week: with 30 tracks over 52-odd minutes, Delroy Edwards’ Hangin’ at the Beach (on L.A. Club Resource) has some Donuts-esque vibes going. I dig it. I’m also spinning Hieroglyphic Being’s The Disco’s of Imhotep (Technicolour) and Appleblim’s Minus Degree (Tempa). Argenis Brito and Ricardo Villalobos’ Amnesia (Melisma Limited) is so-so, unfortunately. Y’all also need to go to Noise in My Head and listen to the latest mix from Chiara Kickdrum – pure fire.
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 Rebekah Railway Hotel
SUNDAY AUGUST 14 Gene Farris Revolver Upstairs
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29 Bicep Brown Alley
FRIDAY AUGUST 19 M.A.N.D.Y. Brown Alley FRIDAY AUGUST 26 Darshan Jesrani Boney Henning Baer Brown Alley
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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 + ARKS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.
THURSDAY AUGUST 11 • 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + SH MBA
+ ROBERTO + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.
• BOOK CLUB - FEAT: DJ NATURE GIRL + SIMBA
+ COBRO Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
• DISCO VOLANTE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • GOOD LOVIN - FEAT: SEQUATIOUS Boney,
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
• GOOD NATURE - FEAT: LIONEL +
STAZVANGUNDY + RA RA RAJ + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.
• NEON JUNGLE - FEAT: ULTRA PURE + LITTLE
LAUNCH + BEN GREEN Collarts Brunswick Street Campus, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $5.00. • UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 • #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE +
FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CLUB D’ÉRANGE - FEAT: AWESOME WALES + JESS SNEDDON + RESIDENTS The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $15.00. • COMMON GROUND - FEAT: GUNNAR HASLAM Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $25.00. • EAT SLEEP RAVE PUSSY REPEAT - FEAT: MUSKA + AM ADAM + KEYZ OF KELLY + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. $10.00.
URBAN GUIDE • ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne
Cbd. 11:00pm. • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • GLOW BLOCK PARTY Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 7:00pm. $10.00. • 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 + ASHLEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • REVOLVER FRIDAYS & MAMA SAID - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + MELA COIA + BEN NOTT + MARKET MEMORIES + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • SMOOTH + DANCE MISSION DJS Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $20.00. • SONIC BOOM - FEAT: THE VIBRAPHONIC ORKESTRA + KALACOMA + MEN IMITATING MACHINES + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 7:00pm. $20.00. • THE DISCO Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. • TOM BAKER’S KOSMIC KICKFLIP Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • TURNER STREET SOUND + DJ KITI + UNDERGROUND CITY LOOP Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.
SATURDAY AUGUST 13 • ALEX STEIN + SPACEY SPACE + ZIGMON +
BONGANI + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
• AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS Onesixone, Prahran.
9:00pm. $15.00. • BUSTIN OUT - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • CANOPY - FEAT: JULIEN MIER + U-WISH + BEVIN CAMPBELL + EMELYNE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
• CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • DJ SUNSHINE + ALEX CRAM Sooki Lounge,
Belgrave. 9:00pm. • ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. • HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • IN THE CARRIAGE - FEAT: DJ JNETT + DAN DARE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: POCOSMOS + MYLES MAC + CC:DISCO + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 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. $20.00. • SNACK ATTACK - FEAT: DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB SATURDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. • THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + DAN SAN + GTB$Y + SAMMY THE BULLET + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • THE SHELLEY WINTERS BALL - FEAT: WHISKEY HOUSTON + MR WEIR + BLAKE ADAMS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $15.00. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
SUNDAY AUGUST 14 • BATTLE 8 HEAT #1 - FEAT: PERFECT
electronic - urban - club life
STRANGERS VS GROOVE PENGUIN Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 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. • CANDY ROYALLE & THE FREED RADICALS + EBONY MONCRIEF + JANELLE DA SILVA + DJ LAPKAT + SEA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00. • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. • REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: GENE FARRIS + BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. • ROOFTOP SUNDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. • THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + MR WEIR Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. • TOMSY TURVY + PSYCOPHONY + IKARO + VIBE RAIDER + MORE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm. • WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 • BELOVED Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. • MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: SECRET
INTERNATIONAL GUEST + BLYDVS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
THURSDAY AUGUST 11 • ARIZONA THURSDAYS - FEAT: MANU CROOKS
Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 • BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE +
KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
• FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA
+ K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • OTIS HIGH + MINI COOP + CLUE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: TALI + SONIC VIBES Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • SOUTHERN LOVE - FEAT: MAT CANT + GET BU$Y + SLICK P + ROB STEEZY + MORE Vic Bar, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.
SATURDAY AUGUST 13
MONDAY AUGUST 15
• ANTHONY YOUNG & THE NEXT MAN DEAD Penny
• MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky
• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + JVP + MAFIA
Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. • THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
TUESDAY AUGUST 16 • OASIS TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.
7:00pm.
Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
• BOOT + SOOK + ABLE8 + INKA Grumpy’s Green,
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
• KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT:
DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. • YOLANDA INGLEY II & THE FIREFLIES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
SUNDAY AUGUST 14 • MOMENTUM (FOREIGN BROTHERS) + THE
CORE-TET Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
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GANG OF YOUTHS F I N D I N G
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Gang of Youth’s first album The Positions told the astonishingly raw story of young frontman David Le’aupepe’s relationship with his cancer ridden wife. Following any release is a difficult task, but continuing on from a narrative with that much weight adds another element of pressure to the creative process.
CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS R I D I N G
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BY GEM DOOW
Have you ever had one of those years where the highs and lows have been so extreme it’s difficult to digest? Cash Savage, Melbourne’s favourite purveyor of brooding twang, had one of them last year. Among other things, a family member committed suicide. On the flip side Savage was twice married to wife Amy Middleton, the super-sharp editor of Archer Magazine. The first wedding was a big bash with friends and family in Australia (albeit non-binding because our government can’t get its shit together), and the second was a legal one in Vegas. In an effort to make sense of these extremes Savage took the grief and the ecstasy and shaped it into One of Us, her third album with band the Last Drinks. You better brace yourself for all the feels with this one, because One of Us belts you right in the chest. Savage confirms that this is consistent with other feedback. “The last album [Hypnotic] got very similar stars to this one, across the board, but this album seems to have struck more of a chord,” she says. “There’s more of a connection here that wasn’t with the last one. I couldn’t say that I’ve put more of myself into this album. Maybe I was having a time in my life that is relatable to people. Also, One of Us doesn’t approach grief with that heavy sense of loss, it’s also approaching it from the view that it’s very good to be alive. I think that is maybe the spot where people think, ‘I can allow myself to sit in the grief with this album,’ because it’s not a sense of everything is lost.” Does writing about the events of 2015 somehow abbreviate the length of time it takes to process them? “The short answer is yes, because I find it quite cathartic to write like that,” Savage says. “It does help me along the road of grief, to write about it. Having such wonderful times at the same time as being acutely aware of how precious life is goes hand in hand for me. As it’s such a big juxtaposition, it makes you appreciate that as well. For me to be living the life that I was living last year, knowing that life is so precious, made it even more special.” That makes sense, but query the consequence of recording such intensely personal songs. For instance, the title track One of Us is about Savage’s cousin taking her own life. Does recording it bear the risk that it’ll be like worrying at a scab every time it’s played? “It’s much more like letting a wound heal,” Savage muses. “It’s sort of like forcing myself to process. As open as my songwriting might sound, I’m not actually that open as a person. I like to process things on my own before I talk about them, but in those instances, I’m almost forcing myself to process it.” There’s always fallout from emotional tumult and we’re left changed as people. Savage, for instance, has become more fired up since 2015, particularly in relation to the important issue of marriage equality. “I’m tired of watching society make people fail,” Savage says. “There’s no way to actually win. That’s why I now give less fucks,
because I can see that we’re all set up to fail. You might as well enjoy yourself and your life and if you can take it to the man, even if it’s just a little bit, you should. Being married is probably what led me to being so angry at society. Because I can’t get married. When that human right is taken away from you, you don’t exist in that society anymore.” In the last year, Savage has also seen the band’s fans continue in the vein of outrageous behaviour, which is no small feat given that previous examples of crowd misconduct include a woman flashing the band. “We’ve had some pretty outrageous crowd behaviour,” Savage confirms. “It’s all been in good fun, but there’s definitely been moments where the eyebrows of the band have been raised. For instance, in Adelaide the other weekend, there was a girl going around kissing the shoes of audience members. She was lying on the ground, kissing her hand and touching the shoes – she wasn’t exactly putting her mouth on the shoes, but the gesture was there.” Other fans are less out there, but equally fervent. For instance, when they were on tour in Europe last year, Savage and co. came across a fan who made his own merch and followed their trail of gigs across the continent. “It’s pretty humbling,” Savage says. “You get a lot of reward out of that. I like to know that people have connected with the songs. I got a really lovely bit of fan mail last night and I really thought about how I was going to write back to it. It’s not easy sometimes to say thank you and actually sound sincere, but I was genuinely sincere about how wonderful it was. It’s nice getting to the other side of the world and having someone say I really connected with you and I couldn’t buy a T-shirt because of where they were, the store wouldn’t sell them a T-shirt, so he made his own. That’s pretty wonderful.”
“The notion of resonance is something I feel that’s really missing from a lot of popular music right now,” Le’aupepe says. He has a strong desire for his work to evoke emotion in listeners, for his songs to mean something. Upon talking to the verbose 24-year-old, it’s clear he’s come a long way from the 20-year-old watching someone he loved fight cancer. With album number two in the works, the band felt a need for closure of that chapter. “We needed a bridge, we needed a transition. The next album is going to be different, different levels, different sonics. It’ll be delivered on a way more personal level in so many ways, and in a lot of ways more universal.” The result of that need is Let Me Be Clear, a collection of five tracks and a bonus hauntingly lovely Joni Mitchell cover, which Le’aupepe labels a bookend to his early 20s. “Trying to come up with addendum to all the fucking crazy emotional bullshit that I purged on the last album was pretty difficult,” he says. There’s an element of selfloathing in many of his answers, but that’s what makes his writing so relatable. The emotion is authentic, laced with the fear and self-doubt that almost everyone experiences at some point. Let Me Be Clear comes hot off the back of the band’s appearance at Splendour in the Grass, where they received universal acclaim for their performance. Though the idea of a crowd of 10,000 people tapping into an individual’s most personal pain could be terrifying, Le’aupepe uses it as fuel. “It’s heroin, dude. It’s my drug of choice,” he says. “[Humans] want to connect with something, the music that lasts is the stuff that creates powerful human sentiments. “For me, the notion of an audience connecting with my introspective material is a really powerful demonstration of that belief, because people are identifying with something, they’re finding something that resonates, and it’s the best feeling ever.” This revelation of his desire to resonate with the audience is a recurring theme in discussion about the future of Gang of Youths, and the production of album number two. “With the album coming out, I want to interact on a deeper level with the audience. I’m only starting to realise how fun that is, and it gives me some sense of purpose for an hour. “I’m in circumstances as a 24-year-old, so different to where I was as a 20-year-old, and they’re more universal. I’m not in love with someone who’s dying, I’m enjoying
the same, unmitigating freedom that other single people have. With that comes a whole host of ontological, epistemological questions that I’m struggling to answer, and I know for a fucking fact that everyone is after the same answers. “I’m not going to try and convince a listener that I’m brave and I’m full of hope in the face of adversity. I’m just going to try and be as honest and fragile as I possibly can,” Le’aupepe says. That honesty permeates his every word. He speaks with a frankness that many shy away from, and though at times he rambles about philosophical ideas, Le’aupepe’s words are laced with legitimacy, never seeming self-indulgent. “I’m single,” he says with quiet resignation, listing the biggest changes in his life since the first album. “I’m not a drug addict anymore. I spend more time thinking before I speak. Just little things that have affected the way I tend to convey who and what I am. I’m a lot more honest. “I have a more well rounded idea of death, now that I’ve attempted to bring upon my own so many times,” Le’aupepe pauses for a moment, “and I’m actually able to make an off colour joke about suicide, whereas before that would’ve triggered such irreverence.” He has a dry wit, and is extremely intelligent with his complex, reflective thought processes rolling along. This growth and self-awareness has positively affected not just his life, but the band’s creative process. “I’m less of an aggressive, despotic dictator, and more of a benevolent dictator. I was drug addicted and horrible to my friends. The greatest joy in my life now is figuring out how to get my friends so happy, by doing absolutely nothing, by just letting them do their job,” Le’aupepe says. These changes, and more, will be heard when Gang Of Youths release their sophomore album. “I’m starting to get a bit more conversational. I’m infinitely more influenced by the stories of people, and the interactions I have with people, than stark imagery. “The notion of a follow up album is going to kill me. I spend review time perpetually drunk so I can deal with my own deflated ego reading all the stuff that these art student journalists have written about the record,” Le’aupepe laughs with a self deprecating drawl. “It does all go back to hating myself,” he spills out. “We all go back to hating ourselves, but that’s okay, ‘cause we all do.” GANG OF YOUTHS’ Let Me Be Clear EP is out now via Mosy Recordings/Sony Music.
CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS will launch One Of Us at The Croxton on Saturday August 13. One Of Us is available now via Mistletone.
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Melbourne is alive with the sound of music. It’s a city made up of musicians, many of whom want to make a career from their melodies, and Melbourne Music Bank is offering artists the chance to make those aspirations reality.
Paul Dempsey H E A R T
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By AUGUSTUS WELBY
Paul Dempsey will be airing material from his recent solo LP, Strange Loop, at this year’s Heart of St Kilda fundraising event. Released in May, the album follows Dempsey’s solo debut from 2009, Everything is True. After a five-album run fronting Something For Kate, Everything is True was something of a palate cleanser that revealed a more folk-rock oriented side of Dempsey’s songwriting. Strange Loop is stylistically broader than its predecessor, ranging from the sevenminute alt-country sprawl of The True Sea to the acoustic pop of Idiot Oracle and the fuming energy of Morningless. However, both records share a similar origin story – namely, that of Dempsey feeling a strong urge to depart from the band format and take complete control. “I love working with the band, and I love the way we work; it’s a definite collaboration, there’s a lot of creative tug-of-war,” he says. “But it’s certainly nice to go do something else that’s not a tug-of-war and that’s completely self-indulgent and I’m the boss of everything and get to have everything the way I want it. It’s good to do both – I feel really lucky that I get to do both.” While a backing band will be joining Dempsey onstage, Strange Loop and Everything is True are solo records in the truest sense. Dempsey played all of the instruments, making sure every drumbeat and guitar note turned out how he intended. That said, at a root level, his songwriting practice remains much the same. “I’m always writing songs, it just depends [what project they’re for],” Dempsey says. “For instance, I know that the next thing I do is going to be a Something For Kate record. Anything I may write from this day forward, I’ll bring it to rehearsal and hash it out with Clint [Hyndman] and Steph [Ashworth]. Whereas for the past two years I’ve known that whatever I was working on was going towards my solo record.” Strange Loop was conceived alone, but the record was finished alongside producer Tom Schick at The Loft Studios in Chicago. Schick’s CV includes albums with Wilco, Ryan Adams, She & Him and Glen Hansard, which encouraged Dempsey to seek him out. “My demos are pretty much what you hear on the record,” Dempsey says. “My demos are very fleshed out and all the arrangements, all the instrumentation, everything’s there. But I don’t trust myself to engineer and mix it and be able to be completely objective about it. Because I’m playing everything on it, I feel like I need to at least have some devil’s advocate – someone being an unbiased third party. And then I also want to be in the hands of someone whose ears I trust. Having heard so many records that Tom’s engineered and mixed, I love the way they sound, I love the way he records drums and the way he records guitars and the way his mixes gel together,” Dempsey says. Something For Kate’s last record, Leave BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
Your Soul to Science, was recorded with John Congleton (St Vincent, Angel Olsen); they’ve previously worked with Trina Shoemaker (Midnight Oil, Queens of the Stone Age); and Dempsey’s Everything is True was recorded with Wayne Connolly (You Am I, The Vines). Dempsey values each producer’s unique approach, which sustains his interest in finding new collaborators. “They all employ different techniques and they all favour different sort of gear, but [they’re] also just different people. We’re a band that when we go in the studio we know what we’re going to do. We’re not really looking for someone to pull our songs apart or make changes to our songs. For us it’s really more about finding someone whose ears we trust and who we think is going to record and mix us in a way that we’re going to like. But we also like to keep working with different people. Some bands find someone who is their guy, who gets what they want and that person almost becomes a member of the band. For us, we like to keep on seeing how different producers will capture us.” Given his extensive album-making experience, Dempsey’s come to recognise a producer’s greatest asset. “Before you even hit record, I think the most important thing a producer can do is get the band excited about what they’re doing and make everyone feel enthused about what you’re doing and what the possibilities are.” On the subject of feeling excited, making a solo record is an effective tool in replenishing Dempsey’s enthusiasm for playing in Something For Kate. “I’m really happy doing lots of different things. I feel like I have a few different careers going on. I have Something For Kate, I have my solo acoustic stuff or my solo stuff where I can take a band with me, and my band lineup can change. I also produce records with other bands, I do stuff with the Black Arm Band – I feel like I’m constantly doing something in the music realm but at any given week it could something different. I feel really lucky to have these different sources of stimulation. Everything keeps everything else interesting.” PAUL DEMPSEY will play at the Heart Of St Kilda Charity Concert at Palais Theatre on Tuesday September 6. He’ll also be playing at Corner Hotel from Thursday September 1 until Saturday September 3.
“Cosmic timing is a huge thing in music careers,” says Ella Hooper, Melbourne Music Bank’s 2016 ambassador. In the promo video for the competition, she states that in the recipe for a successful musician, there’s a pinch of luck, a sentiment she maintains. “Luck and chance play a big role. My manager says talent is opportunity meeting preparation, so you have to be ready for luck to work for you. “Yes it’s luck, but you can’t rely on that. Ideally you make your own luck by being ready for opportunities,” she says. Hooper has first hand experience with not only the uncertainty of the early stages of a career, but the cosmic timing she talks of. She got her start in music in a similar fashion, winning triple j’s Unearthed at 13-years-old, back when the website didn’t exist, and the prize was high rotation radio airplay. “The early days of a career are difficult because you’re learning your craft, and you’re learning it in public,” she says. “There are nerves and insecurities. You wonder if it’s a crazy dream to be that one in a million who will succeed as a singer/ songwriter, or a rock star, or whatever you want to call it. You don’t have to win Melbourne Music Bank to benefit. Artists come a long way and make fantastic contacts just by being in the running.” Now in its fourth year, Melbourne Music Bank boasts a life-changing $60,000 prize for the winner, including media training, an EP, two music videos, and a spot on the Beyond The Valley lineup.
DANNY ROSS
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“It’s perfect for the person who knows what they want to do. There’s a lot of emerging artists that have a really detailed plan, and have educated themselves. They’re just lacking the funds to put it into action, or lacking the contacts,” Hooper says. The last two winners of Melbourne Music Bank were the astoundingly talented, Jade Alice and Heloise, notably both women. In a time where women are grossly underrepresented on radio, and triple j’s Hottest 100 increasingly features less women, Hooper agrees this may be indicative of a shift in attitudes, at least within Melbourne.
V O I C E
BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
Singer/songwriter Danny Ross has been playing music for more than half his life, but he appears to have had a wavering commitment. Ross fell in love with music in the mid-‘90s at the age of ten, but didn’t release his first EP until 2009; he had a major breakthrough as a finalist on the 2013 series of The Voice; and he recently re-emerged with the single We Are Songs, taken from the forthcoming album, Aquamarine. Ahead of a brief single launch tour, Ross tells Beat that his intermittent visibility has nothing to with fluctuating enthusiasm.
“Perhaps you could now call me a reformed perfectionist,” he says. “There could be up to 20 different versions of each song in my iTunes. There are a lot of great quotes on perfectionism from artists to psychologists and they’re helpful to an extent, but to be honest I had to learn how to effectively express my pattern of abandonment in order to stop it running my life.” We Are Songs is an intimate and emotionally stirring track, bolstered by searing fuzz bass and live drums. The title comes from the concluding line of the B E AT.C O M . A U
chorus, which refers to a pair of lovers who were once inseparably close, but now only exist together in the realm of songs. Ross feels deeply connected to this sentiment. “I believe in the premise of that song: to collapse the polarity of right and wrong between people and perhaps transcend the victim/perpetrator dynamic that some people – myself included – can find themselves in.” “We were soul mates / Now we’re songs” is a curious, ear catching phrase, which came to Ross in the unlikeliest of songwriting scenarios.
“There’s a real moment happening now, where there’s going to be a time and focus on just how strong female musicians and women can be, how strong female songwriting can be, and how relevant our stories are as singers. There definitely has been an imbalance over the last, god knows how many, 10, 20, 30, 40 years, forever, and now it’s time to get those numbers up,” she says. With a plethora of talent shows gracing our screens every year promising international fame and success, Melbourne Music Bank distinguishes itself by not only remaining locally focused, but by honing in on the song writing of contestants. “I’ve been involved in a lot of songwriting competitions and a lot of talent development programs, rather than just popping up on TV shows and saying ‘she can sing the best,’ or ‘he’s the cutest,’ that’s just not my cup of tea. When you’re talking about longevity and Melbourne’s music community, it’s more of a writing focus that I’m interested in nurturing,” Hooper says. MELBOURNE MUSIC BANK is open until Saturday August 27, with 12 finalists announced on Monday September 5. Read more at www.info.bankofmelbourne. com.au/melbmusicbank.
“A lot of the album was written in my head on a silent meditation retreat in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney,” he says. “It’s not what you’re supposed to focus on in that environment, but I figured that out later. We Are Songs emerged all at once. That song has had three forms – one that feels a bit like Fleetwood Mac’s Big Love, one that’s like a half-time EDM ballad, and the one I released,” he says. We Are Songs launch shows are happening in Melbourne, Sydney and Ross’ home base in the Kangaroo Valley. He’s put together a fivepiece band for the Melbourne show. “Our lead guitarist, Tarran Webster, is my former guitar student.” Ross says. “I taught him everything I knew at the time and now he gets to pay me back. I grew up with James Waples, who’s playing drumkit. He’s a jazz player, renowned for his drum tuning in certain circles, and happens to be Donny Benet’s little brother, we all played in high school together. Daniel Pinkerton [keys, guitar, sampler] is a member of Seavera and is a multi-instrumentalist producer who I’m very fortunate to have on board. Brendan Love [bass] is an integral part of The Teskey Brothers lineup and a true gentleman. I feel blessed to have this particular constellation of musicians for the live shows.” Many listeners discovered Ross via The Voice. It’s not uncommon for musicians to distance themselves from such singing competitions later down the line, but Ross has reached a comfortable understanding of the experience. “Performing live to that many people for 90 seconds at the end of a 14 hour day felt like being in a microwave too close to the sun – a uniquely galvanising process and a radical education in showing up, which had a lot to do with my attraction to the process. “In the age of the internet, I figured it was more authentic to accept the association, especially as this release [Aquamarine] is a Danny Ross record. People concerned with artistry seem to be more interested in what I’m doing now than what colour coat I wore when reciting The Joker for Nicole Ritchie’s entertainment.” DANNY ROSS will play The Wesley Anne on Friday August 12 with Harmony Byrne and The Teskey Brothers.
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Ball Park Music’s new album Every Night The Same Dream mightn’t see the Brisbane band diverge from their infectiously poppy roots, but it does feature more musical risk-taking than they’ve explored in the past. Tracks like Peppy see the band launch into an almost psychedelic trip, with an epic three-minute instrumental that wouldn’t go astray on a Brian Jonestown Massacre album. “This record is probably the first record where we’ve focused on just trying to sound like ‘us’,” says guitarist Dean Hanson. “On our previous records we’ve always had a bit of pressure, not from anybody in particular, but just from the making of the record that forced us to push our songs into particular territories. It’s subliminal at the time, but you look back and think, ‘I wish we had’ve put a few more riffs in these songs, or didn’t play it so safe for the sake of trying to please some subliminal thought.’ This record was very much about not really giving a shit about what we thought other people wanted to hear, and more about the record that we wanted to make and how we wanted to portray ourselves.” The Queensland quintet took some time between their third and fourth albums to tour Europe, and then take a break from the band completely, which wasn’t an easy thing for Hanson to do. “We’d planned to start making the record in June last year, and then we started writing and it hit a bit of a wall, we decided then and there that we were going to put it off for a certain amount of time. At the time it was a bit ‘wow’, because there was five of us sitting there going, ‘We don’t know what to do for the next few months.’ That wasn’t the best at the time, but in hindsight, we’re really happy we did it because you don’t realise you need a break until you’ve done so. “This has been the longest in between records for us. It’s been about two-and-a-half years. It’s felt like a lifetime,” Hanson says. He recounts the story of how Ball Park Music came to record their latest album in a small studio in Castlemaine, Central Victoria, after their frontman Sam Cromack discovered the space via Facebook. “Sam stumbled across it because one of his friends liked their Facebook page. It caught his eye because it’s a completely analogue studio ± there’s no digital recording equipment, it’s all these tape machines. We decided to challenge ourselves a little bit and record all the instruments down there to a four-track tape machine.” It’s said that recording with a four-track allows the listener to hear a somehow more authentic version of a sound, capturing the intricacies (and mistakes) that are often silenced with software. Some famous albums that have been recorded to four-track include Elliot Smith’s debut Roman Candle and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. “I think our desire for this record was to limit ourselves to only have things that we could record ourselves live on, and to capture the energy that we normally have live,” says Hanson. “It was a bit risky, and a lot of the people in our team were apprehensive about us doing it that way, but they trusted us. “We’ve recorded to tape before, but that was with a 16-track tape machine. The producer we worked with, Matt Redlich, who produced our first two records, went to the studio to check it out, and he said that the tape machine in the best condition at this particular studio was a four-track. When we heard that we were like ‘Ooh, ouch’ ± only four tracks to work with, and obviously we have many more instruments than that. It was going to be a challenge, but Matt said he was up for it. In the end it felt really natural, and after the first day of recording we never really spoke about how limiting it was. “The results we’ve had in the past with Matt have been great. I think in music you can sometimes try and do things differently, but if you’re trying to fix something that’s not broken, sometimes it can be detrimental. We have good chemistry with Matt, and we knew he’d be up for a bit of a challenge.” The original title for the new album came from a track called Inner City Loveless, which never ended up making it onto the record. Eventually, the band members ended up losing taste for the first title they’d chosen ± something not uncommon at the end of a recording process. “We tossed a few names into the hat, we had one name which we’d settled on for quite a while, which we ended up falling out of love with. One day I was sitting down with Sam, working on the album artwork, and he just punched the record title [Every Night The Same Dream] into the Photoshop file, and it looked really nice. I asked him where it came from, and it turns out it’s a lyric from a song that he’s had kicking around for ages but has never used. The title really seemed to resonate,”Hanson says.
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We’ve come to the blustery tail end of the Melbourne winter, but high winds won’t deter the quiffing-up of the city’s rockabilly and kustom kulture fanatics. Now in it’s 17th year, GreazeFest is an unmatched exhibition of rockabilly music, vintage fashion and classic hot rod vehicles. Kicking off this Friday evening and continuing through until Sunday, we’ve selected our 10 highlights. Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers
Ruby Dee spent her childhood flitting between Northern California and rural West Texas, and the experience has clearly been hard to shake. Dee’s work with the Snakehandlers evokes the isolation and sense of unease often evoked by the open road. The Snakehandlers give a country edge to death boogies and rockabilly joints, with Dee’s vocals resembling Emmylou and Nina Simone.
Hot Rod Show
Seeing a beautiful car drive past and continue into the distance stirs up a feeling similar to unrequited love. This is where GreazeFest really delivers: all day Saturday and Sunday the grounds of Sandown Racecourse will be brimming with beautifully designed, immaculately groomed and lovingly preserved hot rods. Forget about the sharp, unsavoury designs of the ‘80s of ‘90s and bask in the romance of pre-‘70s automotive engineering.
GreazeFest Markets
Each year GreazeFest is populated by hordes of kustom kulture adherents. If you arrive donning casual dress, the GreazeFest markets can facilitate a comprehensive makeover. You’ll find pearl snap shirts, big red bows, creepers, heels and enough pomade to cement your quiff for years to come. Mimsy’s Trailer Trash Tattoo will also be on-site inking kustom kulture themed designs all weekend.
BEC SANDRIDGE Hi Bec. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? Hello! I’m Bec or Rebecca. I’m a vegemite toast enthusiast, guitarist, writer and busker. Tell us about your musical journey thus far? In Year 9 I bought a blue guitar from Ebay. I became a guitar nerd and learnt all of Blink 182’s songs. I started writing and singing when I left school. I could never sing but I always wanted to, so I’d walk around the house with a cassette recorder making voice memos. I played guitar in a wee acoustic outfit for a year or so and the lead singer went overseas and the idea of not playing live music seemed like a nightmare. Meanwhile, BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
The Hi-Boys
By now The Hi-Boys seem like old hands on the rockabilly circuit. This could be due to their traditionalist songwriting bent and born-to-play stage demeanour, or it could be that they’ve spent the last three years playing at every damn rockabilly festival they can find in Oz and around Europe.
Pat Capocci
The leader of Sydney’s rockabilly underbelly, Pat Capocci delivers nononsense songwriting with as much verve as you’re liable to find this side of the 1950s. His shtick is founded in a bygone era, but a throwback it ain’t. As demonstrated on his latest EP, More Thrills Than Ever, Capocci’s tunes have a mojo all their own.
John Lewis
When you think of Welsh music, it’s hard to avoid the image of Tom Jones’ tanned, hairy chest. But during the ‘80s and ‘90s, Wales also gave rise to rockabilly champions The Rimshots, led by scene stalwart John Lewis. Lewis has had a prolific solo career; last year he dropped his 16th album, His Other Side, which will get plenty of attention during his GreazeFest performance.
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Three LPs into their career, Los Angeles foursome The Rhythm Shakers are just getting started. After a lengthy interval following 2008’s Flipsville (2008), their next two LPs – Voodoo (2014) and Panic (2015) – arrived in consecutive years. Led by frontwoman Marlene Perez, the band take cues from ‘50s rock’n’rollers Carl Perkins and Wanda Jackson and ‘60s blues rockers The Yardbirds and The Animals.
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Ahead of the main event at Sandown Racecourse, GreazeFest is staging a bumper Friday night gig at the LuWow. It’ll be all-out rock’n’roll and rockabilly with performances from The Strays, The Flyin’ Saucers and TJ & The Twinspinners. Topping the list are the elder statesmen of Australian roots rock’n’roll, Barnesy’s favourite band the Detonators. There’s no question The Living End’s breakout self-titled LP was a gateway drug ushering in a new generation of rockabilly fans. Drummer Trav Dempsey didn’t stick around to see the End turn into an innocuous legacy act, preferring to stay where the action was hard and fast. That’s precisely the case with psychobilly threesome Doubleblack, led by Fireballs and Fez Perez head honcho Matt Black.
Dustin Tebbutt
It’s unlikely that Newcastle’s debauched neo-rockabilly kingpins The Flattrakkers devised their name as a cricket reference, but the band’s unrelenting energy resembles the way runs flow from a flat strip of turf. They’re an apt prospect to reenergise proceedings on Sunday afternoon.
go and get milk from the corner store while I sung this song into the microphone because I’d never recorded or sung in my life. On an impromptu trip to Glasgow, you decided to defer from uni to fully concentrate on your music career. What advice would you give to hopeful musicians that find themselves at the same crossroads? I’m probably a bad person to ask, our booking agent put us down for a I deferred my degree three times show with Andy Bull and Owl Eyes in because I wanted to teach English Wollongong and my family placed bets and Sociology but equally wanted to on me (because they knew I didn’t have write songs. I think the best thing is the guts to sing in public/they knew I to just throw yourself in 100 per cent, wanted to go to Europe). So I somehow work really hard and make it work. If scavenged about and got some guts and it doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal. did it solo. I only had three original songs You’ll be touring off the back of your and a bunch of really bad covers. It was new single, You’re a Fucking Joke. beyond awful. Then I fled to Scotland What can punters expect from your and played as many shows as I could performance? in front of strangers to get confidence, Hopefully a velour tracksuit. Maybe and I’ve been back and forth to Glasgow some lunges. Maybe a John Farnham song. for the past four or so years since. Tell us about the worst song you’ve ever BEC SANDRIDGE will play the recorded. I think my worst song is my first song, John Curtin Hotel on Thursday Red Jumper. I sent my friend Cal to August 18.
Long-distance relationships have the extraordinary ability to enhance the emotions involved with love. They can speed up fate (whether good or bad), foster longing, and make you feel more open and alive than you’ve ever felt before. In Dustin Tebbutt’s case, one particular relationship gave him enough inspiration to write a whole album, First Light. “I didn’t decide to fall in love and I didn’t decide to write music about it. It just was something that happened,” says the New South Wales singer/songwriter. “That’s always the role music has played in my life – it’s my way of expressing what’s happening to me.” The album wanders through little memories and feelings of his time with a nameless partner, from the first moments of real love to discovering the best parts of someone’s personality in a relationship, and even sex. While there are lots of vignettes speckled throughout the album, Tebbutt recalls one memory that inspired some of the lyrics in the title track. “I remember walking out onto the beach one night, and there was a full moon, and being out there after having a conversation with my partner at the time, wondering if they were looking at the same thing,” he says. “At that point you are often looking at the same view, even if you are in different places. There’s a nice beauty there.” Throughout his time writing music, Tebbutt has always been drawn to using metaphors inspired by the natural world, and fascinated by their power to bring perspective to human experiences. As with his memory of gazing up at the moon, the nature of this particular relationship drew him to images of outer space. The songwriter in Tebbutt loves that idea of something so vast being beyond our atmosphere and control. “I’ve always had that relationship with the natural world, and more and more over the years it seems to be the trigger for me looking at things this way. By taking those bigger timescales, like the formation of mountains or rivers or whatever and applying them to one lifetime, over 70 or 80 years, that’s quite a powerful perspective to bring down to this human level.” In fact, scale is something that Tebbutt has thought about a lot, recalling his time living in Sydney as quite a shock after growing up on a large property in the country. In rural high school he used to work on large-scale paintings with drop sheets and oil paints, but all of a sudden he simply didn’t have the room for them, and his brain didn’t know how to respond. “What I found really worked for me was polarising. I went and found a little notebook and felt-tipped pen and started doing these very minute, highly detailed little sketchy drawings, it was like my perspective had to change. Because I couldn’t see the horizon and didn’t have that space, it was like my
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brain had to reassimilate and go inside of itself. Once I got through that, I didn’t struggle anymore with the concept of small spaces.” Writing from a new angle about love was also quite a different experience for Tebbutt. In older songs like The Breach, he explored the feeling of coming to terms with a break-up. He used to be quite introspective about the meaning of his lyrics. But these days, Tebbutt feels more open to expressing his feelings and memories explicitly. First Light sees him delve into mostly positive experiences with love, remembering the relationship that inspired it with fondness. “I think as a person, I’m a massive optimist. Music for me tends to reflect a subset of emotions of everything that I feel. I can express the more sensitive sentiments and things that are a bit more fragile and vulnerable of that side of myself as a person.” One of the reasons for Tebbutt’s change in perspective has been growing older. With age comes new tools to deal with romance. Musically, he has also become more confident since his past releases, finding his stride with production and exploring different techniques with his vocals. In the past, Tebbutt has been part of some impressive collaborations, working with artists like The Kite String Tangle, Thelma Plum, and even co-writing Give Me Tonight on First Light with Dave Le’aupepe (Gang Of Youths). However, he thinks his next step will be to work alongside more electronic acts, naming RÜFÜS among those he’d love to join forces with. In the meantime, Tebbutt is headed for the stage again, touring around Australia to celebrate the release of First Light. While he finds performing to large audiences at festivals like Splendour In The Grass exhilarating, he’s excited to be playing on smaller stages, thriving in the intimacy of a smaller space and creating a shared experience. “That’s the best thing about playing live, and when you go to a gig as well, when there’s this joint connection. It’s not just you and the song, it’s like that person and that person, everyone around you is in the music and the artist is in there and the moment. They’re not just regurgitating a song they know, they’re in there. You’ve got to chase that thing.” DUSTIN TEBBUTT will play Northcote Social Club on Thursday August 11 and Friday August 12. First Light is out now via Eleven.
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The cover of Tim Buckley’s 1972 album Greetings from LA captures the flip side to Los Angeles’ glittering façade: spaghetti-like freeways, an unkempt relief of high rise buildings, office blocks and indistinct suburban residences. A dense layer of smog hangs over the sprawling landscape, a metaphor for the haze of ego and self-obsession that suffocates the city’s creative spark. None of that – apart from the smog, of course – appears to be worrying Gooch Palms guitarist and singer Leroy Macqueen and his partner and Gooch Palms drummer Kat Friend, who’ve called LA home since early 2015. “I definitely like more things about LA than I dislike. I really like the culture here. It’s a lot different to growing up in Newcastle – there’s not much culture there when it comes to different nationalities,” Macqueen laughs. Macqueen and Friend formed Gooch Palms in their hometown of Newcastle, releasing their first record, Novos – named after the colloquial description of Newcastle residents – in 2013. Despite building up a regular following in Australia, it only took one taste of the American touring life to sow the seed for Gooch Palms to seek more lucrative touring pastures. “We did one tour over here when we played Gonerfest in 2014 and we got the buzz for touring America,” Macqueen says. “Unfortunately in Australia there’s the 10 solid shows you can do and there’s only so many times you can do that a year. We thought maybe we’d get visas and come over here, and we signed with Panache booking back in 2015, and they booked us about 100 shows. So we decided we might as well pack up and head over and do a four-month tour.” Moving to LA was easy, because as a two-piece and a couple moving around the country was relatively easy. Living in a big city means there’s plenty of gigs to find. “There’s so many shows you can do around LA because it’s so big,” Macqueen says. “At the same time it’s hard because every person who’s here and in a band is super competitive. It’s only now that we’re becoming well known around LA after a slog of playing.” Macqueen and Friend are enjoying the contrast with Australia, and Newcastle in particular, not least because of Los Angeles’ diverse cultural and musical landscape. “LA’s really funny,” Macqueen says. “They do it a lot where you’re not playing with bands of your genre. And a lot of shows will have a hip hop band with a psychedelic band with a metal band. We played a night where there were three different bands and it ended with a doom band. Everyone’s super down for it here.” In 2015, Macqueen and Friend travelled to Michigan where they recorded the second Gooch Palms album, Introverted Extroverts. Whereas Novos had been recorded over nine hours in a bedroom in Newcastle, Introverted Extroverts was a more considered affair, spread out over two weeks with producer Bill Skibbe. “Novos was what we were playing live – that was all the songs that we had. We recorded Novos in our front room in nine hours and that was the record,” Macqueen says. “This one we definitely wanted to put a bit more effort into it, so we hunted down Bill Skibbe. When he agreed to do the record we started writing songs and trying songs out live. Then we spent two weeks in a studio just outside of Detroit and wrote the rest of the album there. It was a way different experience – we spent two weeks writing and recording. We’re already talking to Bill about the next album.” Gooch Palms’ attraction is based on two basic attributes: short, punchy garage rock tunes, and a colourful stage act, typically involving Macqueen finishing the show in all his naked glory. “[Writing the songs] is hard because you can’t really rely on much other than the melody that’s being sung – there’s no rhythm or lead guitar or bass line,” Macqueen says. “It’s hard for us to come up with guitar hooks because that means I’m not really playing chords. It all comes down to the melody for us, there’s a lot of pressure because a lot of bands suck at writing melodies but are really good at playing guitar and vice versa. It’s been important for us to hone our craft because we realised that’s the thing that people liked about our music.” Gooch Palms continue to manage their own affairs, consistent with their avowed DIY ethos. “Every year that goes by when you get a little bit bigger you wonder how much longer you can do it,” Macqueen says. As for reactions to his stage antics in the sometimes conservative United States, Macqueen says it’s all fine at the moment. “No one’s taken offence to my knowledge, and I wouldn’t really give a shit if I offended anyone anyway. It’s not crazy different – the kind of clubs we’re playing are used to it. So far, so good.” Macqueen laughs.
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G Y P S Y & T H E C AT Virtual Islands (Alsatian)
Melbourne duo Gypsy & The Cat are already an enigma, and with their final album are ensuring they are remembered as a phenomenon. From the get-go, their third full length album Virtual Islands takes the listener on an idiosyncratic and deeply varied journey into pop music heaven. Opener I Took a Wrong Turn is almost industrial, this is offset by the sweet, ambient vocals of frontman Xavier Bacash. Tragedies of a Love Song draws comparisons to The Cure, while Inside Your Mind channels MGMT. Album centrepiece Odyssey of the Streets is stunning. Grandiose, orchestral, choral pop music that resembles something prog rock masters Yes might do if they were an indie dream-pop duo from Melbourne. By remarkable contrast, closer Naomi takes a minimalist approach, featuring nothing more than vocals and acoustic guitar. Best track award goes to the smooth, lush, soothing,
swooning sounds of Paris. Gypsy & The Cat are fusing all manner of sounds, ideas and influences from the last 30-odd years of pop music, adding their own highly distinctive flavour to the mix, and making it stick like superglue. Virtual Islands is a quirky and ridiculously enjoyable pop masterpiece. This is where real, good modern pop music resides, not being judged by Delta Goodrem and Ricky Martin on your prime-time TV screens, or rolling off the production line for airplay on plastic pop radio stations. Gypsy & The Cat is exploring what pop music can be, not just rolling out three-minute pop hits for the 15 minute appeasement of the undemanding. Virtual Islands is classic pop music. BY ROD WHITFIELD
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TEETH & TONGUE Turn, Turn, Turn (Remote Control) Their most commanding embrace of synth yet, Turn, Turn, Turn is a brooding slow-burner, building momentum with pulsing energy.
When it hits a stride, it’s a ripper. There are moments when things get a bit too vocally busy, tripping up in a flow of expression. But it builds and builds, and explodes into something powerful at the finish line. BANKS Gemini Feed (EMI) There’s nothing really here to grab onto beyond a slightly interesting sonic palette. Having said that, it’s not really that interesting as far as sonic palettes go. There’s nothing terrible about Gemini Feed, but the elements don’t seem to click. The tension doesn’t compel, the hook fails to rise above middling festival-pop fare.
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SERPENTWITHFEET blisters (Tri Angle) Running at close to seven minutes, blisters has that uncanny knack of freezing time. It’s a comforting, though not entirely easy, envelope of sound, a gentle embrace tempered with uneasy emotion. The title track from serpentwithfeet’s debut EP is rich with reward ± a rarity to savour. blisters doesn’t have a jaw-dropping moment of revelation, it doesn’t need one. We could be seeing the beginnings of something special here.
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STORM THE SKY
THE BIBLE 2 (SideOneDummy/Cooking Vinyl)
UK group The Veils have never been the type of band to stay in one musical place for too long, and for Finn Andrews and his crew, this habit stays the same on their album Total Depravity. Their first release since 2013’s Time Stays, We Go, Total Depravity manages to incorporate what feels like a million different ideas into just under an hour of album time. Ranging from opener Axolotl, which sounds like an angrier Portishead, to pre-release single Low Lays the Devil, reminiscent of the Black Keys, this album is not afraid to change directions at any given moment. It’s hard to see this as a downside when the album features so many highlights. Sure, not every song hits it out of the park, but enough of these different styles hit the mark that it’s hard not to be impressed by Finn’s song writing abilities. There are songs about lost love, hate, and fear, and the album title of Total Depravity never seems too removed from the lyrics as Andrews explores the human condition. Lyrically, the vocals are about as eclectic as the music, with a myriad of topics and characters explored throughout the album. Everyone gets a mention at some point on the record, with L. Ron Hubbard, Steve McQueen and Pope John Paul all getting a look in. Overall, Total Depravity’s unpredictable style, as is often the case with the Veils, means you never quite know what’s around the corner. An interesting and enjoyable listen throughout, with plenty of high points and enough interesting stylistic decisions to make this a decent album, making you wonder where Finn Andrews will go next.
The band formerly known as Andrew Jackson Jihad are back in the saddle with a new name, an album title that’s a shoe-in for best of the year and a fresh half-hour of fighting the power attached to it. Six albums in, it’s safe to know what to expect from Sean Bonnette and co. as they blend folk-rock leanings with reckless punk abandon in one of the more potent hybrids doing the rounds in contemporary rock music. Song-wise, The Bible 2 holds up just as well as their classics ± Goodbye, Oh Goodbye is a rousing march through innocence lost, while the Girlsreferencing American Garbage is a wiry and weary commentary on pop culture consumption. Its key drawback, however, arrives in its production. This seems untoward, given it was overseen by Grammy-winning indie darling John Congleton. Alas, overbearing distortion and volume gain placed on both Bonnette’s guitar and the drum parts clutter the arrangements intermittently, and often during crucial parts of the album. Don’t call it sequelitis, but The Bible 2 struggles to live up to its predecessor. That’s not at all to say it’s without merit, these geeks are still well on their way to inheriting the earth. BY DAVID JAmEs YoUNg
SIN WILL FIND YOU (UNFD)
Sin Will Find You sees Storm The Sky trying their hand at a whole range of sounds throughout the course of the album. From their expected metalcore stylings, to straight up and down rock, pop, punk, weird and wonderful atmospherics that are all their own (as in Lilac), sojourns into acoustic territory (In Vein), subtle electronica (Disappointed), and possibly the overriding vibe, which is a very My Chemical Romance style emo/ gothy alternative rock (in the best way possible, MCR are a great band). The vast majority of it works an absolute treat. This is a band that’s more than happy to take several steps into left field, within the framework of the broader rock spectrum, to create a rock sound that hints at outside influences, but is essentially all their own. So much so, that they’re nigh on impossible to categorise. Their presser deems them to be death-pop, and that’s damn well as good an effort as any could be. Sin Will Find You walks a fine and skilful line between quirkiness and experimentation, and massive listenability with great aplomb. It’s strange and beautiful, and will feature on many ‘Best of 2016’ lists at the end of the year. BY ROD WHITFIELD
BY NATHAN QUATTRUCCI
HOCKEY DAD
MARILYN ROSE AND THE THORNS
BORONIA (Kanine Records)
BLIND PILOT
AND THEN LIKE LIONS (ATO Records/PIAS)
ANTARCTICA
(In The Vault Records) Hockey Dad’s debut LP, Boronia, is exactly what you’d expect from a surf rock album. Named after the street that the duo - Zach Stephenson and Billy Fleming - grew up on together, Boronia is proof that these NSW surf coast boys know precisely how to write a tune for this genre. Boronia bursts open with the anthemic Can’t Have Them. Immediately grabbing your attention for its can’t-help-but-sing-along quality, this is the kind of track you’d hang to see live so you can belt it out with your mates. While lyrically it isn’t necessarily going to inspire, this song is definitely going to get you jumping. The rest of the album takes a more mellow approach, with washed out rhythm guitars driving the mood. While the record is still dripping in summery vibes, there’s an overall laid back quality to Boronia that makes for really easy listening. Some songs can seem to sound similar and meld into each other, however Jump The Gun, with its ear catching guitar lick is a standout. It’s a simple melody, but when combined with the chanting chorus of, “I don’t want to go home, I’m having too much fun,” it makes this poppy gem all too easy to get stuck in your head. The album takes a slower pace with Dylan’s Place swaying back and forth lazily, alongside Two Forever, which holds a loveable down-tempo groove oozing a sense of calm and nostalgia, and instrumental track, Grange, rounding out the record. For a debut album, Boronia certainly can’t be scoffed at. It’s not a boundarybreaking release, but with the skill they’ve shown Hockey Dad will only reach greater heights with future releases.
Douglas Mawson’s 1912 Antarctic expedition is an enthralling and harrowing story of human tragedy and endurance. Weather conditions were brutal, the terrain treacherous. With their bodies suffering the effects of malnutrition ± a consequence of consuming the husky dogs enlisted to pull the party’s sleds, one of Mawson’s party went mad, and another fell to his death in a crevice. Mawson himself narrowly escaped the same fate; his physical and spiritual resilience saw him miraculously survive, only to arrive back at camp to see his transport vessel disappearing into the distance, not due back for another six months. What does that have to do with Marilyn Rose and the Thorns’ album, Antarctica? Well not a lot, other than Mawson’s Antarctica is a good story, and Antarctica is a good album. The adventure starts with a Killing Joke rumble, an injection of post-punk guitar and then some in the title track; it continues with a faithful cover of The Scientists’ Set It On Fire. Fallen Angel is dark and intense, noir for the Dirty Three generation, Dead Radio and Wild Horse Plain are two sides of a dirt highway between Neil Young and Siouxsie Sioux. Falling is Julie Cruise descending headlong into a Gun Club trip; Under the Sea is a smoky cabaret dream from which you don’t need to leave. Silver City Highway is a bit of Morricone, a nod to subliminal Spaghetti Western influences that can never be denied, Spiderwoman is the Divinyls on a quest to find their inner Sabbath; there’s also a bonus track that’s replete with 19th century poetic imagery, idle musings on the beauty of sunshine. Douglas Mawson would’ve appreciated those musings, as he stared across the vast Antarctic landscape waiting for his adventure to end.
Dynamic and emotive, And Then Like Lions begins with a reflection on the breakdown of singer and songwriter Israel Nebeker’s 13 year relationship, and ends with a tribute to his father, whose battle with cancer and death is much of the album’s focus. Blind Pilot’s third album was written and composed over the course of three years amidst these difficulties in Nebeker’s life, and the result is a highly emotional record made up of sweetly optimistic yet mournful tracks. Opening track Umpqua Rushing announces a softer sound for the folk band. It’s a slow and hazy grower, gently building with a melancholic hum. Off the back of the soaring opener, Joik 3 is a bittersweet, introspective song about self-discovery and acceptance. Nebeker’s voice is sweet and earnest, floating around the textural melodies with a gentle strength and clarity. Sharply and beautifully produced, though many of the tracks have a similar feel, the album never comes across as formulaic or repetitive. In Don’t Doubt, Packed Powder and Seeing is Believing, the record tackles themes of suffering and purpose, deftly avoiding self indulgence or pretentiousness, while demonstrating the full power of the six musicians playing together. The final two songs end the album on a triumphant high. A symphony of strings begins What Is Yet, layered with a horn section and sounding like a Bond theme. The polished introduction to the penultimate track is a contrast to the, at times, wailing vocals, the rawest on the album. The anthemic Like Lions, compares human strength to that of lions in a lush and uplifting finish to a dynamic album that at its core, explores the human spirit simply and honestly.
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BY PATRICK EmERY
BY CLAIRE VARLEY
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Q&A
GIG GUIDE CHASING ALICE
T H E R E V E R E NC E Four-piece rock outfit Chasing Alice are storming into The Reverence on Thursday August 11, and they’ve brought along a few mates. The night will see them joined by fellow rockers Sang Real, Enter Arcadia, then capped off by indie noise purveyors The Mean Times. Four bands for the low price of $5? You’ll be laughing. Get on it when doors open at 8pm.
TRACE BUNDY Hey Trace. How’d you acquire the pseudonym ‘Acoustic Ninja’? The name came from the fans, who seeing the dexterity, subtly and versatility with which I play. You’ll be hitting up Memo Music Hall. Can you give us a little tease as to what material you’ll be performing? Joy and Sorrow is one of my favourite pieces. It incorporates two guitars tuned in two different keys, each representing joy or sorrow. I add looping intervals to give me the flexibility to capture the essence of each component. It represents the type of music I like to play. There are always surprises at my shows depending on what the audience is like. I love to interact and give each performance something unique. You’ve shared your unique acoustic stylings with 26 counties. What do you love most about sharing your music with foreign audiences? I like the fact that music transcends national and language barriers. It’s a universal language that every culture responds to. When you’re playing music, all the barriers between people fall away leaving the essence of our humanity and sharing the joy of the music. There’s something about live shows that simply cannot be captured on film or video. What made you decide to start up your own record label, Honest Ninja Music? It was the best way to control the quality of the product. It also gives me a better sense of distribution. TRACE BUNDY will play St Kilda’s Memo Music Hall on Sunday August 14.
THE MELTDOWNS
CHERRY BAR Fancy yourself a bit of Cherry Soul? This Thursday August 11 is a prime date to fulfil those soul cravings with Melbourne based soul group The Meltdowns crafting big and smoky vibes down at Cherry Bar. The Meltdowns will be doing their thing from 10pm, but get down at 8pm for $10 entry and to have a little boogie and cherry bon beforehand.
RESISTANCE / RESTRAINT - FEAT: NERVE + SOW DISCORD
RUBY DEE & THE SNAKEHANDLERS
Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.
THE CASEY BENNETTO PROJECT - FEAT: PETER FARNAN
TH E RE T R E AT Ruby Dee has brought her trusty Snakehandlers all the way from Texas to give Aussie punters a taste of the deep south. Things are sure to get sweet, salty and sweaty on Thursday August 11 when they breeze into The Retreat, treating you to some of the most authentic, rockabilly infused honky tonk around. They’re currently celebrating the release of their latest effort, Little Black Heart, which is their first in eight years. Catch a dose of country when they play a free show from 9.30pm.
INQUISITION Max Watt's, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $55.10. KYRUM + FLYING DUTCHMEN + THE COMMONLY INSANE + THE ATTENTION SEEKERS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:30pm. $17.00.
THE GLORIOUS NORTH + DC GRAY & CO Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
THE VELVET ADDICTION Workers Club (geelong), Geelong.
Collingwood. 7:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
8:00pm. $20.00.
9:00pm. $15.00.
ANGELA DAVIS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
LEONARDO'S BRIDE - FEAT: ANGIE HART Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30.00.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
LADY OSCAR Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. MENDELSSOHN'S ITALIAN SYMPHONY - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
RETROVISION Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
7:00pm.
MOUNT DEFIANCE + THE FOOTBALL CLUB + ALEXANDER BIGGS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00. OH YAY! THURSDAY Greenwood Loft, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ORDER OF THE OBLIQUE + SUNDR + FUZZSUCKER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.
MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, MENDELSSOHN'S ITALIAN SYMPHONY - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00.
8:30pm. $25.00.
Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00.
7:00pm. $25.00.
ROYAL SWAZI SPA Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
MICHAEL MEEKING & THE LOST SOULS Lomond Hotel,
Frankston. 9:00pm.
Brunswick East. 9:00pm.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In
SAM ANNING QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
5:00pm.
ALEXANDRA PYE & TOMMY CASTLES
TH E D RU NK E N P O E T Alexandra Pye brings something a little different, with a unique crunch and sometimes yodelish voice. She combines contemporary folk with bluesy, alt-country, which culminates in a sound that’s sweet as pie. Joining her will be Tommy Castles. His music is raw yet uplifting, laden with earthy tones and melodies. They’ll both be playing The Drunken Poet on Thursday August 11 for the glorious price of free. Music starts at 8pm, so why not nip down for a wine and some tunes.
MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: STEVE LAWSON Daveys Bar &
$9 KNOCK OFF NEGRONIS
Restaurant, Frankston. 10:00am. $17.00. Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
SOUL POWER - FEAT: MIKE STEVA Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.
THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO + TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.
TONY GOULD BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
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THE BEAUFORT 421 RATHDOWNE ST CARLTON 9347 8171
THE LALIBELAS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.
OUR SPACE - FEAT: SYZYGY ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital
7:00pm.
HI-TEC EMOTIONS + HANNAH BLACKBURN + MARES Yarra
WOLFGANG MUTHSPIEL TRIO Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 7:30pm. $50.00.
ALEXIS NICOLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. BACKSTAGE - FEAT: RHIANNON SIMPSON + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. CRACKER LA TOUF Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.
LOST ANIMAL
HOWL ER Lost Animal is the moniker of Jarrod Quarrel and Shags Chamberlain. They’ve been making atmospheric pop soundscapes over the last four years together, and on Friday August 12 they celebrating their new single Do The Jerk. It’s all going down at Howler, with doors at 8pm, tickets just $12.
1927 + PSEUDO ECHO Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington. 8:00pm.
A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS + ABOM + MERCHANT + MORE
$5.00.
Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.
8:00pm.
EMILY SOON + THE ROYAL PARKS + EAGLEMONT Toff In GRACE KING + THOMAS NENNA + JARROD BURKE Highlander, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
JULES SHELDON + BEN MASTWYK Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7:00pm.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.
ALL THE ANIMALS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. BARNEY MCALL Kew Court House, Kew. 8:00pm. $25.00. BRIAN EL DORADO & THE TUESDAY PEOPLE + VICUNA COAT + ATIVANDAL + SPIKE THE RIVER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
9:30pm.
MOOGY + JAMES MARK Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford.
CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. CAT POWER TRIBUTE - FEAT: LISA CRAWLEY + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + ANNA CORDELL + MORE Corner Hotel, Richmond.
8:00pm.
8:30pm. $18.00.
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
GIRLHOOD #4
NAPIER + LACHLAN BRUCE BAND + PALO ALTO + LION LUNGS RUBY DEE & THE SNAKEHANDLERS + LUKE PEACOCK Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
STEVE BRETT DUETS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
THE BIG SOUTHERN 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. TOMMY CASTLES + ALEXANDRA PYE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
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LA PETITE MORT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
RESIDENT THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ SHADOW Pier Live,
Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.
Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $8.00.
KOZMIK COUNTY + BABAGANOUSH Bar Open, Fitzroy.
AXEL TOSCA Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $35.00. DJ KNAVE KNIXX Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JOSH KELLY TRASH TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. MANDARIN DREAM + GOLDEN SOUND + LANEOUS Bar Open,
9:00pm. $10.00.
GREENTHIEF + JUNGLE CITY + THE HUNTED CROWS + LONG HOLIDAY Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North
Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
8:00pm. $10.20.
TIMBALERO THURSDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd.
ELLA HOOPER + GENA ROSE BRUCE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.
AXEL TOSCA Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $35.00. CRAIG SMITH QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
TRAM COPS + BARCELOS + SCOUT Gasometer Hotel,
DEWARS - LOCK INN - FEAT: DIRT HAND Grace Darling
8:00pm.
THE RETRE AT Riflebirds are celebrating the release of their new album World Feels Wide with two free sets at The Retreat on Friday August 12. The alt-country outfit will take you on a bluesy journey, playing both tracks from their latest release and from their previous endeavours Detours & Collisions, as well as their banger of a single Easily. Entry is free, so you’ve got no excuse to go enjoy some blazing country sounds. Riflebirds will be heating up the joint from 9.30pm.
DUB PRINCESS + QUANTUM MILKSHAKE + COPPERHEAD BRASS BAND Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $8.00. JEX SAARELAHT QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.
DUSTIN TEBBUTT + ROBBIE MILLER + WOODES Northcote
FRIDAY 12 AUG RIFLEBIRDS
B E AT.C O M . A U
THE OL D B AR The Fort collective put on mighty nice art and music shows every now and then at The Old Bar, and the edition on Friday August 12 will be no exception. The show is titled Girlhood #4 and brings together the work of over 20 artists, mostly based in Melbourne. Girlhood #4 showcases a broad range of creative interpretations and reflections on gender. Kicking off from 7pm will be live performances from Crystal Myth, Piss Factory, Crop Top, Chelsea Bleach and Shrimpwitch. Entry is just $8 with all proceeds going to the visual and musical artists.
GIG GUIDE THE PAINTED LADIES
FLAMINGO
THE WO RKERS CLUB Flamingo are an electronic trio from Adelaide, hitting up the east coast to spread the news of their new single, At Sea. As part of the tour, they’ll be landing at The Workers Club on Friday August 12 to ruffle some feathers, joined by support from Lastlings, The Montreals and Chiara La Woo. Doors swing open at 8.30pm, tickets are $15 on the night.
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER SURVIVAL + BACKBEAT Lucky 13 Garage, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10.00.
DESTRENDS + HORRIS GREEN + MOURNING + ELECTRIC MUD
N GV The Painted Ladies started as a tribute album to Vic Simms and his legendary, lost 1973 classic, The Loner. The project is the brainchild of Luke Peacock, a member of QLD band Halfway. Peacock was working at Brisbane Murri Country radio station 98.9FM, when he stumbled across a copy of the first Australian black album, recorded by inmate Vic Simms in Bathurst Gaol, 1973. Inspired, Peacock thrust the album back into the spotlight with a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians. The Painted Ladies will perform at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday August 12. Tickets via the gallery’s website, music starts from 8pm.
ELLA HOOPER + GENA ROSE BRUCE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20.00.
TRANSIENCE
C H E R RY B A R Melbourne six-piece Transience are gearing up to take over Cherry Bar after recently returning from a venture to the US. While the band loosely sits within the confines of prog metal, their music remains hard to categorise with its twisted time signatures and gut-wrenching melodies. Check them out on Friday August 12. Doors are at 8pm and entry is $13.
GANBARU + SOUTH PAW + SASKATCHEWAN + LIFE DEBT + THE CONDEMNED Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. HE WHO SEEKS VENGEANCE + THIS LIFE I LIVE + AMBERYSE
KARATE ELVIS The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT DJS
Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
HEY HEY IT'S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.
Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $10.00.
DEWARS - LOCK INN - FEAT: THE NEW SAVAGES + TK REEVE
LONG HOLIDAY + OHMS + JUNGLE BREED + CRACKER LA TOUF Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00. LUKE SASSAFRAS + LOUIS CROYDON + SATURN 3 Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.
Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.
LUNATICS ON POGOSTICKS Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. MAKE THEM SUFFER + DRIVEN TO THE VERGE + OCEANS TO ATHENA Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $26.00. METRIK Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 11:00pm.
7:30pm. $10.00.
GREAZEFEST PRE-PARTY
Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.
DJ SIMON LAXTON Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. DUSTIN TEBBUTT + ROBBIE MILLER + WOODES Northcote EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + COOKIE JAM Musicland, Fawkner.
ELECTRIC MARY
MEMO MU SIC HAL L Having shared the stage with the who’s who of classic rocks big guns, including Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Kiss, Alice Cooper and Motorhead, Electric Mary finally land at Memo Music Hall on Friday August 12. Check Electric Mary out for this very special show. They’ve employed Tame The Sun and Ablaze for support duties. Doors open at 7.30pm for this one, with tickets at $20.
A BASKET OF MAMMOTHS
TH E B E N D I G O H OT E L Psych-rock trio A Basket Of Mammoths have finally weaved together a full length album. To celebrate all their hard work, they’ll be playing a launch show at The Bendigo Hotel on Friday August 12. They’ve brought along a few pals in the form of doom trooper mates Merchant, the always ballsy, strong right arm of MASTER_BETA and shoegazers Swamp. Doors are at 8pm and entry is less than a packet of darts at $10.
Q&A
T H E LU WOW The biggest rockabilly fiesta ever is about to go down over the weekend, with the highly anticipated GreazeFest looming so close you can taste it. Before you hit up the good times on the weekend, slide on in to The LuWow on Friday August 12 for a huge preparty shindig. Bands on board to assist you in getting well oiled for the weekend’s activities include The Detonators, TJ & The Twinspinners, The Strays and The Flyin’ Saucers, plus DJs The Knave and DJ Jumpin’ Josh. Kicks off 7pm, tickets are between $20/$25.
B E AT.C O M . A U
60 SECONDS WITH
MOUNT DEFIANCE What’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We’re a band called Mount Defiance. We do all your favourite band tricks; play songs, have fun, play fun, have songs. What’s the best way to describe your sound? Dad-rock. What do you love about making music? The teamwork. There’s nothing better than spinning musical yarns with the three best boys in your band. What do you hate about the music industry? How heavy amps are. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Bon Scott, reckon he’d be a laugh. What can a punter expect from your live show? A healthy dose of storytelling tunes, shit jokes and friendship. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? All online via Bandcamp, the future is now hey. Who will be joining you at the gig? Alexander Biggs and The Football Club; two absolutely grouse Melbourne acts who make my mouth water. Any parting words? Patty for the Brownlow. MOUNT DEFIANCE will play The Workers Club on Thursday August 11, with Alexander Biggs and The Football Club.
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Q&A
GIG GUIDE KARATE ELVIS
SAMMY OWEN Forester's Beer & Music Hall,
TH E B.E A S T On Friday August 12, The B.East will be transformed into a rock’n’roll dojo thanks to the unfathomable amalgamation that is Karate Elvis. It’s set to be Karate Kid meets The King, capped off with a load of heart-attack snacks including candied bacon sprinkled, banana, caramel and Appleton Estate Rum milkshakes, fried bananas and bacon cheeseburgers. The fun starts at 9.30pm, and entry is free.
TRANSIENCE
PRINCE (CELEBRATING THE LIFE & MUSIC) - FEAT: PAISLEY MARK + DJ GRAND MASTER BAITZ + DJ FAB-ULOUS + MORE
Hi there. Who are we speaking to and what do you do in Transience? This is Andrew and I play the bass. What’s been happening since you launched your single, Ocean? The months after releasing Ocean have been a real period of adjustment. Linc parted ways with the band and we were obviously sad to see him go. We’d been playing as a band without him for six months while he was in the U.S., but we always thought he’d be joining us again when he returned. Coming to terms with being a five piece has been challenging but rewarding. Do you have any surprises in store for your show at Cherry Bar? Every show is a surprise with us. You never know what you’ll get. We like to keep a lid on it, otherwise it wouldn’t be a surprise. Maybe the surprise is that there is no surprise. What’s on the horizon for Transience? We are back in writing mode and working on new material. For the first time we’re starting with a (mostly) clean slate and trying to come at songwriting from a new angle. It’s still early days, but we’re trying to flesh out ideas as a group. We’re recording almost every idea we have, both separately and together. Needless to say a lot of it is garbage, but we have discovered some material we’re happy with.
SENTIA + CHASING LANA + SHARROW + TERRESTRIALS + ENLIGHT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00. SOVIET X-RAY RECORD CLUB + FIERCE MILD + LUNA GHOST
TRANSCIENCE will play Cherry Bar on Friday August 12.
GANBARU
T HE R EVERENCE It’s shaping up to be an old fashioned hardcore night at The Reverence on Friday August 12. Headlining the bill are veterans Ganburu, who will be going into a brief hiding after this appearance so you better check ‘em out while you still can. Supports are Southpaw HC, Life Debt and Newcastle’s finest beast, Saskatchewan. The night kicks off at 7.30pm. Entry is $10.
MEZZ LIVE Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 5:30pm.
MOTHERSLUG + FORTRESS OF NARZOD + PHRINGE DWELLERS + LEVITATING CHURCHES Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.
NAT ALLISON Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm. NICE TYPES Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 7:00pm. ORB Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $13.30. PLAGUE DOCTOR + ACTOR/MODEL + LATREENAGERS + SKYSCRAPER STAN Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $8.00.
Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 8:00pm. $25.00.
Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
Collingwood.
THE OFFTOPICS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THEE GRAVY TRAIN FOUR Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet, West
THE B.E AST It’s time for some hot as heck hillbilly at The B.East on Saturday August 13. Slim Dime & The Prairie Kings will be providing some fine honky tonk bluegrass to smoke up your Saturday night, bound to induce a boogie like you don’t give a hootenanny. It’s all for free. DUSTIN TEBBUTT + ROBBIE MILLER + WOODES Workers
Melbourne. 6:00pm.
Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $28.60.
THE HORNETS Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean Grove. 7:30pm. $20.00.
U Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. YAUROUT + SCRAGGER + FUTURE STATIC Brunswick Hotel,
Brunswick. 8:00pm.
ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse 101,
Maidstone. 7:00pm.
SATURDAY 13 AUG
TAPESTRY SHOW Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm.
7:00pm.
FOXTROT + FEAR LIKE US + FOLEY + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + MORE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $12.00.
FROM OSLO Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 2:00am. GENERAL ASSEMBLY + JEFFERS LIMIT + PURRRR Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 9:00pm. $10.00.
THE METEORIOTS + JOE GUITON + THE MIYAGIS + LATE NIGHTS + MORE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. THE RESIGNATORS + KUJO KINGS + ADMIRAL ACKBAR© S DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE + MORBIDLY O BEAT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.
TIM RICHMOND GROUP + PALM SPRINGS + ROLLER ONE + SARAH MARY CHADWICK Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $13.00.
TOMMY© S BANDROOM - FEAT: WOW CITY MOVEMENT + DJ SHADOW Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 9:00pm. $9.00.
TOXICON The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm. WATER BEAR + THE DEAD AMIGOS + BARCELOS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $2.80.
WATTS ON PRESENTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm. TASTE OF INDIE HOUSE BAND SHOWCASE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. ALISON FERRIER + TIM CROSSEY Tago Mago, Thornbury.
BANFF & PARK
H OWLE R ARIA Award winning singer/songwriter Bob Evans will be celebrating his fifth studio LP, Car Boot Sale, on Saturday August 13 at Howler. Car Boot Sale is a simple yet ornate album from the Australian troubadour. Mosey on down at 8pm, and have your $38 ticket at the ready.
THE G RACE DARL I N G Banff and Park are teaming up and hitting the road for a co-headline, east coast tour, and Saturday August 13 sees them hit The Grace Darling. Performing songs from each of their respective catalogues, including Banff ’s 2015 Future Self EP and Park’s critically acclaimed second album The Sleeper, the couple will also be showcasing a few of their newly collaborative tracks. Doors at 8pm, tickets are $16 via Moshtix.
1927 + PSEUDO ECHO + RAV THOMAS Corner Hotel,
GUILLOTYNE + CITY SHARPS + LITTLE HOUSE GODS + MORE
Richmond. 8:30pm. $40.00.
Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.
BOB EVANS
BACKTRACK Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 7:00pm. BANG - FEAT: ANTAGONIST AD + LAURA PALMER + REBIRTH
7:30pm. $12.00.
ANDREW ROBERTS Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
HARBOURS & OUR PAST DAYS + BETWEEN YOU AND ME + BETTER HALF + HINDSIGHT Wrangler Studios, Footscray.
$10.00.
$15.00.
1:00pm. $14.30.
9:00pm.
Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
BEN WHITING + GRETA STANLEY + DANIEL LUHRS Penny
BEHOLD THE DEFIANT + ÆTHERIAL + EVOLUTION OF SELF + EYES WIDE OPEN + THIS LIFE I LIVE Wrangler Studios,
9:30pm.
CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS The Croxton,
BLUESTONE JUNCTION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. BOSSA BRUNSWICK Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. CADILLAC DRIFTERS Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:15pm. COLD IRONS BOUND DUO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
6:30pm.
Footscray. 6:00pm. $15.00.
Thornbury. 8:00pm. $19.90.
CHICKS PICKS N STICKS FESTIVAL - FEAT: CALLING UTOPIA + ROSES FOR JACK + LIQUOR SNATCH + CHERRY ROSE + MORE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5:00pm. $15.00.
DANCEHALL RACKETEERS + DJ STICKMAN Gem Bar,
CLEOPOLD + GONZO JONES + ALYUT Hugs & Kisses,
Collingwood. 8:00pm.
DANNY ROSS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $9.00. FRIDAY NIGHTS AT DEGAS A NEW VISION - FEAT: THE PAINTED LADIES National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $12.00.
8:00pm. $18.00.
JIM CUOMO TRIO Feedback Cafe, Yarraville. 8:00pm. MARYEN CAIRNS Bar Of Bengal, Yarraville. 7:00pm. MAX TEAKLE & FRIENDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
Melbourne. 8:00pm. $11.44.
DESTRENDS + TOOTH & TUSK + THE SHAKES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.
DJ LARRABEE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. DOWN THE ALLEY - FEAT: ALEX LAHEY The Stables Co, Sale. 6:00pm. $10.00.
DRAUGHT DODGERS + THEE GRAVY TRAIN FOUR + KILLERBIRDS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $11.25. DRUNK ELK + HALF HIGH + SKIM THE RIM + DJ PETER BRAMLEY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
I WANNA BE ADORED - FEAT: KIDS AT MIDNIGHT Stone Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
INXSIVE + PURE BLONDE + NO EXIT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00.
JOHN KENDALL & THE SHOT GLASSES Inkerman Hotel,
Balaclava. 8:00pm.
LUKAS GRAHAM + XAVIER DUNN Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $69.05.
LUKE BRENNAN TRIP + BABY BLUE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
MAGRUDERGRIND + WHITEHORSE + SHACKLES + HEADLESS DEATH + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. MATT GRESHAM Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.
MILES DE CARTERET - FEAT: DEEDS + JOE FORRESTER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
MOSES GUNN COLLECTIVE + MID AYR Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
MOSES GUNN COLLECTIVE + MID AYR + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00.
5:30pm.
NEW LEASE - FEAT: DIPLOID + MILITARY POSITION + YARBLES John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.
8:00pm. $10.00.
MAGRUDERGRIND
MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. PURPLE ZAIN + DEVIL MONKEY + ADMIRAL ACKBAR© S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE + KRISTY KILLRIOT Whole
Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
QUARTETO CURIO Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.
RIFLEBIRDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. RONNIE VINCENT BLUES TRIO Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.
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ELVIS UNLEASHED Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.
$20.00.
HARMANIAX Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. HEY GRINGO Big Huey's Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. HUGO RACE + ANGIE HART Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick.
Level 1/402 Chapel St, South Yarra
SLIM DIME & THE PRAIRIE KINGS
RUBY DEE & THE SNAKEHANDLERS + THE DUSTY MILLERS St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20.00.
PALACE OF THE KING
C H E R RY B A R Six-piece Melbourne rockers Palace Of The King are putting on a frothy little party down at Cherry Bar on Saturday August 13. The show arrives as a single launch, but also an overall celebration of the band’s new record Valles Martineris. Entry is $13 before 11pm. Make damn sure you’re there at 8pm to avoid missing out on any antics.
B E AT.C O M . A U
THE B EN DI G O After two decades of producing some of the best hardcore-punk influenced grindcore, Magrudergrind are rattling around the country as part of an east coast tour. They’ll be setting down at The Bendigo on Saturday August 13 to explode some skulls and smash out your old favourites. Get down when the music kicks off at 8pm.
NIGHT OF THE UNHOLY LEGIONS 2 - FEAT: CEMETERY URN + AK-11 + WINTER DELUGE + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $16.35.
PRETTY CITY Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
GIG GUIDE MENDELSSOHN© S ITALIAN SYMPHONY - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00.
MORE FIRE - FEAT: STRYKA D + DJ SAM + EMPRESS SELECTIONS + MORE The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $12.00.
NICHAUD FITZGIBBON QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club,
THE APE FEAT. TEX PERKINS
T H E LUWOW In case you haven’t heard, legendary singer/songwriter Tex Perkins started a supergroup of rock’n’roll icons a couple of years back, known simply as The Ape. Aside from Perkins, the outfit features Raul Sanchez (Magic Dirt) on guitar, Gus Agars (The Dark Horses) on drums and vocals, in addition to Pat Bourke on bass and piano. The Ape will be getting up to some serious monkey business, when they do a double headline show alongside Kim Salmon’s Precious Jules. This is classic garage rock at its finest, so be sure to check out The LuWow on Saturday August 13.
RICHIE 1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST + SUGAR FED LEOPARDS + TEK TEK ENSEMBLE + EMPAT LIMA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00.
RUNNING YOUNG Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd.
8:00pm.
SATURDAYS R COVERED - FEAT: RADIO STAR Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm. PUNCH BROTHERS Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
8:00pm. $69.00.
REBECCA MENDOZA QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
T H E O LD B A R Friends of the Earth’s community campaign Yes2Renewables has been campaigning hard for two years to secure a Victorian Renewable Energy Target. Yes2Renewables need to raise some funds for the next generation of campaigners, who are fired up to protect the future of renewable energy in Victoria. To do this they’re bringing you a night of rocking bands at The Old Bar on Sunday August 14. On the bill are Lalić, Huntly, Brat Farrar and Elizabeth Mitchell from Totally Mild. Get down to catch this gem of a lineup, participate in a raffle and donate to the campaign. Kicks off from 7pm.
OBSCURUM - FEAT: OBSCÜRUM + SCARLETT COOK + RICK GRIMM© S ILLA TURBA Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
LIAM & CO Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. MOZART© S PIANO - FEAT: MELBOURNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
4:00pm.
Centre, Upwey. 7:00pm.
8:30pm.
Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.
$33.00.
Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
THE RIOT SQUAD + HORNSTARS Open Studio, Northcote. VINCE JONES Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm. AMINAH HUGHES Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. ANTHONY ATKINSON & THE RUNNING MATES Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm.
BLACK & BLUE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CATFISH VOODOO Forester's Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 11:00pm.
NICHOLAS CHAMBERS ORCHESTRA Burrinja Cultural
RACHEL MARIA COX + JOE GUITON + DAVID CRIMSON
SHOCHU SESSIONS - FEAT: CARLA TROIANO DUO Sake
RUBY DEE + DRAGSTRIP ’77 + ROSIE & THE MIGHTY KINGS
$5.00.
SUNDAY SOULTRAIN - FEAT: MARK TONELLI & THE MAIN OFFENDERS Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 3:00pm. THE MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP PRESENTS Uptown Jazz
$10.00.
VINCE JONES Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:30pm.
THE LOOSE HOUNDS + THE NAYSAYERS + WOO WHO + LATREENAGERS + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. THEM HIGH SPIRITS + NEW MANIC SPREE + THE DEAD AMIGOS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. WATERLINE 303, Northcote. 4:00pm. YAUROUT + PLEBS + ASTROHYM Last Chance Rock And
TERRIBLE TRUTHS + LOOSE TOOTH + WET LIPS + PRIMO John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $15.00.
Racecourse, Springvale. 12:00am.
ALEX YAROSH QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
9:30pm.
AXEL TOSCA Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $35.00. BIG BAND FREQUENCY Penny Black, Brunswick. 2:00pm.
Kilda. 8:00pm. $23.00.
TINY GIANTS + BONES & JONES + BROWLY ARCH + SCOUT Black Hatt, Geelong. 8:30pm. $10.00.
WENDY STAPLETON (THE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD STORY) Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $25.00.
WILDEORNES + HEXREIGN + MR WOLF Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 3:30pm. $5.00.
YAUROUT + YAUROUT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. AXEL TOSCA Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $35.00. BRENTON FOSTER Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
DJ DAVE GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. FUNKALLEROS 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10.00. HAYDEN MITT TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. IMMORTAL HORNS Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. JAZZ NOTES Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. $5.00. KLUKE’S CORNER Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm.
GREG STEPS Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm. HARRY COULSON© S RAIN DOGS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRIT + BRIAN HENRY HOOPER
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
Coburg. 4:30pm.
DIRTY BOGARTS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm. ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.
WHISK AND KEY RECORDS
THE REVE REN CE Make your way down to The Reverence each Sunday in August for some folk punk, sad songs, grumpcore and stripped back sets from the Whisk and Key Records family, and a bunch of other friends. Sunday August 14 sees New South Wales darling Rachel Maria Cox, Joe Guiton and David Grimson. Every week the show is free entry, kicking off from 4pm.
Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
PATRICK WILSON & THE BARE RIVER QUEENS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
PLUM GREEN + SIREN SONG + ZARAH Babushka Lounge, Bakery Hill. 8:30pm. $10.00.
RICK HART & THE SWEET ADDICTIONS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
SALTWOOD + MANDY CONNELL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
THE OLD FELLA© S Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm.
THE PEPTIDES + INTERCEPTORS Tago Mago, Thornbury. THE VANGUARDS + THE TIPPLERS Drunken Poet, West WINTER CAJUN DANCE PARTY - FEAT: ANDY BAYLOR© S CAJUN COMBO + JOHNNY CANT DANCE CAJUN TRIO + MORE
MARK FITZGIBBON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $5.00.
8:00pm.
SUNDAY 14 AUG
THIS WEEK:
A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. ARAKEYE + CAUTON THIEVES + LUNG + THE UNSET Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00.
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC STUDENT ENSEMBLES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
NAT ALLISON RHYS WARDEN LIVE SESSIONS FEATURING
THURSDAY RESIDENCY AUGUST/SEPTEMBER FROM 9.30PM
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 FROM 9PM
BIG JUMANJI + PENNY & MOSES + FURNEAUX Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
BILLY TALENT 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $50.60.
HIDDEN CURRENTS + GRACE KING + MICHELLE DRIVER DUO Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
289 WELLINGTON STREET COLLINGWOOD - (03) 9419 5170
ANDY BAYLOR & THE BANKSIA BAND Post Office Hotel,
LUKE DANIEL PEACOCK BAND + JMS HARRISON BAND
Melbourne. 3:00pm.
COOKING AMERICAN STYLE BBQ LOW & SLOW SINCE 2012
$33.00.
9:00pm.
$25.00.
Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $60.00.
$5.00.
Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
9:00pm.
LAUGHTER & TEARS - FEAT: VICTORIAN OPERA + CIRCUS OZ
Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm. $5.00.
AIA TRIO + MICK POWER Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
Grandview Hotel, Fairfield. 8:30pm. $15.00.
$16.00.
KYLIE AULDIST Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.
Restaurant & Bar, Melbourne. 2:00pm.
SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
THE F100S + DJ D-TRAIN Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 2:00pm.
DARLOW Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00. GREAZEFEST - FEAT: JOHN LEWIS + THE RHYTHM SHAKERS + DOUBLEBLACK + THREE KINGS + MORE Sandown
TINPAN ORANGE + GABRIELLA COHEN St Kilda Memo, St
5:30pm.
2:30pm. $49.00.
(brunswick), Brunswick. 9:00pm.
8:00pm.
HELEN RYDER BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
6:30pm.
8:00pm. $10.00.
THE TESKEY BROTHERS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye.
THE E VE LYN On Sunday August 14, Foreign Brothers are back with another edition of Momentum ± a huge and inclusive jam session that invites musicians from all over to The Evelyn. It will be an emotionally charged weekend, so why not go show your support and love. Doors 8.30pm, entry $10.
PYM SUTTON & FRIENDS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.
COBRA 45S Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill. 8:30pm. DAN TUFFY + LUCIE THORNE + MATT WALKER Union Hotel
East. 9:30pm.
FOREIGN BROTHERS: MOMENTUM
REMCO KEIJZER QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
SHIT SEX + THE LOOSE HOUNDS + PUSSY JUICE + FUZZSUCKER + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE Old Bar, Fitzroy. SLIM DIME & THE PRAIRIE KINGS The B.east, Brunswick
ROCK 4 RENEWABLES
JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner.
INDIA JADE & SARAH HYDE SUNDAY AUGUST 14 FROM 5PM
FRI DAYS:
HAPPY HOUR 4PM-7PM: $3 POTS, $6 PINTS $5 HOUSE RED, WHITE & SPARKLING 99 HIGH ST, KEW
7:30pm.
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GIG GUIDE FIGHT THE SUN + VERDIGRIS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
THREE KINGS + BLUES ALLEY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
SUJATA MOHAPATRA Melbourne Recital Centre,
East. 8:00pm.
2:00pm. $5.00.
Southbank. 7:30pm. $25.00.
FUNDRAISER FOR AIMIE - FEAT: JARROD & CLEA + NICK & ELLIOT + PHIL DECARLO Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm. $5.00.
GREAZEFEST - FEAT: RUBY DEE & THE SNAKEHANDLERS + THE FLATTRAKKERS + STRIPPED BLACK + SCOTTY BAKER + MORE Sandown Racecourse, Springvale. 12:00am. GREG DODD & THE HOODOO MEN Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
TRACE BUNDY St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 3:00pm. $38.00. TRIO AGOGO Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 5:00pm. WINTER ACOUSTICA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. $12.00.
MONDAY 15 AUG
4:00pm.
GREG WALSH Pera, Brighton. 3:00pm. HARRY JAKAMARRA BAND Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. HOODANGERS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7:00pm. JEMMA & THE CLIFTON HILLBILLIES Wesley Anne,
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC STUDENT ENSEMBLES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
KARL S WILLIAMS Northcote Social Club, Northcote.
ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS IV + EUGENE BALL + TAMARA MURPHY Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
8:00pm. $5.00.
8:00pm. $18.00.
POOL COMP - FEAT: NOEL Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.
ANNA© S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton.
7:30pm.
6:30pm. $10.00.
RESIDUAL + REVOLUTION + BIG CREATURE Workers Club,
BEETHOVEN© S LAST PIANO WORKS - FEAT: GEOFFREY SABA
Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00.
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
7:30pm. $12.00.
TUESDAY 16 AUG
Williamstown. 3:00pm.
ALICE IVY + NO LOCAL + CHELSEA BLEACH Gasometer Hotel,
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
CROOKED SPACE + SECRET SCOUNDRELS + BLACKMARKET LIMBS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. DISAPPEARANCE OF ELVIS ANNIVERSARY Cherry Bar,
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, MILES & SIMONE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 3:00pm. MISERABLE LITTLE BASTARDS Union Hotel (brunswick), NICK BARKER & THE HEARTACHE STATE St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 5:00pm.
PETER BAYLOR & THE ROADHOUSE ROMEOS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
PUGSLEY BUZZARD Big Huey's Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm.
SARAH CARROLL Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick.
3:30pm.
SIMON BAILEY & SHANE O’MARA + THE ALAN LADDS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
SLIM WHITTLE & COUNTRY KILLED + LINDSAY HARDWIJK Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $17.00.
SOUTH BOUND TRAM + POWERHOUSE BLUES BAND + SMOKIN© SAM Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
THE WELLINGTONS DUO Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
TH E WOR K E R S C LU B It’s time for week two of Residual’s Workers Club Residency on Monday August 15. The four-piece have been making the trek from Geelong to celebrate new single, All For You. Get yourself down by 7.30pm, you’ll be asked for a wee bit of pocket change at the door ± with $3 for entry
303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. BARNEY MCALL ASIO BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
BIRD’S BIG BAND + PADDY MCMULLIN Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $15.00.
DEAR MONDAY + MEL TAYLOR & THE SUNCHASERS + MITCH POWER + WILL POVEY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. EAST TO WEST - FEAT: INVENTI ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
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LU SIQING + STEFAN CASSOMENOS Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $43.50.
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Winter is nearly over and so is your chance to grab early bird tickets to this year’s Face The Music summit in November! Whether you’re a budding producer looking to spread your fertile seeds of influence, a brooding songwriter searching for savvy industry advice or just an avid music appreciator who wants to stay in the loop; Face The Music has something for you! This year’s summit features programmers Ashley Samboorks (Higher Plains) and Zac Abroms (Viceroyalty) who are bringing the most exciting array of revolutionary artists, media aficionados and industry professionals together over two hot days in November. Early bird ticket sales end on the 15th of August so tell your friends and your parents and everyone you know and make sure you grab tickets before then! You can find tickets here at The Push website (which you should really check out anyway) thepush.com.au If the cold is still getting you down, then don’t worry because this week the annual Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is here to warm you up from the 11th of August. The tantalising celebration of Indian cinema this year has an underlying unifying theme of “Female Empowerment” and has films ranging from the latest Bollywood box office hits to touching documentaries and arthouse oddities. The Festival runs for two and a half weeks ending on Sunday the 21st of August and has showings all over the city everyday for its duration. You can book tickets and find the full festival program guide from iffm.com.au August is a great month for creative festivals with Craft Cubed 2016 running for the entire month. Craft Cubed is an exuberant showcase of Melbourne’s craft and maker community. There’s a huge itinerary of stuff on every single weekend this month, including exhibitions, workshops, markets and open studios. A particular festival highlight this year is Love Locks at Melbourne Town Hall, which is a project where
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commissioned artists recommission padlocks that were removed from the Southbank footbridge the other year into new and cool installations. If you’re ready to feel crafty then head on over to craft.org.au for more festival details and heaps of other cool stuff Tonight and every Wednesday night in August, the Queen Victoria Market runs it’s ice cool Winter Night Market. This year you can expect interesting artisans and enchanting performances all huddling together underneath those timeless historic sheds. As well as the Winter Night Market running on Wednesday night, on the 14th of August there is also a Food Truck Rally. It’s not a protest of any sort but rather a convoy of edibles favoured by the adoring public, and it’s a great way to spend a lazy Sunday. You can research all upcoming events held at the Queen Victoria Market at qvm.com.au
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Darren Hanlon and The Grand Magoozi, The Old Shamrock, 77 Cumming Avenue, Birchip, 6pm11pm, $20, Simone Christie / 0429 922 735 AA
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Convent Conversation, The Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, 6:30pm ± 9p m, $12, AA
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Alex Lahey, The Stables Co, 199 Raymond Street, Sale, 6pm-10pm, $10, Meg / 0439 561 757, AA
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RHC PEPPERS CREATE US CHART HISTORY Red Hot Chili Peppers’ single Dark Necessities is their 13th #1 on the US Alternative Songs chart. They now have the most #1s in Alternative Songs history, beating Linkin Park’s 11. Dark Necessities marks an achievement that only three other songs have accomplished. It’s the fourth song ever to top the Mainstream Rock, Alternative & Adult Alternative charts. The other three were The Wallflowers’ One Headlight (1996/7), Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2004) and the Peppers’ own Dani California in 2006.
RAT & CO SIGN TO BOOKING AGENCY Ambient electronic act Rat & Co signed to Melbourne booking and touring agency Heads With Tales. They join a roster including Mall Grab, Catlips, 30/70 and Lucy Cliché. Rat & Co tour the east coast in September and October including a BIGSOUND showcase, Howler on Friday September 16 and a headliner at Kennedy’s Creek Music Festival. The video for Spring II was made with filmmaker Freya Esders who was accepted into a residency program in Iceland.
NATIVE TONGUE SIGNS ALEX LAHEY Native Tongue signed Melbourne singer/ songwriter Alex Lahey to a worldwide publishing agreement. Chosen by triple j Unearthed to play Splendour In The Grass, she’s released her debut EP B-Grade University. Native Tongue GM Jaime Gough saw her perform two years ago “and was instantly taken by her lyrics and delivery. Even then, Alex had a clear idea of who she was as an artist and the messages she wished to convey.” Tour details to be unveiled shortly. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 46
JEMMA AND THE CLIFTON HILLBILLIES HEAD TO US Courtesy of a Creative Victoria grant, Jemma and The Clifton Hillbillies head to the US for six shows from Wednesday September 14 to Thursday October 6. Kicking off at Sounds Australia’s BBQ at Americanafest, they’ll do clubs in Austin and New York. While in Nashville they’ll record with producer Skylar Wilson ( Justin Townes Earle, Henry Wagons, Caitlin Rose). Seems like they’re also moving out
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The results of the first National Contemporary Music Roundtable conference last year in Sydney has lead to six points being ratified at the second one, held last week. 14 associations were represented, including ARIA, APRA AMCOS and the Live Music Office along with convenor Music Australia. The six were to increase Australia’s music exports and share in the international market, ensure a strong copyright framework to let the industry prosper, promote music and develop local audiences to increase demand for recorded and live music, encourage skills building to make the local industry competitive, strengthen artist development so they can take on the world and have a better livelihood, change regulations to strengthen the industry and encourage investment incentives.
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• Which venue is in trouble with authorities for providing only two weeks of workers’ wages receipts in an “underpaid employees” deal, when it was to have kept these for seven years? • Are Louis Tomlinson and Simon Cowell making a female One Direction? • Are Kanye and Drake making an album together? • Which artist manager is in damage control after one of his/her singers slammed onstage the radio station sponsoring his concert? • Slipknot’s Corey Taylor says he could’ve been paralysed, after his doctor discovered the spinal injury that required emergency treatment. He’d broken his neck without knowing it. • After four years, Skyscraper Stan And The Commission Flats are going through a lineup change, Sisters Gemma and Lia Sharard are leaving, but not before an east coast tour. • Room 680 in Hawthorn is being investigated after four punters were hospitalised from drug overdoses. Insp Kerin Moloney told ABC News the investigation is whether overdoses caused the deaths in the venue of a 17-year-old last month and a 19-year-old woman last May. He said they’re hunting the source of the drugs and a crackdown has begun on venues in the area. • Drummer James McLean won this year’s $20,000 Freedman Jazz Fellowship. • A number of Victorian acts scored at last Saturday’s National Indigenous Music Awards, held in Darwin. While Gurrumul took out Artist of the Year for the fifth time, NT-born Dandenong-based rising star Stanley ‘Gawurra’ Gaykamangu had four wins – new talent, album for Ratja Yaliyali (Vine Of Love), cover art and film clip. Briggs’ The Children Came Back won song of the year, while Kutcha Edwards was inducted into the NIMA 2016 Hall of Fame. • Talking about gang violence in the music industry, Eminem’s former bodyguard Big Naz told the Murder Master Music Show that Death Row Records founder Suge Knight tried to get Eminem murdered twice. He claims Knight, currently behind bars, sent 50 men to break up a show in Hawaii, leading to Em and his posse having to wear bullet proof vests. • Twenty One Pilots’ label Atlantic is chasing whoever downloaded the leaked Suicide Squad song Heathens before its release date. It’s asked user-generated site Reddit for the IP address of whoever leaked it. They say the track was sent out to a small sample group from within the band’s label - and they believe the leaker is either a label employee, on the management team or in the band. • Country music promoter Rob Potts and Sony Music Entertainment Australia have gone into a joint venture, a record label called Fangate. • Media person Jane Gazzo recently pulled together a 20th anniversary reunion of the cast and crew of ABC-TV ‘90s music show Recovery which she co-hosted. Among those sinking back a few amber memories were Dylan Lewis, film reviewer Leigh Whannell and its creators Paul Clarke and Bruce Kane.
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The Live Music Office (LMO) has built an online map to make touring nationally easier for artists. It plots live music venues, radio stations, recording and rehearsal studios, music education centres, production and backline companies, agents and promoters and music organisations. Developed with the South Australian Government through the Music Development Office and the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap), the Live Music Map is hosted on the LMO website. Its audience and sector development director Damian Cunningham says that with gigs being a major chunk of revenue for artists, “We are removing barriers and connecting various components of the live music sector to help artists tour the country with ease. We hope it will create more opportunities for performers and bolster the great live music venues that exist across Australia.”
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of Clifton Hill as it’s becomes too gentrified for their taste. As a close to this chapter, new single Maybelle is about a local couple in the ‘80s. He was Nick who was bullied at boarding school. She was Maybelle, a cross-eyed scarf-draped cleaner who stood up for him. After they married, she sang to him each day, and he declared she’d be a star one day. But she died in the first trials of IVF. Maybelle, written by Jemma Rowlands, with Sean McMahon and Mick Thomas, was recorded at the Some Velvet Morning bar, downstairs from Hillbillies HQ. They play a pre-US show on Sunday September 11 at the Post Office Hotel.
123 AGENCY HOOK UP WITH WEST THEBARTON BROTHEL PARTY Melbourne’s 123 Agency’s latest signing is Adelaide seven-piece West Thebarton Brothel Party who were included in triple j Unearthed’s Ones To Watch in 2016 list. Their second single is slacker anthem Dolewave, out through Clarity Records, which singer and guitarist Ray Dalfsen explains came out of frustration that “some might see being an artist on the dole as a romantic lifestyle choice, and from being uncomfortable with a label that attempts to lump the diversity of all the bands living like that into one scene.” After a number of national festival slots, they embark on a national seven date tour which takes in a BIGSOUND showcase.
AMPLIFIED MUSIC BANNED ON SWANSTON ST. Amplified music by buskers is banned on Swanston Street – initially on a three month trial but probably permanently. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell, “When you get 260 complaints from traders and the public, I think you’ve got to at least trial a ban of amplified busking, not all busking, just amplified.” Amplified spruiking by retailers on the street is already banned.
STUDY: HIP HOP, DANCE, FANS MORE LIKELY TO STREAM Hip hop and dance music fans are most likely to pay for streaming services, according to a new survey by US entertainment retailer trade group The Music Business Association. While only 17% of music fans get a subscription, it’s 31% for dance fans and 24% for hip hop lovers. While an average music fan’s listening time on a streaming service is 24%, it was 34% for dance music and 31% for hip hop. The two are more likely to listen via smartphones.
PETE FARNAN CROWD FUNDING ‘PESKY BONES’ Pete Farnan, composer, producer, performer and Boom Crash Opera co-founder, is crowdfunding a recording project called Pesky Bones. It consists of 12 guest vocalists on 12 songs written and recorded by him. They are Paul Kelly, Deborah Conway, Tim Rogers, Seam Kelly, Rebecca Barnard, Charles Jenkins, Sarah Ward, Paul Capsis, Ali Barter, Simon Burke: (Lost Ragas and The Meltdown), Emily Lubitz (Tinpan Orange) and Dan Tobias (Die Roten Punkte). It is at www. pledgemusic.com/projects/peskybones. Top rewards include your song recorded by Pesky Bones, a solo concert by Farnan at your house and a two-hour songwriting session.
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Lifelines Ill: Blues Traveler’s John Popper must have emergency surgery due to a spinal issue or face becoming paralysed. His right arm has become weak and “three vertebrae in my spine in my neck have long been collapsed.” Ill: John Newman, 26, has to undergo surgery after his brain tumour returned for the second time and will take a break through 2017 to undergo treatment. Cited: Isaac Brock of Oregon band Modest Mouse, who were in Australia for Buesfest, for careless driving after he reportedly fell asleep at the wheel and caused a five-car pile up. Injured: Dallas Taylor (Maylene, ex-Underoath) after a 4-wheeler smash in Florida without a helmet and hit a sign causing head injuries and internal bleeding. In Court: Victor Rene Amaya, 27, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court, accused of killing 41-yearold Chilean-born club DJ and promoter DJ Suave whose body was found by police in his apartment on July 19 with “significant injuries.” In Court: Martin John Fulton, 18, the fence-jumper who kicked a security guard in the head at Good Life festival, was jailed for eight months and banned from attending music festivals for two years after his release. In Court: Ozzy Osbourne’s former mistress, Michelle Pugh, is suing Ozzy’s daughter Kelly, over several tweets that Kelly fired off after Ozzy’s secret affair went public. These included one providing her telephone number for a blow job. Died: Marianne Ihlen, who inspired Leonard Cohen’s So Long, Marianne and about whom a movie is being made.
was in the Destroy All Lines tour team, runs his own events and set up hardcore festival Invasion Fest. Merriel has spent half his life on radio, starting off on Street FM at 13. The two worked out there was a gap in the market for “a label with major league goals and a DIY attitude.” First signing is similarly visioned Sydney band Our Past Days whose debut album Keep Safe is out Friday September 2.
UNFD FURTHER EXPANDING OVERSEAS Australian company UNFD, which has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, New York and most recently London, will also be setting up in Los Angeles next year, according to founder Jaddan Comerford. He’s also looking at the Chinese market. The UK/ Europe office is run by former Rock Sound editor Ben Patashnik. It opened a new direct to customer store through Music Glue and Remedy Fulfillment. It has a core focus on pre-orders and rare LPs, most of which haven’t been available in the UK or Europe. The North American market is priority for Comerford. He’s been living in New York the past two years studying it. local and international artists will benefit immeasurably from Allegra’s drive, energy and deep love of music- she is a force.”
Earlier this week I came across a Facebook post by a friend, saying she wasn’t going to attend any gigs or exhibition openings that didn’t include any people of colour performing or exhibiting. There’s heaps of discussion about the music industry being very male dominated, but not as much about it being very white. It’s important to see someone take such an action against this. It made me look back and think about the shows I’ve worked on or booked, and take a look at the cultural diversity on those bills. We’ve seen a lot of initiatives pop up in the last few years such as LISTEN, Sad Grrrls Club, Rack Off and many more, all discussing the lack of women in the music industry. This is great. It’s amazing to see so many passionate people working towards this equality and in the past 12 months there has been so much emerging female talent come out of Melbourne – spearheaded by the international success of Courtney Barnett and similar acts. It feels like things are definitely improving for women and gender diverse people in music in Australia. However it’s important to remember that gender diversity isn’t the only problem in music. It’s a very white male oriented business. But there doesn’t seem to be as many initiatives or events just focusing on people of colour, at least not in the contemporary rock and pop music industry anyway. There are some groups doing amazing things, like Alterity Collective, Still Nomads and newly launched magazine The Pin, but why isn’t there the same amount of media attention focused on that? It’s now time to admit where we are failing. All the initiatives mentioned above are doing great work but we can all be doing more, so that some of the most marginalised in our community aren’t left on the fringes. This doesn’t mean booking a band made up of people of colour so the lineup looks impressive; tokenism can be smelt a mile away. Instead, let’s actually engage with people of colour and their own artistic communities, especially women and gender diverse people. Work together with these communities and develop a respect for the marginalisation they have faced.
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The Girl Fridas Residency w/ Crystal Myth, Pleather Purrs, Piss Factory, HiTec Emotions + more Tuesdays in August @ The Workers Club Strine Whine Residency w/ Lowtide, Shiny Coin, Alice Ivy, Chelsea Bleach, Dogood, Dannika, Zone Out + More Tuesdays in August @ The Gasometer Hotel Book Club - Chapter 3 w/ DJ Nature Girl, SIMBA + Cobro 11 August @ Ferdydurke GOFF OFF! w/ Suss Cunts, Shiny Coin, Qwerty + Olsen Twins 11 August @ The Melba Spiegeltent Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2016 (Theme: Female Empowerment) 11 - 21 August www.iffm.com.au Girlhood 4 Art Show w/ Shrimpwitch, Chelsea Bleach, Crop Top, Piss Factory + Crystal Myth 12 August @ The Old Bar Hextape Album Launch w/ Dawn Blood, Papaphilia, Spotting, Vacuum, KT Spit, Occult Blood 12 August @ Hotshots Terrible Truths w/ Loose Tooth, Wet Lips + Primo 13 August @ The Curtin 4-Way Split 7” Launch w/ Richie1250 & The Brides of Christ, Sugar Fed Leopards, Empat Lima + Tek Tek Ensemble 13 August @ Bella Union Two Steps on the Water LP Launch w/ Camp Cope + RVG 19 August @ The Tote Hotel Cool Room w/ Brooke Powers, Ben Houghton, Avery + Sebastian Sibelle 19 August @ Cool Room Girls Rock! Melbourne Fundraiser w/ Thrasher Jynx, Monkey Grip, Sub Rosa, Liquor Snatch, Ding Dong Death Hole + Alvie Brink 21 August @ The Old Bar Feminist Writers Festival 26 August @ Queen Victoria Women’s Centre