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RAINBOW SERPENT REVEALS A KILLER SECOND ROUND LINEUP Rainbow Serpent have locked in more big names for their 20th anniversary celebration, adding to an already massive lineup. Heavy dance floor hitters Astrix (Israel), Andhim (Germany) and market stage crowd favourite Guy J (Israel), will entertain crowds on one of Rainbow’s six music stages over the Australia Day long weekend, alongside Israeli Guy Mantzur, Dusty Kid (Italy), Mathew Jonson (US) and Eelke Kleijn from the Netherlands. Capping it off comes Function (US), Justin Jay (US), Patrice Bäumel (Netherlands), Adriana Lopez (Colombia), Slamboree (UK) and YT & Monkey Marc (UK). Rounding out the music lineup comes art from across the globe as well as a broad program of workshops, speakers and healing for a holistic festival experience. Experience Rainbow Serpent from Friday January 27 to Monday Janurary 30, 2017 in Lexton, Victoria. Tickets are available now via their website.

SALLY SELTMANN ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE SHOW Sally Seltmann is back at it with brand new music and a gorgeous short film. The short film for Dancing in the Darkness features Seltmann performing the single in Portland, Oregon for music organisation Piano Push Play, who refurbish used pianos and leave them in public spaces across Portland. She’ll be hitting shows up in Melbourne and Sydney supported by R.W. Grace and Bree van Reyk. Catch her at Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 22. Tickets via her website.

THE PANICS RELEASE FRESH SINGLE AND ANNOUNCE TOUR Perth indie rockers The Panics have just released a new track and locked in a tour to celebrate. With an illustrious career spanning over 15 years, the revered fivepiece continue to be an act that define contemporary Australian indie and alternative music, with their unique voice and perspective. Now they add to that impressive track record with the release of Weatherman, the first single lifted from their forthcoming fifth album, Hole In Your Pocket, set to be released Friday October 7. The Panics take to Howler on Saturday October 15. Tickets available via Moshtix. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 12

SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE ANNOUNCE GASOMETER RESIDENCY HOLY HOLY TO EMBARK ON NATIONAL TOUR Indie rockers Holy Holy have announced they'll be embarking on a massive run of shows across Australia, to share their new single Darwinism with the world. The new track and accompanying video comes as the first offering of new material from Holy Holy, since the success of their debut LP When the Storms Would Come. Holy Holy will hit up the Corner Hotel on Friday November 11.

FALLS FESTIVAL UNVEILS FULL LINEUP After tons of speculation, plus the surprise drop of their key headliner Childish Gambino earlier this year, the 2016/2017 instalment of The Falls Music and Arts Festival has finally landed, and features a whopping cast of musical heavyweights set to ring in the New Year. Joining the aforementioned Gambino on the star-studded bill are the likes of London Grammar, The Avalanches, Violent Soho, Matt Corby, Alison Wonderland, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ta-Ku, The Rubens, The Jezabels, Ball Park Music, Grouplove, Bernard Fanning, Jamie T, Broods, Tkay Maidza, Grandmaster Flash, Illy, Mø, Hot Dub Time Machine, Dma’s, Alunageorge, Booka Shade, Client Liaison, Vallis Alps, Parquet Courts, City Calm Down, L D R U, Modern Baseball, Tired Lion, Remi, Ry X, Marlon Williams, Lemaitre, and Shura. This year, The Falls Music and Arts Festival will take over four locations: Lorne VIC, Marion Bay TAS, Byron Bay NSW and for the very first time, Fremantle WA. Tickets for the 2016/2017 Falls Music and Arts Festival will commence at 9am local time Tuesday August 30 via the Falls Festival website. Visit the festival website for more information.

Celebrating a year of riffage together, Shepparton Airplane have locked in a residency at the Gasometer. They’ll be trialling some new material in a live format before taking a break to perfect it away from the stage. Capping off the festivities come sets from Bench Press, Powerlines, Ohms, Kate Alexander Band, Shit Sex, Ute Root, Look Who’s Toxic and Ferla. It’s going down every Wednesday from September 7 – September 28 at the Gasometer.

BREAKAWAY DROP NEW TRACK AND TOUR PLANS Sydney five-piece Breakaway are back with a brand new track, as well as a hotly anticipated tour to go along with it. Restart finds the band embracing synth pop and looking back to the ‘80s for inspiration. The upcoming tour marks the first live shows from Breakaway since 2015, returning with a reinvigorated sound and dynamic. They’ll play Wrangler Studios on Friday October 14 and at the Workers Club on Saturday October 15. Tickets via the band’s website.

LAZY EYE CELEBRATE NEW ALBUM WITH NATIONAL TOUR South Australian blues band Lazy Eye are set to release a new album and have announced an extensive Australian tour. Pocket The Black is billed for release on Friday September 16, and has already been awarded the 2016 Blues Album Of The Year by the Adelaide Roots & Blues Association. The LP showcases Lazy Eye’s winning combination of soulful blues, that melds the sounds from Chicago, Latin America and the Mississippi Delta, all delivered with oodles of panache. Lazy Eye will perform at the Hume Blues Club on Thursday October 13, the Flemington Bowls Club on Tuesday October 18 and Bar 303 on Thursday November 3.

ZOLA JESUS ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE SHOW AND IN CONVERSATION APPEARANCE Heading our way as part of Melbourne Music Week, Zola Jesus will take to the stage for a special performance and conversation. At 27 years of age, Zola Jesus (AKA Nika Roza Danilova) has come a long way from her humble experimental noise bedroom-project beginnings – the post-modern artist having released five acclaimed studio albums and collaborated with names such as David Lynch and M83, as well as performing alongside acts like The XX and Fever Ray. In addition to undertaking a hotly anticipated performance, there’ll be the opportunity to attend a rare up close and personal afternoon discussion between Nika Roza Danilova and Melbourne music mainstay Anita Nedeljkovic. Zola Jesus – In Conversation will run Saturday November 12 at the Melbourne Recital Centre, while her live performance will go down Monday November 14 at the Melbourne Recital Centre with Penny Quartet. Tickets via MRC.

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CHOPPED FESTIVAL RELEASES FULL LINEUP Chopped Festival is back for 2016, and they’ve just added a whole new batch of artists to this year’s incarnation. New additions to the 2016 lineup include local heavyweights The Meanies, Drunk Mums, Flour, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, Amyl & The Sniffers and stacks more. Take a trip back to a golden era when Chopped transforms Newstead Racecourse from Friday September 30 – Sunday October 2. Tickets and the full lineup available for the festival website.

Following on from a sold out April event, NGV’s Art Party is back by popular demand with a special winter edition. The gallery will once again be opened up after hours to welcome a stellar lineup of artistic talent, including a performance from acclaimed Melbourne musician Ainslie Wills and a creative workshop from social media star Chili Philly. Art Party guests can also enjoy access to NGV’s coinciding exhibition Degas: A New Vision and a dynamic contemporary dance performance from youth dance company, Yellow Wheel. Topping it off comes the return of the silent disco with Boney regular DJ Geezy spinning tunes throughout the night. Art Party comes to NGV on Saturday August 27. Tickets available via the NGV website.

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Acclaimed singer/songwriter Lisa Mitchell will be heading out on a national tour, following on from the release of recent single, The Boys. The track comes as a taste from Mitchell’s upcoming album, Warriors, due to drop on Friday October 14. Warriors deviates from the predominantly acoustic sound of her earlier work, and was produced by US producer, Eric J Dubowsky, aka Eric J (Chet Faker, Flume, The Rubens). Mitchell will embark on a national tour in October, landing in Melbourne on Friday October 14 at Howler. Tickets are available via her website.

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ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS LOCK IN NATIONAL TOUR Sydney’s All Our Exes Live In Texas are heading out onto the road with their 'The Devil’s Part' tour. Having put the finishing touches to their debut album When We Fall, the four-piece will be giving audiences a taste of what’s to come. Fresh from taking the US by storm, as well as sharing the stage with The Backstreet Boys, Passenger, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and Tiny Ruins, the Exes have also hit the studio with Ryan Lewis of Macklemore fame, as well as being confirmed as the national support for Boy & Bear. They’ll play Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 5.

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MELBOURNE MUSIC BANK DEADLINE LOOMING PSA: The deadline for Melbourne Music Bank, one of Victoria’s largest music contests for aspiring artists, is closing in fast. This year, the competition boasts 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, two film clips, album artwork, printed CDs, styling, media training, and a photo shoot 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 should submit an original song by 5pm on Saturday August 27. For more details, visit the Bank of Melbourne website.

Upstart promoters Sensible Antixx return for a third stint at Melbourne’s premiere Izakaya-inspired music and visual arts hole-in-the wall, Horse Bazaar, with a sumptuous lineup of rising stars of urban music. On the bill are seven-piece ESESE (or Eastern Sea Board Electric Soul Experience), featuring rapper Hancoq freshly returned to our shores from a venture Stateside. electro soul beatmaker Alice Ivy, just shy of her appearance at Bigsound 2016, will hold down the central part of the proceedings while Charlie Threads’ unique brand of jazz influenced hip hop rounds out the evening’s musical spread. Make It Work promises to bring the heat of a scorching summer block party to the Melbourne CBD with audio, visual and edible fare enough to whet even the most voracious of appetites. It goes down at Horse Bazaar, Saturday September 3.

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Born in the UK to a Jamaican father and Dominican mother, dancehall and music has been in Gappy Ranks' blood since birth. The London-based artist was struggling to keep from being homeless when his career began, but working with radio and playing numerous live shows helped him step up. Recalling the ‘90s – the heyday of British artists like Maxi Priest and Bitty McLean – Gappy Ranks brings UK sounds to the world, and will play a one night only Melbourne show while in the country for Red Bull Weekender. Check him out at Belleville in Globe Alley, Friday September 9.

Newly opened hotspot, The Alfred, home to iconic restaurants Fratelli Fresh and The Cut Steakhouse, will play host to top international DJs with their new After Dark series. Kicking off the festivities comes global superstar DJ and singer Havana Brown with support from The Faders, as well as DJs Tess Vockler, Duchess Kay and Lavida. From 10pm, the venue will undergo a magical transformation as roving masquerade characters mingle with guests across the two-level dining and entertainment precinct, with complimentary masks provided on the night. Capping off the festivities comes Didier Cohen pumping out the jams in an MTV takeover as well as additional beats provided courtesy of Melbourne’s favourite homegrown resident DJ, Andy Murphy, and DJs KIN. With old school R&B playing downstairs at Fratelli Fresh and house music pumping upstairs at The Cut, The Alfred After Dark are throwing their hat into the ring for an exceptional late night experience. It’s all going down from Friday August 26 - Saturday August 27 at The Alfred.

THE PEEP TEMPEL RETURN WITH NEW LP AND MELBOURNE SHOW Melbourne trio The Peep Tempel are about to unleash their new record into the world, but not before locking in a hotly anticipated Melbourne show. Their new album Joy will be released mid October, following on from their acclaimed sophomore release Tales. The first taste of Joy comes in the form of Rayguns, a blistering single that aims to capture the sense of carnival and hysteria, created by leaders who stand to benefit from steering the disenfranchised and ill-informed down a path of intolerance and fear. They’ll hit the Corner Hotel on Saturday November 19. Tickets via Wing Sing.

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JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre August 25 KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS Northcote Social Club August 25 GYMPIE MUSIC MUSTER Amamoor Creek State Forest August 25 – 28 SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING John Curtin August 26 HOUSE PARTY 3 feat. Mariachi Los Romanticos Kew Court House August 26 JACK CARTY Shebeen Bandroom August 26 BEN FOLDS WITH YMUSIC Palais Theatre August 26 WITCH HATS The Tote August 27 THE KILL DEVIL HILLS John Curtin Hotel August 27 THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS Northcote Social Club August 27 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Trak Live August 27 KOI CHILD Howler August 27 ANDY BLACK Corner Hotel August 27, 28 CHRIS PICKERING The Gasometer August 28 THE WINTER GYPSY Bar Open August 28 THE AMITY AFFLICTION 170 Russell August 31, September 2 HARTS Corner Hotel September 2 HEADS OF CHARM The Old Bar September 2 L-FRESH THE LION Northcote Social Club September 2 FRENZAL RHOMB Max Watt’s September 2 STÖÖKI SOUND Platform One September 2 BACHELORS FROM PRAGUE The Night Cat September 2 LORNE FESTIVAL OF PERFORMING ARTS Lorne, September 2- 4 VERA BLUE Howler September 2 PAUL DEMPSEY Corner Hotel September 2 BRING ME THE HORIZON Margaret Court Arena September 2 FORMIDABLE VEGETABLE SOUND SYSTEM The Spotted Mallard September 3 SUNIFEST feat. The Peep Tempel, Jaala, Peter Bibby and more The Tote September 3 THE CHANTOOZIES Satellite Lounge September 3 GABRIELLA COHEN The Tote September 3, The Curtin Bandroom September 24 DREADNAUGHT Ding Dong Lounge September 3 CRYPTOPSY Northcote Social Club September 3 TOM LEE-RICHARDS The Gasometer September 4 HEART OF ST KILDA CONCERT feat Ella Hooper, Olympia, Judith Lucy and more Palais Theatre September 6 BIGSOUND feat Kim Gordon, Peanut Butter Wolf, J Rocc, The Great, BANFF and more Fortitude Valley, September 7 – 9 GAPPY RANKS Belleville September 9 THE TAMBOURINE GIRLS The Curtin September 9 STILLWATER GIANTS Northcote Social Club September 9 FOR ALL ETERNITY The Workers Club September 9 NUCLEAST Reverence Hotel September 9 THE WIGGLES The Croxton September 9 NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE 170 Russell September 9 DIESEL Corner Hotel September 9 POISON CITY WEEKENDER Various venues, September 9 – 11 JOHN OO FLEMING RMH The Venue September 9 MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK Prince Bandroom September 9 END OF FASHION Northcote Social Club September 9 ELECTRIC GONER BOOGIE feat. Bitch Prefect, The UV Race, Whipper, Shrimpwitch and more The Tote September 10, 11 KATY STEELE Hugs and Kisses September 10 PRAY TV Grace Darling Hotel September 10 PALACE THE KING Northcote Social Club September 10 GL Howler September 10 FROM THE JAM Max Watt’s September 10 RUNNING TOUCH The Workers Club September 10 JOESKI Pawn & Co September 11 SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX Palais Theatre September 11 FOY VANCE Corner Hotel September 12 SIMPLE PLAN Prince Bandroom September 13 SKEPTA 170 Russell September 14 ROLO TOMASSI Bendigo Hotel September 15 THE LULU RAES Northcote Social Club September 15 ADELINE PINES The Reverence September 17 RAT & CO Howler Friday September 16 THE WHITLAMS Corner Hotel September 16, 17 KING PARROT Sooki Lounge September 16 KIMYA DAWSON Northcote Social Club September 16 ALLDAY 170 Russell September 16, 17 A DAY ON THE GRID feat Horror My Friend, The Sinking Teeth, Super Best Friends and more John Curtin September 17 WOODLOCK Northcote Social Club September 17 CIRCLES The Evelyn September 17 LIZ STRINGER Howler September 17 HENRY ROLLINS Arts Centre’s State Theatre September 19, 20 APOCALYPTICA 170 Russell September 19 BASENJI Sir John’s, Monash University September 20, Hawthorn Hotel, Swinburne September 23 METHOD MAN & REDMAN Trak Lounge September 20 DEBORAH CONWAY Playhouse Arts Centre September 22 A$AP FERG 170 Russell September 23 EVEN Bella Union September 23 TOTALLY UNICORN Northcote Social Club September 23 LEFTWING & KODY Pawn & Co September 23 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 16

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VAUDEVILLE SMASH The Gasometer September 24 GYPSY & THE CAT Howler September 24 LISTEN OUT FESTIVAL feat. A$AP Ferg, Anderson Paak & The Free Nationals, RUFUS and more Catani Gardens St Kilda September 24 THE SONICS Max Watt’s September 24 TRAVIS SCOTT 170 Russell September 27 MICHAEL FRANTI The Croxton September 28 REVERENCE HORTON HEAT Caravan Club September 28 MIKE NOGA Northcote Social Club September 29 CHOPPED FESTIVAL feat. The Meanies, Guantanamo Baywatch, Drunk Mums and more. Newstead Racecourse September 30 – October 2 WEST THEBARTON BROTHEL PARTY The Old Bar September 30 GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH Yah Yah’s September 30 INTO IT. OVER IT. The Reverence September 30 HOCKEY DAD Howler September 30 DASHVILLE SKYLINE FESTIVAL feat. Brian Cadd, The Brothers Comatose, The Wilson Pickers and more Dashville New South Wales September 30 – October 2 DENI UTE MUSTER Conargo Rd, Deniliquin New South Wales September 30 – October 1 GREGORY PORTER The Croxton September 30 CITY CALM DOWN 170 Russell September 30 YOURS AND OWLS FESTIVAL feat. Ball Park Music, Bec Sandridge, The Belligerents and more Stuart Park Wollongong October 1 – 2 BLEACHED Northcote Social Club October 1 OCEAN GROVE Phoenix Youth Centre (AA) October 2 ALEX LLOYD Northcote Social Club October 2 BIG SCARY 170 Russell October 5 THE COATHANGERS Northcote Social Club October 5 JOE BONAMASSA Palais Theatre October 5 PETER BIBBY & MELODY POOL Northcote Social Club October 6 THE ARISTOCRATS Bendigo Hotel October 6 ENSLAVED Prince Bandroom October 6 PUP The Reverence October 6 THE ARISTOCRATS Bendigo Hotel October 6 ANTWON Yah Yah’s October 7 PHILLIP GLASS ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital Centre October 7, 8 DMA’S The Croxton October 7 ESCAPE THE FATE Prince Bandroom October 7 BALL PARK MUSIC 170 Russell October 7 CHASTITY BELT John Curtin Hotel October 7 KINGFISHA Northcote Social Club October 8 AS A RIVAL Ding Dong Lounge October 8 EMMA LOUISE Corner Hotel October 8 MAYDAY PARADE Arrow on Swanston October 8, 170 Russell October 9 KATCHAFIRE The Plaza October 7, Chelsea Heights Hotel October 8, Prince Bandroom October 9 UFOMAMMUT & MONOLORD Max Watt’s October 8 ELLIE GOULDING Rod Laver Arena October 8 DOGAPALOOZA Burnley Park, Richmond October 9 THE LEVELLERS Max Watt’s October 9 FRNKIERO ANDTHE PATIENCE Corner Hotel October 11 THE DIRE STRAITS EXPERIENCE Palais Theatre October 12 LAZY EYE Hume Blues Club October 13, Flemington Bowls Club October 18, Bar 303 November 3 DIPLOID Bendigo Hotel October 13 LACUNA COIL Max Watt’s October 13 BREAKAWAY Wrangler Studios October 14, Workers Club October 15 LISA MITCHELL Howler October 14 DRAPHT 170 Russell October 14 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 THE PANICS Howler October 15 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 THE HARD ACHES Northcote Social Club October 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 SALLY SELTMANN Northcote Social Club October 22 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 C.W STONEKING The Croxton October 27 JORDIE LANE Corner Hotel October 28 WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various Venues, Wangaratta October 28 – 30 THE SOFT MOON John Curtin October 28

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SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING The greatest love story of the ‘80s played out on Ramsay Street. In a tale of Shakespearean proportions – though a little less “parting is such sweet sorrow” and more “see ya later mate” – Scott and Charlene fought on while the chips were down, finally tying the knot in ’87. In the UK, their Neighbours wedding special was watched by 20 million viewers. So, basically everyone who had a TV at the time. Scott and Charlene’s Wedding pay homage to the forgotten romance, and also bang out some ripper rock’n’roll. Go and be a good neighbour when they tear up The John Curtin on Friday August 26, doors at 8pm.

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 NICEFEST feat. Tangents, Fourteen Nights At Sea, A Lonely Crowd and more The Bendigo Hotel 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 ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS Northcote Social Club November 5 COLUMBUS The Workers Club November 5 THE DANDY WARHOLS Palais Theatre November 5 TECH N9NE The Prince Bandroom November 7, 8 BOY & BEAR Regent Theatre, Ballarat November 9, Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo November 10, Costa Hall, Geelong November 11 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 A DAY ON THE GREEN Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong November 12, Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley November 13 ZOLA JESUS Melbourne Recital Centre November 14 MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS AFTER PARTY feat. Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Camp Cope, Tash Sultana and more 170 Russell November 16 STRAWBERRY FIELDS feat. George Fitzgerald, Henry Saiz, Petar Dundov and more Tocumwal, New South Wales November 17 – 20 NORTHLANE Corner Hotel November 17 SUPERHEIST Max Watt’s November 18 THE MONKEYWRENCH The Tote November 18 COMMONGROUNDS MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Dallas Frasca, The Deans, Sugar Fed Lepards and more November 18 – 20 DISTURBED Margaret Court Arena November 18 DYLAN JOEL Prince Bandroom November 18 THE PEEP TEMPEL Corner Hotel November 19 CARL COX, ERIC POWELL & DE LA SOUL’S MOBILE DISCO Albert Park Golf Course November 19 TLC Palais Theatre November 23 EARTHCORE Pyalong November 24 – 28 GARBAGE Regent Theatre November 24 PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Gold Class, Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda, Baro, Pearls and more Lake Mountain Alpine Resort November 25 –27 JOSH RENNIE-HYNES The Spotted Mallard November 25 RODRIGUEZ The Plenary November 25

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QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Killing Heidi, Liz Stringer, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen and more Queenscliff November 25 – 27 EZEKIEL OX Northcote Social Club November 26 THE TROGGS The Palms at Crown November 26 MISSY HIGGINS The Plenary November 27 BASSHUNTER 170 Russell November 27, 28 JEREMY LOOPS Howler November 27 JIMMY BARNES Werribee Park November 27 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Melbourne Recital Centre November 30, December 1 GOLD MEMBER The Workers Club December 1 BELL X1 Prince Bandroom Friday December 2 RAISED FIST Max Watt’s December 3 THE USED 170 Russell December 5, 6 JAPANDROIDS The Tote December 6 SHEILA E 170 Russell December 7 THE MONKEES Palais Theatre December 7 CASS McCOMBS Melbourne Recital Centre December 8 DUNGEN Corner Hotel December 8 BARONESS Prince Bandroom December 9 BADBADNOTGOOD Corner Hotel December 9 COLDPLAY Etihad Stadium December 9 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Peaches, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, BADBADNOTGOOD and more The Sup’ December 9 –11 A DAY TO REMEMBER Festival Hall December 14 FLUME Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 15 SOUTHBOUND MUSIC FESTIVAL Sir Stewart Bovell Park Busselton, WA December 27 – 29 FALLS FESTIVAL feat. Childish Gambino and more Various venues December 28 – January 8 BEYOND THE VALLEY FESTIVAL Lardner Park, Warragul December 28 – January 1 NYE ON THE HILL South Gippsland December 30 – January 1 EVERYTIME I DIE 170 Russell January 11, Arrow on Swanston (AA) January 12 HALF MOON RUN Corner Hotel January 12 ALEXISONFIRE Festival Hall January 17 DINOSAUR JR The Croxton January 20 AIRBOURNE Trak Lounge Friday January 20 REFUSED & SICK OF IT ALL Prince Bandroom January 24 PASSENGER Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 25 RAINBOW SERPENT FESTIVAL feat. Astrix, Andhim, Guy J and more Lexton, Victoria January 27 – 30 PANIC! AT THE DISCO Festival Hall January 28 PERIPHERY 170 Russell February 5 THE B-52’S & SIMPLE MINDS Margaret Court Arena February 7 GUNS N’ ROSES MCG February 14 YELLOWCARD Max Watt’s February 23 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE 170 Russell March 7

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MIKE NOGA BECOMING KING B Y PAT R I C K E M E R Y

Mike Noga’s new album, King, represents a major progression in his musical career, a step beyond his previous recordings and into the realm of conceptual art. “I really can’t see myself going back and doing another folk album, or even a personal record,” Noga says. The new album, based on German playwright Georg Büchner’s 19th century play Woyzeck, sees Noga exploring the themes of murder, jealousy and betrayal – a far cry from the folk rock of his solo albums. “I can’t see myself going back to acoustic guitar and stories of Mike’s broken heart. I think it’s got to be more psychotic murder stuff – that’s much more fun. There’s a reason why Nick Cave does it,” Noga says. Noga was living in London in 2014 when he was invited to a production by London theatre company Punch Drunk of Woyzeck. Transplanting the story to 1960s Hollywood, the production saw audience members wearing masks and being led through a set constructed in a Paddington warehouse. Noga was familiar with the story through Tom Waits’ adaptation on his 2002 Blood Money album, and Werner Herzog’s 1979 film. When Punch Drunk put out a call for artists and songwriters to go onto the set and create a piece of art in response to the play, Noga put his hand up straight away. To his surprise, he got the call and spent a day on set. “It was hilarious – I knew I was in a big warehouse in Paddington, but the set was so insane I was sitting in a caravan in a forest outside of this studio in California in the ‘60s,” Noga says. He was so inspired by his artistic reaction to Woyzeck that he quickly found himself immersed in his own Woyzeck project, one that would culminate in King. “When I was on the set that day I wrote an instrumental song,” Noga says. “I took that first instrumental back to my place in London where I was living on my own at the time, and I thought ‘I’m going to keep running with this theme and see what happens.’ And before I knew it I’d BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18

written a bloody concept album.” Buchner’s original play told the story of Woyzeck, a lowly military barber who murders his wife, Marie, upon discovering her infidelity with an army officer. The appearance of various characters allow Buchner to explore notions of class, ethics, morality and sanity. The fact that the play remained unfinished at the time of Buchner’s death has allowed artists and musicians of subsequent generations to impose their own interpretation on the story. In composing his own musical interpretation, Noga chose to concentrate on the protagonists, re-named Jack and Mary, and locate the ill-fated couple in a generic 1950s Australian country town. “I was more focused on Jack, the main character, a man’s descent into madness and the twisted love story, the relationship,” Noga says. “My version of events is pretty open to interpretation – people can read into it what they will.” The title of the album, King, has a multifaceted meaning. In his desire to escape his suffocating cultural surroundings, Jack dreams of being the King of England or a Hollywood film star. Jack’s expectation that murder will bring him triumph has shades of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, a historical literary reference point that’s illustrated by the image in the liner notes B E AT.C O M . A U

of a crowd impaled with a knife. And finally there’s Noga’s nod to Elvis, when he sings the opening lines to Blue Suede Shoes in the course of charting Jack’s decline into madness in I Wanna Be An American. “The ghost of Elvis is on the album,” Noga laughs. The setting for King is any Australian country town in the 1950s. Noga grew up in Hobart, and saw the regional town of Queenstown on Tasmania’s west coast as the type of geographical and cultural landscape in which Jack is trapped. “It’s an old mining town. That was always in my head when I was writing,” he says. “The whole brief was to make it, I hate to use the word dark, but I kept saying to Paul Dempsey who was producing, just imagine a David Lynch film. I wanted to keep it quite sinister throughout – especially in the middle [where] it gets quite nutty.” In composing the music for King, Noga was keen to map the songs closely to Jack’s unfolding psychological turmoil. The album swings from the pop-tinged country rock to straight out rock’n’roll to hip hop, each moment mirroring Jack’s mental state. Far from being restrictive, following the mood swings of his protagonist imposed an important creative discipline on Noga. “It was really interesting for me because my other stuff is really personal, folky songwriting. This time was the complete opposite – I was writing through someone else’s eyes,” Noga says. “It was really interesting – the parameters that I set myself. At one stage the character goes mad, so I had to write a really mad sounding song. Those restrictions or parameters I had to follow were really freeing, and it was really fun for me to put these guidelines on myself.” King also features a couple of previously recorded tracks, including Down Like JFK, which was recorded originally for a Mike Noga and the Gentlemen of Fortune EP over five years ago. “At that particular point the album needed a flatout rock’n’roll song and pretty violent imagery,” Noga says. “I was writing a song and I realised that Down Like JFK has a lot of blood, and I needed something that was insane and that one fit the bill.” With the music nearly complete, Noga realised he needed a spoken word narrative to tie his songs together. His first choice was Australian actor Noah Taylor, who Noga had met in the actor’s adopted home town of Brighton on the English coast. Taylor’s vocal delivery reminded

Noga of 1950s Australia. “I sent Noah the stuff and didn’t hear back from him for a long time – I think he was doing Game of Thrones, so he was bloody busy,” Noga says. “Months later I thought he didn’t want to do it, and then I open up my inbox and there’s 50 emails from him and he’s done 10 takes of each different bit in a different voice, in a different kind of character. He’s a total pro.” Noga brought the music and Taylor’s narration back with him to Australia where he enlisted the assistance of Something for Kate’s Paul Dempsey to produce the album. “We spent a lot of time on it, we spent a lot of time experimenting with different sounds, we had a map drawn out on the wall where each bit would fit,” Noga says. When it came to I Wanna Live in America, the point at which Jack’s madness is transparent, Dempsey gave Noga carte blanche to sound insane. “We did vocals and he was sitting right near me, I was like ‘turn your back, this is going to be weird.’ He was listening to me through headphones, I could see him occasionally and I was thinking ‘Poor guy, he really thinks I’ve lost the plot’,” Noga says. In Noga’s mind, King is the best music he’s ever created, both in terms of the individual songs and the overall concept. The fact that King caters for competing interpretation of reality – that Jack has dreamt the entire psychotic episode and the happy ending with Mary is reality, or his happy ending with Mary is a psychotic attempt to disguise the reality of his murdering behaviour – adds another layer of complexity to the story. “I won’t tell you which one’s right – you can figure that out,” Noga says. He isn’t sure how King will be received, but he’s confident that it represents a quantum leap in his musical career. While he baulks at the prospect of a rock opera, Noga is already in discussions with a theatre company in Queensland to adapt King for the stage. “There’s lots of scope to present it in different formats,” Noga says. “I’d like to take it to arts festivals. I’m not joking when I say I’m getting older. I’m not some hip young thing on triple j, I’m a hip old thing on Double J.” MIKE NOGA will play Basement Discs on Friday August 26 and Northcote Social Club on Thursday September 29. King is due out Friday August 26 via Cooking Vinyl Australia.

This Week: West Projections is up and about this week, lighting up the streets of Footscray with immersive light, art and projections. The Festival aims to encourage exploration of Footscray; offering free guided walks with artist presentations, performances and public celebrations, with VJ and DJ entertainment, food and beverage, projections and more. Local and interstate artists of the festival include Kit Webster, Paola Balla, Ego, Skunk Control and more, positioned across 22 different sites across Footscray’s bars, laneways, businesses and creative spaces. It’s going down across Footscray throughout the week and up until Sunday September 11.

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Back by *ahem* chopular demand after a stellar Comedy Festival run, Chopper’s Republic of Anzakistan is returning to Melbourne this week. In his latest show, Chopper has taken the former countries of New Zealand and Australia, thrown out the shit bits, and created the world’s newest superpower with Anzakistan. Of course, he’s just the bloke to run it. He may not have any experience, but at least you know where he stands - right behind a moustache. Catch Chopper on Friday August 26 and Saturday August 27 at the Athenaeum Theatre. Tickets via Ticketek. Following on from a sold out April event, NGV’s Art Party is back with a special winter edition. The gallery will once again be opened up after hours to welcome a stellar lineup of artistic talent, including a performance from acclaimed Melbourne musician Ainslie Wills and a creative workshop from social media star Chili Philly. Art Party guests can also enjoy access to NGV’s coinciding exhibition Degas: A New Vision and a dynamic contemporary dance performance from youth dance company Yellow Wheel. Capping it off comes the return of the silent disco with Boney regular DJ Geezy spinning tunes throughout the night. Art Party comes to NGV on Saturday August 27. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced is up and running, exploring contemporary attitudes towards politics, race and religion. Amir is on track to make partner in his law firm, he lives with his artist wife Emily in their spacious Upper East Side apartment, where occasionally they’ll throw a dinner party. Tonight’s guests are Jory, a work colleague, and her husband, Isaac, an art dealer, and, with so much in common, the conversation flows easily. Then, as it inevitably does in modern conflicted America, the topic turns to something more divisive. Intense and absorbing, Ayad Akhtar’s gripping modern drama sees the veneer of social nicety stripped away to reveal that little has changed and questions whether we can ever escape our roots. Catch it throughout the week at Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre.

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The Cine Latino Film Festival is in full swing now, boasting a brilliant program with something on offer for everyone to enjoy. Get down to Palace Cinema Como Wednesday August 24 to experience the real-life drama of Brazil’s The Violin Teacher. Plus, The pre-film reception includes a drink on arrival, Quilmes beer and live music. Elsewhere, you can catch more critically acclaimed films including A Moonless Night, Neruda and I Promise You Anarchy. Cine Latino Film Festival runs at Palace Cinemas up until Wednesday August 31.

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he incredibly talented musician, beatboxer, humourist and techwiz Beardyman ± r eal name Darren Foreman ± is no stranger to a challenge. He’s embraced a multitude of creative trials, leaving an impressive legacy and countless amazed audiences in his path. He’ll be coming to Australia with his ‘One Album Per Hour’ tour, in which he’ll undertake the gargantuan task of completely improvising an entire album from scratch within the confines of a single performance. Foreman has been performing this tour for four years, taking quirky suggestions from the crowd and recording a fresh album of genre-rich anomalies with each and every gig. Working his magic on the best suggestions and shooting down the “shit” ones instantaneously, it’s a wild fusion of hilarity and aweinspiring musical ability. “It is a genuine pursuit of trying to make an album, but it’s funny trying to get there,” Foreman explains. “Sometimes the songs are funny, and have novelty aspect to them, or they’re kind of an awkward pastiche of two mutually opposing genres which you wouldn’t normally hear together, but more often than not, I’m actually trying to genuinely make music that you would want to hear again and again.” It’s a seemingly impossible feat, and for years, it was ± until his persistence resulted in the invention of the Beardytron 5000 MkII, a technological marvel of looping equipment. “I first started performing with just a microphone, and what I loved about it was the immediacy of being able to improvise on the fly. Then I discovered looping,” Foreman reminisces. “As soon as I was beatboxing on stage, I thought, ‘I want to be able to expand this ability to improvise out, using whatever tech I can get my hands on’. Initially, I wanted to keep it simple, but fairly quickly my ideas outstripped what tech I had, so

I started just buying technology. I was buying all these loopers and set units, and I quickly discovered that you can’t do what I wanted to do with hardware that wasn’t built to interact. I realised that I had to build an integrated distribution system which was designed to work in concert.” Though several years of software design and compiling hardware truly deserves the title of genius, Foreman asserts that mechanical creativity and vision is but another necessary component to any musician’s arsenal of technique. There’s now a vast landscape of music technology available, and for anyone passionate enough about music engineering, the possibilities are incredible. “Even if you’re just a guitarist, and you want to just play music in a band, more often than not you have to be a bit of a ‘Heath Robinson’ mad inventor just to patch together all the guitar pedals that you want,” Foreman says. “Every musician these days has to be a bit of a mad inventor. No one makes it quite the same way when there’s so much software and hardware out there to do it. It’s really exciting. It used to be that you were either a musician or DJ. Now, there’s everything in-between. It’s a huge grey area where there’s so many ways to work with making music. With what I’m doing, I’m kind of an outlier in one respect, in that I’ve taken a kind of extreme goal and I’ve worked towards it.” Foreman’s versatility knows no bounds, and he’s known for his hilarious live shows that both satirise musical convention and relish it with utmost respect. Bring up

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the title “comedian”, though, and you’ll get a cautious outlook. “There was a time where I was deliberately putting myself in situations where I was really uncomfortable,” Foreman remembers. “I did the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival almost as a stand-up, because I knew I had to ± not because I wanted to ± because I wanted the training. I’m doing the Edinburgh Fringe next week, and I’ll do guests spots among other stand-up comedians, but I really don’t see myself as a standup comedian. There’s nothing wrong with doing something that’s funny, and there’s nothing wrong with doing a spot where everything you do is funny, but the term comedian freaks me out because it tends to mean that everything you do has to be funny. I mean, look at Harpo Marx. He was a goof, and soon as he started to play his instrument, that was serious. I think there’s something to be said for being an ‘entertainer’, rather than a comic, strictly. I don’t think there needs to be that distinction.” When he first began his incredible quest, Foreman found that the perfect way to prove himself to the nonbelieving was to impress beyond expectation. “If you want to make a really well-rounded show, ever, in any sense, you need to tug on lots of different strings,” Foreman explains. “It’s like a Hollywood movie or something. It needs to make you laugh, cry; everything. It needs to draw you in. It needs to obey certain forms where people have a certain amount of attention span. You need to make sure that there’s jeopardy in there, that gets resolved. You need to make sure there’s reincorporation. If it’s improvised and you go towards the major, you have to obey improv game rules and you can’t back away from a challenge. You have to answer it.” BEARDYMAN will take to The Corner Hotel on Tuesday September 13. Tickets via Ticketscout.

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Wednesday August 31 Arts Centre

It’s another huge one for Dirty Secrets, with a great selection of comedians to get you through hump-day. Alex Ward as MC, Jack Druce, Rhi Down, Kirsty Webeck and more are getting in on the action. It’s all happening Wednesday August 24. Get down from 8.30pm at 80 Smith St, Collingwood.

Melbourne Fringe Festival

Thursday September 15 - Sunday October 2 Various Venues

John Olsen: The You Beaut Country

Friday September 16 - Sunday February 26 2017 Ian Potter Centre

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 25 they’ll see Sam Taunton as MC alongside Nicky Barry, Kevin Lim, Sam Petersen, Geoff Setty, Kimberley Lisle, Luka Muller, Roland Hoffman, Lisa Fineberg and Natalie Harris. Plus, the next competitors for the ‘Are You Funnier Than George?’ competition are taking to the stage. 20 Johnston St, Fitzroy.

ROCHESTER COMEDY Another bumper lineup for Thursdays at the Rochey and it’s free. There’s Geraldine Hickey, Xavier Michelides, Daniel Connell, Mike Goldstein and more. Kicks off at 8:30 sharp but get in early for a good seat. 202 Johnston St, Fitzroy.

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Poetry, Wrestling and Graffiti Come Together in Melbourne Fringe’s Literature Program Melbourne Fringe has joined forces with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office to present the Open Book program. A world first for a UNESCO City of Literature, the unique collaboration supports the creation of a new stream of events for Melbourne Fringe - ‘Words and Ideas’. The new program celebrates language in all its guises through installations, performances, poetry slams and live art events that revolve around the written or spoken word. Program highlights include Between Two Lines - a live art event for one person at a time, taking place in the windows of much-loved bookstore Embiggen Books - alongside Wham Bam Thank You Slam, which will see a poetry slam in the style of pro-wrestling. The Stalls asks punters to reflect on the collective unconscious of a city, as told by the voices found on toilet walls, while Lost the Plot sees some of Melbourne’s most talented creatives including comedians, authors, musicians and actors tell a wholly improvised story one minute at a time. Melbourne Fringe runs from Thursday September 15 - Sunday October 2.

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 Monday August 29, 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.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Comedy at Spleen are always chockers. It’s simply never not full. The only place to be on Mondays will be packed full of laughs with guests and it’s the place where big names drop in. This Monday, they’ve got Lehmo, Cameron James, Bart Freebairn, Laura Davis, James Masters and more. It’s this Monday August 29 at 41 Bourke Street in the city at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

Oz Kink Fest Is Back for 2016 Alternative lifestyle sexuality groups will unite at the upcoming Oz Kink Fest and Fetish Expo for 10 days of workshops, entertainment, vendors and parties. Featuring over 50 local and national business vendors, top level entertainment, music, educational and community building workshops and parties, the event is one of the largest kink and fetish gatherings in the country. “This is the best opportunity for those interested in incorporating BDSM or other kink elements into their lives to learn firsthand from professionals and experts, rather than going it on their own,” said Oz Kink Fest organiser Mz Mallice. “All are welcome to explore their hidden desires and utmost fantasies in a safe, informative and social environment.” Highlights of this year’s festival include the grand fetish fashion show with competitions and cash prizes for best female, male and transgender outfits alongside performances from International Mz Leather (USA), Mistress Kanna ( JPN), DJ Scott Anderson and more. Capping it off comes hardcore dungeon play spaces, shopping discounts from numerous fetish vendors, medical play and fire flogging. Oz Kink Fest and Fetish Expo 2016 runs from Saturday September 24 to Sunday October 2 at the Fitzroy Town Hall, with special events going down at various venues across Melbourne. Head to their website for more details.

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“It’s ludicrous, the amount of blood going on stage,” explains Eddie Perfect of The Beast, preparing to stage his black comedy at the Sydney Opera House before it hits Melbourne. It’s a unique sales pitch for a unique play. But how did it come to this?

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Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert Friday November 4 ± S aturday November 5 Hamer Hall

Friday Fright Nights Are Coming to Lido Cinemas As Monster Fest season draws near, a new season of Friday Fright Nights will be bringing all the spooktacular action to Melbourne to get you in the mood. Winner of Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest 2016, Cat Sick Blues will kick things off, followed by murder mystery I Am Not A Serial Killer shot in 16mm by Robbie Ryan. Capping it off comes the aptly titled AAAAAAAAH! an oddball indie horror story - and The Eyes of My Mother, a critically acclaimed black and white Sundance shocker. Friday Fright Nights run monthly at Lido Cinemas from Friday August 26 - Friday December 2.

Uncle Jack Charles to Discuss His Life in New Melbourne Q&A

The Beast

The origins of The Beast date back to when Perfect lived in Healesville. He recalls a big, save-the-date dinner party between 20 people. “One couple bought a calf. It was slaughtered and then everyone went to the butchering. The only thing that went awry was, the guy who was doing the butchering turned up with a mobile coolroom trailer and when he was setting up, he tripped and fell on his own knife and slashed his hand open,” the multi-talented performer explains. “He had to be rushed to emergency to be stitched up, then he came back and did the butchering. “We were laughing, thinking, what would we have done if we had to break down the cow ourselves? We’d booked babysitters, it had been in the diary and Yarra Valley is quite hard to get around if you’re going to be drinking copious amounts of wine,” reasons Perfect. “Would we have even gone ahead with it?” This one eventful evening inspired Perfect to write his debut play, The Beast ± a funny yet confronting affair in which three tree-changing couples hold a dinner party, only to be met with a similar conundrum. “I’ve always said that this play is about six arseholes who think

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they’re good, who eventually discover they’re arseholes,” he says. “Even though people can say that’s a terribly bleak outcome, nothing like that ever happens in life. I’ve never seen an arsehole realise they’re an arsehole. “A lot of the play is about what it means to live an authentic life,” Perfect elaborates. “I’m always interested in the gap between the person that somebody is and the person that they would like to be. We all have that gap. We all live in that gap to some extent. But these characters very much have a view of themselves that is quite different to reality.” Perfect plays with these contradictions throughout The Beast, examining the minutiae of a middle-class existence. “The way we are able to justify fallacies of logic in our head, or disconnects of reason from one source of data to another, I find those things really fascinating,” he says. “Being middle-class is one big social convention with a whole bunch of codes and rules that we’re supposed follow and a whole raft of things that we’re supposed to care about that, to a greater or lesser extent, we either do or don’t. And comedy can perform this really great service where you get to inject yourself into

the fantasy or nightmare where people confront and break open those institutions or those ideologies that you feel so bound up with in your everyday life.” It’s unsurprising, then, that Perfect and his fellow cast members have relished bringing the play’s characters to life. “A lot of people like to ask, ‘Is it hard playing these characters?’ There’s nothing more enjoyable for an actor than to play an arsehole,” he confesses, praising Rohan Nichol’s knack for nailing The Beast’s chief charismatic jerk, as well as Alison Bell, whose expert comic ability with “low-status characters” comes to the fore. “I mean, people behaving badly is where the gold is with acting. Doing horrible things is just immensely enjoyable and so, this cast in particular has taken to it, in a very funny way, like ducks to water. It’s terrific.” Given the real life inspiration for The Beast, Perfect was eager to avoid any misunderstandings, making calls to those who were present that one momentous evening. “When we did [the play] in Melbourne, the first time around, they all came to opening night and they had a really great time. Even though I was like, ‘There’s literally none of your personalities in it,’ they all saw themselves. But then, audiences generally do see elements of themselves in it.” Mission accomplished, as far as Perfect is concerned. “It was written for and about the very audience that might go and actually see it,” he explains. “It’s interesting, too, in that it’s pretty unforgiving on a lot of levels. We hope people will recognise elements of their own behaviour or personality or choices in these incredibly amplified and heightened characters. The issue with that, sometimes, is that not everyone appreciates being shown a very ugly version of themselves.” In fact, some of the reactions to The Beast have been

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National treasure, award-winning actor and activist Uncle Jack Charles will share tales and stories from his life in an intimate Melbourne Q&A session. A Night With Uncle Jack will see the Aboriginal elder joined by a host of special guests (many of whom remain a tightly kept secret) to join with him in momentous musical performances and storytelling capturing much of his work in film, theatre and television. The revered Australian was named the Victorian Senior Australian of the Year for 2016 but has also experienced prolonged hardship having been homeless, a heroin addict, a thief and a regular in Victorian prisons. Acknowledged as the grandfather of Aboriginal theatre in Australia, Uncle Jack co-founded the first Aboriginal theatre company Nindethana in 1972 and has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning over six decades. Hang out with Uncle Jack when he comes to Trades Hall on Tuesday September 6.

beyond Perfect’s wildest expectations. “We’ve been doing it for four weeks up here in Sydney. It’s like adult pantomime,” he jokes. “I’ve never experienced that level of being people so invested in either loving or hating characters. Sydney audiences are pretty vocal but when you’ve got people literally yelling at the actors on stage, it’s just glorious.” THE BEAST will run at the Comedy Theatre from Thursday August 25 to Sunday September 4.

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Beat’s Picks: The 2016 Melbourne Festival Arts Program Melbourne Festival is back for 2016, bringing with it a plethora of brilliant performances for you to sink your teeth into. From cutting edge drama and thought provoking theatre to realitybending circus and dance, there’s something for everyone in this year’s program. That’s why we’re breaking the program down to offer up some of our top picks. But remember, this isn’t a be all and end all. Rather, it’s just a way to get you started. Get inspired by the program, make some new discoveries and above all, take a risk. After all, that’s what Melbourne Festival is all about.

Vertical Influence

Forget everything you thought you knew about ice skating. From Canada’s Le Patin Libre comes Vertical Influences, bringing the technical virtuosity of contemporary movement together with the visceral nature of street dance ± all taking place on the ice. Five performers turn their backs on sequins and scorecards in favour of adrenaline-pumping athletics and theatrical sophistication in a production renowned across the world for its unique vision. Vertical Influence runs at O’Brien Group Arena, Docklands on Saturday October 15 & Sunday October 16 followed by Tuesday October 18 ± S aturday October 22.

887

One of the most hotly anticipated theatrical events from this year’s program comes 887, an introspective piece from acclaimed theatremaker Rober Lepage. Written, directed, designed and performed by Lepage, the production sees him cast his eye onto the most difficult subject of all ± himself. Making its Australian premiere, the play begins in his childhood home of 887 Avenue Murray in Quebec City and subsequently moves across decades in a tale that proves inseparable from the dramatic events of the half century in which it plays out. 887 runs from Wednesday October 19 to Saturday October 22 at Arts Centre Melbourne.

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The Echo of the Shadow

What would you do to discover the most essential part of yourself ? How far would you go to bring it back? These are the questions asked by the groundbreaking and intimate production, The Echo of the Shadow. Built for a single audience member to experience one at a time, you will enter a labyrinth inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fable of the traveller who lost their shadow before undertaking a sensory experience ± listening, smelling, tasting and feeling your way through a dreamlike underworld that unfurls around you. The Echo of the Shadow runs from Tuesday October 6 to Sunday October 23 at ACMI.

Burgies Steps It Up With Shakes, Cattle And Brioche Rolls Located in the heart of the northern suburbs, Burgies is raising the bar for burger culture with their newly released specials menu. To add to their already impressive selection of mouth-watering burgers, shakes and waffle fries, they now have two new and thoroughly tantalising burgers on offer. The first of these - the truffle angus burger - oozes with flavour with its house made truffle mayo, double swiss cheese and brioche bun. If it’s chicken you crave, the new char grilled chicken breast fillet burger will blow your taste buds away with a succulent chicken breast, aged tasty cheese, tomato, slaw and house made lemon and herb mayo. To wash it all down, four new gelato thick shakes have been added to the menu in the form of traditional mama’s panna cotta & caramel biscotti, the fresh lemon crunch, bubble gum and the one of a kind Ferrero Rochere thick shake. Open from 11am ± 11pm on Sundays and Tuesdays through to Thursdays, and 11am through to 12am on Friday and Saturday, it’s well worth a stop if you’re keen for lunch or a late night feed. You can check out Burgies at 3/1488 Sydney Road in Cambellfield.

Triptyque

From Canada’s Les 7 Doigts (The 7 Fingers), comes a performance that straddles the line between circus and dance like no other. Inviting a trip of renowned choreographers to re-imagine these forms, Triptyque is a surreal melange of impressionistic movement coupled with reality defying artisty that pushes the boundaries of what the human body is capable of. Both melancholy and playful, the work moves between hospital walls and dreamscapes in a production that seems to suspend gravity and belief ± if only for one night. Triptyque runs at Arts Centre Melbourne from Thursday October 6 to Sunday October 9.

The Home Within

Coming from renowned Japanese visual artist Chiharu Shiota is The Home Within, an immersive and textural artistic experience. The work invites curious punters to step inside a weblike structure of vibrant red string, enveloping the viewer in a creation that is equal parts strong and fragile. Shiota’s work will be coming to Melbourne for the first time ever, with The Home Within raising questions between the tangible and intangible; the visible and the distant. The Home Within will debut at Deakin Edge on Thursday October 6 before embarking on a journey around the city, closing at Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday October 23.

THE 2016 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL runs from Thursday October 6 to Sunday October 23. Tickets to all shows are on sale now from www.festival.melbourne. EVERYTHING MELBOURNE

Pawn & Co Brings Eats And Beats To Hospitality WorkerS Doing a massive solid for the Melbourne hospitality industry (and anyone else who wants to drop in), Pawn & Co are offering free drinks and a gourmet barbecue for anyone attending the venue on a Sunday night from 7pm-11pm. The past month has seen Pawn & Co bring out Grill Master Scott Baniasia to serve up Greek style lamb with a pumpkin and couscous salad, Chipotle chicken with a Spanish salad, Jamaican jerk chicken and more mouthwatering treats. If you’re unlucky enough to be stuck at work on a Sunday night, you can still join the party later on. There’s discounted entry for all hospitality workers (plus free entry before 11), along with free drinks on the house if you have Pawn & Co’s hospitality card, which you can get by signing up at the venue. There’s also various competitions and events through the year, including Bar Managers Can’t DJ, restricted solely to the hospitality crowd. Pawn & Co Sundays, located at 1/402 Chapel Street in South Yarra, is open from 7pm. Entry is free for all before 11pm. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 23

O f f Th e Record Well hello there. Meet the newest festival on the Australian summer calendar: Tell No Tales. Run by the Hardware crew, the event is “inspired by the European summer” – whatever that means. Marketing/promo bullshit aside, the lineup speaks for itself. Headlining will be minimal techno maverick Ricardo Villalobos (let’s hope he doesn’t repeat the “car crash” set he performed last year at Cocoon In The Park – you know what I’m talking about) alongside Pan-Pot, Audion (AKA Matthew Dear), Agents Of Time and Nastia. Noice. Very noice. It’s going down on Saturday December 3 at the Flemington Racecourse. Oh my! It’s the return of a DJ so good that the last time he was here his set stopped my girlfriend and I breaking up (well, at least for a month, long story). Yep, having not returned to Australia since 2010 when I was dating Katie, the Chicago head Chez Damier is coming back our way. Having worked with the likes of KMS Records, The Music Institute, The Bellville Three (AKA Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Sanderson), alongside his seminal productions with Ron Trent, Damier is one of the few remaining pioneers of deep house that hasn’t sold out and relinquished the art of their craft for Ben Franklins. Catch him on Friday September 9 at The Night Cat. Straight-up one of the best DJs in the world, Jackmaster, has locked in a Melbourne headline show. One of the most in-demand selectors of the past five years, the Glasgow don is one of the only names in the game who has never even touched upon an original production or remix. Dude DJs – and that’s all he does. Dude DJs well. The Numbers co-founder (of which the label has released the likes of SBTRKT, Deadboy, Redinho, Jessie Ware, Sophie, Jamie XX and Mosca) is a favourite of Ben UFO, Mike Servito, Seth Troxler and Jamie Jones, and is a regular at the world’s most revered clubs such as Berghain and fabric. Head to his Soundcloud and give his 2015 Mastermix a rinse for a proper schooling. Catch him on Friday November 25 at Brown Alley. Tour rumours: If you’ve even just stepped foot into a club this year then you’ve no doubt heard Midland’s track Final Credits (on ReGraded). Those diva vocals, damn son. You’ll get to see the lad spinning it himself mighty soon. I also wouldn’t be surprised to see John Talabot coming our way in the near future. Oh, and a headline show from techno kingpin Function in January? You better believe it. Best releases this week: what’s that? You’ve realized that the record from Frank Ocean that has taken over the internet is

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WITH T YSON WRAY kinda bourgeois and want to listen to something worthwhile? I gotcha covered. Will Long’s deep house debut Purple / Blue on Comatonse Recordings is luuuuuuush. Both tracks are accompanied by an overdub from DJ Sprinkles, making this shit one of the most fire records of 2016 thus far. Highly recommend. Ukrainian deep house cat Vakula’s Cyclicality Between Procyon and Gomeisa (on Dekmantel) is well worth your time, as is Kareem and Huren’s Le 17 Janvier Los Angeles, USA (on Noiztank).

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RECOMMENDED: FRIDAY AUGUST 26 Darshan Jesrani Boney Henning Baer Brown Alley FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 Giorgio Gigli The Mercat Chez Damier The Nightcat SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 Detroit Techno Militia Railway Hotel SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 Larry Heard AKA Mr. Fingers Melbourne Town Hall

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29 Bicep Brown Alley MONDAY OCTOBER 31 Green Velvet Prince Bandroom SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 Marcel Dettmann TBA

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25 Jackmaster Brown Alley SATURDAY DECEMBER 3 Tell No Tales: Ricardo Villalobos, Pan-Pot, Audion + more Flemington Racecourse

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 Rebekah Railway Hotel Got any tip-offs, hate mail, praise or cat photos? Email hey@tysonwray.com or contact me via carrier pigeon. Hit me on Twitter via @tysonwray.

CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 • COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • ETHEREAL TAPIOCA - FEAT: BLUE MOON + LOTUS MOONCHILD + INKSWEL + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DANIELSAN + MR PITIFUL Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • THE MUSIC & CRAVING STUDY - FEAT: KIRALEE MUSGROVE Federation Hall, Southbank. 6:00pm.

THURSDAY AUGUST 25 • 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: BONEYARD DJS + SAM GUDGE + JAMES STEETH + HANS DC Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • GOOD LOVIN’ - FEAT: TOM BAKER Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • NIGHTCAP III - FEAT: JENNIFER LOVELESS + SOMERLED + LIFE COACH Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • TAME THE SUN + BETTER THAN WIZARDS Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY AUGUST 26 • #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CLUB MIAMI Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. • CLUB SANGUINE – THE DARK AGES 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm. • CRAIG MCWHINNEY + MIKE CALLANDER New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

URBAN GUIDE • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • FUEGO REVOLUTIONS 05 - FEAT: DARSHAN JESRANI + ANDEE FROST + JAMIE BENNETT Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • NO CHILL - FEAT: HYDRAULIX + OSKI B2B + BIG BOSS + MORE Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 9:00pm. $13.30. • PANIC CLUB Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • PRIVACY + DAZE + LOU KARSH + SILHOUETTES + BRUNO ENZO The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $15.00. • REVOLVER FRIDAYS & TRUST - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + ACID SAFARI + POST PERCY + VIKTOR + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • STRANGER - FEAT: HENNING BAER Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $27.50. • THE DISCO Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. • UTOPIA - FEAT: JOSH P + DAN FABRIS + DAN BEATON Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

SATURDAY AUGUST 27 • AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. • BUSTIN OUT - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • COLLECTOR + NERVE + NICKY CRANE + REGIONAL CURSE Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. • COSMIC CONNECTION - FEAT: NEVERMIND + RAYMAN + SUPER SMASHED BROS + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $20.00. • CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • DIAL-UP #015 - FEAT: BBD MUSIK +

CLEVERHANDS + LAIKA + SENPOLO The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $10.00. • DJ SUNSHINE + CANE TROTT 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 + NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: LEN LEISE + SALVADOR + A.M. LIMONATA + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • 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 DE FROST DRAG BALL - FEAT: DANNYLICIOUS + HEAVY FEMME + MORE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + MANCHILD + COMMON UNDERGROUND + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • THE MUSIC & CRAVING STUDY - FEAT: KIRALEE MUSGROVE Federation Hall, Southbank. 2:00pm. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • VALVE SOUNDS - FEAT: GXNXVS + SEYWOOD + MIMI + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

SUNDAY AUGUST 28 • ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. • BATTLE 8 HEAT #3 - FEAT: WHOMP! VS UNCOMFORTABLE BEATS Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. • NUDE - FEAT: NORACHI + JA MOIRE + MIRIS + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK 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. • WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

MONDAY AUGUST 29 • CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON + DYLAN MICHAEL + DJ PERNO INFERNO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. • THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

TUESDAY AUGUST 30 • OASIS TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24

• MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: PATTYBOOMBA

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

THURSDAY AUGUST 25

• ARIZONA THURSDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

8:30pm.

• FRANCOIS + THE OUTSIDE INN Habitat Hq, St

Kilda. 8:00pm.

• LEAN DREAMS + BIG BOSS + CHRISTIAN DEAN +

MORE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

• THANK GUARD #3 - FEAT: PROPHECY BOYS

+ NICO GHOST + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• X RATED POETRY + ARCHANGLE + GZUTEK

+ ZEPHYR + WOL KROWN Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

FRIDAY AUGUST 26

• BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE +

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

• FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA

+ K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

• PARTY & BULLSHIT - FEAT: TALI + SONIC VIBES

Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• ROD PAINE & FULLTIME LOVERS Lomond Hotel,

Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

SATURDAY AUGUST 27

• ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Trak Lounge Bar,

Toorak. 7:30pm. $81.39.

• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + MITSU + SOFIE

ROZE + PAIGE PLAY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • CLONE OF FREEWYO Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $30.00. • FREEWYO (ALL AGES) Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 1:00pm. $30.00. • KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

SUNDAY AUGUST 28

• MOMENTUM (FOREIGN BROTHERS) + THE

CORE-TET Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

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Gabriella Cohen has a career aspiration, and it’s not what you might assume for the Brisbane-via-Melbourne singer/songwriter. After honing her songwriting and performing craft for another five years, Cohen thinks she’d like to retire to the forest and compose orchestral soundtracks. “I want to live in a forest and compose music for film,” Cohen says. “In five years after all the touring’s done, I’ll live through the recordings and play three times a year with a symphony orchestra. Really big, but very rare. Ideally I’d just get approached and write the soundtrack. I’m really into orchestral at the moment.” Composing orchestral soundtracks in a forest seems a long way from Cohen’s current status as titular leader of her own band. Cohen started playing music at the age of seven, tinkering around on her father’s equipment and taking a stab at replicating the soul music in her parents’ music collection. At the age of 15 Cohen took up guitar; the opportunity to get on stage to perform was a good enough surrogate for the teenager’s aspiration to join the dramatic arts. “I really wanted to be an actress,” Cohen says. “I think being on stage was a way I could act, or have that sense.” Within a few years, Cohen was fronting The Furrs, a blues rock inspired band she formed in Brisbane. When Cohen decided to move to Melbourne, The Furrs disbanded, leaving Cohen to start her own band in her adopted city. “Starting a band under my own name just happened naturally, just like you’d change jobs,” she says. Cohen agrees that a singer/songwriter’s music can be viewed as a prism into the songwriter’s state of mind and life more broadly. “Everything I write happens to be personal, but it just happens to be under my own name,” Cohen says. “I think people can relate to that. I think that if Bob Dylan is writing a song about his personal life, everyone would want to be in on that.” But while writing a song is personal, Cohen tries not to labour the process. “I guess I don’t really analyse it that much because it comes straight from the heart to the head to the hand to the pen,” she says. The creative process is all about finding the right creative space. Cohen’s place, finds her alone in her room, with just a guitar, a microphone and some recording equipment. “I write pretty organically – I don’t put boxes or timeframes on what I do,” Cohen says. “I write when I write. And I’d like to keep it that way. If I’m somewhere else and a melody comes into my head, I’ll take it home and record it when I get a chance.” The move from Brisbane to Melbourne was geographically and culturally important; artistically, leaving old friends and immersing in a new community doesn’t appear to have been that significant. “I don’t really rely on friends for inspiration. [Songwriting] always comes from within. I think wherever I am, as long as I have a beautiful space I can write,” Cohen says. Cohen’s first album under her own name came with Full Closure, No Details, released earlier this year. The album was recorded over a 12-day period at Cohen’s friend and band mate Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon’s parents’ house. With its rich, atmospheric sound, Full Closure, No Details conveys a wider sonic experience than Cohen’s live sound. “I’d like to be able to recreate the exact [live] sound but I think that takes time and a head full of gear, and I don’t really have that yet,” Cohen says. The album title itself is intriguing, suggesting the completion of a personal journey sans the blow-byblow narration typically of the social media age. But Cohen says the title has only really made sense with distance. “I didn’t really think too much about it,” she says. “I was just sitting there trying to think of a semidecent album title. But I think with all the songs, the meanings of the names, everything makes sense with distance. Now the album makes sense to me.” Courtesy of Remote Control’s involvement in the Beggar’s group of independent record labels, Full Closure, No Details will soon be released on vinyl in the United States on the Captured Tracks label. Cohen’s first sojourn overseas – as either a tourist or performer – will follow later this year, with shows scheduled in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. Before her departure for the US, Cohen will perform a string of shows in Australia. But before then Cohen will continue to immerse herself in the orchestral genre with which she’s currently fascinated. “My parents listen to a lot of classical music, among a lot of other genres. I just love it – what you can’t say, strings can say,” Cohen says. “I’m obsessed with strings and I’m obsessed with opera,” Cohen laughs. GABRIELLA COHEN will play Sunifest at The Tote on Saturday September 3, the Curtin on Saturday September 24, Paradise Music Festival at Lake Mountain Alpine Resort from Friday November 25 until Sunday November 27, and Queenscliff Music Festival, held Friday November 25 till Sunday November 27. Full Closure, No Details is out now via Remote Control. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U

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When it comes to kicking an unwanted tag, why not write a song about it? That’s the approach West Thebarton Brothel Party have taken with their latest release Dolewave, a term they have unwittingly been labelled with.

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Speaking with Craig Dermody is like speaking with your uncle. He’s ochre but articulate, warm but no-bullshit and of the keep-on-keepin’-on variety, and he’s got stories from here to Kakadu. That last part is more than mere aphorism, as Dermody and his band Scott & Charlene’s Wedding (SACW) have just returned from 18 days and 15 shows through regional Australian on the Up the Guts tour. It was a good time all round for the band, and “the trip of a lifetime,” says Dermody. “I’m speechless. We loved it,” he continues. It was also a time for technical advancement, as Dermody is relatively new to the world of bar chords, taking it upon himself to learn them for their forthcoming third album, Mid Thirties Single Scene. “We were doing some of the songwriting workshops and some of the kids could play an F, and I felt a bit out of my depth. I just learned bar chords for this record, and I’ve been playing for ten years.” The Bedroom Suck Records website puts forward that the new album is “an ode to growing up, seeing more of life, and never really knowing where things will end up.” This was likely penned, says Dermody, by drummer and head of above-mentioned label, Joe Alexander, though it may have missed the mark slightly as a summary for the album. “I think he was trying to be nice there when he said ‘growing up’,” says Dermody. “It’s an ode to growing old, and being confronted with those difficulties. A midthirties single scene man, is different to finding yourself in your mid-twenties. You have a different set of obstacles and pressures when you get a bit older.” Many of those mid-twenties concerns were captured in SACW’s first two albums, Para Vista Social Club and Any Port in a Storm. The former details shitty jobs, countless train rides and girls, as well as more sobering moments like the death of his mother, a passing he discovered while on a train, ironically, captured in Epping Line. The latter album documents a move to New York, subsequent homesickness and again, shitty jobs. And girls make another appearance too. But the crappy and sometimes bloody jobs (listen to Gammy Leg and you’ll understand) and heartbreak are all Dermody’s, and that’s the theme that truly binds the albums. They are totally autobiographical. “The music sounds a little bit different because there are always different members, and I’m growing and changing, but lyrically, I feel like the only thing that changes are the incidents and the actual events,” he says. Of those incidents, love plays a part, but this time it’s a celebration more of adoration between friends, rather than the full-blown heartbreak romance songs that have been present in other releases. Currently, Dermody has a seemingly attractive job working as a runner on the set of HBO television series The Leftovers. While making music for SACW is not a full time job in its purest sense, it “Will always BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26

be a full-time pursuit; always bubbling away there somewhere. But that’ll also be in the mix with painting and working as well,” says Dermody. This painting, which appears on album covers and has been exhibited independently, is still alive, but the frequency of creation has waned since he returned from New York. But those feeling dismayed, worry not, because Dermody brings good news. “There’s going to be an exhibition for the release of this record, where I’m drawing a portrait of every person in the band. It’s going to be in a truck, out the front of A Fan’s Notes on Sunday September 18,” he says. Before that, SACW will play a show that’s part introduction to Mid Thirties Single Scene, part send off before their UK tour in October, and part just-for-thehell-of-it at the John Curtin Hotel on Friday August 26. Dermody is pumped, but he seems equally ignited for supports Summer Flake, RVG and Crop Top. “I’ve only seen RVG once and they’re amazing,” he dotes. “I saw them at the front bar at The Tote. I was lucky that I knew someone in the band because I was too nervous to ask any of the others. I was just blown away. They’re incredible.” Following that, SACW will participate in Electric Goner Boogie, The Tote’s two-day hat-tip to Memphis festival, Gonerfest, which has hosted scores of Australian bands like Bitch Prefect, Terrible Truths and The UV Race. Dermody recalls it as the highlight of their US tour back in 2014. “They treated us really nicely, they had good crowds, and we partied really hard. It’s a great festival, and they’re really supportive of all of us. We’re really happy to be playing this show for Zac (owner of Goner Records) at The Tote. They’ve done so much for so many Australian bands,” he says. Add to this busy schedule the process of accumulating material for video clips, “Maybe for Maureen and another song Distracted…there’s chatter around the place that Matt Neumann from ScotDrakula will help with that,” and you’ve got Dermody in a nutshell. But in spite of running around like the proverbial chook, you get the sense that Dermody, like your uncle, always makes time for a sincere and insightful chinwag, a quality captured by the stories in his songs. Charlene’s Scott & Wedding will play The Curtin on Friday August 26 and Electric Goner Boogie on Saturday September 10.

“We went through a weird stage where everyone was calling us dolewave, and every second review said, ‘It’s this new dolewave band from Adelaide’,” lead singer and guitarist Ray Dalfsen says. “We thought it was pretty funny how people throw words around that they think are cool just to add a bit of credibility to things. You know when things get said about you and you find it a bit weird?” The single itself tackles the notion of romanticising living on the dole. “I’ve lived on the dole before, and it’s not glamorous, but some people on the outside tend to think that it’s really romantic, carefree and that all artists on the dole do is party all the time, drink all the time and do whatever they want without consequence. This song comes from being frustrated by that lifestyle, and from being uncomfortable with a label that attempts to lump the diversity of all the bands living like that into one scene,” Dalfsen says. As a result, the slacker anthem was a hit, and one that’s thrown them into the mix with other talented Adelaide exports, including Bad//Dreems. But despite the sudden claim to fame and one’s to watch lists the band have featured in, they remain level-headed. “We don’t have too many tickets on ourselves and we like to have a good time,”

Dalfsen says. “I’ve played in a band for close to ten years now and it’s really cool to see we’re taking off now.” Part of the band’s appeal are the heavy riffs and garage rock sound, made possible thanks to the four guitarists in the band. It’s a challenging element to manage, but one that they’re well on the way to mastering. “Short answer is very difficult,” Ray explains of how four guitarists work on stage. “Since

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The sun’s appearing after a cold Melbourne winter and Peter Bibby is returning to his former home of Melbourne for a few shows to round out the year. He’s grown his hair out long and has been hard at work in his hometown of Perth recording the follow up to 2014’s Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician. Bibby kicks off what is sure to be a fruitful spring at The Tote for Sunifest next month, before hitting the road for a mammoth Australian tour alongside Melody Pool. Remaining casual and straightforward as always, Bibby promises to unveil some new material amongst old favourites that tell of beaten up towns, cars and people. The upcoming Sunifest brings to The Tote a lineup that boast the likes of local legends The Peep Tempel and New Zealand’s Fazerdaze alongside the enchanting Gabriella Cohen and Jaala. Promising to be a day of great music and good vibes, Bibby expresses his excitement to be a B E AT.C O M . A U

part of the festivities. “Sunifest is going to be really great, it’s such a good lineup and The Tote is such a good venue. It’s one of my old haunts from when I was living in Melbourne”, he says. “There’s a few things in Perth that are similar to Sunifest but we don’t really have the venues to put on those sorts of things. If we do they’re DIY semiillegal affairs in people’s backyards. The Tote has the upstairs bandroom, the main stage and the front bar so you can have all this different stuff going at once.” Retiring his old band The Bottles of Confidence, Bibby will be debuting his brand new band, carrying on the tradition

we’ve been around for a while now it’s gotten easier. Playing live depends how big the stage is. We played on a stage that was so small, maybe three by three metres, and we had to make sure no one got hit by a guitar. But it’s always good fun on the small stages because it’s really a battle of don’t hit the other players with your head stock.” That’s not to say a collision hasn’t happened before, with Dalfsen confessing there has been a bloody eye as a result of a lapse in spacial awareness. “I think it was actually Josh who got hit by the other Josh, so they took each other out,” he laughs. “It ended up cutting the top of his eye and he had a white shirt so blood was going everywhere.” As for the biggest question, how would the band actually describe themselves? “The Pretty Littles already took it, but I’ll do an amendment on it,” Ray says after much thought. “Garage rock for the anxious at the heart.” WEST THEBARTON BROTHEL PARTY will play Old Bar on Friday September 30 and Chopped 2016 at Newstead Racecourse from Friday September 30 to Sunday October 2.

of a rather amusing name. “I’m bringing my new band The Dog Act over with me for Sunifest”, says Bibby. “We’re a pretty rock ‘n’ roll band and fairly loud compared to The Bottles of Confidence.” While Bibby is looking forward to road testing The Dog Act he’ll be stripping things back for the national tour with Melody Pool. “It’ll just be an acoustic guitar and myself,” he says. “Melody got in touch and asked if I was interested in doing it. I hadn’t really heard much of her stuff but she’s a really great singer and songwriter. There are lots of towns on the tour that I’ve never been to so I was pretty keen to do it. We’ve got an adventure lined up.” With his debut album Bibby established himself as one of the most honest and uninhibited musicians to emerge in the country, painting vivid portraits of alcohol fuelled experiences, unemployment and friendship. “I enjoy being brutally honest and bearing my soul to people to see their reactions. When I first started doing it I was a bit nervous about it all and worried about what people would think but now I don’t really care. I’m comfortable in my skin and in my mind. If people don’t like it they can not listen”, says Bibby. He has a clear love of touring and being out on the road, despite the grim reality of being a working musician. “Touring’s expensive and if the shows don’t go well then you end up losing money”, Bibby says. “It’s both the hardest and the easiest job in the world. I was never in it for the money, if I was I would’ve stopped doing it years ago.” Through the highs and lows Bibby remains ever jovial and possesses the kind of sincerity that’s hard to go unnoticed. While Melbourne is poorer without his frequent gigging, Bibby’s reappearance in the next few months is guaranteed to please his loyal following who are no doubt curious to see where he’s headed next. “After the tour with Melody I’ll be coming back to Perth and focusing on getting this second album finished and released. I’m hoping it’s not too far away.” PETER BIBBY will play Sunifest at The Tote on Saturday September 3 and Northcote Social Club on Thursday October 6.

Bobby Alu & THE PALM ROYALE W E L C O M E

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For anyone who lives in Australia, it’s not often our great country is referred to as an island. It’s usually seen as one big great space, a place where it’s more than possible to get wrapped up in the beautiful sights of the barren landscape rather than the flavoursome beach culture that helps inspire musicians like the soulful Bobby Alu.

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Jimmy Barnes is a man that needs no introduction, spending the better part of his life as one of Australia’s most celebrated, prolific and respected entertainers. A husband, father and grandfather. A man that, after decades of tireless work, has nothing left to prove – at least, that’s what one would be lead to believe. In actuality, Barnes is busier now than he has ever been. “Within the past 12 months I’ve made two major records – Soul Searchin’ and the Chisel record [2015’s The Perfect Crime] – I did a Chisel tour and two solo tours, I wrote a memoir and I’ve written ten kids’ books that are coming out next year, as well as an album of songs to go along with them all with The Wiggles,” he says. All this from a man who celebrated his 60th birthday back in April. “I’m hyperactive,” Barnes says. “I just like to keep busy – I’m always working.” Soul Searchin’ is the latest instalment in Barnes’ cover-album collection of tracks from a bygone era, as reinterpreted by his unmistakable paint-stripping voice. It began with 1991’s Soul Deep, which took in classic Motown hits and went a whopping nine times platinum. Its sequel, Soul Deeper, arrived in 2000; while a spiritual successor, The Rhythm and the Blues, was recorded in 2009. Rather than take in songs that are universally beloved this time around, Barnes knew that he wanted to make Soul Searchin’ a considerably different experience – both sonically and personally. “I spent a lot of time with some friends of mine seeking out these diamonds in the rough,” he says. “I wanted to find these great songs that maybe people hadn’t necessarily heard. For one reason or another, these are the songs that missed the boat – but they should have been hits. The year I had making this album and writing the book at the same time really was a year of soul searching. I was unravelling my life, and at the same time I was stripping back these songs and trying to find myself within them. I was trying to place myself within a moment in order to be able to sing these songs well. The whole thing feels like an extension of me.” The album was recorded in Nashville, where Barnes went on a journey to seek out the more obscure numbers that make up the tracklisting. This includes songs such as Solomon Burke’s Cry to Me, Don Covay’s Mercy, Mercy and Etta James’ I Worship the Ground You Walk On, which features a guest appearance from Booker T and the M.G.’s/ Blues Brothers guitarist Steve Cropper. “We were in rehearsals just the other day, trying out these songs for the Soul Searchin’ tour. We had a full horn section,

four singers, two guitarists, two keyboard players. Naturally, the songs are sounding really good. About halfway through, I said that we should try out a couple of the songs acoustically – we do a lot of radio stuff, so it’s good to have in the back pocket. It struck me right away that these songs work just as well with one acoustic guitar as they do with a full band. That’s what it comes down to, at the end of the day. If it’s a good song, it’s a good song.” Upon completion of a national theatre tour in support of Soul Searchin’, which will see Barnes and his band doing a full soul revue, focus will then shift to the release of Working Class Boy, Barnes’ long-awaited book to be released through Harper Collins. As anyone who has been around Barnes for longer than a minute can testify, the singer has managed to live a thousand lifetimes rolled into one. For the man lovingly known as Barnesy, however, he felt as though his wild years had already been told. When it came to writing Working Class Boy, he had a different story in mind. “There’s a lot of dark things people don’t know about me,” he says. “The publisher pitched the idea of telling all of these old road stories from being in a rock band, but that’s not the kind of book that I wanted to write. I wanted to tell the story of my life – how I became the person that I am today, through the good times and the bad. The memoir is in two parts, and the first part is coming out in September. It deals with my life from when I was born – there is still very early parts of my life that I can remember, like the bed that I was born in. We left that house when I was six months old, so it’s amazing how vivid some of these memories are. It’s my life from leaving Scotland, moving to Australia and then leaving the Adelaide hills in the back of a truck on my first tour with Chisel at the age of 17. I remember looking into the rearview mirror, and thinking to myself that I didn’t ever want to go back.” JIMMY BARNES will play Palais Theatre on Thursday August 25 and will appear at The Workers Club for an in conversation on Tuesday September 27. Soul Searchin’ is out now via Liberation.

A Byron Bay local, Alu has taken Australia and the world by storm with his brand of island-inspired pop, using his SamoanAustralian descent to mix national heritage with culture to create vivid imagery of paradisiacal wonder. “That mix is really important and really strong in my music,” Alu says. “I don’t really try to incorporate the island flavour, it just comes naturally and I can’t get away from it. It’s stuck with me since I started playing music. Living in Byron is a great place to create. There’s awesome musicians around and it’s really beautiful trying to mix this Polynesian and Australian flavour in what I think is one of the greatest places on earth.” While finding time to play drums for fellow Australian Xavier Rudd, Alu recently returned from a world tour where he praised the European crowds for their positive energy and fun demeanour. “There’s something about the people who come to the shows over there,” he says. “They were just crazy. I don’t know whether it’s just because they like Australians or because the music’s really positive, but I was really surprised at the response. Even these days I’m grateful to play in countries like Germany or the Netherlands, they’re just ballistic.” Bobby’s latest effort Bay Sessions, released last year, is an ode to modem soul and R&B, encompassing smooth melodies that capture that easy listening vibe. Coupled with instruments that help to achieve a

unique and authentic island flavour. Alu attributes his success to some of the great artists that came before him, and even more recently, some of the younger generation that he claims have been helping to inspire a soul revival. “I really love that old soul scene,” he says. “Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Al Green – that whole era had the best tunes. I really resonate with that rhythm and melody, and it still has a place today. There’s lots of young cats like Leon Bridges and Michael Kiwanuka that have that vintage old school sound. It makes me want to step my game up a little.” That soul revival seems to have taken shape at one of the best possible times, and is

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30/70 are the chief exemplar of a creative powerhouse. The self described hip hop family have been flawlessly exhibiting what it means to love and be dedicated to one’s work for a few years now. The nine-piece have been spreading the name of their community across the country, bringing to the stage some of the most nuanced, bold and daring jazz in the city. In December 2015, the collective released their second LP Cold Radish Coma, a DIY 15-track collection of sounds and styles that the group love the most, and that come the most naturally to them. Singer Allysha Joy describes the way 30/70 operate. “We mostly write as a five-piece or come in with ideas that we’ve been working on individually and because we spend a lot of time together checking out music, we’re mostly on the same page,” Joy explains. “The music is an expression for all of us and the way we write and jam and sit on grooves for long periods of time allows people to be free and allows for a lot of W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U

improvisation. We’re really blessed that everyone in 30/70 loves each other, we each have a unique sound and bring different elements and colours to the music.” It is clear to see the varied skills, talent and passion that each member possesses when experiencing 30/70 live. Many members of the group are professionally trained jazz musicians, and others are self

challenging the creative minds within and outside the genre to free themselves of their constraints and alter the writing process, something Alu claims is extremely important for any artist. “It’s definitely been a busy two years,” he says. “Sometimes it’s tough to find that creative spark when you’re on the road all the time, but I believe going into this new record with a fresh mind is the best thing for everyone. The response is going to be very interesting.” Alu claims the album will be done by November, right in time for the annual Queenscliff Music Festival where the talented multi-instrumentalist will be playing alongside the likes of the legendary Paul Kelly and the recently reformed Killing Heidi. He claims that while playing intimate shows is an experience which really cannot be matched, festivals have a special place in his heart. “I played there a couple of years ago and had the best time,” he says. “I can’t wait to get back there. Festivals are really important to me because when I was younger and went to them, I loved the positive vibe and was always amazed at how many strangers turned into friends. Bring on the festival circuit.” BOBBY ALU & THE PALM ROYALE will play Queenscliff Music Festival, running from Friday November 25 until Sunday November 27.

taught. Having side projects, such as beat tape boom bap A Brother Scratch, the low fi funk work of guitarist and synth player Thomas Mansfield’s Thhomas, and the madlib jazz sounds of Leroy James and the Jazz Renegade are a way for the members to showcase other sides of their creative interests. “They’re a way for us all to get back to what we individually want to say and where we can explore our identity and sound without any compromise. For me (in Joy’s own self-titled project) it’s so empowering to play solo and not have to count on anyone else for my music,” she says. 30/70 were recently presented on behalf of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and Stonnington Jazz Festival, where the band played alongside many acclaimed and groundbreaking jazz musicians. The group are undoubtedly esteemed to be pioneers of the brave new contemporary jazz scene. “I think what we’re doing and what is happening with hip hop and nu soul at the moment is definitely jazz, however I know a lot of people would disagree with that because of the textures and sounds we’re using but harmonically and rhythmically, there are so many cross overs between jazz and this kind of hip hop,” Joy says. With appearances at Strawberry Fields and NYE On The Hill on the horizon, Joy compares the expectations of festivals as opposed to regular shows. “If you’re playing a gig the audience is there to see you, so a lot of the time they have an expectation of the music. At a festival so often the audience is there for the vibe and open to anything happening and it’s great to push that and give more than the music,” she says. Considering we’re fast approaching the home run of the year, we asked if anything new was cooking for 30/70 in terms of releases. “We’re about to head back into the studio to record some more music for 30/70. We’re always trying new things and exploring different projects. In fact I think a new project of Ziggy’s (30/70’s drummer, Zeke Ruckman) just started last week.” 30/70 will play Strawberry Fields from Thursday November 17 until Sunday November 20 and NYE On The Hill from Friday December 30 until Sunday January 1. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 27

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With the excitement of Live N Local in the air, Beat partnered with the festival to bring together three exciting Melbourne acts for a free party and gig, The Warehouse. Food trucks were parked out front and the bar was flowing, making for a mini-festival atmosphere, perfect for a fun and chilled Saturday night. Rock n soul quintet The Sugarcanes were up first, filling Globe Warehouse with an unparalleled crooning soul. Frontwoman Lucy Wilson had just the night before joined Wil Wagner for his solo show at the Corner Hotel, where Wagner had revealed she was recovering from pneumonia. Though she coughed through the performance, from the sound of her voice, you would never have known she was anything less than in perfect health. Though up first, the band was the highlight of the night. Wilson’s stunningly powerful voice

soared, lifting over the warehouse and filling all the nearby warehouses while she was at it. Oh Darling demonstrated that power and soul perfectly, with her breathtaking stage presence nothing but captivating. Loose Tooth followed on with their grungy, garage pop, and took over the stage with their sweet, spot on harmonies, fun anecdotes, and personality so large that the warehouse could only just hold it. Lead singer and drummer, Etta Curry, may have been seated at the back of the stage with her drum kit, but she never felt like she wasn’t part of the main act, with Nellie Jackson on guitar, and Luc Dawson on bass. The band played together cohesively, all smoothly operating cogs in a splendid sounding machine. As the rain became heavy and poured down over the party, all in attendance huddled under the cover in front of the stage for final act, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

TWO STEPS ON THE WATER

The most wonderful thing about this album launch, is that it’s not really an album launch as such, it’s a celebration of Two Steps On The Water’s constant output of work, and a looking forward to the future. The only track from the album that the trio play is Ships In The Night. The overwhelmingly bittersweet, lustrous sounds of Sienna Thornton’s violin as June Jones admits “I don’t wanna be in love anymore,” leaving punters with lumps in their throat. Rather than the typical set up of drummer Jonathan Nash being relegated to the back, the three musicians performed in a line, a true reflection of the band’s integrity and effect – all three members have an equally important role in contributing to the emotional and sonic palette of their songwriting and performance. June Jones is enormously warm, charismatic and witty, but paramountly, she is heartrending. The emotional spectrum in her voice is unpredictable, wild and visceral. It feels like every word, whether it was shrieked or lowly hummed, dripped with sincerity. Two Steps On The Water end on a track that has Jones “feeling less like Frankenstein’s monster, and more like a bolt of lightning.” The song ends in a howling collapse of musical structure. Jones abandons her guitar, tears the microphone from its stand and screams her last few words over Nash’s final symbol crashes, and the sounds of Thornton’s frenzied, jarring violin arriving to a slow crumble. It’s an unforgettable

THE TOTE

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There’s no doubt that it has been a pretty gloomy winter here in Melbourne. That’s why a really beautiful album released in the midst of the season feels like a godsend, Two Steps On The Water’s God Forbid Anyone Look Me In The Eye seeming to come at the perfect time. RVG kick the night off. The four-piece are reminiscent of Australian new wave bands such as The Sports. Frontwoman Romy Vager – hence the band’s name- holds the full attention of an already packed room full of early comers, with her resounding, powerful voice, storytelling lyrics and playful humour, it’s hard to turn away. Camp Cope and TSOTW have proved to be a dream team across the year. They’ve now both supported each other’s respective album launches, and both filled special guest slots at Screaming Females’ show two weeks ago. The trio deliver a set full of bravery, when Georgia Maq becomes breathless from singing, it feels a true testament to her heart and unrelenting energy.

GROUPLOVE

Combining soft punk with classic indie rock, the five-piece band brought a solid, energetic beat to the stage. The balance between the three guitarists and vocalists, Tom Russo, Fran Keaney and Joe White was flawless and mesmerising. The audience lapped up the music, complete with crowd surfing and dancing to rival the best. New material was excellent and well received, and French Press was a fitting last song of the night. BY CLAIRE VARLEY LOVED: The atmosphere of music lovers coming together. HATED: The rain. I was not prepared. DRANK: A varied mix of whatever my boyfriend handed me.

When an artist comes out for a second encore, the crowd is cheering, and no one wants the night to end, it’s probably safe to guess it’s been an amazing show. Playing his biggest solo show ever – Wil Wagner admitted that the night before in Sydney had claimed the title for a short reign, the Corner Hotel filled with 400 more punters – he was feeling pretty happy. “I hope you don’t get bored by sentimental bullshit, ‘cause I got a lot of it in me tonight,” he said. The anecdotes flowed from his mouth like the whiskey down his throat, and the room soaked in his every word, relishing the intimate moment with the beloved Melbourne musician. His sister ran on stage for a hug after he completed the song he wrote for her, My Little Sinking Ship, in just one of the highly emotional moments of the show. The set mixed Wagner’s tracks Malt Memories and I Envy Birds with much loved Smith Street Band tracks Surrender, Calgary Girls, and Ducks Fly Together. The set flowed effortlessly, with the crowd singing almost every word uttered by Wagner with the enthusiasm of a last night on earth. Lucy Wilson joined him onstage for the end of the set. The talented musician was recovering from pneumonia, and coughing

to the side of her mic, but her gorgeous voice was a perfect contrast to the meaty vocals of Wagner. They sang I Scare Myself Sometimes followed by The Belly of the Bedroom, in what made for one of the most touching moments of an already emotional evening. As fans fought back tears during Laika, Wagner burst into Young Drunk. All his friends and family from side of stage joined him for the classic, if there’s one thing Wagner seems to love to do, its share his success with the people he loves. The aforementioned second encore was a complete surprise, with some darting back from making their way to the door. Get High, See Mice was sung like an anthem, every voice in the building declaring that they’re not that young or dumb anymore. During the set, Wagner announced he’ll be starting pre-production on the next record. “I’ve never been so excited about something we’ve recorded,” he said, running his fingers through his long, sweaty mess of hair. Though I attended the show alone, in a room full of strangers I felt like I was surrounded by friends. Wagner being the best of them all. BY CLAIRE VARLEY LOVED: Everything. That’s not a copout answer. It was so great. I loved it all. HATED: That there were only two encores, rather than the desired 27+. DRANK: Gin and tonic.

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Photo by Ian laidlaw way to finish the night, leaving the audience needing no encore. BY JESS ZANONI LOVED: Every minute of every band. HATED: Security not letting ticket holders into the venue at the start for no apparent reason. DRANK: Water.

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Lisa Mitchell brought a large portion of the sold out crowd early on a Thursday. Her performance was ridiculously professional and instantly mesmerising. The infectious sounding Grouplove bounded onstage to a thoroughly rapturous reception from the adoring crowd. They broke into Borderlines and Aliens from their 2013 album Spreading Rumours. From the get-go it was painfully obvious that this show would be just like every single Grouplove show you could ever have the pleasure of seeing: incredibly enthusiastic, energetic and just about as much fun as you can possibly have in 90 minutes. Naked Kids had been absent from their setlists for quite some time, however requesting it on several of the band’s Twitter and Instagram accounts paid dividends. For a non-single, it gets a massive reaction every time and is clearly a cult favourite. With new album Big Mess on its way, Grouplove shows at the moment are to

increase hype before the record drops and play a song or two from the forthcoming release. Melbourne was treated to only the second live performance of Do You Love Someone. It had only been released a few days prior, however there was a sense of people nodding along approvingly as they listened for the first time. Let Me In, a song released exclusively for the soundtrack of The Fault In Our Stars a couple of years back is a great tune live and sounded as full and lush as always. A cover of the Beastie Boys Sabotage was a definite highlight. It did separate the younger fans to the older, the over 25’s revelled in every second of the ‘90s hit. They finished the regular set with the lead single from Big Mess, Welcome

to Your Life. It was abundantly clear that every single person in attendance had heard this new song before. And it didn’t disappoint. Their encore featured Itchin’ on a Photograph, Ways To Go and ended with a massive rendition of Colours. Grouplove absolutely blew the crowd away and while satisfying, everyone who was lucky enough to attend was left wanting more. BY ALEXANDER CROWDEN LOVED: Everything. HATED: 18 year olds trying to start a fight, given the name of the band. DRANK: All the alcohol. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U

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MIKE NOGA

KING (Cooking Vinyl Australia) Mike Noga’s third solo album, King is an ambitious effort that boasts Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey as producer and actor Noah Taylor as its narrator. That’s correct, the album has a narrator. It’s a concept album based on the 1830s play Woyzeck by German dramatist Georg Buchner, and Noga has spliced the songs between segments of Taylor’s narration, giving the record a stopstart nature. This gives you a sense of anticipation when each song begins and allows you to imbibe the album’s essence during the eerie moments of Taylor’s spoken word. The first song we hear is Nobody Leads Me To Flames, a pacey track taken straight from ‘70’s psychobilly music, the vocals are mean and the guitars are gritty, before things take a turn on Don’t Fall To The Ground. This song and the following, All My Friends Are Alcoholics show us Noga in singer/songwriter mode, softly crooning over lush chords with delicate ease. The Deceiver is delightful,

coming on strong as the album’s high-octane pop song full of synths, jazzy guitars and fully realised melodies. I Wanna Live In America returns to the psychobilly sound heard earlier on the album, though this time the pay off takes longer, Noga drawing you in, sounding both jovial and hauntingly deranged. King is an engrossing album with many ideas coming together at once. The story that is trying to be told here won’t be what sells this album, and that’s ok, because Noga’s songs stand strong enough on their own. If this was an album with no concept, it’d lose none of its quality, but it says much about Noga’s scope of vision that it is. His ideas, brought to life by Paul Dempsey’s crisp production, have given birth to an album that is a far more than the sum of its parts. BY ALEX PINK

SINGLE REVIEWS WITH LACHlan

Subscribe to RRR. “Subscribing to RRR is cool.” – Lachlan Kanoniuk, 2016

FRANK OCEAN Nikes (Boys Don’t Cry) The thing with this is, Frank just makes it all seem so effortless. There’s a groggy stream of consciousness, pitched-up, creating a disjointed calm, a sense of honesty. Clearing into a raw, slightly autotune-inflected vocal, Nikes possesses layers, cascading and serene. It’s a work of beauty, so familiar yet alien, a masterstroke beginning to a masterstroke album. Patience is a virtue. METALLICA Hardwired (EMI) At the end of 2014, Metallica took to The Late Late Show to perform Hit The Lights, the opening track from their 1983 debut Kill ‘Em All. It’s still a fucking sick album. But the performance felt like it was missing that pure thrash energy. Hetfield’s voice falters, old mate Lars struggles to keep up. It seemed like wanting Metallica to return to their thrash roots would be ill-advised. But here we are with Hardwired. Against

the odds, we have a solid example of thrash from Metallica in 2016. Hardwired…To Self-Destruct could well be a surprise not-terrible Metallica album. Fingers crossed.

saving grace is the Seven Wondersstyle melodic climb peppered in the background. Hopefully it’s a matter of getting it out of the system in the lead-up to the album.

PIXIES Talent (PIAS) Pixies’ trademark loud-quiet dynamic has evolved into something resembling a shitslightly less shit dynamic. There’s a strive for detached cool, but nothing ever sounds dangerous here. It just sounds bad, putting Frank in the fore. Not as blaringly shithouse as other recent Pixies tracks but.

THE PEEP TEMPEL Rayguns (Wing Sing) On their previous album, The Peep Tempel provided some tidy glimpses into dark Australiana, sparing in fleshed-out narrative. On record, it wasn’t too revelatory. But as shown in one of the biggest Meredith moments in recent years, Carol was built for large-scale communal shout-alongs. Rayguns, the first single from The Peep Tempel’s upcoming record, retains that potent characteristic, sifting in a lyric sheet that strikes a balance between storyteller and fist-pump syllables (particularly on the “The regime is coming / And they’re all on ice” chorus). There’s punk tremolo in the vocal, searing guitar lines throughout. There’s good growth here.

CLIENT LIAISON Wild Life (Dot Dash/Remote Control) It’s a slight case of diminishing returns at this stage for Client Liaison’s singles. By no means a devastating affliction, but it’s resulted in Wild Life being perhaps the weakest Client Liaison song yet. The hook is weak, everything else feels like familiar territory. Only

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1. Freetown Sound BLOOD ORANGE 2. Birth ORB 3. Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not DINOSAUR JR 4. Love and Hate MICHAEL KIWANUKA 5. The Great Mix Tape SAMPA THE GREAT 6. Wildflower THE AVALANCHES 7. 02 TAIPAN TIGER GIRLS 8. Boronia HOCKEY DAD 9. Miss Destiny MISS DESTINY 10. A Moon Shaped Pool RADIOHEAD

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1. January 26 ft Dan Sultan A.B. Original 2. Tidal Wave Alexander Biggs 3. Walrus D.D Dumbo 4. Give Me A Reason Jagwar Ma 5. Coming Of Age Julia Jacklin 6. Never Seen This Before The Delta Riggs 7. 10 d E A T h b R E a s T Bon Iver 8. Fake I.D. Joyce Manor 9. Hidden Driver LVL UP 10. Sex Novaa

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1. 2 Taipan Tiger Girls 2. Evolution Tamam Shud 3. Mixtape Brutalist 4. Lady In Gold Blues Pills 5. Garlic The Shabbab 6. Mother Of Millions EP Rebel Yell 7. Reptiles Return The Re-stoned 8. Plague Lies 9. Back In Blue Various Artists 10. Fihi ma Fihi Bashka

BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT KINGS 1. King For A Day GREEN DAY 2. King Of Pain THE POLICE 3. The King Of Wishful Thinking GO WEST 4. I Just Can’t Wait To Be King THE LION KING 5. Sun King THE BEATLES 6. King Nothing METALLICA 7. King Of The Mountain MIDNIGHT OIL 8. King WEEZER 9. Kings and Queens 30 SECONDS TO MARS 10. Royals LORDE

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WIDE ASLEEP (Preservation)

The third studio release from southern California rockers Young The Giant takes the band’s sound in an unexpected new direction. In some ways, it’s as though they’ve lost the playfulness, optimism and naivety that was so striking in their first release, Young The Giant, and gained a more cynical, serious edge. Amerika opens the album and will grab your attention with its strange mix of contemporary hip hop and rock influences. This theme continues with Something To Believe In, one of the biggest tracks on the album with belting, defiant vocals. But this soon drops off as many of the tracks like Elsewhere and Silvertongue blend into eachother with a very similar, generic, rock feel. There is nothing to define any of these songs, leaving them feeling oddly formulaic. Lead singer Sameer Gadhia’s usually distinctive vocals feel subdued, and limited by the compositions ± there’s no space for him to really show off his vocal chops. The album is strongest in tracks like Titus Was Born and Art Exhibit, where the band offers us some powerfully employed storytelling techniques like soundscapes and descriptive lyrics to create vivid imagery. Overall this release is lacking the flair and creativity of past releases, feeling mature but restrained. For fans of their work, this is a disappointment.

It’s not just the title ± Sophie Hutchings’ Wide Asleep is, from beginning to end, a paradox. It’s somehow soft yet significant; gentle yet ginormous; an atom and the Earth. There is weight to the piece, tremendous weight, despite the fact that it requires surprisingly little of its audience. This is an album that is generous with its beauty, a record eager to impart its secrets to anyone willing to listen. The key is Hutchings’ masterful tonal control. Though the album always teeters on the verge of what in the hands of others might become melodrama, Hutchings keeps a track like Dream Gate from falling over itself, and the layers of instrumentation push the piece higher, rather than dragging it down. Every time the album seems ready to hyperventilate, Hutchings draws a deep lungful of air, and the calm peppered throughout is stark and powerful. Hutchings’ technical skill is self-evident, but the surprise is more that she manages to craft tunes that feel neither overtly show-offy nor dry and considered. Hutchings isn’t just a pianist: she is a profoundly talented composer, with the spiralling Memory II perhaps the finest display of her skills. More than anything, Wide Asleep is a rebuke to stillness. Ever expanding, it’s a Fibonacci sequence turned into sound, an escalating pattern with neither end nor limit. A supreme achievement.

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AMNEST Y (I) (Fiction / Caroline Australia)

After Alice Glass’ dramatic parting with Ethan Kath of Crystal Castles in 2014, it seemed the dream was over. But Kath is back with new vocalist Edith Frances, in a discomfiting simulacrum of what once was. Crystal Castle’s schismatic brand of assaulting electro bares its teeth in bangers like Fleece and Enth, tracks that hint there may still be a pulse in this project. But by the time we’ve reached track three, Char, a sense of déjà vu has settled in. Amnesty (I) doesn’t dive into new realms as each of its predecessors did, instead content to recline in recognisable forms. Lead single Chloroform, indicative of their new direction, is where it all unravels, as Frances apes the opiate-laden tones of Glass in III’s Affection to half the effect. Here Kath’s ugly, invasive synth stings feel laboured; a derisive sneer instead of a keyboard to the temple. Ornament and Kept act as microcosm for the record: Frances’ vocal samples fade along without any memorable impact. Where new beginnings were promised, a danceworthy yet underwhelming comeback tour is delivered. It’s everything you loved about Crystal Castles, as performed by a cover band who fail to see the irony in the shining veneer of their moniker being replaced with cheap glass. BY david MoLLoY

BY JosEph Earp

THE VEILS

GLASS ANIMALS

TOTAL DEPRAVIT Y (Footstomp Music)

BALL PArk MUSIc

HOW TO BE A HUMAN BEING (Wolf Tone/Caroline International)

How To Be A Human Being takes the Glass Animals sound in a slightly new direction while still keeping the core of what made their debut album Zaba an instant hit. Opening track Life Itself immediately signals the up tempo change in direction. Think Glass Animals with a Miike Snow vibe. The whole album keeps up this energetic style while remaining true to that distinctly Glass Animals sound. How To Be A Human Being is essentially Zaba on cocaine. Same band but a lot louder and more energetic. Lyrically this album is one of the most interesting listens in a while. Lead vocalist Dave Bayley took an odd approach to his writing method, and even a cursory listen to the lyrics leads you down some dark and wonderful paths. Having spent a lot of time on the road the last few years, Bayley took clandestine recordings on his phone of things people would say to him when drunk/high/angry/just being strange, and wrote his lyrics based on these interactions. This is never more obvious than when listening to an interlude entirely about sandwiches. What Glass Animals have done with How To Be A Human Being is take the slow, sexy, swing your hips, seductive sound from Zaba, and jazz it up. If you’re wanting more of the same you won’t find it here, but what you will find is an album that will only serve to propel Glass Animals further towards stardom. After sensing that their crowds reacted best to the Zaba songs with drums, bass, and tempo, the boys went and filled this album with just that and they did so excellently. An album that will get you up and dancing, lift your mood, and have you wanting a sandwich all at the same time, How To Be A Human Being is downright fantastic.

The Veils’ fifth record quivers and shouts. It gets under your skin like a bad dream, feeding you a chain of maudlin metaphors and haphazardly drawnout instrumentals. A stream of dark imagery underpins Total Depravity, as lead singer Finn Andrews’ voice careens between a defiant snarl and a meek murmur, giving the album an eerie, ‘60s horror film feel. Meshed wildly with aloof synth arrangements and a crying guitar, The Veils have crafted a sound more conceptual, and less candid, than their previous work. Very much the twisted love child of David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails, Total Depravity deals in every character from your childhood nightmares. First single Axolotl marches through a bare, electronic marshland of references to amphibians and religion mixing up two odd opposites to singularly thrilling effect, while King Of Chrome begins like a stock ‘80s disco track and quickly descends into what can only be described as a morbid, musical frenzy. Final track Total Depravity is a slow tantrum that grips you, gives you one last shake and ends in violent combustion. It’s as if Andrews is finally sick of everything after an album’s worth of intense reflection. Total Depravity is a deliberately provocative record, unnerving and black in its lyrical brilliance. BY EviE KEnnEdY

EVERY NIGHT THE SAME DREAM (Stop Start/Inertia)

Ball Park Music pulled out the classic of all classics with Bohemian Rhapsody at SITG 2014, and now with their fourth studio album Every Night The Same Dream, they have their own in the seven and a half minute epic Pariah. Starting out with a solo piano ballad, reminiscent of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, the track builds into what is one of the many highlights on their most comprehensive album yet. Ever Since I Turned The Lights On has a rocking vibe that’ll wake listeners from the slump of a long hard working day. It has a raw energy and groove that is reminiscent of She Only Loves Me When I’m There off their previous record Puddinghead. From the opening track Feelings to the closer Suit Yourself, throughout a few listens it is easy to picture a packed out mosh pit at Falls or Beyond The Valley grooving away with beach balls being thrown around and lyrics sung at full volume. This record creates a euphoric feeling of hot summer nights with a cold beverage in hand with a few friends. In a recent interview, Sam Cromack lead singer for the band said “I can still hear the happiness of playing together in that room. We did what put a smile on our face and put that on the record.” Throughout Every Night The Same Dream, you’re able to hear that, a cohesive set of ten songs that’ll no doubt be the soundtrack to many people’s summer playlist. A stand out record for 2016. Thank you Ball Park Music for bringing us the party vibes once again. BY TEX MiLLEr

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Q&A

GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 24 AUG ADAM RUDEGEAIR TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

ARTURO O© FARRILL Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $35.00.

GOLDEN GIRLS

T H E O LD B A R Hownowmer are at the tailend of their EP launch residency at The Old Bar, but you’ve still got time to catch them on Wednesday August 24. Their debut project, The Moral Highground EP, will be available at the shows on a USB stick as well as custom nang. Supports for the night are Life Strike and Me-Graines. Entry is $8, music starts at 8pm.

Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

GOLDEN GIRLS will play Workers Club on Wednesday August 24 and 31.

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.

8:00pm. $30.00.

ROB BURKE SEXTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne

Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.

SLOW JAXX & THE KOZMIK BROTHERS + CENTRE & THE SOUTH House Of Crabs, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

WEDNESDAY JAZZ NIGHT - FEAT: THE ROOKIES The Rooks APES + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH + QUIVERS Gasometer Hotel,

Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS + STEVE MILLER BAND

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

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $40.00.

RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

RENEE GEYER + ABBEY STONE Milano's Tavern, Brighton.

COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE + HEXTAPE + MILITARY POSITION + BLEACH BOYS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. DEWARS - LOCK INN - FEAT: THE NEW SAVAGES Grace Darling

RAT TA’MANGO + THE HIDDEN VENTURE + THE BAKERS DIGEST

JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. MAXWELL Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $96.44. OUR LADY OF MERCY COLLEGE CELEBRATION CONCERT Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $20.00.

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

FEAR OF FLYING + SWAYZE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. JIMMY BARNES Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $100.88. KATHERINE HYMER + QD + DEAD END Grace Darling Hotel,

Abbottsford. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

COLD HANDS WARM HEART + HTML FLOWERS + JAMES TOM

OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm. OXJAM (PAY TO PLAY FUNDRAISER) Mr Boogie Man Bar,

BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.

So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Golden Girls is the name. I sing, play keys, write lyrics, look dashing. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We were once compared with Pink Floyd, wasn’t sure what to make of that one, I think it was a compliment though. What do you love about making music? That it’s the perfect conduit for thoughts and feelings that couldn’t be expressed any other way. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be? I’d want to show my lyrics to Leonard Cohen, the consummate storyteller. I’d want to talk vocals with Nico, who had such a unique timbre and a way of enunciating that I can relate to. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it be and why? Yikes, probably Robin Thicke or Redfoo? I hate that I even know their names. I’m sure there’s worse people in the world, but they just seem like dinosaurs. I wish people would think about what their lyrics are saying to the world. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We don’t have any physical releases yet, but we have an online EP Golden Hour released last year, which you can get on bandcamp goldengirls82.bandcamp. com.

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HOWNOWMER

8:30pm.

FRANK JONES & DAVID HYAMS + SHEEHAN SMITH & SHEEHAN + YOLANDA Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. HARRY JAKAMARRA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. KILL THE DARLING St Kilda Library, St Kilda. 6:30pm. MUDDY© S BLUES ROULETTE Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. PETE BROADWAY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: JOEY ELBOWS The Luwow,

Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

KING CNUT & THE WAVES + RATHAMMOCK. WATER BEAR + SOPHISTICATED DINGO Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

$5.00.

MCROBIN + WOODES Sacred Heart Church, St Kilda. 7:00pm. OH YAY! THURSDAY Greenwood Loft, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ON DIAMOND + ROUGE WAVS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. RESIDENT THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ SHADOW Pier Live,

Frankston. 9:00pm.

SONIC RITUAL + JOHNNY DANGER Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm.

SOUNDTRACKS FOR IMAGINARY FILMS Tago Mago,

Thornbury. 8:00pm. $7.00.

TALI SING + EVANGELINE + AEORA Workers Club, Fitzroy.

CASH + JESS PARKER + MYVANWY Last Chance Rock And

SIMON PHILLIPS Palace Hotel, Camberwell. 6:00pm. SLOW BURN Sorsi E Morsi, St Kilda. 6:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: TRACEY HOGUE + PENY BOHAN

8:00pm. $13.00.

EDDIE BOYD + THE BLEEDNG FLARES Bar Open, Fitzroy.

Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THE HACKETTS + DJ OILY SHOES Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

FUTURE SESSIONS The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm. KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS + THE ITCHY SCABS

THURSDAY 25 AUG

Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $28.60.

BABY BLUE + THE LUKE BRENNAN TRIP + ALI E John Curtin

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $5.00. 8:30pm.

LANEWAVES + ATTRACTOR BEAMS + CLAIRE BIRCHAL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

LATE NIGHTS + COASTLINE + POSTCARDS + RIAN KF Bendigo

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

CASH + THE MEAN TIMES Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . CHORES + POOLSHOP + CRUSCH + PANSY Bendigo Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm.

THE ANTI-FALL MOVEMENT Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

9:00pm. $15.00. 6:00pm. $5.00.

THE STRANGE + FLYING SAUCER TERROR + THE POPE© S ASSASSINS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $5.00.

THE VELVET ADDICTION Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $10.20.

VIC MEEHAN The Metropol, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

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GIG GUIDE NEON QUEEN

THE BR UNSWICK HOTEL Neon Queen are bringing their eclectic mix of hip hop, soul, rock’n’roll, pop and indie to The Brunswick Hotel on Thursday August 25. The Melbourne based outfit are currently on tour in support of their recent single Real Love, with their pals Mild Manic in tow. Check ‘em out when they play with Twisted Willows and Maverick, starting at 8pm with free entry.

WRONG TURN + STOMP BOX + LEADFINGER Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

A WINTER CONCERT - FEAT: WESLEY COLLEGE MUSIC Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $35.00.

LISTEN

YA RRA H OT E L LISTEN parties aim to showcase and celebrate the talents of our diverse female and LGBTQIA+ communities, sparking a conversation from a feminist perspective within the Australian music scene. LISTEN will be proudly presenting its 17th listening party on Thursday August 25 at The Yarra Hotel, featuring live performances from the likes of Pappy, The Football Club, Pearl Bay, and Qwerty. Entry is $8 and doors are at 8pm.

MINTON'S PLAYHOUSE SESSIONS The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

ALEXANDER NETTELBECK TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club,

$35.00.

B CARDAMONE Rydges St Kilda, St Kilda. 6:30pm. CRAIG SCHNEIDER TRIO + JOHN RILEY Dizzy's Jazz Club,

Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

KATTIMONI + THAT GOLD STREET SOUND Big Mouth, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

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

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

SIOBHAN KELLY

WHO LE LOT TA LOVE Sydney’s favourite rocker Siobhan Kelly is blasting into Whole Lotta Love with the sole intention of ripping apart the stage. On Thursday August 25, Kelly is joining up with local hard rock heroes A Gazillion Angry Mexicans, who are always bound to put on a show. The fresh-faced four-piece Underground are also stepping up to support. Music from 8pm, entry is free.

8:30pm. $20.00.

PAUL WILLIAMSON'S HAMMOND COMBO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

PUGSLEY BUZZARD Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. RAYMOND MACDONALD Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne

8:00pm.

Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

FULTON STREET + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ PIERRE BARONI

PAIGE DUGGAN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

SEVEN UP DJS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SOUL POWER - FEAT: MIKE STEVA Purple Emerald, Northcote.

ARTURO O'FARRILL Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

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

T H E R E T R E AT There’s no need to be scared when Fear of Flying swoop into The Retreat on Thursday August 26, because good times are guaranteed. The Adelaide rockers will be joined by Swayze on support duties. Free entry, so you can shout all your mates. Rock out with your flock out from 8.30pm.

Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

FROM RAVEL TO SONDHEIM - FEAT: BRENTON SPITERI

FEAR OF FLYING

TALI SING

TH E WORK E R S C LU B Singer/songwriter Tali Sing is gearing up to release his new single, Over, with a gig at The Workers Club on Thursday August 25. Over is a track that dips its toes into R&B, while still carving out its own unique sound. Sing will be joined on stage with Melbourne singer Evangaline, who contributed her killer vocals to the track. Rounding out the night in the support slot are the electro pop sounds of Aeora. Get down to The Workers for doors at 8pm. Entry is $13.

BABY BLUE

TH E J OH N C U R T I N Beginning as a solo project for Melbourne’s Rhea Caldwell, Baby Blue has since evolved into a rocking, rollicking three-piece combining ‘60s rock, folk and pop. If you head on down to the Curtin on Thursday August 25, you can congratulate the gang for launching their second single, Bit Slow, and join in on the celebrations. Special guests come in the form of The Luke Brennan Trip and Ali E. Tickets are $12 (+BF). Mosey on down at 8pm.

Q&A

THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO + TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. TIMBALERO THURSDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

GEORGIA FIELDS

T H E TO FF I N TOWN Melbourne’s high priestess of disco-pagan pop, Georgia Fields, is set to release her new album Astral Debris, due out Friday September 2. Fields will be swooping into The Toff In Town Thursday August 25, to celebrate the upcoming LP. Astral Debris is set to be a banger, having been produced by electronic artist Tim Shiel (Bertie Blackman, Gotye, Faux Pas). The Twoks and Howlite are both on board to support. It all starts at 7pm with tickets at $18.

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KATHERINE HYMER What was the process of creating your debut EP, Monsters? It was a very secret process. Music is a space where I have complete freedom of expression, both creatively and emotionally. I had been writing for years but I wasn’t ready to share this private part of my life. Have you found that learning to express through music is an integral part of the way you process the world? In learning piano I didn’t just learn to play an instrument, I also learnt to appreciate all mediums of art. The coming together of these mediums and the beauty in their independence is what helps me understand and capture the external and internal world. Your style is a beautiful hybrid of very different musical worlds. Is there a certain subject matter you’re attracted to? I’m fascinated by psychology. I analyse the coping mechanisms we adopt and the workings of our inner psyche. My music also touches on mental health and I like to think that through music I can reach out to people and let them know that they’re not alone. How do you generate and maintain atmosphere in a live setting? I enjoy the creation and performance of the show. For me, choosing the set order is important to create continuity, and the aesthetics such as costume set the scene for the material. The coming together of these different parts is what makes a show. KATHERINE HYMER will launch her EP Monsters at the Grace Darling on Thursday August 25.

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GIG GUIDE CHORES

T HE BENDIGO HOTEL Chores have been hiding away all winter recording their debut album, but are back to show us all what they’ve been up this Thursday August 25 at The Bendigo. They’ve brought along some friends for the night including the dreamy shoegaze of Pool Shop, everyone’s new crush, Crusch, and newcomers Pansy. Entry is only $10 and it’s going to be a corker. Doors at 8pm.

ALEXIS NICOLE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. BACKSTAGE - FEAT: JLS & CO + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. $10.00. CITRUS JAM + ANDY MINARD Drunken Poet, West

Melbourne. 8:00pm.

CROSS-EYED CATS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. DAVID COSMA DUO Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. ED KUEPER Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. EMILIA & THE SCARLETTES + BITTERFRUIT + CACARTU Mr

Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

TH E B.E A S T The B.East are throwing a big party to celebrate the second birthday of their Minton’s Playhouse Sessions on Thursday August 25. Based on the famous Harlem jazz club of the same name, Minton’s Playhouse Sessions are a once monthly tribute to the glory days of modern jazz. Entry is free and whoever gets up for a jam will receive a free drink and a half price meal. Make yourself at home at 8pm.

STEPH BRETT DUETS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

FRIDAY 26 AUG

ANGE DAVIS QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ARTURO O'FARRILL Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

ELLY HOYT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.

Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00.

THE EXOTICS + DJ MISS K Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE LALIBELAS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. THE SEDUCAPHONES + BIG BLUE Open Studio, Northcote.

JEN SHYU + BARTON Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne

WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

LIVE JAZZ - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS The Green Goose,

ALL THE COLOURS The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. AVII + ZHANE WHITE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

BEETHOVEN'S MISSA SOLEMNIS - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre

MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.

Malvern. 7:10pm.

MILLER + TIM Highlander, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NAT ALLISON Hotel Kew, Kew. 7:00pm. SIXTY40 Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00.

PINK TILES

$25.00.

MARIACHI LOS ROMANTICOS Kew Court House, Kew.

8:00pm. $25.00.

NOSTALGIQUE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

$25.00.

REBELLIOUS BIRD + STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS Sooki Lounge,

T HE O L D BAR Helio Press will be launching the Shit People At Gigs zine on Thursday August 25 at The Old Bar. To celebrate, they’ve invited The Pink Tiles, Eat-Man and Piss Factory to play some tunes. Melbourne’s Olivia Grbac has devoted 16 pages of artwork to Shit People At Gigs, which touches on a variety of personalities including merch-hagglers, fighters and shirt-removers. $8 dollaridoos on the door with an 8pm start time.

T H E R E T R E AT That soulful songstress Thando will be heating things up at The Retreat on Friday August 26, treating punters to a sizzling live set. Accompanying Thando on stage is a massive seven-piece band, adding even more layers to what will be a complex and exhilarating performance. The gig comes ahead of Thando’s slot at Big Sound, so get on down and give her your support. Music from 9.30pm, it’s The Retreat so you know it’s free.

THE CORRIDORS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

9:30pm.

THANDO

$35.00.

GRAEME CONNORS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. KAT O Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 6:00pm. MARK GARDNER + RAY PETER SMITH + MICHELLE FREEMAN + JOHN HUNTER COMBO + MORE Little Oscar, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.

WITCHGRINDER

MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE SESSIONS

Belgrave. 9:00pm.

RENÉE GEYER - FEAT: RENEE GEYER Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45.00.

SOUL SACRIFICE- THE MUSIC OF SANTANA Flying Saucer

Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00.

THE CONCORD OF STRANGERS - FEAT: THE SONG COMPANY Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $45.00.

CHERRY B AR Cherry Bar will be getting dark as hell on Friday August 26, with Witchgrinder holding a séance and probably playing some music too. Think churchburning, ‘80s ±‘ 90s black metal, and you’ll have an idea what to expect. Equally grim supports are Envenomed and Direblaze. Darkness falls at 8pm, tickets are an eerie $13.

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

(essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

JUKE BOX RACKET Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

MADE IN PURPLE + MONTANE + MALICHOR Bendigo Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm.

METRIK Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 11:00pm. MEZZ LIVE Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 5:30pm. NEIGHBOUR Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. NICHOLAS COSTELLO + ROWENA WISE + MCROBIN + AMBER ISLES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00. REVOLUTION + BUSY KINGDOM Lady Grange, St Kilda.

9:30pm. $25.00.

8:00pm.

7:00pm.

9:00pm.

COLD IRON BOUND

PROPHETESS

T H E R E V E R E NC E H OT E L Prophetess are kicking off their national tour with a show at The Reverence on Friday August 26. It comes as the first show of their tour in support of their new EP, Circle For The Kill, which will see them shredding across the country. Combining thrash and stoner with progressive folk, Prophetess are bringing a new flavour to the metal scene. Support on the night is from Cold Red Mute, Vendetta and The Balls. Entry is $12 and doors are at 7.30pm.

BALL & CHAIN Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm. BEARS + TOOTH & TUSK + DAISY CHAIN + FLOCK Old Bar,

E DI N B URG H CASTL E With a mutual love for acoustic duo shows, Cold Irons Bound play together to keep on the straight and narrow between full band shows. It’s rock’n’roll with a country soul, not to mention reasonable lashings of covers and guests. Head down to the Edinburgh Castle on Friday August 26 from 6.30pm for duolicious times, followed by beats from PBS FM DJ The Knave at 9pm. Free entry.

SEB MONT George Hotel, South Melbourne. 6:00pm. THE BOB DYLAN SHOW + WARREN JAMES & THE ZIMMERMEN Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. $50.00.

Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

THE JADED CATS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:30pm. THE VIBRAJETS + TIJUANA SURF The Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. THE WEARY + RARE CHILD Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

TOMMY'S BANDROOM - FEAT: WOW CITY MOVEMENT + DJ SHADOW Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 9:00pm.

BEN FOLDS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $75.00. BUDD + WARPED + THE DACIOS + THE SUNSET CLUB Tote

8:30pm. $5.00.

CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

$9.00.

9:30pm.

COLD VULTURE + DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + TWISTED WILLOWS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $11.25.

Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $35.00.

CUB SPORT + CLEA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

DAMN THE TORPEDOES + S'WHAT + JERKBEAST + COW'S MUFF DESTRENDS + PASSERINE + FIERCE MILD + BEARS St Kilda

Kiosk, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

DEWARS - LOCK INN Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. DJ BRENDAN HITCHENS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + PATRIZIA & THE GROOVE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

FANDANGO - ZZ TOP TRIBUTE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. FRIDAY NIGHTS AT DEGAS A NEW VISION - FEAT: KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEYBIRDS National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $12.00.

UMBILICAL TENTACLE + DISSOLVE SHIT + THE BALLBUSTERS + HEX TAPE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $8.00.

WATTS ON PRESENTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:30pm. ALISON FERRIER + TIM CROSSEY DUO Tago Mago, Thornbury.

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

9:00pm. $5.00.

TOURIST + SWELL Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. TWELVE FOOT NINJA + DAN RICHARDSON + ACOLYTE Corner

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS

NGV Friday Nights at the NGV has been enjoying a ripper of a season, having hosted a swag of Australian music legendaries over the past few months. Friday August 26 will prove no exception, with the garage punk swagger of Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds ruffling some feathers. After you’ve had a get down to some upbeat psychobilly, you can also have an out of hours looksie at the NGV’s current exhibition ± Degas: A New Vision. Book your ticket via the NGV website, then rock up at 6pm.

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GIG GUIDE BEN FOLDS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $75.00. BREASTFEST - FEAT: MINICOOP + BOY WONDER + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. $12.00.

CLOUD + PINK HARVEST Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. DEWARS - LOCK INN - FEAT: SIB Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

DIRTY HARRIET & THE HANGMEN + DING DONG DEATH HOLE + THE FCKUPS + UDDER UBDUCTEES + JOE GUITON & THE SUICIDE TUESDAYS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. DON HILLMAN© S SECRET BEACH Acorn On Forest, The Basin. 7:30pm.

EARTH CALLER

TH E RE VE R E NC E Calling all metal heads ± The Reverence have got your weekend dose of riffage sorted. Earth Caller will be laying down the shred on Saturday August 27 with their heavy brand of hardcore, but the fun doesn’t stop there. There are some equally fierce supports on board, care of Crowned Kings, Death in Bloom, Sick Machine and Plead 4 Mercy. Get there at 7.30pm, $15 on the door.

MILD MANIC + LATHAN© S GRIP + THE TREEHOUSE CHILDREN + MORE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $15.00.

DREAMIN’ WILD + MORNING MORNING Post Office Hotel,

EARTH CALLER + CROWNED KINGS + DEATH IN BLOOM + SICK MACHINE + PLEAD 4 MERCY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. ELVIS - THE ANNIVERSARY SHOW - FEAT: THE KNAVE & HIS BIG BAND + THE COSMOPOLITONS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

PASSERINE Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm. PHANTOM PANDA POWER WIZARD MASTER SMASHER + BLUNT SHOVEL + DIVE INTO RUIN Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. PURPLE REVOLUTION (PRINCE TRIBUTE) - FEAT: ANDREW DE SILVA Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 8:00pm. $20.00.

HAYDEN JAMES + DENA AMY Max Watt's, Melbourne.

DIRTY HARRIET & THE HANGMEN

Coburg. 9:30pm.

7:30pm. $15.00.

$15.00.

8:00pm.

I WANNA BE ADORED - FEAT: KIDS AT MIDNIGHT Stone Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

INTO THE MYSTIC (THE MUSIC OF VAN MORRISON) St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $23.00.

JRB &THE HEATERS + SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE + GENERAL MEN + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS + HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $32.00. KISS THE VYPER + THE RADIO SUN + DELLACOME & THE DARK HORSES Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $15.00. KOI CHILD + FRIENDSHIPS Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

$20.00.

LEADFINGER + POWERLINE SNEAKERS Retreat Hotel,

Brunswick. 9:00pm.

LIVING DEATH FEST IV - FEAT: EARTH ROT + ZEOLITE + THE SEAFORD MONSTER + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

5:00pm.

LOOBS + THE ONLY BOYS + THE COUNCIL + MORE Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm.

LUCA BRASI + MOOSE BLOOD + THE HARD ACHES + KISSING BOOTH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm.

(geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.25.

TH E B RU NS WI C K H OT E L Dirty Harriet and the Hangmen are coming back from the dead for a show at The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday August 27. The rockabilly outfit will be getting loud and swampy with the help of supports Ding Dong Death Hole, The Fckups, Udder Ubductees, Joe Guiton and The Suicide Tuesdays. Hang out and enjoy the free show from 9pm.

SATURDAYS ROCK - FEAT: RIFFINERY Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

SMOKE STACK RHINO Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SUICIDE AWARENESS FUNDRAISER - FEAT: STRINGYBARK MCDOWELL + OM & THE PEA + RUNS WITH SCISSORS + MORE

GEM BONES

YARRA HOTE L Indie-rock three-piece Gem Bones are heading to the Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford on Saturday August 27, ahead of the imminent release of their debut EP. Joining them on the night are Grups and Only Leonie. Get yourself down to the Yarra for doors at 8pm, entry a clean $10.

WITCH HATS

T H E TOT E Post punk four-piece Witch Hats have emerged from their cave to launch their first album in five years, Deliverance. Things are set to get spooky at The Tote on Saturday August 27, when they unleash some of the hard hitting subject matter from the release ± including contentious topics such as terrorism, religion and war. Lalić, The Shifters and Avoid have snapped up the support slots. Tickets are $11, with doors at 8pm.

$35.00.

BOB ‘BONGO’ STARKIE + BRODERICK SMITH Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $25.00. Brunswick. 4:00pm.

DAN BRODIE + SHERRY RICH Bella Union Bar, Carlton.

8:30pm. $15.00.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $29.00.

BOHJASS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. BORN TO BE BLUE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $45.00.

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $11.25.

9:00pm.

AMINAH HUGHES Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. BERNIE GRIFFEN & THE THIN MEN Open Studio, Northcote.

AUDREY POWNE BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne

WHITE BLEACHES Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. WITCH HATS + LALIC + THE SHIFTERS + CONTRAST Tote Hotel,

Footscray. 8:00pm. $15.00.

ALISON FERRIER BAND Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick.

CRAIG WOODWARD & FRIENDS Victoria Hotel (brunswick),

PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm. RAS JAHKNOW + KING SPIRIT Elwood Lounge, Elwood.

8:00pm.

ADAM RUDEGEAIR Forester's Beer & Music Hall,

Collingwood. 11:00pm.

ZEN ROBOTIC + SLEEPLAB + THE SAFTEY WORD + CARD HOUSES Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $7.00. ARTURO O© FARRILL Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00.

VERDIGRIS Shott Cafe, Wonthaggi. 12:30pm. WARPED + BUDD + ATTACKED BY SEAGULLS Reverence Hotel,

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00.

9:30pm. $25.00.

5:00pm.

THE PEEKS + CROSSFIRE HURRICANE The Loft, Warrnambool.

THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS + ALEX LAHEY + POOL SHOP

8:00pm. $23.50.

VINTAGE ROOTS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

YOUNG VINCENT + NEIGHBOUR + JACK THE FOX Toff In Town,

CASA DE REBOCO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00. DJ BABA NOIR Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. DJ FEE FEE STARR Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. DJ TEE DUBYA The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. LILLY TUNLEY SEXTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

Black Hatt, Geelong. 2:00pm.

THE SENEGAMBIAN BAND + KATTIMONI Rye Hotel, Rye.

DOGS DAY + JEFF TYNAN Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm. GEM BONES + GRUPS + ONLY LEONIE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. GREG STEPS Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm. HOT DOGMA Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. HOT WINGS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

8:30pm. $20.00.

8:00pm.

RENÉE GEYER - FEAT: RENEE GEYER Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, SAM KEEVERS TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SARAH MACLAINE + ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.

SARAH MCKENZIE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

7:00pm. $25.00.

STONEFIELD

CHERRY B AR Kangan Institute is presenting Ecothreads down at Cherry Bar on Saturday August 27. As part of The Melbourne Spring Fashion Week curated program, Ecothreads is an event all about showcasing sustainable fashion. Stonefield are on performance duties, and will be wearing the up-cycled designs of the students at Kangan. The show is proudly supporting Australian Red Cross, combining education with both music and fashion. Take a walk down AC/DC lane at 8pm.

THE CARBO/CARTER/GUNNOO QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

THE CHANTOOZIES Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm.

LEADFINGER

T HE RETREAT HOTEL Leadfinger’s new album, Friday Night Heroes, has brought the band to Melbourne for the first time in three years. The Sydney and Wollongong based outfit have packed the van and are hitting the road across Australia to celebrate the LP. On Saturday August 27 they’re dropping in to The Retreat. Free Entry.

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QLAYE FACE

TH E WO R K E R S C LU B Prog-rock outfit Qlaye Face have been creating some serious buzz with EP Nascence, from which they’ve released a title track single. On Saturday August 27 they’re playing at The Worker’s Club, as part of their tour to promote the recent offering. They’ve got some ripper supports signed on including Bear The Mammoth, Kodiak Empire and Geo. Tickets are $15 on the door at 8pm.

$30.00.

PATRICK WILSON & THE BARE RIVER QUEENS

WE S LE Y A NNE Patrick Wilson & The Bare River Queens will be filling up Wesley Anne with some smooth alt-country sounds on Saturday August 27. Expect plenty of twang, alongside rambling stories of heartbreak, hope and isolation. Get ready for some classic country when Wilson and his band play a free show from 6pm.

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GIG GUIDE KOI CHILD

H OWLER They say there’s something in the water in WA, and never has that been truer than for hip hop seven-piece Koi Child, a fusion of bands Childs Play and Kashikoi, who are really making splash. Koi Child released their self-titled debut album in March this year, and to break the spell of winter are hitting up Howler on Saturday August 27. Supported by audio-visual experimentalists, Friendships, tickets are $23. We’d recommend you get down at 8pm.

ZEN ROBOTIC

WHO LE LOT TA LOVE Whole Lotta Love are mixing it up on Saturday August 27, by inviting along four electro acts to rule the night. Headliner Zen Robotic are guaranteed to have you blissing out, with hazy soundscapes and a lick of rock. Sleeplab are bringing the industrial flavours, The Safety Word a touch of trip-hop and finally Rebekah Davis with a dark and ethereal sound. Entry is $7 and doors swing open at 8pm.

JAKE FEHILY Readings, St Kilda. 3:00pm. JOHN DOWLER’S VANITY PROJECT + CHARLES JENKINS & DAVEY LANE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:00pm. $15.00.

KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

9:00pm.

KRAKEN FOLK SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

3:00pm.

GREG STEPS

C H A RL E S WE S TO N Australia can be a harsh and barren place, but singer/ songwriter Greg Steps thrives on this, telling stories that evoke our vast modern landscape. At the Charles Weston on Saturday August 27, he’ll play songs from his recently released debut EP, Always a Drifter, with between song banter that’s worth a listen too. Get down there from 6.30pm cobber, and this one is free.

MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

9:30pm.

PATRICK WILSON & THE BARE RIVER QUEENS Wesley Anne,

Northcote. 6:00pm.

PLUM GREEN + EDEN + SHADOW FEET Dane Certificate's

Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $10.00.

PUGSLEY BUZZARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. QUEENSLAND + MARK CAMPBELL & THE RAVENS Labour In

Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

RAISED BY EAGLES + EMILEE SOUTH Grandview Hotel, Fairfield. 8:30pm. $20.00.

RICH DAVIES + AYLEEN O’HANLON Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

SHANE DIIORIO BAND Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS Misery Guts, St Kilda. . THE BEAN PROJECT Eclectico, St Kilda. 2:30pm. THE FLAMING MONGRELS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. THE KILL DEVIL HILLS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $20.00.

THE LEYROYS Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. THE T-BONES Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE UGLY KINGS + THE NEW SAVAGES + MISSION BROWN Melbourne Moonshine, South Melbourne. 7:00pm.

TIMMY KNOWLES Secret Garden Bar, St Kilda. 5:30pm. WES CARR Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8:00pm. $35.00.

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A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. ANDY BLACK + TYNE-JAMES ORGAN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. $51.70.

BROOKE RUSSELL + SHANE REILLY Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

BYO VINYL Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 5:00pm. CHRIS PICKERING + DARLING JAMES + ON DIAMOND Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 3:30pm. $12.00.

CRACKER LA TOUF + LEEROY + JUNGLE BREED 303, Northcote. 4:00pm. $5.00.

CUDDLEMANIA + CUDDLEMAN + BAPTISM OF UZI + COOL SOUNDS + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. DON HILLMAN© S SECRET BEACH Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill. 2:00pm.

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THE REVE REN CE It’s time for another superb Sunday at The Reverence, with an acoustic session brought to you by Whisk & Key Records. Sunday August 28 welcomes some stripped back tunes from The Berkely Hunts, Ruby Markwell and Joe Ling. Entry is free, so you can treat yourself to a mountain of tasty morsels from The Rev’s famous menu. Potter on over from 3pm.

SUNDAY SOULTRAIN Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.

3:00pm.

SUZUKI CELEBRATION PIANO CONCERTS Melbourne Recital

ENTER ARCHADIA + SHAUN MITCHELL + CHASING ALICE + SIR MISER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. GEORGIA FIELDS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 1:00pm. JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS + THE ONLY BOYS + WRONG TURN Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $20.00. MENTAL AS ANYTHING + THIN WHITE UKES Flying Saucer

Centre, Southbank. 10:00am. $16.50.

MONIQUE BRUMBY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. MONOTREMES + MINGUS THINGUS + FUNK MCRUMP Workers

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

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3:00pm. $6.00.

Club, Elsternwick. 2:30pm. $33.00.

Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

Cbd. 6:30pm. $10.00.

TANG + ILLUMNI + THREE QUARTER BEAST + THE MURDERBALLS + PRIVLEDGE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. TEARGAS + CHASING LANA + FAITH & GASOLINE Musicland, Fawkner. 3:00pm. $10.00.

SUZUKI CELEBRATION PIANO CONCERTS Melbourne Recital

Centre, Southbank. 12:00pm. $16.50.

THE MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP PRESENTS Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

THE SARAH MCDONALD QUINTET + THE COLLINGWOOD CASSANOVAS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. TIM STEVENS DOUBLE TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, ANTHONY & DAVID + CIARAN GEORGHAN + MATT BLACKWELL + EAMON CAMPBELL Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

MONIQUE BRUMBY

THE RETRE AT Monique Brumby is galloping on down to The Retreat on Sunday August 28 for a cheeky afternoon set. The Tassie born songstress already has two ARIA awards under her belt, but she’s champing at the bit to share her new music with you. Trot on over to The Retreat from 3pm for some free live music.

BENNY PETERS BLUES REVUE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

BLACK CAESAR - FEAT: DARYL MCKENZIE© S JAZZ ENSEMBLE + JACKIE SANNIA Penny Black, Brunswick. 3:00pm. CARINO SON Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm. SHOCHU SESSIONS - FEAT: ASTROSOUL Sake Restaurant &

Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $10.00.

SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.

5:00pm.

Bar, Melbourne. 2:00pm.

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BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS + CHRIS WILSON Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + MISS WHISKEY Cherry Bar, CRAIG WOODWARD Bluebonnet Barbecue, North Fitzroy.

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GIG GUIDE ENTER ARCHADIA

T HE BEND IGO HOTEL Tear the weekend a new one and check out alternative rockers Enter Archadia at The Bendigo Hotel on Sunday August 28. Supports come from Sir Miser, Chasing Alice (playing their debut show) and Shaun Mitchell. The tearing kicks off at 6pm, with tickets an easy-to-swallow $5.

MUNDANE MONDAYS

TH E OL D B A R As winter enters its final week, The Old Bar are chucking a big one for their last Mundane Monday of the chilly weather. To farewell the cruddiest of seasons, Dead End, Miss Miss, Vintage Crop and Fuzzsucker will take to the stage on Monday August 29. Doors at 8pm, $5 entry, and $15 jugs of Mountain Goat Beer. What’s not to like?

ELLIOT WESTON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. FLAGPOLE VILLIANS + THE DANDY JONESTOWN MASSACRE

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

Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $34.00.

Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $5.00.

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KARL S WILLIAMS + ERICA DUNN Northcote Social Club,

DEAD END + FUZZSUCKER + VINTAGE CROP Old Bar, Fitzroy.

MATT GLASS & THE LOOSE CANNONS + THE WINTER GYPSY + YASIN LEFLEF Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

JMC ACADEMY (END OF TRIMESTER SHOWCASE) Gasometer

Northcote. 7:30pm. $12.00.

SLUGFEST 2016

CHER RY BAR It’s Slug’s birthday so Cherry Bar have got a slimy little show lined up on Sunday August 28. Heavy metal outfit Barbarion are leading the charge and providing the birthday songs, alongside Los Amigos, Electrik Dynamite and Atomic Riot. Entry is cheap as chips at $10, which includes a free pot of Panther. Slither on down when doors open at 6.30pm.

MATT JOE GOW BAND Westernport Hotel, San Remo.

5:00pm.

MICHAEL MEEKING & THE LOST SOULS Labour In Vain,

TOM TOM TUESDAY

H OWLE R Tom Tom Tuesday at Howler is your opportunity to experience all things sweet and strange. There’ll be the dream-weaving Dianas, songstress Biscotti, experimental Xylo Aria and eight-piece team Peter Joseph Head. Be there on Tuesday August 30 for $6 Quiet Deed Ale cans and Sailor Jerry’s, just like always. Doors at 8pm.

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

HEADPHONES JONES + BONEWOMAN Open Studio, Northcote.

8:00pm.

8:00pm. $5.00.

MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00. WESLEY COLLEGE GLEN WAVERLEY SHOW BAND Bennetts

Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $5.00.

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JUMPIN JACK WILLIAMS & NEIL WILKINSON

TH E E V E LYN Jumpin Jack Williams & Neil Wilkinson are currently sharing a residency at The Evelyn with their mates Grim Rhythm. Start your week on the right foot, and have a suss on Monday August 29 before the residency wraps up. Drink specials all night long to ease those Monday feels, including mulled cider to warm your dreary soul. Free entry, doors at 8.30pm.

MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: DEAD BOOMERS + DARK KNIFE + NERVE + TERMINAL INFANT Northcote Social Club,

Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00. Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $5.00.

MIHRA + MONDEGREEN + POLYKITE + KNITTED Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm.

WHITE VANS

T H E E V E LYN Damn Daniel, the White Vans are back at it again on Tuesday August 30 at The Evelyn. Now at the end of their residency, the boys are sure to be looking fresh and ready to go out with a bang. Their mates Conversationalists and Dead End will be there to give both complements and support. Free entry fools, so get there at 8.30pm.

NED LARNACH JONES & RICHARD HELLIS ART SHOW - FEAT: ROOT RAT + THUG MILLS + LATREENAGERS Old Bar, Fitzroy.

Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Northcote. 8:00pm.

3:00pm.

Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00.

7:00pm. $7.00.

8:30pm.

Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $7.00.

8:00pm.

6:00pm.

MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. MILES & SIMONE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 3:00pm. MISERABLE LITTLE BASTARDS Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm.

MONICA WEIGHTMAN & THE MIND READERS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm.

MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

RESIDUAL + SOFT CORPORATE + THE RUN Workers Club, SOPHIE ROSE + ONE TINE SOLDIER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: DAVE CHILDS + DECO WOLF + JAMIE MACDOWELL + YOUNIS CLARE Open Studio, Northcote.

5:30pm.

OPEN MIC Hardiman's Hotel, Kensington. 7:00pm. REBETIKO Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm.

2:30pm.

TUESDAY 30 AUG

OXFAM FUNDRAISER Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick.

MAT & MARK

WHO LE LOT TA LOVE We all know Sundays are for chilling, which is exactly why Whole Lotta Love is hosting a relaxed acoustic session on Sunday August 28. Dust yourself off and head on down to catch stripped back musings from Mat and Mark of Cicadastone, alongside a rare acoustic set from Ablaze and Adam Kerzel of Romeo Knights. Entry is free, so just bring your fine self at 8pm.

SARAH HYDE + HARLOW & HART Hotel Kew, Kew. 7:00pm. SEEDY REED + MATHEW JONES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel,

Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.

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

THE BERKELEY HUNTS + RUBY MARKWELL + JOE LING Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.

THE JETSONS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm. THE KIERON MCDONALD COMBO Gem Bar, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

THE SLIPDIXIES Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. TRIO AGOGO Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 5:00pm. WAZ E JAMES BAND Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. WILD @ HEART Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm.

MONDAY 29 AUG BARNEY MCALL ASIO BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

BIRD’S BIG BAND + PINTO & MITVALSKY Bird's Basement,

Melbourne. 8:00pm. $15.00.

MELBOURNE POLYTECHNIC NIGHT 303, Northcote. 7:00pm.

ALEX & NILUSHA Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm.

$24.00.

ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS IV + CHRISTOPHER HALE + JAMES MCLEAN Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.

OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm. THE BRUNSWICK DISCOVERY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. THE GIRL FRIDAS + CHELSEA BLEACH + HI-TEC EMOTIONS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.

TOM TOM TUESDAY - FEAT: DIANAS + BISCOTTI + XYLO ARIA + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. WAYWARD BREED + NIGHT OWL HOLLOW Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: TIM O© DWYER + REN WALTERS & MICHAEL MCNAB + MORE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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Access All Ages WITH DECLAN BURGESS Hey did you know that there’s another instalment of New Slang coming up next Friday? That’s right, time flies and this month’s New Slang is a literal Bangers Party. Get to The Channel on September 2nd and catch Kore-G and Olly-D spinning filthy Coldplay remixes and party prophet Kodiak flood the room with drops that never end. This show might tear the roof off so you should check it before the Arts Centre becomes a construction site. There’s tickets on sale but they’re not gonna be there forever so what are you doing? Head to thepush.com.au right now! Have you been to a FReeZA Push Start Comp heat yet? If you have then I’m sure you were blown away but if you haven’t then don’t worry because there are still local heats being played at venues near you until September! If you haven’t heard about Push Start it’s a cool competition that showcases young talent by making them sonically battle it out for local exposure and bodacious prizes. Grand final winners even get a day of recording and pressings released and if you go a local heat you might even be able to say you saw them before they were printed! Head over to your local FReeZa Facebook page or thepush.com or even the gig guide below to find a heat near you. Also this is a good week for the arts with the Melbourne Writers and Winter Blast Arts festivals kicking off. The 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival is back and starts on the 26th of August and runs until the 4th of September and it’s seriously huge this year. Spanning so many venues with so many things it would be almost impossible to miss out on (Not that you would want to at all.) This year there are intimate panel discussions, guided tours, workshops and so much more. You can find a really handy guide and book spots for events here: http://mwf.com.au/ If you’re way more into art than books then hey you’re in luck, as the first Winter Blast Arts festival lands on the 24th of August and runs until the end of the month. The festival is a display of the creativity of RMIT students, with a vibrant array of performances and mediums including live performances, three dimensional installations and 13-storey light projections. The festival has got everything, there’s even a nifty opening night event with free food! Its not every day that you can witness two giant humans saying hey to each other over Swanston Street. You don’t even need to register for anything, you just need to walk around the streets near the CBD RMIT campus and you will catch it so you’ve got no excuse to miss it really.

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ACTS WANTED FOR SUNDAY ROCK SHOWS - contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au

BASS PLAYER AVAILABLE: Mature age, western suburbs. Contact Steve: 0430 274 728

ATTENTION SINGERS Stage Door Singing Competition, $100,000 in cash and prizes to be won Entries close August 24th www.stagedoor.net.au

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

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Push Start Comp 2016 w/ Sisters Doll and The Fire Alive, COPACC Rae St, Colac, 4pm - 6pm, Gold Coin Donation, Emma Warton / 0400 131 697, AA Nest Youth Space 2 w/ Dj Beth, East Gippsland Community & Educational Hub, Dalmahoy st, Bairnsdale, 5pm - 8pm, Free! Amelie Boucher / 5153 9500, AA The Take Over - HipHop Event w/ Defron feat. Fevapres and DJ Rellik and PRhyme Knowledge, Penrose Community Centre, 83 Prenrose Promenade, Tarneit, 7pm - 11pm, $10, Jamie Cooke / 8734 1355, AA The Whistleblower, Birchip Public Hall, 7:30pm 10pm, $25, Simone Christie / 0429 922 735, AA Beasts of the East w/ Inventions, Mooroolbark Community Center, 125 Brice Ave, Mooroolbark, 7:30pm - 10:30pm, $10, Demi Williams / 1300 368 333, AA Battle of the Bands, Evs Youth Centre, 212 mt Dandenong Rd, Croydon, 7pm - 11pm, $10, Monique Shanahan / 9294 5703, AA Silent Disco, Old Flour Mill, Kirkland Ave, Euroa, 5pm - 11pm, $10 (Under 12) $15 (12+) Inga Weber / 5795 0000, AA Silent Disco, Stawell Neighbourhood House, 42 Sloan St, Stawell, 4pm - 6pm (Primary Age) 7pm - 9pm (Secondary Age), Free! Julie Westwood / 5358 8700 / http://www.ngshire.vic.gov.au/Home, AA Battle of the Bands, The Engine Room, 50 View St, Bendigo, 6pm - 10pm, Gold Coin Donation, Daniel Rees / 5434 6094, AA

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Push Start Heat, Phoenix Youth Hub, 72 Buckley St, Footscray, 1pm-5pm, Free! Bree / 03 9091 4703, AA

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Friday 26th August

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Sunday 28th August

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MARCUS SEAL LEAVES LIVE NATION Marcus Seal wound up as promoter of Live Nation last week and will be taking up a role at the City Of Melbourne in September. He says, “As you will know, it’s the best city in the world, we are the capital of many things and... don’t get me started on liveability.”

NEW ADDITIONS AT ROCKET Nate Nott from Polyester Records (also with a background in label management and A&R) has joined Melbourne distributor, marketing and label services firm Rocket as new in-house publicist to focus primarily on Rocket’s international labels. These include Secretly Distribution, Metal Blade and Drag City, while Rocket also handles Australian labels Chapter, Bedroom Suck and Aarght. The 20-year-old company also secured the services of former AIR CEO Dan Nevin who, now based in London, will assist with developing its international business. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42

Whose wedding ended with the groom going off with the ex-girlfriend? Are we closer to an original Smashing Pumpkins lineup tour after Billy Corgan reconciled with bassist D’arcy Wretzky? Which Geelong footballer is the latest to buy a pub in that city and hopefully host live music? LCD Soundsystem’s Australian tour at the end of the year is cancelled before it was announced, as part of a run through Asia. They’re apparently running late recording their next album. Melbourne band Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl Kungs remix continues its European success. It’s remained at #1 for 12 consecutive weeks on the European Border Breakers chart after spending 18 weeks overall in the chart. Kanye West’s pop up merchandise store on the weekend on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy attracted media and the cops as up to 1000 fans turned up. Only ten were allowed into the store at a time, so as you can expect, there was traffic chaos. Residents complained some of the crowd swore at them as they tried to get through the throng while Charlotte Knightley of Zetta Florence boutique store sent West a message via Facebook to reimburse her for $6000 of lost business. Eskimo Joe’s Joel Quartermain is moving to Melbourne to pursue his production career. In the meantime, Eskimo’s Stu MacLeod is now general manager at Perth community radio station RTRFM and Kav Temperley is releasing a solo EP next month. What happens when Telstra screws up your 24-month contract extension by giving you a new phone number (which you didn’t want) and not a new phone? Artist manager Alan Evers-Buckland whose clients include Abbey Stone, merely managed to get the personal email address of Telstra’s CEO and hinted as to who gave it to him. Problem was fixed in ten minutes. Funding cuts claim yet another victim. Melbourne’s Platform Youth Theatre, set up in 1998, closes this month after missing out on Australia Council and Creative Victoria grants. It was funded through OzCo’s theatre board’s Youth Program Fund but this was axed last year, forcing young groups must compete with everyone else, which means you can expect more youth groups to go under. 18-year-old Melbourne singer/songwriter Gretta Ray of Princes Hill Secondary College won this year triple j’s Unearthed High for her song Drive. Ray who began writing music at seven, released her first EP Elsewhere in early 2016. She also worked with Gotye collaborator Josh Barber and joined Japanese Wallpaper’s live band. She’ll be flown to triple j Sydney headquarters to record, mix or master her music, which will be played on triple j and triple j Unearthed. Another allegedly illegal rave got shut down in regional NSW before it got started. Last weekend it was Pretty Vibes in the Pillar Valley state forest, which expected 3500 ravers. Coffs/Clarence officers warned there were no traffic management and safety

Calvin Harris was the highest earning DJ last year, making US$63 million from gigs ($400,000 per gig in Las Vegas alone), songwriting, record sales and streams, and endorsements. He’s $3 million down from the year before, says US business magazine Forbes, but he’s virtually doubled the earning capacity of second person on the rung, Tiesto whose $38 million earnings included a seven-figure deal with soft drinks company 7 Up. David Guetta was at #3 with $28 million, mostly due to his Euro 2016 soccer tournament theme song and Vegas residency. They were followed by Zedd ($24.5 million), Steve Aoki ($23.5 million), Diplo ($23 million) and Skrillex ($20 million).

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Australians can’t seem to get enough of music festivals. Research by self-service ticketing agency Eventbrite showed that 65% of Aussies caught as many festivals this year as in 2015, and 49% plan to see more next year. On average Aussies attend two to three festivals a year, and spend $150 a ticket. 67% figure they’ll still be attending such events over the next few years, with 59% saying festivals give them a sense of community. Location, cost and friends are reasons for going, but the acts are the top according to one in three. Of the hardcore attendees, 40% will go interstate, and 18% abroad to get their fix.

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processes in place, turned up at the site and allegedly found there were no toilets, just an open pit. Drake got 14 nominations at the 2016 BET Hip-Hop Awards. Rihanna almost didn’t record Work according to its producer, Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor. He says her record label “didn’t care for Caribbean music at the time” but came around “when it was all that she could sing around the house.” In any case, he was set to give the song to Drake or Alicia Keys but Rhi-Rhi insisted to the label she wanted it. A British man told TV’s Catfish: The TV Show he thought he was phone-dating Katy Perry for six years, even buying her a diamond engagement ring. He was actually chatting to a Harriet from Gloucester who claimed to be the singer. Corey Taylor had yet another fan thrown out of a Slipknot gig. Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt had bass lessons for the first time before recording their new album Revolution Radio. Taylor Swift donated $1m to Louisiana flood relief after the US state suffered extreme flooding. In between selling out gigs, fast rising Tasha Sultana took her first break for ages – not performing her guitar for six weeks but playing lots of music. One of London’s biggest nightclubs Fabric closed its doors for the foreseeable future after two teenagers died of overdoses in nine weeks. In the meantime, a gunman is on the run after shooting at a patron at the Tea Party Festival.

HIDDEN MESSAGES IN YOUR DANCE TRACKS? A new algorithm can hide messages in your favorite dance music, encoding data by subtly varying the tempo in a way that is completely inaudible to human listeners. Prof Krzysztof Szczypiorski of Poland’s Warsaw University of Technology used the StegIbiza, an algorithm for hiding information on the trance-like beat of Ibiza music. He developed a code by which the dots and dashes representing letters are converted into a faster or slower tempo for a particular beat. He used Apple’s Logic X Pro music production software to create covers of Lily Was Here by David A. Stewart & Candy Dulfer, Miracle by Queen, Rhythm Is A Dancer by Snap!, So What by Miles Davis and You Were The Heart’s Beat by Andrzej Zaucha. He embedded the message “steganography is a dancer” in each song, placed randomly.

STUDY: CONCERT GOERS ARE HAPPIER A study by Victoria’s Deakin University found that those who regularly go to concerts are happier than those who don’t. “Engaging with music by dancing or attending musical events [is] associated with higher subjective wellbeing,” sums up If You’re Happy And You Know It: Music Engagement And Subjective Wellbeing, which studied 1000 participants. “Regular” is the key word here.

STUDY: STREAMING BITES INTO ONLINE BUYING Streaming has cut into the Australian sales of downloads and online purchases of CDs, according to new figures from market researcher Roy Morgan. Online shopping skyrockets in Australia, with 41.2% of Aussies making at least one purchase via the MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

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Internet in an average four-week period (up from 31.6% in 2012). But in comparison, in the 12 months to March 2016, only 4.6% of the population downloaded music in any four week period (the figure was 6.1% in 2012) and 1.1% bought CDs online (2.1% four years ago). In the meantime, the percentage of Aussies who streamed music online in an average four weeks leaped from 10.3% in 2012 to 19.7% in 2016. Streaming radio was also up, to 9.6% from 6.1%. The Morgan research also noted that those who download movies and TV shows are also ten times more likely to download music.

WHITE NIGHT DEADLINE EXTENDED Expressions of interest by artists and performers for February 18’s White Night Melbourne 2017 is extended to Tuesday August 30. See www.whitenightmelbourne. com.au.

NEW BOOK ON NEWCASTLE MUSIC SCENE Rock This City: Live Music in Newcastle, 1970s-1980s by Gaye Sheather documents the city’s music scene, which spewed out acts like Rabbit, Heroes, DV8 and The Globes and where bands played seven days a week. It was written by researcher and historian Gaye Sheather, who at that time was singer with Timeworx and 7th Heaven, who has been researching the book since 2005.

MORE INXS PROJECTS ON THE WAY More INXS projects are on the way, after Universal Music Group went into a joint venture deal with INXS manager Chris Murphy’s Petrol Records, which is also INXS’s Australian record label. Murphy has been building up the profile of INXS and their music since he took over their management again some years ago. The high ratings for the two-part TV series Never Tear Us Apart was proof there was juice there. Now under the new deal, there’ll be a Michael Hutchence documentary, a series of INXS fan club conventions as part of an unveiling of archives, a musical and soundtrack, acoustic recordings from US radio appearances and “live productions”. The Universal deal was announced at an intimate dinner in Sydney at which INXS were surprised with a 3x platinum award for the DVD of their Live Baby Live show at Wembley Stadium from July 1991.

STEVE AOKI SETTLES $10.7M LAWSUIT US superstar DJ Steve Aoki settled a $10.7 million lawsuit filed by a fan. As part of his exuberant live shows which includes crowdsurfing on rubber rafts, in 2012 he leaped off stage at the LA Hard Rock Café and landed on Brittany Hickman, causing her to break her neck and nearly paralyse her. She sued after neither DJ nor the venue refused to pay her medical bills and two months of disability pay as she couldn’t work. Aoki was cleared of liability after going for a confidential out-of-court settlement while the court also cleared Hard Rock Café of all blame.

DEADLINE FOR MILLION DOLLAR RIFF The deadline for the Australian-based global songwriters competition Million Dollar Riff is Wednesday August 31. Winning prize pool is $10,000 (entry is $88 a song) while contestants can test their songs and connect with other writers and music industry executives. See milliondollarriff.com/competition. Founder Damian McSweeney says the comp will expand through the years.

Lifelines Married: Australian R&B singer Prinnie Stevens and pro US basketballer, Patrick Sanders who’s currently playing for Club Ferro Carril Oeste in Argentine after three years in Japan. Recovering: Former UFO bassist Pete Way released from hospital following a heart attack due to a blood clot on his lungs. Injured: Former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten broke his neck after a fall on the way into a post office. Arrested: A man for breaking into David Guetta’s Ibiza home for a second time, throwing away a knife as he fled. The first time he tricked a maid into believing he was a friend of the DJ and letting him in. Arrested: California-based British DJ Mark Lewis in South Korea for allegedly smuggling drugs after being caught at airport customs with a 1.5-litre water bottle containing rave drug GHB. It happened in June but only made the media now after police said they suspected Lewis of sneaking in 3.78 litres of GHB (worth $340,000 and equal to 1000 doses) into South Korea between January and June, and the trips were paid for by a Korean pharmaceutical company. Extradited: Rapper Freddie Gibbs from France to Austria, to face charges alleging he drugged a woman and assaulted her. Died: Lou Pearlman, who created boy bands Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, 62, in jail after being found guilty of fraud. He suffered ill health, especially with diabetes. Died: Gary Watson, 22, guitarist with rising Scottish band Lapelles, from injuries after falling into the River Clyde. Died: Peter Read, co-founder of Sydney ‘80s noisenik bands as Thug and Leather Moustache. Death unknown but he was recently cleared of cancer. Died: Former Nine Inch Nails keyboardist James Woolley, 50. After leaving in 1994, he worked on sound effects for The Simpsons, with his wife joking “Those fart sounds were authentic.” Died: Preston Hubbard, bassist between 1985-1993 in Austinbased R&B outfit Fabulous Thunderbirds, 63, after a rough life including a stint in jail and a neardeath experience following years of alcohol and drug abuse.