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BLUESFEST RELEASES FIRST ACTS FOR 2017 The first announcement for Australia’s largest international festival for blues and roots, Bluesfest has arrived. Leading the charge is Patti Smith and her band performing Horses, Zac Brown Band, The Lumineers, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait, Mavis Staples, Billy Bragg, Jethro Tull, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Gregory Porter and Snarky Puppy. Rounding it out comes St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Beth Hart, Booker T Presents The Stax Records Revue, Laura Mvula, Roy Ayers, Andrew Bird, Rikki Lee Jones, Joan Osborne, Turin Brakes, The Strumbellas, Jake Shimabukuro, Dumpstaphunk, Nikki Hill and Irish Mythen. Bluesfest 2017 will go down from Thursday April 13 to Monday April 17, at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm just north of Bryon Bay. Tickets are on sale now via the Bluesfest website.
RICHIE SAMBORA AND ORIANTHI CONFIRM MELBOURNE SHOW
B*WITCHED ANNOUNCE SPELLBINDING TOUR FOR 2017
Just when you thought Queenscliff Music Festival couldn’t get any bigger, they go and add even more artists to a lineup that’s already bursting at the seams. Getting in on the action for 2016 is Eilen Jewell from the US, Canada’s Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, Julien Baker, Matt Andersen, Son Little and the brilliant Steve Poltz. Queenscliff Music Festival will run from Friday November 25 through Sunday November 27. Tickets through Trybooking.
RSO is Richie Sambora and Orianthi, two extraordinary musicians who’ve combined their passion for guitars and gripping stage appearances. The better news? They’re coming to Australia. As part of the tour, fans can expect to hear songs from both Richie and Orianthi’s catalogues, Bon Jovi classics, plus songs from other artists they have performed with, including Michael Jackson’s Black or White and Alice Cooper’s School’s Out. Rock out at Margaret Court Arena Tuesday September 27. Tickets via Ticketek.
Ireland’s biggest pop export B*WITCHED have set their sights for Australia, announcing a six-stop tour. Joining the girls will be ‘90s pop heavyweights Atomic Kitten, S CLUB 3 (three members of the original S CLUB 7 band) and boy band East 17. The Dublin quartet is responsible for Top 10 hits such as C’est La Vie, Rollercoaster and Blame It On The Weatherman. Igniting more nostalgia than you can poke a wand at, catch B*WITCHED at 170 Russell on Friday February 10. Grab yourself a ticket via Metropolis Touring.
UB40 BRING THEIR HITS BACK DOWNUNDER IN 2017
ICEHOUSE CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF LIVE SHOWS
One of the UK’s most successful reggae bands, UB40, will land in Australia in November 2017 playing all the hits and more including Red Red Wine, Can’t Help Falling In Love, Kingston Town. Becoming a household name around the world throughout the '80s and '90s, UB40 (named after the UK’s unemployment benefit form) became known for reinvigorating reggae across the world. “Our Australian tour in 2015 was so much fun for us we were very keen to ensure we got back as soon as possible,” says founding member Robin Campbell. UB40’s The Hits & More Tour touches down in Melbourne at Festival Hall on Saturday November 25 2017. Tickets via Mr J Presents.
2017 marks a huge milestone for Australian rock band Icehouse. It’s the 40th anniversary of their first ever live show, and what better way to celebrate than by heading out on yet another tour. In four decades they’ve laid the soundtrack for a generation with songs like Great Southern Land and Hey Little Girl, sold over three million albums locally and more than nine million internationally.The ARIA Hall of Famers will close 2016 with performances at One Electric Day, Caloundra Music Festival and Bondi Beachfest, before touring Australia widely in 2017. Icehouse play Bendigo Jockey Club on Saturday April 22. Tickets available through Ticketmaster.
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Sea Shepherd Australia is a non-profit conservation organisation whose mission is to end the destruction of marine habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans. To further their brilliant work, and of course keep with tradition, Sea Shepherd will host their annual Ocean Defence Tour fundraiser to help raise funds to send their ships out to sea. This year’s event will feature performances from acts like Ella Hooper, Dream On Dreamer, and comedy trio Tripod, as well as tours of flagship vessel The MV Steve Irwin, speeches from Captain Peter Hammarstedt and Kindness Trust founder Philip Wollen. Willing crew can stead themselves for vegan food, raffles and prizes too. Set sail for Seaworks in Williamstown on Saturday September 24 to very literally get on board. Tickets available via Eventbrite.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s final album Back To Black, vocalist Atlanta Coogan, with the help of the All Star Little Big Band, will give fans the full Amy Winehouse experience, covering her extraordinary life and musical career. Whether you’re a huge fan, or simply fascinated by the late artist, Beat want to help you get along to the show. We’ve got tickets to give away to The Amy Winehouse Show: Back To Black at the Satellite Lounge on Friday September 9 and Shoppingtown Hotel on Saturday September 10.
RECORD PARADISE ANNOUNCE IN-STORE ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS Local vinyl haunt Record Paradise will be hosting a string of killer instore album release shows. Expect to find Mike Noga unleashing his new record on Friday September 2, Chook Race releasing their new album Around The House with support from Dag on Saturday September 3 and Smoke Rings launch their self-titled EP on Sunday September 4. Head to Record Paradise for more details.
PEACHES ANNOUNCES MEREDITH SIDESHOW Being announced as a Meredith Music Festival headliner is pretty sweet, but now you can slip into full hyperglycaemic ecstasy by knowing Peaches will perform a string of sideshows across the country. In the past year the Canadian electronic artist dropped Rub - album number six - along with seven feature videos, including the latest for Vaginoplasty, and also won the prestigious Polaris Heritage Prize for her debut album The Teaches Of Peaches. Peaches will play 170 Russell on Sunday December 11. Tickets on sale via Moshtix.
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PIXIES RETURN TO MELBOURNE WITH 2017 AUSTRALIAN TOUR Six years since their last Australian tour, seminal rockers Pixies will return to Australia as part of their world tour. One of the most influential and important bands over the last 30 years, Pixies headlined 2007’s inaugural Australian V Festival and in 2010 played an incredible 13 shows on their sold out Doolittle tour across the country. Touring in celebration of their forthcoming album, Head Carrier, the shows will see Black Francis, David Lovering and Joey Santiago welcome bassist Paz Lenchatin to the Pixies’ permanent lineup. They’ll play Margaret Court Arena Saturday March 4. Tickets via Live Nation.
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s seminal album Back To Black, The Amy Winehouse show will be touring the east coast. The show promises to give people the full Amy Winehouse experience by covering her extraordinary life and musical career. Vocalist Atlanta Coogan will perform with the backing of the All Star Little Big Band, with live narration by a special guest, which will be announced soon. The Amy Winehouse Show will captivate audiences at The Satellite Lounge on Friday September 9, at the Shoppingtown Hotel on Saturday September 10, and at MEMO Music Hall on Friday November 4.
The revered Angel Olsen has revealed an extensive national tour in support of her new album, as well as a stunning new video for latest single, Sister. The tour comes in support of her forthcoming record MY WOMAN, due out early September, as well as performances at this year’s Meredith Music Festival and a slot at the Sydney Opera House. Not bad hey? Catch her at The Corner on Monday November 28. Tickets via Handsome Tours.
CHASTITY BELT SELL OUT SHOW, ANNOUNCE SECOND Those legends over at Chastity Belt are busy prepping to make their maiden voyage Down Under, and holy smokes, they’ve just sold out their first Melbourne show. Lucky for us, they’ve announced a second show at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday October 6, with support from the mighty Batpiss and Lalić. Tickets are available now via The Curtin’s website – get ‘em while they’re hot.
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STONEFIELD REVEAL NATIONAL TOUR PLANS
Fresh from releasing their latest single, Melbourne duo Amarillo have locked in a launch event while releasing their brand new video. Their new record Eyes Still Fixed was written mostly on the road, touching on themes of friendship, isolation, discovery and home. Recorded with Shane O’Mara at his Yikesville studio, the album is already garnering praise ahead of its full release. It’s all happening at The Bella Union on Saturday October 8. Fix your eyes on tickets via the venue’s website.
Australia’s supreme psych rock sisters Stonefield have announced a national headline tour in support of their second album As Above, So Below. Stonefield have spent the last six months travelling the world and performing on some of the world’s most desirable stages, wowing fans on a string of headline US shows, including Austin’s SXSW festival. The four-piece will be joined by RACKETT and White Bleaches as the tour’s special guest acts. Feel part of the family and get down to Howler Saturday October 29. Tickets via Stonefield’s website.
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Sydney rock outfit Lepers & Crook are back again with more material, and to celebrate they’ve locked in a national tour. May heralded the release of single Let You Go, and the five-piece are maintaining pace by releasing a second single, Reflections from forthcoming EP The Heathen Circus. Produced by acclaimed songwriter Jeff Martin, the EP is the band’s follow up to their 2014 four-track release Her Kiss. Lepers & Crooks will arrive at the Workers Club on Saturday October 22. Sink your crook into tickets via The Workers Club website.
Melbourne garage-pop songster FERLA has just released a new track and signed with local label Our Golden Friend. The project of former Twin Beasts frontman Giuliano Ferla burst onto the scene with 2015 EP Guilt Pop, recognised as both Beat and Brag’s Album Of The Week. I Can’t Let You Down is the first single from FERLA’s forthcoming second EP which combines garagepop, new-wave synths, incisive lyrics with lashings of dark wit. FERLA will launch the new single at The Old Bar on Saturday September 3.
REMI ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE SHOW ON 2016 ALBUM TOUR Melbourne hip hop outfit REMI are hitting the road to reveal and celebrate their forthcoming album. Divas and Demons explores REMI’s personal experiences like race issues, the demons roused by relationship breakdowns, depression and the ongoing challenges faced as an artist. REMI enlisted some of Australia’s best and brightest hip hop, soul and jazz talent, including Simon Mavin (Hiatus Kaiyote), Sampa the Great, Jordan Rakei, Baro, Silent Jay, Tom Scott (Average Rap Band), Nui Moon and Cazeaux O.S.L.O. (Man Made Mountain). Catch REMI at Howler Saturday December 17 and grab your tickets from the Howler website. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14
ABBE MAY ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE SHOW AND RELEASES NEW TRACK As she prepares to release her forthcoming album, Abbe May has confirmed she will be taking to the stage. Doomsday Clock, a track from her fifth album Bitchcraft, revolves around what May sees as the great fallacy of trickle-down economics and the environmental and social destruction it has caused. Hear her roar at Northcote Social Club on Thursday November 24. Tickets through May’s website.
THE SAINTS ANNOUNCE EXCLUSIVE MELBOURNE SHOWS The Saints have announced they’ll play three intimate and exclusive shows in Melbourne this October. Chris Bailey will return to Australia to play alongside local members Iain Shedden, Pat Bourke and Davey Lane. A gift from heaven? Likely, as the band will play songs from their broad catalogue, one that helped shape punk as we now know it today. The Saints will descend upon The Gasometer Hotel from Wednesday October 5 until Friday October 7. Tickets on sale via Oztix.
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CERES UNVIEL SECOND ALBUM & TOUR To celebrate the release of their forthcoming album, Drag It Down On You, Ceres have announced a run of shows this October and November. The album will be released in the states via US independent label, No Sleep Records - home to punk and hardcore bands like La Dispute and Touche Amore. Drag It Down On You has been a two-year work in progress, written amidst a busy touring schedule and period of personal change, recorded across “one long, funny, emotional, frustrating, incredible, life-affirming” fortnight back in March. Ceres will play Northcote Social Club on Friday October 28. Snatch your tickets through Oztix or Ticketscout.
ERIC ISAACSON ANNOUNCES FILM LECTURE AND SHARES RARE FOOTAGE
STICKY FINGERS TO COUNTDOWN NEW YEAR’S EVE AT BEYOND THE VALLEY
Eric Isaacson runs Mississippi Records in Portland, Oregan, one of the greatest personally curated record stores in the world, which is also head quarters for his record label of the same name. With an incredible collection of rare blues, folk, gospel, European and even punk music, and incredible music knowledge, Isaacson has created a dazzling “film lecture”, presenting archival film, images and stories spanning 1890 to the present day. The live footage performances are taken from film shot during Alan Lomax’s North American travels between 1978 to 1985. Catch Isaacson presenting I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore at Northcote Social Club on Thursday September 8. Tickets via the venue’s website.
Following the release of their mind blowing lineup, Sticky Fingers will be ringing in the New Year for a midnight set at Beyond The Valley. Festival director Nick Greco says that Sticky Fingers were an obvious choice. “The countdown is the biggest part of BTV, and working out which act is going to deliver that moment is a huge decision. RUFUS and Flight Facilities have held that spot previously and Stickies are helping us continue the tradition of having marquee Australian talent counting in the New Year - they have some crazy things in store.” Beyond The Valley 2016 goes down from Wednesday December 28 to Sunday January 1 in Lardner Park, just under two hours out of Melbourne. Tickets on their website via Eventbrite.
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Melbourne bluesman Chris Russell reflects on life, death, success, regret and music in Worry Me in the Daytime, a new short documentary by Sebastian Broadbent. Russell lives a duel life as golf course flag pole manufacturer by day, and furious writer and performer by night as half of Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk. Worry Me in the Daytime was nominated for Best Documentary at the St Kilda Film Festival and has since screened at festivals around the world. Worry Me in the Daytime will screen once only at Spotted Mallard on Saturday September 17, with live performances from Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk and Grim Rhythm. Tickets through Moshtix.
Singer/songwriter Leah Flanagan bears Venetian, Aboriginal and Irish heritage, and has used these diverse cultural and historical influences in her forthcoming album Saudades. Flanagan’s musical history is as rich as her heritage, having collaborated with John Cale, Sinead O’Connor, poet Sam Wagan-Watson and France’s Orchestre National de Jazz, played with the acclaimed Black Arm Band and Paul Kelly, to name just a few major accomplishments. Check out Flanagan when she hits up The Bella Union with her full band Friday November 4, and also solo at Basement Discs Friday October 14.
The LuWOW is proud to present a Twist Party every Friday night in September. Starring the mid-century sounds of The Jukebox Racket, it’s an ideal place to really kick your weekend off. The Jukebox Rackets are three dudes with a penchant for ‘50s and ‘60s rock‘n’roll, putting their own stamp on the classics. You’ll be sure to hear The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and much more. There’ll be cocktails to wow you, delicious food, décor to make you feel like you’re somewhere more tropical than Melbourne, and a wild dance room with the Gogo Goddesses. The month long party kicks off Friday September 2 through to Friday September 30.
SOCIETY OF BEGGARS Melbourne alternative rock‘n’roll band Society Of Beggars are returning to the stage for the first time with new member Nicoli Foulstone. Joining them at this exciting show are very special guests Hollie Joyce and Biddlewood. The band will make a night of it, and likely a scene at Bar Open on Friday September 16. One not to be missed. Tickets on the Bar Open website.
MK AND STEPHAN BODZIN ARE HEADING TO AUSTRALIA
JOESKI ANNOUNCES HIS DEBUT AUSTRALIAN TOUR
American producer DJ MK and German techno producer Stephan Bodzin will join forces in Australia to put on one helluva dance party this November. MK has been around for almost three decades, and in addition to his ‘90s hits Always and Love Changes, he’s also given new life to a variety of pop and house acts from around the world, including Nightcrawlers and Bizzare Inc. Recently, he’s remixed acts like Ellie Goulding, RUFUS and HAIM. Bodzin was composing music for European theatres before he unearthed a passion for club music. He owns record label Hertzblut, and has remixed songs for Depeche Mode, Booka Shade and The Knife. MK and Stephan Bodzin will take over Brown Alley on Thursday November 17. Tickets via Novel.
Brooklyn-based DJ, producer and label owner of Maya Records, Joeski has been rocking the worldwide house scene since the early ‘90s but has never made it to Australia - until now. He began his career in the NYC club scene where he moved crowds at venues like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium and NASA, and went on to become one of the USA’s most sought-after producers, earning regular bookings alongside celebrated DJs such as Louie Vega and Roger Sanchez. Joeski has released on labels such as Defected, Desolat, Kittball Records and Poker Flat and his recent releases Clap Yo Handz and Glory Of House have drawn critical acclaim. Joeski will make his long-awaited Melbourne debut at Pawn & Co on Sunday September 11.
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR ST KILDA FESTIVAL 2017 Are you a musician,children’s entertainer, community group, charity, or have an event or activity that you’d like to showcase? Well, St Kilda Festival want to hear from you. Applications are open for the New Music Stage, offering Australia’s best emerging talent a chance to play at the country’s largest free music festival. The Live N Local stage will also be celebrating the best of Port Phillip talent, providing an opportunity for local artists to strut their stuff. Applications close Friday September 30 at 5pm. Head to the St Kilda Festival website for more information.
POSTBLUE ANNOUNCE THEIR SINGLE LAUNCH Postblue have just unveiled their latest track Love To Praise You and will play a Melbourne show to celebrate. Frontman Riley McEvoy says of the track, “The title of the song is completely literal to the message; it’s about praising the one you love. Although I’m not religious, I chose to use religious terms and imagery because I feel they provoke strong thoughts and feelings. I think having a really deep devotion to someone is one of the most beautiful things in the world.” Catch Postblue at The Workers Club on Wednesday September 14. Tickets via the venue’s website.
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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 - 4 PAUL DEMPSEY Corner Hotel 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 September 24 DREADNAUGHT Ding Dong Lounge September 3 CRYPTOPSY Northcote Social Club September 3 TOM LEE-RICHARDS The Gasometer Hotel 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 POISON CITY WEEKENDER Various Venues, September 9 – 11 JOHN OO FLEMING RMH The Venue September 9 DIESEL Corner Hotel 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 POSTBLUE The Workers Club September 14 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 The 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 BRING ME THE HORIZON Margaret Court Arena September 22, 23 A$AP FERG 170 Russell September 23 EVEN Bella Union September 23 TOTALLY UNICORN Northcote Social Club September 23 LEFTWING & KODY Pawn & Co September 23 VAUDEVILLE SMASH The Gasometer September 24 GYPSY & THE CAT Howler September 24 LISTEN OUT FESTIVAL feat. A$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 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
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SUNIFEST 2 Sunifest was such a hoot in round one, the clever folk at The Tote thought they might as well go round two with the festival! There’ll be 15 acts taking to three stages throughout what we can only hope will be a fine spring day. Some of those bands include The Peep Tempel, Jaala, Peter Bibby, Gabriella Cohen, Mesa Cosa, Crepes, Fazerdaze, RVG, Horace Bones and DANNY KRANSKY. Those not listed are great too. Tickets are $51 for a pumping day full of mates, beers and beats. It all goes down at The Tote on Saturday September 3. Doors from 3pm. 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 Watt’s 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 ABBE MAY Northcote Social Club November 24 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 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 ANGEL OLSEN The Corner Hotel November 28 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
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Ceres STOP DRAGGING MY HEART AROUND B Y D AV I D J A M E S Y O U N G
“Can you tell I’m excited?” Tom Lanyon – vocalist, guitarist and primary lyricist of Melbourne alt rock hopefuls Ceres (say it “series” – is talking a mile-a-minute as he paces around the back of his work office building. His band have already had a huge day – not only was their national tour announced in support of their upcoming second studio album, Drag It Down On You; but said album was also officially announced as the latest release for independent American punk label No Sleep Records, who’ll distribute the album in the US. For Lanyon, the signing is not only a surreal moment for him and his bandmates, but it also holds a surprising relevance to the history of the band. “I’ve told this story before,” says Lanyon, “but the whole reason this band started was because Rhys [Vleugel, guitarist] and I were both at the same party a few years ago. I was wearing a No Sleep Records shirt, and he approached me to compliment me on it. We got to talking, and before you knew it we were in the same room playing guitars together. It’s absolutely crazy that it’s all come full circle like this. I wonder if I still have that shirt? I hope I didn’t throw it out or sell it – I get to wear it legitimately now.” Drag It Down On You arrives two years after the band’s debut, I Don’t Want To Be Anywhere But Here. Since its release, Ceres have risen exponentially in profile – when they haven’t been filling out shows in their own right, they’ve been touring the country with the likes of Violent Soho, Say Anything and The Hotelier. Even with this taken into consideration, not even Lanyon himself could’ve anticipated what would happen next when, out of the blue, he decided to BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
send over some demos he was working on to Los Campesinos! guitarist Tom Bromley – if only just to see what the Welsh indie rocker might say about them. “I didn’t even email him,” says Lanyon, audibly cringing at the informality and naivete of this initial contact. “You know the little contact form that you can fill out on Soundcloud profiles? That’s what I did. I don’t even know why I thought that was the right thing to do – what kind of psycho does that? I went to bed regretting ever clicking send – I figured he would never see it; and if he did, there was no way that he’d respond. The next morning, I checked my inbox and I saw a message from him. ‘These are really good. Let’s talk’.” From there, Bromley came over to Melbourne to work with the band – Lanyon, Vleugel, bassist Grant “GY” Young and drummer Frank Morda – directly on Drag It Down On You. A lot of factors were weighing in on the importance of the album’s creation – Lanyon’s highly-emotional songwriting, the inclusion of a complete outsider in the production process – but one fact loomed overhead for the entire B E AT.C O M . A U
development of the album: This record was to be Vleugel’s swansong, departing the band after being one of its founding members. “His commitments in life were really starting to impose on him,” says Lanyon. “It got to a point where something had to give. There’s absolutely no bad blood, we all still love him, and he did such an amazing job on this record. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him as happy as he was when he was recording Drag It Down On You. The demands of touring were getting too much, and it was getting to the point where we couldn’t work around Rhys’ availabilities. Finishing the record was so emotional for us – we were so stoked to finish this album, but we were also sad to be losing the guy that started the band to begin with.” In Vleugel’s place comes Sean Callanan, who some expertly keen eyes may recognise as sound engineer for The Smith Street Band. Having been a long time friend of the band, Callanan felt like a no-brainer to enter the Ceres fold. “We came to one another at the same time,” says Lanyon. “We’d thrown around the idea of getting him in, and he had approached us and offered up his services. This all went down at the Smith Street show at the Hi-Fi [now known as Max Watt’s], and so we spoke to the Smith Street guys about it as well. We’re going to make it work and we got the blessing to go ahead with it, and everyone that we’ve told is so excited. Of course we’ll miss Rhys, but if we were going to get anyone to replace him, we’re glad it was Sean.” While in some ways the album is a continuation from the foundations established by I Don’t Want To Be Anywhere But Here, it’s ultimately reductive to consider Drag It Down On You a ‘part two’ of sorts. Rather, Drag is a further development of the band’s abilities – sending the band simultaneously into territory that’s heavier, softer, louder and quieter. It’s an inventive stretch of what was already a versatile sound, which is something that Lanyon himself is
particularly proud of. He points to the album’s sprawling closer, Baby’s Breath, as the most substantial step forward he’s made as a songwriter between albums one and two. “Frank reckons I’ve had this demo forever – the start of the song was around for years and years,” he says. “There’s this book by Tim Winton called The Turning, and it’s a collection of short stories. One of the stories is called Boner McPharlin’s Moll, and there’s this line in it: ‘You see that tree? That’s my mother’s screaming neck/You can hang me from that tree, I don’t care.’ That immediately hit me, and I started writing around that line. I knew then and there that I had to use it. The song became about my family, about me, about my own insecurities about the band. It became such a cathartic thing to be singing about. I got to let everything out. It became my favourite song on the record, and I want to start ending our sets with it. I’m worried I might not be able to, though – it ends with me screaming for something like 90 seconds. I’m not sure if I have it in me, but I’m going to try.” The album is completed by its stunning cover art, discovered entirely on accident by Lanyon on his girlfriend’s phone. “I was so taken by this photo, I had to know where she’d taken it,” he says. “She told me it was a flowering bush that she’d taken a few photos of, and it was just down the street from where my brother lives. There was something about it that was so affecting – it’s somehow inviting and welcoming, yet imposing and violent at the same time.” Kind of like Ceres, right? Lanyon laughs: “Something like that.” CERES will play Northcote Social Club on Friday October 28. Drag It Down On You is due out Friday September 2 via Cooking Vinyl Australia
This Week: As part of the Delving Into Degas film series at NGV, Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris will screen at the NGV. The 2011 American-Spanish comedy follows screenwriter Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) on a trip to Paris with his fiancée and her parents as he travels back in time each evening at midnight. Gil is gradually forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals. Meeting an array of colourful characters living in Paris in the nineteenth century, including a brief encounter with Edgar Degas, the film explores the themes of nostalgia and modernism while asking, ’when was the true Golden Age?’. The screening will include an introduction by Dr Neda Chepinchikj from The University of Melbourne. It’s going down Sunday September 4. Entry is free.
With James Di Fabrizio. Do you have news, thoughts or a fantastic minestrone recipe? Email james@beat.com.au.
Michael McIntyre BY AUGUsTUs WELBY
Music in the Round will make its way back to the Abbotsford Convent this week, focusing on intimate performances that showcase Australia’s leading and emerging classical musicians. This year, Music in the Round will present its largest program to date, with 27 musicians performing 12 concerts across four historic venues with audiences invited to curate their own unique concert experience. Program highlights include Ian Munro performing Bach, Beethoven and Ravel, William Hennessy and Louisa Breen performing Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 2, Zoe Knighton performing Bach’s iconic Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat, Tristan Lee taking on Beethoven’s seminal ‘Moonlight’ sonata, as well as Melbourne Piano Trio and Syzgy Ensemble bringing a contemporary edge to the event. Catch it Sunday September 4 (Father’s Day) at Abbotsford Convent. Written by and starring Eddie Perfect and directed by Simon Phillips, The Beast is a hilarious black comedy that turns the spotlight onto modern Australia. A scathing takedown of the middle-class, the play tells the story of three couples who move out to the sticks for a life affirming tree-change. However, they quickly find country life is not all (locally sourced) peaches and (hand churned, bicycle-delivered) cream. After an Angus calf is purchased for a respectful, face-your-food, nose-to-tail dinner party, the reality of life on the land becomes more confronting than any of them could have imagined. Already receiving stellar reviews for its Melbourne opening, The Beast will run at the Comedy Theatre through to Sunday September 4.
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Red Stitch Theatre’s You Got Older kicks off this week, boasting a brilliant cast of Eva Seymour, Lee Beckhurst, Jordan Fraser-Trumble, Emily Goddard, Francis Greenslade, Penny Harpham and Mark Yeates. The story follows Mae as she returns to her childhood home to confront her family, her history, and her wild fantasies involving a mysterious cowboy. The latest in Red Stitch’s stellar run of plays, the production is a tender comedy about how you remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you. It opens Wednesday August 31 making its Australian premiere at Red Stitch Actors Theatre.
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n 2013, Michael McIntyre was revealed to be the world’s highest-grossing comedian, and his popularity certainly hasn’t waned since then. Last year he sold out London’s 20,000-capacity O2 Arena an astounding ten nights in a row. Such widespread approval could easily go to one’s head, but McIntyre’s success hasn’t alienated him from his core fan base. His stand-up isn’t especially glamorous, nor is it flashy. In fact, his jokes often address rather banal subject matter, which could explain his broad accessibility. McIntyre will bring his ‘Happy & Glorious’ tour Down Under this October, and his objectives are straightforward. “What I’m trying to do is just to make you laugh really, really hard,” he says. McIntyre’s comedy tends to be observational with a touch of social satire, particularly with regards to the British people. There have been a number of major political events in the UK during the last couple of years, of course ± in the 2015 federal election, David Cameron’s centre-right Conservative Party won a second term of government, surprising just about everyone. And then came the referendum to determine whether the UK should leave the European Union. Cameron introduced the referendum, but he strongly campaigned for the UK to remain. When the leave campaign won, Cameron resigned as Prime Minister.
But despite all of this commotion, McIntyre is unlikely to include any political commentary in his upcoming performances. “Left and right ± I’m one of those people where I don’t really understand what that even means,” he says. “I have to remember which hand I write with just to remember which side right is.” Given the comedian’s popularity, you’d think he was in a considerable position of influence. However, he humbly rebuffs this assumption. “I would never get carried away with thinking I had any influence, or I would never try that, because it’s not my field,” he says. “If I wanted to have influence in politics, I would’ve become a politician. It’s another job. I just tell jokes, so my influence is purely comedic. If I can’t think of anything funny, I might try and see if I’ve got any influence elsewhere. But until that day comes, I’m just going to stick with trying to make people laugh and give them a break from the rigours of political debate.” Therein lies the secret to McIntyre’s success. He extracts humour from everyday situations, exaggerating ordinary events in order to illuminate core truths or expose things as silly, awkward or absurd. It’s an
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inclusive brand of comedy, conversational and jovial in spirit. “I think there’s a lot of value in enjoying the moment and having a laugh,” he says. “Personally, I think all the value is there. There are other comedians or other people who have different agendas. There are people that maybe look down on comedy that is fleeting and in the moment, but my challenge is to be as funny as possible and to make you laugh as hard as possible in that moment. And maybe there’s an argument that if a bit of your brain is thinking as well, then you’re not filling it completely with joy and laughter. “What I try and do, it’s more difficult than people would think, because I’m constantly honing and shaving away what I’m saying. And I know when I’ve achieved it and I know when I haven’t. And I have never achieved it for a whole show. It’s my objective to make a whole show as funny as possible. You know what it’s like when you watch comedy; you don’t really remember the jokes so much afterwards. You just know that you’ve had a really good time. That’s all I’m trying to do, really. “The only thing I want to stay with people is a face that hurts from laughing, because if you’re laughing for two hours, that is going to hurt. That’s when I feel happy.” MICHAEL McINTYRE will perform at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday October 22. Tickets via Ticketek.
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Thursday September 15 - Sunday October 2 Various Venues
It’s another huge one for Dirty Secrets, with a great selection of comedians to get you through hump-day. Michael Shafar as MC, Sam Taunton, Angus Gordon, Laura Dunemann, Rose Callaghan and more are getting in on the action. It’s all happening Wednesday August 31. Get down from 8.30pm at 80 Smith St, Collingwood.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert Friday November 4 ± S aturday November 5 Hamer Hall
The city’s favourite George Costanza-inspired bar continues to bring the laughs to warm up the Winter of George. On Thursday September 1 they’ll see Lewis Dowell as MC alongside Jess Perkins, Vic Healy, Geoff Setty, Claire Sullivan, and more. Plus, round eight is underway for the ‘Are You Funnier Than George?’ competition. 20 Johnston St, Fitzroy.
THURSDAY COMEDY Denise Scott headlines the comedy at the European Bier Café this Thursday night. Plus there’s Lehmo, Michael Williams, Toby Halligan and some surprise guests. It’s all happening this Thursday September 1 at 8.30pm at the European Bier Café, 120 Exhibition Street, CBD, all for only $12.
CLUB VOLTAIRE It’s another special lineup Sunday September 4 for Club Voltaire with Alex Ward as MC, Timothy Clark, Demi Lardner, Rose Callaghan, Rhi Down, and more. 14 Raglan St, North Melbourne. Mamma Mia, that’s a spicy meatball.
MTC Reveals 2017 Season Melbourne Theatre Company have unveiled their 2017 program, offering an astute mix of drama, laughter, empathy and debate through 11 mainstage productions. Opening the season comes ‘40s Broadway classic Born Yesterday, starring Christie Whelan Browne and Joel Jackson. The screwball romance is followed by John, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Baker and Brian Friel’s Faith Healer - presented in four purposefully scripted monologues and starring Colin Friels, Pip Miller and Alison Whyte. Elsewhere, Three Little Words arrives as a new comedy from acclaimed playwright Joanna Murray-Smith while Minnie & Liraz tells a hilarious story of kindly Jewish grandparents and raw ambition from Lally Katz. The Bard makes an appearance with Macbeth, alongside the farcical Noises Off by Michael Frayn, the heart warming Di and Viv and Rose, the high society classic Hay Fever, and the equal parts humorous and mysterious The Father. Capping it off comes the world premiere of Vivid White from the multi-talented Eddie Perfect and the world premiere of Melbourne Talam, a vibrant new work about three young people from India searching for belonging in Australia. Single tickets for Born Yesterday, John and Faith Healer go on sale on Thursday December 1, and single tickets for all remaining shows go on sale from Thursday March 2 2017.
Hannibal Buress Announces Stand-Up Tour Hannibal Buress will bring his new stand-up comedy tour, The Hannibal Montanabal Experience, to stages across Australia this December. With appearances in a variety of hit TV shows and feature films under his belt, as well as featuring as a cast member on Comedy Central series Broad City and co-host of Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show ± Hannibal is emerging as a comedy superstar. He will take his new show to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Hannibal Buress will bring the laughs to Hamer Hall on Friday December 2.
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 Ryan Coffey hosting, plus Harley Breen, Josh Earl, Aaron Gocs and more. It’s this Monday, September 5, 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.
KINGS OF COMEDY
Coburg Carnivale Announces 2016 Program Featuring a pop-up park, bar and unique performances, Coburg Carnivale is ready to thrill audiences. The event will feature some next level puppetry, roaming surreal fireflies, a hip hop jamboree, a totally improvised show with The Quiet Achievers, face paint by children, a circus masterclass and an epic two-hour set from The Bedroom Philosopher. He’ll be celebrating his discography by performing every song that mentions a cat - dressed as a cat. Capping it off comes Indigenous folk music from the Mission Songs Project and some amazing feats from General Fiasco’s Circus Spectacular. It’s all going down from Wednesday September 21 - Sunday September 25 at the Victoria Street Mall, Coburg.
Circus Oz’s TWENTYSIXTEEN Comes to Preston Circus Oz’s acclaimed TWENTYSIXTEEN production is ready to enthral more audience members, coming to Preston for a limited run of shows. Pushing the boundaries of physicality, gravity and imagination - the production will take to the stage with acrobatics and circus tricks aplenty. As a prominent music hub, Darebin is particularly thrilled to program a Circus Oz show with another incredible live music score. An eclectic mix of extraordinary skills, ridiculous characterisation, hilarious mayhem and more, TWENTYSIXTEEN sees a reinvigorated Circus Oz at their best. Catch it from Wednesday September 28 - Thursday September 29 in three performances at the Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre.
The Australian Ballet to Present Coppélia The Australian Ballet will perform a special Melbourne season of Coppélia this September. Coppélia has an important place in The Australian Ballet’s history. It was performed during the company’s inaugural season in 1962. The ballet was revived in 1979 in a new production by The Australian Ballet’s founding Artistic Director Dame Peggy van Praagh and the renowned theatre director George Ogilvie. In the classic tale, Dr Coppelius, an eccentric toy maker, dreams of bringing his mechanical daughter to life. Meanwhile, in the village, Swanilda and Franz are in love. But a beautiful stranger appears in town, and Franz is fascinated. Swanilda must rescue Franz from the magician’s sinister lair before it’s too late. The Australian Ballet with Orchestra Victoria will present Coppélia at the Palais Theatre from Friday September 23 until Saturday October 1. G E T S O M E C U LT U R E U P YA
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Heart of St Kilda
WITH TOM BRANd T O M B R A N d @ B E AT.C O M . A U
BY HANNAH JOYNER
Nine years into hosting the Heart of St Kilda Concert at the Palais Theatre, Australian comedian and personality Brian Nankervis still remembers vividly what drew him to support the Sacred Heart Mission.
Pixel BY MATILdA EdWARds
Dance is often considered to be a fairly traditional artform ± but one French production, opening in Melbourne this week, is set to change the way we see dance, and take it into the future. Pixel, an hour-long immersive dance show co-created by Mourad Merzouki, one of France’s most prolific choreographers, alongside Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, two innovative digital arts BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
designers. Far from just a spectacle of brilliant, technically impressive contemporary dance (although it is that, too), the performance encompasses light, sound and advanced technology to take
“I was doing a show at a school out in Ivanhoe, a well-to-do school, and I got chatting to a guy after the show and it was close to Christmas so I asked him what his plans were. He said, ‘Well tomorrow I’m going to the Sacred Heart in St Kilda, and I’m going to cook bacon and eggs for anyone who wants it’. I remember saying, ‘That’s great, good on you’. So he said, ‘Why don’t you come and help me?’ and of course I couldn’t hardly say no.” Located on St Kilda’s Grey Street, the Sacred Heart Mission has been operating a soup kitchen from there and assisting the homeless 365 days of the year since 1982, a fact that continues to fuel Nankervis’ support. “I admit my first visit was challenging,” he says. “Some people are down and out and really struggling. But the kitchen at the Sacred Heart serves everyone. People come in from neighboring suburbs and no one is turned away. I think that is really admirable.” In a similar spirit, performers at the Heart of St Kilda concert are there to support the cause and are not paid. Always a mix of comedy and music, this year’s lineup features Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey, The Rebelles, Ella Hooper, Red Symons, and comedians Judith Lucy and Bob Downe ± j ust to name a few. Nankervis recalls fondly a performance by Paul Kelly at the event a few years ago. “I remember he sang From St Kilda to Kings Cross and the whole audience rejoiced in the fact that they were in St Kilda to hear him sing it and sing along with him,” he says. “I’m a big believer in community and in trying to galvanize a suburb and a group of people. This concert is something that does that.” Last year’s concert raised $79,000 for the Sacred Heart Mission’s Meals Program, and with Melbourne seeing a visible increase in the amount of homeless people on the streets, particularly in the CBD, the
good work of missions like Sacred Heart on Grey Street need no justification. “The event is certainly gaining momentum,” says Nankervis on his nine years of work for Sacred Heart. “I just know that there are always people doing it tough. Sometimes it takes awhile for people to find out about things, so you just have to hang in and keep doing it.” One difference over the years for the concert has been making sure the variety of performers is suitable to all ages and in particular, families. “There does seem to be an increase in families coming,” he says, “For the first couple of years it was more of an adult only event, so that’s been a good change because the night is a real variety of performances; comics go on right after musicians. Another recent change is we’ve had a house band ± The Meltdown ± who backs everyone. A lot of nice traditions like that have started to happen.” The Meltdown have also provided an opportunity to make sure the musical performances are unique to the event. “I do a lot of benefit type of shows,” says Nankervis. “I always find that the audience at a benefit show really get so much out of it because it’s entertainment, but it’s entertainment for the purpose of a good cause, so it’s always very special.” A St Kilda local himself, Nankervis is nothing but grateful to both the community and a worthy cause, as well as celebrating the location itself. “There’s nothing hidden in St Kilda,” he adds. “Everyone is encouraged to be themselves and for the most part what you see is what’s happening.”
the dancers to another world, bringing the audience with them. The stage appears to grow as light projections create moving landscapes that remove the traditional four walls of the theatre. Meanwhile, artists are battling digital rain with umbrellas and contorting themselves along seemingly moving floors through ingenious choreography. “When Mourad met Adrien and Claire, they had this vision to really create a fusion between the digital age and contemporary dance; they’ve certainly achieved their goal,” laughs James McPherson, General Manager of Vass Productions, who are bringing Pixel to Melbourne for its Australian premiere. The cast in Pixel are as diverse as you can find ± from all over France, they are trained in disciplines as wide as contemporary dance, hip hop and circus arts: the choreography reflecting the variety of talents and shaping Mondot and Bardainne’s virtual world around them. Since its inception and first performance just outside of Paris in late 2014, Pixel has toured almost non-stop for two years. From Italy to Israel and now all the way down to Australia, the show moves quickly ± an impressive feat given how much technology there is to trek across the world and set up. “Our company only flew into Melbourne last night after other shows,” McPherson explains. “It’s a rather large set because of all the digital aspects, and that’s been getting bumped in over the past few days. So everyone will be in Melbourne as of today, and over the next couple of days they’ll be rehearsing and getting the show ready to open on Wednesday night. “Because they’ve been on tour for a number of years and we’ve still got the whole
original cast of 11 touring, they’re able to come into a space and have the show up and pulled together within about 72 hours.” The stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre has proven just the right fit for Pixel - where theatre adaptation is hugely important, given the scale of the digital set and lighting that needs to be perfect, right to the centimetre. “The designers are world-class, and being able to work it so that it can adapt to different spaces was really important in designing it. Every theatre does have its nuances, but in principle most of the spaces are easily adaptable,” McPherson says. “The main thing is thinking about where the audience would best be able to appreciate the performance ± because the show encompasses all parts of the stage, from the floor through to the backdrop and the ceiling ± so you need to think about that when you’re selecting theatres.” Merzouki is almost a celebrity in his own right, particularly in his native France. He founded the dance company Käfig in 1996, which has gone on to perform 25 shows in over 700 cities, seen by over a million people. An officer in the Ordre des arts et des lettres, a Knight of the Legion of Honour and recipient of the Medal of Honour from the city of Lyon, his services to dance ± before and since creating Pixel ± are innumerable. It’s certainly a world-class dance show with a difference. The only real shame is that Pixel is coming exclusively to Melbourne, and for one week only.
EVERYTHING MELBOURNE
THE HEART OF ST KILDA CONCERT goes down on Tuesday September 6 at the Palais Theatre. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.
PIXEL runs at Her Majesty’s Theatre from Wednesday August 31 to Sunday September 4. Tickets via Ticketek.
400 Gradi Cooks Up A 99-Cheese Pizza For One Day Only In celebration of national cheese pizza day (which is apparently a thing), comes a pizza so cheesy that you or your arteries might not be able to deal with it. Coming from 400 Gradi (winner of the prestigious World’s Best Pizza award), the 99-cheese pizza is inspired by the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Featuring literally 99 cheeses of varying textures and flavours from around the globe, the challenge in creating such a beast was in finding the right quantity of each cheese to ensure the final pizza was still something that people want to eat. The result is undoubtedly a cheese lover’s dream. But hey ± don’t take our word for it ± check out the 99-cheese pizza on Monday September 5 at either 400 Gradi in Brunswick East or Essendon.
Stories Over Supper: Spring Edition To Be Held At Grub Food Van After the success of the inaugural dinner back in June, The Social Food Project will return to Fitzroy’s favourite greenhouse and dining room, Grub Food Van, to host the Stories Over Supper: Spring Edition on Monday September 19. Stories Over Supper is an interactive dining experience in which guests hear stories from individuals and organisations that are working for change in the community. Jessica ChristiansenFranks, CEO of Co-Design Studios, will be the speaker at the spring event. Founder of The Social Project (and Grub’s resident sustainability expert) Ben McMenamin will prepare a delicious three-course sharestyle meal with a strong focus on the very best local spring produce, underscoring the importance of knowing where our food comes from. The menu will feature surplus produce supplied by Yume Wholesale, the revolutionary new marketplace that helps organisations with quality surplus produce connect with businesses that can use it. Finally, Tim O’Donnell of PDR will provide wine service. The cost of the event is $85 per head and includes a three-course dinner with matching drinks (non-alcoholic drinks available). Ten percent of the ticket price will be donated to the AFSA Legal Defence Fund to help support local farmers improve food systems in Australia. Stories Over Supper: Spring Edition takes place on Monday September 19 at Grub Food Van on 87-89 Moor Street, Fitzroy. Grab your tickets and more information from the Social Food Project’s website.
O f f Th e Record Despite the fact that their logo looks like it was made by a ten-year-old in Microsoft Paint, Circoloco throw some pretty damn good parties. Based in Ibiza, the internationally touring brand tends to swing by Australia when summer heats up Down Under, and this year is no different. One of their strongest Australian lineups thus far, the 2016 incarnation will be headlined by one of the co-founders of Hessle Audio, Ben UFO, and the enfant terrible of dance music, Seth Troxler. It’s going down on Saturday December 3 (same day as Ricardo Villalobos, gasp!) at Brown Alley. It’s a day party, with proceedings kicking off at 2pm. The San Francisco-based collective of Jacob Sperber, Jason Kendig, Robert Yang and Josh Cheon AKA Honey Soundsystem are coming our way. The group have all been instrumental in the formation of the Dark Entries and Discaire imprints, alongside their own Honey Soundsystem Records label, and have been pioneers in the gay underground community throwing coveted queer parties all around the globe. Expect things to get raucous when they hit The Toff in Town on Saturday October 22. Some other top-notch international gigs on the horizon: UK garage legend DJ EZ will be stopping by on Saturday November 12 at Platform One, Detroit head MK will be DJing alongside a live performance from Stephan Bodzin on Thursday November 17 at Brown Alley, while electro duo Dopplereffekt are going head-to-head with the Berlinbased techno producer Xosar on Friday September 9 at Hugs&Kisses. Looking overseas: one of the best nightclubs on the planet, London’s fabric, may close forever when the Islington Council reviews their license on Tuesday September 6. The club is currently shut down following the recent tragic drugrelated deaths of two 18-year-olds. At the time of writing, a change.org petition addressed to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to stop the closure has received 89,677 signatures. A statement from the club reads: “This petition demonstrates the sheer magnitude of people who not only value what we have been doing here in Farringdon for nearly two decades, but also care about our culture and our city’s nightlife.” Stay tuned. Tour rumours: the dapper house cat Seven Davis Jr is sure to be coming our way in October. Lock it in. Best releases this week: If you’re craving a little bit of ambient, noise and techno then don’t sleep on Kristian Marstal’s Complex (on Idiot Disc). Otherwise I’m really digging Max McFerren’s Complete Walkthru (1080p), Grant’s Cranks
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WITH T YSON WRAY (Lobster Theremin) and Ulysses’ Feelings (The Bunker NY). Also, while their name is completely terrible, Ross from Friends’ You’ll Understand (Lobster Theremin) is well worth your time.
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RECOMMENDED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 Giorgio Gigli The Mercat
MONDAY OCTOBER 31 Green Velvet Prince Bandroom
Dopplereffekt, Xosar Hugs&Kisses
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17 MK, Stephan Bodzin Brown Alley
Chez Damier The Nightcat SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 Detroit Techno Militia Railway Hotel SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 Larry Heard AKA Mr. Fingers Melbourne Town Hall FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 Rebekah Railway Hotel THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29 Bicep Brown Alley SATURDAY OCTOBER 22 Honey Soundsystem The Toff in Town
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 Marcel Dettmann TBA DJ EZ Platform One FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25 Jackmaster Brown Alley
Khokolat Koated
SATURDAY DECEMBER 3 Tell No Tales: Ricardo Villalobos, Pan-Pot, Audion + more Flemington Racecourse Seth Troxler, Ben UFO Brown Alley
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CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 • COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DANIELSAN + AGENT 86 Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • SCORE 1980-2000 - FEAT: JIMMY JAMES + JOHNNY CRATES + GIO GARCIA Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • THE MUSIC & CRAVING STUDY - FEAT: KIRALEE MUSGROVE Federation Hall, Southbank. 6:00pm.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 • 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + SAM GUDGE + JAMES STEETH + SARANTIS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • GERYON + WAHE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm. • UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2 •#MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • CHRISTOPHER PORT Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • FZOM - FEAT: FUNGUS FUNK + SHADOW FX
URBAN GUIDE + SMILK + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10.00. • LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS - FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • MAJISTRATE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $33.00. • PANIC CLUB Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • REVOLVER FRIDAYS & REWORK - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + BARON CASTLE + DYLAN GRIFFIN + VIKTOR + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • SEASONS OF CHANGE #21 - FEAT: DOBY + KICEY + KRINGE + MAHA + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • STOOKI SOUND Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • THE DISCO Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. • WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS - FEAT: DAVE PHAM + MATT RADOVICH + AZRIN + QUALE + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3 •AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. • BUSTIN OUT - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • CLUB ANGELS - FEAT: AMBER AKILLA + INFINITY BLADE + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • DARKBEAT LOCAL SESSIONS - FEAT: BOOGS + PHIL K + LO-FI 45 + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS
Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. • GET DOWN FOR THE KIDS - FEAT: TY TAI + GIO GARCIA + ED G BRU + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. • HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: PREQUEL + MYLES MAC + EDD FISHER + 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. $20.00. • SNACK ATTACK - FEAT: DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • THE ATHENAEUM - FEAT: BRYCE LAWRENCE + UNFETTERED + GLOME + MORE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 2:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB SATURDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. • THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: BOOSHANK + DAN SAN + RANSOM + GTB$Y + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4 •ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. • BATTLE 8 HEAT #4 - FEAT: MPMA VS BABALU Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS
electronic - urban - club life
CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • DJ CRAZE + FOUR COLOR ZACK Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 1:30pm. $16.67. • DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. • REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: PELEY & SHAWNECY 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 SEPTEMBER 5 • MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. • THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 •OASIS TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31
• MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: PHILTHY DRUMMOND + GEEZY + CAZEAUX O.S.L.O. + SKOMES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1
• ARIZONA THURSDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • ENTRO + GIVEN NAMES + SADIVA + NOBLE NATION + MORE Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • L-FRESH THE LION + OMAR MUSA + SUKHJIT Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $15.00. • XYLO ARIA + ANNA O Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2
• 1-800 MAADCITY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • A BROTHER SCRATCH The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. • 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. • HIT UP FRIDAY - FEAT: HUF CREW DJS Stone Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • K21 + MAUNDZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 9:00pm. $20.00. • L-FRESH THE LION + OMAR MUSA + SUKHJIT Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00. • PARTY & BULLSHIT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3
• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + MITSU + SOFIE ROZE + PAIGE PLAY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. • THE CHANGE UP - FEAT: GAIL SMITH + SOULMAN STEPHEN + MICK SMITH Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4
• ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU + LAURA DAVIS + RIKTHEMOST + MC EMERALD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $25.00.
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Stephen McBean doesn’t do days off. He might not be on tour but the Black Mountain frontman is busy setting up a home studio in his Los Angeles flat, where he moved from the band’s native Vancouver in 2010.
ELECTRIC GONER BOOGIE M E M P H I S
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BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
Memphis. The place reeks of music. Names like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and the rest of the Sun Records roster instantly spring to mind at the mention of the city. Likewise the Stax Records soul music staples Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and Booker T. & the M.G.’s. Another name that’ll no doubt resonate loudly with plenty of Melbourne punk and garage rock fans is the contemporary Memphis institution, Goner Records. Goner was founded in 1991 so that Eric Friedl could release music from the underground rock bands he loved, kicking things off with Guitar Wolf ’s first demo. In 2002, he was joined by Zac Ives, together they have helped the label deliver releases from their own bands (the Final Solutions and Oblivians, respectively), various friends’ bands (Reigning Sound, Jack O & Tennessee Tearjerkers), and provided a platform for the likes of Ty Segall, the Reatards, The King Khan & BBQ Show and Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Along the way, Goner has gained an iconic reputation and spawned a massive yearly festival called Gonerfest. Ives is heading to Australia for this year’s Bigsound conference, and while in the country he’ll be popping down to Melbourne for the mini-festival, Electric Goner Boogie. “The lineup is filled with bands I can’t wait to see,” he says. “This is my first trip to Australia, and it’s always been at the top of my list of places to visit. We’ve hosted lots of [Australian] bands and music fans in Memphis, so I couldn’t be more excited to go see it all on your turf.” Bands from the Aarght Records and Bedroom Suck Records rosters dominate the lineup, including Bitch Prefect, Terrible Truths, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Hierophants and Whipper. These two Australian labels share a similar outlook and mode of operation to Goner Records – they’re D.I.Y, independent and primarily function for the sake of releasing good music. “I love what Rich [Stanley, Aarght] and Joe [Alexander, Bedroom Suck] have been doing,” Ives says. “We’ve mined both of their catalogues for festival bands and done several co-releases with Aarght. It’s always nice to see like-minded folk doing great things.” Australian bands frequently appear on the Gonerfest lineup. This year’s instalment (happening in late September/early October) includes Chook Race, Power and Perth’s Zerodent. Ives has a go-to source to keep him up to date on Australian music. “Our main man Rich Stanley has always had his finger on the pulse,” he says. “Eric and Rich go way back and he told us about Eddy Current Suppression Ring – sent us the first album and singles, we booked them for the festival, met them in Memphis and the relationship and records came from that. I think that created some sort of link between Memphis and Australia, Melbourne especially. There have been times it’s felt like we’ve had more people at the fest from Australia than Memphis. “We’ve always loved Australian music, especially punk stuff from the ‘60s and ‘70s. It always seemed very
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specific and unique, sort of the same way Memphis stuff from those eras stands out. So it made sense that we’d fall hard for the music coming out of there today.” First held as a reasonably low-key event in 2004, Gonerfest now sees people from all over the world visiting Memphis for an annual long weekend of music and general bad behaviour. But despite having contributed their own chapter to Memphis music history, Ives says the city’s longstanding affinity with music has played an integral role in Goner’s development. “Our musical history is a tangible part of the city. It feels like it’s still there around every corner to me. And most of the guys who did it here were outcasts and misfits that did things their own weird way. It’s nice to know we’ve got that lineage. Plus it’s a cheap place to live and work, which makes it easier to pull things like your own label/ shop/festival off.” Memphis might be a source of adulation the world over, but it’s by no means a commercial music mecca. This has prevented the operations of Goner Records from ever feeling like hard work. “It helps to be outside the gears of the music industry in Memphis, where we aren’t too worried about what other people are doing or thinking and we can stay focused on doing things our way. Staying true to ourselves has always been the most important thing to us. When that stops and we start looking at what might sell or what the industry is doing, it’s time to pack it in. Finding projects to work on has never felt like work. In general, we’ve found that if we like something, others have too. We are just trying to put out music we feel should be heard.” Electric Goner Boogie is happening at the Tote, which is an apt analogue of the setting for Gonerfest. Although the festival’s recognised around the world, Ives and Friedl have been adamant about hosting it in tight, intimate venues. “We’re pretty much at capacity and there’s nowhere to grow unless we moved to a larger venue or ventured outdoors into a more normal festival setup. But both of those things would defeat the purpose of it, I think. The idea is to celebrate how great it is to see live music in a small setting, to pack in music-loving maniacs from all over the world for one wild weekend. It’s a ridiculous rock’n’roll reunion.”
It’s this work ethic that has influenced Black Mountain’s 2016. On April Fool’s Day, the band unleashed their fourth studio album – titled, fittingly enough, IV – which arrived nearly six years after its predecessor and saw the Canadian quintet dutifully make up for any lost time by instantly hitting the road. Even with over four months separating the release of the album and now, McBean still feels as though the live sound of IV is developing with every tour cycle – to him, it’s a gradual but rewarding process. “Our albums are pretty much a product of their time – they’re reflective of everyone’s headspace back then,” he says. “We’re all really proud of the new one. It seems to be translating live quite well. People that are coming to the shows seem to be excited to hear songs from it, which is good for us because we’ve incorporated a good part of the record into the setlist. There’s a creative challenge in taking a record out on the road and learning how to present it as you go. There are bells and whistles that can come with making a song in the studio, but when you’re playing it live the challenge becomes figuring out whether you want to lose the bell or lose the whistle – sometimes, keeping everything in is not an option. It can be difficult, but we’ve had a lot of fun figuring all of that out.” IV was recorded in Seattle at Avast! Studios, and sees the band continue their foray into psychedelia, fuzzheavy riffage and prog rock detours through the great unknown. Given the noted gap between releases – in which McBean spent time touring and recording with his other band, Pink Mountaintops – it’s not all that surprising to hear that the band were not able to instantly click back into formation. “The album was made over the course of about a year,” says McBean. “I’d come back up to Vancouver and jam with the rest of the band on whatever stuff they had. We went through a bunch of stuff, and I think for awhile things just weren’t happening. It took about five attempts at working on songs for us to get on a roll. After that, things were thankfully pretty painless – I put that down to working with Randall Dunn again, who did some stuff with us on our last record [2010’s Wilderness Heart]. He came to be very influential in terms of the scope of the record
ELECTRIC GONER BOOGIE will take over The Tote on Saturday September 10 and Sunday September 11.
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and the arrangements that we went with.” Since the album’s release through celebrated indie label Jagjaguwar, IV has seen a sturdy critical response and a lot of positive appraisal from longtime fans of the band. It’s the individual reactions that have intrigued McBean the most: “There are some people that have been telling us they think this new record is a return to our older sound,” he says. “In a way, I can see where they’re coming from – we were also reissuing our first album [2005’s Black Mountain] at the time of recording IV, so I guess that factored into it. I also think that each record that we’ve made is pretty diverse in its sound. When we were touring Wilderness Heart, we had people writing about the record and talking about it that were referring to it as an acoustic record – even though that album has a bunch of our most full-on rock songs on it. All we try and do as a band is make albums that we find interesting. You’ve got to try and not follow anyone else’s rules – least of all your own.” After a handful of festival dates in North America, McBean and co. are headed back to Australia for the first time in years. As well as performing at Wollongong’s Yours & Owls festival, the band are also scheduled to do a run of their own headlining shows. “We’ve always had fun while we were down in Australia,” says Mc Bean. “I’ve been there three times – I’ve been down with Black Mountain twice and Pink Mountaintops has also played shows there, too. It’s a great place with good people. I haven’t spent a lot of time in Australia, but I’ve become friends with a lot of people through them visiting Vancouver. Now, when I come to Australia, I’ve got people that I know, which is nice. I think that there is a truly great history of rock & roll in Australia, too – some of my favourite bands of all time come from Australia. The Birthday Party, AC/DC, Radio Birdman, they’re all amazing. It’s a good place. They take care of us. The shows should be fun.” BLACK MOUNTAIN will play Corner Hotel on Wednesday October 5 with Miles Brown and Medicine Voice. IV is out now via Jagjaguwar.
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JAALA G R R r L
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The enigmatic Jaala have been a little tucked away from gigging of late. The Melbourne four-piece are in the process of writing and recording their sophomore record, but while that’s certainly keeping them busy, they’re also slated to play a slew of exciting shows in the coming months. Beat chats to Jaala lead, Cosima “Cosi” Jaala, about some of the exciting appearances the band have coming up, including Sunifest 2 happening at the weekend and the Sad Grrrls Club festival in October.
Chris Russell S E A R C H I N G
F O R
M E A N I N G
BY GEM DOOW
Chris Russell, Melbourne’s struttin’, howling bluesman and half of the eponymous Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk doesn’t fanny about. When asked how he’s doing, the response is honest, expansive and sad. “It’s been a big time recently, with Dave’s son’s cancer [drummer and other half of Chicken Walk Dave Follett’s little man has Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, an aggressive and cruel cancer affecting kids], I’ve broken up with my wife, two cats died and I was dealing with a suicidal woman on the phone for three hours the other day, which is not my job, it just randomly happened while I was at work,” he says. “It’s been a big couple of months.” All things considered, Russell is remarkably chipper. “That’s where I’m at, but I actually feel really good,” he reflects. “Sometimes you feel more alive in a crisis. Have you ever watched a couple of teenage boys bolt across the road and nearly get hit by a car and when they get to the other side they start laughing? I kind of feel like that.” Worry Me in the Daytime, a short, awardnominated documentary about Russell, is set to air again in September, followed by what promises to be another raucous Chicken Walk gig. The film, which traces Russell’s music, day job, battle with grief following his sister’s death, love of Delta blues and pains to avoid cultural appropriation in 21 minutes, is a corker. Directed by Sebastian Broadbent, the short begins with Russell setting off in half-light with his dog and making his way to the golf flagpole factory where he worked. “That’s the other thing – I changed jobs,” he says, with the kind of laugh that comes from having the world as you know it explode. The experience of death, marital difficulty, serious illness and changing jobs are four out of the top five causes of stress and anxiety. That said, Russell’s really digging on his new job. “I got an office job and I’m helping people with their health insurance,” he says. “It’s actually more fulfilling than it sounds. In a lot of cases, I’m dealing with people with disabilities or serious medical problems who can’t afford to get treated and I try to find ways to get them help.” It’s also a stepping stone in a grander plan to work with blokes who have been subjected to violence or abuse. “I want to make a difference and make my life mean something,” Russell says. “I don’t have kids. For a lot of people, their children become their meaning and I don’t have that, so I want to find it somewhere else.” For the time being, Russell has found that meaning in music – first, as a means of providing connection. “Music is, or at least it can be, an empathy machine,” he muses. “Often at a gig there might be little groups of two to five people that know each other and by the end of the gig you’ve got a hundred or a thousand people who’ve all shared something together. I think in our BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
society that’s really important, because we’ve lost a lot of our rituals. A gig is really underrated as a cathartic experience.” Secondly, music has offered him solace and safety, something which is also explored in the documentary. “I’ve always found music to be really meditative,” Russell says. “When I was growing up, I didn’t want to be where I was, I grew up in an unpleasant environment, so I developed a rich fantasy life very early on. It was my safe place. I picked up guitar at 14 and I was absolutely terrible at it. Then my sister died when I was 20 and the only thing I could do for about a year and a half was play guitar to process it, so I was doing it 12 to 16 hours a day. It was all I was doing, to the extent that I became pretty much non-verbal. I didn’t speak to people and when I had to, words sounded foreign to my ears.” Known for his work ethic (Russell gets up at silly o’clock to practice) and wailing blues in the vein of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, Russell’s not beyond throwing a curve ball. “At the moment I’m exploring ‘80s funk, Prince-sounding shit,” he says. “Mostly on computer, not guitar. “I’ve always been obsessed with Prince. I can remember watching him play live in ‘92 or ‘93 and I literally did not have one friend who liked him, so I just went by myself. But I remember the first time I was aware of Prince was seeing the Controversy film clip when I was about ten. You know, there’s a guy in a trench coat, leg warmers and a g-string with high-heels and it didn’t freak me out because he owned it and it was just so fuckin’ awesome. He was just rocking that shit. It just got me and it’s always stayed with me. So, I’ve been working on that stuff on and off for years. It’s just a little thing I do to amuse myself.” Chris Russell’s documentary Worry Me in the Daytime will screen at the Spotted Mallard on Saturday September 17, with live performances from Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk and Grim Rhythm. He’ll also play at Chopped Festival, held from Friday September 30 till Sunday October 2 in Newstead, Victoria.
It’s a pleasure for the singer to be returning to Sunifest after she appeared at last year’s debut through her other musical venture, Mangelwurzel. There are 15 acts on the bill for this year’s event, up from nine in 2015. Alongside Jaala, punters can also expect to see sets from such legends as Peter Bibby, Crepes, Gabriella Cohen and Mesa Cosa, as they take to three stages at the muchloved Tote Hotel. There’s an incredible amount to see on the day - which kicks off at 3pm - so Cosi offers some pretty darn good advice to punters who want to get the most out of the lineup. “All the bands are super fantastic, but you can’t see them all because of the three separate stages, so you’ll have to learn how to split up your body into three parts so you can man all three of the stages at the same time,” she laughs. As for the Jaala set in particular, she says Sunifest 2 goers should look forward to the much-loved angst and emotion of this band coming out in their performance (there might even be some crying on stage) alongside both crowd favourite tracks and some newies. “There’ll be some new music in the Jaala set, we’re releasing the first single from our new record in September, so people will be able to get a sneak peek of that if they come along,” Cosi says.
She holds a great love for everything that this event offers, and hopes it can continue to come back each year. The Jaala frontwoman encourages anyone that’s down for a smashing time to head over to the Tote for Sunifest 2, so as help see it continue to kick on in years to come. “If you come to this one, then maybe there can be one next year and it can keep on coming back, and then maybe one day there can be a big festival called Sunifest,” she says.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich music
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healing
BY TEX MILLER
Sitting in the garden of his quaint flat, it’s easy to see that the world is at Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s feet. After The Rain, his second studio album which took the best part of five years to write and record, is finally out. Originally from the northern city of York, Leftwich vividly remembers lying on the floor in the lounge room of the small inner city house listening to his father’s old Beatles record as a small child. An academic and lecturer in International Relations, his father became ill during the touring cycle for first album First Smoke Before The Snowstorm, leading Leftwich to become his primary carer. On the day that he releases the new album to the world, he still feels that his dad is looking down upon him from up above. “My father had a massive influence on my personal and musical life. I’m always B E AT.C O M . A U
honest with what I’m saying and how I am creating and sometimes I’m too honest yet it’s just a result of being overly passionate. He focused a lot on gender equality and politics, he was very principled and gave me the drive to make everything I say have meaning to it,” Leftwich says. “I think that’s something I’m doing a lot more on After The Rain. My father had an incredible sense of calm and being able to think everything through. It’s hard to be level headed when you’re a young man and feeling so creative and passionate, and making sure amazing music is given its best possible shot is quite a task. I’ve written a little dedication to
Looking further along Jaala’s calendar, and the band are also set to play at the Sad Grrrls Fest in October. Sad Grrrls Club is a Sydney-based DIY Record Label and booking agency, aimed at promoting gender diversity in the Australian music industry through the distribution and recognition of non-male artists. The festival is the ultimate celebration of their ethos. “You can’t really say no to doing something like Sad Grrrls Club,” Cosi says. “It’s really important to encourage women and gender non-conforming artists to make some loud fucking noise. They need to be heard and to be loud and not be afraid to be creative or expressive, musically or otherwise.” The festival is kicking it up a notch in 2016 by putting on a show down in Melbourne, as well as its hometown of Sydney. The Melbourne leg will feature Jaala alongside the likes of Jess Riberio, Alex Lahey, Camp Cope, Claws & Organs and The Bad Bitch Choir. And while this event is definitely about getting around some insane music, Cosi insists that it’s about opening up the conversation about gender diversity in general. “In a way, it’s more about coming together and celebrating the other (non-male) voices that don’t always get heard,” she says. JAALA will play Sunifest 2 at The Tote on Saturday September 3 and Sad Grrls Fest at Reverence Hotel on Saturday October 1.
him on the album sleeve and I know he’s looking down on me saying good luck and don’t get too drunk at the show.” The journey may have been long, but BFL has hit the mark both musically and lyrically on After The Rain. Opening track Tilikum tells the story of a love that isn’t right for now yet could be perfect in the future. “I think that can be seen from the Timebomb Lover line. There’s a reference to the Harbour Bridge and I spent a lot of time in Sydney on my first tour of Australia a few years back. Landing at the airport and turning my phone back on after arrival. It’s about someone that I met on that first tour and ended up being a big part of my life and to an extent is still a part of my life. The verses are cryptic and jagged whilst the chorus is love for the future and hope. There was a time that I thought I was going to have a baby and name the baby Tilikum to link all the stories together, but sometimes plans fall through.” While living in York and caring for his father, Leftwich started to demo the new songs into his home studio. Removing himself completely from music allowed for the tracks to breathe new life, giving them greater meaning in the long run. It was at this time that Charlie Andrews was brought in to help bring clarity to what Leftwich was creating. “Charlie was great to work with on this album. He’s worked with the likes of alt-J and Matt Corby. At the moment he’s starting on something with Madness. He was great to work with. He helped bring out the best in the songs and I’m really proud of what I’ve created in After The Rain.” When are we likely to see Leftwich in Australia again? “I’d absolutely love to get back out there. I work with great people out there and I’m literally just figuring out when to put it in the diary. It’ll be a lot of fun to get out there sometime early next year hopefully.” BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH’s latest album After The Rain is out now via Sony Music Australia.
DANE BLACKLOCK
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BY ADAM NORRIS
Dane Blacklock has been on the run for years. Having survived the mysterious fire at the Point Remorse lighthouse that claimed the lives of so many others, Blacklock has been building a new life for himself in Melbourne, far from suspicious eyes and the lingering scent of camphor. Chances are you’ve seen him around town, busking on the streets or perhaps on stage, either as the frontman of Golgotha Motel or leading his latest motley crew, the Preacher’s Daughter. With a debut album (and tie-in novel) about to launch at Cherry Bar, we chat to Blacklock about his latest creation, Wilson Tumbleweed, and the inspirations of incest. “When I first moved to Melbourne I was really poor,” he recalls. “I would go busking all the time. It’s a good thing to have when you’re living in poverty, because if you don’t have enough money to eat, you can walk to a corner and start playing, get a couple of dollars to buy food – even if it’s only a couple of dollars over a few hours at first – and it’s glorious. It’s also great because you play to an audience, but that audience moves on at great speed. You’re not really surrounded by anyone who has witnessed your embarrassing mistakes. You’re also getting used to being in front of people, so you get your confidence up without having to deal with the repercussions of your terrible music. And through that, you can get better.” His development has taken many forms – from creative writing student at Wollongong, to reclusive lighthouse keeper, to Fitzroy raconteur – and as his musical skills have grown, so too has the troubling story of Wilson and Ophelia Tumbleweed taken shape. A journey of incestuous love, murder and madness, Blacklock’s romantic saga may not exactly make for good conversation during Sunday service, but the songs themselves are entertaining as hell. “I started writing the first song about 11 years ago. It’s not like I’d been constantly working at it that entire time. I wrote one song, and it had a character, it had a voice. It didn’t really describe that character, but I had an idea of who he was, and then however long it took for the next song to come along, that character became more solidified. Over the next 11 years it made the world bigger and the character more realistic. His personality and characteristics grew until he was complete,” Blacklock says. “It’s about these twins, Wilson and Ophelia, who fall in love and begin a sexual relationship, and the horrible life that follows on from that. Ophelia gets sold into slavery, their father tries to kill Wilson but he escapes and tries to find his sister, and crawls through all of these strange and horrible underworlds to get there.” The Lonesome March of Wilson Tumbleweed is described as a grime blues, doom folk, rock opera, and as colourful as that description may sound, it is also rather apt. There are shadows of Tom Waits and Nick Cave here, which is a remarkable evolution for an artist who cut his teeth on a staple diet of LeAnn Rimes and Simply Red (a combination, come to think of it, that almost certainly leads to madness). Yet even before the launch, which Blacklock describes as a semi-theatrical stage show, the album has encountered controversy with the video for lead single Cocaine Days. “I was aware that it was a sensitive issue,” Blacklock says. “We thought about it during production, and it was important to us to make sure there was a mix of genders there to balance things. We didn’t get the amount of male extras we wanted, which was problematic but with indie filmmaking you have to take what you can get. The intention was to show a savage, random act of a madman in a brothel. But the problem was in the video, you see bloody women, and a lot of people got angry. And that’s fair, and I remain completely open to discussing it with people. “I think it’s an important issue to discuss, and I think it’s good that it has been discussed in public with that video. The comment that I got constantly was that I was promoting violence against sex workers, and that’s definitely not what I was doing. It was a small part of a larger story, and that moment has to do with someone going crazy and doing evil things. I find it really interesting to write a character who is so unsympathetic, but who you still sympathise with his goals, his ambitions, even though he’s quite a horrible person. I think that’s a really interesting place to write about as an artist, but also interesting for an audience to follow him around,” Blacklock continues. “I’ve learnt a lot about how what I make effects people, and I would do things differently in the future. But I think it’s really important that the video stays up. If I took it down now, that whole conversation as well as the video is gone, and I think it’s important that conversation is there. All of the things I learnt from it, and what others could learn. It would be sad to see that disappear.” DANE BLACKLOCK AND THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER will launch The Lonesome March of Wilson Tumbleweed at Cherry Bar on Friday September 16.
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TRIBUTE MANIA G E T T I N G
S P I C Y
by C l aire Var l ey
If you’d told me during my early teens that I’d one day been interviewing Ginger Spice, I would’ve excitedly asked you to stop teasing me right now, thank you very much. 20 years on from the release of The Spice Girls’ debut single Wannabe, Geri Halliwell may not be lining up to speak to me, but there’s a new brand of spice on the market, and they’re ready to be heard. The latest brain child of John Tyrrell, the force behind mega tribute act Bjorn Again, is The Spicy Girls, Australia’s first Spice Girls tribute act.
VERA BLUE U N D E R C O V E R BY GEM DOOW
Once upon a time writing under a masculine nom de plume was the only way for a female author to be published. These days a pseudonym doesn’t just operate to disguise an artist’s identity – an alias can free you up to be whoever you want. Sasha Fierce lets Beyoncé channel her bad self and Emily D is jazz wunderkind Esperanza Spalding’s way of letting her inner brat run riot. In the same vein, Celia Pavey’s new identity Vera Blue has let her metamorphose from folkie to festival favourite. Initially, Pavey conceived of Vera Blue as a creative project, but once she started operating under the name it took her a million miles from her days as a contestant on The Voice. Recently, she shared a stage with Flume and Illy at Splendour in the Grass and, if you have a look at the comments on Flume’s Facebook page, by all accounts Pavey slayed. “It’s definitely freed me up,” says Pavey. “I feel like I’m still the same person, I’m still Celia, but with the new music, when I perform I can really unleash. I can open up and be whoever I want. It allows me to perform in a different way than I would usually and it’s fun. There are different flavours and colours in the music, which I’m very passionate about. The reason why I gave the project the new name was because the songs were so different from what I’d been writing. They were so fresh and so new I felt that the project deserved its own name and Vera Blue is what came out.” Pavey teamed up with Melbourne’s sweet-pop princess Helen Croome, better known as Gossling, and songwriting and producing duo Thom Mack and Andy Mak to record her EP, Fingertips, which was released in May this year. Record label Native Tongue played matchmaker in bringing them together at a band camp. “We got together and exploded,” Pavey says. Indeed, before they started writing, Pavey had the bones of the song – it was folky and stripped back. “It was a bit Angus and Julia Stoney and I didn’t really know where I wanted it to go,” Pavey reflects. “I said to Andy that I’d been listening to a lot of alt-j and FKA twigs. I’d definitely been gravitating towards electronic music, but still music that was emotionally driven, but had some grit. I wanted to keep the acousticness, where my roots are, and blend the two and that’s what Fingertips is.” It’s a fair call. Pavey always had the voice of an angel, but Vera Blue lays it over ambient electronica – think less Scarborough Fair and more Sui Zhen or the Acid. Pavey had grown up listing to and playing folk, but the interest in electronica was a long time coming. “In high school I liked heavy and gangsta beats, bass driven stuff, but I never thought I’d make music like that, so I just kept writing the folky stuff, BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
which I really loved as well,” she explains. “But I started listening really closely to alt-j and artists like that and thought, ‘One day I could make something like this,’ I just had to say the word.” Since Vera Blue’s debut, Pavey has been crazy busy. She had her first solo tour, which did so well that she’s about to embark on a bigger scale run, as well as touring with artists like Broods and Matt Corby. “I do get tired, but I have to push on because this is exactly what I want to do,” Pavey says. “And what I’m doing may be nothing compared to what I might be doing in the future, so right now, I’m having fun. It’s not just the schedule though. At times the music can be emotionally draining for artists when they get up and perform their own songs, because they’re pouring every inch of themselves out when they perform. It’s tiring, but the best feeling in the world.” Pavey’s call about being drained by her tunes makes sense – every song on Fingertips is an emotionally charged nugget. Pavey always sings about what she knows and this time around it’s relationships, love and self-discovery. “It’s nerve-wracking – for some songs it’s easier than others,” she says. “Everyone can relate through music and that’s all I want, for people to relate. But then, there’s a couple of songs that I’m working on that are even more personal and I’m nervous about it. I’m saying things about someone out there and it could affect them, but at the same time, it’s just music.” It’s an understatement to say that Pavey is chuffed about what’s unfolded in the last year or so. New highlights kept superseding the old. So, what’s the latest? “Definitely performing on stage with Flume,” she says. “The whole festival was a highlight. It was the first time I’d ever gone to Splendour and I was able to hang backstage and chill and then get on stage with the best people, like Illy, Slumberjack and Flume. It was like a dream. It’s definitely the highlight of my life so far. It just keeps getting better. It’s crazy.” VERA BLUE will play Howler on Friday September 2, Saturday September 3 and Sunday September 4 and Beyond The Valley, Lardner Park running from Wednesday December 28 until Sunday January 1.
Though they only made their debut in July at a packed Corner Hotel show full of excited fans, the band is featuring on the lineup of the inaugural Tribute Mania show, another of Tyrrell’s productions, a huge night of music at the Palais Theatre, featuring five of the best tribute acts in the world. “I’ve been thinking for about 15 years now, wouldn’t it be great to have the top tributes to the top bands together. You get 50 of the biggest hits in music on the one night,” Tyrrell says. Headlined by worldwide super act, Bjorn Again, alongside The Spicy Girls, the night will feature the cream of the tribute act crop, with The Australian Queen Tribute Show, tributing the Freddie Mercury Queen, not the Elizabeth kind, The Beatnix, a Beatles tribute band which claims to be the first tribute act ever, and Elton Jack, an Elton John tribute who got his start through Red Faces on Hey Hey It’s Saturday. “Every band’s playing for 40 minutes. Imagine choosing the best ten ABBA songs, the best ten Beatles songs. There’s been arguments in each band to figure out which songs to do. Only the best songs will be in the set. So you’re getting the real gold
hits of each act on one night, and that’s why there’s so much excitement.” Ginger – brought to life by Melbourne musician Ally McNaughton – is one fifth of The Spicy Girls. Her thick, british accent airily floats along as she laughs and describes the band’s recent formation, and fast ascent to the public spotlight. “There’s a lot of space for originals, but
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If you’ve had anything to do with Melbourne’s booming live hip hop/soul scene in recent times, you probably know Foreign Brothers. You may have even jammed with them. With their expansive sound and constantly rotating lineup of artists and creators, Foreign Brothers have built a reputation for showcasing some of the city’s best talent while throwing one hell of a party. All of that’s in evidence at their Momentum shows, a wordof-mouth institution that’s turned every second Sunday night at the Evelyn into something of a secular church for Melbourne’s music underground. Dominic Wagner is one of the founding members of Foreign Brothers. Alongside musical director Lawrence L Ricks and the rest of the core ensemble also known as the Coretet, Dominic is responsible for giving shape to the energy while holding it down as one of the group’s main MCs. Though the concept of a group with only a handful of regular members might be hard to get your head around, for Wagner it couldn’t be more natural. “The main pillar of the group is collaboration. It’s a real orthodox B E AT.C O M . A U
approach to any artistic endeavour.” As the name would suggest, Foreign Brothers are an international bunch and their collaborative spirit is based on the idea of the collective as a found family. “Originally the concept was just being a group of creators from our individual motherlands finding each other in a strange place. We latched onto each other as a way to survive creatively. We all need family and friends to get through life and we eventually realised how much more
there’s also a lot of space to relive all the old fabulous tunes. Reliving the ‘80s or ‘90s or all these different genres is something that people don’t often get to do in a live show, so bringing it back to the people is something exciting for us to do,” she says. “I love the girls so much, they’re an absolute riot. We’ve got very diverse personalities, from very different places, but when we get together it’s like a beautiful marriage between five lovely women. We’re very lucky that our personalities and voices work so well together. We are the Spicy Girls, we live and breathe it. It’s become part of us.” Tyrrell sighs as he explains that tribute acts are not as easy to put together as some think. A lot of work goes into making an act shine. “A lot of people think you can just put on a wig and bam, off you go. But you can’t be successful if you don’t have premium performers, singers and high production values. “Overseas, Australia’s known as the birthplace of tribute bands, largely because of Bjorn Again. Tribute bands can put on shows that can rival major touring bands. Lady Gaga’s tour manager was blown away by how good Bjorn Again are, everyone who sees it for the first time says they didn’t expect it to be this good.” TRIBUTE MANIA will come to Palais Theatre on Saturday September 3.
we could accomplish together than as individuals,” Wagner says. He credits this attitude with attracting a wide range of talented collaborators. “In terms of our live shows and parties, we’ve basically become a platform for artists we’ve met in that same organic way. I think that’s one of the points of difference, we don’t go booking acts because they’ve got a name or we’re trying to make tons of money, these are just people we know and break bread with.” The feeling of being a stranger in a strange place also became essential to the group’s philosophy. “When you’re in a foreign place – Australians know this better than anyone because you get out of Australia so much – everything’s fresh and you’ll go out and do those things you don’t usually do. The main essence of the group is trying to maintain that traveller’s spirit and be foreign even when you’re at home. People who are down for that and know the liberation of being outside your comfort zone, those are the sort of people we’re trying to reach out to.” Despite their global perspective, Foreign Brothers are very much rooted in the Melbourne scene. “When I came here in 2008 and saw Hiatus Kaiyote play and watched all these people drawing energy from it that’s when I knew this was a special city. Melbourne’s our town. It’s a musical town and there are places around the world like it but it’s a rare thing to live and operate in one and feel completely free to be ourselves.” The strength of the scene will be in evidence at their upcoming showcase of local hip hop, which for Foreign Brothers was where it all began. “When we first started connecting we’d always vibe to some MF Doom joints. We’d just bug out and that’d be our background music. I really believe there’s a major place for hip hop in Australian culture so this is our first step into running a mini festival to bring as many different vibes together as we can.” FOREIGN BROTHERS will host their Melbourne hip hop showcase at The Gasometer on Friday September 16. They also host Momentum at The Evelyn every second Sunday.
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RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN TEETH & TONGUE
Give Up On Your Health (Dot Dash/Remote Control)
Teeth & Tongue’s fourth album Give Up On Your Health is an electrifying move into synth based territory for Jess Cornelius and her band. As the sounds on the album get more experimental, the bolder Cornelius becomes as she invites listeners into the engrossing urgency of her vignettes. Opening track Give Up On Your Health is Blondie meets Ladyhawke as layers of synths are revealed and the narrative unfolds via Cornelius’ beguiling vocals. On Do Harm Cornelius imparts wisdom on the importance of letting things go, while Your Ghost Is The Hardest To Kill tells of the anguish of being at the mercy of someone no longer part of your life. Cupcake Revisited takes an older song and deconstructs it to become a slow burning electronic vision, with Cornelius’ vocals in full control of the song. Meanwhile, the monster romp Dianne demands to be listened to on repeat and as loudly as possible, serving as the most infectious track on the album. Are You Satisfied?
is constantly questioning with Cornelius’ doubts and insecurities coming to the surface, while Callback’s ghostly backing vocal emphasises the song’s lament. Closing track Turn, Turn, Turn’s swirling outro is one that fully immerses, but just when you start to lose yourself Cornelius comes back to the mic, menacingly yelling “Give me what I want,” in one breath and ending the album on a thrilling note. Give Up On Your Health is a masterclass in synth laden indie rock, with Cornelius embracing a real sense of fun and taking things to an exciting new level. Never has Cornelius’ songwriting or vocals been more powerful, and even though she’s this far into her career, there’s still plenty more she has to show. Truly a musical chameleon, Cornelius has rejuvenated Teeth & Tongue and released one of the most compelling albums of the year. BY HOLLY PEREIRA
SINGLE REVIEWS WITH LACHLAN
DD DUMBO Walrus (4AD) There are shades of Dirty Projectors’ guitar flourish, and their vocal stunts, also, in Walrus. It largely works, coming together
for a series of moments quite easy on the ears. It carries with a gentle, welcoming momentum. There’s nothing mind-blowing here, but a nice follow up from previous single, Satan. Some tricks work – the surprise love-invoking folk breakdown – and some don’t, the overwrought vocal-play loop at the end. Still, the debut album is set to be a corker. EMPIRE OF THE SUN High And Low (EMI) Can whoever is booking these cunts for festival headline slots (it seems to be no one in Australia,
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so you’re off the hook) stop encouraging these festering shitgrade insipid attempts at car ad anthems? Cheers. DANNY BROWN Pneumonia (4AD) Danny Brown usually makes quite fun music. This isn’t fun, but it’s stunning growth. There’s no crutch of cheap hook, instead diving into gritty production, a world away from molly anthems, still engaging in its industrial palette. It’s a good sign for new album Atrocity Exhibition, out end of next month.
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100% Lost Youth (Moontown) Brissie trio 100% push their synths into pyrotechnic fanfare on Lost Youth, stoking hypnotic momentum with incremental euphoria. It’s an exponential lift, each element utilised as a stepping stone for the next. It’s inspired. Taken from the album You Are 100%, out pretty soon-ish.
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1. Nervous Wreck COLUMBUS 2. Long Holiday FLYYING COLOURS 3. Love To Praise You POSTBLUE 4. Lose Sleep feat. Jordan Rakei REMI 5. Skinny Legs THE VANNS 6. Us ANNA OF THE NORTH 7. The Way It Was COAST MODERN 8. Reason To Run EZTV 9. She Said SUNDARA KARMA 10. Take My Hand TIDES
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DIE ANTWOORD We Have Candy (Independent) For all their many shortcomings, I kinda dig some of Die Antwoord’s rave rap bangers. We Have Candy is dumb. Not even dumb fun. It’s vaudevillian idiocy, a diss track at Starbucks I think. Sometimes novelty isn’t novel.
1. Delirium Tremens MICK HARVEY 2. Freetown Sound BLOOD ORANGE 3. Roses Always Die SARAH MARY CHADWICK 4. Boronia HOCKEY DAD 5. Stadium Cake OH PEP! 6. Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not DINOSAUR JR 7. Birth ORB 8. The Great Mixtape SAMPA THE GREAT 9. Love And Hate MICHAEL KIWANUKA 10. A Moon Shaped Pool RADIOHEAD
1. Around the House Chook Race 2. My Woman Angel Olsen 3. Band of the Future Ausmuteants 4. Freedom Jazz Dance Prequel 5. Astral Debris Georgia Fields 6. Paternoster Paternoster 7. Astronaut Meets Appleman King Creosote 8. Philosophy of the World The Shaggs 9. Time and Place Lee Moses 10. System Datach’i
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UNITY FLOORS
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LIFE ADMIN (Popfrenzy Records)
On the whole, contemporary indie rock seems particularly prey to unfulfilled potential. Disappointingly often, musicians in the genre set up a situation or a sound that they then seem unable to bring to fruition, hinting at an emotional maturity that their fragile tunes bend and break under. Georgia Mulligan is the exception to that particular rule. If anything, Mulligan is all about overwhelming the listener rather than cutting them short, and her songs find worth in the territory most musicians would lack the bravery to even skirt around. She is a singularly unafraid songwriter. White Lies mixes up a drenched melody with a vivid, spat-out chorus, while The Worst Part swings back from trauma to transcendence and then all the way back again. Mulligan’s skill is making pain seem like a triumph, and triumph seem like pain. By refusing to settle for anything resembling the middle ground, Mulligan blasts her tunes into the walls of your heart, pounding out messages in the places you thought secret. The end result is an EP that feels like something cut from your life; not for you but of you. This is music you already know, somehow - songs you’ve been hearing your whole life without even realising it. You don’t know Georgia Mulligan yet. But Georgia Mulligan knows you.
In this age of changing technology, bands seem to find it hard to resist the urge to alter or tweak their sound in some way. But despite the pressing lust for the new, Unity Floors have evidently heard the cries for more that rang out after the release of their debut album, Exotic Goldfish Blues, and have given fans a delicious dose of the same, rather than reinventing the wheel. Life Admin, the band’s new record, does nothing groundbreaking compared to their debut. The band simply launch into the business of being Unity Floors, cracking open with Moving To Melbourne, a song that captures the national feeling of giving up the struggle and moving to the happiest place on Earth (or the happiest place in Australia, at least.) Tracks like Give And Take, Young Professionals, and Cost Of Living see the band showcasing a stripped back but blistering sound, making a lot from the most basic components. Their sound is slightly tighter, the lyrics slightly more poignant, but Unity Floors have kept true to their own, and have delivered an album that sits shoulder to shoulder with their debut.
STORIES TO TELL (Universal)
The latest creative works from self-taught, 19-year-old producer Just a Gent is an eight track long stroke of genius. The only thing more impressive than the quality of music is the quality of the collaborating artists. Stories to Tell is championing Australian talent, with the likes of Melbourne singer/songwriters LANKS and Mellissa Ramsey, both of who feature on the lead singles from the EP. Heavy as a Heart Break is a mind orgasm, pulling you in a multitude of directions, while LANKS’ smooth melancholy voice keeps you cantered and Loaded is proving to be a fan favourite. Rolling Dice features Ella Vos and Joey Chavez, and they kill it on the vocals, evoking an Angus and Julia Stone vibe which is very emotive and velvety soft. Stories to Tell is a combination of ethereal, haunting magic and electronic beats paired beautifully and has earned it place in your collection of fine Australian music. BY JOSEPH EARP
BY DANIEL PRIOR
BY JOSEPH EARP
BEACH BABY
DUB FX
NO MONEY, NO MIND (Island Records)
GONJASUFI
CALLUS (Warp)
THINKING CLEAR (Convoy Unltd)
Welcome to the world Beach Baby, as they take their first tepid steps into the wide blue yonder from their student bedsit and the security of higher education. Limousine opens proceedings and suggests a quick ascent to bigger things. Yet that would paint a vulgar picture once the lyrics of risible behaviour are appreciated beyond the pop dynamic of the music. Similarly, Lost Soul suggests something akin to a brutish dirge, but actually suggests otherwise. Like the like-minded Ariel Pink, Beach Baby employ summer shimmer to camouflage their disarming lyrics. One can’t help but marvel at the self effacing “A little fucked up and a little slow,” observation of the titular track. An understated gem that’s like finding loose change in the gutter. A little of the straining desperation pervades some of the songs and ignites a degree of eyes focused on the pavement reverie, while indicating that the band are some provincial outsiders taking strident steps into the unknown. Smoke Won’t Get Me High is a frolic of sorts, a clarion call to those who’ve dropped their theatrical mask only to find that comedy has been replaced by tragedy. “Do you like what I do?” they quiz on Hot Weather and one can’t make an assessment that’s overly negative. This suggests a stately edifice may be built for the future. The current single UR bears a degree of emotional power, a riff from an earlier time. Bug Eyed And Blonde is suitably dreamy and detached. Languid from start to finish it’s a seamless transition through the prism of ‘60s meanderings of a psychedelic brain frazzle. Interesting that Powerbaby should immediately follow, before How Lucky You Are ends it all on a folky note that underscores a sense of blissful abandon.
Dub FX has made his way from the busking streets of Melbourne to become one of the world’s most recognised street and stage performers. More commonly known as Ben Stanford, his fusion of beat boxing, dub, reggae, electronics and hip hop has earned him one hell of a reputation. Dub FX’s experimental sound speaks for itself in his third studio album, Thinking Clear, recorded in his very own Treetop Studios. The Theory Of Harmony (2014) follow up sees the innovative talent blending urban and environmental sceneries, creating a holistic experience that inspires through transcendent electronic and acoustic elements. Beginning the listening experience is Birds And The Bees, sprinkled with the sounds of birds chirping and trees swaying in the wind. Whispering the words, “It’s a good night for the birds and the bees/ Do you see the sunlight coming through the trees?” Dub FX immediately creates intrigue. As a fast tempo transfixes, its transformative nature takes over and you are officially reintroduced to the wonder that is Dub FX. The eight minute Heat Wave sees the experimental artist placing no time limits on his productions, allowing his live sound to thrive and a sense of improvisation to occur. Sampled sounds of the ocean and an extended horn section create a stark contrast between ethereal and fiery tones, two common threads throughout the release. UnWind details the journey he has taken over the years and pays homage to his busker beginning with, “Coins in my hat is how I paid my way from city to city and street to stage.” That’s The Game, Dub FX showcases his sheer range with an A Capella performance. A soulful, doo-wop inspired vocal is matched with a part hip hop, part reggae instrumental and simply couldn’t offer up a more enjoyable end.
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BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON
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It’s funny how some perceive and attain enlightenment. Travel, books, spirituality – many attribute these to having some sort of positive effect on their wellbeing. But at what point do we become too enlightened? This question is answered on Gonjasufi’s newest release Callus, where the Californian producer attempts to meld sound in a way that is ferocious in its delivery, but remains uninteresting. To call this an album would be an overstatement at best. It’s more of a science experiment gone wrong, and Sufi is attempting to justify its existence through really vague and boring anecdotes about depression which are extremely hard to decipher. Sufi opts for twangy guitars and a heavy industrial presence on opening track Your Maker, setting a thematic precedent for the entire album – doom, gloom and everything in between. Oddly short lead single Maniac Depressant features an ear-piercing snare drum that changes pitch more than Sufi’s vocals, where he opts for screaming and an obnoxious mono tonal melody that feels like it drags on more than the album’s painfully long running time. Callus is completely devoid of bass until Afrikan Spaceship where Sufi does his best worst Jack White impression while attempting to mash together blues and psychedelia in what ends up turning into a complete mess. While Ole Man Sufferah gives some sort of order through all the wacky experimentation, the dissonance of the chords doesn’t provide a gateway for the ears to gain at least some pleasure until the track Krishna Punk, that is true to its name and is definitely the most tolerable cut off the album. With a Ramones-like “Hey” that demands attention, and a breathtaking harmonised vocoder towards the end of the track, a shift in tone is imminent, until next track Elephant Man where it becomes apparent that Sufi is more interested in making music for himself rather than his fans. BY BENJAMIN POTTER
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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 31 AUG LANEWAVES
T HE TOTE It’s the end of August, which means it’s also the end of the Lanewaves August Residency at The Tote. Supported by Del Boca Vista and No Star, Wednesday August 31 marks the last chance to see Lanewaves golden age of surf music meets rock‘n’roll, all in the warmth and safety of The Tote’s upstairs rock bungalow. Doors open as the sun sets, around 6.30, with free entry.
ALBARE’S URBAN GROOVES Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $29.00.
BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.
SLIM PICKINS
WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: ZOE K + PHOEBE DAICOS
T H E B R U NS WI C K H OT E L Thursday September 1 is an important day for many. For some, it’s the first of spring. For others, it’s Natalie Bassingthwaighte birthday. Whatever makes it special for you, get on down to The Brunswick Hotel and watch Slim Pickins play to celebrate. Support comes from Hills Hoist, Humus and The Smirks. Special first-day-of-the-month doors from 8pm.
Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THE TWOKS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: JOEY ELBOWS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY 1 SEP MIDDLEMARCH
TH E B E N D I G O Say hello to Middlemarch, The Jives and The Deadpans; three bands offering a safe and inclusive night of free music at The Bendigo Hotel on Thursday September 1. Middlemarch are a five-piece alt-rock band from the coast, The Jives consist of four boys from the city and The Deadpans have been playing just about everywhere. Combined, they’ll bring you some corker garage psych noise. Doors are at 8pm with entry at $10
8:00pm. $18.00.
TIMBALERO THURSDAY La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
ANDREW SAMUEL + KAHLO + DIDIRRI Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond.
PAUL DEMPSEY
THE CORN E R HOTEL Paul Dempsey has recently released his second solo LP, Strange Loop, and he’s been travelling about showing it off to crowds across the country. It’s been seven years since Dempsey’s first solo LP, Everything is True. After returning to Something For Kate for one album, and dropping an LP of acoustic cover versions, he reclaimed complete control and constructed his new album Strange Loop. Recorded late last year with Wilco producer Tom Schick in Chicago, Strange Loop uses the folk-rock stylings of Everything is True as a point of departure, taking in alt-country epics, fuel guzzling belters and Replacements-like bar-room confessionals. This Thursday September 1, Paul Dempsey will launch his new record at the Corner Hotel with support from Olympia. Get dreamy with Dempsey on Thursday September 1.
8:00pm. $10.00.
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JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:30pm.
SCHOOL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
MATT BAKER & THE TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club,
7:30pm. $20.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
DIE WINTERREISE - FEAT: DANIEL DE BORAH + ANDREW
ROB BURKE SEXTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
GOODWIN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
6:00pm. $29.00.
RUYTON GIRLS© SCHOOL MUSIC GALA CONCERT
MATT BAKER & THE TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
$25.00.
MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz
THE BELLOWS + ZOL BALINT + ANTHONY YOUNG & THE
Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
AYXNMD + CENTRE PLACE + ELIOT FRIEND Old Bar,
GENERAL MEN + POLO + STELLA COLLAPSE + CAKEFIGHT
NEXT MAN DEAD Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
PHIL TURCIO’S GROOVES ODDITIES & ELECTRONICS
Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00.
Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $5.00.
$7.00.
Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $25.00.
BEASTLY BIRDS + WINNICK Tago Mago, Thornbury.
GRIZZLEE TRAIN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
WEDNESDAY JAZZ NIGHT - FEAT: THE ROOKIES The
SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND Open Studio, Northcote.
8:00pm. $7.00.
JEFF MARTIN Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 7:00pm.
Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
8:30pm.
CLAIRY BROWNE + KIRA PURU Toff In Town, Melbourne
JOHNNY KROWFOOT + SOUTHBOUND TRAM + LYLA &
APES + GREAT OUTDOORS + BATZ Gasometer Hotel,
SOUL POWER - FEAT: MIKE STEVA Purple Emerald,
Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00.
THE KING TIDE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
Northcote. 8:00pm.
DEWARS - LOCK INN Grace Darling Hotel,
8:00pm.
CLASS ACTS #12 - FEAT: ENVIRONMENTS + PRODUCT
Collingwood. 6:00pm.
KEEGAN JOYCE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.
+ SUB TROPICAL THUNDER + GRETA STANLEY Grace
FAN GIRL + DREAMCOAT + TOM PRETTYS + DJ YOUNG
$10.00.
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
DYLAN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
MANDY CONNELL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
GOLDEN GIRLS + SHAQUILLE MCNIELL & THE TAHNLORD
$10.00.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.
+ VARIOUS ASSES + OCTANDAR Workers Club, Fitzroy.
MASCO SOUND SYSTEM + EASY BROWNS TRUCKSTOP
9:30pm.
7:30pm. $10.00.
CHICKEN JAM BAND Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
HOWNOWMER + BURNT SAUSAGES + THEE GRAVY TRAM
MIDDLEMARCH + THE JIVES + THE DEADPANS Bendigo
7:00pm.
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
SPECTRUM 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.
MORNING HARVEY + SPLIT SECONDS + DOONA WAVES
WILSON + WHITE DUO + TERRY SPRINGFORD Highlander,
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.
LANEWAVES + DEL BOCA VISTA + NO STAR Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm.
OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.
RAT TA’MANGO + THE BLACK ALLEYS + SMOKE STACK
XYLO ARIA
H OWL E R Xylo Aria is bringing her first release of 2016, Paradigm to Howler on Thursday September 1, also premiering the accompanying video. It’s a clip that’s sometimes dark, full of visual trickery, all of which bring to life the lyrics of Aria’s song brilliantly. The video was made with Melbourne based director Adam Trad and Cannes Film Festival Prize winning Kas Kalami. The show will also feature dancers from Melbourne’s Dance National Academy and lead support comes from Anna O. Doors open wide at 8pm and entry is free. Make this a Thursday to remember.
MANDY CONNELL & KEEGAN JOYCE
WE S LE Y A NNE Award-winning Mandy Connell brings her bare admired songwriter and grace to the Wesley Anne on Thursday September 1. Keegan Joyce joins her to launch his debut album Snow on Higher Ground, a performance featuring Gerard Carroll and Jane Patterson. Connell plays in the front bar at 6pm and her set is free, Joyce’s show kicks off at 8pm, for just $10.
OH YAY! THURSDAY Greenwood Loft, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PAUL DEMPSEY + OLYMPIA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
BECCY COLE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. BEN MITCHELL Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm. DAISY WEST + CAZZOLINE Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
FRIDAY 2 SEP MATT JOE GOW
ROCK AGAINST CUB - FEAT: THE PEPTIDES + DUMB
SUK© S ASRAEL SYMPHONY - FEAT: JAKUB HRŮŠA Hamer
SYMBOLIC ORDER + FAIR MAIDEN DUO Northcote Social
PUNTS + SUSS C?NTS + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm.
Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.00.
THE RETRE AT Matt Joe Gow is rumoured to have so much charm he can sell you just about anything. We’d like to take him up on that, but in the meantime you can witness said charisma and musical conviction at The Retreat on Friday September 2. Playing songs from his debut The Messenger and forthcoming album Seven Years, it’s a show not to be missed. Doors open at 9.30, free entry.
3:30pm.
$40.00.
SLIM PICKINS + GREAT JOHN HIMSELF + HUMUS + THE
LEAVE YOUR HAT ON (JOE COCKER TRIBUTE) Grand
RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.
THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO +
SMIRKS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
Hotel Mornington, Mornington. 8:00pm. $25.00.
8:30pm.
TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.
THE CASEY BENNETTO PROJECT + SHANNON BOURNE
90ŮS MANIA - FEAT: HADDAWAY + LA BOUCHE + AMBER +
THE AMITY AFFLICTION 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd.
7:00pm.
Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:30pm. $17.00.
MORE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $96.78.
7:00pm.
THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ PIERRE
THE STRANGE + STILL MOVEMENT + DANNY WALSH &
AC/DSHE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.
VERA BLUE + LANKS Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm.
BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00.
WILL HEWETT Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
BILLY FOX Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
GRIZZLEE TRAIN
VERA BLUE Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm.
BLACK ACES + ATOMIC RIOT + DARCEE FOX + KEGGIN
WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
$32.00.
BLOODHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL + PARADING + SEASLOTH +
BACKSTAGE - FEAT: ROUTE 61 + THE SHAKE SHACK
ARCHITECT OF REALITY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
BOOGIE BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.
$10.00.
BACKWOOD CREATURES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick
CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel,
East. 9:00pm.
Williamstown. 9:30pm.
RHINO Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00. REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MILLER (SING-A-LONG)
WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $32.00.
DAVID MERCY + LITTLE FOOT + ANDREW SAMUEL Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
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Frankston. 9:00pm.
SARAH MARY CHADWICK + JONNY TELAFONE +
Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $18.00.
$25.00.
RESIDENT THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ SHADOW Pier Live,
TH E RE T R E AT Kasey Chambers’ young backing band, Grizzlee Train are a roots duo from the NSW Central Coast. The boys take the sound of vintage blues, and smother it with modern guitar licks and pulsating percussion. The result? Something truly dynamic. This unique take on all things traditional goes down at The Retreat Hotel, Brunswick on Thursday September 1, with special guest Cat Canteri. Doors from 8.30pm.
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GIG GUIDE PUNKS IN THE BEERLIGHT
BLACK ACES
THE BEN DIGO HOTEL Black Aces are taking their true blue, chest thumping brand of Australian rock‘n’roll to Europe for a three month long tour, so they’re playing one last show at The Bendigo Hotel to farewell our big brown land. Joining Black Aces for support is Atomic Riot, Darcee Fox and Keggin. The celebrations kick off at 8pm, for a measly $10 bucks. Get down and barrack for the boys.
TH E TOTE The Silver Jews were formed by David Berman, Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich and are fondly described as “the best band most people had never heard of ”. Whether you know them or not, Friday September 2 will be a celebration of the band’s work, interpreted by some of Australia and New Zealand’s best, including Two Steps On The Water, Henry Wagons, Matt Walker, Dan Parsons and Skyscraper Stan. Shop opens at 8pm, with tickets for $40. You’ll be sure to learn something.
FAMOUS WILL + JACK WRIGHT + SAM HANSON Workers
BLOODHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL
CASSETTE Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
$34.70.
T H E WO R K E R S C LU B Bloodhounds On My Trail are pumped to launch their new single Over The Wall this Friday September 2, a release that follows their 2015 debut EP Escape II, which received global online praise. Providing support are local legends Parading, Seasloth and Architect of Reality, which means you’d be hard pressed to find a show with a more interesting collection of band names. Slip in at 8pm, stay til late and spend only $10 on entry.
DEATH BELLS + NICKY CRANE + PUBLIQUE + RUNES Bar
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT DEGAS A NEW VISION - FEAT: MICK
GOLDEN SYRUP + TIME FOR DREAMS + MOON RITUALS
Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
HARVEY- INTOXICATED MAN National Gallery Of
+ VARIOUS ASSES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
DEWARS - LOCK INN - FEAT: SIB Grace Darling Hotel,
Victoria, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $12.00.
8:30pm. $10.00.
Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $7.15.
FINISHING SCHOOL Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:30pm. $10.00.
FRENZAL RHOMB Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
Collingwood. 6:00pm.
HEADS OF CHARM + THE WORLD AT A GLANCE + RAD
DYLANESQUE – THE BOB DYLAN STORY - FEAT: JEFF
ISLAND + SLOW JOB Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
JENKINS Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm.
MORNING HARVEY
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The band is Morning Harvey. I’m Spencer and I sing.
What do you love about making music? I’m always excited at every point when I’m writing, even if I hate myself for a brief period, it’ll be productive hate.
What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Hopefully Morning Harvey. Or maybe, “these guys sound like Morning Harvey huh?”
What do you hate about the music industry? Haven’t really figured that out yet. There’ll be something....Maybe the cost of everything when you’re starting out. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? If I had the chance to show someone I respected (only if they asked), maybe Bowie or Cave. But I wouldn’t want the feedback unless they felt obliged.
$22.00.
EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + THOSE GUYS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.
A BROTHER SCRATCH
THE B.EAST Focusing on rawer and a more improvisational approach to live hip hop, A Brother Scratch is a side project emerging from the 30/70 collective. The group features the hip-tonic 30/70 rhythm section with new additions Joel Trigg on keys and Pataphysics Trumpet/ M.C. Watch them light up The B.East on Friday September 2, with this affair kicking off at 9.30pm and entry as free as a bird. Don’t forgot the $8 pints of Beast Lager and $5 Tecate, which will make your night less free but much more enjoyable.
Q&A
TIM WHEATLEY
TH E CROXTO N Tim Wheatley’s debut solo album Cast of Yesterday is a look into his past. Friends, heroes and villains alike are surfaced and interrogated in ways that are sure to both surprise and delight. Wheatley, having spent much of this year touring the US and UK, plays Thornbury’s The Croxton as part of his Hot for August tour. Jemma Nicole will provide support with doors at 7.30.
THE PEARLY SHELLS
M E M O M U S I C H A LL The Pearly Shells shimmer into spring on Friday September 2 at MEMO Music Hall, St Kilda to launch their new single Baby, I’m Falling. Special guests Julie O’ Hara and Rob Price will be backed by the full Pearly Shells Big Band. The night is set to be reminiscent of some of the greatest jazz and swing, sans a sandy butt. General admission presale is $20 or $22 on the door. Doors open at 8pm. Swing on down.
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What can a punter expect from your live show? Hopefully something they can talk about. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? A few EPs and t-shirts. Maybe an old poster. MORNING HARVEY will play The Workers Club on Thursday September 1, with Hollow Everdaze and Split Seconds.
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BOOG$
METRIK Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 11:00pm.
NAT ALLISON + MOTHER Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St
MEZZ LIVE Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights.
Kilda. 8:30pm. $15.00.
5:30pm.
NO SISTER + SYNTHETICS + SCHOOL DAMAGE Tote
THE GROGANS + CRACKER LA TOUF + GONZO DOG Ding
T HE O L D BAR Their name? Heads of Charm. Their genre? “Trash rock”. The band are playing an east coast tour to celebrate their single Cocaine Aplenty, and their show at The Old Bar on Friday September 2 is a sturdy part of that tour. If we didn’t grab you at “trash rock” then support acts At a Glance, Rad Island, Slow Job and DJ Kezbot should help seal the deal for you. $10 please, and doors at 8.30.
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.
Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
PABLO NARANJO + HUANCHACO + JESSE RUDD-
THE SKAMPZ + FALLEN STAR + ASTROHYM Mr Boogie
SCHMIDT Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
$8.00.
TOMMY'S BANDROOM - FEAT: WOW CITY MOVEMENT
PAUL DEMPSEY + OLYMPIA Corner Hotel, Richmond.
+ DJ SHADOW Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone.
8:30pm.
9:00pm. $9.00.
RACKETT + BATZ + TAP ENSEMBLE Penny Black,
VERA BLUE + LANKS + GRETTA RAY Howler, Brunswick.
HEY HEY IT'S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal Hotel
Brunswick. 8:30pm.
8:00pm. .
(essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.
REDSPENCER Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.
WATTS ON PRESENTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .
JASON SINGH + TAYLOR SHERIDAN Flying Saucer Club,
RUNNING YOUNG Golden Vine Hotel, Bendigo.
WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
Elsternwick. 6:00pm. $22.00.
8:00pm.
$32.00.
LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE RESIDENT
SADULTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00am.
BACHELORS FROM PRAGUE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
SLUMBERHAZE + WALLFLOWER + JOE FORRESTER 303,
BIG BAND FREQUENCY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
Northcote. 8:00pm.
8:00pm.
SPARE NO WORDS + DANKENSTEIN + HER MAJESTY'S
CATANCHIN & CHINDAMO Paris Cat Jazz Club,
HANGOVER + WHOOPIE CAT Brunswick Hotel,
Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.
Brunswick. 8:00pm.
JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
TADZIO Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 2:00am.
8:00pm.
THE AMITY AFFLICTION 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd.
KELSEY JAMES BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
8:00pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
THE GOOCH PALMS + WET LIPS + BAD VISION John
LISA EDWARDS & MICHAEL CRISTIANO Milano's Tavern,
Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $25.00.
Brighton. 8:00pm. $60.00.
B A R OPEN Sydney-based new wave band Death Bells have just finished an extensive US tour, and who could think of a better way to mark the homecoming than a show at Bar Open? Nicky Crane, Publique and Runes will provide support on Friday September 2 at the Fitzroy establishment. Ding that door bell from 8pm onwards, with entry for at $10.
HEADS OF CHARM
MASTER_BETA + SHINPLASTERS + MANSIZE ROOSTER + FORKLIFT ASSASSINS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $6.00.
ALBERT GRAY
T HE DRUNKEN POET Albert Gray’s singing and songwriting exist as a paradox ± alluring, strong and elegant, but simultaneously dark and emotionally charged. Like the works of Woody Guthrie and Jason Isbell, these are songs about what it really means to be human. Gray plays The Drunken Poet, West Melbourne on Friday September 2, from 8.30.
THE GOOCH PALMS
TH E J OH N C U R T I N Newcastle’s beloved Goochies are back in town, in support of their widely acclaimed LP Introverted Extroverts. On Friday September 2, The Gooch Palms are taking over The John Curtin Bandroom to show us what they’ve learnt in their globetrotting travels and to showcase a few sparkly gems from Introverted Extroverts. It’s been a busy year for The Goochies. They’ve set up their own record label, Summer Camp Records, and are fresh off the back of supporting punk-rock juggernauts, Violent Soho, playing to a swell of crowds all across the country. Support on the night comes from the intrepid Wet Lips and Bad Vision. The night kicks off at 8pm.
PAWN & CO. King of Melbourne underground Boog$, and legend of Sydney’s dance music scene Beni get together (on the decks, at least) at Pawn & Co on Friday September 2. Beni is touring nationally to celebrate his latest track, a hot and heavy remix of Mylo’s Drop The Pressure. Entry is free before 10pm, and $15 after that.
VISIONS
YAH YAH’S Can you imagine how sick it’d be to have Nicholas Allbrook, Fascinator, Crepes, Way Dynamic, Plotz, Deep Sea Arcade DJs, Visions DJs and Pretty City DJs in one room together? Well, VISIONS have made it happen, and have employed that killer lineup to launch their monthly music club night at Yah Yah’s on Friday September 2. Tickets are $11 (that’s less than two bucks a set) via Eventbrite, and we’d recommend an 8pm kick off.
BAR WEDNESDAY 31 AUGUST
BOOGIE NIGHTS INDIE FILM SCREENINGS
THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
DAISY WEST SARAH EIDA, CAZZOLINE FRIDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
THE JETSONS FALLEN STAR, ASTROHYM SATURDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
RAY FINKLE FEST FEATURING......
FRANKENBOCK VULTURE CULTURE INTREPID, MAGGOT BATH FEAST OF CROWS HEADLESS SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
FATHERS DAY
BLUES BASH FEATURING
STEVE LUCAS, CHRIS WILSON, MATT DWYER JEROME SMITH ASH DAVIES
AFTER WORK HAPPY HOUR FROM 5PM:
WED, THURS & FRI 160 HODDLE ST ABBOTSFORD
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GIG GUIDE LIVE JAZZ - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS The Green Goose,
U Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
Malvern. 7:10pm.
ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse
MAYA + CLAUDIA JONES + ZAIN MITCHLAN + NATALIE &
101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.
BEAU Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. MICHAELA JAYDE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
SATURDAY 3 SEP
9:30pm. $25.00.
PAUL SLATTERY Forester's Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 11:00pm.
CAPTIVES
RACHAEL COMTE QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.
THE PEARLY SHELLS St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $20.00.
THE SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
TRIODEGRADABLE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.
YVETTE JOHANSSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $25.00.
MOSQUITO COAST
TH E WO R K E R S C LU B Naomi Robinson and Conor Barton are the two young guns that make up Perth pop duo Mosquito Coast. They’re currently in the midst of a national tour, and will land in Melbourne town on Saturday September 3 to play The Workers Club with Stonefox and Sleeping Lessons. Doors are at 8.30, with don’t get stung with any expensive (or itchy) entry fees. You’re looking at just $15.
C H E R RY B A R Tassie/Melbourne punks Captives are bringing one hell of a show to Cherry Bar on Saturday September 3, to celebrate their ripping new tune Vines, a first sip from their debut, yet-to-be-named album. The band worked with Tom Larkin (Shihad) for the third time, and used it as an opportunity to challenge their genre and stretch boundaries. Support comes from The Hunted Crows and Young Offenders. Get captivated and get down by 8pm. Tickets are $13.
Level 1/402 Chapel St, South Yarra
DEWARS - LOCK INN - FEAT: RICH DAVIES & THE LOW ROAD + AYLEEN O© HANLON BAND Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.
DREADNAUGHT + DESECRATOR + TRUTH CORRODED + DAEMON PYRE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
SOUL-A-GO-GO - FEAT: EMMA PEEL + MISS GOLDIE +
E.X.P Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
RICHIE 1250 + COCO BROWN + MORE Bella Union Bar,
FERLA + LOOBS + BOBBY BRAVE THE ONLY BOYS Old Bar,
Carlton. 9:00pm. $15.00.
Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
TERRASUR The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
GREENLY MOZZY + ALBERT SALT + DAL SANTO Workers
ALBERT GRAY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
DR JAZZ & THE GANGSTERS PALACE + THE DREAMING
THE EXOTICS + THE CHA CHA CHAS Tago Mago,
Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.
ALEXIS NICOLE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
SPACE + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 9:00pm.
Thornbury. 7:00pm. $10.00.
HURLIN’ UP LIMBS + CROSSFIRE HURRICANE + COSMOS
ANDREW ROBERTS Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd.
A BROTHER SCRATCH + THE LEEROY JAMES JAZZ
Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
7:00pm. $10.00.
RENEGADES Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.
BLACK HEART BREAKERS
BECCY COLE + LIBBY O’DONOVAN Reverence Hotel,
A DAY IN THE LIFE–THE BEATLES - FEAT: GEORGIE AUE
Footscray. 7:00pm. $30.00.
BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
CADILLAC DRIFTERS Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:00pm.
$25.00.
CHRIS WILSON Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:15pm.
ALINTA & THE JAZZ EMPERORS Paris Cat Jazz Club,
DEBORAH CONWAY & WILLY ZYGIER Basement Discs,
Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.
THE BAKERS DIGEST
DJ TROPICAL BREEZE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
WH O LE LOT TA LOV E Black Heart Breakers say they exist on ‘60s pop music, ‘70s punk and beer, which sounds like a concoction worth listening to. Their latest single I Want You is what’s taken them back to Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick for a show on Saturday September 2. Keeping them happy and well supported will be alternative punk rockers The Beggars’ Way, Luke Seymour’s Miyazaki and punk stooges Drexler. Doors at 8pm, entry is super reasonable at $10.
I WANNA BE ADORED - FEAT: KIDS AT MIDNIGHT Stone Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
JEFF MARTIN Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $35.00.
L-FRESH THE LION + OMAR MUSA + SUKHJIT Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $17.85.
LAGERSTEIN + HIGH TIME + HORIZONS + KEGGIN Evelyn
ANNABELLE EVE & CREATURE COMFORT + JAMES
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $20.00.
FRANKLIN Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 6:00pm.
MAN CITY SIRENS + HEAVY HEADS + CHRIS
$15.00.
COMMERFORD + THE DEAD PHAROAHS 303, Northcote.
BAD PONY + BIG CREATURE + FEELDS Grace Darling
8:00pm.
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.
NED TURNS 50 - FEAT: SARGE & THE NUKED +
BANG - FEAT: FORGIVEN RIVAL + THE VALLEY ENDS +
MURDERBALLS + TRAUMA BOYS + MORE Bendigo Hotel,
SOULLESS Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
Collingwood. 7:00pm.
GUN BARREL STRAIGHTS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
TH E YA R R A H OT E L The Bakers Digest are a band made of several key ingredients. They take the lyrical style of folk heavyweights Dylan and Young, mix it with the beats of bands like The Grateful Dead and Dr John, and carefully blend in some garage guitars and psych-folk sections to boot. If this sounds like the recipe for you, head to The Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford on Saturday September 3 and feast your eyes and ears. Support comes from Electric Wallpaper, The Bleeding Flares and Abbey Howlett. Doors at 8pm, entry $10.
8:00pm.
DAINA JOWSEY + RORY CLARK TRIO Dizzy's Jazz Club,
10:00pm. $15.00.
NEW LEASE - FEAT: ORYGN + BARBITURATES + KOMPACT
HARMANIAX Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm.
Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.
BLACK HEART BREAKERS + THE BEGGARS© WAY +
DEVELOPMENT John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.
JEFF MARTIN Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.
DJ JUKE JOINT Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
MIYAZAKI + DREXLER Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
PAUL DEMPSEY + OLYMPIA Corner Hotel, Richmond.
JUKEBOX RACKET The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
8:30pm.
MARIE HODSON BAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale.
8:00pm.
CANARY + ON DIAMOND + CHRIS COLEMAN Toff In
PETER DICKYBIRD + THE BELAFONTES + LANEWAVES
8:00pm. $10.00.
MARLENE CUMMINS & THE BLUES EXPERIENCE BAND
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00.
+ AL PACA & THE LLAMA FARMERS Brunswick Hotel,
MATT BORG TRIO Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $30.00.
CAPTIVES + THE HUNTED CROWS + YOUNG OFFENDERS
Brunswick. 9:00pm.
MATT JOE GOW BAND Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm.
Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.
PLINI + INTERVALS + POLARIS Max Watt's, Melbourne.
9:00pm.
REBECCA MENDOZA + JOE RUBERTO TRIO Bennetts
CRYPTOPSY Northcote Social Club, Northcote.
8:00pm. $28.60.
MAX TEAKLE & FRIENDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick
Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
RACKETT Golden Vine Hotel, Bendigo. 8:30pm.
East. 5:30pm.
SHOL Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
RAY FINKLE FEST - FEAT: FRANKENBOK + VULTURE
9:00pm.
EL MOTH Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. FLYING ENGINE TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. GREG DODD & THE HOODOO MEN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
SHANE NICHOLSON + LACHLAN BRYAN + THE WEEPING
CULTURE + INTREPID + MORE Mr Boogie Man Bar,
WILLOWS + GREATTA ZILLER & ANDREW SWIFT Baha
Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 7:00pm. $28.60.
RETROMAX Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet,
REWIND 80S Commercial Hotel (sth Morang), Morang
West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
South. 8:00pm.
ROCK 4 REGAL CHARITY CONCERT - FEAT: HEAVEN THE AXE + GRANDHOUR + SISTERS DOLL + GLENN ESMOND +
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MORE St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15.00.
SUNNIFEST 2
TH E TOT E Sunifest was such a bloody hit in its inaugural year that generous hosts The Tote saw no reason not to keep the party rolling into 2016. Saturday September 3 sees 15 killer acts take to three stages throughout the sunny spring day. The Peep Tempel, Jaala, Peter Bibby, Gabriella Cohen, Mesa Cosa, Crepes, Fazerdaze, RVG, Horace Bones and DANNY KRANSKY make up a really decent chunk of the goodness. Tickets are $51 for a pumping day, full of mates, beers and beats. Doors open at 3pm.
FERLA
T H E O LD B A R Melbourne garage-pop songster and all ‘round nice bloke FERLA has been a seriously busy cat of late. He’s just released a new track and signed with local label Our Golden Friend. On Saturday September 3, the former Twin Beasts frontman will take over The Old Bar to launch the band’s latest single, I Can’t Let You Down, which combines garage-pop and newwave synths with incisive lyrics and dark wit. Doors at 8.00pm. Get down and make a night of it.
PETER DICKYBIRD
THE B RUN SWI CK HOTEL Peter Dickybird have flown the coop, and are heading to The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday September 3 to launch their EP, The Yarnbomber. The band’s collective pastimes are live music and covering stuff with wool, which may in equal measure be reflected in their album. If we were to have a guess though, it’s likely more music. Support is provided by the The Belafontes, Lanewaves, Al Paca and the Llama Farmers. Catch them from 9pm. Sat Evening 3rd 9pm - Peter Dickybird (EP Launch),
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GIG GUIDE TAIPAN TIGER GIRLS
THE JO HN CURTIN The release of Taipan Tiger Girls debut LP marked as an astonishing success for the band, as the record was quickly snapped off the shelf and sold out across the land. Now they’re back with a wild new album that bolts off into the stratosphere in an ecstatic surge of psychedelic expansion. It Records and Taipan Tiger Girls are launching this banger of a record this Saturday September 3 at The John Curtin Hotel, ably assisted on the night by postpunk minimalist disco stompers New War and exhilarating electronic duo Rolling Mass (Carolyn Schofield & Max Kohane). Tickets are only $15 on the door, which slide open at 8pm.
ROD STEWART TRIBUTE SHOW + RON VINCENT Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $20.00.
SATURDAYS ROCK - FEAT: RIFFINERY Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.
SUNIFEST 2 - FEAT: THE PEEP TEMPEL + JAALA + PETER BIBBY + MESA COSA + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $51.00.
TAIPAN TIGER GIRLS + NEW WAR + ROLLING MASS + IT RECORDS DJS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.
THE BAKERS DIGEST + ELECTRIC WALLPAPER + THE BLEEDING FLARES + ABBY HOWLETT Yarra Hotel,
ERIN GRACE
WH O LE LOT TA LOV E Sunday sessions are a fine way to fill the scary void between the end of the weekend and Monday, and when they’re gentle and acoustic and feature Erin Grace accompanied by Brandon and Jay of Ten Thousand, then you’d be plain out silly to miss it. Nick and Elliot of Darcee Fox will also play throughout the evening at Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick, on Sunday September 4. It kicks off at 8pm, and entry is free and dreamy.
TRIBUTE MANIA
TH E PA L A I S T H E AT R E Ever been to a family function and everyone’s gotten so plastered they take over the jukebox and belt out a bunch of banging pop anthems from the likes of ABBA, Spice Girls and Queen? Yeah, we’ve all been there (read, mum’s 60th). On Saturday September 3, the crème de la crème of tribute shows, Tribute Mania, will take over The Palais Theatre in a night filled with guaranteed pop gems that’ll be sure to get you up out of your seat and shamelessly boogying the night away. Unlike the aforementioned family function, this is a night of pure professionalism and world class talent. Expect hit from the world’s number one ABBA tribute show, Bjorn Again, a spicy selection of ‘90s wonders from The Spicy Girls, huge anthems from The Australian Queen Tribute Show and loads more. Bring your mum, because this’ll be a night of dead set bonding. Tickets start at $79, and the action kicks off at 6.30pm.
GARRY GRAY & THE SIXTH CIRCLE + THE COUNCIL + THE
ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU
JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner.
THE WORKERS CLUB Many people quiver at the thought of public speaking, but not Anthony Anaxagaouro. He’s renowned for it, and returns to Melbourne for a one night extravaganza of live poetry, wild words and inspirational stories. It’s a glowing lineup featuring Laura Davis, hip hop MC Emerald, UK’s poet extraordinaire RikTheMost, and even a few local guests. The night will be hosted by performer Scott Wings, kicks off at 8.30 and is $25 on the door.
7:30pm.
SUNDAY SOULTRAIN Daveys Bar & Restaurant,
LUAU COWBOYS Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy.
Frankston. 3:00pm.
4:00pm.
THE MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP PRESENTS Uptown Jazz
PAUL KIDNEY EXPERIENCE + ENCROACH Bendigo Hotel,
Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Collingwood. 4:00pm.
ZAMBA BOSSA BRAZILIAN PARTY - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE
SHED ZEPPELIN Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
+ WALLY + MAXX R + MORE Penny Black, Brunswick.
BLACK STRYPES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. HAYDEN BUCHANAN + ELK + MAMMOTH Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.
HEXMERE + PLYERS + TERROR NULLIUS + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm.
Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.
DANNY STAIN Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
3:00pm.
3:00pm.
THE CHANTOOZIES Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill.
DR RIC'S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE Brunswick
TOL + PRIORS + GELD Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
BENNY JAMES & THE BLUE FLAMES Standard Hotel,
8:00pm. $30.00.
Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
UNCLE GEEZER Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North
Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
THE ELECTRIC GUITARS + SWIM TEAM + TIME FOR
FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND Railway Hotel (nth
Melbourne. 12:30am.
DAVIES WEST + THE STEPH MACSHETTA BAND + NEEKO
DREAMS + IT SPEAKS Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 7:00pm.
Fitzroy), Fitzroy North. 9:00pm.
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
$5.00.
KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel,
PRATEEK KUHAD
THE LIZARDS + WICKED CITY + COSMIC KAHUNA + DON
Williamstown. 9:00pm.
BOSCO + MORE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North
LILY & KING + STEPHEN KENNEDY Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 5:00pm. $5.00.
Melbourne. 3:00pm.
TRIBUTE MANIA - FEAT: BJORN AGAIN + THE AUSTRALIAN
MAX FOTHERINGHAM Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
QUEEN TRIBUTE SHOW + MORE Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
PUGSLEY BUZZARD QUARTET The Luwow, Fitzroy.
6:30pm. $81.41.
8:00pm.
VERA BLUE + LANKS Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
VERA BLUE + LANKS + GRETTA RAY Howler, Brunswick.
SHANE NICHOLSON + LACHLAN BRYAN + THE WEEPING
WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
8:00pm.
WILLOWS + GRETTA ZILLER & ANDREW SWIFT Caravan
$32.00.
DEVIL GOAT FAMILY STRING BAND Open Studio,
WHITE BLEACHES + THE TINY GIANTS + THE
Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.
A NIGHT WITH MR JONES Bird's Basement, Melbourne.
Northcote. 8:00pm.
ENVIRONMENTS Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm.
THE BREADMAKERS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
7:30pm. $29.00.
ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .
$10.00.
THE GLORIOUS NORTH Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
ANDREW NOLTE & HIS ORCHESTRA Spotted Mallard,
8:00pm.
WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
9:30pm.
Brunswick. 4:00pm.
ERIN GRACE + BRANDON & JAY + NICK & ELLIOT Whole
$32.00.
THE JOHN FLANAGAN TRIO + TIMOTHY JAMES BOWEN
ELISABETH LEONSKAJA Hamer Hall (arts Centre
Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
YATES + SONA + NATIVE SPIRIT Penny Black, Brunswick.
Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00.
Melbourne), Southbank. 2:30pm. $46.00.
JARRYN PHEGAN + DAVID COSMA Drunken Poet, West
9:00pm.
THE ROYAL JELLIES Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.
GEOFF KLUKE QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
Melbourne. 4:00pm.
AGAMOUS BETTY + DREW WOOLEY Old Bar, Fitzroy.
$10.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
JIM KANE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.
4:00pm.
THE SLIPDIXIES Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.
HORNS OF LEROY The B.east, Brunswick East. 1:30pm.
JOSH KELLY TRASH TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote.
BAPTISM OF UZI + BELOVED ELK + THUG MILLS + MISS
VELVET BOW/EL + ODD SOULS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
MUSIC IN THE ROUND - FEAT: IAN MUNRO + WILLIAM
6:00pm.
MISS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.
$10.00.
HENNESSY & LOUISA BREEN + ZOE KNIGHTON +
LITTLE WISE + THE WEEPING WILLOWS Yarra Hotel,
TRISTAN LEE + MORE Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford.
Abbotsford. 2:30pm. $15.00.
BROKEN RIVER + QD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
WE S LE Y A NNE NPR endorsed singer songwriter Prateek Kuhad from India is one of the few international artists selected to showcase at Bigsound 2016, and if you haven’t booked your ticket to Fortitude Valley than this is something worth seizing. Kicking off the night at Wesley Anne is Josh Kelly Trash Trio for free in the Front Bar. Kuhad plays in the band room from 8pm for $10.
GARY GREY & THE SIXTH CIRCLE
CHE RRY B AR You might know Garry Gray as the chainsaw-wielding frontman for Melbourne’s Sacred Cowboys in the ‘80s. If you don’t, that’s cool, because he’s back with his band The Sixth Circle, and plans to tear Cherry Bar a new one on Sunday September 4. Extra hole tearing enthusiasm will come from The Council and The Black Strypes. Entry is free, with music kicking off at 8pm. No chainsaws ± p romise.
CATFISH VOODOO Forester's Beer & Music Hall,
SUNDAY 4 SEP
10:00am. $65.00.
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel,
Collingwood. 11:00pm.
A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.
MUSIC IN THE ROUND - FEAT: IAN MUNRO + WILLIAM
Williamstown. 3:00pm.
CHARLIE MARSHALL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
8:00pm.
HENNESSY + LOUISA BREEN + MORE Abbotsford
CRAIG WOODWARD & FRIENDS Victoria Hotel
BOOB SCAB + GRIM RHYTHM + JUMPIN JACK WILLIAM &
Convent, Abbotsford. 10:00am. $65.00.
(brunswick), Brunswick. 4:00pm.
NEIL WILKINSON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.
PEPPERCORN JAZZ BAND Open Studio, Northcote.
FAZERDAZE + JARROW Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
5:00pm.
FIGHT THE GIANT + THE GREAT EMU WAR + THE VICE
REBECCA BARNARD (SONGS MY FATHER TAUGHT ME)
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $18.00.
FULL SUN PART SHADE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm.
SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote.
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TH E GA SOM E T E R Kiwi Tom Lee-Richards will be down at The Gasometer on Sunday September 4 to deliver his single Madness. Fellow Kiwi Monique Shelford also features on the album, a collection of songs that deal with the tension of ownership and blame when it comes to negotiating relationships. Heavy, huh? Shelford will perform as a support act also, along with orchestral folk act Tulalah. Doors are at 6.30 and it’s just $12 on the door for entry. You won’t be able to blame anyone but yourself if you miss it.
9:00pm.
HEXMERE
T H E B E ND I G O H OT E L Hexmere are a restless mutant punk trio from Brisbane, visiting The Bendigo Hotel on Sunday September 4 to give you a right scare. They’ve just released a split tape with Sweden’s Status Noll, and will play alongside Plyers, Terror Nullius, Sonic Youth Allowance and Muddy Lawrence to make it an utterly ball-tearing night. It all starts at 6.30, and entry is liber. That’s Latin for free.
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FAZERDAZE & JARROW
THE OL D B AR Love a little cross-Tasman bonding? Well, New Zealand’s Fazerdaze and local Melbourne fella Jarrow are throwing a free show at The Old Bar on Sunday September 4 before they both head to Brisbane for this year’s Bigsound Festival. Yay! Fazerdaze is the dreamy bedroom-recording project of songwriter and producer Amelia Murray. Jarrow is the garage pop production of Melbourne musician Dan Oke. All the pre-conference fun kicks off at 4pm. Entry free. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 41
GIG GUIDE DARLOW
TH E RE T R E AT For more than ten years, Aussie rock extraordinaire Scott Darlow has been one of the country’s hardest working and most successful independent artists. An undeniable fixture of the Australian music landscape, Darlow is a versatile singer/guitarist/didgeridoo player and a force to be reckoned with. He’s released five corker albums to date, and is currently working on a sixth, further solidifying his position in the Australian rock’n’roll circus. Darlow will show off his stuff on Monday September 5 at The Retreat Hotel. Entry is a cool free dollars.
CONTRAST
T H E E V E LYN The Evelyn is set to be taken over by punk trio Contract, with a month-long residency kicking off on Tuesday September 6. There are $10 jugs, spring will have been in the air for six whole days, and support comes from a band called Phlo. Sounds tasty, right? Doors are at 8pm, and hey, it’s free.
TOM TOM TUESDAY - FEAT: COCO SOLID + WAHE +
TOM TOM TUESDAY
HOWL ER Good times abound as Howler’s Tom Tom Tuesday pulls out all stocks on Tuesday September 6. Musician, writer and visual artist from New Zealand Coco Solid is on the bill, joined by emerging indigenous rapper Racerage based on Boonwurrung country. Also playing at the venue are Yumgod and DJ Asps on the wax. Entry is free as always, with the things starting and getting real good from 8pm.
RACERAGE + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $32.00.
ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS IV + BEN ROBERTSON + LEWIS PIERRE-HUMBERT Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
VERA BLUE
HOWLE R Vera Blue is killing it right now. Sunday September 4 is the final night in a string of sold out shows at Howler, which have been selling like hotcakes since the tour was announced. This second headline tour this year has capped off a massive year for Blue, whose sold-out tour earlier in the year proved her gusto, unmatchable talent and incredible pulling power. Catch Vera Blue when she plays Howler on Sunday September 4.
NEIL HAWKER BLUES BAND Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. NICK CHARLES & BLUE STRINGS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
PRATEEK KUHAD Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.50.
ROD PAINE & THE FULLTIME LOVERS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
ROLLER ONE + CHERRYWOOD Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
LOVEJOY MUNDANE MONDAYS
TH E OL D B A R Here at Beat, we don’t like to beat around the bush, so to speak. So we’re gonna lay down some hard truths for y’all. Monday’s fucking suck. Thankfully, each Monday night The Old Bar provide us with some much needed sanctuary to forget our Monday sorrows. This Monday September 5, there will be live music courtesy of Japanese legends Tadzio. There will be booze. There will be solace. There will be strength in numbers. There will be pinball. You will be there. You will feel loved. As a famous sportswear company once said, ‘Just do it.’
5:00pm.
BIRD’S BIG BAND + LOUISA RANKIN Bird's Basement,
STEVE LUCAS + CHRIS WILSON + MATT DWYER + MORE
Melbourne. 7:30pm. $18.00.
Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
ELISABETH LEONSKAJA Hamer Hall (arts Centre
SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully
Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $46.00.
Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
ST KEVIN© S COLLEGE CONCERT Melbourne Recital
SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky
Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $10.00.
Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm.
BIDDLEWOOD + HILLS HOIST + THE MARLENES + PAPER
DAVIES WEST
TAPIR Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.
T HE BRUNSWICK HOTE L Sunday evening. Is there anything better than unwinding with a folk tunes and a few drinks? Unlikely. That’s why The Brunswick Hotel welcomes three emerging artists with a lot to give. There’s Neeko, Steph Maschetta Band, and headlining is a band intent on delivering a new sound to Melbourne’s music scene, five-piece folk band Davies West. Sunday September 4. The goodness starts from 8pm.
CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. DOGOODS + TROPICAL DEADBEATS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm.
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: CLOSET STRAIGHTS + BAPTISM OF UZI + TRULY HOLY + BITCH DIESEL Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.
WIT Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. SUZANNAH ESPY & THE LAST WORD St Kilda Memo, St
$32.00.
Kilda. 5:00pm.
DARLOW Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
THE BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy
DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: JOE FORRESTER + GIRL FRIDAY +
North. 4:00pm.
RODERICK CAIRNS Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm.
THE HORNETS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
OPEN MIC Hardiman's Hotel, Kensington. 7:00pm.
THREE KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm.
PASSIONATE TONGUES POETRY Brunswick Hotel,
$5.00.
Brunswick. 7:00pm.
TOM LEE-RICHARDS + MONIQUE SHELFORD + TULALAH Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. $12.00.
THE WORKERS CLUB Lovejoy have secured a mini residence at The Workers Club, kicking off on Tuesday September 6. The fivepiece will be supported by friends Picket Palace and Splendidid. Doors open at 8pm, with entry a very accessible $6. In being true to their name, this show is most definitely something to be both loving and joyous about.
TUESDAY 6 SEP CONTRAST + HIDEOUS TOWNS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
MONDAY 5 SEP
8:30pm.
303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.
HEART OF ST KILDA - FEAT: ROSS WILSON + ELLA
ATM15 BIG BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne
HOOPER + RUSSELL MORRIS + PAUL DEMPSEY + MORE
Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $80.51.
LOVEJOY + SPLENDIDID + PICKET PALACE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.
MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: TADZIO + NISSA PISSA & THE PISSY PISSERS + MATT FAISANDIER + SEBASTIAN BERTO Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MEEKS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $7.00. THE FABRIC + BABY BLUE Gasometer Hotel,
HILDEGARD & BUTTERLEY - FEAT: THE AUSTRALIAN VOICES Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.
HEART OF ST KILDA
T H E PA L A I S T H E AT R E Once a year, the music and arts community band together for the Heart of St Kilda concert, to raise awareness and cash for those who need it the most. Now in its ninth year, Sacred Heart Mission’s Heart of St Kilda concert has returned to the iconic Palais Theatre and boasts another huge lineup loaded with stellar music and comedy acts. Hosted by the exceptional Brian Nankervis, the likes of Ross Wilson, Judith Lucy, Red Symons, Ella Hooper, Paul Dempsey, Jimeoin, The Rebelles and Deborah Conway will be joined onstage by Clare Bowditch alongside Maddy and Memphis Kelly. Adding to festivities comes Jeff Green, will join Russell Morris, Kutcha Edwards, Shane Howard, Olympia, The Meltdown, Rebecca Barnard and Billy Miller with the Caravan Choir and Melbourne Tap. All artists will be donating their time for a worthy cause, with last year’s event raising $79,000 for the Mission’s meals program to feed nearly 20,000 people in need. The annual Heart of St Kilda concert is going down Tuesday September 6 at the Palais Theatre.
$29.00.
MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00. MONASH BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.
THE DJANGO FESTIVAL ALLSTARS Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $44.00.
ALYCE PLATT & THE FISH SHOP COLLECTIVE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
CAROLINE NO Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
MIRIAM PULTRO + JAC BETH Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
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W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: Pheobe Daicos 9pm: Zoe K Thurs 1st September
7pm:
Open Mic Night Friday 2nd September
6pm: Traditional
Irish Music Session 8.30pm:
Albert Gray
Saturday 3rd September
Kraken Folk Session 9pm: Lily and King 3pm:
Sunday 4th September
David Cosma 6.30pm: Jarryn Phegan 4pm:
TUESDAYS FROM 8PM:
Weekly Trivia
$75 BAR VOUCHER UP FOR GRABS! The Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au
THURSDAY SEPT 1:
BEASTLY BIRDS WINNICK $7/$5, 8PM
SUNDAY SEPT 11:
ADRIAN WHYTE QUARTET FREE, 4PM
SUNDAY SEPT 12:
FRIDAY SEPT 2:
HARMANIAX FREE, 9PM
SATURDAY SEPT 3:
THE EXOTICS
THE CHA$10/$7 CHA CHAS SUNDAY SEPT 4:
FULL SUN PART SHADE FREE, 4PM
THURSDAY SEPT 8:
STEVE SMART PRESENTS A NIGHT OF POETRY AND MUSIC $7/$5, 7.30PM
FRINGE FRENZY COMEDY FREE, 7PM THURSDAY SEPT 15:
DAFFODIL ELEVEN HARAAM, BIRDS $7/$5, 8PM FRIDAY SEPT 16:
CHARLIE MARSHALL
JO MEARES (SYDNEY), GOLDEN FANG (SYDNEY), MICHAEL PLATER (AUS FAREWELL SHOW) FREE, 8PM
SATURDAY SEPT 17:
TAGO MAGO BLUES, SOUL, FUNK N ROCK PARTY
BRIAN EL DORADO & THE TUESDAY PEOPLE
SATURDAY SEPT 10:
JAMIE PAYET, ANDY MCGARVIE (SOLO)
RIPLEY HOOD’S LOOSE $10/$7, 9PM
SUNDAY SEPT 18:
GARY GRAY AND THE 6TH CIRCLE
$10, 8PM
ALL DAY FRITZ
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BACKSTAGE THE FAMOUS SOUND OF THE HAMMOND LESLIE SPEAKER IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PEDAL FORM INTRODUCING THE DIGITAL HAMMOND LESLIE PEDAL H02 Leslie is a name synonymous with organ speakers. Ever since Don Leslie designed his first cabinet with a rotating speaker, it’s been a stalwart in blues, jazz and rock organ sounds and continues today as a brand name that delivers nothing but quality and innovation in loudspeaker design. The last thing I would’ve thought about was a guitar pedal. Now, Hammond have delivered a pedal that captures the behaviour of Don Leslie’s original cabinet designs, with four separate cabinets modelled in the one pedal. For keyboards and guitars, this offers a whole lot of life and character in one pedal. FIRST LOOK I was quick to get this one out of the box and start poking around with it. Pedals like this always get a lot of interest, offering something a little different to what we see day in and day out. So, for connections, you get a stereo input on a single 6.5mm TRS jack. This’ll work
in mono with a typical guitar lead inserted and diverts the signal to the left output. There’s also a gain switch next to this, allowing you to up the input for guitars, or peel it back for higher levelled keyboards. A CU-1 control input is also found on the rear. This will mean nothing to guitarists, but Hammond keyboard players will know of these pedals. Essentially it allows you to change the speed of a Leslie. On the top panel there are a range of controls that allow you to fully sculpt the sound. The level and mix controls are fairly obvious, as is the overdrive control which brings in a typical Hammond style of overdrive, quite unlike what many guitarists would be used to in their overdrive pedals. It actually has a more gritty and natural response, based on the 40-watt tube amplifier from the original Leslie, giving you the impression that you’re about to break something when you really wind it up. THAT LESLIE SOUND After the standard fair, there are the rise & fall and distance controls. These allow you to harness the
parameters of the Leslie speaker emulation to suit your playing style. The distance control determines the nature of the sound as though a microphone were being moved closer or further away from the cabinet. At the lower setting, it acts like the microphone is right up against the cabinet and is harsher than when you move it away with an increase of the control. The rise & fall control determines the speed in which the effect transitions form a slow to a fast Leslie speed. You can then engage the Leslie speed variations from the slowfast button, allowing you to change it up in a single press. The rise & fall changes the way in which this function behaves. Hitting the brake control doesn’t just bypass the signal, but actually halts the Leslie’s rotation just like the moving speaker would, so it has a quality unlike hitting the bypass as it slows down abruptly and brings the Leslie to an abrupt halt. In the centre of the pedal is a selector knob to allow you to choose between the four cabinet models. The original 122A speaker cabinet is there along with three others that may not be familiar
to many guitarists. But that doesn’t matter, all you need to do is switch between them and hear how they sound, you’ll find a tone that works for you pretty quickly. For more details on the range of Leslie products, head to musico.com.au. BY ROB GEE
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NEW SIGNINGS #2: MUSIC SALES & JED KURZEL Global publishing company Music Sales has signed Sydney singer/songwriter and film composer Jed Kurzel, representing his past works including the scores to Snowtown, Slow West, The Babadook and the upcoming Una and Assassin’s Creed: Time Out Of Mind, the film adaption of the video game. He’s handled by G.Schirmer in Australia and Chester in the UK. Kurzel co-founded The Mess Hall, whose Devil’s Elbow won the 2008 AMP.
NEW SIGNINGS #3: PS MUSIC & SEX ON TOAST Melbourne ten-piece Sex On Toast have assigned their bookings to Brisbane-based agency PS Music Group. They’re doing a nine date national Never Mind The Moog run between Thursday October 13 to Friday November 18 with festival stops at Surfing The Coldstream and Strawberry Fields.
NEW SIGNINGS #4: CREATE/ CONTROL & JACK GRACE Create/Control’s latest roster addition is Sydney trip hop/ electronica songwriter and producer Jack Grace. His debut EP is out later this year with a single All Lost out now, which he says “Came about during a tumultuous period for me.” Debut single Hills, featuring Buoy whom he produces, had 338,000 streams.
SURVEY: BEST FESTIVAL TO GET SEX If you want to get some boot-knocking at a British music festival, go to Glastonbury. Sex toy retailer Lovehoney, which surveyed 1000 festival-attending millennials, said 34% reckoned that was the place. Creamfields followed with 13%, then Download, T in the Park and V Festival. Tents were the shag-piling place of choice, then car, campervan, spot in the field, backstage, dance tent, in the crowd and in the portaloos. And 20% of them brought a sex toy to the fest.
TRIPLE J REACHING 1.96M Last week’s GFK radio ratings showed triple j has a national reach of 1.98 million. Michael Mason, Head of ABC Radio told the Radioinfo site that ABC’s radio is focusing on the digital sphere, “Because that’s clearly where the growth is - particularly around the personalisation aspect of radio” where listeners get the music, news and talk when they want. 30% of listeners do so online, he said.
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Is Paul Stanley hinting another Kiss album could happen? The Amity Affliction’s This Could Be Heartbreak debuted at #28 on the US charts after first week sales of 13,000. It’s their best effort over there. The previous Let The Ocean Take Me sold 10,000 first week and came in at #31. Prince’s Paisley Park will be open to the public from October. New Melbourne venue Satellite Lounge is making waves already. Joe Camilleri arrived for the Black Sorrows’ sound check 24 hours early (whoops) and went on to play an awesome gig with the band, including a ten-minute Hit And Run with a scintillating sax solo. On the weekend, the place was full of Skyhooks fans when drummer Freddie Strauks came onstage with guitarist Bongo Starkie (and his Million Dollar Riff show) for the first time in public in 20 years. Speaking of the ‘Hooks, former guitarist Bob Spencer has teamed with Coles Guitars for a signature model, which he says is “a corker of a guitar. Sounds gorgeous, plays beautifully, looks are understated, yet elegant.” The Rumours concert that Lachlan Knight organised at the Thornbury Theatre to raise funds for beyondblue was such a success – full house – that another is being planned for Friday November 25. Among those speaking at the LISTEN’s Feminist Futures conference (Friday October 14– Sunday October 16 at Bella Union, Trades Hal)l are singer/songwriters Ella Thompson and Evelyn Morris, Two Steps On The Water’s June Jones, Harpoons’ Bec Rigby, , Saskwatch’s Nkechi Anele, techno DJ Simona Castricum, Girls Rock Melbourne, radio’s Zan Rowe and Bakehouse Studios’ Helen Marcou. Kungs Vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl notched up its 13th week at #1 on the European Border Breakers Chart and a 19th week overall on the list. Legendary Sydney venue Selinas, scene of great gigs by rising acts as Cold Chisel and INXS has re-opened every Thursday night. NSW troubadour Julia Jacklin is Apple Music UK’s New Artist Of The Week. With an album and tour on the way, you can imagine the horror that NSW Central Coast band Elliot The Bull felt when they returned from holidays to find arsewipes had broken into their studio and made off with thousands of dollars worth of gear collected over ten years. Close friend Marty Pannan began a campaign at https://funds. gofundme.com/dashboard/create. It raised half the target within the first week. Police revealed they are chasing a creep who sexually assaulted a teenage girl at Selena Gomez’s Saturday August 6 concert at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena. They’ve released a description of him, and are working out whether he assaulted other girls that night or returned the next day for more. As Canadian band Tragically Hip played their last emotionally-charged show in their hometown in Kingston, Ontario after leader Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, Eddie Vedder dedicated a song to him during Pearl Jam’s show in Chicago. “I just want to send them our energy from our gathering up here to
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RUMOUR OF THE WEEK: TUPAC SELFIE SHOWS HE’S STILL ALIVE? Since his murder in 1996, some insist that rap icon Tupac Shakur is alive in hiding from hitmen, living in Cuba or playing in a nursing home band with Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. Last year, in a deathbed confession, retired cop David Myers claimed he was paid $1.5 million to help the star fake his death and that 30 people were involved. However a new selfie posted on YouTube claims Tupac (or someone who looks AWFULLY like him) sporting a bandana took a selfie in 2015 on a phone “made in 2011” – 11 years after his death. The video’s had 1.3 million views. But, hey, hasn’t Tupac himself dropped enough hints on Facebook he’s around, including the cryptic “2 Souls, One Body” line.
CHERRY BAR’S STAND ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT The late night Cherry Bar in AC/DC Lane, has made a stand on sexual harassment and is encouraging other venues to follow suit. “Live music is fantastic and provides the heartbeat of Melbourne,” says owner James Young. “Together we can get rid of the dirt bags that are ruining it for everyone.” Posters placed around the venue, headlined “Sexual harassment must be stopped” states, “Cherry Bar does not tolerate sexual harassment, If you have been sexually harassed in any way please contact any member of our staff immediately.” It also provides a telephone number for the venue manager.
TELSTRA AND OPTUS OFFER STREAMING DEALS Telstra and Optus are fighting for your custom, especially if you’re a person whose mobile is glued to any part of your body 24/7. You get data-free Apple Music and sports events (streaming figures are up 65% for AFL games, doubled for NRL), as well as Netflix, Stan and Presto bundled for the first time. Meantime over in Optusland, you get mobile access to Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and Google Play Music with the data cap removed for movie and TV streaming for those on its $100-a-month My Plan Plus mobile plan.
SCA REVENUE, PROFITS, UP It’s been a good year for radio and TV network Southern Cross Austereo, according to its new full year financial results. Revenue was up 5.1% to $642.3 million, net profit rose 19% to $77.2 million, and the group reduced its debt by 33%.(or $166.7 million) to $340 million. It’s expecting further growth in 2017.
HOW BAGPIPES CAN KILL YOU Doctors are warning musicians to clean their wind instruments regularly after a 61-year-old Scot died from “bagpipe lung”, inhaling a fungi growing inside his bagpipes when he played them daily. He suffered a dry cough and shortness of breath for seven years. But he got slightly better when he visited Australia for three months without his pipes. After his death they found extensive lung damage.
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MORE WEST PAPUA GENOCIDE GIGS Following Punks For West Papua’s gigs and documentary to raise awareness and funds for Indonesia’s genocide of West Papua, Rize of the Morning Star is, from Friday September 30, staging 11 shows around Australia as well as overseas for the United Liberation Movement For West Papua. Its leader Benny Wenda said, “Indonesia have tanks and guns. West Papuans only have guitars. Music is the only weapon we need for freedom.” More info as it comes to hand.
LIVE NATION GETTING READY FOR PALAIS TAKEOVER Live Nation won’t take over the Palais Theatre until April 2017, but it’s already putting plans into effect. The new GM is Mark Graham who was event operations manager for the Melbourne and Olympic Parks which runs Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena, Margaret Court Arena, AAMI Park, the Westpac Centre and the Melbourne Park Function Centre. For the next six months he’ll be in Doha, Qatar, helping to set up events at two new stadiums managed by Live Nation. The promoter, which will pay $875,000 rent to Port Phillip Council each year, will also allow council to book the venue for eight days a year at $1 for community purposes. Three of these have already been announced. Two include Heart Of St Kilda, the long time fundraising concert to raise money for the Sacred Heart Mission, and the opening night of the St Kilda Film Festival.
NEW PERFORMANCE SPACES FOR MELBOURNE’S SE Monash University in Melbourne’s southeast is getting a $45 million performance centre with three spaces including a jazz club. Funding includes $10 million from the Victorian Government and $5 million from The Ian Potter Foundation. The venue, to be called The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts comprises a revitalised 586-seat Alexander Theatre (attended by 40,000 each year) with new venues, a 130-seat Sound Gallery for flat floor performances (without a stage) and 200-seat Jazz Club which includes a cafe service during the day and fully catered venue at night. These venues will be available to productions, students, community groups, schools and local residents.
Lifelines EXPECTING: Paloma Faith, her first, delaying the release of her next album. EXPECTING: Connie Mitchell and Black Angus of Sneaky Sound System are weeks from the arrival of their first child. RECOVERED: Guitar maestro Tony MacAlpine is going back on the road after he was cleared of colon cancer. HOSPITALISED: The Ghost Inside’s Zach Johnson underwent his ninth round of surgery following the band’s horror bus crash. INJURED: Burt Bacharach, 88, broke an arm, reason unknown. IN COURT: Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and T.I have begun their appeal against the Blurred Lines copyright infringement ruling which gave Marvin Gaye’s estate $6.3 million in damages and a running 50% of royalties. SUED: The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach for $100,000 by producers of documentary Smokestack Lightning about US bluesman Howlin’ Wolf, who say he promised to be its director and executive producer for 8% of profits and total creative freedom when it was in post-production. He then allegedly demanded major changes, increasing budget costs. SUED: Pop singer Demi Lovato by indie duo Sleigh Bells who say that her Stars took from their Infinity Guitars, citing “the combination of the hand claps and bass drum, structured as 3 quarter beats and a rest.” Her producers, also named in the court, who deny the claim, said Lovato only contributed the first line. SUED: Ariana Grande by songwriter Alex Greggs who claims that her One Last Time is awfully like Takes All Night which he penned for Skye Stevens in 2012. JAILED: Jaime Harding of British band Marion for two years, eight months after setting fire to his girlfriend’s clothes as she wouldn’t answer his phone calls. DIED: Mark Butcher, who managed Newcastle live music venue Hunter on Hunter, after a lengthy illness. DIED: Jamaican saxophonist Headley Bennett, 85, after being recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He played on hits by Bunny Wailer and Gregory Isaacs, and on Bob Marley’s debut single Judge Not. DIED: Toots Thielemans, 94, Belgian harmonica player who played on the Sesame Street and Midnight Cowboy themes. DIED: Gilli Smyth, founder singer of British prog rock band Gong, 83, in Byron Bay after long illness. She was also a poet, and slipped away reading poetry and singing with her friends.