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FACE THE MUSIC REVEALS ZOLA JESUS, BRIGGS, TKAY MAIDZA AND MORE Another round of heavyweights have been announced for Face The Music, along with an exciting location. Fresh from being announced as the central hub for this year’s amazing Melbourne Music Week, Face The Music will also be bringing the action to The State Library. Of course, with a venue that impressive, the speakers need to match. Luckily, they’ve got that covered too. Expect to catch Zola Jesus, Tkay Maidza, sign language interpreter Amber Galloway, Alex White of Pandora, powerhouse rapper Briggs, Japanese Wallpaper and a whole lot more including Myf Warhurst, Johann Ponniah of I Oh You and Katie Stewart from Laneway Music Festival. Face The Music goes down at the State Library from Thursday November 17 - Friday November 18. Tickets via the Face The Music website or Moshtix.
IVAN OOZE LOCKS IN MELBOURNE SHOW Fresh from dropping a fiery track with hip hop legend Ghostface Killah, Ivan Ooze is hitting the road. Ooze (AKA Ben Townsend) forged a relationship with Ghostface and the Wu Tang Clan after supporting them on their acclaimed national tour. The newly launched single Bills is the culmination of that relationship, arriving as a taste of the rapper’s hotly anticipated EP. Catch him at Howler Friday November 18. Tickets via the venue.
JAMAICAN MUSIC & FOOD FESTIVAL WILL TAKE OVER SEAWORKS The inaugural Jamaican Music & Food Festival has prepared a talent-rich lineup of the best reggae and dancehall artists for its first instalment. Systa BB leads a lineup featuring the likes of Sista Itations, Lady Banton, Quashani Bahd, Muma Doesa, Housewives’ Choice, Troublemaker and Burn-City Queenz. Seven-piece reggae and roots outfit Rasta Unity will also be joining in the party alongside DJ Stick Mareebo, Zare Demus, Jessie I from PBS’ Babylon Burning program, Heartical HiFi, Top Ranking and Mohair Slim. To complement four stages of spectacular ska, roots and dub, there will be a dedicated children’s area with face-painting and performances from the empress of storytelling Queen Jigzie. Boss Man Foods will be your source of sustenance for the day, cooking up Jamaican foods only they know best. The 2016 Jamaican Music & Food Festival will take over the Seaworks Maritime Precinct in Williamstown on Sunday November 6. Tickets available via jmff.com.au. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 14
NELLY TO PLAY HEADLINE MELBOURNE SHOW The one and only Nelly will be hitting Melbourne for a headline show. Heading down for the sold out R&B Fridays Live show, Nelly will be extending his quality time Down Under for a career-spanning set. The artist will be bringing all his hits with him, including Hot In Herre, Ride Wit Me, #1 and a whole lot more. One thing’s for sure, it’s definitely getting hot in here. Catch Nelly at Trak Melbourne on Saturday November 26. Tickets via Ticketmaster.
Anti-Flag are coming our way, celebrating a very special milestone. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the band’s landmark album, For Blood And Empire. In a special treat for Aussie Anti-Flag fans, the crew will be playing the album in its entirety capped off with an encore of audience requests. It’s all going down Saturday December 10 at Max Watt’s. Tickets via Destroy All Lines.
THE VINES RETURN WITH 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW Australian rock stalwarts The Vines are returning to the fore, locking in a headline Melbourne show. It comes off the back of a highly anticipated festival appearance at Brisbane’s Valley Fiesta and in the wake of their latest single, In Miracle Land. They’ll hit the Corner Hotel on Thursday October 27.
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After months of whipping Melbourne audiences into a frenzy, Jazz Party have unleashed their debut single, capping it off with an upcoming launch. Written by Darcy McNulty, new track Rock N’ Roll Graveyard was produced by Steven Schram (Paul Kelly, Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes) and recorded live with the full eight-piece Jazz Party band at Soundpark Studios in North Fitzroy. Catch them launch it into the world in their biggest party yet at The Curtin on Monday October 31. Tickets are on sale now via Eventbrite.
The Evelyn is iconic for its loud and proud live music, but Jaben Audio are turning the tables with a silent gig this October. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm leads the stellar lineup that’ll feature live performances enjoyed directly through headphones. She’ll be joined by production duo Man Made Mountain and Melbourne fivepiece Dear Plastic, with a mix of other local talents lined up and a few DJs to keep the party going in between sets. The Jaben Audio Silent Gig hits The Evelyn Saturday October 15.
QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES THEIR FINAL 2016 LINEUP Queenscliff Music Festival has added the finishing touch to its stellar 2016 lineup with a cracking local bill. Rounding out the festival experience comes live laughs from comedy legends Denise Scott, Anne Edmonds, Dave O’Neil and Dilruk Jayasinha. Elsewhere, Queenscliff brings back its successful yoga classes to keep the whole campsite feeling zen in between catching the bands. There will also be a slew of tasty food stalls catering to vegans, meatlovers and everything in between as well as a curated selection of artists from The Push including Alice Ivy and Leah Senior alongside Abigail Grace, Children of the Sun, Hollie Joyce, The Mojo Corner, Rach Brennan, The Run, Sarah Carroll & The Left Wing, Sweethearts, Tides of Welcome, The Tiny Giants and Tom Richardson. Queenscliff Music Festival runs from November 25 - 27 in and around Queenscliff. Tickets available via the Festival’s website. HOT TALK
MARY J. BLIGE, CORINNE BAILEY RAE & MORE IN SECOND BLUESFEST LINEUP An already stellar list of performers at this year’s Bluesfest has just gotten even more incredible. Grammy-Award-winning R&B/soul superstars Mary J. Blige and Corinne Bailey Rae join the exciting lineup, along with the exceptionally impressive likes of Michael Kiwanuka, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Gallant and The Suffers. With even more acts still yet to be announced, they’ll be joining the confirmed Zac Brown Band, Patti Smith, The Lumineers, Buddy Guy. Bonnie Raitt, Mavis Staples, Billy Bragg, Jethro Tull, Trombone Shorty And Orleans Avenue, Rickie Lee Jones, Gregory Porter, Snarky Puppy, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Beth Hart, Laura Mvula, Andrew Bird, Booker T. Presents The Stax Records Review, Roy Ayers, Joan Osborne, Turin Brakes, The Strumbellas, Jake Shimabukuro, Dumpstaphunk, Nikki Hill and Irish Mythen. Bluesfest will be held Thursday April 13 to Monday April 17 2017, just outside Byron Bay on the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm. More announcements are to come. Tickets available via the website.
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Brisbane’s Cub Sport will hit Melbourne when they close 2016 with a sprawling east coast tour. The band have been going from strength to strength since their debut album This Is Our Vice took things to the next level. Their latest single, Come On Mess Me Up, has been receiving radioplay across the country to widespread acclaim. Catch ‘em Friday November 4 at Howler. Tickets available via Moshtix.
Fresh from releasing their latest single, Crystal Cities are set to hit Melbourne on an east coast jaunt. Their latest tune, Good Life, takes its inspiration from the ‘80s Manchester scene, offering up a strong Stone Roses vibe. They’ll hit Whole Lotta Love on Sunday November 13.
HEY GERONIMO RELEASE A NEW VIDEO AND ANNOUNCE A MELBOURNE SHOW MESA COSA UNLEASH NEW VIDEO AND A TOUR Unorthodox Melbourne-based garage-punk unit Mesa Cosa have been busy. Having just recently been signed to 123 Agency, the group have released a surreal music video for their latest single Stone Bone and announced a series of international dates for their upcoming Spill ‘Em All Tour. Having played with the likes of Mac DeMarco, The Melvins and The Mummies – as well as attending the likes of Camp A Low Hum, Chopped Festival and NYE on The Hill – Mesa Cosa’s frantic antics have earned them a powerful live reputation. This tour will see them play not only around Australia, but take them to Taiwan’s Love Love Rock Festival as well. Their sophomore EP is slated for release in early 2017. They’ll be playing Saturday November 5 at The Evelyn. Tickets available via Oztix.
MICK THOMAS TO EMBARK ON NATIONAL TOUR Melbourne singer/songwriter Mick Thomas has made an annual tradition as each year draws to a close, of packing up the gear and heading out on the wide open road with his band The Roving Commission. 2016 is no exception. You can expect to hear a set made up of songs as far back as Thomas can go, along with all his newies too. The tour comes before Mick and his band kick start 2017 with a bang at their ‘New Year’s Day Recovery’ bash at Greendale Hotel in Country Victoria. Check out Mick Thomas and The Roving Commission when they land at Croxton Hotel Friday December 23. Tickets via Oztix.
LAKE MINNETONKA ANNOUNCE SINGLE LAUNCH SHOW Melbourne-based jazz/funk juggernaut Lake Minnetonka have dropped their latest single Out There Bout There and have announced a launch show down at The Curtin to celebrate. Since forming in 2013, Lake Minnetonka have kept busy recording between Melbourne and Minneapolis and entertaining at many cult venues including onstage jams with Larry Graham and Graham Central Station during their Bluesfest sideshow at the Corner Hotel and playing with Dr Fink from Prince and the Revolution. Boogie on down with Lake Minnetonka when they bring the funk to The Curtin Thursday October 27.
Hey Geronimo have launched their new video into the world as the band gear up for their imminent tour. Fresh from wowing crowds on their most recent tour, the crew are back at it once more with their upcoming jaunt celebrating their latest single Bake A Cake. They’ll hit Northcote Social Club on Thursday October 13.
GOING SWIMMING CELEBRATE NEW SINGLE WITH MELBOURNE SHOW Maligned Melbourne garage outfit Going Swimming have unveiled a national tour ahead of the release of their new single. Debt Collector is billed for release in early October and sees the band work with a producer and engineer for the first time ever. The new track comes off the back of their hugely successful 2015 Goosebumps-inspired debut LP, Deadtime Stories. The strident fourpiece have drawn comparisons to the likes of Guantanamo Baywatch, Dick Dale and Drunk Mums. Going Swimming will dive into the Grace Darling on Friday October 28.
SAM NEWTON TO PLAY MELBOURNE ALBUM LAUNCH Alt-country folk singer/songwriter Sam Newton has spilled the beans on his upcoming national tour to launch his new album Violet Road. A prolific songwriter, Newton has been writing and performing for ten years, working within time tested folk and traditional country and blues foundations reminiscent of Paul Kelly, Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young. To cap off Newton’s growing success, Violet Road has recently been announced as a finalist in the ‘Best Album’ category of the Australian Roots Music Awards. Catch Sam Newton when he plays The Retreat Thursday October 6.
DAVIES WEST LOCKS IN SINGLE LAUNCH Melbourne based alt-folk outfit Davies West have unleashed their new single Twine, and are celebrating its release by playing a headline show next week. The track arrives as part of their upcoming album The Big Drift which they will preview on the night in its entirety, ahead of its release date. The band boasts a unique sound in the contemporary music scene with rich melodies, a heady mix of mandolin lines, steel-string guitar, double bass, drums and four part harmonies. Check out Davies West when they heat up Wesley Anne Saturday October 8.
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Radfest is set to bring some seriously good acts to the summer festival calendar. Coined as a weekend to party with legends, the festival was born from a love of Melbourne music, late night dancing and quite simply, just fucking rad times. The lineup features Loose Tooth, Sugar Fed Leopards, The Hello Morning, Horace Bones, Lazer Tits and Baby Blue, with more to come. In the true style of legends, Radfest is committed to not being a total sausage fest, focusing on including as many local lady acts as they can. We hear there will also be a costume exchange, so don’t forget to bring those crazy clothes you no longer want and swap them for something new. It’s all going down in the humble town of Toolleen (just east of Bendigo) on Saturday November 5 and Sunday November 6. Tickets via Sticky Tickets.
CHAIRLIFT TO HIT MELBOURNE ON 2016 AUSTRALIAN TOUR Lauded Brooklynites Chairlift will be returning to Australian shores once again before the year’s end. After capturing the hearts of many with their breakout track Bruises, the duo moved on to crank out a slew of well received tracks that cemented their status as ones to watch. With three albums under their belt, their latest release Moth has been heralded as one of their finest yet. It’s all happening Wednesday December 7 at Max Watt’s. HOT TALK
TYRANNAMEN, WHIPPER, THE UV RACE AND MORE TO PLAY MAGGOT FEST 7 Maggot Fest is back for another year with the lineup boasting some of the country’s best punk, hardcore, noise and rock bands. Expect to see 100%, Blank Statements, Cereal Killer, Deathchurch, Drug Sweat, The Enforced, Exek, Geld, Heavy Breather, Hierophants, Lakes w/ Ela Stiles, Leather Lickers, Miss Destiny and MOB. Elsewhere, you can catch Oily Boys, Rapid Dye, Police Force, Robber, Sex Drive, Shiners, Sistema En Decadencia, The Skids, Spotting, Stations, Tim & the Boys, Tyrannamen, The UV Race and Whipper. It’s going down at The Tote on Friday October 28 and Saturday October 29.
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TRAVIS SCOTT 170 Russell September 27 MICHAEL FRANTI The Croxton September 28 REVEREND HORTON HEAT Caravan Club September 28 MIKE NOGA Northcote Social Club September 29 AC/DSHE Satellite Lounge September 29 LOST RAGAS Caravan Club September 29, Northcote Social Club October 31 AUSTRALIA The Grace Darling September 30 CHOPPED FESTIVAL feat. The Meanies, Guantanamo Baywatch, Drunk Mums and more. Newstead Racecourse September 30 – October 2 FLOATING ROACH Last Chance Rock ‘N Roll Bar September 30 WEST THEBARTON BROTHEL PARTY The Old Bar September 30 GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH Yah Yah’s September 30 INTO IT. OVER IT. The Reverence September 30 HOCKEY DAD Howler September 30 DASHVILLE SKYLINE FESTIVAL feat. Brian Cadd, The Brothers Comatose, The Wilson Pickers and more Dashville New South Wales September 30 – October 2 DENI UTE MUSTER Conargo Rd, Deniliquin New South Wales September 30 – October 1 GREGORY PORTER The Croxton September 30 OSAKA PUNCH Ding Dong September 30 THE BLACK SORROWS Centre Square October 1, Bird’s Basement November 8, 9 YOURS AND OWLS FESTIVAL feat. Ball Park Music, Bec Sandridge, The Belligerents and more Stuart Park Wollongong October 1 – 2 BLEACHED Northcote Social Club October 1 SAD GRRRLS CLUB The Reverence Hotel October 1 OCEAN GROVE Phoenix Youth Centre (AA) October 2 ALEX LLOYD Northcote Social Club October 2 THE SAINTS The Gasometer October 5 - 7 BIG SCARY 170 Russell October 5 THE COATHANGERS Northcote Social Club October 5 JOE BONAMASSA Palais Theatre October 5 PETER BIBBY & MELODY POOL Northcote Social Club October 6 ENSLAVED Prince Bandroom October 6 PUP The Reverence October 6 THE ARISTOCRATS Bendigo Hotel October 6 ANTWON Yah Yah’s October 7 PHILLIP GLASS ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital Centre October 7, 8 DMA’S The Croxton October 7 ESCAPE THE FATE Prince Bandroom October 7 BALL PARK MUSIC 170 Russell October 7 CHASTITY BELT John Curtin Hotel October 7 TELEGRAM Yah Yah’s October 8 HEAVY AND HAMMERED II feat. Cosmic Psychos, Palace of the King, In Malice’s Wake and more The Tote October 8 THE BADLOVES The Satellite Lounge October 8 KINGFISHA Northcote Social Club October 8 AS A RIVAL Ding Dong Lounge October 8 EMMA LOUISE Corner Hotel October 8 MAYDAY PARADE Arrow on Swanston October 8, 170 Russell October 9 KATCHAFIRE The Plaza October 7, Chelsea Heights Hotel October 8, Prince Bandroom October 9 UFOMAMMUT & MONOLORD Max Watt’s October 8 ELLIE GOULDING Rod Laver Arena October 8 CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN The Toff October 9, 16 DOGAPALOOZA Burnley Park, Richmond October 9 THE LEVELLERS Max Watt’s October 9 FRNKIERO ANDTHE PATIENCE Corner Hotel October 11 THE DIRE STRAITS EXPERIENCE Palais Theatre October 12 LAZY EYE Hume Blues Club October 13, Flemington Bowls Club October 18, Bar 303 November 3 DIPLOID Bendigo Hotel October 13 LACUNA COIL Max Watt’s October 13 BREAKAWAY Wrangler Studios October 14, Workers Club October 15 LISA MITCHELL Howler October 14 DRAPHT 170 Russell October 14 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre October 14 ART ALEXAKIS Ding Dong Lounge October 14 HAYES CARLL Thornbury Theatre October 14 THE SNOWDROPPERS The Gasometer October 14 THE JEZABELS The Croxton October 14 QUEENSRYCHE Prince Bandroom October 14 LISTEN CONFERENCE Bella Union October 14 - 16 THE PANICS Howler October 15 OUT ON THE WEEKEND feat. Marlon Williams & The Yarra Benders, Robert Ellis, Lindi Ortega and more Seaworks, Williamstown October 15 MONTAIGNE Corner Hotel October 15 SAFIA Festival Hall October 15 THE WOLFE BROTHERS The Palms at Crown October 15 OKTOBERFEST feat. Shannon Noll St Kilda October 15 THE DOCKLANDS BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL Docklands October 16 FALLING IN REVERSE 170 Russell October 16, 17 TIKI TAANE The Evelyn October 16 BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 18
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THE SCORPIONS Palais Theatre October 18 ARBES The Gasometer October 20 KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Henry Wagons & The Only Children, Mojo Juju, Dorsal Fins and more St Pauls Park October 20 – 21 SUN GOD REPLICA The Tote October 21 SMALL TOWN ROMANCE Bella Union October 21 THE HARD ACHES Northcote Social Club October 21 CLOWNS The Evelyn October 21 THE NATION BLUE The Gasometer October 21 HORRORSHOW Howler October 21 THE DELTA RIGGS Corner Hotel October 21 RAVE OF THRONES feat Kristian Nairn Trak Lounge October 21 SALLY SELTMANN Northcote Social Club October 22 MORRISSEY Festival Hall October 22 LEPERS & CROOKS The Workers Club October 22 HOT CHOCOLATE AND THE REAL THING Palais Theatre October 22 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE 170 Russell October 25 GLEN HANSARD Palais Theatre October 26 C.W STONEKING The Croxton October 27 JAALA The Gasometer October 28 JORDIE LANE Corner Hotel October 28 WANGARATTA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various Venues, Wangaratta October 28 – 30 THE SOFT MOON John Curtin October 28 DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST Various Venues, October 27 – November 6 LOST LANDS FESTIVAL The Werribee Mansion October 28 – 30 CERES Northcote Social Club October 28 STEVEN WILSON 170 Russell October 28 TRICK OR BEAT feat. J-Heasy, Indian Summer, Who Killed Mickey and more Festival Hall October 29 METHOD MAN & REDMAN Trak Lounge October 29 NICEFEST feat. Tangents, Fourteen Nights At Sea, A Lonely Crowd and more The Bendigo Hotel October 29 ARCHIE ROACH Elisabeth Murdoch Hall October 29 THE PRETTY LITTLES Northcote Social Club October 29 THE VENGABOYS 170 Russell October 30 KYLIE AULDIST & AARADHNA Max Watt’s October 31 BERNARD FANNING Palais Theatre October 31 VIOLENT SOHO Festival Hall October 31 SLIPKNOT Rod Laver Arena October 31 RICHIE RAMONE The Tote October 31, November 2 REGURGITATOR Howler November 3, Prince Bandroom November 4 THE STIFFYS The Workers Club November 4 THE AMY WINEHOUSE SHOW: BACK TO BLACK MEMO Music Hall, November 4 SCREAMFEEDER The John Curtin November 3 BAD MANNERS Corner Hotel November 3 MSO - INDIANA JONES & THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Arts Centre November 4, 5 JERICCO The Corner November 5 ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS Northcote Social Club November 5 COLUMBUS The Workers Club November 5 BURIED IN VERONA Max Watt’s 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 LAURA JEAN Northcote Social Club November 11 BRITISH INDIA 170 Russell November 11 DEFTONES Festival Hall November 11 DESTROYER 666 Max Watt’s November 11 OLYMPIA Howler November 12 STICKY FINGERS Festival Hall November 12 CITIZEN Corner Hotel November 12, Arrow on Swanston November 13 DAN SULTAN 170 Russell November 13 THE DRONES + MY DISCO Melbourne Town Hall 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 THUNDAMENTALS The Croxton November 18 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 DOPE LEMON 170 Russell November 18 DYLAN JOEL Prince Bandroom November 18 JIMMY BARNES Regent Theatre November 19 THE PEEP TEMPEL Corner Hotel November 19 CARL COX, ERIC POWELL & DE LA SOUL’S MOBILE
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CHOPPED
If roaring engines, sweet petrol fumes, punk rock, rock’n’roll, psychobilly and a shit ton of dirt is your bag, best get yourself out of the city this long weekend and make your way over to Newstead to celebrate the wonder that is Chopped. An annual celebration of all things dirt, drag and rock’n’roll, this year’s event runs across the three days of the Grand Final long weekend and features attractions such as the Show and Shine hot rod arena, dirt drag race strip, a dedicated tiki bar plus a feast of sick bands. Reverend Horton Heat, The Meanies, Guantanamo Baywatch, The Puta Madre Brothers, Drunk Mums, Shepparton Airplane, The Shabbab and loads more will descend upon the main stage to kick your long weekend into overdrive. Held in Newstead in Central Victoria, Chopped’s now a staple on the yearly events calendar. It goes down from Friday September 30 till Sunday October 2. DISCO Albert Park Golf Course November 19 PAUL KELLY & CHARLIE OWEN St Michael’s Uniting Church November 23 TLC Palais Theatre November 23 EILEN JEWELL The Corner November 24 EARTHCORE Pyalong November 24 – 28 ABBE MAY Northcote Social Club November 24 GARBAGE Regent Theatre November 24 MAT ANDERSON Memo Music Hall November 25 PARADISE MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Gold Class, Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda, Baro, Pearls and more Lake Mountain Alpine Resort November 25 –27 NE OBLIVISCARIS 170 Russell November 25 JOSH RENNIE-HYNES The Spotted Mallard November 25 NELLY, TLC, 112, MYA & MORE Hisense Arena 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 GIZZFEST 2016 feat King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Pond, White Fence, Mild High Club and more Coburg Velodrome November 26 EZEKIEL OX Northcote Social Club November 26 THE TROGGS The Palms at Crown November 26 THE CULT Festival Hall 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 LANEWAY FESTIVAL feat. Tame Impala, The Julie Ruin, White Lung, Julia Jacklin and more Footscray Community Arts Centre January 28 ANGEL OLSEN The Corner Hotel November 28 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Melbourne Recital Centre November 30, December 1 DALLAS FRASCA Sooki Lounge December 1, Northcote Social Club December 9 GOLD MEMBER The Workers Club December 1 BELL X1 Prince Bandroom December 2 PROGFEST feat. Caligula’s Horse, Circles, Chaos Divine, We Lost The Sea and more The Corner December 3 HARDFEST feat. Zeds Dead, GTA, Destructo Royal Randwick Racecourse December 3 RAISED FIST Max Watt’s December 3 THE USED 170 Russell December 5, 6 JAPANDROIDS The Tote December 6 SHEILA E 170 Russell December 7 THE MONKEES Palais Theatre December 7 STEVE POLTZ Sooki Lounge December 8, Spotted Mallard December 9, Caravan Club December 10, Memo Music Hall December 11 CASS McCOMBS Melbourne Recital Centre December 8 TORTOISE The Croxton December 8 DUNGEN Corner Hotel December 8 BARONESS Prince Bandroom December 9 BADBADNOTGOOD Corner Hotel December 9 COLDPLAY Etihad Stadium December 9 FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES The Reverence Hotel December 9 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL feat. Peaches, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, BADBADNOTGOOD and more The Sup’ December 9 –11 BOYCE AVENUE Palais Theatre December 11 PEACHES 170 Russell December 11 UNWRITTEN LAW The Corner Hotel December 11 A DAY TO REMEMBER Festival Hall December 14 FLUME Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 15 DZ DEATHRAYS The Croxton December 17 REMI Howler December 17
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JULIA JACKLIN Howler December 24 SOUTHBOUND MUSIC FESTIVAL Sir Stewart Bovell Park Busselton, WA December 27 – 29 FALLS FESTIVAL feat. Childish Gambino and more Various venues December 28 – January 8 BEYOND THE VALLEY FESTIVAL Lardner Park, Warragul December 28 – January 1 NYE ON THE HILL South Gippsland December 30 – January 1 NEW YEAR’S EVIE feat Jazz Party, Dorsal Fins, Whipper, Totally Mild, Spike Fuck and more Bruzzy’s Farm, Tallarook December 31 – January 2 LET THEM EAT CAKE feat. Alex Niggemann, Cut Chemist, Dusky and more Werribee Park January 1 CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN 170 Russell January 3, 4 THE AVALANCHES Melbourne Town Hall January 3, 4 SHURA Northcote Social Club January 4 LEMAITRE Howler January 5 JAMIE T The Croxton January 5 MØ 170 Russell January 5 GROUPLOVE Melbourne Town Hall January 6 ALUNAGEORGE The Corner January 6 MODERN BASEBALL 170 Russell January 6 RY X Northcote Social Club January 7 EVERY TIME I DIE 170 Russell January 11, Arrow on Swanston (AA) January 12 HALF MOON RUN Corner Hotel January 12 MOOSE BLOOD The Evelyn January 12, 13 ALEXISONFIRE Festival Hall January 17 DINOSAUR JR The Croxton January 20 AIRBOURNE Trak Lounge Friday January 20 PJ HARVEY Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 21 PUSCIFER Plenary, Melbourne Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre(AA) January 22 REFUSED & SICK OF IT ALL Prince Bandroom January 24 BABY ANIMALS The Corner February 24 PASSENGER Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 25 RAINBOW SERPENT FESTIVAL feat. Astrix, Andhim, Guy J and more Lexton, Victoria January 27 – 30 PANIC! AT THE DISCO Festival Hall January 28 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 2 PERIPHERY 170 Russell February 5 OPETH 170 Russell February 7 THE B-52’S & SIMPLE MINDS Margaret Court Arena February 7 SUNNYBOYS The Croxton February 10 D.R.I Bendigo Hotel February 12 GUNS N’ ROSES MCG February 14 NUCLEAR ASSAULT Max Watt’s February 22 YELLOWCARD Max Watt’s February 23, 24 PIXIES Margaret Court Arena March 4 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE 170 Russell March 7 MESHUGGAH 170 Russell March 15 SNARKY PUPPY Melbourne Recital Centre April 8 BONNIE RAITT Hamer Hall April 10 BLUESFEST Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm April 13 - April 17 PATTI SMITH Hamer Hall April 16 ANDREW BIRD Melbourne Recital Centre April 18 THE LUMINEERS State Theatre April 19 BLACK STONE CHERRY The Corner Sunday April 23
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CHOPPED FESTIVAL
REV ‘EM UP
By Augustus Welby
Photos by Chris Cooper, Scott Montgomery & Zoe McMahon
Chopped is back with its ninth annual instalment this weekend, and the program demonstrates the festival’s vast expansion since its beginnings as a custom car show in 2008. This year’s event runs across the three days of the Grand Final long weekend, and features attractions like the Show and Shine hot rod arena, dirt drag race strip, bands on the main stage and plenty of booze and music. Held in Newstead in Central Victoria, Chopped’s now a staple on the yearly events calendar, which has come as a surprise to festival organiser Kyle Ford. “We started as a magazine then we did a little car show on the side and now we’re a festival, and it’s all been an organic growth,” he says. “We never planned for this, but at the same time we still love what we do so we’re rolling with it. We bust our arses to make sure we put on the best show that we can. We’re 18 months deep in this one; we’re already six months deep in next year’s one, working on lineups and things like that to try and make it as good as possible.” Chopped operates just the one music stage, which means the lineup isn’t over the top, but there are always loads of quality bands. This year they welcome a couple of international acts –Reverend Horton Heat and Guantanamo Baywatch – as well as a whole bunch from Melbourne, Sydney and elsewhere around the country. “We like it to be predominantly Australian,” says Ford. “This year our headliner’s an international act, but in BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
the past it’s always been an Australian headliner. It’s an interesting process because [there’s] a bit of a cross-genre of people that come to the event. You’ve got your hot rodders, you’ve got your rock’n’roll people, you’ve got music people, car people – trying to keep everyone happy is always a challenge.” There’s notable stylistic distinction between Dallas psychobilly revivalists Reverend Horton Heat and Portland surf rockers Guantanamo Baywatch, and this continues across the rest of the lineup. Although it revolves around guitar-based rock music, the lineup encompasses punk (The Meanies, Flour), ‘60s garage rock (The Cherry Dolls, The Pinheads), blues (Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk), mariachi (Puta Madre Brothers) and plenty more. “You generally don’t want a band rolling into another band that sounds the same,” Ford says. “There’s a type of music that people expect from Chopped now
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and we’ve got to follow on that trend. The Meanies are an iconic Australian punk band. It’s [about] supporting that Australian thing. Guantanamo Baywatch is amazing as well, but they’re a great support for a fantastic Australian act. “We try to rotate our headline acts from year to year to keep all these different groups happy, but it’s always a juggling act to get it all to flow and make it feel right. This year I’m the happiest I’ve been with any of our lineups.” The entertainment options extend well beyond the main stage, something best exemplified by the 80m dirt drag strip. Anyone who shows up to the festival with a car or motorcycle that satisfies the specified criterion can get involved and race their friends in the safe and controlled environment. “It’s pre-1965 traditional rods and customs and traditional style bobber and chopper motorcycles,” Ford says. “So you either pre-register, which a good portion of people have already done, or if you’re just coming for a day you can still get through scrutineering. Once you’ve been given the sticker on your window that say you pass all those rules then you’re open to jump on the drag strip if you want to have fun. “It’s a dirt drag strip, it’s all barrier’d off, safety checks are done on the way through and it’s just two cars/two bikes having a race and having a bit of fun. It’s not a crazy full length drag strip, but it’s a fun drag strip. All the safety elements are still there – we’ve got fire, we’ve got ambulance in case something happens, because anything’s possible.” Cars are a defining feature of Chopped, which is made apparent by the abundantly populated Show and Shine arena. Across the weekend hundreds of pre-‘65 style hot rods, customs, and motorcycles will decorate the Newstead
Racecourse paddock. “We’ve already got over 300 preregistered. It could be anywhere from 5-700 different vehicles and motorcycles over the weekend. You still get a lot of people that just swing through for one day. That paddock is constantly full and it’s one of the best selections of traditional style vehicles and motorcycles that you’ll see in Australia in one spot ever.” The Show and Shine arena is a massive high point for Ford and his fellow organisers, making all their hard work worthwhile. “That’s where the passion came from originally. Chopped magazine covered those bikes and those cars. [Show and Shine] is a celebration of exactly that. “Credit goes to anyone who’s ever come to Chopped. People that drive from West Australia, South Australia, Queensland with their cars or motorbikes, or even the guy who lives two blocks away. They’re the people that make Chopped. But now that it’s half a car festival, half a music festival, there’s this great combination of everyone. Everyone’s welcome. You find people walk away with a smile because something unexpected happened.” CHOPPED 2016 runs from Friday September 30 to Sunday October 2 at Newstead Racecourse and Recreation Reserve in Newstead.
Reverend Horton Heat Rock’n’roll rebels
By Meg Crawford
Ordained only in the holy church of rock’n’roll, rabble rouser Jim Heath, better known as “the Reverend” or “the Rev”, routinely raises hell with his band. In a scene that could have been lifted from Rock Around the Clock, the last time Beat saw Heath in Oz was at the Ferntree Gully Hotel where local bikers took to the floor with broken stubbies looking to rumble. Proving that music really does soothe the savage beast, the Rev deliberately took it down a notch from fever-pitch psychobilly to doowop, later returning to cow-punk and rockabilly when convinced the crowd could play nicely. While security was visibly shitting themselves, Heath had it in hand. “I had to acquire that skill,” Heath says. “But I’ve been lucky. I got to play with some very entertaining people over the years and learned some things.” Indeed, over time the band’s toured with the likes of the Cramps and shared the stage with everyone from Lemmy to Jello Biafra. On its face, Heath and the Dead Kennedy’s lead singer seem like an odd combo. “As long as we don’t get in a political discussion, we’re good to go,” Heath says. “Jello loves music and he’s been a fan of our band for a long time and I’m a big fan of the Dead Kennedy’s, so it all works.” A Texan gent to the core, Heath is on guitar and lead vocals, backed by affable big guy Jimbo Wallace on bass and Scott Churilla on sticks. Wallace has been with the Rev from the very start back in ‘85 and Churilla’s been part of the gang since the mid ‘90s, on and off. Collectively, they’ve played a back breaking schedule of gigs and released album after cheeky album full of tongue-in-cheek tunes like Just Let Me Hold My Paycheck and Please Don’t Take The
Baby To The Liquor Store. Interestingly, Heath describes the band as a “small business”. His views on what makes for a successful band are equally pragmatic – a combination of hard work, persistence and a reliable set of wheels. “It’s not work – I play guitar, but it’s very time consuming,” Heath says. “Really, Reverend Horton Heat doing the music part and then having to keep everything else going is a full-time job. I don’t really get the time to be as cool a guy as I’d like to be, but I do have friends that I think are some of the coolest guys in the world, so I have my connections. “The trick is, if you’re good enough to draw people in your own hometown then my theory is that you can do that in any city in the world, but it’s going to be hard. The best advice I can give is get a good-running van. Spend a lot of money on making sure that thing runs good and then you’re set to travel and make it happen in other places. When you do that, it can be a real let down if you’re the hottest thing in Melbourne and you drive up to Sydney and 30 people
The Meanies RISKING IT ALL
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Amyl & The Sniffers
1.00pm – Flour 3.00pm – show up. But you’ve got to keep doing it. You’ve got to keep going. The next time it’ll be 60 and before you know it, it’s a few hundred people and you’re something in Sydney. That’s all we did.” Well that and being crazy talented. Heath once said that to write sublime rock’n’roll and learn to play the guitar properly you have to be a nerd. It’s hard to imagine, but how exactly was Heath a nerd? “It’s been a dangerous balance,” he says. “A lot of life experience went into my songs and I was probably living a bit too hard, but the other side of that is practicing guitar, writing songs and trying to keep things together. There’s a little bit of a nerdy side to me. When I was a kid I won some spelling bees. I could write good essays, things that teachers appreciated. That leads me into lyric writing a little bit, but I can still write some really bad lyrics though.” Heath returns to the topic of stage craft. He won’t deny that the Cramps influenced his leering, grinning and grimacing preacher persona. “We watched their show every night. By that time Lux wasn’t getting naked, because they’d been down that road and he’d get arrested for public indecency. But he’d
get close to naked. Pretty much he was naked. There were a couple of times that he’d change clothes right on stage. The funniest thing was this one time, he took his mic stand and started banging on the stage. Banging, banging. And he banged a hole in the stage and he grabbed his microphone and put it by the hole. Then he comes running over, right in front of us and jumps down. No one could see this, because he came off stage right by us, and he climbed into the crawl space under the stage and the next thing you saw just a hand come out of the hole, like Thing from Addams Family and he grabbed the microphone and got it down in the hole and starts going, ‘babababababa’ [Heath mimics Lux singing Surfin’ Bird]. I don’t do stuff like that, but I still learned a lot about entertaining people.” Reverend Horton Heat will headline Chopped 2016, alongside The Meanies, Guantanamo Baywatch, Puta Madre Brothers, Drunk Mums and more. Chopped runs from Friday September 30 to Sunday October 2 in Newstead. They’ll also play Caravan Music Club on Wednesday September 28.
La Mancha Negra
5.00pm –
The Shabbab
6.30pm –
The Pinheads
8.00pm –
Puta Madre Brothers
9.30pm –
The Meanies
Saturday Oct 1 9.00am –
Slim Customers
11.00am –
The Reprobettes
1.00pm –
Shepparton Airplane
3.00pm –
West The Barton Brothel Party
5.00pm –
By Patrick Emery
The Meanies cut their teeth in rock’n’roll venues: dirty, smelly hovels full of sweat-laden youths thrashing madly to their manic punk rock attack. Back in the day Meanies lead singer Link McLennan, his dreadlocks swirling in concert with The Meanies melodic punk riffs, would throw himself into the crowd, with ne’er a concern for his wellbeing. So how is it in 2016 that The Meanies appear on a bill at the A Day On the Green festival in Victoria’s Yarra Ranges? Does this mean The Meanies will be adapting its classic style to an urbane, chardonnay-sipping style? Not on your life, McLennan says. “I have to say I was a bit surprised when I found out, but good on ‘em,” McLennan laughs. “But I don’t think we’ll be adapting our style - I don’t think The Meanies could ever be adaptive. There’s not a lot of movement in the parameters for The Meanies. We’ll just be sticking with what we do.” McLennan recalls the difficulties he encountered the last time The Meanies abrogated its effervescent live style for a special purpose: an early morning in-store gig a few years ago. “We did some early radio thing at about eight in the morning, I think it was The Lounge in the city,” McLennan says. “We did Buffalo Free and another song acoustic. It was combining all of these elements of life that I hate: getting up early, playing acoustic versions of punk rock songs and being sober. It makes for a difficult performance.” It’s been a productive year for The Meanies. They released their first album in over a decade, packed their bags for Spain including an appearance at the renowned
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Primavera Sound festival - and generally debunked any suggestion The Meanies were going to age gracefully. This weekend The Meanies venture down the Calder Freeway to play Chopped music festival in Newstead in regional Victoria. Despite never having had a driver’s licence, McLennan appreciates a hotted up car, and a hotted up car festival is even better. “I’m not a car head but I love old cars - new cars look like dog shit,” McLennan says. “I love the shapes and the lines of old cars. Maybe I’ll put a white t-shirt on and drape myself over a car with a dripping sponge, with These Boots Are Made for Walking in the background,” he laughs. Playing a hot rod festival in regional Victoria is a far cry from The Meanies’ sojourn to Spain earlier this year. The Meanies first ventured over to Spain in the early ‘90s, and have returned to the Iberian Peninsula on a number of occasions over the past 20odd years. “We did 20 something shows in Spain over a month, in all corners of the
The Cherry Dolls
6.30pm –
Drunk Mums
8.00pm –
Guantanamo Baywatch
9.30pm –
Reverend Horton Heat
country,” McLennan says. “The crowds were enthusiastic, we sold lots of records - it was great.” The Meanies scored a slot on Primavera Festival headlined by Brian Wilson. While McLennan was recovering from illness and missed much of the other bands on the festival, he did manage to see Venom, a band vivid in his distant rock’n’roll memories. “That was a bit of fun - took me back to my teenage black metal days,” McLennan laughs. Regular, albeit infrequent, tours to Spain mean that The Meanies’ Spanish fan base remains steady. “You come across a lot of people who were there back in the early ‘90s who’re still coming along. We’ve managed to play there seven or eight times, so people do know us there,” McLennan says. But he concedes the declining economic fortunes of the country are evident, something that McLennan has in the back of his mind as he prepares to move across to Spain to live with his Spanish girlfriend. “Touring with Sun God [Replica] and The Meanies you get people saying that you’ve got to drop the price of your merchandise or else no one’s going to buy anything, the economy’s so bad,” McLennan says. While he has recovered from the broken foot he sustained on The Meanies’ 25th anniversary CHOPPED 2016 COVERAGE
tour a couple of years ago, he can’t promise that he won’t risk his body in the name of rock’n’roll. “I’m always accumulating new injuries,” McLennan says. “I had a big water sack on my knee after a Meanies tour, a couple of black eyes. Act your age Link, act your age. But I’m in denial - I’ve definitely got a Peter Pan complex,” McLennan says. Finally, is it correct - as Meanies bass player and manager Wally Meanie has asserted - that The Meanies are still awesome? “Absolutely,” McLennan says. “In all modesty - or lack thereof - I think we are awesome,” he says. “The quality of shows we put on these days shit on the shows we did back in the day. There’s a little less blood, but there’s still stacks of energy. I think you can bloody well put us against anyone.”
Sunday Oct 2
(daylight savings kicks in overnight) 10.00am –
King Puppy & The Carnivore
12.00pm –
Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk
2.00pm –
The Cha Cha Chas
The Meanies will play Chopped 2016, alongside Reverend Horton Heat, Guantanamo Baywatch, Puta Madre Brothers, Drunk Mums and more. Chopped runs from Friday September 30 to Sunday October 2 in Newstead. They’ll also play A Day On The Green with You Am I, Something For Kate and more at Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong on Saturday November 12 and Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley on Sunday November 13. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 21
This Week: Joanna Murray-Smith’s acclaimed tale of cat and mouse is now running at MTC featuring the stunning original Sydney Theatre Company team of actors Sarah Peirse and Eamon Farren, and director Sarah Goodes. Switzerland is a captivating psychological thriller that will keep you guessing to the last minute. Patricia Highsmith, best-selling author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, is living as a recluse somewhere in the Swiss alps. When she is visited by a young and green editor from her New York publishing house, hoping to convince the terrifying Miss Highsmith to write one last Ripley, things quickly go awry as the tables are turned. Catch it at The Sumner, Southbank Theatre throughout the week and up until Saturday October 29.
With James Di Fabrizio. Do you have news, thoughts or a fantastic minestrone recipe? Email james@beat.com.au.
The Money BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
The latest collection from the Benaki Museum to travel to Australia’s Hellenic Museum tells a tale of more than just the wearing of jewellery. The Art of Adornment: Greek Jewellery from the 17th to 19th Centuries features items that were said to bring the wearer good luck, enhance fertility, and ward off evil spirits for protection and prosperity. The collection, that spans 300 years, features over 90 exquisite and intricate objects which highlight the artistry involved in jewellery making throughout this period as well as portraits in the gallery showing how these items were worn. Expect to see amulets, ancient earrings, ornaments, coins, crowns and more form a time bygone, preserved and brought to life in Melbourne once more. The Art of Adornment: Greek Jewellery is open now at the Hellenic Museum. Alternative lifestyle sexuality groups will unite at the annual Oz Kink Fest and Fetish Expo, currently taking over Melbourne. Featuring over 50 local and national business vendors, top level entertainment, music, educational and community building workshops and parties, the event is one of the largest kink and fetish gatherings in the country. Highlights of this year’s festival include the grand fetish fashion show with competitions and cash prizes for best female, male and transgender outfits alongside performances from International Mz Leather (USA), Mistress Kanna ( JPN), DJ Scott Anderson and more. Capping it off comes hardcore dungeon play spaces, shopping discounts from numerous fetish vendors, medical play and fire flogging. Get down to Fitzroy Town Hall up until Sunday October 2 to try something new. With a career spanning almost seven decades, John Olsen has carved a place in Australian art history. He is known for his energetic painting style and evocative landscapes that have captured Australia’s unique terrain and spirit with a distinct visual language. Now, NGV capture the magic in the major Olsen retrospective, The you beaut country. The exhibition surveys Olsen’s career features his most iconic and arresting works, including large-scale paintings of Lake Eyre, the Simpson Desert, Sydney Harbour and his much-loved tree frogs. Check it out at NGV Australia throughout the week.
pick of the week
Circus Oz's acclaimed TWENTYSIXTEEN production is ready to enthral more audience members, coming to Preston for a limited run of shows this week. Pushing the boundaries of physicality, gravity and imagination - the production will take to the stage at the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre 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.
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The premise of The Money is simple. Presented by UK theatre company Kaleider, the show involves a group of audience members engaged in a discussion about how to spend a certain amount of money. They must reach a unanimous decision by the end of the night or else the money carries over to the next show. And that’s it. It’s so simple that it seems impossible to guarantee each show will be an entertaining, unique spectacle. But over the last couple of years The Money has continually made for a highly engaging and emotionally dynamic event. “What’s good about it is because you have a different cast, essentially, every time, it stays compelling for a very long time,” says creator Seth Honnor. “Unlike a lot of shows ± which once you’ve seen them, you’ve seen them ± people come back and back to this one and they buy tickets for the spouses for Christmas. It’s weirdly addictive, because even though you’ve seen one you go, ‘What’s the next one going to be like? Will they do the same thing? Will they come up with something different?’ ” People are required to pay extra if they want to be involved in the fiscal negotiations that form the crux of the show. They then become known as “benefactors”, while the rest of the audience watch on as “silent witnesses”. It’s not uncommon for tense power struggles to emerge in The Money, which could incite comparisons to competitive gambling. Of course, its conceptual intentions ± to explicate the complicated issues faced in money-centric societies, and how important communication for the instantiation of utilitarian principles ± distinguish it from gambling, but Honnor makes sure to underline the rules so that people don’t feel cheated or ripped off. “We’re extremely careful around our duty of care to the players,” he says. “So we say, ‘this is a choice. You choose to be a benefactor or a silent witness. It’s your choice.’ And we say, ‘Benefactors have an amount of time to
come to a unanimous decision about how to spend some money, and the silent witnesses watch and they can buy in at any time.’ So everyone knows the deal before they go in.” There are some necessary formalities to take care of before a performance of The Money can commence. Though, these are fairly uncomplicated. “It’s just ticketed. We don’t cast it at all,” Honnor says. “The general public choose to be a benefactor or a silent witness and that’s it. So we just sell it like you would sell a stalls ticket or a dress circle ticket to a theatre show.” During the course of the game, Honnor doesn’t play an active role (besides watching on as a silent witness), but there are two actors who interact with the benefactors and play a crucial role in proceedings. “They are performers and they have a script,” Honnor says. “So the way they hold the audience as they move them into the space is very carefully choreographed. Every single detail in this show is considered, even if it looks like it isn’t. “It’s a bit like a magic trick in that there’s a membrane that’s designed that is sort of invisible but holds the whole experience very carefully.” Most people are inclined to put on some sort of performance whenever they get on a stage. You’d imagine this could stall the progress of a game of The Money, but Honnor says it’s hardly ever an issue.
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“The Money reveals our ability to work with each other, or not, really quickly. It’s a really hopeful show, though. I’m always amazed at how incredibly supportive people are of each other. I always love it when someone buys in and says, ‘I want half the money, I’ll only agree if I get half the money.’ I always love it when people game it, and people who get used to it and play it more learn that it is a game and it’s OK to play it. We’re always keen for people to be playful with it because it makes it really interesting, because you’re not quite sure what it is you’re watching. “I think people really want to get along. We think we live in quite a fragmented world where people are kind of selfish and self-interested. But actually that’s not what you get in The Money, generally speaking.” Tense, heavy emotions are often at the core of captivating works of theatre, and it’s not uncommon for complications and differences of opinion to surface in The Money. However, there is potential for a show to be characterised by good humour, modesty and sensible judgements, and still be entertaining. “The thing about The Money is that whatever happens in it, it gets under your skin and it stays there. When I first made it, I would wake up in the morning the next day and go, ‘I’m sorry everyone.’ Then I realised that everyone who saw it, the next morning it would be the first thing that they woke up and thought about. It is an extraordinarily intense experience. Someone once came up to me from Arts Council of England and she said, ‘It’s like watching Shakespeare.’ It’s totally unbelievable how it twists and turns and moves, how it’s got five acts, how we naturally fall into those rhythms of five acts, and how the narrative rises and falls.” THE MONEY will run at Prahran Town Hall from Thursday October 6 to Tuesday October 11, Footscray Town Hall from Thursday October 13 to Sunday October 16 and at Parliament of Victoria, Legislative Assembly Chamber from Wednesday October 19 to Sunday October 23. Tickets are available via Melbourne Festival.
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DIRTY SECRETS COMEDY
The Testament of Mary
THE COMIC STRIP
It’s another huge one for Dirty Secrets, with a great selection of comedians to get you through humpday. Murphy McLachlan acts as MC alongside Melbourne favourites Dilruk Jayasinha, Daniel Connell, Laura Duneman and more. Wednesday September 28, 80 Smith Street, Collingwood.
CRAB LAB
COMEDY AT GEORGE’S The city’s favourite George Costanza-inspired bar continues to bring the laughs as we draw closer to The Summer of George. On Thursday September 29 they’ll see Nic Capper introducing Roland Hoffman, Gabriel Francis, Firdi Billimoria, Michael Williams, Lisa Fineberg, Jay Morrisey, Peter Jones, Geoff Setty, Perri Cassie and a special mystery guest from TV. Plus, the next two wildcard competitors will be battling it out for the ‘Are You Funnier Than George?’ competition. 20 Johnston St, Fitzroy.
THURSDAY COMEDY It’s a ripper down at Thursday Comedy this week. Cal Wilson leads the charge along with Luke Heggie, Greg Fleet, Michael Chamberlin and more. It’s all happening this Thursday September 29 at 8.30pm at the European Bier Café, 120 Exhibition Street, CBD, all for only $12.
ROCHESTER COMEDY It’s another huge Thursday night at the Rochey with Dilruk Jayasinha, Tommy Dassalo, Aaron Gocs, Xavier Michelides and more taking to the stage for an evening of laughs. Thursday September 29, upstairs at the Rochey.
WILDE WILDE WEST COMEDY Here’s to another wild Tuesday night at Wilde Wilde West with Melbourne’s best reputable and emerging comedians, which includes Daisy Berry, Beau Stegmann, Clara Cup Cakes and heaps more. You can also say ‘Kevin Kline’ at the bar for $5 house wines and $7 pints, and it’s free entry! It’s this Tuesday, October 4, at 8pm at The Wilde on 153 Gertrude St, Fitzroy.
Coming Up Melbourne Festival
Thursday October 6 - Sunday October 23 Various Venues
Sunshine
Tuesday October 11 - Saturday November 5 Red Stitch Actors Theatre
War and Peace
Tuesday October 18 - Sunday October 30 Malthouse Theatre
Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert Friday November 4 ± S aturday November 5 Hamer Hall
Lord of the Flies
Wednesday April 5 - Sunday April 9 2017 State Theatre
Company to Present ‘The Odd Couple’
DIRTY SECRETS
Crab Lab are back at it once more, bringing together David Quirk, Nick Capper, Jack Druce, Chris Wainhouse, Naomi Higgins, Pete Jones, Laua Dunemann, Stuart Daulman and Brett Blake. Plus, free popcorn and $7 pints. What could possibly go wrong? Free entry at 16 Corrs Lane, CBD.
Melbourne Theatre
ACMI to Present Roman Polanski’s Most Iconic Films ACMI will present a touring film season dedicated to the oeuvre of Franco-Polish director Roman Polanski. ROMAN: 10 X Polanski will showcase ten key films drawn from Polanski’s filmography ± from the director’s Polish New Wave debut,Knife in the Water to his 2010 political thriller, The Ghost Writer. Capping off the selection comes the director’s British films of the ‘60s alongside New Hollywood classics Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown,as well as Paris-set thrillers The Tenant, Frantic and Bitter Moon. Rounding it out comes Marina Zenovich’s feature-length documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, providing further insight into the lauded filmmaker. Catch it from Saturday November 5 - Sunday November 20 at ACMI Cinemas.
Moonlight Cinema Returns
‘Life Inside An Image’ Set to
for Melbourne’s Summer,
Open for Melbourne Festival
Remains BYO Australia’s largest outdoor cinema will return as a BYOfriendly event (fuck yes, tinnies), as well as playing host to some first class food truck grub along with a fully licensed bar, serving up LA-style snacks to cap off the summer cinema experience. Back once again, the Gold Grass packages will be offering something special - bringing together lush beanbags in primo viewing locations topped off with food and drinks delivered throughout the night. Moonlight Cinema’s 2016/2017 program will be announced in the coming weeks, with films projected to screen throughout the summer.
Hotly anticipated visual art project Life Inside An Image is set to make its long awaited opening in line with its Melbourne Festival run. Orbiting around Irish artist Gerard Byrne’s newly commissioned work Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjneli (Film inside an Image), the exhibition presents a selection of recent moving-image works by contemporary Australian and international artists who have worked with collections to disrupt old - and unearth new narratives. It’s going down at Monash University Museum of Art from Tuesday October 6 - Sunday October 23. Entry is free.
Two of Australia’s favourites will join forces in Melbourne Theatre Company’s upcoming staging of a comedy classic. Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade star as the famously mismatched duo in The Odd Couple, directed by comedy specialist Peter Houghton. In Neil Simon’s unforgettable play, opposites attract in the most hilarious way when the grouchy slob Oscar Madison and the meticulous neat-freak Felix Ungar find themselves living under the same roof. “The play is without doubt, a work of comic genius,” said Houghton. “My goal is to let the play sing, to allow it to be its magnificent self and with the cast we’re putting together it will raise the roof. I’m lucky, with Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade, to have a comic duo that will bring Felix and Oscar into ribshattering life.” Catch The Odd Couple at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner from Saturday November 5 Saturday December 17.
Horror Movie Campout Comes to Point Cook Sweet baby Satan, this is the shit nightmares are made of. Horror Movie Campout is Australia’s first horror festival, arriving as an overnight, scary as all hell, camping experience. Immersive scare actors will roam the site while bands take to the stage throughout the day. Elsewhere, you can try your luck in the “death chamber” scare maze as a nightmarish wonderland of dread keeps you on edge until nightfall. That’s when things step up a notch. As darkness falls, the massive outdoor cinema will fire up with intense short horror flicks and two terrifying movie headliners as voted on by campers prior to the event. The festival is partnered with the world’s top horror movie distributors, with a mission to deliver the most unique and horrifying film experience of your life. Films to vote for include The Hills Have Eyes, The Babadook, I Spit On Your Grave, Cabin Fever, Snowtown, You’re Next, Sleepaway Camp and a whole lot more. It’s all happening Saturday December 3 - Sunday December 4 at Homestead Entrance Road, Point Cook.
FILM REVIEW
Start Options Exit The Melbourne Underground Film Festival chose to honour dark indie satire Start Options Exit with two successive gongs ± t he first being Opening Night selection, the second being Best Film. This brings into serious question their entire raison d’etre as a festival, and not because the film they’ve selected is “so contentious”, but because it is precisely the opposite. Start Options Exit takes its name from the menu options on a SNES game cartridge, played by two pre-teen boys, in which “two seedlings of iniquity are defecated into a world of opportunity”: Neville (Ari Neville) and Yolis (co-director Yoav Jenkem), two scummy Melbournites who crawl the underside of the city in search of stimulation. The framing mechanism is ultimately the codifier for the film’s failings. Its attempts to shock and awe are completely flaccid because all of its provocations are not only rote but outmoded: all of its targets are shipped in from the same ‘80s exploitation films it apes. The directors ( Jenkem and Christopher H.F. Mitchell) want to paint the flick as satirical commentary on the toxic culture of white, straight men ± and, to be fair, they don’t glorify their foul leads ± but all of their most venomous barbs are slung at women, midgets, queers, the homeless; less satire and more actualising of toxic hegemonic thought. Even the supposed moral compass, The Vagrant (Tom McCathie) devotes half a sermon to caustically denigrating the entirety of Gen Y. It gets hard to hear all of the script’s armchair philosophising over the deafening tipping of fedoras. Their throwaway gags belie the writers’ true nature ± the first (and far from last) use of the word “faggot” is accompanied by a title card explaining that the word means “a bundle of sticks”. Yep, it’s not their fault if you’re offended, because it’s just a word, right guys? Can I get a high-five? Anyone? Then there’s the fact that our two impressionable kiddies in the framing device are eating
a box of Cheesy Poofs, thus referencing actual satirists these directors will never come close to emulating. The vape smoke is thick enough to cut. Neither the aping of the nostalgia-bait trend nor the tired meta-cinematic trickery can salvage a script with all the social critique of the Basement Tapes. Even the standout moments are stolen: Neville watching a man overdose and die (Breaking Bad) and smash-zoom montages (Edgar Wright). The ‘hipster scum’ are lifted from every Bondi Hipsters sketch; the snide intellectual tone stolen from every Che Guevara-shirt-toting second-year student. All women fit the Madonna/whore trope, with Tottie Goldsmith’s Oracle being the most complex female character in that she embodies both. They’re all “vacuous cunts”, “whores”, “fucking tainted”. At debauched parties, men snog men (gross) and women snog women (hot) because society is anomic, you guys. That’s what all the close-ups of T&A are allegedly for, the slo-mo twerking, the stripping: not evidence of two ‘artists’ paying people to enact their fantasies, but culturally relevant artistic statement. Naturally, there are rape jokes. Naturally, there’s casual sexual assault, on both men and women. And naturally, after a sickening Stockholm-syndrome rape plot is successfully carried out (with some slapstick thrown in for ‘good measure’), the film spends more time convincing us to sympathise with the rapist than with the victim. At its most tasteless, it plants porn star Ron Jeremy as the arse-slapping PTSD psychotherapist for
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the rape victim. This is not clever satire: this is “we can joke about anything” high-horse bullshit from two white heterosexual males that have no concept of trauma. And yet, this twosome have somehow drawn a crowd. They’ve managed to amass $35K and get both Jeremy and Mark “Chopper” Read onscreen, the latter merely to call a couple people “faggots” before unceremoniously vanishing. All because they can wave the flag of exploitation cinema and its proud history of provocation, forgetting that the films they parrot weren’t simply 90-minute nihilist memes, but actual pieces of entertainment with actual things to say. Oh, and the sound was poorly synced, which costs literally nothing to fix. That’s just bad filmmaking, no matter your budget. Start Options Exit, neither daring nor original, cannot provoke the debate or the outrage it so desperately wants to generate. When the credits finally roll, the intense headache from having rolled one’s eyes so hard feels more immediate than any biting social commentary. As a meditation on Gen Y’s arrested development, it fails. As a satirical insight into rape culture, it fails, despite the loudly touted self-awareness of the creative involved. As imitation of exploitation cinema, it fails. And, most egregiously, as a work of entertainment, it falls resoundingly flat on its arse. The only true shock is that MUFF would consider this a high bar to set for underground cinema. B Y D AV I D M O L L O Y BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 23
O f f Th e Record Hoooooomumma. Need a pick-me-up mix/video to get you through the day? Head to be-at.tv to watch all nine bloody hours of Carl Cox playing from start to finish for the final ever party of his 15-year residency at Space Ibiza, Music Is Revolution. Two things to take away from it: 1. Cox is forever one of the best all-rounder DJs in the game. 2. Space Ibiza has one hell of a smoke machine. For those playing at home, of the 100s of tracks, his final selection was Someday by CeCe Rogers followed by ten seconds of The End by The Doors. Legend. Some more great viewing: Red Bull Music Academy Daily have produced a documentary following Chicago’s infamous Disco Demolition Night, featuring interviews with those behind the racially charged incident. A very compelling watch – head to their website. For the gear heads, in a video uploaded to his Facebook Levon Vincent speaks with to Aybee about his favourite pieces of hardware. Finally, the video for Powell’s new track Jonny (taken from his forthcoming debut album Sport on XL Recording) is just a compilation of people trying to crack a watermelon with their heads. Music is weird sometimes. Ol’ mate Asquith is returning to our shores. One of the finest contemporary selectors in the game, he’s best known as the label head of Lobster Theremin and Mörk, and he also runs the Find Me In The Dark night at London’s Corsica Studios. Expect a night of all-killer, no bullshit techhouse filler. He’s coming for Boney on Saturday October 15. Tour rumours: oooooh what’s a girl to do? Fatima Yamaha is locked and loaded for an Australian tour next March. Best releases this week: IT’S HERE. The second fulllength from Nicolas Jaar, Sirens (on Other People) has finally landed. I’m two listens in as I type this and oh my it’s good. For those who love a bit of a soul and jazz touch to their dance music, you can’t go past the latest compilation Jeremy Underground Presents Beauty (Spacetalk Records). Straight-up perfect listening as we begin to enter the warmer seasons. Otherwise I’d suggest spending
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WITH T YSON WRAY some time with The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the End of Time (History Always Favours The Winners), Lucy and Rrose’s The Lotus Eaters (Stroboscopic Artefacts), Fis’ From Patterns to Details (Subtext) and Ozel AB’s Valis (Lobster Theremin).
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CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 • COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DANIELSAN + KITI Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • SCORE 1980-2000 - FEAT: GIO GARCIA + LADY LANGERS + DJ PERIL Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29 • 3181 THURSDAYS & MUTANT DANCE FEAT: HANS DC + ROBERTO + GUMBY + STOCKHOLM SYNDROME + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • AMPLIFY NIGHTS - FEAT: TYDE LEVI + JAMES YAMMOUNI + KURT COLEMAN Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 4:00pm. $37.57. • BICEP + ISAAC TICHAUER Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • DJ HOUSE SHOES + HÄZEL + MELLOW FELLOW + GEE + RINTRAH Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • NIGHTCAP IV - FEAT: KUTA GLEESON + S. VIBRATO + DON Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. • UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WAREHOUSE3000 - FEAT: CHRISS MATTO + IVAN DI GENNARO + ETWAS + DEZLEZ Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $20.00. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
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• ARIZONA THURSDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • OFF THE TOP - FREESTYLE FURSDAYS - FEAT: THE ETIKATS Gin Lane, Belgrave. 9:00pm. • Q-BIK & DJ GINA + SK + INKA + MORE Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • SILENT JAY + BAZ RICHIE + MAN MADE MOUNTAIN + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 8:45pm. $15.00.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30
• 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. • HOCKEY DAD + HORROR MY FRIEND Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. • PARTY & BULLSHIT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • PLAY FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • SAYMYNAME + QUIX + LUCA LUSH Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 9:00pm. $18.40.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 1
• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + MITSU + SOFIE ROZE + PAIGE PLAY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. • BLOCKHEAD + PLUTONIC LAB + MONKEYMARC + KODIAK KID + GRIFF Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $38.00. • DEX + JORDAN ST QUINTIN + CONNOR BLAKE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. $15.34. • KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. • RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 2
• MOMENTUM (FOREIGN BROTHERS) + THE CORETET Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. • MONIQUE DIMATTINA BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
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ALEX LAHEY TA K I N G
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Given the mammoth 2016 she’s had, it’s hard to believe Alex Lahey played her first solo show in her hometown of Melbourne only last year. Having now conquered Australia, it’s time for Lahey to embark on the next exciting chapter of her career as she starts to make plans for her international debut.
JOE BONAMASSA P L AY I N G
T H E
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BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
Joe Bonamassa is back in Australia for the second time this year after a Bluesfest exclusive performance in March. This time around he’s checking into a number of the nation’s most ornate theatre venues including St Kilda’s Palais Theatre and the Sydney Opera House. The latter is another crowning achievement for the welltravelled American bluesman. “I did Carnegie Hall this year, which was a bucket-list gig. Then we’re doing the Opera House, that’s pretty much it for me,” Bonamassa says. “I don’t need anything else in my life. I’ve done the Royal Albert Hall twice. I’ve done Red Rocks three times. I’ve had a good run the last decade. I did Vienna Opera House. I’ve done Radio City Music Hall. I’ve been super lucky that my fans have allowed me to do all of this.” March saw the release of Blues of Desperation, Bonamassa’s 12th solo LP. Much like 2014’s Different Shades of Blue, original material dominates the track listing; something that wasn’t the case on the majority of his earlier albums. “After we did Albert Hall last time, 2013, that was the end of an era,” Bonamassa says. “We did a whole career retrospective. That was like, ‘OK that’s where we were in 2013, thanks very much.’ Then between Different Shades of Blue and Blues of Desperation, that was the beginning of a new book. It was like, ‘I’ll put out less albums and let me write them all and see what happens.’ “I’ve been very happy with the results so far. The material has been strong and it’s allowed us to retire so much stuff from the old ones. I don’t need to play Dust Bowl [2011]. I don’t need to be play Driving Towards the Daylight [2012]. We’ve played those to death and it’s time to move on.” Bonamassa started releasing albums in 2000 and they’ve come at an impressively frequent rate ever since (approximately one every 15 months). Given his slow emergence as a fully-fledged songwriter, however, one might assume he hasn’t always felt confident in his own creative capacity. But he says it was time constraints that held him back. “I always knew that the best songs I’d come up with would be the ones that I wrote, but I’m not a very prolific writer. I’m not sitting around with a typewriter and a Jack Kerouac book coming up with tunes every day. It takes more time for me to write. At the beginning of an album cycle you have to write a few duds. Your best stuff comes in after you wrote the first couple. You have to burn a few just to get your head around where you want the album to go.” Kevin Shirley has produced all of Bonamassa’s work since 2006’s You & Me. Shirley’s a guy that knows a thing or two about guitars – over the years he’s been involved with heavier bands like Iron Maiden and Dream Theater and blues rock artists like John Hiatt and the BonamassaBEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
side project, Black Country Communion. Shirley’s input has been crucial to the development of Bonamassa’s latest couple of releases. “As much as he’s there, he’s the eyes and ears of everything in the overall picture,” Bonamassa says. “If he feels the band is stale or I’m getting stale, he’s a wonderful antagonist. He knows how to elicit good performances out of people and he doesn’t care how he does it. Ultimately he has everybody’s interest in mind. If I do a great guitar solo after him having to tell me, ‘By the way you’ve sucked today,’ I get the credit for the solo, he doesn’t. He doesn’t like having to push and pull people kicking and screaming, but he will because it’s in the best interest of the record and he’s selfless like that. He sees the whole album as a total and he sees the song as a total within the album.” This visionary selflessness, Bonamassa explains, is what makes Shirley a producer’s producer. “Anybody can go down to a music store and buy Pro Tools and call themselves a producer. You’re not a producer. A producer hears music on a three dimensional level and understands not only if the lyric is swinging within the song, but he also understands if the kick drum and the bass are rubbing or the pattern on the kick drum effects the groove. “People know what they like and they know what they dislike, but sometimes they don’t know why they like it or why they dislike it. It’s Kevin’s job to make heads or tails of this stuff.” Bonamassa has been a regular Australian visitor over the years. And despite having resolved to focus more intently on songcraft, he still feels most at home in front of a live audience. “Every album is a snapshot and it’s a snapshot of a period of time. That’s why the live shows are more appealing to me, because the snapshot is much more immediate. On an album, you get into a mode and that usually is the mode of the record and listening back to it years later you can feel where everybody was making the album. They are so final – they don’t waver.” JOE BONAMASSA will play the Palais Theatre on Wednesday October 5. Blues of Desperation is out now via J & R Adventures, while his newest album, Live at the Greek Theatre, is also out now.
Armed with her debut EP B Grade University, Lahey admits that the candid nature of the songs are a reflection of her personality. “I’m a pretty open person and I think that probably sums up what’s coming through in my music. It’s not intentional, I guess it has more to do with my values. I write songs about things that have happened to me or things that I have really connected with. That’s what makes it so personal. I’m incapable of being anyone else but myself.” Lahey has even got Canadian pop legends Tegan & Sara on board, spending time with them at Splendour in the Grass. “Meeting them was a dream come true and the best part about it was that they were more than what I wanted them to be. It meant so much to me that they were so nice and took the time to get to know me and actually listen to my songs. They didn’t have to, and they did. They’re such wonderful people. The thing I really took away from that experience, more than the advice they were giving me, was that you can be successful and also be a really good person.” While everything is certainly happening at an accelerated rate for Lahey, she admits things didn’t start to feel real until she received kudos from none other than Pitchfork. “When people asked me if it was a dream come true I’d honestly reply that it wasn’t, because in order for a dream to come true you’d have to consider it,” she says.
“It was the ultimate pat on the back and opened so many doors. Although, I think the ultimate pat on the back should come from yourself. You’ve got to celebrate the wins and that was the ultimate win for me.” Some of those doors that have been opened include a showcase at the SXSW conference next year – just one of the many achievements Lahey can add to her ever growing resume. “It’s going to be a massive plunge into the deep end but I’m really excited about it,” she says. “I’m really grateful for the opportunity to experience SXSW let alone play but there’s still so much I have to do before we head over. I think that our live show is up to standard
DOCKLANDS BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL A
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BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS
The Docklands Blues Music Festival will once again fire up the Melbourne blues music scene on Sunday October 16, with am exciting lineup of over 15 bands on three indoor and outdoor stages. The festival will feature the likes of Geoff Achison, Andrea Marr & The Funky Hitmen, Dreamboogie, and to add the cherry on top of a fantastic bill, Canadian blues musician Mark Green will be headlining. The Docklands Blues Music Festival will also feature carnival rides, a Wonderland Sweet Treats café and Blues food truck and a host of family-friendly events. “It’s a free event, which is very rare for a music festival, and there’s free music running from 10am until 10pm all day,” says Melissa Head, the festival director. “It’s really cool because everybody can move around the different stages. It’s got a good family vibe and also a good party vibe.” B E AT.C O M . A U
The festival began through Head’s background working with some of the great band’s featured on the lineup. “It came about when I was booking some bands; it was actually Dreamboogie, and then we got our heads together and said, ‘Why don’t we do a music festival?’ “We did it one year and it went from there. I’ve had funding from City of Melbourne for a couple of years and built it up further and then it’s back to us this year,” Head says.
but you want to get it even better as time goes on and make sure that you’re prepared to perform under the pump. We want to make sure that we’re the most resilient band in the world so we can keep up.” For Lahey, festivals are still territory she treads with consideration. “Festival gigs are so different from playing venues, you really need to fill the space as a performer and that’s something that I’m slowly getting used to. I definitely talk more shit when I play venues because there’s time,” she says. “Figuring out what makes a great festival performance is something that I’m still learning but it’s really fun learning on the job.” Lahey’s well versed in the business side of her music as well, sourcing as much knowledge on the industry to complement her team’s hard work. “As a solo artist I feel a responsibility to know exactly what’s going on around me. I want to make sure that I’m managing myself in an appropriate way that’s conducive to a long term, lifelong career where I can play music for the rest of my life.” ALEX LAHEY will play Sad Grrrls Fest at The Reverence Hotel on Saturday October 1, the Darebin Music Feast closing party on Sunday November 6, and Beyond The Valley at Lardner Park, running from Wednesday December 28 until Sunday January 1.
The Docklands Blues Music Festival was originally conceptualised as a visitor attraction to draw people to the Docklands. “We have people staying there and playing. It’s really a tool as a visitor attraction, visiting Docklands, Spiegeltent specifically since we own and run it. It’s to draw people to the Spiegeltent,” Head says. The process of selecting the bands that will play in the festival this year was different to the festival’s previous years. “This particular year we’re introducing a lot of interstate bands and bands that people haven’t seen before, and also the feature headliner Mark Green. It’s predominantly a local festival, so we use a lot of local acts, but this year we’re introducing quite a few interstate acts,” Head says. “We’re adding a lot of brass this year. Mark Green from Canada is pretty awesome, so there’s a good mix of acts that everyone will love.” As a festival producer, Head has witnessed the blues music scene grow and develop significantly over the years. “It’s quite a mainstream genre of music that’s loved by everyone. Since there’s the other major festivals like the Byron Bay Blues Music Festival and Broadbeach, I’d say it’s built up into mainstream music. I see a big demand for blues music and a big market for it,” she says. As for her favourite acts in the festival, Head is looking forward to witnessing a couple of the interstate acts, along with Mark Green. “Geoff Achison just come back from a tour overseas, and he’s pretty amazing. And I want to see Andrea Marr & The Funky Hitmen,” she says. Head has big plans for the future of the festival, with growth on their horizon. “The festival came about as a visitor attraction, so my future plans for it are to find a sponsor partner to take it to the next level and turn it into a two-day free event. This year is a one-day event. “It’s a real party, it’s so much fun. The vibe’s awesome with the carnival and the amusement rides. People are dancing, it’s fabulous.” THE DOCKLANDS BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL will run on Sunday October 16 at the Wonderland Spiegeltent under the Melbourne Star.
THE SCIENTISTS A
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The Scientists that appeared in Sydney in 1981 was a very different beast to the brash punk rock troupe that had formed in Perth a few years earlier. The first incarnation of The Scientists had taken its cues from a mixture of Nuggets garage punk and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers; the Sydney incarnation explored the primitive rock’n’roll sounds of The Stooges, The Cramps and Suicide.
“They were very different bands,” says Scientists guitarist Kim Salmon, the band’s songwriter and only common denominator throughout their scattered 10 year original history. “The only reason we’d written the original songs for The Scientists were that they were the only songs that James [Baker] and I could write,” Salmon says. “But I wanted to do a bit more of a Stooges thing anyway. I used to say to James that we should do more stuff like The Stooges, and he’d say ‘But you don’t write it.’” Kim Salmon had formed The Exterminators (nee The Invaders) with Roddy Radalj and Boris Sujdovic; when former Victims drummer James Baker joined on sticks, The Scientists was born. Sujdovic was the first member to leave - “Boris got the boot, which was just immaturity, very poor form,” Salmon concedes - followed shortly after by Radalj. Salmon and Baker stuck it out for a couple more years before dissolving the band in 1980, frustrated with a lack of success and unsure where the band was heading. When Sujdovic suggested to Salmon that he move across to Sydney and restart The Scientists, Salmon packed his bags and joined his former bandmate. With Baker committed to Le Hoodoo Gurus, Salmon convinced Brett Rixon, at the time playing drums in Salmon’s post-Scientist band Louie Louie, to come over as well. The fourth member of the reborn Scientists was Tony Thewlis, already a fan of the original Scientists. While Sujdovic thought the garage punk version of The Scientists would work well in a Sydney market stocked with garage-influenced bands such as The Riptides, Salmon was already leaning toward a more minimalist sonic style. When Salmon finally got around to listening to The Cramps, he knew he’d found what he wanted. “When I listened to The Cramps I heard this really unhinged singing, really primitive drumming and speeding guitar that reminded me of The Stooges and the more sonic territory of The Velvet Underground like Sister Ray, and that’s what I wanted to do,” Salmon says. Even The Ramones, whose 1976 debut album had sent budding punk rockers like Salmon into a frenzy, had exhibited a brand of minimalism that Salmon found inspiring. “Someone had suggested in some piece of writing that they were like [Dutch painter] Mondrian,” Salmon says. “And I went with that, because I thought it was cool.” By 1983, The Scientists had established a following, and attracted the attention of Bruce Milne and Greta Moon’s AuGoGo Records. The Scientists’ first single, Swampland, illustrated the new, minimalist Scientists. “The songs I was writing were much more visceral,” Salmon says. “I wasn’t really a lyric writer. The idea of minimalism was really cool because I didn’t have to write many lyrics. I just looked at things that were around me. Set It On Fire was inspired by a friend who was always complaining about his job, Burn Out was about getting wasted at the end of the night, Rev Head was about hooning about in cars, We Had Love is self-explanatory. Because there were so few words, I was getting it right. And even with the music, it was very simple - I went out of my way to have as little musical content as possible. I actually spent a lot of time on that, and deliberately tried to make sure there wasn’t any extraneous stuff on there.” By 1984 The Scientists had re-located to London, brazenly securing a spot supporting The Gun Club on some European dates at the end of that year. They slogged out for a couple more years with reasonable success, including shows with Sisters of Mercy and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The band’s relationship with its Australian label soured, leading to a few years of protracted legal wrangling. Meanwhile drummer Brett Rixon had had enough of life in London and returned to Australia, followed by Sujdovic. After a few more lineup changes, Salmon returned to Perth. “I think The Scientists had come to its logical conclusion by that time,” Salmon says. The Scientists would undertake one final tour in 1987 before Salmon decided to pursue his musical interests via The Surrealists, punctuated with the occasional foray with the Beasts of Bourbon. The Scientists would resurface again from 2000 onwards, initially to promote the release of a couple of compilation records, and subsequently for the occasional show at the All Tomorrows Parties and Don’t Look Back festivals. Along the way The Scientists would be venerated by artists such as Mudhoney for The Scientists’ role in creating the so-called grunge sound. The release of The Scientists boxset, A Place Called Bad, aggregates the entire Scientists catalogue, as well as various live recordings including a live set from Adelaide University in 1983. The gulf between the teen garage pop of Frantic Romantic from the Perth era and the electrofreak-punk of Human Jukebox from the band’s latter London period is significant. The common denominator however, is The Scientists’ desire to buck whatever trend they could see around them. “We were always pushing against something,” Salmon says. THE SCIENTISTS play at The Workers Club on Wednesday September 28 where they’ll launch their back catalogue boxset, A Place Called Bad is out now via Numero Group. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
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Top Tens HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Into The Labyrinth LP DEAD CAN DANCE 2. Away LP OKKERVIL RIVER 3. I Think I Got This Covered LP J. THUNDERS 4. Once In A Livetime LP DREAM THEATER 5. Star Treatment LP WOVENHAND 6. Obscured By Clouds LP PINK FLOYD 7. On The Beach LP NEIL YOUNG 8. Breakin’ Out Of Hell LP AIRBOURNE 9. Pornography LP THE CURE 10. Monstereophonic LP LORDI
RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN 1. Skeleton Tree NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
WA R PA I N T
Heads Up (Rough Trade Records/Remote Control)
Los Angeles-based Warpaint make bold new strides towards unexplored territory on their third album Heads Up, showing a surprising new side to the band while retaining their signature psychedelic infused sound. Long renowned for their dreamy soundscapes and haunting vocal performances, the band’s magnetism makes for a thrilling listen that commands with every note. Whiteout opens the album with a pulsating beat, as vocalists Theresa Wayman and Emily Kokal sing passionately and in unison. Spanning six glorious minutes, the track So Good sets the benchmark for the whole album, completely changing direction at the halfway point to become a much bigger and bolder song. The Stall is driven by its rhythm section as the lyrics promise “I won’t give up on you, I think you want me to.” As is often the case with narratives that inspire a release, Warpaint are lamenting over romantic relationships on this record, but rather than feeling
overdone or insincere each track offers a new side to the story. The aptly named New Song is an entirely different sound for the band with their pop sensibilities coming to the forefront. The chorus is daring and completely arresting as they bring a newfound sense of vibrancy to the track. Don’t Let Go is pleading in its urgency, with the vocals growing more desperate as the song unfolds, while Dre is a wonderfully slow burning ambient number. The album ends on a quieter note with Today Dear, showing the band at their most exposed. Warpaint are truly masters of their craft, with their songs carefully constructed to fully immerse their audience in the listening experience. Given the strength of this album it’s certainly not advantageous to say that three albums in Warpaint are still as mesmerising as ever. BY HOLLY PEREIRA
This is the best week of my life. No matter what happens on Saturday, I’m bloody proud of the mighty Doggies. Having said that, a win would be pretty handy. Dare to dream everyone. Cede Nullis, Dogs. Cede Nullis.
MEZKO Trust (Independent) Sydney duo Mezko bridge the gap
between ex-punk techno and punk with Trust, rising above the throng with a gritted determination. It draws you in just to knock you out, and it does it damn well. Trust achieves the uncanny ability to draw on a myriad of distinct influences while sounding quite like nothing else. It’s a fucked Madchester industrial punk electronica little number, commanding more than a few repeat listens. NICK MURPHY Fear Less (Future Classic) There comes a time in every young artist’s life when they realise the band/artist name they’ve chosen is
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a bit shit. Usually it gets changed before they crack the big time. Tricky Nicky copped it stiff with his breakthrough as Chet Faker, but he’s made the big call at this stage of his career to go by his real name. Which puts an end to my long-running Chet Faker (real name…) gag. It’s the end of an era. Anyway, this song sounds heaps like Radiohead ay. It’s pretty good. Now please never perform No Diggity live again Nicky.
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BIG SMOKE Best Of You (Barely Dressed) It’s impossible to divorce Best Of You from the context of much-adored singer Adrian Slattery’s passing, the track, and upcoming album Time Is Golden written and recorded after a terminal cancer diagnosis. Best Of You is a corker, sheer triumph bleeding through every note. It’s a pure form of songwriting, crafting a chorus that does everything a chorus should do. This is legacy.
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HOW SICK IS MUSIC? HEAPS WICKED
SYN TOP TEN 1. Good Life CRYSTAL CITIES 2. SOGK GOOD BOY 3. Everything Is Different Now INTROVERT 4. Projection Abstraction JACKSON DYER 5. Stone Bone MESA COSA 6. QB Sneak ACTIVE BIRD COMMUNITY 7. It Remembers ft Brendon Urie EVERY TIME I DIE 8. Skinny Dipping NOVAA 9. Bright Lights SLOTFACE 10. Call Come Running TAKING BACK SUNDAY
PBS FM TOP TEN 1. Nullabor 1988-1989 FRIENDSHIPS
SINGLE REVIEWS WITH LACHLAN DONNY BENET Working Out (Plastic World) Donny Benet meditates on a slinky bassline on Working Out, an ode to “healthy bodies, healthy minds.” It’s vintage Donny, sending the mercury rising with pure physicality. Everything’s in the right measure, at times feeling outright coital. Maybe it doesn’t hit the heights of his more up-tempo cuts, but when it syncopates, it’s hypnotising. No word on another album yet, but more of this please.
2. My Woman ANGEL OLSEN 3. Restless THE OCEAN PARTY 4. Around The House CHOOK RACE 5. Band Of The Future AUSMUTEANTS 6. Primary Colours EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING 7. Hq TERRY 8. Camp Cope CAMP COPE 9. Acoustic Recordings JACK WHITE 10. Heads Up WARPAINT
2. Blood Bitch JENNY HVAL 3. Transphobic QUAY DASH 4. Trap the Witch WITCHTRAP 5. King MIKE NOGA 6. Top Tape CROP TOP 7. Goodbye to Language DANIEL LANOIS 8. Tranquonauts ISAIAH MITCHELL WITH SEEDY JEEZUS 9. Overtone Ensemble OVERTONE ENSEMBLE 10. Eyes Still FIXED AMARILLO
BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT CARS 1. Little Red Corvette PRINCE 2. Greased Lightnin’ JOHN TRAVOLTA 3. Drive My Car THE BEATLES 4. Highway Star DEEP PURPLE 5. Fast Car TRACY CHAPMAN 6. Little Deuce Coupe THE BEACH BOYS 7. Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car BILLY OCEAN 8. Drive SHANNON NOLL 9. Under My Wheels ALICE COOPER 10. Cars GARY NUMAN
THURSDAY 29 SEPT- DEAF AMBITIONS PRESENTS:
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THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER
CHASTITY BELT (SEATTLE) W/ BATPISS + LALIC - ON SALE NOW FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER - SOLD OUT!
BELT (SEATTLE) AFL GRAND FINAL SCREENING CHASTITY W/ LOOSE TOOTH + BABY BLUE W/ DJ CRISPI (PBS) AFTER THE GAME, OPEN FROM 12PM TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2 9 LY G O N S T, C A R LT O N 9663 6350 | JOHNCURTINHOTEL.COM
PINK MOUNTAINTOPS (BLACK MOUNTAIN) + ELASTIC STAIRS (BLACK MOUNTAIN) +
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FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER
LISTEN CONFERENCE 2016: FEMINIST FUTURES
ft. OUCH MY FACE + THE PINK TILES +
WET LIPS + HI-TEC EMOTIONS + CRYSTAL MYTH
- ON SALE NOW FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER
DRAGGS (GOLD COAST)
W/ DRUNK MUMS + DUMB PUNTS + SEWER SIDE + RHYSICS - ON SALE NOW
SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE ALBUM LAUNCH W/ SPIKEFUCK BAND + WINTER SUN - ON SALE NOW THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER
LAKE MINNETONKA SINGLE LAUNCH
W/ FULTON STREET & MORE - ON SALE NOW FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER (USA) W/ - ON SALE NOW MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
THE SOFT MOON
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JAZZ PARTY SINGLE LAUNCH - ON SALE NOW FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER
THE LAURELS ALBUM LAUNCH W/ LOWTIDE + LALIC - ON SALE NOW
GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 28 SEP
THE BROTHERS COMATOSE
Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.
TASH SULTANA + LYALL MOLONEY Corner Hotel, Richmond.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT + THE RECHORDS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $57.00.
T HE WORKERS CLUB In their decade-long history, The Scientists blazed a trail through an often-hostile musical wilderness in Australia. Since the ‘70s the post punk quartet, led by Kim Salmon, have influenced generations of fellow rock, punk and garage acts. Wednesday September 28 sees Kim Salmon launch The Scientist’s box set down at The Workers Club. The Pink Tiles and The Only Boys will be heating things up early. Tickets are $23 with doors at 7.30pm.
CHISTELLA DEMETRIOU + ARGYRIS ARGROPOULOS + ILIAS GILOS
TH E RE T R E AT This is San Francisco’s Brothers Comatose first visit to Australian shores, and The Retreat are welcoming them with open arms. The Brothers Comatose offer a southwestern-tinged, rowdy stringband sound through brothers Ben and Alex Morrison. Welcome them to Brunswick on Wednesday September 28. Tickets are $28, set up camp at 8pm. 7:30pm.
KIM SALMON
Q&A
BECO DO ZAMBA BRAZILIAN PARTY - FEAT: JUH TENUCCI + MAXX R Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. BOHJASS 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.
HARRIETT ALLCROFT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.00.
KRISTIN BERNARDI + MIKE NOCK Bird's Basement,
D. HENRY FENTON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. EMMA WALL + MONICA WEIGHTMAN + CHRISTINA GREEN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
KYM STATON + MARLEY WYNNE + ROBERT PATTON + SAM BARENDSE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $7.00. MUDDY© S BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: LOUIS KING Catfish, OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. THE MIDWAYERS + FIELDS + SANSONUS + ALANA WILKINSON Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.
THURSDAY 29 SEP 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER + WITH CONFIDENCE Margaret Court
Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $101.70.
Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
AC/DSHE Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. ALEX LLOYD Milano's Tavern, Brighton. 8:00pm. AUSTRALIA + ELECTRIC MUD + TEAL AV Karova Lounge,
8:00pm. $10.00.
Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
BASEBALL + DACIOS + MASSES Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
Collingwood. 7:30pm. $12.00.
8:00pm.
AURORA + SHANNEN JAMES + DREW WALKER Old Bar, Fitzroy. BIG CREATURE + RESIDUAL + MYAMI Gasometer Hotel, CITY CALM DOWN + MIDDLE KIDS + ALI BARTER 170 Russell,
Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $27.00.
DADA ONO + DEAD PLANET 1964 + MISS MISS + FUZZSUCKER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $5.00.
Melbourne. 7:30pm. $29.00.
LUKE HOWARD TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne MELBOURNE PIANO TRIO Melbourne Recital Centre, MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD The Croxton, Thornbury.
8:00pm.
SARAY ILUMINADO Sephardic Synagogue, Balaclava. 6:30pm.
North Melbourne. 7:30pm.
THE BOSSA BRUNSWICK QUINTET Bar Oussou, Brunswick.
Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00.
$20.00.
8:00pm.
MACHINE GUN SUNRISE + GROGANS + LEONARD Bar Open,
WEDNESDAY JAZZ NIGHT - FEAT: THE ROOKIES The Rooks
MAGNUS + LONG HOLIDAY + THE VENDETTAS Cherry Bar,
WINE, WHISKEY, WOMEN
Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00.
OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm. RUBIX RADIO ON KISSFM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE + LOOK WHO© S TOXIC + FERLA Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.
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Ballarat. 8:30pm. $10.00.
Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
TH E D RU NK E N P O E T Wednesdays are always a thing at The Drunken Poet, thanks to the Wine, Whisky, Women series. On Wednesday September 28 two fabulous femme-fatales will grace the stage, in the form of Gretta Zilla and Alice Williams. As always entry is free for all, with the sweet sounds starting at 8pm.
BASKET OF MAMMOTHS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, BILLY MILLER & THE LOVE BROTHERS Flying Saucer Club, COLOSSVS + IN TRENCHES + REMOVALIST + BREAK THROUGH + NO HAVEN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CROSSFIRE HURRICANE + THE HOUNDS HOMEBOUND + GODS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
FINISHING SCHOOL Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:30pm.
$10.00.
FOR THE JUMPER - FEAT: FRASER GORMAN + LAURA JEAN + PAUL DEMPSEY + JEN SHOLAKIS + MORE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $15.00.
MELBOURNE’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE GIG GUIDE
ECHO DRAMA Hey there. Who are we speaking to and what do you do in Echo Drama? I’m Jeremy, I play the drums and steer the ship. You’re tracking for an album. How long until it’s done? We’re 12 months into recording our debut album, aiming to have it completed by the end of the year. We take the recording process slowly, opting for a meticulous studio sound layered over time rather than doing it all in a few live takes. Echo Drama has nine members, how does this affect the songwriting process? I wish I could say it’s a Utopian creative democracy where we get blazed and jam until some mind bending reggae madness emerges in perfect song form. However it’s far less glamorous. I compose most of the music at home, demo it and chart it out so we can get in a room and play it. Vocals are always written by the vocalists. All the members put their own flavours on the tunes and interpret the writing in their style. You’ve been in the business for a while, have you got a favourite gig you can think back to? We’ve been fortunate enough to play a big range of shows over the years, venues of all sizes and some pretty wild events/festivals. A recent highlight was Psyfari Festival in NSW which was one of the coolest stages we have played on. Lighting and stage decoration were unreal and the audience were a treat to play for. ECHO DRAMA will play Open Studio on Friday September 30.
GIG GUIDE WESTERN FRONTIER TOUR FUNDRAISER
HURLIN UP LIMBS
THE O LD BAR Giving a few bucks towards a good cause feels pretty great, and so does having a dance to a killer lineup. A fundraiser for bands to tour Perth is going down at The Old Bar providing both those things. Local legends Hearing, Gregor, Gorsha, Gawurra and AVOID are giving you a good-time rock concert Thursday September 29 in exchange for $10, that’ll help them tour Perth in a wee bit of comfort. Sounds more than reasonable to us. Doors are just after dinner at 7pm.
GENERAL MEN + SHIT SEX + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE + DOGOOD + THE OUTDOOR TYPE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm.
TH E B RU N S WI C K H OT E L Forecast is a saucy one for Thursday September 29 at The Brunswick Hotel. Because you probably don’t have to work the next day, the gang at The Brunny have brought along some ripper bands to start your long weekend right. Get some fuzzy psych in your gob with Hurlin Up Limbs, who’ll be joined by The Deadpans, SOSE and the Jesus Apocalypse. Free Entry, $3 schooners, $5 basics. See you there at 8pm.
WATER BEAR + THE DRAGOONS + SOPHISTICATED DINGOES Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.
AUDREY POWNE BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
9:00pm.
BELINDA PARSONS & BOB SEDERGREEN + JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Leroy Espresso, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $10.00. DIG WE MUST Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
DJ ADAM HOSS AYRES Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. FULTON STREET + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ PIERRE BARONI Cherry
$5.00.
GOOD LOVIN' - FEAT: NANOOK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. IMPROV IDOL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00. MASCO SOUND SYSTEM + MISS EILEEN & KING LEAR Evelyn MIKE NOGA + SINGLE TWIN + HOWL AT THE MOON Northcote
Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.00.
$20.00.
Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00.
OH YAY! THURSDAY Greenwood Loft, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PLASTIC - FEAT: BEHIND CRIMSON EYES + ATLANTIC + THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne
SILENTJAY
H OWLE R Prolific producer Silentjay is launching his 27 tracklong masterpiece, Come Fly With Me. On Thursday September 29 he’s throwing a big old bash at Howler to celebrate, backed by a full band. The lineup includes crowd favourites, collaborators and friends from the likes of Ragghe, Akkid, Man Made Mountain, Baz Richie, Amin Payne, Jackson Miles and Gabrielle Brilliantes. Tickets are just $18 for what is set to be a very special night, doors are at 6pm.
HEY GRINGO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. HOMAGE TO PABLO NERUDA - FEAT: LUIS SAGILE + JOSE LUIS URQUIETA South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne.
8:00pm. $20.00.
KRISTIN BERNARDI + MIKE NOCK Bird's Basement,
Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
SUN GOD REPLICA + THE BRAVES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
Melbourne. 7:30pm. $29.00.
8:30pm. A
MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe,
7:30pm.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: STM Toff In Town, Melbourne
TASH SULTANA + LYALL MOLONEY Corner Hotel, Richmond.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
THE JUNKIE TWINS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE STIFFYS Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.25.
MR ALFORD
Cbd. 10:00pm.
SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE
THE CHARL ES WESTON If you haven’t already checked out the magic that is The Charles Weston, you’ve got a great excuse on Thursday September 29. Mr Alford has just come back from Nashville and will be providing a smoky array of delectable country tunes in the front bar. Have a suss of their leafy beer garden or play some table tennis in between sets. Free music from 6.30pm.
TH E CU RTI N Deaf Ambitions present a label-curated series at The Curtin, featuring a slew of Melbourne favourites - a melange of guitar-informed pop ranging from the emphatic and visceral, to the naïve, narcotic and back again. Thursday September 29 will feature the blissful sounds of Dianas, Crepes and Sunbeam Sound Machine. The vibes will be so good it’ll almost feel like a Friday. Doors are at 8pm with tickets setting you back $10.
NASTY MARS & THE MARTIANS + GOOD MORNING + MILTON BROWS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8.00.
HUGO RACE
S P OT T E D M A LL A R D Producer, musician, writer, performer, artist and visionary - Hugo Race is dropping by the toasty Spotted Mallard on Thursday September 29. The man formerly of The Wreckery and the Bad Seeds will bring with him his latest musical offering, 24 Hours to Nowhere. Race will be joined by Angie Hart, former lead vocalist of Frente. Tickets are $17, and it all kicks off at 9pm.
Q&A
BIG CREATURE Hey there. Who are we speaking to and what do you do in Big Creature? I’m Michael and I sing, play guitar, write songs and produce. At your core, the identity and music surrounds DIY ethics and personal themes. Why write this way? Being almost entirely DIY started from financial necessity but it’s allowed me to spend the time I needed to experiment with different ideas without time pressure. There’s definitely a freedom that comes with working outside traditional studios. Your single Talk, was written, produced and mixed almost entirely in your spare room. What steps did you take to bring it to the real world? An important turning point in the process of working on these songs was when I first played them to Dan (our guitar player). I was lost in an endless loop of tweaking things and he convinced me the music was good and kick started the whole process of forming the new lineup. Talk introduces three new members to Big Creature, Drummer Lachy Wyatt and multiinstrumentalists Ezekiel Fenn and Dan Whalan. How are you all meshing together? We all have a similar sense of humour so we get along great and they’re excellent musicians, which is inspiring to me. I think our sound is evolving. We started working on a pretty wide ranging bunch of new songs as soon as the lineup was locked in and I’m excited to see where they go. BIG CREATURE will play The Gasometer Hotel on Wednesday September 28.
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OPEN 12PM
4 HUGE SCREENS
THEN FROM 8PM IN THE BANDROOM ($14.50+BF PRESALE, $20 DOOR)
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BAR WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
OPEN MIC
Show the Boogie Man what you’ve got!
THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
PHISHA PATRICK ARNOLD SACHA KLAVE & STEVE WHAN FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
TRIUMPH OVER LOGIC KAT O & THE COLLECTABLES SARAH EIDA, DJ SIESSI Stand up Comedians
SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER
ALEX TAYLOR EXPERIENCE
Live 60s show with Go Go Girls Free Entry, Free Finger Food!
SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER
CHASING ALICE THE DEAD PHARAOHS SUBURBAN PROPHETS AFTER WORK HAPPY HOUR FROM 5PM:
WED, THURS & FRI 160 HODDLE ST ABBOTSFORD
Level 1/402 Chapel St, South Yarra
GIG GUIDE RIN MCARDLE
T HE O LD BAR Having played extensively alongside respected Australian artists like Josh Pyke, Half Moon Run and Emma Louise, Adelaide-born Rin McArdle hits up The Old Bar on Sunday October 2 as part of her ‘Because I Love You’ Tour. The show arrives the day after her appearance at Sad Grrrls fest, and she’ll be joined by Callan, Jenny Mck from Wet Lips and Cable Ties and Nina Nina McCann from Hightime. To make the deal even sweeter, there’ll be Beersoaked Sunday $10 jugs all evening. Entry is only $8 on the door, it all starts at 7.30pm.
JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. MAT BLACK BAND + LIMELIGHT + X MINUS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm. $10.00.
OCEAN GROVE Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray. 8:00pm. OVERTIME + SUPER-X + SINGING LESSONS + THE DORKS Bar
Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
RIN MCARDLE + CALLAN + JENNY MCK + NINA MCCANN Old
Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.
ROLLING STONE LIVE LODGE - FEAT: APES Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12.00.
SUPA FLEX + DANKENSTEIN + SPARE NO WORDS Bendigo
Hotel, Collingwood. 2:00pm.
THE THIN WHITE UKES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 2:00pm. TOP LIP + THE ATTICS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. WILD TURKEY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. WILL BROWN Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 3:30pm. DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote. 3:30pm. LA-45 Night Cat, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LUKE HOWARD + NAT BARTSCH + TIM STEVENS Bennetts Lane
Melbourne), Southbank. 6:30pm. $29.00.
ANGEL DU$T Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: DEAF WISH + SYNTHETICSCI + MORE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. JULIAN ABRAHAMS + JACOB MCGUFFIE Retreat Hotel,
Brunswick. 8:30pm.
MONIQUE ARAUJO + MONDEGREEN + TRICK DOG SYNDICATE
THREE KINGS
C H E RRY B A R It’s safe to say everyone is likely to feel a little dusty come Sunday arvo, but Cherry Bar have got your recovery covered. On Sunday October 2 renowned blues trio Three Kings will be getting stuck into some old school roots, while you stuff your face with free vegetarian chilli. Drag yourself down at 2pm with pocket change entry an easy $5.
DRUNKEN POACHERS Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy.
4:00pm.
ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 5:00pm. FIELD SEE & MASON Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North.
4:00pm.
INDIA JADE + HARLOW & HART Hotel Kew, Kew. 5:00pm. JULES BOULT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. LONESOME STILL + PATRICK EVANS DADGAD WORKSHOP Frankston Bowling Club, Frankston. 5:30pm. $5.00.
MAYUMI MULLLINS + DONALD DANK & THE NAUGHTY BOYS + MELODY SHOTADE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
8:00pm.
MICHELLE CHANDLER + PUGSLEY BUZZARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
7:30pm.
OLD TIME SWEETHEARTS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 3:00pm. SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS + DOUBLE SHOT BLUES + MISSION BROWN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm. SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel,
MARLENE & THE MEGATONES Open Studio, Northcote.
3:00pm.
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.
OPEN MIC Hardiman's Hotel, Kensington. 7:00pm. PASSIONATE TONGUES POETRY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
7:30pm.
TUESDAY 4 OCT UNCLE BOBBY
T H E E V E LYN Uncle Bobby is back and he’s bigger than ever. Tuesday October 4 is the first of four safari adventures going down at The Ev, as part of Bobby’s Tuesday night October residency. He’s rallied together a slew of Melbourne’s finest experimental acts to jump on board, as well as the promise of visual art and live projections going down every week. It’s a true extravaganza art installation. For the first edition, the night will be started right with the likes of Wroclaw and Tram Cops gracing the guest slots. Doors are at 8pm with entry being 100% free.
ALKAN ZEYBEK ART OPENING - FEAT: SECRET ACT + ROXY LAVISH & THE SUICIDE CULT + THE BAUDELAIRES + THE ATTRACTOR BEAMS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $7.00. BALL PARK MUSIC + THE CREASES + SAHARA BECK Corner
Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
BIG SCARY + DRELLER 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $27.00.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm. PINK MOUNTAINTOPS + ELASTIC STARS + THE PINK TILES + MEDICINE VOICE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:30pm.
PEPPERCORN JAZZ BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. ROLLING STONE LIVE LODGE - FEAT: ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $7.00. SCHUBERT & DVORÁK - FEAT: MELBA QUARTET Melbourne
Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
SCHUBERT & DVORÁK - FEAT: MELBA QUARTET Melbourne
Windsor. 4:00pm.
SUNDAY SOULTRAIN - FEAT: JIM HOCKING© S BLUES MACHINE
4:30pm.
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12.00.
Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
Recital Centre, Southbank. 11:00am. $29.00.
SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq,
$18.00.
ROLLER ONE + NED WELLYN Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. ROLLING STONE LIVE LODGE - FEAT: WOODES + BEL + HUNTLY
TAMARA KULDIN + JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Bird's
THE RUBY RODGERS EXPERIENCE 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. THREE KINGS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $5.00.
THE BOSSA BRUNSWICK QUINTET Brunswick Green,
MONDAY 3 OCT
TOMORROW© S SKY + THE FORGOTTEN GHOST + THE STICKING PLACE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE - FEAT: LACHLAN MITCHELL Boney,
Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 3:00pm. Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $29.00. Brunswick. 8:00pm.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm.
CELIA CHURCH Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. CONNOR ROSS + GUY PERKINS + DANDECAT + PAT COYLE
SPEAK LESS THAN YOU KNOW - FEAT: TINALLEY STRING QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm.
5:00pm.
THE SLUGG + THE BLACK ALLEYS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
UNCLE BOBBY + WROCLAW + TRAM COPS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00.
THE SHABBAB
TH E OL D B A R Fresh from a ripper album launch at The Curtin, The Shabbab are back at it again to give you the opposite of Mundane one at this week’s Mundane Monday at The Oldie. The Middle Eastern garage band are joining forces with rockdogs Chelsea Bleach and Chastity Belt DJ’s to provide some start-of-the-week relief on Monday October 3. There’ll be $15 jugs of Goat to entice your mates and $12 entry. It all gets pumping from 7.30pm.
$40.00.
PINK MOUNTAINTOPS
THE CURTI N While the folks from Canadian Black Mountain collective are on tour, Stephen McBean figured why not treat punters to a one night only show featuring his side project - Pink Mountaintops. On Tuesday October 4 you best be busting on down to The Curtin for this once off occasion, which will also feature Colin Cowan and the Elastic Stairs, The Pink Tiles and Medicine Voice. Tickets $18+bf through the venue, doors 8pm.
303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. ATM15 BIG BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
8:00pm. $20.00.
PACO PEÑA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $79.00.
RESPIGHI’S FOUNTAINS OF ROME - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre 33c per word per week (inc GST) Send your classified listing to classifieds@beat.com.au. Payment options include VISA/Mastercard or EFT (1.5% surcharge for credit card payment).
ACTS WANTED FOR SUNDAY ROCK SHOWS - contact: mark@ gunnmusic.com.au BANDS/DUOS/SOLO ACTS WANTED FOR ACOUSTIC/ INDIE FEST - contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au
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HOWL ER Howler delivers another chubby choosday for Tuesday October 4. Experimental trio Tim Richmond Group are fronting the lineup for this edition, along with the Brisbane based Dirt Hand, darkwave duo Hot Action and bad arse lady foursome Bitch Diesel. Don’t forget about the $6 Quiet Deed tinnies and Sailor Jerries, and entry being a bona fide price of free.
$10.00.
BEN MITCHELL Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. BENNY JAMES & THE BLUE FLAMES Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
CLASSIFIEDS
TOM TOM TUESDAY
ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS IV + BEN ROBERTSON + LEWIS PIERRE-HUMBERT Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne
MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00. MUSIC OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE CHAPELS - THE ENGLISH CHAPEL ROYAL - FEAT: ENSEMBLE GOMBERT Melbourne
T HE B.EAST On the first Sunday of every month, some seriously good New Orleans funk goes down at The B.East. The Backburners are a brand new traditional jazz group, who boast a sound reminiscent of rowdy bushbeats mixed with New Orleans party music. Immortal Horns are a high-energy group that have stormed the Melbourne music scene with their gut-busting brass sound. The Immortal Horns juxtapose smooth harmonies with punchy riffs, all executed by their fearsome lineup of trumpet, trombone, tuba and drums. The music kicks off at 1.30pm, perfect opportunity to grab a burger and enjoy the last of your weekend.
$10.00.
IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
ANNA© S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm.
Northcote. 7:30pm. $33.00.
THE BACKBURNERS & IMMORTAL HORNS
ST LEONARD’S Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 6:00pm.
Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
ZAC SHWARZ Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. ALEX LLOYD + BENNY WALKER Northcote Social Club,
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
THE RETRE AT Fruit are a juicy five-piece from Wollongong, who showcase a salad combo of four voices, bass and electric guitars, trumpet, clarinet, flute and sax. Fruit are gearing up to release their first ever EP, but want to make sure their material is ripe enough. Jumping in the fruit bowl are Obscura Hail, a solo baroque-folk, basement-pop producer, who draws inspiration from the likes of Sibylle Baier, Sufjan Stevens, and Sun Kil Moon. The two bands are putting on a show on Tuesday October 4 for the hell of it over at The Retreat. It gets rolling at 8.30pm with entry all for free.
8:00pm.
THE FLAMING MONGRELS Post Office Hotel, Coburg.
Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:00pm. $29.00.
FRUIT
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DRUMMERS WANTED. Entertainment company looking for experienced drummers to be part of a D.J. drummer act for performances at night-clubs and private functions. Ages 18 to 35 and must be able to play multiple genres (pop, R&B, rock, dance etc). Must have own full kit. For flexible rehearsal and performance schedule. Position is for a secondary drummer. Rate of pay varies between venues and private functions. Contact: talent@lastmonument.com MELBOURNE’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE GIG GUIDE
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8pm: George & Ivy 9pm: Michael Crow Friday 30th September
GRAND FINAL EVE
3pm: Stephen Kennedy
6pm: Traditional Irish Music Session
Miss Whiskey
8.30pm: Saturday 1st October
9pm: Alex Burns Sunday 2nd October
4pm: Pugsley Buzzard 6.30pm: Michelle Chandler
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VIC GOVT. LAUNCHES ROCKIN’ THE LANEWAYS… In the wake of Melbourne’s laneways honouring AC/DC, Chrissy Amphlett and Rowland S. Howard, the state government has launched the Rockin’ The Laneways program. The idea is to celebrate more music legends and stories in other locations across Victoria. “The program is designed to enliven public places, attract tourism and community activity, and ingrain our proud music heritage into the fabric of our cities, suburbs and regions,” said the government. Launched by Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley, Rockin’ The Laneways is part of the $22.2 million Music Works initiative and developed with the local music industry. It’ll provide grants of up to $25,000 to support public projects celebrating Victoria’s popular music history. It’s available to individuals, businesses and local councils, and requires at least 25% in co-funding. Applications close 5pm on Monday October 11 for projects beginning from Sunday January 1 2017. More info at www.creative.vic.gov.au
…AND GRANTS PACKAGE FOR YOUTH WEEK The state government has a $210,000 grants package for young Victorians to get involved in National Youth Week 2017 (Friday March 31 to Sunday April 9). These could include organising concerts, sporting forums and cultural events. Applications close Friday November 11, see www. youthcentral.vic.gov.au.
STREAMING PUTS US BIZ BACK IN PROFIT The US music industry is heading back into profit after 20 years of decline. New figures from the Recording Industry Association of America found it made over $1 billion from paid streaming (from Spotify, Apple Music etc) in the first six months of 2016. Paid streaming grew 112% year-on-year, and now accounts for 30% of all music industry revenue. Add to that other forms of streaming like ad-supported listening (YouTube, Vevo) and satellite radio, and the figure rises to 50% of all industry revenue. Recorded music sales grew 8.1% in 2016 year-over-year in America. As fans move away from buying music to keep permanently, digital downloads from online stores as iTunes fell 17% to $1 billion in the first half.
CONTRIBUTE TO AUSSIE INDIE MUSIC SURVEY A survey is being conducted to assess the market share of independent music by genre and revenue. The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to do it. A credible survey will generate interest from government and brands, and changes in royalty and income distribution in certain channels such as public spaces (eg. fitness centres and shopping centres) or digital. You’re asked to contribute to the survey. Your data will be secure, but if you have questions, contact Jessica Mizrahi at jmizrahi@deloitte.com. au by Friday September 30. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42
• Why was LGBTIQ radio station JOY 94.9’s forced to evacuate the premises due to an email threatening a bomb? Go to http://joy.org.au/ to hear JOY president Jed Gilbert and CEO Tennille Moisel talk about it. • Is Andrew Denton not only returning to TV to do a Give ‘Em Enough Ropestyle interview show for Nine, but also currently in talks with two major radio networks? • Prince got paid a tribute by the Minnesota Vikings team, of whom he was a fan of and wrote Purple And Gold for in 2010. For their first game of the season, they got a gospel group to sing Purple Rain while the field was lit up in purple. • In the meantime, the official tribute to Prince is on Thursday October 13 at the 18,500-capacity Xcel Energy Centre in St Paul, Minnesota, headlined by Stevie Wonder, with Chaka Khan, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Tori Kelly, Bilal, Anita Baker, Doug E Fresh, Mint Condition, Judith Hill and Liv Warfield. • Tame Impala’s The Less I Know The Better and The Avalanches’ Frankie Sinatra are multi-nominees at the UK Music Video Awards – along with tracks by David Bowie, Beyoncé, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Coldplay, Christine And The Queens and Jamie xx. • The Game had the studio audience of The Wendy Williams Show gasping when he went on to explain the line “Then I fucked three Kardashians / Hold that thought,” on his song Sauce. When asked if it was Khloe he let out a telling sigh. For Kim it was a “look” before saying Kanye was a good friend of his. Then finally, he dropped the bombshell the third was Blac Chyna, Rob Kardashian’s pregnant fiancée. • Although it played some well-crafted classic rock tunes, Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is closing Classic Rock Digital on Saturday October 1 explaining its success was cutting into Triple M’s audience, which it says is playing more classic rock. In the meantime SCA is taking the battle to triple j by rebranding 30 regional stations to Triple M in 2017. • Jared Leto is set to star in and produce an Andy Warhol biopic. • On ABC TV show Q&A, Jimmy Barnes revealed he got death threats and his children were threatened after telling anti-immigration groups like Reclaim Australia to stop using his songs at their rallies. • David Bowie’s ashes were not scattered at the Burning Man festival, his filmmaker’s son Duncan Jones has said. • Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society announced its latest blues challenge, details at www.mbas.org.au. • Geelong’s Cremorne Hotel in Newtown, which showcases music, is now co-owned by ex-footballer Billy Brownless after operator Gary Ryan retired. • As part of Ballarat’s music, arts, designer,
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cultural and food renaissance, the City of Ballarat and Creative Victoria are staging a new music festival, SongWays from Friday October 14 to Sunday October 16 at local venues. • Gasworks Arts Park is now seeking applications for Playtime as part of Midsumma Festival 2017, check out www.gasworks.org.au. • On the eve of the Saturday October 22 premiere of Kinky Boots in Melbourne, the state government added $80 million to its major events chest to continue to secure major events, and established a $20 million Regional Events Fund, to ensure regional Victoria can stage its own events that drive visitation and create jobs.
HOW AC/DC FAREWELLED CLIFF WILLIAMS At the last ever show of AC/DC’s Rock Or Bust tour in Philadelphia, Angus Young grabbed bassist Cliff Williams from his usual position at the back of the stage and dragged him to the front of the catwalk – allowing the crowd to say goodbye to the 66-year-old who, after dropping hints in July, confirmed he’s leaving after 39 years. “It’s time for me to step out, that’s all,” he said. AC/DC have no plans for the future (taking a break after a long tour) but Brian Johnson has indicated he may return after testing a new hearing monitor.
MESA COSA SIGNS TO 123 AGENCY Mesa Cosa, a Melbourne five-piece (although it varies to six or seven) signed bookings to 123 Agency. Dubbing themselves as the “Freakout Fuzz Ya Ya Gang”, they play a mix of garage punk and Mexican folk to comic book metal. Their singer Pablo Alvarado, who hails from Mexico City, switches between singing in his mother tongue and English. New single Stone Boned is about being so bored with work that you adopt a “We’re screwed, let’s celebrate,” approach. They’re on the road for ten shows from Saturday October 22 to Saturday December 31, which includes a festival in Taiwan and NYE On The Hill.
US AGENCY DEAL FOR ROLLING BLACKOUTS Melbourne band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have assigned their North American bookings to Ground Control (who also work with Sleater-Kinney, Whitney, Neutral Milk Hotel and Total Control). The band emerged out of late night jam sessions in singer/guitarist Fran Keaney’s bedroom and released the miniLP Talk Tight whose tracks got US media attention.
MORE SPEAKERS FOR FACE THE MUSIC The second round of speakers for Face The Music includes Alex White (Pandora), Michael Hohnen [Skinnyfish Music], Emma Barnes [Emma Jane Management], Katie Stewart [Laneway Festival] Myf Warhurst [Double J], Samuel Wald [WME], Johann Ponniah [I Oh You], Jaime Gough [Native Tongue] and Emily York [Penny Drop]. Latest artists announced are Briggs, Tkay Maidza, Zola Jesus, Amber Galloway and Japanese Wallpaper.
MORE GRAND FINAL ENTERTAINMENT More entertainment is added for the AFL Grand Final. Vika and Linda Bull will sing the national anthem. Mike Brady will warble One Day In October during the preMUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
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match motorcade of retiring greats. Dees supporter Illy headlines the free Grand Final Eve concert on Friday September 30 at Yarra Park from 5pm.
BELLA UNION LAINCHING ROUND UP SESSIONS Bella Union in Carlton introduces a new songwriter event called Round Up every alternative Wednesday until midDecember. The idea is to create the intimate and community-minded atmosphere of a folk club. It kicks off on Wednesday October 5 with sets from Rob Snarski and Anna Cordell. Others set for the sessions include Karl S. Williams, Charm of Finches, The Yearlings and Freya Josephine Hollick’s album launch with Skyscraper Stan. Discounted tickets for members of the former Melbourne Folk Club who can show their membership cards at the door. See www.bellaunion.com. au.
FUNDRAISER FOR SHORT FILM Blue Starling Films and Green Brain Media are throwing a fundraising party for their new short film project. Keep Me In Mind is a short comedy written and directed by Mileta Rien. Held on Friday October 7 from 8pm at 18 Dawson St, Brunswick, it features DJ Fiona Scott-Norman and MC Darren ‘Bogan Bingo’ Hilsley, games, prizes, a dance demo, and a sneak preview of the film’s trailer.
SIMON COWELL HIRES SONY AUST’S PAT HANDLIN Sony Music Entertainment Australia’s director of A&R Pat Handlin is relocating to London – after being offered the senior A&R manager role at Simon Cowell’s Syco Music. Handlin has more than proven his worth at the Aussie company. He signed some of its biggest domestic acts, including Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy, Justice Crew (their eight-times platinum Que Sera became the longest running Australian #1 single in history spending nine consecutive weeks at top spot in 2014), The Veronicas, Jai Waetford, Samantha Jade and Peking Duk. He also introduced the successful DNA writing and production team to the major.
SKEPTA SALES UP 260% AFTER MERCURY WIN Sales of Skepta’s album Konnichiwa jumped 260% in the week after it won the country’s Mercury Prize for most creative album, Music Week reported. It also jumped 46 places to #13 in the charts. Other nominees also found sales up. David Bowie’s Blackstar was up 98.4%, Michael Kiwanuka’s Love & Hate up 79.5%, Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool up 51%, Kano’s Made In The Manor up 35.9% and The 1975’s I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It had an uplift of 13.4%,
NATIONAL LIVE MUSIC AWARDS: BOARD, VENUES The inaugural National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) has announced an 11-person board made up of execs around the country and a list of venues involved. They include Emily Collins of MusicNSW, BIGSOUND programmer Maggie Collins, Face The Music programmer Paris Martine, Live Music Office’s Damian Cunningham and Dean Ormston of APRA AMCOS. The Sydney venue is the Basement, Melbourne’s is The Curtin.
Lifelines Split: Fatboy Slim and TV’s Zoe Ball, after a tumultuous 18-year relationship which included two children. They’ll still be neighbours. Born: First son to Liam Finn a month ago, according to media reports. Born: Daughter Dusty Rose to Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and model wife Behati Prinsloo, their first. Split: Justin Bieber and 18-yearold model Sofia “daughter of Lionel” Ritchie just days, oh dear, after she gushed to the world about their “special relationship.” Ill: The reason Bring Me The Horizon postponed their Melbourne and Adelaide shows was that singer Oli Sykes had such a viral throat infection it caused his throat and face to swell up, along with getting ulcers, rashes and “other not so great problems”. Arrested: Coolio after a loaded firearm was allegedly found in a carry-on bag during security screening at LA Airport. As a felon he’s not allowed to pack guns. Suing: As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis filed a $35 million lawsuit against the San Diego County Sheriff Department for not giving him his prescribed medication before his imprisonment. Jailed: Brisbane rapper Lao SunMoon Tyson, 27, whose latest track No Remorse was on YouTube in March, for dealing in ice. Police investigating a major drug dealer caught the rapper buying from him to sell to others. Brisbane Supreme Court gave him a five-year sentence, suspended after 15 months. Died: Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr., leader of Louisiana roots band Buckwheat Zydeco, 68, from lung cancer. Died: Nashville songwriter John D. Loudermilk, 82, whose songs included hits Tobacco Road and Indian Reservation. Died: Acid house pioneer DJ Spank, a co-founder of Chicago house legends Phuture who released the 12-minute groundbreaking single Acid Tracks in 1987. Cause of death unknown but he had a stroke in May. Died: Victorian road crew member Matt Huxley, 61, who worked at clubs including Bombay Rock and Bananas, from leukaemia. Died: US rapper Shawty Lo (Carlos Walker), 40, a former 50 Cent associate, after his car crashed through a motorway barrier on a highway and caught on fire. He had 11 children with 10 mothers. Died: Jerry Corbetta, 68, former leader of ‘70s band Sugarloaf (Green Eyed Lady) and co-writer of songs for Grace Jones and Peabo Bryson, from a rare form of dementia known as Pick’s Disease.