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EAGLES TRIBUTE COMES TO MELBOURNE
GREEN DAY LOCK IN A MELBOURNE SHOW Green Day are returning to our shores, with the announcement of their ‘Revolution Radio’ tour. With more than 75 million albums sold across the globe, the band were last in Australia in 2014 for a series of festival dates. Their forthcoming Aussie jaunt will be their first headline tour since their sell-out 2009 effort. They’ll be showcasing tunes from their new album Revolution Radio, as well as dipping into their long reaching discography for some classic Green Day moments. Green Day will hit Rod Laver Arena on Friday May 5, 2017. Tickets via Ticketmaster.
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What’s the next best thing to seeing The Eagles live in concert? Getting down to this world class Eagles tribute, that’s what. The Best of the Eagles is a tribute concert production, which recreates the synonymous country rock sound Eagles’ fans have come to expect. With a string of sold out shows from coast to coast performing to over 10,000 Eagles fans in 2016, The Best Of The Eagles will be playing hits including Desperado, Take It To The Limit, and more. Catch them at Palms at Crown on Friday April 21, 2017
EVEN TO PLAY 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW
AGE MUSIC AWARDS VICTORIA ANNOUNCES 2016 NOMINEES
Aussie indie trio EVEN will hit the road at the end of the year for three very special shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. This comes as part of relaunching their debut album Less Is More, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. With the Melbourne show doubling as the band's annual Christmas EVEN show, the east coast dates will give fans the chance to hear all the classics from the seminal album including the hit singles, Don’t Wait, Peaches and Cream and Stop and Go Man. EVEN toured Australia with Perth indie rockers Header back in ’96, who have reformed for this very special occasion, and will join EVEN for the east shows alongside Mike Noga Band and The Plastic Crowns. Catch EVEN at The Corner Hotel Thursday December 22. Tickets via the venue.
Celebrating its 11th birthday, The Age Music Victoria Awards have announced a huge list of nominees. As part of Melbourne Music Week, The Age Music Victoria Awards have announced a bunch of exciting nominees for both their regular and privately-voted genre categories – the former of which the wider community will get to decide. Best Album showcases some of the best Aussie talent from this year, including Camp Cope’s self-titled effort, The Drones’ Feelin Kinda Free, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Nonagon Infinity, NO ZU’s Afterlife, and Olympia’s SelfTalk. Camp Cope, The Drones, and King Gizz make another appearance for Best Band, alongside Dorsal Fins and Gold Class. The best live acts in Victoria crowd around for the Best Live Band award: King Gizzard, King Parrot, The Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and The Peep Tempel. There are also categories for Best Song, Best Emerging Act, and Best Male and Female Artist. The Drones and C.W Stoneking pop up for Best Regional Act too, accompanied by D.D Dumbo, The Murlocs, and Orb. Best Venues will be split across big and small, and also include a category for Best Regional Venue. Finally, Boogie Festival, Cherry Rock, Meredith Music Festival, Paradise Music Festival, and Sugar Mountain have braved the storm to be nominated for Best Festival. There’ll even be an after party to celebrate the occasion at nominee 170 Russell, featuring an incredible lineup of local musicians like Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Camp Cope, Alex Lahey, Gareth Liddiard (The Drones), REMI and more. Get voting for your favourites from now until Friday November 4 via their website.
SHIHAD ANNOUNCE REGIONAL TOUR DATES
SHE’S THE DRIVER UNLEASH NEW SINGLE
In addition to playing a huge show as part of Melbourne Music Week, the good blokes from Shihad have added a swag of regional tour dates. The tour will be the final circuit for their latest and ninth record, FVEY, before the lads head back to the studio to record their next album. As well as playing at the State Library on Monday November 14, Shihad will also be hitting up Sooki Lounge in Belgrave on Friday November 11, and Westernport Hotel, San Remo on Saturday November 12. Tickets on sale now via Oztix.
Melbourne three-piece She’s The Driver are gearing up to release their new hotly anticipated single. The track Novelty comes as the first teaser from their forthcoming album, due for release in 2017 through Black Garage Records via Laneway Music. In the meantime, you can catch She’s The Driver at the launch for their raw, hard-hitting track. Go congratulate them on Saturday October 22 at The St Kilda Bowling Club. Support comes from Sydney’s Knievel, Claire Birchall & The Phantom Hitchhikers, and Nick Murphy. HOT TALK
Girls Rock! Melbourne (GR!M) is a week-long mentorship program, offering a slew of creative activities and events for girls aged between 12 to 17. Taking inspiration from other Girls Rock! camps running around the world, this will be the first camp to take place locally, allowing Melbourne to become a part of the global movement that promotes creativity, self-confidence and social change for young girls. Participants will learn an instrument, form their own band, watch live music performances, participate in creative, industry, and social justice workshops (including body image, Feminism 101, zinemaking, screen printing, recording a demo, and band marketing), and write an original song to be performed at a final showcase. Girls Rock! Melbourne will go down at Wick Studios from Monday January 9 – Friday January 13, 2017. Find out more details via their website.
MELBOURNE MUSIC BANK ANNOUNCE FINAL FOUR After tallying thousands of votes for the 12 finalists, Melbourne Music Bank have announced their final four. Semi-finalists Anna Oliphant Wright, Birdhouse, Bloom and Tempus Sun will now perform their song at the event’s finale in front of an expert judging panel featuring Bank of Melbourne’s Head of Brand and Marketing Jac Phillips, Beat Magazine editor Cara Williams, Emily Cheung from On The Map PR, manager Matt O’Connor, Damian Costin from 123 Agency and Frank Varrasso from Varrasso PR. It’s all going down on Tuesday October 25 at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.
HIGH TENSION ANNOUNCE CHERRY BAR SHOW High Tension are set to blow the roof off Cherry Bar in a freshly announced gig. They’ll be taking to the Cherry stage ahead of hitting the road with Refused, in which they’ll play a sold out Melbourne show. High Tension will be joined by fellow heavy hitters Infinite Void. Catch them at Cherry Bar on Saturday November 19.
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RIVERBOATS MUSIC FESTIVAL LOCKS IN 2017 LINEUP It’s full steam ahead for the annual Riverboats Music Festival, with a stellar lineup set to perform by the sun-drenched banks of the Murray. Led by Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, Hoodoo Gurus, Husky and Mia Dyson are all coming together alongside some of the most exciting names in Australian music. Now in its sixth year, the Riverboats Music Festival returns to Echuca-Moama for three glorious summer days of music amongst the gums. In addition to remarkable headline acts, Riverboats 2017 bristles with homegrown talent including James Reyne, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Shane Howard, Melody Pool, William Crighton, The Meltdown, Mighty Duke & The Lords and Karl S. Williams. Also performing in a unique collaboration for Riverboats audiences, Kylie Auldist will be joined by New Zealand soul sensation Aaradhna. Riverboats Music Festival goes down from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 February. For tickets and further info, head to the festival’s website.
As part of the 2016 Melbourne Festival, Monash University Caulfield will play host to a stellar mix of music, film and performances over three nights. Under the Wire – Projections and Sounds is a free public event of moving images and music, curated by James Hewison, Head of Film Programs at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Live music will come care of Alice Ivy, Saatsuma, OCDANTAR and DJ MonaGene. The event will also showcase the work of Australia’s prolific and surprising documentary filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Rick Charnoski, a master of the Super 8mm, and the poet of cinematic decay, Bill Morrison. It all kicks off on Thursday October 13. For more info visit the Melbourne Festival website.
WADE’S COMING TO AUSTRALIA Spanish dancefloor kingpin Wade has been touring around the globe, and now he will be heading down under. At just 19-years-old, Wade released his first track on Beatport in 2010, which was an immediate success and got him plenty of attention from labels such as Suara, Relief, Snatch Records, Viva Music, Avotre and ElRow Music. He has soared to #1 on the tech-house chart, #64 on the top 100 and was named Beatport’s #3 tech-house artist for 2015. Now he’s coming to Australia to spice up the party scene. Wade will get the party started at Tramp Nightclub on Friday October 21.
CULTURE CLUB ARE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA
SUZI QUATRO ANNOUNCES HER FINAL EVER AUSSIE TOUR American singer/songwriter Suzi Quatro is returning for one final time in February 2017 for a national tour. With a career spanning over 50 years, the lauded rock musician will be touring with an eight-piece band. Quatro will be performing her new album, QSP, which will be released in January. This will mark Quatro’s 32nd Australian tour. Quatro and her famous leather jumpsuit will be getting loud in Hamer Hall at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Saturday February 18. Tickets on sale via her website.
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MALDON FOLK FESTIVAL REVEALS HUGE 2016 LINEUP Maldon Folk Festival is back for another year. Boasting over 50 acts in four days across 12 venues, the 2016 incarnation may just be the biggest yet. As well as hosting a range of informative songwriter workshops and talks, the lineup this year features the likes of Anatole Road – Stars of the Lake School, Cat Canteri, Claymore, Danny Spooner, Eric Purdie Storyteller Extraordinaire! Fiona Ross, Fred Smith, Graham Dodsworth, Greg Champion, Hannah Schmidli, Harpers Bizarre, Jane Thompson and James Rigby, Jo Jo Smith, Jodi Martin (SA), Joe Quinn (UK, Scotland), Keith McKenry, Knot o’ the Gate, Liz Frencham & Robbie Melville, Maria Forde, Martin Pearson, Martyn Wyndham-Read (UK), Peter Titchener (SA), Peny Bohan (2015 Roddy Read Songwriting Award winner), Platform Souls, Polly Christie and Andy Rigby, Sal Kimber and The Rollin’ Wheel, Sean Kenan, Suzette Herft, The Capitalist Pigs, The Chat-Warblers, The Mae Trio, Tina Nabb (2015 Minstrel Award winner), and The Willie Wagtails. Maldon Folk Festival goes down from Friday October 28 – Monday October 31 in the township of Maldon North Central Victoria, just a 90 minute drive from Melbourne. Tickets and more info can be found on the festival’s website.
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JUSTIN BIEBER’S HITTING MELBOURNE ON A WORLD TOUR
Instrumental heavy rockers Animals As Leaders have announced their return to Australia, and next February and March they’re heading on a national tour in celebration of their new album due out next month. Currently winding up their European dates before trekking through North America, Animals As Leaders are set to deliver their fourth album, The Madness of Many, on Friday November 11. Enthralling and captivating crowds with their innovative guitar-based metal sound, the band will land in Melbourne at 170 Russell on Tuesday February 28.
Global superstar and pop celebrity Justin Bieber will be bringing purpose to the lives of his Australian fans, as he tours across the country in March 2017. The tour is in support of his fourth studio album, Purpose, which has sold over eight million copies worldwide. The Canadian musician has not toured the country since his 2013 Believe Tour, which marked his first ever Australian and New Zealand visit. Melbourne Beliebers can catch Justin at Etihad Stadium on Friday March 10. General public tickets are on sale via Frontier Touring. HOT TALK
Off the back of sold-out shows across the USA and Australia, ‘80s icons Culture Club have decided they’ve got more to give. Led by the enigmatic Boy George, Culture Club will be hitting a run of tour dates across the country in December. To take things up a notch, they’ll be joined by fellow ‘80s superstars including 1927, Pseudo Echo, Eurogliders, Wa Wa Nee and Real Life. The goal of the encore tour is to visit those places they missed last time, and to play another show in Melbourne. It’s going to a real bonanza when Culture Club take over Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday December 11. Tickets on sale from Wednesday October 19 via Ticketmaster.
PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL REVEALS EVEN MORE ARTISTS FOR 2017 Port Fairy Folk Festival is heating things up with their latest lineup instalment. Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen will take to the stage, joined by The Warsaw Village Band, Cookin’ on 3 Burners with Tex Perkins and Stella Angelico, and special event: Van Morrison’s ‘Masterpieces’, presented by Vince Jones and The Astral Orchestra, which pays homage to two of Van’s most acclaimed albums – Astral Weeks and Moondance. It comes in the wake of the already announced Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier, Gawurra, Natty Man and Gara, The Pinks play the Blues, Sarah Carroll and the Left Wing, Tash Sultana, and a whole lot bunch more. Port Fairy Folk Festival will run from Friday March 10 to Monday March 13, 2017. Head to the website for more information.
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SHADOW ELECTRIC IS BACK WITH NEW SUMMER PROJECT SHIMMERLANDS The Shadow Electric team are back with a brand new project - the dreamily titled Shimmerlands. Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts will christen the new venture in a hotly anticipated gig alongside Tyrannamen, Ausmuteants and Nicky Crane plus DJs Etta & Tilly. Situated at Melbourne University’s Parkville campus, Shimmerlands is set to offer two months of curated music and cinema programming, along with an al fresco dining area featuring an extensive range of Melbourne’s finest restaurants. Catch Parquet Courts at Shimmerlands, Melbourne University, on Thursday January 5. Tickets on sale now via Shadow Electric.
Pennsylvanian rockers Halestorm have announced they will be hitting the east coast of Australia in January 2017. The Grammy Award-winning outfit is fronted by the fierce Lzzy Hale, whose intense performance shatters all preconceptions about women in rock. Punters can look forward to hard and heavy tracks, lifted from Halestorm’s three studio albums. The limited run of shows includes a Melbourne slot at The Corner Hotel on Tuesday January 10. General public tickets go on sale via the MJR Presents website from Friday October 14.
BREE TRANTER UNVEILS 2016 MELBOURNE SHOW Beloved dream-pop songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bree Tranter has announced the dates of her first ever headline tour as she takes her critically acclaimed debut album Another Night on Earth on the road next month. These shows mark Bree’s first solo performances in over two years and the first opportunity for fans to hear Another Night on Earth – which will be performed alongside her live band, adding an expansive and upbeat soundscape to the album which was almost entirely recorded in bedroom studios around the country. Catch Bree Tranter at the Toff In Town Sunday November 20. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 16
Sheer Mag are bringing their dirty, power rock tunes to Australian shores later this year. The Philadelphia punks have announced a string of headline dates for their Aussie fans and will be blowing the roofs off of venues on all coasts. Their electric, ballsy live show will come after opening sets from Melbourne rockers Tyrannamen and head-banging four-piece Miss Destiny. Sheer Mag will shred on The Tote’s stage Sunday December 11 with tickets on sale now.
NEIL YOUNG AND BARRY GIBB REVEALED FOR BLUESFEST 2017
BIRDS OF TOKYO ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR Perth alt-rockers Birds of Tokyo will be taking flight in November as part of a national tour. This will give punters the chance to catch the newest material from the band, with their fifth studio album, Brace, also due for release in November. The new release sees the band returning to darker, heavier roots, and is set to make for a ripper of a live show. Don’t miss Birds of Tokyo when they land in Melbourne on Saturday November 26 at The Croxton. Presale tickets available via the band’s website on Wednesday October 12. General public tickets go on sale Friday October 14.
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HAPPY WANDERER FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2016 LINEUP The Happy Wanderer Festival is back with a genre-defying lineup, boasting artists from alt-country to neo-soul alongside spoken word artists from Australia, New Zealand and the US. Gracing the truck-mounted stage will be Phia, fresh from releasing her second album The Ocean of Everything. Elsewhere, Australian singer/ songwriter Lucie Thorne will take to the stage, as well as Ben Whiting in a full band show. Capping it off comes sets from The Eastern, Super Magic Hats, Eaten By Dogs, Millar Jukes, Mayfield, Graciana Holland, Senivoda, Slim Dime, Harry Jakamarra, Ferla, Manny Fox, Dusty Boots, The Northern Folk, Emi, Benji And The Saltwater Sound System (SYD), Domini Forster, Tobias, Frank Society, Orcha, Harmony Byrne, The Someday Maybes, Griff, Trickbox, Zól Bálint, and Ebony Moncrief. Set on an organic farm in Benalla, Victoria, the festival brings together local music, fresh thoughtful food and drink, creative activities and good times. Happy Wanderer is going down in Benalla, Victoria, from Friday October 28 – Monday 31.
In their most recent announce, Bluesfest have revealed the legendary Neil Young and Barry Gibb will take to the Bluesfest stage, in their biggest announcement for next year’s event yet. Neil Young and the Promise of the Real will be heading to Byron for a marathon three hour set. Young and Gibb will be joining the likes of already announced big names including Santana, Zac Brown Band, Patti Smith, Mary J. Blige, Buddy Guy, The Doobie Brothers and many more. Bluesfest 2017 will go down from Thursday April 13 – Monday April 17, just north of Bryon Bay. Tickets are on sale now via the Bluesfest website.
THE SONGROOM SERIES RELEASES ARTIST LINEUP To sweeten up the end of the year, Northcote Social Club are hosting The Songroom series to bring you the best of local songwriters in an interactive setting. The nine shows across November and December will feature the likes of Harry Howard, Jess Ribeiro, Kim Salmon, Phia, Mark Gable, Gretta Ray and stacks more. Northcote Social Club will be transformed into The Songroom from Wednesday November 2, with a show every week until Wednesday December 28. There will be one special performance taking place at Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, with Matt Walker and Talei Wolfgramm on Wednesday November 30. For tickets and info, head to the Memo Music Hall and Northcote Social Club websites. HOT TALK
OFF THE GRID FESTIVAL RETURNS TO MELBOURNE Australia’s first solar powered, zero-waste, music and arts festival is making its way back to Melbourne, with a forward thinking lineup and concept behind it. Eight-piece party starters NO ZU will be bringing their unique brand of heat beat to the ACCA forecourt. They’ll be joined by Melbourne underground house don Andras, alongside Amsterdam’s Tako, with Izabel of radio show turned label, Lullabies for Insomniacs. Elsewhere, more of Melbourne’s finest are getting in on the action including Albrecht La’Brooy, Andee Frost, J’NETT, Miss Goldie and the Senegambian Jazz Band. To spearhead this years art program, Chunky Move presents Benjamin Hancock’s PRINCESS – an intensely personal work examining the role of dynasts and the building of empires. It’s all going down on Wednesday December 21 at the ACCA Forecourt. Head to the Off The Grid website for more details and bookings.
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It’s going to be a saucy one down at the waterside this weekend, with the Docklands Blues Music Festival taking off on Sunday October 16. The all-day event sees a long list of blues legends descending on the docks, to provide some free tunes in an unrivalled setting. Kicking off at 10am, you can expect over 15 acts including Mark Green, Geoff Achison, Andrea Marr and The Funky Hitmen, Dreamboogie and heaps more. There will be food trucks for the hungry, carnival attractions for the adventurous, licensed venues for the thirsty and music split across three stages. For the full lineup and program, head to the festival website. Save your coins for a rainy day, and head on down to the Docklands for a day of free entertainment. Ruin, White Lung, Julia Jacklin and more Footscray Community Arts Centre January 28 ANGEL OLSEN The Corner Hotel November 28, The Croxton November 29 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 ANTI-FLAG Max Watt’s December 10 CULTURE CLUB Myer Music Bowl December 11 SHEER MAG The Tote December 11 BOYCE AVENUE Palais Theatre December 11 PEACHES 170 Russell December 11, 13 UNWRITTEN LAW The Corner Hotel December 11 A DAY TO REMEMBER Festival Hall December 14 FLUME Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 15 CAMP COPE Northcote Social Club December 17 DZ DEATHRAYS The Croxton December 17 REMI Howler December 17 OFF THE GRID FESTIVAL feat. NO ZU, Andras, Tako and more ACCA Forecourt December 21 EVEN The Corner Hotel December 22 MICK THOMAS & THE ROVING COMISSION The Croxton December 23 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 PARQUET COURTS Shimmerlands, Melbourne University January 5 BRING ME THE HORIZON Margaret Court Arena February 5, 6
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The Delta Riggs TO INFINITY AND BEYOND BY A DA M N O RRIS
For a group that began life as a jam band killing time at the Surfer’s Paradise Hard Rock Cafe, The Delta Riggs have managed to achieve something pretty remarkable. From Brisbane to Peats Ridge to Melbourne, Elliot Hammond and the crew have struck upon that elusive, signature sound while amassing a legion of committed fans, and have even found a way to keep friendships from imploding while crammed in the back of a Tarago. The road hasn’t always been easy though, and with the tour for third album Active Galactic about to sweep the country, the time seemed right to talk about life, the universe, and socks.
“I’m constantly trying to figure out ways to put up barriers,” Hammond says. “My girlfriend got me these socks the other day as a present, and there were all these polka-dots. I looked at them and said, ‘I don’t think I can wear these, they’re too friendly.’ And she said, ‘But you wear stripy socks?’ But to me, stripy socks seem to say ‘Danger, danger,” whereas polka-dot socks are more about, “Hey, come on over and we can talk about crepes.” Stripes make you formidable. And my girlfriend’s like, ‘You know you’re going crazy, right?’ And I’m like, ‘But am I?’ It makes total sense.” Indeed. It does make a certain sense that Hammond would feel the need to keep himself at a slight remove from the distractions of the world. The popularity of the band has been growing massively since things started falling into place back in 2010, and though he hardly seems like a guy ready to lock himself in a room channelling his inner Howard Hughes, Hammond does strike you as someone with their eyes on the prize. It’s unsurprising given that any chance at success is of course a rare and remarkable thing; but moreso because the band itself was unintentional. “We were all playing in different punk bands,” he says. “Every member of the band came out of the Gold Coast, Brisbane punk scene, through different circles. Delta Riggs at the start was just this jam band, it was never supposed to be a real thing. We were all in other bands. Alex [Markwell] was living in Sydney engineering, Monte [Tramonte] was working for a label. It was this thing where we’d get together, book a show at the Hard Rock Cafe, and peacock around. It was always really well received, we’d always get people in, but it was only ever something we did on the side. “We got some interest from a couple of labels in 2010, and that’s when we had BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 20
the chat. Should we actually take this a bit more seriously and have a crack? That’s when we decided to move to Peats Ridge into the house, the Orange Orchard. That six month period where we really forged what the band was, and really learned a lot about each other. Being in a band for this long, you’ve got a lot of strong and different personalities. And bands generally break up because of those conflicts, but we have a deep respect for each other, and I think we learnt that from living in each other’s pockets for that six months being really poor.” It proved to be a fruitful time for the Riggs. After a handful of EPs, 2013’s Hex.Lover.Killer was followed just a year later by Dipz Zebazio. They found themselves embraced by triple j, invited to tour with Wolfmother; all of the things a bunch of young musos would sell their striped socks for. But hindsight is a hell of a drug, and Hammond is candid about times when the future of the band seemed much more uncertain. “There were definitely [pessimistic] times. That happened at the end of that [Peats Ridge] period, when Aaron Jackson, who I started the band with and [was] a pivotal inspiration for me and the band, an excellent musician and songwriter, he just couldn’t handle the pressure of it, mentally and financially. So he bowed out and it was basically just me then as the primary songwriter. I had some proper melts,” he says. “I was living in a flat in Melbourne at the time and didn’t know what I was going to do. It got pretty hairy. “It’s weird how stuff like that happens. It got bad, but we said let’s just knuckle down and make an EP. We released that as quickly as we could, because we didn’t know if the band was about to completely combust, and then we got this call from triple j saying ‘We love B E AT.C O M . A U
the Delta Riggs.’ They really provided us with a platform to boost off from, and Melbourne really embraced us as well. It all went from there. But it was a hard time to get through. Two things happened at once, really. We had the triple j support, and then we got the call to do the Wolfmother support. I was broke. I had nothing, so getting a call like that lets you think you’re doing something right.” Active Galactic’s first single, Surgery of Love, dropped back in June along with a run of warm up gigs, but by Hammond’s reckoning if you caught that Back to Earth tour you were seeing around 20 per cent of what their new show has to offer. Every band wants to bring you something memorable when they take the stage, but the Riggs have poured massive thought and energy into ensuring this album tour will be unlike anything you’ve seen from them before. “It’s shaping up pretty rad. I’m super excited to push the live show in a new direction. We have more at our disposal now than last time. On top of that we have a new guy in the band, Gold Fang, he’s from Trinidad. He brings a cool hip hop MC vibe to it. There are so many keyboard parts in this album, it’s really rich with textures so we needed to bring someone else in and Fang is the man,” Hammond says. “It’s going to be a cool show, we’re diving into the back catalogue a little and throwing in some surprises for the long-term fans. We’ve listening to the feedback we’ve got in the past about certain shows. This is definitely going to be a new stage vibe, with new lighting, everything.” And even though the album is still fresh from the press, the happy news is that they’re already cobbling together material for what comes next. “We’ve already started exploring some ideas for the next album. As soon as one
gets done, we’re always thinking ahead. So how can this contrast reflect off into the next album? We’re talking about songs already, which is super exciting. That’s why I’m thankful to be doing music for a living. I get to have those times in the studio and songwriting, which is the number one thing for me. It didn’t come easily, and there are still times when it’s an up and down industry. It’s not all roses. But I definitely don’t take what we have for granted. We’ve worked super hard, and we’re humbled by the success that we’ve had.” It’s good to hear the boys aren’t wasting any time juggling new ideas, though you hope Hammond still finds time to smell the roses, shoot the bourbon. If the gestation of Active Galactic is any indication, it may still be the dawning days of 2018 that would see album number four emerge. But it could be much, much worse. “That’s the favourite thing that bands sit around talking about in bars with each other,” he says. “How long did it take to get your record out? Us, we recorded in January of this year, but before that we wrote most of it in LA and that was eight or nine months before, so we’re sitting on the songs for what seems like a while, in their various stages of writing. Demo’d, rewritten, whatever. We feel like we’re really familiar with the songs, but they’re brand new for [other people].” THE DELTA RIGGS will play The Corner Hotel on Thursday October 20 and Friday October 21. They’ll also play Love Live Music @ The ‘G as part of Melbourne Music Week on Sunday November 13. Active Galactic is out now via Inertia Music.
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This Week: NGV know how to deliver the goods. Case in point, the surreal, neon pink car wash-inspired hangout that’s opening this week. The 23metrelong structure reimagines an ordinary suburban car wash, morphing it into a fantasy-like version of itself to reveal the architects’ vision of using design to improve the amenity of Melbourne’s outer suburbs. The hyper-colour slice of suburbia features five lanes of bright pink astroturf, complete with rubberised waves and road markings, water misters and walls made of cricket netting, topped with a mirrored ‘car wash’ sign. Check it out over at the NGV Garden from Friday October 14.
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The Art of Banksy BY JOANNE BROOkfIELd
The world premiere of Sunshine will make its way to Melbourne in an acclaimed piece of theatre from Australian playwright Tom Holloway. The night creeps in and rain buckets down on the streets of Melbourne. Music blasts from hotted-up hatchbacks full of youths. Four people have a night they will never forget as two strangers are thrown together through one shocking event. It all comes together with a return to Holloway’s “choral style” theatre, which earned him six Greenroom Award nominations for Red Sky Morning, developed and produced at Red Stitch in 2008. It’ll run at Red Stitch Actors Theatre from Tuesday October 11 to Saturday November 5. David Lynch’s 2001 neo-noir mystery film Mulholland Drive was named the top film of our century after the BBC surveyed 177 film critics from around the world. Now, experience David Lynch’s film in 35mm. A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio. Tuesday October 18 at The Astor. Panel discussion YAS KWEEN: Girls on Screen, hosted by comedian Judith Lucy, will look at girls on television and films. The panel will respond to clips from Broad City, Freaks and Geeks, The Katering Show, Puberty Blues and, of course, Mean Girls. Can we see ourselves in these characters? Who is left out in representations of girls on screen? What power do these representations hold over our imaginations? And could there ever be a show about girls as gross as The Inbetweeners? This conversation is suited to girls, anyone who was once a girl and anybody who knows a girl. Get down to ACMI Cinema 2 on Friday October 14.
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Jess Thom finds going to the theatre difficult. So would you if your Tourette’s had you saying words like ‘biscuit’ 16,000 times a day. Her solution? Take to the stage instead. Backstage in Biscuit Land is a comedic tour de force that mines Thom’s unique neurologyÐa nd the tics it producesÐt o take you deep inside the rabbit hole of a much-misunderstood condition. Along the way you might encounter penguin gangbangs and squirrel knickers, but it’s hard to be sure when your star is neurologically wired to wander into associative absurdity. As unpredictable as she is enlightening, joyous to watch even when what she comes out with is at times shocking, Thom is proof that creativity doesn’t stick to the script. Catch it at as part of Melbourne Festival at The Coopers Malthouse from Wednesday October 12 to Sunday October 16.
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“It was never ever done under the cover of darkness. It was always done in broad daylight, bold as brass. And this isn’t like today, it’s not like these fucking artists running around London or Melbourne or any of these other cities where it’s pretty much accepted, short of doing it naked and pissing on a portrait of the Queen it would be difficult to get yourself in trouble. So this is a time when if you did get caught, the likelihood of you getting a jail sentence was still pretty high, so there would be a team or like four or five of us, a couple of people running interference, him painting, trying to get in and out as quickly as possible, which was fun,” says Steve Lazarides, recalling his days working with enigmatic art figure Banksy. Although Banksy’s true identity remains a mystery (“I could tell you but it would just be a lie”) there is no doubt Banksy has risen from obscure, surreptitious street artist to house-hold-name type of famous, and in the process has become a darling of international art collectors because the value of his works keeps heading north. Lazarides, former friend and manager, is widely credited for this. “If there had been one individual responsible for whipping up and sustaining the fever around urban art, and who stood to lose most from its demise, it was Steve Lazarides,” noted the Financial Times in Britain in 2011 and it’s a quote that looms large on the walls of The Art of Banksy exhibition, which opened in Melbourne last Friday. The exhibition, which is touring internationally after its three and half month run here, is curated by Lazarides. “We met in 1997 when I was commissioned by a magazine to take his portrait,” says the photographer turned gallerist. “We mutually knew a couple of other graffiti artists in Bristol so
they trusted me, he then trusted them and me enough to have a meeting and then the next 12 years was like being caught in a whirlwind. It was one of the best periods of my life. I loved every second of it. Would I want it back? I don’t think so. Do I regret it? Not a single bit, I had the time of my life.” The Art of Banksy is being exhibited in The Paddock, a car park behind the car park at Federation Square, which has been transformed into a pop-up venue, with beer garden and a rotating roster of food trucks. Inside the exhibition space itself, the streets of London is the theme, with faux-asphalt and store front facades as a backdrop for the works themselves, which include iconic images such as Girl with Balloon, Flag Wall and Laugh Now. With Banksy having such a large body of work, how does Lazarides begin to curate such a retrospective? “I picked stuff that I thought had relevance to now. I picked stuff from different periods, different styles of painting, so there’s this broader cross section of work. Quite obviously there’s quite a few works I wish had’ve
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been in here but you know, I can’t get everything. If someone doesn’t want to lend something, you just can’t talk them into it,” says Lazarides. He did, however, manage to talk a good few collectors into loaning him the more than 80 works that are on display, which he admits was a challenge to “beg, borrow, cajole and get people to agree to loan us their works to come away for a year”. Some flatly refused. “The people who said no, generally said no because they can’t be arsed taking it off the wall or didn’t want to leave a big hole in the wall. But a lot of people are quite flattered that we’ve come back to them. Banksy is not the only artist I’ve sold them that is in their collections, so people trust me. I think that’s the other thing: this is a level of trust that you’re loaning a work that is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and you’re going to get it back at the end of the stint,” says Lazarides, who estimates the value of works on display to be hovering around the ten million US dollar mark. This was never the intention, back when the pair were working together. “Unfortunately what we started off ± we were trying to make cheap affordable art for the masses ± spectacularly backfired,” he says of pieces that he was once selling for £150 in 2003 that these days are “exchanging hands for hundreds of thousands of dollars”. Banksy sold works primarily to pay bills while the street art was always intended to stay in the street. “It’s a gift to the community and the city,” says Lazarides, who no longer has any relationship with the artist and doesn’t discuss publically the reason for their falling out. “The thing is, I’d never studied art, I’d never worked in the art world, so we just made shit up as we went along and I think the thing I’m proudest about is that we did it totally on our terms, there was no subscribing to how things are supposed to be done or how things have been done in the past. We just did what seemed to make sense”. THE ART OF BANKSY runs at The Paddock, Federation Square up until Saturday January 22.
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Tuesday October 18 - Sunday October 30 Malthouse Theatre
It’s another huge one for Dirty Secrets, with a great selection of comedians to get you through humpday. Blake Freeman acts MC alongside John Dore, Demi Lardner, David Quirk and more. Dirty Secrets, Wednesday October 12, 80 Smith Street, Collingwood.
Raiders of the Lost Ark Live in Concert Friday November 4 ± S aturday November 5 Hamer Hall
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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 October 13 they’ll see Alice Fraser MC along with Don Tran, Megan McKay, Geoff Setty, Perri Cassie, Martin Dunlop and more. Plus, the next competitors will be battling it out for the ‘Are You Funnier Than George?’ competition. 20 Johnston St, Fitzroy.
THURSDAY COMEDY Dave O’Neil headlines Thursday Comedy Club at the European Bier Café this Thursday night. You’ve seen him on Spicks and Specks, the Comedy Festival Gala, and heard him all over the radio. Plus there’s Nath Valvo, Brett Blake and some surprise guests. It’s all happening this Thursday October 13 at 8.30pm, at the European Bier Café, 120 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, all for only $12.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Comedy at Spleen are always chockers. It’s simply never not full. The only place to be on Mondays will be packed full of laughs with guests and it’s the place where big names drop in. This Monday, you can see Celia Pacquola, Anne Edmonds, Lehmo, James Masters, Cameron Duggan, Angus Gordon and more. It’s this Monday, October 17, at 41 Bourke Street in the city, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
Wednesday April 5 - Sunday April 9 2017 State Theatre
Poppy Seed Theatre Festival Returns with 2016 Program Poppy Seed Festival will showcase some of Melbourne’s best independent, theatrical talent over five weeks later this year. The festival has announced the four ambitious works it will be introducing to theatre fanatics: Blessed, LadyCake, What’s Yours Is Mine, and F. The selected works will be performed by exciting Melbourne companies like Attic Erratic, Three Birds Theatre, Hotel Now, and Riot Stage. The festival, which aims to nurture and invest in Melbourne’s creative sector, will also host a range of workshops and seminars for those who fancy something other than performances. Poppy Seed Theatre Festival runs from Tuesday November 8 to Sunday December 11 at various theatrical icons around Melbourne.
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Set in the not-too-distant future on the brink of climate disaster, CALIBAN starts where Shakespeare’s The Tempest left off, wherein the always contentious climate debate is turned on its head. Originally seeded as a street show presented at the 2015 Big West Festival, CALIBAN has undergone intense development and is now an entirely new work, bring personal stories and passionate perspectives on climate change into the main stage theatre space. The Edge Ensemble and Western Edge Youth Arts have come together to produce a stellar cast representing Australia’s cultural diversity. Achai Deng (South Sudan), Abraham Herasan (Afghanistan), Piper Huynh (Vietnam), Natalie Lucic (Croatia), Rex Pelman (Samoa) and Oti Wiloughby (Ghana) come together for the much anticipated show. CALIBAN comes to the Malthouse Theatre for three nights between Thursday November 24 and Saturday November 26.
The international award-winning hit musical is coming to Australia. Based on the smash-hit Warner Bros 1992 film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, The Bodyguard features a slew of Houston bangers including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, Run to You, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and of course, I Will Always Love You. Fans can join the waitlist for priority tickets now at the musical’s website.
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Outdoor Cinema Announces Outdoor movie experience Sunset Cinema is ready for a season of frothies, friends and films at a brand new location in Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park. The outdoor cinema is offering a mix of new-release blockbusters, comedies and thrillers, including The Girl On The Train, The Magnificent Seven, Inferno, Bridget Jones’ Baby and more. With a fully licensed bar and some quintessential Melbourne food trucks to accompany the event, including Mamma Van, Greek Street Food and Boeri Bros. Tickets are on sale now for the 2016 Sunset Cinema via their website. The event will run for three weeks from Friday November 4 to Saturday November 26, with four screenings each week.
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Air Play Comes to The Arts Centre The world famous duo Acrobuffos are set to perform the premiere of epic comedy art performance, Air Play, at the Arts Centre this summer. Exclusive to Melbourne, Airplay will feature the comic physicality of Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone paired with artist Daniel Wurtzel’s mesmerising air sculptures. Directed by West Hyler, the work boasts flying umbrellas, huge balloons, kites that float over the audience, and much more. The Arts Centre will present the Acrobuffos’ Air Play from Wednesday January 18 to Sunday January 22, 2017.
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Monster Fest Announces First Wave of Films Australia’s premier genre-film festival Monster Fest is returning to Melbourne for its sixth edition and they’ve just rolled out the first program announcement. Julia Ducournau’s controversial film, Raw, will open proceedings on opening night while keynote speaker Ted Kotcheff is set to compliment retrospective screenings of his films, Wake in Fright, First Blood andWeekend at Bernie’s with a new high definition master of cult television rarity Split Image. Jim Hosking’s The Greasy Strangler will close out a festival also set to feature the films Free Fire, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a digital restoration of Andrzej Zulawski’s On the Silver Globe and The Bandit.Always Shine will also be screened along with Antibirth, Dearest Sister, Dead Hands Dig Deep and Mondo Yakuza. Make sure you bring a friend when Monster Fest takes over Lido Cinemas between Thursday November 24 and Sunday November 27.
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Haircuts by Children T O M PA R k E R
In today’s society, children are seldom granted authority over their adult constituency and are often unable to exhibit their true offering. As a result, Canadian organisation Mammalian Diving Reflex have devised a plan to manipulate the adult-child hierarchy with a ground-breaking exercise. Haircuts by Children is as simple and as hazardous as it sounds ± an exercise which turns the tables and transfers power into a minor’s hands. What seems uncomplicated in practice uncovers something far more profound. For event producer, Eva Verity, the experiment looks to question the social ladder and the matter of trust. “It’s about looking at citizenship and young people as members of our community and as people who have certain rights and certain limitations imposed on them by social parameters,” Verity explains. “It is also about the juxtaposition of questioning what we allow children to do and why, as well as their limitations based on things like age or assumption.” It’s an experiment which has found its home in salons all over the world since 2006 and when it runs as part of Melbourne Festival, its 35th chapter will commence. Despite being so well-travelled, there are always challenges the practise must overcome when it enters a new domain. “With all our performances, including this one, we have to adapt to the local context and cooperate with local organisations and take into account what they perceive to be the best neighbourhoods to work in and the best demographic of kids to work with,” reveals Verity. “We generally want to work with people who
don’t have exposure to the arts and we try to adapt certain elements of the performance to make sense for the local context.” Children participating in the exercise will be granted eight hours of professional training prior. Mammalian Diving Reflex have chosen Preston South Primary School and Richmond West Primary School to work with on this occasion and the students will be between the ages of ten and 11. The children will then take over two Melbourne salons for four hours at a time over four separate days. Windsor’s Razor Dolls salon will be invaded as well as Fur Hairdressing in the CBD. The haircuts are free and the participating children get paid for their work. The performance is as much a practise of empowering our youth as it is promoting conversation between generations. We live in an environment which has never been more transfigured. Therefore, child potential has never been more affluent. However, dialogue between
associates is often unchallenged and as a result we don’t often get an opportunity to realise the social capacity of our youth. “Young people contribute and can contribute in a variety of ways that either goes unacknowledged or underrepresented so now as a company, over the past ten years, we’ve worked quite a bit with young people and teenagers to make a lot of different performances,” Verity says. “Haircuts by Children was sort of the first one that opened the door to investigating these kind of dynamics. “It’s also about looking at adult-child relationships and the kind of limitations beyond that. There aren’t many circumstances where adults speak with or converse with young people or even spend much one-on-one time with a young person.” There are many ways to instil a voice and sense of authority within children and it doesn’t just take precise measures to be achieved. The way we converse with our
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Jesus Christ Superstar The all-time classic production Jesus Christ Superstar will be seen in a new light thanks to the awardwinning CLOC Musical Theatre team. We set off to find out why this production is one worth seeing. Who are you, and what’s your role in Jesus Christ Superstar? Scott Mackenzie, playing Judas What makes Jesus Christ Superstar such an enduring musical? I think the classic story is exciting for people, whether you are religious or not. The music is so well written. It’s unlike any other rock scores. How will your adaptation differ from other Jesus Christ Superstar performances? This production will literally transform audiences to another world, unlike anything they have seen before.
In a post apocalyptic, war-torn setting, these characters are faced with new challenges set to the well loved score we all know. What’s your favourite moment of the musical? The death of Judas. What was the rehearsal process like? Rehearsal was hella fun. It was so nice working with such a fun and supportive cast and crew. What do you want audiences to take away from seeing this show? I want people to be blown away by an amazing piece of theatre. Something that they will remember (for good or bad) for decades to come. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR runs until Saturday October 22 at the National Theatre, St Kilda.
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Triptyque Despite the absence of red noses or any other circus trope, Triptyque is no less a spectacle. Canadian outfit Les 7 Doigts (The Seven Fingers) has worked with choreographers for each of Triptyque’s three acts to infuse circus with dance and nudge both disciplines right to the edge. The first act, Anne and Samuel, starts with performer Sarah Harton tied up and suspended at odd angles. The two performers engage in feats of balance and beauty on crutches, interspersed with movements resembling rictus or spasticity (begging a question about using able-bodied performers to mimic disability). In flesh coloured costumes, hunched and using pointy crutches as forelimbs, the pair resemble mating praying mantis. The second act, Variations, starts with a quick scene that could have been slapstick: a bloke wearing a button-up jacket appears to be minding the other performer who’s pushing a broom around the stage. However, as the movements of the sweeper became increasingly erratic, it’s more akin to watching the proverbial man in a white coat observing a psych patient. The balance of the act dispenses with gravity as six BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24
performers balance on their hands with as much ease and grace as if on their feet. The final act, Nocturnes, was the surrealist icing on the cake and also the most disturbing. A woman lies watching TV on a hospital bed (query again whether it’s in a psych ward), while a male orderly quite literally manipulates her by jerking invisible strings. The rest is a horror story: people are hiding under the bed, the bed becomes animate, hands emerge from the mattress to pin the patient to the bed, the patient’s costume is open at the back (like a hospital gown) and swings open, and ropes with a whiff of noose about them drop from the ceiling. Few words are spoken throughout the performance, but the lunatic logic and landscape of each piece is so clear they’d be redundant. The 20-minute interval between each act is welcome ± the audience as well as the performers need to catch breath. This is circus, but not as we know it. BY MEG CRAwfORd
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youth in everyday life can be equally as important in infusing greater confidence and articulacy. “It can even just be small gestures, such as the way we treat them, or even the way we speak with them, the way we listen to them,” says Verity. “Even with just the simple things, change can shift the way young people can operate in their day-to-day life and change can shift the way they’re respected.” It’s a bold experimentation, but if Haircuts by Children can at least marginally empower our youth to institute their own decision making and engage in conversation, then we’re one step closer to bridging the generational divide. HAIRCUTS BY CHILDREN will run on Saturday October 15 & 16 at Razor Dolls, Windsor, and Saturday October 22 & Sunday October 23 at Fur Hairdressing, Melbourne.
O f f Th e Record Daniel Bortz will be making his way to town this weekend. Since first making waves with his rework of James Blake’s cover of Feist’s Limit To Your Love, the German head has gone on to release on the likes of Crosstown Rebels, Fiakun, Get Physical Music and Innervisions, and now runs the Munich-based label Pastamusik. Expect a smattering of everything from house, techno, ‘80s new wave, hip hop and disco when he hits Revolver Upstairs on Sunday October 16. Another international coming our way this weekend, Max Chapman has locked in two Australian dates. Breaking through in 2011, over the past five years has had a genresprawling career with his eclectic releases finding homes on Twisted Fusion, Delusion Music, Dilate Records, Hatchwork and Manocalda. Alongside AJ Christou and Mark Horsey, he also co-founded Resonance Records. He’s coming for Revolver Upstairs this Friday October 14. One of the most (and let’s be honest, only) intriguing names to come from Iceland in recent years, Bjarki, is coming our way. Championed by Nina Kraviz and her label Trip, his productions span the realms of Chicagoinfluenced house and jacking deep techno. His 2015 EP Arthur And Intergalactic Whales featured one of the most ubiquitous tracks of the year in I Wanna Go Bang. Give a spin of his 2015 Resident Advisor mix (made exclusively from his own unreleased productions) to get in the mood before he comes for Melbourne on Saturday November 12, venue TBA. Tour rumours: well, according to the neck-beards over on reddit Daft Punk will be announcing a world tour on October 27. The claims come from deciphering cryptic clues on the recently launched website alive2017.com. Jump into the source coding and you’ll see what I mean. Wait and see, I guess. Fans will, of course, know that Daft Punk last toured the world in 2007 with their Alive ‘07 tour which wrapped up in Australia. Remember that shit? Nevereverland or something was the name of the festival. People complained because it clashed with Meredith. Muscles played. What the hell happened to him? Best releases this week: there’s some more fire coming from the Text imprint with the vinyl-only release of Designer & Four Tet’s Mothers / Dark. Otherwise I’d suggest spending some time with two new full-lengths, Machinedrum’s Human Energy (Ninja Tune) and Fis’
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WITH T YSON WRAY From Patterns to Details (on Subtext). Also, jump onto the Rinse FM Soundcloud and have a spin of a live recording of Mount Liberation Unlimited from their set during the recent Beats In Space x Daytime Session party. Tasty, tasty stuff.
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 Nina Kraviz, Marcel Dettmann, Bjarki TBA DJ EZ Platform One THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17 MK, Stephan Bodzin Brown Alley SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 HVOB TBA
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25 Jackmaster Brown Alley SATURDAY DECEMBER 3 Tell No Tales: Ricardo Villalobos, Pan-Pot, Audion + more Flemington Racecourse Seth Troxler, Ben UFO Brown Alley
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CLUB GUIDE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 • REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DANIELSAN + JMCEE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. • CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13 • 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: LIFEWORLD DJS + ALEXANDER LUC + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. • DISCO VOLANTE Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. • VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14 • #MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN + MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. • BABY DANCE - FEAT: DJ J’NETT + 6AM AT THE GARAGE + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CLUB MIAMI Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. • DUBDOGZ + MUSKA + THANKYOU CITY + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $16.67. • FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00. • FLEETMAC WOOD Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:00pm. $23.50. • LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 +
URBAN GUIDE LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • PANIC CLUB Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. • PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • PENAHITAM EROTICA - FEAT: RUBY SLIPPERS + SAINT SAUNAS + ZACH YVAIRE 24 Moons, Northcote. 9:00pm. $15.00. • POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • RELEASE - FEAT: SAM GREGORY + DAMIEN MARGARITIS + MORE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • SPRING FLING - FEAT: DIGITALINE Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8:00pm. • THE DISCO Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. • THICK AS THIEVES & REVOLVER FRIDAYS FEAT: MAX CHAPMAN + MIKE CALLANDER + LEO JAMES + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. $16.90.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15 • AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. • BUSTIN OUT - FEAT: ANDY PADULA + KITI + OZZI LA Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. • CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. • HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. • IN THE CARRIAGE - FEAT: DJ JNETT + DAN DARE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. • JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am. • LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: ASQUITH + DAZE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS
Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. • PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. • PPB LATE NIGHT SATURDAYS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:30pm. • PRINCE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. • SNACK ATTACK - FEAT: DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm. • TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. • THE EMERSON CLUB SATURDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. • THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. • THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: REX + YOOREE + PAZ + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. • THE MUSIC & CRAVING STUDY - FEAT: KIRALEE MUSGROVE Federation Hall, Southbank. 2:00pm. • TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • UTOPIA - FEAT: SILHOUETTES + JESS SNEDDON Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 16 • ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. • BATTLE 8 GRAND FINAL - FEAT: GROOVE PENGUIN VS ONE Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. • BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. • CUSHION SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm. • GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. • JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00.
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• REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. • ROOFTOP SUNDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm. • RUBACK - FEAT: NICK PANLOOK + HIGH JACKED + SKWID + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm. $16.67. • SUMMER SERIES #1 - FEAT: DANIEL BORTZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. • THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK + MR WEIR Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. • WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.
MONDAY OCTOBER 17 • CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON + DYLAN MICHAEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. • MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. • THE MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 • MELLOWDÍASTHUMP - FEAT: BLACK COBALT + GEEZY + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13 • ARIZONA THURSDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 14 • BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $76.31.
• 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.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 18
• PARTY & BULLSHIT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. • PLAY FRIDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm.
• CARRIAGE 252 - FEAT: BEN ANDREWS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • OASIS TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. • SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
• BIG DANCING - FEAT: LARRIE + MITSU + SOFIE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15 ROZE + PAIGE PLAY Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
• KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
• RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 18 • ARIELLE COTTINGHAM + MZRIZK + MORE Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
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Dandenong Market CHRIsTINE TsIMBIs
As the second biggest market in Melbourne, the Dandenong Market has long been considered a fixture of community life. Founded in 1866, it started off auctioning livestock but has now developed into a destination for foodies who are searching for the finest quality food and bargain hunters who want to procure unique items. The market will celebrate its 150th anniversary by hosting the Jubilee Festival, along with its other exciting developments. The Dandenong Spring Market has partnered up with the Melbourne Cultural Arts Victoria, who has selected all the performers for the Jubilee Festival. “They’ve tried to focus as much as possible on local groups,” says Festival Director Briony Walker. “It’s been really fun, and developing the Jubilee has been amazing; we have people who are coming and doing free Ta Moko face painting, which is a traditional Maori face paint. Kids absolutely love it, and we’re providing Henna body art for free as well.” There’ll also be food trucks and stalls with different cuisines at the festival, and these play an important part in highlighting the various cultural groups that have attended the Dandenong Market for the last 150 years. “I think the market is represented as the different kind of waves of different immigrant and refugee groups that come here,” says Walker. “For example, there’s an Italian fruit and veg guy named Danny Luppino,
and he came here when he was very young. He’s been trading for around 54 years. We’ve got a lot of Afghani traders: a really fantastic Afghani baker, a fruit and veg guy, they’re really big.” As well as offering first-class food and produce, the market is often considered a cultural hub. “It’s just been really delightful working for lots of different cultural groups,” Walker says. “There’s a lovely community component of just engaging with different cultures, which has been a lot of fun.” The Dandenong Market has always had a strong community base, which dates back to 1866 when the locals petitioned to the government to set up the market. “There were only around 48 people actually living in Dandenong in 1866,” says Walker. “But it was a really big farming area, and the locals found it too much trouble to travel all the way to Prahran Market and
back, so they petitioned to start up the Dandenong Market and it took ten years for it to go through.” The Dandenong Market started out as a stock market and immediately drew visitors in who wanted to buy livestock and produce. Despite its soaring popularity, the market didn’t deal with much competition until after the ‘50s in the post-war period. “A lot of supermarkets and department stores opened up after the wars,” Walker says. “But I think one of the things about traditional, locally owned markets is that they offer the only opportunity for smaller businesses to start up, since the start up costs are quite low at a market. “The market also offers a place for people to meet and talk to shop owners. I think there’s an authenticity to market shopping, because you can buy from fruit and veg traders who choose the produce themselves. I think markets have longevity and strong appeal, and they
Spring Fling Street Festival
The Fitzroy Market Now in its seventh year of operation and celebrating the notion that “every pre-loved item has a story”, The Fitzroy Market continues to have a great reception not only within the local community, but also from visitors far and wide. Based in the vibrant inner city suburb of Fitzroy, the market has raised thousands of dollars for its community partners including Fitzroy Primary School and Fitzroy Learning Network. Featuring 75 stalls, you can find a huge variety of second hand, vintage and hand-made items, as well as a selection of delicious food. The Fitzroy Market is located at Fitzroy Primary School (corner of Napier St & Greeves St Fitzroy) and is open every third Saturday of every month.
The locals of north and west Melbourne are gearing up to hit the streets for a ripper of a day when the 39th annual Spring Fling Street Festival comes back to town. Taking a stroll over to Errol Street in North Melbourne will open your world up to pop-up markets, street food, beer gardens, entertainment, the exciting Spring Fling Dog Show and plenty of other great offerings from local businesses. The 2016 edition of Spring Fling is also drawing a quality lineup of live musicians to grant some ripper Sunday party vibes. Backed by a huge variety of delicious food drinks and sunshine, you’d be hard pressed to find a better Sunday afternoon. Check out the markets, music and meals when the Spring Fling Street Festival hits Errol Street in North Melbourne on Sunday October 16 from 10am to 6pm.
provide an authentic and enjoyable experience.” Today the Dandenong Market has 100,000 visitors a week and five million visitors a year. In honour of its 150th anniversary, a mural called Rosling Lane has been built in order to document the Market’s rich history. “We went through the archives and selected key milestones of the market, like photographs and beautifully written memories that we managed to find in newspaper clippings,” says Walker. “I think it’s an opportunity to share all of the market’s history, because until now people haven’t really had access to it.” DANDENONG MARKET celebrates their 150th Jubilee on Sunday October 16 from 10am through to 4pm. You can find the market on the corner of Clow and Cleeland Street, Dandenong.
The Finders Keepers Market The Finders Keepers Market continues to present the very best from the Australian art and design community. Expect to see contemporary artworks, jewellery and cute kidswear amongst other exciting goodies. The Finders Keepers Market incorporates the artistic flair of a new illustrator every season, with Adelaide’s Julie White conjuring an Australian botanical pattern in her colourful brushstroke style for this spring and summer campaign. You can also check her stall filled with silk scarves and printed stockings. Every market features around 30 percent new stalls, but a distinctive area to shop at is the debut stall area, filled with new unique designs from emerging local creative entrepreneurs. Alongside all its stalls, The Finders Keepers Market will also present live music, food trucks, fresh coffee vendors, brews from Charlie’s Bar and St. Gerry’s delicious Greek donuts. Entry is only $2 for the Finders Keepers Market, running from Friday October 14 to Sunday October 16 at the Royal Exhibition Building.
Wild About Melbourne Ceres Organic Grocery Hey. Who are we speaking to and what do you do for CERES? Hi, this is Beck. I manage the CERES Organic Grocery at CERES Environment Park. Tell us about some of the produce and other market offerings that CERES has on offer for Melburnians. We source organic, seasonal produce from local farmers and from the organic wholesale market. We also stock a large range of organic bulk foods, bulk cleaning products and locally produced sourdough breads, artisan foods and handmade gifts. A great point of difference for the markets is that you’re always running live music and other events. Can you walk us through a weekend at CERES? We have live music at the Grocery every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday mornings between 10.30am and 1pm. The bands are listed for each upcoming BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
month ahead in the Grocery section of the CERES website. There is also a makers and flea market on every Saturday morning. Another interesting fact is that you don't need to be at the market to get groceries from the market. What other ways can you pick up your produce? Ceres also has an online organic delivery service. Check out the website for more information. CERES ORGANIC GROCERY will host the Merri Merri Bush Dance on Saturday October 15, Triple R BBQ on Sunday December 4 and Tamil Feasts hosts vegan friendly dinners every Monday, Tuesday and Friday night. Check out the CERES website for more details.
Tell us about some of the specialty items Wild About Melbourne has on offer. Are you bringing anything new to the this installment? There are new and fabulous makers coming to our markets, plus some returning favourites. Our Thornbury market will once again be tantalised by the world’s most delicious salted caramel fudge by SMALT. Plus the ladies at the Bowls Club make a delicious Devonshire Tea. Your Christmas list is sorted for everyone with everything from handmade baby clothes and toys, jewellery, kids DIY kits, recycled notebooks, handmade soaps, art for your walls and candles. Because everyone has an aunt, sister, friend, neighbour that they buy a candle for at Christmas, at least make it an amazing handmade candle. You’re bringing down some live entertainment this time. Who’s on the bill? In Reservoir, we team up with Reservoir Village to provide a fun day out for all. You’ll find roaming live music, craft activities, roller skating Christmas baubles, yes that is an actual thing, and of course, a visit from the big guy in red himself, Santa.
EVERYTHING MELBOURNE
What do you love most about a day at the Wild About Melbourne Markets? I love that people gather at our markets, meet friends and catch up over a coffee or beer. It’s not just a day of handmade shopping, but a local day out. I also love when happy shoppers and happy makers combine - a shopper is ecstatic that they have made a great purchase and the maker is thrilled that their handmade work is going to a good home, and I really love the beer at the end of a market day. Where can people find out about the next Wild About Melbourne Market? I am always on Instagram and often on facebook and occassionally on twitter. There’s even a website and an enewsletter that you can sign up to get all our market updates. WILD ABOUT MELBOURNE MARKETS will come to Thornbury Bowls Club, 27 Ballantyne St, Thornbury on Sunday November 27 from 11-3pm and Reservoir Village, Edwardes St, Reservoir on Saturday December 17 from 10-2pm.
THE PEEP TEMPEL A LWAY S
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BY JOSEPH EARP
That ol’ git Jean-Paul Sartre really knew a thing or two, didn’t he? Hell truly is other people: just ask Blake Scott, guitarist and vocalist from The Peep Tempel. “I just had to do a first aid course,” Scott says. “It was pretty fucked up. It’s a lot more touchy-feely these days. It used to be you practiced on dummies, but these days you have to partner up and touch people,” he says. “It’s really uncool.” Scott’s vague distrust of the human race isn’t just evident in his responses to CPR exercises however, it’s also apparent across his body of work – perhaps never more obviously so than on The Peep Tempel’s new record, Joy. Lead single Rayguns speaks of a “regime” of ice addicts, while Constable comes over like a Raymond Chandler novel stripped of hope. But as far as Scott is concerned, there was something almost workman-like about the band’s approach to the album. “It’s just a record,” he says. “I think you go in and you set yourself the task of writing a record. You go in and do it, that’s the way it goes. It’s almost robotic in a sense, the actual process. We’ve gotten to a certain point now we’re ready to do it, so we go off and do it.” Joy has its own distinct internal logic. Despite the record’s darkness, it comes with a significant jolt of humour too, and the manic, ever escalating Neuroplasticity is downright upbeat, albeit in a recognisably Peep Tempel-esque, off-kilter way. Yet, despite the album’s recognisable continuity, Scott argues the group rarely sets out with an overall picture of the finished product in mind. “It’s strange when you’re writing,” Scott says. “I mean, a piece of magic happens, then you have to pull it apart until it becomes a song. You’ve got three different people and their perception of what’s going on is different. And then you have to define what’s going on without ever killing it.” Ultimately, Scott argues the only way the songs survive the complicated and constrictive process of being nutted out is the band trusting the tune rather than that nebulous thing people call a ‘record’. “All the songs to me are so individual,” he says. “An album is just a collection of those songs, and the fact that you’re going into the same studio with the same band, that’s what makes it an album. You create something that you enjoy and something you’re really happy with, and the album is almost like a by product of that.” Of course, an album is also defined by something as simple as the order in which the songs appear, a necessity that Scott has previously considered to be an almost hindrance. “Track listings have always been the hardest thing, and the thing I’ve disliked most about making records,” he says. “It’s strange. You go in there and you spend so much time on the album, and you go through so many different emotions. You have an amazing amount of joy and elation, and then you’ve got doubt and you start to lose trust in your own ears, and then you think it’s rubbish. Then the next day you think it’s great again. Then you have to sit down and put it in an order.” Arranging the piece into some semblance of a structure is both an anticlimax and a stylistic fib then – though Scott says this time around the band was much more prepared for that particular hurdle. “We were thinking about it throughout the process,” he says. “This time, when it came to choosing an order, we got it done in an afternoon. We sat down with a couple of beers and sorted it out. There were a few disagreements, but on the whole I think everyone’s really happy with the way it turned out. I think that comes from getting older as well, because you’re always getting older,” he says. Though Joy is now a finished, completed thing, Scott is at pains to stress that it’s also an organic entity, one that is far too easy to inadvertently crush to bloody death. “Every time, you think you’re going to make a better record,” Scott says. “But it’s not just about the record. It’s about the whole process around it. You have to make sure that by the time you’re done with it and it’s time to tour it, you’re not in a position where you fucking hate it. We’ve certainly never mastered it, but it’s really interesting the way you develop throughout that process.” Though it’d be foolish to get all Hollywood-ending about Joy – particularly given it’s a record from a band as un-Hollywood acerbic as The Peep Tempel – the thing that keeps Scott going is his band members. “Everybody in The Peep Tempel knows that the other person cares about the band, and cares about what happens, and that our creativity and our output is paramount,” Scott says. “We probably can’t even explain what it is in us that makes us want to do this. But it’s there. It’s in us, and we’ve just got to hold onto it really tight.”
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THE PEEP TEMPEL will play The Corner Hotel on Saturday November 19. Joy is out Friday October 14 through Wing Sing.
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THE NATION BLUE B E AT E N
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BY ALEX PINK
L7
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In 1992 L7 toured Australia for the first time, supported by friends and SubPop labelmates, Cosmic Psychos. In Adelaide, both bands played the Bridgeway Hotel, way out in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. It was a loud gig. A very loud gig in fact. We stood adjacent to the speaker stack for Cosmic Psychos’ show, noting L7 guitarist and singer Donita Sparks just off stage, singing along to the Psychos’ Lost Cause. As we embarked on the long journey back home, we noted a distant ringing in our ears. To this day, the permanent hearing loss in my right ear remains a reminder of one of my favourite gigs. “I’m so sorry!” says Donita Sparks down the phone from Los Angeles, when I recount the story of that fateful gig. “That really sucks.” L7 had ventured onto Australian soil for that tour at the top of its game. Formed originally in Los Angeles in the mid 1980s by Sparks and Suzi Gardner, L7 was a punk metal band with an artistic bent, an abnormality for the time. “We were hanging out in the art punk crowd in Los Angeles,” Sparks says. “We wanted to do a hard rock band, which was a total anomaly for that scene at the time. There was all this art punk new wave going on. This was 1985 and we wanted to do something sort of punk metal, grungey before it was called grunge. And that’s what we did.” L7’s classic lineup was completed with the addition of bassist Jennifer Finch and drummer Demetra Plakas. By 1988 L7 had released its eponymous debut album. While Sparks says L7 was considered a “cool band in the punk underground”, it wasn’t until L7 was featured on SubPop’s monthly singles club in 1990 that the band’s star began to rise. The release of Nirvana’s Nevermind caused a seismic shift in the music industry and L7 found itself the subject of major industry attention. L7 had released its second album, Smell the Magic, on SubPop in 1990. By the time it came to record L7’s third album, Bricks Are Heavy - which included the single Pretend That You’re Dead and the scathing Shit List, L7 had signed with the Warner Music-aligned Slash Records. “After we were with a major label nobody was telling us what to do, what kind of art work we should have, who we should hire as producer or anything like that. It was all under our control,” Sparks says. Sparks can’t recall any overt sexism directed toward the all-female band: peers, including L7’s new Australian buddies the Cosmic Psychos, were agnostic to the band’s gender composition, and any institutionalised sexism would have been behind closed doors. “The independent label seemed to be cool, but when we got onto Warner Brothers, I’m sure there was some shitty stuff being said behind our backs,” Sparks says. “I know there was no bidding war over us - there were only a couple of people interested in signing us to a major label, unlike other artists who were peers at the time.” L7 was certainly provocative. At Reading Festival in 1992 Sparks threw her used tampon into the crowd. On a UK television BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28
appearance in the same year Sparks dropped her pants. Another gig saw the band raffle a one-night stand with drummer Demetra Plakas. But it was changing popular tastes and the frustration of working within the constraints of the mainstream music industry that began to fracture L7’s internal bond. L7’s fourth studio album, Hungry for Stink, hadn’t impressed Warner Brothers, and L7 found itself back on an independent label. Bassist Jennifer Finch left in 1996 and L7 continued on, beaten but not defeated. “We hadn’t lost enthusiasm, but we were getting beat down,” Sparks says. “We got dropped by Warner and we were determined to make another record even if it killed us. We were tapped out financially, the press wasn’t really paying attention to us anymore, grunge was bloated and out the door and we were out the door with it.” L7 released its fifth and final album Slap Happy in 1999. “We were almost making that record as a ‘Fuck you’ to Warner Brothers - not lyrically, but for the sake of doing it, to prove something,” Sparks says. L7 eventually split up and the band members went their separate ways. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago when two events sowed the seeds of an L7 reunion. The first was the making of a documentary on the band, in which the members re-lived the excitement and emotion of the early 1990s; the second was Sparks’ post on L7’s Facebook page, testing the temperature for an L7 reunion. The response was overwhelming. Within months, the classic L7 lineup had reconvened in LA. Beyond the possibility of a single for next year’s Record Store Day, Sparks says L7 has no immediate plans to record new material. “There’s been a lightness of being, just having fun and not worrying about making a new record, promoting a record or paying for a record. There’s something liberating about just playing 20-year-old material. It’s a case of revisiting those songs, playing it better than we ever did and just rocking out.” L7 will play 170 Russell on Wednesday October 12 with Cosmic Psychos. Tickets on sale now via www.metropolistouring. com.
Few bands make it to 20 years. Fewer still reach that milestone and have the strength to push forward and create arguably their best material. To that end, it’s been a trying slog for The Nation Blue: the band formed in Hobart during the mid ‘90s, cutting their teeth within the city’s underground punk rock scene. Not many bands find success in Hobart and those that do tend to quickly relocate to the Australian musical melting pots of Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. After all, Hobart can prove tight to the point of claustrophobic, even if it does have the power to sometimes breed a unique artistic vision in all that isolation. Tom Lyngcoln has this vision. The man that fronts The Nation Blue holds nothing back. He and his band came to Melbourne at the start of the century and though they were outsiders to begin, they quickly garnered a cult following due to their visceral live shows. Lyngcoln’s onstage persona projects a veil of danger and despair, while his lyrics are a harrowing reflection of his dark sensibilities and his guitar style is akin to a sonic assault. “The physical intensity comes from years of repeated abuse,” he says. “It’s doing the same thing night after night, people expect to see it so you’ve got to up the stakes.” With Lyngcoln, it immediately becomes apparent that there’s a difference between the performer and the man. He is refreshingly modest and makes constant references to his day job as a carpenter and newborn child. Indeed, he doesn’t seem to enjoy reflecting on the positives of the band’s achievement. “I look up at a lot of the venues around the country and there’s always some evidence that we’ve played there,” Lyngcoln says. “I’ve had to take stock on a few of the things I’ve done over the years. We did a gig in Sydney where I completely destroyed
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the roof, I got yanked off stage by a bouncer and it took a while for everything to calm down.” How does one destroy an entire roof ? “You take your guitar and repeatedly smash it through the roof until it rains asbestos,” says Lyngcoln, though he does admit he offered to repair the damages. After a seven-year hiatus, the band is now embarking upon a new era. With each member fresh from other musical projects,
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BY JOSEPH EARP
Us word jockeys are used to talking trash about musicians, but perhaps not as prepared for the reverse scenario. We’ve got thin skins, ya see, so a song like Ausmuteants’ Music Writers took us a little bit by surprise. A spasmodic, twitchy little number, the tune speaks of the discomfort bands feel when they come to be being written about by, you know, hacks, and has an acerbic, cheese-wire taut wit hiding underneath that funky synth line. “It isn’t based off a particular incident,” says Jake Robertson. “I just think it’s funny when you can tell that the journalist put in less effort for their slagging piece than the garbage that they’re reviewing. Everybody gets no stars.” Robertson has admitted in previous interviews to “ly[ing] through his teeth”, so maybe he’s having a laugh when he speaks of the ridiculously quick writing period behind the group’s brilliant new record. “It was a piece of piss to write Band Of The Future,” Robertson says. “Like two days to write, one day to record and one day to mix master.” But maybe he’s telling the truth. The group B E AT.C O M . A U
have a grubby DIY crudity all of their own, and one can imagine a song like Mr Right or Struck By Lightning being written quickly, on the fly. It’s unsurprising then that Robertson argues the group’s writing style is suitably stripped back. “[We] think of shit and make it rhyme,” he says. “Our songs are usually too easy to need help with writing. Try and play one, it’ll take you 15 minutes, max.” The band were formed but four short years ago, almost on a whim. “[Our first gig] was at the Waiting Room in Brisbane, 2012,” Robertson says. “We had two practices.” Robertson is in a number of Australian acts
their 20th anniversary now coincides with the release of not one but two new albums, Black and Blue. “I had a child halfway through the process and had a lot of downtime and I found a formula that really worked for me,” Lyngcoln says. “Cranking out 29, 30 songs was pretty easy. We had the time and the resources and realised we had two distinct records sitting there so we put them out.” With an excess of new material that stretches far beyond what actually ended up on the albums, Lyngcoln admits that these days he struggles to pick up a guitar, such is the amount of writing he’s done. Whilst both Black and Blue maintain the unnerving punk stamp of their earlier records, the differences between the two albums lie in their themes. “Black is definitely the one that when lyrics started coming through, they were political,” Lyngcoln says. “But on Blue they are more personal.” Given these dark themes are similar to subject matter Lyngcoln has explored before, he does admit to worrying he might go stale. “I’m pretty fastidious with the lyrics,” he says. “I’m always wary if they drag on, but I got on a couple of them here that I was pretty happy with. I’m about 160 songs deep with all the bands I’ve been in, so I’m starting to run out things to say that’s for sure.” THE NATION BLUE will play The Gasometer on Friday October 21. Black and Blue are out Friday October 14 through Poison City.
– he also plays in the self-described “solid but forgettable” Hierophants, amongst others – and has a strong musical pedigree. “First time I ever played live was either in my dad’s band, belting out Wipeout, or in my brother’s band playing Paranoid,” he says. “I was eight. I killed it.” That kind of natural ability is prominently displayed when the band perform live. Ausmuteants are a heavy-touring outfit, and are relentlessly prolific – they’ve released something every year since 2013, and have played shows in all corners of the country. Isn’t maintaining that level of output exhausting? “It gets exhausting for anybody around us having Shaun [Connor] talk about Net Runner, Marc [Dean] talk about fashion, Billy [Gardner] talk about food and me talk about comic books,” Robertson says. Ausmuteants have a very simple approach to playing gigs, and never overthink the fine art of the live performance. The band members have an attitude towards crowds that involves no pretence or remove, and they integrate themselves fully with their audience. “Eh, [crowds] are just people like you and me bud,” Robertson says. “They can dance or they can stand or they can sit or they can leave. Prefer the first two to be honest.” Ultimately, Robertson is energised by the live scene around him, and has a strong connection to the ever burgeoning Australian music circle he finds himself smack bang in the centre of. “[The scene] is great,” he says. “There are plenty great bands putting out stuff independently. I don’t think the Australian music scene that I identify with is defined by genre and is mostly conscious about gender balance in live music, thanks to people telling it like it is.” An interview with a band who wrote a song about shitty music writers ending on a positive, upbeat note? That doesn’t feel right. Luckily, a more satisfying conclusion comes when Robertson is asked to “Tell something he’s never told a music writer before.” The musician’s response is swift. “Nup. Up ya.” AUSMUTEANTS will take over Catfish on Saturday October 15. Band Of The Future is out now through Aarght.
THE SOFT MOON G O I N G
D E E P E R
BY ANDI LENNON
Birthed right around the time the tail end of ‘70s punk bled into the nascent futurism of the ‘80s, post punk in its many guises is a genre that refuses to die. There’s something appealing about the emotional, abrasive and angular textures of the sub-genre, and there’s a reason the sound has been picked up by such luminaries as Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails and The Soft Moon. Indeed, Luis Vasquez, lead singer of the latter band, picks at the fabric of post punk until it’s almost threadbare, resulting in a sound that’s sparser than most, yet no less weighty. However, on Vasquez’s new album Deeper, the musician made a concerted effort to sidestep such genre concerns, to let out something inside himself that defied easy explanation. “With this record I wanted to completely let go and try to express as many sides of myself and emotions as possible,” he says. “I felt with the previous records I was pigeonholed into this post punk thing. I had a particular sound and I wasn’t completely comfortable with who I was as a person. “With Deeper I wanted to let it all out. Whichever emotion surfaced is what I would let out. That’s definitely how I ended up with the piano elements and things like that, things I never thought I’d do. It was a means to discover more about myself, about being harsher on one end of the spectrum but also more subtle on the other side. It was an exploration of extremes.” Thematically, the album continues Vasquez’s obsession with the apocalyptic, combining harsh synths and Krautrock elements to create an aura of desolation that is as unnerving as it’s inviting. “The whole apocalyptic thing started when I was a child,” he says. “I’ve always had recurring nightmares about the world ending. It’s interesting that they stopped for the last couple of years, but now they’ve slowly started to come back and that’s something that’s always made its way into my music, that sense of desolation. “I spent a lot of my younger years growing up in the desert and I think that has a lot to do with those themes. Living out there felt like living at the end of the world, just pure desert. The population was pretty small. I was north west of LA about an hour away from the border with Nevada. So this whole apocalyptic thing is something I’ve been trying to figure out, but in the meantime I play with it. It seeps out in my music because it’s something that’s a part of me” With the current end-times cloud cast by looming climate change and resource shortages, does Vasquez feel that the apocalypse is a matter of when, rather than a question of if ? “Yeah,” he says. “It’s so hard to say, but that’s at least how I feel. But that could be because of my anxiety. I could be suffering from anxiety, so I think the worst, but I do feel that it could happen at any moment.” If the future is a bum prospect, then Vasquez is at least making the most of the present, with his upcoming Australian tour set to be followed by a trip behind the veil of state control, to the exotic frontier of China. Given the logistical hoops it must take to visit such a country, one has to wonder whether Vasquez’s booking agents have been working overtime. “I’m not too sure what’s happening behind the scenes with the agents, but it’s been a long time coming,” Vasquez says. “The only other time we’ve been to Asia was two and a half years ago in Taiwan. The audiences were hard to gauge because we played a festival, so we didn’t get that true sense of connection. It wasn’t one of our personal shows, which would have made it more intimate, but the people seemed to be pretty excited about music and culture” Between perennial touring commitments and his new home in Berlin, Vasquez seems to have adopted a somewhat nomadic lifestyle in recent years – though by semi-settling in Germany, the artist follows in a long lineage of musicians who’ve made the pilgrimage to the country, ranging from Nick Cave to Amanda Palmer. “There’s always something I found fascinating about Berlin,” Vasquez says. “It’s quite a dark place with a dark history, and in a way it really does help me face my demons. Over time I’ve noticed that it’s backfiring though, because sometimes that dark mood and dark past is feeding into a little too much of who I am. I already have these dark feelings inside and so living in an environment that’s similar to myself brings me down further. If I lived on a tropical island, it’d be more of a yin and yang situation. “But there’s something about Berlin that’s challenging me,” he continues. “I don’t want anything I do to be easy, so I’m intrigued by this city and its darkness. I’m trying to harness its energy. We’re very similar and I’m hoping that connection gives me some breakthrough or revelation for future material and then once that happens hopefully I can move on.” THE SOFT MOON will play John Curtin Hotel on Friday October 28. Deeper is out now through Captured Tracks. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
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JULIA JACKLIN K I D S ’
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BY JOSEPH EARP
As an interviewer, you tend to only encounter dodgy phone lines when speaking to musicians in the very upper echelon of commercial success, bands that you have to dial a phone card to chat to, only to then muddle your way through a conversation plagued by static, muffled responses and a godawful time delay.
THE PANICS F I N D I N G
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BY ANNA WILSON
As the sun shines in Sydney so the rain pours in Melbourne, and as children play outside in the glorious weather, The Panics’ Jae Laffer is seated at his 200-year-old piano, watching the world through the window as he sips on a coffee, engrossed in creating music on a dreary morning. Laffer draws creative strength from the world around him in an unashamedly natural and child-like manner, delighting in the sounds of the world at large. “You get a general feeling over time when you’ve had a life in writing,” he says. “You gain perspectives on situations and atmospheres, that’s when you have fertile periods of making stuff.” With four years between their last release and their new album Hole In Your Pocket, The Panics is evidently a band that don’t like to rush things. Laffer argues that time to stew on a work is necessary, an important part of a practice that sees the group only put out work they’re proud of. “The Panics have had a few years break between records and I can feel a far busier period coming along. I have a plan for the next few years in the writing department: write lots, record lots and give it away,” Laffer says. “The cool thing about the album in one respect is that by having a few years off, it means the record has got a pretty good energy. It’s relentless the whole time, so it’s exciting to come back firing hard both in terms of purpose and meaning. I’m looking forward to communicating the songs to people. We want to start small, we want to play to sweaty clubs and I think these songs are going to play pretty easily to that environment. The whole album is really.” Though the band are currently experiencing a creative renaissance, it wasn’t that long ago that they felt as though they were running low on steam, unable to produce much fruitful work. “We had a very busy first decade of our life with the band and then we had periods where we felt maybe we were treading on old ground,” says Laffer. “We live creative lives and it’s not always about music, some of the guys do art. I’m the same. It’s really about the energy and the time. It’s about when we feel like we have something to say. For me it might be a certain pile of lyrics that comes along and that’s the time to work. We’ve been really busy at certain times but it’s only from a careerist perspective. Sometimes you veer off but we use our instruments to create when the time is right.” As Laffer tells it, “veering off ” from songwriting and embarking on other endeavours was necessary for the The Panics’ musical wellbeing and ultimately assisted the fresh, funky new feel of Hole BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30
In Your Pocket. “A painter might not always want to be working on another oil painting, so for me, I spent a couple of years working on stories, working on a book. It’s just a thing that can take up my time. You realise you’re gravitating toward things that aren’t writing songs, you have no choice in the matter but to appease what your overall sense of wellbeing requires.” Laffer is fascinated by the interest others show towards his writing habits, and speaks in tones of amused disbelief when discussing how he crafts songs. “People want to know how you write stuff. They’re always curious about how it comes about for me. It’s such a loose mysterious thing, most songwriters hardly remember the song coming together. It’s a lifestyle of writing a bit and meditating then suddenly you’re drifting off. You can find yourself talking about it but it never feels quite right.” To that end, Laffer allows inspiration to lead him rather than the other way around, and particularly while writing Hole In Your Pocket felt it was important to take the most relaxed attitude possible. That kind of effortlessness has manifested itself powerfully on the record, one that reeks of a kind of unforced ease. “In some ways it was about avoiding [our] normal struggles. The way we found of making it was to write and record it in the backshed of one our houses. It was all about zero struggle, zero pressure. It was about recording those first takes and being happy with the vocal, not cringing at what we were creating. There was no part of it that was a struggle. “I don’t really tolerate struggle these days. The only time people struggle is when they are trying to make hits, with unfair pressure on them. Making noise, there’s no struggle in that.” THE PANICS will play Howler on Saturday October 15. Hole In Your Pocket is out now via Dew Process/ UMA.
Take the poor reception that dogs Julia Jacklin’s call with Beat as a sign of her meteoric shot to fame, then. Though the songwriter is Sydney-based, she’s currently on an international tour, travelling from radio sessions to sold-out gigs, cultivating a devoted fanbase in the process. “I don’t know where we are, actually,” Jacklin says. “We’re on a bus, on our way to –” A shriek of static makes her destination indiscernible. But regardless of where she’s heading, one thing’s for sure – Jacklin’s tour diary has been intense, the kind of schedule that would have even the most road-hardened muso turning green at the gills. Doesn’t it get exhausting touring for months on end? “It’s only been a month,” Jacklin says. “It just feels like months. I’m not sure how I keep the energy up on tour. It’s a mysterious thing. I think I’m running on a general kind of energy. I bet when I come home I’ll just need a week to recover.” Over that same month Jacklin has played easily the biggest shows of her career, sharing stages with golden-voiced troubadour Marlon Williams and making appearances at renowned events like Turf, a Canadian festival where, adorably, her set was reviewed by a seven-year-old critic employed for a one-off review at Noisey, who gave Jacklin a perfect ten out of ten rating. Given the sheer scale of the shows Jacklin is now playing, does the spectre of stage fright
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still haunt her? “I still get nervous,” she says. “It’s usually just the first song. That’s the one that I’m usually shaking a bit during. But it also depends what kind of show it is. And it can come at really surprising times. I’ll play to huge audiences and I’ll be fine, and then I’ll play to tiny audiences and I’ll get the head spin and I’ll freak out for a moment. I’m a lot better than I was a while ago. There’s nothing like playing every night for a month to get you over the nerves.” Ultimately, the feedback Jacklin has received from her shows so far has been ecstatic – her debut album Don’t Let The Kids Win has only just come out and already
A D D I C T
BY ADAM NORRIS
I was born in Bulli, a few suburbs north of Wollongong, and when Jordie Lane sings “She’s a black diamond from Bulli” on his new album, Glassellland, well, it’s like he’s known me all my life. Sure, he might have got the genders confused, but you can’t blame such a busy guy. Take that song, Black Diamond. While it was begun there in NSW, it was finished on a distant toilet in Tennessee. Lane is no stranger to roaming the lands in search of song, but given the rigours of cutting an album, his boots aren’t quite their usual dusty selves. “They’re not as dusty as they have been,” Lane agrees. “But only because we realised ‘OK, need to make a record,’ and that the problem was spending way too much time being totally addicted to being on the road and touring. I could write songs on the road, but getting into the space to pull an album together and record it was impossible. Finally, late last year we had a little gap in the States and put aside all November, but that was the first time we sat down to start B E AT.C O M . A U
writing and recording. We’ve had a couple of small tours in Canada, Australia and the US, but nowhere near as much as we used to. That gave us the time to really spend as much of it making this album. Which was really cool, but also scary at first. To put on that other hat, because I hadn’t done that for real since 2011 when the last full length came out. Now that’s all I want to do. Be in these little cubbyhouse studios and hide in there making sounds.”
fans have the lyrics memorised. Indeed, it’s that kind of reception that gives Jacklin life and allows her to survive her punishing tour schedule – though she admits it’s not always easy to get a sense of. “It’s what makes you or breaks you – whether or not people are responding well to it, and are engaged,” Jacklin says. “That’s what makes a good show for me, that crowd feedback – if people are loud after every song, I think,” she continues. “But it’s also about whether, for me, if I enjoy myself. Whether or not I’m out of my own head for the majority of the performance. That’s what I walk away with. “You don’t always enjoy yourself onstage all the time – sometimes you’re too far in your own mind, or you’re stressing about everything. Or you’ve seen like, two people walk out of the gig, and that flares up your anxiety. Sometimes it’s really hard to tell whether you’ve played well: sometimes you play shows and you think that everybody hates it, and then afterwards you get the best feedback that you’ve ever gotten.” JULIA JACKLIN will play Howler on Thursday November 24, Paradise Music Festival at Lake Mountain Alpine Resort running from Friday November 25 until Sunday November 27 and Queenscliff Music Festival running from Friday November 25 until Sunday November 27.
Touring’s a beguiling lifestyle to call home, thriving on the momentum, on the applause. In some ways it’s like a drug; one which must be abruptly weaned off when it comes time to settle into the studio. “It’s completely, hugely addictive, and it’s not the real world. That makes it like a drug. First you get addicted to the movement, of having a real reason to get out of bed in the morning. I’ve always struggled with that,” he says. “I should have more respect for myself and others around me that I should get up on time anyway – but having a plane to catch gets me up, and I get a real rush from that. And then getting that instant gratification from an audience, whether that’s 5,000 people on a festival stage, or five people in a bar. You feed off that praise. I’m a sucker for attention and for seeking approval. So it’s been hard to come off that drug. “We got really good at touring, knowing how to get through security quickly, weight allowances, little tricks like that. Coming off the road and recording was daunting, because there’s not that fast-paced adrenalin rush.” Glasselland is not only the culmination of five years of writing and refining; it also marks a shift in the way Lane composes. A solitary writer by nature, here he’s been joined by Claire Reynolds. The result is not a breakaway from a sound he’s spent a lifetime developing; it’s an evolution. “A lot is still storytelling, is still folk and blues driven. But quite a bit of it has a different stylistic sound. The live shows are going to feel a bit more rock’n’roll. But I think the storyteller always wins. I’ve worked years finding my voice, and telling those stories through that and through my style of guitar picking, and I’ve worked really hard on that. But in the end, I hope it’s the stories that are more important to people.” JORDIE LANE AND THE SLEEPERS will play Queenscliff Music Festival running from Friday November 25 until Sunday November 27. Glassellland is out now via Blood Thinner Records / MGM.
ALICE IVY D A N C I N G
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BY PHOEBE ROBERTSON
Alice Ivy, AKA Annika Schmarsel, is Melbourne’s latest indie electro pop offering. Adding to the incredible selection of female talent currently emerging around the country, Schmarsel has already appeared on some of Australia’s most notorious stages. At just 23-years-old the beatmaker, guitarist and vocalist possess a live presence and sense of professionalism far beyond her years.
GLEN HANSARD F I N D I N G
T H I N G S
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BY ADAM NORRIS
I feel you and I know each other well enough to speak openly about certain things, and if you’re unfamiliar with Glen Hansard, you really need to get your life in order. You could know him from his role in Once (which nabbed him Best Song at the Oscars) or in The Commitments. You could know him as the frontman of The Frames, or from The Swell Season, and none of this even touches on the exceptional strength of his solo career. Suffice to say, there are so many avenues into Hansard’s oeuvre, and once you start walking them you’ll never turn back. For a man whose life is so often on the road, it’s rather fitting he’s so keen to invite us on the journey. “Touring is such a strange, nomadic thing,” Hansard says, “It’s a fascinating existence, and when I think about it, it seems to be everything I hoped it would be. When I think back to the sixteen-year-old Glen, who had a wish to play music and was busking every day, everything now seems exactly where I would have it. The path to it hasn’t exactly been what I imagined. Touring, it feels like a wonderful thing. To go to Australia and be fairly confident that there are people who are wanting to hear what you have to say, it changes the relationship of what you do. “You might go into a small town in the middle of Spain and play for 300 people, and the next night be in Vienna playing for 3,000. You need to constantly be readjusting your expectations, and at the same time staying true to what you do. If I’m searching, doing my thing, and doing it for real, and somebody else has the opportunity to catch something, that’s real to them. But if I’m just going up there every night and doing a show, then it’s just entertaining. Which isn’t vacuous, but it also isn’t that interesting for me. If I catch myself doing that, which I do sometimes, just being the singing, dancing monkey, then I have to remember, ‘Fuck, that’s not good enough.’ You have to find the centre of your song again, and if you can’t, then you’re really in trouble.” Look no further than Say It To Me Now or Bird of Sorrow, and the scope of his catalogue for proof of the power of Hansard’s voice. Chief among the reasons many rate Hansard as a musician is that the quality of songwriting hasn’t dipped as his career has advanced. Innumerable artists find their peak early and then dip to a steady plateau, and that fear of running out of things to say is never far away. “The bottom of the keg is something every single musician fears and at some point probably reaches. The point where you really have nothing more to report, or the songs you’re writing now are just rehashes of songs you wrote years ago. That shit happens, and that’s the fear. Even talking about it now gives me the heebie-jeebies,”
Hansard says. “I have another record to write now, another [solo] Glen Hansard record I think. I’ve got a couple of ideas, a couple of orphans scrambling around. They don’t look like much. They might dress up lovely when I put a band on them, or I might try them out acoustic and see how they stand up skinny warts and all. But you can’t just switch it on. I’m not the kind of person who wakes up in the morning, makes coffee and sits down at the piano. It’s very hard to call yourself a songwriter, because there is no mastery in it. You’re constantly being surprised by it, there is no formula. Someone asked me to give a few days of a class on songwriting in Ireland, and I had to ask myself how it’s done, and there’s no answer.” Talking with Hansard, you quickly come to suspect that were he to indeed settle on an answer – some simple solution to corral a song into shape – he wouldn’t stay satisfied for long. Part of the craft is the struggle, the efforts to turn over distant stones and find fresh perspective. To that end, his latest album, Didn’t He Ramble, is rather telling. “I think every artist goes through that. You lose perspective, and I think that’s the one thing you hang on to in your life as a creative person. Do I believe this? That should be your criteria. If I believe it, then that’s all that should matter,” he says. “Some songs, when you finish them you sincerely think that you nailed something, and a couple of years later suddenly it’s like, “Jesus, I’ve totally lost contact with whatever this was. I don’t believe it anymore, and I don’t believe the guy who’s singing it.” It’s funny when people ask for a song that you’re not believing. That’s a time you’ve got to reckon with yourself. Look, I can do what’s being asked of me here, or I can be true to myself. If you don’t believe it, the best thing you can do is respect it by not singing it at all.” GLEN HANSARD will play the Palais Theatre on Wednesday October 26. Didn’t He Ramble is out now via Anti.
“It hasn’t happened overnight, I worked really hard,” she says. “Back when I was playing in bands, I was never lead singer, I was always in the background playing guitar, getting away with not being in the spotlight. Transitioning from being that background person to being the centre of attention was really difficult because I can be a really self conscious person. “I put 100 per cent into each of my live shows, I walk off stage exhausted and sweaty. I give it everything and a lot of people will say ‘You have so much energy on stage,’ and it’s just me letting out my anxiety about being up there on my own – I just dance it off.” The Melbourne-based performer says that her decision to move towards predominantly digital production techniques has been extremely liberating. “Everything’s computer based now,” says Schmarsel. “It’s such a different territory and I’m still discovering things about it. Electronic music just wasn’t a thing that I ever would’ve thought of doing four years ago. I picked up producing when I had just got into uni and I realised that I could create this large soul sound that I’ve always loved.” After dominating at Brisbane’s BIGSOUND, it’s no surprise that Schmarsel was chosen by triple j Unearthed to appear at this year’s Listen Out Festival. Caught making some crispy chicken when
she answered their call, the local act swears she was genuinely taken back. “A couple of friends called me afterwards and were like ‘Dude was that legit?’ and I was like ‘Yeah that’s exactly what happened,’” she says. “It makes you feel so good knowing you have support from such an awesome music community. It’s nice to know that your music is being valued and listened to and that people enjoy it – that’s what I really want. I chose samples and I write songs that make me feel like I want to party, dance, have a good time with my friends and drink lots of beers.” Establishing her solo alias just over 18 months ago, Schmarsel has already scored some serious airplay with her tracks Touch ft. Georgia Van Etten and Almost Here ft.
FRANK IERO AND THE PATIENCE C E L E B R AT I N G
PAT I E N C E
BY SPENCER SCOTT
Despite his debut solo album being released in 2014, a full Australian tour for Frank Iero and The Patience has been a long time coming. Iero was originally set to bring his project to our shores as part of this year’s ill-fated Soundwave tour, but fate had different plans. “We were going with the intention to bring a full band, and then of course shit happens and it was out of everyone’s control,” he says. “But I thought, ‘I can still go if I want to.’ I wanted to go really bad, so it was like, ‘Fuck it, let’s go.’” Following the bottoming out of Soundwave, Iero put together a makeshift tour comprising of two free in-store acoustic shows. The plan for a quick performance and meet and greet was blown out of the water when over 600 fans wrapped themselves around the block for the opportunity to meet him. “I didn’t really have any expectations about how many people would be there or who would be excited,” Iero says. “I just knew that I was excited. So when we W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
showed up it was shocking, it was such an overwhelmingly beautiful experience.” Frank Iero’s not a man that’s unfamiliar with acts of fanaticism. After all, he spent over a decade playing guitar in My Chemical Romance, one of the most loved and revered bands of the mid ‘00s. Even following the group’s disbanding in 2013, hype and attention has followed the onetime band members’ every move. Indeed, the internet experienced a small explosion on Thursday July 21 when My
Rara. “I listen to a lot of music even when I’m on tour, I seek out little samples that I really love and that I feel could be something bigger,” she says. “That’s how I write. I listen to a lot of music, I collect a lot of stuff and when it feels right I jump into the studio and smash it out. “I love collaborating, there’s so much you can learn from another person. I really vibe how other people feel about a track and creating something together is an awesome thing to achieve. Another vocal is another piece to the puzzle, it’s essentially another instrument that can be used, manipulated and torn apart, sampled and re-sampled.” An invaluable addition to the Melbourne scene, Schmarsel ultimately finds inspiration in the plethora of sound surrounding her, in particular her fellow female acts. “After going to BIGSOUND and meeting people like Woodes, SAATSUMA and Mallrat, all these females that are absolutely kicking goals, I feel like it’s not a pretentious competition. I’m getting the vibe that everyone’s out to help each other and that we’re all in the same boat. That’s’ what I really love about our music community, especially in Melbourne, it’s all family.” ALICE IVY will play Strawberry Fields, held Thursday November 17 until Sunday November 20, Queenscliff Music Festival, taking place from Friday November 25 until Sunday November 27, and NYE On The Hill running from Wednesday December 30 until Sunday January 1.
Chemical Romance released a teaser video featuring the opening piano notes of Welcome To The Black Parade. A wildfire of speculation followed, and eventually the band were forced to clear the air, announcing that the surprise was a tenth anniversary reissue of The Black Parade rather than a reformation. “It probably could have been done a little bit better, to cut down on some confusion,” Iero admits. “It was a little bit shocking, but I also think there’s still a love for that band that is amazing. People get excited any time anything happens. “[For the anniversary edition] we went through old hard drives and old recording stuff. It has a lot that got left on the cutting room floor. The songs that didn’t make the record – it doesn’t mean they’re bad songs. They just weren’t right for the record. It’s nice to have some of these songs come out.” Now that his old band’s release has hit our shores, Iero will be landing in the country to complete a national tour with his new band, Frank Iero and The Patience, formerly known as frnkiero andthe cellabration. Iero argues the moniker change reflects his growing sense of comfort about being his own person, no longer needing to hide behind a bandname. “I’ve learnt a lot about what it is to be a solo artist, or what it is to be a frontman,” Iero says. “I didn’t really need that distraction, thecellabration.” The Australian tour will be the last run of dates before the release of Parachutes, Iero’s second studio album, and one that is a rapid expansion from his debut. “With the first one I wrote the songs and I had no intention of ever having anyone hearing them. I wrote them purely for myself. “For me this is probably the most proud I’ve ever been of anything I’ve ever made. I feel like it’s very rare that you get the opportunity to make a record, or make anything, and I think that maybe this is why I was put here. This was one of those moments, and I feel very fortunate to have that.” FRANK IERO AND THE PATIENCE will play Arrow On Swanston on Wednesday October 12. Parachutes is out Friday October 28 via Cooking Vinyl BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 31
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You know when you’ve lurked someone online for ages and you finally get to see them in person? That’s how it felt to finally see Chastity Belt live after liking pretty much all their Instagram photos for a solid year. Making their Australian debut, the band have well and truly assimilated themselves into the Melbourne scene, cramming in DJ sets, instore appearances and two packed shows at The Curtin into their tour schedule. Psychedelic trip Lalić opened the night with their swirling, immersive set that was high in energy despite the early timeslot. Singer and guitarist Mladen Milinković completely surrendered himself to the music while playing, trashing about and pouring no shortage of emotion into the performance. Batpiss have a band name that would suggest they don’t take themselves too seriously but this certainly wasn’t the case. The three-piece played a thundering set that packed more than one can properly process in just half an hour. A highlight came from a song that mostly involved clapping and screaming on top – it’s simple but it worked. Chastity Belt could be spotted in the crowd throughout the evening so when they did make it onstage it felt as though you were watching a bunch
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In 2016, the legacy of The Saints sits primarily as punk rock originators and innovators of the mid to late 1970s. With the looming shadow of their early singles and albums, particularly the 1977 landmark I’m Stranded and its follow up Eternally Yours, the last 35 years have seen constant lineup changes and forays into various musical avenues. With such a large back catalogue and yet another new lineup assembled by only constant member Chris Bailey, the band’s performance represented all aforementioned facets of the band’s history. Opening with fan-favourite 1978 single Know Your Product, the band quickly asserted their comfort and presence onstage. With You Am I guitarist Davey Lane on lead guitar, the group remained tight and focused throughout. Despite recruiting Lane as a more than capable guitarist, the sheer danger and ferocity of founding guitarist Ed Kuepper’s work was severely lacking. While Bailey’s songwriting was always of a high standard, it doesn’t need to be explained that Kuepper’s manic buzzsaw guitars cemented the band’s place and influence in the punk rock canon, arguably more so than the guitar work of punk contemporaries The Clash or the Sex Pistols. While Lane’s performance was excellent in its own right, such a crucial
CATE LE BON THE TOFF IN TOWN
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Cate Le Bon has always felt like something of a well kept secret here in Australia but a packed out Toff In Town certainly begs to differ. Her new album, Crab Day, centres around a made up holiday which reflects the surrealism that features heavily within her lyrics and live show. Up first was the enchanting Ella Thompson, someone who could easily take the title of most talented and versatile performer in Melbourne. Normally seen fronting Dorsal Fins or as one half of GL, Thompson’s natural energy as a performer makes her a compelling solo artist. It was even more of a treat to see Thompson’s set given that she doesn’t play solo very often,
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element of the band’s sound hasn’t made its way back since Kuepper’s brief reunion with the band in 2009. With such a controlled and professional performance, coupled with a close to two hour set including all the band’s hits and well-known material, plus various deeper cuts and covers from the band’s staggering 16 album discography, the set quickly became predictable as it coasted along. Great songs were great, average songs were average, and the inclusion of some ended up somewhat bizarre (see: cover of Leslie Gore’s It’s My Party featuring Kat Spazzy on guest vocals). With the appeal of the band’s early material, and by extension pub and punk rock in general, manifesting itself through economy and stripping back the unessentials, the drawn out pacing and parent friendly vibe of the set did little to
honour the band’s original methodology of stripping back tired and predictable rock ‘n’roll to its core primal elements. Closing with a double encore of (I’m) Stranded and a hard rocking version of standard River Deep, Mountain High the set ended on a strong high, though not without the crowd’s patience tested with too many acoustic songs to count and a bit too much of Davey Lane’s 12-string guitar noodling. But hey, when you’re one of the most important punk rock bands of all time, you can do whatever you want.
with songs off her stunning debut album performed with a renewed excitement. Thompson’s songwriting has great depth, built around keys driven compositions and her phenomenal vocals. Le Bon was a striking figure onstage with her backing band doing an excellent job of not breaking eye contact as they played. Opening with the rambunctious title track off her new album, Le Bon, while lacking in stage banter, more than made up for it with stage presence, magnetic in her charm as she sang with her delightful Welsh accent coming through. Gliding through album tracks Love Is Not Love which featured some spine tingling harmonies and Wonderful which was equal parts inventive and surreal, Le Bon’s abstract view of the world had the audience completely spellbound and relishing in the opportunity to leave reality for a little while. Are You With Me Now? was light and cheery but had a delicate melancholy
executed so wonderfully by Le Bon it was hard not to get a little teary. She floored with her final song What’s Not Mine as she showed off her shredding skills over an unrelenting drum beat. A quick encore of the Time by Richard Hell and the Voidoids capped the night and served as a final opportunity to witness a rare and unique talent. Le Bon is a visionary and impressively skilled performer and someone who will no doubt continue to do fascinating things within her music.
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The Corner’s stage is an appropriate grimy setting for Canadian rockers Black Mountain, who haven’t graced Melbourne with their presence for seven years. In support, Miles Brown, weaved some dark disco sorcery. Draped in a long black gown, bald head shimmering in the spotlight, pointy elfish ears pricked upright, he wailed away on the theremin like a conductor possessed while mixing his analogue synth.The crowd was beguiled, transported to an alternate reality – inside the computer. The main feature, Black Mountain, were never not going to open with Mothers of the Sun, the first track off their aptly titled 2016 release IV, a record six years between drinks from their previous Wilderness Heart. It’s a slow building corker. The pulsating sonar of the synth and celestial vocals from Amber Webber take the soundscape somewhere into space, only to be brought crashing down to earth by the thunderous guitars of Stephen McBean.
of mates perform. Lead singer Julia Shapiro saddled up to the mic and coyly announced they’d be launching into Drone. The band’s most loved song Cool Slut has become something of an empowering feminist anthem, sung back with so much joy it was quite something. Lydia sums up one’s experiences being young and often under the influence, with the melodic guitar on the track a perfect accompaniment to Shapiro’s blues tinged voice. With choruses that often felt like a call to arms, the set was almost reminiscent of a rally that certainly lifted the mood of the audience who collectively stood back in awe of the band. After an extended outro on Time To Go Home, an encore felt like almost asking too much of the band. Luckily punters were treated to one last song, with Joke a perfect finish to a night of high energy and great vibes. Chastity Belt are definitely right at home here in Melbourne and based off the night’s crowd it was obvious that they’ve been enthusiastically received. While we sadly can’t claim them as our own, our only solace is that there’s always promise of another tour in the hopefully not too distant future. BY HOLLY PEREIRA LOVED: The selection of crop tops available for sale. HATED: The guy who managed to talk louder than a live band. DRANK: A lot of water. It was loud, it was powerful. These two clashes of worlds give Black Mountain their distinct sound – the duel between the wide spanning spatial rhythms of the synth and the vocals, colliding with solid stoner grooves. With IV in particular, it feels like they’ve moved into more of a space rock territory. Their show clearly demonstrating this progression. Their set ploughed on and they played a collection from their four record catalogue with Wucan, Tyrants, and Rollercoaster standouts. The best track off IV, Cemetery Breeding, felt a little off, but lyrics like “Fucking in the graveyard” made up for it. They concluded their regular programming with Space to Bakersfield, IV’s final track, a tightly constructed prog rockout. This is Black Mountain in their element. Their encore is a 20-minute free jazz psych fusion jam session, with Miles Brown returning to the stage on the theremin. It was a little self indulgent, but maybe that’s just because it was 11.30pm on a school night, and ugly sleep was needed. BY LEE SPENCER-MICHAELSEN LOVED: Space to Bakersfield. HATED: CUB. DRANK: Phlegm.
LOVED: Legendary bands in small pubs. HATED: L-shaped bandrooms. DRANK: Coopers Pale Ale.
BY HOLLY PEREIRA LOVED: Pretty much every minute. HATED: That the show didn’t last well into the night. DRANK: A concoction of ginger beer and Korean soju from a coffee cup outside. Very Melbourne. W W W. B E AT.C O M . A U
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RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN 1. Skeleton Tree NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS 2. Don’t Let The Kids Win JULIA JACKLIN 3. My Woman ANGEL OLSEN 4. Death’s Dateless Night PAUL KELLY/CHARLIE OWEN 5. Shmilco WILCO 6. A New Place To Drown ARCHY MARSHALL 7. 22,A Million BON IVER 8. Hq TERRY 9. Around The House CHOOK RACE 10. Heads Up WARPAINT
THE PEEP TEMPEL Joy (Wing Sing)
At first glance, The Peep Tempel’s decision to name their new record Joy seems like a sick joke. After all, this is a band famous for writing the world’s least glamorous love song; a band who tell tales of pathetic gangsters, and the slow, sad dance of divorce. But quite quickly Joy reveals itself to be a distinctly hopeful record. Sure, it’s still full of old drunks, as on Kalgoorie, and semi-veiled, semi-slurred threats, as on the exemplary Constable, but there’s a kind of manic brilliance to the piece too. It’s an adrenaline rush of an album, full of the sticky rush you get after doing something ever-so-slightly illegal, and the punch-a-wall chorus of Totality has
an ear-hooky brilliance solely of its own. Indeed, even when songs wade knee-deep into human filth and stupidity, as on Rayguns, there’s still a grit-yer-teeth dignity about the piece – something that defies evil and comes bloodily birthed into the world with its mangy head held high. After all, the lyric on the record that lingers most is the clenched fist chorus of Neuroplasticity, a song that features the closest thing the Peep Tempel have ever offered to life advice: “Don’t stress / Think about it less.” One of the records of the year? You betcha. BY JOSEPH EARP
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SOLANGE Cranes In The Sky (Sony) Sparse instrumentation clears a direct emotional pathway for Cranes In The Sky, sounding so deceptively simple while each subtle shift resonates with humane impact. It builds such a profound calm, nestle in deep enough and you’ll weep with relief. Really listen, you’ll be rewarded. A Seat At The Table, Solange’s first album in nearly a decade, is a gift. THE STIFFYS I WANT TO GIVE YOU ALL OF MY LOVE AND THEN YOU’LL BE LIKE OOH BABY (Independent) Was expecting a lot shitter due to the overt bro-joke-ness of the presentation, but it’s petered by selfawareness and the fact it sounds pretty decent. The cheerleader kicksnare and noise noodling is dumb as fuck, it’s obnoxious, but still listenable.
WEEZER I Love The USA (Atlantic) Turning to ballad mode, Weezer aim for fireworks satire, but fizzle a touch – Rivers Cuomo doesn’t exactly possess the same lyrical nuance or delivery as Randy Newman. But there’s minor worth in the novel factor, especially with the kinda goofy but harmless Patton Oswalt clip. Not as painless as some recent-ish output, and not too heinous in terms of timing a White Album single for the fuckery of the US election. BRUNO MARS 24K Magic (Warner) This is just a fucking great pop song. Maybe the best outright pop jam of 2016 so far, the kind that will fill wedding reception d-floors for the next 18 months. It’s loose, horny, and fun, Bruno Mars gleefully mines the past, ahead of the curve when it comes to revival. Vocoder
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PBS FM TOP TEN MELBOURNE 1. Joy PEEP TEMPEL 2. Deer Heart TILMAN ROBINSON 3. Middling THE FINKS 4. The Big Sound Of... LIL’ ED AND THE BLUES IMPERIALS 5. Arctic Thunder DARKTHRONE 6. RR7349 S U R V I V E 7. No Exit MARIANNE FAITHFUL 8. Early Times THIGH MASTER 9. Never Twice NICK WATERHOUSE 10. Temples HOLY SERPENT
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On their fourth album Friends, the enigmatic trio from England known as White Lies wrote and recorded without the backing of a label. Instead of seeing this as a negative, they took it as a positive and recorded without deadlines, budget or the need for record company approval. The result of this experiment is a polished album filled with highlights, which was well worth the wait. From album opener Take It Out On Me, White Lies hit their stride and never look back, their sad but also somehow happy trademark sound is in full flight from the outset. Summer Didn’t Change A Thing is a single custommade to be belted out with about 800 others packed into the Corner Hotel with an amazingly soaring chorus flying over solid instrumentation that’s consistent across every track. Each song that sounds like a sad song turns out to be uplifting and vice versa, White Lies pulling off this magic trick again and again. Lyrically this album can’t help but make you wonder just how many heartbreaks these three guys have experienced, with almost every song dwelling on the topic of the pain of lost love. Track titles such as Don’t Want To Feel It All and Is My Love Enough? all tackle the issue, with the aforementioned Summer Didn’t Change A Thing being the worst offender of all. Outside the song topics, the vocal builds are awe inspiring, with the only knock on the album being that perhaps the big vocal build up is a touch overused, but it’s a minor gripe as it’s only noticeable if you listen to the album front to back. Overall this is a fantastic record, and if I was White Lies new label I wouldn’t give them a deadline at all for their next album, because if that means more albums like this, then that’s surely what’s best for business.
With Green Day’s 12th full length studio album, they’ve done their best to cement their legacy as one of the great, if not the greatest, pop punk bands of this generation. Even more so, Green Day are trying to get back on track after the letdown that was their triple album release ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!. With Revolution Radio, they do a solid job of achieving this. We all know that Green Day are capable of some game changing classic albums (think Dookie and American Idiot), and while Revolution Radio doesn’t reach those lofty heights, it isn’t something that should be ignored completely. Green Day have corrected their course and have gone back to their quick, punchy, political punk rock roots. Lead single Bang Bang makes it as clear as possible that the band are going back to what has worked in the past. It’s three minutes of catchy pop punk with a distinct political message about mass gun violence in America. To say it’s reminiscent of American Idiot is an understatement. The solo that Tré Cool rips out towards the end of Bang Bang deserves a mention as does the rest of his work on this album. The drumming is as immense as ever, and the argument that his incredible punk grooves are what make Green Day great is now a very easy one to make. Final track Ordinary World is an acoustic call back to some of the softer Green Day songs everyone has grown to love and a pretty soothing touch to close out the LP. Overall this album is a reminder that Green Day aren’t dead yet. It isn’t a genre defining classic, but it’s a respectable entry into a very respectable catalogue. BY NATHAN QUATTRUCCI
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Lisa Mitchell’s last effort Bless This Mess had its moments but lacked cohesion. Warriors, on the other hand, has a firm sense of direction and purpose. The album opens with The Boys, a fizzy song about friendship and hardcore crushing. The theme of coming-of-age in a small town continues on the dreamy title track as she croons “We were the kids of the country/ Keeping it real in the suburbs.” While she openly set out to make a record one can dance too, the electronic elements are not overpowering and do not weigh down her songwriting. The grooves are gentle but retain their rhythm, starting as the sturdy beat of Warhol breaks apart the shimmery arrangement. This movement continues on the hazy I Remember Love and the darker So Wild. While the album has deviated onto the path of pop stylings, there are plenty of returning motifs. The production works well with her signature vocals, melding beautifully with the underlying airy atmosphere. The storytelling is strong, Mitchell bringing in seemingly mundane details to etch out feelings and situations, and her songwriting style continues to shine through with the new sound. This being said, the stripped acoustic goodness of What Is Love is a welcome return to her roots, clarifying the mix with a some variety. And of course it wouldn’t feel like an authentic Lisa Mitchell record if there wasn’t some reference to magical beings, done so on Unraveling. It isn’t all sweet love – the handclaps of Where You Are are too twee to transform its blandness and its follow-up further dulls the movement of the record. Overall, Warriors is comfortable yet fresh, further embedding the musical persona of Mitchell.
The pacifying dream pop sound that Melbourne trio Arbes brought to light off the back of their admirable first EP Swimmer is marginally adapted in their second release Psalms. Remembrances of Warpaint or Alpine’s less electronic debut album spring to mind when listening to the seven track EP, but Arbes have captured something more melancholic. Jess Zanoni’s delicate vocals take us on a purposeful journey in Sintra buoyed by a wistful guitar riff which takes a number of turns before paving way for an echoic synth outro. Follow Towards opens with a similarly eerie synth, distantly mimicking the ebbing and flowing tide. It’s largely instrumental but a defining message is established; a readiness to move on from past adversities shines through what is a solemn beginning. Sun On My Back instantly has you grooving from its bouncy bassline and drum beat. The track explores the difficulty of accepting that something is finished which can, in turn, incite old emotions. The electric guitar is absent in No Home To Know, a refreshingly unhurried number embodying Arbes’ strikingly tranquil sound. The title track features profound metaphors and emanates the decision to move forward without waiting for tardily acquaintances. The verses are supported by a leisurely-paced rhythm but everything culminates into the final chorus. Zanoni’s plea to her significant other is embellished with despair, almost desperation, as she condemns them of their wrongdoing. The final track Flutuar is an ambient soundtrack ruminating the EP’s dominant message – accept change and don’t be afraid to move on. Arbes could be categorically considered a bedroom pop outfit however Psalms is a celebration of a more easy listening, languid sound than their debut EP, which delved, at times, into shoegaze territory.
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Sticky Fingers’ third album is one that very nearly never happened. After a cancelled European tour, one band member in rehab, and another in a psych ward, it seemed as through a break-up was on the horizon. Luckily for the rest of us, the band got back in the studio to record Westway (The Glitter and The Slums), an album which has almost no trace of the troubles that nearly led to it never happening. A very chill vibe permeates every tune, but never so chill that you can’t break out into a quick jive if you feel so inclined, and the odd upbeat track almost makes it hard not to. What makes Sticky Fingers different to your average indie rock group is that damn sexy synthesiser work that is in its finest form on this album. Giving every song a hip swaying edge is something that makes Sticky Fingers stand out from the crowd. The synth and vocals work in excellent harmony, and added vocal effects are present on most tracks. Some parts tread the fine line between cool effects and being overproduced but never really cross it, which is good because it’s a trap so many other groups are falling freely into these days. Westway (The Glitter and The Slums) is a good album from a band who’ve overcome quite a bit in order to still be together, let alone release solid work. A great choice for anyone who wants a chilled rock album with the option to dance (and potentially leave their friends behind). Hopefully the boys can stay out of trouble and continue their rise, as Westway is a great starting point.
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In all, 2016 hasn’t been a great year in the annals of music history. It’s easy to feel a little despondent, and anxious for 2017 to wipe the slate clean. But before you go hitching your wagon to the new year, there’s something you just have to hear. Beth Hart has been steadily dropping albums since the ‘90s, and goddamn if Fire on the Floor isn’t her best yet. A lot of albums purport to take you on a journey – sailing through various genres and tempos, pushing and pulling, the whole fire and ice game. But it’s a rare gem that makes you feel that you’ve actually arrived somewhere new. These songs are so seductive and well-crafted that it’s outright jarring to move on to something else. Album opener, Jazzman, is a deceptively straight-forward jazz fusion number, a jaunty intro into the smoky decor of Club Hart, but once that voice hits its stride you know you’re in for a hell of a ride. Skip back and forth across the album - Coca Cola to Fat Man, for instance – and it isn’t just the versatility of tone that leaves you impressed. It’s almost as though Hart has access to a wardrobe of different voices; unmistakably her, but put to strikingly different use from track to track. Hart has an earthy timbre that can suddenly leap to such soaring, searing notes you can just about feel them. Look no further than the epic Love Is A Lie. At times Hart’s lyrics might not hit their mark. But it would take a petulant ear not to get caught up in the energy and exuberance on offer. There’s still a few months left of 2016 and Fire on the Floor has a good shot at being one of the year’s top releases.
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OSCAR GALT & THE EVENTUAL SOMETHINGS
C HER RY BAR Oscar Galt & The Eventual Somethings have been proving they are most definitely something, with their residency at the renowned Cherry Bar. The noisy rockers have been whipping through some blistering sets, and on Wednesday October 12 they will be joined by Face Face and Latreenagers. Entry is meagre $5 at 8pm.
THURSDAY 13 OCT
JOHNNY DANGER
JARROW
GIG GUIDE
THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ PIERRE BARONI
T H E TOT E Jarrow is celebrating his new album 2003 Dream, recently re-released through Barely Dressed/Remote Control. With four weeks of packing out the front of The Tote, it’ll be a bit stuffy but the music will sure as hell make up for it. Thursday October 13 sees Woo Who’s Rhys Renwick showcase tunes from his solo project, Rhysics and rock‘n’roll group Fuzzsucker. Entry is 100% free with doors at 8pm.
Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.
GYMNASTICS IN THE SEVENTIES + TALL MAHONEY +
WH OL E LOT TA LOV E Johnny Danger are not afraid to unleash some dirty rock’n’roll, and that’s exactly what they’ll be doing at Whole Lotta Love on Thursday October 13. Upping the ante for the night are supports Lazarus Mode and CASH. It’s free entry, so just potter down and check ’em out for yourself. Have yourself there by 8pm and you’re golden.
THE SYNCOPATORS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
WEATHERBOARDS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North
8:30pm. $20.00.
Melbourne. 7:30pm. $5.00.
BEN CARR TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
VINYL VIXENS - FEAT: SOUTHSIDE + MISS GABRIELLE + MORE
HEXIS + WHITEHORSE + SIBERIAN HELL SOUND + S DIPLOID +
8:00pm. $20.00.
Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
ASH MOUTH Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.
BURIED COUNTRY - FEAT: ROGER KNOX + AURIEL ANDREW + L.J. HILL
ASTRA SKULLS + TUFF WHIPETT + SHRIMPWITCH + OVERTIME
HYDE + WA?STE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $39.00.
Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $8.00.
KODIAK GALAXY + SEX PILLS + CASTILLES + TIME ROBB Tote
CAFE DO SAMBA - FEAT: WOMBATUQUE + ENNIO STYLES + MORE
AWAKEN I AM + THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT Musicland,
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.
Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
Fawkner. 7:30pm.
KUDOS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.
CISCO CEASAR Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
COLOURDAZED + BOND STREET VANDALS + SAINT HENRY + BILL
LACUNA COIL Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $65.30.
DJ KNAVE KNIXX Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.
LILLY KANE + BODIES + MCUK + SCHEDULE Grace Darling
HETTY KATE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
COMMON PEOPLE Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.
8:00pm. $30.00.
DEATH TO BABYLON VARIETY EXORCISM - FEAT: VIATICUM +
LIME CORDIALE + HEY GERONIMO + IV LEAGUE Northcote
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL - FEAT: BENOÎT CHAREST + PETER
MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 8:00pm.
Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $12.00.
KNIGHT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $29.00.
DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + WIRE BIRD + THE BEAUFORTS Evelyn
LOVE LIVE MUSIC - FEAT: THE DELTA RIGGS + PIERCE BROTHERS
MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe,
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.
+ THE PRETTY LITTLES + THE VANNS + MORE The Melbourne
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FELICITY CRIPPS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
Cricket Ground, Richmond. 2:00pm. $55.00.
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD FISHER + 6AM AT
$5.00.
MAX MANNIX DJS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
THE GARAGE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
GOOD LOVIN' - FEAT: TOTAL CURE DJS Boney, Melbourne Cbd.
MELODY POOL & PETER BIBBY Workers Club (geelong),
MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: BRIAN MULLDOON Daveys Bar &
9:00pm.
Geelong. 8:00pm. $17.85.
Restaurant, Frankston. 10:00am. $17.00.
THE CHOPPS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO + TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. THE KUJO KINGS + MAVERICK & THE BEAN PROJECT Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
LUCIE THORNE
GOOD NATURE #6
TH E RE TRE AT Contemporary Australian songsmith Lucie Thorne is swinging by The Retreat on Thursday October 13. Joined by her full band, Thorne will have you riding the waves of her haunting, atmospheric soundscapes. Expect material from her 11 albums, alongside a few new treasures. Free entry, music from 8.30pm.
T H E E V E LYN Good Nature is bringing a few people to share some stories with you on Thursday October 13 in some of the most interesting forms possible. Stories are coming from the likes of Rita Revel, Dorado and Isabella Mason. Get down to The Evelyn for a night of soundscapes, space and raw dance. Doors are at 8.30pm with entry being pocket change at just $5.
Q&A
BREAKAWAY You latest single, Restart feels very emotionally charged, what feelings does it evoke? It’s a song very close to my heart. It’s about letting go of the past and finding happiness again. A lot can happen when you learn to let go and allow yourself to be happy and to me that song is a reminder of where I came from to where I am now. You’ve been very open about tackling mental illness. How do you explore such powerful themes and share such moments with the world? The only true way to connect with people about important issues like mental illness is to be 100% truthful and vulnerable, as people can sense when it’s fake. What about music do you believe allows for presenting such candid discussion? As a platform for expression, it’s the most pure in the way that it transcends language and cultural barriers. Great artists can communicate an emotion or idea really effectively via their sonic choices. You’ve toured with the likes of Anberlin, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Hands Like Houses. Do you find touring with other bands alters or reaffirms the way that you create? I feel like we have learnt new ways and perspectives to tackle songs that we might be having difficulty with, but I wouldn’t say it’s changed the way we write. The way we write is what makes a song sound like a Breakaway song. BREAKAWAY will play Wrangler Studios on Friday October 14 and Workers Club on Saturday October 15
BAR WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER
OPEN MIC
Show the Boogie Man what you’ve got!
THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER
THE RUBY ROGERS EXPERIENCE MATT STILLERT (SA) GARRY ALLEN FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER
SILVERHAIR ONE 2 MANY SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER
GAYLE CANANAGH
& the MIXED COMPANY BAND SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
POWERHOUSE BLUES BAND SIGN (TAS) THE BOOGIE MAN ALLSTARS WITH OUT OF THE BLUE AFTER WORK HAPPY HOUR FROM 5PM:
WED, THURS & FRI 160 HODDLE ST ABBOTSFORD
A L S O O N L I N E AT B E AT.C O M . A U / G I G - G U I D E
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Q&A
GIG GUIDE ABLAZE
DREAMCOAT What’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? I’m Kieran, I write the music, sing and play guitar, and also control the band’s currently thriving herb garden. How would you describe your sound? People love to say we sound like Local Natives, Radiohead and Grizzly Bear, which is flattering. What do you love about making music? Twisting the arms of pop structures and conventions until they submit and work with how I create music. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be? Claude Debussy. I think our music, or any music from today would completely perturb him, it’d be so foreign that I’d get a rush just watching him react to it sonically. If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it? Popular music has its place and is well loved by a lot of people, however, if something like death were to come knocking on Iggy Azalea’s door I wouldn’t mind. What can a punter expect from your live show? Good honest live indie/alternative pop. We’re in the midst of reshaping the live show and the EP launch will be the first step towards that. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Our recently released debut EP Sleeping Through Tempests. Any parting words? I’m better at guitar than Brayden.
LABJACD
TH E B.E A S T Melbourne-based band LABJACD (pronounced “lab-jacked”) is a huge nine-piece outfit. Formed in 2004, they built up an impressive reputation for their exhilarating mix of old school hiphop, salsa, jazz and even Andean folk music. Singing and MCing in both English and Spanish, the group’s three vocalists all share a Chilean heritage. On Friday October 14, the group head to The B.East after spending a bit of time in the studio. Enjoy a burger and their fiery new tunes to kick start your weekend. Music starts at 9.30pm, free entry.
THE GLORIOUS NORTH + DJ MERMAID Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet, West
THE HORNETS
WH O LE LOT TA LOV E Ablaze are set to be getting all kinds of hot and heavy at Whole Lotta Love on Friday October 14. Recent single Pick Your Poison has continued to make a stir since dropping in March, and their live show is hard to beat. Supports are Eightball Junkies, One More Weekend and The Beggar’s Way. Entry is $10 and it gets started at 8pm.
THE RETRE AT The Hornets are made up of a swag of Aussie roots legends, including ARIA Hall of Fame member, Jeff Burstin. On Saturday October 15 they’ve got your afternoon entertainment sorted, with a free gig at The Retreat. Get down at 5pm to enjoy some world-class blues in the jewel of Brunswick.
JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
DOZEYS Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
JASPORA The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FEMINIST FUTURES (SATURDAY NIGHT SHOWCASE) - FEAT:
LILLY TUNLEY SEXTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
WAHE + BAHDOESA + NETTI + DJ SOVEREIGN TRAX + BROOKE
8:30pm. $25.00.
POWERS Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $12.00.
MANDACARU Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
GOLD CLASS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL - FEAT: BENOÎT CHAREST + PETER
GRINDHOUSE + WRONG TURN + BATHURST Tote Hotel,
KNIGHT Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $29.00.
Collingwood. 5:00pm.
THE FCKUPS
I WANNA BE ADORED - FEAT: KIDS AT MIDNIGHT Stone Hotel,
T H E B R U NS WI C K H OT E L The Brunswick Hotel have been putting up some killer Saturday afternoon shows of late, to get you nice and toasty all day long. On Saturday October 15, those crazy punks the The Fckups will be joined by Traumaboys, Deadbeat Club, The Out of Towners, Molasses, Defects, The Mackinaw Peaches and Pug Williams. Kicks off 2pm, and it’s free. So we recommend nabbing a spot early.
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF SURF + CHILLERS +
Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
JACK & THE KIDS + BIG CREATURE + ALEXANDER BIGGS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
JEN CLOHER & THE ENDLESS SEA + EMMA RUSSACK BAND + JADE IMAGINE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $25.00.
KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.
Melbourne. 6:00pm.
MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
8:00pm. $23.00.
U Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
2:00pm. $10.00.
KISSTROYER + SISTERS DOLL Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
SATURDAY 15 OCT SPACEJUNK
PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm.
$25.00.
SOUL CAVE COLLECTIVE - FEAT: SUPAHLOVE + WILDER GENES +
GRINDHOUSE
TH E RE T R E AT Spacejunk have thus far taken no prisoners for their jaunt at The Retreat over October. On Friday October 14, they’re bringing along yet another fabulous special guest, in the form of Tropical Deadbeats. Have yourself a raucous start to the weekend, and catch them at 9.30pm. Entry is free, so save your coins for some bevs.
PARTY ON MY DARLING + TIN ROOF Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. THE FOX SOUNDTRACK - FEAT: ELLIE YOUNG + JOSIE SMART + MORE Fox Hotel (collingwood), Collingwood. 8:30pm. THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.
THE GLASS MOON Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm.
THE TOTE Reservoir’s most celebrated proto-punk rock party band hit the Tote front bar this Saturday October 15 as part of their month long residency. They’ve rallied together some super hot/sexy bands to celebrate heavy drinking and high impact aerobic sports. On support duties this week are Bathurst and Wrong Turn. Doors are nice and early at 5pm, with entry for free.
ALÁRÌÍYÁ - FEAT: ALARIIYA + HEADPHONES JONES + MIHRA
$16.00.
KNIFE HANDS + UNCLE GEEZER + DREXLER Last Chance Rock
Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $8.00.
THE MELTDOWN Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $5.00.
BAROQUE BRILLIANCE - FEAT: AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER
8:00pm. $25.00.
KUCHI KOPI + NATIVE SPIRIT Karova Lounge, Ballarat.
ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm.
THE OUTPOST - FEAT: DJ WHISKEY HOUSTON + MR WEIRM +
9:00pm. $10.00.
T HE BRUNSWICK HOTE L Me-Graines are headlining the Brunny on Friday October 14 with support from a ragtag bunch of musicians known as Swhat, Shockwaves, Sarge & The Nuked and The Second Sex. It’s a dirty, good oldfashioned fuzzy rock ‘n’ roll fest to end your working week the right way. Doors are at 8pm and for entry you don’t have to pay a cent. Everybody wins.
$45.00.
MZRIZK Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $15.00.
LITTLE MURDERS + THE JANGLE BAND + BILL TOLSON Yarra
BRENNAN HAMILTON SMITH QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe,
TIGERMOTH + AOI + WALLA C + MORE Loop, Melbourne Cbd.
Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. $10.00.
Fitzroy. 6:00pm.
9:00pm.
METAL UNITED DOWN UNDER - FEAT: FRANKENBOK + ELM
CLANCYE MILNE QUINTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club,
WENDY STAPLETON Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 8:00pm.
STREET + HARLOTT + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.
$23.00.
4:00pm. $20.00.
DEBRA LAVELLE & BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
AUSMUTEANTS + CONSTANT MOGREL + TOL Catfish, Fitzroy.
MONTAIGNE + BEC SANDRIDGE + WOODES Corner Hotel,
LAZY EYE Rose Gpo Hotel, Rosebid. 8:30pm.
9:30pm.
8:30pm. $10.00.
Richmond. 8:30pm.
LEAH FLANAGAN Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd.
DJ MOJO JUJU The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.
BAG OF NAILS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.
OUT ON THE WEEKEND - FEAT: MARLON WILLIAMS & THE YARRA
12:45pm.
DJ SABO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
BANG - FEAT: RONNIE RADKE (DJ) + THE ROCK SHOW + CAUTION
BENDERS + ROBERT ELLIS + LINDI ORTEGA + MORE Seaworks,
LOUIE & THE PRIDE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
DJ STEELY ANN Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
THIEVES + KIDS IN CONTROL Royal Melbourne Hotel,
Williamstown. 12:00am. $99.00.
MAX TEAKLE & FRIENDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
HAPPY HOUSE Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne. 8:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00.
OXJAM FOR A COW Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.
5:30pm.
$30.00.
CAMERON HOLMES & THE BLUE DUDES + THE BROKEN
$10.00.
DREAMCOAT will play The Workers Club, with Plastic and James Teague, on Friday October 14.
ME-GRAINES
MICHAEL CHARLES Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.
INCONSOLABLE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
SWEETHEARTS + SILKY DIGITS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
REWIND '80S Commercial Hotel (sth Morang), Morang
$28.00.
7:00pm. $25.00.
East. 8:00pm. $10.00.
South. 8:00pm.
CHILD + TTTDC Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
RIFFBOURNE FESTIVAL - FEAT: THE DEADLIPS + CHASING LANA
$13.00.
+ CITY AT MIDNIGHT + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
DAVID BOWIE - NOTHING HAS CHANGED - FEAT: ADALITA +
6:30pm. $18.00.
NICOLE MILLAR
N O R T H COTE SOCIAL CLU B Australian songswriter Nicole Millar is swinging by Northcote Social Club on Friday October 14. After lending her ethereal vocals to impressive acts such as Peking Duk, Cosmo’s Midnight and What So Not, Millar is now stepping out on her own. Supports on the night are Tigerilla and Zuri Akoko. Tickets via Ticketscout, or $15 on the door if available. The fun starts at 8.30pm.
SHANNON NOLL Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington. 8:00pm. $40.00.
THE BEAN PROJECT Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
RON S PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS
T HE F LYING SAUCER C LU B Fresh from touring France, Ron S Peno and his band The Superstitions will be heating things up at The Flying Saucer Club on Friday October 14. Rounding out the saucy night comes all-star outfit Joey’s Coop. Have a feed first and rock up at 6pm, or head down at 8pm just for the music. Tickets on sale via the venue. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40
DEBORAH CONWAY + TIM ROGERS + MORE Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $79.00.
UNITED GRRRLS TO THE FRONT
TH E OL D B A R This Saturday October 15 at The Old Bar, a fundraising event for Georgina Martina Women’s Refuge is going down. Sexual harassment and violence has no place at shows. In light of recent events within our music community, as well as the #ittakesone campaign by Camp Cope and Poison City Records, Whisk & Key, have been inspired to put on two shows over two nights that aim to raise money for the Georgina Martina Women’s Refuge ± a charity that assists survivors of domestic violence. The night’s killer lineup consists of Batz, Hockey Babes, Face Face, Miss Miss and Red Light Riot. Doors are at 8.30 with entry just $10 for an important cause.
PAINTERS & DOCKERS
M A X WAT T ’S 80’s punk outfit Painters and Dockers are doing something a little different at Max Watt’s on Saturday October 15. They’re bringing along the Burundian Traditional Dance Troupe to share the stage with them to share some absolutely wicked drumming. Have your mind blown when doors open at 8pm. Tickets available through the venue.
MELBOURNE’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE GIG GUIDE
BREAKAWAY
THE WORKERS CLUB Sydney pop-rock quintet Breakaway will be making their long-awaited return with their brand new single, Restart. Restart follows their wildly successful 2014 single Invincible. The four-piece launch the new track on Saturday October 15 at The Workers Club, employing the sounds of Distances and Stansbury to warm up the night. Inventions are also on board, celebrating their cracker of an EP Exist, Explore. Set up camp at 8.30pm, tickets are $14.
GIG GUIDE GRAND WAZOO
GUN BARREL STRAIGHTS + EATEN BY DOGS + THE DRUNKEN
T H E F LYING SAUCER CLU B The kings of Australian soul are soaring into The Flying Saucer Club on Saturday October 15. You best show up ready to boogie, as it’s impossible not to once the six horns and four rhythm players get cranking. It’s happening for one night only, tickets available via the venue. Set your watch for 6pm if you want to grab some dinner first, or rock up at 8pm for general standing.
POACHERS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm. $10.00. JABEN AUDIO HEAD PHONE FESTIVAL - FEAT: NAI PALM + MAN MADE MOUNTAIN + DEAR PLASTIC + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. $35.00.
JOSHUA SEYMOUR + NATHAN SEECKTS Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
RIVAL FIRE + CHASING GHOSTS + THE DIECASTS + THE IRON EYE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
ROYAL PARADE + AVA & MIA + THE DÉJÀ VU© S Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.
KIM SALMON
G R A N DV IEW HOTEL Kim Salmon has been a seminal influence on garage rock and countless bands including Nirvana, Mudhoney, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, White Stripes and Spacemen 3. He’s performed at local and international festivals including Futurama, Pukkelpop, Don’t Look Back, All Tomorrows Parties, Big Day Out, Bluesfest and shared the stage with the likes of U2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Stooges, Television, The Cramps, The Pop Group, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds and more. Saturday October 15, you can catch him at the Grandview Hotel promoting his most recent release My Script. Special guests are Baptizm of Uzi. Doors are at 8pm.
SATURDAYS ROCK - FEAT: RIFFINERY Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.
SLANDER Max Watt's, Melbourne. 12:05am. $34.70. SONS OF THE EAST Workers Club (geelong), Geelong.
Q&A
KLARA ZUBONJA + KILLAMANZILLA + PAT BRUCE & THE
THE BAREBONES
BACCHANALIANS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
N ORTCOTE S O C I A L C LU B The Barebones will be launching their long awaited debut album Where Have All The Good Folk Gone in a special matinee show at the Northcote Social Club. On Saturday October 15th, they’ll be joined by acclaimed singer/songwriter D. Rogers playing a rare live show of oldies and newbies, and new band Queensland, an all-star band made up of mates old and new. Doors are at 1.30pm for this day time boogie.
KRISTY COX & JERRY SALLEY Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $15.00.
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL - FEAT: CAMILLE O© SULLIVAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $39.00.
RARE CHILD Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. $10.00. ROTUZ + THE SLEEPLESS + CROOOKED SPACE Cherry Bar,
ANDY WHITE + KAVISHA MAZZELLA Open Studio, Northcote.
Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.
5:00pm.
SHIT SEX + GEE SEAS + THE DORKS + WEATHERBOARDS
BLACK & BLUE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
Forester's Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
CIARAN BOYLE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 3:00pm.
SPRING FLING STREET FESTIVAL - FEAT: HELOISE + THE
COBRA 45S Tolmie Tavern, Tolmie. 7:00pm.
VIBRAPHONIC ORKESTRA + CENTRE & THE SOUTH + MORE
CRAIG WOODWARD & FRIENDS Victoria Hotel (brunswick),
Spring Fling Street Festival Site, North Melbourne.
Brunswick. 4:00pm.
10:00am.
CROSS EYED CAT + SWAMPLANDS + ILL-GOTTEN BOOTY Tago
STONEFIELD Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.
Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.
THE VOICE VISITS JAM Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm.
DAVID BLIGHT & MICK KIDD Union Hotel (brunswick),
TIKI TAANE + KITT WATTS + TOM SCOTT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
Brunswick. 5:00pm.
8:00pm. $30.00.
GAYLE CAVANAGH & THE MIXED COMPANY BAND Mr Boogie
WINNEBAGO LOUNGE - FEAT: DELSINKI RECORDS & BROOKE
Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.
TAYLOR St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 5:00pm.
OSLOW & HANNABAND
BELLA WOLF + REFRACTION + DJ JIM ALXNDR Workers Club,
TH E RE V E R E NC E Oslow and HANNAHBAND are touring the east coast together after many years of being pals. Oslow have been pretty quiet over the past few months as they have been finishing their debut LP and HANNAHBAND will celebrate repressing their third album, Quitting Will Improve Your Health, out via Blackwire Records. Catch ‘em both for this very special collaboration on Saturday October 15. Doors open at 8pm with entry at just $10.
RIVER BLUE
8:00pm.
Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.
BOB SEDERGREEN + GEOFF ALLAN Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 3:00pm. $25.00.
GIANNI MARINUCCI QUINTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
Tell us a bit about what you do as River Blue? River Blue is a musical outlet that I have been searching out for many a year, and now it’s here. Would it be safe to say you were only going to start River Blue if you were going to do it perfectly? The collection of songs that I recorded for the EP is already two years old for me. I made sure I gave myself enough time to write, change and continuously listen to these songs without them aging on me quickly. What led to the change from solo folk music to a more rock oriented sound? I’ve always listened to stripped back folk as well as big rock bands, so trying to blend the two was something I was focusing on during writing. The solo format still incorporated this underlying idea of trying to make it sound bigger than it actually was, out of natural progression it lead to a more traditional band set up that can cater to both. Would it be right to say that your Americana interests are driven by more than the music? I think most musicians draw influences from more than just music and for me at the time of writing Iron Rivers and the whole EP I was really intrigued by the romantic and nostalgic traveller culture, it might not be as explicit in other songs as it is on Iron Rivers. RIVER BLUE will launch Iron Rivers at The Gasometer Hotel on Wednesday October 19.
SPOONFUL
THE BAREBONES + D.ROGERS + QUEENSLAND Northcote Social
GLENN FORD & THE RECORD MACHINE Rainbow Hotel,
7:30pm.
Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $12.00.
Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
OPAQUE JUNGLE - FEAT: JEAN STUART HOOKER + ANGUS
CHE RRY B AR Spoonful is a rollicking rhythm and blues outfit featuring a swag of Melbourne heroes, including Paul Winstanley, Kit Warhurst, Andre Warhurst and David Lord. On Sunday October 16 they will be wandering down AC/DC lane to Cherry Bar. Soak up the rest of your Sunday freedom from 2pm. Entry is $5.
THE GIANTS OF 60S AUSTRALIAN ROCK SHOW - FEAT: THE
HURLIN UP LIMBS + CROSSFIRE HURRICANE + MARC PIANTELLA
JARRAH BEEBY + ELIJAH URIEL JOSHUA QUINSEE-JARVIS Bar
FLEUR WIBER + JUNGLE BIRD The Woodlands Hotel,
SUBSTITUTES Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm.
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.
Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
Coburg. 4:00pm.
$20.00.
JACKSON PHELAN Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.
PLASTIC DREAMS - FEAT: ALAN NADA + SCOOBY LOU + SHAGGY
FREYA JOSEPHINE HOLLICK & FRIENDS Yarra Hotel,
THE JEZABELS + ALI BARTER The Croxton, Thornbury.
6:30pm.
DAMAGE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.
Abbotsford. 3:00pm.
8:00pm. $12.25.
TANGRAMS + TUFF WHIPPET + CAROLINE NO + EAT MAN + HEAT
JANET ROSS FAHY & ABSOLUTE Milano's Tavern, Brighton. 2:00pm.
MELBOURNE POLYTECHNIC RECITALS 303, Northcote.
WAVE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00.
8:00pm. $61.20.
KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
SHAYAN + THE WALTER BOYS Open Studio, Northcote.
IAN COLLARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.
THE PANICS + SLOW DANCER Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
9:00pm.
8:00pm. $5.00.
JULES BOULT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.
$25.00.
LADY & THE TRAMPS Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
SOUL GOOD MAN + STRONG DOSE Workers Club, Fitzroy.
KEVIN BORICH EXPRESS + JOHN WILLIAMS DOUBLESHOT + ROB
THIGH MASTER + LOWER PLENTY + THE STROPPIES Post Office
LARGE NUMBER 12S Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick.
1:00pm. $15.00.
BOSTOCK BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 1:30pm. $25.00.
Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm.
9:00pm.
SUNDAY SOULTRAIN Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.
KISHORE MINIFIE RYAN Palace Cinema (westgarth),
TIGERS + CHORES + COLOURING CATS Reverence Hotel,
LAZY EYE Bruthen Inn Hotel, Bruthen. 9:00pm.
3:00pm.
Northcote. 7:00pm. $5.00.
Footscray. 8:00pm. $8.00.
PHEASANT PLUCKERS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.
THE MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP PRESENTS Uptown Jazz Cafe,
MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
TUX + BITTERFRUIT + THE DEJA VUS + CREEK 303, Northcote.
PSYCHIC 5 + ADAM YOUNG Old Bar, Fitzroy. 2:00pm.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
3:00pm.
8:00pm. $10.00.
SELKI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
THE SOUNDS OF SILENT Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick.
VISUAL ARTS FUNDRAISER - FEAT: THE FCKUPS + TRAUMABOYS
SUGAR BOWL HOKEM Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
2:30pm. $18.00.
+ DEADBEAT CLUB + MORE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.
THE F100© S Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.
TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE - FEAT: BENOÎT CHAREST Melbourne
2:00pm.
THE HORNETS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm. $49.00.
ZEVON HILTZ Forester's Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood.
THE PHAROS PROJECTION Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
BRAD GILLIES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.
11:00pm.
7:30pm.
BRODRICK SMITH Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
ANCIENT RAIN - FEAT: PAUL KELLY + CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN +
SUNDAY 16 OCT
CAT CANTERI BAND Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 3:30pm.
A BLONDE MOMENT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.
CELIA CHURCH Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
ALL THE WEATHER + SUMMER FLAKE + WELL KNOWN + MORE
DOCKLANDS BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016 - FEAT: MARK
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.
GREEN + LAZY EYE + GEOFF ACHISON + MORE Wonderland
DAVID BOWIE - NOTHING HAS CHANGED - FEAT: ADALITA +
Spiegeltent, Docklands. 12:00am.
DEBORAH CONWAY + TIM ROGERS + MORE Hamer Hall (arts
ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 5:00pm.
Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $79.00.
FEMINIST FUTURES (SUNDAY NIGHT SHOWCASE) - FEAT: ALOK
FALLING IN REVERSE (U18) + THE BRAVE + DROP THIS CITY 170
VAID-MENON + DAWN IRIS + ASTRID + MORE Bella Union Bar,
Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. $69.90.
Carlton. 8:00pm. $12.00.
FEARGAL MURRAY Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $69.00.
METAL UNITED DOWN UNDER
THE BEN D IGO HOTEL Metal United Down Under is an annual metal event which takes place in various cities all over Australia. The aim is to create a bigger exposure for underground bands and strengthen the community. On Saturday October 15, get down to the Bendy and enjoy the sounds of Frankenbok, Elm Street, Harlott, Metreya (NSW) Damnation’s Day, Malakyte, Toxicon, Asylum, Espionage, Requiem, Elkenwood and Feast of Crows. All the hubbub kicks off at 3pm, with entry for $20.
A L S O O N L I N E AT B E AT.C O M . A U / G I G - G U I D E
SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS
THE B RUN SWI CK HOTEL Ain’t nothing like a lazy, southern style Sunday. On Sunday October 16, the cool cats at The Brunswick Hotel have got you sorted. Thanks to Southbound Snake Charmers chucking a wee residency, the end of your weekend needn’t be so sour. Have a suss of their sweet tunes for free, from 4pm.
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GIG GUIDE THE CLOWDER COLLECTIVE
BAR O PEN With styles ranging from psych, jazz, hip-hop to funk, Opaque Jungle is a night helmed by three-piece The Clowder Collective, combining together recitals and showcasing two years of dedicated work. It’s the perfect way to wrap up your week in style. Entry is your favourite price of free at Bar Open on Sunday October 16. Doors are at 8pm with music kicking off from 8.30pm.
ROCK FOR THE CUB 55
WO O DY ’ S BAR You may have heard that 55 electricians have been sacked by Carlton United Breweries. It’s pretty bad news, so four rock dog bands are uniting to put on a show to raise some cash to go towards these redundant employees. Get down, show your support and sink pints of worker-friendly piss and listen to the cracker sounds of Shit Sex, Gee Seas, The Dorks and Weatherboards
BELLA WOLF
T HE WORKERS CLUB Swing into your Sunday this week as Bella Wolf serve up their fresh twist on jazz. A delectable dish of breakbeats, catchy pop numbers and Latin rhythms, Bella Wolf will have you tearing up the dancefloor in no time. Their debut self-titled album has landed after a fiery start to their career, where they’ve charmed crowds from Indonesia all the way to St Kilda. Their Workers Club gig on Sunday October 16 will feature stunning visuals from Caspi, gorgeous musical landscapes from the Refraction trio, and the lush harmonies and dirty beats of JIM ALXNDR. Tickets are $15 on the door, hop on over at 7pm.
RUSSELL MORRIS
T HE SATEL L ITE LOUNGE Satellite Lounge launches its Sunday Blues series on Sunday October 16. Kicking it off comes one of Australia’s finest blues musicians, Russell Morris, performing songs from his ARIA award winning release, Sharkmouth and his most recent album Red Dirt Red Heart. Supporting Russell will be guitarist, singer-songwriter Mike Elrington. Doors open at 3pm, and show starts at 3.30pm. Tickets are $35 on the door.
SIGOURNEY BEAVER
WHO LE LOT TA LOVE Whole Lotta Love are putting on an afternoon shindig on Sunday October 16. Those rascals from Sigourney Beaver are in the headline slot, with support from The Instincts and Miss Miss. Trundle down at 3pm to enjoy free entry and a cracking Sunday session.
THE BACKBURNERS Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE BON TON RHYTHMS + SLIM RHYTHMS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
THE JUMP DEVILS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 5:00pm. THE ORIGINAL CARTRIDGE FAMILY Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm.
THE THIN WHITE UKES + STEVE KILBEY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
TOM STEPHENS + LUKE BRENNAN TRIP + FOREVER SON & BAND Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.
MONDAY 17 OCT MUNDANE MONDAYS
TH E OL D B A R Latreenagers are back at The Oldie in a big way on Monday October 17. The garage punk three-piece are teaming up hand in hand with Powerlines, Cakefight and J. Scot McKenzie. Doesn’t sound so mundane to us, especially when you cap it all off with $15 jugs of Goat. Entry is an easy as pie $5 with doors at 8pm.
TOM TOM TUESDAY
H OWLE R It’s a night of experimental electronica at Howler on Tuesday October 18. Headlining the night is Sow Discord who are releasing their new cassette Solutions for Growth. Also on the bill are Military Position and NERVE. And keeping things fresh and breezy is DJ Jess Sneddon, spinning the goodies in between sets. Entry is totally free as always, be there when it all kicks off at 8pm.
UNCLE BOBBY
T H E E V E LYN It’s the second last week of Uncle Bobby’s Safari adventures at The Evelyn. Tuesday October 18 brings Pup Tentacle and Sunbeam Sound Machine out into the lush jungle of visual art and live projections. Doors are at 8pm with entry being 100% free. Have a bev at a discounted price and marvel at the wonderful psych creations of Bobby and his live band.
MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: TETRAHEDRA + DOWSER + MARES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
MELBOURNE POLYTECHNIC RECITALS 303, Northcote. 6:30pm.
ADRIAN WHYTE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
NOW. HERE. THIS. - FEAT: LADY OSCAR + PLANETSELF + BARRY
RAT CHILD + ZOË FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS + TARIRO
SUNSET + LOGO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.
MAVONDO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.
$7.00.
TIM STEVENS TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne
OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.
Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.
SCORPIONS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm.
CHASE CITY + BIRDHOUSE + JP KLIPSPRINGER Workers Club,
THE BLACK ALLEYS + BRONZE + FIFTH FRIEND Cherry Bar,
Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.
MONIQUE ARAUJO
THE HARD ACHES The Music Man Megastore, Bendigo.
TH E E V E LYN Monique Araujo is taking over Mondays throughout October down at The Evelyn. Her electrifying brand of neo-soul and future jazz will be sure to make your Monday a treat. She’ll bring an eclectic array of friends and supports each week to get you boogieing on warm spring evenings. Oh and even better, there’ll be $10 jugs, $5 pints and $2.50 pots. Entry is just $5 with doors at 8pm.
8:00pm.
TOM TOM TUESDAY - FEAT: SOW DISCORD + MILITARY POSITION + NERVE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE - FEAT: LACHLAN MITCHELL Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
BRUNSWICK LOVES WILLIE NELSON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.
IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.
DAVID BOWIE - NOTHING HAS CHANGED - FEAT: ADALITA +
LAZY EYE Flemington Bowls Club, Flemington. 8:00pm.
DEBORAH CONWAY + TIM ROGERS + MORE Hamer Hall (arts
TOM LYNGCOLN + PALM SPRINGS Tramway Hotel, North
Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $79.00.
Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
FALLING IN REVERSE + THE BRAVE + DROP THIS CITY 170
MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.
Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $69.90.
NATHAN BRADLEY + JAY WARS + DAVID GRIMSON + LEWIS
JOE PUG Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $20.00.
NIXON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.
OPEN MIC Hardiman's Hotel, Kensington. 7:00pm.
PHIL PARA BAND + EDDY BOYLE BLUES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00.
TUESDAY 18 OCT
PORTMANTEUX Tago Mago, Thornbury. 5:00pm.
ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS IV + DANNY FISCHER + STEPHEN
POWERHOUSE BLUES BAND + SIGN + THE BOOGIE MAN ALL
MAGNUSSON Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
STARS + OUT OF THE BLUE Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford.
8:00pm. $18.00.
7:00pm.
ANNA'S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm.
REBELS WITHOUT A CLUE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
$10.00.
5:30pm.
JAZZ ACUNA + STEVE SMART + ASTRID + MORE Old Bar,
RUSSELL MORRIS Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 3:00pm.
Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $7.00.
$32.00.
MILONGA Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.
SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS + DOUBLE SHOT BLUES +
MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: SUSI TATE: BETTE MIDLER &
MISSION BROWN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.
FRIENDS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 10:00am.
SUNDAY SESSION - FEAT: BRUNSY Ferntree Gully Hotel,
$17.00.
Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.
HERE LIES JOHN CORBET + MOONLIGHT BROADCAST + THE PITS
SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq,
Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.
Windsor. 4:00pm.
LAKYN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.
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Access All Ages WITH DECLAN BURGESS It’s the middle of October and finally starting to feel like spring. While the weather swelters and flowers bloom there are some super exciting things announced and happening this week. First and foremost, this week Parliament of Victoria and The Push announced Live at the Steps which is probably going to be the best thing you’ll ever see on Parliament Steps unless you’re getting married there. Live at the Steps is a huge and cool party on Friday November 11, kicking off Melbourne Music Week and appropriately its sporting some of the best party starters around. Jungle Giants, Gretta Ray (triple j Unearthed 2016) and Philly (2015 Indigenous Music Awards) as well as an ever fashionable and eternally bizarre comedy set by Aunty Donna. That’s not even the best part, which is that it’s completely free. You’d be one uncool shape if you missed this so tell all your friends and clear your calendar and get really excited. As for events this week there are some cool ones, like this Sunday at the Wonderland Spiegeltent you can catch the annual Blues Music Festival. You might think blues might be kind of old and lame but a free all day event in the middle of the city with live international acts as well as local youth performances from the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society is not lame at all. There are three stages and a whole bunch of cool sounding blues acts like headliners Mark Green, Sugar Bowl Hokum, and Key Grip. The festival runs for 12 hours from 10am to 10pm. For more info there’s a cool website you can check www. wonderlandspiegeltent.com.au. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to get out of the explosive humdrum of Melbourne, then there’s an event on this Sunday just for you. The annual Montsavlvat Arts Festival is swinging back into Eltham and while it’s a way out of the city it’s well worth the hour train or bus ride. The festival is a showcase of intrepid artistic ventures and has so many activities including things like live experimental jazz performances, open studios and painting lessons, Extreme Knitting and a steam punk fashion parade. It’s $5 and it’s a whole day of entertainment. Head to www.montsalvat.com.au/. Also this week is the eclectic and somewhat exclusive MESS: LIVE & XFRMR at The Substation in Newport. The name sounds scientific and intimidating, but it’s actually pretty cool. It’s a live showcase of Glasgow based artist Robbie Thompson utilising an actual tesla coil (yeah like those orbs with electricity arcs inside them that you touch and then your hair stands on end, but bigger) as a big synthesiser to create soundscapes and driving percussive tunes. The sound scientist/artist is also supported by an array of almost ancient synthesisers from the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (M.E.S.S) hell bent on bending circuits into a delicious cacophony. When are you going to be able to see a man turn pure electricity into bangers again? If you’re interested you can find tickets and more info about heaps of other cool events here at thesubstation.org.au/.
All Ages Gig Guide WE D N E S DAY O C TO B E R 12
Dare To Dream - Newhaven College w/ African Star Drumming & Dance Company @ Boyshome Rd, Newhaven, 1pm - 3pm, Free, Paul Milkins / 0400 999 767, U18 Hexis w/ Christcrusher, BOG, Cordell and Slothferatu @ Hotshot Café, 20 Buckley St Footscray, 6pm ± 12am, $5, www.facebook.com/bogmire, AA
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Ball for All @ Kaniva Shire Hall, 25 Baker St, Kaniva, 7.30pm - 11pm $10 Mel Jordan / 03 5392 7700, AA Torquay Open Mic Night @ Community Hub, 27 Grossmans rd, Torquay, 5.45pm - 9:00pm, Free, Jarrod Zdrzalka / 03 5261 0600, AA Julia Jacklin @ Record Paradise, 15 Union St, Brunswick, 6pm ± 9p m, www.juliajacklin.com
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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 ROCK/METAL ACTS WANTED FOR LOCAL ROCK SHOWS - contact: mark@gunnmusic.com.au
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
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MELBOURNE’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE GIG GUIDE
Eye Gazing Melbourne @ City Square, Melbourne, 12pm ± 4p m, free, facebook.com/thcmovement, AA 2016 PBS Record Fair @ Collingwood Town Hall, 140 Hoddle Street Abbotsford, 9am ± 5pm, $7 (9am) $5 (10am) www.pbsfm.org, AA
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Main Street Mornington Festival w/ Local DJs @ Main Street, Mornington, 11am ± 5pm, Free, www. facebook.com/MainStreetMorningtonFestival AA
Wed 12th October
W I N E , W H I S K EY, W O M E N 8pm: Mel Pollard 9pm:
Kylie C Thurs 13th October 8pm: Danny Stain Friday 14th October 6pm: Traditional Irish Music Session Saturday 15th October
Ciaran Boyle The F100’s
3pm: 9pm:
Sunday 16th October
Ian Collard 6.30pm: Brad Gillies 4pm:
TUESDAYS FROM 8PM:
weekly trivia
$75 BAR VOUCHER UP FOR GRABS! The Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au
THURSDAY OCT 13:
STEVE SMART PRESENTS
A NIGHT OF POETRY & MUSIC FT. THE SIGN PAUL A. SKEC & KELLY LEE$5,HICKEY 7.30PM FRIDAY OCT 14:
JOHN DOWLER PROJECT BLACK BEER WHITE LIES FREE, 8PM SATURDAY OCT 15:
CROSS EYED CAT SWAMPLANDS, ILL-GOTTEN BOOTY FREE, 8PM
SUNDAY OCT 16:
PORTMANTEUX FREE, 5PM
THURSDAY OCT 20:
BABEL’S END FREE, 8PM
FRIDAY OCT 21:
DAVID COSMA FREE, 8PM
SATURDAY OCT 22:
SONS OF LEE MARVIN
TEN GALLON HEAD, JON WILLIAMS (EP LAUNCH) $8, 8PM
SUNDAY OCT 23:
LUCY LOCKETT
WOODLAND HUNTERS FREE, 5PM
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DIVINE NOISE CABLES BY CHRIS SCOTT
For every piece of guitar gear or equipment exists a manufacturer or a local dealer responsible for producing the benchmark. Not the designer of the most talked about model or the brand leading market turnover, but rather the maker who simply relies on the quality of their product to do the talking. For guitar cables, this is Divine Noise. Used by the likes of J Mascis, The White Stripes and our very own Tame Impala, the Portland, Oregon manufacturer is a musician’s definitive choice for dependability and cultivating tone. Behind the niche dealer is owner and engineer Gil Divine – a former guitar tech for the likes of Yo La Tengo and Lucinda Williams – who turned to producing cables with the knowledge to do it exceedingly well. “In my experience you can’t play an electric guitar without a cable. And you can’t play an electric guitar with a broken cable,” he says. “Reliability to me has always been first and foremost. That’s why I still continue today to make every single cable, because of reliability. You know, our cables, they don’t fail. “Every once in a while we get a cable return that’s literally been beaten to hell, but it’s really rare that we get a cable that’s broken. I could probably count on one hand, in [the] seven or eight years that we’ve been around, how many cables we’ve had break. I still have cables that bands that I used to work for still tour with today. Yo La Tengo, most of their cables are from 2003 that are still in use today. That says a lot – I don’t know any other cable company that can say that.” The beauty in Divine Noise’s success stems from the fact that it’s a word of mouth operation; one that continues to defy the lack of attention musicians tend to pay to cables. Evidenced by the fact that our biggest indie export, Tame Impala, initiated a relationship with the sought after manufacturer. ‘Tame Impala’s been with us [since] their last record,
the one that really broke them, came out,” Divine says. “That was four, maybe five years ago. And they’ve used our stuff ever since. The important thing [is] all of our endorsers, they use our cables but everybody pays for them – we don’t give out free cables. In order to support us everybody pays for cables. Those bands, they believe in what we’re doing enough to pay for them.” In the case of Divine Noise, it’s a construction process done without compromise, and an attention to detail that ensures consistent quality, and differentiates them from bigger competitors. “I still refuse to do solderless cables, because I don’t believe in (them),” Divine says. “This company is based on my beliefs. We don’t do things to make money, because we could sell a ton of solderless cables, I’m sure of it. “Cable manufacturers make a lot of money on solderless cables because there’s no labour involved. You count how many feet of cable you get, you count how many plugs, and boom – that’s it. I think a lot of the time it can be kind of shotty and a lot of times they’re unreliable. I don’t build anything that I wouldn’t
tour with. We don’t do anything to make a fast buck. We do things because it’s the right way to do things, as far as I see it.” A product of this diligent approach towards design and assembly is the hand-built Divine Noise curly cables, the construction of which is distinctive to the manufacturer. “Another thing is that our curly cables are wire that is curled,” Divine says. “We’re the only manufacturer to do that. Normally with a curly cable the manufacturers use already prefabbed, it’s almost like telephone chord a lot of it; it’s really crappy wire. But ours, when the demand was there, the only way I would do it was if I found a place that would coil our existing wire so whether it’s our guitar straight or curly, it’s the same cable. We’re the only cable company to do that and it’s quite expensive but it’s worth it because, one, it’s not going to crap out on you. Two, it sounds great.” In a similar vein, Divine Noise only sells through selected dealers, careful not to dilute the level of care instilled into each and every one of their cables. “Fretted Instruments is the only place in Australia you
HERE’S LOOKIN’ AT CLUE, KID Hey goobers, The answers to this week’s crossword are all words I’ve seen misspelled in online comments threads this week. Enjoy.
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can buy our cables. We don’t want to be in every guitar store. I literally couldn’t do it, unless I hired a team of people to build cables. So we pick our favourite shops in the area, or they contact us. I like to do exclusives with companies, that way the market’s not just saturated. I would much rather people sought us out than it be just something off the shelf that someone grabs. “With building every cable, there’s a lot of myself that goes into every cable. So whether or not you see Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys using it or Tame Impala, or one of the cables in Fretted, I made that cable and that cable’s built exactly the same.” DIVINE NOISE CABLES are available in Australia via Fretted Instruments. For more details, head to frettedinstruments.com.
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First prize is $50,000 from APRA AMCOS and Alberts. Second prize is $10,000 from AMPAL (Australasian Music Publishers Association) and the $5000 third prize is courtesy of sponsor, AEG Ogden. All winners will also take home a microphone prize pack from Shure. Winners are announced on Thursday October 27. Applicants pay a $50 fee per submission, which goes to NordoffRobbins Music Therapy Australia. This year’s comp raised an astounding $196,700
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90 finalists are announced for the Vanda & Young Songwriting competition. It received 2,412 applicants submitting 3,934 songs, from 20 countries ranging in age from 11 to 82. Seven artists have two songs in the shortlist: Client Liaison, Emma Louise, Gordi, Katrina Burgoyne, King Social, Louis Schoorl and Oh Pep!. Other shortlisted artists include Abbe May, Jarryd James, Josh Pyke, Kevin Mitchell, M-Phazes, Ngaiire, Sheppard, Urthboy, Deep Sea Arcade, L-FRESH The LION, Jordi Lane and Taasha Coates/The Audreys, alongside BIGSOUND buzz acts Middle Kids, Sampa the Great and Tash Sultana and recent triple j Unearthed High winner Gretta Ray. Full list at www. vandayoungsongcomp.com.
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Aussie promoters are looking with alarm at the Federal Government’s new visa fees which come into effect on Saturday November 19. It removes a discount on entertainment visas, which means up to a 600% hike on international tours and festivals which book many overseas acts, and will have to be passed on to consumers with higher ticket prices. Bluesfest’s visa costs go up to $55,000 (up 600%) while Splendour and Falls are up 200%. Applying for Guns N’ Roses’ 80-strong entourage will now cost TEG Dainty $22,000 instead of $7200. Live Performance Australia has called for an urgent meeting with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. Its CEO Evelyn Richardson says, ‘These new fees add significantly to the cost of touring Australia, and will act as a major disincentive for international artists to come here compared to opportunities in other markets. Australians who go to a live performance event or who work in the industry will be the biggest losers under this new scheme, as well as those who work in local tourism and hospitality businesses, especially in regional communities.”
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shows that people love what we’re doing, and they keep coming back year after year.”
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Australian vinyl lovers now get a onestop service called FinestVinyl. The mail order platform has long been established in Europe. Now music industry exec and German expat Tex Bauckhorn has introduced it locally. A bi-weekly bulk shipment offers cheaper and faster FinestVinyl’s incredible European catalogue covering pop, rock, punk, jazz and classical including limited editions and rarities. The FinestVinyl Australia team also provides their expertise and contacts in vinyl manufacturing with quality European pressing plants for local artists, labels and retailers. Your contact is tex@finestvinyl. com.au
FESTIVALS #1: LARGER CAPACITY FOR FALLS LORNE? Falls Festival has applied for increased capacity by 1000 for its Lorne event, bringing the total capacity to 17,500. As it is, all tickets sold out in 45 minutes when they went on sale in August. In an application to Surf Coast Shire, it explained that due to the introduction of event-only tickets, there’d be less campers over the four days, and hence there’d be more space.
FESTIVALS #2: MORE ACTS FOR PLEASURE GARDEN The Pleasure Garden (Saturday December 10, Catani Gardens, St Kilda Foreshore) this morning announced its second round of artists. Joining the likes of The Cat Empire, Dub FX and Tash Sultana are Blue King Brown, Dub Pistols Sound System, OKA, The Chicken Brothers, JPS ( Jerry Poon / The Operatives), Mortisville & Friends and Beatrice.
FESTIVALS #3: QUEENSCLIFF HEADING FOR FIRST SELLOUT Queenscliff Music Festival is on track for its first sell-out in its 20-year history. Its sold out all its three-day, two-day, Saturday and Sunday tickets. Only a limited number is left for the Friday, which includes Killing Heidi, Kylie Auldist and Ash Grunwald. Festival director Andrew Orvis says: “We’ve really felt the love this year. The response has been unprecedented. It clearly
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Which hotel had the $2000 in its stolen charity collection tin for Can Assist for families of cancer sufferers, replaced by its state hotel association? For their upcoming tour, Boy & Bear teamed with Akasha Brewing Company for the All Australian Ale (AAA) to be sold at shows. All proceeds go towards the charity Buy a Bale, helping to support rural Australian communities and farmers. It’s nice to be rich, even nicer to be able to splash your wealth around. Take Fetty Wap, who turned up at a New Jersey court to face a number of traffic offences (including driving with tinted glasses). The 25-yearold rapper was fined a total of $380. He pulled out a bag with $165,000 cash and paid it off. We might see more indie acts on the ARIA chart. It’s started to count sales from US publishing platform and online marketplace Bandcamp. This would be of help to the Dune Rats, whose Social Atoms is in the platform’s global Top 10. Jay-Z is producing a biopic of the late Richard Pryor, the hip and outspoken African-American political comedian who once famously badly burned himself while cooking cocaine on a plane. The Ramones are to have a street in Queens, New York City named after them. Meantime there’s a push for a section of Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx to be renamed Hip Hop Boulevard to denote the vital contribution to the genre by the suburb. On August 11 1973, DJ Kool Herc held a house party at an apartment complex at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Herc was DJing and MCing, and showed off a new technique he had been perfecting that involved playing the “frantic grooves at the beginning or in the middle of a song”. People at the party include Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and KRS-One, Robbie Williams has whimpered and apologised for saying he bonked “four out of five” Spice Girls, saying it was a joke. AC/DC’s Brian Johnson could resume performing in six months using their new technology, claim hearing aid technology
developers Asius. Melbourne’s Chapel Street is running a campaign, urging Sydneysiders hit by the city’s lockouts to travel south to party. The mud was so thick during the Deni Ute Muster festival that some folks were running around naked hidden by mud cloaks. The New Zealand Music Foundation which helps music industry folks in health and financial distress has launched an online 24-hour wellbeing service (the first in the world, it says) so performers and biz people can ring any time for comfort. In a recent survey, NZ performers attempt suicide and have mental health disorders at double the population. Sydney band Sticky Fingers aren’t just celebrating their Westway album debuting at #1 on this week’s ARIA chart. Bassist Paddy Cornwall can fly Qantas again: he was banned after a mid-air scuffle with singer Dylan Frost. Australian subscription video streaming service Presto will cease operations on Tuesday January 31. It will be folded into Foxtel’s revamped streaming service in the wake of its buying Seven West Media out of its joint venture.
STUDY: AUSSIES STILL PREFER RADIO TO STREAMING In the first study into audio consumption by Australians, it seems we’re still taking our time shifting from traditional radio to streaming and internet radio. The Australian Share of Audio study, by research company GfK, covered 1000 people in the five capital cities over a week in August. On average, Aussies spend three hours and 23 minutes listening to music. Of this, two hours and 12 minutes is radio, an equivalent of 64.9% of listening. Dipping into our own record collections takes up 13%, while combined streaming services Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music account for 9.2%. Online music videos (via YouTube etc) make up 3.7% share, podcasts 3.5% while 2.1% covers TV music channels, audio books and background music in cafes and gyms. According to the study, Australian radio (AM, FM, DAB+) has five times the daily reach of the combined streaming services (69.7% compared to 12.4%). Australian radio has nine times the daily reach of Spotify and almost 25 times the reach of Pandora. Joan Warner, CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, which represents the commercial
Lifelines HOSPITALISED: Slipknot guitarist Jim Root had back surgery to replace a disc. ILL: US rapper Kid Cudi checked into rehab for ‘depression, anxiety and suicidal urges’. He posted, “I am not at peace. I haven’t been since you’ve known me.” INJURED: Drake postponed three North American shows after injuring his ankle. ILL: Doctors found a cancerous tumour in revered funk and R&B singer Charles Bradley’s stomach. ILL: Bastille axed a New York show after Dan Smith badly strained his voice. ILL: US singer Sharon Jones, 60, who’s battled two bouts of pancreatic cancer, cancelled an appearance at The White House after she got pneumonia. IN COURT: Jeffrey Greaves was extradited from Darwin to South Australia to face 73 charges of fraudulently getting $30,000 from concert goers looking to buy tickets on Gumtree between July 2014 and May 2016. DIED: British songwriter and producer Rod Temperton, 66, from cancer. He worked with many artists but best known for writing Thriller, Off The Wall and Rock With You for Michael Jackson. DIED: US blues drummer ‘Killer’ Ray Allison, 60, who started playing with Buddy Guy before forming his own band.
radio sector, radio plays a major role in all ages, especially the younger demos. “The study found 10-17-year-olds and 18-24year-olds spend three times longer listening to live Australian radio than Spotify and eight times longer than Apple Music and Pandora each day,” she said.
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