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Contents 10

News

Industry

Arts Guide

Charts Punk & Hardcore Metal

Electronic Beat Eats All Ages

Illy

LadyCake The Cult

Music Safari

Armored Dawn Julien Baker

Heaps Gay Sui Zhen

Tim Hulsman Amber Galloway

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Well, what a week that was. The same man who made a cameo in Home Alone 2 is now president of the United States, Leonard Cohen is no longer with us, and a supermoon graced Melbourne. Bloody hell. Thank the benevolent gods of sticky bandrooms that Melbourne’s music scene is still alive and kicking to get us all through it. Speaking of, Melbourne Music Week has kicked off in fine form. And I mean seriously fine form. Her Sound, Her Story wasn’t just a tour-de-force of female Australian talent, it was a showcase of some of the best acts performing in this country today, period. Seeing an impromptu dancefloor take over the State Library Forecourt well into the night was an absolute highlight, proving how special this year’s Hub really is. It’s a ripper issue this week, as we take you through the highlights of this year’s Live Music Safari for a jam-packed day of bar hopping and tunes, as well as talking with genre-bending hip hop maverick Illy. All in all, It’s been a weird week. Here’s to an even weirder one.

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News Beechworth Music Festival Returns with killer lineup

Beechworth Music Festival is back for another year, bringing a neat local-heavy lineup with it. Leading the charge will be acclaimed rockers Stonefield, along with Gabriella Cohen, Tracy McNeil and the Goodlife, The Sugarcanes and more. Bush poet Geoff Jackson will be spouting verse in between sets, while DJs Mermaid and Emma Peel will be spinning tunes to tide y’all over while you’re waiting for acts. It’s all going down in Madman’s Gully Amphitheatre, Mayday Hills, Beechworth on Friday January 27 and Saturday January 28, 2017. Tickets are available via their website.

Stonefield

Rooftop Cinema

Underwater Galaxies

Rooftop Cinema has revealed a cracking summer program for 2016 and 2017. Rooftop will be paying tribute to dearly departed icons with a screening of Labyrinth featuring David Bowie and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory featuring Gene Wilder. Elsewhere, all-time classics make an appearance including Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Stand By Me and Top Gun keeping the Rooftop faithfuls happy as well as a Michael Keaton triple-header of Beetlejuice, The Founder and Birdman. The season will run from December 2016 through to April 2017 at Rooftop, Curtin House.

Audience members attending the Underwater Galaxies event as part of Melbourne Music Week will be offered an immersive encounter when live music collides with multi-projection video art. The lineup features a mix of artists including Rat & Co, Primitive Calculators, Fierce Mild and more, as well as upcoming acts Beloved Elk, Kalacoma, Huntly and Dark Fair. The event will feature projections and art from the likes of Brendan Harwood, VJ Mandala and more. Underwater Galaxies will transform Ding Dong Lounge on Friday November 18. Tickets via the MMW website.

Diesel

Stick To Your Guns

Fresh from being revealed as the opening act for Bruce Springsteen’s outdoor concerts in 2017, Australian singer/ songwriter Diesel has locked in some solo dates. His upcoming shows include stripped back singles and deep cuts from his 15-album strong career, as well as from his brand new record Americana. Capping it all off, Diesel has just released his latest video - a cover of James Taylor’s seminal track Fire and Rain. He’ll play Flying Saucer Club on Friday December 2 and Northcote Social Club Saturday December 3. Tickets are available via the respective venues’ websites.

Californian band Stick To Your Guns are heading south for an Australian tour in January to celebrate their new EP, Better Ash Than Dust. Stick To Your Guns have played Warped Tour as well as sold-out headline shows across the globe. Now the group from Orange County will return to the country’s major cities for their ‘Better Australia Than Dust’ tour for the first time since supporting Architects in 2015. Stick To Your Guns will be playing the Corner Hotel Friday January 20 and Phoenix Youth Centre Saturday January 21. Tickets are available via Destroy All Lines.

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Goes solo in Melbourne

Return to Australia

The Jensens Announce EP tour

Since their formation in 2013, the Brisbane indie rock five-piece have uncapped rage-worthy tunes which keep us up all night long and their newest release is set to do the same. With its blazing drum rhythms and breezy guitar riffs Everybody Talks conjures the typical Jensens groove we’ve all come to know and love. The track is lifted off their forthcoming EP which is set to be released early next year and was recorded in Brisbane’s famed Plutonium Studio alongside Steven Kempnich (Last Dinosaurs, Millions). The Jensens play Ding Dong Lounge on Friday December 9. Tickets available via Oztix.

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Shapeshifter

Hit the road with new album Having just released their sixth studio album, electronic bass outfit Shapeshifter are set for a long-awaited return. They’ve already solidified themselves as one of the most captivating live acts on the electronic circuit and new record Stars pushes their stadium-sized sound to new heights. The group spent six months writing tunes and brainstorming ideas before setting down the album at Auckland’s Roundhouse Studios with The Upbeats’ Dylan Jones and Jeremy Glenn. Shapeshifter come to 170 Russell on Friday April 7, 2017. Tickets are available via MoshTix.

Twelve Foot Ninja

Jimmy Eat World

Fusion metal legends Twelve Foot Ninja are set for a tour of Australia after dropping their new single Sick. The tour, set for early 2017, will be the band’s first headline appearance in over two years and will be fresh off the back of a US festival showing. The five-piece group, known for pushing the boundaries of music convention, have also released the music video for Sick, a dark and entertaining nine-minute short film. Twelve Foot Ninja will be hitting Melbourne Saturday January 7 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets via Ticketscout.

Following up on their last sold-out run across the country, Jimmy Eat World are returning to Australia. The news comes off the back of their latest and ninth album, Integrity Blues, which has been hailed as one of their finest releases to date. The group are one that need no introduction ± they’ve been blasting out trembling, nu-emo records since the early ‘90s, gathering a devoted fanbase in the process, making their announcement of new shows an enticing proposition indeed. They’ll play The Australian Open on Friday January 20.

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Woodlock

Celebrate new single with national tour Australian pop trio Woodlock are hitting the road once more, armed with their brand new single. The band have spent the last year performing to sold-out crowds at venues across the country, as well as landing spots on landmark festival bills including Falls and NYE on the Hill. Their new single, Something Broke That Day, was inspired by a recent trip to China and marks a new direction for the group, moving away from their usually uplifting songs. They’ll hit Howler on Saturday January 21.

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David Attenborough Appears for one night only

The golden-voiced David Attenborough will appear in Melbourne for one night only. The ‘Sir David Attenborough ± A Quest for Life’ tour will cover a career dedicated to the natural world, the changes he has witnessed since first filming Zoo Quest in the ‘50s, and the environmental challenges the natural world now faces. The show will see him appear in conversation with renowned Australian broadcaster Ray Martin. See the man in action on Saturday February 11 at The Plenary, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tickets via Ticketmaster.

Paper House

Launch their debut album Melbourne four-piece Paper House will launch their debut album with a captivating and immersive live show for one night only. The launch of A Certain Kind of Now will feature supports from poised pop artist Georgia Fields and local Brooke Russell. Not to mention they’ll be showcasing the projection visuals of Freya Pitt, proving that they’re not shy when it comes to artistic collaborations. Paper House hit the Grace Darling Hotel Saturday November 19.

Martha Wainwright Announces Australian tour

Martha Wainwright, the acclaimed singer/songwriter will return to Australian shores next year with a string of tour dates up her sleeve. The folk rocker will celebrate songs off the to-be-released Goodnight City, the confessional and intense album that represents her first offering in four years, as well as tracks from her critically and commercially praised selftitled debut. Melbourne’s very own Oh Pep! will also join her onstage, their catchy acoustic melodies set to compliment Wainwright’s powerful sound. Martha Wainwright plays at the Melbourne Zoo Twilights concert on Friday March 10.

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Bluesfest

Expands its lineup

Mud Morganfield

Bluesfest have added even more acts to their ever-growing lineup featuring Eric Gales, Mud Morganfield, Devon Allman, Jeff Lang, Experience Jimi Hendrix, Lloyd Spiegel, Melody Angel and more. Rounding it out comes English ska icons Madness alongside the Miles Electric Band who are heading to Australia for the first time. Elsewhere, Patti Smith and her band will take to the stage and Billy Bragg and Joe Henry will join forces for a set of railway songs. Bluesfest 2017 will go down from Thursday April 13 - Monday April 17, just north of Bryon Bay. Tickets are on sale now via the website.

Little Big Town

Lock in their first Australian tour Grammy Award-winning act Little Big Town are coming to Australia for their first ever national tour. They’ll be heading to Australia after touring extensively through North America, selling out numerous shows along the way. Having shared the stage with the likes of Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, and Carrie Underwood, their 2015 track Girl Crush skyrocketed to become America’s bestselling country single of the year, paving the way for further charttopping efforts including Tornado and Day Drinking. They’ll hit Hamer Hall on Wednesday March 22. Tickets via Ticketmaster.

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The Philadelphia shoegaze outfit will be touring Australia in support of their much-anticipated second LP. Tired of Tomorrow is a modern, nihilistic take on the triumphant fuzzed-out guitar rock of the ‘90s, replete with massive hooks and brooding melodies. The 12-track release works the band’s deepest influences into a confident, memorable album that is sure to soothe old wounds while simultaneously opening up new ones. Nothing come to the Northcote Social Club on Sunday January 29, 2017. Tickets available via Eventbrite.

Widely renowned Irish singer/songwriter James Vincent McMorrow will return to Australian shores off the back of a national tour early next year. His first Australian jaunt since 2014 will see him dip into his critically acclaimed body of work, including cuts from Post Tropical and his latest album We Move. More recently, he visited Australia for a standout set at this year’s Splendour in the Grass. He’ll hit the Recital Centre on Friday March 10. Tickets via Secret Sounds.

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Australian Made

Stands up against domestic violence

Makes 30th anniversary screening Fans of legends like INXS and Jimmy Barnes have the chance to watch a one-night-only screening of the film Australian Made, a doco filmed at the festival of the same name. The Australianonly event that filled stadiums in six capital cities was the first of its kind, making it well worth celebrating. Australian Made was a box-office hit when it was first released in 1987, and will now return to provide nostalgia to audiences. Australian Made: 30th Anniversary Edition will screen exclusively at selected Event and Village Cinemas on Friday November 25.

Southside Soul are showcasing an all-female DJ lineup in November to raise money against domestic violence. The collective are known for their old school parties on the last Friday of every month, and for playing the sounds of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s all on original vinyl 45” vinyl. Soul and funk act Fulton Street will also be getting on board. Alongside the acts will be dance-off competitions and raffle prizes. All proceeds will be donated to domestic abuse treatment centre Safe Steps. Say no to domestic violence at 2nd Floor Lounge Bar in Kingston City Hall, on Friday November 25.

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Scores an open-air silent cinema Nestled into Barkly Square’s quaint laneway precinct, the silent cinema offers a diverse mix of arthouse, modern and family-friendly films, kicking off with the all-time classic Home Alone and following up with Whiplash, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Donnie Darko and more. Being a silent cinema, punters will be kitted out with state-of-the-art headphones. Capping it off comes deck chairs and beverages available at neighbouring Zambrero alongside Jerry’s Burgers & Fried Chicken. The series runs from December 16 to January 28 in Barkly Square. Tickets are now on sale for $10 with all proceeds going to the Vicdeaf Society.

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Kutcha Edwards

Foo Fighters

Are Foo Fighters to return to touring, starting in Europe? Was the cancellation of the inaugural Australian hard rock festival Legion in January, due to the fact that organisers are involved in an international event in late 2017? Is a long term festival partnership about to end? What do Snoop Dogg, Mac DeMarco, Miley Cyrus, Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer have in common? They all want to move to Canada before the new US president takes office. Meanwhile, Chance the Rapper’s Grammy-nominated trumpeter Donnie Trumpet, has reverted to his real name of Nico Segal. Ahead of their ARIA Hall of Fame induction on Wednesday November 23, Crowded House landed all eight of their albums in the top 100. The second This That festival on Newcastle Foreshore drew 15,000 people, with a bill headlined by Peking Duk, Hermitude and LA’s Schoolboy Q. Seal is returning as judge for The Voice Australia next year, along with Delta Goodrem. No word on Ronan Keating’s plans, while rumours are that The Veronicas will replace the Madden Bros. Hawthorn nightclub Room 680 is on the market. It’s had some negative publicity with police raids following the deaths of two patrons. Journalist and author Michaela McGuire, cofounder of the internationally successful event Women of Letters, is the new artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. She wants to introduce the “playful, cheeky and irreverent” to it. Melbourne artist and producer Woodes, aka Elle Graham, continues to see global success for her self-titled debut EP, which she made in her bedroom. After charting in Spain, Norway, Russia and Finland, last week it debuted at #1 in the iTunes Alternative Chart in Singapore.

New Zealand’s best known teenager Lorde is no longer one. Her bestie Taylor Swift threw her a 20th birthday in LA. In the latest Wollongong radio ratings, I98FM was at the top. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard say they’ve got five albums scheduled for release through 2017.

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Kutcha Edwards won this year’s $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Music for his “outstanding contribution to music”, covering four albums and two theatre productions addressing indigenous life. He also took the inaugural $20,000 Distinguished Musicians Award from Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium. Other winners were Scott Tinkler (outstanding musician), Kate Neal (composition) and Matthias Schack-Arnott (development).

Melbourne Stations Win Community Radio Awards

A number of Melbourne community radio stations and shows were among the winners of the CBAA Community Radio Awards, held last Saturday in Melbourne as part of the sector’s conference. They included PBS’s Global Village (excellence in music programming), Main FM 94.9 (outstanding small station), 3MBS’s Female Australian Composers Project for International Women’s Day (best new radio program), 3CR Exhibition Broadcasts (most innovative outside/ special broadcast), 89.9 Light FM’s Your News (best station promotion) and the prestigious Tony Slaley Award for Waverly’s senior listener Golden Days Radio for its support of community and listener interaction through luncheons for listeners, to their regular studio tours and open-door meetings, the station is constantly in dialogue with its audience.

Adele Britain’s Richest Star Under 30

Adele has toppled One Direction who for the last three years headed Heat magazine’s list of Britain’s richest stars under 30. She doubled her estimated worth to £92 million (last year she was at #4 with £38.1 million). Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe was this year at #2 (with £74m), Ed Sheeran made his debut on the list at #3 with £45m, Zayn Malik at #4 with £38m and former band mate Harry Styles at fifth place with £37m. The remaining One Direction members were Liam Payne at #7 (£34m), Niall Horan at #8 (£34m) while Louis Tomlinson was ninth (£33m).

Licence Fees Cut For Commercial Radio

After announcing it in its May budget, the Australian government has passed the commercial radio licence holders.

The sector called it a “welcome relief ” and looked forward to getting more cuts from the pollies. For the 2013/4 period, commercial radio paid $24.83 million in broadcasting licence fees.

Cooking Vinyl, Epitaph, Partner In Australia

Cooking Vinyl Australia and Epitaph Records set up a new Label Services partnership that will see Epitaph’s Dave Jiannis join the CVA team in the newly created role of Senior Product Manager. Distribution of Epitaph product will remain with ADA in Australia and NZ, the newly formed partnership will see the local Cooking Vinyl team provide dedicated marketing and promo expertise to priority Epitaph and ANTI- releases. Epitaph’s recent successes here included A Day To Remember’s Bad Vibrations debuting at #1 and top ten albums from I Killed The Prom Queen, Refused, Millencolin and Falling In Reverse.

Aussies Remember Leonard Cohen

Nick Cave said, “The greatest songwriter of them all. Utterly unique and impossible to imitate no matter how hard we tried.” Michael Gudinski whose Frontier Touring brought him out in 2009, 2010 and 2013 referred to Cohen’s “life defining shows.” A few years ago, when this columnist served as a Contemporary Music judge for the Helpmann Awards, we were discussing nominating Cohen’s show for a category. “Because his shows reminded us why we got into the music industry in the first place,” said Don Elford of Quodos Bank Arena. In the mid ‘70s I did a pre-tour profile in Juke. When he read it after he arrived in Melbourne, he called me immediately to thank me and discuss some of the points I brought up. As ever, Leonard Cohen loved to communicate.

Apes Join New Booking Agency

Melbourne’s APES have joined the newly launched booking arm of Sophie Kirov’s touring and logistics company Down The Highway. Last Friday they kicked off the launch of the new single If You Want It at the Curtin. Sophie Kirov comes from a background of touring operations where she worked with Flight Facilities, Flume, Kimbra, Major Lazer, Angus & Julia Stone, and Cat Power.

Lifelines Expecting: Pink and motocross champ Carey Hart, their second. Engaged: Two Guns N’Roses fans during the band’s show in Porto Alegre, Brazil, While the band played November Rain, a guy proposed to his Gunners T-shirt-sporting gal. Dating: Drake confirmed he and Taylor Swift are an item by buying accessories for her cats Meredith and Olivia. Dating: Following Ruby Rose and The Veronicas’ Jess Origliasso confirming they were back together, it’s been revealed that Rose flew out Origliasso’s sick mum to NZ to watch them shoot their new music video. Hospitalised: A 22-year-old woman

after being run over at a dance party near Byron Bay. Police say she was lying under a Nissan utility and was crushed when the driver moved his vehicle. In Court: S Club 7’s Hannah Spearritt’s ex-fiance Adam Thomas was acquitted on charges he assaulted her, after the trial collapsed. In Court: Jordan Duffy, 19, pleaded guilty to supplying his girlfriend Janie Panton Roberts, 21, a fatal dose of MDMA at a music event in Petersham. He faces Newtown Local Court in December. In Court: Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh was fined $1500 for entering Star Casino while on a good behaviour

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L-FRESH The LION is among those asking for support for Nigeria refugee Omotayo Daib and his family who’ve been told they have to leave Australia in 28 days after the Department of Immigration turned down their request for a bridging visa. L-FRESH says that Daib has been working two to three jobs while studying since arriving in 2013. A GoFundMe campaign has begun to fund an appeal.

Kutcha Edwards Wins Melbourne Prize

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Rodney Rude Her Sound, Her Story: Exhibition

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Returns for limited season The story of an Australian legend, Koorie elder, activist, former addict and cat burglar will return for a limited run this week. From Stolen Generation to the Koorie theatre in 1970s Australia, from film sets to Her Majesty’s prisons – the story of Jack Charles shows a life rich in experience. The show was a sell-out success when it premiered, and has crossed international borders to widespread acclaim since. Jack Charles V The Crown runs from Tuesday November 15 to Sunday November 20 at the Playhouse, Arts Centre.

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man The Astor pays tribute to a legend

To commemorate the life and times of Leonard Cohen, The Astor will be screening the 2005 film Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man in stunning 35mm. The documentary on the legendary singersongwriter features interviews with Cohen, along with live performances by those musicians he has influenced including Nick Cave, Beth Orton and Rufus Wainwright. It’s all happening at The Astor Theatre on Tuesday November 22.

Tremor

Bitter Moon

Featuring huge collaborations with the likes of Nigel Brown’s sound score and dancers Kristy Ayre, Nat Cursio, and Jo White, Tremor is the third work in a dance-portrait series. The piece explores the concept of movement, vibration, and pressure in relation to the body and planet with a huge vibrating floor that moves in choreographed patterns when charged with sound. Tremor premieres Wednesday November 16 at Arts House and will run until Sunday November 20.

Often regarded as celebrated auteur Roman Polanski’s most underrated film, Bitter Moon follows an English couple as they set out to revive their relationship. In Polanski’s first collaboration with Tonino Delli Colli, the master Italian cinematographer suffuses the film’s studio interiors and Paris locations with a shimmering patina that heightens the sensual and farcical elements of this blackly comic erotic thriller. Friday November 18 - Sunday November 20 at ACMI.

To make world premiere

Polanski’s bitter farce comes to ACMI

George’s Bar The Summer Of George is nearly upon us. This week check out Daisy Berry guiding the evening through the likes of Naomi Higgins, Khaled Kalafalla, Glen Zen, Kit Richards and more as well as top choices from their Are You Funnier Than George competition. Thursday November 17 at George’s Bar on 120 Johnston St, Fitzroy.

Class Clowns The search is now on for Australia’s funniest teens with the return of Class Clowns. With heats held all around the country in March 2017, aspiring comedians aged 14 to 18 can register their standup, sketch, physical or musical act now for free. Any format goes as long as it is only three to five minutes long, and funny of course. Register at www. classclowns.com.au.

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On Air: 40 Years of 3RRR

Gold Rush: Australia’s Obsession with Winning National identity and competition collide

How does our obsession with winning in sport shape our culture and sense of nationhood? This conversation, hosted by Francis Leach, will delve into the concept of winning from new angles. Leach will be joined by artist Abdul Abdullah and Zali Yager, whose research focuses on body image and doping alongside cricket writer Gideon Haigh. The Wheeler Centre will unpack the ties between triumph and legacy on Wednesday November 16.

Discover the story of a Melbourne icon

Bitch Stole My Act Presents burlesque special

Australia’s two burlesque beauties Bella de Jac and Alyssa Kitt will be bringing one hell of a party to Melbourne this week. If you know exactly how it feels to have someone rip you off, then you’ll get a kick out of Bitch Stole My Act; a clash of tension and jealousy that pokes fun at frenemies, burlesque wives and best friends. Catch it at 24 Moons on Thursday November 17.

Discover the story of Triple R’s evolution from humble beginnings as an educational broadcaster at RMIT University, to a station with 440,000 listeners and its own digs in Brunswick. Featuring an eclectic array of materials from Triple R’s archive including signed gig posters, original artworks, rare photographs and Triple R T-shirts and merchandise, On Air: 40 years of 3RRR explores the history, culture and character of this iconic and much-loved station. Catch it Friday November 18 and Saturday November 19 at the State Library.

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With Joe Hansen

Charts

Punk/Hardcore

Jon Hopkins

Heartland Records Top Ten 1. Opalescent LP, Jon Hopkins 2. This Time, Jon Cooper Clarke 3. Life’s What You Make It LP, Placebo 4. No Exit LP, Marian Faithfull 5. Sun Ship 10”, Brian Jonestown 6. Licensed To Ill LP, Beastie Boys 7. For Twisted Minds LP/CD, Horse 8. Another Fall From Grace LP/CD, The Mission 9. Exit Planet Dust LP, Chemical Brothers 10. Peaceful Ghosts LP, Nada Surf

Record Paradise Top Ten 1. Time Is Golden, Big Smoke 2. Priestess/Bravado 12”, Harvey Sutherland 3. Ugly Cry EP, Habits 4. Atrocity Exhibition, Danny Brown 5. Early Times, Thigh Master 6. You Yang, Lost Animal 7. Joy, The Peep Tempel 8. Do Hollywood, The Lemon Twigs 9. Soft Hair, Soft Hair 10. Skiptracing, Mild High Club

Nothing

Philadelphia alt-rockers Nothing have announced a national tour this January. Continuing to support their recent album Tired of Tomorrow, Nothing will play Northcote Social Club on Sunday January 29. New York hardcore legends Burn have announced the release of a new album, their first since 2002’s Last Great Sea. Yet to be named, the record has been recorded by Converge’s Kurt Ballou and will be released in early 2017 on Deathwish. Long-running Toronto hardcore punks Career Suicide have announced the release of an upcoming EP and full-length album in the coming months. Although the EP is yet to be named, the album is called Machine Response, reportedly featuring guest vocals by Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham. The band last released the Cherry Beach EP in 2011. Iron Reagan

With Peter Hodgson

Metal

Katatonia

It’s only a matter of days until we’re all pulverized by the new Metallica album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct. Swedish melodic metal heavyweights Katatonia finally return to Australia for their first ever headline tour this December. They were last here in 2013 supporting Opeth. Catch them at the Corner Hotel on Saturday December 10. Arch Enemy will release a live DVD titled As The Stages Burn on Friday March 31. It was filmed at Wacken Open Air in Germany. The Devil Wears Prada

SYN Top Ten 1. Skin ft Holly Hunta, Clovr 2. Drain, Endless Heights 3. Hush, Morgan Bain 4. Everybody Talks, The Jensens 5. Meat Hook, These New South Whales 6. Burn Break Crash, Aanysa X Snakehips 7. Wasting Time, Day Wave 8. Little Brother, Ella Vos 9. Haunted World, Isles&Fever 10. Cocoon, Milky Chance

PBS FM Top Ten 1. The Lost Moon of Bellaris, Papa Chango 2. Beyond the Bottom Hour, The Dacios 3. We Got It From Here and Thank You 4 Your Service, A Tribe Called Quest 4. On Drugs 7”, Primitive Calculators 5. Sue Barker, Sue Barker 6. A Slave to the Ghost, Howl at the Moon 7. Sister Sister, Lower Plenty 8. Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal 9. Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2, Various Artists 10. Silver Birch, Little Wise

Richmond VA’s Iron Reagan, featuring members of Municipal Waste, have announced the upcoming release of their third full-length album. Crossover Ministry will be released on Friday February 3 on Relapse Records. The band last released The Tyranny of Will in 2014. A killer compilation has been announced featuring hardcore punk bands from New Zealand, South East Asia and Australia. Entitled Bottom of the World, the album features Australian mainstays Shackles, Last Chaos, Havittajat and more. To be released in Australia on Televised Suicide and Lost In Fog Records, the album will be accompanied by an A5 zine and poster. The Menzingers

Beat’s Top Ten Hip Hop Collabs of 2016 1. Papercuts, Illy ft Vera Blue 2. January 26, A.B Original ft Dan Sultan 3.No More Parties In LA, Kanye West ft Kendrick Lamar 4. Glowed Up, Kaytranada ft Anderson .Paak 5. For Good, Remi ft Sampa The Great 6. Angels, Chance The Rapper ft Saba 7. Mexico, Drapht ft Dune Rats 8. Carry On, Tkay Maidza ft Killer Mike 9. Dang, Mac Miller ft Anderson .Paak 10. Bills, Ivan Ooze ft Ghostface Killah

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Orgcore punks The Menzingers have announced a second Melbourne show on their upcoming tour after their first show at The Reverence Hotel sold out. The band will play an additional show at The Reverence on Thursday February 9. The tour will be in support of the band’s upcoming album After the Party, due out Friday February 3 on Epitaph. SoCal band Stick to Your Guns have announced an upcoming Australian tour. They’ll play an 18+ show at The Corner Hotel on Friday January 20 and an all ages show at Phoenix Youth Centre on Saturday January 21. The band will be supported on all dates by Knocked Loose, Relentless and Reactions

Metalcore heavyweights The Devil Wears Prada return to Australia next April in support of their sixth album Transit Blues. Joining the tour is San Diego post-hardcore purveyors Being As An Ocean. Australian fans will be some of the first to hear new material from their as yet unreleased fourth album. See them at the Corner Hotel on Saturday April 18, tickets on sale Thursday November 17. Motorhead tribute Ace of Spades and Dio tribute Holy Diver are both playing two sets each at Rockstar Bar in Frankston on Saturday November 19. Sworn Enemy

1054 Records announced legendary hardcore/metal band Sworn Enemy will play at the Bendigo Hotel on Friday November 18. The night also features hometown hardcore heroes Crowned Kings (fresh from a European tour with Sick Of It All), Cold Ground, Southpaw and Overpower. Also at the Bendigo this weekend, is the return of Tasmanian extreme metal quartet Départe on Saturday November 19, in support of their long awaited and highly anticipated debut album Failure, Subside. Taking on elements from post metal, black metal, and death metal, Failure, Subside is a truly unique and captivating experience. Joining Départe at the Bendigo Hotel will be Sydney’s post metal/sludge/hardcore legends Lo!, epic post black metallers Greytomb, national tour support No Haven, and kicking off the evening will be local post metal quintet Cascades. Entry is $15, doors at 7.30pm.

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Electronic

Beat Eats ACM

It’s the MMW: Live Music Safari this Thursday November 17 and damn there’s some good parties happening. The Heads with Tales label showcase at Lounge looks huge with some truly world class locals including Cale Sexton, ACM and Dan White doing live techno and house sets. Don’t miss ACM’s set, his laptop-free live set-up is bananas. Elsewhere there’s the huge laneway party at Section 8 featuring Black Milk, Andee Frost and Jennifer Loveless at Hugs&Kisses, Theremin wizard Miles Brown and Shouse at Loop, The Operatives Records Launch with JPSxHooves and the rest of the Operatives gang at The Mercat and the list goes on all free entry.

Meat Fish Wine are offering diners the chance to sample a beautiful selection of wine, hand-picked by their resident sommelier, by way of five unique tasting flights. A changing selection of regional, seasonal and eclectic tasting flights are available to try at any time in the bar or restaurant with their new Wonderful Wine Flights offering. With five unique flights on offer, there is bound to be something to entice every palate. During the tasting, attendees are encouraged to have a chat with the knowledgeable team and learn a thing or two about some sensational hand-picked drops. You’ll get to try some new wines, interesting varietels, brush up on your wine knowledge and boost your enjoyment for the finer things in life. Flights on offer include Aromatic All-Stars, Cabernet Challenge ± Breaking Bordeaux, The Giants of the Australian Wine World, Sweet Nothings and The Italian Job. Grab a glass when Meat Fish Wine take their Wonderful Wine Flights to town. Meat Fish Wine can be found at 31 Artemis Lane in the Melbourne CBD, and is open from 12pm ‘til 3pm for lunch or 5pm ‘til late for dinner.

The next New Slang has been announced and it’s pretty wicked. On Friday December 2 move your body down to the The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne. Headlining this month is Alex Lahey, joined by Bec Sandridge and The Beths (NZ) as well as DJ Drew Partymore. It’s like Christmas and New Years coming early on the same night, You can grab tickets right now from bit.ly/newslang8 to get amongst the action. Allday

The Night Noodle Markets are back this month for another huge season of live music, installation art and of course, fantastic Asian cuisine. The huge outdoor food festival is celebrating the return of many crowd favourites, including Wonderbao, Hoy Pinoy Bbq, Mr. Miyagi, Bao Stop and over 30 other exotic food stalls from around the world. It wouldn’t be a true foodie event without dessert, and the Melbourne-favourite event has announced the return of Gelato Messina, Black Star Pastry and N2 Extreme Gelato. Patrons can expect to enjoy an evening of acrobatics, traditional dragon dancers and light shows, as well as live DJs and music for people of all ages to enjoy. The Night Noodle Markets for 2016 will return to its residency at Birrarung Marr in Melbourne from Thursday November 10 to Sunday November 27. Entry is free.

Nina Kraviz

In international news, despite the closure of London’s Fabric, it looks like the infamous club will still be releasing their ongoing Fabric and Fabriclive mixes with funds raised going to the club’s legal battles. Next up is Nina Kraviz, with a belting tracklist including Aphex Twin, Claude Young and some of her own unreleased material, it’s out Friday December 9. Back on home soil, the much loved Inner Varnika festival has confirmed it will be back in 2017, set to go ahead over Easter weekend, from Friday April 14 until Sunday April 16. Lineup announcements are “just around the corner.”

All Ages Alex Lahey

Stephen Bodzin

Also on Thursday, Stephan Bodzin and MK play Smalltown at Brown Alley. It’s an interesting mix of sounds - MK a veteran Detroit house DJ/producer and Bodzin doing his melodic synth heavy live set, the night promises to be a journey through sound that’s for sure. Friday’s gonna be tough. We can’t all party hard on a Thursday, thankfully Melbourne tastemakers Butter Sessions are throwing a shindig on Friday November 18 featuring Kuniyuki from Japan doing a live set. He makes really gorgeous long form ambient but beatladen arrangements so I’m looking forward to seeing how that translates to a live-set. It’s going down at Hugs&Kisses with DJ SO, lbrecht La’Brooy (Live), Sleep D and Norachi along for the ride.

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On the topic of Alex Lahey, you can catch her live this Friday November 18 at the State Library as she helps celebrate with triple j Unearthed. It might feel like Unearthed has been around forever but they’re only just turning the big 1-0h and they’re throwing a huge birthday party right on the doorstep of the Melbourne Music Week hub. There’s also Allday, North East Party House, Ali Barter as well as some secret special guests. Nai Palm

The Melbourne Champagne Festival is heading to town in early December to give Melbournians a taste of boutique Champagnes loved by collectors all across the globe at a free festival hosted by Wine Republic. There’ll be a huge slection of the best small-production grower Champagnes for you to taste, with rare, hard to find and great value bubbles being unearthed on site by serious international collectors and sommeliers alike. If that isn’t enough to get you excited, Melbourne’s award winning chocolatier Koko Black has put together a mouth-watering range of chocolate treats to pair with Champagnes on the day. Pop the cork when the Melbourne Champagne Festival hits Wine Republic on 118 Chapel Street in Windsor on Friday December 9 from 6pm to 8pm, Wine Republic on 265 Brunswick Street in Fitzroy on Saturday December 10 from 2pm to 5pm and Wine Republic on 226 High Street in Northcote on Sunday December 11 from 2pm to 5pm.

The Unearthed party isn’t the only thing happening at the State Library this Friday. There’s also this little music conference called Face The Music. Presented by The Push and Melbourne Music Week, it’s the largest gathering music industry aficionados of all types this side of the equator. Friday is also #AusMusicTshirt Day and to celebrate the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN) will be taking to the State Library steps to try and set an (unofficial) world record, and anyone can be a part of it. While the business bigwigs brainstorm, AMIN are attempting to capture the most Australian Music t-shirts on living bodies in one photograph. They’re looking for as many people as possible to don their fave Australian music t-shirt and meet up on the steps at 9.25am for a huge group photo like the ones they make you take in school. Afterwards instead of going back to class, all attendees are treated to a free performance from artist Nai Palm. Permanent photographic evidence of your attendance in an unofficial world record attempt and a free performance? That’s amazing, there’s no way you should miss this. BEAT.COM.AU

Music Feature

Illy By Natalie Rogers

It’s been said that good things come to those who wait - and that couldn’t be truer for fans of the Frankston-born hit-maker, Illy, with the release of his fifth album Two Degrees. Three years on from the release of his ARIA certified gold album, Cinematic, this time the rapper left everyone waiting, including his record company. “I think I’ve given the people at Warner [Music Australia] heart attacks actually, on a few occasions,” he says. “I only got the masters a few weeks ago, and it was cutting it close to the release date - but it’s all good.” With Two Degrees finally out there for the world to enjoy, the charismatic yet humble 30-year-old sounds relaxed and excited about hitting the road to play his upcoming album launch shows and a handful of festivals over the summer - but he insists he isn’t always so cool, calm and collected. “There’s always that anxiety I feel right up until the album comes out, and I felt it especially leading up to this release because it was such a long process,” he says. “I’ve been working on demos since the start of last year and it’s been really full on. I’ve taken my time because I wanted to raise the bar higher and exceed my own personal expectations after the success of Cinematic. I really wanted to improve on that experience and now I feel pretty happy having taken that time.” The importance of time and knowing how to use it are reoccurring themes on Two Degrees, made clear as Illy explains the meaning behind the title in an earlier press release. “President Obama was asked whether he viewed his presidency as a success, having faced such fierce opposition throughout his two terms. His answer likened society to a ship, where you can’t steer 50 degrees at once, but if you move two degrees then another two degrees, and continue like this, years later you end up in a very different place from where you began. And as long as you’re steering in the right direction and progressing, your impact is made over time. This album is a celebration of moving forward, two degrees at a time …” “Now, I know that I’m a musician and I’m quoting something by the leader of the free world,” he says. “I know there’s a difference and I’m not that arrogant. But I did see a parallel in that I’m in a very different spot now than when I started my career. I believe that lasting change is something that

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happens over time, rather than something that can happen in a flashpoint moment.” Encouraged by the success of his double platinum single Papercuts, Illy’s talent for writing pop lyrics and electronic music is showcased on Two Degrees, while still maintaining his signature hip hop style. “Everyone thinks in hindsight that it’s easy to see that Papercuts was a no-brainer, but at the time, going out with a track that was completely different to anything I’d done before. It was a really big risk. But even when I was coming out of the underground scene in an unknown crew, I was always more involved with melody and different styles than strictly hip hop,” says Illy. With a total of six unique artist collaborations, including Sir The Baptist, Marko Penn, Tonight Alive’s Jenna McDougall, and up-and-coming Melbourne singer/songwriter Mike Waters, Two Degrees is already touted as being one of the best Australian releases of 2016. “Having the guts to back myself and finding that confidence is a process that’s taken quite a long time, but I’ve moved slowly and incrementally made changes to my sound to get to a point where I’m making the best stuff of my career.” Illy says a lot of the credit for the genre-bending tracks should go to his buddy, Grammy awardwinning Australian producer, M-Phazes. “Phazes is a world-class producer in my opinion ± he’s comfortably the best producer in Australia. That’s not me throwing shade on anyone else, but he’s my homie, we have each other’s back and I feel fortunate. I value his opinion more than anybody else’s because I think he’s deserving of that.” The album launch can’t come soon enough for Illy. “I can’t wait to play these songs live. I’ve put more of myself in this album than any of the others. I put myself out of my comfort zone in terms of pushing new sounds. I think the title of the album sums it all up ± making those changes and being able to look back at the end of it and know that you’ve trusted your gut and that it paid off is a really cool feeling. I’m proud of it and I hope that people like it.”

“Having the guts to back myself and finding that confidence is a process that’s taken quite a long time” Illy will play Howler on Thursday November 17 with B-Wise and Falls Festival, Lorne on Thursday December 29. Two Degrees is out now via Warner Music.

Interviews

Poppy Seed Theatre: Three Birds Theatre’s

LadyCake

We all probably know a little bit about Marie Antoinette: French Queen, big-hair, beheaded. She’s perhaps most famous for coining the phrase “Let them eat cake”, but did she actually say that? While the history books have done an excellent job mythologising this powerful, yet vilified, monarch, how can we ever know who she truly was? It’s a question that’s captured the imagination of Three Birds Theatre. The historical figure has been portrayed variously as a teen icon, loving mother, draconian villain and murdered queen. “We’re asking how easy is it to tear a woman from her throne?” says Anna Rodway, who along with Candace Miles and Madelaine Nunn will be examining the many facets of Marie Antoinette in LadyCake. A world premiere, LadyCake opens next week and is one of four works selected as part of the Poppy Seed Theatre festival. Now in its second year, Poppy Seed Theatre Festival invests financially and artistically in independent artists, this year also including Attic Erratic, Hotel Now and Riot Stage, all recognised for being “tenacious, dedicated to their work, have enormous respect for each other and a solid commitment to the festival model,” says Festival co-director Scott Major. The Three Birds Theatre trio are all 2015 Victorian College of the Arts graduates, “interested in feminine spaces and a feminine realm where stories or insecurities or vulnerabilities can come out,” says Rodway. Their previous piece, Three Birds One Cock, took three of Alfred Hitchcock’s victims (from

Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds) and put them all in a room together with a dead body. In LadyCake, they’re delving into the mythology surrounding this famous woman from the 18th century, looking at her as both a public and private figure and how she came to be so demonised. “We want to explore the representation of women in positions of power and how we talk about them, how we tear them down; put them on pedestals and like to see them fall, essentially,” says Rodway. Given that so much of history has traditionally been written by men, Three Birds Theatre are especially interested in her vilification. “We’re looking at how that came about through propaganda and pamphleting and the way that she was represented by society,” says Rodway. “We vilify this woman saying she didn’t help the poor, she didn’t go out, she didn’t understand what was going on outside her door, the people were starving. But the interesting question for us is how much agency did she actually have? Was she even able to leave the home? We’ll never know, but creating this feminine space on stage and then tearing it down is helping us identify this dichotomy between the villain and the victim.” Rather than any one of the actors playing Marie Antoinette, they’re examining how she was perceived

through the eyes of three handmaidens. “They’re getting the inside understanding of her as a woman and as someone who, literally, was sold to France to seal a deal from Austria at 14,” says Rodway. “People viewed her having a child, people viewed her on her marriage night. There was this sense that nothing she did was seen as something that wasn’t a public affair and we’re trying to make parallels with the modern world, saying women are often put on these pedestals where we talk about them in certain ways. We like to criticise, we like to judge, we like to speculate and that then feeds and breeds into the kind of culture we have with the media, and the way that people talk about the Hillary Clintons of today, and the Julia Gillards, and the sort of celebrity culture that is so rife now. She really was a very early celebrity”. Rodway says LadyCake, like their previous work, will be quite self aware. “We like to write work that is quite comical, that has macabre undertones,” she says. The show will also be visually striking, referencing the colour and luxury of royal life in the 1700s, but also subverting that, given at the time “There’s a very bloody backdrop going on outside in the streets.” And will there be cake? “It will definitely appear in some form,” Rodway says.

“Women are often put on these pedestals where we talk about them in certain ways. We like to criticise, we like to judge, we like to speculate” Three Birds Theatre’s LadyCake will be part of Poppy Seed Theatre, performing at Trades Hall until Sunday November 27.

By Joanne Brookfield

The Cult The Cult are innovators. Their music has always carried a certain darkness to it, a melancholy sensibility that endears them to fans of gothic alternative rock and LA hard rock fans in equal measure. Guitarist Billy Duffy is a driving force of that sensibility, offsetting his crunchy rock rhythms with dark, atmospheric melodies and screaming solos. Hidden City is that rarest of beasts: a compellingly vital album from an established band that could easily play the legacy circuit for the rest of their days and continue to draw big crowds. But The Cult refuses to rest on their laurels. If you’re an old-school fan but haven’t checked in with them for a while, the new album deserves some heavy rotation before you rock up to the show. “We play about 18 songs per show, and we play about four off the new album,” Duffy says. “Four or five, maybe. Four’s good, in context. There’s quite a dramatic bit in the middle where we play a couple of new songs. We’ve been playing four or five over the last year and that seems to be the best combination for our own gigs as a whole. When we play festivals, or for example when we played with Guns N’ Roses this year, we’ll play one new song because it’s not your fanbase.” Hidden City is the fifth Cult album to be produced by Bob Rock and the band’s tenth overall. At this point they have a very natural workflow established, especially when it comes to laying down guitar tracks with all sorts of esoteric gear. “It’s a Bob Rock record so we used the kitchen sink,” Duffy says. You name it, they used it, from handmade boutique amplifiers worth tens of thousands of dollars to humble practice amps sold through mail order catalogs in the ‘50s and ‘60s. “We did a week just doing guitars on Maui where Bob lives,” Duffy 24 BEAT.COM.AU

“I’ve definitely got that melodic ear. But we don’t do too cheerful around The Cult, that’s for sure.” says. “I went over there around my birthday last year and I did it as a combination birthday and some work. Bob shows up in this pickup truck that’s got to be worth about six hundred dollars and it won’t die, and the gear on the back of it was worth about a million bucks, strapped to the back of the pickup truck. He had a lot of stuff.” One of the superstars of the record was a red Fender Jaguar, a guitar Duffy usually despises, but in Rock’s hands (as an occasional co-guitarist in the studio) it took on a whole new life. “The riff at the beginning of the album, Bob’s playing a red Fender Jaguar, which as you know are horrible guitars, but this one isn’t horrible, it’s really nice,” Duffy says. “He bought it in LA from some store and he snuck it out from under the nose of my very good friend from the old days Johnny Marr - who has his own signature Jaguar by the way. Bob bought this Jaguar that doesn’t suck. It sounds good, it plays well and everything works on it.”

“That’s Bob playing that riff because that’s how a guitar can affect a song. He walked in with that guitar, plugged it in, started messing around and that riff was much slower but he sped it up and started messing around with it and it went from there. The guitar inspired him to take a riff that was okay but then inspired him. That’s how that song came together: on the back of Bob’s shopping spree.” A hallmark of Duffy’s own guitar style is the dark, lonesome melody of tracks like She Sells Sanctuary and Rain. It sounds almost like a surfguitar approach to songwriting, although the overall sound is nothing like that genre. “It was never a thing I was into. I always found it a bit. I liked The Shadows and Ennio Morricone but I wouldn’t call that surfy. Maybe somewhere along those lines. I’ve definitely got that melodic ear. But we don’t do too cheerful around The Cult, that’s for sure.” By Peter Hodgson

The Cult play Festival Hall on Saturday November 26.

Melbourne Music Week’s

At a Glance News

Live Music Safari Hue Blanes

The pinnacle of Melbourne Music Week is the hallowed Live Music Safari – offering a veritable slew of live music in a huge night of free gigs and parties on Thursday November 17. Fourteen of Melbourne’s most revered, iconic and well-loved music venues will throw their doors open to acts and bands covering everything from neo-soul and future-jazz to hip hop, tehcno and heavy-hitting rock. Think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure style music festival, in which you’re both the curator and punter all at once. We’ve picked out some of our favourites to get you started, keeping you going from the afternoon and well into the early morning.

Hue Blanes + Xani Kolac & The Twoks + Horns of Leroy If contemporary and unpretentious jazz is your thing, look no further than this show. Let your safari take you into a world of boundarypushing sounds, featuring Hue Blanes and co. as they create and digitally share life-changing songs, as well as Xani Kolac and her innovative duo The Twoks pushing the envelope. Capping it off comes the brass powerhouse that is Horns of Leroy. It kicks off from 6.30pm at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club. Baro Black MIlk

Baro + Milwaukee Banks + Esese The brains behind Laneway Festival are delivering a lineup of straight fire for their third official Melbourne Music Week event. Staying true to their focus on emerging artists, get down for a night of local and forwardthinking hip hop, featuring Baro, Milwaukee Banks and ESESE (Eastern Seaboard Electric Soul Ensemble). Get down to 1000 £ Bend from 7pm. Cocoa Noire Zola Jesus

Cocoa Noire + Bryce Lawrence + Disco Inferno If your idea of the ultimate Live Music Safari is to boogie the night away like it’s 1979, look no further than this infectiously funky lineup as Dance Party Pyrotechnics Association return with another face-melter of a party. The disco inferno will feature the 11-piece Dance Party house band, as well as exclusive performances from Cocoa Noire, Bryce Lawrence and resident Dance Party disc burners Dance Party DJs. Hit Dong Dong Lounge from 9pm to get amongst it.

Jarrow

Yeo

PBS Live Broadcast: Jarrow + Jess Ribeiro + Jim Lawrie

Black Milk + SAATSUMA + Yeo

PBS is back for their annual live broadcast, bringing together a very tight lineup, while PBS announcers get among the action. Jarrow will be taking to the stage off the back of his critically acclaimed album, 2003 Dream, while brooding alt-country singer/songwriter Jess Ribeiro will be unleashing songs from her latest effort, Kill It Yourself. Jim Lawrie will be performing his brand of Australiana, pulling from his records Eons and Paying My Debts from the Grave. Adding an extra layer of good times to the event, interviews will flow throughout – giving you the inside story on bands and special guests. It’s going down at The Curtin from 7pm.

Tattersalls Lane will be packing an international twist, transforming into the kind of party you won’t see anywhere else. Detroit-based hip hop producer Black Milk will lead the charge. As well as collaborations with the likes of Jack White, Robert Glasper and Danny Brown, he has a solid back catalogue and a reputation for thrilling live shows. He’ll be joined by New Zealand rap duo Average Rap Band, Yeo, SAATSUMA and more. It’s going down at Section 8 and Ferdydurke from 4pm.

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Vulture St. Tape Gang

Little Desert + Taipan Tiger Girls + Ohms

Groeni + Lossless + Vulture St. Tape Gang

North Melbourne’s favourite dive bar will present an exciting celebration of our city’s live underground music scene. Experimental drone trio Taipan Tiger Girls will lead the charge. With a sound described as long, hypnotic walls of sound, and two albums created as improvised, one-take live recordings – expect the unexpected. They’ll team up with label mates Little Desert and scrappy garage punks Ohms. To top things off, the whole event will be recorded by local production label Crinkle Cut Records. It’s gonna get sweaty at Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar from 7.30pm.

Local label and all-round tastemakers Wondercore Island bring together some of its newest artists and friends for what can only be described as a night for futuristic tastes. There’ll be live electronic, and completely improvised jazz, as well as beat making with a self-sampling vocoder – just to give you an idea. New Zealand electronic trio Groeni, Lossless – the musical genius of Oscar Key Sung & HTMLflowers, Footscray duo SO.Crates (featuring Skomes and Cazeaux O.S.L.O) and the totally improvised insanity that is Vulture St Tape Gang join forces at Belleville from 9pm.

Cale Sexton

Pearls

Closet Straights The Harpoons

Baptism of Uzi + Closet Straights + Howl At The Moon For over six years now, Cobra Snake Necktie Records and Love & Theft Recording Co. have been delivering vinyl love letters to Melbourne. For MMW’s Live Music Safari, they’ve assembled five of their finest artists for one night only at the Bella Union. It’s all going down from 7pm.

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Dan White + Cale Sexton + Mos Howieson

Pearls + Loose Tooth + DJ Emoceans

Heads With Tales continue to place an emphasis on building and showcasing independent emerging artists, this time with a focus on the diverse spectrum of electronic music. Dan White, one of the many production aliases of Rory McPike will show off his love of jungle, techno, reggae and ambient music. He’ll be joined by genrepushing producers including Cale Sexton, Mosam Howieson, Prequel, Rat & Co and Jennifer Loveless. Together the lineup has played to crowds at Inner Varnika Festival, Strawberry Fields Festival, and Sugar Mountain and dropped releases on labels in Canada, Los Angeles and the UK. Head to Lounge from 5pm.

Get ready for a night of new music, old favourites and a few surprises along the way when I OH YOU bring together some of Melbourne’s most exciting up-and-coming artists. Three-piece Pearls will be showcasing tracks from last year’s debut LP, Pretend You’re Mine, as well as brand-spanking-new tunes from their forthcoming second album, while Loose Tooth will be bringing their smouldering guitar pop gems like those found on their debut album Saturn Returns. DJ Emoceans and I OH YOU DJs will hit the decks, opening and closing the night with only the freshest dancefloor fillers. Make your way to The Toff from 7pm.

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Interviews

Armored Dawn If Amored Dawn’s Eduardo Parras ever gives up on playing music, he could always find new work as a motivational speaker. After all, the frontman of the São Paulo-based band is a thoughtful interviewee, and at times his considered answers to questions about playing music, the gruelling nature of touring and his band’s sonic direction moving forward become genuinely inspiring. Not that there’s much chance of Parras packing in his work with Armored Dawn, mind you. The group has been his main focus since its inception in 2011, and only this year Parras and co dropped their new record, an anthemic collection of classic rock tunes called Power Of Warrior that has already been received with rapturous approval from fans and critics alike. The reception the record has received so far is even more striking considering the band knocked it out in an incredibly short space of time. “I wrote the songs in 60 days,” Parras says. “It was all stored in my memory, so when I decided to make the album it didn’t take much time. The musical arrangements took 90 days and we recorded the album in 30 days. I think [that] was a reasonable time.” Parras evidently loved every moment the band spent laying down the album, and he stresses that hitting the studio is his very favourite step in the creative process. “I [love] recording,” he says. “I love to think about music and then build it [up]. I can stay recording up to 12 to 18 hours and then after that I keep listening to the recorded music over 200 times.” Although a lot of the speed at which the band work and record comes down to Parras ± he is the principal songwriter, after all ± it helps that he’s

FREE CD WITH NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE! surrounded himself with some singularly talented collaborators. “We have our peculiar way of developing the songs,” Parras says. “First of all, I present the melody and the theme to the band and after that, we develop the idea altogether. First I create all the melodic lines of the music on the piano: I develop the concept and lyrics and I show the band my ideas. Then the musicians develop tones, arrangements, solos. As each musician has their own influences, we end up going through several styles of rock. “ Parras’ own influences are wide-reaching, and his all-consuming creative appetite is reflected in the band’s ever changing melodic style. Though Armored Dawn are often described as a heavy metal group, it’s more difficult than one might expect to pigeonhole their music, and Power Of Warrior in particular nimbly leaps from balladry to cock rock to hair metal and everything in between. “In the ‘70s when I was a child, I was mainly listening to Brazilian popular music because of my parents’ influence,” Parras says. “I also used to listen to a lot of classical music because my mother was a classical piano teacher. At the age of 15, I discovered heavy metal and fell in love with the intensity and the sound of it.”

That sense of intensity is the defining characteristic of Parras’ own work ± even though Power Of Warrior might be hard to define, it’s never nebulous, and every single song on the record actively encourages a good old bout of headbanging. For that very reason, one can imagine that touring the record has its own distinct challenges ± playing music that heavy for such an extended period of time would leave one both emotionally and physically drained. And yet, though Parras admits that it’s not always easy, he tackles the challenges with the resolve of a heavy metal saint. “It is really tiring,” he says. “[Nothing] in your life can go beyond your own limit and everyone should know this. I try not overcome my limits: for example, I don’t accept very long tours because instead of making me happy, they would leave me tired and bored. I do not inflict that on myself. “But when you really want something, you can overcome difficulties and do better the next time. Today, in spite of having played in many shows, I still get excited with the shows. I am a very enthusiastic person.”

“[Nothing] in your life can go beyond your own limit and everyone should know this.”

Armored Dawn’s album Power Of Warrior is out now.

By Joseph Earp

Julien Baker Julien Baker is walking the streets of Memphis. The singer/songwriter is enjoying a rare break from an intensive year of touring, one that’s seen her perform sold out shows across the country, playing for fans desperate to see songs off her debut Sprained Ankle performed live. It’s easy to imagine that such moments of respite are warmly-received by the musician, but Baker finds it difficult to definitively say whether she prefers the grinding nature of being on the road, or the relatively quiet of home. “When I’m off on tour, I end up going on super long walks like I’m doing right now,” Baker says. “That or I go on super long drives. It seems counterintuitive: you’d thing the last thing you’d want to do after you’ve been on the road for 30 or 40 days is go out and drive again. But I think that’s how I wind down now.” Baker’s popularity growth has been less curvelike and more of a spike: the furore surrounding Sprained Ankle sprung up immediately. Given Baker has had little time to adjust to her new life, one has to wonder whether or not the whole touring thing is proving a little hard to cope with. “This is something I spend a lot of time thinking about,” Baker says. “I’m an analytical person, so I’m not alright with not knowing what is going on and just being happy or unhappy about it. I think a lot about touring and the social aspect of it. It’s a paradox: there’s a dichotomy between always being alone and yet never alone. “I cherish solitude. I’m an introverted person. And there’s some towns where I don’t know anyone. But there’s [also] never really a time where I’m alone. And there’s not many people to split your time around. It takes a toll sometimes. And I think part of making a tour feasible is making concessions to mental health and figuring out what makes it easier.” That said, Baker is no martyr. She hasn’t led an easy life ± a lot of her past pains, suicide attempts 28 BEAT.COM.AU

“All my songs are about me and my troubles and my worries and my fears” and doomed relationships are at the very forefront of Sprained Ankle ± which is perhaps why she’s so content now with relative simplicity. “My needs are simple,” she says. “I try not to make any unreasonable demands ± I don’t like the idea of being an artist who’s a diva. “I wake up: I set my alarm for super early, so I wake up before everyone else, and I go out from where everyone is. And I have a cup of coffee, and I just sit and turn off my phone. I’ll do meditative prayer, or think about nothing, or maybe read a book. There’s no pressure. And that time of solitude really helps me deal with the rest of the day, where I have to be on and be engaged and know where I’m going.” But above anything else, Baker seems deeply, humbly grateful for the life she has found herself slap bang in the middle of. “I have some level of predictability in my job, but I mean, what if everyone wakes up tomorrow and they’re over the record?” She says. “Then I’d have to say, ‘Well, I was thankful

for the time I got.’ It’s about being content in all areas of your life.” Mind you, it’s not that she doesn’t have her fair share of niggling doubts, and she admits to sometimes feeling uncomfortable about the autobiographical nature of her art. “All my songs are about me and my troubles and my worries and my fears,” she says. “Sometimes I’ll be in the middle of writing this song and I’ll have this voice in the back of my head going, ‘You selfish piece of crap. Who cares? Who cares about your whiny problems?’ “But as much as that discouraging voice exists, I think that disparaging voice gets balanced out whenever someone with a relatable experience talks to me at a show. Then I’ll think, ‘Oh man, I didn’t know anyone else but me had had that specific of an experience.’ But now they feel less alone.” By Joseph Earp

Julien Baker will play Queenscliff Music Festival, running from Saturday November 26 until Sunday November 27 and Northcote Social Club on Tuesday November 29 and Wednesday November 30.

Interviews

Heaps Gay “I really love the idea of creating an inclusive space where people can come together and really be themselves.”

“We, the queer community, are still fighting for equality, we’re still fighting for acceptance. “We’ve got a US president that is not supportive

of the LGBQIT+ community in 2016. The discrimination throughout the wider community is still very apparent, especially in the trans community, and that’s why it’s so great that there’s communities like Heaps Gay.” This sad truth is one of many reasons why Heaps Gay is so important. Director, Kat Dopper, has taken the intrinsic social value that music and art has to people, and created events that are not only fun, but also a safe environment for those who may need it most. “I live in a pretty sugar-coated community. I’m super lucky that my friends and family and the people I’m surrounded by are really supportive and I sometimes don’t even notice. But there are so many people without amazing support networks around them. “I really love the idea of creating an inclusive space where people can come together and really be themselves. Some people haven’t been able to come out to family and friends, so at the events they’re able to be around like-minded people and be themselves.” Founded three years ago by Dopper after a trip to London, Heaps Gay started as a means to fill the gap in Sydney’s music and social scene for all inclusive, queer parties. “I’d got back from a really thriving queer scene in London, there were lots of different parties and it was really inclusive. But in Sydney I really didn’t align with anything that was here. We were sitting around one day and decided to start something that we really want to go to, with really great music, and a mixture of people, sexualities, ages, genders.” The Sydneysiders are making their way down

the coast for Melbourne Music Week, filling one of Victoria’s most iconic venues in collaboration with Melbourne’s own cult, camp, cabaret act YUMMY. The usual whispers of the State Library will be replaced with the roaring, brilliant sound of music, the event boasting a lineup of over 30 artists, with an emphasis on local and queer talent. “You’ll be entertained the whole time, it’s all immersive. Get in there and explore. And don’t be late because stuff is happening right from the very beginning,” says Dopper. Aside from big events like Melbourne Music Week, Heaps Gay hosts popular monthly parties, with ticket sales supporting the accompanying website. The site is a hub of articles, social commentary, memoirs and news told from a queer perspective. All contributors and content creators are members of the LGBQIT+ community. “The site was the natural next step for Heaps Gay. We had the opportunity to do more, to take this vibe and extend it out to rural areas, to where people don’t necessarily have support networks around them. We started a website to get the vibe out there. “When we curate the house parties, it’s not

necessarily a headlining act, it’s often local acts, arts students, and the party is a platform to help them get their stuff out there, and the website works the same. It’s another platform,” says Dopper. Combining charity with immersive art and supporting local, queer artists, and event partnerships with foundations such as HIV/AIDS prevention and support, LGBQIT+ health promotion ACON, Oxfam, and Marriage Equality, Heaps Gay’s strong charitable emphasis is one small part of what distinguishes it from the gay club scene. “We don’t like to say that we’re a club, you don’t turn up to Heaps Gay and dance in the corner. You communicate with like-minded people, experience music, and art, lots of creativity around you. We incorporate music and art and performance. It’s so important, especially in the young LGBQIT+ community. Coming to an inclusive and supportive space like that, they’re able to come out and work out who they really are.”

Heaps Gay Heaps Yummy will take over Queen’s Hall, State Library on Wednesday November 16 as part of Melbourne Music Week.

By Claire Varley

Sui Zhen Not one to shy away from the unconventional, Sui Zhen is an artist fully prepared to take risks within her music. Zhen first caught the attention of fans and critics with her debut album Secretly Susan, a release that explores how we construct our identity online through the guise of a character named Susan. Now working towards her next release, Zhen remains firmly grounded in the tradition of expression through a creative medium. Creating music is a meticulous process for Zhen, who recently took part in an artist residency in Japan to work intensively on her writing. The experience allowed Zhen to fully immerse herself in her music and work within a structured format. “Artist residences are usually for visual artists, writers or academics - people who can work in a place without causing much noise or the kind of person who can work pretty minimally. It was this beautiful solitary experience where I was very focussed. I’ve always wanted to have a consistent routine of making music everyday, but hadn’t really made time for it in my life.” In terms of what has informed the writing for the new album, Zhen is reflective but conscious of a greater narrative within her music. “I wrote a lot of songs that were processing emotions when I originally intended to do something more conceptual. It’s now at the point where there’s emotional content like the previous album, but there’s an emerging concept and another character that I’m working on that I’m really excited about. “It’s almost a continuation of the path I was previously on,” Zhen says. “I’m still interested in characters that are a product of our contemporary society and its relationship to technology. I think I’m exploring something more specific to the

“It’s fun to be someone who’s able to play in another realm and not just be a purely electronic artist. ” technological world. I’m watching a lot of TV and films that explore A.I [Artificial Intelligence] and the characters that emerge out of these impressions of what a fully advanced A.I would be. I’m also fascinated by video game characters and how there’s always a limit to their depth. That’s where I’m taking my next person.” Zhen revels in the opportunity to challenge herself musically as she prepares for her upcoming show as part of Melbourne Music Week’s Hush: An Evening of Quiet Music . The gig requires audiences to remain completely silent during the performance while allowing for the artist to rework their live show to suit the occasion. “I’m used to live performances where I probably project more and need to command attention,” says Zhen. “I want to have opportunities to play with a more nuanced sound. What I’ve done is made a simple change to the band arrangement for these gigs by removing the backing track and having a live drummer instead.

“It’s fun to be someone who’s able to play in another realm and not just be a purely electronic artist. I can play songs on just a guitar and it still works. I’m also looking forward to singing quietly like I do on the record because I rarely sing softly like that when I perform live. It’s really nice to have the opportunity to be forced to do that,” says Zhen. Zhen is completely in control of her craft from her presence on stage, through to her videos and the way she is portrayed in the media. “Knowing which decisions to make for yourself is really important. I’m not saying everyone should be a jack of all trades, master of none. Creative direction is the one thing that links all of my projects. It doesn’t necessarily require a whole other skill set, it’s just taking a leadership role over your image and how you’re marketing yourself.”

Sui Zhen will perform as part of Hush: An Evening of Quiet Music at Parliament House on Wednesday November 16 as part of Melbourne Music Week. She will also DJ at the Music in Motion Party at Hugs & Kisses on Saturday November 19.

By Holly Pereira

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Interviews

Tim Hulsman We all have our vices. Big or small, varying levels of intensity, they exist. Tim Hulsman’s latest single, Monster, is in his own words about “addiction in all its forms.” Though it’s easy to muster up thoughts of rock’n’roll type addictions, and while the song is about that, Hulsman says, it’s also about the everyday vices, about the addictions masquerading as lifestyle choices. “I wanted to talk about this. I think it’s important to look at our weaknesses. I’m by no means saying that I have no weaknesses. But I’m sick of people walking around pretending we’re all clean and perfect.” The inspiration for this switch came from Hulsman’s own experience growing up in a practicing Jehovah’s Witness family. “When I left home at 18 and decided I didn’t want to pursue that path anymore, I was kicked out of home. It was a bit like a spring that had been held really tight for a long time, I went absolutely wild. I experimented with all kinds of drugs and alcohol, got into the rock’n’roll lifestyle. Got right into that whole world, and I saw a lot of stuff, the people I was hanging around with, and my own life, I saw things I didn’t like. “I started to see similarities between people who were addicted to substances, and people who were addicted to religious philosophies. The damage to my family, and what I was seeing around me, it was really similar. People who were addicted to drugs would get kicked out of home, it would divide families and wasn’t conducive to a better society. I found the same thing with what was going on with my parents.” It was when Hulsman started to write Monster that the contrast between these addictions really showed themselves.

“I’m sick of people walking around pretending we’re all clean and perfect.” “I realised I was writing about religion as well. About addiction and the correlation with any kind of fundamental belief system. When you become addicted to drugs, all you can think about is the next score. Same with religion. Everything becomes tunnel vision, you become blinded to everyone around you” Hulsman’s forthcoming album Get Loved! has been a labour of love for the seasoned musician, and is something he’s deeply passionate about bringing to listeners. “It was a pretty long process, I’d written all of the songs, and taken them to the band a year before we started recording in April this year. I was doing a lot of demoing on my own, and my bass player Craig jumped in and helped me with arranging. He was the butcher too. Most of my songs are too long when I start, Craig would come along and chop them up.” In the time that has passed since his wild youth, his musical process has slowly evolved into something

more personal than it’s ever been. “When I was about 17, the very first time I played music live in front of people, a small gathering of family and friends. I got up with an electric guitar and played a song. I was terrified, but how great I felt afterwards, and the adrenaline, I knew it was what I wanted. “I get the biggest thrill out of playing live, that’s where the adrenaline kicks in. But I deeply relish studio time and the writing process, I love the creative process. It’s very insular, and you pull right in, but I love it. It’s like discovering new friends. And you’ve got to hang out with them for a long time, so you better like it. When I find a song I like, it’s a very personal and private moment. “I put more emphasis now on creating great moments in a song. Before I used to be happy with three chords and a melody. I’m now trying to make sure each song has a moment of difference, and really takes you somewhere.” By Claire Varley

Amber Galloway

“I noticed deaf people behaving differently at music venues. … for the first time in their lives, they were connecting to music.”

Amber Galloway is turning the way we think about music upside down, using her voice to speak volumes for others, who may otherwise never be heard. Through a unique and deeply expressive form of sign language, Galloway provides the deaf community with an opportunity to experience the power of music. Galloway recalls being thrown in the deaf world as an interpreter not by choice, but by fate. Originally studying physical therapy and athletic training, it was a horrific car accident at age 16 that left her sharing a room with a deaf patient in rehabilitation. “I fell into it. It’s always been part of my life, just by situation,” she says. “My Dad used to date a girl that had a deaf son, and he taught me my first sign at five-years-old. I also had a neighbour who had given birth to two deaf kids, and they gave me my first sign name. When I was a freshman in high school, there was a deaf football player who tore his ACL. I was doing physical therapy in the off season, so I helped him. I’ve had this whole string of experiences in the deaf world.” The group of people Galloway met in the early years of her life, who she describes as her ‘deaf family’, pushed her to do more with the gift she had. It was much later, however, when she first saw an instance of interpreting music with sign. “I was at a rodeo with my children, and we were sitting in the deaf section,” she says. “I saw the interpreter interpreting the music and I thought, ‘That’s silly, that’s not music.’ I mean, it was supposed to be music, but they were not showing music.” Wanting to investigate further, Galloway was inspired by the San Antonio Deaf Dance Company 30 BEAT.COM.AU

Tim Hulsman brings Monster to Opal Room on Friday November 18, and Wesley Anne on Sunday November 20.

and the Wild Zappers, which then sparked the beginning of a very special journey. “I saw what they did with music and that truly inspired me to incorporate the true meaning of what music should be,” she says. “That’s how I started on this path. With the go ahead from my deaf friends, I started testing the waters and really pushing limits, pushing ideas that other interpreters were not used to. Things started to change. I noticed deaf people behaving differently at music venues. They started to tell me that for the first time in their lives, they were connecting to music.” It’s a combination of facial expressions and hand shapes that allow Galloway to deconstruct the elements of music to her deaf clients; communicating the tonality and fermata of sound, the densities of pitch, the elongation or shortening of beats and even the pronunciation of syllables in lyrics. “It’s bringing music to life in a different way, because we need to think about all the layers of music rather than focusing on the mere English,” she says. “Music is music because of all the instruments and the way the artist has orchestrated everything. If we ignore that part, then we are ignoring the entirety of what music is truly trying to represent.” Music and its role in the deaf community

is not a commonly explored topic. That’s why Galloway is heading to Australia for Face The Music, a contemporary music conference that facilitates conversations about the music world with industry professionals. “Unfortunately, access for the deaf community in Australia is quite lacking, just like it is pretty much everywhere in the world,” she says. “Deaf people and hard of hearing people as a cultural and linguistic minority want to attend concerts, but often the venues are not providing. They’re human beings like you and I, but they were born with a different journey.” In addition to helping deaf people experience live music, Galloway speaks often about providing access at music venues. She believes no member of society should be excluded from an opportunity to enjoy and actively engage in something they love. “[Hearing people] will often deny these services because they think deaf people don’t want to,” she says. “They think it’s a bother, but really there are laws out there that are supposed to be protecting people that have challenges. I wish somehow, people in the industry would pay attention to that and make a change.” By Julia Sansone

Amber Galloway will speak at Face The Music, taking place at the State Library and RMIT on Thursday November 17 and Friday November 18 as part of Face The Music.

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Reviews (Liberation Music)

Singles With Lachlan Kanoniuk

“Thank you Leonard. Say g’day to Hank, up there in the Tower Of Song xo.” (Aarght)

Single of the Week:

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Can’t Chain A canny tightrope between detached cool and focused propulsion, Can’t Chain initiates with an elevating sense of grandiose before kicking into overdrive. It’s a dizzying, melodic spell, jack-knifing melodic shifts inferring glee without sounding gleeful. The more you immerse yourself in Can’t Chain, the more it rewards. New album The Dome out early 2017.

Utopia Defeated

Lazertits

Boss Bitch

D.D Dumbo

8.5

(Independent)

Sick garage riffs and a string of tightly woven empowered slogans come together for a salt rock blast of feel-good rock‘n’roll. An anthem that’ll stick around in the noggin’, making a welcome stay.

Nick Murphy

Stop Me (Stop You)

(Future Classic)

Utopia Defeated is one of a kind. Opener Walrus fizzes and pulsates, vocal layering effects and crisp cascading drums make the song feel like it’s viscerally breathing in and out.

Nick Murphy (formerly known as Muscles) further stretches his limbs in a promising new era of reinvention, going all in on his ability to be a bit daring with his tonal palate, making some dissonant components come together for something digestable. This is the best song he’s written.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Rattlesnake

(Flightless/Remote Control)

One constant sonic theme that runs through this album is the feeling of being deep underwater, the production is so expansive, every instrument sounds both inflated and crystallised. This is rationalised on In The Water, feeling considerably lighter than the rest of the release, featuring hushed, glittery banjo accompanied by flutes and assorted wind instruments. Perry’s fascination and talent as not only an instrumentalist, but also a looper is evident in the way tracks build across the album. Alihukwe takes the release in a whole new direction, African drumming and a lush array of exotic sounds compliment what sounds like D.D Dumbo experiencing enlightenment. Brother brings the emotional climax of the album, “Lord have mercy, what have I done,” seems clichéd on its own, but in the drama of steamtrain sounding drums, wailing backing vocals and guitar lines, it becomes something not far from contemporary world gospel music. Utopia Defeated sees Perry break boundaries with his outrageous level of creativity, making music that is both exciting and deeply touching. By Jess Zanoni

Tension without release defines Rattlesnake, meditative but never dull. Dunno if they’ll bust this out at Meredith, but reckon there’s potential for an all-time Supernatural set all the same.

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Reviews

Albums

Pentatonix

8.0

The eponymous debut album by Soft Hair is the oddest, if slightly disconcerting, of affairs. It’s a mind-altering, psychoactive shot of absinthe with Noel Fielding as the Green Fairy, ready to guide you through the icky swamp. The world of Sam Dust (LA Priest/Late Of The Pier) and Connan Mockasin is undoubtedly weird and exotic. It’s a synth driven reality that shimmers with electronic glitches, dreamy falsetto and soulful bass lines. The album, recorded over a five-year period, is unconventional in composition and structure yet alluring in its post-modern and surreal wonkiness. The artwork warrants a mention. The cover depicts the duo as a metonymic pair of burnt orange Adams complete with a coiled boa constrictor and forbidden fruit. Think Childlike Empress cross-pollinated with an Oompa Loompa. Although tracks like Relaxed Lizard and Jealous Lies bubble with exuberance there’s something wrong in Fantasia. There’s a sinister luridness to slow-jam number Lying Has To Stop, which features the troubling lyrics “I like to watch you run, but I’d never touch your bum.” Tracks I.V. and L.I.V. are solemn prayers to some celestial deity and are full of sadness and isolation. If you’re into freaky pillow talk, then rest your head here a while. By George Hyde

A Pentatonix Christmas

8.0

The second Christmas album from a cappella group Pentatonix is already decking the halls. Chock full of classics, spanning everyone from Kanye to 16th century monks, the group have put together a collection of covers and original tunes to get you in the spirit this festive season. Tracks like O Come All Ye Faithful and White Christmas (featuring The Manhattan Transfer) are old classics given a modern, up-beat twist. Straight forward covers like Hallelujah and Coventry Carol give the album less of a superficial Christmas vibe. The weakest points in the album are the original songs, The Christmas Sing-a-long and Good to be Bad. They aren’t awful, but they aren’t good. With weak lyrics, too much repetition and no nostalgic value, they fall flat. Surprisingly it’s the not specifically Christmas songs on the album that make it work. Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah isn’t a Christmas song, but it’s on here and it works. As well as Kanye’s Coldest Winter, a track that lends it’s self well to the a cappella sound. This album is festive, yet modern enough to keep the Christmas-loving population happy. Move over Mr Buble, A Pentatonix Christmas is what the mums will be wanting this year.

The story of Shirley Collins has been one of 2016’s most unexpected tales ± one of a celebrated folk hero from the ‘50s and ‘60s, long reserved to cult status due to not singing for nearly 40 years. At 82, Collins has finally returned to the world of music ± and if Lodestar is anything to go by, said world has embraced her once again with open arms. A collection of traditional songs and ballads that stem back as far as the 1700s, the album gently guides Collins’ weathered and foreboding voice through sparsely-populated arrangements and fluttering ambience. It launches forth in considerable fashion, making up for lost time with the 11-minute medley, Awake Awake/The Split Ash Tree/May Carol/Southover. With haunting mandolins, a wash of bagpipes and a gorgeous assembly of folk instrumentation. Elsewhere, the creaking tragedy of Cruel Lincoln is smartly contrasted with the chirp of birds and the rustle of trees; while the playful Old Johnny Buckle gets a proverbial cherry on top as Collins gently chuckles to herself at its conclusion. For an album released in the 21st century, Lodestar has an other-worldly timelessness to it, making it very easy to lose oneself in. A breathtaking journey.

By Cassie Hedger

By David James Young

Conor Oberst

Ruminations

8.5

(Dot Dash/Remote Control Records)

Since the end of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon has gone into the abyss of noise-rock and drone further than her previous band could ever have fathomed. As one-half of Body/Head alongside guitarist Bill Nace, Gordon has spent the last few years going against the conventions of the electric guitar and creating music that’s dark, imposing and sprawling; the result was an impressive debut (2013’s Coming Apart) and reputably intense live shows. It’s the latter from which No Waves is drawn ± a three-part, 40-minute performance from 2014; entirely improvised. Each piece the duo creates is weighted by duelling guitar cacophony, moaning and shrieking from either end of the fretboard in a manner that is at once engrossing and entirely unsettling. Gordon’s vocals are shrouded in reverb, occasionally turning into banshee-like howls without any discernible lyrical focus. Admittedly, it’s a tall order for anyone not possessing a somewhat advanced interest in the noisier spectrum of music. Then again, both Gordon and Nace are at the point in their careers where they’re not pursuing this style of performance for anyone but themselves. No Waves is two artists with nothing to prove, getting everything out of their system. Get with it or get lost.

Lodestar

(Nonesuch Records)

No Waves

7.0

Shirley Collins

7.0

(Matador Records / Remote Control Records)

Body/Head

(Domino Records)

Soft Hair

(Sony Music)

(Weird World)

Soft Hair

Lost Animal

You Yang

7.0

Bright Eyes alum Conor Oberst has released a half-dozen solo LPs in the past, but almost all featured contributions from other musicians and collaborators. With Ruminations, we have a very literal solo record on our hands ± not only did Oberst record and produce the record on his own, he also wrote it, sang it, played piano, played guitar and played harmonica. The isolation, which came after a cancelled Desaparecidos tour, resonates through every open end and empty space which fills Ruminations’ runtime. It’s an album of self-reflection, of damning honesty and of blunt portrayals of the person that Oberst has become. “I met Lou Reed and Patti Smith,” he sings on Next of Kin, before dropping the sting in the tail: “It didn’t make me feel different/I guess I lost all my innocence/Way too long ago.” The barebones arrangements accentuate every last line ± handy, given the album contains arguably Oberst’s best set of lyrics since 2005’s I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. This monster of folk has made a monster of a folk album ± certainly one of the best of his career.

Five years on from his salient debut, Ex-Tropical, Lost Animal continues to make outsider pop, fusing electronica with elements of popular music from the ‘60s through ‘80s. On his new album You Yang, Jarred Quarrell has invited multiinstrumentalist Shags Chamberlain to the table, broadening the palette of sound. Do the Jerk beats with an R&B heart over cold electronic beats, but the face of this track is a bitter, beaten-down rocker with a curled lip pedaling his experimental sleaze soul. Prisoners Island is driven by melancholy keys with Quarrell’s vocals pushed to the fore; stripped back to the bone we see a fragility within the despondency that characterizes most of You Yang. Too Late To Die Young might infer that Quarrell has resigned himself to the inevitable demise into old age, but the apathy is cheekily offset by calypso rhythms. You Yang closes with New Years Day, delicate but dissonant in its washed out aesthetic. You Yang strikes the balance between detached cool and steadfast sincerity, filtering it all through Quarrell’s dirty lens of sleaze, sex and sadness.

By David James Young

By Krystal Maynard

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Profiles

The Senegambian Jazz Band

What are you most looking forward to at the Coburg Night Markets? We’re really looking forward to bringing our music to a new community, particularly a new generation as we know lots of families come to the market. What is it about your sound that resonates so powerfully with modern audiences? Our sound appeals to a wide variety of people, young and old. Each individual hears a different melody, instrument or rhythm at the same time and unites together in the enjoyment of movement, dance and feeling alive. Do you find that having such an eclectic mix of experience in the band creates interesting music? Our sound is a jazz fusion, you’ll find influences from across Africa and also western jazz music. TSJB are a dynamic group of musicians who engage their audiences through challenging their perceptions of both African and jazz music You’ve played all around the world. Are there any striking similarities or quirky differences between the ways different countries enjoy music? In music there are not any words, so people can easily relate to music, it’s a bridge to all languages. The kind of music that we play is from different backgrounds, there are five different countries and cultures that influence the music. This seems to mean that everyone finds something about our music that they can enjoy. Music can affect people in a deep way. Through our music we are able to bring happiness, freedom and peace to others.

Music

The Senegambian Jazz Band will perform at the Coburg Night Market on Friday November 25, with Papa Chango.

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What’s your name, and what do you do in The Weeping Willows? I’m Andy Wrigglesworth and I sing, play acoustic guitar and ganjo [six-string banjo]. You recently released your second LP, When Darkness Comes A-Callin. What did you do differently? Stylistically, the album is a lot darker. This wasn’t a conscious choice but something that evolved during the writing process. We decided to record the album overseas. It’s always been a dream of ours to record in the US and all the guitars and vocals were done live. Where do you find inspiration for the tales you tell? Urban legends, myths and ghost stories, particularly ones from the American South. Other songs were inspired by people we know or situations we’ve been through or seen others go through. What’s it like working as a duo? I love working in a duo and better still, working with my partner-in-crime and everything inbetween. We have a good writing routine and we know each other’s strengths. I tend to get the ball rolling with a new song or arrangement, and Laura will help me put all the haphazard ideas together. What are you looking forward to most about the upcoming show? We always have a ball playing with Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes. I’ve been playing music with Lachlan since I was 18, now we can almost read each other’s thoughts.

Music

The Weeping Willows will play at Bella Union on Wednesday November 16.

theweepingwillows.com.au

Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene

What is your single Dead Forever about? It’s a reflection of many people’s inability to be at peace with the prospect of no life after death. The verses are about old friends and lovers that lost their way through destructive means, and wondering whether things would’ve been different if they did find that peace. Do you approach live performance differently to recording and production? They’re two different beasts. We love being able to examine everything under a microscope in the studio, scrutinise details and pre-empt reactions. But the live show is the instant culmination of all that work. When creating music together, are there any rituals that you follow? No documented ritual as such, just a genuine excitement when we get together, which makes the ideas and writing flow organically. Productive jamming is having a laugh, having a few bevies, cranking some riffs and turning it up. How do you see the band’s “brand”? We are influenced by everything and nothing at the same time. Our brand/sound is about freedom to make music for music’s sake, without adhering to genre specific clichés. You were voted Cherry Bar’s Band Of The Year 2015. What did this accolade mean to you? It was about being recognised as contributing to an already burgeoning rock music scene that we are so fortunate to have here in Melbourne, and that gives us fuel to keep going no matter the obstacles.

The Weeping Willows

Music

Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene will launch Dead Forever at Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 19.

Smoking Martha

How would you describe Smoking Martha? A bunch of really good-looking people told us we sound like shit, then we spoke to some average-looking people and they think we sound like a cross between The Pretty Reckless and The Divinyls. What’s been keeping you busy? We’ve been recording our debut album and taking nice trips around the east coast. We’ll be continuing to do these nice things in the near future, then we will release said album. Where was the best gig you’ve ever played? With Seether at Eatons Hill in Brisbane. The venue’s amazing, the sound’s amazing, the crowd was amazing, we were most definitely amazing. What are you listening to right now? Crickets and bugs because it just finished pissing down with rain. Queensland Storm season soundtrack. Bands we’re digging are The Flame Fields, The Mercy Kills, The Wrath. basically bands that start with “the” are in right now with us. If you could have anything in your rider, what would it be? Our usual rider request is as much booze as they’ll give us. What’s in your ultimate rider? Our ultimate rider would have booze and some fancy sandwiches with the crusts cut off. Mick would like some patches for his cons as they have holes in them. smokingmartha.com

Music

Smoking Martha will launch their new single Say Your Mine at Whole Lotta Love on Saturday November 19.

Profiles

Claude Hay

You’re an exceptionally experienced musician. How did you first get started? I guess my parents are to blame, they’d always play music like Deep Purple and Hendrix really loud and I fell for it straight away. There were always electric guitars around the house and I found them fascinating. How has living in a regional area influenced your songwriting? I have a lot of space up here and I can make a lot of noise which I could never do in Sydney. I love that about the Blue Mountains. What’s the appeal of using loop pedals in your live show? I can control everthing. It’s a lot of work getting the looping right and I like the challenge. Touring wise it’s a thousand times easier to organise yourself rather than a band. Why do you think it is that blues has remained so popular, generation after generation, without losing relevance? Because it’s the root of all good music. It has soul, it just moves you, well me anyway. Describe your perfect gig, if you could plan it all to a tee? Impossible, planning things just ruins everything. The best buzz I get is when it’s somewhere you’ve never been before on the other side of the world, and you play to people that have no idea what to expect and you win them ove. Doesn’t matter if it’s 50 or 5000 people ± surprise is the spice of life.

Music

Claude Hay will play Baha Tacos on Thursday November 17 and The Catfish on Friday November 18.

claudehay.com.au

Hollow World

Who are we chatting to? I’m Theo and my band is Hollow World. I play guitar and do backing vocals. When did Hollow World get together? Late 2012; time really flies when you’re harassing your bandmates with incredible puns. Why did you start up? I’ve always been into music, I grew up around my dad playing in bands. It’s become such an incredibly intrinsic aspect of my perception of self. I’ll be making music for as long as I live. Do you think you’re good at it? It can be really difficult, there’s so many insanely talented people here in Melbourne. We’ve always put all of our effort into creating and performing music to the best of our abilities, and I like to think that shows. What makes you happiest about music? Music is about sharing an experience, one that often conveys and inspires an emotional response in the listener. What could bring people closer than feeling the same things about the same subject together? What makes you unhappiest about it? Right now only that I cannot be making, playing and teaching music 24/7. I would love to (and am trying) to get to a point where this is what I do full time. What’s your proudest moment with Hollow World? Playing live, seeing people I don’t know wearing our merch and shouting our lyrics. It gives me goosebumps and it makes me feel incredibly humbled and in awe. hollowworld.com.au

One Puf

What was this year’s Battle 8 like? Pretty intense. The fact that we went up against good friends in the first round was a bit of an advantage, we knew what to expect and what their weaknesses would be. The same certainly couldn’t be said for later rounds, but that first win really built our confidence. The final round was nerve-racking but hearing our name as the winners made it all worth it. What does it take to win Battle 8? We went into it with more of a traditional “Sound Clash” approach rather than a DJ battle. It was more about bringing as much hype to every round as you can to win over the crowd. One Puf burst onto the scene in 2013. How did it come into being? The idea behind One Puf started around mid-2013 at the time when there weren’t a lot of opportunities to play the genres of music the crew were pushing. We started out doing a monthly bar gig in the city. The brand rapidly grew from there which then led to hosting our parties. To date we’ve brought the likes Stormzy, D Double E, Wookie, Oneman, DJ Ez and Pinch to Melbourne and also got invited to play at this year’s Listen Out festival. Tell us about your Battle 8 Champions mixtape. The mixtape features a whole bunch of dubplates and personalised riddims we got made up especially for the clash and bangers you would usually hear at a One Puf party.

Music

One Puf will host Wookie at The Mercat on Friday December 2, One Puf NYE Rave at The Mercat on Saturday December 31 and Newham Generals at Platform One on Wednesday January 4.

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Music

Hollow World will play Workers Club on Friday November 18.

Spare Me Kitchen

Housed inside the ever-popular Glamorama, Spare Me Kitchen offers a contemporary Australian menu serving expertly prepared food, all matched with a premium sound system, music and drinks. Perhaps best known for their expansive drinks menu, Spare Me will have even the most knowledgeable connoisseur covered. If top-shelf whiskey is what you’re after, you can choose from their curated selection of Australian, Japanese, Irish, and Scotch varieties, alongside a few hundred other bottles of boutique spirits. Should you have trouble deciding, they also offer gourmet whisky flights to guide you through some of their finest offerings. As well as offering top-notch cocktails, Spare Me Kitchen have recently released a fresh new menu thanks to executive chef David Stewart that is both light and luxurious. The calamari San Andrea features dainty tendrils dusted with semolina, tossed with a balanced mix of dehydrated capers, rocket, Spanish olives and a squeeze of lemon juice. Elsewhere, the confit pork belly has the perfect balance of juiciness and crackle, married with a beetroot gel, kimchi and a crunchy sprinkling of dehydrated kale. Their beef rib is worth making the trip alone ± cooked for 48 hours and served with a rich green curry and coconut reduction. If you’re looking for something special, an evening at Spare Me Kitchen makes for one of the more memorable nights out in Melbourne, summing up the best parts of our city’s thriving food scene.

Food

393 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, (03)9419 6380

sparemekitchen.com.au

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StevieJNorth ‘The Island’ Album Launch with full band, plus special guests

Cicadastone

1:30pm, Sunday Su November 20 The Workers Club 51 - 55 Brunswick St, Fitzroy facebook.com/steviejnorthmusic facebook.com/cicadastone

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Gig Guide

Men With Chips

The Old Bar Anyone with chips is alright by us. So it’s set to be a corker when Men With Chips play The Old Bar on Wednesday November 16. To make it a real party they are bringing along some tip-top supports, in the form of Dag, Assetstripper and Tropical Deadbeats. Doors at 7.30pm for a measly $8.

Animal Hands

Cherry Bar Danielle Whalebone and her indie rock band Animal Hands are set to haul their ’70s inspired punk over to their Cherry Bar residency on Wednesday November 16, bringing guests The Vendettas and Master Beta along with them. Doors open at 6pm, entry is $5 and bands from about 8.30pm.

TwinPines and Her Majesty’s Hangover

Bendigo Hotel Get yourself down to the Bendigo Hotel (Collingwood, chill out guys) to catch TwinPines and Her Majesty’s Hangover as they take over the stage, destroy your ears and melt your brains this Wednesday November 16. Head down by 8pm for a ripper show, entry is a mere $8.

King Groaker

Whole Lotta Love Some call them trip hop, others rock or indie, but whatever they are, they’re a lot of fun. King Groaker will have your toes a-tappin’ this Thursday November 17. They will be joined by two-piece joint One Day Bender and indie alt-rockers Reel Tapes. With nibbles of Doritos and salsa, you can’t go wrong. Doors open at 7pm and entry is free.

Igoya

Bendigo Hotel Thank God Igoya have finally gotten off their arses and announced the launch date for their second album We Know You’re Out There – given Trump’s the President, who knows how much longer we have before we’re being mauled by mutated rats in an apocalyptic wasteland? Head down to the Bendigo Hotel on Thursday November 17 for the mere price of $5 and dance like the world’s ending.

Jenny Biddle

Wesley Anne Freshly armed with skills and vocab from the Scottish wilderness, Melbourne’s Best Busker from 2010 – 2012 is returning for her only Australian Tour this year. Promising new tunes and old favourites, Jenny Biddle is celebrating five albums in the Wesley Anne band room this Thursday November 17. Doors are at 8pm with entry a delightful $15.

This Week Wednesday 16 Nov Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Animal Hands + The Vendettas + Master Beta Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $5.00. Anthony Young & The Next Man Dead + Elliot Friend + Annan Blix Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. Heaps Gay Heaps Yummy - Feat: Donny Benet + Broadway Sounds + Html Flowers + More State Library Of Victoria, 7:30pm. $19.00. Hush - An Evening Of Quiet Music - Feat: Dan Kelly + Teeth & Tongue + Melody Pool + More Parliament House, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $35.00. Men With Chips + Dag + Assetstripper + Tropical Deadbeats Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00. Morning Ritual - Feat: Ella Thompson State Library Of Victoria, 10:30Am. On Diamond + Pikelet + Rogue Wavs + Edie Centric Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00. Open Mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm. Otto & Astrid + Moira Finucaine + David Quirk + More Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. Rubix Radio On Kissfm Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:30pm. Shrimpwitch + Powerlines + Miss Miss + Bobby Brave Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00. So Fresh - Feat: George Ikon + Change Le Disque Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Tanzer + Sugar Fed Leopards + Helena Plazza + Dandrogyny Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $8.00. The Age Music Victoria Awards Afterparty - Feat: Melbourne Ska Orchestra + Camp Cope + Tash Sultana + More 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.00. Tripmonks + Sam Henderson + Hugh Fuschen + Ten Dollars Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00. Twin Pines + Kaz Garaz + Donald Dank & The Naughty Boys + Taper Valley Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Zoe Fox & The Rocket Clocks Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music

Coda Chroma

The Workers Club Coda Chroma are dropping their brand new single at The Workers Club on Thursday November 17. No One But You is an unabashed, unashamed, unrestrained love song, with slightly stalkerish undertones. Sound like your jam? Then nip down at 8pm, and snap up your ticket for $15+bf via the venue.

Pugsley Buzzard and Adam Duffy

Charles Weston Big voices, chunky piano, red hot bands and sassy horns – its all happening at Charles Weston this Thursday November 17 as Pugsley Buzzard and Adam Duffy take the stage. Get down to Charles Weston from 6.30pm for a free and unforgettable night.

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Bohjass 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. Bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00Pm. Dizzy’s Big Band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00. Frost & Fire - Feat: Chris Norman + David Greenburg + Evergreen Ensemble Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00. Gene Tree Project - The Sound Of Art And Science Carlton Connect Initiative Lab14 Gallery, Carlton. 6:30pm. $15.00. Heavy Rotation - Feat: Cosi & Wallace Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm. Juliarna Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $22.00. Lunch Box - Feat: King Ru + Jesse I State Library Of Victoria, 12:30pm. Off The Leash + Simon Phillips Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00. Tago Mago Soul Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. The Round Up - Feat: The Weeping Willows + Lachlan Bryan & The Wilde +

Ange Boxall Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $19.00. Traditional Ethiopian Music Afro Hub, Carlton North. 7:00pm. Wednesday Jazz Night - Feat: The Rookies The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. || (S) - Feat: ||:S:|| Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Charles Jenkins Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. Cor Ten Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30Pm. Don Hillmans Secret Beach + Austin Brady + Phisha Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. Harry F L Vincent Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave. 8:00pm. $10.00. Muddys Blues Roulette - Feat: Travis Bowlin Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Open Mic Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm. Open Mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm. Open Mic Night Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. Open Mic Night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. The Songroom - Feat: Caiti Baker + Sanny Veloo Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $17.74. Wine Whiskey Women - Feat: Lisa Spykers + Tracey Hogue Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Thursday 17 Nov Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers A Show For Jumpin’ Jack William - Feat: Child + Holy Serpent + Sheriff + More Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00. Also, Dragons + RatHammock + Face Face Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00. Backstage - Feat: Travis Bowlin + D.J. Barry Maxwell Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. Baptism Of Uzi + Closet Straights + Howl At The Moon + More Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:00pm. Coda Chroma + Felicity Cripps Band + Eliza Hull + Dj Sleek Cheeze Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00. Common People Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. Dan White + Cale Sexton + Mos Howieson Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. Danger&Plastic + The Black Alleys + Heinous Crimes Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. Dead End + Jackson Reid Briggs & The Heaters Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00. Den + Bura Bura + J + Military Position Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00. Face The Music - Feat: Gl + Jess Ribeiro + Jaala + Ecca Vandal + More State Library Of Victoria, 9:00Am. $80.00. Good Lovin’ - Feat: Pjenne Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00Pm. Igoya + Sierra Leone + Her Majestys Hangover + Cargo Cults Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Jpsxhooves + Hooves + Silentjay + More The Mercat, Melbourne. 9:00pm. King Groaker + Reel Tapes + One Day Bender Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. Little Desert + Taipan Tiger Girls + Root

Rat Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. Lunch Box - Feat: Jawn + Stopgap + Jaala State Library Of Victoria, 12:00Pm. Matt Borg Trio Djs Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Miles Brown & Geryon + Sow Dischord & Nina Buchanan + More Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. Morning Ritual - Feat: Jess Ribeiro State Library Of Victoria, 10:30Am. Northlane + Hellions + Polaris Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. Ogopogo + Quantum Milkshake + Profits + The Number Nineteens Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. Oh Yay! Thursday Greenwood Loft, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PBS Live Broadcast - Feat: Jarrow + Jess Ribiero + Jim Lawrie John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:00pm. Pearls + Loose Tooth + More Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. Resident Thursdays - Feat: Dj Shadow Pier Live, Frankston. 9:00Pm. Sam Wright + Nicole Cross + Dada Ono + Michael S. Galloway Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00. The Bleeding Flares + The Braves + Roxy Lavish & The Suicide Cult + The Deapans + Elko Fields Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00. The Rubens Republica, St Kilda. 7:30pm. The Tropes + Pansy + Shiny Coin + Pappy Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00. Your Local - Feat: Elusive + Dear Jane + Terra The Irish (Knox O’zone), Wantirna South. 7:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Amadou Suso Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm. Beethoven’s 111 - Feat: Laurence Matheson Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00. Hue Blanes + Xani Kolac & The Twoks + Horns Of Leroy Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. Kylie Auldist + Aaradhna Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $24.50. Melbourne Improvisers Collective Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Midnight Express - Feat: Prequel + Edd Fisher Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. Monash Big Band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00. Phil Stroud + Winters + Dj Jnett Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. Rick Price Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $35.00. Sibelius & Shostakovich - Feat: Dale Barltrop Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $57.00. Sun Sets - Feat: Gary Seven State Library Of Victoria, 7:00pm. Sunny Koll & Band Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. The Good Egg Thursdays - Feat: Henry Who + Tigerfunk + Lewis Cancut Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. The Hip Streets + Hyjinx + Isy Gan & Belle Bangard + The Miles Henry Trio 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. The Sugarcanes + Dj Vince Peach + Dj Pierre Baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. Timbalero Thursday La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00Pm. $10.00.

Featured Gigs

Also, Dragons

Grace Darling Energetic, funky and genre-bending outfit Also, Dragons are set to play this Thursday November 17 at The Grace Darling Hotel. For their final show, these wildly hectic blokes are to be joined by RatHammock and Face Face. The chaos begins at 8.30pm, with a rosy $7 entry fee.

My Echo

The Evelyn My Echo are taking over The Evelyn on Friday November 18 to launch their new single Boys In Blue. The classic rockers always put on a hell of a show, plus for the launch they’ve got some banging supports: Shutup Shutup Shutup, The Controllers and Social Haunts. $15 on the door at 8.30pm will have you sorted.

Timothy Nelson

The Spotted Mallard Perth’s Timothy Nelson is set to release his debut solo album Words Like Young this Friday November 18. His combo of straight forward power-pop, alt country and classic rock’n’roll sounds combined with topics of personal growth and introspection complete an exceptionally unique album. Get to The Spotted Mallard at 8.30pm.

Chris Wilson

Cherry Bar Nothing beats a good ol’ bev on a Friday, hey? Cherry Bar have you covered – head down to Friday Knock-off Drinks from 5.15pm to 7.15pm this Friday November 18 and let Aussie blues royalty Chris Wilson seduce you with his harp, sax, guitar and vocals. It’s free entry my dudes, so get on it.

Citrus Jam

The Drunken Poet Are you all about embracing your inner pirate? Are you currently experiencing a distinct lack of ‘extreme tropical pirate mania’ in your day to day life? Well, Citrus Jam has got just the medicine for you. Forget your scurvy – for free – from 8.30pm on Friday November 18 at The Drunken Poet.

Sere

Bar Open Making the long trip from Auckland to our fair shores is four-piece band Sere. Come and witness their militant house audio enema alongside Melbourne oi! punk rockers No Class, with local supports Overtime and Heat Wave at Bar Open on Friday November 18. Tickets are $10 with doors opening at 8.30pm.

Sworn Enemy

Bendigo Hotel Never fear, legendary hardcore and metal outfit Sworn Enemy are coming our way. The band’s Bendigo Hotel show will feature hometown hardcore heroes Crowned Kings, Cold Ground, Southpaw and Overpower. It’s sure to be a night of manic headbanging memories, and it all goes down on Friday November 18. 40 BEAT.COM.AU

Gig Guide

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Allysha Joy Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm. Beth Winter Band + Lucy Mckinnon & The Sometimes Band Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. Claude Hay Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:30pm. $15.00. Dan Watkins & Paddy Montgomery Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. Dogs Day Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. Jenny Biddle Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00. Jo Neugebauer + Luke Seymour Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Liam Bowditch + Grace King Highlander, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Matt Bradshaw Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 9:30Pm. Nigel Wearne + The Weeping Willows Caz Reitop’s Dirty Secrets, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $15.00. Open Mic Night Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 7:00pm. Pugsley Buzzard Duo + Adam Duffy Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm. Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley + Davidson Brothers Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $25.09. Robert Forster + Blank Statements Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Sara Storer Hallam Hotel, Hallam. 8:00pm. Tim Crossey + Lewis Mcaulay + Kev Walsh Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

Friday 18 Nov Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Alárìíyá - Feat: Alariiya The B.East, Brunswick East. 10:00pm. Dj Dustin Mcclean Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00Pm. Dr Hernández - Feat: Dr Hernandez Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. Georgie Darvidis & The Finer Cuts Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00. Global Safari - Feat: Dj Eddie Mac Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm. Jet Set Fridays - Feat: Eddison + Sean Vagg Blue Diamond, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. Julie O’hara + Ultrafox Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. Kozmik County Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 9:00Pm. Live Jazz - Feat: Various Artists The Green Goose, Malvern. 7:10pm. Los Tremoleros + The Mokes + Lady Blades Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Nick Haywood Trio Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00. Rebecca Mendoza Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00. Sam Keevers Trio Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Sleazy Listening - Feat: Arks + Richard Kelly + Hysteric + K Hoop Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. The 19Th Australian National Northern Soul Weekender Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $70.00. The Cope Street Parade Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30Pm. $25.00. The Fox Soundtrack - Feat: Ellie Young + Josie Smart + More Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. The Shaolin Afronauts + The Senegambian Jazz Band + More Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00Pm. Wagner - Feat: Alex Raineri + Peter Bassett Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00. What The Funk Fridays Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00Pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers

10 Years Of Triple J Unearthed - Feat: Allday + Northeast Party House + Ali Barter + More State Library Of Victoria, 7:00pm. Alby Pool Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $10.00. Alex Watts + Gena Rose Bruce Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Barely Standing Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9:00Pm. Belle Haven + Oceans To Athena + Xure + Breaking Kebabs Glen Waverley Community Centre, Glen Waverley. 7:00pm. $10.00. Ben Lee Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $27.00. Captain Spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:30pm. Clever + Shovels + Synthetics + Bitumen Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00Pm. $5.00. Dope Lemon + Jack River 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Einsteins Toyboys + Totally Toto Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00. Emma Louise + Fractures + Nyck Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $40.12. Face The Music - Feat: Gl + Jess Ribeiro + Jaala + Ecca Vandal + More State Library Of Victoria, 9:00Am. $80.00. Go Go Sapien + The Strange Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00Pm. Grenadiers + Flour + Chores Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Hang Out - Feat: Donny & Friends Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. Hey Hey It’s Friday - Feat: Astro Boys Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm. Hollow World + Zeolite + Gravemind + More Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00. Hoon Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00am. Housewreckers Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm. Ice On Mercury + Lazarus Mode + Pegbucket Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00. Jo Vertigo + Democratic People’s Republic Of Surf + Floyd Cox Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00. Just A Gent Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. La Busca + Faro Negro Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm. La Danse Macabre + Brunswick Massive Resident Djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00Pm. Late Nights Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 10:00pm. Letters To Lions Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00Pm. Lily & King + Spiritus + The Chops Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00Pm. $10.00. Maya-Dreamer & The Future Happiness Orchestra Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:30pm. $15.00. Metrik Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 11:00pm. Mezz Live Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 5:30pm. Morning Ritual - Feat: Nai Palm State Library Of Victoria, 10:30pm. Off Chops + Mannequin Death Squad + Desert Kingdom Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm. $10.00. Psychobilly Queen - Feat: The Meteoriots 24 Moons, Northcote. 8:00pm. Public Bar Fridays - Feat: Dead Amigos + Benfer Rhodes Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9:00Pm. Ragnarok - Feat: Lochlan Watt + Dj Julz + Ben Gunzberg Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00Pm. Robbie Miller + Morgan Bain + Alexander Biggs Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Russia + Mojo Pin + The Sweets + The Fish Heads Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00. Sere + No Class + Overtime + Heat Wave Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. Sol-Lux Rmit University Chambers Courtyard, Melbourne. 4:00pm. Stonefox Mynt Lounge, Werribee. 7:00pm. Sun Sets - Feat: Dorsal Fins + Ecca Vandal State Library Of Victoria, 7:30pm. Superheist Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:00pm. Surrey Hills Music Festival - Feat: The Beachy Boys + Dave Holmes Gang +

More Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre, Surrey Hills. 7:00pm. Sworn Enemy + Crowned Kings + Cold Ground + Southpaw + Overpower Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Taberah + Espionage + Kill Death Ratio Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00. The Bakers Digest + Doona Waves + Aidan Jones Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00. The Citradels + The Beegels + More The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. The Eagles Story Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $23.00. The Fck Ups + Mad Macka & Panhandler + More Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10.00. The Higgs + Josh Johnstone + Satellite Sky Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $7.70. The Monkeywrench + Kim Salmon + Whipper Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $28.60. The Rock Sessions - Feat: Takin’ Cover Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 9:00Pm. $5.00. The Rubens The Boatbuilders Yard, South Wharf. 6:00pm. The U2 Show – Achtung Baby Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $20.00. Thundamentals + Pez + Mallrat The Croxton, Thornbury. 8:00pm. Timothy Nelson Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00Pm. $10.00. Underwater Galaxies - Feat: Rat & Co + Primitive Calculators + Fierce Mild + More Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00. Wet Lips + Cable Ties + Taipan Tiger Girls + More Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $16.00. Wildeornes + Field + Never + Vimanablaster Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. Women In Electronic Music - Feat: Gl + Buoy + Corin + Linying State Library Of Victoria, 8:00pm. You Beauty! + No Local + Palm Springs Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Blue Child Collective + Whitaker + Emjay Kau & Co, Northcote. 7:00pm. Alister Turrill + Sean Patrick + Nathan Seeckts Workers Club, Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.25. Andrew Roberts Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.00. Brendan Gallagher + David Craddock Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30Pm. Brian Cadd + Mike Rudd The Palms, Southbank. 7:30pm. $69.00. Chris Wilson Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:15Pm. Citrus Jam Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. Claude Hay Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. Freya Josephine Hollick Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45Pm. Garrett Kato Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00. Hack Ensemlbe Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm. Max Teakle & Friends Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. Mj Halloran + James Mccann & The New Vindictives Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Morning Melodies - Feat: Brendan Scott:

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Featured Gigs

Al-Flex

The Reverence Hotel Al-Flex is launching his third release The Sun Sets in the West at The Reverence Hotel this Friday November 18. The night is featuring a lineup of local hip hop artists from the surrounding western suburbs, complete with an open mic and character battle session hosted by Fresh Violet. It all starts at 8.30pm with an all too easy entry of $5.

Gig Guide Song & Dance Man Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 10:00Am. $17.00. Mouth Tooth Mpavilion, 6:00pm. Rattlin Kane Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. Sara Storer Gateway Hotel, 8:00pm. The Boys Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. The Cutting + Dillon & Green Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. Traditional Irish Music Session Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm. U Tuxedo Cat, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Zerafina Zara & Alleged Associates Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.

Saturday 19 Nov Tim Hulsman

Opal Room, Wesley Anne Blues influenced indie/folk songwriter and wizard on the lap steel guitar, Tim Hulsman is making a splash with two upcoming shows on Friday November 18 at Opal Room and Sunday November 20 at Wesley Anne. His soul-drenched vocals, memorable melodies and unique roots/pop sensibility make every show a must see. Doors are at 7pm and free at the Opal Room, or at 2pm and a cheap $10 at Wesley Anne.

Hack Ensemble

Edinburgh Castle Three-piece improvisation collective Hack are ready to get their groove on this Friday November18atEdinburghCastle.Combining the talent of Harry Cooper on the sax, Arty Witherby on bass and Chris Tito Uson on drums/percussion, Hack has a dynamic sound drawing together a diverse range of influences. Join them at 6.30pm for free.

Brendan Gallagher

The Retreat ARIA award-winner Brendan Gallagher will release his first solo EP on Friday November 18 at The Retreat. With influence in over 20 records including work with David Bowie, Jimmy Little and Emma Donovan, Brendo will be drawing from Sonofobituary and the many other albums he’s made over the years.Get down at 9.30pm for a real treat at The Retreat.

Superheist

Max Watt’s Superheist are one of the biggest nu-metal bands Australia has ever known, so when they came along with a brand new vocalist expectations were high. Luckily, Ezekiel Ox is the perfect man for the job with an unrivalled, insane live performance. Get heavy on Friday November 18 when they destroy Max Watt’s. Tickets via the venue.

Stonefox

The Workers Club Stonefox are chucking a sly little show on Saturday November 19 at The Workers Club. The indie-pop trio are currently touring in support of their ripper single Hands of Gold, which has taken them far and wide. They will be joined by I Know The Chief and Soft Corporate. Doors 8.30pm, grab your ticket for $12+bf via the venue.

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Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers A Tribute Concert To Roy Orbison And The Everly Brothers - Feat: Dean Bourne Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $89.90. Adore + Bitumen + Maria Moles + Adam Halliwell Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00Pm. Ali E Band + Splendidid + Shiny Coin + Extreme Wheeze Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $8.00. Bad Pony + Split Seconds + Residual Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00. Bang - Feat: Ø + Apollo On Fire + Earthbound Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00Pm. $15.00. Blown Cones + The Crackwhores Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00Pm. Dead + Wicked City + Scurvy + More Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.00. Départe + Lo! + Greytomb + No Haven + Cascades Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. Empire Five + Vertical Red + Brief Chemestry Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. F*Ck The Fitzroy Doom Scene + The Ugly Kings + A Basket Of Mammoths Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $17.74. Hero + Fourths + Sissycocks Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. High Tension + Infinite Void Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00. Hoon + Donald Dank & The Naughty Boys + Hounds To Houses Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm. Jimmy Barnes Regent Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. Jp Klipspringer + Slowcoaching + Tammy Martin Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.00. King Louie Collective Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. Kingswood + From Oslo + Lunatics On Pogosticks Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. Late Nights Forester’s Beer & Music Hall, Collingwood. 10:00pm. Let Me Know - Lmk - Feat: Ash Grunwald + Dj Aybner + Nathan Kaye + More Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $51.00. Limelight - Feat: Able8 + Nightwrk + Thomas Butt Arts Centre, Melbourne. 6:30pm. Masters Of Rock - Feat: Spectrum + Madder Lake + Ronnie Charles & The Sharon Molls Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $30.00. Meatloaf Tribute + Patrizia & The Groove + Pure Blonde Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $15.00. MMW Closing Party - Feat: Hvob + Seekae Djs + More State Library Of Victoria, 7:00pm. $25.00. Morning Ritual - Feat: Primo State Library Of Victoria, 9:30Am. Napier Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00Pm. Neeko Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm. New Shoes Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. Nick Lovell + Jemma Nicole Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. Paper House + Georgia Fields + Brooke Russell Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Peter Joseph Head + The Finks + Open Swimmer Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 2:00pm. $10.00. Peter Nigido + Zen Robotic + Sleeplab + The Engagement + Contex 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. Plgrms Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00Pm. Pure Moods + Good Morning + Great Outdoors John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:30pm. $10.00. Purple Revolution (Prince Tribute) - Feat: Andrew De Silva St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $35.00. River Rocks 2016 - Feat: The Monkeywrench + Hits + More` Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 12:00pm. Saturdays Rock - Feat: Riffinery Royal Hotel (Essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm. Slowly Slowly Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Smoking Martha + Fight The Sun + Roxy Wifi + Red Light Riot Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00. Stonefox + I Know The Chief + Soft Corporate Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.00. Stopgap + Jawn + Charlie Lane Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $5.00. Sudamerican Rockers Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. Summer Flake + Chelsea Bleach + Suss C*Nts + More Signal, Melbourne. 7:00pm. Tapestry Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $20.00. The Ascended + Fall & Resist + Moustache Any + Wolves Among The Hallow Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. The Peep Tempel + Spinning Rooms + Local Coward Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. The Rubens Torquay Hotel, Torquay. 6:00pm. The Rubens Lorne Hotel, Lorne. 3:00pm. Thundamentals + Pez The Croxton, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $38.25. Waco Social Club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm. Westival 2016 - Feat: Spike Fuck + Ships Piano + Loobs + More Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. $15.00. Wishbone Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Cannonball Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00. Dj Baba Noir Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. Francesca Mountfort + Cy Gorman Bakehouse Studios, Richmond. 3:00pm. $17.00. Francesca Mountfort + Cy Gorman Bakehouse Studios, Richmond. 8:00pm. $17.00. Jamaica Jump Up #20 - Feat: Dj Cassawarrior + Johnny Longshot + More Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00Pm. $10.00. Jassisters + Dizzy’s Big Band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $16.00. Jess Fairlie Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00. Julie Bailey Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00. Lady & The Tramps Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. Lake Minnetonka Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. Mark Fitzgibbon Quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Mel Searle (An Ella Fitzgerald Tribute) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00. Robert Bratetich & Mario Lattuada Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. Rosanna Brandi Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. Sibelius & Shostakovich - Feat: Dale Barltrop Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:00pm. $57.00. The Fox Soundtrack - Feat: Ellie Young + Josie Smart + More Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. The Habibis + Saray Iluminado Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $18.00. Trio Dali Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Alison Ferrier & Bloody Awesome Band Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. Black & Blue Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. Boogaloo Blues - Feat: The New Savages + Greg Dodd & The Hoodoomen + Sweet Felicia & The Honeytones The Church Of Bang Bang Boogaloo, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $20.00. Brad Martin Project Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. Brendan Gallagher Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Charles Maimarosia + Emily Wurramara Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. Claude Hay The Bluestrain, 8:30pm. Craig Woodward & Friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. Delsinki Records + Brooke Taylor Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. Geoff Achison & The Soul Diggers Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. Hanksaw Surabaya Johnnys, St Kilda. 7:30pm. Jellyroll Baker Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. Jo Meares & The Honeyriders Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. Johnny Can’t Dance + Flying Engine Band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. Karaoke With Zoe Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:00pm. Kinematic + Mackenzie Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:30pm. Liam Gerner & The Sunset Pushers Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12.00. Nigel Wearne Caz Reitop’s Dirty Secrets, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $15.00. Papa Pilko & The Bin Rats + Tenderloins + Green Tin Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. The Cope Street Parade Open Studio, Northcote. 2:00pm. The Jump Devils + Ciaran Boyle Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 3:00pm. Ultravibralux Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. Waz E James Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Sunday 20 Nov Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers A Blonde Moment Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm. Bitch Diesel + Sensation Poo + Surprise Hero + Monnone Alone Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. Bree Tranter + Al Parkinson + Francesca Gonzales Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $10.00. Dj Ella Thompson Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm. Don Hillman’s Secret Beach Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill. 2:00pm. Interlocker Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm. Jam At Musicland Sundays Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. Jennifer Loveless + Amateur Dance + More Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. Liqour Snatch + No Class + Kuntsquad Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm. $8.00. Lucy Cliche + Pillow Pro + Huntly + Still Works Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 2:30pm. Religious Observance + True Defective

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The Jump Devils

+ Clogged + Headlopper Brunswick Hotel, 8:00pm Royal Parks + Robert Muinos + Magnets John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 5:30pm. $10.00. Steviejnorth + Cicadastone Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:30Pm. $8.00. Sudamerican Rockers Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. The Monkeywrench + Warped Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $23.00. The Rubens Portsea Hotel, Portsea. 2:00Pm. The Rubens The Emerson, South Yarra. 6:00pm. Totally Unicorn + Uncle Geezer + Party Vibez Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

The Drunken Poet With a mixture of early blues swing and good ol’ fashioned rock ‘n’ roll, The Jump Devils are sure to make you feel as though Marty McFly is about to make out with his mum. So come down – maybe bring your own mum – and enjoy the infectiously danceable tunes from 9pm at The Drunken Poet on Saturday November 19. And for free too.

Départe

Bendigo Hotel After more than a year since their last performance, Tasmanian extreme metal quartet Départe are touring Australia in support of their debut album, Failure, Subside. Joining the band for their Bendigo Hotel show on Saturday November 19 will be the legendary Lo!, epic post black metallers Greytomb, national tour support No Haven, and local post-metal quintet Cascades. Phew. It’ll cost ya $15, and it’ll all go down at the Bendigo Hotel, with doors opening at 7.30pm

The Ascended

Brunswick Hotel Metal. What’s it good for? Bloody everything, apparently, as The Ascended’s upcoming show at Brunswick Hotel is set to prove. Support will be provided by a range of legendary acts, including Moustache Ant, Fall And Resist and Wolves Among The Hallow. Bands at 9pm and free entry.

Black Arrow

The Reverence Hotel 2015 Gunn music artist showdown winners Black Arrow are launching their self-titled debut EP at The Reverence Hotel this Saturday November 19. Support duties care of Elemada, CASH and with Sunslave. Come for the tacos and stay for the tunes at 7.30pm. Entry is a decent $10.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Frank Yamma Open Studio, Northcote. 3:00pm. $20.00. Jetson Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00Pm. Let Them Eat Baklava Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 4:00pm. Old Guard Of The North Bar Open, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. Rizky’s Block Party - Feat: Mzrizk Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. Sam Anning Quintet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00. Shol + Lo-Res + Slow Code 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. Strong Dose + Spencer Street Soul Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 4:30pm. $10.00. Sunday Soultrain Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 3:00pm. The Band Who Knew Too Much Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm. The Bon Ton Rhythms Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. The London Sketchbook - Feat: Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:30pm. $49.00. The Melbourne Jazz Co-Op Presents Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. Tim Thornton Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

Smoking Martha

Whole Lotta Love Brisbane punks Smoking Martha are shooting fast towards the stratosphere and they’re stopping by Whole Lotta Love Bar with their new single Say You’re Mine on Saturday November 19. Topped off with a double launch as Fight The Sun roll out their long awaited Animals and The Other Side. Head down by 8pm for all the action. Entry is an easy $10.

Ali E

The Yarra Hotel Ali E and Band are finally having a launch party for their single Two By One which was released in July. To help celebrate this belated launch, Ali will be supported by quality bands including Extreme Wheeze, Shiny Coin and Splendid. Hop to the Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford on Saturday November 19 at 9pm for only $8 at the door.

Deer Prudence

Some Velvet Morning Talented duo Deer Prudence are set to wave their guitar playing, violin toting, folk magic at Some Velvet Morning on Saturday November 19 to celebrate the launch of their debut single and video. Supported by the ever dreamy Forever Son, it all kicks off at 8pm.

Alby Pool Band Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm. Cairo Club Orchestra Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 2:30pm. $23.00. Darren Gibson + Grace Lawry Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $27.00. Forever Son + Hannah Blackburn Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. $5.00. Geoff Achison Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. Greg Dodd & The Hoodoo Men Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00. Ian Bland & Lamington Cres Orchestra Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. Joshua Seymour Band + Tobias Hengeveld Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. Jules Boult Trio Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. Lee Family Benefit Gig Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 1:00Pm. $10.00. Michael Crowe + Tim Parry Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. Michelle Gardiner Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 3:00pm. Mitch Power Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. Nadia Reid + Tom Lee-Richards Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $14.59. Rachel Baiman + Buffalo Nickel Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. Ripley Hood + Steve Lucas + Kelly Hewston Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm. Sunday Session - Feat: Brunsy Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00Pm. Sunset Blush + Vic Meehan + Jakksenfish & The Unholyracket Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm. The Bona Fide Travellers Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm. The Company Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. The Harmaniax Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

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Gig of The Week

Corner Hotel 20th Birthday One of Melbourne’s most iconic music venues is turning 20 and to celebrate they’re inviting everyone to the ultimate Sunday session. Sunday November 20 will see The Corner Hotel open its doors for free entertainment including three stages showcasing over 15 of the country’s most exciting up and coming acts including Billy Davis, Lazertits, Milk! Records DJs, Jade Imagine and heaps more. The festivities will be kicking off early with an eclectic line up of live music in the band room, solo acts in the front bar and DJ’s upstairs in the newly renovated rooftop to keep you moving and grooving well until the wee hours. No party is complete without something to chew and a few cold brews, so there will be food and drink specials running all day. Not to mention the famous Corner BBQ will be firing up to keep you fuelled throughout the entire event. Get down to The Corner on Sunday November 20 for a party that is not to be missed. The Shaky Stills Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. The Slipdixies Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. Tim Hulsman Wesley Anne, Northcote. 2:00pm. $10.00.

Monday 21 Nov Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music 303 Yarra Banks Jam Night 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. Atm15 Big Band Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00. Bach & The New Generation - Feat: Latitude 37 Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00. Chaos Magnet + Madeline Tsali + Sludge Party Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. Mitchell Butel + The Croontuners Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 11:00am. $20.00. Mitchell Butel + The Croontuners Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 1:30pm. $20.00. Tony Gould Quartet Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.

& Matthew Horsley Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $29.00. She Wolf + Eat The Damn Orange + No Stairway Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. Swooping Duck + Onajae Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $25.00. Transients - Feat: Keller + Wilson + Anning Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $18.00.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers

Make It Up Club - Feat: Menstruation Sisters + Terminal Infant + Sorcha Wilcox + Eli Chappell + More Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. Mystery Act + Field + Bodies Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. Open Mic Nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm. Pinnacle + Babyface Ensemble + The Regulators Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. Stopgap + Jawn Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. The Mochasins + The Shifties + Leonard Eye + Seaweed Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00. The Used + Storm The Sky + Corpus 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $56.10. Tom Tom Tuesday - Feat: Stationary Suns + Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk Fully Ugly + More Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. Way Dynamic + Dianas Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. & Covers 8:30pm. Cherry Jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. Yossarian + Plotz + Low Temperature Keggin + The Flying So High-Os + Foley Civics Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9:00pm. $13.30. Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. Magic Is Happening - Feat: Total Giovanni Acoustic/Country/Blues/ + Youthfire Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00. Folk Monday Night Mass - Feat: Clever Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. Coco Montoya Bird’s Basement, Melbourne. Sere + Golden Helmet Old Bar, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. $35.00. 8:00pm. $5.00. Irish Session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. The Used + Storm The Sky + Corpus 170 8:00pm. Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $56.10. Lucy Annabel Wilson + Jim Lawrie Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

Collingwood Casanovas Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. Open Mic Hardiman’s Hotel, Kensington. 7:00pm.

Tuesday 22 Nov Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Anna’s Go-Go Academy Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm. $10.00. Melbourne Polytehnic Recital Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. Now. Here. This. - Feat: Hot Jazz Combo + Ogopogo + Winters Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $7.00. Pastoral Companion - Feat: Ryan Williams

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Featured Gigs

Paper House

Grace Darling Melbourne’s Paper House are throwing a massive launch party on Saturday November 19 to celebrate the release of their brand new album A Certain Kind of Now. To make it extra special, they’re collaborating with Freya Pitt to create immersive visuals using liquid light. Get down to Grace Darling from 8pm, tickets are $10.

The Monkeywrench

Cherry Bar Get in to see supergroup The Monkeywrench for the first time on Aussie soil on Sunday November 20 at Cherry Bar. It’s set to be a special event, with the Seattle rockers supported by Geelong natives and newly reformed rockers Warped. Tickets are $23 online and $25 on the door ± which opens at 8pm.

Religious Observance

Brunswick Hotel Any band that describe themselves as ‘doom-lords’ are bound to be good fun, hey? Religious Observance are set to strip the paint off the Brunswick Hotel’s walls when they play there come Sunday November 20, supported by True Defectives, Clogged and Headlopper. What a bill, it’s all free and it kicks off at 8pm.

Sunset Blush

Whole Lotta Love Sunset Blush has been slamming and twanging it for years now, touring both Melbourne and interstate since the days of late ’90s. Simply put, they’ll be blowing the bloody doors off Whole Lotta Love on Sunday November 20. It’s a nice and early one at 3pm set to cap off your weekend in style. Free entry so you can spend your coins on bevs.

Alby Pool & Band

The Retreat From his early days touring with Tommy and Phil Emmanuel, through to his tenure as frontman of Western Australia’s No City Limits, Alby Pool has remained his own man - playing classic country with a purpose and authenticity rarely seen round these parts. You can find Alby at The Retreat on Sunday November 20 at 3pm.

StevieJNorth

The Workers Club The Workers Club are putting on a lovely little matinee show this Sunday November 20. StevieJNorth are launching their full-length album, with some smooth alt-country sounds to sweeten up your Sunday. The good times start at 1.30pm and tickets are a steal at $8.

Magic Is Happening

The Evelyn You heard it here first folks. Mondays are about to get decidedly more magical thanks to the gang down at The Evelyn. On Monday November 21, potter on down to suss sets from Total Giovanni (duo) and Youthfire. Plus there will be art thanks to D’Artagnan. $10 jugs, $5 entry, get your butt there at 8.30pm.

Stopgap

The Retreat Stopgap are stopping by The Retreat ahead of their slot at Queenscliff Festival. On Tuesday November 22 you can enjoy some of their very special indie rock all the way from Singapore, when Stopgap play with their good pal Jawn. Head down and say hello from 8.30pm. Entry is free. 44 BEAT.COM.AU

Gig Guide

Coming Soon Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen St Michael’s Uniting Church November 23 Band Of Skulls The Croxton November 24 The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer Caravan Music Club November 24 King Brothers Tote Hotel November 24 Eilen Jewell The Corner November 24 Earthcore Pyalong November 24 – 28 Abbe May Northcote Social Club November 24 Garbage Regent Theatre November 24 The Troggs The Tote November 25 Mat Anderson Memo Music Hall November 25 Paradise Music Festival Feat. Friendships, Rainbow Chan, Holy Balm, Gold Class, Pearls And More Lake Mountain Alpine Resort November 25 –27 Ne Obliviscaris 170 Russell November 25 Josh Rennie-Hynes The Spotted Mallard November 25 Nelly, Tlc, 112, Mya & More Hisense Arena November 25 Rodriguez The Plenary November 25 Queenscliff Music Festival Feat. Killing Heidi, Liz Stringer, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen And More Queenscliff November 25 – 27 Birds Of Tokyo The Croxton November 26 Gizzfest 2016 Feat King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Pond, White Fence, Mild High Club And More Coburg Velodrome November 26 Ezekiel Ox Northcote Social Club November 26 The Troggs The Palms At Crown November 26 The Cult Festival Hall November 26 The Smith Street Band Corner Hotel November 26, 27 Missy Higgins The Plenary November 27 Basshunter 170 Russell November 27, 28 Jeremy Loops Howler November 27 Jimmy Barnes Werribee Park November 27 Angel Olsen The Corner Hotel November 28, The Croxton November 29 Son Little The Toff November 29 The Troggs Cherry Bar November 30, Caravan Music Club December 1 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 Totally Mild, Gabriella Cohen, Ferla The Gasometer December 1 BOOM CRASH OPERA Chelsea Heights December 2, With James Reyne, Flying Saucer Club December 16 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 Diesel Flying Saucer Club December 2, Northcote Social Club December 3 Mojo Burning Bendigo Hotel December 3, Shamrock Hotel December 4 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 Meredith December 9 –11 Pleasure Garden Feat. The Cat Empire, Dub Fx, Blue King Brown And More Catani Gardens, St Kilda December 10 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 A Day To Remember Festival Hall December 14 Flume Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 15 Lanks The Curtin December 16 Ali Barter The Curtin December 17 XyLOURIS WHITE Melbourne Recital Centre December 17 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 DUBIOZA KOLEKTIv The Corner December 22 Even The Corner Hotel December 22 Mick Thomas & The Roving Comission The Croxton December 23 Julia Jacklin Howler December 24 Falls Festival Feat. Childish Gambino And More Various Venues December 28 – January 8 Beyond The valley Festival Feat. Chance The Rapper, Ali Barter, Ecca vandal, Audiojack And More Lardner Park, Warragul December 28 – January 1 Freedom Time Feat. Theo Parrish, Tako, Andras Fox, Millu, Prequel And More Coburg Velodrome January 1 Nye On The Hill Feat. The Preatures, Pierce Brothers, Tash Sultana, Camp Cope And More 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 Chance The Rapper Festival Hall January 4 Hælos Howler January 4 Parquet Courts Shimmerlands, Melbourne University January 5 Bring Me The Horizon Margaret Court Arena February 5, 6 Lemaitre Howler January 5 Jamie T The Croxton January 5 Mø 170 Russell January 5 Lake Street Drive Howler January 6 Grouplove Melbourne Town Hall January 6 Alunageorge The Corner January 6 Modern Baseball 170 Russell January 6

Ry X Northcote Social Club January 7 Twelve Foot Ninja Corner Hotel January 7 THE NAKED AND FAMOUS 170 Russell January 8 Bowie In Berlin Feat. Kylie Auldist, Dave Graney, Ron Peno And More Hamer Hall January 8 Halestorm The Corner Hotel January 10 Everytime I Die 170 Russell January 11, Arrow On Swanston (Aa) January 12 Half Moon Run Corner Hotel January 12 Moose Blood The Evelyn January 12, 13 Tim Finn Arts Centre Melbourne January 13 - 15 Ed Kuepper Howler January 14 We Lost The Sea Northcote Social Club January 14 So Frenchy So Chic In The Park Feat. Deluxe, The Limiñanas, Bertrand Belin And Nouvelle vague Werribee Park Mansion January 15 Alexisonfire Festival Hall January 17 Jimmy Eat World The Australian Open January 20 Dinosaur Jr The Croxton January 20 Airbourne Trak Lounge Friday January 20 Stick To your Guns Corner Hotel January 20 Woodlock Howler January 21 Sugar Mountain Feat. Blood Orange, Pantha Du Prince, Big Scary, My Disco And More Vca January 21 Pj Harvey Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 21 Puscifer Plenary, Melbourne Convention Centre And Exhibition Centre(Aa) January 22 Refused & Sick Of It All Prince Bandroom January 24 Baby Animals The Corner February 24 Passenger Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 25 White Lung Northcote Social Club January 25 Electric Gardens Festival Feat. Eric Prydz Moonee Valley Racecourse January 26 Beechworth Music Festival Feat. Stonefield, Gabriella Cohen, Tracy Mcneil And More Madman’s Gully Amphitheatre Beechworth January 27, 28 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 27, 28 Rainbow Serpent Festival Feat. Astrix, Andhim, Guy J And More Lexton, Victoria January 27 – 30 Laneway Festival Feat. Tame Impala, The Julie Ruin, White Lung, Julia Jacklin And More Footscray Community Arts Centre January 28 Panic! At The Disco Festival Hall January 28 The Cat Empire & Xavier Rudd North Gardens, Ballarat January 29 Nothing Northcote Social Club January 29 Bruce Springsteen Aami Park February 2, 4 Periphery 170 Russell February 5 Opeth 170 Russell February 7, 8 The B-52’S & Simple Minds Margaret Court Arena February 7 James Taylor Rod Laver Arena February 8 Party In The Paddock Feat. Sticky Fingers, Hermitude, The Smith Street Band, Tash Sultana And More Burns Creek - Tasmania February 10 -12 Sunnyboys The Croxton February 10

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Pro Guitar Setups Who are we talking to and what do you do at Pro Guitar Setups? My name is Mark Tonelli, I service electric, acoustic and bass guitars. How long have you been in the industry? I’ve had a passion for guitars and accommodating people’s individual guitar needs for over ten years. I’ve been a musician for 34 years and know how a well-playing guitar should feel. What’s the science behind a good guitar setup? A good setup is when the guitar is adjusted to play at its optimum. A well set up guitar should feel comfortable to play and not feel like you’re fighting it. It’s also important to consider that preferences vary from player to player. Everyone is different so it’s very important to know as much as possible about the customer’s playing style. When and why would somebody look towards getting their guitar setup? Wood naturally responds to temperature changes and moves, therefore it’s normal for a guitar neck to move and with acoustic guitars the tops can also typically rise or sink a little depending on the climate. On an electric guitar, bridge parts also become loose and move, resulting in the setup being out. Pots and switches get dirty and noisy. Sometimes they stop working altogether. Both old and many new guitars, cheap and expensive, will be in need of a setup. At the factory, new guitars are given a quick, rudimentary setup and shipped out to the music store. You’ll generally feel when it’s not right. A well set up guitar will allow you to play with freedom. What kind of set-ups do you perform? I provide a full setup which covers cleaning, burnishing and lubricating nut slots and string saddles, cleaning, ramping and burnishing bridge string slots (acoustic), setting string action, reshaping bridge saddle, setting neck relief, setting pickup height and pole

piece radius, restringing, tuning and stretching strings, setting nut action, adjusting tremolo unit, setting intonation, checking for and tightening loose hardware, lubricating moving parts and checking playability. There’s also a deluxe setup which covers fretboard cleaning, rejuvenate dry fretboard, rejuvenating dry bridge (acoustic), cleaning and polishing the guitar, cleaning and polishing frets, and servicing and cleaning all electronics. What other services do you offer besides setups? I also offer fret work - levelling and re-crowning. This involves shaving the high and/or worn fret tops down until they’re all level then rounding the frets. I also handle nut work, saddle work, pickup installation, electronic work and tuner installation amongst other things. Pro Guitar Setups is located at 133 Tunstall Road, Donvale. Find out more at proguitarsetups.com.au.

Fairy Floss, Byron Bay pioneers of alternative clothing, has just opened on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. We sat down with designer Revital to chat about the brand’s philosophy and their Melbourne launch. When was Fairy Floss launched? Fairy Floss was established in magical Byron Bay back in 1998 where creative, alternative lifestyles and fashion have more freedom to express. Where fairies are very much alive and real. What are your designs inspired by? The fringes of style and culture – from Burning Man and Steampunk, to expanding consciousness and sacred geometry. What’s one thing you’d like people to know about Fairy Floss? That our brand stands for unique and natural expression of ones individuality and lifestyle. We promote selfexpression through ever-changing, inspiring, and quality apparel. What inspired the move to Melbourne? Melbourne has that eclectic, artistic vibe that we find resonates well with our brand. What can visitors to the Fitzroy store expect? Visitors can immerse themselves in the timeless, grungy, industrial yet earthy vibe of our shop. It’s like Mad Max meets Jules Verne – edgy and strong, yet frilly and soft. Tell us about your Bali-based production. It all starts with months of sketches and drawings in our Australian studio. The finished designs are sent to our factory in Bali for sample making, corrections, pattern making and production. Fair trade and sustainability is extremely important to us. We know that to get the quality and vibe that we want, our tailors need to be happy and well paid and in a good environment. Fairy Floss is located at 240 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

High Street Music As one of many guitar stores around Melbourne, High Street Music differentiate themselves from the pack with their extensive Cole Clark range, their instore customisation and music lessons and their true interest in customer service. We spoke to store manager Thom Jackson and owner Peter to find out a bit more about their Preston store.

“A lot of the instruments you find in the store have been customised, they’re not stock standard instruments.”

What are the main brands and musical products High Street Music specialise in? Thom: We’re the biggest Cole Clark stockist in Victoria, we also have a very extensive ukulele range, and we’re quite large in Katoh as well, in the classic guitars there. We’ve also probably got the only range of Cole Clark electrics still in captivity. Are there any services you offer in store for musicians? Thom: We’ve got a full music school here, doing piano, guitar, ukulele, drums, bass, vocals, and violin. We’ve also got a full repair department, so we do restrings, full setups, and we also do custom shop on guitars. So those are the two major pillars of our business, as well as the retail side. Do the lessons cater more towards beginners or to advanced players? Thom: We do all levels, obviously

we cater for beginners but moving into more advanced we’ve got very experienced musicians who come in just to skill up with some of our teachers. When you’re just playing by yourself you can get into bad habits, and you can also get into a bit of a rut. You hit some walls and you can start to rest on what you know. What happens when having a one-on-one lesson is that it always pushes you forward, and always makes you go that extra little bit and learn things that if you’re just sitting in your comfort zone you won’t learn. What is your point of difference ? Peter: The difference with our shop is that we do a lot of customisation; we’re authorised by Cole Clark to customise their electrics. We sometimes change the wiring, the scratchplates, genuine mother of pearl, which we’ve sourced and no one else has to my knowledge. We make up scratchplates, we change pickups and we’ve got a variety of different pickups here, DiMarzio, Seymour Duncan, British Tone Rider etc. A lot of the instruments you find in the store have been customised, and they’re not stock standard instruments. With regards to Cole Clark, we’re obviously the biggest stockists of Cole

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