Beat 1587

Issue N o 1587

August 2 2017 Free

Melbourne Guitar Show Liftout Inside

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Mesa Cosa Page. 48

Josh Pyke

La Bastard

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A Departing Art Director’s Note

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many years, launched our standalone Beat Eats foodie magazine, redesigned Mixdown Magazine when it changed size formats a couple of years ago. Tons of stuff. Got to do a lot of killer magazine covers: Louis Theroux, David Bowie, Jeff Mills as well as upcoming locals like Gretta Ray and Julia Jacklin. As a student in the mid 2000s, designing the cover of Beat was a secret little dream of mine and I’m stoked I got to do it a heap of times.

The shit that I’m gonna miss the most though is hanging out with some of my best pals everyday.

Big ol’ shout outs to those guys and girls - past and present - for making most days at work pretty ok. I’m gonna miss my weird little work family.

@dbjded.writer

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Social @akovamusic

About three or four weeks into working at Furst Media as a one-day-a-week typesetter back in 2012, Luke the production manager turns around to me and says “hey man...look what I’m putting on the cover of Beat this week hehehe, fuck Kaiser Chiefs off.” It was a cartoon drawing of himself naked with ‘Sayonara bitches, it’s been real’ written under.

I chuckled, ‘imagine the shitstorm if he actually did that’ I thought. Little did I know he was flying to the USA the next day and yes he did do it.

I’m nowhere near ballsy enough to do anything like that so this note will have to do. Five years on (3 year fulltime), 200+ issues of Beat and I’m ready to hang up my boots and give someone else a crack.

Well.. to an extent, I’m still gonna hang around and help when I can. I have trouble letting go.

I think I’ve done some pretty good stuff here, redesigned Beat for issue 1500 - it’s first big facelift in

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Pennywise Reveal Anniversary Tour with The Bronx It’s funny how things come full circle. Pennywise’s lauded fourth album Full Circle will turn 20 this year, and the group are heading our way to perform the record in full. What’s more, they’ll be joined by hardcore heroes The Bronx. Full Circle is the emotional and pivotal album that followed the tragic death of founding member and bassist Jason Matthew Thirsk.

Dedicated to the memory of Thirsk, Full Circle is hard as nails, reflective and ultimately redemptive. They’ll hit The Forum on Friday October 27.

Tickets via Destroy All Lines.

— Friday 04 Aug —

The Bombay Royale — Saturday 05 Aug —

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Alex Lahey is gearing up for the biggest release of her career.

Fresh from the runaway success of her watershed EP B-Grade University, Lahey is ready to stun with her debut full-length album I Love You Like A Brother. The first taste of the record is the lead single, Every Day’s The Weekend. Alex Lahey will launch her new record at The Corner on Wednesday October 18.

Jen Cloher has released her latest track, Regional Echo, in the lead-up to her forthcoming tour. Regional Echo is inspired by legendary Australian poet Les Murray as well as growing up in her hometown. The track also comes in support of her self-titled album which will be released on Friday August 11. Jen Cloher will play Howler on Friday September 8. Ticket via Moshtix.

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Fifteen-year-old pop artist Billie Eilish will be touring for the first time in support of her debut album, don’t smile at me, which will be released on Friday August 11. In addition to Eilish’s EP, she has also dropped a new single idontwannabeyouanymore in preparation for her debut Aussie tour where she is set to perform in Melbourne. Eilish played her first gig earlier this month in the UK to a sold-out crowd. Her new single idontwannabeyouanymore is now available via Universal Music Australia. Billie Eilish will be performing at The Toff on Friday September 15.

50 Cent is heading down under for his first Australian tour in over a decade to celebrate the 15th anniversary of his iconic album, Get Rich Or Die Trying. The tour will see him performing classic tracks from the album such as Candy Shop, Ayo Technology, and My Life, with his Melbourne appearance set to be one of the biggest outdoor hip hop events of the summer. 50 Cent will hit Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday February 10. Tickets via MJR.

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Out On The Weekend Set for Alt-Country Extravaganza Headlining the festival will be American singersongwriter Justin Townes Earle, hot off the release of his acclaimed seventh full-length album Kids In the Street via BMG / 1989 Music. He’ll be joined by the likes of alt-country pioneers Son Volt (appearing for the first time ever in Australia), Traveller (a project with Jonny Fritz, Robert Ellis & Cory Chisel), All Our Exes Live In Texas, The Deslondes, Robbie Fulks, Fanny Lumsden, The Sadies, Joshua Hedley, Raised by Eagles, Freya Josephine Hollick, the Davidson Brothers and the Moonee Valley Drifters. Out on the Weekend comes to Seaworks in Williamstown on Saturday October 14.

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Tash Sultana Announces Epic Homecoming Tour Tash Sultana is heading across the country on a homecoming tour, riding high in the wake of a watershed world tour. It’ll be the last chance to catch Tash Sultana until the end of 2018 as she prepares to enter the studio to lock down her hotly anticipated debut album. It’s been a meteoric rise to success for Sultana, who has spent the past 18 months selling out shows across the globe in light of her massive singles Jungle, Notion and Murder to the Mind. Catch her at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday December 14. Tickets via Secret Sounds.

Josh Pyke

The Tarantinos

Australian singer/songwriter Josh Pyke has announced a national tour before hanging up his boots for a well-deserved hiatus at the end of this year. In November and December this year Pyke is set to perform in all major cities across the country, where he will perform greatest hits along with tracks from his dynamic album Memories & Dust - celebrating its tenth anniversary. Josh Pyke will play The Corner on Thursday August 3 and Friday August 4, Sooki Lounge on Friday December 8, Karova Lounge on Saturday December 9 and Theatre Royal on Sunday December 10. Tickets are available through Oztix and the respective venues.

Everyone’s favourite Quentin Tarantino-themed band, The Tarantinos, have locked in a four-week Sunday residency. Best of all? It’s completely free. Each installment will be themed after a different Tarantino classic with cocktails and menus to match. It all kicks off with a Reservoir Dogs night, as the band plays through two sets of stone cold Tino hits. Naturally, there’s a Jack Rabbit Slim’s Twist contest too, as well as a DJ set to cap it all off. It goes down every Sunday at Ding Dong Lounge from August 6 - August 20.

George Ezra

Old Crow Medicine Show

The English singer/songwriter is returning to Australia early next year for three shows following the unfortunate cancellation of his tour planned for this month. With anticipation for a follow-up album growing, Ezra wil arrive in Australia following a series of U.K. shows and a number of appearances at festivals including Glastonbury, Pukkelpop, and Lollapalooza. See George Ezra at the Forum Theatre on Wednesday March 7.

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Old Crow Medicine Show embody the roots of Americana, combining the Sun Records sound of Memphis with the bluegrass and country of Nashville, a sound which has earned them success and membership to the iconic Grand Ole Opry.

The two-time Grammy Award winners will pay tribute to their musical icon, Bob Dylan, during their Australian shows by playing his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde in full. Don’t miss Old Crow Medicine Show at Forum Theatre on Sunday October 1.

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Shonen Knife Return to Australia Shonen Knife are bringing their alternative pop-influenced rock to Melbourne as they continue 36 years of international touring. The Australian tour follows the 2016 release of Shonen Knife’s album Adventure, the latest of 18 studio albums, which the band have been performing throughout the last year across Japan, the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. and Canada. Adventure consists of ten songs including Wasabi, an ode to the spicy condiment, Hawaii, a longing to holiday on a tropical island, and the first single, Jump into the New World. Shonen Knife will perform three shows in Victoria: at the National Gallery of Victoria on Friday September 22, Karova Lounge on Saturday September 23 and the Corner on Sunday October 1.

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BIGSOUND Expands lineup

The BIGSOUND lineup has just reached a massive 133 acts in the festival’s latest announcement. The epic four-day adventure has just been bolstered with a huge array of fresh names kicking off with sleepmakeswaves, Cub Sport and Confidence Man. From there come the likes of Golden Vessel, West Thebarton, WAAX, SUPERCRUEL, Thandi Phoenix and Caiti Baker.

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Playing a good ol’ rock show Supersuckers are making their return with their cowboy hats and brazen attitudes in tow. Delivering overblown celebrations of rock’n’roll night in night out would wane on many artists, but not the Supersuckers. Vehemently holding true to the raucous essentials of booze, the devil and assorted vices, their live show is simply breathtaking. Supersuckers come to The Evelyn on Saturday November 4. Tickets via The Drunk Promoter.

Canberra rapper Citizen Kay has shared details of the release of his new album, Belly of the Beast, alongside news of a national headline tour scheduled for later this year. Belly of the Beast follows Kay’s ARIA nominated Demokracy EP (2014) and With the People LP (2015) and is a reflective and personal record, one which the artist spent a great deal of time working on to perfect the flow and tracklisting. Catch Citizen Kay’s headline show at Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 7.

Sarv Ensemble

Bring the music of Persia to Melbourne The Sarv Ensemble is heading to Melbourne, offering a rare opportunity to hear authentic Persian classical music. The ensemble has invited Maestro Majid Derakhshani to lead the performance. Maestro Majid Derakhshani lived in Germany for 20 years after the 1978 revolution in Iran before returning to Iran in 1998. Comprised of seven internationally renowned musicians from Iran, Canada and Australia, the Sarv Ensemble also features a female vocalist from Iran. In Iran, females are prohibited from performing in front of a unisex audience ± with the ensemble breaking with tradition to bring their performance overseas to music lovers of all genders. Catch it at the Abbotsford Convent on Friday August 11.

The Butterfly Effect Emerge with reunion tour

The Butterfly Effect are taking to the stage once more, back with original frontman Clint Boge at the helm alongside the original lineup. During their time together, the group dropped a selection of well-loved records including Begins Here, Imago, and Final Conversation of Kings before breaking up with a farewell tour in 2012. The jury’s still out on whether the band will be back with new music, but here’s hoping.They’ll hit The Croxton on Saturday March 10 and Sunday March 11.

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Last on our shores for a run of sell-out shows in 2013, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are returning for another dose of musical magic in the leadup to their new album. BRMC will be ripping through a selection of new tunes, as well as a slew of crowd-favourites from their storied 19-year career ± boasting an impressive seven-album back catalogue. Catch them at The Forum on Saturday March 24. Tickets via MJR Presents.

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Record Paradise Top Ten 1. Old Locomotive, The Murlocs 2. Cigarettes After Sex, Cigarettes After Sex 3. Hug Of Thunder, Broken Social Scene 4. Rest In Piss, Batpiss 5. In Time, Time For Dreams 6. Clear, Plyers 7. B-Grade University, Alex Lahey 8. Wet Lips, Wet Lips 9. Cable Ties, Cable Ties 10. Remember, Terry

Heartland Records Top Ten 1. Leave Home Box Set, Ramones 2. Dear LP, Boris 3. Outrospective LP, Faithless 4. Soundtrack LP, Alien Covenant 5. Death Walks LP, Atomic Rooster 6. Self Titled Mono LP, Love 7. Paris Box Set, Rammstein 8. One Second 2LP, Paradise Lost 9. Angst In My Pants LP/CD, Sparks 10. Particles LP, Tangerine Dream

PBS FM Top Ten 1. In Time, Time for Dreams 2. Mellow Waves, Cornelius 3. phile EP, phile 4. 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong, Caroline Says 5. Fabriclive 93, Daphni 6. Omahara, Omahara 7. Stony Hill, Damian “Jr Gong” Marley 8. Raw Material, Lance Ferguson 9. Gotta Lotta Move-Boom!, James McCann & The New Vindictives 10. Soft Sounds From Another Planet, Japanese Breakfast

SYN FM Top Ten 1. Zone (This Is How It Feels), Cloud Control 2. No Pen of Mine, Hannah Cameron 3. Every Day’s The Weekend, Alex Lahey 4. Freq U, Miss Blanks 5. We Can Get It (feat. Rromarin), King IV 6. Mountain To Move, Nick Mulvey 7. Feel What I Feel, Briana Marela 8. In Your Eyes (Nosaj Thing Remix), BADBADNOTGOOD 9. World On Fire, INHEAVEN 10. As If It’s Your Last, BLACKPINK

Beat’s Top Ten Music Docos To See At MIFF 1. The Go-Betweens: Right Here 2. Buena Vista Social Club: Adios 3. Chasing Trane 4. Liberation Day 5. Long Strange Trip 6. Two Trains Runnin’ 7. Give Me Future: Major Lazer in Cuba 8. Tokyo Idols 9. Chavela 10. The Allins

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Vic Govt Funds Music Tourism

The Victorian Government has allocated $130,000 to six projects as part of its Rockin’ the Laneways program to enhance music tourism to Melbourne. One of these involves Beat magazine. Broadcaster Patrick Furze will produce a five-part radio doco/podcast of Melbourne’s culturally most important venues, past and present. It will air on PBS and be a monthly feature for Beat’s online website.

The projects engages 75 musicians and artists and a further 22 music industry workers in the year ahead. The others were Cherry Bar setting up an art installation in Bon Scott’s memory in AC/DC Lane; the Melbourne Music Bus, a monthly tour of Melbourne music landmarks; the Ngulu-nganjin (Our Voice) project by the Wurundjeri Tribe and Land Council to create new music for an audio project on the history of the Abbotsford Convent precinct; six billboards in high traffic areas by photographer Michelle Grace Hunder of key Victorian women in Melbourne’s music history; and a concert to celebrate music from the ‘60s and ‘70s as a prelude to the Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend in October.

Music Tops UK Entertainment List

A report by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) in the UK of retail sales of music, games and video games in the first half of 2017 found that Ed Sheeran’s Divide was the biggest selling product. Between #2 and #5 were the online videos/DVDs Rogue One ± A Star Wars Story, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Moana. At #6 was Rag N Bone Man’s Human followed by the Trolls video.

UK entertainment retail sales were up 6.4% to £2.9 billion (A$4.7 billion), with music retail up 11.2% year-on-year and making up 20% of sales. Music sales generated £564.7 million ($926.70), which was £50 million ($82 million) more than the first half of 2016. Gaming was up 8.4% to account for 48% sales and videos by 1.2% to a third of revenues. 75.4% of entertainment sales were online. Streaming of course pushed up music revenues. Vinyl fans would want to know that they had an upswing of 35.7% in terms of units and 37.6% in terms or revenue. The music industry is quite excited at these figures.

If sales continue at this 11.2% rate for the rest of the year, it will finish the year generating £1.23 billion ($2 billion). In comparison, 2016 generated £1.11 billion ($1.8 billion). For those of you who count only with your fingers, that’s £120 million ($196.9 million) more in the bank.

Mercury Rising

Finalists for the UK’s Mercury Prize’s Album of the Year are Alt-J’s Relaxer, Blossoms’ Blossoms, Dinosaur’s Together, As One, Ed Sheeran’s Divide, Glass Animals’ How To Be A Human Being, J Hus’ Common Sense, Kate Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos, Loyle Carner’s Yesterday’s Gone, Sampha’s Process, Stormzy’s Gang Signs & Prayer, The Big Moon’s Love In The 4th Dimension and The xx’s I See You. The winners are announced Thursday September 14, and broadcast on radio and TV by the BBC. Bookies have Stormzy and Sampha as faves to win at 4/1, with Sheeran, The xx, Alt-J and Blossoms at 6/1.

Native Tongue Signs Alexander Biggs

Native Tongue signed Melbourne’s Alexander Biggs to a publishing deal. The 23-year old has an international profile with first singles ‘Tidal Wave’ and ‘Out In The Dark’ getting BBC Radio 1 and KCRW spins, and over1.5 million streams on Spotify. Native Tongue’s MD, Jaime Gough said, “We are already receiving serious interest in his music at home and abroad, including his first US synch placement, so the future is bright for Alexander.” Sony Music issues his debut EP Still You Sharpen Your Teeth in mid-Sept after which he goes on the road.

EDM Site Thump Closed

EDM website Thump has closed, its editor Michelle Lhooq confirmed. It came as its parent company Vice Media laid off 60 employees in North America and Europe as it expands its video operations internationally. It will hire new skills as it plans to be in 80 territories by early 2018, setting up new offices in India and the Middle East, and will expand operations in Brazil.

Thump and Creators will be folded into the main Vice site. Vice. com will pull from Vice’s lifestyle channels to add coverage of culture, arts and nightlife. Music site Noisey remains as is.

More New Music From Dr. Yunupingu

While the Gurrumul album re-entered the ARIA chart at #27, new music is coming from Dr G. Yunupingu who, last week, passed away at 47. Since having to go on daily five-hour dialysis treatment last year curtailed all touring, he went into the studio to work on a number of projects. The first is an album to go with a documentary to feature in this month’s Melbourne Film Festival. Another is half-completed.

While his death came as a shock to fans, it was not for his inner circle, according to The Australian. By May he was telling his former Yothu Yindi bandmates at the Garrmalang Festival in Darwin that he was tired of medical treatment and he “just wanted to go.”

In the final weeks, he stopped treatment and hung out on Darwin’s Casuarina Beach with his family knowing his time had come. From there he rang his Melbourne-hailed producer, collaborator and close friend Michael Hohnen to thank him for everything.

Earthcore Refused Permit, Moves To Elmore

Earthcore (Thursday November 23 ± Monday November 27) had to shift to Elmore (the 5,000-capacity Events Centre) from Pyalong after Mitchell Shire Council refused permission this year.

The Bendigo Advertiser said there were concerns over drug use last year and the death of a 40-year-old woman still is being investigated by the Coroners Court. Festival organiser Spiro Boursine, told the Advertiser that the patron had a pre-existing medical condition, and a preconception that “Electronic dance music is portrayed as devil-worshiping, animal-killing satanic music.”

The Bear’s Panel On Mastering Music, Mastering Life

Deluxe Studio in Brunswick’s mastering guru Tony ‘The Bear’ Mantz also runs the Mastering Music. Mastering Life podcast about coping with life and a music career. It happens Sundays at 6.30pm. A live session is on every quarterly at the Croxton front bar in Thornbury.

The next one is on Sunday August 6 from 3pm-6pm. Looking at roadblocks and hurdles are producer John Course, singer/songwriter Mike Elrington, singer Dallas Frasca, Tom Larkin of Shihad and former Temper Trap guitarist Lorenzo Sillitto.

More Concerts For Geelong Stadium?

Expect more concerts at Kardinia Park Stadium in Geelong. Its new CEO Michael Brown not only wants to create a sports hub but attract music and community events. He’s contacted promoters of one-day festivals and concerts to indicate his interest, and an advisory board will be convened

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Melbourne Acts Blitz Air Awards

Melbourne names blitzed the 11th AIR awards (held last week in Adelaide) winning nine out of the 13 categories. A.B. Original lead the charge with five, including best independent artist, breakthrough artist, single (January 26), while Reclaim Australia took best album and hip hop album. Pieater was judged best indie label, Nick Murphy’s Stop Me (Stop You) was best dance electronica or club single while Friendships’ Nullabor 1988-1989 got dance/electronica album gong and Henry Wagons’ After What I Did Last Night best country album.

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Advice from a Butterfly

The Go-Betweens: Right Here

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Part of this year’s Glow Winter Arts Festival program, Advice from a Butterfly will see a kaleidoscope of butterflies that have made the light posts of Stonnington their pulpit whisper advice to passers-by below. As their wings gently flutter whilst whispering this advice, their striking and vivid colours are in constant change. Thursday August 10 - Sunday August 20, Hedgeley Dene Gardens.

Melbourne International Film Festival is upon us once more with a plethora of films to work through.

Get the inside story of one of Australia’s trailblazing indie rock heroes with The Go Betweens: Right Here, tracking how a local act influenced everyone from Sleater-Kinney to Belle and Sebastian. Saturday August 5 at ACMI and Sunday August 6 at The Forum.

Gold Class

Comedy George’s Bar It’s huge night of laughs at George’s this week with a slew of side-splitting comics taking to the stage.

Plus, the final contestants in their ‘Are You Funnier Than George’ competition along with a feature spot from last year’s winner. Thursday July 27, 120 Johnston Street, Fitzroy.

Comedy at the Aviary Melbourne’s newest comedy night features C Lewis Dowell, Timothy Clark, John Dore, Megan Mckay and more. Free Entry plus $12 for a burger and a pot. Upstairs at the Aviary Hotel, 271 Victoria St, Abbotsford, 7.30pm. Monday August 7.

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Going down at the Melbourne Museum, Nocturnal gives you the chance to soak up some live music while enjoying the exhibits on show.

Celebrating the meeting point between art and science, Nocturnal is a strictly 18+ event that brings together live music, cocktails, whiskey bars and more as the Museum opens its doors and exhibits after hours. The next installment goes down with Gold Class taking to the stage alongside RVG. Dance with the dinosaurs on Friday August 4.

Going down as part of the 2017 Melbourne Festival program, Under Siege is a breathtaking visual feast of epic proportions ± reimagining one of China’s most all-encompassing stories. Beneath thousands of suspended steel blades a climactic battle rages; the Battle of Gaixia will change the course of Chinese history. Two mighty, ambitious warlords stake everything for the ultimate prize. A legendary beauty will prove that love and loyalty outlive death. Thursday October 5 & Sunday October 8 at the State Theatre.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will perform Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood score while Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning film plays overhead, culminating in a very special performance that showcases the original classic in a new light. Saturday August 5, Hamer Hall.

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The Gong Long The Gong Show Returns. Comedians get at least 90 seconds to perform, after that, impress the crowd or they’ll be unceremoniously gonged off. An uproarious night of comedy where anything can and will happen. Saturday August 5, Club Voltaire.

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Melbourne’s cosiest comedy night nestled in the heart of Collingwood. Hilarious lineups every week, with regular surprise guests dropping in. Now an open mic night of comedy, come down from 7.30pm to sign up and perform. Every Wednesday from 8pm. Free entry. 80 Smith St, Collingwood.

Celebrating more than a year of free comedy every Thursday night, the Rochester is throwing a belated birthday party with a mega all-female lineup next month. Featuring headliners Geraldine Hickey, Katie Burch, Danielle Walker, and Jess Perkins alongside a number of other special guests, this comedy spectacular is not to be missed. There’ve also got $8 pints and karaoke following the comedy, so what’s not to love? It’s all happening at the Rochester on Thursday August 3.

Club Voltaire Close out your weekend with a lineup of Melbourne’s best up and coming comedians, located in North Melbourne’s finest hidden gems, Club Voltaire. Plus, cheap drinks. Free Entry. Luke Muller, Michael Shafar and more take the stage on Sunday August 6.

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Opens this week Director Matthew Lutton and Tom Wright (Picnic at Hanging Rock) will reunite to explore the real life story of Joseph Merrick - better known as the Elephant Man. A cast-out and survivor of circus ‘freak shows’, Joseph Merrick navigated a tumultuous existence before a young doctor offered him asylum at the London Hospital in 1879. Catch it at the Malthouse Theatre from Friday August 4 - Sunday August 27.

An Australian legend on the big screen Another highlight of the MIFF program comes the Australian-made Bastrardy, telling the story of Uncle Jack Charles ± a 73-year-old homosexual Aboriginal elder, award-winning actor, professional cat burglar, junkie and deadset national treasure. The film will re-screen at the festival to celebrate 10 years of the MIFF Premiere Fund. Catch it at Kino Cinema 1 on Wednesday August 9.

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Hip Hop Tsoko

Cocktail Cocoshine Old Fashioned This week we’re taking the Old Fashioned you know and love and sending it on a tropical holiday with the Cocoshine Old Fashioned. Hints of sweetness balance out the bitters, but the star of the show is ± of course ± the Coconut infused Sour Mash, giving this cocktail the kick it deserves. Think of the perfect Hawaiian getaway, but you’re in a suit and it’s okay because you’re as cool as a damn cucumber.

Let’s try something new. Instead of heading out to the same local restaurants with the same old housemates, why not get a little inventive come August? Delve into the BYO side of dining, which I assure you in Melbourne, is in no short supply. I’m certain we’ve all had many messy nights when BYO gets thrown into the mix.

Why they get so wild is for reasons wide and many. Partly as you can now afford three glasses or four thanks to the $20 bottle you’ve come with, partly as you’ve managed to bring spirits to the party and partly as you’ve spent so much effort selecting and carrying it, you simply can’t wait. Either way, it’s fun, affordable and brings a personal touch to any meal. Here are just a few restaurants that offer such luxuries in our city. Teta Mona down Brunswick East way offers honest and jazzed-up Lebanese food that’s affordable and really quite fun. Their meals are served in wooden bowls, each dish vastly differing from the next. Bring along a pairing beverage of your choice, although I would recommend a Rose’ which works well with an array of tastes and flavours.

Last week Perth rapper and Tone Youth Collective member Tsoko (AKA S.O.X) released his funky, boom-bap track Blasphemy/The Mirror. Produced by Darrell “Rideout”, the jazzy single complements Tsoko’s irresistibly smooth flow and sharp lyricism. The beat switches up early on in the track, changing the tone and slowing down the pace as Tsoko dramatically delivers his hard-hitting raps. Tsoko’s quick wit and rap skills were first recognised back in 2013 with the release of The K.I.L.L (Knowledge of Living Life) EP. He recently dropped a fierce verse on Tone Youth’s grimy single The Season and was praised for his rhymes on Groovin. The 6k rapper has a lot to offer, so keep an eye out his second project is due later this year.

Pasika

Tune Julie’s Place by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever On their new EP, Melbourne beach-punks Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever tell tales of desire and heartbreak, drenched in nostalgic memories and taking cues from band’s gone by. And their ode to youthful recklessness Julie’s Place is the perfect reminder that, no matter how cold it gets summer does still exist ± what better sentiment to accompany this tropical dream?

Walk a tad further down Lygon Street to Carlton headquarters and you’ll find one of Melbourne’s most renowned Italian restaurants now existing 30 years strong, Tiamo. Lygon Street is no stranger to a lively eatery where the atmosphere sprawls onto and along the sweet European street. Although, it can be said that Tiamo champion this best. If you can find a time you’ve passed a quiet Tiamo, you’ll have me shocked. My top picks are their Tortellini in Brodo (chicken broth with spinach and meat filled tortellini) and their scaloppine al Vino Bianco (veal medallions in a white wine sauce with fresh vegetables). Who could slurp spaghetti without a generously topped glass of red wine (sangiovese is a must) or a Peroni red if you prefer. Rathdowne Cellars are just down the road and have all you need.

Melbourne hip hop artist Pasika has dropped the vibrant visuals for his hazy new single In The Air. The rapper and R&B singer impresses with his seamless flow on the rebellious slow jam, layering smooth vocals atop a bouncy, laid-back beat. Pasika has evolved since he first entered the scene in 2009, fine-tuning his soulful sound over time and continuously delivering on track after track. In The Air is sexy and effortlessly cool, making it the perfect addition to your weekend chill-out playlist.

OXJAM is a month-long music festival held in August to raise funds for Oxfam in the fight against poverty and homelessness all over the world. Contribute to the cause and get ready to party with local hip hop artists L Fresh The Lion, Mantra, N’FA Jones, Mistress, Dex, Charlie Threads and Emerald at The Penny Black on Sunday August 13.

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Ingredients • 60ml Coconut Oil infused Sour Mash Moonshine • 7.5ml Simple syrup • Dash of Jerry Thomas’ Decanter Bitters • Dash of Angostura Bitters • Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker.

• Shake with ice.

• Garnish with grated coconut.

Enjoy responsibly.

To satisfy your musical sweet tooth, head to Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s website at rollingblackoutsband.com.

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Just a little further into the CBD and you’ll find China Town ± the longest, continuous Chinese streetscape in the western world, and possibly longest strip of BYO restaurants too. Simply select your wine, sake, or take my recommendation and bring a chilled beer (exactly the crisp compliment needed with heavy Chinese flavours) and choose the restaurant which tickles your honey chicken needs. Shanghai village is without a thought, top of the list. Although you may have to line up for a short while, their dumpling plates of 15 pieces for just $7.50 is worth it. Plus, you wait among the other China Town travellers while the neon red lights shine your way through the experience. My favourite dish is their beef dumplings in chilli oil soup, and luckily for you, you’re in the heart of late night bottle shops.

Don’t miss the second instalment of Avant Garbage x Underground Society at Laundry Bar on Thursday August 10. There will be performances on the night by Sydney rapper Phillabu$trr, Melbourne rap collective Alcoholic Family and hip hop artist J.Love.

Melbourne’s neo-soul songstress Kaiit will be celebrating the success of her debut single Natural Woman at her first headline show of 2017 at the Gasometer Hotel on Friday August 11. With support acts by SO.Crates and Willy Dynamo, the single launch will be filled with good vibes, great music and a whole lotta soul. Early bird tickets are already sold out, so make sure to grab yours quick.

Columns With Peter Hodgson

Metal Steve Vai

With Joe Hansen

Punk

With Michael Cusack

Electronic

Batpiss

Otologic

This week I’d like to talk about something near and dear to my black heart: loud, heavy guitar. Right now seems like a great time for the state of Australian guitar. We have a particularly strong scene for progressive, metal-influenced instrumental guitarists in particular, and quite a lot of them are building international followings. What is it that’s prompted this wave of great Aussie-based shredders? I think there are a number of factors. I think technology is a part of it: easily sharable guitar sheet music has unlocked the secrets of greats like Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert. YouTube tutorials have made it easier to learn advanced techniques. And social media has pushed guitarists to continually strive for better, more impressive content.

I’ve been spinning the new Batpiss album over the past week and it totally rips. Seriously folks, get on it. Admittedly I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first two records, 2013’s Nuclear Winter and 2015’s Biomass, but the band has finally taken all that works from their intense live shows and musical development into a fully realised record. Drawing from the long-standing tradition of filth Melbourne punk rock‘n’roll, mixed with a typically more American-style of sludge and noise rock ± somewhere between Unsane and Drive Like Jehu ± the new, aptly named Rest in Piss brings everything together in a perfect sonic melding of noise, melody and driving rhythm. Do yourself a favour and pick a copy up from the good people at Poison City Records.

August, finally ± the downhill slope to mild Spring nights.

This Friday August 4, Hugs&Kisses hosts ‘Trouble In Paradise’ featuring an alliance of selectors that really ought to happen more often; Misty Nights and Otologic. The two crate-digging DJ duos have had parallel careers in many ways, both playing obscure disco, funk and house cuts, both throwing their own successful nights around Melbourne, both playing the coveted closing slots in the Supernatural Amphitheatre ± it’s a match made in heaven. Having them at the newly renovated, members only club (don’t stress though it’s free to sign up) is about as Melbourne as it gets. Kicks off at 10pm.

SHOUSE

Cog

Superchunk

That still doesn’t explain why Australia, of all places, has given rise to so many great players. But when I interview guitarists, I notice a few common references popping up. A lot of these players are into bands like Cog and The Butterfly Effect, which probably explains a lot of the heavy and complex rhythms. And many players I speak to cite Aussie guitar legends like Brett Garsed and Tommy Emmanuel as key influences.

Try talking to Stevic of Twelve Foot Ninja for five minutes and not hear Tommy’s name come up.

I also notice that the audience at shows by our current wave of progressive metal instrumental guitarists is not as exclusively guitar-geeky as the scene once was. We’re seeing more and more non-musicians getting into this style. I love seeing this. It tells me that our guitarists are tapping into something that transcends guitar-for-guitar’s-sake.

Caligula’s Horse

The instrumental project of Melbourne guitarist Rohan ‘Ro’ Stevenson, I Built The Sky’s latest album is The Sky Is Not The Limit, and it’s full of heavy rhythms and intensely technical lead guitar work. I Built The Sky is supporting Caligula’s Horse on their forthcoming Australian tour, and you can catch them at Max Watt’s on Saturday September 30.

Sydney guitarist Plini definitely taps into the Vai school of composition. His work is damn-near cinematic in scope, and he also has a very intuitive sense of melody and phrasing.

His guitar practically sounds like a vocalist at times. Plini plays quite regularly, often with Intervals and he’s been gallivanting all over the world for most of the year but he’ll be back in Australia for two shows in October, including at The Night Cat on Friday October 27. His latest release is the brilliant Handmade Cities.

North Carolina noise-pop punks Superchunk have announced the re-release of their 1990 self-titled debut album on vinyl for the first time since its original release. The long out of print release will be put out on band members Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan’s indie powerhouse Merge Records. Reflecting on the background of the band’s early days and first release, McCaughan explains, “I was living in New York City finishing school when we made this record, so rehearsals and recording were all rushed. I’m surprised we knew this many songs well enough to record them. Twenty-seven years later, we still play at least three or four of these songs live occasionally.” All copies of the album will be accompanied with a full-size replica flyer of an early Superchunk show, with the first 250 copies coming on limited edition orange vinyl. The band most recently released a new single this year entitled I Got Cut.

Over at Lounge on Friday, Doctor are throwing one last party before a hiatus. On board for this one are house producers SHOUSE for a DJ set, Colette, Juan Feliché and the Doctor DJ’s. Free entry before midnight. The Doctor team promises to be back in a couple of months.

On Saturday at Banana:Peach, Spin Club is back to celebrate their third birthday. We haven’t seen the Spin Club team throwing their own shindig since the Mercat closed in January, so expect much excitement. On board for the triumphant return are all the residents Zobs Palace, Josh Keys, Barry Sunset, Fitz E and Norachi. It’s $10 before midnight, $15 after.

IDYLLS

Brisbane’s IDYLLS have announced the upcoming release of their third full length album. Entitled The Barn, the record is due to be released Friday September 29 on Black Wire Records in Australia and Holy Roar Records internationally.

Los Angeles punk rockers The Bronx have announced the upcoming release of their fifth full-length album, aptly titled V. Following up the release of 2013’s IV, the band has kept busy maintaining their main band but also finding equal success in their mariachi alter-ego group Mariachi El Bronx.

With the new record due for release on Friday September 22 on Cooking Vinyl, the band has released lead single Sore Throat. Frontman Matt Caughthran explains, “Sore Throat is a crime scene. A triumphantly tragic story of a manic mind frozen in freefall. The sonic smashing of your moral compass.”

Pre-orders for V are available now.

If you’re hanging for a really silly Sunday sesh, you probably can’t go past the Gasometer Hotel, who’re hosting the So Freshtival. Yeah that’s a right, a party dedicated to everyone’s first cds that we don’t admit to from the early 2000s. Embrace the cheese with specialists Dr. Phil Smith, Flex Mami, Slick Slazenger, Sharon Von Mueller, DJ Rottwield and Leni + Tobi. Can’t remember that far back?

Think Beyonce, Timberlake, Christina, Fatman Scoop, Ja Rule, 50 Cent, R Kelly, J Lo…should be ridiculous. Kicks off at 3pm and goes into the evening.

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Melbourne International Film Festival

Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy

By Jacob Colliver

The 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival (or MIFF) is upon us again, promising another round of the year’s most inspiring and creative celluloid masterpieces. One such project – the documentary Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy – is an important piece telling the remarkable journey of Yolngu elder, traditional custodian, creative and father, Djalu Gurruwiwi, on his quest to ensure that his knowledge and culture is passed along to a younger generation.

Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy was supported by the MIFF Premiere Grant, which aims to financially support and promote the projects of important emerging filmmakers. After close to eight years of production twists, turns and evolution, director Ben Strunin is glad to see that Gurruwiwi’s tale will soon be told.

“This film was a passion project of mine, so it had virtually no funding,” Strunin explains. “Some of it was self-funded, some of it was funded by philanthropist friends and art collectors. It was very piecemeal. Once I had proper funding behind me from MIFF, Screen Australia, NITV and Film Victoria, all these people came together. Instead of spending a lot of energy and just trying to get money together to do the next shoot in the most frugal way possible, I could do shoots properly. Bringing in other writers, the cameraman, editors, producers; just to do it a bit more professionally and raise the standard of the film in general.”

Strunin’s first meeting with Gurruwiwi is a remarkable story in itself. In 2009, Strunin and producer Kate Pappas found themselves in Oenpelli, Northern Territory, working with the creative community for a film on Indigenous rock art. While being guided around a sacred site, they met an eccentric European yidaki (the Yolngu name for didgeridoo) gallery curator named Bear Love (originally Colin Goring) who, coincidentally, lived close to Strunin in London.

Several months later, Love contacted Strunin to tell him a tale of meeting his “spiritual guru” and “premier craftsman” of the yidaki ± Gurruwiwi. Love took Gurruwiwi to London, in the hopes that a now very fascinated Strunin would make a film about his life’s journey. From there, he toured Europe for a month with Gurruwiwi and his wife, performing his incredible talents at seminars and music festivals to inspire thousands.

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“We became really close,” Strunin says. “They adopted me into their family and their clan. We made plans that I would have to come to visit them and experience what they were teaching about their culture and their land. I think the perversity of the whole thing was that I learned all this stuff about Yolgnu culture that I’d never learned in Australia on the road in Europe with this master of the didgeridoo. It all unraveled quite organically from there. I hadn’t planned it, I hadn’t scripted it. I was invited into this world.

“It gradually dawned on me. I could see how important Djalu was and I could see the reverence people had for him. Just to be in his presence ± you feel it instantaneously, because he’s a powerful, mystical man. He’s very generous, he’s very charismatic. He’s full of love. You love the guy almost instantaneously. He’s got a magnetic personality, and he’s clearly a maverick in the way that he travels the world sharing his culture.”

Transcending the bounds of language and culture, Strunin observed Gurruwiwi create powerful connections with his craft. Strunin labelled one technique the ‘heart-blast’: a unique practice that Gurruwiwi has refined, where he points his yidaki straight at someone’s heart and plays a healing songline that reverberates through the body.

“It’s projecting pure love and understanding through that sound,” Strunin explains. “You can see the biggest cynics, who would be against all that ‘hippie sentiment’. You see him play the yidaki into people’s hearts, and you can see them melt. You can see that instant connection, where they understand everything.

They understand how important and powerful this man is as soon as he plays that sound through their body.”

The more Strunin leaned about and shared with Gurruwiwi, the more he understood the importance of his mission to heal and impart wisdom, even drawing the attention of Wally De Backer ± perhaps better

known as Gotye. De Backer wanted to meet Gurruwiwi and learn from a master. Strunin captured the two artists making a profound connection through music.

Hoping to help maintain the connection to the natural forces and powers that Gurruwiwi has dedicated his life to, Strunin feels very lucky and appreciative to be invited into his world. Just one of many stories housed at MIFF this year, Strunin considers Gurruwiwi’s tale a life-changing cinematic experience.

“The intention of the film is to amplify Djalu’s message to as wide an audience as possible; an audience that wouldn’t normally listen to a story like this. It’s always been part of the intention ± to amplify his sound and message to the world.”

“I hadn’t planned it, I hadn’t scripted it. I was invited into this world.”

Melbourne International Film Festival runs from Thursday August 3 - Sunday August 20. Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy runs Wednesday August 9 at the Forum Theatre, as well as Sunday August 13 and Friday August 18 at ACMI. Tickets via miff.com.au.

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Arts Interviews

Glow Winter Arts Festival “It should be a really good chance for people to look at Melbourne in a different way.”

What is it about the sun setting that reinvigorates and reconfigures our world? During the month of August, the Glow Winter Arts Festival sets the City of Stonnington awash in the illuminant wonder and immersive vibrancy of Melbourne’s finest creatives.

Photographer and artist James Voller has already had a busy this year, working on projects in Adelaide and Camberwell, but he’s been hard at work with a different and challenging project for Glow the past few months – transforming Malvern Gardens into a magical, radiant village.

“With the change in methodologies and the different materials, I’m also changing how the work operates,” Voller says. “Usually, my work looks at everyday architecture and puts it back into the community, and this one’s turning that on its head and taking the everyday architecture you usually work with, but making these far more whimsical and enchanted. It takes it down the rabbit hole into a completely different world. It’s a lot more surreal than my other work. It’s been fun playing with the concept, as well as the form.”

Delighted to push his work in “weirder and stranger” directions, Voller’s Enchanted installation piece has been bubbling away for about two to three years. His very first submission into the Glow Winter Arts Festival represented an ideal catalyst to consolidate abstract ideas into a great project, with months of shooting, printing and colour tech emerging into a glowing green wonderland.

“I’m very fortunate to get this opportunity to do something so experimental and different,” Voller says. “The council’s been super supportive and helpful as well. I can’t wait to see the audience’s reaction to it, because I haven’t seen anything like this done before. It should be a really good chance for people to look at Melbourne in a different way.”

Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, Voller honed his craft in a “very traditional” documentary-photography undergrad degree, discovering an attraction to the form’s potential for re-seeing the unseen.

“When I started doing stranger things with my photography – like taking photographs of rubbish bins, or toilet blocks – your target is to get a completely different reading. I guess it was when I first started putting photographs back into the public, rather than just taking photographs and making a book or something. That’s fine, and a lot people make amazing work, but for me, I just needed to put the photographs back out into the public.”

In Voller’s mind, the future is bright for festivals such as Glow and the expansion of installation art’s potential. Now running an arts company dedicated

to getting new and emerging artists into their first public spaces, Voller is excited by the possibilities of fresh technology and an ever-widening audience to inspire and thrill. It’s been a huge journey since those early beginnings, but infinitely rewarding.

“In 2008, when I wasn’t getting funded, I was doing them illegally,” Voller recalls some early installation ventures. “I was just using flour, paste and bits of laser paper to make these installations. Totally illegal, but then one day the cops caught up with me.

Instead of telling me off, they were like, ‘That looks great. Keep going, keep doing it’. That was a pretty good moment in installation: when you realise that a cross-section of people were enjoying them, rather than just my crew. That was a good moment.

“Some other great moments have been having my old lecturer from New Zealand sitting on the tram I did for Melbourne Festival a few years ago, and then realising he was sitting on one of my big works, and seeing that photography can be more than documentary stuff. He got something out of it as well. That was a nice moment.”

Glow Winter Arts Festival encompasses Stonnington from Thursday August 10 Sunday August 20. Head to glowfestival.com.au for more details.

By Jacob Colliver

Bert Kreischer When Bert “The Machine” Kreischer was asked to make a short video to promote his upcoming trip to Australia. He did what any selfrespecting father of two would do – hired a giant bouncy water slide, donned a pair of red budgie smugglers, cracked a can of Fosters and hoped for the best.

The result is a slow motion clip of Kreischer landing on his arse, flanked by his two daughters and ten of their friends chanting ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi’, while he remains unfazed.

“The first time I did that slide, I landed on my feet,” Kriescher explains. “So I thought that it would be cool to stick the landing and just be like, ‘What’s up?’ But when we did it for the cameras I fell and my daughter’s friends started giggling, so I thought I’ll just keep going with it. But man that hurt,” he laughs.

Kreischer will be in town mid-September to appear as part of his Melbourne debut. But while his crazy antics at Florida State University are known to have been the inspiration behind the 2002 movie, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, these days he admits most of his stand-up material is influenced by his wife and daughters.

“I don’t know any other way than telling the truth and that’s how I approach comedy,” he says.

“Although I never run anything by my family first.

I remember the first time that came to bite me in the arse. I told a story on my first comedy special about my wife giving birth, and my wife came and surprised me at one of my shows. So I told the story and my buddy in the audience was howling with laughter and I was freaking out.

“Now I always talk about my youngest daughter Isla on stage and I’m very quick to tell everyone, ‘Hey she’s got learning disabilities, she’s got an IEP (Individualised

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“I was going to go to the gym this morning, but I got drunk on radio instead so I passed.”

Education Program)’. I never want to be seen trying to paint my life as something it’s not. I want people to think, ‘Hey my kid’s kind of fucked up too.’ I love it when people come up to me and say, ‘I have an Isla. My daughter is just like your daughter’.

“I talk about my body too. I’m always trying to lose weight. In fact I was going to go to the gym this morning, but I got drunk on radio instead so I passed. From my podcast to my stand-up, there’s really nothing that’s off-limits in my life. I think the older you get the more you find your voice. I don’t mind making a joke about anything, but there is stuff that I stay away from because I feel like it’s not really my lane in comedy.

“I don’t talk about politics really. That’s not my lane either. I don’t really talk about race as much as

I used to when I was younger. What I like talking about and what I think people enjoy about me, is good fun, forget-your-problems kind of comedy. I’m not Anthony Jeselnik, you know? People come to my show to have fun.”

And from all accounts Bert “The Machine” Kreischer plans to live up to his wild reputation while on the road this spring. “I’m nervous that I’m not going to come back alive after this, that’s for sure. It’s going to be insane.”

By Natalie Rogers

Bert Kreischer will appear at the Melbourne Comedy Theatre on Thursday September 14. Tickets via ticketmaster.com.au.

Interviews

Josh Pyke

“I had a gold record, I’d been signed to Island Records, I was travelling over to the UK all the time.

At the same time, I was completely broke.”

Through over a decade in the game, singer/songwriter Josh Pyke has more or less become part of the furniture as far as the Australian musical climate is concerned.

That’s not a sledge whatsoever – many acts have come and gone in the ensuing years, but Pyke has always had a comfortable sense of reliability – releasing consistently good records and putting on consistently good live shows year in, year out. Such is his omnipresence, it’s tough to imagine life without him – although, sadly, that is the reality we’re now facing.

Following a run of capital city shows and a solo regional run toward the end of the year, Pyke is taking an indefinite hiatus from recording, playing and touring under his own name. Josh Pyke is, ostensibly, splitting up – with himself.

“I’m definitely not retiring,” laughs Pyke. “I definitely want to make that clear. I’ve been touring solidly for 12 years. I’ve loved every minute of it, but I need to get away from it to pursue other things. Having just put out the best-of, it felt like the right time to start wrapping things up. I’m doing this tour, then the UK before doing New Zealand and regional Australia. After that, I need to take a break. I want to work on some other projects. I’m not ruling out one-offs or maybe a festival every now and then. As far as the touring cycle goes, though, that’s not something I want to do for awhile. I’m sure I’m going to miss it, but I need to focus more on studio stuff and recalibrating a bit.”

Pyke is seeing off this particular chapter of his career in a big way. His latest tour offers a headlining show in two parts – the first being his debut album Memories & Dust in full, and the second being a career-retrospective taking him from his pre-album days all the way up to his most recent album, 2015’s But for All These Shrinking Hearts. Recalling the

release of Memories, Pyke notes the sacrifices he had to make in order to keep his musical career afloat.

“It was that classic dichotomy of perception versus reality,” he says.

“I remember getting a call telling me that the album had gone gold. I took it while I was housesitting for my girlfriend [now wife]’s parents. I got told we were having a celebratory dinner with the label people, and I had to catch the bus to the restaurant because I had no money.

“It was one of those things. I had a gold record, I’d been signed to Island Records, I was travelling over to the UK all the time. At the same time, I was completely broke. There were times where it was all incredibly challenging and demanding, but it was also really exciting.”

June saw the release of The Best of Josh Pyke + B-Sides and Rarities, which serves as the primary basis for part two of Pyke’s show. Having recorded some solo demos following the demise of his punk band, Pyke was soon being picked up for triple j

airplay and had management sealed all before his first major release, 2006’s Feeding the Wolves EP. “I love playing those old songs,” Pyke says. “In the second set of the show, I pull out songs like Doldrums and Kids Don’t Sell Their Hopes So Fast. I find it’s a really great way to re-engage with who I was when I wrote those songs – it was a very different point of my life. I think the fact that I’m still able to play those songs means that people may not change as much as they think.”

As for what Pyke has planned after his touring days are over (for now), he may well trade in Private Education for Play School. “I just did a bunch of songs for Justine Clarke’s ABC Kids show,” he says.

“I’d love to do more stuff like that – my kids are extremely excited about that one.”

By David James Young

La Bastard “I think a lot of people are in bands because they don’t think they’re cool,” says La Bastard singer Anna Lienhop. “There’s definitely a heap of people. You have the whole rich kid, slumming it with the rest of us arty people, but there’s a big hunk of people who play in the music scene in Melbourne from regional Victoria or who grew up without much. There’s lots of really diverse backgrounds and you wouldn’t expect it until you started talking to people.”

Lienhop puts herself in the ‘not cool’ bracket.

Growing up in the Victorian regional city of Bendigo, Lienhop realised she had a talent for singing. It was a skill that also earned her praise. “I was, and still am, quite nerdy and quiet and anti-social and I was picked on heaps while I was a kid,” Lienhop says. “Singing was the only thing that I did that got me positive attention, so I thought I’d keep pursuing it.”

After forming her first band at 15 with a school friend, Lienhop moved to Melbourne. She became friends with guitarist Ben Murphy, also a product of regional Victoria. While watching a relatively staid band one night, Lienhop and Murphy decided to form a band that pushed through the boundary between performer and audience.

La Bastard released its first album, The Fabulous Sounds of La Bastard, in 2012. A second album, Ooh La La Bastard, followed in 2014. Along the way La Bastard organised a couple of tours of Europe, where it experienced the legendary hospitality regularly afforded to touring Australian bands. “The last time we went was about two years ago, we made a conscious effort to have a lot of fun while we were there,” Lienhop says.

“The Binic Blues festival fell on my birthday, which was surreal. I had a cake made for me and I was treated like a rock star, which was weird and fun. You can understand why people go over to Europe because the reception and view of bands is so different.”

A third La Bastard album was recorded and mixed in 2016, but remained unreleased pending Ben Murphy’s return from an overseas holiday. “The album before, we recorded it then I went travelling for four months then I came back and we released it,” Lienhop says. “This album, it made sense that we recorded it and someone else buggered off overseas, then we released it.

But now we’re back into it again.”

Having the occasional period of downtime has been beneficial for La Bastard. “Sometimes you forget about all the things that annoy you.

Then sometimes you also remember why you love doing it,” Lienhop says. She decided to pick up the guitar again, and formed a new side project, Moody Beaches with Jess, her original band mate from Bendigo and La Bastard drummer Julia Watt.

Murphy’s return from overseas was catalyst for the delayed release of La Bastard’s new album, Trouble.

Recorded over a few days in early 2016, the album features guest appearances from Chris Russell, Kate Alexander (Ute Root), Joe Cope (Big Smoke) and

Josh Pyke will say farewell at The Corner Hotel on Thursday August 3 and Friday August 4 (sold out), The Wool Exchange, Geelong on Saturday August 5, Sooki Lounge, Belgrave on Friday December 8 and Karova Lounge, Ballarat on Saturday December 9. Support will come from Kyle Lionhart.

Rich Davies. “For this album, I think there was a lot more thought that went into the production and also the songwriting,” Lienhop says. “We worked out all the different guitar parts, we played around with horns, how the keys might sound. I think Ben’s a massive Roy Orbison fan, which you might be able to hear in some of the songs.”

The challenge with any band is to find the balance between artistic evolution and maintaining an audience.

Lienhop is confident Trouble finds that balance. “I think a band can be reflective of your personality and how you’re feeling. If you’re releasing the same album so many times, there’s only so much of that side of your personality you can express and expose before it gets boring,” Lienhop says. “When bands change their sound, some people don’t like it because that’s not what they were expecting. But people aren’t one dimensional, they have different things going on.”

What hasn’t changed with La Bastard is their energetic performance. “Being able to read an audience is quite a skill,” Lienhop says. “You can give 120% and spread yourself out every time, and you’re always going to have different reactions.”

“When bands change their sound, some people don’t like because that’s not what they were expecting.

But people aren’t one dimensional, they have different things going on.”

La Bastard will launch Trouble at The Gasometer Hotel on Saturday August 5 with The Sugarcanes, Baby Blue and Spiral Perm. The album is out now.

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Aaron Creigh Melbourne-based singer/ songwriter Aaron Creigh has just released his debut EP, All we Leave are Memories, and is already garnering comparisons to Jeff Buckley for his angelic pipes.

Looking at it one way, the fact that Creigh’s been able to establish himself as an accomplished singer and songwriter was pretty much on the cards, given that he’s worked hard at it consistently since he was a kid. Now in his mid-20s, Creigh’s been playing music since he was 12 and writing his own tunes since he was 15. In fact, Undone – one of the tunes from his EP – was the first song he ever wrote, and in a remarkable demonstration of songwriting maturity, the song – subject to a bit of tweaking – has withstood the test of time.

Couple that with the fact that Creigh comes from a musical family – Creigh’s folks met because his dad played in a band with his mum’s brother, and Creigh jokes that he was introduced to Led Zeppelin in the womb – and Creigh’s talent starts looking less prodigious and more like the combination of hard work and good musical influences.

In terms of Creigh’s musical evolution, first it was drums, and later his dad’s old guitar. “He’d had it in his bedroom for a long time,” Creigh says. “My inspiration for picking it up was simply because it was hard to write music for myself when I was playing drums, because it’s a rhythmic instrument. I had this desire to write songs, so I needed to learn some sort of melodic instrument and there was Dad’s guitar and I knew some basic chords from school.”

Although rock and metal have always featured largely in Creigh’s life, All we Leave are Memories is a stripped-back, acoustic, indie-pop gem, more in the vein of Matt Corby than Robert Plant. In discussing

“I’d never been more broke, but I was happy.” the genre jump, Creigh clarifies that fundamentally he’s just a fan of music full stop. “I don’t think about genre too much and I draw inspiration from so many pools,” Creigh says. “It’s funny though, the main thing that made me think I could be a songwriter of this kind of music was listening to Dallas Green, who records under the name City and Colour.

“He used to be in a hard rock band called Alexisonfire and they used to be one of my favourite bands. He has this beautiful voice and he started this side project and did an acoustic album. It was hearing that that made me go, ‘Oh my gosh, I can do that too.’ Everything leading to now for me has kind of been a side thing and where I am now musically is where I’m meant to be.”

That said, Creigh’s quick to clarify that he’s hardly abandoned his roots. Indeed, he continues to play in a prog-rock band on the side, which is also due to release its debut EP in the not too distant future.

These days, Creigh maintains a pretty regular schedule of gigging widely around town, but before

that he busked his arse off. Double kudos to Creigh because the lead-up to that point saw him ditching the security of a day job in favour of pinning down his true passion.

“When I first left high school I had a job in a media company, but I’d always had this idea when I was studying that I was going to pursue music. Then high school ended and the social norm was to go out and get a job, so I did that. I worked at this company for about a year or two doing well but I woke up one day and thought, ‘I get home and I go to bed, I wake up and I go to work, but what’s happened to my music?’ I decided that that wasn’t who I was. It wasn’t what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

“I quit my job and got my busking licence. I started out by playing along King Street from 11pm to 5am pretty much every Friday and Saturday and I made the money last for the week. I’d never been more broke, but I was happy.”

By Meg Crawford

Mesa Cosa

“There’s a lot of bands where the stage show is the show.

We want the music to be the show and the stage show to be a fun part of it because we’re having fun.”

When Andrew Marty talks about Mesa Cosa, the energetic Melbourne garage band in which he plays bass, he prefers to use the term ‘inclusive’.

It’s a term that Marty suggests stems from the collective mentality prescribed by notional Mesa Cosa leader Pablo Alvarado. “It seemed like this very loose gang when I showed up for our very first rehearsal,” Marty says. “It’s always been very inclusive. People have elbowed their way into the band just by being there.”

Mesa Cosa was conceived around seven years ago when, according to legend, Alvarado’s tarot reading suggested he start a band. So Alvarado quit his day job and formed a band. And the rest, at the risk of using a hackneyed expression, is history.

“Pablo has this DIT philosophy – do it together, rather than do it yourself,” Marty says. “Sometimes Pablo seems like he’s full of shit, but I’ve known him for such a long time now, and he really cares about the community and us.”

Marty had been playing guitar in a local Melbourne band when Mesa Cosa’s original drummer invited him to play bass in the nascent Mesa Cosa. “We were at the Brunswick Hotel and he said, ‘These guys are a bit flaky, so we need to make it a bit more together,’” says Marty. “The first time I met everyone in the band was walking into the very first rehearsal. Then we played our first show at a party at Pablo’s house.”

Over the past seven years Mesa Cosa has evolved from such humble beginnings, dragging in new members and losing other members along the way, the latter including a couple of drummers. An EP was released in 2012, followed by a debut album a year later. A new album is in the wings, waiting to be unleashed.

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Mesa Cosa is renowned for its synthesis of raucous rock’n’roll sound and energetic stage performance. “It’s exciting, and I love it. But I don’t always know whether it’s going to hold together,” Marty says. “Sometimes it’s like, ‘I know what’s going on, this is really cool,’ and sometimes you’re trying not to get hit in the face by someone’s guitar.

But I’m not one to smash my shit up and go off. My job is to stay calm while everyone else goes free. It’s chaos, but it’s great. It energises me.”

Marty fondly recalls a Mesa Cosa gig in Wollongong where guitarist Chris Penney decided to surf his guitar down a stair railing. Having hit a reasonable velocity by the time he reached the end of the railing, Penney was confronted by a tower of amplifiers – which he crashed straight into, breaking the neck of his guitar. “It was a relatively clean break and wasn’t where the strings were,” Marty says. “So he drilled a hole in it and kept using that guitar for ages. That was bad arse, I was so impressed.”

This week Mesa Cosa celebrates the release of its new single, Church of the Snake, with shows in Melbourne and Sydney. The inspiration for the song

came from Mesa Cosa’s former drummer, who came up with a story involving a snake living underground in Tasmania. “He had a voice for it, a personality and a name, Jeffrey,” Marty says. “He held onto that idea. We were quite excited by it. We’re pretty into the occult in a variety of ways, and the irony is that while we’re really serious about our interest in the occult, we’re not serious about that song.”

The single is accompanied by a film clip courtesy of Jase Harper, a local comic book artist who befriended Mesa Cosa after being one of three people in the audience at a house show in Brunswick many years ago.

Marty is adamant that Mesa Cosa is more than just an entertaining party band – there are songs, there’s musicianship and there’s commitment. “We don’t want the chaos to mask our ability to play songs or write music,” Marty says. “There’s a lot of bands where the stage show is the show. We want the music to be the show and the stage show to be a fun part of it because we’re having fun.”

By Patrick Emery

Mesa Cosa will launch their new single Church of the Snake at The Tote on Friday August 4.

Fountaineer

By Tom Parker

Bruce Springsteen is one of music’s most influential architects yet he’s arguably its biggest underdog, becoming a voice for the American working class from which he hailed. Wandering through genres from folk to heartland rock to pop, Springsteen’s tales continue to channel American bloodstreams from New Jersey to Nebraska and beyond.

Pampering my senses with the piano-bathed indie rock sounds of Bendigo three-piece Fountaineer, I couldn’t help but be engulfed with Springsteen stimuli ± modest lyricism purveying an entrenched love for their land. Frontman and chief creator Anthony White couldn’t be more proud of his Bendigo home and you don’t need to delve too far into their forthcoming album Greater City, Greater Love to see that.

“Greater City, Greater Love is meant to be truthful,” White says. “I’m not going to say that Bendigo is perfect and that it’s a perfect place to live.

There has been a bit happening the last couple of years to force some conversations on the town but I think country people have been a bit reluctant to speak. So when the fascist protesters arrive on our doorstep it forces us to think and act.

“The album’s not just about that. There’s a song about drink driving, a song about growing up and coming of age but it’s all to portray Bendigo as we see it, as our truth. There’s definitely hope at the end of the story and it was really intended to be a story, a concept album with chapters, but there definitely won’t be a sequel to this. I’m not sure I can write about Bendigo that explicitly anymore, but it will always be there in the background.”

White and his bandmates, brother Francis and childhood friend Kieran Daly, have been sitting on a gold mine for a few years now without the shovels and spades to excavate it. Greater City, Greater Love

was recorded three years ago and just as White was itching to self-release it, he had someone advise him to hold off and bide his time.

“We had this recorded three years ago and we’ve just been sitting on it,” White says. “We had a manager who really believed in it and didn’t want us to release it to no one, which was probably going to be the outcome. He encouraged us to keep playing shows and kept the faith because he really liked it and knew something would happen and it did.

“Eventually we got a label on board who helped us clean it up a bit as they wanted it to be the best it could be. Before that the album was probably opened twice.

It just sat on a hard drive like all the things we cherish.”

Primarily a bedroom record, the 12-track release has wandered through many DAWs, interfaces and studio residences during its time, even taking a trip to Lake Eildon in the early stages, which White admits was a significant step in the recording process.

“It was a bedroom record which started here in Bendigo and then we went to a farmhouse in Lake Eildon for five days, they were really just sketches but we went away and got a friend to come and help record it.

“That’s when the songs really came alive. Daly, who plays bass live, does a lot guitars on the record and my brother plays drums. There’s drum machines on quite a few of the songs and that was a limitation to begin with. I wrote drum music at home because I couldn’t record drums and we actually kept a lot of that.

“I think that bedroom sound still carried

through to the end product on a lot of songs. Some people have described it as being quite introverted but jumping out as well which really expresses us.

We’re not big personalities or anything so that reflects us personally.”

Greater City, Greater Love’s bedroom construction channels the opulent melodies of The National, White’s vocals running tight with the deep baritones of Matt Berninger. Behind their music potential is a maturity and decorum not often seen in emerging bands ± a point of difference poised to see Fountaineer burst the seams of Australia’s busy indie rock industry.

“There has been a bit happening the last couple of years to force some conversations on the town but I think country people have been a bit reluctant to speak.”

Fountaineer’s debut album Greater City, Greater Love is out Friday August 4 via 1825 Records. The band will support Gang Of Youths on their national tour including a show at Festival Hall on Wednesday September 6.

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Minus the Bear “We wanted to craft something unique, we wanted to branch out after years of doing things one specific way.”

Minus The Bear are practically a household name in the sub-sect of the musical spectrum known as math rock – an offshoot subgenre employing off-kilter rhythms, unique finger-tapping guitar and an angular, technical approach to the genre.

It’s quite something to think that 15 years ago, it all started for Minus the Bear with the release of their debut album, Highly Refined Pirates. Misunderstood by some critics at the time, the album has gone on to achieve cult status and remains one of the most beloved parts of the band’s musical canon. When asked to reflect on it, vocalist and guitarist Jake Snider recalls a period of his life that feels as though it was forever ago.

“It’s a very different band these days,” he says.

“You can start just by looking at the people – five of us played on that record, and only three of us are still in the band now. It was an interesting recording process.

We recorded to two-inch tape, a guy named Steve Fisk was recording and producing us. He’s a pretty oldschool guy when it comes to that sort of stuff. It was all very different to the ProTools era that we find ourselves in now. Steve could make a record with not much more than some tape and a console. At that point, it felt like we were really just getting started – we were focused on these recordings and playing shows a lot. It all felt like a really big deal – nowadays, it’s just what we do.”

Fast forward to 2017, and Minus the Bear are back in the spotlight once again with the release of their sixth album, VOIDS. An album more indebted to the world of post-punk and indie rock than the noodley leanings of Pirates, the album sees the band

exploring the farther reaches of their sonic structure with intriguing and catchy results. It’s also an album that saw the band switch up their usual approach to songwriting. “Usually, the lyrics and melody fall on me,” Snider says. “For this record, though, we actually had Alex [Rose, keyboardist] take a much bigger role.

We co-wrote a lot for VOIDS, and on three songs he wrote the melodies, worked on the lyrics and sang.

He’s done his own bands and solo projects, and he has a really cool way of seeing music. I thought it would be an awesome way for him to lead the band for a couple of songs, just to see what it would be like. I think he did a great job – he really brought a lot of depth.”

Things had been relatively quiet between the release of VOIDS and the band’s last album, 2012’s Infinity Overhead. The album was delayed in part due to the departure of drummer Erin Tate, as well as two members of the band becoming fathers. “I prefer not to be gone for too long on the road these days,” says Snider, who has two children. “It can be a difficult thing to balance in the music business, but we’re finding ways.”

When it came to writing VOIDS, the band made

a conscious decision to keep the material mostly fresh, rather than dredging up older ideas. “Most of it was pretty new when we began recording,” Snider says. “We were different people to who we were when Infinity was done. There was a different mentality – everything shifted a little bit. We wanted to craft something unique, we wanted to branch out after years of doing things one specific way.”

Fans in Australia will finally get reacquainted with Minus the Bear this coming August, as the band prepare for a whirlwind visit – their first in a whopping seven-and-a-half years. “We were very lucky to come out for Soundwave when we did,” recalls Snider of their 2009 visit. “We got to see Alice in Chains every day. It was a pretty incredible experience. This will be a lot different, doing our own headlining shows, but we’re absolutely looking forward to it all the same. My only hope is that you all still remember us after all these years.”

Minus the Bear will play at Max Watt’s on Sunday August 6. VOIDS is out now via Suicide Squeeze Records.

By David James Young

Busby Marou “I’m a very proud Torres Strait Islander; and to have the Indigenous community of this country behind us. It’s very special to me.”

It’s a very casual Wednesday afternoon when Jeremy Marou – best known as one half of acclaimed folk-rock duo Busby Marou – takes the call from Beat. So casual, in fact, that he’s forgotten he had agreed to do an interview momentarily.

“I’m back home in Rockhampton,” he reports – the adoration for his northern Queensland hometown readily apparent in the tone of his voice. “It’s perfect right now – you come here at the right time of year, and it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world.” After an extensive jaunt of touring – as is standard for the duo – Marou is taking a period of well-earned downtime to spend with his family. “I got two boys – they both love and support everything we do. Sometimes I’ll come to their school and I’ll play songs for the kids, and they just love it. My eldest son just became a teenager– he hasn’t shown any sign of wanting to be a musician yet, but once he figures out he can get girls with it, he’ll be knockin’ down my door for guitar lessons.”

The time off is also due, in part, to a shock health scare that affected Marou earlier this year and left him hospitalised. “I’m 34 years old and I had a heart attack – two of them,” he exclaims. “You wouldn’t believe it. I was playing a bit of touch football with my family when I started feeling a bit dizzy. Next thing you know, the doctor’s telling me that one of my arteries was pretty badly clogged up. Thankfully, I was fine – I got a stick put through my heart and now I’m back to normal. It was a bit of a wake-up call for me – I’m definitely not partying as hard as I used to now.”

Having toured extensively already in support of their third album, last February’s Postcards from

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the Shell House, Busby Marou are now one of several Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bands and musicians to be featured on the new compilation entitled The Sound of Indigenous Australia: Now & Before. As its title suggests, the two-disc compilation brings together some of the biggest contemporary names for its first disc – A.B. Original, Thelma Plum, Birdz and Emily Wurramara; to name but a few. Meanwhile, the compilation is also purposed to acknowledge the trail-blazing of heritage acts such as Yothu Yindi, Archie Roach, Christine Anu and the Warumpi Band on the second. “Sometimes I feel like we miss out on some of the Indigenous stuff, which is a shame,” says Marou; whose song with Busby Marou, Best Part of Me, is on disc one.

“It’s not a snub or anything, it’s just that we’re always so busy. NAIDOC Week just happened, and we didn’t really get to do anything for it apart from me doing a couple of school visits. It’s an honour to be a part of this compilation. I’m a very proud Torres Strait Islander; and to have the Indigenous community of this country behind us. It’s very special to me.”

When queried about some contemporary

Indigenous artists he is particularly fond of, two names immediately spring to mind for Marou – whom, as luck would have it, are also both featured on The Sounds of Indigenous Australia. They are Melbourne’s Dan Sultan and Darwin’s Jessica Mauboy – two considerably different artists, and yet both acts that Busby Marou have found themselves sharing stages with over the years.

“Dan was one of the earliest supporters of our music,” says Marou fondly. “It was a pretty incredible thing to see him win an ARIA award a few years back. I remember vividly – a reporter asked him how it felt as an Indigenous artist to win such a prestigious award; he shot straight back asking what the difference was between him winning it and a whitefella winning it.

“I also love Jessica Maubuoy – I know I’m not the only one who is so proud of her for all that she’s achieved both for her and her people. I can’t believe we’re both playing the Gympie Muster together later this year.”

By David James Young

Busby Marou is part of The Sound of Indigenous Australia: Now & Before compilation which is out now via Festival Records/Warner Music Australia.

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Album of the Week (Sony)

Singles With Lachlan Kanoniuk In 2017, it’s Briggs’ world, and we’re just living in it.

Respect.

Single of the Week:

Jen Cloher

Regional Echo (Milk)

As if Velvet Underground’s third LP was transported from The Factory to a woolshed, Regional Echo brings internalised thoughts and resignations out into the open of the Australian landscape. Cloher doesn’t romanticise the setting, conflating inhibition with the national identity, deftly positioning symbols of complacency, rather than reaching for signifiers of oppression.

The Killers

Run For Cover (Universal)

After being all on board for previous single The Man, I’m not totally feeling all-out anthem Run For Cover. A few lyrical gems scatter throughout, but Springsteen aspirations fall short due to pointlessly plastic components. Don’t gnarl the guitar solo, make it gnarly. Drums are reminiscent of The Veronicas’ Untouched, which is a huge tune, but that matched a hushed and urgent chorus, not an all-out belter found here.

Arcade Fire

Over 15 years Canadian stalwarts Arcade Fire have become immediately recognizable by their innovative, highly conceptual albums. With their fifth album Everything Now, the band bring a wide range of influences to the front, translating these into 13 extraordinary tracks that prove Arcade Fire are still at the top of their game.

Charli XCX

Boys (Warner)

Pop music done simple, sharp, and smouldering, Boys does everything in precise measure while never feeling clinical.

The chirp punctuating each mention of boys sounds like collecting coins in Super Mario Bros, which coupled with the all-star video, acts as a Pavlovian trigger to start fantasising about rooting Flume. Genius work all round.

Shouse ft Rachel

Without You (Independent)

Shouse carve out a deep-ish groove, setting the foundations for a dreamy vocal take from Rachel. Embraces dancefloor nostalgia without being beholden to it, reaching mellow peaks with sparks of intimacy.

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The chaotic noise of opening track Everything_Now (Continued) turns into the dreamy disco of Everything Now. The prevalent theme on the album revolves around commentary on the all consuming internet age. The band reflects on its ability to educate and connect, and on the flipside, the struggle to constantly be on-demand.

Creature Comfort reflects on the crippling pain of wanting to be more than what you are, lead vocalists Win Butler and Régine Chassagne singing in unison as their voices reflect the agony of unfulfilled aspirations. With Butler and Chassagne marrying prior to the band starting, there’s always been an underlying romance to Arcade Fire, perhaps most apparently so on this album. Peter Pan pairs the idea of immortality with enduring commitment towards someone, followed by the hook heavy Chemistry which features impressive brass to give the song an old-time swing feel.

Infinite Content is a comparatively more rock driven track that looks critically at the digital age and its impact on our mental state, while Infinite_Content uses the same lyrics but presented in an entirely new context, the delicate instrumental backing accentuating Butler’s emotive vocals.

Electric Blue is the first song on the album with Chassagne on lead vocals, her trademark sharp vocal style well suited to the ‘80s new wave inspired groove of the song. Good God Damn’s relaxed beat along with Butler’s near whispered vocals makes it the best slow burner on the record, while Put Your Money on Me would be at home on the band’s sophomore album Neon Bible, its intricate layering of synths and surprising progression making it a rewarding listen.

Penultimate track We Don’t Deserve Love is the cornerstone of the album, the song’s six minutes the most revealing on the record. Everything Now (continued) revisits the refrain heard at the start of the album, strings bringing the record to a moving conclusion.

While some of their sonic experiments may seem risky, the pay-off leads to a musical strength that is hard to compare. Arcade Fire are ultimately one of the best examples of how ambition within a project can pay off, Everything Now is truly a reflection of a band in their prime.

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Never Too Soon

9.0

A lot can happen in two and a half years and Boo Seeka, have summed their experience up in debut album, Never Too Soon.

Opener Does This Last is a raw rollercoaster of emotions, building steadily with layered, almost-conversational vocals that we seem to be sneakily privy to. A dreamboat bass line carries Human along effortlessly, as rhythmic beats cut in halfway to lift the song to a more empowering and productive tone.

The reverberated piano line in Argo Misty is catchy and evokes slight feelings of nostalgia for the Bristol scene. Echoed vocals and samples create a maze of sound to keep your ear intrigued yet calm. A heartfelt love song slows down the pace of the album in Turn Up Your Light. Vulnerable harmonies show a different side to the duo’s talent and is sure to be an arms up in the air moment at any festival.

You and Me, is a standout and will get your feet moving when the arpeggiated, deep synth cuts in. Steady beats keep the song pushing along while your attention is lost among the strategic commotion.

By Jem King

Dead Cross

Dead Cross

8.5

On Dead Cross we’re treated to a searing piece of demonic hardcore that is vicious and plague-level catchy. Mike Patton’s vocal gymnastics play a big part in lifting the record out of any generic trappings, and as usual his harmonic range and layered vocal attack takes the songs to some unexpected places. To dwell on that too much would be unbalanced when the musicianship and songwriting is this killer. As expected Dave Lombardo’s punishing rhythms are everywhere ± they’re unrelenting, constantly vying for your attention with their energy and inventiveness. Not to be forgotten, Mike Crain and Justin Pearson are blistering, but totally in control ± just as you’d expect from guys of their pedigree.

The bare-bones aesthetic of the cover art is a great summation of the dark humour at play here with titles like Seizure and Desist and Grave Slave; lyrics imploring you to “blow out the candles on the urinal cake” and a cover of the Bauhaus’ goth-rock flagship, Bela Lugosi’s Dead ± reducing it to two-minutes, giving the song the attitude and punch it never knew it needed.

When everything is over in less than half an hour, you’ll want to do it again. There’s nothing out of place on this gut-punching record.

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The Creases

Tremolow

8.5

Tremolow serves as The Creases’ long awaited debut album, and provides everything the talented quartet have previously promised with their shining singles such as Impact and Point.

The album sees The Creases channelling classic Brit-pop artists of the ‘80s and ‘90s, adding an upbeat, fun edge to their indie rock sound.

The album consistently displays light, bubbly melodies, each comprised of synth-soaked soundscapes brimming with glimmering guitar and head-bopping percussive beats. Each track is as strong as the one it follows and all bring a different flavour to the mix. The album displays the diversity of The Creases’ musical abilities, with tracks like At Last You Know displaying choral harmonies, In My Car providing layers of shimmering guitar and Do What U Wanna giving off summery vibes with its danceable melody.

The faultless soundscapes featured across Tremolow are perfectly complemented by frontman Joe Agius’s soft, sweet vocals, which intensify the effect of his clever lyrics. Tremolow is a fun and instantly loveable album, bursting with an energy that will immediately have you tapping your foot.

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Flower Boy

7.5

Tyler, The Creator’s name is almost synonymous with controversy, and the release of Flower Boy has been no exception. For weeks, the internet was abuzz with speculation surrounding Tyler’s lyrics ± a shitstorm that threatened to overshadow the album’s release.

Thankfully, it doesn’t. Flower Boy offers a fistful of selfproduced, synth-heavy rap ballads, highlighting Tyler, The Creator’s maturity as an artist on his most cohesive and sophisticated project to date. Even with 11 feature artists, Tyler still manages to remain the sole focus of the album, with guest spots from A$AP Rocky and Frank Ocean being outshone

by Tyler’s thematic lyrics and developing brand of N.E.R.Dinspired musical production.

While he still throws in a few bass heavy tracks with lines such as, “Fuck global warming, my neck is so frío/I’m currently looking for ’95 Leo” purely intended for shock value, songs like 911/Mr Lonely and Boredom stand out as album highlights. Here they merge soulful upbeat guitar flourishes with Tyler’s lyrical reflections on his own loneliness and the trappings of fame.

It’s certainly nothing groundbreaking, but given Tyler’s turbulent history, it’s definitely a big step in a new direction.

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The New Yorks

I Wish I Was You, But That’s Just Me

6.5

Opener Badman reflects the band’s namesake, sounding something like a band from the US East Coast with animated and aggressive lead guitars soaring over dynamic drum parts.

Lead singer Vinnie Barbaro roars through a guttural and throaty vocal performance on Sir Wolf, a dynamically-ranged tune that has a delightfully satisfying explosion of sounds in its chorus.

The band maintains a consistent energy and tightness throughout the EP showcased on stand-out track Truman.

Accented by subtle organ hits, the track is a masterclass in indie rock, ticking all the boxes from commanding guitar solos to assertive lead vocals and punchy drum performances.

The EP is divided up sonically by the dreamy but shortlived interlude Death In Modern Time. With more fleshing out, this could be a really fantastic, ambient venture. Final track We Enjoy This Too Much, rounds off the EP with the equivalent intensity of its opener. Vicious and clawing guitar chords drive the song’s powerful groove, and tie a satisfying bow on the end of the EP. The New Yorks clearly have the ardour and gusto to produce a rewardingly fiery sound and it’ll be interesting to see their sound fleshed out into a full-length effort.

By Paul Waxman

Cage The Elephant

Unpeeled

9.0

Cage The Elephant’s Unpeeled is a collection of reimagined tracks created with the aid of a string quartet and additional percussive instruments.

The album contains 21 tracks, including 18 songs off the band’s past albums and a handful of covers, such as Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World, Daft Punk’s Instant Crush and Golden Brown by The Stranglers. Cage The Elephant manage to mould each track into something new. If you didn’t know better, you’d think the band had penned these songs themselves.

By tweaking the melodies of their own tracks, they manage to give each song an almost completely new feel. Cry Baby displays a Middle Eastern-inspired sound, Too Late To Say Goodbye is brimming with dramatic, sweeping violin melodies, and Aberdeen feels like a beautifully chaotic unravelling of the original.

The Unpeeled re-workings are done so meticulously it’s as if the songs were written to be played in this manner. By removing everything except the base elements and adding simple string and percussive arrangements, the listener is able to truly appreciate the depth of the lyrics and the heart of each song.

The record is truly special, it’s swimming with so many moods, emotions and musical elements that it grabs you in a way that is difficult to describe.

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Profiles

Top Five Tracks That Influenced

The New Yorks

Paolo Nutini ± Jenny Don’t Be Hasty. Paolo Nutini has influenced us ever since we started writing music. We have always admired his ability to create impactful tracks without covering them in glitter.

This particular track is a perfect example of his rugged vocals with honest and self-assured guitars driving the song.

The Strokes ± Modern Age. Speaking of self-assured, The Strokes are the epitome of it. We’ve always preferred recordings that capture the live sound of a band. The grit of a guitar amp pushed slightly too much and driven vocals are both factors that are present in our EP because of an appreciation for early 2000’s indie tracks and the work of The Strokes.

The Vaccines ± Teenage Icon. Beautiful fuzz and even more confidence. This track is an indie masterpiece, with percussive vocals in the verses, subtle harmonies in the chorus and a huge lead guitar that manages to give the track such depth. The Vaccines have definitely sculpted us as a band.

Catfish and The Bottlemen ± Sidewinder. Also possesses that live sound which we love. We find this track is so addictive because of their experimentation with concert reverb and the big open chorus.

Circa Waves ± So Long. Circa Waves have that jangly guitar tone in their album, Young Chasers, that no one seemed to give the time of day since 2006. Gained, trembly rhythm guitar, edged vocals and sleek lead lines are the central features of this track. Although our introduction song, Badman has quite a few different influences, Circa Waves and their delicious Brit-pop sound is definitely present.

Top Five Ways To Feel ‘Young Again’ With Music

The New Yorks’ EP I Wish I Was You, But That’s Just Me is out now.

They’ll perform at The Reverence Hotel on Friday September 22, with The Deadlips.

facebook.com/thenewyorksband

Greenthief

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? Hey I’m Liam Burgan and I play drums in Greenthief.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We’ve had all sorts but probably a mix of Radiohead, Beastie Boys and Queens Of The Stone Age. What do you love about making music? I have found a new love for the writing process. We have really worked on minimalizing drum parts on the new album to concentrate more on the song as a whole.

What do you hate about the music industry? The lack of gender diversity.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? The guy who wrote the score for Disney’s Aladdin. Why? Banger after banger after banger.

What can a punter expect from your live show? Big bass, big drums, and big egos. No, we really pride ourselves on our live performance and it is very important to us that people leave our show with some sort of an experience.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We will have EPs and albums for sale on the night, including our 2016 release Tremors. facebook.com/greenthiefband

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Stevie & The Sleepers

The eyes of a child. If we look through the eyes of a child, we would find that everything would be enchanting and remarkable.

The simple things would leave us to realize how special they are.

We would be free to live in the now ± we’d make the most of each moment, enjoying ourselves and not fretting about the past or worrying about the future. The film clip for our new single Young Again is centred around this theme.

Music, it’s a time machine. There’s no better feeling than when you hear a song and you’re immediately transported back to a moment in time ± a moment where you were young and free, remembering the things that mattered.

Friends and family. Put some time aside to catch up with loved ones because they can bring us back to reality and make us see things from a different perspective.

Act young again. Do the things that made you happy when you were a kid. Head on down to a public playground, swing on the swing, ride the slide and play scarecrow tiggy with your mates.

Slab of VB and a pack of durries. Most of us have memories of the good ol’ days with the crew at a party, enjoying life and not having a care in the world. Please note that Stevie & The Sleepers do not condone any excessive amounts of alcohol consumption or smoking durries.

Music

Stevie & The Sleepers will launch their new single Young Again at Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday August 12. They’ll be joined by Winter Moon and Cash.

stevieandthesleepers.com

Music

Greenthief will launch their new single Hope at Old Bar on Thursday August 10 with Dear Thieves and Mannequin Death Squad.

Elsie & the Vibe

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? Elsie ± I’m a singer and songwriter that goes by the name Elsie and The Vibe.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like? If you threw soul, pop and R&B into a giant pot, added some ‘60s flavouring, seasoned with a touch of Amy Winehouse and The Supremes then garnished with spicy musicians, you’d create Elsie and The Vibe.

What do you love about making music? Making music is the truest expression of who I am. I’ve been writing songs since I was about 14 and it’s always been something I’ve used as an emotional release. When I’m writing, or playing music, I’m completely in the moment, and the world becomes timeless.

What can a punter expect from your live show? A huge sound, harmonies for days, sick grooves and motown rhythms ± you’ll definitely want to move your feet. The overarching theme of the new EP is about finding strength in vulnerability, so we really lay it all out there.

What can we expect from the gig? The vibe will be made up of some killer musicians and there’ll be great feature acts too. I’m also really excited to have Anthony Young and The Next Man Dead plus Kye as support acts for the night.

facebook.com/ElsieAndTheVibe

Music

Elsie & the Vibes will launch her debut EP at the Toff in Town on Thursday August 24.

Profiles

Top Five Animals Of Prey With

Rackett

Tongue-Eating Louse. A worm that pretends to be a tongue. This parasitic isopod enters an innocent fish via its gills, severs the fish tongue and attaches its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The parasite lives in the mouth of the fish, disguised as a tongue inside the fish for life.

The Killer Whale. This whale is actually a dolphin and the only dolphin or whale known to kill man. Affectionate but temperamental. This kind of volatility demands respect.

The Deep Sea Angler Fish. A fish that lives in the dark with a light above its jaw to lure prey. This fish is terrifyingly ugly and super strange. The male fish attaches himself to the female then eats his own face off including his brain, heart and eyes until he is nothing but a pair of nuts on her.

The T.Rex Leech. A giant leech with vampire teeth. This very rare and barbaric leech attacks mammal orifices.

The Hammer Head Shark. The hammer head shark uses electricity to find food and can see 360 degrees out of both eyes at the same time, from both ends of his hammer head.

Music

Rackett’s latest single Prey is out now. They’ll launch their debut EP at Yah Yah’s on Friday September 22.

rackett.tv

Swhat

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? Reece and I play drums and sing. I also tend to do most of the lugging of our gear.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We play simple songs that are short and fast and don’t do guitar solos. The three of us share the singing duties and give vocal harmonies a bit of a nudge. That’s our schtick. One reviewer used the term “ear-cleaning punk”.

What do you love about making music? The entire process.

Spending time mucking around on a guitar plucking riffs out of the ether, elaborating on vocal phrasings, demoing and sending them to the rest of the band. Then trimming away the fat with the other two guys in our rehearsal space.

What can a punter expect from your live show? Usually there isn’t a lot of talk between us and the audience. We pretty much belt through our set in 35 minutes or so and get off stage.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Not much. We have Wasty Tasty on 12-inch 180g vinyl, either standard black or a limited pink and black run. There might be a few copies in CD format kicking around throughout the earlier part of the tour but we mainly have vinyl. We still a have few copies of our first release Down In Tango Zulu on 10-inch too. facebook.com/swhatband

Top Tips For Playing Guitar With

James Ryan

Practise scales and improvisation in all keys more often. Stop playing everything in A minor (or E minor). This is a tricky one. A huge amount of rock, blues, metal, pop, and grunge is in the keys of E and A. This is where jazz and fusion players have the upper hand and why they are much more comfortable and versatile in a wide range of keys.

Turn scale shapes into musical ideas and phrases. The longer you spend simply running through scales and exercises, the more likely it is that you will just repeat them when you try to improvise.

I’ve had a few students over the years who knew their scales and modes better than me, but getting them to use those shapes as a vehicle for soloing was very challenging.

The pinky finger on your fretting hand is very insecure about its size. It will need to work a lot harder than the other fingers, so the sooner you start exercising it, the better. One of the great things about studying classical guitar is you have to learn to use all of your fingers or you get smacked with a ruler.

Theory is not a dirty word. At least learn the basics as they relate to whatever you’re playing and learning. One of my favourite things as a guitar teacher is seeing the lights switch on when a student starts understanding how and why things fit together and sound good. It also teaches you the language to communicate about music more effectively.

Music

James Ryan will perform as part of the Melbourne Guitar Show, taking place on Saturday August 5 and Sunday August 6 at Caulfield Racecourse.

australianmusician.com.au/melbourne-guitar-show

Music

Swhat will perform at Old Bar on Friday August 11 with Spacejunk, Swidgen and Tropical Deadbeats and Saturday August 12 at The Easter, Ballarat with Peeping Tom and Tsugnarly.

Whole Lotta Zep

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? I’m Brendan Price and I play bass and keyboards.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We are the most authentic live Led Zeppelin sound.

What do you love about making music? We take great care using the period-correct equipment and instruments. We love the ‘70s sound.

What do you hate about the music industry? I’m not a big fan of the ‘80s. I’m also not a big fan of digital, processed, computer music.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? I’d love to spend time with John Paul Jones and see all the gear he used as well as his technique and licks.

What can a punter expect from your live show? The most authentic Led Zeppelin show. There are no gimmicks and no orchestras ± just like the original Led Zeppelin. We particularly like the Song Remains the Same show. We reckon that we do that better than anyone. I know it’s a big statement, but prove us wrong.

Music

Whole Lotta Zep will bring the sounds of Led Zeppelin to the Central Club Hotel, Richmond on Saturday August 5 with The Jaded Cats.

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Gig Guide

Frontwomxn Fundraiser Part II

The Workers Club Frontwomxn not only aims to showcase female-fronted bands, but it also raises money to help female artists to produce and promote their music. The fundraiser gig will see Culte, Mio, Shemaiah Kaye, Syd Mackey and SAULT taking over the stage at The Workers Club from 8:30pm on Wednesday August 2. $7 entry.

This Week Wednesday Aug 2 Hip Hop & R&B Mellowdíasthump - Feat: Geezy + Skomes + Cazeaux O.S.L.O Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

Anna Smryk

Charles Weston Folk singer/songwriter Anna Smryk will be putting on a special performance where she will be joined by some friends on the violin, banjo and Dobro guitar to take her beautiful melodies to a whole new level.

Catch her at Charles Weston on Thursday August 3 from 6:30pm. Free in the front bar.

Georgia Fields and Phia

Toff In Town Two of Melbourne’s brightest independent singer/songwriters are joining forces at the Toff In Town. Indie-pop chameleon Georgia Fields and live-looping wunderkind Phia will share the stage and each other’s songs, accompanying one another on everything from kalimba to casio, electric guitar to tambourine. The set will see the reimagining of each artist’s latest albums ±F ields’ Astral Debris and Phia’s The Ocean of Everything. It’s going down on Thursday August 3 from 7pm, tickets are $15+BF.

Two Tale

The Brunswick Hotel The Brunny is putting on a night of alternative rock with a handful of great acts, headlined by Two Tale. They’ll be joined

by Carl Karst, Colour Fires and Out Of Characters at The Brunswick Hotel on Thursday August 3 from 8pm. Free entry.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Miles Recommends + Jess Parker & The Troubled Waters + Thongbirds Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Baby Grand Piano Open Mic Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Black Bats + Mote + Christian Punk Band Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.

7:30pm.

Coq Roq - Feat: Mr Moonshine + Agent 86 + More Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm.

Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird + Press Club + Girlatones Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Frontwomxn Fundraiser Pt.2 - Feat: Culte + Mio + Shemaiah Kaye + Syd Mackey + Sault Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.00.

Junior Fiction Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

Melbourne Club Band Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Morning Morning + Plastic + Democratic People’s Republic Of Surf Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

Reuben Stone + Liv Cartledge Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Sarah Mary Chadwick + Mia Schoen + Dan Cross Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $8.00.

So Fresh - Feat: George Ikon + Change Le Disque Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

The Crookeds + Neon Queen + Dj Josh Ashbury Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Bohjass 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Dizzy’s Big Band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Nestor Torres Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

Paul Grabowsky Trio The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Synthi 100 Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

6:00pm.

Ten Tenors Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $101.15.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Primed - Feat: Dazastah + Phil K + Amin Payne + More Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

7:00pm.

Revolver Wednesdays - Feat: Jake Judd + Deltoid Curve Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

7:00pm.

The Pretty Littles

The Grace Darling The Pretty Littles are playing a fundraiser gig to help earn some pennies to put towards making their forthcoming album.

They’ll be putting on one hell of a show, as usual, plus you can feel smug knowing you’ve contributed to the release of their next album. They hit The Grace Darling on Thursday August 3 from 8pm. Tix are $25 via Eventbrite.

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Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Figrhed Beats + Kokatsuani + Dave Connor Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Kelly Auty & Boris Conley + Mandy Connell + Claire Patti Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

Leo Rondeau + Dave Garnham Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Muddys Blues Roulette Catfish, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

Open Mic Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

Open Mic Night Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.

8:00pm.

Rebecca Barnard & Billy Miller’s Singalong Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $18.00.

The Rebetiko Trio Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

Wine Whisky Women - Feat: Celia Brandolini + Tori Forsyth Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Thursday Aug 3 House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Death Disco - Feat: Kiti Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Disco Volante Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

Espace Noir - Feat: Mic Mills + M5k Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5.00.

Footnotes - Feat: Rev Lon + Lotus Moonchild + Kaya Kalpa + Julian Castles Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Keep It In The Family - Feat: Sophie + Mira Boru + Liucy Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Midnight Express - Feat: Djs Prequel & Edd Fisher + Mas Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm.

Thursgay Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Treat Thursdays Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Tuck Shop Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Copperhead Brass Band + Jalapeño Baby Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Four To The Floor - Feat: Vinyl Vixens Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Hue Blanes Trio The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Just Friends - Feat: Rini Big Mouth, St Kilda.

9:00pm.

Kickin The B At 303’ - Feat: Psi Phi 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Melbourne Improvisers Collective Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Nestor Torres Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

Sacré Coeur Secondary Music Concert Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $24.95.

Sarah Occhino Pbs Breakfast Spread Djs Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Soul In The Basement - Feat: Sweethearts + Vince Peach + Pierre Baroni Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Timbalero Thursday La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

Hip Hop & R&B Buffalo Gals Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 10:00pm. $5.00.

No Frills Thursdays Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Atomic Hi-Tones Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Charging Stallion + Elusive Haze + Rhysics Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

Danitchy + Cations + Özergun + Lazybones Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

7:00pm.

Georgia Fields + Phia + Sarah Belkner + Tiaryn Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

Grinspoon Wool Exchange, Geelong. 8:00pm.

Hannah Cameron + Grand Salvo + Broads Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $15.00.

Harmony Byrne + Woy The B.East, Brunswick East. 10:00pm.

Hey Baby! + The Jumpkicks + Sophisticated Dingo Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

James Ramsay, Foggy Notion + James Ramsay + Foggy Notion + Tiryan Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

Josh Pyke + Kyle Lionhart Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $49.26.

La Danse Macabre + Brunswick Massive Resident Djs Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Liam Linley + New Band + Closet Straights Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

Live Music With Tingy Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8:00pm.

Manorism + Cloud Castles + The Nicoteenagers Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Queen - It’s A Kinda Magic Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $79.00.

Real Friends + Columbus + Harbours Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

Resident Thursdays - Feat: Dj Shadow Pier Live, Frankston. 9:00pm.

Sapphire + Ankl + Notice Of Eviction Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Supernature Djs - Feat: Haus Trauma + Seb Blyolk Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.

The Babe Rainbow John Curtin Hotel, Carlton.

8:00pm. $15.00.

The Fizzz Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Throwback Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

Two Tale + Out Of Character + Colour Fires + Carl Karst Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

Verge Collection + Jess Locke + Hugh Fuschen Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Anna Smryk Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.

6:30pm.

Dan Dinnen Band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

Jame Forbes Grosvenor Hotel, St Kilda East.

7:00pm.

Leavings + Chores + Slimbillgates + Make More Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Matt Bradshaw Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 9:30pm.

Open Mic Sloth Bar, Footscray. 8:00pm.

Open Mic Night Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 7:00pm.

Plazza + Shadow Fleet Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

Shane Nicholson Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

7:30pm. $25.00.

Tammy Haider Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

Friday Aug 4 Hip Hop & R&B Bright Lights Big City - Feat: Dj Rcee + Kahlua + Dj Shook + Dj Angel Jay Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Cushion Fridays Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

Faktory Fridays - Feat: Damion De Silva + K Dee + Durmy Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

Free Dope - Feat: Kymaera + Zero-1 + Tamen + More Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

9:00pm. $16.84.

Party & Bullshit Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Featured Gigs

Charging Stallion

The Bendigo Hotel Rock outfit Charging Stallion are launching their latest EP, The Closest We’ll Ever Get To A Full Length Album, at The Bendigo Hotel and they’ve invited some mates to come along for the ride. They’ll be joined by fellow rockers Elusive Haze and Rhysics, kicking off at 7:30pm on Thursday August 3. Free entry.

Danitchy

Whole Lotta Love Indie rock outfit Danitchy are taking their tunes to the stage and they’ve invited some friends along to help get the party started.

Catch Lazybones, Özergun, and Cations alongside Danitchy for a night of great tunes at Whole Lotta Love. It’s happening on Thursday August 3 from 7pm. Free entry.

Steve Smyth

The Workers Club With a voice that could melt butter and guitar melodies that will tingle your spine, a Steve Smyth performance is one not to be missed. He’ll be performing some old and new material at The Workers Club before he heads back to Europe. Catch him from 8:30pm on Friday August 4. Tickets are $20+bf via Oztix.

Wolfpack

The Brunswick Hotel Things are going to get rowdy when Wolfpack hit The Brunny. The punk thrashers will be joined by Motovilikha, The Muderballs, Rusted Tongue and Stoned To Death for an all out night of loud and frenetic punk rock. It’s going down at The Brunswick Hotel on Friday August 4 from 8:30pm. Free entry.

Runk

The Evelyn Hotel Funk-infused rock/rap outfit Runk are cruising into town as part of their single tour for their new track Rush Hour.

They’ll be joined by Matt Murray & The Durry Busters, The Trepids, Unlucky, and Dedmedics when they hit The Evelyn Hotel. It’s happening on Friday August 4 from 8pm. $10 entry.

The Dany Maia Trio

Wesley Anne The Dany Maia Trio will be delivering their authentic Brazilian sound, infused with elements of jazz and pop that are driven home by Dany Maia’s powerhouse vocals.

Catch them at Wesley Anne on Friday August 4 from 6pm. Free in the front bar.

Gig Guide

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Brenton Foster Trio The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

11:55pm. $10.00.

Chris Mcnulty Band The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $25.00.

Emma Gilmartin Quartet Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8:00pm.

Global Safari - Feat: Keito + Kyohei + Eddie Mac Belleville, Melbourne. 6:00pm.

Grand Mozart - Feat: Australian National Academy Of Music Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $47.00.

Nestor Torres Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

New Slang - Feat: Wil Wagner + Bridget Allan Arts Centre, Melbourne. 6:00pm. $10.00.

Oxjam Moonlanding - Feat: Black Souled Shoes + Matilda Pungitore + More 24 Moons, Northcote. 6:30pm. $10.00.

Sleazy Listening - Feat: Arks + Richard Kelly + Hysteric + K Hoop Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Son Of A Gunzel Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

Stephen Magnusson Quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Strobelight Honey - Feat: Wrong Plac + Discotheque Of Harros + Millú Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 11:00pm.

The Bombay Royale + The Sugar Fed Leopards Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $21.45.

The Fox Soundtrack - Feat: Dj Ladysoul Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

The Montgomery Brothers + Ollie Mcgill & Danny Ross 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00.

The Olivia Chindamo Sextet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.

What The Funk Fridays Purple Emerald, Northcote. 9:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Action Sam Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda.

11:00pm.

Ciroq Fridays Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Day Din Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $29.00.

Doctor - Feat: Shouse + Colette + Juan Feliché + Doctor Djs Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Eat Your Greens Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Elephant In The Room Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

Fabulous Fridays - Feat: Various Djs Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00.

Formation - Feat: Donny & Friends + One Puf + More Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

Frequency - Feat: Mendo Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7:00pm.

Friday - Feat: Mell Hall + Pete Keen + More Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

Lost In Province Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.

9:00pm. $17.85.

Luck Truck Friday Downstairs - Feat: 99 Prblmz + Congo Tardis #1 + Little League Bounce Club Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

Mike Callander + Zach Rose + Ol Greg + Gus Milham Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Pest Kontrol - Feat: Scotty Pesticide Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Poprocks - Feat: Dr Phil Smith + Dr Nick Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Revolver Fridays & Three Years Of Euphorie Bezirk - Feat: Who + Acid Safari + Handsdown X Leighboy + More Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

San Fran Disco - Feat: Hip Popens + Invisible Grant + Daags + More Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Ten Buck Techno - Feat: Thankyou City + Le’bruh + Ryan Haynes + More Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. $10.00.

Thctv Melbourne Showcase Mixtape Launch Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.

The Disco Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

The Emerson Club Fridays The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.

Thighs High - Feat: Syndicator + Body Mechanic + Grand Wizard Kano + Object Of Desire Joey Smalls, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Wolfpack + Motovilikha + Murderballs + Stoned To Death + Rusted Tongue Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Ariana Grande Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $101.70.

Battle Of The Bands Black Hatt, Geelong.

8:30pm.

Brewtality Sideshow - Feat: Hobo Magic Bloodnut + El Colosso + Carcosa Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.

Captain Spalding Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:30pm.

Caroline No Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

6:00pm.

Dj King Lucho Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

Finishing School Bella Union Bar, Carlton.

9:30pm. $10.00.

Fleetwood Mac 30th Celebration Feat: Fleetwood Mac Tribute Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington. 8:00pm. $26.55.

Foot + Claws + Spawn Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $7.00.

Grinspoon + Hockey Dad Pier Live, Frankston.

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.

Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders + Emma Russack Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Josh Cashman + Batts + Liv Cartledge Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

Josh Pyke + Kyle Lionhart Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $49.26.

Kilamaine + Valley King + 29 Bones + Sunslave Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Megan Sidwell + Iain Archibald Band + Luke Austen Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

Mesa Cosa Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $13.30.

Mezz Live Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 5:30pm.

Montaigne + I Know Leopard + Alex The Astronaut 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.

Prince Public Bar Fridays Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9:00pm.

Queen - It’s A Kinda Magic Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $79.00.

Ramble Tamble Milano’s Tavern, Brighton.

8:30pm. $34.00.

Real Friends + Columbus + Harbours Arrow On Swanston, Carlton. 7:00pm.

Runk - Feat: Drunk Mums Djs + Deadmedic + Unlucky + The Trepids + Matt Murray & The Durry Busters Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Sectape + Cecil Turbine + Pipsy Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Someday June + Zac Saber The Skylark Room, Upwey. 6:00pm. $10.00.

Steve Smyth + Tempus Sun + Alister Turrill Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $20.00.

Teeth & Tongue + Loose Tooth + Gregor + Venetian Blinds Djs Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

The Adele & Amy Songbook - Feat: Bloom Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $39.50.

The Babe Rainbow John Curtin Hotel, Carlton.

8:00pm.

The Blue Hotel Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

The Citradels + The Fainters Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

The Council + Monestere + The Interceptors + Forklift Assassins Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

The Five Star Crooks + Supa Suplex Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 7:00pm. $10.00.

The Trembling Wilburys Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $22.00.

Totally 80’s Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Train Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $101.79.

Versus Party Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Very Handsome Men Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm. $10.00.

Yeevs Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Kevin Buckingham Band Upwey Belgrave Rsl, Upwey. 8:30pm.

Tommy Castles Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Acoustic Sessions Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 5:00pm.

Checkerboard Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

9:30pm.

Dany Maia Trio Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

Geoff Achison’s Birthday Bash - Feat: The Souldiggers Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $33.00.

Guild Country Band Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Jame Forbes Imperial Hotel, South Yarra. 7:00pm.

Jeffers Limit + Erin Will Be Mad + Lewis Coleman Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Jon Toogood Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

Justin Yap Band Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Max Teakle Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

5:30pm.

Miss Whiskey Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8:30pm.

Natalie Carolan + Mezz Coleman + The Charlies Longplay, Fitzroy North. 8:30pm. $15.00.

Shane Nicholson Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.

8:00pm. $23.00.

Shane Nicholson Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

The Royal High Jinx + The Footscray Gypsies Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Traditional Irish Music Session Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

Warren Gardiner Duo Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Zerafina Zara & Alleged Associates Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. 7:00pm.

Saturday Aug 5 Hip Hop & R&B Big Dancing Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Death Grips Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

Khokolat Koated Saturdays - Feat: Damion De Silva + K Dee + Durmy + Timos Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

Rhythm Nation Saturdays - Feat: Dj Timos + Dj Kahlua + Dj Ange M & Andy Pala Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

The Get Down 3 - Feat: Avii + Von Voddy + Krown + More Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Uptown’s 9Th Birthday - Feat: Eugene Ball Nonet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Balajo Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

Chris Mcnulty Band The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $20.00.

Dmitry Sinkovsky (The Singing Violin) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm. $30.00.

Funk Buddies Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Jackie Bornstein Quartet Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8:00pm. $20.00.

May Johnston & Band Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:30pm. $16.00.

Michael Kieran Harvey Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $35.00.

Nestor Torres Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

Ras Jahknow + Revolution Inc Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 7:00pm. $12.00.

Renee Geyer + Bonnie Anderson Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $38.00.

Shoeb Ahmad Longplay, Fitzroy North. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Soul-A-Go-Go - Feat: Vince Peach + Shio + More Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:00pm. $10.00.

Thando Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $35.00.

The Fox Soundtrack - Feat: Cupids Cut Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

The Hack Ensemble Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

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Caroline No

The King Louie Collective Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

The Moonhops Belleville, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

The Rookies The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11:55Pm. $10.00.

There Will Be Blood - Feat: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7:00pm. $45.00.

Edinburgh Castle Caroline No will be playing a mini residency at the Edinburgh Castle, across the first two Fridays in August. She’ll be performing her eccentric, psychedelic tunes with the aid of some surprise special guests. Catch Caroline No at Edinburgh Castle on Friday August 4 from 6pm. Free entry.

Foot

Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar Desert/stoner rock outfit Foot are hitting the stage to share some new tunes from their forthcoming album. They’ve invited some pals along for the night, including post-punk outfit Claws and doom band Spawn. Catch them at Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar on Friday August 4 from 8:30pm. $7 entry.

Brewtality Sideshow

The Old Bar Can’t make it to Brewtality festival? No worries, The Old Bar are hosting a sideshow with Carcosa, El Colosso, Bloodnut, and Hobo Magic which is bound to be a slamming night full or raucous riffs and rock’n’roll. It’s going down on Friday August 4 from 9pm. $15 entry.

The Citradels

The Post Office Hotel The Citradels have some brand new tunes from their latest album Where’s One? and they want to show them off one last time before they take a little break. It will be their last show for the year so come on down.

They’ll be joined by The Fainters when they hit The Post Office Hotel, kicking off at 9pm. Free entry.

Josh Cashman

Northcote Social Club Straight off the back of three-months in the US, playing shows at SXSW, in New York and supporting Tash Sultana, Josh Cashman has returned to Melbourne to share his latest single Beauty in Grey ± track about finding and accepting the light in a dark place, making mistakes and finding beauty in those moments. Cashman will take to the Northcote Social Club stage on Friday August 4. Doors are at 8.30pm, tickets through the venue’s website.

Brewtality

The Bendigo Hotel Brewtality festival is back. With 34 bands and three stages across The Bendigo Hotel and The Tote, it’s going to be one hell of a day. Catch Blood Duster, Buffalo, Desecrator, Dreadnaught, and loads more killer acts at Brewtality. It kicks off at 2pm, tickets are $48 via the venue websites or $58 on the door.

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House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Audioporn Saturdays Onesixone, Prahran.

9:00pm. $15.00.

Bad Habits Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Blue Movie - Feat: Hymns + Millú + Hysteric + Ricci Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

Cq Saturdays Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Cushion Saturdays Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

Electric Dreams - Feat: Various Djs Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00.

Ferdydurke Turns Five - Feat: Andee Frost + Positively Positive Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm.

Hard Time Pressure #6 - Feat: Andy Ites + Lego + More Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

In The Carriage - Feat: Dj Jnett Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Jank Facques Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:10am.

Loomer Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Lucid Babicka + Cop Envy + Three Mile + Seb Marcu + 6Am Atg Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Marlo Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7:00pm. $69.95.

Non Dj Electronic Marquee 2 - Feat: Zen Robotic + Leipzig Lab + Peter Nigido + More Tago Mago, Thornbury. 6:00pm.

Pony Saturdays La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Ppb Late Night Saturdays Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:00pm.

Progession Sessions - Feat: Lockdown + Nikelodeon + Amir + More Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. $15.00.

Resident Djs - The History - Feat: Ivan Di Gennaro + Chriss Matto + Mha Iri + More New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Seven Saturday Discotheque Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00.

Snack Attack - Feat: Dj 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

Sonic Underground Producer Night Feat: Jps + Sapien + Sadiva + More Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $11.58.

Sooki Saturday - Feat: 8Eyez Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.

Space Burn! - Feat: Ballistix Drummers + Blunderbuss + More 24 Moons, Northcote.

9:00pm. $11.58.

Textile Saturdays - Feat: Kodiak Kid + D’fro + Jens Beamin Lucky Coq, Windsor.

9:00pm.

The Emerson Club Saturdays The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm.

Tramp Saturdays Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Warehouse 3000 229 Queensberry St, 9:00pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Ariana Grande Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $101.70.

Assault & Battery + Ankl Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

Autumn Mary + Grace King + The Mercy Hour + Four In The Morning 303, Northcote.

8:00pm.

Bang - Feat: Ocean Sleeper + Mirrors + Aspirations + Hammer Time Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

Bootleg Rascal Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

Brewtality - Feat: Blood Duster + Buffalo Revisited + Desecrator + Dreadnaught + In:extremis + Vicious Circle + And More Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 12:00pm. $58.00.

Cascades + Goodbye Enemy Airship + Dim Unit Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

China Beach + Children Of The Sun + Lovely Days + The Burbs Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Crooked Colours + Muto Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $28.24.

Dandy Jonestown Massacre + Stone In Motion Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Dean Lewis + Plgrms + Mt Warning Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Dear Seattle Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Dj Steely Ann Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

Green Hollows + Mona Bay + Three Wise Monkeys Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

Hollow Everdaze John Curtin Hotel, Carlton.

8:00pm. $12.00.

Hrdware Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $5.00.

Ill Nino + Terror Universal Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $75.80.

Josh Pyke + Kyle Lionhart Wool Exchange, Geelong. 8:30pm. $51.00.

Kota + The Hemusans + Zak Fleisher + Zilm Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. $10.00.

La Bastard + The Sugarcanes + Baby Blue + Shitsville Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

Laura Palmer + The Cutaways + Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays + Body Parts + Caveman Disco Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Localles + Press Club + Amir Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Naked Waste + Lowdowns Old Bar, Fitzroy.

4:00pm.

No Exit - The Angels Tribute Commercial Hotel, Morang South. 8:00pm.

Nqr + Ekranoplans + Dennis + Grups Coburg Rsl, Coburg. 7:30pm. $5.00.

Picture Perfect + Busy Kingdom + Dole Chq Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Raw Brit Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $23.00.

Saturdays Rock - Feat: Riffinery Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

Slaves + Awaken I Am Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $30.00.

Steve Hackett Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $79.90.

Steve Tyssen Open Studio, Northcote. 2:00pm.

Stokavski Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $20.95.

The Little River Band Story Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00.

The Meeseeks + Dead Pharaohs + Day Of Clint Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

The Push Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

The Summer Of Love 50Th Anniversary - Feat: The Substitutes Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $27.00.

Theme Team The B.East, Brunswick East.

7:00pm.

Thug Mills + Bitumen Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

Warped + The Chops Gin Lane, Belgrave.

8:00pm.

Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard + Pegbucket + O.D. Tommydogs Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Ben Avery Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Brendan Welch + Freya Josephine Hollick + Jemma Rowlands Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Common Cult Presents - Feat: Amiko + Anti-Violet + Wasterr + Wives Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Craig Woodward & Friends Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

Electric Blues Collective Catfish, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

Fingerbone Bill Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Flying Engine Stringband Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 9:00pm.

Greenville Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

Ian Moss Milano’s Tavern, Brighton. 8:00pm. $41.00.

Jame Forbes Jack Slims, Port Melbourne. 7:00pm.

Jim Cuomo Trio Jambo, Footscray. 8:30pm.

Moon Dogs Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

Moonee Valley Drifters Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Nitida + Jackson Phelan Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Sammy Owen Blues Band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Stephen Kennedy Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 3:00pm.

Steve Smyth Workers Club, Geelong. 8:00pm. $23.50.

The B Benders Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

9:00pm.

The Gravy Tram + Alfred & Matt Daniel Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

The Montgomery Brothers Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

The Willie Wagtails Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Tomato Tomato Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $15.00.

Sunday Aug 6 Hip Hop & R&B Death Grips Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Anyway - Feat: Various Artists Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Cushion Sundays Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

Down The Rabbit Hole - Feat: Nigel Last Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Drunken Kong Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. $27.33.

Fashion Fridays - Feat: Mark Hardy + Jvp + Sonic Vibes + More La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Jungle Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00.

Revolver Sundays - Feat: Boogs + Spacey Space + T-Rek + More Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am.

Sunday - Feat: Khanh + Duchess Kay + More The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm.

The Sunday Set - Feat: Dj Andyblack + Mr Weir Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

Until The Night Is Over - Feat: Danny Osx + Benny Badge + Babalú + Chiara Kickdrum Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Alex Hutchings Group The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $15.00.

Dmitry Sinkovsky (The Singing Violin) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm. $30.00.

Dr Crask & His Swinging’ Elixir Junktion, Kew. 5:00pm.

Moreland City Soul Review Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

Mountain - Feat: Australian Chamber Orchestra Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 2:30pm. $47.00.

Nestor Torres Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

Nostalgique - Feat: Tamara Kuldin Arts Centre, Melbourne. 12:00pm. $85.00.

Nostalgique - Feat: Tamara Kuldin Arts Centre, Melbourne. 4:00pm. $85.00.

Sunday Jazz Sessions Wesley Anne, Northcote.

3:00pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Adam Simmons Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Slaves (All Ages) + Awaken I Am Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $30.00.

A Blonde Moment Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale.

8:00pm.

A Man Called Son + One Way Radio Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7.00.

Beeksoaked Sundays - Feat: Coastbusters + Will Coyote & The Blacklights + Hollie Joyce + Closet Straights Old Bar, Fitzroy.

7:30pm. $8.00.

Cash + Picture Perfect + Bear Kick Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Crooked Colours + Muto Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $28.24.

Damon Smith Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

Dave + Baker’s Eddy Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

Dean Lewis + Plgrms + Mt Warning Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

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Gig Guide

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Geo + Troll + A Basket Of Mammoths Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. $5.00.

Georgia Fields + Phia Old Castlemaine Gaol, 8:00pm.

Jed Appleton + Grim Fawkner The B.East, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Jess Deluca 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

Kardinal + Kumar Shome & The Punkawallahs Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Lostkeyz + Blyolk + Sophiegrophy + Boy Graduate Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

Minus The Bear + Fan Girl Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $52.90.

Open Mic Jambo, Footscray. 6:00pm.

Open Mic Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 3:00pm.

Open/Mic Jam Nights - Feat: Jam At Musicland Sundays Musicland, Fawkner.

7:00pm.

Shag Rock + Sleeping Lessons + The Hemusans Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $15.00.

Slutfest - Feat: O Deanna + Lazertits + Emah Fox + Face Face + The Second Sex + The Girl Fridas Bella Union Bar, Carlton.

3:50pm. $6.00.

So Freshtival - Feat: Dr. Phil Smith + Flex Mami + Slick Slazenger + More Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $15.00.

Steve Hackett 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $84.90.

Sunday Sessions Purple Emerald, Northcote.

3:00pm.

The Delvenes + Squid Ink + Oh So Soho Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

The Floaties + Newtown Story + The Cooks Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 3:00pm. $5.00.

The Killjoys Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

4:00pm.

The Story Model + Zak Fleisher Band + Youth In Asia + The Magic Marshmellows Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.

The Tarantinos Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

The Von Tones Bensons On Martin, Brighton.

2:00pm.

Time Robb + Palm Springs Old Bar, Fitzroy.

4:00pm.

Victor Cripes Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

4:00pm.

Wax On Wax Off Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

White Vans + Pale Heads + Rathead Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

The Evelyn Hotel Slaves are heading down under for their first Australian tour since their recent hiatus. They’ll be swinging by Melbourne to give a taste of their latest single I’d Rather See Your Star Explode, plus a heap of old favourites. Catch Slaves at The Evelyn Hotel on Saturday August 5 from 8pm. Tix are $25+bf via Oztix or $30 on the door.

Laura Palmer

The Old Bar Twin Peaks may be back but unfortunately, Laura Palmer are calling it a day. The poppunk outfit will be playing their last show ever at The Old Bar, so make sure you don’t miss it. It’s happening on Saturday August 5 from 7:30pm. $10 entry.

Jamie Vale & DJ Demize

The Carlton Club Put your dancing shoes on and head on down to The Carlton Club where the tunes are banging and the drinks are endless.

Jamie Vale and DJ Demize will be keeping things interesting with a mix of house, RNB and hip hop. It’s going down on Saturday August 5 from 8pm. Free entry.

Tomato Tomato

Spotted Mallard Using an old washboard rigged up with tin cans and a cymbal, foot-powered bass and snare drums coupled with old-timey guitar and their harmonies, Tomato Tomato’s contagious songs and up-cycled percussion create an unmistakable sound. After a busy North American festival season, they’ll bring their special brand of Americana to Spotted Mallard on Saturday August 5 with James Ellis Duo. Doors are at 9pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

Dave

Cherry Bar Newcastle punk rockers Dave are in town and they’ll be swinging by ACDC Lane to launch their new single, Rock N Roll. They’ll be joined by Baker’s Eddy when they hit Cherry Bar on Sunday August 6 from 8pm.

Free entry.

Whiskey Dram

The Reverence Hotel Whiskey Dram are putting on an August residency at their favourite Footscray pub and they’re kicking it off this weekend.

They’ll be joined by Victor Cripes and Mace Face when they hit The Reverence Hotel on Sunday August 6. Free entry.

Dark Noise

Whole Lotta Love To help see out the beginning of the end of winter, Whole Lotta Love is hosting a night of acoustic music by four solo musicians. Brigid Parker, Hannah Potter, Manda Gleeson, and Laurence Hewson will each deliver smoldering sets, starting at 6pm on Sunday August 6. Free entry.

Dazzle At The Rassle Open Mic Upwey Belgrave Rsl, Upwey. 7:30pm.

Acoustic Monthly Mic Upwey Belgrave Rsl, Upwey. 2:00pm.

Banbury Cross + Hugh Mcginlay Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. $5.00.

Blackout Sessions Presents - Feat: Laura Jean + Harmony + Advaita + Lovers Of The Blackbird The Mission To Seafarers Victoria, Docklands. 6:00pm. $30.00.

Blues Session - Feat: Matt T Wall Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Chris Wilson Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

Darebin Songwriters Guild 303, Northcote.

3:30pm.

Devil Goat Family String Band Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Elwood Blues Club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 5:00pm.

Johnny Can’t Dance Cajun Band Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Kevin Falkenberg Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.

Laurence Hewson + Manda Gleeson + Hannah Potter + Brigid Parker Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.

Lost Ragas Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

Louis Valentine + Team Love + Mia Wray Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 6:00pm. $10.00.

Miss Whiskey Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

Now & Then Upwey Belgrave Rsl, Upwey.

1:00pm.

Sunday Session - Feat: Brunsy Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm.

Sunset Blush Phoenix Bar, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

Ten Gallon Head Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

3:00pm.

Gig of the Week

La Bastard

Known for their powerful, soulful vocals, blistering, reverb-drenched guitar and wildly energetic live shows that have wowed audiences across Australia, New Zealand and Europe, La Bastard will be storming through the Gaso packed with tunes from their long awaited third album Trouble. If that’s not enough to get your hips shaking, then boy-oh-boy have we got news for you, because The Sugarcanes, Baby Blue and Spiral Perm will also be bringing the boogie. It’s all going down at The Gasometer on Saturday August 5 from 7.30pm.

Tickets are $15 on the door.

The ‘Johnny Can’t Dance’ Cajun Band Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 5:00pm.

The Stetson Family Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

The T-Bones Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

The Wendy Stapleton Trio Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm.

Three Kings Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm.

Tomato Tomato Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.

3:00pm. $18.00.

Wattle And Wood + Ben J Carter Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.

Monday Aug 7 Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Cherry Jam Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

Diamonds Of Neptune + God$ Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Dolphin Soup + Tripmonks + Davy Simony Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

Mundane Mondays - Feat: Secret Act + Grim Rhythm + Flour + The Skids + Elusive Haze Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Wind It Up Northcote Social Club, Northcote.

8:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Vacca Koorie Tiddas Youth Choir Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.

303 Yarra Banks Jam Night 303, Northcote.

8:00pm.

Andrea Keller Curates - The Composer’s Circle The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Jam Session Mondays Bird’s Basement, Melbourne. 6:00pm.

Mauricio Carrasco (Bach Lute Suites) Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Mountain - Feat: Australian Chamber Orchestra Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $47.00.

The Song Keepers In Concert - Feat: Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

7:30pm. $35.00.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Dnb Mondays - Feat: Kayboku + Groze Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

Struggle Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

The Breakfast Club Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

The Monday Bone Machine - Feat: T-Rek Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

David Bramble Compass Pizza, Brunswick East.

7:00pm.

Derailment + Dire Ears + Older Men + Removalist Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

Jim Cuomo Trio Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Julia Johnson + James Fahy Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Tuesday Aug 8 Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Creme De La Femme - Feat: Sandy Hsu + Chitra Ridwan + Dear Matilda + Tali Mahoney Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Make It Up Club - Feat: Koukatsuani + Emah Fox + Makeda Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Teeth & Tongue + Jade Imagine Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.

The Brunny Oxjam Fest - Feat: Miles Recommends + Jess Parker & The Troubled Waters + Thongbirds Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

The Spitting Swallows + Excuse For An Exit + Dangerous Curves Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Anna’s Go-Go Academy Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm. $10.00.

Barney Mcall The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Joe Chindamo Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $29.00.

Max & Rosie Riebl Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Piano Karaoke - Feat: Lisa Crawley Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

Uncomfortable Science - Feat: Lachlan Mitchell Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Oasis Tuesdays Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Vecchio’s Summer Serve Up Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Collarts Presents Workers Club, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

Irish Session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

8:00pm.

Mitch Power + Brooke Russell + Cookie Baker + Lachlan Bryan Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

Now Here This - Feat: Selki + Blume Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Charles Jenkins Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

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Coming Soon Jed Appleton

The B.East Jed Appleton will be showcasing his nufolk tracks at The B.East for his one and only Melbourne performance. He’ll be joined by singer/songwriter Grim Fawkner for an intimate performance that you won’t have another chance to see any time soon.

It’s happening on Sunday August 6 from 7pm. Free entry.

Kevin Falkenberg

The Drunken Poet Kevin Falkenberg is bringing the Borracho show to The Drunken Poet for the first time ever. With almost a decade on the road playing music, many flavours and inspirations are present in the wide body of work he’s written ± cowboys, pirates, gravediggers, crossed lovers, murderers and heroes all come to life. It’s happening Sunday August 6 from 6.30pm.

Crooked Colours

Corner Hotel Crooked Colours will bring tunes from their debut album Vera to the Corner Hotel stage this Sunday August 6. With the album debuting at #14 on the ARIA album chart and a sold out Melbourne show already in the bag, Crooked Colours are proving themselves as one of Australia’s hottest rising acts in electronic music. They’ll be joined by special guest Ivan Ooze, Visuals

by EGO and supported by Muto. Kick off it at 7.30pm, tickets through the venue.

David Bramble

Compass Pizza Sugar Fed Leopards’ guitarist David Bramble will be switching things up when he swaps his disco strings for a grand piano to play his solo tunes at Compass Pizza.

He’ll be on the keys from 7pm on Monday August 7. Free entry.

The Spitting Swallows

Cherry Bar Pop-punk outfit The Spitting Swallows are doing an August residency at Cherry Bar to help you ride out those winter blues.

They will be pumping out tunes from 8pm every Tuesday, and this week they’ll be joined by special guests Excuse For An Exit and Dangerous Curves. It’s happening on Tuesday August 8, free entry.

Tuesday Tribute: Sarah Carroll

The Drunken Poet Sarah Carroll ± country singing, guitar slinging fan of all the American greats ± has chosen to pay tribute to one of the nation’s most enduring and controversial songwriters, Merle Haggard. She’ll be joined on classic songs such as Mama Tried, Lonesome Fugitive and Working Man Blues

by Nicky Del Rey on electric guitar. Head to the Drunken Poet on Tuesday August 8.

Music kicks off at 8pm.

Brunny OXJAM Fest

Brunswick Hotel The vibrant indie folk-rock of Miles Recommends teams up with the blueshowling songbird Jess Parker & The Troubled Waters and the experimental reggae/blues/folk/rock of the Thongbirds to form one epic musical lineup to jam for OXFAM live at The Brunswick Hotel. It’s going down on Tuesday August 8 from 8pm. Entry is $5.

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Birdhouse The Gasometer August 10 Up The Guts The Tote August 10 Pete Murray Chelsea Heights Hotel August 10, The Forum August 25 Didirri Workers Club August 11 Figures Feat A Gazillion Angry Mexicans Cherry Bar August 11 The Royal Artillery Cherry Bar August 11 Drunk Mums The Tote August 12 Stepson Bang! August 12, Wrangler Studios August 13 New Found Glory Corner Hotel August 14 – August 16 Yehme2 Boney August 17 Amy Shark Corner Hotel August 18 Black Cab Howler August 18 Amyl & The Sniffers Kustom Kommune August 18 James Norbert Ivanyi Workers Club August 19 Billy Fox Penny Black August 19 Hyla Last Chance August 19, Grace Darling August 31 Pig & Dan Revolver August 20 The Courtneys The Eastern August 23, The Curtin August 24 King The Evelyn August 25 Ocean Alley Corner Hotel August 25 Fist Full Of Rock The Forum August 26 The Jungle Giants The Croxton August 26 Jesse Redwing The Beautfort August 26 Abra Corner Hotel August 27 Hawthorne Heights Corner Hotel August 31 Client Liaison The Forum August 31 Trash Boat Wrangler Studios August 31, Bang September 2, Corner Hotel September 3 Tex, Don & Charlie Memo Music Hall August 31, September 2 Bearfoot Sooki Lounge August 31, Baha Tacos September 1, Bar Open September 2 Fazerdaze Northcote Social Club September 1 Trophy Eyes Corner Hotel September 2 Dan Sultan The Forum September 2 Gang Of Youths Festival Hall September 6 Sløtface Howler September 7 Placebo Margaret Court Arena September 8 Meg Mac The Forum September 8 Ali Barter Corner Hotel September 8 Jen Cloher Howler September 8 Direct Hit! Bendigo Hotel September 9 Ocean Party Major Toms September 9, Ballarat September 10, The Pinnacle October 4, The Birdhouse October 5 The Getaway Plan Corner Hotel September 9,10 Afi The Forum September 10 Judah Kelly Bella Union September 10 Mew Max Watt’s September 12 Mojo Juju Howler September 14 Pierce Brothers 170 Russell September 15 The Creases Howler September 15 Billie Eilish The Toff September 15 Motez Corner Hotel September 16 Pvt Northcote Social Club September 16, Spotted Mallard September 17 Steve Lane Golden Vine Hotel September 16 Luke Million Howler September 16 Pharoahe Monch 170 Russell September 18 London Grammar Margaret Court Arena September 19 Dream Theatre Palais Theatre September 20 Pond Corner Hotel September 21 Gravemind Workers Club September 21

Young Lions The Evelyn September 22 Sundr The Old Bar September 22 Postmodern Jukebox The Palais Theatre September 22 Shonen Knife Ngv September 22, Corner Hotel October 1 Angus & Julia Stone The Palais Theatre September 23 Max & Iggor Cavalera The Forum September 23 Justice For The Damned Phoenix Youth Centre September 24 Wollombi Music Festival Feat Lime Cordiale, Caiti Baker, Dubarray And More Wollombi September 30 At The Drive‑In Festival Hall September 28 Haken 170 Russell September 29 Dune Rats Forum Theatre September 29 Caligula’s Horse Max Watt’s September 30 Old Crow Medicine The Forum October 1 Teenage Bottlerocket Bendigo Hotel October 6 Lionel Richie & Chic Rod Laver Arena October 7 AJJ The Reverence October 7 Citizen Kay Northcote Social Club October 7 Alex Lahey Karova Lounge October 11, Workers Club Geelong October 12, Corner Hotel October 18 Mayday Parade 170 Russell October 13 Boney M The Palais October 14 Out On The Weekend Feat Justin Townes Earle, Son Volt, Traveller And More Seaworks, Williamstown October 14 Migos Hisense Arena October 15 Dillinger Escape Plan Corner Hotel October 19 Less Than Jake Prince Bandroom October 19 Northlane 170 Russell October 20 Swagger Music Festival Feat Kyle Lionhart, Josh Cashman, Didirri And More Wandiligong, Victoria October 20 – October 22 The Heartache State Caravan Club October 22 Sarah Mcleod Pelly Bar October 25, Sooki Lounge October 26, Karova Lounge October 27 Bernard Fanning The Croxton October 26 & 27 Pennywise Forum Theatre October 27 The Scientists Corner Hotel October 28 Sebastian Bach The Forum October 28 The Living End The Croxton October 28 Boo Seeka Sooki Lounge November 2, Karova November 3, Workers Club Geelong November 4, 170 Russell November 5 The Tea Party The Forum November 4 Supersuckers Evelyn Hotel November 4, Karova Lounge November 5 Midnight Oil Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 6 & 8 Melvins Gasometer November 6, Max Watt’s November 8 British India Karova Lounge November 9, 170 Russell November 10, The Wool Exchange November 11 The Stems Croxton Bandroom November 10 Tonight Alive Corner Hotel November 10 Mono Max Watt’s November 10 Kingswood Whalers November 10, Karova Lounge November 17, The Forum November 18 Live Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 11 Sad Grrrls Reverence Hotel November 11

Kyle Lionhairt Toff In Town November 11 Icehouse Palais Theatre November 17 Strawberry Fields Feat Yothu Yindi & Treaty Project, Cc:disco!, The Teskey Brothers Tocumwal Nsw November 17 – November 19 Sea N Sound Feat Jebediah, Shihad, Dallas Crane And More Frankston Park November 18 Peggy Gou Boney November 18 Acolyte Evelyn Hotel November 18 Glen Matlock Yarraville Club November 18, Barwon Club November 19 Vance Joy The Forum November 22 Miss May I Max Watt’s November 24 Peter Andre The Forum November 25 Queenscliff Music Festival Queenscliff, Vic November 24 – November 26 Mike Portnoy The Croxton November 25 Spilt Milk Festival Feat Lorde, Vance Joy, King Gizzard And More Commonwealth Park, Canberra November 25 Blackbear Howler November 26 Lorde Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 26 Cat Stevens Rod Laver Arena November 27 Sia Aami Park November 30 Culture Club Rod Laver Arena November 30 Harry Styles Forum Theatre November 30 Hopkins Creek Music Festival The Kulkurt Crater December 1 – 3 Icehouse Palais Theatre December 1 Paul Mccartney Aami Park December 5&6 J.Cole Margaret Court Arena December 6 Alt‑J Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 7 Tash Sultana Margaret Court Arena December 14 Kllo Corner Hotel December 15 Beyond The Valley Festival Lardner Park, Lardner December 28 2017 – January 1 2018 Nye On The Hill Festival The Farm, Wothaggi December 30 2017 – January 1 2018 Rise Against Margaret Court February 10 2018 Fanny Lumsden Spotted Mallard February 10 2018 50 Cent Melbourne Showgrounds February 10 2018 David Duchovny 170 Russell February 23 2018 Queen & Adam Lambert Rod Laver Arena March 2 2018 Fall Out Boy Margaret Court Arena March 3 2018 George Ezra The Forum March 7 2018 Bruno Mars Rod Laver Arena March 7 – March 8 2018 Ed Sheeran Etihad Stadium March 10 2018 The Butterfly Effect The Croxton March 10 2018 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Forum March 24 2018 Harry Styles Hisense Arena April 24 2018

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Levi’s Music Prize Plenty of music genres have a synonymous fashion. From pop to punk, disco to dubstep, there are certain styles that are almost as identifiable as the music itself. But few can hold a candle to Levi’s jeans. It’s fitting that the brand has teamed up with Bigsound and Sounds Australia to launch one of the biggest prizes out there. A $100,000 annual prize pool will be up for grabs for Bigsound alumni over the next three years.

We sat down with the prize’s creator, Levi’s Australia/ New Zealand marketing manager Nicky Rowsell to tell us more. “We’ve got Levi’s music initiatives around the world,” Roswell says. “One of which was partnering with Alicia Keys a couple of years ago to create the Levi’s Music Project, coming out of where she’s from in Brooklyn. We built and donated money to fostering music talent in the schools there, creating opportunities for students to have instruments and learn music in their curriculum.

“We’ve had initiatives in every country’s backyard. As a consequence, I created the Levi’s Music Prize wanting to give back to the Australian music industry, to foster our talent ± which is amazing, and I’m super proud of it ± and give it a voice on a global scale.

“It’s giving local artists a leg up to get their music heard at a festival, or recording with someone abroad, or bringing that producer to Australia. I think we bat well above our weight in producing

“Just because you have a tour or an EP, we still know a lot of musicians who have three jobs and still aren’t making a living from being a musician. It’s tough.” talent. So we partnered with Bigsound and Sounds Australia, because I felt they were the best music bodies for this export angle.”

This year, Bigsound is going to be featuring around 135 artists from across the country (and beyond) and as always, will expose these up and coming acts to a trove of international bookers, agents and tastemakers. In short, it’s an incredible chance to leave an impression on folks who can genuinely take your career to the next level, and the Levi’s Music Prize just made the deal that much sweeter.

“It’s $100,000 a year for the next three years, that’s a signed commitment. There will be twelve winners by the end, and if it goes well we’ll potentially continue on. There’s going to be four winners a year.

The first artist will come from this year’s Bigsound, which will be announced at the festival. That winner will be judged by the international panel of guests, as well as Bigsound, Sounds Australia and myself.

“Effectively, it will be the buzz band of the week.

Those festival bookers who have all flown in for the week, which band do they all want to put on their festival lineup? That will mostly be determined by the live performance element. Who kills it on stage at Bigsound during that week, because each band has the opportunity to play more than once this year.

We’ll be going to a lot of gigs,” Rowsell says.

“One prize winner will get $25,000. The other three winners will come from Bigsound alumni over the past five years. That could stem from say, Courtney Barnett or Kingswood, The Preatures, any number of bands who have performed there in that time. It’s a pretty heady array of artists, if you look back through the archives.

“They’ll submit an application form, giving a rough idea of how they would invest that $25,000 to achieve their creative project at that time. It might be to make a video, or get on a plane and go and meet a publicist in LA, or fly over a London producer, buy equipment. There’s no limit to what they can spend it on. It’s up to their imagination, their own specific creative project, and which artists we feel will be able to accomplish that if they are given that leg up.

“Just because you have a tour or an EP, we still know a lot of musicians who have three jobs and still aren’t making a living from being a musician.

It’s tough. So the prize is there to help with that.”

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