Beat 1592

Issue N o 1592

September 6 2017 Free

How The English Rockers Stole The World's Attention Stella Donnelly/Horace Bones/Malthouse Theatre/Happy Wanderer Festival

SECRET SOUNDS PRESENTS

THE 25TH ANNUAL MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL FLUME (NO SIDESHOWS) • FLEET FOXES • RUN THE JEWELS • THE KOOKS • GLASS ANIMALS (NO SIDESHOWS) PEKING DUK • ANGUS & JULIA STONE • FOSTER THE PEOPLE • LIAM GALLAGHER • VINCE STAPLES JUNGLE • DUNE RATS • THE SMITH STREET BAND • DRAM • DARYL BRAITHWAITE • EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ALLDAY • THE JUNGLE GIANTS • THUNDAMENTALS • METHYL ETHEL • SLUMBERJACK • D.D DUMBO • ANNA LUNOE DZ DEATHRAYS • CONFIDENCE MAN • JULIA JACKLIN • BAD//DREEMS • COSMO’S MIDNIGHT • WINSTON SURFSHIRT LUCA BRASI • ALEX LAHEY • CAMP COPE • FLINT EASTWOOD • ECCA VANDAL • DAVE • TOTAL GIOVANNI + PLUS LOADS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

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WEDNESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER - 7.30PM $8

SKYSCRAPER STAN

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DRAGGS

RHYSICS, DEPARTMENT FRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER - 8.30PM $10

SEASLOTH - LAUNCH & ART SHOW HARMONY BYRNE BAND, TRAPPIST AFTERLAND, PRIMM

SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER - 8.30PM $10

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SCHOOL DAMAGE, LIVING EYES SATURDAY ARVO - 4.00PM FREE

LACHLAN HICKS

JMS HARRISON, CASSIE MOLNAR SUNDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER - 8PM $8

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OPEN 2PM - 3AM EVERYDAY

THE BENDIGO

125 Johnston Street, Collingwood, VIC

wed, sept 6 - 8pm

SPLATTERPUSS Brainsnaps, Silence to Break thur, sept 7 - 8pm

DIRTY PYRO The lesser Giants, Hello Volume fri, sept 8 - 8pm

CINCO SAVAGE

Black Alpine, Cold Red Mute, Cosa Nostra, Holiday Park sat, sept 9 - 8pm

DIRECT HIT (USA) The Decline [WA], Foley, Yard Duty sun, sept 10 - 3pm

THE TORTURED ARTISTS

The Fergusons, The Highfliers mon, sept 11 - 3pm

I HATE MONDAYS cheap food & booze all night fri, sept 15 - 8pm

AMYL & THE SNIFFERS

DREGGS, GRINDHOUSE + MORE TBA

THE GLORY HOLE KITCHEN, NOW OPEN 3pm til late 6

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30TH ANNIVERSARY + BIG STAR’S ‘#1 RECORD’ 45TH ANNIVERSARY FT.

VAN WALKER, EVIL DICK + HEAPS MORE! 01/10 - SHONEN KNIFE JAPAN 03/10 - PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT UK - SELLING FAST 05/10 - WAFIA 06/10 - AGAINST THE CURRENT USA - SELLING FAST 07/10 - ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES USA - SOLD OUT 08/10 - ONE OK ROCK JAPAN - SOLD OUT 09/10 - ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES USA - SOLD OUT 12/10 - PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT UK - SOLD OUT 13/10 - PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT UK - SOLD OUT 14/10 - PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT UK - SOLD OUT 15/10 - SON VOLT USA

18/10 - ALEX LAHEY SELLING FAST 19/10 - THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN USA - SOLD OUT 20/10 - THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN USA - SOLD OUT 21/10 - SASKWATCH 22/10 - HMK SOUND SYSTEM FT. MISTA SAVONA 25/10 - THE KITE STRING TANGLE SELLING FAST 26/10 - THE BRONX USA - SELLING FAST 27/10 - THE KITE STRING TANGLE SOLD OUT 28/10 - THE SCIENTISTS 04/11 - BUSHMAN JAMAICA 05/11 - JAMES REYNE MATINEE - SELLING FAST 05/11 - SEVERED HEADS + SNOG SELLING FAST 06/11 - JAMES REYNE SOLD OUT 09/11 - THE BLACK SEEDS NZ 10/11 - TONIGHT ALIVE SELLING FAST 17/11 - WINSTON SURFSHIRT SELLING FAST 18/11 - THE AINTS PLAY THE SAINTS (’76-’78)

DON BROCO

PISSED JEANS

08/12

07/12

SELLING FAST

SELLING FAST

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX

PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT

SELLING FAST

SELLING FAST

POND

THE BRONX

UK

USA - 06/01

SELLING FAST

24/11 - DEAN LEWIS SELLING FAST 03/12 - FAT NICK USA 07/12 - PISSED JEANS USA 08/12 - DON BROCO UK 15/12 - KLLO 16/12 - PARADISE LOST UK 06/01 - CIGARETTES AFTER SEX USA - SELLING FAST 14/01 - FUTURE OF THE LEFT WALES 17/03 - BIG COUNTRY SCOTLAND PLUS HEAPS MORE AT WWW.CORNERHOTEL.COM

USA

UK - 03/10

USA

20/09

26/10 SELLING FAST

FUTURE OF THE LEFT

THE KITE STRING TANGLE

WALES - 14/01

25/10

SELLING FAST

ON SALE NOW VIA WWW.NORTHCOTESOCIALCLUB.COM AND 1300 724 867 301 HIGH ST, NORTHCOTE, 3070

SOLD OUT

PARCELS 09/01

JACK RIVER 09/09

SELLING FAST

07/09- JAKUBI

08/09- JAKUBI SELLING FAST

09/09- JACK RIVER SOLD OUT

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS 15/09 - THE HARPOONS SELLING FAST 16/09 - PVT SELLING FAST 18/09 -‘WIND IT UP’ WITH SPECIAL GUESTS 21/09 - CHERRY DOLLS 22/09- KARL S WILLIAMS 23/09- SAATSUMA 27/09- CARUS THOMPSON + LOREN 29/09- DONNY BENÉT 30/09- AMBER ISLES 01/10 - SAL KIMBER & THE ROLLIN’ WHEEL MATINEE 05/10- SONS OF THE EAST 11/09 -‘WIND IT UP’

SPIRAL STAIRS USA 06/12

CUSTARD 14/10

SELLING FAST

SOLD OUT

POLARIS 21/10

JAKUBI

07 & 08/09

SOLD OUT

THE SNOWDROPPERS 28/10

CITIZEN KAY 07/10

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Arts Guide

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Beat Eats Electronic Charts

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Hip Hop Metal Punk

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Nothing But Thieves

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Malthouse Theatre 2018

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Stella Donnelly Happy Wanderer Festival

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Nothing But Thieves grace the cover this week. They’ve stolen the attention of the world’s tastemakers, and now they’ve stolen our hearts too. Good on ‘em. We catch up with the Southend group to chat their meteoric rise, why they’ll be sticking to sad songs, and how they’ve grown together in a bold new direction since kicking things off as a bunch of rowdy teens. Elsewhere, we catch up with Stella Donnelly (who is one of my favourite Australian artists at the moment for what it’s worth) while checking out the chirpiest-named event in the country ± Happy Wanderer Festival.

The lineup boasts the likes of Didirri, Emi Day, Grace Turner, Hot Wings, Little Bee, The Senegambian Jazz Band, This Way North, China Beach, and heaps more. It’s well worth a look in as festival season proper approaches and we leave this dreary winter behind us. Capping it off comes a look at Malthouse Theatre’s stunning 2018 season and a chinwag with gothic punks Horace Bones. It’s a good week to live in Melbourne.

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Unify – A Heavy Music Gathering Unleash Their Behemoth Lineup Since inception UNIFY has been a sell-out success for heavy music lovers and their 2018 lineup offers a plethora of juggernaut-sized acts. The Friday delivers Parkway Drive, Architects, Tonight Alive, Four Year Strong, Behind Crimson Eyes, 50 Lions, With Confidence, Polaris, Knocked Loose, Belle Haven, Sienna Skies and Mirrors. Taking over Saturday will be The Amity Affliction, Hands Like Houses, Hellions, Stick To Your Guns, Knuckle Puck, Make Them Suffer, Being As An Ocean, Roam, Void of Vision, Cursed Earth, Young Lions, Outright, Introvert, Dear Seattle, The Beautiful Monument, Save The Clocktower and Arteries. UNIFY - A Heavy Music Gathering goes down from Friday January 12 to Sunday January 14 in Tarwin Lower, South Gippsland, Victoria. Tickets via the website.

Robbie Williams

Get your mum on the blower As a solo artist, Robbie Williams has sold over 77 million albums, and has six of the top 100 best-selling albums in British history. He’ll be hitting up arenas across the country for a run of dates, dubbed the Heavy Entertainment Show World Tour. “The Heavy Entertainment Show is every single moment on earth,” explains Williams. “We’re all part of the heavy entertainment show.” Catch Williams at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday February 24. Tickets via Chugg Entertainment.

Playing for Change Day

Polish Club

Hit the road with new EP Polish Club have been talked about a lot recently. Their debut album was in the ARIA Top 20, and their second album Alright Already was featured by triple j. The pair sold out 13 dates on their last national album tour, so fans can expect big things from their upcoming shows and EP. They’ll be accompanied throughout the tour by Adelaide grunge seven-piece West Thebarton.

DIET. will open the shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, while Stella Donnelly will open the Perth show. Polish Club will play in Melbourne at the Croxton Bandroom on Friday

Follow the music for a day of tunes

Get set for a day of chasing tunes as first class local talent traverses from venue to venue in an event that brings great music together for a great cause. Encompassing Damask, Baxter’s Lot, The Provincial Hotel, The Workers Club and Rum Diary Bar, acts include Ari Scott, Liam Bowditch, Tejo D’Cruz, Flashlight, and more. Raise funds, raise awareness and showcase local talent on Sunday September 24. Details via playingforchangeday.org.

The Maine

Unveil their national tour with Waterparks The Maine are coming downunder to showcase tracks from their newest album Lovely Little Lonely. The band’s last tour was in support of All Time Low, which attracted plenty of positive attention. The band has always placed importance on playing live shows, and has forged a large and loyal fan base over the years. Waterparks recently released their debut album Double Dare, which incorporates elements of jazz, hip hop, and electronic into a unique style of punk.

They were also named Best Breakthrough Act at the 2017 AltPress Music Awards. The Maine and Waterparks will play at the Corner Hotel on Friday February 2.

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Announces killer lineup REMI, Slum Sociable, Gabriella Cohen, GL and heaps more will come to the fore in this brilliant festival. As well as great music, the open air day event features two stages, live art and food trucks.

Plus, $5 from every ticket sold goes to HoMie, a Melbourne organisation that works to create pathways out of homelessness.

They’re also releasing special edition merch for the event. It’s organised by a team of students in collaboration with music industry professionals, guaranteeing fresh ideas from the new generation paired with world class event production. Copresents is on at RMIT’s city campus on Saturday November 11. Tickets go on sale Tuesday September 5 at 10am.

The Corner Awards Are Back For Their Second Year Celebrating the hard work of emerging artists, the nominees for 2017’s Corner Award include All Our Exes Live in Texas, Cable Ties, Habits, Jade Imagine and Stella Donnelly. Recipients of the award win a headline show at the Corner Hotel including production and promotion, 150 copies of a 7” vinyl single, $2,000, rehearsal time at Bakehouse Studios, $1,000 to put towards album artwork, two weeks’ worth of poster runs, 50 free t-shirts of their design and a full-page advertising package from us at Beat.

The full list of nominees is available on the Corner Award website.

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The Jamaican Music & Food Festival Is Bringing Fat Beats And Tasty Eats Following its inaugural sell-out event last year, the Jamaican Music & Food Festival returns to Melbourne. A melting pot of dancehall, ska, roots and dub artists over five stages, Jamaican reggae superstar Bushman and British-born artist Marvin Priest lead the lineup. As for food, you can expect bars serving Red Stripe and Rum Punch alongside over 20 authentic street food traders ± expect real jerk wings, curry goat, handmade roti, Ital (conscious vegetarian food) and refreshing coconuts. It all goes down at Seaworks on Sunday November 12. Tickets through jmff.com.au.

The Bronx

The Hills Are Alive

With their forthcoming show alongside Pennywise fast approaching, The Bronx have locked in a second headline show. Famous for leaving a trail of exhausted, boozy, sweaty and supremely satisfied bodies in their wake, The Bronx will be unleashing their brand of scuzzy punk in the lead up to their brand new album V, due out Friday September 22 via ATO Records. Joined by Sydney heavy hitters Bare Bones, they’ll hit The Corner on Thursday October 26. Tickets available via Eventbrite.

A decade ago, two brothers dreamed of turning their family dairy farm into a musical mecca. Now, with artists like Tash Sultana, Safia, Harts, Amy Shark and more having graced their home, the ten-year celebration has well and truly hit its stride. Last year’s installments boated the likes of Dope Lemon, Northeast Party House, Bec Sandridge, Flowertruck and more, raising the bar with each announcement. Details for the upcoming lineup are yet to be announced. The Hills Are Alive will go down from Friday March 23 - Sunday March 25, 2018 on The Farm in rural Victoria.

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returns Melbourne’s first dog-friendly music festival is back for its third installment following on from last year’s sell-out success. So far, two killer acts have been confirmed for the festival ± Lanks will be taking to the stage to deliver some blissful synth pop alongside the ever-dreamy Hayden Calnin, bridging the gap between folk and electronic music. All proceeds raised at Dogapalooza go to Oscar’s Law and Melbourne’s dog rescue groups including Stafford Rescue Victoria, Greyhound Rescue Victoria, Melbourne Animal Rescue and Puppy Tails Rescue. Head out to Dogapalooza on Sunday November 12 at Richmond’s Burnley Park.

Announcing they’ll celebrate 10 years in 2018

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Performing the music of

Star Wars Episode VII live The Star Wars saga has impacted both cinema and global culture with its mythic storytelling and imagination. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will present the exclusive Australian premiere of Star Wars: The Concert Series, performing the soundtrack to The Force Awakens live as the film plays overhead. Buoyed by legendary composer John Williams’ classic score, the special event will arrive just in time for the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It’s all going down on Friday December 8, Saturday December 9, and Sunday December 10 at The Palais Theatre. Tickets via Ticketmaster.

Todd Terje With The Olsens is Hitting Up The Forum As well as being a huge highlight on this year’s killer Meredith lineup, Todd Terje and his live band The Olsens will take to the stage in the wake of his latest single, Maskindans ± the first track to be taken from his sophomore LP. Terje had a breakthrough hit in 2014 with his record It’s Album Time! finding widespread acclaim and airplay, spawning the cult hit Inspector Norse. It all goes down at The Forum on Sunday December 10.

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Roger Waters The Pink Floyd Legend Is On His Way In what’s being billed as the “ultimate concert experience”, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will be bringing his immersive show to Australia. The Us + Them tour showcases highlights from Waters’ groundbreaking body of work, featuring songs from Pink Floyd’s greatest albums and new songs from Roger Waters’ latest album Is This the Life We Really Want?. The arena spectacular provides eye-popping visuals and state-of-the-art AV and sound ± arriving after months of meticulous planning and craft. Waters hits Rod Laver Arena on Saturday February 10 and Sunday February 11.

Tickets through Live Nation.

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Alison Wonderland’s WonderlandScarehouseProject has unveiled its full lineup, bringing a slew of heavy-hitters to some spooky farmland for a raging micro-festival. You’ll witness Wonderland herself, A$AP Ferg, Lido, Lunice, Young Franco, Manilla Killa, Antony & Cleopatra, and Haiku Hands ± while Californian party tastemakers Brownies & Lemonade host a WonderlandScarehouseProject stage. All international artists are exclusively attending for the never-before-used outdoor amphitheatres, barns and fields. It’s going down at a secret farm location near Melbourne on Saturday December 2. Final release tickets are selling fast. Get more details at WonderlandScarehouseProject.com.

Melbourne jazz/world fusion outfit Neon City Pilot have released their latest track, the driving afrobeat-inspired Anansi.

Since releasing their debut album Ghost Wings last year, the instrumental band have crossed over from their jazz club origins and created a brooding, intense Afro-Jazz dance track that features West African musicians Lamine Sonko and Kofi Kunkpe on vocals and percussion. With support from Bella Wolf and The Senegambian Jazz Band, Neon City Pilot will be launching the track as a 7-inch (along with B-side Fight Path) at the Workers Club on Saturday September 23. Tickets via Oztix.

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Celebrating the launch of their latest release

Clint Wilson

Celebrating new single Australiana folk artist Clint Wilson has recently unveiled his latest single, Don’t Stir Your Coffee If It’s Cold. Taking influence from the sounds of Paul Kelly and The Church, The song is about the long silences between two people whose relationship is breaking down, asking the simple question, “What are you thinking there in the silence?” Together with with Tina Nabb, Jess Mcmahon and Eddie Cole, Clint Wilson will officially launch Don’t Stir Your Coffee at Sookie Lounge on Sunday September 10.

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FOMO By Night Expanding to Melbourne

for the very first time in 2018 The much-lauded FOMO Festival is finding its way to Melbourne for an inaugural event. A slightly smaller but no less impressive event, the one-off evening edition FOMO by Night will feature Kaytranada, Post Malone, SZA, The Kite Stringle Tangle and more. The festival prides itself on having one stage and no timetable clashes, so you can be sure to catch all of these top notch acts with zero worries. FOMO By Night comes to Festival Hall in Melbourne on Thursday January 11. Head to the website for more info.

The Beautiful Girls

Announce 15th anniversary tour Since their first releases in 2002 and 2003, The Beautiful Girls have had multiple hit albums, ARIA and APRA nominations, and several international tours. The now experienced band will pay homage to their roots by touring their early songs, as well as other crowd favourites from their extensive catalogue, celebrating 15 years since their debut. They’ll be performing throughout summer ± the perfect time to showcase their surfy reggae sound that originally saw them gain such popularity. The Beautiful Girls play in Melbourne at the Corner Hotel on Saturday January 20.

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As leader of The Good Lords, Melbourne-based producer Billy Davis differs from other acts in the Australian music scene with a unique spin on hip hop. Non, Davis has shared his first album, A Family Portrait, featuring collaborations with Jace XL, Denzel Curry, and more. The debut has important personal significance for Davis, as he dedicates the record to his mother and late-father. Billy Davis and the Good Lords will launch A Family Portrait with support from KAIIT, Jace XL and Amin Payne at Max Watt’s on Saturday November 4. Tickets via Niche Productions.

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Is Beyonce in talks to do the next James Bond theme song?

Will Australia get Deezer’s new high-audio tier Deezer Hi Fi (previously Deezer Elite) by Christmas? It’s to be one of the first half a dozen countries to get it.

Is Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do not about Tay-Tay’s feuds with other musicians but about Arya Stark from Game of Thrones? Some folks with too much time on their hands went through the lyrics and found lines as, “I don’t like your tilted stage / The role you made me play/ Of the fool” and “I don’t like your kingdom keys / They once belonged to me” to be GoT references.

Speaking of Tay-Tay conspiracies, another is that her wearing diamonds in the bathtub in the video of the new single ± the sparklers were worth US$10 million, according to luxury brand Neil Lane who loaned it to her for the shoot ± was actually a sneering reference to Kim Kardashian’s robbery in Paris last October.

Will a current fan-activated petition to put a statue up of Flume in Sydney’s Manly Wharf be successful?

Dan Sultan was the darling of social media after his recent appearance on ABC-TV’s Q&A. Over the question of moving Australia Day, the all-white and mostly politicians panel trotted out the usual arguments about how a date change wouldn’t help the Indigenous community and how ‘Australians’ had a sentimental value for it. Sultan wasn’t having any of that. He served right back that if anything the day should be remembered as one “that started the ongoing genocide of our people.” He added, “(It) excludes us. It excludes anyone who has any type of sympathy or empathy towards our story which is a hell of a lot of Australians.

To call it Australia Day is wrong.”

It’s only right that the visionary David Bowie, who 15 years ago predicted the concept of ‘streaming’, has notched up one billion streams on Spotify.

Chris Cornell’s elder brother Peter has angrily lashed back at people posting theories on social media that the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman was murdered. He posted that these were “self-serving at best. When is enough enough? Hasn’t the time come for my brother to be allowed to rest in peace? Haven’t the children endured more than a child ever, ever, ever should?”

Sydney-based data collection company Jaxsta struck an important deal with the Grammys to put up on a website all the background information of winners and nominees for the 2018 event, as well as those from the past 59 years. It’s the first time that the Grammys have shared info with a third party, Ne Obliviscaris head off to North America playing 26 cities, starting on Wednesday November 1 in San Francisco and winding up on Monday December 4 in Santa Ana, California. They drop their Urn album on Friday October 27 via Season Of Mist.

So what’s with Facebook’s claim it reaches 2 million more 15-40 year old Australians than the actual population of Australia. When Ad News queried this, Facebook explained that its definition of audience reach depends on a measure of how many people are in a location at a given time rather than the resident population measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Reach estimates are measured by factors including Facebook user behaviour, user demographics and location data from devices.

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Will Radio Be Dead In Ten Years?

A new US study published by Musonomics warns that radio could be extinct in ten years, and offers some warning signs. As posted by Digital Music News, young listeners have fled (listening to AM/FM among under 18s freefell by almost 50% between 2005 to 2016). Spotify and YouTube is where they find new music, generation Z (born after 1995) prefers to hear music on streaming platforms, smart speaker playlist recommendations are replacing radio (70% of Americans say they listen to more audio since they bought smart speakers), car makers are abandoning terrestrial radio as their in-car entertainment. Larry Miller, director of New York University’s Steinhardt Music Business Program who did the study, explained why radio is falling behind in American homes. “[It] has not meaningfully invested in new programming or advanced digital services for smart speakers. The smart speaker train is leaving the station and it’s time for…broadcasters to get on board.”

Fast Track Gives O/S Opps For Managers, Label Execs

The Victorian Government, through its $22 million Music Works package continues to punch hardest of all the state markets for its local music industry. Its latest initiative is the Fast Track Fellowship which will allow two Victorian artist managers and two indie label owners the opportunity to spend at least two months with an overseas music company of their choice. The program is being delivered by the Association of Artist Managers (AAM) and the Association of Independent Record Labels (AIR) whose senior executives told Industrial Strength it would not only strengthen overseas relationships but is a way for the Aussies to become more competitive and smart, and give them different perspectives on tackling different markets.

Music Victoria Finishes Second Music Crawl

Music Victoria led the state government’s second Victorian Music Crawl last week through a three-day run through south eastern regional music venues. A bus full of managers, booking agents and artists visited 14 venues including pubs, a nightclub, festival sites, a winery, arts gallery and two community radio stations ± a ll of which got them on ABC news.

Mornington Peninsula Shire, Bass Coast Shire Council and South Gippsland Shire Council sponsored networking lunches, and discussed ways that they can support their local music communities. Music Victoria and the National Live Music Office are currently developing Live Music Action Plan templates to assist in this process. Creative Victoria also offered speed-dating sessions to local contemporary music industry and artists. According to Music Victoria, the first Crawl generated about $50,000 worth of new business in regional areas after 24 music biz reps saw 15 gigs, with a return of $5 for every $1 put into the Crawl. The next one will travel between Geelong, Bellarine Peninsula and Warrnambool and all points in between in February.

1.2 Billion View Tomorrowland’s Social Media Blitz

Not content with drawing 360,000 punters over two weekends and bands playing 16 stages, Belgium’s Tomorrowland is now claiming to be 2017’s biggest music event on social media. It had 1.2 billion views by 200 million unique fans on its website and app. Headliner Armin van Buuren said, “It’s an amazing feeling to know that while you’re getting goosebumps at the MainStage in Belgium, literally millions of people around the world are watching my performance, even organizing home parties and having an amazing time as well.”

New Signings #1: UNFD Go For Easy Life

UNFD’s latest signing is Shellharbour, NSW-based band Easy Life, whose new single I’m Fading Away was described by triple j’s Dom Alessio as a “powerful and thunderous; a stormy twist on melodic hardcore.”

New Signings #2: RVG Find Golden Friend

Melbourne outfit RVG have now signed with record label Our Golden Friend. It will reissue their debut album A Quality of Mercy (along with an album launch tour) which they selfreleased without a video, media release or band photo. It displayed how their heroes were The Go-Betweens, The Soft Boys and The Smiths. The band is fronted by Romy Vager who arrived in Melbourne from Adelaide as a teenage runaway with just her goth clothes and whose first band, the angstridden loud screaming Sooky La La routinely cleared rooms.

Vager lived above rehearsal room The Bank in Preston and soon teamed up with the other band members.

New Signings #3: UMPG Pacts James And Melinda Appleby

Universal Music Publishing Australia signed James & Melinda Appleby (of ARIA-winning Rough Traders who sold a total of one million albums) to a global deal. It also includes the duo’s current project Sioux City with Colombian/Uruguayan singer Caterina Torres.

Ed Sheeran Sets New Chart Record

Ed Sheeran set a new chart record in the U.S. Shape of You has spent the most weeks (33 weeks) in the Billboard Top Ten. Down the list at #7 with 26 weeks, is Australia’s Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply (1998). Closer to home, is Sheeran on his way to having the biggest attended Australian tour? Last week the WA government allowed an extra 15,000 tickets for the Perth show, which looms closer to Dire Straits’ 1986 record of about 900,000. But Robbie Williams just-announced tour, could be an issue as in 2006 he sold over 500,000 tickets and has become a bigger star here since.

New Music Director At Joy FM

Michael Polh is new Music Director at JOY 94.9 following the departure of Chris Jameson after eight years in the role. Polh is already familiar with listeners, as its Eurovision correspondent and host of Babble POP.

Angus Davidson Gains Global Role At KV2

Melbourne-based sound engineer and audio educator Angus Davidson, who’s worked with everyone including Supertramp and Crowded House, has joined V2 Audio as technical support director for Asia Pacific and North America.

Pardo Stepping Down At Arts Access

Arts Access Victoria (AAV)’s executive director of nine years, Veronica Pardo, is stepping down from the role at the end of the year. But she will stay on to finish off some projects associated with creative people with disabilities.

Fringe’s Preval Lands Darwin Gig

One time festival producer of Melbourne Fringe Felix Preval is appointed artistic director of the Darwin Festival for 2018-20.

He joined the festival last year as head of programming and was acting Artistic Director for this year.

Falls On Backup

Falls Lorne has a backup plan in case any of Mother Nature’s calamities strikes again, the Geelong Advertiser said. You’ll remember that in 2015 bushfire swept through the area, and promoters had to rush 16,500 patrons over to Mt Duneed Estate in Waurn Ponds, which became available thanks to A Day On The Green people. Ash Sounds Pty Ltd has applied for a permit to hold the festival on161-hectare farm in Winchelsea, as a stand-by. Meantime, Work Safe is ready to bring down its findings on the 2016 crowd-crush, which will be of great interest to the local legal firm which has reportedly signed up 70 patrons in a class action.

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Korean Film Festival

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The exhibition gives audiences the chance to encounter bioluminescent jellyfish, Anglerfish, Anomalocaris, Paracyclotosaurus, Dickinsonia, Plesiosaurus and Kronosaurus ± not exactly something you see every day. It’s the first 360-degree virtual reality puppetry show of its kind, created in collaboration by performing arts company Erth Visual & Physical Inc and visual artist Samantha Lang. Prehistoric VR runs Saturday September 23 till Sunday October 8 at ACMI. Best of all? It’s free.

Sixteen of the most innovative cinematic feats from ‘Hallyuwood’s’ top directors come to the fore in the film festival that celebrates the talent and diversity in genres of Korean film, from romance, comedy and drama to action, thriller and mystery. Dive deep into the culture and screen heroes of Korean culture when it takes over ACMI from Thursday September 7 Thursday September 14.

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In the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, a struggling Puerto Rican family brace for the mother of all storms. Unable to move her teenage daughter Candace who cannot move or breathe on her own - from their crumbling terrace, Evelyn fights to keep the electricity flowing to her daughter’s respirator. Tuesday September 12 - Sunday September 17.

Explore the world of notated music in all its guises and discover the history of how it came to be today. You’ll find visual representations of music from the standard Western format we know today to abstract forms and cross disciplinary efforts. Catch it at at the Ian Potter Museum of Art until November 5.

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.

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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. Catch John Dore, Rob Caruana, Tessa Ryan, Nicky Barry and more. Plus, the next contestants in their ‘Are You Funnier Than George’ competition.

Thursday September 7.

Club Voltaire Comedy 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. Club Voltaire, 14 Raglan St, North Melbourne, 7.30pm.

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NGV’s Dior Exhibition I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know much about fashion. Particularly hautecouture, clothing-as-art, capital ‘F’ Fashion. Perhaps it was the free cocktails on offer that buoyed my attention, but I was determined to see what all the fuss was about, and if I ± a man whose favourite jacket was found inside a shed in country Victoria and still hasn’t been washed since last Meredith ± could ‘get’ this whole clothing in the gallery thing.

As you enter the space, the first thing you’ll notice is how well the NGV has been transformed. Carpet lines the floor, surrounded by crisp grey walls with French provincial design flourishes. The result? A self-contained world within a gallery where you’re ensconced within the vision of designers, textiles, colour and movement. It’s a nice space to be in, and it all feels very welcoming. So far, so good.

As an exhibition, The House of Dior tracks the illustrious fashion house’s journey through the ages. As politics

and societal expectations changed, so too do the designs. From sprawling ball gowns of the ‘40s to the introduction of European designs into Australia ± it’s fascinating to correlate the rapidly changing culture of the 20th and 21st century with alterations in design.

Moreover, I was genuinely surprised at how engrossing that was to explore. Like all art, fashion is a conversation. It ebbs and flows, quite literally chopping and changing to reflect change around the time of its creation. Perhaps I was swept up in complimentary champagne, but the truth is I was genuinely intrigued by it all.

On to a more literal note. You’ve not seen greens, reds, and yellows like this.

For me, it was the most exciting part of this exhibition. The materials used had a richness and depth to their colour that was just as enjoyable to bask in as any other painting that’s hung in the NGV. It’s not a particularly insightful thought, but it’s the truth.

silver screen Presented by Palace, the 18th Lavazza Italian Film Festival (LIFF) screens nationally in September, showcasing a huge program of Italian cinema including the Opening Night Gala screening of Let Yourself Go, the Closing Night film Life is Beautiful, and special guest appearances by festival ambassador Greta Scacchi. It runs from September 14 - October 8.

- 5 Complimentary Champagnes out of 5 By the time my sister was pointing out Miranda Kerr’s wedding dress, I was sold on this exhibition. I studied its intricate stitching and finely sewn hem.

I asked my sister if she thought the veil was too much. I was invested in this now, and there was no turning back. It dawned on me ± you don’t need to understand fashion to appreciate it. Because great art can always be appreciated on a base, universal level. World class design and craftsmanship can be appreciated no matter the medium. That’s what makes it world class.

All in all, give this exhibition a crack ± even if you don’t think it’s for you. You might just surprise yourself.

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Charts

Record Paradise Top Ten 1. Pleasure Maps, The Sand Pebbles 2. Staring At You Staring At Me, Underground Lovers 3. A Deeper Understanding, The War On Drugs 4. Drum, Gold Class 5. In Time, Time For Dreams 6. Villains, Queens Of The Stone Age 7. Beast Epic, Iron And Wine 8. Good, The Stevens 9. Weather Diaries, Ride 10. Girlhood, The Preatures

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Beat Eats

I can see it already. You’ve just finished work and you’re dying for a knock-off. It’s spring at last, and for once you’re leaving work with part of the day yet-lived. You head straight out, for just one, maybe two? Then, before you know it, you’re shimmying on the dancefloor having the time of your bloody life. But hey, what ever happened to dinner? You’ve totally missed it. You’re now at the club with a tummy grumble louder than the bass. Ahhh that’s right, you live in Melbourne you quickly remember, and whether you’re at a dingy pub or classy club, the chefs of our city never cease to cook you up something incredible. Here are some of Melbourne’s best restaurants, in some of Melbourne’s best clubs.

Boney’s newest food offering has to be my first mention.

Partly because I thoroughly enjoy dancing upstairs and only a few stairs down, there’s a chiller vibe of a different enjoyment all together. Partly because their food is great quality, and partly

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Electronic

Skatebård

After almost four years, this Friday respected international online magazine Resident Advisor return home to Australia for party hosting duties alongside local boutique events agency Bizarro, pairing two talented and like minded DJs together for all-night back-to-back sessions. In one corner is Skatebård, one of Norway’s most respected and wellloved disco and house artists, while in the other is Dutchborn Duijn, a DJ with a reputation as one of the most enthralling selectors around. She’s played prestigious events like Freerotation, as well as landing a residency at the mighty Tresor in Berlin. It’s going down at Northcote’s 24 Moons, there’s still a few final release tickets left but get in quick.

Heartland Records Top Ten 1. Beast Epic LP, Iron & Wine 2. 30 Seconds LP, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon 3. American Stars & Bars LP, Neil Young 4. Dark Fat LP, Box Nurse With Wound 5. Passion 3LP, Peter Gabriel 6. E(A)rnest LP, Kim Salmon 7. Bad For You Baby LP, Gary Moore 8. Supershitty Pic Disc, Hellacopters 9. Born Again LP, Notorious B.I.G. 10. Rising Force LP, Yngwie Malmsteen

PBS FM Top Ten 1. Okovi, Zola Jesus 2. Bicep, Bicep 3. À L’état Brut, Papaphilia 4. Choke, Neck Grip 5. Replica Town, Max Kohane & Alex Macfarlane 6. Lost Time, Escape Artist 7. The Dream, Widowspeak 8. Elevate EP, 30/70 9. The Source, Tony Allen 10. Every Country’s Sun, Mogwai

Scuba

because I genuinely like being in there. Plus, their new menu (prepared by their restaurant next door, Magic Mountain) doesn’t let down expectations. Using only organic produce, the menu takes a twist on Thai cuisine offering rarities like Red Curry Macaroni & Cheese, Egg & Bacon Sandwich and Crunchy Fried Chicken Ribs. Personally, I’m drawn to their Chilli Pork Ribs as I do believe Thai do pork exceptionally well.

A side of Green Papaya Coleslaw is an essential refreshment to complement any Thai meal.

Moving down a few blocks you’ll find Cookie in the iconic Curtin House. I won’t go on too much about what a Curtin house experience entails (I’d be shocked if a Melburnian hadn’t experienced one already) but I will say if you haven’t stopped at Cookie on level two then you haven’t lived a whole one. The gorgeous restaurant, which looks over Swanston Street, boasts a tasteful menu with powerful flavours. It’s full of options and

Also on Friday in the city, Smalltown is back at Brown Alley, this time hosting UK house, techno and everything inbetween legend Scuba. Since 2003, Paul Rose ± better known to the world as techno maverick Scuba ± and his Hotflush imprint have shaped the direction of the electronic scene’s bass-heavy landscape more than most. Starting with the underground garage sound that became dubstep, and gradually teasing its dark, bass-heavy sonics through abstract electronica, jacking house and cavernous techno, they’re the underground tastemakers behind era-defining club smashes like Joy Orbison’s Hyph Myngo and 2013’s Untitled, the ubiquitous piano house banger by Paul Woolford. They also launched the careers of innovators as diverse as Mount Kimbie, George FitzGerald, and Sepalcure. Kicks off at 10pm and local support comes from U-Khan, Adrian Bell, Walter Juan, Jani, Paul Lynch, Stefan Mac, Traj and Eric Stark.

SYN FM Top Ten 1. Medicine, Peter Bibby 2. Postcards (feat. Jace XL), Billy Davis 3. Pure, October 4. Chasin’, Cub Sport 5. Killer Bees, Demon Days 6. You’re Dreaming, Wolf Parade 7. Provider, Frank Ocean 8. Nothing, Common Holly 9. Fantasy Prison, Andrew Applepie 10. Pain, The War On Drugs

Beat’s Top Ten Acts To Catch At Bigsound 1. Billy Davis & The Good Lords 2. Belle Haven 3. Machine Age 4. Stella Donnelly 5. Waax 6. Alexander Biggs 7. Alex The Astronaut 8. Caiti Baker 9. Clowns 10. Manu Crook$

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everything’s exceptional, although my go-to would be the Green Curry (I know it’s cliché but it’s the best I’ve had) that comes with Chicken and Corn Dumplings, the Banana Leaf Barramundi Fillets in Red Curry or the Pork Platter. Enjoy your meal on the balcony before you move on up to The Toff in Town, and you’re set for a ripper night.

Now just a river cross away (relax it’s not that far), you’ll find Colonel Tan’s AKA Revolver’s restaurant before it becomes Revolver ± which is incredible and never ceases to surprise everyone. You might realise I’ve stuck to Thai restaurants throughout and that’s because I find it the perfect cuisine for a fun night out. There’s not much to be said about Revolver other than it’s ridiculously good. And the food? Ridiculously good also.

My favourite dish is the Stir Fried Chinese Broccoli & Pork Belly, or the Corn, Pea and Egg Fried Rice. If you’re after a burger, the Five Spice Chicken is perfect.

Brooke Powers

Friday’s also got Hugs&Kisses in action with a party called High Voltage featuring local house and techno friends DJ Jnett, Faux Pas Noir, Truman Ketapote and Common Nocturne. Not a bad way to spend a night.

On Saturday Brooke Powers is throwing down at the new club on City Road, Xe54. Mostly positive reviews of the new joint so far, havent been myself yet.

Over at the Sub Club on Saturday, Tech/No/Ise are chucking their sixth party and first birthday. Along for the ride is Rolling Mass launching their Prime Unity EP, Harold, Consoles, Jaala vs Man, Hyde, A/N (debut live show), Lara Kills and Baba Sib with Olivio Olivio on projections.

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Hip Hop

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Punk

Metal

The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die Action Bronson

There’s a long list of new music to check out this week, with a bunch of local and international artists releasing albums.

New Yorkers A$AP Mob have dropped their second studio album Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy, a crazy collaborative effort with features by RZA, Frank Ocean, Chief Keef and Quavo to name a few. At long last Action Bronson released his album Blue Chips 7000, while Lil Uzi Vert dropped the longawaited Luv is Rage 2, and who could forget about rising star XXXTentacion who released his debut album 17.

Midwest-emo revivalists The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die have announced the release of their third full-length. Entitled Always Foreign, the record will follow up 2015’s well-received Harmlessness. “When we started writing we were fresh off Trump being elected, so there’s an anger to the album that’s different from what we’ve done in the past,” says frontman David Bello. “There’s a lot more resistance thinking throughout the songs ± not in a way that’s strictly anti-Trump, but also addressing things like white supremacy and controlling elements of the state.” Always Foreign is due for release on Friday September 29 via Epitaph Records.

Mastodon

Mastodon are releasing an EP this year ± just months after the release of Emperor Of Sand ± because what’s the point of sleeping anyway? Cold Dark Place is a four-song EP featuring three songs recorded during the Once More ‘Round the Sun sessions, and one recorded during Emperor of Sand. The first single, Toe To Toe, has just been released. This one is largely driven by Brent Hinds, who says, “I wrote some pretty dark, beautiful, spooky, funky, ethereal, melancholy music, which also sounds like the Bee Gees a little bit.” It’s out on Friday September 22.

All Pigs Must Die

Citizen Kay

Locally, there have been a number of phenomenal releases over the last week. It’s been two years since Citizen Kay unveiled his first studio album With the People. Since its release, the charismatic Canberra rapper has risen to the top of the ranks and become a leader in the ever-changing eclectic Australian hip hop scene. He signed with Illy’s ONETWO label earlier this year and has just released his sophomore album Belly of the Beast. The 12-track delight blends R&B influences with traditional hip hop beats to create the rapper’s inimitable fresh sound. Citizen Kay will take off on his national Belly of the Beast tour later this month, performing at Northcote Social Club on Saturday October 7.

Tony MacAlpine

Metallic hardcore noisemakers All Pigs Must Die, featuring members of Converge and The Hope Conspiracy, have announced the upcoming release of their third studio album. Entitled Hostage Animal, the record will follow up 2013’s Nothing Violates This Nature. Although details are minimal at this time, the record will be released on Friday October 27 on Southern Lord.

Tony MacAlpine is a progressive-metal god. Check out his ‘80s and ‘90s albums and you’ll find them way ahead of their time, MacAlpine has never stopped searching for crushing new sounds. He was all set to tour Australia for Thump Music in 2015 when he was diagnosed with cancer, but now he’s back in the studio and heading out on the road in the States, so hopefully we’ll see him in Australia at some point. He’s just released Death Of Roses, a seven-track album which is the first in a projected two-part release.

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Melbourne hip hop, funk artist Billy Davis has gifted us with his deeply personal debut album A Family Portrait. With his band The Good Lords and a little help from long-time collaborator Tentendo, Billy Davis has created a musical memento that will take you on a journey from start to finish.

The project is dedicated to this mother and late-father, and pays tribute to the artist’s newfound musical family. Featuring appearances from US rapper Denzel Curry, Jace XL, Hvncoq, Cazeaux O.S.L.O and Mrs Davis, the 14-track album bursts with emotion through smooth jams, glorious melodies and heartfelt hooks. To celebrate the release, Billy Davis and The Good Lords will perform a special launch show at Max Watt’s on Saturday November 4.

The first ever Hip Hop Exchange will take place next year. The program involves sending a New York artist to tour Australia, performing live shows and engaging in workshops, and upon conclusion an Australian artist will travel to New York to repeat the process. To help fundraise for the event and raise awareness, a night of live hip hop will take place at the Gasometer Hotel on Thursday October 5. The lineup includes local acts Mose + The Fmly, Dex, Zhane White and Sophiegrophy. Show your support for the scene and buy your tickets today.

Madball

Fast Break Records have announced the upcoming release of a split 7” from hardcore legends Madball and Wisdom in Chains. Speaking on the band’s featured track For the Cause, Madball frontman Freddy Cricien explains, “It’s about staying the course and fighting for what you love and are passionate about.

It’s a theme that you’ll hear a lot throughout our next album.

Utilizing negativity and the obstacles you face as inspiration.”

With the record to be released on Monday September 25, preorders are available now from Nuclear Blast.

Reformed Toronto hardcore icons No Warning, featuring Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook on vocals, have announced the upcoming release of a third studio album, their first since 2004’s Suffer, Survive. “We have attempted to express the condition of the human mind that is an outcome of being brainwashed by corporate controlled social media, through a modern and classic feeling hardcore album. We’re trying to manifest that torturous feeling; that in a time like this even if you want to look away you can’t escape the propagandized media, especially amidst the thick of an overpopulated garbage pumping world.” Entitled Torture Culture, the new record will be out Friday October 13 on Bad Actors Inc.

Melbourne, do you know how fortunate we are to have Cherry Bar? It feels to me like a spiritual sibling to Brisbane’s Tym Guitars. Tym is a musical instrument and record store that builds guitars and stompboxes and is known as a social hub for the dirtier, fuzzier corners of the music world, and Cherry feels like the bar equivalent. Case in point, Fuzzfest 17. It’s a two-day festival of, in Cherry’s words, “Heavy rock mixed with stoner jams; with a touch of psych sojourns, lapped with doom nightmares.” Acts include Peeping Tom, Fluff, Dr Colossus, Redro Rodriguez & His Inner Demons and Dune Eater on Friday September 22, and Front End Loader, FTFDS, The Devil Rock Four, Don Fernando, River Of Snakes, Two Headed Dog, A Gazillion Angry Mexicans, Los Labios, El Colosso, A Basket Of Mammoths, Field, Moondogz, Meathook and Evil Twin on Saturday September 23.

Those crazy bastards Contrive ± brothers Paul and Andrew Haug ± have just released their new album, Slow Dissolve, which they unveiled by playing it in full at an album launch in Melbourne last week, marking the first time they’ve played in three years and the first time ever that they’ve played as a duo.

Musically the record finds the lads reinvigorated and reborn as a two-piece metal machine mixing modern production and electronic effects with old-school metal crunch. There’s a video for the song Connect-Dead on YouTube now.

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With a handle like Nothing But Thieves you could be forgiven for expecting a bunch of marauding pirates, but the band’s frontman – the softly spoken, considered Conor Mason – is anything but, being more up for a quiet one than a night on the tiles.

With a voice and range often ± and fairly ± compared with the likes of Jeff Buckley, the classically-trained singer is sensible when it comes to protecting his tool of trade.

“When we first started, we were about 18, 19, and I thought it was the kind of life where I could drink, go out and go mad, but I quickly learned I couldn’t,” he says. “When we were rehearsing for our first album, I came in really hungover and I couldn’t sing. Our producer was like, ‘Are you mad? Well, now you’ve learned your lesson.’

“Ever since, I’ve looked after myself as well as I can. I exercise regularly, sleep as much as I can, and drink lots of water. I know I can stretch my voice, but I need it to be on point every time. But the other guys are at the complete opposite end. They’ll be out partying and destroying their lives.”

Formed in 2012, the UK-based outfit knew each other from school and around the traps. Guitarist Joe Langridge-Brown was a couple of years ahead of Mason at school and both had been in bands since they were about 12. Guitarist and keyboardist Dominic Craik ditched the high school across the road to join Mason, because his school didn’t have a music program, and the two became best mates.

Officially though, Nothing But Thieves only became a unit after Langridge-Brown hit university and Mason was approached by managers with the invitation to start a band. With Craik naturally in, Mason gave Langridge-Brown a shout, and rounded out the band by poaching bassist Philip Blake and drummer James Price from other local bands. “It’s all been closely connected,” Mason says. “In fact, Phil our bassist is Dom’s cousin. It’s all a bit incestuous.”

In the early days, the band holed up in Craik’s garage to nut out tunes. Subsequently, they had the chance to hone their craft in the States under the watchful eye of pros. “We learned loads of different lessons,” Mason says. “Part of it is that there’s no set way of doing it. When we were in Nashville, we were working with country writers who had a formula based around an ending lyric, which then becomes the title of the song. They base the chorus on that, and there are set verses: pre chorus, chorus, middle eight, ending. It’s a standard-format writing, and so many country songs follow that pattern. We learned that and it wasn’t something we particularly enjoyed.

It was too formulaic, too set ± l ike a business.

“But then we went to New York and did some stuff with hip hop writers and that was completely different. Nothing set, just hooks and rhymes and

doing what works best. Then we went to LA and we wrote in more of an acoustic setting. We learned so much that we could take on board and use in our own writing, with so many different starting points.”

Since then, the band has toured repeatedly with the likes of Muse (in fact, Muse have them slated to support them again on their Oz tour in December), and they’ve played Glastonbury twice, something which Mason described not too long ago as a pipe dream. “It’s insane, isn’t it?” he reflects.

Amid frenetic touring, the band has also recorded an eagerly anticipated second album, Broken Machine. Written primarily while the band was on the road, Broken Machine has the hallmarks of an alt classic. It’s quite a sad listen with lashings of longing and regret. “We’re not morbid, but generally we do write songs that are a little bit more on the sad side,” Mason says.

“That said, the album does have an uplifting undertone. The title, Broken Machine, encompasses the whole idea of a system with flaws. Things can give the impression of perfection on the surface but underneath they have cracks and crevices. That sums up the idea of mental health, politics, religion or love.

It’s a study of those things. But in some songs there’s a message of hope. We always have a silver lining.”

The band’s next goal is playing arenas and headlining their own shows. Given their fans’ levels of devotion, it’s definitely on the cards ± punters are getting inked with the Nothing But Thieves symbol, travelling crazy distances to catch a glimpse of the band at in-store appearances, and (according to the band’s Facebook feed) threatening to “die in the middle of the crowd if you guys play Lover, Please Stay.” It’s crept up on Mason unawares, but he’s digging it.

“I always remember when I was at school and there were kids with band names all over their notebooks. That really inspired me. I thought, ‘I’d love to be in a band that was over people’s notebooks.’

“About a year ago, we went back to my school to do a little video of where we grew up and this kid came out and said, ‘Oh, I’m going to your show next week,’ and he showed me his workbook with our band on it and I was like, ‘That’s awesome.’ ”

“We’re not morbid, but generally we do write songs that are a little bit more on the sad side.”

Nothing But Thieves will take over Ding Dong Lounge on Wednesday January 27 and support Muse at Rod Laver Arena on Monday December 18. Broken Machine is out Friday September 8 via RCA.

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Arts Feature

Malthouse Theatre’s 2018 Season

By Meg Crawford Bliss

Going Down

Following this year’s programme of sexy, disruptive theatre as provocateur, next year’s theatrical feast promises more of the same.

As the youngest dude to ever sit at Malthouse Theatre’s helm, Matthew Sutton is cementing his reputation as enfant terrible programming yet another year of works set to challenge, shock and awe audiences in 2018. Even though the program promises some lighter relief (even if it’s in the form of a musical about cancer), it’s pretty dark at first blush.

“It’s probably got more extremities,” qualifies Lutton. “There’s one or two works that are dark in the fact that they look at controversial topics or parts of the world that we want to look away from, or offer hope, even though they’re looking at a world that’s in trouble. But in many ways, there’s also more comedy.

A lot of the new writing are works that use comedy as their primary tool to talk about ideas, but the works that are darker are darker.”

Indeed, late UK scribe Sarah Kane’s work Blasted fits squarely within the latter description. The play, which incorporates atrocities ranging from rape to an ex-soldier sucking out one of the protagonist’s eyes, was first performed in the ’90s and had critics shrill in their outrage. Later, many recanted (especially after Kane committed suicide), hailing it as a morally significant statement about war. Undoubtedly, its content is shocking, but it’s also a punchy way to bring certain unpalatable realities closer to home and is still horrifyingly relevant.

“A play like Blasted can be confronting for an audience,” Lutton concedes. “But it’s confronting

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because it’s asking you to look at atrocities and violence in the world that we shy away from looking at. For those of us who aren’t in a war zone, we can have a sense of the violence being played out from afar and therefore have a detached way of talking about it. This play explores what happens when that distance is removed and you’re suddenly in that situation.”

At the opposite end of the spectrum comes The Pacifists Guide to the War on Cancer, the said cancer musical by Bryony Kimmings, which explores everything from the combative language around the topic to the phenomenon of pink ribboning and the inevitable wrestling with body image. That said, it begs a question around whether people, especially those who’ve never suffered cancer, can laugh about the big C without guilt.

“Bryony’s aiming to make a musical that can engage with people, like some of the people she’s making the work with who are serial cancer survivors, but also with those who have not had cancer but had family members or close ones with cancer and are still in the circle of people that cancer influences and affects,” Lutton explains. “She’s aiming to bring a lot of honest observations around those experiences, but do it in a way that’s still entertaining. It’s not making fun of or parodying cancer at all, but trying to look at it from a different point of view: humour allows you to see things from a side angle.”

Then, there are the works which fit somewhere

in between, like Lutton’s take on Peter Carey’s Aussie classic Bliss, the tale of beleaguered ad-man Harry Joy who’s revived after a heart attack only to find himself in his own personal version of hell.

The play comes about as part of Lutton’s ambitious project, which sees him diving into Oz lit in order to build a new canon of Australian theatrical works.

“You could pick many of Peter Carey’s novels, but I find Bliss very theatrical because it has at its centre a raconteur, a storyteller; someone who is just brilliant at making up new myths,” Lutton explains of the choice. “There’s someone on stage who keeps talking to the audience and who enlists the audience to spy on other cast members thinking they’re all actors in hell. I also love that it’s a piece set in the ’80s and looking at it thirty years on and asking what has changed. Carey wrote the story in a time that predates many of the big social and economic issues that are pressing today, but somehow Harry Joy seems to anticipate them.”

“Humour allows you to see things from a side angle.”

Malthouse Theatre’s 2018 Season Passes are on sale now, visit malthousetheatre. com.au for more information.

Interviews

Stella Donnelly Emerging Perth musician Stella Donnelly doesn’t have her sights set on conquering the world.

Instead she prefers to remain grounded and appreciative of the opportunities that have come her way off the back of the curiously titled debut EP Thrush Metal.

While Donnelly has become a name that’s generating a lot of buzz, it’s certainly not the reason why she’s making music in the first place.

Her solo venture hasn’t been part of a greater plan other than to track some of her own songs, having spent the last few years playing in the band Boat Show. “I wasn’t even expecting to get any attention from the EP, it was just so lo-fi and so raw,” she says. “It was just meant to be a really good experience and everything that’s come out of it has just happened.”

While most solo projects have a backing band in tow, Donnelly has instead chosen to play her first national tour completely solo. “It’ll just be me on stage for now.

It’s simple and it’s enough for me at the moment. I’d like to maybe get a band together one day.”

When asked how she feels being completely exposed on stage, Donnelly is honest about the conflicting emotions she experiences. “It can be really overwhelming sometimes. You never know what sort of response you’re going to get. You’re putting yourself up on the chopping block, but it’s thrilling at the same time.”

Announced as one of the artists on the Queenscliff Music Festival lineup, Donnelly confesses she found out about the offer to play while sneakily checking her phone at work. “I was behind the toaster where I can hide my phone, making a toasted sandwich. I quickly open my phone and there’s an offer for Queenscliff. Meanwhile I’ve got Barry waiting for his mustard and cheese toastie which I’ve taken too long to make.

“It’s this weird juxtaposition. It’s like this is my real life but there’s all this other crazy shit happening as well.”

“It can be really overwhelming sometimes. You never know what sort of response you’re going to get.

You’re putting yourself up on the chopping block, but it’s thrilling at the same time.”

Donnelly plans to work on some new material prior to the festival in the hopes of making some progress with her follow-up EP. “I’m going to be in Melbourne for a month before that doing some recording. My partner Jordan who produced the last EP is going to come over and we’re going to do Queenscliff together.

“It’s the perfect festival. We’ve got a festival called Fairbridge out in WA and it’s the same kind of vibe ± all ages, really beautiful environment to play in.”

Donnelly is particularly excited to head to Queenscliff to see acts such as Nai Palm and Yothu Yindi, admitting to being a big fan of the former. “I saw Nai Palm in a hotel lobby in Hobart once and I had to run away because I was so starstruck.”

Donnelly is also opening for the likes of Alex Lahey and Ali Barter in the coming months, admitting she’ll be feeling perpetually star struck. “I get to meet all these incredible, powerful musicians, I’m really pumped.”

Donnelly is quick to confess the attention she’s been receiving has felt incredibly surreal. “I’ve

got a classic case of imposter syndrome. I feel like everything that keeps happening is happening to someone else and not me.

“It’s something I need to get over because I want to be able to enjoy this because it could all be over in a month’s time. I want to work on how I process everything because at the moment I’m a scared little fish.”

As for what the future holds, Donnelly is remarkably realistic. “I’m not going to put too much pressure on myself in terms of a timeline. I know that I definitely want to have something out next year. I’ve got songs up my sleeve that I want to put out, it’s just a matter of how to put that out.

“If I relax and remember that I’m a very privileged woman it helps me to put it all into perspective. I’m not trying to be this profound wise guru but I think I have to keep checking in and remember that I’m really lucky. We all have to do that.”

Stella Donnelly will be part of Queenscliff Music Festival, taking place from Friday November 24 until Sunday November 26. Thrush Metal is out now.

By Holly Pereira

Happy Wanderer Festival The genesis of the Happy Wanderer Festival in Benalla could have come from a script by English playwright Stephen Poliakoff.

When he was a child, Mark Foletta and his sister came across photos of the Yin Barun Beer and Wine Festival held on their parents’ farm in the ‘70s. The images stayed in Foletta’s subconscious as he travelled through the United States, Canada and Japan. One day, Foletta showed pictures of the festival to Bodin Campbell, the so-called ‘rough housemate’ who was staying on Foletta’s farm.

Campbell’s response was immediate. “Why don’t you have a festival here again?’

And so the Happy Wanderer Festival was born. “We had literally no idea what was involved in organising a festival. It’s not an easy task, as it turns out,” Campbell says dryly on the phone from Benalla, where he, Foletta and a tribe of volunteers are preparing for the next Happy Wanderer Festival.

“We were naïve and very optimistic. I think the thing that got us through is that it wasn’t just us who were optimistic. There were a whole lot of people who wanted to help to make it happen.”

Situated on the Foletta family farm, the Happy Wanderer Festival, which takes its name from the weed found regularly on the property, is now into its fifth year. The three-day festival features bands and local produce, and even ‘wandering tours’ in which Foletta takes a group of festival patrons across the farm, showing them the agriculture grown on the property.

The first festival was organised in six weeks, with Foletta and Campbell realising rapidly what was involved in putting together a festival ± including the importance of working closely with local government and fire protection agencies. “We

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came to them so late that they must have thought we were complete jokers, and rightly so,” Campbell laughs. “But now we have this amazing working relationship, and the Happy Wanderer Festival is part of the local tourist promotion for the Benalla Tourist Festival that happens around the same time.”

Like its 1970s antecedent, The Happy Wanderer Festival is about community. There are good bands, good food and good vibes. “On the farm there’s a whole lot of stuff that’s grown. Mark grows these beautiful pumpkins and wine. The pumpkins are given to the food stalls [volunteers are also plied with Foletta’s homemade pumpkin soup to keep up their stamina] and the wine that’s sold comes from grapes that Mark grows on the farm,” Campbell says.

The original idea of the festival in the ‘70s was to bring together people from the local region. Musical performance was limited. “They had a lot of activities and competitions, like the slippery log contest,” Campbell says. “But I don’t think they had a lot of bands. In my mind, there’s a bunch of Toranas with the volume of the stereos turned up really loud.”

By contrast, music is now an intrinsic part of Happy Wanderer. The festival draws upon a network of local artists and musicians keen to come along and

play at the event. “One of the hardest things is saying no to people who want to come back,” says Jarrah Bassal, one of the festival’s three directors and longtime volunteer at the festival. “We’re always looking for a diverse range of music, and up and coming talent.”

This year’s festival is headlined by Immigrant Union, and features everything from roots/rock (The Woodland Hunters), to folk (Didirri, Grace Turner, Mandy Connell), to garage rock (Hollie Joyce), to hip hop (Echo Drama). The festival put the hard word on African jazz band The Senegambian Jazz Band to play. The group wasn’t enticed by the promise of Foletta’s organic wine, but was excited by the prospect of non-alcoholic ginger beer brewed on premises. “So that’s what got them over the line,” Campbell laughs.

Foletta’s father wasn’t initially enthusiastic about the Happy Wanderer Festival. But Ian Foletta gradually came around to the idea, and is now one of the festival’s strongest supporters. “Last year after we cleaned up, Ian decided to do a last check around to see if there was any rubbish left over. All he found was a scrunched up ten dollar note,” Campbell says.

“We came to them so late that they must have thought we were complete jokers, and rightly so.”

Happy Wanderer Festival takes place in Benalla from Friday November 3 until Sunday November 6, featuring The Senegambian Jazz Band, Immigrant Union, Holly Joyce, Beautiful Beasts, Echo Drama, and more.

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Interviews

Horace Bones

“We’ve played a lot of shit gigs where the people there don’t give a shit or don’t like the music …we probably go out of our way to make them hate us even more.”

Oisin Kelly has just rolled home from work in his van, Jolene. “It’s not a bad name for a car, right?” He enthuses. “Dolly Parton inspired – she’s a working class girl.”

Kelly, a carpenter by day, and Jolene have been living double lives. He as the frontman of local horrorrockers Horace Bones, and she as the four-piece’s faithful tour bus. In fact, it’s in this workday van that an amazing transformation occurs, as the singer and his bandmates take on their rock alter-egos. “It’s a bit wild, to be honest. We’ve all got jobs in our normal lives so when we’re on tour we’re fucking animals. Driving in the car, we release it.”

The hard-working band have taken in much of Australia, but Kelly best remembers driving through Gundagai. “A lot of people told us, ‘You’ve got to stop off at the Dog on the Tuckerbox.’ We were thinking like the Big Pineapple sort of thing and I remember getting there super hungover, stopping off and it’s the smallest fucking statue you’ve ever seen. I remember standing there with our bass player and being super deflated, thinking about life.”

Kelly pauses for a moment. “It was kind of fucking with people, you know? Which Australians are good at.” The band themselves are no exception.

“We’ve played a lot of shit gigs where the people there don’t give a shit or don’t like the music,” he says. “We don’t really dwell on their not liking us, we probably go out of our way to make them hate us even more.”

The band are partway through a boat-load of dates on their latest east coast tour for new single The Rats, a song which sees the quartet at their most dynamic, clawing along and bursting at the seams like they’re nesting behind sweat-stained wallpaper.

It’s their best song to date, and proof that Horace Bones are the real deal.

“It felt special from the get go,” Kelly says.

“When a song comes together really quickly and

you don’t put any effort into it really, you know it’s a good one.”

The tour is probably the most important of the group’s short existence. “As usual we’ve been doing less rehearsing of the set and more just jamming songs. We usually write when we’re not supposed to, so we’ve been pretty prolific lately.”

The band are blessed with a singular mindset, whether that be procrastinating in the rehearsal room or blasting an audience with songs so tightly wound they could put an eye out. It all stems from years residing in the same share house. “You’re watching the same shit TV and you’re listening to the same music. We’d go down to Old Bar and the Tote as much as we could to see the same bands together.”

It was during this period that the housemates found their name, which, as though devised by some marketing department, manages to perfectly encapsulate their sound. “Nothing like that happened,” Kelly says.

Horace Bones is the Charles Manson-esque cult leader at the centre of the 1970 schlock horror film I Drink Your Blood, in which a town full of people

are infected with rabies. “The movie was fucking bonkers and we were kind of bonkers, so Horace Bones was logical.”

In an industry that adores applying ever-morespecific labels to things, it’s no surprise that the quartet have become ‘that horror film band.’ It’s something that irks Kelly a little.

“The horror label came about as a secondary thing. We don’t write our music with a horror theme in mind. We’re not trying to be Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

It’s true, the band are more frayed jeans and facial hair than stockings and eyeliner. And even if Kelly were in a horror film, he can’t imagine himself as a self-assured protagonist.

“I’d be an innocent bystander screaming. One of those close-ups to the face screaming in horror, that’s pretty much what I do on stage. They’re important though, you’ve got to have a guy screaming or nobody knows what’s scary. That’s what I do: I set context.”

Horace Bones will play Old Bar on Sunday September 10, Sunday September 17, and Saturday September 23, as well as The Tote on Friday October 13 and The Rev Halloween show on Saturday October 28.

Their new single The Rats is out now on Thirds Music.

By Jakeb H. Smith

Pete Tong Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is hard to avoid in an average day.

You’ll probably hear it at the gym, on the radio as you drive to work, synchronized with an advert or playing from your own phone – but this has certainly not always been the way.

Up until the late ‘90s, EDM was a very specific subgenre of dance music that existed mainly at night clubs and as a feature ± a tourist attraction ± of EDM’s global stronghold: a Balearic island called Ibiza, about 150km from the Spanish city Valencia.

In January 1991, a British DJ, radio host and music journalist named Pete Tong began running a Friday night show called Essential Selection. It first exposed British, then global, audiences to the emerging EDM scene ± artists and songs like Brainbug’s Insomnia, Fatboy Slim’s Right Here Right Now, Robert Miles’ Children and Daft Punk’s One More Time.

Nowadays, Tong still broadcasts his radio show ± this time from his garage in Los Angeles ± and makes regular DJ appearances around the world, including in his beloved Ibiza. A venture that Tong is particularly proud of, however ± his latest project of global notoriety ± is the Ibiza Classics, which he DJs while accompanied by the Jules Buckleyconducted World Heritage Orchestra.

“It began as an invitation back in 2015 to get involved in the ‘Proms’ ± which is a series of classical concerts that have been running for over 100 years in the UK,” Tong says. “They were looking to do something that might appeal to a younger audience ± a little bit more contemporary ± so they talked to BBC Radio 1 about it. BBC Radio 1 asked me to get involved and I did.”

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“They were looking to do something that might appeal to a younger audience – a little bit more contemporary.”

Proms) have existed in London’s pleasure gardens since the mid-18th century, and indoor Proms became a feature of 19th century musical life in London from 1838. Ibiza Classics has its roots in this movement, and in Melbourne, the event will be performed at this city’s equivalent pleasure garden: the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

The Proms were inaugurated on August 10, 1895 in the Queen’s Hall in Langham Place by promoter Robert Newman. Fully experienced in running similar concerts at His Majesty’s Theatre, Newman wished to generate a wider audience for concert hall music by offering low-ticket prices and an informal atmosphere ± where eating, drinking and smoking were permitted to the ‘promenaders’.

Having grown up in the county of Kent in the Borough of Dartford, Tong is very much a consummate Englishman ± so it’s with pride that he describes his role in this manifestation of the honoured British concert series.

“I am the creative director, I guess,” Tong says.

“The curator of the show and the track listing, providing a deeper dive into the way the songs are interpreted, working side-by-side with Jules Buckley and Chris Wheeler from The Heritage Orchestra in terms of adapting them from the song’s original

form into the way that you are hearing them now ± and, I guess, a bit of a ‘ringmaster’ when it comes to the actual performance.”

Jules Buckley is Chief Conductor of Holland’s renowned Metropole Orkest and the Musical Director of the UK’s Heritage Orchestra, who will be touring Australia with Tong for the performances.

Chris Wheeler produces cutting-edge orchestral shows around the world, working with artists such as Björk, Giorgio Moroder, Squarepusher and Goldie.

Wheeler’s understanding of modern production values incorporates new technology, visual art, sound design, and classical rendition ± fueling his fresh stance on orchestral performance.

It’s all made possible by the remarkable talent of The Heritage Orchestra. Since 2004, the Orchestra has collaborated with Aphex Twin, Tim Minchin, The National, Ben Folds and Anna Calvi, regularly performing on the world’s most renowned stages ± from the Sydney Opera House to the Royal Albert Hall.

By Dan Watt

Pete Tong Presents Ibiza Classics with The World Heritage Orchestra at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Friday November 3.

Interviews

Sundr Melbourne’s SUNDR take their name from the Old Norse spelling of sunder, which means to sever.

The post-metal quartet settled on the name because it’s indicative of the music they make.

Debut LP The Canvas Sea contains seven slabs of cathartic hellfire split by moments of fragile ambience and crushing metallic dirge. Resonating guitar melodies sink into tar black drone. Not only is the music heavy, but the emotional weight is too.

Vocalist Scott Curtis dug deep to write lyrics that would match the bleak nature of the music.

“The guys encouraged me to use it as a personal outlet and get whatever off my chest that I needed to,” he says. “The record is vaguely about feeling discomfort, anxiety, and stress within your surroundings. There are not any specific stories that I can tell you but there’s definitely some personal stuff on there. Corinthians, in particular, is about mental health. It’s been my diary for the last few years.”

Recorded at The Black Lodge in Brunswick and independently released in July, The Canvas Sea is the follow-up to the band’s 2015 two-track EP, LOSS. While the EP was a solid starting point, the LP brings SUNDR’s collective vision into sharper focus.

It’s the product of letting things collate naturally while jamming, with whispers gently building into towers of sound.

“I feel like a lot of the songs mimic an anxiety attack,” Curtis says. “They’ve got this massive build up that creeps up on you and then explodes. I tried to write in line with that.”

As the album came together, Curtis found himself using biblical references to visualise his lyrics. This reoccurring theme is represented in the album art, which features bodies swarming beneath a serpent wrapped around a cross.

“It’s quite anti-religion but I didn’t want it to be

“The guys encouraged me to use it as a personal outlet and get whatever off my chest that I needed to.” an obnoxious death metal album, like fuck religion,” Curtis says. “But it’s more about questioning it and comparing it to modern society. If you read into Guilty Gods and I Still See Plagues [you’ll see] it’s an artistic way to express what I wanted to say and it’s a theme I stuck with for the record.”

Before SUNDR was formed, guitarist Troy Power, bassist Adam Turcato, and Curtis played in a hardcore band called Hope In Hell. While they released an EP and played local shows, things fell apart because they couldn’t hold down a drummer.

“We struggled for so long to keep it afloat but it didn’t work,” Curtis says. “We came to a halt and said, “Alright we’ll take it as a chance to clean the slate and write some new music and fast track to where we want to be as a band.”

SUNDR formed when a mutual friend introduced drummer Dan Neumann, whose drumming style and influences locked in with Troy and Adam’s doom and stoner grooves. A handful of existing songs were scrapped and the band started writing together from scratch, slowing things down and allowing for brooding atmospheres to dictate the direction of songs. Curtis, used to the frenetic pace of hardcore, suddenly found his lyrics in the spotlight.

“A lot of the time it’s just my voice and Troy’s guitar, so that was pretty daunting, going from really fast hardcore music where you’re just spitting words out and you’ve got the tempo to hide behind, which I found a bit more forgiving. But with SUNDR it’s like being naked ± my vocals are exposed.”

The band’s tour in support of The Canvas Sea includes seven shows in Japan, before they arrive home for shows in Hobart, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Melbourne. While Curtis says he’s proud of everything the band has achieved, he’s particularly humbled by the support they’ve received both here and abroad.

“I keep seeing the album pop up on blogs overseas, which is really cool. There’s a pirated version of it to download, which is cool. If people are hearing it around the world that way, then download that shit.

“The feedback we’re getting from the record, it’s not massive, but the feedback we get is people are really getting the emotional side of the record and connecting with it, which is amazing for us.

That’s really the goal. People seem to be really understanding it in that respect.”

SUNDR will play a double LP launch with Cascades at The Old Bar on Saturday September 22. The Canvas Sea is out now.

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Album of the Week (4AD)

Singles With Lachlan Kanoniuk This finals series I am going for no teams, only Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin.

Single of the Week:

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile

Over Everything (Milk)

From the opening tautological quadruple whammy delivered with Vile’s disarming drawl, Over Everything glides as a shared love-letter to music’s purpose. Little topographical alteration is required for a comfortable middle ground for Barnett and Vile, their respective off-kilter charms fostering the slight dissonance between traded lines. A calming bliss prevails, feathering with slight hints of wry silliness. New collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice due out this October.

The National

9.5

Sleep Well Beast

John Maus

The Combine (Ribbon)

John Maus is back, sounding like John Maus, replete with soaring choral backing and a cool bell. Blaring synth-lines exude detached conquest, never redlining into overwhelming force. It’s as if Maus never left ± a six-year absence vaporised without undue fanfare. Good stuff. Good bell.

The dark and brooding five-piece from Ohio are back with their first album since 2013 to once again make you feel a sense of overwhelming melancholy, inevitably followed by some nice introspective reflection.

Kllo

Downfall (Good Manners)

Downfall generates energy from the conflict between adrenaline-tinged production and the heavenly space of Chloe Kaul’s vocals, clearing into a devastatingly effective chorus. It’s a shift, embracing a more melancholic strain of pop to stretch beyond the constrictions of electronica.

Sleep Well Beast is everything you could ever want out of a National album and more. Sadness, singalongs, and Matt Berninger’s deep voice are all here, along with the ever-present somber sound the group have made their own after almost 20 years of making music together.

That’s not to say that this album is full of tracks which just sound like other National tracks. I’ll Still Destroy You and Walk it Back both bring some synths and electronic drums to the table while Turtleneck is full of guitar riffs and crash cymbals. Lead single The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness is a classic and will be a likely set closer for the band for years to come. Everything works in perfect harmony with the builds, lulls, and crescendos, making this a standout and lead single for a reason.

This album is great played all the way through, but there’s so many great tracks here you could pick any few at random, play on repeat and still have a great time. An excellent addition to a back catalogue already bursting with classics, Sleep Well Beast is a must listen.

By Nathan Quattrucci

Jeremy Neale

Dancin’ And Romancin’ (Dot Dash / Remote Control)

Jeremy Neale’s adept ear for power-pop sensibility goes into overdrive on Dancin’ And Romancin’, hitting the mark with throwback-to-‘80s riffs and throwback-to-‘50s sentiment.

These moments cut through a congestion of straight-faced ideas, left wanting for just a glint of subversion.

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Albums

Reviews

Luv Is Rage 2

8.0

Action Bronson

Blue Chips 7000

7.0

(Run For Cover Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia)

( Atlantic)

(Warner/Atlantic)

Lil Uzi Vert

Turnover

Good Nature

8.0

Hurtling into mainstream consciousness with his floppy purple dreadlocks and an eyebrow-raising verse on the Migos hit Bad and Boujee, you’d be forgiven for not taking Lil Uzi Vert seriously.

Luv Is Rage 2, the Philadelphian rappers’ first major label LP, flips this thought on its head, highlighting the trap oddity as a fresh icon for a new era of rap. Featuring trademark production from Metro Boomin to TM88, Luv Is Rage 2 floats around icy synth arpeggios and thick 808 thuds, with Uzi’s staccato flow and charismatic crooning brimming with enough pop-punk melancholy to make a Paramore fan tear up.

Feelings Mutual sees Uzi lyrically dart around a series of shuffling hi-hats and sawtooth synths, throwing in his signature ‘Yah!’ ad-lib in liberal doses. However, the centrepiece of the record comes with the irresistible brilliance of Neon Guts, which sees Uzi and Pharrell Williams lyrically bounce off one another on an instrumental which serves testament to both Pharrell’s musical genius and Uzi’s impending superstardom.

By the time the moody mega-hit XO TOUR LIF3 closes the album, it’s plainly obvious that Lil Uzi Vert is no gimmick ± in fact, he may very well be the future.

The third release in Action Bronson’s Blue Chips series isn’t as varied as 2015’s Mr. Wonderful, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In a way, less of the same feels like a pretty good mantra for the genre-hopping rapper.

La Luna has Bronson inspired by the hold music of a fictitious car service, the ex-chef starts rapping over the phone, continuing his theme of comparing himself to Zangief from Street Fighter. Chairman’s Intent rolls forward with a spaghettiwestern guitar line, writhing bass and bongo fills. Daringer drops a dreamy disco loop on The Choreographer as Bronsoliño promises to give dancing lessons with a concealed firearm. Big Body Bes guests on upbeat funk number TANK, though the pair manage to drag it through the muck as Bronson raps about “Another loser on the corner doing card tricks / I’m on the plane to Russia with a hard dick and a tank top from Target”.

It’s all that same juxtaposition of snazzy backing tracks and cheeky, Ghostface Killah-inspired flow that’s made Bronson so successful, but here it’s a lot more focussed. In a way that’s great, but it sacrifices some of the surprise and novelty that made his previous releases so memorable.

There’s a warmth to opener Supernatural that encapsulates the meditative quality of Turnover’s third LP, Good Nature. It starts with the swell of an organ, before a cascade of reverb-soaked notes flow effortlessly from a sparkling two-guitar harmony.

They shimmer past with the accent of well-worn tape before decaying off into the ether ± Austin Getz’s vocals gently propelling the song forward toward each chorus. His voice is equally as delicate on Pure Devotion. A song which starts with jangling jazz chords and builds layers of melody and sound with each passing bar, leaving the listener with a lush illustration of a chilled summer idyll.

As orchestrators, the four-piece have done well here, creating rich soundscapes with a rewarding complexity to them. It’s an improvement in that sense from sophomore effort Peripheral Vision. But where it does well in execution, it falls slightly short in energy. The hooks are there but not always easily massaged out. It lacks some of the propulsion of their sophomore album, particularly some of the moodiness that made it an interesting listen. The exception is All That It Ever Was, which drives forward easily with a catchy vocal and guitar line.

By Will Brewster

By Jakeb H. Smith

By Matthew Toohey

Family Portrait

7.0

(Chapter Music)

(Nettwerk Music Group)

(Good Manners Records)

Billy Davis

together PANGEA

Bulls And Roosters

7.5

Beaches

Second of Spring

9.5

Much of Billy Davis’ Family Portrait feels like a dedication to the joyful hip hop and jazzy neo-soul of the ‘90s, with reference points such as Arrested Development and D’Angelo sitting alongside those of more contemporary acts like Anderson .Paak, The Internet and Donny Trumpet.

The music is relentlessly positive, with enough jazziness to make it feel simultaneously downbeat and smooth. This is largely due to Davis’ organ and piano sounds that lend the album both an introspective quality and a musical complexity.

While this isn’t a band album, the full sound of Billy Davis’ live show with The Good Lords is still represented. The arrangements are very tasty, with plenty of space allowed for the vocalists to feature with the guitar, keys, backing vocals and occasional horns being brought in when appropriate over the synth bass and drums.

There are moments that make the whole slightly weaker, such as spoken word track I Don’t Care. There are also times when the feel is a little too laid back, such as on Earthquakes, which is all twinkly keys and loping synth bassline. Some of the slow jams are also among the album’s standout moments, such as the Jace XL assisted smooth R&B moment Postcards.

Bulls and Roosters, the latest offering from Californian lo-fi gang together PANGEA, showcases yet another leap in the band’s musical output since their formation back in 2011. The Burger Records brats of yesteryear have come a long way since their debut.

While opener Sippy Cup dips into a familiar adolescent narrative, they take a much more reflective approach this time around, showcasing the band’s juvenile existence while acknowledging the rest of the world is growing up around them. While The Cold struts into a jangly, toe-tapping foray that moves into Growlers-esque territory, it’s Kenmore Ave. that highlights the evolution of the band, offering 2.45 mins of contemplative, multi-layered garage punk.

Money On It showcases the band’s progression and mature outlook, taking a jangly, surf-rock avenue when detailing the ebbs and flows of a broken relationship. Better Find Out charges hard into rabid garage-punk reminiscent of the band’s early releases, while tracks like Peach Mirror, Gold Moon and Friend of Nothing sways blissfully into guitar-driven pop inflected melodies, before Southern Comfort slams back into dancey pop-punk. While many tracks on the record maintain the youthful innocence and garage-punk crass of their previous releases, Bulls and Roosters marks another clear evolution in together PANGEA’s musical development.

After delivering what was many people’s 2013 musical highlight She Beats, Beaches have far exceeded anyone’s expectations by releasing the double album Second of Spring. What is an immense feat for any band is made all the more impressive given the members are all juggling other artistic projects. The result is an expansive, instrumentally rich record that favours the intensive exploration of sounds rather than an immediately satisfying hook.

Instrumental opener Turning stomps into focus as the band’s signature fuzzed out guitars come in. Another instrumental highlight is Divers which starts with the wail of a guitar to immediately grab your attention. The song’s pace keeps listeners on their toes, speeding up to offer an interesting new melody before returning to its repeated yet enrapturing underlying layer.

Wine is grittier, with echoed vocals conjuring a hazy yet inviting atmosphere. The band follow up with the jubilant Arrow which feels very New Order meets Melbourne garage. It’s not all dissonant guitars however, with Bronze Age Babies a surprising twist to the band’s repertoire.

Second of Spring offers more than you could possibly digest in one sitting, but this doesn’t leave one feeling overwhelmed, merely eager to return to the record for new moments to savor.

By Alex Watts

By Matilda Carthew

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Profiles

Mane

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? Hi, I’m Paige I play guitar and sing under the moniker of MANE. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? I always find this a difficult question because I’ve heard so many different takes of what people think I sound like, but I would say perhaps a mix of goth and pop with Florence and Lorde vibes.

What do you love about making music? I love how cathartic it can be, it is a really therapeutic and wholesome feeling playing a show and being able to release the emotions and share your music on a public level.

What do you hate about the music industry? There is nothing I particularly hate but I think punters could maybe pre-buy tickets a bit more.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Freddie Mercury for sure. I think he was such an incredible vocalist and performer and would really value his opinion on not just my music but my live set.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?

I’ll have my 2016 EP House Of Horror at the shows for people to purchase as well as hopefully some new shirts.

Music

Mane will perform at The Gasometer on Thursday October 19. Her new single What If The Love Dies is out now.

manemusicaus.com

Jordan Bailey

The Getaway Plan

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? My name is Matthew Wright. I sing and play guitar. I also love to play the piano, but I’m not very good at it.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like? We don’t often get compared to other bands by other people. Our catalogue is pretty diverse so people could say we sound somewhat indecisive.

We like to think we sound like a perfect balance between all our favourite influences.

What do you love about making music? Escaping reality and being able to use it as a tool when fighting my demons.

Favourite things about being on the road? Having the opportunity to play shows, seeing all of our lovely interstate friends, eating all the foods (all of it), meeting our amazing fans and hanging out with each other.

Worst things about being on the road? Arrogant musicians/ humans can be pretty difficult to deal with, being away from our cats and our families (but mostly our cats), having too much time to be alone with your thoughts, the early morning rush at airports can go to hell, and hanging out with each other.

What can a punter expect from your live show? Four average sized awkward looking men trying to make as much loud noise as they can. Maybe bring some earplugs. We’re playing two separate sets on this current tour which is something we’ve never done before. We quite like intermissions. Does that mean we’re getting old?

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The Getaway Plan will perform at the Corner Hotel on Saturday September 9 and Sunday September 10 with Harbours and Chasing Ghosts.

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Music

Photography Studies College with Sally Ramsay (Student)

Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band? Hey. I’m Jordan Bailey, I’m a singer/songwriter. Sometimes I get a band together for gigs like this one.

What do you reckon people will say you sound like? Recently it’s Dashboard Confessional and Placebo.

What do you love about making music? I love the initial process.

An idea shaping into something you become really proud of.

What do you hate about the music industry? I think that money outweighs the art in the eyes of a label. I find the business model a bit concerning.

If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Jon Bon Jovi for sure. There’s something infectious about the heart he puts in his songs that inspires me to do the same.

What can a punter expect from your live show? Songs inspired by heartbreak in an energised, upbeat style, a little bit of rap in there and some guitar bashing. I’ll probably look like I’m in pain 80% of time.

What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? I have an EP Clear available for $10 at any of my shows.

Music

Jordan Bailey will launch You Want Me To Be at Bar 303 on Friday September 22 with support from Since We Kissed and Kimberly Atkinson.

Have you always dreamed of being a photographer? I’ve always been a very curious person who likes to observe the world around me.

As a young girl, I had an old Brownie box camera and a passion for trying to capture events that I felt were interesting. I would’ve liked to have been a photojournalist but followed a nursing career instead.

In later years, after having children, I enrolled in a photography course at Photography Studies College.

What excites you about Australian photography and Melbourne photography specifically? The sheer beauty of our Australian bush, its natural colours and the soft, warm tones of its light inspires me.

I’m also interested in the urban landscape of Melbourne, particularly its beautiful bridges, reflections on water in the Botanical Gardens and the quirky artwork in the city. I’m also inspired by the vibrant street life, with its myriad of fascinating faces and varying cultures.

What has the Photography Studies College taught you? The Photography Studies College has taught me computer skills that have enabled me to enhance the beauty of my images. It has set a structure with deadlines which has provided me with a strong foundation to progress my work. Also, I’ve met an eclectic group of people who have inspired me to see the world differently.

Describe the feeling of capturing something really special? A sense of excitement and joy in the moment, which is heightened by sharing the experience with others. psc.edu.au

Education

Photography Studies College is located at 65 City Road, Southbank.

View their full time and part time study options on their website.

Live

Music

The Preatures - Photo by Hania Glapa

Dan Sultan - Photo by BandAnna

Client Liaison - Photo by BandAnna

The Polish Club - Photo by Hania Glapa

William Crighton - Photo by BandAnna

Client Liaison - Photo by BandAnna

Elsie And The Vibe

The Preatures

Dan Sultan

Client Liaison

It’s not often a gig is packed to the rafters before the support act even starts, but when you’ve got a band like Polish Club warming the stage, people had a reason to arrive early. The self-described “sweatiest rock band in Sydney” came out with all guns blazing ± frontman David Novak’s impeccable vocals and continual banter with drummer JH on show. They confessed, “We know you’re not here to see Polish Club, but we don’t really give a fuck,” before belting out their best and loudest tracks, including Don’t Fuck Me Over, Beat It and even a half-improvised cover of Lesley Gore’s You Don’t Own Me. They finished with Beeping, which unsurprisingly brought the house down.

The Preatures’ always-inspiring frontwoman Izzi Manfredi embraced the adoring crowd to open with I Know A Girl. As expected, the set mostly comprised of songs from the new album, including the title track, Lip Balm, Mess It Up and I Like You ± but they also littered the night with favourites from their backcatalogue, including Somebody’s Talking, Cruel and Ordinary.

A few of the new slower songs (which usually had Izzy alone on the keyboard under a spotlight), like Magick and Cherry Ripe, were nice but almost dampened the party atmosphere built earlier on.

Thankfully things picked up again with Yanada, which uses lyrics written in Darug (one of the Indigenous language groups of the Sydney region) and had everyone embracing the powerful message the group was conveying onstage.

They finished with banger Better Than It Ever Could Be and new song Night Machine, before leaving the stage to a thundering “Encore” chant. Izzy came back out for one more emotional solo on the keyboard, called Your Fan, before the rest of the band re-joined her to give fans Is This How You Feel, getting everyone dancing. All in all, the night was the perfect way to say goodbye to another shitty Melbourne winter.

The Cool Calm brought some serious funk and big band grooves early on that got more than just a gentle sway out of a near fullhouse, and main support William Crighton managed to hush the whole theatre with his a cappella intro song, eschewing even the microphone as he projected his poetic verse across the Forum. It was enough to make your hairs stand on end.

Finally the stage was cleared, lights were dimmed, and there was that odd hush through the crowd in anticipation.

Dan the Man was about to join us with his six-piece band, and boy did they explode out of the blocks. Decked out in his nowsynonymous black leather jacket, Sultan burst into his set with the incredibly catchy Magnetic ± a highly energetic introduction, befitting of what was to follow.

Epitomising and oozing rock star swagger, it was both impressive and refreshing to see a muso who has worked so hard over the past decade come so far. The Forum is a massive, iconic Melbourne venue, and Sultan completely owned it.

His command over the audience was something to behold, effortlessly guiding fans on a journey through his back catalogue with playful banter between each song. You couldn’t help but be charmed by it all.

Several Dan Sultan classics were given a run on the set list, one of the highlights being the singalong to Under Your Skin.

However, this was the Killer album tour, and songs off the new album took pride of place. The big rock’n’roll numbers Drover and Hold it Together were particular standouts. But perhaps the most impressive was the anthemic Kingdom. Not sure how many of the thousand-odd people in the theatre have been listening to the album, but it seemed as if just about everyone in the audience knew the song by heart.

The 90-minute set closed out with an encore of perhaps Sultan’s most renowned song Old Fitzroy. A very touching end to a powerful set, with the crowd induced into yet another singalong. The perfect way to wind down from the heavier bluesy-rock throughout, and an evening well-spent.

The poised and suave Muki sauntered and boogied across the stage to beats ranging from bubblegum-pink-pop to wobbling dubstep. Between synchronised dance sequences and gigantic choruses, Muki explained her personal lyrics with snide but hilarious remarks. Sassaparilla was a particular standout tune with a bubbly and unique beat as well as a catchy chorus hook.

Muki’s abilities ± both in beat production and vocal execution ± were proven further by her cover of the Spice Girls’ Wannabe, which went down a treat with the slowly building audience.

Total Giovanni took the stage with a similar level of swagger.

The band was led by two infectiously sexy frontmen, robed in tracksuits. The pair, Vincent D and Spike Punch, danced to their disco-tinged electronica with absolutely spellbinding, reckless abandon. The blending of this with reverb-heavy, palmmuted guitar solos, live bass guitar, and synthesised beats was a pure delight. Tunes like Can’t Control My Love and Paradise had the band and the enthralled audience dancing together in appreciation.

A colossal curtain stretching across the Forum’s stage was drawn to reveal the dashing and debonair Client Liaison.

Pyrotechnics, synchronised dancing, countless costume changes, a dynamic light show and even go-go dancers heightened the music’s theatricality to a new plain of euphoria. Band members Harvey and Geordie Miller, and familiar face from triple J, Tom Tilley, charismatically interacted with each other and the audience with seamless choreography and methodical instrumentation. This, matched with singer Monte Morgan’s almost otherworldly presence on stage, brought the atmosphere up to an unfathomable intensity.

The crowded and stifled audience was captivated by the idyllic retro soundscapes of World Of Our Love and End Of The Earth, songs that promoted plenty of dancing and crowd surfing.

Other massive hits like Wild Life and Feed The Rhythm blended into each other perfectly as they were visually aided by an absurd video display on the stage’s huge screen. A Foreign Affair, the tour’s namesake, featured support act Muki, and as can be said for every song in the set, launched passionate singalongs. Following a visual tease of new unreleased tracks, Canberra Won’t Be Calling Tonight and Off White Limousine somehow concluded the night on a higher note, despite the already electric aura.

The Forum, Friday September 1

By Chris Bright

Forum Theatre, Saturday September 2

Highlight: Two massive bands for the price of one.

Lowlight: The guy who clapped loudly the whole time, but

By Eben Rojter

completely out of time.

Crowd Favourite: Yanada.

Highlight: The power of energy unleashed when he played Kingdom.

Forum Theatre, Thursday August 31

Lowlight: Knowing the bar manager, and still being charged full price.

By Paul Waxman

Crowd Favourite: Without a doubt, the singalong to Old Fitzroy.

Highlight: It’s lame, but the entirety of the Client Liaison set. It’s life-changing stuff.

Lowlight: The band teasing new music in a video, not live on stage. Show, don’t tell.

Crowd Favourite: Off White Limousine.

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Gig GuideGigs Featured

Greeves

The Workers Club Come rage with Greeves as they play their upcoming album Crown Of Brass in its entirety. A concept album aimed at the capitalist money machine driving the scourge of inequality, these guys are sure to stoke your inner rebel. Wednesday September 6 at The Workers Club. Doors 8.30pm, entry is $5.

The Mercy Kills

Cherry Bar Come see Melbourne mainstays The Mercy Kills kick of their September residency at the Cherry Bar. With a career spanning over a decade there’ll be plenty of tunes to get you through your Wednesdays. With support from Sydney’s own Black Heart Breakers and Dead Amigos, it all kicks off Wednesday September 6, 8pm at the Cherry Bar. $5 entry.

Creature Fear

The Evelyn Kicking off on Wednesday September 6, Creature Fear are set to bring their bluesy-rock sounds to The Evelyn for a residency throughout the month. Taking off at 8.30pm, each week the band will be bringing a stack of guests along for the ride. $10 will get you in the door for some sweet hump day bluesy vibes.

Melody Moko

The Drunken Poet As part of their weekly Wine, Whiskey and Women night, The Drunken Poet is bound to be full of stories from the heart on Wednesday September 6. Taking influence from the likes of Brooke Fraser and Brandi Carlile, Moko proves throughout her show that alternate country isn’t always dark and twisted. Joining her will be Annie Rose Maloney from Murdena fame. Kicking off at 8pm on Wednesday September 6, entry is free.

Draggs

The Old Bar Garage punk rockers Draggs are hitting up the Old Bar on Thursday September 7, and so should you. Known for their raucous live shows this is sure to be a good one. With support from Rhysics and Hexdebt, this is a gig sure to blow the midweek cobwebs away and get you amped for the weekend ahead. Check ‘em for a measly 8 bucks, with doors at 7.30pm.

Catfish Voodoo

The Lomond Catfish Voodoo play music that is reminiscent of a ‘50s juke joint. Staying true to the masters of Chicago Blues, you can expect to hear a crackin’ set of originals and takes on classic blues tunes including Boogie Chillun’, Smokestack Lightning and Got My Mojo Workin’. Comprising some of Melbourne’s elite blues musicians including Benny Gerrard from White Lightning. For local blues fans, this is mid-week gig not to miss. Free entry, kicking off at 9.30pm on Thursday September 7.

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Gig Guide This Week Wednesday Sep 6 Hip Hop & R&B Mellowdíasthump - Feat: Oakley Grenell Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

8:00pm. $10.00.

Eugene Ball Trio The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Galata Express + The Seduceaphones Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $12.00.

Joe Chindamo Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:00pm. $22.00.

Lo-Res 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Otira Rogue + Dr Sinha’s Jazz Lobotomy + Rueful Tummy Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Sarah Goussé Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.00.

The Heart Speaks - Feat: Sutherland Trio Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $39.00.

The Project Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers A Man Called Son Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm.

A Man Called Son Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm.

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

Creature Fear + The Lovely Days + Zac Saber Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Gang Of Youths + Gordi + Fountaineer Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7:30pm. $63.70.

Greeves + Adore + Slow Fires Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Jamiko Jones + Buzz & The Pickups + Fuzzrays & Trampoline Death Machine Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

Jungle Breed + Dexy Oscillator + Scraggers Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Kassette Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Open Mic Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

6:00pm.

Skyscraper Stan + Dominic ‘Tourettes’ Hoey + Hayley Couper Old Bar, Fitzroy.

7:30pm. $8.00.

The Mercy Kills + Black Heart Breakers + Dead Amigos Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.00.

The Sunken Sea + Wroclaw + Juice Webster Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Grand Piano Open Mic Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

Max Q Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

Morning Melodies - Feat: Aurora Mackrill Milano’s Tavern, Brighton. 10:00am. $5.00.

Muddy Blues Roulette Catfish, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

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

Rebecca Barnard & Billy Miller’s Singalong Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.

7:00pm. $18.00.

Simon Imrei + Rya Park Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Stephanie Duzel + Hugh Mcginlay + Pete Daly Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

The New Savages’ Jukebox - Feat: Three Kings + Matt Frederich Belleville, Melbourne.

8:00pm.

Wine Whisky Women - Feat: Melody Moko + Annie-Rose Maloney Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Thursday Sep 7 Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Cool Explosions + Emah Fox + Hemm Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Craid Dermody + Wild Bloom Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Cypress + Headlopper + Lethal Sound Division + Too Birds Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Deaf Havana Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $49.55.

Death Disco Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Draggs + Rhysics + Hexdebt Old Bar, Fitzroy.

7:30pm. $8.00.

Gilligan Smiles + Mojo Pin + The Sweets + Househats Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Hexdebt + Slippy Mane + Lalic The B.East, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

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

Longterm Romance Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Max Mannix Djs Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

Meg Mac Wool Exchange, Geelong. 8:00pm. $39.80.

Religious Observance + Incinerated + Spew Balloon + Spawn + Creep Diets Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

Sad13 John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Sløtface + Batz Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $41.40.

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

The Cadillac Drifters Musicland, Fawkner.

7:00pm. $10.00.

The Hard Rockerz Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10.00.

The Pretty Littles + Dr. Colossus + James Moloney & The Mad Dog Harrisons Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

The Shorts + Drongoz + Joe Guiton & The Suicide Tuesdays Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

Throwback Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

Voltaire Thursday Sessions Club Voltaire, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8.00.

Zuesifer + 180 Proof + Black Alpine + Three Quarter Beast Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights 3183 Thursdays - Feat: Hans Dc + Roberto + Luke Vecchio + Le’bruh Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

Disco Volante Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

Discotears Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Double Trouble - Feat: Jank Facques Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

F**K The War On Drugs (Fundraiser) Feat: Perno Inferno + Grove St Latin + More Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $5.00.

Midnight Express - Feat: DJ 123 + Edd Fisher Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm.

The Ev’ Thursdays - Feat: Barry Sunset Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Thursgay Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Toyotomi Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $12.92.

Tuckshop Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Hip Hop & R&B Beats Vs. Rhymes - Feat: Given Names + Bryzone + Grizzly Bastard + Context Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

Jakubi + The Cool Calm + Tobias Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $18.00.

No Frills Thursdays Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Sensible J Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Anna’s Go-Go Academy Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 6:30pm. $15.00.

Belinda Parsons Quintet Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Claudia Jones + Semina Disco Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

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

Jackie Bornstein (From Paris To Brazil) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

John Montesante Quintet + Wilbur Wilde Phamish, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

Kickin’ The B At 303 - Feat: Justin Yap Band 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

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

Omelette The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Raisins & Almonds - Feat: Stiletto Sisters Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm.

Sarah Maclaine Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

Sun Ra & The First Baboon Civilization Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

The Vinyl Frontier - Feat: Mel From Rooks + Gsm + Colette Belleville, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

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

Yohai Cohen + Alma Zygier Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $18.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Catfish Voodoo Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

Cath And Jas Djs Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Christopher Cross Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $99.90.

David Cosma Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

George Street Ft. Matt Batten Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

Gracejean Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Jimmy Carroll + Rhia Simone Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

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

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

The Excellent Smithers Blues Party Boilermaker House, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

Friday Sep 8 Hip Hop & R&B Benny Sinclair Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

7:00pm. $20.00.

Bright Lights Big City - Feat: DJ Rcee + Kahlua + DJ Shook + DJ Angel Jay Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Featured Gigs

Gig Guide

Zuesifer

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

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

High Voltage - Feat: DJ Jnett + Faux Pas Noir + Truman Ketapote + More Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 11:00pm. $10.00.

Jakubi + The Cool Calm + Tobias Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $18.00.

Off The Heazy Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

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

Whole Lotta Love After spending countless hours in rehearsal rooms, it’s time for Zuesifer to step on stage and spread people’s ear holes. Joining the band for their debut is 180 Proof, Black Alpine and Three Quarter Beast. Get an early start to the first weekend of September with Thursday night beer, pizza and tunes.

Doors from 7pm, free entry.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music

West Thebarton

The Workers Club Still flushed from their recent name change and the addition of smashing new drummer Caitlin Thomas, Adelaide’s seven-headed rock-hydra West Thebarton are lined up for a whirlwind tour. They’re also right on the edge of letting new tunes spill out of their locker. Reverend Ray and the gang have been committing their suburban homilies to tape, and they’re sounding tip top. Darn it, if these aren’t good reasons to throw oneself at the altar of gritty soul-filled rock’n’roll, we don’t know what are. See you at the bar. Friday September 8. Doors at 8.30pm, $15 +BF.

Patches

The Wesley Anne It’s a Friday night. Come have a drink with Patches as they launch their new album. Situated in the vague realm of indie-rock, the band streaks vibes ranging from The Beatles to Roy Orbison. Excited to premiere their new tunes live, you can check them out at The Wesley Anne, Friday September 8 from 8pm. $10 entry.

GLOVV

The Post Office Hotel GLOVV will be playing a bunch of gothpop tunes from their impending EP, Free from You. Joining them on the bill are label mates Geryon with their mesmerising style of electronica. Starts at 9pm at the Post Office Hotel, Friday September 8. This one has free entry.

Amaru Tribe

The B.East Bringing the Columbian dance sounds to the stage of The B. East is none other than Amaru Tribe. Combining messages of hope, peace and power throughout their highly energetic stage show. Their charisma and up tempo jams has been known to get even the most stubborn of dancers down on the d-floor. This is the band’s first official show since the release of their debut album, so be sure not to miss it. Kicking off at 10pm on Friday September 8 with free entry.

Kate Miller-Heidke

NGV Combining elements of pop, folk and opera, Kate Miller-Heidke is no stranger to the Australian music scene. She’s bringing her latest album O Vertigo! to NGV Friday Nights on Friday September 8 for one special performance. If you’ve seen her before, you’ll know that her vocals are definitely going to stop you in your tracks.

Definitely one gig to get around. Doors open at 6pm.

Amaru Tribe The B.East, Brunswick East.

10:00pm.

Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian Tribute Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $25.00.

Bob Montgomery + Al Hermann + The Roger Clark Quartet Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:30pm. $40.00.

Exy + Curiosa Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

Fem Belling Quartet The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $20.00.

Grand Wazoo Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury.

7:00pm. $27.50.

Grand Wazoo Phamish, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $30.00.

Janine Maunder Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Jerson Trinidad & The Wonderers Big Mouth, St Kilda. 9:30pm.

Nu Flava Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Paul Jager + Eddie Mac Belleville, Melbourne.

9:00pm.

Provenance - Feat: Plexus Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Ruth Rogers-Wright Quartet Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8:00pm.

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

Sunny Koll & Band Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

The Badloves Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $32.00.

The Cope Street Parade The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11:00pm. $10.00.

The Firemen Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

The Fox Soundtrack - Feat: Chris Xynos Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

The Jim Cuomo Trio Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

The Wikimen Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.

Towards Eternity - Feat: Genevieve Lacey Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $63.00.

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.

DJ Lady Love Potion Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

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.

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

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

Pawn Fridays - Feat: Danny Howells + Warsawyer + Repo Men + Tbib + More Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7:00pm. $16.84.

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

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

Resident Advisor + Bizarro - Feat: Skatebård + Esther Duijn 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm. $20.00.

Revolver Fridays & Mama Said - Feat: Who + Acid Safari + Kerry Wallace + Dylan Griffin + More Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

Scuba Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $25.00.

Selzy & Minas + Gutz + Illuminate + How Many Deep + More Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

The Disco Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm.

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

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers 28 Days Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $29.60.

Ali Barter + Press Club + Smoke Rings Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $28.24.

Anthem Sessions Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 8:00pm.

Anthony Callea + Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $50.00.

Borrachero + Tusk + Southbound Snake Charmers + Ash Ravens Trio Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Box Crunch + Scum Shuvit + Tidal Harmonics + Crushed Tinniez Woody’s Attic Dive, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

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

Citrus Jam Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

Claws & Organs + Loobs + Magpie + Ostraaly Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Eastbound Buzz + The Slingers Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

Glovv + Glovv + Greyon Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

Hang Out - Feat: Donny & Friends Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

Hannah Kate + Eilish Gilligan + Hotel Fifteen Love + Noah Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $8.00.

Hey Hey It’s Friday - Feat: Astro Boys Royal Hotel (Essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

Jacuzzi Boys + Private Function + Würst Nürse Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $19.40.

Jen Cloher + Hachiku + Wet Lips Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Khan Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.

Kreator + Dire Blaze 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

Linda Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $18.00.

Meg Mac + The Money War Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

Moaning Lisa + Face Face + Black Bats + Kelso Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Models + Machinations The Croxton, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $49.99.

Monique Angele + Meri Amber + Lorias Open Studio, Northcote. 6:30pm. $5.00.

Ngv Friday Nights - Feat: Kate MillerHeidke + Breaking And Entering Djs National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. 6:00pm.

Ozergun + Kathrine Hymer + Daleepiano 303, Northcote. 7:00pm.

Patches Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Placebo Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $101.70.

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

Pseudo Mind Hive + Cosmos + The Deadpans + Phaedo Bar Open, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $8.00.

Seasloth Launch & Art Show - Feat: Harmony Byrne + Trappist Afterland Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Society Of Beggars + Neon Queen + Erin Will Be Mad Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

The Eagles Story Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill. 8:00pm. $22.00.

The Exotics + DJ Dave Gray Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

The Nicoteenagers + Manorism + Cloud Castles + Basement Bees Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. $10.00.

The Resignators Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.

Tol + Compound + Product + Correct Line Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

Troy Dean & Van Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.

8:00pm.

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

West Thebarton + The Pretty Littles + Neighbourhood Youth Workers Club, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $15.00.

Wired + Down For The Count Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Acoustic Sessions Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 5:00pm.

Andy Scott’s Honkytonk Swing Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Broads Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

Great Aunt Oscar’s, Essendon. 7:00pm.

Harry F L Vincent Young & Jackson Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00pm. $10.00.

Luke Asten Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8:30pm.

Max Teakles Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

5:30pm.

N.Q.R + Dennis + Under The Sea Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Nick Martyn Jazz Trio Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

Son Of A Gunzel Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

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

Urban Sea Shanties - Feat: Fred Smith & Men In Suits Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:00pm. $20.00.

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

Saturday Sep 9 Hip Hop & R&B Big Dancing Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Dex Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $14.96.

Drunk Mums + Draggs + Dumb Punts + Fuzzsucker Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

Good Times Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

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

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

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music 30/70 + Emelyne (Dj) + So.Crates + Raw Humps Howler, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $18.00.

Belleville Late Nights Serie - Feat: Brazilian Forro Party + Casa De Rebocco Belleville, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

Bob Montgomery + Al Hermann + The Roger Clark Quartet Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:30pm. $40.00.

Cannonball Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $30.00.

Chris Mcnulty Quartet Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8:00pm.

Copperhead Brass Band + Grace Jean Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Eugene Ball Quartet Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

Geoff Allan Band Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $25.00.

Haydn, Mozart & Friends + Hadyn + Mozart + More Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.

Immy Owusu’s Magic Butter Machine + Easy Brown’s Truckstop Chicken Jam Band + The Burbs + Tom Cartoonist Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

James Sherlock/Ben Hanlon Duo Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

Kimba Griffith Trio Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Labjacd The B.East, Brunswick East. 10:00pm.

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Featured Gigs

Luke Austen

The Drunken Poet Two time Golden Guitar winner, Luke Austen will be bringing his country-folk flavours to The Drunken Poet stage. Having previously toured around with Troy CassarDaley and Brian Young, Austen’s live show is engaging and heartwarming. A down to earth bloke, you’ll be sure to hear plenty of tales from the road when he hits the stage.

It’s Friday night and everyone’s feeling like a little bit of a dance. Head down for some great country times. Yeeehaw! Free entry from 8.30pm.

Gig Guide Legends Of Rebetika Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Love And Other Secrets - Feat: Anja & Zlatna Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

6:00pm. $39.00.

New Lease - Feat: Yollks + Sault + Coldrip John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.

Peace – A Cantata For John Monash Feat: More Than Opera Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 6:30pm. $35.00.

Pressure Drop + Melancholy Baby & The Uppers Open Studio, Northcote. 2:00pm.

Rawvyso (Provocateur) - Feat: Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. $23.10.

Songs Of James Bond - Feat: Eugene Hamilton Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $38.00.

Sugarfoot Ramblers Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $25.00.

The Cope Street Parade The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $20.00.

The Fox Soundtrack - Feat: Cupids Cut Fox Hotel (Collingwood), Collingwood. 8:00pm.

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

The Rookies The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11:00pm. $10.00.

Yvette Johansson Bird’s Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $30.00.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights

Ali Barter

Corner Hotel Following on from sold out album launches for A Suitable Girl, Ali Barter is set to sweep back into Melbourne for a show at the iconic Corner Hotel. Joining Barter for a big night of rock will be Press Club and Smoke Rings. The One Foot In tour has seen Ali Barter play shows all around the country from Castlemaine to Byron Bay and this will be a welcome Melbourne return for the musician. Doors at 8.30pm with tickets $25 + BF via Eventbrite.

Orb

The Old Bar Psychedelic-soaked Sabbath-inspired tunes at the Oldy. What more could you need on a Saturday night? A pint? They have those too.

Orb will be launching their latest single You Have It All alongside School Damage, Living Eyes and DJ Oliver. Saturday September 9 at The Old Bar. $10 at the door with doors at 8.30pm.

Direct Hit

Bendigo Hotel Milwaukee punk quartet have made it over for their first ever Australian tour. Their latest release Wasted Mind, inspired by the writing of Hunter S Thompson, is a lysergic drugfuelled affair full of unnerving narratives. They will be playing at the Bendigo Hotel, Saturday September 9. Tickets are $28.60 via Oztix with the night kicking off at 10pm.

Brooke Russell

Charles Weston Hotel Brooke Russell and her band The Mean Reds blend shades of dark country and Americana through a glaze of pop. They’ll be playing at The Charles Weston Hotel on Saturday September 9. Kicks off at 6.30pm. Free entry.

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Audioporn Saturdays Onesixone, Prahran.

9:00pm. $15.00.

Autofiction (Channels Festival Closing Party) - Feat: Club D’erange Djs Substation, Newport. 9:00pm. $19.39.

Baby Dance - Feat: Sam Weston + Mr Pitiful + Casper Collins Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

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

Chameleon In The Hills - Feat: Steve Ward + Chiara Kickdrum + More Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

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

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

DJ Dave Gray Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

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

Geotech #5 303, Northcote. 7:00pm.

In The Carriage - Feat: DJ Jnett + Kaya Kalpa Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

Loomer Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

More Chilli #2 + Roche + Rowe + Quail + Dr Carl + More Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

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

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

Saturdays Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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

Shadow Drum Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $22.08.

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

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

Spacey Space + Ivan Di Gennaro + Chriss Matto + More New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Textile Saturdays - Feat: Kodiak Kid + D’fro + Jens Beamin Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

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

The Late Show - Feat: Booshank + Paz + Ransom + Binofski + More Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

The Phantom Of The Paradise Garage - Feat: DJ Whiskey Houston + DJ Mr Weir + DJ Oscar O’bryan Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $15.00.

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

Watermelon Social Club - Feat: Sunshine + Spacey Space + More Railway Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 2:00pm. $16.67.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Absolutely Live - The Doors Show Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Alae Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Amber Mic Productions Present - Feat: Kitty Scratch + Miracle Mile + Of Ashes + Fool Child Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.

Bang - Feat: Take The Power Back + Letters To Amara + Catholic Guilt + Honest Lives Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00.

Beggarman + Clove + Dear Survivour Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Central Rain + John Dowler’s Vanity Project + The Golden Rail + Little Murders Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:30pm. $15.00.

Department + Scum Shuvit + Rathead + Crushed Tinniez Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Direct Hit! + The Decline + Foley + Yard Duty Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $28.60.

DJ Jellyroll Baker Gem Bar, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

Dodgefest - Feat: Clawhawk + Mind The Machine + The Cooks + Huntsman + Poison Fish Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Dylanesque – The Story Of Bob Dylan Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $23.00.

Feels + Lewis Cancut + Aphir Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.00.

Foxblood + Make Way For Man + Advocates + Arkive John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Greek Blues & Doom - Feat: Sotis + Cement Pig + Dark Temple Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $6.00.

Hemusans Woody’s Attic Dive, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

Iv League + Swamp + Cracker La Touf Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $14.30.

Jack River + Didirri + Royal East Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

Kahl Wallis & Luka Lesson Workers Club (Geelong), Geelong. 8:00pm. $14.30.

Loobs + Error Margins + Protection + Capital Gains Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

8:00pm. $7.00.

Max + Nick De La Hoyde + Vincent Sole Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $44.90.

Meg Mac + The Money War Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Orb + Bananagun + Living Eyes Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Ramble Tamble Satellite Lounge, Wheelers Hill.

8:00pm. $22.00.

Sachet + Popolice + Bananagun + Maureen Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

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

Scraggers + Scraggers + Pting Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

Spiral Perm + The Cha Cha Chas Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm.

Sweet Felicia & The Honeytones Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm.

The Detonators Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 9:00pm.

The Getaway Plan + Harbours + Chasing Ghosts (Solo) Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.

The Nature Strip + Caroline No Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

The Newsletters + The Wax Eaters + Sam Crocket Gin Lane, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

The Ocean Party Major Tom’s , 8:00pm.

The Out Of Towners + Coffin Wolf + Beef Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

Timothy James Bowen Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Tyller Fischer - Feat: Youth In Asia + Arkadian Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave. 8:00pm.

Vices + Conveyor + Homesick Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $20.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Brooke Russell & The Mean Reds Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

Citrus Jam Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

9:00pm.

Cookie Baker Band + Maxon Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.

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

Devil Goat Family String Band Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Eddie Nuardo Trio Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Fifth Friend Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

Hanksaw Surabaya Johnnys, St Kilda. 7:30pm.

Heartaches & Hangovers - Feat: DJ Denise Hylands + DJ Dave Heard Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

Helen Catanchin Duo Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

Kit Convict & The Terrible Two - Feat: N.Q.R + Dennis + Under The Sea Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Lachlan Hicks + Jms Harrison + Cassie Molnar Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

Mark Olson & Ingunn Ringvold + Emily Ulman Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $34.00.

Melody Moko Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

5:00pm.

Pugsley Buzzard Trio Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Say Nothing Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

3:00pm.

Trouble In The Kitchen + Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Sunday Sep 10 Hip Hop & R&B Killer Hertz - Feat: Mat Rob + Tom Butt + Michael Cooper + More Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

9:00pm. $10.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Adam Simmons’ Origami Bar Open, Fitzroy.

5:00pm.

Alárìíyá - Feat: Alariiya Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

Ben Charnley Trio Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Flying Home + Dr Decadence Open Studio, Northcote. 2:00pm.

Funk Rabbit Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

Haydn, Mozart & Friends + Hadyn + Mozart + More Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm. $30.00.

Peppercorn Jazz Band Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

Refraction The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Samassin Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

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.

Dribble It On - Feat: DJ Lex + Cat Party + U-Wish + More Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy.

2:00am.

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

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

Kenny Larkin + Boogs + Donny + Spacey Space + 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.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Afi + Introvert + Basement Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

Ben Whiting + Ryan Oliver + Lucky Moore Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $12.20.

Bornstein Ultimatum Goathouse Café Roastery, Elsternwick. 4:00pm.

Broads + Emilee South Band + Hannah Cameron Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

7:00pm. $10.00.

Featured Gigs

Max

The Evelyn Multi-talented actor turned pop-soul singer, Max, will be making his Australian debut. A star of stage and screen since the age of 14, he’s built up a loyal fan base. We hear his futuristic-funk alter-ego may also be making an appearance. Confused? Yeah, maybe we are too. Come find out what we’re on about Saturday September 9 at The Evelyn. Doors at 7.30pm, tickets are $44.90 +BF via Oztix.

Absolutely Live: The Doors

Cherry Bar Celebrating 50 years since the release of their debut album, Absolutely Live is going to give you an unforgettable performance of the classic Doors album. You’ll be sure to hear classic tracks such as Light My Fire, Break On Through and The End. Kicking off at 8pm, tickets are $18+ BF via Eventbrite.

LABJACD

The B.East Having worked dancefloors all across Australia since 2005, the legend of LABJACD is set to return to The B.East for one sweaty night of latin and jazzinfluenced hip hop funk. After squirreling away to work on their fourth studio album, the band is alive and kicking more than ever.

If you want to shake your booty at one fine latin dance party then Saturday September 9 get down to the B. East. Music kicking off at 10pm. Free entry.

Kimba Griffith Trio

Compass Pizza Known for her lightfooted vocals and quick wit, Compass Pizza is going to be transformed into a jazz club as Kimba Griffith and her band play through their vast catalogue of tunes. Featuring a big jazz guitar, melodic vocals and a double bass to anchor the sound, if you’re looking for a relaxed Saturday night, then be sure to check out Compass Pizza. Kicking off at 7pm on September 9 with free entry.

Elephant In The Room

The Carlton Club If you’re looking for somewhere to get the party started, than look no further than The Carlton Club. Featuring the best in disco and house music, for those wanting to shake their tail feather, this is sure to feed your hunger. Kicking off at 10pm with free entry.

Department

Last Chance Rock N’ Roll Bar If their Youtube clip for their single Gold Pining is anything to go by, this gig could well and truly be one of the most intriguing you’ve seen this year. Featuring gold prospectors down by a river, Department will be bringing their rock sounds to Melbourne on Saturday September 9 as they take over the Last Chance Rock N’ Roll Bar. Support comes from Scum Shuvit, Rathead and Crushed Tinniez. Doors at 8pm.

Gig Guide Chris Hawker Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.

4:00pm.

Conscript Launch - Feat: Cereal Killer + Guffman + Vintage Crop + Camalan Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $10.00.

Dianas + The Faculty Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

5:00pm.

Horace Bones + Tankerville Old Bar, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $8.00.

Jen Cloher + Rvg + Hexdebt Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

Kate Cebrano Memo Music Hall, St Kilda.

3:00pm. $35.00.

Lanota + Formiles + Terrestrials Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Louis Valentine & The Golden Age + Hannah Francis And The Fake News + Kev Walsh Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Luka Lesson + Kahl Wallis + Caitlin Saunders Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12.20.

Madder Lake Musicland, Fawkner. 3:00pm. $20.00.

Max + Nick De La Hoyde + Vincent Sole Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $44.90.

Melbourne Polytechnic Music 303, Northcote. 4:00pm.

Messy Mammals + Houg + Niine Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:00pm.

Mr Bramble’s Fund Raisin - Feat: Do-Et! + Nitida Atkinson + Steph Brett + David Bramble + Grace Turbott + Don’t Thank Me Spank Me + Sugar Fed Leopards Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm.

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.

Ruby Soho & The Radness + Rhia Simone Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm.

Sunday Sessions Purple Emerald, Northcote.

3:00pm.

The Getaway Plan + Harbours + Chasing Ghosts (Solo) Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.

The Vendettas + Estelle Artois + Sons Of Lee Marvin Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

4:00pm.

Triple Trouble - Feat: The Tortured Artists + The Fergusons + Highflier Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm.

Vera Blue + Thandi Phoenix + Lakyn 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

Wax On Wax Off Lucky Coq, Windsor.

7:00pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Ben Smith Band Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm.

Catholic Guilt + David Grimson (Agent 37) + Nathan Seeckts Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.

Chris Wilson Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

Clint Wilson + Tina Nabb + Jess Mcmahon + Eddie Cole Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:00pm. $10.00.

Collard Green & Gravy Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Eddie Nuardo Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

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

Freya Josephine Hollick Noisy Ritual, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Glenn Skuthorpe Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

3:30pm.

Great Aunt Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm.

Greg Champion & Useful Members Of Society Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

Gums + Slowcoaching John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:00pm.

Hanna & Jessie-Lee + Ayleen O’hanlon Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

James Ellis & The Jealous Guys Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

Judah Kelly Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $30.00.

Shaky Stills Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

4:00pm.

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

The Blues Souls Fox Hotel (Collingwood), Collingwood. 4:00pm.

The Hornets Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

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AFI, Basement and Introvert

Emo is well and truly making a comeback – at least for those who donated their too-tight skinny jeans and paired back the eyeliner, for some of us it never really went away. To celebrate the resurgence**, AFI are heading to Melbourne for their first headline tour in over ten years. They’ll be bringing their newie, The Blood Album along for the ride, as well as a slew of classics – don’t pretend you don’t know all the words to Miss Murder. English rockers Basement, whose 2016 album Promise Everything should’ve definitely been in your top ten releases of last year, are also on the team. As are Newcastle newcomers Introvert – what a cracking lineup. It’s going down at The Forum on Sunday September 10 from 7.30pm. **May not be the real reason.

The Knott Family Band + Adam Eaton Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

Weeping Willows & Their Travelling Companions Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 3:30pm.

Monday Sep 11 Hip Hop & R&B Neo Lilac 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Andrea Keller’s Masters & Apprentices + Gian Slater The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Bird’s Basement Octet Bird’s Basement, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $22.00.

Choral Music Of The Early German Baroque - Feat: Ensemble Gombert Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Emily Williams Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.00.

Jazz Party John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.

Lake Minnetonka + Zoe K + Goat Control Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

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

Kooyong + Donald Dank & The Naughty Boys + Fruit Loops + War Pests Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

The Long Flights + Whales + Ben Carter Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Wind It Up - Feat: Taipan Tiger Girls + Bitumen + Atom + Nullstaat Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights 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 Fat Cousin Skinny Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

Piano Residency (Damon Smith) - Feat: Damon Smith Compass Pizza, Brunswick East.

7:00pm.

Tuesday Sep 12 House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Oasis Tuesdays Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

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

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Anti-Violet + Amiko + Scout Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Avadeer Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5.00.

Crazy Comfort’s Inside Voices + James Campbell + Lunar Trick + Al & Cal Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Culcairn + Yukumbabe + Snowy Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

Grand Pine Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Make It Up Club - Feat: Curse Ov Dialect Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Mew Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $81.60.

Mount Defiance Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $5.00.

Now Here This - Feat: Approachable Members Of Your Local Community + Hekki Brekki Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Open Mic Nite Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.

7:30pm.

Stranger Suite + Horatio Luna Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Zoe & The Milkmen + Dandecat + Georgie Currie Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Andrea Keller Transients Tuesdays Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Anna’s Go-Go Academy Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 6:30pm. $10.00.

Catsplay The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $45.00.

Catsplay The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:45pm. $45.00.

Melbourne Beethoven Quartet Cycle Feat: Fidelio Quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $60.00.

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

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Irish Session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

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Layton Otene & The Crazy Comfort Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Tuesday Tribute - Feat: Matt Green & Sam Cope Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

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The Reverence Hotel Seedy Sunday? Catholic Guilt are headlining a trio of artists (Nathan Seeckts, Dave Grimson) who are teaming up for a Sunday arvo of folk-punk/alt-country storytelling. Come reminisce about last night’s mistakes. Sunday September 10 at the Reverence Hotel. Begins 4pm.

Shaky Stills

Edinburgh Castle Shaky Stills will be bringing their brand of alternative country, western and swing to Brunny’s longest standing pub. Performing songs from their latest album Genuine Moonshine, these guys will smooth out, you’re probably rough Sunday. Sunday September 7 at the Edinburgh Castle.

Starts 4pm. Free entry.

Mount Defiance The Gasometer September 12, 19 Jeff Rosenstock The Gasometer September 14, Wrangler Studios September 17 Dashboard Confessional The Forum September 13 Asha Jefferies Sooki Lounge September 13, The Grand September 14, 170 Russell September 15, The Westernport September 16 Mojo Juju Howler September 14

Wharves Grace Darling September 14

Pierce Brothers 170 Russell September 15 The Creases Howler September 15 Billie Eilish The Toff September 15

Kite String Tangle The Forum September 15 Suds Old Bar September 15

The Brave Workers Club September 15 Benny Walker Basement Discs September 15, Memo Music Hall October 13 Pow! Negro The Gasometer September 16 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

I Know Leopard Workers Club September 16 Pharoahe Monch 170 Russell September 18 London Grammar Margaret Court Arena

Houg

Whole Lotta Love Catch Houg with wonderful guests, Niine and Messy Mammals. Houg’s hip hop, R&B, new wave and jazz influences are cohesively stacked together under his emotionally-fragile vocals, delivering a groove and leaving listeners wanting more.

Niine, the idiosyncratic mini-ball of quirky goodness will bring her vibrant songwriting and organic grooves. Messy Mammals are two homie sapiens from far, far away.

They’re all coming together at Whole Lotta Love on Sunday September 10 from 3pm.

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Kahl Wallis & Luka Lesson

Workers Club Kahl Wallis, the lead singer and songwriter of multi-award winning band The Medics has teamed up with slam poet champion and hip hop artist Luka Lesson to create the stunning Living Artefact. Now the pair are hitting the road together to celebrate.

So far the song has received love from triple j, double j and L Fresh the Lion. They’ll take to the Workers Club stage on Sunday September 10. Doors at 7.30pm, tickets are 12+BF.

Kooyong

The Workers Club Kick off the working week with a dose of psychedelic garage rock with Kooyong. Or maybe continue your weekend? Whatever your plan, be sure to check out these guys as they kick of their residency at The Workers Club. Monday September 11. Doors 7.30pm, free entry into the bandroom.

September 19 Dream Theatre Palais Theatre September 20 Louis Baker Grace Darling Hotel September 20 Pond Corner Hotel September 20-22

Gravemind Workers Club September 21 The Cherry Dolls Northcote Social Club September 21 Young Lions The Evelyn September 22 Sundr The Old Bar September 22

Postmodern Jukebox The Palais Theatre September 22 Karl S Williams Northcote Social Club September 22, Barwon Club Geelong September 23 Shonen Knife Ngv September 22, Corner Hotel October 1 Ben Ely Grace Darling September 22, Karova Lounge September 23 Katchafire 170 Russell September 22

Angus & Julia Stone The Palais Theatre September 23 Max & Iggor Cavalera The Forum September 23

Born Lion The Reverence September 23 Wild Honey Yah Yahs September 23

Justice For The Damned Phoenix Youth Centre September 24 James Vincent Mcmorrow The Croxton September 25 Mac Miller 170 Russell September 26

Emily Barker Workers Club September 26 George Clinton & The Parliament

Funkadelic Palais Theatre September 27 Mermaidens The Tote September 27, The Gasometer October 1 At The Drive‑In Festival Hall September 28 Habits The Curtin September 28 Yahtzel Howler September 28 Shady Bliss The Tote September 28

Haken 170 Russell September 29

Dune Rats Forum Theatre September 29

Caligula’s Horse Max Watt’s September 30 Lastlings Northcote Social Club September 30 Tijuana Cartel The Gasometer September 30 Wollombi Music Festival Feat Lime Cordiale, Caiti Baker, Dubarray, More Wollombi September 30 Old Crow Medicine The Forum October 1

Lake minnetonka

The Evelyn Poised to release their new album, Lake Minnetonka are hitting up The Evelyn.

Funk style, and crazy keytar skills in tow (legit) these guys are sure to bring some interesting vibes to The Evelyn. Monday September 11. Doors 8.30pm, $10 entry.

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Wafia Corner Hotel October 5

Teenage Bottlerocket Bendigo Hotel October 6 Gooch Palms Northcote Social Club October 6 AJJ The Reverence October 7

Citizen Kay Northcote Social Club October 7 UV Boi The Gasometer October 7

Halcyon Drive Yah Yahs October 7

Liv Cartledge Some Velvet Morning October 7 Black Rheno Max Watt’s October 10 Big Daddy Kane Max Watt’s October 11

Alex Lahey Karova Lounge October 11,

Workers Club Geelong October 12, Corner Hotel October 18 San Holo Howler October 12

Mayday Parade 170 Russell October 13

Lakyn Northcote Social Club October 13 Huxley Pawn & Co October 13

Yeo Workers Club Geelong October 13, Howler October 14 Boney M The Palais October 14

Out On The Weekend Feat Justin Townes Earle, Son Volt, Traveller, More Seaworks, Williamstown October 14 Saskwatch Barwon Club Geelong October 14, Corner Hotel October 21 Shockone Max Watt’s October 14 Osaka Punch Evelyn Hotel October 14

Migos Hisense Arena October 15 6Lack 170 Russell October 16

Justin Townes Earle Melbourne Recital Centre October 16 Traveller Northcote Social Club October 17, Caravan Music Club October 18 The Double Melbourne Recital Centre October 18, The Tote October 20, Karova Lounge October 21 Dillinger Escape Plan Corner Hotel October 19 Less Than Jake Prince Bandroom October 19 Mane Gasometer Hotel October 19

Rnb Fridays Live Feat Craig David, Ne‑Yo, Kelis, More Hisense Arena October 20 Northlane 170 Russell October 20

Joyride Northcote Social Club October 20 Riley Pearce Grace Darling Hotel October 20 Tinpan Orange Workers Club Geelong October 20, The Toff October 21 Rvg Howler October 20, Karova Lounge October 26 Swagger Music Festival Feat Kyle Lionhart, Josh Cashman, Didirri, More Wandiligong, Victoria October 20 – October 22 Ivan Ooze Howler October 21, Wrangler Studios October 22 The Heartache State Caravan Club October 22 Havana Meets Kingston Corner Hotel 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 Raave Tapes Penny Black October 27 The Angels The Palms October 27

The Scientists Corner Hotel October 28 Sebastian Bach The Forum October 28

The Living End The Croxton October 28

Endless Heights Workers Club October 28, Wrangler Studios October 29 Alex The Astronaut Howler October 28 Heartsounds Bendigo Hotel October 30

Boo Seeka Sooki Lounge November 2,

Karova November 3, Workers Club Geelong November 4, 170 Russell November 5 The Bear Hunt Old Bar November 2

The Peep Tempel Forum Theatre November 3 Lyall Moloney Workers Club November 3 The Tea Party The Forum November 4

Supersuckers Evelyn Hotel November 4, Karova Lounge November 5 Midnight Oil Sidney Myer Music Bowl

Kingswood Whalers November 10, Karova Lounge November 17, The Forum November 18 Megan Washington Melbourne Recital Centre November 10 Live Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 11 Sad Grrrls Reverence Hotel November 11 Kyle Lionhairt Toff In Town November 11 Morning Tv Yah Yahs November 11

The Growlers 170 Russell November 12

Ash Grunwald Sooki Lounge November 16 Icehouse Palais Theatre November 17 Paul Kelly Royal Botanic Gardens November 17 Winston Surfshirt Corner Hotel November 17 Strawberry Fields Feat Yothu Yindi & Treaty Project, Cc:disco!, The Teskey Brothers, More 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 Gza Max Watt’s November 18

Stevie Nicks & Pretenders Rochford Wines Yarra Valley November 18 Ariel Pink Recital Centre November 21 Vance Joy The Forum November 22

Gabriel Garzón‑Montano Gasometer November 23 Temper Trap Croxton November 23, Melbourne Recital Centre November 24 Miss May I Max Watt’s November 24 Something For Kate 170 Russell November 24 Marky Ramone The Croxton November 24 Dean Lewis Corner Hotel November 24

Too Many Zooz Howler November 24 Queenscliff Music Festival

Queenscliff, Vic November 24 – November 26 Mike Portnoy The Croxton November 25 Peter Andre The Forum November 25

Spilt Milk Festival Feat Lorde, Vance Joy, King Gizzard, More Commonwealth Park, Canberra November 25 Blackbear Howler November 26

Lorde Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 26 Jenny & The Scallywags Brunswick Hotel November 26 Cat Stevens Rod Laver Arena November 27

Clowns Pelly Bar November 28, Sooki Lounge November 29 Sia Aami Park November 30

Culture Club Rod Laver Arena November 30 Harry Styles Forum Theatre November 30 Wallis Bird Northcote Social Club November 30 Methyl Ethel The Croxton November 30

Hopkins Creek Music Festival The Kulkurt Crater December 1 – 3

Icehouse Palais Theatre December 1 Feist Forum Theatre December 1

Fat Nick Corner Hotel December 3

Paul Mccartney Aami Park December 5 & 6 J.Cole Margaret Court Arena December 6

Alt‑J Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 7 Pissed Jeans Corner Hotel December 7

Sleepmakeswaves Howler December 7

Downtown Boys John Curtin Hotel December 8 Big Thief Howler December 8

Kolsch Forum Theatre December 8 Jack Johnson Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 8

November 6 & 8 Melvins The Gasometer November 6, Max Watt’s November 8 British India Karova Lounge November 9, 170

RumouRS Future Islands, Kamasi Washington, Beck, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Russell November 10, The Wool Exchange November 11 Khalid Festival Hall November 9

The Stems Croxton Bandroom November 10 Tonight Alive Corner Hotel November 10 Mono Max Watt’s November 10

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Backstage

The Pierce Brothers The last time we spoke to Melbourne folk-pop duo Pierce Brothers in May, the guys were just about to release their new EP The Records Were Ours and were beyond keen to start their tour showcasing tunes from the forthcoming EP. Fast forward three months, the guys are about to embark on their Australian tour after only just returning from playing sold out headline shows and festival appearances to over 90,000 people in the UK/Europe.

“I’ve got super jet lag at the moment, so I’ve been waking up at 5am and like, ‘Okay let’s start the day,’” Jack Pierce says. “I’m a musician I’m not used to being up at five or six in the morning, so I’m like, ‘Look at me go, I’m up and about.’ I know it’s not going to last though,” he laughs.

Clearly still buzzing from the European tour, Pierce is even more excited to take their music around Australia. “We’re looking forward to getting around Australia because we haven’t done a full Australian tour in a while, especially up to Darwin ± we haven’t been there for a couple of years I think,” Jack says.

“I’m really excited, there’s a lot happening that I’m really looking forward to on this run, Australia is so pretty,” he says. “To get around it and see all the familiar faces and venues that we’ve gotten to know over the years.”

Two years in the making and an abundance of new studio and live material, the band released The Records Were Ours in May, as the first in a trilogy of EPs, where it debuted at #9 on the ARIA album chart.

“Well this EP that we are doing was supposed

to be our first album and it took so long to do,” Jack explains of the trilogy concept. “We did the first part of it, and then we went on tour to Europe, and we supported the Cat Empire in Europe, and that went so well that they offered us another tour for the UK so we took that one, but that was just when we were going to be recording the rest of the album so we couldn’t do it.”

Pushing the album back again until after the tour, the brothers then received offers to tour Australia with the Cat Empire and Ben Harper on his Australian tour.

“By this point we’d done so many songs that we had to then cut them down to like a ten or 11 track record, and we were like, ‘That’s really going to suck, we have to cut out some good songs here.’ There wasn’t enough for two albums and we certainly didn’t want to do an 18-track first album, so the label said to split them up and do three EPs ± part one, part two and part three. Because we have so many different tours going on this year, we’ll just release one over the space of a year.

“Now for the third one, we have this really interesting idea, because we’ve been recording a lot of the shows from Europe and from around Australia,

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and we’ll we recording ones in the States as well.

We’re thinking of doing all the songs from the first two, but in live places all over the world ± as a nice end cap to it, but we’re not sure though. There’s a lot of balls in the air,” he says. “We’re running around like headless chooks a lot of the time.”

Bringing good vibes, good music and some brotherly bickering, the Pierce Brothers have made their way from busking on the streets of Melbourne to delivering irresistible energy in their world-class live shows all over the world. However, busking will always be a favourite for the boys, with Jack keen to take it right back to the beginning.

“I really love busking. I love the whole idea about it,” he says. “It’s the reason we got into music in the first place. People aren’t there to see you, the expectations aren’t huge, what it’s all about is if people enjoy it they come and listen and it could make their day, and if they don’t, they just walk on, and that’s the reason I do it, that’s the reason we do music.

“People aren’t there to see you, the expectations aren’t huge, what it’s all about is if people enjoy it they come and listen and it could make their day, and if they don’t, they just walk on.”

The Pierce Brothers will take over Sooki Lounge on Wednesday September 13 and 170 Russell on Friday September 15. The Records Were Ours is out now.

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