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Contents

Issue N o 1621

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News Arts Guide Review: Claire Hooper

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City Calm Down

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Kitty Flanagan Michael Shafar

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Best of Edinburgh Fest Harley Breen

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The Wonder Years

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Our editor in chief is enjoying a well-deserved holiday this week and although she left some big shoes to fill in her absence, I’m pretty stoked to be trying them on.

What a week it’s been too, we spoke to City Calm Down about their new album Echoes In Blue and the not so glamorous side of being a musician, Stereophonics got real about the importance of mental health, MICF is still bringing the laughs thick and fast and a fashion mogul teamed up with one of our fine city’s most recognisable street performers in an unexpectedly brilliant collaboration. On the note of celebrating diversity, Dylan Alcott’s inaugural Ability Festival also took place over the weekend, in what we can only hope is the start of a more inclusive live scene for all music lovers – because at the end of the day, that’s what music is all about.

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The Game Changers Conversation Series The Game Changers Conversation Series is a monthly series of stimulating and inspiring conversations that cover topics which shape our world and the people behind them, with a localised twist. This month on Wednesday April 18, the conversation is titled Speaking Up: Young People Influencing Change. The diverse selection of speakers ranges from Nevena Spirovska, a passionate online activist, to prevalent multidisciplinary activist Bobuq Sayed. For more information and bookings, visit the Victoria University website.

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Blues and soul quartet The Teskey Brothers have announced their I Get Up Australian tour alongside a mammoth threemonth world tour. The band looks keen to make 2018 an unbelievably packed year; with the three-month world tour set to pass through Europe and North America. They’ll also be playing their biggest Australian shows to date along the way.

They will be flanked by what they describe as a “formidable” horn section and Darwin-born singer/songwriter Caiti Baker to make the shows extra special. The Teskey Brothers hit Forum Theatre on Saturday June 30, tickets are available via the band’s website.

Straight outta the mean streets of Adelaide, West Thebarton have been hard at work, winning awards and hitting festival stages. Now, they’ve got one more thing to tick off the list – a brandspanking new album. The band’s record Different Beings Being Different is set to hit on Friday May 18 and it reeks of sweaty summers spent in suburban backyards surrounded by mates. They’ll also be taking their gritty, soulful rock‘n’roll party on the road throughout June, coming to the Northcote Social Club on Sunday June 10. Tickets are on sale now via West Thebarton’s website.

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Trial Kennedy — Sun 27 May —

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Hein Cooper

Announces new single and national tour After releasing his 2016 debut album to critical acclaim and spending 2017 zig-zagging from show to show around the world, Hein Cooper is back in Australia with a new single and a national tour to boot. Cooper’s new single ‘Hear My Voice’ drops on Friday April 6, with his Hear My Voice national tour rolling into Melbourne’s Penny Black hot on the tails of the release on Saturday April 28. Tickets are available at heincooper.com.

St Kilda Film Festival Drops teasers for 2018 festival

With the aim of bringing some of Latin America’s premier film-making talent down under, St Kilda Film Festival 2018 has partnered with Mexico’s largest film fest, Guanajuato International Film Festival. That’s right, SKFF and GIFF have joined forces, and if that doesn’t get your engines going, they’ve recently dropped a bunch of teasers for their 2018 event lineup.

Check out the teasers at stkildafilmfestival.com.au, and keep an eye out for more information, later this month.

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Australian Music Vault to deliver a Melbourne music talk Australian Music Vault presents the third instalment of their series of public talks for emerging and established artists, music fans, teachers and people who just really love music. The next talk, The People of a Music City, is coming up on Wednesday April 18 at The Arts Centre. Speakers include the Executive Officer of The Push Kate Duncan, Lydia Fairhall (Executive Producer of ILBIJERRI Theatre), amongst a range of industry professionals. To participate in the discussion of Melbourne as a music city and the stories, memories and people that make it so, be sure to head down and catch the chat. For more information and bookings visit The Arts Centre’s website.

The Presets Drop Album And National Tour Dates Aussie electronic pioneers and all-round legendary duo, The Presets, have announced their fourth studio album, Hi Viz, set to drop on May 18. The duo’s return has been widely celebrated, shown in particular by ‘Do What You Want’ securing itself a spot on the 2017 triple j Hottest 100, and ‘14U+14ME’ ranking in as one of triple j’s most played songs of 2018 so far. The release of Hi Viz will be followed by a national tour in June, which will see The Presets making their way to Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on Saturday June 16. Tickets are available via Live Nation from 12pm on Wednesday April 11.

Cub Sport MEZKO

Reveal new single and announce national tour Sydney’s MEZKO are drawing major inspiration from early ‘70s style whilst upholding their unique blend of futuristic pop electronica meets post-punk and krautrock with their new single ‘Come & Go’. They’ll be embarking on a tour to celebrate the single, stopping in Melbourne on Saturday June 9 at the Gasometer. Tickets are available on MEZKO’s website.

Receive ARIA scholarship ARIA has teamed up with Virgin Australia to present the first ever ARIA Emerging Artist Scholarship to none other than Brisbane’s independent pop group Cub Sport. Cub Sport are a self-managed and self-funded band who released their second album BATS last year through their own label, which charted on ARIA’s Australian Artist Album Chart. The perks of their award include travel support for their world tour coming up this year, allowing the band to continue looking through their global vision goggles by playing shows, connecting with fans and expanding their networks.

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Archie Roach and Tiddas Team up for national tour

Award-winning trio Tiddas are reforming to join Archie Roach for a national tour in May and June, with Bruce and Archie Cuthbertson along for the ride. The tour supports Roach’s unveiling of his album Dancing with My Spirit, which was recorded more than twenty years ago but has been sitting on the shelf until now. Roach is known for his heartbreaking songs about his own experiences including ‘Took the Children Away’ and ‘From Paradise’. He has won ARIA awards, featured in Rolling Stones Magazine’s top 50 albums of 1992 and won a Human Rights Achievement Award. The Melbourne performance takes place at Hamer Hall on Sunday May 6.

Arctic Monkeys Reveal new album

After much speculation and internet sleuthing, it’s now been confirmed: Arctic Monkeys will release their first new album in five years, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, next month. The new album is co-produced by longtime collaborator James Ford and frontman Alex Turner, and comes in the wake of recently announced international tour dates. To add to the intrigue, a German record store has revealed that Tame Impala and celebrated Aussie psych artist Cam Avery have collaborated with the group. Details are sparse at the moment, though Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino also reportedly contains features from James Righton plus Zach Dawes and Tyler Parkford from Mini Mansions. The album is set to drop on Friday May 11 via Domino.

The White Album Concert Announce Third Live Tour of The Beatles’ Classic In preparation for the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ iconic White Album, premier Aussie vocalists Chris Cheney, Phil Jamieson, Josh Pyke, and Tim Rogers are once again taking the masterpiece record on the road. Following their critically acclaimed 2009 and 2014 tours, the quartet will be delivering a spectacle, with a 17-piece rock orchestra behind them. The performance takes over Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on July 13 and 14. Get in quick – tickets go on sale on April 14 via whitealbumconcert.com.

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Radnor & Lee Announce Australian Tour

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How I Met Your Mother’s Josh Radnor and famous ‘Catch My Disease’ singer-songwriter Ben Lee joined forces last year to create a debut record under their joint moniker, Radnor & Lee. They’re now bringing that creation to Australia in May, with three live shows. The two have crafted an album full of earnest and melodic tracks, and are already working on a followup. They’ve become a hit in Brazil in particular, after performing a five-city sold-out tour, which they’ve filmed for an upcoming documentary. The pair hit the Athenaeum Theatre on Sunday May 19. Tickets via Frontier.

Raw Comedy

2018 Finalists Announced

Spit Syndicate

With the heats and semi-finals now over, we’re oh-so-ready for the best batch of comedy newbies to make us laugh at the RAW Comedy National Grand Final. Luke McGregor, Celia Pacquola, Josh Thomas, Hannah Gadsby and Tom Ballard all started their comedic journeys on the RAW stage, proving that only the funniest and bravest will make it out alive. The Finalists are: Emma Holland (ACT), Rebecca Melrose (NSW), Sian Smyth (NSW), Ryan McArthur (NT), Bronwyn Kuss (QLD), Alex Hall-Evans (SA), Jane New (TAS), Gavin Sempel (VIC), Scout Boxall (VIC) and Emmanuel Majok (VIC). The RAW Comedy National Grand Final is going down at the Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday April 15, tickets via the MICF website.

Hardly a year has gone by since Sydney duo Spit Syndicate dropped their critically acclaimed ONE GOOD SHIRT HAD US ALL FLY. Not only have they got a brand new album for you, but they’ve also announced they’ll be heading on a mammoth 20-date tour this year. The new album, ORBIT, sees the outfit collaborating with the likes of Kai ( Jackie Onassis), imbi the girl, Turquoise Prince and TUKA for what they’ve dubbed their most experimental effort yet. The album drops in May and will be followed closely by a tour which will see them making their way to Melbourne on Saturday June 23 with a show at The Corner.

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Joshua Hedley will tour Australia in 2018 with his full band, marking a welcome return for the alt-country favourite. Australia has almost become his second home, as audiences here have embraced him like no other since his performance at Melbourne’s Out On The Weekend festival in 2014. It comes in the wake of his acclaimed album, Mr Jukebox, produced by Skylar Wilson and Jordan Lehning. Catch Hedley on July 22 at Northcote Social Club or Thursday July 26 at Caravan Music Club.

Alongside his band featuring acclaimed Australian jazz soloists, Harry James Angus will perform at Basement Discs on Saturday April 21. Playing tracks from his latest album, tales of Greek mythology will be brought to life in the Melbourne home of jazz and roots music. Announcing a limited-edition vinyl release, his brand-new album Struggle with Glory will be available on April 21 as a celebration of Record Store Day. Recently, Harry James Angus has played festivals around the country, and he’s just been announced to play Melbourne International Jazz Festival on June 5.

Dark Mofo has released its mammoth 2018 lineup Tasmania’s inaugural music and arts festival, Dark Mofo, is slowly creeping up.

Although it’s still a few months away, you can start booking, planning and crying over your financial situation now that the 2018 lineup is here. On the art side of the festival, highlights include Lou Reed Drones, Zero, Ryoji Ikeda, United Visual Artists, A Journey to Freedom at TMAG, and Matthew Schreiber. The music offerings are equally tantalising, with Laurie Anderson, Tanya Tagaq, Electric Wizard, St. Vincent, Alice Glass, Lydia Lunch, Zola Jesus, Nobody, Jarboe, Father Murphy, Portal, Iona Fortune, ALTAR, Marlon Williams, William Basinski and loads more on the bill. The festival takes place across numerous venues in Hobart across three weekends from June 13 – 24.

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Got some arts news we should know about?

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Alice in Wonderland Now open One Mna Show

Expectations will be defied and curiosity piqued with the world premiere Wonderland exhibition now open at ACMI, celebrating the cinematic history of Lewis Caroll. The worlds of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There come to life in an entirely original and interactive experience. Thursday April 5 through to Sunday October 7.

Comedy Zone Asia Comedy Zone Asia returns for a fourth year. This unique and unparalleled showcase brings the best of the Asian region to the Melbourne stage, with fantastically funny performers delivering a captivating serve of comedy culture. Catch it at the Chinese Museum - Silk Room until Sunday April 22.

Comedy Thursday Comedy Club You know the drill. It’s the club where the big names drop in. This week, expect guests from radio, TV and more. Thursday April 11 on 120 Exhibition St, Melbourne.

Lido Comedy Comedy at a Cinema? Correct. Every Tuesday, a cavalcade of some of Melbourne and Australia’s funniest drop some laughs at inner Melbourne’s freshest independent cinema. Free entry from 7.30pm down at Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn.

10 for 10 at MICF Ten comedians for ten bucks? Why the hell not? I’ve spent more on fancy sandwiches to be honest. Get down to Boney to enjoy big laughs that are light on the hip pocket. Every Monday throughout April.

Little Dum Dum Club Get down for four live podcasts on Sunday afternoons throughout April with the Little Dum Dum Club. They’ve filled the Opera House, and now they’re bringing their shtick to the European Bier Cafe. Get around it.

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Michael McIntyre

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Film Festival comes to

A classic comes to the stage

He’s doing 83 gigs in 15 countries, and we’re up next, us lucky ducks. Michael McIntyre’s ‘Big World Tour’ - and he really bloody means it - is coming to Australia in March 2019, and you just know that if we’re getting a full year’s warning, those tickets are going to be gone quick. Friday March 22 at Rod Laver Arena.

Melbourne Enjoy the best festival hits from the US circuit when they come to Melbourne.

Straddling styles as diverse as thriller, melodrama, romance, adventure, comedy, coming of age, political documentary, symphonic documentary, classics, music, cult, art and biography, it’s a must for all cinephiles. May 10 - May 20 in Palace Cinemas throughout Melbourne.

Oklahoma! is a classic for a reason.

Loaded with show stopping hits, the cast features star power throughout.

Simon Gleeson’s recent successes include Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, while Anna O’Byrne (2017 Helpmann Award winner for Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady) returns from London where she’s currently starring in The Woman in White. May 26 - June 3 at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Claire Hooper

It’s a strange image, this petite, bubbly and down-to-earth blonde woman smiling from ear to ear while describing her long-standing anger issues. But that’s part of Claire Hooper’s charm in her Comedy Festival show for 2018 you’re not quite sure what direction this rage-fuelled routine could possibly take.

It’s obvious Hooper has been doing this for a long time: she seamlessly transitions from anecdote to audience question, building suspense and dropping stories only to finish them at a later point, just when you think she may have forgotten to tell you the punch line. Tangents turn into witty segues, and there’s a few facts about Viking funerals that add an educational element to the comedy routine.

Hooper really lets you in during All The Rage, telling personal stories that seem almost too intimate to share onstage. Did you know she once trashed a hotel room, with her husband and

children watching on in horror? She also took her kids on a backyard picnic, so she’s not all bad.

The show focuses on internal anger and unaddressed annoyances, and Hooper truly seems to want to understand how other human beings let their issues go without keeping them dangerously festering inside.

She touches on the age-old arguments between mother and daughter – how petty does the subject need to be in order for a fight to break out over family gatherings – and her experience at The Break Room: a venue that’s opened

in Collingwood where you pay to smash breakable stuff with a baseball bat.

Here’s a hint at how Hooper went: she seemed more concerned about the waste element of the exercise than the therapeutic benefits of all that smashing and hitting.

All The Rage is funny, sad and thought provoking. It’s a curious insight into Hooper’s family dynamics that force you re-examine how you deal with your own internal fury.

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City Calm Down

By Kate Streader

When City Calm Down released their debut album In A Restless House in 2015, people began to pay attention. Singles ‘Rabbit Run’ and ‘Your Fix’ circulated the airwaves and the Melbourne-based fourpiece began to find themselves frequenting stages at Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival and the likes.

After the release of the album, the band got to work writing it’s follow up Echoes In Blue almost immediately, though this time around they took their time smoothing out the kinks. The band were ruthless in ensuring every element was nothing short of perfect, whether that meant scrapping and rewriting an entire chorus in the studio in the case of ‘Distraction/Losing Sleep’, or recording into the wee hours to nail down ‘Blood’.

“We didn’t really feel In A Restless House created any pressure for us. I don’t see it myself as being a great record,” says frontman Jack Bourke. “I definitely appreciate that people like it, but if you measure yourself against great bodies of work by other artists then that’s where the pressure comes from.

“You strive to achieve the level of, complexity isn’t the right word, it’s more, I don’t know, beauty.

So many amazing songs I love are simple songs ,so to achieve what those bands have achieved as songwriters is the measuring stick. I think you’re always kind of working towards that.”

Pairing the band’s signature style of synth laden rock with lyrics centralised on themes of finding balance between creative interests, a career, personal relationships and family life, Echoes In Blue is hardly abstract. While the message is often carried through fictional stories and characters, the feelings behind them are sincere.

“It’s not strictly autobiographical in that the scenes that I’m detailing are personal events, but it’s autobiographical in the sense that the narrative is real, stemmed from the way I was feeling at the time that I wrote them,” says Bourke.

“I was feeling stressed out, overworked and the record was very much a way of exploring the way I was feeling and creating, or almost just projecting into the future – not all of the songs, but a number of the songs – like, ‘if this is the way that I live my life

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for the next two years or the next three years, what effect does that have on the people around me?’. It’s sort of a number of disparate narratives all connected back to the way I was feeling, so in that sense, it was autobiographical. Not in the detail, more in the emotion.”

The feeling of being overworked is justified for a man who juggles a successful career as a musician with his nine to five. Rather than hindering his creativity, this taxing schedule has served as a source of inspiration, not only forming a common theme across the album, but specifically making way for the track ‘Blood’, which details a time when the two worlds collided.

Of course, marrying the rigid structure of an office job with the fluctuating nature of a career in music meant many late nights in the studio for City Calm Down, which certainly caused tension in aspects of Bourke’s own life.

“They’re two very different ways of working, being in a band versus working at a nine to five job, and they overlap a lot more than I’d like in terms of the encroachment on each other’s time,” he says.

“I go through these phases where I’m like ‘oh god, I can’t keep the two worlds separate’, from a time perspective. They’re definitely different spaces to be in emotionally.”

It is a sad reality that relying on music as a sole source of income is not a viable option for many musicians. Bourke recalls a time when he saw Midnight Juggernauts at the Corner Hotel as a teenager and thought to himself that the band’s three sold out shows would certainly be highly lucrative. The actuality of relying on the profits of sold gig tickets to sustain a band, in their case, of four members over lengthy periods came as a shock.

“I’m always surprised by just how the finances of a band are just almost oppressive in many ways. I’m

not talking about a record label contract or anything like that. There’s a big difference between when you as punters pay $50 for a ticket, you kind of go, ‘oh, well it’s 2000 people in a venue, $50 a ticket, that’s $100,000, but once you’ve paid for everything across a tour, there isn’t really enough money left over to support people across the tour over a year or two.”

Proving that they are compelled by passion rather than monetary gain, City Calm Down will embark on a massive tour following the release of Echoes In Blue this April, making their way across the UK before returning home for a national run of shows.

“In many ways we feel like when we play the music live, that is the true expression of the songs that we’ve written and we do things differently live than we do on the record, mostly because we think something sounds better live than on the record and vice versa.

“I guess it just gives us an opportunity to explore the songs that we’ve written again and really get to perform them in a way that we originally felt we wanted to perform them when we wrote them. It’s that energy that really drives us.”

“In many ways we feel like when we play the music live, that is the true expression of the songs that we’ve written...It’s that energy that really drives us.”

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Interviews

Kitty Flanagan

Smashing

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Kitty Flanagan’s new show, Smashing, is a characteristically eclectic stroll through the current mental dwellings of one of our greatest comedians, seen through the lens of the overuse of the word ‘smash.’ “I’m talking about sex,” Flanagan says. “And algorithms. And the circus. Even tinned tuna. So, something for everyone, really. But maybe leave kids under 15 at home, unless you want them to get a real Flanagan style sex education.”

‘Smash’ is one of those multi-purpose words, like ‘stuff ’ and ‘go,’ that can be used in all sorts of expressive-yet-not ways. Smash a drink. Smash out an email. Get smashed. Smash an avocado. “I think it’s a tad overused,” Flanagan says. “People seem to have forgotten there are many other verbs in the English language. You don’t need to smash everything. Smashing is the new ‘awesome’. And I hate awesome.”

Flanagan is a regular face at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Her shows are a must-see – and for Kitty, it’s a chance to get out and experience the joys that come with…not being in Sydney. “For me, as a Sydney person, the MICF is all about the experience of being able to do a show and then actually go out to dinner afterwards,” Kitty says. “I recently did a run of shows in Sydney and we could never get food after the show. Everywhere we went would delight in telling us “Sorry, the

kitchen’s closed.” So praise be to Melbourne with it’s sophisticated culture of late night dining and supper menus.”

Many comedians utterly torture themselves in the process of knocking their material into final shape. A few others don’t seem to know where it comes from: it just seems to fall out of them fullyformed. Where does Kitty fall on that scale? “I rely on my manager to force it out of me,” she says. “He books a small room for a month and sells tickets to a ‘new material’ show that doesn’t exist yet. It’s sort of a ‘gun to the head’ method but slightly less aggressive.

Slightly. So I write a show, perform it night after night, replace at least 75 percent of it with stuff that is actually funny, then I take it on the road. And finally I bring it ‘fully formed’ to Melbourne.”

And that takes us back to Smashing. The show will eventually make its way onto DVD, “once I work out how to remove a few bits about certain family members.”

By Peter Hodgson

Michael Shafar

Kosher Bacon You’ve seen Michael Shafar on SBS’s RAW Comedy, the Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World Competition and Channel 31’s The Leak. You’ve heard him on ABC Radio and Triple J. You’ve laughed at his jokes on Channel 10’s The Project without even knowing it. Heck, you could be one of the many people who saw his sold-out debut season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival last year with a show called Jewish-ish. Now Shafar is back at MICF with Kosher Bacon.

“I kind of regretted calling the last show Jewish-ish,” Shafar says. “I mean, it was great, and a lot of people came out for it, but I think a lot of people might have been turned off by the name, like they may have seen the title and thought ‘I’m not gonna get this because I’m not Jewish.’ It wasn’t a show for Jewish people to like: if anything, it was a show for nonJewish people. So, this year the show is called Kosher Bacon, which still has a little bit of a Jewish theme to it but isn’t quite as on-the-nose.”

“It gives me a point of difference that I like because there are not many Australian comedians who talk about being Jewish,” Shafar says. “There are other Jewish comedians but I kind of feel like I’m the only one who uses it throughout my shows, whereas in America there would be no point doing it because I’d be one of ten thousand. In Australia, it’s kind of a novelty.”

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Shafar began his comedy career while finishing off his law degree on exchange in Washington DC. “I started doing open mics in the States and I think I was very lucky to get that experience because it taught me a lot about work ethic in particular.

American comics have a culture of doing gig after gig after gig and listening back, writing and rewriting, editing, and I absorbed all that in America.

When I came back to Australia, I tried to apply that back here. I don’t think the Australian open mic comedy scene has the same kind of work ethic that the scene does in America, so I’m not sure I would have developed that if I had stayed in Australia.

“I’ve always wanted to do comedy in different scenes, because each scene has its own culture and its own idea of what’s funny. What’s going on in Melbourne comedy in particular is a big push to be really different and alternative and original.

Melbourne audiences can be very comedy-savvy which pushes comedians to try different things.

It’s not like Alternative Comedy as a label - it’s something more unique to Melbourne.

Shafar’s day job is writing jokes for The Project.

“It’s pretty chill for a job on a show that goes out live six days a week,” he says. “I’ll get in at around

eleven, check the news and start writing jokes, basically! Every now and then a producer will say ‘I’ve got this script about Barnaby Joyce and I need some jokes,’ so we’ll work on that. Sometimes we’ll have an interview and a producer will need some funny questions to put to the guest. So you’re either writing jokes or punching up someone else’s script.

It’s a good way to stay active in comedy throughout the day.

By Peter Hodgson

“I’m talking about sex. And algorithms.

And the circus. Even tinned tuna.

So, something for everyone, really.”

Kitty Flanagan’s show, Smashing, hits the Athenaeum Theatre from Tuesday April 10 until Sunday April 22 (bar Monday) as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Tickets are available via the MICF website.

“I’ve always wanted to do comedy in different scenes, because each scene has its own culture and its own idea of what’s funny.”

Catch Michael Shafar at Trades Hall’s Music Room on Thursday April 12 and Thursday April 19 – 21 as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Tickets are available via the MICF website.

Interviews

Kwame Asante

The Best of Edinburgh Fest

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The Best of Edinburgh Fest is serving up only the finest comedy acts, a triple-whammy of talent that guarantees to have the crowd roaring with laughter. The lineup consists of the brilliant Alfie Brown, Kwame Asante and John Hastings, who will each perform their part at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

“I started doing comedy back in secondary school, basically a friend dared me to do it at one of the talent shows,” says Asante. “I’d already been waffling a bit of stand-up, I think I was 16 or 17 years old at the time, so I thought I’d give it a go.”

“It was a sweet gig, and then when I turned 18 I started doing some gigs in the London open mic circuit. It was much more like a realistic experience of what stand-up comedy was like, but I stuck at it, found my voice and just kept going with it.”

The creative element of comedy appeals to Asante, embracing the multitude of ways of performing and making people laugh.

“It’s nice how comedians have a blank canvas and a common end goal, it’s inspiring. I just do standup storytelling mainly, but I like that people can do different things, and I find all forms of comedy entertaining.

“For me, my favourite bit about comedy has always been writing a new joke and tweaking it. The best feeling is the first time you feel it click, and then it clicks with the audience. That’s why I always try to

take the opportunity to write stories and make them better and better.”

Asante’s routine isn’t themed. Rather, it explores all facets of everyday life.

“Some nights I’ll be talking about medicine, sometimes I’ll be talking about my family growing up, I’ll also tell stories about my mum, so there’s going to be a bit of variety and I think it’ll be nice.”

It’s certainly interesting that Asante will be telling stories about medicine, considering he’s a doctor. He has an amazing knack for balancing his profession with his stand-up comedy.

“I went to medical school in central London and that’s where I picked up more on comedy,” Asante says. “My uni was right in the heart of London and I lived right in the middle of the London comedy scene, so it was quite easy to balance a medical degree with doing comedy gigs because there wasn’t that much travelling at all.”

While he was at medical school, Asante initially wouldn’t talk about medicine at his gigs, since comedy was more of an escape and a hobby for him. He now

delves into his medical experiences for his stand-up comedy.

“It’s been almost three years that I’ve been working as a doctor, and more of my life is spent in hospital. I’m meeting people and getting stories now, so I talk about medicine more at my stand-up.

Although, I still like to mix it up, so my show isn’t entirely about being a doctor.”

Asante had first witnessed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival when he was working in the Royal Melbourne Hospital as part of a six week elective. That’s when he began to appreciate the scale of the event, and the amount of talent it showcases.

“For me it’s just a big honour to have been invited out by Mary Tobin and given the opportunity to perform, I did my first ever gig in Australia yesterday, and it all went really smoothly and everyone laughed in the right places.”

Flat Out Doing Nothing

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Whatever it means to be a “true Aussie,” we should all be able to agree that Harley Breen qualifies.

With a laconic, rough-aroundthe-edges style, Breen has racked up awards from Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne’s Spleen Bar.

Breen. “Everyone there was great, but you can’t say ‘fuck’ and you can’t talk about this or that because legal are listening. It was a challenge leaving a secure job, the first secure job I’ve had as an entertainer. But if you’re just safe and secure and comfortable, what have you got to talk about?”

Breen now spends his days tinkering with carpentry projects – he’s currently working on a fox-proof chicken coop – and spending time with his wife and kids. Though Breen is the most laidback bloke you’re likely to meet outside of Surfers Paradise, he’s never really off the clock when it comes to his act.

“Comedy is not a thing where you go, ‘Oh, I might do that,’ and then you rock up on the night and you do it,” says Breen. “There’s months of me sitting in a café or in my backyard or riding my bike, just staring into the distance and waiting for those moments to appear in my mind so that I can convert them to something that I’m performing onstage.”

After Flat Out Doing Nothing, Breen has plans to

Kwame Asante will be performing as part of The Best of Edinburgh Fest every night, excluding Mondays, until Sunday April 22. Catch the show at ACMI – Cinema 2, tickets are available via the MICF website.

By Christine Tsimbis

Harley Breen

“Just because you sound like an ocker Aussie, doesn’t mean you don’t have deep thoughts,” says Breen.

With his well-trimmed chevron moustache and a penchant for checked flannel shirts, Breen could be a Fitzroy native, but the comedian grew up in rural Queensland, where life moves a bit slower. In his new show, Flat Out Doing Nothing, Breen asks if many career men aren’t just noodling their lives away.

“Men are so busy, but we’re not actually engaging in life,” says Breen. “We’re not actually engaging the parts of life we should be. So, why are you so busy, mate?

You’re actually doin’ nothing. These busy days of trivial pursuits are not actually what life is about. Moments of engagement with friends and family are what we’re actually meant to be spending our time doing.”

You may wonder what qualifies a stand-up comedian to talk about the nine-to-five, but Breen speaks from experience. In November 2017, Breen quit his job as a breakfast presenter on Sydney’s 2Day FM in order to do stand-up full-time. Getting up at 4am and speaking to an invisible audience through a microphone made it tougher to deliver authentic humour, he says.

“Breakfast radio is just filling space between other noise while people are off to their jobs,” says

“It’s nice how comedians have a blank canvas and a common end goal, it’s inspiring.

I like that people can do different things, and I find all forms of comedy entertaining.”

help launch a comedy TV program, but he’ll always have a foot in the stand-up club scene, he says.

“My preference is always for the biggest room that’s full – it’s good for the bank balance, isn’t it?” laughs Breen. “But, really, whatever the room is, so long as it’s full of people who want to see me, we’re gonna have a good night.”

By Zachary Snowdon Smith

“These busy days of trivial pursuits are not actually what life is about.

Moments of engagement with friends and family are what we’re actually meant to be spending our time doing.”

Catch Harley Breen at Mantra on Russell from Tuesday April 10 until Sunday April 22 (bar Monday) as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Tickets are available via the MICF website.

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Ivan Aristeguieta

Matador

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Ivan Aristeguieta was a trained chef when he arrived from Venezuela in 2012. Since then, he’s pivoted from the culinary arts to comedy – not as big of a change as you might think.

“Creating something and then sharing it and seeing the reaction – I think it’s a bit similar to stand-up,” says Aristeguieta. “That feedback creates a moment of pleasure that’s beautiful. My thoughts are constantly on recipes and jokes.”

Aristeguieta has notched up awards at the Sydney Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe with his cheerful and boisterous act from an outsider’s perspective. Taking on traditions like spaghetti on toast, smashed avocados and Bunnings sausage sizzles, Aristeguieta shows Australian audiences the absurdity lurking everywhere in day-to-day life.

“I think having the view of an outsider is a privilege, a beautiful thing,” says Aristeguieta. “But I know I will keep thinking a bit more like an Aussie.

Maybe one day in the future, if there’s a case of ball tampering in cricket, I will feel very offended. At the moment, I just go, ‘Hmm, this is interesting.’”

Aristeguieta’s grandfather was a passionate fan of bullfighting, owning one of the most extensive bullfighting libraries in the world. Aristeguieta loved his grandfather, but now agrees with the Australian consensus that bullfighting is inhumane. His new show, Matador, finds the humour in the tug-of-war between tradition and modernity.

“I remember growing up in a place where there were bull heads on the walls,” he says. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be a matador, but then, when I grew up, I realised it’s cruel and violent. When you become an immigrant, you change a lot. You find

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“When you become an immigrant, you change a lot. You find yourself asking, ‘Who am I? Who am I today?’” yourself asking, ‘Who am I? Who am I today?’”

His act may be rowdy as a pub on Grand Final Day, but Aristeguieta crafts his routines as carefully as a chef. After the Matador tour, Aristeguieta will perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – his first hour-long set in front of a non-Australian audience.

“The craft of stand-up depends on how well you can make people see the world the way you see it, so they can laugh with you,” explains Aristeguieta.

“The trick of stand-up is getting people to see the joke from your perspective. If you have to explain the joke, you didn’t do it well.”

Aristeguieta is a seeker of duende, a kind of creative inspiration that the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca described as “the mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained.”

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When a comedian feels the duende, he can reach audiences even across cultural gaps.

“Bullfighting is a delusional search for duende,” says Aristeguieta. “The matador is looking for that irrational emotion, the desperation to create something beautiful. Comedians say, when you do well, you kill, and when you don’t do well, you die.

That’s the jargon that we use. So, somehow, I have ended up being a matador.”

Catch Ivan Aristeguieta at the Victoria Hotel as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival from Tuesday April 10 until Sunday April 22 (bar Monday). Tickets are available via the MICF website.

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Few people would sit down and watch a commercial for fun. Collingwood-based menswear label James Harper aims to change that with Restless, a short film that takes apart the conventions of fashion advertising.

“Personally, I’m a bit over fashion commercials that are just slo-mo beauty shots,” says director Darcy Conlan of Impel Pictures. “It’s very in vogue at the moment, because it’s an easy way to make things look good…Anything will look interesting in slow motion.”

Conlan, whose idea of haute couture is a black t-shirt, wanted to create a strong mood that would leave an impression on viewers, without intrusive close-ups of the clothes themselves. The result is a frenetic 95-second slice of Melbourne nightlife that feels more like a music video than like a commercial.

“We were trying to capture an atmosphere and a mood of palpable energy,” says Conlan. “If people get involved with that and feel that visceral energy, they’re going to remember the name ‘James Harper’.

There’s quite a few shots where the clothes are there, but it’s not obvious, like, ‘look at this’.”

Restless, which promotes James Harper’s 2018 winter line, features models dancing and riding skateboards and shopping trolleys through the deserted nightscape of the Melbourne CBD. To anchor the film, Conlan turned to busker Paul Guseli. Guseli, who pounds out high-octane rhythms on a drum kit made of pots, pans, license plates and fire extinguishers, is one of Melbourne’s most identifiable street performers.

“I think everyone’s heard him at some point,” says Conlan. “He’s kind of the unofficial soundtrack of the city. I’d heard him for years and I’d wanted to feature him in a film for ages, so, when this came along, I approached him. I thought he would be a bit of a wild card – I was a bit apprehensive. But, when I told him about the project, he was so keen to get involved.

Conlan collaborated with James Harper in 2017, advertising their summer collection, but Restless was a far more demanding and experimental project, he says.

“On this shoot, there were times when we were really pushing it,” says Conlan. “If we hadn’t got a good

take and we were pushing on time, we kept pushing until we got the right take. No one cared if we wrapped on time. People cared if what we got was right.”

Guseli praises Conlan’s ability to motivate models and crew to work 14-hour nights, keeping the focus on creating a strong product.

“People these days, they lag, they talk, but this guy – he just goes out and conquers,” says Guseli. “I call Darcy ‘espresso café’ because he’s full of beans.

The people around him look for direction, and he’s got the confidence to give that.”

For one scene, Conlan wanted to shoot a model wandering through a deserted Bourke St Mall, which required waiting until 4am.

“We were doing run-and-gun, guerilla shooting,” says Conlan. “We wanted to shoot when it was dead quiet, so we could get that kind of eerie vibe. When we got there, we were very low-key, but, straight away, a cop car rolled up.”

Conlan expected the officer to order them to clear out, but Guseli walked confidently up to the car – it turned out that the officer was a fan of Guseli’s music.

“I was ready for [the officer] to can us, but he just said, ‘If anyone’s causing you any trouble, just let them know that you guys are fine by me,’” says Conlan.

“Having that tick of approval was really nice.”

For a nightclub scene, Conlan transformed one corner of a clothes warehouse into a dance floor.

“When you’re gathering people together for a nightclub scene, usually people are pretty stiff and self-conscious, because it’s 7pm and they haven’t had a drink,” says Conlan. “But after two songs, everyone was getting into it. It came out better than we’d hoped, by far.”

Conlan spent another memorable White Night shooting a scene at a carwash with a pair of hip hop dancers. Guseli’s exuberant drumming attracted onlookers, and Conlan had to juggle directing the scene and dealing with a broken-down car. This

improvisational style of shooting was a major pivot from the fine-tuned storyboarding of Conlan’s previous film for James Harper.

“There was just constant chaos and noise – there was a Maccas literally behind us, with 20 people watching, like, ‘What the hell’s going on?’” laughs Conlan. “It was very logistically challenging, but we got some great stuff.”

Conlan, who studied filmmaking at Swinburne, drew inspiration from frenzied cinematography of Trainspotting director Danny Boyle while working on Restless. There’s no reason advertising films shouldn’t be considered art, says Conlan, or why fashion commercials should trade in inoffensive visual clichés.

“A lot of people I admire have come from advertising,” says Conlan. “They’ve got this ability to contain a story in 30 seconds, which is so much harder than you initially think.”

The degree of cross-pollination between advertising and theatrical cinema is greater than the casual filmgoer may realise: Ridley Scott’s commercial for the Apple Mac has outlived the product it advertises, and even David Lynch took time out between Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart to direct a series of commercials for Calvin Klein.

Conlan hopes that Restless will succeed in drawing attention to James Harper’s winter line, validating the label’s decision to give him creative freedom on the project.

“James Harper were very trusting,” says Conlan.

“After hearing from a lot of friends who have been on set for fashion commercials where there’s this sense that the client is looming overhead and dominating everything, I feel like I’ve been spoilt a little bit.”

“A lot of people I admire have come from advertising,” says Conlan.

“They’ve got this ability to contain a story in 30 seconds, which is so much harder than you initially think.”

Darcy Conlan’s short film Restless is out now.

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The Wonder Years

By Gloria Brancatisano

It started out with a series of mysterious, unlabelled seven-inch records arriving in letter boxes – “The world is not as big as I have once believed...” rang out the opening line of the spoken word poem on one side. “I left pins on a map...Tie them together. Unite us,” it finished.

Fifteen posters spread across 15 locations around the world – from New York to Barcelona, London to Toronto, Glasgow to Melbourne – fans were sent on a universal scavenger hunt. The end result – news of The Wonder Years’ sixth album, Sister Cities.

“We always want to do something special.

Something that is unlike anything else you’ve ever seen when a record gets released. We believe that if we put all of this time and energy into making the record, everything surrounding the record should get an equal amount of time and energy and be just as special,” says the band’s vocalist Dan “Soupy” Campbell.

“The record is about connecting with people across oceans, across languages, across cultures. About connecting with one another and realizing how similar you are to people that you thought you were very different from. With that in mind, we thought ‘We have fans in all of these places, and they don’t necessarily communicate, but they already have something in common. They already like this music, they already like our band. Maybe if they talked to one another, it would help illuminate the point of the record.’”

The idea of connection, of exploring the different ways in which people and places are intrinsically linked without even knowing it, is one that slowly unfolded over the course of The Wonder Years’ last few years on the road. Memories scrawled down in journals and moments frozen in photographs from across the band’s mammoth two-year world tour following 2015’s No Closer To Heaven provided the foundation for Sister Cities to grow.

The album’s title track came to life following a cancelled performance in Chile – lost and feeling helpless, a group of local fans eventually helped The Wonder Years put together an impromptu show. Album opener ‘Raining In Kyoto’ is based on another moment of kindness from strangers. After the passing of Campbell’s grandfather while the band were in Japan, and unable to return home for the funeral service, Campbell went to a shrine. Here – and at his most vulnerable – an older man showed him how to pull on a piece of fabric that rang a bell.

Other moments on the album are more solitary, like the hydrangea bushes lining a road in Costa Rica that reminded Campbell of the same flowers drying out in his in-law’s basement back home, inspiring ‘Flowers Where Your Face Should Be’.

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connected to other places that you didn’t think about before, those kept slowly revealing themselves to us. Growing up, we were outside Philadelphia, in a smaller suburb, and my family didn’t have a lot of money, and we didn’t go a lot of places. We went on vacation once a year, to the New Jersey Shore, so about an hour and a half away, and that was as far away from home as I really got,” says Campbell.

“The world seems massive when the only experience you get with other cultures is what you see on the news, or what you see in a book. It can feel very different. You start to think about other countries almost as other planets. A lot gets made of differences, but then when you actually go to these places, the thing that I found most awesome was that people were very much like me in a lot of very core ways. They were very kind, and showed the same humanity that I have.”

Outside of the stories of humanity and connection that underpin the record, Sister Cities is also the result of a band ready and willing to push themselves further and harder than they ever have before.

“On this record, one of the big things we had was time – we could push everything, we could push each other to be different, to be interesting, to be better, to not always take the way that comes most naturally, and not just fall back into habits but to try to make something that pushes our boundaries,” says Campbell.

“Despite the fact that we write them all together, every song has to start somewhere. If the song starts with me, I have some lyrics and I get an acoustic guitar, and I figure out the melody and the chord changes [but] I leave it very blank, very open. There’s no implied feel, so that we can build it together.”

This building process is most evident in ‘The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me’. Through experimenting with everything from time signature and pacing to drum sounds, guitar and bass, the sprawling, six-minute album closer came to life.

“I remember the first time we got there, and we got to the bridge, and I had my eyes closed, and I was singing it, and I thought, ‘Did we write this song?

Is this us? It sounds like what I wished I could’ve written.’ And by all of us pushing each other to do something different, and take a risk, we wrote what I think is the best song the band’s ever written. If that’s the last song this band writes – and we’re not planning on this being it – but if that’s the last song this band

writes, I will have been totally fulfilled by it.”

Sister Cities is the result of 13 years of experience, of a band who’ve worked tirelessly to go farther and perfect their craft. The final product is quite possibly – and from Campbell’s point of view – the best record the band has ever made. “There’s no way to come off where you don’t sound like a jerk, or that you’re selfcentred, but what I’ll say is: we finished the first three songs, we had them demoed, and I thought, ‘All three of these songs are better than several of our entire records.’ And that’s a really good start. A tone was set, we don’t want to write anything where we’re feeling like it’s not keeping pace with the first three. I thought, ‘If any of these were the single from any other record, it would have been perfect,’” says Campbell.

Now, with the album out in the world, Campbell hopes above all else that Sister Cities will help people think about the world outside of their towns, and maybe, just maybe, dissolve some of those borders keeping people apart.

“If I have to give a dream for it, like a fantasy about how the record could impact people, what I would love is, if you maybe grew up in a town like I grew up in, if the world seems very big to you, and people seem very different, and maybe you’re hearing a lot of people talk about how different they are.

Maybe you’re being told that these people who you’ve never met, and may never meet, are your enemies in some way, or threaten your way of life – I’d like you to know that they’re not so different,” Campbell says.

“They’re very much like you, and in your head, maybe it feels like you’re very important, and I think that you are. But everybody else is just as important, and just as valuable. It’s important to see the ways that we’re alike and concentrate more on that.

“We’re different too, but we’re different in beautiful, interesting ways. Not in destructive, caustic ways.”

“It’s important to see the ways that we’re alike and concentrate more on that. We’re different too, but we’re different in beautiful, interesting ways. Not in destructive, caustic ways.”

The Wonder Years’ sixth studio album Sister Cities is out now via Hopeless Records.

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Stereophonics It’s customary to begin articles on Stereophonics with the band’s résumé: their five consecutive UK number-one records, their numerous top-10 singles and their headline gigs at stadiums and castles. But people who see Stereophonics as a machine for grinding out platinum records are missing the point, says frontman Kelly Jones.

“Accolades and trophies and all that – they’re all right,” says Jones. “For me, it’s about the music standing the test of time. That’s a lot more important to me than a great review or a number one. People forget who was number one, but they don’t forget if the song’s any good. I don’t know what number Bowie’s Heroes went on the charts… Kubrick never won Best Director, nor did Charlie Chaplin.”

In a period when artists and executives alike are transfixed by the power of the trending hashtag, Jones stays clear of social media, and couldn’t tell you what the highest-played Stereophonics song on Spotify is.

“Labels are starting to look too hard at likes and views and streams,” says Jones. “They’re not really giving new artists a chance. It’s all become based on figures, whereas, in the past, there was just a feeling of what’s good and what’s not good. I don’t think art should be based on statistics.”

Of course, thanks to social media, there are many places in the world where rock music has arrived ahead of running water. Jones appreciates the fact that streaming allows Stereophonics to make fans of people who have never been inside a record store.

“We played Mexico City just before Christmas, and they knew every word to every song that we’d released in 20 years,” says Jones. “Stuff like that is amazing. I’m into the Spotify and Apple Music stuff on that front.”

Stereophonics are now on the road with Scream Above the Sounds, a stampeding, U2-esque album tailored for the stadium. The band arrives in Australia Wednesday April 25 for their first-ever gig at the Sydney Opera House. Following a jaunt up to Brisbane, Stereophonics will swing by Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on Monday April 30. This tour will let Stereophonics connect with its emerging younger fanbase and give audiences a festive and uplifting evening out, explains Jones.

“There’s a lot of bombardment of doom and gloom in the world, at the minute, so our show is very celebratory,” he says. “It takes you on a lot of dynamic and musical shifts, but the end of the show is very jubilant, so people walk out of there in high spirits.”

Though Stereophonics haven’t played Australia since 2013, Jones may be the UK’s best-known AC/ DC fanboy, and doesn’t miss a chance to pick up AC/DC imports when touring Down Under.

“We’ve been lucky along the way, getting to do Bowie’s last tour, and The Stones and The Who,” says Jones. “The only band I never got to tour with which I loved was AC/DC. If I could have toured with AC/DC around Highway to Hell or Back in Black, I would have been very happy.”

After the Scream Above the Sounds tour, Jones plans to hunker down at the band’s own Stylus Studios in London and begin piecing together the next album. The band usually works up a large body of demo material from which they pick the best tracks. In fact, Jones’s hand recorder is already full of songs that might go into the next album, he says.

“In the past, you’d book a studio for three months and make an album,” says Jones. “This is a much nicer way of working, having more to choose from. It’s a bit like having 20 players in a squad and you pick the best 11 for the game.”

For Jones, music is a cyclical process. Once he’s spent a while on the road, he’s ready to return to the studio, and vice versa.

“They both irritate you so much that you want to do the other thing,” laughs Jones. “When you get to the end of a tour, maybe a year in, you start getting a bit fidgety and you want to record some new songs. By the time you’ve finished a record, you can’t wait to go out and play live. So, thankfully, I get to do them both.”

“When you grow up on the road, you don’t have the opportunity to be alone,” says Chamberlain.

“Everyone else is hanging out, so if you try and do something on your own other people are like, ‘What the fuck is wrong with that guy?’ You just don’t have that opportunity to dive into yourself. When Underoath broke up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

It’s weird. It sounds petty I guess – ‘Oh, cry me a river, your band broke up’. To the outside world, you’re Spencer from Underoath. And all of a sudden you’re not. You’re just that guy who used to be in a band.

People treated me different, in the industry and out.

You start to see things for what they are, and for me, I just needed to not be somewhere super familiar. I wanted to make myself a little uncomfortable, and living in a city like that, I threw myself out there and just did it. Would I do it again? Probably not. Would I take it back? Hell no.”

The city in question is New York, where Chamberlain moved after Underoath parted ways

Catch Stereophonics at the Forum on Monday April 30.

By Zachary Snowdon Smith

Underoath It’s likely that metalcore isn’t the first genre that springs to mind when someone mentions Christian music, which says more about popular conceptions of Christianity than it does about personal taste.

Underoath were never ones to push a spiritual message, and yet the expectations of the Christian community played a large role in why they broke up in the first place.

Having reformed and with a new album, Erase Me, out now, frontman Spencer Chamberlain reflects on the darkness and the light.

“Accolades and trophies and all that – they’re all right. For me, it’s about the music standing the test of time ... People forget who was number one, but they don’t forget if the song’s any good.”

“I’m a selfish songwriter. I want to write about things that make my ears perk up, I want to play it back in the studio and think, ‘That’s what I want to fucking listen to in my car.

That’s the song. I don’t care about anything else.” in 2015. It was a place so busy he could at last be alone and, in the parlance of our times, get his shit together. It gave him time to gather his thoughts, and identify what had caused the band to drift apart in the first place. It ultimately led to the best writing and recording Underoath have experienced.

“We worked harder on this album than we ever have before in our entire career. That’s because we had the time to do so, and we’re smarter than we were.

We’ve grown up, we know how to work together and communicate. We never did that before. We fought through every record. Making a record was the fucking worst before. [Now] we all compromise and play off each others best, and try and push each other in the right directions as opposed to putting each other down in our own ways.”

A fundamental aspect of their evolution and struggle has been dealing with their respective personal demons, but also grappling with faith and the religious community. Having come through the other side, Chamberlain has found the peace of mind he always craved.

“I try not to really care. But yeah, the Christian community has hated me I feel since 2006, when I

got kicked out of the band for drug use the first time.

That’s not really a market I was ever concerned with.

I wanted to spread love and honesty to people who were just like me, who felt a little lost or wronged or depressed, dealing with addiction. Those were the people that I was speaking to. Songs are for everyone, but I never worried what the Christian community was going to think. I never felt like I was a part of it.

Not to say I didn’t think of myself as a believer at a certain point, I just didn’t feel comfortable in it. I didn’t feel like I belonged. Those people never really showed me much acceptance and made me feel like an outsider. So, I always wrote and sang for the outsiders. That was what I felt, and still feel a lot of times. I still write for people that need music the way that I do. I don’t really care what the Christian community really has to say about us. It doesn’t effect me. I’m a selfish songwriter. I want to write about things that make my ears perk up, I want to play it back in the studio and think, ‘That’s what I want to fucking listen to in my car. That’s the song. I don’t care about anything else.”

Underoath’s new album Erase Me is out now via Fearless Records and Caroline Australia.

By Adam Norris

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The Hard Aches Musos are in thrall to the image of the mad genius. From Brahms to Bowie and onward, mental illness and addiction are almost required to finish the picture of the tormented visionary.

Now, indie-punk twosome The Hard Aches are setting out to demystify mental illness with their new album Mess. Turning concert crowds into ad hoc support groups, the band hope to weaken the stigma surrounding anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions, says frontman Ben David.

“I think the ‘woe is me, my life’s so hard’ attitude is an easy, cop-out way to write music,” says David.

“Artists glorifying their own mental health issues doesn’t put that positive spin on it for the people who are listening to it. The message just comes out as, ‘Well, we’re sad too, so we can all be sad together.’

But it’s deeper than that: we can all be sad together, but we can also get better together.”

David and bandmate Alex Upton recorded Mess over a punishing three weeks at Holes & Corners studio in Southbank, working six days per week and then flying out to play live on weekends. David and Upton were joined by guest vocalists including Craig Selak of the Bennies and Jeff Rosenstock. Producer Sam Johnson, whose credits include records by the Smith Street Band and Camp Cope, stepped up to mix the album.

“It was nice setting ourselves such a tight deadline, because it meant there was no fucking around,” says David. “We got in there and got it done…We didn’t have a chance to stop and think – it was go, go, go.”

The result is a DIY-flavoured slice of lyrics driven alt-punk that delivers a message about mental health without reducing itself to a sonic pamphlet.

As much as mental health is a serious topic, we’re not a ‘serious’ band in that you’re not gonna have to

“We all have a lot of the same experiences with mental health. It made me want to put that on paper.

The words just fell out onto the paper.” sit there and listen so intensely that you’re not going to enjoy it,” says David. “We’re just more conscious of what we’re saying and how we’re saying it.”

“I haven’t slept in a week / too much thinking to get done,” sings David on ‘Happy’, a single recorded in duet with friend of the band Georgia Beq of Camp Cope. One of Mess’ most intimately autobiographical tracks, ‘Happy’ tells the story of finding that a previously “strong” friend was suffering from mental health difficulties, says David. “‘Happy’ is probably the song off the record that I most vividly remember putting together,” he says.

“I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who was having a hard time, and I was seeing a side that I hadn’t seen before of this person who’s really dear to me, whom I’ve always seen as this really strong person. It really knocked me back because it resonated with me and my own experiences. It made me really realise that we all have a lot of the same experiences with mental health. It made me want to put that on paper. The words just fell out onto the paper.”

Now, The Hard Aches are spreading Mess across Australia, joined by punk act Antonia and the Lazy Susans and “literature-rock” three-piece Sincerely, Grizzly. The Mess tour includes a stop

at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Friday April 13, where The Hard Aches will be supported by ‘90s-nostalgia rockers Face Face.

“You’re not alone if you come to a show – you have a big support network of people you may not even have met,” says David. “We try really hard to promote a space where everybody feels welcome. We want everybody to feel like they can go up to anyone and become friends.”

The band are also collaborating on a campaign with Don’t Fret Club, a program aiming to educate musicians and fans about conditions like anxiety and depression by way of zines, podcasts and events.

“I want to shine a light on mental health in a different way than I have ever done before,” says David. “We’re trying to break that stigma of mental illness being a weakness and say that it’s okay to feel shitty, but we’re here for you, so it’s okay to ask for help…This isn’t just a publicity stunt. It’s something that we feel strongly about, and it’s going to be prominent in everything we do.”

By Zachary Snowdon Smith

Vera Blue ‘Lady Powers’ isn’t the first song that has made folks sit up and pay attention to Vera Blue, but it has certainly lit a fire within many listeners. It has become the anthem of the season, a missive of respect and strength that has found a second life with the Lady Powers Remix EP. Ahead of its release and an approaching national tour, we chat to Vera (aka Celia Pavey) about inspiration, names, and what happens when you hear your own song on the radio.

“I don’t think I’ll ever get over it,” she laughs. “I’m used to hearing my stuff played on triple j, which is amazing, but when it’s beginning to get played on other stations I haven’t been played on before, it’s quite an interesting thing. We were in the car the other night on our way back from dinner, and ‘Lady Powers’ was played by Ash London, so that’s really cool. I always still get excited when I’m in the car and a song [of mine] comes on. It’s the best thing ever.

I totally sing along. I’m not shy about that kind of thing, or awkward. I don’t drive much in Sydney, but when I’m in the car with my friends we’ll start singing it really loudly.”

Vera is clearly excited about the way the song has caught on with so many people, but she is also one to speak about her art quite seriously, with depth and thoughtfulness. The Lady Powers Remix EP has allowed her to experience the meaning of the song anew, reinterpreted by some of the strongest producers out there – who also all happen to be women.

“The lyrics relate to a lot of women, hopefully.

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We had this idea that we wanted to involve more women in the song, so we sent the song out to female producers that we really liked, and they connected with the song. It was amazing. I think the first remix was Alice Ivy’s, and I was mind blown by the way they’ve reinterpreted the song and the way they’ve used and put lyrics in certain spots. TOKiMONSTA, the American producer, the first lyrics that she used were from the bridge, and that was really powerful, and it’s what sums up the whole song as well. It was really interesting and exciting. They’ve added extra beats, or moments that have enhanced the song in their own way, which is really special.”

Just as Vera is discovering artists who are finding inspiration within her songs, so is she learning new insights into herself and the world at large. “[The songs] are stuff I sometimes just need to get out of my system, I need to say, something that I need to put on paper. A few of the songs that have been happening lately have been recognising my surroundings, the things that are going on that are other than myself. I think that’s where the evolution might be happening. I’m figuring out different ways to write, and being inspired by different artists.”

Catch The Hard Aches at the Corner Hotel Friday April 13. Their album, Mess, is also out Friday April 13 from Anchorhead. Singles ‘Mess’ and ‘Happy’ are available now.

By chance, the friends who first introduced me to Vera Blue’s music were preparing to welcome their first child into the world – a girl – and had yet to decide on a name. Given I wasn’t sure of Celia’s own reasons for choosing Vera Blue, she seemed like a fitting font of suggestions.

“It really depends, if I was going to have a baby now I’d probably go with the name of somebody that I’m inspired by, or felt close to. Something that you can connect or relate to. Or a name that you think just sounds sweet. I liked Vera because Vera Wang Princess was my first perfume, and as a designer [she] is incredible anyway. The name has this cool, classic vibe. Whenever I hear it, I love knowing that their name is Vera. It’s just a cool name, you know? And both of my parents are red-heads, and they used to get called Blue back in the day.”

Which isn’t the entire story of how Vera Jean Masters came to be born on 25/03/2018, but at least she’ll know she’s not the only one who thinks she has a sweet name.

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“A few of the songs that have been happening lately have been recognising my surroundings, the things that are going on that are other than myself.

I think that’s where the evolution might be happening.”

Vera Blue’s Lady Power Ladies Remix EP drops Friday April 13th. Catch her at Groovin The Moo in Bendigo, VIC on Saturday May 5, and The Forum on Saturday June 2 at Sunday June 3.

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Ability Fest Coburg Velodrome Saturday April 7

Triple J presenter Dylan Allcott couldn’t have picked a better day to bless the public with the country’s first and only completely inclusive, fully accessible music festival, Ability Fest. Announced last year, the festival promised that every single patron would be able to enjoy the festival to the absolute fullest, with the focus on providing for the festival’s less-abled patrons so that they too could enjoy the day without restrictions. Allcott and his crew delivered on what was promised in spades.

The venue itself offered two huge viewing platforms flanking either side of the Main Stage, as well as one overseeing the D-floor at the Dance Stage. Each platform was complete with their own set of security guards ensuring the space was regulated, so that the less-abled patrons who actually needed the space were given first preference and prime viewing position.

Running through and surrounding the Velodrome was a plastic grating track that ran the entire length of the festival to ensure complete accessibility. The festival had organised both separate disability toilets right next to the Main Stage area for ease of access, as well as a private additional emergency disability toilet area, also with accessible shower facilities.

London Topaz, warmed up the Main Stage nicely with his stripped-back, pop-tinged dance stylings. Singer Rory Burnside was reminiscent of an Aussie Jarvis Cocker with his effortless swagger; definitely a band to catch. Neo-soul outfit Big Words delivered a lush, super-sleek set, before Melbourne darlings Japanese Wallpaper produced some loved-out synth pop.

On the Main Stage, Jack River hammered out a killer set of country-tinged indie-pop that had the crowd singing along with every word, and following that was electro-soul sweethearts BOO SEEKA who had the audience entranced with their absolutely relentless energy. Speaking of relentless energy, the irrepressible Tkay Maidza turned out to be an absolute favourite set of the day.

Maidza was a one-woman non-stop powerhouse.

She truly claimed the stage as her own, before having it snatched right back by Kingswood who stomped through a cracking set of pure raw fury.

Over on the Dance Stage, one personal highlight turned out to be the sleeper set of the day – the unstoppable Mr. Ivan Ooze who straight up murdered the stage with their hectic brand of hardcore punk-trap that left the crowd breathless and gagging for more. Another highlight of Dance Stage’s after-dark offerings was Harvey Sutherland, who ripped out a classic set of funk and disco cuts that kept the floor full to the brim well into the night.

The festival headliner at the Main Stage – a double-header DJ set from Client Liason and Flight Facilities – was billed as ‘back-to-back’ DJ sets, but it should have read ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’.

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and trading off between songs almost arm-inarm, with Client Liason’s unstoppable front-man Monte Morgan cutting shapes like a madman.

Morgan was on absolute fire, acting almost as comic relief after such a long day. At one point he called to backstage for an “ice cold Fosters!” and handed out cartons of the world-famous (and well-loathed) Australian beer to the crowd, and at another point asked “who here’s hungry?” before handing out tray after tray of oysters to Kylie’s “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”. You can trust Client Liaison to bring a touch of class to every event. The double-act held an a-capella crowd singalong to the unofficial National Anthem, Farnesy’s “You’re the Voice”, before handing over the mic to festival organiser Dylan Allcott so that he could have the final word: “The only difference between every other music festival and this one is... there is no difference. Every festival in the world should be like this. It was important to put Ability Fest on today, so that we could show the world just how easy it is to be this inclusive, and to cater to everybody, so that nobody gets left out”.

Amen to that. Thank you Dylan, may the rest of Australia follow your incredibly impressive lead.

By Joshua Turk Highlight: Tkay Maidza.

Lowlight: Wearing a white tee shirt to a festival, and dropping the last bit of my delicious gelato.

Crowd favourite: Client Liason + Flight Facilities DJ Set.

First Aid Kit

Croxton Bandroom, Thursday April 5 Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg have proven their sincerity after initial quips of appropriating classic Americana. Touring in support of their fourth album Ruins, First Aid Kit have proven that folk can still tug at the heart strings.

Supporting them was Australian local Stella Donnelly, who has the humorous observational eye of Courtney Barnett and backs up her wry remarks with a superb vocal range and intricate guitar licks akin to Laura Marling.

Donnelly is a local treasure and a perfect opening act for First Aid Kit. Thematically, a haunting track titled ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ is explained as a song written about a friends experience with sexual assault, and how victim blaming dictates societal narratives in regards to these issues. It’s an incredible centrepiece to a set book-ended with charm and humour, and compliments First Aid Kit’s message in their set when they perform ‘You are the Problem Here’.

Stella Donnelly was a wonderful support, and without a doubt stole many hearts among the audience.

First Aid Kit open their show with Ruins’ grandiose opener ‘Rebel Heart’. In what is

First Aid Kit - Zo Damage

ostensibly a break-up album, Klara sings through a clenched jaw about the bad habits that a heart may still desire. First Aid Kit’s music has always balanced a woozy sense of melancholy, however there is an aura of pain and healing with Ruins which implies something more personal than prior releases. Continuing on with a muscular rendition of ‘It’s A Shame’, it’s clear that the longevity of First Aid Kit has proven how ambitious they continue to be.

Even the whimsy of older hits such as ‘The Lion’s Roar’ or ‘Stay Gold’ sound slightly weightier, with the sisters harmonies as angelic as ever, and with songs both old and new they turn these songs of pain into places of solidarity. Singing with their Scandi-southern twangs now reads as dedication to a genre they adore than a gimmick, and with their enraged and empowered harmonies over their single ‘You Are The Problem Here’, in which they call out toxic masculine behaviour and sexual assault, you can see Klara relish in the line “I hope you fucking suffer”.

Johanna and Klara are wonderfully warm and receptive to the crowd. Thanking and bowing in between songs with beaming smiles on their faces.

There’s a real appreciation for the work they get to do and for the audience that they have garnered over the years, and the semi-confidence they have when remarking on their latest album is solidified with the wonderful reception it receives. The track ‘Fireworks’ gets requested by a fan early in the evening, and as they get closer towards the end of the set, the sisters dedicate the song to the warm heckler as a sign of appreciation. They are professional people-pleasers, and they’re very good at it. First Aid Kit will always remain sepia-tinged romantics, and closing out with ‘Silver Lining’ they demonstrate why their blend of Americana folkpop is so heartwarming even in a modern world.

By Eoin Hanlon Highlight: ‘You Are the Problem Here’ and crowd singalong to ‘Emmylou’ Lowlight: A couple sound hiccups during the start of the start of the set. They were quickly resolved though.

Crowd favourite: ‘Fireworks’, ‘Emmylou’ and ‘Silver Lining’.

The Jungle Giants 170 Russell, Friday April 6

Following a massive year, The Jungle Giants are back on the road with their Used To Be In Love Tour across Australia. Stopping over in Melbourne at a sold-out show at 170 Russell St, a crowd of new and old fans banded together to see their favourite Brisbane outfit. With supports, Evan Klar and Alice Ivy in tow, the room was full of energy.

The four-piece took the stage, welcomed by a massive roar across the room. Joining the band was a simple, yet robust stage set. The Jungle Giants kicked off the night with ‘On Your Way Down’ from last year’s Quiet Ferocity. The

The Jungle Giants - Harry Rae

building intensity of the first beat and electric guitar quickly excited the crowd. With the heavier drums and frontman, Sam Hale’s soft vocals joining in, each audience member was jumping simultaneously. The indie-rock group have a gift of producing a refined, upbeat track in-studio and then being able to take it to a live context and turn the intensity right up. Hale’s clear and calm vocals could attribute to this skill as it encourages the audience to sing along with every word.

The band powered through the set, blink and you could’ve missed the whole thing.

Drawing from The Jungle Giants’ three albums, the band played crowd favourites from Quiet Ferocity whilst paying homage to their roots off Learn to Exist. Stepping straight into one of their most known songs, ‘She’s A Riot’, the band didn’t let the crowd’s spirit dip for a moment.

Skimming past dancey tracks, ‘Anywhere Else’ and ‘Waiting For A Sign’, the band gave the audience a rest with a slower paced song. ‘You’ve Got Something’, was the deep breath and cool air the crowd needed before jumping back into it with the new album’s title track, ‘Quiet Ferocity’.

Loyal fans howled at the familiar sound of guitarist, Cesira Aitken’s opening riff to ‘I Am What You Want Me To Be’. Signalling the beginning of the non-stop dancing for three and a half minutes straight. Hales is an incredible hype man, ensuring that every person in the room is jumping together. Alongside bassist, Andrew Dooris who jumps around the stage with his quirky flare, the crowd is often left with no choice but to join in. ‘Bad Dream’ played next, the perfect transition song into The Jungle Giants’ more electro/pop sound they’ve adopted over the last two albums. Stretching into the title track of the tour, ‘Used To Be In Love’ played.

Writing Quiet Ferocity, Hales adopted a 9-5 schedule, leaving home each morning like a full-time job. The juxtaposition between the mundane concept of a full-time job and the absolute banger of an album is amusing.

Clearly, a writing technique that has worked in his favour. The band finally closed, ‘Feel the Way I Do’, arguably one of the biggest songs of 2017, reaching number 16 on triple j’s hottest 100. With the end of the night lurking close by, the audience gave all they had in the last few minutes of the set. The band finally left the stage with a swift cool change rushing over the audience as they all halted and cheered instead of jumping to the music. Over six months after the release of their most recent album, The Jungle Giants can’t seem to stray from touring.

The Jungle Giants will be back in Melbourne before too long for another two sold-out shows.

Here’s hoping the excitement of the shows will push along another release shortly.

By Matilda Elgood Highlight: Dooris’ eccentric dancing while still being able to play the bass flawlessly.

Lowlight: At the risk of sounding cliche’, the end.

Crowd Favourite: ‘Feel the Way I Do’.

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Reviews

Album of the Week (Poison City Records)

Charts

PBS Charts 1. ‘Amaro’ The Harpoons 2. ‘Loop’ Dungen/Woods 3. ‘Man in a Panic’ Debbie Downers 4. ‘Morning Breeze’ Melquiades 5. ‘I’m an Arabian Knight’ (Egyptian Lover Dub Mix) Shahara Ja 6. ‘Revenge’ (Ft. Rutendo Machiridza) The Maghreban 7. ‘Nont for Sale’ Sudan Archives 8. ‘Got Me Coming Back Rite Now’ Moodymann 9. ‘Close to Me’ Werewolves of Melbourne 10. ‘The Prodigal Son’ Ry Cooder

Mod Con

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Having evolved naturally out of Erica Dunn’s Palm Springs project, Mod Con has a debut album that breathes fresh air into the well-worn familiarity of barebones rock’n’roll. The trio of vocalist and guitarist Dunn, bassist Sara Retallick and drummer Raquel Solier approach each of these ten songs with passion, energy, inspiration and focus. Produced and recorded

by Gareth Liddiard and mastered

by Mikey Young, the record has a sonically clean characteristic, like the band are set up playing in a stark non-descript room. Rather than inferring any sterility, this simple approach plays to their powers as a live act—with barely any reliance on effects or use of auxiliary instruments, the focus is solely on the three players.

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9.0

Modern Convenience

Delivered with no small amount of punk attitude, the songs themselves are substantial, with many of the lyrics contemplating everyday self doubt and complicated emotions. ‘Tell Me Twice’ is an infectious contender for next single and showcases Mod Con’s combined strengths, as each instrument appears to be doing its own thing before locking in together at just the right moment. ‘Sad Times at the Hilton’ is a moody slow burner that showcases the subtlety of their playing, emphasising a tension that manifests itself in dynamic drumming and some slick guitar interplay. Dunn’s throaty vocal is a wonderful thing, capable of delivering nuanced emotion as well as a gleeful ‘don’t-give-a-fuck’ sneer, pushing constantly to fill every note with meaningful urgency.

Album closer ‘Get in Front of Me, Satan’ points out that Dunn has not completely left her folk music leanings behind, but even at a slower tempo the band sound dangerous and invigorated. Make no mistake; this is one of the great Australian rock records of the year.

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Albums

Reviews

Running

7.0

A Perfect Circle

Eat The Elephant

5.0

(I Oh You/ Mushroom Records)

(BMG)

(Barely Dressed Records)

Ryan Downey

City Calm Down

Echoes in Blue

9.0

Melbourne musician Ryan Downey’s debut LP Running could be one of the most unique sounding records this year. Downey doesn’t seek to emulate any particular musical genre, rather blending pop, rock and folk elements to create a unique style of his own.

Central to this album is Downey’s distinctive baritone voice which contains traces of Roy Orbison and Serge Gainsbourg.

Exactly what his songs are about is anyone’s guess, with lyrics mixing poetic storytelling with a hint of humour. Is ‘Techno Dolls’, for example, a dream, a metaphor or futuristic projection?

It’s hard to know just what to make of this album. On one hand, the album comprises an interesting collection of songs that beautifully showcase Downey’s gorgeous voice, on the other, many songs are tainted by arrangements of cheesy synth and electronic drums – think ‘80s Leonard Cohen. In the aptlytitled final song, ‘The End’, synthesised string arrangements act as a reminder of what the album could be, had there been a budget big enough for the real thing.

A highlight of the album is the suave title track ‘Running’ in which guitar and vocals are set to a restrained backdrop of Hammond organ. The hopeful and honest duet ‘1+1’ is also a standout.

A Perfect Circle’s first album in 14 years gives the impression that the band has become stale during their hiatus.

The group, led by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, touch upon regular topics of interest in Eat The Elephant; religion, consumerism, society going down the drain. However, they approach these issues with a serious sense of selfrighteousness. In ‘The Doomed’ and ‘Hourglass’, Maynard comes across as increasingly cynical as he sarcastically exclaims everything wrong with the world, above orchestral notes to back it up. These tracks are painfully obvious and don’t come across as the grand revelation they attempt to be.

‘By And Down The River’ is an odd addition, considering it was released on the band’s best of compilation Three Sixty in 2013. The version of this track on Eat The Elephant has had some reworking, but we’ve heard it before. ‘Disillusioned’ proves to be the stand out of the album. While also a preachy gesture that we’ve all in fact become disillusioned, the song hits those thrilling A Perfect Circle crescendos.

Otherwise, on a sonic level, the album is standard A Perfect Circle – their sound hasn’t developed much during the hiatus.

Listen to this album to relieve your curiosities, but don’t expect something worth repeats.

City Calm Down are fast becoming one of the most enticing and reliable propositions on the Australian music scene. Relying on rhythm and synth-pop textures, the band is developing A-grade self-confidence. Image and expectation, aside their growing body of work confirms they can write songs that are built to last and Jack Bourke’s vocal delivery adds further traction.

From ‘Joan, I’m Disappearing’ to ‘Echoes in Blue’ this is a journey through some desolate places and languid melodies. The fullness of the sound shines on ‘In This Modern Land’ with a scope to unite disparate elements of the audience with its confident swagger. Measured and controlled importance is found in everyday ephemera which enables the band to make bold statements such as ‘Decision Fatigue’.

Perhaps the blink and you miss them tracks ‘April 18’ and ‘Amber’ have a purpose that is only apparent to the band, until songs like ‘Kingdom’ and ‘Blood’ reach frenetic speed with their sheer exhilaration of instrumentation and elaborate vocal styling.

Bourke’s sometimes burnished tone carries a panoramic variety of moods, especially on ‘I Heard Nothing from You’ and ‘Pride’. Echoes in Blue sees the band in top form creating a thrilling wall of sound which elevates this recording to the mythical island disc status.

By Bec Blakeney

By David Class

By Bronius Zumeris

Moosebumps

8.0

Come one, come all and bear witness to the true return of Dr. Octagon. And what a return. Moosebumps: An Exploration into Modern Day Horripilation is the album that Alternative Hip-Hop heads have been waiting for since 1996. This is the follow-up album that the eternal classic Dr. Octagonecologyst deserved, and that 2006’s barely completed The Return of Dr. Octagon failed to deliver.

Tracks like the lead single ‘Octagon Octagon’, the relentless head-knocker ‘Area 54’ and the gloriously uncomfortable ‘Operation Zero’ perfectly epitomise the character’s signature off-kilter ‘boom-bap on acid’ sound. While the heavy grind of ‘Karma Sutra’ and ‘Hollywood Tailswinging’ bring a whole new level of straight up menace to the proceedings. ‘Polka Dots’ and ‘Power of the World’ feel like classic Octagonecologyst offcuts Octagon even gets to meet one of his greatest contemporaries in fictional hip-hop personas, with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien resurrecting his classic character Deltron 3030 on the aptly titled ‘3030 Meets the Doc’.

The only negative thing about Moosebumps is that it feels like between drinks, the group have lost some of that warped, psychedelic edge that made classic cuts like ‘Blue Flowers’ and ‘Halfsharkalligatorhalfman’ shine. But what the album lacks in psychedelia, it more than makes up for with deep layers of musty grime so thick that you could grease your hair with it. Take a bow, gents - you did Dr. Octagon proud.

By Joshua Turk

Confidence Man

Confident Music for Confident People

7.0

If you’ve managed to catch one of Confidence Man’s many live shows over the past few months, you’ll know just how much fun they are. The stage looks and feels something like one of the nightclub scenes in an Austin Powers film, and the music kind of accompanies that too. It’s fun, but in a rather absurd kind of way.

Luckily this absurdity translates quite well to a full-length release.

Existing singles ‘Boyfriend (Repeat)’, ‘Bubblegum’ and ‘Better Sit Down Boy’ are all here in their cheesy and groove-worthy glory.

Newest single ‘Don’t You Know I’m in a Band’ is as hilarious as it is catchy. Album opener ‘Try Your Luck’ is a great introduction if you’ve never heard the group before, as it sounds arrogant, in an endearing way, and ridiculous. Hilarity, ‘60s beats, the super sweet vocals of Janet Planet contrasted with the bassy tones of Sugar Bones’ voice make up the essence of any Confidence Man song, and it’s the same recipe for the whole album.

‘C.O.O.L. Party’ is an entertaining tale of being a ‘cool party girl, in a cool party world’ and attending the “party of the year”. It’s about as funny as it sounds too. Over the course of eleven tracks, Confidence Man prove that while they’re funny and quirky, they’re certainly no gimmick.

(Rough Trade Records/Remote Control)

(Heavenly Recordings)

(Matador Records)

Dr. Octagon

Goat Girl

Goat Girl

8.0

Growing up in the south of Philadelphia, the first three albums

by The Wonder Years are conceivably a trilogy of small-town dissatisfaction and longing to get away from the confines of suburbia. Over the course of the 2010s, The Wonder Years got out – and they learned a hell of a lot along the way. If Sister Cities is a reflection on anything, though, it’s that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Travelling the world and playing music is all The Wonder Years ever wanted – but it comes at the cost of not being home when they need it the most, like in opener ‘Raining in Kyoto’.

Vocalist Dan Campbell is inconsolable throughout his band’s sixth album, craving human contact as the world goes by in the window seat. His reflections and confessions go up against wave crashes of drums and guitar, often cathartically yelled over the top of them just to be heard.

Sister Cities is a challenging, confronting album for longtime fans of the band. There are no easy answers and no real resolutions to the conflict bristling within these songs. Still, if anything, that makes you want to invest in it more.

By Bec Blakeney

By Alexander Crowden

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Profiles

Buddy Knox Blues

What are you looking forward to when you visit the Melbourne’s music scene? Melbourne is different to what’s happening in other cities. I like the acts, I like the venues and the people. I want to catch up with other musicians if I can. I’m going to play some good blues and have some good gigs.

How does someone from Tamworth, the country music capital of Australia, get into the blues? We had the same lives as the old blues legions. My grandfather and my father suffered discrimination and hardship growing up in the aboriginal mission. I had early exposure to Chuck Berry, B.B King and all the other Kings. I play a 335 Gibson guitar just like Chuck Berry because I wanted to be like him.

You’re said to be Australia’s B.B. King. How does his music translate to the acoustic guitar? I grew up playing acoustic guitar, that’s all we had. I first learnt all those old blues songs on the acoustic guitar – it’s different to electric, but easy. I got my new acoustic guitar in December last year. I’m in love with it but we are still building our relationship.

You’ve played in bands for a long time, first your fathers country band and then your own blues outfit. How have you found the transition to solo shows? Seems real natural. I like playing any way I can, in bands or in the duo with my son Goori. It’s all fun and I just want to get out there.

What can people expect at your upcoming Melbourne gigs? The gigs are all free and in all different types of venues and some even in the afternoon; so you’ll find someplace you like. I’m going to do some good blues, old ones, new ones, originals. Some you know and other you won’t. We’re going to have a really great time.

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Catch Buddy Knox Blues at The Fitzroy Pinnacle on Thursday April 19 from 8pm.

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Valentiine

What have you been getting up to since we spoke last? One word; Netflix.

What do you love about making music? Everything in the way of actually making music. It’s very satisfying, finishing a song and going “f*ck yeah, that’s what we wanted.” But also, it’s a platform to stand up for what’s right and wrong in the world. From an individual who sends us an email saying our music helped him through a really hard time in his life, to doing fundraisers for animal shelters, our goal is to get out there and do more of that.

How would you describe your sound and how did you come to it?

Well its grungy-poppy? Groppy? A few years back we tried to make a new genre name up, and we called it ‘Scrunge’, but it kind of ended up like Gretchen’s “that’s SO fetch” in Mean Girls. Just didn’t happen.

Regarding our sound, well, I think we came to it by simply growing up in the ‘90s.

What was the catalyst/turning point for finally kicking things off again? None of us really ever wanted to stop playing together, but we did have our separate stuff to sort out. We kind of left it to ‘fate’, as in, ‘if it’s meant to be, it’ll be’ kinda thing and ended up gravitating back together. Our first rehearsal was like we’d only played the week before, not the week before two years back.

What secrets can you tell us about your second album?It’s sounding delicious. Recording analogue, it seems to work well with our stuff. Each instrument holds its own, nothing’s getting lost in there or drowning in a digital mushed-togetherness. It has this clarity about it. facebook.com/pg/valentiineband

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Collegians

When did you first start making music and what led you there? The band formed about five years ago, though each member had been creating music individually for some time. Recognizing the restrictive nature of working in isolation encouraged the facilitation of a collective.

What do you love about making music? The processes of creating music are cathartic, and these rewards can also be extended, once your music is exposed to an audience, via their feedback and the social nature of sharing art. Whether it’s writing, recording or performing live, there is a tremendous sense of fulfillment in the process.

What is the best thing you’ve learned through being involved in the International Songwriting Competition? That you need to expose your art to and through as many different channels and outlets as possible, including competitions. When operating as an indie act, all forms of exposure become a form of marketing.

How would you describe your sound and how did you come to it? Our sound is the sum of our aesthetics and choices. It’s a default situation in a band that these tastes are invariably mixed and become reconstituted into a final form, an agreed amalgam of several influences, which can be subtle, obvious or unintentional. We use a blend of organic and electronic instrumentation, with a songwriting style that is pop-based but with alt-rock, electronica and new wave tendencies.

Tell us about your single ‘Killer’. What is the story behind it? What inspired it? It’s the classic depiction of a poisonous relationship, which you can’t live in or exist without. Music being so subjective, pulling on the listeners’ individual emotions, allowing them to create their own meaning behind the song is what really drives our songwriting. collegiansmusic.com

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Catch Valentiine on Saturday April 21 at Northcote Social Club. Doors at 8pm, $10 Entry.

Music

‘Killer’ drops on Friday the 13th of April, find it on iTunes.

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Jeff Green

Tell us about your show. 2018 is my thirtieth anniversary as a stand-up. I did my first gig when Ronald Reagan was US president. (half the readers: ‘That’s a long time.’ Other half: who the hell is Ronald Reagan?’) This is not a look-back show, but gives the odd nod to how the stand-up scene has changed.

What does your show teach the audience? There’s a bit in the show that explains to the audiences some of the major stage skills required to be a stand-up. I also confess to something I’ve never divulged on stage before.

What inspires you about the Melbourne International Comedy Festival? The chance to perform 25 shows in a row and sleep in my own bed at night.

What do you love about the Melbourne performing arts community? It’s big enough to support everyone, from the supremely talented to the glorious and enthusiastic amateurs.

What’s a fun fact about the show? I have written and performed more MICF shows than any person alive while failing to receive a single nomination for any of MICF’s myriad of comedy awards – 23 shows, zero nominations - I’d say that deserves some kind of award.

Who are your biggest influences and how have they changed you as a comedian? I loved Richard Pryor when I started out. He showed us all what could be achieved with just a microphone.

Comedy

Jeff Green performs at Melbourne Town Hall - Supper Room and the Swiss Club until Sunday April 22.

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Craig Low

Tell us about your show. Name Dropping With Lowie is me telling stories of terrible celebrity encounters I’ve had from Russell Crowe giving me a present for my 21st birthday, coming face to face with Arnold Schwarzenegger on a sound stage in LA, being threatened by Hanson over a joke about anal and even Kanye West telling me I F&*% up his dinner.

What’s a fun fact about the show? Name Dropping With Lowie features one specific story that I’m legally not allowed to tell in America due to a non-disclosure agreement but will be performing exclusively in Melbourne thanks to a really great entertainment attorney in LA. Describe your show in three words. Defamation of character.

Does your show have any audience participation, if so how does it play out? During Name Dropping With Lowie the crowd is asked to name a celebrity they’ve had a terrible encounter with and every time people’s answers blow my mind. It’s always a highlight of the show, hands down. You will leave amazed.

What’s the best heckle you’ve ever heard? Performing at The Laugh Factory in LA when some legend stands up – smashed – and tells me that my eyes are too far apart and honestly, nothing has ever hurt my feelings more. It was magical. comedyfestival.com.au

Woah, Alyssa!

Tell us about your show. Ok, so it’s not boring, pretend this in a really silly voice, (eg. Iago from Aladdin): Woah, Alyssa! 1 is an absurd, queer sketch comedy created and performed by two cute and cool boyfriends. It’s full-throttle as we dash between utter nonsense, clever nonsense and serious social issues swaddled in nonsense.

The idea for the show was born when… Every sketch was born at a different time based on real world observations. Whether it’s something very silly, like noticing a deep connection between mums and Minions, or something kinda dark, like when a homophobic mum posts a depressing meme with a Minion on it.

What does your show teach the audience? Our comedy is the spoonful of sugar for some cool and maybe even radical ideas.

One sketch is about the constant educating that minorities have to do, but it’s not preachy. Having people laugh their way through something real is a great way to start a conversation.

Can you describe the journey of creating a show? For us, creating our shows is a beautiful and holistic journey of writing every day, talking about work all the time, eating garbage, having no money, skipping the gym, missing deadlines and phoning it in during sex!

We cannot recommend it enough!

Who are you looking forward to seeing this year at the festival?

We caught snippets of PO PO MO CO’s show in Adelaide, and we can’t wait to see the whole thing! Super keen to catch Helen Bidou - Ann Edmonds’ show was one of our faves last year. Also, Hit By A Blimp and Leaky Bucket are super groovy, check them out!

Comedy

Woah, Alyssa! 1 runs from Monday April 16 until Sunday April 22 at Cage Me A Peacock.

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Comedy

Craig Low performs at The Upstairs Lounge at Hairy Little Sista until Sunday April 22 as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Alexis Dubus

Tell us about your show. I’ve not been to Melbourne for four years. The last time I came, the show was a bit of an epic fiftyminute poem, and this year it’s not epic in any way. It’s just silly, it’s just lots of silly poems and a few songs thrown in, some stories, and some ridiculous one-liners.

How did you get into comedy? I went straight into it after being a student. I did the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards, which is our UK version of Raw, and I mainly did sketch comedy.

Tell us about your other comedy creation, Marcel Lucont.

I remember I was doing a show about the history of swearing, and then I said at the end ‘Oh I’m doing this character show afterwards, come along if you fancy it’. A lot of people did. I remember, I could hear backstage someone saying ‘Oh god, it’s almost like he was a completely different person’. Well, yeah, that’s what character comedy is.

How did it work collaborating with Mikis on the musical elements of your show? It’s like watching magic when he puts a track together for me. I’m entirely un-musical myself, it just boosts the poems and the full-on songs that I do in the show – a guy singing acapella at a comedy gig, now that’d be odd.

Comedy

Alexis Dubus Verses the World runs from Tuesday April 10 - Sunday April 22 at The Upstairs Lounge at Hairy Little Sister.

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Gig Guide

Gig GuideGigs Featured

Wednesday 11 Apr Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers

Baronaqua

Baronaqua - Feat: Majak Door + Deathbeat + Prehistoric Douche Bendigo

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

Bendigo Hotel The crackling electric magic, riffs and melodies of Baronaqua, the fusion of hiphop beats, psych trips and rock that is Deathbeat and the vibrant classic rock Prehistoric Douche do so well are all coming together to the Bendigo Hotel on Wednesday April 11. Doors open at 8pm, $8 entry.

Dole Cheque + Picket Palace + The Sex Pills Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.00.

Firetrail + J M S Harrison + Love Games + Paper Tapir Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

Wine, Cheese and All That Jazz

Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8.00.

The Moldy Fig Launching their shiny new weekly event, head to the Moldy Fig to catch the first instalment of Wine, Cheese and All That Jazz, lead by the Fig Jazz Band and this week’s feature artist, the reputable jazz vocalist Natasha Weatherill. It kicks off at 7pm on Wednesday April 11.

$8.00.

Nightclub + Correct Line + Montallpiegg

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Okin Osan + Take Your Time + Marlon Brando Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

Rich Yeah + Shelley Smith + Pool Boy

Terrible Signal + Gumboot + Jungle Breed + Eternal Smoko Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Tove Stryke + Moza Howler, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $45.00.

Y Street + Reel Tapes + ​Eat Pant Workers

Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Hip Hop & R&B Can I Kick It? Open Mic Night Horse

Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Mellowdías Thump + Thhomas Boney,

Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Bopstretch Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $15.00.

Dizzy's Big Band Dizzy's Jazz Club,

Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

Dole Cheque

The Old Bar Dole Cheque are launching their new single ‘I’m Broke’ at The Old Bar on Wednesday April 11. With eloquent lyrics such as “can I pinch a ciggie”, this poignant tale of destitution is likely to inspire generations to come. They’ll be supported by the Sex Pills and Picket Palace. It starts at 7pm.

Rich Yeah

The Old Bar In between flat whites and denim jacket purchases, Melbourne artist Rich Yeah writes melancholy indie vegan folk pop from a hipster portal in the north, and he’s bringing it to the Old Bar on Wednesday April 11. He’ll be joined by multi-talented Shelley Smith, and electro-pop outfit Pool Boy, see them all starting at 7.30pm. Entry is $8.

Bernadette Novembre

Cherry Bar Infusing blues with ‘60s rock and punchy horns Bernadette Novembre is lighting up the Cherry stage with her eight-piece band in tow. For soul like you’ve never heard it before, dust off your dancing shoes for Thursday April 12. Entry is $10.

Hextape

The Post Office Hotel The Post Office Hotel is the place to be on Thursday April 12. Hextape, the solo project of Bridget Chappell, is serving you the soundtrack to you leaving your boyfriend in a ‘90s sports car full of synthesizers.

Alongside Horse Pills, the solo incarnation of GNC artist Jonnine Nokes, who obsesses over noise and rhythm, and Patrick Hase will be creating a truly immersive experience. Doors at 9pm, free entry.

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Gianni Marinucci's Nonet (With Michelle Nicolle) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

8:00pm. $25.00.

Julien Wilson Band + Carbo/Carter/ Gunnoo 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

Lightly Toasted The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $20.00.

Mark Fitzgibbon & Friends Bird's Basement,

Melbourne. 7:30pm. $25.00.

Moonspice + Falling In Bloom Open

Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Rosendahl-Turcio-Clinch Trio Paris Cat

Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.00.

The Fig Jazz Band (With Natasha Weatherill) The Moldy Fig, 7:00pm.

World Music Open Mic Compass Pizza,

Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Joe Chindamo And Zoë Black Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Lomond Acoustica - Feat: Don Morrison + Soloman & Lacey + Paul Tehovnik Lomond

Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

Monthly Blues Jam - Feat: Julian James + Various Artists Whole Lotta Love,

Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Nancie Schipper Penny Black, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

Open Mic Night Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:30pm.

Rhiannon Simpson Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

Ruby Smith Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8:00pm.

The Celtic Tenors Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $49.00.

The Dirty Ragtimers Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15.00.

The Good Lovelies Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.

Travis Winters Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Thursday 12 Apr Hip Hop & R&B August Alsina + Donell Lewis & Kennyon Brown Festival Hall, West Melbourne.

8:30pm. $84.80.

Gallery - Feat: Mzrizk + More Ferdydurke,

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Horrorshow Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $30.00.

No Frills Thursdays Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

10:00pm. $5.00.

Tha Dogg Pound - Feat: Daz Dillinger + Kurupt Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

$73.45.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Andrea Keller Transients Trio Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.

Bernadette Novembre Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Blue Note ‘58 Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.00.

Charlotte Jane Quartet - Feat: Tamara Kuldin + John Montesante Quintet The

Water Rat Hotel, South Melbourne. 7:00pm.

Collins Street Collective Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Discoconutz - Feat: Various Djs Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Fulton Street Penny Black, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

Hue Blanes The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Miss Lizzy & The Night Owls + The Artie Styles Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

Shol, David Rex Trio + Shol + David Rex Trio 303, Northcote. 8:30pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Alex Lahey Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6:00pm.

Ambur + Possessed Mum + Noughts

Woody's Attic Dive, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7.00.

Andre Warhurst & The Rare Byrds Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

Catfish Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.

8:00pm.

Clean Cut Society + Wasterr + Barefoot Bowls Club + The New Dreggs Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Donnarumma + Creature Fear + Abbey Howlett Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Double Trouble - Feat: Jank Facques Toff

In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

Gena Rose Bruce + No Local + Hannah Blackburn Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

Husky + Hachiku + Hollie Joyce Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $34.70.

Loni Rae Thomson + The Hot Springs + Matthew Colin Gasometer Hotel,

Collingwood. 7:00pm. $7.00.

Matt Bradshaw Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.

North Side Story + One Day Kings + Honest Lives Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

7:30pm. $10.00.

Pup Tentacle + Jade Alice + Mosses Carr

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

Sleeper Service + Pigs Of The Roman Empire + Sectape Last Chance Rock And

Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $5.00.

The Aaron Schembri Band (With Jimi Hocking) - Feat: The Aaron Schembri Band (With Jimi Hocking) Musicland,

Fawkner. 7:00pm. $15.00.

The Dead Pharaohs + Suburban Prophets + Acoustic Set Whole Lotta Love,

Brunswick East. 7:30pm. $10.00.

The Delicates + Poppongene + Real Love + Babey John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

The Hum Drums + Finns + Backyard Mafia + Seaweed On Sticks Revolver Upstairs,

Prahran. 8:00pm. $5.00.

The Stems + Even + P76 Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $45.00.

Throwback Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

Tingy Celestino Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8:00pm.

Tiny Little Houses + Jarrow + Rat!Hammock Corner Hotel, Richmond.

8:30pm. $23.00.

Tropicana Slim + Kylie Auldist Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $30.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Adam Eckersley And Brooke Mcclymont

Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.00.

Brodie & The Oxy Clinic - Feat: Saturn 3 + Thought Horse + Shadow League + The Woods Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

Danny Ross + Losumo Edinburgh Castle,

Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Dolly Diamond Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran.

7:30pm. $25.00.

Emerson Blue + Fiona Kidd Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

Greg Steps Wesley Anne, Northcote.

6:00pm.

James Mark Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8:00pm.

Jayjoy The Moldy Fig, 7:00pm.

Jess Parker & The Troubled Waters + Alister Turrill + Brooke Taylor Old Bar,

Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Jordie Lane + Small Town Romance + Suzannah Espie Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $28.12.

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

Musicland Open Choir Rehearsals - Feat: Various Artists Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

$5.00.

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

Russell Morris Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $35.00.

Stephen Grady Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

Tiosav Joy Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

9:00pm.

Friday 13 Apr Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Alinta Chidzey & The Jazz Emperors Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Audrey Powne Quartet Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.

Back To Basie (With Harriett Allcroft) - Feat: Back To Basie (With Harriett Allcroft) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne

Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.

Charlotte Jane Quartet The Jazzlab,

Brunswick. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Combinado Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond.

8:00pm. $15.00.

Dj The Knave Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

Heliotrope + Jalapeño Baby Belleville, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

Moogy Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $25.00.

Panckridge Pattison Duo The Moldy Fig, 7:00pm.

Ruby Rogers Experience Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Sean Whelan Fox Hotel (Collingwood), Collingwood. 8:00pm.

The Chess Lords The Moldy Fig, 9:00pm.

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

Featured Gigs

Tove Styrke

Howler After supporting Lorde on her US arena tour and much international buzz, Tove Styke is hitting Australia for the first time this month. The Swedish future pop sensation is set to perform in Melbourne on Thursday April 12 at Howler from 8pm.

Tickets are $45 through Secret Sounds.

The Funk Buddies Open Studio, Northcote.

Religious Observance + Spew Balloon Bar

The Stephen Magnusson Trio Uptown Jazz

Naberus + Toxicon + Primitive + Armoured Earth Bendigo Hotel,

9:00pm. $10.00.

Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

Urbanity Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $29.00.

Hip Hop & R&B After Hours - Feat: Kalala + Eneti + Earth + More Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Drmngnow + Kalyani + Kiernan Ironfield

Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:00pm.

Faktory Fridays - Feat: Durmy + Salvy + Nova + Yaths + More Khokolat Bar,

Steven Grady

Charles Weston Hotel Stephen Grady is a singer-songwriter influenced by everything from classic folk to Americana. Writing and performing original music since he could hold a guitar, he was most recently a part of the folk duo the Ahern Brothers, whose debut album landed a four-star rating from Rolling Stone. See him at The Charles Weston on Thursday April 12 at 6.30pm.

Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Rnb Fridays Club - Feat: Dj Horizon Co.,

Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Action Sam Elephant & Wheelbarrow,

Melbourne. 11:00pm.

Amistat Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Animal Hands Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Animal House Fundraiser - Feat: Vanilla Poppers + Tol + Skids + Polish + The Shitfits Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.

Captain Spalding Band Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8:00pm.

Chapel Street Social Club - Feat: Phatoamano + Namn + Matt Radovich + And More Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

City At Midnight + Zuma + Miles Recommends Workers Club (Geelong),

Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.25.

Dada Ono + Dark Fair + Froot Luips + Tall Relatives Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

Dance Party - Disco Inferno - Feat: Dance Party Djs + More 170 Russell, Melbourne

Cbd. 9:00pm. $23.01.

Delinski Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

Donna Amini Wesley Anne, Northcote.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Errejota Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $28.50.

Ferla + Hot Sludge Fundae The B.East, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Jamie Hutchings + Laura Macfarlane + Michael Beach Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

9:30pm.

Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Seven Suns + The Burbs + The Vacant Smiles + Tv Dinner Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $5.00.

The Floors + Narcopaloma + Electric Toothbrush + Tender Buttons Reverence

Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $10.00.

The Hard Aches + Antonia & The Lazy Susans + Sincerely Grizzly Corner Hotel,

Richmond. 8:30pm. $25.00.

The Oh Balters + The Slingers + Pting

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

The Playbook + Just About Done + Kids In Control + Beyond Royal + Sarahj Wrangler

Studios, Footscray. 6:00pm. $10.00.

Tim Richmond Group + Great Earthquake + Scoop & Big D Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy

North. 5:00pm.

Top Cat Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm.

Versus Party - Feat: Various Djs Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

What’s On Presents - Feat: Various Artists + Various Djs Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

9:00pm.

Whispering Jackie + Blue/Green + More

Woody's Attic Dive, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights 8Eyez + The Skewed Dewds + More Sooki

Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm.

Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 11:45Pm.

Los Dominados + Baby 8 + The County Members Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

$5.00.

Merchant + Dead Root + Spawn +

Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 7:00pm.

Adam Eckersley & Brooke Mcclymont + Tori Forsyth York On Lilydale, Mt Evelyn.

8:00pm. $29.60.

Chapel Unplugged - Feat: Various Artists

Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 3:00pm.

Don Walker & Band Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $35.00.

Dreamboogie Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm.

Forever Twenty - Feat: The Luke Seymoup Band + Joe Giuton & The Suicide Tuesday + The Anxious Type 303,

Northcote. 8:00pm.

Honkytonk Rockers Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe

Vale. 8:00pm. $10.00.

James Ellis & The Jealous Guys Gem Bar,

Collingwood. 9:00pm.

Jimmy O’Hare Platform 270, Melbourne.

5:00pm.

Pugsley Buzzard Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood Drunken Poet,

West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

Rosario De Marco Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

Russell Morris Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm.

Stars + Kevin Bennett Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $61.20.

Tchaikovsky 5 - Feat: Muhai Tang + James Ehnes Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne),

Southbank. 7:30pm. $39.00.

Brunswick. 9:00pm. $15.00.

Van & Cal Walker Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

Au Underground - Feat: Venda + Dylan Griffin + Jono Brayshaw + Reg + More

Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 11:45Pm.

Axed - Feat: Dep Affect + Speedloader + Tyrant X + Jor Terror + More Grumpy's

Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

Twilight On The Trail Spotted Mallard,

Saturday 14 April Hip Hop & R&B

Dj Reginald Sloth Bar, Footscray. 9:30pm.

Elephant In The Room Carlton Club,

Big Dancing Saturdays Laundry Bar,

Espace Noir + Damiano Von Erckert + More Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Formation - Feat: Donny + And More

Electric Dreams - Feat: Mobin Master + Carzi Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00.

Horrorshow Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

Fridays - Feat: Warsawyer + Cliftonia + Ben & Lil + More Carlton Club, Melbourne

Khokolat Koated Saturdays - Feat: Damion De Silva + Durmy + More Khokolat

Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

Cbd. 5:00pm.

Local Goods - Feat: Aucun Alias + Dj Staz + On-Ly + Yese Eckö Loop, Melbourne Cbd.

9:00pm.

Neurotiq Erotiq - Feat: Nite Fliet + Merve + Interstellar Fugitives Gasometer Hotel,

Late Nights - Feat: Various Djs Last

Acoustic Sessions - Feat: Various Artists

After Works Drinks - Feat: Various Djs

Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Lace And Whiskey + Eat The Damn Orange + Sordid Ordeal Whole Lotta Love,

Brunswick East. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

Traditional Irish Music Session Drunken

Mandek Penha + Phantom Panda Power Wizard Master Smasher + Hypnosono

9:00pm.

Triple Vision - Feat: Bex + Steezy-E + Breezy + Jake Hughes Ferdydurke,

Afrik Futurism - Feat: Future Roots + Si Fixion + N'fa Jones + Ousmane Sonko

La Danse Macabre Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $17.35.

Whole Lotta Love You’re invited to Mike Elliott’s Comedy Festival show SPORKLIFT. It’s a one-man musical journey through ‘90s pop culture, cats, Bunnings' snags and more. Think of it like a John Farnham arena spectacular but there’s no arena or Farnsey, but it’s still spectacular. Catch the opening night on Friday April 13. Tickets on trybooking. com for $15.

Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00.

The Australian Dancehall Queen And King Dance Competition - Feat: Dj Fasmwa + So Fire + Yuki Shinobu + Zare Demus + More Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

Southside Soul - Feat: Dj Lady Soul + Dj Chris Johnston + More Kingston City Hall,

Harmony + Cable Ties + Bitumen + The Blinds Howler, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $20.00.

Husky + Hachiku + Baby Blue Tote Hotel,

Mike Elliott

8:00pm. $20.00.

Saddle Club - Feat: Butters + Rory Marshall + Ryan Haynes + More New

Mumble Rap Vs The World - Feat: Project + Köda Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Party & Bullshit Fridays Laundry Bar,

Kilda. 8:00pm. $56.10.

Batts + Nyck + Lawrence Greenwood

Cherry Bar Animal Hands invite you to celebrate the release of their debut album Tonic Clonic at Cherry Bar on Friday April 13. Known for memorable, eerie vocals and charm, make sure to be there when it all begins at 8pm.

Entry $12.

Ramzi + D. Tiffany + Kangaroo Skull + Otologic John Curtin Hotel, Carlton.

Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

7:30pm. $10.00.

Astro Boys Royal Hotel (Essendon), Essendon. 10:00pm.

Bakers Eddy Penny Black, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

Animal Hands

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Saviour + Death In Bloom + Spectral Fires

$10.00.

The Evelyn Hotel The Evelyn will be hosting a night of musical delicacy and potent grooves. Be there on Thursday April 12 to see the captivating audio and visual vibes of Perolas with support from the lush harmonics of Lijuka and Huxami. It’s happening from 8.30pm. $10 entry.

Pest Control - Feat: Scotty Pesticide

I Get Up Again – A Benefit For Brian Hooper - Feat: Beasts Of Bourbon + Kim Salmon & The New Scientists + Adalita + Mick Harvey + More Prince Bandroom, St

Astral Skulls + Shovels + Hot To Rot + Jungle Cuffs + Crasssh Old Bar, Fitzroy.

Perolas

9:00pm. $34.70.

$15.00.

8:00pm.

Bar Open Donnarumma, the trio from Adelaide, are coming out swinging with their supercharged indie single ‘Alien’. Catch them at Bar Open on Thursday April 12 alongside the dynamic alternative-folk band Creature Fear and Abbey Howlett.

Tickets $10 at the door.

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.

Nick Batterham Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

Planet Slayer + Traffik Island Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Poprocks + Dr Phil Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Powerslave + Metal Fetish + Holy Diver 24 Moons, Northcote. 7:30pm.

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks Satellite Lounge, Mulgrave. 8:00pm. $32.00.

Phizix + Chunky + Jonny Dub + Safire + More Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne.

Saturn 3, Thought Horse + Saturn 3 + Thought Horse Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

Horrorshow Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

Donnarumma

Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

8:00pm.

Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

No Fun Intended - Feat: Hightime + Darko + The Sinking Teeth + The Decline + More Workers Club, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $20.00.

Rhythm Nation Saturdays - Feat: Dj Timos + Dj Kahlua + More Chaise Lounge,

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

Collingwood. 11:00pm. $10.00.

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

Yonderkid + Otira Rogue + Moses Carr

One Puf - Feat: Murder He Wrote + Smutlee + Exit99 + Fraksha + Diem + More Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

The Get Down - 1 Year Anniversary - Feat: Niasha + Dj Sirpreme & Hennessy + Kye + Maz + More Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd.

8:00pm. $15.00.

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. $10.00.

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Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers A Whale Called Phoenix + Jess Mcmahon

Portone Wood Fired Pizza, Balaclava. 7:30pm.

Amyl & The Sniffers + Vertigo + Bitch Diesel + Pleasure Model John Curtin Hotel,

Carlton. 8:00pm. $20.00.

Black Jesus Experience

The B.EAST Black Jesus Experience are delivering another round of ethio-jazz, funk and rap dance floor vibration for all your getdown desires on Saturday April 14 at The B.EAST. Be there and ready to groove for a 9pm start.

Approachable Members Of Your Local Community + Tamara & The Dreams + Juno Disco Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.

8:00pm. $12.00.

Bananagun + Shifters + Permits Old Bar,

Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Barefoot Spacemen + The Burbs + Jungle Breed + The Vacant Smiles Woody's Attic

Dive, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Blush Response + Summer Flake + Kigo + Spit Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie Satellite Lounge,

Compass Pizza Head down to Compass Pizza on Saturday April 14 at 7pm, grab a shandy and warm up your vocals for a sing-a-long with your favourite alt-folk heartbreakers, Team Love, guaranteed to send tingles to your ear drums. Free entry.

Catholic Guilt

The Reverence Hotel Catholic Guilt are launching their debut EP Hymnbook Volume 1 at the Rev on Saturday April 14. Supported by a bunch of great bands and with $1 from every ticket being donated to Bravehearts, an organisation dedicated to the prevention of child sexual assault in Australia, it’s not to be missed. Doors: 7.30pm. Entry: $10.

Cosmic Kahuna + Wicked City + Rathead + Silverlight Shadows + Pistol Peaches

Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $10.00.

Don Walker + Tom Lyngcoln + Roy Payne

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $35.00.

Droid + The High Drifters Yah Yah's, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $10.08.

Eurogliders + Ben Laguda Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $38.34.

Face Face + The Meeseeks + The Caravan Kids Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

Fandango Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

Five & A Half Men Altona Sports Club,

Altona. 9:00pm.

Geld + Vanilla Poppers + Pest + Gall Tote

Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

Giant Ego Massacre + Davo + Ramtwos

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm.

Grassroots Gatherings & Homie Fundraiser - Feat: Brainforest + Ubu Roi + Moses Carr + Christy W + More 303,

Northcote. 6:00pm.

Hideous Sun Demon + Diet. + Bad Batch + Terrible Signal + Würst Nürse Last Chance

Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.

8:00pm.

Iluka + More Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $14.30.

Libby Steel Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

Moonlover (Solo) - Feat: Moonlover (Solo) + Ded Square Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

Riffinery Royal Hotel (Essendon), Essendon.

10:00pm.

Rival Fire + Bad Moon Born Pelly Bar,

Frankston. 8:00pm. $17.35.

Screamfeeder + No Sister Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $18.60.

Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

7:00pm. $79.00.

Black Jesus Experience The B.East, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

Bob Sedergreen & Friends Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8:00pm. $25.00.

Josh Kyle & Emma Gilmartin Quintet The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $30.00.

Lady Midnight Open Studio, Northcote.

5:30pm. $10.00.

Mandacaru Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Paco Heredia & Bart Stenhouse Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $35.00.

Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo

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

Pr Project The Moldy Fig, 9:00pm.

Renee Delay Fox Hotel (Collingwood), Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Renee Geyer Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

7:30pm. $35.00.

Sly Faux + Anyo + Bazerk + Alegra + More

Francis28, Melbourne. 10:00pm.

Snack Attack With Dj 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10:00pm.

Sunshine + Anyo + Sammy La Marca + Partyshirts Thompson + More Sooki

Lounge, Belgrave. 6:00pm.

The Belafontes + The Burbs + Knee Jerk + Fleshed Out Anchor On Anchor, Prahran.

9:00pm.

The Jacksonville Trial + Nick Carver & The Mean Street Butchers + Tj & Son Whole

Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. $5.00.

The Magical Marmalade Machine Royal

Hotel (Mornington), Mornington. 8:00pm.

The Million Wrangler Studios, Footscray.

2:00pm. $15.30.

The Real Wild Child - Iggy Pop Tribute

Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm. $20.00.

The U2 Show - Achtung Baby Musicland,

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Belle Hungerford Wesley Anne, Northcote.

6:00pm.

Harry Coulson's Blue Dogs Rainbow Hotel,

Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

Jess Parker & The Troubled Waters

Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Marty Kelly Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

3:00pm.

Nathan Beretta Band Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

Russell Morris & Band + Three Kings

Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $30.00.

Seren Spain Wesley Anne, Northcote.

8:00pm. $10.00.

Tchaikovsky 5 - Feat: Muhai Tang + James Ehnes Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne),

Southbank. 7:30pm. $39.00.

Steve Sedergreen & The Deep Listening Trio Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

7:00pm. $25.00.

The Jackson Duo The Craft & Co Farm,

Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 5:00pm.

Tom & Jerry Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

Travis Winters Band Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 9:00pm.

Xavier Rudd + Max Rudd Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $71.40.

Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Sharon Davis The Moldy Fig, 7:00pm.

7:00pm. $30.00.

Bangholme. 1:00pm.

The King Louie Collective + Ppb Late Night Djs Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:00pm.

The Rookies The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

11:00pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Africa Arising - Feat: Marley + Ryan Berkeley + Roche + Quail Ferdydurke,

Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $20.00.

Richmond. 8:00pm. $46.50.

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

Team Love Compass Pizza, Brunswick East.

Smoke Stack Rhino + Byron Short & The Sunset Junkies + Snakeskin Ally Cherry

Stray From The Path + Counterparts + Ocean Sleeper + Pridelands Corner Hotel,

Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

Rosario De Marco & The United World Music Project + Nadia Sartori And Tania Ravbar Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm.

Sam Linton-Smiths’ Lovers & Madmen

Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

8:00pm. $10.00.

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Slick 46 + The Opposition + The Clinch + Violent Demise Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

Songs In The Key Of Springfield - Feat: Boadz + More Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

Bendigo Hotel The Bendigo Hotel have a killer line up of psych and indie rock for Sunday April 15.

Opening the night is alternative indie rock band Slim Pickins, followed by psych rock band AZTX. Wrapping up the night will be Silk Village, who are sure to leave you in a trance of psych rock and good vibes.

Doors: 7.30pm. $10 entry.

5:00pm.

Toff Club - Feat: Lord Hans Dc Toff In

Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00.

Silk Village

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music

Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Silo Mix Series Showcase - Feat: Daniel Filipovic + Matic + Dryad + David Mummery Section 8, Melbourne Cbd.

Avi Avital & Giocoso String Quartet

Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

Team Love

Hotel, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. $10.00.

V + Pillow Pro Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

8:00pm.

Belgrave. 3:00pm.

Pony Saturdays - Feat: Various Djs La Di

Catholic Guilt + Trash Lily + Phil Wolfendale + Social Skills + Joe Guiton

Colour & Shade + The Vestige + Letters To Amara Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne

Wesley Anne Melbourne singer-songwriter Belle Harlo writes songs that blur the line between pop, jazz and blues with her mellifluous vocal over an electric guitar, telling stories of love and loss. See her on Saturday April 14 at the Wesley Anne starting at 6pm. Free entry.

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.

Tramfest - Feat: The Ocean Party + Tram Cops + Hemm + Cool Sounds Evelyn

Nine Short Lives - Feat: Details + QuiGon-Spin + Italo Balco Sooki Lounge,

Anita Wardell Paris Cat Jazz Club,

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Belle Harlo

Tote Fc Season Launch - Feat: Bitch Diesel + Liam Linley & The Louvers + Baked Beans + Spiral Perm Tote Hotel,

Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

Levels - Feat: Various Djs Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

Bollard + Ollie Jach + More Retreat Hotel,

Brunswick. 3:00pm.

The Gasometer Screamfeeder is a band of eternally youthful fuzz-pop darlings who have been playing together for 25-years and have only gotten better and more loved over time. Needless to say, you’d be mad to miss these blissful punk professionals at The Gaso on Saturday April 14 at 7pm. Tix are $18.60 via Oztix.

North Melbourne. 2:00pm.

The Wellingtons Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

This Way North + Reika Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.

Summer + Gigavolt + Odious + Zerotonine

The Late Show - Feat: Rex + Manchild + Plastic Palms + Kovac + More Revolver

Mulgrave. 8:00pm. $28.00.

Screamfeeder

Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00.

The Unknown Locals + Noughts + Fuzzsucker Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar,

Audioporn - Feat: Dr. Zok + James Ware + Tom Evans + Jacob Malmo + More Binary Finary + Matt Darey + More Trak

Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $30.00.

7:00pm.

The Black Sheep Union Hotel (Brunswick),

Brunswick. 5:00pm.

The Cartridge Family + Dj Dave + Dj Denise Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury.

The Four Scoops Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

The Houndlings + Dj Noodle Brown

Sunday 15 Apr House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights Bodies + Sex Cop + Teva Evelyn Hotel,

Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Body Talk - Feat: Calais V + Mr. Anderson + Dj Sarah + More Gasometer Hotel,

Collingwood. 4:00pm.

Dis-Orientale Express - Feat: Laura Entwined & The Svadisthana Project + Sikander + The Fifths + More 24 Moons,

Day Spa - Feat: Spirit Animal Pawn & Co,

Donny Benet + Househats + Glass Diamonds Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Secret Cinema + A.M. Adam + Hugoe + Karl Pilbrow Penny Black, Brunswick.

Eat The Beat - Feat: Chiara Kickdrum + Matt Radovich + Matteo Freyrie + Mha Iri + More New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd.

Sunday Funday - Feat: Various Djs Brown

Northcote. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Dj A-Man Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9:00pm. $24.19.

10:00pm. $10.00.

Havana Brown Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $20.00.

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

Laser Highway - Feat: Pselodux + Ricky

South Yarra. 12:00Am.

Dj Groovem8 Sloth Bar, Footscray. 4:00pm.

House Of Grail - Feat: Gorge + Latour + Summers + Tim Koren + More Onesixone,

Prahran. 10:00pm.

2:00pm. $25.00.

Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Axe Girl + Anty + Hanny J Old Bar, Fitzroy.

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Featured Gigs Scourge + Earthbound + Above The Fallen + Unbeliever + More Bendigo Hotel,

Collingwood. 2:00pm. $10.00.

Coffin Wolf + Dead Already + Prehistoric Douche Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

Dan Howls Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Dave Graney And The Mistly The Croxton,

Thornbury. 4:00pm. $15.00.

Delsinki + Brooke Taylor Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $10.20.

Disco Multiverse - Feat: Ninja Gaijin + Deader + Esp Mayhem + P.T. + More Tote

Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $5.00.

OZERGUN

The Workers Club Ozergun are coming to the Workers Club to deliver their original funk-prog supported by local favourites Dead Amingos and Mareya. Ozergun will be recording live footage so you’re in for a good one. It all kicks off at 1pm on Sunday April 15.

Tickets are $5 at the door.

Bodies

The Evelyn Hotel Bodies are bringing their electro-acoustic act to the Evelyn on Sunday April 15.

They’re supported by the industrial, ambient electronic project Sex Cop and the nostalgia filled dance blend of Teva. Entry will cost you a mere fiver, doors open at 8.30pm.

Peter Head

Edinburgh Castle Peter Head is an upbeat, musical documentarian and indie anomaly that nails the art of making simplicity sound busy. See him play at Edinburgh Castle on Sunday April 15 for a 4pm start. Free entry.

Thornbury. 5:00pm. $5.00.

Open/Mic Jam Nights Musicland, Fawkner.

7:00pm.

Peter Head Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

4:00pm.

Poppongene + No Local + Babey Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $10.00.

Primus + The Dean Ween Group Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $96.80.

Rival Fire + Bad Moon Born + More

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15.00.

Screamfeeder (Duo) - Feat: Screamfeeder (Duo) + More Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy.

3:30pm.

Sex Ed + Gamjee + Electric Mud

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

Silk Village + Aztx + Slim Pickins Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Tali Mahoney + B!And + Meander + Lewellyn Irving Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.

6:00pm. $10.00.

The Jungle Giants + Alice Ivy + Evan Klar

Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. $10.00.

The Seduceaphones Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:00pm.

The Unknown Locals + Plebs + Wasterr + Bloody Aztec Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

6:00pm. $5.00.

Tyne-James Organ Wrangler Studios,

Footscray. 4:00pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Any Rhythm Sunday - Feat: The Senegambian Jazz Band + Stephanie Grace + Dj Clegs Howler, Brunswick.

3:00pm.

Balkan Brass - Feat: Opa! Bato + Opa Seko

Farouk's Olive, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Ben Delves Trio Wesley Anne, Northcote.

6:00pm.

3:00pm.

Southbank. 9:00pm.

Girls To The Front - Feat: Jackel + Sophiegrophy + Netti + P-Unique + More

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Acoustic Sundays - Feat: Michelle Gardiner + Paige Spiers + Paige Smith

Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 2:00pm.

Benny Walker & Tom Richardson Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 2:00pm. $18.00.

Buddy Knox Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

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

Cisco Caesar Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

Elwood Blues Club Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 4:00pm.

J.B. Paterson Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 3:30pm.

Jacob Mcguffie & The Dukes Of Haggard

Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

Jody & Lucy's Family Band Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $39.00.

Key Hoo - Feat: Slick 46 + Lewis C

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.

Nat Allison Trio Royal Hotel (Mornington), Mornington. 3:00pm.

Sapologie - Feat: Various Artists Howler, Brunswick. 6:45Pm. $29.34.

Stephen Grady Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.

The Bakersfield Glee Club Union Hotel (Brunswick), Brunswick. 5:00pm.

The Fillmore Brothers Old Bar, Fitzroy.

4:00pm.

The Hornets Post Office Hotel, Coburg.

4:30pm.

The Rechords Gem Bar, Collingwood.

7:00pm.

Yffer 303, Northcote. 7:00pm.

Monday 16 Apr Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Bitumen + Ov Pain + Activities Of Daily Living + Insomnicide + Telekent Old Bar,

Bernardo Soler Ensemble (With La Rosa) - Feat: Bernardo Soler Ensemble (With La Rosa) Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm.

Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00.

Brandenburg Quartet Melbourne Recital

Monday Bone Machine - Feat: T-Rek

Empire Park + Hui + The Avenue Bendigo

$10.00.

Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $65.00.

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Cara Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm.

$33.00.

Chris Cody The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Monday Night Mass - Feat: Street Hassle + 808S & Greatest Hits + Real Feelings + International Velvet Northcote Social Club,

$20.00.

Northcote. 8:00pm.

Brunswick East. 5:00pm.

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $3.00.

Compass Pizza Jazz Jam Compass Pizza, Funk Soul Brother - Feat: James Winter + Gav Whitehouse + Tom Grant + Lotus Moonchild Section 8, Melbourne Cbd.

4:00pm.

Hotel Jazz Band Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy

North. 4:00pm.

Ozergun + The Dead Amigos + Mareya

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

Reflejos + Huanchaco Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00.

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Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Killer Hertz + More Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $10.00.

Kwame Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 2:00am.

The Montreals + Stoka + The Oh Balters

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Graduals + Arsenic & Old Lace + Belle Phoenix + Lucy's Lockett Tago Mago,

Northcote. 2:30pm. $10.00.

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Deja Vu Sundays - Feat: Various Djs Co.,

The Limerants + Sapphire Street + Pilgrim Age Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

The Drunken Poet This week’s instalment of Wine, Whiskey, Women at The Drunken Poet is bringing Ruby Smith from Milkbar Collective to greet the stage with their indie rock goodness beside Rhiannon Simpson who brings a brand of modern blues featuring her hard-hitting vocals. Don’t miss it – starting at 8pm on Sunday April 15. Free entry.

Sunday Session - Feat: Ravi Ravs + Dj Daily Fox Hotel (Collingwood), Collingwood.

Effi's Fighting Pillow + Creek + Tam Vantage Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

Fool Child + Backyard Mafia Open Studio,

170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

The Jvg Guitar Method Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

Wine, Whiskey, Women

Salim-Sulaiman Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $60.00.

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

8:00pm.

Andrea Keller Curates Solo/Duo/Trio The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15.00.

Platy-Pus + Bitter Sweet Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5.00.

Schmiling - Feat: Various Djs Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

The Cb3 + Special Guests + Fearless Monster Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk Arcadia Winds Melbourne Recital Centre,

Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Charles Jenkins Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

Tchaikovsky 5 - Feat: Muhai Tang + James Ehnes Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne),

Southbank. 6:30pm. $39.00.

Tuesday 17 Apr Hip Hop & R&B Smino + Monte Booker Corner Hotel,

Richmond. 8:00pm.

So In2 U - Feat: Various Artists Ferdydurke,

Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Chitra Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

Floss + Electric Toothbrush Retreat Hotel,

Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Frayhound + The Overheads + Bodyparts + Paper Tapir Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

7:30pm. $10.00.

Howlite + Mihra Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

Kittyscratch, Pamela St + Kittyscratch + Pamela St Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.

8:00pm.

Lara Dickinson Art Opening - Feat: Racerage + Cystic Nightmare + Dark Water + Simo Soo Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

$8.00.

P.O.D. + Chasing Lana + The Spitting Swallows 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd.

7:30pm. $79.90.

Pseudo Mind Hive + Slim Jeffries + Sofala + Dayzed Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

$8.00.

This Day Last Year + Emah Fox + Way Shit + Sissysocks Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Zockapilli + First Kiss + Echo Mono

Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $5.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Bird's Basement Octet Bird's Basement,

Melbourne. 7:30pm. $25.00.

Catsplay The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $47.50.

Jade Kerber The Moldy Fig, 9:00pm.

Latitude 37 Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $39.00.

Uncomfortable Science - Feat: Lachlan Mitchell + More Boney, Melbourne Cbd.

9:00pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

Nieuw Mondays - Feat: Various Djs

Buddy Knox Flemington Bowls Club,

Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner - An Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Benefit Feat: Various Artists + Various Comedians

Irish Session Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $31.00.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music 303 Yarra Banks Jam Night 303, Northcote.

Flemington. 8:00pm.

8:00pm.

Julain James Drunken Poet, West

Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Make It Up Club - Feat: Various Artists + More Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

Mbas House Of Blues Jam Night - Feat: Various Artists Flemington Bowls Club,

Flemington. 9:00pm.

Piano Karaoke With Lisa Crawley Compass

Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

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