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Editor’s note With Gloria Brancatisano
Take a listen to ‘Just Call’ and you’re going to meet a very different John Butler Trio than the one you’re used to. We’ve got the man himself on our cover this week, and he takes us behind the scenes of this new direction. Julia Zemiro also chats all things Rockwiz Live, The Superjesus get nostalgic, we prep for new music from The Living End and You Me At Six, and we get you set for a good times only Grand Final day. On a sadder note, this week Beat Magazine bids adieu to our fabulous content king James Di Fabrizio. If you’ve had a chuckle over a meme, learned something from an online article, or generally enjoyed any of Beat’s online faces, then you have Jimmy to thank. In this editor’s chair I have a shitload more to thank him for than that, but there isn’t enough space to convey how truly brilliant he is. Just know Beat will bloody miss you!
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News Melbourne Music Week Reveal This Year’s Festival Hub and First Batch of Acts Melbourne Music Week has revealed that the ACMI will play the role of Festival Hub for this year’s stint, while also letting loose a stack of acts that punters can expect to lap up. The Opening Night party, curated by LGBTQI+ party legends Heaps Gay, is set to burst with drag, dancing, installations and performances from Kira Puru, Maribelle, The Huxleys and more. The Immigration Museum will turn into a melting pot of soul and R&B headlined by REMI, the Hub will see the likes of Jeff Mills, Renée Geyer and Leon Vynehall, and homegrown rock legends You Am I will make their MMW debut. Melbourne Music Week goes down from Friday November 16 until Saturday November 24.
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Falls Festival has announced a smorgasbord of sideshows set to go alongside this year’s festival, showcasing scorching up-and-coming acts and international heroes. Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals are set to take to Festival Hall on Thursday January 10, giving Melbourne ears one of the first chances to catch cuts from their hotly-anticipated third album. Meanwhile, American rock icons Interpol will take to The Palais on Friday January 4, Nashville-native singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy will hit Howler on Monday January 7, indie-soul and R&B artist Bishop Briggs is set to play The Corner Hotel on Tuesday January 8, and all-time rock legends The Vaccines will grace The Croxton on Thursday January 3.
Off the back of their steaming new single ‘Starlight’, SAFIA have announced that they’ll be playing shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. With the relese of the track the band has continued their knack for pushing the boundaries, collaborating with VR/ AR artist SUTU to produce an animated artwork for the single, that comes to life with the use of the Eyejack app. On the tour front, SAFIA have announced they’ll be playing strictly one show per city, so you’ll want to hit up tickets quickly. With Genesis Owusu in tow as support, SAFIA will hit up 170 Russell on Friday November 2.
Reveal heaving list of sideshows
Billy Bragg
Announces intimate headline shows across Victoria Alongside appearances at Meredith and Fairgrounds Festivals, prolific UK singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg has announced he’ll be staging a series of intimate solo shows across country Victoria. For the shows, Bragg has employed a stellar cast of supports, with acclaimed singer-songwriter Jen Cloher set to appear at the Meeniyan Town Hall on Tuesday December 4 and Wednesday December 5, and The Smith Street Band frontman, Wil Wagner set to join the festivities at the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine on Thursday December 6. Tickets available via Handsome Tours.
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Drop new single ‘Starlight’, announce east coast dates
The Goon Sax
Announce homecoming album launch shows Brisbane-born pop champs The Goon Sax are set to return Down Under in November after a relentless bout of touring across the UK, Europe and the USA, and are geared to launch their sophomore album We’re Not Talking. Teeming with songs of love, disappointment, and the confusion of navigating adulthood, The Goon Sax have captured critical acclaim off the back of the release, which follows on from the trio’s 2016 debut Up To Anything. The Goon Sax will take to The Tote on Saturday November 24. We’re Not Talking is out now on Chapter Music.
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Download Festival Unveil Scorching First Lineup Announcement After a hugely successful inaugural incarnation in 2018, Download Festival is back with a huge slate of rock heroes and heavy juggernauts on the bill. At the top, two music heavyweights will be playing some of their respective last shows, including Black Sabbath expat Ozzy Osbourne, who’ll appear at the festival as part of his final world tour, while Californian thrash-metal outfit Slayer, are also calling it a day and have announced a closing run of shows for Download Festival. Elsewhere on the lineup the likes of Judas Priest, Alice In Chains, Ghost, Rise Against, The Amity Affliction, Anthrax, Behemoth, Frenzal Rhomb and more are set to perform when Download Festival goes down at Flemington Racecourse on Monday March 11.
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Holy Holy have returned from studio hibernation with a brand new track, ‘Faces’. The single finds them taking a bold left turn, trading guitars for synths and building the track around a cascading vocal loop, featuring contributions from Ainslie Wills, Ali Barter, and Japanese Wallpaper. The track marks the first taste of a forthcoming album – their first since 2017’s critically acclaimed Paint – and also arrives alongside the announcement of a string of shows. To celebrate ‘Faces’, Holy Holy will head out on the road with support from Clews and San Mei, taking to 170 Russell on Friday December 7.
Indie-pop sensation Eves Karydas has announced that she’ll be taking her hotly-anticipated debut record summerskin around Australia in 2019. Lead singles ‘Further Than The Planes Fly’, ‘Couch’ and most recently, ‘Damn Loyal’ have seen her sky-rocket onto everybody’s radar and become one of Australia’s most exciting pop up-and-comers, supporting the likes of Cub Sport and Dua Lipa and playing the coveted Splendour In The Grass stage this year alone. As part of her six-stop national album tour, Eves Karydas will play The Corner Hotel on Saturday February 16. summerskin is available on Friday September 28 via Dew Process/UMA.
Reveal new music, announce national tour dates
Drops 2019 tour dates off the back of ‘summerskin’
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Queenscliff Music Festival is wrapping up their 2018 lineup announcement with killer comedians and local musicians galore. In comedy, the likes of Anne Edmonds, Tom Ballard, Corey White and Danielle Walker have been secured for the festival, while electro-folk act Forever Son, alt-country troubadour Nathan Seeckts and Geelong rockers The Kite Machine will all make their QMF debuts. Geelong soul ensemble Sweethearts will return to the festival, with legendary drummer Bernard Purdie in tow, while grant recipients MDRN Love and Fenn Wilson will also feature. Queenscliff Music Festival goes down from Friday November 23 until Sunday November 25.
The inaugural Bendigo Autumn Music Festival is slated for April 2019, and promises to deliver a whopping 30 local and international acts, of which the festival have revealed their first load. Leading the charge in massive fashion is Kurt Vile and The Violators, while UK blues-rock icon Z-Star Delta, Lamine Sonko and the African Intelligence (Senegal), and New Zealand-natives Tiny Ruins and Estere will also be making the trip to Bendigo for the festivities. On the local front, the likes of The Seven Ups, Cash Savage and the Lask Drinks, Alice Skye, Thando, Saskwatch and stacks more will also feature. Bendigo Autumn Music Fesival goes down from Thursday April 25 to Sunday April 28.
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Laneway 2019 Is Set To Be A Ripper Laneway has unleashed their 2019 lineup, and it’s absolutely teeming with world class talent. Gang of Youths will help celebrate the festival’s 15th year, in what is said to be one of their last Australian shows for a long time thereafter. R&B superstar Jorja Smith, hip hop up-and-comer Denzel Curry, teen sensation Clairo and UK indie-pop icon Rex Orange County will all make their Down Under debuts, while a cracking lineup of Australian talent will also feature including Courtney Barnett, Baker Boy, Camp Cope, Middle Kids, Methyl Ethyl, Ruby Fields, What So Not, Cosmo’s Midnight and more. Laneway will take on a new Melbourne venue in 2019, and go down at Footscray Park on Saturday February 9. Find the full lineup via the Beat website.
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British India
Indie-pop young-gun Mel Bester, AKA E^ST, has announced that she’ll be taking on a national run of dates off the back of her latest offering ‘Alien’. 2018 has been a monumental year for the central coast artist, which kicked off with a bang when she placed at #63 in the triple j Hottest 100 for her mega track ‘Life Goes On’, before signing an international record deal with Fuelled by Ramen, supporting Amy Shark and all-round earmarking herself as a definite one to watch. As part of her forthcoming national headline tour, E^ST will come into Howler on Saturday November 3.
British India founding member Nic Wilson has announced he’ll be stepping down from guitar duties with the band, but not before a final tour with the original lineup goes down first. Since making their debut in 2007, the Melbourne indie-rock giants have well and truly made their mark locally and nationally, amassing eight entries into the triple j Hottest 100, a gold record, a support slot with The Rolling Stones and over 700 headline shows. The band are currently tucked away with their seventh full-length album, ensuring it’s ready by the time of the tour, which will take to the Tap House, Bendigo on Friday November 30 and Barwon Club Geelong on Saturday December 1.
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Orbital
Lock in 2019 Melbourne date Celebrating 30 years since the release of their seminal self-titled debut record, iconic UK electronic act Orbital are set to return to Australian shores in 2019, and will play a special Melbourne show when they do. They’ll sling favourites from across their catalogue as well as new tracks from their latest album Monsters Exist, which spawned when the pair, AKA brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll ,reunited last year. Marking their first Australian appearance in over seven years, Melbourne will be able to catch Orbital at The Forum on Friday March 1.
Progfest
Is gearing up for a massive tenth anniversary instalment Celebrating all things prog, post, psychedelic, art rock, metal and more, Progfest is stepping out for their tenth anniversary this year, and have revealed a massive roster of international talent to kick off their bill. Legendary German post-metal act The Ocean are set to feature, as well as UK groove-metallers Monuments and Indian prog-rock icons Skyharbour, who’ll be making their debut performance Down Under. Keep an eye out for the rest of the lineup landing soon, and catch Progfest at The Croxton on Saturday January 26.
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The 2018 grant winners have been announced The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has revealed the list of recipients set to share over $100,000 in funding to help develop their new works. Authors from across the country including Peggy Frew (VIC), Jennifer Mills (SA) and Lenny Bartulin (TAS) took home the maximum individual prize of $20,000, while fellow authors Josephine Rowe and Jane Rawson were also awarded prizes. Sydney visual artist Lisa Jones also took home the top prize, which will contibute to her upcoming video installation work which showcases in footage of abandoned spaces underneath the Sydney CBD. This year’s competition was judged by author and academic Gail Jones, Monash University visual artist and academic Terri Bird, and author, reviewer, and editor Geordie Williamson.
The Southern Hemisphere’s Tallest Mural Has Landed in Collingwood In one of the largest community arts projects that Australia has ever seen, the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere is taking over a humble Collingwood housing estate. Helmed by acclaimed local street art collective Juddy Roller, the project is being executed by renowned street artist Matt Adnate and is due for full completion in late October. Taking up an entire side of the 20-storey, 220-apartment block building, the work profiles four of the estate’s residents, including youngsters Arden Watson-Cropley (6) and Ni Na Nguyen (5), who are both growing up in the estate with their single mothers, as well as refugees Badria Adbo (Ethiopia) and Yuliu Antares (Indonesia). You can find the work-in-progress on Wellington Street, Collingwood.
Comedy
Spice up your life with a slice of Melbourne’s longest-running improv comedy night, The Big HOO-HAA, going down at The Butterfly Club on Friday September 28. Two teams, The Hearts and The Bones will take to the stage and use audience suggestions and a handful of props as they battle for comic supremacy. It all kicks off at 8pm, and tickets are $29 or $25 for groups of 6+. Go on, bring your mates, or your mum. We don’t care.
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As if ol’ Luna Park wasn’t already entertaining enough, a batch of some of the country’s finest rising comics are set to roll into the venue for a one off event called Comedy Island. With comedy heavyweight Matt Okine at the helm, a slew of alumni from across the Class Clowns and LOL Squad programs will feature, alongside a handpicked selection of comedy favourites. Expect the likes of Barry Award-winners Sammy J and Sam Simmons, 2018 MICF Best Newcomer Danielle Walker, 2018 RAW Comedy winner Bec Melrose and more. Comedy Island goes down on Saturday October 6 at Spiegeltent at Luna Park, St Kilda from 7pm. Tickets via the Luna Park website.
In her latest exhibition entitled Covered: A Tribute to Australian Music, Victorian artist Melanie Caple reimagines 12 single covers from homegrown music heroes. Taking n everyone from Dan Sultan to Nick Cave, Paul Kelly to Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Jen Cloher to Lisa Mitchell and more, this is a one-of-a-kind offering for any music and/or art lover. All works at the exhibition will be available for purchase, alongside a booklet with written responses to the paintings from Rick Rutjens. Covered opens at Marios, 303 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy on Thursday September 27 from 8pm, and runs until Monday October 15.
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Finders Keepers Market
The spring/summer leg kicks off next month Melbourne will be able to take in the spring/summer leg of acclaimed design market, Finders Keepers when it goes down in October. Over 250 independent art and design stalls from around the country will be on show, slinging their wares over the three day affair. There’s also set to be a bevy of food trucks, coffee, live music and a bar available too, so you can bet that this gig, now in its ninth year -- is going to be a ripper. The Finders Keepers Spring/Summer 2018 event goes down at The Royal Exhibition Building from Friday October 19 until Sunday October 21. Entry is $5 and you can find more details via the Facebook event.
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The Melbourne Salami Festa
There’s often an hour, between the late afternoon and early evening, when hunger pains kick in, but it’s still far too early to enjoy your last meal for the day. That’s where antipasto comes in; leave cured meats, stuffed olives, and warm breads can cradle you through to dinnertime. The Melbourne Salami Festa is a great first stop when collecting supplies and crafting your platter. This year, the festival will be held at Welcome to Thornbury across two full days and evenings. From Saturday October 13 to Sunday October 14, the park will witness an Italian festival takeover, where families will yell –with love of course – mouths will be stuffed, and the quality of produce couldn’t be higher. There’ll be a market running both days – with salami masters behind every stall – as well as salami demonstrations and classes to be taken. With reputable Melbourne bands and DJs providing the soundtrack to your meal, the festival is a lovely stop to shop this October. Make sure to buy some ‘nduja’ for your platter. It’s a spicy and spreadable salumi from the south of Italy (Calabria specifically), and very difficult to find in Australia. The delicacy usually uses roasted peppers and chilli too. Trust me when I suggest jumping on an opportunity to take some home.
Bradley Zero
Grand final weekend and the subsequent day off on Friday, means a bunch of extra events will be running Thursday night since we don’t have to be at work or school while nursing our collective hangovers and dancing muscles. The big one is Smalltown with Charlotte De Witte, DJ Koze and Gerd Jansen at B3 – the new carpark venue at Etihad Stadium. But that one is sold out so you’ll have to trawl the usual sketchy means to find a ticket or beg your promoter mates. At The Toff they’ve got a Rhythm Section label showcase with the illustrious leader himself, Bradley Zero, trekking over from London. Backing him up will be Neue Grafik from France, locals 30/70 and Prequel. Not many tickets are left so get onto it quick smart. Over at Xe54, British duo Camelphat are backing up their monstrous set at Listen Out festival last weekend. At My Aeon in Brunswick, Techno Time are amping up for their first birthday bash with Mike Callander, Dylan Griffin, Aves Volare and heaps more. Plenty to choose from my friends.
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Dianne’s Delights
Now that you have plenty of salami, what about cheese and other cured meats? Let me point you in the direction of The Queen Victoria Market, and to their deli section, where you can find more cheese and meat than you thought possible. When you arrive, I’ll admit, the choices can be overwhelming – especially without a list handy or at least some knowledge on who does what best. So here, take my knowledge: Head to Dianne’s Delights for bocconcini cheese, roasted peppers, juicy mushrooms, and fresh pesto; Hellenic Deli for dips (the three dips for $10 deal here is pure value), stuffed vine leaves and octopus; and The Epicurean for all the cheese in the world. My platters will never be served without comté, provolone, and smoked gruyere.
In other news, Melbourne Music Week has just announced their lineup and it’s a god damn doozy. We knew that Leon Vynehall was locked in to perform his latest album Nothing Is Still with a ten-piece string ensemble at the Melbourne Recital Centre. We now know that he’ll also be DJing alongside British cinematic beat-maker Rival Consoles at the Melbourne Music Week hub at ACMI. The reptilian legend of techno Jeff Mills will be making an appearance, bringing his long running audio visual show The Trip to the hub, splicing improvised musical sketches in with effected vintage sci-fi footage in a fashion that’s quintessential Mills. Swede DJ Seinfeld will be throwing down with a slew of locals in tow, many of whom he featured tracks from in his recent entry to the DJ Kicks compilation series. The Operatives will be hosting a night featuring UK veteran producer Mark Pritchard, alongside the punishing yet deeply satisfying sounds of American producer Eprom, and UK hip hop queen Nadia Rose. It all goes down Friday November 16 until Saturday November 24.
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Now what will you pair all of those delicious deli treats with? Bread and wine of course – two of the most ancient food pleasures known to life itself. Tivoli Road Bakery is at the top of my list because, why ignore it, they bake the best bread in town. Head in first thing and the olive bread should still be steaming. Order a coffee while you wait, and off you head to the closest wine store – Blackhearts & Sparrows in Richmond – for bottles of red (Nero D’Avola is gorgeous, and there are some particularly great varieties coming out this year). 18
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Max Cooper’s new album came out a few days ago and I’m quietly obsessed with it. There seems to be so few artists in electronic music who genuinely want to push the depth of meaning behind their creations and the manner in which it’s consumed. The new album is called One Hundred Billion Sparks, and is the conceptual result of locking himself in complete isolation for a month in a tiny Welsh village. The final collection of outputs is a sonic and visual analysis of what makes us human, created in collaboration with a large team of visual and video artists. In short, it’s super cool. If you’re someone who needs convincing that electronic music can be more than just strobe lights and drops, check out all the videos and his manifestos behind each track at onehundredbillionsparks.net.
COMMUNITY RADIO LOOKS TO FUTURE AFTER AMRAP INVESTIGATION
Amrap (the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project), which distribute new local music to community radio stations for the past 18 years, saw airplay increase by 7% to an average of 39% and helped 5000 musicians and 100 labels. Community radio now airs over 2,000 hours of Australian music a day, says the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA), which runs Amrap. However in the last 12 months, Amrap has operated under a cloud. Faced with plans to restructure the initiative, its dedicated six-person team loudly revolted and was replaced. An Amrap staffer filed a complaint to funding body CBF (Community Broadcasting Foundation) that the CBAA had misused government funds for Amrap. In April, the CBF appointed Sydney barrister Ben Fogarty and accountancy firm Pitcher Partners to investigate. Last week it declared it did “not identify anything of material concern from an accounting or audit perspective”. Now cleared, CBAA chief executive Jon Bisset tells Beat that it’s time to move on. “The community radio sector is thriving – we’ve just recorded our highest national listenership on record. 5.7 million Australians tune in to 450+ community radio services across the country each week.” Amrap’s website will be upgraded to be more userfriendly. “We think there’s some great opportunities to get more artists and broadcasters than ever using the services,” Bisset says. Following its work at BIGSOUND and Music NT’s Bush Bands Bash, there will be moves to strengthen ties with the music and media sectors. One way will be via the Amrap Advisory Group, which consists of reps from the music industry and community broadcasting, “and will be a fantastic sounding board for future developments of the Amrap initiative.” A priority is to keep government funding (10% of the sector’s revenue) on going. The CBAA’s strategy is to ensure pollies on all sides understand the value of community radio – especially as more media becomes centralised – remind them the sector faces continual financial problems, and provide them with research data. Recent government investment in the sector targeted at news, online streaming and training is a promising indication of the sector’s recognition. Bisset explains, “In 2017, our efforts saw an extra $18 million of federal government funding secured for the sector. Most recently, we have participated in government inquiries into public interest journalism and the music industry in NSW and nationally. At an individual station level, we provide station managers and boards with financial and governance advice, information and resources to assist them.” As for the CBAA’s future moves: “We take a holistic and future facing approach to supporting the community radio sector. This includes providing services to stations to assist them in all areas of their operations, ranging from governance and audience research services to content (our Community Radio Network and Amrap) and infrastructure (our Digital Radio Project). We are looking at new services around community radio news and online streaming, and for opportunities to collaborate more, including with the broader not-for-profit sector.”
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They’re being called Australia’s answer to Brockhampton – hip hop collective Savour The Rations have exploded onto the scene with the release of their hard-hitting tune, ‘THANK THE LORD’. A year since the release of their track ‘Bluffin’, the group currently consists of Raj Mahal, Domba, Gibrillah and Kwame, who are all local artists at the forefront of the changing Australian hip hop industry, breaking free of genre barriers and working towards international recognition. The group’s latest track undeniably reflects the style of musician Kwame, who’s launched into success with his solo performing career; recently supporting the likes of Tkay Maidza and jumping on stage with A$AP Rocky. With no hesitation to deliver solid bars from the getgo, Savour The Rations’ music is upbeat, unapologetic, loaded with energy and most importantly, erupting with talent.
With Download Festival announcing its return in early 2019, plus an increasing multitude of smaller festivals popping up all around the place, the summer festival landscape is drastically improving from its troubled era of the mid 2010s. While big festivals such as these have long-copped criticism from local alternative music purists arguing they are diverting much needed attention and support away from the local scene. I feel since it’s undeniable that the local scene in Melbourne is absolutely killing it right now with so many bands blowing up, there is still room for a giant field of drunk punters watching bands from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtracks. Here’s my curated guide of the punk rock bands to check out at these festivals over the summer. Some you’ll already know, some you may not, but all are worth getting sunburnt and dehydrated to.
Lupe Fiasco
Amongst an exciting week of hip hop releases, one album in particular is a stand out. I’m talking about Lupe Fiasco’s concept album, DROGAS WAVE. The 24-track production could easily be studied in the same way as literature, having been part of a Reddit thread helmed by Fiasco himself, updated frequently about the writing and production process behind the artist’s long-awaited seventh album. The imagery around the record hones in on the idea of “slaves” and “waves”, examining world history through the lenses of evil, choices, and consequences. In the tracks ‘Alan Forever’ and ‘Jonylah Forever’, Fiasco describes two alternate realities for Alan Kurdi, a threeyear-old Syrian refugee who was found dead on a Turkish shoreline, and Jonylah Watkins, a six-month-old girl killed in a Chicago gang murder. As Lupe reimagines these lives as if they hadn’t ended, DROGAS WAVE delves into incredibly complex and profound territory, all while maintaining incredibly engaging production. It’s a must listen this week.
High Tension
WAR ON WOMEN - APPEARING AT DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL
Hailing from Baltimore MD, War On Women are one of the best punk rock bands going around today. Merging the thrash metal influenced punk rock pioneered by the likes of Propagandhi, with the radical feminist politics and aggression of bands like Bikini Kill, War On Women are a rising force in the punk rock scene. I was fortunate enough to catch their set at Riot Fest 2016 in Chicago and was blown away. Pick up their most recent album Capture The Flag for some of the best punk rock released this year. HIGH TENSION - APPEARING AT DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL
Re-emerging with an updated lineup and a new record, Melbourne’s High Tension have transformed themselves from their beginnings as a noise-rock influenced punk band into the metallic hardcore machine they are today. Touring on the back of newly released Purge, their best album to date, the band will be returning to Download after having already played the inaugral show earlier this year. THE OFFSPRING - APPEARING AT GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL
Third Floor
Hip hop lovers can lounge around to the sounds of Sydney producer, Third Floor. After returning to the music world after 12 months, the artist revealed his hiatus was due to a battle with chronic illness. Now, the British-born artist, known for his atmospheric pop beats infused with electronica, R&B, and soul, has released his first single, ‘Flying Eyes’. The track belongs to an upcoming EP, titled Almost Whole, that will explore the story of the artist’s emotional and physical recovery. The first effortlessly cool track off the four-track conceptual release is about following intuition, with a focus on honesty and authenticity within yourself and the ones you love. This smooth, groove-filled cut also features Californian singer-songwriter Ryan Konline. The Almost Whole EP is set to drop in the next few weeks. 20 BEAT.COM.AU
Obviously needing no introduction, the Californian poppunk icons are returning yet again to Australian shores. Having not released an album since 2012’s Days Go By, the band has decided to play their 1994 breakthrough album Smash in full. The first CD I ever owned, Smash would’ve been my first taste of punk rock as a kid and there’s no doubt in my mind it directed me on the path to where I am now. I still regularly spin the album and it still holds up (except for that stupid ska song on it). THE AINTS! - APPEARING AT MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL
A new Ed Kuepper helmed version of Brisbane punk icons The Saints, The Aints have spent the last year revisiting the band’s iconic first three albums before Kuepper’s initial departure. While the original band continues to perform and record under the control of vocalist Chris Bailey, general fan consensus is that they never quite recaptured the raw energy and intensity of their Kuepper material. With early singles ‘I’m Stranded’ and ‘Know Your Product’ as Australian punk standards, make sure you’re around to see one of Australia’s best guitarists play his best songs while you still can.
The Black Dahlia Murder
I still remember the first time I heard The Black Dahlia Murder. It was a sunny day in New Farm Park, Brisbane, I was 16 years old, and I was with a bunch of newer, older mates who were definitely supplying kids with alcohol. “This band has two singers,” said one of them as he chucked on his totally sick car stereo and hit play on Unhallowed, the recently leaked (the mp3 scene was at its peak) debut record from the now-legendary melodic death-metal group. Turns out they didn’t have two singers, and that vocalist Trevor Strnad was just pioneering in his blatant and bold insistence on double tracking his frequently aped piercing highs and crushing lows – but safe to say my mind was pretty blown anyway. Recognising that these were friends I’d met through a circle more focused on nu-metal and post-hardcore, the above seems like a poignant piece in time to summarise what The Black Dahlia Murder did for death metal – their swept fringes and scene kid clothing had brought it to a whole new audience, and made it cool again. I’d just begun my journey in music journalism with writing slobbering reviews for local webzines, and soon after got in contact with the band’s label – Metal Blade Records. They sent me stacks of promotional material, including a bunch of Black Dahlia Murder stickers that I’d hand out at local all ages shows, and CDs that opened the door to me for bands like The Red Chord, Amon Amarth, and As I Lay Dying. I started my first band – it’s no coincidence that we played melodic death metal – and two years later we opened for The Black Dahlia Murder (on tour for their second album Miasma). It was my first big international support slot, and one of the first comfortable glimpses I had into the touring lifestyle. The band gradually morphed into proper death metal warriors, focused their sound without compromise, and to date have released eight pretty exceptionally received albums. Along the way they’ve been interview subjects of mine, guests on my radio show, backstage festival party buddies, full Australian tour partners, and now friends that I go and hang out with when they’re in town. When it comes to death metal and me, The Black Dahlia Murder have always been there. The influence that this band has had on music can’t be understated, and my life – not to mention the entire metal landscape – would look quite different without them. On the Sunday evening just passed I witnessed the band effortlessly stir Max Watt’s into a frenzy. Nothing about it was a new sight, but the consistency of it was a reassuring and galvanizing one. It feels comforting to know that after all these years, they’re still giving their all to their craft, unswayed by whatever trends may be shifting around them. Three cheers to The Black Dahlia Murder – may you stand forever in powerful dorkiness, eternally alcoholic yet ravenously sharp.
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In the last 20 years of Australian music, very few artists have carved out a legacy as deep as that of the John Butler Trio. Fuelled by the spirited persona and virtuosic fingerpicking of Butler, the trailblazing blues and roots group has managed to establish a huge local and international following without any major label support through the sheer strength of the group’s unmatched musicianship. So, naturally, when the John Butler Trio dropped their new single ‘Home’ – a brooding mash of trappy hi-hats and swooping synth bass – fans were quick to scratch their heads. Where was the guitar? “Primarily, I’m a folk musician and singersongwriter, so I’m always trying to better my own craft, especially the way I write lyrics and play my guitar,” Butler explains. “But the music I listen to is so different. I’m a big fan of Rihanna, Beyoncé, Kendrick, A Tribe Called Quest, so this album is me trying to fuse those two worlds together without making a Frankenstein.” Despite the modern sheen of its lead single, HOME is by no means a departure from the organic sound of Butler’s original material – in fact, it’s one of the most refreshing sounding albums of his career. Produced by Butler and Australian pop maestro Jan Skubiszewski, HOME radiates a distinctive palette of unclipped sonic experimentation, a sound which Butler says was sparked by solitude and kicked upon through the humble touchscreen interface of the iPad. “A big part of my songwriting this time around was through playing around with Garageband on my iPad, which let me flesh out all these songs with drum machines and synths in real time instead of waiting to take them to the Trio,” Butler says. “When you’re by yourself, you can really crystallise and distil your own ideas the way you hear them in your head, and after a while I’d created this sonic palette I was very adamant about seeing the whole way through.” Faced with a fresh canvas to paint on, Butler mentions that the abundance of new ways to create music also proved to be one of the biggest challenges while recording HOME – a tortured relationship which many musicians would be all too familiar with. “You can kind of hear I’m inspired by a whole lot of weird stuff on the record – I eat it all up and shit it all out in different colours,” Butler says. “But the whole time, I had to keep saying to myself, ‘You write a decent song John, you’re good at guitar, make sure the song benefits from all these crazy ideas.’ I wanted to make sure that what I was good at wasn’t lost in all the excitement of these new toys.” While HOME still boasts its fair share of the fingerpicked flourishes Butler is renowned for, the record also sees the guitar represented in a much different light. ‘Coffee, Methadone & Cigarettes’ – the heart tugging country-tinged centrepiece of the record – features pedal steel guitar played by First
Aid Kit’s Melvin Duffy, while the Led Zeppelin bluesy stomp of ‘Wade In The Water’ showcases a relatively unknown style of Indian slide guitar learnt by Butler in the lead-up to writing the record. “I went and studied Hindustani Slide Guitar in India, and I found myself practicing for eight hours a day trying to learn all these unconventional ways of playing, which you can hear on ‘Wade In The Water’,” Butler notes, dismissing the notions of virtuosity he’s come to be known for. “Nowadays, I’m only really interested in crazy guitar if it supports the colour and the spirit of the song – if you’re just showing off then forget it.” Lyrically, HOME sees Butler stepping away from the politicised subjects of earlier material in favour of deep introspective reflections, with the ruminative, soulseeking verses of tracks like ‘Faith’ and ‘Running Away’ acting as some of Butler’s strongest songwriting to date. “Those songs definitely represent a certain maturity and coming of age where I can finally have a perspective which only comes through time and experience, and it took me 43 years to find that,” Butler says with a pang of uncertainty. “It’s hard to find complacency while still seeking the answers to the big questions – I’m still trying to figure it all out.” Although tracks like ‘We Want More’ ooze a socially conscious message, Butler remains staunch in his pragmatism, offering his own harmonious sentiment of tolerance and acceptance in making sense of the world as it is today. “It’s so easy to be condescending and patronising by saying ‘We need to stand up and fight the powers that be,’ and after a while, people just get sick of it, like ‘Okay, there’s a problem, we get it, so what?’” Butler says. “The idea that if we stopped using fossil fuels and got Trump out of power the world would be a better place, that’s bullshit. That’s not true. Pointing fingers or waving flags nowadays, that’s just boring songwriting, and I can say that because I’ve done it,” Butler laughs. “That’s why songs like ‘Blowing In The Wind’ are still as good and as relevant today as they were back then, because it’s not dividing left or right or good and evil – it’s just Bob Dylan telling it like it is. That’s the way it should be.”
“It’s hard to find complacency while still seeking the answers to the big questions – I’m still trying to figure it all out.” John Butler Trio will release Home on Friday September 28. He’ll take the album to Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Thursday February 7 and A Day On The Green at All Saints Estate, Rutherglen on Saturday February 9. Joining him for both shows are Missy Higgins, Stella Donnelly, and Dan Sultan.
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The The Some musicians spend their careers carefully constructing dark, angstridden stage personae. The The, the obtusely named group responsible for such iconic post-punk albums as Soul Mining and Infected, have been working equally hard to show the world they’re not as dark as all that. “I’ve often been characterised as a very moody, gloomy person, but that’s not at all accurate,” frontman Matt Johnson says. “That’s lazy journalism. In England – particularly in England – you get a lot of very lazy journalists. Somebody may say something, and it gets repeated endlessly. My public persona has always been highly inaccurate. “There’s a lot of laughter that goes on behind the scenes with my bandmates, and some of that translates onstage. We’re very intense about our performing, very disciplined. It’s a very tight band but, at the same time, there’s a lot of fun and lightheartedness as well.” The The haven’t mounted a stage in Melbourne since 1989. At the time, Johnson was recognised for the experimental music videos accompaning Infected – videos that featured Johnson tripping out in the Peruvian jungle, holding a loaded gun in his mouth “to see what it felt like” and surviving a fully unscripted attack by Maoist guerillas, among other things. He recalls enjoying the warm reception he got from Melbourne crowds, despite the dissociating effect of a seven hour-long jet lag.
“Some performers get nervous, but I don’t. I have the reverse problem. To me, walking onto a stage is just like walking into the living room.” “I’m curious to see how much the country’s changed,” Johnson says. It’s probably become even more Americanised, because it was already well on the way 30 years ago.” After his 2002 show at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Johnson decided to take a sabbatical – one that ended up running until 2018. Tickets to The The’s unexpected comeback tour often sold out in minutes. “I didn’t intend for it to be 16 years, but time goes fast,” Johnson says. “Obviously, I’ve got a lot going on in my personal life, even in my family life: children being born, and people dying as well, so it’s quite an intense time.” The passing of Matt Johnson’s older brother Andy Dog – who designed the band’s most recognisable album art – prompted Johnson to record the elegiac ‘We Can’t Stop What’s Coming’ alongside Johnny Marr of the Smiths. Johnson was drawn back into music also by scoring films directed by his brother Gerard. Johnson, whose bookshelves are lined with studies of Kubrick, Fellini and Polanski, says film composing is easier than cutting records because there’s no need to tinker with lyrics.
“I find Hollywood very, very bombastic,” Johnson says. “The blockbuster type music doesn’t interest me at all. It’s overpowering. It doesn’t add much – I find it actually detracts from the movie experience. You can tell when the composer has had some creative interaction with the director rather than just painting by numbers to create a big, boring Hollywood score.” Johnson has no sympathy for the ‘80s nostalgia currently washing over pop culture, preferring the composers who helped define the spaghetti westerns and spy thrillers of the ‘60s and ‘70s: Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini and others. Johnson seems untroubled by the weighty expectations created by The The’s 16-year absence from the stage. “Some performers get nervous, but I don’t,” Johnson says. “I have the reverse problem. To me, walking onto a stage is just like walking into the living room. “For a long time I haven’t really cared what people think of me, and that gives you a certain amount of freedom. I want people to like the music, but I’m not anxious about it. BY ZACHARY SNOWDON SMITH
Rockwiz Live Television show turned stage show extravaganza Rockwiz is considered by many to be an Australian music institution with many music fans trading pre-gig drinks on a Saturday night to stay at home and watch the show. This adulation has led to the show’s host Julia Zemiro nowadays regarded as a supreme music industry operator. In 2007, SBS music trivia show Rockwiz won best Best Light Entertainment Television Series at the AFI (Australian Film Industry) Awards. The show was in only its third season but it had captured an untapped audience of Australian music aficionados who had outgrown Video Hits and Channel V, and were starving to be taken seriously. While the shows’ drawcard was its rotating list of Australian rock royalty and a rocking house band, as the show’s host Zemiro brought a sharp wit and stagecraft honed after years of theatre to the show. However, back in 2007, on the red carpet of the awards ceremony, a young music journalist for the then freshly launched Beat TV thought he would show-up Zemiro by quizzing her as to who the nominations were for Best Original Music Award? The comedian and actor of over 20 years’ experience saw straight through the ruse and retorted, “You know I host Rockwiz, that covers rock’n’roll.” Despite this factoid, she then listed off the three nominations for that year. “Did I? That was nice of me,” Zemiro sarcastically responds, after being regaled with the anecdote. She 24 BEAT.COM.AU
is speaking to Beat from Sydney, where she now lives, which is handy considering that she’s now an Australian television ‘big dog’. Currently Zemiro is filming episodes for new Australian music talent quest All Together Now, which she hosts alongside Ronan Keating. But back when she was first hosting Rockwiz, like Beat TV’s cheeky presenter, many were openly questioning Zemiro’s credibility. “I’ll be very honest with you, when I went for the Rockwiz audition they were looking for a host. If you knew stuff about music that was a bonus, but if they had hired a music expert who can’t control 200 rowdie music fans in the Gershwin Room, who can’t control four people from the audience with no stage experience but amazing music brains, who can’t control a couple of amazing but sometimes totally random musicians – you just wouldn’t have got the gig. “There were people who auditioned for that role who might know more about music but they couldn’t control, improvise, flirt, and relax with a group the way my years on stage had given me the confidence to,” Zemiro says. She offers more insight into the making of her career as a music television host by discussing her callback audition that was presided over by the show’s
Catch The The at Arts Centre Melbourne on Thursday October 4 and Friday October 5, as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival.
creators Brian Nankervis, Peter Bain-Hogg, Michael Ward, and Ken Connor. “When I got the call back they had the band there, Pete and Mike, two panels of contestants made up of professional comedians like Colin Lane, and they cued me up with ‘Show us what you can do, run it,’” Zemiro explains. And run it she did for the next 14 seasons. With Rockwiz now on permanent hiatus, Zemiro and the rest of Team Rockwiz are focusing on the stage show – consistently selling out venues Australia wide. Rockwiz Revue Tour 2018 is taking on 11 dates around the country, with three of those in Victoria. There have been quite a few aspects of the music industry in 2018 that have peaked Zemiro’s attention enough to potentially feature in the upcoming revue. “This year I am particularly interested in how we expect to hold musicians to account, not for their bad behaviour but for their history and what they do,” Zemiro says. I hope we look at the expectations we put on music idols, and how they handle it.” BY DAN WATT
“This year I am particularly interested in how we expect to hold musicians to account…I hope we look at the expectations we put on music idols, and how they handle it.” Rockwiz Revue Tour 2018 will come to Palais Theatre on Friday November 23, Geelong Performing Arts Centre on Saturday November 24, and Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo on Sunday November 25.
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The Living End You won’t see repackaged, remastered, or rehashed iterations of The Living End’s 20-year-old eponymous debut record this year – singer and guitarist Chris Cheney doesn’t care for anniversaries. For him, 2018 is Wunderbar – the band’s staunchly contemporary new LP, recorded in icy Berlin. Upon its release, a few things will immediately confront fans of The Living End – not least of all its tongue in cheek German title. The garish purple cover is another departure, an array of nine television sets broadcasting fractured palm trees. “I like the idea of a paradise, an unobtainable thing we’re all looking at through our screens and devices, all trying to make our lives better through technology. It tied into my experience too, having left LA being all palm trees, then being in the harshness of Berlin and looking back at the palm trees of LA,” Cheney explains. The surprising abstraction continues into the album itself, a set of 11 tracks spanning personal politics and identity as a microcosm for simmering political divide, condensed into the purest white-hot rock’n’roll the band has written in years. “I used to be always trying to be a character, always trying to be something else and try to put myself into a role. I think with this record there’s a lot of me coming to terms with the way I sing and play guitar and the way I write songs,” Cheney says. Nearly every part of Wunderbar’s distinct character leads back to the album’s sessions in Berlin and the baroque small town of Rottenburg an der Fulda where
“For a long time I was consumed by the Living End and that was when it became a grind.” German producer Tobias Kuhn enticed the band to record in a blistering six week period in February. Germany remains a bastion of rock’n’roll, immune to the irrelevance plaguing the genre elsewhere and The Living End revel in its proud regional tradition on Wunderbar, collaborating with Dusseldorf rock heroes Die Toten Hosen on several tracks. “We first went there back in 1998 or 1999. We were so green that it felt like such a foreign place. I was like ‘Wow, I feel like I’m on another planet completely.’ “[Die Toten Hosen are] the ones who first took us to Germany in ‘98 – we’ve stayed in contact with them and done a lot of shows with them over the years. It needed that big voice, that big chant, and we thought who better than those guys to come and yell on it.” Wunderbar’s best tracks are a distinctly Australian mish-mash of international influences with unexpected maturity; ‘Not Like the Other Boys’ rails against traditional moulds of masculinity (“Didn’t I try to raise you like a man? Just like the other boys”) while ‘Amsterdam’ showcases an unguarded Cheney against just an electric guitar. “[‘Amsterdam’] was written as a full band track and it had this surf-garage line, almost like early Midnight
Oil. I pitched it to the band and everyone was like, ‘Yeah, it’s great but it doesn’t fit what the album is.’ It was Tobias who suggested stripping everything away and step up to the microphone with the guitar,” Cheney says. Standout track ‘Death of the American Dream’ uses Cheney’s experience in the US as a template for a psychobilly 21st century interpolation of ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ before a reflective acoustic interlude offers the troubled superpower a bone. In 2012, Cheney lamented he could “sympathise with guys who have felt like they have done all they can in a band.” The patchy two records that followed, 2011’s The Ending is Just The Beginning Repeating and 2015’s Shift stayed that course, but things couldn’t be more different now. “You go through hurdles and slumps through the years and maybe we were going through one then. I can’t see any sign of us slowing down at this point. For a long time I was consumed by the Living End and that was when it became a grind. I think this record has done so much for us and our own enthusiasm.”
Wunderbar arrives Friday September 28 via BMG. The Living End play The Forum on Saturday November 3.
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The Superjesus Sarah McLeod has been interviewed in all of your classic rockstar spots, but when Beat catches The Superjesus frontwoman on an early Friday arvo, it may be the most rock’n’roll place she’s ever taken an interview. “I’m out shopping with my mum,” she reports with a laugh. “I’ve just had to duck into the changerooms – all the mums are staring at me.” While being surrounded by babies and new life, McLeod is here to talk about her grown-up kid that’s just hit the big 2-0: Sumo, The Superjesus’ beloved debut LP that hit shelves back in February of 1998. After breaking out of their native Adelaide and into national attention with 1996’s Eight Step Rail EP, The Superjesus were feeling the pressure in a big way when it came to creating their all-important debut. “When we went into the studio, we were a little apprehensive,” McLeod says. “It was out of our comfort zone – there were a lot more people involved. “There was a hierarchy involved. If we wanted to pull a guitar sound, we couldn’t just go up to the amps and do it ourselves. We had to speak to the producer, who would speak to the engineer, who would speak to the guitar tech who would then go to the amp. It was a very different operation to what we were used to – I have a lot of memories of extensive discussions that would trickle down through the communication chain.” Recording took place at Triclops Sound Studios, an Atlanta-based studio which had previously housed bands such as Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. Sumo
“Hearing all these stories from over the years has given me a much greater appreciation of this time in our lives.” was written over the course of roughly 18 months, pieced together between half-formed ideas on the road and endless jam sessions designed specifically for forging new songs. According to McLeod, the ball began rolling in earnest with the song that would end up being the album’s lead single, ‘Down Again’. “There’s always a lynchpin that brings an album together,” McLeod says. “I knew that ‘Down Again’ was going to be that quite early on in the process. “I remember writing the vocal part. It was the night before the Big Day Out on the Gold Coast, and I was at a hotel room in Kangaroo Point. I was really excited – you can just tell when something’s going to be really cool. “It was actually a blessing that it did well, because we were trying to counteract the success of ‘Shut My Eyes’. We wrote that almost as an attempt to dumb down our sound; to do something a bit more straightforward. It was good that the success of that song was more or less replaced by ‘Down Again’.” In the 20 years since Sumo’s release, The Superjesus have gone platinum, split up, reformed, and circumnavigated the country playing everywhere
from the inner-city to Woop-Woop regional festivities. Wherever McLeod and co. may roam, however, she’s always pulled up and regaled with stories from fans about their coming of age, with Sumo as the soundtrack. “As the tour gets closer, I’ve been digging up a lot more footage and photos from us back then. I’ve been rehearsing songs that we never played live. Hearing all these stories from over the years has really given me a much greater appreciation of this time in our lives.” Joining McLeod in the 2018 incarnation of the band is fellow founding member Stuart Rudd on bass, long-serving guitarist Jason Slack, and recent acquisition Travis Dragani on drums, who replaced original drummer Paul Berryman after he moved to the States in 2016. The tour McLeod alludes to is the Sumo anniversary run this October, in which the band are set to play the biggest and most ambitious set of their career. “You’re going to get everything,” she promises. “All of Sumo, all of Eight Step Rail, some B-sides, some covers and all the other greatest hits. We’re going to town on this one.”
The Superjesus will celebrate 20 years of Sumo when they take over Barwon Club Geelong on Friday October 5, Max Watt’s on Saturday October 6, and Taphouse Bendigo on Wednesday October 10.
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Darren Middleton “I may have picked an inopportune time.” Brisbanebred and Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Darren Middleton has just released his third studio album, entitled Tides. In a few weeks, however, a certain beloved Australian band are reissuing their game-changing third album, Internationalist, on the eve of its 20th anniversary – something Middleton is very much across, considering he was in said band. “I mean, it could be a good thing,” Middleton says with a laugh. “People might see that the record is being re-released and wonder what we’re all up to now – and in this case, I can show them all exactly what it is I’ve been up to.” We’ve avoided dropping the P-word directly here – if only to see if an article can be written about Middleton where it doesn’t come up at all. Besides everything else, the 46-year-old has spent the neardecade since that band’s end putting his focus primarily towards music being made under his own name. Although reticent at first, being a solo artist is second nature to Middleton now. “I fucking love it,” he says succinctly. “I’m totally comfortable with it now, but my first two solo records were a bit more hesitant in nature. “Even though I’m the lead vocalist on Translations [Middleton’s 2013 solo debut], I got in a bunch of guest singers to more or less hide behind. I didn’t feel confident enough to handle it all on my own. I absolutely love having friends involved, don’t get me wrong, but it felt more like asking for help than having
proper collaborations. With Tides, I feel like I’m a lot happier with what I’m doing.” Tides was recorded through a string of sessions in 2017 with You Am I guitarist Davey Lane serving as Middleton’s co-producer. This marked the first time the two had worked together in an official capacity after knowing each other for well over a decade. “We’d played festivals and the like around the traps for years,” Middleton says. “When I moved to Melbourne, I moved a street away from Davey – we ended up seeing one another a lot, and we started helping one another out with recordings and shows. I’ve got a lot of respect for him – he’s someone who really knows his shit when it comes to playing music and writing songs.” Together, Middleton and Lane assembled the core group of musicians that would lay down the foundations of the album itself. Interestingly, the lion’s share were people that Middleton had never worked with before – musicians like Jet’s touring keyboardist Louis Macklin and The Bamboos’ drummer Graeme Pogson. Also of note were contributions from the veteran Bull sisters, Vika and Linda. “That was Davey’s suggestion,” Middleton says. It was such a thrill to hear them sing on the
record – it really shines through just how long they’ve been doing this. They’re incredibly professional, but also so much fun – they had the exact right vibe for what Davey and I were going for.” As the title suggests, Tides is an ever-changing record – sometimes gentle, sometimes brisk and abrasive. After years in rock bands, both as a side player and a frontman, Middleton wasn’t about to settle into your everyday troubadour role all that easily. “I started out wanting to make a pretty basic record – just vocals, guitar and a bit of piano,” he says. “Obviously, that didn’t last long. I wanted it to be distinctly different to the other two albums I’d made – a bit more guitar-oriented, a bit more of a vibe to it. Definitely something a bit more rough around the edges. Every song dictated its own vibe, which is where Davey came in very handy in particular. If I wanted a Beck vibe, a bit like Sea Change, he knew how to do it. If I wanted a Britpop sound, he was all over it. Everything fell into place really organically.” Middleton beams, concluding: “I can’t believe how well it’s turned out.”
“Even though I’m the lead vocalist on Translations, I got in a bunch of guest singers to more or less hide behind. I didn’t feel confident enough to handle it all on my own.” Darren Middleton’s new album Tides is out now via Ditto. He’ll perform at Northcote Social Club on Friday October 26.
BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG
You Me At Six “What do you think?” Matt Barnes, laidback, approachable and quite possibly the coolest bassist in the biz, asks for thoughts about VI, the sixth studio album from his band You Me At Six. On approaching VI, it’s best to remain open to the completely unexpected. It has a lovely rock‘n’roll lick that’s still typical of You Me At Six, but also sees the band branching out into new areas. “That’s what we were trying to do,” Barnes says. “You can always tell it’s our band but you’ve got to move forward with the times – no one wants to create the same album more than once.” A chat with a member of You Me At Six can’t happen without asking about the video for ‘3AM’, the first of three singles released from VI. In it, the band act out two contrasting segments – the highlight being the full dance routine performed at the song’s climax. It’s inspired, but the direction You Me At Six took with the video has split opinion down the middle. “To start off with the negative people, I tend to switch off from the internet,” Barnes says. ‘3AM’ – we did 15, 20 takes of that stupid dance and not one of them was perfectly in time. At the end of it they cut them all together. “We’re always looking to have a laugh and we don’t really give a shit. We knew there’d be some people online like, ‘Oh my god, this is more of a pop song, they’re not like an emo-pop-punk band anymore,’ and it’s like, well no, we’re not, because A) we don’t listen to that sort of music anymore and 26 BEAT.COM.AU
B) we’re nearly 30 years old now and times change – we’ve moved on. When you’re a musician you play music every single day, your tastes are going to change. It’s just what happens.” Lucky for those fans who are still a little emo at heart, VI offers a nice balance – the growth and maturity is evident, but there’s also a nice dose of nostalgia. “Especially with all these streaming services these days, we can push the genres a bit further,” Barnes reasons. “Whereas back in the day, it was like, someone likes pop music, someone likes drum ‘n’ bass, no one liked everything in between but now, because you have the access, it’s different genres for different moods – people are way more open to it. We can push the boundary more.” Pushing boundaries or not, 2018 marks the tenyear anniversary of their first release Take Off Your Colours, a fact Barnes has a hard time believing. “It’s absolutely bonkers,” he says. “My life feels like it’s been a period of four years, but it’s actually been 11 in the band, so I still feel so much younger than I am.” Nevertheless, it’s a cause for celebration, and celebrate You Me At Six will. What began as a three-
date anniversary tour, quickly blew out another ten dates across the UK. “It’s gonna be so fun, I can’t wait.” You can practically hear Barnes bouncing in his seat. “No one is going to be as old as they used to be,” Barnes says. “Everyone’s probably going to be 26 [years old] to 32, so it’s going to be a really funny boozy evening. We’re pretty much going to get hammered and sing some amazing tunes. “It’s incredibly humbling. People say, it’s like pop-punk used to be an American thing, apart from a few select British bands, and I think people hold Take Off Your Colours very close to their heart as one of the big UK pop-punk records and that in itself is amazing. What an amazing thing to have.” BY ANNA ROSE
“You can always tell it’s our band but you’ve got to move forward with the times – no one wants to create the same album more than once.” You Me At Six will release VI on Friday October 5 via Cooking Vinyl Australia.
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Sleepmakeswaves
“It’s almost like we achieved these things that were secretly our dreams, because from the start we acted as if they were never going to happen.”
Ten years ago, the music we had was utterly amazing. 2008 saw the rise of posthardcore, pop-punk and an accolade of other tasty little subgenres. Many bands haven’t stood the test of time for one reason or another, but one of the lucky few still standing today, and about to embark on a ten-year anniversary tour of Australia. “It’s a long time,” says the band’s keyboard and bassist, Alex Wilson. “I’ve been quipping it’s longer than any relationship I’ve been in. It’s a really good thing for us that we’ve lasted this distance, done all the stuff we’ve done and are still mates, still get along and are still excited about making music together.” The longevity of the Sydney post-rock band is largely down to their open-minded willingness to be flexible in their sound. For Wilson, as the one guy in the band who’s been present at all points in sleepmakeswaves’ ten-year history, quipping aside, it does make him contemplative. “I think we’ve had a ten-year history because we never planned on having a ten-year history,” he says. “It’s almost like we achieved these things that were secretly our dreams, because from the start we acted as if they were never going to happen. “Not having these big ambitions led to a focus on the musical side of things and having fun together as people, then inadvertently, they end up being massive assets you can draw on.” What sleepmakeswaves play today certainly doesn’t sound like what they were playing ten years ago. They’ve evolved, improved and grown, and they’ve had their buddies there the whole time. “I think it’s also, and I’ve often said, the kind of music
we do is a double edge sword – the bad edge is constantly having to fight against the perception that because you’re an instrumental band you’re boring. It’s a deal breaker for some people and that’s a shame but there are a lot of weird little perks that come along with it. “One of them is because, even at our coolest, we’ve hung just under the threshold of trendy, that means we’re immune to the trends at the same time – like whatever happens in trend world, it tends not to affect us too much. Our development and journey as a musical act tends to happen parallel to what is going on in the mainstream,” Wilson says. He calls that parallel movement a bit of a pain in the arse because he does see there are a lot of good things to be had from being in the indie mainstream. “There are a lot of things that are good to avoiding that shit fight as well,” Wilson says. “That ability to float under the radar has actually allowed us creative freedom and longevity outside of the trends of the past decade.” Heading out on tour to celebrate ten years of touring and recording, sleepmakeswaves will, of course, be celebrating the release of their debut
EP In Today, Already Walks Tomorrow. Perhaps most excitingly, the band will be joined on tour by founding member Jonathan ‘Kid’ Khor returning on guitar for these shows. “I think what makes this possible for someone like Kid to come back and do this tour is the core idea of what sleepmakeswaves is about – you might call it a feeling, or a sound, a combination of those and an idea – but the core essence of what the band is, is firmly established to make it a comfortable thing for someone to step away from a little while and come back to participate again. “Because we’ve stayed true to our core idea and deepened our relationship with it in what we do over the years, it means the fans have an implicit trust in what we do. It doesn’t matter who’s up onstage at this point, there’s trust that it’s going to fit together as part of the overall package that people have come to expect from us. There’s a sense of ‘We know what we’re about and we’re comfortable giving that to the people,’” Wilson says.
Sleepmakeswaves will celebrate their tenth anniversary at Max Watt’s on Friday October 5, with support from And So I Watch You From Afar.
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Riflebirds A couple of weeks on from the release of his band’s third album in four years, Riflebirds’ vocalist and guitarist Rowan Roebig couldn’t be happier with the direction they’ve taken their music. In the lead up to the release, Riflebirds’ drummer Bon Krunic heard some feedback about the band’s previous two releases – this particular punter had liked what he’d heard, but didn’t quite think the studio recordings matched up to what Riflebirds does live – so the band set out to create a more rockier and up-tempo album. Enter: Ain’t Ever Going Home. “I think it was a pretty conscious decision to musically have a little more guitar presence and a little more capturing of the live sound,” Roebig says. “There’s definitely a more consistent theme musically to step on the distortion pedal and up the tempo and keep that energy happening like you’d have in one of our live shows.” When a band starts out, they don’t really know the direction their music will go, and as they progress, so does their sound. This evolution is something Riflebirds have been conscious of throughout their career. “Sometimes it takes a while for things to evolve and for you to find out what you’re supposed to be,” he says. “It will keep evolving again, and then there’ll be the next progression, but I think we’ve definitely made the right album for us right now – to capture what we’re doing right now. Riflebirds are the kind of band that want to be reasonably prolific
“Just keep your goals in the creative sphere and everything else will sort itself out.” – releasing three albums and a single in four years. Roebig even thinks they’ll head back into the studio after this year’s touring. “You’ve got to stay interested and invested in what you’re doing and be excited by that, and for us that’s new music,” he says. “We’ve just finished this one, but pretty soon the cycle will start again and we’ll start demoing again. Their upcoming show at The Labour In Vain is a return to the band’s spiritual home of sorts. It’s a venue the band started playing not long after forming, and a stage that’s hosted some of their greatest shows. “The crowds are always fantastic, really responsive and when we were thinking about venues for this launch, we thought, ‘Let’s stay true to who we are, the kind of band we are, and let’s play at our favourite pub.’” There will be no support acts on the day; instead Riflebirds will play two sets. “You play your first one and you get into it and get warm, take a bit of a break and then come back and you’re always in great form for the second set. “The crowd’s a bit more warmed up and a few more drinks have gone down. It extends over a longer period than if you were just playing one set.
Hopefully if all goes well, there’ll be a nice big crowd in there for us and it’ll be an awesome night.” Roebig likes to think that Riflebirds set themselves the right kind of goals to carry their music and keep them motivated. Thanks to a strong focus on their creative goals, the band have recently found themselves having new experiences such as playing at festivals and live radio sets. “Our goals are to keep writing songs and keep playing live, and keep making records. I think if your goals move away from that into some other marketing territory or something like that, you just get off course,” he says. “Just keep your goals in the creative sphere and everything else will sort itself out.”
Riflebirds will be performing at The Labour in Vain on Saturday October 13. Ain’t Ever Going Home is out now.
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Dead Letter Circus
“We went from being individuals who came together, to a band unified, which is really hard to do. This is our bromance album.”
After nearly 15 years together, the creation of Dead Letter Circus’ selftitled fourth album was the first project that truly unified the band. “Our appreciation of each other is way different. When you start out everyone wants to do the shiny thing, everyone wants to write the riff or the chords. We’ve dissolved those walls and our egos,” says frontman Kim Benzie. “We went from being individuals who came together, to a band unified, which is really hard to do. This is our bromance album.” This is Dead Letter Circus’ second self-titled release. 2007 saw the band debut with a self-titled EP, and over a decade on they’ve returned to the name. “It’s always a bold statement when someone does a self-titled EP,” Benzie reflects. “We set the bar pretty high with our previous album titles, but it feels like on this album we are back to the artists who wrote that debut EP. “When you write lyrics, you hide messages in double meanings and it’s harder when you write more literally because you’re peeling back.” Dead Letter Circus is an album that explores internal fragilities from a more extant perspective, a contrast to the reflective style explored in the past. “You get goosebumps when someone comes to you at a show and tells you the effect your song had on them, and it’s good when someone understands that you experience the same problems. I write lessons and I’m sort of this Yoda with the answers, but now
Jamaican Music and Food Festival
I’m presenting what’s behind the mask,” Benzie says. “I started writing these songs in the evenings. After writing the harmonies on The Endless Mile, it pushed me to go heavier because I was getting pretty done with violins and strings.” Last year saw the release of The Endless Mile, an acoustic variation of Dead Letter Circus’ most beloved tracks. “That album made us come out the gates harder. “99% of [songs] start with me having an idea on guitar, piano, or a sick beat and I’ll spend days on my own creating a chord structure. But because I’m in a band with such incredible players who play all their instruments better than I can, I’ll try not to flesh it out and spend a few days with the band creating it, I see an island on the horizon and the guys get us there.” The production team behind this album are more than familiar to the band. “It’s a real powerful thing, we are working with friends – I was the best man at one of their weddings,” Benzie says. “We separate vocals from the music, I do the vocals with Matt [Bartlem], and the rest of the band and Forester [Savell] do the music. “With Matt we will record for a while, then play
some table tennis and then record a few more takes, with [Forrester] it’s all technical, tuning guitars while we’re partying, the band actually filmed us one day because they thought we weren’t doing anything. “I haven’t actually heard it that much, like a track will play somewhere and I’ll be surprised.” Benzie ponders over the effect that the project has had on him. “When you’re in a band it’s hard to not listen to it every day and revel in how awesome it is, but now I try not to listen too many times so I can appreciate it.” Dead Letter Circus will be debuting most of these tracks live on their summer tour, as they are hesitant to preview tracks. “We used to preview a bunch before, but now people just put it up on the internet so we wait for the big reveal,” Benzie says. BY SCOTT HUDSON
General Levy
Melburnians are in for a wonderful treat as the Jamaican Music and Food Festival (JMFF) prepares to grace Williamstown. The festival embodies the authentic Jamaican experience by providing people with a taste of the culture’s mouthwatering cuisine, along with showcasing live international music of Jamaican origin. “The main international that we have announced already is General Levy; he is massive from the UK and had a big track in the Ali G series called ‘Incredible’, so he’s coming out to headline the festival for us,” festival director Stick Mareebo says. “He is a lyrical machine, he’s a wordsmith. He will mesmerise people. We also have Radikal Guru from Poland; he’s a producer, DJ and an engineer and he has his own show – he’s a jack of all trades.” Other talented artists playing live at the festival include Parly B, Burn City Queenz, Joe Ariwa, DJ Lady Erica, and many more. All the music at the festival is either generated from Jamaica or inspired by Jamaican people, enhancing the diversity of genres. There’s rocksteady, dub, dancehall, roots reggae, and jungle reggae – and that’s just scratching the surface. A lot of international music is released from Jamaica; it’s a very prominent part of the culture held in high spirits. Among the talented lineup of international artists, Mareebo hints that there is an even bigger name that will be announced in the next few weeks. Along with amazing live acts, JMFF aims to satisfy
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their visitors’ tastebuds by providing Jamaican street food such as authentic jerk chicken, delicious patties, Ital vegan, vegetarian street food, and other tasty goodies. “This festival will have a lot of barbecue smelling food. In Jamaica we call it ‘jerk’, which comes from the original Jamaicans – the Arawak Indians and the Africans,” Mareebo says. “It was a way of curing your meat when you cook it, by smoking it over charcoal.” The choice of venue for JMFF also resonates with a Jamaican island feel; Mareebo was very impressed when he first visited Seaworks, because it made him feel like he was in Jamaica again. “When I first went to Seaworks, I walked through the gates and felt like I was in Port Royale, which is a place in Kingston in Jamaica which inspired the series Pirates of the Caribbean,” Mareebo says. “Everything in there is rustic: the building, the old broken down pieces of wood, everything. You have to cross over the Yarra to get there and it’s like going to an island. JMFF actively aims to tackle the disparity between Jamaica as a developing nation and Australia by supporting two charities: H20 with love and Journey2Free. “H20 with Love started with two ladies in Perth that went to this very small village in Jamaica,”
Dead Letter Circus is out now via BMG. The band will take it on the road, stopping by 170 Russell on Friday December 21.
Mareebo says. “The kids there had to carry water by buckets in the mornings before they go to school, so these two ladies decided to try and raise some funds to get the authorities out there to create a pipe that will go up the hill, so that the kids don’t have to carry the drinking water. “Journey2Free is a charity that reaches out to women, girls and boys who have been molested or sexually abused in Jamaica. There’s this big taboo, people and kids don’t talk about it. This one lady has taken on the big task to speak up by getting girls and mums to speak up and getting people to take action.” The festival also aims to destigmatise dominant stereotypes of Jamaican culture by banning any form of smoking on the day. “Everyone thinks that people in Jamaica are potheads, and the truth is I don’t smoke and my business partner doesn’t smoke,” Mareebo says. “I don’t have anything against people who smoke, but we want this to be a family event and we don’t want smoking around children. We don’t want smoking in this public space, so we’re definitely out there saying ‘We’re Jamaicans and we’re saying don’t light up here.’” BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS
“This festival will have a lot of barbecue smelling food, in Jamaica we call it ‘jerk’, which comes from the original Jamaicans – the Arawak Indians and the Africans.” Jamaican Music and Food Festival will come to Seaworks, Williamstown on Sunday November 11 from 11am.
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Loose Tooth It’s been a whirlwind year for Melbourne trio Loose Tooth, with the release of their debut album Keep Up and first international tour now under their belt. After such a busy period, the band are relishing in some time off before a string of shows to round out 2018, with guitarist Nellie Jackson revealing that years of planning has gone into preparing the band for where they are now. “It’s been so amazing to see how people have reacted to it,” Jackson says. “I didn’t really think about that part of it until it started happening. There’s so much lead up to putting out an album, so once it’s out only then do you remember that we did this so other people will hear it.” The band, known for their incisive hooks and hard hitting harmonies, have significantly evolved as songwriters since the release of 2013’s Saturn Returns. The EP cemented them as one of the most exciting acts in the country and put the band in the position to make a big impact with their debut album. “Things almost felt like a fluke with Saturn Returns,” Jackson laughs. “I think this time around we were so aware of all the hard work it takes to put out a record, so we took more time to do it. “The band has matured in a way, we move more as one now, so we wanted to play around more with songwriting on Keep Up, particularly our different strengths,” Jackson continues. “The songs are a little more thought out, and ultimately we wanted it to feel like a whole piece of work, rather than a bunch of songs put together.” Jackson also expresses her gratitude towards
“I think this time around we were so aware of all the hard work it takes to put out a record so we took more time to do it.” their artist-run record label Milk! Records, with label managers Jen Cloher and Courtney Barnett, two artists that the band looks up to. “It’s really more a partnership than a ‘they’re the boss and we’re the band’ situation. They care a lot about what they’re doing and give very good advice, they know what they’re talking about since they’ve been through all this too.” Since their album tour and BIGSOUND, the band have been laying low before their show at the Heart of St Kilda Concert, a special fundraiser held annually at The Palais for the Sacred Heart Mission – a not-for-profit organisation that assists people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty to find shelter, food, care and support. “It’s a cause pretty close to all our hearts as we all grew up in and around St Kilda,” Jackson says. “I’m also a youth worker so I work with young people with drug and alcohol issues and obviously homelessness comes with that at times. “Playing a show where the money goes to homelessness is a very humbling thing to do, but it’s totally more about the volunteers and the organisation itself, and this special thing that they do.”
There is a sense that Loose Tooth is as much about the friendship between Jackson and her bandmates Etta Curry and Luc Dawson as it is about music. “When we toured with Courtney Barnett I couldn’t wait at the end of every show to get back in the van and just be together,” Jackson says. “It can be quite overwhelming on those big stages, so I always looked forward to being in a hotel room with them, unpacking the night and having a laugh. It was a really positive experience because of that, thankfully, because we want to do more tours together, that’s the ultimate dream and that was the ultimate test.” BY HOLLY PEREIRA
Caiti Baker
“I’ve never done anything by the book but I know the more I sing, the more my range increases, and I’ll keep pushing it, I like a challenge.”
Darwin’s worst kept secret, the formidable Caiti Baker, is back on the road armed with a fresh dose of blues, soul and R&B. Working again with her close-knit crew, including ARIA-nominated producer J. Mangohig, Baker plans to debut new material alongside her much-loved repertoire from last year’s debut album Zinc. “There were quite a few songs that didn’t make it on the record. This tour and these songs are a segue into the next chapter of my career,” she says. “They still fit in the Zinc sphere in terms of utilising my dad’s guitar samples, but the drums on the newer tracks are quite different.” Fans of Baker will know she has a range that surpasses many other vocalists on the Australian soul and hip hop scene today. Along with her natural talent for songwriting, her ability to jump from smooth honeydipped tones to a controlled glass-shattering register is Baker’s gift she has been honing from a young age. “My parents didn’t really know that I could sing or project as much as I can until I was maybe 14 or 15. There was a Debelah Morgan song called ‘Dance With Me’ that really inspired me,” she says. “Debelah used to be an opera singer and then she went into R&B. That song was a bit of a one-hit-wonder that came out in the late ‘90s or early 2000s, and there’s this really high note that she hits at the end and I used to try to emulate that for a very long time. “Although I’m not entirely sure that I did it the right way because I did end up at the emergency department,” Baker laughs. “They were scared that I had developed nodules at such a young age, but it turns out I was just dehydrated, I wasn’t drinking enough water.” Faced with the prospect of damaging her chances
Loose Tooth will perform as part of Heart of St Kilda, taking over Palais Theatre on Tuesday October 23, also featuring Archie Roach, Kate Ceberano, Tex Perkins & The Fat Rubber Band, and more. Keep Up is out now via Milk! Records/Remote Control Records.
at a singing career before it had even begun, she vowed never to make the same mistakes again. “So from there I began exploring and learning everything I could about vocal technique and preservation. I’ve never done anything by the book but I know the more I sing, the more my range increases, and I’ll keep pushing it, I like a challenge. “I also believe my songwriting and the way I approach recording has matured quite a bit as well, so I’m really excited to show everyone what I’ve been working on.” Her latest singles ‘Gimme’ and ‘Yep Yep’ are out now. ‘Gimme’ was released first and has more of an R&B influence thanks to some extra production from Nooky who is a producer and rapper from the Bad Apples crew. “It was one of the tracks we couldn’t get right at the time of the Zinc release. So that’s when we enlisted the help of Nooky and he sent back a whole bunch of amazing ideas for us to work with. “My other new songs ‘Yep Yep’, and ‘La La’ which hasn’t been released yet,” Baker says. “They’re both a little more spacious and a little more dynamic, and this is the direction I will be taking in the new year.”
While Baker shys away from confirming a followup to Zinc, it’s clear she’s been quietly working away on a labour of love. “We’re calling it a collection of songs at this point. “Music is therapeutic and cathartic for me,” she says. “There’s a lot of trust and vulnerability in creating music for me and I feel like whoever I work with I have to have quite a strong connection. I’ve been collaborating a lot with my band – the Bartlett brothers John and Paul, who may be known from Adelaide many years ago. They’re helping me to hark back to my indie R&B roots.” Always surrounding herself with exceptional talent, Baker will be joined on tour by rising star Stevie Jean. “We are both from the Northern Territory and I remember seeing Stevie when she was about 14 or 15,” Baker says. “Stevie’s gone from strength to strength in creating her own sound and she’s absolutely smashing it. She’s a part of the family.”
Caiti Baker will take over Yah Yah’s on Thursday September 27.
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Beat’s Guide to a DickheadProof Grand Final Day By Tom Parker
AFL Grand Final Day is like the piece de resistance for pubs and bars around Australia. It’s the time to impress, to pull out all the stops because you don’t want to get it wrong, you don’t want your venue to be empty on arguably Melbourne’s biggest sporting day of the year. Such is the importance of this divine occasion, there’s never a shortage of opportunities to swill a few down and bend the elbow like you’re the champion of the crop. A cultural cauldron as it is, Melbourne transmutes into some sort of wild behemoth come the last Saturday of September – but don’t stress, we’ve sifted through the clutter to give you a complete guide to watching the big dance.
Head to a pub
Check out Fed Square The open expanse of Federation Square is known for putting on a time when the biggest sporting events are going down. Whether it’s an Australian Open Final, the FIFA World Cup, or some other indulgent foray of sport, they kit out the place with bean bags, food trucks, and face painting alongside a massive screen. The AFL Grand Final is no different, so get down early to grab a top spot.
This one is quite self-explanatory, but you can certainly get it wrong. There are three elements to a good Grand Final watching experience: TV size and quality, the volume of the sound and the bloody atmosphere. Surrounding yourself with festive folk is an absolute must, and if they’re in the know about match tactics, player traits, etc. then you’re in for a wonderful ride. There’s fantastic options all over the city – the Imperial in the CBD, the Rose in Fitzroy, the Grosvenor down south and the Corner in Richmond, so you’re spoilt for choice.
Have a BBQ at the ground
Catch a gig
There’s nothing better than perching up on a couch in the sun with a frothie as the crème de la crème of footy goes down in front of you. Often the bash and crash of the game sets the tone for the party, and there’s often a fair bit of carry-on but that’s what makes it so magnificent. Ask around, Grand Final parties usually pop up through word of mouth but if you’re still a bit lost then there’s a few block parties happening. The Mt View Hotel in Richmond is throwing one, while there’s a block party going down at The Inn in Geelong, if you’re keen for a drive.
There’s no stopping the music in this fine city. Not even the AFL Grand Final can quell the music avalanche, and if you’re bipartisan, there’s many ways to complement the big game. The Retreat is throwing a party with rad local band Tuckshop taking over the stage, The Workers Club have got rock’n’soul outfit The Sugarcanes playing alongside Foxtrot and ANTY, while Hank’s Jalopy Demons will take over the Fitzroy Pinnacle with a huge show. And that’s just the start.
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If you weren’t able to score a ticket to the big game, you can still get amongst the atmosphere of the titanic occasion with a BBQ at the MCG. If you have your own portable Weber or Ziggy, you can set up in Yarra Park and sizzle away with a tinnie at your side. This is one of the oldest traditions of Grand Final Day, and as the hours tick down to the first bounce, the vibe is never more electric.
Hit up a party
Your Official Grand Final Playlist: Up There Cazaly – The Two-Man Band One Day In September – Mike Brady Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf We Can’t Be Beaten - Rose Tattoo Holy Grail – Hunters & Collectors We Are The Champions – Queen You’re the Voice – John Farnham Playing To Win – John Farnham Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House Heavy Heart – You Am I Back In Black – AC/DC Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor Welcome To The Jungle – Guns N’ Roses Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? – The Angels No Second Prize – Jimmy Barnes Winning – Santana September – Earth, Wind & Fire Heroes – David Bowie Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie Simply The Best – Tina Turner Everyone’s A Winner – Hot Chocolate All Star – Smash Mouth The Winner Takes It All – ABBA Leaps and Bounds – Paul Kelly
The AFL Grand Final will consume Melbourne on Saturday September 29. Prepare yourself.
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Clowns
“That’s the key to this band, that some people like all of it, some people like bits of it, but we’re constantly pushing boundaries.”
It’s always a good time when Melbourne’s very own Clowns take to the stage – and that’s exactly what they are preparing to do in celebration of their raucous single, ‘Freezing In The Sun’. Bright guitars and piercing vocals, a celebration with Clowns isn’t a treat to be missed. Since they posted it on their social media, the video for latest single – and the last taste of new music before the band head into the studio to record album number four – ‘I Shaved My Legs For You’ exemplifies everything that Clowns have become known for, especially their fun side. That song in particular, along with the first single ‘Freezing In The Sun’ will likely appear on that upcoming album – at least according to vocalist Stevie Williams. “We haven’t’ done a definitive track listing or anything, but we are going into the studio next month to record a whole bunch of tracks which will eventually become our fourth record – chances are high but who knows.” With their back catalogue boasting an everchanging variation in sound, Williams says it’s likely that Clowns will try and keep raising that bar higher with a few new tricks. “When we started we were teenagers just throwing together punk songs so we could go on tour and pretend like we meant something. “During the course of that process we kept playing gigs, people kept coming back, so we started expanding the sound and also minimising the sound – we started to write shorter and faster songs on the second album [Bad Blood, 2015] – we definitely try to
evolve the sound. This next album I think we’ll just really try to get all three of the albums we’ve previously released, which have been different in their own way, and jam them into one,” he says. It’s a pretty bog standard process for Clowns when it comes to the songwriting for the upcoming album, with the only obvious intricacy as reflection on previous works and potential revamps. “In this band, we’re very conscious to not cover creative ideas we’ve already covered. We’ve definitely wanted to leave the sound unprecedented in that sense, because we want people in the future to have all our albums in their collection and like every single one of them for different reasons. “The most challenging bit has been writing music which is reminiscent of older songs or older styles, but creating it in a way that’s new and fresh and exciting for the listener. And for us as well, we’ve got to play those fucking songs, too.” Half the reason Clowns have managed to maintain their success, relevance, and creative flair is because they’ve not been afraid to tap into so many different areas of style – not to mention their reputation for a really fun live show. These are the keys to longevity. “A huge key to
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it is that we’ve really tried to stay current,” Williams says. “For the entire existence of the band, we’ve tried to at least release something every single year, do a tour once or twice, and push the boundaries on the tours, too. “In playing around with sound and not letting ourselves get pigeonholed into ska-punk, or skate punk, or hardcore punk or whatever, we’ve really got the umbrella turned on punk, and done all of them which is a huge spectrum. That certainly helps, as well, for people that have maybe seen us in a shitty dive bar, or some town in who-knows-where. If they’ve seen us five years ago and stayed on track with us, they probably haven’t had much of a reason to stop listening unless we’ve really diversified our sound. “It’s that classic line [we get], ‘I really like your band but your last album really sucks’, or, ‘I really like your new album but your last one really sucked’ – I think that’s the key to this band, that some people like all of it, some people like bits of it, but we’re constantly pushing boundaries with what we’re doing and where we’re going.”
Clowns will take over The Corner on Saturday October 6, with Voiid, Press Club and Mesa Cosa.
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Georgia Fields
What was the most memorable moment in the writing/recording process for your new album Night Leaf? Definitely spending the three weeks it took at Kyle Mullarky’s family ranch in Topanga Canyon to record and mix. Every day felt so refreshing and calm. What was the key inspiration/story behind your song ‘NY Rip Off ’? I was having a conversation with friend/animator Mike Wartella and he said, “It’s the New York rip off.” I thought it was the perfect line for a song so I combined that with some ideas of friends I have who do “odd” jobs to make it work in the city. What do you think is the most important part of the album? It really was all of us in the room shaping the songs. There’d be a really small part that wasn’t quite working and we’d take the time to get it there. It was super important having the time to be able to let the songs evolve instead of rushing through the process. The songs vibe together, the production is smoothed out in the same vein, the artwork feels like the music, and the whole experience of us escaping the New York winter and camping out in Topanga Canyon really oozes out. It’s your debut Australian tour, what are you most looking forward to? The surf, the positive vibes, the beautiful smells of the countryside, avo toast, and açaí bowls.
How are your new songs different to what we’ve heard before? This year I’ve been challenged to go to some really vulnerable places with my songwriting, and despite the fear when being so honest, it’s been incredibly rewarding. A few months ago I released a live video for new song ‘Water to Water’, which deals with my grief after a miscarriage. It was cathartic for me to share that story, and I was really surprised and touched by how people connected to the song. How would you describe your current sound? Right now I’m inspired by artists like Sharon Van Etten, Feist, Aldous Harding, plus Melbourne legends Merpire and Ainslie Wills. Over the last two years I’ve been touring heaps, and have reconnected with my electric guitar, so there’s a rawness that’s filtering through the new lyrics into the sound. What can we expect from your full band show? I’m playing almost exclusively new songs with an interstellar cast of Melbourne’s finest instrumentalists, plus a couple of surprise guests. And alt-pop wonder Naomi Keyte is bringing her band over from Adelaide to make it a super sweet double headline affair. What’s coming next in the world of Georgia Fields? In November I’m hitting the road to play some festivals up north, then in January I’ll take a few months away from performing as we’re having our second baby. I’m still chipping away at album three, but this will be one of my last Melbourne gigs for quite a while.
Catch Boytoy at The Tote on Thursday September 27. Listen to Night Leaf beforehand via
Catch Georgia Fields’ double-headline with Naomi Keyte at The Toff in Town on Thursday
streaming services or pick up a copy on vinyl at the show.
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ALBUM REVIEWS
Album of the Week (Chapter Music/Secretly Canadian/Inertia)
Singles With Augustus Welby Little Simz
Little Simz
Offence (Age 101) “Picasso with the pen…Jay-Z on a bad day…Shakespeare on my worst days.” These are boasts I can get behind. But more impressive than writerly flair is Little Simz’s undeniable presence behind the mic. Over a nasty acid-jazz arrangement, the London rapper blasts those who underestimated her and delivers a sarcastic rebuke to sellout MCs. It’s not all self-glorification, with Simz also admitting weariness and owning up to some faults. She says it all from the chest and turns out one of the year’s best hip hop songs.
Amyl and the Sniffers
Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled) (Flightless)
It was always going to be hard to live up to that title and the Melbourne band falls slightly short, but not for want of trying. Amyl and co. play punky pub rock that’s neither cynical nor ironic and promises a ripping live show. On record, however, they can’t get above a sort of plodding frequency, which exposes a lack of compositional imagination. Amy Taylor’s shouty, insouciant vocals are the standout feature and get closest to delivering on the title promise.
Pip Blom
Come Home (Nice Swan Records) It’s high time the Google results for ‘Dutch rock music’ extended past Golden Earring and Eddie van Halen. Amsterdam newcomer Pip Blom shows us there’s plenty more interesting stuff happening in the country’s indie-rock scene. ‘Come Home’ is a pointed, emotional track that serves up a warm dose of melody and puts Blom in a similar category to Soccer Mommy and Lucy Dacus.
Avril Lavigne
Head Above Water
Emma Louise
Lilac Everything; A Project By Emma Louise Lilac Everything, the third album from singersongwriter Emma Louise, is somewhat difficult to describe without focusing on its immediately apparent artificially pitched down vocals.
(Avril Lavigne Music & Entertainment)
So this isn’t really aimed at me, but that doesn’t mean I’m not eager to enjoy it. ‘Head Above Water’ is a neo-power ballad inspired by Lavigne’s struggles with Lyme disease. You’d be a pig not to sympathise with the singer’s sentiment, but the tone of uplifting defiance is hampered by a few too many tired clichés about staying strong and resisting deterioration.
The Goon Sax
We Can’t Win (Chapter Music) Put it on, embrace your best friends, have a cry and be grateful The Goon Sax exist. Just bloody excellent.
9.0
One can be forgiven for feeling bewildered and confused after a single listen of this album; deep vocals, both unfamiliar and unrelenting, feature on every single track, except for the instrumental ‘Solitude’ which hangs mysteriously with an expectant air. This significant shift in sound lends itself to the obvious question – whose is this voice anyway? It’s Louise’s voice of course, just not the way it’s been heard before. First single ‘Wish You Well’ is absolutely gorgeous in its simplicity, teems with emotion, while ‘Falling Apart’ is heavily drenched in soul. By spontaneously booking a flight to Mexico and taking off a mere three days later, Louise sparked within herself a creative flurry, writing most of Lilac Everything over there as a result. Her physical surrounds infiltrate her music most on ‘Gentleman,’ a track that light-heartedly strums its way into the heart of Mexico with its rhythm and clicking percussion. Conversely, ‘Mexico’ carries with it a melancholic undertone and pulses with a brooding intensity reminiscent of Elbow. ‘Just The Way I Am’ is lyrically beautiful and full, much like Louise’s previous releases, while ‘Never Making Plans Again’ could have easily been penned for Norah Jones. As the album draws to a close, ‘A Book Left Open In A Wild Field Of Flowers’ provides warmth as it morphs into a subdued underwater-like reverie of poetic musicality. This album stands on its own, no crutch or aid necessary, no explanation required. It is simply a beautifully written and produced album that warrants time and attention. BY MARY GLEEKO
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ALBUM REVIEWS
Albums
8.0
My Own Mess
Think Skegss – what comes to mind? Booze-fuelled fun? Road trips? Surf ? Skate? Well you’re right. Though they’re still onboard for a good time, My Own Mess is a strong sign the three Byron Bay boys are growing up. ‘Up In The Clouds’ is placed perfectly as the first cab off the rank. Skegss fans already know this anthemic emo banger, as they copped it long before the album. Tracks like this are reminiscent of early ‘90s Blink-182. ‘Road Trip’ is a sweet acoustic jig, a laidback nod to touring and the effects – both negative and positive – it can have on a musician. Alex the Astronaut’s long-awaited cameo happens here, and boy, do Skegss and Alex sound good together. ‘Paradise’ and ‘Margarita’ are a sweet trip to vibestown. Think Friday night post-clock-off beers with your best buds – pretty similar to early Skegss. Meanwhile you’ve got chill campfire tracks like ‘Midnight Eyes’ and ‘Need To Do’ to settle you right down. All in all, Skegss have done a pretty swell job on My Own Mess. While sticking to their fun bro-ish party roots, they’re still finding a way to explore new areas and take risks. This is officially the best Skegss yet.
Sleaford Mods
(EMI)
(Rough Trade/Remote Control)
(Ratbag Records/Warner Music Australia)
Skegss
Paul McCartney
6.5
Sleaford Mods EP
The Nottingham duo known as the Sleaford Mods are back with a self-titled, five track EP. The release is in the same vein as their previous offerings; Blue collar, kitchen sink, post-punk rants, over rudimentary drum machine loops. All with a repeating bass line and the occasional drunken whirl on the keyboard like somebody’s fingers have slipped. Jason Williamson is rough as always, managing to talk-sing in his guttural Nottingham accent and still be poetic. He’s a master of the banalities of everyday life, pointing out things so ordinary they make you sick. In lead single ‘Stick In A Five And Go’, Williamson hunts down someone from social media who “told me I was gonna get smacked”, eventually trying to lure him from his home while posing as a postman. ‘Jokeshop’ is another memorable track – we hear about a purposeless life, time being wasted and buying “itching powder” from a party shop. The EP is cynical, but not as hostile as previous releases. Fans craving the minimal Sleaford Mods sound will be pleased, though a changeup would have been refreshing. Williamson’s words and delivery are clever as always, but there’s room for expansion. BY DAVID CLASS
BY NATHAN GUNN
8.0
While not having strayed too far from their roots, The Paper Kites have managed to change things up slightly on their latest, On the Corner Where You Live. The New York-born and recorded album sees the five-piece folk-indie-rock band delve deep into almost ‘80s rock territory. A risk? Certainly. One that was worth it? Who knows? ‘A Gathering on 57th’ is a warm, jazzed-up instrumental piece. While it sits at a mere one minute and 31 seconds, it sets the tone for the rest of the record. ‘Give Me Your Fire, Give Me Your Rain’ sounds like an interpolation of Fleetwood Mac into The War on Drugs. The vocals of Sam Bentley combined with those of Christina Lacy, and the reverberated drumming of Josh Bentley stand out though., as the Kites are no ‘80s copycat. ‘Flashes’ is a beautiful acoustic-turned-electric harmonious track, one of the only real moments of down-time on the release. Dave Powys’ prodigious guitar work is one pivotal feature on this record, and tracks like ‘Don’t Keep Driving’ exemplify this. On The Corner Where You Live is a beautiful piece in a beautiful puzzle that The Paper Kites have made their own. BY NATHAN GUNN
(Bella Union)
(Dirty Hit/Sony)
On The Corner Where You Live
Egypt Station, album number 25 for Paul McCartney, proves he can still write decent pop songs after all these years, though the album gets bogged down at times by odd choices and lacklustre tunes. Starting strong, melancholy ballad ‘I Don’t Know’ is a beautiful piece of piano music – something McCartney does quite well. ‘Come On To Me’ returns the listener to classic McCartney, a starry-eyed pop song backed by a cheery brass section. ‘Happy With You’ pairs the singer with an acoustic guitar, McCartney reminisces about his past; leaving his vices behind in exchange for living with the one he loves. Around the time ‘Fuh You’ arrives, the album starts to crumble. McCartney describes it as a “raunchy love song”. Sure, but it’s also a terrible attempt at reaching the charts with its millennial chorus and desperate sex appeal. ‘Back In Brazil’ is an oddly catchy electronic dance number. ‘Caesar Rock’ is just ‘Jet’ written for 2018. However, the melody of ‘Hunt You Down/ Naked/C-Link’ is a fun closer. McCartney does what McCartney does on this very McCartney album. Egypt Station is a worthy entry in his vast discography and it’ll please (and sometimes anger) his loyal fan base. BY JONATHAN REYNOSO
(Wonderlick/Sony Music Australia)
The Paper Kites
6.0
Egypt Station
Pale Waves
My Mind Makes Noises
7.5
Spiritualized
And Nothing Hurt
8.5
With plenty of time to experiment and two members of The 1975 assisting with production, Pale Waves’ debut album My Mind Makes Noises is a delightful record, infused with retro instrumentation and feelings of youth, naivety, and growing up. The album’s bouncing opener ‘Eighteen’, with its youthful lyrics and infectiously catchy chorus, feels transportive in the best way. There’s a nostalgic feeling here, which is present throughout the album’s 50-minute run time. This appears in spades on ‘There’s A Honey,’ which has been given a studio update. With a main guitar riff you won’t be forgetting anytime soon, the song is a perfect retro dedication to an unrequited crush. The 1975’s influence is clear throughout. Songs like ‘Came In Close’ and ‘Kiss’ evoke a similar form of bubblegum-pop from the ‘80s that The 1975 were heavily inspired by on their most recent album. Instrumentally, the two bands may share ideas, but Pale Waves take the synths, lavish guitars, and hardhitting snares into their own, especially on ‘Loveless Girl.’ Pale Waves perfectly simulate a great period in modern music. It’d be hard to put on the album and not crack a smile because of how fun and nostalgic each track sounds.
Jason Pierce, AKA J Spaceman, is quite the solitary space cadet. Or maybe he’s in a parallel universe. Take ‘Let’s Dance’ for example, where Pierce suggests you stay in bed but dance. Wonder what that’s all about. As always, Pierce remains a laconic but not uncaring presence. ‘On The Sunshine’ is a moment of stark beauty. It shows Pierce is more than just a geezer with a distortion pedal and a fondness for strong riffs. Even in his most dreamy state his voice manages to enthral the hardest heart, like on confessional ‘Damaged’ with its oddball lyricism. ‘The Morning After’ is, for some reason, a nod to T Rex and adds gravitas to the Pierce box of tricks. Here, he really stretches out, adding a level of intrigue and complexity. Some Miles Davis-like squawks seeing the song out. On other tracks he’s a little maudlin and reserved, skirting an almost unearthly sadness. Nasty jazz, classical, gospel and grunge coalesce in beautiful harmony. A whirlwind of nine tracks, this is a weighty return to form by a musician who’s been weathered by the trials and tribulations of life and come out the other end with something truly ambitious and assuredly brilliant.
BY PAUL WAXMAN
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Gig Guide Wednesday 26 sep JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Deathbeat
Deathbeat The Evelyn Hotel Melbourne two-piece Deathbeat are set to kick off their first ever residency this week at The Ev. You can catch them delivering their brand of punk and hip hop fusion on Wednesday September 26 from 8.30pm, with $8 entry on the door.
ALLEN STONE The Croxton, Thornbury.
8pm. $62.
BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $15.
DAVID BINNEY Bird's Basement, Melbourne.
8:15pm. $45.
DIZZY'S BIG BAND Dizzy's Jazz Club,
Richmond. 8pm. $15.
INTO THE LIGHT - FEAT: TANIA G + VANESSA FERNANDEZ Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.
JONAH GRANT QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz
Kate Hindle + Jemma Nicole The Drunken Poet
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.
It’s a double-bill of female singersongwriters at The Drunken Poet this Wednesday September 26. Rapidly up-andcoming country star Kate Hindle – who has had a particularly massive year off the back of her debut record Ready For The Ride – will kick things off at 8pm, before brooding country-noir/Americana songstress Jemma Nicole takes over at 9pm. Free entry.
Northcote. 7:30pm.
JULIEN WILSON QUARTET + MAX TEAKLE QUARTET + R.T ORGANIX 303, LUKE HOWARD TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick.
8pm. $20.
SCOTT BRADLEE'S POST MODERN JUKEBOX Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8pm.
$79.90.
THE CB3 + LANDER Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BLACK SNAKE WHIP + MEGAN SIDEWELL + LITTLE ARCHIVE Workers Club, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $10.
DEATHBEAT + MUCK + SLIM JEFFRIES
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.
FOR THE JUMPER 2018 - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
7:30pm. $10. Babaganoush
Babaganoush The B.East Gypsy and Balkan-inspired group Babaganoush are geared to lead you into the grand final weekend in style, by taking over The B.East on Thursday September 27. Catch them in all their boogie-worthy glory from 9pm, and enjoy free entry too.
KING GROAKER + CROOKED THIEVES + ONE DAY BENDER Old Bar, Fitzroy.
7:30pm. $8.
NATHAN WONG + JIMMY HARWOOD + MISS MAY Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8pm. $9.20. PISS FACTORY + LOVEBONER + FOREVER RENTER Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $5. SCARLETT COOK + ROB DE MASI Open
Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.
STONED TO DEATH + LOOSE CANNON + ALL WE NEED Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
8pm. $5.
THOMY SLOANE & LUCY WALDRON + PROTECTION Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. WIND IT UP - FEAT: SLEEP D + MORE
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm. WOLF ALICE + WAAX Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK DESTROYER + TRAM COPS Some Velvet
Morning, Clifton Hill. 8pm. $49.90.
INDIGO SPARKE + RUBY GILL + THE SOCKETTES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
7pm. $15.
JEMMA NICOLE Drunken Poet, West
Sean McMahon
Sean McMahon Edinburgh Castle Melbourne alt-country, folk and rock singer-songwriter Sean McMahon will be taking over Edinburgh Castle on Thursday September 27. It caps off a stellar 20-date east coast tour for McMahon, who’ll even be bringing his full nine-piece band along for the festivities. Doors from 8pm with free entry to boot.
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Melbourne. 9pm. JULES BOULT Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm. KATE HINDLE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm. KICKASS KARAOKE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9pm. LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: MICK PEALING & NICK CHARLES + FRANK JONES + ORIEL GLENNEN Lomond Hotel,
Brunswick East. 8pm.
MUDDY'S BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: PAUL SLATTERY Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. OPEN GRAND PIANO NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Compass Pizza,
Brunswick East. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
7:30pm.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Penny Black, Brunswick.
CHARLOTTE JANE + JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Water Rat
Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5pm.
DAVID BINNEY Bird's Basement, Melbourne.
Thursday 27 Sep
EAT PANT + GROCER GREEN + MOSES CARR + CHICKEN WISHBONE + MORE
OPEN MIC NIGHT + VARIOUS ARTISTS
HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS CUMBIA MASSIVE - FEAT: TAHNIOCA CUMBIERA + DJ SACA LA MOIS + SONIDERO ESPERANZA + MORE Loop,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
D.A.N.C.E - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Toff
In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.
DIRTY DAYS - FEAT: SUNSHINE + ORKESTRATED + TRAVLOS + T-REK + JOHN BAPTISTE + ZAC DEPETRO + MORE Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd.
9pm. $25.
ELECTRONIC SPACE DISCO - FEAT: GEO WILLIAM + PJENNE + BEBÉ + MEMPHIS LK Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. EPIC - AFL GRAND FINAL EVE - FEAT: MARKUS SCHULZ + ASHLEY VEE + MORE
Co., Southbank. 9pm. $40.
FLASHBACK - FEAT: EIFFEL 69 + AGEUSIC + MITSUBISHI MAX + BONE APERTIF
Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 7pm.
GRAND FINAL EVE - FEAT: HANS DC + JB JACKSON + LUKE VECCHIO + CASSETTE + LUECK + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
6pm.
GRAND FINAL EVE EVE - FEAT: ANDY MURPHY + ADEN FORTE + NICK GIULIANI + GIANLUCA TOSCANO + GIULES FOLLACHIO + HAUSMATES Seven
Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10pm.
GRAND FINAL EVE-EVE PARTY - FEAT: FOSTERS + GAV WHITEHOUSE + SALVY + SAL LAM + LOTUS MOONCHILD Lucky
Hotel, South Melbourne. 7pm. 8:15pm. $45.
Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $7. FELIX MEREDITH QUARTET Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $10. HARRIETT ALLCROFT QUINTET The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20. HOLLY NORMAN QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.
HOT SLUDGE FUNDAE + MASCO SOUND SYSTEM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
$10.
JMA HONOURS ENSEMBLE (WITH HIROKI HOSHINO) Dizzy's Jazz Club,
Richmond. 7:30pm. $20. THE HANDLE BARS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7pm. VARDOS + CSENGER OBERHOFER Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10. WILLIAMS DOES WINEHOUSE - FEAT: RALEIGH WILLIAMS Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ALPHA WOLF + THORNHILL + STUCK OUT + BETTER HALF + TO OCTAVIA Royal
Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
ATTICUS STREET + LARA PROKOP + THE MAMAS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
7:30pm. $10.
BOYTOY + DIANAS + BITCH DIESEL + PINCH POINTS Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
8:30pm. $19.40.
BYO VINYL NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Feefee's Bar, Collingwood. 7pm. BYO VINYL NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS The Welcome Swallow, Brunswick.
Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
7pm.
10pm.
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF SURF + TUG + BAREFOOT BOWLS CLUB
GUERNS - FEAT: JULIAN CASTLES + REV LON + SUBSTITUTE + PRESIDENT PRESS DJS + MORE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. LOVE BAZAAR - FEAT: DIRTY SOUTH + MORE Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7pm. $35. MOTLEY THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Pier Bandroom, Frankston. 9pm.
$24.50.
CASH + TJ & SON + CONVERTIBLE + BLEACH Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar,
North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.16. DESTROYER + JESS RIBEIRO Howler, Brunswick. 8pm. $49.90.
DIET. + RATHAMMOCK + CANDY + HOTEL FIFTEEN LOVE + DJ SARAH Evelyn Hotel,
RHYTHM SECTION SHOWCASE 2018 FEAT: BRADLEY ZERO + NEUE GRAFIK + 30/70 + PREQUEL Night Cat, Fitzroy. 11pm.
Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.
RHYTHM SECTION SHOWCASE 2018 - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + BRADLEY ZERO + NUEU GRAFIK + 30/70 + PREQUEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
HANNAH KATE + EGGY + GUTTER GIRLS + ENOLA GAY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
$40.
11pm. $40.
ROSE CEREMONY - FEAT: TILLY CUMS + JUNGLE GEORGE + MOISTY KOOKIE + STELLAR MARSHALL + NENAGH + F-KETTOKAI Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 9pm.
EVEN + VICUNA COAT + DJ GINGER LIGHT Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.
$30.
$10.
IN OAKLEIGH TONIGHT - GRAND FINAL SPECIAL EDITION - FEAT: JON VON GOES + BILLY MILLER + SIMON MADDEN + IAN BLAND + FIONA LEE MAYNARD + MORE Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East.
$15.
8pm. $35.
$79.77.
8pm.
Etihad Stadium, Docklands. 9pm. $94.55. SPACEY SPACE + MORE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9pm. $15.
LAEDJ + LESS FOX MORE WHALE + THE MOTHER GURUS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.
SCOOTER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 7:30pm. SMALLTOWN - FEAT: DJ KOZE + CHARLOTTE DE WITTE + GERD JANSON
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO
Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15. ARTIE STYLES QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8pm. $10. BABAGANOUSH The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm. CAITI BAKER + STEVIE JEAN Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 7pm. $20.
INXSIVE Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. KISSTROYER + HIGH VOLTAGE + POWERSTRYDE Shoppingtown Hotel,
Doncaster. 8pm. $26.55.
8pm. $10.
LIARS - FEAT: UNDEFINED + HEXDEBT + HTRK DJS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm.
$30.
LITTLE UGLY GIRLS + MOD CON + BONNIE MERCER Gasometer Hotel,
Collingwood. 8pm. $14.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant &
Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.
MEN IMITATING MACHINES + THE FACULTY + HALOPORT + JESSAMAE Bar
Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
FEATURED GIGS MODERN HEAVEN + MOSSY + THE ASTRAL PLANE PARADE + DARK WATER + ACOPIA Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.
Brunswick East. 9pm.
MOJO PIN + FOGGY GOGGLES + SLEEPING GIANT + SONIC MOON
Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50. CHINA BEACH Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.
8pm. $15.
Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm. $5. PARADISE KITTY + POISON'US Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $35.20. PONY FACE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.
BOB LOG III + SPIKE THE RIVER The B.east, BORN TO BE BLUE - CELEBRATING THE MUSICAL LIFE OF CHET BAKER Paris Cat CLAIRE PATTI & ANDREW ALLARDICE
Platform 270, Melbourne. 5:30pm. DAVID BINNEY Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8:15pm. $45. RADIO BIRDMAN + ADALITA + LOS DELA CÁYE - FEAT Open Studio, Northcote. CHICOS The Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm. $62.20. 9pm. $10. ROSE TATTOO + DALLAS CRANE + DJ DE-GROOVY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm. PALACE OF THE KING Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $36.19. DJ PIERRE BARONI Transit, Melbourne RUEL + DYLAN JOEL + KIAN Corner Hotel, Cbd. 9pm. Richmond. 12:30pm. $44.05. ESTEE BIG BAND Wesley Anne, Northcote. SCRATCH N SNIFF + ANGRY SEAS + TRUE 3pm. $10. BELIEVER + AWAKE NOW Bendigo Hotel, FULTON STREET Basement Discs, Melbourne Collingwood. 8pm. $10. Cbd. 12:45pm. SFORZANO + ADMIRAL ACKBAR'S DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE + YARD DUTY Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 7pm. SOPHISTICATED DINGO + HOUSE HATS + FACE FACE + BAD BANGS + SLIM JEFFRIES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. TERRIBLE SIGNAL + BIN + INTERNATIONAL VELVET Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 7pm.
THE HUM DRUMS + COSMOS + SHROUD + DAYZED Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm. THE JETSONS Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava.
8:30pm.
THE MIGHTY KINGS Musicland, Fawkner.
8pm. $10.
THE POPE'S ASSASSINS + CHICKENHEADKNOB + GOLD GULL DUO
Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.
LITTLE ELIZABETH + NEON QUEEN + JOE SEWER + THE SNOBS Grace Darling Hotel,
Collingwood. 8pm.
MARGIE LOU DYER QUINTET Lido Jazz
Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.
Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $8.95. THE PEACOCKS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.
THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky
Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $9.20.
Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
TINGY CELESTINO Customs House Hotel,
Williamstown. 8pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd.
6pm.
THE SEDUCEAPHONES + TRIBAL KESH THE SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND + DJ RYAN BERKELEY + DJ EDDIE MAC
Belleville, Melbourne. 9pm.
THE VELVET ADDICTION + PORT ROYAL + THE DEADLIPS Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS
CRUMHORN Charles Weston Hotel,
ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow,
ELECTRIC BLUES COLLECTIVE + CATFISH VOODOO Spotted Mallard,
APPROACHABLE MEMBERS OF YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY + MERPIRE + TELESCREEN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.
Brunswick. 6:30pm.
Brunswick. 6pm. $15.
FRANK JAMES + GAIA Penny Black,
Brunswick. 9pm.
HANNAH BLACKBURN + TRAM COPS
Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7pm.
JAM NIGHT - FEAT: JOSHUA BATTEN + VARIOUS ARTISTS Hume Blues Club,
Coburg. 7:15pm.
MAKSIM MRVICA Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
7:30pm. $69.
MUSICLAND OPEN CHOIR REHEARSALS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Musicland,
Fawkner. 7pm. $5. PAUL LEWIS Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $62. RHYTHM X REVIVAL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. ROSIE BURGESS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm. SEAN MCMAHON Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8pm.
SILTMAN + LEMURS IN THE SUN + RATTLIN' BONES BLACKWOOD Whole
Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7pm. $10.
TANYA-LEE DAVIES & HER GENTLEMEN FRIENDS Dog's Bar, St Kilda. 7pm. $15.50. WAYFINDERS Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 6pm. $30.
Friday 28 Sep JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BACK TO BASIE (WITH SARAH C) Paris
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.
Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. HYPNO SEX RAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9pm. IV LEAGUE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $12. KINGS OF OZ Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10pm. MIHRA Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $10.
MR. MCCLELLAND'S FINISHING SCHOOL
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 10pm. $10.
ODD TASTES + HAPPY MORBID + FOREVER RENTER + SLOMO Bombay Rock,
Brunswick. 7pm.
OOLLUU + PEGBUCKET + RARE OLIVES
Young Street Supper Club, Frankston. 8pm. $8. POPPONGENE + DOM ROFF Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7pm. POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. PORPOISE SPIT + LUBULWA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm. POWER TRIP + SHACKLES + GELD Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
PINK PURSE The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $30. RED BETTY'S GRAND FINAL EVE SPECIAL SOUL SESSIONS - FEAT: ASTROSOUL + - FEAT: KINEMATIC + NOLA LAUCH + MORE The Local Taphouse, St Kilda East. MARK SINTON Red Betty, Brunswick. 6pm. 9:30pm. RIVERSNAKE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. TAKESHI ASAI Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:30pm. $25. ROCKY & THE TWO BOB MILLIONAIRES THE BASEMENT BIG BAND Paris Cat Jazz Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6pm. Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50. ROSE TATTOO Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington. 8pm. $40. THE HARRY TINNEY TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. RUEL + DYLAN JOEL + KIAN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $44.03. THE KUJO KINGS + TRAFFIC JAM ORANGUTAN + CENTRE & THE SOUTH SCORCHING TONES Ascot Vale Hotel,
THE SEQUELS + BOUND BY HOUND + IBIS Workers Club (geelong), Geelong.
8pm. $10.
+ MATT PARLANE & HIS ISSUES Old Bar,
Melbourne. 11pm.
$12.
AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy.
9pm.
BEAUTIFUL BEDLAM + LESS FOX MORE WHALE + LUKE VELU + KYLE SZMELTER
Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 6pm. $10.
BLANK REALM + SNAKE & FRIENDS + THE STROPPIES + HOT TOPIC + BIG SUPERMARKET + GREEN CHILD DJS Tote
Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. $15.
CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House
Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. COCKED & LOADED FEST - FEAT: LOOKS THAT KILL + DANGEROUS CURVES + DIAMOND FOXX + DESTROY SHE SAID
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15.
COSMIC KAHUNA + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE + MORE Last Chance Rock And
Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.
COSMIC ZONES - FEAT: HUMAN RITES + LSDOOM + MINK MECHA + SPAWN Tote
Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $8. ED REED Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6pm. GEORGE TRIMMER BAND Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10pm.
GOPHER BROKE IV - FEAT: THE DEAD PEASANTS + JUDE JOSEPH + ERIN WATKINS + QUINTON TREMBATH + JIM LYNCH Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm. HILLS CITY - FEAT: THE BENNIES + BATTS + PLANET + DIET. + CHITRA + MORE
Corner Hotel, Richmond. 12pm. $50.
HOLIDAY PARK + BANANAGUN + EL TEE
Ascot Vale. 8:30pm.
SOUTHBOUND SNAKE CHARMERS
Catfish, Fitzroy. 9pm.
STELLAR ADDICTION + HONEST LIVES + GREYVIEW + LEMONDAZE Whole Lotta
Love, Brunswick East. 8pm. $10.
STRANGERS FOR SALE + REEL TAPES + HOUSE OF WOOD 303, Northcote. 7pm. $5. THE GREAT EMU WAR CASUALTIES + USELESS SPACEMAN + PAUL POMFREY + OMEGA Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. THE MARNGROOK ROCK N ROLL FOOTY SHOW - FEAT: KEVIN KROPINYERI + BIG CITY COMBO + MORE Memo Music Hall,
St Kilda. 7:30pm. $20.
TURN SOUTH + SQUID FISHING + BAREFOOT BOWLS CLUB + MINOR FEEDS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm. TURTLE WAVE + FRANJAPAN + DAYZED + FROOT LUIPS Penny Black, Brunswick. 8pm. WHAT’S ON PRESENTS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + VARIOUS DJS Prince Public Bar,
St Kilda . 9pm.
WILLIAM RYAN KEY + ALEX MOSES
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $44. YARRAFEST - FEAT: SUSS CUNTS + DIANAS + GIRLATONES + MOONLOVER + THE TROPES + NO LOCAL Yarra Hotel,
Abbotsford. 6:30pm. $15.
HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS B.MORE, RAHMONDAU + B.MORE + RAHMONDAU + MAMO + THAMPSON.P & ZIMA Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $10. B3 AFTER PARTY - FEAT: CHARLOTTE DE WITTE + GERD JANSON + MORE Revolver
Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00am. BINARY FINARY Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. BOOGS Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $25.
CARMADA + HVWKS + JOHNNY THIRD + SUBHUMAN + LOJACK + LENNON + MIRA MIRA + MVGE Max Watt's, Melbourne.
8pm. $23.99.
CHARLES OLIVER New Guernica, Melbourne
Cbd. 10pm.
CHILADELPHIA FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne
Cbd. 4pm.
DAWTER PODCAST - OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: ISADORÉ + ALPHA LOOPY + KAIAR + SADIVA + FRESH VIOLET Grace
SILTMAN + more Whole Lotta Love A heaving lineup of bluesy-rock goodness is set to roll into Whole Lotta Love on Thursday September 27. Raucous blues and heavy rock act SILTMAN will treat punters to cuts from their latest EP, while singer-songwriter and one-man band Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood and Lemurs In The Sun will also feature. Entry from 7pm and tickets are $10 on the door. Your rowdy public holiday eve is sorted.
Liars The John Curtin Hotel Cult punk-rock times electronica favourites Liars are geared to play their first hometown show in four years by taking to The Curtin on Thursday September 27. With a mammoth 18-year career and nine studio albums under their belt, Liars have cemented their status as trailblazers. They’ll be joined by Hexdebt and HTRK DJs and tickets are $30 via The Curtin website.
ChickenHeadKnob + The Pope’s Assassins Swamplands Bar Head to Swamplands on Thursday September 27 and you’ll find yourself amid a raucous night of rock, pop, garage and psych goodness. ChickenHeadKnob and The Pope’s Assassins will lead the charge, and it’s all set to go down from 7.45pm. Best of all, entry is free.
Esstee Big Band Wesley Anne Melbourne’s own mammoth 18-piece jazz ensemble, Esstee Big Band is hitting Wesley Anne on Friday September 28. They’ll be performing classic big band cuts, as well as some of their original compositions. See it all go down from 3pm for an easy tenner at the door.
The Great Emu War Casualties Reverence Hotel Indie pop-rockers The Great Emu War Casualties are slated to headline The Rev on Friday September 28. Omega, Paul Pomphrey and Useless Spaceman will warm up the stage when the doors open at 8.30pm, before TGEWC take over. Entry is free.
Yarra Fest - Dianas
Yarrafest II Yarra Hotel The Yarra Hotel is bringing back their adored grand final eve offering, with Yarrafest II set to go down on Friday September 28. All-girl trios Suss Cunts and Dianas will feature, alongside lofi pop-rock act Girlatones, garage-pop band The Tropes, and rapid up-and-comers Moonlover and No Local. All this for $15? Bloody hell, we’ll see you there. Kicks off at 6.30pm.
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Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.
Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.
ENDERIE + MILLU + MTLDA + THREEPIECESUIT + SLAM ROSS 1000
. 8pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 10pm. $10.
FORMATION - FEAT: DONNY + MORE
Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. Strangers For Sale
Strangers For Sale Bar 303 Indie-rock and funk-doused four-piece Strangers For Sale will launch their LP at Bar 303 this Friday September 28. Reel Tapes and House of Wood are set to kick things off from 7.30pm, and you can find your tickets for $5 via Trybooking or for $8 on the door.
Ezekiel Sneezed Charles Weston Back from spending two years abroad in Barcelona, Ezekiel Sneezed is set to bring his fingerpicking-laced tunes to Charles Weston for the first time. He’ll be kicking off at 6:30pm on Saturday September 29, and best of all, entry is free.
No Means No Wordwide Fundraiser The Toff In Town Global rape prevention organisation No Means No Worldwide will come into The Toff on Saturday September 29 for a massive fundraising gig. The lineup will feature female-fronted bands Maxon, Velvet Bloom and the Vito Collective and Meiwa, and it’s all set to go down from 8pm. Tickets are $10 via Moshotix or $15 on the door.
Bird Conference The Moldy Fig
SLOW GRIND FEVER - FEAT: RICHIE1250 + MOHAIR SLIM + PIERRE BARONI + DJ GABRIELLA BARTONOVA + CYNTHIA SOBRATY Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10pm. $12. THE CONNIE LANSBERG QUARTET Lido
DOCTOR - FEAT: TONI YOTZI + MAXWELL S + GEORGIA BIRD + COMMON NOCTURNE + LORENZO LIGHT Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 3pm. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club,
FRIDAYS - FEAT: WARSAWYER + CLIFTONIA + BEN & LIL + MORE Carlton
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.
MALIN GENIE + SUKI & MR EXCUSE ME + HEATH & HAMISH + DAN FABRIS & YUGO BOSS Boney, Melbourne Cbd.
11pm. $15.
MONOTIES + COMMANDER RAY + SHWUSU + T MECH + UNDEFINED
Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 8pm.
PEST KONTROL - FEAT: SCOTTY PESTICIDE + JIM PARADISE & DANCIN RICK + JAVI MORLEY + KAYA KALPA
Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: NICK COLEMAN + DOAKES + MOUNT MIKE
Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm. ROMEO MOON + PURIENT Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8pm.
SIMPLE DAY PARTY - FEAT: SUNSHINE + SPACEY SPACE + RORY MARSHALL + HNTR + MORE Gasometer Hotel,
Collingwood. 1pm. $34.70.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK BENNY PETERS & THE MISTREATERS
Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.
MOZART 39 40 & 41 - FEAT: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC + DOUGLAS BOYD Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 7:30pm. $75.
TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION
Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6pm. WILSON & WHITE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.
Saturday 29 Sep JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
THE KING LOUIE COLLECTIVE + PPB LATE NIGHT DJS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda THE MAGICAL MARMALADE MACHINE
Royal Hotel (mornington), Mornington. 8pm. THE ROOKIES The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm. THE SHUFFLE CLUB Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. TUCKSHOP + MORE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 6pm.
HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS
Platform One, Melbourne. 9:30pm. $30. CLOSE COUNTERS, OJ KUSH enny Black, Brunswick. 9pm.
DELANO SMITH + MATT RADOVICH + SUNDELIN + JOHAN ELGSTROM + DJ CAMOV Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $15. EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: CHRISS MATTO + ETWAS + MATT RADOVICH + MATTEO FREYRIE + MORE New Guernica, Melbourne
Cbd. 10pm. $10.
HOMEBASE - FEAT: HOOVES + SUB. CONSCIOUS + LADY BANTON + GRIFF
303, Northcote. 8pm. $10. HONEY Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $10. JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm. LOOPHOLE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.
M.E.S.S PRESENTS - VECTOR REFLECTOR - FEAT: BYRON SCULLIN & DAVID CHESWORTH + EMAH FOX + ANDRAS + HEXTAPE Howler, Brunswick.
8pm. $25.
MYTHOLOGY - FEAT: JENNIFER LOVELESS + PASCAL + SALVADOR DARLING + POST PERCY Boney, Melbourne
Cbd. 9pm.
PAWN SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7pm. $20. PONY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS
Fireballs The Bendigo Hotel
BALKAN BEATS PARTY - FEAT: FLOYD THURSBY + DJ 789 + BOSAK Open Studio,
Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. SNACK ATTACK WITH DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.
Cakefight
BIG & HORNY Musicland, Fawkner.
7:30pm. $25.
BIRD CONFERENCE Wesley Anne,
Northcote. 6pm.
SOOKI SATURDAYS - FEAT: ABBY JANE + SUNDELIN Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $10. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + MAT CANT + PAZ + LEWIS CANCUT + BOOSHANK + MORE Revolver Upstairs,
In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.
8:15pm. $45.
Hill Brew Pub, Clifton Hill. 9pm. Melbourne. 10pm.
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SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS DJS
DAVID BINNEY Bird's Basement, Melbourne.
EMILIA + LUCCA FRANCO Belleville,
Kick on your GF celebrations or wile away your post-loss blues with CAKEFIGHT and Fleshed Out at The Post Office Hotel on Sunday September 30. Garage-rockers CAKEFIGHT have been on a steady climb since their inception in 2016, taking on DIY tours across Australia and New Zeleand and releasing their debut LP earlier this year. It all kicks off at 3pm and entry is free.
RISE & SHINE - FEAT: SUNSHINE + VARIOUS ARTISTS Revolver Upstairs,
Prahran. 7pm.
DR CRASK & HIS SWINGIN' ELIXIR Clifton
CAKEFIGHT + Fleshed Out The Post Office Hotel
La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
DANCING IN OUTER SPACE - FEAT: DJ MANCHILD Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
10pm. $10.
FABULOUS DIVA - THE MUSIC OF DR NINA SIMONE - FEAT: RUTH ROGERSWRIGHT Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
8pm. $32.50.
GEORGIA BROOKS SWINGTET Open
Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm. $10. LADY MIDNIGHT Dizzy's Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:30pm. $15.
MARGIE LOU DYER QUINTET (WITH PAUL KELLY) The Jazzlab, Brunswick.
8pm. $35.
NANDA MALINI & SOMATHILAKA JAYAMAHA Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 7pm. $60. RUA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8pm.
Brunswick East. 2pm.
GRIM RHYTHM + DEFENESTRATION + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. HANK'S JALOPY DEMONS Fitzroy
Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 5pm.
JULES SHELDON Fox Hotel (collingwood),
6pm. $20.
Prahran. 12:00am.
Local psyco-billy maniacs Fireballs are back after a long hiatus, and are geared to take to The Bendigo Hotel on Sunday September 30. Support will come from Murder Rats and Saint Killed Her from 6pm, and you can grab your tickets for $22.50 via Oztix.
GRAND FINAL PARTY - FEAT: HONEYBONE + TINE GROWLS + LACE & WHISKEY + CONVERTIBLE + COME HEAVY SLEEP + MORE Whole Lotta Love,
BEN NICKY + SCNDL + ALI KH + AMINOS KH + MADELEINE + ANDREJ + MORE
Brunswick. 10pm. $15.
ALL THINGS NINTENDO - FEAT: TOSHI CLINCH Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
Northcote. 8pm.
Thornbury. 6pm.
Collingwood. 5pm.
ALINTA & THE JAZZ EMPERORS Paris Cat
6:30pm. $32.50.
FOXTROT + THE SUGARCANES + ANTY + THE FLYING SO HIGH OS + NINA MCCANN Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15. GOLD GULL DUO Swamplands Bar,
ABYSS X + WATERHOUSE + BROOKE POWERS + MTLDA Rubix Warehouse,
Five-piece jazz outfit Bird Conference are set to roll into The Moldy Fig for a massive grand final bonanza spanning four sets. It’s looking to be a real treat, featuring traditional New Orleans-inspired jazz alongside similarly inspired food and wine. Free entry and kick off is at 7pm. Delicious.
Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.
Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10. DJ TARDISCO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm. FIREBALLS + OFF CHOPS Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 7pm. $28.60.
TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC Toff
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ACID SLICE - FEAT: SERVALAN + SIRC + DYLAB + C|1 + DEP EFFECT Loop,
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
AUNTIE LEO & THE BACKSTABBERS Yah
Yah's, Fitzroy. 2:00am.
KHE SANH - AUSTRALIAN CHISEL BARNES SHOW Hysteria Lounge, Lilydale. LOCO HOMBRES Catfish, Fitzroy. 9pm. LOS CHICOS + MONEY FOR ROPE + JAMES MCCANN + LES YÉ-YÉ GIRLS Tote
Hotel, Collingwood. 6pm. $28.60. MAMMA JAM Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10:30pm.
MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + THE BLEEDING FLARES + EIGHT GAUGE JESUS + DJ POWDERMYNOSE + DJ PINGINTON Old
Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
MONSTERIA Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea.
8pm.
MOODY BEACHES + BENCH PRESS + DARK FAIR + THE CREEKS Gasometer
Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $12.
MOTOVILIKHA + CREEP DIETS + WILD SPEARS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar,
North Melbourne. 12pm.
NO MEANS NO CHARITY FUNDRAISER - FEAT: MEIWA + VELVET BLOOM + THE VITO COLLECTIVE + MAXON Toff In
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $12.92.
NOTEY & NOISY - A SOUND SCIENCE MATHEMUSICAL 303, Northcote. 3pm. PACING THE CAGE + SHEWOLF + CHASING LANA + THE MEAN TIMES
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm. $15.
PERMISSION + BURA-BURA + KAYO + UBOA Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. POWER TRIP + SHACKLES + EXCARNATE
Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
THE DANDY JONESTOWN MASSACRE
Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
THE SHIFTERS + THE FACULTY + BITCH PREFECT + LEAH SENIOR Labour In Vain,
Fitzroy. 5pm.
THE STAINED DAISIES + HOT SLUDGE FUNDAE + THE ROLLERCANES Yah Yah's,
Fitzroy. 7pm. $10.
THE TARANTINOS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9pm. THE WEIGHT OF THE HEAD - A FANCY DRESS SHINDIG - FEAT: RAT KANGAROO + ROSEMARY HAGEN + GREG HOEPNER
Red Betty, Brunswick. 7pm.
UNDER THE GLASS #1 - FEAT: CREPES + BITCH DIESEL + BAKED BEANS + DIANA RADAR + CANDY + THE BURBS + MORE
Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 2:30pm. $15. VICTOR STRANGES - FEAT: DJ DEGROOVY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5pm. VINTAGE CROP + SINGING LESSONS + CHAMPION RACEHORSE Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 5pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK
AURELIA Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm. BABY & THE KICKS - FEAT: UNDEFINED + MORE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm. BONEZ - FEAT: AIVY + FUTURE STATIC + UNDAMAGED + STELLAR ADDICTION
AFL GRAND FINAL 2018 - FEAT: DAN HALL TRIO Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 2pm. EZEKIEL SNEEZED Charles Weston Hotel,
CHARGING STALLION + UNDERCOVER CROPS + GIRL GERMS + THE GURDIES
HENRY HUGO & THE KINDRED SOULS
Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.
CHILD + COSMOS + RIVER OF SNAKES
Brunswick. 6:30pm.
HADLEY HOY & JAMES + MARTIN
Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 7pm.
KRAKEN FOLK SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 3pm.
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COMING SOON CHER Rod Laver Arena October 3, 5 THE THE Arts Centre October 4, 5 LAKYN Northcote Social Club October 4 JEN CLOHER Melba Spiegeltent October 4, 5 CLARE BOWEN Athenaeum Theatre October 5 WAFIA Howler October 5 PETER BIBBY The Curtin October 5 LISTENER Reverence Hotel October 6 LAST DINOSAURS Northcote Social Club October 6 CLOWNS Corner Hotel October 6 MATT JOE GOW The Curtin October 6 KESHA Margaret Court Arena October 7 LOST PICNIC ft Tash Sultana, Meg Mac, Marlon Williams + more Flemington Nursery October 7 MARGO PRICE Caravan Music Club October 10, Thornbury Theatre October 12 NILS FRAHM Hamer Hall October 12, 13 THESE NEW SOUTH WHALES Howler October 12 RUNNING TOUCH 170 Russell October 12 HANDS LIKE HOUSES Max Watt’s October 12 B WISE Northcote Social Club October 12 6LACK The Forum October 12 PANIC! AT THE DISCO Hisense Arena October 13 TIA GOSTELOW Northcote Social Club October 13 CHEAP TRICK Palais Theatre October 15 ANNE-MARIE Trak October 17 ELAINE PAIGE Hamer Hall October 18 DEEZ NUTS Workers Club October 18 TIM ROGERS Toff In Town October 19 BONEY M Palais Theatre October 20 TROPHY EYES The Forum October 20 DONNY BENÉT Corner Hotel October 20 KYGO Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 20 CERES Howler October 20 THE VANNS Northcote Social Club October 20 SKEGSS The Croxton October 21 ESKIMO DANCE The Forum October 24 TAYLOR SWIFT Etihad Stadium October 26 SHAPESHIFTER 170 Russell October 26 CARAVÃNA SUN Howler October 26 KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL ft Adalita, Sonny & The Sunsets, RVG, more October 26 -27 CALUM SCOTT Max Watt’s October 27 FOREIGNER Hamer Hall October 29, 30 SHAWN MENDES Rod Laver Arena October 29 THE BRONX The Croxton October 31 PATRIZIO BUANNE Hamer Hall November 1 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Max Watt’s November 1 PARKWAY DRIVE Margaret Court Arena November 2 KING PRINCESS The Forum November 2 THE LOST LANDS Werribee Park & Mansion November 3-4 DIONNE WARWICK Palais Theatre November 4 OPIUO SYZYGY ORCHESTRA The Forum November 5 THE AINTS! The Croxton November 5 SAM SMITH Rod Laver Arena November 6, 7 GANG OF YOUTHS The Forum November 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 DEF LEPPARD & SCORPION Rod Laver Arena November 8 FOZZY Max Watt’s November 9 POLARIS 170 Russell November 9 MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW The Athenaeum November 10 STEVEN WILSON Palais Theatre November 10 CHILDISH GAMBINO Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 10 PACES Northcote Social Club November 10 DIDIRRI Corner Hotel November 10 RNB FRIDAYS LIVE ft Usher, Lil Jon, Salt n Pepa, more Etihad Stadium November 10
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MAJELEN + MORE Open Studio,
Northcote. 5:30pm.
SHADOW LEAGUE + THE BERKELEY HUNTS + UNCLE BEN'S LAST WORDS + ZENA Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 7pm. THE JUMP CATS Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 9pm.
THOMAS KEATING Wesley Anne,
Northcote. 8pm. $10.
Sunday 30 Sep INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ANTI-VIOLET + TEMPLE IN THE SKY + NIPPPLE CHAFFES Workers Club, Fitzroy.
8pm. $10.
BROKEN MIC NIGHT - FEAT: DAY DREAMERS + SPARE NO WORDS + DEVIL'S KISS + HYPERTRON COLLIDESCOPE Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
JOHNNY & MICHAEL + LISA CRAWLEY + BEC GORENG + LIBBY INGELS Reverence
Hotel, Footscray. 3pm.
KEITH HOUNSLOW'S 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - FEAT: EUGENE BALL The
Jazzlab, Brunswick. 2:30pm. $20.
MELBOURNE JAZZ SOUL N BLUES REVUE - FEAT: THE MELTDOWN + THE PUTBACKS + WILBUR WILDE + THE SHUFFLE CLUB + MORE Memo Music Hall,
St Kilda. 2pm. $30.
STEVE BOYD’S RUM REVERIE Cherry Bar,
Bar, Fitzroy North. 4pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK
Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $10. DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY The Croxton, Thornbury. 4pm. $17.85.
Thornbury. 4pm.
7pm. $22.45.
ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St
Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 12pm. $10.
ONE FOR THE FARMERS - FUNDRAISER - FEAT: GOLD CHISEL + THE AUSTRALIAN BON JOVI SHOW + AC2ZZ + RIVERSNAKE + MORE Musicland,
Fawkner. 11:30am. $10.
OPEN/MIC JAM NIGHTS Musicland,
Fawkner. 7pm.
RAPH.A.L + INAMINKA + CROOKED FINGERS 303, Northcote. 6:30pm. $10. SCURVYLICIOUS + CASTILLES + THE BACKS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4pm. $7. SIMPLE DREAMS Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot
Vale. 4pm.
SUNDAY SESH FOR GAZA - FEAT: DIRTY SMOKY + RYA PARK + MINETTA + COSI COSI + MORE 303, Northcote. 1pm. $12. THE DEVOURS + HIGH FINANCE + SHIT TATTS + SWEET CHEEKS Old Bar, Fitzroy.
7:30pm. $8.
THE GREAT EMU WAR CASUALTIES + UNIVERSAL OUTCAST + VOYEUR + ARCEE Woody's Attic Dive, Collingwood.
2pm.
Collingwood. 7pm.
BRENT PARLANE BAND Swamplands Bar, CHARLIE LAW Wesley Anne, Northcote.
6pm.
CHICAGO DIME + PETE HACHEL Open
Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm.
Kilda . 4pm.
GREON DOVE Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 4pm.
HOMESICK RAY & THE HOT SHOTS
Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm. JAC TONKS & SHANE O’MARA Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 3:30pm.
JESS CORAM + LARA SOULIO & BONNIE MERCER Old Bar, Fitzroy. 4pm. JHELI EMMET & GAIA SCARF Charles
Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 4:30pm.
LIVE MUSIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Assaggi Italiani, Malvern. 12pm. LOST RAGAS Union Hotel (brunswick),
Brunswick. 5pm.
MELBOURNE BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE - FEAT: FIDELIO QUARTET
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5pm. $60. MISS DEE Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm. NICK CHARLES & BLUE STRINGS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
ANDREW NOLTE & HIS ORCHESTRA
Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4pm.
BALKAN BRASS - FEAT: OPA! BATO + OPA SEKO Farouk's Olive, Thornbury.
7:30pm. $10.
DAVID BINNEY Bird's Basement,
Melbourne. 8:15pm. $45. ELLA TRINIDAD Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $10.
GIANNI MARINUCCI NEW ORLEANS QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn.
4pm. $25.
GOULD/BURKE QUARTET The Jazzlab,
Brunswick. 8pm. $20.
JAZZ & SWING NIGHT - FEAT: JON DELANEY + DAN WITTON + DAVE EVANS Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. JEN SALISBURY & MARK MORAND
Clifton Hill Brew Pub, Clifton Hill. 4pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK PAUL LEWIS Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $62.
Tuesday 2 Oct JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ATM15 BIG BAND The Jazzlab, Brunswick.
8pm. $25.
THE VICTORIAN YOUTH JAZZ COLLECTIVE (WITH KRISTIN BERARDI)
Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE - FEAT: LACHLAN MITCHELL + MORE Boney,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS KEY HOO + NATHAN WONG + AMY POWELL Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm. $5. SADULTS, BRENT PARLANE BAND + SADULTS + BRENT PARLANE BAND
Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
SATELLITE GALLERY PRESENTS - IS IT LIGHT WHERE YOU ARE - FEAT: DOUBLE VANITY + SMALL VOICES Old
Bar, Fitzroy. 7pm. $10.
ZEROZERO + UNIVERSAL OUTCAST + ADAM DWYE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $5.
AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET
East. 3:30pm.
Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4pm.
ALL DAY FRITZ Open Studio, Northcote.
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. THE PARLOUR Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 12pm.
THE 'JOHNNY CAN'T DANCE' CAJUN BAND Dan O'connell Hotel, Carlton. 4pm. THE DETONATORS Royal Hotel
Fitzroy. 2pm. $10.
3pm.
JAZZ PARTY - FEAT: DJ CHINA BONE
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK
(mornington), Mornington. 3pm.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
BK | MW + ADE ISHS & GEMMA TULLY
SPINIFEX ROSE + THE DUKES OF SUNSHINE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
8:30pm.
ZENITH MOON + AZTX Evelyn Hotel,
ANDREA KELLER LEADS THE COMPOSER'S CIRCLE The Jazzlab,
Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $5.
THOMAS WALLIS + SAULT + SUNKEN SEA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. YOLANDA INGLEY & BAND Fireflies Wine
BENNY & THE FLYBYNITERS Gem Bar,
GET FOLKED PUNK MELBOURNE FEAT: JIM LYNCH + GUTTERS GRR + ERIN WATKINS + BILLY PUNTTON + QUINTON TREMBATH + MORE
303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303,
Northcote. 8pm.
Balaclava. 4:30pm.
Hotel, Coburg. 3pm.
FIREBALLS + MURDER RATS + SAINT KILLED HER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC
Brunswick. 8pm. $15.
ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER + PAIGE SPIERS + PAIGE SMITH Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
CREEPY FLAVOUR + PAPER TAPIR + SLEEPING GIANT Last Chance Rock And
Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 1:30pm. $22.
Melbourne Cbd. 3pm.
THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar,
5pm. $10.
BYO VINYL NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Heartbreaker, Melbourne. 6pm. CAKEFIGHT + FLESHED OUT Post Office
11:00am. $22.
NORMIE ROWE & THE PLAYBOYS
THE MELBOURNE BLUES COLLECTIVE THE NINE POUND SHAMMER Edinburgh
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7pm. $85. IOANA CRISTINA GOICEA, ANDREY GUGNIN + IOANA CRISTINA GOICEA + ANDREY GUGNIN Melbourne Recital
WORKERS CLUB CHOIR Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 6pm. $10.
Centre, Southbank. 11:00am. $53. IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8pm. KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
Monday 1 Oct
8:30pm.
Castle, Brunswick. 4pm.
INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BABY & THE KICKS + DOUBLE POLYESTER + POLLYMAN Old Bar, Fitzroy.
7:30pm. $5.
MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK + VARIOUS ARTISTS Boney, Melbourne Cbd.
8pm.
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: TRULY HOLY + THE NEW TROPICS + PROGRAM + MARCUS HOBBS Northcote Social Club,
Northcote. 8pm.
NIEUW MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7pm. $3.
NORMIE ROWE & THE PLAYBOYS Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank.
MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + MORE Bar Open, Fitzroy. MELBOURNE GUITAR QUARTET
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $39. OPEN MIC NIGHT + VARIOUS ARTISTS
Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6:30pm. PAUL SLATTERY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm.
PIANO KARAOKE WITH LISA JAYNE
Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. REVOLVER RETURNS - OPEN MIC NIGHT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm.