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ISSUE NO 1660
Contents 8 10-14
Contents News
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Arts Guide
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2019 Albums To Listen Out For, Charts, Hip Hop
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Industry, Beat Eats, Electronic
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The Paper Kites
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Soul Star Holistic Festival
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Beth Hart, Broods
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Jungle, Nahko and Medicine For The People
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Alice in Chains, Nickelback
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Jungle
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Chris Wilson
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Education Special
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Q&As, Live
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Live
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Album of the Week, Singles
Interview
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Albums Gig Guide
Editor’s note With Tom Parker
The Australian music industry was dealt a tough blow during the week with the passing of Chris Wilson, a father, friend and musician with a heart of gold. He truly was “the gentleman of Australian blues” who had the inimitability to conjure grace on and off the stage. We pay tribute to the late legend with a special feature in this week’s issue. We uncover just a few snippets of his storied career and by no means do the 62-year-old justice – nevertheless, Wilson was as much of an influence on us as he was on you so it was important we had our say. With The Paper Kites taking over our cover for Beat 1660, we chat to the burgeoning indierockers about their impending Australian tour and their special stop at The Forum. Soul Star Holistic Festival is putting a fun and interactive spin on wellness and spiritual healing when it takes over Melbourne on Saturday February 16 while there’s also interviews with Beth Hart, Jungle and Nickelback before their impending tours. Then there’s our Education Special to round things out – an exploration of the best arts and music education providers Melbourne and Australia has to offer. Getting itchy feet about studying the music you love? Dive in, you won’t regret it.
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News Fleetwood Mac
Lock in 2019 Australian arena tour
Surpassing the generational gap that separates music taste, Fleetwood Mac have continually managed to stake their claim as musical heroes in an ever-changing and increasingly competitive music landscape. 50 years on from their inception and with numerous Grammy Awards, sold out shows across the globe and number one hits under their belt, the acclaimed outfit have now revealed that they’ll be taking on an Australian tour in 2019. Featuring Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie aside newcomers Mike Campbell and Neil Finn, the tour will stop off at all of Australia’s major capital cities. Melbourne fans can expect to hear hits like ‘Dreams’, ‘Go Your Own Way’ and ‘The Chain’ on Monday September 2 and Wednesday September 4 at Rod Laver Arena. General sale tickets will be available from Friday January 25 via Live Nation.
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Mia Dyson is geared to return Down Under, jumping on tour right off the back of the release of her sixth and highly acclaimed album release If I Said Only So Far I Take It Back. With an exciting career behind her having supported the likes of Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton, the Australian-born and now LA-based songstress will bring her timeless vitality to her home-state of Victoria as well as Western Australia. You can catch Dyson at Howler on Saturday March 2, and The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine on Saturday March 9. More details and tickets via Dyson’s Facebook.
Melbourne’s leafy north-east is set to host a blistering lineup of music this March as part of their free Twilight Sounds offering. From the Golden Plains and Boogie Festival stages to the banks of the Yarra River, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks will bring their mighty, impassioned force to Twilight Sounds, joined by funk lords Cookin’ On 3 Burners, soul songstress Stella Angelico and Americana artist Freya Josephine Hollick. With Heidelberg’s Warringal Parklands as a backdrop, plus flowing food truck offerings, this is set to be a stellar Autumn night. It goes down on Saturday March 16 from 5.30pm.
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Tired Lion
Rolling Loud
Grunge-pop rockers Tired Lion return to the spotlight with the accompanying video for their single ‘With or Without’, a dizzying exploration of Brisbane nightlife headed by the band’s effervescent frontwoman, Sophie Hopes. Upping the ante upon the release of the single, Tired Lion are also set to take on the With or Without Tour, which will see them travel to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to show it all off. Melbourne can catch Tired Lion at Howler on Friday March 1, with tickets on sale now from the band’s website.
After debuting in Miami in 2015, Rolling Loud has turned into a hip hop festival mainstay. After reaching LA and San Francisco in following years, the festival announced that they would offer an Australian leg for the first time in 2019, and the final acts for that lineup have just been announced. Joining Atlanta-local headliner Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Tiga and Smokepurpp, comes Nigerian-born, Melbourne-based hip hop artist Sophiegrophy, Ski Mask the Slump God and Compton-born rapper YG. The sold out event goes down on Sunday January 27 at Sydney Showgrounds.
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With a lineup already packed to the seams with local and international talent, Bluesfest 2019 have upped the ante for their 30th instalment and dropped another major lineup announcement. This time around the likes of alternative icon Tash Sultana, New Zealand five-piece SIX60, psych-rock band Ocean Alley, and eclectic collective Amaru Tribe have joined the list. This follows the festivals third round of announcements which featured The Raconteurs/Saboteurs as well as Iggy Pop and Norah Jones, earmarking the festival’s 30th lineup as one of their heftiest yet. Bluesfest 2019 will run from Thursday April 18 until Monday April 22. The full lineup and tickets can be found on the Bluesfest website.
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Cookin’ On 3 Burners
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival
Cookin’ On 3 Burners have been in the music business for 21 years and with the release of their critically acclaimed album and a collection of sold out shows over the New Years period, they are not showing any signs of slowing down. To celebrate the release of their latest album, Lab Experiments Vol. 2, the resident soul purveyors will be throwing down a celebratory show at Howler on Saturday February 23. Vocal dynamo Stella Angelico, deep-funk blenders The Seven Ups and hip hop pioneer, DJ Peril will be in tow as support. Tickets via Moshtix.
Due to a clash with the Grammys, Jorja Smith has announced that she’ll be cancelling her appearances at the Adelaide, Melbourne and Fremantle legs of Laneway. She’ll still be playing her other performances, and has added an additional show at The Forum on Friday February 1 to appease Melbourne fans. Laneway have announced The Smith Street Band will be joining the bill, as well as triple j Unearthed winners RAT!Hammock. Laneway Melbourne goes down on Saturday February 9 at Footscray Park and you can find more details and tickets via the festival website.
Maarja Nuut and Ruum
Bob Dylan Revisited
Estonian folk-tronica duo Maarja Nuut and Ruum are set to make their maiden voyage Down Under for a pair of shows in Melbourne and Sydney in March. Talented artists in their own right, the two will come together to showcase their debut collaborative album Muunduja, a unison of Ruum’s serene folk-esque vocals and Maarja Nuut’s complimentary atmospheric electronic edits. Maarja Nuut and Ruum will take over Howler on Thursday March 7 and you can find tickets through Moshtix.
Acclaimed Australian voices John Waters, Glenn Shorrock, Wendy Matthews, Doug Parkinson and Wes Carr are set to join forces to celebrate the genius catalogue of Bob Dylan in their show Bob Dylan Revisited. The two exclusive shows will go down at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on Friday May 10 and Sydney’s State Theatre on Friday May 24, and see each of the artists celebrate not only Dylan’s songbook, but his political endeavours and indisputable influence on popular culture. For more details and to secure tickets, head to Ticketmaster.
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Grampians Music Festival Reveal 2019 playing times and food and drink offerings
Wednesday 23rd 8.00pm
‘LOMONDACOUSTICA’ KIMBERLEY WHEELER, BRENT PARLANE, MARNIE SHEEHAN & MARK SMITH Thursday 24th 9.00pm
‘SOUTH AUSTRALIA DAY’ FEATURING THE FRITZROYS Friday 25th 9.30pm
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Wafia
the Grampians Music Festival team have announced the playing schedule for this year’s festival, so punters can get themselves sorted before the festivities kick off in mid-February. Sampa the Great is set to headline on Saturday evening, followed by Melbourne-based DJ MzRizk for those wanting to kick on, and electronic-pop brooder Wafia and Sweat Dreams DJs with round things out on Sunday night. The Friday night headline slot has been appointed to the winner of The Push X GMF’s Regional Electronic Producer hunt – with Ballarat local Marc Oswin, who performs under the monniker A Miner, taking it out. Additionally, GMF will play host to several food and drink partners including MoonDog Brewing, Latin Dreams, Tin Can Alley Coffee, The Forge Pizzeria, Hippy Whippy and more. GMF will roll into Halls Gap from Friday February 15 to Sunday February 17. More details via the festival website.
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MPavilion have announced that they’ll be extending their current program of free events until Sunday February 17. This includes more talks, workshops and performances from over 500 international and Australian artists from a diverse array of disciplines. The extended program will feature Ece Tankal and Carmen Aguilar, who represent an international group of women of colour trailblazing the arenas of science, technology and art, as well as MPavilion Writer in Residence Maddee Clark hosting a workshop for First Nations writers. Find the full program via the MPavilion website.
A collaboration between the Testing Grounds and Rose St. Artists’ Market teams, the Showtime night market series is set to hit Melbourne. Breaking the well-known night market mould, Showtime is set to emulate an ‘80s high school science fair, a country throwdown, a contemporary art fair and a craft market all wrapped in one. There’ll be all sorts of makeyour-own adventures from film-making, sculpting, computer gaming and craft, as well as DJs, food, curious cocktails and stacks more. Showtime #1 goes down on Friday February 1 and Showtime #2 on Friday March 1 from 6-10pm at Testing Grounds, Melbourne Arts Precinct. The event is free, all-ages and wheelchair accessible.
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Brunswick Music Festival
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The team behind Brunswick Music Festival have revealed their most progressive program to date. The festival’s inaugural Artist in Residence, HEXDEBT, will offer up an open rehearsal and songwriting workshop as part of their stay, meanwhile The Moreland Hotel and Estonian House will swing open their doors to host live music for the first time in years. Such names as Stella Donnelly, The Murlocs and Cosmic Psychos are just some of the crop set to perform. The festival will also offer their debut Masquerade Ball, with Jazz Party, The Mamas and FERLA set to ensure a massive night of revelry. BMF goes down from Sunday March 3 to Sunday March 17.
With less than seven weeks until the world of WOMADelaide unfolds, programmers have announced further additions to this year’s festivities. Among them is a Saturday night headline show from New Zealand disco heavyweights Fat Freddy’s Drop, meanwhile WOMADelaide has also teamed up with UniSA’s MOD to bring a futuristic museum of discovery to a shipping container. Senator Penny Wong and Minister Simon Birmingham will join The Party Room podcast in discussion, and award-winning First Nations dancer-choreographer Amrita Hepi will offer a pop-culture dance class. WOMADelaide 2019 goes down from Friday March 8 to Monday March 11 March in Botanic Park, Adelaide.
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Ghosts of Hotel Esplanade
Meet the resident ghosts of The Espy on this intriguing tour
Coming up at the iconic St Kilda venue on Wednesday January 23 is a chilling walk through The Espy’s halls. Given it’s been around in one form or another since the 19th century, it has no doubt it has become a host to spirits of publicans past. The tour is led by St Kilda local, researcher and Espy regular Bo Svoronos, who will recall intriguing stories about the pub’s history and the spirits that still haunt the joint. Get your tickets via Moshtix, and try not to get spooked too much.
Comedy
The Clock
A 24-hour video installation is hitting ACMI Christian Marclay’s The Clock is an award-winning, one-of-a-kind film collage of time. The film weaves together thousands of images and clips of clocks and watches, that come together to form a continuous tick-tock of time. While you can head along and catch the film daily from 10am to 5pm, ACMI will be screening the full, 24-hour version of The Clock every Thursday through until March. The Clock starts ticking Thursday January 24 and admission is free.
As part of Midsumma, The 86 will once again be putting on the world’s longest running, non-stop drag show on Sunday January 27. Back in 2017, The 86 sought to break the record of the longest drag show, which was broken after 36 hours and 350 songs of drag performance. Now with the record under its belt, the cabaret bar is celebrating its feat with a full day of drag, going down from 2pm.
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Father Figure
Next Wave
Andy Johnston leads a dedication to George Michael in his new cabaret production, Father Figure. Johnston shares the lessons Michael bestowed upon him, including how to understand love, heartbreak and pride. In addition to having intriguing subject matter, some of the ticket sale funds are donated to Thorne Harbour Health, an organisation supporting those living with HIV AIDS. The show is on for a limited run, between Wednesday January 23 and Friday January 25 at Chapel Off Chapel, as part of Midsumma Festival.
Experimental arts festival Next Wave is on the hunt for its next set of early career artists and practitioners to apply for Next Wave 2020. The open call out is open to all walks of the art scene, including writers, curators, producers, musicians and choreographers. 2020 will see Next Wave transform into a makeshift Aussie government full of artists. Next Wave has a strong history of launching some of Australia’s best artists, including Abdul Abdullah and Zoe Coombs Marr. Apply via the Next Wave website before Sunday February 24.
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Unbroken
Unpacking the human experience Unbroken presents a series of personal stories by those who have experienced trauma, vulnerability, transformation and discovery in their lives. Inspired by the Japanese art form of kintsugi, the portrait gallery and video installation exhibition is a space deliberately constructed for people of marginalised background, but anyone is welcome to attend. You can find Unbroken at Gasworks, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park, from Wednesday January 23 until Sunday Febryary 10. Entry is free.
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2019 Albums To Listen Out For WITH JOSHUA MARTIN
Charts WITH TOM PARKER
Shorelines
Hip Hop WITH SOSE FUAMOLI
Kanye West
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
As with every year, it feels like everything is happening faster in 2019. Beat keeps its nose out of politics usually, though it’s hard not to feel like the world is cycling into a permanent state of disorder. Luckily, musicians are financially obliged to keep creating great music in spite of it all – peering out to the year’s edge, several records stand out. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard feat. Gareth Liddiard Release: Unknown Melbourne psych-freaks King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took a year off in 2018 after exhaustively recording and releasing five albums in 2017. Well, that’s if you call a world tour, headlining your own music festival and two Australian tours a year off. On Monday, a Facebook post from the band confirmed Gizz were back recording new music with Tropical Fuck Storm’s iconoclastic frontman Gareth Liddiard in tow, making himself known by giving the camera the bird. Liddiard makes sense as a collaborator – his penchant for discombobulated psych-rock fits the instrumental bill, while his acerbic words could provide some much needed substance to the band’s often frivolous lyricism. Stella Donnelly – Beware of the Dogs Release: Friday March 8 via Secretly Canadian West Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly unexpectedly rocked the international circuit with ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ off her 2017 debut EP Thrush Metal. Its unapologetic repudiation of the tired excuses used to defend toxic male behaviour coincided with Woody Allen making one of his own in 2017. Donnelly’s soft-plucked-hardfeelings style is seeing its full-length debut with Beware of the Dogs this year, promising 13 tracks of “shit-stirring” amongst racists, creeps, and oppressors. Lead single ‘Old Man’ showcases a jangly full-band arrangement in contrast to the roughshod vocal-guitar of her debut. Danny Brown Release: Unknown After 2016’s Atrocity Exhibition, Danny Brown could no longer be cast as a gap-toothed party rapper – this was a man with ambition. The Detroit native used post-punk, free-jazz and industrial hip hop to filter his demons out in staggering wordplay. Details are sparse and hype is heavy for his latest project; Brown told Complex last year that it is “produced by one producer, who’s legendary in hip hop” – rapper El-P, one half of Run the Jewels, tweeted on Saturday January 19 that he had heard the record unmixed, and that it was an “instant classic”. Xiu Xiu – Girl With A Basket of Fruit Release: Monday February 25 via Polyvinyl Californian experimental rock group Xiu Xiu’s 11th album is not a blockbuster release; it can’t claim a place alongside Kanye’s ill-fated Yahndi, nor does it rival the hint of new Tame Impala or Bruce Springsteen. What it can claim however, is to be completely fucking bonkers. Lead single ‘Scisssssssors’ ricochets afro-rhythms against twittering synths, while singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart whispers as if he’s scared of his own music. It’s deconstructive and absurd, recalling the group’s earlier work. The album’s release will be accompanied by a three-part music video series, directed by band member Angela Seo, featuring confronting ritualistic images that reference its Carvaggian title.
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TRIPLE J UNEARTHED – TOP 10
1. ‘Still Breathing’ by Shorelines 2. ‘Fall’ by Dulcie 3. ‘Circles’ by Yours Truly 4. ‘I Know’ by The Duke of Randwick 5. ‘Rewind’ by Shara Rose 6. ‘Wonder’ by PZMST Giovanni 7. Total ‘Arachne’ (feat. Pascal) by Emma Volard
8. ‘Fox and the Hound’ by Beyond The Picture 9. ‘5 Minutes Valorous’ by Dredd Rock 10. ‘SUPER SAIYAN’ (feat. Drew Lavorgna) by L33ZE
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TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 – MOST LIKELY TO WIN
1. ‘Confidence’ by Ocean Alley 2. ‘This Is America’ by Childish Gambino
When will we hear new music from Kanye West? It’s not been too long since he rolled out Ye and his G.O.O.D Music roster of releases, but after teasing fans with YANDHI on social media in the second half of 2018, fans have been left hanging ever since. Well, it looks like things might be revving back up again. Among all the other projects the rapper and producer is getting himself involved in, Kanye’s new ‘Sunday Service’ series (check it out on YouTube) has provided a platform for fans to get an insight into some jam sessions helmed by Kanye and other players in the depths of G.O.O.D Music HQ. Having linked up with Kid Cudi and 070 Shake on the series’ first episode, Kanye elevated things for the second, premiering a previously unheard track entitled ‘We’ll Find A Way’. Currently existing as an instrumental, ‘We’ll Find A Way’ has already been picked up as a good indicator of where Kanye is sitting when it comes to new music. Follow along and give it a listen online, it’s looking like more new sounds are on the way from ‘Ye. After the Surviving R. Kelly documentary screened recently, exposing R&B singer R. Kelly’s sordid past (and current details) of alleged abuse, the music industry has been reeling. Collaborations with the likes of Lady Gaga and Chance the Rapper have been pulled from streaming services, while artists including John Legend, Questlove and more have openly condemned Kelly online. More recently, Sony Music have distanced themselves from Kelly, dropping him from their roster. In the middle of protests against his concerts and the now viral #MuteRKelly campaign on social media, Sony’s separation from R. Kelly is a big development as he continues to move ahead and not just perform, but prepare new music. Kelly has been with Sony/RCA since the beginning of his career and as of now, any new music from him is on hold.
3. ‘Dinosaurs’ by Ruby Fields 4. ‘I Said Hi’ by Amy Shark
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5. ‘Losing It’ by Fisher 6. ‘Sicko Mode’ by Travis Scott 7. ‘I’m Good’ by WAFIA 8. ‘Groceries’ by Mallrat 9. ‘Mantra’ by Bring Me The Horizon 10. ‘Be Alright’ by Dean Lewis TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 – SONGS THAT WON’T RECEIVE ENOUGH VOTES
1. ‘Talking Straight’ by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever 2. ‘Girls on the TV’ by Laura Jean 3. ‘Body’ by Julia Jacklin 4. ‘Danny Nedelko’ by Idles 5. ‘Wide Awake’ by Parquet Courts 6. ‘When You Die’ by MGMT 7. ‘Sticky’ by Ravyn Lenae 8. ‘Fuckin ‘n’ Rollin’ by Phantastic Ferniture 9. ‘Native Tongue’ by Mojo Juju 10. ‘Pristine’ by Snail Mail
Run The Jewels rapper Killer Mike has never been shy on publicising social and political commentary, but with his new Netflix series Trigger Warning, the Atlantabred artist has properly kicked things up another notch. Tackling issues currently prevalent in black communities in America including gang violence, religious issues, poverty and more, Trigger Warning offers a stark insight and perspective – delivered in Killer Mike’s unique voice and humour. The series is six episodes long and according to Killer Mike himself, the series explores “the most absurd thoughts and arguments I’ve had in my life” and seeing if they could be actualised in reality. From forming his own religion, to exploring racism in an elementary school environment, Trigger Warning is definitely worth a watch – best part is, it’s available now to binge.
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Music Industry Predictions for 2019 Pt. 2 • THE LIVE EXPERIENCE WILL EXPAND FROM JUST THE CONCERT
Emerging technology – augmented and virtual reality, wearable devices, advanced mobile apps, blockchain etc – will expanded the live experience. You’ll take a selfie with a star backstage without meeting them. Wearables, which give high-quality audio and real-time mixing, will now include playable tattoos, sunglasses for radio listening or shirts with samples built in. Post-gig packages will offer digital photos, interactive setlists and fresh content from artists. No need for mobile phones at shows, which is just as well, as there will be growing pressure for venues to stop phone pests. • MUSIC RECOGNITION, 360 REALITY AUDIO
Upgrades in Music Recognition Technology will make it easier to monitor and track where a song is being played, and hopefully solve the serious problem of so much mechanical licenses being unrecognised on streaming platforms (25%– 35% in the US). Artificial intelligence will continue to be used primarily in two ways: predictive analytics will get better at predicting what songs people like, while Sony and IBM are using musical components like mood, cadence and style to compose new songs. Sony’s immersive multichannel 360 Reality Audio format (“3D for your ears”) will have different sounds hit you from an awesome array of directions. Sony is developing an app to “enable users to take photos of their own ears with a smartphone to create an optimised musical experience based on an analysis of the hearing characteristics of user’s ears.”
What do you crave after a night on the town? For many it’s a cheesy slice, for others it’s a Happy Meal – some even opt for an entire meal of smoked delights with mounds of BBQ sauce. Yet for plenty, a souvlaki hits the spot best. Although let’s be real, it’s 2019 readers, and we’re not getting any younger. Our drinking habits aren’t slowing down as much as we’d hoped, and waking up stressfree is becoming an increasingly rare occurrence. Things need to change somewhere, so let’s raise our late night eating habits shall we? Introducing AP’ OLA GR Greek Food Truck, parked outside of the Tankerville Hotel on Nicholson Street, Fitzroy. They’re the only late night eats I will be involving myself in this year, and here are all of the reasons why. Let’s start with the fact they are family owned, which is becoming harder to find these days amongst the clutter of chains. You’ll often catch the duo speaking Greek, their heritage language, waiting patiently to cook you their lovingly prepared, boldly flavoured, good-for-the-soul treats.
SOLD
With investors now doing a Pavlov’s Dog for the music business, how many record companies will have a For Sale sticker stuck on them? Vivendi was already planning to sell Universal Music by December 2019 when it was valued at €20 billion. This month Deutsche Bank amped it up to €29 billion (A$45.9b) with likely suitors including Live Nation co-owner Liberty Media, Chinese digital giant Tencent, Alphabet (AKA Google), Facebook, Amazon, Spotify, Alibaba and Apple. With such numbers, how long before other owners start quivering with excitement? The global indie sector had a 39.9% share in 2017 (based on ownership, not distribution), up from 39.6% in 2016, an increase year-on-year of 10.9%. In comparison, major labels’ monetary growth grew 9.7% in the same period. Revenue for self-releasing artists rose from $94 million in 2016 to $101 million in 2017. With streaming accounting for 44% in indie’s income (33% in 2016) and growing by 46% in 2017, expect some impressive figures for the indie sector at end of 2019. • MORE MUSIC MOVIES
With Bohemian Rhapsody churning US$600 million and A Star Is Born $404 million, expect a scramble to get more music movies out. We know Elton John’s Rocketman is due in May, an animated Spice Girls cash-in for the world tour, and work has begun on Aretha Franklin and Motley Crue big-screeners. Our nightmare will be that we’re stuck with once-abandoned flicks on Greg Allman, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, and Paul McCartney’s The Bruce McMouse Show. The latter is about a family of mice living under a stage. You just know it’s going to be excruciating.
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Back in Melbourne, there’s plenty to do too. Here’s some highlights: on Thursday January 24 at Section 8, local galactic deep-house producer Planète continues his residency. This week features Adonidia playing a live set of his groove-laden house music, Asha, with a secret guest to be announced. How mysterious. On Friday January 25, local musical encyclopedia Moopie heads up the bill at High Voltage VII, going down at Boney. Moopie’s been a much-respected staple of the Melbourne scene for many years now, never afraid to take punters on a sonic adventure through genres and tempos. Backing him up is Fibre Optix, Zjoso and DJ Tiba, kicking off at 10pm.
• MORE RECORD COMPANIES WILL BE BOUGHT AND
• INDIE’S TENTACLES WILL GROW
It’s the first long-weekend of the year, which, as it has for 22 years now, means it’s Rainbow Serpent Festival time. One of the original, biggest and most respected bush-doofs in Australia, Rainbow continues to fly the flag for large-scale but community-minded dance parties with something for everyone. The music varies from psytrance to techno, disco to live funk, future-beat to folk-tronica with stage installations that are internationally second to none. With well over 100 artists on the bill, you’re gonna wanna head to the website for the full lineup, but of particular note is Dutch psytrance originator G.M.S, celebrating 25 years. But the celebration will be a bitter-sweet one – G.M.S was a duo until mid-last year when original member Joseph Quinteros AKA Bansi lost his battle with cancer at 42. The festival goes down from Friday January 25 to Monday January 28 out in Lexton, Victoria.
Edward Richards
Have you heard of a Greek-style burger? I didn’t think so, and I’m very pleased to be the one to share it with you. It offers beef meatballs (soutzoukakia) with tomatoes, onions, tzatziki dip and chips, sandwiched between bread. If you’d like this in a souvlaki wrap, sure, they’d be happy to serve you what you please. Enjoy spice? Order it hot, and you’ll receive a smothering of hot tomato sauce on top. The pork souvlaki is a classic, featuring juicy and flavourful grilled pork skewers. It’s paired with tomatoes, onion, tzatziki dip and chips, then wrapped in pita bread (or fresh bread if you prefer). You can also try the pancetta flat pork meat variety for something different, also just as tasty. If you happen to stumble past, hanging off your friends while you’ve all got the munchies, order a grilled plate to share. The heaving selection of grilled meats, skewers, chips, dips and salads will keep you giggling all night long, and into the next morning. AP’ OLA GR is my only late night eatery choice, and I commend them for their excellence. They offer a welcoming space, quality produce and astonishing flavours wrapped in traditional family recipes that, when shared with Melbourne, act as if we were also part of their family.
On Sunday January 27, Lounge’s fourth party in its final series of 29 parties before it closes, Plexus, is set to pour some thick gluggy diesel in the tank and let rip with some heavy techno. They’ll host two of the heaviest live techno hitters currently doing the rounds in Melbourne, ACM and Mickey Nox. Backing them up will be selectors Consoles, Edward Richards and SFBM. On the public holiday on Monday January 28, Animals Dancing are hosting a day party on the Evelyn Rooftop, featuring the UK’s Tapes, exploring the outer reaches of dub and mutant dancehall. Also playing is Mind Leaf & The Herbalist which is Sleep D’s dub alias, doing a very rare live-set for the occasion. If that’s not enough to get you in the door, two of Melbourne’s finest selectors will be sountracking the rest of the day – JNETT and Otologic. Kicks off at 1pm.
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The Paper Kites Indie-folksters taking over the world BY NATALIE ROGERS
Photo by Drew Wilson
When homegrown indie-folk darlings The Paper Kites wrap up the Australian/New Zealand leg of their Where You Live Tour, you may find yourself ordering a latte from guitarist Dave Powys or ushered into a movie theatre by frontman and songwriter Sam Bentley. “When we’re home we like to work our other jobs. It’s fairly difficult to live off music full time – we could almost do it,” Bentley says. “But it’s more just having something to do when we’re home. I work at a cinema sometimes, Dave works at a coffee shop and Josh [Bentley, drums] is a gardener. It’s us living the Batman life without the rich playboy gig by day,” he laughs. Calling in from Edinburgh, Bentley is in high spirits while enjoying some rare downtime before the start of a gruelling European tour. “I’m just on a bit of a holiday at the moment, but we can’t wait to be back in Australia next month.” Don’t mistake Bentley’s excitement for homesickness, however, The Paper Kites have been welcomed by audiences all around the world, including the US where their fifth studio album On the Corner Where You Live came to life. “By the time we recorded our second album [twelvefour] in Seattle we realised we work better when we’re away from home with the sole purpose of making a record,” he says. “So now whenever it comes time to make an album we wanna get away from home, and find a studio that we can live and work out of.” On the Corner Where You Live was produced by Peter Katis in a charming, old town house in Connecticut, but as Bentley tells me it wasn’t exactly the picturesque setting you might expect. “When we came across Peter’s place, we were looking for a producer and we had a few names in the running. I initially wanted Nick Launay to
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produce it, he does a lot of Nick Cave’s stuff but I think it was a little ambitious of me,” he laughs. “I had a chat to him and he’s a lovely guy, and I’m a fan, but he said I don’t think I’m the right guy for the album you’re wanting to make. He makes really kind of grungey, dirty albums so it wasn’t meant to be. He actually pointed us in the direction of Peter. So we chatted to him and we realised he has done some of my favourite albums. He’s worked with Interpol and Kurt Vile, and a huge list of people. “But we when spoke to him he said ‘I wanna bring you guys out to Bridgeport.’ Now when you think of Connecticut, it’s beautiful, but Bridgeport is kind of – I have to be careful what I say – it’s a bit of a seedy part of town,” he adds. “There’s all these amazing, huge town houses, which by all standards in Melbourne would be called mansions but they’re all run down because no one wants to live in Bridgeport – there’s drug problems and gangs. “Before we even got there Peter told us ‘If you wanna go for a walk don’t go down the main street because sometimes people get shot.’ We didn’t know what to make of that so we steered clear of it,” Bentley jokes. Despite being the new kids in town, having the space and time to focus was exactly what they needed. “The house is 120 years old and had three levels, and the studio Peter built was amazing. There was always something creative going on.
During the evening, I’d be working on vocals and Christina [Lacy, vocals/keys] might be downstairs working on a song. It was a really great time and I have really fond memories of making that album.” After nearly a decade in the game, The Paper Kites show no sign of slowing down, and Bentley says they’ve pulled out all the stops to make their homecoming shows extra special. “We always like to hand-pick our supports when we can but it’s hard at the moment because there are so many good Australian acts on the scene right now,” he says. At a one-off show at The Forum, Melbournebased songwriter Slow Dancer, AKA Simon Okely, will open the show. “We really like his stuff, I think he’s on the Pieater label,” he says. “Actually Tom Lansek from Big Scary who produced On the Train Ride Home told me about him and I saw him perform in town and he was great,” “We haven’t played any headline shows in Australia for about three years, and it’s ten years down the track but people are still wanting to see us and the audiences are getting bigger – it’s truly a wonderful thing.”
“We haven’t played any headline shows in Australia for about three years, and it’s ten years down the track but people are still wanting to see us it’s a truely wonderful thing.” The Paper Kites come to The Forum on Saturday March 23. Grab your tickets via Ticketmaster.
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Soul Star Holistic Festival An all-inclusive extravaganza celebrating spiritual healing and wellness BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS
Melbourne is about to broaden its spiritual horizons, as the Soul Star Holistic Festival arrives to put a fun and interactive spin on the benefits of spiritual healing and wellness. Along with inspirational talks from a range of facilitators, people will have the opportunity to explore wellness market stalls housing beautiful holistic products such as organic and vegan natural skin care, locally made essential oils, botanical elixirs and eye-catching crystal pieces. “I feel like this festival will be a day where people can give back to themselves, but also have fun too,” says festival director Briony Goldsmith. “There’s vegan gluten free donuts, green juices and little [Buddha] bowls – you can have a bit of treat and enjoy a detox for the day.” The festival will host a range of expert facilitators such as healers, meditation teachers, integrative doctors, Chinese doctors, sound healers, yoga and Qi Jong teachers. “We’ve got two areas: one that’s going to have yoga classes and Qi Jong sessions, which will be mini sessions for 15 minutes so people can just kind of come jump in and give it a go,” Goldsmith says. “Then we’ve got longer sound healings which are about half an hour, and then on the main stage we’ve got integrative doctors talking about stress, as well as Chinese doctors, a few healers, meditation teachers and I’m talking about manifesting.” World renowned energy healer Charlie Goldsmith, whose TV show The Healer has been incredibly successful in the United States, will also appear at the festival. He will host two group healings, three talks and a Q&A. “He has been doing healings online and doing group healings where people dial in – but
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he’s never done it face-to-face in an event with groups of people,” Goldsmith explains. “It takes a lot of energy to do what he does, especially with a big group. “I consider myself an expert when it comes to healers and I’ve been working with psychics since I started my business … [but] there’s not too many healers in the world that can physically help people the way he helps people.” Other experts include former Bardot member and sound healer Katie Underwood, Mamamia and myBody+Soul astrologer Natasha Weber and Meditation Australia president Asher Packman. There will also be a group of shamanic drummers who practice sound healing. “We’ve got the healer section with palm readers, people that read your self-purpose, and people who do reiki,” Goldsmith says. “I’ve also got a shaman clearing the space of the building before everybody sets up; it’s going to become a bit of a sacred place and I’m very passionate about the energy of what I do and I hope people can feel that.” Goldsmith initially devised Soul Star by combining her love for wellness and spirituality, something which has grown significantly as the festival has blossomed. “I’m a nutritionist, a meditation teacher and an intuitive empath as well, so I’m very sensitive to energy. I just found that there’s no platforms that really celebrate this industry in a beautiful ‘boutique’ way; there’s other things out there but they’re not for everyone.
“I want this festival to be for everyone; so many people are into exploring this stuff but they might go somewhere and it’s a bit icky – psychic fairs tend to have a lot of incense and crystal balls and there’s a real look to them,” she says. “I just want to create a normal path – this is another tool that people use for wellness, rather than something that’s really out there.” It’s a unique experience helping people to enhance their physical and mental wellbeing in a simple and inclusive way – a recipe that’s attracted punters in droves. “We can live in Melbourne and be in the city and work in offices or do whatever we people do and still have a part of this [spirituality], by connecting to ourselves on a deeper level and being more content,” Goldsmith says. “I think people are looking for that, and that’s why we’re getting such a good response. People have the money and they want to give back to themselves because they’re just depleting themselves on all levels with family, their work and whatever and everyone’s running on empty. “We wouldn’t bother exploring something else in our lives if everything was perfect. Most people are coming to these events because in some point in their lives they’ve felt disconnected, or not quite sure where they fit in, or maybe depressed or anxious or something. Instead of reaching for alcohol or food or whatever they would use to suppress it, they will actually want to start working out what the cause is so that they can live a life that’s more peaceful and content.”
“I feel like this festival will be a day where people can give back to themselves, but also have fun too” Soul Star Holistic Festival comes to the Royal Exhibition Building on Saturday February 16. Head to the Soul Star website for more info and to grab your tickets.
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Beth Hart
Beth Hart’s February tour of Australia will be her fourth in five years. She was most recently in town for Bluesfest 2017, but the coming engagement will see Hart and band take to a series of theatres around the country. Despite the regular visits, however, the LA singer doesn’t feel like an expert on local customs. “Australia’s still a bit of a mystery to me because it’s not like I’ve gotten to thoroughly tour there year after year after year,” Hart says. “But it does remind me a bit of the terrain in California, parts of Australia, and the weather. So there’s kind of a familiarity in that sense, but in terms of really getting to know the people or culture I haven’t been there enough.” Hart’s performed and collaborated with a number of distinguished names over the last 25 years. This includes three albums with Joe Bonamassa, singing live and in the studio with Jeff Beck and appearing on records by Slash, Deep Purple and Buddy Guy. But Hart’s mostly renowned for her live shows, which revolve around her dynamic and heartfelt vocals. “My real desire, honestly, is just to connect,” says Hart. “Connection happens when I see those faces of people getting emotional or just smiling or dancing or something. When that happens I feel like that’s the job that I want to do more than anything. I want us to feel like music is a place where we can come and share. “I’m a human being like everybody else. My greatest fear is that someone thinks I’m too weird or too crazy. I think that’s the thing I look to music for: being able to feel connected and like I’m not an alien.” Hart’s command of the stage has been documented on a number of live albums over the
years, the latest of which features a recording from London’s Royal Albert Hall in May 2018. Though, don’t expect a recreation of this performance in Melbourne next month. “Each night we do a different show,” Hart says. “I can never do the same show night to night. I would hang myself. The band always knows at least a hundred songs. They know all the records pretty much and for some reason I don’t ever forget. “Usually when we do make the set anyway I’ll change it during the show. I’ll try and feel out what’s happening. If what’s happening is I’m getting really scared up there then usually I’ll tell the band to get off stage and I’ll just play by myself and do some confessional song.” Hart’s recording career dates back to the early 1990s. Her official debut LP, Immortal, came out in 1996 and she’s now released a total of eight solo albums as well as the three covers albums with Bonamassa. Hart’s enjoyed continued critical and sales success – 2016’s Fire on the Floor hit number one on the US Billboard Blues Album Chart – but
she favours live performance over recording. “Records have their own artform. Some people are really great at it obviously, but for me as an artist whenever things are done live that’s where the truth is going to be found. I think that’s why I try so hard now to make everything live to tape, but even that is not really live,” she explains. “To me live is happening in front of an audience, in front of strangers, and being able to tell the truth in front of a stranger really is telling the truth. There’s so much healing in playing live because of that confrontation.” Hart places a lot of emphasis on honesty and the idea of the truth setting you free. This is what she intends to project via her albums and live shows. “Finding the balls to tell the truth, that’s really what it boils down to for me. So when I talk about the songs and where they come from, it’s important for me to have that courage.”
“I can never do the same show night to night. I would hang myself. The band always knows at least a hundred songs. They know all the records pretty much and for some reason I don’t ever forget.” Beth Hart plays The Forum on Saturday February 23. Grab your tickets via Ticketmaster.
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Broods
When Broods’ third studio album Don’t Feed the Pop Monster drops early February you’ll soon realise this collection of 12 songs is a completely different beast altogether. Sure, it still showcases the siblings’ signature nuanced synth-pop, but it offers so much more than that. At times it is dark and moody but at all times it is honest, engrossing and inspiring. “Obviously we love it because we wouldn’t be putting it out if we didn’t like it,” jokes Georgia Nott, one half of the brother and sister duo. “But it’s really nice to hear that people are really into the singles we’ve released [‘Hospitalized’ and ‘Peach’]. It’s reassuring for us because we worked really bloody hard on it to be honest.” Nott and her brother Caleb were born into an extremely musical family in Blenheim, New Zealand and grew up singing together. “We’ve been best friends since … actually I can’t remember a time when we weren’t best friends,” she says. In the last five years Broods have been nominated for and won a slew of awards and toured all over the world with the likes of Haim, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding and Taylor Swift, just to name a few. “I think the craziest thing about doing the Reputation stadium tour with Taylor last year was the fact that not only is she this powerhouse woman in pop but I’ve been listening to her since I was fifteen you know, so my fifteen year old self was like ‘What the fuck is going on,’” Nott laughs. Nott is warm and unassuming despite their success, and not afraid to stand behind her beliefs, and admit that sometimes navigating the weird and wonderful world of the music industry has been tough.
“Working on this album has made our relationship so much stronger, and I think because we are brother and sister, the people we surround ourselves with are very much like our family.” “After Conscious [2016] we got dropped from our label [Capital Records] which wasn’t a bad thing because we weren’t a great fit in the end,” she explains. “We were much younger when we signed with them and you grow and you learn, and we realised we wanted to be something different than they wanted us to be. “But there was a moment, well many moments,” she adds. “Where Caleb and I were like ‘Oh shit, how are we going to pay for this?’ It’s expensive to make an album and we were just holding onto the fact that we still believed in each other and we still had really good management that believed in us, and then when we were ready to put this album out we were like ‘Ok, who would like this? Does anybody want it?’” Soon the LA-based Broods found sparkling salvation with the legends at Neon Gold Records. “We have previously known Derek [Davies] and Lizzy [Plapinger] … for a while, and a few of our
friends are in that crew with them, so it was just a natural transition, and they totally believed in what we were trying to do, and that we wanted to do something different than the last album,” Nott says. “It was kind of amazing to have that backing but it was pretty last minute.” Another first for the band saw Caleb take the lead vocals on ‘Too Proud’ which vocalises his own battle with depression. “Working on this album has made our relationship so much stronger, and I think because we are brother and sister, the people we surround ourselves with are very much like our family and that’s something that has made a huge difference to us being in an industry that’s complete chaos all the time. It’s really nice to be around people that you feel really love you.”
Broods’ third studio album Don’t Feed the Pop Monster is out Friday February 1 via Island Records Australia.
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Jungle
In the world of music, four years is a lengthy break between albums. Some bands wait longer, but most release new stuff pretty regularly to satisfy listeners. However, when your debut was as popular as Jungle’s, you can afford to keep people waiting. The seven-piece finally unveiled their followup album For Ever last year, bursting with the same funky beats and catchy lyrics they did so well on their first. But this one has a bit more maturity to it, born from the group’s experiences over the past few years. “Real shit has happened to us,” begins founding member Tom McFarland. “Girlfriends breaking up with us, a few of our friends have passed away, you know, stuff that happens in the real world and happens to everybody. “That’s kind of why the songs have a very positive feeling to them, because at the end of the day these songs are there to discuss these things, but also show people that there’s hope and there’s always something at the end of the tunnel.” Music has played a massive part in McFarland’s life for a long time now, way before Jungle was even in the works. He and fellow bandmate Josh Lloyd-Watson were childhood buds, who bonded over their mutual love of the artform. “Some people love surfing, some people play soccer, and we just sort of grew up playing music together,” he says. The duo spent their formative years honing and testing their skills, playing in other bands before cultivating their own. “It’s quite a learning process really, do you know what I mean? If you’re going to be a professional soccer player you don’t go straight to the top, you’ve gotta play for some shit clubs first,”
laughs McFarland, recalling his musical journey. Well, the group aren’t too far from the top now. Jungle fever has made its way out of their native UK and spread across the globe, taking them on tours worldwide. This has been thrilling for McFarland, who thrives on the energy he gets from playing live shows. “Being on stage feels really natural to me,” he says. “I can completely sympathise with all those people who get stage fright, but for me generally I sort of revel in that, I guess. “I love it because it gives me the energy to get up and do something every day, whereas I think if I was doing something else that didn’t give me that rush and didn’t give me that feeling of physical satisfaction, I don’t think I’d feel satisfied or comfortable.” Part of that rush comes from having a great crowd though, and McFarland admits they’ve been lucky enough to have some incredible audiences. “We just had a show in Mexico City to like 3,000 people,” he recalls excitedly. “The crowds in Latin and South America are so vocal and so passionate about their music and they give you
so much love. It’s something that we’ve never really experienced before – that sort of level of crowd and how noisy and giving they are, literally just screaming every lyric of every fucking song relentlessly. “You don’t get that in the UK or in Europe, even in America, it’s a very different culture. Those are moments where you go off stage after and you think ‘wow, that was pretty special’, because it doesn’t happen every day.” McFarland is right – being able to do what he does is pretty special, and it’s a fact that isn’t lost on him. “I think as soon as you take this for granted, then you may as well not be doing it,” he says. “Yeah, you have to make sacrifices and it can be difficult at times, but at the end of the day you’re out there with your best friends doing what you love, and nothing else beats that.”
After four Bluesfest appearances, Nahko and Medicine for the People consider the festival a second home, says Bear. “The ability to really catch the feeling of the community and to enjoy the music that comes through Bluesfest is really what’s drawn me back over and over again,” says Bear. “Without the interaction and participation of the crowd, we wouldn’t be able to perform at our best. Certain musicians, they’re there to let you watch them do their thing. That’s great for certain artists, but, for Medicine for the People, we really thrive off of interaction and participation, whether that’s singing along with us or when I get down in the crowd and talk to you. It’s pretty high-energy. We have a lot of fun and we love what we do, and I think that really shows in our live performance.” Despite hailing from Portland, Oregon – a city somewhat resembling a 1:15 scale model of Melbourne – Bear says that he has found Australian audiences more open and accepting than American ones. “Australia’s crowds, to my experience, have been outstanding,” says Bear. “Whether they’re working-class people or vagabonds and travellers 22 BEAT.COM.AU
or suburban, stay-at-home parents, there are so many types of people who have found the music to be enjoyable. I find Australians to have a very deep appreciation for presence, poetry and melody. In a way, in certain parts of America, you’ve got to convince them.” Bear made his first trip to Australia in 2013. Before the release of Medicine for the People’s 2016 alt-world chart climber HOKA and his iTunes #1 solo album My Name is Bear, Bear was on his own – an artist without a manager, a support team or an established audience. Working with artists like Xavier Rudd, Bear discovered a supportive and inclusive community and found an in to the Australian festival scene. “Before developing fans, I developed relationships with these friends, spending time out there just to play music and hang out with like-minded folks,” says Bear. “Each year that I got invited back to Bluesfest, I continued to deepen my relationship with some of these musicians. I still consider myself a beginner, just getting my foot in the door and paying my dues.” Even as his options have broadened, Bear has retained an affinity for the small-scale and the low-tech. My Name is Bear, he explains, was largely recorded in a friend’s closet. The album draws on material found in old journals and cassette tapes
Catch Jungle at The Forum on Sunday April 28 supported by Georgia. Tickets available through Ticketmaster.
BY GRETA BRERETON
Nahko and Medicine for the People Nahko Bear likes reaching out to a crowd – the bigger, the better. Little surprise, then, that Bear and his world music six-piece keep coming back to Bluesfest, an event that typically draws crowds of over 100,000.
“You have to make sacrifices and it can be difficult at times, but at the end of the day you’re out there with your best friends doing what you love, and nothing else beats that.”
Bear unearthed from his personal archives. “It was interesting to go back 12 years and remember how I felt and try to puzzle through it,” says Bear. “And I’m a fan of the low-budge. Making quality stuff without having to spend a zillion dollars is really fun.” In an era of almost universal pessimism, it’s difficult to square Bear’s social engagement with the warm and upbeat tone of his music. Bear believes that, within the next five or 10 years, the dysfunction that has marred both Australian and US society will give way and the public will begin to heal the rifts caused by polarisation. “I hear, that it has to get worse before it can get better, though I don’t know if I necessarily agree with that,” says Bear. “I have a very hopeful perspective on our future… I’m human, so I still feel down or upset when I witness what’s happening on the planet and between countries and between classes, but I do feel very hopeful. “I think that my music, as my practice and as my channel, is a much-needed thing in the world, and I am as much in need of it as everyone else is. I feel super blessed to get to do what I do, so I’m excited to come out and bring that all back to the land of Australia.” BY ZACHARY SNOWDON SMITH
“We really thrive off of interaction and participation, whether that’s singing along with us or when I get down in the crowd and talk to you.” Nahko and Medicine for the People will play Bluesfest on Thursday April 18 and Friday April 19. Find more details on the full lineup and grab tickets via the festival website. They will also play at 170 Russell on Sunday April 21. Tickets via Moshtix.
FEATURE
Alice in Chains Few musicians have a resume like bassist Mike Inez’s.
He’s spent four years playing with Ozzy Osborne, four with Heart, toured with Slash, jammed with Korn’s Ray Luzier and made a cameo on Motörhead’s album Kiss of Death. In 2019, Inez will be adding his next entry to the list, with a trip to Australia as a member of Alice in Chains. Despite his platinum-gilded discography, Inez wears the title of “rock star” uneasily. “I look at it as a team sport,” says Inez. “Not everybody can be Magic Johnson. If there were five Magic Johnsons in the room, that team would never win. I’ll be the guy who plays solid D and who hits the three-point in the corner when you need it. That’s the way I look at it: I try to support the bigger picture,” he says. Inez’s 25-year relationship with the Seattlebased metal icons has taken him on so many highvelocity tours – including one where he played France, Switzerland and Belgium in a single day – that he’s developed an immunity to jet lag, he says. “Here’s the secret: don’t think too much about it,” says Inez. “Just sleep when you’re tired and eat when you’re hungry. Hopefully your tech has your bass in tune – that’s pretty much all I concentrate on.” 2018 allowed Inez to fill in a few blank spaces on his map, including Moscow and Israel, where Alice in Chains played a two-night gig at the Caesarea Amphitheatre, a venue 2,000 years older than rock itself. Inez, however, has also been working on a return to Australia. Previous attempts to coordinate a new Australian tour were frustrated by scheduling conflicts and difficulties with promoters at now-defunct festival Soundwave. “We’ve been trying to get there for a while,”
Photo by Pamela Littky
says Inez. “Sydney is a work of art. I just love hanging out in that city – although Melbourne probably rocks a little more than Sydney. Melbourne people really appreciate it when you play some heavy rock for them.” Alice in Chains’ catalogue of must-plays makes setlist construction a challenge – by the time they’ve played ‘Man in the Box’, ‘Would?’, ‘Rooster’ and other obligatory hits, there’s only time for four or five more songs before the night is over. Inez always pushes to extend the band’s set length to two hours, he says. This year, Alice in Chains is bringing Australia something new: Rainier Fog, an album conceived in the shadow of Washington state’s aptly-named Mt Rainier and recorded at Studio X, the studio that gave birth to Heart’s ‘Barracuda’, the Steve Miller Band’s Fly Like an Eagle and Pearl Jam’s Vs. – titles that leave even Inez a bit intimidated. “We were going back to the belly of the beast, because we also did a lot of our early stuff at Studio X,” says Inez. “It’s an historic studio. The history of this place is not lost on us. But, as soon as we started plugging our guitars into the amps,
everything started working out for us.” Inez hopes that the band’s long-awaited return to Australian shores will give him a chance to explore Melbourne’s record stores and the seaside scenery of Western Australia, and to do what he enjoys most – jam out. “There’s not many younger people that like to jam and experiment,” he says. “They just cut and paste their songs, and I think a lot of modern music reflects that. It all sounds same-y. You get a $2,000 computer system and you think you can do a record at your house. And you can – and there is something fantastic about that, and I am jealous I didn’t have that when I was growing up, but there’s also something lost in that. “Music’s about being communal, kind of like going to church. It’s important for people to communicate, and that’s what being in a band is all about. The whole is bigger than the parts. Alice in Chains still has an old-school philosophy about it: we just like to make a bunch of racket and hope for the best.”
Even with nine studio albums, 11 number-one singles and 85(!) platinum sales certifications, Nickelback have spent the majority of their career striving to be taken seriously as a true commodity within 21st century rock. Photo by Richard Beland
anything like that when we went into the studio,” says Kroeger. “The end goal was to just make a loud rock record – the kind that we wanted to hear, and the kind we thought our fans wanted to hear. As far as rock goes in North America, guys with guitars just aren’t getting played. We thought that if radio wasn’t going to be a factor, then there was no reason not to go back to our roots. Why agonise over something that was never going to get a chance? We basically moved ahead knowing the on-ground conditions,” Kroeger explains. Radio support did come, however, from an unexpected source: The week of its release, triple j’s metal show The Racket played ‘Feed the Machine’ to a wildly-mixed reaction from listeners. “I had absolutely no idea about that,” laughs Kroeger. “I wouldn’t have guessed we’d be played by a metal show in a million years. I guess there is a little bit of heavy metal in what we do, so it’s good somebody noticed and appreciated that.” Originally forming in 1995, Nickelback released two albums before cracking the mainstream on 2001’s Silver Side Up – one of which, The State, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Originally self-released by the band,
Alice in Chains play Download Festival at Flemington Racecourse on Monday March 11. Get your tickets via the festival website.
BY ZACHARY SNOWDON SMITH
Nickelback
The lion’s share of times they’ve been spoken to for media outlets has been to essentially defend themselves – to acknowledge the plethora of jokes and memes about them but still try and steer the focus towards their accomplishments and efforts as a band. With the release of 2017’s Feed the Machine, however, things seem to have changed. After all these years, for whatever reason, the tide seems to have finally turned in favour of Nickelback. “We spent years trying to get anyone to notice us or interview us,” says Ryan Kroeger – one of the band’s three founding members and the brother of lead vocalist Chad. “Every time we go on a press cycle these days, I refuse to forget those days. It’s so easy to complain about media, especially when you’re always getting asked about the same stuff. At the same time, we worked so hard for so long to get anybody to even entertain the idea of wanting to speak to us. To complain about it now would just be preposterous.” Feed the Machine is certainly one of the band’s most surprising releases – not least of all for its title track, with its snarling drop-C guitar and bigswinging chorus that pricked up ears all over the internet. Twitter was in shock that the Southern Alberta natives were still capable of letting rip in such a way, and the song has served as their opening number for every show since its release. “We weren’t worried about radio or the charts or
“Alice in Chains still has an old-school philosophy about it: we just like to make a bunch of racket and hope for the best.”
their hard yards of touring and pushing the record saw it finally gain wider attention in their native Canada after about 18 months – thanks in no small part to its breakthrough single, ‘Leader of Men.’ “That became the first proper calling card, as far as the band was concerned,” says Kroeger. “I feel like those first two albums, in particular, are the sound of us really wrapping our head around how to write a song. Here in Canada, ‘Leader of Men’ was the first one to really gain traction – and we might not have been able to write something like ‘How You Remind Me’ if it wasn’t for writing a song like ‘Leader of Men.’ Nickelback have an exhaustive catalogue of big singles to draw from – and this coming February, Australian fans will have a chance to sing along with a fair chunk of them as Nickelback head out for three big arena shows. “It’s always been so cool to come visit,” says Kroeger. “People always told us about the similarities between Canada and Australia, and we’ve come to find those to be very real. I hope everyone coming has a great time – and please, bring earplugs.”
“We worked so hard for so long to get anybody to even entertain the idea of wanting to speak to us. To complain about it now would just be preposterous.” Nickelback play Rod Laver Arena on Saturday February 16. Tickets are available via Ticketek.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Vale Chris Wilson Remembering a blues legend BY ANNA ROSE
Rugged and calculated breathing produces a deep pulsation through a harmonica, riling up an expectant crowd. Intoxicating, deep vocalisations follow, the alternation between the mouth organ and a naturally boisterous tone simply sublime. Chris Wilson is on stage at Broadbeach Sofitel in 2005, and this enigmatic performance is being witnessed as a YouTube keepsake. It’s just one of many hundreds of tribute videos of similar performances to surface since the passing of the legendary Australian blues singer last week, aged 62, from pancreatic cancer. Videos like this are joining the countless preexisting glimpses into the talent and impressions made by a much-beloved Melbourne icon. Comments and tributes pour in beneath these online videos, many saying “I was there – I still am”, while tributes and recollections of Wilson’s shows plaster the walls of his social media accounts. Many, in recalling the memory of witnessing Wilson at one point or another across his 40-year career, are swept away to a shared moment where the songwriter’s idyllic and unique interpretations of the blues touched and inspired the hearts and lives of so many. Best known as the frontman of Crown of Thorns and largely regarded as “the gentleman of Australian blues”, Wilson occasionally stepped off that path and onto the roads of other genres across his tenure, like country, rock and folk. In a career spanning four decades, the singer shared the stage with some of the greatest names in music, like Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello. With six solo studio albums under his belt, most recently Chris Wilson in 2018 and his 1994 release Live At The Continental being one of the most revered albums ever released in this country, Wilson’s catalogue of work received as much critical acclaim as his live renditions. Wilson’s name is synonymous with a particular branch of the Melbourne music scene,
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but music wasn’t how Wilson began. He studied to be a teacher, a path he wandered later in life teaching English in high schools across the city, but discovered his passion for music when he joined the Sole Twisters in the mid-‘80s. After this, Wilson got his first big taste of blues rock when he was recruited into Harem Scarem. This was his first major band and it was only onward and upward from there – he would feature on albums from Hunters and Collectors, Merril Bainbridge and X, then he’d join ties with one of Australia’s greatest – the singer, songwriter, guitarist, saxophonist and harmonica player performing with Paul Kelly. Yet it was with his own band, Crown of Thorns, that Wilson whittled out a distinctive groove and received recognition for his wonderfully distinctive voice and charismatic song stylings. Studio albums came in the form of Carnival in 1989 with Barry Palmer and Chris Rodgers at his side, while Babylon arrived in 1990 with Ashley Davies [White Cross] joining the three on drums. When his cancer diagnosis was made public in July of last year, a benefit concert took place at The Corner Hotel, raising thousands of dollars to aid in the singer’s treatment costs. Similarly, a GoFundMe campaign raised $100,000 in two days. A seminal and cherished career if ever there was one, but a seminal and cherished man first and foremost. Cherry Bar owner James Young, who gave Wilson weekly live sessions for a period of three years, told the Sydney Morning Herald that “his contribution to the local musical landscape was immeasurable.” “Chris Wilson was so polite, friendly and
sweet … a storyteller with a voice like a velvet hammer. Chris’ passing has broken Melbourne’s heart because he touched so many people over so many years in so many ways.” Blues Train founder Hugo T Armstrong who formed a strong bond with Wilson while working with him “on so many different music festivals” told the Herald Sun that Wilson was selfless and always gave his attention to others before himself. “He was always there for everyone in the music industry and he was a believer in the underdog, he performed at so many charity events,” Armstrong said. “He was an avid music listener and an avid reader. He was the most humble and private man I’ve ever met.” Chris Wilson was a man who could bend the seven notes of the scale to produce tales and vocalisations of heartbreak and sorrow, elation and excitement, and generate in those who witnessed his sublime talent, a sense of wonderment, excitement, and sheer disbelief. Chris Wilson was a talented man, there’s no doubt about that, but he was also a humble man. Wilson could holler and howl; he would recite poetry through every syllable he sang; he could be jaw-droppingly staggering, Chris Wilson was unique, brilliant, and will be sorely missed.
“Wilson could holler and howl; he would recite poetry through every syllable he sang; he could be jawdroppingly staggering.”
Education Special Your future in arts and music
Melbourne Studio of Art
Photography Studies College
Zach by James Bugg
MSA is one of Melbourne’s top art education providers. What has the studio done to enjoy the growth it has? Melbourne Studio of Art is Melbourne’s premier private art school. From the beginning we have stayed true to the principle of providing professional standard art classes taught by experienced tutors who are highly regarded artists and have a passion for sharing their skills. Term One classes for both daytime and evening courses begin early February. What classes do you offer and are there any that suit beginners in particular? We offer a range of different term classes, including drawing, oil painting, portraiture, watercolour, life drawing, and abstract painting. In addition, we offer one day workshops which are a wonderful introduction to a variety of different art media and processes, specifically designed for absolute beginners. What should budding artists hope to achieve from their class? Students who attend our school over a period of time gain art skills they will have for life, from learning about colour, tone and composition to understanding how to create meaningful and well informed artwork. There is also the added benefit of experiencing the psychological benefits of being creative that include catharsis, relaxation and achievement. If I was a beginner with an interest in art but not sure how to get involved, what advice would you give me? We welcome new students to come to our studio and take a look around. You can meet our friendly staff and take a look at a class in action. Our Sunday workshops are also a great introduction to our studio and look at a range of different approaches.
Tell us about Photography Studies College. Photography Studies College is Australia’s oldest independent educational institute for photography. We’re an innovative, multiple award-winning college, offering the highest quality learning experience within an expert and nurturing community. Describe a typical Photography Studies College student? As we offer a range of full and part time courses, our students arrive from diverse backgrounds. Our full-time students are often school leavers who want to make a career of photography and there is a mixture of mature age students as well. They’re open to pursuing their creative passion and are enthusiastic about the many possibilities of a career in photography. How does the college prepare students for a career in photography? Through our industry-focused curriculum, mentor program and internships we give our students the skills and confidence to get them job ready. Students become part of an active PSC employment register. Our mentor program connects students to photographers both locally and internationally giving them real life experiences. What are you most proud of at Photography Studies College? We are proud to share that many of our students and graduates continue to impact the world of photography with their achievements both locally and abroad. A recent highlight was when our final year student, James Bugg won Australia’s largest photo prize, the prestigious $50,000 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize for his portrait titled Zach.
You can enrol to take a class at Melbourne Studio of Art via their website, studyart.com. au. They are located at 544 Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick.
Photography Studies College is located at 65 City Rd, Southbank. Find more details on the courses they offer via their website, psc.edu.au.
Australian Institute of Music
SAE Institute Melbourne Commander Sam
What does Australian Institute of Music do that sets it apart from other music education providers? As Australia’s largest music education provider, AIM has all the tools (equipment/facilities), knowledge (high quality teaching staff ) and experience (teachers with in-depth industry backgrounds; practical experience) students need. If I was unskilled with an interest in music and/or performing arts but not sure how to get involved, what advice would you give me? Your passion is key – there are a range of different options available including diplomas and short courses, get in touch with an AIM representative who can guide you through the process and give you advice. What should budding musicians or artists hope to get out of their undergraduate degree? Not just knowledge and skills in their chosen instrument/major, but also knowledge of how the industry works as well as networking/working together with students from other disciplines to produce music. Our key goal is to make our students as employable as possible by providing them with practical and flexible learning options so they can respond to ever-changing industry conditions. How do I enroll for a course and are there any general entry requirements? Head over to our website and fill in the form. Entry requirements vary but most require completion of HSC or VCE and the ability to demonstrate some experience in your chosen major. An ATAR of 70 or above is required for our Bachelor of Entertainment Management. The Australian Institute of Music’s Melbourne campus is located at 120 King Street, CBD. Study Period one applications close on Thursday January 31 and you can find more information and apply to study via their website, aim.edu.au.
The SAE Institute has become one of Australia’s leading creative tertiary providers since it was first established in 1976. Sprawling six disciplines – Animation, Audio, Design, Film, Games and Web & Mobile – SAE provides opportunities across accredited certificates, diplomas, bachelor degrees and postgraduate programs. Apply for SAE’s February intake now via the institute’s website. For those interested in film, the 28th Flickerfest takes over Melbourne’s Palace Kino Cinemas on Wednesday February 13. Regarded as the best of the best when it comes to short film, Flickerfest is both Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised. One Australian film to be included within the programme is Commander Sam, a story of astronaut father and daughter duo Neil and Sam whose world is surrounded by spaceinspired creations. Sam spends her nights in a spaceship forged from her father’s work van, but after a dangerous close encounter, Sam and Neil’s relationship is challenged. The film was written, directed and edited by SAE Melbourne film student Liam Fouracre as the final major project of his studies. Liam led a creative team of SAE students, staff and graduates, including Director of Photography Jordan Montgomery. On Thursday February 14, Flickerfest Director & Distribution Manager Bronwyn Kidd will share her expertise in an Australian Film Industry Masterclass at Melbourne’s SAE campus. She will touch on various topics such as: what makes a short film irresistible to Oscar-qualifying film festivals, what are the big Australian festivals looking for and how to get your film out beyond festivals. Check out the courses offered at SAE Institute Melbourne via sae.edu.au. More info on the 2019 Flickerfest can be found at the festival website.
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Q&A / LIVE
Darvid Thor
MUSIC
MUSIC
Ryan Edmond
Already a member of The Cactus Channel, what compelled you to establish something away from a band that’s already achieving great things? Playing, writing and producing music with more than seven people is a pretty normal thing, so the main reason was a keenness to start writing something different and see how my process would evolve in solo mode. The other reason was to explore lyrics and my voice. I’ve never written lyrics or really sung in anything else, so to be able to tell more of a story and process some things that needed to be worked out through lyrics was really special. Tell us about your new single ‘Get Out’. What inspired it? Lyrically it’s about trying to get out of your own way, trying to remember to cut yourself some slack every now and then. I was also really keen to try and sing in a different voice – drawled and more spoken than sung, and in a lower register. How would you describe your sound and how did you come to it? I don’t really know if I can answer that question yet. As a band we’ve only played two shows, and solo I’ve only done one. Woozy bedroom pop is maybe where I currently sit. Got any shows coming up? Supporting Hannah Kate on Friday January 25 and Tram Cops on Friday February 1, but other than that just a couple of solo shows and working on getting more happening. Hopefully a mini-tour in late March. Aside from that, is there any new music that Darvid Thor fans should be keeping their eye out for? I’m putting out another track from my upcoming mini-album on Friday February 8. It’s called ‘Anything’ and will have an accompanying video. But my debut mini-album will be out on Friday March 1.
When did you first start making music and what led you there? My grandfather introduced me to music from a young age. I began playing the cornet from around the age of six and had lessons from grandad just about every day. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I started to play guitar more and began to write my own songs. Tell us about your new single ‘From the Start’. What is the story behind it? What inspired it? I guess it’s about being close to so many friends when you are younger, and as you get older, people focus on their careers and no longer have the time to share with their friends and family. What compelled you to make the jump into a solo career? It wasn’t until I moved to Sweden that I began giving songwriting a crack. I finished my first song called ‘My Terms’ and thought it would be fun to take it to a producer and record it. Then I met Jerry Sillah, a Swedish producer, and we began writing some songs together. Although you’re based in Sweden, you’ve been back home in Australia recording your debut EP. How’s it coming along? It has been great fun playing and recording with the full band. We are actually planning to finish a whole album – eight or nine songs. I will be back in the studio next week, aiming to release the full album around May. What can we expect from your upcoming single launch at The Workers Club? I am super excited to have one of my favourite musicians Eva McGowan opening the night, before the amazing Simon Phillips blows peoples’ minds with his incredible songwriting and performing with many different instruments. We will be playing all songs from the upcoming album and have many special guests hopping up with us throughout the night.
Darvid Thor’s track ‘Anything’ arrives Friday February 8. He’ll be playing The Gasometer on Friday January 25 and Friday February 1. Grab your ticks via the venue website.
Ryan Edmond’s single launch for ‘From the Start’ takes over The Workers Club on Sunday February 3. Further details are on the Facebook event.
Live
The Growlers
The Forum, Wednesday January 16 The Growlers have built quite the rapport with their surf-laden, reverb rock since the release of their first album Are You In or Are You Out, back in 2009. So it was no surprise that the floor of The Forum buzzed with anticipation for the show that was yet to unfold. Sydney-siders Pist Idiots opened the floodgates, followed by Sunshine Coastnative punk rockers The Chats. With 15 minutes left of their set, lead vocalist Eamon Sandwith, noting their short, punchy songs blared ‘‘that should be enough for ten more songs right?” Queue ‘Smoko’. Behind the draping Beach Goth tour banner, where a goddess of death was watching the escapades go down, The Growlers slinked onto the stage, effortlessly oozing cool. Sporting a striped, button up polo shirt and a light brown beret, lead vocalist Brooks Nielson instantly lit up the stage, and emitted his charismatic, childlike demeanour. ‘‘Away we go,’’ he rumbled, his smoky voice slithering through the crowd, which then sliced into the driving beat of ‘Big Toe’. Followed by ‘Hiding Under Covers’, the LA band had the crowd settled in quickly. Yet the best was still to come. The energy and atmosphere instantly lifted, as The Growlers tapped into their more recent releases from City Club. Crowds chorused ‘‘over and over and over again’’ from ‘Night Ride’, these ignited, sizzling sparks sustaining into ‘Dope on a Rope’. Tracks from City Club and Chinese Fountain seemed to stir greater momentum over earlier, beloved gems,
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yet long-term fans were relieved to hear The Growlers had not forgotten or buried these golden, more laid back jives beneath their latest projects. With a cheeky start to ‘One Million Lovers’, Neilson’s stage presence became instantly more engaging and animating as he wiggled his hips in a daggy, yet somehow still groovy swing. Heartfelt ballad ‘Someday’ from Hung At Heart gave Neilson the opportunity to emit his raspy croon. Chinese Fountain’s ‘Love Test’, and ‘Good Advice’ sent the crowd into a cacophonous frenzy as bodies flew in different trajectories. In comparison, when songs from Casual Acquaintances such as ‘Decoy Face’ were played beside adored tracks from preceding albums, they appeared somewhat vacant. Latest single ‘Who Loves The Scum’ however, was played vigorously and was met with equal devotion from the crowd. Fans crumpled closer to the stage, eager to hang onto every word and note dripping from The Growlers, with crowd surfers passing over the tumultuous, undulating masses. An unexpected delight was a cover of The Shirelles ‘Mama Said’, which gracefully transitioned into ‘Charlie Don’t Surf ’ by The Clash. The Growlers effortlessly and successfully warped the songs into their own, transcending their surf jangle into uptown soul and British punk rock. Bringing the main set to a close, the band displayed a heavier take to instrumentation with an extended progression from ‘City Club’ into ‘Chinese Fountain’. The encore as expected, concluded with ‘Going Gets Tough’, providing a tender close to the show, which was heart-warmingly received as the crowd raised their hands in gratification. What is evident is that The Growlers have attracted a wide range of listeners that continues to grow, a testimony to the strength of their music. Yet it seems
The Growlers – photo by Dan Soderstrom
punters may be overlooking their previous sound and repertoire from the early ‘00s and ‘10s, which is not to be forgotten. All in all, The Growlers continue to be a beloved band that we can only hold onto and wait for what is yet to come.
Highlight: ‘One Million Lovers’. Lowlight: ‘Decoy Face’. Crowd Favourite: A tie between ‘Night Ride’ and ‘Going Gets Tough’. BY GABRIELLA BEAUMONT
LIVE
Florence + The Machine – photo by Dan Soderstrom
Florence + The Machine
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Friday January 18 With the summer heat breaking long enough for the audience to enjoy some long-awaited breezes and a gorgeous sunset, the setting for the evening’s show ahead was perfect. If it weren’t already clear, the venue in question was the Sidney Myer Music Bowl – a dream venue for many artists to reach when the opportunity of a Melbourne show is on the cards. And Florence + The Machine were the act thousands were waiting eagerly to see. Opening with ‘June’, Florence Welch’s energy and vocals demonstrated striking presence early; with a reputation that has long preceded her, Welch’s performance style wove between ethereal, vulnerable, charming and dramatic with flair. On stage, she’s like the Kate Bush of the 2000’s British indie wave, but when she addressed the audience in between songs, Welch spoke with almost porcelain-like fragility in amongst humour. Open about her anxieties and shyness, the night’s heroine was also quick to ensure the crowd that the show was an interactive one and we were to dance when we wanted, and to join in as much as possible. The band’s latest album, High As Hope, marked a phenomenal return for Florence + The Machine. Live, the album was represented just as well as on record, with ‘Hunger’, ‘Patricia’ and ‘Big God’ proving highlights of the show. These moments also demonstrated the tight dynamic between the musicians on stage, with Loren Humphrey and Aku Orraca-Tetteh locking in smoothly on percussion, while Hazel Mill’s backing vocals should be commended as much as her work on keys. For longtime fans of Florence + The Machine, their loyalty was well regarded, as prime Lungs cuts in ‘Between Two Lungs’, ‘Dog Days Are Over’ and ‘Cosmic Love’ were rolled out. Though I had thought ‘Drumming Song’ or even ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)’ may have made an appearance, these older tracks were still delivered with the same level of high
dynamism as they first were in 2009. There’s no doubt that a big pull of Florence + The Machine’s live show is the way Welch interacts on stage and with the crowd. Barefoot, she lunged from one side of the stage to another, becoming captivated with the rhythms of the music, dancing and spinning around, almost as if the performance had taken her to another plane. When an artist gets to this level of their career, I wonder how much they still find themselves attached to these same songs night after night. It would seem that Welch and her band haven’t lost that intrinsic emotional connection that a song like ‘Only If For A Night’ or ‘Ship To Wreck’ can bring out. The crowd’s response was kept high throughout, elevated when Welch left the stage near the end of the main set to run up to the back of the Bowl, clutching onto hands that stretched out desperately to be held, singing and smiling at faces who longed to be acknowledged. It’s a great performance technique, one that makes a crowd the size of Melbourne’s feel just that little more intimate – it’s also one that is a result of a show formula that has been incredibly well-honed over the last decade. Watching men in their 40’s and 50’s react to the music like the flower crown-donning girls half their age a few rows down, put a smile of my face – this is one of the best things about experiencing live music in this kind of environment; watching how it hits different individuals in their own unique ways. This show was exemplary of the way music can strike in different ways, and when you’ve got a song like ‘Shake It Out’ bringing the experience to an end, one couldn’t ask for a more fitting swansong. Highlight: ‘Hunger’ was an early example of Florence Welch’s sheer vocal strength, one that rarely faltered throughout the night. Lowlight: There was no ‘You’ve Got The Love’! Crowd Favourite: The all-in rendition of ‘Dog Days Are Over’; such a nostalgic moment for everyone who had Lungs soundtracking summer festival seasons. BY SOSEFINA FUAMOLI
Bastille – photo by David Harris
Bastille
The Forum, Friday January 18 In their first visit to Australia in over four years, Bastille fans were ready and raring to go as the British indie pop band took to the stage at The Forum on Friday night. With the show originally scheduled for September of last year, it was clear fans didn’t let the postponement deter them, as the quartet entered what was a brimming venue. Opening with ‘Good Grief ’ from their second studio album, Wild World, there was an instant release of energy among the crowd as lead vocalist Dan Smith so eloquently sung the words “watching through my fingers.” The room felt as though it had burst like a pin prick to a balloon. The obvious pent up longing and excitement to experience the band live – whether for the first time or once again – that the entirety of the room was sharing in, was suddenly released. The crowd was in immediate ecstasy. Followed by a collection of tracks from both 2016’s Wild World and 2013’s Bad Blood, the energy remained, as the chemistry between the band and audience members only climbed. Shortly into the set, Smith declared it was time to slow things down, coming in with ‘World Gone Mad’. A real heartwrencher of a track, a sea of phone lights filled the room amid swaying arms, as a new sense of emotion among crowd members was thrown into the mix; a pivotal – and arguably crucial – moment at any live show. The crowd was suddenly in unison, and the connection between each individual and the music was unparalleled. Pulling off a moment like this is no easy feat for any artist or band, however, Smith’s next-level engagement with the audience paired with the bands’ impressive live delivery saw them do it oh-so well. Momentarily disappearing from the stage, Smith only took things up another notch, appearing above the crowd, where he was seated through the upper-level balustrade. Pushing forward with track ‘Two
Evils’, audience members were left basking in the afterglow of what might have felt like a personal serenade, looking up to Smith as he sung “Oh you and I, you and I”. With Smith returning to the stage, the band moved into hit tracks such as ‘Things We Lost In The Fire’, ‘Happier’, ‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Send Them Off !’, which saw the energy of the room shift once again. People were dancing and the party was well and truly in full swing. Nodding to the recently released news of their forthcoming third album due for release this year, Smith dropped word that the following track would be the album’s opener. The audience began screaming with excitement, and were met with ‘Quarter Past Midnight’. It was a solid choice seeing as each and every lyric was relayed back to the band by a sea of ecstatic fans. Drawing the night to a close with what might be the bands’ most well-known and widely adored track, ‘Pompeii’, there was no denying the extent to which these boys can hold a crowd. Every gaze intently focused, every mouth relaying every lyric, every body moving in unison with every beat. With a live performance as strong and captivating as this one, it’s no wonder fans were itching to see their return to Australia. Highlight: The overhead serenade by Smith. Lowlight: The obnoxiously loud punters to the right of me who snapchatted the ENTIRE gig. Crowd Favourite: When Smith made a round of the venue and wandered throughout the crowd, allowing fans in every corner to get a little closer. BY HELENA METZKE
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ALBUM REVIEWS
Album of the Week (Capitol Records)
Singles WITH AUGUSTUS WELBY
SASAMI
Jealousy
(Domino)
The three singles released from SASAMI’s debut album portray the LA musician as a stylistic rambler. The latest, ‘Jealousy’, is warm and psychedelic, though not a freakout. Guitars, bass and synths deftly intertwine to form a multifactorial melodic movement. Structure takes a backseat to feeling and tone. As a listener you get wrapped up in the production, noticing as percussion sounds pop into the top left hand speaker before gliding to the bottom right. It’s all over in three minutes, but there’s plenty more to unpack once you press play again.
The Chemical Brothers
MAH
(EMI)
Here’s a full-on banger from The Chemical Brothers. Time hasn’t wearied the Mancunian duo, which is evident in their preferred BPM as well as the fleshy heartbeat underpinning ‘MAH’. The song’s rave-y party sound isn’t exactly in vogue, but it’s pretty undeniable. MAH is shorthand for ‘mad as hell’. Dance music has long been a force for liberation and protest and The Chemical Brothers prove this can still be true for acts with extensive back catalogues and enviable financial security.
Tiny Ruins
Holograms
(Milk! Records)
Tiny Ruins are having an OK Computer moment on the wide-screen ‘Holograms’. Prophesising a future where loved ones reconnect and dance together as holograms, the NZ outfit generates a spectral atmosphere to support Hollie Fullbrook’s diaphanous lead vocal. The chorus gets moving thanks to a descending bassline that never seems to reach the ground floor.
Panda Bear
Token
(Domino)
‘Dolphin’, the first single from Panda Bear’s new record, was an off-centre ballad that boasted uncharacteristically lean production. Noah Lennox’s voice was lucid and emotionally exposed despite being dressed in autotune. The auto-tuned warble remains on ‘Token’, but the watercoloured psych-waltz is more in line with what we’re used to from Lennox. It’s built around an oscillating chord that sounds a bit like accordion, although you’d imagine it started life as something else entirely before being chopped up and repositioned. ‘Token’ mightn’t be mainstream radio material, but there’s an enchanting melodic sweetness running through the whole thing.
9.5 Maggie Rogers
Heard It In A Past Life You might have already heard of Maggie Rogers. The American songstress released the track ‘Alaska’ back in 2016, winning a mass of fans in her home country, as well as in Australia.
As one of those fans, it’s been almost torturous waiting so long for the unveiling of her debut record, but Heard It In A Past Life is well and truly worth the wait. The 12-tracker is a journey of sorts, chronicling Rogers’ evolution as a songwriter, and as a young woman finding her place in the world. It deals with themes of heartbreak and happiness, uncertainty and growth, all rolled into lyrically evocative songs that stir something in you. It’s not a sad record by any means, but it does move you in ways you might not expect it to – particularly tracks like ‘Past Life’. This one has a Fleetwood Mac feel to it, with a melodic chorus reminiscent of ‘Dreams’ and Rogers’ vocals not too dissimilar to those of Stevie Nicks. Songs from her first EP such as ‘Alaska’ and ‘On + Off ’ have also found their way onto this album, which might seem lazy to some, but they’re such a big part of Rogers’ journey. They fit in snugly among the newer offerings, which emanate that same warmth and energy. Singles ‘Fallingwater’, ‘Give A Little’ and ‘Light On’ in particular still stand strong, but all of the songs are single-worthy, and each holds its own bit of magic. They’re empowering, catchy and spirited tracks that make you want to get up and dance, or belt out the words in your bedroom. Ok, that’s enough gushing – now go and listen for yourself. BY GRETA BRERETON
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ALBUM REVIEWS
Albums
Bring Me The Horizon
amo
8
FIDLAR
Almost Free
(Epic Reocrds/Freebandz)
(Liberator)
(RCA/Sony)
8.5
7
Future
THE WIZRD
Bring Me The Horizon have always wanted to produce something revolutionary. With amo they may just have done that. It’s undoubtedly brilliant – whether you like R&B, metalcore, hardcore, other “cores”, dubstep, or heavy metal, Bring Me The Horizon deliver a little something for every kind of music lover in their cleverly crafted and dramatic sixth studio album, amo. 2013’s That’s The Spirit was an epic cross-genre release – but amo? It dials it up a few dozen notches and explodes into an almost indescribable cacophony of stylings and influences. Lead single ‘Mantra’ packs furiously honest lyrics, headbopping bass lines and encompasses everything that has ever been great about BMTH. The band’s collaboration with Grimes on ‘nihilist blues’ maintains an epic EDM vibe and rave-worthy drops, the powerful combination of Oli Sykes’ voice with the siren song of Grimes is utterly bewitching. ‘Medicine’, the album’s most accessible and palatable track, is the most cohesive offering of what BMTH are trying out here. With little gems and interesting nuggets ready to be discovered and unpacked, amo will leave you breathless with every listen. Encompassing raucous, and guttural guitars and boisterous bass, amo is a total jam and hands down BMTH’s best work to date.
For long-time fans of LA skater punk band FIDLAR (Fuck It Dude Life’s A Risk), watching the band’s sonic aesthetic evolve has been a trip. Beginning with 2013’s self-titled debut that combined Suicidal Tendencies-like frenzy with Pennywise’s ‘bro-ness’ and featured the incredible ‘Cheap Beer’, then came 2015’s Too that saw a band that writes music for skateboarders do a figurative kick-flip with the song ‘40oz. On Repeat’. Now at the very beginning of 2019, the band almost mock the concept of a “pop” album by producing a totally “punk-pop” album as opposed to a pop-punk album. The first two ‘Alcohol’ and ‘Too Real’, were interesting but didn’t exactly break the mould. However the third single, ‘Can’t You See’, had some fans wondering whether they had been punked with this track sounding more like The Kooks than anything FIDLAR had ever recorded before. Opening song and title track, ‘Get Off My Rock’, has the band sounding just like Beastie Boys on ‘Licence To Ill’ with Zac Carper rapping about protecting his local surf break, “You can park your car anywhere you want / But by the time you get back a lot shit’s ripped off.” One could contend that on Almost Free FIDLAR have stayed truly punk by in fact, not staying punk.
Love him or hate him, it’s hard to deny Future’s immense influence on hip hop – the Atlanta rapper’s woozy, auto-tune-drenched brand of trap literally formed the blueprint for nearly every major release of the decade. With THE WIZRD, his fourth release in 6 months, Future runs a victory lap around his contemporaries with an enjoyable full length project that highlights both his strengths and limitations as a songwriter. THE WIZRD presents a collection of braggadocious compositions which revolve around typical Future tropes: drugs, success, and the struggles of balancing a lifestyle with both. On ‘Overdose’, he reflects on the duality of his influence upon the culture by contrasting memorable one-liners like “You can be the wave, I’m the ocean” and “got the whole world taking Xans” in a manner which feels simultaneously bleak and boastful. Elsewhere, auto-tune-heavy trap ballads ‘Krazy But True’ and ‘Promise U That’ recall the best moments of 2017’s outstanding HNDRXX. However, with over 20 tracks to digest, THE WIZRD feels sluggish at some points, and Future’s depraved lyrical ruminations and constant flexes do wear thin after a while. There’s no doubt that he excels at crafting polished rap anthems that both celebrate and condemn the trappings of fame, but seven studio albums in, you can’t help but lust for just a bit more from Future.
BY ANNA ROSE
BY DAN WATT
BY WILL BREWSTER
Love Hates What You Become
Lost Under Heaven is the partnership of Ellery Roberts and Ebony Hoorn. Hailing from England and Holland respectively, ghastly visions of leather clad metal ghouls are brought about by the name. In reality, this is incorrect. Unfeasibly thin, Roberts is not weighed down by anything other than the raw drama of self-fulfilling prophecy that everything is doomed given the punishing environment of society. The crunching electro of ‘Come’ seems out of place when followed directly by ‘Bunny’s Blues’ and the vision of a floor of a grubby indie ghetto seems most inviting. The pleading ‘The Breath Of Light’ makes you question Roberts’ mental state whilst the song remains sinister and resolute. ‘Most High’ goads the listener and is an example of how this band is capable of producing seasoned rock ‘n’ roll raunch as well as being reminiscent of the dearly missed We Are Augustines. The deeper you immerse yourself in the record, the clearer it becomes the band like their gimmicks and this simply adds to the allure. Love Hates What You Become is the feel-bad hit of the summer. It draws on the big issues of love, hate, redemption and tragedy. Not a record to listen to by those on the brink, but as feel-bad listening goes, this is wonderful stuff, fit for the morally bankrupt seeking distilled debasement. BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
(Carpark Records)
Lost Under Heaven
(Bella Union)
(Mute)
9.5
7
Pavo Pavo
Mystery Hour
Given that Pavo is a constellation, it’s no surprise that this is galactic music. The classically trained Brooklyn musicians adopt moustaches, a cavalier mood and a penchant for sharing the stage with the likes of John Zorn. Yet rather than going into a spin trying to create complex cerebral sounds, the band capture the wistful, times of strolling the streets on summery nights. Pavo is also a wallflower, and similarly sound like the domestic addition that could thrill parents. ‘Mystery Hour’ is impressive with the solid shared vocals of Eliza Bragg and Oliver Hill which are surrounded by the muted retro hooks which can be the antidote for those disenfranchised by current sounds. There is a fully realised emotional heft to this album as everyone seems to be in sync. ‘Close To You Ego’, ‘Around Part 1’ and ‘Around Part 2’ do not let hot water go lukewarm as the band dispatch the listener into the world of ‘70s soft rock. A sound so regressive it becomes fresh and new. The collective voice of the band extends the space odyssey commenced on their first release Young Narrator In The Breakers and balances intelligence with elegance with their cosmically charged sounds. Whilst not as breathtakingly ambitious as some of their peers or predecessors, Pavo Pavo have produced an album of some considerable beauty and lasting satisfaction. There is momentum here and whilst lacking colossal songs, patience proves a virtue for an enriching listen.
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Toro y Moi
Outer Peace
Opening with the synth-heavy, Kaytranada-esque bounce of ‘Fading,’ it’s clear from the get-go that Outer Peace is going to be a much more playful affair than the last time we heard from Toro y Moi on 2017’s Boo Boo. Across ten tracks sonically derived from the likes of house, funk and hip hop, Chaz Bear steps out to show off his prowess as a forwardthinking sonic creator working without limitations. Electro bop ‘Laws of the Universe’ nods its head to the tongue in cheek lyricism of LCD Soundsystem (“James Murphy is spinning at my house/ I met him at Coachella”), while ‘New House’ sees Bear flex his trap muscles on a track about the stresses of navigating a busy airport which could have come straight from the likes of past collaborator Travis Scott, (“Right when I touch down got anxiety, fuck/Follow signs out to the terminal/JFK is a different kind of animal.”) Elsewhere, Bear adds a dash of acid-house with the squelchy ‘Who I Am,’ while lead single ‘Freelance’ combines an irresistible funk groove with hilariously self-observant lyricism (“No more shoes and socks, I only rock sandals/I can’t tell if I’m hip or getting old”). Clocking in at just over 30 minutes, Outer Peace is an extremely palatable and enjoyable project that underscores Bear’s strengths as a producer and songwriter to great effect. BY WILL BREWSTER
BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
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Gig Guide
FEATURED GIGS
Tennyson King
Tennyson King CHARLES WESTON
After releasing his single ‘Coast’ last year, Tennyson King is back Down Under on his third national tour to provide us with an album launch. Coming in hot from tours around Canada, Brazil and China, Tennyson King will take to the Charles Weston stage on Thursday January 24 to deliver his deliciously contagious sound of roots, blues and rock’n’roll with a hint of psychedelic fusion. Entry is free from 6.30pm.
Mykaela Jay
THE DRUNKEN POET
Bringing her Little Lights Australian tour to a conclusion, Mykaela Jay will take to The Drunken Poet for the first time on Wednesday January 23. Lyrically honest and deeply raw, Jay’s music walks the lines of jazz, pop, folk and hip hop. Joined on stage by some of her favourite musicians, Mykaela Jay will deliver a night that celebrates women in music. Soak it all up from 8pm and enjoy free entry too.
(South) Australia Day in Melbourne LOMOND HOTEL
For all those South Australian’s missing a little bit of home, be sure to take to the Lomond Hotel, as they throw their third South Australia Day in Melbourne on Thursday January 24. Having curated a stellar selection of South Australian artists, you’ll be able to catch Don Morrison, Sammy Owen, Suit, Kelvin Flamming and the fully-fledged ‘Fitzroys’ band for a guaranteed enjoyable night. Entry is free from 8pm.
The Skeleton Collective THE MOLDY FIG
Slinging jive piano, saxophone solos, thumping rhythms, tickling bass and sultry vocals, Perth-based band The Skeleton Collective are set to deliver contemporary creations from their latest EP Choosing Happy this Thursday January 24. Grab a mate and head on down to the Moldy Fig from 7pm, with free entry to boot.
MänDzjér
WESLEY ANNE
Blending accordion and guitar, MänDzjér is the collaborative musical project of Tony Mité and Jeremy Bourke. Sharing a mutual background, their music is spontaneous, yet remains harmonious in its dynamic blend of sounds and flavours. Catch MänDzjér at the Wesley Anne front bar on Thursday January 24 from 6pm, and enjoy free entry.
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Wednesday 23 Jan
Thursday 24 Jan
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers
8pm.
AAALTO Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm. ADE ISHS TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
ASTRONAUGHTY + BEN SALTER + DAVID WESTERN + THE HOT SPRINGS
Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $15.
BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
BACK POCKET + GODOGGO + VELVET BLOOM Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm. BIG MOIST & THE SMOKING DURRIES + THE SPAGHETTI STAINS + BOYPARTS
Cbd. 7:30pm. $25. $15.
DAVID JONES WELLBEING TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $30.
DIZZY’S BIG BAND The Fyrefly, St Kilda.
6:30pm. $15.
JAZZ BAZAAR - FEAT: AUDREY POWNE + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd.
7pm.
JESSICA YOUNG QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $40.
KUNIKO KATO Melbourne Recital Centre,
Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $5.
BLEND + MORE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
CACHÉ + MOONLIGHT BROADCAST + ROB DEMASI + FELIPE BLUM Bar Open,
Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
Southbank. 8pm. $30.
DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY Caravan
$18.
DAVID NANCE GROUP + MORE The
MY BABY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. RICE PAPER ROLLERS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
SCHOL + TOM FRYER BAND + CASEY/ BEBENEK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. SEXTET MANIFESTO Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers ALL IS VIOLENT + VIZIER + SLIKNITA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.
ALPHINGTON + GRAND PINE + EAGLEMONT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $5.
DAVEY LANE & BAND + MORE Espy, St
Kilda. 8pm.
HENRY J. SAWYER + DUNCAN PHILLIPS + MITCH A. DILLON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.
Music Club, Bentleigh East. 7pm. $18.
Eastern, Ballarat East. 7pm. $10.
EZEKIEL OX + CHASING GHOSTS Old Bar,
Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.
FEROCIOUS CHODE + INFECTED TRANSITOR + I HAVE A GOAT + HAND OF FEAR Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 6pm. HEADSPACE COLLINGWOOD FUNDRAISER - FEAT: ANGIE MCMAHON + JESS LOCKE + FAN GIRL + ZOE FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS + RATHAMMOCK + MERPIRE + MORE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm.
IDLES + BENCH PRESS Corner Hotel,
Richmond. 8pm.
JAMES MOLONEY & THE MAD DOG HARRISONS The B.east, Brunswick East. 8pm. LEHMAN B SMITH Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8pm.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.
ICTHYOPHILE + BENG + E. JUNE Bar
MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel,
PRETTY CITY + POLARIZE + THE BACKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. PSYCHIC HYSTERIA SUMMER - FEAT: PLASTER OF PARIS + WAY SHIT + POSSESSED MUM Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
PETE MURRAY + TAYLOR SHERIDAN
Open, Fitzroy. 8pm. $2.
7pm.
RADE + TOM BLACK + NIBIRA Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 7:30pm.
STORM THE SKY + PHIL WOLFENDALE + ABURDEN + TERRA Wrangler Studios,
Footscray. 6pm.
TRICK GYPSY + IBIS + ICKY STICKS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.
WIN WIN WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: LOVISION + BLACKHEART + LOSTII Last
Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk ELLIOTT BRAIN + THE OVERHEADS + AMY POWELL Some Velvet Morning, Clifton
Hill. 7:30pm.
GEORGIA RODGERS Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 9pm.
LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: KIMBERLEY WHEELER + BRENT PARLANE + MARNIE SHEEHAN + MARK SMITH Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
8pm.
MELBOURNE'S BIGGEST OPEN MIC NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm. MYKAELA JAY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
8pm.
OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
5pm.
OPEN MIC Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.
8:30pm.
OSTRAALY Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.
THE ACLAND STREET EXPRESS Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $10.
WHISKEY WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Swamplands Bar, Thornbury.
6pm.
Williamstown. 8pm.
Wool Exchange, Geelong. 8pm. $49.
PLOTZ + IS IT LIGHT WHERE YOU ARE + 24747 Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. RHYSICS + HOUSE DEPOSIT Post Office
Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.
SOUTHEAST DESERT METAL + ANNIHILIST + VEXATION Bendigo Hotel,
DARYL JAMES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
8pm.
GERRY HALE The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. RHYECE O'NEILL & THE NARODNIKS + FOGGY NOTION + JAMES MCCANN SOUTH AUSTRALIA DAY - FEAT: THE FRITZROYS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9pm. TAYLOR SMITH-MORVELL + BRITT RAINE + SEB SZABO + SERHIY + JEDEKAIH + MORE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7pm. $8.
TENNYSON KING Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
TIM MCMILLAN & RACHEL SNOW + BEAUTIFUL BEDLAM + LUKE VELU & THE FUTURE OF LOVE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm. $10.
Friday 25 Jan Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music ABBEY ROSE + SILICON VALLEY + IMOGEN CYGLER 303, Northcote. 7pm. $10. AGUS BATARA QUARTET Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6pm.
ALMIR LEMES & FRANK FLASH Open
Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $15.
ARETHA FRANKLIN - THE ATLANTIC YEARS 1967-1970 - FEAT: RALEIGH WILLIAMS + PAUL SLATTERY & THE MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm. $23.
BAGSTER + MISTER COFFEE + THE MAD DASH + KUJO KINGS + LUKE SEYMOUP Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7pm. $15. BEN DELVES TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. BRENDA EARLE STOKES Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50.
DJ RICK HOWE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9pm. FUNKY FRIDAY - FEAT: LE FLEUR + BEAUTIFUL BEASTS + ANTHONY YOUNG Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. HOODOO MAYHEM Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. HOT CLUB SWING Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50.
HUGH FUCHSEN Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. $5.
Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
MARTIN BREEZE The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm.
Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
THE DAN MOUGERMAN TRIO Classic
THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS TOTEALLY S'AVERAGE - FEAT: S’AVERAGE GARDEN + KARAOKPEN MIC + MAGIC STEVEN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $5.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.
BLUE NOTE '60 Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.
BRENDA EARLE STOKES The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $30.
DANIEL ROJAS Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 8pm. $30.
JACKIE MITTOO REVIEW - FEAT: MISTA SAVONA 303, Northcote. 8pm. $10. JAMIE ADITYA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
Cbd. 8pm. $30.
JAZZ ROULETTE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7pm. KYLIE AULDIST + MORE Cherry Bar,
Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
MÄNDZJÉR Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. TAPES + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk 3181 LIVE - FEAT: GAIA SCARF + RUBY DRAPER + LUKE LUCAS + MITCH BULLEN + PAIGE BLACK Revolver Upstairs,
Prahran. 8pm. $5.
CALEXICO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $59.
DARVID THOR + MADDIE OTTO Some
Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7pm.
$25.
Southside, Elsternwick. 8pm. $25.
THE HARRIETT ALLCROFT QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.
THE PAUL WILLIAMSON QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
UNFORGETTABLE - A TRIBUTE TO NATALIE COLE - FEAT: MEL SEARLE Paris
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.
ZEITGEIST FREEDOM ENERGY EXCHANGE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $10.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow,
Melbourne. 11pm.
AUSTRALIAN MADE - THE OZ ROCK TRIBUTE CONCERT - FEAT: INXSIVE + GOLD CHISEL + RECKLESS Chelsea Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 8pm. $34.70.
AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9pm. BBYDDY + COFI + CHICKEN WISHBONE + THE HAROLD HOLT EXPERIENCE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7pm. $10. BUTCH WALKER + MORE Northcote Social
Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.
CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. CHINESE BURNS UNIT + COSMIC KAHUNA + HELLEBORES + MEAT Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm.
CIVIC + LOW LIFE + LÀI + DEEP RED John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $15.
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CLIENT LIAISON + KIRA PURU Melbourne
Fitzroy. 9pm.
World Music
DAVID NANCE GROUP Barwon Club Hotel,
House, Fitzroy. 8pm.
BRENDA EARLE STOKES QUARTET Paris
Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6pm.
DANCING IN OUTER SPACE - FEAT: DJ MANCHILD + DJ BIG RIG Gasometer Hotel,
Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. Geelong. 8pm. $15.
DEFENESTRATION + T-NULLS + EMPTY GESTURE + VEXATION Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
DJ STEELY ANN Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
9pm.
EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR + MOODY BEACHES Penny Black, Brunswick. 8pm. FACE FACE + MARVILLE + GLOMESH + THE TROPES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. FLAME TREES - THE CHISEL BARNES SHOW Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 7pm. GLEN & THE PEANUTBUTTERMEN + ORGAN DONOR + POWERSKIDS + SEX GRIMES Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. GREY WHISTLE TEST + TESS GUTHRIE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $5.
HANNAH KATE + DARVID THOR + PINCH POINTS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
8pm. $10.
HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE + KIM SALMON Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $25. IDLES + BENCH PRESS + MORE The
Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm.
IRONSTONE + TO AN END + MODERN DIVIDE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8pm. $10. KHE SANH - AUSTRALIAN CHISEL BARNES SHOW Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10pm.
KINEMATIC + MIDDLEMARCH + LOUIS Red Betty, Brunswick. 8pm.
LOONEE TUNES + STOP THAT MAMMOTH + MORE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $10.
MAKE THEM SUFFER + WITHER + BLKLST + STARVE Royal Melbourne Hotel,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
MONICA WEIGHTMAN & THE MINDREADERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
SHAUNA TONY AND CO The Brothers Public THE BLUEBOTTLES Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION
Saturday 26 Jan Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + UDDER UBDUCTEES + SMASH BROS + STINKY SNATCH + DJ DAN ATTARD Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 7pm.
THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS + MORE Corner
Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $40.
THE MEESEEKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
THE MERCY KILLS + THE DEAD AMIGOS Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. THE POPE'S ASSASSINS + CHICKEN HEAD KNOB + PIN Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.
THE STAINED DAISIES + KÖDA + DR SURE'S UNUSUAL PRACTICE & TOMGIRL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. THREE QUARTER BEAST + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + RAT CATCHER + DEATHBEAT + SHAPES LIKE RAPIDS + GUN LAWS + DJ LEOPARD HEAD Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 6pm. THUNDERSTRUCK + DARK ROOM + CHARTBUSTERS OZ ROCK SHOW Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.
TUMBLEWEED + HOBO MAGIC + BURIED FEATHER Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. $33. UNITED JUNCTION Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.
VACUUM + HEMLOCK LADDER + ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING + HERCULES & THE BRICKS Grace Darling
Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.
VOIVOD + CONTRIVE + EL COLOSSO + IN MALICE'S WAKE Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $69.90.
WARPED + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm.
WILD DREAMERS – THE LINDA RONSTADT SONG BOOK Arcobar, Heatherton.
6pm.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk BILLY BARKER + LAVA LAKES Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 8pm.
CALEXICO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $5.
BLINK 182 NIGHT - FEAT: BLINK 183 + LETTERS TO AMARA + MORE Stay Gold,
$30.
6:30pm. $30.
9pm. $32.50.
Elsternwick. 8pm. $25.
VIPER’S DREAM SWING TEAM Brunswick
Green, Brunswick. 4pm.
Bentleigh East. 8pm. $37.
WOMEN FOR VACCA FUNDRAISER - FEAT: SQUID NEBULA + NIINE + EMELIA + SOJU GANG Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
$10.
ZEDSIX The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm. $10.
Brunswick. 8pm. $5.
BRIAN CADD & BAND Caravan Music Club, CHILD + MORE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. COLD IRONS BOUND + THE HAPPY LONESOME Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8pm. DISTURBING THE PEACE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.
ELAINE PAIGE Hamer Hall, Southbank. 8pm. $110.80.
3:30pm. $15.
Footscray. 7:30pm. $10.
Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $15.
INVASION DAY BENEFIT - FEAT: PRESSURE DROP + HAND OF FEAR + THE POLYGAMISTS + MANNEQUIN DEATH SQUAD + UNDAMAGED Grace
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. $10.
LÖNEFREE - FEAT: LONEFREE + THE SHAKY KNEE DREAM MACHINE + TV DINNERS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm.
$5.
PROGFEST 2019 - FEAT: THE OCEAN + MONUMENTS + SKYHARBOR + CIRCLES + CHAOS DIVINE + CITY OF SOULS + MORE The Croxton, Thornbury. 1:30pm. $59.90.
SATANIC TOGAS + THE NUGS + DISCO JUNK Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. SHAKE N BAKE - FEAT: GOLD MEMBER + THE MOVING STILLS + THE VITRIOTS + LAURA HYDE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.
TALKING HEADS - 'STOP MAKING SENSE' 35 YEAR ANNIVERSARY - FEAT: JARROW + ZOE FOX + ALI E + THE KNAVE + LUCY DWYER + FREYA LONG + MORE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $22. TAM VANTAGE + NIC IMFELD Edinburgh
Castle, Brunswick. 5pm.
THE ELVIS COSTELLO SONGBOOK FEAT: VICTOR STRANGES + TIM REID + ZAC ANTHONY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9pm. THE RUN + BENJAMIN TRILLADO + FAMOUS WILL + GOOD BROTHER + HEY MAMMOTH + LIBBY STEEL + LUKE BISCAN + NAKED MEADOW + TOMMY CASTLES Wool Exchange, Geelong. 2pm. $20. THIS AINT THE SUMMER OF LOVE - FEAT: LEVITATING CHURCHES + FILTH DIMENSION + NEON SHADOW Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.
VENUS - QUEER CHIC PARTY - FEAT: DJ LILLY STREET + DJ LA DRAMA Woody's
Attic Dive, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
8:30pm.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin &
ELECTRIC BLUES COLLECTIVE Catfish,
MARTIN BREEZE The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm.
BANDS FOR BALUNU - FEAT: CATHOLIC GUILT + FACE FACE + NEWTOWN STORY + CRANES AGAINST CLOUDS + FRANK BELL
7:30pm. $59.
CARGO CULTS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
KARDES TÜRKÜLER Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 7:30pm. $80.
THE ALEXANDER NETTELBECK QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25. THE MARK FITZGIBBON TRIO (WITH NICHAUD FITZGIBBON) Classic Southside,
Ballarat. 5pm. $39.80.
I EXIST + POTION + JUDAS WOLF Last
9pm.
Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $25.
Melbourne band CIVIC and Sydney’s Low Life are set to come in hot to The Curtin on Friday January 25. Shortly after releasing their debut album New Vietnam, CIVIC returned with a sophomore EP Those Who Know – an attitudefuelled belter. Low Life released their first album Dogging back in 2014, and have become revered for their fusion of dreamy, spacey sounds with punk energy. Also joining the lineup is Lái and Deep Red for an unforgettable evening from 8pm. Tickets are $15 via the venue website.
THE BABY + PAPPY Post Office Hotel, Coburg.
$10.
DJ JAY STRIDE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm. JAMES MACAULAY'S JAZZ ROULETTE
SWING TRAIN (WITH EMMA GILMARTIN) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
I AM DUCKEYE + BONGCLEANER + KUNTSQUAD + INTERCRANIAL TREMORS + INCRYPT Reverence Hotel,
Mallard, Brunswick. 8:45pm. $50.
Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $12.
CIVIC + Low Life
SMASH MUSIC GROUP LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: FINNS + THE MONKEY BUNZ + ARCHER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
DEITRA FARR + THE REDEEMERS + LILY & KING Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $28. DEL BARRIO + DJ MARIO GORDON
Canadian-born, Darwin-raised songstress Abbey Rose is set to take the stage at Bar 303 on Friday January 25 to launch her new single ‘He’. Releasing material for the first time with her four-piece band, ‘He’ delivers a deeply personal story of long distance love, infused with Rose’s jazz, hip hop and R&B flavoured sound. Supported by local talent Silicon Valley Band and Imogen Cygler, doors will open from 7pm with $10 entry on the door.
SHAKEN NOT STIRRED - FEAT: TOSHI CLINCH Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
RICHARD CLAPTON + J R REYNE Spotted
POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town,
Collingwood. 11pm. $10.
BAR 303
BALLARAT BLAZE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019 - FEAT: DEAD CITY RUINS + DESECRATOR + HADAL MAW + WHORETOPSY + DARKER HALF + FRANKENBOK + MORE Karova Lounge,
HELL BEACH MINI FEST - FEAT: HIDEOUS SUN DEMON + LUBULWA + THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS + PTING + SWAMP + MORE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
9:30pm.
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50.
Abbey Rose
8pm. $1.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk
JOHN CURTIN HOTEL
BACKWOOD CREATURES Rainbow Hotel,
Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
BACKYARD BREW Royal Hotel (mornington), Mornington. 8pm.
BRIAN CAMPEAU Charles Weston Hotel,
Brunswick. 6:30pm.
GREG DODD & THE HOODOO MEN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
HANK FERGUSON Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9pm. KRAKEN FOLK SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 3pm.
MILLER Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. MIRO & ISADORA LAURITZ Open Studio,
Northcote. 5:30pm. $10.
PAT MCKERNAN The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 9pm.
ROOTS COMBO + BROTHERS BLUEGRASS ALL STARS The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 3:30pm.
TRACY MCNEIL & DAN PARSONS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.
WHITE LIGHTNING Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.
Sunday 27 Jan Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers CAMERON HAWES + H.R. Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 4pm.
COSMIC PSYCHOS + SOUTHEAST DESERT METAL + WÜRST NÜRSE Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. $38.
FALL & RESIST + BLUNT SHOVEL + NABERUS + AMODERNDEATH + NEMESIUM Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.
$15.
GEORGIA FIELDS + PHIA Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 4pm.
GIRLS TO THE FRONT - SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: DJ AM Corner Hotel,
Richmond. 3pm.
HIDEOUS SUN DEMON + CLAM + PISTOL PEACHES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $10. HOTTEST 2000'S BANGERS - FEAT: JANK FACQUES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.
HOUSE DEPOSIT + MARCUS HOBBS + CANDY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5pm. JOHNSTON STREET HOTTEST 100 FEAT: DESTRENDS + GONZO + HOON + SCAB BABY + SATANIC TOGAS + SPACE BOYS + TUFF MUSTARD + BODY PARTS + JARROW + MORE Last Chance
Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 12pm.
LISA MILLER TRIO Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 3pm. $20.
LOIS LANE + THE CORNERSMITHS
Kinematic
Kinematic RED BETTY
Kinematic are geared to round out their residency at Red Betty on Friday January 25. It’ll mark the band’s last live show before they take a break to focus on a slew of projects currently in the works, so in other words, you’ll want to get down to this. Joining them for the evening will be Middle March and Louis from 7pm and best of all, entry is free.
Tam Vantage + Nic Imfield EDINBURGH CASTLE
Melbourne music scene staples Tam Vantage and Nic Imfield will join forces for two solo sets at Edinburgh Castle on Saturday January 26. Vantage has two solo albums and is part of numerous bands including Permits, Girlatones and Way Dynamic, while Imfield is the charging lead singer of Tyrannamen. It’s set to be a groovy night of music, so get down from 5pm to lap it all up. Free entry.
Pat McKernan
THE BROTHERS PUBLIC HOUSE
One half of the team of brothers who run The Brothers Public House, Pat McKernan, will be throwing down Irish tunes and more on Saturday January 26. Sip on a pint of Guinness and lap up this authentic Irish home-awayfrom-home when it all goes down from 9pm. Entry is free.
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Bombay Rock is throwing a cracking fundraiser event to combat homelessness on Sunday January 27. Grab a mate, have a beer, enjoy a vegan meal from the Local Brunswick Kitchen by donation and listen to a bunch of killer bands. Rock, punk and blues trio Sordid Ordeal will explode onto the stage, The Daggar will deliver party thrash rock’n’roll, and The Pope’s Assassins are sure to entertain with their uniquely absurd blend of garage, psych, pop and rock. Support a great cause and head on down from 3pm. Entry is free.
Harmaniax ROYAL OAK
Join worldly muso’s Harmaniax for an evening of Cajun, Zydeco, blues and country music this Sunday January 27. The Melbourne-based six-piece are set to serve up a whacky yet seamless fusion of sounds, that’s set to make for a really special early evening slice of music. Head on down to Fitzroy’s Royal Oak Hotel to lap it all up, it kicks off at 4pm and entry is free. Beauty.
Surfarama Fest SWAMPLANDS
Swamplands Bar is presenting its very first Surfarama Fest on Monday January 28. As the title suggests, they’ll be throwing down all things “beach-y” to help kick off your public holiday celebrations. Prepare for summer drink specials, surf rock bands Tijuana Surf, The Vibrajets and The Surf Thang, while DJ Doggler will be spinning surf and rock’n’roll classics in between sets. Doors open from 1pm and tickets are $15 on the door. Get your summer on, folks.
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.
MASSIVE + BOTTLE OF SMOKE + MOONSHIFTER Northcote Social Club, Northcote.
8pm. $15.
MUSIC MAMAS - FEAT: RUSTED TONGUE + THE KAT O ARMY + VICTORIA MEEHAN Reverence Hotel, Footscray.
THE TIPPLERS Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 4pm. TRUDIE The Garden Of Good & Evil, Cheltenham.
5:30pm. $10.
4pm.
OPEN/MIC JAM NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner.
7pm.
RON S. PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS + CHARLIE MARSHALL Northcote Social Club,
ANDREA KELLER'S FIVE BELOW The
$12.
Northcote. 2:30pm. $20.
SHAKE N BAKE - FEAT: GOLD MEMBER + THE MOVING STILLS + THE VITRIOTS Workers Club, Geelong. 7pm. $15.
SHAKE N BAKE - FEAT: GOLD MEMBER + THE MOVING STILLS + THE VITRIOTS + LAURA HYDE + SHAKER DJS Wool
Exchange, Geelong. 7pm. $15.
9pm.
Hill. 7pm.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6pm.
SLATZAPALOOZA - FEAT: PAUL SLATTERY + BLUES ROULETTE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm.
TUESDAY TRIBUTE - JOHN HIATT FEAT: STEVE HOY & MATT DWYER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm.
Wednesday 30 Jan
Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $15.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music
Cbd. 8pm. $10.
BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
PARIS CAT OPEN MIC NIGHT - JAM SESSION + MORE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne THE DARYL MCKENZIE JAZZ ORCHESTRA (WITH TAMARA KULDIN) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.
THE HANDLE BARS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6pm.
$15.
DIZZY’S BIG BAND The Fyrefly, St Kilda.
6:30pm. $15.
JAZZ BAZAAR - FEAT: AUDREY POWNE + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd.
7pm.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers
SUMMER SOUNDS 2019 - FEAT: THE LOGAN TWO Commonwealth Reserve,
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: GRANE + BODY MAINTENANCE + SYNTHETICS
7pm.
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $40.
Brunswick. 3pm.
Williamstown. 2pm.
THE SUNDAY LEAGUE + JAMES PARRY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4pm. $10.
THE TARANTINOS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8pm. VOID OF VISION + THORNHILL + THE GLOOM IN THE CONER + WEIGHBRIDGE Stay Gold, Brunswick. 7pm. $15.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music ARANDÚ QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $25.
DRAGONFRUIT 303, Northcote. 7pm. FERMANIS/DAVIS QUARTET The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.
FLAMENCO DANCE FLOORSHOW FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lomond Hotel,
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $35.
Royal Hotel, Mornington. 3pm.
NORTHSIDE JAZZ ORCHESTRA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4pm.
SLOW GRIND FEVER - FEAT: RICHIE1250 + MOHAIR SLIM + PIERRE BARONI + STEPH BRETT & THE SLOWGRINDETTES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9pm. $12. SUNDAY JAM - FEAT: BARTON FINK HOUSE BAND Barton Fink, Thornbury. 5pm. THE 'JOHNNY CAN'T DANCE' CAJUN BAND + CRAIG WOODWARD + JEREMY MARCOTTE Open Studio, Northcote.
8:30pm. $10.
THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar,
Balaclava. 4:30pm.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER + PAIGE SPIERS + PAIGE SMITH Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 2pm.
BLUEGRASS JAM - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm. CISCO CAESAR Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
4pm.
DAVID HOLMES GANG Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 4pm.
GREG DODD & THE HOODOO MEN Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4pm.
HEINOUS HOUND Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
3pm.
KITE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. LOUISE SOL & ETHAN POS Open Studio,
Northcote. 2pm. $10.
OPELOUSAS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.
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IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
SLEEPIN' ROUGH ROCKIN TOUGH FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESSNESS - FEAT: LAZAROS DOG + MUSCLE CAR + THE DAGGAR + MONKEY BUTLER + SORDID ORDEAL + MORE Bombay Rock,
LISA FAITHFULL SOUL EXPERIENCE
Making his Jazzlab debut, Scott van Gemert and his big band will perform original compositions alongside some jazz classics on Tuesday January 29. As a rising composer and trombonist, Scott van Gemert is making his mark in the Melbourne big band scene. His work is layered and textural; yet remains delicate in its arrangement and delivery, with masterful bouts of improvisation scattered throughout. Tickets are $20 with doors from 8pm.
Collingwood. 3pm.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music
LINDA CABLE & MUSICAL CHAIRS Paris
THE JAZZLAB
VERY HANDSOME MEN Bendigo Hotel,
PIOUS FAULTS + GELD + V + JAZZ + DJ SHAH SHARAFI John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm.
6:30pm.
Scott van Gemert
2pm.
Monday 28 Jan
7:30pm. $10.
KARATE BOOGALOO Bar Open, Fitzroy.
Warm up your appetite for a delicious night of music, food and bevs at Compass Pizza on Tuesday January 29. Let Eijsma – the solo project of Melbourne singer-songwriter and 23/19 pianist Ella Blackburn – take you away with her beautifully melancholic lyricism and accompaniment, with a hint of undulating synth. Entry is free and you can take it all in for yourself from 7.30pm.
Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. $5.
PICKET PALACE + THE SLINGERS + SARAH ENGLISH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
GEOFF HUGHES THREE Brunswick Green,
COMPASS PIZZA
SUNDAY SINGALONG - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS Open
MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + MORE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8pm. OLDTIME JAM TUESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton
6:30pm.
Brunswick. 4pm.
Eijsma
HOI PALLOI + BROOK STORTI + TALI MAHONEY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
MINI METAL FEST - FEAT: GJOLL + REPLACEMENT BUSSES + CORDELL + BLOOD MOUNTAIN + RARE OLIVES + SEDDON Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.
Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
Eijsma
RACHEL CADDY + GEORGIA KNIGHT & BAND Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm. ROB SNARSKI Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. STEPHEN HOY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
CITIZENS + JOHN MARK MCMILLAN + THE SING TEAM Max Watt's, Melbourne. 7pm. $38.
NIEUW MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7pm. $3. SHAKE N BAKE - FEAT: GOLD MEMBER + THE MOVING STILLS + THE VITRIOTS + SHAKER DJS Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 2pm.
$18.40.
SURFARAMA SWAMP FEST - FEAT: TIJUANA SURF + THE VIBRAJETS + THE SURF THANG + DJ DOGGLER Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 1pm. $15.
MULATU ASTATKE + BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $40. TOM FRYER BAND + SCHOL + KEWTI 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
JAZZ BAZAAR - FEAT: AUDREY POWNE + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. JESSICA YOUNG QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz KUNIKO KATO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8pm. $30.
MY BABY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.
$18.
RICE PAPER ROLLERS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
SCHOL + TOM FRYER BAND + CASEY/ BEBENEK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. SEXTET MANIFESTO Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.
TWO QUIRKS + THE PLASTIC CROWNS + VICUNA COAT Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk
DAVEY LANE & BAND + MORE Espy, St
3pm.
DENIM GORGEOUS 303, Northcote. 8pm. PAUL WILLIAMSON'S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10. WHOA MULE + MAYHEM Open Studio,
Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.
Tuesday 29 Jan Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + PALPATINES + BLOODYRIPPERBAND Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $5.
EIJSMA Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. JACK DANGER EXHIBITION - FEAT: THE GURDIES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7pm. $8. MR. SOPHISTICATION + TENDER BUTTONS + TAM VANTAGE Gasometer
Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $5.
THE OVERHEADS + SILENT INCOME + BODIES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm. THE SIERRAS + THE RUN + SUGARJACKET Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm. $5. TURTLE WAVE + PLATYPUS Cherry Bar,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music MULATU ASTATKE + BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $40. NOW. HERE. THIS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10. SPARTACUS COLLECTIVE + ADAM KING Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm. THE SCOTT VAN GEMERT BIG BAND The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk
Kilda. 8pm.
PSYCHIC HYSTERIA SUMMER - FEAT: JUNGLE CUFFS + BAD BANGS + UVA URSI Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. DAVEY LANE & BAND + MORE Espy, St Kilda. 8pm.
HENRY J. SAWYER + DUNCAN PHILLIPS + MITCH A. DILLON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.
ICTHYOPHILE + BENG + E. JUNE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8pm. $2.
PRETTY CITY + POLARIZE + THE BACKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. PSYCHIC HYSTERIA SUMMER - FEAT: PLASTER OF PARIS + WAY SHIT + POSSESSED MUM Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
7pm.
RADE + TOM BLACK + NIBIRA Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 7:30pm.
STORM THE SKY + PHIL WOLFENDALE + ABURDEN + TERRA Wrangler Studios,
Footscray. 6pm.
TRICK GYPSY + IBIS + ICKY STICKS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.
WIN WIN WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: LOVISION + BLACKHEART + LOSTII Last
Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights KASSETTE - FEAT: MZRIZK + SLIPPERY SLOPES + KAM + RUDI Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
GEORGIA RODGERS Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne. 9pm.
LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: KIMBERLEY WHEELER + BRENT PARLANE + MARNIE SHEEHAN + MARK SMITH Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8pm. MELBOURNE’S BIGGEST OPEN MIC NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm. MYKAELA JAY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm.
OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5pm. OPEN MIC Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:30pm.
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8:30pm.
OSTRAALY Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. THE ACLAND STREET EXPRESS Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $10.
WHISKEY WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Swamplands Bar, Thornbury.
6pm.
Thursday 31 Jan Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.
BACK POCKET + GODOGGO + VELVET BLOOM Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm. BIG MOIST & THE SMOKING DURRIES + THE SPAGHETTI STAINS + BOYPARTS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $5.
BLEND + MORE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
CACHÉ + MOONLIGHT BROADCAST + ROB DEMASI + FELIPE BLUM Bar Open,
Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
DAVE GRANEY & THE MISTLY Caravan
8pm.
DARYL JAMES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
CHINESE BURNS UNIT + COSMIC KAHUNA + HELLEBORES + MEAT Last
8pm.
CIVIC + LOW LIFE + LÀI + DEEP RED
GERRY HALE The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. RHYECE O’NEILL & THE NARODNIKS + FOGGY NOTION + JAMES MCCANN Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $15.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA DAY - FEAT: THE FRITZROYS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9pm. TAYLOR SMITH-MORVELL + BRITT RAINE + SEB SZABO + SERHIY + JEDEKAIH + MORE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7pm. $8.
TENNYSON KING Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
TIM MCMILLAN & RACHEL SNOW + BEAUTIFUL BEDLAM + LUKE VELU & THE FUTURE OF LOVE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm. $10.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights PLANÈTE + INTERSTELLAR FUGITIVES + LOURE + FINDING FIGARO DJS + TWO PEOPLE DJS Section 8, Melbourne Cbd.
6pm.
Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm.
John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $15.
CLIENT LIAISON + KIRA PURU Melbourne
Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm.
DAVID NANCE GROUP Barwon Club Hotel,
Geelong. 8pm. $15.
DEFENESTRATION + T-NULLS + EMPTY GESTURE + VEXATION Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
DJ STEELY ANN Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
9pm.
EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR + MOODY BEACHES Penny Black, Brunswick. 8pm.
FACE FACE + MARVILLE + GLOMESH + THE TROPES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. FLAME TREES - THE CHISEL BARNES SHOW Matthew Flinders Hotel, Chadstone. 7pm. GLEN & THE PEANUTBUTTERMEN + ORGAN DONOR + POWERSKIDS + SEX GRIMES Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. GREY WHISTLE TEST + TESS GUTHRIE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $5.
HANNAH KATE + DARVID THOR + PINCH POINTS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.
DAVID NANCE GROUP + MORE The
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk
EZEKIEL OX + CHASING GHOSTS Old
GERRY HALE The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy.
FEROCIOUS CHODE + INFECTED TRANSITOR + I HAVE A GOAT + HAND OF FEAR Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 6pm. HEADSPACE COLLINGWOOD FUNDRAISER - FEAT: ANGIE MCMAHON + JESS LOCKE + FAN GIRL + ZOE FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS + RATHAMMOCK + MERPIRE + MORE
JEDEKAIH + TRUDIE + FRAGILE Horse
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm.
ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow,
LOONEE TUNES + STOP THAT MAMMOTH + MORE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.
AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9pm. CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House
MAKE THEM SUFFER + WITHER + BLKLST + STARVE Royal Melbourne Hotel,
Music Club, Bentleigh East. 7pm. $18.
Eastern, Ballarat East. 7pm. $10. Bar, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.
IDLES + BENCH PRESS Corner Hotel,
Richmond. 8pm.
JAMES MOLONEY & THE MAD DOG HARRISONS The B.east, Brunswick East. 8pm. LEHMAN B SMITH Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
8pm.
Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
Friday 1 Feb Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers Melbourne. 11pm.
Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
8pm. $10.
HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE + KIM SALMON Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $25. IDLES + BENCH PRESS + MORE The
Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm.
IRONSTONE + TO AN END + MODERN DIVIDE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8pm. $10. KHE SANH - AUSTRALIAN CHISEL BARNES SHOW Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 10pm.
KINEMATIC + MIDDLEMARCH + LOUIS Red Betty, Brunswick. 8pm. 8pm. $10.
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
MONICA WEIGHTMAN & THE MINDREADERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
PETE MURRAY + TAYLOR SHERIDAN
BEN DELVES TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote.
Mallard, Brunswick. 8:45pm. $50.
Wool Exchange, Geelong. 8pm. $49.
BRENDA EARLE STOKES Paris Cat Jazz Club,
8pm.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.
MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
PLOTZ + IS IT LIGHT WHERE YOU ARE + 24747 Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. RHYSICS + HOUSE DEPOSIT Post Office
Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.
SOUTHEAST DESERT METAL + ANNIHILIST + VEXATION Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
TOTEALLY S’AVERAGE - FEAT: S’AVERAGE GARDEN + KARAOKPEN MIC + MAGIC STEVEN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $5.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers EZEKIEL OX + CHASING GHOSTS Old
Bar, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.
MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. 6pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50.
DJ RICK HOWE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9pm.
FUNKY FRIDAY - FEAT: LE FLEUR + BEAUTIFUL BEASTS + ANTHONY YOUNG Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. HOODOO MAYHEM Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. HOT CLUB SWING Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50.
HUGH FUCHSEN Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. $5.
MARTIN BREEZE The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $25.
THE DAN MOUGERMAN TRIO Classic
Southside, Elsternwick. 8pm. $25.
THE HARRIETT ALLCROFT QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.
THE PAUL WILLIAMSON QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
UNFORGETTABLE - A TRIBUTE TO NATALIE COLE - FEAT: MEL SEARLE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.
ZEITGEIST FREEDOM ENERGY EXCHANGE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $10.
JACKIE MITTOO REVIEW - FEAT: MISTA SAVONA 303, Northcote. 8pm. $10. JAMIE ADITYA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights
JAZZ ROULETTE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7pm. KYLIE AULDIST + MORE Cherry Bar,
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club,
Cbd. 8pm. $30.
Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
MÄNDZJÉR Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. TAPES + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
$10.
Hip Hop & R&B HIP HOP THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. LAUNDRY THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10pm. THROWBAX THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ANYA + CITIZEN.COM + FLIP3000 + TEE DUBYA + DJ SENSI + SISTA SARA + LOTUS MOONCHILD + MORE Little Jax, Melbourne. 6pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
FORMATION - FEAT: DONNY + MORE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
FRIDAYS - FEAT: AYNA + FALO + HARLEY JAMES + CLIFTONIA + BEN & LIL + CITIZEN.COM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.
QURZFK FRIDAYS - MISFIT MANSION - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Rubix Warehouse,
Brunswick. 9pm. $12.
BUTCH WALKER + MORE Northcote Social
Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.
CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
9:30pm.
POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town, RICHARD CLAPTON + J R REYNE Spotted SMASH MUSIC GROUP LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: FINNS + THE MONKEY BUNZ + ARCHER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
THE BABY + PAPPY Post Office Hotel, Coburg.
9pm.
THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS + MORE Corner
Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $40.
THE MEESEEKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
THE MERCY KILLS + THE DEAD AMIGOS Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. THE POPE’S ASSASSINS + CHICKEN HEAD KNOB + PIN Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.
THE STAINED DAISIES + KÖDA + DR SURE’S UNUSUAL PRACTICE & TOMGIRL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. THREE QUARTER BEAST + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + RAT CATCHER + DEATHBEAT + SHAPES LIKE RAPIDS + GUN LAWS + DJ LEOPARD HEAD Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 6pm.
THUNDERSTRUCK + DARK ROOM + CHARTBUSTERS OZ ROCK SHOW Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.
TUMBLEWEED + HOBO MAGIC + BURIED FEATHER Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. $33. UNITED JUNCTION Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.
VACUUM + HEMLOCK LADDER + ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING + HERCULES & THE BRICKS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.
VOIVOD + CONTRIVE + EL COLOSSO + IN MALICE’S WAKE Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8pm. $69.90.
WARPED + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm.
WILD DREAMERS – THE LINDA RONSTADT SONG BOOK Arcobar,
Heatherton. 6pm.
HIP HOP & R&B
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