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ISSUE NO 1664

Contents 8 10-13

Contents News

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Arts Guide

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Industry, Electronic, Punk

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Hilltop Hoods

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Brewers Feast

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Snail Mail, Genesis Owusu

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Foxing, Ash Grunwald

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Joyce Manor, Obsidian Monolith

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Maarja Nuut & Ruum, 16 Lovers Lane

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Underworld Wrestling, Jasper’s

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Foxing

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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

Collectives come and go, so do bands, musicians and artists as the pressure to impress and conserve an inner sanctum overwhelms. One outfit that hasn’t come and gone is Hilltop Hoods. Through robust camaraderie and limitless creativity, this three-piece have forged their legacy within Australian hip hop folklore – they’re legends now, but that doesn’t mean they’re slowing down.

On Friday February 22 they’ll launch their eighth album into the world, The Great Expanse, but this isn’t just some mundane afterthought – it’s an oeuvre of originality. On this 13-track release, the outfit are more collaborative than ever, enlisting the talents of Ecca Vandal, Illy, Ruel, Adrian Eagle and more on the LP. Whether a coincidence or not, The Great Expanse covers plenty of ground and will be circling the charts for some time to come.

This week we also give you the rundown of Brewers Feast, a comprehensive melange of beer, cider, food and live music taking over Abbotsford Convent across Saturday February 23 and Sunday February 24. There’s also conversations with Snail Mail and Genesis Owusu before they’re Brunswick Music Festival performances as well as Foxing, Ash Grunwald, Joyce Manor and the inimitable Maarja Nuut & Ruum who will be dropping Down Under for a show at WOMADelaide and a headline Melbourne show. That’s 1664 folks, time to tuck in.

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Back for its 22nd year, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival are excited to announce that Herbie Hancock, a master of modern jazz, will headline and close this year’s festival run. With a notable career spanning into its sixth decade and a staggering 14 Grammy awards, Herbie Hancock has had a massive influence on acoustic and electronic jazz, R&B and hip hop. The veteran’s music transcends genres while maintaining an unmistakable style and his influence on modern music has produced iconic partnerships with an eclectic mix of artists, including Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder, Tina turner and Annie Lennox. Catch Hancock at Hamer Hall on Saturday June 8 or Saturday June 9 and find tickets through the Melbourne International Jazz Festival website.

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Greta Van Fleet

Announce rescheduled dates for postponed shows

Having just won a Grammy award for Best Rock Album, Greta Van Fleet have announced new dates in September for their postponed Australian tour, after frontman Josh Kiszka was advised to rest his vocal chords in January. All tickets for the postponed shows remain valid for the new tour dates without the need for exchange, and those who refunded theirs will get the chance to repurchase them again through an exclusive window. Catch the band at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on Friday September 6, or Festival Hall on Saturday September 7. Limited tickets available via Live Nation.

Chillout Festival

Returns with five days of fabulous events Australia’s premier queer country pride festival lands in Daylesford this March, with a huge program of live entertainment. There’ll be a plethora of musical performers over the weekend, as well as live theatre, circus acts, dance shows, a kids area, and even a few pool parties. Now in its 22nd year, the event has a long history of being out and proud and continues to present a program as diverse as the queer community. Join in the festivities from Thursday March 7 to Monday March 11. Find tickets and the full program through the festival website.

Husky

Macedon Ranges Music Festival Is coming to town this March

Just an hours drive out of the city, the Macedon Ranges Music Festival, is shaping up to be a perfect weekend day trip. Headlining the festival this year are Melbourne indie duo Husky, whose latest record Punchbuzz came out in 2017. Husky are joined by festival alumnus Lloyd Spiegel, Tracy McNeil, Taylor Sheridan and more. All ticket sales will be donated to the Woodend-based Cambodian Kids Foundation in support of their charitable work. The festival takes place on Saturday March 2 at Gisborne Steam Park. Head to the festival website for tickets and the full lineup.

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Tastes of Rutherglen

The perfect long weekend getaway If you feel like getting out of the city this Labour Day weekend, then make the trip up to Rutherglen for their food and wine festival, Tastes of Rutherglen. The annual event showcases the finest produce from 19 wineries in the area, with tour buses transporting festival goers between the various vineyards and venues. There’s more to this than just wine tasting though, with twilight dinners, cocktails, pop-up bars and live music along the way. Tastes of Rutherglen goes down from Saturday March 9 to Sunday March 10. Tickets available via the festival website.

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Elton John

Adds nine new dates to Australian tour

Sir Elton John’s already epic Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour just got even bigger. The iconic singer has announced an additional nine shows to his Australian run, rounding his number of performances up to a whopping 24. Kicking off in November this year, John and his longstanding band members will spend three months on the road, performing his anthology for audiences. He’ll be starting this massive touring stint in Perth (48 years on from his first trip to the city) before continuing on through most major cities, and heaps of regional areas too. Melbourne fans can catch him at Rod Laver arena on Tuesday December 10, Wednesday December 11, Saturday December 14 or Sunday December 15. Tickets available via Ticketek.

Hellions

Sun Kil Moon

Sydney rock outfit Hellions have announced who will be joining them in May as support for their national tour. Coming off a massive 2018 with the release of their fourth studio album, Rue, the band are hitting the road, with Yours Truly and Dregg coming along for the ride. They’ll have a few other special guests stopping in too, so check their website to see who else will be playing in your city. Melbourne fans can catch Hellions at Max Watts on Saturday May 11. Tickets available via Oztix.

San Francisco songwriter Sun Kil Moon will be making his way Down Under this May. The singer will be popping into Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, as well as regional Victoria, hitting up spots like Castlemaine and Meeniyan. It’s been a big year for Sun Kil Moon, who spent much of the past 12 months touring and adding new material to his already lengthy catalogue. Catch him at The Espy on Wednesday May 15, or the Thornbury Theatre on Sunday May 19. Tickets available via Moshtix.

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Conrad Sewell

It’s been a series of highlights for the Sydney teen singer-songwriter since the release of his second single ‘What Are We Waiting For’.

Now the indie pop artist has announced his debut headline tour, hitting New South Wales and Melbourne this March. He’s also treated fans to a music video to accompany the single, which was written and shot in Melbourne too. You’ll be able to catch the upand-comer on Friday March 22 at The Workers Club. Head to Oztix for a ticket.

After a successful 2018, Brisbane singer-songwriter Conrad Sewell has announced he’ll be releasing his debut record LIFE in May. The album will feature his brand new single ‘Love Me Anyway’ alongside previously released songs ‘Come Clean’ and ‘Changing’ as well as platinum hit ‘Healing Hands’. Following the album release, Sewell will be hitting the road and touring Australia throughout May and June. Catch the ARIA Award-winning artist in Melbourne at the Forum Theatre on Friday June 7, with tickets available through Ticketmaster. LIFE will be released Friday May 17 via Sony Records Australia.

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Announces debut headline tour

Announces debut album

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Clowns

Announce plans for new album, confirm international deal The countdown is on for the new album from Melbourne punk band Clowns, who’s latest offering Nature/Nurture is set to drop in April. To keep fans satiated until it’s release, they’ve teased a sneaky new single called ‘Prick’, which also features Pagan vocalist Nikki Brumen. It’s one of many pieces of good news from the group, who have also scored a record deal with esteemed label Fat Wreck Chords, alongside punk heavyweights NOFX, Descendents, Lagwagon and more. To top it all off, they’re also releasing their own brand of hot sauce, which is only available with the pre-order of their next record.

Nature/Nurture is out on Friday April 12 via Caroline.

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Chain

Jack Ladder

Having just celebrated their 50th anniversary last year, Chain will return to The Yarraville Club in March. The band released a number of hits in the early ‘70s and their double gold album Towards the Blues is a landmark recording in Australian music history, that has influenced the direction of blues and roots performers since.

Renowned for their onstage chemistry and their unique blues rock style of music, Chain rekindle the spirit of the sixties. See them performing on Saturday March 9 at The Yarraville Club. Tickets available via the venue website.

After the success of his solo tour last year, Jack Ladder has announced that he will be returning to perform a 20 Golden Greats Vol. 2 tour. The shows will delve deeper into his back catalogue, injecting new life into the songs, shared with fans in an intimate setting. Alongside this, Ladder has also released a how-to-play video for ‘Dates’, a track from his 2018 album Blue Poles, teaching musicians how to play all the parts. Jack Ladder will be performing at Northcote Social Club on Friday April 26. Tickets available via Eventbrite.

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Brunswick Music Festival

Fitzroy’s Radio bar, well known for its drum and bass Mondays, is putting on a gin-packed cabaret evening, hosted by Melbourne cabaret singer Sophie deLightful. It’s also been revealed the cabaret night will welcome the fire-eating, gender-bending Archie Arsenic to the stage. A ticket to the show includes a cocktail at the door, four rounds of gin tasting, followed by one hell of a show. Be the first to immerse yourself in some world-class burlesque performances at Radio Bar on Saturday February 23. Tickets available via Sticky Tickets.

This year’s Brunswick Music Festival is welcoming a new segment into the fold, in the form of Sound Sessions. The sessions are a series of panels, workshops and events all geared towards women, trans and non-binary artists working in the music industry. Taking place over both festival weekends, the Sound Sessions events will cover topics like production and sound, career pathways, accessibility, songwriting and the power of live sampling. The Brunswick Music Festival runs from Sunday March 3 to Sunday March 17. Head to the Brunswick Music Festival website for the full Sound Sessions program.

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Arts Guide BEAT’S K TOP PIC

Arbus & West

Premiering in Melbourne this week Making its world premiere on Friday February 22 at Arts Centre Melbourne is Arbus & West, a dramatic work detailing the relationship between two extraordinary women.

Photographer Diane Arbus and actor Mae West were some of the most influential artists of the 20th century. When Arbus is set to take West’s portrait, tensions begin to grow around how West should be portrayed in the photograph. Playwright Stephen Sewell has drawn on real-life events to speculate what might’ve happened between these two extraordinary women.

Arbus & West will play until Saturday March 30 and show times and tickets are available via the Arts Centre website.

Crush

Coming to Melbourne as part of the Wheeler Centre 2019 Gala There’s nothing more exciting or debilitating than a brand new crush, so the Wheeler Centre have decided to celebrate this as part of their 2019 Gala on Thursday February 28. Ten writers, musicians and journalists will be getting together to express their love for a fictional crush, with speakers including Australian singer-songwriter Megan Washington, Killing Heidi frontwoman Ella Hooper and radio and TV personality Faustina Agolley. There’s nothing like a bit of summer lovin’, and the gala might just help you develop feelings of your own. Get all the details via the Wheeler Centre website.

SAE Institute X MWFF Championing diversity in new workshop

As part of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, SAE Institute is running its debut Visualise Your Voice workshop between Thursday February 21 and Sunday February 24. The workshop is designed for women between the ages of 15 and 19 from culturally diverse backgrounds who are interested in the filmmaking and storytelling process. Participants will get their hands on industry-grade equipment and learn tips on the creative process from professionals, with the ultimate aim to improve diversity and representation in film. Find more details on the workshop and the full MWFF program via the festival website.

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Collingwood Wellness Market Take some time for yourself this weekend

If you’re looking for a way to kickstart your wellness journey, look no further than the Collingwood Wellness Market going down on Saturday February 23. Held in a transformed Collingwood warehouse, visitors can expect an intimate array of fine art, crafts, jewellery, homewares and fashion. What’s more, up to 50 brands will be making an appearance, so you’ll be spoilt for choice. While you’re browsing, DJ Relic will be hitting the decks with some lo-fi drum and bass beats, when the market takes place at 5 Easey St, Collingwood from 10am.

Comedy Irish rising star comedian Joanne McNally is heading to the Butterfly Club for a short season from Monday February 25 to Thursday February 28. After the roaring reception of her debut show Bite Me, her recent documentary, Baby Hater – which explores the world of women who choose not to have children – has made waves for its razor sharp wit and unique perspective. Find more details via the Butterfly Club’s website.

The Melbourne Collective Have assembled a bustling vegan market for your leisure

Federation Square is soon to be the home of a huge vegan and design market, with over 100 stalls and more than 80 brands on hand to browse. Going down on Sunday March 3, the market is run by design and lifestyle gurus The Melbourne Collective, who have brought together the best in independent design and vegan food. Full of fashion, jewellery, art, beauty and health products, accessories and ceramics, the market is the perfect stop to pick up some unique gifts for a loved one (even if that loved one is yourself ). If you’re on the lookout for vegan bites, food stalls by Ace Cookies, Manny Donuts, Hopper Waffles and more will be there to satisfy your cravings, while there’ll be an array of live music and DJs too. Kicks off at 10am.

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Amon Tobin

The Garbage & The Flowers

UPCOMING NEW TECHNOLOGY SET TO ENHANCE CONCERT EXPERIENCES

As fans demand greater audio and visual thrills at concerts, tech companies are falling over themselves delving into Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR). Bjorn Van Munster, head of Astro Spatial Audio says, “In the very near-future the use of technologies such as enhanced localisation, multichannel immersive audio and dynamic interactive room acoustics will be expected by audiences, even if they don’t understand the technicalities. The real competition will be in how effectively the technology is used.”

What we’ve got so far is just the tip of the iceberg.

Xylobands were invented as concert LED wristbands which flash in time with the music. But on their 2016 tour, Coldplay used them in combination to create an ocean of light, a remarkable effect for those who experienced it. In an even more visionary move, New York sci-fi rock band Starset have crafted an AR app, which, after adding lighting and digital touches to the show, climaxes when a spaceship enters the venue and lands on the stage via punter’s smartphone screens. Elsewhere, Metallica’s WorldWired tour makes heavy use of “flying lights” drones.

It took the company, Verity Studios, three months (and a six figure sum) to integrate the drones into the production and lighting. And more, the advent of 4K/UHD screen technology is making those large-scale visuals even more arresting.

Roy Orbison in hologram form

Last week in the US, a panel at the Pollstar Live conference discussed how live experiences at concerts will become more sci-fi. Digital Nation Entertainment CEO Craig Evans spoke of volumetric rendering and extremely high-res images with 3D depth, where fans would expect to feel the image when they reach out. “At the end of the day we hope to expand beyond the walls of sold out stadiums and shows, and create a long lasting memory of an immersive experience,” he said. “A concert is said to be two hours of a live memory creation. We’re trying to create those memories in a digital world.”

Much of that panel’s discussion was on three world tours mooted to visit Australia featuring holograms of deceased stars – Ronnie James Dio, Frank Zappa and Roy Orbison. Kinetic experts are used to make them as realistic as possible.

Holograms create a moral dilemma. Are they immoral and exploitive, as some fans insist? Or, as tech firms point out, they work with the families – Dio’s wife Wendy, Zappa’s son Ahmet and Orbison’s sons – to allow the music to live on, and give younger fans the chance to see them “perform”. Dio and Zappa were futuristic people and artists, and their music was based on sci-fi and creating new worlds. Their holograms are an extension of the new world reality the musicians experimented with when they were alive, in fact, Zappa was talking about holograms 40 years ago. Imagine the splendorous effect of VR applied to the sci-fi imagination of David Bowie, Yes or Pink Floyd, even if we’re to see their extraordinary album covers come to life. The possibilities seem endless.

One of the luminaries of the experimental IDM sphere, Amon Tobin, has announced his impending return with his first album in eight years coming out in April. Titled Fear in a Handful of Dust, the album also launches his own label, called Nomark, which according to the press release, has an “ambitious” album release schedule this year. Amon Tobin wowed audiences across the globe with his ISAM album tour, utilising a ground-breaking stage production involving 3D projections evolving on an enormous cubic structure. He brought that tour to Melbourne in 2012 and it was genuinely one of the most incredible shows I’ve ever seen. Years ago it was hinted something bigger was in the works, maybe it’s finally time for it to hit the stage.

Matt Radovich

A name derived from lyrics of ‘Suzanne’ by Leonard Cohen, The Garbage & The Flowers are an obscure and influential band that have been releasing music since the ‘90s. But they are not an easy band to keep track of as their releases have been sparse and limited along with their live shows. Formed when teens at the time, Yuri Frusin and Helen Johnstone decided they both wanted to be in a band. This execution of a rough idea is something that hasn’t left their sound since their start in the late ‘80s. Well known in the Australian and New Zealand underground scenes, the band has had a differing lineup of players over the years though Frusin and Johnstone have remained constant. Meanwhile, a small amount of releases and features in various compilations over the years proves finding their music can pose difficult.

1997 saw the release of Eyes Rind As If Beggars, the same year the band relocated from Wellington to Sydney.

Eyes Rind As If Beggars, a double LP and reissued in 2013, is a mix of home recordings and live performances. Opening track ‘Love Comes Slowly Now’ is a soft and beautiful love song, and the rest of the album’s songs progress in and out of rough noise and soft melodies, making for an interesting but not completely easy full listen. Notable tracks include ‘Marshall Sign’ and ‘Rosicrucinn Lovers’, with loud and muddy instrumentals and the vocalist straying away from the otherwise delicate voice.

Melbourne techno crew Bunker are the latest team to announce their final party at Lounge. To send off the venue they’re doing a full night of back-to-back sets with some of Melbourne’s most-loved heavy hitters: Moopie b2b NERVE, Dj Kiti b2b Chiara Kickdrum, Sam Hilton b2b Tim Heaney (citipower), PWD b2b Hyper Binary, D-REX b2b Matt Radovich and Adrian Bell b2b Different Shades. I suspect D-REX and Radovich together will be a force to behold, with D-REX’s dieselslurping high-bpm grit backed by the veteran’s experience in all things techno. It goes down on Friday March 29 and tickets are on sale now.

Alison Swing

It’s the last weekend of summer (yes already), so why not see it out with one last hurrah of day-party madness?

This Saturday February 23, the Wax’o Paradiso team are throwing what they’re calling their most absurdly themed party since “Pavlova, Queen of the Dessert” – ROOBOCOP. Half robot. Half kangaroo. All cop.

Absolute mad lads these guys. It’s going down at Fairfield Amphitheatre, with sounds selected by Alison Swing (USA), Whiskey Houston, Edd Fisher and Simon TK from 3pm. Tickets are on sale now.

More recently the band released a self-titled two song cassette featuring ‘Kansas’ on side A and ‘Henry, Where is Lyon?’ on side B. With a total running time of just over 13 minutes, it was recorded in Sydney in 2008 and released on Paradise Records in 2016 with a limited run of 200 copies. ‘Henry, Where is Lyon?’ has a very DIY and far away feel, with slacker-esque vocals sung by both Frusin and Johnstone. The track also features on their 2011 album Stoned Rehearsal – a more difficult album to find and one that sounds as though it was made in exactly the fashion as the name suggests. In the track ‘River of Sem’, you listen to the band discuss how the song should be played and a dog barking through the last minute of them playing.

Over the years the band has been in a perpetual state of hiatus and resurgence, playing live shows only sporadically. But luckily for Melbourne, The Garbage & The Flowers will be in town to play three shows at the beginning of March. They’ll play Labour in Vain on Friday March 1, Northcote Social Club on Monday March 4 and Bar Open on Tuesday March 5. Now’s your chance to see this illusive band, as it’s hard to say when the opportunity will arise again.

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Hilltop Hoods Rekindling their love for songwriting

BY SOSE FUAMOLI

“I’ve been making records for 20 years and it’s easy to forget to enjoy it.” MC Pressure, aka Dan Smith, aka one third of the Hilltop Hoods, remains remarkably frank as we talk about the nearing release date of the group’s eighth album, The Great Expanse.

“We still have to make music for us, as well,” he says. “Some people forget that. Suff reminded me of that on New Year’s when we were away for Falls. He said to me his New Year’s resolution was to get back to enjoying making music. I was like, ‘Man, that’s so fucking true’. You have to love this profession to be good at it. Not just to do it. You can’t lose that.”

The album, out just ahead of the group’s anticipated shows supporting Eminem, is a record that is defined by different approaches to their craft. Being in a position to completely change things up and not have to worry so much about financial and personal demands, is one Pressure knows full well isn’t afforded to everybody.

“Very few people make a full length LP and as an artist, I get why they don’t, it’s because it’s so hard. People consume and digest music so differently to what they used to. Everyone’s got a smart device and they throw songs on a playlist from a streaming platform, they look past the rest of the album that didn’t have as many hits on it. There’s such a culture of music listening and consumption now, that it’s so hard for artists to spend all that money and time. Time being the big factor.

“It is a bit of a luxury to be able to do that,” he says. “We are in a nice position because we have had some success, we can afford the money and time to do it. I love that we have taken the time to do it, because I want people to listen to it from start to finish.”

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as it has over the last decade, the Hoods aren’t necessarily the only face associated with the genre as much as they once were. For Pressure, this change is a good thing. The Great Expanse has seen the group branch out more than they have on any record, incorporating more collaborative voices and diverse artistry into the studio.

“The hip hop music coming out of Australia is so different to what it was ten years ago,” Pressure says. “Our music is so different to what it was ten years ago too. It’s not as different, but the genre definitely is, I feel. Sometimes I hear old artists try to make new music and I’m like, ‘They’re just trying to make new music’. They’re trying to sound like the current thing. We’re not trying to sound like the current thing, we’re genuinely just being us, but doing a new version of us.

“There’s more songwriting involved in the creative process this time and less sampling,” Pressure reveals of their new material. “There’s only three samples on the record, which is the least we’ve ever used on a record. It does change the sound a bit.”

As for the new voices fans can hear on The Great Expanse, Pressure is excited for us to journey with the Hoods along some slightly unexpected collaborations. Featuring the likes of Ruel, Ecca Vandal, Illy and Timberwolf in their mixed bag of guests, Hilltop Hoods are entering this new chapter of their career that is reflective of their own creative and personal evolution.

“It is a really eclectic group of guests,” Pressure says. “They’ve each come from a similar place

in that, either me or Suffa or Debris have heard their music and loved it and wanted to work with them. All the collaborations we got happened in the studio in the same place; we worked the songs and re-wrote them, tweaked them. All the collaborations, I thought, were really organic. They weren’t like, ‘Throw us a verse…’ when they weren’t in the same state. We got in the same space. It’s so important to make those songs work, to be able to do that.”

Continuing to push themselves creatively as each new year of writing and performing presents itself has remained a high priority for the Adelaide trio. The Great Expanse is a result of not just tried and tested formulas, but a new resolve to move outside their comfort zone and take more of a creative plunge.

“One thing that Suff and I talked about before we went about making it, was that we wanted to do something a little cleaner and probably a touch more modern,” Pressure explains. “It’s not because we think everyone wants to hear something more modern; I guess as we move on and our music tastes change, that’s where I’m at. I wanted to make a record that sounded like that.

“That’s why we’ve moved in a different direction,” he says. “That’s why we’ve worked with more collaborators than we ever have before. It breathes fresh life into it; it gets exciting, seeing other people’s creative process. It reminds you of why you love yours.”

“Suff reminded me of that on New Year’s when we were away for Falls.

He said to me his New Year’s resolution was to get back to enjoying making music.

I was like, ‘Man, that’s so fucking true’.”

Hilltop Hoods’ new album The Great Expanse is out Friday February 22. The trio will support Eminem on Sunday February 24 at the MCG. Grab your tickets via Ticketek.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Brewers Feast

BY CLAIRE MORLEY

Melbourne is heralded as the microbrewing capital of Australia and what better way to celebrate that than with a huge festival. For its third year, Brewers Feast is bringing a carefully curated selection of the best craft beer, wine and spirits Melbourne has to offer to the iconic Abbotsford Convent, along with food to match, and a musical soundtrack to top it all off. To break it all down, we’ve put together this handy guide to everything happening at the festival when it goes down on Saturday February 23 and Sunday February 24.

Over 18 exclusive Brewers Feast beers

Grab a free beer on arrival

Beer and music pairing

Though all craft beers are special in their own way, and will be a-flowing, a unique selection of exclusive beers, specially created just for the festival, will be on offer. There will be more than 18 of these special signature beers, crafted by some of Australia’s best and most exciting breweries in an effort to bottle the personality and spirit of the breweries themselves.

Supported by Bintani, the lineup of exclusive brews includes a lime pie-inspired brew from Stomping Ground Brewing, a spiced ginger beer from Henry St Brewhouse, and a passionfruit parfait from Mr. Banks Brewery. Yum.

One of the oldest craft breweries in Australia, 2019 marks Grand Ridge Brewery’s 30th birthday. And though it’s their birthday, and we should be buying the first round, Grand Ridge will be providing a welcome beer to every festival attendee, completely free of charge. Talk about a bunch of legends. But the celebrations for this momentous occasion don’t stop there. Grand Ridge will also be launching a new beer at the festival, ‘Ekka’s IPA’, a brew created in honour of founder Eric ‘Ekka’ Walters, whose vision to open a craft brewery in Australia 30 years ago was nothing short of revolutionary.

Universally acknowledged is the truth that a person drinking a great beer, must be after an equally great soundtrack to go along with it. Luckily for all those who plan to drink their body-weight this Brewers Feast, the selection of beer is matched by a stellar lineup of local music acts. Every artist performing at the festival has been matched with a recommended beer to sip on while they’re on stage. Quite an intriguing experiment this is and we’re all for it.

Pair your palate with your pale ale

There’s masterclasses as well

Food tasting sessions

Looking to try something new but don’t know where to start?

Completing the festival’s ménage à trois, (that is: beer, music and food), the pale ale pairing sessions are something to get excited about. These specialised sessions serve three surprise pale ales alongside perfectly matched, slow-cooked meats.

Created in partnership with Bigger than Texas BBQ, the menu features slow smoked barbeque beef, pork and chicken, and a selection of mouth-watering sides. Beware, though, the opportunity to sample these pairings is a limited one, with only three sessions available. What are you still doing here reading? Go, book your tickets now!

We don’t need an education to enjoy a drink, but for those who would certainly like one, Brewers Feast has you covered.

The festival’s masterclasses are the perfect place to learn more about your favourite beverages, and not just for beer drinkers.

Session topics range from pairing food with beer, wine or spirits, wine tasting, and cider appreciation, to growing and using hops in brewing, and exploring the styles and tastes of beers. Those who wish to take their beverage experience to the next level need not hesitate to make use of this incredible festival opportunity. Hop to it.

Over eight sessions, the West City Beer Hall will deftly match beers to a whole range of culinary delights. The Collingwood-based venue will host this schedule of events, teaching participants how to perfectly pair everything from falafel to smoke meats, calamari to nuts and cheese to confectionary with just the right beer. The sessions are the perfect way to take the festival home with you, and find out what truly is the best snack to accompany your favourite cold one.

Festival games and markets

Starward concocting whisky cocktails

There’ll be wine and cider too

Ask any expert and they’ll agree: beer tastes better with company; and competition. With this is mind, Brewers Feast will be an event the whole family can enjoy. With a host of games – think table tennis, jenga, connect four and more – even those abstaining from a drink can get in on all kinds of fun, all day long. When you inevitably need to cool down from a game-induced argument, you can take a time out at the food markets. With a delectable array of take-home goods on offer, including meat rubs, sauces and cheese, it’s the perfect opportunity to grab a gift for someone special, and take a piece of Brewers Feast home with you.

Not in the mood for beer? Try Starward, a whiskey inspired by our gorgeous city and brought to life by founder David Vitale. It’s elementally matured – inspired by Melbourne’s classic four-seasons-in-a-day – for three “Melbourne years” inside Australian wine barrels, creating a truly Melburnian whiskey. Starward will be available at Brewers Feast in the form of refreshing whiskey-based cocktails, or neat for those in the mood. And if you can’t choose between a whiskey and a beer, never fear, they’ll be serving up boilermakers, too.

Beer isn’t for everyone. Luckily, the festival is catering for every palate. Harcourt Valley Vineyards have an array of options, from ciders and wines, but also a raspberry mead, crafted by winemakers inspired by the growth of mead in the USA, as well as a ginger beer. You can also try raw wine from The Natural Wine Co. while Those Girls will provide a selection of non-alcoholic iced teas for those taking it easy for the day. Varieties come in the form of a lime and mint mojito, blueberry and mint, and ginger and lemon.

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Genesis Owusu

“As a black person in a Western society, your life is inherently political from the get go. I don’t really know how to write about anything else.”

Born in Ghana before moving to Canberra as a child, the identity of rapper Genesis Owusu was bound to be shaped by politics.

While slick rhymes saturated in groove are at the helm of his sound, the intent behind his work runs much deeper.

Owusu was drawn to rap through an admiration for poetry after realising his favourite artists Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar and MF Doom are no less rightful of the title ‘poet’ than Maya Angelou and Gil Scott-Heron, whose art had initially lured him towards the craft.

“I started poetry first and then I realised that nobody wants to go to poetry gigs anymore, so I had to put a beat behind that,” says Owusu.

While it wasn’t necessarily his prerogative to use music as a means of voicing his opinions on social issues, the mutuality of Owusu’s sense of self and his perspective on the world around him made it inevitable that politics would permeate his music.

“Beat ‘em down and discredit the culture as that black shit/Pick it back up for yourself, see credits and detach it/Now you so intrigued and you wear it as the fashion” he spits in his latest single ‘Wit’ Da Team’, born through disdain for the cultural appropriation he witnesses each day.

“As a black person in a Western society, your life is inherently political from the get go.

I don’t really know how to write about anything else,” he says. “I just talk about my life and what I experience and [cultural appropriation] came up a lot, so naturally it will come up in song.

“I had to talk about it but I had to talk about it in a way that was super funky and groovy so people didn’t get their pitchforks out.”

While Owusu half-jokes about padding the potency of his lyrics to keep the pitchforks at bay, he feels the shift rippling through the Australian hip hop scene which has not only created space for a variety of voices, but rejects the archetypal objectification of women as “bitches and hoes” that goes hand in hand with the genre.

It was the latter which led him to question the gender roles embedded into the fabric of our collective being through verse in his 2018 single ‘Awomen, Amen’.

“As a rapper, I never used to hear those kinds of messages [of anti-sexism] in rap music and I love rap music with all my heart, but it was something that always bothered me,” he says. “When I think about those kinds of issues of sexism, it runs very parallel to racism in the fact that it’s so deep ceded and interwoven into our society.”

Although his standpoints on the issues which comprise his lyrics are blatant, Owusu has no intention of shoving his ideals down anyone’s throat and hopes his audience reflect on his words, rather than accepting them as dogma.

“I believe that, to an extent, people are who they are and they’ll care about what they care about. I want to put things out there and leave it to people’s interpretation,” he says. “With that in mind, I like to throw out topics and issues and of course I’ll come at it from my perspective, but I’d like to leave it in a place where people can gather their own meaning from it.”

Last year saw Owusu complete a Bachelor of Journalism as a seemingly unnecessarily backup plan if his music career didn’t pan out, leaving him free to focus on his craft moving forward.

Despite having toured expansively and making waves with the release of Cardrive EP in 2017 and each subsequent single, Owusu is yet to release his debut album. He is coy when broaching the subject of an album, admitting that he can’t say too much.

“I might be working on a little somethin’, somethin’,” he says simply, with an audible grin.

BY KATE STREADER

Snail Mail

Photo by Michael Levine

Snail Mail is Lindsey Jordan, a determinedly independent songwriter from Maryland on the US east coast.

Snail Mail’s debut LP Lush appeared in numerous 2018 year-end lists, receiving top five honours from Pitchfork and Stereogum. Listeners have been equally drawn to Jordan’s emotionally descriptive indie rock, with tickets for her inaugural Australian tour selling out in a hurry.

It’s been an auspicious 12 months, but Jordan isn’t getting carried away.

“It’s really flattering, however I try to keep all forms of validation and criticism out of my mind when I’m trying to write,” she says. “I just think of it as a really personal experience and any outside forces change the way that I think about things. I just try to keep it all at a dull roar, not in my mind.

It’s not something I really take to heart so much as just see and appreciate and try to ignore when I’m working.”

Snail Mail emerged in 2016 with the EP, Habit, released via Sister Polygon Records (the label run

by D.C. punk band Priests). The six-track release caught the attention of New York indie bigwigs, Matador Records, who oversaw the release of Lush. Home to the likes of Cat Power, Kurt Vile and Interpol, Matador is one of indie rock’s most influential labels.

“They don’t really mess with me that much,” says Jordan of her relationship with the label. “The people who I work with are for the most part supportive and interested in providing me the resources I need to do what I need to do. Because I’m such an independent person, I’ve pushed away help and suggestions.

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Genesis Owusu performs at Brunswick Mechanics Institute as part of Brunswick Music Festival on Thursday March 7. Grab your tickets via the festival website.

“After I was done with it [the album] I had this thought where I was like, ‘there’s no way this is going to do well’.” people, having so many outlets for what I want to get done. It’s really an interesting thing because there are a million people working for the Snail Mail LLC right now and when it comes down to it the real source of everything is just me alone in a room with my guitar. I try to just keep writing to what it originally was and I don’t try to do anything else with it.”

Jordan has quickly established a distinctive sound. The songs on Lush are characterised by her melodic and unrefined vocals, the jangly freedom of her guitar playing and her knack for throwing in unexpected chord changes.

“The style of the record and the record before it were pretty much just a result of me honing in on what I wanted to create and not really thinking about what it was going to turn out to be,” Jordan says. “Not really thinking about influences and not really thinking about ripping something off or if I was doing something original. I think I just had an idea to write a song and if it sounded right to me melodically and lyrically, it would just feel done.”

The lyrics on Lush are often intimately personal, but also broadly relatable. There are songs that focus on finding the courage to move on as well as examining one’s susceptibility to being led astray. There are also moments where Jordan sounds unafraid to express how over something she is, be it a person, a relationship or a feeling of self-pity.

“After I was done with it [the album] I had this thought where I was like, ‘there’s no way this is going to do well’. I thought it was so personal and representative of this direct narrative of things that happened in my life.

“I didn’t realise until people started coming up to me and being like ‘this really helped me’, or ‘this reminded me of my relationship’. I realised that in practice the songs are actually a lot more vague than I think of them as. People can put their own context to the situation.”

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Snail Mail comes to Estonian House as part of Brunswick Music Festival on Friday March 8. She will play two shows, one at 6pm (sold out) and one at 9:30pm. Head to Handsome Tours for ticket details.

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Foxing

Fresh from supporting Coheed and Cambria on their US tour, St Louis’ own Foxing are set to become part of Australian rock history.

Playing their inaugural Australian gig at Footscray’s Reverence Hotel, the show comes just days before the owners close its doors for good.

“Wow! I didn’t know that,” says guitarist Eric Hudson when he’s filled in with the sad news. “I guess we’re going to have to really bring the rock then, right?” he laughs. “I’m excited, this will be the maiden voyage for all of us to Australia, and that’s really cool to be part of the venue’s history in that way. Hopefully we can see it [the Rev] off well.

“As soon as we land in Australia we’re going to a wildlife reserve to hold a koala and see kangaroos,” he smiles. “For me it will be the first time ever seeing those animals let alone getting to hold one. I’ve seen them on Planet Earth and that’s about it.”

Hudson is in particularly good spirits during our chat but he wasn’t afraid to open up about some of the band’s darker days.

“After we put out our second record [Dealer, 2015] we were all feeling pretty burnt out. We were all wondering if we wanted to continue on as a band,” he says. “And although our second record was received fairly well we felt a lot of negativity around touring and constantly being away from home, and our gear getting stolen.

“All these things kind of amounted to us just feeling generally burnt out, and that’s the reason we took three years to release Nearer My God. Released in August last year, Nearer My God is Foxing’s third and most critically acclaimed

“Chris [Walla] taught us – if it’s safe, it’s boring, you might as well just go for it every time, even if you fail.” album to date. As well as sharing songwriting responsibilities with the band’s frontman Conor Murphy, Hudson also earned a co-producer credit alongside the legendary Chris Walla.

“This time around we wanted to take our time with it and not feel pressure to release something just for the sake of it,” Hudson says. “I think while making our second record we kind of rushed it a little bit and it wasn’t everything we wanted it to be, and it didn’t say everything we wanted it to say, and of course, for this album I had the help of a great friend.

“Chris [Walla] is absolutely amazing,” Hudson adds. “Working with him was great for me because I’m not an experienced producer so he took me under his wing. I learned a lot from him and he always treated me as a peer. He never treated me like I was beneath him in any way. He was always very respectful and he is also a wizard when it comes to his work.

“I mean all of the Death Cab [For Cutie]

records sound really good and of course he’s worked with Tegan & Sara and The Decemberists; he’s worked with some massive bands that I love.”

Walla helped Foxing in more ways than one, advising them when they were going astray and when innovation ran dry.

“His influence and his experience was totally invaluable to me and to the process,” Hudson continues. “He was really good at honing in on our strengths and being able to tell us when something we were doing wasn’t good. If we were doing something that wasn’t so good he’d be like ‘C’mon guys I think you should take another look at this,’ in a way that the band was able to receive it – which would sometimes be difficult because we’re definitely a mix of crazy personalities,” he laughs. “Chris taught us – if it’s safe, it’s boring, you might as well just go for it every time, even if you fail.”

BY NATALIE ROGERS

Ash Grunwald

Ash Grunwald is the Sunday headliner of the City of Kingston’s Mordi Festival, which goes down in Mordialloc over the first weekend of March.

Grunwald’s been living in Bali for the last few years and spent several years based in Byron Bay. He got his start in Melbourne, however, and the place still feels like home.

“I’ll always come back to Melbourne. I don’t think I would’ve had the career so far if I was anywhere else,” he says.

“I was given my education through music from listening to community radio – 3RRR, PBS – in Melbourne and through some of the greats Chris Wilson and Collard Greens and Gravy and many of the Melbourne blues acts.”

It’s been three and a half years since Grunwald’s NOW LP came out, but a new album is on its way later in the year. The album was five years in the making and is lucky to being seeing the light of day at all.

“This new album was recorded in LA,” he says. “I was actually flown over by a producer who wanted to introduce me to the international blues scene. I wrote some songs for the sessions and I was over there recording for ten days and recorded with a lot of living legends in the blues scene as a band. I got to meet some of my heroes and have them perform and sing on this record. It was an amazing experience with a lot of ups and downs.

“The album was completed in 2015 but went missing. It wasn’t retrieved until my new manager came on board and tracked it down. From there I added some tracks and finished the album for the better part of last year.”

Grunwald has updated his songwriting style and production preferences from one album to the next throughout his 15-year career. He started out as a primitive blues guitarist then tried out an experimental blues sound before teaming up with hip hop and electronic music producers.

More recently, he made the forceful rock record Gargantua and NOW incorporated a synthy psychedelic tinge.

“I have very consciously made my different releases be part of a journey. I’ve always had a lot of direction of where I was going. It was my dream to fuse the electronic hip hop elements with the blues. I started consciously coming from the raw Delta minimal blues sound and slowly moved to Tom Waits for a while then into the hip hop elements. Once I’d done that and fused the electronic elements, I felt like I had achieved what I’d set out to.

“I went rocky with Gargantua, which is with Scotty and Andy from The Living End and the NOW album was a bombastic psychedelic experiment with very conscious lyrics and I wanted to have a Moog synth player who was doing more evil bass lines as opposed to a typical bass player.”

Foxing perform at The Reverence Hotel on Wednesday February 27.

They’ll also be playing Wollongong’s Farmer & The Owl on Saturday March 2.

Head to respective venue and festival websites for lineup and ticket information.

He started out very much steeped in the blues tradition, covering songs by Howlin’ Wolf and Robert Johnson. Although he’s since stretched out, the blues maintains a strong presence.

“I love blues music. Probably before commencing each album that I’ve done, my initial plans had always been to do a stripped-back, minimal Delta blues album. But then my restless imagination sends me off in other directions.

“I love blues music and the soulfulness of it and the only reason why I don’t just do blues is because I’m trying to bring something new to the genre, so that’s what keeps me restless.”

Grunwald is a seasoned festival veteran, on local grounds and afar, and is thoroughly excited to see what show he can produce at Mordi Fest.

“Due to a lot of the personal changes that I’ve had over the past couple of years my music is just so exciting to me to play. I love playing on stage so much, it’s basically because I’ve been working so hard at improving and practising that every time I go to do a guitar solo I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just so keen to find out.”

“Before commencing each album ... my initial plans had always been to do a stripped-back, minimal Delta blues album. But then my restless imagination sends me off in other directions.”

Ash Grunwald performs at Mordi Fest alongside the likes of Mia Dyson, Bec Sandridge, 19-Twenty and Vaudeville Smash. It all goes down on Saturday March 2 and Sunday March 3. Head to the City of Kingston website for more information.

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

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Joyce Manor The punk music genre is founded on antihegemony, otherness and, most of all, authenticity.

That is, by choosing this style, bands and fans alike are announcing to the broader scene “we’re not going to fit in” and then to each other: “I won’t turn my back on you if you don’t turn your back on me.”

Californian slacker punk band Joyce Manor is one such band that despite ascending to major label status and an international touring profile, have not lost touch with their DIY punk roots.

“I think we’re fortunate where we feel comfortable in both. We do most of our touring in the US and, yeah, in the major cities we play big rock clubs so then we feel like a rock band.

“But we make sure every tour includes the small venues of the small towns that gave us shows way before we were playing to large audiences in major cities.”

That is Joyce Manor singer and guitarist Barry Johnson who formed the band back in 2008 with guitarist Chase Knobbe. Initially performing as a duo, the act was nourished and supported by California’s thriving DIY punk scene that was rallying around Joyce Manor’s Weezer and early Blink-182-influenced sound.

This led to the band becoming a four-piece that is nowadays also made up of Matt Ebert (bass and backing vocalist) and Pat Ware (drums).

In 2011, Joyce Manor released their selftitled debut that featured their underground hit, ‘Constant Headache’. Yet, it wasn’t until their third album Never Hungover Again that Joyce Manor broadened its fanbase beyond the punk scene.

Suddenly they were earning slots at international

festivals and on major rock tours.

“The rock scene took a little while to get used to,” Johnson explains. “I feel like if playing festivals and those rock clubs was all you do it’d be pretty hard to step back into the DIY scene, so it is really important to us to keep booking those shows.”

Johnson is speaking ahead of Joyce Manor’s show at The Corner Hotel on Tuesday March 5, which forms one leg of a national tour promoting their fifth studio album, Million Dollars to Kill Me. The first song on the album, ‘Fighting Kangaroo’, is an intense listening piece that in just two minutes captures both the tone of rousing punk rock and inward-looking self-reflection.

“It is one of the stronger melodies I have [ever] come up with. It has a good energy to it, and I think that the guitar line that Chase added made the song sound more heart-wrenching.

I also like that turnaround in the chorus that is really fun to play. We haven’t played that one live yet but we hope it goes over well with the crowds because we are really proud of it.”

This statement by Johnson contains an ostensible incongruity, that is, if the band is so proud of ‘Fighting Kangaroo’, why haven’t they played it live yet?

“We are still working it out, it’s a really complex song. You know every time we go to write another album we want our songwriting to develop so I really wanted that song in particular to reflect that.”

The last time Joyce Manor toured Australia was in 2017 with The Smith Street Band, a tour that has become renowned for the epic party atmosphere created by both bands. So it seems pertinent to close-out the interview with the enquiry as to which city out of Los Angeles and Melbourne has the best party crowd.

“LA crowd’s are great but like, for us anyway, Australian crowds really like to drink and party.

One of my favourite shows ever was on the last tour in Melbourne.”

Death metal has just taken a unique twist through the likes of Obsidian Monolith, a Melbournebased melodic death metal band which draws from different genres to create their dense sound.

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The band have also developed musically since their formation in 2016, adopting a slower but heavier sound.

“We started out as a solo project in 2015 with a rough idea of how our music was meant to be,” Piras says. “We weren’t following specific sub-genres of metal – it’s quite funny because I’m influenced by classical and jazz music, which transmits to our sound and because of the heaviness of the music, we classify ourselves as melodic death metal.

“We have some interests in black metal and technical death metal, but we put it all together in a way that we don’t belong to any of those individually.

We became a band in 2016 and we always try to push a little bit further – we’ve progressively gotten heavier and more technical, but we’re not playing as fast as we were.

“Our bass player Bryce [Hubai] comes from a grunge background, Maurizio comes from a classical background so we’ve combined that with my mellow death and doom background to create our music,” Kilby says.

Obsidian Monolith derive their musical inspiration from Australian bands such as Be’lakor, Meridian and Ne Obliviscaris.

“A lot of these Aussie bands have been a really big influence,” Maurizio says. “I think it [Australia’s

Joyce Manor come to The Corner Hotel on Tuesday March 5. Grab your tickets via Handsome Tours.

BY DAN WATT

Obsidian Monolith

They have been working on their debut album Manifest, which they are soon to perform live at The Bendigo Hotel. They’ll also be sharing the stage with other bands such as Rituals, As Flesh Decays, Myriad Drone and Suldusk.

“This year we’re focusing on playing with bigger bands, which means bigger gigs and bigger venues,” lead guitarist Maurizio Piras says.

“We’ve got an EP launch at The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday March 2, which we’re pretty excited about. I think it’s a bit unusual for local bands to do a one-hour set, but we are doing a one-hour set.”

Their album Manifest is layered and obscure, lyrically exploring nihilism and its impact on the human condition.

“It comes from a strong environmental background of really pushing the waters, based on things that are happening in the world right now,” vocalist and guitarist Axel Kilby says. “It explores the degree of how detrimental humanity has been to earth, and I think the songs reflect that mentality.

“It’s about the day-to-day grind of what we all go through and the stuff we all think about saying but we’re not sure if we should say. It’s about how our choices affect the environment and our behaviour as human beings.”

“LA crowd’s are great but like, for us anyway, Australian crowds really like to drink and party. One of my favourite shows ever was on the last tour in Melbourne.”

death metal scene] is growing.

“Since being on the circuit, we’ve seen a lot of bands that were probably garage projects when they first started, really come into their own and I would say the death scene is definitely developing as there are a lot of young and upcoming bands doing really cool stuff. I think in the next few years, the Australian death metal scene will be amazing,” Kilby says.

Formerly a five-piece band for just under two years, Obsidian Monolith have since shifted to become a four-piece.

“We’ve been playing for a four-piece for six months but previously we were a five-piece,” Axel says. “We’ve played three or four shows as a fourpiece and we’ve been really happy about it. We see people hearing our music, that’s what it’s all about and that feeds our live energy, we get a bunch of people loving it and our live shows go through the roof.”

Concluding that they want to expand their reach and achieve as much as they can, Piras understands that this starts with the live stage.

“We want to play the best shows ever and expand our following. We are enjoying music and we want to see how far we can take it.”

BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS

“I would say the death scene is definitely developing as there are a lot of young and upcoming bands doing really cool stuff.

I think in the next few years, the Australian death metal scene will be amazing.”

Obsidian Monolith come to The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday March 2. Head to the venue website for tickets. Their new album, Manifest, will be released in 2019.

FEATURE

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens’ seminal album 16 Lovers Lane has inspired audiences for over three decades since its release in 1988.

The band, formed by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, hit their stride both lyrically and musically, with the album spawning some of their most unforgettable songs including ‘Streets of Your Town’ and ‘Was There Anything I Could Do?’ The choice to celebrate its legacy may seem obvious, but as Amanda Brown, one of the original members of the band reveals, it wasn’t something they had planned on doing.

“We never thought we’d play those songs again,” she says earnestly. “The idea to do this show came from a suggestion. Katie Noonan had just gotten the job as the director of the Queensland Music Festival. Being a proud Queenslander, she was a GoBetweens admirer and loved 16 Lovers Lane so the idea came about when she realised it was the 30-year anniversary of the album coming up, along with the ten-year anniversary of Grant’s death.”

To bring these songs to life, Brown, along with original Go-Betweeners Lindy Morrison and John Willsteed, have been joined by an all-star cast of Australian musicians. “The nice thing about this show is that it’s modular,” says Brown. “We have the core band which is the three original members alongside Dan Kelly, Dan Widdicombe and Luke Peacock, and then depending on where we’re playing the show we pick up different singers from that town.

“For the first show in Brisbane we had some really young bands like Ball Park Music and Cub Sport join us who were fans of the band. That was surprising but also gratifying.

Photo by Lazlo Evenhuis

“We’ve been curating the guest artists ourselves so it was really important for us to have people who had a connection to the band in some way,” continues Brown. “People like Paul Kelly and Steve Kilbey were our contemporaries at the time and have been our friends for years. Other people like Romy Vager and Laura Jean we didn’t know but I think they share that left-field independent spirit of The Go-Betweens.

“With this augmented band it means that we’re able to realise the arrangements on the album so much more fully and it’s honestly a better dynamic than when we first performed the songs. I think in many ways we’re sounding better than we ever have.”

The shows have not only been an opportunity to hear the songs performed again but have also been a chance to share special memories of the band and remember McLennan’s life. “To learn the songs required listening to them again and just the simple thing of hearing Grant’s voice again was quite emotionally confronting and really sad for me,” says Brown. “It’s lovely that the songs are getting another chance to be out there in the world and that Grant’s words and music live on and find a whole

new audience.”

Brown also recognises the movement that they belonged to back in the 1980s and how this allowed for songwriters like McLennan and Forster to flourish. “I think that bands from around that time, like The Triffids and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Moodists set the standard for very poetic, literate songwriting. I think 16 Lovers Lane was Grant and Robert’s Blood on the Tracks.

“They were huge Bob Dylan fans and really it’s about love and every stage of it, from falling in love to falling out of love and every emotion in between those two states that everybody can relate to.”

As for whether or not she thought that the band would have such an impact to this day, Brown recalls her fellow bandmates’ confidence back in the ‘80s. “I remember at the time 30 years ago, Lindy, Robert and Grant all seemed very confident of their legacy. I wasn’t so sure of it, but in hindsight they were proven to be correct.”

Maarja Nuut & Ruum have been playing together for three years after becoming a duo in the summer of 2016.

a stop at WOMADelaide. The pair aren’t shy of festivals and Nuut says that she’s not really worried about playing there. “Our music is quite demanding in some ways. It’s not so easy to listen to it, while you have a lot of noise around you, you really need to focus to get into it because it’s very subjective and it’s dark,” she explains.

Songwriting for Nuut doesn’t follow an organised rule, however she does find that some things run in a certain pattern. She writes a lot with her looper, which she also uses in concerts, improvising with vocals and collecting bits and pieces she may want to use. Then she might shelve it for a few weeks, or months, and when she comes back to it, it all comes together naturally.

“When I work with Ruum, it’s also like ping pong,” she explains. “I have something, I send it to him, he works with his parts, then he sends it back to me and then I again send it back. It can be that there’s a starting point of a piece, that is totally different from the outcome later on.”

After this run in Australia, Nuut and Ruum will be doing some festival dates across Europe

The Go-Betweens’ seminal sixth album 16 Lovers Lane will be showcased as part of Bendigo Autumn Music festival on Sunday April 28.

Head to the festival website for more info on the lineup and for tickets.

BY HOLLY PEREIRA

Maarja Nuut & Ruum

After releasing their debut LP in October 2018 titled Muunduja, they now find themselves about to embark on their first Australian tour.

Nuut, who utilises violin, a looper, vocal experiments and keyboard to write music, has been to Australia twice before and performed in Sydney last year, but this is the first time her and Ruum will be playing in Australia together. Nuut says she’s very excited and is looking forward to coming back and experiencing some nice weather.

“The main goal is to enjoy ourselves and to share music with people,” she says. “Usually when you go there the beginning can be quite challenging because you have all this jetlag. We improvise quite a lot in our shows, so you really need to be very present, here and now and focused to be able to improvise.”

Usually when the duo plays in Europe, they have visual elements in their shows, however they will just be bringing their music to Australia this time around. Coming to Australia with her partner Ruum and a completely different project, Nuut sees this tour as being more experimental with new electronics and a new album, and she’s interested in how people will react.

“The moment you walk on stage and you see the people and how they react, that influences you as an artist as well. We are actually pretty used to it because we play the same program often in very different environments.”

Maarja Nuut & Ruum, will also be making

“To learn the songs required listening to them again and just the simple thing of hearing Grant’s voice again was quite emotionally confronting and really sad for me.”

but also plan on writing new material. Last year, Maarja spent a lot of time on the road, touring and travelling and transiting between airports, so she’s enjoying being at home and wants to focus on writing and creating music. She gets inspired by everyday things, describing herself as a sort of sponge. “I just gather information from the places where I go or what I do from everyday life from everything. Obviously a big part of inspiration has come from older archive materials but equally I’m inspired by what I’ll see everyday.”

As an artist, she says that even though the debut album is still fresh and new, artists are always looking at what the next project will be, even while the current one is still happening, and believes that there will be new music soon. “We are not doing that much in February, so we are planning to create already some new material for a festival in Estonia which happens after the Australian tour at the end of March, so let’s see.”

“Our music is quite demanding in some ways ... while you have a lot of noise around you, you really need to focus to get into it because it’s very subjective and it’s dark.”

Maarja Nuut & Ruum will be performing at Howler on Thursday March 7 as well as WOMADelaide which takes over Adelaide’s Botanic Park from Friday March 8 until Monday March 11. Head to the respective venue and festival websites for ticket information.

BY ELLEN ROSIE

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FEATURE

Underworld Wrestling

“The rules are different, the characters are really unique... even the environment is different, as we hold the show in a literal mansion.”

Forget everything you know about the world of prowrestling... okay, almost everything.

It still takes place in the glory of the squared circle, and there are still plenty of huge characters vying for the top spot in the company.

The similarities, however, stop there when it comes to Underworld Wrestling. One of the more unique prospects in Australian wrestling, let alone Melbourne, the promotion was born last year on the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Since then, it has gone on to become a streamed show over on Amazon Prime. It’s been a wild ride thus far – which is something the company was absolutely going for.

“Everything about Underworld is different to what you’d expect from a normal wrestling show,” says Lord Mark Williamson, the promotion’s producer and head manager. “The rules are different, the characters are really unique... even the environment is different, as we hold the show in a literal mansion.

When you come to one of our shows, we don’t even really acknowledge it as a wrestling show – it’s more like an underground fight night.”

The brainchild of Williamson and retired wrestler Adam “Rad” Bruiser, the two used their veteran expertise and lifelong experience in and around the pro-wrestling business to establish something they felt could serve as their own creative contribution to the industry that has shaped their lives the last 20 or so years.

“We were shooting the shit awhile back, throwing back and forth a few of our creative ideas,” says Williamson. “We ended up melding our ideas

together, and that started to shape what Underworld Wrestling would later become. It’s had the same teething problems as any other show when it’s just starting out, but across the board people have really seemed to enjoy it. We’ve had people come from all over to see the show, and there are people watching the Amazon Prime series that live in countries I had literally never heard of before. The reach has been unbelievable.”

Underworld has already assembled an impressive roster, with many Melbourne wrestlers wanting in on the action. Due to the nature of the show, however, a lot of wrestlers have been tweaking their character and wrestling style to better fit the overall vibe – essentially, reaching in and pulling from the darker corners of their respective personas. “It’s been interesting to see those changes,” comments Williamson.

“Some wrestlers have been dropping characters and wrestling under their real names, just to give the fight-club vibe a bit more of an edge to it.

Others have gone to the completely opposite end of the spectrum – they’ve been creating entirely new characters to portray as a part of Underworld.

Having a show like this really gives the wrestlers something to really sink their teeth into.”

It’s with this that the stage is set for Glory to the Claw, the next major Underworld Wrestling show that will also serve as the season one finale for the Amazon Prime series. In its relatively short time as a federation, Underworld has certainly drawn attention from Melbourne’s extensive prowrestling scene. What’s more, however, is that people with little to no previous investment in sports-entertainment have found themselves getting hooked on Underworld Wrestling – something Williamson takes great pride in. “We’ve definitely had people come up to us at the shows at tell us they had never really vibed with wrestling shows before they checked ours out,” he says.

“I’ve found that the demographic for the shows have always been really diverse and really inclusive, and that’s exactly what we’re going for.

It’s great to have the support of the wrestling fans that make a point of coming and checking out all of the Melbourne feds, but if someone is clicking with Underworld that now has an in to wrestling that they didn’t before, then I definitely think that is a point of pride for the entire promotion.”

BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

Jasper’s Opened in August 2018, Jasper’s is an inner city bar where likeminded people come to unite over cocktails and jazz.

But while live music forms a core part of the venue’s identity, Jasper’s isn’t strictly a jazz club.

“Jasper’s is a curated template that celebrates music, jazz in particular, but also other forms of art, bartending, service, and hospitality. That’s really important at Jasper’s,” says venue owner, Jasper Lai. “People can come in and feel free to talk to other people. It’s also about networking, where creatives, corporates and music enthusiasts come through the curtains and they want to have a good time, they want to be well dressed, they want to be presentable and be amongst like-minded people.”

Jasper is interested in creating a relaxed environment with emphasis on building a culture within the bar, revolving around core principles of community, cocktails and music.

“Whether or not you want to sit by the bar and read a book and listen to jazz or go out with your friends and have a lot of drinks and listen to jazz, it’s just about enjoying the space, enjoying the company and serendipitously meeting people,” Lai says.

“We’re not saying, ‘You must listen to the music and be quiet at all times’. Of course, for the purpose of everyone around you, it’s important to be aware of tone and mood of the room… it’s a bit like a jazz band playing together actually. The bar’s there to celebrate the spirit of jazz. So when the jazz is on it’s really a space for people to dance and celebrate the energy of jazz together.”

Jasper’s boasts a carefully curated cocktail menu along with a premium selection of whisky, gin and rum. Cocktail lovers can expect to find

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something new to savour on each visit.

“One popular cocktail is the businessman’s elixir.” Lai says. “It’s a smoked cocktail. It’s definitely a presentation drink here at Jasper’s. We also try to get in the spirit of special occasions, so we invented the gingerbread sour – one of my personal favourites – when it was Christmas time.

We’ve kept it on the menu because people loved it. It was unique, there’s a unique flavour to it that brings back some nostalgia.

“I’m incredibly lucky to have passionate and enthusiastic staff. They believe in what they do, and strive for perfection.”

The venue’s commitment to showing patrons a good time is reflected in its varied live music program. A mixture of local and international artists takes to the stage from Thursday to Saturday every week, 9pm onwards.

“Usually we have traditional jazz, straight up jazz, contemporary on Thursday,” Jasper says.

“Then Fridays we move into more of a groove, acid jazz, going into that modern jazz scene. And then Saturdays is when we might have some of our residency bands come in and just pump the venue, playing straight jazz and swing or maybe something more intellectual. So we’ve got three or

Underworld Wrestling’s Glory to the Claw is going down at 3 Dickens St, Elwood on Sunday March 10. For tickets, head to the event website.

four different genres every week that people can access.”

Jazz is closely tied to spontaneity and improvisation. Accordingly, there’s always a chance of an esteemed musician jumping up for a jam.

“We have James Morrison playing on the 23rd March, and tickets going live at the end of this week. We’ve had some amazing players from New York come in and jam with us. We’ve had a lot of local musicians coming in and playing together with the band too.”

Jasper’s is still a very young venue, but it has quickly established itself on Melbourne’s latenight map.

“You see almost a sine wave of different demographics come in through the night. We’ve got the corporates who come in after work, have a cigar and few drinks in the courtyard. Then people come in after dinner just to enjoy a drink and then we’ve got the music aficionados coming in for the band. And because we have a 3am to 5am license, we have the hospo workers come in after work as well.”

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

“Jasper’s is something that celebrates music, jazz on most occasion, but also other forms of art, bartending, service, hospitality.

That’s really important at Jasper’s.”

Jasper’s is located at 14 Goldie Place, CBD. Head to their Facebook page for more information on upcoming events.

Live Oh Sees

Nickelback by Anna Madden

The Croxton Bandroom, Thursday February 14

Nickelback

Rod Laver Arena, Saturday February 16 Rod Laver Arena was raging with excitement as Bad Wolves kicked things off with an electrifying opening set. They finished their gig with their cover of The Cranberries’ classic ‘Zombie’, which was the track that had initially catapulted them into the spotlight. People were then charged with anticipation waiting for Nickelback, and luckily the band didn’t keep everyone waiting for too long – they jumpstarted the set with their first single and title track from their newest album Feed The Machine, with Chad Kroeger belting the lyrics over thunderous riffs and flashing red lights.

The entire arena was sizzling, with people being completely immersed in the band’s performance, particularly when they served their old-school tracks on a sweet platter. ‘Photograph’ was delivered effortlessly, with old pictures of the band playing on the big screen behind them and igniting the nostalgia within the audience.

The 2000s was certainly a treasured decade for rock anthems, and Nickelback’s ‘00s hits were no exception. ‘Far Away’ was another glorious performance, with Kroeger pouring all his passion into his husky vocals.

In between their performances, Kroeger would always work up a hilarious banter with the audience, joking around about how none of his bandmates wanted him to drink too early but the larger his buzz was, the longer he would perform onstage. He constantly requested drinks throughout the night and would salute the audience before sculling his Jager shots. His friendly and humorous demeanour reduced the barriers between him as the performer and the audience; he made everybody feel as though they were drinking with their mate for the night. The man certainly works his charm well.

The band played the cheeky track ‘Something In Your Mouth’, as well as well loved songs ‘Hero’, ‘Figured You Out’ and ‘Someday’, which everybody enthusiastically sung along to. They mixed up the old stuff

with some newer catchy hits too, like ‘What are You Waiting For’.

Halfway through the night, Kroeger requested an audience member to join them for ‘Animals’ – she was given a guitar onstage and played with the rest of the band in style.

There were two other audience members that were randomly picked out to sing ‘Rockstar’ with the band, which made the set that much more interactive and engaging. If that wasn’t enough to win the hearts of their fans, Nickelback’s performance of ‘How You Remind Me’ absolutely drove everybody into a singalong frenzy, and it was that special moment when the entire arena was in perfect sync.

Nickelback certainly know how to grab the attention of the audience, and the chemistry between the band members is striking, proving that they’re all close friends as well as bandmates. Their continuous playful quips towards one another were funny to witness and once again highlighted their easygoing nature. They even had their fun with the audience – they concluded their set, with Kroeger thanking everybody for always supporting them, before the band left and all the lights went out.

Only a few people were deceived by their exit though, and, somewhat unsurprisingly, they came back and launched straight into ‘Million Miles an Hour’, an energetic track that hyped up the crowd and turned the mosh into a heap of jumping bodies. Then Nickelback delivered their blazing finale, ‘Burn It To The Ground’, where they poured all their leftover energy into a brilliant performance with searing riffs and pounding drums.

They threw an amazing set and the audience certainly showcased the love through their endless cheering. Hopefully Nickelback will be back again soon to light up the stage.

Highlight: Chad yelling “Cheers!” every time he sculled a Jager shot.

Lowlight: Time flew too quickly.

Crowd Favourite: ‘How You Remind Me’.

BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS

I’m not sure that anyone was quite ready for the power that the Oh Sees (formerly Thee Oh Sees) brought to The Croxton Bandroom in Thornbury just last week. Bracing the stage with a presence only true rock stars can possess, the five-piece showed Melbourne how they blast it in San Fransisco – sweat dripping on instruments while sucking on Idles - Photo by David Harris guitar picks just lightly describes the scene.

From the crowd surfers at the front, to the humble nodders in the back, not a single audience member was left unaffected by the Oh Sees’ Australian tour.

Before the Oh Sees graced the floor, we were warmed with the dark and enticing sounds of ORB, Geelong’s favourite proto-metal collective. As always, ORB led strongly with heavy guitars that strung majestic melodies, making the crowd feel empowered and uplifted. It was clear that ORB are dedicated fans of the Oh Sees, continuously reminding us of who was coming up next, as the entire room waited in anticipation. They played a solid set featuring woozy psychedelic lights as well as heavier beats, and we were left feeling proud that our leading Aussie band have made quite a name for themselves.

After ORB had completed their set, thanked the crowd, and further excited us for the Oh Sees’ impending arrival, the lights dimmed and John Dwyer, the Oh Sees’ lead frontman, stumbled onto the stage to test his instruments. Then, the band united, and introduced themselves before launching into an unforgettable string of thoughtprovoking punk rock.

There was a common thought that not a single attendee could deny; that the two drummers were not only the heartbeat of

the band, but also completely took over the show. Together they synchronised beats and fed off of each other’s energy. At times they provided rests for the other solo, and vice versa. Some would say they were the highlight.

Throughout this intense performance, we bore witness to many long, strung-out instrumentals, and were entranced by their ability to create a euphoric state of mind.

‘Toe Cutter’ from the album Floating Coffin saw crowd surfers gain the confidence to thrash themselves around the room. At many points we were drawn to Dwyer’s ever changing expressions; whether that was his microphone in his mouth, tongue poking out, spitting on the floor, or eyes rolling back, there was plenty to take in. They also announced that it was Dan Rincon’s birthday, who makes up one part of the rhythm section, and so we celebrated with him.

‘Sticky Hulks’ from the album Mutilator Defeated At Last was the track of the evening and was also when we saw the Oh Sees’ dreamy side. It was here that a wholehearted appreciation for their versatility was also welcomed.

The Oh Sees’ Australian shows saw aggressive rock take experimental turns, making us feel like every show could be completely different from the last, each tailored to an exact moment.

Highlight: Crowd surfer jumping on stage as a track has just finished. She orchestrated for the band to play again so she could jump – and they did.

Lowlight: Some crowd surfers decided to dance on stage, which was disruptive.

Best track: ‘Toe Cutter’.

BY GEORGIA SPANOS

Oh Sees by Sally Townsend

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ALBUM REVIEWS

Album of the Week (Liberation Records)

Singles WITH AUGUSTUS WELBY

Honey 2 Honey

Honey 2 Honey

Tone of Voice

(Chapter Music)

Yes please. Honey 2 Honey emerge with one of the first great songs of 2019. The Sydney via Canberra foursome’s debut single ‘Tone of Voice’ melds straightforward dubby grooves with an abstract, non-linear personality. Sounding a bit like a spaced out Jack Ladder, ‘Tone of Voice’ isn’t equipped with obvious hooks, but it’s still mighty infectious. It’s a song that doesn’t pounce so much as it encircles you in curvy good vibrations.

Anna of the North

(Different Recordings)

Leaning on Myself

Streamline, uncluttered synth-pop from Norway’s Anna of the North. The down-tempo song finds the Oslo-based singer renouncing co-dependency and vowing to take charge of her own destiny. Some listeners may only be familiar with Anna Lotterud’s guest spots on Tyler, the Creator and G-Eazy records, but the effortless charm of ‘Leaning on Myself ’ will divert plenty of attention to her solo catalogue.

Julia Jacklin

Crushing

Fontaines D.C.

Big

9

(Partisan Records)

Is it just me or is it impossible to say no to an Irish accent?

Dublin punks Fontaines D.C. follow up the art-punk rambling of ‘Too Real’ with a two-minute garage punk belter. It’s a beautifully sweet song, even despite its rough and tumble delivery – the chorus hook, “My childhood was small, but I’m going to be big,” doesn’t sound the least bit arrogant.

The Dan Carey produced album, Dogrel, is coming in April.

Honeyblood

The Third Degree

(Cooking Vinyl)

Freshly rejigged into a solo project, Honeyblood returns with massive Kim Wilde vibes on ‘The Third Degree’. Stina Tweeddale is flaunting her independence all over the place: “No no, drama drama baby,” she sings in the chorus, “It used to be all about you, but now you’re out of my view.” It’s an emphatic kiss-off full of crunchy guitars and chorus vocal harmonies resting on a classic ‘60s girl group drum beat, à la The Ronettes’ ‘Be My Baby’.

Many of Julia Jacklin’s songs take place in cars. She writes on the road and it shows, particularly in her new record Crushing, which she developed during the two years she spent touring off the back of her acclaimed 2016 debut album, Don’t Let the Kids Win.

In album opener ‘Body’, Jacklin sings about the taxi ride home after breaking up with a long-term partner at an airport: “Eyes on the driver, hands in my lap, heading to the city to get my body back.” The automotive motif makes sense for a breakup album – getting out of a relationship can feel like stretching out after spending all day cooped up in a coupé: your legs become legs again; your heart becomes yours again.

Jacklin’s music sounds good in cars, too. Even cars with crappy speakers.

Her arrangements are simple, aiming not to weigh down the two things that give her music wings: her lyrics and her voice. While probably nothing in Crushing will crush you quite like the timeless truth of Don’t Let the Kids Win’s title track, you might find yourself mentally storing some of these new songs away, to be queued up in future emotional scenarios, particularly Don’t Know How To Keep Loving You’ and ‘Comfort’. What’s new for Jacklin in Crushing?

‘When the Family Flies In’, Jacklin’s first piano-and-voice piece, kind of drags.

Being unpretentious means that your songs give up their deepest secrets on the first listen, and you can tell when there’s not much beyond that. The real revelation is indeed the first track, which both encapsulates the themes of the album and somehow feels totally separate from it. ‘Body’ is beautifully unnerving and unique, the soundtrack to a high-production Australian crime drama, and shows Jacklin’s muscle for beat-by-beat storytelling.

BY JESSE PARIS-JOURDAN

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ALBUM REVIEWS

Albums

Homeshake

Helium

8.5

Homeshake’s fourth album Helium is one that is aptly tilted.

The project of Peter Sagar, Homeshake has created an album that is dispersed, ambient and experimental, yet all the while emotive in the way that synthesiser floats throughout.

Opening instrumental track ‘Empty’ gently slides the rest of the album into play, as Sagar’s syrupy and velvety vocals soon waft through sonic palettes. Lead single ‘Like Mariah’ while intimate, does not stand out.

As musical interludes unfold, it’s evident that Homeshake does not need lyrics to make for an absorbing track. Instrumental piece ‘Heartburn’ transitions into ‘All Night Long’ effortlessly, continuing a static, fuzzy and almost eerie theme that is dreamlike in its vulnerability. ‘Trudi and Lou’ also offers a delicate and dainty change from the former track and is dripping in jazz instrumentations and chord progressions. Second single ‘Nothing Could Be Better’, and the lo-fi ‘Just Like My’ are warmer and more textural and make for album highlights.

While Helium is stripped back in comparison to the chorus-laden guitar sounds on previous albums, Homeshake still delivers a compelling album that comes to fruition through its minimalism.

Stephen Cummings

Prisoner Of Love

Armed with his first taste of music in a few years, it’s as if Stephen Cummings has turned full circle. The earnest, jittery sport has reunited with Michael Gudinski and returns to the well established whimsy falsetto and puckish intrigue that manages to tickle the parts no one else seems to reach.

The autumnal quality of this record unfurls slowly and many songs belie a creative solidity that has developed over decades. Like great outsiders including Robert Wyatt and Robyn Hitchcock, Stephen Cummings extends his vaudevillian pop arrangements on this album. Beneath the chipper exterior lay ragged tension and tortured songwriting nous. Songs like ‘Mr Ripley’ and ‘Poor Pilgrim’ are as strong as the pleading ‘Don’t Break Up With Me’. Some of his prior work had the sense of weary defeat surrounding the whole affair, yet here he sounds rejuvenated as he toys with a sussed economy.

The mastery of atmosphere in ‘The Wind Blew Hard’ suggests Cummings is quite immune from passing trends and he should occupy a space like Neil Diamond. There are many delights on Prisoner Of Love, and Cummings is a benchmark of an era which delights with snappy dynamism.

BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS

BY GABRIELLA BEAUMONT

(Epitaph)

(Bloodlines)

(Remote Control)

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8.5

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Signs

The chaotic, beautiful ocean contrasting with the breezy calm orange sky can sum up the nature of Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Signs quite nicely. If I go any further in this over-analysation, I’ll sound like a bored student, so I’ll get on with it.

Armed with a monstrous 12-piece band, TTB tackle a turbulent time that surrounds them, and they tackle it the best way they can. How? They drive through their 11 tracks graciously whilst raising therapeutic themes and sounds. ‘I’m Gonna Be There’ and ‘Walk Through This Life’ make their case solid, with the former sounding like it belongs on The Big Chill soundtrack.

Unlike their previous outing Let Me Get By, they’ve resorted to simpler and restrained song structures. It still allows for its members to shine, especially its two main leaders. ‘Hard Case’, ‘They Don’t Shine’ and ‘Shame’ demonstrate the perfect music marriage between husband and wife team Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.

Closing on a sentimental tear-jerker, ‘The Ending’ exhibits Tedeschi’s amazing vocals – a testament to her talent and expertise after decades in the music industry.

Signs brings forth yet another stomping record from Tedeschi Trucks Band, and is certainly not to be missed.

BY RHYS MCKENZIE

(Flightless Records)

(Warp Records)

(Bedroom Suck Records)

Edito r Pick

7.5

SO.Crates, Nelson Dialect, Alnitak Kid

Sunset Cities

Melbourne meets Adelaide in this synergy of local hip hop stalwarts, including SO.Crates and westerly neighbours emcee Nelson Dialect and beat-maker Alnitak Kid. Even before listening to Sunset Cities, the double-duo deserves props for rightly attributing the LP to a four-way collaboration (two producers and two emcees), contrary to an unfortunate hip hop norm that too often underacknowledges producers. The record is dotted with moments of top-class music. Opener ‘Stay a While’ is a fitting prologue – a soundtrack for sunset cruising down a coastal boulevard – and ‘Jay Elec’ features rapping that would impress hip hop aficionados all over the world.

There’s enough musical diversity here to fuel the intrigued listener through all 11 tracks. New York vocalist, Jace XL, pops up on ‘Oh Baby’ adding some R&B flavour, while the 90 second mid-album interlude, ‘Bright On’ adds pleasant balance with its contemplative themes.

We can’t say it’s all gold, though. The odd lapse in originality – like the hooks on ‘Hemisphere’ and ‘Somebody Believe in You’ – keep this album’s musical weight from exceeding the sum of its parts. But Sunset Cities is a promising sign the four will continue to turn heads in Australia’s hip hop scene.

8.5

Mira Calix

utopia

British experimental/acid jazz artist Chantal Passamonte – who records under the moniker Mira Calix – has hit it out of the park with her new EP utopia.

The South African expat started her career as what can be best described as an avant-garde vocal artist but has developed into a genuine maestro of contemporary music.

Opening song ‘rightclick’ is driven by a slowly plucked bass that is ridden by fragmented vocals and various organic and inorganic samples. It melodically marches on gathering then shedding various layers until the listener is left with the bass line it began with.

‘Just go along’ follows a similar framework to ‘rightclick’: while it still features a barrage of random samples and Passamonte’s spoken vocals fragmented, it’s spine is a rhythm created by organic instrumentation. The vocal aspect is a conversation between a female and male that sees the exchange, “Do you want me or do you just go along with things?” and then “I want you” delivered as single words then fill sentences and everything in between.

Despite dealing mostly dulcet tones and muffled beats, utopia is not background music.

BY DAN WATT

’s

Traffik Island

Nature Strip When prodigious Melbourne talent Zak Olsen emerged with his latest project Traffik Island, the music wise couldn’t have been criticised for thinking more garage-tinged goodness was on the way. Hierophants, Bonniwells and The Frowning Clouds all explored the rawest capabilities of the guitar while Olsen’s most radical venture, ORB, has taken such allure with music’s most popular instrument to a new level, sowing the agriculture that Black Sabbath had once cultivated with a psychedelic shade.

Now, Olsen is changing things up, introducing a greater buoyancy to his music. Traffik Island is psychedelic pop with country garnishes and courts Melbourne’s deep fascination with jangle-pop. Traffik Island’s debut single, ‘17’, came in December and Olsen has returned some months later with the project’s first full-length offering, Nature Strip. Replete with sunny instrumentals and vibrant lyricism, it’s a stunning left turn from the songwriter.

The record delivers from head to toe and there isn’t an unequivocal centrepiece. ‘Looking Up’ is a live favourite and Traffik Island enthusiasts will be pleased to see it make its way onto record. Other highlights include opener ‘Bluish Pale’, ‘Free 2 Be Free’, ‘Queenspark’ and the wandering instrumental track ‘One Tenth of a Second’. For those not ready to bid summer farewell, this one’s for you.

BY TOM PARKER

BY JACOB NAZROO

BEAT.COM.AU

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Gig Guide

FEATURED GIGS

Ash Sumpter + Kinnon THE DRUNKEN POET

Gear up for another edition of Wine, Whisky, Women at The Drunken Poet, this week featuring local vocalists Ash Sumpter and Kinnon. It goes down on Wednesday February 20 from 8pm. Free as usual.

Messy Mammals

THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL

Warped pop duo Messy Mammals have recently evolved into a sixpiece live band, making for one interesting edition of the John Curtin Hotel’s Wondercore Wednesdays. Catch the action on Wednesday February 20 from 8pm, with $10 tickets on the door.

The Grubby Urchins

THE BROTHERS PUBLIC HOUSE

Melbourne duo The Grubby Urchins are a mixture of traditional jazz, sea shanty and old fashioned folk, armed with heady harmonies and intrepid instrumentals.

Catch them down in Fitzroy at The Brothers Public House on Wednesday February 20, free from 8pm.

Wednesday 20 Feb Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music AGUS BATARA QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club,

8pm.

$15.

Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7pm.

BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

ELLE SHIMADA + TIARYN + HA NA + MATTHEW HAYES Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm.

$10.

ERIC ROBERSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

7:45pm. $39.

ESKE Classic Southside, Elsternwick. 8pm. $20.

FANTASTIC FEBRUARY OF FUSION - FEAT: THE BRIDGE + DOUBLE STANDARDS + THE HARD JAZZ BOIZZ 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

JAZZ BAZAAR - FEAT: AUDREY POWNE + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

JEDEKAIH + KANANI + STEFFII Workers

Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.

ROB BURKE SEXTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.

SANDIE WHITE TRIO + ESMOND SELWYN The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

SONGS & TIMES OF SAM COOKE - FEAT: GARY PINTO Athenaeum Theatre,

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $69.

TANGO SUR Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8pm. $10.

THE SOUNDS OF SILENT Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. $14.57.

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.

Katie Wighton WESLEY ANNE

Katie Wighton usually performs as one fourth of All Our Exes Live In Texas, but has taken a break to work on her solo project, KIT. You can catch her free show at Wesley Anne on Thursday February 21, kicking off at 6pm.

Quinton Trembath + more BAR 303

You’ll be able to catch Quinton Trembath, Joe Guiton, Just Asta and Brody Greg at Northcote’s 303 for an evening of laidback acoustic tunes this Thursday February 21.

Things start at 8pm with free entry, so you can save your pennies for a pint.

Frank Raymond & The Silhouettes FAD GALLERY

Longtime favourites at FAD Gallery, Frank Raymond & The Silhouettes, will be delivering their usual blend of funky, folky rock ‘n’ roll this Thursday February 21. It goes down from 9pm and entry is free. Get on it.

DANA SIPOS + MANDY CONNELL Some JULES BOULT Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

KINNON Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.

LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: ROBBIE GRIEG DUO + DAN HALL + BOB HUTCHINSON Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8pm.

MELBOURNE'S BIGGEST OPEN MIC NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm.

MUDDY'S BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm.

MUSICLAND OPEN CHOIR REHEARSALS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $5.

OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm.

OPEN MIC Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

8:30pm.

OPEN MIC Penny Black, Brunswick. 7pm.

OPEN MIC + VARIOUS ARTISTS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5pm.

SATU VÄNSKÄ + KRISTIAN CHONG Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $62.

THE ACLAND STREET EXPRESS + GEOFF ACHISON Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $10.

THE GRUBBY URCHINS The Brothers Public

House, Fitzroy. 8pm.

Y-SQUARED Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $69.

THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Brunswick

Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

WILL VINSON TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers BLACK TEMPLE + EDIT THE EMPIRE + BELLE LYNCH Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

7:30pm. $10.

COCKNEY REJECTS + WOLFPACK + THE CLINCH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.

COUSIN TOM + NADIA HANAAN Classic

Southside, Elsternwick. 7:30pm. $10.

DEATHBEAT + PLOVERS + LAEDJ Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

EARTHLESS + SEEDY JEEZUS Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $49.90.

FEEDING FAUNA + VINNIE LADUCE + WINTERNATIONALE + WARPLANE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

FLYNN EFFECT + COFFIN CAROUSEL + COLOUR & SHADE + DIE IN A DREAM Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

GREAT GABLE + DULCIE + THE VELVET CLUB Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7pm. $19.40.

HEART BEACH + PERFECT WHIP + S.P TWIN + BOLLARD Nighthawks, Collingwood.

7:30pm. $10.

HIDEOUS SUN DEMON + EASY BROWNS Globe Alley, Melbourne. 8pm.

JOE GUITON + QUINTON TREMBATH + BROODY GREG + JUST ASTA 303, Northcote.

6pm. $39.

8pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers

YUKUMBABE + TESS GUTHRIE + DOE EYES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

CHITRA, MOONLOVER + CHITRA + MOONLOVER Espy, St Kilda. 8pm.

CITY ROSE + COLD HEAT + BODY CORPORATE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

DAL SANTO + POLARIZE + SOPHIE OFFICER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. $10.

JOE TERROR + JOE VERTIGO + THE BELAFTONES + GOYDERS LINE Tote Hotel,

Thursday 21 Feb

LABRETTA SUEDE & THE MOONDOG 2 PIECE PACK + THEE CHA CHA CHAS + THE GO FUCK YOURSELVES Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 6pm.

LITTLE ELIZABETH + GUTTER GIRLS + GUFFMAN Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.

MALCURA + WAX JAX & THE MIDNIGHT SNAX + NO BETTER Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $5.

MIDWEEK MASS - FEAT: SLUTBOMB + COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE? + I HAVE A GOAT + MUDDY LAWRENCE + HAND OF FEAR Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. $5.

SWELL 4.0 ~ MUSIC AS MEDICINE - FEAT: NARETHA WILLIAMS + EDD FISHER + DEEP SOULFUL SWEATS + THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY + DOLLFACE + HYBRID MAN Espy, St Kilda. 6:30pm. $45.

THE CHERRY BASTARDS + DAN K. Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

THE HOLLIES Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne),

Southbank. 8pm. $99.90.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights CLASSICO - FEAT: VARTAN + SALVADOR RICARDO + ALESSIO LATINA Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

KASSETTE - FEAT: MZRIZK + SLIPPERY SLOPES + KAM + RUDI Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

NEW KIDS - FEAT: SADIVA + BECK RUSSACK + GABRIEL LCR Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

POSTAL - FEAT: POST PERCY + DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10pm.

WONDERCORE WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: MESSY MAMMALS + HORATIO LUNA John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $10.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + LUKE VECCHIO + TORY ALLEN + GAY ROBERTO + BROWNBEAR Revolver Upstairs,

Prahran. 6pm.

FIA FIELL + ECHO PARK + HONEY 2 HONEY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

GUERNS - FEAT: BABY G + ZJOSO + DISRUTE + BIGMAC + THIS SIDE OF PARADISE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

LIVE ELECTRONIC SHOWCASE - FEAT: ARCHIE JONES OBSCURE OVERLORDS + 55KHZ + THEY/THEM + MAJOR DELAY Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 7pm.

SUITE 909 - FEAT: FAREEVADER Ferdydurke,

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

WAT ARTISTS - THURSDAYS - FEAT: LOUIS MCCOY + MERVE + MIDNIGHT TENDERNESS + MORE Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music A MUSICAL TRIBUTE - WES MONTGOMERY - FEAT: JACK PANTAZIS GROUP Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

$25.

ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO

KING CIG + IBIS + GIANT CLAM + TRICKGYPSY + RUSE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

8pm. $5.

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

MAROOTA JOE + NUADA + THE HUM DRUMS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.

MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.

MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel,

Williamstown. 8pm.

MISS ROSIE & THE TOP CATS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.

MR. SOPHISTICATION + JACUZZI + ZOJ + CARPET BURN Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar,

North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8.

NIGHTCLUB + OV PAIN Post Office Hotel,

Coburg. 9pm.

PLOTZ + TRAVALLEY + LEGENDS Espy, St

Kilda. 8pm.

ROOFEST 2019 - FEAT: THE TROPES + LOVEBONER + HOT TO ROT + GIRL GERMS + GO GET MUM + RHYSICS + CULTE + PINCH POINTS + FLESHED OUT + HANNAH KATE + MOD VIGIL Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 1pm. $15.

SLUTBOMB + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + SEVEN MARGARITAS + DEVIL MONKEY Young Street Supper Club, Frankston. 7pm. $10.

SPACE JUNK + WICKED CITY + CLAWS & ORGANS + SHANE & DOG CUNTS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7pm.

STAGE FRIGHT - FEAT: BAREFOOT SPACEMEN + THE FRIDAY NIGHTS + FOGGY GOGGLES Stay Gold, Brunswick. 8pm. $10.

Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.

STRAY KIDS Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7pm.

$5.

THE GARDEN + SPIKE FUCK + FULL FLOWER MOON BAND John Curtin Hotel,

BBYDDY + EMMA VOLLARD + OUTER BLUE SUITE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

$120.

ERIC ROBERSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

Carlton. 8pm. $30.

FIRETAIL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7pm.

JAZZ LAUGHTER DARK - FEAT: OTIRA ROGUE + VARIOUS COMEDIANS Open

Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

7:45pm. $39.

Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm.

MAXON & THE LEADING LIGHTS + MORE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.

SAGAMORE + LAGUNA Penny Black, Brunswick.

Hip Hop & R&B

8pm.

KRISHOOL + KRSTN + WALLY HOWLETT + EMMANUEL KELLY Toff In

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $15.

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

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ANCIENT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA + IVY LUCILLE Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.

ASH SUMPTER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $20.

WIND IT UP - FEAT: CLAUDIA JONES

Katie Wighton

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk

SEX ON TOAST + PEACHNOISE Cherry Bar, SONGS & TIMES OF SAM COOKE - FEAT: GARY PINTO Athenaeum Theatre,

THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS TUSC. + SIMON RIGONI + SWEDISH POP FACTORY + BOB HARROW Red Betty, Brunswick. 7pm. $10.

VOICE IMITATOR + ESP MAYHEM + BODY MAINTENANCE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm.

WARDENS + THE VEINS + EASTBOUND BUZZ + THE NEW DREGS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.

FOR THE FULL GIG GUIDE HEAD TO BEAT.COM.AU/GIG-GUIDE

FEATURED GIGS

Hip Hop & R&B HIP HOP THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

LAUNDRY THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10pm.

NEXT CROP HIP HOP SHOWCASE - FEAT: L0NE + JA$E PRIME + SIN SANTOS + 9 VIBES + CEASE SIM + ADONIS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.

THROWBAX THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ANYA + CITIZEN.COM + FLIP3000 + TEE DUBYA + DJ SENSI + SISTA SARA + LOTUS MOONCHILD + MORE Little Jax, Melbourne. 6pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

BACKWOOD CREATURES Hume Blues Club

(shake Shack), Coburg. 7:30pm.

CHAMPAGNE SAM & ADAM GARE + ANDY SCOTT + JODY BELL + MORE Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $15.

DANIEL TRAKELL + AMARINA WATERS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8pm.

FRANK RAYMOND & THE SILHOUETTES Fad Gallery, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

GERRY HALE The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy.

8pm.

JOYCE PRESCHER + KHRISTIAN MIZZI Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7:30pm.

JUMPIN' JACK WILLIAM + GRACE CUMMINGS + JOSEPH S. FAIRBURN Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8pm.

KATIE WIGHTON Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 7pm.

RANK OUTSIDERS + THE REFUGE + THE FILLMORE BROTHERS Retreat Hotel,

Brunswick. 8pm.

BBQ HAQUE + PLASTER OF PARIS Post

Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

BELLE PHOENIX BAND Compass Pizza,

Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

BOYPARTS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 6pm.

BRIAN CADD Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave.

7:30pm. $39.80.

BUTTERNUT SWEETHEART + DARVID THOR Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:30pm.

CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.

CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

CRY CLUB + SLUSH + MORE Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

DANGEROUS CURVES + BLACK ALPINE + GYPSY Last Chance Rock And Roll

Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.

DEAR THIEVES + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + GOING SWIMMING + PISTOL PEACHES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF SURF - FEAT: MOTHER CULTURE + MAJAK DOOR + LE PINE + MORE Yah

Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

EYESORES + CITY ROSE + UNDERCOVER CROPS + SANDY DISH Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.

FILLMORE BROTHERS + SWAMP + LAGUNA + KOSMETIKA Yarra Hotel,

Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $10.

GEORGE TRIMMER BAND Royal Hotel

(essendon), Essendon. 10:30pm.

AFTER HOURS - FEAT: DJ SPELL + WALLA C + KVKA Horse Bazaar, Melbourne

Cbd. 8pm.

BOX HILL INSTITUTE PRESENTS SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: BETH & NATHAN + ISEULA + POOKIE Box Hill Mall, Box Hill. 4pm.

HAVANA FRIDAYS - FEAT: MC SEBA + MORE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

LAUNDRY FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.

MELBOURNE HIP HOP FESTIVAL - FEAT: THE JUNGLE BROTHERS + SUNSET CITIES + KROWN + CURSE OV DIALECT + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 12pm.

$44.90.

RENELOPHUS + GOOD MORNING KAOS + MR HIDE & THE FREE SPIRITS 303, Northcote. 7pm. $10.

RNB FRIDAYS CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm.

SLAY - FEAT: KAE + GS PHANTOM + DJ LOUELLA DEVILLE + 007BADASS + JC KING Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow,

Melbourne. 11pm.

AFFINITY MINUS PERFECTION + IN DECEPTION + SHOPPING TROLLEY FIST FIGHT + DIEFM Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $10.

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - FEAT: JACK JONES + CIARAN GRIBBIN + RAI THISTLETHWAYTE + JACKSON THOMAS + THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 8pm. $90.65.

AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9pm.

BANANARAMA + TIFFANY + AMBER Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $99.90.

ALOE BLACC + KAIIT Melbourne Zoo, Parkville.

5:30pm. $68.60.

BLUE SHIVOO + SUPER JUPITER + CIRCLE PERSON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

DJ ANNALIESE REDLICH Transit, Melbourne

Cbd. 7pm.

8pm. $39.80.

LEGENDS OF GOFPOS Red Betty, Brunswick.

LOCO HOMBRES Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8pm.

MADE IN USA - SPRINGSTEEN/ MELLENCAMP/PETTY TRIBUTE SHOW + THE CHARTBUSTERS Ascot Vale Hotel,

Ascot Vale. 9pm.

MAROON 5 + CXLOE Rod Laver Arena,

Melbourne. 7:30pm.

ME-GRAINES + PREHISTORIC DOUCHE Espy, St Kilda. 8pm.

MORDI + TOBIAS WONDERDOG + FUNKMAN Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm. $10.20.

NEW WAR + TERRIBLE TRUTHS + PARSNIP Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

$15.85.

PARAMORE NIGHT - FEAT: PARACORE + FUTURE STATIC + STAND TALL + BELL PARK Stay Gold, Brunswick. 7:30pm. $5.

PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH + MOWGLI + ABURDEN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm. $35.

POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town,

Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

PRIVATE FUNCTION + DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS + BURNT SAUSAGES + SPIKE THE RIVER Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12.

RAW BRIT Rah Bar, South Yarra. 7pm. $27.

REIGN Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.

SLUTBOMB + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + GLEN & THE PEANUT BUTTER MEN + SEVEN MARGARITAS The B.east, Brunswick East. 8pm.

SOFALA + TOMGIRL + APLEGATE Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 9pm. $10.20.

THE BEASTS + DALLAS CRANE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8pm. $51.

THE FLORETS + LOVEBONER Fitzroy

Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7pm.

THE HARD ACHES + NOTHING REALLY + PREMIUM CABLE + YO LANDE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8pm.

THE SORCERERS + COSMOS Whole Lotta

Love, Brunswick East. 7pm. $10.

THE STAINED DAISIES + BAREFOOT BOWLS CLUB + THE DADSONS Penny

Black, Brunswick. 8pm.

TLJ Fox Hotel (collingwood), Collingwood. 8pm.

TWO STAGE RAGE - FEAT: STONED TO DEATH + THE KAT O ARMY + COMMISSIONER BOURBON + DEAD TRANSMISSION + BLACK MONROE

Julien Wilson JASPER’S

Join jazz saxophonist Julien Wilson, pianist Mark Fitzgibbon, double bassist Philip Rex and drummer Danny Fischer as they play their way through the music of Dexter Gordon this Thursday February 21. Goes down from 9.30pm at Jasper’s, just $20 on the door.

DJ MURPH Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm.

ERIC ROBERSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

7:45pm. $39.

FAT PICNIC + 8 FOOT FELIX + OGOPOGO Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

JAM JAR Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

JAMES MACAULAY'S JAZZ ROULETTE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

MEZA + SEBITICAS + CHIBCHA Station 59,

Rat Child

Richmond. 8pm. $10.

NO REGRETS - THE EDITH PIAF STORY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

PICKPOCKET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $27.50.

RADIOSUCCESSI Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $27.50.

RAT CHILD Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6pm.

SONGS & TIMES OF SAM COOKE - FEAT: GARY PINTO Athenaeum Theatre,

4:30pm.

7pm.

Hip Hop & R&B

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music

GREAT GABLE + DULCIE + VELVET BLOOM Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $15.

INXSIVE Royal Hotel (essendon), Essendon. 9pm.

IV LEAGUE + BAD BANGS + HANNAH KATE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $12.

JON STEVENS Shoppingtown Hotel, Doncaster.

UNPAINTED PROSPECTS Charles Weston

Friday 22 Feb

WATAIN + ESKHATON + NOCTURNAL GRAVES Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $61.75.

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $69.

KISSTROYER Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington. 8pm. $28.60.

Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

Collingwood. 7pm.

GERMEIN + JAMES FRANKLIN Toff In

Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $15.

THE FEATHERHEADS + JESS PARKER & THE TROUBLED WATERS The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm.

+ GRIDFLEX + MORE Bendigo Hotel,

TAYLOR & SILK Arkibar, South Melbourne.

THE ALEXANDER NETTELBECK QUARTET Classic Southside, Elsternwick. 8pm.

THE CONNIE LANSBERG QUARTET Lido

Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.

THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA + ZEITGEIST FREEDOM ENERGY EXCHANGE + GUEST DJS John

Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $20.

THE WOOHOO REVUE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.

VINCE JONES QUARTET The Jazzlab,

Brunswick. 8pm. $48.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights AXED - FEAT: DOCTOR TERROR + THE MASSACRE + PASSENGER OF SHIT + SPEEDLOADER + ENCRYPTER + JOR TERROR + NINJA GAIJIN Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 7pm. $10.

CHILADELPHIA FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd.

4pm.

DJ PIERRE + MERVE + MAX VEGAS + DJ MITCHELL GEE + STRING THEOREM Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $25.

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

EN PASSANT & TYPE NINE PRESENTS - FEAT: SHINICHIRO IMANARI + ENIAC + EISEN + PWD + BEX + GED Boney, 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

Rat Child

EDINBURGH CASTLE

Rat Child will be bringing her blend of soul, folk and storytelling to Brunswick’s Edinburgh Castle, capturing audiences with her earnest lyricism and penchant for social change. Catch it on Friday February 22 from 6pm with free entry.

Legends of Gospos RED BETTY

The Legends of Gospos are putting the fun back in pub rock, playing all their classics for Red Betty punters this Friday February 22. You can catch their free show when it kicks off at 7pm.

Gwyn Ashton

THE LOMOND HOTEL

Catch Gwyn Ashton play his way through two hours worth of material, ranging from acoustic roots to ‘60s-style garage rock, and almost everything in between.

He’ll be taking to The Lomond Hotel on Friday February 22 from 8pm with free entry to boot.

Don Hillman’s Secret Beach ROYAL OAK

Singer Don Hillman pens tunes about quintessential Australian scene scapes we all know in some regard; rolling coastlines, wild bushland and roaring surf. Get swept away by him and his band at the Royal Oak on Friday February 22, from 8pm.

Cbd. 5pm.

GROUCH + MUSKA Howler, Brunswick. 8pm.

$34.49.

HYDRAULIX + KRISCHVN + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm. $25.

KLL SMTH + WHITEBEAR + COPYCATT + HERZELOYDE + MORE 24 Moons,

Northcote. 10pm. $25.

LUIGI MADONNA + BEC GRENFELL + BROOKE POWELL + CAINE SINCLAIR + HANDSDOWN + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm. $25.

MI CASA - FEAT: LEE LAWLESS + DICKY + LUCCA TAN + DAMON WALSH + SILVERSIX Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

10pm.

MO'FUNK + ROB ANTHONY + JAY RAMON + FUNKY COL + BOYBLEWE + ROWIE + MEL HALL + ADAM TRACE + NICK TAPLIN Onesixone, Prahran. 9pm. $20.

MR. CHAN'S - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 10pm. $20.

QURZFK FRIDAYS - MISFIT MANSION

Amie Grisold

Amie Grisold CHARLES WESTON

Amie Grisold is proof of the old “quality over quantity” adage, with only a spattering of charming tracks on her debut EP, Spun.

Watch her perform them live at the Charles Weston on Saturday February 23, free from 6.30pm.

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FEATURED GIGS

- FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Rubix Warehouse,

Brunswick. 9pm. $12.

REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: JAMES STEER + MIKE CALLANDER + DAYLE + MATTHEW COVENTRY + KITI + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm.

TAPE LOOP - FEAT: BEX + ZJOSO + TAPE LEISURE + SELENA WONG + HAMISH WILLIAMS & ESCARGO Loop,

Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

Oliver Shute

Oliver Shute COMPASS PIZZA

Young gun jazz drummer Ollie Shute is leaving Melbourne for a while, and throwing a farewell show at Compass Pizza. He’ll be joined by the usual band on Saturday February 23, so catch them while you can.

Kicks off at 8pm and tickets are $5 on the door.

Dirty Bloods SWAMPLANDS

We’re already two months into 2019, but Dirty Bloods are only just making their return to the gig circuit.

They’ll be heading up Swamplands on Saturday February 23, with a couple of special guests in tow. The free show kicks off at 8pm.

Slugbucket BOMBAY ROCK

Local rockers Slugbucket are celebrating the release of their second EP Goodeye, with a party that everyone’s invited to. You can catch the four-piece and friends for free this Saturday February 23 at Bombay Rock, going down from 7.30pm.

Josh Kelly

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk 19-TWENTY + RACH BRENNAN & THE PINES The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $23.50.

DAN WALKER & THE GLASS HALF FULL

Head down to Radio Bar in Fitzroy for your weekly dose of Drum n Bass. With a rotating roster of artists on hand each week, your Mondays will never be boring again. It all goes down on Monday February 25, free from 6pm.

GRACE KING Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6pm.

GWYN ASHTON Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

9:30pm.

HAT FITZ & CARA + MIKE ELRINGTON Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $25.

JAMES ELLIS Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

JESS & MATT Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8pm.

$35.

JOSHUA SEYMOUR + KAT MEAR Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm.

KAREN LEE ANDREWS + COOKIE BAKER + TELOS TEACUP Spotted Mallard,

Brunswick. 8:30pm. $25.82.

LAURA JEAN + JADE IMAGINE + HONEY 2 HONEY Corner Hotel, Richmond.

8:30pm. $25.

RODGER DELFOS & THE BEATRIDERS

$25.

8pm.

Southbank. 8pm. $90.65.

AMAYA LAUCIRICA + CYANIDE THORNTON + THOMAS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

ANDRE WARHURST & THE RARE BYRDS Union Hotel (brunswick), Brunswick. 5pm.

BJ MORRISZONKLE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

BOB LOG III + LABRETTA SUEDE & THE MOONDOG TWO PIECE PACK The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm.

BRIAN CADD & BAND Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm. $30.

SHINBONE STAR BLUES Musicland, Fawkner.

CABLE TIES BALL 2019 + CABLE TIES + FRIENDSHIPS + P-UNIQUE + HITS + WAX CHATTELS + PORPOISE SPIT + MOODY BEACHES + DJ AIRHORN MAMI + PAUL GORRIE + SULLIVAN

TAYLOR PROJECT Swamplands Bar, Thornbury.

Corner Hotel, Richmond. 6:30pm. $28.

Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8pm. $10.

SHAUNA TONY AND CO The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 8pm.

7:30pm. $10.

THE FOUR SCOOPS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION

CAMP COPE + DRMNGNOW + HEXDEBT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7pm.

CANAAN + JAYWELL + ​JOSH JACOBZ

Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6pm.

Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.

10:30pm.

DESTRENDS + ZOË FOX & THE ROCKET CLOCKS + SOPHISTICATED DINGO + HOUSEHATS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

DIRTY BLOODS + ROCKY & NANCY’S + TRASH & THE TREASURES Swamplands Bar,

Thornbury. 8pm.

DJ TARDISCO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm.

DRAGON Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave. 8pm. $34.70.

DUMB PUNTS + VERTIGO Labour In Vain,

Saturday 23 Feb

Fitzroy. 7pm.

EFFI'S FIGHTING PILLOW + ALPHINGTON Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

ELECTRIC MARY Memo Music Hall, St Kilda.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music

7pm. $20.

ELLA HOOPER Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh

ALL IN PRESENTS - FEAT: LIJUKA + QUADRIFID The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 6pm. $15.

ALMA ZYGIER BAND The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

East. 8pm. $28.

CARIÑO SON - FEAT: CARINO SON

Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9pm. $12.53.

8pm. $30.

Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. $10.

CHELSEA WILSON Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8pm. $30.

COOKIN’ ON 3 BURNERS + DJ PERIL. THE SEVEN UPS Howler, Brunswick. 8pm. $29.34.

DJ LADY SOUL Fox Hotel (collingwood),

FLUFF + PAM SALMON Cherry Bar,

Melbourne Cbd. 3pm.

FULL TONE GENERATOR + KING ZOG GAMJEE + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5pm.

GREAT GABLE + DULCIE Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 6pm. $15.

GROOVE NATION Royal Hotel (essendon),

Essendon. 9pm.

Collingwood. 8pm.

KILLED BY TECHNOLOGY + SLOW TALK + ​ANDREW LUCAS HALL Workers

7:45pm. $39.

MATT DOLL + THE BAMBI KILLS Chapel

Chelsea Heights. 8pm. $39.80.

MEANDER + MARLON BANDO Grace

Brunswick East. 8:30pm. $5.

METAL IN FRANKSTON - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Young Street Supper Club,

ERIC ROBERSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

HOUSE OF SHEM Chelsea Heights Hotel, IT’S MY GIG I CAN CRY IF I WANT TO - OLIVER SHUTE FAREWELL Compass Pizza, MOHSEN NAMJOO QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7pm. $79.

NARDIA ROSE BAND Transit, Melbourne Cbd.

9pm.

NO REGRETS - THE EDITH PIAF STORY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

REBECCA MENDOZA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $30.

SANTA TARANTA Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $12.

SLOW GRIND FEVER - FEAT: RICHIE1250 + MOHAIR SLIM + PIERRE BARONI + FABULOUS FEZ Bar Open, Fitzroy.

10:30pm. $12.

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THE JOHN SCURRY QUARTET (WITH EUGENE BALL) Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm.

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - FEAT: JACK JONES + CIARAN GRIBBIN + RAI THISTLETHWAYTE + JACKSON THOMAS + THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne),

Hall, West Melbourne. 8pm. $60.

RADIO BAR

$32.50.

Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 5pm.

ZIGGY ALBERTS + NATHAN BALL Festival

Drum n Bass

THE INCREDIBLE WORKS OF JOHN WILLIAMS - FEAT: TOSHI CLINCH & BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers

8:30pm. $15.

Spend your Sunday arvo soaking up the soothing folky vocals of local muso Nathan Power, who’ll be playing a free show at Clifton Hill Brewpub. You can catch him on February 24 from 4pm.

Elsternwick. 8pm. $25.

GOPHER BROKE IX - FEAT: WHISKEY DRAM + UNCLE BEN'S LAST WORDS + DEAD PEASANTS + BRI + BRODYGREG

8pm. $10.

WOODY PITNEY + HARRIS + BEN & HANNAH STEINER Workers Club, Fitzroy.

CLIFTON HILL BREWPUB

THE BARNEY MCALL QUARTET + JAY RODRIGEZ Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

THE BOB SEDERGREEN TRIO (WITH ANNEMARIE SHARRY) Classic Southside,

ZEDSIX The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm. $10.

West. 6pm.

Nathan Power

8pm.

EUGENE HOLCOMBE Wesley Anne, Northcote.

Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 8pm.

VICTOR STRANGES Cafe Cibo Bar, Cranbourne

Young saxophonist Josh Kelly is joined by bassist Tamara Murphy and drummer James Mclean to form the Josh Kelly Trio, playing at The Jazzlab this weekend. You can catch them on Sunday February 24 from 8pm, and tickets are $20 on the door.

STOKA + LONGBOYS + YARA Espy, St Kilda.

DON HILLMAN'S SECRET BEACH Royal

Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8:30pm.

Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.

THE JAZZLAB

Frankston. 7:30pm. $79.

TRIO AGOGO Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 4pm.

WE ARE BANDICOOT + UNIVERSAL OUTCAST + MORE Penny Black, Brunswick.

VICTOR KENNEDY YOU YANGS

Josh Kelly Trio

SONGS & TIMES OF SAM COOKE FEAT: GARY PINTO Frankston Arts Centre,

Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12.

Off Chapel, Prahran. 8pm. $35.

Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.

Frankston. 9pm.

MOUNT DEFIANCE + SQUID FISHING + LUKE SEYMOUP + EAGLEMONT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7pm. $10.

MS DEMEANOUR & THE OFFENDERS The New Yorker (lilydale), Lilydale. 6pm.

NO AGE + TERRY + BIG SUPERMARKET John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $30.

PLASTIC + WAY DYNAMIC + CARPET BURN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.

PRETTY CITY + THE QUARTERS + PLOTZ + MORE Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT + MOJO JUJU

Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $83.85.

SARAH MARY CHADWICK + MORE Nighthawks, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

SLUGBUCKET + MURDERBALLS + PROTOSPASM + STONECHAIN Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

STRUGGLE SESSION + SCROTAL VICE + DIPLOID + UMBILICAL TENTACLE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15.

THE BEASTS + DALLAS CRANE The Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm. $56.10.

THE GOOCH PALMS + THE GROGANS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $20.

THE GREAT EMU WAR CASUALTIES + KING CAPTURE + STRANGERS FOR SALE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

THE REGULAR BOYS Royal Hotel

(mornington), Mornington. 8pm.

THE TARANTINOS + SANTANICO PANDEMONIUM & THE GOGO GODESSES Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $5.

THE TREPIDS + PSYCHIC SOCIAL CLUB + MONKEY BISCUIT + THE RABBIT LOUNGE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $13.

TRAPT + CHASING LANA + ROSES FOR GHOSTS Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $60.

TWO PIECE BAND FESTIVAL - FEAT: THEE CHA CHA CHAS + EVIL TWIN + DEATHBEAT + I HAVE A GOAT + MOONHUNTER + DECEPTIVE BENDS + WET LOVE + THE CIGARRILLOS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 1pm.

UNDAMAGED + I AM DUCKEYE + TSUGNARLY + GRIDFLEX Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7pm. $10.

WENDY RULE Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury.

8:30pm. $35.

WHITE DEVIL DETROIT + KVLTS OF VICE + VICIOUS ADDICTION + THE CHEVALIERS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.

$10.

ZEAL & ARDOR + ENCIRCLING SEA + SULDUSK Stay Gold, Brunswick. 8pm.

ZEFFA Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean

Grove. 7:30pm. $20.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights ANGUS DAWSON + PRISCILLA + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.

BLISS + OVERDRIVE + TRAVLOS + COMBO! + AMINOS KH + YROR? + MADELEINE + MORE Platform One, Melbourne. 10pm. $20.

COAST 2 COAST - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS 24 Moons, Northcote. 6pm. $10.

EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: CHRISS MATTO + ETWAS + MATTEO FREYRIE + MATTEO GRITTI + ADIERO + NUKIER + MORE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10.

HOMEBASS - FEAT: GOOSEBUMPZ + MUSTARD TIGER + AURAMECHANIC + KUFATALI + SECRET ACT 303, Northcote.

8:30pm. $10.

JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm.

MYTHOLOGY - FEAT: JESS ZAMMIT + RUBINI + GAY ROBERTO + POST PERCY + HEADRUSH! HEADRUSH! HEADRUSH! + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd.

9pm.

PAWN SATURDAYS - FEAT: KINKY MALINKI + SAUL BLISS + HENTON + FOSTERS + NORDEAN + ADAM TRACE + ASH LEE + SIMON MILAN Pawn & Co,

South Yarra. 10pm. $20.

PONY - FEBRUARY ONE OFF - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

PRIME TIME DAY NIGHT SERIES - FEAT: MARY LAKE + COLETTE + FLOSS DOGG + PORCELAIN PRINCE + ROBBIE NINE-O + FREDDY GARDENS Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm.

PUSSY MOTHERS + VANESSA WORM + MEADOWMEN + RIVER YARRA + NICE GIRL + EDEN BURNS Boney, Melbourne Cbd.

11pm.

SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

SNACK ATTACK (WITH DJ 2P) - FEAT: SNACK ATTACK (WITH DJ 2P) Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.

SOLAR - DAY PARTY - FEAT: SUNSHINE + SPACEY SPACE + BRIAN FANTANA + RYAN HAYNES + THE SLINGSBY BROTHERS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 2pm.

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SOOKI SATURDAYS - FUNK FOR THE FOREST - FEAT: LUKE MCD + B-THAM + BROWNBEAR + CONNOR MAC Sooki

AUSECUMA BEATS Bar Oussou, Brunswick.

9pm.

JOSH KEYS + DJ SWELLA + EDDIE EXAMPLE + ALEXANDER LUC Section 8,

THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: RANSOM + BINOFSKI + DINOBITCH + MAT CANT + POCOCK + LEWIS CANCUT + TOM MOORE + NICK MURRAY + MONTY MCGAW Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm.

TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC Toff

Brunswick. 3pm.

SUNDAY BEATS IN THE BEER GARDEN - FEAT: DJ MALPRACTICE Inkerman Hotel,

7:45pm. $39.

TOMBOY PARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS

6pm.

Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 3pm.

Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $15.

In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.

WALPOLE SESSIONS - FEAT: DOM IMPIOM + DETAILS + LEWIS WADDELL + UNDERGROUND FACILITIES + TOM TANTO + HEZZA Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

Hip Hop & R&B BAK + MAC-ELEVEN + RUDY V + KROWN Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

BROOKE CANDY + MORE Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:30pm.

BRUNSWICK CHAMBER SESSIONS - FEAT: POLARITY DUO Brunswick Green, ERIC ROBERSON Bird's Basement, Melbourne.

GEORGIA BENNETT Wesley Anne, Northcote.

JOSH KELLY TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm.

$20.

LOOSE MOOSE + SPIRITUS + THE MAMMAS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

NARDIA BRANCATISANO Paris Cat Jazz

Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $25.

REFLEJOS Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.

ROB SIMONE BIG BAND + DAREBIN CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA Bar Open, Fitzroy.

7:30pm. $10.

SLACKROPE Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 4pm.

SUNDAY JAM - FEAT: BARTON FINK HOUSE BAND Barton Fink, Thornbury. 5pm.

TAYLOR & SILK Central Club Hotel (north

Melbourne), North Melbourne. 3pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 4pm.

Balaclava. 2pm.

TRAUMER Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8pm. $20.

VERVE VOL. 4 - FEAT: GOOD GRACIOUS + C.FRIM + GABRIEL LCR + JESS ZAMMIT & DJ MUM + ZEITGEIST FREEDOM ENERGY EXCHANGE Penny

Black, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER + PAIGE SPIERS + PAIGE SMITH Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 2pm.

APPALACHIAN HEAVEN STRINGBAND + TOM & JERRY Open Studio, Northcote. 12pm.

BACKYARD BREW Royal Hotel (mornington),

ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + A1KRASHN Co., Southbank. 9pm.

KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + DURMY + MORE

Balaclava. 4:30pm.

Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

Northcote. 5:30pm. $10.

Brunswick. 5pm.

Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers

Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 5pm. $94.90.

KWAME + ARNO FARAJI + MAYA HIRASEDO Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.

LAUNDRY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.

PROMETHEAN - FEAT: KECH KIDD + L0NE + $LIM + BCM + REIIS + NETTI + LUI + ELAPIDAE + ECO$YSTEM + WEBBY + CENSEI CEEZ Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 9pm. $10.

WORD OF MOUTH - FEAT: KING KREO + APEX + STRINGAZ + SERA KAY Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.

Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk AMIE GRISOLD Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar,

VINCE JONES The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7pm. $41.85.

WILDE + MEL TAYLOR Open Studio,

AFFINITY MINUS PERFECTION + A NEW WAY HOME + JUPITER THE GIANT + IN DECEPTION Sooki Lounge,

Belgrave. 8pm. $9.20.

ANNA SCIONTI Union Hotel (brunswick),

Brunswick. 3:30pm.

BOOM CRASH OPERA, TAXIRIDE + BOOM CRASH OPERA + TAXIRIDE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 12:30pm. $45.

CHECKERBOARD Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

4pm.

CORNERSTONE + DEBRA BYRNE

Mornington. 3pm.

CISCO CAESAR Union Hotel (brunswick), DANIEL O'DONNELL + MARY DUFF FIONA BOYES & GARY J VINCENT Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 7pm. $15.

FLINDERS QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 2:30pm. $45.

FRANKSTON CITY BLUES JAM - FEAT: DIDDY REYES + VARIOUS ARTISTS Young Street Supper Club, Frankston. 6pm.

GIG COLLECTIVE - FEAT: WALTER + RACHAEL BELOT + PEARL LEE Yarra Hotel,

Abbotsford. 4pm. $5.

IMOGEN PEMBERTON Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 4pm.

Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 2pm. $34.25.

JESS PARKER & THE TROUBLED WATERS + FELICITY CRIPPS Tramway

Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 3pm.

LEON WILKS + JON THE OBSCURE 303,

DEAD + PISSBOLT + OOILOU Last Chance

Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm.

ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd.

DJ TIM EILENBERG Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

Northcote. 7pm.

BEN MASTWYK & HIS MILLIONS Gem

HIGH BINDER Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5:30pm.

KAHLUA BREEZE + BALI RECOGNISABLE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $8.

KING ZOG + SHROUD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm.

MAJA + TASH ZAPPALA The B.east,

5pm.

Bar, Collingwood. 9pm.

BETH HART + DIANA ANAID Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $99.14.

BLUES AT THE BRIARS - FEAT: CHILD + KAREN LEE ANDREWS + JUZZIE SMITH + TAMI NEILSON + HUSSY HICKS + 19TWENTY The Briars, Mount Martha.

11am. $80.

CADDY PIERRE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

CHARM OF FINCHES + ANNA CORDELL Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 2pm. $10.

CROOKED FINGERS + DENIM GORGEOUS + JOE JACOBSON Open

Studio, Northcote. 12pm. $5.

DAN SULTAN The Palais Hepburn Springs, Hepburn Springs. 8pm. $43.90.

DAVID GRIMSON Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm.

ELECTRIC BLUES COLLECTIVE Drunken

Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.

GREY WHISTLE TEST + KILL THE DARLING Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7pm.

HAT FITZ & CARA + OWEN CAMPBELL Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2pm. $20.

2pm.

$5.

MAROOTA JOE + GREY MANTIS + ETERNAL SMOKO Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.

MIDDLE MANAGEMENT + ODD SOULS + MANORISM + YUKUMBABE Retreat

SUNDAY SINGALONG - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS The Brothers Public House,

East. 7pm.

REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS + TWO HEADED DOG + FLUFF Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm.

RRR BBQ BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

5:30pm.

SARAH MCLEOD Village Green Hotel, Mulgrave. 4pm. $33.

TRAM COPS + EASY BROWNS + ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH Grace Darling

Hip Hop & R&B

Melbourne. 3pm.

PAT MCKERNAN The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 9pm.

ROLLER ONE + LYREBIRDS Fitzroy Pinnacle,

Fitzroy North. 5pm.

ROOTS COMBO, BROTHERS BLUEGRASS ALL STARS + ROOTS COMBO + BROTHERS BLUEGRASS ALL STARS The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy.

3:30pm.

TASHA ZAPPALA Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

5pm.

THE WHIRLING HORNETS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Sunday 24 Feb Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music ALL DAY FRITZ Open Studio, Northcote. 3pm. $5.

3pm.

RED HOUND + SORDID ORDEAL + ALEX BECKITT Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick

Fawkner. 5pm.

KITE + ACCIDENTAL BEDFELLOWS KRAKEN FOLK SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Drunken Poet, West

Brunswick East. 4pm.

MATT JOE GOW Rochester Hotel, Fitzroy. 3pm.

MISS DEE Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm.

PATRICK WILSON Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7pm.

PHIL PARA BAND Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. STORYTELLERS - FEAT: WHEN HAWK MET SPARROW + ROSE ZITA FALKO + MITCH POWER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.

Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm.

Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm.

Collingwood. 7:30pm.

MIDNIGHT CREEP Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4pm.

OPEN/MIC JAM NIGHTS Musicland,

Hotel, Brunswick. 7pm.

JAMES ELLIS + ALEX GARSDEN + KATIE BATES Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar,

North Melbourne. 3pm.

LIAM WOODING & MOLLY COLLIERO'BOYLE Classic Southside, Elsternwick. 5pm. $15.

LOUIS KING & THE LIARS KLUB Gem Bar,

BROOKE CANDY + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6pm. $47.95.

DEJA VU SUNDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm.

KWAME + ARNO FARAJI + MAYA HIRASEDO Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.

House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights DAYDREAMS - FEAT: MARKFREE.DJ + MAXWELL S Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

12pm.

DJ JESSE I Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.

PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. 2pm. $20.

ROOFTOP SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS The Emerson, South Yarra. 12pm.

SKRATCHER - FEAT: UNCLE LEO + RELLIK + OPEN CUTS SESSION + SADIVA Howler, Brunswick. 3pm.

SONIC THERAPY - FEAT: FITZ-E &

3pm. $10.

Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

TAYLAH CARROLL Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7pm.

TESS GUTHRIE + GEORGIA RODGERS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 5pm.

THE GROOVETONES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4pm.

THE RABBIT LOUNGE - FEAT: RACHEL CADDY + TUVA FINSERÅS + SALTY JACK + ISAAC JENSEN + TEENIE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $10.

TK REEVES Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

6:30pm.

TRUDIE True South, Black Rock. 3pm.

YI-LYNN + RUBY LOU + GOLDEN EYE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

Monday 25 Feb Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers 180 PROOF + ANKL Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm.

DECEPTIVE BENDS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

KURT KANSLEY & OLIVER LIDERT Chapel

Off Chapel, Prahran. 7:30pm. $40.

MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: ROCKET SCIENCE + LOST TALK + EATMAN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.

NIEUW MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7pm. $3.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT + RACHEL ECKROTH Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

UPCOMING GIGS FEATURED GIGS

ARCTIC MONKEYS Rod Laver Arena February 26, 27 DEAFHEAVEN The Corner February 27 FOXING Reverence Hotel February 27 FLINT EASTWOOD Howler February 27 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Rod Laver Arena February 28 LIL YACHTY The Forum February 28 THE NATIVE CATS The Gasometer February 28 HANSON Palais Theatre February 27, Melbourne Zoo March 1 RITA ORA Palais Theatre March 1 ORBITAL The Forum March 1 THE DELTA RIGGS The Croxton March 1 AMYL & THE SNIFFERS The Corner March 1 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 170 Russell March 1, The Croxton March 2 THE GETAWAY PLAN Stay Gold March 1, 2 BEER INCIDER EXPERIENCE Flemington Racecourse March 2 BELINDA CARLISLE Palais Theatre March 2 DANCE GAVIN DANCE The Corner March 2 MIA DYSON Howler March 2 TWO PEOPLE Workers Club March 2 MORDI FEST Peter Scullin Reserve, Mordialloc March 2 THE INTERNET Melbourne Zoo March 3 THE GOON SAX Northcote Social Club March 3 EAGLES Rod Laver Arena March 5 CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS The Forum March 5 JOYCE MANOR The Corner March 5 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL March 8-11 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre March 9 DOWNLOAD Flemington Racecourse March 11 TASH SULTANA Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 14 FAT FREDDY’S DROP The Forum March 15, 16 MOTOR ACE 170 Russell April 12 BRING ME THE HORIZON Rod Laver Arena April 13 BLUESFEST ft Jack Johnson, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, more April 18-22 KEB MO’ Melbourne Recital Centre April 15 I’M WITH HER Melbourne Recital Centre April 18 TREVOR HALL The Corner April 18 NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE 170 Russell April 21 KURT VILE The Forum April 22 ARLO GUTHRIE Melbourne Recital Centre April 23 LARKIN POE Howler April 24 THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS The Corner April 24 BENDIGO AUTUMN MUSIC April 25-28 GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC The Forum April 25 VINTAGE TROUBLE The Corner April 25 RAY LAMONTAGNE Palais Theatre April 27 JUNGLE The Forum April 28

7:30pm. $109.

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The market focuses on vitality and health whilst offering the finest art, crafts, jewellery and fashion. How will these come together on the day? Wellness is an active journey of becoming consciously aware of your choices and taking actions towards a healthy and fulfilling life. If you are creating a more livable space in your home through plants, ceramics and art you are enhancing your environmental wellness. Even fashion and jewellery pair up to collectively enhance social and emotional wellbeing through one being able to express their individuality whilst simultaneously assisting them to feel confident in the social setting.

What are some of the brands that will be available? Some brands to note are The Broth Sisters who will be there to enlighten you on their delicious bone broths, Earthtribe with a range of eco-wellness products and a host of health professionals who will each be running wellness workshops throughout the day.

Who will be providing music on the day? We will have DJ Relic spinning the decks upstairs in the warehouse all day, and at the entrance you will be greeted by either acoustic act Georgia Bennett or Maja.

What do you want attendees to get out of their experience? We would love for people to be present and conscious. It’s not a huge market but there is so much to take away for those who take their time. We aim to foster community connection whilst leaving people more empowered.

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