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Contents EDITOR Tom Parker DIGITAL EDITOR Caleb Triscari SUB EDITOR Kate Streader EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Joshua Martin, Kate Streader, Jonti Ridley, Annie-Mei Forster COVER CREDIT Duncographic GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Erica May MANAGING DIRECTOR Patrick Carr ADVERTISING Greg Pettinella (Advertising/Editorial) greg@beat.com.au

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Since Ali Died

COLUMNISTS Christie Eliezer, Sose Fuamoli, Augustus Welby, Morgan Mangan, D’arcy McGregor, Sam Howard, Anna Rose

Melbourne International Arts Festival

CONTRIBUTORS Alexander Crowden, Dan Watt, Augustus Welby, Alex Watts, David James Young, Bronius Zumeris, Natalie Rogers, Holly Pereira, Claire Morley, Jacob Colliver, Anna Rose, Christopher Lewis, Christine Tsimbis, Eliza Booth, Ellen Pritchard, Holly Denison, James Robertson, Rhys McKenzie, Jono Coote, Jonathan Reynoso, Lexi Herbert, Luke Carlino, Marnie Vinall, Maria Glykokalamos, Meg Crawford, Scott Hudson, Tammy Walters

Editor’s Note Beat 1679 welcomed one of our biggest editions of the year as we explored last weekend’s Melbourne Guitar Show top to toe. I was off the tools as Splendour in the Grass beckoned which meant responsibilities shifted but certainly didn’t lessen.

Our online editor, Caleb Triscari, took charge and did a masterful job whisking 76 pages of content together. The quality of the editorial and aesthetics is testament to his versatility and attention to detail.

As the seesaw tips closer to spring, the music festival murmurs are intensifying. Certain conversations have already seen the bills for Strawberry Fields, Kennedys Creek Music Festival and Sugar Mountain emerge. With Beyond The Valley, Falls Festival, Meredith and more sure to drop very shortly, that summer anticipation is really starting to rear its head.

In fact, we’ve got Strawberry Fields on our cover this week and what a special event they have in store. Known for welcoming arguably the strongest electronic lineup Australia sees year after year, the extravaganza is not one for conventionalism and for their 11th iteration, performers such as Alfa Mist, Gordon Koang, Emma Donovan & the Putbacks, DRMNGNOW and more, see the occasion continue to wander further from their electronic tree.

Elsewhere, we have a special double-page poster courtesy of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and their forthcoming 15th album. There’s also an interview with the psych lords and coverage of the upcoming Festival of Jewish Music and Arts, Melbourne International Arts Festival and more. Tuck in.

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Live N Local Festival DROPS PACKED PROGRAM DETAILS Running across eight jam-packed days, Live N Local is returning to deliver its annual celebration of homegrown talent throughout City of Port Phillip. With free shows across a handful of southside venues, the fun will start with an opening party at Memo Music Hall, with sets from Lady Lash, Daniel Elia and Chicken Wishbone. As for the rest of the festival, you can look forward to gigs from the likes of Approachable Members of Your Local Community, Tamara and the Dreams, DRMNGNOW, The Black Sistaz and more. Beat’s throwing a gig too and will welcome the likes of Huntly, Bad Bangs and Purr Usual to The Espy for the official closing party. The fun starts on Saturday August 24 and will run until Saturday August 31.

More details via the Live N Local website.

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Billy Bragg

Bec Sandridge

City of Melbourne

Mac DeMarco

ANNOUNCES AUSSIE TOUR DATES

ANNOUNCES BIGGEST TOUR TO DATE

ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE TOUR

UK icon Billy Bragg is putting a twist on traditional touring with his upcoming Aussie adventure. With every stop of his tour, Bragg will give three different performances across three nights. The first night’s show will feature songs spanning Bragg’s 35-year discography, on the second night, punters can enjoy showcase songs from his first three albums, and the final night will see Bragg perform tracks from his fourth, fifth and sixth records.

With no show the same as the last, you’ll definitely want to head along. Bragg hits the Croxton Bandroom from Wednesday May 6 to Friday May 8. Grab your tickets via the Handsome Tours website.

After snagging a slot at Yours & Owls Festival through a triple j Unearthed competition, Bec Sandridge has been on the up and up.

Following the success of singles such as ‘You’re A Fucking Joke’, ‘I’ll Never Want A BF’ and ‘ANIMAL’, Sandridge has announced her biggest headline tour yet. Her latest single ‘EYES WIDE’, has proven the singersongwriter’s continuing growth as an artist, and her tour promises brand new material not yet released or heard before. Melbourne’s show will take place at Howler on Saturday October 19. Tickets are on sale now via Sandridge’s website.

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As part of the ‘Melbourne Music Plan’, City of Melbourne has unveiled the first of many curated playlists to celebrate the local talent bursting from the seams of our fine city. The first installment of Looking Out, Looking In has been curated by Jerry Poon from The Operatives, and spans a number of genres. Featured artists include the likes of DRMNGNOW, thando, Kaiit, Billy Davis and Yeo. Check out the playlist for yourself on Spotify, you might find your new favourite song.

Make sure you’ve got a fresh pack of darts at the ready because Mac DeMarco has dropped the dates for his upcoming tour, starting next January. On the back of his latest album Here Comes the Cowboy, DeMarco will be bringing his ‘Here Comes Mac DeMarco’ tour to Australia. The tour also boasts a stellar pick of support acts, including Aussie psych-rockers POND, Japanese punk outfit Chai and WA punk band Cold Meat. Catch Mac DeMarco at Festival Hall on Saturday January 11, tickets via Chugg Entertainment.

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Beyond The Valley REVEALS HUGE LINEUP Beyond The Valley have just revealed the lineup for their 2019/20 incarnation and it is epic. The festival will be co-headlined by Tyler, The Creator and RÜFÜS DU SOL, the former a genre-bending genius who has revolutionised rap music in recent years. The latter is a band that are quite literally taking over the world with their accessible indie dance music. Other names on the lineup include Matt Corby, Skepta, Snakehips, Confidence Man and more.

BTV goes down from Saturday December 28 to Wednesday January 1. Pre-sales open Monday August 12 at 3pm with general sales unlocked the following day at 12pm. Check out the festival website for more info.

Tyler, The Creator

Neil Diamond

The Quiet Man Irish Pub

Four Lions

The Delta Riggs

Magnus

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REVEAL UPCOMING ALBUM WITH NEW SINGLE

RELEASE TOUR DATES, NEW SINGLE AND FILM CLIP

Aussie four-piece The Delta Riggs have announced their long-awaited fourth album Modern Pressure with the release of the single, ‘Reality’. Lifted from the upcoming album, ‘Reality’ is accompanied by a spaceage music video that has us all kinds of excited for the full release. The band will also be venturing to Europe to tour later this year, but not before doing the rounds at various Aussie festivals. Modern Pressure is set for release on Friday September 6. In the meantime, you can listen to ‘Reality’ now on digital streaming services.

Sydney’s Magnus is making his way to Melbourne this month to celebrate the release of his new single ‘Humbugger’. The tour will include an all-star band, including Lucius Borich who previously played drums for Aussie rockers COG. The band will be playing Smashfest on Friday August 17, as well as special solo shows at The B.East on Friday August 16 and Saturday August 17. Check out the band’s socials for more info.

The month of August will be packed with Irish talent at The Quiet Man’s upcoming tribute shows. Playing homage to the country’s best, such as U2, Neil Diamond and Van Morrison, punters will be treated to live tributes at the venue’s front bar. With local talent celebrating the sounds of some of the greats, you can sip on a pint or two while you enjoy a slew of beloved tunes. The series runs from Saturday August 3 until Saturday August 31. Find more info on the venue’s socials and website.

Aussie band Four Lions will bring their blend of roots, rock and alt-country to Melbourne this month. The band will no doubt be riding the high of the release of their latest album Hard Days from earlier this year, and will be joined by special guest Rose Zita Falko. The gig kicks off from 9pm on Friday August 16 at The Spotted Mallard. Grab your tickets through Moshtix.

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Kennedys Creek Music Festival REVEALS FIRST LINEUP Focusing on quality rather than quantity, the annual Kennedys Creek Music Festival will light up The Otways’ farming community for three days once again this year. With profits helping renovate the local hall, artists such as Laura Jean, GL, Moaning Lisa and Wax’o Paradiso will be joining the fun, with more acts to be announced. Capacity is limited, with just 1000 tickets up for grabs. Snag yours via the festival’s website.

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Angel Olsen

Festival X

Metronomy

ANNOUNCES UPCOMING ALBUM WITH NEW SINGLE RELEASE

PULLS BIG NAMES FOR FIRST LINEUP

RELEASE NEW SINGLE AHEAD OF NEW ALBUM

The long-awaited return of Angel Olsen is finally upon us, with the release of her new single ‘All Mirrors’ accompanied by the announcement of an upcoming album of the same name. This will be the Olsen’s fourth studio album, arriving three years after her last album My Woman. The release of ‘All Mirrors’ includes a film clip perfectly suited to the track which is sure to tide you over until the album’s release on Friday October 4. Head to Angel Olsen’s socials for more info and further updates.

Brand-new dance festival, Festival X, is making waves, promising a new music experience for Aussie music lovers. Pulling massive international names, such as Calvin Harris, DJ Armin Van Buuren, Lil Pump and Steve Aoki, this is going to be absolutely massive.

Don’t forget your sunscreen, because this has the chance to be the go-to festival this summer. Festival X hits Melbourne on Sunday December 1 at Melbourne Showgrounds, with tickets available now via the festival website.

English electronic five-piece Metronomy have released their latest single ‘Walking In The Dark’ to announce the release of their upcoming album Metronomy Forever. The video for the single is directed by the band’s own multitalented vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist Joe Mount. Due for release on Friday September 13, Metronomy Forever is set to showcase the band’s unique sound we’ve come to know and love. Check out the band’s socials for further updates.

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The Living End

Eliza & The Delusionals

Queenscliff Music Festival

Music Victoria Awards

NYE on the Hill

RELEASE NEW SINGLE, ANNOUNCE TOUR

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Indie rockers and Gold Coast locals Eliza & The Delusionals have released their newest single ‘Pull Apart Heart’ and to celebrate, they’ll be treating us to a series of live shows.

The new single, produced by Kon Kersting, made its premiers on triple j’s Good Nights and will no doubt make for an exciting tour.

Following the release of their debut EP The Deeper End in 2017, new music from the group is a welcomed treat. Catch Eliza & The Delusionals at The Workers Club on Friday October 25, tickets via the band’s website.

Always happy to lend a helping hand, Queenscliff Music Festival has partnered with Woodfordia’s Festival of Small Halls for Spring 2019. Small Halls picks the best folk and contemporary acoustic artists featured in major Aussie festivals and sends them off to halls in smaller communities for exciting and intimate shows. This year’s bill features Scottish duo The Jellyman’s Daughter with homegrown talents Ash Bell and Sara Tindley. Check out the Queenscliff Music Festival website for more details and to secure your tickets.

The Music Victoria Awards are back for 2019 and will see some changes for its 14th year. The Age won’t be a part of the awards this year, while after a deliberation process following last year’s awards has seen the Global category renamed as Best Intercultural Act. Submissions are now also open, and are free to those who are Music Victoria members. Find out more about the awards and the submission process via musicvictoria. com.au.

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ANNOUNCE WINNERS FOR 2019

Indie pop rock trio Even are celebrating 25 years on the scene with an anniversary tour this year. It’s been awhile since the Even crew first took the stage at North Fitzroy’s Empress of India Hotel, but after seven studio albums, it’s safe to say they know what they’re doing.

The show at the Forum on Sunday November 3 has already sold out, but you can still grab tickets for their performance at Howler on Thursday September 26 via Moshtix.

Legendary alt-rockers Pixies have dropped a handful of Aussie tour dates, kicking off in Melbourne in March. The tour announcement comes ahead of the release of their forthcoming album, Beneath the Eyrie, on Friday September 13. On their Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa tour, Pixies will be performing two of their most influential releases in full, in addition to old and new tracks from their rich discography. Pixies come to the Palais Theatre on Tuesday March 10. Grab your ticks via the venue website.

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Emerging indie rockers Mylk have just released their new single, ‘Not My Fault’, a bouncy track about being a magnet for bad luck. A track that subtlety rings the chimes of Mac DeMarco encapsulates everything that is endearing about the band – their simplicity, cheekiness and unmatched effervescence.

Check out ‘Not My Fault’ via streaming services and see Mylk at the Grace Darling Hotel on Friday August 23. Tickets on the door.

NYE on the Hill is back and they’ve just revealed the headliner who will be topping the bill. The Living End are Australian music royalty and with 27 ARIA nominations, two number one albums and 16 triple j Hottest 100 entries, the outfit have dominated the Australian music scene for quite some time now. NYE on the Hill goes down from Monday December 30 to Wednesday January 1. Earlybird tickets go on sale Thursday August 8 – find out more at nyeonthehill.com.au.

The 2019 AIR Awards took place in Freemasons Hall in Adelaide, celebrating the success of the Australian Independent Music Sector. Winners of the night included Courtney Barnett for Best Independent Artist and Best Independent Album or EP with Tell Me How You Really Feel, while Mojo Juju took Best Independent Single for ‘Native Tongue’. DZ Deathrays earned the title of Best Independent Hard Rock/Heavy/Punk Album for Bloody Lovely. See the full list of winners on the AIR Awards website.

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One the Bear TACKLING RACISM THROUGH HIP HOP THEATRE Created by the talented Candy Bowers, One the Bear explores themes of identity, fame, friendship and colonialism through two young bears and contemporary hip hop. The plot is centred around two orphan cubs, One and Ursula, who are seemingly limited to their means within the rubbish tip they call home. Feeling frustrated while living under ‘hunter law’ and dreaming of the days when bears were free, the two must take a break from their regular mischief and face their issues head-on. The show is carefully produced to use the relatable mediums of hip hop and theatre to tackle serious issues including racism, cultural appropriation and body image. One the Bear runs between Thursday August 8 and Saturday August 10 at Arts Centre Melbourne. For tickets, head to the venue website.

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Shakespeare in Love It’s not uncommon these days to see remakes and reboots gracing the silver screen.However, in recent years, theatrical adaptations of classic films have become more and more common. Everything from Solaris to School of Rock has seen audiences packing into Melbourne’s lush theatre venues, although

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none seem like a more fitting adaptation than Melbourne Theatre Company’s new production of Shakespeare in Love.

Based on the Academy Award-winning screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, playwright Lee Hall has brilliantly taken the comedic tale of lovelorn William Shakespeare, who’s suffering a severe case of writer’s block, to its most logical evolution: the stage. There’s something quite magical — and just a little bit meta — about watching Shakespeare and his troupe gather in the theatre to create a new piece of art for the

masses. It adds an extra element of knowing and joy that, now having seen the story performed in its seemingly rightful place, was truly lacking in the original film.

Director Simon Phillips, along with the amazing design efforts of Gabriela Tylesova, has brought this lavish new production to life in Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse Theatre. Using every inch of the stage, they’ve crafted an understated but visually engaging world for their players to inhabit. The scale of the story isn’t the broadest, although you find yourself quickly immersed in the world of theatre rehearsals, barroom brawls and extravagant high society balls.

By creating this world for their production, Phillips and Tlesova have truly honed in on the important aspects of the play. They’ve emphasised the personal story at the heart of Hall’s new script and let the world around it grow naturally from the words and performances.

Heading the cast is Michael Wahr, who plays the titular role. He brings sweetness and vulnerability to the young playwright, which slowly evolves into a more brash performance as his infatuation for Viola grows. This is nicely

contrasted against Claire van der Boom, who portrays the adventurous Viola de Lesseps with steadfast confidence, creating an effortless rhythm between the two characters as they bounce Hall’s witty dialogue back and forth.

The cast is full of hysterically memorable performances, with Daniel Frederiksen pushing the combative Lord Wessex to a delightfully over the top fop and Chris Ryan transforming character Ned Alleyn into narcissism incarnate.

The entire cast seem to be revelling in the opportunity to poke fun at their profession, which brings a unique playfulness to the production that the audience can’t help but enjoy.

Shakespeare in Love cleverly gives audiences a peek behind the curtain, brilliantly retelling the made-up story behind one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. With its season extended, it’s sure to be the sell-out hit of this year’s MTC program.

BY CHRIS SWAN Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare in Love is running at Arts Centre Melbourne until Saturday August 17.

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Church of All Nations

Spirit Lines

A new musical collaboration between Kutcha Edwards, Daniel Jauregui and Adrian Hearn exploring the persistence and significance of ancestral lines in a spirit of hope. With guest dancer Kathleen Gonzalez and projections by Fabian Cordero.

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Box Hill Community Arts Centre

Italian Divas

Internationally acclaimed sax player Mirko Guerrini pays tribute to the songs made famous by Italian divas such as Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Mina, Milva and more.

7:30pm Sat, Aug

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Mark Street Hall

STAV.

Introspective and playful, multilingual singer-songwriter STAV. continues her story of migration with soaring vocal melodies and bursts of rhythmic fire.

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Open Studio

Suitcase #7 feat.

Vanessa Estrada

The Boite’s monthly showcase of music from around the world with special guest singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Vanessa Estrada.

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Klezmania

From the culture that gave us bagels and Klezmer music, Klezmania fills the room with energy and joy.

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Stonnington Glow Winter Arts Festival LIGHTS UP THE WINTER EVENING The Stonnington Glow Winter Arts Festival is returning for its sixth year, with a number of premiere artworks and interactive installations on display. Visitors are encouraged to discover an enchanted universe and garden filled with shimmering lights when they visit the ‘Golden Elm Tree’ by The Electric Canvas. It’s sure to delight children and the young at heart alike.

Head to Central Park in Malvern East from Thursday August 15 to Sunday August 18 to check it out. The festival runs between 6pm and 10pm each night and is completely free.

Visit glowfestival.com.au for more info.

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INDULGE YOURSELF

A STORY OF GLOBAL PROPORTIONS

CELEBRATING QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS CULTURE

One Fell Swoop Circus brings forth five circus artists in an exhilarating contemporary circus performance. The artists bring their trademark skills to a vibrant celebration of sensation. Their previous circus performances have garnered rave reviews and encourage the audience to viscerally experience the excitement of group acrobatic performance combined with cutting edge circus practice. You can see Sensory Decadence at Gasworks from Friday August 16 to Friday August 23 at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available at gasworks.org.au.

PHOTOGRAPHS INSIDE THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE

Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum is showcasing a collection of contemporary works by award-winning artists from Far North Queensland. There are over 300 objects on display, including the artists’ ancestral tools to make fire, woven baskets and stunning landscape photography. The Manggan exhibition begins Friday August 16 and it’s free with museum entry. Check museumsvictoria. com.au/bunjilaka for more info.

Renowned Melbourne photographer, p1xels has a new exhibition this month about the infamous Chernobyl disaster at a secret Melbourne location. As one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world, p1xels wants to “create an experience that allows people to see and feel what it was like inside the exclusion zone”. Prepare to challenge your senses on Friday August 9 from 6pm. Tickets are free but the location will not be revealed until 24 hours prior. Sign up for the guest list on p1xels’ website.

Melbourne Theatre Company brings trailblazing writer Anchuli Felicia King’s play, Golden Shield to life. King is the first writer to have her commission produced from the Next Stage Writers’ Program. Golden Shield is a story of loyalty and family as two sisters become involved in a risky legal battle exposing a US tech giant’s involvement with China’s internet firewall. To buy tickets, head to the MTC website. Opening night is Monday August 12 and it runs until Saturday September 14.

Australian Realness

Wild Cherries

Since Ali Died

Rain Room

LOOKING AT THE AUSSIE CLASS DIVIDE

BROKEN STORIES OF FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

PAYING HOMAGE TO THE BELOVED BOXER

UMBRELLA NOT REQUIRED

Malthouse Theatre presents ‘a bogan and bourgeois battle for a suburban backyard’.

Zoey Dawson is one of Melbourne’s most popular playwrights on the independent theatre scene, but Australian Realness sees her mainstage debut. In this comedic affair, every actor plays two characters. The cast includes Linda Cropper from television series Offspring. It’s sure to be a ripper! The play premieres Friday August 16 and runs until Sunday September 8. Head to the Malthouse website for tickets.

Award-winning playwright, Daniel Keene brings Wild Cherries to La Mama, telling the stories of eight different people robbed of their freedom, living in fear and taken far from their homes to work. Keene’s productions have been presented in France and in 2016 he was recognised by the French Ministry of Culture for his contribution to French culture.

Head to La Mama’s website to buy tickets for Wild Cherries which begins Wednesday August 14 and runs until Sunday August 25.

Omar Musa brings his critically acclaimed one-man show Since Ali Died to Arts Centre Melbourne this month as part of the ‘Big World, Up Close’ series. Musa was inspired by Muhammad Ali’s passing and tells a deeply personal story through rap. He confronts challenges he’s faced in his life including growing up as a brown-skinned Muslim boy in Queanbeyan. Catch Since Ali Died from Tuesday August 13 to Saturday August 17.

Tickets are on sale via the Art Centre website.

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In partnership with ACMI, Random International’s mesmerising artwork Rain Room will be premiering Down Under in Melbourne. Featuring 100 square metres of continuous rainfall, the artwork allows punters to walk through the space without getting drenched. Rain Room has been showcased in Los Angeles, Shanghai and the MOMA, and seeks to explore the relationship between mankind and nature. Rain Room opens Friday August 9 at the Jackalope Pavilion in St Kilda.

Tickets are available from the ACMI website.

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NEON SOUL: BERNADETTE NOVEMBRE

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COLUMNS

Hip Hop

Punk

Industry

WITH SOSE FUAMOLI

WITH MORGAN MANGAN

WITH CHRISTIE ELIEZER

Tyler, The Creator returns, Lil Nas X makes history and Kid Cudi’s back

The story of seminal underground post-punk band, Tactics

Can new ticketing apps help beat reseller scams?

TYLER, THE CREATOR IS FINALLY COMING BACK TO

With the recent release of Early Shift at Charles de Gaulle, Tactics have announced they will be touring around Australia for the first time since 2008. Out of Canberra in 1977, Tactics remain underground and relevant still to this day.

1980 saw the release of My Houdini, arguably Tactics’ most popular album amongst fans. Somewhere in the space between new wave and post punk, the twelve tracks catch attention on first listen, opener ‘Second Language’ is a catchy pop song that cosies listeners into the rest of the album. The lyricism by songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and longest standing member David Studdert is unique and thought provoking. As expressed in the liner notes by Studdert, the lyrics to many of the songs written as early as 1977, were reflections influenced by Aboriginal Australia. “I was reading lots of black history and stuff about Aboriginal art and singing and trying to make something which reflected the life I knew in Australia.”

The EP Long Weekend released in 1979, a year before Tactics’ debut album, featured ‘Buried Country’, a song about the “hidden Australia which no one knew about or even spoke about much”, as well as ‘Standing by the Window’. The latter song is “based upon Aboriginal song cycles where the sentences describe situations without metaphors”.

Google’s decision to suspend controversial resale site Viagogo from its paid-for search rankings in Australia and beyond was a major step in stopping customers getting duped. It was a financial sacrifice for Google (it provided 84% of its parent company Alphabet’s $36.3 billion ad revenue in the first quarter of 2019) but had to respond after the UK industry demanded action.

In Australia, consumer watchdog the ACCC initiated court action against Viagogo in August 2017 and in early 2019, the Federal Court found that Viagogo had made false or misleading representations, including using the word “official” in its claims. Michael Chugg said of the Google decision, “There is no doubt in the industry that Viagogo have paid Google millions and millions of dollars in clickhere fees, but finally they have seen this criminal activity for what it is. The industry now needs to make sure no other secondary ticketing company takes Viagogo’s place.”

Live Performance Australia’s CEO Evelyn Richardson notes the problem is not fixed, as it merely drops Viagogo listings down the list and it’s “still able to make misleading and deceptive representations which are in breach of Australian Consumer Law, to people buying tickets online,” she says in The Music Network. “The battle against dodgy ticket resellers is only half won. There is also the problem of ticket resales through other online channels such as Facebook and Gumtree, where buyers have also been the victim of scams and shonky practices. We are yet to hear any public statements from those platforms about what steps they will take to ensure the integrity of transactions through their channels.”

Tougher rules, as passed in Victoria in June 2018, have been followed up with 24/7 monitoring, and 300 listings have been yanked. But no one has copped fines, which are supposed to range from $800 and $483,500. The government is relying on “public education” which we all know doesn’t work when someone is grabbing for sold-out tickets.

Tyler, The Creator

AUSTRALIA ... WE HOPE

There’s a brand new festival on the Aussie circuit called Wildlands and with it comes Tyler, The Creator. The Brisbane festival, taking place on December 28, also boasts the likes of Ella Mai, Lion Babe and Skepta, but the top billing of Tyler, The Creator has stirred a lot of buzz.

The rapper hasn’t been to Australia since 2013 – back in his Odd Future days – one of the crop of rappers the Australian government have toed the hard line with and refused entry. Since then, Tyler’s music has developed, as has his wider brand, with the artist becoming more indemand than ever thanks to the release of the eclectic and acclaimed IGOR record.

We’re expecting more dates to be announced around this festival appearance, however we’re just holding our breath that nothing will fall through this time. For more information on Wildlands, visit wildlandsfestival.com.au.

Lil Nas X LIL NAS’ ‘OLD TOWN ROAD’ MAKES BILLBOARD CHART HISTORY

This track can’t be tamed.

The news in the Lil Nas X blazing road to superstardom is the latest record it has broken, namely the one held by the legendary Mariah Carey. Yep, the remix of ‘Old Town Road’ featuring Billy Ray Cyrus now has the longest running streak of a #1 single on the Billboard Chart... in history.

Taking the crown from Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s 1995 hit ‘One Sweet Day’, which was released in 1995, ‘Old Town Road’ did what Daddy Yankee’s ‘Despacito’ couldn’t do, the latter tying with ‘One Sweet Day’ in 2017.

Mariah acknowledged the achievement on social media, saying, “‘One Sweet Day’ will always hold a special place in my heart and I want to thank everyone who’s ever told me how this song has affected them and their loved ones.”

KID CUDI HAS A NEW ALBUM AND NETFLIX SERIES ON THE WAY

The new era of Kid Cudi is here, y’all! The Cleveland rapper is gearing up for some big projects on the way, all under the title of ‘Enter Galactic’. This includes a new album from Cudi and a companion TV show on Netflix of the same name.

The Netflix series is going to be an animated one, with Kid Cudi working alongside Black-ish executive producer Kenya Barris. It has been reported that the plot of the show (and presumably the album) will focus on a young man on his journey to discover love. Cudi himself will write and also star in the series. The Enter Galactic album is expected in 2020.

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After the release of My Houdini, Tactics gained popularity in Sydney, where they lived at the time. In 1981, their second full-length album Glebe was released with the hope of creating something that was opposite to what My Houdini was. The overall subject matter of the album was trivial parts of life, “voices you hear falling asleep, voices in unfamiliar accents, tones and phrases; men’s voices, female voices all floating in a seamless ocean”.

‘Better than Mermaids’ and ‘Centrepoint #1’ were written after being inspired by the sights outside Sturdett’s window, including buildings being constructed and planes flying by. Glebe is often overshadowed by My Houdini due to the differences, yet when not being compared to one another, Glebe was equally influential in revealing Tactics as an evolving band, both in playing and writing.

1982 saw the release of The Bones of Barry Harrison, a collection of live recordings from 1979 to 1982 and marked the end of a certain Tactics era. The band proceeded to go on hiatus but have reformed in different capacities with different members ever since. As of today, they’ve released seven albums and the latest, Early Shift at Charles de Gaulle, marks a new style and sound of Tactics. Nevertheless, their uncompromising lyricism and vocals remain intact.

On Thursday August 15, Tactics will emerge for ‘The High Speed Picnic Tour’, their first tour in over a decade.

Sharing the stage on the night will be support from local favourite Hearts & Rockets and Porpoise Spit.

It’s obvious that paper tickets have to be erased when mobile ticketing works. It also means we need to look at new apps emerging on the market. Launching in Australia on August 1 was the UK’s DICE, set up by Aussie expatriate Phil Hutcheon. Its aim is to get people out to live gigs with listings and maps. But its technology is scalper-proof. The tickets it sells remain on DICE’s app, and can’t be shared by email or web-links. A QR code appears on the mobile ticket an hour before the show, only after which patrons can enter the venue. “The ticket is animated, so you can’t screengrab it,” Hutcheon explains. “There is nothing to resell.” The app also caters for fans who return tickets for automatic refund while the returned tickets go to whoever is next on the waiting list.

Another UK app, The Ticket Fairy, also set up by Aussie expats Jigar and Ritesh Patel, is due this year. Its advanced technology challenges scalping through ID-locked tickets.

Charts SYN SWEET 16

WITH SYN AND PBS

What’s hot on community radio Community radio stations regularly have their ears to the ground when it comes to the latest hits. Here’s what’s on their radar this fortnight.

LOCAL

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Coastal Elite – ‘Cherish’

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Tia Gostelow – ‘Get To It’

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Juice Webster – ‘Lover, I Swear’

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Baked Beans – ‘Avalon Speedway’

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Tropical Fuck Storm – ‘Who’s My Eugene?’

FRIDAY 9TH AUGUST

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Tram Cops – ‘California Way’

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Poison Abbey – ‘Silicon Valet’

Wednesday 7th August

Wine, Whiskey, Women 8pm: Meredith Whittle 9pm: Ella Belfanti

PBS TOP TEN •

Luke Howard, Lior, Shards – ‘Future

Thursday 8th August

Coda’ •

Kit Sebastian – ‘Pangea’

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Uji – ‘Jenga (M.RUX Remix)’

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Morning Morning – ‘The Mind You

INTERNATIONAL

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Taylor McFerrin, Anna Wise –‘Memory

Piers Dashfield 9pm: Paul Andrew Carey 8pm:

Friday 9th August

Digital’

Traditional Irish Music Session 8:30pm: David Cosma

6pm:

Bend’

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Bat For Lashes – ‘Feel For You’

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Flowriders – ‘Roll On ft. Richard Spaven’

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Angel Olsen – ‘All Mirrors’

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Iguana Death Cult – ‘Bright Lights’

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Twen – ‘Baptism’

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sir Was – ‘Deployed (feat. Little Dragon)’

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Four Tet – ‘Dreamer’

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Overtime – ‘Radaaz’

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HAIM – ‘Summer Girl’

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OPETH – ‘Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör’ /

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Joe Armon-Jones, Georgia Anne

‘Heart In Hand’

LIVE MUSIC AUGUST

Saturday 10th August

Say Nothing 9pm: Gumbo Jump 3pm:

Muldrow – ‘Yellow Dandelion’

Sunday 11th August

The Hornets 6:30pm: Nick Charles 4pm:

Burden Man

Tuesday 13th August MUSIC

Tuesday Tribute 8pm: Simple Dreams plays the songs of Linda Ronstadt Wednesday 14th August

Wine, Whiskey, Women 8pm: Ash Sumpter 9pm: Rachel Lia Thursday 15th August

7pm:

Open Mic Night

[ sign up 5:30pm ] Friday 16th August How did Burden Man come together in the first place?

The concept came about when life was particularly difficult. I was in the middle of a downward spiral. I had a strong desire to get away from metal, write simple music as a solo act and work on songwriting and melody. Naturally, the music has expanded.

Tell us about your forthcoming EP. What is the story behind it? What inspired it?

With Burden Man being predominately a band now, we wanted that represented.

Thematically & musically, we’ve expanded on heavy depression and loneliness. We’re not alone in this (ironic). Life is hard, emotions are difficult, but we learn to grieve, grow and move forward.

Your music is identifiable by its sombre narratives. Why is it that you make such dark music?

This is a meditation. It’s mindfulness and keeps us accountable for ourselves. If I write “It hurts to be alive” on the page, I think, ‘Shit. Why do I feel this way? What can I do to change that?’

These songs are the beginning of change.

How does this darkness lend to melody? How would you describe your sound?

Baritone vocals, blackened screams, trudging doom and melancholic acoustic all lend themselves perfectly to feelings of depression, anxiety, existential dread and mortality fears.

The trick is incorporating the full spectrum of human emotion with varying vocal ranges.

More on that soon.

Is there any exciting Burden Man news on the horizon? Got any shows coming up?

Our EP is out now on Spotify. The next show is September 1 at The Vanguard in Sydney and the wheels are in motion for our next release within the first quarter of next year.

Burden Man’s latest single ‘Trenches’ is out now via digital streaming platforms. Head to Burden Man’s socials to stay in the loop for gigs and new releases.

Traditional Irish Music Session 8:30pm: Anna Scionti

6pm:

Saturday 17th August

Marty Kelly 9pm: Cold Heart 3pm:

Sunday 18th August

Cisco Caesar 6:30pm: Nathan Seeckts 4pm:

Tuesday 20th August

Tuesday Tribute 8pm: Twilight in Tulsa play the songs of Patsy Cline The Drunken Poet 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au

JAMES FRANKLIN 9PM-11PM SATURDAY 10TH AUGUST

VICUNA COAT 9PM-11PM SUNDAY 11TH AUGUST

AMOS ROACH 5PM-7PM FRIDAY 16TH AUGUST

CRUMB 9PM

THE BONE FOLDERS 10PM SATURDAY 17TH AUGUST

HAMISH MACLEOD 9PM-11PM SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST

THE GABRIELLE DI MAURO TRIO 5PM

WEEKLY SPECIALS MONDAY HAPPY HOUR 10PM - 1AM $6 JAMESON $4 POTS $8 PINTS $6 WINE

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COVER STORY

Strawberry Fields

BY CLAIRE MORLEY

Eleven years in, is there a more environmentally-friendly, conscientious and exhilarating festival on the calendar?

Photo by Duncographic

Though it lists an impressive array of established and fresh musicians for the 2019 lineup, Strawberry Fields’ press release names the Murray River and the Australian bush as the true headliners of the event.

“Doesn’t matter how much you think you like music, or art, or food, or hanging out with your mates, your favourite thing you choose about Strawberry after you’ve been once is the location,” Tara Benney, Festival Director and Head Booker says.

And the location does keep drawing people back. This November will see the festival celebrate its 11th iteration in the wildlands of Tocumwal, along the banks of the Murray River.

The event is consistently heralded as one of the best festivals worldwide, a fact that Benney finds incredibly encouraging, and attributes to her team’s passion.

“We really want to give people something that we’re proud of, we want to give people something that can change their lives, in the corniest sense of that sentence,” Benney says.

“Strawberry Fields changed our lives. We met our best friends, we met our lovers, we discovered our favourite artists, we had life changing experiences of our own, through music and the event, and the beauty of the wild, and I think we have a responsibility to give that back to as many people as possible.”

Their commitment to inclusivity and

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accessibility is one of the many special attributes of the festival.

“I think of culture, and I consider music festivals a part of culture, as something that people have a right to access. It shouldn’t just be people who can spend $300 on a ticket, and then another couple of hundred on food and travel, and everything else to get yourself there,” Benney says.

The festival’s organisers tackle this from several angles, such as a large volunteer program allowing free festival access, and notably, a program which offers discounted tickets to those in a lower-income bracket.

But accessibility isn’t just about ticket holders, it’s also about involving the local community in which Strawberry Fields takes place. The festival’s community grant program, in which a portion of every ticket goes towards funding programs in the community, raises about $40,000 each year, funding everything from the local kinder starting a worm farm, to new tables and chairs for the Country Women’s Association.

“They’re 2,000 people 365 days a year, and we’re 10,000 people four days a year. The size is significant. We are a little temporary city of our own, and it wouldn’t be right to not have a relationship with the town that graciously hosts us,” Benney says.

“We’re now really connected. On a personal level, [the organisers] have been

spending a couple of months a year there for over a decade, so everyone in town knows us by name, we know the local businesses.

We even sponsored the local bowls club; all of their new set of bowls are labelled Strawberry Fields.”

But it’s not just the people of the community that Benney wants to protect.

Strawberry Fields is committed to minimising its environmental impact on its ‘true headliners’ through a huge number of initiatives and programs, including a heavily subsidised transport program, and banning disposables at all food vendors. This year, in an Australian festival first, the food vendor area will feature a giant dishwashing station, with all utensils and crockery made from recycled rice husk, a byproduct of rice farming.

“We throw a giant party. That’s a dream career. But with that great privilege comes a lot of responsibility, and we take it quite seriously,” Benney says.

And though Benney passionately explained a number of other initiatives the festival has in place, all which she considers mandatory for any festival, the weight of reducing environmental impact does not rest entirely on the shoulders of the festival.

“There’s a limit to how much event organisers can do. We have a responsibility, and we have to act in accordance with that, but that’s not 100 per cent of the equation.

The biggest thing that needs to change is punters,” Benney says.

“I remember ten years ago, you’d have a swag, and maybe a case of beer, that would be you done. You might not even have an esky.

These days, it’s how many pop up marquees are you going to connect to each other, and have your eight couches, and your inflatable unicorn toy, and eight outfits, and handbags, and glitter, and three wigs. And that’s great, from a creativity perspective, but it really sucks from an environmental perspective.

And we really want to encourage people to express and to be colourful, but not with a mentality of single use,” Benney says.

“And, the location is the headliner,” Benney says, reiterating what is said in the press release.

“It is a luscious, giant, sandy beach, with ghostgum forest backing onto it, and Strawberry Fields is a really great time to celebrate what it means to live in Australia.”

When it comes to the music, Strawberry Fields’ lineup for 2019 is its most diverse and genre-bending. With electronic titans Derrick May, Leon Vynehall and Shanti Celeste Strawberry Fields comes to Tocumwal by the Murray River from Friday November 29 to Sunday December 1. Head to the festival website for tickets and more info.

IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW. THURSDAY 8 AUGUST

THIN RED LINES FEATURING

ELEANOR JACKSON CAINNE CHRISTOPHER JAMES WHITE OLENKA TOROSHENKO 6.30PM • $10 DOOR

FRIDAY 9 AUGUST

RENELOPHUS [STRIPPED] JOSH SEYMOUR THE SINGING FEMINAZIS 6.30PM • FREE ENTRY

SATURDAY 10 AUGUST

THE ARGOTIERS SNARES AND WIRES 7PM • FREE ENTRY

THURSDAY 15 AUGUST

MICHAEL SILL – MAN FROM ATLANTIS 7PM • FREE ENTRY

FRIDAY 16 AUGUST

USER CYNTHIA DJ SPANKPANTS 7.30PM • FREE ENTRY

SATURDAY 17 AUGUST

PRECURSOR FEATURING DJs

SNEELOCK CLIP RICHARD MBUG CHRIS THATCHER DEIL NIAMOND VJ DVISN 6PM • $5 DOOR

SUNDAY 18 AUGUST

SPEAKEASY JAZZ JAM ADAM RUDEGEAIR AND HIS HOUSE BAND 6PM – 8PM • FREE ENTRY

THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

P JAMMERS GROCER GREEN 7.30PM • FREE ENTRY

Wednesday 7th 8.00pm

‘LOMOND ACOUSTICA’

COLLARD, SUZETTE HERFT, DUXIE FRANKLIN Friday 9th 9.30pm

SHANTY TOWN (Rock steady) Saturday 10th 9.30pm

MORELAND CITY SOUL REVIEW (Chunky funky) Sunday 11th 5.30pm

IAN BLAND AND THE LAMINGTON DRIVE ORCHESTRA (Tales tall and true) Tuesday 13th 8.00pm

IRISH SESSION WITH DAN BURKE Wednesday 14th 8.00pm

‘LOMONDACOUSTICA’

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Festival of Jewish Arts and Music

The inaugural Festival of Jewish Arts and Music comes to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday September 8.

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Over 135 artists will be taking part in what’s primarily a live music event, yet will also include discussion panels and storytelling as well as dance and drag performances.

FOJAM evolved out of the Shir Madness Melbourne Jewish Music Festival, which Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier launched in 2015.

“While Shir Madness had been a really successful, professionally run cultural music festival, most of the audience were baby boomers, over-65,” says FOJAM Artistic Director, Lior Albeck-Ripka. “It was really important to us to engage a younger audience and also open it out to people who aren’t Jewish.”

FOJAM offers 12-and-a-half hours of entertainment under the theme “Walk on the Wild Side”. The theme directly corresponds with the headline event, Transformer: A Tribute to Lou Reed. Musical directors Gabriella Cohen and Kate “Babyshakes” Dillon have put together a mammoth lineup

including Chris Cohen, Emily Lubitz, Deborah Conway, Alexander Gow, Spike Fuck, Bella Venuti and Vivien Goldman to recreate Lou Reed’s landmark 1972 release.

“It’ll be played in its entirety, from beginning to end, with an incredible cast of musicians and singers,” says Albeck-Ripka.

The Transformer event is the anchor of the festival theme, says Albeck-Ripka. “That’s where we started from, [asking] what did Lou Reed do? How did he break boundaries?

Who else is breaking boundaries? How are people pushing at the edges within music, within society, to change the status quo? That plays into the artists that have been selected for the program.”

The afternoon centrepiece is Song of Songs, a tribute show conceived by Conway and Zygier that includes a number of esteemed Australian singers – from Paul Kelly to Alice Skye, Lisa Mitchell to Vika Bull – performing a song of their choosing by a Jewish songwriter or composer.

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“That was their headline show for the past Shir Madness festivals,” says AlbeckRipka. “When we came on board and kept them on as festival patrons, we decided to maintain that aspect of the festival, and it also shows the impact that Jewish composers and songwriters have had on pop culture and music over time.”

Alongside Chris Cohen and Goldman, there are a number of big international guests getting involved, such as Israeli dance music producer Noga Erez and American LGBT activist and TV producer Zackary Drucker. “[Erez] was Double J album of the week in 2017. She’s got a new album coming out next year and she’s incredible and intensely political and writes about very intense stuff in her work,” says Albeck-Ripka. “We’re really excited that for both Chris and Noga this is an Australian exclusive show, and it’s also incredible that Chris is part of the Transformer tribute.”

Another intriguing event on the program is Why We Stand presented by Yorta Yorta man Neil Morris aka DRMNGNOW, a Triple R broadcaster, rapper and First Nations community activist.

“Neil is doing an exclusive, one-off performance focusing on the story of [Yorta

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Yorta man] William Cooper, who is the only person in the world to have protested about what was happening to Jews in Germany pre-war, in 1938,” says Albeck-Ripka. “There’s a famous night called Kristallnacht where Jewish shops, schools, synagogues were burnt and rocks were thrown through windows and books were burned. William Cooper led a peaceful protest to the German consulate in Melbourne and it’s the only recorded protest in the world, which is outstanding.”

Morris’ inclusion, along with that of fellow 3RRR DJ Paul Gorrie, represents the organisers’ efforts to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land that the Jewish people have been lucky enough to come and make a home in.

“We want people to walk into this festival and know that they are actually in Australia and that we are on Indigenous land and so the first thing that people hear when they walk in in the morning is Paul Gorrie playing Indigenous music.”

Festival of Jewish Arts and Music takes over Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday September 8. Grab your tickets via fojam.com.

Melbourne International Arts Festival

BY ANNA ROSE

The schedule of events for Melbourne International Arts Festival is almost overwhelming.

It’s a giant adventure of pop culture, immersive installations, dance, theatre, visual arts and music, boasting the talents of many local and international guests.

The renowned Yang Liping Contemporary Dance Company returns from China, and indie pop star Cora Bissett performs in the Australian premiere of her coming of age gig-theatre memoir What Girls Are Made Of, to name just a mere few of the acts comprising this extravaganza.

MIAF Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway emphasises the importance of diversity and choice within the program. “It’s vital really,” he says. “I always think it’s as important to have things that are irresistible in each interested area as it is to have things that are broadly appealing.

“I’m more excited by someone saying there are only three things I want to see that I’m rabid about seeing than I am about someone saying it all looks generally nice. Regardless of what you love, there will be something that will make people really excited.”

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Holloway has cultivated the festival since its inception, and with each of the past four years, he’s taken away something that has allowed the festival to grow and improve.

“Every year I’ve been impressed by the taste and the constant curiosity of the audience, of Melbourne and Australia. It’s usually that people have an unending appetite for the new and unexpected.”

Holloway’s focus in compiling this year’s lineup and to appease attendees’ curiosity started with diversity, but, as his final festival at the helm, there were a few special pieces Holloway wanted to include for that extra pizazz.

“There were places I wanted to go that I hadn’t gone so far,” he says. “There’s a trilogy of work by Melbourne women-based choreographers which felt like something that would have a lasting impact – not just on the audience that see it, but as a message to the world that this is world-class work.

“Musically, there are some great

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coincidences happening. It being the 20th anniversary of the release of The Soft Bulletin and The Flaming Lips have been touring that, and likewise, 20 years since Beyond Skin, a Nitin Sawhney album that changed my life in terms of understanding a new range of contemporary dance and music.”

Some circus, some incredible dance and Holloway says you’ve got a good balance for a quirky night out that you won’t forget. “Most people will go to between three and eight things, so we’ve made sure that whatever they pick, they love and didn’t expect.”

Though there are some fantastically huge names appearing at MIAF, there are of course some standout acts from the underground that Holloway calls special. “I’m really thrilled to have the world premiere of Anthony Harrington, director of [dance company] Chunky Move – his work is constantly fascinating and brilliant.

“In music, [Japanese trio] Kukangendai, they make a great wall of sound stripped back to bass guitars and drums, and Susheela Raman in

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

Ghost Gamelan embraces diversity, from postpunk art pop and ecstatic South Indian music.”

This year’s theatre program includes the work of Palestinian playwright, Amir Zuabi, and his critically acclaimed and intimate play Grey Rock. “Grey Rock absolutely blew me away,” says Holloway.“One of the best pieces of theatre I’ve seen in a couple of years, and that one feels like a real prize, a really [golden] nugget amongst everything else – a beautiful piece about community we rarely get to see in this context.”

There’s a lot of passion and admiration from Holloway, not just for the artists represented but for the enthusiasm his audiences come away with.“I love Melbourne, and as a programmer, you’re only as good as the things you’ve seen, and I’ve been very impressed by what I’ve seen at this festival.”

Melbourne International Arts Festival is happening across Melbourne from Wednesday October 2 until Sunday October 20. Find the full program and tickets and www.festival.melbourne.

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Across seven years and 15 albums, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have created several LPs that circulate around various genres and specific themes.

BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

The acoustic album? Paper Mâché Dream Balloon. The infinite looping album? Nonagon Infinity. The spaghetti-western story album?

Eyes Like the Sky. The list goes on. Next week, however, the septet are preparing themselves for another bold new direction – one in which the genre and the concept go hand in hand.

Infest the Rats’ Nest is about one thing and one thing only: thrash metal.

After toying with heavier genres in the past, Infest is the first album in which the band are hurling themselves down the rabbit hole – and, according to frontman Stu Mackenzie, it’s an album that could only have been made now in the band’s career.

“Growing up, a lot of the music that I loved was in the realm of heavy metal,” explains the band’s singer, chief songwriter and guitarist. “I loved Rammstein, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Slayer – stuff that was aggressive and is still potent now. It’s been a part of my

musical DNA forever. Without breaking down any of the musicality, I just appreciated the energy.

“As I got older and started playing in bands, I moved away from metal – mostly because I was never really good at guitar.

The riffs were too hard – I learned Bo Diddley songs instead. For whatever reason, though, King Gizz has made this kind of progression where a heavier sound has kicked in.”

Mackenzie is referring to albums like I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, Nonagon Infinity and Murder of the Universe, all of which featured music significantly heavier than the band’s typical psychedelic rock fare. In the case of Nonagon, it even picked up the ARIA award for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal release – falling more in the former category than the latter, but the ruling stood. “Obviously, I knew it wasn’t heavy metal – but I was still in that mindset,” says Mackenzie.

“I was getting inspired by stuff like Motörhead, and more of the proto-trash sort of stuff. It was taking that energy and injecting it into what we were already doing.

I suppose the reason we didn’t try and make anything that genuinely sounded like that sort of thing was just our own skillsets, more than anything. We’re a little more comfortable in our instruments now that we can tackle it head-on.”

Infest the Rats’ Nest is described by the band as their loudest, fastest and heaviest album ever. The MO of its creation, however, was never as simple as “make a metal album”.

This is King Gizzard we’re talking about, after all. There’s a little more nuance than that. “We wanted to take what we were doing further,” Mackenzie explains. “We wanted it to be more extreme and more intense – just to see how it would take shape. Let’s just see what happens.

It was us challenging ourselves to create something that was more brutal.”

Having already given several of the album’s cuts a road-test, the rest of Rats’ Nest is sure to be rolled out over the course of the next few months of touring. Beyond that? For what might be the first time in a long time, Mackenzie is not sure what the next move is for he and his bandmates. “I find albums very easy to start, but often hard to finish,” he says.

“When I do finally put a lid on a record, usually a bunch more ideas come out. The second your mind switches gears, the ideas really start to appear. The music we have floating around right now is quite varied at the moment. This could mean a lot of new projects, or a lot of this material could end up being discarded. It’s all kind of up in the air right now... and, to be honest, that’s okay.”

you’ve released it and it has meaning to you, hopefully that’s transferable to someone else and it has meaning in their life.”

In ‘Train’, Clark croons “I know my train is coming in” alluding to a dynamic belief that redemption is near. The darkness, the gothic element in blues-rock for Clark, isn’t just in the sound, it’s in the sentiment.

“I don’t like to sing about things I don’t believe in, otherwise the emotion won’t be there,” he says. “I’m a bit of an introvert, I don’t really party, so if I was writing a song about partying it wouldn’t mean anything to me, it would sound fake.

“I write about things I can understand and that I know, and I hope people can relate to it.”

Dead Preachers aren’t just the sum of their influences and experiences, but their

ambition, and their respect for their forebears.

“This is what we want to do,” says Clark.

“There’s this particular kind of thing called the blues and it’s generally about talking about your life, things that are hard to talk about – that’s where it comes from. Pain. Like, proper pain.

“Not my interpretation of what’s happened to me, but the guys who started the blues, those guys had nothing. Marginalised people living in the south of America with nothing. That’s why the blues is so powerful.”

King Gizzard & The Lizard’s 15th album, Infest the Rats’ Nest, is out via Flightless Records on Friday August 16.

Dead Preachers

A catchy, raw blues-rock number if ever there was one, Melbourne’s own Dead Preachers have released their debut single, ‘Train’.

BY ANNA ROSE

Packed with oodles of emotion and an uncompromised grit, Dead Preachers boast a new take on the traditions of the genre, selfproclaiming their sound as being Southern Gothic-infused – and they’re not wrong.

Joking, though, vocalist Russell Clark says he can only take one fifth of the credit for the band’s creation.

Nevertheless, as Dead Preachers’ frontman, it’s Clark who will carry the bulk of the weight of ‘Train’ when the band perform their single launch at Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar later this month.

“I think every person has their role, every musician has their role in making it what it is,” he says. “With the drums, you don’t get that rumble, the keys flowing through, the guitar giving it the soul of the melody, and the vocals, I guess, traditionally tie everything together.

“It’s where people focus their attention, on the lyrics, the emotion that comes through the music. Then there’s all the other stuff that heightens it, stuff you don’t think about consciously. I like that part of it. Everybody’s as important as everybody else, otherwise I’m just a douche bag.”

With its members originating from various bands and styles of music, Clark feels Dead Preachers’ throwback to ‘60s pop and ‘70s blues is the most fitting sound for the band. “This song is our homage to this style of music. We wanted to pick up on the Hendrix style of playing. In a lot of the stuff that’s coming up though, it’s different.

“We class ourselves as Southern Gothic blues rock, which might sound a bit wank, but what it actually means is that it’s a lot darker.

‘Train’ is more accessible, which is why we chose to release it first.

“Beyond that, we’re writing songs that mean something to us and a certain time we’ve had in life.”

Though the simplicity of the single is effective, it’s hard to get past the narrative and how forthcoming it is – so what is the train? “It’s redemption. Self-loathing and redemption. That’s the whole song.

“A few personal things, mistakes I’ve made, but it’s a positive message, like, we all go through shit in our lives and everyone has their own experiences of that stuff.

“That’s the beauty of music – once

Check out Dead Preachers’ new single, ‘Train’, via streaming services. They’ll be launching the track at the Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar on Friday August 23.

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One the Bear

BY D’ARCY MCGREGOR

One the Bear is a hip hop and spoken word theatre piece from comedian, actor, award-winning writer and social activist Candy Bowers about two bears. Bowers says the performance follows “unapologetically black unicorn philosophy”. If it sounds like it’s a lot, that’s because it is – but it’s so important.

The performance follows two bears – One and her best friend Ursula – living in a rubbish tip in a bear hunters society. The hunters usually kill bears for their bodies, but One gets discovered and, for the first time, the ‘hunter world’ appreciates the talents of someone from the underground.

“It’s not unlike how hip hop came to be,” Bowers said. “It’s a really edgy work for young people. Because the young people I was talking to are those on the margins and have been marginalised the most – the best times in their life with friends have been on drugs. “…I still wanted to deal with those issues.

It was really important to play in the stickiest, the hardest, and the most difficult parts of what it’s like right now to be a teenager on the margins – and particularly a black teenager.”

Bowers delves deep into many issues, themes, and controversial topics in her project. For example, she dissects the way women’s bodies – particularly black women

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– are portrayed and the space of cultural appropriation. In the play, as One rises in fame, the hunter world starts getting cosmetic surgery to have their own bear tails. But, on the other side, the hunters also kill bears for parts of them such as their bile, claws, teeth, and fur.

“I think all of us can agree that atrocities and putting women’s bodies on shelves is not okay,” Bowers.

“I think we can all agree that’s a history we want to expose and dismantle and never ever want to see again. In my heart of hearts and dreams of dreams, I wrote this play for the women who have modified their bodies so much – particularly black women – to look white.”

The story is particularly interesting, because even as One is consumed by her society, she feels that her message is still getting across. Bowers recited a quote by one of her idols, poet Audre Lorde, “If I didn’t

define myself for myself, I’d be crunched into other people’s fantasies and eaten alive.”

“One the Bear gets crunched into other peoples’ fantasies and eaten alive, and I wanted to show it,” Bowers said.

“We have so many artists that perish because they get eaten alive by what we want them to be.”

Although the topics are hard-hitting and deep, critics’ feedback proves this show is more than just huge themes.

“They thought they were going to get this didactic piece which would hit them over the head,” Bowers laughed.

“But instead received cute and warm characters and a story which is heartbreaking.

What I hear from that is ‘oh, we can relate to black people’. Not that they thought they couldn’t, but it’s just a really new experience.

Anyone should be able to see work and relate to it because we’re all human.”

The themes One the Bear covers are

deep and quite confronting, but the premise, the characters, everything wrapped around the themes are silly, warm, and heartbreaking.

“I was doing workshops with some kids and talking about some of these really huge issues in their lives,” Bowers explains. “It just kept coming back to friendship. So, it’s kinda a love story but it’s not ‘one day my prince will come’ it’s more ‘one day my best friend will come’ and the best friends save each other.

The biggest theme of the whole show is friendship, it’s the ultimate theme.”

Bowers wants to make sure we know, “One the Bear is all of me.”

Be sure to catch One the Bear at Arts Centre Melbourne, running from Thursday August 8 to Saturday August 10. Tickets via the venue website.

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Downstairs Bistro & Lounge Downstairs Bistro & Lounge is located on Sturt St in Southbank just moments away from the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

The café-cum-bar-cum-restaurant opens its doors in the early-AM all week (except Sundays when they’re closed) and turns into a happening night-spot from Thursday through to Saturday, offering live music and a finely sculpted cocktail menu.

But it’s the food and drinks that distinguish Downstairs first and foremost, around which a comfortable and friendly atmosphere has developed. This is backed up by the fact you can find Downstairs on Menulog, Deliveroo and Uber Eats, where a range of takeaway sandwiches, wraps and pizzas are available throughout the day.

The Euro-centric breakfast, lunch and dinner menus are all truly extensive. Each one caters to vegan or gluten free diets while also providing plenty of choices for those of an omnivorous disposition.

Let’s start with breakfast. Downstairs opens its doors at 7am every day and is suitable

if you’re looking to grab something quick and easy like sourdough toast with vegemite or peanut butter. If you want to settle in and treat yourself, however, they’ve certainly got you covered. All of the menu items bear tonguein-cheek names – Millennials Mortgage is smashed avo and poached eggs on grain toast with ricotta, dukkah and the option of bacon; Ali Baba & The Baked Eggs is an especially enticing number, comprising Moroccanstyle baked eggs, tomato, chickpeas, kale, goat’s feta and pomegranate served with the absolutely essential grilled flatbread.

Vegan breakfast choices include muesli with coconut yoghurt, candied almonds and green apple. The vast majority of things can be made gluten free on request.

Now, onto lunch. Downstairs is famous for its pizzas and the lunchtime menu covers everything from the classic Neapolitan-style Margherita to a trio of Gruyere, mozzarella and

gorgonzola cheeses, wild mushrooms with black truffle, and some more adventurous choices like lamb and tzatziki and prawn and chorizo. Gluten-free pizza bases are available on request, likewise vegan mozzarella, so everyone wins.

The lunch menu also includes six different burgers, encompassing a range of proteins. If triple cheese, bacon and 200g of wagyu beef isn’t for you, why not give in to the allure of Cajun chicken with coleslaw, chipotle mayo and grilled chilli? Vegans are acknowledged in the form of a royale with leaves: an avocado fritter accompanied by green kale, vegan mozzarella, crispy onions and a dressing of lime and coconut yoghurt and Sriracha.

Grilled chicken, butter chicken and crumbed hoki pad out the lunchtime burger parade, while salads, fish and chips and sirloin steak are all also available.

Downstairs is open for dinner Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and the dinner menu upholds all of the lunchtime pizzas while also appealing to culinary Francophiles with seafood bouillabaisse, beef bourguignon and twice-roasted duck with pomme puree and burnt orange sauce. If you’re keen on Italiano

cuisine but don’t feel like a pizza, there’s veal saltimbocca with pecorino cheese and prosciutto and the risotto of the day.

Perhaps you’re just keen to have something to nibble on while you enjoy a few glasses of wine or beer or a cocktail – and why not? It’s the weekend. In this case, may I introduce to you the fried baby calamari, chicken liver pate with a warm baguette or the grilled sardines marinated in tomato sugo.

On the drinks front, they’re fine purveyors of all the staple coffee drinks, along with matcha lattes and iced coffee and chocolate.

Soy, almond, oat and lactose-free milks are there to meet your needs. In a more indulgent field are the chocolate, strawberry, vanilla or caramel milkshakes and the smoothies (bananarama and strawberry dream). Fresh, customisable juices are available until 4pm daily and crucially, bloody marys and espresso martinis are happily served all day.

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Since Ali Died

Rapper, poet and author Omar Musa has been productive in his artistic ventures – he has been working on his new novel and has just created his own play called Since Ali Died, which revolves around his connection with Muhammed Ali.

BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS

Ali was always Musa’s hero growing up, so the show consists of Musa’s life experiences and his personal struggles, along with his sharp observations on the darkness that taints modern Australia. “[Since Ali Died] was first an album, I was in a really dark place a couple of years ago and it might sound dramatic to say, but it almost felt like it was either art or death,” Musa explains. “That’s what it was in my mind – I was battling with a number of demons and the only way I could survive was to make art about that and to make music.

“I created this album and it first pretends that it’s talking about a friend called Ali who’s gone down a different path to me. I’ve lost this friend, but by the end of the album you realise that I’m actually talking about Muhammed Ali, one of my great heroes.

The album’s evolution to a play first started around a year and a half ago, when the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney contacted Musa.

“They asked me to do a one-man show as part of the Batch Festival, which was trying to get people who weren’t necessarily from the theatre world onto the theatre stage,” he says.

“They wanted to get new audiences and try new forms with comedy and burlesque and different things.”

While Musa had grown up with parents who were theatre directors, he wasn’t theatretrained, so the Griffin Company put him in touch with an amazing director named Anthea Williams.

“It was the most intense two weeks of my life, because we had been strangers before that. We got together and welded this crazy monster together, out of all these chaotic moving parts of my personality.

“We ended up creating this story that’s about Queanbeyan where I grew up, a small town suburban [area] – it’s about Islam, it’s about me grappling with faith and my relationship with my father. It’s about love and heartbreak, but also we tried to make sure

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it had comedic elements in there, because that’s a side of my personality as well – the troublemaker and scallywag.”

Musa also incorporates his observations of Australia’s history, specifically the racism over the years and the White Australia policy.

“There are a lot of people that were denied access to having a voice and are only starting to hopefully come into their own now,” he says. “I would, in some ways, count myself amongst those people; I grew up with a lot of privilege that’s for sure, but being a young Muslim Australian growing up in post 9/11 where Muslim people are demonised, the narratives constructed around Muslim people are very damaging.

“These forces are really overpowering – we see the divisions all around the world, we see people literally trying to build walls like Donald Trump. In a small but not insignificant way, through the art and storytelling, we can

build bridges instead of walls, and provoke uneasy and uncomfortable thought. I hope it makes people think and question the way they see the world because that’s how it came about, through me questioning the world, questioning myself, my own prejudices, my own culpabilities.”

Musa ties all his chaotic ideas together through one central metaphor in the play: the river of his hometown.

“All this messiness and all these complicated contradictory things are wrapped up in one metaphor, which is the river of my hometown. All rivers are the same river in a way, all the stories are the same stories and it’s all moving forward.”

Since Ali Died will be performed at Art Centre Melbourne’s Fairfax Studio from Tuesday August 13 to Saturday August 17. Head to the Arts Centre Melbourne website for tickets.

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Frank Raymond and the Silhouettes Brenden Mason spends his days repairing guitars at Real Guitars in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Mason’s been deeply attached to the instrument since first getting his hands on one as a teenager in the 1960s.

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

His entire adult life has revolved around the guitar in one way or another, most famously as a member of the Melbourne-based ‘70s progressive rock band, Madder Lake.

“I trained as a graphic artist and I walked out of my final year exam to go touring with Madder Lake, much to my parents’ dismay,” says Mason. “I’ve never regretted that move one bit. I’m completely satisfied in my decision of moving away from graphic art to music, even though music is such an unreliable source of income.”

Madder Lake are still at it and these days Mason also lends a hand to fellow ‘70s prog rockers, Spectrum. He’s driven by passion first and foremost, which is demonstrated by the fact he’s been a regular at Fad Gallery, located on Corrs Lane in the city, for over a decade.

“It’s the longest residency I’ve ever had in my life,” Mason says. “I’ve played with various bands there.”

Mason currently supplies lead guitar for the eight-piece cover band, Frank Raymond and the Silhouettes, who perform at Fad every first and third Thursday of the month.

“Covers are a lot more accessible,” says Mason. “But in the light of us doing covers, most of my life I’ve stayed with original bands and that has always been my preference. So we’re definitely not a little jukebox or a karaoke machine insofar as doing the covers exactly [as they originally sounded]. We inject our own flavour and then Johnny Halleday has his own character too. John adds his own stamp to things and it is quite unique and quite entertaining.”

Outside of adopting the moniker Frank Raymond on stage, Halleday, the band’s frontperson, is the venue owner. “He’s the main man,” says Mason. “And all the time that I’ve been playing there, he’s probably been there 100% of the time. John is quite a unique

character. Various bands that I played with, we’d coax him at the end of the night to get up and have a sing and I think that was one of the things that sparked him into putting a band together.”

The FRATS repertoire includes anything that fits under the header “funky, folk, rock’n’roll,” from the 1960s onwards.

“It goes anything from The Neville Brothers to soul music, a bit of blues,” says Mason. “‘Valerie’, we do that. We do ‘Superstitious’. We do things like [Eddie Floyd’s] ‘Knock On Wood’. It’s relatively broad in what we do and they’re reasonably wellknown songs too.”

FRATS aren’t Fad’s only reliable house band – Bernadette Novembre and Rocky and the Two Bob Millionaires are also monthly regulars. Given his longstanding residency at Fad, Mason has witnessed the culture of the venue grow.

“There’s quite a few regulars that come in. Johnny has devoted Thursday nights to

live music, which is fantastic. On Fridays and Saturdays they do a bit more like disco, so it tends to get a younger crowd. But it’s quite a unique little place and for those who are regulars there, it’s a very comfortable little place. Johnny keeps great control of the place.”

It’s now 50 years since the formation of Madder Lake and Mason’s passion and enthusiasm for live performance remains as strong as ever.

“I can’t get it out of my blood. I’ve virtually never stopped playing in my whole life and I’m quite grateful of any gig that I do. I thoroughly enjoy that side of things; creating and writing music and playing music.”

the deepest corners of your brain,” Gaurav says. “I think he definitely takes time to get the right results and sometimes we would experiment and do things that were really weird, but ended up being fantastic.

“There’s one track on the album called ‘Leave The Light On’ which we actually recorded on Hoddle Street in Abbotsford. It was the first acoustic track we ever recorded, Will had this vision in his mind and he knew that our sound is very much something that should be accessed from all sorts of places.

“That was the best way to capture that, rather than having a bunker down in a studio room, on a busy place like Hoddle Street where you can actually hear the traffic on the track as well.”

Despite the loss and heartbreak they’ve endured, Gaurav and Wong have learnt through their experiences not to take life too seriously.

“Sometimes when you have those moments, such as calling ourselves Krong Pong without really realising what we were calling ourselves, it’s those moments when you realise not to take life too seriously,” Wong explains.

“We attained that feeling where even though there might be difficult moments in your life, you need to find a way to laugh it off sometimes – laughter is the best medicine for that kind of thing, when you’ve gone through some serious issues in your life. Everyone has those rollercoasters of emotion and it’s about finding that something that will turn it around a little bit.”

Frank Raymond and the Silhouettes play a residency at Fad Gallery every first and third Thursday of the month.

Fad Gallery is located at 14 Corrs Lane in the CBD – find out more about the venue at fadgallery.com.au.

Dal Santo

Punk/reggae rockers Dal Santo are excited to release their second album Patong Beach, which was inspired by their trip to Thailand after the devastating loss of their friend and drummer.

BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS

The remaining duo, John Gaurav and Jimi Wong, spent weeks trying to heal by playing live shows at the beachside location and, in the process, rediscovered themselves by creating unique new music.

“We lost a member of the band a couple of years back, about a year after releasing our first album, and we took some time off,” vocalist Gaurav says. “Jimi and myself – we went away to Thailand for a few weeks, and it was there that we started playing a few acoustic shows at Patong Beach.

“We reunited the spark a little bit, since we were able to engage an audience. We played the acoustic shows that were given to us; most notably we played at a fish market in front 200 people. We were really able to engage and capture a crowd of a couple hundred people with just the two of us, that’s what made it.

“It reminded us why we play music and what we love most about it, and that inspired the concept of the next album coming out, Patong Beach.”

At this stage, Gaurav and Wong weren’t

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in the mental space of Dal Santo and decided to give their project another name, one which came from the most unlikely of sources.

“While we were playing there, we weren’t sure – we didn’t think of ourselves as Dal Santo anymore,” Gaurav says. “We actually saw that there was a cigarette brand over there named ‘Krong Tip’, but we misread it and thought it was ‘Krong Pong’ so we started to call ourselves ‘Krong Pong’ as a duo.

“One of the locals actually told us that it means ‘the fat lazy foreigner’, which has kind of added to our character onstage. I think the translation of Krong Tip means ‘relaxing cigarette’ or something like that, but when you swap out Tip for Pong, it means something completely different. We found it extremely funny, it boosted the mood onstage and it brought a whimsical persona to some of our shows.”

Inspiration for their new album came from other sources too, and it was the opportunity to work with Will Casserly at Plastic Jungle Records that also gave Gaurav and Wong impetus.

“It was fantastic – Will Casserly has definitely got a knack of pulling out ideas from

Dal Santo’s new album Patong Beach is out now on streaming services. The band launch the record at The Evelyn Hotel on Thursday August 22. Grab your tickets via the venue website.

Profiles Spirit Lines

Joshua Batten MUSIC

Spirit Lines brings together Mutti Mutti man Kutcha Edwards, multiple Latin Grammy winner Daniel Jauregui and percussionist Adrian Hearn. How did you three meet?

AH: Daniel was working with Kutcha in community music workshops and with me in a Suns of Mercury production called I Am Ashé. He introduced Kutcha and Adrian through the Seven Beads project, which joined us as a trio together with dancer Kathleen López and digital projectionist Fabian Cordero in February 2019.

What talents do each of you bring to the collaboration?

DJ: Kutcha is a powerful singer capable of capturing the attention of room with just his presence. When Adrian plays the Bata, times goes still and you are transported into a trans experience. However, I should like to go beyond the music. We are entering a conversation about culture, and coexistence in mutual respect. Something that is needed in Australian society, and this is our aporte.

Spirit Lines also brings to life contemporary dance and video projections. How does this compliment the music side of the project?

AH: We’re aiming for something that goes beyond the sum of its parts: a chorus of the senses that brings our ears, eyes, and spirits into harmony.

What can we expect from your upcoming show at the Church of All Nations?

KE: Our role is to drop an imaginary pebble in a pond & create a ripple. We can’t determine what the ripple will do, it is up to an audience to determine whether they agree or disagree with what is being presented.

MUSIC

When did you first start making music and what led you there?

I’ve been singing since before I could talk and I’ve spent my formative years as a connoisseur of tunes. Now my obsession with melody, rhythm and lyrics has reached a point that I can’t see myself doing anything else.

Tell us about your new single, ‘Hollywood Blues’. What is the story behind it? What inspired it?

When I was growing up, I saw America as this magical place where dreams come true. As I got older, it became clear that for every story of dreams coming true, there are a thousand stories of failure and setback. This is one of those stories, told using direct lyrics, catchy hooks and a powerful chorus.

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

My sound is a combination of blues, folk, country and rock’n’roll. I grew up listening to the greats of classic rock – The Beatles, Queen, Deep Purple, etc. – but over the years, I’ve learned about the value of storytelling and giving the lyrics as much attention as the music; creating a complete listening experience.

Your upcoming show at the David Williamson Theatre will be comprised of two sets, one acoustic and one electric. What surprises are in store?

If I told you, they wouldn’t be surprises, would they? But jokes aside, I’ll be playing songs from my first two albums with some of the best musicians in Melbourne, young and old. My photographer Jason Rosewarne and graphic designer Renee Garling will also be displaying their work throughout the night.

Spirit Lines will perform at Church of All Nations on Friday August 16. Tickets are available via www.boite.com.au.

‘Hollywood Blues’ is out now on all digital streaming platforms. Catch Joshua Batten at David Williamson Theatre, Melbourne Polytechnic on Thursday September 1, tickets via joshuabatten.com.au.

HMO

Four Lions MUSIC

When did you first start making music and what led you there?

I bought a guitar off a friend at the age of about 11 and started teaching myself. I remember coming across Nirvana’s Nevermind in my early teens and from that point on, I knew my life was going to revolve around music. That’s when the writing began.

Tell us about your new EP, Heightened Modus Operandi. What is the story behind it? What inspired it?

The title speaks about my accelerated sense of purpose over the last year. This project has been the monkey on my back and I just needed to get it finished and released so I could move on to writing more music. The album features a range of songs that were written over the last few years and it was inspired by many themes, ranging from mental health and racism to social injustice.

Your music brings together all manners of influences and inspirations. How would you describe your sound?

I don’t really know how to describe my sound and, as cliché as this may sound, labels aren’t for me. However, soul music, early funk music and ‘90s rap are definitely huge influences for me. The climate of adversity that this music came from is testament to its quality and emotion.

What can we expect from your upcoming EP Tour stop in Melbourne at Laundry Bar? My message is loud, angry and clear and I just want to get on stage and speak my truth regarding the injustice of the modern world. Also, expect great things from local rappers Mattakript and Fruity Lex, fellow South Coast MC Azza D and new school Sydney rapper Hunter 505 who is currently number one on the triple j Unearthed charts.

Heightened Modus Operandi is out now on all digital streaming platforms. Catch HMO at Laundry Bar on Friday August 23, tickets via Oztix.

[With lead singer/guitarist Shann Lions & drummer Gavan Moncrieff]

MUSIC

How did Four Lions first come together?

SL: It started out as a studio project for myself; I wrote a couple of songs, found a studio locally, and recorded some demos. And that spurred me on to write the first Four Lions album, Charing Cross, in six weeks after going into the studio. During that process, I got in contact with different people through social media and put the band together that way.

The current lineup is probably the best version of the band that we’ve had, and the most cohesive.

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

SL: Our sound is classic rock with a tinge of Americana; think Wilco, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young. It reflects our influences and our favourite bands.

You released your new album, Hard Days, in May. How does it feel to have it out in the world and what has the response been like?

GM: It’s just been gaining popularity. When you do a gig and people come up to you and say ‘that was awesome, I love your music’ – as long as people like it, that’s really all that matters.

It was recorded from the heart, and we believe in the songs. And every time we get up there and play them, we’re playing from the heart. And we’re getting better, too.

You toured straight off the back of the album. How did you guys go on the road?

SL: It hasn’t stopped. We did eight dates in Victoria on the album launch tour. We also played in Queensland, NSW, and the ACT, and we’re about to head over to South Australia.

What can we expect from your upcoming show at The Spotted Mallard?

SL: I’m mega-pumped that the band gets back to playing at The Spotted Mallard, after first playing there in 2016. We need all of Melbourne to turn up to that show, because there’ll be some new Four Lions fans from it if they do turn up!

Catch Four Lions at The Spotted Mallard on Friday August 16. Tickets via Moshtix.

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FEATURES

Meet Melbourne’s newest laneway, String Bean Alley We’re spilling the beans on Melbourne’s newest laneway, String Bean Alley. With a history dating back to 1936, the alley was once where green grocers sold their string beans. Now, the laneway is home to 26 independent traders, providing a truly unique shopping experience. Each of the traders have set up shop inside bespoke shipping containers – it’s all very Melbourne.

BY D’ARCY MCGREGOR

The revitalisation of String Bean Alley comes as part of City of Melbourne’s $250 million renewal of the Queen Vic Markets, and Lord Mayor Sally Capp is just as excited about it all as we are.

“String Bean Alley is the new place to find Melbourne’s best independent makers, creators, designers and artists,” says the Lord Mayor. “More than nine million visitors come to the Queen Vic Market each year for its traditional open-air market experience, and this magnificent new precinct will be a drawcard for new and existing customers.”

Along with some existing traders, an additional 12 have joined the team and now they’re peas in a pod, offering a variety of locally designed, sourced or produced fashion, vintage goods, jewellery, art, craft, skincare, toys, books and just about anything else you could want.

Queen Victoria Market CEO Stan Liacos said the revitalisation of String Bean Alley was crucial to encourage new visitors to the Market, while celebrating its rich history.

“The String Bean Alley precinct represents a new era for the Market,” says Mr Liacos. “This section of the Market is now acting as a small business incubator, providing a platform for specialist traders offering products and services that are locally designed, sourced or produced.”

Now to the good stuff – the shopping.

Here are some highlights from the new artisans moving into the alley.

Mary Martin Books The award-winning indie bookshop – with a history almost as old as the alley – has set up shop with a collection of books specially curated with book lovers in mind. Fresh from winning the title of Independent Book Retailer of the year, they also stock an extensive and unique range of greeting cards, children’s gifts and toys.

Melbourne Makers Pod Three Melbourne makers have joined forces to create the Melbourne Makers Pod. Expect a rotating lineup of products such as handcrafted gold and silver jewellery, bath and body products, dream catchers and crochet critters, all locally designed and made.

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Miss Brown Vintage If you can’t get enough vintage, Miss Brown Vintage is a market leader for sustainable vintage fashion, offering a stunning collection of vintage clothing and accessories. Owner Madeleine Thomson travels the world to source unique pieces from the ‘50s to the ‘90s and also creates new pieces from authentic vintage fabrics.

Iris Photo Offering something new and innovative, Artist Mitchel Zeer turned his passion and studies in psychology and photography into a desire to see the human eye in a new way.

Iris Photo photographs your iris; kind of like an optometrist, but not to check your eye health.

Instead, they capture all the details and colours in your iris and turn it into a stunning artwork.

Miss Brown Vintage

Melbourne Cocoa Chocolate heaven, here in Melbourne? Um, yes please! Melbourne Cocoa is brought to you by Jeremy and Philippa Kennedy-Wilson, second generation artisans behind Kennedy & Wilson.

You can customise your own truffles, enjoy a chocolate cupping session, or simply pick up a block of their locally-made premium chocolate.

Another Man Barber Shop For over 70 years,and across three generations, the Mariani family have been barbers in Italy.

Now, Amleto Mariani is bringing the fine art of Italian-style grooming and barbering to Melbourne to give the Queen Vic Market its first barber shop. Another Man use and sell a range of locally made and certified organic grooming products for all you well-groomed fellas – including beard oil, beard balm, shaving cream, face wash, shampoo and after shave.

This is only half of the 12 amazing new traders moving into the alley. As for the other 14 original traders moving in and setting up shop there, expect to see the likes of Qn Flowers, Nautical Replicas, Made In Japan, Aminalee, Ronnie Z and the Fabulous Juice, and heaps more.

With the stores open Fridays to Sundays, and Wednesday evenings during The Night Markets, you can be one of the first people to check out String Bean Alley. It’s the new place to bean.

String Bean Alley is now open Fridays to Saturdays 8am – 3pm, Sundays 9am – 4pm, and Wednesday evenings 5pm – 10pm during The Night Market event series. More info and additional traders can be found on the Queen Victoria Market website.

PROFILES

Trivia Special The Gem

Question One

Chances are you’ve probably attended a trivia night in your time, but have you ever had Elvis put your wits to the test? In a trivia extravaganza like no other, every Wednesday night, The Gem takes you to Vegas where The King himself – or at least, a very charismatic impersonator – will press you on all things music, popular culture, Australia and much more.

If you’ve got a noggin full of useless knowledge, be sure to gather a gang of fellow facthoarders and get yourself to The Gem on a Wednesday night where food and drink prizes await. Happening weekly from 7:30pm in the front bar, Viva La Trivia won’t cost you a thing – except maybe your dignity, should you talk a bigger game than you can deliver. And if you’re really lucky, your quaffed host, King 7, may even sing you a song or two.

It’s worth heading down any and every week for Viva La Trivia, though if you happen to stop in at The Gem on Wednesday August 7, you’re in for an extra special treat. As a oneoff special, PBS Blue Juice host and DJ Mohair Slim will be taking over hosting duties. A devout blues aficionado, you can pretty much guarantee there’ll be some music questions in the mix.

For trivia with a quirk, Viva La Trivia is the game for you. Thank you very much!

Founded in 2003, Question One has become a world leader of quizzes and has provided thousands of pub-goers with a fun night out. Their first pub quiz night was held in Fulham, England and since then it has spread to over 150 venues across the world.

Question One is hosting trivia every Monday night at Francesca’s Bar in Northcote. The quizzes include a blend of current affairs, general knowledge and picture puzzles to get you thinking. Quiz host Rian is professionally trained and chosen for his ability to entertain the crowd – this is a great way to get your group of friends together and get your brain ticking.

There’s plenty of prizes available including a $50 first place prize, a bottle of wine for second as well as a jug of beer for the half time heads or tails challenge. If you’re the competitive type then you’ll definitely want to make this a weekly event. Happy hour starts at 5pm so you can get warmed up before trivia starts and there’s $8 pints of Furphy, $5 house wines and cheap pizzas for those keen to keep the good times rolling.

Francesca’s also host a monthly bingo night, which is not your average ball draw –this bingo night incorporates music and pictures to really spice things up. It’s held on the first Thursday of every month at 7.30pm with lots of prizes available too.

Viva La Trivia goes down from 7:30pm at The Gem every Wednesday night in the front bar. It’s free to play.

Check out Question One trivia on Monday nights at Francesca’s Bar in Northcote. It kicks off at 7.30pm and fills up quickly, so make sure to book by texting 0431 816 878. For more info on the trivia night, head to questionone.com.

QUESTION ONE

THE REAL SOCIAL NETWORK TRIVIA BINGO PRIVATE - FUNDRAISING - WEEKLY EVENTS QUESTIONONE .COM. AU

Four foolproof ways to dominate trivia

Have smart friends There’s no point rocking up at trivia if you and all of your mates have the same interests.

Maybe you’ve got a friend who has a weird fascination with cephalopods and can tell you all there is to know about squids. Or maybe they’re not a friend and you’re just inviting them so you can get your hands on first prize.

Go with your gut Your high school teacher probably told you to do this on multiple choice questions, and it’s good for trivia, too. Often the first answer you choose is the right answer. You don’t have much time in trivia, so it’s better to have something written down rather than nothing at all.

You could even elect a captain for your team to make executive decisions.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled These days, we’re constantly being bombarded with information. Why not listen to a news podcast next time you’re on the train or watch a documentary on polar bears? Download a trivia app and challenge your friends. Ever wanted to know who the Queen of England was in 1600? No? Too bad, it’s Elizabeth I. You’ll be the king or queen of useless facts in no time.

Host your own trivia night Get all your mates together for your own trivia night. Choose a quizmaster and get everyone to submit ten questions to the quizmaster the day before, which they will then choose from.

Make it more interesting by getting everyone to chip in a few dollars to create a cash prize for the winner and think of a punishment for the loser.

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NEW MUSIC

Albums & Singles BEST NEW ALBUM

8.5

NORTHLANE

Alien

With Northlane’s new album Alien, if you were expecting a repeat of the desolation Northlane brought in their 2017 release Mesmer, think again.

Their fifth LP is a destructive demonstration of Northlane’s true potential that remains sonically curious.

In an oddly intimate way to express personal grievances, Northlane turn themselves inside out to expose bitter and conflicting innards. The album is melodically mad, concise, cohesive, but most importantly, creative – as a result, revealing a Sydney outfit at the peak of their powers. ‘Alien’ is a great word to explain what you’re hearing. They’re still volatile in their delivery, but it’s the unexpected manipulation of traditional synth effects and similar crafty nuances dotted through the release that make this such an impeccably enjoyable listen.

Tracks like ‘Talking Heads’, ‘Jinn’ and ‘Rift’ operate within a traditional Northlane restlessness – the crashing drums, screeching, passionate vocals and terrifically heavy riffs. But ultimately, the band adopt a persona in their delivery and thematic content that reveals a whole new side to the Northlane we thought we knew. It’s the freedom of expression and creative confidence that positions Alien as their best album yet.

Northlane purists would say the album doesn’t sound like the band at all, but there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s exciting, refreshing, exciting some more, and definitely worthy of several spins so you can really get intimate with all the nitty gritty touches Northlane have put into their new masterpiece.

Label: UNFD

BY ANNA ROSE

SINGLES – WITH AUGUSTUS WELBY

DYSON STRINGER CLOHER

SPIKE FUCK

PRIVATE FUNCTION

REBEL YELL

Falling Clouds

Body By Crystal

Talking to Myself

Night Drive

‘Falling Clouds’ isn’t an obvious earworm.

Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher sing a droning melody in unison over a sludgy guitar riff, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t get stuck in your head. Named after Falling Joys and The Clouds, two ’90s female-fronted indie rock bands, the uber-trio reunite to pay homage to the individuals who “kicked the door wide open so [they] could walk onto that stage”.

The song’s final line is the real kicker, but I’ll leave it for you to discover.

Spike Fuck claims to have originally excluded ‘Body By Crystal’ from her Smackwave EP because it was too raw. Thank goodness she finally relented because it’s a bloody beauty, even if the details of drug abuse and a life in chaos evoke a stark image. There’s nasty, dated drum machines, nasty, dated electric guitar, and an apt channelling of Lou Reed vocally, lyrically and melodically.

As I’ve gotten older, I feel I’ve become saner, calmer and gained a shitload more selfawareness. That hasn’t freed me of quirks and doddery compulsions, though. So I instantly related to this anguished, scruffy punk rock song from Melbourne’s Private Function – namely to its core lyric: “Every day I’m talking to myself/A little bit more.” It’s fast, doesn’t seem particularly bothered about precision, and smells a bit like a blokey moshpit.

No idea why Rebel Yell isn’t one of the biggest names in techno. Pleased, however, that Sydney’s Grace Stevenson just keeps cranking out music. ‘Night Drive’ hews to the project’s signature, boasting muscular programming that slaps you into action and a reverb-soaked Sprechgesang lead vocal that makes a statement of sociocultural import.

Label: Partisan Label: Disdain Records

Label: Milk! Records

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Label: Rice Is Nice

NEW MUSIC

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CLAIRO

Immunity

The thing about Clairo’s debut LP, Immunity, is that each song on the album is good. They’re all well produced, well performed tracks that are a testament to the work of Clairo, Rostam, Danielle Haim and all other artists that contributed. However, while a cohesive album, Immunity becomes repetitive.

The opener, ‘Alewife’, sets a beautifully – and surprisingly – sombre tone that suggests a new path for Clairo: is she going to take us on a tour of the darker side of bedroom pop?

This expectation is dashed as the next nine songs are carbon copies of the last, all of them bouncing around like pastel-tinged thought bubbles that use the same vocal inflections on every single ad-libbed “oh”.

Highlights are definitely the opener and closer; ‘Alewife’ delves into the more uncomfortable side of friendships and the expectations that come with. ‘I Wouldn’t Ask You’ is the best track on the album solely due to its almost seven-minute breadth. My only question is: where was this earlier in the LP? If Clairo knew she was capable of this expansion of her signature sound, why didn’t she explore that more frequently?

Overall, this album is a great start for Clairo, but more experimentation when it comes to vocals and subject matter would launch her from niche dark-bubblegum appeal to hardcore indie staple status.

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FOUR LIONS

5

Hard Days

JADE IMAGINE

Basic Love

Ever productive Bendigo alt-country rockers Four Lions have arrived with their fourth studio effort Hard Days. On its surface, the album is a pretty saccharine sounding record with the echo of a Glyn Johns product.

From the driving rhythm and tasty organ of ‘Stay’, to the chill guitar work on ‘Bent On Revenge’, to the vocalisations of ‘Tragic Modern Love’ and ‘How Much’ and the grilling saxophone solo in ‘Hard Days’, Four Lions seem to know how to keep the songs moving with a fresh lick or two.

It’s apparent across the record that there’s incredible harmony in Four Lions’ instrumentation and musicianship amongst its five members.

However, what lies in its lyrics is of a gloomier nature. The album seems to deal with unhealthy love and all its demons. A pain is modestly conveyed through the narratives, like in the swan song ‘Living With A Stranger’, where the band sing of the concern that comes with not knowing the person you reside beside. Meanwhile the lyrics “I believe my lies” ring relatable for anyone in the song ‘My Own Lies’.

Four Lions deliver a bittersweet box of candy with Hard Days which is another honourable effort from the band.

It’s not hard to feel depressed about the world with just one look at the internet, and while albums about political injustice have enjoyed a resurgence, jade imagine’s debut takes a much needed look at what it’s like to be yanked between everyday horror and the feel-good.

But this yank is more like a slow drag on Basic Love, and the music itself often fails to conjure how it feels to be in this generation’s headspace. While songs like ‘The News’ may have catchy hooks, the album lacks a sense of struggle and power to deliver consistent hardhitters.

‘Gonna Do Nothing’ starts it off strong with a tense, punk-inspired march, but the tension quickly slips away, and each track reveals itself to be the same as the next: distant, aimless, and a little bit flat. Even synth jams and new wave interludes end up sounding like forced experimentation rather than natural evolutions, as most songs stretch past the four minute mark and stall the album from galloping towards its best bits.

With more refined songwriting and a concrete vision, Basic Love could’ve been a powerful, moving album about how the world affects us today; instead, it makes me wonder where jade imagine could be going next.

Label: Verse Chorus Verse

Label: Milk!/Remote Control

BY RHYS MCKENZIE

BY JENNIFER PARK

8.5

OF MONSTERS AND MEN

Fever Dream

Ears across the globe have waited patiently for another Of Monsters and Men album since their last release, Beneath the Skin in 2015. Now, fans finally get their relief with Fever Dream, a highly anticipated album that demands forgiveness for the wait with its careful creation.

The album is co-produced by Rich Costey (CHVRCHES, Vampire Weekend), and showcases the band’s evolution while staying true to their unique folk-rock sound.

It dabbles in slightly poppier and brighter sounds with a step towards more rock than folk undercurrents, most notably in tracks like ‘Alligator’ and ‘Wars’.‘Alligator,’ in particular, has an energetic quality that’s new to the band.

There are slower moments in tracks like ‘Stuck In Gravity’, where Ragnar “Raggi” Þórhallsson’s vocals are front and centre, and ‘Under A Dome’, which is driven by steady drumming throughout. The lyrics of Fever Dream also feel more refined and stronger in their poetic quality and depth. The album constantly mixes Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Raggi’s vocals throughout, and they become powerful when their vocals combine, particularly on ‘Sleepwalker’.

Overall, Fever Dream is a collection of emotionally-driven music where each track tells a story and brings its own unique power, leaving the listener dazed, entranced, and potentially a little teary.

Label: FADER Label/Caroline Australia

BY LEXI HERBERT Label: Republic Records

BY MARNIE VINALL

EDITOR’S PICK

DAL SANTO

Patong Beach The music of Dal Santo is characterised by the whirlwind experiences of its band members.

Made up of Jimi Wong (vocals/bass), John Gaurav (guitar/vocals) and Ben Pali (drums), this burgeoning punk-reggae outfit have been on a journey; a journey marked as much by bereavement as consolidation.

Their sophomore album Patong Beach isn’t just a record that has been banged together from a whiff of inspiration in a back shed. This LP comes after Wong and Gaurav lost a close friend and embarked on a trip to Patong Beach in Thailand.

The album is filled with optimism and embodies a collection of zealous music makers. This doesn’t mean it’s all flaring punk and the trio know when to alleviate the tempo of the blaring ‘Party Girl’ and energetic ‘Come Back To Me Baby’ and ‘Chevy Chase’. ‘Leave The Light On’ is a refreshing acoustic number

that transports listeners to the scene of one of their stripped back performances by Patong Beach.

While the aforementioned ‘Come Back To Me Baby’ and ‘Chevy Chase’ are the album’s party-starters, closing track ‘Rain’ encapsulates the album’s concept and narrative of mourning and resilience. This band has been through a lot and it’s fitting that they’d cap off the album with its most telling tale. What’s next, Dal Santo?

Label: Independent

BY TOM PARKER

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GIGS & EVENTS

Gig & Events Guide WEDNESDAY 07 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK EMMA RUSSACK The Jazzlab. Brunswick.

8pm. $20.

CASINO CARPETS, RACEWALKER, RAMA JORDON Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

TOM FRYER BAND, DDM PROJECT, HIM, YOU & ME Bar 303. Northcote. 7.30pm.

BUTTERFUNKED Evelyn Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. $10.

STOIC RECORDS TAKEOVER FEAT: DIVE TEAM 5 Night Cat. Fitzroy. 9pm. FREE. SCOTT VAN GEMERT QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $25.

STUDIO YOUTH BAND ONE, DICK OATTS, RICH DEROSA Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $35.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES OPEN GRAND PIANO NIGHT Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 6.30pm. FREE. REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MILLER© S SINGALONG Caravan Music Club.

Bentleigh East. 7pm. $20.

ELLA BELFANTI The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm.

MEREDITH WHITTLE The Drunken Poet.

West Melbourne. 8pm.

LOMOND ACOUSTICA, IAN COLLARD, DUXIE FRANKLIN, SUZETTE HERFT The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 8pm.

FREE. OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 5pm. FREE. MUSICLAND COMMUNITY CHOIR REHEARSAL MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7.30pm. $5.

MELBOURNE© S BIGGEST OPEN MIC NIGHT MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7pm. FREE.

Ella Belfanti THE DRUNKEN POET Ella Belfanti has won Best Guitarist at the Bluesfest Busking Competition and has made waves in the festival circuit at the Byron Bay Guitar Festival and National Folk Festival. She’s doing a sideshow to the Melbourne Guitar Show at The Drunken Poet. Catch her onstage from 9pm on Wednesday August 7. Entry is free.

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THE GRUBBY URCHINS Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.

CLASSICAL NICOLE CAR FEAT: ÉTIENNE DUPUIS, JAYSON GILLHAM Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7.30pm. $62.

THE COMMUTER VARIATIONS FEAT: LISA MOORE Melbourne Recital Centre.

Southbank. 6pm. $39.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL KODIAK GALAXY, HYPE, GREY MARE Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. FREE. FOREIGN/NATIONAL, SURPRISE CHEF, DJ BILLIE-JEAN The Tote Hotel.

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

CROOKED FINGERS, KAZ GARAZ, CHANGELINGS, SKIPPING BREAKFAST The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm. $10.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL DANCE CLIMATE FEAT: RUBY LOU, MYLLO, YASIN LEFLEF The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $12.25.

POSTAL WEDNESDAYS FEAT: POST PERCY Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 7pm.

FREE. KASSETTE FEAT: RUDI, MZRIZK, KAM, SLIPPERY SLOPES The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP WEDNESDAY TWIST The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.

Rocky and the Two Bob Millionaires FAD GALLERY Mr Rocky Dabscheck – The Rock – and the Two Bob Millionaires are set to turn it on at FAD Gallery. A mish-mash of rock, folk, blues and everything in between, these boys guarantee an entertaining night. They’re playing on Thursday August 8 from 9pm and it’s free.

THURSDAY 08 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK JULES BOULT Transit Rooftop Bar. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. BLOW The Horn African Cafe & Restaurant. Collingwood. 8pm.

FEM BELLING PRESENTS THE JAZZLAB COLAB The Jazzlab. Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

LIVE MUSIC THURSDAY FEAT: MR CLIFF, PERON Temperance Hotel. South Yarra.

5pm. FREE. CHAMELEON, GROCER GREEN, THE SIERRAS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $7.

ADAM SIMMONS© ORIGAMI Bar Open.

Fitzroy. 7pm. FREE. FLOW STATE FEAT: GOOD SPORT, THE FOXYMORONS, OUTER BLUE SUIT Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $10.

ENZA FEAT: CLAIRE ALBRECHT, ZAYNAB FARAH Open Studio. Northcote.

8pm. $12.

JADE TALBOT QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $25.

STUDIO YOUTH BIG BAND TWO, MAT JODRELL Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne.

7.30pm. $35.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES

MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel.

Williamstown. 8pm. FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL SKELTER, IVY STREEP, ZENITH MOON Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm. $5.

HAMMOCK DISTRICT, ANALOGUE HOPE The B.East. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. KURU LUMA, SILVER BITE, PETRICORE, DIDACTIC Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood.

7pm. $10.

BENCH PRESS, LOOBS, GLOMESH Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $15.

TAPDOG, JAMES GUIDA Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 9pm. FREE. LOOSE BRICKS, THE SPAGHETTI STAINS, MONA BAY The Workers Club. Fitzroy.

8pm. $10.

MAN CITY SIRENS, OH NORTH, THE REASONS, KING CAPTURE Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 7.30pm. FREE. IV DANTE, SIGNAL CHAIN, SOMETHING KROOK, SAM VAN MUNNEN Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 8pm. $5.

BEDROCK WITH LEE HARDING, DJ MATTY J Pier Bandroom. Frankston. 9pm.

SOFT POWER, MEL TAYLOR, ALISTER Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 7pm. $10 - 12.

MATT BRADSHAW The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 9.30pm. FREE.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL

TOM REDWOOD & THE GLUE Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 8.30pm.

TOM REDWOOD Edinburgh Castle Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. PIERS DASHFIELD + PAUL ANDREW CAREY The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm.

FIRST KISS, NOAH COLEMAN, FINN INKSTER Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm.

FREE. THOUGHTFUL PAWS FEAT: MAZ GREEN, HASSALL, JOTHI, JASON PEREIRA The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

FERDYDURKE TURNS SIX FEAT: IJALE, DJ SPELL, MZRIZK, UGLY NEIGHBOURS, CARLUA, PIETRO, WALLA C, TURTLES RUN, ZEPHYR GREENE Ferdydurke.

Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE FEAT: BK OPERA Howler. Brunswick. 8pm. $45.81.

WHATEVER AGENCY THURSDAYS, COLDPAST, RAMSEY, LOTUS MOONCHILD Section 8. Melbourne. 6pm.

FREE. 3181 THURSDAYS, HANS DC, LUKE

Skelter

Andrew Wallace

BAR 303

QUIET MAN IRISH PUB

After relocating to Australia over a year ago, Skelter’s new single ‘Shat My Spacesuit’ is about the physical and mental relief that one experiences after moving to another country. It’s about overcoming the risky phase and setting yourself up in a new place. Catch them at Bar 303 on Thursday August 8. Doors are at 8pm with a small charge of $5.

If you’re up for a drink and some live music at an Irish pub, head to Quiet Man and catch Andrew Wallace’s three-piece band playing a diverse mix of rock and pop hits that cross all genres. Doors open at 9pm on Friday August 9 and entry is free.

GIGS & EVENTS

VECCHIO, LE© BRUH, HECLO, FINN OD, BROTHERS CRIMM, BROWNBEAR Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 6pm. FREE. GUERNS FEAT: ROY MILLS, FREDDY GARDENS, JULIAN CASTLES, BIGMAC, WILLEM, FOSTA New Guernica.

Melbourne. 10pm. FREE. CATCH THE BEAT THURSDAYS FEAT: DJ PERIL, MIKE GURRIERI The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. BLUEBEARD© S CASTLE FEAT: BK OPERA Northcote Town Hall. Northcote. 8pm. $48.56 - 80.21.

JUNGLE BOOGIE The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.

ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES TRIO Smokehouse 101.

Maribyrnong. 7pm. FREE. THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS, CHEV & STAV Open Studio. Northcote. 9pm. $10.

DOPE LEMON Palais Theatre. St Kilda.

8.30pm. $62.90.

WAGONS The Basement Discs.

Melbourne. 12.45pm. FREE. MARK GARDNER The Prince Patrick. .

5.30pm. FREE. SHAUNA TONY AND CO Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE. CRAIG WOODWARD & FRIENDS Cafe Gummo. VIC. 8.30pm. FREE.

CLASSICAL

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK

KATHRYN STOTT Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP SOUL N© POETRY, ARIELLE COTTINGHAM, MEENA SHAMALY, ZIIMUSIC, JAZZ GIULIANI The Penny Black. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. EAMONN CONOR, JACKY X, SILT, CHRISTOPHER ENGEL The Tote Hotel.

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

FRIDAY 09 AUG

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES ANDREW WALLACE The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 10.30pm.

GEORGIA STATE LINE, MON COEUR, DOE EYES The B.East. Brunswick East.

9pm. FREE. DAVID COSMA The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8.30pm.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6pm.

FREE. RYAN MCMULLAN, DAVID HOSKING The Curtin. Carlton. 8pm. $26.95.

RENELOPHUS (STRIPPED), JOSH SEYMOUR, THE SINGING FEMINAZIS Red Betty. Brunswick. 6.30pm. FREE. MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Coburg RSL Club. Coburg. 8pm. FREE.

UNBROKEN TRIO + WITNEY MCCULLOCH QUARTET The Jazzlab.

Brunswick. 8pm. $30.

MAX AVRAHAM KÖNIG Compass Pizza.

Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. DJ LADY LOVE POTION Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. OPEN JAM - FEAT: DE© LYRIUM Bar Open.

Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $15.

THE COPE STREET PARADE Bar Open.

Fitzroy. 6.30pm.

SKELTER, UBU ROI, JAM Bar 303.

Northcote. 8pm.

THE BOITE PRESENTS ITALIAN DIVAS FEAT: MIRKO GUERRINI, ILARIA CROCIANA, JAMES SHERLOCK, TOM LEE, NIKO SCHAUBLE Box Hill Community Arts Centre. 8pm. $27.

SHANTY TOWN The Lomond Hotel.

Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE. ALMA MATER Melbourne Recital Centre.

Southbank. 8pm. $30.

THE DAN MOUGERMAN QUARTET, RITA SATCH Classic Southside. Elsternwick.

8pm. $20 - 25.

ASHLEIGH WATSON + BLUETONE ASSEMBLY Lido Jazz Room. Hawthorn.

8pm. $20 - $25.

BORN TO BE BLUE: THE MUSICAL LIFE OF CHET BAKER Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 6.30pm. $32.50.

PICKPOCKET Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 9pm. $30.

STUDIO YOUTH BIG BAND TWO, MAT JODRELL Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne.

8pm. $35.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP SELKI Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick.

6pm. FREE. FRIDAY FEAT: ADAM TRACE, MARCUS KNIGHT, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 9pm. FREE. NINO BROWN Co.. Southbank. 9.30pm. $25.

PHRESH FRIDAYS Khokolat Bar. Melbourne. 9.30pm. FREE. HILLTOP HOODS, MOJO JUJU, SHADOW, DJ NINO BROWN Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $91.50.

ATEEZ Margaret Court Arena. Melbourne.

7pm. $132.35.

POP TILL YOU DROP The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. KIRIN J CALLINAN The Croxton.

Thornbury. 8pm. $ 34.70.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL FRIDAY FEAT: ADAM TRACE, MARCUS KNIGHT, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 9pm. FREE. GENE FARRIS Pawn & Co.. Prahran.

10pm. $17.04.

45 SHOOT OUT FEAT: MISS FEE, BELLYAS Section 8. Melbourne. 5pm.

FREE. EMANUEL SATIE, GAV WHITEHOUSE, OLLY DAVIS, WILLIAM DUFFY Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 6pm. $20.

AUTO-MASH DJS The Rainbow Hotel.

Fitzroy. 9pm. FREE. JORDAN BRANDO Night Cat. Fitzroy.

10pm.

CHASE CITY Yah Yah© s. Fitzroy. 6pm. $10.

SHAMELESS - PARTY ANTHEMS Co..

Southbank. 10pm. $20.

DREZO Prince Bandroom. St Kilda. 8pm. $43.90.

UONE + GABRIEL MORAES, DYLAN ROBERTS, ALICE CAMPBELL, SAMUEL JAY, LUKE LAWRENCE New Guernica.

Melbourne. 10pm. $11.64 - 16.91.

CRAVE - QUEER DANCE PARTY FEAT: DJ SEZZO, DJ GAVIN CAMPBELL, RUBY SLIPPERS, LEATHER LOCKLEAR, SAILOR V Brown Alley. Melbourne. 10pm. $10 - 15.

BLUEBEARD© S CASTLE FEAT: BK OPERA Northcote Town Hall. Northcote. 8pm. $48.56 - 80.21.

FRIDAYS FEAT: AYNA, FALO, HARLEY JAMES, CLIFTONIA, BEN & LIL, CITIZEN. COM The Carlton Club. Melbourne. 5pm.

FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL DIREBLAZE, MONOLIYTH, REMAINS, AWOL Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $15.

SAY IT AIN© T SO: A WEEZER PARTY FOR BLUE ALBUM© S 25TH ANNIVERSARY Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8.30pm. $25.19.

THE ETERNAL, FALL & RESIST, EYEFEAR Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8.30pm. $10 - 15.

MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $38.

BENCH PRESS, BATPISS, PORPOISE SPIT, PINCH POINTS Northcote Social Club.

Northcote. 8pm.

PARADISE CLUB, RYAN SCHMIDT, VELVET BLOOM Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $15.

THE SPIN, BOYPARTS Post Office Hotel.

Coburg. 8.30pm. FREE. AUTO LAPSE, VIM, GREEN BLANKET Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. BIG WHITE, 808S & GREATEST HITS, THE OVERHEADS The Tote Hotel.

Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

THE PISS CIGGIES, DARTSY, DAMAGED GOODS CLUB, JAC MCCONACHIE The Yarra Hotel. Abbotsford. 8pm. $5.

GEO, FLYNN EFFECT, CAM BIRD, YEAH, BAD? The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $12.25.

THE BRUNGAS, THE ELDOODS, ZACHARY LEO Revolver Upstairs. Prahran.

7.30pm. $8.

CHART-TOPPING 80© S MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner.

8.30pm. $10.

COUNTDOWN 80© S MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7.30pm. $10.

CHASE CITY Yah Yah© s. Fitzroy. 6pm. $10.

NEVER ENDING 80S 170 Russell.

Melbourne. 8pm. $35.

PIPSY, DAL SANTO, THE TRANSITIONS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 6pm. $15.

METRIK The Elephant and Wheelbarrow.

Melbourne. 11pm. FREE. MATT BRADSHAW The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 8pm. FREE.

Forklift Assassins

Dope Lemon

Swamplands Punk Show

GEO

Ryan Oliver

PALAIS THEATRE

SWAMPLANDS

THE WORKERS CLUB

DOWNSTAIRS BISTRO AND LOUNGE

Dope Lemon is returning to the stage for their first headline tour in three years.

Step into the dream world of Angus Stone with some folk acoustic rock at the Palais Theatre on Friday August 9. Doors at 7.30pm with tickets available via the Palais Theatre website.

If punk rock is your thing then don’t miss Brando Rising, Forklift Assassins and Smash Bros. when they hit the stage at Swamplands for a night of insanity. It kicks off at 7pm on Friday August 9 and will continue long into the night. Entry is ten bucks at the door.

Get ready to party as GEO take to the stage. At their recent sold-out Workers Club gig, a reviewer described them as “Melbourne’s premier funk-prog party band”. You can see them along with Flynn Effect, Cam Bird and Yeah, Bad on Friday August 9 from 8pm. Tickets are available via Oztix for $10 or $15 at the door.

Ryan Oliver finished his national tour in June and is bringing his honest melodies with spacious atmospheres to Downstairs.

Get down there for some rootsy and bluegrass-feel music. Ryan plays on Friday August 9. Entry is free.

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GIGS & EVENTS

KIRIN J CALLINAN The Croxton.

Thornbury. 8pm. $ 34.70.

SATURDAY 10 AUG

ROCK, PUNK, METAL JUKE BOX RACKET Clifton Hill Brewpub.

Clifton Hill. 9pm. FREE. POLLYMAN Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 8.30pm. FREE. DIABOLIC RITES, WHORETOPSY, CHRIST DISMEMBERED, MOTHERMORGUE, NECKGRIP Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm. $16.91.

GREYSCALE RECORDS SHOWCASE FEAT: ALPHA WOLF, ANTAGONIST A.D, GRAVEMIND, ABURDEN, DEADLIGHTS Corner Hotel. Richmond. 7.30pm.

PONY FACE, EL TEE, THE PINK TILES Howler. Brunswick. 7.30pm. $24.71.

COSA NOSTRA, HIGH AS HELL Globe Alley. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. PLASTIC SECTION, THEE CHA CHA CHAS Labour in Vain. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE. MARK SEYMOUR & THE UNDERTOW Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $38.

HOT WATSON, IN TRANSIT Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE. SUNFRUITS, NOODLE HOUSE, KOSMETIKA, HANNAH BLACKBURN Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $10.

THE ARGOTIERS, SNARES & WIRES Red Betty. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE. DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 3pm. FREE. ZOMBEACHES, FRONTSIDE BACKSIDE The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 5pm. FREE. THE CHERRY DOLLS, THE GROGANS, LONGBOYS The Tote Hotel. Collingwood.

8pm. $16.35.

THE ATTICS, TESS GUTHRIE, POLARIZE The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $14.30.

NO SPINE, WE STUDY TOGETHER, RHYLEY MCGRATH The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.

THE GOODS, FRANCESCA GONZALES Yah Yah© s. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

NOTHINGE Yah Yah© s. Fitzroy. 2am. $11.58.

WHOLE LOTTA CORE FEAT: TIDES COLLIDE, NAMELESS, ELEMENTS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 8pm. $10.

RED HOUND, THE IRON SENTINEL,

RADIO 88 Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 3pm. FREE. PLANET OF THE 8S + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS, SARAH EIDA TRIO, LEMURS IN THE SUN Tramway Hotel.

Fitzroy North. 8pm. FREE. CAPITAL GAINS, WILD MEADOWS, TENDERHOOKS The Rainbow Hotel.

Fitzroy. 9pm. FREE. KILLER KLOWNS, AK47 MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner.

7.30pm. $20.

NAT ALLISON BAND Royal Hotel.

Mornington. 8pm. FREE. BOB © BONGO© STARKIE & HIS SKYHOOKS SHOW Yarraville Club. Yarraville. 8pm. $22.

NEVER ENDING 80S Pier Bandroom.

Frankston. 7pm. $35.

SNOW PATROL Palais Theatre. St Kilda.

8pm.

THE RIPCHORDS Pascoe Vale RSL. Pascoe Vale. 8pm. $10.

FCK, BITUMEN, SIMO SOO, CHIHUAHUAHUA, SPUNKGUNK Nighthawks. Collingwood. 8pm. $15.

COME TOGETHER - THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES Voodoo Lounge. VIC. 7.30pm. $20.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES TRIBUTE TO CHRISTY MOORE / MOVING HEARTS / PLANXTY FEAT: DRANTÁN The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 10.30pm.

MCT OLD-TIME JAM SESSION The Merri Creek Tavern. Northcote. 3pm. FREE. DEVIL GOAT FAMILY STRING BAND Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE. THE BOITE PRESENTS STAV. Mark Street Hall. Fitzroy North. 7.30pm. $25.

DANE BLACKLOCK & THE PREACHER© S DAUGHTER, DICK WILLOUGHBY & THE DIRTY STOP OUTS The B.East. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. GUMBO JUMP The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. SAY NOTHING The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 3pm. FREE. SKY VOLTAGE, HA NA, MARIA MOLES, YSK Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 9pm.

FREE. ALEX HAMILTON + GRACE CUMMINGS Tramway Hotel. Fitzroy North. 4pm. FREE.

BROTHERS BLUEGRASS ALL STARS Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 6.30pm.

FREE.

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK CHECKERBOARD LOUNGE The Jazzlab.

Brunswick. 8pm. $30.

JOYING Edinburgh Castle Hotel.

Brunswick. 5pm. FREE. DAS MALAKAS Bar Open. Fitzroy.

9.30pm. $10 - 12.

MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9.30pm.

FREE. THE SARAH MACLAINE QUARTET Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $20 - 25.

JOHN SCURRY© S REVERSE SWING Lido Jazz Room. Hawthorn. 8pm. $20 - $25.

REFLEJOS + BONNIE SMITH Open Studio. Northcote. 9pm. $10.

CARIÑO SON Open Studio. Northcote.

5.30pm. $10.

THE JAIMZ PROJECT Open Studio.

Northcote. 2.30pm. $10.

DANY MAIA QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $32.50.

THE TOSHI CLINCH OCTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $35.

OLIVIA CHINDAMO 5TET, WILLIE MURILLO Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne.

9pm. $32.50.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL DJ FRANKIE TEARDROP Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. SATURDAY NIGHTS FEAT: ADAM TRACE, MARCUS KNIGHT, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 5pm.

FREE. TERAMAZE + MESHIAAK, VERONA LIGHTS, CIRRUS CROWN Evelyn Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. $15 - 20.

FOR THE RECORD FEAT: OSCAR O© BRYAN, KOVAC Ferdydurke.

Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. PAWN SATURDAYS FEAT: ANDY MURPHY, PIERO, JUSTIN NG, JAMES AMERTA, MATT SOFA, BOYBLEWE, GAZ KEMPSTER Pawn & Co.. Prahran. 8pm.

FREE.

SPOD, NICK CAPPER, FUTURE SUCK The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 9pm. $10.

RISE & SHINE FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 7am.

ELECTRIC DREAMS Co.. Southbank.

9pm. $25.

JESABEL Co.. Southbank. 10pm. $25.

LAURA KING Empire Nightclub. Narre Warren. 9pm.

EAT THE BEAT FEAT: ETWAS, CHRISS MATTÒ, ANDREA GUADALUPI, GAV WHITEHOUSE, JACOB MALMO New Guernica. Melbourne. 10pm. $16.91.

LUPA J Horse Bazaar. Melbourne. 8pm. $11.10.

BOUNCE WITH DJ 2P The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 10pm. FREE. SATURDAYS FEAT: KISTA, BETH GRACE, DEMIZE The Carlton Club. Melbourne.

8pm.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP PHIA, MELBOURNE INDIE VOICES Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank.

8pm. $30.

PHIA, MELBOURNE INDIE VOICES Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank.

6pm. $30.

WILL CLIFT, HANNAH WILSON, NIASHA Northcote Social Club. Northcote.

8.30pm. $15.33.

KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS, DAMION DE SILVA, DURMY Khokolat Bar. Melbourne.

9.30pm.

HILLTOP HOODS, MOJO JUJU, SHADOW, DJ NINO BROWN Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $91.50.

BROWN SUGAR FEAT: DJ PERIL, TAVARES Night Cat. Fitzroy. 9.30pm. $20.

MAYA ROSE, STRAWBERRYJAMZ Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 3pm. $10.

SUNDAY 11 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Cafe & Restaurant. Collingwood.

7pm.

AARON MCCOULLOUGH QUARTET, HUGH STUCKEY The Jazzlab. Brunswick.

8pm. $20.

Clove

Renelophus

Snow Patrol

Lupa J

THE GASOMETER HOTEL

RED BETTY

PALAIS THEATRE

HORSE BAZAAR

Clove’s Hollow and Whole EP launch is happening at The Gasometer Hotel this month. Think ‘90s grunge and modernalt emo about five different stories of vulnerability, frustration and finding a way forward through the support of family and friends. Tickets are $10 and available via Moshtix. Doors open at 8pm on Friday August 9.

Renelophus is a fusion of eras and styles.

There’ll be throwbacks to the ‘90s and a mixture of hip hop, jazz and rock. Josh Seymour and The Singing Feminazis will be performing too and no need to pay cover. You can catch the fun from 6:30pm on Friday August 9.

Catch Snow Patrol as they bring their acoustic set to Melbourne this month.

After their North American stadium tour with Ed Sheeran, Snow Patrol will be performing some of their classics including ‘Chasing Cars’ and ‘Open Your Eyes’ as you’ve never heard them before.

Catch them on Saturday August 10 with doors opening at 8pm. Tickets via the Palais Theatre website.

Lupa J has been called the ‘2019 artist to watch’ by a few people in the biz and she’s toured with the likes of Grimes, Alice Glass, Sarah Blasko and Tegan and Sara. Her debut album Swallow Me Whole came out Friday July 5. Don’t miss Lupa J at Horse Bazaar on Saturday August 10 with doors at 8pm. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.

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GIGS & EVENTS

JESS MAHLER TRIO Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. JAM JAR Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6pm. FREE. PINKO COLLECTIVE Bar 303. Northcote.

7pm.

THE AMAZING MELODY - CHINESE FOLK MUSIC CONCERT FEAT: MUSICAL ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank.

6pm. $20.

AASS Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $10 - 20.

ROBIN CASINADER, JULITHA RYAN Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. $5.

FIRETAIL, AASHA Open Studio. Northcote.

2pm. $5.

PEPPERCORN JAZZ BAND Open Studio.

Northcote. 5.30pm. FREE. THE PARIS CAT BIG BAND, DICK OATTS, RICH DEROSA Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 6.30pm. $35.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES SIMON PAPARO Clifton Hill Brewpub.

Clifton Hill. 5pm. FREE. STEPHEN KENNEDY The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 5pm.

SUNDAY SESSION, LUKE JOSEPH, JACK & JORDAN Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 2pm. FREE. CLUNK ORCHESTRA Bar 303. Northcote.

3pm. FREE. OPELOUSAS Caravan Music Club.

Bentleigh East. 2.30pm. $18.

NICK CHARLES The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6.30pm. FREE. THE HORNETS The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 4pm. FREE. GOYDER’S LINE Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick.

8.30pm. $5.

LARA TRAVIS Memo Music Hall. St Kilda.

3pm. $20.

RED LIPS, BLUE GRASS, JUICE WEBSTER, WYBIE & ZA NOON Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. CHITRA, FRANCES FOX, HANNAH CAMERON The Tote Hotel. Collingwood.

4pm. FREE. KEE© AHN + DANI SIB Tramway Hotel.

Fitzroy North. 4pm. FREE. THE PHEASANTRY The Rainbow Hotel.

Fitzroy. 4pm. FREE.

OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7pm.

FREE. BACKYARD BREW Royal Hotel.

Mornington. 3pm. FREE. COUNTRY AT CUSTOMS FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER, ANTHONY TAYLOR, DELLA HARRIS, EMILY HATTON, JAKE SINCLAIR, LUKE AUSTEN Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 2pm. FREE. BACKWOOD CREATURES Labour in Vain.

Fitzroy. 5pm. FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL THE EXCITING MCGILLYCUDDIES The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 6pm.

STAMP, WORLD TURTLE WORLD, HAPPY DREGS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $5.

OLD EL PARSO The B.East. Brunswick East. 4pm. FREE. FIXATION SUNDAYS, WINTERUN, GREY MANTIS Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood.

3pm. FREE. EAT-MAN, ZIGZAG Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm.

FREE. ASTRO ELEVATOR, MURFY, CANYON Old Bar. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE. DAN LETHBRIDGE + SHANE O’MARA Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 4.30pm. FREE. JESSE GLASS, DARVID THOR, AMARINA WATERS Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 3pm.

FREE. CAGED EXISTENCE, DOWNSIDE, EXCARNATE, BLOOM, PORCELAIN The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 7pm. $14.30.

CRY BABY, THE ASTROTURFS, HASSALL The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.

SEA SHEPHERD FUNDRAISER Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 10am. FREE. ARCHITECTS, WHILE SHE SLEEPS, POLARIS Festival Hall. West Melbourne.

8pm. $79.90.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL CRUMHORN Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 7pm. FREE. DAY SPA© S THIRD BIRTHDAY FEAT: DAVE JURIC Pawn & Co.. Prahran. 7am. $15 - 20.

GROOVE ESTATE FEAT: LUKE VECCHIO, DJ GAY ROBERTO, LENNY, CAL STEER, JT BEATLAB, OBAY Section 8. Melbourne.

4pm. FREE. EJECA, BOOGS, SPACEY SPACE, BRIAN FANTANA, ERIC STARK Revolver Upstairs.

Prahran. 6pm. $30.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP MOTHERSHIP Co.. Southbank. 9.30pm. $15.

MONDAY 12 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK ANDREA KELLER© S PIANO CLUB The Jazzlab. Brunswick. 8pm. $15.

TRIYA Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm.

DYLAN PHILLIPS & BAND, VERY EARLY, ELVY SWAN Open Studio. Northcote.

8pm. FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL SOMETHING KROOK, BELLHOP Globe Alley. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. MONDAY NIGHT MASS FEAT: OUTRIGHT, SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE, ROLLINGSHITSHOW, GLOMESH Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8pm.

FREE.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. FREE.

TUESDAY 13 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK CHRIS BIENIEK’S JAZZ ROCK BAND The Jazzlab. Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

GABRIELLE DI MAURO TRIO Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 7.30pm. FREE. SONIC TEXTURES FEAT: SANARATIO, EL LOBO LOCO© S ELECTRODUB EXPERIMENT Night Cat. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $8.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES TUESDAY TRIBUTE - LINDA RONSTADT FEAT: SIMPLE DREAMS The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. MELBOURNE GUITAR QUARTET (RELAXED PERFORMANCE) Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 12pm. $10.

JUAN VERON, TRANSATLANTICO Open Studio. Northcote. 7pm. $10.

IRISH SESSION The Lomond Hotel.

Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL THE MEAN TIMES, SWEDISH POP FACTORY, DEATHBEAT Evelyn Hotel.

Brunswick. 8.30pm. $5.

CLIO, BRIAN CAMPEAU Retreat Hotel.

Brunswick. 7.30pm. FREE. ROCK THE BOAT, FIBRILLATORS, UNCLE CHARLIE© S MUSIC ROOM, THE BRADS, SLEEPING HERO, EMPIRE FIVE, ABE PARSONS The Tote Hotel. Collingwood.

6pm. $10.

WE, TIGERS, CHUBE SCREAMER, SORRY, DAVE The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $5.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL

CLASSICAL

NIEUW MONDAYS The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 12pm. $3.

DAVID GRECO & ERIN HELYARD Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank.

6pm. $39.

Hot August Nights

Juke Box Racket

Amos Roach

The Bamboos

TEMPERANCE HOTEL

CLIFTON HILL BREWPUB

THORNBURY LOCAL

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE

There’s no reason to stay cold as Temperance Hotel brings you some of Melbourne’s hottest house DJs every Saturday in August. Catch Ivan Gough and Marcus Knight as they rev up the crowd on Saturday August 10. Temperance will be open ‘til 3am.

Juke Box Racket are back at Clifton Hill Brewpub bringing their high energy fifties and sixties rock‘n’roll. Expect plenty of three-part harmonies and loads of singalongs. Juke Box Racket will be playing on Saturday August 10 and it’s completely free. Doors at 8:30pm.

Considered one of the best didgeridoo players in the country, Amos Roach will be performing a free gig at the Thornbury Local. He’ll be performing his own and family songs for two hours – this is sure to rock your Sunday afternoon. Catch Amos Roach on Sunday August 11. Doors at 5pm.

Acclaimed funk and soul collective The Bamboos have solidified an eternal legacy in Australian music folklore. On Thursday August 15, they’ll be returning to the stage to reinvent selections from their extensive songbook alongside a ten-piece orchestra.

It’s at Melbourne Recital Centre with tickets starting at $49.

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GIGS & EVENTS

WEDNESDAY 14 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK JOE CHINDAMO TRIO The Jazzlab.

Brunswick. 8pm. $25.

TOM FRYER BAND, KOI KINGDOM, JAKE LANDMANN LANDMARKS Bar 303.

Northcote. 7.30pm.

BUTTERFUNKED Evelyn Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. $10.

STOIC RECORDS TAKEOVER FEAT: SON OF A GUNZEL Night Cat. Fitzroy. 9pm.

FREE. SUITCASE - WORLD MUSIC SOIRÉE FEAT: VANESSA ESTRADA Open Studio.

Northcote. 8pm. FREE. SARAH C Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne.

8pm. $25.

THE DARYL MCKENZIE JAZZ ORCHESTRA, WILLIE MURILLO, OLIVIA CHINDAMO Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 7.30pm. $35.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES JAMES TEAGUE Compass Pizza.

Brunswick East. 7.30pm. FREE. RACHAEL LIA The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm.

ASH SUMPTER The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm.

LOMOND ACOUSTICA, KELLY AUTY & BORIS CONLEY, CRAIG HORNE & WAYNE BURT, DANA CROWE The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 8pm.

FREE. MUSICLAND COMMUNITY CHOIR REHEARSAL MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7.30pm. $5.

MELBOURNE© S BIGGEST OPEN MIC NIGHT MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7pm. FREE. GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 42.

THE GRUBBY URCHINS Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP LATE NIGHT HYPE FEAT: DJ AGENT 86, DEEJAYHIJACK, MRS. WALLACE, RUI Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. KASSETTE FEAT: RUDI, MZRIZK, KAM, SLIPPERY SLOPES The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. WEDNESDAY TWIST The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.

CLASSICAL GERMAN ROMANTICS, MARKIYAN, STEWART KELLY Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL CLOWNS, FLYYING COLOURS, LOOBS Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $30.

FOREIGN/NATIONAL, EX-OLYMPIAN, DJ STEYGZ The Tote Hotel. Collingwood.

8pm. $10.

MUDSHAKER, TDM, FUZZ MEADOWS, THE LOVE FISH The Tote Hotel.

Collingwood. 7pm. $5.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL ABROAD, ACAXIA, LOUIS COOKE The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

POSTAL WEDNESDAYS FEAT: POST PERCY Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 7pm.

FREE. KASSETTE FEAT: RUDI, MZRIZK, KAM, SLIPPERY SLOPES The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.

THURSDAY 15 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK BLOW The Horn African Cafe & Restaurant. Collingwood. 8pm.

FEM BELLING PRESENTS THE JAZZLAB COLAB The Jazzlab. Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

LIVE MUSIC THURSDAY FEAT: MR CLIFF, PERON Temperance Hotel. South Yarra.

5pm. FREE. ADAM SIMMONS© ORIGAMI Bar Open.

Fitzroy. 7pm. FREE. OZERGUN Bar 303. Northcote. 7pm.

GOLDEN HOUR Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick.

8pm. $10.

THE BAMBOOS, WASHINGTON, URTHBOY, TIM ROGERS Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7.30pm. $49.

THE JACK PANTAZIS GROUP Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $25.

GARY PINTO + ANGELA LIBRANDI Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $30.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES ALISTER TURRILL Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. OPEN MIC NIGHT The Drunken Poet.

West Melbourne. 7pm. FREE. TAPSALTEERIE Post Office Hotel. Coburg.

9pm. FREE. THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS Red Betty.

Brunswick. 7.30pm. FREE. REBECCA MANN, BLOOMING Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. FREE. MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel.

Williamstown. 8pm. FREE. GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 - 42.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL THE KITE MACHINE, SAINT IVORY, BAREFOOT BOWLS CLUB The B.East.

Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. ROCK STOCK 2019, CICADASTONE, LONG HOLIDAY, ERRIN KELLY, SHOTGUN MISTRESS Bendigo Hotel.

Collingwood. 6pm. $15.29.

TACTICS, HEARTS & ROCKETS, PORPOISE SPIT The Curtin. Carlton. 8pm. $30.

GUN LAWS, JACUZZI, COMPETITION TEAM Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. FREE. MODERN OPERA, TILLY VW, DEL BOCA VISTA, PABLO PACE The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $12.25.

BAM! BEER & MUSIC FEAT: SLURPEE JERKS, COMMISSIONER BOURBON, FREAKSHOW NIGHTMARE, BRONZE, MONIQUE FHAREN Pride Of Our Footscray Community Bar. VIC. 8pm.

FREE. NOT BADD, WARDENS, NTH RD, THE VEINS Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 8pm. $5.

AARON SCHEMBRI BAND, ROSIE CONFORTO MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7.30pm. $10.

BEDROCK WITH LEE HARDING, DJ MATTY J Pier Bandroom. Frankston. 9pm.

THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD LIVE FEAT: KRAM, MARK WILSON, DAVEY LANE, DARREN MIDDLETON Palais Theatre. St Kilda. 8pm. $101.79.

MATT BRADSHAW The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 9.30pm. FREE.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL BONES © N© TONES FEAT: DJ BANJO Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. WHATEVER AGENCY THURSDAYS, STORMN NORM, RAMSEY, PUGILIST Section 8. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. 3181 THURSDAYS, HANS DC, LUKE VECCHIO, GAY ROBERTO, JULIAN CASTLES, JAVI MORLEY Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 6pm. FREE. CATCH THE BEAT THURSDAYS FEAT: DJ PERIL, MIKE GURRIERI The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. GUERNS FEAT: ANDEE FROST, MONTY MCGAW, FOSTA, REV LON, INGRID, KIEREN BONANNO New Guernica.

Melbourne. 10pm. FREE. JUNGLE BOOGIE The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.

CLASSICAL CHRYSALIS TRIO Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39.

HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX IN CONCERT FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne).

Melbourne. 7.30pm. $60 - 149.

Tactics

Boy & Bear

Four Lions

Madi Leeds

THE CURTIN

THE FORUM

THE SPOTTED MALLARD

DOWNSTAIRS BISTRO AND LOUNGE

This is Tactics’ first Australian tour since 2008. They emerged from the murky depths of Canberra’s punk scene in 1977 and now they’re back on the eve of their seventh album. Catch them on Thursday August 15 at The Curtin, with doors from 8pm. Tickets available via the venue’s website.

Beloved indie rock-folk band, Boy & Bear are performing some intimate shows to Aussie fans before they head to North America in September and the UK and Europe in early 2020. You can catch them at The Forum on Friday August 16 with doors open at 8pm. Tickets via The Forum’s website.

After a successful tour in support of their new album Hard Days, Aussie rockers Four Lions are hitting the road again with their unique blend of roots, rock and alt-country in tow. Supported by Rose Zita Falko, they’ll be hitting the Spotted Mallard on Friday August 16. Ticks are $12 via Moshtix.

A self-described “caffeinated cat lover who makes music”, Madi Leeds will be helping you get the weekend started. Get in early for happy hour with $5 beers and $10 espresso martinis. She’s bringing her feelgood indie-pop songs to Downstairs on Friday August 16 from 5pm with no cost involved.

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HIP HOP, R&B, POP CHICKEN WISHBONE, FLIMSEY LOHAN The Penny Black. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE.

FRIDAY 16 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK ELLA THOMPSON & SAM LAWRENCE + LEAH SENIOR The Jazzlab. Brunswick.

8pm. $15.

THE MELTDOWN, ASTRO & THE AGES Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $20.

BOB SEDERGREEN & FRIENDS, PAUL COYLE Classic Southside. Elsternwick.

8pm. $20 - 25.

THE EMMA GILMARTIN QUARTET Lido Jazz Room. Hawthorn. 8pm. $20 - 25.

HUANCHACO FEAT: KOI KINGDOM, ROSE DE LA MONTAÑA Open Studio.

Northcote. 9pm. $10.

ANNA GINTS QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 9pm. $32.50.

THE MELBOURNE TANGO ORCHESTRA Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $35.

RADIOSUCCESSI Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 6.30pm. $30.

HEADPHONES JONES, BEAUTIFUL BEASTS, CHIBCHA Evelyn Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. $13.

QUEEN OF SOUL: ARETHA ANNIVERSARY SHOW FEAT: MICHAELA JAYDE, JAYDEAN The Toff In Town.

Melbourne. 7pm. $20.

ANNA SCIONTI The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8.30pm. FREE. THE T-BONES The Lomond Hotel.

Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE. TWILIGHT IN TULSA Coburg RSL Club.

Coburg. 8pm. FREE. ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES TRIO Smokehouse 101.

Maribyrnong. 7pm. FREE. BOY & BEAR Forum Melbourne.

Melbourne. 8pm. $75.69.

MARK GARDNER The Prince Patrick. .

5.30pm. FREE. GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 - 42.

SHAUNA TONY AND CO FEAT: SHAUNA TONY AND CO Brothers Public House.

Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL

FRIDAYS FEAT: AYNA, FALO, HARLEY JAMES, CLIFTONIA, BEN & LIL, CITIZEN. COM The Carlton Club. Melbourne. 5pm.

FREE.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP SELKI Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick.

6pm. FREE. FRIDAY FEAT: ADAM TRACE, MARCUS KNIGHT, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 9pm. FREE. DANTE THOMAS Crown. Melbourne.

9.30pm. $25.

PHRESH FRIDAYS Khokolat Bar. Melbourne. 9.30pm. FREE. POP TILL YOU DROP The Carlton Club.

Melbourne. 9pm. FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL CLOWNS, HORACE BONES, VARSITY CHEERLEADER Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $34.70.

BENG, A-RAT, TIM CARR Bar 303.

Northcote. 8pm.

AREA 7, THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY, THE SHORTS, ADMIRAL AKBAR© S DISHONOURABLE DISCHARGE Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. FREE. ART OF FIGHTING, ALICE SKYE, SWEET WHIRL Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8pm. $42.03.

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS, ON DIAMOND, DARLING JAMES Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8.30pm. $23.08.

OVERTIME, SYNTHETICS, CRASH MATERIAL, SUDDEN DEBT Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $10.

TTTDC, MOD VIGIL Post Office Hotel.

Coburg. 9pm. FREE. USER, DJ SPANKPANTS, CYNTHIA Red Betty. Brunswick. 7.30pm. FREE. JACOB DIAMOND Retreat Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. HARDCORE VICTIM, ZYANOSE, IRONBARK, LIFELOCK, OBAT BATUK, ENZYME, DOVE, SISTEMA EN DECADENCIA, LAI, HAVITTAJAT The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm.

THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT, TAPESTRY, THE COMFORT, TO OCTAVIA The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $17.35.

THE SMOKES Yah Yah© s. Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.

SMASHFEST 5 FEAT: THE WRATH, THE SISSAROS, RAT KANGAROO, THE VELVET COBRAS, KEGGIN, SKETCH METHOD, TRAUMABOYS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 4pm. FREE. MUSICLAND© S ANNUAL HIPPIE WEEKEND FEAT: JADED CATS, SANTANA TRIBUTE, JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7.30pm. $20.

MAGNUS, KHAN, BORRACHERO The B.East. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. MAMMA JAM Royal Hotel (Essendon).

Essendon. 10pm. FREE. PETER ASHER + ALBERT LEE The Thornbury Theatre. Thornbury. 8.30pm. $69.90.

MR. DAMAGE Matthew Flinders Hotel.

Chadstone. 8pm. $11.64.

DOKO Westernport Hotel. VIC. 9.30pm.

FREE. SLOWCOACHING, GOODSIDE, PLANET PAIN Grace Darling Hotel. Collingwood.

8pm. $13.68.

METRIK The Elephant and Wheelbarrow.

Melbourne. 11pm. FREE. MATT BRADSHAW The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 8pm. FREE.

FRANCES GUMM FRONTIER Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE. THE BOITE PRESENTS SPIRIT LINES, KUTCHA EDWARS, DANIEL JAUREGUI, ADRIAN HEARN Carlton Church Of All Nations. Carlton. 7.30pm. $27.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6pm.

FREE.

DJ A-MAN Edinburgh Castle Hotel.

Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. FRIDAY FEAT: ADAM TRACE, MARCUS KNIGHT, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 9pm. FREE. DO THE JOB! FEAT: MICKEY EDWARDS, OTTO Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 7pm. FREE. NYXEN Howler. Brunswick. 7.30pm. $18.53 - 29.86.

LOCO & JAM, KARL PILBROW, LUKE LAWRENCE, JOHNNY ROCKA, MHA IRI, COOKIE Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 7pm. $20.

AUTO-MASH DJS The Rainbow Hotel.

Fitzroy. 9pm. FREE. JORDAN BRANDO Night Cat. Fitzroy.

10pm.

SHAMELESS - PARTY ANTHEMS Co..

Southbank. 10pm. $20.

SADDLE CLUB FEAT: RORY MARSHALL, SAMMY LA MARCA, JAKE SHEPHERD, RON WAHA New Guernica. Melbourne.

10pm. $17.04.

BAG RAIDERS, MICKEY KOJAK, CHASE ZERA The Croxton. Thornbury. 8pm. $37.75.

HOT MESS FEAT: POLITICS OF DANCING, PEPPERPOT, MR MCKAY, MARK NELSON, JORDAN FROST Brown Alley. Melbourne. 10pm. $16.91 - 27.46.

Caligula’s Horse

Precursor

Dalicados

Cold Heart

MAX WATT’S

RED BETTY

LOMOND HOTEL

THE DRUNKEN POET

Prog-rock band Caligula’s Horse are playing in Melbourne as part of their ‘Let It Grow’ tour in August. As with previous tours, this one will feature a 60-minute guitar masterclass from bandmembers Sam Vallen and Adrian Goleby. Caligula’s Horse plays at Max Watt’s on Saturday August 17 from 7.30pm. Tickets available via Eventbrite.

Get your Saturday night started early at Red Betty with some old school acid house and deep techno. Five DJs will be hitting the stage with live visual artists mapping projections and custom LED structures. Tickets are $5 on the door and it kicks off at 6pm on Saturday August 17.

After recently launching their first single ‘Make Hay While The Sun Shines’, Dalicados are bringing their electrifying and soulful storytelling tunes to the Lomond Hotel. You can expect two sets to sing and dance along to. No cover charge and doors open at 9pm on Saturday August 17.

Dust off your cowboy boots because Cold Heart is back in town to perform some old school country and rock hits. Think vintage Johnny Cash, Wayne Hancock and the likes. Catch them at the Drunken Poet on Saturday August 17 with doors open from 9pm. Entry is free.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES

CLASSICAL HUGH JACKMAN, KEALA SETTLE Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 8pm. $54.05 163.15.

HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX IN CONCERT FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne).

Melbourne. 7.30pm. $60 - 149.

SATURDAY 17 AUG

ROCK, PUNK, METAL BRAD ELLIS Clifton Hill Brewpub. Clifton Hill. 9pm. FREE. JIM NIGHTSHADE, NICOLAS JOEL The B.East. Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE. THE EMU WAR CASUALTIES, NO SPINE, 182 BOYS CHOIR, WE STUDY TOGETHER Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 1pm. $10.

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GIGS & EVENTS

DRUNK MUMS Bendigo Hotel.

Collingwood. 8pm. $18.

PETER ASHER & ALBERT LEE Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $69.90.

WAAX, SWEATER CURSE, CRY CLUB Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8.30pm.

HALF•ALIVE Howler. Brunswick. 8pm. $51.37.

THE LIVING EYES, CONSTANT MONGREL, PRIMO! The Curtin. Carlton.

8pm. $12.

PSEUDO ECHO, TANYA GEORGE Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $34.50.

SAMSARUH, TAYLOR PIGGOTT, ROYCE Northcote Social Club. Northcote.

8.30pm. $17.82.

FRIPPS & FRIPPS Old Bar. Fitzroy.

7.30pm. $15.

MR SOPHISTICATION, OSTRAALY Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE. MONNONE ALONE, BLACK SPRINGS, DODDA RIVKA Retreat Hotel. Brunswick.

2pm. FREE. ZOMBEACHES, JUNGLE BREED The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 5pm. FREE. HARDCORE VICTIM, PISSCHRIST, TALC, SCUMRAID, NO FUTURE, BRAINCELL, CREAM SODA, EXECUTION, BLOCKADE, HACKER The Tote Hotel. Collingwood.

7.30pm. $34.70.

BLKLST, VISIONER, ATLVS, THE MOTION BELOW The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $12.25.

MIDNIGHT COUNTRY CLUB, MONA BAY, HAWAII GUN CLUB, JOSHUA COCKLE The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.

APPROACHABLE MEMBERS OF YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY Yah Yah© s. Fitzroy.

8pm. $16.84.

LED ZEPPELIN 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East.

8pm. $20.98.

THE BABES, RAMBLIN© GOLD, PSYCHO MOTO The Last Chance Rock & Roll Bar. North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.

BEN SMITH BAND, BOBBY VALENTINE, MEAGAN THOMSON The Rainbow Hotel.

Fitzroy. 9.30pm. FREE. MUSICLAND© S ANNUAL HIPPIE WEEKEND, THUNDERSTRUCK, REIGN MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex.

Fawkner. 7.30pm. $20.

TAKIN© COVER Royal Hotel (Essendon).

Essendon. 9pm. FREE. CALIGULA© S HORSE, CIRCLES Max Watt© s (Melbourne). . 7.30pm. $29.90.

ABSOLUTELY 80S Chelsea Heights Hotel.

Aspendale Gardens. 8pm. $36.75.

DOKO Wesley Anne. Northcote. 8pm. $11.75.

LED ZEPPELIN 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW FEAT: WHOLE LOTTA ZEP Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 8pm. $20.98.

Malcura

how very human

ThundaBox

CLIFTON HILL BREWPUB

BAR 303

SWAMPLANDS

Malcura call their sound “rock meets flamenco”. They’re an exhilarating acoustic trio and have honed their craft as buskers in Bourke Street Mall. Catch them at the Clifton Hill Brewpub on Saturday August 17, with doors open at 8pm for some Latin rhythms and rock‘n’roll mentality. No need to pay entry.

Catch how very human as they debut as a fusion-jazz quartet. Prepare to be taken on an “ecstatic journey through the stars and into a sonic wilderness”. They’ll be joined

by MS DOS and Pocket Clock on Sunday August 18 from 7pm with tickets $10 at the door.

If you want to end your weekend on a high, head to Swamplands on Sunday night for some Aussie pub rock courtesy of ThundaBox. It’s unpretentious rock‘n’roll at its best that’ll get you on your feet.

ThundaBox plays Swamplands on Sunday August 18 with doors from 6pm. No cover charge here.

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JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK JOSHUA BREAKSTONE The Jazzlab.

Brunswick. 8pm. $30.

THE DEANS OF SOUL, THE OFFTOPICS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 9.30pm. $10.

THE DALICADOS The Lomond Hotel.

Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE. REBETIKO TRIO Post Office Hotel.

Coburg. 9pm. FREE. JAH TUNG & THE NATURAL ORDER, DJ JESSE I The Penny Black. Brunswick.

8.30pm. FREE. RENELOPHUS, ANTONOMOUS, PAPER GIRL Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East.

1pm. FREE. THE ALEXANDER NETTLEBECK QUARTET Classic Southside. Elsternwick.

8pm. $20 - 25.

THE HARRY TINNEY QUARTET Lido Jazz Room. Hawthorn. 8pm. $20 - 25.

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Night Cat. Fitzroy. 9pm. $11.94.

THE MIDNIGHT TEA PARTY Open Studio.

Northcote. 9pm. $15.

THE EVA CASSIDY EXPERIENCE FEAT: SOUL CHIC Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 8.30pm. $35.

MICHELLE NICOLLE Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 6.30pm. $32.50.

CES ALBERTO JR. Paris Cat Jazz Club.

Melbourne. 5.30pm. $32.50.

TROPICAL PARTY IN AUGUST FEAT: JASPORA The Palace Hotel Camberwell.

VIC. 6pm. $10.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL PLAZZA Compass Pizza. Brunswick East.

8.30pm. FREE. DJ TROPICAL BREEZE Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. HOT AUGUST NIGHTS FEAT: HOLMES JOHN, ADAM TRACE, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 8pm.

FREE.

SATURDAY NIGHTS FEAT: ADAM TRACE, MARCUS KNIGHT, GARRY SHEBA Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 5pm.

FREE. PAWN SATURDAYS Pawn & Co.. Prahran.

8pm. FREE. PRECURSOR, SNEELOCK, ECHIDNA, MBUG, CHRIS THATCHER, DEIL NIAMOND, VJ DVISN Red Betty.

Brunswick. 6pm. $5.

BAY RADIO, MOSKALIN, JAMES PHILLIPS, AEYEM, STEFANOS MAC, EARTH MEETS MATT, ANDRE LE VOGUE, MARLI, STEEZY-E Section 8. Melbourne.

5pm. FREE. RISE & SHINE FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs. Prahran. 7am.

HI HAT HEAVEN FEAT: MAD LUCAS, HELOCO, B-THAM, MATT GUY, ROSIE SiBar. Collingwood. 10pm. FREE. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co.. Southbank.

9pm. $25.

SHORT ROUND Co.. Southbank. 10pm. $25.

EAT THE BEAT FEAT: ETWAS, CHRISS MATTÒ, ANDREA GUADALUPI, GAV WHITEHOUSE New Guernica. Melbourne.

10pm. $15.

BINGO LOCO FEAT: ALEX DYSON 170 Russell. Melbourne. 6pm. $45.50 - 50.20.

BOUNCE WITH DJ 2P The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 10pm. FREE. SATURDAYS FEAT: KISTA, BETH GRACE, DEMIZE The Carlton Club. Melbourne.

8pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES SHANNON BOURNE Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 5pm. FREE. COLD HEART The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. MARTY KELLY The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 3pm. FREE. NOIR PLANET: OF THE WAND & THE MOON, BAIN WOLFKIND, BORDEL MILITAIRE, VOLKMAR, SULDUSK Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $25 - 30.

QUARTET & COUNTRY FEAT: AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank.

6pm. $39.

JESSE VALACH & THE TESTAMENTS Royal Hotel (Mornington). Mornington.

8pm. FREE.

HISTORY OF THE BLUES - A SALUTE TO DR JOHN Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne.

9pm. $35.

GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 - 42.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP RENELOPHUS, ANTONOMOUS, PAPER GIRL Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East.

1pm. FREE. KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS, DAMION DE SILVA, DURMY Khokolat Bar. Melbourne.

9.30pm.

CLASSICAL HUGH JACKMAN, KEALA SETTLE Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 2pm, 8pm. $54.05 - 163.15.

HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX IN CONCERT FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne).

Melbourne. 1pm, 7:30pm. $60 - 149.

SUNDAY 18 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Cafe & Restaurant. Collingwood.

7pm.

SAM KEEVERS TRIO The Jazzlab.

Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

HOW VERY HUMAN, POCKET CLOCK, MS DOS Bar 303. Northcote. 7pm. $10.

THE BOITE PRESENTS KLEZMANIA Kew Court House. . 2.30pm. $29.

CHAMELEON, PRISCILLA, GROCER GREEN Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $7.

JAZZ SUNDAYS Howler. Brunswick. 3pm.

FREE. THE WESTERNAIRS The Lomond Hotel.

Brunswick East. 5.30pm. FREE. CHRIS HAROLD’S ACID FUNK EXPERIENCE Memo Music Hall. St Kilda.

3pm. $15.

The Gabrielle Di Mauro Trio THORNBURY LOCAL Gabrielle (vocals), Jose (guitar) and Brandon (double bass) are making their debut at the Thornbury Local. It’s sure to be a delightful afternoon filled with favourite jazz and soul tunes. You can catch them from 5pm on Sunday August 18 for no cost.

GIGS & EVENTS

THE DAMON SMITH TROIS Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 4pm. FREE. SPEAKEASY JAZZ JAM FEAT: ADAM RUDEGEAIR & HOUSE BAND Red Betty.

Brunswick. 6pm. FREE. AASS FEAT: AASS Classic Southside.

Elsternwick. 8pm. $10 - 20.

GUITAR KINGDOM FEAT: KOI KINGDOM, ROSE DE LA MONTAÑA Open Studio.

Northcote. 5.30pm. $10.

BUTTERFUNKED Open Studio.

Northcote. 8pm.

THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar. Balaclava. 4.30pm. FREE. SOUTH SIDE SOUL Royal Hotel.

Mornington. 3pm. FREE.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES BRAD ELLIS Clifton Hill Brewpub. Clifton Hill. 5pm. FREE. HEARTWOOD Edinburgh Castle Hotel.

Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. SUNDAY SESSION, LUKE JOSEPH, JACK & JORDAN Temperance Hotel. South Yarra. 2pm. FREE. HARMANIAX Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6pm.

NATHAN SEECKTS The Drunken Poet.

West Melbourne. 6.30pm. FREE. CISCO CEASAR The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 4pm. FREE. BLUES ROULETTE Labour in Vain. Fitzroy.

5pm. FREE. MARA, LUKE DE ZILVA, FRANCIS PLAGNE, EDWIN SHEATHER Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE. CHITRA, BAD BANGS, SLEDGEHAMMER The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 4pm. FREE. COLLARDS GREENS & GRAVY The Rainbow Hotel. Fitzroy. 4pm. FREE. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT MusicLand Fawkner Music Complex. Fawkner. 7pm.

FREE. WILSON BLACKLEY Open Studio.

Northcote. 2pm. FREE. COUNTRY AT CUSTOMS FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER, ANTHONY TAYLOR, DELLA HARRIS, EMILY HATTON, JAKE SINCLAIR, LUKE AUSTEN Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 2pm. FREE. GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 - 42.

THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar. Balaclava. 4.30pm. FREE.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL THE EXCITING MCGILLYCUDDIES The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 6pm.

THE IANS, METDOG, SOMETHING KROOK Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $5.

PETER ASHER & ALBERT LEE Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 2.30pm, 7pm. $69.90.

WAAX, SWEATER CURSE, CRY CLUB Corner Hotel. Richmond. 7.30pm. $23.08.

THE PRAIRIE OYSTERS Frankston Bowls Club. Frankston. 1.15pm. $10.

ASTRO ELEVATOR, JOE TERROR, LUPINE Old Bar. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE. CAR AID FEAT: POLITE SKELETONS, THE SPAGHETTI STAINS, BIG MOIST & THE SMOKING DURRIES, LE PINE, GREYJACKS Retreat Hotel. Brunswick.

3pm. FREE.

LIQUID DISTRICT The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $10.

MEREDITH WHITTLE Whole Lotta Love.

Brunswick East. 7pm.

TRASH & THE TREASURES, LOOKING FOR POULSON, DIRTY BLOODS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 3pm. FREE.

ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL SIR JUDE, KVYNL, ISAIAH MORRIS The Curtin. Carlton. 7pm. $12.25.

AUDIOJACK, BOOGS, SPACEY SPACE, BRIAN FANTANA Revolver Upstairs.

Prahran. 6pm.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP MOTHERSHIP Co.. Southbank. 9.30pm. $15.

STAN WALKER Prince Bandroom. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $56.10.

CLASSICAL HUGH JACKMAN, KEALA SETTLE Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 2pm, 8pm. $54.05 - 163.15.

MONDAY 19 AUG

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK ANDREA KELLER CURATES SOLO/DUO/ TRIO The Jazzlab. Brunswick. 8pm. $15.

303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT Bar 303.

Northcote. 7.30pm. FREE. JORDAN RAKEI, LOUIS BAKER Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank.

7.30pm. $46.

DYLAN PHILLIPS & BAND, HOLLAND LYNN TRIO, GOOD SPORT Open Studio.

Northcote. 8pm. FREE.

CLASSICAL LATITUDE 37 Melbourne Recital Centre.

Southbank. 6pm. $39.

VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS MUSIC THEATRE SHOWCASE Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne). Melbourne.

1.30pm. $22.

ROCK, PUNK, METAL MONDAY NIGHT MASS FEAT: ZYANOSE, UBIK, SWAB, PEST Northcote Social Club.

Northcote. 8pm. FREE. VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS MUSIC THEATRE SHOWCASE Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne). Melbourne.

1.30pm. $22.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES

CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel.

Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 42.

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ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL NIEUW MONDAYS The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 12pm. $3.

HIP HOP, R&B, POP VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS MUSIC THEATRE SHOWCASE Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne). Melbourne.

1.30pm. $22.

TUESDAY 20 AUG

HAYDEN JAMES THE FORUM AUGUST 22, 23 & 24 TOM WALKER MAX WATT’S AUGUST 22 THE STRUTS THE CORNER AUGUST 22 & 23 STATIC-X THE CROXTON AUGUST 23 THE SCREAMING JETS PRINCE

JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK JAZZ NIGHT - JOHN BADGERY, MATT O© BRIEN, ROBBIE FINCH Compass Pizza.

Brunswick East. 7pm. FREE. TO THE ENDS OF THE © VERSE FEAT: O© STRANGER-TANG Open Studio.

Northcote. 7.30pm. $7.

BANDROOM AUGUST 23 TEX PERKINS ATHENAEUM THEATRE AUGUST 23 & 24 HAYDEN JAMES THE FORUM AUGUST 24 THELMA PLUM THE CORNER AUGUST 24, 28 & 29 ALL THAT REMAINS 170 RUSSELL AUGUST 25 HUGH JACKMAN ROD LAVER ARENA AUGUST 27

ROCK, PUNK, METAL GRUPS, THE YAKUDOSHI, HORNY ELKS Bar 303. Northcote. 7.30pm.

THE MEAN TIMES, INVASION SKIES, RACK JONES Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick.

8.30pm. $5.

SUN/DAUGHTER The Workers Club.

Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES TUESDAY TRIBUTE - PATSY CLINE FEAT: TWILIGHT IN TULSA The Drunken Poet.

West Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. HAYSEED DIXIE, PETE DENAHY Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8pm. $54.65.

GHOST QUARTET BY DAVE MALLOY FEAT: ANTIPODES THEATRE COMPANY, DAVID BUTLER, MELISSA DAVID, PATRICK SCHNUR, WILLOW SIZER Gasworks Arts Park. VIC. 7.30pm. $30 42.

IRISH SESSION The Lomond Hotel.

Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE.

DIDIRRI 170 RUSSELL AUGUST 30 AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS THE CROXTON AUGUST 30 AINSLIE WILLS HOWLER AUGUST 30 CAUTION:THIEVES THE WORKERS CLUB AUGUST 30 ALLDAY FESTIVAL HALL AUGUST 31 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT THE FORUM AUGUST 31 JACOB COLLIER MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE AUGUST 31 NO MONO HOWLER AUGUST 31 & SEPTEMBER 1 BEN LEE THE FORUM SEPTEMBER 1 FLEETWOOD MAC ROD LAVER ARENA SEPTEMBER 2 & 4 JULIA MICHAELS THE FORUM SEPTEMBER 4 YOU AM I THE ESPY SEPTEMBER 4&5 ED KUEPPER THE TOTE SEPTEMBER 5 GRETA VAN FLEET THE FORUM SEPTEMBER 6 PARSNIP NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB SEPTEMBER 6 SAFIA THE FORUM SEPTEMBER 7&8 DEVIN TOWNSEND THORNBURY THEATRE SEPTEMBER 8 & 14 SIMONA CASTRICUM THE TOFF SEPTEMBER 12 THE JUNGLE GIANTS THE FORUM SEPTEMBER 12 & 13 EMMA LOUISE THE CORNER SEPTEMBER 13 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB SEPTEMBER 15

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