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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 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Erica May MANAGING DIRECTOR Patrick Carr ADVERTISING Greg Pettinella (Advertising/Editorial) greg@beat.com.au Mark Stockden (Advertising/Editorial) mark@beat.com.au
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Editor’s Note This week’s edition of Beat brings with it plenty of added sentiment. On one hand it comes via the departure of Furst Media stalwart and gun Mixdown editor, Nicholas Simonsen. He departs after two-and-a-half years in the chair and what a fresh, innovative perspective he brought to the beloved music magazine during his time. I’ve never known a more tenacious lover of music, and an opinionated one at that. Gearheads and the music inquisitive will miss you, Nick. On the other hand, it is with great sadness that Beat #1684 grants the final KISS. Yes, the legendary rockstars that stand as arguably the most aesthetically disparate outfit to walk the planet, are stopping by Australia on their End of the Road World Tour. The tour has taken the acclaimed outfit around the world, through Canada, the US, Mexico and all through Europe. On their Australian run, they will visit Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne (for three dates), Sydney and Brisbane and say farewell to 46 years of domination. On top of that, this fine city welcomes the beginning of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Wild rockers The Flaming Lips lead the charge alongside a special appearance from jazz futurist Kamasi Washington. Then there’s an appearance from Joan As Police Woman and seminal magician Scott Silven. Outside of that, the arts are elevated through Rite of Spring, Token Armies, The End of Eddy all splaying their own colours of paint at the wall. Time for the fun stuff. TOM PARKER, EDITOR
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Melbourne Music Week REVEAL 2019 HUB AND 10TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM The City of Melbourne has announced the return of its immersive pop-up venue Kubik as the 2019 Melbourne Music Week Hub, and revealed the complete 2019 program. For its 10th anniversary, Kubik will set up in Alexandra Gardens on the banks of the Yarra River, hosting local and international music acts throughout the event. Headlining the festival this year will be Melbourne’s own international dance superstar CC:Disco!, as well as the ‘Godfathers of Techno’ Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), who are making their Australian debut. Also performing at MMW will be Raphaël Top-Secret, Kittin, Jennifer Loveless, Total Control, Andy Stott, Robert Henke and many more. Melbourne Music Week goes down from Thursday November 14 to Saturday November 23. For more information on this year’s program and ticket prices, visit the festival website.
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The massive Tesselaar Tulip Festival has returned to the Dandenong Ranges for its 66th year, bringing with it a whopping 12 acres of flowers to venture through. Going down over four weeks, punters will be surrounded by more than one million bulbs and 900,000 tulips in everyone colour you can imagine. The festival also comes complete with live entertainment, food from around the world, picnic spots and heaps of market stalls. The Tesselaar Tulip Festival runs until Sunday October 13 in Silvan, Victoria. For more info, head to the festival website.
Melbourne’s The Window in Floyd are gearing up to release their forthcoming EP Recency with an official launch party at Boney on Saturday October 12. Feeding off their kaleidoscope of indie rock, synth pop and alternative influences, the new release entails a collection of songs that revolve around themes of hope, resilience and new beginnings. Supporting TWIF on the night will be fellow local rockers Tender Buttons and CHANGELINGS. Tickets are available now via Moshtix for $10.
Mona Foma has announced the first two acts set to take over Tassie early next year are acclaimed producer Flying Lotus and Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi. Bringing his multi-dimensional experience that combines 3D screen technology and a psychedelic audio-visual performance, FlyLo will create an absolute funk-infused feast for the senses. Einaudi will arrive alongside his latest project Seven Days Walking, a sevenpart song cycle inspired by a trek through the Alps during winter. Mona Foma goes down from Saturday January 11 until Monday January 20. Early-bird tickets are available now via the festival website.
After releasing their debut LP Basic Love back in August, jade imagine have announced they’ll be packing their bags and hitting the road for an Australian tour. Currently on a national tour supporting Stella Donnelly through September and October, the band look to keep themselves occupied as they hit Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart and Melbourne on their own album tour this November. jade imagine are set to perform a hometown show on Saturday November 23 at the Northcote Social Club. Tickets are available via the venue website.
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City Loop UNVEILS FULL LINEUP Soothsayer and I OH YOU have announced the full lineup for this year’s City Loop day party. Spread across two stages, artists and punters will fill RMIT’s hallowed grounds to catch performances from some of the most exciting local and international artists. The lineup includes the ever-hypnotic Willaris. K, Harvey Sutherland, Session Victim, Shanti Celeste, Moxie, UK come Sydneysider Jonny Reebok and DJ PGZ, among many others. It’s happening on Saturday November 23 with tickets selling fast, secure yours now via Moshtix.
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Winefolk presents a chilled afternoon complete with summer vibes, live music, topnotch wine, beer, cider and delicious food. Set in the bushland of the stunning Mornington Peninsula, the festival’s lineup includes The Cat Empire, The Beautiful Girls, Ash Grunwald, Cookin’ on 3 Burners and Sun Salute. Don’t miss out on the perfect opportunity to kickstart your summer. It’s happening on Saturday December 7 from 1pm to 8pm. Tickets are selling fast via the festival website.
Beloved alt-rockers The Lemonheads have announced they will be returning Down Under for an Australia tour this December. The news comes in support of their upcoming appearance at Fairgrounds Festival in Berry, NSW later this year. The Lemonheads are also coming off the release of their tenth studio album Varshons 2, which you can expect to hear live in its entirety, as well as some crowd favourites. Catch all the action in Melbourne on Thursday December 12 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are on sale now via Handsome Tours.
Falls Festival has just added a handful of local and international acts to its already huge lineup. Most notably, the festival has announced the arrival of US rap icon Playboi Carti, who’ll be making an appearance at each of the four events. Several stellar performers have also been added to individual capital city events, with The Jungle Giants, Lime Cordiale and Kwame boosting the Lorne bill. Falls Festival comes to Lorne from Saturday December 28 to Tuesday December 31. Tickets are on sale now via the festival website.
Australia’s one-of-a-kind French music and culinary festival So Frenchy So Chic is making its return to Melbourne in the New Year. Bringing the newest and most-loved musical acts direct from France to our shores, SFSC invites you to meet new Gallic disco queen Corine, French royalty Lou Doillon, Nouvelle Vague, the ever soulful Tété and Philippe Cohen Solal (DJ set). So Frenchy So Chic takes over Werribee Park on Saturday January 12, tickets are available now via the festival website.
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Comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have announced they’ll be returning to Australia for their 2020 Tim and Eric Mandatory Attendance Tour!, marking their first visit Down Under since 2015. You can expect to see brand new spoofs, goofs and insanity, with some very special surprises to come as well. After hitting Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, the world tour will stop by Melbourne on Tuesday January 21 at Hamer Hall. Tickets are available now via the Arts Centre Melbourne website.
Melbourne Zoo’s annual summer concert series, Zoo Twilights, will return from Friday January 24 to Saturday March 7. The first artist to be revealed for the 2020 program is landmark composer and singer-songwriter Randy Newman. He will perform music from the Toy Story series, A Bug’s Life and Monsters, Inc., as well as material from his 2017 album Dark Matter. Pre-sale tickets and the full lineup up will be released on Wednesday October 16. General tickets will be available on Tuesday October 22 via the Zoo’s website.
Having announced the likes of Patti Smith, Dave Matthews Band, Crowded House and more as part of its first lineup announcement, Bluesfest has just revealed the first sideshows for its 2020 iteration. One of the world’s greatest guitarists, George Benson will be blessing the Palais Theatre on Saturday April 4 while Brandi Carlile, fresh off three winning GRAMMY Awards in February will come to Hamer Hall on Monday April 6. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster and Ticketek. Stay tuned as further sideshows are announced.
City and Colour has revealed he will return to Australia in April 2020 for an extensive tour. The announcement comes in preparation of his forthcoming sixth studio album A Pill For Loneliness. Best known for cult gems like ‘The Girl’, ‘Lover Come Back’, and ‘Comin’ Home’, City and Colour eases confessional turbulences into enthralling swells of guitar-driven euphoria. He touches down in Melbourne on Friday April 24. Tickets go on sale Friday October 4 via the City and Colour website.
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Australian National Academy of Music
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To sustain the vital work of the ANAM Music Library, the Australian National Academy of Music are launching their ‘Notes on the Page’ appeal. The initiative hopes to raise $120,000 in support of the purchase of scores and the upkeep of the ANAM Music Library. Donations can be made by purchasing a partita, a concerto, a symphony or by helping the ANAM commission new Australian works. For more information and to donate, visit the ANAM website.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have announced their new double album Ghosteen will be released on Friday October 4. Ghosteen will contain 11 tracks and has been described as a ‘migrating spirit’. The LP will be the band’s first release in three years. Listening events as well as talks with Cave himself will take place across October in both Europe and North America. For more information and to pre-order, visit Cave’s website.
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MASSIVE LINEUP ANNOUNCED FOR 2020
TO KICK OFF WORLD TOUR IN MELBOURNE
From Thursday February 20 until Sunday February 23, more than 40 local and international acts will wreak havoc at bushdoof Babylon. Taking place two and a half hours from the CBD in Carapooee West, punters will feel worlds away from reality. Eat Static will travel from the UK to the festival, alongside a debut performance from Alan Fitzpatrick. German artists Ann Clue and Andhim are also placed to drop huge sets. Tickets available via the festival’s website.
Lauren Daigle is set to kick off the Australian leg of her huge 44-city world tour on Saturday January 18 at Palais Theatre. Daigle is sure deliver a great show, with every one of her previous 70 shows selling out since Look Up Child was released in late 2018. Two shows in Brisbane and Sydney will follow her Melbourne appearance, with the intimate venues allowing for full appreciation of all the vibes. Grab tickets now through Live Nation.
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Open Spaces
The Stranglers
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ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS
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The fourth edition of the Grampians Music Festival will once again takeover Halls Gap across Friday February 28 and 29. While the lineup is yet to be announced, with Sampa the Great, Angie McMahon and Wafia having performed this year, hopeful attendees can surely expect a diverse slab of acts. Several local pubs will host performances as part of the GMF Emerging Artists on Sunday March 1 to get a taste of even more great talent. Earlybird tickets are available now through Oztix, with packages available to suit everyone.
Open Spaces, the arts and music festival that brought the Abbotsford Convent to life last November, is returning with another bumper instalment. The music program will see the likes of Haiku Hands, DRMNGNOW, Hailey Cramer, Elle Shimada, N’fa Jones and more ignite the Convent’s heritage gardens.Arts will come via hip hop classes, exhibitions, roving performances and craft demonstrations. The fest goes down on Saturday November 9 and Sunday November 10 with tickets $5 per day. Find out more via the Abbotsford Convent website.
Friday February 7 will see punk heavyweights The Stranglers blast The Forum with a set of hits from their 45-year career. During that time, the band have been determined to leave their mark on punk music, with 24 Top 40 singles and 18 Top 40 albums. Making their start in the early ‘70s when punk music was just taking off, The Stranglers infused a range of sounds, including art rock, goth and new wave pop, into the movement. Don’t choke up on tix, they’re available now through Ticketmaster.
Archie Roach is set to unveil an 18-track album in hand with a memoir, both sharing the name Tell Me Why, on Friday November 1. If that isn’t enough, Roach also has released the first song he ever wrote, ‘Open Up Your Eyes’, from his time in rehab in the ‘70s. Eleven of the album’s songs are twists on some of his biggest hits while five are newly-written or recorded jams and two are songs which influenced him. Physical and digital preorders of the album are available online now.
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CATCHER BLOCK AND THE SEXY BUREAUCRATS 9PM-11PM SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER
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Opening Wednesday October 2 at Southbank Theatre, Black Is The New White encapsulates the experience of introducing your weird, unexpected love-interest to your parents. The story involves the Christmas get-together of the Smith and Gibson families, one black, one white, and becomes an incredibly hilarious battle for dominance between them. Following two sold out seasons with the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne now takes its turn to see Nakkiah Lui flex her genius comedic capabilities. Surely a show everyone can relate to in some shape or form, this may be one to take your in-laws if they need a subtle nudge to back off. Tickets can be found on the Melbourne Theatre Company site and they’re selling fast, so be quick.
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Happy-Go-Wrong In the second dance of the five which make up the core of her solo show, Andi Snelling jumps onto a chair. She produces, seemingly out of nowhere, a roll of butcher’s paper and, with a flick of her arms, sends it unrolling like a red carpet in front of her. The stage is a bit too small – The Burrow, the chosen venue, is a shopfront on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy converted into a little blackbox theatre – and the only place the papercarpet can go is down the aisle, which also
serves as the performance space’s only exit. It’s probably a fire hazard, but as the show reminds us, life is dangerous. She jumps down from her chair and starts running in place, kicking the paper up in her wake. She repeats the pattern two more times – jump on chair, roll out paper, use paper as treadmill. All the while, her movements are losing cohesion, and she is starting to grunt with what may be real pain. Happy-Go-Wrong is about Snelling’s experiences with Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection that can, as in her case, turn into a horrible – and horribly misunderstood – chronic illness associated with muscular and joint pain, among other symptoms. Few people with chronic physical illnesses choose to become professional dancers, but many of them do the work of dancers: pushing up against their own physical limits every day. They become fluent in the intricate languages of their own bodies. In a way, it’s hard to imagine a more direct exploration of living in a less able body than this, or a performer more suitable than Snelling. She hurts herself and she wants you to know she is hurting, thereby making her invisible illness as real as it no doubt feels to her. But not everything in Happy-Go-Wrong is handled directly. Snelling’s personal story is not up for grabs. Although she is a character in her play, she rarely plays herself, opting instead to frame the dances with a narrative in which she plays Lucky, her own guardian angel (a French one, for no apparent reason other than she can do a good bad French accent). From the moment she emerges as Lucky,
she seems so sure the audience is putty in her hands that it becomes true. But this framing device feels inadequate, and the transitions between Lucky’s comic relief and Snelling’s intense, powerful physical theatre aren’t smooth. Perhaps if Snelling had injected more of her personal experiences into the production it could have made the dances feel more specific and the emotional payoff greater. In fact, it’s possible to watch all of the play and not once pick up that Snelling has Lyme – actually it’s quite probable given the general population’s ignorance of the condition (not to mention the medical establishment’s). References to Lyme are few and oblique: “Who knew a problem as small as a tick could turn into Andi’s greatest work of art?” And that’s the clue: the purpose of the play is not to give an insight into what it’s like to live with a chronic illness (nor should it have to be), the purpose of the play is to be a great work of art. Admittedly, that’s a bit bold (how many great works of art mention how they’re a great work of art?), but it’s also radically valuable. Andi the character comes to view herself, as many people with chronic illnesses do, as lucky – because her disease gives her a different perspective on the world, and she can make art out of it. The work of turning your suffering into something meaningful is, like learning to listen to your body, work that all humans would be better off for doing but work that, for the chronically ill, is a matter of violent urgency. BY JESSE PARIS-JOURDAN
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ARTS GUIDE
What Girls Are Made Of FROM TEXTBOOKS TO TOURS From Thursday October 3 until Sunday October 13, What Girls Are Made Of will take over Arts Centre Melbourne. The production tells the story of Cora Bissett, the Scottish frontwoman who was shot into the limelight while still in high school. It all began when her band Darlingheart released a record which led them to tour with English rock heavyweights Radiohead and Blur. 25 years later, Bissett tells the story in an attempt to make sense of it all. Tickets via the Arts Centre website.
NGV Friday Nights TERRACOTTA WARRIORS, ART, DUMPLINGS AND DRINKS
Revolutions: Records and Rebels EXPLORING ‘60’S POP-CULTURE
River of Language
Control
CELEBRATING VICTORIA’S 44 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE GROUPS
RED STITCH THEATRE WORLD PREMIERE
Melbourne Museum is hosting a multimedia soundscape exhibition celebrating the 44 Indigenous languages of Victoria until Sunday October 13. Young Indigenous creatives came together with the exhibition’s curators to showcase shields and spears made from local trees, as well as a 28-metre mural showcasing the language groups. Entry to River of Language is included in the Museum’s admission fee.
Melbourne theatre company Red Stitch have proudly announced the world premiere of Control, a provocative piece of work that explores humanity’s desire to dictate the way we are perceived by others. Written by Keziah Warner, this thought-provoking drama delves deep into our relationship with technology. Control is set to debut at the Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre on Thursday October 10 until Sunday November 3. For tickets, head to the Red Stitch Theatre website.
NGV will hold its last three Friday Nights events for the year on October 4, 11 and 12. Not only will you get to glimpse the magnificently historic Terracotta Warriors alongside the contemporary art of Cai GuoQiang, but there will be booze, dumplings and live music. Musicians Thandi Phoenix, Yumi Zouma and Young Franco will perform across the last remaining nights. Each event starts at 6pm, with tickets via the NGV website.
Friday October 6 is the last day of Melbourne Museum’s Revolutions: Records and Rebels exhibition, which features a huge range of art and music from ‘66 to ‘70. The interactive exhibition aims to remind viewers of the impact of this era as seen through the revolutionary art it birthed. Mick Jagger’s jumpsuit, John Lennon’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band suit, and Roger Daltrey’s outfit from The Who’s time at Woodstock are all there. Tickets via Melbourne Museum’s website.
Finklestein Gallery
Montsalvat
Mad as a Cute Snake
White Rabbit
EXCITING NEW EXHIBITION
ANNUAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2019
FINAL DAYS
A FAIRY TALE IN RED TIMES
Prahran’s Finkelstein Gallery will showcase the works of contemporary pop artist Coady through her forthcoming exhibition, Primary Instincts. Inspired by a seemingly unending stream of articles and statistics documenting our dependency on prescription pills, Primary Instincts transforms mass-produced Western medicine into statements about modern society. The exhibition runs until Saturday November 23. More information can be found on the gallery website.
Step into Australia’s oldest artist colony and experience the magic that Montsalvat’s Annual Arts Festival has to offer. This familyfriendly event is open to people of all ages who are committed, curious and, most importantly, have a passion for art. Studio artists will be offering exciting workshops and programs throughout a range of mediums including jewelry making, crafts and plenty more. The Montsalvat Annual Arts Festival is running from Saturday October 5 until Sunday October 6. For tickets, head to Montsalvat’s website.
Saturday October 5 is the last day of Theatre Works’ riotous and theatrical adventure Mad as a cute snake. Cardigan Coriander-Turner is just your average superhero whose pet snake needs to be rescued from certain death. With underwear on her head and a willingness to defeat baddies, this production is sure to have audiences crying with laughter. For tickets, head to the Theatre Works website, but think fast there are only a few days left.
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Sunday October 6 will be the last day to get a glimpse of A Fairy Tale in red times: Works from the White Rabbit Collection at NGV. The collaboration between philanthropist Judith Neilson and NGV is the largest private collection of contemporary Chinese art, containing more than 2,500 pieces. The artworks depict the generational change, culture and contemporary art in Chinese society. Enriched with history and depth, this exhibition can’t be missed. Available from 10am-5pm, this event is completely free. But be quick, it ends soon.
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Sat 9 Nov 7pm till late Migration Museum Kintore Avenue, Adelaide
$10 presale $20 on the door
Free*
with valid concession cards
Ringmaster Christian Hull Brendan Maclean | Lupa J | Leather Lungs | Flavella L’Amour | SaSamba BandDança Brazil | Aerialwings & lifeintheair | Helga Handfull | Drag Kings & Queens | Murderclown the Sane | DJ Josh & DJ Filip with an F
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“2020 is the record we need right now: a state-of-a-nation address for a nation in a bit of a state” 9/10 UNCUT ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 11TH
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COLUMNS
Punk
Hip Hop
Industry
WITH JAMES LYNCH
WITH SOSE FUAMOLI
WITH CHRISTIE ELIEZER
Gang of Four
Ameer Vann
Inside the new wave of nervy punk taking Melbourne by storm
Ameer Vann drops solo EP, Biggie honoured and Nicki Minaj returns
Cultivate returns to develop next female-identifying music leaders
This November, British post-punk group Gang of Four are coming to Australia to celebrate the anniversary of their debut album Entertainment!. When the album was released in 1979, it was quickly heralded as being ahead of its time, thanks to its innovative blend of punk with characteristics from funk and disco. The result is a blast of wiry guitars matched by stark, erratic grooves, and tied together by the band’s sharp intellect, that always feels clever without becoming overwhelming or alienating. Forty years on and their influence is hard to deny – whether it’s alternative rockstars heralding the band during the ‘80s and ‘90s, or the indie rock of the 2000s leaning heavily on their sound. This impact has also hit Melbourne in a big way, with a new wave of bands drawing from Go4’s legacy, whether they recognise the influence or not. And while Melbourne’s been serving up its own version of frenetic punk for a good while now – with bands like Total Control, Ausmuteants and Cable Ties – the last couple of years has seen it exploding out of bandrooms more than ever. To learn a little more about the sound taking over the city, we spoke to a few of the emerging frontrunners on the local scene.
Rapper Ameer Vann has dropped his debut solo EP. The former BROCKHAMPTON member’s new collection of music has come in a six-track record entitled EMMANUEL and paints a pretty candid picture of the last year in his life. Vann and BROCKHAMPTON split in 2018 following numerous sexual abuse allegations aimed at Vann by expartners. As of yet, he has not been charged with any crimes, however BROCKHAMPTON were quick to disassociate themselves from the 22-year-old. The EMMANUEL EP sees Vann rapping about his mental health and personal struggles, his relationship with his former band members and the pressures of fame and money. BROCKHAMPTON, meanwhile, continue to go from strength to strength. Since Vann’s departure, they’ve released two well received albums in Iridescence and Ginger, and have become global festival favourites. They’ll be back in Australia for FOMO Festival in 2020.
After the success of the first Cultivate program, the Victorian government and Music Victoria have announced its second instalment. Cultivate teaches leadership and management skills, as well as confidence, to female-identifying people who are established in the music industry. Some may have had mentoring from within the music industry, but Cultivate stands apart by picking mentors from the larger business world – those who’ve already burst through the glass ceiling, worked around the boys’ clubs, dealt with emotional quotient and learned to spot and encourage potential. Cultivate project manager Sarah DeBorre says two elements made it work so well. It analyses each music exec that needs to take the next step, and then finds the right mentor. “That brings a different perspective on leadership.” Secondly, it is kept small, to five music execs and five mentors. It creates “a different dynamic, a lot more sharing and a lot more open and honest conversations,” DeBorre explains. “From the beginning, everyone felt they were in a safe place; this allowed us to really workshop the issues and help each individual from a group perspective. They knew everything was confidential, and wouldn’t be discussed elsewhere.” When Dallas Frasca talked of her dreams (the flamehaired singer-songwriter is also director of A Hitch to the Sticks festival), it was obvious she needed an entrepreneur who had created her own businesses. This was Amanda Walker, who owns Lord of the Fries and Weirdoughs. Walker comments, “By joining forces within the space of trust, respect and collaboration, we have built a new platform for women across industries to rise up, break new ground and build even bigger dreams.” Frasca declares, “Cultivate has been one of the most rewarding opportunities of my career to date and given me a wealth of great leadership skills that I will apply for years to come in the music industry. Having the one-on-one support and guidance from handpicked coaches and mentors has nurtured my growth and facilitated some hugely positive results, both personally and on a grand business scale. Cultivate has totally changed the game.” Bad Apples label manager Coco Eke’s plan to set up a not-for-profit organisation to empower First Nations communities received guidance from Leonie Morgan AM, whose work across education, media and government included similar community initiatives. The Push CEO Kate Duncan’s work with young people saw her tone up her skills with Sarah Davies, CEO of Philanthropy Australia. Other music executives were Katie Besgrove, co-owner of Look Out Kid and general manager of Barely Dressed Records; and Sally Mather, music and marketing manager of venue operators Corner Group. Other mentors were Jackie Antas, general manager of Ticketmaster/Live Nation Entertainment Australia and NZ; and Mia Klitsas, co-founder and director of Moxie Products and The Brand Maketh. DeBorre sums it up, “The relationships were personal and private, but many had ground breaking revelations which they’ve since instilled into their careers.” To be a part of the Cultivate program apply via musicvictoria.com.au/cultivate before 5pm on Friday October 18.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Vintage Crop, image by Raw Journey
Vintage Crop have been crafting their own slapdash garage-punk since 2017, and while the band thank Parquet Courts for introducing them to the sound, Jack Cherry shares, “It seemed so much more interesting to try to find the right note to give us the perfectly wrong sound we were looking for”. Jordan Oakley from Pinch Points echoes this sentiment, suggesting the off-kilter backbone helps his band embrace getting weird while subverting genre tropes. “I think these sorts of [wiry-guitar] sounds are really refreshing when you first hear them. It’s a great moment when you realise that punk can be weird, fun, female/GNC-fronted, have major chords, clean guitars – there’s a whole world of elements to play with.” Another characteristic of the style is the sarcastic lyrics and sardonic delivery, which almost takes the chaotic energy of traditional punk, but redirects the frustration ambiguously. Cherry elaborates, “It feels like there’s a heap more freedom to express a wider range of emotions and opinions when you write in character. Besides, making fun of other people kind of works really well for the style of music too. Petulant music by petulant people”. The question is whether or not any of this is actually specific to Melbourne. While Cherry tells us “it’s happening everywhere at the moment”, Isobel Buckley from Gutter Girls disagrees. “We are so lucky to have such a welcoming community where varied styles and genres are accepted. Maybe because there are so many local bands killing it, it’s inspiring for others to start their own bands and follow the same genre. Melbourne is the best place in the world for music. THERE, I SAID IT.”
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Biggie’s debut album Ready to Die turns 25 this year, and what better way to celebrate it than with the release of some new #hotcontent. Amazon Music has already got a new minidocumentary in the making, tentatively titled The Birth of Biggie, which will be focusing on the rapper’s early chapters through to the release of this seminal record. Viewers will also gain more insight into the formative nature of Biggie’s relationship with Puff Daddy in shaping the former’s career to cross over into the commercial charts. Apple Music are also set to release a short commentary film on Ready to Die, featuring DJ Premier, Lil’ Cease, Easy Mo Bee and former Bad Boy Records executive, Rob Stone.
Nicki Minaj
Can we really trust rappers when they say they’re tapping out of the game? It seems as though no, no we can’t. Not long ago, Nicki Minaj took to social media to announce she was retiring from music to focus on family and her eventual marriage to partner, Kenneth Petty. Now, after just weeks of being on hiatus Minaj has come back with the announcement of a brand new single in ‘Fendi’. While not strictly Nicki’s own track, she is featuring on the song with PnB Rock and Murda Beatz. It’s not the first time Minaj has aligned herself with the fashion house either, namedropping Fendi in her music and, this October, collaborating with some Fendi swag of her own.
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COVER STORY
KISS
BY JOSHUA MARTIN | IMAGE BY JEN ROSENSTEIN
Gene Simmons isn’t interested in what KISS means. In fact, he’s not interested in what most things mean anymore.
Ahead of their End of the Road World Tour, concluding a near 50-year career as the face of stadium rock behemoth KISS, any question attempting to dig out meaning is met with a blunt response. “Journalists have a bizarre perspective which the rest of us don’t give a fuck about,” Simmons offers. The armour-clad onstage demon, now aged 70, is in high spirits with retirement impending. Our first call is postponed due to an unspecified surgical procedure (“to take care of my insides”), which also resulted in the recent cancellation of a show in Salt Lake City. When his gruff New York accent comes down the line the very next week, Simmons is enjoying “leisurely walks” in his downtime. We’re also speaking just hours after Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, something a reflective Simmons isn’t fazed by (“[Impeachment] means nothing. People don’t understand what that means”). KISS, to many, is the ultimate rock’n’roll fantasy outside of all this real-life drudgery. Kabuki makeup, an overactive tongue and fire breathing paired with meat and potatoes rock’n’roll have enchanted a league of fans so large, they qualify as an army. As an eight-year-old Israeli immigrant to the United States, Simmons partly learnt to
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read English through fantasy, in the form of television and comic books. The KISS personas weren’t the construction of Simmons’ own fantasy, however. “It was sort of like what kids do when you put them in a wet puddle of mud. They just start playing around and wiping the stuff all over their faces. It’s the grown-ups who think, ‘Ah, what does it all mean? Do I have my mother’s hips? Where can I get that design?’ It’s very Pollock,” Simmons says. The artifice of KISS’ performance, through their extravagant macho isms and a dizzying range of merchandise, has always seemed to be crucial to the bands’ seemingly permanent success. To Simmons, it’s a lot simpler. “We are the hardest working band in the history of rock’n’roll, period. You can put that in the headline,” he deadpans. “I don’t care if you’re Mick Jagger, who is fantastic, or Bono. Put them in my eight-inch dragon boots that weigh as much as a bowling ball on each leg, plus another 35 pounds of studs and armour, plus a 12-pound guitar and try doing that for two hours. And by the way, you’ve got to spit fire, fly through the air and sing about half the songs. They wouldn’t last a half hour.” KISS’ farewell tour might feel oddly familiar to many older fans; that’s because they already did say goodbye, 19 years ago on the Kiss Farewell tour. Originally set
to dissolve because of internal strife with founding members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, the band were inundated with so many requests to play on that they simply opted for a lineup change. “If you’re on a soccer team and your goalie is on crack, you think, ‘That’s it, we should retire the team’. But the truth is, you don’t have to throw the car away just cause you get a flat tire,” Simmons says. “The two original guys [Frehley and Criss] were not happy, which was making everybody else not happy and I’m using politically correct language ‘cause nowadays everybody gets upset about anything you say. So fuck ‘em all, I say – and I mean that in a very nice way – but equally, nobody left out. Fuck everybody.” Asked if he was sad that the original quartet would not be the ones to end it all, Simmons is withering. “Of course! But doesn’t it make you sad that your mother and father divorced?” When KISS land on Australian shores later this year with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer in place of Criss and Frehley, security will be noticeably lower key than their first working trip to the country. When they toured Unmasked in 1980, their welcome was ironically fit with presidential-tier security to ensure nobody saw their real faces. They took over the top two floors of the Sebel
Townhouse Hotel, a famous Kings Cross establishment known for meeting any and every request of touring rock bands. “The curtains were drawn because there were helicopters outside the hotels with telescopic lenses from TV cameras and newspapers trying to get us without our makeup. If we wanted to go out, we would put on Ned Kelly masks,” Simmons says. But Simmons insists the scale of the End of the Road is bigger than ever. “We are bringing the full Godzilla-sized show to show all the little bands out there how the big boys do it. It’s a bit of chest beating, but it’s about fucking time. I’m sick and tired of politically correct, ‘We hope to play some of the more obscure shit’. Shut the fuck up! Get up there and kick me in the nuts.” It’s a promise that feels in line with anything KISS has ever done; unsubtle, unhinged and uncomplicated rock’n’roll fun. It began at the top, and Simmons wants it to end that way. “It’s always more interesting being at the top of Mount Olympus and looking down. Your perspective is better.” KISS hit Rod Laver Arena for their End of the Road World Tour on Thursday November 21, Friday November 22 (sold out) and for their final-ever Australian show on Saturday November 30. Tix via Ticketek.
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Eight unmissable events at Melbourne International Arts Festival BY KATE STREADER
For 35 years, Melbourne International Arts Festival has been a centrepiece of our city’s cultural calendar. An all-you-can-eat buffet of performance art, live music, dance, theatre and more from around the globe, the program looks to connect us with art forms that exist outside our bubbles. This year’s instalment offers yet another eclectic collection of showcases bound to delight, perplex and entertain. There are too many must-sees to mention, but here are a few you’d be remiss to miss.
Kamasi Washington
The Flaming Lips
The End of Eddy
What Girls Are Made Of
Cutting his teeth as a session musician, Kamasi Washington is now a name recognisable to any music fan and holds his ground as one of the fiercest forces in contemporary jazz. A fusion of Afrobeat, soul, electronica and trance, Washington’s sound is rich, theatrical and made for the stage. With a tenor saxophone and undulating groove at his whim, the modern jazz powerhouse will lead Melbourne on a funk excursion when he comes to Hamer Hall on Tuesday October 8.
It’s been two decades since The Flaming Lips unleashed the aural ambush that is The Soft Bulletin on our unsuspecting ears, and across the band’s 36-year strong career, it stands as one of their strongest works to date. Over two nights, the US rockers will bring their seminal masterpiece to life on stage, reminding us of their unwavering power. The Flaming Lips will perform The Soft Bulletin in full at Hamer Hall on Thursday October 3 and Friday October 4.
Homophobia, poverty, bullying and alcoholism are just a few of the themes which shaped Édouard Louis’ upbringing. Coming of age in rural France, Louis’ family were poor, his mother was miserable, his dad was constantly drunk and all the while, he was coming to terms with his sexuality. An autobiographical adaptation seemingly too painful to be true, The End of Eddy is devastatingly moving. It comes to The Coopers Malthouse from Wednesday October 16 until Sunday October 20.
After riding a teenage pipe dream of pop stardom to its inevitable end, Cora Bissett relives the ambition of her youthful years with What Girls Are Made Of. Performed alongside a live band, Bissett will visit a curated catalogue of songs by the women who lit the fire in her belly, from Patti Smith to Dolly Parton. Now a mother, Bissett wants to ignite the same hunger in other women and girls. Catch her at The Famous Spiegeltent from Thursday October 3 until Sunday October 13, excluding Tuesday.
Joan As Police Woman
Gender Euphoria
Rite of Spring
With six studio albums and upwards of 1000 live performances under her belt, Joan Wasser’s latest collection, the three-disc Joanthology, is acutely fitting. To launch the album, Joan As Police Woman will strip her work back to its bare bones to let the heart of her music shine through with a rare, intimate solo show. Featuring a career-spanning setlist comprising delicate reimaginings, you’ll want to catch Joan As Police Woman when she comes to Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday October 10.
In the biggest lineup of Trans and gender diverse performers Australia has seen, Gender Euphoria shines a positive light on gender dysphoria through documenting the joys that come with being Trans. The ten-piece ensemble features Mama Alto, Amao Leota Lu, Miss Bailee Rose, Fury, Harvey Zeilinski, Mahla Bird, Mx Munro, Ned Dixon, Nevo Zisin and Quinn Eades – along with special guests – and will highlight the complexities of gender and identity through music, dance, comedy, poetry, circus and more. Gender Euphoria hits The Famous Spiegeltent from Tuesday October 15 until Sunday October 20.
Known in China as the ‘Peacock Princess’, choreographer Yang Liping joins Oscarwinning designer Tim Yip for The Rite of Spring. Traditional Tibetan music combines with the stunning sounds of Igor Stravinsky in a striking performance chronicling the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Set to be a visual spectacular driven by artful movement and extraordinary costumes, The Rite of Spring will entrance audiences at Arts Centre Melbourne from Thursday October 3 until Sunday October 6.
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
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The state of the modern world is a catalyst for anxiety, and while some may opt to band aid their fear with blissful ignorance, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is laying it all out on the table. Five activists with intellectual disabilities discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues – from mass food production to human rights – to remind us that we’re all accountable, whether we want to see it or not. Tune into the conversation at Arts Centre Melbourne from Wednesday October 9 until Sunday October 20, excluding Monday.
Melbourne International Arts Festival takes over the city from Wednesday October 2 to Sunday October 20. For tickets, the full program and more information, head to the festival website.
DAREBIN MUSIC FEAST
The Spheres
City of Darebin’s beloved Darebin Music Feast returns for its 23rd year with a mammoth 85 events taking place across 20 different venues in the inner north region. BY TAMMY WALTERS
Promoting the rich diversity of the Darebin community, the festival will showcase a wide array of artists and musicians across eight days in October through their consciously curated 2019 program. The Thornbury Local will be transformed for Frank Bell, Nina Rose and Cate Taylor on Saturday October 20, Sherri Parry Trio on Friday October 25 and Tapsalteerie on Sunday October 27, while Wesley Anne boasts daily performances, with Alister Turrill, Jess Mahler Trio, Shaun Kirk and Esstee Big Band stepping onto the stage. As does Open Studio with Vardos Hungarian Extravaganza, Imogen Pemberton and the Cyclo Timik Dance Party. Swamplands will be running a range of events to celebrate and represent music in all forms, including Living In Clip 2: Swamplands Second Annual Music Video Competition, Sirens and Songs: A Tribute to Australian Female Songwriters, Swampibold! The Inaugural Swamp Portrait Prize and they will host a number of album and single launches. Also using the electricity and excitement of the Darebin Music Feast setting as a launch pad are audio-visual ensemble The Spheres. They make their return to music after
a year-long break to launch their ambient recorded work, Grey Skies Blue, in the striking Northcote Uniting Church. “The beautiful thing with Darebin Music Feast is that it’s in a beautiful historic church in Northcote, so to a large extent it’s like an independent gig. We have a lot of control over how we organise the supports and how we organise the space and how we run things, and even how we control the ambience of the entire room,” says The Spheres founder, Guy Harris. What they have planned is just as spectacular as the setting. With The Spheres being known for their experimental approach to composition and forging a relationship between sound and sight to create an immersive experience, the Northcote Uniting Church will be transformed into a cinematic haven for the live musical performance. “We’re quite interested in an expanded cinema approach to our projection art. We’ll be projecting accompanying visuals and short films across three screens using multiscreen projection. “As a band, we are really interested in that beautiful, magical relationship between
the moving image and sound, so the musical component and the visual component are very closely linked. For the Grey Skies Blue release there is an experimental documentary that I have made with a collaborator that will be shown in its entirety in the Grey Skies Blue composition whiff,” he says. “That will essentially be the first half of our set, and in the second half we will be moving out of our ambient mode into something more driving and more rhythmic. That’s where we will be transitioning into our more rock, postpunk mode. There will be accompanying visuals for that part too. The accompanying visuals help to communicate a narrative or a story. It’s going to be quite special.” As for the heavenly sonics, Grey Skies Blue maintains the dreamscape sequences of their former bodies of work Lighthouse Symphonia, A Song For Your Sleep, Haryana,
and Audible Lines with the slow building crescendos, the colourful layers of violin, piano, guitar, bass and drums, and the euphoric morendo. “We’re very different from a rock’n’roll setup where it’s a one, two, three, four countin and then going for it and it’s very compact verses and choruses. In The Spheres, it’s very elongated and takes the audience and listener on a journey, which I suppose is what is beautiful about it,” Harris says. “Songs can range between seven and 20 minutes.”
The Spheres’ album launch takes place on Saturday October 26 at Northcote Uniting Church from 7pm as part of Darebin Music Feast. Tickets are available at the door. Darebin Music Feast is happening from Sunday October 20 until Sunday October 27, more info via musicfeast.com.au.
The Songs of James Taylor The exciting acts of this year’s Darebin Music Feast just keep on coming. BY ANNA ROSE
Over eight days in October, the 23rd annual Darebin Music Feast will see a carefully curated selection of musicians come together to celebrate the rich cultural diversity of the north Melbourne region. Over half of this year’s events are free to attend, with more than a third open to attendees of all ages. Darebin Music Feast, as always, boasts a sensational breadth of music styles – from punk to jazz and electro to folk – and it’s under the latter genre that Melbourne singer-songwriter John Flanagan will showcase his talents at this year’s festival. As an Australian folk musician who encompasses elements of Americana and bluegrass into his performances, Flanagan’s music combines timeless melodies and contemporary folk with a raw, personal honesty. Flanagan is preparing to add to the diversity of Darebin Music Feast and has cultivated a very special setlist for this year’s event. For years, he has had his own style of folk-rock singing and songwriting, frequently compared to the ‘70s folk style of the
American great, James Taylor. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for Flanagan to come together with like-minded musicians to perform the tribute, The Songs of James Taylor, as part of Darebin Music Feast. “This has been something people have told me I should be doing for many years,” says Flanagan. “‘The warm vocals sound like James Taylor’ – I’ve heard that more times than I can count,” he laughs. “I’ve thought about doing this for years – the show itself is a bit more than James Taylor stuff, and I’ll be joined by other musicians who add harmonies and other instruments. “I thought I’d use the Darebin Music Festival as a chance to do something different from my usual gigs.” Some of Melbourne’s finest musicians will join Flanagan, the collaboration coming about because of both a mutual love of James Taylor and similarities in their own musical style. “A couple of musicians are from a band called Bush Gothic, who play all around the Australian folk scene,” Flanagan explains. “I’ve got a double bass, piano and violin, three-part
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harmonies – it was just a matter of finding musicians that I thought would fit the sounds of a James Taylor kind of band. “These guys, I love what they do in their band – I know they can do a beautiful job with the harmonies and backing, definitely.” With Darebin Music Feast aimed at people of all ages and with eclectic music tastes, it’s safe to assume that there’ll be those in attendance who’ve never even heard of James Taylor – so how does Flanagan hope to appeal? Among the variety, Flanagan still hopes the band will be special. “There’s a lot of people who love James Taylor out there,” he says. “I spend most of my time playing original music, which is great; to share original music, to share something unique and special – but it’s also fun to play music that’s by people you love. “The familiarity where the audience knows and loves the song, it just means you
have a nice atmosphere where there can be singalongs, there can be a connection of people with the same love and interest coming together for a night. There’s something special in that.” With well-known hits like ‘Something in the Way She Moves’,‘Carolina In My Mind’, and ‘Country Road’, and some not so well-known songs from the discography of a man with a more than 50-year music career, Flanagan says there will be plenty of variety in the band’s performance. “It’s going to be a bit of a mix of songs, lots of variety in there, for sure!”
The Songs of James Taylor will be performed as part of Darebin Music Feast on Thursday October 24 at Wesley Anne. Tickets via the venue website or on the door. Darebin Music Feast is happening from Sunday October 20 until Sunday October 27. Find the full program at musicfeast.com.au.
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Return to the Source BY ANNIE-MEI FORSTER
Warmer weather means festival season is fast approaching and psytrance bush doof Return to the Source is happening in November to get you partying before summer enters full swing. Now in its second year, Return to the Source promises more artists and a bigger location. Director Matthew Chalmers says the scale of the event means around 1,500 punters will be able to attend this year’s doof. 2019’s event sees a massive push to include more women, not only is this reflected on the lineup, but many of the market stalls are run by females and duo Ravendesc will be in control of design and décor for the festival. Amongst the women performing, the stellar program includes Mexican-born, Paris-based DJ Pollyfonika, Megapixel, Sonic Butterfly, Miss Jade, Cyan, Violet Eve and many more. Chalmers says what sets this bush doof apart from others is that they try to push a lot of emerging and up-and-coming artists, some of which have never been to Australia. Hinap, Altered State and Audiosonic are all heading Down Under for the first time, which is particularly exciting for psytrance fans. Last year Jilax and Night Flow came to Oz for the first time to DJ at Return to the Source’s maiden doof. Compared to other festivals that have different stages, Return to the Source has only one stage which Chalmers says is about returning to how doofs started about 25 years ago in the early ‘90s. “One family. One vibe. One stage,” Chalmers says. The idea is to have everyone on the same dancefloor enjoying themselves and feeling the music. Although the location is yet to be revealed, Return to the Source will be a camping festival. There will also be food stalls available to keep punters happily fed and watered, including Soundfood, Le Crepes, Juice Pig and others. If you don’t manage to sort out your festival outfits in time, there will also be stalls selling handcrafted clothing and jewellery as well as LED lights to pimp up your tent. In addition to the music, there will also be art displayed around the festival.
This year sees three exciting stage takeovers during the course of Return to the Source. Friday night kicks off with psy-co takeover starting at 9pm and going well into Saturday, with progression sessions taking over Saturday arvo and finishing on Sunday before the techno takeover on Sunday night, kicking on well into Monday. Make sure you take a few days off after the festival to recover before you show your face at work. Last year all the international acts stayed onsite rather than heading back into town to crash at a hotel. Staying onsite meant there was a lot of interaction between the patrons and the artists. “The international DJs were on the dancefloor. Everyone was talking together and it created a really great atmosphere,” Chalmers says. Chalmers himself is a doof veteran and a progressive psytrance DJ, known as Mattiecee for the label Blue Tunes Records. He went to his first bush doof back in 1993 where godfathers of psytrance Fred Disko and Ray Castle made Chalmers fall in love with the genre. Since then, he’s been hooked on psytrance and has been to every festival under the sun, including Earthcore, Transelements, and Rainbow Serpent. He started to become a regular at events and got to know many DJs and producers. He’s run various events in Western Australia where he relocated in 2013. Now he’s back in Melbourne running Return to the Source and flying overseas artists to Australia to party. Return to the Source is happening from Friday November 22 to Monday November 25. The event location and the final lineup is set to be announced on Thursday October 10.
Head to returntothesourcefestival.com.au for tickets and future announcements.
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Regurgitator Regurgitator are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a national tour that begins this weekend. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
The trio, led by songwriters Ben Ely and Quan Yeomans, have been at it for a quarter of a century, but they’re not running out of ideas. After releasing their ninth studio album, HEADROXX, in August 2018, the Brisbane trio turned their focus to the children’s project, Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show. With the addition of a fourth member, Koko, the project’s first LP, The Really Really Really Really Boring Album, landed in March. They’ll be bringing the Pogogo silliness to the Lost Lands festival in early November. “The kids performer hat is quite demanding,” says Yeomans. “I have a lot of respect for people who do it, because it does take a lot out of you.” Yeomans has two young children himself and he’s enjoyed getting their two cents on the Pogogo Show material. “It’s really great when you’ve got kids and you can actually share your work with them a little bit and get some input, some feedback. It’s really lovely,” he says. Despite conducting this market research, Yeomans admits conceiving children’s songs and onstage routines has been challenging. For starters, kids are harder to read than drunk adults. “I have a long career of entertaining
drunk adults,” he says. “You can kind of read them and you can understand the cues and you can ask them to scream and they scream on cue. But kids, they kind of have a blanked out expression where they’re taking things in, so it’s very difficult to tell whether they’re really into it or whether they’re bored or what’s going on behind the scenes. “I often hear about parents who take their kids home after thinking they had a terrible time and they’re just raving about the time they had at the gig. So it’s really hard to tell.” Regurgitator formed in 1994 and released their debut EP early the following year. Although officially self-titled, it’s more commonly known as “Hamburger” thanks to its cover image. This inspired the name and artwork for the anniversary tour – Quarter Pounder: 25 Years of Being Consumed. Joining the ‘Gurg on the epic run around the country – which includes three Melbourne shows – are Japan’s Shonen Knife and fellow ‘90s journeymen The Fauves. “It should be really fun,” says Yeomans. “It’s more of a nostalgic trip than an innovation type thing, but it’s certainly going to be fun and we’re going to be pushing it a little bit in terms of visuals and costumes. “We’ve got a costume designer from
Brisbane working on some costumes, so there’s three or four different costume changes. That’s going to be pretty bizarre. Her name’s Cindy Vogels and she seems so happy to work with us because we’re just like, ‘do whatever you want, make it as crazy as you want, we don’t care, we’ll wear anything’. It should be pretty over the top, lots of colour.” After a second EP, New, arrived in late 1995, Regurgitator got stuck into their debut LP, Tu-Plang. Released via Warner Music in 1996, Tu-Plang’s iconic lead single, ‘I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am’, made the ‘Gurg’s irreverent spirit immediately apparent. Shock jock Alan Jones wasn’t too stoked about the song and pushed for its prohibition. Raising Jones’ ire is always good publicity and the song landed at number 23 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996. The band’s next album is generally seen
as their magnum opus. Released in late 1997, Unit merged alt-rock and synth-pop with hip hop and Prince-inscribed dance music. Their nine-album catalogue is characterised by a similar rejection of stylistic boundaries, which will be represented in the anniversary tour setlists and visuals. “We wanted to do something completely unexpected for each genre,” Yeomans says. “The show’s kind of chronological, but also it breaks off into genres as well.”
experiences that combined to inspire that song,” says O’Connor, “but I guess ultimately it’s the feeling of being forced to be a cog in a masked machine and no one knows why the machine needs to run at all.” With a launch show to celebrate the release of ‘Muscle Memory’ coming up at Red Betty, O’Connor says that because Green Blanket have played the iconic venue before, they have a few things they want to make happen to make this one extra gnarly. “We really loved the atmosphere. We try to make every show unique and to some extent spontaneous. But I think we’ll have to pull a few rabbits out of the hat for this one.”
Supporting them on the night is Golden Age, a band O’Connor says Green Blanket chose pretty much just because they like them. “We just get along with them as people and musically they bring a nice deep wall of sonic pleasure. Plenty of guitar slaying and nice layers.”
Regurgitator celebrate 25 years at The Alexander Theatre in Clayton on Friday October 4 and San Remo’s Westernport Hotel on Saturday October 5. They’ll then hit up the Prince Bandroom, The Corner (sold out), The Lost Lands festival and Howler for a run of shows at the start of November. More info and tix via respective venue and festival websites.
Green Blanket
Green Blanket, known for their effervescent blend of pop, rock, indie, shoegaze, and space grunge, are back with a brand-new album, Who Am I Talking To?. BY ANNA ROSE
A four-piece from head to toe, the band create off-kilter tracks of love, despair, hate, comic relief and ambience – it’s a party for the ears and has seen them rise from their Geelong base into the Melbourne music consciousness. Their debut release, Raw Dingo, has come and gone, and Green Blanket have, according to vocalist and guitarist Max O’Connor, made several developments as a band – professionally and musically. “This time ‘round, [the album] is calmer, more cynical, but the humour still remains. I try to just stay on her good side,” he laughs. So what to expect from the sound in the new album? Well, that label of space grunge, quirky and endearing as it may be, may not be entirely accurate, and O’Connor is wonderfully whimsical when it comes to trying to sell Green Blanket and get punters along to their upcoming show at Red Betty. “It was a patron that labelled us that,” says O’Connor, “but essentially I would say it’s the mix of the instrumentation breakdowns, playful feedback and spicy lyrics that give it a space grunge feel.
“Ultimately it is up to the crowd to decide if that’s an appropriate label for us. As far as I’m aware neither of the four members have been cloned, so for that reason amongst many more we are 100 per cent unique. “The band’s not for sale, but if I had to conjure up some curiosity, I would offer the sensation of feeling like an organism instead of an algorithm whilst attending our shows.” There was an unabashed humour, a raw comedy but also a very rabid vein of punk in Green Blanket’s first release – now in Who Am I Talking To?, O’Connor takes a moment to contemplate and reflect on their journey, introspective whimsy bubbling to the surface again. “As human beings we are constantly growing and discovering. And I think it’s inevitable that those elements will always find their way into whatever art form you are indulging in at the time. “I guess, personally, the older I get the more accepting I become of my own flaws ... it’s trying to turn flaws into charm that is the trick.” A new album means a new single – ‘Muscle Memory’. “There’s several different
Green Blanket launch their new single, ‘Muscle Memory’, at Red Betty on Saturday October 5. It’s all free, head to the venue website for more info.
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Party Animals
In celebration of its 40th birthday, the Collingwood Children’s Farm presents Party Animals. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
Happening on Sunday November 3, the event will feature loads of live music, locally sourced food and drink, instructive speaking sessions and a series of workshops. Collingwood Children’s Farm is a notfor-profit community resource and the Party Animals programming follows suit – it’s very much about acknowledging and supporting the hard work of independent artists and food and beverage producers. “We wanted to make sure that all of the food onsite was farm-to-table reflective,” says Zowie Minchin, who curated the food and drinks program. Suppliers include Meatsmith, D’Lish Turkish Street Food, Western Port Mussel Supplies, Far Out Falafels and Fox Force Shakes, while the likes of City Larder, Nicolas Olive Estate and Northcote Bakehouse will helm market stalls. The offerings cater for kids and adults, omnivores and vegans, and everything available at Party Animals will either be organic or biodynamic and supplied by local producers, makers and growers. “The coffee served onsite will be served with Schulz organic milk,” says Minchin. “Rather than engaging food trucks to come along, we’ve engaged a producer to serve their food. So we’ve got [Western Port Mussel Supplies], they’re doing the paella and the
chilli mussels, for example.” Keeping in tune with the nature of the farm was another key objective, meaning you can purchase produce on the day and either take it home or consume it onsite. “We’ve got two areas. One’s called the producers’ paddock and the other area’s called the party paddock,” says Minchin. “The producers’ paddock will be the market stalls. They will be selling take-home food, but we’re asking people to bring their own antipasto plate and then they just walk along to all the different producers and they can get a scoop of olives, some walnut pesto, some cheese, and some terrine and they can make their own platter.” The party paddock is where the live music is taking place. A host of local and esteemed acts fill the lineup, including Cosmic Psychos, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, the Orbweavers, Cold Gold, Saint Jude, Jess Ribeiro and Amadou Jaly Suso. A number of kid-friendly acts are also on board, such as The Burnt Sausages, youth rap groups Lit Savage Girls and RYMS All Stars, Liam Gerner and his ukulele orchestra of Thornbury school students (aka The Ookerpookers) and the Farm Hand Bush Band, who’ve devised a love song tribute to Collingwood Children’s Farm.
Cosmic Psychos
“There are people who make music specifically for children and that’s fine, but I see children as small humans who are learning about music,” says music programmer Claire Portek. “I have a son who jumps around the house to Cosmic Psychos just as much as he does Justine Clarke or kids programming kind of stuff. Burnt Sausages are definitely a kids’ band, but I’ve seen grown-ups totally crack up and really enjoy them. “I think it’s a bit of an education both ways. Kids are going to love Emma Donovan, but the grown-ups are just as equally going to love RYMS doing their rapping or Burnt Sausages.” Portek’s selections were guided by a desire to create a diverse program that represented various genders, ages and cultures. “I just really wanted it to be good music that’ll be fun for people to enjoy,” she says. “So
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at any time when people arrive in the party paddock, there’ll be something interesting and fun that they can enjoy and the next band will probably be completely different to what the previous band was.” The Party Animals organisers want to create a festival environment. Accordingly, Richmond’s Mountain Goat Beer and Abbottsford’s Bodriggy Brewing Co are looking after the beer supplies, Innocent Bystander is bringing the wine and Melbourne Gin Company are overseeing Australian botanical-based cocktails. “It’s not just a market stall-style thing,” Minchin says. “It really is like a festival where people just party all day, really.” Party Animals comes to Collingwood Children’s Farm on Sunday November 3 from 10am until 8pm. For tickets and more information, visit farm.org.au.
Ateam Black Label
Ateam Black Label was founded in late-2018 with the goal of changing the perception of dancers from on-stage accessories to recognised artists. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
The US-based label, which was formed by a collective of innovative professionals specialising in hip hop and krump, will present five days of workshops and events in Melbourne this November. The crew’s combined career credits include tours with the likes of Jason Derulo, Taylor Swift and Camila Cabello, while Ceasare Willis, aka Tight Eyez, is the founder of the socially significant dance movement, krump. “2009, Butta, myself, Toshi and a couple of others that are no longer with us, we started a dance crew called Ateam LV,” says Black Label co-founder, Adonis Xavier Lewis. “We started doing showcases, we produced a show in Vegas every year called NEON, and we had some pretty awesome success. But we started seeing some things we wanted to change when it came to how dancers were perceived as artists, especially in relation to when you talk about dancers on tours with other artists.” Roughly 12 months ago, Lewis and Butta, aka Bryan Robinson, convened in an Airbnb in Sydney and formulated the label’s ethos and mission statement. “We were like, ‘You know what, I think it’s
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time to have a paradigm shift as far as what the term artist actually means’,” says Lewis. “Dancers, for whatever reason, get sat on the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to recognition, when it comes to skill set, in the public eye. It’s unequivocal that dancers have immense value on stage for artists, but there’s a lot of times where that doesn’t equate financially, it doesn’t equate socially.” Ateam Black Label’s Melbourne schedule encompasses a two-day intensive dance workshop, a two-day open workshop for dancers at all levels of experience, and a community outreach event with Reclink Australia who provide evidence-based sport and art programs to disadvantaged Australians to create socially inclusive, lifechanging opportunities. They’ll also slot in pop-up appearances at clubs and some unexpected surprise locations. “[The purpose of] this particular tour is for us to come out there and really give back our know-how of years and years of experience on how to open up the mind of dancers in Australia,” Butta says. The itinerary is representative of the group’s interest in working with dancers at various skill levels and from a range of
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socioeconomic backgrounds. “We grew up in an era where it was us meeting up with our friends, going to our garage and figuring stuff out on our own,” says Toshi. “We never actually learned knowledge from the sources. It’s the same thing in Australia – you don’t have the dancers that have been dancing for your favourite artists and battling and travelling around the world and doing what you dreamt of doing. You don’t have those people teaching you, so that’s what we’re trying to bring to all ages.” The purpose of the workshops – which they’re also hosting in Sydney and Brisbane – is to equip dancers with the necessary means to make a career out of doing what they love without having to take the traditional route. The traditional route, says Butta, involves flying to California to network, then hoping to land an audition. “Once that’s done and nothing happens, you come back to what? To doing the same old thing without having the tools or the knowledge
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or the know-how to actually invest in yourself and promote yourself on another level, to separate yourself from the pack,” he says. “Anybody that’s done world tours – like Toshi, Havoc and a couple of other guys doing world battle tours – they never come and actually teach with the mindset to give what we know versus just teaching you moves. “So we’re giving knowledge on something that [dancers] can hold onto, not only just in dance but in life. They can continue to grow and separate themselves and add value to their selves and be able to take what we’re teaching them on for life.”
The Ateam Black Label will be in Melbourne from Wednesday November 6 to Sunday November 10 conducting a series of workshops alongside a live showcase at The State Library and a block party at Section 8. Tickets for the Open Dance Workshop and two-day intensive Dance Workshop are available via Eventbrite.
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David Hockney As one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, David Hockney’s work has adorned the walls of prestigious galleries the world over; from the Tate to the Guggenheim. BY KATE STREADER
Next month, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery will join the long list of galleries and museums to have showcased Hockney’s work with its forthcoming exhibition, David Hockney: Prints. Borrowing a selection of his works from the National Gallery of Australia’s broad collection, the exhibition will showcase the trajectory of one of the world’s most revered living artists. “We’ve got this really extensive collection, hundreds of works – thousands, actually – that go from the early ‘60s, so ‘61 through to, I think our latest work is 2011. So we really cover all the aspects of Hockney’s work,” says Sally Foster, the NGA’s Curator of International Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books. The career-spanning collection includes an array of pivotal works across Hockney’s career, though it’s his work with master printmaker Kenneth Tyler which serves as a central theme across the exhibition. “This [exhibition] really is a kind of conversation between David and Ken Tyler,” says Foster. The two first worked together in 1965, shortly after Hockney relocated to LA, in
Tyler’s Melrose Avenue studio. It was there the six colour lithographs comprising Hockney’s seminal work, A Hollywood Collection, came to life. In the years that followed, Tyler and Hockney continued their creative relationship, later making way for his Paper Pools series in which he ‘painted’ scenes using paper pulp to mimic the shimmering hues of water. It’s this hunger to experiment that’s kept Hockney’s work relevant across the past six decades. Just last year, he broke records when his 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for $90.3 million USD ($133.7 million AUD) – the highest value sale for the work of a living artist to date. “I think one of the reasons he’s endured – you know, a lot of people have their moment and then die off and just remain in the history books – but he was always really experimental,” says Foster. “Even in the late ‘80s, when the fax machine came out, he thought, ‘Oh, this is something that I could potentially use to make art’ and he sent all these gorgeous, incredible faxes, which are obviously very fragile and
difficult to conserve, but we’ve got this amazing collection. “But it just shows how he was always thinking about technology. So then, with the advent of computers, he used photocopiers and then iPads and iPhones. So anything’s up for grabs for him and he’ll just see what he can do with it, see how it can be used to make art.” Not only does his experimentation with technology exemplify Hockney’s dexterity as an artist, but it’s also a testament to the personality behind his work. For him, art is fun and you don’t need to be an art critic to be affected by his creations. “He never took himself too seriously, so it’s not po-faced, it doesn’t alienate; anyone can walk up to a Hockney work and take something away from it, whether it’s its beautiful bright colours or its fun imagery,” says Foster. “That’s what I really like about him, he was really playful, he had a sort of wry sense
of humour.” In addition to showcasing Hockney’s works, the exhibition also looks to create a sense of the man behind the art through hosting a special talk with his brother, John Hockney. The special event comes ahead of the release of his forthcoming memoir The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think. “When someone’s so famous, you just feel as though there’s something incredibly special about them, but at the end of the day they’re someone’s brother or someone’s son, they’re just real people. It’ll be really nice to hear what he’s got to say,” says Foster.
timid rescue chihuahua who’s blossomed) through to the off-leash area showing doggy movies and the killer music lineup. While every festival takes a different musical tangent, this year heads down a soul and R&B path, with the first round of announcements including Melbourne-based artist Sophia Brown. “Dogapalooza is about laying around on the lawn drinking and eating and hanging out with everybody’s dogs, so that fits in perfectly,” notes Gee. While other music festivals have faltered in terms of ticket sales in recent years, Dogapalooza repeatedly smashes it. For instance, the festival announcement was made only a few weeks ago before the music lineup dropped, but already half of the tickets have sold. It makes sense – the festival’s a rare treat, primarily because the shebang is dog-centric.
“You can’t get away from that part, but that’s also the part that makes the festival special for a heap of reasons,” says Gee. “The biggest one being the fact it’s so friendly because dogs don’t have social rules. Before anyone’s even got into the festival, everyone in the line already knows each other and their dogs.” Gee leaves prospective attendees with this pro tip: “Dogapalooza is the kind of event where you’re best to not to bring your dog if you’re mad about dogs. Leave your dog at home so you can love on everybody else’s dog with two free hands.”
David Hockney: Prints comes to Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from Saturday October 5 until Sunday December 1. For more info, head to the gallery website.
Dogapalooza Starting with a case of mistaken identity, serendipity played a serious hand in the foundation of Melbourne’s beloved pro-pooch music festival, Dogapalooza. BY MEG CRAWFORD
It kicked off with Abby Gee’s mum – Gee being Director of One Little Indian Enterprises, which co-organises Dogapalooza – being hit up with a subpoena relating to dog theft. It turns out that Gee’s mother shares the same name as the founder of anti-puppyfarming advocates Oscar’s Law. Of course, she hadn’t nicked anything, but it did lead to Gee having a yarn with said founder, Debra Tranter. In turn, that chat inspired Gee to develop an animal advocacy program, two of the first graduates of which (Cal Williams and Renae Eden) became the founders of Dogapalooza in Adelaide, the festival Gee was compelled to mirror in Victoria. That Gee uses her music promo powers for the betterment of animals isn’t surprising. She was the kid rescuing worms off the pavement and making mud houses and moats for ants to save them from drowning when it rained. “It was pretty hectic planning for a little kid,” she says. While the festival is a buffet of delights for dog lovers – among other things, you can go nuts over premium vegan and vegetarian fare and dog bandanas – the underlying premise
for Dogapalooza is that it raises funds to keep Oscar’s Law afloat. Named after a neglected and abused stud pooch who was rescued and is now the poster pooch for the anti-puppy farming movement in Australia, Oscar’s Law lobbies for the national abolition of puppy farming and urges responsible pet ownership and dog adoption. Dogapalooza also (albeit gently) educates punters about the continuing issue of puppy farming. For example, while pet stores in Victoria are barred from selling animals unless they come from a registered shelter or pound, and there’s a cap on the number of litters a dog can have, it’s almost impossible to outlaw puppy farming in practice while the demand for designer dogs exists and people can get dogs online. Plus, the title of “registered breeder” can mean squat. “It doesn’t mean that your dog’s not a product of a puppy factory,” Gee explains. “The really clear thing is the fact that we can all get a dog whenever we want – where do you think they come from?” Heavy concepts aside, Dogapalooza is pure fun ranging from the non-traditional dog-show (previous winners include a once-
Dogapalooza comes to Burnley Park, Richmond on Sunday November 10. For tickets and more information, head to Dogapalooza’s Facebook page.
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Radiohead for Solo Piano Melbourne pianist Josh Cohen released the songbook, Radiohead for Solo Piano, in August. It consists of sheet music for eleven Radiohead songs, but the transcripts don’t simply cover the chords or main vocal melodies from the original recordings. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
Instead, they’re derived from YouTube videos of Cohen improvising and using the Radiohead songs as his foundation. Having started as a non-ambitious marketing technique for his music school, Cohen’s YouTube uploads have now not only inspired a book, but an upcoming concert performance at the Abbotsford Convent. “That’s what I love about the whole thing,” Cohen says. “It wasn’t like I was striving for what it ended up being. It was like, people want the sheet music, it doesn’t exist, maybe I’ll see if I can go through that process of turning it into a book.” The fact that Cohen’s uploads drew a lot of attention isn’t inexplicable given Radiohead’s vast popularity, but some of the clips are rather lengthy and the recognisable chord sequences and melodies aren’t apparent until a few minutes in.
YouTube is commonly criticised as one of the elements of the contemporary world that’s eroding attention spans, but the popularity of Cohen’s videos shows there’s a real hunger for subtlety, nuance, and sophistication. He thinks it’s a bit of a right place, right time scenario, too. “It was only after I released ‘Daydreaming’ – that single dropped on a Saturday morning and then I learnt it that morning and transcribed it literally within a couple of hours and then I had it online in about five or six days,” he says. “So it was just before [2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool] even dropped. Everyone was just frothing the new single, so I hit that window between the single and the album dropping. And it’s the top cover of it online now.” Cohen meticulously edited and refined the arrangements in Radiohead for Solo Piano to suit players at an intermediate skill level.
“Because I’ve been teaching for such a long time, I know what students are capable of doing as a general rule of thumb,” he says. The only track from his YouTube channel that Cohen didn’t transcribe was his 16-minute take on ‘Paranoid Android’, despite it being his most viewed video. It does, however, appear as the final song in the completed book. “The publisher [Faber Music] said, ‘We need to include that in the book,’ and I said, ‘Well it’s not really that playable or accessible, so I don’t want to include it.’ So they got one of their guys to transcribe it. He was the guy that’s done all of Radiohead’s official songbooks previously, so he smashed that out in two days.” Cohen says Radiohead’s unusual use of harmony is a big factor in what makes their songs alluring candidates for improvisation. “I’ve heard that a lot of jazz musicians love to interpret Radiohead because it fits in that little window where it’s not commercial, it’s not pop music, but it’s not hardcore jazz stuff. The harmony is not really that conventional in a mainstream sense, but if you had a hardcore jazz musician looking at the harmony they’d
be like, ‘Oh that’s pretty simple’.” Cohen’s performance at the Abbotsford Convent will include an exclusive Australian appearance from Berlin-based audiovisual artist and technology innovator Joshua Batty. Cohen, for his part, will loosely abide by the published sheet music. “I’ve got a degree in jazz and improvisation, so the way that I approached playing these tunes and all the other tracks [on the YouTube channel] – Bowie and Pink Floyd and Massive Attack – was purely through a bit of a jazz lens. “For the songbook I’ve, after the fact, transcribed the way that I’m playing these improvised arrangements, so when I play them live I won’t be playing it dot for dot. I could learn how to do that, but it kind of defeats the purpose. It’ll be very similar, but I’ll play around with it a lot more.”
performance, Chipkiewicz says, is not to be missed, closing the series with a very loud statement of evolution and identity. “[Tedesco] has spent a lifetime learning, exploring and recreating a style of music that is, in a way, very geographically localised in the Iberian Peninsula,” says Chipkiewicz, “But he grew up in Melbourne and was no less fascinated or committed to pursuing Flamenco excellence than if he had been born in Seville. “He is a blaring reminder that Australian music, today’s Australian music, is made up of a huge mix of ingredients and although it may sound like something you’d pinpoint elsewhere in the world, it is made here in Australia and it is Australian music. “In Song Appetit, food will complement music in a very natural way: keeping people there, around the table, sharing the buzz and the energy, seeking to appease the curiosity that the stories heard in the first half piqued in everyone. “The whole thing is quite informal, but having dinner together wants to make it
even more relaxed, more of an opportunity to learn a bit more about the musicians. And with these musicians in the room, who knows, more music might erupt at any time.” With an incredible reputation for putting on intimate concerts in small and homely venues. Chipkiewicz agrees that the authenticity of the raw performances given by The Boite should be presented in a stripped back and honest manner. “The Boite is all about the power of music to bring people together, to turn the unfamiliar into something we can be comfortable with, to make strangers feel welcome and at home. “And for this power to function, we don’t need the blaring speakers or dark hideaways of the nightclub. We just dim the lights a little bit and sit quietly to let the music transport us – and there is no better way to let music do its magic.”
Radiohead for Solo Piano is out now. John Cohen will perform the songbook live at Abbotsford Convent on Saturday October 12, tickets via TryBooking.
Song Appetit Just like the ones The Boite has been hosting for years, the brand new acoustic event Song Appetit invites you to enjoy every detail and nuance of fine musicians, only this time, there’s a twist. BY TOM PARKER & ANNA ROSE
The musicians will join you for dinner! Part artist talk, part recital, these shows offer audiences unique insight into the musicians’ journey, their humanity, and their talent. Plus, to crown it all, food will be served during the evening, setting the scene for a relaxed conversation with the artists. The Song Appetit concert series will take place across three monthly events in October, November and December – a format partly attributable to the incredibly full roster of shows happening at The Boite. Up first is jazz musician Adam Simmons, a performer who The Boite’s Director of Creative Development, Eyal Chipkiewicz, says is one of the most truly collaborative and adventurous musicians he has worked with. “He has no fear of stepping out of his comfort zone, if he even has one,” he says, “And will light up at the possibility of trying something new. “We are very lucky that the timing was right for Alessandra Garosi, a most interesting Italian pianist that shares Adam’s barrierblasting attitude, to be here and share the
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night with him.” Performing at the second Song Appetit event are South African artists Fem and Zvi Belling, two performers Chipkiewicz describes as powerhouses. “Fem sings jazz in a way that you seldom have a chance to hear: exquisite and cultured. She melts you from the ears in. Zvi is just superhuman. He started, directs and plays bass for the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, [and] composes and arranges for The Royal Swazi Spa. He also built and runs Rolling Stock Recording Studios, and he’s a practicing architect! “They grew up in Apartheid South Africa and hail from a South African musical dynasty. For their Song Appetit, they want to highlight how making music as a family has been, for them, as important as sitting down to a meal with one.” The third and final (in this run, anyway) event of Song Appetit comes from a man who needs no introduction – Richard Tedesco. The story of the Flamenco guitarist mirrors a timeline similar to that of The Boite’s. His
Song Appetit comes to The Boite on Wednesdays October 30, November 20 and December 4. For tickets and more information, head to boite.com.au.
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Dainton Brewery
11 years ago, Dan Dainton’s uncle fired him from a sales job. He couldn’t have known it at the time, but this was the first step on the way to founding the Dainton Brewery, which he did in partnership with his father Kev in 2013. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
“I went for another sales job with Lion Nathan to sell James Squire and didn’t get the job,” Dainton says. “So I was like, ‘What should I do? Maybe if I had my own brand I could sell that’.” Dainton mentioned his pipe dream to a few people and it was suggested that he get a job in a home brew shop to work on his brewing techniques. He acted on the advice and started brewing in his garden shed three or four times a week while studying for a graduate certificate in brewing from Federation Uni. “I applied for another job with Lion as a brewer and I started brewing at James Squire at the Portland Hotel in the city,” says Dainton. “Chuck Hahn came down and tasted one of my beers and he thought it was too hoppy and I was like, ‘Well I think I might take myself elsewhere and go brew some beers that I like’.” Dainton left Squire for the Holgate Brewhouse, but stayed just a short while before he and Kev launched Dainton as a gypsy brewing operation in 2013. “We gypsy brewed around at seven different breweries for quite some time,”
Dainton says. “In 2016 we built and started brewing at Carrum Downs and in 2017, about a year later, we won Champion Australian Craft Beer at the Australian Craft Beer Awards.” The winning beer was the Cherrywood Smoked Rye Baltic Porter, a 10 per cent ABV dark smooth porter. In September 2019, the Independent Beer Association crowned another Dainton brew as Australia’s best independent beer – the Triple Dry Hopped Double Red Eye Rye. “We’re the only brewery to have won it twice, which is pretty nice seeing as we really aim to make the best quality product we can,” Dainton says. “Every time we make a new beer it’s like, well yeah, we’re creative, we’re innovative, but we really want to make something that’s first class.” This year’s winning beer was created to honour three years of brewing at Carrum Downs. It’s an update on Dainton’s Red Eye Rye, which was the first beer Dan and Kev released in 2013. “With the Red Eye Rye I was kind of looking at beers like Little Creatures Pale,
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which is still one of my favourite beers,” says Dainton. “I was like, I love the sessionability, I love the flavour profile of this beer, I believe more and more of this stuff’s going to be made. What’s something that’s a version of that but a bit souped up, a bit different? “I took a pale ale recipe and started adding a bit more malt, a bit more rye – it had seven different hops, seven different malts in it at one time. The idea was to brew something that was exciting and just slightly different, but a bit more drinkable.” Dainton’s core range consists of a pale ale, IPA, extra session ale and a pilsner, along with Red Eye Rye and the Blood Orange New England Rye IPA, which is the most popular of the lot. The brewery’s limited release range would probably turn the heads of even the
most dedicated craft beer consumers – examples of their more outlandish brews include peanut butter stout, black cherry cola sour, cookies & cream milkshake IPA, oyster Kilpatrick stout and choc cherry NEIPA. “I take ideas from other drinks. Not necessarily beers – other alcoholic drinks, foods, confectionery that I like,” Dainton says. Despite this, he understands pale ales and pilsners still rule the market and so the core range is brewed with just as much passion as the deviant offerings. “We try to distinguish ourselves by making really good beer. You have to stand apart somehow.” Find Dainton Brewery at 560 Frankston Dandenong Rd, Carrum Downs, VIC and via their website dainton.beer.
Boy & Bear In the single ‘Feeding Line’, Boy & Bear frontman David Hosking sang of a pain in his chest and his body “cumbersome and slow”, but no one clued in that was literally the case. BY CLAIRE MORLEY
Hosking was, at times, experiencing bouts of fatigue so intense that he could not stand and debilitating pain that, in the coming years, would only get worse. Boy & Bear’s 2011 debut smash hit Moonfire skyrocketed them to the kind of success that many bands only dream of, and was followed by two similarly successful albums, Harlequin Dream and Limit of Love. But the touring cycle of the latter pushed Hosking’s health to new depths. Though you would never have guessed from the outside, the frontman’s days were plagued by crippling exhaustion, lack of cognitive function, memory loss and pain. So much so that the band were forced into an indefinite break. It wasn’t until the band toured their third album Limit of Love four years later that the illness truly took hold. Dave Symes, the band’s bassist, explains that the biggest challenge of the touring process became managing Hosking’s pain, and ensuring that he could fulfil the band’s commitments. “During Limit of Love, the biggest thing with us and Dave was that he really needed to
conserve a lot of energy. Everything, socially as much as professionally, was about keeping him comfortable and happy so that when it came time to get him on stage, he was able to get through that,” Symes says. Suck on Light is their new album, only possible after a four-year hiatus. And it is special. Not to fetishise illness and suffering, but there’s no denying that the story behind the album is compelling. Years of searching for answers and relief proved unhelpful, until Hosking underwent a radical treatment and turned his life around. The saviour? Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). Hosking’s bravery in including detail of this procedure in the album’s press information cannot be overlooked. In an era of inclusivity, bowel issues and invisible illness remain taboos that many individuals struggle with daily, and largely hide for fear of ridicule. Symes confirms this was a reality for Hosking. “It’s a bit of an icebreaker, but it is something that makes people uncomfortable,” he says. Admitting that the band uses the poo emoji more than the average person, Symes is
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quick to add that being honest about the nature of Hosking’s health is important in reducing stigma around such illnesses and promotes conversation about the gut-mind connection. “What’s really fascinating, since we’ve shared the story to the public ... it’s amazing how many people have come out with support, and also an interest to talk about [bowel health]. FMT has been happening for 20 years, and they now really know what’s going on with that sort of treatment and how the gut is related to the brain,” Symes says. “So it feels like the right thing to do, to share that story.” The treatment required Hosking to stay in Sydney indefinitely, so the band put down roots, halted their touring schedule, and began an unconventional routine. It was then that Boy & Bear, minus Hosking, began regularly writing. And sooner
than they’d anticipated – as the treatment began to help – Hosking joined them. Scheduling six-week blocks of writing, with months of breaks in between, the album slowly came together until Hosking was ready to start recording. “Because we took our time writing this time, in pre-production and writing we were able to experiment with our production before we hit the studio. We added a real contemporary edge to the way we recorded. So this record has a little more oomph, a lot more layers going on. We’ve pushed the sound and experimented with the way we’ve put together the bricks and mortar of it all, the sound design,” Symes says. Boy & Bear’s new album Suck on Light is out now via Island Records Australia. Give it a spin on streaming services.
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60 Seconds With... Dale Cornelius
Diamonds of Neptune
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Tell us about your new EP, Ukiyo. What is the story behind it? What inspired it? Ukiyo translates from Japanese as ‘floating world’/‘fleeting life’; it’s the main inspiration for the EP, along with field recordings I made whilst travelling in Japan. Ukiyo is written as a 20-minute work, which you can stream as one long track or four singles. You have spent a large part of your career in the film and TV industry. How do you approach writing a score compared to writing original songs? When writing music for the screen, I’m supporting the film and its story. When writing for myself, or producing for others, the story is still vitally important to me, and I have more freedom. I like to show what lies beneath the words, to give meaning and depth, to connect emotionally. What instruments can you play and how has your musical versatility benefited your music? My main instrument these days is piano, but I’ve also performed and recorded, Armenian duduk, varieties of flutes and recorders from across the globe, saxophones, and clarinet. Studying orchestration when I was younger has enabled me to write for lots of different instruments, from small ensembles up to 86-piece orchestras. Any other new music on the horizon that Dale Cornelius fans should keep an eye out for? I’m creating more music for the Ukiyo Live Project, which combines large screen HD projections with live performers on stage. I’m also producing an album for singer-songwriter, Shenko, which I think is going to be amazing!
For those who don’t know Diamonds of Neptune, give us a short spiel of the band in under 40 words. We are a five-piece band with a unique take on the indie-dream rock genre. We will take you on a journey blending sounds of psychedelic-pop with heavy synth and heavenly guitar tones. Tell us about your new self-titled album. What is the story behind it? What inspired it? We first started working on the album about two years ago. We wanted a strong collection of songs that were sonically cohesive, yet also paired with our emotional states and the chronicle of our changing lives. Are there any bands or musicians that stand out as particular influences for you guys? We each have our own individual influences, but as a whole we are influenced by bands like Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Temper Trap, Northeast Party House and Tame Impala. What can we expect from your upcoming album launch at The Evelyn Hotel? We will play the album in full as well as some of the old classics for the fans. We will have a specially curated projection show as well to accompany our set. A cheeky cover or two may also be in there, but we can’t give away all our secrets now! Any other upcoming shows or Diamonds of Neptune news on the horizon that fans should keep an eye out for? We will be playing a vinyl launch at Wah Wah Records next month then we will be touring the album along the east coast later in the summer. Deets will be on our Facebook page soon.
Dale Cornelius’ new EP, Ukiyo, is out Friday October 4. Check it out via streaming services. Find out more about Cornelius via his website, dalecornelius.com.au.
Check out Diamonds of Neptune’s new self-titled album, out digitally on Monday October 14. They’ll be launching the record at The Evelyn Hotel on Saturday October 26. Grab your ticket via the venue website.
ORPH
Sonia Serin
How did the band first begin and what brought you guys together? It was out of the wreckage of late ‘80s band, Danger Sharks. In 1989, we went straight to Richmond Audio College and banged down four songs including ‘Drinking Problem’. ORPH tried to make sense of things after earlier bands imploded. Tell us about your new EP, Telephone. What is the story behind it? What inspired it? Reforming ORPH after so much time had passed, I thought we should give ourselves a present for all the work we’d done on the new songs and get ourselves into a studio again. So I contacted Joe Hammond who has a studio in my neighbourhood. We had planned to do just two songs but it went so well on the night that we recorded four. How would you describe your sound and how did you come to it? I’ve always favoured a raw garagey sound for my songs – after protest there was punk and that allowed me to rock out in my mind. The other guys from the band add a wall of sound, disco beats and heavy-ish rock. We avoid any formula of what rock’n’roll should be, and treat the songs as we feel. What can we expect from your upcoming show at Whole Lotta Love? Singing, dancing and rocking out. Any upcoming shows or new music that ORPH fans should keep an eye out for? Apart from Whole Lotta Love? It’s all love baby, and you’ve gotta keep an eye out. We’re doing a few gigs around town before the year phases out.
With her new album U N R E S O L V E D almost with us, Melbourne-based multiinstrumentalist and songwriting visionary Sonia Serin has unearthed her latest single from the forthcoming release. Serin puts her creative mind to work with ‘Dodged a Bullet’, the sixth track from the record and one that tells a resounding tale. Do we know the true meaning of the word, ‘narcissism’? Is it overused and misused? Is it used to undermine others in a fashion that’s not so accurate? It’s this term that makes up much of the lyrical lining to the song. Honesty is a theme here and as ‘Dodged a Bullet’ also explores and surveys relationships, Serin shines a light on the vocal disconnect which can so often destruct love. How are partners communicating in this day in age and are there hidden motives? Soulful and stunningly pop-centric, the song strikes a nerve with anyone who is going through difficult times during or just following a relationship. Accompanying the lyrics, it’s Serin’s tender vocals which illuminate the narrative while her eloquent songwriting and acoustic prowess only add more to the piece. U N R E S O L V E D is just around the corner and if more of the album’s songs sing the resounding messages of ‘Dodged a Bullet’ then we are in for a treat.
ORPH come to Whole Lotta Love on Thursday October 10. Tix are $10 on the door. Find out more about ORPH via their Facebook page.
Sonia Serin’s new single, ‘Dodged a Bullet’ is out now with her new album, U N R E S O L V E D, set to arrive in November. Keep up to date with Serin via her Facebook page.
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Tangerine Telecom It can be hard to know which is the best internet provider to choose, it’s confusing and you’ll often find yourself bombarded with information. Often it’s a matter of going for either price or unlimited data. BY ANNIE-MEI FORSTER
In a bid to ease the haze, we spoke to Richard Branson – no, not Sir Richard Branson – who started Tangerine Telecoms. You’re probably well aware of the problems surrounding Australia’s NBN network, some places are still yet to receive access, but as it has become more widely available, more internet service providers (ISPs) have popped up with different NBN plans, including Tangerine. NBN has different speeds, so depending what you use the internet for, this can be a factor when choosing the right plan. Tangerine is one of many small Australian ISPs with a focus on customer service who cater their services and products to your needs. They have a longstanding relationship with Vocus, their back hall. In simple terms, this means Vocus provides internet for many ISPs, with Tangerine being one that’s stuck around longer than the others. If you’re a gamer, Tangerine’s NBN 100 plan is perfect. Not only does it provide the fastest speed, it also offers a static IP address, which means your gamer friends can all connect to the same server with no hassles so you can play away to your heart’s content.
Other aspects that are particularly handy for young people, especially those living in sharehouses and those who don’t stay in one spot too long, is Tangerine’s no lock-in contracts. They offer a 14-day free trial, too, which means if you’re not completely satisfied with the service, you can get a full refund – including the modem. Tangerine also try to get their customers connected as fast as possible, so you won’t be waiting forever to get online. Branson says many young people are taking up plans with them simply because there are no hidden costs and no fee to change plans. That means if your household is downloading way too much stuff or you’ve been gaming for ten days straight and you’ve used up all your data, you can upgrade your plan with no extra fees. Branson also says the company has grown significantly in the last six to twelve months, so you can rest assured that your internet provider’s not going to go bust tomorrow. Another great aspect is their internal policy to answer phone calls in ten seconds, plus you can call them seven days a week – something most providers don’t do.
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Best of all, you don’t have to go into a physical store to sign up. It’s all online. All you have to do is jump onto their website. Plus, the average sign up time is only five minutes. And if you’ve got mates in rural areas, Tangerine has an NBN 50 tier so you can keep playing Fortnite with your country mates. So why Tangerine of all fruits? According to Branson it’s young, fresh and fun. With so many internet providers around, it’s hard to stand out, so bright orange was a good choice of colour. If you hop onto their website you’ll be met by your trusty tangerine guide, fondly named Mr Peely, to help you navigate the website. We asked Branson if there are any perks to sharing the same name as billionaire Sir
Richard Branson. Tangerine’s Branson is also from the UK, so it’s no surprise that people confuse the two. He says the perks include people never forgetting your name, which is good in business. “When I was a kid, I got sent demo tapes in the mail from bands hoping to get a record deal,” Branson says. This was back when Virgin Music was getting started. He also says he often ends up with the best table in the restaurant without asking for it. To sign up to Tangerine Telecom, head to tangerinetelecom.com.au. For a limited time, use the promo code ‘BEAT25’ to get $25 off your first month.
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RHYTHM + FLOW
In Netflix’s first competitive music series, Chance The Rapper, Cardi B and T.I. join forces to scour Atlanta, Chicago, New York and LA in search of America’s next hip hop star. Rhythm + Flow hits Netflix on Wednesday October 9.
EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE
Taking off where Breaking Bad left us six years ago, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie follows Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) as he grapples to build a future in spite of his dark past. It hits Netflix on Friday October 11.
TELL ME WHO I AM
After a motorbike accident leaves him in a coma, 18-year-old Alex Lewis awakes to find his memories are all gone. It’s up to his twin brother, Marcus, to fill in the blanks and in the process, he learns a dark family secret. Tell Me Who I Am hits Netflix on Friday October 18.
LIVING WITH YOURSELF
Starring Paul Rudd and… Paul Rudd, Living With Yourself follows Miles (Rudd) on a journey through self-improvement as he finds himself fighting for everything he holds dear. It hits Netflix on Friday October 18.
JENNY SLATE: STAGE FRIGHT
Combining clips from her childhood and interviews with those close to her with a hilarious stand-up set, Stage Fright offers an intimate look at Jenny Slate’s path to comedy – including overcoming stage fright. It comes to Netflix on Tuesday October 22.
In July 2017, 122 countries voted in favour of a nuclear weapon ban treaty to be brought into international law. Countries that don’t have nuclear weapons but live under their threat voted for a ban. Now there’s a documentary exploring such a movement. The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons takes its audience through a brief history of the bomb and the anti-nuclear activism that has pushed to eliminate them ever since their invention. The film, which is told through the voices of leading activists from several different organisations and countries, shows the force of public determination and will. Ever since 2010, a united world has taken giant steps to make its move against nuclear weapons and this is a reflection of that success. The developments have been radical. Running for 56 minutes, the documentary has been shot in locations all across the world including Spain, USA, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Canada. Famed Spanish director Álvaro Orús is the man behind the award-winning production; one which also features Britain’s Tony Robinson on producing credits. The voices of 14 different expert interviewees fill out the dialogue while a moving testimony from Hiroshima bomb survivor, Setsuko Thurlow, adds a poignant narrative to the script. This is a significant fight that effects all of us; it’s relieving to see how far the movement has come. The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons will be screened in RMIT University’s Building 80 Cinema on Tuesday October 15 from 7:30pm. Find out more on the film via theendofnuclearweapons.com.
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Beat’s Burger Special 8bit
Between 2 Buns
How do you stand out from the crowd? Our burgers stand out because of the awesome ideas behind them. Our concept has a great nostalgic feel to it, with a nod to retro video games. We also have strong, recognisable branding, which helps. What’s the most outrageous burger & why is it so? Not outrageous per se, but different to what 8bit usually do, we have a Halloween burger running for all of October called Ghouls N’ Ghosts. Double beef patties, double cheese, maple bacon, spiced ketchup, onion, and pumpkin hommus all on a black bun. Are there any burgers/burger ingredients that you are trialling at the moment? If so, what are they? With the Ghouls N’ Ghosts, we are using different ingredients such as the previously mentioned pumpkin hommus and black bun. The next special, which is still top secret, will feature smoked pepperoni and white mozzarella. What’s your bestselling burger and why is it popular? It would have to be our classic burger, the 8bit With Cheese: beef patty, American cheese, ketchup, mustard, tomato, pickles, red onion, lettuce and 8bit sauce. It covers all bases with your classic burger ingredients. Can we expect any exciting changes to your burger menu coming into summer? We are working on refreshing our current menu, with some exciting new additions and tweaks. We will also be working on more limited specials for the summer and into 2020, so stay tuned.
How do your burgers stand out from the crowd? Almost everything on our menu is made in house and is fresh. Our preservative-free patties are made in-store daily, our buttermilk chicken and onion rings are made by hand as well as our special b2b sauces. What’s your most outrageous burger and why is it so? Any burger on our menu can be customised (even a custom ten beef pattie monster!). The Farmyard is our most outrageous at the moment, containing a succulent beef patty, crispy bacon, b2b coated buttermilk chicken and a layer of house-made sauces. Tell us about the other burgers you offer? We have a variety of beef, chicken and vegetarian burgers, ranging from mild to spicy and can be customised to your specific tastes. What is the ultimate accompaniment to a burger? Are you kidding?! FRIES! We have an abundance of loaded fries to complement our burger menu including cheese sauce, bacon bits and house-made chilli mince. Can we expect any exciting changes to your burger menu coming into summer? Keep an eye out for our new loaded waffle dessert menu and new summer shake flavours. Describe your burger restaurant in five words. Fresh, indulgent, family owned, hand-made.
Find 8bit at 8 Droop St, Footscray and 231 Swanston St, CBD. Check out the full menu at their website.
Between 2 Buns is located at four locations across Melbourne in Altona, Hoppers Crossing, Sunbury and Williamstown. Order online and find out more about the restaurant via their website.
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Hamilton’s Burgers
Hello Sam Burgers
How do your burgers stand out from the crowd? Our burgers are unique – we guarantee a taste experience that no other restaurant can deliver. From past classics such as the Super Saiyan to our latest addition Moana, each of our 19 burgers reflects the one-of-a-kind burger that is served to your plate. What’s your best-selling burger and why is it so popular? Our house signature, the Goku Secret Fusion, is always the best-selling burger, with our signature house sauce. It achieves both a savoury and sweet flavour while having a tangy yet creamy texture, combining contrasting elements into a juicy burger that is recommended to all ages. What’s your most outrageous burger and why is it so? We actually have many outrageous burgers, from the Neptune to the Rama IX, but I would personally say the Moana. This combines a seafood flavour with the juicy sweetness of pineapple and is perhaps our most daring burger created in our restaurant. Tell us about the other burgers you offer? We also offer other burgers such as the Black Goku, an extremely peppery variant of our Goku Fusion, and the Kaioken for our fans of spice. Other flavours include the French fusion Truffle White and the curry inspired vegetarian burger, Vegeta. What is the ultimate accompaniment to a burger? We personally believe that you can never go wrong with a good serve of chips, especially our house-made chips with a tangy, slightly peppery flavour that complements all our burgers.
How do your burgers stand out from the crowd? We go out of our way to ensure we use the most premium and high quality ingredients we can find. We think when it comes to burgers, if you are going to do it, you may as well do it right. What’s one underrated burger ingredient that not many people know about? For one of our burgers, our Too Cheesy, we use a house made Cheddar Ale Melt – it’s our unique cheese blend with a few other secret additions that we’re really proud of. You can add it to any burger if you’re after that extra cheesy hit. What’s your most outrageous burger and why is it so? Our Sam Vs Food: double beef, double southern fried chicken, quad bacon, quad cheese, pulled pork, onion rings and pickles finished with our Hello Sam burger sauce. It’s our challenge burger, and is a real hit with Australia’s biggest burger bloggers. Tell us about the other burgers you offer. We like to be as inclusive to everybody as we can be; we offer a wide range of gluten free, coeliac options as well as salad versions of all of our burgers. We recently launched a fully vegan menu, with seven dedicated vegan burgers and heaps more sides that’s been a really big hit. We’ve got big plans for this part of our menu, so watch this space. Describe your burger restaurant in five words. Quality, innovative, inclusive, relaxed, fresh.
Hamilton’s Burgers is located at 17 Hamilton Street, Mont Albert, open Wednesday to Sunday. Find out more about the restaurant via their website.
Find Hello Sam Burgers at 760 Chapel Street, South Yarra open seven days a week from 11am-9pm. More info via their website.
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BURGER SPECIAL
The Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill
What’s your best-selling burger and why is it so popular? Our best-selling burger is the Korean Fried Chicken Burger. We believe it’s so popular because of its build – it’s crunchy, it’s spicy and it’s delicious. But it’s the house-made sauce that makes it so special. What’s your most outrageous burger and why is it so? Our Bacon Marmalade and Blue Burger. Inside a soft toasted bun there’s grilled Angus beef topped with cheddar cheese, double cream brie and creamy gorgonzola with house-made bacon marmalade, crispy bacon and wild rocket leaves. Tell us about the other burgers you offer? We have a wide range of gluten-free burgers. Try the Bacon Brekky Burger or the Mama Sita. Are there any burgers that you are trialling at the moment? If so, what are they? At present we are trialling a Southern Fried Chicken Burger with a blue cheese dressing and crispy bacon. It’s going gangbusters. Can we expect any exciting changes to your burger menu coming into summer? We are hoping to introduce a plant-based burger that is every bit as good as our Angus beef. There’s something else we have in the works which is the Beyond Meat Burger. We are very excited about this. The Piping Hot Chicken and Burger Grill is open seven days at Shop 5 and 6, 63A The Terrace, Ocean Grove. Find out more via their website. PIPINGHOTCHICKENSHOP.COM.AU
300 Grams
Tell us about the burgers you offer? We have seven burgers on the menu, four beef, two chicken and a fish variety. What makes us unique is four of those can be made vegan or vegetarian – and they’ll look and taste identical. How do your burgers stand out from the crowd? Our menu took over 3 years to develop, all burgers were trialled at our other restaurant, we didn’t move on to the next one till we got it perfect. You’ll know when you taste them. What’s the ultimate accompaniment to a burger? For us it’s another burger – who can stop at one! What’s your best selling burger? The double cheeseburger – it instantly transports you to a happy place, a feeling you haven’t felt since you were a kid. It’s already got its own little cult following. Describe your burger restaurant in five words. The burgers of your childhood. 300 Grams is located at 313 High Street, Northcote, open seven days. Check out their menu via their website. 300GRAMS.COM.AU
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BEAT EATS
Melbourne’s craziest burger challenges To go along with this issue’s burger special, we’ve put together four of Melbourne’s best and most insane burger challenges. Ranked from the easiest to complete (a good place to start for budding challenge eaters) to the absolute monsters – one of which has only ever been completed by one person.
BEAST BURGER CHALLENGE THE B.EAST
A modest burger that others might sell as a regular menu burger, this one doesn’t look like a lot, but there’s a catch – you’ve gotta eat it faster than anyone else. There’s three beef patties and bacon, along with enough chilli cheese sauce to drown a small village, but if you want that glory of being on the wall of fame (and a chance at $200) you have to eat the burger faster than the last record, which was three minutes but now sits reportedly at one minute and fifteen seconds. Good luck!
MISTY’S DINER BURGER CHALLENGE MISTY’S DINER
This one’s a bigger challenge, but there is a more generous time limit. This time you’ve got 14 minutes to devour the five burger patties, slices of cheese, rashers of bacon, three buns, and the half order of fries (all drenched in mayo and BBQ sauce). If you manage it, you’ll earn a spot on their wall of fame as well as a burger challenge t-shirt. In 2011, just over 900 people had attempted it but only 145 had completed it – plus you have to sign a waiver (but we’re sure it’ll be fine).
THE DON CHALLENGE
SPRUCE GOOSE CHALLENGE
We’ve really taken a giant leap from the previously mentioned burger challenges by introducing The Don. There’s 700g of brioche bun alone, and then you add on the two 600g beef patties, your regular sauces and salads, 16 rashers of bacon, 400g of chips, and two cans of soft drink – because the burger alone would be too easy, right? If you get through it, the main prize is bragging rights; only a handful of people have defeated The Don, and the time to beat is 22 minutes and 55 seconds.
Four burger patties – two beef, one lamb, and one pork – at 250g each already starts this huge burger tower at 1kg. Then add two chicken breasts, nine slices of bacon, a kransky, cheese on every layer, and three eggs, all between two Turkish buns and you’ve got yourself a Spruce Goose burger, weighing in at a whopping 3kg. If you make it through the burger in 45 minutes, you get the burger free, a t-shirt, a hat and a stubbie holder. Competitive eater Vince “Big V” Mantovani, devoured this monster in 18 minutes and 37 seconds. Reckon you can do better?
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LIVE & FEATURES
In the Pit
Kate Miller-Heidke, image by Andrew Bibby
Kate Miller-Heidke HAMER HALL – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 “It’s not just the voice, it’s the spirit.” These are the words Tina Arena uses to describe the magic of Kate Miller-Heidke; a notion truly realised in a live setting. Arena joins us only briefly, delivering a stunning duet of ‘When You’re Ready’ which the pair wrote together, before disappearing behind the curtains again, yet her words sit quietly in
the room for the remainder of the evening. A Kate Miller-Heidke performance is somewhat of a melting pot of opera, comedy, pop and theatre. Her vocal abilities are truly nothing short of breathtaking, yet she never takes herself too seriously. This year alone she has represented Australia at Eurovision and her musical adaptation of Muriel’s Wedding around the country, yet when speaking of these feats Miller-Heidke is far from boastful. Instead, when reflecting on the “little talent show” she recently took part in, she
simply recalls colourful descriptions of the extravagant look she donned for her performance, such as “the swaying toilet brush”, as coined by her father-in-law. And when she sits herself down at the grand piano to play her new single ‘Ernie’, an elegy to the difficulties of being a new parent and the sheer joy it instils despite sleepless nights and the never-ending swirl of anxious thoughts, Miller-Heidke admits her young son isn’t present tonight because he hates her singing. “He says it makes his ears cry,” she laughs. Funny, tonight it’s having the same effect on my eyes. Dressed as if she were an exquisite ornament you’d top your Christmas tree with in a towering spiked golden crown and shimmering red gown, Miller-Heidke looks every bit the superstar she has proved herself to be across her career. Flitting between the grand piano, the microphone and a tambourine as she regales an onslaught of hits – ‘O Vertigo!’, ‘Sarah’, and ‘Rock This Baby To Sleep’ among them – we further reminded of her magic. Yet it’s the moments in which MillerHeidke’s personality slips through that she really shines as a performer, like when she employs her manic cackle amongst a wash of blood-red light in the seething ‘You’ve Underestimated Me, Dude’ or when she joins her backup vocalist Jess Hitchcock for a duet of a track penned for her Muriel’s Wedding musical. “You’re fucking amazing,” they sing in a
vocal spar, amongst a sea of compliments; a testament to the power of female friendship as told by the story’s main characters Muriel and Rhonda. The ever-humble Miller-Heidke even finds herself stepping back into the shadows, patiently watching on as her partner in music and life, Keir Nuttal, goes on a ridiculously indulgent, longwinded and utterly brilliant guitar solo during ‘Words’ – complete with intricate loops, dad dance moves and a musical duel against cellist and pianist Isaac Hayward. When the troupe leave the stage having not played the Eurovision single we’re all here to hear – it is her Zero Gravity tour, after all – it’s obvious there’s an encore coming. Yet MillerHeidke surprises even herself when she appears after leaving to her second standing ovation of the night to perform her infamous operatic rendition of Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’. “I never do this,” she laughs as she calls to Nuttal to rejoin her onstage. And when it’s all over, having laughed, cried and endured 90 minutes of goosebumps, we all flee Hamer Hall with the theatrical trill of Miller-Heidke’s catchy vocal acrobatics doomed to swirl in our heads for the rest of the evening.
obviously have to run everything the band does by everyone else. The whole process takes so much time, when all you’re really trying to do is make music. This whole thing has just been an experiment, really. “What kind of music can I make when I’m not also making those compromises? When the restraints are off, what happens next? I’m still trying to write good songs that get a reaction out of me. The only real difference is the sonics, and the enlisting of other people to be involved – neither of which are particularly easy with a band like The Wombats.” The “other people” Murphy speaks of were guest performers that played on tracks in the studio – among them Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and alt-J keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton, whose work features on the recently-released debut Love Fame Tragedy EP, I Don’t Want To Play The Victim, But I’m
Really Good At It. So far, according to Murphy, the collaborative process has been relatively easy. “Take someone like Gus,” he says. “I can easily just call him up and ask him to come down and share a bottle of wine with me in the studio. I told him, ‘Just come down and do whatever the fuck you want!’ Joey is so approachable, too. He laid down all the guitar in a day, just powered through it, and then off he popped.” Does Murphy have any rules when it comes to his guests in the studio? “Only one,” he replies: “Have as much fun as possible.”
Highlight: The Tina Arena duet. Nuttal’s guitar solo being a close second. Lowlight: Staying out past 10pm on a Tuesday night… yes, I’m boring. Crowd favourite: ‘Zero Gravity’. BY KATE STREADER
Love Fame Tragedy For the past decade-plus, Matthew Murphy has been at the helm of one project and one project only: British post-punk turned pop-rock fauna The Wombats, who still maintain status as one of the UK’s hardest-touring and most beloved bands. BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG
When the singer-songwriter affectionately known as Murph returns to Australia, however, it will be without his bandmates for the very first time. 2019 has seen Murphy debut his new solo project, Love Fame Tragedy, which incorporates elements of a myriad of genres and allows for the Liverpudlian to explore his own abilities as a performer outside of the framework of The Wombats. Funnily enough, it was some songs that were hangers-on following the sessions for the last Wombats album – 2018’s Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life – that initially planted the seeds for what would become Love Fame Tragedy. “For whatever reason, they didn’t make it on to the album,” explains Murphy, “and I wanted to figure out why that was. I felt like these songs needed to be heard, and it tied in with this desire I’d been harbouring to try something new.” Murphy goes on to describe the shift from The Wombats to Love Fame Tragedy as
simply a recalibration rather than some sort of radical reinvention. “I’m still the same human being,” he says. “I still have the same voice, and the same kind of approach and style to my lyrics. What’s different is the collaborators, and what we’ve been doing in the studio together. “I’ve been coming at the music from different angles, as well – the first two songs I released were actually written on bass, which is something I’ve never really done as a songwriter before.” As Murphy began piecing together the project in-between festival dates The Wombats were playing throughout 2018, the comprehension of exactly what Love Fame Tragedy was became more and more apparent. For Murphy, it’s about reclaiming agency and making music without any pressure or expectations attached to it. “I wanted something with no politics – something I didn’t need to consult anyone else on,” he says. “When you’re in a band, you
Love Fame Tragedy’s debut EP, I Don’t Want To Play The Victim, But I’m Really Good At It, is out now via Good Soldier Songs/AWAL Recordings. Give it a spin via streaming services. LFT launches the EP at Howler on Wednesday October 9 (sold out).
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NEW MUSIC
Albums & Singles BEST NEW ALBUM
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SAMPA THE GREAT
The Return
Sampa Tembo is a master of her craft but almost as importantly, she understands the value of collaboration. The Return is stacked with features from artists of African descent, Australian and abroad. Nineteen tracks is a lot to ask of any listener but Sampa’s control of cadence paired with well-produced, well-performed instrumentals and choir sections, is enough for you to chronically listen to ‘just one more’. Opening with ‘Mwana’, Sampa sets the tone of heritage and home well with its very first words, performed in Nyanja (one of Zambia’s native tongues) – a language scattered throughout the tracklist. The project is a smooth blend of soul, jazz and funk, whilst also indulging some traditional boom-bap hip hop. ‘The Return’, ‘Don’t Give Up’ and ‘Made Us Better’, are nine, seven and six minutes long respectively but leave no minute wasted as they avoid repetition and explore elements of storytelling seamlessly. ‘OMG’ and ‘Final Form’ were well-picked singles, infused with energy and groove that spurs an inadvertent head nod while you listen along. ‘Time’s Up’ is Sampa’s empowered message toward “Black Excellence” in the music industry, inviting local Melbourne MC, Krown, to help fuel the message. “I’ve seen the industry kill dream of a dreamer”, is the hook that bonds the pair’s perspectives and experiences. Thando adds her incredible voice to ‘Diamond in the Ruff’, alongside another verse from Krown, while Ecca Vandal contributes an ethereal chorus over a prominent drum beat in ‘Dare to Fly’. Whilst there are definitely some great standalone tunes, this is an album to enjoy back to front – and is there a better way to listen to music? Label: Ninja Tune BY SCOTT HUDSON
SINGLES – WITH AUGUSTUS WELBY
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PRINCESS NOKIA
JACK LADDER
PERFUME GENIUS
ANGEL OLSEN
Sugar Honey Iced Tea
Shades
Eye in the Wall
Lark
After last year’s emo-era tribute, A Girl Cried Red, Princess Nokia reengages with hip hop to demonstrably trample her haters. “All the time you been hatin’, you could’ve turned into something,” the Nuyorican MC advises with pity more than disdain. She uses the second verse to point out that instead of picking fights with other women, she’s out there throwing soup on racist men and retributively punching domestic abusers.
‘Shades’ isn’t one of Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s best known co-writes, but it’s one of the most touching. Recognising this, Jack Ladder renders it a richly emotive power ballad. The original melody is preserved, giving the song a deceptively simple air – it’s just about being gifted some sick sunnies, right? The lyrical beauty gradually reveals itself, however, with Ladder crescendo-ing through the hook: “I like this pain, I like this mirror, I like these shades.”
Having delivered everything you could’ve wanted from him on 2017’s No Shape – fortified pop melody, maximalist elegance, beautifully carved lyricism – Mike Hadreas returns, honouring a presumed commitment to keep pushing boundaries. ‘Eye in the Wall’ comes from The Sun Still Burns Here, a collaboration with the YC dance company. Over the course of nine minutes, it develops into a physical, lusty and empowering dance song. “I’m full of nothing but love,” sings Hadreas, mirroring the thoughts of his fanbase.
‘Lark’, the second taste of Angel Olsen’s most layered and sonically elaborate album to date, is a constantly evolving epic poem. Over a bed of swelling orchestral dissonance, Olsen comes to grips with the idea that everything we go through stays with us – the more we open ourselves up to intense intimacy, the greater the risk of being followed by ghosts after the spark goes out.
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NEW MUSIC
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BEC SANDRIDGE
TRY + SAVE ME
It’s no simple feat fitting two break ups, coming out, and starting therapy into a series of electro-pop bangers, but Bec Sandridge’s debut album TRY + SAVE ME not only fits the bill, it sticks around for dessert and tips the waiter. There’s no mistaking the influence of collaborators Gab Strum (Japanese Wallpaper) and Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy), with their ‘80s reminiscent influence making itself especially known on singles such as ‘STRANGER’, and ‘W MY EX’. ‘I’LL NEVER WANT A BF’ utilises Sandridge’s vocals to create an anthem any queer babe can relate to post coming-out, and is the perfect musical middle finger to pushy hetero relatives. ‘MY FRIENDS THINK I CAN DO BETTER’ melds glitchy electronica and punchy bass to create an energetic track that keeps you bouncing while the lyrics call each one of us out for ignoring those pesky red flags ‘til our pals point them out. ‘WHERE THE BULLET HITS’ brings bass and synths into play, lurings you to the edge of your seat and urging you to “put your money where your mouth is” while ‘BEFORE THE RADIO’ slows things down, only for Sandridge’s bold vocal trills to strike you two steps back. TRY + SAVE ME is pure, passionate, manic fun, if not a potential sensory overload. The long-awaited debut album is unapologetically Sandridge, but makes sure you’re invited to the party.
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PIXIES
Beneath The Eyrie
When Black Francis posed the ambivalent question of ‘Where Is My Mind?’ back in 1988, the only thing that was clearly answered was the impact the track would have on setting Pixies up as musical pioneers. Fast forward 30 years to Beneath The Eyrie. Francis’ state of mind is defined as Pixies deep dive into an underworld of gothic proportions. While known for their melancholic undertones and eccentric views of the world, Beneath The Eyrie capitalises on the band’s signature theme in an eerie yet poetic collection of stories about ghouls, ghosts, and witches throughout the ominous twelve tracks. Not in an Edgar Allen Poe sense of impending doom, but as a subtle nod to the horror genre. While a concept album in nature, Pixies don’t stray too far from their genre-defining sound. Projecting from previous records, the four-piece adopt eerie minor chords and haunting instrumentation with distinct influence from their gothic-heavy producer Tom Delgaty (Pixies’ Head Carrier, Ghost, Royal Blood). ‘On Graveyard Hill’ and ‘Catfish Kate’ cover familiar territory sonically with Joey Santiago’s spacey guitar rings and the driving bass lines, while ‘This Is My Fate’ echoes the ‘Monster Mash’ introducing elements of theatrics and skat, capturing gloom in a glorious way.
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STEEL PANTHER
Heavy Metal Rules
Being their fifth album, Heavy Metal Rules sits comfortably in Steel Panther’s repertoire. They’ve dedicated themselves to their genre of party metal, as AC/DC and Motorhead did within their respective genres. From its opener ‘Zebraman’ being a crass precursor to the whole album, the album is pretty much what you’d expect. For instance, ‘All I Wanna Do is Fuck (Myself Tonight)’ is a life of the party song, a damn catchy one at that, while ‘I’m Not Your Bitch’ is a cry for respect with some awesome riffs to boot. And as for ‘Gods of Pussy’, well, it’s pretty selfexplanatory. The title track, ‘Heavy Metal Rules’, acts as a testament for Steel Panther to remain dedicated to heavy metal without it sounding too similar to their earlier ‘Death to All But Metal’ from 2009’s Feel The Steel (even though they still have a good dig at other genres, especially punk). The album’s closer ‘I Ain’t Buying What You’re Selling’ is a highlight for its theme of self-acceptance and honesty; it stands as an emotional, acoustic conclusion to Heavy Metal Rules. Pretty much on track with what they are and what they stand for, Steel Panther clearly have no intention of steering left, right or pop. Label: Independent BY RHYS MCKENZIE
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SUI ZHEN
Losing, Linda
Losing, Linda is the long-anticipated sophomore release of Melbourne’s own Sui Zhen. The album is an intriguing, self-reflective journey that explores the past, present and future of processing loss. The album tackles the questions and visions that this experience evokes, especially around familiarity, tradition, modernity and identity. Sui Zhen maps new musical and thematic terrain on the record with great sensitivity and mastery. She blends grand, dense beats and bass tones with delicate, ethereal woodwind instrumentation and layers of chilling synth melodies. The record hits stunning heights in both experimental composition and emotional breadth, and is a clear expansion and finesse of her sound. The album takes a turn in mood from funk-infused electronica to a more personable, dewy sound on ‘I Could Be There’ – an extraordinary track featuring gorgeous horn and flute ornamentation, earthy percussion and bewitching vocal harmonies with atmospheric synth flourishes. The record flows between moments of steely conviction communicated through hypnotic spoken word vocals as on ‘Natural Progression’, to the wistful propositions and dreamy wonderings found on ‘Mountain Song’. This tapestry of feeling authentically mirrors the nature of navigating life rearranged.
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EDITOR’S PICK
KARATE BOOGALOO
KB’s Mixtape No. 2 There’s a cult following starting to surround funk twisters Karate Boogaloo.
The Melbourne collective’s debut mixtape, KB’s Mixtape No. 1, flew off the shelf as crate diggers resonated with the offbeat nature of the release – a compilation of reinterpreted samples from the likes of The Isley Brothers, Donna Summer, Janet Jackson and more. Now the band have returned with their second instalment of the mixtape series. KB’s Mixtape No. 2 takes off where the first release left things, enlivening classic ‘80s hip hop breaks from the likes of Stevie Nicks, Kraftwerk and Blondie. There’s no vocals here; just cosmic funk wanderings that stretch the capability of instrumentation. Largely placid and suited to
the soundscapes of a Fitzroy café courtyard, there’s more urgency in tracks such as ‘Edge of Seventeen’ and ‘Tour De France’, both of which flip the script on their acclaimed originals. Mixtape highlight, ‘Bam Bam’, takes the 1982 reggae classic from Sister Nancy and embellishes it with tiptoeing synths and jerking guitar lines that effectively play to the patient tempo of the oft-sampled track. With the mixtape now out in the world and Strawberry Fields and Meredith sets on the horizon, the party is only just beginning. Label: Hopestreet Recordings BY TOM PARKER
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GIGS & EVENTS
Gig & Events Guide WEDNESDAY 02 OCT
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK LIVE JAZZ FEAT: THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar. Balaclava. 8pm. FREE. WIND IT UP FEAT: ZIIMUSIC, BAASTO, IJALE Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8pm. FREE. PROTO MORO, ANTIPHON, JK GROUP Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $10. ELEW Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $45. LACHY HAMILTON TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $25. UNITED VOICES Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $35. THE GIANNI MARINUCCI TRIO Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE. JULIEN WILSON'S STOCK, SLIPPER Bar 303. Northcote. 8.30pm.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES COQ ROQ: UNPLUGGED Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 5pm. FREE. LOMOND ACOUSTICA FEAT: JIMI HOCKING, NATHAN POWER, THE CORNHUSKERS The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. WILLIAM CRIGHTON & THE FAMILY BAND, AHLIA WILLIAMS & ALLARA, AMY MONTGOMERY Howler. Brunswick. 8pm. $35. JEMMA NICOLE The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm. ASH SUMPTER The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm. THE WELCOME SWALLOW OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE.
REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MILLER'S SINGALONG Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 7pm. $20. MUDDY'S BLUES ROULETTE The Catfish. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE. THE GRUBBY URCHINS Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL WILLIAM'S CAVE, YZZY JADE, SWEETCELL The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $10. TAMMA, JESS PATTERSON, MADELEINE GRAY Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. FREE. ANGIE MCMAHON Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7pm. $40. I'M NOT EVEN MAD ABOUT IT FEAT: LUKE BELLE The Butterfly Club. 7pm. $35.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL PANGEAN NIGHTS FEAT: TOMMY GROVES, CHRISTOPHER PORT Section 8. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. IN OPPOSITION OF VICROADS & THEIR CULTURAL GENOCIDE FEAT: EPSILON, DOMINIC ALTAMORE, SNSKRT, RE:LAPSE Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $10. LAS MAR, ONSEN BROTHERS, ALON ILSAR Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. FREE.
CLASSICAL MELBOURNE ART SONG COLLECTIVE Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39.
HIP HOP, R&B, POP DOJA CAT Prince Bandroom. St Kilda. 8pm.
THURSDAY 03 OCT
HIP HOP, R&B, POP THROWBACK FEAT: MATT RADOVICH, EZRA HARVEY, ILRESPONCE, B-TWO, AYNA, NAM Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. THIA., SAMPLETEXT, DUAN, GEORGIA RODGERS The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. JPEGMAFIA Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. $38. GREY WHISTLE TEST, JUICE WEBSTER, DARVID THOR Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK THE DJANGOLOGISTS Wesley Anne. Northcote. 6pm. FREE. RAMBAL, SLIPPER Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm. $10. C H U R C H IMPROVISATION SESSIONS, SUPERFEATHER, HA NA Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $10. VIPER'S DREAM SWING TEAM Bar Open. Fitzroy. 7pm. FREE. ELEW Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $45. THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE. DANILO MEDAUAR, SERHIY STRAZHNIK Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. $7. THE BOWIE PROJECT, ADAM RUDEGEAIR Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $25. JESSICA YOUNG QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $40. TIDE, RASTEIRO Wesley Anne. Northcote. 8pm. $15. MARGARET MORRISON, JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Water Rat Hotel. South Melbourne. 7pm. FREE.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL GULLY FEAT: BABY-T, JUSTIN LIMBERLAKE, LOTUS MOONCHILD, KAÏRA CUVÉE, RECLUSE, RAMSEY, MATKA Section 8. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. HUNTLY, MONTY & THE PYTHONS Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. HEMLOCK LADDER Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 9pm. FREE. SOUP FEAT: TOYMOTA, KUFATALI, NICE GIRL Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. KITTEN HEEL + PURR USUAL The B.East. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. CATCH THE BEAT THURSDAYS FEAT: DJ PERIL, MIKE GURRIERI The Carlton Club. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES TAYLOR PROJECT, THE BONE FOLDERS, THE SILENCE ENGINE Red Betty. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE. REMY VAN KESTEREN Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7.30pm. $39. STEPHEN GRADY Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 6pm. FREE. OPEN MIC NIGHT The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 7pm. FREE. BIG COUNTRY, PANIC SYNDROME Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8pm. $60. ROBERT PATTON, BETH JOSS Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 6.30pm. FREE. TROY WILSON & MATTHEW WHITE Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $10. GREY MANTIS, CAT & BULL CLUB Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. FREE. OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel. Ascot Vale. 7pm. FREE. FRANK RAYMOND & THE SILHOUETTES FAD Gallery. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 8pm. FREE.
Death of Art
Frank Raymond & the Silhouettes
Dark Realm
All Hours
Dreamin’ Wild
SWAMPLANDS
BAR 303
THE JOHN CURTIN HOTEL
FAD GALLERY
Dark Realm will haunt Swamplands with a range of heavy-rock artists performing on Friday October 4, including Death of Art, 29 Bones and Stonechain. The mix of heavy-riffers are sure to satisfy your headbanging needs for $10 from 8:30pm.
Brisbane pop-punkers All Hours will land at Bar 303 on Friday October 4 alongside their new single, ‘Black Rose’. To see supporting travellers Mecha Mecha with locals Beyond Contempt and In Deception, get there when doors open at 8pm. $10 on the door.
To celebrate the release of their album Heaven in Thirty-Eleven, Dreamin’ Wild will be performing at The Curtin on Friday October 4 with doors at 8pm. If you’re looking for a smart, jazzy, pop experience to kickstart the weekend, this is a good place to start. Secure your tickets at Musicglue.
Frank Raymond & the Silhouettes are bringing rad to FAD with yet another show on Thursday October 3 alongside $8 basic spirits, wines, beers and bubbles. Combined with free entry, the night is sure to be a blast – bring your dancing shoes.
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ROCK, PUNK, METAL GRIMALKIN, DEFENESTRATION, UMBILICAL TENTACLE, KOUKATSUANI Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $7. BASS DRUM OF DEATH, CLAMM, HORROR MY FRIEND The Curtin. Carlton. 8pm. $46.35. DISCO JUNK, CAVE CANEM, CUPID & THE STUPIDS Globe Alley. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. ALL HOURS, DEAD BEFORE BREAKFAST, MECHA MECHA, RORY NEWMAN Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. THE DEADBEATS, JOHNNY BIPOLAR, KING CAPTURE Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm. FREE. REAPER, WITCHCLIFF, PISSRASH, ENDLESS BORE Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE. THE BETHS, MAJOR LEAGUES, TAMARA & THE DREAMS Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $20.39. BEDROCK WITH LEE HARDING, DJ MATTY J Pier Bandroom. Frankston. 9pm. THE FLAMING LIPS Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne). Melbourne. 8pm. $99 - 139. MORNING MELODIES FEAT: ARNIE GRIVES Ferntree Gully Hotel. Ferntree Gully. 10.30am. $17. THE CHATS, ABJECTS, THE UNKNOWNS 170 Russell. Melbourne. 2pm. $33.84. I'M NOT EVEN MAD ABOUT IT FEAT: LUKE BELLE The Butterfly Club. 7pm. $35. PHILLIP LEE CURTIS The Butterfly Club. 7pm. $35. MATT BRADSHAW The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 9.30pm. FREE.
FRIDAY 04 OCT
HIP HOP, R&B, POP RNB FRIDAYS FEAT: HORIZON Co. Southbank. 9.30pm. $25. NOTHINGE, WINTERNATIONALE, DEEJAY DEBONAIRE, ENOLA GAY Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8.30pm. JUNE JONES, ALICE SKYE, SARAH MARY CHADWICK Howler. Brunswick. 8pm. $18.53.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB FEAT: PHATO A MANO, NAMN, MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. FORMATION FEAT: DONNY Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. JAMO, HARTWAY, BAREFOOT DEVIL The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $12.25. DJS LAMBCHOP & MS PETTY CASH Red Betty. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. MR. CHAN'S FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY Pawn & Co. Prahran. 10pm. $15 - 20. DO THE JOB! FEAT: MICKEY EDWARDS, AMAR Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 7pm. FREE. DANDELION WINE, USER, LIGHT MAGNETIC, DUET Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 7pm. $14.57. MATT SASSARI, RHYS ROBERTS, JOEY COCO, HUMAN CONDITION, B-THAM, STEVIE STRAFFORD, LUKE LAWRENCE New Guernica. Melbourne. 10pm. $16.91 - 22.19. MOTOR FEAT: SLEEP D, CHIARA KICKDRUM, DJ KITI, MATT RADOVICH, MARKET MEMORIES, HIT MACHINE, NICK HIMSELF Prince Bandroom. St Kilda. 9pm. $28.60. STRANGER FEAT: FUNCTION, NAT SALIH, PAUL LYNCH, EDWARD RICHARDS, MTLDA, DJ MUM, CITIPOWER, FRED SEXTON Brown Alley. Melbourne. 10pm. $26.65. HARD KANDY’S 20TH BDAY FEAT: DA TWEEKAZ, MC D 170 Russell. Melbourne. 10pm. $76.79 - 87.01.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES THE NORTHERN FOLK PRESENTS: SONGWRITER’S SESSION Wesley Anne. Northcote. 8pm. $15. DEBRA BYRNE & DION HIRINI Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $20. THE STETSON FAMILY The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE. WILSON & WHITE The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8.30pm. FREE. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6pm. FREE.
WANDERER Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE. MR ALFORD Gem Bar. Collingwood. 9pm. FREE. LITTLE PLOUGH The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 9.30pm. FREE. NATALIE-JANE & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse 101. Maribyrnong. 7pm. FREE. SNOW TOWNSEND'S BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS Coburg RSL Club. Coburg. 8.22pm. FREE. THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS Royal Oak Hotel. Fitzroy North. 6pm. FREE. MARK GARDNER The Prince Patrick. 5.30pm. FREE. SHAUNA TONY AND CO Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL ALL HOURS, IN DECEPTION, BEYOND CONTEMPT, MECHA MECHA Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm. $10. THE TARANTINOS, REALLY REALLY Yah Yah's. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. YOUR SCENE MUST DIE FEAT: ALUMINIUM MONSTER, DOMANIC ALTAMORE, ASYLUM SISTERS, THE AMAZING SLOTH RIDER, KAT O, MONASTERE, CVES Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 7pm. $10. WAY SHIT, NO/TRAUMA Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 8.30pm. FREE. CUPID & THE STUPIDS, GAMJEE Old Bar. Fitzroy. 5pm. FREE. PARANOIAS, THE SMARTS, VAMPIRE, IL GLOBO Old Bar. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $15. ROT T.V, GRIM RHYTHM Labour in Vain. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE. RAZZMATAZZ INDIE DISCO FEAT: CAITY K, TED C Globe Alley. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. COMBICHRIST, DARKCELL Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8pm. $63.47. LIQUID DISTRICT, REGULAR SPREAD, APCO, SHOCK FRIENDLY Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. HOPE DRONE, CONVULSING, IN TRENCHES, WELL Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $14.30. SANTA FE DRIVING RANGE, FOREVER SON, EBONY & THE DILEMMAS The B.East. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE.
YARD DUTY, CATHOLIC GUILT, I HAVE A GOAT, BARELY CONSCIOUS Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE. KIM VOLKMAN & THE WHISKEY PRIESTS, THE CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL PREDESTINATION Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8.30pm. FREE. MOTOR ACE Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. $48.50. THE BETHS, MAJOR LEAGUES, TAMARA & THE DREAMS Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $20.39. PEARL - THE JANIS JOPLIN SHOW, SHANNON BOURNE Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $23. THE FLAMING LIPS Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne). Melbourne. 8pm. $99 - 139. NEW SLANG FEAT: SLOWLY SLOWLY Arts Centre Melbourne. Melbourne. 6pm. $10. NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE, ALICE IVY, SPARROWS Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 8pm. $52.14. I'M NOT EVEN MAD ABOUT IT FEAT: LUKE BELLE The Butterfly Club. 7pm. $35. 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.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK BLUE SHIVOO, SHIITAKE, INDIGO WILLS-KING Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. LOUIS VALENTINE & THE GOLDEN AGE, HARRISON R. KING The Penny Black. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. PACO PEÑA Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 8pm. $89 - 99. DREAMIN' WILD, THE BUSH, SWEET WHIRL The Curtin. Carlton. 8pm. $14.30. THE BOÎTE PRESENTS SALTANA St Margaret's Anglican Church. Eltham. 8pm. $12 - 27. ELEW Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $45. THE FEM BELLING QUARTET Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $25. DANDELION WINE, USER, LIGHT MAGNETIC, DUET Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 7pm. $14.57.
Beautiful Savages
Live Electronic Marquee 22 The Whisky Gypsies
Adam Trace
Parkville
SWAMPLANDS
THE QUIET MAN IRISH PUB
THE TEMPERANCE HOTEL
GRACE DARLING HOTEL
Saturday October 5 will bless us with a fusion of electronic artists such as Sikander, The Safety Word, Beautiful Savages and more for Live Electronic Marquee. The free, six-artist event goes down from 7pm at Swamplands.
The front bar of The Quiet Man will be serving a blend of Celtic-folk-inspired music with a range of modern covers on Saturday October 5. The Whisky Gypsies are known for putting on a red hot show so this one should not be missed. No door fee, 9:30pm start.
Adam Trace returns to The Temperance Hotel alongside Marcus Knight and Garry Sheba on Saturday October 5 to spread some good vibes. With no door fee, DJs from 8pm, and $10 espresso martinis from 6pm-8pm to fuel your groove, there’s plenty of excuses to head along.
Melbourne folk-pop superstars Parkville are heading to the Grace Darling Hotel to perform their highly anticipated sophomore EP, The Softest Murder. Their live shows are becoming known as “nothing short of spectacular”, so don’t be the one to miss out. They’re set to perform on Saturday October 5. Tickets available via Eventbrite.
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SHIRAZZ Open Studio. Northcote. 9pm. FREE. PAUL WILLIAMSON'S HAMMOND COMBO Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 9pm. $30. NO REGRETS - THE EDITH PIAF STORY, NIKKI NOUVEAU Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. THE DJANGOLOGISTS + BLUE STAR BAND Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $30.
SATURDAY 05 OCT
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL PRESS PLAY Empire Nightclub. Narre Warren. 11pm. FREE. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co. Southbank. 9pm. $25. TEXTILE FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. DE LA GROOVES FEAT: DEZZY D, MUMA DOESA, DJ KASE Section 8. Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. PAWN SATURDAYS Pawn & Co. Prahran. 8pm. FREE. ALTA, PURIENT, MINORFAUNA Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8.30pm. $17.98. TRIPLE VISION FEAT: SURIC, BINI, JAKE HUGHES, BREEZY Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. TALES OF THE OBSCURE FEAT: ALGORITHIUM, CIRCUS FREQ, NYCTOPHOBIA, NOI – Z JOR, VORAX, WORDSALAD, NQR 24 Moons. Northcote. 9pm. $16.97. EAT THE BEAT FEAT: DJ RALF, EMIX New Guernica. Melbourne. 10pm. $15 - 30. ENTER THE JUNGLE FEAT: BRIAN FANTANA, SPACEY SPACE, LAURA KING, HANDSDOWN, SAMMY LA MARCA, LEIGHBOY, PROSDO, PAUL DE SILVA, JUNES, JACK DEL, HABER Prince Bandroom. St Kilda. 2pm. $23.50. MINDFLAYER: ATTACKS Chelsea Heights Hotel. Aspendale Gardens. 9pm. $15 - 35. BOUNCE WITH DJ 2P The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 10pm. FREE.
HIP HOP, R&B, POP KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS, DAMION DE
SILVA, DURMY Khokolat Bar. Melbourne. 9.30pm. TEXTILE FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL GENERACION SUICIDA, THE SNAKES, HACKER, PARANOIAS, GELD Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm. $20. CROCODYLUS, ISRAELI CHICKS, PISTOL PEACHES The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $22.45. VIERA MOTEL, THE GREAT EMU WAR CASUALTIES, INTERSTELLAR GATOR, DUMB WHALES The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $10. ABJECTS Yah Yah's. Fitzroy. 11pm. $11.58. TEENAGE DADS, THE MOVING STILLS, VELVET BLOOM Yah Yah's. Fitzroy. 8pm. $15. ALL HOPE REMAINS, AUTOMATIC HEROES, SEVEN MARGARITAS The Yarra Hotel. Abbotsford. 7.30pm. FREE. SUPER-X, PUSSY WILLOW, ROMERO Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 3pm. FREE. GREEN BLANKET, GOLDEN AGE Red Betty. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE. ADORE, ROGUE WAVS Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 8.30pm. FREE. HOPE DRONE, BITUMEN, DIPLOID, CONVULSING Old Bar. Fitzroy. 8pm. $20. SUDDEN DEBT, TIMESHARE Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE. DIRT RIVER RADIO, WINTER MOON Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $17. LOVE FAME TRAGEDY, AUSTEN Howler. Brunswick. 7pm. REPENT REPEAT OCTOBER PARTY FEAT: DJ JOSHUA MORIARTY, AXL BROS, ALL THE COLOURS, BLEACH, MEZ̈MER Globe Alley. Melbourne. 7pm. FREE. THE GET UP KIDS, BUKOWSKI, ANTISKEPTIC Corner Hotel. Richmond. 7.30pm. $61.05. OLYMPIA, MERPIRE, JESS RIBEIRO Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8.30pm. $33.61. DENIM GORGEOUS Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 6.30pm. FREE. AMPED FESTIVAL 3 FEAT: HOLLOW WORLD, BLACK RHENO, HIDDEN INTENT, THE OMNIFIC, TRUTH CORRODED, MORE Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 12pm. $23.50. FIFTH FRIEND, DOMINIQUE The B.East. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE.
THE GO SET, BURGWORTH, THE TRAUMA BOYS, THE OUT OF TOWNERS, MIKE RIVKEES Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 8pm. $15 - 20. SOFT TACO, LONG HOURS, DEATHBEAT, KAKU, RUSE Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 7.30pm. FREE. LARSEN, WILDERGLOW, AFTER SCHOOL CARE, CHELSEA MANOR The Catfish. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. FURLONG, CRIMINAL BLONDE, INVASION SKIES Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. FREE. BACKYARD BABIES Max Watt's (Melbourne). 5.30pm. $71.95. I'M NOT EVEN MAD ABOUT IT FEAT: LUKE BELLE The Butterfly Club. 7pm. $35. PHILLIP LEE CURTIS The Butterfly Club. 5.30pm. $35. PHILLIP LEE CURTIS The Butterfly Club. 7pm. $35. ROBOT LOVE, EMPIRE MOON, MYLK Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $5.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK CAPTAIN DREAMBOAT, THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS, LANEOUS The Penny Black. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE. DJ LADY BLADES Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. THE SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $10. DJ SIMON LAXTON Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. HOODOO MAYHEM The B.East. Brunswick East. 6.30pm. FREE. ELEW Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $45. ASHLEIGH WATSON & BLUETONE ASSEMBLY Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $25. THE WOOHOO REVUE Open Studio. Northcote. 9pm. $15. TANGO-MANIA FEAT: MELBOURNE TANGO ORCHESTRA Open Studio. Northcote. 8.30pm. $10. G&T JAZZ, MERLE ST JAZZ BAND Open Studio. Northcote. 2.30pm. KYLIE AULDIST - BOOGIE NIGHTS Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $28. INTO GROOVE Clifton Hill Brewpub. Clifton Hill. 9pm. FREE. REBECCA MENDOZA Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 9pm. $32.50.
DANY MAIA QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $32.50. NO REGRETS - THE EDITH PIAF STORY, NIKKI NOUVEAU Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES THE PRAYERBABIES The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE. ASH GRUNWALD, JACK BOTTS Howler. Brunswick. 7pm. $40.15. TRIO GRANDE Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 6pm. FREE. BITCHES BREW The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. STEPHEN KENNEDY The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 3pm. FREE. HANNAH POTTER, JUAN RAFFIN Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE. WHISKEY GYPSIES The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 9.30pm. FREE. GRACEJEAN The Thornbury Theatre. Thornbury. 7.30pm. $23.50. SAMMY OWEN BLUES BAND Royal Hotel. Mornington. 8pm. FREE. JO MEARES, CHARLES JENKINS Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 7pm. $20.
SUNDAY 06 OCT
HIP HOP, R&B, POP MOTHERSHIP Co. Southbank. 9.30pm. $15. DON'T THANK ME, SPANK ME Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES MATT GLASS & THE LOOSE CANNONS Wesley Anne. Northcote. 6pm. FREE. DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD Bar 303. Northcote. 3.30pm. FREE. RACHAEL BELOT, DECLAN TROUNSON, JUSTIN MALVASO The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $10. RACHAEL LIA, AARON B, JESSI Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE.
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Captain Dreamboat
Olympia
The Prayerbabies
The Glorious
THE PENNY BLACK
CORNER HOTEL
LOMOND HOTEL
THE DRUNKEN POET
Ahoy there, Captain Dreamboat are setting sail to Melbourne this month alongside special guests Laneous and The Montgomery Brothers. They play at The Penny Black on Saturday October 5. This is a one-show exclusive, so make sure to treat yourself and secure tickets via Eventbrite.
Following well-received tours across the UK and Europe earlier this year, Olympia returns to Australia to perform her highly anticipated new album Flamingo. Performing at the Corner Hotel on Saturday October 5, this is a night you can’t miss. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Beloved Melbourne band The Prayerbabies are turning 21 and to celebrate, they’re throwing a huge party at the Lomond Hotel. The band produce a heady brew of country, blues and gospel with a raft of other influences to round things out. It’s all free on Saturday October 5.
Continuing the hype from their fourth album KINGS, The Glorious are hitting The Drunken Poet for two special sets on Sunday October 6. A range of original jams will be sprinkled amongst covers of the band’s favourite artists. Doors at 6:30pm, it’s totally free.
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LISA MILLER TRIO, BEN WIESNER, SHANE O'MARA Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 4.30pm. FREE. LUCIE THORNE, LADYCHOIR Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 2pm. $23.29. AINTREE SWEET The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 5.30pm. FREE. THE GLORIOUS The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6.30pm. FREE. THE BURNING BRIDGES The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 4pm. FREE. SUNDAY SIP & SING KARAOKE Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 4pm. FREE. CAT & BULL CLUB, UNCLE BEN'S LAST WORDS, GOOD MORNING KAOS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 3pm. $10. HEINOUS HOUNDS BLUES BAND Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 3.30pm. FREE. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar. Collingwood. 7.30pm. FREE. TRIPOD Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 2pm. $34.25. FENN WILSON Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. HIM, IMOGEN PEMBERTON Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. CHAD MORGAN, THE MUIRS Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 2.30pm. $32. LINCOLN MACKINNON & THE WRECKING TRAIN, LITTLE WISE, MADELINE LEMAN & THE DESERT SWELLS Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 6pm. $12. BACKYARD BREW Royal Hotel (Mornington). Mornington. 3pm. FREE. TIM MCGRAW, MIDLAND, TRAVIS COLLINS Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 7pm. $101.70. HEARTACHES & HANGOVERS FEAT: DJ DAVE HEARD, DJ DENISE HYLANDS, COLD HEART Labour in Vain. Fitzroy. 4pm. FREE. COUNTRY AT CUSTOMS FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER, ANTHONY TAYLOR, DELLA HARRIS, EMILY HATTON, JAKE SINCLAIR, LUKE AUSTEN Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 2pm. FREE. THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar. Balaclava. 4.30pm. FREE. BOADZ Clifton Hill Brewpub. Clifton Hill. 5pm. FREE.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK
FLAMES EYE, MPRESS KANDANCE, QUASHANI BAHD Bar 303. Northcote. 7pm. $15. LOUIS BAKER The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $27.55. LALIDA Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. LESLIE D. KING & THE TREMBLING SHAKES, BILLY BARKER & THE SELFESTEEMS, HUGH FUCHSEN Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 7pm. $10. ELEW Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $45. CHRIS MAUNDERS QUINTET Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 7.30pm. FREE. THE SLIPDIXIES Open Studio. Northcote. 5.30pm. FREE. SHIMONA - SONGS FROM THE SILVER SCREEN Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7pm. $25. NO REGRETS - THE EDITH PIAF STORY, NIKKI NOUVEAU Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. HIGH TEA LIVE - STEAMING JAZZ FEAT: STEVENSON’S ROCKETS Arts Centre Melbourne. Melbourne. 4pm. $79 - 89. HIGH TEA LIVE - STEAMING JAZZ FEAT: STEVENSON’S ROCKETS Arts Centre Melbourne. Melbourne. 12pm. $79 - 89. THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar. Balaclava. 4.30pm. FREE.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL THE ISLAND FEAT: DJ JESSE I, DJ NAYNAY, DJ KASE, DJ KUDOH, DJ AMADEUSX Section 8. Melbourne. 4pm. FREE. POST MERIDIEM FEAT: HEATH RENATA, YROR?, COMBO, ALI KH, MADY MOODA, RIGHT-O, MUFFIN MAN, LOCHIE ARTHUR The Penny Black. Brunswick. 7pm. $15. DAY SPA Pawn & Co. Prahran. 7am. $15 20.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL AUTOMATIC HEROES, COMMISSIONER BOURBON, QUAID Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 3.30pm. TONY TAINT, KEITH BAKER, KRYSTINA SCOTCH, ROB RYLES Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE.
UMLAUT, CANNIBAL SPIDERS Old Bar. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. $8. FIELDS, SEE & MASON Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 3pm. $18. THE 5,6,7,8'S, THE TARANTINOS, THE HANKY PANKY SOCIAL CLUB, THE CRAZY EIGHTY EIGHTS Globe Alley. Melbourne. 7pm. NIR TSFATY Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. SEZARAC, THE ARCHANAN, HALF N HALF Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $5. SCRATCH MATCH, BIPOLAR BEARS, SHT BTCH DJS The B.East. Brunswick East. 3.30pm. FREE. THE EXCITING MCGILLYCUDDIES The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 6pm. LITTLE MURDERS, THEE CHA CHA CHAS The Tote Hotel. Collingwood. 5pm. $10.
MONDAY 07 OCT
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL STRUGGLE Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. NIEUW MONDAYS The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 12pm. $3.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK 303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm. FREE. STRELITZIA Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39. STUDIO YOUTH BAND TWO: A NIGHT OF NEW AUSTRALIAN JAZZ Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $35.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. HEAVY SLEEVES FEAT: JESS ZANONI, ANITA AGATHANGELOU, LEN DUNIEC, OSCAR MORRIS, MADEL EINE, KARLA LIVINGSTONE-PARDY, SARAH SCHOFIELD Open Studio. Northcote. 7.30pm. $5.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL SECRET FLEETS, PIGS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, HAMISH MCLEOD Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $6. MONDAY NIGHT MASS FEAT: GRACE CUMMINGS & HER BAND, THE BUSH, CHUBE SCREAMER, BAD BANGS Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8pm. FREE.
CLASSICAL HANS ZIMMER Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $172.30.
TUESDAY 08 OCT
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK CHRIS BIENIEK TRIO Bar 303. Northcote. 7.30pm. ANAM PRIZEWINNERS CONCERT, PARTRIDGE QUARTET, ELIZA SHEPHARD, RAVEL, GREG PATTILLO Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39. GABRIELLE DI MAURO TRIO Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 7pm. FREE. DAVE EVANS, DAN WITTON Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. FREE. SKINNY SILVER & THE SHARK, MONIQUE CLARE & JOE D'ESPOSITO, STAV Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $25. STUDIO YOUTH BAND TWO: A NIGHT OF NEW AUSTRALIAN JAZZ Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $35. KAMASI WASHINGTON Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne). Melbourne. 8pm. $89 - 109. SCOTT MCCONNACHIE PRESENTS Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL EDIT THE EMPIRE, OLYMPIC WHITE, DEAD BEFORE BREAKFAST The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
Bad // Dreems
The Exciting McGillycuddies THE QUIET MAN IRISH PUB Sunday October 6 will see an evening of traditional Irish music filled with plenty of upbeat songs take over The Quiet Man Irish Pub. The Exciting McGillycuddies’ residency, starting at 6pm, creates a busy atmosphere in the restaurant, making bookings necessary. It’s all free.
Boadz CLIFTON HILL BREWPUB Get yourself down to Clifton Hill Brewpub this Sunday, sink a few pints and let the sounds of Boadz soundtrack what’s left of the weekend. Known for his renditions of Simpsons classics, you know any time spent with Boadz is going to be a whole lot of fun. It’s happening on Sunday October 6, free entry.
Rocky & the Two Bob Middle of Nowhere Festival THE TOTE Millionaires FAD GALLERY Thursday October 10 will again see a fine blend of blues, folk and rock woven into the night by FAD Gallery regulars, Rocky & the Two Bob Millionaires. Start your weekend early and stay up late with live music starting at 9pm. It’s free.
The Tote have teamed up with Triple R and Black Ghost Records to present a ripper fundraiser festival. Join Bad//Dreems, Arno Faraji, Fangz, murmurmur and loads more on Friday October 11 from 7pm. Tix are $25 via Oztix with proceeds going to Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
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MUMMA GANOUSH, YAKUMBABE, TAPDOG Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. ATTACHMENT, CORPORATE PANINI Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7pm. $10.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES ANAM PRIZEWINNERS CONCERT, PARTRIDGE QUARTET, ELIZA SHEPHARD, RAVEL, GREG PATTILLO Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39. TUESDAY TRIBUTE: WILLIE NELSON & GEORGE JONES FEAT: MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS, The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. CAFE PHILOSOPHIQUE DE L'AMOUR FEAT: AMADOU SUSO, RANDALL STEPHENS, DECLAN FURBER GILLICK, MADISON GRIFFITHS, FARAH BEAINI Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 7pm. $20. THE ESPY OPEN MIC Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 5pm. FREE. IRISH SESSION The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE.
HIP HOP, R&B, POP BRIAN EL DORADO & THE TUESDAY PEOPLE Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8.30pm. $10. ONEREPUBLIC Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 7.30pm.
WEDNESDAY 09 OCT
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK LIVE JAZZ FEAT: THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar. Balaclava. 8pm. FREE. JULIEN WILSON'S STOCK, JONATHAN COOPER QUARTET Bar 303. Northcote. 8.30pm. PROTO MORO, LUSH LIFE, RARA ZULU Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $10. JADE TALBOT, BAILEY JUDD, ABBEY ROSE Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
CASINO CARPETS, DEZ, RACEWALKER Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm. $10. MIKE STERN JEFF LORBER FUSION Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $49. GEOFF HUGHES TRIO Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE. THE BOÎTE PRESENTS SUITCASE - WORLD MUSIC OPEN MIC FEAT: EMILIANO BELTZER Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. FREE. AGUS BATARA QUARTET, ALEX ROPER, RORY BROWN Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $25. ADE ISHS TRIO, ALEX ROPER, RORY BROWN Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $25.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES COQ ROQ: UNPLUGGED Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. BLUES JAM FEAT: JIMI COELLI Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. AMY VEE Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $25. LOMOND ACOUSTICA FEAT: PETER SOMERVILLE, ALEX BURNS & KAIN BORLAISE, JAMES MARK The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. MAJA The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. GIRL FRIDAY The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. OPEN GRAND PIANO NIGHT Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 6.30pm. FREE. MUDDY'S BLUES ROULETTE The Catfish. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE. SNOWY, TINKS The Fitzroy Pinnacle. Fitzroy North. 7pm. FREE. THE WELCOME SWALLOW OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. THE GRUBBY URCHINS Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.
HIP HOP, R&B, POP ALANA JOANNE, ALEX CARPI, CARMEN MODJITO The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $12.25. SPOTIFY FRONT LEFT LIVE FEAT: TOVE LO, TONES & I, GIRL IN RED, BENEE, ELECTRIC FIELDS Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 7.30pm.
CLASSICAL ARCADIA WINDS Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL CASINO CARPETS, DEZ, RACEWALKER Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm. $10. FUCKED UP, LOSER Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $65.76. MICK HARVEY Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $27. FUCKED UP, LOSER Corner Hotel. Richmond. 6pm. $66.33.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL SPOTIFY FRONT LEFT LIVE FEAT: TOVE LO, TONES & I, GIRL IN RED, BENEE, ELECTRIC FIELDS Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 7.30pm.
THURSDAY 10 OCT
HIP HOP, R&B, POP THROWBACK FEAT: MATT RADOVICH, EZRA HARVEY, ILRESPONCE, B-TWO, AYNA, NAM Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. GEORGIA JUNE Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $13.25.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES MOLLY TUTTLE & DEE WHITE Wesley Anne. Northcote. 8pm. $30. MARTEL CORPORATION, MICHAEL GARLICH, AZURA The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $15. BARPIRDHILA LIVE SERIES FEAT: ALICE SKYE Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 9pm. DAN VOGL Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. AMY VEE + JAMES MARK The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm. FREE.
CHICAGO DIME, COURTNEY TRIGG Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $10. J.P. SHILO, BITUMEN Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 7pm. $34.25. POKEY LA FARGE, SIERRA FERRELL Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $46.20. OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel. Ascot Vale. 7pm. FREE. MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 8pm. FREE.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL ORPH, MICK DALEY'S CORPORATE RAIDERS, GARETH SKINNER Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 8pm. $10. CHEEKY VELVET Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 8pm. $69. IDLESUBURBIA, HOLLOW DECEMBER, THE DELIRIOUS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $5. PLASTIC SPACEMAN, LUCY'S LOCKETT, THE VENDETTAS The B.East. Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE. REPUGNANT, RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE, DRIVETIME COMMUTE, PISSRASH, SZKLO Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 6pm. FREE. HUSSY HICKS The Fyrefly. St Kilda. 7pm. $23.50. BEDROCK WITH LEE HARDING, DJ MATTY J Pier Bandroom. Frankston. 9pm. ROCKY & THE TWO BOB MILLIONAIRES FAD Gallery. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. MATT BRADSHAW The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 9.30pm. FREE.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK CLAPS, PROTO MORO Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. REALLY REALLY, JACK TITTERINGTON Red Betty. Brunswick. 7.30pm. FREE. ZV3 JAZZ TRIO Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 6.30pm. FREE. THE CORRIDORS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 7pm. FREE. MIKE STERN JEFF LORBER FUSION Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $49. THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE.
The Old Married Couple
Nick Van Wilder
Creature Fear
Daisy West
THE THORNBURY LOCAL
THE TEMPERANCE HOTEL
THE CATFISH
RED BETTY
Chaos will ensue on Friday October 11 when The Old Married Couple launch their single ‘Kmart’, describing a situation we’re all familiar with – getting lost in Kmart and loving it. Save your dollars for Kmart with this free gig, starting at 9pm at The Thornbury Local.
Shake your hips to Latin house and reggaeton with a $15 pisco sour in hand on Friday October 11 at The Temperance Hotel. Nick Van Wilder will be joined by resident legends DJ TPC and Adam Trace to perform until the wee hours. No cover fee.
If you’re a fan of ‘60s garage rock and modern atmospherics, then Creature Feature are what you’re looking for. To celebrate the release of their new single ‘Makeup’, you’re invited to witness the band in the flesh at The Catfish on Friday October 11. Doors at 8pm, secure your tickets via Moshtix.
Soul-rock outfit Daisy West will unleash their sound at Red Betty on Saturday October 12 following the release of their debut album, Bellis Perennis. $10 is all you need to get into the gig, more information can be found on the venue site.
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RANDA & THE SOUL KINGDOM Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. FREE. MARK FITZGIBBON Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. FREE. THE FIRST LADIES OF JAZZ & SOUL FEAT: EMILIA Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $30. RUSSELL TAY TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $30. WILBUR WILDE, JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Water Rat Hotel. South Melbourne. 7pm. FREE.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL LOURE, DJ JAZZ, COFI, DON GLORI Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 7.30pm. $12.65. LEWIS COLEMAN Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. $15. CATCH THE BEAT THURSDAYS FEAT: DJ PERIL, MIKE GURRIERI The Carlton Club. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE.
FRIDAY 11 OCT
HIP HOP, R&B, POP JAY SEAN Empire Nightclub. Narre Warren. 9pm. $25. RNB FRIDAYS FEAT: HORIZON Co. Southbank. 9.30pm. $25. JERMANGO DREAMING Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. ODDSOX The Croxton. Thornbury. 7pm. $12.75.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES WANITA & HER WILD WOMEN, JACKIE MARSHALL Piping Hot Chicken and Burger Grill. Ocean Grove. 7pm. $20. THE GOOD MINUS, ANNA CORDELL Wesley Anne. Northcote. 8pm. $10. LAYLA, TOMBEAU Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 8.30pm. FREE. MONICA & THE MINDREADERS The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE.
DARREN CROSS Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 6pm. FREE. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6pm. FREE. CARGO CULTS The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8.30pm. FREE. FELICE BROTHERS, MOLLY TUTTLE, DEE WHITE Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8.30pm. $60.49. RHYS YOUNG, ALEX PIJPERS Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 8pm. FREE. THE FOUR SCOOPS Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6.30pm. FREE. JACK COLWELL, ELIZABETH FADER, ELLA HOOPER Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $15.29. ANDREW WALLACE The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 9.30pm. FREE. NATALIE-JANE & ALLEGED ASSOCIATES Smokehouse 101. Maribyrnong. 7pm. FREE. JEFF LANG, CHARLES JENKINS Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $22. MARK GARDNER The Prince Patrick. 5.30pm. FREE. SHAUNA TONY AND CO Brothers Public House. Fitzroy. 8pm. FREE.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB FEAT: PHATO A MANO, NAMN, MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. FORMATION FEAT: DONNY Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE. JXN The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $22.45. YOU SHOULD BE DANCING, DJ ST BERNARD Old Bar. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $12. BANG BANG FEAT: JAMIE BENNETT, HYBRID MAN, DJ FRIDAY Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 7pm. FREE. BASS STATION - 22ND BIRTHDAY FEAT: AMBER SAVAGE, JASON MIDRO, NICK COMPOUND, BEN EVANS, MISS JADE, LIZ MILLAR Brown Alley. Melbourne. 10pm. $21.99 - 27.24. RHYTHMIC ALLEY FEAT: THE JOURNEY, LAURA KING, HANDSDOWN, LEIGHBOY, BEC GRENFELL, BRIAN FANTANA Brown Alley. Melbourne. 10pm. $27.66.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/
FUNK RANDA SOUL KINGDOM, CHELSEA WILSON Bar 303. Northcote. 8.30pm. $10. ZEEK POWER Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8.30pm. $25. THE BOÎTE PRESENTS MARGARET ROBERTSON & THE MELBOURNE SCOTTISH FIDDLE CLUB Box Hill Community Arts Centre. 8pm. $12 - 27. MIKE STERN JEFF LORBER FUSION Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $49. JOHN SCURRY'S REVERSE SWING Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $25. JAMES MORRISON QUARTET The Fyrefly. St Kilda. 7pm. $56.10. HELLO TUT TUT, ROMANES CANES Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $18.35. COOKIN' ON 3 BURNERS, MISS GOLDIE, SURPRISE CHEF Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 7pm. $23.77. THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $32.50. RICHARD PAVLIDIS Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8pm. $32.50. THE HANDLE BARS, JUSTIN FERMINO Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 9pm. $32.50. THE CAT EMPIRE, GRACE BARBE Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $70.51. QUEEN OF HEARTS MARIACHI Open Studio. Northcote. 9pm. $10.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL POLLY & THE POCKETS Yah Yah's. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. FOGGY NOTION, DAVID WESTERN Old Bar. Fitzroy. 5pm. FREE. RAW BRIT - THE TWIN GUITAR SHOW, DAVE LESLIE, BOB SPENCER Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $27. A. SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS, SPIKE VINCENT, PORPOISE SPIT Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8.30pm. $23.29. PLINI, NICK JOHNSTON, JAKUB ZYTECKI, DAVE MACKAY Howler. Brunswick. 7.30pm. LIVE BAND KARAOKE Globe Alley. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. DJ STEELY ANN Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. MEAT, FLOODLIGHTS, BUGHUNT, CLAMM Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
PLANET OF THE 8S + DUNEEATER, A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS, GREY MANTIS Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 7pm. $10. GET DEAD, WOLFPACK, AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY The B.East. Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE. THE MURDERBALLS, STEAKFACED, THE CLINCH, KEGGIN, NOSFEROTICA Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. CREATURE FEAR The Catfish. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $12.23. COUSIN TONY'S BRAND NEW FIREBIRD Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. $22.50. YOU AM I + JEBEDIAH Pier Bandroom. Frankston. 8pm. $60.20. MAMMA JAM Royal Hotel. Essendon. 10pm. FREE. BUCKCHERRY, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR, BAD MOON BORN Max Watt's (Melbourne). 7.30pm. $92.35. MORNING MELODIES FEAT: GABRIELLE PARBO Ferntree Gully Hotel. Ferntree Gully. 10.30am. $17. AUGUST BURNS RED, ALPHA WOLF, GRAVEMIND 170 Russell. Melbourne. 8pm. $62.07. 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.
SATURDAY 12 OCT
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL MASHD N KUTCHER Empire Nightclub. Narre Warren. 9pm. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co. Southbank. 9pm. $25. PREMIUM CHUGRAISER - A FUNDRAISER FOR VACCA FEAT: SPACEY SPACE, LUKE VECCHIO, JOEY COCO, FOSTERS, LIAM KENDALL, MORE Lucky Coq. Windsor. 4pm. $10. TEXTILE FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. ANÖMALIA FEAT: LE O NY, MARLEY SWAIN, BRIDGET SMALL, JAZZ Ferdydurke. Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. DJ TROPICAL BREEZE Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE.
Choosing Sides
The Amelia Evans Quartet
The Wisecracks
The Window in Floyd
BAR 303
PARIS CAT JAZZ CLUB
THE THORNBURY LOCAL
BONEY
For the first time, indie-rock outfit Choosing Sides will drop into Bar 303 in support of their new single, ‘Transmit’, on Saturday October 12. Performing a bunch of jams drawing from their recent EP Westgate Run, the band will be joined by Danitchy and The Fior. Doors are at 8pm, no entry fee.
Award-winning vocalist Amelia Evans is set to return with her quartet to perform at the Paris Cat Jazz Club for an evening of smooth tunes. Showcasing a tasty combination of original works and contemporary arrangements, you’d be silly to miss this. It’s happening on Saturday October 12. Tickets are available via the venue’s website.
Get ready to get down because The Wisecracks are back in town to grace audiences with another evening of old timey goodness. Set to perform a bunch of light-hearted tunes, the night is sure to be a blast. You can check them out at The Thornbury Local on Sunday October 12. Best of all, entry is free.
The Window in Floyd fuse a myriad of genres into one to create a kaleidoscope of sound. You could say it’s indie rock, but there’s more to it than that. Supported by CHANGELINGS and Tender Buttons, the Melbourne outfit launch their new EP, Recency at Boney on Saturday October 12. Tix via Moshtix.
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THICK ‘N’ JUICY 24 Moons. Northcote. 9pm. $49. EAT THE BEAT FEAT: ERIC POWELL, FABIO NEURAL New Guernica. Melbourne. 10pm. $15 - 30. 1DANCE AFRICA FEAT: WIZKID, YEMI ALADE, HARMONIZE, EDDIE KADI Festival Hall. West Melbourne. 6pm. $178.29. ACID PUNK TECHNO JUNK FEAT: AP SARAH, LANI G, KLINKIE, DR T, AJAX, MATTIECEE, REPLIKATOR Swamplands Bar. Thornbury. 7pm. $15. BOUNCE WITH DJ 2P The Elephant and Wheelbarrow. Melbourne. 10pm. FREE.
HIP HOP, R&B, POP KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS, DAMION DE SILVA, DURMY Khokolat Bar. Melbourne. 9.30pm. TEXTILE FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. BABBA, TAYLOR SHERIDAN Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $32.70. ALFIE ARCURI Chapel Off Chapel. Prahran. 7.30pm. $39. RACHAEL LEAHCAR Chapel Off Chapel. Prahran. 7.30pm. $28.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL CHOOSING SIDES, THE FIOR, DANITCHY Bar 303. Northcote. 8pm. EBONIVORY, THE LAST MARTYR, VATIC, IN VANITY The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $14.90. LIVEWIRE, THE INTELLECTUALS, PERSECUTION BLUES, DOVER ISLAND The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $12.25. BIG MOIST & THE SMOKING DURRIES, THE JIVES, BLACK SNAKE WHIP Yah Yah's. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. NEWTOWN STORY, HAMMOCK DISTRICT, LAZY SIDEKICK, RUSE The Yarra Hotel. Abbotsford. 7.30pm. $10. THE MERIDIAN SUNS, THE FEATHERHEADS, THE MEESEEKS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 8pm. CREATIVE DESTRUCTION, MIRACLE MILE, DAY DREAMERS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 2pm. FREE. GARLIC NUN, PSYCHOBABEL, BLUSSH, SECRET GUEST Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 3pm. FREE.
DAISY WEST Red Betty. Brunswick. 7.30pm. $10. TTTDC, PREHISTORIC DOUCHE Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 9pm. FREE. TAPE/OFF, MAJESTIC HORSES The Penny Black. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. MAJESTIC HORSES, SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE. GOLD MINDS, FREUD & THE FAMILY SOLUTION, ASTRO ELEVATOR Old Bar. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $10. HOBSONS BAY COAST GUARD, SLEDGEHAMMER, SUNFRUITS, PUP TENTACLE Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8.30pm. $14.79. TYNE-JAMES ORGAN, SLOAN PETERSON, FEELDS Howler. Brunswick. 8pm. $29.86. VENICE QUEENS + LONGBOYS, FRANGIPANI, NOT BADD The Curtin. Carlton. 8pm. $15. DANGEROUS CURVES, BLOODY RASCALS Globe Alley. Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. THE ROCKPIT 10TH BIRTHDAY, ECHO DEL TUSKER, THE SILENT DEEDS, DELLACOMA, PALACE OF THE KING, WARBIRDS Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8.30pm. $15.05. CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS, EAGLEMONT, TERRY Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8.30pm. $37.10. IVY STREEP, FROOT LUIPS, TURTLE WAVE, HEAVY DELAY Bar Open. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. FREE. SONGS FROM TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER The B.East. Brunswick East. 7pm. FREE. THE SWEETS, CHARLIE LANE, BOB HUTCHINSON, MOJO PIN Bombay Rock. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE. SCORCHING TONES Ascot Vale Hotel. Ascot Vale. 8.30pm. FREE. THE HUM DRUMS, DISCO JUNK, THE VOVOS Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 8pm. FREE. THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND, THE BONE SHACK, THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 7pm. $25. FUCKED UP, NERDLINGER, FOXTROT, THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 7.30pm. $18.35. VICKY O'KEEFE Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8pm. $25. SMOKE + MIRRORS Clifton Hill Brewpub. Clifton Hill. 9pm. FREE. SHAKERFAKER - DEFINITELY MAYBE
25TH ANNIVERSARY Prince Bandroom. St Kilda. 9pm. $31.65. SHANNON NOLL Matthew Flinders Hotel. Chadstone. 8pm. $39.80. JIMMY BARNES, JET Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne. 7pm. $99.90. QUEEN FOREVER Chelsea Heights Hotel. Aspendale Gardens. 8pm. $39.80. THE WINDOW IN FLOYD, TENDER BUTTONS, CHANGELINGS Boney. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $8.50. VICKY O'KEEFE - REAL WILD CHILD Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 8.30pm. $38. NOGRACE, THIRD DEGREE, WHO’S TO BLAME?, DARREN GIBSON Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES LIVEWIRE, THE INTELLECTUALS, PERSECUTION BLUES, DOVER ISLAND The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $12.25. AMY VEE The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9.30pm. FREE. LEWIS OSMANT Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 5pm. FREE. COLD HEART The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 9pm. FREE. MARTY KELLY The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 3pm. FREE. KIER STEVENS Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 6.30pm. FREE. THE NUMBER 9 BLACKTOPS The Fyrefly. St Kilda. 8pm. $40. HERMETO MAGNÉTICO, PAUL CAREY & JULIAN SCHEFFER Open Studio. Northcote. 5.30pm. $12. THE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD STORY FEAT: WENDY STAPLETON Yarraville Club. Yarraville. 8pm. SISTER SISTER Royal Hotel (Mornington). Mornington. 8pm. FREE. CIARAN BOYLE The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 9.30pm. FREE.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK DAISY WEST Red Betty. Brunswick. 7.30pm. $10. DJ FUNK MCRUMP Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 9pm. FREE. ALON ILSAR'S AIRSTICKS TRIO Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6pm. FREE.
MIKE STERN JEFF LORBER FUSION Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $49. THE ROB BURKE QUARTET Classic Southside. Elsternwick. 8pm. $25. RENELOPHUS, JOSHUA SEYMOUR Open Studio. Northcote. 2.30pm. $10. LATIN UNDERTONE FEAT: HUANCHACO, LOS LOPES, PABLO RIVAS & THE BLUE DIAMOND BAND Open Studio. Northcote. 8.30pm. $8. BOB SEDERGREEN & FRIENDS Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 5.30pm. $32.50. SANGRIA SERENADES, SERGIO ERCOLE TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $32.50. DANIEL MOUGERMAN QUINTET, BELLE BANGARD, JACQUELINE GAWLER Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 8.30pm. $32.50. AMELIA EVANS QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 9pm. $32.50. AL BANO & ROMINA POWER Margaret Court Arena. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $80. THE CAT EMPIRE, GRACE BARBE Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 7.30pm. $70.51. 1DANCE AFRICA FEAT: WIZKID, YEMI ALADE, HARMONIZE, EDDIE KADI Festival Hall. West Melbourne. 6pm. $178.29.
CLASSICAL NEVERMIND Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7pm. $58.
SUNDAY 13 OCT
HIP HOP, R&B, POP MOTHERSHIP Co. Southbank. 9.30pm. $15. BROOKLYN '86 Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 4.30pm. FREE.
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK BELLING/NEYLAND/ATTICHE Wesley Anne. Northcote. 6pm. FREE. LESLIE D. KING & THE TREMBLING SHAKES, RORY, PLANET:PAIN Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 7pm. $10. HHS Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 7pm.
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The Bona Fide Travellers
Surf Trash
Sui Zhen
Angie McMahon
THE DRUNKEN POET
THE GASOMETER HOTEL
HOWLER
THE CROXTON BANDROOM
Renowned Melbourne roots rockers The Bona Fide Travellers are once again flexing their understanding of country music. Bringing a wealth of experience to the genre, the band come to The Drunken Poet on Sunday October 13. No entry charge.
Surf Trash are back and armed with their new single ‘Friends’. Performing a matinee show at The Gasometer on Sunday October 13, the three-piece rock band have teamed up with Headspace for this tour with $1 from each ticket being donated to raise awareness around mental health. They’ll be joined by rockers Debbies for the show. Tickets are available via Moshtix.
Melbourne-based artist Sui Zhen is set to perform her new album Losing, Linda at Howler. Known for her experimental pop and performance art, audiences can expect a raw and emotional live set. It’s happening on Sunday October 13 with tickets available via Moshtix. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to step into the curious mind of Sui Zhen.
The spectacular Angie McMahon is touring Melbourne this month and we couldn’t be more excited. If you’re keen to see the singer-songwriter perform live with special guest Haley Heynderickx, head on over to The Croxton Bandroom on Tuesday October 15. Tickets are available via Oztix.
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FREE. MIKE STERN JEFF LORBER FUSION Bird's Basement. Melbourne. 7.45pm. $49. PEPPERCORN JAZZ BAND Open Studio. Northcote. 5.30pm. FREE. THE PARIS CAT BIG BAND, BEN MCGILL, CLAIRE PATTI Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $30. NARDIA Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 7pm. $25. BROOKLYN '86 Post Office Hotel. Coburg. 4.30pm. FREE. GEELONG JAZZ SOIRÉES FEAT: AMEILA EVANS Victorian Railway Institute Hall. VIC. 6pm. $15. THE CHRIS MAUNDERS TRIO Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 7pm. $5.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES JASPER BRADLEY, HOT WATSON, GUS Bar 303. Northcote. 7pm. HENRY DAVIS, MATT ORTIZ, CHRISTOPHER ENGEL The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. $12.25. ENVISION & ECHO, SUZI, SORCHA JOHNSTON, RACHAEL, ANNIE, CASSIE GIBB The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 1pm. $18.40. THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS Lentil As Anything. VIC. 6.30pm. FREE. WANITA & THE LUCKY BASTARDS, GLENY RAE The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 5.30pm. FREE. BLUES ROULETTE Labour in Vain. Fitzroy. 5pm. FREE. OUT ON THE WEEKEND AFTERPARTY FEAT: THE JONNY FRITZ & JOSHUA HEDLEY SHOW, THE EASY LEAVES, LOVE POLICE DJS The Curtin. Carlton. 8pm. $33.45. GREG CHAMPION + KHRISTIAN MIZZI The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 4pm. FREE. BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 6.30pm. FREE. HIM Charles Weston Hotel. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. HARMANIAX Bar Open. Fitzroy. 6pm. FREE. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar. Collingwood. 7.30pm. FREE. THE NUMBER 9 BLACKTOPS Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 6pm. $34.25. FENN WILSON Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. SEAN SULLY, CAT SANZARO, SAL WONDER Open Studio. Northcote. 2.30pm. $7. JIM LAUDERDALE & BAND Caravan Music Club. Bentleigh East. 7pm. $49.50. GEELONG JAZZ SOIRÉES FEAT: AMEILA EVANS Victorian Railway Institute Hall. VIC. 6pm. $15. COUNTRY AT CUSTOMS FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER, ANTHONY TAYLOR, DELLA HARRIS, EMILY HATTON, JAKE SINCLAIR, LUKE AUSTEN Customs House Hotel. Williamstown. 2pm. FREE. GEOFF ACHISON Royal Hotel. Mornington. 3pm. FREE.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL IDLESUBURBIA, USELESS SPACEMAN, THE GRIMWOODS Whole Lotta Love. Brunswick East. 3pm. FREE. EARACHE, MONNONE ALONE, HOOPER CRESCENT Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 7pm. FREE.
FIZ EUSTACE, JAMIE LEONE, FROWNY DADS Old Bar. Fitzroy. 3pm. FREE. BOSS MELODY Old Bar. Fitzroy. 8.30pm. $10. JON STEVENS, TAYLOR SHERIDAN Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7pm. $45. ROHAN BROOKS BENEFIT GIG FEAT: RUDELY INTERRUPTED, THE ANYONES, SNOUT, SPOONFUL, ROCKET SCIENCE, SUZANNAH ESPIE, MYF WARHURST, ALAN BROUGH Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 1pm. $44.55. DAVID HOLMES GANG Edinburgh Castle Hotel. Brunswick. 4pm. FREE. FIXATION SUNDAYS FEAT: SLEEPING GIANT, MOTE Bendigo Hotel. Collingwood. 3pm. FREE. SURF TRASH, DEBBIES Gasometer Hotel. Collingwood. 1pm. $18.35. THE EXCITING MCGILLYCUDDIES The Quiet Man Irish Pub. Flemington. 6pm. THE BAY CITY PREACHERS Clifton Hill Brewpub. Clifton Hill. 5pm. FREE. SOUTHERN GATHERING 2019 FEAT: TURILLI / LIONE RHAPSODY Max Watt's (Melbourne). 2pm. $71.95.
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL POST MERIDIEM FEAT: BOOGS, SPACEY SPACE, RIGHT-O, MUFFIN MAN, LOCHIE ARTHUR, ADAM BARTAS, DOAKES The Penny Black. Brunswick. 1pm. $20. SUI ZHEN, SAD, DJ SARA SAVAGE Howler. Brunswick. 7pm. $29.86.
CLASSICAL A THOUSAND THOUGHTS: KRONOS QUARTET + SAM GREEN Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7pm. $79.
MONDAY 14 OCT
ELECTRONIC, EXPERIMENTAL STRUGGLE Lucky Coq. Windsor. 9pm. FREE.
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE FEAT: ANDREW LUCAS HALL, LEE SPENCE, MON COEUR, FIONA LEE MAYNARD Memo Music Hall. St Kilda. 7.30pm. $25. EVERGREEN ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39.
ROCK, PUNK, METAL HUH, PARAWATA/RICHARDS, HOSPITAL PASS Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7.30pm. FREE. MONDAY NIGHT MASS FEAT: HEXDEBT, PAPAPHILIA, DARK WATER Northcote Social Club. Northcote. 8pm. FREE.
CLASSICAL A THOUSAND THOUGHTS: KRONOS QUARTET + SAM GREEN Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7pm. $79.
For the full gig guide head to beat.com.au/gig-guide
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK
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THE JAIMZ PROJECT Open Studio. Northcote. 8pm. STUDIO YOUTH BAND ONE: A NIGHT OF NEW AUSTRALIAN JAZZ Paris Cat Jazz Club. Melbourne. 6.30pm. $35.
TUESDAY 15 OCT
ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY/ FOLK, BLUES GAIA SCARF, PIA NESVARA, LARA PROKOP The Workers Club. Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. TUESDAY TRIBUTE: VAN MORRISON FEAT: JOE JACOBSON, The Drunken Poet. West Melbourne. 8pm. FREE. CAFE PHILOSOPHIQUE DE L'AMOUR FEAT: MATT WICKING, SEAN M WHELAN, ANDY JACKSON, MANISHA ANJALI, EBONY MONCREIF Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 7pm. $20. THE ESPY OPEN MIC Hotel Esplanade (aka The Espy). St Kilda. 5pm. FREE. JIM LAUDERDALE & BAND Spotted Mallard. Brunswick. 7pm. $54.96. IRISH SESSION The Lomond Hotel. Brunswick East. 9pm. FREE.
HIP HOP, R&B, POP DOM WILMOTT, LOS TROPICS, SONNY BAZZANI Retreat Hotel. Brunswick. 8pm. FREE. BRIAN EL DORADO & THE TUESDAY PEOPLE Evelyn Hotel. Brunswick. 8.30pm. $10. DOMINIC FIKE Corner Hotel. Richmond. 8pm.
THE CAT EMPIRE THE CAT EMPIRE THE FORUM OCTOBER 11 & 12 COUSIN TONY’S BRAND NEW FIREBIRD THE ESPY OCTOBER 11 A. SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB OCTOBER 12 CASH SAVAGE AND THE LAST DRINKS THE CORNER OCTOBER 12 JIMMY BARNES ROD LAVER ARENA OCTOBER 12 GRINSPOON THE FORUM OCTOBER 15 & 16 NORTHLANE 170 RUSSELL OCTOBER 17 SEEKER LOVER KEEPER THE CORNER OCTOBER 18 SURFBORT THE CROXTON OCTOBER 18 & 19 BEC SANDRIDGE HOWLER OCTOBER 19 CLIENT LIAISON THE FORUM OCTOBER 19 BAKER BOY 170 RUSSELL OCTOBER 20 METALLICA MARVEL STADIUM OCTOBER 22 & 24 SASKWATCH THE CURTIN OCTOBER 23, 24 & 25
ROCK, PUNK, METAL
HATCHIE HOWLER OCTOBER 25 DZ DEATHRAYS THE FORUM OCTOBER 25
'TEETH & LASHES' - BRENDAN ROWE EXHIBITION OPENING FEAT: SPACEJUNK Old Bar. Fitzroy. 7pm. $5. GRINSPOON, THE HARD ACHES, GOOCH PALMS, BUGS Forum Melbourne. Melbourne. 7pm. $71.10. ANGIE MCMAHON The Croxton. Thornbury. 8pm.
CLASSICAL OSSICLE DUO Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 6pm. $39. FLINDERS QUARTET Collins Street Baptist Church. VIC. 1pm. $38. NEVERMIND Melbourne Recital Centre. Southbank. 7pm. $58.
DONY BENET THE CROXTON OCTOBER 25 JAPANESE WALLPAPER THE CORNER OCTOBER 25 TYGA MARGARET COURT ARENA OCTOBER 25 CITY CALM DOWN THE CROXTON OCTOBER 26 SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM THE FORUM OCTOBER 26 POLISH CLUB THE EVELYN OCTOBER 26 SHAWN MENDES ROD LAVER ARENA OCTOBER 30 & 31 LIME CORDIALE THE CORNER OCTOBER 30 & NOVEMBER 1 BAD//DREEMS THE CROXTON NOVEMBER 1
JAZZ, GLOBAL, SOUL/ FUNK JAZZ NIGHT - JOHN BADGERY, MATT O'BRIEN, ROBBIE FINCH Compass Pizza. Brunswick East. 7pm. FREE. ELISION ENSEMBLE Brunswick Green. Brunswick. 8.30pm. FREE.
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