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The Bronx bring their alter egos to Sydney for one night only.

K AT E T E MPE S T

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JIMM Y E AT W OR L D

How living in the moment has kept them going strong for 23 years.

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JOEL LEFFLER

five things WITH

Brass Monkey Thursday November 17

GUS HUNT FROM UNITY FLOORS

3.

The Music You Make 4.

We’ve been called a lot

1.

Growing Up Both of us grew up in Sydney, raised on a steady diet of Saturday morning music television – Rage, Recovery

and early-2000s-era skateboarding video soundtracks.

We pull from our 2. Inspirations

day-to-day lives, living in Sydney, friends and people we know and meet. Maybe if we meet we can write a song about you?

of things – alternative or indie rock is a pretty safe bet. There’s some distortion at times and some quiet moments too.

Some songs are upbeat and fast and some songs not so much. We started playing music together as just something to do

JOEL SENA Slyfox Thursday November 24

so it’s real cool anyone would want to listen or see us play.

Music, Right Here, Right Now 5.

Music is one of the best

things ever. Right now I’m listening to another duo from Canberra called Honey – they don’t sound like us, they are much more electronicbased and that’s cool too. Sometimes I like to listen to bands with more than two people in them.

Sydney is a great place for music and I think it always will be.

THE STRUMBELLAS Oxford Art Factory Monday April 17

ST PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES

What: Life Admin out now through Popfrenzy Where: Chippendale Hotel When: Friday October 28

Metro Theatre Wednesday April 19

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Twilight At Taronga has announced its summer 2017 music program, which runs every weekend from Friday January 27 – Saturday March 11. The open-air events are really the best excuse to enjoy (uh-oh) those summer nights alongside the beauty of Sydney Harbour, with some killer music and cute animals to boot. Kicking off the series is the one and only Peter Garrett on Friday January 27, with other highlights including The Rubens on Friday February 3, Ball Park Music and The Jungle Giants on Saturday February 11, Kurt Vile on Friday March 3, The Living End on Saturday March 4, and Tegan And Sara on Thursday March 9. Twilight At Taronga is also all about conservation, with proceeds going towards Taronga Zoo’s ongoing work, including global community action tool Wildlife Witness, which fights against the illegal wildlife trade. See the full lineup and dates at thebrag.com.

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BLUESFEST SIDESHOWS ROLL IN

Some of Bluesfest’s most anticipated acts have locked in Sydney sideshows.

St. Paul and The Broken Bones will be bringing their ’60s-inspired soul to the Metro Theatre on Wednesday April 19, drawing from influences including Sly Stone, David Bowie and Prince. Also at the Metro, Aussie favourite Trombone Shorty will return to town with his band, Orleans Avenue. They’ll all be heading our way with high-energy performances and Grammy-nominated tunes on Monday April 10. Meanwhile, neosoul legend Roy Ayers will take to the stage for a career-spanning set at The Basement on Tuesday April 11. Multiplatinum-selling Joan Osborne will also be bringing her soul revue, promising hits including ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ and ‘Heat Wave’ at The Basement on Sunday April 16. Finally, The Strumbellas will make their Bluesfest debut in 2017, while keeping it local with a show at Oxford Art Factory on Monday April 17.

Ball Park Music

LAUGHING CLOWN AIN’T NO SAINT

Four decades on from the release of The Saints’ breakthrough punk debut ‘(I’m) Stranded’, cofounder and ex-member Ed Kuepper is still kicking on, touring the country with a set of solo ‘by request’ shows. Kuepper’s last stint of these shows in 2014 went down a treat with fans and saw the guitarist and singer-songwriter perform tracks from his 40-album-strong solo career as well as material from The Saints, The Aints and Laughing Clowns. The tour kicks off with a set at Hobart’s Mona for the Origin Of Art Festival alongside drummer Mark Dawson before Kuepper hits Camelot Lounge on Thursday December 22 and Friday December 23.

BEACH BOY’D AZ, BRO

After the success of old-school Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Al Jardine at last year’s Bluesfest – who performed Pet Sounds in full – a bunch more Beach Boys are hitting up New South Wales and Tassie for some fun fun fun… that is, till her daddy takes the T-bird away. The Beach Boys are led by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, who continue the legacy of the iconic act that has sold over 100 million albums across its half-century history. The surfer kings will be joined for the tour by Motown legends The Temptations, best known for ‘My Girl’. Come on a safari over to the The Star Event Centre on Tuesday February 7.

BURNING THROUGH THE NIGHT

Explosions In The Sky will soar to their signature heights at a massive Sydney Opera House show in the New Year. The Austin pioneers of guitar-based hugeness have been targeted for

an Opera House set for some time, according to the venue’s Head of Contemporary Music Ben Marshall, and now the stars have finally aligned.

Explosions In The Sky are known for their formidable live shows, and with their epic 2016 record The Wilderness under their belt, they’re not to be missed in Sydney next year. See Explosions In The Sky at the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House on Thursday February 23.

ALL HALE THE DEVIL

Grammy Award-winning rockers Halestorm are bringing the weather with them to Sydney next year. January will see an unseasonable injection of rock at venues around the country, as Halestorm venture forth once again with songs from their 2014 album Into The Wild Life. The Lzzy Hale-fronted Pennsylvanian noisemakers will be joined on the road by New Zealand’s Devilskin. See the show at the Factory Theatre on Wednesday January 11.

FALLS AT THEIR FEET

Hold on to your hats, this year’s Falls Festival just got even bigger. Leading the charge come sets from this week’s BRAG cover stars You Am I, Dope Lemon AKA Angus Stone, Northeast Party House and Haelos. They’ll be joined by the likes of Kingswood, Hockey Dad, Moonbase Commander, Hein Cooper and KLP. Rounding it out come The Middle Kids, Just A Gent, Dena Amy, Spit Syndicate, Kilter, Generik, Baro, Feki, Olympia, Jack River, Mallrat, Kari Faux, Darren Middleton, Gretta Ray, Baytek, Willow Beats, Sahara Beck, Bel, Good Boy and I Oh You DJs. Falls Festival 2016/17 will go down in Lorne, Marion Bay, Byron Bay and Fremantle from Wednesday December 28 – Sunday January 8. More at thebrag.com.

PRETTY FOLKEN COOL

The National Folk Festival is starting to take shape for 2017. The 51st edition of the annual music soiree, which takes over the nation’s capital every Easter, will feature more than 200 international and local acts – and now, the first six names on the bill have landed. English folk darlings Rheingans Sisters, Irish vocalist and bouzouki player Daoiri Farrell, and songwriter and storyteller Greg Champion lead the maiden announcement. They’re joined on the list

by Conchillia (South Australia) and Tracey Bunn and Her Band Of Handsome Devils (Northern Territory), part of the festival’s special feature on acts from SA and the NT, plus Victorian festival favourites The Drowsy Maggies. The 2017 National Folk Festival takes over Exhibition Park in Canberra from Thursday April 13 – Monday April 17.

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The Strumbellas photo by Josh Goldman

Your Band Unity Floors consists of my friend Henry Gosling and myself. Henry plays the drums and I play the guitar. We met while both training at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra for their badminton team, which neither of us made the cut for, so now we play music instead.

St Paul And The Broken Bones photo by David McClister

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vocals. We enjoy writing and performing country-rock-alternative-Americana-pyschsoul music. A/S/L?

Busy We have just released our debut 2. Keeping

KORN

TWIN FIRES

EP This Time I’m Fine (produced by Tony Buchen) so we have been pretty busy playing shows promoting the record. We had a sell-out launch at Brighton Up Bar in September and were down in Melbourne for a some shows a couple of weeks ago.

We have also been concentrating on writing very intensely for the next record. In fact, we are taking a trip down to Kangaroo Valley solely to write in a few weeks, away from all the distractions of Sydney. We are aiming to have the new record out this time next year, so fi ngers crossed.

memorable gig for all of us.

Best Gig Ever It would have to be the Lustre Pearl 3. in Austin, Texas (RIP). It was around the

Your Ultimate Rider Beers and Jameson all the way, 5. but honestly we’re all just stoked to get

time of SXSW a couple years back and the venue was this converted house on Rainey Street. It was such a loose and wild night and because the venue was at capacity, punters who wanted to get in began clambering up the chain fence behind and to the side of us during our set!

It was absolute chaos and most defi nitely a

Current Playlist Michael Kiwanuka, The Murlocs, 4.

Sonny and The Sunsents, Harry Nilsson,

Timber Timbre, Angel Olsen, Royal Headache, Shana Cleveland and The Sandcastles, Drive-By Truckers, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds. From Sydney we love catching shows from Joseph Liddy and The Skeleton Horse, Dead Brian, Andy Golledge and Ruth Carp and The Fish Heads.

anything really!

What: This Time I’m Fine out now through ie:music With: Caitlin Harnett Where: Leadbelly Newtown When: Friday November 4

How many suburban teenagers have washed themselves in the guttural angst of nu-metal icons Korn in the last 22 years? Well, that number is only on the rise, because the Californians are back for more, bathing themselves in The Serenity Of Suffering – which also happens to be the title of their new album, out this Friday October 21. Returning with much of their original lineup, they’ve promised it will be some of their most intense music yet. If you like the sound of hardcore Korn, we’ve got five CD copies of their new album to give away. Head to thebrag.com/freeshit to be in the running.

Ngaiire

The Rubens

Korn photo by Dean Karr Xxx Thexxx Rubens photo by Cyblele Malinowski

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RUBENS ON THE ROAD THE NUMBER ONE CONTENDER

Ngaiire is rounding out the year by hitting the road once more. Fresh from ruling at Listen Out and Splendour In The Grass, the Sydney-based powerhouse will be heading out on a victory lap of the country in celebration of her acclaimed album, Blastoma. She’ll take on the Factory Theatre on Friday December 2.

The Rubens will be hitting the road on the eve of this summer, offering a special treat for their fans with an entirely free tour. After taking out the top spot on triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2015, the band kicked things up a notch, playing to thousands at Splendour In The Grass and selling out shows overseas. Check out The Rubens in a much more intimate environment at the Beach Road Hotel on Thursday November 10, Coogee Bay Hotel on Friday November 11, Watsons Bay Hotel on Sunday November 13 and Clovelly Hotel on Sunday November 27.

THINGS ARE GETTING KINKY A LAUNCH FROM LEFFLER Outlaw country provocateur Kinky Friedman arrives in Circular Quay this week. The Texan storyteller’s Australian tour has already seen him address the National Press Club, and he’s proven he’s no mere political activist: Friedman has got his hands dirty, earning 12.6 per cent of the vote for the governorship of Texas in 2006.

Friedman plays The Basement on Thursday October 20.

AMERICANA AT THE PONY

WHAT SENA SAYS

Joel Sena’s upcoming self-titled EP follows the recent release of first single ‘Be With You’.

The Sydney saxophonist and producer has announced the launch of his debut EP at Slyfox on Thursday November 24, with plans for supporting live performances and more music to come in 2017. After a number of years playing as sideman, including gigs with a slew of national and international artists, Sena’s maiden release draws on influences ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Hiatus Kaiyote and Miles Davis in its fusion of soul, R&B and jazz.

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HIGH SPEED PUNKS

Sydney punks Speedball are hitting the road, celebrating the first anniversary of their Back From The Dead EP. Formed in late 2000, the band released two EPs and played a series of shows before going on a five-year hiatus.

Speedball returned to the scene in 2012 as part of the Razor Blade and Institutionalized festivals ahead of touring with the likes of Karnivool, Darker Half and more. Get up to speed at The Record Crate on Wednesday October 19 and Sunday November 20, Valve Bar on Thursday November 3, Pyrate House on Saturday November 19 and The Bald Faced Stag on Friday December 30.

EARTH BEATS AT THE OPERA HOUSE

One Space, one of Sydney’s leading proponents of the conscious music movement, is set to arrive at its biggest venue yet. Earth Beats, a soulful event at the Sydney Opera House this week, will bring together the pioneering didgeridoo and drum artists of Wild Marmalade to Australia’s most iconic location. In support will be Chris Tamwoy, the Australia’s Got Talent contestant and self-taught guitarist with a story to share. Stephanie Crawford’s One Space aims to establish a platform for artists and musicians who are passionate about making a change, especially when facing the stress and chaos of the modern world. Earth Beats takes place at The Studio, Sydney Opera House this Wednesday October 19.

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Ngaiire photo by Dan Segal and Myles Pritchard

Ride on down to The Gasoline Pony this week for a hefty dose of local Americana action.

Adam Young & Brielle Davis get things started on Wednesday October 19 with Arna Georgia in support, followed by a Thursday October 20 folk show by Lucy Roleff, Slow Ships and Piers Twomey. The afternoon slot this Saturday October 22 sees Peter Dasent bring an Italian twist to Americana, followed by Key To The Highway in the evening session. Yee-haw!

Chris Tamwoy

Following a significant change in creative direction, Joel Leffler has signed a deal with Fogsongs Records, with the Sutherland Shire singer-songwriter set to launch his new EP at The Brass Monkey next month. Drawing comparisons to the musical stylings of Bruno Mars among others, Leffler’s new poporiented sound is much unlike the material circulating on community radio shows for the last few years. Sony Music Australia in-house engineer and ARIA-nominated producer Peter Holz produced his upcoming release, with award-winning engineer William Bowden on mastering duties. Bowden’s work on Gotye’s Making Mirrors album won him a Record of the Year Grammy in 2013. Leffler’s new EP will be distributed through MGM Australia, and launched in Cronulla on Thursday November 17.

Industrial Strength Music Industry News with Christie Eliezer

THINGS WE HEAR • Which small music association’s president threatened to close it down during a fiery meeting because its members “don’t have respect” for each other?

• Which manager asked a couple of media friends not to mention that one of his acts was headlining a music event, which was axed due to low ticket sales, in case it “damaged their brand”?

• How soon before dates are announced for Roger Waters, Depeche Mode and Korn?

• Is Taylor Swift secretly dating

Ben Affleck ahead of his divorce from Jennifer Garner?

• Oxford, UK radio station JACKfm cheekily promoted a festival called Dead Good Live, which was to showcase three hours of live performances by Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and others. Clueless punter Sarah Vermouth took the day off, put her kids in the car and arrived at the venue. She grizzled, “It turns out the venue didn’t exist and the list of artists they had said would perform were all dead – how was I to know?”

• Following on from Flume’s US top 20 success with ‘Never Be

MUSIC MENTAL HEALTH REPORT SEEKS MORE INTERVENTION

An alarming report on the mental health of Australia’s performers and entertainment workers has made some recommendations on how the music industry can better look after its own. Working In The Australian Entertainment Industry: Final Report by industry charity Entertainment Assist and Victoria University found that suicide, anxiety and stress affected a high proportion of what is seen as a glamorous industry. Suicide attempts in the industry are double that of the general population, and a frightening nine times more likely among road crews. 44% of those studied suffer high anxiety

Lifelines Expecting: former Spice Girl Geri Horner with husband Christian.

She has a ten-year-old daughter from a past relationship.

Dating: Sophie Monk and ex-Parramatta Eels player Eric Grothe Jr. since August, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Married: Perth band Tired Lion’s bassist Nick Vasey and partner Hayley Jane.

Ill: Of Mice & Men singer Austin Carlile, who has a condition called Marfan syndrome, leading to some tour cancellations.

Hospitalised: a raver after being stabbed with a broken beer bottle at an illegal rave in Melbourne’s west.

Ill: Robbie Williams is suffering from arthritis in his back so badly he can’t play football and dances “like a drunk dad”, but will continue to dance onstage.

Hospitalised: the manager and a road crew member of former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero, after a bus crashed into them while they were unloading their tour van in front of Twitter headquarters in the Sydney CBD. Charged: Coolio with a felony after a gun was found in a backpack at Los Angeles International Airport.

In Court: Kesha’s lawyers are trying to block Dr Luke from sharing her medical records. After she accused him of rape, she was ordered to turn over her medical records of the incidents, and now she’s scared he’ll leak them to the public.

Died: Melbourne musician Fergus Miller AKA Bored Nothing, a Spunk Records signee, after a battle with depression, 26.

Died: Joan Marie Johnson, founding member of New Orleans’ The Dixie Cups (‘Chapel Of Love’), 72.

Died: US songwriter Robert Bateman, who co-wrote ‘Please Mr. Postman’, 80, after a massive heart attack.

Died: US drummer Bill Bumgardner (Lord Mantis, Burning Churches), 35, suicide.

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Like You’, his latest, ‘Say It’, has entered the top 100. Meanwhile, after blasting the UK and European charts, Euro DJ Kungs’ remix of Melbourne band Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ ‘This Girl’ entered the top ten of the US Dance Club Songs chart.

• Singer-songwriter Pete Murray is the star witness in a domestic violence case, reported the Sunday Telegraph. He was on the phone to friend Anne Cavanough in 2014 when she was allegedly bashed unconscious by her estranged husband and left with brain damage.

• Bob Dylan’s Spotify streams were

and stress, with 56.1% feeling alienated from family and friends. The report attributes most of the stress and anxiety to working unpredictable hours (43.1%), a lack of proper sleep (44%) and the fact 36% earn less than $20,000 a year, which puts them below the poverty line. Of those under the $20,000 mark are 63% of performers, 28% of support workers and 20% of technicians/ crew. The full report is at entertainmentassist. org.au.

The report offers recommendations to address the situation. These include finding psychological services with knowledge of the industry to target the issues, developing support services for the entertainment business, creating early intervention and prevention programs targeted at particular industry groups, and introducing into college curriculums information about the pitfalls of working in creative fields.

STUDIOS 301 BUILDING MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR FACILITY Sydney’s Studios 301 is constructing a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art recording facility to open in 2017. In the meantime, it will continue to operate its recording, mixing, mastering and audio digitisation services at temporary locations in Sydney. Details will be unveiled on Thursday November 17 as part of 301’s 90th birthday celebrations.

up 500 per cent after his Nobel Prize win.

• US rapper Murs set a new Guinness World Record with a rap that lasted for 24 hours. It was based on his 2007 single ‘Better Than The Best’.

• Discogs reveals its most expensive cassette was an ultrarare Prince promo tape called The Versace Experience – Prelude 2 Gold of 15 unreleased tracks, handed out to a handful of people at the Versace collection at Paris Fashion Week in 1995, and which sold for US$4,087.

• When singer-songwriter Wes Carr was interviewed by NXFM’s

his career highlights, saying, “Children have the most beautiful imaginations – vivid, boundless and uninhibited.” It launches at City Recital Hall in Sydney on Tuesday November 15 and Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday November 24.

YVETTE MYHILL EXITS AAM

The Association of Artist Managers (AAM)’s executive director Yvette Myhill has left to join Arts NSW. “It has been an incredible experience working with Australia’s world-class managers,” she said. AAM is advertising for a replacement.

NEW NAME FOR HUNTER STADIUM

Newcastle’s 33,000-capacity sports and entertainment venue Hunter Stadium has a new name after NSW builder McDonald Jones Homes finalised sponsorship naming rights to 2021. The venue has had 1.2 million patrons over the past four years. It is now called McDonald Jones Stadium.

UMPG SIGNS ALEX THE ASTRONAUT

Universal Music Publishing Australia has signed the Sydney-born, New York-based

Nick Gill and Sophie Tiller, Gill mentioned he’d written a song about a friend with a terminal illness who was considering euthanasia, and he had Carr in his mind to sing it. After the interview, Tiller and show producer Caitlyn Sheehan contacted Carr and asked him to record the song – which they then played to a stunned Gill.

• You won’t be seeing guitarist Ruben Gallego onstage with US band Beach Slang when they tour Australia. They sacked him following news of sexual assault allegations laid on him four years ago, before he joined the band.

Alex The Astronaut. She said, “My rock star uncle taught me ‘Space Oddity’ when I was 12 and it taught me that oddness is great and that maybe, a space-obsessed explorer has something important to share.” In between writing songs, she’s finishing off her maths and physics university degree on a football scholarship.

IDEAS FOR VIVID LIGHT?

If you have the best and brightest creative concept for Vivid Light, head to vividsydney. com/lighteoi by Friday October 21 with your expression of interest.

KEEP SYDNEY OPEN DISMISSES RELAXED LOCKOUTS

Buoyed by 10,000 people attending its recent rally, Keep Sydney Open has scoffed at reports that NSW Premier Mike Baird will relax the lockouts – from 1:30am to 2am (wow!) in live music venues, and 3am last drinks to 3:30am.

KSO posted on Facebook, “Pushing back the lockouts by half an hour will do little to help small businesses, the music scene or reinvigorate our dying inner-city precincts. It’s an unacceptable result that shows how oblivious the Premier is to how cities and culture operate.”

MORE OZ/NZ ACTS FOR SXSW

Six more Australian and Kiwi acts have been invited to play South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in mid-March. They are C.W. Stoneking, Kučka, New Zealand’s Ladyhawke, Brisbane’s Thigh Master, Adelaide EDM act Pines and Sydney’s Middle Kids. This year, 750 Australian delegates and 47 acts attended the event.

But SXSW’s local rep Phil Tripp says there might be fewer Aussies in 2017, citing the US dollar exchange rate, increasing problems getting visas and government cuts in grants funding.

CHANGES AT SONY MUSIC AUSTRALIA

In the wake of senior A&R rep Pat Handlin’s move to London to take over A&R at Simon Cowell’s Syco/Sony Music UK, Sony Music Entertainment Australia has nabbed Claes Uggla from Sony Sweden (‘Faded’ by his last signing Alan Walker went to number one in 25 countries). He’ll move to Sydney in December. Sony’s artist management division Parade Management has re-signed Jessica Mauboy. Parade is now headed

by Sony veteran Wayne Ringrow. The respected Ken Outch joins as its director of Australian artists marketing and artist management.

INDENT GRANT APPLICATIONS OPEN

The Indent Event Development Grants for 2017 are open for New South Wales residents who want to put on an all-ages show. You need to get an Indent team together, plan an all-ages, drug- and alcohol-free gig in your town, find a support organisation to help you with your application and apply to musicnsw.com/indent by Friday November 11.

MUSOS AND KIDS CREATE HUSH PROJECT

Singer-songwriter Lior, a capella group The Idea Of North and composer Elena Kats-Chernin collaborated with children in hospitals to create The Hush Foundation’s newest album Hush 16: A Piece Of Quiet.

The Hush Foundation projects, supported

by APRA AMCOS, aim at alleviating the stress and anxiety of kids in hospitals and their families. Lior called the project one of

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YOU AM I DOWN MEMORY LANE

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t doesn’t matter how famous or successful you are: nobody escapes the long arm of the Australian Taxation Office. Davey Lane may have spent almost two decades as the guitarist of seminal Oz rock group You Am I, winning countless accolades and plaudits in the process, but even he has to sit down and nut through his tax returns every once in a while. “I’ve just been sorting through ’em,” Lane says. “It’s been lots of fun, sitting amongst a fuckin’ big pile of bank statements and receipts. So getting on the phone and having a chat is a welcome respite from that.”

One can imagine the mundanity of paperwork might also be playing a part in Lane’s growing sense of excitement about the massive show You Am I have lined up next month. Their appearance at A Day On The Green will see the band perform alongside such luminaries as Something For Kate and Spiderbait in the picturesque setting of Bimbadgen in the Hunter Valley.

Nonetheless, Lane admits that these days he relishes any chance to hang out with his bandmates – Tim Rogers, Andy Kent, Rusty Hopkinson and Mark Tunaley – regardless of the ATO’s intervention. “We’re excited whenever any tour rolls around,” he says.

“The thing about our band is, maybe going back 17 or 18 years, we were a bit busier.

We’re still relatively busy, as far as touring goes. But we only get the opportunity to do a tour like this once or twice a year, so we look forward to the opportunity when it rolls around.”

Though Lane might feel only “relatively” busy these days, he and his group still spend substantially more time on the road than many of their contemporaries.

After all, it wasn’t that long ago that You Am I jetted around the country on a headline tour spruiking their 2015 album Porridge & Hotsauce.

“I do miss being on the road when I’m at home,” Lane says. “After all these years we’re all good friends. We miss each other’s company. We all have a pretty similar sense of humour, so we’re always cracking jokes and having a laugh. But I guess, you know, we’re all kind of busy with other projects. We’re juggling them when we’re not touring. But it’s always best when we’re together.”

That said, Lane evidently only feels comfortable pushing himself to the limits because he knows his bandmates always have his back. Rogers has a habit of introducing Lane onstage as “my son”, and the group has a shared sense of the familial that makes You Am I more than just your run-of-the-mill rock band.

“I think we all look out for each other,” Lane says. “We’re always communicating onstage, and we’re always looking out if someone else is feeling flat or something.

We’re always communicating, and we rely on keeping things together for each other.

I mean, we play structured rock’n’roll and pop songs, but we like to keep a fair amount of it spontaneous as well, ’cause that really is where the magic happens, as they say.

I mean, the songs are structured up to a point, but we like to keep it free.”

Mind you, by ‘free’ Lane doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be seeing improvisational jazz freak-outs during You Am I shows any time soon. “We don’t jam,” he laughs. “And we all hate that word too, ‘jamming’. We’re not that band. But we like to leave a little bit to chance.”

Given some of the band’s best-known songs can’t pretend to be young any more – a tune like the classic ‘Berlin Chair’ is officially old enough to vote and is probably wrapping up a uni degree – any attempt to disrupt the process might seem like a concerted effort to keep things fresh onstage.

But Lane argues that such artificial means of disorder aren’t really necessary, thanks in no small part to Rogers, his fearless leader and friend.

“WHEN YOU’RE TOURING IN A ROCK’N’ROLL BAND, A LOT OF IT IS BASED AROUND THE ABSURD AND THE RIDICULOUS ANYWAY. SO THE ABILITY TO KIND OF LAUGH ABOUT SILLY THINGS LIKE THAT KEEPS US FROM GOING INSANE.”

For Lane, such other projects include performing at the warmly received David Bowie tribute, Nothing Has Changed, which took place at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year, along with more left-ofcentre turns like his appearance in a recent episode of Laura Imbruglia’s Amateur Hour web series, one that saw him show off his comedic chops as an embattled guitar shop customer.

But despite the evident creative strength he gains from such endeavours, for Lane nothing beats climbing into a cramped van with mates he’s known for decades. “When you’re touring in a rock’n’roll band, a lot of it is based around the absurd and the ridiculous anyway,” he says. “So the ability to kind of laugh about silly things like that keeps us from going insane. If you’ve got a pretty intense run of shows, you just sort of push through it, and then just fucking fall in a heap when it’s all said and done. It’s funny how the body works – you can get through on a wink of sleep a night, and possibly too much to drink.”

Rather than such physical and mental deprivation draining Lane, he argues that such restrictions positively improve his performance, and it’s clear You Am I do whatever they can to make their live sets fresh – even if that means running themselves ragged.

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“On tour, you operate on not much sleep,” he says. “But I always find the best shows we play are the ones where we all feel shithouse, because we’re less inhibited and less aware of what’s going on around us. So we just put our heads down and concentrate on playing.

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“For some bizarre reason, those shows always tend to be the most enjoyable ones.”

“I think it’s just testament to Tim’s songwriting that we don’t get bored of these songs. Every time we play them we play with vim and vigour, as they say. And that’s the thing as well about the sheer amount of songs Tim’s written over the years – we are able to chop and change.”

Nonetheless, You Am I’s renegade onstage approach also influences the way they write songs, as well as the decisions they make hitting the studio. “It’s funny talking to other bands,” Lane says.

“We don’t seem to labour over making records as much as other bands do. I mean, just that process of recording and demoing – we just rarely, if ever, record demos as a band.

We probably just send each other a rough acoustic guitar and vocal, so we get a rough idea of the chords and the structure of the song.”

He laughs. “I mean, we all have pretty short attention spans as well, so if something is not working after a little while – after we’ve tried it maybe four or five times – we would probably just err on the side of leaving it.

Generally, we like to move quickly.”

Ultimately, the You Am I way doesn’t involve doing anything to death, or polishing up songs till they’re nothing but sheen. The joy of a song like ‘Heavy Heart’ is the joy you get when you see something very beautifully fall apart.

“That’s the thing about the recording process – I like going to a recording with a vague idea of what we’re doing, but it’s always the little mistakes in the recording that make the songs,” Lane says. “It’s a rarity in this day and age to hear little errors and mistakes like you do on songs in the classic era of rock. Those are always the things that excite me.”

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Dungen Renegades Of Psych By Augustus Welby

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sychedelic rock music has been in vogue for much of this decade, but not too long ago it was a niche interest.

In 2004, for instance, psych rock wasn’t even close to trendy. That was the height of the indie rock resurgence – The Strokes and The Killers were headlining festivals, Franz Ferdinand and Yeah Yeah Yeahs were shipping loads of records and Arctic Monkeys were waiting in the wings.

But then came an album called Ta Det Lugnt from an obscure Swedish band called Dungen.

Created in bandleader Gustav Ejstes’ living room, it was one of the year’s most critically celebrated releases. Although Ta Det Lugnt was actually Ejstes’ third release as Dungen, it was the one that more or less sparked the incumbent psych rock renaissance.

It’s been ten years since Dungen last visited Australia, but they’ll be back in December. After Ta Det Lugnt, Dungen expanded into a quartet and have since released a further four albums, including 2015’s Allas Sak. Along the way they’ve established an unmistakable stylistic identity while continuing to diversify.

Since the outset, critics have noted Dungen’s likeness to ’60s and ’70s psych rock. It’s certainly not an unfounded claim, but it can paint a somewhat reductive picture of the band. While Ejstes and co. may initially sound like a throwback, a closer look reveals they’re a much more complex and varied entity, both sonically and compositionally.

“[The comparison] is not a criticism, it’s a fact,” says Ejstes.

“But at the same time, we live now and I have so much other infl uences. When we play together, we don’t overthink it that much. We just do what we do and it turns out that way.”

Indeed, while there are sounds and stylistic motifs apparent in Dungen’s music that resemble an earlier time, their characteristic blend of folk, rock, hip hop and electronic music makes the band something of a stylistic anomaly.

“It never has been an aim to satisfy others. So that’s why maybe it has its own sound,” says Ejstes. “We are truly nerdy and I want to make records that I want to buy myself.

I know not all my friends are into that kind of music, but I don’t give a shit. I’m just like, ‘This is the way it should sound.’ I think if you’re not following trends you become unique, but it’s also not a main aim to be unique. I just want to make music that I fi nd interesting.”

Dungen records don’t sound dated, nor do they contrive to give off a vintage fl avour. This is especially true of Allas Sak – it’s a mesmerising headphone listen featuring interweaving layers of instrumentation (including plenty of fl ute playing), all captured in crisp high defi nition. Ejstes can’t take all the credit for this, though.

“The earlier records I made myself with some microphones right into my computer in my living room,” he says. “But through the years… we have this good friend Mattias Glavå

who has this incredible studio and he is keeping the tradition of really, really good live recordings in the right way. It’s not that slick kind of sound. He has this rough tone to everything.

“We worked with him on this Allas Sak album and he has this idea about taking care of the fact that we are a band nowadays. We play live and almost do the vocals at the same time as the live recordings.

He is a wizard. His instrument is his engineering and maybe I’m better at arranging and producing. I know how it should sound, but if I had to tweak it until I get there it could take a week.”

A common stigma surrounding psychedelic rock music is that it’s aimless and freeform. But like all previous Dungen albums, a lot of thought has clearly gone into the instrumentation and production on Allas Sak. There’s close attention paid to the textural details and the majority of songs contain instantly memorable melodies.

“You’ve got to begin with the melodies and the harmonies and the tone language,” says Ejstes. “That is what makes it really last. I mean, I’m a record nerd and I have all these records that sound so dope, but the songs are totally wack. But I try to write good music and then top it off with great songs.”

Over the last 12 years, Dungen have inspired swathes of other musicians. Several contemporary acts, including Jack White and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, call themselves fans, while new listeners continue to be amazed by the band.

“I THINK IF YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWING TRENDS YOU BECOME UNIQUE.”

“Kevin Parker has really explained to me how much [our music] meant to him and that’s beautiful,” Ejstes says. “But at the same time, we’re kind of the same generation and if you look at what kind of music people are longing for or need in a

special time – there’s going to be periods where no-one wants to play this kind of music or listen to it, but it’s beautiful to see how there is more of a scene or genre now than there was ten or 15 years ago.

In Memoriam: Fergus Miller, The Man Who Wa Beauty, Bullshit And Bliss By Joseph Earp

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ergus Miller, the 26-year-old Melbourne musician who passed away last week, possessed that rare quality: he could swear beautifully.

I mean, really swear. The songs he recorded under the Bored Nothing moniker are peppered with expletives, rounded out with curses that would be shocking if they weren’t sung with so much care. He dropped the F-bomb as though he were passing thread through the eye of a needle, in a manner that lacked drama but proved heavy with promise.

You don’t realise the brutality of a song like ‘Bliss’ until you stop to inspect it, and even then its bile is tempered shot-for-shot with beauty.

Part of that is because Miller favoured reverb-heavy guitar lines and possessed an unparalleled ear for crafting pop hooks, but part of that is also because his work never once spilled over into the territory of the cruel. Even when he was pissed off, singing lines about “bullshit spill[ing] from your lips”, his music had a ferocious form of love to it.

Indeed, such is the power of all his songs. A record like Bored Nothing – a fuzzed-out batch of choruses that invokes My Bloody Valentine and Elliott Smith and also nobody at all; nobody but Miller – works precisely because it mixes up horror with grace, until both are revealed to be exactly the same thing. In a song like ‘I Wish You Were Dead’, the pain of a disintegrating relationship isn’t somehow distinct from hope: poetic, perfectly formed lines about “the moon on the rise” are folded into barbed proclamations about “facing fear” and “the end of a million kids”.

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By the same token, although ‘Why Were You Dancing With All Those Guys’ rides on waves of jealousy, even the song’s prickly and possessive narrator realises elegance in the perceived betrayal of their partner. “As your hair caught the blue light,” goes the line. “As we moved through the hot night”.

Such tonal clashes stop the songs from ever becoming too po-faced – Some Songs, the second Bored Nothing record, has a distinct, dark sense of humour about it, and the aforementioned ‘Why Were You Dancing’ draws inspiration from a line featured in the animated series King Of The Hill – but it also makes them profoundly relatable.

The late Miller’s lyrics largely follow distinct narratives, albeit in a way that is more flip-book than epic Russian novel. Songs pivot on fragile, bonethin tipping points – on muttered exchanges and promises both broken and largely unimportant. Calamities occur in a way that feels somehow totally free from danger; after all, even the things that hurt eventually stop hurting, and the songs have a kind of quiet resignment about them.

In both the great joke and the great sadness of Miller’s music, nothing irreplaceable is ever at the stake.

But he had a counterpoint to set up to in response to that dearth, and his songs successfully argue that the replaceable has a power entirely of its own: that the things we largely consider to be distractions from our ‘real life’ – overheard, under-thought conversations; idle crappy behaviour from lovers; the vague ways our friends annoy us – have a power equal to, if not greater than, our jobs, the

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Kinky Friedman Playing The Trump Card By Sam Caldwell

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inky Friedman is an outspoken man and very much a straight talker.

Our interview is peppered with lines like, “I’m the only white man in America that uses the word ‘n***er’ in a song,” or “Our shit’s fucked up, that is the best description of the world right now.” He speaks candidly about his controversial opinions like Obama sucking (“the Forrest Gump of all Presidents”) or that Donald Trump isn’t given a fair go (“Trump is untested … all these people on CNN are so smug and so sure Trump will be terrible; Trump may be the next Teddy Roosevelt if you give him a chance”).

The man clearly does not give a fuck, and when our phone conversation is interrupted by someone in his posse warning him against smoking in the hotel, he replies to them: “What am I supposed to do? Don’t smoke here? Well, when they tell me not to smoke here, I’ll say, ‘OK, I didn’t know.’ Plead ignorant, always plead ignorance.”

But Friedman is not what he seems at first glance. And the musician/politician/writer/ humourist’s long and public career, which has seen him travel the world, has turned him into a thoughtful and wellrounded artist. The Jewish Texan is staunchly anti-racist (the aforementioned use of the N-word

“We have met so many bands now who are like a combination of Tame Impala and us – like, here’s a part that sounds a bit like Kevin and here’s a part that sounds like us. It’s just honouring and beautiful to be a part of it.”

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happens in a song that tells the story of beating up a racist at a bar), and counted the late Nelson Mandela – who would listen to ‘Ride ’Em Jewboy’ in prison – among his fans.

Times are indeed a-changin’, however, and I wonder if the 71-year-old worries about how he comes across in the politically correct world of 2016. “The people that come to see me – whether they’re in Germany or Australia or whatever – I don’t need to apologise, explain, or anything like that to them,” he says. “If they get it, fi ne. Right now it looks like they’re getting it, ’cause I’m playing places I never played before for a lot of money.”

Indeed, Friedman is popular enough that he’s launched multiple campaigns for election in his home state, including for the position of governor. Friedman says his new record The Loneliest Man I Ever Met comprises “the first songs I’ve ever written in 40 years, and that was at the urging of my shrink Willie Nelson”.

Having played the politics game as recently as 2014, how does music compare?

“I’d say [music] is a higher art form, and you have to be miserable to do it well. You have to be unhappy. So I fi ght happiness at every turn to make sure I’m unhappy enough to write good songs.”

It’s a documented fact that Friedman has been friends with previous US Presidents – “Bill Clinton has always liked ‘Waitress, oh waitress / Come sit on my face’,” he says – but he’s less sure he’ll be friends with the next one.

“Well I have been friends with Hillary before,” he says. “I just think that something like Benghazi [the 2012 terrorist attack] just defi nes you. Say what you want about it – ‘It’s old news’ – but it pretty much defi nes you.

And she was not around for the three o’clock call that came in.”

He’s already midway through an Australian tour that’s seen him speak at the National Press Club, and Friedman has one more message for music fans who are thinking of seeing him at The Basement this week.

“Remind the folks what I always say: ‘Find what you like and let it kill ya.’ And of course Willie’s advice is, ‘If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.’ And that seems to be working for me.”

What: The Loneliest Man I Ever Met out now through Thirty Tigers/Cooking Vinyl With: Luke O’Shea Where: The Basement When: Thursday October 20

“I FIGHT HAPPINESS AT EVERY TURN TO MAKE SURE I’M UNHAPPY ENOUGH TO WRITE GOOD SONGS.”

s Bored Nothing clothes we wear and the people we call family.

Miller never cleaned anything up or left something out of a song because it was too ugly or too mundane.

His work mines the emotional territory other singersongwriters might well ignore altogether: the unsexy, inbetweeny stuff.

He said it best himself, because of course he did, in a 2013 conversation with 2SER. “My favourite things to sing about are really boring things that seem like they should never have songs about them,” he told an interviewer then. “Like getting a degree and then having to work at a supermarket, or getting drunk and embarrassing yourself on the weekend.”

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Such an approach to songwriting is crystallised best in ‘Ultra-Lites’, the song on which every single one of Miller’s talents is laid bare. The tune is funny and dark, and Miller rhymes ‘7/11’ with ‘heaven’, and it all ends without fanfare, almost as though it collapses in on itself, or there’s simply nothing else left to say. It does a host of things, and yet it seems like it isn’t doing anything at all: it is bent in the middle in a pose of gentle, unmistakably knowing humility.

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That was Miller, really, and his genius.

He released records you could love the way you love your friends, and played songs that were of you, not simply for you. And he did it all as though it were the easiest thing in the world; as though art was as common as air.

RIP. All proceeds from Bored Nothing record sales at the Spunk online store (spunk.com.au) will go to Miller’s wife Anna. You can also donate directly to Anna via details on the Spunk Records Facebook page.

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Marcia Hines The Party Ain’t Over By David James Young

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et it never be said that Marcia Hines is any kind of slouch when it comes to work ethic.

After nearly 50 years of performing, the acclaimed showstopper has no intention of slowing down. Even when presented with some sort of downtime – as she has right now, between seasons of the acclaimed jukebox musical/circus extravaganza Velvet – Hines is hard at work on yet another show.

Intended as a revue of the disco era, Disco Inferno reflects on Hines’ 2006 covers album Discotheque, as well as the sharp-dressed glamour that went along with those classics.

“After I made Discotheque, which went really well, we saw this space to do a disco show,” says Hines.

“My clever manager suggested that we turn it into a show, and so we’re in rehearsals right now making it shiny and fun. We’ve got good costumes, too – nothing ridiculous, mind you – and I’ve got three good-looking boys backing me up, dancing and singing with me. It’s great, especially because discotheque is not dead. It’s still going strong.”

Hines’ musical career has predominantly seen her performing other people’s songs – long before the covers of Discotheque and Velvet, her biggest commercial hits in the ’70s were versions of tracks like James Taylor’s ‘Fire And Rain’ and Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself’.

When queried on what makes a great cover, Hines says it’s all about an artist’s individual perspective.

“It comes down to your ability to interpret songs for yourself,” she explains. “I don’t even think it has to be emotional – it’s about what you bring to the table. It’s about the sincerity or the fun that you find in the song. I couldn’t tell you what these musicians were thinking when they were writing or singing these songs – I would honestly have no idea. What I can tell you, however, is my own experience with these songs and what I’m thinking of when I listen to them. That’s what comes through when I’m singing, and I hope that’s what the audience connects with as well.”

Velvet has been the central focus of Hines’ workload for the better part of two years now.

Across hundreds of shows, Hines and co. have performed all around the country and even made the trip to Edinburgh for its worldfamous fringe festival. As the show carries on for its next run – a whopping 40 weeks – one has to wonder if the fatigue has managed to set in. Not the case, says Hines.

After a few years of relative inactivity, Hines’ career was boosted once again back in the early 2000s when she appeared on the judging panel for Australian Idol. Even several years after the show was taken off air, its alumni still linger within the cultural lexicon – indieleaning Matt Corby and Lisa Mitchell both made comebacks this year, for instance, while internet culture has given initial runner-up Shannon Noll a huge career boost.

“We felt like we were the frontier runners – even though, to be completely honest with you, we really

had no idea what we were doing when it started out,” Hines recalls.

“We couldn’t have ever guessed what a big deal the show was going to be for so many people. We were coming from a great place, I believe. I think that if you do something from your heart, then people will respond to that. That’s why I feel like it’s stood the

As if her current schedule weren’t hectic enough, Hines was also recently announced as one of the artists performing on the 2017 Cruise N Groove – a luxury cruise that will journey from Sydney through to New Caledonia and Vanuatu with a mix of disco and pop artists such as KC and The Sunshine Band, Paul Young and Go West. “I can’t believe it – I mean, Boney M.? Are you kidding me?” laughs Hines. “I’ve done a few cruises like this before, and they were just the bomb. It is going to be so much fun – it’s such a party, even though it’s the most grown-up party you could think of. I couldn’t believe how much fun everyone was having on the last cruise that I did – no doubt it will be the exact same this time around.”

So, here stands Marcia Hines – as prolific and illustrious an artist now than she ever has been. She is staring down the barrel of months and months of performing to audiences all across Australia. Still, will she let the pressure get to her?

Not a chance. “You don’t think about it, darlin’!” she says. “That’s the trick!”

“To be a performer, you have to find the energy and the sincerity to get up onstage every night. For me, the interesting thing about it is the fact that it’s never the same audience. You’re never getting the exact same reaction, and I think that keeps us all fresh. It’s all about the camaraderie, too – especially in a show like Velvet. We all get along beautifully. We’re all kindred spirits, and that’s what you get to see.”

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Jimmy Eat World Intensity, Integrity And Intelligence By David James Young

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hen you’ve been a band for as long as Jimmy Eat World have – that’s 23 years and counting, by the way – you tend to spend an equal amount of time looking forward as you do looking back. Consider, for instance, the duality of touring extensively in support of their eighth album, Damage, followed immediately by an anniversary tour celebrating a decade since the release of 2004’s Futures. Even as they approach the release of album number nine, Integrity Blues, it comes in the same year the American rockers celebrate the 20-year anniversary of their seminal Static Prevails LP, as well as the 15-year anniversary of their breakthrough album Bleed American. The band has, to borrow a phrase from Sir Paul McCartney, an ever-present past. With this in mind, how exactly do Jimmy Eat World navigate satiating these memories while also making fresh ones?

Double Duty By David James Young

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he duality of being in both The Bronx – one of the most wildly energetic, exciting bands in modern punk – as well as Mariachi El Bronx (that same band partaking in traditional Mexican folk music) is not exactly like being both Superman and Clark Kent.

Think of it more as being both Superman and Batman – each a hero to their part of the world, each an immeasurable arse-kicker, but each doing it in very different ways.

Both bands have been in the full swing of touring this year, and it’s getting to that time where some new material is beginning to bubble under. The Bronx, in this regard, are currently taking priority, given it’s now been three years since the release of the band’s fourth eponymous LP.

“We’re super excited to get cranking on it – we’re working on it right now,” says vocalist Matt Caughthran of what he is colloquially referring to as Bronx 5. “We’ve only been able to get a couple of demos going because we’ve been so busy touring, but we’re looking to get work done in earnest around November. I know we want to get back to just going all out – it feels, in a lot of ways, like there’s a lot we need to get off our chest. I think it’s going to be a pretty aggressive record.”

As for new Mariachi material, Caughthran explains that fans may have to wait a little longer. “We haven’t written anything new for El Bronx,” he confesses. “Both bands have been touring so much this year, we kind of have to make a sacrifice in terms of what material gets written first. It’s not fair on either band to try and write both at the same time. They both deserve equal attention.”

Given that Caughthran spends the majority of his time with The Bronx screaming in people’s faces, while as the leader of Mariachi El Bronx he mostly croons, one could safely assume there is a certain challenge to touring with both bands simultaneously.

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“ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, I FEEL THAT I’VE FOUND A NEW PLATEAU OF NOT GIVING A FUCK THIS YEAR.” uniqueness of his band’s split personality.

“It’s definitely something that I’ve had to get used to,” he says. “It’s definitely strange, but I think it’s strange in a good way. It’s unique, and it’s something that we really love about what we’re doing – no-one else is really doing it. The difficulty comes with trying to get into a rhythm when you’re going back and forth between the two bands. Outside of touring, we don’t try to force the issue – whatever we’re feeling creatively is what we’re going to pursue.”

Despite losing a founding member of the band in drummer Jorma Vik this past June, nothing has slowed the momentum of The Bronx and Mariachi El Bronx this year.

Caughthran is particularly excited about both acts on a live front – he more or less guarantees that if you’re coming to see them now, in either form, you’re in for a hell of a performance from musicians with nothing to lose.

“On a personal level, I feel that I’ve found a new plateau of not giving a fuck this year,” he says with a laugh. “I feel like there’s definitely a complete recklessness to our shows. The band is playing really well – ‘focused’ is the wrong word, because we’re so disoriented, but we’re definitely all in it together. Everyone wants to just fucking get crazy, and the energy has just been through the roof. It takes over the place from start to finish – there’s no mercy.

I want to continue that – it feels empowering.”

The Bronx and Mariachi El Bronx are set to return to Australia this month. The former will be appearing as support for Brisbane’s Violent Soho on their national tour, and it’s not lost on Caughthran that when The Bronx toured in 2013, one of their openers was none other than Soho themselves.

He has no sour grapes about the tables being turned, however.

“It’s so well deserved for those boys,” he enthuses. “We’ve known them for a really long time. We brought them over to the States and did shows with them while they were over here. The music industry can be really fucked up, but they’re hard. They don’t let bullshit break them down. Success like that couldn’t have happened to a more deserving band. It’s so great they wanted us to come out and be a part of these shows – we’re seriously honoured.”

Mariachi El Bronx, meanwhile, are set to play The Lost Lands festival, as well as a key headlining show in Sydney. Though many point to The Bronx’s legendary 2004 Annandale Hotel show, which was filmed for a DVD, as their greatest moment, Caughthran believes Mariachi achieved similar classic status when they headlined Melbourne’s Forum Theatre in 2010.

“It was the most fun show,” he says. “At that point, we were really trying to do something different with Marachi shows – we had a whole section where we were just playing our most quiet, acoustic numbers.

We were so nervous about doing that because we had never really done it before. Thankfully, this crowd was so fucking cool, they went with whatever we wanted to do. Everyone was dressed up, everyone was singing along to all our songs… it was just one of those nights I don’t think I’ll ever forget.”

Where: Manning Bar When: Wednesday November 2 And: The Bronx support Violent Soho at the Hordern Pavilion on Saturday October 29

As far as Adkins and co. are concerned, the greater task right

“For us, songs can come from anywhere – we could be in rehearsals, and one of us might stumble upon a new idea or a new musical part, and another might say, ‘What was that? Do it again!’ Other times, I could be lying awake at 4am with a melody or a lyric in my head, and I’ll have to grab my phone and just record a voice memo or something to document it.

“As far as Integrity Blues is concerned, the music was written across all kinds of scenarios just like those. ‘Through’ came together about a week before we were supposed to head into the studio. ‘Sure And Certain’ was sitting around as a riff idea for a few years before it ended up being put to use with some lyrics I was writing. You never clock out of this gig, man. You’re always sorting through scraps and ideas, hoping to make something meaningful.”

Jimmy Eat World began in 1993, when the band members – Adkins, guitarist Tom Linton, drummer Zach Lind and bassist Mitch Porter (replaced by Rick Burch in 1995) – were still teenagers in high school. In the two decades and change that have followed, the foursome have more or less grown up in front of their fans – many of whom were going through the exact same things.

Superheist Resurrection Of The Ghosts By Joseph Earp

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t’s perhaps an understatement to suggest Superheist founding member DW Norton is having a bad day. “It’s been hell,” Norton says. “I’ve been stuck in traffic all day … I’m driving down to the Mornington Peninsula from Melbourne at the moment. I live down in the Peninsula … but, you know, traffic sucks.”

only put it into full swing when we got Zeke on board about 12 weeks ago. I started writing for [Ghosts] about 18 months ago, and I wrote about 40 songs. But then when we actually locked it in – when we knew that Zeke was the man – we scrapped all we had and just started again and had it all done in about ten weeks.”

He’s certainly got a point. But although it might not be ideal to sit in bumper-to-bumper gridlock, at least it gives Norton a moment or two to refl ect on his recent achievements, of which there are many. Superheist, the band he has been at the creative forefront of since 1993, have recently reunited, fronted now by Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Ox after the departure of original vocalist Rod McLeod.

Better still, they have an album due at the end of the month, a whirling nu-metal delight titled Ghosts Of The Social Dead.

The idea of such a snappy turnaround would undoubtedly have most other musicians turning green with jealousy – Norton says “then, we just went ‘wackettywhack’” as his description of how the album was recorded – and he speaks of the great ease he feels about the record-making process.

“We’re really happy with the album. We’re really happy with the whole package. So we’re excited to get it out there and excited for people to hear it.”

“We kinda had the idea of doing this again maybe about 18 months ago,” Norton says. “But we really

“THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT OUR FIRST RODEO. WE KNOW HOW TO PUT A SONG TOGETHER, WE KNOW WHAT IS EXPECTED OF US IN THE STUDIO.”

A lot of that newfound confi dence and speed came from the addition of Ox. The man has an impressive pedigree: he has previously fronted such groups as The Ox and The Fury and Full Scale Revolution, and he also possesses one of the most impressive sets of pipes around, something his new bandmate Norton seems well aware of.

“When we were first approached to [reunite] by our label, we were talking about vocalists. But it was like Zeke or bust – I pretty much wasn’t going to do it unless we could get Zeke. I just think he’s up there with the most talented frontmen in the country, just in terms of being a showman. And

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“It’s nice to sit in nostalgia for a minute, but there’s always a greater task at hand,” says Jim Adkins, the band’s singer, guitarist, lyricist and one of its three founding members.

“In doing those types of shows, we look at it from the perspective of us as music fans – if you hadn’t heard of us back then when we were touring those records for the first time, you might not have seen us play those songs before. I look at it as a chance for those fans to finally get to experience what those songs are like live, but I also see it as a challenge to us as a band to see how we play those songs, taking into consideration what we know now as musicians and performers.

It often ends up sounding even better than it did when we were first playing it.”

now is Integrity Blues. The album was recorded at sessions through 2015 into 2016, with producer and musician Justin Meldal-Johnsen – whose credits include Beck, Nine Inch Nails and Paramore – behind the boards. Adkins explains that the songs were pieced together in the years following Damage, with some parts of the record serving as an endgame for ideas that had been fl oating around for an age.

“Our band really is a document of us growing up,” says Adkins. “It goes through all the same things that you go through when you’re 18, 19, 25, 30… your perspective changes drastically, your world changes drastically. I’m definitely not the same person now that I was when Damage came out, and the person that I was then was different to who I was when [2010’s] Invented came out. At the root of it all, the common thread is you. For whatever reason, the way that you process experiences and the way your perspective is informed is going to change over time.”

With the release of Integrity Blues looming, Jimmy Eat World are soon to be back on the road. At a time when such a matter could feel routine and boring, Adkins points out that it’s all a matter of perspective.

“In the early days, we were travelling around and seeing places we’d never seen before,” he says.

“Everything that was happening almost felt like we were getting away with something – it’s like, ‘I can’t believe we’re in Chicago! And we’re about to play music!’ The idea of discovery really seemed like a big part of the early days of Jimmy Eat World – particularly in terms of the material we were putting out.

Approaching things for the first time, being in wonder of everything… it’s kind of inspiring when you’re feeling jaded about life.

“In a weird way, I feel like it’s gotten back to that. We’ve been doing this for so long, it’s easier and easier to appreciate any little thing that is going our way or ending up in our favour. I have my mind blown every day by the experience that we get.”

What: Integrity Blues out Friday October 21

“YOU NEVER CLOCK OUT OF THIS GIG, MAN. YOU’RE ALWAYS SORTING THROUGH SCRAPS AND IDEAS, HOPING TO MAKE SOMETHING MEANINGFUL.”

he’s a fantastic vocalist, a great dude – he just brings such a great vibe with him.”

Indeed, this isn’t simply a case of Ox making up the numbers.

He is now an integral part of the Superheist family, but more than that, he has become an essential part of the Superheist sound.

“When you’re writing and you don’t know who is defi nitely going to be singing the songs, you kinda are just going for it,” Norton says.

“I mean, you can come up with some new stuff, but it’s a little bit directionless. Once I knew Zeke was the man, it was just really easy to pick up on his vibe and rewrite the whole record. It just came together really well. It’s – in my opinion at least – the best record that we’ve made.

“This is defi nitely not our first rodeo. We know how to put a song together, we know what is expected of us in the studio … I’ve got my formula. You can tell; you can hear it’s me. I’ve had my sound that I’ve had for many years – it’s not changed, but it’s grown up. But, you know, it’s not hard. I don’t fi nd it difficult to write songs.”

What: Ghosts Of The Social Dead out Friday October 28 through Dinner For Wolves/Nerve Gas With: Earth Caller, Segression, Horrorwood Mannequins Where: Factory Theatre When: Friday November 4

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arts news... what's goin' on around town... with Anna Wilson, Emily Norton and Chris Martin

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GUY JAMES WHITWORTH

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ow does your new exhibition What Maketh A Man explore masculinity and the modern man?

The exhibition strips away the artifi ce and lays masculinity bare. Over 40 models left their comfort zone, sat for me and showed that modern masculinity can be a broad, progressive, diverse and all accepting kinda thing. Just as all men need to understand feminism, I think after seeing this show, any woman will also understand how complex it can be to be a man.

In your experience, is Australia a place that encourages this plurality or not?

Erm, let’s say I think there is still a long way to go.

Have you ever experienced your own masculinity being questioned?

Why is there even a culture of “questioning someone’s masculinity”? The 1950s just called and said we need to really rethink that whole idea.

How did you come to create these artworks and fi nd your models?

I mostly asked friends. It was awkward, it was weird and yup, I’m afraid it even probably came across as a bit creepy, but luckily I’m surrounded by people who believed in what I was trying to do and say as an artist. This whole project was a big lesson in trust and how if someone steps out of their comfort zone I have to really honour that.

What: What Maketh A Man Where: The Shop Gallery, Glebe When: Sunday October 23 – Saturday October 29

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HACKSAW RIDGE

It’s one of the most incredible stories of utterly selfless bravery in the Second World War. A medic, pacifist and conscientious objector, Desmond Doss was the only US soldier on the front line without a weapon. The Battle of Okinawa saw him save 75 lives, a remarkable feat given he’d also been wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. His heroism saw him awarded a Congressional Medal of Honour. Filmed across multiple locations in New South Wales, Hacksaw Ridge is Mel Gibson’s film testimonial to Doss. Featuring Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey and Rachel Griffiths among its talented American-Australian cast, it received a whopping ten-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. It opens in cinemas Thursday November 3. Give yourself a chance to win one of ten in-season double passes to the film at thebrag.com/freeshit.

BOYS IN THE TREES

Boys In The Trees unfolds as two teenage skaters take a walk home on Halloween in 1997 and suddenly end up on a dark, surreal and fantastic journey through their dreams and fears. Sound farfetched? Well, that’s the point. Did it get any standing ovations at the Venice Film Festival, I hear you ask? Two, actually. Any clowns? You bet. Its young and talented Aussie cast has caused more than a few waves at premieres around the world.

You can catch one of the ripples if you win one of ten in-season double passes to the film, which opens this Thursday October 20.

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INTEREST IN THE BANK

Artbank Social Club is back next month with a brand new flea market set to entice crowds with its collection of over 5,000 artworks on site. The new initiative will see the collection store overrun with work from over 30 contemporary Australian artists for a little bit of leftof-field fun, in a novel rethinking of the traditional open studio concept. As well as the flea market, all the usual annual open day antics will take place, with a pop-up bar, garden party and Mexican street food, as well as vintage vinyl being played all day. The Artbank Social Club flea market extravaganza takes place at the Waterloo headquarters (222 Young Street) on Saturday November 19.

HARRY POTTER GOES TO THE SYMPHONY

The whimsy and delight of wizardry will take over the Sydney Opera House next year as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra prepares to host performances of John Williams’ sensational score to Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. The SSO has had great success with its live performances of film scores – the Lord Of The Rings series and Looney Tunes being some of the highlights of the concept – but just imagine how truly magical it will be to have the original HP fi lm on the big screen and a full concert orchestra playing beneath it. Book early for the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Thursday April 27 – Saturday April 29.

MAN OVERBOARD

There’s a hilarious show heading our way from Bob Downe, the man-child brainchild of former journo Mark Trevorrow, and it’s all happening on a boat. This Aussie comedic great is jumping aboard Sydney’s Rhythm Boat and will be appearing in five shows for Bob’s Love Boat Cruise, presenting his one-man comedy, dance and song extravaganza. Downe’s 16 :: BRAG :: 685 :: 19:10:16

2014 tour, Bob, Sweat & Tears, which toured Australia and the UK, was nominated for four Green Room Awards. Downe sets sail every Wednesday throughout November.

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HE’S NOT A PEOPLE PERSON

The weirdest man in Australian comedy, Sam Simmons, is breaking into the Sydney Opera House with his latest show this summer. Not A People Person has taken the Aussie absurdist from Melbourne to Edinburgh and the US, and now he’s returning to Sydney with a tasty collection of comedy awards stashed under his pillow. A Sam Simmons show is anything but predictable, so all we can tell you is it runs for six nights at The Playhouse. See Simmons under the sails from Thursday January 5 – Saturday January 7 and Thursday January 12 – Saturday January 14.

Vegan, vegetarian, fruitarian, flexitarian, pollotarian, paleotarian, carnivore: all are welcome at Glebe Street Fair this year. If you like live performances, hundreds of market stalls selling strange and wonderful things, food trucks galore featuring delectable cuisines and beverages from around the globe, plus contests, talks, and much more, then this is the ideal event for you. Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to experience and enjoy this jam-packed day, so get in there early before all the good stuff is eaten or you’ll be left with crumbs. Expect glass blowing demonstrations, poetry slams and other zany activities to enjoy while you satiate yourself with a gourmet burger and an organic ginger beer, and relish the sweet tunes of indie-pop artist Iluka, blues performer Marlene Cummins, hip hop duo Coda Conduct and The Strides. Glebe Street Fair will run from 10am on Sunday November 20, along Glebe Point Road.

MEET THE NEW BREED

Carriageworks and Sydney Dance Company, with support from The Balnaves Foundation, have announced the season of New Breed 2016.

Australian choreographers Rachel Arianne Ogle (Perth), Shian Law (Melbourne), Jesse Scales (Adelaide) and Richard Cilli (Perth) will work with some of the top Australian contemporary dancers to create a fantabulous dance suite of four new works, and they’ll all be performed during a limited run for the public from Tuesday November 29 – Saturday December 10.

IT’S ALL RIGHT HERE

Artist Glenn Barkley will exhibit his ceramic works in a new exhibition called Itsallright beginning this month at Utopia Art. His passion for ceramics has helped inspire an Australia-wide resurgence of ceramics’ popularity within art circles. Barkley’s exhibition exudes forms of the classical and the Orient. See Itsallright at Utopia Art in Waterloo from Wednesday October 26 – Saturday November 19.

THE TURQUOISE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

The Turquoise Elephant, written by Stephen Carleton and directed by Gale Edwards, is a political farce that focuses on the lives of three ladies struggling with catastrophic elements and endangered species, with one of them intent on saving the world through blogging. We can’t say much more without entering spoiler territory, but expect a heavy dose of schadenfreude at the new Griffin Theatre production. The Turquoise Elephant is now playing until Saturday November 26 at SBW Stables Theatre.

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Is it a healthy thing that we have such varied ideas of what makes a man in 2016?

In the natural world, if a species doesn’t evolve it will become extinct – it’s the same with masculinity. Narrow parameters and a ‘right or wrong’ attitude aren’t working. We need to embrace diversity, compassion and acceptance to move forward.

As a queer man, my masculinity is constantly questioned because of my sexuality, however I’d say there is a bravery and confi dence needed to transcend that.

They are very traditional masculine traits – I hope the irony there is obvious.

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Jackass [COMEDY] Cunning Stunts By Anna Wilson

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rying to pin down the Jackass boys for an interview spawns a wonderful mess of incoherence and entertainment. Famed for their spontaneous on-screen antics, US larrikins Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Jason ‘Wee Man’ Acuña and Dave England are in Australia for a series of live shows on their Filthy Seppo Tour, taking to the stage with comedy that’s bound to be full of copious amounts of profanity. But even Lacy and Pontius aren’t sure what else is in store.

“We never know the direction the show is gonna go,” explains Lacy down the phone from a pub somewhere in Sydney. It’s the middle of the day. “I know it’s gonna be a bloodbath, though,” he adds. “There’ll be some blood and some singing…”

Blood? Really? Pontius chimes in, laughing: “We’ve got a big bag of ammo, it’s a surprise. Wee Man always seems to know what to do, that sick fuck.”

Touring the country with a live show does bring with it the challenge of appealing to an audience in person, but both Lacy and Pontius are adamant that participation is the key. “People always want to get up there with us,” Pontius says. “We love to get volunteers, guys and girls, depending on the stunt.”

“They line up pretty quickly,” adds Lacy. “It’s hysteria – it just kind of happens, just like in the movies.

We don’t over-plan, we just want to make ourselves laugh and have a good time.”

There must be a certain appeal about the show for the Jackass boys to take their stunts on tour across the globe, and as Pontius explains, there’s an epic kick to be had. “You get to travel around Australia and do these shows between fi lming stuff, so things are kept interesting.”

“It’s such a rush,” Lacy says. “With a microphone in front of you, it’s just so much fun. When we’re fi lming we’re just trying to make our buddies laugh, but onstage –

well, it’s like being a rock star but you don’t have to play any stupid instruments!”

Jason Acuña and Preston Lacy from Jackass

It’s not the first time the pair have been in Australia – each member of the Jackass crew has their own career, with several of them embarking on stand-up comedy, but they often come together for other ventures as a group.

“We came over and fi lmed a video with Wolfmother – that shit was crazy, so much fun,” says Lacy.

“Aussie chicks are mad! We had a really good time with that.”

“My girlfriend is from Sydney so I’ve been here a lot – I love this place, man,” adds Pontius.

It’s a delightful wonder that Lacy and Pontius, being the fascinating characters they are, have come so far with their arguably unsophisticated humour.

Just how did they become so successful through stunts like fi shing anacondas out of kiddies’ ball pits and throwing medicine balls at one another in the dark?

A momentarily thoughtful Pontius says, “You have to know what your dreams are and live them, and a lot of people don’t believe you can do that. I wanted to make people laugh, so I found a different way to do it. I’m just so lucky I could do it with my buddies.”

As their attention span begins to waver – clearly not content with the formalities of talking about their work – Preston decides he wants to hear a story from the journalist who’s interviewing them. With England coaxing me on, they demand to know some of the crazy stuff I’ve done in my life. Ordinarily I’d be happy to oblige, but as I’m speaking from an office full of co-workers, it’s not exactly the best idea.

“Oh man, I bet you’ve got some darkness to tell,” says Pontius.

“Yeah, there’s a bag of secrets there somewhere, man!” adds Lacy. “Ladies always have secrets.”

“Just because someone’s a woman doesn’t mean they’re a lady, though!” argues Pontius. “A

“WHEN WE’RE FILMING WE’RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE OUR BUDDIES LAUGH, BUT ONSTAGE – WELL, IT’S LIKE BEING A ROCK STAR BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO PLAY ANY STUPID INSTRUMENTS!” woman’s heart is an ocean full of secrets. It’s really true. Women are very secretive, they kind of control the world I guess – we’re fascinated with them.”

Pontius suddenly exclaims, all frazzled: “This place is haunted!”

I ask what he means, curious, wondering if they realise I’m still a momentary part of their world, or if their imagination has run off completely.

“We’re at this pub – there’s ghosts here, man! I heard a noise and thought it was a banshee… but it’s just someone’s ringtone.”

“The ghouls are coming for ya,” Lacy teases.

A voice from afar calls, “Chris, our taxi’s here!” and though they’ve forgotten my name, the Jackass boys have remembered they’re being interviewed. Pontius politely

excuses himself: “Erm, miss?

We’ve gotta go!”

I thank them both for their time, wondering if I’m still talking to anyone or if they’ve already bounced off – and then comes Lacy’s farewell.

“Gonorrhoea!” he cries.

What: Filthy Seppo Tour Where: Dee Why RSL When: Wednesday October 26

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KIMBERLEY BIANCA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF ELECTROFRINGE

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lectrofringe is bringing EF16 to 107 Projects this weekend. What is the overarching aim or motto behind the event?

EF16 marks a return to communal, uncensored and non-surveilled spaces to act on free speech. We want to look at how digital networks can be applied to take back the controls of our systems. It’s vital to create new platforms, spaces and networks that continue to enable openness in the future.

Tell us about a couple of specific works that will explore experimental ideas.

An emerging theme in this year’s program is using the human form and voice to express relationships with technology and ecology.

That’s explored in works such as It Speaks Of Others curated by Elyse Goldfinch, Echo by Loc Nguyen and Silent Songs by Romi Nam, as well as performances by Astrid Zeman and Skye Gellmann. Works more grounded in commentary and activism, like NEWT’s The Eye Of God and Hamish Dobinson’s Gross Domestic Product, offer creative warnings about understanding the technology that controls society, and possibilities that have the potential to generate equal control of individual empowerment.

The wearable artwork Clothing Crisis doesn’t only engage with technology, it

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laboratories and underground technology studios. We’re excited about – and highly encourage – improvisation and inspiration from these sources.

Do you think electronic experimental art might prove itself more accessible to budding creators than traditional forms?

Electronic experimental art has been progressively thriving since the ’60s. I think it has proven itself to be both accessible and exciting for artists and non-artists to realise new, daring concepts.

How will EF16’s workshop series encourage participants to get involved?

The workshops are open to everyone, and through them we hope to demystify the technical-artistic process, to provide an access point for people to get hands-on and involved with creative tech beyond experiencing it as a viewer. There’s two workshops using older technologies (Atari game programming and Renoise tracker software for music), and another on analogue electronic sculpture/ robotics (no programming required).

makes use of social media. Are we in a new era of unpredictable art?

Clothing Crisis explores the repurposing of both immaterial networks and material clothing.

It’s the result of a collaboration between new media artists, a fashion designer and a sound designer. The most unpredictable art going on now is happening across industries, in science

What: EF16 Where: 107 Projects When: Saturday October 22 – Sunday October 23

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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN In cinemas now Gillian Flynn’s adaptation of her own bestselling novel Gone Girl sent shockwaves through the industry on its release in 2014, and while The Girl On The Train is no carbon copy in either its narrative focus or characters, it can’t help but suffer from the inevitable comparison.

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BOYS IN THE TREES

a music video. We bear witness to the fantasies that play out in their minds.

In cinemas Thursday October 20 Australian filmmakers rarely want to be seen as such – they dream of being taken seriously by the ‘real’ cinema industry of America, and it robs them of a cultural identity. Despite this statelessness, and despite outward pretension, Boys In The Trees delivers a gut-punch emotional narrative with plenty of style.

Fantasy is core to Verso’s narrative, as it struggles to obfuscate the very real traumas that Corey and Jonah share.

Rarely is this subtle; the game the pair play is called ‘cocytus’, an invocation of Dante’s ninth circle of hell, reserved for traitors.

Think Día de Muertos rituals and an Aboriginal elder dressed like Papa Legba, for that extra slice of cognitive dissonance.

Boys walks a fine line between acknowledging the obvious and pacing out revelation, and it often stumbles, much as the actors do over Verso’s heightened prose.

Corey (Toby Wallace) is on the cusp of graduation, planning to ditch his small town and his wild boy mates for study overseas.

After being involved in the humiliation of bullying target Jonah (Gulliver McGrath), Corey agrees to walk him home, and in doing so agrees to play a game they once played as children; a game that becomes increasingly frightening.

Writer-director Nicholas Verso cleaves closely to Hollywood tradition, invoking all the cult films and Halloween aesthetics that defined the American ’90s. The film is Aussie in accent alone. It’s all shortcut – with this one choice, Verso establishes his gothic leanings, deep nostalgia and a clear-cut cinematic language, if a lazy one.

And yet, familiarity serves the story well.

Boys In The Trees is a treasure trove of deep cuts and old wounds, lifting wholesale from the soundtrack of angry ’90s adolescence – Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Garbage. If you grew up in a country town, you knew a Romany (Mitzi Ruhlmann). As the malicious Jango (Justin Holborow) and his grommets trash the town, they’re captured as if in

But as the masks fall to the floor and aesthetic distractions are cast aside, the film draws a concealed blade and thrusts at the heart. Under all the sound and fury of Jango’s rampaging, beyond the enacting of toxic male rituals and high school cruelties, we see the horrid life Jonah has had thrust upon him. The film is about more than bullying, betrayal and loss – it is about those who are forgotten, the boys in the trees not fond memories but ephemeral beings. One of the few things Verso treats with subtlety is sexuality, and it casts a long shadow.

Rachel (Emily Blunt) is in free fall – divorced and living vicariously through a couple that she ogles from the window of her morning train. But when she witnesses a dramatic event in the dream couple’s home, she is drawn into a mystery with dire implications for her life.

Erin Cressida Wilson’s adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel retains its focus on the female trio of Rachel, the object of her

fantasies Megan (Haley Bennett) and neighbour Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). It rarely struggles with the source’s shifting perspectives, but resorts to lifeless title cards to communicate its nonlinear structure, robbing the experience of momentum.

Blunt is magnetic as the core of the mystery, an unreliable narrator and a genuinely broken human being. Her performance of alcoholism is acutely, painfully realised.

Sadly, as the role progresses (and like her co-stars), she’s given little to do but cry. There is so much crying in this film.

As for the men, they are a malignant presence in the story, particularly Luke Evans as the volatile Scott. One fears for the women in their company every time they

appear on screen – a potent actualising of the spectre of domestic violence. That said, they lack the psychological complexity that defines the genre.

The real mystery is why director Tate Taylor brings the story to light in such a muted telemovie format. Unlike Gone Girl, there is no sense of a unified aesthetic, no flair for revelation. Taylor captures the emotional turmoil of his performers, but lends little suspense to the mystery itself.

Even the film’s most powerful moment – a gut-wrenching flashback to Megan’s youth – has effectively no impact on the plot.

The development of character amounts to little as our villain turns on a dime for the sake of shock in the film’s third act, turning them from a complex creature to a violent sociopath in moments. And as the credits roll, Rachel’s trite closing line leaves a taste as cloying and musty as her cheap whisky.

While we share Rachel’s voyeurism, we experience nothing of where it transports her (except in the most literal sense). We reach the expected destination in no more memorable a fashion than the trip we took to reach the cinema.

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The creator’s cultural posturing often gets in the way, but cannot undercut the powerful, resonant narrative he has crafted.

Boys In The Trees is fake blood splashed over scar tissue; face paint dripping like tears.

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Sydney Craft Beer Week 2016 Friday October 21 – Sunday October 30 This year’s edition of Sydney Craft Beer Week will showcase new brews, beer-accompanied feasts, international guests, workshops and a whole lot more at over 100 events across more than 75 venues. Local favourites like Young Henrys, Grifter, Batch and a whole host of others have curated exclusive events that explore beer’s rich history, origins, diversity and cultures: be it drinking, brewing, growing, or the natural marriage of food and degustation with this magical elixir. Perhaps best of all, a hop-on/hop-off shuttle will also be operating an inner Sydney circuit to participating venues.

For a full list of events, visit sydneycraftbeerweek.com.

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PlayStation VR: What You Need To Know In case you missed the memo, virtual reality has taken over the video game industry, and with PlayStation VR having just launched in Australia, now might just be the perfect opportunity to jump on board.

While competitors like the Oculus Rift can set you back a pretty penny, PlayStation VR is a little more affordable at $549.95. It’s worth noting, however, that in order to operate the device, you will also require the PlayStation 4 Camera (about $89.95).

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More important is that, pending your levels of luck, it may be difficult to actually get your hands on one right away. Most retailers have already sold out of their launch stock, but are taking pre-orders for future shipments.

If you are lucky enough to grab one, there’s an abundance of games to test out. Battlezone VR, Until Dawn: Rush To The Blood and RIGS Mechanized Combat League will all give you a taste of what’s possible, while larger titles like Star Trek: Bridge Crew are on their way.

Time will tell if VR proves itself to become more than a gimmick, but if you’re after a whole new way to experience gaming, PlayStation VR might be the answer.

Preview: Dishonored 2 (PS4, XBO, PC)

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he original Dishonored was a surprise hit for Arkane Studios, telling the brutal tale of one man’s bloody revenge in a fascinating steampunk world.

Four years later we’ve finally been gifted a sequel in the form of Dishonored 2, and if our recent hands-on time is anything to go by, bigger is most definitely better.

The demo dropped us about four hours into the main game with an enticing skill set as we approached the Clockwork Mansion, home to Kirin Jindosh and fitted with an abundance of shifting walls (which can be altered through various switches) that will strain your brain. Our mission is twofold: find and rescue Anton Sokolov (a returning character from the first game) and eliminate Jindosh.

This time, however, you have the choice to play as either returning hero Corvo Attano or new playable character Emily Kaldwin.

Where Dishonored 2 shines is through the flexibility each character presents. Corvo, for example, will once again allow you to Blink to nearby destinations or slow down time, while Emily can employ new powers like Domino, linking the fates of multiple enemies at the same time. Similarly, you even have control of Jindosh’s ultimate

Gale Harold in Queer As Folk

I have never in my adult life been discriminated against by any employer or colleague on the basis of my sexuality. In no professional setting have I ever been taken less seriously, or targeted or dismissed, because of my sexual preferences. As far as I know.

He told me that he’s behind enemy lines, that people can air out their most vicious homophobic thoughts to him without censoring themselves because they believe he is one of them. Nobody would ever make the mistake of doing that with me, because they’d be hard-pressed to assume that I’m straight.

fate. In one playthrough we drove a blade through his body almost instantly, while in another we destroyed his intellect by essentially lobotomising him instead.

I count myself to be very lucky in this case.

Then again, that doesn’t account for what might have been going on behind my back.

After experiencing both protagonists, Emily is definitely the recommended option for your first playthrough – especially if you’ve already had extensive time with Corvo in the original game. Not only is she a fresh face, but her abilities are a definite change of pace for the series.

When I first heard Queer As Folk’s Brian Kinney (Gale Harold) utter the line, “There’s only two kinds of straight people in this world: the ones who hate you to your face, and the ones who hate you behind your back,” I had to pause for a moment. I suddenly became unsettled, because I’d never really considered it a possibility before.

I thought a lot about this and realised there’s just no way of knowing. I mean, in a professional environment your behaviour is pretty intensely scrutinised anyway. Nobody really flies their bigot flag unless they’re ready for HR to swoop in and slice their heads off.

Or unless they’re particularly sociopathic or stupid. Or a CEO.

Still, with two unique characters, excellent level design and a spectacular amount of freedom to experiment with, Arkane’s latest looks like it will be receiving much more than an honourable mention when it hits store shelves on Thursday November 10.

Review: Forza Horizon 3 (XBO, PC)

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nless the Opera House is being blown to tiny pieces for the umpteenth time, Australia rarely receives much loving from the video game world. Thankfully, however, Playground Games has changed all that with Forza Horizon 3, presenting us with a racer firmly planted on our shores that we should all be flamin’ proud of.

Considering modern games so frequently focus on realism and authenticity – especially racers – it’s refreshing to see a developer loosen its grip on the wheel, leaving a speed-heavy thrill ride that genuinely keeps you coming back for more fun in the sun.

Whether you’re blasting through the dunes of the outback in a buggy or taking in the skyscraper-centric views of Surfers Paradise, you’ll rarely be at a loss for what to do, where to go or which car to drive – all of which are wonderfully unique to handle as you come to terms with each track’s various surfaces and degrees of acceleration. The Forza series has always been exceptional at presenting players with a wildly different car selection, and Forza Horizon 3 is no different.

It’s an attention to detail that is carried across to almost every facet of the game. The move to an Australian setting isn’t a superficial one;

it smacks you in the face at every turn. Small touches like multicoloured bin lids and road signs are all definitively our own, let alone the much larger, more obvious recreations like the Twelve Apostles.

Even the choice to defy almost every racing game on the market by placing the action on the left side of the road is an incredibly thoughtful touch that will genuinely mess with your head and undoubtedly cause countless collisions. Throw in various co-op and competitive opportunities, like extensive road trips with friends or hilariously brutal games of tag with foes, and you’ll waste hours without even realising.

It would be easy to recommend Forza Horizon 3 solely off the back of its local setting, but to do so would actually be a severe disservice to the game. That’s because the team at Playground Games has not just crafted an exceptional openworld racer. It’s developed one of the best in its genre – an essential for any Xbox One or PC owner. Just remember to stick to the left.

Adam Guetti

As someone who is very obviously gay, I cannot hide. I can’t easily pass for straight, so I’ve been on the receiving end of some nasty shit throughout my life. I’ve had drinks thrown at me out of car windows, been spat on, punched, pushed, screamed at, accosted in the street by randoms, told to kill myself, told I was going to hell, told I was going to die of AIDS, told I needed to be raped back to straightness, et cetera. I could go on and on, but I won’t.

Considering the long parade of abuse I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing throughout my life, I’d never stopped to consider that perhaps a lot more of this was going on behind my back. I mean, it’s really obvious when some mule-kicked fuckwit is foaming at the mouth, screaming at me that I’m a faggot bitch in the middle of the street, but what’s going on behind my back, or in my workplace?

I was recently chatting to a friend of mine who identifies as a bisexual man. He is read as straight and has no problems passing.

It’s a little chilling to consider. I know I’ve been mostly lucky professionally, but I’ve not been so lucky on the street by myself.

I don’t think Brian Kinney’s statement is necessarily a truism, but I don’t think that it’s entirely false either, and I don’t think it should be dismissed.

That said, it’s really great to live in a place where people can’t really be openly bigoted without consequence. Though Australia might be lagging on the marriage front (the plebiscite’s death rattle began long before Labor finally voted it into oblivion, yay!), it’s good to know we’ve gotten to a point where it’s unacceptable, at least in polite and professional society, to call someone a dyke and not be punished for it.

this week…

On Friday October 21, The Shift Club is starting its new Friday night show, Sweetly Censored, starring Ripley Waters, Thomas Piesley and Connor Patrick. It’ll also feature the “superstar talents” of Ms Charisma Belle and Hannah Conda, plus DJ Sveta.

This is the opening night, so it’s bound to be a good time.

On Saturday October 22, get on down to the Imperial Hotel because it’s Heaps Gay’s third birthday and they’re having a huge fancy party. Expect three floors of artists, dancers, musicians and DJs. Here’s the roll call: CC:Disco!, Heart People, Kimchi Princi, Apocalypstik,

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I recently found out that a guy I used to work with, who was super friendly, progressive and lovely, used to beat his girlfriend bloody on a regular basis. He didn’t come into work and say misogynistic shit, so there was no way of knowing his true feelings towards women. Just because I didn’t see or hear any colleague in any of my previous workplaces saying homophobic things doesn’t mean that some of them weren’t homophobes.

Honey Soundsystem Bailey Bailey (Mezko), Bad Deep DJs and Nic Kelly with many more to be announced. Tickets are on sale now.

On Sunday October 23, for V MoVement Sydney, the House Of Mince presents Honey Soundsystem (Jason

Kendig and Jackie House) from San Francisco. The Honey boys take inspiration from underground parties and dance music history and are known for huge productions, creating massive party-specific installations. Don’t miss out.

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The Attic 275 Pitt St, Sydney CBD (02) 9284 1200 Mon – Wed 10am-midnight; Thu 10am-1.30am; Fri 10am-3am; Sat noon1.30am Assembly 488 Kent St, Sydney CBD (02) 9283 8808 Mon – Tue 5pm-midnight; Wed – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight The Australian Heritage Hotel 100 Cumberland St, The Rocks (02) 9247 2229 Mon – Sun 10.30am-midnight Bar Eleven Lvl 11, 161 Sussex St, Sydney CBD (02) 9290 4712 Mon – Thu 4-9pm; Fri – Sat 4-11pm The Barber Shop 89 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 9699 Mon – Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu – Fri 3pm-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight

bar Tell us about your bar: The Cidery Bar & Kitchen is dedicated to serving the best ciders in Australia. It is located in the heart of Sydney’s CBD inside Rydges World Square Hotel, overlooking the buzzy shopping piazza. Created to pay respect to the great beverage of cider, The Cidery Bar & Kitchen was developed as a collaboration between the Sydney Brewery and Rydges, who set out to create a contemporary, urban-style craft bar in the Sydney CBD, ideal for informal dining and relaxed get-togethers. With an in-house cider-making facility to lovingly ferment, maturate and filter the best quality apple juice, the flagship multi-award-winning Sydney Cider is produced on-site by the Sydney Brewery team.

What’s on the menu?

The casual food menu was designed to complement the generous cider range. Small bites are available on the snacking menu, including bar favourites such

as pulled pork and slaw sliders, salt and pepper squid, mozzarella arancini, fried chicken wings, fat fries with rosemary salt and our delicious handmade woodfired pizzas (available after 5pm).

The professional team of chefs developed a special menu to include the house craft cider on the menu, adding Sydney Cider to the slow cooked pork ribs and Lovedale Lager to the traditional fish and chips.

Care for a drink?

The Cidery Bar & Kitchen showcases the Sydney Cider range alongside Sydney Brewery’s Sydney-inspired award-winning range on tap, from Surry Hills Pils to Paddo Pale, Glamarama Summer Ale and Lovedale Lager, the winner of three trophies in the last three years at major Australian competitions. The Cidery also serves a fierce cocktail menu and premium local and imported wines. The star of The Cidery Bar & Kitchen, of course, is Sydney Cider, which is available freshly served

from the tap and also in bottles.

Sounds: The atmosphere shifts on Friday nights with different DJs every week playing the best of house, deep, tech, funky, indie and nu-disco.

Highlights: The Cidery Bar & Kitchen offers lunch deals up to $18 on weekdays, from the substantial Wagyu beef burger to tasty light options like fig and duck salad and the traditional fish and chips.

The bar also has its own VIP Club that gives 20 per cent off any purchase (excluding promotions) at The Cidery Bar & Kitchen and also at Bar Surry Hills.

The bill comes to: The popular Wagyu beef burger matches very well with either Paddo Pale Ale or Pyrmont Rye IPA, or any of the Sydney Brewery beers, really, which are just $5 all day everyday, so that comes to $23 for the burger and beer (or $18 for the combo Wednesdays at lunchtime).

Basement Bar Basement, 27-33 Goulburn St, Sydney CBD (02) 8970 5813 Mon – Thu 5pm-10pm; Fri – Sat 5pm-midnight The Baxter Inn Basement 152-156 Clarence St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sat 4pm-1am Beta Bar First Floor, 238 Castlereagh St, CBD (02) 8599 8970 Wed – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri midday-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight Bulletin Place First Floor, 10-14 Bulletin Place, Circular Quay Mon – Wed 4pm-midnight; Thurs – Sat 4pm-1am; Sun 4-10pm Burrow Bar De Mestre Place, Sydney 0450 466 674 Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight The Captain’s Balcony 46 Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 3526 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight deVine 32 Market St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 6906 Mon – Fri 11.30am-11.30pm; Sat 5.30-11.30pm Easy Eight 152-156 Clarence St, Sydney (02) 9299 3769 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight El Camino Cantina 18 Argyle St, The Rocks Mon – Thu noonmidnight; Fri – Sat noon-3am; Sun 11.30am-midnight Frankie’s Pizza 50 Hunter St, Sydney CBD Sun – Thu 4pm-3am; Fri noon-3am Gilt Lounge 49 Market St, Sydney CBD (02) 8262 0000 Mon – Fri 5pm-2am; Sun 5pm-midnight The Glenmore 96 Cumberland St, The Rocks (02) 9247 4794 Mon – Thu, Sun 11am-midnight; Fri – Sat 11am-1am Grain Bar 199 George St, Sydney CBD (02) 9250 3118

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Grandma’s Basement 275 Clarence St, Sydney CBD (02) 9264 3004 Mon – Fri 3pm-midnight; Sat 5pm-1am The Fox Hole 68A Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 4369 Mon 7am-3pm; Tue – Fri 7am-late The Grasshopper 1 Temperance Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 9947 9025 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri noon-1am; Sat 4pm-1am Hacienda Sydney 61 Macquarie St, Sydney CBD (02) 9256 4000 Mon – Sun noon-late Harpoon Harry 40-44 Wentworth Ave, Sydney CBD (02) 8262 8800 Mon – Sat 11.30am-3am; Sun 11am-midnight Kittyhawk 16 Phillip Ln, Sydney CBD Mon – Thu 3pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 3pm-2am The Lobo Plantation Basement Lot 1, 209 Clarence St, Sydney CBD 0415 554 908 Mon – Thu, Sat 4pm-midnight; Fri 2pm-midnight The Local Bar 161 Castlereagh St, Sydney CBD (02) 9953 0027 Mon – Wed 7.30am-10pm; Thu – Fri 7.30am-11pm The Loft (UTS) 15 Broadway, Sydney (behind 2SER) (02) 9514 1149 Mon – Fri 2-11pm Mojo Record Bar Basement 73 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 4999 Mon – Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu 4pm-1am; Fri – Sat 4pm-1am The Morrison 225 George St, Sydney CBD (02) 9247 6744 Mon – Wed 7.30am-11pm; Thu 7.30am-midnight; Fri 7.30am-2am; Sat 11.30am-2am The Palisade 35 Bettington St, Millers Point 9018 0123 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat – Sun 11am-midnight Mr Tipply’s 347 Kent St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 4877 Mon – Thu 11.30am-10pm; Fri 11.30am-midnight; Sat 10pm-4am Palmer & Co. Abercrombie Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 9240 3000 Sun – Weds 5pm-3am; Thu 3pm-3am; Fri noon3am; Sat 4pm-3am Papa Gede’s Bar Laneway at the end of 348 Kent St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 5671 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Plan B Small Club 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney CBD Wed 5pm-11pm; Thu 5pm-1am; Fri 5pm-3am; Sat 6pm-3am PS40 40 King St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Ramblin’ Rascal Tavern

199 Elizabeth St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight

Rockpool Bar & Grill 66 Hunter St, Sydney CBD (02) 8078 1900 Mon – Sat noon-3pm, 6-11pm The Rook Level 7, 56-58 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 2505 Mon, Sat 4pm-midnight; Tue – Fri noon-midnight The SG 32 York St, Sydney CBD Tues – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 6pm-midnight Shirt Bar 7 Sussex Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 8068 8222 Mon –Wed 8am-8pm; Thu – Fri 8am-10pm Since I Left You 338 Kent St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 4986 Mon – Wed 5pm-10pm; Thu – Fri 4.30pm-midnight; Sat 6pm-midnight Small Bar 48 Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 0782 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight The Smoking Panda 5-7 Park St, Sydney CBD (02) 9264 4618 Mon – Sat 4pm-late Stitch Bar 61 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 0380 Mon – Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu – Fri noon-2am; Sat 4pm-2am The Swinging Cat 44 King St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 3696 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Tapa Vino 6 Bulletin Place, Circular Quay (02) 9247 3221 Mon – Fri noon-11.30pm Tuxedo Bar 195 Gloucester St, The Rocks Mon – Fri noon-7pm Uncle Ming’s 55 York St, Sydney CBD Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight York Lane 56 Clarence St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 1676 Mon – Wed 6.30am-10pm; Thu – Fri 6am-midnight; Sat 6pm-midnight

121BC 4/50 Holt St, Surry Hills (02) 9699 1582 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight Absinthe Salon 87 Albion St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 6632 Wed – Sat 4-10pm Arcadia Liquors 7 Cope St, Redfern (02) 8068 4470 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Bar Cleveland Cnr Bourke & Cleveland St, Redfern (02) 9698 1908 Mon – Thu 10am-2am; Fri – Sat 10am-4am Bar H 80 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 1980 Mon – Sat 6pm-11.30 Bellini Lounge 2 Kellett St, Potts Point (02) 9331 0058 Thu – Sun 6pm-late thebrag.com

Black Penny 648 Bourke St, Surry Hills (02) 9319 5061 Mon – Sat 7am-midnight; Sun 7am-10pm Button Bar 65 Foveaux St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 1544 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Café Lounge 277 Goulburn St, Surry Hills (02) 9016 3951 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sunday 4-10pm Casoni Italian Bar & Eatery 371-373 Bourke St, Darlinghurst Tue – Thu 5pm-11pm; Fri – Sat 5pm-midnight

Hinky Dinks 185 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst (02) 8084 6379 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 2-11pm Hollywood Hotel 2 Foster St, Surry Hills (02) 9281 2765 Mon – Wed 10am-midnight; Thu – Sat 10am-3am The Horse 381 Crown St, Surry Hills 1300 976 683 Mon – Thu noonmidnight; Fri 11.30am-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon10pm

Central Tavern 42-50 Chalmers St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3814 Mon – Sat 10am-2am; Sun 10am-10pm

Jangling Jack’s Bar & Grill 175 Victoria St, Potts Point Tue – Wed 4-11pm, Thu – Sat 4-1am, Sun noon11pm

Ching-a-Lings 1/133 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9360 3333 Wed 6-11pm; Thu – Sat 6pm-1am; Sun 5-10pm

Hustle & Flow Bar 3/105 Regent St, Redfern (02) 8964 93932 Tue – Thu 6pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 2pm-midnight

The Cliff Dive 16-18 Oxford Square, Darlinghurst Fri – Sat 6pm-late

Li’l Darlin Darlinghurst 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 8084 6100 Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight

The Commons 32 Burton St, Darlinghurst (02) 9358 1487 Tue – Wed 6pm-midnight; Thu – Fri noon-late; Sat – Sun 8:30am-late Darlo Bar 306 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst (02) 9331 3672 Mon – Sun 10am-midnight Darlo Country Club Level 1, 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9380 4279 Wed – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 5pm-2am Dead Ringer 413 Bourke St, Surry Hills (02) 9331 3560 Mon – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-midnight Della Hyde 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst Thu – Sat 5pm-late Eau-De-Vie 229 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst 0422 263 226 Sun – Fri 6pm-1am; Sat 6pm-midnight

Li’l Darlin Surry Hills 420 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills (02) 9698 5488 Mon – Fri noon-11pm; Sat 4pm-midnight LL Wine and Dine 42 Llankelly Place Potts Point (02) 9356 8393 Mon – Thu 5pm-11pm; Fri – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 11am-10pm The Local Taphouse 122 Flinders St, Darlinghurst (02) 9360 0088 Mon – Sun noon-9:30pm Love, Tilly Devine 91 Crown Ln, Darlinghurst (02) 9326 9297 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm Low 302 302 Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9368 1548 Mon – Sun 6pm-2am

The Exchange 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9358 2311 Mon – Sun noon-late

Mr Fox 557 Crown St, Surry Hills 0410 470 250 Tue – Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm

The Forresters 336 Riley St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3035 Mon – Wed noonmidnight; Thu – Sat noon1am; Sun noon-10pm

Moya’s Juniper Lounge 101 Regent St, Redfern 0431 113 394 Tue – Sat 4pm-11pm; Sun midday-10pm

Gardel’s Bar 358 Cleveland St, Surry Hills (02) 8399 1440 Tue – Sat 6pm-midnight

The Noble Hops 125 Redfern St, Redfern 0431 113 394 Mon – Fri 4pm -midnight; Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 3pm-10pm

Gazebo 2 Elizabeth Bay Rd, Elizabeth Bay (02) 8070 2424 Tue – Sun noon-midnight Golden Age Cinema & Bar thebrag.com

The Norfolk 305 Cleveland St, Surry Hills (02) 9699 3177 Mon – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm

The Owl House 97 Crown St, Darlinghurst 0401 273 080 Mon – Sat 5pm-late; Sun 5-10pm Peekaboo 120 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo 0403 747 788 Tue – Thu 4pm-10pm; Fri – Sat 4pm-midnight Play Bar 72 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 0885 Tue – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight Pocket Bar 13 Burton St, Darlinghurst (02) 9380 7002 Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight The Powder Keg 7 Kellett St, Potts Point (02) 8354 0980 Wed – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4:30pm-midnight; Sun 4pm-midnight The Print Room 11 Glenmore Rd, Paddington (02) 9331 0911 Thu – Fri noon-midnight; Sun – Wed noon-10pm Queenie’s Upstairs 336 Riley St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3035 Tue – Thu 6pm-late, Fri noon-3pm & 6pm-late; Sat 6pm-late Riley St Garage 55 Riley St, Woolloomooloo (02) 9326 9055 Mon – Sat noon-midnight Roosevelt 32 Orwell St, Potts Point (02) 8696 1787 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Rosie Campbell’s 320 Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9356 4653 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sun 11am-midnight Shady Pines Saloon Shop 4, 256 Crown St, Darlinghurst Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight The Soda Factory 16 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills (02) 8096 9120 Mon – Wed 5pm-midnight; Thu – Fri 5pm-3am; Sat – Sun 6pm-3am Surly’s 182 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9331 3705 Mon – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Sweethearts Rooftop 33/37 Darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point (02) 9368 7333 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sun noon-midnight This Must Be The Place 239 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9331 8063 Mon – Sun 3pm-midnight The Tilbury Hotel 12-18 Nicholson St, Woolloomooloo (02) 9368 1955 Mon 9am-10pm; Tue – Fri 9am-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm

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Tio’s Cerveceria 4-14 Foster St, Surry Hills (02) 9368 1955 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight

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Big Poppa’s 96 Oxford St, Darlinghurst Mon – Sun 5pm-3am

Goros 84-86 Mary St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 0214 Mon – Wed 11:30am-midnight; Thu 11:30am-1am: Fri 11:30am-3am; Sat 4pm-3am

Old Growler 218 William St, Woolloomooloo 0458 627 266 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight

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80 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 1556 Wed – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat – Sun 2:30pm-midnight

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The Bells Hotel 1 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo (02) 9357 3765 Mon – Sun 10am-1am

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Vasco 421 Cleveland St, Redfern 0406 775 436 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight The Village Inn 9-11 Glenmore Rd, Paddington (02) 9331 0911 Mon – Sun noon-late The Wild Rover 75 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 2235 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight

Saturday October 22 – Sunday October 23

The Winery 285A Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9331 0833 Mon – Sun noon-midnight

Anchor Bar 8 Campbell Pde, Bondi (02) 8084 3145 Mon – Fri 5pm-late; Sat – Sun 12.30pm-late Bat Country 32 St Pauls St, Randwick (@ The Spot) (02) 9398 6694 Mon – Sat 7am-midnight; Sun 7am-10pm

The hops are flowing this time of year, and Coogee Bay Hotel is celebrating in its glorious beer garden with a weekend-long festival of craft beer, cider, live music and food. The venue will host 20 stalls from Australia’s best brewers this Saturday and Sunday, and we picked five of our favourites to find out more.

Beach Road Hotel 71 Beach Rd, Bondi Beach (02) 9130 7247 Mon – Fri 11am-1am; Sat 10am-1am; Sun 10am-10pm Bondi Hardware 39 Hall St, Bondi (02) 9365 7176 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri noon-midnight; Sat 9am-midnight; Sun 9am-8pm The Bucket List Shop 1, Bondi Pavilion, Queen Elizabeth Drive (02) 9365 4122 Mon – Tue 11am-5pm; Wed – Sun 11am-midnight The Corner House 281 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 8020 6698 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 1pm-10pm Fat Ruperts 249 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9130 1033 Tue – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat – Sun 2pm-midnight Jam Gallery 195 Oxford St, Bondi Junction (02) 9389 2485 Tue 4pm-midnight; Wed – Sat 4pm-3am The Phoenix Hotel 1 Moncur St, Woollahra (02) 9363 2608 Tue – Wed 4-11pm; Thu – Fri 11.30am-1am; Sat 8am-11pm; Sun 8am-10pm The Robin Hood Hotel 203 Bronte Rd, Waverley (02) 9389 3477 Mon-Sat 10am-3am; Sun 10am-10pm

Batlow Cider

Your story: Batlow Cider was started in 2011, but we have been growing apples in Batlow since the late 1800s! Batlow is a town in the Snowy Mountains region – it’s actually the coldest climate, highest altitude apple growing region in Australia, which results in a crisp and crunchy apple. I (Rich) started it with my brother Sam, probably a result of our misspent youth and passion for drinking good quality booze. We teamed up with the apple growers of Batlow – we knew nothing about growing apples and they are the experts, so a partnership made sense. We distribute it around Australia and export a bit too.

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Your speciality: We make fresh and fruit-driven ciders that are on the drier end of the spectrum. When we started there were hardly any drier styles, so we wanted to focus on that.

That’s what we like to drink. Our OPA (Oaked Pear & Apple) is our most interesting and different.

It’s made with a blend of 30 per cent pears and 70 per cent apples and has a little more complexity and interesting flavours. We work with a talented team of winemakers that oversee our production and the fruit that goes into it has been hand-picked. We also add no sugars, additives, concentrates – just fresh fruit crushed and turned into cider!

Best drunk with: A plate of nice cheese goes really well with our OPA, although it's best enjoyed amongst good company.

Where to get it: Our ciders are available at most good independent bottle shops – try Coogee Bay Hotel, Corkscrew Cellars, Best Cellars, Kemenys, Bottega Del Vino or Oak Barrel in the city.

Website: batlowcider.com.au Phone: 0434 020 653

Selina’s at Coogee Bay Hotel 253 Coogee Bay Rd, Coogee (02) 9665 0000 Selina’s Thu 8pm-midnight; Coogee Bay Hotel Mon – Thu 7am-3am, Fri – Sat 7am-6am; Sun 7am-midnight Speakeasy 83 Curlewis St, Bondi (02) 9130 2020 Mon – Sat 5pm-11pm; Sat – Sun 4pm-10pm Spring Street Social 110 Spring St, Bondi BRAG :: 685 :: 19:10:16 :: 21

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Bilpin Cider Co.

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Your story: Founded in 2011 by Sean Prendergast, Bilpin Cider Co. is located in the heart of the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains. Our tenacre farm includes the cellar door, apple orchard, sheep, lambs, alpacas and gardens. We are open to visitors seven days a week and being only a 90-minute drive from Sydney’s CBD, we offer visitors the chance to try our product and experience our farm environment.

Your specialty: Our flagship product is Bilpin Original. This is made from freshly crushed Granny Smiths, Pink Lady and Red Delicious apples sourced from Bilpin and the Central Tablelands region. This is our balanced style, neither too sweet nor too dry. This balanced flavour is the result of the combination of fruit – the tartness of the Granny Smiths combined with the sweetness of the Pink Lady and Red Delicious apples.

Bilpin Blush is our sweeter style, made from 100 per cent Pink Lady apples and fermented to 3.5 per cent. The finished product retains the natural sweetness of the fruit. It is sweet up front and crisp and clean at the finish.

Bilpin Archibald is our cloudy style and slightly drier. The juice has been dry fermented and then we added back unfiltered and unfermented juice to deliver a complex full-bodied cider with a slightly drier finish.

Best drunk with: Bilpin Original is a superb drink with roast pork.

Where to get it: Bilpin Original is found in many independent hotels, bottle shops and restaurants around Sydney as well as Dan Murphy’s and selected BWS stores.

Website: bilpincider.com

Junction (02) 9389 2485 Tue – Sat 5pm-3am

Stuffed Beaver 271 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9130 3002 Mon – Sat noonmidnight; Sun noon-10pm

Bar-racuda 105 Enmore Rd, Newtown (02) 9519 1121 Mon – Sat 6pm-midnight Batch Brewing Company 44 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville (02) 9550 5432 Mon – Sun 10am-8pm Bauhaus West 163 Enmore Rd, Enmore (02) 8068 9917 Wed – Thu 5-11pm; Fri 4-11pm; Sat 2-10pm; Sun midday-10pm The Bearded Tit 183 Regent St, Redfern (02) 8283 4082 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Blacksheep 256 King St, Newtown (02) 8033 3455 Mon – Fri 4pm-11pm; Sat 2pm-11pm; Sun 2pm-10pm Bloodwood 416 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 7699 Mon – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm

The Grifter Brewing Co. 1/391-397 Enmore Rd, Marrickville (02) 9550 5742 Thu 4-9pm; Fri – Sat noon-9pm; Sun noon-7pm The Hideaway Bar 156 Enmore Rd, Enmore (02) 8021 8451 Tue– Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4pm-1am Hive Bar 93 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville (02) 9519 1376 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 11am-10pm Kelly’s On King 285 King St, Newtown (02) 9565 2288 Mon – Fri 10am-2.30am; Sat 10am-3.30am; Sun 11am-11.30pm Kingston Public Bar & Kitchen 62-64 King St, Newtown (02) 8084 4140 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Knox Street Bar Cnr Knox & Shepherd St, Chippendale (02) 8970 6443 Tue – Thu 4-10pm; Fri – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm

Calaveras 324 King St, Newtown 0451 541 712 Wed – Sat 6pm-midnight

Kuleto’s 157 King St, Newtown (02) 9519 6369 Mon – Sat 4pm-late; Thu – Sat 4pm-3am

Cornerstone Bar & Food 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh (02) 8571 9004 Sun – Wed 10am-5pm; Thu – Fri 10am-late; Sat 9am-late

Leadbelly 42 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 9409 Sun – Thur 4pm-midnight; Fri-Sat 4pm-1am

Corridor 153A King St, Newtown 0405 671 002 Mon 5pm-midnight; Tue 4pm-midnight; Wed – Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Cottage Bar & Kitchen 342 Darling St, Balmain (02) 8084 8185 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Different Drummer 185 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9552 3406 Mon 4.30-11pm; Tue – Wed 4.30pm-1am; Thu – Sat 4.30pm-2am; Sun 4.30am-midnight Doris & Beryl’s Bridge Club and Tea House 530 King St, Newtown Mon – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat – Sun 3.30pm-midnight Earl’s Juke Joint King St, Newtown Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Forest Lodge Hotel 117 Arundel St, Forest Lodge (02) 9660 1872 Mon – Sat 11am-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Freda’s 109 Regent St, Chippendale (02) 8971 7336 Tues – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4pm-10pm

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The Gasoline Pony 115 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville 0401 002 333 Tue – Thu 5-11.30pm; Fri – Sat 3-11.30pm; Sun 3-9.30pm

The Little Guy 87 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 8084 0758 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 1pm-midnight; Sun 3pm-10pm Mary’s 6 Mary St, Newtown (02) 4995 9550 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm The Midnight Special 44 Enmore Road, Newtown (02) 9516 2345 Tues – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5pm-10pm Miss Peaches 201 Missenden Rd, Newtown (02) 9557 7280 Wed – Sun 5pm-midnight Mr Falcon’s 92 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9029 6626 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri 3pm-midnight; Sat noonmidnight; Sun 4pm-10pm Newtown Social Club 387 King St, Newtown (02) 9550 3974 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-2am; Sun noon10pm The Oxford Tavern 1 New Canterbury Rd, Petersham (02) 8019 9351 Mon – Thu noonmidnight; Fri – Sat noon3am; Sun noon-10pm Lord Raglan 12 Henderson Rd,

Alexandria (02) 9699 4767 Mon – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm

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The Record Crate 34 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9660 1075 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Sat 2pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm

Firefly 24 Young St, Neutral Bay (02) 9909 0193 Mon – Wed 5-11pm; Thu 5-11.30pm; Fri noon11.30pm; Sat noon-11pm; Sun noon-10pm

The Royal 156 Norton St, Leichhardt (02) 9569 2638 Mon – Thu 10am-1am; Fri – Sat 10am-3am; Sun 10am-midnight

The Foxtrot 28 Falcon St, Crows Nest Tue – Wed 5pm-midnight; Thu 5pm-1am; Fri 4pm-2am; Sat 5pm-2am; Sun 4-10pm

Secret Garden Bar 134a Enmore Rd, Enmore 0403 621 585 Mon – Tue 7am-5pm; Wed – Fri 7am-11pm; Sat 7am-10pm; Sun 7am-11pm

The Hayberry Bar & Diner 97 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest (02) 8084 0816 Tue – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri & Sat noon-midnight Sun noon-10pm

Staves Brewery 4-8 Grose Street, Glebe (02) 9280 4555 Thu 4-10pm; Fri – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Temperance Society 122 Smith St, Summer Hill (02) 8068 5680 Mon – Thu 4pm-11pm; Fri – Sat: noon-midnight; Sun: noon-10pm Thievery 91 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 8283 1329 Mon – Thu 6pm-11pm; Fri 6pm-midnight; Sat noon3pm & 6pm-midnight Timbah 375 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9571 7005 Tue – Thu 4-10pm; Fri 4-11pm; Sat 3pm-11pm; Sun 4pm-8pm Vernon’s Bar L2. One Penny Red, 2 Moonbie St. Summer Hill (02) 9797 8118 Mon – Sun 4pm-11:30pm Wayward Brewing Co. 1 Gehrig Ln, Annandale (02) 7903 2445 Thu – Sat 2-10pm; Sun noon-8pm Websters Bar 323 King St, Newtown (02) 9519 1511 Mon – Sat 10am-4am; Sun 10am-midnight Wilhelmina’s 332 Darling St, Balmain (02) 8068 8762 Wed – Fri 5-11pm; Sat – Sun 8am-11pm The Workers Lvl 1, 292 Darling St, Balmain (02) 9555 8410 Fri – Sat 5pm-3am; Sun 2pm-midnight Young Henrys D & E, 76 Wilford St, Newtown (02) 9519 0048 Mon – Sat 10am-7pm; Sun noon-7pm Zigi’s Wine And Cheese Bar 86 Abercrombie St, Chippendale (02) 9699 4222 Tue 4pm-10pm; Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu – Sat 3pm-midnight

Crooked Tailor 250 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill (02) 9899 3167 Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight Daniel San 55 North Steyne, Manly (02) 9977 6963 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Friday – Saturday noon–2am; Sunday noon-midnight

Hemingway’s 48 North Steyne, Manly (02) 9976 3030 Mon – Sat 8am-midnight; Sun 8am-10pm The Hold Shop 4, Sydney Rd Plaza, Manly (02) 9977 2009 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Honey Rider 230 Military Rd, Neutral Bay (02) 9953 8880 Tue – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4pm-10pm InSitu 1/18 Sydney Rd, Manly (02) 9977 0669 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat 9am-midnight; Sun 9am-10pm The Hunter 5 Myahgah Rd, Mosman 0409 100 339 Mon – Tue 5pm-midnight; Wed – Sat noonmidnight; Sun noon10pm Jah Bar Shop 9, 9-15 Central Ave, Manly (02) 9977 4449 Tue 5pm-midnight; Wed-Fri noon-midnight; Sat 8am-midnight; Sun 9am-midnight Manly Wine 8-13 South Steyne, Manly (02) 8966 9000 Mon – Sun 6.30am-late Miami Cuba 47 North Steyne, Manly 0487 713 350 Mon – Sun 8am-4pm Moonshine Lvl 2, Hotel Steyne, 75 The Corso, Manly (02) 9977 4977 Mon – Thu 9am-3pm; Fri – Sat 9am-2am; Sun 9am-midnight The Pickled Possum 254 Military Rd, Neutral Bay (02) 9909 2091 Thu – Sat 9pm-1am SoCal 1 Young St, Neutral Bay (02) 9904 5691 Mon – Wed 5pm-midnight; Thu 5pm-1am; Sat noon-2am; Sun noon-midnight The Stoned Crow 39 Willoughby Rd, Crows Nest (02) 9439 5477 Mon – Sat noon-late; Sun 11.30am-10pm The Treehouse Hotel 60 Miller St, North Sydney (02) 8458 8980 Mon – Fri 7am-midnight; Sat 2pm-midnight

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Your story: The Lord Nelson Brewery is Sydney’s oldest continually licensed hotel and Australia’s oldest pub brewery. Housed in a stunning heritage building, upgraded in 1836, the Lord Nelson was originally a private residence owned by pardoned convict-made-liquor baron, William Wells.

The current custodians, including managing director Blair Hayden, acquired the freehold in 1986.

They took a beautiful old pub and completed the restoration to its former colonial glory with the aid of an 1852 photograph. A stunning sandstone facade was reflected in exposed internal walls, along with many convict-made chisel marks on the locally quarried stone. In keeping with the ambience of the architecture, the custodians were inspired to create beers in the style of traditional British ale – natural with no added sugar and extremely full-flavoured – instead of lager as made by the big brewers dominating the market at the time. A microbrewery was built in the back area of the bar and cellar, ‘Brewery’ added to the facade and the rest is history.

Your speciality: Our choice brew is our first born and house favourite Three Sheets Australian Pale Ale, distributed nationally and recently voted #23 in Australia’s Hottest 100 Craft Beers poll. It is our dedication to the art of craft brewing and staying true to the ethos of 100 per cent natural ale with no added sugars or preservatives that help us deliver an outstanding product.

Best drunk with: Best enjoyed with any of the pub classics served over the bar at the Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel in The Rocks, such as the beef pie with mash, gravy and peas, fish and chips or Nepalese chicken curry. All best enjoyed with great company.

Where to get it: The Lord Nelson Brewery has over 70 venues around Australia at which you can order one of our beers on tap. In addition to this we distribute nationally in the bottle (and shortly in cans too) through both on-premise and retail avenues, most notably at Vintage Cellars.

Website: lordnelsonbrewery.com Phone: (02) 9251 4044

Young Henrys Brewery and Distillery

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Your story: Like most good stories, ours started over a beer. Meeting on opposite sides of the bar, Richard Adamson and Oscar McMahon got talking over their love of beer and music, also discovering they shared a view that the Australian beer scene was behind the times – that it should be more adventurous, innovative and fun. With Richard’s brewer experience, and Oscar’s hospitality expertise, they decided they should do more than talk.

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Your story: Born and raised in Byron Bay, we take a fresh approach to brewing handcrafted beer in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, one of the greatest places on Earth. We established Stone & Wood Brewing Company in 2008. The three boys – Brad, Jamie and Ross – had spent many years working in the beer business. The dream was to quit ‘working for the man’, shed the corporate garbage and get back to basics.

As the original brewers of the Northern Rivers, we built our first brewery here at the eastern tip of Australia, in a part of the world where people enjoy having a beer when relaxing after catching a wave, catching a band at the pub or just catching up with friends.

It’s that sort of place. We brew beer for times like these – beers that the locals, those passing through the town and the growing number of drinkers who appreciate good beer, and of course ourselves, would find simply good to drink.

Your speciality: Big Scrub – Beers From Our Backyard Range (Limited Release). With only one per cent left of the largest subtropical rainforest on the east coast, the remnants of Big Scrub serve as a reminder to preserve the natural beauty of our backyard and have inspired our latest limited release from the Beers From Our Backyard Range.

A new-age lager that balances the subtle malt foundation with a firm bitterness and dry finish, Big Scrub is different to traditional lagers by being dry hopped, using new world hops and left unfiltered (like all of our beers). It pours golden with a slight haze from extended cold maturation and no filtration (five weeks), with a luscious white creamy head.

Best drunk with: Sunshine on a relaxing arvo with an epic view, good food and good company.

Where to get it: Find a venue listing of where it’s being tapped and hitting shelves on our website (blog section).

Website: stoneandwood.com.au Phone: (02) 6685 5173

In 2012, after a long search for a permanent home, Young Henrys Brewery was officially born in Newtown. With a few friends and a small brew kit, they set about ensuring no local would ever go thirsty again! Now in 2016, the brewery is growing at breakneck speed, with a bustling tasting bar and servicing hundreds of local and national watering holes. Young Henrys has most recently incorporated a distillery into the family, with its gold-medal-winning Noble Cut gin and more handcrafted spirits to be released soon.

Your speciality: Our Newtowner Australian Pale Ale was first brewed in response to an invitation to help celebrate the 150-year anniversary of our home suburb in Sydney. It’s a well balanced and refreshing beer with three Australian hops (Galaxy, Cascade and Victoria Secret). It’s now being enjoyed in bars and backyards around the country and has become one of our most popular beers. It’s also now available in 300ml stubbies.

Best drunk with: We brew a range of different styles for different tastes.

We believe beer is always best served with your best mates and a side of live music or art.

Where to get it: Find us in good independent bottle shops and nationally in Vintage Cellars and Dan Murphy’s.

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Album Reviews What's been crossing our ears this week...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK ALTER BRIDGE

in songs of hope and cries of expectation of a great worldly change, with classic riffs and drum lines so loud it sounds as if drummer Scott Phillips is set to break his skins.

The Last Hero Napalm

For well over a decade Alter Bridge have produced some profoundly deep and inspiring records for the world of rock. The Last Hero is an epic continuation of the band’s saga of powerful releases.

One of the most compelling groups in modern rock takes politics by the balls.

The first half of the album is rife with messages of the band’s political leanings – the album’s title alone is a good indication. Desperate times in America have a lot of artists airing strongly anti-Trump campaigns, and Alter Bridge are no exception. But these messages come immersed

Alter Bridge have maintained a classicism in their sound that marries well with their opinions on current affairs. Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, frontman Myles Kennedy – likely one of the greatest voices in this era of rock – leads you away with his unwavering and incomparable falsetto. ‘Crows On A Wire’ and ‘You Will Be Remembered’ secure your attention amid some excellently dirty guitar riffs from Mark Tremonti.

Closer ‘Last Of Our Kind’ and its haunting refrain “The symphony of agony plays on” reaffirms the anguish, artistry and legacy of Alter Bridge.

The Last Hero is another fantastic notch in the bedpost of hard rock.

Anna Wilson

GREEN DAY

BETH HART

STICKY FINGERS

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS

LISA MITCHELL

2016 marks 30 years since Green Day first began. Somehow, some way, the East Bay natives have managed to stay pertinent to successive generations, be it through brattish pop-punk or politically conscious arena rock.

Beth Hart has been steadily dropping albums since the ’90s, and goddamn if Fire On The Floor isn’t her best yet. A lot of records purport to take you on a journey – sailing through various genres and tempos, pushing and pulling, the whole fire and ice game. But it’s a rare gem that makes you feel that you’ve actually arrived somewhere new.

Sticky Fingers’ third album is one that very nearly never happened.

After cancelling a European tour and seeing one band member land in rehab, and another in a psych ward, it seemed as through a break-up was on the horizon.

Kicking off with the stadium-sized ‘Higher’, which carries traces of the crunchy origins found on earlier EPs, seems to let listeners know that The Naked And Famous’ edgy, unhinged sound has made a return. Alas, the record quickly dives into that good ol’ glossy dance-influenced pop.

Lisa Mitchell’s last effort Bless This Mess had its moments but lacked cohesion. Warriors, on the other hand, has a firm sense of direction and purpose.

Revolution Radio Reprise/Warner

After a few years away, the amps are back up to 11 and the name Green Day is once again up in lights. It’s at this point things start to feel a little familiar: much like every release following 2004’s seminal American Idiot, the hype has built up and failed to substantiate in Revolution Radio itself. There are moments, certainly, in which the trio stand their ground – the title track springs to mind, as does the entertaining ‘Too Dumb To Die’ – but the album is predominantly marred by songs that are either lifeless and bland (‘Still Breathing’) or sprouting some of the band’s worst-ever lyrics (see ‘Bang Bang’ for “I got my photobomb / I got my Vietnam”).

Try as they might, the momentum just never picks up.

Revolution Radio shoots for the moon but ultimately ends up fl oating aimlessly above the stars. The revolution will not be televised, and nor will it be sparked by a faded-star band that is unquestionably old enough to know better.

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Fire On The Floor Provogue/Mascot

These songs are so seductive and well crafted that it’s outright jarring to move on to something else. Album opener ‘Jazz Man’ is a deceptively straightforward jazz fusion number, but once that voice hits its stride you know you’re in for a hell of a ride. Skip back and forth across the album – ‘Coca Cola’ to ‘Fat Man’, for instance – and it isn’t just the versatility of tone that leaves you impressed.

It’s almost as though Hart has access to a wardrobe of different voices; unmistakably her, but put to strikingly different use from track to track.

Westway (The Glitter & The Slums) Sureshaker/Warner

Luckily for the rest of us, the band got back in the studio to record Westway (The Glitter & The Slums), an album that bears almost no trace of the troubles that nearly led to it never happening.

A very chill vibe permeates every tune, but it’s never so chill that you can’t break out into a quick jive if you feel so inclined, and the odd upbeat track almost makes it hard not to. What makes Sticky Fingers different to your average indie rock group is that damn sexy synthesizer work, which is in its fi nest form on this album.

Giving every song a hip-swaying edge is something that makes StiFi stand out from the crowd.

Hart has an earthy timbre that can suddenly leap to such soaring, searing notes you can just about feel them. Look no further than the epic ‘Love Is A Lie’.

Westway is a great choice for anyone who wants a chilled rock album with the option to dance (and potentially leave their friends behind).

There’s still a few months left of 2016 and Fire On The Floor has a good shot at being one of the year’s top releases.

Hopefully the boys can stay out of trouble and continue their rise.

Adam Norris

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INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK The pacifying dream-pop sound that Melbourne trio Arbes brought to light off the back of their admirable first EP Swimmer is marginally adapted in their second release, Psalms.

Sounds of Warpaint or Alpine’s less electronic debut album spring to mind, but Arbes have captured something more melancholic.

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Jess Zanoni’s delicate vocals lead us on a purposeful journey in ‘Sintra’, buoyed by a wistful guitar riff that takes a number of turns before paving way for an echoic synth outro. ‘Follow Towards’ opens with a similarly eerie synth, distantly mimicking the ebbing and flowing tide. It’s largely instrumental but a defining message is established; a readiness to move on from past

adversities shines through what is a solemn beginning.

‘Sun On My Back’ instantly has you grooving through its bouncy bassline and drum beat. The track explores the difficulty of accepting that something is finished, which can, in turn, incite old emotions. The electric guitar is absent in ‘No Home To Know’, a refreshingly unhurried number embodying Arbes’ strikingly tranquil sound.

Arbes could be categorically considered a bedroom pop outfit, but Psalms is a celebration of a more easy listening, languid sound than their debut EP, which delved into shoegaze territory.

Simple Forms Universal

‘The Water Beneath You’ moves like a Chvrches single and ‘My Energy’ is nearly pop-punk. Yet while the latter’s production is slick, it all feels like ice cream melting together. The lyrics are sourced from real conflict – band members Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers separated in 2014, with the group’s future remaining indefinite for a year after a difficult touring experience. Unfortunately, the transition of great pain into great art doesn’t quite work on Simple Forms, with the emotion so visible it feels forced.

Xayalith has a beautiful voice, but its force is often lost in the noise as too many things try to be powerful at once. Thankfully, ‘Laid Low’ amends this, scaling back her vocals and blending them in with the production.

‘The Runners’ is driven by a rhythm cut out in juicy bass and stands out for its simpler approach.

Simple Forms is unconvincing in light of their previous successes, but there are still pockets of The Naked And Famous’ excellence to be found.

Angela Christian-Wilkes

Warriors Warner

Mitchell’s new album opens with ‘The Boys’, a fizzy song about friendship and hardcore crushing. While she openly set out to make a record you can dance to, the electronic elements are not overpowering and do not weigh down Mitchell’s songwriting.

The grooves are gentle but retain their rhythm, starting from the moment the sturdy beat of ‘Warhol’ breaks apart the shimmery arrangement. This movement continues on the hazy ‘I Remember Love’ and the darker ‘So Wild’.

The production works well with Mitchell’s signature vocals and the storytelling is strong, bringing in seemingly mundane details to etch out feelings and situations. This said, the stripped acoustic goodness of ‘What Is Love’ is a welcome return to her roots, clarifying the mix with some variety.

It isn’t all sweet love – the handclaps of ‘Where You Are’ are too twee to make up for the song’s blandness, and its follow-up ‘Josephine’ further dulls the movement of the record.

Otherwise, Warriors is comfortable yet fresh, and further embeds Mitchell’s musical persona.

Angela Christian-Wilkes

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live reviews What we’ve been out to see...

JEN CLOHER AND THE ENDLESS SEA, THE FINKS Newtown Social Club Friday October 14

Too often beauty gets confused with scope. There is a dominating misnomer that to be powerful, music has to be big – that the only choruses with the ability to wrench hearts and dominate inner lives are loud and large and full of a crashing aggression.

But such a hypothesis ignores the pleasures to be found in the work of musicians such as The Finks’ Oliver Mestitz. Kicking off his set armed with only the plastic keys of a Moog organ, the poet-cum-balladeer danced his way through the band’s most recent record, the very fine Middling, with a distinctly understated charm.

None of Mestitz’s songs overstate themselves, or linger for a second too long, and thematically they concern themselves with the kind of ‘oh-that’ssorta-interesting’ twists of fate most commonly found in the filmography of Jim Jarmusch or the poetry of William Carlos Williams. A cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ was timely, given the husky bard’s recent Nobel Prize win, but more than that, it felt right in a way that covers sometimes don’t, and it proved to be a perfect intersection

MONTAIGNE, BEC SANDRIDGE Oxford Art Factory Saturday October 8

No matter the gig – be it a lone folk singer in the corner of a pub, or a stadium heaving with the energy of 10,000 people – you always hope that what you’re about to witness turns out to be historic. Imagine being there in the Cavern Club when The Beatles first took to the stage, or that time Keith Richards revealed he is actually an immortal space amoeba who’s been masquerading as human all these years.

Sure, not every performance will find itself with an individual Wikipedia entry, but you always hold out a certain hope.

Which leads us directly enough to Montaigne. It isn’t enough that her debut, Glorious Heights, is surely one of the albums of the year. I’ve caught her live several times (most memorably in Toowoomba, where she tripped over during her opening number, turned it into a commando roll with legs akimbo and never missed a beat), and I’m convinced that she is going to emerge as one of the best and brightest acts Australia has to offer. The vitality she brings to the stage is remarkable; Montaigne is a very physical performer, almost theatrical, cavorting like a tangled marionette with a voice that resembles the fusion of Amanda Palmer and Kate Miller-Heidke.

between song and singer, as Mestitz shrank down the pleasures of Dylan’s songwriting without ever sullying them.

Though Jen Cloher and The Endless Sea’s Dead Wood Falls, performed in its entirety to celebrate a decade since its release, might not seem to share much with Mestitz’s tunes on a surface level, Cloher is similarly a master of the minuscule. Proving as ever to be a songsmith with the uncanny ability to make plain life’s minutiae, Cloher powered through Dead Wood Falls with such reckless abandon that one could have sworn the songs were being given their first showing.

Part of that comes from Cloher’s sheer generosity as a singer. Dropping stories and tunes in equal measure, the artist exuded both warmth and the sort of very genuine kindness that seems to be a rare currency among performers these days. After all, there’s a reason Newtown Social Club’s stage is only slightly raised: there’s so little separating artist and audience, and Cloher worked on eliminating what boundary there was with a precision bordering on the surgical. Indeed, by the time it was all done, performer and punter were indistinguishable, all jostling for space, and all joined by music.

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Easing us into the night was Bec Sandridge, a complementary choice if ever there was one. Sandridge is a curious performer. She seems utterly at home rocking out up there, and damned if she doesn’t play a mean guitar. Her set itself does require some getting used to, though; she’s a versatile and very idiosyncratic performer, but it took a few songs for the audience to sync up with her unusual meter. The vocal gymnastics on display were equally impressive – think Kate Bush with a detour into The B-52’s. Weird, but it somehow worked.

But the night belonged very much to Montaigne. Hard to pick a highlight when everything on offer was in some way exceptional, but ‘In The Dark’ and ‘I Am Behind You’ had the crowd thrumming, while her foray into the audience for an intimate and genuinely moving rendition of ‘Consolation Prize’ left the room speechless. She seems to still believe in every lyric, and the audience hung on each word – though when it came to participation on ‘Lonely’, well, next time I promise we’ll do better.

Suffice to say, if Montaigne doesn’t walk away with an ARIA, it’s time to start looting.

Adam Norris

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LACUNA COIL Metro Theatre Friday October 14

Donning white clothes and straitjackets smeared with fake blood, the delirium of Lacuna Coil takes hold of the Metro with an explosive boom of goth techno and metal romance.

Musically, Lacuna Coil are good. Really good. Singer Cristina Scabbia has the most phenomenal voice; a powerful tone and unwavering pitch, sustaining high notes with ease while still rocking out like a badass. Her performance bewitches and captivates, leaving no question as to why so many fans tonight audibly remark on how hot she is – she’s like a siren leading unwitting victims to their doom.

Without Scabbia, the absence of the band’s full lineup of musicians would be incredibly obvious – so much of what makes Lacuna Coil’s music great is lost with the use of backing tracks for both guitar and vocal harmonies. Still, it

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isn’t enough to make the performance unenjoyable; in fact, the sheer love Lacuna Coil convey to the crowd makes this an overwhelmingly powerful show.

Blasting out older songs like ‘Swamped’ and ‘Our Truth’, coupled with new material like ‘Blood, Tears, Dust’ and ‘Nothing Stands In Our Way’, Lacuna Coil are not to be taken lightly – they delight in what they do and the sensuality they draw from their music is so openly expressed, you can overlook the monotony of their movements and the basic stage set-up – no gimmicks, no games, just raw emotion and true passion.

The traditional Euro chant taught to the audience earlier in the show is used to pump up an encore, as Lacuna Coil re-emerge to close a stellar set with three more songs, solidifying a sincere relationship with their followers in a show that was never about being flashy or fake – just music, madness and love.

Anna Wilson

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ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS, FANNY LUMSDEN AND THE THRILLSEEKERS, MISS EILEEN & KING LEAR Oxford Art Factory Thursday October 13

Next up was ARIA-courtin’ Fanny Lumsden and The Thrillseekers. If Eileen and Lear brought the indie folk, Lumsden sure brought the country. It was a well-crafted set, with ‘Land Of Gold’ a fun standout with strong lyrics and some splendid guitar.

That said, Lumsden herself seemed a touch out of sorts, and on a handful of occasions grew a little lost up there. She never let it get the best of her, though, and the performance rarely wavered.

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Leading the night’s colourful charge was the delightful Miss Eileen & King Lear, a brothersister duo plucked from their own more expansive family group, Perch Creek. The latter are a well-established presence on the festival scene these days, and while Eileen and Lear don’t deviate too far from what makes Perch Creek so engrossing, they do manage to carve their own identity with numbers like ‘Sunday’ and ‘Last Song’, and their voices sure are something special.

14:10:16 :: Metro Theatre :: 624 George St Sydney 9550 3666

I’ve caught Exes many times now, and familiar as their songs have become, each gig manages to attain something unique thanks in large part to their comic banter. They wear the stage like an old, comfortable dressing gown and swap stories and anecdotes with unconcerned ease. There’s also a strong educational element to their insights. I never knew killer vending machines could follow me unawares down dark alleys – I’ll never buy snacks the same way again.

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And then, bam! With suitably extravagant shoes, All Our Exes Live In Texas took the stage.

You feel pity for whoever finds themselves doing sound at one of these gigs, since the band has such an array of tones it must be like working at air traffic control (either that, or they’re harbouring a crush for Katie Wighton and deliberately gave her the lion’s share of volume). Given the amount of heartache and nostalgia woven through their lyrics, you also pity the mounds of ex-boyfriends that must surely litter the Texan arroyos these days; love and music make tragic bedfellows.

15:10:16 :: Oxford Art Factory :: 38-46 Oxford St Darlinghurst 9332 3711

The night ended in full and raucous fashion, as supports and headliners alike took the stage to bring The White Stripes’ ‘Hotel Yorba’ to colourful, shambling life (and while the audience kept shushing the bar staff for making noise, like nannas scolding misbehaving children). Grand times.

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It also means their songs can go happily off the rails, as occurred when Tame Impala cover ‘Eventually’ was interrupted while they got their laughter under control. Exes share primary vocal duties fairly evenly, so it’s unsurprising they each have a highlight; ‘I’m Gonna Get My Heart Cut Out’ (Elana Stone), ‘The Devil’s Part’ (Hannah Crofts, absolutely nailing the eponymous single release), ‘Childhood Home’ (Georgia Mooney) and ‘Our Love Won’t Die’ (Wighton, and a song I’ll never tire of hearing).

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pick of the week Bernard Fanning

7pm. Free.

Mojito Trio The Temperance Society, Summer Hill. 7pm. Free.

Soul Roots Revival Band Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville. 8:30pm. $15.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

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State Theatre

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+ Dustin Tebbutt + Ainslie Wills 8pm. $79.90.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

The Fever Pitch - feat: Special Guests The Hideaway Bar, Enmore. 8pm. Free.

The Gypsy Art Club Django Bar @ Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 6:30pm. $10.

Wailing Wednesdays feat: Live Reggae Acoustic Rosie Campbell’s, Surry Hills. 7pm.

Free.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Archie Roach + Corey Theatre + Deborah Cheetham’s Dhungala Children’s Choir + Short Black Opera Choir City Recital Hall, thebrag.com

Sydney. 7pm. $70.

Harry Manx Lizotte’s, Dee Why. 7pm. $60.

Michael Dimarco Sappho Books, Cafe And Bar, Sydney.

7pm. Free.

Muso’s Club Jam Night Ruby L’otel, Rozelle.

7:30pm. Free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Adam Young & Brielle Davis + Eloise The Gasoline Pony, Marrickville. 7pm. $7.

Kiyanosh + Spretbot Syndicate + Swamp To Sahara Play Bar, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. Free.

Mark Travers Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 9pm. Free.

Sol - feat: Wolf Cola + Cleveland Dreamers Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 8pm. $10.

Sosueme - feat: WildHoney + The Jim Mitchells + Clueless Beach Road Hotel,

Bondi Beach. 8pm.

Free.

Tash Sultana + Lyall Moloney Newtown Social Club, Newtown.

8pm. $20.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Cosmic Flanders Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $5.

Crystal Cities The Horse, Surry Hills. 8pm. Free.

Falling In Reverse + Drown This City Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $71.30.

Live Band Karaoke Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain. 9pm. Free.

Michael Gorham Crown Hotel, Surry Hills. 5pm. Free.

Moonshine Thursday - feat: WildHoney Moonshine Cider & Rum Bar, Manly.

8pm. Free.

Nelipot + Jackie

Brown Jr. + Fox Holmes Captain Cook Hotel, Paddington. 8:30pm.

Free.

No Refunds The Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt.

8pm. Free.

Tash Sultana + Lyall Moloney Newtown Social Club, Newtown.

8pm. $20.

The Vinyl Covers Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 9pm. Free.

Urban Guerillas + The Smart Folk + Steph Miller Petersham Bowling Club, Petersham.

7:15pm. $10.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Beethoven Pastoral feat: Vladimir Ashkenazy + Nobuyuki Tsujii Sydney Opera House, Sydney.

1:30pm. $39.

Daniel Weltlinger Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7pm. $40.

John Maddox Co Sappho Books, Cafe And Bar, Sydney.

Lucy Roleff + Slow Ships + Piers Twomey The Gasoline Pony, Marrickville. 7pm. $7.

Anthony Charlton Australian Arms Hotel, Penrith.

8:30pm. Free.

Frank Sultana & The Sinister Kids Leadbelly, Newtown.

4pm. Free.

Freedom Beats feat: Cyndi And The Drums + Black Bird Hum Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8pm. $10.

Harbourview Hulabaloo - feat: Russell Neal + Chris Brookes Harbourview Hotel, The Rocks. 7pm.

Free.

Kinky Friedman The Basement, Circular Quay. 7pm. $45.

Mick Thomas Petersham Bowling Club, Petersham.

4pm. $30.30.

Muso’s Club Jam Night Carousel Inn Hotel, Rooty Hill. 8pm.

Free.

Oliver Downes + Hollie Matthew Django Bar @ Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 6pm. $18.

Ryan Enright Manly Leagues Club, Brookvale.

7:30pm. Free.

Stephanie Lea Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor. 6:30pm.

Free.

Yeshe Lizotte’s, Dee Why. 7pm. $25.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Clive Hay Penrith Panthers, Penrith. 6pm. Free.

Darren Johnstone Quakers Inn, Quakers Hill. 9pm.

Free.

James Rietdijk Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor. 11pm.

Free.

Jordan Millar Trio Hibernian House, Surry Hills. 8pm. $22.

Red Slim The Bunker, Coogee. 8pm. Free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Beethoven Pastoral -

feat: Vladimir Ashkenazy + Nobuyuki Tsujii Sydney Opera House, Sydney.

8pm. $39.

Moussa Diakite + Wassado Django Bar @ Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 9pm. $17.90.

V MoVement Sydney Pulsations - feat: Karifi Ensemble + DJs Edd Fisher + Rimbombo Freda’s, Chippendale. 6pm. $10.

Simon Bartlett + John & Yuki Well Co. Cafe And Wine Bar, Glebe.

8pm. Free.

Soul Funk Party feat: Bump City Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7:30pm. $27.90.

The Amy Winehouse Show (Back To Black) - feat: Atlanta Coogan + All Star Little Big Band Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8:30pm. $30.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Ayla Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $10.

Blake Wiggins Duo Crown Hotel, Sydney. 8pm. Free.

Botany Idol feat: Karaoke Competition Botany Bay Hotel, Banksmeadow.

9:30pm. Free.

Damage Inc. The Australian Metallica Show Colonial Hotel, Werrington. 9pm.

Free.

Deaf To All But Metal Presents One Year Anniversary feat: Necrostalgia + Offensive Behemoth + Masta Gravity Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 8pm. $10.

Fridays - feat: New Horizons Band + M7 & DJ Marty Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 7pm.

Free.

Fridays - feat: El Grande Moonshine Cider & Rum Bar, Manly.

9pm. Free.

Geoff Davies The Push Bar, The Rocks. 7pm. Free.

Glamma Rays + Jack Tickner The Gasoline Pony, Marrickville. 7pm. $10.

Glenn Esmond Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly. 4:30pm.

Free.

Glenn Esmond Duo Coogee Bay Hotel, Coogee. 11:55pm.

Free.

Hadal Maw + Sumeru + Yanomamo + Home Burial Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8pm. $14.

JJ Hausia Figtree Hotel,

Figtree. 8:30pm.

Free.

JP Project Chatswood RSL, Chatswood. 5pm.

Free.

Loaded Six Strings Vineyard Hotel, Vineyard. 9pm.

Free.

Michael Dimarco Hunters Hill Hotel, Hunters Hill.

4:30pm. Free.

Michael Gorham 99 On York, Sydney.

5:30pm. Free.

Middle Kids + Ellis Island Hudson Ballroom, Sydney. 8pm. $13.

Mutilate Presents Hardcore Overload - feat: Zyphor + A.I.M. + Brkdwn vs Duplex + Toon & Raziel + Sk@r + Lockjaw + Blocka vs Lehan + The Saint + Mack Da Ripper + Catzeyez Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 10pm. $10.

Ocean St + Octavian The Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt.

8pm. Free.

Paper Hearts Band Revesby Workers Club, Revesby.

8:30pm. Free.

Reckless Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 10pm. Free.

Regurgitator + Jeremy Neale + Seims Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7:30pm. $43.25.

Rennan Captain Cook Hotel, Paddington. 8:30pm.

Free.

Sally Seltmann + R.W. Grace + Bree Van Reyk Newtown Social Club, Newtown.

8pm. $23.

Steve Crocker Lord Raglan Hotel, Alexandria. 7pm.

Free.

Ted Nash Buckley’s Bar, Circular Quay. 6pm.

Free.

The Cassettes Fortune Of War, The Rocks. 8pm. Free.

The Iron Horses Leadbelly, Newtown.

2:20pm. Free.

The Kamis Penrith RSL, Penrith. 9pm. Free.

Young Docteurs + Nudist Colonies Of The World + The Speed Machine Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville.

8pm. $6.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 22 ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Blake Tailor Town Hall Hotel, Balmain. 9:30pm.

Free.

Bob Gillespie Penrith RSL, Penrith. 2pm. Free.

Flamin’ Beauties Royal Hotel, Bondi.

9:15pm. Free.

Glen Hansard Sydney Opera House, Sydney.

9pm. $64.

Harry Manx Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7:30pm. $55.

Hucker Brown The Bunker, Coogee. 4pm. Free.

Sara Storer + Fanny Lumsden & The Thrillseekers Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 8pm. $30.

Songsonstage feat: Russell Neal + David Levell Kauri Foreshore Hotel, Glebe. 8pm.

Free.

Songsonstage feat: Ross Daley + David Levell Orange Grove Hotel, Lilyfi eld. 7pm. Free.

Stephanie Lea PJ Gallagher’s, Enfi eld, Enfi eld.

9pm. Free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

André Rieu Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney Olympic Park. 7pm. $79.

Beethoven Pastoral feat: Vladimir Ashkenazy + Nobuyuki Tsujii Sydney Opera House, Sydney.

2pm. $39.

Peter Dasent & Friends The Gasoline Pony, Marrickville. 3pm. $7.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

AJ Dyce St George Masonic Club, Mortdale.

7pm. Free.

Benj Axwell Twin Willows Hotel, Bass Hill. 7:30pm.

Free.

Bernard Fanning + Dustin Tebbutt + Ainslie Willis State Theatre, Sydney. 8pm. $80.

Blake Wiggins Rocks Brewing Co, Alexandria. 2pm.

Free.

Blaming Vegas Crown Hotel, Sydney. 9pm. Free.

Cath & Him Manly Leagues Club, Brookvale.

9pm. Free.

Charades x Movement Sydney - feat: No Zu + Sleep D + Sydney Pony Club + Kali Jam Gallery, Bondi Junction. 8pm. $22.

Cherry Sizzle + Borneo + Top Lip + Wart Gun + Strange Associates Captain Cook Hotel, Paddington. 7pm. $5.

Chopdog’s Sydney Harbour Cruise - feat: The Kujo Kings + The Great Awake + Stfu + Old-Finger + Spencer Scott + Jae Hayden Star Casino Wharf, Pyrmont. 12pm. $43.

Crossfi re Hurricane The Bunker, Coogee. 8pm. Free.

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send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Dave Anthony Duo The Bourbon, Potts Point. 6pm. Free.

Flaming Wrekage + The Black Swamp + Metreya + Black Rheno The Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt.

8pm. $16.19.

Glenn Esmond The Belvedere Hotel, Sydney.

7:30pm. Free.

Groovology Revesby Workers Club, Revesby.

8:30pm. Free.

Iron Bark Rock Carousel Inn Hotel, Rooty Hill. 8pm.

Free.

John Watson The Push Bar, The Rocks. 7:30pm.

Free.

JP Project Trio Coogee Bay Hotel, Coogee. 11:55pm.

Free.

Kate Ceberano + Paul Grabowsky City Recital Hall, Sydney. 8pm. $65.

Koori Radio feat: Koori Radio Presenters DJ Sets Manning Bar, Camperdown. 3pm. $20.

Michael Fryar Panania Hotel, Panania. 8:30pm.

Free.

Michael Gorham Red Cow Inn, Penrith. 3pm. Free.

Michael Gorham Peachtree Hotel, Penrith. 7pm. Free.

Miles & Simone Leadbelly, Newtown.

4pm. Free.

No Rest For The Wicked Presents No Rest In October - feat: S.H.E. + Xersorkitte + Action Ant Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 8pm. $5.

Ocean Alley Max Watt’s, Moore Park. 8pm. $25.50.

Old School Band Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 8:30pm.

Free.

Paper Hearts Penrith RSL, Penrith. 9pm. Free.

Project Red The Merton Hotel, Rozelle. 8pm. Free.

Rebecca Johnson Band Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor. 8pm. Free.

Rob Henry Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 5:45pm.

Free.

Screaming Jets Revesby Workers Club, Revesby. 8pm. $45.

Stone Empire + Aces And Eights The Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt.

8pm. Free.

The Bucket List Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 10pm. $5.

The Cassettes Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly. 8pm. Free.

The Persuaders Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $14.30.

Veneno And Martinez Akustika Venue 505, Surry Hills. 7pm. $20.

Whelan & Gover Fortune Of War, The Rocks. 8pm. Free.

Wu-Xi Collective Presents Social Party

Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 10pm. $10.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Blake Tailor Colonial Hotel, Werrington. 4pm.

Free.

Glen Hansard Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 9pm. $64.

Heath Burdell Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain. 3pm. Free.

Jed Zarb Jamison Hotel, Penrith. 1pm. Free.

Paul Grierson Fitzroy Hotel (Windsor), Windsor.

1pm. Free.

Songsonstage feat: Russell Neal + Pauline Sparkle + Richard Bevins + Hue Williams + Melancholy Flowers + David Levell + Joey Marsh + Lance Aligiannis Mr Falcon’s, Glebe.

6pm. Free.

Total Country Sundays - feat: Deep Creek Road Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 2:30pm.

Free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

André Rieu Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney Olympic Park. 6:30pm. $80.50.

New Orleans Beats The Gasoline Pony, Marrickville. 5pm. $10.

Sentido Django Bar @ Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 6pm. $23.

Silver Linings feat: Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir + MC Simon Burke Paddington Town Hall, Paddington.

5:30pm. $40.

Sirens Big Band Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7pm. $22.90.

Sundays Roots & Reggae - feat: King Tide Moonshine Cider & Rum Bar, Manly.

4pm. Free.

Sunshine Sunday Sound System feat: DJs Bossman + Prince Vince + Guests Rosie Campbell’s, Surry Hills. 4pm.

Free.

The Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain. 4pm. Free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS Adrian Joseph Bellevue Hotel, Paddington. 2pm.

Free.

Ben Gunn Macarthur Tavern,

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Bernard Fanning + Dustin Tebbutt + Ainslie Willis State Theatre, Sydney. 8pm. $80.

Blake Wiggins Wentworth Hotel, Homebush West.

1pm. Free.

Bobby Benton’s Classic Sixties Show Penrith RSL, Penrith.

2pm. Free.

Cath & Him The Fiddler, Rouse Hill. 2pm. Free.

Clive Hay Penrith Panthers, Penrith. 3:30pm.

Free.

Core Show With The Weight Of Silence - feat: Double Chamber + Divinate + By The Horns + Liability + Scavenger I Become Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 6pm. $10.

Glenn Esmond The Bourbon, Potts Point. 12:30pm. Free.

Glenn Esmond Fortune Of War, The Rocks. 6pm. Free.

JJ Hausia The Push Bar, The Rocks. 4pm. Free.

Marc Crotti Hunters Hill Hotel, Hunters Hill.

12:30pm. Free.

Marrickville Festival - feat: Judy Bailey + Lapis Sky Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville. 6:30pm.

Free.

Marrickville Festival 2016 - feat: The Ruckus + The Hadron Colliders + Stormcellar + Edens March + DJs Funkadafied + Mickey Morphingaz + Jeremy Gregory + Ursula Yovich + Levingstone + Matthew Raven + Tabetha Salmon + The Fossicks + The Crooked Frames + Samuel Dobson + Montes Jura + The Break Competition: Rose Cole + 57 Minutes + Crystal Cities + The Runaway Houses + Apache + Lazy Eyes Marrickville & Illawarra Roads, Marrickville. 10am.

Free.

Matt Toms Sackville Hotel, Rozelle. 3pm. Free.

Melancholy Flowers Mr Falcon’s, Glebe.

6pm. Free.

Michael Fryar The Rivo Hotel, Riverstone. 4pm.

Free.

Michael Gorham Rocks Brewing Co, Alexandria. 2pm.

Free.

Stormcellar Ruby L’otel, Rozelle.

6:30pm. Free.

U2 Elevation Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 3:30pm. Free.

Wavevom + White Blanks + Grouse + Pist Idiots Captain Cook Hotel, Paddington. 8:30pm.

Free.

Wildcatz Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm. Free.

MONDAY OCTOBER 24

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JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Sonic Mayhem Orchestra Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville. 8:30pm. $15.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Live & Original @ The Corridor Corridor Bar, Newtown. 7pm. Free.

Songquest Heat 6 feat: Russell Neal + Oswald Mac + Alex Katsovski Kelly’s On King, Newtown. 7:30pm.

Free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS Azura Duo Revesby Workers Club, Revesby.

5:30pm. Free.

Frankie’s World Famous House Band Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney. 9pm. Free.

Greg Byrne Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm.

Free.

The Collaboration Coup - feat: Frankie’s World Famous House Band Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney. 9pm. Free.

The Monday Jam The Basement, Circular Quay.

8:30pm. $6.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 25 ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Songsonstage - feat: Massimo Presti + Chris Brookes + Pauline Sparkle + Russell Neal Gladstone Hotel, Dulwich Hill. 7:30pm.

Free.

Songsonstage feat: Stuart Jammin Kelly’s On King, Newtown. 8pm. Free.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19 Archie Roach + Corey Theatre + Deborah Cheetham’s Dhungala Children’s Choir + Short Black Opera Choir City Recital Hall, Sydney. 7pm. $70.

Tash Sultana + Lyall Moloney Newtown Social Club, Newtown. 8pm. $20.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 Cosmic Flanders Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $5.

Falling In Reverse + Drown This City Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $71.30.

Frank Sultana & The Sinister Kids Leadbelly, Newtown. 4pm. Free.

Kinky Friedman The Basement, Circular Quay. 7pm. $45.

Moonshine Thursday - Feat: WildHoney Moonshine Cider & Rum Bar, Manly.

8pm. Free.

Nelipot + Jackie Brown Jr. + Fox Holmes Captain Cook Hotel, Paddington. 8:30pm.

Free.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 Ayla Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $10.

Hadal Maw + Sumeru + Yanomamo + Home Burial Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8pm. $14.

Jordan Millar Trio Hibernian House, Surry Hills. 8pm. $22.

Regurgitator + Jeremy Neale + Seims Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7:30pm. $43.25.

Sally Seltmann + R.W. Grace + Bree Van Reyk Newtown Social Club, Newtown. 8pm. $23.

The Amy Winehouse Show (Back To Black) - Feat: Atlanta Coogan + All Star Little Big Band Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8:30pm. $30.

Young Docteurs + Nudist Colonies Of The World + The Speed Machine Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville.

8pm. $6.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 22 Flaming Wrekage + The Black Swamp + Metreya + Black Rheno The Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt. 8pm. $16.19.

Glen Hansard Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 9pm. $64.

Kate Ceberano + Paul Grabowsky City Recital Hall, Sydney. 8pm. $65.

Ocean Alley Max Watt’s, Moore Park. 8pm. $25.50.

Sara Storer + Fanny Lumsden & The Thrillseekers Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 8pm. $30.

Stone Empire + Aces And Eights The Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt. 8pm.

Free.

The Persuaders Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $14.30.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 Marrickville Festival 2016 - Feat: The Ruckus + The Hadron Colliders + Stormcellar + Edens March + More Marrickville & Illawarra Roads, Marrickville. 10am. Free.

Sundays Roots & Reggae - Feat: King Tide Moonshine Cider & Rum Bar, Manly.

4pm. Free.

Sally Seltmann

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Karaoke Party Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 7:30pm.

Free.

Live & Original @ Mr Falcon’s feat: Kyle Taylor + Welcome Strangers + Sahar & Michael + Glenn Hoppa Mr Falcon’s, Glebe.

7:30pm. Free.

Natasha Duarte Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm.

Free.

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DJ MARSHALL FROM OTIS HIGH

The First Record I 1.

Bought

MZ: Bloodhound Gang – Hooray For Boobies. This is the album that had ‘The Bad Touch’ as the single. This album had everything on it from ridiculous skits to heavy rock to dashes of old hip hop and epic sampling/scratching.

The physical CD was coloured as a boob and it said “insert tongue in hole for stimulation”. These dudes are ridiculous but definitely original.

From listening to this journey of an album it got me into all sorts of different alternative music and pricked up my rap ears.

The Last Record I 2.

Bought

MZ: Discourse – Megalomaniac.

Melbourne producer Discourse of Crate Cartel recently dropped his album featuring a bunch of dope rappers. I had to pick up this vinyl and I am blown away by his production. We were lucky enough to

make a video clip for our track ‘Welcome Home’ with Discourse a while back and I also recently saw him launch the record at the spiritual home, Revolver on Chapel Street.

all the artists in the verse and whipped it up with some good drone footage. We had a beat on the go sampling some old orchestral songs and decided it was perfect for it.

EMC GETS BIGGER

The 2016 edition of the Electronic Music Conference is ready to burst.

Joining the already stellar lineup of speakers for EMC 2016 is the one and only Adelaide producer Motez, Majestic Casual founder Nic HP, The Meeting Tree (it’s yet TBA if Dixon will feature as a cardboard cut-out), Nina Las Vegas, Angus McDonald (whom you may know as Black Angus from Sneaky Sound System), Berlin-based artist Jimmy Edgar, DJ Tigerlily, and Adi Toohey of FBi Radio, plus a massive bunch of other really cool people that you should definitely check out online. EMC 2016 will run from Monday November 28 – Friday December 2 at the Ivy complex.

FKJ

The First Thing The Record I Recorded That Changed 3.

5.

MZ: I was on holiday My Life and my dad had a new MacBook Pro from his work that came with GarageBand. I used the in-built mic in the laptop and did some weird-ass freestyle with my brother chiming in with mouth samples and of course some off-key singing.

I probably listened to it about 100 times over and over and was hooked on making it better and better. Ever since then, the hunger to make beats cleaner or recordings better has been an addiction!

The Last Thing I Recorded 4.

MZ: We are playing

in Sydney on the 21st and Wollongong on the 22nd and we made a promo track about the show. Threw some shout-outs to

BURN BABY BURN

Burnski has teamed up with Start:Cue for the launch of his new album, set to take place at Bondi’s newly refurbished The Eastern on Saturday October 22. In recent years, he’s played iconic venues like DC10, Watergate and Fabric, launched his own label Constant Sound, and continued a strong run of releases, consistently evolving his sound through house and techno.

He’ll be supported by Adam Proctor and many more.

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What: Freedom Of Choice out now independently Where: Hustle & Flow When: Friday October 21

NEW YORK, DETROIT, ATLANTA

It would be an understatement to suggest Kai Alcé’s history with dance music is rich in pedigree. From time spent in Detroit’s hallowed Music Institute in the late ’80s, fostering deep house in Atlanta, and the consistent quality of his record label NDATL, he’s actively promoted house music for decades. That’s not to mention his cousin happens to be Chez Damier. It’s all in the family, right? You can get a little taste of Alcé’s ability by heading down to the Burdekin Hotel on Saturday October 22.

CRACK THE CODE FOR NYE

FKJ FOR MLIVE

MLIVE is an event that has been held all around the globe, from London to Paris, Berlin, New York and LA. So we are mighty lucky to have Majestic Casual and Astral People team up to host MLIVE in our humble backyard. The first headline act will be French producer, FKJ. FKJ is a fresh new face in the French house scene, so if you haven’t heard his shiz before, check out ‘So Much To Me’, ‘Instant Need’ and ‘Better Give U Up’. There are still plenty more artists TBA, so keep your ears and eyes open. MLIVE is on Friday December 2 at Max Watt’s.

The CODE stage at the Electric Gardens Festival back in January, headlined by Fatboy Slim, was such a huge success that T1000 Events has announced yet another unique experience to bring in the New Year.

Boasting four huge international acts, CODE NYE will be the place for techno, underground and house lovers to celebrate the entry into 2017. Locked in among the 30-plus DJs slated to play are Guy Gerber, Mano Le Tough, Alex Niggemann and Audiojack. CODE NYE takes place at the Greenwood Hotel on Saturday December 31.

Zarate_fix, Jake Hough and Mantra Collective, you also get free exercise running back and forth between the three stages. Oh, there’s also food and $5 drinks. The Bare Essentials Laneway Party will go down on Saturday November 5 at the UTS Laneway and Underground.

BEATS, EATS AND MORE

One of the biggest names in contemporary EDM, Steve Aoki, has been locked in as the headline act for this year’s edition of MTV Beats & Eats. The Wollongongbased festival focuses on both music and food, and the new announcement delivers big on the former. Aoki, the founder of Dim Mak Records and a world-famous DJ and artist in his own right, will perform a 90-minute closing set after appearances by Savage, Paces, Maala and more. MTV Beats & Eats 2016 takes over Stuart Park on Saturday November 26.

The Island

LIME IN THE COCONUT

Summer’s warm, approaching winds are blowing in the floating barge of fun that is The Island. Set in Sydney Harbour on the night of Friday November 4, the next edition of the party will see Late Nite Tuff Guy, Simon Caldwell, Adi Toohey and Ariane playing their effervescent blends of house, funk, disco and much more.

Tickets include return water taxi shuttle to The Island and two drinks on arrival, so no need to pack a picnic – just bring your boogie shoes, energy and a good attitude, as your soundtrack’s sorted. xxx

The new Bare Essentials Laneway Party is set to take off this November.

Bare Essentials, renowned for its fully sick rooftop shindigs, is cranking it up a notch at this one with three stages of music, hosting both local and international artists. Not only do you get to see a heap more artists such as internationals Rich NxT, Hanfry Martinez and Julietta, and domestics

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Carey, who received a Mercury Prize nomination for his production work on Tempest’s previous album, Everybody Down.

“THESE STRANGE COMPULSIONS TO WRITE OR TO PERFORM, THEY’RE SO BEYOND UNDERSTANDING, BUT THEY ARE DEEP, DEEP DRIVES THAT WE CAN’T ESCAPE FROM.”

“We get on extremely well,” says Tempest. “Our brains are sequenced at the same pitch. He pushes me to have weirder, bigger, deeper, more ridiculous ideas. And I push him the same way … We sit down in a studio and we talk a little bit and we begin to write, then we begin to find out what we want to do, we make maps, sit in the pub a little bit, and then we work long, long days, long nights, we try everything we have at what we do. We discover and then we work really hard to create shapes that feel satisfying.”

Tempest has already visited Australia this year for Sydney Writers’ Festival, and she says her experiences in the country were very humbling and insightful. “It brought me a bit closer to certain people in Australia who invited me into conversations which furthered my understanding of situations there, which was really exciting and important.”

In particular, Tempest was struck to learn at a festival talk that more indigenous children are being taken from their families now than during the Stolen Generations. Despite this harrowing discovery, she had a great time during her stay. “I had a really amazing experience when I was there – I met some incredible people, and I had some pretty mind-blowing encounters. But I don’t want to just pop back lightly – it’s the kind of place where if I go back, I want to spend some time.”

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Their stories come alive through the tiniest of details, which Tempest constructs with such skill and precision that her metaphors cast images and information straight into your mind. These details are more than just a way to set a scene, however. They are integral to who she is as an artist.

“The whole point of what a writer does or what a lyricist does is that you recognise the present, you look around, you look so closely at the things that you pass and you examine why or where the feelings come from, where they begin, and that’s what sends you to sit down and write lyrics,” she says.

Tempest also relates that these details are in essence a grounding feature in her raps; agents that make stories relatable and relevant to the everyday.

“Whether it’s the arrangement of objects, or the perceived relationship between strangers in the street, watching a young child communicate somehow with their sibling – all these things also register and also need to come out.”

Thus, from blankets and booze to making sandwiches and peddling drugs, these tiny yet vivid details are abundant across the album, and imbue Tempest’s characters with immense energy through striking depictions of their internal and external worlds.

Tempest spits out descriptions of death, destruction and war with audible contempt, pairing them with the simplistic banalities of human existence. The characters are forced to live their lives in a cold and unfeeling world where no individual is able to find meaning. And yet there is such tenderness to the music, as Tempest breathes an intense warmth and kindness into her subjects’ impossibly bleak existences.

“These strange compulsions to write or to perform, they’re so beyond understanding, but they are deep, deep drives that we can’t escape from,” says Tempest. “They’re part of us, and part of my particular drive seems to be one of real love, real love for people. It moves me so much, living in a big city, looking around and being part of a community of people, standing in a crowd at a gig, just hanging out and watching people move through space. I sit down to write because I love people, and I want to be closer to them.”

This is clearly apparent beneath the grimey beats and around the shimmering dreamscapes produced by long-time collaborator Dan

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Thankfully, Nairn has had plenty to keep himself busy with in the wake of his departure from Thrones – primarily, he works as a DJ, and he often performs at themed gigs known as the Rave Of Thrones. This isn’t some sort of celebrity cash-in, mind you – Nairn has been passionate about dance music since well before he caught the acting bug.

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“I started out as a pretty prolific club kid – I was always fascinated in what the DJ was doing,” he says.

“The conversation between DJ and audience is amazing to witness if it’s done right, and I became hooked on that: making people feel how I felt about music. It’s a precious gift, and one that is too readily dismissed as ‘button-pushing’ by idiots. I will say, though, that a lot of DJs I’ve seen just don’t get it – it seems to be the only reason they do it is showing off and trying to look cool. That just doesn’t work for me. Be a music nerd! Get sweaty and dance around like a lunatic and get lost in your own world while you DJ.” In recent years, Nairn has also moved into his own original material, as well as remixing other artists.

A recent example of this was his cavernous, thudding club rework of ‘Tectonic’, a 2015 single from Sydney’s own Brendan Maclean.

“Brendan is incredible,” Nairn enthuses. “Such a talented guy and a great ambassador for Australian music. It was a pleasure to put something together for him. I actually have done a bit of production in the past – I remixed one of the Freemasons singles, ‘Rain Down Love’, back in the day, and I released a track, ‘Up’, last year which received a great response. It’s definitely something I’m very much working towards being a bigger part of my career.”

Nairn returns to Australia this week for another Rave Of Thrones tour, which will see him taking to the biggest rooms he has ever appeared in Down Under – including the Enmore Theatre as part of V MoVement Sydney. With the nights billed as ‘costume compulsory’, the artist formerly known as Hodor is excited to see some extravagant

citizens of Westeros among the crowd.

“More people dress up [in Thrones costumes] in Australia than in any other part of the world – I love Australia with all my heart,” says Nairn.

“The people remind me in many ways of Irish people, with their crazy selfdeprecating sense of humour, great

humility and willingness to let their hair down. I always feel at home there, 100 per cent. You can keep your monster spiders, though.”

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Kristian Nairn photo by Dennys Illic

When his character (spoiler alert) met an untimely end during the most recent season, not even Nairn himself could have predicted just how far of a reach it would have. “I was expecting a big reaction, simply because of how well put-together and generally how mind-blowing the whole thing was,” he says. “Not anywhere near as much as it actually got, though. I mean, to hear President Obama talk about how sad it was… it’s pretty unbelievable.”

What: Let Them Eat Chaos out now through Caroline/Universal

“THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DJ AND AUDIENCE IS AMAZING TO WITNESS IF IT’S DONE RIGHT, AND I BECAME HOOKED ON THAT.”

Holding Out For A Hero By David James Young he success of HBO’s Game Of Thrones has elevated it across half a dozen seasons to become the must-see show of the 2010s. It’s also made stars out of more or less everyone involved with it: Kit Harington is now seen as one of Hollywood’s hottest new leading men, while Gwendoline Christie wound up onstage with Madonna during her Australian tour back in March. Perhaps its most unlikely icon, however, came in the form of Hodor – the seven-foot stable boy capable of saying only his own name, as portrayed by Northern Irish actor Kristian Nairn.

Just as Let Them Eat Chaos swirls and resounds to a close around Tempest’s seven strangers, the album is a tribute to love and empathy as a cure to the numbing effects of modern life. As advice for those who feel lost and uncertain in our raging modern world, Tempest offers the record as a rallying cry to “love more!”. On an everyday level however, her message is this: “Wake up and remember that you’re a human being, every single person that you pass is a human being, people are worthy of your time and your attention. Think of other people more than you think of yourself.”

KateTempest photo by Neil Gavin

oet, playwright, novelist, recording artist and proud provocateur of love and empathy Kate Tempest is an astonishing young creative with a powerful message. Her new record Let Them Eat Chaos is a testament to this: a rousing concept album that weaves together the lives of seven perfect strangers, living but not feeling within their malevolent city of London.

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club pick of the week Mind Gamers

6pm. Free.

Get Ur Freak On - A Tribute To Missy Elliot Freda’s, Chippendale.

6pm. $5.

CLUB NIGHTS

FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 Oxford O f Art Factory

Mind Gamers

+ Shags Chamberlain 8pm. $49.90.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19 CLUB NIGHTS

V MoVement Sydney - feat: FBi’s Dance Class 2016 + GL FBi Live, Alexandria.

6pm. Free.

V MoVement Sydney One Dance - feat: Yahtzel (DJ Set) The Eastern, Bondi Junction. 9pm. $10.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 HIP HOP & R&B

Pyjama Sundayz Present Gon B Lit feat: Spruced Moose + Glacial Bipeds + Poolroom + B Sneeze Valve Bar, Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 8pm. $10.

CLUB NIGHTS

Femme Fetale The Argyle, The Rocks. 6pm. Free.

V MoVement Sydney Champain Lyf - feat: El-B Zoo Project, Potts Point. 9pm. $22.

V MoVement Sydney Insert Coin(s) Halloween Spooktacular - feat: DJ Levins + Martin Novosel + DJ Glenn B Trippin Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 6pm. $15.

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Ellis Island - feat: Helena Ellis + Batesy + Bruno Who Hudson Ballroom, Sydney. 11pm. $11.

Fridays Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm.

Free.

Role Modelz Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm.

Free.

Soul Kitchen feat: DJ Lambam + Nofuss Russ + Soulbrew + Jclanred + Satva Play Bar, Surry Hills.

4pm. Free.

CLUB NIGHTS

A-Tonez Marquee, Pyrmont.

10pm. $12.30.

Antigone Zoo Project, Potts Point. 10pm. $20.

Argyle Fridays The Argyle, The Rocks. 6pm. Free.

Bass Drop Afterlife feat: Ulterior Motive + Malo + Transforma Miind Nightclub, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $30.

Bassic - feat: Lookas + Robustt + Bluegrass + Gradz + Bassline + Heirs To The Throne + Goldbrix + Netfleek Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 9pm. $33.10.

Ben Morris Manly Wharf Hotel, Manly. 8pm. Free.

Fatback - feat: DJs Adverse + Juzzlikedat + Caratgold + Amity + Makoto + Cman + Edseven + VJ Spook Hudson Ballroom, Sydney. 9pm. Free.

Incursion Halloween 2016 - feat: DJ Sin Quirin + Sydney’s Best Alternative DJs Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 9pm. $22.50.

Old Skool Fridays - feat: DJs On Rotation

St Johns Park Bowling Club, St Johns Park. 8pm.

Free.

On Bridges Late Night x V MoVement Sydney - feat: M5K + Phondupe + Freda & Jackson + Riggles B2B DJ Gussy Boy Secret Location, Sydney. 10pm. $16.50.

Peoples Club Weekly #9 - feat: Jnett B2B Simon Caldwell + U-Khan + David Bangma Goodbar, Paddington.

9pm. $15.

V MoVement Presents Stoney Roads Guinness World Record Attempt - feat: Longest B2B DJ Relay 107 Projects, Redfern.

10:30am. Free.

V MoVement Sydney - feat: Mind Gamers + Shags Chamberlain + Zuri Akoko + Siberia DJs + More Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $49.90.

Voodoo - feat: Kyau + Albert Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour.

9:30pm. $25.

Yeahsure x V MoVement Sydney - feat: Two Much + Annie Bass + Ebony + Yeahsure DJs Ambush Gallery, Chippendale. 5pm. $11.55.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 22 HIP HOP & R&B

Coolhands Shakedown - feat: Slave + DJ Hudge + Coolhandluke + Benny Hinn Play Bar, Surry Hills.

5 Years Of Astral feat: Wave Racer + Baro + Polographia + Mall Grab + Winston Surfshirt + Cliques + Preacha + The Possé + Andy Garvey + Lovebombs + Sea Breeze + Mira Boru Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $34.90.

Argyle Saturdays feat: Tass + Tap-Tap + Minx + Crazy Caz The Argyle, The Rocks. 6pm. Free.

Brynny + Teddy Cream Marquee, Pyrmont.

10pm. $26.60.

Charades x V MoVement Sydney - feat: Steve Spacek + Prequel + Lauren Hansom B2B U-Khan Civic Underground, Sydney. 9pm. Free.

DJ Mickey Rooty Hill RSL Club, Rooty Hill. 8:30pm.

Free.

Lndry x V MoVement Sydney - feat: Go Freek + Made In Paris + Kormak + Elijah Scadden + Sanger + Coda + Highbeam + Bassilisk + Happy Hour + Dollar Bear + DJ Just 1 + Mike Hyper Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 9pm. $22.90.

Moonshine Saturdays - feat: DJs Moonshine Cider & Rum Bar, Manly. 8pm.

Free.

V MoVement Sydney Presents Heaps Gay’s 3rd Birthday - feat: CC:Disco + Heart People Music + Kimchi Princi + Donatachi + Simo Soo B2B Sissy Reagan + Fleximami + Bad Deep DJs Sveta + Power Suit + Nic Kelly + Bailey Bailey + Camile + Boything DJs Flamingo DJs Imperial Hotel, Erskineville. 10pm. $15.

Pacha - feat: Digital Dreamerz Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 6:30pm. $38.

Sangria Latin Saturdays St Johns Park Bowling Club, St Johns Park.

9pm. Free.

Seven Davis Jr. + Prequel + U-Khan + Lauren Hanson Civic Underground, Sydney. 9pm. $20.

Something Else - feat: Kai Alce + Baron Castle + Magda Bytnerowicz + Oliver B + Brother J + Dave Stuart Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst. 10pm. $15.

Start:Cue - feat: Burnski + Adam Proctor + Al Hearnshaw + Tommy Rutherford + Dyson + Ross Ashman Secret Location, Sydney. 9pm. $27.37.

Stuart B + Brenny B Manly Wharf Hotel, Manly. 6pm. Free.

Summit DJs Harbour

Cruise - feat: Wade Star Casino Wharf, Sydney. 5:45pm. $30.

Summit DJs (After Dark) - feat: Wade Zoo Project, Potts Point. 10pm. $20.

V MoVement Sydney Rave Of Thrones feat: Kristian Nairn AKA Hodor Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 7pm. $34.05.

Yours - feat: Alex Dyson + Marc Jarvin + Matty Sav + Jesse Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm.

Free.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 CLUB NIGHTS

Brenny B-Side + Murray Lake Manly Wharf Hotel, Manly. 4pm. Free.

Higher Ground - feat: Honey Soundsystem + Ben Drayton + Noise In My Head Cruise Bar, Sydney.

2pm. $27.50.

S.A.S.H By Day x V MoVement Sydney - feat: Priku + Kerry Wallace + Secret Guest Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney. 2pm. $15.

S.A.S.H By Night feat: Kerry Wallace + Secret Guest Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 9pm. $15.

Sin Sundays The Argyle, The Rocks. 7pm. Free.

Sydney Soul Weekender Presents Sunset Soul - feat: Rob Goodburn + Peter Morgan + The Northern Soul Poster Boy + Mrs S + Ms Monica + Prince Mikey AKA Michael Micallef + Frazer Moore + DJ Burn Hard Bondi Bowling Club, Bondi. 2pm. Free.

T Dance - feat: DJs Dan Dan + Justin Scott Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 2pm. $25.

V MoVement Sydney - feat: Nicole Millar + Indian Summer + Moonbase Commander The Lair @ Metro Theatre, Sydney.

4:45pm. $12.

MONDAY OCTOBER 24

Wave Racer

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19

SATURDAY OCTOBER 22

V MoVement Sydney - Feat: FBi’s Dance Class 2016 + GL FBi Live, Alexandria. 6pm. Free.

5 Years Of Astral - Feat: Wave Racer + Baro + Polographia + Mall Grab + Winston Surfshirt + Cliques + Preacha + The Possé + Andy Garvey + Lovebombs + Sea Breeze + Mira Boru Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $34.90.

V MoVement Sydney One Dance - Feat: Yahtzel (DJ Set) The Eastern, Bondi Junction.

9pm. $10.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 V MoVement Sydney Insert Coin(s) Halloween Spooktacular - Feat: DJ Levins + Martin Novosel + DJ Glenn B Trippin Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 6pm. $15.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 Antigone Zoo Project, Potts Point. 10pm. $20.

Fatback - Feat: DJs Adverse + Juzzlikedat + Caratgold + Amity + Makoto + Cman + Edseven + VJ Spook Hudson Ballroom, Sydney.

9pm. Free.

On Bridges Late Night x V MoVement Sydney - Feat: M5K + Phondupe + Freda & Jackson + Riggles B2B DJ Gussy Boy Secret Location, Sydney. 10pm. $16.50.

Charades x V MoVement Sydney - Feat: Steve Spacek + Prequel + Lauren Hansom B2B U-Khan Civic Underground, Sydney.

9pm. Free.

Lndry x V MoVement Sydney - Feat: Go Freek + Made In Paris + Kormak + Elijah Scadden + Sanger + Coda + Highbeam + Bassilisk + Happy Hour + Dollar Bear + DJ Just 1 + Mike Hyper Chinese Laundry, Sydney.

9pm. $22.90.

Something Else - Feat: Kai Alce + Baron Castle + Magda Bytnerowicz + Oliver B + Brother J + Dave Stuart Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst.

10pm. $15.

V MoVement Sydney Rave Of Thrones - Feat: Kristian Nairn AKA Hodor Enmore Theatre, Newtown.

7pm. $34.05.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 23

Peoples Club Weekly #9 - Feat: Jnett B2B Simon Caldwell + U-Khan + David Bangma Goodbar, Paddington. 9pm. $15.

S.A.S.H By Day x V MoVement Sydney - Feat: Priku + Kerry Wallace + Secret Guest Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney. 2pm. $15.

V MoVement Presents Stoney Roads Guinness World Record Attempt - Feat: Longest B2B DJ Relay 107 Projects, Redfern.

10:30am. Free.

V MoVement Sydney Feat: Nicole Millar + Indian Summer + Moonbase Commander The Lair @ Metro Theatre, Sydney. 4:45pm. $12.

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CLUB NIGHTS I Love Mondays Side Bar, Sydney.

8pm. Free.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 25 CLUB NIGHTS Coyote Tuesdays The World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. Free.

Propaganda Tuesdays Scary Canary, Sydney. 9.30pm.

Free.

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Off The Record Dance and Electronica with Tyson Wray Born Free, her productions are a hypnotic mix of curveball house and fruity J-pop. Her BF22 EP released in June has been one of the most intriguing records of the year thus far. If you need further convincing, have a squiz at her recent mix for Juno Plus. Catch her on Sunday November 13, venue TBA.

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ancy a bit of Detroit techno?

One of the biggest names in the game – Kevin Saunderson – is coming our way. Alongside Derrick May and Juan Atkins, Saunderson is one of the ‘Belleville Three’ who are considered to be the pioneers and originators of techno, and who fuelled the Detroit movement. In recent times, his own imprint KMS Records has been championing the next generation, including releases from his sons Damarii and Dantiez alongside his nephew Kweku Saunderson. Studio-wise, expect to see some new E-Dancer material and a stack of remixes coming from the man himself over the coming months. Y’all need to jump on SoundCloud and give a spin to the recording of his set from this year’s Movement Festival to get yourself in the zone before he hits Chinese Laundry on Saturday November 5.

One of the fastest-rising Japanese artists – Powder – has locked in an Australian tour. With releases on the likes of ESP Institute and

Tour rumours: something tells me that we’ll be seeing a return from Bonobo sooner rather than later.

Oh, the same goes for Solomun.

Best releases this week: ooooft, Chicago’s Olin has released two remixes of Huerco S. (on Giegling) that are so good that it almost makes me forget the time that Huerco had a whinge on Facebook because one of the reviews I wrote about him wasn’t too glowing.

Dickhead. Otherwise, I’d suggest spending some time with Powell’s Sport (XL), Kuedo’s Slow Knife (Planet Mu), Black Marble’s It’s Immaterial (Ghostly International) and Kassem Mosse’s Disclosure (Honest Jon’s Records).

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Oh man, this is gonna be special.

Australia is about to witness the worldwide premiere of Dream 2 Science live. For those that don’t know, 26 years ago the New Yorker Ben Cenac AKA Cozmo D released a six-track LP that’s remained one of the most-loved records in deep house history. Following its reissue on Rush Hour back in 2012, the ongoing adoration for the record has seen Cenac decide to resurrect the title and perform it live as Dream 2 Science – kicking it all off Down Under. It’s going down on Friday October 28 at Jam Gallery, with support coming from Daniel Lupica, Magda Bytnerowicz and Kali. Expect Larry Heard levels of bliss at this one.

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Greenwood Hotel

Seven Davis Jr Civic Underground

Sleeparchive, Claudio PRC Zoo Project

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Honey Soundsystem Cruise Bar

FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 Dream 2 Science Jam Gallery

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Green Velvet

Kevin Saunderson Chinese Laundry

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 DJ EZ Oxford Art Factory

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Jackmaster Marcel Dettman Greenwood Chinese Hotel Laundry Randomer TBA

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13 Powder TBA

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 30 Machinedrum Civic Underground

ow did you first get into DJing?

DJing was something I’d been interested in for a while before I started. Every time there was a set of decks at a party I’d always jump on and fool around.

It was something I picked up on pretty quickly; none of my friends at the time were doing it, so it felt like something that was my own and I really wanted to keep getting better/ improving. I was at a club one night at the age of 18 and was introduced to a promoter; I lied and told him I could DJ, implying that I knew what I was doing. He told me to show up the next week with some CDs and a pair of headphones. I got booked to play more and more and just went from there.

When you’re DJing, do you always get immediate feedback from the audience?

Can you tell how they’re responding to each track?

Feedback from the audience is always pretty immediate; they’ll let you know if there’s something they don’t like. Now that (because of the internet) your average club/festival punter has a heightened knowledge of electronic genres, they’re much more savvy about what they will

and won’t identify with or dance to.

What is your favourite set of all that you’ve played?

The Splendour In The Grass Mix Up Stage was pretty amazing; that would have to be a highlight for me. Funnily enough, playing to a massive crowd is a lot easier than a smaller one. I think that by virtue of being up on a big stage the audience trust you almost by default; in a more intimate space you really have to earn it.

How would you characterise Sydney’s

musical scene at the moment?

There’s no denying that it’s struggling at the moment but it will be much more robust than ever when it overcomes its current set of challenges.

There are a lot of young exciting, challenging acts particularly within the FBi Radio community that are untapped at the moment and waiting to be discovered by broader audiences.

How do you think the lockout laws have impacted the club scene?

You can definitely see/ hear/feel the drop off

in foot traffic when you drive around Sydney on a Friday or Saturday night over the last year or so. Yes there has been a definite negative effect; however as the recent Keep Sydney Open rallies have shown there is no shortage of enthusiasm or hunger from music fans for things to change, so that’s definitely encouraging.

Where: Supporting Nicole Millar at the Metro Theatre as part of V MoVement Sydney 2016 When: Sunday October 23

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