The Daily Splendour 2018 - Issue 08 'The Weekend Edition' by Monster Children

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GANG

“ BY NAT KASSEL

YOUTHS It really means something to people on a personal level. It’s not just political bullshit.”

Last weekend, the Gang of Youths lads were of the band’s popularity comes down to their The album’s reception was another victory, sleep-deprived and festival bound, driving their ability to be emotionally vulnerable, both with three tracks from Go Farther in Lightness tour van through the English countryside. It on stage and in public life more generally. making top ten status in the Hottest 100, was then that Max Dunn, the band’s scruffy Le’aupepe has often spoken openly about his including the happy indie-pop anthem, “Let Kiwi bass-player, answered my phone call with personal struggles with mental health and Me Down Easy”, which scored the second slot a bit of confusion – “Sorry bro, you’re calling suicide, which has proven disarming, relatable after Kendrick Lamar’s “HUMBLE.”. Max says from where?”

and sometimes cathartic for Gang of Youths the boys were particularly stoked to hit those ranks on the year that triple j changed the

When I explained that I wanted to interview fans.

him there and then, he didn’t skip a beat, “I guess he believes in sharing his story and Hottest 100 from Australia Day. jumping into the conversation while his that’s a big part of his art,” Max explains. “That was huge for us man,” Max beams. bandmates ridiculed his thick Kiwi accent in “He really just takes his own experiences and “Two of the guys in the band are indigenous to the background. With surprising frankness, makes art around them in a pretty raw way.”

Oceania, so it’s massively close to their hearts,

he spoke about his mental health struggles, But beyond the task of creating music, even though they’re not indigenous Australians. the band’s “evil plans” for their Splendour set Le’aupepe’s candid admissions about his Seeing the emotion and the weight off the and a tour schedule that sounds

shoulders

utterly gruelling.

artists who are friends with the

Gang of Youths have a rep

band was really, really cool as

for consistently delivering the

well. It really means something

goods when it comes to wooing

to people on a personal level. It’s

st adium - loads of hyp ed - up

not just political bullshit.”

punters. And while their studio

While Gang of Youths are billed

sound is incredibly tight and

as an Aussie band, the members’

heavily produced, their live shows

ethnic origins are pretty diverse:

are driven by frontman David

Le’aupepe has Samoan-Jewish

Le’aupepe’s intoxicating ability

heritage; Max is a Kiwi; guitarist

to captivate every person in any

Joji Malani is Fijian; keyboardist

given room or arena.

Jung Kim is Korean-American and

“I think Dave’s a really inspiring

drummer Donnie Borzestowski

person,” says Max. “As someone

is Polish-Australian. They’ve also

who’s a very close friend of his, I

collectively relocated to London,

completely see the effect he has

where they all live together in a

on people because it’s the same

six-bedroom flat.

on me.”

Their

David Le’aupepe is tall, dark and

Splendour will mark the beginning

handsome with a knack for clever

of a mammoth tour, much of

lyrics and a reputation for being

which is already sold out. Max

super friendly. But at 26-years-

says it will be a good chance for

old, his life story is peppered with

PHOTO : SAM BRUMBY

Saturday

the

indigenous

night

set

the guys to catch up with friends

heart-wrenching moments. Le’aupepe was struggles have played a part in de-stigmatising and family, but that “there’s also a fair bit of inspired to form Gang of Youths in 2012 after mental illness, which is something that the pressure not to balls it up”. his then-wife’s cancer diagnosis.

band now sees as part of their mission. They The Saturday of Splendour will be a particularly

A couple of years later, his marriage fell apart offer hope to anyone who needs it.

special day for Gang of Youths because it

and his ongoing battle with depression and “I’ve had full on mental health struggles my coincides with their manager’s buck’s party. substance abuse led to a suicide attempt. whole life,” Max declares. “I’d rather be open Max drops a few hints about the partying and The suicide attempt, on June 3rd of 2014, about that and about how getting help was a pranks but he doesn’t want to spill too many was immortalised in the song “Magnolia” huge part of me having a better quality of life of the details. from Gang of Youths’ 2015 debut album, The and growing as a person. Being open about “We’ve got some pretty evil plans,” he laughs. Positions. It details the night he got drunk and it might save some other kid the drama and “Nothing disrespectful, but I wouldn’t be planned to jump in front of a truck.

the bullshit. If you’ve got things going in your surprised if [our manager is] forced to play

After a stint in rehab, a six-track EP (Let Me head and you feel like you need some help, a glockenspiel in the middle of our set at Be Clear, 2016), a chart-topping album and just go and get it. That’s how I feel about it,” Splendour. I think we’ll get pretty creative with it, a move to London, Gang of Youths are now says Max.

so if you see any crazy shit, that’s probably why.”

arguably the biggest Australian indie-rock band Though their second full-length definitely still If you or someone you know is dealing with since Tame Impala. Last year’s Go Farther has its dark parts, critics have described Go mental illness, you can contact BeyondBlue on in Lightness won a bunch of ARIA awards, Farther in Lightness as “a victory album”. Rather 1300 22 4636. including Album of the Year, with critics hailing than total recovery, the victory is the band’s it as the band’s “magnum opus”.

ability to look after themselves and each other.

But while Gang of Youths’ indie-rock sound is Max describes the band as “a brotherhood”

CATCH GANG OF YOUTHS ON THE

certainly catchy and compelling, their message and explains that it’s a relief to see Le’aupepe

AMPHITHEATRE STAGE SATURDAY

is what really seems to grab hold. A big part “in a much better place”.

AT 6.15 PM.

WELCOME TO THE DAILY SPLENDOUR WEEKEND EDITION A N I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y VA U G H A N D E A D LY How you going guys? You doing ok? You hold it together last night or did you drop the clutch and let it fully rip? Feeling fresh or a bit cooked? Haha! Classic ! Well, whatever you got up to don’t sweat it because The Daily Splendour Weekend Edition is here to chip shot you back into the best goddamn music fezzy on Earth. You’ve got a huge weekend coming up too and the best is yet to come, plus you’ve sorted your zones, you know where your friends will be, you probably have a good idea of what you’re gonna eat and, best of all, who you’re gonna go see. There’ll be the inevitable tangents, like the long-lost friend who steers you in a totally different direction to what you have planned but go with it. You’ll be grateful. And you’ll find your crew later anyway. You always do. Today is all about taking your time and getting in the groove of Splendour life. That first night explosion should now be on the simmer, ready to be put back on the gas with each new set you make the effort to go and enjoy. Pace yourself. Get your slow on. Rage when the moment demands it. Today is your day. May I make a suggestion? Talk to strangers. Meet and greet the crew around you. They’re here for the same reasons you are. Odds are they’re like -minded people with like -minded values. The Splendour crowd are l ike that. They just want to be free to have fun. Don’t believe? Just look back up the hill during the Gang of Youths set and take in people’s faces. Or jump in collective froth when the

Hilltop Hoods take to the Mix Up. Doesn’t matter what you’re into or where you wind up, someone right next to you is enjoying the same thing just as much as you are. Share the experience with them. It makes it twice as good. Promise! And if you’re feeling like taking some time out just for yourself, well that’s fine too. In fact, that’s what we’re here for. To give you a little bit of Splendour within the constructs of the good old printed newspaper page, a peaceful medium that can only invade your mind as long as you choose to let it. Within you’ll find the must-see acts for the rest of the weekend, along with some thoughts, musings, interviews, and stories from a few of the artists performing over the weekend. You’ll also find a bunch of ridiculous nonsense as penned by us Daily Splendour staffers late last night in our caravan backstage while you were out having the time of your life. Don’t worry, we were ripping in just as hard as you were (probably harder truth be told), and just like you, we can’t wait for what the next 48 hours will bring. So

best

Splendour

of and

luck

and

however

hopefully it

pans

out

we’ll will

see be

you

out

exactly

there. it

should

not, be.

no Totally

dramas. fucken

It’s epic.

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PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN AND LISTEN TO MGMT

MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden is sitting on a million dollar idea. Disillusioned by the vapid nature of social media and our growing dependence on smartphones, he purchased a small, phone-sized coffin on eBay. “It’s like a piece of folk art made of matchsticks and it has a red felt lining,” he says. “When I first got it, I took it on some psychedelic journeys and it got a lot of use that way because you really don’t want to look at your phone when you’re in that state. But I wanna start making them and selling them.” When his phone isn’t banished to its casket, he ensures it’s perfectly frustrating to use. “Right now, my phone isn’t updated, is fully cracked and His loathing of our current smartphone addiction is a common theme super slow, and just really, really annoying to use, and I do that as a way to throughout the band’s latest record, Little Dark Age, released in February. associate my phone with the most unpleasant experience possible. I think It’s the duo’s fourth release, and first since co-songwriter Ben Goldwasser the phone coffin is coming from the same world, I just really dislike my moved from New York to Los Angeles. VanWyngarden says he thinks one of attachment to this thing.”

the reasons the band returned to their electronic sound on this record was

When I propose that I’m pretty certain a revolt is coming, and that recent to see if the two still had music-making chemistry. “The whole process of reports of the decline in active Facebook and Instagram users suggest making our new album was sort of like this long process of re-discovering the same, he welcomes the idea. “Yeah, I mean it’s kind of inevitable. I our creative friendship and starting in a place that was a little bit lowthink—or, I hope—there’s going to be this big wave, especially with younger confidence and uncertain about where we were gonna go, and if we still generations kind of rejecting it because with everything coming out and had a spark.” revealing how much data is being given away, it’s just like, nobody wants Listening to the record, it’s pretty clear that creative sparks are still that.”

flying between the two. VanWyngarden says another driving force behind

When it comes to discussing the bleakest social media posts to scroll rediscovering their electronic, synth-soaked sound was his foray into DJing. upon, for me it’s a tie between self-declared Instagram models posing in “It’s been about four years since our last album came out, and right around front of iconic historical paintings in art museums, and face-tuned mothers when we were mixing it I started getting into DJing and learning a little bit posing in front of grossly overpriced first birthday cakes that their infant more about electronic music and dance music. So I think there’s a little of children will never remember. Seriously, what are you all doing? Anyway, that influence that came into it, from DJing and seeing what makes people for VanWyngarden, it’s harder to pinpoint the ones he likes than the ones dance and hearing new sounds through record collecting.” he doesn’t. “I mean, these days I only really go on our band Instagram His record-collecting hobby has lead him to another exciting venture—a occasionally, but I usually just watch skateboarding and surfing and girls in listening room and record shop that he’s spent the last few months bikinis, y’know? It’s like… there’s so many that are bad, what are the ones building. “It’s in Rockaway, [New York], where I live. The initial inspiration that are good?”

was coming from Japanese listening bars that are usually genre specific and have a vintage sound system. This isn’t going to be a bar where there’s alcohol, but just like a room that’s carpeted and sounds really amazing, and I have these vintage Altec speakers and an amp and it’s going to be like a vinyl listening room.” After a month-long stint in Europe, MGMT are stoked not only to be playing Splendour this year, but also to spend some in the water. “I live at the closest surfing beach to New York City, but I’ve gotten pretty lazy, as people who live at surfing beaches do. A lot of times I’ll be sitting in bed and checking the surf cam even though I can see the ocean from my house. I’m excited to surf in Byron, though!” he says. So if you’re out in the water this week, keep your eyes peeled, and be sure to extend a warm welcome.

CATCH MGMT PLAY THE AMPHITHEATRE SUNDAY AT 7.45 PM

MIDDLE MONIQUE PENNING

KIDS

HOW MANY BANDS CAN SAY THEIR DEBUT SINGLE—AND ONE THEY WERE YET TO EVEN PERFORM LIVE— CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF NONE OTHER THAN SIR ELTON JOHN HIMSELF? MIDDLE KIDS CAN. THE INDIE ROCK TRIO HAILING FROM SYDNEY GOT VERY GOOD, VERY QUICKLY, AND A LISTEN OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘LOST FRIENDS’ REVEALS EXACTLY WHY. FRONTWOMAN HANNAH JOY’S MESMERISING VOCALS BLEND EFFORTLESSLY WITH THE FLAWLESS BACKING OF DRUMMER HARRY DAY AND MUSICAL JACK OF ALL TRADES (AND HANNAH’S HUSBAND) TIM FITZ, EXUDING SUCH PALPABLE ENERGY YOU’D BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING THEY WERE MORE THAN JUST THREE. WE CAUGHT UP WITH HANNAH AHEAD OF THEIR SUNDAY SET TO CHAT ABOUT PLAYING THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE AT AGE 12, GO -TO KARAOKE SONGS, AND HER CLASSICAL TRAINING, BELOW.

CATCH MIDDLE

Have you ever been to Splendour before, even Yeah for sure, it was the last night of our Austrajust as festival goers?

lian tour. Ever since I was really little I would go

Never as a punter. It’s so funny, sometimes peo- and see shows there, like operettas and string ple ask us ‘what festival did you grow up going to quartets and chamber music. I won this compebefore you were in a band?’ and honestly I could tition when I was really little and I actually got to only ever afford the day festivals. It’s almost like perform a song that I wrote when I was 12 at the we formed the band so we could fulfil our teenage Opera House. dreams to go to festivals.

On the piano?

You all come from such different musical back- Yeah, I sung and played the piano in my school grounds and play such an insane amount of in- uniform. So it was cool to go back 15 years latstruments—what musical talents of Tim and er, having been on this journey and return to the Harry do you most admire?

10 KIDS PLAY THE

AMPHITHEATRE SUNDAY

AT 3.30 PM

place –it’s sort of like a symbol, the heart of Syd- cool for us because we hadn’t ever released any-

I’m envious of so much of Tim. He did a bit of ney music.

thing and then he just does a casual pop onto his

piano growing up but he was so explorative that Earlier this year you released your new album playlist. We were like okay, cheers. he doesn’t really follow any rules, and just kind of Lost Friends. What did you do on the release day- Are you a fan of his music? figures out everything on his own and goes with throw a big party, sleep in?

Big time, especially growing up as a piano play-

his gut, he’s a real instinctive player. It’s as if he We were actually in America and it was the day er. My dad actually sang “Your Song” to my Mum has absolutely no restraint, just doing whatever of our flight home, so we actually spent a lot of it when they were dating, and he always used to play which is cool.

in the air, but we did a little brunch celebration. I that to us, so I remember learning to play that

Is that quite different to you, because you were think that’s quite common, on the release of the song really young. classically trained?

album you’ve already started to tour the thing. We Elton John’s stuff is pretty karaoke friendly. Do

When it comes to songwriting I just play whatever I cheers’d our coffee cups, that was kind of the ex- you have a go-to karaoke song? hear, but the boys will start jamming and following tent of our celebration (laughs).

Yes! It is a classic: “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gay-

each other and as a classical pianist, I’m like ‘No, There was talk a little while ago that Elton John nor. Mainly because there’s this amazing place in what’s this for, what’s the structure?’ (laughs). was a fan of Middle Kids. Can you tell us how Nashville, a karaoke bar called Bad Santas in an But Harry has this incredible control to his playing that came about? that is totally insane.

old trailer park kind of thing. It has all this notori-

I think there was more hype around it than the ety and you go there and buy two dollar beers and

And I saw that you played at the Sydney Opera reality of it, but it was cool. It was surreal in that it everyone does karaoke together. I remember so House recently for Vivid Live, how was that? I was the first single we’d released, ‘Edge of Town’, distinctly singing that song and being like I really imagine it’d be a huge achievement for most and then a couple weeks later he’d found it and nailed it, so every time I do karaoke I try and relive Australian bands.

put it on his podcast in a playlist. It was pretty

that experience.

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VAUGHAN DEAD

BROOKLYN WHELAN ELECTRIC

FEEL

–

CONVERSATION

WITH

SPLENDOUR’S

ARTIST

RESIDENCE,

BROOKLYN

WHELAN

WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK UP INTO THE CLOUDS? SHOWS WORLDWIDE AND A LIST OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS DO YOU SEE A BUNNY RABBIT? DO YOU SEE FALCOR THE THAT INCLUDE SOME OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES AND LUCK DRAGON FROM ‘THE NEVER ENDING STORY’? IF YOU’RE CELEBRITIES ON THE PLANET, WHELAN HAS BECOME THAT ANYTHING LIKE ME, YOU PROBABLY SEE MASSIVE DICKS RAREST OF GEMS—AN ARTIST WHOSE WORK IS AS CRITICALLY AND BALLS DRIFTING ACROSS THE HEAVENS LIKE GIANT ACCLAIMED AS IT IS COMMERCIALLY POPPING OFF. IT IS HIS FLUFFY WHITE FLYING DILDOS (THAT’S NORMAL, RIGHT?). NEON PINK, GEOMETRIC ANGLES KNIFING THROUGH THE HOWEVER, IF YOU’RE MORE LIKE SYDNEY ARTIST BROOKLYN CUMULONIMBUS YOU SEE AS THIS YEAR’S SITG MOTIF AND WHELAN, THEN LOOKING TO THE SKY REVEALS THRILLING AS THE FIRST EVER ‘ARTIST IN RESIDENCE’. WE RECOMMEND DREAMSCAPES

UTOPIAN/DYSTOPIAN-SCI-FI-FANTASY YOU HUNT OUT HIS INSTALLATION, STAND IN FRONT OF IT,

THAT ARE NOTHING SHORT OF ORACULAR SPECTACULAR! MAKE SURE THERE’S NOTHING THAT CAN DISTRACT YOU AND THIS IS WHELAN’S UNIVERSE, ONE HE “STUMBLED ONTO” THEN STARE INTO THE WORK FOR AT LEAST 15 MINUTES. YEARS AGO AFTER LEAVING HIS JOB AS AN ART DIRECTOR YOU MIGHT JUST DISAPPEAR INTO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TO PURSUE HIS PASSION FOR PAINTING AND INDULGE IN HIS REALM, OR, IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, YOU MIGHT GET A LAUGH OBSESSION FOR THE WEATHER. IT WAS A BIG RISK, BUT ONE WHEN MAGICAL DICK AND BALLS CLOUDS APPEAR THAT THAT’S PAYING OFF. NOW, AFTER NUMEROUS SOLD-OUT SOLO NOBODY ELSE CAN SEE.

I couldn’t believe it when the person I had execution, it’s incredible stuff. I wasn’t aware Heights and they were feeling the weather to interview about the art for Splendour was back in the day that this style of painting was paintings and they told me to persist with that my old pal Brooklyn fucken Whelan from the something you were interested in. good old surf mag days!

and see how I went. And that faith allowed me

Yeah, it’s quite strange mate. I’ve always been to put my head down and go for it. After that

It was a double win for me man, because not fascinated with the weather and skyscapes and first show things took off pretty quickly. The only do I get to talk to you, but I get to talk that kind of shit, but I spent a lot of years just thing about really committing to the art and about myself to you too (laughs). Hey, congrats fucking around and not taking things seriously nothing else was that it allowed me to find my on your 10-year stint at Surfing World!

until the guys at China Heights Gallery in Surry own voice. I was able to dig really deep and

Thank mate, I just did my last day last week. Hills came to me and said, “This stuff you’re find my own style… which is everything in art You must be so stoked to be done with working on… we have got to get this shit out because nobody will take you seriously and deadlines.

there.” So I began to go at it with a bit more you won’t stick out from the millions of other

Yeah except now I’m writing for this Splendour focus and now those weather paintings have people if you don’t. You have to find and tap newspaper and I’m on deadline!

given me some identity within the art world into that unique thing inside that only you have.

(Laughs) Oh man I’m trying not to laugh, but I and they’re primarily what I’m known for. So, It’s so hard to commit to only making art feel for ya.

it’s super trippy but I’m going with the flow and though. So many of us have creative passions

So how you going?

really enjoying it.

we’d love to explore on a deeper level but we

Life’s good. Everything is kinda going my way You were art director at Tracks surf mag let work and bills and basically life excuses which is so cool. I’m just painting heaps which and you’ve had a bunch of other cool jobs, get in the way. is good because it’s my main source of income but when did the belief that you could make You’re right, it’s incredibly hard, but in a now.

painting your career kick in?

strange sort of way it’s also the only choice

That’s the dream isn’t it? It’s funny because I had always loved painting and drawing and if you want to be true to yourself. I think there when I first saw all the art you’ve been that lead me into graphic design and eventually are times when life waves red flags and you doing I actually had no idea it was you that into the role of art director, but after I left Tracks gotta pay attention to them. We’ve all had was making it. I was absolutely tripping on I just thought, “Fuck this. I have to give this moments of thinking, “What am I doing? Fuck the conceptual nature of it and then the painting gig a real crack.” So I went to China this! Life’s too short!” and in those moments

you naturally tend to refocus on things that Man, it’s funny but I reckon a lot of my goes I’ve still got that OCD art director head really matter. When I reached that point after favourite artists are optimistic and quite in a way, everything needs to be well balanced leaving Tracks I remember thinking, “I’m happy people and that translates into their and well situated within the work. So, there’s giving this everything and if I hit absolute rock work.

the super organic element going on but then

bottom and I can’t cope with it anymore and I One hundred per cent. It’s funny because also the harsh geometry at play as well. I’m fail, I’ll make the decision to throw in the towel with these weather paintings, trying to find excited for people to see them in real life. and go work for an arsehole again.” And you my own way with them, the challenge of it They’re quite big and you can really get stuck know what? That’s a great motivator in itself was invigorating. I kind of stumbled onto it into the little flickers and strokes. Instagram because who wants to work for an arsehole but when I did it was an incredibly positive and any streaming device never eclipse the feeling. I’m naturally into dark monochromatic real thing.

again?

Now that I work for myself I’d argue that I’m shit, so when I first picked up that neon pink Unless you’re taking a selfie which is always working for the biggest arsehole of all.

I remember thinking “Everyone loves a bit of a thousand times better than the real thing.

(Laughs) That’s so true. I’m my own biggest pink!” and that one decision sent me on this I have to use that air-brush selfie filter these critic anyway and nobody likes a critic!

happy path and that feeling is infused into days (laughs). Too many harsh edges now that

How did you navigate the highs and lows that everything I’m currently painting.

we’re older Vaughano!

come with painting for a living, because some At the risk of sounding like a deadset art No shit! Haha! Hey, one thing that gives me days you feel like you’re a God creating the wanker, with those hot pink geometric a lot of joy is the idea of all the tweakedother

out units who are off

days you feel like a

chops at Splendour

total phoney?

staring

Oh man, I’ve put knives

paintings and getting

through

lost in them for hours.

universe

and out

and

canvasses

chucked on

the

your

Oh man, I feel very

shit

blessed

street

have

and every day I have

been asked to do

doubts,

particularly

this Splendour artist

when I’m busting my

residency thing for

nuts on an idea that

the first time, to be

just doesn’t work. It’s

first cab off the rank

all part of the creative

stokes me out so

process. You go up

much. It’s a great

and

honour because it’s

you

down.

Sometimes shit is shit

Australia’s

and right on cue, your

festival, with artists

brain will attack you.

from all walks of life

“Where am I at? What

who work in all sorts

am I doing? Am I just

of different mediums

a one trick pony?”

communicating with

Thankfully in the early

people

part of my journey a

to be a part of it.

lot of things fell into

They’re

place

for any other reason

and

actually

who not

biggest

want there

and

than to experience

they’re still going to

and enjoy art. And

plan now. I’m painting

I think my work fits

went

plan,

for a show at the moment that will be on the angles piercing through the calm chaos of within the environment of Splendour too. week after Splendour. I haven’t done a solo the cloudscapes... there is so much conflict It fits the environment and the feel of the show since the beginning of the year and I’ve going on but it’s all so beautifully balanced. area so I couldn’t be happier to be a part had days where I look at everything and just What inspired these compositions?

of it all.

think, “Man… what the fuck is this shit?” But I think more than anything I was just exploring Well, I hope people make the effort to now that I’m a month away from finishing I’m and experimenting with some ideas and that seek out and appreciate your paintings thinking “No, actually, this is great and I’m lead to the discovery of these new places, that mate because they’re absolutely beautiful. happy with where I’m at with it all.” So, I think I guess in some ways are quite sci-fi. I was Congrats on all your success because it’s unavoidable. The trick is to keep pushing really pushing myself, pushing paint around what you’re making really is remarkable. on until you either work it out or set it on fire and trying to tap into something that had an Thanks Vaughano, see ya at the Goons set (laughs).

immediate impact, something with instant at the Amphitheatre on Saturday!

Are you a believer in the notion of the tortured feel. And if you’re lucky enough to get that, Um… we didn’t get asked to play this year artist?

then you can have a lot of fun playing with mate.

Not so much. I don’t think so. I’m pretty stoked it and helping it evolve. That’s the ultimate (Awkward silence). Oh… Hopefully catch ya where I’m at, I haven’t cut my ear off yet.

satisfaction. I think as far as composition for a beer then.

VAUGHAN DEAD

THE SEVEN COLOURS OF THE SPLENDOUR

RAINBOW

PINK is for the people. The regular people like you and me. The regular get-up-and-down-to-body-music-at-thefestival people like you and me. And us guys and girls at Splendour in the Grass are dedicated pinkos. Pink is what red looks like when it lets its hair out to LORDE. Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and sometimes bland, pink is laid back with attitude. Pink is unique in the spectrum, it’s called upon to signify both naughtiness and innocence. Plant magic dust is pink too. If you sprinkle it in your coffee… bubbles. Or straight onto your skin… bubbles. You can dance like a plate of pink jelly so big it can fill the whole amphitheatre and eat 15 per cent of the world’s source of avocados. Pinky’s dilemma. GREEN is for the grass, in a land without mirrors. D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y green. Greedily green. MGreenMT. Stella Donnelly’s a great green pleasure machine. Jack’s River runs green. Green goddess with falafel and/to Sampa the Green. It’s mean, it’s lean, it’s story fresh at Emmy’s Turkish Gozlemes 9am - 2am Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. YELLOW comes up the years and comes up-up-up in the opening. 2018 is the yellow of the Banana. Urban Pasta’s Mac & Cheese yellow. Egg yellow. The inside of a Byron Bay Organic Donut is the colour of God picking sunflowers which are also yellow as you can be. Girl Talk is yellow. Angus & Julia are stoned-cold-yellow-chicken-house-foxes. I thought that Skeggs were yellow but maybe they’re sunburst or late October sunset over the ocean near the

WORDS BY PIE IN THE SKY

sagebrush yellow and I want you to know that this is just me talking. Talking yellow tank-top and yellow hair sun

AKA MONEY PUSSY AKA

kissed Splendour in the Grass pop stars singing mellow yellow with yellowy orange strummer cocktails calypsos

RETRO TILE VIBE

in a speckled strut. BLUE is made in Paris. ORANGE is… Oh, avec quelle perfection la mort programme sur tes pas une lueur de vent orange. Et tu t’arrêtes pour mourir dans un verger dont les fruits

comblent les étoiles. RED animal goes full metal RED animal Saturday, with matching boots and matching socks and matching red ribbons in her hair spelling the words D-M-A with her body holding churros. Against the reddish afternoon sky to the tune of We All Want To Live Forever by Kendrick Lamar ft. Lucas’ Pawpaw Ointment. *available at the mercy counter for all the chappies with chapped up lips from dancing and not drinking plenty enough of water or cans of beer responsibly. But PURPLE/INDIGO/VIOLET is just us now it’s almost the end of the night and we just met or we’ve met before and now merrily we’ve met again or we’ve never met but it’s cold enough now and we’re together and your eyes are like Rolling Blackouts (Coastal Fever) o’ purple finch.

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SAMPA THE GREAT CATCH SAMPA THE GREAT PLAY MIX UP STAGE SUNDAY AT 7 PM MONIQUE PENNING

WHEN R APPER AND SINGER- SONGWRITER SAMPA THE GRE AT RELE ASED HER FIRST MIXTAPE IN 2015, IT WAS IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS THERE WERE BIG THINGS TO COME . THE ZAMBIAN BORN, BOTSWANA R AISED MUSICIAN’S HARD - HIT TING LYRICS, SOULFUL BE ATS, AND WISDOM WELL BE YOND HER YE ARS FOUND ITS WAY ONCE AGAIN ON HER DEBUT ALBUM ‘BIRDS AND THE BEE S’, SOLIDIF YING HERSELF AS A TRUE FORCE IN AUSTR ALIAN HIP- HOP. CLE AR YOUR SCHEDULE FOR 7 PM SUNDAY, BECAUSE SHE’LL BE BRINGING ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING AND ENERGETIC PERFORMANCE S OF SPLENDOUR TO A STAGE NE AR YOU. WE CAUGHT UP WITH SAMPA AHE AD OF HER SHOW TO CHAT POETRY ICONS, THE SONGS OF HER YOUTH AND MORE , BELOW.

I read that your dad used to DJ a bit. What kind of tunes would he be

I love Audre Lorde’s work and this quote is one of my favourites:

spinning when you were growing up?

‘The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

My dad used to DJ in his teenage years. According to Mum, he loved Lionel

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision,

Richie and Marvin Gaye, which explains a lot. The thing is though, when we

then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

were growing up he was all about traditional music and gospel.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognise, accept,

Aside from family and friends, what do you miss most about home?

and celebrate those differences.’

I miss the language a lot. And the culture, just general day to day normal

I also really love Toni Morrison, who said, “You wanna fly, you got to give up

things. I also miss Zambian food! Of course, I also miss the music from

the shit that weighs you down.”

both Zambia and Botswana. What do you think is unique about coming up and making music in the

If you could give one piece of advice to a young girl growing up and wanting

Australian music scene?

to be a rapper/hip-hop artist one day, what would it be?

It has been exciting to be in the midst of a growing industry. I also love

Your voice is valid. Disregard people and doubts about your potential

seeing all the amazing young talent burst through, as well as young black

success in this industry. Cultivate the artist you want to be regardless of

talent expanding what the industry looks like and what it can be.

the ever-changing industry.

You’ve worked with so many incredible artists, what’s one of the most

What do you count as one of your favourite music festival memories?

important things you’ve learned from a favourite collab?

My first Splendour was pretty epic. I hadn’t performed in a while and the

Working collaboratively with different people is always so different, from

band and I were pretty amped to perform. A lot of hair flips, a lot of energy.

person to person. There are lots of areas you have to be willing to explore

It was probably one of the first shows I had with a big crowd as well!

and grow in and sometimes you’re not necessarily an expert in them. I find

Who are you most excited to see at Splendour this year and why?

that the best thing about collaborations is the excitement of learning new

I’m most excited to see Kendrick, I’ve seen him live before and I’m a huge

things that you didn’t even know existed until you’ve started working with

fan of his artistry. He also always delivers an intriguing performance.

someone new.

What does the world need more of in 2018?

You’re known for your incredible lyricism—what are some of your favourite

Empathy is always a huge one. There’s always big things happening in this

lyrics from either a poetry or hip-hop icon?

big world. I also think we need to communicate better with each other.

Deep, soulful & raw in all the right places.

SOME VOICE S ARE HARD TO FORGET, BUT A VOICE LIKE ANGIE’S IS IMPOS SIBLE . DEEP, SOULFUL AND R AW IN ALL THE RIGHT PL ACE S, IT STE AL S THE SHOW FROM THE SECOND SHE OPENS HER MOUTH TO UNLE ASH IT. SO FAR, WE’VE ONLY HE ARD T WO SINGLE S FROM THE MELBOURNE BASED SINGER- SONGWRITER, AND WE ALRE ADY KNOW SHE’S A KEEPER. WHILE WE E AGERLY AWAIT HER DEBUT RECORD, WE ASKED THE MULTI - INSTRUMENTALIST A COUPLE OF QUE STIONS ABOUT TOURING THE WORLD, HER GUILT Y PLE ASURE SONG, AND WHAT SHE’LL BE DOING BEFORE SHE HITS THE STAGE AT SPLENDOUR.

ANGIE MCMAHON

THE VOICE YOU CAN’T FORGET

17 and 23, in song form. It’s both

others—that stood out, where we

extremely quiet and extremely loud.

felt so in our element and like we

Your voice is an incredibly

couldn’t play the songs any better

powerful instrument, but you also

than we were, and the audience

play a bunch of others, and did

couldn’t be any kinder than they

throughout high school, too. Can

were, it was wonderful.

you list them all?

You’re playing Splendour! Do you

Ah, thanks! I fumble with the piano

have a pre-show ritual you’ll be

and guitar, and played trumpet

doing before you take the stage?

in high school, which I’d like to

Yes. Probably sit in the corner of the

do more of now too! There’s a

tent breathing deeply and trying not

little moment of trumpet on this

to vomit my nerves up.

upcoming album, it’s one of my

“Slow Mover” has over three

favourite bits. I also started playing

million plays on Spotify. What song

drums last year with my friends Liv

have you contributed a substantial

and Pep for our punk band, and I’m

amount of plays to?

pretty bad at that, but it doesn’t

I love this question! A few of my

seem to matter!

most played ones are: “Honey, I” by

You’ve been touring a lot this

Big Smoke, “Cellophane” by Sarah

year—what’s one of the best shows Belkner, “Sister” by Angel Olsen, you’ve played so far and why?

“Atlantic City” by Bruce Springsteen,

So hard to say, but I’ve got a couple

“Early Morning Light” by Ainslie Wills

favourites. I loved the New Years

and “Tea, Milk & Honey” by Oh Pep!

Day set at NYE on the Hill, such a

What about a guilty pleasure song

memorable sea of faces. We played

you’d prefer no one knew you

a headline gig at Howler that blew

listened to?

CATCH ANGIE MCMAHON

Hey Angie! Can you give us a brief

my mind, it was so heart-warming.

I mean I’m deep into Adele, I don’t

AT GW MCLENNAN TENT

synopsis of your new album, as if

And on tour with Angus and Julia

know if that’s embarrassing or not

it were a blurb on the back of a

Stone we played some beautiful

but that woman has taken up a

book?

theatres, had lovely audiences, and

large portion of my life.

The album is like opening my

really got in a groove playing night

Finally, your Instagram bio says

bedroom door and letting out the

after night. There were a couple

you are 90% Bolognese. What’s the

thoughts and feelings that I had

nights—Mackay in Queensland and

other 10%?

in that space between the ages of

Bendigo in Victoria, and a couple

Sleep, most likely.

SUNDAY 12.30 PM

ERIN BROMHEAD

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5 6

7 8

10 11 12

20 21

ACROSS

DOWN

1. Albert Hammond Jr’s old band

2. They’re here with all of their people

3. 19-year-old who forgot his vowels

4. His eyes are as tired as Post Malone’s

6. Angus & Julia’s surname 7.

Henry Rollins fronted this influential punk band

9. One person plus one person 11. Methyl Ethyl don’t want you to cut it 12. Shocked us with their electric eels 13. Football Daddy’s partner

5. Kendrick is so fucking sick and tired of this 8. They scored the #2 spot on this years Hottest 100 10. Khalid is young, dumb and… 14. Pnau’s favourite wild fruit 15. Syndrome of family exclusion that only affects these children

15. His friends include J.Cole, Rick Ross and Travis Scott

18. Where Cardi B was born and raised

16. What Rolling Blackouts get sick with

20. Does her makeup in somebody else’s car

17. The keyboard command the DMA’s don’t want you to use 19. The punctuation mark the Vampire Weekend don’t give a

fuck about

21. Iconic English band The Wombats want us to dance to 22. Amyl’s backing band

WRITTEN BY ERIN BROMHEAD

SATURDAY 21ST JULY SET TIMES

SUNDAY 22ND JULY SET TIMES

Amphitheatre

Seaside 12.00 – 12.45

Amyl & The Sniffers 12.00 – 12.45

The Babe Rainbow 1.00 – 1.45

Yungblud 1.00 – 1.45

Alex Lahey 2.15 – 3.00

Skeggs 2.15 – 3.00

Amy Shark 3.30 – 4.15

Middle Kids 3.30 – 4.15

Methyl Ethel 4.45 – 5.45

Ben Howard 4.45 – 5.45

Gang of Youths 6.15 – 7.15

PNAU 6.15 – 7.15

Franz Ferdinand 7.45 – 8.45

MGMT 7.45 – 8.45

Chvrches 9.15 – 10.15

The Wombats 9.15 – 10.15

Vampire Weekend 10.45 – 12.00

Kendrick Lamar 10.45 – 12.00

Mix Up

Haiku Hands 12.15 – 1.00

Ziggy Ramo 12.15 – 1.00

Lauren Hansom 1.00 – 1.30

Ebony Boadu 1.00 – 1.30

No Mono 1.30 – 2.15

Eves Karydas 1.30 – 2.15

Lauren Hansom 2.15 – 2.45

Towkio 2.45 – 3.30

Superorganism 2.45 – 3.45

Nyxen 3.30 – 4.00

Godlands 3.45 – 4.30

Mallrat 4.00 – 4.45

Anna Lunoe 4.30 – 5.30

Nyxen 4.45 – 5.15

Godlands 5.30 – 6.15

Crooked Colours 5.15 – 6.15

Carmada by LDRU & Yahtzel 6.15 – 8.00

Nyxen 6.15 – 7.00

Audiopaxx DJs 8.00 – 8.45

Sampa the Great 7.00 – 8.00

Lil Xan 8.45 – 9.45

Poolclvb 8.00 – 8.45

Elk Road 9.45 – 10.30

The Avalanches (DJ Set) 8.45 – 9.45

Hilltop Hoods 10.30 – 11.30

Poolclvb 9.45 – 10.30 Girl Talk 10.30 – 11.30

GW McLennan G Flip 12.30 – 1.15

GW McLennan

Waax 1.45 – 2.30

Angie McMahon 12.30 – 1.15

Alex the Austronaut 3.00 – 3.45

Soccer Mommy 1.45 – 2.30

Lewis Capaldi 4.15 – 5.00

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever 3.00 – 3.45

All Our Exes Live In Texas 5.30 – 6.30

Albert Hammond Jr 4.15 – 5.00

Ocean Alley 7.00 – 8.00

Dean Lewis 5.30 – 6.30

The Jungle Giants 8.30 – 9.30

Hockey Dad 7.00 – 8.00

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite 10.00 – 11.00

Ball Park Music 8.30 – 9.30 James Bay 10.00 – 11.00

Tiny Dancer B Wise 3.00 – 3.50

Tiny Dancer

Two People 4.00 – 4.50

Antony and Cleopatra 3.00 – 3.50

Ara Koufax 5.00 – 6.00

Muto 4.00 – 4.50

Andras 6.00 – 7.30

Teischa 5.00 – 5.50

Fantastic Man 7.30 – 9.00

Kasbo 6.00 – 6.50

Tim Sweeney 9.00 – 11.00

Elderbrook 7.00 – 8.00

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER CATCHING

CASE

WRITTEN BY ERIN BROMHEAD

CATCH ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER PLAY GW MCLENNAN TENT SUNDAY AT 3 PM.

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever make music

asked about their similarities, they say their family

EPs, 2016’s Talk Tight, and The French Press,

that’s easy to relate to. Maybe it’s because

bond is most obvious when they’re competing.

released the following year. “The first one was just

they’re actually related. Fran Keaney and Joe

“When we play cricket it gets competitive

a collection of songs that we initially just put out

White are cousins, and Tom Russo and Joe Russo

pretty quickly.”

ourselves for the hell of it. For the second EP, we

are brothers. Then there’s Marcel Tussie, the

The band has been touring like crazy this past

had a few songs kicking around, but not an album,

band’s drummer, who’s just out there all alone.

year, traversing all around the world with their

so it felt right to do another EP at that stage. For

Poor Marcy. And it gets worse—turns out that he’s

‘Scandinavian post office pop’ inspired sound.

the album, we went in with the mindset that it

never even been invited to one of his bandmate’s

Sorry, what was that? I just found that reference

was going to be an album and we wanted the

family dinners. Outrageous. Anyway, we spoke to

on a Triple J write up and didn’t know whether to

whole thing to hang together like a proper album,”

the band about everything from family traits, to

laugh or cry. Is that really what we’ve come to?

he says.

touring the world, to Pitchfork reviews, and you

Scandinavian post office pop? Anyway, they’re

By now, you’ve had close to six weeks to get to

can read it all below. By the way, have you ever

making a brief but triumphant return to our shores

know and love the tracks on Hope Downs. By the

caught a Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever? Once it

for their Splendour performance, before they jet

time the band takes to the stage this weekend, you

gets its claws into you, it’s hard to shake. It starts

off again to play Europe, America, and a bunch of

better be singing along ‘cause they’ll be playing

with the chills, and then they start multiplying.

other exotic locations. “It’s been pretty flat out so

a bunch of new stuff, as well as a sprinkling of

Then the blues take control. And the power… have

we haven’t really had a chance to properly take

the classics. “We’ve already been playing a fair

I taken this far enough yet? I’ll let myself out.

it in. But it’s been great fun. We’ve seen heaps

chunk from the new album. We’ve played seven

When the band first started (back in 2013, when

of new towns and cities, and played on bills with

out of the ten. It’s been fun to have them in there

they were simply known as Rolling Blackouts),

some of our all-time favourites,” says Fran.

and to see the crowd getting into them. So yeah,

none of the band members shared DNA. Then,

Last month, Rolling Blackouts CF released their

we’ll play a fair few of them, and a few of the old

Fran brought his cousin into the mix, and Tom his

highly anticipated debut album, Hope Downs,

ones too.”

brother. Marcel rounded out the new line up, and

to rave reviews. Among their biggest fans are

As for festivals, the band has played more than

after some online threats from a small American

the folks at Pitchfork, whose word many music

their fair share. There have been highs, lows, and

band with the same name, the guys added

fanatics consider as gospel. But Fran says the

discarded ponchos. Like at Meredith, a few years

another four syllables to their name. Two EPs and

band is careful not to let it get to their head. “It is

ago, when the weather had been pretty solidly

one LP later, and they still haven’t managed to

nice when you read a review where someone has

shit for days on end. “There was one point on the

set a place for Marcel at the family table. “Fran

really listened and thought about your music. But

Saturday afternoon where it stopped, the clouds

and Joe’s family is enormous,” Marcel says. “I’ve

you try not to take anyone’s word for it, whether

parted and the sun came out, and Joe [White]

heard about the spreads, about the lamb and the

it’s a good review or bad review. You don’t really

chucked away his poncho in a fit of passion. Then

pavlova. I would like an invite.” Maybe Fran and

want to hang your hat on what someone else

the clouds opened up again,” reminisces Fran.

Joe have just been too busy hitting the wicket—

has said.”

What crazy crime of passion will Joe commit this

not a euphemism—to extend the invitation. When

The full-length comes after two highly acclaimed

year at Splendour? Only time will tell.

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WRITTEN BY MONIQUE PENNING

IF YOU’RE NOT TIRED BY THE END OF AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS GIG, YOU’RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT. THE FOUR-PIECE PUNK BAND HAILING FROM MELBOURNE ARE READYING TO GIVE THE SPLENDOUR STAGE A THRASHING THIS WEEKEND, AND WE’D HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU’D HEAD ALONG TO WATCH LEAD SINGER AMY TAYLOR PUNCH OUT SONGS ABOUT STOLEN PUSHBIKES, PAYING RENT ON TIME, AND BLOWJOBS. DESPITE THE WELCOME CHAOS YOU’LL FIND ONSTAGE, HOWEVER, WE FIGURED THAT ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO’RE EFFICIENT ENOUGH TO WRITE, RECORD AND MIX THEIR FIRST EVER EP IN THE BEDROOM OF THEIR SHAREHOUSE, IN THE SPACE OF FOUR HOURS, HAVE GOT A HANDLE ON THINGS. SO, IN THE SPIRIT OF IMPARTING WISDOM TO YOU, DEAR READER, WE HAD AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS PLAY AGONY AUNT ON MATTERS OF THE HEART, FAMILY, AND STOLEN PROPERTY, AND HERE ARE THE NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE THEY HAD TO PASS ON.

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS I’ve decided to join a punk band. What should I tell my parents? That you’ve joined a punk band and you love them and you gonna be riiiiiich. I hate my boss. What should I do? Join a union. Tread on them and they will strike! I’ve just moved into a sharehouse.

SEE THEM LIVE AT THE AMPHITHEATRE ON SUNDAY AT 12 PM.

How can I co-exist peacefully with my roommates? Wash your dishes, share your snacks. I’m planning to be front row in the mosh at Amyl and the Sniffers at Splendour. How should I behave? Get sweaty baby. Someone stole my pushbike. How should I go about getting it back? 2018, just nick an O-bike. I’m in love with the spunk who works the cashier at my local IGA. What should I do? Get in line. I’ve managed to sneak my way backstage at a festival. What are some things I must do? Drink SKEGGS’ rider, they’ll love it. My Mum hates my new mullet and won’t talk to me. What should I do? Tell her to love you ‘cause it’s your life not hers. Or block the bitch on Instagram.

INTERVIEW BY ERIN BROMHEAD

SOCCER MOMMY

SOCCER MOMMY IS 20-YEAR-OLD SOPHIE ALLISON. SHE GREW UP IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, BEFORE HEADING TO NYU TO STUDY MUSIC BUSINESS. SHE NEVER MADE IT TO GRADUATION THOUGH, AND WE’RE ALL THE BETTER FOR IT. INSTEAD, SOPHIE DROPPED OUT OF UNIVERSITY TO PURSUE A CAREER IN MUSIC. THE RESULT IS ‘CLEAN’, THE INCREDIBLE DEBUT ALBUM SHE RELEASED IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR. THOUGH IT’S UNFORTUNATELY MISSING “WHAT THE HECK IS A COWGIRL?”, THE FIRST SONG

ANGIE EVER WROTE WHEN SHE WAS FIVE-YEARS-OLD, IT’S PACKED TO THE BRIM WITH COMING OF AGE ANTHEMS FOR THE BROKENHEARTED AND CONTENT ALIKE. HERE SHE TALKS AVRIL LAVIGNE, PERSONAL GROWTH, AND WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN SHE TAKES THE SPLENDOUR STAGE.

In your recent Reddit AMA, you

teach you at school?

Cowgirl?”

those experiences.

were asked what artist would be

I think I just learned some ways

You’ve written some incredible

Let’s talk festivals. What are three

your dream to tour with, and said

not to get screwed over. I kind of

songs about heartbreak (“Your

necessities you have to bring with

Joni Mitchell before swapping out

found it was helpful when it came

Dog” is a personal favourite). What

you?

for Avril Lavigne. Can you talk us

to thinking about hiring a team and

advice would you give someone

I’d probably say you need a lot of

through your thought process?

signing contracts for things like

who’s currently going through a

sunscreen, a lightweight dress or

I feel like Avril is, for one, much

publishing and record deals.

brutal case of lovesickness?

two, and a good pair of sunglasses.

I think it’s best to just think about

For people who’ve never seen you

more achievable, and also her music You’ve been writing songs since is something that impacted me at

you were five. What did you sing

the things you can gain from

play before, what can they expect

a super young age. I feel like it’d be

about at that age?

getting out of a relationship where

at Splendour?

cool to tour with a childhood idol!

It was stupid stuff that randomly

the other person wanted to end it.

Hopefully you can expect to like it!

You studied music business at

came to mind, like having braces

It’s natural to feel sad and miss

But you can also expect to hear a

NYU. What have you learnt about

or having a crush. My first song

a person, but you can get to know

lot of songs from our debut album,

the biz as an artist that they don’t

was called “What the Heck is a

yourself really well and grow from

Clean, and maybe a joke or two.

GIRL

ASK

ANYTHING

IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN TO A

WITH

TALK ERIN BROMHEAD

GIRL TALK SHOW, THEN YOU

Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic,

KNOW WHAT A REAL PARTY

Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, and Chad

LOOKS LIKE. THE AMERICAN

Channing.

PRODUCER

RENOWNED

How do you choose who gets to

LIVE

dance on stage with you, and has

FOR

HIS

IS WILD

SETS

THAT END WITH HALF THE

it ever gone wrong?

AUDIENCE

It’s gone wrong many times.

THRUSTING

ON STAGE WITH HIM. IT’S A

Especially back in the day, there Wildest thing to happen onstage,

shows. I would play house parties,

was no barricades and people would

mid-show?

just right in the middle of everyone.

just jump on stage. Free-for-all style.

People fucking.

So at some point, my friends just

My computer’s been smashed. I’ve

Which artist has the most sample-

started jumping on stage when I

been vomited on.

able songs?

would play venues. It didn’t happen

What famous personality would we

Ludacris.

every show, but sometimes. When

be surprised to hear you keep in

What started the “jump on stage”

things started to get a little bigger,

touch with on a regular basis?

tradition?

the tradition just continued. There

I texted Skrillex this week and asked

For my first six years, I never really

weren’t many shows where I’d be

him if he was cool if I change my

ARE A FEW OF OUR FAVES SO

played to more than 50 people. I

like “get on stage!” It just started

name to Grillex. He gave me the go-

YOU CAN GET TO KNOW THE

played mostly in basements and

happening, and the reputation grew.

ahead. That was only the second

MAN BEHIND THIS WEEKEND’S

DIY show spaces. People were “on

Dinner with five people (dead or

time I’ve ever texted him. Met him

BIGGEST BLOWOUT.

the stage” automatically at those

alive), who do you choose?

in person once.

SWEATY SPECTACLE THAT HAS EARNED HIM A REPUTATION AS A DANCE-FLOOR-STARTING DEMON. A FEW YEARS BACK, HE DID A REDDIT AMA (ASK ME ANYTHING) AND SOME OF

HIS

RESPONSES

WERE

PRETTY

LEGENDARY.

HERE

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INTERVIEW BY MONIQUE PENNING PHOTOS BY SAN BRUMBY

NO MONO

MUSIC FESTIVALS ARE FULL OF DIFFERENT FEELINGS. YOU’RE AGGRO IN THE MOSH AT AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS. YOU’RE NOSTALGIC FOR YOUR TEENAGE YEARS AT THE PRESETS. YOU’RE ANNOYED AT YOUR NEIGHBOUR RAPPING LOUD ENOUGH TO DROWN OUT KENDRICK LAMAR. BUT AT NO MONO, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO KNOW HOW TO FEEL. THE DUO CONSISTING OF TOM SNOWDON AND TOM IANSEK (RESPECTIVELY OF NO. 1 DADS, LOWLAKES, AND BIG SCARY), ARE UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE HEARD BEFORE. THEY’LL BE BRINGING THEIR SPINE-TINGLING PERFORMANCE AND HYPNOTIC VOCALS TO THE SPLENDOUR STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER (WITH LASERS, APPARENTLY), SO WE DECIDED TO ASK FRONTMAN TOM SNOWDON ABOUT SOME OF THEIR MOST MEMORABLE FIRSTS AND LASTS. TURNS OUT HUMILIATING CHILDHOOD TRUMPET GIGS REALLY DO MAKETH THE MUSICIAN.

First time you met each other?

one I was supposed to be playing so by a producer from a record label

studies on octopus intelligence. One

It’s 2011. Tom Snowdon rolls

I totally fucked up. I tried repeatedly

interested in my old band when I

part discusses theories about cell

into greenroom at Big Scary’s

to play the song but it all came out

was about 20 (who also wanted us

degeneration and why animals—

album launch show in Melbourne,

wrong. Mum ended up escorting me

to change all of our songs, mind

humans included—age and die. I

gleefully perched and riding on

off stage (I was in tears by then).

you) that I needed to let go and

hadn’t thought about it the way it’s

amp road-case (his former band

First musician or band you truly

trust my intuition. I only met him

addressed in the book and had a

Lowlakes were supporting that day).

admired?

once, but that stuck with me.

mind-expanding moment reading it.

Tom Iansek thinks, ‘Who’s this

I fell in love with Blink 182 when

Last time you lied?

I won’t ruin it for YOU, reader, but

dickhead?’ That was seriously how

I was 12 or 13. That’s when I got

I told the vet recently that my

defs worth a look.

it went down.

into playing guitar and it was such a

dog was up-to-date with all of her

Last track you wrote?

First album you bought?

powerful influence. I drank it all in–

immunisations and stuff, but she

Our new song “Fever Highs”, which

Lee Kernaghan’s Three Chain Road. I their words, the image, the brand,

totally wasn’t. Really bad form,

was for ages called “Steez”. It’s way

was in grade four at primary school.

the melodies. I just wanted to be

especially because it’s at Willa’s

more intense than anything we’ve

Listened to it so many times. Tom

like them. That was probably my first (my dog) expense and not mine. I

done before and is the other side of

Iansek is yelling across the room

really powerful musical inspiration.

feel bad for that. I just panicked.

No Mono, I guess. More movement,

that his first album was History by

First song that made you fall in

She’s all G now though.

more layers. It started as most

MJ, double CD. He probably didn’t

love with music?

Last thing you both disagreed on?

of our songs do–experimenting

buy it, but he loved it. No doubt.

Probably a sad Backstreet Boys

We don’t disagree on much. The

with the seed of an idea and just

First mistake you made during a

song, or maybe Lee Kernaghan’s

last thing was probably whether we

following it. Really fun to sing and a

performance?

“Three Chain Road”. I still remember should take lasers on tour with us

I played the trumpet when I was a

singing that with my sisters on car

for our lighting show. One of us won

kid and had to perform at a fete in

trips. Singing the words right now

that debate and so we’re taking

total vibe playing it live.

my hometown in Alice Springs. I was actually. I was obsessed with that

lasers.

seven and the room was packed

song. Something about sadder

Last thing that broadened your

CATCH NO MONO PLAY MIX

with adults. I don’t know how many

songs that always resonated with

mind?

UP STAGE SATURDAY AT

people, but upwards of 200. I got up me, even as a kid.

I’ve just finished reading Other

on stage and went to play the first

Last piece of good advice you got?

Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith.

note–the wrong note. The song I

First piece of good advice I got was

It’s about the evolution of

had in my head was different to the

probably more interesting. I was told consciousness and focuses on

1.30 PM

M E U BL LB A A IL W A O AV N

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WRITTEN BY MONIQUE PENNING

JOKES ABOUT MUSCULAR MARSUPIALS ASIDE, WE’RE PRETTY SURE THAT THE WOMBATS MUST’VE BEEN AUSTRALIAN NATIVES IN A PREVIOUS LIFE. THE TRIO FROM LIVERPOOL HAVE CLOCKED UP A SOLID AMOUNT OF AIR MILES EN ROUTE TO OUR FAIR COUNTRY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, BLESSING AUSSIE CROWDS WITH THEIR INFECTIOUS INDIE ROCK JAMS AND UNCONVENTIONAL WORDPLAY. AS THEY HOLD SUCH A SPECIAL PLACE IN BOTH OUR HEARTS AND AIRWAVES, WE DECIDED TO CATCH UP WITH DRUMMER DAN HAGGIS BEFORE THEY HIT THE STAGE AND CHAT TURKEY DANCING, COLD SCHOONERS, AND WHY THE HAIR OF BASSIST TORD COULD SPELL THE DEMISE OF THE BAND WE SO DEARLY LOVE.

THE WOMBATS

What’s the strangest thing you’ve

are fixing the problem you just sit

so probably just a game of cards or

ever witnessed at a music festival?

there with loads of people watching

something with friends. I get very

I once saw a man salsa dancing with

you. Fortunately it doesn’t happen

competitive when it comes to card

a large turkey. He’d somehow taught

very often and when it does, you just

games so a victory really stays with

the turkey to dance in time with the

have to embrace it and have a little

me, even if the prize is just pride and

music, it was crazy!

chat with the audience and hope that bragging rights.

What interests do you have

they hold off the booing as long as

You’re obviously really close friends,

completely separate to music?

possible.

but what’s the one thing you can’t

Reading books, watching films and

You guys appear to have a really

agree on?

TV series, doing yoga, swimming,

strong connection to Australia and

Whether Tord should wear his fringe

playing pretty much any sport or

have played here a number of times. to the left or the right. We’ve come

game, cooking... the list goes on.

If you were given 24 hours anywhere close to splitting up over that one.

Are there any embarrassing stories

in the country, where are you going

What was the last crime you

or things you laugh about now from

and what are you doing?

committed?

when you first formed as a group?

You can say that again! We love

This would be a silly place to

Many things! We wore jester hats

coming to Australia, it’s one of

incriminate myself even if I had ever

and sunglasses for our first ever

the best countries for us to play.

committed a crime...

show in Liverpool. Tord was so

I’m probably going back to Manly

What’s one thing the world still

embarrassed he just kind of hid in

Beach for my fourth surf lesson

doesn’t know yet about The

the corner whilst playing.

to try to master the waves a bit

Wombats?

What’s the worst thing that’s gone

more, followed by a couple of cold

Our square poops?

wrong during a live performance?

schooners.

A title for The Wombats’ memoir?

Probably when something breaks

The best thing you’ve ever won?

A Guide to Freshness, Dogging it and

on stage and whilst the technicians

I never have any luck with betting

Exhilaration.

CATCH THE WOMBATS AT AMPHITHEATRE, 9.15PM SUNDAY.

COOL SHIT

INTERVIEW: PERRY RECTANGLE.

IF YOU’RE READING THIS, YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN THE GIANT SNOOP DOGG HOT DOGS BY NOW. HOW AMAZING ARE THEY? IT’LL COME AS NO SURPRISE THAT THEY WERE CREATED BY THE ART COLLECTIVE COOL SHIT, WHO ARE THE SAME GUYS THAT BROUGHT YOU THE GIANT KANYE HEAD LAST YEAR, AND THE ENORMOUS PINK TURD EMOJI THE YEAR BEFORE THAT. COOL SHIT BEGAN IN 2013 WHEN FOUNDERS DANGER DAVE AND HIS WIFE SORAIA DECIDED THE WORLD NEEDED A GIANT INFLATABLE LIONEL RICHIE HEAD–WHICH IT DID. SINCE THEN, THE COOL SHIT TEAM HAS BEEN BLOWING MINDS AT FESTIVALS–MUSIC, ART OR OTHERWISE–WITH THEIR BALLOON MONOLITHS, AND THE SNOOP HOT DOGGS AT THIS YEAR’S SPLENDOUR REPRESENT THEIR LATEST NUDGE AT THE BOUNDARIES THAT GOVERN POP-CULTURE, THE INTERNET, BALLOONS, AND SAUSAGE. WE HAD A QUICK CHAT WITH COOL SHIT DUDE, DANGER DAVE.

This year, Cool Shit has made some giant

born.

inflatable hotdogs with Snoop’s face on them.

Does Snoop know about it? Obviously.

What’s that all about? It’s about the American

Did Kanye find out you made a giant version of

Dream. We started looking for it in 1992 and we

his head for last year’s Splendour? Yes, and he

finally found it. Andy Warhol told us that hot dogs

addressed it with the cover of his latest album: I

were important. In his words, ‘Rich people eat the

Hate Being Bi-Polar It’s Awesome.

same hot dogs as regular people.’ It’s true Andy!

What have you wanted to make but weren’t able

They are very accessible and break down barriers

to because of the legal ramifications? Nothing.

How much time and energy went into the Hot

of class and status. As a human being and an

It’s art. Artists create and construct artefacts that

Snoop Dogs? Okay, so have you ever seen how

icon in music, who could be more accessible than

interest them. On a good day, artists create work

hot dogs are made? I saw that for the first time

Snoop Dogg? The original gangster, Long Beach’s

that has an impact outside of their micro-worlds.

last year on Jimmy Kimmel. Making art is exactly

very own murder was the case they gave me, who

Artists don’t ask for permission to make art; beg

like making sausages, but less disgusting. It’s a process. You start with something that resembles a concept; it has potential, but if you shared it with anybody other than your moms it would just look like a pile of pigs’ ears. So, you work it, smooth out the idea, add some extra flavour, and then it slowly starts to resemble something interesting. You take in some feedback from close peers and continue to sculpt it into something that looks beautiful. And when you feel ready, only then do you package it up, put it on display and hope it brings pleasure to the people around you. Where will the hotdogs go when the festival is over? Miami. Art Basel Miami. The American Dream belongs in Miami. We might have conceived the idea in Lisbon, produced them in Hong Kong and presented them in Byron Bay, but the American Dream has a home; it has a place, and that place is called AMERICA. What are you guys doing when you’re not making art? Making art. Last question: What’s life all about? I’m glad you asked. Life is about growth. If you’re not growing, learning, experimenting, pushing, you’re

now does cooking shows with Martha Stewart. Name one person that doesn’t have love for ‘Uncle Snoop,’ as he settles into his new role as the modern-day Bootsy Collins; crazy yet wise at the same time. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. So, we’ve got Snoop in aisle one, the hot dogs in aisle two and we’re like, boom, let’s juxtapose that shit and make something new. Let’s create something that makes absolute perfect sense for a change. And voila! Snoop Dogg hot dogs were

for forgiveness later maybe ;)

Making art is exactly like making sausages, but less disgusting

not living. In fact, you’re probably dying (which is part of life too). There are lots of different ways to grow, but we chose art. Art is a lifestyle, and it’s a fantastic platform to flourish and fail. You come up with these ideas, you refine them, share them with the world and people react. You take that reaction (or ignore it) and make something else. But each time getting closer to beauty, simplicity, and perfection. Nothing is perfect, of course, and everything fades. But you keep creating, learning

INTERVIEW BY ERIN BROMHEAD

ANNA LUNOE

BOWLING

BLAZE

GLORY

THIS ISN’T ANNA LUNOE’S FIRST RODEO. IT’S MORE LIKE HER 501ST, ACTUALLY. THE AUSTRALIAN BORN, LOS ANGELES BASED DJ AND PRODUCER RECKONS SHE’S CLOCKED UP AROUND 50 FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES A YEAR FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. HOW DOES SHE KEEP GOING? I WENT TO A FESTIVAL ONCE SEVEN YEARS AGO AND I’M STILL RECOVERING. YET IT SEEMS ANNA HAS THE ENERGY RESERVE OF AN ENERGIZER BUNNY, AND NOT EVEN THE RECENT BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER CAN SLOW HER DOWN. SHE GRACIOUSLY TOOK SOME TIME OUT OF HER BUSY SCHEDULE TO EMAIL US ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING WE WANTED TO KNOW—FROM BABY KICKING, TO BOWLING ALLEYS, TO SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWS. HERE’S ANNA LUNOE BREAKING IT DOWN.

Congrats on your daughter! You played a bunch of shows while you were pregnant with her. Was the baby kicking like crazy when you played? She kicked a lot in general but when I was playing I never felt anything! Probably because I was jumping around too. But her favourite toy now is the jumper—no surprises there I guess. You had a release party for “Blaze of Glory” at a bowling alley, it looked pretty wild. Were the bowling alley staff stoked or bummed you had so many friends? They were so strict about what they would and wouldn’t allow, they made me take down the poster cos I said entry was $10 and entry was $10.75. They threatened to cancel the whole thing on the day over that! They even charged me to get into the party, lol. But they made so much money off me on a Wednesday, they were super nice at the end of the night lol. You grew up in Aus but you live in LA now. What’s the first thing you eat when you come back home? My parents cooking. Nothing compares! I know everyone says that about their families but everyone who knows my family understands I really mean it. I heard you used to ride horses and grew up on (I’m fascinated by how she has her kids doing Hahaha I wish that’s what it sounded like. a farm. Have you ever tried to get back in the every single activity ever—fencing, anyone?) How many festivals do you think you have played saddle?

@elizabethsmart, and weirdly, 80s movie star who in your life?

I never stopped! I still ride, not as much but I love it I have never met Jerry O’Connell follows me and Honestly wouldn’t have a clue. Let’s say, 50 a year still. I trained in show jumping and dressage again I follow him and we like each other’s pics of our for 10ish years—roughly 500? in 2015/16 in LA actually, but stopped when I was kids? It’s weird I guess @mrjerryoc. pregnant and haven’t picked it up since.

What’s the definitive way of knowing when you’ve

Is there anything you shouldn’t post on social written a banger?

You’re really good at social media. Who are some media?

When it’s effortless, instantly appealing, you want

of your favourite Insta follows?

to scream and cry with relief that you actually like

Probably everything, we are all being watched.

Lol thanksss? I think I suck at it so I’m flattered. You recently tweeted that you’ve been making something you have made. Basically, you just know. I never remember to post anything actually stuff that isn’t dance lately. What is it? good. Okkkkk for various reasons I enjoyyyy Honestly I don’t know how to explain what it is!

ANNA LUNOE IS PLAYING THE MIX UP

@slowdownstudio, @touchsensitive, @madonna Like maybe if The Clash & Santigold had a baby?

STAGE ON SATURDAY AT 4:30 PM.

TRIPLE THREAT

WHO BROUGHT THE TENT? DID ANYONE PACK SNACKS? AM I GOING TO BE WARM ENOUGH? ARE MY SUNGLASSES SMALL ENOUGH? WHO’S BABYSITTING ‘LIABILITY DAVE’ FROM 4 PM ONWARDS FRI - SUN? YEAH, IT’S A LOT TO THINK ABOUT. THE LOGISTICS THAT GO ON BEFORE YOU EVEN HIT THE FESTIVAL ARE ENOUGH TO CAUSE A HEADACHE, BUT SPARE A THOUGHT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ORGANISE AND EXECUTE THIS BEAUTIFUL BEAST, AND MAKE SURE YOU ALL WALK OUT OF THE GATES ALIVE COME MONDAY MORNING. SERIOUSLY, WE’VE GOT NO IDEA HOW THEY DO IT. SO WE ASKED SOME OF THEM.

JO HICKEY, MARKETING MANAGER AND

ELISE HUNTLEY, GENERAL MANAGER

SIMONE ELBEB - HEAD OF SECURITY

I’ve been working at Splendour since I became

I’ve been working at Splendour for nine years,

I’ve been working at Splendour for 10 years, I

a full-time member of the family in 2008, so over

and this will be my fifth as General Manager.

started when they moved to Woodford.

10 years now.

My favourite part of the festival is watching it

My favourite part of the festival is, as cheesy as

My favourite part of the festival is getting to

come together and working with the crazy, whacky

it sounds, the promoters. They treat us really well,

interact each year with my favourite no-hopers

people who bring the festival together.

are really supportive of security, of me being a

and superstars, winners and losers and everyone

My job involves overseeing all the various

female in this role, and they trust what we say. We

in between, who all help make up this ramshackle,

elements—everything from looking at the artwork,

work with them, not for them.

beautiful, life-changing festival.

to marketing plans, to ticketing, layout, compliance

My job involves all the safety planning and

My job involves all aspects of marketing and rollout

stuff and then moving into the operational side.

employment, we look over what the security

for the festival from the lineup announcement.

We pretty much work year round, but start to fine-

needs are as the festival continues to grow, we do

I move into the domestic artist liaison role over

tune things from December onwards.

a lot of crowd management and just a whole lot of

the festival, where we reach out to all the agents

One of the funniest moments from past years

planning. It’s a real collaborative approach.

and managers to collect their festival accred,

was the year of ‘The Worm’, the guy in the mud

Challenges in the past have been working through

production specs and the like…. also their

who was doing the worm on his face. I mean as

the rain, we had a few years of really big rain. I’ve

refreshment rider requests which can be an eye

a parent, you’d have to be proud. Then there was

worked Splendour heavily pregnant last year, I’ve

opener.

the nude mud slider… punters out there just doing

worked Splendour right after having a baby, so I’m

A disaster moment was when last year I locked

crazy stuff.

very committed to this.

myself in my caravan without a phone on a show

Something about my job people might not know

day. It was horrific. I was rescued by passing Dune

is that it’s certainly not glamorous, it’s a great

about is managing the logistics, it’s really hard.

Rat’s manager, Matty Woo. Fortunately, the party

job but you just have to muck in. I could be out

Also that a lot of people do this as a second

supplies from the night before kept me in good

directing traffic, cooking a BBQ for the volunteers,

job, they’re doing degrees… I think people are

company. We still broke a window to get me out

or answering questions on Facebook from

surprised that we’re not meatheads and that a

though.

someone asking about car batteries.

female is capable of doing this job.

Something about my job people might not know

This year I’m hoping to see Amyl and the Sniffers.

This year I’m keen to see the festival work, and

is that the whole artist liaison team backstage are

They’re absolutely brilliant, I saw them at Big

the amphitheatre load in and load out. For me, I

in a cult musical outfit called The E-nablers—we

Sound last year. It takes me back to that real

don’t really look at any artists it’s more important

are so underground you may not have heard of us.

underground pub scene.

that we get through it smoothly and we get a

DOMESTIC ARTIST LIAISON

This year I’m hoping to see a few of my favourites

positive review, especially from our patrons. I

playing, who I hope to leave the shed to watch.

know it sounds corny but it’s so important to us.

Realistically I’ll only get to see about three or four, one of which one will be Kendrick Lamar—I know his lyrics like a 16-year-old.

WRITTEN BY MONIQUE PENNING

TWO PEOPLE AREN’T EXACTLY NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK. THRUST ONTO THE AUSSIE MUSIC SCENE AS TEENAGERS IN AUSSIE BAND SNAKADAKTAL, PHOEBE LOU AND JOEY CLOUGH HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES BUSY IN THE YEARS SINCE THE BAND’S BREAK-UP. THE MELBOURNE DUO HAS SPENT THE LAST TWO YEARS WRITING AND RECORDING THEIR SOON TO BE RELEASED EP, DROPPING A SMALL SELECTION OF SUBLIME ELECTRONIC TRACKS THAT HINT AT BIG THINGS TO COME. THOUGH TWO PEOPLE REMAIN SLIGHTLY ELUSIVE FOR THE TIME BEING, THERE’S ONE THING WE KNOW FOR SURE—WHEN PHOEBE’S HAUNTING, ETHEREAL VOCALS MEET JOEY’S PRODUCTION PROWESS IN AN IMMERSIVE LIVE PERFORMANCE ON STAGE AT SITG, THEY’RE GOING TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF. WE CAUGHT UP WITH PHOEBE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT TWO VERY TALENTED PEOPLE, BELOW.

Splendour in the Grass will be your

heated and intimate.

Wild Side” or “Playground Love” by

is it and why?

first ever live performance as a duo

Describe each other’s musical skills

Air.

Nina Simone. She’s smart and

– what can we expect?

in a sentence.

A must-have in the studio when

brave.

Splendour will be an exciting one. We Joey breaks all the rules in the best

you’re creating music?

Three musical inspirations of Two

started building the live show right

way - Phoebe.

Some nonsense and a good feeling.

People?

after the record was finished. It was

Phoebe always figures it out, often

Or actually any kind of feeling. And

Portishead, Thom Yorke, Darkside.

always something we considered

when I am stuck - Joey.

good speakers.

Are there any phrases you’ve

and we had imagined it reaching

Who is your favourite musical duo

You’re with Melbourne management

adopted from one another from

Good Manners. What manners

hanging out too much?

further and wider than our recordings and why? could. There was a lot to figure out

Simon and Garfunkel. I listened to

should people remember to bring to

Oh, most things. We try pretty hard

because we were doing it live for the

them a lot growing up.

a festival?

at not becoming the same person.

first time, we were starting from the

Your track “I’m Tied, To You” has a

Haha. Well, if manners means

Something that the world doesn’t

start all over again. We play with a

very sexy sax in it. What’s the best

thinking of somebody else, then I

yet know about Two People?

drummer which really brings it all to

sax you’ve ever heard in another

think that’s a good idea.

We made our first album together

life and we make some of it up, so

song?

You get to spend one week with

when we were 14. We were old

every show is a little different. It’s

Thank you. Lou Reed’s “Walk On The

any musician (living or dead). Who

flames back then.

TWO PEOPLE

CATCH TWO PEOPLE PLAY TINY DANCER STAGE 4PM SATURDAY.

YOUR STARS

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU THIS WEEKEND? WHO WILL YOU MEET? WHAT WILL THEY SAY? WILL THEY HAVE FOOD FOR YOU? WILL IT BE PIE? WILL YOU WAKE UP IN A DUMPSTER AFTER EATING THE PIE? WILL THERE BE MORE PIE IN THE DUMPSTER? WILL YOU EAT THAT PIE TOO? WHO CAN SAY? WHO? WHO? I’LL TELL YOU WHO –ME, BERTRAND STARMAN, CLAIRVOYANT, MEDIUM, AND DEREGISTERED UBER DRIVER. I’M BACK. LET’S SEE WHAT THE FATES HAVE IN STORE...

Leo. Oh, Leo, the stars have planned an exciting weekend for you! Today will Pisces. An intense existential crisis will be averted this weekend when the see you finding twenty dollars in the grass while receiving oral stimulation True Religion pocket tattoos on your arse turn out to be actual True Religion from someone very attractive! You will be on cloud nine until a stranger pockets on a pair of True Religion jeans you bought while sleep-shopping. points out that no one loves you and you’ve got ringworm.

Aries. You’ll find a pillowcase full of bananas and a samurai sword behind

Virgo. You’re typically very alert when it comes to baked goods. However, a bush this weekend. Just leave it there, though. there will come a moment this weekend when you realizse you left a pie Taurus. A friendly chef will offer you ‘Toad in the Hole’ for breakfast this to cool on the windowsill at home. Don’t bother trying to save it–your bus weekend, but it won’t be pork sausages baked in dough and served with driver neighbour has eaten it already. He also wanked on the curtains.

gravy–it’ll just be him fucking you.

Libra. The song that goes ‘Catch a falling star/put it in your pocket/save it Gemini. You’ll seriously consider giving booze the flick this weekend when for a rainy day’ will take on new meaning for you this weekend when you fuel a particularly stubborn stool turns out to be a wad of Band-Aids the size of up your Ford Fiesta with a lit cigar in your pocket and get hit by an asteroid. a pear. Scorpio. Exciting news, Scorpio! This weekend, Mars is moving into your Cancer. You’ll curse Lil Xan this weekend when you discover that it doesn’t fourth house of hedged bets! Expect an encounter with a tall, dark stranger, taste like fucking Skittles at all. or possibly a short, anaemic person you met ages ago. Sagittarius. This weekend you’ll learn that a Mars a day does not help you work, rest and play, when a stranger in a Porsche backs over your mum’s neck while you’re eating one. Capricorn. The discovery of a mysterious lump on your left testicle will have you fretting this weekend but don’t worry, it’s just some fishing sinkers and

a nine-volt battery you had surgically implanted during your Cyber Goth phase. Aquarius. A frog wearing a Marilyn Manson t-shirt will appear in a dream

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LIPS

“IN JUST THREE SHORT YEARS FROM NOW, IT COULD BE YOU UP THERE ! I’M NOT EVEN NOT JOKING ! ” – VAUGHAN DEAD THE GOLD TOOTH BEHIND THE

UP BEFORE THEY PLAY A SINGLE

YOU’LL BE PLAYING. AT THE VERY

COUNTER ASKS WHAT YOU’RE

NOTE. TAKE A LEAF OUT OF AC/

LEAST YOU’LL FEEL LIKE YOU’RE

LOOKING

DC’S BOOK AND GET EVERYONE

KILLING IT WHEN YOU DRIVE

JUST TELL HIM “SOMETHING THAT

TO WRITE DOWN THEIR IDEA FOR

AROUND AND SEE YOUR BAND

TIPS FROM A GUY WHOSE BAND HAS NEVER PLAYED SPLENDOUR.

MAKES A HEAP OF NOISE AND

A BAND NAME ON A PIECE OF

AT EVERY SET OF LIGHTS, JUST

STAYS IN TUNE.” BLAM! YOU’RE

PAPER, PUT THEM INTO A HAT,

UNDER THE OTHER POSTERS

ON YOUR WAY.

THEN BURN THE HAT AND ASK

ASKING IF ANYONE HAS SEEN A

2. FIND SOME FRIENDS WHO

YOUR SISTER (WHO’S PROBABLY

LOST GREY CAT NAMED GARY.

ALSO HAVE INSTRUMENTS

AT HOME BECAUSE SHE CAN’T

5. COMMIT AND PRACTISE

WHETHER YOU’RE STARTING THIS

FIND HER BIKE ANYWHERE)

HEAPS

VAUGHAN DEADLY – GOONS OF

JOURNEY TO PLAY SPLENDOUR

WHAT YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR

YOU’RE TWO YEARS IN AND

DOOM – WANNA HEAR SOMETHING

AS A GREASY NOSED TEEN, A

BAND. SHE’LL PROBABLY SAY

THINGS ARE ROLLING. YOU’VE

MESSED UP? AT SOME POINT IN

SINGLE MUM, A STUCK-IN-AN-

SOMETHING LIKE “KING GIZZARD

DONE A BUNCH OF GIGS AND

THE NOT SO DISTANT PAST, EVERY

OFFICE-AND-HATE-YOUR-LIFE

AND THE LIZARD WIZARD” BUT

YOUR POSTERS ARE LITTERED

SINGLE ARTIST WHO’S PLAYING

CORPO KOOK, OR A SENIOR

DON’T LISTEN TO HER BECAUSE

ALL OVER THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

CITIZEN WITH A COLOSTOMY

THAT’S A RIDICULOUS NAME.

YOU’VE HAD PEOPLE COME UP

IN THE GRASS WAS JUST A KID

BAG, IT’S ALWAYS MUCH MORE

4. GET A LIVE SHOW AND

TO YOU AFTER SHOWS AND

FUN TO LEARN AS A GROUP. GET

DISTRIBUTE YOUR OWN

TELL YOU THEY LIKE YOUR

A HANDFUL OF YOUR FRIENDS

POSTERS

SHIT—IT’S RAW, BUT IT’S GOT

ON AN INSTRUMENT TRYING TO

TOGETHER AND BE SURE TO

THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NO POINT

SOMETHING. YOU AND THE BAND

WRITE A SONG. MOST OF THEM

MATCH EACH PERSONALITY TO

IN PRACTISING FOR YOUR FIRST

ARE FEELING GOOD. THERE’S A

PROBABLY WEREN’T EVEN VERY

THE INSTRUMENT THEY BEST

LIVE SHOW. NO MATTER HOW

BUZZ AND YOU’VE JUST BEEN

GOOD BACK THEN, THEY MIGHT

SUIT. EXAMPLE: RAGING EGO,

MUCH YOU PREPARE OR HOW

OFFERED A SUPPORT SLOT FOR

HAVE HAD A FEW SCALES OR

UNCHECKED NARCISSISM,

GOOD YOU SOUND IN THE JAM

A MID-LEVEL BAND GETTING

BASIC CHORDS, AND THEY MOST

HALF DECENT FASHION SENSE?

ROOM, THE FACT IS YOU’LL END

AIRPLAY ON THE JS, 30-STOP

LIKELY WOULD HAVE BUSTED OUT

YOU’VE GOT YOUR LEAD SINGER.

UP BEING SUCH AN ANXIOUS,

TOUR AROUND REGIONAL SOUTH-

“KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR”

MOODY AND DISINTERESTED

NERVOUS, SELF-CONSCIOUS

WEST QUEENSLAND. YOU’LL

OR “HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN”

BUT EASY ON THE EYE AND

MESS AT YOUR FIRST GIG IT’LL

BE AWAY FOR SIX WEEKS.

SITTING AROUND THE CAMPFIRE

HAS INCREDIBLE FORTUNE

BE A MIRACLE IF YOU DON’T

BUT WHAT’S THIS? THE BASS

AT UNDERAGE PISS-UPS AND SHIT

WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?

QUIT THE BAND THE MOMENT

PLAYER HAS A NEW BOYFRIEND

LIKE THAT. NOW LOOK AT THEM!

DRUMMER SORTED. LONER,

YOU COME OFF STAGE. THIS IS

SHE DOESN’T WANT TO LEAVE

THEY’RE UP THERE ON THE BIG

MISUNDERSTOOD, LOOKS INTO

TRUE FOR EVERYONE, DOESN’T

AND THE DRUMMER CAN’T

STAGE WITH EVERYONE LOVING

THE DISTANCE A LOT, HAS THE

MATTER HOW FUCKED OR

PLAY HALF THE SHOWS CAUSE

THEM SICK. SURE, MANY OF

BEST HAIR? HELLO BASSIST!

BRILLIANT A MUSICIAN YOU

HE’S GOTTA GO OVERSEAS

THESE ARTISTS HAVE ELEVATED

QUIRKY EXTROVERT WHO COMES

ARE. FIRST GIGS ARE FUCKEN

FOR WORK. THIS IS THE EXACT

THEIR TALENTS TO THE POINT OF

OFF A BIT DORKY AND DOESN’T

AWFUL. THEREFORE YOU CAN’T

MOMENT YOUR DREAMS OF

GENIUS, SOME ARE EVEN ONCE-

REALLY FIT IN WITH THE REST OF

AFFORD TO WASTE TIME. IF YOU

PLAYING SPLENDOUR EITHER

IN-A-LIFETIME

THE BAND BUT CAN READ SHEET

WANNA PLAY SPLENDOUR IN

IGNITE INTO A RAGING FIRE

BUT IT WAS A SIMPLE DECISION

MUSIC AND WILL PROBABLY

THREE YEARS YOU’VE GOT TO

OR BURN INTO A SAD PILE OF

TO MAKE A BUNCH OF NOISE IN

GO ON TO JOIN ANOTHER BAND

GET YOUR LIVE SHOWS GOING

ASH. WHAT WILL YOU DO? WILL

THE FIRST PLACE THAT SET THEM

THAT ACTUALLY BECOMES

NOW! IF YOU’VE ONLY GOT

YOU COMMIT OR WILL YOU

ON THEIR WAY. AND THE MOST

SUPER FAMOUS? DEFS YOUR

THREE SONGS THAT SOUND

FOLD? THE ONLY DIFFERENCE

FANTASTIC THING ABOUT THAT

KEYBOARDIST. IT GOES ON.

LIKE A DOG FARTING INTO A

BETWEEN THEM UP THERE

CHOICE IS THAT YOU CAN MAKE

JUST BE CAREFUL OF ANYONE

MEGAPHONE JUST GO WITH IT,

AND YOU STANDING IN THE

IT TOO. HERE’S HOW…

WHO WANTS TO PLAY BONGO OR

BECAUSE HERE’S THE OTHER

CROWD TODAY IS THAT WHEN

DJEMBE IN YOUR BAND. THAT

WEIRD THING ABOUT BEING IN A

THIS MOMENT CAME, THEY

MUCH LIKE A BANANA, A MUSICAL

PERSON IS DEFINITELY GONNA

BAND—SOMEONE IN THE ROOM

CHOSE TO GO FOR IT. THERE’S

INSTRUMENT

KILL SOMEONE IN A DRUG-

WILL ACTUALLY FUCKING LIKE

NO SHAME IF THIS ISN’T THE

INTIMIDATING OBJECT TO BRING

FUELLED RAGE ONE DAY.

IT! IT’S TRUE! THE SECOND YOU

LIFE FOR YOU, BUT JUST PAUSE

INTO YOUR LIFE. IT NEEDN’T

TAKE YOUR NOISE OUT OF THE

FOR ONE SECOND AND THINK

BE. YES, SOME INSTRUMENTS

RIGHT FROM THE GET-GO

JAM ROOM AND INTO WORLD,

ABOUT IT… IN THREE YEAR’S

DEMAND REVERENCE (AND THE

OK, SO YOU HAVE YOUR

IT RESONATES IN A WAY THAT

TIME, YOU COULD BE WALKING

MORE OF A MUSO WANKER YOU

INSTRUMENTS AND YOU HAVE

NOBODY ELSE CAN REPLICATE…

ONTO THE AMPHITHEATRE

BECOME LATER IN LIFE THE MORE

YOUR FRIENDS AND NOW

EVER! IT’S A SOUND AND AN

STAGE TO THE SCREAMS OF

YOU’LL BEGIN TO INDULGE IN

YOU’RE READY TO JAM. IT’S AT

ENERGY UNIQUE TO YOU AND

THOUSANDS, TAKING THE MIC

SUCH THINKING), BUT FOR RIGHT

THIS POINT YOU SHOULD COME

YOUR BUDDIES AND SOMEONE,

IN YOUR HAND AND SCREAMING

NOW IF YOU’RE GONNA START

UP WITH A NAME. A NAME IS

FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON,

OUT, “FUCK YEAH SPLENDOUR

A BAND YOU COULD DO A LOT

THE MAGICAL THREAD THAT

WILL DIG… CONGRATS! THIS IS

IN THE GRASS! WE’RE NOT

WORSE THAN SWAPPING YOUR

BINDS THE BAND, TAKING IT

YOUR FIRST FAN! KEEEEEE-YEWT!

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD

LITTLE SISTER’S BIKE FOR THE

FROM A BUNCH OF SEPARATE

POINT IS, TAKE ANY OLD GIG YOU

WIZARD AND WE CAN’T BELIEVE

MOST BEATEN UP HEAP OF SHIT

INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES TO

CAN GET BECAUSE THEY ALL

WE’RE HERE!” I’M BACKING YA

FENDER SQUIRE + AMP COMBO

AN UNDENIABLE COLLECTIVE

HELP CRAFT YOUR ACT. ALSO,

TO PULL IT OFF.

CURRENTLY

FORCE. BUT BE WARNED,

DESIGN YOUR OWN POSTERS

FRONT WINDOW AT THE LOCAL

AGREEING ON A BAND NAME IS

AND DO GOOD OLD FASHIONED

CASH CONVERTERS. AND WHEN

THE NUMBER ONE REASON 99

POSTER RUNS ALL OVER THE

THE

PER CENT OF ALL BANDS BREAK

NEIGHBOURHOOD WHERE

HOW TO PLAY SPLENDOUR

THIS A

YEAR’S

SPLENDOUR

BEDROOM

BASHING

GET

STRUMMING,

TINKLING

AWAY

SUPERSTARS,

INSTRUMENT CAN

SITTING

PONY-TAILED

GUY

THE

WITH

FOR

SPECIFICALLY,

COME UP WITH A NAME

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