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rock music news welcome to the frontline: what’s goin’ on, down and around town. By Nathan Jolly

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ELLA AND JESSE HOOPER FROM THE VERSES (VIC) memories of rolling hills and plenty of open space and countryside. Though our parents only played occasionally for fun we had many family friends who would come over and play till the wee hours. I think having people who simply played for the fun of it influenced the way I look at and play music; it’s an expression of who you are and what you are feeling.

Growing Up [Ella Hooper] Growing up we had access to all sorts of music and experiences, instruments and inspirations. From going to folk festivals and music camps to having guitars, piano, violin, mandolin, recorders and banjos lying around the house; yes, you could say it was highly encouraged! [Jesse Hooper] We grew up in regional north east Victoria in the Strathbogie Ranges,

Inspirations [Ella] My 2. inspiration as a young musician came from wanting to emulate the artists I looked up to, or to celebrate the things around me. The rolling hills, nature, a broken heart or Bob Dylan. Being able to express that feeling of inspiration in a hopefully unique and satisfying way is the key and motive behind it all. [Jesse] Some of my favourites are Eric Clapton (amazing guitarist and song writer),

Neil Young (with his many phases of country, rock, ballads and incredible song-writing) and James Taylor (for his bittersweet writing and amazing acoustic guitar style). I remember hearing their records growing up, and they seeped into my subconscious in the sweetest way. These classic artists inspire me creatively; it’s hard to go past the greats, so I always return to this calibre of those musicians when some of the modern pop music brings me down.

Your Crew [Ella] My brother Jesse and I are the major component of The Verses, we are the nucleus then we have some permanent members, and some shifting/rotating ones as well, and maybe even some guest stars! It’s a bit of a fluid thing. The Music You Make [Ella] The Verses sound has been 4. described as Fleetwood Mac meets Crowded House, also as singer-songwriter, folk rock, alternative country and a host of other things… So, maybe it’s best if you just come to a gig and decide for yourself! It’s accessible yet thoughtful music that comes from the heart, and still manages to make you dance - and maybe wield an air guitar at times.

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great local venues where bands of all levels are able to perform and develop their music. One of my favourite new bands is Graveyard Train – they’ve invented their own genre described as “Horror Country”, bluegrass-styled chanties about werewolves, mummies, ghosts and all sorts of spooky subject manor! Check them out, they are awesome. Who: The Verses What: Seasons is out August 13 Where: The Vanguard, Newtown When: Thursday August 12

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Music, Right Here, Right Now [Jesse] I think the live music scene where 5. we live in Melbourne is fantastic! We have some

with Urthboy, then triple j might be able to at least approximate that ridiculous, and, to be frank, completely misguided dream - through their Unearthed competition. (If you haven’t heard of Unearthed, then welcome to your first read of THE BRAG: we don’t have songwords but we are still better than Smash Hits). Basically, if you have the geographical good fortune to live in Tamworth, Byron Bay, Forster, Bathurst, Wagga or Bega, you just need to enter Unearthed before August 29 (2010) and you could be opening for Urthboy in your hometown. It’s all part of the Indent Ten Year Tours – for more, check out Indent’s all-ages column The Minor Chord, on pg. 38...

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[Jesse] We blend together our favourite styles of music we grew up with: 70’s west coast rock, 60’s singer songwriter styles, and contemporary alt-country. Our debut album Seasons was recorded in Santa Monica California with producer Mitchell Froom, and musicians who play with the likes of David Crosby, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams and Jackson Browne. We can’t wait to get out on the road touring later in the year!

PEATS RIDGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE! BAM!

Here’s the part where we list a whole lot of bands: Trentemoller, Built To Spill, Freestylers, Shout Out Louds, Lightspeed Champion, The Dynamites Ft. Charles Walker, Freq Nasty, Joel Plaskett, Born Ruffians, PVT, Decoder Ring, The Break, Angus & Julia Stone, Washington, Kate Miller-Heidke, Cloud Control, Jonathan Boulet, Space Invadas, The Jezabels, Thundametals, Horrorshow, Parades, Big Scary, Spit Syndicate, Belles Will Ring, Kim Churchilll, The Chemist, The Gin Club, The Seabellies, The Lovetones, The Delta Riggs… And that’s just a bit of the first round announcement for Peats Ridge - Glenworth Valley’s answer to New Years Eve. Here’s the part where you plan ahead this time: tickets go on sale August 19.

DISCO NAP

Rob Schneider stars in this hilarious comedy about a hapless guy (Dave) with two left feet who strikes up a deal with the devil in order to win the heart of Belle (Tara Reid), a professional dancer. Unfortunately for Dave, all he can do now is dance, and after going for 48 hours straight, all he wants is a Disco Nap... Either that, or: a band with the name Disco Nap are playing September 2 at the Excelsior Hotel, and from all accounts (read: this is what I think), they sound like Elliott Smith mixed with Death Cab. Which is all good news.

You’ll probably feel like all your Christmases Hanukkahs have come at once, now you’ve heard that the Sydney Jewish Music Festival, Shir Madness (actually the name), is gearing up for August 15. 40 bands over four stages, with 11 hours of music in and around the Pavilion at Bondi Beach. The list of acts are too plentiful to give all a mention, but you can expect Adrian Deutsch, Fourplay, The Preachers, Tin Pan Orange, Monsier Camembert, The Naked Parade and The Jews Brothers Band, who hopefully sound as great as they look.

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HUSKY VOICES

If you were to wander into The Raval on August 13 with a peculiarly intense longing to hear a vintage accordion, then you would be in luck. Melbourne band Husky will be playing one at that very venue - but before you sharpen your street-theatre shank, don’t fear. There are also guitars, drums, vocals, tambourines; pretty much all you need to make awesome indie-folk. Which, incidentally is what Husky make. It is a launch for their new single ‘Hundred Dollar Suit’, so buy one (a copy of the single, not an overpriced suit that Hypercolour T-shirt will be just fine).

CITY RIOTS IN SYDNEY SHIR MADNESS

Although Christaine F. painted it as some magical boho-existence, the clear truth is that kids living on the streets is pretty much flat-out A Bad Thing. SoundSchool, a new Sydney based music initiative, are doing something about it - and if you’d like to jump in on their overriding feeling of goodwill, all you need to do is go to a fundraising gig featuring Midnight Youth, The Delta Riggs and the marvellously-named Big Phallica at The Beach Road Hotel on Saturday August 21 (near that beach Sam from Home and Away works at). It’s an easy and fun way to make a difference.

No, Superheist haven’t announced a reunion show at the Apple Store; this headline refers to the rampaging rock act who are co-headlining a show at Spectrum with The Chemist on September 24. It’s a while off yet, but we are warning you now because it’s City Riot’s last show, before they record and release their debut album in early 2011.

MOM’S SPAGHETTI

If the pinnacle of your future-life is that moment when you step on stage in front of your hometown and spit rhymes in a fierce MC battle

SHADY HAZE TOUR

Ok, this is the final reminder we are going to give you. The Holidays, Artisan Guns and Hungry Kids Of Hungary are playing Oxford Art Factory on Friday August 13. We have warned you a few times to pen this into your diary, as not only are these three bands amazing live, they are all about to blowup into arrogant, pampered rock kings and will no doubt soon scoff at playing anywhere that isn’t Wembley. Go.

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MODEL SCHOOL (NSW) probably because there’s a lot of influences running through it. We hope to bring in more on album three, as the band are now contributing a lot sonically. We call our music Casio ‘n’ Western... but essentially they’re just songs. The Music You Make The first Model School album was more 4. of a singer-songwriter affair, with fairly low key production. Our second album (released in October 2009) was a bit broader, as it was produced and mixed by Scott Horscroft at Big Jesus Burger. We tracked a lot of instruments (and nearly all vocals) at home, to retain the feel that we like. I’ve never liked singing in a studio, with mics and gear that I haven’t used before. Who knows what album three will be like… The glory of stadium rock does look appealing!

Growing Up One of my key memories as a kid was my parents’ record collection. It was small - they’d left most of it in London when they came out here - but there were some good ones in there, like Beatles, Roy Orbison, Elvis... I don’t come from an overly musical family but an appreciation of music has always been there, whether it be through listening to records or Irish house parties; I’m sure they’ve left a mark on me somehow!

Inspirations My favourite musicians would be E [Eels],

Beck, Mark Linkous, Sufjan Stevens and Tom Waits. I think all of them are fairly instinctive, and don’t exude ‘Music Theory’ to me. The music they make is an extension of who they are, it’s not an act. And they all have their own brand of production that complements the music perfectly. Your Band The Model School has evolved over the 3. past five years to be a band – I started out on my own, recording on a four track with no real plans. I never set out to be lo-fi and alone! I have trouble describing the music,

Music, Right Here, Right Now Personally, I’m sick of ‘Indie’. Everyone’s 5. Indie. In the next five years, classic rock will be deemed Indie! I guess if there’s a blog about it, then its Indie... Our new single is actually about this very topic - probably the last tongue in cheek humorous song I’ll ever write, but it came out of nowhere, so who am I to edit myself… Who: The Model School What: Big Whoop @ Melt Bar Where: Melt Bar, Kings Cross When: Friday August 20

FRESHLY CUT

Week four of the Freshly Cut showcases at The Gaelic Theatre sees another unrelenting triple-hit of local talent, this time featuring The Dirty Secrets, ably supported by The Cracks and Bayonets For Legs. The Dirty Secrets received high rotation on triple j with their 2008 single ‘Lighthouse’ and they bring to mind a grittier, more analogue – but less poncy – version of Klaxons. The Cracks will play their brand of halcyon indie garage rock, while Bayonets For Legs draw inspiration from everything from The Cure to Pearl Jam to warm up the evening. Presented by Radar Radio and Jim Beam’s theLBLM.com, August 12 should be a night of raucous and tumultuous indie rock. To get your hands on one of five double passes, tell us the name of The Dirty Secrets’ lead singer.

and many, many (many) more acts. The entire Thing occurs November 26-28 at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama, and also includes an openair cinema, food stalls, markets and skate, BMX, mountain biking, wake, luge, scooter and Parkour showcases. Early bird tickets are on sale now.

A BIG SCARY WINTER Muse

MUSE TO SELL OUT

If you are like us, then you measure the value of a live show by the amount of semi-trailers it takes to lug their stage set and gear around the country. Simon and Garfunkel require a passenger seat for Paul’s guitar, and an extra seat for Garfunkel’s favourite banana pillow, although these can fit on one seat, even if Art whinges about it “squashing the stuffing”. Muse, on the otherhand require sixteen Supermassive Interstellar Hyper-semi-trailers filled to the brim with rock excess - which is why their Australian tour is about to sell out, so you’d better get tickets quickly. And by quickly we mean now. (Also we are aware that semi-trailers don’t have brims, quit it with the faxed-in corrections, you guys.)

ENO <3 WARP 4 EVZ

Brian Eno first came to prominence through the MGMT song of the same name, and later went on to craft such hits as ‘that start-up sound on those old computers that have Windows’ and ‘those weird lights they shone on the Opera House last year’. He’s apparently cashed in on this goodwill and signed with indie label Warp Records, who will be releasing his latest album some time in the near future… Full details pending. (Flip the page for some actual facts, courtesy of Sir Honnery.)

Around the time of Diorama, Daniel Johns announced his intention to record four separate EPs, one for each season (excluding that mythical American beast ‘Fall’). Like the collaboration with Luke Steele that occurred around the same time, this never saw the light of day, and probably never will. Taking the old Oscar Wilde quote “You snooze, you lose, buddy” (A Woman Of No Importance: 1893, pg. 55) to heart, Big Scary have totally nabbed this idea, and done it so well we can’t help but be happy. Their Winter release is out now, and in order to properly brag about how good it is, they’re launching it August 27 at The Vanguard.

SXSW IS SERIOUS STUFF

With 2000 bands playing in front of 15,000 music industry professionals and executives from 55 countries, the South By South West music conference in Austin, Texas has been jokingly referred to as the world’s largest music flea market - a joke that caused JB HiFi and Swansea school fete to embark on the world’s largest lawsuit based on a joking reference. Still, where else are you likely to see Lou Reed, Smokey Robinson and Temper Trap in the same place, all vying for overseas exposure? Entries are open now for the 25th annual conference (March 16-20), so if you fancy yourself as the next Madden twins, register via sxsw.com.

SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE! BAM!

It’s always ridiculously hot with no shade, the lines are as impossible as finding a word that rhymes with ‘purple’, and every year we swear we are never going back, and every year we lie. Now that Australia’s Wonderland has closed down, Soundwave is the only occurrence to match this scenario - and this year we can’t even convince ourselves that we won’t be there. Iron Maiden are headlining a massive bill which, if you missed the online leak last week (whoops!), includes QOTSA, Slayer, Primus, Slash, 30 Seconds To Mars, Stone Sour, Rob Zombie and about fifty other amazing acts. Also Less Than Jake, The Ataris and everybody’s favourite God-fearing punks MXPX will be playing, for those who wanna close their eyes and party like it’s 1996.

LOWRIDER

When I hear the name/word Lowrider I immediately think of the immortal lyrics “Pumpin the fat lowrider and crusin’ round the block” from the Australian classic ‘Rip It Up’ by 28 Days. But when I heard Lowrider was embarking on their

NEW KOL ALBUM

NEWTON’S NATION

Despite basing their entire event around a highly unlikely historical apple incident (for similarly unlikely apple incidents, see your nearest Bible), Newton’s Nation boasts a pretty impressive lineup, including Birds of Tokyo, Bliss N Eso, You Am I, Operator Please, Children Collide, Philadephia Grand Jury

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Kings Of Leon

After releasing hits like ‘Use Somebody’, ‘Sex On Fire’ and ‘Hot Chilli Woman’, and being the only band in history to be shat offstage, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Kings Of Leon would take some time to rest, recuperate and start penning a concept album. But just to prove how much better than you they are, they’ve announced that their latest day-baiting record Come Around Sundown is set for release October 15 - just in time to totally fuck up the Hottest 100 for everyone else.

‘Here We Go’ tour, and that it was hitting Sydney, and more accurately The Annandale on August 13, I got all thoughts of 28 Days out of my head and started singing Dancing In The Storm by Boom Crash Opera instead. They’ll be supported by The Melodics, Nicholas Roy and Empire Rising.

FIRST BCO REFERENCE IN TEN YEARS

In related news, THE BRAG are pleased to announce that they have successfully pulled off the first Boom Crash Opera reference in a decade. GROUND BREAKING!

FIRST AID KIT TOUR

No, I didn’t choke on a peanut like Bill Haverchuck (Freaks and Geeks, ep.13), but I did almost faint at the prospect of cuteas-kittens duo First Aid Kit coming out to Australia (from Sweden where they were once womb-buddies) to play their holy-shit-it-soundslike-Martha-Wainwright brand of folky pop. It happens on September 9 at Oxford Art Factory, and the cute-as-kittens Daisy from Bridezilla is supporting.

“Thong around my ankles & the web cam’s on This ain’t Bang Bus but I love double dongs”- JEFFREE STAR 10 :: BRAG :: 374 : 09:08:10

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five things WITH TAMARA JABER FOR

What’s your relationship with the music industry? I’ve been a performer for as long as I can remember – I’ve always been passionate about singing and dancing. I’ve spent years in the recording industry and have been part of a group, a solo performer and now a duo - Scarlett Belle. Music is my life, from performing to song writing and recording - I love every aspect of it.

What would you say has been your career highlight so far? Definitely setting up Scarlett Belle and having the opportunity to record our album with some amazing producers in the US and Australia. Hearing ‘Closure’ on the radio the first time was definitely an exciting moment for me. This coming Saturday, The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) will be opening their doors to potential future students for their annual open day. Music lovers who want to study at the college can attend a panel session from 12-1pm in the main hall, to

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AIM’S OPEN DAY

learn about various careers in the industry, and ask questions to industry professionals. We asked Tamara Jaber, graduate of AIM and member of Scarlett Belle, about her time studying at the institute - and about what it’ s like playing the music game.

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own style and really focus 100% on my music. When I was finishing my diploma, I got so many great opportunities to submit my songs and music to various record and publishing companies, and I really credit and thank AIM for giving me the tools needed to get out there! What advice would you give someone trying to break the music industry? 4. Live and breathe music! You’ve got to be tough, because there are always people who will want to bring you down. I’ve never stopped believing in myself and no matter how many times someone has said no, I’ve kept going. It’s not how many times you get knocked down; it’s how many times you can get back up. Could you talk us through some highlights of the AIM Open Day? 5. I’m coming along on the day to be in AIM’s industry panel, where students and their parents can pose questions about the industry to me and other industry professionals, like music managers, performers and publishers. Prospective students will also be able to attend talks and master classes on performance, music theatre, entertainment management, audio technology and music production on the day. Who: Tamara Jaber

How do you think AIM prepared you for a future in the music industry? I studied an advanced diploma in music, majoring in voice – I also completed my HSC there. Studying at AIM gave me the confidence to write my own songs, find my

What: AIM Open Day Where: Australian Institute of Music, Surry Hills When: Saturday August 14 More: www.aim.edu.au

EELS

Little known fact: Eels appeared on the first three Shrek soundtracks. Better known fact: Eels are an excellent, excellent band. Idiosyncratic enigma ‘E’ leads the other four pseudonym-clad band members to the Enmore Theatre on August 14 for what has been dubbed An Evening With EELS. Supported by Laura Imbruglia, E’s band will be playing an eclectic assortment of chunes from their extensive discography, and no doubt some from the brand new part three of their concept album trilogy, Tomorrow Morning. We have just ONE double pass to give – to grab it, tell us the name of their 2009 album.

CKY @ SFX

So many acronyms, so little time. Jesse Margera (brother of the notorious Bam) and his band cKy will be heading down to SFX as soon as they finish their gig at the Manning Bar. Whether you’re going to be at the gig or if you just want to get with the band members (from past experience, pretending you’re a fashion designer or an English exchange student normally works), then SFX is the place to be, come August 14. cKy themselves have expressed that they aim to get loose and party with their fans at SFX, so any diehard cKy nutter would be a fool to miss this! To get your hands on one of our five double passes, tell us the name of their 2009 album.

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SNOWBALL

Semester has resumed, which means it’s time for you students to hit the books and cut back on the excessive lifestyle – actually, scrap that. Sydney University marks the beginning of the Spring Semester with its annual Snowball bash on Thursday August 12 from 8pm. Self-described as a “boutique electronic / indie music event,” and held in the historic confines of Manning House/Manning Bar, Snowball features a lineup including Van She Tech, Ajax, The Only, Cutlass Supreme, Deekline, Killaqueenz, Gabriel Clouston, Rogers Room, Kid Crookes and Jamie Tek among others. Presale tickets are available through www. manningbar.com, and as this is traditionally a sell-out you’d be wise to guarantee your entry in advance.

Multi-faceted Sydney electronic imprint Future Classic are hosting Designer Disco this Saturday at The Civic; a combination of their weekly Adult Disco venture with extra arty, design stuff thrown into the mix. The laneway surrounding the venue will host an exhibition of artworks adhering to an overarching theme of music – with a black, white and pink colour palette. The designers involved include Alter, a pseudonym of Cut Copy frontman Dan Whitford, along with Greedy Hen, Leif Podhajsky, Like Minded Studio, Miricro/Maricar, Sensory, Sopp Collective, String Theory, Toko and We Buy Your Kids. Downstairs in the Civic Underground, the Future Classic DJs will be joined by live-disco funk duo Flatwound, who have recently released their debut 12”, Tickle Me Disco.

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Animal Collective’s Avey Tare will release a new album, Down There, on October 25 via Paw Tracks. Brooklyn-based Tare – real name Dave Portner – has recorded nine songs for Down There, his first official solo full-length. Sessions took place at “an old church in upstate New York, surrounded by the Great Swamp and visited regularly by monks, white widows and groan toads”, with a helping hand from Tare’s old friend and sometime ‘Collective member Josh ‘Deakin’ Dibb. The album’s press release delves deep into the realms of the obscure, stating that Avey’s “favorite animals are the otter and crocodile [and] the latter has played a big role in his newest record.” The cover art is impressively crocodileesque, and with listeners told to expect “a murky world of sound, an alien death world of soul grooves that is both honest and otherworldly”, it will certainly be as ‘crocodilian’ an album as will hit shelves this year…

HOT CHIP REMIX EP

Still fresh in our minds after touring as part of Splendour In The Grass, UK geekier-than-thou pop group Hot Chip has announced a forthcoming EP of remixes called – wait for it – We Have Remixes. The four-song disc contains reinterpretations from producers Todd Edwards, Caribou, Osborne and Hot City, each working with a separate tune from One Life Stand. Joe Goddard of Hot Chip says of the selected remixers, “These are some of our favourite producers, people that we have been following for years and have been friends with for years as well in some cases.” The EP is set for release next month, but in the interim seek out Four Tet’s rework of Goddard’s ‘Apple Bobbing’ – it’s simply marvellous.

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Generally lauded as one of the most influential figures in modern music, production maestro Brian Eno who’s worked with Roxy Music, The Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay in the past - will release his next album on UK label Warp Records. Although the Warp release is confirmed on Eno’s website, the only substantive reports on the album have come through guitarist and engineer Leo Abrahams’ blog. “There’s an album out soon by Brian Eno, with myself and Jon Hopkins [see Deep Impressions for more on Hopkins],” he wrote. “It contains the fruits of several years of jams between the three of us. I’ve not heard anything quite like it – it sounds ‘live’ and ‘alien’ at the same time. Some things have been permitted to survive, which only Brian would have had the courage to let go, and it’s so much the better for it.” One could speculate that Eno’s forthcoming album might be an adaptation of his recent Pure Scenius project, the live performance troupe that also featured Abrahams and Hopkins as well as Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Australian improv trio The Necks… More on this as soon as further information surfaces, but rest assured it ain’t no rumour: Warp have confirmed the Eno LP, by Twitter no less.

What is Vibewire? Vibewire Youth Inc. is a dynamic nonprofit organisation that helps young people to effectively shape their world through media, arts and entrepreneurial opportunities. If you write it, draw it, or photograph it, we want it. What does your job entail? My day-to-day time in the office consists of reading and reviewing the best original submissions of poetry, fiction, commentary, art and photography that Australia’s youth have to offer. Tough, I know... Why is something like Vibewire important? We provide a common ground for young creatives in Australia; a place where fresh and original ideas can be shared, nurtured, realised and published. Vibewire facilitates a conversation between the Edgar Allen Poes, Hunter S. Thompsons and Andy Warhols of tomorrow. What can Vibewire lead to? A healthier arts and literary scene for Australia’s youth, and a stronger youth voice. Through our fastBREAK and ElectionWIRE campaigns, we’re helping gain a wider recognition of the ability and ideas of young people in Australia. How can people get involved? Head over to portal.vibewire.org, and check out some of the great and original content we have going up. Better yet, send your work to editor@vibewire.org and relish in the opportunity to see your creative genius on the interwebs or in print.

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welcome to the frontline: what’s goin’ on around town... With Chris Honnery onthefly.com.au

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NATHAN MCLAY FROM FUTURE CLASSIC Future Classic was born back in ‘04 as a vinyl label and now we’re approaching our 50th release and doing design exhibitions so I guess we’re growing up after all.

more than dance music, and we’ve recently launched a publishing company called Stylus, which is working with bands doing broader stuff.

The guys and girls I work with are some of the best around. Everyone is super committed to the art we peddle and the people who make it. Likewise we are super lucky to have a supportive network of people who put their neck out for us to help us bring our projects to fruition, when it would be easier to go with safer, boring options. I’m lucky being able to travel a bunch - and that also keeps my sails full.

We want peeps to come and check out this exhibition called Designer Disco that we’ve curated together with AustralianINfront. It’s a satellite project of our weekly club-night Adult Disco, in which we’ve invited fifteen designers to create works that’ll be displayed in lightboxes in the Civic laneway on Saturday August 14.

Working at Future Classic gets you a meal ticket in to be part of the FC DJ crew… or maybe it’s the other way around. The core of the current lineup is Chad Gillard, McInnes, Tee Stud and myself, with eye candy from Jay Ryves and Tania Gnomes, studio smarts from the Loin Brothers, Sidwho?, Luke Million, Jamie Lloyd, Mitzi, Bon Chat Bon Rat, Peret Mako, Deepchild, Jimi Polar and international correspondents Todd Terje, Joakim, Aeroplane, Holy Ghost!, Jacques Renault, Woolfy, Brennan Green, Trickski and Alex ‘Jazzanova’ Barck to name a few… And our chef Bryan O’Callaghan!

e’ve been avoiding growing up... No, actually, growing up is proving more fun than I thought - the radults on the dancefloor at Adult Disco keep it real.

One side of my brain is dedicated to what works in the mix on the floor; the other is just about good songs. The label still releases loads of vinyl that is mostly about the floor, but everyone who works at Future Classic has always been into much

All the designers have a history working on music-based design projects, and they’ve all created works (in the Adult Disco pink) which relate to music. There’ll be music by the FC DJs and some sweet loot for those who come along. Downstairs in the underground, Flatwound play live with support from the Paradise Lost DJs. What: Designer Disco With: Alter, We Buy Your Kids, Like Minded Studio, Toko, Greedy Hen, Leif Podhajsky, Shane Sakkeus, Sopp Collective, Mathematics, Future Classic, MaricorMaricar, one8one7, Sensory, String Theory – and music by Future Classic DJs Where: Civic Laneway & Saloon, Cnr Pitt & Goulburn St

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SPECTRUM’S 6TH BDAY

What happened on your sixth birthday? Probably had a lot of fairy bread, and got a pair of nice pink roller skates. Well if this was the case for you (and it was for me), Spectrum’s 6th birthday party promises to be a bit better than yours (mine). Instead of eating fairy bread you will be drinking copious amounts of cheap drinks, and instead of getting a pair of roller skates, you will get The Paper Scissors, Ernest Ellis, Pluto Jonze, and a horde of sexy DJs. Come and help blow out some candles on August 13. We’re giving away two double passes. To win, tell us which UK songstress played some Splendour In The Grass sideshows, with Ernest Ellis in support.

LOWRIDER

We used to associate the word ‘Lowrider’ with b-boys who wore their baggy jeans around their knees, but now when we use it we’re talking about the Radelaide quartet of the same name. Since their inception they have spread their soulful jams around the musical neighbourhood, supporting the likes of Christina Aguilera, Lupe Fiasco and Alicia Keys on tour as well as playing a throng of shows on the Australian festival circuit. They will be reppin’ their recent release Round The World at The Annandale on August 13 with The Melodics, Nicholas Roy and Empire Rising. We have five double passes to dish out to this night of mayhem: to get one tell us the name of the single off the new Lowrider album.

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NEW TRICKY ALBUM

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Bristol lad Adrian Thaws, aka Tricky, will drop his ninth studio album Mixed Race on September 24 - which will be available through Domino. As always, the trickster has recruited a smorgasbord of renowned collaborators, including Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Terry Lynn, Hakim Hamadouche, Blackman and Tricky’s brother, Marlon Thaws. Speaking about the release, a standoffish Tricky snarled, “I’m not just a kid from Knowle West trying to build a future, I have some experience, I can experiment, I can be honest, and honestly, musically, I can’t be touched. I used to hide in the shadows when I played live, now I perform. I used to hate doing interviews, now I feel honoured that people would be interested in what I have to say. I’ve spent my life going between cultures; Mixed Race is about that, and in a very direct way.”

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AGORIA TOUR

After having to postpone his debut visit to Australia a few months back, thanks to an obstinate Icelandic volcano, Frenchman Agoria has rescheduled his debut tour down under, and will headline Plantation on Saturday September 4, alongside Super Flu (the duo of Feliks Thielemann and Mathias Schwarz). Agoria has always ranked as one of the more interesting figures in the underground scene, releasing the acclaimed LP Blossom, which included a collaboration with Bristol’s Tricky and attracted a remix from Michael Mayer. More recently, he scored the soundtrack to the Luc Besson-produced film Go Fast. As a DJ, both his At The Controls and under-appreciated Cute and Cult mixes are necessary pillars in the collection of any serious dance music aficionado - and he has arguably surpassed those efforts with his latest double CD Balance 16, available through Stomp.

Seattle’s deep house don Pezzner headlines Shrug at The Civic on Friday August 20. One half of Classic Records house duo Jacob London (alongside Bob Hansen), Pezzner has established himself as a respected solo artist and DJ over the past few years. His solo EPs Other Lover and Almost Here were released on the London-based Freerange Records, and received backing from luminaries like Laurent Garnier, Peter Kruder, Steve Bug and Ben Watt. Pezzner also has an accomplished CV as a remixer, having reworked productions from Lusine, Milton Jackson, Terry Lee Brown Jr., Mark Farina and Chris Lattner. Pezzner’s hypnotic, percussive soundscapes will be supported by Murat Kilic, Robbie Lowe and Dave Stuart, with $15 presale tickets available online now.

ROOTS MANUVA VS WRONGTOM

A ‘new’ Roots Manuva album, Roots Manuva Meets WrongTom, will be released in September through Inertia. The LP arrives replete with artwork from Tony McDermott, the man responsible for the illustrations on Greensleeves classics by Mad Professor and the famous Carnival of Reggae 12” sleeve. Roots Manuva Meets WrongTom is largely a series of re-works by WrongTom, whose previous credits include work for Lynval Golding’s Pama International, Trojan Records and his ‘Staines homeboys’ Hard-Fi. Apparently WrongTom approached Roots Manuva and his Big Dada label prior to the release of Manuva’s Slime & Reason album to see if he could craft a dub version of the lead single, ‘Buff Nuff’.

ICE CUBE AT THE BIG TOP

Iconic rapper/producer/actor/screenwriter/film director Ice Cube will perform at The Big Top, Luna Park on Friday October 22. Born O’Shea Jackson, Ice was responsible for landmark (and a number of highly controversial hip-hop) LPs in the early 90s, including Death Certificate and The Predator. These releases followed his work with Dr. Dre and MC Ren as N.W.A, and coincided with his acting debut in Boyz N The Hood, the acclaimed class flick that also starred Larry Fishburne. Recently, Ice has collaborated with Tech N9ne on the track ‘Blackboy’ which appears on Tech N9ne’s album Killer, and though he’s more focused on his work in the film industry these days he still shows the younger rappers in tha biz how it should be done...

The label were so taken by what they heard that they commissioned a series of mixes that became the bonus disc for the limited edition version of Slime & Reason. The responses were overwhelmingly positive – it received Tony E’s ‘Soul Slammer Of Da Week’ in Soul Sedation – so Big Dada asked Tom if he would be up for expanding the work into a full album: Roots Manuva Meets WrongTom.

DRE’S SOLAR FIXATION

Those of you who think astronomy ain’t cool think again: Hip-hop super-producer Dr. Dre has told Vibe magazine that he’s working on

an instrumental hip-hop album about... The solar system. According to the California native, he’s been thinking about this record for “a long time.” “It’s just my interpretation of what each planet sounds like … Just all instrumental. I’ve been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet,” Dre affirmed, seemingly in a profound and introspective mood. Dre also says the album would feature special surround sound, and he’s been working on it during his spare time. As for a title, Dre has displayed all the imagination of a scientist in calling it The Planets. What on earth has he been smoking?

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SHOCK SOLD TO REGENCY

Australia’s largest independent record label Shock has been sold, with chairman David Williams attributing the move to, “the collapse of bank funding due to the global financial crisis and tough market conditions”. Its new owner is CD duplicator Regency Media. Speculation had the sale price anywhere between $5 million to $10 million. A few months ago Shock closed its publishing arm and distribution company One Stop Entertainment Group, after the two companies reported losses of $9 million for the year to June 2008. Shock was set up 22 years ago by Williams, Frank Falvo and Andrew McGee in a bedroom. Since then it has released 15,000 acts (1500 of them Australian) and generated $200 million in royalties. It was among the first local indies to set up a website, and at its peak generated more income than major label BMG. Under the deal, it will continue as Shock Entertainment, with Williams as CEO and Vice Chairman Falvo as consultant. About 90 staffers will be offered redundancies while 40 jobs will go from the Melbourne warehouse in October, when its distribution operations move to Regency’s Sydney warehouse. Regency Managing Director Fiona Horman said, “Regency Media has been manufacturing for Shock over many years, so we are pleased that we can be their ‘white knight’”.

MURRIHY, GUDINSKI, LAUNCH NEW AGENCY

Long time booking agent Brett Murrihy (Premier Harbour) and Matt Gudinski (Illusive

Life lines Born: Son, Ennio, to Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno and partner Amy, just after he returned to the UK from Australia. The lil’ guy was four weeks early. Expecting: Lily Allen and builder boyfriend Sam Cooper, their first, due February. Married: Alicia Keys, 29, and producer Swizz Beatz, 31, at an undisclosed Mediterranean location. She’s expecting their first child. He has two from his first marriage. Injured: Sydney photographer Kirk Bolt left with a suspected fractured hand after a skirmish with one of US rapper T-Pain’s bodyguards at Sydney airport. Injured: Swedish rock metal superstars Sonic Syndicate’s bassist Karin Axelsson ended with a laceration and brain concussion after a video stunt went wrong. She was supposed to be ‘murdered’ with a guitar but a real, not a fake, was used. Hospitalised: Canadian producer Deadmau5, after collapsing onstage from exhaustion during a Washington DC show. Sued: the estate of DJ AM, by a former neighbor who claims the late disc jockey’s property smelled so bad it made him sick. Died: Bobby Hebb, who had a massive hit in the ‘60s with ‘Sunny’, at 72. Died: Derf Scratch (Frederick Milner), bassist with seminal L.A. hardcore band Fear, 58, after a prolonged illness. Died: Makh Daniels, 28, singer with San Francisco metal band Early Graves, after the touring van which they shared with The Funeral Pyre crashed on the highway in Oregon. The driver, one of the band members, fell asleep.

Entertainment and Sounds) are partners in a new talent agency called Artist Voice, which will launch on September 1. Murrihy, co-founder of posse.com which gets fans to sell tickets to shows for a commission, set up Artist Voice as a joint venture with Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Group of Companies. He says its approach is to give its roster services that other agencies have not provided in Australia and market them through new technology. “Live revenue streams are of ever-increasing importance to artists today and we’re determined at Artist Voice to maximise these opportunities for our stable of artists,” he said. Adds Gudinski, “The day of the traditional gig booking is fast fading. There are endless opportunities out there.” The agency’s roster consists of Amy Meredith, After The Fall, Bliss n Eso, Caterina Torres, Catcall, Dan Kelly, Dash & Will, Empire Of The Sun, End Of Fashion, Evermore, Faker, Ghostwood, Gypsy & The Cat, Howling Bells, Jinja Safari, Kids of 88, Kimbra, Liam Finn, Lisa Mitchell, Little Red, Luke Steele, Mark Sholtez, Matt Waters, Oh Mercy, Operator Please, Paul Kelly, Scribe, Sparkadia, The Sleepy Jackson, The Panics, The Temper Trap, The Naked and Famous, The Vasco Era, Tim & Jean, Tonight Alive, Whitley, Wolf & Cub, Wons Freely and Zowie.

THREE MORE FOR MAJOR LABEL

General Pants Co’s record label Major Label, which launched earlier this year, has signed three more acts on a “single only” deal. They are Sydney surf-post punk trio Step-Panther (whose debut EP Surf got community radio airplay), Melbourne garage-psych band The Kremlin Succession, and The Harry Heart Chrysalis.

LETCH NAMED GM OF CBAA

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, announced Kate Letch as its Sydney-based General Manager, from September 20. Most recently its Digital Radio Project Manager overseeing community radio’s switch on to digital, Letch has been a cornerstone of the country’s community broadcasting. She was station manager of Melbourne 3RRR and Perth’s 6RTR, President of the CBAA National Committee for four years, and a member of AMRAP’s advisory committee.

ABOUT APRA’S LPRS

APRA wants to remind its songwriter members they have to submit their Live Performance Returns (LPRs) by August 31. This lets them know what songs you played live and where. Go online and file your performances between July 1 2009 – June 30 2010, and you might be in line to collect royalties in November. Last year, APRA distributed $4 million to approximately 18,000 songwriters.

SPLENDOUR DEBATE

Splendour In The Grass’ temporary move to Woodfordia in QLD was a commercial success. It drew 32 000, almost double that of its old site in Byron Bay. Obviously promoters Jessica Ducrou and Paul Pittico want to go back to Byron where they own a 267 hectare site in North Byron Parklands – they are currently seeking approval as a permanent sustainable event venue. Russell Mills, from Tourism Northern Rivers, wants it to return to the region too, but Byron council and 33 community and environmental groups are antagonistic. Chris Cherry from the Wooyung Action Group argues that Splendour has become too big, and that the festival should fit the area, rather than vice versa. In the meantime Woodfordia wants it to stay put. Mayor of the Moreton Bay Regional Council Allan Sutherland spoke to the promoters, “I all but begged them to stay.” Splendour had memorable moments from the acts, as well as the crowd - especially in the two hour struggle to get home. One mob took a short cut through neighbouring farms and got bogged. Another from Victoria turned up at the airport to find their Virgin flight had left early. No problems, they unpacked their tents and slept on the runway!

PEAS BREAK MORE RECORDS

Black Eyed Peas’ ‘I Gotta Feeling’ has been downloaded six million times in America, making it the most downloaded track in America ever. Their label Geffen claims that their The E.N.D album has been downloaded 18 million times, with 7.33 million physical copies sold.

THINGS WE HEAR

* AC/DC’s singer Brian Johnson let slip on UK radio that a live CD and DVD from their ‘Black Ice’ world tour is on its way. Given that it grossed $441.6 million, Johnson gifted himself a white Ferrari and may buy an island off Florida. * Who leaked Soundwave’s lineup onto the internet via a photo of its new poster. before their official announcement? We’re hearing it was a music magazine. * Stereosonic’s first release tickets sold out in rapid time. Promoters onelove and Hardware say they sold more tickets in the first two hours last Thursday morning

SOUNDSCHOOL BENEFIT

SoundSchool is a charity set up by Oli Mistry, Jay Hemsworth and Jarrod Paul to provide musical instruments and tuition for kids in underprivileged countries. It has partnered with Salaam Baalak Trust which cares for Delhi’s street kids. “These amazing kids are living a crazy, hard life on the streets in one of the toughest cities in the world, yet light up at the chance to hold a guitar and jam with a total stranger,” said Mistry. A fundraiser at Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel on Saturday August 21 will be hosted by Jane Gazzo, with auctions, and live sets from The Delta Riggs, Midnight Youth and Bigphallica.

TOURING PROGRAM OPENS

Round 20 of the Contemporary Music Touring Program has opened - see www. arts.gov.au/arts/cmtp. Closing date is September 6 for tours starting after January 1 2011. The program aims to get wider audiences for contemporary music acts, especially in regional and rural areas around Australia.

than they sold in the whole first day of last year. * Eminem’s Recovery has become the first hip-hop album to spend more than a month on the top spot in the UK charts. * The Daily Telegraph reported that Kyle Sandilands and his business manager Andrew Hawkins have bought into John Ibrahim’s Piano Room and Trademark bars in Kings Cross. Sandilands plans to get more live music into the Piano Room. * Are Operator Please drummer Tim Commandeur and model April Rose Pengilly officially an item, after attending Splendour In The Grass together?

BATTLING IT OUT AT THE HELPMANNS

Pink, Beyonce, AC/DC and George Michael battle it out at the Helpmann Awards, to be held at the Sydney Opera House on September 6. The four are nominated for Best International Contemporary Concert. Big Day Out, WOMADelaide, Homebake and Melbourne International Jazz Festival are up for Best Contemporary Music Festival. In the Best Australian Contemporary Concert category are tours by John Farnham, The Dirty Three and Laughing Clowns, Tex Perkins’ tribute to Johnny Cash in ‘The Man In Black’ and Ross Wilson’s ‘5 Decades of Cool’ retrospective.

COUNTRY FESTIVAL MOVES

After four years in the snow fields of Thredbo, roots and country music festival CMC Rocks The Snowys is moving to the wine country of the Hunter Valley next March. It will change its name to CMC Rocks The Hunter. Promoters Rob Potts, Entertainment Edge, Chugg Entertainment and CMC said the move was due to the recent expansion of the event.

›› TMN TOP 40 The top 40 most ‘heard’ songs on Australian radio. TW LW TI HP P1 P2 P3 ARTIST

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2 10 1 18 43 81 UNCLE KRACKER

SMILE

ATL/WMA

1 11 1 13 28 52 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS FT. PITBULL

I LIKE IT

INT/UMA

3 14 30 56 ADAM LAMBERT

IF I HAD YOU

SME

4 11 24 52 EMINEM FT. RIHANNA

LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE

INT/UMA

8 10 5 16 44 65 TRAIN

IF IT’S LOVE

SME

6 12 6 11 28 43 TRAVIE MCCOY FT. BRUNO MARS

BILLIONAIRE

ATL/WMA

7 14 2 18 43 71 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG

SME CAP/EMI

8 37 2

8 13 23 54 KATY PERRY

TEENAGE DREAM

9 13 24 44 FLO RIDA FT. DAVID GUETTA

CLUB CAN’T HANDLE ME

ATL/WMA

DANCE IN THE DARK

INT/UMA

10 19 2 10 13 23 52 LADY GAGA 11 13 3 11 12 24 52 USHER FT. PITBULL

DJ GOT US FALLIN’ IN LOVE

SME

12 10 6

LOVE THE FALL

SME

7 13 29 60 MICHAEL PAYNTER

13 15 6 12 13 36 58 MAROON 5

MISERY

A&M/UMA

14 3 13 1 15 29 53 KATY PERRY FT. SNOOP DOGG

CALIFORNIA GURLS

CAP/EMI

15 59 2 15 12 22 49 TAIO CRUZ

DYNAMITE

ISL/UMA

16 12 11 12 14 28 50 GYROSCOPE

BABY, I’M GETTING BETTER

UMA

17 16 22 6 18 46 59 JET

SEVENTEEN

VIR/EMI

18 20 8 18 12 37 57 JOHN BUTLER TRIO

REVOLUTION

JAR/MGM

19 27 12 19 11 24 43 3OH!3 FT. KE$HA

MY FIRST KISS

ATL/WMA

20 22 4 20 11 20 32 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS

CLOSER TO THE EDGE

VIR/EMI

THIRSTY MERC

MOUSETRAP HEART

MUSH/WMA

JOHN BUTLER TRIO

CLOSE TO YOU

JAR/MGM

23 23 16 14 14 34 49

PARAMORE

THE ONLY EXCEPTION

ATL/WMA

24 30 5

NICKELBACK

THIS AFTERNOON

RR/WMA

21 18 13 11 17 47 75 22

23 6

18 44 74

24 9

25 25 26 7

31 48

LIFEHOUSE

HALFWAY GONE

GEF/UMA

26 21 16 11 14 28 54

17 42 54

AMY MEREDITH

LYING

SME

27 54 4

27 10 24 46

ED KOWALCZYK

GRACE

SME

28 28 7

28 13 30 53

BRANDON FLOWERS

CROSSFIRE

ISL/UMA

BREAK YOUR HEART

ISL/UMA

29 17 15 3

14 28 46

TAIO CRUZ

30 11 16 4

12 27 46

DAVID GUETTA & CHRIS WILLIS FT. FERGIE & LMFAO GETTIN’ OVER YOU

VIR/EMI

31 14 14 2

12 24 50

B.O.B FT. HAYLEY WILLIAMS

AIRPLANES

ATL/WMA COL/SME

32 33 9

JOHN MAYER

HALF OF MY HEART

33 34 16 6

26 10 38 57 14 27 52

KE$HA

YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG

SME

34 26 25 1

18 49 61

TRAIN

HEY, SOUL SISTER

SME

35 31 11 31 12 22 41

OU EST LE SWIMMING POOL

DANCE THE WAY I FEEL

HUS/UMA

36 53 2

THE POTBELLEEZ

HELLO

VICIOUS/UMA

USHER FT. WILL.I.AM

OMG

SME

36 11 23 49

37 29 18 1

14 25 46

38 32 22 2

15 42 58

ADAM LAMBERT

WHATAYA WANT FROM ME

SME

39 49 3

39 13 24 57

VANESSA AMOROSI

HOLIDAY

UMA

40 44 5

40 14 22 44

BIRDS OF TOKYO

PLANS

CAP/EMI

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Words by Joshua Blackman, Jody MacGregor & Emily Williams

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POSTMODERN HERO Already widely known and loved for his iconic role in the profanity-laden Superbad, and for knocking up Ellen Page in Juno, 22-year old Michael Cera has carved out a niche as the king of awkwardness - a sort of poster child for the teenage dork who has a tendency to fall in love with the prettiest girl in town. Like Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, Zombieland), who has traversed much of the same territory - and to a lesser extent the more vulgar and ostentatious Jonah Hill - Cera’s comic creations are part of the Gen Y zeitgeist. Those in their 30s remember being him, those in their

20s have barely outgrown him, and those in their teens practically embody him. He stands in for that generation who’ve grown up with games consoles and fan culture, and largely without romantic or moral role models. Although it was Superbad that shot him into the stratosphere of mainstream-indie comedy (where he has pretty much lodged), it was his role as George Michael Bluth in Arrested Development that set him on this trajectory. Timid but well-meaning, and with a rather inappropriate crush on his cousin, that character epitomized Cera’s preoccupation with the awkwardness of social situations, giving him the chance to hone his quirky line-readings to the point where quiet discomfort was as important the dialogue.

THE COMICS

“Certainly [there] was a lot of pressure to not blow it with this character [which is] so beloved to the comic fans, but I tried not to let myself feel that kind of pressure because I don’t think that would have worked well for Wallace.” It took awhile for Culkin to get his head around the script. “Because the movie is so visual - and based on these comics that are so visual - it took me like five or six hours to read this one script. It was tough actually to get there and picture what they were actually going to say, just in words … it didn’t get sent to me to specifically read for Wallace, I was just reading it, but I immediately went to this guy, ‘Wallace Wells – I wanna play this guy!’” Working with director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead was also a major drawcard for Culkin. “Edgar is an extraordinary talent, and had a very, very specific vision of what he wanted, which was one that was extremely thrilling to be a part of. I had seen his previous work, so I was like, ‘oh man, I wanna be a part of something he does’. In a side note, Culkin says things between he and Wright got a bit personal during rehearsals for the ‘make-out scene’. “He gave me a nice kiss, to break the ice. He just leaned over the table to sort of explain to me what he wanted, and I met him halfway and we kissed, and it was like ‘oh, is that all? Ok, let’s do it!’” [EW]

These videos demonstrate not only his willingness to mock himself, but also (as always) his pin-point comedic timing, where single words are expressed with just enough staccato inflection to make them funny. On the other hand, they also beg the question: is Michael Cera just a really funny dude who’s really good at playing himself? Or: is he just really great at playing an ineffectual, often exasperated, teen - but not much else? Even in Youth in Revolt, where he gets to take on a trouble-making alter ego, Francois Dillinger, there’s a feeling that he is punching above his weight. Even if that’s true, it’s almost a moot point; that persona is so effective, he can coast through unfunny drek like Year One on its coattails. So far. But maybe – hopefully – he’ll evolve into a complete comic actor like Bill Murray, whose work in films like Rushmore and Lost in Translation garnered critical acclaim, and prompted re-evaluation of earlier comedy classics like Ghostbusters and What About Bob. And if not, at least we’ll always have George-Michael, Evan, Paulie, Nick and Scott: giving face – and hope – to geeks everywhere. [JB]

THE SIDEKICK A fan-favourite amongst readers of the comic, Wallace Wells’ sharptongued Yodalike mentoring of Pilgrim is something that Kieran Culkin nails – in fact, with all the best lines, his performance is pretty much a scene stealer.

In 2007 Cera produced a series of ten short webisodes with Clark Duke (Hot Tub Time Machine) called Clark and Michael, which feature the pair as moronic writers trying to launch a television series. These episodes are still available online, where one can also find other random examples of Cera’s work, such as a fake promotional video titled “Impossible Is the Opposite of Possible,” where an absurdly arrogant Cera dryly extols his magnificence and utters such platitudes as “Just be yourself; as long as that means you are a successful person.”

SOUNDCHECK

Entertainment bleeds into our lives - and immersive videogames can colour the way we see things especially vividly. Bryan Lee O’Malley took that idea as the basis for his Scott Pilgrim comics, creating a world where bonus lives, level-ups and save-points are just something else his characters have to deal with.

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“Silent Hill’s a good example,” says O’Malley. “It takes place in a misty, real-world setting and it’s easy to confuse it with reality. What I did in the books is start to extrapolate that phenomenon into an earlier generation of games, the old 8-bit games. What if you confused that with reality? What if you confused your entire high school experience with a fighting game?” Although Scott and the other characters are in their 20s – and nobody portrays what it’s like to be in your 20s in the 2000s as authentically as O’Malley does – high school was a big influence on the story. “The games I played in high school were foundational for my whole life, I guess,” he admits. “And so in the books I definitely go back to the high school world several times, although it didn’t really make it into the film.” [JM]

One of O’Malley’s worries in adapting his comic to the screen was getting the music right. Scott’s band, Sex Bob-omb, play throughout the story in an epic battle of the bands. Their songs in the movie are written by Beck, but they still have to sound like the kind of three-piece garage rock band you’d hear playing a support slot in a crappy club. “Whenever I’d ask, ‘What do you think Sex Bob-omb sounds like?’ everyone’s got a different answer,” O’Malley says. “Everyone’s got a different band in mind and I didn’t worry about it. I’m not the filmmaker!” he laughs. “Edgar [Wright, director] was really taken with Guitar Wolf, the Japanese band. We all had our own ideas. At the time I was talking about this band called Times New Viking, who were very loud but they had a female singer as well; they had a lot of harmonies, very bubblegum pop. When we first spoke to Beck, that was the first band that he brought up as his inspiration, so we were on the same wavelength, which was kind of amazing.”

Another important band in the comic are Sex Bob-omb’s rivals, Crash And The Boys, who play ultra-short songs with rhythms so unnatural they can knock listeners unconscious. The filmmakers enlisted Broken Social Scene to bring this part of the soundtrack to life. “Several of the guys from [Broken Social Scene] actually got together with the actor who plays Crash and they put those songs together,” O’Malley explains. “They did a whole bunch of them - alternate versions of the one-note songs. It was pretty amazing to hear this world-class band doing these ridiculous songs. The longest song is 48 seconds or something like that, and it’s amazing.” [JM] What: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World When: Released August 12 More: www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com

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Soulwax A New Decade, A New Soulwax By Alasdair Duncan

he last time I saw Soulwax live, it was sunset at Parklife 2008. They took the stage looking like dashing international super-spies in their matching white suits, and for the next hour pummelled the crowd into joyful submission with their irrepressible mix of banging beats and squealing synths. When the band return for this year’s festival, will they be bringing a new live show with them? Founding member David Dewaele says yes. “Visually, the white suits will probably be blue suits this time around,” he tells me, laughing. “Musically, there will definitely be new stuff – I would say that around fifty percent or more of our set is all new material that we’re trying out live. We’ve been working like maniacs on our 2ManyDJs stuff for the last year and a half,” he continues, “which means we haven’t really been focussing on Soulwax. When we come to Australia, we’ll be playing our first Soulwax gigs in some time.” The new material, Dewaele tells me, consists of vocal and instrumental tracks - and if you’re a fan then it’s worth getting yourself to Parklife, because the live show might well be the only chance you’ll

get to hear it. “We’ve made the new tracks with the specific idea of playing them live in mind,” he says. “There’s a certain energy when you play live. When we play as 2ManyDJs or Soulwax Nite Versions, more than anything, we play with dynamics. These new songs are really built around that concept. We’re trying to take it further than we ever have before – the loud bits are louder, and the soft bits are softer. “We’re not really sure, though, if it’s the kind of thing that we’d want to record on a disc,” Dewaele continues. “And we’re not even sure if recording an album and putting it out as a CD is something we should do. In 2010, that just doesn’t feel like the right way to go.” At the moment, they’re tossing up between putting the tracks out online, or not putting them out at all - just keeping them for live sets instead. “Whatever happens, it’s still our music, and we’re still really proud of it - but I’m just not really sure if we’re going to put it out as a CD.” This new focus on the live setting doesn’t necessarily mean the end of recorded Soulwax music. In the past, the band have recorded with the likes of Tiga and Crookers, and remixed countless others. Dewaele tells me about some fascinating collaborations which are set for the future too, including one in particular which stops me in my tracks. “There is one tentative plan we’ve had for a while that we keep talking about, which is to work with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem,” he says, casually. “When he stops touring, he wants to go into the studio with me and Stephen, to see what happens.” My mind explodes from the thought of two of the most powerful forces in dance music working together, and I pause momentarily to scrape myself up off the floor. I tell Dewaele that that sounds pretty much like the most amazing thing ever, and he laughs. “It could be a huge disappointment. But we’ve known each other for ten years and been really good friends all that time, and we’ve never really worked together. Nine months ago he said that he was making his last album with LCD and was going to stop touring, and that he wanted to go into the studio start making things. I remember asking what he wanted to do, and he said that one of the things was that he really wanted to work with us. And I said, ‘well, let’s try.’ He’s one of the few people I’d really like to work with. He’s got a very strong will, but he’s also very open to new things.”

“When James Murphy stops touring, he wants to go into the studio with me and Stephen, to see what happens. He’s one of the few people I’d really like to work with.” In the short term, Soulwax have another project of an entirely different nature to keep them occupied: an internet radio station for their record-spinning alter egos. “We’ve been working flat-out on a new 2ManyDJs project for about a year and a half,” Dewaele says. “We’ve gone through our whole collection, which is about fifty thousand records, and picked all the tiny little gems and forgotten tracks. I’d say that fifty percent of it is stuff people never will have heard, because it came out in limited editions of three hundred copies in 1973 - and there’s maybe only forty-five seconds that are worth listening to. So we’ve cut out just that forty-five seconds. “We’ve put all of this stuff together into a series of mixes,” he continues, “but instead of putting out compilations (which would be a nightmare in terms of clearing the tracks), we’ve taken an online radio license - and we’re going to be streaming it for free. As 2ManyDJs, we’re touring a big production show with lots of visuals - and the whole twenty-four hours will have visuals based on the records.” Between now and then, the band are focussed on enjoying some quiet time on their next trip to Australia. “Tonight I’m playing in Cannes in the south of France, tomorrow I’m playing in the south of Spain and then the day after, I’m playing in the north of Germany,” Dewaele tells me. “But in those three places, all I’ll get to see is backstage, then the hotel. The great thing about Australia is that the festivals are really accessible, the weather’s nice, and you get a few days off after you play. We’ve got really good friends in Melbourne and Sydney and we actually get to hang out with them. We get more quality time than we do with our friends at home in Europe!” Who: Soulwax What: Parklife 2010 Where: Kippax Lake, Moore Park When: Sunday October 3 20 :: BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10

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Seagull Into The Woods By Bridie Connellan

hris Bolton has a cold. Maybe it’s immuno-deficiency in the face of winter’s chill, maybe it’s late evenings painstakingly crafting a sophomore LP, or maybe it’s the strenuous nature of touring the nation. Chances are, it’s probably more dietary-related. “I had some weird pasta before, there was hardly anything left in the fridge,” he laughs. “It had like some old avocado, cherry tomatoes, and celery, things were scarce because everything has to be cleared out of the cupboard this week.” All hail nu-trishun. As the frontman for Melbourne-based foursome Seagull, Bolton’s fridge-drain is a strategic one; his crew of ambient folk-pop are about to hit the dusty trail to promote their sophomore album. The recording of LP Council Tree saw the band bunker down with producer Nick Huggins (Whitley, Hazel Brown, Otouto), with a general goal to simply keep things real. “This recording is pretty close to what we sound like live,” he says. “We recorded bass, drums and guitar together in a room, and then added the accordion later. It’s pretty true to life.”

With a voice meandering somewhere between the woods of Elliot Smith and the backyard of Radiohead, Bolton’s vocals are an earnest and ghostly presence that often syncs with the melodies of his pining guitar. The brains behind the band admits that their second release is a contemporary mix of lullabies - in the most pensive and late-night kind of way. “I actually listened to [the album] quite a lot in between mixing and recording, and as far as falling asleep to it goes… it feels good,” he says. “I don’t think it’s one for dancing.” It’s a sentimentally ambient and sonic sound that somewhat departs from the beats of Seagull’s debut Goodbye Weather - and Bolton agrees that this release garners the kind of spaciousness which proves less is so much more. “With instrumentation, there’s often very little going on and you can really focus on the small things without going overboard,” he says. “There’s a whole lot of reverb that really adds to that kind of space. It’s nice.” “Nice” could be a badly chosen adjective in Seagull’s case, as Council Tree paints ambient portraits of a heart in turmoil; the melancholy soundscapes of a troubled mind. The album opener ‘Rain’ progressively departs from the more Bon Iver-esque charms of the band’s first release; Bolton believes the opening of any new album is a relatively defining moment. “I guess the beauty of opening tracks comes when they start out so small and grow to amount to forty minutes of music,” he says. “They’re intended to stew the mood. If we had started with something upbeat, it would have been misleading.” He must get asked about his stripped-back ambient sound quite regularly, as over the fuzz of a dodgy phoneline and passing semi-trailer, he simply assumes my next question. “Sorry, I didn’t hear every word you asked but I heard something about minimalism,” he quips. “Sure, our sound doesn’t need too much to achieve quite a lot. In life and music there’s often too much going on all the time. Music is about going in and out of your senses - it’s nice to dip in and out of consciousness.”

“I’m better at making minor-key music. I find it easier to write songs about sad things.” Described as ‘hypnotic’ and ‘soporific’, Bolton’s interest in minimalism and the reductive styles of the late 1960s has certainly reared its Velvet head from the Underground, as he claims his pulsing musical ideas sit within a more folk-pop aesthetic. “I really like the sound of droning and static,” he says. “There’s always a melody coming through a lot of noise.” As discussion become moderately fangushing about the merits of minimalist composers like Terry Riley, Louis Andreissen and the duke of avant-garde, composer LaMonte Young, Bolton agrees that the aesthetic influence is more about philosophy than lifting riffs. “I guess I enjoy [Young]’s work in theory, but I’ve probably read about him more than I’ve actually listened to his music,” he admits. “He’s pretty far out, but I guess the nice thing about getting into LaMonte Young is simply liking the line of thought behind him, and enjoying the alternating of two notes.” LaMonte Young now lives in an apartment in New York with his light-artist wife Marian Zazeela, surrounded by magenta light and perpetual drones, completely deaf – so ideas, rather than lifestyle, might be the right thing to emulate. In any event, Bolton’s appreciation of this kind of structural complexity and figurative repetition certainly makes Council Tree a pulsing folk soundscape. The last bars of new track ‘Water’ herald the kind of continuous sounds first described by Michael Nyman in his 1968 analysis of minimalism; “It includes pieces that move in endless circles.” There’s an intense theoretical drive beneath the wings of Seagull - but whether Bolton’s lengthy pauses between responses on this Tuesday evening allude to deep thought or night time Codral remains to be seen. He is quick to admit one thing, though - that sadness is quite the muse. “I’ve now realised I’m better at making minor-key music,” he says. “Some people do energetic, happy songs really well, and some people do mid-tempo melancholy well.” With tragedy and haunting despair dominating a large part of Seagull’s second release, Bolton’s agrees that a smile is harder to sing about. “I find it easier to listen to and write songs about sad things,” he says. “If I’m feeling happy I don’t want to ruin it by trying to capture it in a song. I guess feeling good to me is pretty worthless and thoughtless, and I don’t feel much desire to express that.” Who: Seagull What: Council Tree is out now on Two Bright Lakes Where: Oxford Art Factory, with Whitley When: Thursday August 12 22 :: BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10

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30 Seconds To Mars Inst-A-Cult By Mikey Carr

cting and music don’t tend to go together well. Juliette & The Licks, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunt, whatever the hell Keanu Reeves’ band is called… The list of uninspired and ego-driven Hollywood vanity projects is a long and uneventful one, filled with the short-lived and mostly boring musical wanderings of the idle rich. In relation to this bloodline of mediocrity, 30 Seconds To Mars are an entirely new breed.

It’s rare in life you meet someone who’ll make it starkly clear that he doesn’t give a shit about what you might have to say. Jared Leto is one of those people. Seated on a mulch green lounge, typing away on his Blackberry, he greets me with blue eyes that seem to fall into a vacuum of ‘I really couldn’t give a fuck’ – a demeanour startlingly contrasted by his perfectly coiffed hair, stylishly dishevelled clothes and pseudomystical accessories. He’s a collection all of the conventions of a star, rolled into an impossibly skinny and self-possessed poster-boy for commercial rock: he won’t shake my hand, he’d rather ‘bump it’ instead. The rest of the band, Jared’s brother and drummer Shannon and lead guitarist Tomo Milicevic, are

echoes of a similar sentiment - albeit with more of a swarthy charm compared to Jared’s pale, Aryan appearance (when we meet, the singer’s hair is a blinding peroxide-blonde). Jared’s is an icy but diplomatic confidence, never more apparent than when discussing their live show. “Our live show is the reward, it’s the celebration, and it’s where we thrive,” Jared informs me, in a measured tone. “I always feel like the live show isn’t about me, it’s about the audience and giving more than receiving. We just give all we can to the audience, to try and catapult them into a place of abandon.” With music that’s a far cry from revolutionary and an image as carefully sculpted as Michael Jackson’s nose, on the surface of things the band seems to tick all the celeb-band boxes. But there’s one key factor that sets Jared and the boys apart from the rest of their contemporaries: unrelenting success. I don’t just mean selling a few thousand copies of an album and selling out tours - with a celebrity on the mic, such feats come easy. No, to really succeed as a celeb-band you need to be able to transcend the fame of the famous member - and 30 Seconds To Mars are one of the only bands to have ever really pulled this off. Speaking to them in person, it soon becomes apparent that, apart from the undeniable power of their stadium-style pop-rock ballads, what has driven their success is sheer determination, fortitude and belief in what they’re doing. That, and a military work ethic. Since their debut album in 2002, the band have balanced an endless schedule of touring, writing, recording, and even shooting their own video clips. “I’d like to experiment with some free time one day,” Jared says with a laugh, as he casts his eye around the conference room. “But it’s a toss-up: you get this amazing opportunity to be editing while you’re touring, and have a bus full of editors and shooting crew just to make a sort of monument to this experience you’ve been sharing with each other… Or you can not do that,” he shrugs. “It’s not much of a choice for us.”

“Our live show is the reward, it’s the celebration, and it’s where we thrive. We just give all we can to the audience, to try and catapult them into a place of abandon.” What’s most striking about the band is also what I suspect makes them so successful – a complete immersion in their own mythology. It’s a myth communicated through not just the music, but the symbols around it, from the aesthetic style of the band to the logos which represent them - a phoenix inscribed with the band’s Latin slogan Provehito in Altum (rocket to highness), a trinity of three skulls (representing their second album, A Beautiful Lie), and ‘The Triad’ triangle symbol which surrounded the release of their third album This Is War. “There’s the ideas of... potential... and community there,” Jared tells me, slowly. “Things like that are pretty prevalent in what we do.” Slick and tattoo-ready images, the symbolism as a marketing tactic is a little too overt - but you still can’t argue with the fans. Watch the band’s video for ‘Closer To The Edge’ – their latest single from This Is War - to witness the earnest, fanatical fervour that 30 Seconds To Mars’ enthusiasts display the world over. It’s hard not to be impressed. The band take their work seriously, and carry themselves like artists - even if it is sometimes in the most Hollywood interpretation of the word. This Is War even incorporated some almost Brian Wilson-esque studio madness, which they’re eager to discuss. “We had this thing called The Summit, where we invited just thousands of people to come and be an orchestra for us,” Jared explains eagerly, before Shannon adds, “We also recorded a hawk that lives above the studio, and insects and stuff; just the sounds of the environment.” The band is by no means devoid of critics but regardless of any bias, all must concede that the careful deliberation that’s gone into crafting every aspect of the band is staggering. Their radio-friendly sound and rampant cultivation of cult and image may seem a little cynical, but in today’s music industry that’s what the art of being a lucrative rock star has become. And 30 Seconds To Mars are the masters there. Who: 30 Seconds To Mars What: This Is War is out now 24 :: BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10

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The Cure Bigger And Sleeker By Andy McLean

t’s amazing how people can miss the obvious when it’s staring them right in the face. Take Robert Smith’s bandmates in The Cure, for example. In the late-1980s they were busy recording individual parts for the now-legendary Disintegration but, as keyboardist Roger O’Donnell admitted in a recent blog, “we had no idea really how great an album this was to become.”

That confession is remarkable because even today, as the album - the band’s eighth - turns 21 years old, it sounds bigger and brighter and wider than just about any record you can imagine. It’s an ambitious collection of twelve extended mood pieces, soaked in layered guitars, booming basslines, intricate drum patterns and lavish keyboards. And suddenly, it’s even better - a new triple-disc deluxe Disintegration has just arrived in Australian shops, to celebrate the anniversary. Singer Robert Smith has painstakingly gone through the original recordings and remastered the record (disc one), polished up a live performance from 1989 (disc two) and unearthed early studio demos (disc three). Perhaps O’Donnell & Co can be forgiven for missing the enormity of what they were creating

back in 1989. After all, in the recording studio, they never even got to hear the vocals - Smith didn’t add them until all the instrumental tracks were done. Then he spent 14 days mixing the record before the musicians got a chance to listen to a playback. In the deluxe edition sleevenotes, Smith says that after hearing the completed work for the first time, the band was left speechless: “They were entranced. It was one of those wonderful moments when everyone in the band just knew.” Unfortunately, recalls Smith, the record label didn’t see it that way. “I was confident that, although the overall mood of the album was pretty downbeat, there was so much strong, immediate melody and interplay in songs like ‘Pictures of You’, ‘Lullaby’ and ‘Lovesong’ the record company couldn’t help but recognise Disintegration as a perfect Cure album. It was bit of a shock to find they didn’t.” Smith stubbornly refused to change a single note of the album, and the suits were forced to release Disintegration as it was. He was proven right in the most emphatic style: three million album sales and four hit singles followed. The Cure didn’t just ‘break’ the US market - they obliterated it. The resulting world tour saw the band perform more than 75 sold-out shows, including a night at LA’s Dodger Stadium where the crowd swelled to 50,000. This achievement should not be underestimated. Disintegration was released at a time when Roxette, Jive Bunny and Richard Marx dominated the airwaves; bands producing introspective art-rock were marginalised, mocked or simply ignored. When The Cure muscled their way into the mainstream they cleared a path for others – like Nirvana and Radiohead – to follow. So how did The Cure pull off this audacious heist? What made Disintegration so different? Stuart Braithwaite, of Scottish post-rockers Mogwai, has said he believes the album’s strength lies in its disregard for convention: “It has the feel that only a tiny amount of albums have, that it exists completely in its own universe, immune to context or fashion.” Braithwaite also points out that, from start to finish, Disintegration is both “achingly sad” and “unrelentingly beautiful.” For many, this is what truly sets the album apart; it’s a piece of art that captures the exquisite purity of sadness. It paints rejection and longing, infatuation and regret, across a soundscape that is somehow still uplifting and magnificent. And therein lies the secret of Disintegration’s mass appeal; everyone, at some point in their life, has had their heart broken. The Cure articulated this experience in a compelling and sincere way, and people responded.

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Silversun Pickups The Record Vs The Road By Caitlin Welsh Me! and The Henry Clay People, a tour which Lester claims is free from debaucherous rock shenanigans. I suggest that he ought not get too used to that, pointing out that SSPU are sharing the Coaster Festival bill with Cypress Hill in Gosford next month. “Well, that should definitely be interesting,” he laughs. “God, I haven’t seen Cypress Hill since Lollapalooza in 1999, or something like that.”

t’s over an hour past the time that my chat with the Silversun Pickups’ keyboardist was supposed to start, and a relieved label rep has finally got hold of Joe Lester. He is apologetic, but unruffled: “Oh yeah. I goofed. I realised it was time for the interview, but I was trying to fix my barbeque.” Having just returned from the Midwest leg of their current tour, the band are on a leisurely ten-day break. They’re smack in the middle of an eight-week US tour with Against

It was something of a surprise (and for some, a disappointment) for local fans to hear that SSPU wouldn’t headline any shows of their own while in Australia, instead touring as supports for Birds Of Tokyo. Lester admits that some ire was directed at both bands and the promoters upon this revelation. “Honestly, [BOT] just got a hold of us and asked if we wanted to do a tour. And we hadn’t been over there since 2007 - it’s been a while,” he tells me. “Y’know, it’s expensive for American

bands to tour over there, and they offered us this chance where we could actually afford to get there... I didn’t think it would be an issue. It made sense to us.” He sounds a little defensive, and I suspect they’ve had their fill of the negativity. He makes a valid point – for every band you love that makes it out here, there are five more that will never be able to afford it. SSPU are famously cagey in interviews when asked about The Next Record - especially when they’re touring a current one. Even though last year’s lush work Swoon will be nearly eighteen months old by the time they ship out of Sydney, Lester says it’s not until they’re completely done touring it that the follow-up will be a major concern. “I just think we’re not very good at writing on the road,” he says. “The stuff that tends to inspire the songs comes from minute details about everyday life; being on tour is exciting, and there’s always stuff going on. But it’s not so much inspiring - it’s just happening, y’know? “When we do end up writing, we’ll come home,” Lester continues. He tells me that with the last record, the band took a whole month off to cleanse their palettes before coming back to start from scratch. “And it wasn’t like we started with absolutely nothing, there were little bits and pieces of things, but it was only an idea for a

chorus, or a bit of a guitar line, or something tiny - and that was the jumping-off point. But as a band, we can’t write whole songs while we’re on tour. We’re just shit at it.” Although periods on the road may not be physically productive, Lester tells me touring does help the band realise where they need to go musically; playing the same songs for months at a stretch shows the gaps in what they’re trying to say. “When touring Carnavas, we found that sometimes you’re taking songs and trying to push them places that they don’t really sound like; you’re trying to get something out of them that isn’t really there,” he says - and I like that idea; that they write a new song because there’s something to express that their old songs can’t quite manage. “Yeah,” he continues, “and I think that’s the most concise way of putting it. There’s a feeling, or a something, that isn’t there - that you want to put out there, but you haven’t figured out how yet...” Who: Silversun Pickups When: Saturday September 25 Where: Coaster Festival 2010 @ Gosford Showground More: Supporting Birds of Tokyo’s national tour

DJ Marky Dance Like Mad By RK

himself like that – he claims he’s a man more driven by a crowd than the ego and image of an identity. “Well, I would say that my sound is not one specific type. Like, when I play ‘Marky & Friends’ at The End [a series of nights at the London club, comprised of notoriously epic eight-hour sets], I played the whole range. That’s my vibe, to show all the styles and take people on a journey.” Marky is somewhat of an innovator, and along with colleagues Patife and XRS, wants to bring some new ideas and influences to the table. “I think we need to keep things fresh and move forwards; and that doesn’t mean always tapping into Brazilian music, either. I go for all styles and influences... I remember when I was in DJ competitions, and I won like three of them,” he continues, “and the prize was to play in the club. And I played the same set at this club each time. And after three weeks the guy said, ‘You’re not playing for me anymore!’ I was like, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘You’ve planned your set; you have to make the night special.’ And since that day, probably 20 years ago, I have never planned my sets.”

f what you play and how you play it is the overriding theme in his philosophy, then Brazil’s Marco Antônio Silva has his shit sorted. Today, DJ Marky is surely one of the biggest and most recognised names in the drum and bass scene worldwide – and doubtless the biggest name in the genre to come from outside of the UK. Among compatriots like Goldie and Peshay, he’s from an era of musicians that presided over the evolution of the sound from way back in the day, when it was referred to as ‘jungle’. While Brazil has its fair share of economic problems, destitution and poverty, the language DJ Marky speaks is universal – with music that brings solace to his fans. “I lived here during the military dictatorship,” he tells me, “which had a strong influence on everyday life. Today [Brazil is] closer to the world, but music is what connected me with the outside – and really, my youth was always about discovering music… With some skateboarding in the middle!” While the drum and bass scene is not the most burgeoning in South America, I certainly get the impression that it’s coming of age; when Marky uses words like ‘heavy tunes’ and ‘rinse’, you feel that he’s totally absorbed by its urban culture. But he wouldn’t classify

Marky’s real break came when he was exposed by his managers Edo and Oliver; but it was UK legend, Bryan Gee that was fundamental – he was the first one to really articulate his respect. Marky reminisces: “He said, ‘Man, I’m feeling what you are doing and I’m gonna help you here.’ He believed in the potential and understood our vibe and supported us, together with Jumping Jack Frost. Then my managers said, ‘come to London to play some gigs’ and from there, things just grew fast. The Brasil EP launched us as producers, really.” After that, their successful sampler The Brasilian Job helped him jump onto the world stage, with a rounded sound and varied compositions. A bunch of compilations followed, and fans are on tender-hooks as to when the next will be released. Innerground Records was launched in an effort to open doors to new sounds, and features artists like Total Science, Digital and of course Marky and XRS. 2010 releases highlight an up-to-date sound, with a slightly more minimal but still energetic fabric. Marky, along with boys Switch, Spy and Zinc, have their finger firmly on the pulse. Some of those releases will be part of his weighty record bag when Marky lands down under this week. “In the past I’ve played the festivals, like Good Vibes; this time though, I’m keen to get out there to do some more intimate club shows as well,” he tells me. “I plan to make everyone dance like mad.” Who: DJ Marky Where: Chinese Laundry When: Friday August 13

Artisan Guns Chk Chk Boom By Svetlana Huffington

xploding all over your face in giddy spurts of folk-tinged indie-pop, Auckland’s Artisan Guns are a musical oddity; their New Zealand market tends to be dominated more by dub- and reggae-influenced artists, like Fat Freddy’s Drop and Tiki Taane. “The more poppy stuff gets pushed pretty hard, especially by some of the really good associations that help you out with grants over here,” guitarist Jonathan Pearce informs me, over the phone from Auckland. “They tend to be really supportive of stuff like Fat Freddy’s cos over here, that’s pop music.” Alternately offering moments of calm acousticbacked reflection and cheeky guitar-driven pop ditties, the band display a broad bank of influences and styles across their EPs. Their latest effort, Hearts (produced and engineered by Dave Parker), sees them fuse their differing styles into something new and exciting. Somewhat reminiscent of bands like Fleet Foxes or Grizzly Bear in terms of their expansive take on pop, Artisan Guns display a confidence and maturity on Hearts that you wouldn’t expect to hear from a band so early in their gestation. Only four years in, they may still be relatively new on the scene - but don’t think that means Artisan Guns haven’t been going hard. Having just recently finished a national tour of New Zealand, and with a small sojourn in Australia with Hungary Kids Of Hungary and The Holidays planned over the next three weeks, the band have been bouncing back and forth between playing shows and doing promo for the EP and upcoming tour. “It’s all come together at the same time, which has been really good,” Jonathan tells me with an anxious laugh. “We had a national tour around New Zealand two weeks ago, and there was a lot of press around that. Then we’ve also just been nominated for the national song-writing award, The Silver Scrolls. I’m not sure if you would‘ve

heard about that over in Aussie, but yeah we’re in the top five there. So we’ve been doing a lot of promo around that as well, and it’s happened to tie in perfectly with the release. It’s almost like we planned it,” he finishes. Having only recently been introduced to the wealth of up-and-coming local artists we have on offer, the band have come to love Australian music. This will be their third time playing on our shores. “Very little of the sort of ‘alternative scene’ is brought to New Zealand. We only heard of these bands once our booking agent started talking about these shows, and it’s only through things like that that we started to branch out, and got to know some of the bands.” Sydney especially seems to hold a special place in Jonathan’s heart, and he speaks fondly of his experiences playing here. Even when probed on the subject of the infamously difficult-to-win-over Sydney crowd, Jonathan has nothing but kind words. “I think we sensed that vibe, but at the same time it seems like everyone wants to have a good time. If you get in there and meet people halfway, people seem to cut loose. A lot of your bands over there seem to be all for that, which is really great. Just having a good time and not taking themselves too seriously.” With the Aussie tour looming and Hearts making its way to record-store shelves, Artisan Guns are cocked and ready for a month of hard work. But it’s a prospect they welcome; “We’re just getting into it, really.” Who: Artisan Guns What: Hearts EP is out now With: Hungry Kids Of Hungary, The Holidays When: Oxford Art Factory Where: Friday August 13

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Future Classic’s roster of musical friends. The theme of the show is ‘music’, and the colour palette is black, white and pink (as per the brand identity for FC’s Adult Disco events). The killer line-up includes Greedy Hen, We Buy Your Kids, Like Minded Studio, Toko, Sopp Collective, and MaricorMaricar. We got the skinny from co-curator (and Future Classic Design guru) Jay Ryves.

ith the Power House Museum's Sydney Design festival happening around Sydney until this Sunday, Australian INfront have teamed up with Future Classic to transform the Civic Hotel into a gallery, showcasing a collection of works from 15 artists and design studios currently shaking things up, all to the soundtrack of

What is your training / background in design? I majored in photography and studied visual arts at uni, but I had friends putting on parties and kept getting roped into designing flyers for them. I also worked at Firstdraft gallery designing their stuff. Soon after that I landed an amazing job in the Museum of Contemporary Art design studio where I worked for five years, designing everything from catalogues to banners. Next I worked at Penguin, designing books for high profile authors such as Matt Moran and Jenny Kee. How did you fall in with Nathan and the other fellas from Future Classic? Nathan and I had been working on projects together since our uni days and decided to

JFK). In his controversial new documentary the long-time socialist sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore their left-wing social and political movements, and the Western media’s misperception of South American politics. The film – and the Stone himself – has been causing quite a stir in the USA. We wouldn’t expect anything less. The Sydney Underground Film Festival will run from September 9-11 at the Factory Theatre, Enmore. For more information and tickets, go to www.suff.com.au

GRIFFIN HOUSEWARMING

Liu Dahong, Four Seasons – Summer (2006)

REVOLUTIONARY ART

Move over White Rabbit (gallery): Sydney Uni is hosting a rad exhibition called China and Revolution: History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art, which explores the relationship between the poster “propaganda art" of the '60s and '70s and the contemporary work of four artists who grew up in China during the Revolution. The exhibition features 10 original propaganda posters from the University of Westminster’s collection, and works from contemporary artists Liu Dahong, Shen Jiawei, Xu Weixin and Li Gongming. There's also a series of free talks by the artists and University professors. China and Revolution runs until November 7 at the Sydney University Art Gallery, and is FREE www.sydney.edu.au/museums

TIME OUT X SUFF X STONE

Sydney Underground Film Festival and Time Out Sydney are teaming up to present the Australian premiere of South of the Border, by prolific troublemaker Oliver Stone (Platoon, 30 :: BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10

start the label in 2004 mostly for fun. Chad joined us soon after (also a high school friend) and gradually it took over our lives – now there’s six of us! What does your FC role entail? My time is split between designing for Future Classic (flyers, posters, records etc) and work for other clients. We do lots of cookbooks, so I’m busy with everything from designing pages to organising photo shoots (and eating the food!) Other times we’re designing exhibition graphics for galleries and organising print production for anything from catalogues to wall graphics.

BLACK BOOKS – THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTORS EDITION

How did you select the artists for Designer Disco? Damien (from Australian INfront) and I chose the designers together and invited them to make a work for the exhibition. Some are people we’ve worked with before - or friends - but all of them have an affinity with music, and have some great music projects in their portfolios.

On the heels of tours by Bill Bailey and Russell Brand, we’ve had a hot flush of Anglophilia; luckily, we have the perfect antidote: the Definitive Collectors Edition of cult UK TV series Black Books, starring Dylan Moran as the antisocial, and frequently drunk, owner of a book shop, and Bill Bailey as his mildmannered assistant, Manny.

What else are you up to in 2010, projectwise? We’re working on an artwork for the Stereotyped exhibition coming up at Object Gallery next month.

Black Books – The Definitve Collectors Edition releases August 11; thanks to our pals at Shock, we have five copies up for grabs! To get your hands on one, tell us the name of the book shop that these fellas work in. And your postal address...

What: Designer Disco When: Saturday August 14, 10pm til late Where: Civic Hotel / 388 Pitt St, CBD More: futureclassicdesign.com.au / futureclassic.com.au

SPENCER TUNICK: THE BASE

Remember when all those Sydneysiders got nekkid for ‘art’? Well the results are in, and it does indeed seem to have been a worthy cause. This is the first image from Spencer Tunick’s installation The Base, which took place in March as part of Mardi Gras. Each of the 5000-or-so participants get a signed special edition of the print, as a thank you. See? Art pays.

Spencer Tunick Sydney 1 (2010) c-print mounted between plexi. 71 x 89.25 in / 180.34 x 226.7 cm

With a new Artistic Director and recentlyrefurbished premises, Griffin Theatre Company are throwing their doors open to Sydney next week, for a bit of housewarming cheer. On Tuesday August 17 at SBW Stables, the winner of the prestigious Griffin Award for new Australian writing will be announced; on Wednesday August 18, Currency Press will host a forum on the ‘lost’ work of John Romeril, one of Australia’s major playwrights – followed by 'party time' at Griffin’s new bar; and on Friday you can catch the Griffin Play Offs, where up-and-coming talent from the 2010 NIDA playwriting course pit their skills against the clock to write, rehearse and perform a 10-minute play in 24 hours. The fruits of their labour will then be performed in the SBW Stables Theatre, helmed by the NIDA’s 2010 graduate directors. This is about as fresh as you can get. griffintheatre.com.au

OH ALFRED!

Feel like getting crafty? Token Imagination are running weekly workshops for folks interested in being part of their installation for the upcoming Art & About ‘festival of public art’ (September 23 – October 24). To celebrate the re-opening of Prince Alfred Park, Token have assembled ten local artists to work with YOU to turn the construction fence around Alfred Park Pool into an explosion of colour and craft. The works created will reflect participants’ experiences of the park, from memories to imaginings and dreams, and everything in between. ANYONE can be part of the project, regardless of talent (har) – and it’s a great chance to meet good peeps and maybe learn ‘stuff’. To find out when and where the weekly workshops are held, hit ohalfred.wordpress.com

WHEDONVERSE

If you’ve been salivating over the Sydney Opera House’s ‘Joss Whedon’ announcement, then here’s a tasty proposition (if you can stomach the price): Popcorn Taxi, those purveyors of post-screening ponderings, are holding a superspecial after party for fans to get up close and personal with the popcultural guru. At his Sydney appearance, Whedon will discuss outsider heroes, strong women and the uses and abuses of power – and the creative ways in which he has played these out in a variety of media forms - from Toy

Story and the forthcoming The Avengers, to TV series like Buffy, Firefly and Glee, and across a vast range of comics. To get one of the special Popcorn Taxi ‘exclusive after party packages’ take your $200 and head to www.popcorntaxi.com.au August 29, 3pm @ Sydney Opera House.

MOFFITT.MOFFITT X MART

Next week MART gallery gets a little bit selfreflective, with an exhibition of work by Moffitt. Moffitt, the creative agency behind their own name and brand. Theses twin brothers specialise in branding and design for everything from beer to bands and books – and everything they touch looks incredible. They’re also the publishers of the gorgeous (if sporadic) DEMO magazine. Basically – these are a couple of heads you want to take a peek inside. No, More is an exhibition that studies "excess and restraint within music culture": In a climate of contradiction where social, environmental and financial influences shape the

way we consider music, No, More challenges what is constructive and destructive for music culture. Runs August 19-28 at MART (156 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills).

SCREEN LIVE

Next up in Sydney Opera House’s Screen Live series is the Australian premiere of The Georges Méliès Project in the Playhouse on Sunday, August 22. Along with the Lumière Brothers, George Méliès (1861-1938) was one of the cinema’s earliest directors. His films, which grew out of the ether of conjuring, automata and magic theatre of his time, unite the fantastic, the alchemical, and the humorous. The screening features a selection of recently-restored silent films, some hand-tinted and rarely seen, with live musical accompaniment by highly regarded American avant-garde jazz composer Phillip Johnston and a three-piece band. Do it. sydneyoperahouse.com

Sarah Polley gets maternal in Splice.

Genre-maestro Vincenzo Natali speaks about his latest monstrosity. By Joshua Blackman incenzo Natali thanked d his lucky stars when Joel Silver found his way into a festival estival screening of his independently produced sci-fi feature, eature, Splice. “When the film was finished hed [in early 2008],” Natali explains, “it was just in time for the financial collapse, apse, the worst time ever to sell an independent film to the United States. It was almost impossible. Fortunately nately we got into Sundance, and then n by some enormous fluke, Joel Silver er saw the movie and decided to distribute bute it through his Dark Castle label at Warner Brothers.” It was unprecedented for a Hollywood ywood mogul of Joel Silver’s stature – the famed producer behind some off the biggest action franchises in film

historyy such as Lethal Weapon, Weapon, Die Hard da and The Matrix. It was the e first Silver had acquired an alreadytime S eadyproduced film for distribution. Who’d produc have tthought the one to break the mould would be an uncommercial cial sci-fi film that ventures into little sc o territory most studio films wouldn’t territo dn’t dare? It was all the more surprising ising Natali, whose history with for Na Hollywood has been troubled. Hollyw 1997 Natali made Elevated, a In 199 paranoid chamber piece set in a parano demonic lift. This short prefigured demon ed Cube, the claustrophobic thrillerr for which he is best known. In the ten en years between Cube and Splice, e, Natali’s only major works have been Natali’ little-seen features (Cypher and two litt Nothing) and a stylish vampire short in Nothin Natali on the set of Splice. plice.

portmanteau t’aime. the po ortmanteau film, Paris, je t’ ’aime. “With Cube I basically got to make ake movie I wanted to make, the the mo e way wanted to make it,” says Natali, I want li, “so I didn’t want to take a step backwards wards make some movies I didn’tt really and m about for my follow up. I had care a ad a very hard time finding stuff that hat wanted to do and I also had an I want equally hard time convincing them equall hem Hollywood, let’s say – to do what – Holly wanted to do. And so that kind I want nd of continued for about a decade, and I contin haven’t quite worked it out, [but] still ha I’m a llittle more flexible now.” From its troubled birth, it seemed ed Splice would continue this trend. like Sp Conceived in the late ‘90s as a Conce short film called Mutants, the project roject languished for almost a decade,, langui largely due to the prohibitive expense pense of the proposed special effects. Finally, 2005, Natali decided to pursue in 200 ue nancing and, aided by the clout financ ut of newly-appointed producer, genre his ne maestro Guillermo Del Toro (Hell maest ell Boy, Blade, Pan’s Labyrinth), eventually Blade ally found funding in Canada and France. rance.

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of a creature-feature than the Less o trailers would have you believe,, Splice is a family psychodrama a and cautionary tale about the misuse cautio se science and technology. Like of scie e the scientists of Jurassic Park, the two scient ambitious geneticists of the film ambiti m are more preoccupied with what they ey can than what they should. Things do tha gs would have been a lot simpler if someone Elsa someo one had lent Clive and El sa the DVD.

Named Name ed for actors in the 1935 horror classic classi c Bride of Frankenstein, Clive Elsa are played by Adrien and E n Brody and Sarah Polley. Partners ners in work wor and in life, they’ve made ade career of splicing together DNA a care different animals to create from d te hybrids. Then, in a classic new h c of hubris, they experiment case o nt human DNA, and accidentally with h ntally create Dren (that’s NERD – Nucleic ucleic Exchange Research & Development Excha opment backwards), a half-alluring, half– bac repulsive female creature with repuls ha head, triple-joined legs and bald h slinky, barbed tail. Savvier in a slink n science than they are in parenting, scienc nting, makeshift guardians soon find her m themselves struggling to control thems rol new child – not to mention their n on own baser instincts. their o premise that clearly evokes It’s a p kes Mary Shelley’s oft-filmed tale, also David Cronenberg’s icky but al cky venereal horror from the 1980s, vener 0s, most notably The Fly. “What I always attracted to was the was a he relationship aspect of the story relatio ry married to a creature feature,”” marrie “You know, a fairly says Natali. N y sophisticated relationship story sophis ry between Clive and Elsa, the betwe scientists, and how that would scient d dovetail into their relationship with doveta creature that they made. So the the cr body-horror element of it just follows bodynaturally from those elements.” natura .” He ponders for a moment and then ponde en adds, “I think I was just drawn n to the more psychological aspect than an the gooey-icky aspect.” gooey y-icky Cronenbergian asp pect ” pect.”

It’s difficult diffficult to discuss Splice fully without withou ut crossing into spoilers, but something significant happens late somet in the film that could make or break the film for audiences. “They just go crazy. cra Some people laugh at the movie, movie some people are horrified. Every reaction under the sun. All of which I think are acceptable in a wh way, because I don’t think there’s an b appropriate response for something appro like that, th [but] I never thought it would be that vocal.” Regardless of studio input, Natali’s Regar films are, a like all good science fiction, ction filled with provocative ideas – which whic explains why they always feel like lik refreshing additions to the cinema cinem landscape. But from here on - and a with an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal sci-fi novel Neuromancer in the works – Natali Neuro may have to work harder with the h studios studio to bring his off-kilter vision to screen. With the experience of scr Splice behind him, it sounds as if that will w no longer pose a problem. “I really real would like to do a studio film. The T industry has changed now, so that tha unfortunately it’s almost impossible to get an independent impos film re released - [but] I think one actually actua helps the other. They’re not mutually mutua exclusive. They actually work really well together.” Perhaps the perfect hybrid? pe What Splice, Dir. Vincenzo Natali What: When: When n: Opens August 12.

BBC COMEDY GIVE-AWAY

f you missed Russell Brand’s tour in June, never fear! You can still experience his special comedy stylings, with Russell Brand: My Boxy Wox, just released from BBC. Featuring the DVDs from his 2006 and 2007 live tours, and packed with special features, My Boxy Wox is hours of wrongness. We have five BBC Comedy Packs to giveaway, worth $89.95 each, featuring My Boxy Wox as well as the entire series of Big Train, from the writer behind the IT Crowd and Black Books, and featuring the hilarious Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) in one of his breakout roles.

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Bret Easton Ellis [BOOKS] The Novel Is Seriously Over. By Alasdair Duncan

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lay’s a screenwriter ... a screenwriter ...” the author whispers as he draws in closer to me, across a table at the bar of the Stamford Plaza hotel - “Clay’s a screenwriter.” Bret Easton Ellis became a teenage literary sensation in the 1980s with Less Than Zero. More than twenty years later, he has returned to the characters he created in that cult classic, with Imperial Bedrooms. The book’s prose style – a terse, L.A. noir-style thriller – is vastly more plotdriven than any of his previous novels, which were all about atmosphere and surface sheen. Why the stylistic change? As Ellis explains it, the idea of the plot-driven book stems from the narrator. Clay, who first appeared as a teenager in Less Than Zero, is now a fortysomething screenwriter, and as such, Imperial Bedrooms takes on the stripped-back feeling of a screenplay. “He makes himself the star of his own movie,” Ellis continues, “and writes it like a screenplay, complete with

a first, second and third act. The dialogue, the prose – everything comes from how a screenwriter would tell this particular story.” “There’s a scene where Clay is in a restaurant, early on, meeting this young actress. It’s a restaurant that I’ve been to, and there’s this big silver wall at the back that I think is beautiful. I wrote a description of that wall that I think is among the best writing that would have been in this book – beautiful poetry, but flat, DeLilloish. Here’s the thing, though – never in a million years would Clay ever see that wall in that way,” Ellis laughs. “Clay is not interested in the wall. He’s there for one reason,” he pauses, pounding the table for emphasis – “to fuck the woman. It’s not about the decor.” Ellis’s first-person narrators and his accounts of glamorous debauchery are so convincing that many assume his novels are autobiographical; however, he sees himself as more of a detached observer, documenting the high life rather than living it. His current obsession, perhaps not surprisingly, is the seedy, faketanned Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami. In fact, he tells me that his next project is actually a TV series that pushes the formula of this kind of scripted reality show to its logical conclusion. “When I initially sold the idea to HBO,” he says, “I kept saying, I picture this show as being like The Hills, but where you get to see them really do drugs and really fuck, and where Brody Jenner is like this psychopath, and we get to

see him kill people when no-one’s around. HBO kept saying, ‘don’t bring up The Hills, we don’t like it, it’s degrading television,’ but I had to disagree.” When Ellis and HBO parted ways, he took the idea to Starz, the network behind the fantastic Party Down. The development process is ongoing, but for now, he’s enjoying working on the script. When I put it to Ellis that a lot of the best writing today is on television anyway, he agrees, with some reservations. “You can say that Season 3 of Mad Men made the novel superfluous, because it was so novelistic, and it was so visual; it was subtle, dramatic and multi-faceted,” he says. “As a means of giving us information, the novel is seriously over. A young novelist writes a novel that, over a period of five or six months spreads by word of mouth, and people are waiting to buy it at a book store but they can’t because it’s sold out, then they read it and it affects them somehow and they spread the word, and then more of these hardcover things are sold? That’s not going to happen again. It feels like there can’t be another Bret Easton Ellis.” What: Imperial Bedrooms When: Out now through Pan Macmillan And: Bret Easton Ellis will be talking with live performance by Models this Tuesday August 10 at Oxford Art Factory

The Possibilities [THEATRE] 37 characters, 8 actors, 4 directors, 1 play... By Simon Binns wit to the the extremes of human experience. Barker is known for his dense writing, dark themes and large casts (The Possibilities has 37 characters); his self-coined ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’, which pushes the limit of what an audience can tolerate, in order to bust-open ideas of what is possible, has influenced the likes of British In-Yer-Face poster-girl Sarah Kane. Bearing all this in mind, his work seems conspicuously absent from Sydney stages. “Victory was at [Sydney Theatre Company] five, six years ago,” Hallenan-Barker recalls, “and people really responded to the work and responded to the language; [but] we haven’t seen much, if any, Barker since then… So our response was, there’s a gap here - let’s fill it.”

L-R: Brynn Loosemore, Jonathan Brand and Errol Henderson

f the words ‘group assignment’ strike fear into the hearts of most students, for most theatre directors the idea of sharing creative control is downright horrifying. But for Justine Campbell, Marcel Dorney, Travis Green and Fiona Hallenan-Barker, working as a collective has opened up a number of… well… possibilities. Although the four directors met at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007, it was Sidetrack’s Artistic Director Kate Gaul who gave them the opportunity to work together as a posse. In the midst of programming her inaugural season, Gaul (herself an awardwinning theatre director) came in contact with the four. “I said ‘this seems like a crazy idea, but how about [The Possibilities]?’ - and she really responded to the idea, and was super supportive,” recalls Hallenan-Barker. Written in 1986, Howard Barker’s The Possibilities is a collection of ten vignettes exploring the lives of torturers, prostitutes and murderers, in which the British playwright applies his trademark caustic

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While Barker is more interested in blowing his audience’s minds than validating them, Dorney is quick to point out that his writing is incredibly entertaining. “I think the most important thing is to give the audience a chance to have a good time with this guy… he’s really funny.”

The experimental, collaborative approach has allowed the four directors to tackle the text “intensely and physically” in rehearsals, rather than taking a ‘talking heads’ approach. Key to the process were the eight actors Jacinta Acevski, Jonathan Brand, Ray Chong Nee, Errol Henderson, Sophie Kelly, Brynn Loosemore, Gabrielle Swathorne & Jane E Seymour - who were carefully chosen to meet the play’s unconventional demands. The Possibilities is not a play where you can rely on the usual analytic tools that most actors have in their kit bags. “They’ve been pushed out of their zones of comfort in a really exciting way” says Dorney, “but I do think they’ve had a good time.” What: The Possibilities, by Howard Barker When: Opens August 11, previews from August 7. Where: Sidetrack Theatre, Marrickville More: www.sidetrack.com.au

Trends in Type [VISUAL ARTS] GO FONT UR SELF *5 By Dee Jefferson

n eye magazine’s recent special issue on typography, Liz Farrelly wrote at some length about a trend which she calls ‘font as illustration’ – and even went to far as to suggest that we may even be witnessing an evolution from the written word, to the visual word. Nowhere is this more apparent than the Go Font Ur Self ‘typographic art’ exhibitions; now in its fifth edition, GFUS has been dominated by artists and graphic designers exploring ‘type’, rather than typographers getting ‘arty’. This is also partly a result of the interests and background of curator Marty Routledge, who created GFUS in 2008 after noticing the trend amongst fellow graffiti artists (including Numskull and Beastman) towards new permutations of letter work. Besides typography, the only curatorial principle holding the GFUS works together so far has been ‘what Marty likes’. Consequently, the roster of artists has spanned from old school graf artists, to new school ‘street artists’, illustrators, graphic designers – and even tattoo artists. Legends have sat alongside greenhorns, and locals have nestled next to internationals. This is true of the latest line-up, where big names like Michael Doret, who designed the New York Knicks logo and the iconic cover art for the 1976 KISS album Rock-n-Roll Over, sit next to local up-and-comers like OKAY. There’s a strong retro trend among the 12 works in Go Font Ur Self *5, probably reflecting the general marketplace. Brooklyn-based design studio Morning Breath Inc, who have a strong slate of album and poster work for bands like Them Crooked Vultures, Queens Of The Stone Age and Foo Fighters, have referenced 50s-style signage and advertising fonts with the popimagery of Roy Lichtenstein, in their poster-style print. Michael Doret has mined similar territory for inspiration, creating a poster print from another age - 'What a Wonderful World!' Shuffling forward in time, Byelorussian illustrator Fiodor Sumkin has taken psychedelic 60s lettering as the inspiration for his hand-drawn inscription, ‘ROCK OUT MOTHER FUCKERS!’

Elsewhere, works are nostalgic in a less specific sense; Italian designer and illustrator Mauro Gatti explores the idea of an ‘Ampersnake’ in a typically playful poster work that is inspired by vintage postcards; popular Sydney design collective We Buy Your Kids transpose one of their favourite motifs, cats, into a work that calls to mind the illustrated Eastern European film posters of '60s and '70s. In the time that GFUS has been running, interest in typography has exploded in Sydney and abroad. At the frontier of the discipline, designers and artists are experimenting with new materials (from plants and lawns to toothpaste and tomato sauce), new software (including 3D imaging), and rapid prototyping machines – all of which allow them to take type off the page, and into the world. It’s not just technology driving the experimentation, however; Sydney-based typographer Gemma O’Brien suggests that “the prevalence of common fonts or the tedium of selecting a font from a endless selection” has been responsible for a rise in the popularity of unique lettering, or custom fonts - hand created or computer generated. For instance, the New York Times now commissions custom headings for many of its online sections. That there is money in typography is most explicitly demonstrated, perhaps, by an upcoming pop-up shop hosted by Object Gallery and curated by Sydney typographer Sarah King (also part of the GFUS alumni), where you can buy letter-based works by graphic, furniture, product and jewellery designers. What does this all mean? It’s (hopefully) boom time for typography, and it’s definitely time to Go Font Ur Self. What: Go Font Ur Self*5 When: Opens Thursday August 19, 6pm Where: Lo Fi Collective, above Kinselas Hotel More: gofonturself.com.au

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Arts Snap

Film & Theatre Reviews

At the heart of the arts Where you went last week.

What's hot on the silver screen and the bareboards around town.

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Roman Polanski’s substantial work as an artist has more recently been overshadowed by his three-decade flight from the law, but one needn’t, and shouldn’t, sully the other. As it is The Ghost Writer is a robust and skillful thriller that’s refreshingly devoid of the skittish editing and ADD storytelling to which we’re more accustomed.

The script takes a bittersweet look at the two men that thought they were starting a universal centre-left political revolution, but instead got swept up in their own legacy-making. Sheen and McCrory are old hands at playing the Blairs, with both actors creating their own characters, not simply impersonating their namesakes. Hope Davis is an excellent addition to the cast, taking on Hillary’s mannerisms with enough subtlety to make her performance believable. Quaid’s Clinton, on the other hand, feels like mimicry; the voice he adopts is just plain distracting.

Instead, Polanski handles with Hitchcockian confidence the titular character’s slide into the world of conspiracies and political intrigue. He, known only as “the ghost”, is played by Ewan McGregor, a blank-slate character assigned to write the memoirs of ex-British PM Adam Lang, who is played by an impressively fierce Pierce Brosnan. A thinly veiled shadow of Tony Blair, Lang is shacked up in a windswept, beach-front New England home avoiding extradition to the UK for being under suspicion of handing over terrorist suspects to the CIA while in office.

While for the most part the acting is excellent and the script, though not groundbreaking, is funny and clever, the film is let down by its director, Richard Loncraine. He places way too much emphasis on guffawing and lingering looks between Blair and Clinton, taking the film dangerously close to bromance territory (admittedly high-brow bromance). Watching The Special Relationship it’s hard not to think that the material is better suited to a TV show format. In fact in the US it screened as a made-for-TV movie, scoring Sheen, Quaid, Davis and Morgan Emmy nominations.

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Security in the modernist retreat is high – the ghost can’t even take the memoir draft from a secured office – and soon he’s stuck between evasive politicians, mysterious men in black and Lang’s wife who is brought to life rather deliciously by Olivia Williams. Intelligent and overflowing with seductive, sarcastic wit, she’s the most charismatic of the bunch, and is fearless in exploiting her charisma for personal gain. Tom Wilkinson is also impressive in a brief but taut role as a slithering shadow from Lang’s past. There’s a zing to the character interplay here thanks to Robert Harris (who wrote the source novel, The Ghost) and Polanski’s sharp, wryly funny dialogue, which veils characters' true intentions. Seeing it a second time, what I noticed most was Polanski’s superb control of editing and suspense, and his reluctance to succumb to the easy close-up. Hitchcock’s influence is everywhere, from Alexandre Desplat’s urgent score to a memorable long-take that follows a note being passed from hand to hand. The subtle final shot also, apparently improvised, is ingenious.

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Perhaps there are plot developments that are, at best, improbable, and it hasn’t the terror or savage cynicism of Polankski’s earlier work, but the filmmaking here is precise and assured. He can still conjure that old magic.

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What's on our calendar...

DISORDER DISORDER: ULTERIOR MOTIVES IN CONTEMPORARY ART August 14 – November 14 / Penrith Regional Gallery © Steve Powers

Curated by Joseph Allen Shea (Izrock Pressings/Monster Children), Disorder Disorder is an exhibition of new and existing works from artists generally seen as ‘outsiders’, ‘independents’ or ‘dissidents’, including 10 renegade Australian artists, 6 artists from the USA, Stefan Marx from Germany, French and Marcus Oakley from the UK and Tomoo Gokita from Japan.

Perhaps most excitingly of all, acclaimed graffiti artist Steve ‘ESPO’ Powers (USA) - sample of work shown left - and Stefan Marx (GERMANY) will both be travelling to Sydney to create site-specific works. Powers will be conducting a public art project in St Mary’s, working with residents and retailers to create new signage art – huzzah! - and is giving a talk this Saturday August 14 from 2.30-4pm. If you’re quick (and nice) there may still be spots available on the FREE bus leaving from Monster Children at 1pm. Phone (02) 4735 1100 to book. Now RUN! www.penrithregionalgallery.org 34 :: BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10

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From the writer Peter Morgan, who brought us The Queen and Frost/Nixon, comes The Special Relationship - a film that examines the close bond that grew between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair during their time in power. Using the established British cast from The Queen, and adding in some American players, the film covers Blair’s rise to power, Clinton’s sex scandal and the NATO bombing of Kosovo. Told predominately from Blair’s (Michael Sheen) perspective, The Special Relationship charts his meteoric rise to power contrasting it to the decline and wane of Clinton’s (Dennis Quaid) popularity. Starting in 1993, the film shows how Blair learnt the art of spin from Clinton and then surpassed him on the international arena; the film finishes with Bush’s election in 2001. Following the politicians and their wives, Cherie (Helen McCrory) and Hillary (Hope Davis), the film spends time behind the doors of 10 Downing Street and the White House and considers the genuine friendship that developed between the couples.

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THE EXPENDABLES Released August 12 In what would have been better kept a secret, this film – a noisy and unapologetic barrage of macho action – features Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first screen appearance since playing a Turkish prince in 2004’s unfortunate Around the World in 80 Days. His greatly-anticipated one scene cameo is an amusingly barbed confrontation with Bruce Willis (Mr. Church) and the evergreen Sylvester Stallone (Barney ‘The Schizo’ Ross), all of whom are older and wrinklier now, but still exude effortless, screen-grabbing charisma. The trio have fun playing up their personas and friendly rivalry, though as co-writer and director, Stallone has the benefit of giving himself the last barb, quipping of Schwarzenegger, “He wants to be President!” The whole film is filled with similar good-natured jokes at the expense of its cast, which also features other late 80s action heavyweights Dolph Lundgren and Jet Li, and newer beefcakes Jason Statham, UFC fighter Randy Couture and WWF wrestler, Steve Austin. The plot is another mercenaries-on-amission tale (which, after The A-Team and The Losers, seems an overworked conceit), but it’s more fun, more violent and, of all things, more honest than either. Stallone’s appearance and manner may suggest otherwise, but he’s not an idiot, and there’s an odd integrity to his male-centric, blow-everything-in-sight-up vision, and the simplistic but effective theme of men deadening their souls through violence. The latter is evident in their inability to communicate with women (Brazilian TV-actress Giselle Itie, and Buffy’s Charisma Carpenter in bit parts) and enunciated in a convincing soliloquy by Mickey Rourke’s tattoo artist. Thematics are of course mere placeholders for knives slicing into flesh, thuggish fistfights, gun battles and explosions. Lots of explosions. Stallone needed emergency surgery after a hairline fracture in his neck from filming a scene with the formidable Austin, and the cast’s commitment in the fight scenes is tangible. All of this mayhem takes place in a fictional South American island ruled by ruthless dictator who’s the pawn of a scheming CIA agent and The Expendables, of course, must take them down. That’s about as much plot as The Expendables offers. The good news is, it’s enough. Joshua Blackman

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DVD Reviews What's been on our TV screens this week The Good, the Bad and the Totally Unicorn

THE LAST STATION

COP OUT

This sweeping romantic drama focuses on the twilight years of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), by which time, thanks to Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he is the most celebrated writer in the world. Rather than resting on his laurels, however, he busily works with his secretary Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti in 'odious' mode) to solidify his legacy: a Tolstoyan doctrine that advocates against personal wealth, and in favour of passive resistance.

Kevin Smith’s (Clerks, Chasing Amy) peculiar blend of witty dialoguedriven humour and sly observation is completely absent from this tired attempt to revive the buddy-cop genre. Those movies, epitomized by minor classics of the 80s such as 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop, worked both as action and as comedy. Cop Out works as neither, and can’t decide if it would rather be a homage or parody. Case in point: in one scene Tracey Morgan plays the good cop during an interrogation, endlessly quoting movies in sequence that might have been born as a SNL skit. In another scene, he’s having a heartto-heart with his wife, whom he suspects of cheating. This juxtaposition could have worked if either scene were (a) funny or (b) dramatic, but neither is the case.

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As with many ideologies, however, Tolstoy’s ideas were susceptible to misinterpretation, and even misuse – particularly in a country where dissent against religion and aristocracy was fermenting. The Last Station shows how Tolstoy, born into a religious and aristocratic family, spent his last years torn between his intellectual and political life, and his wife, Countess Sofya, who jealously clung to earlier, simpler days of their marriage - when there was less political posturing and more romance. Helen Mirren is delightful as the mischievous Countess, who lives and loves with the passion of a 17-year-old. We sympathise with her, for wanting her husband back; and we sympathise with him, for wanting peace. Into this emotionally fraught situation comes the young, terribly earnest Valentin Bulgakov (James McAvoy), hired by Chertkov to assist Tolstoy – and spy on the Countess. As he is exposed to real life, and real love, Valentin’s idealism falters, and his real education begins. Michael Hoffman’s concoction is Altmanesque, with its blend of levity and poignancy, and its incredible ensemble cast of characters, who tread a fine line between caricature and satire. Above all, however, this film is about the ageless, timeless indignities of sex, love and romance – as well as their magic. Dee Jefferson

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Both Morgan and Bruce Willis, who sleepwalks through his role as the more sensible partner, are likeable stars at the whim of a mediocre script by Robb and Mark Cullen. Why Kevin Smith was inspired to make this his first directorial departure from material other than his own is baffling. He admitted that it was “not MY movie,” but “a movie I was hired to direct.” In which case, why bother at all? If it was a test of his directorial ability, then the pacing and sloppy handing of the few action scenes reveal areas for improvement. The plot, meanwhile, is based around the coincidence of Willis’ search for his missing baseball card – worth over $40k and to fund his daughter’s wedding – and a drug-dealing ring. Despite its problems, both Morgan, and Seann William Scott (as a childish petty thief) have their moments, and the score by 80s synth master Harold Faltermeyer is a snug fit. But Smith, at his best, is capable of greatness, whereas the best I can say of this soulless project is that it lives up to its title. Joshua Blackman

Street Level With street poet Tom Keily

n the lead-up to the seventh annual Australian Poetry Festival (3-4 Sept), Sydney wordsmiths Token Imagination have teamed up with the City of Sydney and Stanley Street Station to create a guerilla army of poets! After a national call-out for micro poems, ten poets were selected, with their entries to be printed out on ‘speech bubbles’ that will be pasted up around the CBD – all in the service of bringing a little poetry to your day. Their homebase will be Stanley Street Station, who will display all the works (and apparently have even created a special menu for the month: Ginsburg Salad, anyone?) Leading the charge is Tom Keily, part of the Love Lawn Crew and one of Australia’s leading street poets; his ‘bubble’ (pictured below) says: if I whisper sedition it’s this: listen.You are gorgeous, gorgeous already. What is your training/background in writing and performance? I started out as a page poet, but when I moved to Sydney, I ended up living with musicians, and so I started writing performance poetry just so I had something to share. I’d been listening to hip hop for ever and that had a big influence on the rhythms I was drawn to, and I love the musicality of language, but I still think that nothing else connects people emotionally the way poetry does. I’ve been living in Istanbul for the past two years, studying with Sufi poets. The way they use their poetry to

open your eyes to the emotional richness and treasure of the world is incredible. Poetry is not just a means of expression but a way of being in the world. I still haven’t really got a handle on what they’re talking about, but I’ll head back there soon I think. Why did the Guerilla Poetry project appeal to you? This is a first for me. The idea of the Guerilla project got me real excited, because I think we live in a really message-cluttered environment, and very few of these messages are in any way beautiful, or up-lifting, or human-connecting. I don’t think the project will ultimately shift that balance much, but I hope it gets people thinking about the contexts they move through, and how much air-time they give to things that are functionlessly beautiful. Why did you pick this particular message for your bubble? In marketing 101 they teach you that if you can convince happy, beautiful people that they are ugly and unhappy, they will buy things. And so in a city like Sydney we’re bombarded with messages that are painstakingly devised to make us feel bad about ourselves. Why do we think this is ok? And so I see this message as a humble and hopeless little rebellion against this onslaught. It won’t change much. But it makes me smile to think that somebody’s day might involve the little joy of a gorilla whispering at them: “Hey! You! You’re beautiful.” What: Guerilla Poetry When: late August-September Where: at and around Stanley Street Station (cnr of Crown and Stanley Sts, East Sydney) More: stanleystreetstation.com.au / tokenimagination.com BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10 :: 35

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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs EMI

The Suburbs is an uncompromising, cathartic and exciting summation of Arcade Fire’s work to date.

Two albums down, and Arcade Fire have arrived at the most enviable position; they now have the time and resources to do whatever they want. It’s telling then that what they want is to return to the neighbourhood setting of their groundbreaking debut. Where Funeral was closely focussed on individual angst at the reality of death, The Suburbs takes the long view - the band bring their observant lens to bear on home territory. For co-vocalists Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, the dormitories of the first world are the site of deeply conflicting emotions. Half-remembered images of after school shenanigans play like a home movie behind the apocalyptic fatalism of reality: full-time employment, mortgages, two-and-a-half kids.

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Modern Day Addiction Island/Universal

I’m trying to figure out why I like this music; dance music is not my thing, nor is dub, or most beats-based music. But when I put this EP on, I feel productive. I feel like the swirling bass and epic beats will carry me to the end of my day. This is an instrumental EP, featuring synthesisers, programmed beats, samples and a sense of the epic climaxes that dance music often reaches. Drawing from hip hop, dance, trance, dub and rock music, it’s the work of two accomplished and well-researched multi-instrumentalist musicians, Sydney’s James Domeyko (Arkestra, Danimals) and Jaie Gonzalez (I Like Cats, Danimals). Their perfect layering decisions and intelligent, whole-album approach really creates a stable and cohesive unit of an EP; the smooth, gapless track transitions prove that this is not an album of pop singles, and it’s intended to be listened to in its entirety. ‘I. Eschatol’ is the first real taste of the pair’s understanding of riffs, and despite its lack of lyrics, it will stay in your mind, with its patient beat and slow-but-steady build-up into fuzz. When the lift comes and the beat drops on ‘Memory Centre’, it’s Massive Attack, it’s U.N.K.L.E, and it’s awesome. ‘III. Unanchor’ features one slightly awkward beat but also embraces a little more looseness and anarchy in contrast, to the more Moby-sounding tracks on offer. It’s more of that, and then a few remix tracks, on an wellpolished seven-track EP. A solid and exciting recording from an entrancing live act, who win extra kudos for being something different to your average indie fare. Amelia Schmidt

Wars, death, body-image, consumerism, passing trends, the instant-gratification generation – you’ve really got to hand it to Clare Bowditch. Modern Day Addiction is an album of the issues that plague contemporary life – and there isn’t a cringe-worthy moment. Clare’s light touch, charm, sense of humour and satirical take lift this album from the preachy form it might have taken had it been crafted by less talented hands. “You’re standing at the cutting edge, you say it’s quite a view,” she sings in ‘A E I O You’. “We started a movement, and now that movement’s moved.” It’s a song she suggests, tongue planted firmly in cheek, that you might play at your next fashion parade. Despite a poppier, boppier sound than previous albums, stemming in part from its having been written on old Casio keyboards rather than guitar, its lyrics go far beyond glib commentary. Clare reflects honestly on trying to be a good parent beyond providing the latest gadgetry in ‘A Lucky Life’, and sings a touching song about her father, ‘A Little History’, with the gorgeous line: “You were the master of small things, those little ideas that filter down the traps for twenty or so years.” Clare’s a gifted story-teller, and the stories she tells come from a good place. Each song comprises the strong vocals we’ve come to know, as well as layers of sound that make it hard to put your finger on what you’re hearing. A little electronic, a little eighties, sometimes sounding raw and stripped-back, always sounding entirely Clare Bowditch – this is a great album.

Suburbs is as much an exorcism of personal cobwebs as it is a carefully aimed post-sub-prime attack on American complacency, and Wall St usury. Butler is less precious lyrically than in the past, though direct as ever - in 'City With No Children' he asks, “do you think your righteousness / could pay the interest on your debt?” Musically, things tend towards the steady, complex mellowness of an album that will grow on you – punctuated by radio-ready amphetamine-fuelled, string-orchestra-backed dance anthems (‘Empty Room’), and hyper-accelerated electro whirls (‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)’). And there is

nothing more exciting than ‘Ready To Start’. All in all, it’s a bit top heavy – and things start to feel flabby at sixteen tracks. The emotional peak of ‘Sprawl’ I and II, for instance, are reached only after some leaden purgatorial dross... But all in all, you'll pay those dues. Oliver Downes

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WASHINGTON

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The crossover appeal of alt-country lies largely in the dilution of redneck drawls and twangs with more complex, subtle melodies and lyrical excursions. When it’s good, it evokes the melancholy of a uniquely American sound, without drowning in formal clichés. Joe Pugliese, of Chicago, is blessed (or cursed) with the peculiar rhotic drawl of the old-school country singer, and also with an appealing knack for layered wordplay - and not of the I Gave Her My Heart And A Diamond And She Clubbed Me With A Spade style, neither. There are quotables aplenty here, but my favourite so far is from ‘Bury Me (Far From My Uniform’: “Bury me far from my uniform / so God might remember my face.” The tune is vaguely evocative of ‘With God On Our Side’, but that can be excused by the common phenomenon of Dylan-osmosis - that shit just leaks into everything. It’s an old story, the soldier’s elegy; trying to humanise each in the scores of fallen by evoking empty place settings and lost opportunities. He’s speaking ostensibly from the grave, but it’s couched in such pithy, unfashionably grand poetics that it’s impossible to resist. Pug also nails backyard singalong country-rock in another highlight, ‘Speak Plainly, Diana’. Mention must be made of his endearingly DIY, generous approach to self-promotion, too: drop him a line via his website, and he’ll personally mail you a two-song demo, gratis. Voice plus Guitar plus Big Themes is simple enough, but hard to do this well. Caitlin Welsh

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I Believe You Liar has been gestating in the brain of Megan Washington for a while now. Her three EPs over the last eighteen months have seen the former Brisvegan dabbling with various blendings of jazz, folk and pop, with mixed success but always with a quirky twist unmistakably her own. With her LP debut, her patience in establishing herself has paid dividends – it’s not just a collection of the most fully formed examples of a young songwriter’s craft, but an immensely enjoyable pop confection with a kick in the aftertaste. Perhaps the biggest surprise is how musically upbeat so much of the material is; the extent to which you’ll go for a song like ‘Rich Kids’ depends entirely on how open you are to throwing yourself around the kitchen like a lunatic. It’s immaculately produced, radio-ready pop (congrats are in order for studio mastermind John Castle), tempered by the vicious flavour that is Meg’s fingerprint - lines like "I wonder how you ever made it / Holy shit, you sure can turn it on" (‘Sunday Best’) are delivered with a butterwouldn’t-melt sort of smile. Although her voice effortlessly carries the laughing challenge and knowing twinkle required by the songs, she’s just as capable of tenderness, wringing hard-earned eloquence from a line like “maybe people in love are all on the same side when they fight” (‘Lover / Soldier’). At no point is Washington anything less than utterly convincing; the searching self-interrogation of ‘How To Tame Lions’ for instance draws its power from the chastened understanding that can only come from having been there. And that's a fact true of the album as a whole. I Believe You, Liar is a strident first effort which promises even better things to come.

BIRDS OF TOKYO Birds of Tokyo EMI Those who have followed the West Australians since 2007’s Day One will find Birds Of Tokyo’s self-titled third album showcasing a modified but not too dissimilar sound. After cashing in on their independent label roots and signing with EMI, the alt-rockers have constructed an album of more radio-friendly songs, carefully following generic pop-rock structures while folding through some classic Ian Kenny magic. No matter what type of album or band he puts out, Kenny’s distinctive, slightly effeminate vocals soar, slipping effortlessly over measured beat-driven tracks like ‘The Saddest Thing I Know’. A mellower rock vibe is apparent, thanks to the wailing string backings on ‘In The Veins Of Death Valley’, ‘Wild At Heart’, and ‘The Unspeakable Scene’ (clearly influenced by BOT’s recent Broken Strings tour). But there’s a lack of the emotional pull and rampant guitar hooks heard on old favourites like ‘Silhouettic’ and ‘Wayside’ – and we’ve all heard ‘The Saddest Thing I Know’ countless times now to know the lyrics are too poetically neat and uniform to worry the heartstrings. It’s easy to dismiss BOT circa 2010 as too commercially successful to find the edge they need – but tracks like ‘Dark Side of Love’ and ‘Murmurs’ hark back to the brilliance that enamoured so many devotees to the band in the first place. When Kenny sings, no fan can be too disappointed. Sam Hagaman

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INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK

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HELLO SATELLITES

Wondering what the 'experts' listen to? Here's the music that drives The Brag... for this week, anyway.

Hello Satellites Two Bright Lakes

The debut from Hello Satellites has a bright, clean feel to it – which comes as no surprise considering the roster of the Melbourne-based indie label (Otouto, Kid Sam, Seagull et al). Everything you hear here is carefully placed and spaced. First single ‘Building A Wall’ begins with a snare and handclap shuffle, coupled with chiming keyboard and ethereal omnichord. A muted disco bass riff underlies each verse, a trampoline for Eva Popov’s deceptively vertiginous

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vocal melodies. ‘Million Motors’ scuttles you into a warren with its persistent percussion, where Popov confronts you with a resigned evocation of a relationship, as it disintegrates within a claustrophobic corral… But it’s not all exquisite melancholy. On ‘Heartbeat Fast As A Rabbit’, Popov intones with gleeful relief: “Who cares what’s outside the door/I’ve found what living is for”, transposing the homemade bombs of earlier verses into a dizzying love song. On ‘Stars Are Like Sirens’, the clipped percussion lends an air of urgency to the first months of a fractious romance. The instrumentation is utterly bewitching. Familiar instruments are

nudged out of most of the tracks in favour of deceptively peculiar timbres. Minimal vocal ensembles blur gradually into a sublime melodic rhythm, like your footsteps in the dark. The hospital corners of the record barely contain its honest, measured lyrics. This is music that piques your curiosity upon first listen, and courts you gently until you eventually concede defeat, wallowing in its mournful loveliness. Hello Satellites is a delicate and consummate debut, brimming with hopeful window-taps and barren evening lamp-light. Wow. It’s really beautiful out here. Luke Telford

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Single Reviews

Vinyl

Record Review

By Jacob Stone

BEACHES

DIE ANTWOORD

SINGLE OF THE WEEK

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To My Table

Admittance of guilt: initially, I foolishly believed Beaches to be lame Southern wank-on-a-surf-rock. Listening to their latest EP is proof in the puddin’ that a) you should never listen to anything I say for I am a fool, and b) chancing your hand with Aussie bands can and will yield totally rad rewards.

This performance-art/hip hop trio from Cape Town, South Africa have turned Bronski Beat’s ‘Hit That Perfect Beat’ into a great little rap-rave tune. Stringy, psychedelic speed-addict sex-verse is supplied by aging male vocalist Ninja, with some numb, buzzing autotune from their siren-ish female vocalist Yo-Landi Vi$$er - her distant tone is mirrored by DJ Hi-Tek’s D.I.Y. club beats. I particularly like the minimal approach to the chorus, and the vocal samples that emulate rave keyboards. It really sounds like drugs and clubs, and Technotronic too - which makes this internet phenomenon funny AND engaging. It’s also reasonably shocking, when you tune into the lyrics...

JET

La Di Da

RICHARD IN YOUR MIND

BLONDE REDHEAD Here Sometimes

Candelabra This could be the worst, most pointless song about being uninspired ever. It sounds like this will be the last JET record, based on the way Nic Cester sings "La di di, la di da, well there must be something more". You know a band’s in trouble when the singer writes "C’mon now, you must have something to say" into his own lyrics… The song itself is a thin, squealing ripoff of ‘Mother’s Little Helper’ by The Rolling Stones, and that’s not a bad thing - but it’s such a vapid exercise with lyrics like these, and no real melody to speak of... Make it stop.

This eclectic Sydney band mix Syd Barrett’s fractured lyrics and perspective with Boosh’s DIY-psych, underpinned by Beck-meets-M.I.A hip hop. I like the detailed psych-rock/ electronic production, and the way it interacts with Richard’s strange, de-tuned voice. His lyrics are a wonder - “Take another can of juice down off the shelf / Until the party's over / You’re a candelabra.” Oddly weighted and strange, this begs more of a listen than first hearing suggests. It’s a bit cheap and meanders a little - it won’t rip you a new arsehole. Deliberately weird, and more accidentally awkward... But still, despite the shoddiness, it’s good.

BUCK 65 (FEAT. JENN COLLARBONES Beaman Park GRANT) Paper Airplanes

This cerebral, bi-coastal artrock trio reside mostly in New York. Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace rule the band, and their female singer Kazu Makino is Japanese. Their music is always moody, voicing an ineffectual impermanence - the intermittence and slouch that accompanies international travel. The production tone is light, melancholic and bleached electronica, like a fading memory, accompanied by a sense of helplessness. Kazu sings over a tribal clatter, emasculated and caught in the flow of the tune, unable to change course. It’s more mild than their highpoint ‘Misery Is A Butterfly’; Sad, minimal, good.

This is tastefully produced, bluesy beat-poet hip hop, with a tastefully twangy female vocal provided by Grant. Her voice, coupled with the banjo sample, pushes the track toward traditional country and Deep South references - in a half-time, gothic sort of way. It’s like if Everlast was less blues and Irish, and more hillbilly. The Canadian songwriter/producer almost relishes in the fact that he can’t sing. He can’t really rap either; his verse sounds so straight, grooveless and a little too earnest… making it a little too much like substandard Eminem from five years ago.

Collarbones is a project shared by Adelaide’s Travis Cook (Cyst Impaled) and Sydney’s Marcus Whale (Scissor Lock) – and they’ve made it onto Pitchfork. The song paints the act as part of the same chillwave or dreampop sound as downtempo acts like Washed Out and Caribou, but it also shares the groove of arty, funk-oriented cut-and-paste artists like Hudson Mohawk. The roomysounding male lead vocal offsets the busy electronic elements tastefully, and the demo-ness of it, the lack of layers and polish. reinforce that chillwave vibe. I like this song and artist, but there are more memorable tunes from this genre to enjoy...

The cover art here features a collision of yellow, red and green graphed sections – with the reverse depicting the heads of assorted fowl, a seal and a ram all exploding from a heaving sea-serpent’s body. The sleeve art continues the sketchy graph approach, albeit the images are in black and white; the personally numbered 39/300 ups the awesome once again. ‘In A While’ is driven by berserker drums that grease you up and promise yet another big climax when the chaotic drum-bull slows to canter. The waves then warp in and out, sounding as though the record player has been bumped before the sound abruptly ceases, as though the needle has been removed all too soon. The bastards. And there’s nothing wrong with Side B track ‘Haze’ - it just doesn’t demonstrate the focused syncopation of conception and scuzz of it’s driven flipside. On record, Beaches are able to unify the aesthetically disparate elements of their sound into a cohesive vortex of loops, and cranially-confused Leviathans. The live version will have to be experienced. Benjamin Cooper

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The Minor Chord

The All Ages rant bought to you by Indent.net.au. By Melody Forghani

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s it fair to say that it’s getting easier to break into the music industry? With the support from community radio stations, arts organisations and hey, the internet in general, there’s an increasing number of people dedicated to sustaining, promoting and discovering artists – and now musicians have more opportunities to get their tunes heard. EXHIBIT A: This September, triple j are heading out to garages all over the state to unearth emerging artists as part of the Indent Ten Year Tour, presented by MusicNSW and supported by NRMA Motoring & Services. Winners of the Unearthed competition will support the Indent Ten Year Tour’s headline act Urthboy. Designed to support independent, self-funded musicians and provide opportunities to those artists who show the most potential, triple j’s Unearthed competition is just another avenue to get your music heard. Applications for Unearthed are now open, and close on August 29. Bands wanting to get into the running to support Urthboy in their town should go to www.triplej.net.au/ unearthed. Still on The Tour; tickets are on sale this Wednesday (August 11). They are $18 +BF and will be available from Indent.oztix.com. au, plus all the usual outlets. Discounted tickets are available for NRMA Free2go Members. Non-members can now join for free at nrmafree2go.com.au, but be quick because those discounted tickets are limited. For the local show on September 26 at The Factory Theatre, you can also purchase tickets from the venue. EXHIBIT B: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) are currently in the search of young artists to play at next month's Generationext. If you’re a solo artist or in a band with guitar-driven music or electro post-punk sounds, no need to

ALL AGES GIG PICKS SUNDAY AUGUST 29

The Cat Empire, Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, Mama Kin Hordern Pavilion

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3 John Butler Trio, Blue King Brown Hordern Pavilion

SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 9

Indent Ten Year Tour w/ Urthboy, Jane & El Gusto + more All across NSW

SATURDAY OCTOBER 23 Fat As Butter Festival Camp Shortland, The Foreshore

MUSIC. COUNT US IN.

The Music Council of Australia works to bring the music community together, in order to advance the musical life in Australia. Their newest project is Music. Count Us In - they’ve announced RECOUNT, a new competition for young musicians at Australian secondary schools who want to remix, rewrite or rearrange music. If you’re in year nine or above, here’s your chance to reinvent a nominated song to be in the running to win the latest recording and mixing technology. You could recreate your chosen song with a hip hop or dance mix, compose an extra or alternative chorus, change the lyrics, arrange the song style or write a rap… The options are endless. For more information on submission and how it's all done, visit www.musiccountusin.org.au. Entries close August 23 2010.

FAT AS BUTTER

Arguably the happiest time of the year, it’s never too early to start planning for summer, with Newcastle’s Fat As Butter kicking off the festival season. On October 23 the regional city will be bringing out some of the best musical acts of 2010, from Wolfmother to Ice Cube, Tame Impala to Muscles. There’s another triple j unearthed winner and plenty more artists yet to be announced. An ideal line up teamed with an ideal location. Tickets are sure to sell out, get yours from Oztix.

THE CAT EMPIRE

Jazz and funk have never been cooler since the formation of Australia’s The Cat Empire. So prepare to be voluntarily/ involuntarily moving this August with The Cat and Mama Kin playing an all ages, all groovy show at the Hordern Pavilion, Sunday August 29. Get there early to see Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, who’ve been described as being able to make a blind man stare and a deaf man dance with their hard-hitting soul, doo-wop and blues and their unique version of gritty 1964 dance-hall tunes. Go ahead and book yourself a ticket, available from Ticketek.

APRIL UPRISING

It’s always nice to know that doing something you enjoy is simultaneously helping out another, or in this case, your environment. We present to you the April Uprising Tour, with eclectic roots/jam band The John Butler Trio and Blue King Brown in support of The Wilderness Society, The Australian Conservation Foundation and Oxfam’s Close The Gap Campaign this September. Touring extensively across NSW, you can catch JBT and BKB at the Hordern Pavilion Friday September 3. Promoters of the shows have included a ‘green ticket’ option for every show, which means that you can offset carbon emissions made by the show and thus be doing your bit for the environment. As always, tune into FBi 94.5fm every Wednesday from 5pm to hear the latest news from The Minor Chord.

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Remedy

More than The Cure since 1989 with Murray Engleheart

Neil Young

PURPLE JAM

We picked up a US copy of Deep Purple’s In Rock the other day. They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to, least of all the Purps themselves… Anyway, we were surprised to find that the entire jam at the beginning of ‘Speed King’ - which we always figured was the inspiration behind the opening to Helmet’s ‘Meantime’ - had been completely cut. Just thought we’d mention it as, like, a warning in case you’re tempted to pick up an American copy of the record…

BUILT TO SPILL SIDE PROJECT

Remember Neil Young’s curious electroweirdness, Trans? Soaring cosmic Crazy Horse stylists, Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch and Brett Nelson, are taking all that to another far-more-uncomfortable level entirely. They’ve got a new side act called the Electronic Anthology Project, which will tackle BTS songs in bloody awful eighties electronic pop mode. We really can’t see what good could possibly come from this…

AEROSMITH ON IDOL

It’s been an open concern of ours for sometime that the once great Aerosmith have become a piss-poor parody of themselves, with their biggest hits in the past two decades being God-awful ballads that Michael Bolton probably lies awake at night wishing were his. The days of them being ‘America’s answer to The Yardbirds’

are now from another lifetime and universe... And that lowly standing is about to plumb new depths with reports that Steve Tyler is about to become a judge on American Idol. He’ll be one of three apparently. The other two being Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson. Joe Perry, The Smiff’s very own Keith Richards, must be over the moon. Not.

NEW NO AGE

No Age’s third album Everything In Between will be out on October 1.

BOWIE GOES DELUXE

David Bowie’s 1976 excursion out of rock-action nowheresville and into highly influential and total unrockness, Station To Station, is getting a massive overhaul come September. There’ll of course be a number of packages to choose from, with a 3 CD Special Edition and a 5CD, DVD and heavyweight vinyl deluxe version on September 17. Both the Special and Deluxe Editions come with the original slab taken straight off the analogue master, and the much bootlegged Live @ Nassau Coliseum ‘76. The individually numbered Deluxe Edition is naturally the killer though, with a 24-page booklet, unseen pics, memorabilia from the Bowie.net archives, three vinyl albums, a DVD, poster, backstage pass, fan club membership card (Station to Stationera Bowie had a fan club? Huh…) and stacks more bits and pieces. The 3 CD set is also available as a digital download, with an exclusive bonus track.

ON THE TURNTABLE On the Remedy turntable is Endless Boogie’s newie, Full House Head, which is a more-than-welcome continuation of the glories of their first effort Focus Level, but slightly more refined (although we’re not talking about them leaping from say, ZZ Top’s Rio Grande Mud to the new age that was Eliminator.) The wonder about these blokes is that they do their thing better than anyone has in the redneck boogie and blues genre for many, many years and yet they’re largely just a bunch of folks with the right smarts from the record industry. We’ve also had a Zappa thing happening lately, and been enjoying the Bitch’s Brew-ness of The Grand Wazoo, which was Uncle Frank’s big band type thing. Pretty great. The Meatmen’s War of The Superbikes has been spinning too; the punk super-group’s tune ‘Abba, God and Me’ might just be the greatest song ever by anyone, with a riff to match.

TOUR AND INDUSTRY NEWS Sydney’s newest supergroup The Blue Meanie are tearing through a set of Midnight Oil covers at the Excelsior on August 22. With The Hitmen on hiatus and Radio Birdman cryogenically frozen, guitarist, Chris Klondike Masuak has decided to do his own thang for a while. He’s in the throes of recording his second solo slab with power trio The North 40 – that’s, drummer Gerard Presland from Juke Savages and Hitmen DTK, and bassist Andy Newman from The Visitors, The Soul Movers and Decline Of The Reptiles. They’re settling into a free Tuesday night residency at the Sandringham in Newtown. Expect a bunch of new stuff as well as nuggets from his career, not to mention the odd special guest. It’s all happening from 8pm each Tuesday. He’s also doing a free in-store at Mojo Music (32 York Street, Sydney) from 3pm on August 10.

Mojo Music in York Street in Sydney has two other big in-stores coming up. Japan’s Vivarta will be playing on August 12 at 6pm. Then on Friday August 13, Spain’s Los Chicos team up with the great Johnny Casino. Japan’s ever-extraordinary Boredoms are returning to Australia. On October 11 they’ll be at The Metro. A must see. Leeno Dee’s new band Melody Black play their debut show at the Sandringham at Newtown on August 20 with guests Indigo Rising and Sirens Of Io. The band then enters the studio to record their debut album, which is scheduled for a late September release. Bay Area thrash kings Exodus are at the Manning Bar on October 2, with Switchblade and New Zealand’s Subtract.

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live reviews What we've been to see...

The Strokes

THE STROKES Hordern Pavilion Thursday July 29

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about the rest of you, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been able to quite justify being a Strokes fan. If someone asks me what I love about Spoon, or the Kinks, or Neko Case, I can pick out the qualities that appeal to me, talk about what songs hold special meaning. But despite having listened to this band for nigh on a decade, over and over, until I know every crack in Julian Casablancasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voice and every downstroked riff, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come up with a better explanation for it than the fact that they were just fucking cool. They were New York City, they were sunglasses at night, they were hitting puberty in rehab and casually handing the infant century its rock sound like it was a bag of piss-and-vinegar crisps. Like the Ramones, rather than conveying feeling, they oozed essenceof-youth and hid behind epic hair to avoid letting us see who they really were. Rock for rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake. After nine years, I still have no idea who these five men are â&#x20AC;&#x201C; men they are now, too, with teen heartthrob Casablancas married and breeding and God knows what else. They emerge onto the Hordern stage to the tune of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We Will Rock Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, between three pairs of giant parenthetical arrows pointed offstage as if proclaiming that the Strokes are in fact Greater Than â&#x20AC;&#x201C; well, everyone else. An unholy roar greets the toey headlong plunge of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;New York City Copsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Everyone screams the refrain â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I scream it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and as the precipitous guitar solo curls out in a note-for-note replica of the recorded product, I realise Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m probably not going to get any closer to a meaningful discussion with my erstwhile teenage rock-boyfriends, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good show â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a glittering, blistering fan-favourite jukebox with nary an obscure or (heaven forefend!) new track in sight. All three albums are represented, with First Impressions providing some real highlights in a somewhat workmanlike set: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Vision of Divisionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is monstrous, as an intensely focused Nick Valensi breaks out some original riffage for a few bars, and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heart In A Cageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is at its best in front of a surging, roiling mass of adoring humanity. This Is It features most heavily â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Copsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Somaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Modern Ageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and closer â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Take It Or Leave Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all served straight up. Perhaps it needs no embellishment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been eager-to-please, happy to simply turn up and play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lots of beautiful girls and violent movements â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just the way it should be,â&#x20AC;? drawls Julian from behind his sunglasses, snickering at his own attempts at philosophy. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even tell if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep or not, but I suppose itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do.

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THE MAGIC NUMBERS, CLOUD CONTROL, GUINEAFOWL The Metro Theatre Friday July 30

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already had my rave about duo KyĂź in these pages, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let that standâ&#x20AC;Ś But somehow, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d managed to never actually see Parades live before. I know, right? And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been missing out. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a riveting live act and, not to harp on about their youth, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more focused and downright kick-ass musicians than so many acts a decade their senior. An incredibly tight unit,

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While I try to catch support acts most of the time, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of the last time I caught the first of two supports â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d commit to it more often if they were all as good as Guineafowl. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young, and his cut-off sleeves, skinny arms and Dylan-fromBeverly-Hills-90210 hair are at odds with the deep, strong voice that emanates from him. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great set from the boy-turned-band; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an act to look out for.

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live reviews What we've been to see...

The Magic Numbers kicked off with 'The Mule', and after singing “you might just see him smile”, Romeo roared, “Are you smiling tonight, Sydney?” We were. My God – they are just amazing live. They gave it everything they had, and the result trumped their albums a thousand fold – and their albums are already great. They kept the energy up in the room, playing livelier versions of some of their slower tunes by changing the tempo, or speeding up a chorus. To do this successfully with a song like ‘I See You, You See Me’ – it made my jaw drop, in the literal rather than figurative sense. They played elaborate lead-ins to tracks, which had the audience moving from ‘what’s this?’ to ‘oh, THIS!’, in a a good, long set which hit the right balance between pimping their brand-new album and reminding the audience of why we loved them in the first place. Every time they all sang in chorus it was a revelation. They’re worth the superlatives. In all, if you like them at all, you will love them live. The highlight of the night was bassist Michelle bringing a new definition to slapping the bass. Not many people would have the kahoonas to play with fingers plucking at crotch level, while undulating. I caught a few people staring with slightly dazed expressions on their faces. Amazing. Romi Scodellaro

MIDLAKE, BIG SCARY The Metro Theatre Saturday July 31

Kudos to Melbourne duo Big Scary (or the management thereof) for landing the support slot tonight. With their breadcrumb trail of EPs having yet to lead to an album, opening for a Major American Rock Group is no small feat. They certainly deserve the exposure, the pair providing a toothsome showcase of their gentler side - the downside being that Tom Iansek’s sweetly warbling tenor was often overwhelmed by the friendly babble of a restive crowd. While this was mostly the sound guy’s fault, some material seemed a touch tentative, a concern that certainly didn’t apply to an innervating rendition of ‘Autumn’. Midlake raised eyebrows with their third album The Courage Of Others, songwriter and scraggly troubadour Tim Smith’s fixation on the likes of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull giving rise to an exercise in '70s English folk revivalism with a peculiarly American flavour. The turn of the century log cabin shtick of the band’s breakthrough Van Occupanther gave way to ancient woods, fair maids and a deep and abiding melancholy. And such was the tone this evening, Smith performing much of the set comfortably seated whilst intoning lines such as "I will never have the courage of others" with an appropriate amount of gravitas. Not that this was a downer in any way; the Texan septet generate a magnetic atmosphere with a decidedly old-school air (aided and abetted by the odd whiff of weed and the high ratio of grey hair scattered through the audience), while building some utterly electrifying climaxes (‘Core of Nature’ as a case in point). But while it’s difficult not admire the conviction and stature that Smith & Co. bring to their newer material, the VO favourites ‘Bandits’ and ‘Branches’ with which they chose to encore were like a ray of sunshine on the woodlands after rain. Oliver Downes

DOUBLE DRAGON: DEAD CHINA DOLL, GHOUL, WARHORSE, ABSOLUTE BOYS, MORE… Oxford Art Factory Saturday July 31

If you’ve been at all involved with local music in Sydney over the past four years you’ve probably heard the names Jim Shirlaw and Jasper Clifford-Smith before. The former started Exquisite Corpse and Read Palm Press as well as countless other nights; the latter is the enigmatic frontman of Warhorse, White Ox and Arkestra. As such, the pair were the obvious choice when it came to putting on a showcase of the best up-and-coming and undiscovered local music. My god, did they deliver.

With so many great bands playing across two stages, I can’t really do each band justice in this review. Highlights from the night included all-girl stoner rock three-piece Dora Maar, doom laden and blissful Domeyko/Gonzalez, the brooding psychedelia of Dark Bells, the swinging rock & roll of The Whipped Cream Chargers and the vitriolic fuzz-fest that is Warhorse. Melbourne’s Absolute Boys also gave a resounding performance, their My Disco-inspired minimalism standing out from the sonic tsunami that most of the bands on the bill were shovelling out. Also standing ankle-deep in the more restrained end of the pool were Ghoul. Having spent most of this year on hiatus from playing shows as they work on their debut album, Ghoul were more taut and precise than I had ever seen them before. The music has delved further into restrained jazzy electronica, with a sophistication that lent it an impact greater than what you’d expect from the band’s low key performance. Grabbing the crowd and dragging everyone back into the heady depths of sound after Ghoul were Dead China Doll, who closed the night with an epic 50-min set. If you’re into local music and you’ve not seen these guys you are missing out – they’re possibly the best band in Sydney at the moment. Their unflinching, daring sound is sprawling and grand, as the band use a dizzying array of synths, guitars, pedals, electronic gizmos and even a trumpet to bring forth momentous slabs of what I can only describe as Awesome. Moving from repetitious hypnotism to overarching walls of noise and moments of choral bliss, this band seemed far ahead of most everything else in this city, like some local equivalent of Godspeed You! Black Emperor… Their old stuff was good, but their new live show shits all over it. I only wish they’d hurry up and lay it down on a record. Mikey Carr

FOALS, GYPSY AND THE CAT Wednesday July 28 Manning Bar, Sydney Uni

Former Melbourne- now London-based duo Gypsy And The Cat are met with a near-capacity crowd at the Manning Bar at the mere hour of 8pm. With praise from international media giants including NME and Guardian, plus an offer to join Lily Allen’s backing band and an opening slot at Splendour in the Grass, the duo have already found themselves touted by some eager fans as the ‘Next Big Thing’. Undoubtedly, the young duo are extremely capable songwriters – their easy, accessible pop and pristine vocals will likely challenge The Temper Trap and Empire Of The Sun in due course. But where their musicianship meets the former's, their stage presence and charisma fall behind. For a new band, this is to be expected – while their transition from studio to stage hasn't quite eventuated, we can be sure it will in due course… It’s been two years since Foals released their outstanding debut Antidotes, and bar a measly DJ appearance, Australians have been starved of a live show from the indie-electro pin-ups. It’s no wonder the now-capacity crowd are restless; the room cheers endlessly for the group to grace the stage. Evidently, it was worth the wait. The front half of the Manning Bar maintains an ecstatic mosh through a lengthy one and a half hour’s magic from the five-piece. Splitting the time between their debut and this year’s sophomore (and past Brag Album of the Week) Total Life Forever, Foals present a precisely-polished outfit consisting of five of the hardest working onstage musicians on the circuit. The evening is a delightful manifestation of glitchy mathematics (‘Matheletics’, ‘The French Open’) meeting soaring beauty (‘Spanish Sahara’), and while the absolute strength of Yannis’ vocals are one of the most unexpected highlights, it’s when he steps away from the mic and the group collectively build in dynamic that the greatest moments occur: evident in the evening’s pinnacle, ‘Two Steps, Twice’. One of the year’s finest gigs – don’t wait so long, next time. Alex Young BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10 :: 41

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TheStrokes: @stephenfry Our minds were effin’ blown; we’re at the hotel bar if you’re of a mind to accidentally spill some vodka

LastDinosaurs: also does anyone know where to get a little timetable booklet?

washingtonx: Splendour is one of the greatest music festivals ever but it smells like human cheese

AlbertaCross: Holy Band Convention! Magic Numbers, BRMC, Mumford and us all hitting the Jaeger last night at the same bar...debauchery... SurferBlood: Jonsi just gave me some spirulina supplements. I love my life.

Levdawg: For real this has been the longest Parklife ever

Splendour In The Grass 2010

OddBlood [Yeasayer]: Australia!

Woodfordia, Woodford, QLD Friday July 30 – Sunday August 1 djannalunoe: I’d like to make a splendour in the grass public health announcement. DO NOT EAT THE HOKKIEN NOODLES FROM THE PLACE NEAR THOSE GIANT FINGERS.

There will never be another music festival in this country quite like this year’s Splendour In The Grass. The reasons for this are most easily explained in terms of extremes so, for the sake of brevity, that’s exactly what I intend to do. On the positive end of the spectrum (and indeed there were mostly positives), I sincerely doubt Splendour organisers will ever be able to pull off a line-up coup of this magnitude again – as much as I hope for otherwise. It was no accident that members of both Mumford & Sons and Passion Pit announced to ravenous crowds at the Amphitheatre that “this is one of the best line-ups we’ve ever seen.” Note the full-stop at the end of that sentence. Mumford in particular have been on the festival circuit for well over a year, yet they couldn’t get past how many of their contemporaries had managed to align their trajectories and land in Queensland’s hippie home on the same weekend.

surferblood: Florence was the most god awful shit. Kill me

AprilRPengilly: Realising on middle-of-night bathroom run that my jumper was inside out. Washing hands next to girl who’d done the same.

DannyjClayton: Snuck into the artist compound and now sleeping in Richard Ashcroft’s green room. Epic Splendour win.

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Whether it was the explosive beats of Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem on the first evening, or the swirling guitars of Tame Impala and The Strokes on the second, Splendour 2K10 was pretty much an embarrassment of riches. There was no excuse not to see anything, because there was so much to see. The artists repaid the love in full; walk-ons during each others’ sets (The Temper Trap and Mumford collaboration was an early highlight), namechecking each other at every opportunity (“Wow, how good is Florence?” Julian Casablancas wondered aloud), and descending on the artist bars to drink with the people who adored them rather than disappearing into the night. There will never be another Splendour quite like this year’s because LCD, tragically, are finished, The Strokes won’t be back for another decade or so - by which time the festival will be held on Mars - and by next year, Florence will be selling out stadiums of 30,000 people all by herself.

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But as beautiful as Woodfordia was, the festival was not without its complications. Someone forgot to factor in that thousands of cars can’t all smoothly enter and exit via the same road. They also conveniently failed to remember that hired Kiwi security guards are not the same as police, which they found out the hard way during the bottleneck disaster on Monday morning. As punters desperate to catch their flights broke down fences and trespassed over property, word had it that organisers had to pay an adjoining farm owner $20 000 to ease traffic through his property onto the highway. The absolute nightmare that was getting in and out of the festival may be any number of different parties’ fault - but you know what? Small price to pay. Which is why I’m relishing the experience, keeping my wristbands on long after others have taken theirs off and reliving the frenzied highs of Foals, the sweet, brooding romance of Laura Marling and the ethereal falsetto of Passion Pit every day in my house. Not only is our country increasingly popular among overseas acts, but they love us too much to stay away. This staggering growth of both supply and demand has to give way at some point, and the scale ale of Splendour 2K10 may just be the thing that did it… It’s a shame if that's true though, because delphic it was about fifty times better than having it at music: in Byron. Perhaps for future instalments they can l.a.x, been build a runway on the campsite and fly us all in… at j.f.k, off to brsb, o.z. nxt. By Jonno Seidler mnymnyflyts.

JaneGazzo: Richard Ashcroft… Was it really necessary to walk off stage at Splendour after just one song? Obviously the drugs didn’t work tonight.

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Three records you’ll hear on the night: arghh 1) <insert hot curre nt tunes here> 2) <insert old happy dancing tunes here> 3) a Happy B’day sing of course -a-long And one you definitely won’t: Bieber – hate that guy. Sell it to us: We’ve had everyone from Midnight Juggernauts to Tim The Presets, Deerhoof (USA) and Rogers, Art the last six years, with plenty more Vs Science grace our glorious stage in to come. Plus: it’s FRIDAY THE BLO TH 13 , so be there or be…dead. ODY The bit we’ll remember in the AM: You will not remember anything in it’s Saturday, sleep the hangover the AM – off! Crowd specs: Everyone and anyo ne. Wallet damage: a measly 20 clam s Where: 34 Oxford St, Spectrum

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free 7pm Rob Henry The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Starr Witness, Super Florence Jam, Geminine Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 8pm Steve Tonge O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm The Dingoes Brass Monkey, Cronulla $43.40 (presale) 7pm They Call Me Bruce Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm

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Spectrum’s 6th Birthday:

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Spectrum, Darlinghurst $16.50 (presale) 8pm MONDAY AUGUST 9 ROCK & POP

Chasing Bailey, Karl Cashwell, Maggie Eckford Raval, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 7.30pm Dueting For the Kids: Rachael Beck, Richard Clapton, Iva Davies, Tim Freedman, Mark Gable, Paul Gray, Jay Laga’aia (New Zealand), Darryl Lovegrove, Wendy Matthews, Jessica Mauboy, Mirusia, Jenny Morris, Ian Moss, Melinda Schneider, Glenn Shorrock, Danielle Spencer, Don Spencer, Ian Stenlake, John Waters, Erik Weidmann, Mark Williams, Leo Sayer (UK), Paulini Curuenavuli, Jon Stevens, Shannon Noll, Tom Burlinson, Christine Anu, Jimmy Little, Rai Thistlethwayte, Diesel, Casey Donovan, Ian Moss, Mark Vincent, Wes Carr, Angry Anderson, Emily Williams, Steve Balbi, Paul Gray State Theatre, Sydney $99 7pm Sarah Paton The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Singer Songwriter Night Vic on the Park Hotel, Marrickville $5 8pm Unherd Open Mic: Derkajam Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm

JAZZ

Elbow Grease, 4 Trombones 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm Jim Gannon Dee Why RSL Club free 6.30pm

Olivia Pipitone Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 7pm Open Mic & Jazz/Latin Jam Session: Daniel Falero, Pierre Della Putta, Phil Taig, Rinske Geerlings, Ed Rapo Bar Me, Potts Point free 7pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Bush Music Club Dance: Felicity Hattingh Pennant Hills Community Centre $7 7.30pm Songwriter Sessions Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 7.30pm

COUNTRY

Camden Valley Country Music Club Hope Christian School, Narellan free 7pm

TUESDAY AUGUST 10 ROCK & POP

Andy Mammers Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Bret Easton Ellis Live: Models Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $27 (+ bf) 7pm Chris Klondike Masuak & The North Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Mr Percival Raval, Surry Hills $20 (+ bf) 8pm Open Mic Night Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle

Casey Golden Trio, Billy McCarthy The Basement, Circular Quay $15 (+ bf)–$20 (at door) 9.30pm Delilah, The Bob Gebert Trio Goldfish, Kings Cross free 9pm James Muller Trio, The Sandy Evans Trio 505 Club, Surry Hills $8–$10 8.30pm James Valentine’s Supper Club Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 7pm John Hill Dee Why RSL Club free 6.30pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 5pm Soup Jam Session Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 5pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

A Little Lunch Music: Niki Vasilakis, Emma-Jane Murphy City Recital Hall, Sydney $10 12.30pm Phil Spiller Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 8pm Tuesday Night Live: Genevieve, Anthony McKeown, Marisa Mars Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 ROCK & POP

Andy Mammers, Mandi Jarry Dee Why Hotel free 7pm Dave White Duo Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney free 9.30pm Grinspoon, Amy Meredith, The Snowdroppers Campbelltown RSL $33 7.30pm I Am Giant Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Jager Uprising: Never Knows Best Annandale Hotel $8 8pm Jam Nights Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor free 7pm Jeff Martin (Canada), Terepai Richmond Brass Monkey, Cronulla $39.80 7pm JP O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Let Me Down Jungleman Gently, Between the Devil and the Deep, Totally Unicorn Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $5 8pm Live n Local Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $13.50 7pm Mike Bennett The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Muso Jam Night Live at the Wall, Leichhardt free 7pm Sideshow: Parades, The Laurels, Rushcutter Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm The Belle Curve The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm The Falls, McArtney, Russel Crawford Hotel Hollywood, Surry Hills free 8pm The Liberators Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm

The Study: Preachers Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills free 8pm Uni Night Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 9pm Whitley Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West 8pm YourSpace Muso Showcase Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 7pm

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Dick & Christa Hughes The Basement, Circular Quay $25 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 9.30pm John Redmond Trio The Manhattan Lounge, Sydney free 6.45pm Lucy Sassoon Dee Why RSL Club free 6.30pm Reaston Kay Cameron Effect 505 Club, Surry Hills $10 8.30pm Salsa Lounge: Afrocuban Latin Jazz Collective Goldfish, Kings Cross free 9pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

The Smith Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 8pm

COUNTRY

Classic Country Covers: Laura Imbruglia, The Exiles Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm The Slowdowns Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm

HIP-HOP

A Tribe Called Quest (USA), Maceo, Horrorshow, Thundamentals Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park $94.90–$160.90 7pm

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A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison: Damien Lovelock, Floyd Vincent, Jeff Duff, Tania Murray, Rex Goh, Steve Bull, Lloyd G, Clare O’Meara The Basement, Circular Quay $27 (+ bf) 9pm Andy Mammers Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Crushed Ice Camden Valley Golf Resort, Catherine Field free 6.30pm Darren Hanlon, Shelley Short Gallipoli Club, Hamilton $20 8pm Freshly Cut: The Dirty Secrets, The Cracks, Bayonets For Legs Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 8pm Fuzz Phantoms Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Grinspoon, Amy Meredith, The Snowdroppers Castle Hill RSL Club $37.80 (presale) 8pm Hot Damn!: Stonemason, Envy Parade, The Miracle Is Now, The Never Ever Spectrum, Darlinghurst $10–$12 8pm Huoratron Onefiveone, Wollongong free 8pm Jeff Martin (Canada), Terepai Richmond Brass Monkey, Cronulla $39.80 8pm Jimi Windang Bowling Club free 8pm Lloyd Spiegel Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba $15 (show only)–$53 (dinner & show) 7pm Loene Carmen, Ed Clayton-Jones Chord Blood, A Casual End Mile Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $12 8pm Lowrider Queens Wharf Brewery, Newcastle free 8pm Ned, After The Fall, Steel City Allstars, Evelyn, Sydney Girls Choir The Grand Hotel, Wollongong free

8pm Nunsense Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra free 8pm Residents: Jack Ladder Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 7pm Sketch the Rhyme, Reyes De La Onda Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 9pm Snowball 2010: Van She Tech, Yolanda Be Cool, DCUP, The Only, Cutlass Supreme, Ajax, Deekline & Wizard, Killaqueenz, Gabriel Coulston, Roger’s Room, Kid Crookes, Glenn Be Trippin, Jamie Tek, DJ Soda Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $18.90 (student)–$24 8pm The Monks of Mellonwah Lewisham Hotel $10 8pm Johnny Casino and the Secrets w/ Los Chicos [Spain] The Old Manly Boatshed - Manly $8 8.30pm Steve Edmonds Band Empire Hotel Annandale free 7pm The Small Hours, Glass Towers, Disgusting People, Hey Big Aki Melt Bar, Kings Cross $5–$15 (incl CD) 8.30pm The Suspects Marble Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Tommee (Indonesia), Afro Moses Notes Live, Enmore $21 (show only)–$43.40 (dinner & show) 7pm White Bros New Brighton Hotel, Manly free 10pm - late Whitley, Seagull Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $20 (+ bf) 8pm Wollongong Wail Band Comp City Diggers, Wollongong free 8pm Zennith, The Last Kinection, This Version Annandale Hotel $12–$15 8pm

JAZZ

Bandaluzia Flamenco 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Funkquarter Goldfish, Kings Cross free 9pm Jazz Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Jazz Visions: Simon Barker, Denley & Majkowski Duo Cafe Church, Glebe $15 (conc)–$20 Lionel Robinson Dee Why RSL Club free 7pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free Roman Pulati Trio Opia, Sydney 5.30pm Tanya Sparke Raval, Surry Hills $26.10 (presale) 7.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Dennis Aubrey’s Songwriters Night @Newtown RSL free 7pm Mark Hopper Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 8pm Sonia Bennett, Squeezebox Boogaloo Tradies Gymea free (child)–$15 7.30pm

HIP HOP

Ozi Batla, Loose Change, Swarmy Harp Hotel, Wollongong 8pm

COUNTRY

The Dingos Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $50 7pm Nicki Gillis, Brent Parlane Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL free

FRIDAY AUGUST 13 ROCK & POP

3OH!3 (USA), Tonight Alive, For Our Hero Roundhouse, Kensington $52.45 (+ bf) 7pm

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Black List Rock Club: Lord, Platinum Brunette Notes Live, Enmore $12.30 (presale) 7pm Brown Sugar Marble Bar, Sydney free 9.30pm Chilli Lounge: Let Me Down Jungleman, Crouching 80s Hidden Acronym Chilli Lounge, Wyong $10 8pm Christian Death, Familia, Bridgette Handley and the Dark Shadows Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $35 (+ bf) 8pm Corpus The World Bar, Kings Cross $15 9pm

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Cafe Carnivale: La Pena’s Fiesta, Ricardo Andino, Jose Barroso, Luis Grimaldi, Hugo Leal, Jeannie Lewis, Jorge Do Prado, Juan Carlos Rios, Justo Diaz, Olympia Karanges, Papalote Eastside Arts, Paddington $22–$28 8.15pm Mick Hannah, Polyminor 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Paul Greene Vault 146, Windsor free 7pm Paul Sun, Alex Compton, Monique Lysiak Arthouse Hotel, Sydney free 6.15pm Peter Head Harbour View Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm Pianoman Cruise Restaurant, The Rocks free 10pm SIMA: Alister Spence Trio, Remco Keijzer Quartet The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $15–$25 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Adam Roycroft, DJ Black Jade Tavern, Haymarket free 7pm Beer & Cheese Night: Bush Music Club Hut 44, Addison Rd Community Centre, Marrickville $5 8pm Brent Parlane Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba $20 (+ bf) 7pm David Rovics (USA), The Lurkers The Valve, Tempe $20–$25 8pm Don Hopkins, Ross Ward Cronulla RSL free 8pm Mark da Costa & Dan Spillane Fiddler Bar, Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill free 10pm Phil Spiller Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 8pm

HIP-HOP

Dust Tones: Surecut Kids, ISHU, Mike Who, Ability

Ozi Batla

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Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm Ozi Batla, Loose Change, Swarmy Hotel Gearin, Katoomba 8.30pm

SATURDAY AUGUST 14 ROCK & POP

2 Of Hearts Camden Valley Golf Resort, Catherine Field free 7pm 3 Stripe Avenue Catherine Hill Bay Hotel free 1.30pm A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison: Damien Lovelock, Floyd Vincent, Jeff Duff, Tania Murray, Rex Goh, Steve Bull, Lloyd G, Clare O’Meara Beaches Hotel, Thirroul 5pm Alice Terry Nag’s Head Hotel, Glebe free 8pm Armchair Travellers Miranda RSL Club free 9pm Blow Celebrity Room, Blacktown RSL Club free 10pm Blu FM Band Competition Hotel Gearin, Katoomba free 8pm Brent Parlane, David Rovics (USA) City Diggers, Wollongong free 8pm CKY Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown 8pm Crash Mayfield Ex Services Club Ltd free 8.30pm Creedence & Beyond Davistown RSL free 8.30pm Dave White Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel free 2pm Eels (USA), Laura Imbruglia Enmore Theatre $68.70 8pm Extortion, I Exist, SXWZD, Had It Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $12 8pm Formula MJ Finnegan’s Irish Pub, Newcastle free 10.30pm Freshmix

St Marys Leagues Club free 9pm Funkstar Marble Bar, Sydney free 10.30pm Glide, Toby Martin, The Model School Annandale Hotel $18 (+ bf) 8pm Grinspoon, Amy Meredith, The Snowdroppers Revesby Workers Club $33–$35 8pm Guineafowl, Alps of NSW, Karoshi The Gate, Ryde $10 (guestlist) 7.30pm Hard-Ons Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington 8pm Horace Pinker, Not OK (NZ), Easy Company, The Optionals Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm Hungry Kids of Hungary, The Holidays, Artisan Guns (New Zealand) Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West $15 (+ bf)–$18 (at door) 8pm Ian Moss Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $45 (show only)–$112 (dinner & show) 7pm Johnny Casino and the Secrets w/ Los Chicos [Spain] and Dunhill Blues Sydney Harbour Boat Cruise Pyrmont Bay Whalf $25 Kandy Apples, Baba O’Riley Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm Kell Taylor Mars Hill Cafe, Parramatta free 8.30pm Kirsty Larkin MJ Finnegan’s Irish Pub, Newcastle free 8pm Kiss Or Kill Beaches Hotel, Thirroul free 8.30pm Let It Be: The Beatles Songs of Lennon & McCartney: Jon Stevens, John Waters, Doug Parkinson, Jack Jones Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House $99 (B Res)–$119 (premium) 8pm Lonesome Train, Grizzly Adams Ashfield RSL Club free 8.30pm Matt Jones Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm Mick Buckley Brighton RSL Club, Brighton-LeSands free 8pm Paul Greene Brass Monkey, Cronulla 8pm Rock Monster Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 8pm Ross Wilson The Basement, Circular Quay $30.20 (+ bf)–$35 (at door) 9.30pm Sendfire Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor free 8pm Senses Fail (USA), The Mission In Motion The Factory Theatre, Enmore $43 (+ bf) 7.30pm Service 30 Cardiff Panthers free 8.15pm Solid Gold Iron Horse Inn, Cardiff free 9pm Sound Stream Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club, West Ryde free 9pm Stimulust, Centrefire Country, The Patriarchs, We Build

Tomorrow Manly Fisho’s $10 8pm Stormcellar Pendle Hill Inn free 7.30pm The Choirboys Metro Theatre, Sydney $37 (+ bf) 8pm The Covers Brothers Newcastle Panthers, Newcastle West free 8.30pm The Little Stevies, Lanie Lane Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8.30pm The Rebel Rousers Gosford RSL free 8.30pm The Supreme Motown Show Penrith Panthers, Evans Theatre $18 (member)–$50 (dinner & show) 7pm The Zips Toukley RSL Club free 9.30pm Tinpan Orange, Husky, Cilla Jane The Vanguard, Newtown $18 (+ bf)–$22 (at door) 6.30pm Trash: Misdirection, My Future Lies, The Initiation, 3 Strip Avenue Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $10 (guestlist)–$12 9pm True Grit: Own Worst Enemy, City in Crisis, Deny & Defy, Feskit, Fistmouth, Gutterstomp, Not OK (NZ), Phantom Shitters, Eyegouge, Topnovil, Plan Of Attack, Deputy Dipshit, Snake Face, Rust, The Corps, No Such Luck, The Black Market, Slick 46, Vee Bees Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 12pm Velvet Hotel Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL free 10pm Zoltan Club Menai free 8.30pm

JAZZ

Anna Salleh’s Bossa Boots Park Hyatt Hotel Sydney, The Rocks free 8pm Dick & Christa Hughes Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba $30 (+ bf) 7pm Eclipse Alley Five Strawberry Hills Hotel, Surry Hills free 4pm Jazz Visions: Chris Abrahams, Phillip Johnson & the Pagers, HIT Organ Trio The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $15 (member)–$25 8.30pm Pianoman Cruise Restaurant, The Rocks free 10pm Ross Ward Vault 146, Windsor free 7pm Sirens Big Band 505 Club, Surry Hills $10–$15 8.30pm Sugar & Soul: Johnny Gleeson, Tom Kelly, Ross Middleton Goldfish, Kings Cross free 9pm Yuki Kumagai, John Mackie, Tony Burkys, Paul Furniss, Alan Gilbert Penrith RSL free 2pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Buddy Brown Stone Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 8pm Cafe Carnivale: Lupco Stojcevski Ensemble Zenith Theatre, Chatswood $22 (member)–$26 8pm Galimore East Gosford Progress Hall $8 (student)–$17 7.30pm Gyuto Monks of Tibet Chapel by the Sea, Bondi Beach $20 (at door) 7pm Lloyd Spiegel The View Factory, Newcastle free 7pm Loosely Woven Eastwood Uniting Church free 2pm Mo Randy Fiddler Bar, Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill free 10pm Mothers of Intention, The Mutual Acquaintances, Miles Merrill Fairlight Folk Acoustic Lounge $10–$15 7pm Triantan, Seamus Gill, Judy Pinder Irish Gaelic Club, Surry Hills $10– $15 7.30pm

COUNTRY

A Tribute to Johnny Cash: Stuart French, Daniel Thompson Notes Live, Enmore $20.40 (presale) 7pm Gig In

HIP-HOP

Catcall, Alpine (formerly Swiss), Toni Toni Lee, Jimmy Sing, and Count Doyle Goodgod Small Club $10 8pm

SUNDAY AUGUST 15 ROCK & POP

Beth Robertson Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour free 5pm Blues Sunday: Mark Hopper Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 7.30pm Damien Leith Lizotte’s Restaurant, Lambton $45 (show only)–$99.50 (dinner & show) 7pm Dan Granero Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow free 4.30pm Darren Hanlon, Shelley Short Clarendon Guest House, Katoomba 6pm Deborah Sinclair Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, Belmont free 1.30pm Duncan Woods Gateshead Tavern free 2pm Extortion, I Exist, SXWZD The Loft Youth Venue, Newcastle $12 8pm Grinspoon, Amy Meredith, The Snowdroppers The Entrance Leagues Club, Bateau Bay $37.80 (presale) 7.30pm

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Havana De Noche, Club Havana Band, Av El Cubano, DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar The Basement, Circular Quay $20 (+ bf) 9.30pm Irish Sundaze: The Bad Penguins P.J. O’Brien’s, Sydney free 5pm Los Chicos [Spain] w/ Carrie Phillis and the Downtown Three and Tombstone Rumblers Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 5pm Mandi Jarry Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel free 3pm Peter Northcote Bridge Hotel, Rozelle $10 3.30pm Powerage Catherine Hill Bay Hotel free 1.30pm Romney Watts Fubah on Copa, Copacabana free 2pm Samba Friends Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 6pm Screaming Sunday: Veora Annandale Hotel $20 1pm Shir Madness - Sydney Jewish Music Festival: Deborah Conway, Monsieur Camembert, FourPlay, Adrian Deutsch, Natan Kuchar, Nadya & Her 101 Candles Orkestra, Mark Ginsberg Quartet, Klezmer Connexion, The Jew Brothers Band, Tinpan Orange, The Jossher Band, Three Quarters Hazel, Sketch the Rhyme, Reason, Ronit, Dalia Dior, Noam Blatt, Husky, Preachers,

Ange Takats, Leo Novikov, Naked Parade, Alex Jacobowitz, Joanna Weinberg, Leonie Cohen Trio, Eddie Bronson, Alana Bruce, The Bluetongues, The Asthmatix Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Bondi Beach $40 (early bird)–$120 (family) 11am Steve Balbi Harbord Beach Hotel free 6pm The Dingoes Lizotte’s Restaurant, Kincumber 8pm The Rockin Mustangs Marrickville Bowling and Recreation Club free 4.30pm To Write Love On Her Arms Live at the Wall, Leichhardt $22 2pm

JAZZ

Bill Dudley’s New Orleanians Strawberry Hills Hotel, Surry Hills free 5pm Brett Hunt Vault 146, Windsor free 1pm Feral Swing Katz Rocksalt, Menai free 12pm Free Flow feat. Tim Clarkson and Roman Pulati Hampshire Hotel, Camperdown 4pm Jazz Susan Gai Dowling & Carl Dewhurst, Lane Cove Youth Orchestra Lane Cove Plaza free 9am Lloyd Spiegel Raval, Surry Hills $18.90 (presale) 7.30pm

Martini Club, Johnny Gleeson Goldfish, Kings Cross free 9pm Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below, USA), Seaworthy El Rocco, Bar Me, Kings Cross 6pm $15 The House of Blues: Matt Black & the Phat Cats Town Hall Hotel, Newtown free 6pm

gig picks Eels

ACOUSTIC & FOLK

Brent Parlane, Pat Drummond The Valve, Tempe $15–$20 7pm David Rovics (USA) The Resistance Centre, Chippendale $12–$18 4.30pm Irish Music Session Bennett Hotel, Hamilton free 4pm Los Van Van, Latin Block Party Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House $49–$110 7pm Songwriters @ The Factory The View Factory, Newcastle free 6pm

COUNTRY

Central Coast Country Music Association Wyong RSL Club free (member) 1pm Errol Gray, Stacey Morris, McCauley’s Raiders Smithfield RSL free 2.30pm

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 Sideshow: Parades, The Laurels, Rushcutter Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm

Whitley

THURSDAY AUGUST 12 Freshly Cut: The Dirty Secrets, The Cracks, Bayonets For Legs Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf) 8pm The Small Hours, Glass Towers, Disgusting People, Hey Big Aki

FRIDAY AUGUST 13 Darren Hanlon, Shelley Short The Factory Theatre, Enmore $26 8pm Hungry Kids of Hungary, The Holidays, Artisan Guns (New Zealand) Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $15 (+ bf)–$18 (at door) 8pm Otouto, Collarbones, Speak’n’Spell DJs, Arc Archer & the Carnival of Souls, Mrs Bishop Melt Bar, Kings Cross $12 8pm Rapids, Step-Panther Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 8pm

BLACK FRIDAY PARTY!!

AUGUST

Melt Bar, Kings Cross $5–$15 (incl CD) 8.30pm Whitley, Seagull Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $20 (+ bf) 8pm

SATURDAY AUGUST 14 Eels (USA), Laura Imbruglia Enmore Theatre $68.70 8pm Johnny Casino and the Secrets w/ Los Chicos [Spain] and Dunhill Blues Sydney Harbour Boat Cruise - Pyrmont Bay Wharf $25 Catcall, Alpine (formerly Swiss), Toni Toni Lee, Jimmy Sing, and Count Doyle Goodgod Small Club $10 8pm

FRIDAY

THE HOLIDAYS DJ SET SURECUT KIDS . PhDJ

JOYRIDE . SVU (FAREWELL SET) RETOX . JOSH KELLY

DANGER MOUSE & SPARKLEHORSE

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL GIVEAWAYS COURTESY OF EMI Otouto

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club pick of the week A Tribe Called Quest

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11

FRIDAY AUGUST 13

Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park

A Tribe Called Quest (USA), Maseo, Horrorshow, Thundamentals $94.90–$160.90

Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst

A Tribe Called Quest After Party: Q-Tip, Maseo $30 (+ bf) MONDAY AUGUST 9 202 Broadway, Chippendale Hospitality Crew free Empire Hotel, Potts Point Bazaar HBK, I Low free One World Sport, Parramatta Ricky Ro free Soho, Kings Cross Comedown free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Mondays James Rawson (live), Kavi-R free V Bar, Sydney Monday Mambo Mambo G $5–$10 World Bar, Kings Cross Mondays at World Bar Ooh Face, Hot Carl and friends free

TUESDAY AUGUST 10

Xxx

Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DCE Salsa Lessons $20 Establishment, Sydney Rumba Motel DJs Willie Sabor and guests free Martin Place Bar, Sydney Louis M, Sammy free Oatley Hotel Suburban Alternative DJ Mini Mullet Free Opera Bar, Circular Quay DJ Jack Shit free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Coyote Tuesday Kid Finley, Pee Wee Pete free–$5 World Bar, Kings Cross Pop Panic Karaoke, DJs Shipwreck, Daigo and Cris Angel free

Hot Damn! DJ Sarah Spandex, Mark C, Heart Attack $10–$12 Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Flaunt Nacho Pop, Diaz, Eko, Tom Piper, R-Son, Zero Cool free Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney The Social Club Beth Yen free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Random Soul free The Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction Sneaker Husky, Ant Best Shy, Travis Hale, Dave Rizzle, Yogi free The Rouge, Darlinghurst Surprise Surprise Astrix, Sms, Ember, Lights Out, Tom Piper Tokio Hotel, Darling Harbour Caramel free World Bar, Kings Cross Teenage Kicks Tom Libertine, Johnny Segment, El Mariachi and Urby free

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 Bank Hotel, Newtown Girls’ Night DJ Beth Yen free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Rockstar free Epping Hotel Larry Tee (USA) Establishment, Sydney Mid Week Hurdle Nic Phillips, Craig Patterson free Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta DJ Fresh free Goldfish, Kings Cross The Salsa Lounge Latin Mafia Sound System free Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park A Tribe Called Quest (USA), Maseo, Horrorshow, Thundamentals, $94.90– $160.90 7pm Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst A Tribe Called Quest After Party: Q-Tip, Maseo $30 (+ bf) Q Bar, Darlinghurst Paradise City Ronnie Rocker, El Mariachi Sly Fox, Enmore Queer Central Sveta, DJ Beth, DJ Bel free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks SWAT free The Eastern, Bondi Junction John Glover, Tenzin, Here’s Trouble, Cassian, U-Go-B, Steve Frank, Mistah Cee, Kavi-R free The Gaff, Darlinghurst New Generation Franny, Alex, Triky, Electroholics, Con-x-ion, Psygnosis, Calico, Kermy, Deceptikon free The Lincoln, Kings Cross Kareem the DJ free (guestlist) The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Battery Operated DJ Matt Hoare free World Bar, Kings Cross The Wall/SUGD Surecut Kids, 16 Tacos, NickYorke, JC Funkdafied, Splitter free

THURSDAY AUGUST 12 202 Broadway, Chippendale Basic Foreign Dub, Headroom, Space is the Place, Void free Ching-a-lings, Darlinghurst A Vinyl Only Affair free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool After School Detention DJ Rangi, Mac, K-Note MC Buddy Love free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Brett Hunt free Dug Out Bar, Burdekin Hotel Speakeasy Magda, Dave Fernandes Empire Hotel, Potts Point Episodes DJ Schoder, Wanted, Zahra, Jason K, Johar free Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta Da Bomb with DJ Fresh free Goldfish, Kings Cross The Funk Quarter Phil Hudson, Phil Toke, Dave 54, Michael Wheatley f Home Terrace, Darling Harbour Unipackers RnB, Top 40, electro $5 Judgement Bar, Taylor Square Judgement Night. Sex Worker & Ymerej, weekly guests free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst Simon Alexander free Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown Snowball 2010 Van She Tech, Yolanda Be Cool, DCup, The Only, Cutlass Supreme, Ajax, Deekline & Wizard, KillaQueenz, Gabriel Coulston, Roger’s Room, Kid Crookes, Glenn Be Trippin, Jamie Tek, DJ Soda Mansions, Kings Cross Van Sereno and Cavan Te live on rotation free Martin Place Bar, Martin Place Thursdays at MPB Louis M free Q Bar, Darlinghurst

Bank Hotel, Newtown Absolut Fridays The Sundowners (live) + DJ Beth Yen & Damien Goundrie free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Dustones Surecut Kids, ISHU, Mike Who, Ability free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Liquid Sky Itchy & Scratchy, Cunning Pants, D.U.I vs Kyro, Wizzfizz Kids, Oh Glam! + more! $10/$15 Cargo Bar, King St Wharf On The Harbour free Chinese Laundry, Sydney DJ Marky (Brazil), Typhonic, Royalston, Doctor Werewolf, Spenda C $15 all night Civic Undergound, Sydney Plus One Murat Kilic, Robbie Lowe, Trinity, Dave Stuart, Jamie Mattimore, Sam Watkins, Alex Caminer, Daniel Lupica $15-$20 Collector Hotel, Parramatta Corner Shop Tikelz, DJ Browski, J Lyrikz, Naughty, Gunz free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Fuego KillaQueenz live on stage plus DJ K-Note and guests $15 Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Johnny Vinyl, Strike free Establishment Hotel Carnival La Fiesta Sound System and Special Guest DJs all night free Fanny’s of Newcastle Gangster Party $15 (presale)–$20 (at door) Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale Purple Sneakers The Holiday DJ Set, SVU Farewell Set, BenLucid, Joyride, Josh Kelly, Retox $12 Goldfish, Kings Cross Sugar & Soul Phil Hudson, Paul Hatz, Agey, Danny De Sousa, Matt Cahill, Tom Kelly free Home The Venue, Darling Harbour Sublime Rhe3, Essi, Ravine, Dover,

Killaqueenz

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Cotts, Spiral, Sytraxxx, TezzR $10$20 Kinselas, Taylor Square Toby Wilson free Kit & Kaboodle, Darlinghurst Falcona Fridays Falcona DJs, The Gameboys $10 Mansions, Kings Cross Nick Polly, Little Rich, Nick T, Stevie S, Adrian Allen free Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill DJ Cookie, DJ Ta$k, Bunny Belle free Middle Bar, Kinselas, Darlinghurst Flavours on Friday MC Q-Bizzi, C-Bu, Trey, Mike Champion, Naiki, Tekkaman $20 Oatley Hotel We Love Oatley Hotel Fridays DJ Tone Free Omega Lounge, Sydney Unwind Greg Summerfield, Matt Brunton free Opera Bar, Circular Quay Gian Arpino free Phoenix Bar, Darlinghurst Void Mark Pritchard, V-Man Vs Cruz (Dubstep), Semper Fi (Ragga Jungle), Preecha (Future Garage), Paul Fraser (Breakstep), Kieran Helmore (Dubstep) $15-$20 Raval, Surry Hills Listen Hear Huwston, Micah, James De La Cruz, Chris Coucouvinis free Sapphire Lounge, Kings Cross Sapphire Fridays Miss Match, Rob Morrish, Dave 54, Kate Monroe, Chiller $10 guestlist Soda Bar, Golden Sheaf, Double Bay Mike Who, Mr Glass, Brynstar free SoHo, Potts Point ONE7ONE Tom Piper & DJ Samrai free Spectrum, Darlinghurst Silent Alarm Silent DJs $5 St James Hotel, Sydney One Night in Cuba Mani, Yemaya, Nandez, Av El Cubano $15 Sub Bar, Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill Electro Kutz, Beni, Aldo Da Roit $10 Tank Nightclub, Sydney RnB Superclub Def Rok, Eko, G Wizard, Lilo, Troy T, MC Jayson Tao Lounge, Sydney Tourism Child, Oliver Gurney, Altay Altin, Sam Roberts, Sam Niall $10 The Argyle Hotel, Rocks John Devechis, DJ Heidi, Cadell free The Lincoln, Kings Cross The Scene Charlie Brown, Samari The Rouge, Kings Cross Romance at the Rouge After Dark, Bass Thiefs, The Hump Day Project, J Smoove, Joel Granger $10 The Sugarmill, Kings Cross The Gameboys, Calling In Sick, Joyride $10 after 10pm Tonic Lounge, Kings Cross Tonic Fridays $15 Trademark Hotel, Kings Cross PGOTW Adrian M, Victor Lopez, Jackson, Plus Special guests free (guestlist)–$10

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THE SIDESHOW WEDNESDAYS

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SATURDAY AUGUST 14 202 Broadway, Chippendale Headroom Monk Fly, Jonny Faith, Know-U, Suburban Dark, Elliot $15 Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo Trash DJ M!Veg, DJ Absynth $12 Bank Hotel, Newtown Jack McCord (UK), Ash Turner free BB’s, Bondi Beach Wildlife DJs Mesan, James Roberts, Adriano Giorgi, Dinseh Sundar, Matt Singmin, Chris Kyle free Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst Forced Perspective - album launch Moriarty $20 on door (incl. copy of album) Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Vengeance, The Hump Day Project, Deckhead, Whitecat, FNGRLCKN + more! $15 – $25 Carmen’s Nightclub, Miranda Tenzin, Nordean, Zannon Chinese Laundry, Sydney DJ Maseo (De La Soul), Act Yo Age, Kraymer (Melb), Samrai, Chris Fraser, Adam Bozzetto, Steve Lind, Matttt, Dave Slade, Dave Stuart, Jamie Mattimore $20 Civic Underground, Sydney Adult Disco Flatwound, Paradise Lost DJs $10 Clarence Hotel, Petersham Caesars Sandy Bottom, Justin Scott, DJ Chip free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Pop Fiction, Zoltan free Cricketer’s Arms, Surry Hills Pod War free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay DJ Simon Neal, Ben Vickers free Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Cameo DJ Q-Bizzi, DJ Klever-C, DJ Eko, DJ C-Bu, Smashproof (live, NZ), Mike Champion, D-Minus, host Chauncey Black (Blackstreet, USA) $20 Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Kaki $20 Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction I Love Saturdays Zannon, Tony Shock, Matt Ferreira, Tass, Akay, Don Juan, Dante Rivera, Dennis Agee, Willie Sabor, Oscar Cadena free Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta DJs Matt Hoare and Andy Marc $10 Goldfish, Kings Cross Abel, Tom Kelly, Phil Hudson, Ross Middleton on Sax free Goodgod Small Club, CBD Catcall, Alpine (formerly Swiss), Toni Toni Lee, Jimmy Sing, and Count Doyle $10 8pm

Grand Hotel, Wollongong Pang! DCUP, Flight Facilities, Bounce Crew DJs, Jeremy Quinn, Aka vs Lachlan Holland, and Four40 Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney The Phantom’s Revenge, Wonk, DCUP, Wongo, Hey Now! $40 Home, Sydney Homemade Saturdays The 808s, Aladdin Royaal, James “Saxman” Spy, Matt Ferreira, Hannah Gibbs, Tony Venuto, Dave Austin, Flite, LKO, Seiz, Uncle Abe $20 VIP/$25 door Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park Utopia: Homegrown Darren Styles (UK), Mark Breeze (UK), Whizzkid, Suae, Weaver, Matrix, Toneshifterz, Bio Weapon, S Dee, Amber Savage, Orbit 1, Team Rocket, Steve Hill, Yoshi, Nomad, Spellbound, Audio Damage, Shadower, Ar-bee, Haze, Kid Finley, Arbor, Hard Forze, Cantosis, Cloudze, Convicts, Import, Midshifters, Nasty, Pulsar, Erase MC, MCD $65 Ivy, Sydney Pure Ivy Robbie Santiago, Cadell, Graham Cordery, Dave 54, Muma Megs live, Adam Jacob percussion $20 Jacksons On George, Sydney Leno, Aladdin Royaal free Kinselas, Taylor S quare Brynstar, Shaun Keble, Yin Yang, Beth Yen and Matt Hoare free Mansions, Kings Cross Reckless, Little Rich, Shaun Keeble, Nick Polly free Martin Place Bar, Sydney Bamboo Eko, Nude-E, Mirage, Shorty, Ace, Moto, Qrius, IllDJ $5 Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill Fiddler Bar DJ Stu-e, DJ Matt Allcock free Melt Bar, Kings Cross PANTS Cadillac, Murray Lake, Mo Hat Mo Play DJs, Max Smart $15–$20 Kid Kenobi

Mona Vale Hotel Savage (New Zealand), Tickelz, Monsta Ganjah $13 (+ bf) Opera Bar, Circular Quay Krishna Jones free Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Huoratron (FIN), Redial, Nadisko, Smacktown, WhyNot DJs, DJ Obey, Ra $20 (at door) Sackville Hotel, Rozelle Maike free Shelbourne Hotel, Sydney Shipwreck, Daniel Nall, Leon Pirello $10 after 10pm Spectrum, Darlinghurst P*A*S*H Goldfoot, DJ Knife $7 Stonewall Hotel, Darlinghurst Greg Boladian, Nick J free The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Charley Bo Funk, Dante, Phil Hudson free The Bank Nightclub, Kings Cross Sin City Don Juan, DJ Willie, Mista Kay, MC Q-Bizzi The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills DJ Chris Skinner, DJ Carl O’Brien free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Perfect Day Resident house DJs Mark Alsop, DJ Chip, DJ Murray Hood, DJ Miss Match, DJ Brett Austin, DJ Scotty Tanner, DJ James Tobin, DJ Man and DJ Dirty Dan free The Loft, King Street Wharf Late at the Loft free The Manhattan Lounge, Martin Place Hushhh... DJs Stunna, Sonny, Special K $10 after 9pm The Rouge, Kings Cross Le Rouge Lights Out, Chris Fraser, Jono Fernandez, Implex $10 before 11pm The Venue, Double Bay Pure House Ben Morris, Illya, Robbie Lowe, Matt Mandell, Ollie Brooke, Matt Roberts, Simon Caldwell, Kato, James Taylor, Lummy, Mitch

PARADES FREE

11TH AUGUST - 8PM + THE LAURELS

PRESENTS

ISHU + MIKE WHO & DJ ABILITY

FRIDAY AUGUST 13TH COMING SOON SOUND CASINO + STICKY FINGERS 18TH AUG SOUNDSCHOOL INDIA 21ST AUG GRRILLA STEP 23RD AUG SNOWDROPPERS + JACK NASTY FACE 25TH AUG

BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10 :: 53

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Deep Impressions

clubguide@thebrag.com Crosher, Phil Smart Tonic Lounge, Kings Cross Tonic Saturdays Gian Arpino $15 Verandah Bar, Sydney The Booty Bar George B, Nasser T, Lenno, K Sera Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour Paul Moussa free World Bar, Kings Cross Wham! ITM50 Kid Kenobi, Bass Kleph, Ben Morris, James Taylor + MC Shureshock, Illya, Kato, Telefunken, Ember, Levins, Mark Walton, Discopunx, The Jackal, Venuto, Moriarty $15 before 10pm, $20 after

SUNDAY AUGUST 15 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJ Scott Tanner Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Michael Peter Colombian Hotel (Downstairs), Darlinghurst Hotrod Sunday Sandi Hotrod & G.I Jode free Colombian Hotel

Underground Dance and Electronica with Chris Honnery (Upstairs), Darlinghurst The Deep Disko Phil Hudson, Dave 54, Ollie Brroke free Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Sassy Sundays free Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Salsa Caliente Sabroson, DJ Vico free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown DJ Metal Matt, Louis Tillett free Goldfish, Kings Cross Martini Club Live DJs Illya, Johnny Gleeson, Miss Match, Jack McCord and Tom Kelly free Home Terrace, Sydney Spice After Hour $20/$10 Ice Bar, Sydney The Kitsch Sound System, Phil Hudson, Chloe West, Mark Matthews free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst The Fifth Dimension free Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Random Sundays Mike Rukus, Tom Piper, James Taylor, Matt Nukewood, Goodfella, Adam Lance, RobKAY free (guestlist)–$15 The Argyle Hotel, Rocks Cadell free

The Bank Nightclub, Kings Cross Soul On Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan free The Beresford Hotel, Surry Hills B Side free The Bunker Bar, Kings Cross Marco Resmann free The Forbes Hotel, Sydney Church Of Techno Mitch Crosher, Kerry Wallace, Joey Kaz, Jey Tuppaea, Jaded, Shepz $5 The Rouge, Kings Cross Cheap Thrill$ Matt Nukewood, J Smoove, Josh Flanagan free The Sugarmill, Kings Cross Neighbourhood Kate Munroe free The Village, Sydney Sunday Surgery DJ Russ Dewbury and friends free Trademark Hotel, Darlinghurst Soul on Sunday Nino Brown, Don Juan Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour Miss Gabby free World Bar, Kings Cross Fortune! DiscoPunx, plus dumplings cooked on the terrace! free

club picks up all night out all week...

DJ Marky

THURSDAY AUGUST 12 Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown Snowball 2010 Van She Tech, Yolanda Be Cool, D-Cup, The Only, Cutlass Supreme, Ajax, Deekline & Wizard, KillaQueenz, Gabriel Coulston, Roger’s Room, Kid Crookes, Glenn Be Trippin, Jamie Tek, DJ Soda

FRIDAY AUGUST 13 Chinese Laundry, Sydney DJ Marky (Brazil), Typhonic, Royalston, Doctor Werewolf, Spenda C $15 all night

SATURDAY AUGUST 14

Paradise Lost DJs $10 Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Cameo – Grand Opening DJ Q-Bizzi, DJ Klever-C, DJ Eko, DJ C-Bu, Smashproof (live, NZ), Mike Champion, D-Minus, host Chauncey Black (Blackstreet, USA) $20 Goodgod Small Club Catcall, Alpine (formerly Toni Toni Lee

Swiss), Toni Toni Lee, Jimmy Sing, and Count Doyle $10 8pm World Bar, Kings Cross Wham! ITM50 Kid Kenobi, Bass Kleph, Ben Morris, James Taylor + MC Shureshock, Illya, Kato, Telefunken, Ember, Levins, Mark Walton, Discopunx, The Jackal, Venuto, Moriarty $15 before 10pm, $20 after

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This Week’s Episode: The Foreground of the Dancefloor (Pointillism etc).

s we enter August and move away from the wretched season that is winter, it is time to look forward to summer – and this year, summer is all about the Subsonic Music Festival. Held over the first weekend of December at the picturesque Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort, located three hours from Sydney at the foothills of a World Heritage Wilderness area, the Subsonic festival was last year’s best-kept secret. This year it promises to build on the wordof-mouth, and well and truly raise the ante. The organisers have a formidable electronic music pedigree, having been involved with Earthdance and Deep As Fu*k events in the past, and the first lineup announcement for 2010’s festival reads like any discerning clubber's wet dream. Revered Kompakt kingpin Michael Mayer will be joined by compatriot Dominik Eulberg along with the likes of Extrawelt, Heinrichs & Hirtenfellner and Boris Brejcha over the course of the weekend – and that’s just the beginning. First release tickets are now on sale through www. subsonicmusic.com.au - grab them post haste, as the longer you hold off, the more expensive the tickets get. Known for his work as part of acclaimed Swedish outfit Minilogue, Sebastian Mullaert is set to release a double mix album next month entitled Wa Wu We. Why the crazy onomatopoeic title you ask? Such comments smack of ignorance compadré, as the name is in fact indicative of Mullaert’s Buddhist beliefs. ‘Wa’ is Japanese for both ‘circle’ and ‘peace’, ‘Wu’ is a Buddhist term referring to the interconnectedness of all things, and ‘we’ means – well, it’s us dude. Joining the dots, the title means we are all in an interconnected circle of peace – or some sententious maxim to this effect. The release is Mullaert’s first mixed compilation, and collates over thirty tracks from acts like Cobblestone Jazz, Darko Esser, The Mole and The Black Dog. There is also a host of previously unreleased Minilogue cuts interspersed throughout the mix, all of which will be put out on the Mule label later in the year.

The oft overlooked English producer Jon Hopkins, who played alongside Brian Eno, Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Toby Vogel as part of the improvised live act at the finale of last year’s Vivid Festival, has had his recent single remixed by two of the more innovative names in electronica, Four Tet and Nathan Fake. Hopkins has previously remixed Four Tet and Nathan Fake himself, and both have now returned the favour on this ‘special’ 12-inch that will be released on Domino’s sub-label Double Six. The Four Tet remix is a slightly garage-orientated take on ‘Vessel’, while Fake delivers a harder, more techno-oriented rework of ‘Wire’. The vinyl is available for order online now, and I dare say any of you familiar with Hopkin’s earlier work, which includes last year’s LP Vessel and 2004’s Contact, will already have placed your order. The always interesting Vakant label are preparing to release a digital-only compilation that boasts the wholesome title Family Values. Argentinian producer Nico Purman, Glaswegian Alex Smoke and Dario Zenker - who is playing Bug In The Bass in September at The Civic Underground - all feature, along with an ancient artifact from Robag Wruhme, which even though it was originally produced in 1996 still blows the generic tripe of the present deep house milieu out of the [deep] water. And on the subject of golden oldies, Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger‘s classic LP Las Vegas has received a welcome re-release after having been unavailable on CD for far too long. The pair originally released the record (as Burger/Ink) in 1996; it came out on the EMI subsidiary Harvest of all places, making the Cologne techno icons the unlikely labelmates of Pink Floyd and Deep Purple among others! In the U.S it was licensed by the indie-rock label Matador, thus providing many Americans with their first taste of Cologne techno... Reverting back to the present day, and Kompakt has re-mastered the LP and reissued it as the first edition of their new Kompakt Klassiks label, allowing you, the grateful listener, with the chance to (re) discover the collection of dreamy dub techno cuts, each of which are titled in homage to iconic bands – and, uh, film directors – like Roxy Music and Wim Wenders. Simply put, this is a must have!

LOOKING DEEPER FRIDAY AUGUST 20 Pezzner The Civic Underground

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4 Agoria Plantation

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18 Marcel Dettmann Plantation

DECEMBER 3 – 5 Michael Mayer et al. Subsonic Music Festival

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Civic Underground, Sydney Adult Disco Flatwound,

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Soul Sedation Soul, Dub, Hip Hop & Bottom Heavy Beats with Tony Edwards

up all night out all week . . .

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To Ubiquity Records, and new age funk outfit Orgone are back with a second effort - Cali Fever is its name. These guys are on the forefront of the live funk scene, keeping that JBs spirit alive in 2010. Soul Sedation has been caning their tunes from the last record for a long time now - I can’t wait to get my hands on this new one. Check Fanny Franklin on vocals, she’s the real deal. XLR8R podcast 154 is well on the money - a showcase of Bay Area hip hop from ‘frisco label SWTBRDS. There you can check the emerging careers of DaVinci, Adrian Champion and StreetMedia - they make sounds with the right influences in the heads. It’s mixed by Ammbush - of Oakland Faders fame - alongside Drums & Ammo. Soul Sedation bigs up the XLR86 podcast!

Afrobeat heads - the godfather of Ethio jazz Mulatu Astatke will be making his way to Sydney this October. There’s two shows, but they’re at The Basement so capacity is still fairly limited. Fri 15 & Sat 16 October. From the Jazz Rooms presser: “infectious music dating back to the 1960s that combines Afro Jazz and Soul and Funk with traditional Ethiopian harmony. One of Ethiopia’s funkiest musicians of the '70s, Mulatu Astatke’s distinct brand of music feature some of the most soulful hip-grinding instrumentals ever recorded in Mother Africa.” Dust Tones have chalked up a coup, booking Grrilla Step to play the Beach Rd this Friday August 11. Both Percussion Junction and Bentley will warm up for Dexter’s audio/visual/performance extravaganza. If you haven’t seen it, trust me, it’s sick. This coming Saturday night, you’ll want to be at the Civic Underground as Flatwound and the Paradise Lost DJs go head-tohead at Adult Disco. Live cosmic disco meets the dustiest crate-diggin' fingers in this city. Who will prove victorious? Soul Sedation has a feeling that disco will be the winner on the day… See you there!

The White Horse in Surry Hills has taken in some wayward DJs. Boogie Back is Frenzie, Meem and Huwston pushing funk, soul, disco and beats of the highest order, and it goes down every Thursday night from 8pm.

Mulatu Astatke

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Only two sleeps till A Tribe Called Quest! Now I’m starting to get really pumped, and that’s saying something for a jaded ol’ been-there-done-that hack like me. If this isn’t the best call and response hip hop gig ever I’ll be really surprised. Can Sydney kick it? Say it with me… yes we can.

finished a few years ago, but only finding a release now through his little brother D-Bridge’s label, Exit Records. Don’t worry, I didn’t know those two were brothers either, but it makes perfect sense now that I do. Reportedly the album’s on a futuristic hip hop edge, which makes sense as well. Look it up!

29:07:10 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700

A Tribe Called Quest It’s called: A Tribe Called Quest

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Soul Sedation goes live every Wednesday night on Bondi FM (88.0 or bondifm.com.au). Tune in 10pm 'til midnight to hear a deep and soulful selection of the tunes covered here, and plenty more that I don't have room for.

It sounds like: hip hop, jazz and sophisticated rhymes. Who’s spinning? A Tribe Called Quest with special guests Maseo (De La Soul and locals Horrorshow and Thundamentals. Sell it to us: ATCQ’s first ever Australian shows – do we really need to say any more? The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Grooving along to the hits of the early ‘90s and yelling out “yes you can” at appropriate moments. Crowd specs: Anyone who knows anything about hip hop. Wallet damage: $94.90 +bf Where: Hordern Pavilion When: Wednesday August 11

The Glimmer Twins, AKA The Glimmers, have released a two disc unmixed compilation of their own edits, most of which was released on wax around 2003. There was only 500 copies pressed, so don’t sleep. Quickest way to pick up this 80s electro disco house-y quirky funkbased material (!) would be to head to turntablelab.com. Do not stop, do not pass go, just go straight there. And if you haven’t heard it, track down a copy of their DJ Kicks mix while you’re at it, it’s full of epic, eclectic goodness. Steve Spacek not only works the microphone, he makes beats as well. Black Pocket is an album of his productions,

ON THE ROAD A Tribe Called Quest, Maseo The Hordern Pavilion

Transatlantics & Kon The Basement

SATURDAY AUGUST 14

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3

Maseo Chinese Laundry

Horrorshow The Gaelic Theatre

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28:07:10 :: Fringe Bar :: 106 Oxford Street Paddington 93605443 BRAG :: 374 :: 09:08:10 :: 55

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28:07:10 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700

It’s called: Chinese Laundry pres ents DJ Marky (BRAZIL) It sounds like: The hottest, funk iest drum’n’bass DJ on the planet! DJs/live acts playing: The lege ndar Royalson, Doctor Werewolf & Spen y DJ Marky and supports from Typhonic, da C. Sell it to us: This is a rare chance to genre’s true superstars – who usua get up close and intimate with one of the lly plays giant arenas or festivals. booming bass of our brand new Add in the state of the art Nexo soundsystem, and this event is guaranteed to be one you won’ t forget any time soon! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Marky’s famous scratching techniqu turntables in the air and the craz es iest showmanship you’ve ever witne ssed! Crowd specs: Fun, friendly and of course super hot peeps who like and dirty. getting down Wallet damage: $45 + bf available from Moshtix Where: Chinese Laundry, cnr King & Sussex Streets (under Slip Inn) When: Friday August 13 … oooh spooky!

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26:07:10 :: Big Top, Luna Park :: 1 Olympic Drive Milsons Point 99226644

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28:07:10 :: Acer Arena :: Olympic Boulevard Sydney Olympic Park 87654321

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) :: ASHLEY MAR :: S : TIM LEVY (HEAD HONCHO OUR LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHER TON :: ISOBELLA MELODY :: EAS IQUE MON :: KA BAS A ROSETTE ROUHANNA :: MAJ ANNETTE GENEVA

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31:07:10 :: Oxford Art Factory :: 38-46 Oxford st, Darlinghurst 93323711 ) :: ASHLEY MAR :: S : TIM LEVY (HEAD HONCHO OUR LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHER ISOBELLA MELODY :: :: TON EAS IQUE MON :: BASKA ROSETTE ROUHANNA :: MAJA ANNETTE GENEVA

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30:07:10 :: Strike Bowling :: 122 Lang Rd, Moore Park 1300 787 453

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30:07:10 :: Chinese Laundry :: 111 Sussex Street Sydney 82959958

When: Saturday August 14.

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30:07:10 :: The Gladstone Hotel :: 115 Regent St Chippendale 96993522

nd Opening It’s called: Cameo: the Gra electro! With that “ready for blend of RnB, hip hop and fect per t Tha : like nds It sou . summer” tropical par ty vibe & DJ C-Bu. Live Q-Bizzi, DJ Klever-C, DJ Eko D-Minus. Hosted by DJs/live acts playing: DJ and on mpi Cha e Mik f (NZ), performances by Smashproo treet (USA) Chauncey Black from Blacks good times - the vibe is is back! Cameo is all about Sell it to us: The waterfront e, the crowd is a whole lotta fun and the venue is som fantastic, the music is awe picture perfect! k out onto the huge deck to the AM: Being able to wal r. The bit we’ll remember in bou on dollar view of the Har get some fresh air and a billi y Crowd specs: 1200 capacit cial events Wallet damage: $20 for spe Harbour Where: Docks Hotel Darling

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31:07:10 :: Chinese Laundry :: 111 Sussex Street Sydney 82959999

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OPEN DAY Australian Institute of Music

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