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Who: Young Charlatans What: Shivers (Demo) Label/Year: BN/A, 1978

Crate digging Andrew Ramadge explores the history of music “I’ve been contemplating suicide/ But it really doesn’t suit my style/ So I think I’ll just look bored instead.” You’d be hardpressed to find a more fitting slogan for disaffected young rock stars than the opening lines of ‘Shivers’. I first heard the song in its incarnation as a Top 40 ballad performed by local pub-rock heroes The Screaming Jets while growing up in Newcastle in the early ‘90s. It had been recorded 15 years earlier by Nick Cave’s first group Boys Next Door and somehow survived the Jets’ blokeish butchery to become a guilty favourite of mine on cassette. Neither version had anything on the original, though.

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The year it was recorded, Howard found himself in a taxi with a singer wearing stovepipe pants and a polka-dot shirt boasting about “the best and loudest song in the world”. The singer was Nick Cave and the song was ‘Sex Crimes’.

Howard was suitably impressed when the Boys Next Door played it that night at a Melbourne venue called Bananas and eventually joined the band, lending his guitar to the group’s drug-fuelled attack on music.

With Howard on board, Boys Next Door recorded a version of ‘Shivers’ as sung

by Cave for their album Door, Door. In comparison to the Young Charlatans’ demo it was almost embarrassingly melodramatic ‘Shivers’ was written by Rowland S and hinted at the style of bombastic Howard and recorded with the Young ballads Cave would spend his later years Charlatans as a demo in ‘78. The version on Inner City Sound is drowned in so much pursuing. tape hiss that it’s impossible to listen to After the band reinvented themselves as with headphones worth more than $10.

The Birthday Party, increasing tension When Howard reaches the chorus – “My between Howard and Cave contributed the baby’s so vain she is almost a mirror/ group’s break-up. “The songs I used to And the sound of her name sends a write were really personal songs, and Nick permanent shiver/ Down my spine” – his said he couldn’t sing them because it was voice becomes so piercing that it literally too embarrassing,” he told NME in 1983. does gives you shivers. His nasal wailing bursts out of the song and stabs you in the They split the year after. eardrum.

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THEREDSUNBAND

So you’ve got a massive crush on someone at the moment, but you’ve never done anything about it. You see them at shows, at the markets, at that preview screening of The Darjeeling Limited. They are indie heaven.

What to do? Well, you could always make a move on February 13 or 14 (Valentines Day!), when Dappled Cities play Oxford Art Factory with Sparkadia and The Seabellies to preview new material. It’ll be perfect! If however you don’t need any love in your life, go anyway for the mad lineup.

ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FEST

Who is playing St Jerome’s Laneway Festival? Tell us! Tell is! Shit we don’t think we’re ready! How about Stars, Cool Kids, Manchester Orchestra, Damn Arms, theredsunband, The Vasco Era, Rudely Interrupted, Still Flyin, Darren Hanlon, Violent Soho, Hot Little Hands, The Basics, joining Feist, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Presets, Broken Social Scene, Gotye and more? Craaaazy. It’s on Sunday March 2 at Circular Quay, The Basement and Macquarie Park.

They’re a band whose name you have to say really fast – “theredsunband” – because it’s written as one long, multi-syllabic word.

Their music, though, is the opposite: they’ve stolen Sydney’s hearts with their low-fi, nobass player sludgey stoner/indie rock which calls to mind acts like Mazzy Star and Cat Power. They’ve been reclusive as of late but now they’re ready to burst (in their own understated way) back onto the live scene to support their newly released EP Like An Arrow. We’ve got 2 redsunband packs to give away which include a signed copy of the aforementioned EP as well as a double pass to their show at the Annandale this Saturday the 19th. To win, email freestuff@thebrag. com and tell us who exactly theredsunband are.

Lounge. We think this beats out waving an Australian flag around while standing in the heat on George Street. It’s on 26 January at Coogee Bay Hotel.

AIM OPEN DAY

Reading Tackling The Music Industry For Dummies is all well and good, but reading 300 pages of text is not really going to give you all you need. We’d suggest you head along to the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) Open Day instead. There you’ll get a taste of the place, with workshops and masterclasses, plus demos of the recording facilities, Apple technology, and the opportunity to chat with the heads of department across all disciplines. It’s on this Saturday from 11am-4pm, 1-51 Foveaux St Surry Hills.

Devastations

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KRISTY RYAN

Senior Partnerships Manager for Peer Group Media So what does a Senior Partnerships Manager do?

I am a middle man between music festival promoters and corporate brands. I negotiate sponsorship deals and work on integrating brands into festivals, hopefully in a way that adds to people’s experience of that festival. This month I am on the road with Big Day Out and then heading to Tamworth for the Country Music Awards.

Tell us about some of your festival highlights?

Playground Weekender was definitely the highlight festival of last year for me.

It is set in the most stunning location on the Hawkesbury River and has a great atmosphere. I highly recommend it.

Who would be on your ultimate festival line up?

Babyshambles, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, Dandy Warhols and The Vines

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES

Hearing the name Me First And The Gimme Gimmes should already have you screaming ‘Punk rock! Yeah!’ and getting really excited.

However, if you’re new to the game, here’s the down low. They’re a punk rock covers band who attack everything from show tunes and ‘60s classics to R&B greats and, most recently, country favs by Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks, Willy Nelson, Dolly Parton and more. They’re playing this Friday (sold out) and Saturday at Manning Bar with Yidcore and Ro Sham Bo.

SELINA’S ROCKS AUSTRALIA DAY

Australia Day, synonymous with the beach, heat, and Australia. Obviously. Well Selina’s (Coogee Bay Hotel) has taken it one step further and also made it synonymous with a line-up of rock legends that is more than a little face melting. And by that we mean Doc Neeson’s Angels and The Choirboys, plus fresh guns The Lazy’s and Modular

DEVASTATIONS

Australians the Devastations make the type of rich, luscious music that breaks your heart a little. So we’ll go there and say that we were, yes, devastated when the band uprooted and moved to Europe or thereabouts to base themselves there, if only because it’s meant that it’s been two years since the band has headlined shows here.

In the interim they released their third album Yes, U and played Berlin a lot. Now they’re back for a tour, playing February 9 at the Annandale with Gareth Liddiard (Drones) and Loene Carmen.

What are your festival endurance tips?

If you party til dawn the night before a festival, it’s not going to help things. Keep your beer cold with a stubby holder. Drink loads of water.

Kristy's festival survival tips

Water

DEAD LETTER CIRCUS

Dead Letter Circus, for the uninitiated, are really into ‘delay-soaked tones’. We understand that urge completely – we could sit here and play with a DD-6 pedal all day. Luckily this band knows how to use it appropriately, using it to build their sombre, heavy alt rock walls of sound as opposed to 7 minutes of winding delay that makes you cry. They’re about to go away and record their debut album, but before then they wanna test out their new songs on you February 28 at the Annandale, with .hinge.

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J EZ AB ELS

Our singer, Hayley, is the only one who was endowed with a musically talented parent, though we all have parents who dig listening to a song or two. Sam grew up traveling to his grandfather’s place in Inverell to hear him play songs such as ‘Two Black Crows’ on his Hammond organ; whether or not that was inspirational is q uestionable, but it was certainly interesting. Heather’s grandma used to teach her the piano, so I guess we have our grandparents to thank more than anyone. Heather adds: my first piano teacher’s name was Mrs Oz ipoff.

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TRASH’S RED SHORE F UN D RAI SER

As you may have heard, in December ’07 tragedy struck the young band The Red Shore when, driving between Sydney and Brisbane, their minibus crashed, killing vocalist Damien Morris and bandmate Andy Milner. In a show of support for our musical brethren, Trash are hosting a very special fundraiser for the band this Saturday with Shinto K atana, N o Love Lost and As Venice Sinks performing, along with the resident kickarse Trash DJs. It’s going to be a special night, and we’ve got 2 double passes to give away to the first two Brag readers who email freestuff@thebrag.com with “ Trash it for the Red Shore” in the subj ect line.

Our inspirations make up a pretty weird blend of artists and musical backgrounds.

Heather plays piano at the conservatorium so she enj oys a bit of Shostakovich, whilst considering becoming a monk. Nik is into genres that end in core, and David Baz an.

Sam would do some self-depreciative things to go back to the 1930s and see some Grand Ole Opry. And Hayley, she enj oys anything melodramatic enough to make her cringe.

She also wants to marry Win Butler.

Hayley and Heather have been playing together as The J ez abels for a few years now. About a year ago they decided that they wanted some more instruments so they employed Nik and Sam. Byron Bay was the line of connection between them, although Nik is from Dana Point in Orange County. I guess in both places one should j ust chill out, man, so we tend to j ust chill out, man. But not really, we’re actually pretty hectic people. So I don’t know...

I guess you could refer to our inspirations and mess them up a bit and that’s what we do. We find it hard to describe our music so here’s a q uote from an audience member: “ They don’t have a bass player… neat.”

We really like I Heart Hiroshima and Sui Z hen at the moment. But all in all, there is a shit-load of musical output at the moment, whether in Sydney or anywhere. One problem

we have is the lack of subversive material. On any level, q uestioning something is probably the most important thing a song can do, isn’t it?

Who: The Jez abels When: Thursday January 17 Where: Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills

PET CEM ETERY

Wednesday nights, besides being Medium night, are also Pet Cemetery nights. Well, ‘were’ – get out your red pen and make the correction because the weekly band night has moved to Thursdays. At last week’s launch K ele from B loc Party(!) DJed. Of course.

Pet Cemetery, along with their usual up and coming local acts, are now also featuring acoustic sets and poetry readings. This week check out Steven Heath, T- B one, Atrocities, B oy Rorbison and some poetry. It’s on at Oxford Art Factory, no cover.

J EN S LEK M AN The N ecks

THE N ECK S 4 PLACES+ SPACES

PJ HARVEY

Always finding new ways to freak out her fans, Ms Polly Jean spooked us all this year with the haunting White Chalk and album art where she looked like a 17th Century ghost.

Anyhoo, we are getting a bit excited about her gig at the Sydney Opera House (bout time!) and even more excited by the news that she’ll be supported by the one and only M ick Harvey. Harvey, as you know is one of Nick Cave' s merry men in The Bad Seeds, he’s also been friends with PJ for a loooong time. Friday Feb 15 in Sydney is sadly sold out, so lucky you, you ticket holder!

B OB B Y F LYN N

K ate D aAraugo! Casey D onovan! These are the luminaries of the Class of Australian Idol!

Uh, yes. B obby F lynn is also a former Idol contestant, but we’re going to take a punt and say that you’d much rather hear him and his delicately toned voice than the Young D ivas down at your local RSL. Bobby Flynn has j ust finished his debut album Out Front with his band The Omega 3 , and they’re launching it April 10, 11 and 12 at The Basement. Preeeetty sure we’ll be stalking him at all three shows.

CASSETTE K I D S

Take a glance at Cassette K ids’ MySpace page and you’ll find a common theme in the comments being left there: ‘Congrats guys U rock!’ A little context for you: the band’s j ust won the JJJ Unearthed Big Day Out show – shiiiiiiiiiit.

Before they add ‘played with Rage Against

Forgive our text message style title, but that’s what limited word space will give you. places+ spaces is new night at The Factory, with artists performing on the first Wednesday of every month. The N ecks are kicking it off in March, which is a bit of a treat, as any fan will gasp to you. We’ve heard ‘not entirely avantgarde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor j az z ’ and ‘cult band’ thrown around. A bit of OMG trivia: its members have featured on over 200 albums, either individually or together. The Necks play 5 March.

COCOROSI E

The M achine’ to their list, see them when they take over Candy’s Apartment this Thursday with The Galvatrons and The Ace Sq uad. PS The Galvatrons are playing Melbourne BDO, so this show is pretty much like going to the festival.

Do it.

When we first j oined last.fm and we started stalking our friends’ musical tastes, one of the artists who overwhelmingly featured was CocoRosie. So we investigated and found out that they’re ‘part folk, part opera, part gospel, part blues, part pop, part hip hop, part electronic, all blended together with a healthy dose of fantasy.’ Um, we think they left off ‘all amaz ing’.

The sister duo make hearts swoon and weep in eq ual q uantities, and they’re playing March 8 and the Metro with special guests.

THI RSTY M ERC

THE B EAUTI F UL GI RLS

Sometimes we’ll be walking the streets with a friend, j ust cruising, and one of us will start singing softly, ‘They say love hurts…’ And suddenly we’ll find ourselves in full song, belting out ‘Tell me tweeeenty good reasons! I need to knoooooooooow!’ And then we’ll catch ourselves and mutter, ‘Wow we’re singing Thirsty M erc’. Testament to the power of their pop choruses, we think. The band’s oh-eight mantra is ‘new!’ (including new baby for their drummer) – check out the fresh when they play 7 March at the Metro.

We were checking out 2007’s Hottest Indie Dudes of the Year someone had taken a poll on (yes, these lists do exist. Go Google it and you’ll find q uite a few impassioned rants on why Sufj an Stevens, among others, should be no. 1) and in at the top spot was J ens Lekman.

We must say that the combination of his latest album cover and the actual music on said album is a whole lot of ‘yes please’. You can go see Mr No. 1 Hottest Indie Dude 2007! when he plays this Tuesday at the Vanguard with special guest D es M iller.

THE RED SHORE F UN D RAI SER

We’ll let Andrew from Club B link tell you: “ on the 19 Dec, whilst travelling between Brisbane and Sydney on tour, The Red Shore tour bus crashed, resulting in the passing of the Red Shore vocalist Damien Morris and long time band worker and friend Andy Milner. This has caused maj or waves in the metal/hardcore community and to help raise money for the band, TRASH is hosting the official fundraiser/ tribute for The Red Shore this Saturday 19 at the Agincourt, featuring live bands Shinto K atana, N o Love Lost and As Venice Sinks plus resident Trash DJs. All money made from the night will be going towards the band’s many expenses inflicted from this accident.”

J ens Leckman

Some musical line-ups beg for the ‘belong together like bread and butter’ and ‘like MaryKate and Starbucks’ lines to be pulled out from the ‘Default Sentences In Case Of Writers’ Block’ file. And so we have the announcement of The B eautiful Girls going on the road to support The Cat Empire. The Beautiful Girls make people sway around and dance with their eyes closed, as do The Cat Empire, so if you went to this show you’ll probably explode from lushing out. They’re playing February 2 at Kippax Lake, Moore Park

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five things

WITH MOLOTOV Growing Up My key childhood music memory is 1. singing into a hairbrush wearing a stuffed

bra and fluoro sox in my bedroom in front of the mirror.

I have always

Inspirations Everyone in the band has 2. very diverse tastes but I think we

all agree on a big love of ‘80s music (again!). There were so many brilliant female led groups from that era and songs that have truly stood the test of time.

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Your Band Sin City are four maladjusted young adults from the mean streets of Perth and Melbourne. I (Molotov Barbie) play guitar and sing, Tommy Gunn plays drums, Devil Fingers plays lead and Miksie Triks is on bass. As you can gather from our names there isn’t a shy member of the band to speak of. Just because your band doesn’t play hardcore metal is no reason

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WU TANG CLAN

BARBIE FROM SIN CITY

had a love of ‘80s music but it was punk music that sent me the message anyone can give it a go, without needing a music degree or even a lesson for that matter. As for the parents... mine are huge Sin City supporters as are all the guys’ families. You can usually spot my folks in the crowd when we tour back to Perth. They’re the older ones singing all the songs and closing their eyes when things get a bit raunchy!

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to not have a stage show that rips the roof off and has people hanging from the rafters.

Music was made to dance to and Sin City always bring the party!

The Music You Make Our debut album Hungry For Love 4. is out now through Amphead Distribution.

It was recorded at Sing Sing Studios with legendary Aussie producer Tony Cohen (INXS, Nick Cave, Beasts of Bourbon etc).

It features our new single ‘Boys Boys Boys’ plus 11 more tracks of killer love songs... boy meets girl type of thing, only she turns out to be a werewolf!

Whoa, it’s true! Wu Tang Clan are back.

Back with their first studio album since 2001. It’s called 8 Diagrams and if you’re a fan of hip-hop, or just music in general, I really don’t need to explain why this album is so important, or amazing, or a must have. It features all eight members of the Wu Tang Clan, and even previously recorded material by their ninth member Ol’ Dirty Bastard (God rest his flabby soul).

We’ve got 5 copies of 8 Diagrams to give away, so to win email freestuff@thebrag. com and tell us where the album title comes from.

Music, Right Here, Right Now The music scene is always strong 5. in Melbourne. Playing gigs each week

in different cities allows us to see heaps of bands but I find a lot of the bands we started out playing with have broken up, so it’s really great when you see young bands stepping up to take their place and keep the music alive. It’s hard to juggle a home life with touring and having time to write with the other guys. But time and money are always a challenge with anything and we wouldn’t swap this for the world.

Who: Sin City Where: The Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills When: Saturday January 18

2007, bringing a style that contrasts with the current sounds of disposable, over-produced hip hop; rhyming precisely over sparse, bassheavy beats, some have suggested its almost as if Run DMC and N.E.R.D got together for their ultimate side-project. Team this with a release schedule across A-Trak’s Fools Gold label and Chocolate Industries, a killer live show and an aesthetic straight out of ‘Do The Right Thing’ and there you have it – a group set to take over. They take over the stage at the Oxford Art Factory Saturday 29 February with Ro Sham Bo, Peace Out and guests, plus play the Laneway Festival around the country.

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GHOSTFACE KILLAH

While we’re on the whole Wu Tang Clan topic, it might be a good time to mention that Wu Tang member Ghostface Killah has also released his own solo slab entitled The Big Doe Rehab. Just like the Wu’s CD, it’s been getting nothing but superlative-dripping reviews and gangsta rap fans are salivating all over the disc’s plastic casing right about now. And you too can lose saliva over this record, because we’ve got 5 copies of The Big Doe Rehab to unload to a bunch of lucky Brag readers. To get your hands on a copy, email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us what Ghostface’s mum calls him.

its 128 bpm!?). He will be playing with Julius Papp, Marques Wyatt, Lisa Shaw (live) Random Soul, Nathan G, Graham Cordery and Liam Sampras, with $25 pre sale tickets available online everywhere. As an aside, and as is often the case dance music lately, Migs is also experimenting with a live band in the States at the moment – Miguel Migs presents ‘Petalpusher’.

DIZZEE RASCAL

“Just wanna say Happy New Year to all me fans who have supported me dis year coming 2 me concerts and buying da album Maths n English.” Thus proclaims our boy Dizzee Rascal (Dylan Mills to his mother) on his website. We’re not sure whether we’re more touched by the sentiment or appalled by da phonetic writing (and surely he needs few d;-o too). I suppose you can’t expect too much from someone who was expelled from high school four times, but who needs a so-called proper education when you can win the 2003 Mercury prize at the age of 19? The precocious MC is performing a solo show on Thursday 24 January at da Metro. So with BDO tickets long gone better not rest on your laurels dis time around peoples.

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LCD SOUNDSYTEM

“Where are your friends tonight?” On any given night this may be a tough question to answer. However on Saturday 26 January it’s a no-brainer as LCD Soundsystem, ie.

James Murphy plus superband, are playing an intimate sideshow at the Enmore Theatre.

Responsible for some of the finest singles of 2006, namely ‘All My Friends’, ‘Someone Great’ and ‘Sound of Silver’, not to mention the obscure ‘45:33’ release (made for Nike as an accompaniment to a gym workout), LCD’s latest singles have also been remixed by the likes of Soulwax and Carl Craig. Murphy even recently released a Fabric mix that was an extreme exercise in cratedigging. If you can think of a better way to spend Australia Day night (that doesn’t involve sex, booze and excess of course!) then you are seriously deluded. Anyone who gets covered by Franz Ferdinand and John Cale demands your attention. Hit enmoretheatre.com.au for you tickets.

BUNNY WAILER

The sole remaining original Wailer, Bunny Wailer is touring Oz for the first time to play West Coast Blues n’ Roots Festival and a sideshow in Sydney at Big Top Luna ‘Rasta’ Park Wednesday 19 March with his group the Solomonoic Reggaestra. Bunny shared most of his childhood leisure time with the late Bob Marley and Peter Tosh; a relationship which would later turn into one of the world’s first renown reggae acts, The Wailers. After starting

his own studio and recording solo, Wailer picked up Grammy Awards for Best Reggae Album in the years 1990, 1994 and 1996. To be continued… Jah Rastafari!

COOL KIDS

Chicago’s Cool Kids bring back Golden Era hip hop with a nod and wink to the crunk scene in a sound that captures all the swagger of the late 80s in a completely fresh way. The duo blew up at the CMJ music industry festival in

MOODYMANN

With the Mad Racket Becks Festival Bar show well and truly sold out, your only chance to catch legendary Detroit deep house producer Moodymann aka J.A.N. (Just Another Nigga) this lifetime will be next Sunday 27 January at the Mandarin Club. Moodymann has created an amazing catalogue of deep, tripped-out soulful house and gained an enigmatic underground following, from jazz heads to techno bods. While his earlier releases revolved around clever sampling and innovative production, his more recent work shows a progression into songwriting and live production, while retaining a unique twist on soul. Limited tickets are available from Spank Records and Red Eye in the city.

MIGUEL MIGS

San Fran house head Miguel Migs is on his way back to Oz in support of his Salted Music label, playing The Arthouse (KINK RIP) on Australia Day 26 January. Salted’s mission is to release forward thinking, soul-based electronic music that is not limited in tempo (as long as

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five things we would never have these disagreements.

The Music You Make We fall into a lot of genres, but in the 4. end we’re singer-songwriters. Americana fits

CD player and didn’t buy my first record until I was 17. Basically I was sheltered from the rest of the world in my small town bubble called Cape Breton. My father plays the fiddle, as does my brother. My mum is learning it as we speak. They were pretty Scottish traditional folks, but listened to dirty old country, Dolly Parton, Hank Snow, Elvis.

To get over my fear of singing, my neighbour, Catherine, used to ask me to sing Rita MacNeil folk songs, in return she would bake me apple pies. I still have a sweet tooth.

best. Caravan, our sophomore album, was released in 2007 in Australia. It was written mostly in Byron Bay, holed up in a caravan on the beach. Its simplicity in writing comes from the simple lifestyle we were leading at that time. We had no possessions other than our guitars, a fiddle, a surfboard, 2 bicycles and a case of wine.

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Your Band We met at an artist hangout in Toronto called the Greenroom. Great omelettes, horrible service! Within a day of knowing

By now you should know that if you want the good shit, you go to Ministry of Sound, right?

Well they’re about to deliver again with their brand new double CD release Clubber’s Guide to 2008 – lovingly mixed by two of Australia’s finest DJ/Production talents – Sam La More and Hook n Sling and crammed with a heap of amazing songs from Armand Van Helden, Fedde Le Grand, PNAU, The Presets, The Aston Shuffle, Robyn, Plump DJs and much more. It’s being released January 19 but you can beat the rush and win one of five copies we’re giving away. All you have to do is email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us why you trust MoS to guide you.

Music, Right Here, Right Now We’ve been doing this together for 8 5. years and it’s only getting better. We love

Inspirations I am a sucker for ballads and Americana.

2.

Nick Lowe makes me melt. His Convincer album is one of my desert island records.

I just met him at a show in Toronto and I was a bumbling fool. His stark white hair is even sexier in person. Gillian Welch... Her albums are so stripped down and simplistic, yet her songs are so complicated at heart. She’s got that small-town girl feel I fall for.

freestuff@thebrag.com

MINISTRY OF SOUND’S GUIDE TO ‘08

WITH LISA FROM MADVIOLET Growing Up I grew up listening to traditional fiddle 1. music. I didn’t listen to the radio, didn’t own a

free stuff

the road. We love living out of our suitcases with socks that can almost walk on their own. Yes, sometimes it’s difficult to stay positive when there is a bit of a dark cloud lurking over the industry. Unfortunately sex sells, and we like to keep our clothes on... for the most part

each other, we realised that our fathers went to school together on the other side of the country, and my mum and Brenley’s grandma go to Bingo together. We’ve been playing together for about 8 years. To date, we’ve yet to have a rehearsal without a screaming match. If only Brenley could realise that I’m right all the time,

Who: Madviolet When: January 15 / 18 Where: Fairlight Acoustic Lougne / Hornsby Folk Club

E.L.F. FLIES

Billed as a “one man band for the 21st century”, The E.L.F. is the new musical adventure from Darren Cross (from Gerling) that combines abstract dance music with a cheeky indie aesthetic via a sampler, computer and a living room. To celebrate the upcoming release of his creatively titled debut solo EP Stevie Nicks Hearts, The E.L.F. is hitting the road on a national tour this February, playing half a dozen dates on the East coast including the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi on Sunday 24 February, along with two Festivals – the Quicksilver Pro Music Festival on the Gold Coast on Saturday 1 March and the Playgrounder Weekender on the Hawkebury on Saturday 8 March. Go ELF!

MO’ HORIZONS

registration at beachparty.bondiblonde.com.

You’ll get a free Bondi Blonde upon arrival, as you walk the red carpet and take in “spectacular visuals” and a bounty of “beautiful blondes”.

Yum.

SHADES OF GREEN

Flying into the new year like the Bundy Bear, Rumpunch play the Petersham Bowling Club for the next installment of Shades Of Green this Sunday with Jack Prest, Vibracobra, Sub Roja and Solrac for host Chris (nkode)’s birthday.

Yes sir, get your thongs polished, coat your favourite boardies in salt and don your finest shades for round one of the 2008 lawn bowls comp, plus Chris will be rolling out the life-size scrabble board! Petersham Bowling Club this Sunday.

The duo of producer Ralf Droesemeyer and DJ Mark ‘Foh’ Wetzler, who together are known as Mo’ Horizons, are heading down under this February. MH have cooked up club hits like ‘Yes Baby Yes’ and ‘Foto Viva’ and been remixed by Swag, Skeewiff, Bobby Hughes and Fort Knox Five; more than that though, they are the go-to guys for TV docos and ads (think Ikea!) or if you’re after a track for a compilation – they’ve appeared on over 500 compilations worldwide, so you probably own one of their songs without realising it! Check them out at in Sydney at Turntables on the Harbour February 23 February or Playground Weekender Sunday 9 March out on the lovely Hawkesbury River.

FUTURE SHOCK

CYPRESS HILL

At the time of writing tickets to the Cypress Hill sideshow were still available – mind you this won’t last for long. Renowned pot advocates, famous for their track ‘Insane in the Brain’ and well publicized feud with Ice Cube, Cypress Hill are playing the Enmore Theatre Wednesday 13 February. They’ll be representing all the big hits from a dozen albums, including the double platinum 1991 cut Cypress Hill and the triple platinum 1993 record Black Sunday, supported on the night by hip hop cult figure in the making, Pharoahe Monch direct from the infamous Southside of NYC’s Queens Borough.

Monch’s album Desire, that features one of the best covers of a Public Enemy track you are likely to hear, blew us all away last year. Now, hop to if you want tickets to this one.

AXWELL

In my business you read a lot of biographies.

A lot of biographies. But its been a long time since I’ve been hit with an opener like this: “Its 6am… the sun is coming up… we’re so tired we can barely see… however, there’s a driving rhythm that we just can’t stop moving to… it just keeps building and building… the crowd are going crazy and there at the forefront is Axwell whipping us all into a frenzy… and then, out of nowhere, the bass drops and it hits you like a Swedish Massage”. What do you reckon? Hmmm? Axwell is playing the Australia Day Weekend Sunday 27 January at Home, supported by Goodwill, The Potbelleez, The Aston Shuffle, Ben Morris and Shamus.

Some people really know how to work the angles, like the Indian Cricket Board and our own Lev Dawg who’ll be playing with Catcall and as Sleater Brockman alongside Master Celebrator with Baltimore party performer/ animal Dan Deacon, bringing his hyper-fun, DIY electro mayhem to the Oxford Art Factory Friday 22 February (and Laneway Festivals around the country). Deacon is the founder of Wham City, a utopian art and music collective based in Baltimore, and frontrunner of the Future Shock genre emerging from Baltimore’s growing underground music scene. At his high-energy performances, Dan constructs and deconstructs manic pop songs with a mess of old-school electronic equipment – think Casio keyboard, computer, vocoder, and a sound reminiscent to Devo..!

BLONDE NEVILLE

Axwell

Bondi Blonde Beer is hosting a party at Cargo Bar this Friday 18 January featuring UK DJ/ producer Tom Neville. Tom blew up a few year’s back when his track, cum call to action ‘Just Fuck’ from a few year’s back broke big on commercial dancefloor’s across the UK and around the globe; for better or worse, Pete Tong, labeled it a ‘future classic’ and Norman Cook gave it 11/10. Kid Kenobi will be playing support on the night that, by the way, is free with

Rumpunch

ANDY WEATHERALL

Few people in dance music can rightly be called ‘legend’, but Andy Weatherall is undeniably one of these people. From his early remix work with Primal Scream and the Happy Mondays to the iconic Boys Own house label and Blood Sugar warehouse parties, work with Bjork, My Bloody Valentine and Beth Orton, to his own production as Sabres of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsmen, Weatherall has weathered the storm and done it all. Having played the played the Oxford Art Factory last Saturday, the original moody DJ fronts up for another, lengthy, allgenre mix alongside Battles for the Warp Night at the Sydney Festival Becks Bar Wednesday 23 January. Check.

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BJöRK Is there life on Mars?

By Simone Ubaldi

“I

met Brian Eno once in a steam room in London. I fell asleep and when I woke up, he was sitting next to me.

He told me this theory about how singers make melodies that reflect how artistic their countries are. Countries like England and Japan have very hierarchical structures and the notes are always very close to each other; there are no big jumps. But people from Iceland, for example, sing melodies that are more anarchic. I thought it was interesting… but it could have been that I just dreamt it, you know. Maybe I didn’t even meet him.” Bjork chuckles gently and lapses into silence.

For most of my adult life, this diminutive waif has loomed large on the alternative music landscape as an artist of curious, otherworldly charm. And here, for a brief moment, it seems that the Iife of the Icelandic pixie queen might be equal to the legend; that Bjork might, as a matter of course, fall asleep in a drowsy mist and wake to find Brian Eno has appeared, numinous and elusive, to impart some esoteric gem about the nature of song.

Naturally, this would happen, because she is Bjork, and she seems only marginally connected to this world. Gnashing her teeth at photographers or turning out for the Oscars dressed as a Swan; tap dancing, screaming punk or wailing an ocean of noise from the bottom of her tiny chest; she is extraordinary and extraordinary things must necessarily happen to her… ergo Brian Eno. The truth, of course, is slightly less romantic but significantly more robust, much like the lady herself. Though she speaks quietly on the phone, with the sweet and doughy accent of her north European home, Bjork is clear and thoughtful at all times. Thirty years in the music industry, beginning with the self-titled record of 1977, has given her an immaculate polish in her approach to interviews. She answers every question as though it is the first time she has heard it and she peppers her responses with graceful frankness. Her

tour, her new album, her craft – these are not randomly evoked from a witches brew, but measured artistic choices that she can easily explain, even if the end product seems creative beyond comprehension.

Volta, for example (Bjork’s sixth solo album) is a response to Medulla, which was a product of motherhood. “Medulla for me was really about domestic bliss and breast-feeding and the joys of that very small universe that a mother has with her child, but then when they get older the mother wants to go out and have friends as well. I think Volta is about that really, wanting to take the world on and wanting to tour and go to places that you’ve never been before.”

Medulla, another landmark record in a career of constant reinvention, was built almost entirely from layers of Bjork’s voice. It was impossible to tour because, as she impishly points out, “I’ve only got one larynx,” so from 2004 until the release of Volta this year, Bjork remained at home with her young daughter.

When she finally set about making the new album, she was unconsciously reconstructing her own life.

“A lot of the time when you’re in the middle of it you can’t really tell where it’s coming from.

All your friends can tell, but not you, so it’s hard for me to say what drove me… I was probably suffering a little bit from cabin fever.

It probably came from having had a baby and being tied to the house for a long time. I was really excited about touring and I think in many ways I wrote the music thinking more about how it would sound live than how it would sound on the record.”

A long-time devotee to the art of collaboration, Bjork brought in a host of guest artists to deliver what she has called “an energetic and fun album”. Antony Hegarty (of Antony & the Johnsons), appears alongside improv drummer Chris Corsano, Malian kora player Toumani Diabate, Chinese pipa player Min

Xiao-Fen and a 10-piece brass band. Always curious about the cutting edge of electronica, Bjork also invited Congolese “electro” outfit Konono No 1 to work with her (with the traditional likembé instrument wired for sound, Konono make beats from wholly organic sources). As she tells it, this collaborative process was part of her return to the outside world.

“I guess 80% of the album I did on my own… it’s quite a solitary affair. I write and sing and write lyrics and it’s very introspective,” she explains. “80% of the album is that energy, so towards the end I’m always gagging for some other people, and it becomes just the opposite. When I collaborate, I don’t want to follow my rules, I want to do something wild and see where I can meet with this other person.”

Perhaps the highest profile guest on Volta, super-producer Timbaland was also called in to work on the record, with three of his tracks ending up on the final product. This, it becomes clear, was a true test of Bjork’s commitment to the collaborative process – and the submission of her artistic will to that of another.

“I did try at first to get him involved in the concepts of Volta and all the brass and the ideas I’ve been working on with my vocals, but he sort of sent them back to me and said that that wouldn’t really interest him,” she smiles, “I think, with Tim, you really have to do it his way. He’s very macho - in the nicest way possible. He has a very primitive and productive energy. He’d just walk into a room and in the space of three hours we’d have four songs from scratch. He’s sort of a person who likes to work from scratch, so you’ve got nothing that you’ve prepared and came with and it’s just you, that’s it, and you just write a song… He’s sort of like a race car driver – it’s very extreme, that one element, but it made me feel like a tango dancer getting thrown around.”

Afterwards, Bjork admits, she returned to the songs for some additional noodling: “I wanted a bit more embroidery added in, because I’m a chick. So I sort of sat down and added in some structure, some backing vocals, some instruments. So we got the best of both worlds – Tim got to be a race car driver and I got to be… embroidery woman.” The important thing, she insists, is to keep changing, and if she stays too long in an interior, secluded place, she is naturally inclined to fight her way out of it. Similarly – and this why Australian audiences have not seen Bjork since 1995 – too long out there in the world and she starts to lose her sense of self.

“With The Sugarcubes, we would make an album for two or three months and then we’d go on tour for 15 months, and a similar thing happened to me with Debut and Post. When I started doing Homogenic in ‘96 or ‘97, I decided I wanted to change the balance and spend maybe 15 months making an album and four months touring it, because I felt I needed to progress more musically instead of just being a rock animal in hotel rooms and sound checks. So the last 12 years I’ve toured less, but I think it was worth it, because I’ve gone into categories musically that I would never have seen if I had toured as much as I did in the beginning.”

This is all very practical, of course, and the result of her pragmatism is a career rich with massive revolutions. Still, as ever, there is something uniquely Bjorkian about her logic.

Even if her choices are easy to understand, it is impossible to know how she does it.

Who: Bjork What: Volta is out now through Universal When: January 23 / January 25 Where: Opera House Steps / Big Day Out

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Mum

UNKLE The guns and the glory By Gloria Lewis

Cold as ice By Mike Gee

Ö

rvar Þóreyjarson Smárason sounds like he is either suffering from an extremely heavy night out or he has the worst cold in history. His voice is deep, fogged out, almost-but-not-quite-yet croaky as the co-founder of quirky Icelandic group, Mum, surveys Manchester’s somewhat bleak and cold streets from a tour bus. It is 9.40am unnaturally early for many musicians but Örvar is seemingly in a good mood. The group played the hip London club for alternative events, Scala, the night before and the gig went well.

“I’m a not a big fan of playing in London,” he says. “Sometimes it can be difficult. It was a very good audience which is quite unusual for that city.”

It’s 10 years since Mum gently prodded its genuinely appealing experimental muse into the marketplace. Gentle vocals, predominantly female, odd beats and effects, more electronic than traditional instrumentation, more digital than real sound. Yet in all that unpredictability, there was always a firm melody. Something of beauty. Until now, their excellent fourth album, Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy, and it’s wonderfully titled first single ‘They Made Frogs Smoke ‘Til They Exploded’. Things have changed in Mum, you see. Singer Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir left the band in 2006 following in the distant footsteps of her twin sister, Gyða, who left in 2002. The remaining duo, Örvar and Gunnar Örn Tynes, took the chance to break with tradition and bring in a bunch of new musicians including two singer, Mr Silla and Hildur Guðnadóttir.

The result is the first Mum album where

instruments dominate over - or at least break even with - electronic sound, where the melodies play and even bigger part, where lyrics are written from a broader, less feminine perspective (although Örvar does disagree with this). It is a genuinely attractive and compelling album. “Very much so,” Örvar says. “It is probably one of the albums I am happiest with.

I enjoyed the way it came out. When Kristín left we were joined by our friends in a much larger way [sic]. We worked very well together. We didn’t have alot of discussions. We just got on with it and saw what happened."

As for the lyrics, Örvar doesn’t think there’s a fundamental difference. The band still uses the same way of writing, he says. Basically, the melodies drive the words. “Music comes first then lyrics. Sometimes you might have something scribbled on a piece of paper and of a sudden it makes sense,” Örvar says.

Not that he’s short of words; in the break between Go Go Smear and the band’s 2004 album, Summer Make Good, Örvar published two books - one of drawings and another of poetry. He doesn't make much fuss about it. Simply, it’s part of what he does. It’s the same kind of calm and modesty you get when talking to the members of Sigur Ros, arguably Iceland’s greatest group. Push any of them for an explanation and there is none. It’s just the way they are. And quite glissando of the music, and it’s equally surprising quirks or turns, reflect the fundamental physical nature of their country. Icelandic music feels Icelandic, evokes the land of light and dark extremes, of ice and flows and glaciers, and hot and cold. “Yes, the six months each of light and dark does effect you,” Örvar says. “There is no way it couldn’t. We do lots of working in the summertime and get filled up with energy and then when it is dark we stay in a lot and try and find things to do to pass the time.” Like go on tour. “Yes, well there is that. It lifts the spirits.”

Who: Mum What: Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy out now through POD/Inertia

U

NKLE mastermind James Lavelle has always come across as a bit of a difficult customer when it comes to his relationship with the media, and in the final stretch of 2007 he’s holding true to form when The Brag finally pins him down for an interview.

His frosty nature is all the more surprising given the almost universal acclaim which has greeted Lavelle and production partner Richard File’s third long-player War Stories, yet another UNKLE record which takes the formula laid down on its predecessor (2003’s epic Never, Never Land) and turns it neatly on its head.

The danceable rhythms and widescreen electronics of their last record are still there but take a back seat to a Wall Of Sound guitar-driven approach, no doubt inspired in some part by recording sessions with Queens Of The Stone Age main man Josh Homme and producer Chris Goss at the Rancho De La Luna studios in the California desert.

“I was really impressed on an emotional level when I met Chris,” Lavelle says of the Goss connection. “He was the right temperament and the right person to be working with on a record like this. He’s a very strong songwriter and I really wanted to work with the melody side of what he does. He’d also come from having been signed to Def Jam and worked with people like The Dust Brothers and Rick Rubin, so there was an understanding of what we’d done and what we were trying to do coming from a more electronic and sample-based culture. And also just being able to get away [to the California desert from their London home] – somewhere I could escape and just get my head down really.”

Getting his head down has certainly helped UNKLE produce their most cohesive record to date, with a renewed focus on the partnership fuelled by the closure of Lavelle’s Mo Wax label making UNKLE Lavelle’s main musical priority.

With more time on his hands than he’d had in the past, Lavelle’s long-held desire to transform UNKLE from a studio outfit to a fully-fledged live band became a reality.

“I think with the situation I’m in now and the time I’ve got now as compared to in

the past because I’m obviously not running a record label, and the people that I’m involved with and the record that we’ve made…” Lavelle muses. “All of those things coming together made it make more sense to be doing what we’re doing now.

I don’t think initially it was what we started out doing, but I think it started to unfold like that as the process went on, that we started to think this was a record that could be performed live and wouldn’t it be great to be able to do that.

“How you perform, the whole dynamic, the amount of people, the whole process is just so much different,” Lavelle says of performing live as opposed to DJing.

“I enjoy the mentality that everyone is going in to perform this show, and you know what you’re going to do but it’s a combination of so many things and making sure everything works at just the right moment. So it’s been very rewarding in that way.”

Who: UNKLE What: War Stories is out now through Inertia When: January 23 / 25 When: The Metro / Big Day Out

theredsunband Their crosshairs are trained squarely on you By Elmo Keep

T

heredsunband have garnered the critical acclaim of giants, with the trio’s sound compared to Mazzy Star and personal heroes Cat Power – who the band have supported, along with Sonic Youth and other such luminaries. From gracing stages at the BDO, to working with producers Dean Dirt and Tim Whitten, theredsunband - as fronted by Jessica Michalik Music Endowment recipient and Brag interviewee Sarah Kelly – are making ready their new album for delivery this year. In the meantime they will shortly launch four new tracks on the EP, Like An Arrow.

Your website (theredsunband.com) is in a word, intense. Who did this for you? Are you very involved in that side of things? Or do you have specially trained monkeys?

A company based in St Peters called Mathematics designed it for us when our first record came out. We’ve always been very involved in the artistic output, yes. John has painted every cover of all of our releases (we have a total of five), and I write everything by hand.

The other four songs are exclusive to the release and were recorded over theredsunband’s three year absence, with various people at different studios and houses. Tell us more about this! Who lends their house to the redsunband? What were you using to record on – a portable set up?

The two people that recorded ‘Fell Free’ and ‘Echoes’ on the EP (Toby and Al) lived at the house we recorded in. They had a Persian rug for the drum kit in the lounge room, and

a Protools set-up in Al’s bedroom. I did the singing upstairs in Toby’s bedroom.

Tell us about the gestation of the songs on the album. How did they come into the world? What was it like working with Tim Whitten? Did he regale you with stories of the Oz music business of yore? Does he prefer eggs overeasy? That kind of thing.

Are you referring to the Smith’s story? The eggs? No?? (We aren’t but this sounds fascinating! We implore anyone to ask Tim about this when next they meet.) Tim Whitten is a very cool guy, he skates. He lives near the beach and has a tan. He’s self-taught!

Awesome. Anyway, I guess we chatted about bits of stuff. I asked him a lot of questions about Australian bands I like that he recorded.

What’s been informing your sound as the band has developed since the first album?

We listened to heaps of folk music. We moved away from the city. We started playing the songs on a nylon string acoustic and focussed on getting the three-part harmonies right before we moved on to drums and amps.

If you had to choose (which you do), which has been your favourite support slot/gig/tour so far?

That’s hard. I love Cat Power so it was pretty incredible to play with them. I nearly fainted when Chan drawled to me in her southern belle whiskey voice “I lurve y’all’s bayund nayum” (translate: I love all of your band name). But I like fun tours too, like the one we just did with Liam Finn and EJ Barnes. They’re lovely, and so

are their crew, and they all drink like mothers.

What are you listening to at the moment?

The new PJ Harvey record. Way too much.

Gaslight Radio. Old Paul Kelly.

Is there a hidden meaning to the spelling of redsunband and the run together letters?

I like the way it looks: theredsunband - see? It looks better then the red sun band. Perhaps that

is teenagerintokyo’s motivation also. I have not the faintest idea.

Who: theredsunband What: Like An Arrow out on Chatterbox Where: The Annandale Hotel When: Saturday January 19

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Battles Marching power By Simone Ubaldi

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are I say it… it’s like emulating an orchestra, with just guitar pedals, or crouched on the floor using DJ equipment.”

Tyondai Braxton is actually referring to his solo work here, but the same holds true for his world-renowned four piece “side-project” Battles. This Brooklyn-based rock band, cast from the seasoned players of several other notable music projects, is a kind of superband of guitar dorkness. Employing staggeringly complex compositional rules, they carve music out of counterrhythms and subtly intertwined beat patterns. Their melodies emerge from loops and marches, like glittering acid stars skittering across an intricate, clockwork universe; a universe of digital precision made from warm analogue instruments. Traditionally, we call this math rock, and Battles are widely viewed as the most successful proponents of the genre. Naturally, they don’t see it that way.

“I think that math rock is an inaccurate way of describing it,” says Braxton, obviously tired of the standard Battles soubriquet. “It wasn’t like we were using this band to learn how to play our instruments or anything, so it’s a focused band because we all really know ourselves as musicians and we know what we want to get out of it and what our strengths are. I think that’s what you hear in the band more than a simple technical mastery, as such.”

The standard implication of the term “math rock” is that technical mastery trumps all. It is derided as music for musicians - only those who are well-enough trained to appreciate the sophistication of the work – so you can understand why Ty and his bandmates might want to avoid the term. But the very fact that the Battles’ brand of math rock has found an audience beyond an elite circle of guitar boffins is what makes them so fascinating; they have successfully married science and art.

“Our methods are pretty unorthodox,” Braxton explains, “and I guess that was the kind of interest that drew us together, because it would allow us to create a fresh language within the band.” When he first met band mate Ian Williams, Braxton had already produced a number of albums, working somewhere in the field of electronica or sound art. Williams, a noted guitarist whose finger-tapping method allowed him the play keyboards and guitar simultaneously, was a member of math rock pioneers Don Caballero and their avant garde associates, Storm and Stress. The two artists, both emerging from left field, started an idle creative relationship in 2002.

A few months later they were joined by guitarist Dave Konopka, ex-Lynx, and shortly after that by John Stanier, legendary drummer for Helmet and Tomahawk.

“The thing is, even after the band came together, it took us maybe a year to find the framework of how the band was going to work. Stylistically speaking, there was never any pinpoint on what we wanted to do,” says Braxton, “If anything, what the band sounds like now is a couple of years of compromise and negotiation as far as members are concerned.” Although each of Battles’ members is a master craftsman, and each of them received formal musical training at some point, they were exploring very different terrain when the band first came together. Tyondai, the son of prolific jazz musician Anthony Braxton, was making music by using effects pedals and recording source material in a live environment, and then distorting and triggering those sounds.

Stainer, of course, was at the cutting edge of experimental metal. But whatever distinguished them, they undoubtedly shared a passion for exploring the outer territories of musical possibility.

The trick was to point four visionaries towards the same horizon.

Certainly, a lot of people are hearing something in the debut Battles album. The Pitchfork support was a given, but NME, who routinely champion chart-friendly alt-rock, surprised many by making ‘Atlas’ Single of the Week in April last year. The first cab off the rank from a surreal, electro-funk record, ‘Atlas’ stormed in like an army of munchin lemmings doing aerobics. The rhythms are twisted and water-tight, and the samples are methodically employed, but there is something greater than the sum of the parts in this infectious, hypercolour production. Long time fans of the band have commented that ‘Atlas’ particularly, but also Mirrored as a whole, is a more accessible work than the Battles EPs, and this is why the band has suddenly appeared in the mainstream spotlight.

“I think we’ve become more relaxed, and certainly more confident. Maybe that makes us a little more accessible,” Braxton muses. “I mean, yeah sure, our songwriting is better and the interaction between the members is more fluid, so I think it’s a combination of all these things that makes the music sound more natural. So people are really able to get into it or latch onto it more because it’s a little more… thorough, I think, than our previous efforts.”

Increasingly, Braxton has had cause to consider the conflict – or creativity – that occurs when highly technical music is made for aesthetic purposes. A thoughtful and articulate artist, he knows that Battles walks a fine line with pop music fans, but he believes that they are on the right path. “We’re not up there as robots, executing the next measure coming up. We really enjoy playing, and one of the things that keeps you interesting in the respect you have for your craft. You’re going to get in there and take it seriously and think about it and find ways of exploring it that’s about more than just feeling good. It’s a deeper connection to you craft, I think, when you get the science of it as well as the heart and soul of it,” Braxton says. “I think it’s important to keep a balance. You don’t want to play with all heart and no head, and you don’t want to play with all head and no heart.”

Who: Battles What: Mirrored out now through Inertia When: January 23 / 25 Where: Becks Festival Bar / Big Day Out BRAG :: 244 :: 14:01:08 :: 21

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Murdering Balladeers By Alexi Sebastian

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alk about murdering ballads. For more than a decade American covers-only outfit Me First & The Gimme Gimmes has massacred mainstream radio hits, turning the lampooning of golden oldies into a virtual fine art. And with an emphasis on fun, the toughest challenge for this Californian punk supergroup comprising moonlighting members of Foo Fighters, Lagwagon, NOFX and Swingin’ Utters is finding a hole in their respective schedules to get together.

matching suits and punk-riff parodies.

“I think ‘Pretty Vacant’ into Vanessa Williams is kinda funny,” chuckles Slawson.

The troupe’s latest instalment, 2006’s Love Their Country reprises a dozen country-pop staples we’ve grown to love (or loathe) as the band apply the wrecking ball to tunes originally performed by Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, Hank Williams and Dolly Parton. For Slawson, a trained violinist, such selections is simply “And they’re covers too so you can only do it so fresh ammunition for his all-star cohorts. much every year,” says singer Spike Slawson “Some of our picks are awful, specifically mine, on the phone from hometown San Francisco. and they end up being terrible!” he laughs.

“But we rent a nice rehearsal space here and “Everybody pretends that it’s democratic but practise for about three hours and then hit the road or the plane or whatever the case may be. then we realise our horrible pick and then we just ditch it. There’s a lot of elimination if you We don’t really tour the States, I mean we’ve know what I mean. been back east and we’ve gone up as far as Seattle and that’s really all the states that I like doin’. I don’t mean to denigrate other wonderful “There were some real standouts of all the stuff towns in the States but I like the coast - and the we did,” he adds. “I was listening to Loretta Lynn and Porter Wagoner and they’re just great lakes.” amazing songs. You think you love the song and that you want to pay tribute to the song Shortly after their formation as a casual party and you think the best way of doing that is band in 1995, Slawson, bassist Fat Mike, by covering it but often it is not the best way guitarists Chris Shiflett and Joey Cape and of paying tribute. This is something you only drummer Dave Raun recorded the aptly titled discover later on.”

Have a Ball, an album of classic radio pop standards that sparked further demand for their Slawson’s personal choice on the album is hilarious karaoke-punk send-ups. Five themed actor/singer-songwriter Jerry Reed’s 'East albums on Mike’s Fat Wreck Chords followed in its wake including 1999’s cheesy show tunes Bound and Down' from the Smokey & The set Are A Drag, 2001’s collection of 60s covers Bandit soundtrack.

Blow In the Wind and their R&B tribute Take “I like that one because it was just from one A Break from 2003, each sporting plenty of

Plain White Ts No Frills By Alexi Sebastian

of those cheesy movies, you know what I mean? A Burt Reynolds movie, the one where the Pittsburgh Steelers are in a bar fight.

Cannonball Run I think.”

better then Fat Mike”) with Shiflett’s brother Scott (Face To Face) standing in on guitar. A new album of rock ballad remakes, tentatively titled Have Another Ball, is slated for this year.

With little interest in feedback from the original artists - “I’m just happy to pay the publishing rate” - Slawson says the country material is more attuned to what the band is suited to playing. “That country beat, that’s where the rock beat comes from you know. But the R&B records really gave me a clue as to how much rhythm counts.”

“I heard a Frank Stallone song from the film Staying Alive and it starts off like a sports broadcast, you know, like one of those upbeat songs. But then Frank Stallone starts singing! It’s on side two of the soundtrack. Side two is where that soundtrack starts to shine by the way.”

Who: Me First & The Gimme Gimmes When: Friday Jan 18 (all ages) / 19 Where: Manning Bar

Here this month for their second Australian visit, MFGG will feature temporary members Eric Melvin (NOFX) on bass (“he actually plays

The Baby Animals Early warnings By Mike Gee

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welve years ago the best rock band in Australia broke-up, choked by a legal stoush with their manager. It was premature and all so sad. The Baby Animals 1991 self-titled debut spent six weeks at #1 and sold more than 400,000 copies in Australia alone, making it one of the biggest Australian albums ever at the time. By 1993 they were rock demi-gods and had even made inroads in the US on the back of support tours with Van Halen and Robert Plant. Lead singer Suze DeMarchi was the greatest female rock singer Australia had seen since the halcyon days of Wendy Saddington and Carol Lloyd (Railroad Gin). With the tightest rhythm section, Eddie Parise and Frank Celenza, in the business, and a genuinely top flight lead guitarist, Dave Leslie, the Animals bounded back and forth across the country playing to ever bigger crowds.

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t’s been a telling year for American rockers Plain White Ts. After almost a decade of toil the Chicago quintet finally found success last year with a little known EP track ‘Hey There Delilah’, a song highlighting the punk-pop outfit’s seldomdisplayed acoustic underbelly.

Re-issued as a single and added to 2007’s rereleased Every Second Counts album, ‘Delilah’s’ tale of post-teen infatuation struck a tender nerve with fans, reaching # 1 on the US Billboard charts, sparking more than a million downloads from the iTunes Music Store and earning a 2008 Grammy Award nomination for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Performance By A Group with Vocal.

“We’re not going to completely change our sound just because ‘Delilah’ got some attention,” says bassist Mike Retondo of the group’s sudden success. “If you go back to our older records there’s always been up-tempo songs and there’s been like acoustic-y ballad-type stuff.”

Plain White Ts’ current status stands in stark contrast to their early days. A serious accident almost derailed the band shortly after their formation in the late '90s when founding singerguitarist Tom Higgenson sustained a punctured lung and lacerated kidney in a car crash. The frontman’s determination to continue however is a lasting symbol of the band’s collective grit.

“He played with back brace several times,” says Retondo.

After an independently-funded debut plus two albums on indie label Fearless (At The Drive In), PWTs rewarded themselves by signing to EMI’s Hollywood Records, a move that despite bringing the band a broader fan base has neither swelled their egos nor their pockets.

“Nothing’s really changed in the way that we’ve always done things,” says Retondo. “When we started we played the smallest clubs to like 25 people - we were just five guys in a van driving around. Back then we were on a small label and it was just up to us to go out there. Now we’ve got more and more people coming out to the shows.”

In the lead up to appearances in Australia for this summer’s Warped-style Soundwave festival, the Illinois five piece are headed for Europe and the UK this year having recently completed a domestic US tour with Fall Out Boy and New York rock-hip hop chameleons Gym Class Heroes, a mark of their musical dexterity. “This tour’s a little bit different for us but we’re glad to be on it,” says Retondo, a huge fan of Hoffman bass guitars, made famous by Beatle Paul McCartney.

PWTs hope to continue stretching the boundaries on their forthcoming fifth album, eschewing a city studio for a more relaxing environment, according to Retondo.

“We’re taking a little time after the holidays to retreat away from the world and write songs and work on things,” he says. “We’re not sure where we’re going to go but the idea is that we don’t want to be in a stale recording studio that you rent. But we’re not sure where we’ll go but this time we want to go somewhere with some character that will inspire us.”

Who: Plain White Ts When: February 24 / 27 Where: Soundwave Festival - Sydney Park / Gaelic Club

release of the ‘acoustic’ album will be a fullblooded slice of Animal magic. “You know me, I’m a bit of a risk taker but I wanted to make sure we weren’t going to lose any money doing this. We were originally going to do an acoustic tour but really that was never going to happen. I know we’re promoting a record but it would have been horrible to do that to the fans. I’m a rock chick and we’re a rock band. The good thing is we are all still alive, it’s the same people, same band. We all thought we’ve got to do this now and to do as many records as we can. I want to do another 4 or 5 records. We owe ourselves - and our fans - a few.”

Hopefully, the new records will reacquaint Australia - and the US - with the band. The past 12 months have been largely ruled by reunion tours as rock floundered in a puddle of average mid-2000s bands such as The Killers running out of ideas (the great Arcade Fire and their ilk being exceptions to the rule, of course). “I think there’s a place for everybody since the influx of all those reality TV music shows saturated the market, DeMarchi says.

“People got pissed of with it all and started looking for other stuff to listen to. Look at what happened with the Led Zeppelin one-off reunion. Millions of people wanted to be a part of that. When they walk on stage the power they have is the real thing - there’s no smoke and mirrors, just really great musicianship.

And that’s what people want. Great musicianship, great songs, a great show. It’s going to be a stretch with me being based in America and the boys here in Australia but we’ll make it work.”

That debut album slayed ‘em. It was just a bloody great rockin’ monster. The 1994 second album, Shaved And Dangerous, was far less so - although that had more to do with the band’s record company adding a bunch of songs it wanted and subtracting bunch the band wanted.

DeMarchi has always had a droll sense of humour and a quick tongue and it hasn’t deserted her. She turns 44 on February 14 but the energy and passion seem renewed and as keen as ever. The forthcoming ‘rock’ album the one the band and the fans want - she describes as “raw, rock, four-on-the-floor, simple, fun. It sounds like the Baby Animals. I don’t think that is ever going to change.”

And you’d better believe her. The Baby Animals are on the prowl…

Similarly, the tour, despite tieing in with the

Who: The Baby Animals What: Il Grande Silenzio is out January 19 through Liberation When: January 23 / 24 / 26 Where: South Sydney Jr’s / Rooty Hill RSL / Hunter Valley

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Caribou The Boy Most Likely By Simone Ubaldi

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ince his 2001 debut, Dan Snaith (aka Caribou) has barrelled around the world in a blaze of folk-tronic glory.

The London-based Canadian expat has released several extraordinary albums of delicate loop and sample work gentle, complex candy clouds of digitally wrought feeling which have straddled both the indie and the electro genres – but his latest may well be his best.

Andorra is the fourth record from Caribou (nee. Manitoba - until Handsome ‘Dick’ Manitoba took him to court in 2003 and Dan was forced to change his name). Released last year, it followed on from the day-glow glory of The Milk of Human Kindness (2005), and it saw Dan take a noticeably different path in his musical production.

One of the first and best DIY bedroom folk producers, Dan built his earlier albums out of layers; beats, notes and samples, piled up with great pop savvy to make tender and thoughtful electronic music. Start Breaking My Heart, his 2001 debut, was awash with memory and melancholy; Up In Flames (2003) surged with a playful, psychedelic exuberance; The Milk of Human Kindness exploded with confident bubbles of delirium, depression and joy – but these albums were largely instrumental, and focused very much on the compression of analogue and digital sounds to make a new form of pop.

Andorra, with Dan’s voice on most of the tracks, seeks to make this new pop a more personal endeavour.

“This album was very much about composition and writing music, writing harmonies and arrangements that have some emotional resonance and have me in them. It was about writing the music, rather than just having things happen by accident by building on loops, which is what I’ve done with my previous records,” he explains.

Dan wrote over 650 original melodies for Andorra, as he struggled to reach that point of pure emotional expression. A classically trained musician, he played almost every instrument on the album, including guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, flute, percussion, trumpet and something called a Guchin, which he mastered on a recent trip to China. He admits there is some advantage to being a reasonably talented multi-instrumentalist, but Dan was always in pursuit of something greater than the sum of his musical education.

When asked if he can actually read and write music, he claims it is almost beside the point.

“I don’t really think about writing music too much – I tend to want to use my ear – but I do have that background, having grown up playing classical piano and jazz piano. I was into anything that was about learning about music and how it fits together and harmony and stuff,” he begins.

“But it’s a funny thing, after spending my entire life learning that this cadence ends up here in classical music, or this chord sequence is common in jazz music in this context – it’s not like I have a blueprint to write songs. It’s still very hard to have something that resonates emotionally.

And writing music is very much not about that stuff that I’ve learned; it’s about using my ears to come up with melodies that feel a certain way.”

Dan’s voice, which shines and drifts through the album in a glorious band of light, became a critical tool in the pursuit of this new pop idiom.

Handled like a fine instrument all its own, his voice fuses together in the arrangements in a way that is reminiscent of Beach Boys. In fact, the whole album – rich, sweet and luminous and as it is – is a fitting successor to Brian Wilson’s lovingly crafted pop psychedelia; and in some ways, Dan might agree, he is trying to make his own version of Pet Sounds.

It is seems obvious, with significant praise from every corner of the Western world (and a fair few voices in the East) that Dan Snaith is a gifted artist with an incredible instinct for both melody and arrangement, but things aren’t so obvious to Dan. How does he measure the emotive power of pop – especially when he’s used to the precise world of maths?

“To be honest, when I’m making the music, I’m only ever thinking about myself,” he laughs. “It’s only ever about how it makes me feel and how it feels in the moment of making the music. I never really get as far as thinking ‘will other people like this?’ I either feel really excited or really melancholy. And then if I’ve been working on a track for a few months – or, even better, if I leave a track alone for a few months and then come back to it – then I have a reaction to it like it’s someone else’s music…It goes from being really personal, very much me, to being outside of me.

It’s a funny thing where you need to have some kind of distance and some kind of proximity as well,” he finishes uncertainly.

The ambiguity as to why he likes it, of course, and the inability to explain how it happens, it what makes it art. For Dan, the most important thing is that Andorra is what he wanted it to be.

“I think it’s a good record,” he smiles. “I’m still really proud of it.”

Who: Caribou What: Andorra is out now through Shock When: Thursday January 17 Where: Beck’s Bar BRAG :: 244 :: 14:01:08 :: 23

Dream Theater Sultans of shred By Jesse Shrock

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hen guitarist John Petrucci met drummer Mike Portnoy in the famous Berklee Music College in 1985, the first name they took for the group they formed was ‘Majesty’. Though it was under the name of Dream Theater that this band eventually came to prominence, any of the group’s fans will happily attest that these auteurs have reigned as monarchs in the field of Prog-Metal for nearly two decades.

At any rate, the adoration of Australia’s prog set – and the depth of longing with which they have been awaiting Dream Theater’s forthcoming tour - was made pretty clear to Petrucci when, performing as a solo artist with backup from Mike Portnoy, he joined fellow guitar luminaries Joe Satriani and Steve Vai for the G3 tour of late ’06. “We got such a great welcoming,” Petrucci recalls. “We ran into a ton of Dream Theater fans, and we felt the anticipation. Of course, we’re very much looking forward to coming as well. There’s always something really exciting about playing a country for the first time, (and now) there’s not too many countries we haven’t been to yet. So it’ll be a unique experience.”

At 40, Petrucci has been a member of Dream Theater for the greater part of his life. But even for all his career longevity, he is remarkably humble when asked what his personal contribution to the field of virtuoso rock might be.

“When I jam with guys like Joe and Steve, or Eric Johnson, I almost feel like they’re going to recognise where my licks came from, because they sound like theirs…” says Petrucci, probably selling himself a little short. “I think of myself as having taken a lot of eclectic influences and bringing them into a style… (one) that might have existed before, but maybe wasn’t as popular. You know, we’ve always been about taking ‘70s progressive, instrumental music, and marrying that with riffbased metal. If I pioneered anything, I think it would be along those lines.”

Petrucci also acknowledges that Dream Theater have been moving steadily towards the ‘Metal’ side of ‘Prog-Metal’ in recent years; their latest release Systematic Chaos characterising the shift.

“If there’s anything I’ve learned as we’ve gained more experience playing live and recording,” Petrucci observes, “it’s that the heavier style is, for me, a lot more fun to play. It really pumps up the audience as well…”

But Petrucci also stresses that Dream Theater’s reputation for go-for-broke instrumental bravado doesn’t exclude them from taking a more reserved approach if it better serves the intensity of the music. “We definitely reel ourselves in…” he says.

“I mean, on the latest album, you have a song like ‘Dark Eternal Night’, which is about breaking all the (musical) rules, and anything goes. But you also have a song like ‘Repentance’, where it’s very restrained, and very hypnotic and grooveoriented, and it shows a different side. For us, it’s always about what the song calls for.”

What the songs of Systematic Chaos seemed to call for, as far as Petrucci’s role as a lyricist was concerned, was epic fiction. “For this record, my inspiration was all fantasy,” he declares. “I wanted to do things that were completely removed from reality - ridiculous, fantastic stories about good and evil (that are) a lot of fun to write.”

Vocalist James La Brie, however, had other ideas, and ventured down an uncharacteristically political path with an impassioned (though hardly controversial) tirade against the Iraq occupation in ‘Prophets Of War’.

“It definitely threw a curve ball,” Petrucci says of La Brie’s decision. “Here I am writing all these songs about monsters and vampires, and then all of a sudden we’re talking about war. But it’s not a concept album, so he certainly didn’t have to go along the same lines that I did…” But was Petrucci in agreement with the sentiments expressed in the song? “To be honest, not really.

Obviously, ‘Prophets Of War’ is kind of critical of the US administration. I don’t agree with him on that. But hey… freedom of speech!”

Petrucci is a little less laisez-faire when it comes to production, Systematic Chaos marking the fifth of Dream Theater’s albums that he has co-produced with Portnoy. Indeed, if there’s one thing to be gleaned from the ‘making of’ footage included in some pressings of Systematic Chaos, it’s that Petrucci, and Dream Theater at large, can regard making music as a science as well as an art.

“There’s definitely a fine line between recording something that’s really well-played, and recording something that’s sterile,” Petrucci observes. “You have to know when to stop if you’re losing the soul part of it. But as far as the technique is concerned, I’m 100% anal in the studio. You know, anything can happen live, (so) I look at the studio as my opportunity to have control, take my time and get it right. And that’s what drives me and what makes me happy as a player and as a songwriter.”

Who: Dream Theater What: Systematic Chaos is out now through Roadrunner When: Wednesday January 30 Where: Hordern Pavilion 24 :: BRAG :: 244 :: 14:01:08

Anti-Flag Fronting the bright lights By Daniel Hedger

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nti-Flag is punk rock in the true sense of the term.

With the throng of so-called new punk bands popping up on the iTunes playlists of the youth of today, it’s nice to see there’s still a band that is kicking it old-school.

Pat Thetic, drummer with the band since its inception in 1988, is pretty much punk rock straight up. He asks about the recent Australian election and q uiz z es me on the situation with asylum seekers in Nauru; it’s like the coolest humanities teacher ever. For Pat, Anti-Flag is really an outlet for the personalities of the members, for whom politics and music go hand in hand.

“ When we’re on stage, we talk about people getting along, but really we j ust drive Hummers and eat red meat and have sex with random women,” he says with a laugh. “ No, the things we talk about onstage are the things we talk about backstage and the things we talk about with our friends and family at home; and the ideas that we promote are things that we try to promote in our own lives too. So the band is really an extension of what we do in our personal lives. Those are the things that interest me and that I’m passionate about.”

Social j ustice and politics interest a lot of other people too, j udging by the line up of the 2008 Big Day Out. This year’s line up is as political and activist as it ever has been with Anti-Flag j oining the reformed Rage Against the Machine, Tom Morello’s side proj ect The Nightwatchman and the ‘One man Clash’ himself, Billy Bragg. “ Yeah, it’s fun because we’re obviously very good friends with Tom Morello,” says Pat, who has played with the Rage and ex-Audioslave guitarist on occasion. “ And last year when we were in the UK we had a few drinks with Billy Bragg, so we got to sit down with him and chat and that was sort of a dream type thing for us because we’re all big fans; so any time we can be anywhere near Billy Bragg and Tom Morello, it’s a good day.”

On this tour Anti-Flag will be showcasing some of the material from their forthcoming album, which Pat says the band is very excited about. “ We have a new record that’s gonna be coming out in March/April of 08,” he says. “ It’s called Bright Lights of America. We went in a bit of a different direction on this record; I’m really proud of it, it’s got a great sound to it and a good feel.”

A BRAND NEW STAND UP SHOW

Part of the reason for this great sound has to do with the presence of legendary producer Tony Visconti, whose credits include the classic David Bowie era and the last Morrissey album. “ Yeah, it’s funny, some people are really Bowie fans and some people are really Morrissey fans, it’s funny to see what people reference,” Pat says. “ But yeah, he did the last Morrissey album, it’s a great record and we liked what he did with that, we liked the texturing that he did with Bowie’s stuff and he’s got a good musical sense, which none of us really have. We have a good rock sense, but we don’t really have a good musical sense.”

Aside from being sonically different, the new album will be more of a personal record. AntiFlag has always been a band that tries to deal with anger in a positive way, from organising benefit gigs to the simple cathartic outlet that punk rock provides the frustrated teenager.

That tradition and ethos was drawn upon again when last year the band was faced with tragedy. “ I don’t know if you’re familiar with our world,” Pat says. “ But (bass player) # 2’s sister was murdered in January of 07, so that definitely put us in a different direction a bit and made us look at things a little bit more on a personal level and a little less globally. So we were looking to do a record that captured some of those elements.”

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This event led to the band releasing the EP A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, with money going to the Pittsburg Centre for Victims of Violent Crime. “ In situations like that,” Pat says, “ where there’s nothing you can do, it j ust sucks everywhere; you’re like, well, when things suck in our world, what do we do? We play music and we try to communicate with people so let’s do this for ourselves and create something that will at least give us something positive to put our energy in rather than j ust being angry and frustrated and hurt and all the other emotions that come along with something like that.”

Despite all the heavy topics of discussion and indignant, fiery lyrics, Anti-Flag is still a rock band wanting to put on a show for the people, whatever their opinions. “ What you’re gonna see is people who are very committed to their beliefs who are out to have a good time. And if you don’t like what we have to say, that doesn’t really matter, you can still come out to the rock show and be exposed to an idea that you didn’t have before and you can tell us to fuck off after the show,” Pat says with a laugh. “ That’s how it goes.”

Who: Anti-Flag What: Bright Lights of America will be out later this year through Sony.

When: January 25 / 26 Where: Big Day Out / The Gaelic Club

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MEGAN ALSTON

side of it all. It’s pretty awesome to throw an idea out there and have all these people come together and make it happen.

Tell us about Stella Green?

I started Stella Green Productions in 4.

2007 with writer/director Byron Kaye. We

want to make theatre that is both really good quality and entertaining, basically theatre that people want to see. Since we started the company (and it’s been less than a year), we have produced two shows Friday Night Drinks and Angry Young Women... that have gone really well, with both selling out quickly.

We are taking two shows to the Adelaide Fringe in February and both of those have been selected as highlights of the Fringe, so everything seems to be going pretty well for us so far.

MURUNDAK

While we’d love to be able to claim credit for this giveaway, we sadly can’t. This one comes straight from the folks at Sydney Festival and British Airways, who are offering a chance for you and a friend to fly to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August this year with five nights accommodation included. Whoa! I think The Mighty Boosh have performed at the Fringe Festival, so you know that shit is amazing. So how do you go in the draw? All you have to do is purchase tickets for the January 22 or 23 performance of murandak, an amazing Indigenous concert at the Opera House featuring the 28-piece Black Arm Band that includes Kutcha Edwards, Shane Howard, Ruby Hunter, Jimmy Little, Archie Roach, Ursula Yovich, Emma Donovan and more.

Get your tickets from sydneyfestival.org.au.

Why should people come and see your shows?

5.

Angry Young Women is hysterical. If the

1.

What inspired you to move into performance?

I don’t know. I’ve performed my whole life. I can’t help it.

As a producer, what roles do you undertake?

2.

Everything from choosing which play to do,

organising performance rights, photography, PR and marketing, getting cast and crew and organising when and where they need to be for rehearsals etc, hiring theatres.

I also do the really glamorous things like vacuuming the theatre, walking all over

SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2008

With the Sydney Festival creating a monopoly of our city’s arts scene during January, you might as well assimilate and head along to one of the numerous events on at the Festival. The Spiegeltent is also rocking every day in Hyde Park, so that’s something not to be missed.

Or how about the Becks Festival Bar, if music floats your boat. Whatever your taste, no doubt the Sydney Festival has got something to cater for it. Check out www.sydneyfestival.org.au for all the details you need.

Sydney putting up flyers and holding Byron (our director’s) hand when he’s freaking out.

As an independent theatre producer, it’s a lot about getting people to do their stuff for you for free.

Do you prefer being on stage or taking a backstage role?

3.

I initially started producing because I wanted

to make sure that I was always acting, so I guess the main agenda has always been to be on stage. I didn’t realise until I started Stella Green Productions, though, how much I would love the backstage/organisational

MAKE DEADSHITS HISTORY

After 2007’s record sell-out run of Harden the F*ck Up Australia, Heath Franklin’s Chopper is back, head-butting his way across the country, tackling an issue bigger than world poverty or global warming – eradication of the terminally stupid. Make Deadshits History is Franklin’s second tour as his alter-ego Chopper and it’s destined to be huge. Tickets go on sale this Friday for the shows. Catch him at the Civic Theatre in Newcastle on April 23 (tix: 02 4929 1977) and the Enmore Theatre on April 24 & 25 (tix: 02 9550 3666).

MOONLIGHT CINEMA

NEW THEATRE NEEDS YOU! New Theatre is in trouble! Here’s why: “In order to comply with the City of Sydney Place of Public Entertainment (PoPE) licensing requirements, New Theatre has to undertake compulsory building upgrades that must be completed by March 2008. To complete these compulsory works, $70,000 must be raised within the next two months. If New Theatre is unable to generate the initial $70,000 to complete the first stage of these compulsory building upgrades, it will be forced to close its doors in March. Every donation, large or small, will help. All donations of $2 and above are tax deductible. To make a donation or for more information on how you can assist New Theatre, please contact Luke Rogers, Theatre Administrator, on 9519 3403 or email newtheatre@bigpond.com.”

crowds we had at our first fun of it are anything to go by, it’s a really fun and funny night out. It’s got a great cast, who all seem to take their clothes off... Mile High is a brand new Australian play. It’s also a very funny show, but goes a bit deeper as well.

We’re doing a bargain deal if you want to see both shows and there is also the famous Old Fitz beer and laksa bonus as well.

What: Angry Young Women / Mile High When: Jan 9 – Feb 2 / Jan 17 – Feb 2 Where: Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo

CHARLIE PICKERING

He’s fast becoming one of Australia’s favourite comedians, and now Charlie Pickering is coming back to Sydney to perform some very special shows at the SBW Stables Theatre in Kings Cross. Entitled Impractical Jokes, Charlie embarks on a mind-boggling sixtyminute, decade-long story about payback in the suburbs. In 1986, Charlie’s dad was pushed into a pool by his best friend. What followed was ten years of payback involving three toilets, a poodle, daffodils and the State Emergency Service. When maturity is the first casualty of war, things tend to escalate. It starts on January 21 and runs until February 2.

If you’re one of the lucky ones still on holidays – or even if you’re not – treat yourself to a night of cinema under the stars at the Moonlight Cinema located at the picturesque Belvedere Amphitheatre, Centennial Park. This week you can catch the classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on Tuesday, the brand new King of Kong on Wednesday, controversial Bra Boys on Thursday, the edge-of-your-seat thriller 1408 on Friday and the opulent Elizabeth: The Golden Age on Saturday. Head to www.moonlight.com. au to book your tickets.

COMICS WANTED FOR RAW COMEDY ‘08

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, with the support of Triple J, is now calling for entries for the 2008 RAW Comedy competition!

Undiscovered comic geniuses across the country have only a matter of weeks to sign themselves up for Australia’s largest open mic competition for their chance to win the National Grand Final and a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Heats are happening in Sydney at the Sydney Comedy Store every Monday in January and February at 8:30pm, in Newcastle in the Playhouse, Civic Theatre on Saturday February 2 and Wollongong at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre on Thursday February 28.

THE IMPERIAL PANDA FESTIVAL

Huh? The Imperial Panda Festival? What the hell is that? “The Imperial Panda Festival is a showcase of six critically acclaimed shows from the Cab Sav collective. Born out of the Lanfranchis theatre scene, these are the most exciting, award winning shows from Australia’s new breed of upcoming theatre makers, under 26,” replied the press release.

I see. So there are events on at Chalk Horse Gallery from January 31 – February 3, and then at Blackandblue Gallery from February 5 – 9.

Keep an ear to the ground, it’s exciting.

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You know Ahn Do. Come on, he’s been everywhere – including Dancing With The Stars! You’ve seen him on The Footy Show, or Rove, or Pizza. He’s been in films like Footy Legends and he won Triple J’s Raw Comedy competition. Ahn’s also previously been crowned Sydney Comedian of the Year.

Is that enough of an introduction? Catch him at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House from Wednesday January 30 – Saturday February 2.

PERSEPHONE’S WOLF

What do you get if you combine a Greek myth, improv, live music, live Film Noir, line dancing, a interactive community art installation and two writers who dared to ask themselves, “What if this was the last play we could ever write?” You’d probably get something like Persephone’s Wolf , a brave, hilarious, epic love play written by Zoe Norton Lodge and Cait Harris. It’s on at CarriageWorks in Everleigh from January 30 – February 2, and then February 5 – 6. Get your tickets from moshtix. com.au.

FILMINK AWARDS – VOTING OPEN

EVEN BOOKS

Alright! A good ol’ fashioned book club, even books, is starting up at Dean’s Café in Potts Point from Thursday February 7. There’s books, booze and bingo on offer! There will be exclusive performances by talented individuals, fictional fisticuffs, BINGO! (You can win BIG!), book swap (bring your old books and swap for “new” ones! Genius!) and… did we mention the booze part? Come along to the inaugural even books night for a reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Have your input into awards for the best (and worst) films of 2007 by voting for the Movie Extra FlimInk Awards. Just by voting you’ll go into the draw to win a trip to China! Voting closes 5 p.m. Friday February 29 so to make your voice heard, head to www.filminkawards.com.

SLOW SHORTS CALL FOR ENTRIES

Do you have a taste for great film and fine food?

Call for entries for the inaugural Slow Shorts Film Festival is now open and will close on January 21. Slow Shorts is inviting emerging and established filmmakers to present their take on all manner of gastronomic pleasures: it could be a short film about a food experience you had, a satirical cooking program or a documentary about eco-friendly farming. Visit www.slowshorts. com for more info or drop them an email at slowshorts@portablecontent.com.

HELLO AGAIN

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will be here before you know it, so as the perfect appetiser to the giant party, the Darlinghurst Theatre Company are teaming up with Gaiety Theatre to bring you Hello Again, a musical adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play La Ronde. Adapted by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, it’s been nominated for 5 Tony Awards and now it’s being performed in Australia. This musical production is performed by a cast of 10 of Australia’s hottest talent including Helpmann Award Winning Kate-Maree Hoolihan (We Will Rock You, The Boy From Oz) and directed by the amazing Stephen Colyer, It’s running from January 30 to February 23. Tickets $35/$30 and available from www. darlinghursttheatre.com.au or 8356 9987.

THE NATIONAL AND CLOGS

Dark-tinged indie rockers, Brooklyn-based The National, bring the depth of composed music to the irreverence of pop.Their sound is a gothic jaunt of alchemical reactions, with their complex orchestrations and evocative lyrics sung in Matt Berninger’s distinctively brooding baritone.

The National have won a legion of fans for their 2007 album Boxer.

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Clogs’ intimate and rousing musical dreamscapes are a heady mix of slow-burning rhythms and swirling, delirious melodies.

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American Gangster The B rag chats exclusively to D enz el Washington

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et’s go back in time, 4 or 5 years ago, the first time you read Steven Z aillian’s script. What was your reaction at the time? D id you say ' I want to play this part, this is for me' ?

For me it’s always a combination of things; the material, the character obviously and the story were very interesting. I think when it first came to me they weren’t sure about the filmmaker. And then it sort of went away and then it came back, and then Antoine Fuq ua was going to be a part. And that fell apart, and then it went away again. And I talked with Brian Graz er. I had more or less forgotten about it. And then maybe a year and a half ago or so, my agent called me and said ‘You know, Ridley Scott is interested in doing the film’. Obviously you’ve got to stop and listen when they say Ridley Scott, so I did.

What I realised about the movie, maybe it’s his work and probably more the work of Steven Z aillian’s script itself, that there is no one way of describing the characters.

They’re not good or evil, F rank is not a demon or Richie is not a saint‌ I think Ridley really made a point of that. I had to look, I don’t know which was first, if I go back to the script and go ‘Oh, it was always there’ or if it’s something that Ridley did.

Obviously something Ridley did in addition was to j uxtapose scenes. Showing us having a wonderful dinner with the family and people shooting drugs. Richie Roberts at home making a sandwich all alone. That’s obviously an obvious decision on Ridley’s part if not the writer’s part too, to show these different worlds.

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I s it also the part of the actor to manage to stay in the grey z one?

I think for me it’s j ust to stay honest. I can’t try to do what I think the filmmaker is trying to do unless I’m asked. But j ust be true to my character. If we do a scene and the scene is already described in the script and we’re having dinner at Thanksgiving, then you enj oy. And also talking and sitting down with Frank, you see his family. His brothers and cousins are still with him. He talked about his family and wanting to be with them altogether, and how he only trusted them, those kinds of things. So that’s who he is, that’s probably what Steven Zaillian tackled when he met him.

going to kill him’. Frank said ‘We were not going to kill him, we were scaring him. Did he tell you he owed me fifty thousand dollars and he didn’t pay me my money? ’ I’m like ‘No he didn’t tell me that part’. So this guy was like ‘Oh, Frank is awful’. You know he forgot to mention, ‘Oh by the way I stole his money’, you know!

I n order to portray F rank Lucas, did you have to concentrate on the charming entrepreneur aspect of the character in order not to glorify the gangster aspect of him?

No you don’t go about it that way. You play the part. You show everything: the killing, selling drugs and being in church on Sunday.

That’s what’s interesting.

Ridley came back to the cinema of the ‘ 7 0s for this one, movies like Serpico or The French Connection; the cars from French Connection and the lines from Serpico and of course The Godfather. I s it the cinema that interests you? I s it the one you take as a reference?

I’m a product of that. When I started acting in 1975 , films like Taxi Driver were coming along and all of the Dustin Hoffman pictures, that old style. That was in terms of the film, and I wasn’t looking at it like cinema like I’m going to be a filmmaker. But in terms of film, those were the benchmarks. And I grew up here in New York and where I went to school they shot part of Taxi Driver right across the street.

Those were the movies I was attracted to.

They were doing real acting.

D id you meet the guy? How is he? I mean is it easy to forget when you’re in front of him that he was a killer and drug dealer?

Oh yeah. Frank always said to me ‘Denz el look, I was in a very dirty business’. I met one guy who said ‘Oh yeah, Frank was craz y, you know I had to j ump out of a car going fifty miles an hour because he was going to kill me’. I said ‘Really? ' Then I saw Frank and said ‘Frank, remember this guy‌’ Frank says ' Yeah he j umped out of a car' . I said ‘Yeah you were

D id you get inspired by the character actors of that generation? D id you go back to The Godfather? D id you go back to Pacino, stuff like that?

No, no. I can go watch all those movies, I’ll put it that way. You probably remember something. You’ll get flashes in your mind of Pacino doing this or somebody doing that. But I had the real man. I had the real godfather.

I had the guy right there in front of me so he was enough; he was alive.

I s there a responsibility when the real guy is there?

I think so. You don’t want to disappoint.

At the same time he was so happy. In fact one of the first scenes he saw was me and Russell together. The first day I got married, then the second day I got arrested. And then the third or fourth day was the scene with he and I sitting together. He was like ‘Yeah okay, okay’ and I ran over there and I said ‘What do you think about this, what would happen with that? ’ The common point between F rank and Richie is integrity. You seem to have kept that all your career in Hollywood.

How did you manage to do it?

No matter where you are you carry it with you, either in Hollywood or Istanbul.

It doesn’t matter the place. A city or an industry can’t take from you what you won’t give it.

An industry?

I have a very good j ob and I try to do my j ob well. I do my j ob well and I go home.

It’s not the whole celebrity running around, taking pictures and being in all the places, that’s not what I do for a living. That’s something else. That’s the result of what I do, maybe. But that’s not what I do. I’m not a professional celebrity; I’m a professional actor.

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ArtsLab '08 A different kind of study By Diana Wardi something for a client or specific expectation,” says Eckleberg. “Especially if you are young and not yet established.”

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rtsLab08 is calling for artists 18-25 with a project they want to realise with the support and resources of the Shopfront community. Shopfront artistic director and CEO TJ Eckleberg says ArtsLab is a mentoring program that offers an opportunity for experimentation and play. “The chance to experiment and develop a project over a year is very rare today, rather than create

Shopfront is a cooperative arts centre set up for young people in 1976 with a DIY ethic where young artists can come and work through an idea, but offering more support and mentoring is the ArtsLab residency, which was successfully launched last year. “ArtsLab is a targeted residency for 18-25, so it’s an opportunity for any artist from across Australia that wants to create their own work to come and create whatever they can dream up or whatever amazing thing they can do in a year,” says Eckleberg. “We take seven people a year and participants are chosen based on suitability—basically working out they are a good fit with the community and ready to work out an idea.

“It’s a very strange world in that people think that the only way for a young artist to develop is to go to university, but that seems insane.

Not everyone has that opportunity and you don’t need a university education to be a good artist,” says Eckleberg. “Kevin Ing for example had no formal training and not a lot of opportunity, but developed a relationship

with a Canadian guitarist over the internet, who then designed the soundscape to match his work, he created this installation piece that was quite stunning.”

Another 2007 participant, Miriam Waks, a cabaret artist and singer now has a work that’s prepared and well documented that she can approach venues and festivals with. “I wanted ArtsLab’s mentoring and development assistance because, while I had these ideas about where I wanted to take myself as an artist, I lacked the basic understanding of what exactly the arts-making process entails,” she explains. “I wanted to avoid further institutionalised study for the time being and just give myself a chance to experiment away from the rigidity that can often come from a course environment.”

By institutionalised, Waks refers to the university course she abandoned in order to pursue her career in performing. Furthermore, Waks says the residency “certainly delivered” and allowed her to be daring in her choices, learning alternative approaches to work and build industry contacts. “I’m hoping to complete the cabaret show I was developing during ArtsLab and have a 2008 season. I also want

to pursue my love of world music by going to India to study traditional and modern Indian singing.”

In 2007 the participants came from a range of interest areas, including cabaret, film, multimedia, performance artist, installation artist and a ritual artist. The program offers a combination of formal and informal mentoring, with weekly group meetings with the director and monthly one on one meetings. “Each artist has studio space, access to Shopfront resources and three showings for presentation or performance, one in April, June and a final showing at the end of October,” Eckleberg explains.

Participants also join the Shopfront major project each year. In 2007 it was A City of Shadows and Ice, a performance installation that involved moving pieces of ice around Kogarah Town Square to an electro soundtrack. This year’s will be lost toy story, which centres on stories about toys that have been lost.

What: ArtsLab ‘08 Where: Enrol at www.shopfront.org.au

Haircuts By Children Doing it for the kids By Amelia Schmidt

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ocial acupuncture is a really cool term that Darren O’Donell, a performance artist, contemporary theatre developer, intellectual and all-round progressive from Toronto has explained to me that I think I will begin to use more often. It’s part of the body of work of Mammalian Diving Reflex who started as a theatre company in 1993. They did “experimental theatre, though I don’t like that term, perhaps contemporary theatre,” says O’Donnell, until 2003, when he started sticking pins in society, metaphorically speaking. “It’s an area of the company that likes to create atypical social dynamics, and events where different social groups that wouldn’t ordinarily be together can come together and do things that they wouldn’t ordinarily do.”

Like letting a bunch of nine to ten year olds give out free public haircuts on the streets of Sydney in the name of art, which is what Haircuts By Children will be over the course of the Sydney Festival. But before we get to that part of this story, there is considerable interesting background to cover. O’Donnell’s previous Social Acupuncture projects which led up to the creation of Haircuts by Children include one that is particularly nifty called Slow Dance With Teacher, where, essentially, a bunch of reasonably attractive uni professors

are made available for you to act out your slowdance-at-prom-balloons-are-everywhere-andTime-After-Time-is-playing fantasies with. Why? “To scramble social dynamics,” says O’Donnell.

“We create spaces which give people to opportunity to do things they wouldn’t normally do with people they wouldn’t normally do things with.”

Haircuts by Children is certainly that kind of thing. I pointed out that perhaps people might be reluctant to have their hair cut by any stranger, not just a child, mainly because if we trusted just anyone to cut out hair, there would be no industry for hairdressers. Darren took my point and went on to explain that Haircuts is about challenging perceptions of children as well. “Why can’t children take responsibility for their own actions?” he asks, in full seriousness. I offer, devil’s advocate style, that perhaps society decides when people should take responsibility for things by making legal ages for voting, drinking, working and what not. Darren seems to believe those ages are arbitrarily chosen and, moreover, that not allowing children to take responsibility is almost oppression. “I think kids who want to vote should be allowed to vote,” he says. “If a kid who wants to drive a car should be able to see if they can drive a car, maybe they can, maybe they can’t.”

So then most people would say that if a twelve year old wants to vote, that’s not a good enough reason to let them vote. But why not? There’s a good chance that a twelve year old who wants to vote has done more research on the parties than most voting adults. Then there’s the issue of child labour – some people surely will see this Social Acupuncture experiment through the wrong lens and worry about exploitation. “I have no problem with kids working if they want to work and are paid a fair wage,” says O’Donnell.

In a society where we are extending adolescence out in both directions (eight year

old girls want to wear bras and be like the Pussycat Dolls and twenty five year olds want to keep living at home) and the baby boomers are reluctant to relinquish any power at all – and yes, you could connect these two points – the question of trusting the younger generations is a political and topical one. In the end, they’ve got to hand the scissors over some time, whether it’s comfortable or not. Short back and sides, please.

What: Haircuts by Children When: In cinemas Boxing Day When:January 17 - 18 / 20 - 21

Short & Sweet 2008 The art of staging & schmoozing By Elliot

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hort & Sweet is considered the biggest little play festival in the world yet whenever I mention it to nonindustry people, I am usually met with blank expressions. So here goes: Short and Sweet is a competition. Anyone can enter. Even you.

If you have a play that you’ve written you can enter. If you are an actor you can enter. If you are a director… you can enter! Short and Sweet is a great way to meet people, get your work on the floor and to also gain some really good experience. Just ask Rose Byrne, she was in it once.

Showcasing 90 of the best 10-minute plays submitted from all over the globe, Short & Sweet is held in rounds each week, with ten different plays being shown per night for each respective week. I sat down with actors AnaMaria Dumitrescu (The Companion) and Ben Davy-Thorburn (Sad Song) to discuss this little festival that people seem to know so little about.

Ana Maria describes her role as one she could really “sink her teeth” into and found the play remarkably involved for a ten-minute piece. “The main character goes through so many journeys in a ten-minute period. I loved the language and the subtext. Catherine is a very desperate woman and there is a sensual, sexual side to her that I found very

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challenging.” Not surprising, considering this is a ten-minute play and some actors only get two weeks to rehearse.

Ben will have even less. “It looks like we’ll have about 6 half days and maybe more depending on our progress, which is a fair amount for what is only really a 10-minute scene; however I don’t believe in over rehearsal, there are always more choices and interpretations you can apply, it’s just a question of being imaginative in the different ways you approach the work. And it’s better than under rehearsing – there’s nothing worse for an actor to step on to the stage and have that little voice in your head whisper: ‘You’re not ready for this!’” But Ben and Ana Maria are more than ready, both having studied acting at Western Sydney’s Theatre Nepean and preparing a great deal of material in their own time.

Ben is new to Short & Sweet and comments: “It gives both aspiring and established actors, writers and directors the opportunity to show off their work whilst not involving the commitment of a full length show.” He also is very pleased with the potential to source more work which is scarce for most actors. “I have been cast in another show already, just from the director (Richard Allen) passing my name along to someone he knows during the

audition process – gotta be happy with that!”

Ana Maria is also interested in the opportunity to meet new contacts and also to network.

“I’ve already formed a good relationship with the director and hope to work with her further.”

Ana Maria loves the cultural diversity of her play and Ben’s favourite thing about it is simply that he’s in it! And you could be too! Auditions are held in November/ December every year and expressions of interest from writers, directors and theatre groups are encouraged from October.

So if you are a budding playwright, an aspiring actor, a wannabe director or even an industry professional, get involved in the action and support Short & Sweet 2009. In the meantime, you can see these marvellous little morsels at both the Newtown Theatre and Seymour Centre from mid January.

Check www.shortandsweet.org for further details and get out and support the arts.

Sweet.

What: Short and Sweet 2008 Where: Newtown Theatre & Seymour Centre When: January 16 - February 23

JOANNA NEWSOM

WITH THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY Following sell-out shows in London’s Royal Albert Hall and Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, Newsom will perform her astonishing symphonic album, Ys, accompanied by the Sydney Symphony in the Concert Hall.

Orchestrated by Van Dyke Parks, the opulent orchestral arrangements in Ys lend a dark romanticism to Newsom’s ambitious and sweeping song suites.

Concert Hall Sydney Opera House January 25–26 at 8pm Tickets from $40 Sydney Opera House 02 9250 7777 Save up to 20% with Multipacks, call Festival Ticketek 1300 888 412. www.sydneyfestival.org.au

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Arts Snap

Film & Theatre Reviews

At the heart of the arts

What you should go and see

THE GOLDEN COMPASS The Golden Compass is the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s first book in His Dark Materials trilogy.

We journey into a unique parallel universe where humans have dæmons - talking animals which reflect their soul. Their world is governed by The Magisterium and strange boats that fly are powered by electrical blue spheres.

Our young heroine is Lyra, an orphan girl raised in Jordan College. She overhears a conversation between her Uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig) and The Magisterium about the mysterious particle of Dust. Asriel has discovered a potential portal hole into another world but the Magisterium forbids him to explore it.

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Lyra’s best friend Roger is kidnapped by Gobblers. Lyra and her dæmon Pantalaimon plan to save him but leap at the opportunity to join Mrs Coulter up North as her assistant.

Nicole Kidman, who deserves more screen time, is fantastic as the deceiving Mrs Coulter.

She looks like a '50s movie star with her hairstyle and lavish lifestyle. But her scheming motives are soon discovered by Lyra.

Lyra joins the Gyptians and others characters along the way as they travel North to rescue the kidnapped children. She has an important device given to her by the collage, a golden compass which points to answers asked by the user.

This is a classic good versus evil story tale and Dakota Blue Richards carries the whole film as Lyra. Her character is engaging. With the golden compass, she holds the power of knowledge and is faced with difficult morals.

The big battle scenes are entertaining as both sides collide and there is a touch of philosophy.

The Golden Compass is an intriguing film as we explore deep into Lyra’s world. Even if it is a setup for the second film, I found the ending leaves too many questions but it’s still very enjoyable.

Bernice Au

P.S. I LOVE YOU

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This is the next instalment in the string of super-sappy, sugar-sweet, why-can’t-I-havea-boyfriend-like-him romance films that have been emerging within the last decade.

Following suit, P.S. I Love You is a story of love once found and love now lost with one further dimension: aftermath.

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Arts Exposed Get out to our gallery pick this week

Ghostgarden Royal Botanic Gardens (Rathborne Lodge)

On now until January 27 (except Mondays) Looking for something a bit more sublime amongst the ruckus that is the Sydney Festival? Want a little less booze and a lot more fresh air? Want something that’s free that you can take your little nephew and your grandmother to?

Why not check out Ghostgarden, a beautiful journey around the Botanic Gardens that, with the use of GPS technology and your imagination, transports you back to the 1800s when Royal Botanic Gardens were a zoo and parklands, in this tale of Jack and Lucy and their impossible love. Is this a tale of the past or from the future?

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After suffering a brain tumour, Gerry dies leaving his wife Holly in a depressive spiral of mourning and stupor until she realises that his foresight is more extraordinary than that of Nostradamus, for he has left her a series of letters dictating how she should live her life without him. Revived through these, right through her journey toward acceptance, Gerry (Gerald Butler) is the single light that shines constantly throughout this winding and monstrously annoying tunnel. Humourous, upbeat and selfless, he is the saving grace that will keep bums in seats and women’s hearts afloat. If only this love could transcend toward the living characters and not just to the dead.

Although P.S. I Love You aims to avoid all the gruesome clichés of your average romance film - and succeeds in most areas - it pays a mighty price for its deviance against the norm.

The living are riddled with so many humanistic flaws and annoying tendencies, I had to fight the many urges I had to literally reach out to the screen and wrangle the character’s necks in an attempt to shake the complete loser out of them. This is sheer proof that Hilary Swank should have kept her nose clean away from anything that could possibly suggest her femininity. Seemingly dim-witted and insolent, Swank feels embarrassingly out of sorts and out of place – not to omit the fact that she ain’t much to look at, either.

Heartfelt and not without good intentions, this is for the true romantics that are either single and searching desperately for Mr Right or just weak at heart in general, but be warned: this is no rival against the beloved sappiness that is The Notebook or even A Walk To Remember.

I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND A new age of world cinema is sweeping through the currents of the mainstream and one surely capable of staying afloat is the offbeat Czech film I Served The King Of England. War, love, sacrifice and ambition are all tightly woven in a whimsical and warming journey that scopes the period from WWII and beyond.

Jan Dite is shorter than the average man, quite so in fact, but his mind is far from stunted as he ventures on grand dreams of becoming a ‘millionaire’. From seedy bars to the elite hotels of Prague, young Jan finds opportunity as a waiter while carefully observing the waves of wealthy clients who dine before him. En route to financial success, his sexual drive is born and sure enough he encounters the committed definitive German Aryan, Lisa. Yet their newfound love develops during a sensitive period of German occupation and inevitably a series of obstacles arises.

Told in a series of sentimental reflections, the film has inducted two actors to embody Jan in two stages of his life. The young and idealistic Jan is so vividly contrasted with the wise and weathered older Jan who has been released from prison and sent to a remote village to start afresh. Here he contemplates the defining moments in his life, reflecting on the different ways he could have played them.

The film is so unique in its technical choices and uses these to give it fluidity yet at the same time deny the possibility of over simplification by pushing the sense of imagination the young Jan nurses. An interesting choice of music accompanies an often-ironic visual choice but in the tradition of many foreign films, this movie has its share of nudity, sex and booze.

I Served the King of England is an optimistic and colourful portrayal of life, ambition, lust and leisure and certainly a credit to the Czech film industry.

Gideon Anstey

FLICKERFEST OPENING NIGHT Friday January 4 Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach Flickerfest International Short Film Festival opened with a bang, with splatters of gold, tanned skin and lashings of beautiful people. We expect nothing less from Bondi. However the short films far outshone the sartorial spectacle, leaving everyone salivating for more.

Although the festival opened with the first of its five strands of international competition, it was gratifying that this included an Australian and a New Zealand short. The screening opened with The Girl Who Swallowed Bees, from comedian, singer, illustrator and writer Paul McDermott (Doug Anthony Allstars, Good News Week), who introduced the film with an anecdote about aurally ambiguous audience praise at the Berlin Film Festival 2007, for which the film was selected.

As a (literally) poetic, visually surreal and ultimately positive narrative, it was a logical choice to open the program. As a whole, festival director Bronwyn Kidd selected and arranged a program of refreshingly diverse films, and resisting what might be the temptation to include more comedies on an opening night.

The quality of all the films screened was outstanding. There were a couple from the United States, and one each from France, Italy and Germany - each had been selected for at least one of the major international competitive festivals, such as Berlin, Sundance, Venice, Cannes or established short film festivals such as Aspen Shortsfest.

Of the handful of animations screening in the competition this year, hopefully they are all as good as Don Hertzfeldt’s Everything Will Be Ok, a masterpiece of visual absurdism, teetering on a line between comedy and anxious insanity. This was the discovery of the night for me, and I went home to plunder YouTube for the rest of his work.

A large proportion of the audience came and went throughout the screening, in a way that probably wouldn’t happen in an indoor venue, and definitely not during a feature film. However, despite even the light drizzle of rain throughout the night, most of the audience persisted – which testifies to the quality of the films and Sydney’s ever-increasing support for short film culture.

Stephanie Yip Dee Jefferson

DVD Reviews

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LUCKY MILES Madman Films

In 1990, a small Indonesian fishing boat carrying Iraqi and Cambodian refugees discharges on a remote stretch of land in Western Australia.

Faced with nothing but sand dunes and endless desert, most are quickly captured by officials.

However three men who share nothing but misfortune and refugee status find themselves bound together and begin a long journey to find their destiny in ‘Australia’.

Lucky Miles is based on true events that boldly tackle the sensitive issue of asylum.

Yet director Michael James Rowland has not presented an overly dramatic story of struggle but rather integrates an almost satirical and comical twist on the journey the protagonists endure.

The story is solid, the characters collectively intriguing, however infinite scenes of the men running across the desert combined with endless shots of the landscape seem to hide the originality the story should flaunt.

The film has given a detailed recount of the landscape, so much so there isn’t a dune they haven’t included! Still, as the characters progress through the desert, they experience brief encounters that are both interesting and quirky, ultimately placing this piece in the better part of recent Australian film.

It is a story well told and a film well made that reflects the political climate of modern Australia and highlights the issues that are born out of its landscape.

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PRICELESS Madman Films

Director Pierre Salvadori, who did the horrendous Après Vous (2003), enjoys belligerent romantic comedy, and Priceless is only marginally better.

The casting of Audrey Tautou (AmÊlie) as Irène and Gad Elmaleh (The Valet) as Jean was this film’s one saving grace. Without its stars, the superficial, stereotypical and forced nature of the script would have been unbearable.

Instead, what you end up with is a perfect hangover movie.

Based on Breakfast At Tiffany's, Priceless is a tongue-in-cheek (pulled with a fishhook) story about gold-diggers and romance on the Riviera.

Tautou, who plays beck and call girl to rich men for designer goods, is a lovely clotheshorse who does what she can with an otherwise dislikeable character.

Elmaleh brings his father’s mime background to the fore, using over the top expressions to communicate his quiet waiter character a few times too many, but overall presents a charm and chemistry with Tautou to make something out of nothing.

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eleased in 1990 in Japan for Nintendo’s original Famicom, Final Fantasy III has never before made it to western shores, at least not in English. Being a very important step in the evolution of the RPG genre that the Final Fantasy series essentially defines, nerds everywhere must have been glowing with joy when it was announced that the game was being refreshed and released on Nintendo’s magical DS. Rather than be a cheap port of what would obviously be a pretty bleak game by today’s standard, Square Enix have decided to make a decent effort of it and update the game with fancy 3D graphics and various other tweaks. Die-hard fans of the series may not like that the background story of the four main characters has been completely changed however.

FF3 is most memorable as the RPG that introduced a dynamic job system.

This meant that unlike other RPGs of the time where you chose if your guy was a fighter, wizard or whatever at the start and were stuck there, FF3 allowed you to change your character’s role as the game evolved. This added some strategic depth, as well as allowing gradual upgrades or evolutions of jobs.

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HERALD-SUN The majority of your time spent playing this game will be in the battle mode, which is turn based. This can turn a lot of regular gamers off, but it suits the handheld format perfectly as the last thing you want to be doing is thrashing at a video game madly on the peak hour train.

The battles are incredibly frequent, which is incredibly painful but you endure it simply because it means your characters level up very quickly which is essentially the name of the game. Another sore point is the lack of support for the upper screen—the overworld interface shows a map, but once you’re at a dungeon level you get a black screen. Nothing at all!

I love this game mainly because it reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on GBA. Similar interfaces, sound effects and of course characters make the whole thing a sugar coated XP-fest that has no end in sight.

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It’s called: The SOSUEME Re-la unch: Q-Bar & 34b! It’s a Haus-War ming Extravaganza!

It sounds like: SOSUEME [so-soo-mi] -noun 1. A bad-arse party that's about to get relaunched at Q-Bar, this Frida y.

-verb (used with object); sosuemed; sosueme-sized 2. To make an occasion radder: This retirement village needs to be sosu Nannas are cool. eme’d, yo. Breakdancing Acts: From 8pm in 34b / “Clubl’and” , we have a slammin’ live lineup which HAILER, psy-folkers RICHARD IN includes dirty rawkers YOUR MIND and the “Lord of All Things Partyz”... SPOD! Meanwhile, dash to the lofty kingd om of Q-Bar-onia and hear the Indie THE PAPER SCISSORS & LION S AT YOUR DOOR! Once we kick libraries of the RED RIDERS, this bad boy into the lateness, ANNA LUNOE, THE E.L.F & MIXT APE: THE GAMBOYS and assorted SPEC MAFIA will be supplying the party crunk before HEY NOW!, IAL GUEST DJs will electro-fry your ‘ow do you say... Le Promise? eyebrows off yo’ face. Eh...

Three records you’ll hear on the night: The Paper Scissors - We Don’t Walk (HeyNow ‘Brim Don’t Bite’ Remix) Richard In Your Mind - The New Sun (either the E.L.F or SPOD RMX ... or the original. How confusing...)

Awesomely Incestuous Lineup - The Sosueme Rawksteady Collective (Mixtape:Mafia RMX) And one you definitely won’t: Sosu eme continues to be 99% Genre rekkids yet. Check the lineup! It’s Free, we can’t start culling basically a “lazy-susan” platter of radness... Feel the Noize!!!?!

Sell it to us: BOOM! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Being angry at yourself for breaking you’ve made, EVER... in one night every New Year's resolution !

Crowd specs: You... and us... and them... and that person you didn’ t mean to wake up late last year, but you did and it was technically the silly season (you know how it is), and it was easier than walking home. Sigh.

Wallet damage: A ten basher ALL night!

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With Soundwave now all but sold out (bar a few tickets the promoters are releasing to hold out scalpers) it's time to announce the side shows. You can catch them all over the place, check below for a full listing!

But to make sure everyone gets that little bit extra excited about Soundwave, Thursday have also been added to the bill.

Helmet are touring our fine shores yet again, with Page Hamilton and co tearing The Gaelic Club apart on April 30, Wollongong Uni on May 1 and the ANU Bar Canberra on May 2. Tickets are on sale now.

Kisschasy have scored their second gold album on the trot with Hymns of the NonBeliever reaching the 35,000 sales mark.

The Matches are also doing the sideshow thing and playing The Annandale on February 26.

Slick Shoes who were every pop-punk’s wet dream 4 years ago are reforming.

And another week goes by with yet another band hanging it all up. Hopesfall are all over. They were on Trustkill, and yes they do hate the owner of the label as well. But that wasn’t the reason, it appears they just got over it.

Less Than Jake have left Warners and started their own label, Sleep It Off Records. The label will release the band’s back catalogue and new albums, which includes the one they are about to start recording in March.

Flipper are back in action again. The highly influential noise/punk band of the '80s now have a new bassist as well, you may know him: Krist Novoselic from some band named Nirvana. Their new album is done, and will be the band’s first since 1992’s American Grafishy.

In Australia the new Pennywise album will be released in Australia through

Kisschasy Epitaph and MySpace Records.

The Rentals (feat. Matt Sharp from Weezer) are in the studio recording a new album.

Roshambo and Yidcore have scored the Me First & The Gimme Gimmes support slots on January 18 and 19 at the Manning Bar. Speaking of supports, The Amity Affliction have secured the Enter Shikari national support for the Forum show on January 23.

Trial Kennedy have secured the national support for the upcoming Gyroscope tour.

They play March 7 at the Jamison Inn in Canberra and March 8 at Spectrum.

While on the upcoming Shihad tour you will be able to catch Horsell Common and The Galvatrons.

Antiskeptic are touring with MxPx! That’s right, MxPx will be here on March 22 at the Forum! Also joining the tour will be Project 86.

With Brand New reaping in the applause for their new album, its little surprise that the band are taking time out from the Big Day Out to play The Enmore Theatre.

Anti-Flag will release The Bright Lights of America on April 1 through RCA records.

The Black Keys have begun work with acclaimed producer Danger Mouse to record their new album, Attack & Release which will be out in April.

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PROFILE

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes An all-star cover-band that take on some of the oddest reworkings you are likely to hear. Surely much more fun than their ordinary jobs (well, except for Fat Mike maybe) the Gimmes have been blasting out album after album for years now, and the fans keep lapping

TOUR DATES

Nightwatchman (Tom of RATM) January 24 – Gaelic Club Brand New January 24 – Enmore Theatre Anti-Flag January 26 – Gaelic Club Dream Theater January 30 – Hordern Pavillion Nightwish February 1 – Enmore Theatre Iron Maiden February 9 – Acer Arena Parkway Drive February 13 – Panthers, Newcastle February 21 – Kiama High School February 22 – Sutherland Entertainment Centre February 23 – Manly Youth Centre Dear Hunter, Kevin Devine February 25 – Gaelic Club

them up! This time the guys get 2 nights at the Manning Bar. Make sure you are there for one of them.

Dates January 18 – Manning Bar (Lic/AA) January 19 – Manning Bar (Lic/AA) As I Lay Dying, Still Remains, Fall of Troy February 25 – The Forum Incubus February 26 – Luna Park Big Top The Starting Line, Plain White T’s, All Time Low February 27 – Gaelic Club Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall February 26 – The Forum Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Boys Like Girls February 26 – The Metro Mindless Self Indulgence February 26 – Gaelic Club Thursday, Saosin, Scary Kids Scaring Kids February 27 – The Forum WASP April 8 – Metro Theatre

CD REVIEW MEMPHIS MAY FIRE Memphis May Fire Trustkill Sometimes you get really good, unique and captivating music in this job… other times you get this. Generic, based on what's-hot-now and completely uninspiring, the kids will love it! Fans of Underoath and the ilk will be driven crazy to the sounds of ‘Cowbell’s Makin’ A Comeback’, but even they may tilt their head and scratch as its all been done too many times before.

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N othing but the hard stuff with M urray Engleheart political commentator and general activist, K rist N ovoselic in their ranks and are rounding off work on their first slab in a decade and a half. Hopefully it, unlike The Stooges’ comeback effort, The Weirdness, will be in keeping with their gloriously abrasive and totally outsider past. That seething history will be fully on show on a live DVD that was shot in their 1981 prime time that’s due out in February. For j oy!

A B UI LT TO SPI LL RAVE F OR THE AGES

We’re still trying to centre ourselves after B uilt To Spill’s stunning performance at the Metro. Do you see these guys? Did you? Man, j ust when we’ve uncomfortably gotten as comfortable as we’re going to get with the fact that the guitar is no longer q uite the weapon and wand of first choice it once was, these guys come along with a three guitar front line and a revelatory demonstration of the chest and heart swelling magic there is to be had in a group of musicians doing nothing less than being totally immersed in the moment while at the same time proving that you don’t have to be a double neck welding Jimmy Page circa Zeppelin 1972 to be a total guitar god.

There was absolutely no grandstanding, nothing but polite, monosyllable stage banter from challengingly pitched singer and q uite extraordinary guitarist, D oug M artsch (who seemingly had no muscles in his neck when he sang) and no ceremonial removal of shirts to display tattoos that were deliberately inked in a language that no one could possibly understand. None of that. What there was, apart from the curious inclusion of a version of Brian Eno’s j arring ' Third Uncle' , was pure maj esty and the gorgeous melodic guitar adventure of Television and the sense of infinite time, space and whale language of The Grateful Dead at their most outer limits. Time and time again as hoped songs extended well beyond the parameters of their original recordings into shimmering new creations with a fresh DNA that then glided effortlessly back into more familiar territory. And best of all you got the sense that these excursions weren’t painstakingly rehearsed, more than they j ust happened. And there lies the real skill.

One of THE gigs of the past decade and that, you should know, is really saying something. We shit thou not. We’d never do that. Ever.

K RI ST N OVOSELI C J OI N S REF ORM ED F LI PPER

Legendary reformed extremists, F lipper seem to have been lost and forgotten in the fluff dry cycle of belated punk recognition that seems to be everywhere now. But that’s not too weird given j ust how searingly intense they were but it is unforgivable nonetheless. Anyway, somewhat curiously, given that blastfurnace history, they now have the other nice guy from Nirvana,

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SEX PI STOLS J OI N UK F ESTI VAL LI N E- UPS

We tried to tell them it was enough already and that they were diluting their legend but typically they ignored us. Accordingly, The Sex Pistols are doing a string of festival dates in the UK and Europe in the middle of this year, most notably a headlining spot at the Isle of Wight Festival on 14 June, the fixture made historical courtesy of performances by Hendrix who passed away not long after and The Who among others. Clearly, the historic association between hundreds of thousands of hippies and the festival has yet to be made by the hippy hating J ohn Lydon. There’s also talk that the band might be launching its own travelling punk festival which poses something of a dilemma; should they call up the old school mob of the Damned and The Buz z cocks et al and as such pretty much preach to the old school converted or go to the MySpace sites of the new school kids who are diametrically opposed to almost everything the Pistols originally represented? There’ll be tears before bed on this one.

OCEAN RAI N + ORCHESTRA + E& TB M = OM F G We’re big revisionists and rear visionists here at Remedy and we’re delighted to see that there’s plenty of the stuff about.

Stepping up to this plate in the biggest way of late are Echo and The B unnymen who, on 16 September, will perform their sweeping 1984 masterpiece, Ocean Rain at London’s hallowed Royal Albert Hall with full orchestral backing, something the original recording always begged for. The show sold out last week, nine months in advance. Singer Ian McCulloch probably isn’t too surprised. Afterall, it was on the strength of Ocean Rain that the shy and retiring Mac seriously sharpened his declaration that the recording was the final undeniable proof that the Bunnymen were the best band in the world. Period.

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On the Remedy turntable is the amaz ing effort from Wolves in the Throne Room titled Two Hunters and Earth’s lower freq uency than thou Sabbath sub riff masterpiece, Earth 2 which, as Lester Bangs once observed of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music bliz z ard of sound, has plenty of subtle stuff going on in the over and undertones and freq uencies. The self titled effort by The Pyramids, the howling garage side proj ect by members of the Archie B ronson Outfit is also copping a good seeing to.

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I N D USTRY N EWS

The big local date on the national Devil’s Kitchen Festival which sees 90 bands blasting out over January and February is Sunday 20 January at the Annandale from 2pm to 10pm. On the bill are Pod People (A.C.T.), N unchukka Superfly, Youngbreeder (Vic), F attura D ella M orte, Looking Glass (A.C.T.), D aredevil, Clagg (Vic), Grise and Cloves. Everyone gets a free Devil’s Kitchen 2008 comp slab on entry. Go to www.myspace.com/ devilskitchenaustralia for full details of all the gigs.

UK metal legends, B udgie go way way way back and they’ll be here in February as part

of their “ You’re All Living In Cuckooland” tour. See some real originators of the genre at the Metro on 19 February with M andrake and Stone Ox in support. On 26 February K illswitch Engage, Shadows F all, D ivine Heresy, F rom Autumn To Ashes are at The Forum and then on 27 February at the University of Canberra Reflectory. Glorious sonic architects, Explosions in the Sky coming coming our way for the first time.

On 15 February they’ll be at the Manning Bar. On 17 January, Maggotsville at Fitz roy St, Marrickville has an all ages show with Extortion, Shitfight, Crux, The Exiled, B eyond Terror B eyond Grace and Taipan. $ 8 and 7pm start.

Send stuff for this column to remedy@ oz email.com.au by 6pm Wednesdays. All pics to The B rag ( art@ thebrag.com) please.

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Apocrypha all the way back to 2001’s The Swimming Hour.

B ecks F estival B ar M onday J anuary 7 It’s a balmy summer evening, a Monday that feels like a Saturday. I hold a Becks in my hand (John Laws eat your heart out) and watch as a sea of people thrash along to Chromeo’s classic, ‘Needy Girl’.

The song finishes, and the crowd start chanting. “ Chrom-eee-ooo, eee-ooo” . The onomatopoeia doesn’t come close to the amaz ing atmosphere at the Becks Bar, but trying to capture the essence of Monday night, the fanatic crowd, the music --- it’s a futile task.

Having seen Chromeo at Field Day and thought they were pretty ‘meh’, (though scheduling the Canadian cool cats between four to the floor House DJs probably isn’t the best for either party) the crowd and venue must take a lot of credit for the night’s undisputable excellence.

And it wasn’t simply a case of standing around waiting for the main act. Theatre of D isco supported and solidified their reputation as one of Sydney’s premier live acts, performing songs from their excellent debut EP with gusto and charisma.

Their lead singer is seriously hilarious.

Introducing the group as Van She, he proceeded to stop singing in the middle of a song and apologiz e that he was sick. “ Normally my voice goes like this,” he says while making an exaggerated snake-like slither with his hand. But for all the q uality of ‘Van She’ and proficient support DJing from Tha F iz z and B ang Gang, the night belonged to Chromeo. To see their uniq ue brand of ultra cheesy funk delivered in such intimate surroundings by guys who are so geeky they are totally beyond cool was really q uiet special. Now, altogether, “ Chrom-eee-ooo, eee-ooo” . No seriously, sing it.

Once j oined by the band, Bird settles in. He presents as eq ual parts savant, reserved and fragile. He has an awkwardness, and his performance plays up to this with j erky movements to contradict his pitch perfect vocals, masterful arrangements, clever lyrics and stripy socks. Single ‘Fiery Crash’ got an early guernsey and was j oined by Armchair Apocrypha title track ‘Armchairs’, although ‘Heretics’ was a noticeable absence. ‘The Happy Birthday Song’ was a welcome showing, while the theatrical ‘A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left’ brought out the inner Bird. He described the song as the perfect j etlag number, the one song he always feels when he plays.

Each song begins with Bird strumming and plucking at his violin, much like it was a ukulele, before setting in bowing, guitar, vocals and whistling that would put Peter, Bj ö rn and John to shame. The looping creates a lush aural landscape that rivals a small string section, especially when the bowing sets in carries you away from uncomfortable folding chairs to a world filled with wit and melody.

‘Lull’ was a clear highlight, along with a taster of what is to come. Treating the eerily attentive audience to a new number, Bird hinted that his new album will take on a natural history theme. Now that will be something else not to miss, because this man and his band may j ust have the power to change your life.

Diana Ward

Chris Honnery

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F amous Spielgeltent, Sydney F estival M onday J anuary 7

playing all The Angels biggest hits

Special Guests THE CHOIRBOYS

It was only last year that Andrew B ird appeared at The Basement as part of the Sydney Festival. Not q uite a year later, he was back, this time with a band in tow.

And not j ust any band, on drums he had Redstart’s Jeremy Ylvisaker on bass and guitar and the fabulous Martin Dosh, aka Anticon electronica artist Dosh, on drums.

This was a show not to be missed. Starting solo, violin at hand and loop pedal at foot, Bird launched into his set, which featured numbers from latest release Armchair

+ The Lazys & Modular Lounge

Andrew B ird

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BRIDEZILLA

The Annandale Hotel Saturday January 5 Bridezilla are built on a few simple elements, but they are a complex sounding band. That both violin and saxophone are a significant part of the band's sound is something to behold, even more so when you see them live. Millie Hall on saxophone and Daisy Tulley on violin are both powerful players. They give all they’ve got. Bridezilla’s set at the Annandale on January 5th established them as a force unto themselves, capable of moving audiences into rabid fan-driven applause.

There is a lot of love for this band, make no mistake.

The success of the band comes down not only to that strange violin, saxophone combination but also the poweful presence of lead singer Holiday Sidewinder. Her breathy vocals, which can break down into something close to childlike crying, or soar in the form of a scream, are outstanding and incredibly, undeniably sensual. There’s a real vulnerability to Sidewinder - a fragility that is all in the eyes and caught in the softness of her face. Someone compared her to Marilyn Monroe over the last few days, and that’s not far off from the truth. Her new peroxide blonde hair obviously helps the comparison, but I think it’s in the lips with their smeared lipstick look. They look a little bruised, like someone has been rough with her in the past. On stage she wore a crown of red roses and a long black dress. She was Queen Holiday for the night and everyone in the audience was happy to be her subject.

Throughout the gig I took small, rapid notes on a piece of paper torn from a journal, a drunk lout next to me asked me what I was writing, and what I thought of the band. I didn’t even have to ask him for his opinion, he gave it up pretty much straight away. He said they were like the Dirty Three meets Sonic Youth. Then he said that ‘She’s a bit dirty... three’, and though I didn’t see who he pointed to, I assume he was talking about the violinist Daisy Tulley. She has a great stage presence, and I could understand where he was coming from. Tulley makes the songs move and grind. The more familiar songs worked best, but the whole set was strong.

‘Chainwork’ had the repetitive driving sound of an oncoming freight train. It built

into a crashing crescendo, coming off the tracks by the end. ‘St. Francine’ was the best song recorded by an Australian band last year. It was a fantastic closer. It gave Queen Holiday some space to play around on the stage. It was clear at the Annandale that all five members of the band get on terrifically. They are affectionate with each other. I hope that they don’t run out of steam before they come to record an album. I trust that they won’t. They were, on that lonely January night, in the city, in a room filled with adoring fans, absolutely outstanding.

Sam Twyford-Moore

AMP FIDDLER

Becks Festival Bar Wednesday January 9 I hadn’t seen Amp Fiddler live before, missing his Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly tour, so I was pretty pumped for this one and brought some high expectations with me. I love not being let down! Amp totally killed it, my respect for him has trebled and then some after seeing him carry such a great show; a true performer. He has learned from the best though, taking his cues from George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic with whom he’s played for many years.

He’s learned from Clinton the full-scale art of hosting a stage, not just playing the music but the rest of it as well, the charismatic interplay with his band, the audience interaction. He knows it’s more than a “gig”, it’s a chance to share a sense of commonality with the people that love his music. They want to get to know him a little bit better, find perspectives in agreement with their favourite artist. It’s almost a lost art the one Amp displays, the way bands just slink on and slink off the stage these days, they don’t know jack. We want to like the music but we also want to like the musician too.

At any rate Amp is massively tall, absolutely towering over the rest of his band. And he wore the funkiest pants I’ve ever seen, huge things with the crotch at the knees – designed that way – and a sporran-like pouch at the front, they were so big and impractical they actually inhibited his movement quite a bit.

Apparently the band were taken out for a meal directly before the show and ate piles and piles of chicken, proper soul-food, so that explained why he kept buckling and unbuckling his belt as he switched from keyboard to microphone.

The Detroit native is an absolute wizard on the keys and his voice is just huuuuge, the opening strains of the gig told us that we were about to hear something special, and we really did. His musicians were all amazing in their own right, it was the other keyboard player’s birthday so he was having a great time with everyone sending him happy birthday vibes, the (incredibly good) bass player’s grin never left his face once and the drum solo during the encore was just about the best shit ever, sticks spinning in the air and coming back down to earth again. I had a ball, thanks Amp, you are seriously cool motherfucker.

Amp Fiddler

Tony Edwards

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Bar Broadway - crn Broadway & Regent St, opp UTS Join the fun www.myspace.com/barbroadway

CLASSICS AT THE CLARE HOTEL

Expect to hear The Stone Roses, Supergrass, You Am I, David Bowie,, Cyndi Lauper, Joy Division, The Pixies, Run DMC, Modest Mouse, Beastie Boys, Gang of four, Duran Duran, The Cure and much more Classics at the Clare –Cnr Broadway & Kensington St (Opposite UTS) - 8pm till waaaay late! Free! *Iconic Indie on the couches at the Clare!*

CLUB BLINK

CANDY’S APARTMENT

This weekend we have a whole heap of stuff happening. Friday 18th night we have a usual gig of Live Bands and DJ acts playing all night till whenever… and Saturday 19th Candy’s is pulling out the Big Guns for the first time in 08. The launch night of Ram Jam is going to be rammed with Live Bands Sound Casino plus more T.B.A and some of Sydneys best and up coming DJ acts Hey Now, The Gameboys, Boonie, Andy Webb, Jeremy, Kas_Cid and CSK OK. Big Guns is blasting out massive electro beats with Renae Stanton, L-Y-N-C, Clark Kent, The Tourist, Northie and Max. So Head underground and play inside where else? Candy’s Apartment!!!

AB HOTEL

Sunday Live at the AB Hotel is quickly establishing a reputation as one of the hottest venues to be at on Sundays this summer. The day kicks off with a fantastic brunch menu which is met by a brilliant line-up of rotating Jazz, Soul, and Rhythm & Blues artists from 2pm, who punch out a soundscape of both well known standards and an eclectic mix of rare offerings. “We are absolutely ecstatic that the likes of the Lily Dior Trio as well as renowned nu-jazz artist, Tom O’Halloran have come onboard, and it would appear that the well seasoned jazz lovers of Sydney have picked up on the vibe”, said James Templeman, Marketing and Brand Manager of the hotel. When we arrive on a balmy Sunday afternoon, the $8 cocktails are already flowing and a diverse crowd of folks are savouring the experience in the divine courtyard awash with the amber glow of the setting sun. A premium Happy hour offering imported beers and sprits at $4:30 seem to be hitting the mark as a young hip crowd converge later in the day.

At the conclusion of the divine Ms. Dior’s afternoon jazz set, DJ Trevor Parkee - a well known stalwart of the world & nu-jazz scene - warms up the atmosphere, and the unique beat of the AB Hotel becomes apparent. Templeman mentions a desire to move in a more ‘world music/roots” direction in the new year, so you can expect a truly diverse mix of music come January, and boy, Glebe has been waiting for this for a long time! So, if you need an excuse to relax after a hard night of partying or to take your other half out for a well earned cocktail, Sunday Live at the AB Hotel ticks all the boxes!

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Friday 18 January, Politically Erect Promotions presents the Glam Slam’08 a night of pure rock’n’roll featuring Eightball Junkies, Sebasrockets (VIC), Lust, Shake, The Medicated, and DJs Matt Hell & Paul Staggerlees spinning tunes till super late.

Oh and there’s a very happy hour from 12am till 1am with $3 house schooners & $5 house spirits, another reason to stick around!

Saturday 26th January, as if it wasn’t hot enough already – Club Berserk turns up the heat with Inferno. Special guest DJ Distort (Reactor/Opposition) joins residents Dasein, Zephiran, BadPauly and Jenetik to bring you Sydney’s hardest mix of electro, industrial, and EBM. Utopia vouchers for best dressed so make sure you look devilishly HOT..!

This week at Club Blink get yourself prepared for one awesome night as we host 3 unreal live bands on the ground floor and showcase some of the hottest djs around on the club level spinning music all night, take the vibe to an all time high!! The theme is funk metal and Dj Bzurk and crew will be mixing up all your favourite bands with a focus on funk metallists: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (pre tour warm up), MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE (pre tour warm up), INCUBUS (pre tour warm up), OFFSPRING (pre tour warm up ) and maybe even some Bizkit, Linkin Park, Prodigy and other alternative favourites. ON the ground floor we have 3 kick ass bands: The Captains (recently captains package), The Sidetracked Fiasco (ep launch) and mountain rockers Red Bee. Blink has been expanding in a big way and with the darkroom being renovated and another level being added to the club (4 levels), its about to become a helluva lot bigger. Leading the way in alternative entertainment for 9 years. Club Blink, Fridays.

Agincourt Hotel

remember one night, probably like 15 years ago, when Michael Jackson’s ‘Dangerous’ was about to come out and the ‘Black or White’ single got dropped and there was this half hour video clip/ show that one of the TV stations showed. Heaps intense clip with all the people morphing into each other and then he turned into a panther or something and did a sweet dance in an abandoned street and blew shit up with his killer moves. Anyway, in memory of MJ (RIP) we are having and BLACK, WHITE AND SHADES OF GREY PARTY so dress in primary colours for guaranteed make outs and FREE ENTRY if you make a good enough go of it (at Emma’s discretion bro).

Dance floor mayhem will be provided

by SPANDEX + MARK C + PELLIS DEE + PETRU + SONIK + JULIAN CAESAR + HEARTATTACK. $3 BEERS, $4 SPIRITS, $7 JAGERBOMBS & VODKA REDBULLS, 2 FOR $12 COCKTAILS between 9 and 11. Three levels including chill out room, FREE ENTRY BEFORE 10, $8/10 after, Doors 9pm, myspace.com/chromeheartssydney

COLLINGWOOD HOTEL

Urban Soul Lounge presents DJ Trey, DJ D-Bo, DJ Caz and MC Buddy Luv this Friday 18th. Still the best old skool night in the south west after four years at the top. Check out updates and all details online at www. myspace.com/uslliverpool. The place for hip hop, soul an’ RnB every Friday, brought to you by the UMA-winning red Room team.

DJ PJ runs Saturdays with a cool mix of commercial dance, RnB and soul. And the ‘Wood is a winner of the AHA’s award for Best Entertainment Venue NSW. 321 Hume Highway, Liverpool, ph 9602 8005.

CRICKETERS’ ARMS

Home to musicians, artists, foxes, fashionista’s, intellectuals, public servants, bludgers, skaters, academics, tradie’s, fabulous nobodies, students, DJ’s and those who prefer to remain anonymous. Downstairs - fireplace, courtyard, poolroom and your favourite beers. Upstairs - 2 for 1 Cocktails Thursday nights plus Tapas and a la Carte dining at Bistro Mikin 5:30pm -10pm (9pm Sundays).

The Cricketers Arms Hotel, 106 Fitzroy St, Surry Hills.

EXCHANGE HOTEL

With 6 venues under one roof, there is something here to satisfy even the fussiest of punters. Q Bar is your super late night club, playing house music til breakfast over the weekend, with plenty of pool tables, booths and couches for hanging with your friends.

Spectrum hosts the cream of local and touring bands most nights of the week, 34B is one of Sydney’s premier burlesque venues – and morphs into a dance floor when it gets late, Vegas Lounge is like a rock show after party in your lounge room that you never have to clean up, Phoenix is the traditional basement home of Oxford St underground – from throbbing nasty dance to frantic punk rock, and the Nevada Lounge is a great spot for a relaxed beer any time. Get loose!

Sunday Jan 27 - Q bar Dj’s on rotation for the night are, Dan De Caires, Kato, Ash Le Rouge, Health Club, Ben Lucid, Ghetto Blaster crew plus more Costs $15 and goes from 9 till late sunrise

ALBION HOTEL

Live music every Friday (Happy Hippies from 6pm), Saturday (Collective Rhythm, 19th Jan) and Sunday (OJ Project from 2.30 every Sunday, plus One Hit Wonders from 7pm on 20th Jan), all for nix.

Plus top local DJs til late, with regulars Shaun Keble, Matt Hoare and DJ Fresh taking over Thursdays from 9pm, Nobby Grooves and Kareem doing the Friday shift from 10pm, and Andy Marc, Jorgie J, Charlie Jay and Matt Hoare doing the business on Saturdays from 10pm. The Jam Thing continues every Monday, an opportunity for musicians old and new to experience the Gasworks state-of-the-art big rig. My way interactive performance night returns on Wed 23rd. Great late night pizzas from the bistro, supercool summer beergarden, chic interior styling, hi-tech production facilities in the Gasworks venue. Corner of George and Harris Sts, Parramatta. Details online at www. albionhotel.com.au

CHROME HEARTS

GOLDEN SHEAF

BEACH RD HOTEL

What would The Pogues sound like if they grew up in Mexico and played jazz? Probably something like Waiting For Guinness who are playing on Tuesday with Gypsy Dub Sound System! On Wednesday Zooky + GI Jane + Yogi + Jeff Fellows provide the perfect club-style background music to make a move on the hot Swede you been chasing around the beach all day… yeah right, you’re busted! For some free-lovin’ sound-system reggae come down on Thursday to catch Art Official (NZ) + Firehouse + Basslines DJ set. Friday brings you homies more hip hop than you can poke a can of Redbull at! Dust Tones presents Tommy Illfigga + Rainman + Bingethinkers + Axiom + 2Buck + Bom. Pheew. Get sweaty.

Gone is the standard Saturday DJ set-up with the hip hop rocking Elf Tranzporter having their CD launch w/ DJ Wasabi + Wire MC + guests.

If you wanna keep your street cred then you had better be at Belles Will Ring, but don’t act too keen, shoe-gazers aren’t into that. The Filth presents them and Starstream on Sunday.

Woo woo! Happy ’08! xxBRH myspace.com/regbondi for latest updates.

Smack in the middle of the eastern suburbs between the city and the beaches, the Golden Sheaf at Double Bay is one of Sydney’s landmark venues. Now with live music and DJs Tuesday to Sunday, plus DJs late. New for the long hot summer is the return of DJ Daddyjazz every Tuesday, spinning a reggae and soul mix with a world music flavour for something different. Jeff Duff’s Wednesday residency continues right thru January. Other bands include Pulse8 Duo (Thur 17), Back To The 80s (Fri 18), Mr Wilson (Sat 19), and Rebekah Jensen (Sun 20) plus the return of Fluidified every Sunday afternoon from 3.30.

Upstairs, Soda Bar DJs include Pitty the Kid, Sari, Young Apprentice, Mr Smith, Paul Master and Toby Wilson. And it’s all free.

Full programme online at www.goldensheaf. com.au

“Not 'til you halo all over me I'll come over Not 'til it shimmers 'round your skull I'll be yours” - BJORK 42 :: BRAG :: 244 :: 14:01:08

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FUTURE IS NOW (LIC A/A)

18 feat TEENAGERS IN TOKYO + AMY MEREDITH

JAN + LOVER + THE GALVATRONS + BRIDGEMARY KISS SAT THE WONDERLAND FESTIVAL (LIC A/A)

19 feat MZ ANN THROPIK + THE FOLLOW + THE WRATH

JAN + JACK NASTY FACE + MARLOW + MORE THU

THE NIGHTWATCHMEN (US)

24 TOM MORELLO from RAGM

JAN + THE DARLING DOWNS

SAT

26 ANTI-FLAG (US) JAN + FEAR LIKE US

FRI HARDCORE SUPERSTAR (SWE)

01 + INK + HELL CITY GLAMOURS

FEB + SEBASROCKETS SAT

02 EAT STATIC FEB + SPECIAL GUEST SAT

09 KINGTIDE FEB + SPECIAL GUEST SIDEWAVES ANNOUNCED *mewithoutyou (US) *Mindless Self Indugence (US) *The Starting Line (US)

COMING SOON K-OS (CAN)

THU 14th FEB

HARD IN THE CITY

SAT 16th FEB

THE BLACK SEEDS (NZ)

THU 28th FEB

RHOMBUS (NZ)

FRI 29th FEB

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO WWW.THEGAELIC.COM

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venue music news welcome welcome to to the the frontline: frontline: what’s what’s goin’ goin’ on, on, down down and and around around town... town...

SOSUEME

Sosueme busted the seams at Fringe Bar so we’re moving its fat party ass across to TWO of Sydney’s most iconic party venues, Q-Bar & 34b , next to and above the Oxford Art Factory. We retain the title as the ONLY party in the galaxy to be 99% Genre Free! So no matter who the fuck you are or what fucked up scene you’re into, you’ll have a rad time at sosueme. That shit’s a guarantee* right there…* guarantee not legally binding. We’ll be pimping the sounds of everything, EVER, Bring your chucks, your high-tops, your dukes, your snakeskins & your flippers. From 8pm in 34b clubland, we have a white-hot live lineup which includes dirty rawkers HAILER, psyfolkers RICHARD IN YOUR MIND and the “Lord of All Things Partyz”...

SPOD! Meanwhile, dash to the lofty kingdom of Q-Bar-onia and hear the Indie libraries of the RED RIDERS, THE PAPER SCISSORS & LIONS AT YOUR DOOR! Once we kick this bad boy into the lateness, ANNA LUNOE, THE E.L.F & MIXTAPE:MAFIA will be supplying the party crunk before HEY NOW!,THE GAMBOYS and assorted SPECIAL GUEST DJs electro-fry your very soul. $5 long necks, sly little smoking balconies over-looking Oxford St, dark corners of descent for actions of the unspeakable, two Mega-Rad rooms of quality acts, a VIP room for people richer and better looking than you, nudity, bands, jager-bombs, couches, packman, pool tables/beds, some more nudity, and surprise celebrity DJs (possibly playing nude).

HOTEL CHAMBERS

Home of Red Room every Saturday, winner of Australia’s Best Club Night award at Urban Music Awards 2007. In the heart of the city on the corner of Martin Place and Elizabeth St, with an excellent bistro and chic, comfortable style. This week’s guests are resident favourites X-Tof, Pace, D-Bo and MC Cheeks. Be early or be disappointed.

Recent weekends have been massive.. packed full of celebs, and booked out early.

Giveaways, features, news and more online at the all-new www.hotelchambers.com.au.

HOT DAMN!

You’ve probably heard this already but Q Bar launch ruled. Heaps. We had longnecks.

This Thursday is going to be really exciting.

Years ago there was this band from New York called GORILLA BISCUITS. They were awesome and recently did a re-union show. There was also this band that hung around New York but were actually from Connecticut called YOUTH OF TODAY. They were straight edge and then became Krishnas and shit. That’s not really important but these bands broke up and some dude’s from each started a new project called CIV. CIV released a record called SET YOUR GOALS and other stuff and broke up like 5 years later. Some dudes from San Francisco started a band called SET YOUR GOALS in 2004 or so and have just gone around the country on the BOYS OF SUMMER tour. SET YOUR GOALS play HOT DAMN this Thursday. Joining them are REX BANNER PUNK ROCK KARAOKE EXPERIENCE (look it up on our myspace), direct from Tokyo and YEAH BEARS, direct from threeoneg’s webstore. SPANDEX, MARK C, LIONS AT YOUR DOOR DJ’s, SONIK, THIRTY DEDDS and GUESTS(!) all DJING. We also have free tickets to

WALK HARD to give away thanks to SONY. Thanks SONY. $3 beers, $4 spirits, $5 longnecks! $10/8 Doors 8pm. www.myspace. com/hotdamnsydney Thursday January 17 at Spectrum and Q Bar, 34 Oxford St Darlinghurst

LANSDOWNE

CLAWS OUT AT THE LANSDOWNE! The usual Sideshow Alley shenanigans will be in full force this Saturday 19th January as all-girl 3-piece Cats Crash sharpen their claws on The Lansdowne stage. Joining them on the night are local darlings Triangle (who also host the monthly showcase), Black Lion and Koritni. The show starts at 9pm and entry is free, as always.

THE HIVES, MILBURN, THE GO TEAM, BABYSHAMBLES, IAN BROWN, THE ENEMY, ARCTIC MONKEYS, AIR TRAFFIC - Yep that’s right – all of ‘em!

You can also use the loaded email address to apply for free membership (cheap drinks, perks, etc) and a free gift. Last weeks membership enquirer’s received ‘Mitt Romney is a mental-er’ T shirts. If you do have a request, or want to enquire about anything at all concerning Loaded, and be aware that these boys are up for everything, email loaded@theworldbar.com.

All this coupled with the best club atmosphere in Australia makes for a guaranteed great night. You know that though.

Check out the Loaded MySpace account at MYSPACE.COM/WEARELOADED

MELT

After 3 months touring & a new CD on the way, the Darryl Beaton Band return to Melt to kick off the 2007 / 08 Summer.

Darryl and his exhilarating band of Chilean virtuosos take unpretentious connoisseurs of Australian soul music to a new level.

With all the nuances of Donnie Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo and Me’Shell this classically trained musician takes audiences on a journey of his own brand of Neo Soul.

A multi-instrumentalist of the highest calibre, Darryl lends his talents to an extensive array of Australian and international talent including Harry Connick Jnr, KC&JoJo Disco Montego, Sneaky Sound System and Thelma Houston to name a few. Check em out Thursdays at Melt 9PM FREE and $10 from 10PM

MUM

So you’re out with your gang of 2 this Friday night and you say: “You know what, I wanna see some ballsy rock and roll!” and your other friend says: “Nah, dude… I just got back from my parents’ farm, I wanna see some country” and the third guy goes: “Oh no way!

I wanna see some sweet electronica.” What to do? Go your separate ways? NO! Come to MUM at The World Bar. We’ve got everything you want with The Saturns, Meow Kapow & Art Thieves. And for those inclined to dance we’ve got beat master extraordinaire Sleater Brockman in da house supported by 1Arm Bandit, Jack Shit, Mucky, Faux Nun, Welfare & Saez

PAYDAY

Party for the weekend? Howbout mid-week end! Thursdays at Phoenix Bar, the kids who brought you Sosueme and Art, Bitch now pronounce you with Pay Day. Bringing the freshest in Electropartymiamashbaltilessdi sco, with the likes of Beat mountain Kato, class-master Anna Lunoe, as well as Hey Now, Kas_cid and Mixtape Mafia, and the most special of surprise super guests, they’ve basically just moved your best nite on earth to a different night. Fuck work, lets dance.

SANDRINGHAM

On Thursday night, we are please to have Evermore’s Dann Hume gracing the

stage at The Sando for his first in a run of three weekly shows. Joining Dann will be different special guests each week. On Friday night, Rock Formation & Beyond Repair team up to present a massive night of hard rock. Headlining will be Sanctity In Chaos and the other bands are In-Cyde (who are launching their new EP), Red Valley and Nobody Knew They Were Robots. Get there early as this show will sell out

TRASH

This week Trash pays tribute to The Red Shore!! As many of you are aware, the lead singer and crew member from The Red Shore, an Australian Metal / Hardcore Band, recently died in a car accident whilst on tour. This has been devastating for the local metal comunity and to pay tribute to The Red Shore, Trash is hosting the Official Sydney Fundraiser and Tribute with all profits going towards the bands many expenses occurred by the accident. This is going to be a massive night as everyone comes together to pay tribute to The Red Shore. The night consists of resident Trash djs: Bzurk, Absynth, M!VEG on top level and metalcore djs Satanic Hispanic and Kawk between bands on the ground floor. Live bands on the night are Shinto Katana, No Way Out, No Love Lost and As Venice Sinks. All this, Saturday 19 January at The Agincourt Hotel, Central. Please help us promote this night, art is available on our mysapce site: www.myspace.com/ trashsaturdays and give something back to what is a very tight and close alternative community. RESPECT!!

Trash this Saturday. Agincourt Hotel

WHAM

Following the massive WHAM! NYE party extravaganza, the guys were at it again last week to kick of ’08 with a... no, we can’t say it... but it’s just too tempting (eeek)... WHAM! The party with the name that says it all have even bigger plans for the rest of the year, starting this week of course. 2008 will feature not just four, but five sets in the club room, kicking off with James Taylor, Moriarty (Ro Sham Bo), Rob Kay, Brenden Fing and Nukewood. Should hip-hop take your fancy, hit the terrace with Adam Bozzetto, Shamozzle and Daigo, plus a stack more to be announced! Could it get any bigger? They promise us that this year will be their biggest yet, and judging by the look of this week, it just might be possible after all. Think WHAM!

WORLD BAR

Ask yourself – what does the World Bar have that no other club in Sydney has got?

The answer: a party for every night of the week. Whether you’re into Monday night beats, Tuesday nights with backpackers, a Wednesday for Art, Thursdays to get LOADED, Fridays to rock out with your MUM, Saturday to lose your mind on the dancefloor at WHAM, or a Sunday to chillax with great tunes – World Bar has got you covered… www.theworldbar.com World Bar 24 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross

LOADED

Welcome to 2008 Loaded people and what a blast 2007 was eh?? To celebrate over the next few weeks Loaded will be offering up it’s picks of 2007 in the shape of the albums, singles and bands that mattered.

That means that each week the lads will be spinning the cream of the last twelve months and giving away copies of their fave albums.

The lads will also be unleashing brand new music from artists that they know will rule 2008 and bearing in mind Loaded’s record with spotting the best new music FIRST, well say no more. As said and following the original Loaded constitution there will be giveaways galore over the course of the coming weeks so check out the Loaded ad this week for the featured albums and singles and email Loaded at loaded@ theworldbar.com right NOW with your request for a copy of anything listed. As well as all the goings on mentioned so far, the lads will of course be playing new stuff from the likes of HOT CHIP, SPARKADIA, SUPERGRASS, THE COURTEENERS, CAJUN DANCE PARTY, BLOC PARTY, RADIOHEAD, THE WOMBATS, HARD FI,

PURPLE SNEAKERS

Get ready for another night of Indie rock madness at Purple Sneakers this Friday! Our new summer venue Hermann’s has been going nuts the last few weeks! If you have yet managed check it out then you must have partied a little too hard this New Years! So pull yourself together, dust yourself off and head on down this Friday! What are you waiting for?

Sneakers now has 2 stages rocking all night, playing all your favourite Indie, rock, hip hop and party tune favourites. Special guest DJs this week are JOHNNY SEGMENT (BRITPOP) and DON’T CRY residents ERECTRO and THE REAL SEABAS. They are joined by Purple Sneakers DJs PhDJ, NICK FINDLAY and VIVIENNE KINGS WOOD and CLASSICS DJs COCO & SHAMBLES and JOHNNY DARKO. Purple Sneakers – 18th January Hermanns Bar, Cnr Butlin Ave & City Rd (Opposite Sydney Uni) - 7pm till waaaay late! $10

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7.30pm Sydney Festival: Sufjan Stevens (USA), My Brightest Diamond (USA) State Theatre, Sydney $55 (B Res)–$65 (A Res) 9pm Sydney Festival: Tunng (England) The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ bf) 7pm The Jam Thing Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 7pm The Jam Thing Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 7pm

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JAZZ

Thursday January 17 Sydney Festival: A Secret in the Shape of a Song - The Songs of David McComb: The Triffids Metro Theatre, Sydney $60 8pm

MONDAY JANUARY 14 ROCK & POP Blanche DuBois, Genevieve Little, Mardi Pannan The Basement, Circular Quay $15 (+ bf) 9.30pm Hazzybee, Baba O’Riley, Kandy Apples, The New Vice Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 8pm

Horn Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney free 10.45pm Kieran Glasgow Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7.30pm Michael McGlynn Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 5.30pm Singer Songwriter Night Vic on the Park Hotel, Marrickville $5 7pm Songwriter Sessions Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free

Mick Buckley Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Open Mic & Jazz/Bossa Jam session Bar Me, Potts Point free 8pm Peter Head The Hero of Waterloo Hotel free 7pm

TUESDAY JANUARY 15 ROCK & POP David Hyams & the Miles to Go Band, MadViolet (Canada) William St Studio, Fairlight $12 7.30pm David Price Riverstone Schofields RSL free 1pm Dean Bennison Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7.30pm F.O.K.A @Newtown free 7.30pm Jens Lekman (Sweden), Des Miller The Vanguard, Newtown $32 (+ bf)–$35 (at door) 7pm Mick Vawdon The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm

Originals: Jahcoustic, Matt Ralph Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Steve Tonge O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Sydney Festival: Tunng (England) The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ bf) 7pm The Gabriel Lynch Band, Mild Ryan, Tom Woodward Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 8pm The Sand Pit: The Wait Ups, Maxine, White Light Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm We’ve Got Talent!: Amundsen’s Flag Annandale Hotel free 8pm

JAZZ Angie Dean Duo Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 12pm Jazzgroove: JazzGroove Mothership Orchestra Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 (member) – $15 8pm John Harkins Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Peter Head The Hero of Waterloo Hotel free 7pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Jackie Bristow, The Blue Moons, Joy & Lara The Basement $14 (+ bf) 9.30pm

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 ROCK & POP Amy Meredith, Little Red Spectrum, Darlinghurst $10 8pm Blow Up Betty Utopia Records, Chippendale free 4pm Blow Up Betty, Brigitte Handley & the Dark Shadows, Stone Ox, Kellie Marie Hermann’s, Darlington $10 (+ bf) 8pm Dragon Remembers: Dragon Peter Doyle Supper Club, Circular Quay $140 (dinner & show) 9.30pm Goodnight Dynamite O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Goth City @Newtown free 7.30pm Heath Burdell Northies, Cronulla free 8pm Hyske, Hey Da Vinci The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$16 (at door) 7pm Jager Uprising: Monkey Puzzle Raymond J’s Back Bar, Annandale Hotel free 8pm Jeff Duff Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm Le Vignettes Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm Michael Bennett The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Mr Percival Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney free (with admission) 5.30pm Paul Turner, The Live Room, C.S. Fields The Basement, Circular Quay $15 (+ bf) 9.30pm Pet Cemetery Unplugged: Steven Heath, T-Bone, Atrocities and Boy Rorbison, Aubergine Dream, No Nickers Nancy, The Melonomas

and Venus Diablo (US) Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 9pm Richie Branco Trio Ettamogah Pub, Rouse Hill free 6.30pm Sarah Aubrey, Fairy Light, Andrew P Street Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm Sean Carey, John Vella, Wesley Miles Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 8pm Sunshine & Clouds: Tim Freedman, Old Man River, Joel Plaskett (Canada), The Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers Choir Selina’s, Coogee Bay Hotel $25–$30 8pm

Peter Head The Hero of Waterloo Hotel free 7pm

JAZZ

Brett Hunt Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Big Shots PJ Gallagher’s - Parramatta free 9pm - 12am Blonde 182 PJ Gallagher’s - Drummoyne free 8.30-11.30pm

Kara Grainger Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Liz Geyer Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 5.30pm Lucy Sassoon Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Old Man River

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Acoustic Sessions: Anthony Dwyer, Steven Lovelight Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7.30pm Nikki Kummerow Brass Monkey, Cronulla $15 8pm

THURSDAY JANUARY 17 ROCK & POP

Cambo Observer Hotel free 9.30pm - 1am Cassette Kids, The Galvatrons, Ace Squad Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross $10 8pm Dann Hume Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 8pm Dead Inside The Chrysalis, Downsizer & Discreet Bull and Bush Hotel free 8pm Dollshay Northies Cronulla Hotel - Sports Bar free 8:30pm - 12am Dragon Remembers: Dragon Peter Doyle Supper Club, Circular Quay $140 (dinner & show) 9.30pm Extortion, Shitfight, Crux, The Exiled, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Taipan Maggotsville, Fitzroy St, Marrickville $8 7pm Fallon Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm 11:40pm For Folk’s Sake, DJ Ghost Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 8pm Gemma

O’Malleys free 9.30pm - 1.30am Get Together: Van Sereno, Luke Koteras Coogee Bay Hotel free 8pm Hot Lips @Newtown free 7.30pm KRV, Light Noise, Boxquest Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm Mark The Sky, Amundsens Flag, Cikamor, In Retrospect Cat and Fiddle, Balmain $10 8pm Monkey Puzzle, Surge, Something More Ordinary, Hate You Dead Live House, Lewisham $10 8pm Pay Day: Kato, Anna Lunoe, Hey now, Kas_Cid, mixtape Mafia Phoenix Bar, Darlinghurst $10 Pulse 8 Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm Skoop: Tamarama, Bonjah Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Sunshine & Clouds: Tim Freedman, Old Man River, Joel Plaskett (Canada), The Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers Choir The Basement, Circular Quay $35 Sydney Festival: A Secret in the Shape of a Song - The Songs of David McComb: The Triffids Metro Theatre, Sydney $60 8pm Sydney Festival: Low (USA) The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ bf) 5.30pm The Jezabels Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm The Sam and Jamie Show Crowsnest Hotel free 8.00pm 11.00pm The True Peachtree Hotel free 8 - 11.30pm Torch Le Monde Annandale Hotel free Yourspace: Len, Kaycee, Logarithm, Mindmade, Alaska, The Peep Show, Baba O’Riley, WARD FOUR, Crimson 6 Sly Fox, Enmore free 7pm Zoltan Brighton RSL, Brighton-Le-Sands free 7.30pm

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JAZZ Getting Greasy: Darren Heinrich Trio Broadway Cafe, Chippendale free 8.30pm Jackie Orszaczky Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Lionel Robinson Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Makin Whoopee Sofitel Wentworth free 5.30 8.30pm Monsieur Camembert, Last Tango Saloon The Vanguard, Newtown $27 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 8pm Peter Head The Hero of Waterloo Hotel free 7pm Sydney Festival: Virna Sanzone Riverside Theatres, Parramatta $10–$15 9pm Wildrice Middle Harbour Yacht Club free 7pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK Eric Bogle, John Munro The Harp, Tempe $20–$25 7.30pm

FRIDAY JANUARY 18 ROCK & POP 2 Amigo’s Maroubra RSL Club free 8:00pm 12:00midnight 2 Fold PJ Gallagher’s - Parramatta free 8pm - 11:30pm 389: Dust Tones presents Kobra Kai, Percussion Junction, ForthWrite, Bentley Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Alex Greengate Hotel free 8.30pm -

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11.30pm Alex Hopkins Wentworthville Leagues Club free 8pm - Midnight Alter Ego Massey Park Golf Club, Concord 7pm Back to the 80s, Flex Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm Band Wagon Summer Special: The Tongue, Dick Desert & the Shotgun Country Club, Dom Meow Kapow

Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt $15 8pm Blonde 182 Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm 11:40pm Classics at The Clare The Clare Hotel, Broadway free 8pm Club Blink: The Captains, Sidetracked Fiasco, Re Bee Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $15 8pm Dave A Duo PJ Gallagher’s - Drummoyne free 9:30pm - 12:45am

Dave Alone Brewhouse Pub at Doonside free 7pm - 10:30pm Dead Inside The Chrysalis, Enders Game & One Good Suggestion The Lucky Country Hotel Newcastle $5 9pm Don’t Dream Its Over: Rex Goh, Rick Melick Band, Lloyd G, Dario, Floyd Vincent, Brett Winterford, Andy Gordon, Amanda Easton, Raoul Graf The Basement, Circular Quay $25 (+ bf)–$28 (at door) 9.30pm Elvis & The Time Capsule Show Harrington Bowling Club 7:30pm Show Extortion, Thrush, White Male Dumbinance, Homewrecker, AVO, Jungle Fever Empire Hotel, Annandale $10 (+ bf) 8.20pm Frogs On Toast Fairfield RSL Club free 8:00pm 12:00midnight Future is Now: Teenagers in Tokyo, Amy Meredith, Lover, The Galvatrons, Bridgemary Kiss Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf)–$12 (door) 7.30pm Gary J Trio Ettamogah Hotel free 7.30pm - 11pm Gemma Brewhouse Pub at Ingleburn free 7:30pm - 11:30pm Glam Slam: Sebasrockets, 8Ball Junkies, Lust, Shake, The Medicated Bar Broadway, Chippendale $12 7.30pm Goodnight Dynamite Duo Observer Hotel free 9.30pm 2.30am Happy Hippies Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 6pm Hey Red Hills District Bowling Club, Baulkham Hills free 7.30pm Hit Machine

Crowsnest Hotel free 10.00pm 1.00am Ian Blacket Balgowlah RSL Club free 8:00pm - 12:00midnight King Tide, Botanics Mona Vale Hotel $13 (+ bf) 8pm KP Brewhouse Pub at St Marys free 8.30pm - 12.00am Masterpiece South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 8.30pm Me First & the Gimme Gimmes (USA), Yidcore, Roshambo Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $38 (+ bf) 7pm Michael Bennett Novotel Olympic Park - Brewery free 5.00pm - 9.00pm Mick Hart with full band The Entrance Leagues Club $10 MUM: The Saturns, Meow Kapow, Art Thieves, Sleater Brockman, 1Arm Bandit, Jack Shit, Mucky, Faux Nun, Welfare, Saez The World Bar, Kings Cross $10 9pm One Non Blonde St Marys RSL free 7pm Only the Sea Slugs, King Jack Annandale Hotel $10 (+ bf) 7.30pm Purple Sneakers: PhDJ, Nick Findlay, Vivienne Kingswood, Coco & Shambles, Johnny Darko, Don’t Cry DJs, Johnny Segment Hermann’s, Darlington $10 - free before 8pm 7pm Renegades Riverstone RSL Club free 8:30pm - 12:00midnight RifRaf Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 9pm Rob Henry Observer Hotel free 8.30pm 1.30pm Sanctity in Chaos, Incyde, Red Valley, Nobody Knew They Were Robots Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm Sean Kingston (USA)

gig guide send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com The Forum Theatre, Moore Park $44 (+ bf) 7.30pm Sin City, Dear Life, The Curse of Eve, Maxine, Mofo Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 7.30pm Sound Casino and supports Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross $10 8pm Spirit of Soul Festival: Meta Bass n Breath, Coda, Foreign Heights, Mr Percival, Declan Kelly & The Rising Sun, Vassy, DVinyl The Factory Theatre, Enmore $38 (+ bf) 7pm Sunshine & Clouds: Tim Freedman, Old Man River, Joel Plaskett (Canada), The Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers Choir Manly Fisho’s $30 (+ bf) 8pm Sydney Festival: A Secret in the Shape of a Song - The Songs of David McComb: The Triffids Metro Theatre, Sydney $60 8pm

Sydney Festival: Kimmo Pohjonen (Finland) City Recital Hall, Sydney $45 (C Res)–$55 (A Res) 9.30pm Sydney Festival: Low (USA) The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ bf) 5.30pm The Anthill Mobb Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 10.30pm The Deep Duo Northies Cronulla - Sports Bar free 8.30pm - 12.00am The Shake Up Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm The Waves Trio Peachtree Hotel free 9.00pm 12.30am Underground Radio: Starcasm, DJ Knife, Acetate, Mad United Spectrum, Darlinghurst $10 (+ bf) 8pm Vegas Lounge: Loz Vegas Q Bar, Darlinghurst $5 Midnight till late

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JAZZ Beau Smith Sofitel Wentworth free 9.00pm 12.00am Chris Cody Coalition The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $12 (member)– $18 8.30pm Doug Williams Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm King Farook, The Bakery, The Clarity Project The Vanguard, Newtown $15 (+ bf) 8pm Michael McGlynn Sofitel Wentworth free 5.30pm 8.30pm Monsieur Camembert Brass Monkey, Cronulla $22 8pm Simone Reuben Trio Well Connected Cafe, Glebe 8pm Steve Clisby Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst $20 (+ bf) 6pm Sydney Festival: Iiro Rantala (Finland) City Recital Hall, Sydney $45 (C Res)–$55 (A Res) 7pm Sydney Festival: Lily Dior Riverside Theatres, Parramatta $10–$15 9pm Unit 7 Lane Cove Country Club, Northwood free 7pm Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 9.30pm

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COUNTRY Hornsby-Kuringai Folk Club: MadViolet (Canada) Beatrice Taylor Hall, Hornsby Johnny Cash Tribute Show: Bosco Bosanac Auditorium, South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford $5 (member)–$9 8.30pm The Borderers Blacktown RSL Club free 8.30pm

SATURDAY JANUARY 19 ROCK & POP AM 2 PM, DJ Ghost Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 8pm Armchair Travellers Brewhouse Pub - St Mary’s free 8.30pm - 12:00am Asli Opera Bar, Sydney free 2.30pm Bad Blood, The Chunks, Stepping Stone Theory Vic on the Park Hotel, Marrickville 8pm Bill Sarina

Katoomba RSL Club free 8:30pm - 12:30am Bob Marley Tribute: One Love Brass Monkey, Cronulla $15 8pm Caramel 36 Degrees, Star City free 10pm - 1am Christina Crofts, Idiot Decades, Stimulators Live House, Lewisham $10 2pm Coda, Sydney Children’s Choir Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 8pm Crash Avenue Crowsnest Hotel free 10.00pm 1.00am Dave A Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel - Sports Bar free 8:45pm - 12:15am Dave Stevens Observer Hotel free 4:50pm - 9pm

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SINDAY @ THE SANDO

HARLEQUIN + THE MEDICATED + ZETA PUPPIS

Downstairs: Louis Tillett - 4pm-7:30pm // Metal and Hardcore DJ - 7:30pm-10:00pm

“CLUB STAND UP”

WITH SUZE MOXHAM

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g g guide gig g send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Don’t Look Back: Low (USA) The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ bf) 5.30pm Double Whammy St Marys RSL free 7pm Dwayne Elix & The Engineers Bankstown Trotting Club 8:00pm - 1:00am Fixation, Roma Saanta, Super Florence Jam, The Presence Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Forever Diamond: Peter Byrne Auditorium, South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford $7 (member)–$11 7pm Forever Diamond: Peter Byrne Auditorium, South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford $7 (member)–$11 9.30pm Frank, Dean & Sammy-Salute To Ratpack Hornsby RSL Club 8.00pm 10:30pm Frogs On Toast Laurieton United Services Club 8:00pm Yidcore

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Funpuppet PJ Gallaghers - Parramatta free 8pm - 11:30pm Heath Burdell Greengate Hotel free 8.30-11.30pm How Bizarre Supper Club Fairfield RSL Club free 9.30pm - 1:30am Kaki Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 9pm Lord Empire Hotel, Annandale 8pm Lost Valentinos, Manray Mona Vale Hotel $20 (+ bf) 8pm Lycanthia, Bane of Isilour, Sword Toward Self Utopia Records (George St) Broadway Sydney free 2pm Mark Corey Ettamogah Hotel free 6pm - 10pm Masterpiece Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 10.30pm

Me First & the Gimme Gimmes (USA), Yidcore, Roshambo Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $38 (+ bf) 8pm Michael Bennett Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm 11:40pm Mr Wilson, Flex Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm Musicology - The Prince Show: Brown Sugar, Christo Alexander, Lady Lyric, Melinda Jackson, Christine & Sharon Muscat The Basement, Circular Quay $23 (early bird)–$28 (+ bf) 9.30pm Oz Rock Show Budgewoi Soccer Club free 8:00pm - 11:00pm Pierre Eugene Sofitel Wentworth free 8.00pm 11.00pm Reasons to Be Cheerful South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 8.30pm Richie Branco Trio Peachtree Hotel free 9.00pm 12.30pm Rob Henry PJ Gallaghers - Drummoyne free 9:30pm - 12:45am Rock the Boat: ebolagoldfish, Reason Strikes, The Curse Of Bert Rocks Rhythmboat (departs Pyrmont Bay Wharf) $20 (1st release)–$25 (at door) 11.30am Rockettes Riverstone RSL Club 9:00pm 12:30am Seven Year Itch Mercantile Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Wolves, Mine Alone, Every Word, The Brawl, Red Letter Project Grand Hotel, Wyong $8 7pm Spirit of Soul Festival: King Tide, Sista She, Mi Tierra, The Stiff Gins, Darryl Beaton, Martinez (Denmark), Sistanative, Clan, Parley, Billy McCarthy

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The Factory Theatre, Enmore $38 (+ bf) 7pm Steve Tonge Observer Hotel free 4pm - 8:10pm Stone Parade The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 7pm Sunshine & Clouds: Tim Freedman, Old Man River, Joel Plaskett (Canada), The Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers Choir The Roxy, Parramatta $30 (+ bf) 8pm Sydney Festival: A Secret in the Shape of a Song - The Songs of David McComb: The Triffids Metro Theatre, Sydney $60 8pm The Black Market, The Pints, Steppin’ Razor, Throwaway Kids, Colytons

Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm The Pink Fits Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm The Riot and the Trauma, The Chunks, Stepping Stone, Sniperval Vic On The Park free 8.00pm 11.30pm The Wonderland Festival: Mz Ann Thropik, The Follow, The Wrath, Jack Nasty Face, Marlow, Vae Victis, Day of the Meerkat, Cut Sic, The Black Royale Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $15 (+ bf) 3pm Theatre Of Disco Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm theredsunband Annandale Hotel $10 (+ bf)–$12 (at door) 8pm

gig guide send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Tice & Evans Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 4pm Trash: Shinto Katana, No Way Out, No Love Lost, As Venice Sinks Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $10 8pm Tylers Riot, delSanto, Shinobi Caringbah Bizzo’s $10 8pm Urban Assault Blacktown RSL Club free 10pm Vegas Lounge: Loz Vegas Q Bar, Darlinghurst $5 Midnight till late Wes Carr Robin Hood Hotel, Waverley free 9pm Wet Zelko North Bondi RSL Club free 8pm Yourspace The Shannon Hotel, Chippendale free 7pm

JAZZ Judy Bailey Trio The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $12 (member)– $18 8.30pm Susan Gai Dowling Trio The Commercial Hotel, Balmain East free 7pm Sydney Festival: Iiro Rantala (Finland) Riverside Theatres, Parramatta $45–$50 8pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK Gary Og (Scotland) The Harp, Tempe 7.30pm

SUNDAY JANUARY 20 ROCK & POP Charge Group Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $7 6pm Cosima Devito Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst $18 (+ bf) 7pm Crushed Ice St Marys RSL free 2pm Dave A Duo Ettamogah Hotel free 1pm - 5pm Devil’s Kitchen: Nunchukka Superfly, Pod People, Young Breeder, Looking Glass, Daredevil, Clagg, Fattura Della Morte, Grise, Cloves, Black Elvis

The Bamboos

Annandale Hotel $15 (+ bf)–$25 (at door) 2pm Dwayne Elix & The Engineers Rooty Hill RSL Club 1:00pm 4:00pm Fdave White Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel - Northies Bar free 2.00pm - 6pm Funpuppet Observer Hotel free 4pm - 7:30pm Heath Burdell Peachtree Hotel free 2.00pm 6.00pm House of Kings Brass Monkey, Cronulla $12 7pm Latin Jam Session: Artist/s unknown Tatlers, Kings Cross $5 9pm Los El Caminos Botany View Hotel, Newtown free 6pm Louis Tillett Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 4pm Makin Whoopee Novotel Homebush Brewery free 1pm - 4pm Rebekah Jensen, Fluidified Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 3.30pm Rex Sets: Holy Soul, The Sky Falling, dj n.spaceman, Loveless Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 6pm Richie Branco Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel -Sport Bar free 6 - 10pm sinday@thesando: Harlequin, The Medicated, Zeta Puppis Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $5 6.30pm Spirit of Soul Festival: The Bamboos, Jackie Orszaczky, Tina Harrod, The Ressurectors, The Hands, Mahalia Barnes, The Hipstones, Virna Sanzone, Alamode The Factory Theatre, Enmore $38 (+ bf) 7pm Steve Tonge Vic On The Park free 5.00pm 8.00pm

Sunshine & Clouds: Tim Freedman, Old Man River, Joel Plaskett (Canada), The Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers Choir Caringbah Bizzo’s $30 (+ bf) 8pm Sydney Festival: A Secret in the Shape of a Song - The Songs of David McComb: The Triffids Metro Theatre, Sydney $60 8pm Sydney Festival: Mice Parade The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ gst) 7pm The Sons of Katie Elder Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm The Waves Harbord Beach Hotel free 7- 11pm They Call Me Bruce Wallacia Hotel - Beer Garden free 12:00midday - 4:00pm Tina Harrod Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 5pm White Bros PJ’s Parramatta free 8pm - 12.00am

JAZZ Giant Steps Opera Bar, Sydney free 2pm The Capitols Southern Cross Hotel, St Peters Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 3pm Veruschka Pestano Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 4pm Victor Martinez AB Hotel, Sydney free 2pm Wildrice Central Coast Leagues Club free 2pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK Ant Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 6.30pm Irish Sessions: Blackwater, Ian Byrne, Bacon N Cabbage Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 4pm Sunday Chill: Nardo Newport Arms Hotel free 3.30pm

this week's gig picks up all night out all week...

My Brightest Diamond

Joel Plaskett

Me First & the Gimme Gimmes (USA), Yidcore, Roshambo Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $38 (+ bf) 7pm

SATURDAY JANUARY 19 Don’t Look Back: Low (USA) The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ bf) 5.30pm theredsunband Annandale Hotel $10 (+ bf)–$12 (at door) 8pm

SUNDAY JANUARY 20 Sydney Festival: Mice Parade The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park North, Sydney $45 (+ gst) 7pm

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TUESDAY JANUARY 15

Sydney Festival: Sufjan Stevens (USA), My Brightest Diamond (USA) State Theatre, Sydney $55 (B Res)–$65 (A Res) 9pm

Jens Lekman (Sweden), Des Miller The Vanguard, Newtown $32 (+ bf)–$35 (at door) 7pm

Jens Lekman

Low

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 Sunshine & Clouds: Tim Freedman, Old Man River, Joel Plaskett (Canada), The Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers Choir Selina’s, Coogee Bay Hotel $25–$30 8pm

THURSDAY JANUARY 17 Cassette Kids, The Galvatrons, Ace Squad Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross $10 8pm

FRIDAY JANUARY 18 Future is Now: teenagersintokyo, Amy Meredith, Lover, The Galvatrons, Bridgemary Kiss Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $10 (+ bf)–$12 (at door) 7.30pm

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SATURDAY JANUARY 19 Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Kink Moguai (Germany), Shamus, Miss Gabby, Telefunken, Matt Nukewood, Foundation, Ben Morris, Brenden Fing, Reno, Goodfella $25 MONDAY JANUARY 14 Deckbar, Darlinghurst Industry Night DJ Dan Murphy free Equilibrium Hotel, Sydney Beer Exchange free Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay DJ Daddy Jazz free HQ Bar, Camperdown Club Cuba free Melt, Kings Cross The Mid Tempo Plug BlackStump, Victor Vapour and Murderous plus guests free One World Sport, Parramatta Ricky Ro free Opera Bar, Sydney Chasm free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Funky House The Hunter Hotel, Sydney Daydreams Yoshi, Jason Suae, DLX, Pulsar, Chia, Tom E, Micky D, Keely $10 (member)–$15 V Bar, Sydney Monday Mambo Mambo G $5–$10 Yu, Potts Point Come Down Ben Morris, Telefunken, James Taylor, Illya, Cartel, Matt Nukewood, Tony Venuto, Rob Marshall, Matty J & Baz, Rendog free

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Tuesday Caribbean Night DJ Spin D-Music Manacle, Darlinghurst Paris Is Burning Matt Steer free Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay All About DJ free Opera Bar, Sydney SVC Cameron Douglas, Michael Wheatley free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Coyote Tuesday DJ G, DJ Sam, Toddy, PD Pete free–$5 World Bar, Darlinghurst Rewind DJs Daigo, B-Boy, Cheesy karaoke free

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 Bank Hotel, Newtown Kelly Lynch, DJ Chip free Beach Palace Mid Palace Wednesdays DJ Anthony K free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Hump Zooky, GI Jane, Yogi, Jeff Fellows free Beck’s Festival Bar, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Sydney Festival Krafty Kuts (UK), Percussion Junction, Rephrase $36 (+ bf) Brass Monkey, Cronulla Anna Matthewson, Original Liberty $12 (at door) Buddha Bar Sol R free Chelsea Hotel, Chatswood Sandy Scanlan free Clare Hotel, Broadway Seabass Coolabar, Sydney Salsa Dean $7 Cruise Bar, Circular Quay Ladies Night Audio Angels free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Double D free Embassy Hotel, Penrith Epic Uni Night Rob Brizzi, Matt Ferreira, DJ Austin free Epping Hotel, Epping G Wizard free Equilibrium Hotel BBB Sarah Hyland 4 Piece Band free Establishment, Sydney Mid Week Mix-Up Nic Phillips, Craig Patterson free Favela, Potts Point

Buenos Airies Moto Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills Madhouse Anna Lunoe, Bobby Perez $7 (member)–$10 Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Nick Toth free Hollywood Hotel, Surry Hills Best of YouTube Night Starts at 9pm free Hotel Bondi, Bondi Beach Zinc Bar DJ Bertoz free Hunter Bar, City Spank free Intersection Tavern, Ramsgate Lovetown D-Bo, Pace free Kings Head Tavern, South Hurstville Driller Manacle, Darlinghurst Paris Is Burning Matt Steer, Rado, DJ Chip, Mark Alsop $8–$15 Mars Lounge, Surry Hills Niche DJs Mattje, Sasa and guests free Mosman RSL Club Salsalicious DJ Arista $15 Newtown Hotel, Newtown She Like Her free Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay Ant free Opera Bar, Sydney Angry Dragon free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Florida 2000 DJ Coco, Shambles free Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst Fashique Alex Downing, Daniel Malferrin, Dan Segal & the Pocket $15 Sly Fox, Enmore Queer Central Bel West, Sveta, Sandi Hotrod free Sol’s Deck Bar Moonlight Grooves Flygirl Tee, DJ Mike Hyper and DJ Naughty $10 Star City, Pyrmont DJ Dynamite free The Argyle, The Rocks Marc Us, John Devecchis, Super C free The Eastern, Bondi Junction Tony Venuto, Peter Gunz and Mo’ Funk. free The Gaff, Darlinghurst New Generation Franny, Alex, Triky, Electroholics, Con-x-ion, Psygnosis, Calico, Kermy, Deceptikon free The Loft, UTS Live at the Loft Leroy Lee free The Roxy, Parramatta Bootylicious Lenno, Sesh, Pharoah Universale Hotel, Leichhardt

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FRIDAY JANUARY 18 AB Hotel, Glebe DJ Frenzie 8pm Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo Club Blink Bzurk and Karma $10 Bank Hotel, Newtown

club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com Becks Beats & Barbie Frenzie, Damien Goundrie free Bar Broadway, Chippendale Pegz, Mind Over Matter, Natural Causes, Last Credit, Double & Big Lu, Brotha Black, Cleva Fellaz, Illa, Skeamo 1, DNL, D*Phy, Rival, Shrekk $20 (presale)–$24 (at door) Bar Cleveland, Redfern Flaunt Jo Jo, Eddie Couter, Neil Crawford free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach 389 Percussion Junction, Kobra Kai, ForthWrite, Bentley free Beck’s Festival Bar, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Sydney Festival Busdriver (USA), Wire MC, Street Warriors, Sean Choolburra, Radical Son, Last Kinection, Brotha Black, MC_S $26 (+ bf) Bloc Nightclub, Penrith JimmyZ, Ben Lazarus Bristol Arms Retro Tavern, Sydney Matt Sullivan, Karl free–$10 Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Ram Jam Hey Now, The Gameboys, Boonie, Andy Webb, Jeremy, Kas_Cid, CSK OK $10 before 12am, $15 after Cargo Bar, King Street Wharf Disco Electric John Glover, Aaron Achurch, John Croft, Jonny Powell, Trent Rackus and guests Caringbah Bizzo’s The Cellar Cabbage $10 Carmen’s Nightclub, Miranda Stay John Alexander, Zannon $10 C’Bar, City Shuffle Resident DJs XS-IV, Decknician, Suae, DJ Syn, K-Sum, Pulsar, Tha Wang and Guests $15 Chelsea Hotel, Chatswood DJ Trent free Chinese Laundry, Slip Inn, Sydney Break Inn 30Hz, Dopamine, Bass Kleph, Steve Lind, Dam Mic $15– $20 Civic Theatre, Sydney Sweetchilli Solead (France), Motion, MSG, Crispin $20

Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly DJ Shimon free Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction DJ PJ, DJ Ghost free Collector Hotel, Parramatta Studio 100 Heavy D free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Urban Soul Lounge Trey, Pace, Mac free Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills Mash’D Dave Slade, FLE and Fire In The Disco free Crystal Bar, Sydney David Clemente free Cushion, Coogee DJ Rob Milton free Diamond Hotel, Sydney Deja Vu Troy T, G Wizard, Lyrics, Kofee, Mogreen, Don Juan, Ricky Ro, MC Jaz, Dee Kay, K-Vexx $20 Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown RifRaf free Dragonfly, Kings Cross L’amour The Blockrockers (Live house/electro group + vocalist), John Glover, Hooli (One Love), Hideki v Hideaway $15 or FREE if you rsvp your names to ray@lamour.com.au Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction Bustin’ The Potbelleez $10 - free before 10pm Embassy Hotel, Penrith Fresh Friday’s Rob Brizzi, Matt Ferreria, DJ Austin free Equilibrium Hotel TGI Friday DJ’s Yogi, James Mack & Ange free Establishment Hotel Kapitol P, Miss Gabbie and Matt free Ettamogah Pub, Rouse Hill DJ Am Favela, Potts Point Gizmo Tony Venuto, Telefunken, Matt Nukewood $15 Flinders Hotel, Darlinghurst The Harbour City Bears, DJ Matt Vaughan, The Aussie Pole Boys free Gasworks at the Albion, Parramatta Nobby Grooves, DJ Kerry free

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club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com Tonic Lounge, Potts Point Fridays @ Tonic DJ Huwston, Soup, Sepalot free before 9pm, $10 after Trust, Equilibrium Hotel, Sydney The Pure Pleasure Experience Alex Ellenger, Marco Loco, Ange, Grant Foley, Brenden Fing free UN Nightclub, Darlinghurst Chocolate City DJs Lenno, Kai, Hanx, DJ Faze, Solz, Shruggs, DJ D, Dejay, Korz, Ellie, Entice, Trey free (with pass)–$20 (at door) Universale Hotel, Leichhardt Venerdi Aga, Steve Play, Willz, Frantic, Rizk-E, Pete, Benino G $15 Vegas Lounge, Q Bar, Darlinghurst Loz Vegas $5 Verandah Bar, Sydney Essence Fridays Samrai, P Mode, Manny, Stanley, Edo, DJ Ming, Mike Hyper, Jun, Sefu, Normz, Dee Kay, Mayhemz $20 Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst French Martini Fridays Tim C, Tenzin, Mark Walton, Sean Finlay $15 (presale)–$20 (at door) World Bar Ben Morris, Mike Kelly, Montage, Adam Coverdale, free before 10pm, $10 after Yu, Potts Point Explicit Mark Dynamix, Ben Morris v Reno, Telefunken, Jeff Drake, Matttt & Tomass, Club Junque $10 (guestlist)–$15 Z Bar, Brighton-Le-Sands Micky D, Georgie J $20 Zodiac Hotel, Sydney Ghetto Supa Sta Lenno, Carl Alley, Mac, Fly Girl Tee, Sleazy D, Pharoah, Reckdacon, Sesh, MC Bre-Z

SATURDAY JANUARY 19 AB Hotel, Glebe DJ Jaime Olsen (Rephrase) 8pm Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo

Trash B-Zurk, Ivy, Ambusian, Firefly, Kawk, DJ Dave Win $10 ARQ Nightclub, Darlinghurst Dance Dance Dance Jake Kilby, Jayson Forbes, Luke Leal, Jimmy Dee, Peter Farris Arthouse Hotel, Sydney Reel Sessions, Damien Goundrie, Movin Marty, Dan Murphy $25 Bar Broadway, Chippendale Club Bezerk Distort, Daesin, Zephiran, Jenetik, DJ Badpauly $12 Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach Bak Trax Gadget free Beck’s Festival Bar, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Sydney Festival Kora (New Zealand), Dexter, Grilla Step, Aloe Blacc (USA), Budspells, Cookin On 3 Burners $36 (+ bf) Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst Destination? vs Wanna Break?

Groove Diggerz, JHz, Dopamine (Wales), Tone Def DJs, Bkp, Roostah, Robin Banks, Mick Beltrame, Pride Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Big Guns Renae Stanton, L-Y-N-C, Clark Kent, The Tourist, Northie and Max $15 before midnight $20 after Cargo Bar, Darling Harbour Sundown Seany B, Sam La More, Stafford Brothers, Timmy Trumpet, Tommy Trash, Gus Da Hoodrat, Jaime Doom, Ben Morris, Brenden Fing, Jace, John Glover, Matt Ferreira, Matt & Tomass, Steve Play, Tim Sea, Tony Venuto, Trix $48 Chinese Laundry, Sydney The Club Club The Bang Gang Deejays, Tommy Trash, Hook ‘n’ Sling $15–$25 Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly DJ Trent free Club 77, East Sydney Starfuckers Mr Disorder, Hookie Vs Ash Le Rouge, Booms, Donnie.Blood & Trentertainment $10 Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction DJ Ghost $10

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club guide send your listings to : clubguide@thebrag.com OneLove Oliver Lang (England) free The Argyle, The Rocks Ben Hock, Yogi, Illya, DJ Phats, Soundhustla, Max Billionaire free The Aurora Hotel, Surry Hills Myniteclub Tikelz, Mike Hyper, Fly Girl Tee, C-Bu, King Hanx free–$20 The Bunker, Kings Cross Deep as Fu*k Deepchild, Schwa, James Huxley, Phil Smart, Marcotix, RifRaf The Forbes Hotel, Sydney Chrome Hearts Nickelz, Pat Ellis, Sonik, Spandex, Jane Gazzo, Petru $8–$10 The Gaff, Darlinghurst Beware the Cat Tim Sea $15 The Midnight Shift, Darlinghurst Machine Shigeki, Alex Taylor, Jayson Forbes free entry till 10pm after $10 open till 6am The Oxford Hotel, Darlinghurst Suplex Matt Rowan, Robbie Lowe, Simon Bell, Jimmy Dau, Tim Culbert, Sari $10 The Roxy, Parramatta Sydney’s best party DJs $25 (+ bf) theloft, Darling Harbour Late at theloft Rephrase, Somatik, Noel Boogie, Noodles, DJ Huwston, Meem, The Swat DJs, Stereo Theif, James Bucknell, Lippo $20 (+ bf) Tonic Lounge, Potts Point Gian Arpino, Danny Cool free UN Nightclub, Darlinghurst DCM Summer Love Andrew James, Micky D, Jorgie Jay, Rata, Andre Jay $15 UNhouse, Darlinghurst House Party D-Phunk, Jon Bon, Switchflikerz, Stunt Doubles $20 Universale Hotel, Leichhardt DJ Heke $25 Vanilla Room, Leichhardt Underground Sessions 2 Fabian De Marco $10 (guestlist)–$15 Vegas Lounge, Q Bar, Darlinghurst Loz Vegas $5 Verandah Bar, Sydney The Booty Bar George B, Nasser T, Lenno, K Sera

Vivaz Restaurant & Nightclub, The Rocks Mambo Asi, Pablo Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour As Long as it Grooves free–$44 (dinner & show) Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst Polo Lounge Supper Club La Fiesta Sound System $10 (+ bf) Wine Banq, Sydney Red Room Mark Molina, Mac, MC Cheeks, D-Bo, Pace World Bar, Kings Cross WHAM! DJs James Taylor, Wax Motif, Brendan Fing, Adam Bozzetto $15 Yu, Potts Point Trashbags Duke Dumont, Riot in Belgium, Trashbags Posse $20

SUNDAY JANUARY 20 Aquarium, Coogee Sunday’s Best John Glover, Matt Roberts, Cadell, Alex Mac free AB Hotel, Glebe DJ Gordon Watson 8pm Ashfield RSL Club DJ Paul free Bank Hotel, Newtown GI Jode, Eddie Coulter Blue Moon Majestic, King Street Wharf, Sydney Summer Solstice Craig Obey, Tenzin, Bobby Disco, DJ Jesse, Turner $35 Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach Edu K, Ro Sham Bo DJs, Peace Out, Kato, Non Ferrous, Jimmy Sing, Tha Fizz $22 (+ bf)–$28 Cabana Bar & Lounge, St Leonards Digital Summer Falcon, Hook ‘n’ Sling, Ben Morris, Goodfella, Telefunken, Brenden Fing, Reno, Matttt & Tomass, Matt Nukewood, James Taylor, Foundation, Scam (UK), Even, Zannon $15–$20 Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross

Rock and Roll Motherfuckers Christmas party Doomfoxx, Ooh La La, DJ Tattoodan plus some very special guests $12 Cargo Bar, Darling Harbour BED Jason Mikx, Zerocool, Miss Match, Charlie Brown, StevPlay Cohibar, Sydney Miss Gabby, Jeddy Rowland free Cruise Bar, The Rocks Superjamm Def Rok, Troy T, G Wizard, Lilo, Eko, Mighty Matt, Cadell, Elektroy, Tom Piper, MC Jayson, Lady Lauryn Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Salsa Caliente Sabroson, DJ Vico free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown DJ Metal Matt, Louis Tillett free Empire Hotel, Potts Point 4Play JimmyZ, Alex Mac free Equilibrium Hotel, Sydney Casa de la Salsa Johakim $15 Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills Lab Styles Gatti, Know U, DJ Islington 45, Monkfly free Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills Afternoon Electronica Sunday School free Favela, Potts Point Smut Ben Morris, Goodfella $15 Flinders Hotel, Darlinghurst Cattle Call Open Mic. Night Performance space free Fringe Bar, Paddington Swedish Meatballs Rob Salmon and Twitch free, $3 Tequila Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta Boogaloo Allstars free Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Soda Bar DJ Meem & JC free Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney Sounds on Sunday Malente (Germany) $20 Hunter Hotel Daydreams Yoshi, Chia, Keely, Marty Butler Intersection Tavern, Ramsgate Lovetown DJ Ash free Lady Lux, Kings Cross

Fanklub Anna Lunoe, J-Felx, Trix, Mik Tha Menace free–$10 Le Panic, Kings Cross Paradise City Q45, Amy B, Matt Nugent free–$10 Manacle, Darlinghurst Bent Rado, Luke Lela, Mark Alsop, Justin Scott $10 Mandalay Room, Kings Cross Sorted Sundayze Yoshi, Aken, Atlas, Arbor, Carlson, Chimpy, Cyber, Selby, Suae, X Dream Melt Bar, Kings Cross DJ Martinez, El Maestro free Mr Mary’s, Redfern Zone Out Sandi Hotrod free New Edenborough Hotel, Sydney Mouse Arrest Sundays Reno, Matt Nukewood, Joe le Fro, GST free before 6pm North Wollongong Hotel Sundays at the North gOng Steve, Sharon Brand, Ace, Kid Kindle and live acts free Opera Bar, Circular Quay Sunset Session Liam Sampras free Paddington Inn, Paddington DJ Mr Smith & Yin Yang free Palace Hotel, Darlinghurst Ballers Delight Kingsway, DJ Mr L Peppermint Lounge, Potts Point Sundaes Foreigndub sounds, Barrio Beats, Clubhouse, free Phoenix Bar, Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst Loose Ends Resident DJ Matt Vaughan & guest DJ Sveta $10 Pontoon, Darling Harbour Super Party Lenno, Moto, Fly Girl Tee, Tikelz, Sleazy D, Flite, Nicky Blaze, Reckdacon, Pharoah, Sesh Q Bar, Darlinghurst Lucid Lounge Archy free Raymond J’s Back Bar, Annandale Hotel The Vintage Record Store DJs free Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst Rompus Room Q45, Amy B, Hugga Thug, Disco Punx, Steve Lind Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Fame Tenzin, Daniel Ibrahim, Veliro de Simoni, Joey Rosslind, Studio

Gangsters free (guestlist)–$15 Scruffy Murphys Hotel, Sydney Fergus free Sly Fox, Enmore Foxy Beats $5 Star City, Pyrmont DJ Dynamite free Surf Rock Hotel, Collaroy Sundazed Illya, L-Y-N-C, Hoffy, Swine, Matt Roberts $5 The Argyle, The Rocks Summer Sundays La Fiesta Sound System The Bunker, The Bourbon, Kings Cross Tease Miss Savage, Lil Chris, Slomo, Cam Ran free The Cross, Kings Cross Holy Funk Dexter, Sampology free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Club Creative GST, Matt Nukewood, Phat20, JoleFro, PR Beatmix free The Roxy, Parramatta The Sunday Social Club Matt Nukewood, The Potbelleez, Danni Presti, Dan Newling free theloft, Darling Harbour Cut the Rug edseven, Kali, Somatik $10 Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo Apres Young Apprentice, Matt Keegan, Nathan McLay free Tonic Lounge, Potts Point SWAT Sundays Swat DJ’s free Trademark hotel, Kings Cross Benchmark Dirty Laundry, The Heat, The Vandals, People’s Republic, Tenzin, Timmy Trumpet, Andrew James free V3 Bar, Novotel Brighton Beach Sunday Sessions Tony Venuto, Matt Nukewood, Brendan Fing, George Kristopher, Tony Shock White Horse, Surry Hills Smirnoff Sundays Mo Funk free World Bar, Kings Cross Push Play The Elektro MSTRZ (aka DJ Tim Park & DJ Twiggee) Yu, Potts Point Your Mum Gus Da Hoodrat, Jamie Doom, Sleater Brockman, Jimmy 2 Sox, Coadie free

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FRIDAY JANUARY 18

Cockatoo Island, Sydney The List Cut Copy, Van She, Modular DJs free (guestlist)

Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach 389 Percussion Junction, Kobra Kai, ForthWrite, Bentley free

World Bar, Kings Cross Loaded Porch, DJ Bibs, Monkey Man, Wild Willie Wren free

Beck’s Festival Bar, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Sydney Festival Busdriver (USA), Wire MC, Street Warriors, Sean Choolburra, Radical Son, Last Kinection, Brotha Black, MC_S $26 (+ bf)

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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 Beck’s Festival Bar, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Sydney Festival Krafty Kuts (UK), Percussion Junction, Rephrase $36 (+ bf)

Chinese Laundry, Sydney The Club Club The Bang Gang Deejays, Tommy Trash, Hook ‘n’ Sling $15–$25 Yu, Potts Point Trashbags Duke Dumont, Riot in Belgium, Trashbags Posse $20

SUNDAY JANUARY 20 Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney Sounds on Sunday Malente (Germany) $20 theloft, Darling Harbour Cut the Rug edseven, Kali, Somatik $10

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Quality Electronic and Underground Dance Music does not receive the coverage it deserves in Sydney. We want to change that with this newly launched column, so I encourage you to please send any contributions/musings/flirtations/abuse to deep. impressions@yahoo.com And yes, the Email address is up and running this week, so now there is absolutely no excuse for there not to be an ongoing dialogue between us. You never know, it may be the start of something special. Alternatively it could permanently poison your soul.

Whichever you prefer.

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the F ourtet mix of B attles’ ‘ Atlas’ is Electrocash pinup starlet M iss K ittin has simply marvellous. a new album out called Batbox. Released overseas on February 1, I remain unsure So marvellous in fact that I can of the Australian release date use its undisputed q uality as a (break out of your lethargic M iss K ittin segue into Carl Craig’s new stupor and drop me an release, Sessions, released email if you have any in February on the ! K 7 label. information you sloth).

It is a double CD (both While she has released discs are mixed) comprised some outstanding entirely of Craig’s own collaborative material, material. Glancing at the especially with Golden tracklist causes me to drool B oy and The Hacker over the keyboard, as the (ok, ‘Silverscreen’ with release includes remixes of F elix D a Housecat J unior B oys, Theo Parrish, wasn’t too bad either) X - Press 2 --- It’s all too much. her debut solo album I Now then, if you go into your Com was fairly ‘mixed’ (yes local CD store and ask the guy that’s a euphemism for dodgy, behind the counter for that ‘cool which is in turn a euphemism Sessions mix’ and he proceeds to attempt for shithouse… though check out the to flog you some Ministry of Sound annual M ichael M ayer mix of ‘Happy Valentine’ mixed by _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (insert generic DJ of for deep mnml goodness). And apparently your choice) feel free to recycle a Patrick the album contains a 12-page booklet Bateman gem. “ You sir are a tumbling, featuring artwork from Emily the Strange tumbling dickweed.” After which politely creator Rob Reger. My 13-year-old sister inform him you are a citiz en of good taste, will be thrilled. and force the ignorant individual to play Craig’s mix on the store stereo so Remember prior to New Year you can liberate the simpleton. It how I mentioned some pretty F our Tet would count as your one good handy people remixing deed for the day.

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Amendment: Last week Maybe if you stop I said that M oodyman’s polluting your body and second Sydney show was rein in that excessive scheduled for Sunday the lifestyle you’d actually 27th at somewhere other take in some of this than it is (I’m not going to truly essential content. reprint my mistake to avoid Useless. I’m obviously confusing you any further. writing for goldfish as Even though it’s doubtful you opposed to elephants. even remember, goldfish). It In which case, I may have is definitely on at the M andarin scared you off by beginning Club, and considering the fact that the the article talking about M iss K ittin.

M ad Racket night at the Sydney Festival Anyway, X L Recordings are releasing is sold out, I suggest you arrest your The Eraser Remixes I, II, III later this disturbing state of passivity (it’s really month. The three EPs contain some really beginning to bother me) and buy tickets interesting stuff, not least remixes from before it’s too late.

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' Thuj on' I picked up a copy of Mixmag the other day (it’s the November issue, but that’s considered ‘current’ for us poor Aussies stranded on an island far away from everywhere. Anyway it’s the one with our boy Richie Hawtin on the cover) and was absolutely blown away by D ubfire’s D igital D reams free mix CD. There has been a bit of cynicism in DJing circles towards D ubfire (Ali from D eep D ish) for trying to prove he’s ‘underground’ (some ‘cool factor’ / integrity thing – j ust think the DJing eq uivalent to ‘manhood’) following releases such as ‘Roadkill’, which is epic Minimal Techno that certainly flirts with monotonousness and self-indulgence. But this mix is truly luscious, not to mention way better than 99% of mix CDs for sale at your local music store. It also introduced me to what is the track of the week, ‘ Thuj on’ by D aso. So your homework for this week is to tell me something about this D aso character, because anyone who can produce music like this demands further attention. And reward yourself by getting out to some of the Sydney Festival events, because they really encapsulate all that is great about summer in Sydney.

Soul Sedation

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

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elcome to Soul Sedation number five! It still feels so young and fresh, I wonder if anyone’s been reading?

Hope so. I’ve had some media-savvy types like Knowfoowl and Grindin’ Records catch on quick and add me to their mailing lists, the devoted Brag readers that they are, good job.

Which is what I’m after here really - people keeping me in touch with and aware of the quality goings on in and around our city. So if you’re working on something with a hip hop sensibility yourself, or you know someone who is, make sure to drop me an email and share the knowledge.

And caught the worm they have, those early birds, such that their happenings are getting plugged right here and now. Knowfoowl (a local underground funk/soul type label for the uninitiated), put out some damn good music last year, Reprase’s debut for example, as well as 2-Up’s sophomore album, neither of which are to be sniffed at. If they sound like your kind of acts, and they should, then Fridays at Tonic Lounge, which are hosted by the label, might just be your night. I peeked in briefly myself last Friday to hear Knowfoowl’s Huwston drop a nice instrumental section of a Kutiman track, one of the standout albums that made its way into my hands last year.

There you have it, proper good music aplenty at the Tonic Lounge.

Grindin’ got in touch to spread the word about Axe Aklins and his debut record. It’s a straight up Oz hip hop affair with loud, honest rhymes, heavy beats (produced

by Danielsan) and guest appearances by Koolism’s MC Hau and Sydney collective Ro Sham Bo. I had a listen to the first half of the record, without having too much time to get into it, and was definitely enjoying what I heard. In fact I liked everything about it except the photo of the near-naked German backpacker impersonating dude that jumped out at me when I eased the CD out of it’s well; that just scared me a bit. Apparently, and incidentally, Aklins used to run on field with the Canberra Raiders, which helps explain why he favours the tough-guy end of hip hop – he probably is one.

Somewhat less tough, and a lot more sensual and soulful than any rugby league player turned rapper, is Amp Fiddler, who’s amazing show I caught at the Becks Bar last week. Pretty damn happy I went to that one let me tell you; that cat is funky and then some. Never having seen him before I was impressed with his lofty stature, something that helps him craft a powerful stage presence. Even sitting at his keyboard he was still almost as tall as his backup singer, though she was something of a shorty I’ll admit. But those big lungs make for a big, big voice and when he gets going he really

Amp Fiddler knows how to tear a grin out of an audience.

He played a lot of the old stuff off Waltz of a Ghetto Fly which was cool, and the best of the new album Afro Strut, both incredible records in their own right. The show was super tight thanks to the backup musicians who were able to shine and let fly with their respective solos during the encore. I just hope Amp is remembered as someone who carried the torch that was passed down to himself by the likes of James Brown and Otis Redding, because he embodies exactly the same spirit, all he’s done is modernised and electronified the music. People like that only come along every so often, let’s hope the world at large still has an ear for the style.

So credit to the musicians and credit to the promoters, Niche, who made the show possible. These guys had their finger firmly on the pulse (well my pulse anyway) in ‘07, and ‘08 looks set to bring more of the delightful same. In the very near future they’re hosting Kiwi act Kora, that’s on the 19th, once again at the Becks Bar. Like I said last week make sure you get along to that one to hear Budspells, one of the many great supports that are playing on the night.

Swedish hip hop genius Freddie Cruger AKA Red Astaire will also be a guest of Niche’s at Ruby Rabbit’s on the 8th Feb. I really dig Cruger’s deeper, jazzy style of hip hop, and heartily recommend it, so looking forward to temporarily altering Ruby Rabbit’s demographic from pretty-young-cokedup-thing to semi-jaded-flat-cap-wearingwannabe-jazz-head with the rest of y’all. And was it one of the Niche promotional staff who let slip that Fat Freddys Drop are coming back oh-so soon? Let’s hope she’s got her facts, or should that be rumours, well and truly straight!

Well then, that’s all from me for now. I take it the Sydney Festival is keeping you busier than usual, how good is sinking beers to world class music on a Wednesday night!

More of that please. We’ll pick up where we left off next week with a little something about Pete Rock’s new album I think, just wait till you hear list of artists he’s collaborated with, truly out of this world.

Kora

ON THE ROAD (Left) Dr Octagon & Kutmaster Kurt

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Spirit Of Soul Festival @ Factory Theatre

TUE 22 JANUARY

Dr Octagon AKA Kool Keith & Kutmaster Kurt @ The Metro

FRI 15 FEBRUARY Thievery Corporation @ The Basement

SAT 19 JANUARY

Kora, Dexter & Grilla Step, Aloe Blacc, Cookin on 3 Burners @ Becks Festival Bar

WED 12 MARCH

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings @ Enmore Theatre

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04:01:08 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700

It’s called: RAM JAM It sounds like: Prince being Ram Jammed by Justice DJs/live acts playing: HEY NOW , The Gameboys, Boonie, Andy Web Jeremy, CSK OK! b, Kas_Cid, Three records that’ll rock the floo r: Chromeo – Bonafied Lovin (Yuksek Like Woah! - Oh I Like (Whitenoise Remix), Remix), The Mister Whippy Van them Edit) e (Hey Now

And one that you’d rather die than play: The Original Mr Whippy Van sooo terrible) Theme (It is Sell it to us: The best of the best resident DJs that Candy’s has to offer. A crew of electro cretins who have joined forces to take over the world. Looseness is advi (though not necessarily loose). It is gonna be high quality gankin’ elec sed, so are pants tro all night.

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: “Oh my god! It’s the last day of the to play India in an hour. I have a complete hangover… wait… I’m not test and I have in the team.”

Crowd specs: Kids with hair, girls with faces.

Wallet damage: Slight indent to insid e of coin pocket and space where once were.

ID and bank card Where: Candy’s Apartment

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03:01:08 :: Spectrum :: 34 Oxford St Darlinghurst 93316245

It’s called: Pistols & Hearts It sounds like: A blend of inspiratio nal melodic beats and distorted bass make you shake what your granny lines to gave ya !

DJs: Mr. Disorder (starf*ckers), Ash Le Rouge, Trashbag Posse DJs, Hooragon & Hoodragon.

M.I.N.N.A., Three records you’ll hear on the night: Les Petite Pilous – Jolie Fille Beetroots Remix), Radioclit – Divin (The Bloody e Gosa (Switch), D.I.M. – Is You. And one you definitely won’t: Potbelleez – Don’t Hold Back.

Sell it to us: We may be a new night but we’re kids from the bloc k. We know what you wanna hear and it ain’t what Nova says is a hit. Let’s get dow n and dirty people and restore some respect to Sydn ey’s night life!

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: That nobody parties harder than these guys.

Crowd specs: Fresh independent freedom thinkers, people looking to change the box to a circle and keep you gues sing. We are all friends and have no time for yuppies!

Wallet damage: $10 on guestlist, $15 if you’re not.

Where: Phoenix Bar. When: Friday January 18 9pm-6am .

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Playhouse It’s called: Playhouse

It sounds like: House & Electro DJs/live acts playing: Matt Ferr iera Vs Tom Piper, Goodfella, Stev e Play Vs Tony Venuto, Robbie Santiago Vs Disc okid, Charlie Brown & 3AM. Three records that’ll rock the floo r: DJ Antoine – ‘This Time’ David Guetta – ‘Baby When the Light’ Yelle - ‘A Cause Des Garcons’ And one that you’d rather die than play: ‘You Spin Me Around (Like A Record)’ Sell it to us: Some of the biggest names in the house & electro indu stry under the one roof at Plantation, right in the heart of Kings Cross, playing the phattest beats that will have you dancing all nigh t.

The bit we’ll remember in the AM: A classy, sassy, vibrant crowd that love their house & electro and will party right through the night until the sun com es up.

Crowd specs: Mixed, well-dressed crowd.

Wallet damage: $15 on the door

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Purple Sneakers

It’s called: Purple Sneakers Holid ays at Hermann’s – your favourite venue for the summer!!!! indie night moves

It sounds like: Everything you ever Everything you’ve come to expect wanted it to sound like – all indie – all good. from Purple Sneakers – but bigg er.

DJs/live acts playing: Johnny Segm ent (Britpop) and Don’t Cry resid The Real Seabas. They are joine ents Erectro and d by Purple Sneakers DJs PhDJ, Nick Findlay and Vivienne Kingswood and Classics DJs Coco & Shambles and John ny Darko.

Sell it to us: With Hermann’s rad (might we say “massive”) outdoor perfect way to spend your summer cour nights dancing under the stars. But tyard, it’s the we’ve now combined Purple Snea kers and Classics, so there is a little the best bit is, everyone. somethin’ for The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Not much, if we can help it! But of those memories that can reca if you have one ll ever maybe the seriously awesome time ything, no matter what state you end up in, you had dancing to all your favourite tunes!

Crowd specs: You and all your friends.

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Wallet damage: The usual $10 – but free of course, before 8pm .

Where: Hermann’s Bar - Cnr Butli n Ave & City Rd (Opposite Sydn ey Uni) When: Friday January 18

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05:01:08 :: Arthouse :: 275 Pitt St Sydney 92841200

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Hailer

Tell us about your music: We play rock ‘n’ roll music that will mak e you sing, dance, scream and think… simu ltaneously. Rock ‘n’ roll is thievery – so we’d be lying if we said we weren’t heavily influ enced by the godfathers of rock / pop history… but we put our own contemporary spin on the music that wakes us up in the morning – and the results are as fresh as a crop of daisies.

What’s been happening for you lately? Finished recording our EP entitled Like A Uniform, sorting regional and inter state touring to support the relea se of our EP and talking to pommies and Euro trash about spreading Hailer in the Northern hemisphere… along with writing transcendent rock music.

What albums to you have blaring in the van while on tour? Sgt Pep pers – Beatles, Aha Shake Heartbreak – KOL, Era Vulgaris – QOTSA, Sam ’s Town – The Killers, Disraeli Gears – Cream, Baby 81 – BRMC. What music/artists have inspired you along the way? Beatles, Ston es, Neil Young, QOTSA, KOL, BRMC, Velv et Underground, Fleetwood Mac , Joy Division, Zeppelin and so many more.

You’re currently pushing your debut EP? Can you tell us a little bit about it?

Yes. It is called Like A Uniform and we shall be formally releasing it in a couple months time. It’s four tracks that give a snapshot of what we are abou t – melodies, riffs and rhythm. It’s like Hailer 101 – an introduction that will give you a taste of what we are about as a band. It’s esse ntially a rock record but with disce rnable doses of country, blues and Manchester in there as well. Post listening – hope fully folks will come see us perform live.

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Where/When can we see you?

We are playing at Sosueme @ Q bar on January 18, The Hoey on the 19th with the Pink Fits and Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle on the 24th - myspace.com/hailermu sic for details!!

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