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VOIGT/465

Crate digging Andrew Ramadge explores the history of music

print There are many differences between Melbourne and Sydney and even more people who like to argue about them. In the last few years I have noticed some. The first is that the words “experimental” and “underground” have a distinct meaning in the Harbour City. Music outside the mainstream is usually played in suburban warehouses and decrepit inner-city apartment buildings that writers are afraid to name in print. Invitations are sent to mailing lists that are occasionally purged and compiled again to avoid detection. At most of these gigs watching a band comes with an anxious feeling that the police may arrive. Emmy Hennings wrote about one such confrontation last September, when kids filing out of a well-known warehouse in Surry Hills met with officers waiting downstairs.

Who: VOIGHT/465 What: Slights Unspoken Label/Year: Independent, 1979

Whether it is because of this tension or not, the music made in Sydney’s underground spaces is more challenging and often more violent than anything I’ve heard previously. The other difference between the two cities

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is that, in line with popular opinion, Sydney really is quite soulless. If the eastern coast of Australia was a body, Melbourne would be the heart and Sydney the brain – and Brisbane, I guess, would be the brawn. You can hear it in the music, both mainstream and underground. There is a particular sound that has been running through avant-garde bands in Sydney since at least the late 1970s that I find alienating and anti-human. It can best be seen today in the work of Naked On The Vague and Castings, two bands that seem to have done away with emotion entirely.

The photo at the top is taken from former Voigt/465 member Phil Turnbull’s website about Sydney post-punk bands, No Night Sweats.

PICKPOCKET

Going to a night and seeing about 17 000 new bands for ten cents or whatever still remains one of our top simple pleasures. Pickpocket is offering such a night for us – needless to say, we a squealing a little at the thought. Not in a lame way though. Check out Tokyo Blonde, Allies, The Process (Melb), Villians Of Wilhelm (Bris) and Red Light Nation for ten bucks this Thursday at Candy’s Apartment.

WILCO

If you’re a mere casual fan of Wilco, then perhaps skip this part. But for the crazy ‘I never washed the tshirt you touched Jeff Tweedy!’ crowd, you’re in for a treat. The band wants you to request songs for them to play on their upcoming tour. We expect concentrated incidents of Wilco nerd out meetings in the near future. See them when they play 18 March at the Enmore with special guests Bridezilla.

THE PANICS

‘Don’t Fight It’. No, we’re not trying to get all ‘the trying really hard but ultimately is rather annoying friend’ on you. That’s the name of The Panics’ song, which you apparently know already, if its placing in the Triple J’s 100 is anything to go by. The band are about to jet off to SxSW and the UK for some shows, and after their return they’ll be touring here. See them when they play Friday May 9 at the Metro, tickets on sale now. The Raveonettes

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DEAD INSIDE THE CHRYSALIS

So Dead Inside The Chrysalis are throwing a pyjama party. Lovely. You do realise however that for this band, ‘pyjama party’ does not mean Tiny Teddies and hairbrushes, right? Instead, it’s the Mutant Generation Pyjama Party, which means some “post-apocalyptic Duran Duran” and much madness. They’re playing 16 March with special guests Emergency! Emergency!, The Vangarde and DJ sets by The Grid.

KISSCHASY

Kisschasy is about to run away to the US for a good chunk of the second half of the year to work the shit out of their debut release over there, Hymns For The Nonbeliever. Before you hardcore fans start crying, ‘but I’m not gonna see them for aaaaages!’, don’t fret. They’re touring the country for the Bones & Skin tour. See them 24 May at the Enmore with The Donnas (US) and The Getaway Plan, tickets on sale Thursday.

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Who exactly is Jack Nasty Face? “Jack Nasty Face comes from the trashier side of the roots of rock n roll,” proclaimed one website. “The all singing all dancing Jack Nasty Face comes from a different time and place – drawing from 60’s garage, blues, punk and ye old fashioned rock and roll,” explained another. But still, the answer to who this enigmatic Sydney four piece is remains elusive. But lucky for us – and for you, too – they’re playing a huge show at the Hopetoun Hotel in Surry Hills this Saturday March 15, and we’ve got 5 double passes to give away so we can all unveil the mystery of Jack Nasty Face. All double passes come with a JNF CD too. Most excellent. Email freestuff@thebrag.com to be a winner.

I happen to work next to one of the most soulless places in the city, Darling Harbour, an enormous pre-fabricated tourist district with clinical lighting and overpriced merchandise. One of my favourite photos is of discordant Sydney post-punk band Voigt/465 playing an illegal gig on the Darling Harbour construction site in 1978. They only managed to play a few songs before the police arrived, but several photos of the occasion exist. One shows the band with their instruments set up between the pylons and against the backdrop of the Sydney skyline, playing to an audience of just one gleefully happy young child. Every time I walk through Darling Harbour now I think about that photo and it makes me smile.

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Two of the most popular bands from the semi-finals of the Tooheys Extra Dry (TED) uncharTED competition have pulled out after achieving their goals of gaining interest from major record labels! Tooheys Extra Dry would like to congratulate The Seabellies who have recently signed an EP deal with ABC Music; and Cassette Kids who have received strong interest from a number of different labels. Both bands felt it was important to give other bands a chance at achieving their dreams since theirs had already been granted. The departure of The Seabellies and Cassette Kids has made room for two new bands to start battling it out for a contract with the SONY BMG in the semi-finals of uncharTED competition one. Melbourne band Big Cats and Sydney band Circle are thrilled they have been given a second chance to battle it out for the grand prize! With only a week of public voting left to go before the grand finalists are announced for the first competition, the call is out for you to get behind your favourite band. Simply log on to www.uncharted.com.au and vote once an hour to give your band a fighting chance at winning prize that is going to make their career! AND! Get behind our pick of the bunch – LOVER who are stocking up on hair product, pulling on their skinny legs, and preparing to dance their way through the biggest year of their lives. Simply log on to www.uncharted.com.au .....

THE RAVEONETTES

The Raveonettes’ latest album’s naming process probably went something like, ‘so what is this album about, how should it make people feel?’ ‘Well surely it is about the lust,.’ ‘But there is so much lust on there!’ And so on. Or perhaps that was just our terrible piece of fan fiction. Either way, the new album is Lust Lust Lust, and you’ll get to see the Denmark duo do it live when they play Thursday April 17 at Oxford Art Factory.

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Growing Up Brett – I lived in the South of England 1. and was brought up with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Queen, Frank Sinatra, and heaps of Motown. Me and my mates used to dress up as The Spice Girls far too often and we started to scare people in the village (I was Baby). Andy – Similar to Brett, I was brought up in a house filled with music from decades

Inspirations Mcay – My bass lines are influenced by Bob Marley, David Bowie, Jamiroquai and Earth Wind and Fire and my awesome harmonising by Bjork. Brett – I’m heavily influenced by David Bowie ‘cause he is King, Paul Weller, Paul McCartney and Queen. Your Band Andy – We’re 3. 4 mates formed

through the legions of justice and school friendship. Brett – Me and Mcay decided to start a band and needed a drummer so Harry who couldn’t play decided we would

Kele (Bloc Party)

play at his house. Then Andrew seduced us with his smooth bass interpretation of The Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ ‘Aeroplane’, we already had a bass player and decided he could play lead guitar for us. The Music You Make Brett – We’re an indie/Rock band, we 4. recorded our songs at Trackdown Recording Studios and put together a self released EP called Riot At Brighton. Mcay – We try to cover as many genres as we can, giving us what we hope is a unique sound.

What are your Thursday night options? What are your options! We like to listen to Sunsets on FBi with Kato and Anna Lunoe to get our game on, and then dash out and go somewhere with no cover – we’re cheap like that. Pet Cemetery is one option for your own selves, with past DJs and artists including Kele (Bloc Party), Operator Please, Ben Frost, The Wahas and more. It’s on Thursdays at Oxford Art Factory.

“Frankenbok released their Murder of Songs album last September but haven’t had the chance to tour in earnest yet due to complications with Azzabok’s badly busted leg. It’s on the mend now, two operations later and thanks to a Robocop leg brace and insertion of a titanium rod…” Ok wait, who is Azzabok? He’s in Frankenbok! Of course! Frankenbok play some serious thrash metal, which makes the leg pin so obvious now! Right! Anyway, these long delayed shows are headed for Club Blink this Friday for Blink’s massive birthday party. We’ve got 5 copies of the album and five Frankbok t-shirts to give to the first in, literally best dressed at the usual address.

Music, Right Here, Right Now Andy – The music scene at the moment 5. is mostly based around New Wave Indie sounds, the hardest obstacle for a band is developing your own sound. Brett – We have seen and played recently with The Galvatrons and Amy Meredith, they are the greatest. The Red Riders have an awesome live show, and bluejuice are the shizzle dizzle. Who: Bridgemary Kiss Where: Factory Theatre, Enmore When: Friday March 21 With: British India, Bridezilla, The Holidays and Cassette Kids

DAMIEN LEITH

WAGONS

SONG SUMMIT SYDNEY

KARNIVOOL

Damien Leith is that dude who won Australian Idol, and went on to host that kids in hospital show. Now, before you go moaning that he’s ‘off the telly’, give the man a chance. He just wants to play his covers for you! Damien is doing a couple of acoustic sets, including covers of Cat Stevens, Roy Orbison, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and more. It’s on this Friday and Saturday at the Vanguard.

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past. The first single I ever brought home was ‘Come With Me’ by Puff Daddy from the Godzilla Soundtrack. Solid. I created a drum kit when I was about 4 from toy boxes and played ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ by Billy Joel endlessly.

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Right, so you have this song you’ve been working on for eons, to the point where you’ve lost all perspective on it. What to do? Well you can submit it for Song Summit Sydney, and get people like The Shins’ James Mercer, Sandi Thom, Josh Pyke, Jimmy Webb and more to review and critique. Wow – possibly a harsh reality. It’s on April 3-5. For full details go to soundsummit.com.au.

We could tell you that Wagons are a ‘dark country extravaganza’, or that they got four stars in Rolling Stone for their latest album The Curse of Lightning, or that they’ve toured with Okkervil River, Calexico, M Ward and more. But really you should just go to their myspace and listen to the damn songs yourself, and see them when they play April 10 at The Brass Monkey and 12 at the Hopetoun.

Karnivool has just spent two months touring the States and on the Big Day Out circuit. This has led them to reassess what they want their live set to be all about. They’ll be giving something other than the ‘standard rock show’, though annoyingly they won’t tell us what this ‘other’ will be. We shall see when they play 25 April at the Metro with That 1 Guy (US) and Mere Theory (AA).

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

The Butterfly Effect had that album IMAGO which made it into the ‘acclaimed’ category. So they’re probably pretty keen to get another one into the same manila folder. What to do? Well they’re about to bury themselves into the studio to work on their next record – ain’t no coming up for air. Before then however, they’re hitting the stage March 20 at Castle Hill RSL, and 21 at Selina’s, Coogee.

SURF CITY

Surf City is a band from New Zealand. Okay. Surf City is a band from New Zealand who does rock/indie pop. Yes…(please be going somewhere with this). Surf City is a band from New Zealand who does rock/indie pop and has recently played with Dinosaur Jr, Battles, Broken Social Scene, Interpol and Shy Child and more. You listening now? Listen when they play March 22 at the Annandale, and 23 at Beach Road with Young & Restless.

Juliette & the Licks

MTV AWARDS

We love watching the MTV Awards, mainly because we get to see moving versions of all the celebs we read about on ohnotheydidnt. And with the MTV Australia Awards coming up, we could totally stalk them…er, not that we would do that. Ahem. This year hosting duties go to ‘I got paws on my tatas’ Eve, and a performance by Juliette & the Licks, with more to be announced. Voting starts Wednesday – do it.

SOUNDS LIKE PEABODY

Some well-articulated pigeon mail: “Peabody and arch enemies, Sounds Like Sunset, will be playing a couple of co-headlining gigs this weekend to celebrate the arrival of autumn. Both bands suffer from a severe case of ‘pub-tan’”. To eradicate the situation, they’re playing this Friday at the Sandringham with the Momo Bench Seat Band, and Saturday at the Excelsior with Sleep Debt.

SPARKADIA

Oh Sparkadia, tell us where you’ve been! Tell us what you’ve done! While our direct calls went unanswered, we did hear that their song ‘Too Much To Do’ has been added to BBC Radio One (the station’s DJ Zan Rowe looooves it), as did their last single ‘Animals’ – wow and wow. They’re playing this Friday at The Basement with The Seabellies, The Hampdens and Sherlock’s Daughter.

"Twenty-five pounds of pure cane sugar she’s got in each and every kiss" – THE BLACK CROWES 10 :: BRAG :: 252 :: 10:03:08

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WITH WITH Growing Up Hearing the Dead Kennedys for the first 1. time was a revelation. What’s this? A band

playing intricately and fast with abrasive, weird surf guitar and a singer so distinct and always making some kinda point and questioning everything? I’ll take it! Up until that point, apart from Adam and the Ants, I was enjoying music I’d heard around the house like Danny Kaye, Monty Python, The Blues Bros, Rocky Horror and the Beatles.

Inspirations Well that Jello Biafra guy has constantly 2. fascinated me with his music and the amount

of information regarding the state of the world that he can keep in his head at one time. I think Danzig has a lot to answer for the way he has contributed to my record collection over the years. So what if he has an attitude problem! Who doesn’t? Bands like the Sex Pistols and Fear have been a constant inspiration. Whenever I put on one of their albums it always sounds cutting edge to me... and once again, there’s that attitude problem! Fuck ‘em all.

Speaking of parties, we here at Brag usually leave these giveaway blurbs to the very last minute. Quite frankly, they’re the bane of our existence: after a bludgeoning week at work, the last thing we feel like doing is writing witty and urbane paragraphs about free shit. Also, we’re thinking about partying. And the Vicious Cuts Summer 2008 musical bonanza, mixed by John Course and Dirty South, does nothing to alleviate our current woes. With two discs of awesome tunes, all we want to do is get the hell out of here and hit the dance floor. Now, so we don’t ever have to be tempted again, we’re giving away the five copies that are sitting on our desk. Email freestuff@thebrag.com and lead us not into temptation!!

TIMBOK FROM FRANKENBOK

ever. We probably think we’re all the funny, sexy one. Maybe we’re right? The Music You Make 4. It’s gotten heavier

in the last year. I guess it leans more in the direction of stonertype-death metal than ever before. For lack of a better word though it sounds like HEAVY METAL. Bok’s first 3 releases were recorded at the Back Beach Recording Company with dw Norton and the last 2 we have done ourselves at home with a lot of assistance from Reggie Bowman and his Scream Louder Studios.

Your Band Music, Right Here, Right Now Bok’s been hanging in there for over 10 Fuck, that’s a big question. The obstacles 3. 5. years... Azzabok and I have been in cahoots in Aus would have to be convincing the metal since about ‘89 - ‘90 and Mick came on board in ‘99 and we have known and enjoyed Dan’s company since about then too. Yeti was always front row at Frankenbok’s shows for

VICIOUS CUTS

lovers that local music is worth their time and money. Record companies always seem to enjoy having bands over a barrel ‘coz if you don’t wanna sign and do it their way and wind

up on a Pepsi bottle then there are 10 other bands lining up and greasing up their buttholes. The best thing about the local scene is... that there is a local scene! In Melb there’s shit on everywhere and pretty much every night. Fuck, I can walk down to the local pub and torment people with my karaoke, so that’s rad. Who: Frankenbok When: Friday March 14 Where: Club Blink, Agincourt Hotel

BEEPER

The Count of Monte Cristal and Sinden’s track ‘Beeper’, which also features the vocal talent of A-Trak’s beau Kid Sister, was one of the biggest singles of last year. Well it was supposed to be. The only problem was that the release date was held back due to the original sample from Pharrell Williams taking a while to get cleared. But everything has been sorted and ‘Beeper’ is due for release digitally on March 29, though it has been doing the rounds in clubs for a while now. The ringtone inspired track is lifted from The Count and Sinden’s forthcoming debut album, out later in the year. Tip: the ‘Fake Blood’ mix is the filth. Sinden

DJ CRAZE + SOUNDS ON EASTER

Last giveaway blurb of the week. Phew! Lucky too, because it’s a giveaway courtesy of the folks from Sounds on Sunday for their massive show Sounds on Easter at the Greenwood Hotel on Sunday March 23 (that’s Easter Sunday). So why’s it lucky? Cuz it’s Sounds on Easter… duh! That shit is huge, sells out every year, is one of the most amazing parties on one of the holiest holidays, etcetera, etcetera. This year Florida’s DJ Craze is coming out to blow you all away. So here’s the deal: we’ve got two double passes to give away PLUS two copies of Fabric 38 mixed by Craze himself. How sweet is that! Wanna win? Email freestuff@thebrag.com.

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PNAU: WE ARE BACK

We’ve all heard the story of ‘Sir’ Elton John taking a real liking to the new PNAU record, buying a stack of their CDs and inviting the lads over for tea and a ‘crumpet’. And if it’s good enough for Sir Elton then surely it’s good enough for all of us living mere ‘average’ lives. Indeed Pnau’s new record has a certain je ne sais quoi, its the release that the Sydney schoolboys told my associate Chris ‘the radar’ Honery that they wish to be defined/remembered by. Now, after demolishing The Big Day Out series, Pnau are finally taking their album on the road with a concert that apparently features life sized dancing wild strawberries. From 7.30pm at the Enmore, $36.50 at the gate.

AUTECHRE RETURN

It’s been something like three years since the iconic Sheffield-via-Manchester duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, collectively known as Autechre, released their last album. Now the pioneering electronic pair are back with their ninth album, Quaristice. Twenty tracks long, the album is seemingly an attempt to conflate quality and quantity, not that the music public should complain about this. Based on the strength of their output over the years tis is bound to be a cracker; or as the Autechre PR hoons suggest, “[Quaristice is] a crucial release that marks their experimental growth and showcases the duo’s unsettled progressive nature.” Out nationally 15 March on Warp via Inertia.

WTF?!

OMG, part 2 in the series! WTF?! is the night that lifts the lid on all those crazy dance genres that we thought were just marketing terms. This Saturday 15 March a dozen of Sydney’s best DJs and troupes get together to canvas the best tracks in genres such as - wait for it - screw, snap, Miami bass, Eurocrunk, garage, Italo disco, booty house, duke music and (ofcourse) Baltimore club. Reppin’ on the night (at last count) were such luminaries as Pat from Lost Valentinos, Kato, tha Fizz, Spruce Lee, Jimmy Sing, Fat Sexual, Anna Lunoe, Moriarty, Sleater Brockman and Purple Punch in a 30-minute per DJ wax-on / wax-off DJ battle Oxford Art Factory; $10 from 10pm. Full info at www.onthefly.com.au.

Tune in to rbmaradio.com this week from 15 March when they will be broadcasting recorded live sets form the the Red Bull Music Academy Beats, Bleeps n Bass stage at Melbourne’s St Jeromes Laneway Festival. Dedicated to “the heaviest dubstep, the quirkiest electro, the most frenetic hip hop and the craziest dancehall and grime”, the stage included alltime UK act duo Plaid, Harmonic313, an alias of Marc Pritchard, and Dan Deacon. Yes, Sydneysiders, don’t dwell on how choice the Melbourne scene is (apparently the weather’s better down south too), get pro active and… surf the internet. Hmmm, should be a good listen in any case.

KID KENOBI

Starting this Saturday 15 March, Kid Kenobi is taking up a monthly residency at the Chinese Laundry – the first chance for some time for Sydneysiders to catch the Kid on a regular basis. Though many still associate him with the arguably obsolete breaks genre, Kenobi should not be dismissed as slain Obi Wan (use the force and visualise a heap of heshin on the floor – you know what happens when you’re cut down with a light sabre) and remains a relevant member of Sydney’s musical community, dabbling in various beats, deep cuts, house, bmore, so-called electro and – yes – some breaks. As an aside, I kinda miss that evanescent breaks dance – ha, that was funny.

What’s your weapon of choice? The Ultimate Camera? I guess it’s not so much the camera as the lens, and not so much the lens as the eye. I always see folks with extremely scrappy cameras publish ultimate work. Conversely I’ve seen people with ultimate cameras take some scrappy shots. As far as cameras go, I think it comes down to the subject you’re shooting. I like EOS stuff at the moment. Were you always into photography? My old man worked for Paramount so we always had cameras around the house. For a while I thought I wanted to make films. I got that out of my system at Uni and ‘focused’ on photography. Pardon the pun. What got you into photography? I guess the passion really crystallised when I realised there was no other way to express what I was feeling, or the fleeting things I saw in the people around me. I have a jones for capturing the ephemera of people and style, whether that be street style, fashion or musical style. Pressing the shutter button freezes what could otherwise be a lost moment. I guess that’s the compulsion. We say cheese, you say…. Camerambert? I’ve never actually said ‘cheese’ to anyone I photographed. Occasionally I’ll say “Forget I’m even here”. Catch Reef’s work at 2nd Annual Purple Sneakers Social Snaps Exhibition this Friday @ The Abercrombie or at www. innerstyle.com.au

"I freeze myself rain on myself Ok so i stone myself" – THE BLACK CROWES 12 :: BRAG :: 252 :: 10:03:08

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SKINS

Skins is one of those quintessential British shows about sex, getting fucked up, having sex while fucked up… hey, now we see why this is so popular. It’s also got a pretty killer soundtrack too: Gossip, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, DJ Shadow, The Hives, Tricky, The Fall, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Adam & The Ants, and that’s only the half of it! It’s one of those wicked party soundtracks that you can put on once everyone’s sick of your iPod being on shuffle and it’ll get everyone back into party mode. We’ve got 5 copies of the Skins soundtrack to give away, so first in with “Skins Me” in the subject line gets a CD.

CHANG FROM THEATRE OF DISCO

Growing Up I grew up mostly in South Asia from age 1. 8 to 19. My main musical influences were

things like Balinese gamelan, Odessan Indian music and early Bhangra. I went to numerous cute little discos that my friends put on. Slow dancing was a big thing for me. The two albums my Dad cranked was The Pointer Sisters and Bob Marley. My Mum was more into Cat Stevens etc. Actually my Dad LOVED the musical Sweeney Todd so it was a blast to the past seeing the movie. He also played the oboe… it depressed my Mum so they split up.

Inspirations Maybe apparrat? I like so much stuff. I 2. write a lot of sweet Canadian-esque folk for

my work so I’m kind of into that too I guess…

Your Band James- singer- he’s the mad theatre 3. director/parole officer. He’s crazy about art,

music and the most natural extrovert I’ve ever known. Pete is an old war buddy from Danang... or that’s who we relentlessly role play, even if we’re in a flat mood. He plays percussion and synth. Robbie drums like a clock and is the spiritual leader in us. I write the music and beats and play bass and synth.

The Music You Make We have an amazing booking agent

in Berlin who has booked us with Ratatat, Planning to Rock, Modeselector etc. Also in Oz we’ve played with Uffie, Datarock, etc Music, Right Here, Right Now It’s pretty good actually but sometimes 5. it’s mindless and boring. What are the

obstacles musos have to overcome? Money mostly I guess and the prospect of being

trapped in Oz because it’s so tiny. We’re very lucky coz we’re able to travel a lot. I wish Rudd or someone made music as big as sport in Australia. Who: Theatre of Disco Where: sosueme. @ Q-Bar (Oxford St) When: Friday March 14

WAX’D

Wax’d is a new night brought to you by Sydney’s Fourth quadrant crew, bringing you the best of local talent across such genres as “drum n bass, dubstep, grime, hip hop, house, breaks, electro and indie/Brit pop…” – pretty much everything. This month the lineup includes Kobra Kai, Scuba, Reload, Gotham and many more who you can see for absolutely nothing. That’s right, the night is free and the drinks are cheap, so there is nothing to be lost by meandering down to the Loft Bar at UTS at say about 5pm this Thursday March 13 and checking it out.

GOOD TIMES

Bungalow 8, theloft and Playground unite this Easter Sunday 23 March to present - direct from the infamous Notting Hill Carnival - that “open-minded cultural chameleon” Norman Jay (MBE) alongside Crazy Penis. From dancing to the crystalline system at Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage and being an integral part of the early UK house and Acid Jazz scene, Jay needs little introduction; good-timers Crazy Penis will be performing a full live set at Good Times, backed up by artists including The Bionics, Jimi Polar and Jamie Lloyd (LIVE), Mark Walton pres. Fretless (LIVE), Simon Caldwell, Soulshaker DJs, Noodles & Noel Boogie. Tickets are $30 1st release, 2nd release $40 and limited VIP tickets at $80 each from moshtix and theloft.

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MUSCLES TOUR

The Muscles juggernaut is certainly showing no signs of slowing down with the Melbourne ‘rave box’ putting up some impressive numbers in Triple J’s hottest 100 poll – coming in at 14 and 76 – and supporting The Chemical Brothers. However Modular have obviously decided that their boy plays second fiddle to no-one regardless how illustrious they are! Resultantly Muscles is embarking on another Hulk-sized National Tour, spanning the east coast to Perth. His Sydney dates are Sunday 30 March at The Metro, where he will be supported by that lovable ELF who has been carving up Sydney in support of his debut solo release Stevie Nicks Heart , and Thursday 3 April at The Manning Bar at Sydney University with rumours of a cameo by DJ troupe 342 Cleveland St.

WILL SAUL

We are pretty sure that Will Saul was a late edition to the PW lineup. Either that or he snuck under the radar, which is what he has done for a lot of his career –for that, you may not have even heard of Will Saul…? Allow me to fill you in: Will ‘surly’ Saul, the esoteric Techno veteran who is the force behind Simple Records, specialises in – and I quote from the press release – “deep driving house and techno fused with melody and soul”. Also on the bill will be Mudd, who previously recorded on Spun’s Rong Records imprint, and the “mild mannered funkster” Meem. From 10pm, Saturday 15 March, tickets $25 on the door at Will and Toby’s.

SHARON JONES

No rest for the wicked when it comes to the Niche crew. Following on from Freddy Cruger, Niche Productions present the return of powerhouse soul-diva Sharon Jones and her inimitable band, The Dap-Kings, bringing back the essence of the 60’s Stax and Motown vibes to an insatiable public (“turn it up wanker”!). Jones recently performed with Lou Reed on the revival tour of his seminal record, Berlin, as well as lending her vocal talents to Rufus Wainwright, They Might Be Giants and assorted film projects. The 9-piece Dap-Kings are also noteworthy for their work with Marc Ronson and Amy Winehouse. From 7pm at the Enmore Theatre, Wednesday 12 March, tickets $58.10+bf through Ticketek… and selling fast.

National clubbing institution ‘One Love’ has followed in the footsteps of Kink and other club brands and released a steady stream of compilations over the past few years. Their last mix featured a disc from DJing’s answer to ZZ Top, Tommie Sunshine, and this instalment showcases Italian act Crookers as the international talent, the new favourite among ‘gym junkie’ clubbers. Entitled Sound Machine, the triple CD also features discs from accomplished Aussie talent Grant Smillie and Matt ‘Gold’ Nugent. This is your chance to see how the Aussie DJs stack up against their higher-profile Italian counterparts. It’s the World Cup all over again. Only this time there’s no dodgy referee to get the Italians out of jail. One Love: Sound Machine is out 29 March on Sony BMG.

TRANCE RISES AGAIN

‘Nu-school trance’. The very phrase is enough to make most people hurl. But we have to cater to all factions of the public in a democratic society, so until I am anointed as your despotic autocrat and turn Sydney’s music scene into a Spartanesque world a la ‘300’ I will continue to be a man of the people. Nu-school trance is apparently exploding all over the world, and two of their pinup boys of this ‘new sensation’ are the rising stars Sean Tyas and Simon Patterson, who will be blending “elements of percussive techno, driving electro and minimal with the hands-in-the-air romanticism of big room trance” back where it all began (for me at least) at the Metropolis Hotel in North Sydney Saturday 22 March.

A decidedly better option than the family Easter hunt this year is to don the bunny ears and hop on down to the second instalment of We Had Parties for a real egg hunt on the night of Easter Sunday, 23 March. Presented by prestigious street press The Brag, the night’s splendour is matched only by its excess, as it spans every last millimetre of Q Bar, Spectrum, Phoenix, 34b and Vegas and reads as something of a who’s who of Sydney’s favourite DJs. Yep the DJs from Bandits, Health Club, Hot Damn --- pretty much everyone is going to be playing. In short this is a night with no place for moderation that can only end in debauchery (which we think is a good thing). Presale tickets available through moshtix

MÚM TOUR

Experimental Icelandic outfit MÚM (“Hey aren’t they kinda like Sigur Ros?” -- “Please don’t interrupt with your pathetic namedropping!”) are touring their new album Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy and playing at the Manning Bar at Sydney University on Tuesday 11 March. Don’t make the mistake of dismissing these guys as being too avant-garde/ambient/weird or indeed intelligent for even ‘dummies’ like Ewan Pearson are down – he featured them on his latest promo mix and for better or worse they’ve remixed Goldfrapp. Hit www. manningbar.com for info/tix. MÚM

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Industrial strength Industry Music News with Christie Eliezer

TWELVE ACTS LAUDED FOR #1S

The Australian Recording Industry Association last week honoured 12 Aussie acts for reaching #1 between January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007. In total, these acts spent 29 weeks at #1 across the singles, album or music DVD charts. Silverchair (Eleven/EMI) were four weeks at #1 with ‘Straight Lines’ and four weeks with the Young Modern album. AC/DC’s Plug Me In (Albert Music/SBME) was 5 weeks atop the DVD charts. Damien Leith scored with three weeks for The Winner’s Journey album (SBME) and one for Where We Land. Making it for a week’s stay each were Evermore’s ‘Light Surrounding You’ (Warner), Missy Higgins for ‘Steer’ and the On A Clear Night album (Eleven/ EMI), Delta Goodrem for the ‘In This Life’ single and Delta album, Human Nature’s Reach Out – Live At The Capitol Theatre DVD (SBME), John Butler Trio with the Grand National album (Jarrah/ MGM), The Veronicas’ ‘Hook Me Up’ (Warner), Powderfinger’s Dream Days At The Hotel Existence album (Universal), Kylie Minogue’s ‘2 Hearts’ single and X album (Warner) and Crowded House’s Time On Earth (EMI). Silverchair’s Ben and Chris attended the event (Daniel is “out of the city” writing) as did The Veronicas, Evermore, John Butler, Powderfinger, Delta Goodrem and Damien Leith. Human Nature returned from America a few days before. Of non-attendees, Missy Higgins was at that

very moment on a bus driving from Denver to a gig in Chicago. AC/DC were presumably in the studio, Kylie presumably frolicking on a resort island with new bestie Natalie Imbruglia, and Neil Finn presumably rehearsing with Split Enz for their reunion dates in New Zealand.

BERTELSMANN TO DROP BMG?

German media giant Bertelsmann has clammed up about speculation that it is trying to offload its stake in SonyBMG. Its chief financial officer Thomas Rabe has met with at least two private equity companies to discuss the possible sale. Bertelsmann business units have to achieve a return on sales of 10%. Sony BMG managed 8.6% in 2006. Its results for 2007 are released in Berlin on March 18.

AMP ANNOUNCES TWO OFFSHOOT PRIZES

The 10 short listed artists for The Amp prize get two other chances to win something, courtesy Red Bull for “outstanding potential” and MySpace. Sydney band bluejuice won Red Bull’s offer of $15,000 to mark the fact they have a bright future here and abroad. New Buffalo’s Somewhere, Anywhere had her voted by MySpace Australia’s users as the act to receive $50,000 worth of promotional support on the social networking site. The winner of the

LIFELINES:

Ill: Van Halen’s US tour was postponed for Eddie Van Halen’s medical attention. Ill: Amy Winehouse was forced to take time off work after she was diagnosed with impetigo, a highly contagious skin condition, which swelled up her face (this in turn led to tabloid rumours she’d been involved in a brawl). Free: Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver has finished 28 days in rehab in LA. Injured: Seven Iron Maiden fans were hurt after a riot broke out at their show in Bogota, Colombia before 42,000 people. There were 3,000 security guards. Hospitalised: Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry to undergo knee surgery. Suing: U.S. songwriter and producer Linda Perry wants Warner Music Group to pay her millions of dollars in royalties from the debut album of her protege, James Blunt, and $5 million damages. In Court: Operators of Adelaide’s now-closed Rapture nightclub were fined $2,000 each for in two instances in July for overcrowding: in one instance police said they had 537 people despite being licensed for 400. In Court: Todd Sean Filippa, 44, who ran Brisbane nightclubs Scores and Rockafellas was to be sentenced last week after pleading guilty to trafficking in methamphetamines between January 2003 and December 2004. Died: Blind Canadian blues guitarist Jeff Healey, 41, cancer. Died: ‘60s Melbourne radio presenter Nola Day (3AW, 3AK).

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APRA, GIBSON, TEAM FOR SONG OF YEAR

APRA and Gibson Guitars have teamed up to present the APRA Song of the Year at the APRA awards on June 16 at the Hilton Hotel, Sydney. APRA members have until Friday 11 April to vote and be in the running to win a Gibson Les Paul ‘Studio’ electric guitar, worth $2,600; kindly donated by Gibson Guitars.

MARK KIRK DIES

Mark Kirk, guitarist and songwriter with Sydney country band Tall Timbre, died at his home on March 3 of a heart attack. The band released its latest album After The Grind late last year. Kirk teamed up in 1999 with singer Ted Simpson to make a laid back “real Australian” country album. It got played on radio, and actress Rachel Ward included the track ‘Girl With a Country Heart’ in her 2003 movie Martha’s New Coat. Last Friday at his wake at The Exchange in Windsor, friends and family remembered a kind, gentle, funny bloke who loved Resch’s draught and going onstage with his Tomkins telecaster and Matchless amp. “He’ll be jamming on a cloud and they’ll be telling him to turn down,” friends cackled.

PEARLMAN TO FACE 25 YEARS JAIL?

Lou “Big Poppa” Pearlman — the one time svengali of boy bands N’Sync and Backstreet Boys — has changed his mind and pleaded guilty to fraud. He has agreed to work with prosecutors to help recover some of the $300 million he is accused of fraudulently obtaining from banks and investors. He issued worthless stock, used a non-existent accounting firm and made up overseas financiers. Pearlman could face up to 25 years in prison and $1 million in fines in the case.

WANNA PLAY THE EASTER SHOW?

MusicNSW’s Indent is giving a young band the chance to play on Youth Stage at the Royal Easter Show, March 28. Download entry pack from www.indent.net.au and complete a series

THINGS WE HEAR

* Live music venue, The Exchange in Balmain, was bought by Fernwood Group for $7 million from its receiver McGrarth Nicol. * Is Facebook talking to major labels to launch its own music service? * Are Rogue Traders off the road for 18 months while singer Natalie works on her successful TV career? * Is an Australian major label planning to buy into a tour company, or poach staff to set up a new company? * Has Robert Plant been the stumbling block to £100 million offers for a Led Zeppelin world tour? He wants to leave Zep’s London show on a high and tour with country singer Alison Krauss. Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones want to tour. * Take That’s Beautiful World Live is the fastest selling music DVD in UK history, says Polydor Records. It entered at #1 and sold 64,000 copies in one week. of tasks based around the 2008 National Youth Week slogan “Shout, Share, Live, Unite’’. Who’d you give a ‘shout’ to if you won an ARIA? ‘Share’ as in a Myspace link. Live as in get a photo of the Indent Super All Ages Crusader (ISAAC) and Unite as in getting as many people as you can in a photo with your band. Entries close 5pm Tuesday, March 18. Winners notified on March 20. Entries are open to NSW bands only, with members aged 12-25.

JB HI-FI IN HOT WATER WITH ACCC

Electronic/CD chain JB Hi-Fi is in hot water with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over its antics in Ballarat, country Victoria. Before mid 2007 JB Hi Fi approached music retailer (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Pty Ltd to buy its business. The parties agreed on a sale price with JB Hi Fi intending to trade from Satisfaction’s premises. But JB Hi-Fi decided that the building was too small, so the store was closed and it was agreed the landlord could not re-let the premises to another music, game or DVD retailer for a year. Meantime JB opened another store. The ACCC thinks JB might have breached the Trade Practices Act. The chain has promised not to do it again.

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Sam Beam follows his intuition By Diana Ward

am Beam aka Iron and Wine, never really thought of playing music as something to do for a crust. Since signing to Sub Pop records in 2002 however, his only look back has been lyrical. “I had a guitar and it was something to do, so I started to fool around with writing and lyrics and eventually I borrowed a 4-track someone had lying around. I was busy doing other things at the time, so recording wasn’t something that came to mind,” he says of his early recordings.

however, he says getting signed was thanks to childhood friend Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), who slipped in one of Beam’s recordings in with his band’s own in a package to Sub Pop (although it would take Band of Horses another three years to sign on the line with the label). “[Sub Pop] called me. It was that simple. Ben from Band of Horses and I grew up in the same town and he and I sent tapes to each other,” he explains.

Iron and Wine’s first album, The Creek Drank the Cradle was about Beam’s rite of passage and where he was coming from at the time, as well as the start of his obsession with slide guitar. “Subject matter is interesting, but mostly I’m interested in something that sounds good with slide guitar,” he laughs. “It has a nice whining sound a lot like person singing.” It is also relates to country music and the blues he grew up listening to in South Carolina. “It’s hard to grow up there and not hear country music and those textures,” he says, adding that it is the structure of country, blues and folk music that is the common signifier in his music.

At the time Beam was based in Miami teaching cinematography at a local college and making music videos, but all that was about to change. Within a matter of months, Beam’s first record was released to critical acclaim, followed by the birth of his first daughter, Arden. “Becoming a father did change me. Fatherhood is a grand shift in perspective and it shifts the way you think and the way you write,” he says. “It’s not like I started writing lullabies, but I gained this very tangible feeling when I walked down the street after my daughter was born, I felt part of this cycle of things and realised that everyone I saw was part if this cycle in some way. So it was a very connecting feeling to me and you get a lot more empathetic and sympathetic and a lit more defensive. You change completely.”

His debut features Beam’s tradmark soft vocals accompanied only by plucked or strummed guitar, some banjo and the singing steel of slide guitar. Add to this Beam’s blues-like lyrics, and the choice of Seattle-based record label Sub Pop, home of grunge, may have seemed incongruous home for this decidedly folk-rooted singer oft compared to Nick Drake. For Beam

It is little surprise then that second album Our Endless Numbered Days (2004) featured not only a switch from bedroom to studio and the beginnings of a band, but a shift in lyrical content towards more guarded approach to storytelling. The album was a sparse and pondering affair, given lightness and texture by producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Holopaw, The Grates).

Iron and Wine’s build to full band was gradual. Beam’s lo-fi home recordings of guitar and vocals were left behind for good with a renewed-focus on percussion in 2005’s Woman King EP and in joining forces with Calexico for In the Reins (also 2005), before forming his own band last year to tour his most recent release The Shepherd’s Dog. “Collaborating with Calexico was an intuitive thing, I had this idea and brought these songs to the table and we jammed them out. I learnt a lot about collaborating with other people and also they’re such good musicians they have an infectious fearlessness about the way they play,” says Beam. “[Going from lo-fi to full band] was again an intuitive thing really, part of it was learning what I can do with the songs and react to the songs I had and what I can do with them to make them more interesting. The other part of it was that I was always been interested in lots of different types of instruments and it’s nice to be able to include them now.”

stories,” he says. The diversity in influence, taken a little from his time in immigrantheavy Miami, as well as his current home in Texas with slices of juju and dub thrown in The Shepherd’s Dog is a further sign of the conflict Beam felt writing the album and of Beam’s increasing entries into new musical arenas.

The Shepherd’s Dog paves yet another path in Iron and Wine’s development. It is an album with far more variety than Beam’s previous outings. His once straightforward tales of love are encoded into something akin to Keats conversing with Shelley and then layered vocally to balance his branching out into electric guitar territory, although the roots of his South Carolina upbringing remain omnipresent. “I wanted to push myself into unfamiliar areas and grow. The songs lent themselves for a bit more of an aggressive approach and complex arrangements,” he explains.

He is also considering taking on some new covers to go along with The Postal Service’s ‘Such Great Heights’ and New Order’s ‘Love Vigilantes’, among others.

By aggressive, he means more forward and incorporating conflict. “Life’s dramas involve conflict and these are more conflicted songs. They are not diary entries but they are life

“The structures of blues, country and folk actually allow a lot of room to move,” he says, adding that although he’s not planning an avant garde album, he is planning to play around with his songs for his live shows. “Right now I have this seven piece band so there’s a lot of room to interpret the songs and there’s more variety, you can make the songs more complex and louder,” he says. “We play the record in spirit instead of note by note so some songs change quite a lot and others are much more familiar.”

“I’ll have to brush up on my Midnight Oil songs or Men at Work or something. Maybe I’ll do a Dirty Three song, just vocally,” he says. “I’ll hum the violin or something,” he clarifies, laughing. Who: Iron & Wine What: The Shepherd’s Dog is out now through Stomp When: March 11 Where: Manning Bar

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Nick Cave International Man of Mystique

By Vincent La Monde

ver the years Cave, who recently turned 50, has worn many labels. Some way off the mark, some… simply not sitting well with him. But whether you love Cave for being the Goth king or the post-punk poet that refused to be boxed in by Australia’s early eighties VB and sweat drenched pub rock culture, Cave remains a much respected artist who never compromised his vision or adjusted to fit people’s comfort levels. He always has a new project occupying his creative hotplate. Whether it be a film score, a new band (Grinderman) to exorcise his creative demons or an exhibition (currently showing at the Arts Centre in Melbourne) displaying a chunk of his life from his early days in the Birthday Party to now - for all to see. But amidst all of this are his albums with long serving band The Bad Seeds. Each album has documented perfectly, the poignant moments in Cave’s career and personal life. The new album Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!, the fourteenth Bad Seeds album, is no exception, highlighting a renewed energy and spark in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Dare I say it… it’s almost a gospel, swamp-like swagger full of deep southern organs, sharp tongue lyrics

“Writing songs is something that keeps me happy, keeps me on the straight and narrow and keeps me content. If I feel like I’m writing songs, then all is well in the garden.” propping hepcat poets. Even the use of the name Lazarus in the album title conjures up mythical Bible like images. “I just also like Lazarus. I don’t know why. I like the name and he just felt like a kind of a nice sort of guide to move from song to song. The characters in the record are kind of asleep and hypnotised and in states of apathy and in comas and kind of generally not functioning particularly well and some are dead and the kind of the Lazarus figure seems like the right figure as the guide through a kind of dream world, a neurotic dream world, which this record seems to me to be,” says Cave. Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! was recorded last year at the aptly titled State Of The Ark studios in London. Cave had originally booked the studio for a solid week but by Day 5 they were finished. What was it that made it such an easy process? “I think within the Bad Seeds these days, more so than ever, everyone has permission to do whatever they like, you know, and there’s a sense of freedom about what people play and we can do that quite quickly. The Grinderman record had a huge impact. We were able to go out somewhere, away from the Bad Seeds and create a bunch of music and we kind of could bring back ideas from that that kind of we thought worked and would work within the Bad Seeds, you know, and I mean one thing, obviously about the Grinderman record and Dig Lazarus Dig!!! that’s similar is the amount of people playing at any one time. On Dig Lazarus Dig!!!, it’s very much a pared down, basic band. I mean, there’s people doing percussion – overdubbed percussion stuff – but it’s a much smaller band than on the Abattoir Blues record, where there’s a lot of overdubbing – a lot of people playing at the same time – so it’s a smaller sound which we definitely were trying to do and we’ll try and do live as well.” And Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will be touring this album with plans for dates in Europe, the US and Australia over the next eighteen months. It will be an extensive tour as far as Bad Seeds tours go but one Cave is looking forward to. In fact, for someone notoriously known for been dark and difficult Cave has a surprisingly bright outlook on life right now. Along with a stunning partner (ex model Susie Bick) and twin sons Arthur and Earl, you almost get the feeling Cave has finally accepted his role as music’s elder statesman and that talking about himself and his art isn’t such a drag after all. With the current exhibition of Cave’s life on show in Melbourne, he’s almost (dare we say it) nostalgic! “I’ve donated all my sort of stuff to this museum. They have all my lyrics and all sorts of shit from as far back as I go and they’ve exhibited this and I was in Australia helping out with this exhibition and I’ve had to look at a lot of stuff. I mean, I’ve been forced to look at photographs, footage, which I’ve never looked at, live footage. I’m totally superstitious about that and it’s not that bad. You know, the feelings that come up are uncomfortable, but they’re actually not that bad and some of the early, early stuff I can look at and really enjoy. It’s like, I was into something then and it’s kind of nice to sort of see that, in some sort of way, so time has a way of kind of healing those sort of feelings, giving you a sort of sense of nostalgia about things.” But Cave isn’t about to get all misty eyed on us just yet. Just as Dig Lazarus Dig!!! ushers the listener through a steady stream of life’s uncertainties and underbellies with melancholy charm, Cave is determined to remain creative and uncompromising for many years to come. “I want to make as many records as I possibly can. I want to write a whole lot of songs,” says Cave, “That’s the bottom line. Writing songs is something that keeps me happy, keeps me on the straight and narrow and keeps me content. If I feel like I’m writing songs, then all is well in the garden.” Who: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds What: Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! Is out now through Mute/EMI

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Gyroscope The vibe is running hot By Andrew Weaver

or too long, Gyroscope have flown under the radar. While the Perth four-piece have always had support from punters at their gigs, songs on alternative radio, and spots on festival bills, they’re yet to really realise their massive potential, and release an album that converts the masses. No more.

The band’s third album, Breed Obsession, is indeed a clarion call – for lovers of great Australian music, for those looking to see if the band can go from the punk upstarts of their early EPs, potentially even for commercial radio. For, yes, Gyroscope have come up with a bona fide crossover smash with “Australia”, an epic slow-builder that hits all the buttons that commercial radio seems to love – it’s about still calling home, it has a rousing, anthemic chorus, and it also manages to stick in the mind long after its finished. Dan Sanders, frontman and guitarist, says that it came together naturally and organically in the recording process. “It was like something that was really nice – it’s about me coming from England to Australia. I was just really loving Australia one day, and some of my favourite songs are your Gangajang’s and ‘Great Southern Land’, and Men At Work. I was vibing on that, and thinking I’d love to write a song about the country, so I put it in a personal approach where it was about me coming to Australia and feeling refreshed in a way. It’s ironic that we went over to England to record the album.”

Much of the material on Breed Obsession was brought together in the rehearsal room, where the majority of the tracks heard on the band’s first two albums – Sound Shattering Sound and its follow-up, Are You Involved? – were played live many times before they were recorded. “All the songs we played in the rehearsal room when we demoing as a unit, but it grew from where we had it to the record,” he explains. “You kind of do the whole re-learn thing back in the studio, and essentially they all had an acoustic sort of start – we’d just be sitting in a room, learning again and learning again.” Working from a much more acoustic and piano-based basis for much of Breed Obsession, the album shows massive growth in maturity for the group. The songs explore further genres beyond the gnashed teeth and roaring guitars of their early life. It must be something about Perth – the likes of Eskimo Joe, the Panics, and others besides have also developed slowly but surely throughout the careers to the point where they’re now edging into being mainstream acts. “We thought that if the songs wanted to stay acoustic then they could stay acoustic and if they wanted to rise up to another level then they could get there,” Dan says of the developmental approach the band took to their newer material. “I think starting acoustic for us was really good – it gave every song a chance to go anywhere.”

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Little Birdy recently moved from their hometown of Perth to the big smoke of Melbourne. “The whole move here has helped me become an artist again. I kind of felt a bit smouldered in Perth, everything was a bit tight, but here everything’s opening. There’s lots of inspiration and lots of people who are keen to try new things and that’s inspiring for me,” Katy explains. “I did this tour supporting Paul Kelly solo and that was really a fork in the road for the band. It was really cool. It went so well I was like, ‘Do I want to have a band anymore?’ After you’ve done your second album with a band everything’s different, it’s like being in a relationship, it kind of gets to a point where you have to assess the situation.”

What: Breed Obsession is out now When: Keep your eyes peeled for a national tour soon

much left in me and that’s why it’s exciting.” While Katy may only be 24 she is already coming to terms with the profession and the necessarily nomadic lifestyle which her talent has demanded she embrace. “That’s amazing, I feel like I’m living the dream. Only, people think you make a lot more money than you actually do as a musician. You’re actually really living for credit and the moment more than for the financial future. But that’s something which is really cool about the last six months, I just don’t care about that anymore.” In spite of her self-depreciating remarks I get the impression that Katy Steele is hardly one to laze about and wait for things to happen to her. This pint-sized pop princess is courageous and determined and is sure to dominate the airways for some time in whatever retro guise she chooses.

Can you tell us how and when your band formed? Sorry, I just woke up… I was just piggy backing Iggy Pop through Piccadilly Circus in London… Ok, so we formed about 2.5 years ago simply through meeting through friends. The way I met Todd was when he climbed through a window to a pub he couldn’t get into. How do you like to describe your sound? This is a hard question. I think it really has to be described by someone else, but I’d like to think it sounds something like a machine with all the parts working in conjunction to form a sound larger than the sum.

When she does talk about album number three she’s optimistic that the new-found maturity in her life will be reflected in her music. “All the songs are lot more positive, still honest and straight up but it’s pushing towards seeing the sunrise rather than watching the sun go down.”

And when the inspiration isn’t flowing? “Mainly I’ll just stress about it, ‘Fuck I haven’t written anything in a while’. I went to the Nick Cave exhibition and that was very inspiring lyrically. But those artists have been around for a while… I’m 24, I’ve got so

Who: Gyroscope

Catching up with Jamie Sher By Tony Edwards

I only manage to pick myself up off the floor when Katy assures me that the band’s future is safe, at least for now. “Coming back from that I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve got a really amazing band’. It’s not like we broke up or anything, all that happened was that I was enjoying playing by myself because it’s such a liberating thing.” But I can already see Katy’s mind racing ahead as she blurts enthusiastically, “There’s no reason why I couldn’t just go and do an album by myself and come back, there’s just so much time.”

Reflecting on Little Birdy’s last gold album, Hollywood, Katy is more dubious. “Such a bizarre album that one, so up and so down at the same time and that’s pretty much how I was feeling, I was just in a really obscure place. Now everything’s really clear. The last one was jilted and fanatic and this one’s going to be really crisp. Positive and graceful with lots of subtly.”

“It feels like we’ve really hit out straps,” he surmises of how the band feels in the wake of completing Breed Obsession. “It’s that little thing where we realise that this album is a bit different, and makes that more sense.”

Sugar Army

All the time in the world By Lara Stevens

leached hair, a bright orange chequered jacket and emerald eyes offset by sparkling pink eye-shadow – Katy Steele, the Pollypocket frontwoman of Little Birdy, has that fun vintage look down to a tee. But Katy doesn’t just wear it; she lives it; bubbling with colourful ideas and radiating enough energy to power a Morris Minor. Katy admits that she was brought up on a diet of 12 bar blues and knows more eclectic retro music history than is healthy.

It means that the album is a slow-burner. Rather than being chockfull of hooks in every nook and cranny, what makes Breed Obsession such an exciting listen is that little and different elements jump out each and every time the album is consumed as a whole. “It’s recorded in that way,” he agrees, “in that it’s a bit of a grower. There’s a few songs that you won’t necessarily ‘get’ straight away, and that was cool – we didn’t want something that would spark up straight away and then burn out. The diversity on the record is what will keep it true, and keeps it still happening down the track.

What bands were you inspired by, growing up in Perth? I never really got into the scene when I was younger and never really sourced out and listened intently to Perth bands. But it would be too long for me to rattle off a list of inspirations.

Who: Little Birdy What: Hollywood out not through Eleven/EMI When: Wednesday March 12 Where: Oxford Art Factory

What’s the live music scene like over in Perth? It is becoming quite large and in charge, where many acts are coming over to play shows. We’ve seen bands that we’d never think come to Perth so it’s great. On the hometown bands, more and more seem to be forming and gigs are always on almost every night in every place – it’s just that there is a lack of venues. There just need to be a few more to accommodate the mass of bands.

What does a typical Sugar Army stage show involve? Come and see! Tell us something interesting about your new record, Where Do You Hide Your Toys... Well, at the start of 'Jigsaw', the introduction noise was a magnetic disc placed on a round mirror. It would spin for a long time and make a swirling like noise. We placed a mic on it and listened. It would spin and spin until it became so fast that it fell over. It was one of those things you buy at a science shop and we somehow had one. You’re touring the EP nationally with Little Birdy, are you pumped? We are quite excited. It will be good because they pull a big crowd so it’ll give us a chance for a taste of that. So yeah, we are pumped. You were nominated for four WAMI awards last year alongside some big names like Eskimo Joe and The Panics, how did that feel? It was good. We haven’t really thought about it at all because we are concentrating now on writing an album and touring the last round of this EP. It is nice to be placed with those chaps though. Who: Sugar Army When: Wednesday March 12 Where: Oxford Art Factory

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Wilco Clearing their past, looking to the future By Andrew Weaver

ver five nights in their adopted hometown of Chicago, Wilco performed their back catalogue – from the earliest of alt.country rock days when Jeff Tweedy was starting out the group as an offshoot of the much loved Uncle Tupelo to now, where they’re a Grammy Award winning alternative music mainstay with a rich catalogue of varied and beautiful records that they call their own.

Mikael Jorgensen is a relative newcomer to the group – the keyboardist joined in the wake of the band released Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the album that saw the band leap from critical darlings to genuine contenders for the title of ‘the American Radiohead’. Since then Wilco have continued to live an esoteric musical existence, constantly challenging themselves to produce everything from the avant-garde Krautrock-isms of ‘Spiders (Kidsmoke)’ to the delightful pop of ‘Hate It Here’. Despite shifting their Grammy nomination to the more mainstream category of ‘Best Rock Album’ for Sky Blue Sky (after winning for ‘Best Alternative’ for its decidedly more rocky predecessor, A Ghost is Born), there’s something to be said for mixing it up. Wilco are not an easily definable group; they just do what they do. “Well, we’re not gonna make a crunk record!” Mikael jokes. “I can guarantee that that’s not going to happen. Jeff and Lil Kim? I just can’t see it going down. We’re an American rock band,” he says in summary, “and we take a lot of influence in that from American music – blues, folk, and `70s rock. It’s music that we enjoy as people, and as musicians, and I guess it’s one of those things that’s really great about music – if you limit yourself then you begin to see yourself through that keyhole, rather than try to incorporate and encompass a great deal of styles and ideas. We’re definitely an American Rock Band.” Originally from New Jersey before moving to Chicago in 1998, Mikael moved to the Windy City with his band of the time, Movere Workshop. “It sounds like some elective you could take in the insurance seminar, going on at the hotel in town,” he reminisces, “but we were just like a Stereolab rip-off band – we just really liked the propulsive music of Neu, and just made our own weird version of it.” Making music like that in Jersey has certain limitations, so it makes sense that they upped sticks and headed to the city that’s the home of labels like Thrill Jockey, who relish experimental, obtuse sounds. Having a father who was a recording engineer lead Mikael to be comfortable in the studio, which found him earning his rent by working at John McEntire’s studio, and thus knowing and working with Jim O’Rourke. “He called me up and said ‘I want to mix a song for Wilco’,” Mikael explains as to how he became involved with the band, “and that was ‘I Am Trying to Break Your Heart’ [the first song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot], and it was at that point that I met Jeff and the rest of the band came in, and once they decided to mix the rest of record there with Jim I was around and helping out.” Before he knew it, he was asked whether he wanted to tour with the group, and was soon an integral member of the band, contributing to the writing process immediately on such A Ghost Is Born tracks as ‘Hell is Chrome’ and ‘Theologians’.

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“It started rather unorthodox,” Mikael says of his introduction to being a member of the group, “and I kind of crept in the back door during a relatively difficult time for them.” Since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was recorded, only Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, and then newly recruited drummer extraordinaire Glenn Kotche were stable members of the group. But as Mikael says, since then more has stayed the same than ever before in the history of the group’s existence. “Nils [Cline, guitar] and Patrick Sansone [multiinstrumentalist] have been in the band for four years, and now the band has had its longest configuration for the longest time.” It’s generally when things get comfortable like this that Tweedy has had a penchant in the past for mixing things up, suddenly electing to take the band in a different direction and thus jettisoning half the group in the process. “I feel pretty secure,” he assures, “but anything can change. And I don’t mean that in a way that anybody is at risk – or anything LIKE that – but nothing is certain. Everyone is really happy with the line-up and we all play together really well and we communicate pretty great, both with music and our lives. It’s going to be really fun to have the second record to do with the same lineup, because I don’t think that’s ever happened before!” The band are only in the preliminary stages of working on the follow-up to Sky Blue Sky, with ideas bandied about that are new, but also old ideas that didn’t make it onto that record being revisited. “I can’t imagine the process will change much,” he proffers, admitting that he’s looking forward to presenting his new ideas to the band when they reconvene post Australian tour. “It’s a bit scary,” he says of the presentation process, “and it is a challenge to put yourself out there that way. But it’s also really fun to see what happens with your idea once you enter it into that forum.” Who: Wilco When: March 18 / March 20 Where: The Enmore / Blues N Roots Festival

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LL Cool J

Mickey Morphingaz Turning the tables By Tony Edwards

22 years too long By Demelza Goudie

he first artist signed to the now massive urban label Def Jam in 1985 with his single ‘I Need A Beat’; LL Cool J has really stood the test of time. With two massive comebacks (Mama Said Knock You Out, 1990; and Phenomenon, 1997), LL Cool J believes his next record Exit 13 is set to be one of the strongest records he has made in years. “Exit 13 is, I think, my most progressive and the strongest record I have made in over a decade,” he explains. “I think that it’s the most interesting musically and I have challenged myself. I didn’t want to repeat myself and I didn’t want to follow any formulas or any rules, and it’s definitely not going to be what people are thinking based upon the last few records I have put out. I think it’s a better record than all those records I have put out in the last few years combined. And it’s just going to really motivate hip hop artists around the world to want to move forward and take it to another level. So it’s exciting.”

into a job that I’m too busy to truly do to my ability. I think that that would be stealing.” Australian audiences will get a chance to see the man in the flesh for the very first Greatest Of All Time tour. LL explains why it has taken over two decades to finally see him live. “Interesting, year after year every time I had a concert scheduled down there, for whatever reason there was always a glitch, and this is the first time and I’m actually thankful that I’m actually coming down. I look forward to coming down under. I’ve been hearing a lot of great stories about the crowd down there. I have a lot of respect for the Australian culture and I can’t wait to get down there. Out back baby, Let’s do this! (laughs).”

“They’ve been set up from right at the beginning of the internet,” explains Mickey. “You’re trying to open doors, a sprightly young dude from Australia, ‘I wanna be involved, kind of thing’, and Gaia Live opened their doors and let me do a radio show. It was my university education for internet/design/music/online, meeting a lot of people who were rocking things internationally. That was my little home for a long time and money didn’t seem to matter.” It was there he connected with Candian born, German based all-rounder Mocky. The two have sinced witten and toured together. “We shared a studio, Mickey and Mocky’s workshop”, he laughs. “He was on his own journey. I didn’t really understand what he was trying to do musically at the time, a bit left of centre, a bit eccentric for me. Coming from a hip hop turntable world my thing was to link up with rappers, but he’d try his hand at anything, puppet shows and solo piano shows.”

The album, which is said to be his thirteenth and final on the Def Jam label, is set to see LL teaming up with fellow Queens rapper 50 Cent. LL sets the record straight on the G-Unit heads part on the release. “With 50 we worked on an album. Then I actually made another record and then I didn’t use either one of those records and ended up doing this Exit 13 record and Executive Producing it myself. But 50 isn’t the Executive Producer on this record. But we did work together early on with some music and it did motivate me musically and want me to make more records.” Currently Def Jam’s presidency is vacant, after the resignation from JayZ at the beginning of the year. So will the man they dubbed the G.O.A.T. - Greatest Of All Time - take on the role after his long-standing career with the label? “No, I’m not interested in having that job. You know, if they wanted me to consult or give my opinion on different music or different decisions in that company then it will be my pleasure. But that is different from diving in head first

he Mickey Morphingaz story is an interesting one. He was born in Israel but emigrated to Sydney when he was 3. He got into hip hop and turntablism heavily through his teens and then left for the UK in 1998, hot on the trail of his musical fortune. Where he landed changed the course of his life considerably - a building in London called the Truman Building where Talvin Singh and DJ Zinc both had studios, and where the Gaia Live internet radio station was housed.

The radio station was good for making contacts and it led to Mickey recording music with UK hip hop luminaries like Blak Twang and Seanie T, they rhymed over his beats. Then he returned to Sydney for a while and put some of the unfinished beats to work in the Mas P project, which he formed with MC Schoix, a Sydney local. The momentum was enough to lead him back to London for some contracted production work. “I started producing little remixes for some big labels, but that didn’t go the way I wanted it, it was very pop related. But the opportunity to make a few grand producing some tracks for people was pretty exciting.”

Who: LL Cool J When: March 22 Where: Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre

Which brings us back to Sydney once more, Mickey has settled here again for a proper stint. He’s flying all his gear and records back home, for there’s work to be done. He’s just dropped the ME...U EP (check the witty Australiana theme), a six tracker of his own turntable music, to re-introduce himself to

the city he grew up in. His brand of turtablism comes with a heavy dose of humour as well, not always the norm in the genre. “I’ve made music for years and I’ve had fun with turntables, had great jams, loved the turntables as an instrument, loved the sounds it can create. The musical aspect of it, the melodies you can create on a turntable that you can’t with other instruments, that’s what’s exciting. But fuck man, have some fun, it’s just a song you know, but some people just don’t get it.” Another of Mickey’s brainchildren is the Futureskool Of Music, a school dedicated to taking the joys of music to the not-sofortunate. “It’s a way to find a space here in Sydney, as well as be mobile and take my equipment and computers around to schools, focussing more on handicapped and mentally ill kids, and giving them a chance to make music and to have fun with it. I really want to do that seriously, sometimes I think I get a bigger buzz out of it than performing to thousands of people. I really want to push that now that I’m back, take it down to Melbourne and all around the country.” Who: Mickey Morphingaz What: ME...U EP, out now on Futureskool Of Music

Team Plastique Q & A with Tony Edwards

o you’re originally from Australia, now based in Germany? Yes, all three of us are from Brisbane. We’ve been living in Berlin for the past three and a half years. How do you like to describe your music? Our music since living in Berlin has become a lot darker and rougher. We are influenced by a variety of styles like punk, electro, hip hop and techno but yes, we are really a performance band and our music takes on a broader context when you see our live show. It’s very cathartic and therapeutic for us... we love to scream. There’s always somebody in the audience who goes totally insane. Like once there was this uptight lawyer who came along to one of our shows and during the fourth or fifth song, he was demanding for us to sign his penis. It’s kind of like we’re the Pied Piper of freaks. What’s this “sushi-punk” genre that you seem to have labelled yourselves? That was a term we developed back in our Brisbane days, it means our

music is like a mix of many different styles that’s been rolled together into a stylish package. I think we aren’t so much like sushi anymore more than paella, it’s messier and European of course. Your songs have been described as filthy and suggestive. I take it you’re not a politically correct type of act? Aaaaah shit political correctness, wasn’t that so early naughties? Basically a lot of politically correct people hate us. But yes, a lot of political people also really love us. Our band really questions and subverts notions of feminity, sexuality, gender politics, mainstream culture so actually we’re very political. We can honestly say we have lots of hardcore feminist fans in Berlin... but yes, we still have lots of enemies as we don’t tick all the right boxes for the left conservatives or as we say in German the “Linke Spiesser”. Tell us what a typical Team Plastique show involves... We never plan our shows, we prefer to be spontaneous and improvise. We have our set list and some things we’re going to use on stage and that’s all we know. Hmmm but we do love to do date-tape (taping the audience together), body graffiti and we also use a pineapple in our shows; it's our ode to Queensland, we smash it always. Ah yes Queensland fucked us up for sure with its

“Beautiful One Day, Fascist the Next” kind of attitude. We have also made a fake beach out of biscuits (this was in the middle of German winter and we were missing the Australian beaches so much), did a Ziegfried and Roy Tribute show and I like to advertise milk products which is the best product to advertise when you have large breasts. We also love to have a cooking segment, like hot chips, we actually cook them on stage. I guess we’re kind of like a nightmare version of the Kerri-Anne Kennerly show, but then again the Kerri-Anne Kennerly show is a nightmare to begin with. On your website there’s a photo of what looks like an orgy. Are you an orgy kind of band? We have had our share of experimental dalliances, especially as Team Plastique is now the darling band of the European Post-Porn festival circuit. We’ve played Post Porn Festivals in Berlin, Athens and Amsterdam and soon Madrid. But funnily enough hanging out with porn stars and porn directors is really cruisey, I guess nobody’s got anything to prove so you can just hang out and have a cup of tea. Who: Team Plastique When: 14 March Where: Sosueme @ Q Bar & 34b

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Mr G Movin’ on up

Tell us about the song ‘Naughty Girl’? t’s the fairy tale story of a 36 year old high ‘Naughty Girl’ takes place in a nightclub. Mr G school Drama teacher from Summer Heights whose self penned musical touched the nation follows young Jessica out on a Saturday night. He likes to keep track of his students outside and resulted in a string of memorable songs. One such song was ‘Naughty Girl’. Told through school hours. Jessica is known around the school for sleeping around and partying quite the voice of Drama teacher Mr G, the song hard so Mr G is very concerned for her welfare. describes the plight of a promiscuous young He follows her into a Nightclub and that’s when girl with an addiction for recreational drugs. We met with Greg Gregson aka Mr G to discuss the the song happens. The room lights up with all sorts of dancing and sordid activity. Pole dancing, upcoming single release. drug taking and all sorts of sexy acts. Mr G sings to the audience about Jessica’s bad habits. Then You wrote a musical about yourself. we see Jessica doing a drug deal. She buys an How did this come about? ecstasy pill off a dealer and then attempts to Well we had a girl die of an ecstasy swallow it. Mr G intervenes begging her to stop overdose at our school. It was huge and there was lots of media attention. I pride but it’s too late. She swallows it. Then the pill takes affect and she goes off and dances like myself on putting on musicals that get crazy. I used strobe lights and a glitter drop. It big audiences. And nothing brings in looked amazing. It was a really fun scene. a crowd like a controversial story, so I wrote the musical about her. Her parents What was it like working with the Producers ended up getting all stupid about it saying and being in a professional recording it was in bad taste so I changed it to be a musical about me instead. Mr G The Musical environment? is “The story of a teacher who cared too much”. I was sceptical at first. I’ve always work solo and have only ever used the Casio beats from my He preaches to the kids about their drugs and keyboard. But hearing the sounds that they can their suicide and their anorexia. He’s a messiah get was pretty sensational. I took my best friend type figure. and work colleague Rodney into the studio for some of the sessions and he was blown away. He gave me encouraging thumbs up signals through the glass while I was recording my vocals. And when we heard the playback we couldn’t stop staring at each other in disbelief. It sounded incredible. I always knew I had a professional level recording voice but didn’t realise how amazing I could sound. Rodney said I sounded better than Darren Hayes. And are you happy with the result? Absolutely. I can’t get enough of it. I’ve got it on repeat at home. The people in the townhouse next door to mine have been banging on the wall telling me to turn it off but I don’t care. I’ve played it so many times it’s even starting to annoy me. It’s so damn catchy though. And I get excitement quivers whenever I hear the “She’s a slut” section. Rodney said it tingles his spine every time too. I’ve worked out a dance that I do at home. It’s very modern and in keeping with the more hardcore beat of the song. It’s very masculine. I kind of look like Justin Timberlake when I do it.

MEET DEXTER MORGAN an extremely likeable, charming blood-splatter expert for the Miami Police Department. He regularly brings doughnuts to his fellow ofﬁcers, has a compulsion for neatness, and whiles away Sundays relaxing on his boat, the “Slice of Life.” But hiding beneath the mundane exterior hides a different Dexter, one obsessed with meeting out his own twisted brand of justice by stalking and murdering the guilty. He’s the perfect psychopath for the job because, in his own words, he cares “about people as much as I care about lawn furniture.”

How do you think your new found fame as a recording artist will affect your life as a high school drama teacher? I’m already in a swamp of jealousy at school amongst staff since the documentary series aired. Some of the looks I get say it all. I can only imagine this will make things worse. But I don’t care. I’ve always told them that I’m more than just a teacher. Finally everyone’s getting to see my true colours. And I’m loving it. I’m planning to use the song as the school bell for a week once it’s released. The Principal doesn’t know this yet but I’ve booked in with the PA ladies and I’m going to blast it all over the school. This should help sales.

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Who: Mr G What: ‘Naughty Girl’ is out now through EMI

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JES COVE

Your beginnings? I actually come from a 1. classical ballet background

from Boundary Sounds to be involved in the Sneakers exhibition – I’ve been shooting clubs and shows around Sydney solidly for about a year now so I’d made it to Purple Sneakers enough times to have some good/bad/ugly/hilarious shots on hand. For this showing I’m choosing to display my shots in a slightly different way to your usual photo exhibition, but I’m not going to give it away… y’all have to come and see!

originally, where I found myself taking photos of my friends performing, rehearsing and partying. When an injury prevented me from pursuing a career in dance I realised instantly that photography was something I had always gravitated towards so I went for it, moved to Sydney and it just grew from there.

Your scene? From my experience the 5. photography scene in Sydney is HUGE.

Your inspirations? So many people! Artistically I admire the confronting gonzo style of photographers like Terry Richardson and the intensity of the work on sites like American Suburb (americansuburb. com). I’m also inspired greatly by other self-taught photographers who have gone on to bigger things ala Daniel Boud (boudist.com). Of course in terms of party photos, there are people like Merlin Bronques (lastnightsparty.com) who initially inspired me to explore the boundaries of club photography.

Your style? In terms of style I don’t really feel I have a specific niche just yet – I tend to

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shoot different situations in different ways and try to learn from each experience. As I grow as a photographer I’m sure I will eventually gravitate toward a particular style, but until then I am happy to expose (rad pun!) myself to everything in an effort to end up with something I can call my own. current work? Basically I was approached by a buddy 4.Your

Within that, the party photo scene is kind of exploding. There are websites popping up all over the place and all of the street press’ have at least some sort of social photography coverage. What this means for me is constant competition, which personally translates directly into inspiration. I’ve also been lucky enough to meet some amazing local and international photographers who have been super generous with their knowledge and experience. Who: Jes Cove What: Purple Sneakers Social Snaps Exhibition When: March 14 - 16 Where: Found Gallery Space (Level 2, Abercrombie Hotel)

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AFTRS DESIGN OPPORTUNITY WIL ANDERSON

One of Australia’s hardest working comedians, Wil Anderson, is embarking on yet ANOTHER tour. This time it’s called BeWILdered, continuing his run of awful Wil puns. He’s taking over the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House for a mammoth four weeks, from March 4 – 29. Tickets are only $35 for adults and $32 for concessions and you can purchase them from sydneyoperahouse.com. If it’s anything like his last show at the Opera House, Wil of God, this one’s gonna be hilarious!!

MTV REMAKE AWARD

Ever dreamed of winning an award at the MTV Australia Awards? Now you can this year with the inaugural Remake Award. Here’s your chance to unleash your inner thespian and remake some of the greatest pop culture moments of 2007. But they don’t want just straight re-enactments, MTV wants some creativity! Like… turning Chris Crocker’s ‘Leave Britney Alone’ video into a Bollywood number!

You! Yeah, you. Are you an aspiring Art Director or Costume Designer and want to be a part of an AFTRS (Australian Film, Television and Radio School) production in 2008? Now’s your chance! To be eligible, you have to sign up for and successfully complete an AFTRS short course in Art Direction or Costume Design this April. Twelve lucky short course participants (6 from each course) will then be selected to attach to an AFTRS production. For more info, prices and all that jazz, point your browser towards www.aftrs.edu.au.

PURPLE SNEAKERS SNAPS

IT’S BAAAAAAACK! The Purple Sneakers Annual Social Snaps Exhibition returns for a second year, featuring the amazing photographic talents of Maja Baska, Jes Cove, Reef Gaha, Caroline Garcia and Diego Ibanez. Relive some of your trashiest Purple Sneakers moments, or witness others’, captured forever in photo format. The exhibition opens at 9pm on Friday March 14 and marks the launch of the Abercrombie Hotel’s ghetto gallery space on Level 2. The exhibition will run until Sunday March 16.

The Wall, World Bar’s Wednesday night arts+club night, is searching for artists who want to exhibit their work! So if you’re sick of hoarding all your artwork under your bed and not getting it out there for society to see, then head to www.myspace.com/thewallsydney and drop them a line, or alternatively if you’re not down with the whole social network thang, email them at thewallsydney@gmail.com.

DRACULA’S CABARET DISCO Shopfront presents Dracula’s Cabaret Disco – a razor-fanged night of raw, frenzied short performances in disco cabaret style. From drag acts to magic tricks, cream pie throwing to Spanish love song laments, Dracula’s Cabaret Disco is one crazy night out! The event is copresented with GLYSSN (a Hurstville-based gay and lesbian social support network) and is an all-ages event, so you under 18 peeps can get involved too! It kicks off at 7pm at Shopfront, 88 Carlton Parade, Carlton. Tickets are only $7! Come dressed to kill (or impress).

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RABARI, THE LAST OF THE WANDERING SHEPHERDS

There’s a captivating exhibition opening at Paddington’s Blender Gallery on March 13, so how about we let them explain it. “Mitchell Kanashkevich thinks of himself as a world wanderer/photographer. People are his main photographic interest. Kanashkevich is inspired by the diversity of our human race and travels to experience and capture it in his images. His recent journeys have taken him to India and here among the astonishing multiplicity of peoples Kanashkevich has become particularly captivated by one - the Rabari.” Blender Gallery is at 16 Elizabeth St, Paddington.

THE 7 STAGES OF GRIEVING

“One of Australia’s most popular and celebrated Indigenous plays, The 7 Stages of Grieving by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, makes a welcome return to Sydney Theatre Company this year. An all new production directed by Leah Purcell and starring Lisa Flanagan, takes audiences on an emotional journey through love, frustration, humour and loss, at Wharf 2 from 22 February to 20 March 2008.” Thank you Sydney Theatre Company press release! “The groundbreaking play, chronicling one woman’s 30 :: BRAG :: 252 :: 10:03:08

In the wake of So You Think You Can Dance (and don’t lie to us, we know you love a bit of the Dance), it’s seems the perfect time to release Step Up 2 The Streets, the foot-loose sequel to 2006’s Step Up? Is it clever marketing? Maybe, but you can’t deny that you’re gagging for some dance action. And this one’s got it in bucketloads! The choreography has been getting astounding reviews all across the interwebs so how about you get your hands on one of our special preview passes to see Step Up 2 The Streets on Monday March 17, 6:30pm at Greater Union on George St. First in gets the passes – freestuff@thebrag.com.

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WOOJAM GOES BLUE

The folks that bring you WOOJam, the open mic night that’s held at Bar Me in Kings Cross, are taking their wares to the Blue Mountains Music Festival this weekend. On Saturday you can catch the WOOJam stage in the Baroque Room at the Barrington Hotel, which will feature acts like Remy Field, Sam Buckingham and Morad. On Sunday, the WOOJam stage moves to the Barrington Hotel forecourt, featuring acts such as Fergus Brown, Tammy Ingram and Amber Todd.

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grief and exploring issues of forgiveness and reconciliation, integrates traditional and contemporary forms of storytelling, movement and song.” There’s nothing much left to say, except check out sydneytheatre.com.au for more info and to buy tickets.

Entries close March 31 so head to www.mtv. com.au/awards to enter. The 2008 MTV Australia Awards will be held on Saturday April 26. Pitch your way to $3,500, $2,500 or $1,500 worth of credit to Metro Screen’s equipment and resources. Make a five minute pitch to the Metro Screen Network members, persuading them to support your vision! There are a maximum of FIVE pitching places, so get in quick. For the pitching submission form and terms & conditions please contact the Network Coordinator, Michael Chrisoulakis on network@ metroscreen.org.au. It’s happening on Tuesday April 1 at 6:30pm at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington. And if you want to be a part of the audience, email metro@metroscreen.org.au.

Here’s the gist of it: “Theatresports challenges performers to create instant comedy sketches based on surprise offers and audience suggestions. No scripts, no net, just some of the performing world’s quickest minds creating songs, stories and even operas - all impromptu. The TNC is the State of Origin of improvised comedy. Audiences have, over the past three years, packed the 2000 seat Enmore Theatre to be entertained by the best improvisers from all over Australia and watch them do battle for the honour of being named the National Champions.” It’s happening this Saturday at the Enmore Theatre and we’ve got 5 double passes for you to get along to see all the action. Wanna go? Email freestuff@thebrag.com!

The State Theatre are holding a free exhibition from March 10 to May 4. Observe! “Discover the drama and creative talent of contemporary Australian portraiture and photography as the doors open for Moran Prizes 2008 at the State Library of NSW. View the captivating works of competition winners and finalists in a modern-day representation of familiar subjects including celebrities such as Nick Cave, Jennifer Hawkins and Reg Mombasa. Snapping up interest in all age groups The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize features three sections including an Open, Secondary and Primary School section. The images display an interested and diverse approach from natural through to highly digital and detailed. Also the larger than life portraiture on display vary in style and character to create a captivating presence within the Library’s Gallery.”

MEN, LOVE AND THE MONKEYBOY

Darlinghurst Theatre Company is presenting the premiere of Caleb Lewis’ new play Men, Love and the Monkeyboy. Men, Love and the Monkeyboy, winner of the 2007 Mitch Matthews Award, is a sexy comedy that asks: “What is the difference between men, boys and monkeys?” A unique, funny and touching look at the way men see themselves and see each other, the way they love and the way they hurt. It opens Thursday March 27 and runs until Saturday April 19.Tickets are $30 for adults and $25 for concession. To book, visit www. darlinghursttheatrecompany.com or call 8356 9987.

Vantage Point Matthew Fox gets lost By Paul Fischer

n a relatively short time Matthew Fox has emerged as one of Hollywood’s hottest young actors, all thanks to that little known show, Lost. Still going strong, Fox has been able to balance his TV series and Hawaiian lifestyle with a film career. He will next be seen on the big screen opposite Dennis Quaid in the action thriller Vantage Point, in which he plays a Secret Service agent. Fox talked at length about his career and future plans for Lost to Paul Fischer.

thinking their version of reality is the only one that exists.

One thing I really liked about this film is one of the things I like about Lost: you’re never sure where people stand on the line dividing good from evil. What is it about these morality plays that attracts you as an actor, and us as an audience? I don’t know, I guess I’m really interested in the gray areas, and this concept that I’m not necessarily really sure about any concept of good and evil, black and white, good and bad. And I’m also very interested in the concept of perspective, it’s something I think about all the time in my life - the ability for one event to happen and for two people to perceive that event so differently, depending on where they’re standing and who they are and what kind of agenda they had in how they perceive it. It’s astounding to me, it really is, and I find myself running into it in my own life, just in my own micro-world, and my relationships with family and friends and those types of conflicts, and then you extrapolate that out into conflicts between nation states. It’s just unbelievable to me how many people walk around in this world

What challenges do you have finding stuff that is different from your character on Lost? I’m really having a great time right now, I’m getting a lot of opportunities and I’m getting an opportunity to meet with and work with really great directors, and so I think that television is more of a writers’ medium and filmmaking is more of a directors’ medium, and getting an opportunity to work with these types of directors is really rewarding to me. I’ve been doing this business for quite awhile, I’ve taken it very slow, I always felt that it was a marathon and not a sprint for me. I think that the people that really go quickly in this business, sort of the sprinters, they go away kind of quickly and a lot of times they’re not in it for the right reasons anyway, they’re sort of after something else other than just doing the work. For me it’s been sort of a slow, steady, finding the right projects, never doing a project as a means to an end, or just because I feel compelled to be a part of it and [Vantage Point] had those elements come together.

Is that why you were attracted to this movie in the first place? That was big part of it, yes, absolutely. It was Pete Travis, and I thought the script was very smart and I really loved what the movie is dealing with. And then it’s an action thriller, but it does deal with something that I think is pretty fascinating.

Peter said you were very passionate about this movie and really wanted to do it. How do you do a movie and a series? Touchstone has been very accommodating as far as, I spent three and a half months in Berlin last summer making Speed Racer and there was overlap, there was almost three weeks of overlap between my schedule on Speed Racer and Lost, so Damon literally shot – we shot episodes out of order to accommodate my schedule, which is incredible. They’ve been very, very supportive of these projects I’ve been doing outside of the show, and I appreciate it because I’m really enjoying the process. Can you talk about your experience working with the Wachowski brothers – did you have any expectations when you went into it? I didn’t know Speed Racer at all. Again, getting back to that thing about how directors are very important, when the Wachowskis asked to meet with me, I guess they’re fans of Lost and they had an idea that I might be Racer X, and I went into the meeting never knowing anything about Speed Racer. I wanted to work with the Wachowskis. That meeting went great and I went home with a script, and I got the source material and watched a lot of Speed Racer, and the script blew me away and then I went after that role. I went back to L.A. and I really went after that role, I wanted it, and it took like six weeks. Working with the Wachowskis and the cast on this particular film, and what

this film is going to be like, how much it’s a game-changer in my opinion, was an extraordinary experience, it was amazing. Regarding Lost, having moved ahead as well as going back in the story, and now that there’s a time when it’s going to be over, do you know more about the story and what’s going to happen because your character is kind of a mess in the future. Do you know why? Oh yeah, I know a lot. I know everything that got him to that point, I know why he’s at that point. That was important to me. And? Oh yeah, I’ll just How surprised were you that the show became the cultural phenomenon that it seems to have become? I’ve always believed in it being something very special from the moment I read the first script and met with J.J. and Damon and the people that were involved. I felt very positive that it was going to be a very good show. You can never count on that translating into some sort of finding a massive audience. And what the show has done globally has just been astounding. I’m very surprised by it. But on the other hand, I think the show deserves it. What: Vantage Point When: In cinemas Thursday March 13

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The Black Balloon Flying high By Ruby Boukabou

t the recent Berlin Film Festival, a few Australian films were hot on the lips of local and international audiences. On the top of the list, along with Benjamin Gilmour’s Son of a Lion, was writer/director Elissa Down’s The Black Balloon. The film, set in suburban Australia in the early ‘90s, is based on Down’s upbringing in an army family with autistic brothers and stars Toni Colette, Erik Thompson, Rhys Wakefield, Gemma Ward and Erik Thompson. Down (who producer Tristram Miall compares to Baz Luhmann) tells Ruby Boukabou about the overwhelming response, the crystal bear win… and the work behind it all. How did you embark on the journey of this film and how similar or different is it from the original concept in your head? The film was always going to be about this teenage boy with his autistic brother and how he learns to accept him the way he is. The structure and the tone was something that kept changing and evolving. Working in a script development workshop like Aurora really pushed that process along and opened up different possibilities which we explored. The main themes and story remained the same throughout.

What were the biggest challenges in making The Black Balloon and how did you overcome the hurdles? I’d say the biggest challenge was that the script wouldn’t fit into the six week shoot so I had to cut forty scenes out and do a re-write so we could make it in the allocated time. Even though it seemed like this momentous task, my sadomasochistic side came out and I really enjoyed stripping down the script. I feel that to be made to do that made me a stronger filmmaker when I now approach scripts. How have you grown as a director over the process? I think with directing you constantly learn and grow. It would be all the little things you either learn for the first time, or cement in your brain. A lot of it is so intuitive, so you just keep trusting that gut. What is the best/worst parts of filmmaking for you? The writing side of things I find quite frustrating and lonely sometimes. You have to be quite disciplined to keep on working long after when the inspiration and motivation is not there. I love being on set, the rehearsals and putting plans into action. I also enjoy editing and hacking away at the story to re-create it in a new form.

The Jammed A nasty jam By Xanthe Seacret

What were your expectations in coming to Berlin? That it was going to be cold!! I didn’t know what to expect. We were showing an Australian film without subtitles to an audience that speaks English as a second language. I did not expect that our film would sell out in 3 minutes and that people had to sit on the floor and be turned away. I did not expect that the audience would laugh and cry in all the right spots. I did not expect the overwhelming response that our film received. Why do you think this film touched people so much? I think because it’s truthful and told from the heart. The performances from the actors sweep the audience up on their emotional journeys. It means so much to me when I see men and women of all ages laugh and cry to these characters inspired from my family. It’s the biggest warm fuzzy you can get.

What: The Black Balloon When: In cinemas now

Theatresports 2008 The sport of art By Xanthe Seacret

t seems that the arts and sport just don’t mix. Or do they? Love is often considered a sport, and it’s also said to be an art, so why when the two words ‘theatre’ and ‘sports’ appear, is the concept such a foreign one for so many? Theatresports have long been around on the arts scene, and when you’re asking someone to get up on stage with no idea what’s about to happen to them whilst simultaneously demanding they be funny, who can really say this isn’t very much a sport? Rebecca De Unamuno, director of the theatresports event taking place at the Enmore Theatre is most definitely of the persuasion that theatresports is most definitely deserving of its athletic title.

un Park’s confronting and convincing portrayal of a distraught girl caught up in human trafficking in new release DVD The Jammed is a far cry from her other current role, super happy member of kids’ group Hi-5. With such a darkly disturbing credit now to her name, Park agrees that many people may be shocked by her role in the film. “I think people are surprised I did The Jammed,” the actor considers. “Obviously doing Hi-5 is one extreme to another. Hi-5 was a bit of a random thing to happen, I never imagined to be in anything like it. A film like The Jammed is so challenging and rewarding [and] my goal has always been to be as versatile as possible. Hopefully the general public can see that I am an actor and I’ve been really blessed to be given this opportunity.” The opportunity to work on The Jammed was also the opportunity to tell the tragically true story of the human trafficking for sexual exploitation that takes place in our own cities. Australia is now listed as one of the top 10 destinations for victims of trafficking globally, something that will no doubt be an eye opener for viewers as much as it was for Park when working on the film. “It’s almost incomprehensible that something like this can happen,” Park considers of The Jammed’s subject matter, “and it has been based on individual cases, and it’s happening at the moment. It’s a total shock to know that this kind of thing is happening, and to somehow sympathise and play the character was really difficult, but I guess knowing you’re not accepted and loved by your family; anyone would crumble in those circumstances so I tried to play on that. [The filming] went so quickly, it was around 7-8 days so it was literally every scene was one-shot wonders pretty much. It was very eye opening. We worked along Chris Cain, who is ex federal police [and] who worked

with a lot of the trafficking victims, but at the same time everyone was working together so well for not a lot of money at all. We had the passion and commitment to make this film happen.” The nature of the film provides for a viewer’s acceptance from the outset that confronting and sometimes disturbing scenes are inevitable. Once viewers are able to move past what they have just witnessed, it’s difficult not to wonder if the film was as confronting to take part in as it is to watch. “I think there had to be a lot of trust in the room, and there was,” Park says of the particularly violent and distressing scenes. “A lot of my scenes were very emotional; the character is very grief stricken. For Krystal (played by Emma Lung) there were very violent scenes, [but] we had absolute trust and faith in the director and what she wanted to do.” The hard work seems to be paying off, and The Jammed has already gained the attention and admiration of critics and viewers. Whilst it’s easy to presume that the subject of the film will serve as off-putting for some wouldbe watchers, the reaction thus far seems to indicate that not many people have been. “That’s what we initially felt - that a lot of people would feel very confronted by the issue,” Park recalls, “but the numbers speak for themselves. It seems to be the people’s choice film. We won the Inside Film award Best Film which is a people’s choice award, so obviously it is something people want to hear about and be aware of.“ What: The Jammed When: Out now on DVD through Roadshow

“I think other theatre audiences are used to theatre being something quite passive,” she says of her reasoning, “but theatre spots require the audiences to get involved so it’s actually something different to usual theatre. I think [shows like Thank God You’re Here are] getting it out there and it’s knowing that people have been doing it for quite some time, it brings it to audiences attention. Finally we’re being recognised!” When you consider that some of the most seasoned comedic professionals still admit to getting struck with a case of the nerves before making their way on stage, the notion of improvised comedy offers up a whole other level of terrifying. De Unamuno says that while it can be a daunting venture to be funny off the cuff and on demand, especially for first time improvisers, the adrenaline usually kicks in and makes it all okay.

this sport does have the potential to go very wrong, and leave a would-be comic floundering. De Unamuno admits that such situations are equally painful for the audience as they are for the person bombing on stage. “Oh yeah,” she laughs. “That’s when we try and put in place some devises to help save you. If the scene’s not working we have a thing called the honker so if the scene stinks, you can honk the scene off and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. I’ve even seen teams honk themselves off. You can’t be on fire all the time. We try and put in a few things to save the audience and the teams.” Despite what can possibly go wrong in a theatresports scenario, the end benefits and laughs usually far outweigh any possible hiccups. When in competition, as the comics appearing at the Enmore will be, partaking in this type of comedy is often a freeing experience, one unlike any other type of performance. “I think [the best thing about theatresports] is that, particularly with the adults, you’re getting the opportunity to play again and tap into your imagination,” De Unamuno reveals of why she so loves her chosen sport. “[It’s] the unexpected nature of it, and also the fact you can cast yourself in every character you want. There’s no television exec telling you you’re not suitable for the role.”

“I personally find that it’s less of a terror and more of a mass adrenaline rush because you have no idea what’s going to happen,” the improviser and director enthuses, clearly mad about her sport. “I tend to get very hyped up and nervous to start with, but once you get through that first scene it's okay. It’s more of an excitement I guess, like anything is possible, anything can happen. You can end up playing a golf ball.” When the possibilities are so endless, it also leaves the door wide open for almost unparalleled disaster. With virtually no preparation possible, and an audience anticipating unrehearsed but hilarious entertainment,

What: 2008 Theatresports National Championships Where: Enmore Theatre When: Saturday March 15

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WE OWN THE NIGHT

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This movie will no doubt have a lot of hype. It has all the right ingredients. Hot stars, including Mark Wahlberg and Eva Mendes, seasoned actors who have earned their Hollywood stripes, Robert Duvall and Jaoquin Pheonix, blood, crime, sex, love, plot. It has it all. Somehow though, it just doesn’t cut the mustard. The movie begins by introducing us to two brothers, Joseph (Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Phoenix). One has just gained a promotion in the family business – part of NYPD’s boys in blue, while the other has opportunities opening through his pseudo family, the Russians for whom he runs a successful nightclub, backed by the family “importing” business. Pick the storyline yet? Complete with annoying girlfriend, the dopey mate that clearly is a key player, and enough father issues to keep Dr Phil going for a month, the story is one we’ve been fed every week on TV since LA Law launched in the early eighties. I spent the whole movie waiting for the twist, expecting something to come from left field and save the film, but it just didn’t come. Set in the heady drug fuelled times of the eighties (maybe someone born post 1990 will believe that), even the film making has remained as authentic as possible. This includes dodgy camera work, boom mics falling into shot, and variable focus and sound clarity (OK maybe the blame lies with the cinema I was in for that part).

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It’s the sort of film that McG could’ve made bigger than Charlie’s Angels, or Tarantino could’ve made another cult classic from. Somewhere along the line though it all became too tepid. It would probably even get away with screening in kids television time slots. A lack of originality in story, and a lack of conviction in the relationships on screen mean We Own The Night is sure to be quick to DVD.

Kristy Wandmaker

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Even Books

THE SEVEN STAGES OF GRIEVING

Dean’s Café, 5 Kellet St, Kings Cross Thursday March 13, 7:30pm.

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Even Books, a night of booze, bingo and (duh!) books, returns for a second instalment this Thursday night at Kings Cross’ Dean’s Café. Essentially a book club (but a mondo-cool one at that), this week’s focus book is Steven Hall’s debut novel The Raw Shark Texts. It’s a fastmoving, cyberpunk pulp thriller with shout outs to Chuck Palahniuk, Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami, and is huge fun. But that’s not all! There’ll be extra entertainment from The Chaser’s Chris Taylor, an acoustic performance by Jai Pyne of the Paper Scissors and artwork by Esther Chung on display. All that for bubkas!

Seven Stages of Grieving begins eerily, a mixture of digitally projected, emotive words shining on the back of a young aboriginal woman assumedly going through a traditional grieving process. Her howls cut through the theatre. The room is filled with young HSC students who are all studying this play as a set text. Filled out and coloured before them, this has to be more than a little confronting. The play is said to reflect the famous five stages of dying described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Denial, Bargaining, Depression etc.) as it takes the audience through seven stages of Aboriginal history. It includes all the political, controversial and downright gut-wrenching moments that we’ve all heard about through the mass media but may not have been able to fully comprehend via 30 seconds of flashy images and sound bites.

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Lisa Flanagan brings the message of Seven Stages writers Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman to life, including everything from free form movement to performance poetry. The entire piece is, literally down to earth, with the most poignant set pieces being the piles of reddish earth in different places across the set. Flanagan is often up to her elbows in it,

hour-glassing the stuff through her hands and presenting it to the audience, asking just what it is and what it is worth. A suitcase full of photos of members of the stolen generation is open, closed and moved across the set throughout, at one stage angrily emptied and howled over. The performance was filled with some very striking moments. The Seven Stages of Grieving is a progression of stories leading from the stolen generation up to the Sorry Day that preceded the recent government apology. The play ended with a rapturous applause from a room full of eighteen year olds who managed silence throughout and gave a small group of them reason for a standing ovation. Seven Stages of Grieving will introduce you to a people in a vivid way. Neighbours to who you are more than likely a stranger.

Grant Spencer

EMBRACE: GUILT FRAME Sydney Theatre Company Thursday February 28 The first production for the Sydney Theatre Company 2008 Wharf2LOUD programme is nothing if not open for incredibly subjective comment, and I suppose many would argue that’s the point of most art. The first official piece of programming for STC by Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton as the company’s new Artistic Directors was chosen by the pair to challenge what audiences know about theatre, and this performance most certainly does that. The two actors and creators of embrace: GUILT FRAME, Tess de Quincey and Peter Snow, are literally framed for the duration of the performance as they silently act out various emotions in slow motion. Supported only by the sound of a metronome, inspired by Györgi Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes, I was most certainly challenged, but unfortunately it was to stay in the theatre for the duration of the performance. In light of recent drug spiking laws, the opening scenes with de Quincey seemingly unable to fully open her eyes, and Snow’s disturbingly constant half smile as he moved (slowly) closer to her were nothing if not topical. Despite the pair’s emotional states regularly not appearing to depict the same stage in their relationship, Snow’s emotions were emitted much more convincingly as he moved from lover to friend to father figure, whilst de Quincey appeared to remain in the same semi-comatose state throughout. The increasing speed of the metronome unfortunately did not correlate to an increase in action in the frame, nor did it appear related to any emotional climax for the pair. Subjectivity alive and well, my friend in attendance was absolutely mesmerised by Snow, whereas I found him disturbing to watch and was often fairly uncomfortable in doing so. Audience members are invited to discuss the piece at the end of each performance over a free glass of wine, and I imagine many will need it. Despite being a Bold & Beautiful fan with its much mocked elongated pauses, dramatic shows of emotion and exaggerated silent gazes, even I was not prepared for the drawn out nature of embrace:GUILT FRAME. I left thinking if even I struggled with this, heaven help the non-soap watchers.

Xanthe Seacret

DVD Reviews

HEADLINING FIFTY SIXX

MERRICK & ROSSO

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS

Live And Totally Wrong EMI

The fact that Merrick Watts and Tim Ross filmed this DVD deliberately in the Dubbo RSL is a joke big enough that the whole affair was in danger of becoming a one-joke stunt. However, thankfully, the lads had the sand to back it up. Of course, filming in Dubbo suits the boys’ boganesque antics very well. The bit where they each try to outdo the other with offensive T-shirt slogans is comedy gold, and provokes quite a bit of honest laughter from the small yet pumped Dubbo crowd (and let’s face it, if you lived in Dubbo and anything at all happened, you’d be pretty pumped). Their interaction with some of the more feral locals is gold. Merrick and Rosso have built a long career over the last ten years (so it’s actually hard to believe this is their first stand-up DVD) and are pretty charismatic guys, but some of the material seems a little hit-and-miss. In fact, elements of their set seem ‘unplanned’, in the vein of their previous TV show DVD, and leaving things to chance and going with the flow is only going to work out some of the time; nevertheless, they manage to riff off each other (and the crowd) pretty well for the majority of the show. Baz McAlister

Force Entertainment

You may have heard of this movie- it won the Palme D’or at Cannes last year, but was only released in limited runs around Australia, so sadly, not enough people got to see this astonishing film.

Set in the dying days of brutal communist Romania in the '80s, it’s about 2 girls trying to secure an illegal abortion. Only one of them is pregnant – the beautiful, but hugely irritating and stupid Gabita who is helped along by her smart, tough and selfless friend Otilia, (played with amazing realism by Anamaria Marinca) who does everything in her power to see the abortion through to the end. Filmed in less then 70 shots, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a haunting, disturbing film. Scenes linger when you don’t want them to, the stillness and the quiet of the city is unnerving, as is people’s indifference to each other, highlighted in scenes where Otilla simply tries to get something (like say, a hotel room, or a bus ticket, or some cigarettes). A blue wash over the film only adds to the starkness and sense of dislocation –and by the time they encounter the quietly terrifying abortionist Mr Bebe, you know that these women will never be the same again. While the directing isn’t graphic in its depiction of the actual termination (or anything, for that matter) it is dehumanizing enough that you feel a sense of shame and genuine sadness for the girls, forced to stoop to inhuman levels for their cause. This is the most powerful film I’ve seen in a long, long time. It stayed with me for days afterwards, in particular, one dinner party scene in which Otilla’s growing internal havoc and collapse was too much to bare and I squirmed uncomfortably all the way through it’s 8min long frame. It’s a tremendous achievement, but I’d recommend that it’s only for the brave.

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Game Reviews The geeks shall inherit the Earth… with Ming Ng

SOCOM: U.S. NAVY SEALS TACTICAL STRIKE PLATFORM: PSP RATING: M SCORE:

unnily enough in a game called “U.S.” Navy SEALs, you can only choose a team of four from the UK, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, South Korea, or the Netherlands. There is no difference in the way they play, except each of the soldiers speaks their own language. The squad can be controlled as a whole unit, in two pairs, Alpha and Bravo, or as each man individually, via the L and R buttons. There are a host of movement and attack actions available, and combined with the ‘On My Signal’ command, and you have a game which lets you execute some very satisfying complex strategies.

Unlike other military games, which put you right in the thick of the action, Tactical Strike is at times, like playing chess on a huge battlefield, with each move being a calculated decision. This certainly makes the game very rewarding and keeps you coming back to try new tactics, however it can be very frustrating when things do not go to plan. All the commands are accessed by menus, so if you find yourself in the line of fire it can be difficult to navigate to the correct action to get out of trouble. When being fired upon the first reaction is to run for cover, but movement can only be made by tapping Circle to select the ‘skimmer’ – a

cursor which defines the destination point, moving it with the oversensitive analog nub, and then tapping Circle again. It would have been great to allow more direct control of the soldiers, as the tactical aspect is fantastic when setting up attack modes, but not so great when reflexes are required in real time combat and defence. Initially, I found that each move I was making was very deliberate, choosing stealth and cover modes to move everywhere so I could check out corners before progressing. Your field of view is limited to where your soldiers are and their line of sight, which is a nice touch. So by inching forward through the 9 maps that are available, reaching checkpoints to save your progress can easily blow out to more than half an hour, which is quite long for a handheld game. Frustratingly, if you die, the game doesn’t automatically restart you from the checkpoint, but sends you back to the Campaign Lobby first, where there is a substantial loading period before you can start playing again. Tactical Strike is a good game for those who into strategic warfare and have plenty of patience. Gung-ho gamers look elsewhere! BRAG :: 252:: 10:03:08 :: 35

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

CD OF THE WEEK ADAM GREEN Sixes & Sevens Remote Control

If you’ve recently had a baby, or know anyone who has, I’d suggest giving them a copy of this album and have them play it in the babies bedroom. It’d soothe them to sleep, and put them in good stead for life.

Adam Green is a lot of fun for a serious musician. He owns a commanding baritone voice, similar to that of Jens Lekmann, and slips in little snippets of clever music samples, like old Motown shimmers and Billy Joel style piano jingles against these stark folk songs. It makes his music that much more interesting and it’s the reason why he has seen so much success where other ‘anti-folk’ artists have failed. Once a part of the child-like duo The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green has moved on nicely and it’s obvious that his musical skills have benefited from the time apart. Smatterings of

AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT

Titles such as ‘Cunts’, ‘Super Sexxxxy Real Live!’, and ‘You Took It Well’, give a good indication of what this release is all about. And while the idea of listening to a mid-thirty year old Scottish bloke talk about head jobs, threesomes and fantasies, is probably off-putting to most, there’s a certain beauty in I Can Hear Your Heart. With a worn-out, groggy voice and his warm Scottish accent, there’s a life and sincerity in each piece that suggests Moffat is being completely open. Similarly, the music that accompanies each reading has an honesty that can’t be ignored. Made up of mostly simple, lo-fi keys and guitars, musically I Can Hear Your Heart perfectly complements Moffat’s sordid, drunken tales. In a way, this is what makes the record such a compelling listen, I Can Hear Your Heart overflows with all the vulnerabilities and uncertainties that stem from such an honest approach. Amongst the tales of ‘dicks’, ‘pricks’, ‘willies’ and ‘cunts’, heartbreaking moments litter the record. I Can Hear Your Heart will be more than rewarding.

Sixes and Sevens has an almost nursery rhyme quality to it, where Green sings jovially about picking his nose, going to school, buttering bread and even ponies. Coupled with the fact that nothing on this album goes for more then 3mins, it’s a sweet, soulful album which has the potential to be a long term slow-burner as you wade through the depth of all 20 songs. Kirsty Brown

FOREIGN BEGGARS

I Can Hear Your Heart Stomp

Aidan John Moffat is one sexually minded man. Best known for his work with Glaswegian duo Arab Strap, he’s now turned his filthy little mind towards a solo project. While one might expect some sort of stripped back acoustic album, I Can Hear Your Heart is more a collection of poems and short stories set to music. Sort of spoken, sort of sung, sort of mumbled and very often addressing the issue of sex, some of the songs are plain smut. Others are just a little smutty.

orchestration flitter through the album- although never overdone in that bombastic Van Dyke Parks style we are now so bored of- and are used to great success on tracks like ‘Homelike’ and ‘Grandma Shirley and Papa’. But what’s so nice about this lovely little album are the beautiful lyrics which hark back to a simpler, more innocent time.

SEASICK STEVE

Asylum Agenda Grindin’

Forgive my ignorance but I had never heard of the Foreign Beggars until now. That is not to say that I haven’t heard their music, on mixtapes (the Scratch Perverts Essential Mix for example) and compilations. In fact this album acts as a compile of some of the best tunes that the Foreign Beggars have created over the past few years and served as a perfect introduction to their style and sound. Staying true to the ‘Foreign’ part of their name the Beggars pull in all sorts of influences and their members hail from London to Dubai.

Some people just have the blues, you know. Like BB King. Or Muddy Waters. You can feel it coming out of every note on the guitar: the hardships of life, a life really lived, experiencing shit most of us never will. No one’s played the blues like Seasick Steve for years, but this heavily-bearded vagabond oozes it from every pore. Discovered while he was busking, Dog House Music is rough-as-guts, just Steve and his array of guitars, including a couple of custom-made axes, rocking it out as if he was sitting in the Central Station tunnel.

The combination of all this talent works extremely well for Asylum Agenda with street anthems including ‘Hold On’ and ‘Slow Broiled Ilk’ contrasting with slow jams such as ‘Where Did the Sun Go’ and ‘Reach Out’. The lyrical content ranges from the regular bravado, infused with that extra English wit, to pickup adventures and deep musings on the ‘scene’ and family. The different styles and flows of the rappers also add extra depth and a welcome change from the stale style of their American brethren.

His brand of hobo blues could have been written in the 1930s, while sailing along the Mississippi or Ocklawaha River. It’s timeless, and it’s real, and therein lies its appeal. “Ain’t the kind of blues you have for one day / you have it your whole life long,” sings Steve in his gravel tones in ‘Dog House Boogie’, the dirty, autobiographical tune which has become Steve’s signature song. Do yourself a favour – jump on YouTube and check out Steve performing it on Jools Holland’s New Year’s show. Awesome stuff.

Aside from big names such as Rodney P and Roots Manuva I have found the UK hip hop scene hit and miss with the grime and dub-step scenes yielding more exciting sounds. It is nice to be proven wrong by such a complete, diverse and most of all, banging LP.

The whole album is filled with gems, though. ‘My Donny’ speeds up, slows down and generally rocks. He even busts out his one-stringed diddley bow for ‘Save Me’ and sounds just as good as when he’s got six. You’ll be mesmerised by Seasick Steve’s voice and hypnotised by the rhythms.

A great introduction to one of the UK’s finest hip hop groups. Bumpin’.

The blues haven’t sounded so good since the Great Depression.

Nat Jones

THA 4ORCE

Dog House Music Bronzerat Records

Dom Alessio

Andrew Worotniuk

DIE! DIE! DIE!

Mind the Gap Anthems V2 BBE

In this blog filled age it’s hard for acts to break through, they use names such as Justice of the Unicorns or viral videos to garner attention. Steve Ellingtion has opted for the SMS friendly name ‘Tha 4orce’ and has just released a album entitled Mind the Gap V2. Tha 4orce got his start DJing on the Da Ali G Show and since then has worked presenting on radio and MTV as well as releasing albums with his short lived band Nash and a number of solo releases as well as regularly DJing around the globe. Just as he has done in his career Tha 4orce tries his hand at everything on Mind the Gap V2 be it scratching, rapping and producing. Being a producer and DJ formost the album contains a number of instrumental tracks including ‘Drum vs Drums’ which pits a drum set against drum loops and ‘Superb Splenda’ which aim to capture the spirit of an old time funk jam. Scratches are also found all over the record but are of the generic variety and add little depth to the proceedings. Rhymes are split between a number of guests and Tha 4orce himself and are unremarkable in both delivery and execution. This flavour covers the whole record and shows that while Tha 4orce may be a multi talented man, there is nothing he really excels at. This is frustrating, as there is evidence of creative ideas, such as the ‘Drums vs Drums’ cut, however his poor follow though shows that Tha 4orce is struggling to think out side the hip hop box. Instead, in the shadow of his peers, he comes across as someone playing it very safe.

Promises, Promises Etch’n’Sketch/Inertia

Fuck, these boys have gotten keen! The last thing that was missing from Die! Die! Die!’s crest was a sense of direction, and now they’ve more than gained it. Previous releases were kicked out in the hyperactive manner of these incessant tourers, songs never pushed much past two minutes, things were knife-edge, brittle and wilfully oblique. Yes they’ve kept that amazing kinetic skill in their dialectic dynamic, still they carry across an amazing sense of urgency, but now the truly deadly thing about it all is that none of this any longer diverts off into obscure angles and mirrors – no, instead everything on here has one clear fucking target, emotion and anger are shaved into a narrowly honed and far more engaged blaze into hearts. Many tracks, like the standout ‘Sideways Here We Come’, clock in at over four minutes, repeat their choruses, allow themselves to fade out - these are things Die! Die! Die! just never used to permit, but there’s a new musical comfort here as the band comes to realise and fulfil it’s amazing potential (and thereby cover up the restless anxiety that permeates their lyrics). With the new slab, you can’t help but feel that they now know exactly what they want, and the honesty on display here only serves to further cement their particular brand of post-hardcore. Don’t get me wrong though Promises, Promises is still as edgy as fuck, Lawson Fletcher

A cross section of vanilla flavoured hip hop and soul, uninspiring. Nat Jones

INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK CLUTCHY HOPKINS Walking Backwards Ubiquity / Creative Vibes

ho exactly is Clutchy Hopkins? Just a clever media creation or as some speculation suggests, MF Doom, Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow or the Beastie Boys in disguise? Whilst Clutchy’s true identity seems to be a closely guarded secret, one thing is for sure – the music is great.

mandolins to create the perfect concoction of blues, jazz, funk, soul and mariachi. Label-mate, Darondo, features on ‘Love A Woman’, one of only tracks with vocals, while other contributions are made by Shawn Lee and Todd Simon (Connie Price, The Lions) to complete the album.

Walking Backwards is lounge perfection from which all other lounge albums should be measured. Slow grooves are combined with breaks ‘n’ beats, synths, live guitars and

If it is true that the best music of any genre evokes an emotional or empathetic response in the listener, then Clutchy Hopkins is definitely up there. The genre-bending

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experimentation puts Clutchy a cut above the rest as he/she/they surpass much of the adequate but relatively uninteresting lounge music out there. The best thing about Walking Backwards is that it’s equally effective as funky background music as it is for introspective headphone occasions. Chris Z

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Single Reviews

DVD

By Jacob Stone

SINGLE OF THE WEEK

DVD Review

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Make It Wit Chu

This is the greatest song that the QOTSA have written. This is a nasty boogie tune, thumping along with no amplification, and sounds sleazy and brilliant regardless. This is RnB in the rhythm and blues sense of the word, with Josh Homme’s croon floating lazily and dangerously over Joey Castillo’s snare and tambourine groove while the

PJ HARVEY The Devil

This doesn’t have the same blasted, barren feeling as her last single, but the insistent, witchy desperation that’s so distinctly PJ Harvey is shot through the tune like a handful of glittering black stones. A bouncy upright piano anchors this starlit, hallucinatory voyage to the satellite towns of Harvey’s imagination - a warped hypnotic vision of turn-of-thecentury lover’s meeting-atmidnight. The devil appears, drawing H. out of her house in a dream to wait by a big flat rock “on a night with no moon”. She contains herself right up to the chorus before exploding “Come! Come! Come here at once!” to her absent lover. Spooky genius.

DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? We Are Rockstars

The vanguard of cranking electro-rock crossover stuff in the UK, this song has only one wish – to munt your head off using as big a club as possible. And it does the job capably, although with little soul. It’s basically like a full-on club banger augmented with distorted guitar, bass and a touch of live drums around the edges. The vocoder-driven vocal is a smart little hook, and it’s so by-the-numbers that you can’t resist the obvious bass drops and climaxes, but, you feel a little used by the end of it. Awesomely brainless and an obvious hit, yet temporary.

PLASTIC PALACE ALICE The Little Girl Who Cried Wolf

There’s something about this band that I don’t quite buy; their manner seems a little forced. It starts at the vocal, which sounds awkward when unadorned, and travels through the composition. This is an indie-folk-rock track - the edges are sanded off a clean-sounding song that could make its way onto radio if only it wasn’t so uninspiring. There isn’t really anything to remember, no melodic or lyrical hook beyond the chorus vocal part. The atmosphere is menace and 1940’s Australia, which is an original setting, but when butted-up against the vintage mood of Harvey’s ‘The Devil’ it sounds a bit cheap and self-serious.

band crackle with understated sexuality and cool. The lyrics are simple; Josh is trying to explain to his lover that he would be lying if he told her about “the sun and moon”, that basically, he just wants to have sex. And the song embodies sex perfectly, adding a menacing, drug-addled strut. Totally QOTSA, totally irresistible.

ANTI-FLAG

PLUG-IN CITY

Really, really American poppunk sounding, like Green Day with choral singing. That’s not really a bad thing; I’m just surprised that they toured with Rage Against The Machine. This bangs and fizzes like a firecracker in a tin can, group chorus and guitar solos in the right places. As the commercial front of anticommercialism this lacks the genuine force of a band like Rage, but its good-ish pop. ”The bright lights of America, to live and die in the heart of America where they sell souls” - it’s a really earnest vocal, but they brighten it with celebratory, inclusive band backing. Plastic Palace Alice could take notes, but they’ll probably just scoff at the suggestion.

This band aren’t overt, they just simmer along instead of fucking you in the brain like most of their genre-peers might. Instead of simply turning up, they employ slight melody over watery, low-key guitar sounds and a crackling, thin disco rhythm section. The vocal sits squarely in focus, a Mancsounding lament about empty love and dissatisfaction. It’s a slippery, cold-sounding song, and by the time the bridge slithers into view they’ve got me interested without any real fireworks. Succeeding thus far by creeping around underneath your expectations, I’m interested to see what they do next.

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PARLIAMENT/ FUNKADELIC Live – Mothership Connection Umbrella Music

In the 17th century Oliver Cromwell fought a war with the English monarchy to establish the parliament as the primary law making body. As a vehicle within which the population could (subject to franchise requirements) discuss and resolve matters of the day, parliament is a cornerstone of the modern democratic tradition – even if it is increasingly characterised by vacuous and juvenile political games. Three hundred and fifty years later George Clinton, former hairdresser and Motown songwriter, took the name of this illustrious political institution for his collection of funk performers. The Mothership Connection captures Parliament/ Funkadelic on its 1976 P-Funk tour. This is classic stuff – a stage full of performers dressed in various outfits, dancing to a groove that’s as colourful as the costumes on display. The aesthetic is urban sexual groove meets psychedelic outer space, all wrapped up in a deranged party atmosphere. The music itself takes second place to the theatrics of the event – and that’s saying something, as there’s never a beat missed despite the ensuing madness. This is Parliament/Funkadelic at its creative and performing peak – and with an apex like this, it’s no wonder Clinton has spent the last thirty years trying to reach those head heights once again. Patrick Emery

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Hard & Fast Hardcore • Punk • Ska • Metal with Josh Kiff

Turbonegro

NEWS Katakalysm are only 1 short week away from hitting Australia. The Canadian 4-piece will play the Metalstock Festival on Sunday March 23 with the biggest and best metal acts Australia has to offer. Millencolin have released the first video clip from their next album, Machine 15. The song is titled ‘Detox’ and is a slight hark back to the band’s earlier sound, which will please a lot of fans out there. Millencolin will also be starting their World tour in Australia in May. Kisschasy are leaving Australia - for a little while at least! Set to release their latest album in the States, the band have nabbed girl rockers The Donnas and The Getaway Plan for a string of shows before they set off. Dates are below. Against Me! will play the Metro on April 26 as part of their Australian tour with fellow rockers Crime In Stereo jumping on the tour as well. I Killed The Prom Queen will hit the Roundhouse on May 31 for their final Sydney show. Not ones to disappoint, the band will be bringing UK act Bring Me The Horizon along with The Red Shore and The Ghost Inside. The Dead Walk! will hit release their new 7” Hunting Humans on March 29 through Resist Records. The vinyl will feature 5 new tracks. Thrice have released the first single off their new concept album, The Alchemy Index Vols III - IV. The song is the slow, haunting ‘Come All You Weary’. Bound to be another fan favourite. Panic At The Disco will release Pretty.

Odd. on March 29. The first single released will be ‘Nine In The Afternoon’. Supergroups rarely seem to work...but I do wonder what Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion), Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit) and Munky from Korn’s new side project will sound like. H2O have a large fanbase in Australia... their tour many years ago with Frenzal Rhomb showcased how amazingly talented these guys are. While being on hiatus for a year or 2... they are returning with Nothing To Prove, their new album which will be in stores on May 27. Remember when The Presidents of the United States of America were huge? Well here is hoping their new album, These Are The Good Times People, will take them global once again. It's out this week! Turbonegro have sacked drummer Chris Summers from the band. Chris was on a 6 month hiatus from the band due to foot injuries and other personal issues. He has been replaced by Tomas Dahl. New Found Glory will have their Hits album released by Geffen on March 18. The album will feature the single ‘Constant Static’. Unwritten Law will release their next album through Suburban Noize records. The band have never had albums released on the same label and their sixth is heading the same direction. The group are writing and recording right now. The Ataris frontman Kir Roe is currently in the US touring around playing the entire Blue Skies album. He is considering bringing the show to Australia, but isn’t sure if he could do it. As long as he keeps away from his later work I am sure the shows would be a huge success!

PROFILE The Adicts

The Adicts began life as the Afterbirth & The Pinz, in their hometown of Ipswich (UK) back in late 1975. They scored many Indie Chart hits in the Eighties, and are unbelievably still together, and still making great music, with the same lineup – Keith ‘Monkey’ Warren, vocals; Mel Ellis, bass; Pete Dee Davison, guitar; and Michael ‘Kid Dee’ Davison, drums - to this day. The Adicts are finally in Australia Dates March 12 – The Metro w/ Glen & The Peanut Butter Men, Run For Cover, Unemployed Super Villians

TOUR DATES

The Hot Lies March 14 – Uni Bar, Wollongong March 15 – Bizzos, Caringbah March 16 – Oasis Youth Centre (AA) The Butterfly Effect March 20 – Castle Hill RSL March 21 – Selina’s Nightclub Whitesnake March 28 – Enmore Theatre Coheed & Cambria March 31 – UNSW Roundhouse Maylene And The Sons of Disaster April 5 – UNSW Roundhouse

WASP April 8 – Metro Theatre Pennywise / Sum 41 / The Vandals / Bowling For Soup April 11 – Big Top, Luna Park (Lic/AA) – Sold Out April 12 – Big Top, Luna Park (Lic/AA) Flogging Molly April 12 – The Forum Kisschasy May 24 - Enmore Theatre (AA) May 25 - Penrith Panthers (Lic/AA) May 27 - ANU Bar, Canberra

THE USED Shallow Believer

CD REVIEW

While the band are between actual albums, there is nothing more satisfying to a fan than grabbing a “rare” and “b-sides” release of songs that were deemed not good enough, or sounds too much like something else to release on said album. Shallow Believer is a romp through these such tracks, although some of the tracks are pretty good, including ‘My Pesticide’. The only way you can get this puppy is to buy it from iTunes as well. Fans should start typing in their credit card numbers now. 38 :: BRAG :: 252 :: 10:03:08

Remedy

More than The Cure since 1989 with Murray Engleheart

DEAD FUNNY

It’s a way off yet but it’s still something to get very excited about. You see, the original lineup of the hugely influential - and very bloody great - Killing Joke reunites for a world tour - or parts thereof - in September. Drummer, Paul Ferguson will return to the fold after more than 20 years while bassist, Youth, is back in the lineup for the first time since 1994. In their day while they didn’t grab the headlines in the same way Killing Joke were every bit as seethingly reactionary as the Sex Pistols had been with gloriously manical tribe leader, the ever intense, Jaz Coleman - who really should be a multiple and regular Oscar winner for his speaking voice alone - staring down all before him with a wide eyed glazed gaze. The tour begins in Japan and will see the band playing two distinct shows on some stops with their first two slabs - 1980’s self titled debut and What’s This…For! - being performed from start to finish the first night and the second featuring 1994’s Pandemonium slab in its entirety - Youth’s last venture with the band. Revisionism is just the shit ain’t it?

Yep, GG who died in 1993 was the real very ugly very bad arsed deal baby but then we guess when you’re born Jesus Christ Allin you do have a certain amount of latitude to work with. And most of it’s here on this DVD to gobsmack you in the relative comfort of your own home. But even then you’ll occasionally involuntarily tuck your feet under your body. Some wild shit. No pun intended.

STILL COMIN’

HEIL!

This week Stomp issue a shitload of Hendrix material from Jimi’s seemingly dimension-free vault. They’re all twin slab sets and what seems to be a lot of previously unofficially released stuff. The titles are kinda self explanatory in terms of content: Rainbow Bridge Concert, Axis Outtakes, Stockholm Concert, No More A Rolling Stone, Are You Experienced and More, Am I Blue, An Evening With, Winterland Night, Truth and Emotion and Axis: Bolder Than Love. Jimi Hendrix

HARDCORE SHIT

Hated, the doco on the late GG Allin will be available on DVD for the first time in May after many years of doing the rounds as a bootleg. Allin, you should know, was the man who made Iggy Pop look like an RSL cabaret act, who was arrested more than 50 times for offences ranging from shitting on stage and very, very disorderly conduct to exposing himself to minors, who actually warned audiences against coming to his shows because they were quite literally taking their personal safety into their own hands. And they were. He used to sign off phone calls by saying “goodbye” rather than “see you later” simply because he didn’t know if there was going to be a “later” so dangerously intense was his life.

GG Allin

Every Day Is Saturday, that new comp of demos and other smokin’ goodies by The Dictators contains some real surprises in its liner notes. There’s a pic of Springsteen in the studio with them during the recording of the Bloodbrothers’ slab and proving that their rock lives went way beyond the confines of Brooklyn. There’s also pics of singer HD Manitoba sitting with Muddy Waters which we reckon is pretty damn cool and another with Jerry Garcia. Who’d have thunk it eh?

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Ween struck us as a mix tape made by seriously music loving people who like all sorts of music all the time and all at once. Someone lightheartedly called them the new Grateful Dead in as much as they just do their thing for however long as it takes (which in this instance was almost three hours) and attract a wildly diverse and equally wildly dedicated audience in the process, from the guy in the Turbonegro denim jacket to young women who danced their cares away all night. What really surprised us was the guitar herodom of Dean Ween. In the space of any given three songs and any given ten minutes he could have taken a spot in Sonic Youth, Steve Earle’s Band or The Germs. He sang his arse off too and ran the whole show in the same commanding way Keith steers The Stones. As such he was a perfect foil for Gene Ween. Up all, the world’s longest live jukebox.

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An exhibition opens at the Melbourne Museum on 20 March called The Melbourne Story. Big deal you say with a roll of the eyes? Mostly yeah except that one of the exhibits is an early schoolboy uniform that Angus Young wore during the TNT era.

ON THE TURNTABLE On the Remedy turntable is UFO’s No Heavy Petting with Michael Schenker doing some amazing guitar fireworks and pretty much saving their day. The band’s catalog has been remastered and is now available with bonus tracks but the sound is pretty disappointing. Just imagine how some of these seventies’ recordings would have sounded if Jimmy Page had been in charge so they really leapt out of the speakers a la Led Zeppelin 1?. Anyways, also spinning is The Birthday Party’s Junkyard, Cockney Rejects’ Greatest Hits Vol 1 and Nailbomb’s Pointblank.

TOUR AND INDUSTRY NEWS *The most testifying act on the planet, The BellRays storm back through the country this month. Their new slab, Hard, Sweet & Sticky is out now and on 14 March the band bring their mix of very heavy Sly Stone funk and piledriving punk edged rock action to the Metro with The Mess Hall and Ripping Dylans. *Local heavyweights, Heifer have scored many a rave review in Europe for their Judas Belt slab but none more prized than an almost unheard of 11/12 rave in major German music mag, Heavy. The band

have just started work on material for their next slab. * Penny Ikinger (ex-Wet Taxis) plays a rare Sydney show at The Exclesior on 29 March with France’s Dimi Dero and Leone Carmen. Come and get a taste of the upcoming Ikinger slab prior to her European tour with Dimi and Vinz from Dimi Dero as her backing band. *From The Jam featuring original members of The Jam - Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler - will be doing The Jam’s greatest hits on 14 March at the Forum.

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ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Circular Quay Sunday March 2

Laneway in Sydney has the vibe about it of a very large Sunday barbeque. And so the day, which had turned meteorogically lovely as befits the first days of Autumn, began in earnest. And so as people streamed in and got acquainted in the sunshine, Little Red made a great soundtrack to this, cute, but not enough to hold our interest, frankly, and especially not when the Devastations are on at the same time. Casting the moody pall of your Melbourne-via-Berlin, industrial edged Birthday Party headfuck mood in broad daylight is hard, but the Devastations were arresting nonetheless.

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As to reviewing a festival; you know that the format is not suited to being able to see everything (unless we could harness a casual loop in space/time), and so is somewhat skewed along personal preference. However! In the interest of fairness/probability research we resorted to a coin toss. First up we have Manchester Orchestra vs The Vasco Era which unfortunately went the way of the latter for us, and all we can report here is that grunge’s ghost (STP, Kurt Cobain) is still alive and well and the Vasco Era are here to remind us. Next is Okkeril River vs The Panics, which goes the tourists’ way. We have time to see the first two Panics tracks and it’s pretty clear why they won the J award. Okkeril River are killing it on the Reiby Place stage when we arrive to a very packed alleyway. Stars beat out Still Flyin’ and played a great set to a seriously burgeoning crowd who dug the whole thing, but especially ‘Take Me To The Riot’ which makes us glad that Torquil Campbell takes time out from starring in Law and Order to make something so awesome. Fellow Canadians Broken Social Scene were up next, but our coin toss loyalties were with Bridezilla, which we are aware, ensured that we missed Feist joining BSS (what is this, The We Love Canucks Festival? WE DO, WE DO, IT’S TRUE) onstage – but let us assure you, it was worth it. Bridezilla are I think best summed up thus: as a buddy said to me “it’s funny seeing them live because you realise that some people are just born cool while the rest of us weren’t.” Yes, it’s confronting when people still in highschool are wiping the floor with everyone else. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Whatever must be playing to approximately three people on the other stage, not that we would know or care – are you kidding? IT’S. FEIST. NOW. Like most things from Canada, Feist is just superior to many other things (bourbon, maple syrup). Well before ‘1, 2, 3, 4’ has sent the crowd into rapturous, drunken joy – and in so doing, perfectly capturing the spirit of the day – she has commanded the rapt, pin drop quiet attention of the punters. On top of a great set of pipes, a lovely presence and

infectious sense of humour, Feist is a seriously good guitar player, and her band are equally superb. The last remaining choice is between the Presets and Gotye, which had we not been so thoroughly spent by this point and sated on the virtues of Feist, it’s he we would have stayed to see, and many did and many would have been rewarded, but our heart (or perhaps our head on account of the beer)’s a mess and we headed for home hoping you’ll forgive us – 10 hours is long, but glorious. See you next year Laneway, we can hardly wait.

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE SENSES FALL DIVINE HERESY The Forum Tuesday February 26

Tuesday night and there was not an inch to spare at The Forum. The Killswitch Engage Soundwave sideshow was completely sold out and they could not have fitted in one more black clad metalcore fan if they had tried. Not being daring enough to try to squeeze onto the floor I found a position that afforded me an amazing view of the stage and crowd. I found out later that this luxury was paid for at the price of the sound quality however a clear view of the show that unfolded on Tuesday night was well worth it. Divine Heresy were as heavy as expected and Senses Fall’s riffs set the crowd on fire. These weren’t support bands - they each stood their ground and delivered amazing sets. With no crowd barrier in place there was no separation between band and the baying masses. Interaction between the 2 was maxed out with crowd surfing, usually reserved for punters, being embraced fully by the bands themselves. The only person who looked like they weren’t enjoying themselves was the poor security guard who was positioned in the thick of the mosh. KSE pounded through a hardcore set of classics barely coming up for air. The playing was tight and the interaction was spot on. Those on the floor were banging as hard as they could to ‘My Curse’ and ‘As Daylight Dies’ and those on the balconies were hanging over as far as they could in order to soak up more of the excitement. Adam D rocked his cape and Howard Jones (dressed in a smart shirt) bought to the stage everything that KSE are renowned for. From the female stage divers in short dresses and high heels to Jones picking up an oversized stage intruder and launching him into the crowd, this was one show I wouldn’t have wanted to miss. I had more fun tonight than I have had in a long, long time and I’d say from the looks of it the bands would be saying exactly the same thing.

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THURSDAY SAOSIN SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS The Forum Wednesday February 27

Tonight was always going to be about Thursday. A chance to see this old school talent in a smaller venue was not to be sniffed at and it seemed like half of the crowd had the same idea with everyone else playing to a half empty room. Those who did arrive early were rewarded by a tight set by SKSK. I’ve never seen such energy go into a keyboard as I did tonight from Pouyan Afkary. From the fancy footwork to the Tarzan like chest banging he really got the blood pumping. ‘Faces’, ‘The Deep End’ and ‘My Darkest Hour’, although good on record, were bought to life live. Definitely a band to watch. This was a tough crowd but having seen Saosin live several times I knew that each and everyone in the audience would be won over by their tight hard harmonies. Boy was I wrong. I’ve waxed lyrical about these boys before and look forward to every visit they make. Tonight however there was something different and it wasn’t a good thing. Cove Reber, the stoic singer whose minimal moves save energy for his amazing vocal talents, seemed to have lost his shit -from kicking off his shoes to his pants nearly falling down, to his glassy stare and inability to sing an entire song (handing duties over to audience members far too many times). I’m still a huge fan, I just hope that next time they come out they lift their game. Got to throw in a mention for Alex Rodriguez’s drumming skills which are always a pleasure to watch. It didn’t take long for the disappointment to pass; in fact it lifted as soon as Thursday took to the stage. Thursday’s amazing stage presence and sound erased all memories of the shambles that came before. Fast, fun, hard and loud they absolutely roared through a set that included ‘Understanding in a Crash’, a powerful ‘Signals Over the Air’ and ‘At This Velocity’. Geoff Rickley’s stripper like use of a mic lead is an absolute wonder to behold add to that the shear power of their songs, lyrically and musically and this show was lifted to the level that I had expected and finally got.

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CARLOS SANTANA BLUE KING BROWN Acer Arena Thursday February 28

My earliest recollection of music comes in the form of a mixture of Latin salsa music and the triple-threat of Latino Pop/Rock; Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias and Carlos Santana. It wasn’t until my teenage years did I learn how daggy these three were – with the exception of Santana. Not until I began to play guitar did I realise how he managed to infuse Latin, jazz and rock into a style all his own, and how that would shape Latin music crossingover into popular music. But then came Supernatural… Santana’s mainstream renaissance with that duet-based album cemented him back into the daggy Latino trio. Sure. He has become the right-hand man for Rob Thomas and Chad Kroeger, but he was also the right-hand man for Alice Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. Fortunately, tonight, he was the musician of the latter. The impressive backing band featured a tight four-piece rhythm section, two lead singers, a brilliant keys player, but a forgettable rhythm guitarist. The

combination of timbales, congas and rock kit continually drove the Latin jam all night. Only a few of the ‘collabs’ snuck with a focus on the past featuring hits ‘Samba Pa Ti’, ‘Black Magic Woman’ and ‘Oye Como Va’. Natalie, from the support Blue King Brown, made a nervous cameo in a jam with Santana that preluded the most disturbing part of the evening (no, not 'Smooth'). A prepared montage of Cathy Freeman and fireworks scrolled in the background as Santana shared a monologue on how important the female form is and that Cathy Freeman personifies the feminine side of the Creator… proof in the pudding that LSD is bad. Although Santana’s playing has become quite repetitive with his signature high bends and tremolo picking found on every solo off his new material, the band won the evening that night. A collection of truly great musicians provided a glimpse of the Santana of old, pushing the gig to an engaging 150 minute jam and not a collection of ‘hits’.

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Hermann’s Bar Friday February 24

This was my first time at Hermann’s and I was pleasantly surprised. Friendly door staff, no drink queues, good sound, my kind of place. Should be everybody’s kind of place when you think about it, but strangely no, most people in this city seem to prefer packing themselves into generic meatmarkets and queuing for hours just to get treated like shit. What gives? Anyway Hermann’s isn’t ever going to be for those kind of people, it’s a venue for music fans whose tastes run a little deeper.

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The promoters, Space Is The Place, did some nice décor work on the bar. The main room had some tripped out lights and artwork that tied in well with the sounds coming out of the speakers. The outside courtyard was dope too, draped in camo netting, with a nice variety of electronica on show – the support DJs really pulled some interesting stuff out of their bags. Mark Pritchard started attracting attention in the main room while he warmed up for Lotus. Everyone who’d been milling around and chatting got into the music a bit more and the dancefloor started looking respectable. I noticed the sound guy working overtime as well as Pritchard really gave the system a workout with his dubsteppy, sub-bass, sound warp style – now there’s a DJ who really uses his freedom to experiment. It was great to see so many people responding well to the untested sounds, quite happy to allow the DJ break new ground. Flying Lotus came on to a small but packed room, something he’s no doubt used to given his niche audience. He hopped on the mic for some chit chat, the entertainer in him getting us on all side and then proceeded to turn the place into a “rave”, his words not mine. Minus the ego of your typical hip hop DJ the Californian was really keen to have us jumping up and down as much as possible and made sure of it with his manic tempo changes from hip hop to hardcore jungle and back again. It was a short and physical set he played on his laptop and sampler, and what he did with the technology was pretty nuts. Live sample triggering around the 180bpm mark, like finger drumming on your Blackberry, and when he got tired he’d pull back and drop some classic DJ Premier beats or something equally as fat. I lack the technical know how to describe exactly what he was doing, but it looked really, really hard and 100% original. More of a performer than any DJ I’ve ever seen. Stay tuned for the next instalment of Space Is The Place.

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It’s called: sosueme. It sounds like: Getting smacked in the face with a leg of lamb, only tied up in stirrups in an epic attic to wake up nude, of party radness. Acts: Live - Theatre of Disco, Team Plastique (Berlin – only Australia n Show) DeeeJaaays - Ember, Hey Now, Mixtape Mafia, Nude DJs, Misc.Disc WHATTT??? DJ’s, BOOM! DJs DJ’s, Three records you’ll hear on the night: ‘Drop’ – Ying Yang Twins, – Cook Kids vs your Grandama & ‘Sweet Child o Mine’ – Chew Fu ‘Bringin’ ’48 Back’ Refix And one you definitely won’t: ‘Opposites Attract’ – Paula Abdu l & Scat Cat. Sell it to us: It’s Rayner & Muz’s b’days, as they are joined at the groin so it’s their shout (of Radness… not drinks)! They’ll be celebrating in their spec ially made NASA engineered Spaceless-5th Dimensio way from Germainia we have Team n suits of high-powered excellence (HPE). All the Plastique for their only Australian show show!! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: demanded to have your penis sign Your friends still giggling over how you drunkenly ed by the Team Plastique girls, and did it! that they actually Crowd specs: Candles, mudcake , champagne, longnecks of beer ($5!!), party hats, a donkey and a tail. Wallet damage: A $15 spot, less if you pre-purchase through inthe mix or moshtix Where: Q Bar!! 34 Oxford. When: Friday March 14

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It’s called: Pet Cemetery It sounds like: A cat on heat stuc k in a disco den full of beatnicks high on pheromones listening to heart-entrenching song s. DJs/live acts playing: We like to have a mix-bag of acts especially acts that like to get a little kooky onstage. Watch out for our own bluesy rock n roll heart-throb Jesse Redwing, who’s got a regular spot at Pet Cem. Plus this week we have Bridezilla’s Holiday and Daisy playing some saucy tunes from their own vault, it should be a treat! Three records that’ll rock the floo r: The B’52s, The Kinks, and Kate Bush Wuthering Heights.

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And one that you’d rather die than play: We like a diverse mish mash of songs though Robbie Williams has a defin ite ban and Keith Urban is a no go! Sell it to us: Pet Cemetery is the night for peeps interested in som ething a little different, kooky, fun, a slightly dark er shade of disco. You can sit, chill on the couches, watch the kids on stage yell out derranged poetry, listen to the boys and girls sing their hearts out, dance to the songs you wish were played more and we also don’t mind taking requests. The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Well we’re the only night in Sydn ey that offers spoken word, performance art, band s and DJ’s in one night. Hopefull y we’ll warm your cheeks with some fine tunes and stir you with our poetry. Crowd specs: Our devotees vary we attract a colourful array of artis tically minded youngsters, the street vermin and alley drinking kind and the waifs that float from haunt to haunt to the black clad odd-balls . We take them all in with open arms seduce them to the dance floor! and try to Wallet damage: FREE! Where: The Oxford Art Factory When: Every Thursday

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‘Sunken Treasure/Jeff Tweedy Live’ screening on SBS TV March 21, 11.25pm

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It’s called: The Club Blink 9 Year Anniversary Party!! It sounds like: An industrial meta l punk rock gang bang of all your favourite alternative anthems!! DJs/live acts playing: DJ Bzurk, Karma, Snowflake and live bands: Frankenbok, Daysend, Buried in Verona and Attica. Sell it to us: Last year’s anniversar y party attracted over 800 people and this year’s anniversary party is looking even bigger!! As Club Blink moves one year closer towa operating as the Biggest Alternativ rds its decade of e Nightclub in Australia, this even t we take it further with a line up of DJs and live bands that’l l simply blow you away!! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Feeling really content at having expe best party vibes in your lifetime. Big Blink Parties do that to people, just rienced one of the people that attended the 8 year party ask the 1000-plus Crowd specs: A gathering of really and New Year’s Eve events in the past few years!! kool people into good music and having fun, dancing to songs they love in an atmosphere that is very welcoming. Wallet damage: $20, first 50 peop le through the door get a free mem at 8.30pm. bership card. Doors open Where: Agincourt Hotel, cnr of Harri s and George St, Central, between UTS. railway square and When: Friday March 14. Our advic e: arrive early!!

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out doing whatever it is they do, like steal your money and shit. Plus all your favourite Hot Damn DJs spinning hot tracks all night. And seriously, what’s more Irish than chilling out and enjoying one million drinks. Especially when we have $3 beers, $4 spirits, $7 Jagerbombs & Vodka Redbulls. $10/$8 with an ad, Doors 9pm, photos @ myspace.com/ chromeheartssydney Saturday March 15 at The Forbes, Cnr King and York St in the City.

CLARE HOTEL

Think you know music? Every Tuesday Tim at The Clare Hotel puts on Beat Geeks Music Trivia. Get a crew together or ring into someone elses. FREE entry and heaps of prizes like band merch, CDs and jugs of beer get given out after every round. The Clare Hotel, Tuesdays 7.30

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BIG TOP LUNA PARK

Olodum is an internationally acclaimed Afro-Brazilian cultural group from Bahia, Brazil. Olodum (pronounced oh-lo-doon) was founded in 1979 as a bloco afro (African Bloc), a Bahian Carnival association highlighting African heritage and black pride through music, dance theatre, and art. From their home city of Salvador da Bahia in Northeast Brazil (often described as the most African city in the Americas), Olodum has dedicated itself to cultural activism in the struggle against racial discrimination and socioeconomic inequality. Olodum consists of 22 people, of which 17 people will be on stage at one time. Brazilian Touch are bring them in for three Australia wide shows expecting to get between 1700 – 2800 people to each performance. Sydney 20th March 2008 – Luna Park, Big Top - tickets through ticketek or www. bigtopsydney.com

ALBION HOTEL

Live music every Friday after work, this Fri 14th with the Happy Hippies from 6pm. More live music on Saturday 15th with the Darryl Beaton Band from 7pm, and again on Sunday 16th at 2.30pm with Explosive Hits in the courtyard followed by a massive Salsa Carnival with Son Veneno live plus DJ Suave, from 6pm, all for nix. Top local DJs have established a rep for Gasworks as Western Sydney’s leading weekend venue til late every Friday and Saturday. Nobby Grooves and Kareem rock the Friday shift from 10pm, and Andy Marc, Jorgie J, Charlie Jay and Matt Hoare kick out the party jams on Saturdays from 10pm. Not forgetting Thursday regulars Shaun Keble, Matt Hoare and DJ Fresh dropping the needle on your favourite RnB and Nu-Soul on Thursdays from 9pm. The Jam Thing continues every Monday, a chance for musicians old and new to experience the Gasworks state-of-the-art production. My Way interactive performance night (OK, karaoke then) returns every Wednesday - prizes for the best performers and costumes. Great late night pizzas from the bistro, supercool summer beergarden including funky Pavilion with daybeds and banquettes, chic interior styling, hi-tech production facilities in the Gasworks venue. Coming soon, Brown Sugar live on Thur 20th. In the heart of Parramatta at George and Harris Sts. Details online at the all new website, www. albionhotel.com.au Darryl Beaton Band

CAMPERDOWN HOTEL

It’s time for the jet-setting elite to get back to nature on a weekly Sunday afternoon adventure through the urban jungle. Whether you want to unleash your inner beast, or just talk to the animals, come with us on

a Swinging Safari, the ultimate journey into sound! Join the people who brought you Disco Kitchen and Splash as they lead a cavalcade of special guest DJs and ridiculously cheap cocktails. Spend your Sundays in our rooftop hideaway, featuring the decadent safari lounge, a shaded balcony, turbo sound and lots of jungle juice. Best of all it’s just a short stagger home for the inner-westies. Just bring your spirit of adventure (safari suits optional). Expect the unexpected, as the Dream Team take you on a wild ride through the deepest house, exotic latin beats and ferocious funk… not a flouro or emo in sight. The Swinging Safari will feature a rotating lineup of intrepid explorers, unsolicited wisdom from The Door Bitches from Outer Space, special guest live acts and some rather odd randoms. …oh and did we mention ridiculously cheap cocktails? The Swinging Safari will set off to conquer the wildest frontier on Sunday 16 March…with DJs Simon Caldwell, Stu Kelly, Gavyn Vincze, Nick Vidal and the chaotic Safari Sound System feat. Mr C & Christophunk.

It’s a while off but well worth keeping the date free in your diary… Easter Sunday Long weekend see’s “We Had Parties” take over the whole Exchange complex (Q BAR, SPECTRUM, PHOENIX, 34B, VEGAS BAR) 10 of Sydney’s favourite clubs come together across 5 rooms, over 3 levels which see’s Hotdamn VS Purple Sneakers in 34B, Bandits VS Starfuckers in Phoenix, Health Club VS Dynamite in QBar, PASH VS Fools Gold in Spectrum and Black Cherry VS Rock n Roll Mutha Fucker in Vegas. Sunday 23 March, 10 till late Tickets on sale NOW through www.moshtix.com.au & Moshtix outlets: $16.50 Presale [ Last party sold out ]

HOT DAMN!

So I just found out that it is Dawson’s birthday this Wednesday. If you don’t know Dawson you must be living under a rock or some shit cause the dude is always out with his straightened hair and CUT SIC badges probably trying to palm one off to you, and asking for a free drink after. He probably tried to make out with you as well. But hey, that’s just how he rolls. Anyway, this week is going to be massive cause he is bringing one million Q-T’s down to party and get wasted to celebrate. ARMY ANT and DEAD FARMERS are going to be playing HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUNES in Spectrum while our SUPER DJs PLUS HESH will be playing the kind of songs that make people want to dance all night. We also have some MILLENCOLIN

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GOLDEN SHEAF

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. DJ Daddyjazz spins a reggae and soul mix with a world music flavour every Tuesday. Jeff Duff’s genetically modified take on the Bowie and Sinatra songbooks continues every Wednesday. The Business with Tim Hall and Alex Roussos play Thur 13th, and Mr Wilson returns by popular demand Fri 14th. Dora D plays Sat 15th and Ms Maz does her jazzysoul thing on Sun 16th from 6.30, after the Mark Palmer Trio’s afternoon soul session. Upstairs, Soda Bar and Deck Bar DJs include Pitty the Kid, Sari, Young Apprentice, Paul Master and Toby Wilson. And it’s all free. Full programme online at the new look www.goldensheaf.com.au TICKETS to give away because they are touring soon and we scored them and want to pass them on to you. We are lovely. Don’t forget our MEGA GOOD FRIDAY EVE PARTY next week, shit is going to be tight. $3 Beers, $4 Spirits and $6 Longnecks all night. $10/8 with an ad Doors 8pm. www. myspace.com/hotdamnsydney Thursday March 13 at Spectrum and Q Bar, 34 Oxford St Darlinghurst

Frankenbok

CANDY’S APARTMENT

No partying on Good Friday…. but never mind cause Candy’s has you covered Thursday the 20th Bel Air Miami comes underground with a massive Live band and DJ line up. Word!!! Ok so here’s how its going down Live Bands kick start the night with The Spirits, To The Throne, Black Royale and Team Extreme Team’s come back tour!!! Playing indie rock and getting your night ready for some crazy stuff. The night then transitions into some tip top DJs with the crème of Sydney playing electro clash with Hey Now, Ghetto Ruckus, Trashbags Posse DJs and The Gameboys… Ya dig? So head on underground to Candy’s Apartment and have a play!!! WHO: The Spirits, To The Throne, Black Royale, Team Extreme Team, Hey Nowm Ghetto Ruckus, Trashbags Posse DJs and The Gameboys plus more T.B.A WHERE: Candy’s Apartment 22 bayswater Rd Kings Cross WHEN: Thursday 20th March, 8pm WALLET: $10 B4 11 $15 after

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This week at Chrome hearts we are celebrating ST PATRICKS DAY, so why the fuck not make everything Irish. We got free drinks if you wear GREEN, Free tickets to see FLOGGING MOLLY and there will also probably be some sweet leprechauns hanging

CLUB BLINK

This Friday night at Club Blink will be the biggest blink event you have ever experienced as we celebrate our 9 year anniversary!! Last years anniversary party attracted over 800 people and this years anniversary party is looking even bigger!! As Club Blink moves one year closer towards its decade of operating as the Biggest Alternative Nightclub in Australia, this event we take it further with a line up of DJs and live bands, that’ll simply blow you away!! Headlining the night is FRANKENBOK who are doing their eagerly awaited album launch, supported by local legends DAYSEND, BURIED IN VERONA and ATTICA. This night is also the re opening of the Darkroom, the heaviest room in Australia, with DJs Bzurk, Kawk and Satanic Hispanic playing nothing but metal and upstairs on the club level, DJs Bzurk, Karma and Snowflake playing all your alternative faves!! This event will sell out, pre sale tickets are available from Utopia Records as well as from the door at Club Blink and Trash (this will sellout, guaranteed)!!. We are also doing some weekly ticket giveaways through the website, so make sure you register on the registrations page with Free Anniversary Tix in the contest section (be sure to read the terms and conditions). Club Blink, leading the way in alternative parties for nearly a decade. Take part in this event and help make history!! www.myspace.com/frankenbok

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SANDRINGHAM

On Friday night, we’ve got a big double headline show featuring Sounds Like Sunset and Peabody. You know what to expect with these guys and that is... awesomeness! Opening this show are The Momo Benchseat Band. Yeah. On Saturday night, it’s the latest Rock Formation show at The Sando...Sound The Mute + Intrepid + Kaos Within + Tensyle. Tickets are selling fast for Corb Lund and The Hurtin’ Albertans (CANADA) so get your tickets at the bar now. This is their only Sydney show and will sell out. Sandringham Hotel, 387 King St, Newtown. Team Plastique

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SOSUEME Ron Sexsmith

GAELIC CLUB

Ron Sexsmith is one of the most acclaimed song writers of our time. Out here on tour and after previously selling out show all over Australia this is his first time at The Gaelic, so come and welcome him here. Melbourne band A Sound Mind will be bringing their full lighting and stage show to Sydney for the first time with supports Torch Le Monde and The Vandolls getting involved with it all. Saturday night sees Sound Casino + Inakin showcasing their pop rock sounds back to back.

LOADED

We heard that last week’s PLAYGROUND WEEKENDER SPECIAL was so good that even Ian Brown and Paul from Maximo Park had to queue to get in (true!). And so to this week. After the unbridled joy and lunacy that was last weeks Playground Weekender, Loaded has decided against reducing momentum; rather this week it has decided to ‘up the ante’. Now we have no idea what that means exactly, and the lads aren’t being too specific, but all you should know is, we’re there with bells on. And a bit scared. To temper this inevitably mental night, the boys host the exclusive launch of The Cardigans Best Of which having been on our stereo all week we can confirm that it is way better than we had even hoped. Once again the lads come up trumps! Typically there will be giveaways galore on the night and our advice? email loaded@ theworldbar.com right NOW and get to the front of the queue. And oh look, the new album of the month is Lightspeed Champion Falling Off the Lavender Bridge – it doesn’t get any better than that does it? Ha! As well as all the goings on mentioned so far, the lads will also be unleashing brand new stuff from the likes of ELBOW, THE KOOKS, BLACK KIDS, HOT CHIP, GLASVEGAS, EXPATRIATE, ADELE, FOALS, YOUNG KNIVES, SUPERGRASS, THE COURTEENERS, CAJUN DANCE PARTY, RADIOHEAD, THE WOMBATS, BABYSHAMBLES, KATE NASH, ARCTIC MONKEYS, - 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

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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 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. Elbow

Hey Trashers!! This Saturday night Trash kicks complete ass as we launch the new JJJ HOTTEST 100 Album as well as host pre tour parties for QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, OZZY OZZBOURNE and SEVENDUST!! With djs spanning three levels of the venue

Karl Lagerfeld is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. Lagerfeld is also famous for a dramatic transformation of his body, when he lost 42 kg in 13 months. “I suddenly wanted to dress differently, to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane,” he said. “But these fashions, modeled by very, very slim boys—and not men my age— required me to lose at least 40 kg. It took me exactly thirteen months.”

playing rock, retro and alternative anthems and on the Liquid Buzz Club Level: Bzurk, Absynth and M!Veg playing all your JJJ favourites as well as all your favourite punk, pop, rock, indie elctro classics, this party will blow your mind!! Live bands on the night are: WISH FOR WINGS, HAND OF MERCY and PERGAMUM. It doesn’t get bigger than this, arrive early as this event will be mega. Trash Saturdays. Agincourt Hotel

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Mum is going on Easter holidays next week so you’ll have to party twice as hard this Friday to make up for it. You can get completely drunk and it will be ok because you can stay at home next Friday, watch movies at your parents’ house and get fat on elegant rabbits. Back to this week thoughPHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY (ex Sweats) will be gracing mum’s stage alongside BABA O’RILEY and THE SACRED STEREOS. Making your arms hurt from throwing them up in “OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SONG” style will be: G-wiz, Johnny Darko, Donny Fong, 1 Arm Bandit, Hot Galoshes, Mucky, Daigo. All this for 10 bucks? Shut the front door! MUM: Friday nights at The World Bar.

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Since resting into its comfy home at Q Bar, sosueme. has racked up some massive super anthemic-ly rad party nights (cocktail suits and spandex included) but this week some shit be getting bigger with their first international guests: Team Plastique springing straight outta Berlin with their debaucherous electro-trash for their ONLY AUSTRALIAN SHOW. Think dildos, fresh meat and beats, with a dash of nipple. Headlining the shamoo will be Syd’s own Theatre of Disco, just for some shits and campy electropopsicles. They may even bring their midget buddy Larry. Deejizllz following on are Mash-King Ember, (straight from heading Fuzzy’s own Martin Place party to end all free parties), our lovers Hey Now, Nude DJs and The Gameboys, as well as everyones bitches Barron Von Hutch (Formerly Mr Sandwich Club), Whatt?? DJs , Misc Disc DJs and Mixtape:Mafia. And, being Rayner & Muz’s own birfdays (yes, it’s confirmed – they are actually joined at the hip, front-ways) some lycra, PVC and small animals are definitely involved! Kill the Landlord!

The Sacred Stereos

PURPLE SNEAKERS

One minute it’s hot. The next, it’s raining. Then there’s the gale force wind quickly followed by some more sun… And just when you were about to run outside to catch whatever warm weather you can, the cloud creeps in… Purple Sneakers is much like the weather at the moment… You never know WHAT to expect! And this week is sure to be no exception! This week will be the triumphant return of Purple Sneakers DJs prodigal son Walkie Talkie, who will be dropping some of the freshest tunes straight out of Sweden! He is joined by the usual Sneakers Suspects PhDJ, Nick Findlay and Coco & Shambles. We are also happy to announce the 2nd Annual Purple Sneakers Social Snaps Gallery Launch. This year we are joining forces with our friends at Lost at E Minor to bring you a collection of social pics from last years Purple Sneakers. There will be a DJ set from the Paper Scissors as well as a live graffiti show from Jota 1. We will be inviting people up to the gallery above the Abercrombie Hotel from 9:30pm onwards for your chance to purchase some of the pics! And to top it all off we will be launching the new album by K.I.M thanks to our friends at Modular.

a hardcore / metal room, ground floor 24 Bayswater rd. Kings X “ smack slap smack slap smack slap smack, clickwith boom, stop dead in your tracks” – LL COOL J liveclick bands and dj snowflake and bzurk

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RON SEXSMITH (CAN)

FRI 14 MAR + TORCH LE MONDE + THE VANDOLLS

A SOUND MIND

SOUND CASINO + INAKINN

SAT 15 + CIRCLE + ALISA FEDELE MAR

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FUTURE IS NOW (LIC A/A) feat YOUNG & RESTLESS + TIC TOC TOKYO + THE WAHAS + THE JEZABELS + WOW + LIONS AT YOUR DOOR

BLACK LIGHT the only place to party on Good Friday feat THE KNIFE MACHINE + GOODFELLA + SWEAT SHOP BOY + MORE

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pick of the week

WEDNESDAY MARCH 12

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings (USA) J-Rocc (USA), Meem, Simon Caldwell Enmore Theatre $61.50 (+ bf) 7.30pm

MONDAY MARCH 10 ROCK & POP Drew McAlister Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay free 4pm Emma Courtney The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Homebake Incentive: Blacklights, Dani, Larissa & The Wild Grey, The Tunstalls Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 8pm Jade & Friends Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 7pm Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen (USA), Miss Donne The Vanguard, Newtown $42 (+ bf) 7pm Michael McGlynn Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 5.30pm Newton’s Playground After Party: Bowser, Variodivers, Origin of Janken The Basement, Circular Quay $20 (+ bf) Singer Songwriter Night Vic on the Park Hotel, Marrickville $5 7pm The Jam Thing Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 7pm

JAZZ Lionel Robinson Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Open Mike Night Bar Me, Potts Point free 8pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Kieran Glasgow Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7pm Monday Night Social Kelly’s On King, Newtown free 8pm Songwriter Sessions Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 7.30pm

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Sydney Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park $95 (+ bf)–$125 (+ bf) 7pm Jammasaurus Rex Band, Mark Kirk, Steve Shepherd Royal Exchange, Windsor free 8pm

TUESDAY MARCH 11 ROCK & POP Bob Madden Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 11.30am Buffalo Tom (US), Smudge, Sam Shinazzi Metro Theatre, Sydney $49.50 (+ bf) 8.30pm Iron & Wine (USA) Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $40 (+ bf) 8pm Jager Uprising: Lynch Morello, Fairylight, Alisa Fedele Annandale Hotel free 7.30pm Kath Nelligan O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Michael Azzopardi and guests AB Hotel, Glebe free 7pm Mick Vawdon The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Midnight Juggernauts, M83 (France), The Bag Raiders, Knife Machine Enmore Theatre $31.60 (+ bf) 7.30pm Nathan Hudson, Sarah Kelly, Dash & Will Brass Monkey, Cronulla $20 (+ bf)–$25 (at door) Not Right Now, The Peep Show, In This Defense, Fireweed Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 8pm Nudie presents Tiger Army Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Limited tickets from General Pants and Nudie stores 8pm PopTarts: Eleanor Angwin, The Orphans, Leah Rushforth, Bordeaux, Rita Klobas The Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 7.15pm Pulse 8 Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 8pm Sandpit: Highroad No.28, The Decades, Algernon’s Mouse Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Save the New Theatre Fundraiser The Vanguard, Newtown $20 7pm Van Sereno

Cock N Bull, Bondi Junction free 7.30pm

JAZZ David Paquette Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Jamie Oehlers Quartet Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 (member)–$15 8pm John Harkins Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Makin’ Whoopee Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 12pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm Peter Northcote The Basement, Circular Quay $25 (+ bf) Sally Street Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Dean Bennison Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7pm John Williams, John Etheridge (UK) Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House $55 (conc)–$95 8.30pm Originals: Uber Lingua Presents “Gypsy Dub Sound System” and guests Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm

WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 ROCK & POP Bernie The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Carra, Art Thieves, Aiden Varro Brass Monkey, Cronulla $14 8pm Corrina Steel, Bill Chambers, The Falls Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Derwent River Star, Shiver Like Timber, Lappalie Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm Eddi Reader (Scotland), Boo Hewerdine, Allan Kelly The Basement, Circular Quay $37 (+ bf)–$42 (at door) 9.30pm Elana Stone Band Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Falling Short Spectrum, Darlinghurst $8 8pm

Franky Valentyn Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 5.30pm Goodnight Dynamite O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Heath Burdell Northies, Cronulla free 8pm Hello Cleveland The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 9.15pm Hemispheres: Toumani Diabate’s Symmetric Orchestra (Mali) Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House $59–$95 8pm Hump: The E.L.F. Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Jager Uprising: Vaudeville, Happy Hour, Red Baron Black Annandale Hotel free 8pm Jeff Duff Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm John Schumann, Hugh McDonald, The Publicans The Vanguard, Newtown $20 (+ bf) 7pm Kaman Trio Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 8.30pm Little Birdy, Sugar Army, Katy Steele Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $26 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 8pm Mick Vawdon Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay free 5pm Mystery Guest ttamogah Pub, Rouse Hill free 6.30pm Nathan Hudson, Dash & Will University of Technology Sydney, Glasshouse Bar, Ultimo free 12pm Ron Sexsmith (Canada), Krista Polvere Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $42 (+ bf) 8pm Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings (USA), J-Rocc (USA), Meem, Simon Caldwell Enmore Theatre $61.50 (+ bf) 7.30pm Sounds Sexy: She Is, Julia Billington, Elisha Keen, Naomi McArthy, Brett Every, James Whitham Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm The Adicts (UK) Metro Theatre, Sydney $50 (+ bf) 8pm

JAZZ Acoustic Sessions: Stephen Lovelight, Steve Stokes and Adam DeRoma Cock N Bull, Bondi Junction free 7.30pm Alex Hopkins Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 5.30pm Col Nolan Quartet Paddington RSL $5–$15 8pm Lily Dior Marble Bar, Sydney free 8pm Lucy Sassoon Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm One Plus One Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Paquette Trio, Dan Barnett Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm Peter Locke Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm The Musos Club Jam: Jim Finn, Al Britton Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt free 8pm

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Lounge Act, Jar of Corn, Toby Wilson Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $8 8pm

THURSDAY MARCH 13 ROCK & POP BNO The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 9.15pm Brett Hunt Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm

Buddy Guy (USA), Keb Mo (USA) Enmore Theatre $98.90 (+ bf) 7pm Cambo Observer Hotel free 9.30pm - 1am Chasing Bailey, Sarah Humphreys Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 8pm Dollshay Northies Cronulla Hotel - Sports Bar free 8:30pm- Midnight El May, Sherlock’s Daughter, Luke Russell, Lucy Lehman Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm Heath Burdell Terry Hills Tavern free 8.30 11.30pm Hot Damn!: Army Ant, Dead Farmers, Best Friends, Spandex Sarah Spectrum, Darlinghurst $8 (guestlist)–$10 8pm Jeff Stanley Harbord Beach Hotel free 7pm Jimmi Carr, TC Coombes O’Donoghues Irish Pub, Emu Plains free 7pm Karolina Goceva (Republic of Macedonia), Black Train Band, Chill Band The Forum Theatre, Moore Park $50 (+ bf) 8pm Mark Cuff O’Malleys free 9.30pm - 1.30am Melissa & the Cunning Accompanist Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst $15 (presale)–$25 (dinner & show) Melody Markets: Blarney Boys, Mothers of Intention Chatswood Mall free 4pm Memorial Drive, Losing Tuesday, The Venus Meltdown Live House, Lewisham $10 8pm Paul Burton Duo Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 8.30pm Peter Byrne PJ Gallagher’s - Parramatta free 9pm - Midnight Peter Northcote Brass Monkey, Cronulla $20 (+ bf) 8pm Pickpocket: Allies, The Trends, Villains Of Wilhelm, The Process, Tokyo Blonde Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross $10 Robertson Brothers and Friends PJ Gallagher’s - Drummoyne free 8.30-11.30pm Rock For Recovery: Dragon, Eleanor McEvoy (Ireland), Brewster Brothers, GANGgajang, Kevin Borich Bridge Hotel, Rozelle $35 7pm Rogerthat, Sun Fire Souls (Netherlands), The Black Market Rhythm Co Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free Sam & Jamie Show Crows Nest Hotel free 8.00pm 11.00pm Sgommati, The Bakery, Squid, 2010.com, Phisin Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm The Business, Tim Hall, Alex Roussos Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm The Cruel Sea, The Vasco Era, The Fumes Metro Theatre, Sydney $44 (+ bf) 8pm The Hampdens, Krista Polvere The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 7pm The Memphis Tour: Guy Sebastian, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Steve Potts, Lester Snell (USA) Campbelltown RSL $60 7.30pm Van She, Ghostwood, The Jezabels Annandale Hotel $15 (+ bf)–$20 (at door) 8pm Yourspace: Elisha Keen, Yu Si Liu, Ariane & The Boys, And Many More, Thylacine, Karillion Sly Fox, Enmore free 7pm Zoltan Brighton RSL, Brighton-Le-Sands free 7.30pm

JAZZ Darryl Beaton Band, Jade MacRae, Mighty Sparrow Melt Bar, Kings Cross free–$10 9pm Jack’s Band Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Jazz Nouveau Marble Bar, Sydney free 9pm Jive Bombers, Ros South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 8pm

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send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Lionel Robinson Dee Why RSL Club free 7pm Makin Whoopee Sofitel Wentworth free 5.30 - 8.30pm Omegaman Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Paquette Trio Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm Peter Locke Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm The Wild Frontier, Michelle Little, Temper Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 8pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK Irish Sessions: For Folk’s Sake Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 8pm Karen Lynne, Mike Carr, Travis Collins, Wayne Horsburgh, Nicki Gillis Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL free 8pm Kelly Ophel, Ben Charters, Lindsay Drummond, David Robert Mars Hill Cafe, Parramatta free 8.30pm Sutherland Folk Club: Kieran Halpin (Ireland) Sutherland District Trade Union Club, Gymea $10 7.30pm

COUNTRY Cooks River Jam Night Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe free 7pm The Long Grass Band Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm

FRIDAY MARCH 14

ROCK & POP A Sound Mind Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 8.30pm Akinga Moorebank Sports Club free 9:00pm - 12:00midnight All the Above Duo The Three Weeds Hotel, Rozelle free 7pm Ballet Imperial, Skye Harbour, Tennis, Sideways Hitch Hiker Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm Battle of the Bands Final: Artist/s unknown Jannali Community Hall 6.30pm Beau Smith Duo Sofitel Wentworth free 9.00pm 12.00am Bemba Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Big Ben Hillside Tavern, Castle Hill free 8 - Midnight Blonde 182 Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm 11:40pm Bob Henderson Band Harbord Diggers Club free British Invasion Twin Towns Services Club free 9:00pm - 1:00am Buddy’s Back Auditorium, South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford $7 (member)–$11 8.30pm Captain Kickarse & the Awesomes, The Angel Affair, Mish, Super Florence Jam Sonar, Milsons Point $10 (+ bf) 8.30pm Caramel Arthouse Hotel free 9.30pm - 1.30am Cardboard Cutouts Club Liverpool free 7.30pm Charlie Lions Paddy Maguires, Sydney $10 8pm Chontia Adams Tavern, Blacktown free 8pm CJ Shaw, White Man’s Burden, Brookie Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 8pm

Club Blink: Daysend, Buried in Verona, Attica, B-Zurk, Karma, Snowflake, Kawk, Satanic Hispanic Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $20 (early bird) 8pm Club Blink’s 9 Year Anniversary Show: Frankenbok, Daysend, Attica & Buried in Verona Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $15 9pm Damien Leith The Vanguard, Newtown $40 (+ bf)–$45 (at door) 7pm Dave A Duo Peachtree Hotel free 9.00pm 12.30am Dave Alone Brewhouse Pub at Doonside free 7pm - 10:30pm David Campbell State Theatre, Sydney $69 (B Res)– $85 (A Res) 8pm Deep Duuo Coogee Bay Hotel free 10.30pm - 2.30am Dollshay Carousel Inn free 7:30pm - 11:30pm Double Whammy St Marys RSL free 7pm Dragon Remembers: Dragon Rooty Hill RSL Club $25 7pm Focus Riverstone RSL Club free 8:30pm - 12:00midnight Freshmix Taren Point Bowling Club free 9pm From The Jam (UK) The Forum Theatre, Moore Park $57.50 (+ bf) 8pm Funk U: Casual Projects, The Bakery, Jumbledat, Wax Motif, Kas_cid, Hayden (Canada), The Lost Boys, RifRaf, Deep As Funk, Schwa, Marcotix Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Funkstar Crows Nest Hotel free 10.00pm 1.00am Gary J Brewhouse Pub at St Marys free 8.30pm - 12.00am Gav Darby

PJ Gallagher’s - Drummoyne free 9:30pm - 12:45am Goodnight Dynamite Observer Hotel free 9.30pm - 2.30am Happy Hippies Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 6pm Hyjinx Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour free 10pm Jed Zarb Greengate Hotel free 9.30 - 11.45pm Jivan Diwana Bayview Boulevard free 6-9.30pm Joel Sarakula Hotel Chambers, Sydney free 9pm John Lorder Rag and Famish Hotel, North Sydney free 8.30pm Josh Pyke Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor $22 (+ bf)– $25 (at door) Latin Power Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 10pm Mahalia Barnes, Tina Harrod, Juanita Tippins, Jade MacRae, Jimmy Barnes, Mr Percival

Annandale Hotel $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 8pm Matt Ralph St George Tavern, Rockdale free 10pm Me ‘n’ Im Court Tavern, Campbelltown 7.30pm Michael Rye St George Sailing Club free 7:00pm - 10:30pm Mick Hart, Johnny Cass, Andrew Webb, Paul Appelkamp Brass Monkey, Cronulla $14 8pm Mixed Business The Orient Hotel, The Rocks $5 9pm Mood Swings Sofitel Wentworth free 5.30pm 8.30pm Mr Wilson Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm MUM: The Philadelphia Grand Jury, Baba O’Riley, Sacred Stereos The World Bar, Kings Cross $10 9pm Nicky Kurta Hotel Macau - Hurstville free 7 -

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The BellRays 10.30pm Not the full quid Campbelltown City Hotel free 9pm Peabody, Sounds Like Sunset, The Momo Benchseat Band Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm Purple Sneakers: PhDJ, Walkie Talkie, Nick Findlay, Coco & Shambles Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway $10 - free before 8pm 7pm Reckless Crown On McCredie Hotel, Guildford free 9 - Midnight RifRaf Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 9pm Rob Henry Observer Hotel free 8.30pm - 1.30pm Robertson Brothers PJ Gallagher’s - Parramatta free 8pm - 11:30pm Seven Year Itch Madam De Biers, Kings Cross Shane Peters Maroubra RSL Club free 8:00pm - 11:30pm Shooga Katz Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 10.30pm Sosueme: Theatre of Disco, Team Plastique (Berlin), DJ’s: Ember, Hey Now, Mixtape Mafia, Misc.Disc

DJ’s, Whattt?. Q Bar, Darlinghurst $10 Sparkadia The Basement, Circular Quay $15 (+ bf) 9.30pm Spod, Catcall, The Great Apes, The Process, The Group Grope DJs Spectrum, Darlinghurst $12 8pm Sweet Talk Hills District Bowling Club, Baulkham Hills 7.30pm Tensyle, As Venice Sinks, Chair Like Issues, Never See Tomorrow Live House, Lewisham $10 8pm The BellRays (USA), The Mess Hall Metro Theatre, Sydney $36.50 (+ bf) The Black Market Rhythm Co Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt $10 The Cellar: The Vipers, Cabbage Caringbah Bizzo’s $10 9pm The Happening: Matt Costa (USA), Will Conner, Dave Rastovich, Andrew Kidman, Neil Purchase Jr Bondi Pavilion Theatre, Bondi Beach 6pm The Rattlin’ Bog Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 8pm The Waves Ettamogah Hotel free 8.30 - 11pm Time Capsule St Marys Leagues Club-Lounge free

Bridge City Jazz Band Club Ashfield free 7.30pm Brown Sugar Marble Bar, Sydney free 9pm Gest 8 The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $15–$20 Janet Seidel Trio The Living Room, North Sydney $85 (dinner & show) 6.30pm Jive Bombers Eastern Suburbs Legion Club, Waverley free 8pm Michael Hope Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm Paquette Trio, Bob Henderson Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Twilight at Taronga: Tommy Tycho, Andy Firth, Danielle Everett, Gregg Arthur Taronga Zoo, Mosman $42 (+ bf)– $72 (+ bf) 7pm Unit 7 Lane Cove Country Club, Northwood free 7pm Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 9.30pm

COUNTRY Dwayne Elix & The Engineers Bankstown Trotting Club 8:00pm John Williamsons Wildlife Wyong Rugby League Football Club $39 8:00pm The Blue Mustangs Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe 8pm Travis Collins Blacktown RSL Club free 8.30pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK Dani Carr Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Hemispheres: Zulya & the Children of the Underground, Vulgargrad, Sveta The Studio, Sydney Opera House

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send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Bondi Skate Ramp, Bondi Beach free 11am Boxwell, The Nice Folk, Grey Matter Vic On The Park $10 8.00pm 11.30pm Brian Doyle Riverstone RSL Club 8:45pm Schedule Caramel Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 10pm Chris Paton Clovelly Hotel free 8:30pm 11:30pm Damien Leith The Vanguard, Newtown $40 (+ bf)–$45 (at door) 7pm Darryl Beaton Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 7pm Dave A Duo Northies Cronulla - Sports Bar free 8.30pm - 12.00am Dave Mason Cox The Orient Hotel, The Rocks $5 3.15pm Dave Stevens Observer Hotel free 4:50pm - 9pm Dead Letter Chorus, John Columbus, James Beehag

Jack Nasty Face, Lambretta Suede (NZ), Psycho Nanny, Ripping Dylans Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Jim Papworth Novotel Olympic Park - Brewery free 3.30 - 10.30pm JJ Duo Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm 11:40pm Kaki Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 9pm Keep the Faith Blacktown RSL Club free 10pm KP Brewhouse Pub - St Mary’s free 8.30pm - 12:00am Machine Down, RhymeAbuse, Karillion Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 8pm Mambo Italiano North Sydney Leagues Club, Cammeray $5 (member)–$10 8pm Mike Bennett Bayview Boulevard Hotel free 6.309.30pm Mike Bennett Observer Hotel free 4pm - 8:10pm Mystery Guest Pioneer Tavern free 9pm - Midnight Nicky Kurta Hotel Macau - Hurstville free 8.30PM - Midnight Peabody, Sounds Like Sunset, Sleep Debt Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $12 8pm Reckless Brewhouse Pub - Marayong free 2pm - 5pm Ricki-Lee Revesby Workers Club - Whitlam Theatre $45 8pm Roc-A-Tac, Grizzly Adams Ashfield RSL Club free 8pm San Lazaro, Son Veneno, Maya Jupiter, Mystro (UK) Sonar, Milsons Point $15 (+ bf) 7.30pm Seven Year Itch Mercantile Hotel, The Rocks free 8pm Sickboy

Brass Monkey, Cronulla $15 8pm Dirty Deeds AC/DC Show St Marys RSL 9pm Dollshay Terry Hills Tavern free 8.30 11.45pm Dora D Band Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 9pm Drew McAlister Greengate Hotel free 9.30 - 11.45PM Elvis & The Time Capsule Show Concord RSL & Communtiy Club 8:00pm Empty, Sexdoll, Something More Ordinary Live House, Lewisham $10 2pm Frogs On Toast Revesby Heights Ex-Servicemen’s Memorial Club 8pm Funpuppet Ettamogah Hotel free 6pm - 10pm Goodnight Dynamite Coogee Bay Hotel free 10.30pm - 2.30am Heath Burdell Balmain Town Hall free 8.30 11.30pm Immortal (Norway) Metro Theatre, Sydney $64.50 (+ bf) 8pm

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Paddy Maguires, Haymarket free 8pm Singled Out Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 10.30pm Skyz The Limit Camden Golf Club 6:30pm 10:30pm Sloppy Joe Opera Bar, Sydney free 8.30pm Sound the Mute, Intrepid, Kaos Within, Tensyle Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm Soundbyte Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 7pm Strip Sunset, Pyper, Hailer Manly Fisho’s $10 8pm Sublime: Katie Noonan, Australian Chamber Orchestra City Recital Hall, Sydney $35 (u30 yrs)–$84 (A Res) 8pm Summer Fever Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club 8:00pm Tanned White St Marys RSL 7pm The 3B’s Club Menai 8:00pm - 11:00pm The Casino Rumblers Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm The Drugs, The Punk Group, Traps, Fail Annandale Hotel $36 (+ bf)–$40 (at door) 8pm The Hot Lies, Angelas Dish, Calling All Cars, Ruin Gloria Caringbah Bizzo’s $12 (+ bf) 8pm The O’Neders Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills free 2pm The Vipers Crows Nest Hotel free 10.00pm 1.00am The Waves Trio Peachtree Hotel free 9.00pm 12.30pm The White Bros The Orient Hotel, The Rocks $5 9pm The Zips Wentworthville Leagues Club $6.60 8pm Tim Shaw PJ Gallaghers - Parramatta free 8pm

- 11:30pm Trash: Wish for Wings, Hand of Mercy & Pergamum Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $10 9pm Wes Carr Robin Hood Hotel, Waverley free 9pm Williams Bros PJ Gallaghers - Drummoyne free 9:30pm - 12:45am

JAZZ Brigette Ember Duo Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly free 7.30pm Crystal Boudoir: Paul Chenard, DJ Sing Crystal Bar, Sydney $30–$45 9pm Funk Shui Marble Bar, Sydney free 10pm It Don’t Mean a Thing if it ain’t Got the Swing: The Velvet Set 34B Burlesque, Darlinghurst 8pm Janet Seidel Trio The Living Room, North Sydney $85 (dinner & show) 6.30pm Liz Geyer Sofitel Wentworth free 8pm - 11pm Paquette Trio, Bob Barnard Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Roil The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $12–$18 Twilight at Taronga: Tommy Tycho, Andy Firth, Danielle Everett, Gregg Arthur Taronga Zoo, Mosman $42 (+ bf)– $72 (+ bf) 7pm Yuki Kumagai, John Mackie, Marty Mooney Hernandez Restaurant, Darlinghurst free 5pm

ACOUSTIC & FOLK Hemispheres: Zulya & the Children of the Underground, Vulgargrad, Sveta The Studio, Sydney Opera House $25–$35 9pm

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send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Jack Johnson (USA), G Love & Special Sauce (USA), Matt Costa (USA), Will Conner, Dave Rastovich Centennial Park $86.10 (+ bf) 4pm Ryebuck Sydney Secondary College Rozelle Campus $12–$17 8pm The Blue Mountains Music Festival of Folk, Roots & Blues: Louden Wainwright III, Ruthie Foster, Jake Shimabukuro, Sarah Blasko, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ron Sexsmith, Hans Theesink, Elana James, Eddi Reader, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Shane Howard, Danny O’Keefe, Kristina Olsen, Tjuppuru, Mic Conway, Dan Sultan, Circle of Rhythm, Andrew Winton, Chase The Sun, The Fumes and more Lurline St, Katoomba $45-$165 Wheelers & Dealers Coogee Bay Hotel 2pm

COUNTRY Chic Frontier: Amber Lawrence, Kirsty Lee Akers, Dianna Corcoran, Aleyce Simmonds Blacktown Workers Club $3.30 (member)–$5.50 8.15pm Cooks River Country & Rockabilly Festival: Artist/s unknown Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe G. Love

SUNDAY MARCH 16 ROCK & POP Acoustic Shoes Harbord Beach Hotel free 7- 11pm Andy Mammers Duo Observer Hotel free 7:30pm 11:30pm Blarney Boys The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 4pm Blues Sunday Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 7.30pm Chris Paton Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel -Sport Bar free 6 - 10pm Clayton Doley’s Organ Donors Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville free Crushed Ice St Marys RSL 2pm Dave A Duo Ettamogah Hotel free 1pm - 5pm Dave White Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel - Northies Bar free 2.30pm - 6pm Dead Inside the Chrysalis Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm Drive: Peter Northcote, Dario Bortolin, Natasha Stuart, Lloyd G, Spencer Jones Bridge Hotel, Rozelle $8 4pm Explosive Hits Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 2.30pm Gel, Ivona Budys, Larissa Agosti, Sway Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $8 1.30pm Gemma O’Malleys free 4 - 8pm Goodnight Dynamite Peachtree Hotel free 2.00pm 6.00pm Heath Burdell Coogee Bay Hotel free 7.30 -

11.30pm Howard Collins Band Maroubra RSL Club free 2:00pm - 6:00pm Maceo Parker (USA) The Basement, Circular Quay $79 (+ bf) 9.30pm Mark Palmer Trio Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 3.30pm Me ‘n’ Im Wallacia Hotel - Beer Garden free 12:00midday - 4:00pm Mick Vawdon Vic On The Park free 5.00pm 8.00pm Ms Maz Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay free 6pm Mystery Guest Observer Hotel free 4pm - 7:30pm Peter Byrne The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Rex Sets: The Filth Presents: Grafton Primary, The Arrogance, DJ Ash Le Rouge Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Salsa Carnival: Son Veneno, Suave Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 6pm Secluded Sundays: The Punk Group (NYC), The Atrium, The Foreign Electric, Tracing Lines, Beautiful World Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 5pm Sierra Fin, Saint Saint, Red Ghost, Matthew Robert Annandale Hotel sinday@thesando: Charlie Lions, Sickboy, The Mania Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 7pm Sublime: Katie Noonan, Australian Chamber Orchestra Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House $35 (u30 yrs)–$86 (A Res) 2.30pm Sunday Sunsets: Reel Sessions Opera Bar, Sydney free 6pm The Nervous Wreckers, The No No’s

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Botany View Hotel, Newtown free 6pm The Villain, Dubbly, James English, Olli Brass Monkey, Cronulla $12 (+ bf) 6pm Tina Harrod Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 5pm Triple Imagen South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 8pm White Bros PJ Gallaghers - Parramatta free 8pm - Midnight Williams Brothers Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 4.30pm

JAZZ Bill Dudley’s New Orleanians Strawberry Hills Hotel, Surry Hills free 5pm Jumbledat, Rumpunch The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf) 7pm Sarah J Hyland Opera Bar, Sydney free 2.30pm Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 3pm

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6.30pm George Washingmachine Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 12pm Guy Strazz’ Passionfruit Trio AB Hotel, Glebe free 2pm Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill (USA) Sydney Opera House 8pm Renny Field, Lyall Adonis Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst $10 (presale)–$20 (dinner & show) The Blue Mountains Music Festival of Folk, Roots & Blues: Louden Wainwright III, Ruthie Foster, Jake Shimabukuro, Sarah Blasko, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ron Sexsmith, Hans Theesink, Elana James, Eddi Reader, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Shane Howard, Danny O’Keefe, Kristina Olsen, Tjuppuru, Mic Conway, Dan Sultan, Circle of Rhythm, Andrew Winton, Chase The Sun, The Fumes and more Lurline St, Katoomba $45-$165 Wheelers & Dealers Coogee Bay Hotel 2pm

COUNTRY 50 Million Beers Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe 4.30pm Dwayne Elix & The Engineers Rooty Hill RSL Club 1:00pm 4:00pm

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Iron & Wine (USA) Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $40 (+ bf) 8pm Buffalo Tom (US), Smudge, Sam Shinazzi Metro Theatre, Sydney $49.50 (+ bf) 8.30pm

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Midnight Juggernauts

M83 (France), The Bag Raiders, Knife Machine Enmore Theatre $31.60 (+ bf) 7.30pm

MONDAY MARCH 10 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 DJ Huwston free Phoenix Bar, Darlinghurst Phoenix Rising Dan Murphy, Johan Khoury, Mark Alsop, Rado $10 Q Bar, Darlinghurst Funky House Taxi Club, Darlinghurst Manacle $10–$15 V Bar, Sydney Monday Mambo Mambo G $5–$10

TUESDAY MARCH 11 Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Uber Lingua Gypsy Dub Sound System, Spex free Brooklyn Hotel, City DJ Cadell free Clovelly Hotel Mr Chad free Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Double D free Equilibrium Hotel, Sydney Beer Exchange free Establishment, Sydney Rumba Motel Peter Ferris, Willie Sabor, DJ Vicco free Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Smooth DJ Daddy Jazz free Hotel Chambers, Sydney DJ Robert Herbert free Jacksons On George Tuesday Caribbean Night DJ Spin D-Music Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay All About DJ free Opera Bar, Sydney Brett Hunt 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 60 :: BRAG :: 252 :: 10:03:08

WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJs Kate Monroe & GI Jode free Beach Palace Mid Palace Wednesdays DJ Anthony K free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach WEDNESDAY The E.L.F, John D, Jeff Fellows free 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 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 Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst Tony Roma 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 DJ Marty free

Opera Bar, Sydney Rob Edwards free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Florida 2000 DJ Coco, Shambles free 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 The Kidz, Cadell, Tenzin, Kristiano, DJ Jay and Mo’ Funk free The Gaff, Darlinghurst New Generation Franny, Alex, Triky, Electroholics, Con-x-ion, Psygnosis, Calico, Kermy, Deceptikon free The Roxy, Parramatta Bootylicious Lenno, Sesh, Pharoah The Studio, Sydney Opera House Whichway NOW! The Last Kinection, Marlene Cummins, Sharnee Fenwick, Naian, DJ Jaytee $20-25 Universale Hotel, Leichhardt Salsa Wednesdays Ricky Ro free V Bar, Sydney Absolute Stilettos free Verandah Bar, Sydney The Booty Bar Lenno, Tikelz, Peter Gunz, Sleazy D, Sesh $20 Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst Polo Lounge Supper Club Reyes De La Onda, Son Veneno $10 World Bar, Kings Cross The Wall free

THURSDAY MARCH 13 Bank Hotel, Newtown Boy’s Night Out DJ Jack Chang (EU) free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Skoop Black Market Rhythm Co., Roger That free Bligh Bar, Sydney DJ Joe Smith free Bungalow 8, King Street Wharf Bungalow Nights Dale Stephen, Andy Stanley free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross New Rock Collective Dropmotive, Serenik, Joey Rocket $10 Cargo Bar, King St Wharf Christian, Ben Hock free Cargo Lounge, King St Wharf Christian, Carbon 7, Rob Salmon free Chelsea Hotel, Chatswood DJ Matt Hoare free Club 77, East Sydney Satan’s Mixtape Devils DJs $5 Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction DJ Ghost free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool After School Detention Nino Brown, Mike Celekt free Cruise Bar Salsa on the Rocks DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar, DJ MC, DJ Coco free Diamond Lounge, City Jump To It The ‘Jump To It’ band, DJs Limpin’ Jimmy & the Swingin’ Kitten Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Brett Hunt free East Village, Darlinghurst Sunset Party Louis Mitchell, Stephen Ferris free Empire Hotel, Annandale Mixology Nicky G free Equilibrium Hotel, Sydney Endless Matt Roberts, John Devecchis, Mike Silver, Rob Ferre & Adam Coverdale all on rotation free Establishment, Sydney Established Funk Kapitol P, Bryn Star, Mo Funk, Frenzy and Shaun Kebble free Fluid Lounge Aqua Toni Samba, John Aegis, Mike Silver free Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta Fresh free Golden Palace, Haymarket Desire free–$15 Golden Sheaf Hotel Soda Bar DJ Alex Gallagher free Hotel Bondi, Bondi Beach Zinc Bar DJ Ryannie free Hotel Chambers Robert Herbert free Industrie, South Of France Soul Food The Goods (jazz/funk/neo

soul) plus special guests each week free Intersection Tavern, Ramsgate F.U.N. PJ Radio Show free Jacksons On George, Sydney Caribbean Night free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst Robert Herbert free La Campana, Sydney DJ Vico free Lady Lux, Kings Cross Notorious Thursdays Die Pritti, Jimmy 2 Sox, Stick Man Longueville Hotel, Lane Cove Thunk! DJs Tom Da Silva, Ryan J, Ross Donald free Mandalay Room, Kings Cross Danny Sims $10 Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown Manning the Decks free Marble Bar, Sydney Eon Beats Project free Mars Lounge, Surry Hills Soulful Sessions Graham Cordery (SHE, K-ube Ibiza) free Martin Place Bar, Martin Place Thursday’s at MPB Louis Vuitton free Melt Bar, Kings Cross Mighty Sparrow, Pablo free–$10 Metro Theatre, Sydney Big Beat Bash Dj Storm, Sook, The Vangarde, Boot, Dj Bionic, Matt Impact Middle Bar, Kinsella’s, Taylor Square Backtrack Bob Frisky and Tazman $5 Newport Arms Hotel Top Shelf Smith ‘n’ Weeitchin, Young Apprentice and Guests free Newtown Hotel Ben Drayton, Gemma and Seymore Butz free Opera Bar, Circular Quay SVC DJ Cam Douglas free Pavilion Hotel, Sydney Wanted Thursdays Matrix, Yoshi, Archie, Spinout, Imperial $10 Phoenix Bar, Darlinghurst Dodgy Disko Stick Figures, CUT_ ASSEMBLE_INSERT_[VJ_vs_DJ], Garçon [LIVE] (FRA), Prinz Hawthorn, G-Orgy and More(g)anus $10 Pink Pepper Lounge, Parramatta Get Funked Tommy Funk, Charlie Brown, Mike Hyper, Kareem the DJ Plantation Bar, Kings Cross The Skinny Red Sound System feat Tim Sea, Rephrase/ Alex Mac $5 after 12am Q Bar, Darlinghurst Salt N Pepper free Quakers Inn, Quakers Hill DJ Karl Quay Bar, Sydney Graham Cordery Royal Hotel, Bondi Newtown Beats free Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst Blurrr Kato, Custard Jim, Bassizm, Matt James, RME $5 Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Flaunt Nacho Pop, Diaz, Eko, Tom Piper, R-Son, Zero Cool free–$20 Scary Canary, Sydney Payday Tim McGee, Matt Rowan, Tim Culbert, Jimmy Dau free Signature Lounge, Sydney Kazoo free Slide, Darlinghurst Cherry Spy/SWAT Bel West, Kelly Lynch, Eddie Coulter $15 (+ bf)–$20 (at door) SoBar, Cremorne Lucky Thursdays free Soho Bar, Potts Point Staffies Glen Coates, Ben Henderson, James Mack, John Devecchis free St Marys Band Club Grizzly Adams free Star City, Pyrmont DJ Dynamite free Stick Figures

Surf Rock Hotel, Collaroy Thursty Trix & Goodfella, Craig Obey $5 Tailors on Central, Surry Hills Shindig DJ Mixamatosis The Argyle, The Rocks Yogi, Random Soul, Tim Hopkins, Husy free The Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction Sneaker Ant Best Shy, Husky, Travis Hale free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Babe Nation Toddy, PD Pete, DJ Sam, Matti Eskoss free The Loft, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo Dust Tones Jesse, Ray Mann Three, Bingethinkers, Omegaman, Rebel Bass (NZ), Frequento, Bentley, Mode & Aggrovator free The Roxy, Parramatta Tommy Trash, Stafford Brothers $15 (guestlist)–$20 theloft, King Street Wharf Wax’D Gotham, Dazed, Mode, Aggrovator, Flawlezz, Vertigo, Kobra Kai, Lincoln, Reload, Tones free Tonic, Kings Cross Tonic Lounge James Bucknell, Silvio Mangles free V Bar, Sydney Gasoo MC Phat Jin, Stanley, Mike Hyper, Kenny, Nick Thornby, Dvs, Magic Merv free Wallaby Bar, Darling Harbour Unity Booty Mike Silver, Dave Manna, Illektro Surginz World Bar, Kings Cross Loaded Porch, DJ Bibs, Urby Urben, Monkey Man, Wild Willie Wren free

FRIDAY MARCH 14 AB Hotel, Glebe DJ Noodles free Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway Purple Sneakers PHDJ, Walkie Talkies, Nick Findlay, Coco & Shambles $10, free before 8pm Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo Club Blink B-Zurk, Karma, Snowflake $10 Alfred Hotel, Camperdown Matt Hoare free ARQ Nightclub, Darlinghurst Evolve Ben ET, Darkchild, Raptor Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Bandwagon MC Immune, Morganics $10 Bank Hotel, Newtown DJs Scott Pullen, Paul Master & Bentley free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach 389 A Love, Axe Aklins, Hau (koolism), DJ’s Regal & Josie Styles free Bloc Nightclub, Penrith JimmyZ, Ben Lazarus Bristol Arms Retro Tavern, Sydney Matt Sullivan, Karl free–$10 Bungalow 8, King Street Wharf Bungalow Nights free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Funk U Casual Project, The Bakery, Jumbledat, Wax Motif, Kas_Cid, Hayden, The Lost Boys, Rif Raf, Deep As Funk Lounge, Schwa (Beef Records Czech Republic), Marcotix $10 before 11pm, $15 after Cargo Bar, King St Wharf Disco Electric Adam Bozzetto, Money Shot, John Glover, Trix, Dave 54, DJ Cash Money, Brothers free Cargo Lounge, King St Wharf Disco Electric, Crofty, Bozzo, Moneyshot, Andy free Caringbah Bizzo’s The Cellar Cabbage $10 Carmen’s Nightclub, Miranda

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Eddie Halliwell 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 Phil K, DJ Robotek, Impossibles, Dopamine, Wax Motif $15–$20 Civic Theatre, Sydney Sweetchilli Marko Bejeski, Crispin, Daniel Crocetti, Sari $10 Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly DJ Shimon free Club 396, Mandarin Club, Sydney Energy DLX, Connect, Flip, Zilch, Imperial, Goose (Belgium), DUC, UK Jen $10–$15 Club 77, East Sydney Bandits DJ Dan De Caires, Spruce Lee, Kato, Wade the Pope, Neil Down $10 Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction DJ PJ, DJ Ghost free Cohibar, Sydney DJ Darryl, Yogi, Jeddy Rowland free Collector Hotel, Parramatta Studio 100 Heavy D free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Urban Soul Lounge Trey, D-Bo, KNote, Buddy Love free Cricketers Arms, Surry Hills Mash’D Dave Slade, FLE and Fire In The Disco free Cruise Bar, The Rocks Elroy, John Devecchis, Tom Piper, Damien Goundrie, Danny Prestly free Crystal Bar, Sydney Stephen Ferris free Cushion Lounge Bar and Restaurant, Coogee Joe Smith 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 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 Flinders Hotel, Darlinghurst The Harbour City Bears, DJ Matt Vaughan, The Aussie Pole Boys free Gasworks at the Albion, Parramatta Nobby Grooves, Kareem the DJ free before 10pm then $10 Golden Palace, Haymarket Club Nesian Gunz, Moto, Tikelz, Broski, Isea, Rasta, DJ Danny, Big, Darren $10 Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Soda Bar Johnny Was free Hermann’s, Darlington Space Is The Place Flying Lotus, Gilles, Modeselector, The Wire Hermann’s, Darlington O-ii-shi Mr Choc, Grand Vinyl, Naiki, DJ Jay, Kavi R $10 (+ bf) Hill St Tavern, Hurstville Dirty Electro Timmy Trumpet free Home Bar, Darling Harbour Good Times Klimax, Sam B free–$10 Home, Sydney Sublime Eddie Halliwell (UK), Markus Schulz (US) $20–$25 Hotel Bondi, Bondi Beach Zinc Bar R&B DJs $5 Hotel Chambers, Sydney Hot in the City Joel Sarakula free Hunter Bar, Sydney Impulse Fridays Tahndee, FL!P, Sdee, Steve Hill, Keely, Micky D, Nitrouz, Pulsar,Yoshi, Matrix, Suae, X’dream, Hardforze $5 (guestlist) Iguana Bar & Restaurant, Potts Point DJs Hannah Skye, Keithy B free Industrie South of France, Sydney Pure Vogue Normz, Qruis, Dj Mistah Cee, MC Luna Intersection Tavern, Ramsgate DJ Express free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst Jack McCord (UK) free La Campana, Sydney Cuba Salsa Av El Cubano $5 Ladylux, Kings Cross Bread and Butter Garry Todd, John Devecchis, Steve Sobevski, Will Saul Le Panic, Kings Cross Jaded John Glover, Goodfella, Tony Venuto, Brenden Fing, Dirty Double $10–$15 Mandalay Room, Kings Cross Boomp!! Glen Coates, Iz & Diz, The Boompty!! Boys, Harry O’Boogie, The Cheeky Detch $15/$20

Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill Sub Bar DJ David Lee, Dirty Double $10 Melt Bar, Kings Cross Raunchy Miss Gabby, Miss Match, Jasmine and Suzzane $10 at 10pm Mister Goodbar, Paddington Hustle & Flow Lenno, Fly Girl Tee, Sleazy D, Reckdacon, Sesh, MC Bre-Z Moulin Rouge Downunder, Kings Cross So You Think You Can Shuffle? Tim Sea, Toddy The Body, Coops, Ben Morris, Ned Kelly $10 early/$15 door Mounties, Mount Pritchard FUZE Rizky, DJ Stylez, Pharaoh, Sesh, Tony T $12 Nox Nightclub & Restaurant, Liverpool La Raza free (guestlist) Opera Bar, Circular Quay Work It Out Yin Yang free Paddington Inn, Paddington Man About Town free Pavilion Hotel, Sydney Room 580 Carl Alley, Victor Lopez, Sefu, Charlie Jay, ALM, Ronnie G free Peppermint Lounge, Potts Point No Fun free Pine Inn, Concord Intensity J Dee free Pink Pepper Lounge, Parramatta Housekeepin’ Tommy Funk, Troy T, PK, Jorgie Jay free Plantation Bar, Kings Cross Seamless Kio, Torbynik, Linesy, Juzz Smart, The Gauge Breakers, Craig Obey $10-$15 Privilege, City Miami House live band with guest musicians featuring James Billings and DJ David Smith free Q Bar, Darlinghurst Sosueme Live: Theatre of Disco, Team Plastique (Berlin), DJ’s: Ember, Hey Now, Mixtape Mafia, Misc.Disc DJ’s, Whattt? $10 Quay Bar, Sydney Beth Yen Red Cow Inn, Penrith Dirty Secrets The Potbelleez, John Glover, Trix free Robin Hood Hotel, Waverley DJ Man about Town free Ruby Lounge, Bondi Junction Deep End Craig Garbutt, Jake Lambert free–$10 Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst Solid Ground Freddie Cruger, DJ Mickey Morphingaz, Fretless, Global Communication $15 Sackville Hotel, Rozelle DJ Joe Smith free Sandringham Hotel, Newtown RifRaf free Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Lavish The Funky Punks, Ben Morris, James Taylor, Charlie Brown, Chuck T SoBar, Cremorne Destination Boogie Elroy & the Funky Punks $10 Sonar, Milsons Point Big Beat Bash The Vangarde, Hobgoblin Syndicate, Bionic, Boot & Sook, Darkwing, Eyedare $15 Star City, Pyrmont DJ Dynamite free Tailors on Central, Surry Hills Habitat Jimmi Polar, George Sadlik, Darkchild

Tank Nightclub RnB Superclub G Wizard, Def Rok, Troy T, Eko, Lilo, Cadell, Elektroy, MC Jayson $20 The Argyle, The Rocks Marc Us, Liam Sampras, Kate Monroe, Graham Cordery, Chris Macklin, Max Billionaire, Soundhustla free The Bunker Bar, Kings Cross [The Box] Deep as Fuck DJs $10 The Collector Hotel, Parramatta Chill James Taylor, LT free The Midnight Shift, Darlinghurst Fresh Fridays Jake Kilby, Greg Boladian, Dan Murphy $5–$10 The Oxford Hotel, Darlinghurst Organic Peter Farris, Blair, Isobel Pearson $10 The Roxy, Parramatta SubUrban Joe Funk, Nino Brown, Anthony K free The Steyne Hotel, Manly Jaffacake Trashbag Dan, DJ Shell, Johnny Darko free The Studio, Sydney Opera House Russian Roulette Dj Sveta, Zulya and the Children of the Underground, VulgarGrad $25-35 theloft, King St Wharf Late at theloft Somatik, Noel Boogie, Noodles, DJ Huwston, Meem, The Swat DJs, J Flex, Lippo free 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 Universale Hotel, Leichhardt Fridays at Universale Will-FX, DPhunk, Jon Bon, Robbie Santiago, Sunset Brothers $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, Kings Cross Ben Morris, Mike Kelly, Montage, Adam Coverdale, free before 10pm, $10 after Yu/SoHo, Potts Point Club VIP Fridays On Rotation: Shamus, MC Blu, Seany B, Tony

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Tim Sea (guestlist)â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$5 Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly DJ Trent free Club 77, East Sydney Starfuckers $15 from 10-11pm, $20 thereafter Cock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction DJ Ghost $10 Cohibar, Sydney Mike Silver, Jeddy Rowland, Rich Nicol, Brynstar free Collingwood Hotel DJ PJ free Cruise Bar, The Rocks Cadell, Casa, Damien Goundrie, Elroy, Chavez free Crystal Bar, Sydney Crystal Boudoir Lady Tre, DJ Sing Cushion Lounge Bar and Restaurant, Coogee Dookie $30 DCM, Darlinghurst Sunset Bros, Micky D, Andre Jay, Rata, Tass, Steve Play, Jo Funk, Charlie Brown

Docks Hotel, Darling Harbour Fabulous Nino Brown, Don Juan, Samrai, Tikelz, Solz, Lil B, Robbie Knotts, Broski, Shruggz, MC Q-Bizzi, MC Mike Celekt, Aga, Akay, Dimi K, Yanni-B $20 Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown Kaki $20 Embassy Hotel, Penrith RnB Tribute Establishment Hotel, City Crush Crush Handles, Miss Gabby free Flinders Hotel, Darlinghurst Luscious Kate Monroe, GI Jode & Suzann $10 Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta Matt Hoare, JB free Golden Palace, Haymarket Bass Code Steve Hill, Yoshi, Pulsar, Suae, DLX, Keely, X-Dream, Micky D freeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;$10 Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Funk Shui Cavan Te, Mr DJ Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Soda Bar Graham Mandroules, Phil Hudson free Hermannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Darlington Dub for La No Che Mark Pritchard, Sonar Kollektiv, Sub Bass Snarl, Bec Paton, Some Freak, Lorna Clarkson, Garage Pressure, Victim, Westernsynthetics, Southern Steppa, Sakura, Doublerobin, Insurgent $15 Home Bar, Darling Harbour Good Times $10 Home, Sydney Famous: $25 on the door, $20 guest list Hotel Bondi, Bondi Beach Zinc Bar DJ Ryannie $25 Hotel Chambers, Sydney Red Room X-Tof, D-Bo, Pace, MC Cheeks free Hotel Metropolis, North Sydney Nexus Nervous, Yoshi, Matrix, X Dream, Pulsar, Spinout, Cantosis, Team Frantic, Imperial, Atlas, Tempa, Ar-bee, Nycon, Matt Rowen, Whisper, Pato, Elwood, Presto, Gavin DeMyer,

Selby Hunter Hotel, The, Sydney Daydreams Micky D, Pulsar, Suae, Keely, Yoshi, X-Dream, Tom E, Dutch $5/$3 Iguana Bar & Restaurant, Potts Point Keithy B, Nobby and guests $10 (member)â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$15 Intersection Tavern, Ramsgate Express $10 Jacksons On George, Sydney The Electric Neill Andrews free Kinselas Hotel, Darlinghurst Beat It DJs. Abel elâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toro, DHP Project U.K, The Boogaloo Crew free La Campana, Sydney Rumba Latina Av El Cubano, Vicco El Sonero free Lady Lux, Kings Cross Summer Saturdays Tenzin, Bobby Disco, John Glover, Tim Sea, J-Roc, Helena Lady Rose, Darling Harbour E-Motion: Official Frantic Boat Party Steve Hill, Yoshi, Micky D, Ian Murray, Hush & Rainbow, Mikey G, Mike B, Tish Tash, KIO $40 Mandalay Room, Kings Cross Musique Fowl Play, Adam Phillis, ALC, Reckless, Little Rich, Teez, Digital Damage, Thrustn, Gauge Breakers, Nick Muller, Andy B, Lonsdale, Azza United, Trihards, Imperial, Nik Mila, DJ Jasmine, Blazin Cucumbers, Original Suspects free on guestlist Martin Place Bar, Sydney Bamboo Eko, Nude-E, Mirage, Shorty, Ace, Moto, Qrius, IllDJ $5 Melt Bar, Kings Cross Simon Caldwell, Mark Walton, James Locksmith free, $15/20 Mona Vale Hotel Cube Saturdays Audioplilez, LYNC free guest lists $10 after 11pm Moulin Rouge, Kings Cross Moulin Nights Keli Hart, Clark Kent, Ben Morris, Digital Damage, Jack n Junk $10 before 11pm, $15 after, $20 on the door Mr Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Redfern

Ho Town Mitzi Macintosh, Farren Heit, Carmen Geddit free Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish House, Emu Plains DJ Retro One World Sport, Parramatta Bongos free Opera Bar, Circular Quay Sunset Funky Sunset Simon Caldwell free Overseas Passenger Terminal, The Rocks SHE Rooftop Party Richard Earnshaw, Graham Cordery, Liam Sampras, Dave 54, Nick Vidal, Vincent Sebastian $40 (+ bf) Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst WTF?! Pat from the Valentinos, Purple Punch, Anna Lunoe, Kato, tha Fizz, Spruce Lee, Jimmy Sing, Fat Sexual, Sleater Brockman $10 Paddington Inn, Paddington Matt Hoare, Mo Funk free Pavilion Hotel, Sydney Room 580 Carl Alley, Sefu, Victor Lopez, G Wizard free Peppermint Lounge, Potts Point John Devecchis, Ben Kelly, Husky, Matt Roberts, Cadell, Murat, Audio Angels, Trent Rackus Phoenix Bar, Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst Phoenix Rising Dan Murphy, Johan Khoury, Mark Alsop, Rado, Matt Steer $10 Pink Pepper Lounge, Parramatta Housekeepinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tommy Funk, Cadell, Charlie Brown $10 Robin Hood Hotel, Waverley Saturday Night Live with Wes Carr free Royal Hotel, Bondi Newtown Beats $20 Sackville Hotel, Rozelle DJ Kitsch free Sapphire Suite, Kings Cross Sapphire Saturdays: Rod Lee, Dan Bloom, Charlie Brown free Sly Fox, Enmore TECHnique Kate Doherty, Big Dubs, Ryzer, Onnit, Pendo and Oli G free SoBar, Cremorne

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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) Whitlam Leisure Centre, Liverpool Hard Wars Scott Brown (Scotland), Neophyte, Evil Activities, panic, Fenix, Suae, Impact, Weaver, Yoshi, Matrix, Midian, Speedracer, Nexus Project, Pulsar, Haze, Napolean $35 (early bird)–$55 Will and Toby’s, Darlinghurst Future Classic Label Night Will Saul (UK), Mudd, Meem, Nathan McLay, Kali, Jamie Lloyd $20 (presale)–$25 (at door) Wine Banq, Sydney Red Room Mark Molina, Mac, MC Cheeks, D-Bo, Pace World Bar, Kings Cross The Vinyl Zone James Bucknell, Richie M, Shane Mannion Yu, Potts Point

La La Land Cajuan, Felix Cartel, Trashbags Posse, Afters, The Space Cadets, Cheap Frillz, Marky Mark, King Lee, Minna, Fabric DJs $20

SUNDAY MARCH 16 Aquarium, Coogee Sunday’s Best John Glover, Matt Roberts, Cadell, Alex Mac free AB Hotel, Glebe Trevor Parkee free Ashfield RSL Club DJ Paul free Bank Hotel, Newtown DJ Yogi free Camperdown Hotel, Camperdown The Swinging Safari Simon Caldwell, Stu Kelly, Gavyn Vincenze, Nick Vidal, Safari Sound System $5 Cargo Lounge, King St Wharf Ben Hock, Mick O’c free Cohibar, Sydney Miss Gabby, Jeddy Rowland,

Brynstar free Cruise Bar, The Rocks Superjamm Def Rok, Troy T, G Wizard, Lilo, Eko, Cadell, Elektroy, Tom Piper, MC Jayson 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 Bec Patton, Monkfly, James De La Cruz 2pm 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 Huw Morgan, Mr Glass free Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney Sounds on Sunday The Bag Raiders, Ajax $10 (member)–$20 Intersection Tavern, Ramsgate DJ PJ, Muso free Lady Lux, Kings Cross Any Given Sunday 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, Senor Spitch, Brynstar free Moulin Rouge, Kings Cross Paris Cartel Coops, Barfly, John Glover

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 OneSixThree, Darlinghurst Seany B, The Potbelleez, Mind Electric, Chardy, Adam Bartas, Andy Murphy, Nick Foley, Mark John, Zoe Badwi, Jen Tutty, Gus Cullen, Zok, Dave Owens, Tom Hutcheon, BLKP, Joel A $10 (guestlist)–$15 (at door) Opera Bar, Circular Quay Sunset Session Liam Sampras free Paddington Inn, Paddington Lippo 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 & guests $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 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 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

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Deep Impressions

The low-down on underground Dance & Electronica with Chris Honnery

This Week’s Episode #X: “A Little Chin Stroking (Tea & Crumpets at the Club…)” The Future Classic crew are certainly capable of pulling a rabbit out of a hat once in a while. And this weekend the rabbit has claws (!) because we have esoteric Techno veteran, and the force behind Simple Records, a man who really should have been mentioned in Deep Impressions long ago… Mr Will ‘surly’ Saul! At therapy the other week Dr. Gonzo played me Simple Sounds, a recent double CD release from Saul that also includes remixes from Partial Arts (possibly the alias for Ewan Pearson and Tim Paris, I’m loathe to check less I be…proved…wrong! (You continue to set the benchmark for indepth research Chris - Ed) and Gui Boratto, fresh from DESTROYING The Bunker at Deep As Fu*k. Anyhow it certainly struck me as very sophisticated deep electronica, the sort of thing that creeps up on you and transcends the dancefloor. Certainly therapeutic, it can just as easily serve as background music for a late night chess match or something equally wholesome. Despite the subtle shifts between the different tracks the overall aesthetic is never lost. In other words, the atmosphere will not be painted on the walls. Also appearing at Future Classic on Saturday night - at Will & Toby’s in case you’ve had your head submerged in the sand of the desert of the real - will be Mudd and Meem. Incidentally, Gonzo’s other noteworthy prescription was Jeff Samuel’s Step. Now I am aware that many plan their weekends around this column so while I’m on a role with the Saturday nights I’m gonna keep on truckin’. Tom Middleton is playing next Saturday at Arthouse. And no I’m not plugging Kink here (at least I don’t Mademoiselle Caro

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think I am. If I am it’s unintentional, so I’m totally like still underground) because he is playing for Renaissance to promote his recent Triple CD release for The Renaissance Masters Series. Middleton has always been a little hot and cold in my eyes, a ‘Yuvraj Singh’ of sorts, but definitely download (legally of course, wink, wink) his classic mix of Freeland’s ‘Supernatural’. And if you are after some beautiful, atmospheric electronica, seek out Global Communication’s landmark album 76:14 from the early 90’s, which was recorded by Middleton and the now Sydney resident Mark Pritchard. While Middleton occasionally appropriates the synths and haunting ambience of this album in his remixes, he will always struggle to come up with anything as fragile as this. Why play for the gurners when you can produce stuff like this? Sometimes I feel there is too much of an emphasis on producers trying to prove their eclecticism and credentials over a broad spectrum of music. “Too much egoism eh Gonzo? Whatever happened to focusing on your strongpoints?” “What? Knight to E8, Checkmate.” “Dammit, couldn’t concentrate with this elevator music. Rematch?” A more recent late night gem that demands your attention is Mlle (mademoiselle) Caro and Franck Garcia’s Pain Disappears album, out on Ben Watt’s Buzzin’ Fly label. You will remember the duo from their hit ‘Far Away’ on Crosstown Rebels, and this is a similar afterhours delight complete with a cover of Joy Division’s ‘Dead Souls’ which will either have the ‘hipsters’ rejoicing or up in arms. In either case, fuck ‘em.

Quality Underground Dance Music does not receive the coverage it deserves in Sydney so I encourage you to send any contributions/propositions/abuse to deep.impressions@ yahoo.com to ensure the column maintains its immaculate accuracy, diversity and heteroglossia. Promos/mixes also welcome.

Under the Headphones:

This week we are bringing out the bongos and the percussion. In short, we are going tribal. Exterminate the brutes!!

GONE TROPO #1:

Will Saul - Mbira (Wahoo Remix) Wahoo have come to my attention through some of their releases on Jazzanova’s Sonar Collective imprint, and this particular track is a demonstration of how you can break the mould of expectation if you use a tribal beat instead of your standard 4/4 club ‘doof’, giving the track a certain integrity and unpredictability that might otherwise be lacking. Ostensibly an excursion in building tempo, this is an extremely effective piece of late night ‘House’ (use of term up for debate), evocative of an old favourite of mine…

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The second you hear bongos in a track you can be forgiven for labelling it as ‘Balearic House’. The problem with this is all the other associations linked with the genre. The fact remains that - ignoring the avalanche of commercial bastardisation - when done properly House is a pretty special genre of dance music. Gregory, the French maestro who was a household name when Defected-style house was big (that was before Ed Banger-style Electro) composed a number of memorable cuts, but perhaps none better than this underrated 9 minute epic that captures the Africanism aesthetic – the emphasis on tribal percussion, organic instrumentation etc – but somehow manages to be a track that is not out of place no matter what dancefloor bedfellows it is sandwiched between: minimal, electro or otherwise. It has a sort of transcendental timelessness about it.

Soul Sedation

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

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ope your Playground Weekender recovery is going well. What’s that, you forgot to organise the Monday off? Note to self: better festival planning required next time. Come again, you didn’t go to Playground at all, you thought Future Music would be better? Stop reading right now, walk away, you’re in the wrong section. But you don’t like camping? You remind me of one of the ad reps here, Danny, he’s a softy too. He didn’t think he could party for three days either, he’s hooked on creature comforts, lame. (Ed. Sooo not hip-hop) Why don’t you call him right now and organise to meet up in Pamperland for a manicure? They close at 10.30pm so you’ll be in bed long before midnight... It’s hard getting back from a festival though. The fun’s gone, the music’s gone, life doesn’t seem worth it anymore. One of the best cures is to get out amongst it at the first available opportunity. You might have been toying with the detox idea, but scrap that, you need to ease your body back into reality. Just one more night, midweek, drinking, laughing and dancing with your mates is exactly what you need. Luckily Niche have already gone and scheduled Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings for this Wednesday. Almost every funk/soul/hip hop artist I’ve interviewed this year has name dropped Jones and the Kings as a personal favourite. She’s the new face of soul and the Dap’s are the hottest band around. Lots of Niche’s parties are quite special but this one just might be topping the special stakes. It’s at the Enmore with Mr Choc (Beat Junkies) and Meem in support.

Aloe Blacc, and Ohmega Watts are all on there, the combination of which makes me tingle in all the right places. Blacc’s contribution is typically brilliant – I know I carp on about that dude a lot but I’ve pledged not rest until he’s elected king of everything. Hopefully the release will translate into an antipodean tour. Good Buddha have two new singles out, ‘Movin On’ and ‘Bouncin’. They’re both out on Will Styles’ Fresh Jams label and the full album is due to follow in April. Styles has been talking the new material up and GB are renowned for their great musicianship so lets hope for some dope. I think you can catch one of them on JJJ rotation as we speak. In more live band action Canberra 8 piece Casual Projects are playing at Candy’s Apartment this Friday 14th. They’re on a hip hop slash funk style tip, brass heavy with some good drums. Imagine if Butterfingers added four extra members and decided to rock out a bit, something like that. And in a final nugget of advice this column implores you (provided you seek interesting electronica of course) to get your hands on a copy of Kim Hiorthøy’s new record, My Last Day. Think Fourtet meets Hot Chip before they became popular, think downbeat instrumental melody a la Ninja Tune’s Blockhead, think of that old big beat sound and sense of fun that Sonic Animation always had. I am truly knocked flat by this album, it conforms to nobody’s sense of cool.

If you stay home on Wednesday night you’ll be well rested and rearing to get to Hermann’s Bar on the Saturday. The Dub For La No Che fundraiser is on featuring Mark Pritchard, Westernsynthetics, Garage Pressure and loads more. There’s three good reaons to go: 1 - these guys are promising a smorgasboard of bottom-heavy electronica; 2 – the soundsytem there is badass; 3 - your ticket money’s going to a good cause. Need more convincing? No you don’t, just go. Having the Cool Kids in town 'n' all has exhumed a pressing question that I’m not so sure was ever answered. That question being, shouted ever so eloquently by Outkast, ‘what’s cooler than being cool’? Well, the golden age of hip hop was Lotus Flying undeniably cooler than the current state of the genre, and that’s why I’ve been getting down The Rub’s History Of Hip Hop podcast series. They’ve done some sensational digging, broken it down year by year and revisited all the finest cuts from the 1990s. Take a trip back in time at www. itstherub.com. Thanks to Festival Fairy for the heads up on that one - ice cool - and thanks to the Rub boys for keeping the gems alive. Soul Sedation recommends you keep your eyes out for the new Connie Price and the Keystones album. Percee P, Soup,

Kim Hiorthøy

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Dub For La No Che Hermann’s Afrika Bambaataa The Forum

G-Love & Special Sauce & Ozomatli Enmore Theatre Platform 1 Hip Hop Festival - 28-29 Mar Carriage Works DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist + Dexter Luna Park

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Yr moniker – what’s the deal?: We What’s yr sound?: Indie/Electro/R Had Parties ock/Punk/Dance When/why did you decide to take on the decks and start DJing: Whil Muppet Show. e watching The Five records you’d die fighting for: ‘Da Funk’ - Daft Punk, ‘Paper Planes’ – M.I.A, ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ – Gossip, ‘This Charming Man’ – The Smiths & ‘Killing In The Name’ - Rage Against The Machine Best gig you’ve ever played?: We Had Parties - last year And the worst?: None. Greatest musical inspiration: I think everyone would agree it would have Muppet Show. to be The If your music was a soundtrack for a film, what would it be abou t?: Back To The Future 2 Vs Teenwolf – the story of ten clubs uniting for one night in 5 venues… Outside of DJing, what pushes your buttons: Now that would be telling! What was the last thing you wrot e on your hand: Must take note: don’ Last time you were really, really, really happy: Last We Had Parties. t write on hand. And we can see you: We Had Part ies – The Exchange Hotel/ 34b/ Spec Vegas – Easter Sunday March 23.1 trum/ Phoenix/ 0pm… Ten Clubs Unite! (Purple Sneakers / Starfuckers/ Bandits/ Pash/ Hot Damn/ Health Club/ Dynamite/ Rock N Roll Motherfuc ker/ Black Cherry/ Fools Gold).

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