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NORMAN JAY (MBE) CRAZY PENIS (LIVE) THE BIONICS PLUS VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
JAMIE LLOYD & JIMI POLAR (LIVE) MARK WALTON PRES. FRETLESS (LIVE) SIMON CALDWELL NOODLES & NOEL BOOGIE (4-DECK SHOW) SOULSHAKER DJ’S SOMATIK JIMMI JAMES
23rd March 2008 2pm til late 1st release tickets $30 2nd release tickets $40 VIP tickets $80 Tickets at www.moshtix.com.au or at the venue. theloft & Bungalow 8 No. 8 Lime Street King Street Wharf Sydney 9299 4770 www.theloftsydney.com
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welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on, down and around town. With Vivian Huynh
LAUGHING CLOWNS
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Who: Laughing Clowns What: Reign Of Terror Label/Year: Throne Of Blood Crown Prince Melon, 1981
Reign Of Terror, Throne Of Blood Crown Prince Melon, 1981 After The Saints moved from Brisbane to Britain on the strength of their landmark album (I’m) Stranded, only to find that the punk scene had since been stitched up by a bunch of local brats called The Sex Pistols and that their label EMI was unsympathetic at best and incompetent at worst, they began to fall apart. Songwriters Chris Bailey and Ed Kuepper, who had gone to school and formed the band together, both left. That is, Bailey said that Kuepper left and Kuepper said it was Bailey. The two didn’t reunite for more than twenty years, until The Saints were inducted into the ARIA hall of fame. So in 1978, after both of them left the band first (I’m a big believer in balanced reporting), Bailey kept playing with a new version of The Saints and Kuepper went back home to form the Laughing Clowns. Laughing Clowns sounded more like freeform lounge-jazz than punk rock. Kuepper took the swing of The Saints’ swansong Prehistoric Sounds and founded a bizarre post-punk band with gloomy and off-kilter tunes with as much saxophone as guitar. The group was hurtled along on stage by brilliant and unpredictable drummer Jeffrey Wegener, who had been pestering Kuepper to form a band since he returned home. In 1979 and 1980 they recorded three EPs, two of which were collected and released as an LP called
Reign Of Terror, Throne Of Blood on their own label, Crown Prince Melon Records (titled after the nickname they gave to their manager, Ken West, who would later start the Big Day Out). Reign Of Terror, Throne Of Blood, named as a wry reference to Kuepper’s reputation as a control freak, captured the band in their different speeds: long and inventive jazz-punk excursions on ‘I Don’t Know What I Want’, the humorous pop of ‘Sometimes (I Just Can’t Live With Anyone)’ and my favourite, a wonderfully absurd track called ‘Mr Ridiculous’ in three parts, with a catchy piano-saxophone play-off bridging them. After Wegener’s drug use led him to become increasingly erratic, the group split, reformed, split, reformed and gave up in 1985. Wegener went to join Bailey’s still-going version of The Saints. Kuepper began his solo career and went back to taking pot-shots at Bailey by founding The Aints.
Juliette and the Licks
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COHEED & CAMBRIA
See those blokes on the cover of this reputable free publication? If the giant name and bolts of lightning didn’t give it away, that’s US prog rockers Coheed & Cambria. Yes, a true prog rock band. Like Rush. Or Yes. (Don’t let ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart’ fool you.) They’re coming to town very soon, so to celebrate we’re giving away five copies of their new album entitled – deep breath – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow. To win this glorious piece of prog rock brilliance, email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us the name of the story that No World For Tomorrow is a chapter in.
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SONG SUMMIT SYDNEY
How would you like the opportunity to attend a brand new music expo that offers three dynamic days of learning, networking, workshops and showcase performances? The Brag is giving you the chance to attend the inaugural Song Summit Sydney (S3) music expo in Sydney from April 3 - 5 at the Hordern Pavilion and surrounding venues. Get advice from peeps like The Shins’ James Mercer, Josh Pyke, Jimmy Webb, Savage Garden’s Daniel Jones, Jenny Morris and Evermore’s Dann and Jon Hume and many more. We’ve got 2 three-day passes to give away, so to win email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us why you just have to be there!
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AVALON DRIVE COMPETITION
JULIETTE AND THE LICKS
Last week we told you that Juliette Lewis was going to be one of the hosts at the MTV Australia Awards, but said nought about a tour. Did you cry? Did you? Well rest easy, friends, because Juliette and the Licks are indeed doing a run of shows while they’re in town. 26 hour flights are not fun – make that shit worth it. At this point we’re obliged to tell you that Juliette is an actress you know from such films as Natural Born Killers who now Rocks and Rolls. Catch them 25 April at the Forum (all ages).
STEREOPHONICS
When we were younger and still buying our CDs from Kmart, we bought a particular one called Alternative Moments. It had tracks by Radiohead, Suede, Jeff Buckley, stuff like that - basically anything Q mag was calling ‘seminal’ at the time. And one of the songs was by Stereophonics. Oh, how we loved that song! Indeed, oh how we loved that CD. Now we only listen to baile funk and remixes, but we’ll still show Stereophonics some love when they play May 5 at the Metro, tickets on sale now.
BEL AIR MIAMI
It’s Easter weekend this week, which means we can all flood into the Easter Show, finally! We’ve been saving up our showbag coupons and we are ready to cash in. If that option isn’t as tantalizing for you as it is for us, here is another: Bel Air Miami is on again, with The Spirits (formerly Chequered Leopards), To The Thrown, Back Royale, Team Extreme Team live, plus DJs Hey Now, Ghetto Ruckus, Trashbags Posse, The Gameboys and more. It’s on this Thursday at Candy’s Apartment.
DIE!DIE!DIE!
Die!Die!Die! has an album out called Promises Promises. Now, we could make some joke about repeating things/words, but honestly we’re not that funny. So instead we’ll tell you about the time we saw them play some makeshift stage in the Hopetoun tent at Homebake, where they bashed themselves and their instruments around, pummelled into the crowd, had gear break down on them, and got quite angry. Expect more of the same when they play April 19 at Oxford Art Factory and 20 at Beach Road.
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Tooheys Extra Dry have created the uncharTED competition as way to promote and develop emerging Australian talent. As an artist how important do you think this type of initiative is to Australian music? It is extremely important. It’s so hard to break into the music industry so having this competition to showcase Australian bands is amazing. The Tooheys Extra Dry uncharTED competition process requires acts to strut their stuff on stage. As an artist how important is live performance to you? For us, this is everything. All the 5 of us want to do is tour, there’s no better way to see the world than by doing what you love at the same time. And live shows are were the magic happens. Who are your musical inspirations? Eskimo Joe, Silverchair, Gyroscope, Powderfinger… they are all living out my dream. How will you celebrate if you win the TED uncharTED competition? By drinking TED, lots and lots of it.
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OPERATOR PLEASE
Operator Please has been jetting around touring the world of late. Now, we could play that whole ‘get back to school, kids!’ angle, but really we’re as tired of covering the ‘young’ thing as Agyness Dean is. Here’s a Quick Fact! instead: The five have recently supported Foals on their sold out tour of France (not the cycling thing – no Lance in sight). See them when they play April 11 at the Metro (all ages), with Little Red and Flamingo Crash, before they run away again to Europe and Japan.
Who will you be bringing with you to the TED uncharTED grand final gig for support? My Girlfriend. If you could have one dream person in the audience at the grand final, who would that person be? Darryl Braithwaite… he would have to bring his horse too. What has been the best thing so far about competing in TED uncharTED? The enthusiasm and support from our street teamers - we have the best fans ever - and waking up hourly to vote… love it.
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welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on, down and around town... With Vivian Huynh
he said she said WITH MCARTNEY
I remember writing songs when I was 13 thinking they were as good as Nirvana Unplugged, and really that was my goal for the next 4 years, then I woke up. I had a musical uncle… he was big in the ‘70s, I was totally inspired by the fact that music could be a full time job. My parents loved Bob Dylan, Elton john, Van Morrison and Stevie Wonder, that stuff was always spinning on the old school vinyl. My favourite musicians are Miles Davis, David Bowie and Daniel Johns (sorry Ben and Chris…). Those 3 musicians, for me, understand that music must evolve and those guys all have pushed themselves to evolve… I mean Bowie started out wanting to be a sax playing pop star! No matter what mood I am in I can always listen to Rufus Wainwright’s Want One. I’m going to play Kind of Blue (Miles Davis) between everyone’s set at my gig on the 19th. My act is essentially myself solo with the world’s most amazing instrumentalists. Someone told me at a gig last week that I have taken the singer songwriter thing a step further, by arranging all my tunes for a full band – I was absolutely stoked, but for me it was really poignant that my songs reached their full potential via full instrumentation. Peter - guitar, Luke - drums, Torch (yes…
KAHN BROTHERS
The Kahn Brothers are indeed brothers, and not some literary reference. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, they’re the dudes who used to be in Gelbison. Ding, ding. Since Gelbison, the duo have been busy writing, recording their debut album Love Melts Fear (with cameos from Sarah Blasko and members of Entropic and Old Man River), and supporting Ben Lee on his US tour. Now they’re about to launch into a national tour; see them April 8 at the Hopetoun. The album’s out April 19.
THE AUDREYS
With all the millions of songs in the world, it’s not surprising that many bands share song titles. It is a little surprising however to find that The Audreys, who do ‘country tinged smoky pop’, has decided to persevere with the title of their latest single, ‘Paradise City’. Have you just been taken to 7am at Judgement Bar? Thanks, Axl. Whatever the case, the single is the first from their sophomore album When The Flood Comes, and they’re launching it 16 and 17 May at The Basement, tickets on sale now.
torch) - keys and Brett - bass. The Casanova is definitely Luke the drummer, look out ladies he’s single. I’ve just recorded everything, yes everything, at home (which took me a year), then Sean Carey mixed and Kathy Naunton mastered which equals my debut release Volume One. It’s only available for download from my website, mcartneymusic. com. I started with 8 songs, I thought about the concept a while ago, and fortunately I’ve actually pulled it off… I mean the recorded version you hear is the 6th time I’ve recorded these songs, I kept deleting and starting again to get the right vibe… I now own better gear and intend to do Volume Two. I love the music scene at the moment; it feels great to be part of this digital ‘revolution’. A wise man once said ‘if you don’t keep up with technology, it will leave you behind…’ how true. I honestly believe that people in general have come back to what music used to be like in the ‘70s, it was a sound and people were interested in that sound, the way it made them feel. That’s the way people digest music, through emotion not intellect. You best watch out for a band from Newcastle called The Firekites, they are absolutely amazing, and beautiful people as well… it helps.
THE RED PAINTINGS
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WE ARE SCIENTISTS
If we’ve read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and completed biology in high school, does that make us scientists too? Our guess is indie rockers We Are Scientists aren’t actually scientists (in fact, it’s taken from a Cap’n Jazz song. “Who?” you ask. We don’t know either. Look, it’s not important who’s Jazz and who’s not. The important thing is We Are Scientists have just released a new album entitled Brain Thrust Mastery and we’ve got 5 copies of it to giveaway. First five to tell us who Cap’n Jazz is win a CD.
A BUCKET OF BARONS BEER!!
Ooooh!! Free beer! BEER! Those brave boys at Barons Brewing Co. have joined forces with The Dream Team to bring you their latest adventure, The Swinging Safari at Oscars Camperdown Hotel. We’ve got buckets of Barons beer to give away, so to win email freestuff@thebrag. com and tell us what essential item[s] you’d take on a Swinging Safari. What’s a Swinging Safari? No idea, but you gotta be over 18 years of age to enter this competition.
AMP WINNER
Brisbane’s The Red Paintings are the type of fiercely independent operation that makes most other bands look positively mainstream. An ‘orchestral art-rock band’, they do live shows involving art installations, choirs, elaborate costumes, do their own cover art, and manage all aspects of the band themselves. They’re also self-funded (well, fan-funded – it’s how they got their album recorded), and now they’re looking to get themselves to the US for a tour. Wanna help? Go see them when they play April 5 at Factory Theatre.
The Australian Music Prize winners have been announced, which means the clink of champagne glasses (beer? Is that more Australian? Someone let us know – ta) everywhere. The Mess Hall has taken out top honours for their album Devils Elbow, which means they’ll be receiving $25 000 from the PPCA, plus a $30 000 media campaign by XYZ Networks. Meanwhile bluejuice received the Red Bull award, and New Buffalo won the Myspace Public Vote.
PARKWAY DRIVE
‘High-energy, unremitting, erotic, brood-infused Rock And Roll’ is what we’re told France’s Dimi Dero are in the business of doing. Which is lovely and all , but a few band references please, for those not good at imagining what music sounds like: ‘the dirty love child of Scientists, The Gun Club, Rowland S Howard, and The Birthday Party’. Ahh, there you go. If you want some ‘erotic’ rock in you, best you go along when they play March 30 at the Annandale with The Holy Soul and The New Christs.
Parkway Drive makes the kids from here to Penrith go freakin’ mad. And we mean mad in the ‘tears down the face, Parkway Drive tshirt always on, please sign my shoes please please please!’ kind of way, as opposed to the Brit Brit Spears kind. So we expect there’ll be more than a little bit of squealing with the announcement that the band is doing a tour with special guests Have Heart (US), Antagonist (NZ) and Break Even. Be there and scream along when they play 14 June at UNSW Roundhouse.
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THE EVENING SON
“In 2005 about 78 bands formed in Newcastle”. Now, we’re not sure whether this figure is fact or a little exaggeration. Either way, what is fact is that The Evening Son was one of them. They are the spawn of two other (now defunct) Newcastle bands, Paperhalo and Quirk, who between them had supported bands like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Jack Johnson and Rocket Science. Now The Evening Son is doing an East Coast tour, playing this Saturday at the Bald Faced Stag with Spazmoo.
FUTURE IS NOW
Do you like playing the ‘I am A+R!’ game? You know, going to a show, doing a little mental checklist in your head, having a few words with the band(s) after, telling everyone about them, getting angry when someone else says they saw them when they played to like 2 people… yes. Play it at Future Is Now this Thursday at the Gaelic Club, with Young & Restless, Tick Toc Tokyo, Lions At Your Door, The Wahas, The Jezebels and WOW. You know, we saw them when they played to, like, 2 people.
SCREEN COMPOSERS – SONG SUMMIT
Carlos D of Interpol likes to wax lyrical about his love of it. Karen O is reportedly engaged in it right now. Yes, composing for the screen is a musical option, though obvs you don’t have to be in a band to be doing it like the aforementioned. For tips on what you do need, Song Summit is putting on Screen Summit, with speakers including Francois Tetaz (scored Wolf Creek), Nigel Westlake (Babe, Miss Potter), and more. It’s on April 3-5 at Hordern Pavilion. For full details head to songsummit. com.au.
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN AND…
And…see how we created the slightest hint of anticipation there? Glorious. When The Jesus And Mary Chain side show was announced, our friends and us panicked and immediately bought tickets in a moment of internet and emailing frenzy, and we didn’t even know who was doing the supports yet. Well now it’s two weeks later and we now know it’s The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Rakes (UK) and Ghostwood. Glorious. It’s on April 2 at the Enmore. We’ll be the ones to the left lushing out.
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welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on around town... With Andy Campion onthefly.com.au
he said she said WITH LUCAS
From having older brothers, as a kid I was always listening to what was on their stereo, so in primary school while the other kids were listening to Toni Collete and East 17, my favourite bands were Metallica and Iron Maiden. My parents aren’t overly musical so it wasn't until I was 10 when my older brother started playing guitar that I got into playing music. Growing up in Lismore, and at age 12 I played in a band with two other guys whose dads were musicians, so we used to play the support act for them in the pubs around Lismore. This definitely shaped my interest in music. It gave me a taste of performing early on in the piece. My tastes in music have changed over the years, and I’m not sure if I have a favourite who I can mention. But I might rattle off a few moments which have given me inspiration in my music. Lemonheads and Tumbleweed live at Lismore Apia Club 1994 (this was my first proper gig I ever went to); Pearl Jam live at Eastern Creek 1995 (this was my first big concert and it is still up there as best gig I’ve ever seen); Sonic Youth live at Metro Theatre 1998 Thousand Leaves tour (really influential band for me); and Phoenix live at The Factory and V Festival 2007 (for me, these guys have mastered guitar rock/pop). Well that’s an open book at the moment. For the last few years I’ve been operating as a solo performer, though am now seeking
HENDRIX
out musicians and currently rehearsing up a band. From this you can expect to hear more arrangement and great harmonies. Well a good friend of mine described my sound as Elliot Smith in bed with Bob Evans. “I’m not sure about the bed part but I’ll take that as a compliment,” was my reply. As for releases, I’m set to release my debut record later in the year. Much of the timing of this will depend on how the songs adapt in the new band arrangement.
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DJ CRAZE
By now you should know that DJ Craze is coming out to play the mindblowing Sounds on Easter Sunday, which is this Sunday if you’re not quite sure, at the Greenwood Hotel. Did you also know that Craze recently mixed the latest Fabriclive compilation? Bah, of course you did!! Anyway, let’s get the meat of this giveaway, shall we? One lucky Brag reader is going to win a double pass to Sounds on Easter Sunday to dance the holy day away to the sounds of Craze and more, as well as pick up a copy of Fabriclive 38. Three runners-up will score a copy of the CD too. To win, email freestuff@ thebrag.com and tell us who else will be at Sounds. DJ Craze
The Sydney scene has its moments, though these moments generally happen at a certain level. I believe the main obstacle for local artists when starting out is a lack of venues which offer free music, who are also prepare to promote artists and themselves as a live venue. What happens when an unknown act has to charge a door fee is that they only get a chance to play to their friends and the chances of gaining fans on a live show becomes something of a Catch-22. You need the fans so that you can sell the tickets, but whilst initially selling tickets for unknowns its hard to gain the fans.
WE HAD PARTIES
Who: Lucas Hendrix When: April 22 Where: The Annandale Hotel
GALACTIC JURASSIC
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Featuring Chali 2Na (from Jurassic 5) and Boots Riley (from The Coup) form part of New Orleans-based group Galactic that started out over a decade ago as an instrumental act in the tradition of the Meters, the JB’s, and Booker T. & the MG’s – bands equally comfortable recording their own material or working with vocalists. Yet there has been a rich evolution in the ensuing years that culminated in last year’s album From the Corner to the Block, which grew out of Galactic’s experiences touring with artists like the Roots, Jurassic 5, Triple Threat DJs and Gift of Gab. Evolve this Tuesday 18 March when Galactic play live for the first time in Sydney at the Oxford Art Factory!
There’s another event next Sunday vying for your love (and money). We Had Parties, presented by The Brag, is bringing together 10 of Sydney’s biggest clubs to rock the Easter Eggs out of you. Purple Sneakers, Starfuckers, Bandits, P*A*S*H, Hot Damn, Black Cherry, Rock N Roll Motherfucker, Dynamite, Health Club and Fools Gold, all coming together and taking over the entire Exchange Hotel (where they’ve got Q Bar, Spectrum, 34B, all that jazz). The last one sold out, so you know this one’s gonna be huuuuuge!! We’ve got 2 doubles to give away to the first 2 peeps that email freestuff@thebrag.com.
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“WE HAD PARTIES” How’d you come up with the concept for We Had Parties? Nigel (PASH) and I thought it would be a cool idea to team up all the coolest clubs in Sydney. Mash it together on one night. The Exchange hotel has many areas to do this in.- 3 LEVELS/ 5 AREAS. Concept: Like a festival – but not bands, clubs instead!
50 CENT + G-UNIT
My bwoy Chow Crack just gets off phone telling me about the time he caught ‘Fity’ and G-Unit at Wembley Stadium and - thwack - this lands on the fax machine: 50 Cent and G-Unit are on their way down under, playing the Sydney Entertainment Centre Wednesday 23 April, and 50 Cent is appearing at the MTV Awards Saturday 26 April as a performer and presenter. Thwack. 50s official debut album, 2003’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, was the biggest seller of 2003 and is already ten times platinum worldwide. His second album The Massacre was the second biggest-selling album of the year and is now seven times platinum worldwide…oh, what the heck – you know the rest! (Ed. Yup, ‘Ayo Technology’ is the best song ever written btw) Just gear up to get your tix, they go on sale Wednesday 19 March through ticketmaster.com.au
CARL CRAIG SESSIONS
Lead figure in the second wave of Detroit techno Carl Craig has proven to be more relevant than ever to the club scene over the past few years with barnstorming reworkings of Theo Parrish’s ‘Falling Up’ and a Grammy Award nominated remix of The Junior Boys’ ‘Like A Child’. The double CD Sessions release just release on !K7 combines these recent highpoints with standouts from Craig’s back catalogue, spanning all of his monikers including Tres Demented, 69 and Paperclip People, and serves as a combination of Craig’s own production and remixes. The release affirms just why he has been so influential to not only the clubbing scene but other genres of music as well, namely jazz and DnB. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. Sessions is out now on Inertia; check an interview with man via onthefly.com.au/beats.
TRIPLE J EASTER
Triple J is proclaiming it’s having a house party over Easter. But the party is decidedly subjective as it is occurring entirely over the airwaves – in other words tune in, close your eyes and invite your imaginary friends (you finally get to take Angelina out you pathetic loser). The party climaxes on Saturday night with the new House Party program, hosted by Kirileigh Lynch, which “pulls out the best indie disco tunes, edgy bootlegs & remixes and classic dance floor fillers”. This is followed by mixup hosted by Jaxxxxy, aka the Jax, aka Ajax, aka Ajax #1, aka you owe me big time Jackson. So if you don’t feel like leaving your house and believe in the powers of the richer, imaginative state invigorated by (Easter) eggs then tune in to Triple J over Easter and have a totally wild party.
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MACQUARIE CENTRE
The local lo-fi pop act Art Rush who found fame with the indie hit ‘Penrith Chicks’ has a new album - Macquarie Centre - and a new manifesto: to produce 50 albums about 50 shopping centres across Sydney (hello Sufjan Stevens, good bye 50 Cent?!). In the artist’s own words, the concept albums are “about the creepy psychological conditioning that undermines everything. There’s a real beauty in it.” And with that he is inviting people to get involved by sharing their ‘shopping centre experiences’. The first single off the album, called ‘First’?!, is getting radio play right now, and the Macquarie Centre album is available for download now at myspace.com/artrush where you can also hit Art with input for subsequent records. As your little Vice mag (or whatever its called) says: “This guys fucking rules!”
Is it hard to coordinate 10 essentially competing clubs? It's been really easy actually. All clubs know each other. We just picked an off night that would not compete against each other. We started to ring around the clubs and everyone was keen. Wham! Bam! Greatest memory of We Had Parties 2007? Moving from room to room – all at capacity. People really enjoying moving from one genre to the next. Everyone having a great time. Biggest “club rivalry”? Who won’t go on before/near who? That would be telling!?! What can we expect at We Had Parties 2008? Everyone is really keen for it. Easter is the theme. Egg hunts, maybe bunny costumes? GOOD TUNES/GOOD TIMES/WE HAD PARTIES!!!!!!!! We Had Parties @ The Exchange Hotel Complex, Easter Sunday March 23
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welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on around town... With Andy Campion onthefly.com.au
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five things WITH CLAIRE
Growing Up Sounds ridiculous but my first childhood 1. memory of music came from my grandmother, sitting on her knee when I was a tot and singing ‘You Are My Sunshine’ by the organ. I remember I was completely devoid of music in my early years; I just didn’t recognise it as a big part of my being! Ironically, the reason I started singing was when my Dad passed away. I was 11, and I dedicated a song to him at my school concert. I’ve always been a writer and it wasn’t til I started transferring those emotions and thoughts into lyrics in my early teens that I knew that this is what I wanted to do.
STARFUCKERS SECOND BIRTHDAY
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and have issues with coordination, so vocals is where I like to focus my attention), on guitar I have Mike Gorman and Chris Gibbs. On Bass it’s Gareth Hughes (G-man), and on drums Matt Ferguson (Fergalicious to you). We actually met at the con, the conservatorium at Edith Cowan University or also known as the WA Academy of Performing Arts. It all came together once I left, but it's funny how things often turn out, it’s like “Return of the Ensemble”. Weird!
The Music You Make People have described my style as kick 4. ass guitar driven rock through to a darker
and brooding side of pop. It’s very dynamic, I like to make the music and lyrics match the emotion, not have 10 songs sounding exactly the same. I’ve been compared to Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, Blondie, Natalie Imbruglia. I really don’t know where I fit in with all that, I think every artist is unique to themselves and every review has a different ‘opinion’ on me as a person.
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Music, Right Here, Right Now I think the music scene is thriving in the 5. respect that there are a lot of new bands
Who: Claire Clarke
Your Band Right now my band is me (I can 3. play guitar and piano but I’m not great
What: Unhinged out March 18
BLACK LIGHT
The Black Light launch party is happening this Friday, Good Friday, at The Gaelic Club. There will be some cheap priced drinks and the DJing talents of Knife Machine, Goodfella and a host of others, plus a “big light show and cool things like that...” So if you can think of a better way to spend Good Friday then, uh, good for you. But if you're after a sweetener you gluttonous oaf then a little birdy told us that if you email partypeoplepresents@gmail. com to get on the $10 guestlist before 11pm. Gaelic Club doors open 9pm Friday 21 March, tickets $15 through moshtix.
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VAMP VS STRIP
What better way to celebrate Easter than by partying at Ruby Rabbit (it’s that whole bunny motif, get it?) with a collaboration of Sean Finlay and his original Strip party and the Vamp guys who used to roll at Waverly Bowls coming together as Vamp Vs Strip this Saturday. Kato, Elroy, Tenzin and some clown billed as ‘Andy Campion’ are all slotted to play, with tickets a mere $20 through moshtix. Wabbit season commences from 8pm. Hop along! [gunshot sound]. Ends.
AIR
In case you missed it! After over a decade in the waiting, French ‘electronicists supreme’ AIR are touring Australia for the very first time with performances at the V Festival East Coast shows and some very special headline shows at venues such as the Sydney Opera House (Sunday 6 April!), Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide and the Botanic Gardens in Perth. Having recently taken time out to explore the scientific basis of Dali’s work, I have a new respect for the artistic pursuits of Europeans – and AIR are no exception. JeanBenoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin are modernists: AIR embrace the new. It’s been 10 years since the release of the classic Moon Safari, and each subsequent album has been a marked departure from the previous and a journey towards something else. Live, AIR feature a 5 piece line up – a rare chance to catch a unique (yes, unique!) electronic outfit. Tickets to the Sydney show are at sydneyoperahouse.com
Bang Gang return – from Mexico! – with an extravaganza at Arq in the debaucherous tradition of all their other parties. I’ve done some snooping around and it turns out that it’s all linked to some macabre, polycomposite drug-addled conspiracy (I’d elaborate except I’m in on ground zero – no not the movie, the literary concept). The lineup at Arq features Kid Sister’s brothers Flosstradamus (really her brothers), Munk (from the Tomboy-associated Gomma label) and Gothenburg’s answer to the Happy Mondays The Tough Alliance, plus of course the usually suspect Bang Gang DJs Doom, Ajax, Hoodrat, Dangerous and Double Nolan. You’d be quite a fool, an April fool as it were, to miss out this – tix $22 from Ksubi, Spank, Jimmy Sings, Moshtix and modularpeople.com
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coming up through the ranks. However, I do feel that there are SO many imports that often the industry misses what’s right in front of their eyes. Our commercial radio community often looks to the UK for new music and this makes it harder for local acts to get played. We are in the same league and the only thing holding us back is often public awareness and general perception. Thank goodness for those that makes the exception!
Inspirations I’m so in love with John Mayer, but who wouldn’t be! Okay so maybe not everyone, but I could just sit around and listen to his music all day. I love cruisy, laid back, insightful music to listen to when I’m not making it - it’s my quiet side. I can be very direct and passionate, but I also like to indulge the more romantic, unaware, idealistic side of myself.
BANG GANG
BIRTHDAY!!! Starfuckers are having a birthday!! They turn 2!! Woo, more exclamation marks!! Ahem… “This Saturday marks the second birthday for your favourite lovable drop kick Disk Junkies and their fabulous, glitter filled, drug fueled, skank bash STARFUCKERS. AJAX joins residents SUNDAY SCHOOL & SVETA to clean up after the usual fags Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Blood & Papa T (Trentertainment) after having their way with the decks.” Thanks fellas! We’ve got 2 double passes PLUS 2 copies of the Disk Junkies new mix CD to give away. To win, email freestuff@thebrag.com... NOW!!
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.
ROGUE TRADING
[Phone ringing]. “Speak to me baby” “Uh, hey man, can you plug the upcoming Rogue Traders tour in your column?” “Of course – that’s what we’re here for, and I do have a soft spot for the Traders… their evocative, facetious lyricism and intricate instrumentation really hits that spot for me. When are they touring?” “They play the Big Top at Luna Park on Saturday 17 May with special guests TV Rock. Hey are you still there?” “Sorry my words are getting caught in my throat. I’m just so excited. The Rogue Traders and TV Rock. Together. What more could one ask for?” Hit Ticketek for all the details.
STARFUCKERS B’DAY
Hookie’s back from Phnom Penh. He hit me with this the minute he got off the plane: “This Saturday marks the second birthday for your favourite lovable drop kick Disk Junkies and their fabulous, glitter filled, drug-fuelled, skank bash Starfuckers. Ajax joins residents Sunday School & Sveta to clean up after the usual fags Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Blood & Papa T (Trentertainment) after having their way with the decks. To celebrate adding another notch on the bedpost of Club 77, the Disk Junkies are also launching and giving away a free copy of their 2nd Mix CD (mixed by Disorder & Hookie) for the first couple of hundred or so munters that fall down the stairs of the batcave. Dress is essential until you’re in the club. No fat chicks.” (He really said that.) $15 from 10pm.
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DUKES OF WINDSOR
The ARIA Award nominated Dukes of Windsor are embarking on a national ‘It’s A War’ tour to support their new single called, wait for it… ‘It’s A War’. Joining the Dukes will be the so-called ‘super duo’ of the Scientists of Modern Music and upcoming rock act Room 24. If you are unfamiliar with the DOW, they were selected as Triple J’s ‘Next Crop Artist 2006’, and in 2007 the remix of their debut single ‘The Others’ was certified Gold in Australia, was a top 10 Aria single and spent a huge three months at #1 on the Aria Club Chart. So with all that ARIA glory you know they are an act on the up (ignoring that nagging voice in my head reminding me that the Rogue Traders have cleaned up at the ARIAs on many occasions). The trio of bands play Friday 25 April at The Manning Bar Sydney University. Hit manningbar.com for tix and details.
The Uber Lingua crew has had a jam packed Summer with a residency at Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel and multiple appearances at Sydney Festival events in January including the 4 stage lane way event at Angel Place on ‘Festival First Night’ (I know I’ve heard all that before as well, but it feeds into this next bit: my deliver). And the juggernaut is showing no signs of fizzling out a la the Australian Cricket Team with the announcement of Uber System Charged, which promises to be huge. The stellar lineup for the party includes Pochoman, WeiZen, Timbalada, Trevor Brown and our favourite crate-digging, genre traversing Scot, Stu Buchannan. Held across the three areas of the Abercrombie you can expect music from all over the globe, from Mexico and Argentina to Brazil, Cuba, Prussia and lake Titicaca. Kick off is at the early time of 7pm Saturday 29 March at The Abercrombie Hotel.
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
News just in- LL Cool J has changed venues for his March 22nd gig. Instead of being held in the middle-of-frigging-nowhere (Homebush Sports Centre, wherever you are) it’s now at the nice, accessible surrounds of the Enmore.
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Industrial strength Industry Music News with Christie Eliezer
NO EXCUSE FOR PIRATE DJS
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has set up a new DJ license, as a one-stop shop for DJs to get permission from most major record labels to format shift their music for use at gigs. It allows DJs to legally transfer music onto their laptops. A corresponding license is also offered for the musical works by the music publishers through AMCOS This no longer gives DJs excuses to use illegal music at their gigs, warns Sabiene Heindl, General Manager of Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI). She added bars and nightclubs that employ DJs also need to ensure that DJs are not exposing them to legal liability by using pirate music. DJs involved in music piracy face up to $60,500 and 5 years imprisonment per offence. On-the-spot fines of $1,320 may also apply. MIPI has relaunched its guide “Music for DJs – Are You Doing the Right Thing” available at http://www.mipi.com. au/Piracyinyourindustry.htm.
VIDEOGAME SPENDING TRIPLES
According to new data from NPD Group, spending on videogames in America jumped 45% in 2007 while music fell 45%. NPD says teenagers in general are spending less on CDs because they’re keeping their $$ for games. However, hardcore gamers (ie, play several times a week) still spend 58% of their entertainment budget on DVDs and 46% on CDs. In other words, companies wanting to tap these kids need to work on multi-formats. At the same time, video games like Rock Band (which sold 1.5 million units in the first two months) and Guitar Hero have brought the music of Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy to younger ears. Sales of Aerosmith’s single, ‘Same Old Song and
Dance’, increased 136 percent the week after Guitar Hero III was released, and skyrocketed 400 percent the week after Christmas. The Sex Pistols wanted to be in Guitar Hero III so badly they reunited to re-record ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’, because they didn’t have the original master recordings.
UNIVERSAL PUBL, MCDJ JOIN FORCES, SIGN POTBELLEEZ
Universal Music Publishing Australia has signed a worldwide co-publishing agreement with Sydney-based dance company MCDJ Music. Under the deal MCDJ will identify emerging domestic dance talent and develop the writers alongside UMP. UMP will provide administration support for the writers whilst also exploring creative channels including co-writing and synchronisation on a global basis. The first signing is Sydney based The Potbelleez, whose Top 10 hit ‘Don’t Hold Back’ is close to platinum.
CAMERON TO HELM SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Sydney Film Festival has appointed Fiona Cameron as its General Manager. She was GM of radio Nova Melbourne, CEO at pay TV station Aurora, a director of Commercial Radio Australia for eight years and is currently a director of The Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
FOREIGNDUB LAUNCHES LABEL Sydney DnB promoters Foreigndub have launched a record label, eying dub, DnB, jungle, dubstep, dancehall, reggae and hip hop acts in Australia and New Zealand. They have already signed Sydney’s The Bird and The Versionaries, and Melbourne’s Ishu and
THINGS WE HEAR
* Borders’ Oz and NZ operations are back on the market, after the collapse of a deal with A & R Whitcoulls. * The online release of the new Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV resulted in just under 800,000 transactions in its first week, totalling $1.6 million in revenue. * Foxtel has bought the Australian rights for The Spice Girls’ documentary Giving You Everything from their 19 Management company. * Sydney singer songwriter Selena Cross is about to break the 1 million plays on MySpace Music, which makes her the highest played unsigned artist in Australia. * Brit prog-rockers Marillion raised £360,000 (US$725,000) to make their 15th album after appealing direct to fans online. Over 12,000 fans were lured with promises to list their names on the cover, and putting them on the list for giveaways of concert tickets and backstage passes for the 2008 tour, and the possibility of appearing on their album. * Will the Australian Institute of Country Music be moving some time in the future.
Agency Dub Collective. Foreigndub started out four years ago doing the DNBBQ event in Sydney, and then went national, moving into the New Zealand market late last year. Contact for the label is co-director Michael Foley (the other director is Patricio Ordenes) at foreigndub@gmail.com.
CHUGG WINS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Australian tour promoter Michael Chugg was presented with the “Bottle Award” at the 20th Annual ILMC (International Live Music Conference) Arthur Awards ceremony held in London. The trophy, one of eight presented on the night, is recognized as the ILMC’s version of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Chugg had previously won at the ILMC awards, in 2006, as “Promoter’s Promoter”.
LIFELINES:
MESS HALL’S AMP WIN
Just how much did the AMP prize of $25,000 (donated by the PPCA) mean to The Mess Hall? They borrowed and earned the $50,000 to make the winning album Devil’s Elbow living on canned soup to make ends meet: they were not signed to Ivy League at the time, and they just concentrated on making art. Last Thursday, when they picked up the prize from the Gurus’ Dave Faulkner and Joel Maher from TZU, singer/ guitarist Jed Kurzel admitted he’d earlier got a testy phone call from Centrelink. The money will be used for touring the US and UK. The event was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art before 200 guests.
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Mutterings in the Cooloola Shire council is that it needs the premises for itself, and that the AICM should move to Gympie’s TAFE campus which has a lot of rooms but is relatively short on staff, courses and students. * Ticket sales on mobile phones are expected to reach 2.6 billion worldwide by 2011, totalling US$87 billion in sales, says Juniper Research. This includes tickets for airplanes, trains, concerts, sporting events, etc. * After Britain’s longest-serving rock weekly New Musical Express dropped in circulation to an all-time low of 64,000 per issue, will they axe the printed version and keep it as an e-mag? * Apple has dismissed press reports of the Beatles’ catalogue going online through iTunes as “unsubstantiated speculation.” * FBI are investigating a stalker who sends Britney dildos, dirty letters and pix of himself squirting yellow liquid into his mouth. Sounds a better catch than Kevin Federline.
THE PANICS GO GOLD
The Panics’ has been certified gold (35,000 units) for their album Cruel Guards, six months after it hit the stores through Dew Process/ Universal. It remains in the Motorola ARIA Top 30. The band is off to play the SxSW and then do dates in the US and UK. They’ve also signed with Universal Canada.
FAN OF THE WEEK
Brisbane woman Karen Lee Cooper, 50, was jailed for eight years in the Brisbane Supreme Court, for stabbing to death her de facto husband Kevin Lee Watson two years ago because he stopped her listening to her favourite Bruce Springsteen album. “Who doesn’t like Springsteen?” she’d squawked to police.
Expecting: The partners of Eskimo Joe’s singer/bassist Kavyen and guitarist Stu MacLeod will deliver little Eskimos this year. Dating: The UK tabloids say Natalie Imbruglia, 33, and Sam “son of Richard” Branson, 23, are more than good friends. Married: Rapper Kanye West and longterm girlfriend Alexis Phifer reportedly tied the knot in secret last month while holidaying in France. Marrying: Sugababes’ Amelle Berrabah and Freddie Fuller after she protected him when he was attacked by a machete-wielding assailant after a fight in a club. Hospitalised: Janet Jackson, after complaining of “shortness of breath”, for flu. Arrested: 60-year old woman calling herself Billie Jean Jackson, for trespassing at his Neverland ranch. She claimed they were married and the ranch was hers! In Court: Five teenagers in Lancashire, UK, who beat Sophie Lancaster, 20, to death after attacking her and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, 21, in a park because they dressed like goths or moshers. They jumped on her body so hard that police initially couldn’t tell if she was a girl or guy. Arrested: Japanese club DJ Atsushi Watanabe who unwittingly killed an American tourist in a club in the upmarket Tokyo suburb of Azabu. He said he tried to stop him from shoving other clubbers by choking him and punching him from behind. In Court: Tyler Alfred Barden, 20, and ex-galpal Alexis Kathryn Jarvis, 19, will stand trial over the death of Brisbane radioman Brian Heathcote. The Crown alleges the two followed him from a pub, and Barden attacked and robbed him. Out of Jail: Rapper The Game is out of jail after serving just eight days out of a possible 60 (having a firearm in school zone) because the jail was overcrowded. Suing: F.B.T. Productions and Em2M LLC, the producers who discovered Eminem hitting his record labels Aftermath and Interscope for $1 million, claiming their share of royalties have been “miscalculated”. Died: Steve Andrews, 39, 4BC talk back presenter, killed while crossing the road on the Sunshine Coast. Died: a 25-year old who attended the Future Music Festival at Melbourne’s Myer Music Bowl, and taken to hospital of a suspected drug overdose.
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FEATURE
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Still around for tomorrow By Dom Alessio
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oheed & Cambria are far from your usual band. Not even in Roger Waters or Peter Gabriel’s wildest dreams could they have concocted a band with such intricate concepts and multifarious creative offshoots. Sure, Pink Floyd might have staged some of the grandest rock tours the world has ever seen, and Gabriel might have paraded on stage during his tenure with Genesis as a strange character called Rael and sung about lambs and Broadway and supernatural anaesthetists. But Coheed & Cambria seem unmatched in the realm of progressive rock; a band whose albums form pieces in the giant puzzle of a story known as The Amory Wars.
This rock and roll libretto is the brainchild of Coheed’s bushy-haired frontman Claudio Sanchez, conceived on a Parisian jaunt in 1998. Each of the band’s four records tells part of The Amory Wars story, which sounds simple enough until you cast your eye upon the accompanying comic books and graphic novels. A collection of comics were released in 2004, then re-issued in 2007, covering the first third of Coheed & Cambria’s debut record, 2002’s The Second Stage Turbine Blades. Side-stepping the band’s sophomore release, Coheed & Cambria unveiled a graphic novel for their album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, illustrated by Christopher Shy. There are plans for all of Coheed & Cambria’s albums to been turned into illustrations, but that hasn’t happened quite yet. Confused? “OK, well, obviously each one of the band’s records plays a chapter in The
Amory Wars. And our main characters are Coheed and Cambria,” clarifies Sanchez, on the phone from New Hampshire, simultaneously shedding light on the origin of the band’s moniker. “And they’re like, kind of, the main characters in the first two stories which happen to be the band’s first album and what we’ll consider our next record, the prequel. “So anyway,” he continues unabated, “Coheed and Cambria are this couple who are told they aren’t who they think they are, that they’re actually built for this colony called Heaven’s Fence and not born into it, and in finding this out it leads them through a series of events that kind of create a downward spiral for them, and eventually leads them to their demise.” Thus bringing us to the climactic end of the band’s first record. But what about the other three? “They’re about their son’s quest for vendetta,” says Sanchez, who named this character Claudio. “And they’re kind of like a coming of age story where this guy figures out that he’s who he is and what his role in the story is and eventually that leads us to the end of the overall saga.” While his parents may not have actually been genetically engineered IRO-bots, naming a character after yourself tends to suggest there’s some skerrick of realism thrown into your story. “It’s semi-autobiographical,” Sanchez concedes. “It’s definitely a piece of fiction but a lot of this stuff stems from real things. I mean, I play a part in the story as a character and, you know, some of the events that these characters go through are definitely based on, kind of, real events.”
This certainly rings true for the band’s latest opus, once again christened with a lengthy title: Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow. After losing half the band, Sanchez admits Coheed & Cambria were in dire straits. “When we lost Mike and Josh back in the summer of 2006, it certainly was a discouraging moment in our career,” he says. But for Sanchez, the departures inspired him to write more, and subsequently a conclusion for his rock saga was born. “I found the parallels between losing the members and kind of what the characters had to go through to come to the end of this story. So I kind of, in a sense, fed the fiction with some reality, which I did with all the other albums. But that event in particular is kind of what fed No World for Tomorrow.” Even from a young age, Sanchez says, narratives have always co-existed with music. “I always found when I listened to a song I liked, I always created an image with that song. Like, for example, if we were driving down the street and a song came on – ‘All Along the Watchtower’ by Jimi Hendrix – I would look out the window and in my mind there was a scene that would be played out where maybe our hero is running across these buildings to the beat of this music.” Although artistically inclined as a child, the young Sanchez dreamed of illustrating his own comic books, “but in those attempts I found out I wasn’t a very good sequential artist, so that’s why I kind of pushed over into writing.” But music came about more by accident, he admits. After being asked to join a friend’s band when he was 12, Sanchez entertained
the idea of being a drummer, as all raucous teens tend to do. But it was only after finding a guitarist for the band, someone a little older, a little wiser, and a lot more arrogant, that Sanchez took to the six strings. “I think his attitude was what kind of pushed my buttons to move to guitar and so that’s kind of why I picked it up.” Now a guitar legend in his own right, Sanchez has become the face of the Minarik Medusa; an axe which he describes as “Prince’s guitar gone wrong”. “The guitars were just so wild and they just caught my eye,” he recalls about his first contact with Minarik at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show. “This one in particular, because it’s called the Medusa, and it kinda makes a bunch of sense because I have crazy hair! As ridiculous as it sounds, I mean that’s kind of what sparked me.” Speaking of his “crazy” hair, when was the last time Sanchez got it cut? He lets out a guttural laugh before answering, “You know, it had to have been maybe Warped Tour 2004. Our manager’s wife came through, and she’s a hairdresser, and she’s like ‘You gotta cut your hair, you need some work on it’. And I’m like ‘OK, whatever, give it a go’. And she did, and ever since I’m like, ‘I’m never having anyone touch it again!’”
Who: Coheed & Cambria What: No World For Tomorrow out now through SonyBMG When: Monday March 31 Where: UNSW Roundhouse
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oisin Murphy is a character. Poised to appear in Australia at the V Festival, she’s been tipped off that the Reid brothers, Jim and William, better known as the songwriting partnership that drives feedback and sustain dark rock merchants, The Jesus And Mary Chain, are on the bill. This titillates her no end. “I don’t know what they are going to do,” she laughs. “They’ll end up with a suntan. Maybe they’ll send on somebody out on stage with umbrellas. I mean, all that light and sun.”
This is the third time round the musical rink with Murphy in the past six years and it’s always a pleasure, simply because she never really holds anything back. The former lead singer of Moloko became an instant celebrity when the band released its debut album, Do You Like My Tight Sweater? , and thousands of fans answered in the affirmative. Sexy, with a voice to die before, drawn to the cutting edge yet with an ear for sweet melody, Murphy and her then boyfriend, Mark Brydon, made four albums over
nine years all of which proved that electronica really could be both intelligent and passionate. Their music dripped class. In 2003, after the release of Statues, Brydon backed out of doing any PR and Moloko hasn’t been seen since. Murphy has refused to say it’s over for good but she hasn’t said much else about the band either. Instead she’s continued on where Moloko left off producing two excellent solo albums, Ruby Blue, and last year’s Overpowered. Splendid, slightly eccentric, brimming with ideas, they underscore her place on the top rung of 21st century songwriters. Remarkably, with Overpowered, she created a modern disco album that doesn’t suck. Not bad for an Irish woman brought up in Arklow, County Wicklow, Republic Of Ireland, who at the age of nine announced the emergence of her inner non-conformist by using her savings to get her long blonde hair cut for a flat top. Bullied at school, she developed a taste for Sonic Youth and, ironically, the aforementioned Jesus And Mary Chain, and was inspired by Vivienne Westwood’s designs at Trash. In 1994 she met Brydon at a party and used the pick-up line “Do you like my tight sweater? See how it fits my body.” It worked. More recently, on October 27, while performing in Moscow she wore a stage prop and nearly lost an eye. “It’s all better thanks,” she says. “I’ve got a little scar I didn’t plan to have but a few millimetres further and I wouldn’t have an eye at all.” As it turns out Murphy is accident prone. “Oh yeah, I’ve had lots of stage accidents ,” she says. “Of course, I broke my arm in Melbourne and then another time when I was crowd surfing my crew were supposedly catching me but they dropped me hard and I got a big bruised arse. And then at the beginning of touring this record I fell and sprained and ankle. Then my bass player broke his thumb. Then I did my eye. Then my tour manager had to be sent home with kidney complications. Then my bus driver broke his back ...” Pardon. “He broke his back.” How? “I don’t know. He just did.” So if Roisin Murphy asks you to be part of her tour party ... get top level private health insurance. This fashionista - she admits to having started collecting clothes when she was about 13 - found she had other problems when she recorded Overpowered - most notably, the famous producer Jimmy Douglass, one of several top flight collaborators she worked with including Seiji in West London, Andy Cato in Barcelona, Richard X in Hoxton and then Douglass and his associate, Ill Factor, in Miami. Douglass is well-known for his work with hip-hop producer Timbaland in the recent years, but the work of the man they call Senator Jimmy D stretches back to the 1970s, when he worked with Otis Redding, Bette Midler, Hall & Oates, The Rolling Stones and others. “He was horrible to me,” Murphy says. “He got great vocals out of me by being disgusting to me. He’s a cranky old guy and he wasn’t having any of it from me. The younger producers tend to be happy to go to a specific place in a song and replace a bit at a time but Jimmy likes to get vocals down from the top to the bottom of the song. No fiddling around. He’s used to working with great vocalists and he expected the same from me. I don’t think anybody else could have got me to the point he did, could have got those vocal performances out of me.” She reckons Ill Factor and Douglass ran a good cop/bad cop routine. Douglass was the “miserable git” and his young prodigy was “the nicest guy in the world”. It worked. Working with Douglass in the US also allowed Murphy to see the black and white, chalk and cheese, that is production in the US and UK. “They definitely work harder in the US,” she says. “Even Jimmy at 50 doesn’t leave the studio until at least 4am and some days he stayed to 8am. In the UK they tend to start and finish a lot earlier. There’s an expectation in the US to work hard, partially because they don’t have social security. Matthew Herbert [who produced Ruby Blue] would stop at 6.30pm and that was that. Then he’d start early the next morning. These people were scared of losing their income because there’s no health system. You even need money to go to hospital.” And for an accident prone woman that thought could be overpowering.
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G Love & Special Sauce Guitar strummin’ By Tony Edwards
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Love and his band Special Sauce have been pushing their brand of hip hop blues for 15 years now. It’s a crew that’s stood the test of time – G Love (AKA Garrett Dutton III) on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Jeff Clemens on drums and vocals, and Jimi Jazz on upright bass. Keys player Mark Boyce has only become a part of the fold in the last two years since the group released their last album, Lemonade. A new album, Super Hero Brother, is finished and ready to be unleashed upon the world. “It’s a cool record for us,” G Love explains in his likeable Boston drawl. “It’s a real band record, whereas Lemonade was really kind of assembled in studio, we really were making those tracks and not really performing them as much. Sure there’s great performances on it but it was mostly about making live beats. The new record is more about a live band’s performance in the studio.” Adding Boyce’s keys to the lineup has also added another dynamic to the sound. The singer/songwriter has been concentrating specifically on his digit dexterity lately. “I really tried to take my guitar playing to the next level on this record. I definitely put more thought into what I wanted to do on my guitar overdubs than previous records. Anybody can play the guitar you know. I know I got soul and I got a passion for it, you’ve just got to put the time in on the guitar and make sure your co-ordination
and your speed are up to a certain level. That’s what I’ve been trying to do.” Considering how sharp those skills were to begin with, they’re sure to get razor sharp. Those same skills have been honoured by legendary guitar manufacturer Gretsch, who’ve asked him to design his own personal guitar for their signature series. It’s called the G Love Corvette. “I said well that’s like a bigger honour for me than having a record deal honestly. Anybody can put a record out, but there’s not that many people that have a signature guitar come out on a guitar line as prestigious and historical as Gretsch. That’s definitely been a huge milestone in my career. And that’s another reason I’ve been practicing, if I’ve got my own guitar man I’d better be able to play that shit!” he laughs. With influences as varied as Bob Dylan, KRS One and the Beatles (he names masters of all genres when I quiz him), it’s not surprising that the G Love sound has always been varied. “We’re a real melting pot of music and that’s something we’ve taken a lot of heat for critically. ‘They don’t know what they’re doing, they’re playing a rock song and a reggae song and a hip hop song...’, and we definitely can switch between all these different styles. It’s almost annoying to me... I mean whenever I feel like playing a reggae song I wish I could just keep it to the hip hop blues. But the truth is at the right time and the right moment I love to play myself some reggae. I like music you
know, I love good music. Stylistically it’s a labour to make myself keep on the same beat.” He concedes that very variety has been one of the factors that have allowed them to continue as a band for so long. Everybody has been able to express themselves artistically over the years even as their personal tastes changed the styles they wanted to play. “We’ve seen a lot of people come and go, whether they never really made it or whether they got really big and fell off. We just keep on truckin’ you know,
and that’s something that we’re pretty proud of. It takes a lot to keep together, to keep the personell together, and it has to do with a lot more than just the music. It certainly has been a big achievement.” Who: G Love & The Special Sauce What: March 20 / 22 When: Enmore Theatre / East Coast Blues & Roots Festival
Loudon Wainwright III Seasick Steve One strange weirdo By Justin Grey
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etter known for being an acclaimed American folk singer-songwriter, Loudon Wainwright III has also lent his delightful humour to a broad range of non-music roles over his 40 years as a performing artist, ranging from a singing surgeon in iconic 70s television show M*A*S*H to Katherine Heigl’s gynaecologist in recent comedy Knocked Up.
to the surface or sinks to the bottom. I’ll do songs from the new album, songs from older albums and brand new songs. I’m hoping to stand up onstage for 75 minutes and take people on a journey – laughter, tears, vomiting, whatever. I enjoy amusing other people, I think I can do that, and I can also sing more serious songs. You know, whatever works.”
The jovial Wainwright – who attended a New York drama school before getting into music and laughingly brands his Knocked Up turn as Dr Howard as a ‘pleading performance’ – is also the man responsible for the film’s soundtrack. Teaming with brilliant singersongwriter and acclaimed producer Joe Henry, Wainwright’s efforts resulted in the touching yet humorous Strange Weirdos. “Judd Apatow, the writer/director, is a fan of my work and he approached me,” Wainwright explains of the project’s genesis. “He’d heard the song ‘Daughter’ – which is not one of my songs but it’s a song that I sing – and this other song of mine called ‘Grey In LA’ and he thought they might be good for this film he’d written. He had a meeting with Joe and gave us the gig. Joe and I wrote a bunch of songs, some of which are in the movie and others aren’t. We realised we had an album out of it too, and not just a soundtrack album but an actual Loudon Wainwright record. So that’s basically how Strange Weirdos happened.”
Giving the trip a familial slant – which comes as no surprise given the extent to which music runs in this family (Loudon, after all, is father to both Rufus and Martha Wainwright) – one of the man’s other children will accompany him Down Under. “My daughter Lucy WainwrightRoche is coming with me and she’ll be fabulous,” he beams with due pride. “She’ll be the opening act, then we’re gonna do some songs together to end the show. So it’s gonna be a family affair.”
“I made it in my kitchen, so I’m glad anybody liked it,” Steve says self-effacingly. “I wasn’t even making an album. I had a heart attack and I wasn’t doing much anymore of anything – I wasn’t doing much before either, really. But then my wife said, ‘Why don’t you just sit in the kitchen and record some songs, so I had an old fourtrack and a couple of mics from the 40s and I just sat down and recorded them songs. There ain’t much to it, you know? I was just making some recordings, and then when I got done I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve got 12 or 13 songs, maybe I should just…’. I didn’t know anyone was gonna like it, then the whole thing kind of went crazy. It’s like getting dug up from the grave and getting shook off.” Giving Seasick Steve’s music its quintessential substance is the fact that his tales of hard luck, down-in-the-gutter life are entirely autobiographical. When he sings in his timeless, ragged croon about a life spent between hopping freight trains and county jails as a homeless hobo surviving on food stamps, it emanates from deep within the soul of a man whose life has been just that. “I think that’s why people like it a little bit, they know I’m just singing about shit that happened to me,” Steve contends. “There ain’t nothin’ on that record that didn’t happen to me. It means now I got endless things to sing about; I look back on it with kind of rosy glasses, you know? But it wasn’t so rosy, but anyway it gave me a lot to write about. I have one new song I wrote about my dog dying last year, but mostly when I sit down with the guitar my brain just flies back. I’m just surprised that people want to listen to me – no one ever wanted to listen before, so I don’t know what’s happened. I guess going on the TV and things like that.”
While the creative processes involved in soundtrack work differ somewhat from those for a standard studio album, of which Wainwright has released more than 20 since his 1970 selftitled debut, the process was no less enjoyable for the pair. “We worked at a leisurely pace ’cos they were filming the movie over months,” he continues. “Also, when you’re doing music for a movie the captain of the ship is the director. So the decisions about what was in the movie were his final choices, but he contributed to the album too. For instance, he suggested we record my song ‘Lullaby’, which was originally a tune on an album I made in 1973 – and I wouldn’t have thought of that. And it was his idea to get [British folk legend] Richard Thompson to play on it. So it was more of a collaborative process than what I’m used to. The whole experience was uplifting; I’m pleased with the way it turned out.” This week the full kaleidoscope of Wainwright’s songwriting, ranging from the heart-achingly tender to the downright hilarious, will be the talk of the town when he returns to Australia for the first time in over a decade for the East Coast Blues & Roots Festival. “I’ve got some new songs I’ll be singing down there,” he reveals. “I’m always trying to write, and occasionally something rises
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ot a great deal is known about Steve Wold, aka American bluesman Seasick Steve. Born somewhere in the Deep South (possibly Mississippi) sometime in the mid-40s, Seasick Steve shot out of nowhere in 2007 with the release of his stunningly authentic Dog House Music album.
Who: Loudon Wainwright III What: Strange Weirdos is out now through Concord Records/Universal. When: March 19 / 20 / 21 Where: Factory Theatre / Civic Theatre / East Coast Blues & Roots Festival
The acclaim heaped on Seasick Steve following the release of Dog House Music – which included the Best Breakthrough Act Award from revered UK rag Mojo –couldn’t have come as more of a surprise for this lifelong bluesman who has played music between menial jobs ever since leaving home at age 13.
“It was real unexpected!” he deadpans. “I really thought my deal was in every way over with. I was just sitting around pretty sick, cut down at the bottom. My wife had a job working at old people’s homes so we were scraping by. I figured there wasn’t much I was gonna do anymore, don’t no one give me no job. So this was kind of a miracle. “You know, I tried to make money playing music for the last 35 years and I wasn’t so successful, so this is like some kind of resurrection or something. Except I never was famous, so I’m just getting dug up for the first time. It’s a bit late, but it’s all good. The people over here England and Europe, they going crazy, so I’m just very happy I got me a job. It’s a few steps up from busking on the streets. I just hope that the people like me for a few more years so I can get me a pension fund going.” Who: Seasick Steve What: Dog House Music out now through Bronzerat/Inertia When: March 21 / 26 Where: East Coast Bluesfest / The Basement
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The Datsuns Ich bin ein New Zealander By Alexi Sebastian
Ozzy Osbourne (& Zakk Wylde) The dynamic duo By Steve Tauschke
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s a New Zealander now living in Europe, Datsuns’ guitarist Phil Buscke has developed a longing for the comforts of home. “I miss fresh fish,” confesses the Kiwi, his unmistakeable accent echoing down the phone line. “I used to be on the boat every now and again catching fresh fish back home and cooking ‘em up on the barbie. But mind you, the food in Germany’s pretty good and a lot of it comes from New Zealand - our best export in Europe is food pretty much. We went all the way to Germany and we were getting Kiwi fruit!” Emerging from the small north island town of Cambridge with 2002’s self-titled debut - an album that rode the perfect retro-rock wave and earned the band “the future of rock” tag from the UK press – The Datsuns signed to V2 (White Stripes, Moby) at the height of their popularity before moving to London to chase their rock n’ roll dreams, the Datsuns have stayed the course, relocating to Germany from London in 2007 while finding time for a whirlwind Antipodean tour this month. So why the shift from London to Germany for you guys? Well, we initially just went over there to record and we met up with a friend on the road who had a studio in a small town in Germany. We wanted to move out of England and go somewhere a bit cheaper. And we were playing a lot of shows around Europe anyway and it just worked out better for us. And how’s the new album coming along? It’s going really well. We were doing it in a town called Guetersloh, about three hours from Berlin. We met up with this guy on the road and he offered us his studio really cheap but we ended up just using it as a practise room. Then we hooked up with the
guys from Soundtrack Of Our Lives and they have their own studio in Gothenburg in Sweden so we did the album there in two two-week blocks, recording 16 or 17 tracks. It’s at the mastering stage now and we’re going to do a tour 45 and we might even do some more recording. Having worked with someone like Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones in the past, were you confident recording on your own this time? Yeah, we just did this one ourselves with our live engineer, a guy called Scott who’s been with us from the early days and who knows exactly what we like and how to get good performances. He just engineered the record and we produced it, the five of us, just like our third record which we did by ourselves. Kalle, the Soundtrack bass player would come in if we had any problems. I don’t suppose you’ve deviated from the blueprint sound-wise? It sounds more live I suppose, more so than any of our stuff. I thought our third record sounded a lot more like us live and this one is kind of even more so. But in terms of the songs, we’ve always just done whatever comes out and there’s been a lot of variation on all of the records really. The last album we had some gospel songs and some slide guitar as well as the fast stuff we’re known for. But there’s always been this element with us of trying something new and it’s not like a planned thing. It’s just whatever comes out of us. So this record is even more varied than our last one Smoke n’ Mirrors. Who: The Datsuns When: March 20 Where: The Annandale Hotel
ot long after nibbling on the bat’s head he famously compared to “a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather”, Ozzy Osbourne discovered teenage guitar prodigy and eventual right-hand-man Zakk Wylde. The guitarist has performed intermittently with the ex-Sabbs singer on his post-Randy Rhoads solo career since the mid-80s. These days Wylde may look like a marauding metal guitar viking, but at heart he’s a sweet dog-loving family man who still loves “jammin’ with the boss”. Beat caught up with a raspy-voiced Wylde from his Californian ranch on the eve of an Australian tour to support Black Rain, Ozzy’s first studio album in six years. You’re quoted as saying you still listen to music with 14-year-old’s ears. Is that to keep yourself young? Yeah you have to, man, because then it just turns into a job. You gotta do it like when you were 14, when you were just practising all the time – just for the love of it! Forget about the money, you know the money’s nice so you can get nice things, like there’s a Les Paul or a Marshall you can actually buy it whereas back in the day you’d have to wait five months mowing lawns and working at the gas station to save up. But the guys I know who just did it for the money, they’re not even playing music anymore! I started with Ozzy when I was 19 and now I’m 41 and we’re still whooping ass and getting bigger and bigger. I’m still jammin’ with the boss! Speaking of gas stations I believe Ozzy discovered you working at one in New Jersey! “Exactly! Haha! Yeah,
this guy Dave Feldman saw me playing at a club and he said ‘Zakk, ever think about auditioning for Ozzy?’ and I’m thinking ‘So do you know the guys in Led Zeppelin, too?’ I think there might have been eight people in this club, including the janitor and the bar tender and the soundman. This guy said he couldn’t promise me anything but he could definitely get a tape to Ozzy. And I thought, ‘What the hell have I got to lose, I’m working at a gas station!’ And so here we are now – coming back down to Australia. So tell us how you and Ozzy go about writing a track together - how does it work? Well I’ll write all the riffs and the music and everything like that and Ozzy will go ‘man, that one is really cool but that one I’m not so sure about’. So you write a whole bunch of them and eventually you’re going to get twelve good ones. What a heavenly job! It definitely helps pay for the beer tab! I don’t know about the secret to life but I think you gotta just find what you love and just do it to death – just drive it into the ground. Give it everything you’ve got and if you’re fortunate enough to make a living doing what you do then great. You don’t have to be Joe Trillionaire or anything like that. So long as you put food on the table for your wife and kids then you’ve made it because you can still make the music you love. Just because you’re not selling 60 million records doesn’t mean you’re not a success.
Who: Ozzy Osbourne What: Black Rain is out through Sony/ BMG. When: March 18 Where: Acer Arena
HIM ch bin ein New Zealander By Alexi Sebastian Venus Doom. “It does have really direct, three and a half minute poppy rock tracks, and then something a bit more experimental. It’s a nice combination of all the stuff we adore in music. “We got a few riffs together and filled it with a doomy, cathedral, Monster Magnet-meetsSabbath kind of vibe. It wasn’t a conscious decision to have heavier, more and more intricate instrumentation; it was more just going with the flow. The best thing about music is to let the songs take you wherever they want to go. Occasionally you have to slap the song on the butt cheeks and say, ‘No no, back’, but it’s good when you don’t know what’s happening and you’re just letting the song go.”
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ate last year, rumours zigzagged through cyberspace that HIM frontman Ville Valo would follow in the footsteps of Madonna and Chris Cornell and co-write and sing the theme song to the next James Bond movie. While the singer freely admits he himself heard the rumours through the grape vine, such highmarket speculation reflects the international acclaim for the Finnish rock quintet that’s steadily built over their 17-year career but
snowballed with the late 2007 release of their sixth studio album Venus Doom. Back on deck in his Helsinki home and sucking in as much caffeine as he can following the first bout of touring for the album, Valo reflects on the creation of HIM’s heaviest collection of tunes yet. “It was a bit different to what we’ve done in the past,” the singer explains, in a surprisingly deep and clear baritone, of
Coupled with that open-ended creative approach was a desire to eschew the tone of Venus Doom’s 2005 predecessor Dark Light. “Usually an album always reflects on the previous one before,” Valo contends. “So Dark Light was fairly straightforward, melodic and poppy, and not to say that the new album isn’t melodic and catchy, but it’s just the ghost of Black Sabbath that got us into music in the first place started rearing its wonderfully ugly head again. While I was writing the basic chord structures a lot of the songs were what I could call overly sweet, and so I wanted the songs to be a bit more darker. That’s the reason why we added a lot of guitars, ‘cos otherwise it would’ve become like a fucking Elton John album
– something we didn’t want to happen. When we were working on it I was going through a lot of personal shit, so it’s cathartic, but it’s not cathartic enough. So that’s always a good reason to try again next time.” For the time being though it’s round two of touring on the back of Venus Doom for HIM, taking in Australia and North America before returning to the summer festival circuit of Europe. And for Valo in particular, recent touring has been marked by the turning over of a new leaf. “This was basically the first time I’ve toured full-blown sober in about ten years,” he says of the late 2007 tour. “So it’s been an eyeopener for me on various levels. I used to drink a lot, my body started to say, ‘No no’ about five years ago, and then it said, ‘No no no!’ a couple of times and it started really arguing with me. So last Spring I had to quit, for a bit at least. So I’ve been behaving myself when it comes to intoxicants, and it’s been giving me new angles on the whole touring thing. Touring is just a fucking pain in the arse when it comes to trying to figure out how to spend your time off sober!” Who: HIM What: Venus Doom out now through Sire/ Warner. When: March 25 Where: Big Top Luna Park
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Tic Toc Tokyo Tic tic boom By Alexander Maxwell
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n a musical landscape dominated by boofhead testosterone-fuelled rawk, Melbourne fourpiece Tic Toc Tokyo stand apart, their angular rhythms, oblique lyrics and cerebral approach in stark contrast to the JJJ mainstream. After crafting three hand-tooled demo CDs since forming two years ago, TTT have released their first bona fide fourtrack EP Artefacts via a distribution deal with MGM. Producer Casey Rice has given TTT’s muscular minimalism an extra dimension, particular in the dub coda to ‘Colour Of Place’. “That experimental element of the recording is something we’d like to pursue and work towards in the future,” says singer and guitarist Simon Gibbs. TTT got together almost randomly, with the fact they were neophytes in the Melbourne scene helping them to gel quickly. “That was really important because we were all on quite an equal pegging,” says Simon. “At the start there was no hierarchy and we all wanted to be in a band.” Guitarist Marty Umanski says the band has realised getting a record deal is not necessarily the holy grail. “We came to the point when we realised we didn’t need to sign with a record label. We could just play the music, record it and find a way to put it out.”
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He reckons it’s possible to reach the masses without compromising artistic values. “There are a lot of bands who are popular and artists in their own right. Integrity is the most important, we want to push ourselves to do something that’s different, but at the same time we don’t set out to alienate people. It’s a matter of doing what you believe in musically.” While clearly post-punk acolytes, TTT’s sound is very much their own. Simon’s vocals synthesise the fragility of a young David Sylvian with John Lydon’s PiL-era machinegun intensity. Their progenitors are obvious (the angular ‘Dialogue’ updates Johnny Marr’s iconic ‘Sweet And Tender Hooligan’ bass line), but never overwhelming. “We all have quite different influences”, says Simon. “There’s points where they cross over but it’s not like we’re trying to emulate any one sound.” Lyrically, TTT create fragmented wordscapes – overheard snatches of conversation mashed up with angst-fuelled slogans and ambiguous non-sequiturs. Simon says the band isn’t into writing straight love songs. “It’s quite interesting to have subject matter that’s not necessarily the norm. We don’t have any songs about love or anything like that, I’d rather write songs about washing machines.” On the extraordinary ‘Ladies In Vogue’. Nic and Simon intone cryptic, apocalyptic phrases (“Have You Noticed The Signs?” “Falling”, “Stuck Again”) over a repetitive,
controlled, almost fascistic rhythm. It evokes a bleak, paranoid urban dystopia – as much pre-unification East Berlin as Melbourne’s disaffected suburbs. “'Ladies in Vogue' is about Australia’s history, my feelings about my surroundings,” says Nic. “I’d never write anything Bono-esque, like a preacher; it’s quite distasteful. The lyrics are abstract enough to mean anything you want.” TTT were unlucky in their quest for a spot at the V Festival, missing out to Little Red at the state finals. But somehow you can’t see the band in the soulless atmosphere of a festival; this week sees them launch the EP in the familiar surrounds of the Northcote Social Club. When TTT were searching for a moniker, Nic resurrected an old spoof Japanese band name. Little did he know I Heart Hiroshima and teenagersintokyo would also play with melding the exotic and the everyday. “If someone could have told us when we started playing there was going to be a Japanese band name revival you would have laughed.” That sums up Tic Toc Tokyo – well on their way to becoming Australia’s premier playful post-punk aesthetes. Who: Tic Toc Tokyo Who: Artefacts out now thru MGM Distribution When: March 20 Where: Future is Now, The Gaelic Club
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Three times a lady By Kirsty Brown
Tic tic boom By Alexander Maxwell
chat with one or the other of them in the past 22 months. The story goes like this. “It is a challenge to deal with everything that has happened,” he says. “It’s a good word. It’s interesting. You know that’s life and we’re just trying to enjoy it. There are many things on a personal level that are challenged and you have to deal with all those personal challenges. And they are even more of a challenge than dealing with the whole industry thing.
e catch up with newly added 3rd member Dave Miller about the new lineup, being signed to the prestigious Warp label and that long awaited second album…
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Hi Dave! When did you come out from under the radar and turn into a full-blown Pivot member? I played a few shows with Pivot after the release of the first record in 2006, but it wasn’t until we did some initial recording for this new record that I felt 100% a part of the family.... Can you explain to us what your role will be within the band’s live shows? We are now far too used to the duo setup. Yeh, I guess the live set has gone under a few incarnations over the past few years. Generally I play all the loops/sounds that can’t be played by instruments. I also do live sampling of Richard and Laurence to build up walls of noise that can’t be created by two people. The show is more dynamic now and we’ve got the ability to improvise with the songs and sounds a lot, which means no show will be identical, so that keeps things interesting for us and the audience I guess... When seeing a show, I like the idea of not knowing what is going to happen next. Our suspicions about the Warp signing were raised when you played on the ‘Warp Night’ with Battles at the Sydney Festival- can you give us a bit of background about how your signing came about? We aren’t sure if there was one reason behind it. There were probably a few factors that came into play... Ummm, we also know a particularly devious girl who was able to drop a CD-R on the right peoples desk last year. We had our record mixed by John McEntire (Tortoise) who the Warp people knew. Laurence played drums on the last Savath & Savalas album, so his name was known in their office through that. I’ve been living in London for the past 2-3 years, so being able to meet and greet people also helps a great deal. Oh, and making a record that they like probably
helped aswell! All of those things helped I guess. How does it feel to be the first Aussie band to be signed to the label? What kind of opportunities does it present for you now? It’s the label that got us all into electronic music in the first place, so to not only be recognized, but to be made a member of the family is really cool. It makes us feel like we are drinking Baileys on ice. Hanging with Maximo Park on the weekend and trying to teach them Australian pub rules was fun. As far as other opportunities go, I guess we’ll wait and see. We are heading over to London in April for some shows in Europe and the UK and hopefully things will start rolling even faster once we are there. You’ve been fairly quiet these last few months, what have you been working on and how is the new album coming along? After our gigs with Battles we’ve been doing quite a bit of rehearsing and preparing to go overseas. The album for Warp is completely finished, and we are actually starting to write some new ideas now. We’ve also been playing a bit of tennis, cooking Persian food and drinking rum. What’s been exciting you during the process? I guess the most interesting thing about our forthcoming record is that it was produced almost completely over the internet. Recordings done in Sydney, sent to me in London, then lots of backwards and forwardings between me and Richard to get the final output. When I told the Warp peeps they either didn’t believe me or didn’t understand. I guess that’s a good thing. WHEN, OH WHEN can we hear some new music?? First single is in May. Album in August. Hold tight. Who: Pivot When: March 20 Where: Oxford Art Factory
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ame is a strange beast; it isn’t the same monster for everybody. For Rodrigo Sanchez, one half of the successful cult classical guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela, fame is a challenge, particularly on a personal level. It’s principal ally, success, confronts most of what he calls home; its friend, money, means he has to translate everything and clear it with his roots and himself. And if that sounds complicated it’s supposed to be. Rodrigo and rhythm guitarist, Gabriela Quintero, met in Mexico City while playing in the thrash metal band, Tierra Acida. It didn’t work out. Nowhere land beckoned. So they upped roots headed for Europe and ended up in Ireland, busked the streets doing versions of classic rock songs such as ‘Stairway To Heaven’ and Metallica’s ‘Orion’, were discovered by singer/songwriter Damien Rice and hit it big with their fourth album, a self-titled monster that topped the Irish charts in March 2006 and received rave reviews everywhere. And, people, this pair can play. And that’s pretty much all they’ve been doing since then - playing endlessly around the world, and it isn’t over quite yet, although you sense Rodrigo is close to ‘enough’ and the duo just want to take a breather and work out what they are going to next. He’s stashed away in Mexico on the end of yet another string of calls. How busy are Rodrigo Y Gabriela - well, this is my third
“The toughest thing to deal with is money. Money can just rot things. I don’t come from a musically successful background. We left Mexico went to Europe, didn’t go home for five years. And things have changed, the structure of things changes, family has changed, friends have changed. For us, it was a lonely journey for those five years. We were our only friends. Then, all of a sudden, you meet a lot of people, and everybody wants to know you, and you don’t know who are friends and who aren’t. At the same time it is good that we have had the opportunity to do this. I don’t know how long it is going to last so we are trying to find the right balance and see what we are going to get out of it.” That’s a chapter they are still trying to write. A new album would be good but Rodrigo says they have to stop touring first . For twoand-a-half years they have been trying to find time to compose new music. It’s also a matter of better organisation. With the next record they’ll have the chance to organise all the tours, the centers they have to go to, the release dates, as opposed to the chaos that’s resulted from staggered release dates over the past 24 months. “We were lucky to have the reaction we’ve had so we can be confident in taking a year off and not worrying a lot about money. Just relax and be confident about concentrating on our music. We are thankful we will be able to do that.” What Rodrigo and Gabriela have learned is industry and they’ve learnt how to survive. “For a while we did everything,” he says, “tour managing, driving, booking. We did the lot. Now we are released on indie labels in some parts of the world and on majors in others. We concede to both sides of the industry world. It’s funny how things work but, for us, music has to be the ultimate weapon.” Who: Rodrigo Y Gabriela When: March 23-24 / 26 Where: Bluesfest / Enmore Theatre
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KISS: Gene Simmons Locking horns with The Demon, Round Two By Elmo “What In The Crap Is Going On?” Keep
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ometimes in our conversation, Gene Simmons truly shoots goals on point. You just need to sift through the Gene Simmons hubris to get to the Gene Simmons gold. And boy, is there a lot of hubris.
And therein lies the Gene Simmons paradox: like just about everyone, no matter their reputation, he has some very admirable traits. Despite ruling like a dictator, viewers of Family Jewels will well know how deeply and openly he loves his family, and that he is endearingly proud of his children, Sophie, 15 and Nick, 18. He won’t blink at being made fun of by any of them. He’ll call his 89 year old mother to tell her he loves her. He piggy backs a squealing Shannon around the carpark, and in another episode gets royally chewed out by her for ordering in burgers while on a diet, sitting robe-clad on his bed and scoffing them like a naughty kid. It would be a cold, cold heart that didn’t find this incongruous vision - well, cute. “So,” I ask. “What is one piece of advice you might give to your son, say, to try and impart what it is that’s made your partnership so successful?” “As a woman?”
“Have you always been this way?” “You just watch. This is nothing.” “What did you want to be when you were a kid?” “God,” Gene Simmons answers incredulously, as if he ever had a choice “Ok. Well, you know, everybody’s got their little pipedream.” “Ooh… I’m getting closer.” “Yeah?” “On that note I must run. My next interview will be very angry with me. I do wish you well though.” “And I you. Thankyou so much for chatting with me.” “My pleasure.” “It’s been…” I realise I’m not sure what it’s been. “Mind blowing.” Who: KISS Where: Acer Arena When: Thursday March 20
“Err, no. To your son.” “But you’re asking as a woman.” “Well, yes I am a woman.” “You’re asking as a woman and you want long term because by your middle years you’ll stop being able to procreate and you’re only making one or two eggs per month. The man is able to procreate his entire life until he dies, and until slightly after he’s dead too. And he makes hundreds of million of sperm in the time that it takes you to make one or two.” “Which is why women are so much more powerful in this equation, because women choose,” I say. I figure here, that I’ll play some ball too. You know, to make the fight fair. “What?” Gene Simmons demands. “We’re more powerful when it comes to this equation of the continuation of the species.” “Good luck with that,” Gene Simmons laughs derisively. “Men don’t think about the continuation of the species.” “Yes they do,” I say. “It’s why they want to fuck everything that moves. It’s just their evolutionary drive.” “I’m sorry. It sounded like I was finished, but I wasn’t,” Gene Simmons cuts it. “The phrase, ‘He’s a good catch’ or ‘I’m gonna get my claws in him’ doesn’t have a male equivalent. Biologically, she’s desperate. She wants to catch one, before she stops being able to make children. Women are desperate to find a mate before they are able to stop procreating.” “Yes. And that’s our evolutionary drive.” “That’s actually all I said. I said nothing else. Men don’t have that desperation. That’s my strong suggestion to my daughter.” “Are you positing perhaps, that we have to be able to rise above our biological urges to be happy?” “Yes! Get over it. Women – get a hobby. Stop defining yourself by men. The biggest insult a woman can give another woman is ‘you can’t even get a man.’ So fucking what? Get ten men. Become a strong human being, male or female.” This is really great advice. Really. It was balled up in an insult, but still... “Do you ever catch up with the other guys, you know, do you ever just hang out for a barbeque or whatever?” “Ace and Peter? Oh no. They’ve got their lives. Ace is trying to do a club tour and Peter is married to his wife. I’m not familiar with this married thing, but I’ve heard about it.” “Do you enjoy working on any one of your television shows more than the others?” “I don’t think in the menu of life you should have to choose. You should say ‘I’ll take it all’. I like them all. Cheesecake tastes different from steak, but I enjoy them both just as much.” “Do you ever have down time?” “When you sleep! You’ll have lots of time to rest when you’re dead! Working is a privilege. Every poor person in the world would kiss your feet to have a job.” “There’s some people who are lucky to do what they love. I’ll be working I hope, until I’m too old to type.” “That’s why people will continue to pick up my garbage, you see? If you don’t have ambition you will stay in the same place in life and that’s OK. Somebody’s got to wrap fish. And that’s OK. You make your bed, you sleep in it. I like golden beds. I have big visions and big appetites and this is just the beginning. Everybody’s allowed to have small dreams. I don’t.”
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Duran Duran The price of fame By Mike Gee
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ohn Taylor is a talkative 47-year-old slightly rock star for whom time may be ticking. And you get the feeling he knows it. If that sounds tough it isn’t meant to be. Duran Duran, the band he founded and in which he’s spent 26 of the last 30 years, are genuine survivors and still know how to put on a show and cut it live. Its latest album, Red Carpet Massacre, isn’t as bad as its been made out to be by some critics; there are moments of real grandeur and working class grunt and some of the melodies match the band’s best. The problem is that uber producer Timbaland and his protégé Nate “Danja” Hills have cut the band out of the album. Yes, Simon Le Bon is on every track, and Nick Rhodes gets to whirl his keyboards on and off but the band’s strength - its rhythm section of bassist Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor, are pretty much eliminated from the mix by Timbaland’s taste for electronic beats. You’d think Taylor would be pissed about that: instead, he says the chance to spend five days with Timbaland and get three songs out of him plus the presence of Justin Timberlake on two songs has extended the band’s credibility and give it a real boost.
Still there has to be a point where the line in the sand shifts too far; where a band needs to say ‘Sorry, we’re the band. We have to be on the record.’ That aside, 30 years on Duran Duran remains the epitome of New Romantic cool; a cultural icon that briefly changed fashion, pop culture and all that hangs off it. “Thirty years ain’t what it used to be,” Taylor says. “With the technology we have today bands can get a lot further a lot faster. It’s hard to take all the changes on board but it doesn’t really change who I am. I’ve still got a little of the infantile in me. I’m not sure whether I’m trying to be a child or resisting becoming an adult. It has been a trip. Who’d have known we would’ve got the cards we did. We’ve got to take it as it comes now. I feel we’re on borrowed time. Every day working together, doing gigs, making records, is a bonus. Who knows- it could go on forever.” And in that single paragraph lies all the dichotomies of being a rock star. Their hopes and fears and possible realities all run into a few words that take half a lifetime to reach and just a few seconds to say.
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In 1997, a failed marriage, personal problems and increasing dissension within the band drove Taylor to leave after 19 years. And sometimes that’s a good thing. The picture can become awfully blurred after two decades. “Yes, it can,” Taylor says. “And I did need that break. I needed it to feel what it was like not to be in the group for a while. I needed to find out what I could do by myself, to have the freedom to work with somebody else. After doing the maths I came to the conclusion that whatever I was doing I might as well be doing it with Simon and Nick. I also really wanted to work with the original line-up again. That was the last idea I had before I left the band. I was sitting with Simon and Nick and they said ‘no’, it would be moving backwards. By 2001, they had changed their minds. It’s that balance between being in the present, considering the future and understanding where you come from. Trying to stay hip, to be honest, is really exhausting.” The dilemmas are inevitable. You don’t want to sell out but in the 21st century every artist needs a hook, a way to sell themselves to an audience that is overwhelmed by choice. Taylor agrees that trying to keep an interest interested and the band content is a difficult balance. He enjoys being in the studio but “it’s bloody hard work”. By contrast, gigs provide instant gratification: “There’s nothing like walking out on stage. For 90 minutes the bullshit stops and there’s nothing like the interaction between the band’s members and between band and audience.
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“But even that’s changed. The festival circuit has become a major part of the business and it’s something that’s new for us. We are still learning about it. You get a different kind of feedback from the audience. It’s not your audience. They have come to see a show and you are one part of that show, as opposed to to when you do your own tour and it’s our house and the audience has come to see us. You have people buzzing around buying hot dogs and drinks and merchandise and moving from stage to stage. And they are thinking, ‘Let’s see 20 minutes of Duran Duran and then move over and see 15 minutes of Basement Jaxx’s dance set’. What is great is being around all other artists. “And you never know exactly what you are going to get from the audience compared to when you go on stage and do your own shows. You know what the audience wants and you know the kind of reaction and reception you are going to get. So we’re still learning. You really don’t stop doing so in this business.” Duran Duran, the band of pop princes, has beaten the odds, outlasted fashion and fad and found a genuine fame. Who: Duran Duran What: Red Carpet Massacre is out now through SonyBMG When: March 28 / 29 Where: Sydney Ent. Cent. / V Festival
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DJ Craze
Fonda 500 Off and racing By Steve Tauschke
Dead set legend By Pokie I play, but also the kind of equipment I use. I’ve even made up some new scratch routines that I continually develop. I’ve slowed down now on the drum and bass tip and started spinning more club music anything from Miami Bass to electro to dance music. And I’ve also stopped using Final Scratch and moved onto Serato. You always gotta keep it fresh!” Today, he is somewhat distanced from the world of turntablism he helped foster and nurture. Yet there is no doubting the stream of young kids he inspired with his seemingly effortless ability to mix and manipulate records. And there comes the call for more talent. “I haven’t been keeping up with the turntablism world though I did check out the DMC World Championships in 2006. There’s still a lot of dope talent out there but I think that turntablism needs more characters.” Indeed, much of the reason for that disconnection is the time he has devoted to his own material.
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ot only is he a laid back cool cat, but his skills behind the turntables are the stuff of legend. And without taking his success lying down, Craze has been touring the world supporting his newest CD entitled Bass Sessions. Of course, expect it to be nothing less than a bangin’ sub-blowing comp – pimps, hoes and bank-rolls. The man explains: “I had wanted to do something like this for the longest time and I finally got into doing it. I have taken it around the world from Dubai and all over the EU to Asia and am heading back to check my peeps in the land down under. It’s all been dope. Everywhere I go I meet interesting people from the promoters to the kids at the party!” Does he love his job? You bet – this gangsta has had punters drinking from the cup of his hand every time I have seen him play. “Man, I never had problems rocking crowds because I always enjoy what I’m doing. I think people are always gonna respond positive to that ‘cause with that comes the energy I put into my sets. My performance has evolved not only with the kind of music
“I’ve been working a lot of my production lately. The problem is, every time I do something I like, I get interested in something else! My partner A-trak has been working on his own stuff and he’s also busy as hell so we really haven’t been working on anything lately. As for R.I.P.P.A., he did some dumb shit and won’t be out of jail for another 3 years! That sucks because I was really feeling the music that we were making. Other than that, I got no plans on retiring for the next 10 years. I got too many ideas and creative forces left in me to give up yet. I wanna get into other things as well; stuff like video games, reality TV shows and maybe even acting someday! Other than that, believe it or not, I really just love being at home,” he exclaims with laughter. “People think its mad cool to travel so much and I understand why, but I love being home. My daughter is mad cool to hang around with and I love kicking back and watching a good movie. I’m into reading. The last book I read was called The Secret. I think everybody in the world needs to read it. I got a girl who I’ve been with for the last 10 years.” Yet all that pales into insignificant when the party comes around. “I’m going to rock it with some crazy beats. I’ll be busting out my new routines as well.” If only he was as modest as he was talented! Who: DJ Craze When: Sunday March 23 Where: Sounds on Easter Sunday, The Greenwood
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hey record in a pig farm, attract the cultest of cult followings and give equal time to Brian Wilson as they do Black Sabbath. Meet England’s eccentric noise-pop quintet Fonda 500 and its leader Simon Stone, a “mild-mannered phone directory operator” by day and Casio-wielding singer by night. You have such a playful approach to making music... the set list must often be abandoned? Oh yes, if we’re playing to lots of lovely women then we’ll keep it sexual and if it’s men then we’ll go for the big sweat-fest. Was recently supporting Athlete a sexual or sweaty experience - or both? It was full of people with credit cards. It wasn’t really an audience that knew what to do with us really. But we were very grateful to be playing there in front of the UK’s future bankers and insurance brokers. It’s a strange thing to go out in front of 2000 people who are just expecting to cuddle each other and sway to the song they like the best by the headline band. But Athlete are really great people and we have lots of fun with them. You’re almost famous for your unfeasible small Casios - how did you end up toying around with those? Well, when we first started I was just into the singing role but I needed something to do with my big fat fingers but I couldn’t play full size keys. So a friend of ours just had a Casio keyboard in his bedroom and I really liked the sound I was getting out of it. And it was really easy and battery operated and you sat in front of it and plugged in and you looked cool. Like a lot of people, I associate a Casio with high school maths. Well thanks to eBay I’ve been able to collect quite a few. Myself and Nick have
built up a small mountain of keyboards together. Between us I think we’ve got probably 20 or 25 of them. A lot of lower end of the market bands use these, the geeky bands who try to make music with everyday instruments rather than the 15 million pound synthesisers. Like I use a toy xylophone I got from a charity shop – you can make anything sound as good as you want it to sound really. The latest album Je M’Appelle Stereo is such a collage of sounds, how do you make them all fit? Well, when I write the songs I have to think of a part for each member of the band. Then on top of that I try to fit in all the melodies. The only difficult thing is learning to be patient when you’re recording because we do it all ourselves. But it’s a lot of fun recreating it live and seeing the glee on people’s faces when they figure out we’ve ripped off Prince and The Beastie Boys. Is it true you’ve never recorded in a studio? We’ve always just recorded ourselves on four-tracks and eight-tracks with just one microphone. The lo-fi end of it is where we deal and that’s why sometimes people don’t understand why it sounds so shocking! In my loft I did all the vocals and guitar parts. We’ve got a rehearsal room inside a pig farm and we did the drums there. But what’s really great is this record has been in my bedroom on the computer for two years with me sitting there in my boxer shorts just looking at it and thinking it’s rubbish. And then to hear people say they like it is the icing on the diabetic cake! Who: Fonda 500 What: Je M’Appelle Stereo is out through Low Transit Industries.
Regrowth Festival What’s it all about then? By Tony Edwards electronic artists across a broad range of genres. Bodega Stage: Oozing in from the speakers will be a soundtrack of warm guitar fuzz, innappropriate funk-bass and deep electronics ... all painstakingly collated from rare b-grade porn movies.
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hat’s the ethos of your festival? The event is based around positive environmental action, and surrounded by the best of sustainable festival celebrations. From our experience, environmental restoration volunteers have characteristically been older people with an interest in preserving their local environment. That’s fantastic, however, young people are also connected and interested in the environment, though they have limited knowledge or opportunity to participate. R.E.G.E.N (the company behind Regrowth) identifies that combining bush regeneration with celebration and entertainment that we can provide people who wouldn’t generally participate in environmental activities with the opportunity to become involved. Whilst achieving environmental objectives, the event also achieves goals of community building,
education, political and thought agitation and ultimately a reminder of our physical (get your hands dirty) connection with nature. What sort of sounds can we expect when we get down there? REGEN Stage: Will once again bring you a massive display of the freshest live psytrance, progressive and electronica. The Rootical Swamp Stage: The Earth Audio sound system is set to project dub, deep reggae, dubstep and soul electronica coupled with visual projections. Subsonic Stage: Dishing up a mix of twisted minimal tech and tweaked out electro. Ixchel Chill Stage: Delicious chill music from around the world. Servants Of Sound Stage: The SOS crew is proud to present some of Canberra’s finest
Take us through the non-musical components of the weekend... Environmental workshops: Covering a broad range of environmental and alternate topics. Outdoor Cinema: Brings cutting edge cinema and proactive documentaries from home and abroad, to invoke and promote mind stimulating subjects while keeping a sense of humour. Delicious delights to feed the masses. Market Village: Everything from fresh coffee, hot food, funky jewellery and environmental products. Healing Space: A variation of natural healers will be available to soothe muscles, minds and rejuvenate ones spirit. Last but not least we will be restoring a landscape affected by erosion, salinity and weeds and allowing it to reach its potential of supporting more diversity of life through a revegetation. In developing the already existing 3 years of plantings we will be giving the opportunity to participants to offset their carbon and to feel the dirt between their fingers. Over the past 3 years REGEN and its volunteer participants have been responsible for the planting of over 50 000 native plants.
What equipment do people need to bring to get through the weekend comfortably? There is plenty of flat camping space and amenities available. So bring tents and anything that makes the camp comfortable. Leave your pets at home. Bring your hats, boots, sunscreen and gloves for tree planting and don’t forget the smiles! What sort of people turn up to R.E.G.E.N events? The Regrowth Tree Planting Music Festival is in its 4th year and continues to evolve and grow into the most visually and sonically enjoyable sustainable festival on the summer circuit. During this period the boutique event has developed a diverse following of humans as young as 3months old and as old as time itself. REGEN’s following also has developed following its intricate artistic production and decoration that surrounds the festival, quality acts, sound and the most mind-blowing location in Australia set high atop a mountain with 270 degree views of Morten National Park. What: Regrowth Festival Where: Morten National Park, south-west of Sydney. When: Friday 21 – Sunday 23 March More: www.regen.org.au
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FIONA LOWRY
Your beginnings? I’ve been making work now for the past 1. ten or so years. I studied at Sydney College of the Arts and have kept making work since then. Your inspirations? A friend of mine Sinclair recently leant 2. me a book called The Hangman which tells
the story of Alexander Green, the official hangman and Finisher of the law in the colony of NSW in the early 1800s and gives a picture of the low life Sydney was then. It’s this sort of story and early mythology of how Australia was in that colonial period that is inspiring my work at the moment.
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Your style? I use an airbrush to make my paintings - it kind of just evolved from using spray cans and wanting to get finer detail. But It also allows you to seamlessly work with blur and focus which then makes it hard to focus on the work and causes your eyes to vibrate. This is important for my work because this technique helps convey the content of the work and makes the process of looking physical. Your current work? Over the last few year I have been 4. interested in documenting sites that are
coloured by the violence that has taken place within them: Belanglo State Forest, the final Short, Sweet + Song
resting place of the victims of ‘backpacker murderer’ Ivan Milat; the plot of land in backwoods Montana where the tiny cabin of Ted Kaczynski once stood. I am interested in how these spaces become tainted or ‘paranoid’ by our exposure to what has happened within them, our mind immediately creating a screen of remembered knowledge, blurring, infecting and creating our vision and experience of the actual space. More recently my work has involved anonymous figures coupled together playing out sexual scenarios that play with ideas of dominance and submission which in these scenes could be consensual or – something more sinister. This work in the Moran Prize though is a reversal of the view and the figure is no longer anonymous but instead becomes an active participant in the scene. Your scene? There is a really good show on at Chalk 5. Horse at the moment of a Melbourne artist Fergus Binns. His work is pretty funny and tells some great Aussie moments. Who: Fiona Lowry What: Moran Prizes 2008 When: Now until May 4, 2008 Where: State Library of NSW, Galleries, Macquarie Street, Sydney
sydneyoperahouse.com. If it’s anything like his last show at the Opera House, Wil of God, this one’s gonna be hilarious!!
THE KID
SHORT, SWEET + SONG
Short, Sweet + Song is back with its 10 minute mini-musical masterpieces! The all singing and sometimes dancing - version of the world’s biggest short play festival returns in 2008 for strictly limited season at the Seymour Centre from March 26. Live, fresh and original works selected from around the world and across Australia combine in an evening of drama, comedy and romance. With music styles from rock to opera, Broadway to jazz, there is something for everyone in these self contained 10 minute musical gems. For more information, head to www.shortandsweet.org. The Festival runs from March 26 – April 6, 8pm Tuesday to Saturday. To grab your tickets, head to www. seymourcentre.com.au or www.ticketmaster. com.au. Alternatively, you can call 02 9351 7940.
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! 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 FOR YOUR LIFE!
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.
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
Twenty years after director Peter Kingston’s acclaimed Griffin production, The Kid returns to Sydney. Written by Michael Gow, director of the Queensland Theatre Company since 1999 (that’s almost ten years), The Kid is the quintessential Aussie tale, and one that has become part of our national Australian theatre heritage. Directed by Tom Healey, The Kid is being performed at the SBW Stables Theatre in Kings Cross from March 22 – April 25. Tickets start at only $25, but for all the information head to griffintheatre.com.au.
Based on Monica Ali’s controversial, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Brick Lane tells the story of a Bangladeshi woman who arrives in London in the 1980s, leaving behind her home and family. It’s already received a slew of awards at a handful of British Film Festivals, as well as being nominated at the BAFTAs and British Independent Film Awards. It’s a stunning, confronting film… one of those movies that you really gotta see. We’ve got 10 doubles to give away to the first to email freestuff@ thebrag.com.
PARANOID PARK
Ahhh, Gus Van Sant, you constantly entertain, and intrigue, us with your inimitable directional style. We loved My Own Private Idaho, Elephant and Last Days (the fictional recount of the final days of Kurt Cobain). We even hold a special place in our heart for Good Will Hunting. But arthouse and indie is where we love you the most, and Paranoid Park, a film about a skateboarding teenager who is accidentally involved in someone’s death, suffices all our desires. It’s been getting great reviews since its release and we’ve got a bunch of double passes to give away to go see it, so email freestuff@thebrag.com and try your luck! 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.
ACT NATURALLY
AFTRS DESIGN OPPORTUNITY
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.
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.
MOP ATTACK
MOP Projects in Chippendale present a threeway exhibition which opens Thursday March 20 at 6pm, then runs until Sunday April 6. In Gallery 1, Shane Haseman will be displaying his exhibition entitled No Recess (a Nirvana reference, perhaps? Probably not. Continue Arts News!) Todd Robinson’s work is on displaying in Gallery 2, in an exhibition called Twice, and then on the Gallery Wall, recent Sydney College of the Arts graduate Matt Glenn has a collection of works entitled Intermission on display. MOP Projects is located at 2/39 Abercrombie St, Chippendale.
THE WALL WANTS YOU!
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Act Naturally Ahhh… I love a good segue. Speaking of The Wall, Caroline Garcia will be using the night to present her first ever exhibition! The Brag would like to extend a congratulatory news piece to Caroline, and let you, dear reader, know that this Wednesday you can see Caroline’s amazing collection of black and white, hand printed photographs (no digital here) at the World Bar, 24 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross. The collection is entitled Act Naturally and if you like some of her work, you can ever purchase it on the night.
SWAN LAKE
When you think ballet, you think Swan Lake. Yeah? No? Sure you do! The Australian Ballet is bringing back Graeme Murphy’s critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning production of Swan Lake to the Sydney Opera House. The season runs from April 4 – 24, and this is one not to miss if you’re a ballet fan. And if you’ve never been to the ballet before, this seems like the perfect time to pop your ballet cherry. To book your tickets, call 02 9250 7777, but do it fast because this one’s selling out very, very quickly!!
WHARF REVUE – BEWARE OF THE DOGMA On at the Glen Street Theatre for a very limited season (March 25 – April 6 is what I’d called limited), the Wharf Revue team resurrect their Beware of the Dogma performance, holding the torch high for free speech! They’re Australia’s finest satirical vivisectionists, and they have been for the past seven years. No one is spared the glare of their irreverent spotlight, least of all the pollies. Go see this, and laugh at yourself and Australia! To book, head to glenstreet.com.au. Tickets are $41.
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Death Defying Acts Houdini unchained By Dee Jefferson
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ithin the first ten minutes of our interview, director Gillian Armstrong has persuaded me to shift my chair - â&#x20AC;&#x153;you are totally backlit at the moment!â&#x20AC;? - and we have unexpectedly got onto the topic of the Sydney Dating Scene. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty bad!â&#x20AC;? she says. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about the reaction of women to her latest film, Death Defying Acts. During her publicity tour for the film, she has noticed a difference between the way women under thirty and women over thirty understand the romance in her latest film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is there some kind of deep cynicism amongst young women these days?â&#x20AC;? she wants to know. Death Defying Acts is ostensibly a love story, between a fictionalised Harry Houdini (Guy Pierce), famous contortionist and consummate entertainer, and false mystic Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Mary and her daughter, Benji (fourteen year-old Saoirse Ronan, Oscar-nominated for her role in Atonement), are street-wise performers who earn a crust by gleaning personal items and information to use in their mystical stage shows, where they pretend to communicate between the living and the dead. When Harry Houdini comes to town, with a ten-thousanddollar offer for anyone who can transmit his dead motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last words from beyond the grave, Mary and Benji cannot resist the challenge. One of the most fascinating aspects of this film is the subtle and often inscrutable emotional interplay between two characters that may feel genuine attraction to each other, or may be each trying to con the other for their own ends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is about fakes and faking, and who is real and not real,â&#x20AC;? says
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Armstrong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only negative reaction I have had to the film is people saying they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that Mary falls in love with [Houdini]â&#x20AC;Ś I think that people were having trouble believing that she stopped conning.â&#x20AC;? In fact, when Armstrong got the script from writers Brian Ward and Tony Grisoni, one of the first things she altered was the character of Mary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Originally in the script, Mary was being bought all these gifts, dresses and jewellery by Harry. I felt that a woman like Mary would not be so easily won over. She has her eyes on the prize, the $10,000.â&#x20AC;? One canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help feeling that this reflects her trademark female instincts: this is the woman who felt compelled to direct a film adaptation of Miles Franklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s My Brilliant Career, after a male producer described its heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an ugly girlâ&#x20AC;?. In an interview last year, Armstrong explained â&#x20AC;&#x153;she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an ugly girl, she was a fifteen-year-old girl, and they always think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ugly!â&#x20AC;? Armstrong also took on Little Women (1994) partly because film adaptations of the novel by pioneering female author Louisa May Alcott had only previously been directed by men. Although Armstrongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heroines, from Sybylla to Jo, Lucinda, and Charlotte Gray, are all strong, they are not merely ciphers. They are real people: vulnerable, complicated and contradictory. Catherine Zeta-Jones has to balance Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pragmatic survivalism and showbiz instincts with her vulnerability, as the money begins to matter less to her than the man. However, Mary is not the only heroine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I gave the script to Guy he said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and it is! Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one you care about. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Benjiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story in the
end.â&#x20AC;? It is Benjiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s narration and perspective that frames the film, and her awakening that is the bittersweet dĂŠnouement. This makes the casting of Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan a real coup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we found her before Atonement, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud to say!
Although Armstrong always storyboards, she emphasises that â&#x20AC;&#x153;in a period film, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just point the camera wherever â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and also with the crowds, you really need to know where the people are going to stand, and what angles will work best,â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said to the casting director that, because Benjiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role is so pivotal, I think we should start by looking for kids with some experience on a film set, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a huge emotional role. Saoirse had really only just started out, she had done one small Irish television drama, and she had been cast in a Michelle Pfeiffer film that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come out yet. She came in and auditioned, and she was just a knockout!
Armstrong usually insists on bringing an Australian cinematographer on every production, but for Death Defying Acts this was not possible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it was an English co-production I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to bring so many Australians along; also the budget was tight for the ambitions of the film â&#x20AC;&#x201C; considering it was a period piece, and also with all the stunts and the crowd scenes.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had extensive rehearsals. I always do with actors. And in that time we had people come in and talk about what it was like to be poor in Scotland in the 1920s, what it was like for women then; we had Houdini experts come in, and the President of the British Psychic Association. We went through the script, played out the scenes and talked about them so that they all had a map of what their character was doing in each scene.â&#x20AC;? Armstrong is also known for her meticulous preparation for production, including specific shot lists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always spend a lot of time doing visual research, and I put together a visual reference book with photos and images and colour. The Production Designer was Gemma Jackson, who did Finding Neverland, and the one I really liked that she did was The Borrowers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it was really imaginative â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and we worked together with the DOP to scout locations.â&#x20AC;?
Armstrong went looking for an â&#x20AC;&#x153;English Dion Beebeâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; someone starting out, but extremely talented (Dion Beebe shot Charlotte Gray in 2001, and then went on to Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I spent a lot of time looking at the work of English cinematographers, and I came across Haris Zambarloukos. He had just shot Enduring Love (2004) for Roger Michell, so I could ask him what Haris was like on set, how fast he was, how sensitive he was around actors. He said that Haris was the best for lighting in the country â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he was a lovely person, and had a team that worked really fast!â&#x20AC;? That Armstrong has managed as diverse a career over four decades, and still remains so open about her working processes and her thoughts about her own work, is not only unusual â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is admirable. What: Death Defying Acts When: In cinemas now
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In The Shadow Of The Moon The men and the Moon By Baz McAlister
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re you old enough to remember where you were on July 20, 1969 – the day the whole world looked up? The day the Apollo 11 mission touched down on the Moon? If you were around, the chances are it was a defining moment in your life – one of those epoch-making nexuses like the JFK assassination or the Twin Towers falling, where you instinctively know that after this, the world is never going to be the same again. In The Shadow Of The Moon is a documentary by veteran British journalist and filmmaker David Sington. In it, he combines never-before-seen archival NASA footage
(until recently, under liquid nitrogen at the Johnson Space Centre and only recently taken out of cold storage) with talking heads from ten of the 18 surviving Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon.
we wouldn’t have spent the night with that Spanish family next door, had it not been for that extraordinary event. So, in microcosm, that event signified the dissolving of the boundaries that normally divide us.”
about him – it’s about the whole world sharing the experience. Neil doesn’t like talking about it because he thinks it’s wrong to emphasise his own feelings. He’s always seen it as ‘one small step for a man’, not ‘one small step for me’.”
Sington himself says he has very clear memories of the moment Neil Armstrong’s foot touched the lunar surface. “I was on holiday as a small boy with my parents in Spain,” he recalls, “and the Spanish family in the house next door invited us to watch the Moon landing in their house, because we had no television. It happened about four o’clock in the morning. I recall these very fuzzy pictures, and a Spanish commentary, and not knowing very much about what was going on – but I do remember it vividly.
The film takes an emotional approach to the Apollo missions, emphasising the daring of the men who took part. Sington conducted the interviews with the astronauts himself – it took him 18 months to line up the ten; he spent a couple of days in conversation with each. Not appearing in the film, however, is the most famous of the Apollo astronauts, and also the most reclusive – Neil Armstrong. Astronaut Dave Scott – Commander of Apollo 15, and the first man to drive on the moon – assisted Sington with the project, and said right from the start that they’d never get Armstrong on board. Sington says he faced up to that prospect with open eyes.
Sington says he thinks Armstrong is, in a sense, right to do this. He says it allows the experience to be universal and uniting, with Armstrong serving as a kind of everyman figure for the entire human race. “Every Apollo mission – and indeed every NASA mission, from Mercury through to the shuttle missions – has a mission patch, and the Apollo 11 mission patch is almost unique,” Sington says by way of an aside. “It’s one of only two patches where you do not have on the patch the names of the astronauts. I think that was deliberate. They all felt ‘It doesn’t matter that it’s us, it’s pure luck that it’s us doing this first – but we’re here representing NASA, the USA, and mankind’. That’s always been something that’s quite important to Neil and he doesn’t like to draw attention to himself.”
“When I was editing the film, I realised you have all these images of everybody all around the world, watching these same events, and [Apollo 11 Command Module pilot] Mike Collins says in the film, ‘Everybody said afterwards that we had done it – we, the human race’, and it was this moment where the boundaries between us dissolved for a moment, and everybody was just a human being, watching other human beings do an extraordinary thing. “And it’s funny, but looking back on it now,
Brilliant Monkey Monkey business By Xanthe Seacret
“We did correspond with Neil about being in the film, and at one point I thought he was going to say yes,” Sington says. “By that stage we had done a lot of batches of interviews and got quite far along in cutting the section of the film which covers the Apollo 11 landing, and I liked the way that because Neil isn’t [a talking head] in the film, when Neil steps onto the Moon it’s not
The Fringe Bar on Oxford St has been instrumental in curing people of the Monday doldrums. Hey, after all, they say laughter is the best medicine! With a cavalcade of topnotch comedians coming through the doors, there’s not really any better place to be on a Monday night.
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Having already won over audiences not all that long ago, it seems a risky and somewhat audacious endeavour to present it to Sydney theatre-goers again so soon, but Sims is confident that the second time around at The Old Fitzroy will be equally successful. “Because it’s a tiny theatre, by the time everyone had heard about the show we were full,” he recalls of last year’s season. “When you can only get fifty people into a theatre it just means an awful lot of people wanted to see it then realised it was over. In that last week when you know you could be seating 200, there’s nowhere to put them. It’s not that hordes of people are beating on our door, but we have a gut feeling it will do well. Word of mouth takes a while to build about a show, and a lot of people in the theatre scene came in the last week so it’s been talked about a lot since, and then we were nominated for the award.” Spearheading the TRS’ Season 08 at the Old Fitzroy Hotel, the Pork Chop Production team’s execution of Al Dukes’ highly praised work highlights difficulties that arise in almost every relationship where family is concerned. With such subject matter, Sims acknowledges that comedy makes the tragic bearable, and
“I think… basically families are so horrible to one another all you can do is laugh when you recognise the behaviour,” he considers, laughing himself. “Most of the time people want to fix stuff up. In this case it takes Australia’s involvement in a foreign war and a guy’s recovery from alcoholism to bring them together. What I love most about this play is that the two things Al used to bring them back together are very contemporary issues – the war and alcoholism.” Despite his confidence at Brilliant Monkey’s ability to garner impressive audience attendance second time around, Sims does concede that independent theatre is often a tough gig. He also reveals that taking Dukes’ work on independently and presenting it they way they are goes against most of the unspoken Pork Chop production rules. “My experience is that [independent theatre is] often frustrating,” Sims admits. ”Pork Chop has a kind of policy, we haven’t done co-ops in the past, we’ve always endeavoured to do co-productions with major companies like the Opera House. So Brilliant Monkey is an exception to the rule for a lot of the shows we do. Having said that, we were involved with the Old Fitzroy from the very beginning, so 30% of your audience is going to show up just to see what‘s on at the Fitz, so the great thing about putting [an independent] show on for us is there’s no big risk. When Alan put the script on my desk, it seemed like the natural home for it." What: Brilliant Monkey When: March 19 – April 19 Where: The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo
This is far more intimate.”
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Monday Night Comedy. Just when you need a laugh By Dom Alessio
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universally relatable, when it comes to how we often treat each other.
When: In cinemas now
Fringe Bar ob Geldoff got it right when he sung, “I don’t like Mondays.” OK, so let’s conveniently forget that The Boomtown Rats were actually singing about Brenda Ann Spencer’s maniacal moment of shooting at children and take the song at face value: Mondays really suck. There doesn’t seem then to be a more apt night to get a bunch of comedians together for our benefit to alleviate the dreaded Work Week Blues.
he name Jeremy Sims is one that gets bandied about fairly frequently when it comes to Australian arts. Having worked as an actor both on stage and on screen, Sims has also turned his hand to directing, again tackling both forms. Not content to just work for Australia’s flagship theatre producer, Sydney Theatre Company, Sims also started his own production company in 1995, the latest offering of which is Brilliant Monkey. So brilliant in fact is this monkey business, that the production is actually a return season of a play dubbed a must see less than twelve months ago, in 2007.
What: In The Shadow of the Moon
Already, March has seen the likes of Jackie Loeb, Subby Valentine, Triple M and Wil Anderson’s right hand man Lehmo, Dave Williams and Matt Dyktynski hit the stage. You’ll soon be able to add Chris Radburn to that list as he’ll be venturing into the Fringe Bar on Monday March 24. A one-time lawyer (who knew they could be funny?), Chris has graced most media forms, being a regular guest on Triple M and the Comedy Channel. He’s even supported acts like Weird Al Yankovic, Corinne Grant, Fiona O’Loughlin, Elliot Goblet and Greg Fleet to name just a few. On the verge of his performance for Fringe Bar’s Monday Night Comedy, we sat down with Chris to pick his brain about telling jokes for a living..
What inspired you to get into comedy? I didn’t want to work in a ‘real job’ as they call it. And being funny was what I was good at. There seems to be a lot of avenues for comedians in Sydney at the moment. Is it a good time to be in the game? Yes it is. The Cracker Comedy Festival is coming up in May, where I will be doing my solo show Chris Radburn – Sports. This will be a great platform to promote myself. Does something like The Comedy Channel help as well? Yes they have a little show called Stand Up Australia to showcase yourself on, but I really think they should be producing a few more Australian comedy shows as there is definitely enough talent to do so. Is it hard to be original and tell jokes about subjects that the audience haven’t heard about before from other comedians? Yes it can be. But I think if you can talk about funny stories that have happened to you personally you can definitely put your own unique spin on a topic. Definitely stay away from airplane jokes though. What’s the corporate comedy circuit like? It is thriving. Every corporate client wants a comedian at their fundraiser, sporting lunch or Xmas party. Keep it up corporate world. Do you have any advice for aspiring funnymen or women? Be funny and good luck.
Who: Chris Radburn What: Monday Night Comedy When: Monday March 24 Where: Fringe Bar, Paddington
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“INTELLIGENT, SUBTLE AND GRACEFUL.” IRISH TIMES
“BEAUTIFULLY ACTED AND WRITTEN.” HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
★★★★ LISA HENSLEY, THE MOVIE SHOW
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VANTAGE POINT There has been an excessive amount of hype surrounding Vantage Point and its parallels to the groundbreaking classic Rashomon, but sadly it is all a short lived fallacy. Eight strangers? Yes, that part is true. Eight different points of view? Well, not quite. Whoever was responsible for creating tag lines must have been too busy falling prey to this hype as well, for if they had actually turned to this movie for inspiration they would have gotten it right (and probably more sooner than they had thought). Eight strangers. Eight different vantage points. Only one truth. Now that’s the truth (at least from my point of view).
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When the president of the United States heads a global war on terror summit in the heart of Spain, you know something’s going to happen. And it does. Two shots are fired at the president on loyal agent Thomas Barnes’ watch and pretty soon, chaos, questions, and car chases ensue. As we run through the many different strangers and their journeys up to and following this event, we are teased with dribs and drabs of story, in an attempt to piece together the actions of the terrorists, the whats, and wherefores, only to have them wrenched out of possibility moments later. Well crafted and tightly entwined, Vantage Point leaves much to the imagination. Up until the end, anyway.
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Arts Exposed Get some culture in you with our pick of the week
Hex Black & Blue Gallery, 302/267-271 Cleveland St, Redfern On now until Sunday March 30 On now at the Black and Blue Gallery is Hex, a new exhibition by young artist Erin Forsyth. Her artwork is described thusly: “Using her signature blend of hyper stylised characters, hip-hop slogans and sometimes callous symbolism, Forsyth questions the black magic and white lies of today’s visual communication through the use of select representations of pop and religious iconography and folklore.” These “representations” come in the form of an aerosol installation, over 300 hand drawn cards, 50 acrylic paintings on used paper bags and a range of illustrations. We reckon this is definitely one to check out. 40 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
Sadly, in an attempt to create a full-bodied conclusion and minimise audience confusion and frustration due to a lack thereof, the eighth and final story is quite omnipresent and revealing. Despite all eight stories remaining static and true, this final revelation comes with scaring salt, rendering all other stories redundant. Not that you could have figured out the truth without it. Well, perhaps with the last four minutes of stereotypical American Hollywood you could have. But the rest, no. Strategically planned and well laid out, this is indeed a gripping thriller with a unique take on the ways of the modern world. A special mention must go to Dennis Quaid, who plays Barnes with enormous conviction and determination despite much trepidation. Seemingly invisible, he commands such a presence that not just demands, but deserves to be seen, heard and believed in.
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Star Theatre, Star City Tuesday March 12 Rocky Horror! Who hasn’t seen it? I’d caught bits and pieces of the movie throughout my life but somehow must have thought that rock and sex and aliens just didn’t sound like a great combination. What’s wrong with me! For the uninitiated, the ridiculous over the top story is based around a chaste, clean-cut couple that happens upon a nest of sexually liberated aliens. From there it’s all murder, rock n’ roll numbers, straight sex, gay sex and laser gun fights. I use the full moniker “rock n’ roll”, because this is what you should be expecting, ‘50s rock n’ roll numbers. This latest incarnation of The Rocky Horror Show has been modernised mainly via costume. In essence it’s a rip off of a ‘50s B-grade horror but the costumes of the main cast of
Transylvaliens offer a little more lee way for interpretation and there’s definitely a dash of modern urban fetishism that you’ll see flash at you from different corners near Oxford Street. Frank-N-Furter fits iOTA like a glove. From the moment he struts out onto the stage in a feathery gown his stature, rock god presence and campy edge let no one doubt how well suited he is for the role and how well this artist has transitioned to theatrical performance. He may need a little work on his dance moves, but his indulgent jigs only seem to project an even more fitting atmosphere of arrogance around the main character. His powerful voice helps place him on even par with the other more seasoned performers around him, notably Paul Capsis (as Riff-Raff), and Tamsin Carroll as Magenta. Sharon Millerchip has a wonderful time as Columbia and her voice fills up the space left when she’s on her own. The only criticism I would have is that the cast was a little thin which meant some numbers, particularly the infamous ‘Time Warp’, didn’t quite have the impact I was expecting. Aside from that though, get your fishnets down there!
Grant Spencer
NIGHT WORDS FESTIVAL The Studio, Sydney Opera House Saturday March 8 As performance poetry lifts its profile from soapbox for out of work alcoholics (selfconfessed) to creative mouth piece of the people (only some of whom are alcoholics), it picks up its relevance and it picks up a crowd. The gathering numbers also has something to do with the scent on the wind (or the words by mouth), meaning the disparate, lone-wolf type characters that write can find each other in the same place. They are becoming a ravenous pack. As testament, the Night Words Festival was three packed nights at The Studio at the Opera House. Three nights for people to share stories around the limelight (for want of campfire), from Hip Hop to Team Performance (as close as whiteys will get to a corroboree, people circling each other and chanting, all free form movement). Benito De Fonzo was our host on the Saturday night I attended and he laid down the old school beat-poetry backed by the gypsy-jazz of Waiting for Guinness, swelling into a crescendo of horns and guitars and De Fonzo chanting about his workforce woes (go to work to earn money to buy food to have the energy to go to work…). Then, the poetry slam, where poetry discards some of its garb and asks you honestly what the hell you think you’re doing with your life. The latter is in the form of a competition where randomly chosen judges in the audience score two minute performances from the crème de la crème of the performance scene, and some new comers as well. In the tragedy the older generation now thrive on, the new comers won the night. It really was a great night, typical of performance poetry (i.e. some shit, some blinding gold) and big props go out to the piece of the night, the man who managed to make a conversation about being “Australian” relevant again, bringing back to life a topic I didn’t think could get any deader. Yay for poetry!
Grant Spencer
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DVD Reviews What's been on our TV screens this week What you should go and see
THE HOME SONG STORIES
KISS OR KILL Hopscotch
Madman Films
The story is thematically driven by the reversal of traditional roles that are usually entitled ‘parent’ and ‘child’. It is eyed through young Tom who, unfortunately and unknowingly, struggles to live up to his newfound responsibilities. Ayres is an emerging talent in Australian film, bringing cultural diversity and sensitivity to his art. The Home Song Stories has a variety of characters within its grasp and uses each to reflect truisms and intricacies of human emotion. Although not all the characters are necessarily likeable, Ayres is merely reiterating the events and personalities that influenced his emotional development. The DVD has an exciting collection of special features including screen tests with Irene Chen and Joel Lock, interviews with director Tony Ayres and Joan Chen and in addition a ‘making of’ feature and ‘deleted scenes’.
As the pair race across the Nullabor, they encounter a series of bizarre characters, most of whom are a farcical and almost insulting portrayal of people living in regional Australia. The two main policemen on the tail of Nikki and Al, played by Chris Haywood and Andrew S Gilbert, regularly provide comedic highlights, however even these two are given the stereotypical bumbling cop treatment. Despite a couple of genuinely captivating scenes and a distinct Aussie feel through use of touches like a bushman tracker (which despite being embarrassingly clichéd for an Australian movie, I have to say I liked), Kiss or Kill still feels like something you’ve seen before, that someone else has done better. The story of lover criminals on the run is not a unique storyline by any means, nor is Kiss or Kill’s execution or cinematic treatment groundbreaking. And I’m no prude by any means, but the characters’ constant use of the word fuck left me wanting more from the dialogue and seemed a desperate attempt to make them more hardcore than either actor could convincingly portray. Xanthe Seacret
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Tony Ayres has given a highly personal recount of living in the wake of the rapidly moving ‘70s Australia and the outcast status that becomes intensified in the transition from Chinese culture to attempted integration into the wider. As a young boy Tom (Joel Lock) was thrust in the deep end with his mother Rose (played by Joan Chen) failing to deal with her maternal duties. Instead she impulsively gives way to her sexual desires and promiscuity, which eventually spiral out of control and leave her children to pick up the pieces.
Two professional scam artists, Nikki and Al (Frances O’Connor and Matt Day) find themselves embroiled in a bigger mess than they anticipate when their latest victim dies, leaving behind a video tape exposing a high profile athlete as a kiddie fiddler. Making the decision to hightail it to Perth, but not before Nikki lets the footy star know they have the video, what ensues is a chase from the authorities, and a chain of events and deaths which lead the pair to become increasingly suspicious of each other.
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Under the thumb of Australia’s perceived multiculturalism are delicate stories of hardship and struggle. These stories are often misunderstood and misrepresented.
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Game Reviews The geeks shall inherit the Earth… with Ming Ng
ZACK & WIKI: QUEST FOR BARBAROS’ TREASURE PLATFORM: Nintendo Wii RATING: PG SCORE:
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t has been awhile since Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy caused a stir in the Nintendo world, becoming must have games for Wii owners. Now there is another definitive one to add to the list – Zack & Wiki. Who, you say? Although not as familiar as Link or Mario, Zack, an aspiring pirate and his monkey sidekick Wiki, are the stars of a game packed full of mind bending puzzles, Wii-riffic controls, and gorgeous graphics. If you have played games like Day Of The Tentacle or Monkey Island, you will feel right at home playing Zack & Wiki. To move and interact with objects you simply point and click. The fun starts when you use objects – to begin with, the game will instruct you how to control the Wiimote, such as holding it vertically and pressing the ‘2’ button to open an umbrella. But as the game progresses, part of the puzzle element involves figuring out how to activate items you pick up. The gesturing is spot on, so it really is rewarding when you work out some of the more difficult ones. Unlike some adventure games where the character has bottomless pockets, Zack can only carry one main item at time, which adds a strategic element but also involves some back tracking. Another difference is that Zack is not immortal – although you have 3 chances to go back in time and try again without having to go back to the main screen. The graphics are top notch with a distinct Japanese flavour
mixed with 3D cel-shaded characters and rich painterly backgrounds. There is a lot of variety in the presentation, with arcade style animated text popping up when you do something right, an ominous spot light screen when you consult “The Oracle” for hints, and a first person view when you inspect certain objects. The soundtrack follows the mood of the game very well, and the sounds made by objects reinforces the tactile nature of the controls – the ringing bell from the Wiimote as you attack creatures is a nice touch. It’s really hard not to give this game a perfect score. The only criticism I can give it stems from having played and loved the Monkey Island series, which gave the player a choice in conversations. This would have made Zack & Wiki even better, but I guess being more puzzle than story driven it may be something Capcom can implement next time. There has to be a next time!
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CD Reviews
What's been crossing our ears this week...
CD OF THE WEEK THE GUTTER TWINS Saturnalia Sub Pop
Haunting, hopeless and uplifting all at the same time, Saturnalia is an intense discovery of two tortured souls.
Expectations are high for The Gutter Twins, the long awaited collaboration between Mark Lanegan (ex-Screaming Trees, ex-Queens of the Stone Age) and Greg Dulli (ex-The Afghan Whigs); and so they should be. The duo, which have been dubbed by one internet publication as “two of alt-rock’s greatest front-men”, have both had illustrious careers and, lay serious claim to the aforementioned title. It is with great pleasure then to report that Saturnalia, their debut release, is not only a brilliant album but just may be the best recording either has ever put out. From bluesy opener ‘The Stations’, which gives us our first taste of Lanegan’s soft whiskey soaked
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
The unique motif of Mountain Goats being sans drums for long periods makes their position of purveyors of insistent indie-folk both amazingly fun, and surprisingly entrancing. So when moments like the introspective string-laden lament of ‘San Bernardino’ or the surprising ‘In The Craters Of The Moon’ showcase the depth of The Mountain Goats. It makes for an alluring experience, traversing as one does into the insular world of Mr Darnielle. Usually, blinkered and inward-querying egotism makes for bloated bare-faced bullshit that’s so ridden with clichés that it doesn’t bear listening (hello Jack Johnson, I’m talking to you) but The Mountain Goats, with Darnielle, have a man and a personality whose travails are written in such compelling form that you can’t help but feeling yourself care a lot about the man. It’s quite easy to be taken aback by the power on show – both the underlying and the obvious making the Mountain Goats a band that inspires instant admiration. Jaymz Clements
After several spins there is no doubt in my mind that Saturnalia will stand the test of time, as have most other Lanegan and Dulli releases. That being said, together The Gutter Twins have created something that neither could do on their own. Etienne Waring
DISCO NOT DISCO 3
Heretic Pride Remote Control
John Darnielle is one hell of a man. Very few artists would continue slogging at a career in the face of such little recognition for so long, but Darnielle took his Mountain Goats from a completely obscure lo-fi indie concern, and turning one of the finest contemporary indie-folk pioneers into a major crowd pleaser the world over. Sure, he’s a strange lookin’ dude, but fuck, as if that isn’t part of the appeal.
grit, to minimalist closer ‘Front Seat’, Saturnalia is as diverse as it is impressive. And whilst Saturnalia may find the pair delving into some exceedingly dark spaces, such as the bottom of a bottle rambling of 'All Misery/Flowers', there is a subtle uplifting feeling that cascades across the entire recording. This is typified by 'God’s Children', a song that starts with the same utter hopelessness of Radiohead’s 'Street Spirit', yet climaxes in a chorus of odd hope. It’s on tracks such as this that Dulli’s ghostly presence is felt the most, his eerie voice interweaving perfectly on 'The Body' with an acoustic melody provided by guest Troy Van Leeuwen.
JANET JACKSON
1974-1986 Strut/Inertia
They say never judge a book by its cover. And yet Discipline, with its shimmering, shiny and ultimately vacuous packaging, gives the listener perfect forewarning as to the bizarre vanity project contained within. Janet, to her credit, refuses to age gracefully - in fact, she refuses to age at all. As such we are met with what must be the hundredth incarnation of Ms ‘Split Personality’ Jackson; a poor seventeen year old trapped in a forty-something’s body. With the exclusion of some obligatory saccharine ballads, nearly every song consists of Janet sighing, moaning, or screaming in an eternal quest for sexual gratification.
One of the strengths of this compile is the way it straddles the indie/dance divide – exactly like Modular did with their first Leave It All Behind, which was awesome, but then they fucked the second one with uninspired electro. Disco Not Disco re-injects the indie rawness of bands like the Cazals (which made the first Modular comp good) with a dirty cut from James White & The Blacks – mad bass driven guitar funk – and Delta 5’s ‘Mind Your Own Business’, lovely screechy post punk fem-rock.
The fact her vernacular has not progressed past that of a teenage strumpet “Tonight my body’s an exhibition babe” is tell tale enough. But then you’ve got Jermaine Dupri, the notorious R&B synth-meister whose sole mission on this record is to turn every single track into a club banger. This doesn’t bode well for Janet, who really isn’t in the same league as Rihanna anymore, and has to somehow rise above the pounding 808s and salvage what’s left of a melody. The real shame is that Janet is a Jackson after all, which means that she’s blessed with an uncannily beautiful voice, as her string of hits will attest. But on tracks like ‘Luv’, her singing is tweaked, auto-tuned and vocoded within an inch of its life. Janet is certainly being disciplined on this record, to the extent that there’s practically no evidence of her presence at all.
I’m sick of funky and disco being dirty words. I love funky disco music, there’s great underground shit around, and this is it.
This is proof that there is such thing as a silver, shiny turd. Jonno Seidler
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GETAWAY PLAN
Ego Trippin’ Geffen Records
Discipline Island Records
The words disco and quality aren’t renowned for being steamy bedfellows, but what you’re about to hear will flip those tired old stereotypes the finger. Are you not aware of the new underground disco phenomenon that’s drawing all the best late night parties into its fold? Read on lest you further drive yourself from the loop. Disco Not Disco 3 is a really, really hot compilation. In a market sumerged with low quality crate digging compilations the team from !K7 (who run Strut) have really outdone themselves and come up with some paydirt, a diamond amongst the sequins.
The guitar stuff is great, and I don’t say that often, but the real treasures are the housey retro-disco gems like Shriekback’s ‘My Spine Is The Bassline’, Konk’s horn driven ‘Your Life’ – look this one up – and Quando Quando’s ‘Love Tempo’, a tune which proves that true artistry indeed existed in the early 80s electro pop scene.
SNOOP DOGG
A recent interview with the Bigg D.O.G.G on Larry King had me under the impression that the oldest name in the rap game was somewhat mature, learned if you will. Snoop’s Ego Trippin’, with a set of songs that resembles an SMS message more than it does a track list (from the inane ‘Staxxx In My Jeans’ to the demure ‘Life of Da Party’), suggests otherwise. Questions of intellect aside (rhyming ego-trip with ego-trip – genius!), the less-than-impressive production (DJs shouting over beats like ‘Press Play’ as if they were bootlegged) hardly makes up for the Dogg’s tired lyrics. We’ve heard Snoop flow on ‘hoes’, ‘pimps’, ‘dumb bitches’ and ‘twosteppin’ on eight previous albums and an injection of T-Pain-esque robotic voices and some weak ‘finger-snapping’ (clicking for the uninitiated) to mask the missing beats only serves to emphasize a creative fountain running dry. Ego Trippin’ strikes this reviewer as Snoop’s answer to Jay-Z’s first postretirement album, Kingdom Come. Trippin’ is light on the insight and, when not dominated by the aging rapper’s hydro-fuelled machinations, heavy on the cushy retrospect that was the undoing of Jay-Z’s comeback disc. Jumping between bland sexmusic (first single ‘Sexual Eruption’ sounds like the ugly bastard child of Air and Chris Brown), faux-Latin hokie pokies (‘chest in, chest out’ cries the MC on ‘Sets Up’) and the Jackson-5 inspired ‘Deez Hollywood Nights’, Snoop’s record never achieves the sort of cohesion you would expect from such an old-hand.
Other Voices, Other Rooms Boomtown
As 2007 drew to a close, The Getaway Plan cemented themselves as one of the most exciting bands in Australia. It was undeniable they were the band to watch in the forthcoming year. It seemed as though the world was sitting at The Getaway Plan’s feet. All they needed to do was grab it by the throat. And grab it by the throat, they have. Releasing the dynamic Other Voices, Other Rooms, The Getaway Plan have satisfied fans who have been salivating for this release over the last three years, and they’ve silenced the critics who were waiting for the young band to falter. Lead single ‘Streetlight’ shows the value of enlisting Wisner to The Getaway Plan’s arsenal. A smooth, polished rock song, ‘Streetlight’ captures all the attention you’d want from an album opener. ‘Where The City Meets The Sea’ takes the band down a notch - without losing any of their momentum - highlighting how well The Getaway Plan’s melody making is. A track perfect for fans of rock, Nova listeners and mothers is hard to imagine, but here it sits. A thrilling release from the future of rock. You can’t ask for much more. Talitha Conway
‘15 years in the game and I’m still relevant’ brags SD on ‘Neva Have 2 Worry’ but, judging by the sound of his latest outing, it seems he might have to, soon. David Seidler
INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK ME & THE GROWNUPS
Battling the Mountains, The Sky and the Sea Independent
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e & The Grownups are an enigmatic thing. Sometimes they sound like they’re playing Nickel Creek’s brand of bluegrass, but then Jonathan Dreyfus sweeps in with his violin and the mood changes, taking us to a place that Warren Ellis may have trekked with The Bad Seeds circa The Boatman’s Call. But that’s not all, because the three-piece occasionally lend their hand at folk-pop. Battling the Mountains, The Sky and the Sea really is a mixed bag of styles, and for its hour-plus duration, it’s hard to pinpoint 42 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
exactly what their sound is. Devoid of percussion (aside from a couple of handclaps in the final number ‘Carry Me Home’), Battling the Mountains… has a filmic aspect to it, the soundtrack to a film that’s never existed. Anita Lester sings with a sultry jazz swagger, but her wordy lyrics are reminiscent of the poetic folk of Joni Mitchell and Ani DiFranco. With no beat to serve as the backbone for the songs, Lester’s stories take centre stage. Since the band don’t seem to have a natural
ear for hooks, Me & The Grownups work best when they’re creating a dark, sombre mood - check out the wahdipped violin on ‘Fall Back Down’, and the beautiful ‘Tough, But I Like It’ with pizzicato strings and finger-plucked guitar. It’s an ambitious and multifarious debut for Me & The Grownups, and one which has raised the bar pretty high for their future releases. Dom Alessio
1. Sparkadia - Postcards 2. Dana Lyons - Cows With Guns 3. Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs 4. Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia 5. Destiny's Child - The Writing's On The Wall
Single Reviews
DVD
By Jacob Stone
BLACK LIPS
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
Bad Kids
This is a great, bouncy pop/punk tune, mixing Spector’s vibe in melody and arrangement with crappy, glue-sniffing Ramones and Replacements band backing and group vocals.
DVD Review
“Bad kids, all my friends are baaad kids. Kid’s like you an’ me.” Do I need to say more? Everyone sings a verse, so you know it’s a band thing, and looking at the guys, I believe the subject. This band had no other prospects other than to BE IN THIS BAND, and it makes them feel pretty real in performance. My only worry is that they actually DO give a shit, and that could ruin themselves by trying to pretty-up their shitty, awesome sound.
THE FEELING
DUKES OF WINDSOR
MR G
COG
KANYE WEST
Pop-rock has finally murdered disco, and this is the best example of why it actually needed to die. UK’s The Feeling are SO GAY. The clean jauntiness of Scissor Sisters meets indie pop with synths, and then some ridiculous piano that reminds me instantly of Billy Joel. They can all play, and the singer can sing, but when they draw their inspiration from '80s power ballad masters like Supertramp, they can only ever do a certain amount of good. The production is a smooth, white crime. This song is a totally forgettable excursion into commercial pop, and culturally irrelevant to boot.
This is much like The Feeling’s effort, but not in terms of sound. It’s just equally crap. I think when bands this unfashionable are getting into electro, you’d assume the REAL dance fans are hastily moving onto something else. The tune sounds a bit like '80s era Midnight Oil, the production sounds a bit like ‘The Power And The Passion’. The guitars ker-chink along, and the singer harmonizes well with himself (if a little blandly), but ultimately this song isn’t really about anything and that drives me a bit nuts. The hook is good enough, but not exceptional. They sound like they listen to The Rapture, but then they get TV Rock to do remixes? Jesus.
It's totally ludicrous, but in a brilliant way. Horrible, cheap handbag house combines with Chris Lilley’s impeccable lyric writing – “She’s a slut and she knows it, she wants to root all the boys. She can’t help taking the drugs on a Saturday night” – cue soaring piano breakdown and G’s classically shit falsetto vocal lilt – “She can’t help being a slut on a Saaaturday night!” There is such a beautifully brave lack of feel and sophistication to the song, it’s so daggy and dated that you can’t help but laugh at the knowlingly crappy patchwork of shit programming and awkward vocal hooks. Brilliant.
I don’t hate Cog. After sounding a lot like Tool and PiL for a while, they have developed their own sound, and can write a hook for radio now. I believe them, too. It’s just a little repetitive. Here, the band stalk in under the cover of Flynn’s staccato guitar and rising vocal line, and then we’re in the middle of the chorus without any warning. The hook booms out, “but I’m only trying to make it better! Is there another way?” Relationship difficulties are paralyzing our singer. His partner’s dissatisfaction at his absence grows, but he’s still drawn to music. It’s a good reason to write a big rock tune, but the tune itself is just a bit too much like what we’ve already heard from this band. Good stuff, though.
Nice orchestral backing to open combined with some weird noodles from a Moog, and then Kanye hits us with a brilliant vocal hook in the form of his female vocalist’s line “flashing...liiights”... it’s pitch-bent and delayed at the end, giving it the slightly irritating catchiness that we’re used to from this artist. I thought it was about Kanye asking his girlfriend, who seems like something of a tearaway, to come home. It’s actually about him cheating on her and getting caught by the paparazzi. Hmm. It’s almost vulnerable, but it’s got a nicely unrepentant sense of humour. I like it.
I Thought It Was Over
It’s A War
Naughty Girl
Bird of Feather
Flashing Lights
IRON MAIDEN Live After Death EMI
Filmed in March 1985 over four sold out nights at California’s Long Beach Arena, Live Over Death captures Iron Maiden at their best in support of the classic Powerslave album from 1984. Despite its age, Live After Death is still considered one of heavy metal’s definitive concert performances. Over the course of 90 minutes, Iron Maiden put on a show that became nothing short of legendary. With a lavish stage production built around the Egyptian theme that featured on the Powerslave album, there’s no less than two return appearances from Eddie, a set list filled with undisputed classics (Including 'Aces High', '2 Minutes To Midnight', 'The Trooper', 'Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', 'The Number Of The Beast' and 'Run To The Hills') and a performance from the band themselves that would secure their place forever in heavy metal history. Sure, while the footage lacks a little in terms of clarity even after its remastered transfer, but the audio really is something else, with both the original mix and the new 5.1 stereo mix sounding better than ever. But if the re-release of Live After Death wasn’t enticing enough, there’s also a whole disc of bonus features to really make the package worth the endless wait for, more than holding up enough to retain its place as one of the greatest heavy metal releases of its time. Justin Donnelly
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live reviews
What we've been out to see this week...
PLAYGROUND WEEKENDER 08 Wiseman’s Ferry 7-9 March
I’m pretty sad that I’m not still encamped at the festival. As much as I like my desk it’s somehow lacking the serenity of that beautiful river bank. Playground 08 was an absolute demon of a festival, and it’s a testament to the people who went that it was that much fun even with the attendance problems that keep plaguing the promoters. To each and every one of you who were there, you rocked! I can vaguely remember some bits of the weekend so I’m going to try and recount some of them (handy hint – photo evidence helps!). The music on the Friday night was really, really, really terrible. It rained, and whoever was DJing in the Big Top Tent (the only place to shelter from the downpour) before Dexter, YOU SUCKED! Hello, it’s raining, we’re all trapped, why not play something a little uplifting. Then Dexter came on and played equally as poorly – druggy techno interspersed with Baltimore/Miami club shit. Sunday 4am shit on the Friday night, WTF? Anyway Friday night aside things looked up in the morning. Saturday is my haziest day but people I know loved Norman Jay, and we (my team of pirates) figured out that last years Cocktail Tent had actually moved to a chilled spot by the river, it wasn’t scrapped after all! And that tent played probably the best underground dance I’ve ever heard in NSW. Special big up to the guy who played before Mark Pritchard, you pulled out some mad shit even though there wasn’t that many folk around. Plus we had heaps of fun playing giant chess and connect four. Super-dooper surpise whammy of the weekend was Mark Walton’s Fretless. Triple exclamation-mark music! I’d been anticipating catching this new act for a while now but man was I underprepared for how much they were going to blow me away. It was the hugest electronic party funk and hip hop I’ve ever encountered! I am Fretless’s new biggest fan, no hype, it just owned everything I’ve ever heard, ever. Walton’s put together a bunch of amazing vocalists and musicians, truly world class, you need to see this show. Just quickly South Rakkas Crew were awesome. DJ Dow Jones and MC Trix lived up to all the hype, and made my boy Dave Tran’s weekend by getting him up on stage for birthday shoutouts and bumping and grinding with festival honeys. Band wise, most of them sucked, I mean how about a 45 minute soundcheck at the peak of the festival to spoil a good vibe. I did see one good band though, Bluejuice! Proving you can be a band, and not suck. Thanks to Playground for another magical weekend, please please please do it again.
Tony Two Tone
FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Randwick Racecourse. Saturday 8 March
---and I’m looking around at sweating faces and glazed eyes the beats literally flowing through my body someone’s talking in my ear but I can’t hear what they’re saying, whether they are talking to me, about me, past me, through me I’m busy checking out the hardbody to my left she kinda smiles but suddenly I’m being dragged away towards another stage ---
If you haven’t been to a festival before the Gonzo style Bret Easton Ellisesque opening is actually pretty accurate in capturing that helter skelter trashy festival essence (if you are one of the cynics chanting ‘festivals are hollow’ then take a hike now). The Future Music is fast becoming a gargantuan spectre towering above all other Aussie festivals (at least in terms of its ambition, its sheer size and that initial ‘wow’ factor). Obviously adopting the maxim ‘bigger is better’, simply focusing on the headliners of this year’s lineup, namely The Chemical Brothers, Digweed and Sven Vath puts any other recent dance festival lineup to the sword. Throw in Indie favourites Who Made Who (sublime live) and Data Rock (do red tracksuits equate to onstage ‘flair’? Discuss) and you have the makings of a great day. So then pal, was it a great day? Well Sven Vath stole the show, no question, playing exclusively off vinyl and entertaining the crowd as much with his eccentric persona and antics - see any of throwing champagne flutes to the masses and assuming the role of conductor, complete with drumstick, for the entirety of Supermayer’s epic ‘Two of Us’ – as his perfectly judged journey through amazing Techno cuts. Who Made Who played to a disappointing crowd as most had flocked to see Digweed, who was playing his usual blend of Progressive tracks on a sound system that was seemingly on HALF VOLUME. And this was my only real qualm with the day. Both Diggers and The Chems played with the volume far too low – hell people were talking at normal volume throughout! Whatever happened to that deafening bass, the futile screaming… If the sound had been sorted on the main stage then this would have been an absolute monster day, But it still was not enough to spoil a memorable mix of musical talent and festival debauchery. Future will have to pull a major (monster) rabbit out of the hat in the future to top this next year.
Christopher Honnery esq.
IRON AND WINE Manning Bar Tuesday March 12
The abominable snowman that is Sam Beam, alternatively known as Iron and Wine, stood before the sold out Manning Bar last Tuesday: a vision of shaggy folk perfection. One man, one guitar, one ugly shirt, one big ass beard and after a mumbled hello, one spellbindingly minimal rendition of The ten minute ‘Trapeze’ swinger, asking to be remembered. Fondly. Flicking between the star players of The Creek Drank the Cradle, Our Endless Numbered Days, a few selected EP’s and his latest full length The Shepard’s Dog, Beam was soon joined by a gang of folk fogies. A clear mark of his leap from solo, 4 track bedroom recording hero, to a festival hopping, record selling pin-up boy for progressive folk. But while Beam’s music has evolved, its delivery was stuck somewhere in the depths of Texan suburbia. After the initial novelty of matching his human face to his other worldly whispers and a spot of beard maintenance speculation, we were left behind as Beam closed his eyes and went to his happy place of creeks, cradles and woman kings. Granted, some interesting re-workings
Henry Rollins TRIVIA Q&A 1. What’s Henry Rollins’ real name?
2. Which Tool song is a duet with Rollins and Maynard James Keenan? 3. Which comedian has a regular ramble on The Henry Rollins Show? 4. What was Rollins working as directly before he joined Black Flag? 44 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
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What we've been out to see this week... 4. The manager of a Haagen-Dazs store
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3. Janeane Garofolo 2. ‘Bottom’, off Undertow 1. Henry Lawrence Garfield and sheer technical skill carried the set. But Beam’s lack of charisma - possibly from shyness, possibly a reaction to the ridiculous rave lighting in his face - and failure to realise that live music, beyond his bedroom walls, is actually a communal experience, made it difficult to pick out the moments of beauty from the monotonous soundscape. Maybe Beam and his merry men’s vibe would have worked in a festival setting, gently pushed higher by a purple haze. But inside Manning Bar, among aching lower backs and a Tuesday night, the endless numbered arrangements kept the crowd’s feet firmly on the ground. Or headed for the door.
Emma Rugg
TIGER ARMY BRITISH INDIA
Oxford Art Factory Tuesday March 11 ‘Tiger Army, Never Die’ led the ferocious charge. Dripping in cred with tatts out and immense talent on show Tiger Army owned the small stage at The Oxford Art Factory on Tuesday night. Powering their way through a set full of crowd pleasers (although the cries for Annabel Lee fell on deaf ears) the guys made their fans proud. Rewind. This was not a Tiger Army gig so much as an appearance at the Nudie Jeans co party in association with General Pants. The night started with a long and slightly confusing queue that did at times seem like it was never going to move. Once inside the guests were hit with the strains of British India who although trying their best seemed to be a little lost playing to the eclectic crowd who were more interested in clamoring at the bar for their free drinks. I have to say that the selection of Stoli and Asahi beer was a welcome offer but on a school night this early in the week strong caution was observed. Next up was Merrick and Rosso’s band who bought a certain amount of life (and some giggles) to the proceedings. But once again they were slightly lost playing to the strange mix of the crowd. With 45% the audience being fashionistas, 5% B grade celebrities and the other 50% die hard Tiger Army fans nothing tonight was going to please 100% of the crowd at any one time. After some strange track choices by the DJ, Tiger Army were at last on stage and the fans jostled to get as close and personal with the band as possible. The fashion set seemed slightly confused and possibly a little scared. Apart from the odd one or two game enough (free booze always helps here) to give the mosh a go the rest retreated to the safety of the back of the room.
well known ‘Wear It Well’ which he must have sung at least 300 times in his life but it sounded as fresh as a Veronicas tune. The silver theme ran through the show with his three backing singers, lead by Di Reed, wearing silver sequinned dresses and Rod kicking out about 20 silver soccer balls to the audience focussing mainly on those wearing Celtic Football Club jerseys. He loves his football. The stage had a huge Celtic motif across the floor and there were allusions to his love of the game all night. Not surprising considering he almost played professionally, and he demonstrated his ongoing prowess with the length and height of his kicks. Rod still had the moves although at times they were a little robotic. Numerous times saw his back to the audience clenching his buttocks and swivelling his hips in a style reminiscent of 1973, and his down to earth humour was well received, “We’ll take a ten minute break to give you a chance to stretch your legs and have a pee”. He covered all the golden oldies such as 'It’s A Heartache', 'Maggie Mae', 'We Are Sailing' and 'Tonight’s The Night' and made an effort to connect with the crowd singing from the front of stage and collecting flowers and stuffed koalas from devotees. The backing musicians were magnificent. There were a few times when Rod went backstage for a little break or costume change and we were left to the devices of the band. At one stage they played the Fleetwood Mac instrumental 'Albatross' and another time Di Reed sang 'Crazy' giving the night a more youth inspired choice. At times they were accompanied by a violinist, saxophonist, banjo player and piano accordionist in turn which added depth and movement to the stage. Rod ended the night with a suggestion of another tour when he said, “I’ve been coming to Melbourne since 1973, first with The Faces (but I can’t remember much from then)….. I might see you in three years, if not God bless you.” A fitting end to an entertainer who, despite showing some signs of being put out to pasture, should be around for many years to come.
Angie Valcanis
WEEN
Enmore Theatre Saturday Saturday March 1 Ween make me so happy. They rock out like motherfuckers and they have silly, funny songs which made my face hurt from too many smiles. This is an apt summation of how Ween made me feel:
I have to give respect to any brand that has the balls to have Tiger Army play at their party. Being a fan I just wish that I hadn’t had to go through the rest of the night to get to the prize. But I’m sure that many of those who attended had a different prize in mind.
BettySixGuns
ROD STEWART Rod Laver Arena February 28
Rod Stewart may be 66 but he still has the stamina and showmanship to pull off a two hour show covering 26 songs. The stage featured a huge screen which was an integral part of the entertainment. Its first image was a parody of 40s and 50s Movietone shorts featuring “The Rodfather” and leading us into a night of glam and a good old professional rock‘n’roll show. Rod, dressed in a silver jacket and bootleg black pants, loves his job and shows no sign of slowing down. He began with the
But in a really, really good way. AWESOME.
Kirsty Brown.
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Hard & Fast Hardcore • Punk • Ska • Metal with Josh Kiff
Parkway Drive
NEWS Parkway Drive have just rolled through their regional tour, selling out just about everydate. And now comes the band’s largest tour to date, taking in The Roundhouse on June 14 with Have Heart (US), Antagonist and Break Even. The new Weezer album is mixed and will be out at the end of June! No word on the album title yet but frontman Rivers has given some hints on the title of the first single, it's 12 letters long, starts with a T and end with an R. Adelaide’s In Fiction will be touring throughout April with Melbourne kids Stealing O’Neil on their ‘Liar Liar Tour’. Dates are below. Within Blood will be reuniting for a one off show in Melbourne on April 18 at the Arthouse. If you were a fan, start booking your flights now because this will be one packed show. Fans of the 80’s rejoice as Whitesnake play the Enmore on March 28! One of metal’s biggest acts, Children of Bodom will once again return to Australia. This time they play the Enmore on June 24. The show is an all ages affair. From Autumn To Ashes will hit the studio within the coming months to record the follow-up to last year’s Holding A Wolf By The Ears. The album will be released via Vagrant Records. Anberlin are recording their next album at the moment. The record is due for release in the second half of 2008.
Also releasing this year are the Real McKenzies who have the new album, Off The Leash out on July 3 through Fat Wreck. And Goldfinger, who have seemingly become more famous for their vocalist’s producing ability than their own music, will release Hello Destiny on April 22. The album features 12 tracks of political, social and commical goodness. MxPx attack the Forum on March 27. The band have just release a 2-disc Ultimate Collection CD. Front End Loader will hit the Annandale on April 4 to unleash their Laughing With Knives album. Its made up of a live disc (recorded at the Annandale), and a bsides and rarities disc. Grand Fatal will also be joining the lads on stage. They will then move up to the Cambridge in Newcastle on April 5. Juliet Lewis is a hollywood star, no doubt about it, but she is also the frontwoman of Juliet and the Licks and they are returning to Australia to play the Forum on April 25. Juliet will also be presenting at the MTV music awards. Alice Cooper is completing his latest album, currently looking at being titled Along Came A Spider. It will be released worldwide by Steamhammer Records. Bedioun Soundclash hit the Annandale on March 26 with Roger That in support mode. Horsell Common, Trial Kennedy and Mere Theory play the Annandale on March 21.
PROFILE Kataklysm
The Kings of Northern Hyperblast, Kataklysm, wear the crown once more with pride. Their latest release In The Arms Of Devastation is a monster album that strongly reaffirms the band’s pole position in the world of extreme metal, and shows the band at its best after a long journey of evolution since forming in 1991, through the folds of all things brutal, technical, extreme and, most of all, heavy.
TOUR DATES The Butterfly Effect March 20 – Castle Hill RSL March 21 – Selina’s Nightclub H.I.M March 25 – Luna Park Big Top Whitesnake March 28 – Enmore Theatre Miacarla March 29 – Chilli Lounge, Wyong Coheed & Cambria March 31 – UNSW Roundhouse Millencolin March 2 – UNSW Roundhouse Maylene And The Sons of Disaster April 5 – UNSW Roundhouse
DATES March 23 - Manning Bar w/ Metalstock Festival 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 In Fiction April 24 – Hot Damn April 25 – Campbelltown Arts Centre (AA) April 26 – Chilli Lounge, Wyong Kisschasy May 24 - Enmore Theatre (AA) May 25 - Penrith Panthers (Lic/AA) May 27 - ANU Bar, Canberra
CD REVIEW NASUM
Doombringer This is the final album from Nasum with vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk dying in the tsunami that ripped through Thailand in 2004. This album was recorded live in 2004 in Osaka, Japan. While just 25 minutes long, it's more than long enough to experience the band’s force and energy. For grindcore fans the end of this band would have created a whole gap, and hopefully this will fill a small part of that void. 46 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
Remedy
More than The Cure since 1989 with Murray Engleheart
AIRBORNE ZEP?
According to Classic Rock.com, a world tour by the triumphantly reunited Led Zeppelin mightn’t be on the cards after all despite some not too subtle teasing by Jimmy Page in the wake of their show in London in December that the band are virtually locked and loaded ready for a global assault. A “source” apparently told London’s Sunday Mirror that Robert Plant would rather focus on touring to support his unfathomably popular slab with Alison Krauss than pocket his share of a reported 120 million to decimate the planet with Zeppelin. Let’s wait and see on this one shall we? Plant must have loved Zep’s reteaming and the very public rekindling of their alchemy as much as anyone, maybe more, and would surely want to put the greatest moments of his professional life - not to mention a huge hunk of rock history - on show for as many people as possible to bear witness to and be uplifted by. Heck, who wouldn’t? We know we sure as shit would.
QUIET ACHEIVER
Did ya hear that Tomas Dahl who has replaced Chris Summers as drummer in Turbonegro has been actually on every one of their slabs from and including Apocalypse Dudes as backing vocalist? Us neither. Apparently he was in the same class in high school as Euroboy which woulda made for some interesting year book type pics. Anyways, the guy’s quite the talent. He played every instrument on the Wonderfools’ debut slab, Kids in Satanic Service and further wrote all the songs. Dahl has also roadied for his beloved Hard Ons when they have been in Europe where, in 2001, his ability to play every Hard Ons’ song ever recorded on bass, drums and guitar saw him get up on stage with his heroes and tear through a set with the greatest of ease.
STIFF MEAT
Speaking of The Hard Ons, which we kinda were, they’ve just recorded a four track EP with American comedian, Neil Hamburger. Included is a version of 'Committed to Suicide' by the Melbourne’s sonic nihilists, Sick Things, the intensity of which has to be heard to be believed.
RETURN VISIT
Led Zeppelin
STANDARDS IN QUESTION
Wise folks, in their quiet reflective moments, have long said, and here at Remedy we believe it to be true, that the most important things in life are your health and your reputation. That being the case it’s weird that some people seem to go out of their way to meticulously perserve and nurture one and then piss from a great height and with total abandon on the other. We moaneth with much rolling of reddened eyes and handwringing of Iggy Pop recenting seeing the need to pay musical tribute to Madonna at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Ig, just say “no” man, you know, like the old anti-drug slogan. You are one of the Generals man, one of the lead centurians and major standards bearers. Letting Nike use 'Search and Destroy' with a voice over from Bill Burroughs for that TV commercial a decade or so back resulted in pure art, true genius in sound and motion and was stunningly powerful. But dude, Madonna?
They existed for just nine months and twelve shows way back in 1979 and now the Visitors featuring the pivotal figures of Radio Birdman’s Deniz Tek and Pip Hoyle are back. Joining Tek and Hoyle in the current and very well received lineup are original singer, Mark Sisto, bass player Andy Newman (ex-Trans 262) and Nik Reith, the former drummer for The Celibate Rifles, The Deniz Tek Group and very briefly, Radio Birdman. Their self titled 1983 slab was originally released on the Citadel label and is due for re-release by Citadel this year.
WIZARDRY
The Warlocks return with their fourth slab, the wonderfully named Heavy Deavy Skull Lover which we reckon should be a strong contender for the Yessum, You Sure Can Judge A Slab By Its Title Awards for 2008. They’re still rooted and in a sense always will be in an early Velvets and exciting era Stooges’ place. But by now are starting to stretch out a little and stray behind the rest of the herd and wander off to one side and find others things to smell and munch on.
The Warlocks
ON THE TURNTABLE On the Remedy turntable is Witchcult Today, the newie from UK metal gods, Electric Wizard which is a huge, lumbering mammoth of a beast and a mighty powerful reinstatement of the status that they blasted out for themselves with slabs like the multiple subwoofer destroying Dopethrone. Also spinning is Peter Well’s typically gritty, Bodgie Dada, the last effort the big bloke recorded just before he passed and Mogwai’s Rock Action.
TOUR AND INDUSTRY NEWS *Big hitters, Helmet return to Australia for virtually the second time in as many years in April and May. Page Hamilton’s crew will be at the Gaelic Club on 30 April and then on 1 May at the Uni Bar in Wollongong and on 2 May at the ANU Bar in Canberra. *Back in October last year there was much grief when UK metal legends, Saxon, were forced to re-schedule their very first Australian tour. Nailing them down for the first time ever seemed like a dream, being able to do it a second time seemed nigh on impossible. But it’s happened baby. On 7 May they’ll be at The Forum with local guests, Lord. Please note that tickets for the original Sydney show remain valid.
*Big rock rockers, Fort and Rollerball are out on their Pull The Pin tour which will see them in these parts towards the end of the month. On 27 March they’ll be at the Annandale with support from Lowride, 28 March at the Oxford Tavern, Wollongong with locals, The Chargers and 30 March at the Transit Bar, Canberra. *Jim Moginie and the Family Dog with Kent Steedman and Paul Loughhead from the Celibate Rifles on guitar and drums respectively will be at the Harp Hotel Tempe on Good Friday. Hear the band in a more psychedelic mode with lots of guitar action from Jim and Kent, folks who know how to squeeze out a few fret fireworks. Doors open at 6pm and it’s all done by 9.30.
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05:03:08 :: Scruffy Murphy's :: 43 -49 Goulburn St Sydney 92112002
Its called: Bel Air Miami
It sounds like: A sexy lady in your bed covered in nothing but a silk sheet. DJs/live acts playing: The Spiri ts, Black Royale, To The Throne, Team Extreme Team DJs: Hey Now, Emb er, Anna Lunoe, Ghetto Ruckus & The Gameboys Three records thatll rock the floo r: ‘The Salmon Dance’ - Chemica l Brothers (Crookers Remix), ‘Bring That’ Hey Now, ‘Let’s Dance’ - David Bow ie.
And one that youd rather die than play: ‘Love Today’ - Mika Sell it to us: The closest experienc e to watching The Matrix on sma ck! And/or awesome Indie Rock/Electro that’ ll set your party pants on fire! Also I hope you realise that you are not allow ed to buy alcohol tomorrow (Goo d Friday), so there is no selling needed.
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Bel Air Miami
:: The Gaelic Theatre :: 64 Devonshire St Surry Hills 92111687
The bit well remember in the AM: Dancing midgets and people dres sed as gorillas messing up the midgets’ hair. Crowd specs: Mainly smart peop le, but also some dumb people Wallet damage: $10
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Where: Candy’s Apartment, 22 Bays water Rd, Kings Cross When: Thursday March 20 8pm till dawn
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09:03:08 :: Beach Road Hotel :: 71 Beach Road Bondi 91307247
06:03:08 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700
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06:03:08 :: Spectrum :: 34 Oxford St Darlinghurst 93316245
Yr moniker – what’s the deal?: Willis. It came from the tree and Spruce Lee, Spruce WHEEEEEE and or Spruce began to blossom. What’s yr sound?: I play many mus ics, I love them all. Right now I’m 1980s and Rick James. deep in the When/why did you decide to take decided to try and play the records on the decks and start DJing: Me and Levins it was a good way to get drunk and we bought from a second hand shop and realised listen to what we wanted to hear . Five records you’d die fighting for: Stone City Band – ‘The Boys Are Young – ‘After the Gold Rush’, Ice Back’, Neil – ‘36 Chambers’, pretty much anyt Cube – ‘America’s Most Wanted’, Wutang Clan hing by the Gap Band. Best gig you’ve ever played?: Sydney Uni beachball was mad Supporting Daft Punk was awesome fun and the too, there’s been a couple of good ones recently. And the worst?: A recent Sydney festival. Greatest musical inspiration: Neil Young, Rick James, Kano, Georgio hard to pick one there’s a lot! Moroder, it’s If your music was a soundtrack for planning a mixtape called Sexy Thro a film, what would it be about?: Well, I’m ugh Time so if that could be a mov involve an undisclosed location a ie it would lighting with people wearing ‘the lot of long island ice teas, red leather and dark Warriors’ uniforms. Outside of DJing, what pushes your buttons?: Making the beat sandwiches, Frisbee, relaxing, losin s g things, hanging out with friendsfor S.Y.L.K, good ole time. and having a
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What was the last thing you wro te on your hand: ‘4200’ - it was ad at work. It’s still there! the code for an Last time you were really, reall Weekender singing along to Cha y, really happy: The last night of Playground ka Khan at the top of my lungs. It was sweet. And we can see you: We Had Part ies @ Exchange Hotel Sunday Marc h 23 [Also Fridays @ Bandits and ever y Tuesday on Roshambo sunsets on FBi 94.5 6-8pm]
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08:03:08 :: Mandarin Club :: 396 Pitt St Sydney 92113866
05:03:08 :: Macquarie Hotel :: 42 Wentworth Ave Surry Hills 82628888
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07:03:08 :: Q-Bar :: 34-44 Oxford st, Darlinghurst 93601375
:: The Factory :: 105 Victoria Road Enmore 95503666
It sounds like: The only place to be on Good Friday… DJs/live acts playing: Knife Mac hine (kitsune/Lost Valentinos), Goo dfella (Kink), Sweat Shop Boys, Upps, Space Cadets, 2OnAJoyride and DiscoNotDisco DJs Sell it to us: Firstly look at the line up, secondly CHEAP drinks and last but not least it’s the only club in the whole of Sydney allowed to be open on Good Friday… ENJOY YOURSE LF! The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Midgets doing the worm dance… or nothing at all because of the CHE AP drink special! Crowd specs: Everyone in Sydn ey, because nothing else is open !!! Wallet damage: $15, but $10 if you buy your ticket off Moshtix or send your name to partypeoplepresents@g mail.com Where: Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshi re St Surry Hills. 2 minute walk from Central Station.
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08:03:08 :: Agincourt Hotel :: 871 George St City 92814566
07:03:08 :: Phoenix Bar :: Downstairs 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 93311936
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venue music news welcome to the frontline: what’s goin’ on, down and around town...
CHROME <3’S
Out of all the commercialised religious holidays, Easter is easily in my top 2. We score a couple of days off and mum buys you some chocky. Wonderful! However, as chocolate and drinking doesn’t work we decided to rework the standard Easter Egg Hunt (EEH) into a drink ticket hunt and get everyone smashed. 50 drink tickets will be hidden around the venue so come find them before we run out of free drinks ourselves and ransack the hiding places. Easter Sunday will never have been more painful.$3 beers, $4 spirits, $7 Jagerbombs & Vodka Redbulls. $10/$8 with an ad, Doors 9pm, photos @ myspace.com/chromeheartssydney Saturday March 22 at The Forbes, Cnr King and York St in the city
CLUB BLINK
CANDY’S APARTMENT
Candy’s is in for a massive roller coaster ride this easter long weekend!!!! With three massive nights heading underground. Thursday 20th Bel Air Miami plays host to the EP Launch of Gameboy/ Gamegirl and along side these dudes we have a haps more indie electro clash artists with Catcall, Miami Horror, Hey Now, Yellow Bird, Anna Lunoe, Redial and Tranterco. The night is going to be huge because no partying on Good Friday!!! Saturday 22nd Ritual is back with its tripped out visuals and awesome electro line up WOW! We have Rubicon, Rif Raf, Joe Le Fro, Teez, Gary Gee, Jim Junkie and Romulus & Remus. So head down get messy and DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!! Sunday the 23rd ends the weekend with a BANG! Sunday Dirty Sunday heads underground with a solid indie electro line up Hey Now, CSK OK, Allan Marshall, Jeremy, Boonie, Craig and Red Roll. So head underground and play inside me!
ALBION HOTEL
Live music from Brown Sugar (UMA winner, Best RnB Band) on Thursday 20th to start the Easter long weekend. Plus live music every Friday after work, this Fri 21st with Fourth Down doing their soulful thing from 6pm, with special guest Sally Palhronas. More live music on Saturday 22nd with the Dora D from 7pm, and again on Sunday 23rd at 2.30pm with Ray Mann cool and laidback in the courtyard followed by the rattle & Hum U2 Show 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 NuSoul 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. In the heart of Parramatta at George and Harris Sts. Details online at the all new website, www.albionhotel.com.au
BEAT GEEKS TRIVIA
The Clare Hotel is now hosting Beat Geeks Music Trivia every Tuesday from 7:30pm. Get a team together or come down by yourself and test your musical prowess! So far we have given away tickets to Playground Weekender, Free entry to some of Sydney raddest clubs, tonnes of CDs including the
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Kills, Sons and Daughters, Cut Copy also Easter eggs, Jugs of Beer, bar tabs and even a packet of Chicken Crimpy’s! This is Sydney’s most laid back and entertaining Trivia night!
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
BOTANY VIEW HOTEL
Melbourne band Clinkerfield, who have been described as “dangerous, beautiful but so powerful”, are very excited because they’re about to embark on an extensive national tour. It’s to support the launch of their brand new album A Head Full Of Rain And A Heart Full Of Puddles. Their tour kicks off in Sydney on Sunday 23rd March at the botany view - It’s an afternoon show with support from Handsome Young Strangers, and it’s free to get in.
This weekend, Club Blink goes all out as it helps put on 3 major parties: Firstly the Club Blink Easter Party this Thursday night (all venues closed on Good Friday). This runs from 8.30pm till dawn and operates over 3 levels of the venue with Djs Bzurk, Karma and Snowflake busting out tunes on the club level, live bands The Horrorwood Manequins, Subnosys and Sound The Mute on the ground floor and Satanic Hispanic and Kawk in the metal room. Our last Blink Easter party sold out, so arrive early to avoid queuing!! Also this weekend, Blink co hosts with Trash and Soundworks Entertainment the Offical afterparties for Metalstock in the kore room of The Agincourt Hotel on both Saturday and Sunday nights. We have weekend passes, available from the door on Friday for $20, which gets you entry for all 3 nights!! Otherwise afterparty tickets are available from metalstock for $5!! This is a massive weekend: one more time for the dummies: Blink runs this Thursday (Easter Party), Saturday and Sunday nights at the Agicnourt Hotel!! An extraveganza for the hungry!! Agincourt Hotel
EXCHANGE HOTEL
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 ]
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. Highlights this week include Fourth Down playing Thur 20th and a big Sunday with Mark Palmer Trio in the arvo and Rob Edwards’ smooth neo-soul from 8pm. 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
HOT DAMN!
Every year our GOOD FRIDAY EVE PARTY is MASSIVE. No surprises really, with more blasphemy for your buck than is even close to appropriate. This Thursday will be no different with IRRELEVANT and THE QUITS playing live, our world famous DJ’s playing songs till the religious holiday dictates the bar must close (5am, thanks Jesus) and the OFFICIAL DAN BOMBINGS FAREWELL PARTY (yes, I’ve resigned). To top it off, we have $5 JAGERBOMBS ALL NIGHT, plus the usual $3 BEERS, $4 SPIRITS and $6 LONGNECKS ALL NIGHT LONG. Shit is going to be nuts get down early to get the bar quicker. $10/8 with an ad Doors 8pm. www. myspace.com/hotdamnsydney Thursday March 20 at Spectrum and Q Bar, 34 Oxford St Darlinghurst
LOADED
With Friday an official holiday, this week LOADED is guaranteed to be crazy busy. To soundtrack the inevitable lunacy the launch album is the superb ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’ from the even superb-er We Are Scientists. This album alongside the long weekend, the hottest new release playlist in town and an album of the month that might just be album of the year (we’re talking Billy Bragg’s ‘Mr Love and Justice’) means you will need to get there early. The best way to ensure entrance is to get yourself on the guest list which you can do by emailing loaded@ theworldbar.com NOW. You can also email Loaded to get on the launch album and album of the month giveaway list. And to repeat the new album of the month is ‘Mr Love and Justice’ from Loaded hero Billy Bragg - it doesn’t get any better than that does it? As well as all the goings on mentioned so far, the lads will also be unleashing brand new stuff from the likes of THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS, THE COPS, 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! Have we said you can also use the loaded email address to apply for free membership (cheap drinks, perks, etc) and a free gift? We have now. Last weeks membership enquirer’s received Loaded staple guns! If you do have a request, or want to enquire about anything at all concerning Loaded, and be aware that these boys are up for everything, email loaded@theworldbar.com. All this coupled with the best club atmosphere in Australia makes for a guaranteed great night. You know that though. Check out the Loaded MySpace account at MYSPACE.COM/WEARELOADED Layo & Bushwacka
CAMPERDOWN HOTEL
If there is one party crew which proudly props up the middle finger and hoists it in the general direction of the pretentious princesses, the materialistic morons, the trouble-making try-hards, and the chin-stokers who have completely forgotten how to have fun, it’s the 6 Degrees crew. Well actually, there are two… a wobbly conversation in a pub between like-minded trashbags has led to an unholy alliance which will invade an unsuspecting pub in Camperdown on the Easter Long Weekend. The Swinging Safari Easter Sunday Spectacular will feature 6 Degrees finest: Two Up, Andy Van Dryver, Brett Kelly, Dugy Fresh, The 6 Degrees Crew will be joined by the ever-chaotic Safari Sound System feat. Mr C, Christophunk and a very special surprise guest. So come and get back to nature with The Swinging Safari. Sunday 23 March Midday till late Camperdown HotelCnr Layton St & Parramatta Rd, Camperdown
GAELIC CLUB
Easter is going to be HECTIC… To kick of the long weekend Future Is Now (LIC A/A) is making its way back with an amazing line up. The Future Is Now team has joined with Purple Sneakers and are coordinating an After Party to be held at The Abercrombie, make sure you come. The only place open past midnight on Good Friday, is the Black Light spot at The Gaelic. With local DJ’s including The Knife Machine, Space Cadets and Sweatshop Bios, this will be a party that most will find it hard to recollect. Saturday night sees UK duo Layo & Bushwacka! put on a music extravaganza!
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venue music news welcome welcome to to the the frontline: frontline: what’s what’s goin’ goin’ on, on, down down and and around around town... town...
LOST BAGGAGE
Bollywood Bonanza – Revenge of the Dubinda Is that a Tandoori Loin Chop in your hand or are you just glad to see me....well, it had to happen really, LOST BAGGAGE Bollywood edition. Tikka Tikka Boooooom! We are making it easier every month for you to dress up for Lost Baggage. This month our bags have strayed off to INDIA. Wack on ya turban, splash ur sari round that Size 8 waist (well maybe 10 then) and start shakin ur head, yo azz and talkin shit like Manmeat Tenderbasher as we prepare for the BIGGEST BADDEST LOST BAGAAAAAAJ on record. Not only are you going to be transported to the sub-continent and sprayed with Vindaloo sauce, you will also be treated to the toppest notchest artists known to human-kind. We CAN tell you that electronic music maestro Aril Brikha from Sweden will be headlining the Bump Lounge this month. In the main room, we have confirmed an absolutely MASSIVE international act who you will all be familiar with. We cannot announce who they are but TRUST USyou will not be disappointed. As if that wasn’t enuff, for dessert we are throwing in our very famed sweet as mango lassy STRAWBERRY BOOGIE TERRACE (name is gay we know)....Just for good measure and relief from all the STEAMING HOT TECHNO in the other rooms! As well as offering one of the only smokingterracesin the whole of King’s Cross, we are offering the best infusion of Wonky Disco DJs and dusty record afficionados this town has to offer. Think guys that have played for creamy underground Disco parties like Paradise Lost andDisco Not Disco. Seriously good cosmic disco action!!!Mmmmmmmmm!!! Theseguys are all half man half disco biscuit….so be prepared. Phewww out of breath so get off ur arses and come for fuck sake. Brought to you by the LOST BAGGS…EASTER THURSDAY 20 MARCH The Cross.
PURPLE SNEAKERS
This week marks the HISTORIC 150th PURPLE SNEAKERS! And just to do something a little different, we’re gonna break
tradition and throw one mad-ass party on THURSDAY NIGHT! (It also has something to do with ‘The Man’ not letting us party on Good Friday…) We have a special guest DJ set from Trash resident M!Veg and a DJ set from one of Sydney’s raddest new Indie bands Teenagers in Tokyo. Purple Sneakers DJs PhDJ, Walkie Talkie and Vivienne Kingswood will also be there dropping some of the freshest, eggiest and most chocotastic Easter tunes straight out tha rabbit hole! They are supported by Classics DJs Coco & Shambles. And to top it all off we will be launching the new album by Cut Copy thanks to our friends at Modular. And if all that isn’t reason enough to head out on a Thursday, we will also be hosting the OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY of the Future Is Now mini-festival featuring Young & Restless, The Wahas, Tic Toc Tokyo, The Jezabels, Lions at Your Door & more!! Purple Sneakers – THURSDAY 20th March @ The Abercrombie Hotel
official launches for the new MUSE album and the new live album from THE DOORS!! MUSE is one of the best bands ever and this Saturday Trash goes all out playing shitloads of Muse over all levels alongside other alternative faves from DJ Bzurk, Absyth, Firefly, Ivy and M!Veg and on the ground floor we have DJ Snowflake playing more MUSE (her favourite band) alongside rock legends The Doors, between and after live bands: Laws of Tradition, Dear Life and Split Level and the official Metalstock Afterparty with Kawk, Satanic Hispanic and guests in the Metal room. Then on Sunday night we do it all again, though this time we join forces with Club Blink and Soundworks Entertainment to bring you a night of full on mayhem!! Trash
this Saturday and Sunday nights: Double the Trash Bash!! Agincourt Hotel
WHAM!
It seems the ultimate Easter egg hunt will go down at Wham this sat... over not two but THREE rooms! That1s right kids, Illya1s back to Jack the House upstairs, with Tony Venuto along for the ride. Can1t find any treats? Try the club room. With Ben Morris, James Tayor, Brenden Fing, Rob Kay and Wax Motif, we think there1ll be plenty of eggs for all (no, ah, pun intended there). But if you still want more, check out what the front room1s hiding... Elroy (to be officially addressed as O Lord?), BC (SWAT), Gabriel Clouston and Saez. Who needs the Easter Bunny? Get your ass to WHAM!
STARFUCKERS
This Saturday marks the second birthday for your favourite lovable drop kick Disk Junkies and their fabulous, glitter filled, drug fueled, skank bash STARFUCKERS. AJAX joins residents SUNDAY SCHOOL & SVETA to clean up after the usual fags Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Blood & Papa T (Trentertainment) after having their way with the decks. To Celebrate adding another notch on the bedpost of Club 77, the Disk Junkies are also launching and giving away a FREE copy of their 2nd Mix CD (Mixed by Disorder & Hookie) for the first couple of hundred or so munters that fall down the stairs of the batcave. Dress is essential until you’re in the club. No fat chicks. $15 from 10pm. Xx
TRASH
Do you wanna get Trash or what!! Well this is the weekend to do it as we have four days to Party and two very big Trash events, 3 if you include Blink on Thursday night!! The first Trash event, the Easter Party of all Parties is this Saturday night with Trash hosting the
The Assassinators
SANDRINGHAM
On Thursday night, we’ve got Danish punk band The Assassinators. This is a show not to be missed. It’s a public holiday the next day so come and get merry with The Assassinators. Supports are Crux, Scum System Kill and Frank Rizzo. On Saturday night, we’ve got five of Sydney’s best heavy rock bands...Beretta Justice + Sanctity in Chaos + They Shall Fall + Red Valley + Decipher Sandringham Hotel, 387 King St, Newtown.
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Sonic Constructions
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FRI 21 MAR
SAT 22 MAR
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
LAYO & BUSHWACKA! (UK) + SWEET CHILLI CREW + KIERON C
FRI 28 MAR + SHORT STACK + SPECIAL GUEST
ACID EYELINER (LIC A/A)
FRI 04 APR
SAT 05 APR
FRI 11 APR
WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING + RON HAWKINS (US) + SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR
WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING + RON HAWKINS (US) + SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR
SPECTRUM (UK) + DIMMER (NZ) + THE LOVETONES ESSENTIAL FESTIVAL
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REGURGITATOR RATATAT (US) GRAFTON PRIMARY MORE TO COME
COMING SOON bluejuice + THE PAPER SCISSORS
SAT 12th APR
PERIAH + THE VAINE + MORE
SUN 13th APR
LOLA FLASH + SECLUSION
FRI 18th APR
THOMAS MAPFUMO (ZIM)
SAT 19th APR
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO WWW.THEGAELIC.COM
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THURSDAY MARCH 20
Wilco
Pivot
Pivot, Mark Pritchard, Jack Ladder, Sleater Brockman, Sticksy, Spod, Mailer Daemon, Dark Justice Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $15 (+ bf) 9pm
MONDAY MARCH 17 ROCK & POP Brian Campeau with special guests The Hazelman Brothers (Melb) Madame Fling Flong, Newtown $10 7pm Celtic Fire, Reels on Fire, Rob Henry, Achtung Baby, Rob Henry, Gemma, Bernie The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 8am Derek Davies, Finn McCool, Irish Walkarounds PJ Gallagher’s Drummoyne free 1pm Dublin Up The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 7pm Eileen McCann Trio Peachtree Hotel, Penrith free 7pm Elevation U2 Show The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 11am Emma Courtney The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Finn McCool The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 11pm Homebake Incentive: Ten Thousand Free Men, Papa vs Pretty Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 8pm Jade Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Maceo Parker (USA), Raul Midon (USA) The Basement, Circular Quay $79 (+ bf) 9.30pm Michael McGlynn Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 5.30pm Open Mic Night Coogee Bay Hotel free Peter Byrne The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 1.30pm Ray Davies (UK) Enmore Theatre $90–$120 7.30pm Simon Watts, Reels on Fire, Reckless, Irish Walkarounds PJ Gallagher’s Parramatta free 1pm Singer Songwriter Night Vic on the Park Hotel, Marrickville $5 7pm Stringy Bark The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 7am 58 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
The Jam Thing Gasworks Nightclub, Albion Hotel, Parramatta free 7pm The Killarney Trio The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 7am The Moonshiners The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 4.30pm
JAZZ Bloux Trax: Alex Boneham Band Hollywood Hotel, Surry Hills $5 9pm Mamadou Diabate, Bobby Singh, Joseph Tawadros (Egypt) The Vanguard, Newtown $25 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 7pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK Danny O’Keefe (USA), Kristina Olsen (USA) Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt $25 8pm Finnigan’s Wake, Phil Dye Duo The Harp, Tempe 9am Kieran Glasgow Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7pm Leo Bonne PJ Gallagher’s Drummoyne free 5.30pm Monday Night Social Kelly’s On King, Newtown free 8pm Reel On Fire PJ Gallagher’s Parramatta free 5pm Songwriter Sessions Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills free 7.30pm Wheelers & Dealers Dee Why RSL Club free
Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $45 (+ bf) 8pm Jed Zarb Coogee Bay Hotel free 8pm Kath Nelligan O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm KP Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay free 4.30pm Mavis Staples (USA) The Factory Theatre, Enmore $71.70 (+ bf) 7.30pm Maxine Kauter, Ross Bruzzese AB Hotel, Glebe free 7pm Mick Vawdon The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Mum (Iceland), The Seabellies Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $40 (+ bf) 8pm Newton Faulkner (UK) Annandale Hotel $27.50 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 8pm Originals - Uber Lingua: Gypsy Dub System with drop-in vocalists / instrumentalists Mashy P Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm Ozzy Osbourne (UK) Sydney Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park $99 (silver)–$145 (gold) PopTarts: Ami Williamson, Francesca Sidoti, Sarah Humphreys, Jaaw Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 7pm Pulse 8
COUNTRY Jammasaurus Rex Band, Mark Kirk, Steve Shepherd Royal Exchange, Windsor free 8pm
TUESDAY MARCH 18 ROCK & POP Caramel The Steyne Hotel, Manly free 9pm Dwayne Elix Riverstone Schofields RSL free 1pm Galactic, Chali 2na (USA), Boots Riley
Cuthbert & The Night Walkers
Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 8pm Sandpit: Platinum Brunette, The Vital, Against the Grain Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Shane Flew BB’s - Bar Bondi, Bondi Beach free 9pm Sublime: Katie Noonan, Australian Chamber Orchestra City Recital Hall, Sydney $35 (u30 yrs)–$84 (A Res) 8pm The Last Town Chorus (USA), Gabrielle & Cameron Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $15 8pm Wilco (USA), Bridezilla Enmore Theatre $80.60 (+ bf) 8pm
JAZZ Bonnie J Jensen Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 12pm David Paquette Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Jazzgroove: Trio Apoplectic, Translators Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $12 (member)–$15 8pm Lee Ritenour, Raul Midon (USA) The Basement, Circular Quay $79 (+ bf) 9.30pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm Rob Eastwood Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK Van Sereno Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 7pm Faerd (Denmark), Zumpa The Harp, Tempe $15 7.30pm Sinead O’Connor (Ireland), Damien Dempsey (Ireland) State Theatre, Sydney $99.90 (+ bf) 8.10pm
WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 ROCK & POP Bernie The Observer Hotel, The Rocks free 9.30pm Chris Paton Northies, Cronulla free 8pm
Corrina Steel, Bill Chambers, Justin Frew’s Loose Intentions Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers University of Technology Sydney, Glasshouse Bar, Ultimo free 12pm Franky Valentyn Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 5.30pm Goodnight Dynamite O’Malley’s Hotel, Darlinghurst free 9.30pm Hitseekers Ettamogah Pub, Rouse Hill free 6.30pm Ian Brown (UK), Belles Will Ring Metro Theatre, Sydney $76.60 (+ bf) 8pm Jager Uprising: Inanimate Objects, The Jacket, Green Room Annandale Hotel free 8pm Kaman Trio Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 8.30pm KT Tunstall (Scotland), Newton Faulkner (UK) Enmore Theatre $71.50 (+ bf) 8pm Loudon Wainwright III (USA), Lucy Wainwright Roche (USA) The Factory Theatre, Enmore $46.80 (+ bf) 8pm Marty Novotel Homebush, Homebush Bay free 5pm McArtney, Sean Carey, The Falls, The Hazelman Brothers Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $8 8pm Paperwork: The Small Hours, Sui Zhen, Cleptoclectics, Redjayway Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway free 6pm Pet Cemetery Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst free 9pm Rachel Unthank & the Winterset (UK) Brass Monkey, Cronulla $15 8pm Someone You’re Not Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm Sublime: Katie Noonan, Australian Chamber Orchestra City Recital Hall, Sydney $35 (u30 yrs)–$84 (A Res) 7pm Sugarland (USA) Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $38 (+ bf) The Jefferson, Optimus Maxibot, The Cosmic A-Bomb Strike Team, The Blacklights Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 8pm
gig guide
send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Dempsey (Ireland) State Theatre, Sydney $99.90 (+ bf) 8.10pm Vusi Mahlasela (South Africa), Andrew Bukenya The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $42 (+ bf) 7.30pm
HIP HOP The Adventures of Smoky Dawson - A Life Remembered: John Williamson, Melinda Schneider, Graeme Connors, Johnny Chester, The Howie Bros, James Blundell, Normie Rowe, Pixie Jenkins, Clair Hayes The Hills Centre, Castle Hill $29 (C Res)–$95 (gold) 7.30pm
THURSDAY MARCH 20 G-Love The White Bros The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 9.15pm They Call me Bruce Coogee Bay Hotel free 8pm
JAZZ Alex Hopkins Sofitel Wentworth Sydney free 5.30pm Elana James (USA), Felicity Urquhart The Vanguard, Newtown $25 (+ bf)–$28 (at door) 7pm Elana Stone Band Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Lee Ritenour The Basement, Circular Quay $79 (+ bf) 9.30pm Paquette Trio, Dan Barnett Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm
ROCK & POP Peter Locke Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm Rachel Gaudry Dee Why RSL Club free 6pm Seduisant Marble Bar, Sydney free 8pm The Musos Club Jam: Jim Finn, Al Britton Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt free 8pm
ACOUSTIC/FOLK Hans Theessink (Austria) The Harp, Tempe $25 7.30pm Konrad Lenz, Dane Owen, Kay Orchison Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $8 8pm Launch Squad Acoustic Sessions: Stephen Lovelight, TC Coombes, Liu Si Yu Cock n Bull Hotel, Bondi Junction free 7.30pm Sinead O’Connor (Ireland), Damien
Bel-Air Miami: -Bands: The Spirits, Black Royale, To The Throne, Team Extreme Team -DJs: Hey Now, Anna Lunoe, Gameboys, Ghetto Ruckus Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross $10 before, midnight $15 after 8pm Ben Finn Coogee Bay Hotel free 8pm BNO The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 9.15pm Brett Hunt Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 8pm Cambo Observer Hotel free 9.30PM 2,30AM Caramel Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 10pm Dave A Duo PJ Gallagher’s - Parramatta free 9pm - Midnight Dubbly, Ras Gong Guerrillas
Sonar, Milsons Point $10 (+ bf) 7pm Funpuppet Peachtree Hotel free 9,00PM 12.30AM Future is Now: Young & Restless, Tic Toc Tokyo, The Wahas, The Jezabels, Lions At Your Door, Wow Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills $12 (+ bf) 7.30pm G Love & Special Sauce (USA), Ozomatli (USA), O.A.R. Enmore Theatre $81.50 (+ bf) 7.30pm Goodnight Dynamite Brewhouse St Marys free 8.30pm - 12.00am Halal How Are You, Euripides Berserker Live House, Lewisham $10 8pm Head Inc, Thug, Killrazor, Black Elvis Empire Hotel, Annandale free Heath Burdell Hillside Hotel free 8.00pm - 12.00am Hot Damn!: Irrelevant, The Quits, Best Friends, Spandex Sarah Spectrum, Darlinghurst $8 (guestlist)–$10 8pm King Tide, Declan Kelly Brass Monkey, Cronulla $22 8pm Kiss (USA) Sydney Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic
Park $135 (B Res)–$225 (A Res) 7.30pm Makin Whoopee Sofitel Wentworth free 5.30 - 8.30pm Mango Stone (CD Launch) Oatley Hotel free 8pm Melody Markets: Oscar Beltran, Peter Schaeffer Chatswood Mall free 12pm Michael Bennett Observer Hotel free 8.30pm - 1.30am Pivot, Mark Pritchard, Jack Ladder, Sleater Brockman, Sticksy, Spod, Mailer Daemon, Dark Justice Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst $15 (+ bf) 9pm Power of Two Club Liverpool free 7.30pm Purple Sneakers: PhDJ, Vivienne Kingswood, Walkie Talkie, Coco & Shambles, M!Veg, Teenagers in Tokyo Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway $10 - free before 8pm 7pm Robertson Brothers and Friends PJ Gallagher’s - Drummoyne free 8.30-11.30pm Ruthie Foster (USA), Bluehouse The Factory Theatre, Enmore $34.90 (+ bf) 7.30pm Sam and Jamie Show Crows Nest Hotel free 10.00pm -
Young & Restless
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send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com The Big Top at Luna Park, Milsons Point $97 (+ bf)–$134 (+ bf) 7pm Playgerise, Simon Kelly The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 7pm Rachel Unthank & the Winterset (UK), Martha Tilston The Harp, Tempe $20 8pm Vusi Mahlasela (South Africa), Andrew Bukenya The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Chippendale $42 (+ bf) 7.30pm
COUNTRY Cooks River Jam Night: Artist/s unknown Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe free 7pm
The Butterfly Effect 1.00am The Assassinators, The Crux, Scum System Kill, Frank Rizzo Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm The Butterfly Effect, Mammal, Amphetame Castle Hill RSL Club $25 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 7.30pm The Datsuns (NZ), Regular John, Ripping Dylans Annandale Hotel $27.50 (+ bf) 8pm The Dave White Experience Ettamogah Hotel free 8.30pm 12.00am The Dead Sea Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm The Musos Club Jam Carousel Inn Hotel, Rooty Hill free 8pm The Vital, Dr Buff, The Chagalls Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 8pm Tim Shaw Balgowlah RSL Club free 7:30pm - 11:30pm Two Minds Northies Cronulla Hotel - Sports Bar free 8:30pm- Midnight Wildcatz Novotel Brewery - Homebush free 4.30pm - 8.30pm Yourspace Sly Fox, Enmore free 7pm
JAZZ Charlie Musselwhite (USA), John Hammond The Basement, Circular Quay $73 (+ bf) 9.30pm Darryl Beaton Band, Mighty Sparrow Melt Bar, Kings Cross free–$10 9pm Jack’s Band Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 8pm Jive Bombers, Ros South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 8pm Lionel Robinson Dee Why RSL Club free 7pm Paquette Trio Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Peter Locke Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm Peter Head Hero of Waterloo free 7pm
ACOUSTIC & FOLK Ben Carkagis, Avin Jason Mars Hill Cafe, Parramatta free Irish Sessions: For Folk’s Sake Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 8pm Olodum, The View From Madeleine’s Couch
FRIDAY MARCH 21 ROCK & POP Access All Ages: British India, Bridezilla, The Holidays, Cassette Kids, Bridgemary Kiss The Factory Theatre, Enmore $15 (+ bf) 4pm Blarney Boys The Orient Hotel, The Rocks $5 3pm Blow Taren Point Bowling Club free 9pm Cafe Carnivale: Armandito y Su Trovason Eastside Music Cafe, Paddington $12–$15 8pm Club Blink: Horrorwood Mannequins, Subnosys & Paradigm Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $15 9pm Dragon Remembers: Dragon South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford $25 7pm Geoff Yule Smith, Mishka UTS Haberfield Club free 7.30pm Hey Red Hills District Bowling Club, Baulkham Hills free 7.30pm
Horsell Common, Trial Kennedy, Mere Theory Annandale Hotel $10 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra (UK) Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House 8pm Larissa McKay Old Manly Boatshed $8 8pm Latin Power Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 10pm Midget, Tucker Bs, Captain Nemo Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm Mid-Life Crisis Dundas Sports & Recreation Club free 8.30pm Mum: Sugar Army, Light Noise, Obvious Fire The World Bar, Kings Cross $10 8pm Playin’ About St Marys RSL free 7pm Privateers, Moravia, The Flights, Undertone Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $10 8pm RifRaf Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 9pm The Butterfly Effect, Mammal, Amphetame Selina’s, Coogee Bay Hotel $25 (+
bf)–$30 (at door) 6pm The Rattlin’ Bog Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction free 8pm Triangle, Hiske, The Gruntled, Dr Klarence, S Macabre La Campana, Sydney $5 8pm Underlapper, Telafonica and Sui Zhen Paddy Maguires, Haymarket $10 8pm Williams Brothers Trio The Orient Hotel, The Rocks $5 7pm
JAZZ Anita Spring Astral Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 6pm Bridge City Jazz Band Club Ashfield free 7.30pm Brown Sugar Marble Bar, Sydney free 9pm Paquette Trio, Bob Henderson Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Peter Locke Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 5.30pm Unit 7 Lane Cove Country Club, Northwood free 7pm
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Monday 17th .......................................... MACEO PARKER & BAND (USA) DANCE FLOOR MODE ONLY
Tuesday 18th..................................... Bluesfest presents LEE RITENOUR (USA) + Raul Midon
Wednesday 19th .................................... LEE RITENOUR BAND (USA)
Thursday 20th........................................ CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE BAND (USA) + Special Guest JOHN HAMMOND (USA)
Friday 21st................................................ CLOSED
Saturday 22nd........................................ SINATRA ROCKS THE BASEMENT starring Jeff Duff & Emma Pask with the sensational Ed Wilson Big Band
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send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Unity Hall Jazz Band Unity Hall Hotel, Balmain free 9.30pm
COUNTRY The Robertson Brothers, Drew McAlister Blacktown RSL Club free 8.30pm
HIP-HOP 389: DJ K Note, KillaQueenz, DJ Kimani Beach Road Hotel, Bondi free 8pm
SATURDAY MARCH 22 ROCK & POP 2Gs Mount Druitt Workers Club, Dharruk free 8pm 2 Fold PJ Gallaghers - Parramatta free 8pm - 11:30pm Dead Inside The Chrysalis
Abduction X: Skeeta, Requiem, Kabuki, Buddha, Corpsey, Spyda, Oddball Live House, Lewisham $10 8pm Akinga Riverstone RSL Club free 9:00pm - 12:30am Almost Famous Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 10.30pm Anything Goes Duo St Marys RSL free 7pm Archers, Songs for Surgery, Ineka, Chris Arnott Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain 8pm As Long As It Grooves Crows Nest Hotel free 10.00pm 1.00am Beretta Justice, Sanctity in Chaos, They Shall Fall, Red Valley, Decipher Sandringham Hotel, Newtown 8pm Bob Log III (USA), Waylon P Flawstain Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $15 8pm Brad Johns Observer Hotel free 4:50pm - 9pm Caramel Glo Bar, Star City, Pyrmont free 10pm Charlie Lions
Paddy Maguires, Haymarket $10 8pm Dave Mason Cox The Orient Hotel, The Rocks $5 3.15pm Dave White Trio Peachtree Hotel free 9.00pm 12.30pm David A The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Dead Inside The Chrysalis, Downsizer, The Trees, ROCK vs KID Utopia Records, Broadway free 2pm Evening Son, Spazmoo, Sui Zhen Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt $10 8.30pm Focus Matraville RSL free 8pm Free Town, Fisherking, Simon Kelly Brass Monkey, Cronulla $12 8pm Frogs On Toast Davistown RSL Club 8:00pm 11:45pm Gary J Greengate Hotel free 8.30pm 11.30pm Goodnight Dynamite Northies Cronulla - Sports Bar free 8.30pm - 12.00am Heath Burdell Clovelly Hotel free 8:30pm 11:30pm Heidi Elva, Brian Campeau, Anomaly, Los Alamos Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 9pm Her Nightmare, 50 Lions Hermann’s, Darlington 8pm Hip Fidelity Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 7pm Hue Williams Mortdale Hotel free 8pm James Reyne, Mark Seymour Blacktown RSL Club $35 8pm Jar of Corn, Larissa McKay, Black Diamond Heart Club Vic on the Park Hotel, Marrickville 8pm Jed Zarb
PJ Gallaghers - Drummoyne free 9:30pm - 12:45am Kaki Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 9pm Keith Armitage Harbord Beach Hotel free 8pm 11:40pm KP Brewhouse Pub - St Mary’s free 8.30pm - 12:00am Lawrence Baker Brewhouse Pub - Marayong free 2pm - 5pm Macrohard: Sludge Hammer, Meat Safe, Ambitious Fish Roxbury Hotel, Glebe $7/$5 9pm Meniscus, Quirk the Gimp, Pyper, Monster Gale Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm Metalstock: Daysend, Norse, Grotesque, Black Asylum, Mytile Vey Lorth, Ebolie, Five Star Prison Cell, Terrorust, Furor, Alchemist Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $35 (day ticket)–$60 (whole event) 3.10pm New Buffalo, Fergus Brown, Cloud Control The Factory Theatre, Enmore $22 (+ bf) 8pm Nick Savas Hornsby RSL free 8.30pm Ninth Pillar, The Bad Jones, Velocets, Connect Live House, Lewisham $10 2pm Rob Henry Observer Hotel free 4pm - 8:10pm Rockettes Katoomba RSL Club 8:30pm 11:30pm Say Cheese and Die, Quebec, Straight Arrows, Stick Stick Hellen Rose-Schauersberger Laboratorium, Surry Hills $10 7pm Sean Carey, John Vella, Greg Cooper The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf) 7pm Seattle Sound Blacktown RSL Club free 10pm Seven Year Itch Mercantile Hotel, The Rocks free
8pm Sinatra Rocks the Basement: Jeff Duff, Emma Pask, Ed Wilson Big Band The Basement, Circular Quay $25 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 9.30pm Stanley Clarke / George Duke Project (USA), Raul Midon (USA) Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House $89–$115 7pm Surf City (New Zealand), Blue Carousel, Tennis, Flying Foxes, The Small Hours Annandale Hotel $10 7.30pm Sydney City Trash, Run For Cover, The Corps, The Handsome Young Strangers Paddy Maguires, Sydney $10 8pm The 3B’s Woy Woy Rugby League Football Club 8:00pm - 11:00pm The Julius Set, delSanto, Boxwell, Bazz Caringbah Bizzo’s $10 8pm The Lazys Spectrum, Darlinghurst 8pm The Tenants , Driverside Airbag , Model Citizen , Liberation Front Cambridge Hotel $10 8pm The Zips South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford 8.30pm Tice & Evans Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 4pm Tim Shaw Ettamogah Hotel free 6pm - 10pm Trash: Wish for Wings, Hand of Mercy & Pergamum Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo $10 9pm Wes Carr Robin Hood Hotel, Waverley free 9pm Wes Pudsey & the Sonic Aces, Grizzly Adams Ashfield RSL Club free 8pm Wildcatz Coogee Bay Hotel free 8pm Wizzcatz Regents Park Sporting & Community Club free 7.30pm
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JAZZ Amanda Baker, Capelle Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst $10 8pm Crystal Boudoir: Paul Chenard, DJ Sing Crystal Bar, Sydney $30–$45 9pm Paquette Trio, Bob Barnard Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks free 9pm Soul Nights Marble Bar, Sydney free 10pm Yuki Kumagai, John Mackie, Marty Mooney The Commercial Hotel, Balmain East free 7pm
COUNTRY The Orphanage Sessions: Sam Hawksley, The Orphans Mars Hill Cafe, Parramatta $10 8.30pm
SUNDAY MARCH 23 ROCK & POP 2 Fold Northies Cronulla Hotel -Sport Bar free 6 - 10pm Don McLean
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Norse, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, The Dead, Ulcerate, Pathogen, Dawn Of Azazel (New Zealand), Psycroptic Manning Bar, Sydney University, Camperdown $35 (day ticket)–$60 (whole event) 3pm Muzik Box St Marys RSL free 2pm Mystery Guest Observer Hotel free 2.30pm 6:00pm Peter Byrne The Orient Hotel, The Rocks free 8.30pm Rex Sets: The Holidays, Savoy Kicks Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm Sean Carey, John Vella, Greg Cooper The Vanguard, Newtown $12 (+ bf)–$15 (at door) 7pm Secluded Sundays: Lounge Act, Los Sundowners, Lola Flash, Seclusion, Ryan Daley, Denim Hopetoun Hotel, Surry Hills $6 5pm Sinatra Rocks the Basement: Jeff Duff, Monica Trapaga, Ed Wilson Big Band The Basement, Circular Quay $25 (+ bf)–$30 (at door) 9.30pm sinday@thesando: Yeah Bears, Zebras Can’t Be Tigers, Schrodinger’s Cat Sandringham Hotel, Newtown $10 7pm Slimey Things, Super Fun Happy Band, Super Best Friends Annandale Hotel $10 8pm Sussex Allstars, Orange County, The Crisps, The Troughmen, Billy Hood & the Ozzie Blue Flames Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills $10 8pm The Rocks Retro Night Observer Hotel free 9.00pm 3.00am Tina Harrod Macquarie Hotel, Sydney free 5pm Triple Imagen South Sydney Juniors, Kingsford free 8pm White Bros
Andy Mammers Coogee Bay Hotel free 8pm Armchair Travellers Peachtree Hotel free 2.00pm 6.00pm Bernie Segedin V ic On The Park free 5.00pm - 8.00pm Blues Sunday Artichoke Gallery Cafe, Manly 7.30pm Clayton Doley’s Organ Donors Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville free Dave White Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel - Northies Bar free 2.30pm - 6pm Descarga en el Barrio: Club Havana Band, Sonando, DJ Coco, Papi Marcos Port Orient Restaurant & Bar, Sydney $15 8.30pm Don McLean, Sinead Burgess Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House $99–$129 7.30pm Drive: Peter Northcote, Dario Bortolin, Natasha Stuart, Lloyd G, Spencer Jones Bridge Hotel, Rozelle $8 4pm Frogs On Toast Bomaderry Bowling Club 8:00pm - 11:30pm Gemma O’Malleys free 4 - 8pm Goodnight Dynamite Observer Hotel free 6:00pm 9:00pm Harry Connick Jr (USA) Sydney Opera House $139–$159 (+ bf) 8pm Heath Burdell Coogee Diggers free 4.00pm7.00pm Her Nightmare, 50 Lions Hermann’s, Darlington Lance Link Wallacia Hotel - Beer Garden free 12:00midday - 4:00pm Lonnie Lee Brass Monkey, Cronulla $25 7pm Louis Tillett Downstairs, Sandringham Hotel, Newtown free 4pm Metalstock: Kataklysm (Canada),
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JAZZ Anita Spring Balmain Leagues Club, Rozelle free 12pm Jonathan Zwartz Cafe Sydney free Moussa Diakite’s Afro-Jazz Trio (Mali)
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ACOUSTIC & FOLK Acoustic Sessions: Simon Marlborough Hotel, Newtown free 6.30pm Jemma Abrahams, Adam De Roma, Lucas Kane Cat & Fiddle Hotel, Balmain $8 1.30pm
COUNTRY The Handsome Young Strangers, Clinkerfield Botany View Hotel, Newtown free 6pm
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MONDAY MARCH 17
Ray Davies (UK) Enmore Theatre $90–$120 7.30pm
Loudon Wainwright III (USA), Lucy Wainwright Roche (USA) The Factory Theatre, Enmore $46.80 (+ bf) 8pm
TUESDAY MARCH 18
THURSDAY MARCH 20
Wilco (USA), Bridezilla Enmore Theatre $80.60 (+ bf) 8pm Ozzy Osbourne (UK) Sydney Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park $99 (silver)–$145 (gold)
WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 Ian Brown (UK), Belles Will Ring Metro Theatre, Sydney $76.60 (+ bf) 8pm
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Access All Ages: British India, Bridezilla, Loudon Wainright III
The Holidays, Cassette Kids, Bridgemary Kiss The Factory Theatre, Enmore $15 (+ bf) 4pm
SATURDAY MARCH 22
New Buffalo, Fergus Brown, Cloud Control The Factory Theatre, Enmore $22 (+ bf) 8pm Heidi Elva, Brian Campeau, Anomaly, Los Alamos Lansdowne Hotel, Chippendale free 9pm
SUNDAY MARCH 23 Ian Brown
Rex Sets: The Holidays, Savoy Kicks Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach free 8pm
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Purple Sneakers DJs, Starfuckers DJs, Bandits DJs, Goldfoot, DJ Knife, Spandex Sarah, Best Friends, Black Cherry Crew, Rock’n’Roll Motherfucker DJs, Dynamyte, Health Club DJs, Fools Gold DJs Spectrum, Darlinghurst $16.50 (+ bf)
MONDAY MARCH 17 Deckbar, Darlinghurst Industry Night DJ Dan Murphy free Equilibrium Hotel, Sydney Beer Exchange free Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay DJ Daddy Jazz free HQ Bar, Camperdown Club Cuba free Melt, Kings Cross The Mid Tempo Plug BlackStump, Victor Vapour and Murderous plus guests free One World Sport, Parramatta Ricky Ro free Opera Bar, Sydney Chasm free 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 18 Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Uber Lingua Gypsy Dub Sound System, Dub Chaman 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 The Asthmatix 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 66 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway Paperwork Cleptoclectics, Sui Zhen, Redjayway, The Birds and the Bees $2 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 The E.L.F.
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 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 Sleater Brockman 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 Ruby Rabbit, Darlinghurst Fashique Alex Downing, Daniel Malferrin, Dan Segal & the Pocket $15 Sly Fox, Enmore Queer Central Bel West, Sveta, Sandi Hotrod free Sol’s Deck Bar Moonlight Grooves Flygirl Tee, DJ
Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Skoop King Tide, Dubbly and guest DJs free Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway Purple Sneakers PhDJ, Vivienne Kingswood, Walkie Talkie, Coco & Shambles, M!Veg, Teenagers in Tokyo $10, free before 8pm Bligh Bar, Sydney DJ Joe Smith free Bungalow 8, King Street Wharf Bungalow Nights free Burdekin Hotel, Darlinghurst Drum[&]Breaks Kemuri, Jby, Tone Def DJs, Ritual, Element, Shuey, idub $10-$15 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 Chinese Laundry, Sydney Break Inn Friendly, Bass Kleph, Dopamine, Steve Lind $15–$20 Civic Theatre, Sydney Minimal Fuss Ben Korbel, Declan Lee, Bjorn Wilke, Matt Aubusson, Dave Choe $10 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 Cooney’s, Wollongong Bustin’: MOS Clubbers Guide Sam La More and Hook ‘n Sling $15 pre/$20 door Cruise Bar Salsa on the Rocks DJ Dwight ‘Chocolate’ Escobar, DJ MC, DJ Coco free Crystal Bar, Sydney Ian Drabble free Diamond Lounge, City Jump To It The ‘Jump To It’ band, DJs Limpin’ Jimmy & the Swingin’ Kobra Kai
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 Favela, Potts Point Dirty Funken Beats Tony Venuto, Steve Play, Raye Antonelli, Sleater Brockman, John Glover, Ben Morris, Tommy Trash, Matt Nukewood $10$20 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 Harbour Bar, Newcastle Foreshore Secret Service Jimi Polar (Future Classic/Junkbeats), DJs Phil Smart, Tom Haze and Girl Friday $8 Home Nightclub, Cockle Bay Easter Rewind Nik Fish, Peewee Ferris, Jumping Jack, Amber Savage, Archie, Yoshi, Bexta, Steve Hill, Matrix, Shadower, Patrick Karera, Kate Monroe, Dave Malcome, Kemuri, Lil Chris, DJ Peril vs Carl Alley, Tom Piper vs Elroy, Nick Toth, Maya Jupiter, Eko, Tekkaman, Cliche Central OHDJ, Spinout, Scotty G $25 door/ $20 list, student Hordern Pavillion, Moore Park Q-Dance DJ Zany (Netherlands), Donkey Rollers (Netherlands), DV8 (Netherlands), The Prophet (Netherlands), Dana (Netherlands), Luna (Netherlands), Brennan Heart (Netherlands), Mark Sherry (UK), Alex Kidd (United Kingdom), Kutski $103.65 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 Mandarin Club, Sydney Jungle Massive MC Kye, Devise, Kobra Kai, Ritual, Typhonic, Frenzie, Rickochet, Janie Prickle, The Cleaner $20 Manning Bar, Sydney University,
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FRIDAY MARCH 21
Jade Macrae 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 Darryl Beaton Band (live), Martinez Trio, Jade Macrae, Michelle Martinez, DJ Mighty Sparrow free–$10 Middle Bar, Kinsella’s, Taylor Square Backtrack Bob Frisky and Tazman $5 Moulin Rouge Downunder, Kings Cross Deep As Fu*k Deep As Fuck DJs, Mark Dynamix free before 11pm, $5 after 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 Matrix, Yoshi, Archie, Spinout, Imperial $15 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 Red Cow Inn, Penrith John Glover, Finley, Trix free 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 Surf Rock Hotel, Collaroy Thursty Trix & Goodfella, Craig Obey $5 Tailors on Central, Surry Hills Shindig DJ Mixamatosis Tank Nightclub, Sydney Press Play Kaz James, Grant Smillie, John Course, Matt Nugent, Hooli $25 The Argyle, The Rocks Yogi, Random Soul, Tim Hopkins, Husy free The Cross, Kings Cross Lost Baggage Aril Brikha, Emerson:: Murat, Harry Sounds, Sebastian Bayne, Frisco, Bump DJs, le pov, Disco not Disco DJs The Eastern Hotel, Bondi Junction House Classics Ben Morris, James Taylor, Husky, Brenden Fing, Ant & Wil, Travis Hale free The Forum, Moore Park Afrika Bambaataa $66 The Gaff, Darlinghurst Hellfire Club Mandy Rollins, Lanny K, Miss Yetti $25 The Roxy, Parramatta Tommy Trash, Stafford Brothers $15 (guestlist)–$20 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
AB Hotel, Glebe DJ Noel Boogie free Bank Hotel, Newtown Abel El Torom, Marc Us free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach 389 DJ K Note, KillaQueenz, DJ Kimani free Cargo Bar, Darling Harbour Disco Electric Adam Bozzetto, Money Shot, John Glover, Trix, Dave 54, DJ Cash Money, Brothers free Caringbah Bizzo’s The Cellar Cabbage $10 Club 77, East Sydney Bandits DJ Dan De Caires, Spruce Lee, Kato, Wade the Pope, Neil Down Cock ‘n’ Bull Tavern, Bondi Junction DJ Ghost free Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Urban Soul Lounge Trey, D-Bo, KNote, Buddy Love Cruise Bar, The Rocks Elroy, John Devecchis, Tom Piper, Damien Goundrie, Danny Prestly free Flinders Hotel, Darlinghurst The Harbour City Bears, DJ Matt Vaughan, The Aussie Pole Boys free Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills Black Light Knife Machine, Goodfella, Sweat Shop Boys, Upps, The Space Cadets, Disco Not Disco Lady Rose (departs Opera House Steps), Sydney Bread & Butter Boat Cruise Carl Kennedy, Joris Voorn (Netherlands) $40 Pavilion Hotel, Sydney Fusion Giorgi V, ALM, Troy T, DJ Joni, Sefu, G Wizard, Franky Romano free Phoenix Bar, Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst Phoenix Rising Dan Murphy, Johan Khoury, Mark Alsop, Rado $10 Pink Pepper Lounge, Parramatta Housekeepin’ Tommy Funk, Troy T, PK, Jorgie Jay free Star City, Pyrmont DJ Dynamite free The Roxy, Parramatta SubUrban Joe Funk, Nino Brown, Anthony K free theloft, Darling Harbour Late at theloft Somatik, Noel Boogie, Noodles, DJ Huwston, Meem, The Swat DJs, J Flex, Lippo World Bar, Kings Cross Ben Morris, Mike Kelly, Montage, Adam Coverdale, free before 10pm, $10 after
ARQ Nightclub, Darlinghurst Dance Dance Dance Jayson Forbes, Luke Leal, Dan Murphy, Jimmy Dee, Jake Kilby, Peter Farris Bank Hotel, Newtown Ed Seven, Telefunken free Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach PreMix Goodfella, Jasmine Mortimer free Bright ‘N Up Bar, Darlinghurst Dynamite Count Doyle & Captain Franco, Basslines Crew (fbi) $5 Bungalow 8, King Street Wharf Bungalow Nights free Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Ritual Rubicon, RifRaf, Joe Le Fro, Teez, Gary Gee, Jim Junkie, Romulus & Remus $15 before 11pm, $20 after Cargo Bar, King St Wharf Rob Salmon, Money shot, Mick O’c, Aaron, Yanya free Cargo Lounge, King St Wharf Trix, Jaimee Vale, Christian, Scott B free Carmen’s Nightclub, Miranda Alex Brown, Marcus O $15 Chinese Laundry, Sydney The Club Club Nic Fanciulli, Frew, Joe Le Fro, Vandals, Shamozzle, Jeff Drake, Steve Lind, Club Junque $15–$25 Civic Hotel, Sydney Burn Amber Savage, Nik Fish, Archie, Keely, Jumping Jack free (guestlist)–$5 Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly DJ Trent free Club 77, East Sydney Starfuckers 2nd Birthday Ajax, Sveta, Starfucker Djs, Mr Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Donnie.Blood, Trentertainment +Sunday School DJs $15 Cock ‘n’ 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 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 DJ E.M. Stream $10 Gaelic Theatre, Surry Hills Layo & Bushwacka (UK), Crispin, Daniel C, Kieron C $35 (+ bf) 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 free–$10 Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Funk Shui Cavan Te, Mr DJ Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay Soda Bar Graham Mandroules, Phil Hudson free Home, Sydney Famous Sebastien Leger (France), Goodwill $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 Platinum Sean Tyas (Switzerland), Simon Patterson (United Kingdom), Scott Richardson, Yoshi, Arbor, Imperial, Pato, Spinout, Tempa, Onekid, Cyber, Jay Kaos,
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Aquarium, Coogee Sunday’s Best John Glover, Matt Roberts, Cadell, Alex Mac free AB Hotel, Glebe James Locksmith 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 Candy’s Apartment, Kings Cross Sunday Dirty Sunday Hey Now!, CSK OK, Allan Marshall, DJ Jeremy, Boonie, Craig, Red Roll $15–$20 Cargo Lounge, King St Wharf One Cheeky Sunday Dirty Laundry, The Backhanderz, Money Shot, James De La Cruz, Tabletrash, John Glover free Civic Theatre, Sydney Civil Disobedience Stephen Allkins & Matt Vaughan $15 Cohibar, Sydney Miss Gabby, Jeddy Rowland, Brynstar free Cruise Bar, The Rocks Superjamm Def Rok, Troy T, G
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Lady Lux, Kings Cross Summer Saturdays Tenzin, Bobby Disco, John Glover, Tim Sea, J-Roc, Helena Mandalay Room, Kings Cross Musique The Cut, 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 $10 before 11pm, $15 after, $20 on the door Mr Mary’s, Redfern
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Vegas Lounge, Q Bar, Darlinghurst Loz Vegas $5 Verandah Bar, Sydney The Booty Bar George B, Nasser T, Lenno, K Sera Vivaz Restaurant & Nightclub, The Rocks Mambo Asi, Pablo Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour As Long as it Grooves free–$44 (dinner & show) Wine Banq, Sydney Red Room Mark Molina, Mac, MC Cheeks, D-Bo, Pace
SoBar, Cremorne Risque The Bag Raiders, John Glover, Table Trash DJs, Matt Ferreira, Jace $10–$20 Spectrum, Darlinghurst P*A*S*H Goldfoot, DJ Knife $7 Star City, Pyrmont DJ Dynamite $5 State Sports Centre, Homebush Bay LL Cool J (USA) $80–$85 Stonewall Hotel, Darlinghurst Greg Boladian, Nick J free Tank, Sydney OneLove Stafford Brothers, Tommy Trash, Andy Murphy, Hooli $20 The Argyle, The Rocks Ben Hock, Yogi, Illya, DJ Phats, Soundhustla, Max Billionaire free The Collector Hotel, Parramatta Matt Ferreira $10 The Forbes Hotel, Sydney Chrome Hearts Nickelz, Pat Ellis, Sonik, Spandex, Petru $8–$10 The Midnight Shift, Darlinghurst Machine Shigeki free entry till 10pm after $10 open till 6am The Oxford Hotel, Darlinghurst Suplex Simon Bell, Jimmy Dau, Tim Culbert, Robbie Lowe $10 The Roxy, Parramatta Kill the Radio Trashbags Posse, Miami Horror, GLOVES, Harris Robotis, Mark Murphy theloft, Darling Harbour Late at theloft Somatik, Noel Boogie, Noodles, DJ Huwston, Meem, The Swat DJs, J Flex, Lippo $20 (+ bf) Tonic Lounge, Potts Point Gian Arpino, Meem $10 Trademark Hotel, Kings Cross hush Mark John, Liam Sampras, Graham Cordery, Nick Vidal , Dave 54 and guests free before 12am UN Nightclub, Darlinghurst Basslines John Morley, Jorgie Jay, Wilz, Micky D Universale Hotel, Leichhardt DJ Heke $25 Vanilla Room, Leichhardt Underground Sessions 2 Fabian De Marco $10 (guestlist)–$15
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Ho Town Mitzi Macintosh, Farren Heit, Carmen Geddit free O’Donoghue’s Irish House, Emu Plains DJ Retro One World Sport, Parramatta Bongos free Opera Bar, Circular Quay Sunset Funky Sunset Simon Caldwell free 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 Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Usual Suspects Shamus, Ben Morris, Husky, Miss Gabby, Cartel, Reno, Goodfella, Telefunken, Foundation, Matt Nukewood, Baz Gone Solo $20 Paddington Inn, Paddington Matt Hoare, Mo Funk free Pavilion Hotel, Sydney Fusion Giorgi V, ALM, Troy T, DJ Joni, Sefu, G Wizard, Franky Romano 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 $10 Pink Pepper Lounge, Parramatta Housekeepin’ 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 Booyah Breaks Kurt Thomas, pHaze_5, DM3, Grandmaster Av free
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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 DJ Craze (USA), Jaime Doom, Gus Da Hoodrat, Ro Sham Bo DJs, Kato, Shamus, Miss Gabby, Ember, Spruce Lee, DJ Dan De Caires, Captain Franco $35 (1st release) 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 Mandalay Room, Kings Cross Sorted Sundayze Yoshi, Aken, Atlas, Arbor, Carlson, Chimpy, Cyber, Selby, Suae, X Dream Melt Bar, Kings Cross The Margaritas, Senor Spitch, Pete Dot 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 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 Spectrum, Darlinghurst We Had Parties Purple Sneakers DJs, Starfuckers DJs, Bandits DJs, Goldfoot, DJ Knife, Spandex Sarah, Best Friends, Black Cherry Crew, Rock’n’Roll Motherfucker DJs, Dynamyte, Health Club DJs, Fools Gold DJs $16.50 (+ bf) 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 SHE Julie McKnight, Marshall Jefferson, Timmy Vegas, Graham Cordery, Liam Sampras, Dave 54, Nick Vidal, Danny De Sousa, DJ Marc Us, Phil Take, George Kristopher, Paul Hatz, Better Days Soundsystem, Vincent Sebastian, Reel Sessions The Bunker, The Bourbon, Kings Cross Colour Robbie Lowe, Tim Culbert free The Gaff, Darlinghurst Club Creative GST, Matt Nukewood, Phat20, JoleFro, PR Beatmix free The Roxy, Parramatta The Sunday Social Club Matt Nukewood, The Potbelleez, Danni Presti, Dan Newling free theloft, Darling Harbour Good Times Norman Jay, Crazy Penis (UK), The Bionics, Jamie Lloyd, Jimmi Polar, Mark Walton, Fretless, Simon Caldwell, Noodles, Noel Boogie, Soulshaker DJs, Somatik, Jimmi James $30 (1st
release)–$80 (gold) Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo Apres Young Apprentice, Matt Keegan, Nathan McLay free Tonic Lounge, Potts Point SWAT Sundays Swat DJ’s free UN Nightclub, Darlinghurst Royal Flush Alex K, Sunset Bros, Tony Venuto, Steve Play, Steve S, Micky D $30 (+ bf) V Bar, Sydney Play! Steve Hill, Jason Suae, Pulsar $10 (guestlist)–$15 (at door) V3 Bar, Novotel Brighton Beach Sunday Sessions Tony Venuto, Matt Nukewood, Brendan Fing, George Kristopher, Tony Shock White Horse, Surry Hills Frequency Scope, Manchild, Imperial, EL.YU.KAY.EE, UK Jenn free Yu, Potts Point Sounds Easter Special Ajax, DJ Belgium, Ben Morris, John Glover, Shamus, Spruce Lee, Funktrust Collective, James Taylor, Elroy, Ben Korbel, Seven $20 (+ bf) Norman Jay
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Sasha Sasha’s recent track ‘Coma’ hardly set the world on fire. A Mixmag reviewer put it quite succinctly asserting, “listening to ‘Coma’ put me in one myself” [pause for raucous laughter --- well I thought it was amusing]. However such slander aside the man is an undisputed master – younger readers please seek out Airdrawndagger and Involver – and he launched his own emFire label last year. Come April you will have your chance to sample the output of the label via the release of The emFire Collection: Mixed, Unmixed & Remixed, a double CD collecting material from the label including remixes from the likes of Slam, Audion, Radio Slave and The Field plus Sasha’s 40 minute mixed score to the surf movie New Emissions Of Light & Sound. Early mail is this will be one of the releases of the year. Another album out in April, on the 28th to be precise, is a release from Portishead – remember them? They are finally releasing a new album called Third – ten points for guessing why – a whopping 11 years after their last studio album. Interesting to see what they come up with… Ok, sit up, look me straight in the eyes and listen. KPOW! {Hard backhand across the face.} I said listen you worthless fu*k! If you do not buy/download Balance 13, mixed by the SOS Collective - Desyn Masiello, Omid 16B, & Demi – when it is released in the next month then you are banned from
Philosophizing: You know that old adage ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it?’ Total bollocks. Life is about constantly challenging yourself and moving forward, modifying varying aspects of yourself, adapting, Darwinism and all that shit (think of Tom Cruise’s dialogue with Jamie Foxx in Collateral). If you don’t adapt before you ‘break’ you die out and join the likes of the Coelacanth [meaning ‘hollow spine’ in Greek, ‘coelacanth’ is the common name for an order of fish that includes the oldest living lineage of gnathostomata known to date. They were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa in 1938]. So it is that in the tradition of progress and evolution that this column is proud to introduce a new section revolving around a gig pick of the week named:
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Aril Brikha @ Lost Baggage Anyone pushed by Kompakt (Michael Mayer’s Cologne Techno label) and Pokerflat (Steve Bug’s imprint) really doesn’t need much further endorsement. Aril Brikha is one of the more highly regarded exponents of Deep House and Techno on what me and the ubercool cognoscenti like to call ‘the DJ circuit’, so make sure you check out Brikha at The Cross Bar on Easter Thursday from 10pm with four days to recover you have no excuses for ignoring the Coelacanth!
Quality Underground Dance Music does not receive the coverage it deserves in Sydney so the onus is on you to send contributions/propositions/abuse to deep.impressions@ yahoo.com to ensure the column maintains its immaculate accuracy, diversity and heteroglossia and continues to evolve with the times (we want to grow tusks). Promos/ mixes extremely welcome.
On Safari CHILLING WITH KURTZ (Formerly track of the Week): Last week’s ‘Gone Tropo’ section was a huge hit with, uh, me so this week’s ‘track of the week’ -- Chris we need something with a little more oomph? Cheers baby, Ed. Oomph?! BABY?? Excuse me for a second. Are you kidding me? Have you read the rest of this week’s issue? It is more flaccid than a uh --- ok, ok ‘oomph’ - how about ‘On Safari’? We use a funny image! One of those dumb safari hats maybe?
ON SAFARI #1:
Andre Kraml – Safari I first heard this as the opener to Tiefschwarz’s classic Mish Masch mix. It’s smooth and deep with trippy mnml beats and cool as fu*k hallucinogenic vocals; “Met a girl in a dream she was seven feet high, said ‘whatchu doin’ here actin so fly?’” This is an essential from a few years back that’s been remixed by the who’s who of minimal 72 :: BRAG :: 253 :: 17:03:08
electronica, namely Alex Smoke (touring soon!) and James Holden, but the original remains unsurpassable. I mean any track featuring an epic breakdown consisting purely of jungle sounds - dominated by vociferous elephants - deserves to be immortalised. If Mr Kurtz took his Ipod to Africa then surely this would be on high rotation. NB Kraml does not ghost for Deep Impressions despite alleged similarities in abstract (drugfu*ked??) writing.
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his column caught the big-voice-in-alittle-package wonder that is Sharon Jones last week. Great show, the sort of experience that doesn’t come along all that often. Meem was booked as one of the supports and dropped some funk cuts from his new album. He kept it less electronic than usual, not sure if that was just for the occasion or an indication of new directions. Flanked with extra brass and two backing singers, the tunes were great, though I think they need to sharpen up the performance aspect to give it a bit of ‘oomph’. Beat Junkie Mr Choc saw us through to the main curtain aplomb, a little bit fresh and a little bit classic. His demeanour on the mic was fitting for the set he was asked to play, I really thought he rocked the beats well.
Foreigndub, the brains behind the DNBBBQ have announced that their activities will expand from creating and playing dope music to releasing it as well. Four artists are already signed up to the label - The Bird, Ishu, Agency Dub Collective and the Versionaries – so make sure you check out and support our local ragga/dub/jungle/etc crews, because I know you love good, deep, bass music.
Curtain draws, opens again, out come the Dap Kings! Shit hot I thought. Classy musicianship comined with the much maligned art of the entertainer. The frontman warmed up the mic for a couple of tracks, then Jones came out and the place erupted in massive applause. It must have made her feel so welcome, I was really proud of Sydney at that moment. The pint sized fifty-one year old proceeded to rock the show, partying her way around the stage and shaking it all about. It was great to watch her having so much fun - is there a better way to endear yourself to an audience? She wasn’t half funny either (telling uninvited stage invaders where to go in no uncertain terms) and I thought just a little bit mad, in a good way of course. Thanks to Niche and the artists for another great show. And check Meem’s new album too, top quality for sure.
DJ Yoda has mixed the latest Fabriclive. We’re up to number 39 now, how far do you think they’ll take this shit? I mean, if I was writing about Fabriclive 88, or 113, would you still be listening? I think not. Nothing lasts forever; Fabric need to reinvent soon or die. All that aside, Yoda is dope and I always have time for his stuff, at least you know his take on hip hop’s going to be original.
This week we head to the Forum for Afrika Bambaataa. I remember the coolest photo of AB - published in Last Night A DJ Saved My Life – it’s of him standing with DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash out the back of a gig, arms folded in the hip hop stance, the photographer’s perspective making them look massive! Encaptioned ‘Hip Hop’s Holy Trinity’, it gives you a sense of how pivotal those three men were in shaping the course of modern music. One of the original trail blazers, I’m pumped to see what the leader of the Zulu Nation’s got up his sleeve. That’s this Thursday night hip hoppers.
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If your ears perked up when I said dub then you may already know Kiwi producer The Nomad and his new album Selected Works. The new single ‘Let’s Play’ is out now and features the rhymes of MC Ras Stone and MC Free. Collectors take note: the packaging on the album is highly original!
Anyone dying to get their tent out again so soon after Playground (I know I am!) is in luck. The R.E.G.E.N crew are hosting Regrowth, a weekend bush regeneration/ music festival less than two hours southwest of Sydney. Crews hosting stages include Rootical Swamp, Subsonic, Ixchel Chill, Bodega and Servants of Sound. Go here for more - www.regen.org.au – that’s on the Easter weekend, 21-23 March.
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The parties just keep on coming, underground disco crew Paradise Lost have the honour of hosting the Mandarin Centre’s last hurrah. Yep, that’s right the deliciously dirty building is doomed and the PL team (normally found using and abusing warehouse space) jumped at the chance to soundtrack the proverbial last goodbye. Come get your disco on Saturday April 19. All that should keep your ears and feet busy for a bit, drop back next week for the word on Canadian emcee/producer Muneshine’s debut album, plus some x other shit I haven’t thought of yet.
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08:03:08 :: Club 77 :: 77 William St Kings Cross 93613387
It sounds like: Saturday Skanks and Sunday Morning munters getti ng fucked in the arse by some of Sydney’s best subs tance junkies and audio hustlers. There’ll also be DJs and dancing.
DJs/live acts playing: AJAX joins residents SUNDAY SCHOOL & SVETA to clean up after the usual fags Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Blood & Papa T (Trentertainment) after having their way with the deck s.
Sell it to us: This Saturday mark s the second birthday for your favo urite lovable drop kick Disk Junkies and their fabulous, glitter filled, drug fuelled, skank bash STARFUCKERS. To Celebrate addi ng another notch on the bedpost of Club 77, the Disk Junkies are also launching and giving away a FREE copy of their 2nd Mix CD (Mixed by Disorder & Hookie) for the first couple of hundred or so munters that fall down the stairs of the batcave. Outr ageous outfits receive free entry all night… The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Trent being rude to you, losing your phone, people being sent to etern mind/ al damnation for horrible outfits, Julian being obscenely drunk and hitting on ever y girl, Sveta’s set, Jaxi’s hat, tryin g to steal the decorations, Bar Rory. Wallet damage: $15 Where: If you don’t know, you don’ t belong there… When: This Saturday March 22
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05:03:08 :: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700
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05:03:08 :: Avillion Hotel :: 111 Liverpool Street 9264 9188
07:03:08 :: Oxford Art Factory :: 38-46 Oxford st, Darlinghurst 93323711
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07:04:07 :: Cargo Bar :: 52 - 60 The Promenade King Street Wharf 92621777
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07:03:08 :: Home Nightclub :: 100 Wheat Rd Darling Harbour 92660600
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Your moniker – what’s the deal ?: Strangely it was the name my mother gave me, something to do with a band they liked What’s your sound?: Electronic music, with a repetitive beat inclu ded are basslines, melodies and plenty of rhythm When/why did you decide to take 12 years ago, I was always into muson the decks and start DJing: In Brisbane about in a band with other people, as they ic, had a stint as a drummer and really hated being collecting records then a friend aske would always fuck something up! I started by just floors... which is important, otherwised to come play at his bar. I learned to DJ by clearing you don’t learn how to fill them back up again. Five records you’d die fighting for: No records are worth fighting for or dying for… Best gig you’ve ever played?: Ther e have been a lot of great gigs and I can put it down to one. So I wou I am not certain ld amazing. Great crowd who know have to say every Lost Baggage has been pretty their shit and are there to enjoy the great time. music and have a And the worst?: Would be a gig in France I did, but I was put in the hop room), clearing the floor and then having B Boys standing over wrong room (hip me abusing me in French and threatening to kick my ass if I didn’t play hip hop If your music was a soundtrack for a film, what would it be abou feature film soundtrack before actu t?: I have done a ally for Lock, Stock And Two Smo for the Film Four in the UK king Barrels-type film Outside of DJing, what pushes your big techno head so gadgets are right buttons?: I love art, so any galleries. I am a moment. It keeps me very entertain up there, so you can’t look past my iPhone at the ed What was the last thing you wrot e on your hand: Don’t talk to stran gers And we can see you: Lost Bagg age this Thursday March 20 @ The Sunday Morning at Spice (bunker Cros s and every under The Bourbon) from 5am. You will also see me at Lost Bagg age on March 20, 29 and April 19.
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08:03:08 :: Forbes Hotel :: 30 York St Sydney 92993703
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koncrete jungle
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07:03:08 :: Abercrombie Hotel :: 100 Broadway Ultimo 92113486
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Jungle Massive
It sounds like: Old school & class ic drum & bass reunion DJs/live acts playing: The Jung le Massive Australia DJs: Rikochet , Cleaner & Frenzie reunited for the first time in 10 years. With Support from Kobr Typhonic, Devise, and Ritual a Kai (live),
Three records that’ll rock the floo r: Keith – Terrorist and Shy FX - Bam Congo Natty - Junglist (DJ Zinc Remix), Ray baataa And one that you’d rather die than play: Anything from Afrodite - This night will be an Urban Takeover free zone The bit we’ll remember in the AM: and drum & bass tunes, with dona We will be raffling off a box of old school jungle tions going to the Reach Out Foun Suicide. dation for Youth Crowd specs: A fresh mix of old school Junglists (Decibel crew repre new school generation. This is our sent), with the first party in 10 years, so we hope familiar faces. to see some Wallet damage: $20 on the door
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world bar stage
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07:03:08 :: Melt :: 12 Kellett St, Kings Cross 93806060
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08:03:08 :: Playground Weekender :: Del Rio Resort/Wisemans Ferry 45664330
07:03:08 :: Chinese Laundry :: 11 Sussex Street Sydney 82959999
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07:03:08 :: Gilligan's :: 134 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst 93312467
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